Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Starts of the Week, Week 15 Matchups, Boom-Boom!

Who do you bench for Julio if you're that confident? Because I have Julio on my bench. Oh, I bench Tyree Kill. That would be. I would as well. That's what I would do for your friend. Let me just go ahead and save that for my friend. Guys not practicing. You should not share account information. That's dangerous. Right. Be safe. Be safe. Guys not practicing that we'll talk through tomorrow. So these are in or out guys. We do that on Friday. Give you the last rundown.

Julio's one of them, Andrew Luck, Moncrief, Watkins, Matthews, Ingram. We'll give you updates on all these guys, which guys we think will play, which won't, a couple concussion guys like Sproles and Fedorowitz. The Sproles concussion and Wendellon on IR, Doug Peterson will have no choice. But to give the ball to Ryan Matthews. But to give Kenyon Barner so many snaps. No, no. Once again, we talk about Philly, nobody knows what you're talking about. Ryan Matthews is an actual. Yes.

Potential start this week. I agree. All right. We need to move on. We need to get into the fantasy forecast. I just can't take it anymore. I need it. Fantasy forecast. Guys, where does Gus Bradley sign this offseason? Is he a sleeper coach, in your opinion? Sleeper? I think he will sign as an assistant coach somewhere. So you draft him in your fantasy draft? If I have a position for coordinators, sure.

Rams. Here's some updates for Thursday night's game. Rams and Seahawks. Can we get a team that's just like all the all stars, you know, Fisher, Gus? It made much every coach that you love, Andy. You remember yesterday we talked about the kickers that just hang out at the house? Oh, which was named. Well, we got an email in and they wanted to name it the boom boom room. The boom room. Yes. The boom boom room. These kickers, they just hang out and they wait for their careers to end or to be signed. Either one. The boom boom boom room.

Yeah, they have all these shows with, like, rookies hoping to get signed. Why not give some love to the veterans? They need a kicking simulator, like the golf simulators. Oh, that would be sweet. That would actually be. And then you kick into the screen and then you see it go through the uprights or not. Patent pending, America. Patent pending. We just. Benny Cunningham's out for Thursday night's game. So expect Gurley to get more target. Yeah, he's, his targets have gone way up since the Rams figured out.

that the best player on the offense should touch the ball more? Kenny Brett? Oh, you're talking about Gurley. Yeah, so it's a moot point. It's the Seattle Seahawks. Here's a reminder. Here's a reminder. There are a lot of weather impacted games again this week. You know, Marcus Marioo is going to be playing in 19 degree weather and Arrowhead. Coldest game he's ever played in. That's why I pumped the brakes on him. But all the weather conditions.

We update you as we go through the matchups today, but they will also be in an article that comes out on Sunday morning on the fantasy footballers.com by Eric Ludwig. He puts this up. It is invaluable. It is awesome to see the very, very recent news because you will have a situation like last week where they finally kind of said, okay, the Green Bay game, the snow is kind of going to be done by the time the game's going, so maybe it doesn't impact it as much.

You don't want to go out there and bench a Tyrod Taylor if the weather doesn't look as bad. You don't want to go out there and make those kind of decisions. Just on fear, you want to know the truth. Right. And when it comes to weather, you can't put that out early. You can't put that on Thursdays with any kind of confidence and say, this is what it's going to be like on Sunday. You've got to get it. Unless you're wearing a suit. If you wear a suit, you can do that. Well, sure. They get it wrong a whole lot more than fantasy analysts, though. Dolphins take on the Jets Saturday night.

Yeah, this game is a Saturday night game. He's a 37.5 point over under, and I don't really blame Vegas for that. You've got Bryce Petty and Matt Moore. I'd take the under. Maybe Matt Moore. Matt Moore can have some boom, boom games. I think this could hit the over if it's done so by pick sixes. For fantasy purposes, only the defenses are really the ones that are going to be putting up points.

The Dolphins are in playoff contention. The Jets don't have much to play for. We might not see Forte. You've got Bryce Petty throwing the ball to Brandon Marshall to Robbie Anderson to Quincy and Nunois. I mean, it's crazy. But Robbie Anderson is the only guy you can think about starting. From the Jets? Yeah. Oh, yeah. Well, but Blount Powell. Yeah. I admit in the wide receiver. You're just referring to Marshall. You're not playing him. Yeah, or a Nunoir. Yeah.

Yeah, it's weird. It's a weird world that we live in. But I agree that I'm not starting Marshal or Newman. Does Bilal Powell bring people into the championship this week? Because he's facing this 30th ranked run D for the Dolphins. Yes. I think Belal Powell and Jay Ajai, the running games are both games that I like in this matchup. You have, you know, the low over, under. What that usually says is that neither team is going to pull out to a huge lead.

You're going to have two teams that are able to run the ball. Both teams have quarterbacks you can't trust. You're not going to be able to center your offense around them. So you're going to have running back and forth. And you've gotten both directions defenses that are giving it up to running backs. I mean, the Jets run D was so good the first half of the year. I mean, it wasn't until week six into the season where they had given up more than 100 yards. But, you know, we keep talking about the fact that.

They just seem like they've gone home. The Jets defense is hard. Well, and when you don't want to do it. Yeah, when you don't want to do it. See, Buffalo Bills. The last week. The last five weeks, and this matters, right? Recency matters for trends. And the Jets run defense over the last five weeks, only one week they haven't given up more than 100 yards on the ground. And that week was 91. Last week they gave up 225 yards on the ground. It's interesting.

So let's flip to the other side. What are the storylines here? Well, does Landry get the same target volume now that Matt Moore is the quarterback? We know Ryan Tannahill generally likes to pepper him with targets. We've had kind of a lull midseason for him. And the health of Devante Parker, Kenny Stills, a deep threat. I know you guys aren't with me, but I don't hate Matt Moore this week against the Jets secondary.

I don't hate it. Well, but you wouldn't play him. If you're in a two-quarterback league and things are looking dicey and you're like, well, I can go with Matt Moore. I guess Matt Moore has played four games with Jarvis Landry in his career. And Matt Moore has several games of three touchdowns. I mean, it's not. But I mean, on the wide receiver wise, you say you don't hate Matt Moore. So who benefits? Is it Parker? Is it Landry? Is it Stills?

What do you do with your confidence level starting wide receivers? You said the Jets secondary is not good. I would. They've only had, they only have six interceptions compared to 23 touchdown passes allowed. I would still start Landry with confidence. And Stills is a fine flex play or wide receiver three. Man, I would start Landry. I can't. I can't do it. I would not start Jarvis Landry. I think when, when I look at this.

this, you know, Jarvis Landry has benefited from a lot of target volume. And you don't know necessarily that it's going to go his way. But if it does go his way, the, his type of targets are usually those in sync, short, you know, it's like you've got to have a rapport. And yeah, maybe he's played four games with them in his career. But I just don't see, I don't see, I don't see Jarvis Landry going. I don't see, I don't see him going up from here.

I don't start any wide receiver. That's not to say that there's not going to be a wide receiver that benefits because this jet second. If Kenny Stills grabs a bomb, I'm not going to be shocked. Why is he grabbing a bomb? Because that will he do? I'm just saying if he grabs a deep pass. Sure. I'm not being very nice right now. I don't like the last. You don't like the wide receivers. The wide receivers. That's what I got that. I got that. You do not like the wide receivers. You do not like comp having.

Putting your confidence in Matt Moore in this game in your playoffs. Correct. Jay Ajai, though. Would you put your confidence at Jay Jai? I would personally. I just talked about the Jets' run defense kind of phoning it in lately, and they're going to need Ajai. Pouncey's gone. In order to do anything. It does hurt. I'm not saying Ajai is going to be, you know, the number one or a top five guy, but I do have him ranked as an RB1 this week. Well, and we should take your word for it. I mean, you may not put your words in the right order, but listen to this. Jason finished.

further ahead of every other fantasy expert this week than any other expert has done all year long. In fact, it looks like you are the first person to finish in the top 10 in all four categories, quarterbacks, running backs, wide receivers, and tight ends. You said it, not me. I'm just giving you credit. I appreciate that. Thanks. Before we get on to what's our next game.

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This game will be potentially played in the rain. You've got Winston Flacco facing off. We talked about Ryan Matthews, his potential for a belcow type of situation. And I don't think he's long for that team. So I don't think they care if they give him a big workload if they have to. If Sprouls this out, if it's going to be Matthews and Barner at that point, I'm optimistic that this is Ryan Matthews backfield. I don't know if it matters. I don't know if it really matters.

for your fantasy team because I don't know what he can do against the number one ranked run defense in Baltimore at home. Obviously Vegas has Baltimore winning this game. They almost have them a touch point, a touchdown favorite at six points. So for me, you could do worse. You could go low volume, but I don't know if you're going to have high upside with Matthews. Are you doing anything with the past catchers?

from the Eagles. Because personally, we talked about this yesterday. I like Jordan Matthews. You do like Jordan Matthews. I don't. I don't like him. I think this game is Baltimore. I think what you've seen with Harbaugh and this team losing that game, fighting for this division. They've been such a hit and miss team. Few games on, few games off. I just think they bounce back in this game at home. You got the crowd behind you. You had bad performance last week. Sounds like the Eagles will be trailing. I, yes. I agree.