Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Keep/Trade/Cut + Christine Michael Interview

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Survived the night waiting for the Kristen Michael interview. Well, I spent, we didn't do the video of the interview. If we did, you would have seen me ask a question, grab the paper bag, breathe into it. Take a couple breath. So I can prevent from hyperventilating. I had the defib machine ready. Just to. We were, we were prepared. Yeah, I'm Chris and Michael on the show today. Yeah. That's the headline. This is going to be a great show. We've got Keep Trade Cut.

We've got Kristen Michael on the show. We have our Foot Clan mailbag. We've got a Thursday night preview. Yes, we're bumping the Thursday up, Thursday night up to Wednesday by popular request. Popular request. People wanted to hear about, because sometimes the show, you know, you don't get a chance to listen to it before the Thursday night game. And so we're bumping that up because we're listening. Because we want to talk about the dolphins a day early. As early as possible.

That's what I say. So very excited. We have a quick question. Actually, it's more of a public service announcement. We had a listener email us in about his situation in his league, and it's always great to talk about. You know, I think that's one of the things that makes this show unique is that we're not just, you know, spouting off about players and players alone. Like we talk about commissioners and leagues and rules and making your league better. Fantasy football. Yeah, that's what fantasy football is. It's not just, you know.

Well, I'll digress. But we're going to talk about that. And so I'm very excited. And obviously we're going to get to the Kristen Michael interview later on. And I'll just say this beforehand. Very cool. Very cool guy. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, just been through a lot of things, gone through the kind of the circle of life in the NFL. You know what it seems like? And yet coming out on the end that so few do when they go down that road. Yeah. Honestly, it seems to me.

like he's had an awakening. I mean, you know, all jokes aside, it seems like he really has woken up and that's great for the show. If you're around the game enough, you can listen to people and you can kind of get a pretty quick sense of how they treat the sport and the game and their teammates and those type of things. I mean, just listen to the way a Tom Brady or Larry Fitzgerald are the pros, pros talk about the game.

and you can tell right away what kind of jay watt who we'll talk about in the news today those type of pros and uh so it'll be very cool i think you guys will enjoy the interview uh maybe not as much as mike did that's no because that's impossible that's an impossibility so here's what we have going on in the quick question today and i'll let you guys speak to this spencer wrote in and he's from denver colorado and he said look this week the commissioner of his league cheated

Big time. Cheated. Now, this is a buy-in league, right? $130 buy-in league. The only guy he knew was the commissioner. Mike, you know the most about this question. Yeah. So Spencer rode in and he just was, he's beside himself because he just has no options. He doesn't know what to do. He only knew the commissioner. Here's what happened. Apparently the commission dropped the woke one because the commissioner clearly is not listening to this show, which is foul number one.

for this commissioner. Sure. But, so he dropped C. Mike and, uh, and our boy Spencer had a waiver claim in to get C Mike. Lo and behold, Krista Michael ends up back on the commissioner's team. Before the Sunday games. Before the Sunday games through, uh, he had a waiver claim on him. Yes. So, and so there was, and there was some other things, some shady things happening. Well, Spencer did the right thing. He stood up, stood his ground, called out the commissioner. And the commissioner replied with, you're out of the league.

Ooh, man. And the commissioner's name is Will. Yes, this is all we know. So Foot Clan, if not that you're listening, Will, well, Will's not listening, but we know that. But maybe other people, if there was a Spencer from Denver, Colorado, and all of a sudden, he's gone from your league. Like, reach out because this, this guy needs some help. A fellow Foot Clan member is wounded and needs your help. Yeah, we're, we're here. We're here for the people. It's always funny.

to see like league mates that are trying to find out if other people in their league listen to the show. I had, you know, I had someone post to me this question or this image of their text communication from them and a friend. He was trying to figure out if they listen to the show. So he texts his friend and said, hey, if I had a drink that was half Sprite, half lemonade, what would the name of that drink be? And the friend texts back, what?

Apparently you're safe. Then you're safe. He doesn't know. Yeah, you can find out with Oreos. You can find out with the David Johnson song. There are different ways to kind of test the waters and see if people know what's going on. If you're in that league, reach out. We're here for you, Spencer. All right. Well, yeah, and as far as you will, as a commissioner, you're shameful. And if you were a commissioner of one of these Foot Clan leagues that we promote, we would remove our endorsement from your league. Henceforth.

Got him. Got him. All right. Follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. Hey, if you have been listening to this show for a long time on iTunes, you know, you love listening to the podcast. You can check it out on YouTube as well. We record all the shows, and you can actually watch them. Mike is waving into the camera here. And so we have a YouTube channel you can subscribe to. We encourage you to do that. Yesterday, I put a trailer up for the Kristen Michael interview, which I thought was, I thought it was going to funny.

Yeah, it was good. Also, you hear us talk about the show after the show. Sometimes we have ridiculous stories and things about that. That's only on YouTube. So if you've ever wondered, where is that thing? Where is that thing? You wonder, you wondered that yesterday you didn't have your laptop here. No, and I still got through the show. Yeah, yeah, you were papers only. Mm-hmm.

Pretty impressive. It was like the 90s. It was like the 1990s. All right. You can also find us on Patreon. Jointhefoot.com, our fantasy community and the website, the fantasy footballers.com. Lots of articles going up there. Very neat stuff like Snapcount articles and stuff like that. Congratulations to Jason. Once again, in the top 10 accuracy rankings. Congratulations.

You know, very impressive. People, you know, they get entertained by the show. They might wonder how accurate we are. Look, we're doing all right. So you get it all. You get it all. Three weeks in. So far we've had three top tens. All right. We're going to jump into News and Notes. And then we're going to get into Keep Trade Cut and the Christian Michael interview. So here we go. News and Notes from Around the League. All right. Let's start here. What? What is?

joick bell is back he's back there's not many shows where joick bell is going to be the headlight no you you need to use your toyke bell related sound effects when you have them signed by the bears look to me this is obviously a concession speech to the long term injury to jeremy langford you don't go sign a depth play in joick bell

Well, Cadeem Cary is also banged up. I was going to say it. It affirms to me very similar to your line of thinking that Cadeem Cary is not going to be there. So when I heard that Joyc Bell was signed, I had a lot of people say, oh, should I worry about, you know, signing Howard? And I thought, no, this is, this bumps Howard up to me because now I know that Cadeem Cary, who I would have been much more scared about than Joyc Bell. Joyc Bell doesn't know the offense yet. He's coming in because he's a veteran and they have no other running back. Yeah, he's a he's a jag.

Yeah, it's just a guy. Well, he was also on the, he was on the couch. Sure. So let me ask you this, because if that tells you that Kadeem Carey's probably going to miss a week, I know our rankings come up on the website later tonight, and you can check those out on the website, the fancy footballers.com. Would you rather play? Because, look, I know you guys think Jamal Charles might be back, but for a moment, indulge me in my way of thinking, I do not think Jamal Charles will be back out on the field. Would you rather have Spencer Ware?

Okay, Spencer Ware is at Pittsburgh and had like 76% of the snaps last week or take a shot with Jordan Howard this week. And Jordan Howard's got Detroit at home. At home. But he's Jordan Howard. We haven't seen it. Spencer Ware, he had a big week one. Okay, week two, three. You know, would have had a better week if he didn't fumble into the end zone last week. But my initial gut reaction is wear by a hair.

Wear by a hair? I like it, and I think I'm on board with that. All right. Tyler Eifford expected to miss week four against the dolphins. Yes, there's conflicting reports out there, but this is what we are hearing, that Eifford will not be playing. He's putting up consistent statelines this year. Yeah, that's true. You know exactly. We've all had him ranked perfectly so far. Sure, sure. NFL.com's Mike Garofalo reports Sammy Watkins will test out his injured foot on Wednesday and Thursday to see if he's available. In other words, yeah.

I hope he rests. Get it right. Get it tight. Get it right, Sammy Watkins. We need the elite Sammy Watkins back. Mike Tomlin expects, quote, a lot of Lev Bell against the Chiefs in week four. What? I've already put my Levi-on Bell rankings together this week, and I had projected him for a lot of work, like in the 24 to 25 carry range, plus, you know, Jason said it on the show a couple days ago. Lev Bell is healthy. He played in the preseason.

He's missed time only due to suspension. And after what we saw in Philly last week, this is a get right game at home against the Chiefs this week. It's something where I'm expecting to have to see Alex Smith throw the ball because I don't think they're going to be able to stick with what we see on that offense with Lev Bell back. Sure. Now, Eli Rogers will probably not be on the field. He's wearing a boot on his left foot right now, very questionable for week four, probably not out there.

Muhammad Sanu is expected to be fine for week four. With his shoulder. With the shoulder injury. And I will piggyback on there. The Matt Ryan kind of thumb injury that he got during the game. Everything I've read is that he's perfectly fine. And I will piggyback on there and just say that. That's a three piggyback. You sure this is safe? It's not safe. The Atlanta Falcons are very good right now to trade or cut. In my opinion, I'm not talking to Julio, but.

You know, that segment is approaching, Jason. Oh, that's true. We have a segment called Keep Trade Cut in a moment. And I'm sure we're going to have some Falcons in there. Spoiler. Now, one thing we did not get to talk about was Julio Jones pooping his big boy pants because he was on the Monday night game. So staying in the vein of the Falcons, Mike, you know, got defeated by one catch by Julio Jones. Thank you for bringing that back up.