Fantasy Football 2017 - Week 14 Matchups, In-or-Out, Russell Wilson Dilemma

Yep, yep, it is. All right, the Eagles have confused some fantasy owners, so we want to straighten things out for you. Yesterday, they tweeted out that he cleared the concussion protocol. The Zacherts. Zacherts. The Zacherts. And then later corrected it and said he has been cleared to practice, but is still in the concussion protocol. And so, Ertz, it's a good sign that he was cleared to practice. I've had a lot of questions where people are saying, well, you know, what if you barely?

clears the protocol. Then you're clear. And then Stephen Anderson's there. Do you play Steve? No, you play Zach Erick's. Correct. Yes. There's no such thing as barely clearing. No. Do you mean Trey Burton by chance? Nope. Oh, you just meant. No, I just meant people are asking like Stephen Anderson or Jack Doyle or Tyler Kroff versus or streamer. Gotcha. But that definitely goes for Trey Burton as well. There you go. Trai Burton. Don't play Trey Burton if he is. News and notes from around the league.

It's Friday. Friday. All right, we're going to get into the news now. Robbie Anderson aggravated his hamstring injury in practice on Thursday. You got to play before every piece of news. I would if I didn't want to lose about half our subscribers. Jalen Ramsey and Patrick Peterson, what have you heard about them, Mike? This could have some pretty significant implications on the wide receiver's course for the...

For the Seahawks and the Titans. There you go. Yes. Jalen Ramsey, it's an ankle, no practice Wednesday or Thursday. And look, we had a few weeks back. Jalen Ramsey was the one who basically ruled himself out, but then played in the game and played amazing. So this is the situation to monitor because if Ramsey is in fact out, that's a huge deal.

A really, really big deal for Doug Baldwin. For Doug Baldwin and the Seattle offense. Enso facto Russell Wilson. Patrick Peterson, he was limited Wednesday to a do not practice on Thursday because of a hamstring issue, which is a pretty big deal for the Titans because Richard Matthews is going to be back. And if he doesn't have to play against Patrick Peterson, if he has to play against the other fellows. Are you sure that Peterson doesn't stick on Davis regardless?

I would imagine he's on Corey Davis regardless. It's possible. I now think that if Peterson's in, he would be on Richard Matthews. It's very difficult regardless of who he's on to trust any Titans wide receiver right now. I know Richard Matthews was okay on the season, but the fact that he's coming back from an injury, I mean, you can't really play Eric Decker. You can't really play Corey Davis. Maybe Richard Matthews.

I would say the only pass catcher you could trust there at all is Delaney Walker. But Delaney Walker's missing practice. He may not play. Yeah, but he's been missing practice. He always plays. I don't know. This time it sounds just a little bit worse. Let's get an official report. Okay. What's it going to pay me to fly? Are you in or out? All right. The quarterback position. Good news this morning. Jim Caldwell said Matthew Stafford's progressing well. Do you expect him to play in or out? In. Poorly. Yeah. Tyrod Taylor. Out.

I think he might be in, but it was reported if he is in. If he's active for the game, he will be the backup to Nathan Peterman. I would call that out for fantasy on it. Yes. I just want to say if he's active, don't start him because he won't be the starter. That's interesting. I heard it's possible that he might not be the starter if he's active. Oh, Sean McDermott is going to bench him. This just in, we have no news on Tyra Taylor of any kind. It's possible he'll be the starter. It's possible it'll be the backup and it's possible he'll be out.

Yeah, if Sean McDermott, the head coach is coming out and saying if he's active, that he will most likely back up Nathan Peterman, then he will back up Nathan Peterman. If I'm saying this right now, we're reporting, according to source Jason Moore, if Tyrod Taylor is active, he will back up Nathan Peterman. Even let's just say you're wrong, Jason. Hypothetically. Yeah, hypothetically. In a world. Okay. So in this crazy non-true world. Tyrae Taylor is the starting quarterback for the bills at home against.

The Colts, do you even play him with coming off that injury and increased risk? Probably not. Yeah. Cam Newton, in or out? In. In. Tom Brady? In. Didn't practice Thursday, but he plays on Monday. Achilles sorenness. I think he's fine. Yeah, he's Tom Brady. All right, running back, Joe Mixing. He still is not practiced. I'm going to say out. Yeah, I'm trending out as well. Giovanni Bernard looks great. He does. Doug Martin. He's cleared. He's in. He'll be back. Amir Abdullah.

He's returned limited. I'm leaning out here. Yeah, I just, yeah, I think out as well. I think the lines just might want to see if they've got a better team without him. If Tion Green can do something. Adrian Peterson didn't practice. In or out. Matt Forte? In. Agreed. Damien Williams. Out. Orleans Dark one. In. In. Wayne Galman. Who cares. Yeah. Traveris Cadet.

He's cleared the protocol. Okay, not that you're starting him, but he is the, he's still the handcuff from Shady McCoy right now. Alpha Blue with a concussion. Is out, which just. Andre Ellington. I was going to say, that's a sneaky look is Andre Ellington. He gives you, especially in PPR. Sneaky look. Wide receiver in or out. Antonio Brown. In. Amari Cooper. I'm out. Yeah, I lean out as well. Robbie. He's dealing with that ankle injury. Robbie Anderson. This was where I was going to go with our news. We kind of.

You mentioned it, but we didn't really focus on it because this is a big deal for fantasy. Robbie Anderson has been incredible his past six games, multiple games of 100 yards. Five touchdowns or so off the top of my head. He tweaked his hamstring in practice. This is a situation you have to monitor because up against Denver, yes, Denver is allowing passing touchdowns, but they're not allowing a bunch of passing yards. And if Robbie Henderson's.

hampered. Hamstring issues are also one of those very scary, re-agravatable injuries. I mean, you see it all the time. People who have a hamstring injury, they don't rest long enough, which is the only cure for a hamstring, and then they go out and they pull it, and then they're out for the game. So Robbie Anderson becomes a very dangerous play. I had a cured ham for dinner last night. It was a little different than a hamster. That sounds like a good breakfast this morning. No, I was not stringy. I hate what my ham is stringy.

Yeah. Uh, that, that deserves, that deserves, uh, the fail. No. I don't even get it yet. Hit hamstring. We were talking about hamstring. Oh, my goodness. I need a ruling from the judge. Yeah, this is not going to. You don't, you don't want to, he's not even looking at Brooks. No good. Denied. Denied. Oh my goodness. Hey, listen. Listen up. Listen up, listen up, listen up. Jermaine curse.

Two straight monster weeks. Robbie Anderson ailing. I think you can start him. There are situations where you're looking around and going, do I want to play one of these? Like Germain Curse or Demarius Thomas? Who would you play? Because I'd play Germain Curse. I think I would play Demarius Thomas this week. Just based on matchup. It's close. Austin Safarian Jenkins is playing Denver. Denver gives up tons of points to the tight end. That would be an upgrade for his situation. Agreed. In or out, Sterling Shepard. In. Chris Hogan.

I think he's going to play. Is he going to play well? That I don't know. If he's in, I'll bet he's all right. Robert Wetz. Robert Woods. Not expected to play he's aiming for week 15. Tiger Woods? Not expected to play in this week's lineup of National Football League games. Kelvin Benjamin. In. Richard Matthews. In. Who cares? Markis Lee. In. All right. Will Fuller?

In. Yeah, in. I think he's going to play. All right. This list is real long. I know. Zachert's at the tight end position? I think he'll play. Right. At this point, it seems like he'll agree with that. He's saying Jimmy Graham should play as well. Delaney Walker should play. Tightens, they don't practice. They play. We don't need practice. We're pets. Yeah. They're very large men. Very large. And before we move into the rest of the match, I just want to thank today's sponsor, Pristine Auction. This is the place you need to go for your.

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For the rest of this week's games, the majority of this week's games, if you missed any of the previews from yesterday, you can always listen to yesterday's podcast and you'll get them magically. All right, just a reminder as well, there are Foot Clan Game Day alerts one hour before kickoff. Those will get posted to join the Foot.com. And then Mike is on Periscope one hour before kickoff. Join me. Always a good time. Join me. Join them on Periscope. All right, let's talk about the Lions.

taking on the Buccaneers in Tampa Bay. We do not have a line in this game, mostly because of the status of Matthew Stafford, entirely because of the status of Matthew Stafford. Yes. But we talked about Amir Abdullah. We talked about Matthew Stafford. They're banged up, but they're playing a defense that's been pretty darn bad. Yeah. So where is the kind of, where do we feel confident with the Lions' offensive pieces on your fantasy team?

It's really tough to have any kind of confidence when your quarterback had a mangled hand. And we've experienced Stafford's injuries before. Yes. I don't know if you know this, but a quarterback who's throwing hand is very injured becomes hard for them to throw the ball with said hand. You know what his hand reminding me of? Swamp thing. We're going back to this. No, it looked beat up. I thought you were going to go to the cured ham.

No. Here's the problem that I have is that there's this narrative of Matthew Stafford's hand, which is fully legitimate. We saw last year he was bad and therefore his pieces were bad. But this is a picture perfect matchup for the wide receivers. I mean, the way that's why it's so hard. I like Tate a lot. And I play Tate and Jones. Do you believe more in the short passes from Matthew Stafford that can exploit that through the screen game? I just don't really see Tate struggling in this game.

and Marvin Jones are the only two starts on that roster. That includes Matthew Stafford. I don't really want to start him if his hand is all beat up and I have other options. So, you know, Tion Green, do you like him more or less than Mike Davis? If Tion Green. If Amir Duel is out? If he was out, then, yeah, I think I would. And what's interesting. Theoretic? Yeah, Theoretic, absolutely. Absolutely. So now we've moved from two to four sure starts. So maybe we're feeling okay about the lion. But look at the Buccaneers defense. The past.

six weeks like we've been talking about. You've got to look at the recent data. They've gone from 21st allowing points to the quarterback to 11th in the last six weeks. I mean, things have tightened up a little bit. You're right. They used to be the, I mean, still on the season, they are the worst against wide receivers over the last six weeks. They're only the 26th.

which is still really bad. So that's where I do believe in Marvin Jones this week. I think he's an okay play. The inverse of that is... I'm going to throw a number out there for you. Oh, I like numbers. 79. Okay. That's one less... Seventy-nine is the difference between what Mike Evans had at this point in the season last year, fantasy points-wise, and what he has this year.