Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Wk 13 Studs, Duds, Rising Stars, News

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Coming to you from the fantasy jocks.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh my goodness. I'm back on the mic. You escaped the trunk, I see. You know what trunk I was in? The Rolls-Royce. The Rolls-Royce. I was getting it tuned up from the inside. I'm back.

Welcome back to the show. We're happy to have you. We got through it, but we missed you. You know, the tweets I got and things when I was out, which was a very strange thing. I'd never missed more than one show. And I was kind of fine. Like, I was literally just sitting off in the corner. But you could not speak. But I couldn't speak. In fact, I have a lozenge in my mouth right now. The No Doubt song was actually written preemptively. I don't think. Preemptively.

I'm going to keep the car analogies going. What I think happened last week because, I mean, you had a show that went like an hour and 20 minutes. You're welcome, everybody. You had skipped segments. I feel like it was like I'm the driver of the car. And then the two kids in the back don't know how to drive. I pass out and they jump in the front. And it's really, really fun, but you are swerving all over the road. I imagine it more like a chauffeur situation where Jason and I are living the life of luxury in the back of the limbo.

While you do all the work. My favorite tweet was, hey, we miss you, Andy. Those guys are crazy. They're just crazy. We've got a good show for you today. Oh, there's so much to talk about. There is so much to talk about from this last weekend. It was a crazy weekend. You got through about, I don't know, I remember getting about to halftime of those morning games and just kind of feeling like, where's the headlines? Like, where's the fantasy headline? Nothing was happening. Even when I look at the wide receiver rankings for this week.

I'm looking at who finishes where, and I'm seeing not only are the names unfamiliar, but the numbers are low. There's none of these monstrous games. And obviously you had some headliners, right? Like, good friend of the show. Oh, David Johnson? Yeah, yeah. I gave you the shot there. David Johnson. Woo! Who! Big game. Monster game. In fact, he's now breaking record after record. Yeah, I saw the stat of...

At this point of the season, running backs who have had over 1,000 yards on the ground, and I believe it's 700 yards through the air. The list of running backs who have done that, Hall of Famer Marshall Falk and David Johnson. Yeah, I think Falk's done it twice in the last 30 years and then David Johnson. And you had some other breakouts like the Rolls-Royce. But you also had some bitter, bitter disappointments. The kind?

You do not forgive as a fantasy football. No, no. This is the kind where you write off forever and you say, I don't care what happens. Colin Kaepernick will never be on my team again. Oh, just unbelievable, unbelievable week. I couldn't believe my eyes when I looked in the second quarter and there wasn't a completed pass in the Chicago, San Francisco game. On either side of the ball. On either side, yeah. Okay, so what do we got on today's show? We got the rewind. We got this fantasy stud muffins. We got poop in their big boy pants. My favorite part. By the way, the poop that Kaepernick did.

It's probably what gave you crypto, Jason. It's probably what actually caused you to be sick that one week. That was as bad as it gets. My favorite part of our doc here, and we want to point people to the Fantasy Footballers.com, we have a conglomerate, a staff writer, so we'll just plump out amazing material. But apparently we've moved to first name basis here. We have Week 14 studs by Keaton. By Keaton. It sounds like a perfume. By Keaton.

Careful over there. All right. So we also have, we got the Monday night preview. Big game tonight. Tons of fantasy implications tonight because you have luck in Hilton and Marshall, Fitzpatrick, and Forte. A lot of big names that people are starting to get into the playoffs. The amount of leagues that are watching this game tonight because this is such an in or out week for fantasy players. And I know in all the leagues that I'm in, just crazy finishes. So many unexpected things where it's like,

This has been really exciting, and it hasn't been all good this week because it's been so topsy-turvy. But what an exciting week for fantasy players going up against the playoffs and just thinking, oh, I'm in, no, wait, oh, this just has been back and forth. Yeah, so we're excited to talk about all of these different things. The quick question of the day is kind of a bunch of people have sent this in. You know, if you just got knocked out of the playoffs, maybe Breeze let you down, Kaepernick let you down.

Maybe you're on the other side of a David Johnson performance or Thomas Rawls. If you just got knocked out on Sunday, this is the question from Franco and Stephen. They both said, what's the first thing you should do to prepare for next season? All right. And then another said, what should I be doing to be preparing for next season? Hashtag the long by week, hashtag postseason prep kit. The first thing I do, if you are in a keeper league, let's say you are only keeping one or two guys.

This is, I'm clearing the stables. If you have zero keeper potential, I am dumping you onto the waiver wire. I'm dumping my quarterbacks. I'm dumping my kicker. I'm dumping my defense. And I am picking up guys that could be, that could become a keeper. Paul Perkins. Yeah. Kenneth Dixon. Maybe Eddie Lacey's on your waiver wire and he ends up in a great situation next year. I mean, these, you have to look at contract situations. Also year-long injuries. Keenan Allen.

Those guys that could end up being there because somebody dropped them, they didn't have a roster spot for him, and they forgot. And on top of that, so I do that for my team. But then I also make these spiteful pickups. If you're out, and I'm still working that waiver. Oh, you're the worst. I'm still, I'm the guy who is, you're like, well, you're out. Why are you making waiver wires? Because I hate you.

That's why I'm making waiver wire moves. You are the worst. Oh, there's nothing, there's nothing worse than when you're preparing and, you know, you're in that championship week. I'm only bidding against two teams now. Yeah, except for me on the bottom. I love this because last week, Mike was mad at me for signing Vance McDonald. Because you're tied in. Yeah, but it's also a tip of the cap. Sure. That you were mad. Yeah. Okay. So you respect the game. Oh, absolutely. My biggest piece of advice. Don't hate to play it.

My biggest piece of advice for those who are out is if you want to do well next year and go further next year, get in the playoffs next year, is keep watching football. Yes. Don't stop. Don't be like, okay, well, now I'm out of fantasy. And so I don't, I'm not going to watch this week. I'm going to take a break because as soon as you take that break, the next week. Four weeks of production left to pay attention to it.

Absolutely. And this last month changes who starts off better next year. And those players who miss the playoffs year after year after year after year, a lot of times it's because as soon as they're out, they don't watch those late season trends. So keep listening, keep watching. And you'll be good to go next year. Weekly rewind. I don't want to linger too long because I'm in a good mood. So Rams.

Signed Jeff Fisher to a two-year extension. Or better yet, they announced an extension that had apparently already taken place, I think, you know, mercifully. It's such a bizarre situation. They were afraid to announce to the world that they had extended Jeff Fisher. The time to do that would have been when they had a winning record at the beginning of the year. That's probably when it happened. Well, but they should have announced it then. Well, they, someone believes in Jeff Fisher on the Rams staff. And, and West Sneat. So.

Maybe they were, you know, just sitting back on, yeah, we're going to, we're going to wait. We're going to make the playoffs. It's going to be great. We're going to announce this and say, look how smart we are. And then things quickly turn for the worst. And now, now they say they may let them go after the year. Yeah, yeah, they are. So, you know. What? They do. That's been talked about the fact that they may just, this had already been signed. And after the season, the,

They'll pay to let him go. How many winning seasons does Jeff Fisher have as the Rams head coach? That would be zero. Is that correct? Yeah, that is correct. Yeah, I mean, he hasn't had a winning season at all. He's two away from the all-time losing his coach. All right, we'll move on. Moving on. Because fantasy implications here. Although if he's there for two more years, beware of Todd Gurley. Panthers coach Ron Rivera has said the Cam Newton situation was a dress code violation.

uh it turned into a one play benching i want to if that had not been an interception i mean how long does it actually go probably the first drive and here's how i discipline cam newton i wait until he misses one play in like the late third that's that's how i'm going to start doing the one play bench here's here's how i think they actually disciplined him watching that game they kept him in until the end i mean

You could see his face out there when they're down 40 to 7. That's the Mike Tomlin way. And they're making him hand the ball off every time. They're like, no, no, no. You stay in this. I was like, what is he doing out there? Not been a good year for Camnude. No. Also been yet another kind of cursory warning. You talk about the lessons you learn in fantasy football. We saw this with Andrew Luck a couple years ago. Things turn over. Huh? I would say things turn over quickly. They do. And the leading, you know, the leading quarterback.

It's chasing the points if you draft that guy high the next year. It really is. You can even say the same thing about Brady. Say whatever you will. He still was suspended. He still missed four games. If you were keeping him, you still paid the price for a guy like Brady. Julio Jones missed some time with a foot or ankle injury. Uh-oh. He always does, it seems. He's banged up. Pay attention to him this week. Doug Martin.

I missed the final three drives of the game. You saw Jekwiz Rogers in there because he got bent back late in the game. Uh-oh. People think he's okay. That's what I'm reading. But there you go. He should be, but I mean, hopefully you're cuffing with Rogers or Charles Sims, who should be back next week. Lamar Miller exited the game early in the first quarter, returned later, played 47% of snaps. Thoughts on Lamar Miller. He looked terrible.

That's my whole thoughts. I mean, when you are injured and in that game, when you come back and you're just trying to play through a, you know, he played like a guy playing through an injury who was injured. Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah. Was it? That was Thomas Rawls. Yeah. 11 for 103, two touchdowns left with the possible concussion late in the second. Ended up coming back in after passing the league's concussion protocol. That's such great news. Not just because, oh, he got more points, but.

No, he barely did. Yeah, he didn't. But now we don't have to worry about, yeah, okay, this next week, is he going to play? Is he not? We could just go off of what we saw this last game and move forward. The running out of running backs in Jacksonville as well as hope. DeNard Robinson left with an ankle injury. He had 18 touches. Yeldon basically wasn't, they didn't want to use Yelden with his injury. They ended up having to. Some player named Corey Grant was in the game.

Yeah, good for you, Corey. Capri Bibbs left of the high ankle spring. Adam Humphreys. Pronounced with an Humphreys. Left with a concussion. Ooh. And they also lost Cecil Shorts, which is just sad because I like Cecil Shorts, what his career might be done. This looks like a severe knee injury for Cecil Shorts. Earl Thomas. Oh, man. This is worth mentioning for all of you Seattle defense owners out there because, I mean, Earl Thomas is a game changer. You saw the very next play they went deep to Ted Ginn.