Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Pump the Brakes, Wk 17 Playoff / Keeper Mailbag

Yes, because he's currently the interim, but the trend right now is that they're going to make him the head coach for next year. Yes, and that's why I... So if that happens... I'm pulling an O'Reilly pump the brakes on that news. Okay, but I'm not. I'm saying if that happens, how does that affect your prognostication of Sammy Watkins becoming the great high passing... Even with that, I still believe that it is very much a benefit for Sammy Watkins because you're having an offensive...

guy take over the head coaching system it's not going to be about defense and running he was being an offensive coordinator under a head coach that wanted to be a defense and running team and he was you know following the orders top down now he's going to be giving him and he's an offensive guy i think of today's NFL

You've got to be able to pass the ball better. And, you know, then what Buffalo's done, you just look at attempts, right? Just look at passing attempts. And you could see that there is a huge room for improvement in Buffalo's offense. If they hire a head coach that's an offensive guy, I expect it to happen, even just to get to the middle of the path. But what if it's E.J. Manuel is the quarterback. How does that do for your Sammy Watkins love? I jump off the burning ship. Okay. That's good.

All right. Cameron Brates on IR. He's not playing week 17. Melvin Gordon's a game time decision in week 17. Ryan Fitzpatrick and E.J. Manuel are starters. Revenge game. Yeah. Well, with Ryan Fitzpatrick's career, every game he plays is a revenge game. He's played for 17s. Rex Ryan, we talked about him being fired. Mike Tomlin says that Big Ben, Lev Bell, Antonio Brown might not play in week 17.

Welcome to Week 17, everybody. Big Ben has come out and said he does not want to play. He wants to rest up. Antonio Brown, on the other hand, is trying to get in the game. And I would not expect, I think Ben will sit. It's going to be Landry Jones to me. Antonio Brown may see the field, but he's not playing a full game. I don't know how you can trust him for fantasy football.

Yeah, Mark Sanchez is going to be activated as Dak Prescott's backup for week 17. This is so bizarre. Jason already said that, you know, Dak's going to play the whole game, even though yesterday I told him, of course he's not going to. Well, I will early concede that it looks like that's not going to happen. What my point was, was that they cannot ever, no, this was the argument I made. They cannot ever put Tony Romo in that game. Well, you also made the argument that Dak would play the whole game.

Yes, because his backup can't play. I said on the show yesterday, Mark Sanchez, would be the backup and be the one playing in the game. And not Tony Romo. And you're going to be right. And you're going to be right, not me. I love all these Dallas bits. 12 carries for Zeke. But that was all my point. Also, why are they not playing Romo? The ESPN Giants reporter Jordan Ranan believes that Ben McAdo.

is going to play his starters in week 17. They don't have anything to play for other than crushing the hopes and dreams of Washington. It's tough. I want to share this. It's a concise way to think about week 17 and the teams that are not motivated and motivated to play. Mike, tell me where you got this. This is Matt Camp. Matt Camp. Okay, he put out a chart that shows the motivation.

of the teams in the hunt out of the hunt. So you have Dallas who has no motivation, right? They cannot change or move. Neither can the Giants, who you just brought up, although they seem to be willing to play. Their motivation could be argued. We'll see. You could argue that their motivation would be to stop Washington from making the playoffs. Their motivation is going to be not get hurt. Seattle and Atlanta are both motivated for the number two seed. Green Bay and Detroit could both miss the playoffs, right? Because if Washington wins,

and Green Bay or Detroit loses, you have a situation. Now, Green Bay has not clinched, right? Green Bay, I think Green Bay has clinched the playoffs. Have they? Yeah, they have the tie break over Washington. They're playing for the division right now. Yeah, you're right. They have the tiebreaker over Washington. So. But what's crazy? If Washington loses earlier in the day, Detroit will not be motivated other than winning the division battle, right? Correct. And I think there's actually a situation where.

Is it talking about Detroit can get the number two seed still? It does not say that in this chart. Okay, I misread it. So Detroit, Tampa still has a puncher's chance, not even that. Oh, no, they're out. Washington's obviously motivated. On the other side, New England and Oakland can both still be the number one seed. So they're motivated for, you know, getting the number two seed. Oakland could lose the number two seed to Kansas City. So Kansas City is motivated for that two seed. Obviously, the one and two get a buy. Miami?

They clinch the playoffs, but the number five or number six seeds up for grabs for them. The only teams with no motivation on the AFC, Pittsburgh and Houston. Okay. So that's why you have Lev Bell, Antonio Brown. Right. That situation. In Houston. I mean, who are you starting in Houston? Yeah, they're resting all their guys all weeks. All right. Let's see what you got in store, Mike. Okay.

This is David Johnson themed. I just wanted to take a minute because there are some of us, some of the footclinton we're listening right now. We're celebrating a victory. And you just want to celebrate the greatness that was David Johnson's season. Who? David Johnson. All right. Go for it. And you take a look at what he has done with 77 receptions. David Johnson was giving you running back one numbers and wide receiver won two numbers. And the.

All at the same time. Simultaneously. So I wanted to play a game of who has more receptions. Oh, David Johnson or wide receiver X. Okay. All right. So for a context out there, David Johnson, 77 receptions. All right. So far. Right. We're through week 16th. Emmanuel Sanders, more or less than David Johnson? I'm going to go more. I am as well. 79. He has two more. Two more.

Two more receptions. Interesting. Then David Johnson. That is surprising. Pierre Garsohn? Pierre Garsohn. I'm going to say Garsohn's right around 75, so I'm going to say less. He started so slow. He's been hot lately. I'm going to go under as well. You hit it on the head, Andy. 75? All right. 75. My man. My man. You know I got the, you know, I got the infection. Beasles. Cole Beasley. Over or under 77 receptions for Cole Beasley. I'm going to say over.

I think Beasles is right at. I'm going to go under. I'm going to go under. I'm going to say same. Same amount. 72. Oh, he's under David Jones. He's a little bit under. Brandon Cooks. Oh, that's an under. That's an under. Weapon for the New Orleans Saints. A weapon. I'm going to go under as well. 75. David Johnson. That is more. Crazy. Then Brandon cooks. Just have a couple more in here. Go for it. Devante Adams, the Limburger.

Sometimes the sharp shatter. He's too efficient. I'm taking the under. Yeah, me too. You are both correct. He has the lowest receptions, 69 of anyone we have talked about. Wow. Yeah, today. All right. What do we got? Two more names here. Golden Tate. Golden Tate or David Johnson. I'm going to take the over on Golden Tate because of, oh, yeah. I'm going to take the under because of the start of his season. Yeah, it was a bad start. 84. Yeah, he's come on strong. Amari Cooper. Oh, I got to take the under there.

I think Cooper's over. 78. He has one more reception to David Johnson. And the final name on this list, DeAndre Hopkins. Oh, that's a, come on. That's a home run that's got to be under just to close out a game with saying that David Johnson has more receptions than DeAndre Hopkins. I like the thought process. But am I wrong? Well, Andy hasn't given his answer. I think Hopkins is under.

He is under. He has 71 receptions. Gross. Congratulations, David Johnson. I think you saw a stat yesterday that I don't know if it was in PPR, maybe it was in PPR, but that David Johnson. Yes. Yeah, I was looking up just how dominant was David Johnson. He has double the points of the running back 12. Yes. That's a running back one. So in one of your spots, you had two running back ones playing every single one. All right. We're hopping into the mailbag. Before we do that, I want to thank today's sponsor, great friends of the show.

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Question. Bad requisizes. Requisizes? My joke failed when I'm trying to slam him. Reset. Stat correction question from Armand in Glendale, California. Last night. Well, I guess this was two nights ago. Lost 144.18 to 144.80 because of a Stafford fumble and 0.8 points from Jeremy Hale the day before.

Is there any reason to hold out hope for a stat correction that may help me? Yes. Well, look, you're going to hold out hope if you're under a point. Yeah, exactly. At any time. That's the threshold. You should absolutely be holding out hope. Thursday is the day that the final stack corrections come through usually in most systems. And so that means. And what you're really looking for? Sorry, Jason. Go ahead and finish. No, I was just going to say, usually when guys are stat corrected, it's worth a point. And so.

I have been OCD on this before, where I am in that situation that you're in, and I'll tell you exactly what I look for. I take my defense, right? My defense and the opponent's defense, because these are the most likely situations where you're going to get a stat correction. And I go through and I look, I've done this before, play by play in the box score, and I've looked to see if there was a sack or a rush for zero yards. Because those...

A rush can be converted to a sack if they determined that the quarterback was behind the line of scrimmage, and that is a one-point adjustment or vice versa. If they determine it wasn't a sack because he was beyond the line of scrimmage. I've gone through and hoped and found one time one where the next day that exact thing happened. So that is what you're hoping for. You also had the Spencer Ware last week where Spencer Ware lost a yard, I believe it was. And we got quite a few tweets for people saying,