Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 3 Matchups, Daily Dose, #FootClan Friday

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Ballers. That's F-A-N-D-U-E-L.com promo code, Ballers. Voidware ProHill. To the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Coming to you from the Fantasyjocs.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. He got me again. Billy B.

Billy B. Well, we need to clarify which Bill got me. And I'm not talking about... Bill Brassie. I'm not talking about Bill O'Boh-Boh. Oh, man. Not Bill O'Boh. That's Billy O'B. I'm talking about Billy B. Bill Baleck. I'm never again. You're never betting against... I'm never betting against him again. I mean, and you know what it is? I'm just as impressed with Josh McDaniels. Oh, I mean, just, you know...

I was telling Mike off the air. So my wife watched hard knocks when it was the Houston Texans. So she comes in halfway through and she's like, oh, it's the Texans. Where's JJ Watt? You know. And so we start watching only J.J. Watt. And there were like five plays in a row where they basically ran the ball and every single time they just ran away from J.J. Watt. Wherever he was, it was like, no, we're not going at you. Good coaching.

Yeah, it's like we don't have too much pride. We're not going to beat him, so we're just not going to go after him. Well, fantasy implications of last night's game abounded. Credit to Mike who believed in and endorsed Lagart Blunt wholeheartedly. Hey, you know what? Shout out to Mike the fantasy hitman. Right. Not only did he nail Le Garrett Blunt so far, but Mike, you are currently the number nine.

ranked expert in the world. I appreciate it. Well, he's number one, you know, in our hearts. But number nine rank, you're saying accuracy. Yes, accuracy. He is currently top 10 in fantasy pros. I thank you. I appreciate that. We try to be accurate here as well as. You know who I'm starting next week? Legerrett Blunt. What's great about a guy like Ligarrett Blunt? There's a certain category of player where there is no, and DeAngelo Williams is that now.

Where it just, you do not care whatsoever about workload. Like they are just immune to any sort of carry limits or anything like that. Oh, right. Like Lagart Blunt, if it was 40, they don't care. If it was, you know, 30, they don't care. And, you know, same with DeAngelo Williams. Certain players that just give the rock to and, you know, Blunt eventually broke through, got a long run, had the goal line carry. That's what the grinders do. I mean, if you're watching through the first half, you're like, oh, his yards for carry is so low, he's wearing down the defense. It's only a matter of time.

Yeah, well coached game by Bill Belichick. You weren't happy if you had Julian Edelman. You weren't. Look, I'm a Julian Edelman. I played him last night. I'm not Julian Edelman. I'm Julian Edelman owner. No, you're your Mike. I played him. And I knew that there was limited upside. What stunk, though, is watching the game, seeing how involved he was. He got a couple of jets sweeps. He's catching some passage. He looked great. Oh, I'm going to get, he trucked a couple of people.

Like, oh, yeah, okay, I'll get that 10 points. No, no, you know, seven. Julian Edelman and Lamar Miller are opposites. You want to know why? Yeah. No matter what happened, I am amazed by it. No matter what happens to Julian Edelman at the end of a play, he never goes down. He just never goes down. I'm amazed by his balance or whatever it is. Yes. Toughness. And on the other side, Lamar Miller loves the smell of grass. I mean, just enjoys the aroma of New England grass. Because before every impact.

And look, Jason made a good point this morning when I was trying to give him the unbiased take on Lamar Miller. And...

The reality is, is when you're going to get the ball 20, 25 times, like, you need to pick your spots, right? Like, you want to be smart. When you're surrounded by three or four guys about to tackle you, I am fine with you diving for that extra yard on the ground and not taking the damage. I got some information from him and his agent. He likes to go down like a foot or two before the first down, so he gets another carry. He wants the carry count raised, so he never tries to break through the defense. Job security. Third game.

I know the workloads there. Nothing wrong with Lamar Miller. I had him ringed very highly this week. Didn't score for the third straight game. Third straight game with under four carry. All I'm saying is the volume. He's not breaking big plays. And I think part of that is because he's just taking what's in front of him. And maybe he's been told to do that. But I'm not impressed with the big play capabilities of Lamar Miller, whether it's in the passing game when he caught the ball and went down or in the running game where he took two yards and went down. Just my observations from the game. I had very similar observations. But to be fair.

I was watching a lot of guys lose their footing last night. I agree with that. Including Lamar Miller. So I'm not going to give him a somewhat of a pass. I do expect.

more out of Miller going forward. But he's in every week's start because he's going to touch the ball 20 to 25 times. Yeah. I mean, let's let's not forget. And the reality is their special teams were so bad that they took away a giant chunk of the opportunity for the Houston Texans. They got the ball every time, you know, inside the 25. And that was when they actually held on to the ball and didn't fumble their kickoffs.

So the touchdown opportunities weren't there for Lamar Miller. At the end of the game, the guy had 107 yards plus four receptions. I had it in my line. What do you mean 107 yards plus? He had 21 for 80, isn't that right? Yeah, 27 passing yards. Oh, okay. You said 107 plus four receptions. Yes, he had 100. Okay, he had 107 total yards, and he had four receptions. So if you're in a PPR, that's four more points or half point. You get two points. Sure. I'm happy with him. Okay. There you go.

I will say this. I watched the first half live, and then I had some stuff going on, so I taped the second half. And when I went into the second half, a lot of times I'm impatient, so I like watch it faster. The third quarter, I like fast-forwarded, and it was New England's ball the entire time. And then all of a sudden there's like three minutes left in the third, and I'm like, oh, here's a drive. Here's an opportunity for Will Fuller. Oh, oh, it's over. I mean, it was just.

Like you said, very limited opportunities. Will Fuller had another drop. He's had four on the season. He was targeted seven times. He does seem to be very involved in the offense. It just was one of those games. He had a drop. They couldn't do much. They took away the receivers. Ryan Griffin had eight receptions. And I'm never doubting Bill Belichick again. I mean, Brock Osweiler versus Bill Belichick is an overmatch. Well, and we'll leave the summary of last night game at this. Brock came out, and they asked him some questions about the game. And he said, that's not.

Not the way we wanted the game to go. Very astute. We did not want to get shut out. No. So, all right, here's what we got going on the show. Today we have the second half of all of our matchup previews. We're going to give you some insight into the weekend. And we've got our DFS segment with Chris Meaney, right? We got that going on today? That is correct. The daily dose. So if you have some questions about the aforemission fandual starts, some guys that.

He thinks are great plays in those tournaments, that type of situation. You're going to hear him on the show later today. You can follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. You can follow Mike at FF Hitman. Follow me at Andy Holloway. Follow Jason at Jason FFL. And if you do that, you'll see on Sunday morning Mike jumps on for a Periscope. A live question and answer session where he is just bombarded like, you know.

8,000 questions. 8,000 questions that he has to try to choose which one to answer. The chaos is beautiful. Yeah. So there you go. A lot of questions you can tune in. It's a staple for a lot of our listeners to check that out on Sunday morning. What else is going on? You know what today is? What day is that, Jason? Today's Foot Clan Friday. Every Friday during the year, we give a Foot Clan T-shirt away to a member of the official Foot Clan from Jointhefoot.com. Do we have a...

Do we have a winner today, Mike? We do have a winner. I need to get us a fantastic drop. You really do. A Foot Clan Friday drop. Yeah. So I'll make a note, Mike. Please. Please jot that down. Today's winner of the Foot Clan Friday from Jointhefoot.com. Mark Folds.

March sweet. Congratulations. We will be getting a T-shirt out to you very short. That's a big thank you to everybody that supports over to join the foot. So all of the foot clan over there. Thank you. We'll be given out a shirt every Friday to one of you. Hopefully you get it next week. There you go. Let's move on. News and notes from around the league. We can't, let's say we kind of glossed over Billy B. also getting us with Rob Grownkowski.

Getting the going goose egg. Yeah, I mean, if the brisket could have thrown him, like if he threw to the outside shoulder on that first play. Instead of the fifth row. Instead of the fifth row on that goal line attempt, he would have at least had a touchdown. I mean, it was really going to be easy for Rob Grankowski. But, yeah, I mean, tough situation. Yeah. Yep. We had a guy in our league that. Yeah, I'm playing him. That had Antonio Gates, who's very questionable this week, and Grancowski.

you know, due to work or whatever, whatever horrible excuse, he forgot to put Grancowski into the lineup. Or did he forget? He'll say that now. He was, you know, stupid like a fox. I mean, he ends up with zero on his bench from Grancowski. Well, at least he had Ligarup Blunt. Yeah, he did have blunt. All right, fancy football stupid. All right. Doug Baldwin said barring any setbacks he'll be playing in Sunday's game. In hindsight, I wish I had played him over Will Fuller in our league of record.

Tyler Lockett upgraded to full. He'll be playing. Thomas Rawls remained sideline on Thursday. And this is the Seahawks News Hour. Yeah, this is. And this could be the, look, woke truthers. This is our opportunity. Every week, there's a reason for you to get excited. And this is why Chris and Michael is the best, because there's always the chance. But if Thomas Rawls actually sits, if he's out of the game and doesn't play.

then Chris and Michael should go ham because he'll be at home against the 49ers. I haven't had 11. I haven't at 11 this week. If Rawls plays, I think they're going to eat into each other. We're going to see what we've seen in the last two weeks, which is, eh. All right. Chris Ivory upgraded a full and Thursday's practice. Is he worth a start or are you just kind of waiting to see what you got? If you're desperate, I think he's actually going to produce, but I can tell you for sure, I'm not playing him. Chris Ivory or Matt, Matt Azata.