Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Full Stream Ahead, Daily Dose, Matchups, News

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I'm joined by Jason Moore. Howdy. And Mike the Fantasy Hitman, right. Doody. Howdy and duty. Yes, that is what I think your names should be. Howdy and duty. So we are fresh off a Thursday night game that was pretty exciting.

Pretty fun game. Two really, really good defenses, in my opinion. Yes. Two pass rushes that just always got there is what I felt like when I watched that game last night. But plenty of fantasy implications from the game. I guess this would be a good time to say that I lost our bet. What bet was that? That was the Emmanuel Sanders versus Jeremy McLembeck. Was it close? It was...

close until the second touchdown by Emmanuel Sanders. They had the same yardage, but no, Emmanuel Sanders scored twice, so I will officially accept this. Splash. I thought I wasn't going to get watered the entire year. Oh, well, that didn't pan out. And we're recording those, I'm putting this on the air so everyone knows. We're doing this directly after today's show.

We're paying the Piper. Great, now that I have mine. That's good. That's good. Welcome to the show. We have a jam-packed Friday episode for you. We have news and notes. We have a fantasy forecast. We're going through the second half of the games in week two. We have our new segment full stream ahead.

We're going to talk about streamers. We obviously recommended streaming quarterbacks and other positions during our draft season. So we want to provide you with our best best for streaming options each week. And we have the Daily Dose segment, a daily fantasy sports segment with Chris Meany of the Fantasy Sports Network. And we're going to hit some mailbag too. So I mean, this is going to be a four or five hour show. I'm ready. Congratulations. Quick.

Question for the day, are you going after C.J. Anderson or are you running away from him with your hands in the air? Screaming. I am going. I am going after him. Like that, because there are a lot of people hitting this. The panic, bud. Which is exactly why I'm going after him. I'm going after him for pennies on the dollar. I'm not sitting here going, ooh, I'm going to give up a lot for C.J. Anderson because he's going to get better. I'm saying.

If I'm the owner, I'm freaking out. I just want to get something for him. I'm going to try to get him for sure. Now, I don't know if people remember this, but there was a running back, a one, Edward Lacey. Last season, his first two games were horrific. Horrific. A really good defenses. His first, you're right, his first three. And it turned out, he played three of the best running defenses in the league.

To start his season. How did he finish? Did he do okay for himself? He did okay. Eddie Darwin, Lacey, Jr. Really? No Edward. Oh, well. Just for the record. All right. But no. Your point is what received, regardless of his official first name. He stunk in the beginning of the year. People started worrying about him. He had the concussion. He had the Seattle defense. He had some matchup problems. The lions and the jets, I believe. But my point is this. C.J. Anderson.

was in the game during the final two-minute drill to go down and score. That means they still have trust in him. That seems like that's an obvious Ronnie Hillman situation. But no, it was C.J. Anderson. Right now, Hillman has produced more yards on the ground, but really they've both stunk. That's the thing I want people to remember is if Hillman had come in an average five of carry and dominated, we'd be, I'd be freaking out too. Yeah, I would agree. But the two-minute drill, the usage, a tough defense,

His yards per carry isn't much different than what CJ did, and they haven't been able to run the ball. They're still finding themselves in the Kubiak offense. And so if you're worried, I think they're, you know, CJ and Forsett were the two guys that we said had a chance at being troublesome first-round picks. Right. But I'm not worried. No, I am trying to acquire him. And if you watch the game, that whole Broncos offense, I mean, that was a very interesting game for Peyton Manning where he just looked,

awful. You keep saying that. To start the game, I thought he looked awful. He looked shaky as in just, he looked bewildered, as in he didn't really know what to do. Everything was just crumbling, and he didn't know how to fix it. And what it seemed like is then towards the second half, Peyton Manning said, I'm going to run the offense, the Peyton Manning way.

And I'm going to do this my way because I've been in the league for 35 years and been a pretty good quarterback. So he went with that. And that's when he started to succeed. Is he older than Gary Kubiak than the Coobes? He's got to be. I'm not joking. I heard the announcer. I rewound it and showed it to my wife. The announcer at one point called them Coobes. No, he did not. Swear to you.

I've got it on DVR. I love it. That's ridiculous. That's funny. I'm sure he's been called that before. But, yeah, I did say I thought Manning would be okay yesterday on the show, and he turned out to be okay, three touchdowns. He definitely could still drive the ball down the field if he had more than one second because when Houston or Ali got in there, I mean, he just crumpled, like you said. And he had a couple opportunities to...

to probably gain 20, 30 yards on these little dump-offs, and he couldn't complete the pass because he was so afraid of getting hit. And so there's still some, but, you know, a new offense adjustment period, wait and see with that. All that being said, no matter how much we like C.J. Anderson going forward, there are plenty of fantasy owners very, very disappointed with last night and feeling behind in week, number two. Yeah, there's not much worse than seeing a bad performance on Thursday to start your week. Yeah, always going up against the Denver defense. And so I didn't work too good. I think we're all in agreement.

that Andy Reid needs to bench Jamal Charles immediately. He fumbled the ball. Two times. You've got to bench that guy. Get rid of them. Drop them. If you've got Jamal Charles and you're in a league and you're in a league with me, drop them. I say this ignoring the fumbles. Jamal Charles is...

He's so good. We were talking about that. He's got to be the best running back, pure running back in the league from a versatility standpoint. Lynch can do certain things. Lacey, Lev Bell's got to be up there. But Jamal Charles does it all so well. And his change of direction, he gets like four extra yards on every play that anybody else would go down on. There's no hole.

And he zigzags his way for seven or eight yards. He did cost him the game, though. But really, he should be benched, right? Of course, yes. Andy Reid will go back to the using him five times a game plan. And get some more targets for Zeus, Andy Reid. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He looked good. But, I mean, hey, Jason sat on the show yesterday. The guy he was going to have horrifically come back down to Earth was Alex Smith. And he went from about, in our league's scoring system, a 31 point week to a seven point week. So he came screeching down to Earth.

And through picks, which was not like him. All right. If you want to follow the show, you can do so on Twitter at theFFballers. Visit the website, the fantasy footballers.com, where you can submit questions to the show. We answer some of those each and every day. We also try to respond to them via email. And if you have an urgent question, you can submit them on there as well. Make sure you check out join thefoot.com and join our fantasy football community. There are a lot of people on there up over 400 now that are chatting fantasy every single day. We're on there all the time.

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This, this, we did not misspeak because this is what was reported. He, we said yesterday that he had been, he being Arian Foster, had been ruled out by O'Brien, that O'Brien said he was out. Not that he, that was a blurb on Roder World that they said Aaron Foster was out. Well, then O'Brien said specifically yesterday, we'll see. Now, nobody's expecting him to play, but the official ruled out is not true as of right this minute. And so I want to make sure our listeners understand that. He moved from O to doubtful.

on my ESPN rankings. So, uh, ruins that IR spot. If he's in, no. If he plays, you play him. Uh, uh, uh, I don't know. I don't know right now. I mean, he's practiced one time, so I don't think I do. I don't think he plays. It depends on your options, though. No, he's not going to play. Right. And, but Lock and Forrest said week three, he's back no matter what. I mean, that's like, he's, he's ready to go barring a setback. So we'll see.

That is kind of a fluid situation. Another one that we need to pay attention to is the LaShawn McCoy situation. I have Carlos Williams, thankfully, in many of my leagues, but this is going to be a little shaky because he left practice with an hamstring injury. Rex Ryan came out and said, hey, he might play. He might not play. What's the latest? He's practicing again today, but we're still early. And so if you are a LaShawn McCoy owner and you have a spot for Carlos Williams, I would look to add him.

But you need to monitor this all weekend and get some news to make sure that Shady's going to play. If you're not LaShawn McCoy owner and you've got just terrible people on your bench or you feel like you've got bad depth, go pick up Carlos Williams. Because Shady's been lingering injuries all offseason. He's had them and he's going to get a big workload. So I don't expect that this is the last time we're going to see some problem in practice or on the game. All right. So there are a number of other injuries. So we're going to play a game of in or out here.

What's it going to be my fly? Are you in or out? Josh McCown, is he going to play? Josh McCown, thanks to our good friends at Sleeper Bot, is out. Johnny Mansell starting. Oh, that was reported? Just now, just brought. Oh, interesting. All right, Justin Forsett. In. In. In. LaShawn McCoy. I think he plays. Chris Ivory. In. Reggie Bush. Out. CJ Spiller. In. In.

Julio Jones. Julio in. Mike Evans. In. Golden Tate. I think he plays. Yeah. T.Y. Hilton. Out. I think he's out. And T.Y. Hilton is a game time decision for Monday night. You need to have options available. Do not find yourself caught in this disaster if you have nowhere to go because he's Monday night. It's really important to point that out because you can forget that it's a Monday game and then, oh, no, I can't make a roster move. So start someone else. Assume he's out.