Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Starts of the Week, Week 7 Matchups, News

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Hey, Foot Clan, just a reminder to everybody that is with us over on Jointhefoot.com. Today is the Footcast. So make sure you check out this podcast and the podcast special over on Jointhefoot.com. A fantasy footballer's podcast coming to you from the Fantasyjox.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome to the show. Welcome back.

Welcome in. Welcome all. From all countries around the world. It's the fantasy footballers, Andy Mike and Jason, back again. Thursday, October 20th. What are you guys doing for Halloween? I'll be walking the kiddos around. And getting candy. Yeah, the dad perspective on Halloween here is last year, or two years ago, we had one neighborhood where...

A family was sitting out front cooking hot dogs. And I'm really just hoping that we can accomplish this again by going back to that neighborhood. We had a house similar to that. They had like a big party and there was popcorn and not icies, but... It's a good story, bro. No, I've lost the word. I've got a problem with the sinuses today. It's slowing down the brain. Hot dogs are the candy for... Snow cone. Candy for adults. A snow cone, which we could eat snow cones on Halloween.

in arizona yeah that's how we roll that's that's true so they do melt pretty fast out here though yeah my uh my boy's doing the Pokemon um one of them's Pokemon one of them's Luigi I got I've got the Mario counterpart yes you do I think we will be my son was dead set he was gonna be Frankenstein

Until last week, I introduced him to Darkwing Duck. And he wants to be Darkwing Duck. Very nice. That seems like a difficult one to pull off. Wait a minute. Wait, the real question is... How do you get a beat? Look, our Halloween show has got to be coming up soon. Do you two gentlemen have your Halloween costumes prepared for our Fantasy Sports Network show and our YouTube show? Because I do.

I've got mine ready now. Of course you do. Your wife has like 75 backup emergency costumes waiting for you at all times. That's true. All right. We're going to get into the show today. Second half of the matchups starts of the week. You know how much I love it. First half. It's the first half of the matchups, but that's all right. Wait. Yes. It's the first half. It's only Thursday. Yeah, I guess I skipped ahead there a little bit. We have a good quick question. It's a commissioner related.

question, but I think at first, what, are we starting out here, Jason, you have a little. Sure, yeah. We were just saying how accurate you were, so continue. On the heels of my number one ranking, I come in and I tell everybody, hey, you got to pump the brakes on Chris and Michael. And some people rightly pointed out that some of the reasons I gave, like the fact that, I don't know, they play Carolina off a buy next week, or that they have their buy the following week.

is absolutely 100% a lie. They've actually already had their buy, and I was an idiot. Because I was, and I, all day, I was like, what in the world that I see? You know, I don't just make things up out of, and I realize, most of the time. Oh, no, most of the time. And I realized I had, I had, uh, you were looking at the, over, he, he's playing Arizona this week, and I had looked at Arizona's schedule, which next week goes up against Carolina and then has their buy. I, I merged the two for the idiot.

part of the idiot savant. So what you're saying, though, is if Chris and Michael's traded into the Cardinals, you'd pump the brakes based on his schedule. Yes, I would still say I don't like Kristen Michael a lot this week. Next week he's got New Orleans. Looks fine. When Thomas Rawls comes back, I still don't think he will be a top flight option. So I'm not, you know, look, I'll drive Chris and Michael. No problem next week against New Orleans. All right. Did you say you drive him?

As opposed to pump and the brakes, you know. Oh, okay. Full throttle. Well, you know, you have the Rolls-Royce, too, in the mix. And he's there, man. Rolls-Royce cannot get out of the repair shop. Quick question. Yeah, let's just lay it on thick, Mike. Quick question, fair or foul? In a season, in-season trades for draft picks where a player knows that they are out of the playoffs starts trading their studs.

away for draft picks this commissioner believes it should be disallowed as the player will be playing just for next year and give an unfair advantage and almost guarantee a championship to an already stacked team this is a great question this is a question i just answered uh from another listener

It's a very common question and a very common issue, even for us in our League of Records, this is something that has always bothered me. Our League generally does not have a whole lot of parity because you have your superpowers and your rebuilding teams. And I would say this. For my answer, is it fair or foul? It's absolutely fair. If those are the rules set up in your league, you should do it. You should take advantage of making sure that you're the best you can be if your rules allow it.

Yeah, because what you're saying is if you're in a league where you can trade for draft picks and an owner is supposed to be thinking about more than one year, you can't stop somebody from doing something that's in the best interest of their team. And if the best interests of their team is trading a stud for draft picks, then that's the rules of your league. Now, we do things in our league to, I guess, incentivize or protect against tanking against this scenario.

Or at least making it more challenging. And what we do is we move our trade deadline up significantly so that those teams, you know, you have less teams that know they're out of it. So there are less teams that are trying to do this. And you force some middle-range teams to kind of decide at the trade deadline, do I think I want to make a run for it or do I want to trade a couple guys? Our deadline is next week. That's right.

And that is if you're going, whoa, your trade deadline's already here next week. I agree. This is way earlier than I would normally put it if you're in a league that doesn't trade draft picks. We also make our first round a lottery for the bottom four teams in the league. So you aren't guaranteed to get the first pick in the draft if you finish last. And most importantly, I think for avoiding tanking, is that whoever finishes last, the other 11 owners.

get to spin the wheel of water and douse that person in water, and they draft soaking wet. Nobody wants that. They have to sit there soaking wet. Soggy bottoms. Soggy bottoms. Anything else for that question? No, not for that question. I have a quick note for the weekly periscope. It will be one hour earlier this week. It will be at 8 a.m. Has any Mike Wright ever been up that early?

Every day. I know. But I'm surprised. Well, you're moving it up. You got some plans. The kiddos are performing at the church. Okay. Doing some singing. So I got to go check that out. See a parasopening a little early. Yep. Okay. A few notes about the show. Jason mentioned it earlier. We're on the Fantasy Sports Network and YouTube if you want to watch us. You can find us on Twitter at the FFBallers. And the website is the Fantasy Footballers.com. All of our week seven rankings are up on the website today.

uh so the traffic shall be heavy over on the website you can find us on patreon join the foot dot com support the podcast and mike said the periscopes happening on sunday um we've got a number of articles going up on the website today as well and so plenty of things going on now we're going to jump in we we don't do this very often not as often as we used to but from time to time we like to read a listener review on the show and by we i mean jason in in the way that jason

can read reviews, which is poorly. Poorly, but with a voice of confidence. Like, it's the most confident. Well, let's find out. Reviewosaurus regs. This one comes in from Texan G, the OG from Texas. He says, these guys are the goat. My wife was like, what does goat mean? Anyways, these guys are the goat. Shout out to Andy, Mike, and Jason for helping me get to number one in my league.

thoroughly entertaining, so informative, and really go out of their way with the site rankings, the articles, the Twitter, and the Sunday Periscope. Look at that. He even appreciates you, Mike. Yeah. Can't thank you guys enough. Well, thank you, Texan G. You did that very well. All right. This is why people enjoy that segment. So thank you very much for your review. Thank you for supporting the show via your reviews and subscriptions on iTunes and wherever else you're listening. We appreciate it. It helps the show out. You know.

He thanked us for, you know, site rankings and articles and Twitter and stuff. And I was thinking to myself, while you said that in that spectacular voice of yours, you know, I don't think there's another, you know, full-time podcast like we are. You know, we are focused on it 24 hours a day. There's no peripheral, the podcast is the focus of everything we do. You know, it's not, it's not diverted to other sports. It's not diverted anywhere else. And so we appreciate your review and thinking about that.

And we'll definitely keep trying to make things better. Let's jump into the news. News and notes from around the league. I went out to lunch yesterday with my mother. That is not the news. Okay. When I came back from lunch, Mike was moping about a couple pieces of news. So I'll let him tell, well, you come back. You're like, oh, how was your lunch? I said, well, both of my starting running backs are dead. So that's good. Hyperbole. Well, yeah. Clearly they are still alive, but.

Shady McCoy left practice. He did not finish yesterday with a hamstring. It was diagnosed as mild to moderate. Great. That's helpful. Very helpful. That's very good. He's considered questionable. He did not practice today. So pick up Mike Gillisly if he's available. A number of guys didn't practice today. Terrell Pryor did not practice on Thursday. Charles Clay didn't practice on Thursday. Steve Smith, Joe Flacco.

Really, Flacco didn't practice? And Mike, you left out the other half of your story, which is that Doug Martin has apparently suffered a setback with his hamstring after the buy and will not play. So here's what's so fantastic about this, as I already was very well aware, but Jason had to pie me in the face with this was, I've been the biggest doubter of Doug Martin preseason, beginning of the season. He got hurt.

There was all the news that he's going to be back after the buy. You kept talking about how you don't trust his injury history. I don't think he's going to come back well. You think he could have a setback. And then you go and you trade the world to get him. Yeah, and I went all in on him for that schedule. It was a situation where there's not very many running backs that you can go all in to actually acquire. So I did it for Doug Martin. This is called Death by Irony.

I was going to say I find it completely ironic that I am writing C.J. Anderson in this league. And you're writing Doug Martin in this league. Well, I'm writing not Doug Martin because Doug Martin is never going to play for my team. There wasn't an update this morning. Is that Doug Martin? No, that's Eddie Lacey. Oh. Well, look, we've said it. Eddie Lacey back to 255, 265 pounds, basically the playing weight of last season. Does that mean P90X doesn't work, Mike?

No, it means Eddie Lacey has a large appetite for the foods. But look, Yards for Carrie has a good appetite for those this year. We have argued about this in the office. For fantasy purposes, bad. Running back, real-life NFL, Eddie Lacey's been very good. We need those to...