Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Sits of the Week, Stat Quiz, Week 14 Mailbag

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I don't know. What do you do around here? I make... You've been promising to fix that drop for three weeks. Ever since the Disneyland trip. He's gone. Well, we talked about this yesterday that I checked out about 75 shows ago. So... Sits of the week. A lot of people's favorite segment of the week. Yes. Unless they've been listening to us sit Russell Wilson. Well, then let's start at the quarterback position. Who are you going to sit, Jason? I am going to sit this week.

in a prime, juicy matchup against pretty much the third best matchup. I'm going to sit Russell Wilson, and this is an honorary selection. You're not really sitting Russell Wilson. No way. You're not as dumb as Mike and I. Yeah, I never, I didn't choose that. But I'm making an honorary selection so that everyone out there who has Russell Wilson can have full confidence to start. He will explode. He's going ham. And Jason.

will 100% take credit if Russell has a bad game. You'll say, say, oh, I sat him. Remember? Check out the audio. You guys realize you can't say going ham any time within an hour of lunch. Because I just get hungry. Yeah, and we're in the Christmas season. Want a honey baked. That's a little free advertisement out there. For honey baked ham? For honey baked ham, the generic. It's an ad for ham.

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Need him. He plays Carolina twice in the playoffs, and one of those is this week. Give me Bortles. Give me Winston. Give me anybody else. Matt Ryan is at the bottom of the barrel. Nick Fools? Almost anybody else. I'll take Matt Ryan over Nick Foles. Case Keenum? Give me Matt Ryan over there. Case Keenum. Okay. It's good to hear. There's a certain like five or six names that you just don't even put into consideration. All right. My quarterback sit of the week. I'm going to go with.

a guy that I have a hard time sitting, just in general, getting over the mental hurdle of sitting in. But Philip Rivers, it's not your year. It's just not. And that team, the offense, losing Keenan Allen really was the biggest blow to that offense. Woodhead's done nothing. And Rivers now gets to travel to Kansas City who's fighting for the playoffs, who's been playing incredibly, who might have Justin Houston back. And in San Diego last time they played, he only put up eight. I mean...

This is just not a good matchup for Phillip Rivers. So I don't put him in consideration. There's so many other guys. And Stevie Johnson left last game with a groin pool, so we don't even know his status. And Don Charles Enman left with the neck injury. Yeah. There's just nobody left. No good. But the easiest. So throughout the year, throughout the year, I have come on completely on board with this guy. And I had several times throughout the show where I said, I will stop doubting this particular player.

We have a drop that's become infamous. I would like to play it now in recognition. Wait, wait, where is it? Where is it? Oh. Send in the car. As in, don't send in Derek Carr because he is playing against Denver. Now, he did okay when he traveled to Denver. He put about 250 in a touchdown. But that's just not going to get it done in your fantasy playoffs. He's not a guy I can trust going up against the best defense in the league. I'm sitting him down.

I'm sorry, Derek Carr, I do believe in you, but there's just so many better options this week. There's different matchups, yeah. All right, all right, it's time. We're going to go ahead and talk about running back sits of the week. I'm going to go with a guy that Mike disagrees with. Yes. I think that you are, you're risking a lot by starting and trusting Jeremy Hill this week.

I know they're in Cincinnati, but you're playing Pittsburgh. Pittsburgh's rushing defense has been outstanding. The last time these two teams met up, Jeremy Hill had 15 for 60, and I think the offense only is, I think it's ascending for Pittsburgh. So I think this is a high-scoring game, and a high-scoring game, I think Gio Bernard's on the field more than Jeremy Hill. So yes, we've said Jeremy Hill's on fire. He's had three good weeks, but last week was against Cleveland, and I'm pumping the brakes, and I'm going to put him on my bench.

Yeah, I understand playing the matchup. I just, I personally think that the... Are you starting them against me? Well, I have to decide between him and Amandola for my flex. So I haven't made that decision yet, but I just, I think the team is getting Hill back on track. But I don't completely disagree with the sitting of him. And my sit of the week at the running back position.

I'm going with DeMarco Murray. We've talked about Ryan Matthews as back to practice. Sid of the year. And DeMarco Murray, even if Ryan Matthews was out this week, he's just not a guy I'm going to trust. I understand that Murray owners may not have a better option, but if you have anything that has a better matchup than DeMarco Murray, who's playing against the Buffalo Bills, who have a...

Their defense, while they were a little lapsed last week, they've been quite good. I'm not playing to Markle Murray against the bills. Yeah, yeah, I can see that. That was one of the guys in my consideration as well. I'm going to give a small two-pack.

of low-hanging fruit here. The first is C.J. Anderson. C.J. Anderson, the reason why I'm given two is because he might not even play this week. But if he... Inactive of the week. Right. So, but if he does play and he's on your roster, I would advise you to...

try to find someone else. Last time he hurt his ankle, he didn't come back strong. It looked, you know, like it affected his game. So I'm not going to trust him in a timeshare with a hurt ankle if he is playing. The other guy is equally a low-hanging fruit, but he has still started in a quarter percent of the leagues and owned in almost every league. A quarter percent? Sorry, 25 percent. Okay, big difference. Big difference. Math. Yeah.

I was tuned out for a second. I even heard that one. Almost nobody is playing with the guy. One guy in Saskatchewan is starting him, and I want him on a bitch. All right, go ahead. Continue. Yeah. So, my guy is, do not start Melvin Gordon. I mean, he's playing in Kansas City. Stop it. He hasn't been good all year. He fumbled last game, so we don't even know his workload. I would put in...

almost anyone. I would put in guys off of the waiver. I would play Charles Sims over Melvin Gordon. I mean, I just don't expect anything from Melvin Gordon. Yeah, that makes sense. And the workload has really changed that the charges are really, really, really trying to get Melvin Gordon going, and it's just not working. And that's a horrific defense to get it going against. All right, while we're talking wide receiver sits, I'm going to go with a guy that I think probably should be cut.

In a lot of leagues. If you have a need for a spot. Really? You're going to cut him? Yes. Yeah, and that's Randolph. At a minimum, what I wrote down here was sit his butt down. Yeah. Sit him down. Last week he had 11 points. He had 11 points because he fell on a fumble in the end zone. Otherwise, he was 4 for 29. He is not getting involved in the offense. He has not done it for, I think, eight consecutive weeks in single digits. I think if you, if I had to sign Devante Parker and I'd cut Randall Cobb.

Hmm. Because I want upside and I want to win my playoffs, and I'm not going to win my playoffs with Randall Cobb, unless he has a resurgent game out of nowhere. And it really, at this point, would be out of nowhere. So I'm, and he plays Dallas this week. And Dallas's defense is very good against the past, their fifth against the pass. So I'm sorry, his name is delicious, but his meal is not. Yeah, I don't blame you there. I talked yesterday about, in our own League of Record, the possibility that I might drop Randall Cobb.

And that's even in a keeper league. Obviously, he would be picked up by someone else. But my wide receiver this week to sit is play in Denver. And we know, I mean, we know still. Can it be two? I'll let you include both if you want. Sure. Yeah. I've got Amari Cooper as my sit, but let's throw Crabtree in there as well.

What are you expecting? What's the upside there? The roof starts to sink. You got a real low ceiling on both those guys. Yeah, I mean, you sit both of them down. Wide receivers are so deep. You can find guys. You know, Devante Parker is a perfect example. Play Devante Parker over these guys because you have the potential. That's not to say that Devante Parker is clearly going to outscore them, but the potential to have a monster game in a playoff matchup is there with DeMonte Parker. The Denver Broncos have given up still.

one touchdown to all wide receivers all year. Is that like the inverse of the Chiefs' offensive last year? It's almost the same thing where the Chief's wide receivers couldn't score all year long? Yeah. So, yeah. Not a good matchup. Yep. Just be aware of the matchup and find other options to play. The guy that I'm going to sit at the wide receiver position has been a darling of our show because he gets the targets, and that is Kamar Aiken.

of the Baltimore Ravens. The matchup is just too bad against the Seahawks. Shob was already banged up last week. It probably will not take much to get him out of the game. And then you are dealing with Jimmy Klausen throwing the ball. I'm just not going to trust Kamar Aiken in this situation. I don't blame you at all. And Matt Schaub reports came out that he's going to stay the starter, but I mean, it's not a pretty picture. Because you've got to play Shob over Klausen.

who was just recently signed, but the Seahawks, the Seahawks are firing on all cylinders right now, especially their defense that just shut down Antonio Brown and completely shut down Minnesota. All right, tight ends. My tight end instead of the week is Kyle Rudolph, because he's taking on Arizona. I put him on the list because it's, Minnesota needs to win. So if you're wanting to play the narrative angle of they're going to,

To bring it. They just got embarrassed last week. Sometimes we like a team to turn it around completely after that type of a situation. But I don't think it's going to happen for Arizona. And Kyle Rudolph is not a guy that I'm going to depend on, even though he's had a couple good weeks here in recent memory. I'm not going to put Kyle Rudolph in against Arizona.

I think it's very fair. I'm going to take the book into my quarterback start of the week. Philip Rivers was my sit down, and I'm going to sit Antonio Gates. Yes, they don't have a lot of options there, and maybe he gets you some small baseline. But Kansas City is the number one team against guarding tight ends, win guarding tight ends. And he had two and a half fantasy points last time they played. I just, I'm not excited about rolling Gates out there. I know you probably don't have another option, so maybe you have to. I still think you probably start Gates over, you know, will tie.