Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 15 Waivers, Streams, Bad Beats + Close Wins

Look, I'm playing devil's advocate because he does scare me a little bit, but Cleveland gives you the best opportunity. And there's only so many streaming options. I believe when you say five games with no touchdowns, you're speaking of no passing touchdowns because he's got six different games with a rushing touchdown in addition to his passing numbers. So Tyrod Taylor, I agree. I would choose Tyrod over Sammy Biscuit. Andy Dalton, I'm doubling down. He was my stream of the week last week. I'm sticking with him. He's at home against Pittsburgh.

He's had two touchdowns in each of the last two weeks. He could get AJ Green back. Even if he doesn't, he's kind of what you want from a streamer, a home game. Pittsburgh's giving up two touchdowns to quarterbacks each of the last two weeks as well. So I kind of feel like, you know, Dalton, you know, it's slim pickings, right? I could have gone Colin Kaepernick. But I'm not going to because I'd rather be dead. If AJ Green is back, then, oh, man, then all aboard the Andy Dalton Express. Yeah. So I agree.

Streaming quarterback options right there for you. Let's jump into the mailbag. Mailbag. All right. If you have a question for the show, go to the website, the fantasy footballers.com. Click the questions button in the upper right hand corner. Send it in. You can also submit questions to a ton of our listeners over at join thefoot.com. You can also dial our voicemail hotline, 302464 TFFB. Leave us a question on there. We love to jump in, answer them, help you out. All right, fantasy football question from DJ and Maryland.

I wonder if DJ is a DJ. Probably not. Should I start Sammy Watkins or Alshan Jeffrey in a standard league at Sammy Watkins for me by a lot. Yeah, I would agree. I just talked about the matchup against the Browns and the risk with Alshon Jeffrey. This, to me, is a very good week for Sammy Watkins. Yep. Chris in Denver, he needs the best barfie tied in. Oh, here we go. He needs a miracle tied in for this week. He's playing the number one seed who's stacked. He needs a tight end with the highest ceiling. All right.

I love this question because he's thinking about fantasy football in the right way. Yes. Which is what do you need? So many questions. Yeah, exactly. What do you need? Do you need high ceiling? Do you need high floor? Jermaine Gresham versus New Orleans. Charles Clay against Cleveland. Hunter Henry against Oakland. Lance Kendrick against Seattle. Jared Cook against Chicago. Best PPR scoring. Highest ceiling. Okay. PPR changes things. I have my order. PPR does change things a little bit.

I think highest ceiling, highest ceiling to me is Hunter Henry out of that list. I agree. But the PPR hurts because since, I mean, it's been week seven and on and we're in 14 since he's had even more than two catches. He's only hit two is high. Yeah. I mean, if it were me though, and I'm going for ceiling, I probably go Henry, Clay Gresham. Hmm.

Because Clay has Cleveland, and if Clay is the one that benefits from Cleveland, I'm taking the bet. Like, I don't see any upside for Kendrick's against Seattle, right? I agree. And I don't really see any upside for cooks against Chicago. Cook against Chicago. So, I lean, I agree that Henry has the largest ceiling, but he also has a low floor. Yeah, yes, definitely two for 15th. I would play, I'd play Big Gresh. Okay. At home.

Well, you're going to get a few catches. You got to just hope he gets in the ends on them. And what she has been doing? And I would, you know, I would also, I would rather play Travis Kelsey. Solid. Yeah. So why don't you just get him and put him in? Get Kelsey quick. Rudy in Orlando playing the number one seed in the playoffs needs to pick three receivers who have the highest ceiling. So same perspective. All right. Mike Evans. Uh, yeah, he's in. Raise the roof. He's in. Hopkins, Wattkins, Tyrell, Macklin, Thielen.

For me, this is Evans and Watkins. And then I am deciding between, I'm probably going Tyrell over Hopkins. Yeah, I'm going to go Evans, Watkins, Tyrell. I think I can get behind that exact thing. The matchup is a little bit better. I mean, what's Hopkins highest? Hopkins highest. Is that who the guy you're deciding between? Yeah.

Because DeAndre Hopkins, what has he done in the air? Is he had any games that would be high ceiling? I'd play Adam Thielen over Deandre Hopkins. Yeah. But would you play Adam Thielin over. Hopkins. Hopkins highest game was in week two where he did have a great game. But you wouldn't play him over Tyrell. That's a problem. Yeah, I might. Thielen against the Colts? Thielen has been. He's Mr. Sammy Biscuits over here. I'm just, Thielen has been very solid. Like, he's been quietly great now for.

Six weeks. I would not call him great. Four for 101, seven for 86, eight for 53, five for 65 in a touchdown. He's been good, man. Yeah, but is that enough stealing? Oh, yeah, I would go Tyrol Williams. All right. You stick in with yours, though? Well, I didn't say for sure it was Thielen, but that's my, I would between Williams and Thielen for the three. And I would probably go with Williams, but I'm just saying.

It's worth thinking about. Nick in New Jersey. Hey guys, huge fan of the show. Appreciate what you guys do for the community of people who spend too much time worrying about their lineup like myself. No, no, no, no. It's not too much. No such thing. Anyway, my question is for week 15. Do I start Powell or Ingram? Ingram is facing the Cardinals. I'm playing pal. Yeah, I mean, it's not even close. If Forte is out, it's Powell. What if Forte's in? That's a good question. I'm still playing.

Probably, I'm probably still playing Powell. Yes. Ingram, Ingram stab me in the back. Come to me. Ingram stabbed me last week. If Forte is active, I would play Ingram. All right. Stu in Scotland. Oh, bonjour. Bonsiorno. First time fantasy player this season. My 10 team league finished the regular season with the number one team having 200 fewer points than.

Teams 2 through 5 and 100 fewer than Team 6. Is this common? No, no. Seems like the NFL is pretty volatile compared to football where there are 38 weeks in a season. That's football. Yeah, football. Is there any particular format that mitigates this better than others? I went with a default NFL managed league, but might give other league formats a shot next to you. I certainly like half point PPR, depending on, you know,

To me, standard makes touchdowns just too valuable. It makes it a little bit more volatile. A guy that gets one touchdown, you know, on a 17-yard reception is more valuable than the guy that got, you know, seven for 50, which he wasn't really more valuable. So I would say that that helps a little. But I think this is where the phrase beginner's luck comes from. I would say it's not.

that uncommon if someone ends up with an elite team you can easily score a couple hundred more points than the person in last yeah and it it can maybe come down to two weeks you know there might be a couple weeks where you just look look at what happened to teams this past week dynasty league jason lost in our dynasty league with a million points the other side of the bracket literally had half the points oh it was so it can't happen i mean it's just uh this seems a little bit extreme

Maybe not this common to be number one with 200 fewer points, but it definitely happens. And, you know, it afforded you the chance to pretend. Like when you win and you're like that, you ignore it. You're like, yeah, I'm the best. And if you, if you lose and you've got more points than everybody, you're like, the system is rigged. The system's rigged. Yeah, just don't quit. Just wait until it flips to your favor. Right, right. All right.

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