Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 14 Waiver Wire Pickups, Streaming Options, News

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Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Happy Tuesday, everybody. 150? 150. Who. 150 shows. Do work. That's a lot of shows. What? You weren't here for most of them. At least not mentally. No. No, I mean, I checked out about 75 ago. Oh, I only wish that were true because I'm facing you in our playoffs this week and our...

In our big league. I never check out there. I know. And it's frustrating. And the street comes to an end because you and I had faced off in the title game in this league for three straight years, and we had hoped that at least the possibility would be there, but we ended up in the same bracket. I was 20 points away. 20 points away from making that a possibility. And you would have been in the other bracket. And you would have had the buy week. Yep. Yeah, well.

I'm sure everyone would love to listen to us, muse about this league all show long, but it is Tuesday, December 8th. We are back again, the Fantasy Footballers podcast. You can find us on the web at the Fantasy Footballers.com on Twitter at the FFBallers. We are also broadcast on the Fantasy Sports Network. Shout out to them. Hello. Hello. Hello. Pajor. Pat May I'll say hello. That's appropriate. Yes, they are based in Canada. So we are on YouTube.

We are on YouTube, and you heard me say it before, but we are on jointhefoot.com. That's our fantasy community. We're also on Facebook, on iTunes. Yada, yada, yada. We're everywhere. I mean, 150 shows. You probably heard that once or twice. You're going Seinfeld on everybody right there. I did. I busted it out. So we've got our, what do we got today? We got some news and notes. Maybe the most important waiver wire show. Possibly. Big time waiver wire show. Playoffs. Less important if you're not in the playoffs. Yeah, I'm taking this week off, fellas. Not because I'm not in the playoffs, but because.

I'm on the bye week just waiting for you two. So I'm, you know who I'm starting this week? No one. I don't care. Well, yeah. Even if you're on the bye week, we're going to be talking about some quarterbacks who you might want to have for the playoff run. We're going to go through some defenses. So there's still some information that even Jason Moore, the biweeksaurus over there, may want to.

Yeah, you better soak it up, buddy. Oh, I've got my waiver claims in for this week because I'm playing some keep-away. We were at dinner last night, and I told him, I said, act like you've been there before. But then I realized. He wouldn't know how to do that. You guys. I know, we're jerks. All right. What do we want to do? Let's talk quick question right now. All right? Quick question of the day. What player is going to win fantasy owners a playoff game this week? This week. This week. Who's going to win some playoff games for people?

Well, I'm going to go with a character who is officially heating up after basically a hibernation for a majority of this season. And his name is Sammy Watkins. Ah, yeah. Who is coming off two great games. He'll have had only three catches last week, but it was a very tough defensive matchup. The Texans have been shutting down number one wide receivers, but he still managed to get it done.

So I love Sammy Watkins this week against the Eagles. It could be... It's juicy. It's juicy. It's succulent. And it's sweet. It is everything you want out of a matchup for your first round players. You're more of a dessert pick then. And I'm going with more of the... I'm going to go with the fantasy vegetable that is Chondrone. Sean Drone has the Cleveland Browns this week. And man, is he just getting work?

He's just being, he scored last week against Chicago, and he's just, they're just using him. Sean Drone is the big salad. He's the big, okay, another Seinfeld reference. Thank you. Yeah. Well, I'll stick. The big salad. I'll stick with the food analogy. You guys have a big salad? I'm going to go with an entree here. I'm going with a main, I'm going with the steak. Yeah, steak, which is starting running back. I'm going to go Thomas Rawls. I think he's going to win some people some weeks because he is the type of guy who was picked up either in a need.

or just as an extra bonus recently a couple weeks ago, and he's going to pay dividends for fantasy owners. So I hope you were listening to our show. Thomas Rawls takes on the Ravens. The Ravens who, in my mind, still won that game against the, against the dolphins in their 86. So who watched the game last night, by the way? Well... Unfortunately, all of us. Well, a game... Yeah. Okay, so three quarters of the game. Three and a half. Three and a half quarters of the game, it was just...

unbearable. I think I tweeted out that I stabbed myself in the eyes to feel better. That being said, suddenly the punt... Oh, so, oh yeah, so let's set the table for this. You pointed out for me. I believe the score was tied. Yeah. Time was running down. Nine to nine. And Washington had a monstrous defensive hold. Things were setting up for them to march down the field, and they decided to pull a maneuver.

And they put in superstar punt returner, Deshawn Jackson. And they put him in the back for just in case, just in case he can break it to the house. We've seen him pull miracles out when he beat the Giants when the time was over and he ran the punt back. They thought maybe we can get some of that magic. And then the ball was snapped. The cowboy snapped. And the punt was in the air. The ball was fielded at about the 25-yard line. And Deshaun Jackson. Deshaun Jackson.

decides to reverse the field and run backwards about 20 yards before eventually fumbling the ball at the five-yard line. You know what the best part about it was? And then, of course, in Deshaun Jackson, I think it was a summary of his career in 60 seconds because that ridiculous clown show of a play, and then he catches a touchdown pass. Well, what we're glossing over here is the clown play that was Deshaun Jackson was followed up.

by two clown plays from Darren McFadden, who decides I should probably run out of bounds and save Washington a timeout because that's the friendly neighbor thing to do. And then they just, then they scored. I'm sorry, those are two really bad teams. Sit on the ball. Two bad teams. So yeah, Deshaun Jackson did give us a few moments of entertainment.

just like a circus would at the end of that game. So, all right, every week we like to take a minute and go ahead and read a review from the listeners on iTunes or some of the other places that our show is. And so we're going to go ahead and do that right now. Review Osoris Rags. This one comes in from Arsh 23, titled Reversing Wins. Art, wait. Arsh? Arsh 23. Reversing wins and withstanding victories.

I rarely leave reviews, but these guys deserve it. After a few years of mediocre fantasy advice, I finally found an entertaining podcast that helped me stir up some confidence to reverse a one-and-three start into a nine and four division championship. Oh, that's nice. As I continued to withstand victories, if you need advice to beat up your league mates in your league of record, these are the guys. Thanks, as always, I look forward to listening.

throughout the playoffs. Well, thank you. That's some sweet Arsh right there. An Arsh is a protein coding gene. Huh. Dropping. It's not just football. It's science. It's science on the fantasy footballers. Coming up next, the science-y-siencers podcast. Not as good. It doesn't flow. Science-y-science. You didn't go with the...

The fantasy scientist, the FF scientists? Yeah, that would have been way easier. That name is taken. The our science show name is pending. We're working it up. I agree with you. I agree with you completely. News and notes from around the league. All right. Let's get two at the Rams have fired their offensive coordinator. Yeah, take that. Frank. I feel like I could play the clown music again. Yeah, probably. I already put it away. This.

is great news for all Todd Gurley owners. We saw what happened in Miami where the offensive coordinator doesn't give the ball to the running back with a head coach that wants to run and they fire him and they say run the ball. And for the first time in a couple of years, Lamar Miller finally got 20 carries, runs for 113 yards. Back-to-back weeks, you give Todd Gurley nine carries and you say, you're not an offensive coordinator of my running team. Get out of here. So I love this for Todd Gurley owners.

Yeah, it seemed, I don't know, maybe it needed to happen. I don't know, it was Jeff Fisher, who was running out of answers. And so his answer was to point a finger at somebody else, and Frank, you're out of town. So I do agree with Jason, though, that back-to-back weeks of giving Todd Gurley nine carries, I understand sometimes a running back can get game flowed out of a situation, but Todd Gurley can catch the ball as well. And against the Cardinals,

I mean, the game flow was not out of a... It was not out of a hand where you should be abandoning the run. Nope. And especially when Nick Foles is the option to throw the ball, you've got to give the ball to Todd Gurley more than nine times. All right, the bills coach, Rex Ryan, has said that Carlos Williams is a possibility to play in week 14. You're not starting him, though. No, it's just a...

It's a-Lashon McCoy. Maybe his upside is a little bit capped. However, he didn't get in the end zone last week, still got it done. Yep. Philadelphia Daily News reports Ryan Matthews has cleared one of the league's concussion protocol. On Monday, he could return to practice on Tuesday. There was also a report this morning if you saw it that DeMarco Murray has erred his frustrations to the owner. Ooh. So, ooh. Things are still going like they've been going for DeMarco, who...

You know. You went to the tap. Can I just be honest with you? I just, I'm starting to sour on the guy. Yeah. Because the complaining, I mean, first of all, frustrations, yes. I understand when AP is frustrated with his carries and they lose 37 or whatever, you know, when they get destroyed. They won the game. They're tied for first in the division. Let's go talk to the owner about my carries. What? How about let's go Pat Darren Sproes on the back and say, hey, nice job.

Because I want to win. I want to win, but I want to be the reason we win. Yeah, but you haven't been. Right. Don't you think that that's what they're figuring out? Isn't that the game flow test that they did? You might be the reason they were losing. You had not been running well before that game for several weeks in a row. Ryan Matthews is the guy that, I mean, this is kind of good news that he's passed the concussion protocol. I'm not saying you should start him. I respect players like Darren Sproul's.

or Ahmad Bradshaw, who every time they're on the field, you can tell every last muscle, they're twitching to get the next centimeter on the field. They're trying as hard as they can. I haven't felt that way from DeMarco Murray. I see him becoming mentally frustrated in the middle of games, trying to do too much, not listening to, you know, the offense and what it's asking. And so they tried something else and they won. Yeah.