Fantasy Football 2017 - Keep/Trade/Cut, Pump the Brakes + Matt Forte Joins the Ballers

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Hi, this is Matt Forte of the New York Jets, and you're listening to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. To the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Coming to you from the Playdraft Studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. You went out there. Where we're going. It always turns off at a certain level. We don't need roads.

Welcome into the fantasy footballers podcast. You were a jet engine. Andy, Mike and Jason. Yeah, the plane's going down. Welcome in. Thanks for joining us once again. It's Wednesday, September 27th. And look, I just wanted to give a quick shout out to all of our listeners. Thank you for all the very kind reviews and endorsements of the podcast on social media and on iTunes and wherever you're listening.

I was browsing a few of those today, and we don't have a review of source on the show today, but I just was reading them. And they were very kind, and people, they enjoy the show, and we're always listening to feedback and trying to make the show better. So I just thought I'd say thank you to start the show as we head into, what is this, week number four. I saw Andy yesterday, or before he was reading these reviews, and it was like the Grinch.

When his heart grows, you know, at the end, that's what happened after he read those reviews. Yeah, I don't like the kind of referral that I'm, and the Grinch regularly. Just let it wash over you, man. Uh-huh. Thanks. All right. That's a weird compliment. Yeah. Yeah. Well done, Mike. It's my, my specialty is backhanded compliments. We have an absolutely great show jam pack today. We have.

Pump the brakes on the episode today. We have some news. We've got Keep Trade Cut. We have Matt Forte. Matt Forte joining the show today. And it was great talking to Matt Forte. We'll share that with you, give you some insight into his injury. And I think you'll really enjoy that. And then we'll preview the Thursday night game and get into the mailbag. If we've got time, like I said, jam packed. Can't pack anymore into the jam.

No, you cannot. So, the quick question of the day, we're jumping right in with, oh, oh, O'Reilly. O'Reilly. Auto parts. Out. Got pumped the brakes. Who are we pumping? Right out the gate. Pump the brakes is a segment where each week, each week we are telling you a player that we're saying, watch out. All right. Well, since we've got the car theme here with the pump the brakes.

Do you need me to send in the car? No, we need to, well, maybe send it into O'Reilly because it's going to need some work. Look, Derek Carr, I said last week, I was going to pump the brakes this week, and I am a man of my word. He stopped a little early. He got off on the wrong exit last week. But his upcoming schedule, look, the offensive line looked poor. Their upcoming schedule, Denver, Baltimore.

the Los Angeles Chargers, the Kansas City Chiefs, those are all good past defenses for the next month. Those are divisional opponents that Derek Carr has struggled with through his young career so far. I am looking to move Derek Carr and trade him. I'm pumping some breaks. No, I like it. And I'm going to stay in the same.

on the same roster. Oh, take that Oakland is what you guys say because you don't like that team. Marshawn Lynch, it's time to move him. It's time to cash in on the name if you can. I do. I think so. Look, through you are Mr. Marshawn. Yeah, but we have to be, we got to be water, not stone. Okay. While I don't think Marshawn has looked like he's lost a step, his role in this offense and ultimately through three weeks, he's the 30th ranked running back.

Can you trade him for better value than the 30th ranked running back? Yeah, right now you can. Marshawn has a name. He's on a good team, and I'm just a little bit concerned. Now, do I think that he's going to score more than he has right now? Probably. But I'm pumping the brakes on him because he's playing Denver. And Denver through the last two games has given up 2.1 yards per carry to the running back position. Basically shut it down. Less than 10 points per game fantasy given up to the running back position. And Marshaun doesn't get all the production in Oakland.

So it's an obvious pump-the-break situation for me. I think you've got to just this week, it's a tough start. It's the same thing I'm facing with Michael Crabtree this week. Banged up last week, plays Denver this week. I would not recommend it. Well, I'm staring down Devin Funchess or Michael Crabtree. It's probably Funchy's. That's where I'm leaning. And I'm playing you. So thank you for that.

I would definitely play Michael Crabtree. So Mike, you're circling back. You are more of a teams man. Yeah, we've gone full circle here. And I'm pumping the brakes yet again on you could say the entire Colts offense, but more specifically I'm talking about the Colts wide receivers. We were we were talking about, you know, you got to start your studs. But Mike. Yes, voice of public opinion. T. Y. Hilton was like.

150 yards in a touchdown last week, you idiot. Voice of Public opinion was combative. Very mean today. T.Y. Hilton is a stud. What a grinch, right? But there's only one grinch. But he does not have his stud quarterback throwing him the ball. And they are going into the Lionsden. They are going to Seattle. It would have been better if they were going to Detroit with that comparison. I see what you. I see what you did there.

I just meant that they are going to be eaten and gobbled alive. I, T.Y. Hilton is one of the, he's a, he's a start your stud for the fact that it can just, it takes one play. One broken play and T.Y. Hilton has your weeks worth of production. But it's going to take that one broken play against Seattle. I'm not banking on it. Okay. So let me, Crabtree or Hilton? That's what I was going to ask you. Crab tree or Hilton? Because Hilton does have the one broken play mentality. I don't think crab tree.

has that, they're just going to have to move the ball on Denver and get in the red zone. I saw Keenan Allen score a touchdown on Chris Harris. It just. It can be done. Yeah, it can be done. I would go Crabtree, assuming that he's okay from his injury. Do you remember when T.Y. Hilton, in Seattle, the fact that it's actually in Seattle, terrible things are going to happen to that Colts offense. Do you remember when the Broncos defense hadn't given up?

a touchdown to a wide receiver for the majority of the year. Hasn't played out that way this year. We just talked about how good the run defense has been. You can almost throw Buffalo out the window last week, only six receptions by the wide receivers, but they don't have many of them. They did score a touchdown, though. A wide receiver scored last week against Denver. Dallas had a touchdown. The Chargers had two touchdowns against Denver's secondary with their wide receiver course. So it's interesting. They're still in the upper echelon.

I just think it's interesting that some players have found the end zone more often. But you heard it here. Pump the brakes on Marshawn, Derek Carr, the Colts wide receivers in their offense. And that was pump the brakes with O'Reilly auto parts, better prices. Better parts every day. O'Reilly. Let's talk news. News and notes from around the league. Sometimes people ask me, how do I follow your show on Twitter? And I tell them, I tell them at the FF ballers.

That's a really good way. That's the answer. That's the best way. All right, news and notes. Matt Forte considered week to week, not expected to play this week. I believe this is why you had a bit of a chuckle when you said we were talking to Matt Forte. Yeah, because we made, I mean. Because look, the conversation with Forte is actually, it's great. Yeah, it's a, not every time you get an NFL player on, they're open and give real answers. They just, they shut down into their coach speak and don't give, I mean, Forte was, it's a good interview.

Yeah, and then, well, he's going to miss some time to focus on interviewing. Yeah. So he's going to be week to week. You know, it wasn't a great matchup. It wasn't a great matchup for him against the Jags. But now that the backfield share of touches is going to go more on Bilal Powell's way, I think Ball is. I could go McGuire's way. Well, McGuire had a really bad fumble last week, and you already saw Bilal Powell last week with the majority of carries. So I think it's very firmly Powell's role.

And, you know, because we saw it last week, I think he has enough to be streamworthy this week because he's involved in the passing game. So you're, you're going to go, you're resurrecting Blah Powell after you buried him? Unfortunately, yes. Unfortunately. Well, he says unfortunately because he traded him away. I traded him away. That is how the people now know that Blupeau's fine. Yeah. Because he's no longer on the Reaper's team. Hey, I did not reap A.J. Green. That's true. You're welcome. Yet. Yet. Yet.

Stay tuned. Big news. Chris Johnson is going to remain the quote starting running back for week four. Why? Because they don't have a better option. Andre Ellington needs to be involved in the passing game. I would go out. I would ride Andre Ellington into the ground if I was the Arizona. I think they need him to be lined up outside more often. I don't think you can ride him into the ground unless you're talking like you get a half of football at him.

And that doesn't serve a purpose. I'll take the half of football. They have a great matchup this week. Yeah. At home against San Francisco. Now, there are huge offensive line problems. Yesterday, I talked about Carson being my stream of the week because their offensive line was getting better. It looks like that might actually be wrong. Now, DJ Humphreys, the left tackle looks to be coming back. But their main...

I mean, their best lineman, Mike Ayupati, who's great, he is not going to be back this week. Their other guard tore his peck. He's out two to four weeks. So while you get one guy back, you're still down one and then you're missing your other guard. I think it's going to be rough for Carson. Okay.

Are you officially retracting? No, I'm not retracting because it is still the Niners and they don't quite have a very good pass rush. But I'm just saying when we're talking about Chris Johnson, Andre Ellington, the opportunities there, you know, you look at it, you want to look at it as here's an offense that can score taking on a bad defense. I think you've got a poor offense against a poor defense. And granted, hey, that worked out for the Rams. Rams might not be a poor offense. They might not.

Considering they have more points scored than any team in the NFL, including the Patriots through three weeks. Doug Baldwin says he anticipates playing in week four said that the injury was not serious, but it could have been. His groin. Yeah. Oh, no, this is not ah, because it's okay. It's an ooh. Ooh. I'm going. Thank you.