Week 16 Buy or Sell + Playoff Push, Permission to Cry - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/22

So is Antonio Gibson playing on a bad toe going to be a priority? I do not know. So back to Dak. Yeah, back to Dak. I mean, it's all about your other options, though. Yeah, so I don't blame you that you do not want to trust him. But at this point, okay, let's say they're home. Okay, so let's go Dak Prescott or Jimmy Garoppolo against the Tennessee Titans. You got to make that decision quick because he's Thursday.

Oh, I thought you meant like quick right now. I'm like, why am I up against it? The people need to know. I would play DAC, but that doesn't nullify the question, which is can you trust Dak? I can't trust him. I would still probably play him over a Tana Hill or Garapolo or, you know, whatever. You said you talked about golfs with their matchup and like I'm not playing him over those other options because. What about Justin Fields against Seattle? That is a great one.

That is a great one because Justin Fields has found a way into those top finishes. Yeah, so Justin Fields in completed games because he only played about half of the game against Baltimore in week 11. But since week eight, he's been a top 10 fantasy quarterback in every single one of those weeks, again, except for the Baltimore game. If you have courage, then the matchup, I'm okay with that. Going to Fields?

Yeah. All right. Because, I mean, Seattle's season just ended, too. Last night was their last hurrah. So, man, that would be. That's tough because Justin Fields is a turnover machine. Yes. So, no, I'm not playing. No, I'll play deck. Yeah, I'm going to play deck. Okay. I'm going to hope for, I'm going to hope for the talent and the bounce back and the people around him. This has been helpful.

Because I'm learning about, I'm learning, you know, can I trust him to win me the week? No, but does he still have DAC upside? Of course he does. I mean, he's just too many broken promises, Dak. Yeah, yeah. Get it together. Why don't we talk about more football? Thursday night breakdown. I apologize. I do have one more question. One more mailback question. Okay. This comes in off of Twitter from at chin cover underscore FF.

Oh, which is the Mike Wright Beard account. I have a beard account? You do. Mike writes a beard. Okay. How much crying is acceptable? Oh, what? As much as you need, my friend, as much as get it out. Those, you bottle those emotions up like we were told, like back when we were cutting down trees and just everyone's a lumberjack man. No, no.

You'll turn into a serial killer. Let the emotions out of your body. The tears are cleansing. Let the tears cleanse your soul. If only they counted for fantasy points. Look, yeah, that'd be great. Because then I would have so many fantasy points this year. So many. All right, the 49ers are 8 and 6. They're on a roll. They're taking on the Tennessee Titans, 9 and 5.

The D.K. Sportsbook line, 49ers minus three and a half. This is on the road. This is like... The O'Ronders is 44. Tennessee is, um, they're playing with the replacements at this point in time. Well, maybe AJ Brown's back. Yeah. AJ Brown and Julio Jones, uh, the injury train on those guys. Yeah. It's terrifying. Because I, if AJ Brown's back out there, you're just afraid of them falling.

That's what I'm falling down again. Where I was saying, like, should you be disappointed in Stefan Diggs? You easily could have drafted AJ Brown right there. Yeah, I'll be happy with your, count your blessings. Yeah. These are established at teams, Mike. We need another island primetime game where established it is the mantra. And Tennessee, most rush attempts in the NFL, San Francisco, the second highest rush rate.

The big question marks in this game are the starting running backs because Elijah Mitchell is a game time decision. Could be back. Deonta Foreman? Full practice on Tuesday. Seems like he's going to be back. But let's start with the 49er side. They run the ball a ton. They're successful at it. So the implications here. Elijah, if he's back, do you play him? And if he's not, is Jeff Wilson a strong star. Because Tennessee is really...

Good against the run. Number two in the last six weeks, number one on the year. Yeah, I don't think that either of these players is definitely like where a lot of the time this year, if you've had the starter, you feel like you have a top 15 locked in option. In terms of volume, you will. It's been interesting over the season that for the 49ers where they're known for.

over the last couple of years, a real platoon situation. You just hope you have the guy who has the most touches. But when they have the starter, they have been very committed to that player as the starter in terms of opportunity. For Jeff Wilson, it hasn't always turned into fantasy delight and fantasy points. He did come through this past week. But I would still be playing them despite the matchup here. If it's Elijah Mitchell, if he is back,

Oh, gosh. A game time decision, I think I do play him. The teams with running identities have succeeded on the ground against Tennessee. New England, Indianapolis, twice. You know, the last couple of weeks, now, Pittsburgh didn't. And I guess you were. I'm not really sure what the identity of Pittsburgh is. Okay. I think that's fair. They don't know who they are anymore. Jacksonville didn't, but that was a game, I think, where James Robinson had five carries.

You know, Houston didn't. Big surprise there, right? So I don't know. Just the question is, if Elijah Mitchell, game time decision, they say he's active. Are you just putting him right back in? Yes, because I know that Shanahan, every time this has happened, he's willing to give 26 carries to that player. He's willing to go, he doesn't siphon off a few. It's like you're back, you're ready, you're not. That's why I don't think he'll be back.

It's because I think that's what he wants to build the game plan around. He doesn't want to sit there and go, I'm going to manage Elijah Mitchell's health in his knee. Because Jeff is enough. So if Mitchell's out, Jeff Wilson in? He's in. Okay. He's in for me. I would rather play Deonta Foreman if somehow that's... Over those guys? Yeah. If that's the question, assuming, you know, I need... Let me see those final practice reports on Deonta Forman. Just make sure he's okay. It was a full practice on Tuesday. So...

have to imagine he is good to go and he's just averaging nearly 20 touches over the last three games he has looked good so i would roll with foreman brandon i you just can't trust you can't trust i'm going i'm not playing him in this game really no even with the matchup being there i know the titans have been a little more stingy against fantasy wide receivers the last six weeks but on the season they are second to last

Yeah. As in you want to play your wide receiver against him. You can't flex him if you need to. I mean, there's a lot of players. Are you playing him over AJ Brown in the game? If AJ Brown is active, I'm going to play him over Brandon a U. Okay. And, you know, Kittles and Samuel are obviously in your lineup. But this game doesn't feel very complicated to me. You don't want to go out and like, just because you want to have a player to watch on Thursday night, throw somebody into your lineup that you don't need to play. Where are you at with, with Dantrol Hilliard?

I picked him up in a league. I thought if Foreman's out, that Hillier will be a really strong play. But I don't think Foreman's going to be out, and at that point, it's no, no thank you. But even with Foreman, you know, being in and being the main guy, over the last four weeks, he's out, let me get the average here. He is averaging almost 14 opportunities a game. Yeah, I guess I just don't have the. Okay, don't have the confidence to play the backup running back? Too scared, yeah.

Do we have any other practice updates, Brooksie? No, sir. Jets might be without their head coach. Robert Sala tested positive for COVID-19. Okay. Okay. All right. Is there anything else from that matchup that you think is headline news? I mean, I don't like the quarterbacks in that game to lean on in the semi-final playoff matchup. Sure. I mean, we just ran the DAC. Jimmy Garoppolo question. Yeah. So, you know, San Francisco's playing well.

Tennessee is trying to hold on. I mean, at this point, they're 1 and 3 over the last month. They were 8 and 2 before they lost everybody. They, what, Indianapolis is 8 and 6. So if Tennessee, you know, the D.K. Sportsbook has the 49ers winning this game. If Tennessee loses and Indianapolis beats Arizona, which seems very possible. Sure. Then.

They're tied, but Tennessee does have the tiebreaker. Because Arizona is now tied with the ramps. Yes. Arizona, I believe, currently holds the tiebreaker. But the 49ers, the 49ers are coming, man. I heard something this morning that I believe said 27 NFL teams are still in playoff contention. Wow. So I didn't vet it, but I heard it said. The one extra team, it makes a difference.

So a reminder, though, if you do play a Jeff Wilson and Elijah Mitchell and AJ Brown and Debo, don't put them in your flex for goodness sakes. Put them in the position. Save that flex for when you need to cry slash flex out of somebody that's been added to the COVID list or hurts themselves this week. Starts of the week. Boom, boom kicker. Oh, my gosh. Do we have to read that for him? I think we do. Maybe Al can do it tomorrow.

I think if nothing changes, he's planning on remoting in tomorrow, but we'll see how he's feeling. I'm not feeling very good, guys. Oh, is that him live? Do we have, we're going live to Jason. You forgot I was here, guys. That's me. It's definitely me. Jason Moore. Boom, boom. I don't believe in Devo, Samuel. That's the bit. We just take all his bad takes and we use that voice. That's right. That's right.

He won't listen this far into the show. He won't know this happened today. Guys, I'm feeling real good about Carrie on Johnson this week. How many of you, Rodney Anderson? I like that song a lot. I don't want to shut the show down. I just want to find. He is getting, he's shaming you this week. So be careful. But I like Mikey's so cool.

I would never do that. I would never do nothing. Make them uncomfortable. Get well, Jason. Get well soon. Maybe we'll talk to you tomorrow. Maybe. We'll see what I'm doing. That's going to do it for today's show, everybody. Get the waivers in. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on Join the Foot.com. And follow us on Twitter.

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