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

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And Mike Ride. The best Christmas movie is what? Oh, are we getting into this? No, we're not getting into it. I'm just asking the question. Well, when you ask me that question, that means we're getting into it. I know what you're going to say. Well, yeah, that's dumb. However, I... Go ahead. It's a two-way tie, but I'll tie break. One A is elf.

Elves just great. Your 1B better be... It's not. It's not. No, no, no. I know you're not going to go with Die Hard. That's because that's what I'm not going to get into, which is the best Christmas movie. But if you don't consider that a best Christmas movie, I have a backup. Okay. Well, my 1B would be the Santa Claus. Oh, with Tim Allen. The Tim Allen Classic. I need to give... We have a college group of students that we...

that we have a group with every week, my wife and I, and I need to give them some options for a movie tonight. It's our Christmas party. So do I give them Die Hard as an option? For me? Yeah. Christmas is not complete until I've watched Die Hard. However, I don't want to blow up Twitter with this argument. This argument is old, it's old busted. You're the only one bringing it up. You're the only one. You're arguing with yourself. Really good point, Andy. No, no, no. The man of Twitter knows what's going on.

But one A, I completely agree. It's Elf. One B is the Jim Carrey Grinch. Very good. It is. All right. I have some options. Thank you. Welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast today. We have fantasy forecast going through the first half of the matchups for week 15. Starts of the week. Jason's boom boom kicker. It's going to be a really good show. We're going to get you ready for week 15. I am excited. I am ready.

to unveil these starts of the week. You know who's ready? I don't. Speaking of Twitter, almost every single question now comes in, okay, who do I start? I cannot sleep. Who do I start? I have diarrhea. Who do I start? My eyes are going to blow out of my face. People that decisions are... Do you believe psychiatric appointments are going up this time of year? Yes. Directly related to fantasy football decisions. You illustrated a very...

Interesting fact yesterday, and that is the wrong thing to say. You didn't illustrate it. You didn't draw it on a piece of paper. You set, you brought up the fact that championship. You brought up that championship weekend in. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. On Christmas Day. Yeah. Thanks, NFL. Merry Christmas. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day are going to be the two days that make it the best or worst Christmas ever because that's when most championship games are being dealt with.

That's garbage. I mean, a full tilt on Christmas night for losing a fantasy championship. I guess all I want for Christmas is a hashtag. Yeah. It is. Well, I'm, you know, just don't lose. It's great Christmas if you don't lose. All right. Quick question of the day. Before we get into the news and notes, fantasy football information for you, we're playing a game of who am I, except we're not. Oh. We're playing a game of who are we?

Oh, wait a minute. Because there are two people that are included in this one. Devon. Is this, is this a fight club situation? Just follow along. All right. Just play along. Clue number one, where wide receivers 14 and 15 in half point scoring. Okay. All right. Clue number two, we play on the same team. Crabtree and Cooper. Wrong. No, I don't get a guess now. I already had a guess after clue one.

but because I know how to play a game. Right. And he blew his guess. You're saving it? Yeah. Let's unveils more clues. No. Clue number three, we're the exact same age. Okay, that makes me feel less confident. See, I blurt it out. And now I know it's not my fault. I didn't even get all the clues. Clue number four, we are both 23. Okay, I'm very wrong. Years old. Very, very wrong. So what is your original guess?

Um, Demarius and Emmanuel. Oh, okay. You're wrong. I thought you were going to go Christmasy with Emmanuel. So same team. 1415, 23 years old. Both of them. Wait, what? Do you have another gas, Jason? Oh. Our team's wide receiver three was on the show. Oh, okay. Okay. I got it now. I got it now. Jason? Is. That's a no. No. The Saints?

Yeah. Are we talking about Michael Thomas? Michael Thomas and Brandon Cook. There we go. What do you think about that? Both 23 years old, wide receiver 14 and 15 and half point league. Man, honestly, I would have gone there, but I'm surprised Michael Thomas is an old rookie. Yeah, and Cooks is a young third year receiver. Wow. Yeah. That's impressive. Impressive output. It'll be interesting to see how the Saints wide receiver core.

pans out over the next few years. If you have Sneed there, it'll be interesting. Who's going to go marching? Marching on? Yeah. You can follow the show on Twitter at the FF Ballers. You can follow Jason's Christmas shenanigans at join the foot.com. Oh, man. We were dying as he dressed up as Santa Claus yesterday. And he will be doing so each of the next 12 days of foot clan at join the foot.com giving away.

Some free gifts to say thank you. Christmas season, we give back. We do. And let's give back some information here, news and notes. News and notes from around the league. You know who seems to give and never get? It's Todd Bulls. He just gives and gives. And nobody gives. He doesn't get anything back from his players. Well, he gives a lot of, you know, stagnant facial reactions. I saw him cursing on the sideline. Just like a real coach.

What, like just a very straight-faced? Yeah, sure. We're not all the same, Mike. No, we're not. But I want to see a little bit. For instance, we decided that when solicitors come to our new studio, if we're interested in their product, Jason will be getting me. And if we are not interested, they'll be getting you. Because you have a resting angry face, Mike, and they'll go, I need, I wonder if when you walk out of the office to meet them, they'll just preempt you. They'll just preempt you and say, I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry. Oh, is this sweet? Oh, I got the wrong sweet. I didn't know that you were so angry. Well, the resting angry face when you engage regular angry face is a whole new level. Todd Bulls said Matt Forte will likely be a game time decision in week number 15. Because it came out. There was an MRI that says Matt Forte has a torn meniscus. Apparently he's been playing through it for a while, a team that's going absolutely nowhere, a running back that is on the wrong side.

of the age gap. Why? What are you playing? Why? Even if Matt Forte wants to play, if I'm the GM, if I'm Todd Bowles, I say, uh, no. I don't think he's been playing through the torn meniscus. I think that happened to the San Francisco game. Um, he's been playing through certain knee issues. So the torn minuscus is new. And what he said is that he understands he's probably going to have to get surgery on it. It's he's going to have to. Yeah. But that it's okay to.

play right now? That seems like something where you can call it. So you won't do it worse. You won't do it any more damage. Yeah. There's other things that can go wrong though. I expect that he will, I am starting to lean more and more that he will not play this week. So blah blah. Yeah. So blah. Oh. Chargers coach Mike McCoy said it's highly unlikely Melvin Gordon plays on Sunday. I agree with him. Yeah. I don't see why you would risk your franchise running back.

when you've got this is a similar situation i mean it's a younger younger guy but in gordon says he's going to try and play next week all right adrian peterson practicing all day yeah all day what that's his nickname all day you can talk about him all all day i will leave him on the waiver all day i'm not going to pick him up they're a different offense they're running out of the shotgun now that's not what adrian peterson's used to they have a terrible offensive line he says he's he's good with it now

He got really good by just watching it. Mental reps, man. Mental reps. Yeah, for me. You don't do enough of those for this show, Mike. Mental reps. I should. James Starks did not practice due to a concussion. Might explain why he only played seven snaps. Yeah. Might also give you some confidence in time Montgomery. Yeah. Montgomery, who is listed on the unofficial depth chart was listed as the number two running back, but he's the number one in my heart. Well, the official number one is Starks, right? Yeah.

That's just to be nice. Zach Zinner is in the concussion protocol. So there you go. I still think you can do worse. If Riddick misses another game, you can do worse in Dwayne Washington. Of course. Volume. Volume is king. Cardinals waived slash fired because that's our term now. Michael Floyd. Michael Floyd's gone.

Yeah, he was going to be a free agent. I don't think this happens necessarily if he had a contract obviously. No, he's just like, hey, go get a head start on the off season. He's been playing poor. It can send a message. I think it's for fantasy football, I think it's great news because right now you couldn't really play Michael Floyd anyways. You got a lot of, but now with him gone, it kind of bumps up, gives you a little bit of.

I think J.J. Nelson is a startable player this week. I do too. You've got the New Orleans Saints coming to town. Obviously, their main quarterback is probably going to be shadowing fits. I mean, you're not going to put all your worry against J.J. Nelson. I'm not sure that they'll shadow. True. They probably won. I don't think Bro is going to. Bro's healthy. Let me ask you a question. Jay J.J. J.J. Nelson against New Orleans at home or Tyree Kale against Tennessee at home. Ooh. I'm going to.

On that, I'm going to take Tyreek. But the fact that we can ask a question. Here's the catches for J.J. Nelson in the last five weeks. Two one, two one, one. Exactly. He's very similar to. But two touchdowns. Right. But I do think with the speed, the talent, the offense, and the defense coming in with Michael Floyd out of the way. Also, J. Gresham gets a buff up. He's been very. A.J. Green, return to practice. Adam Humphreys is practicing. Oh. Mohammed Sunu return to practice.

Could affect the Gabriel targets if there's no Julio? Gabriel still didn't get a, he didn't get an overwhelming volume. I mean, he's, Gabriel is Tyreek Hill. They're the same guy. If they don't get the big play, you're going to get four fantasy points. I almost made Julio my start of the week. He's going to play and he's going to be good. Oh, okay. So asking for a friend, I've got Watkins, Crabtree, and Tyreek Hill.