Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 15 Matchups, News, Playoff Mailbag

Yeah, I think Kava can still be great. So obviously something that we will be exhaustively looking at in the offseason, preseason, things like that. So the big headlines today on Friday is basically injury reports and things like that. So we're going to go ahead and do in and out and get Mike and my, I'll chime in as well. Normally I let you guys do this, but I'll chime into what I think about these guys as you open your soda can. La Croy. Oh, you're La Croy? Yeah, here we go. Roy. What's it going to pay me fly? Are you in?

All right, inner out Matt Hasselbeck. Ah, man, I don't think he's going to play. If he does play, it's going to take one shot, one to two shots, and you're going to knock him out. The guy, if he watched him play last week, every time he got hit to the ground, he was tapping out, man. He did not, like, in that moment, he said, I don't want to get back up. He would, because Hasnaback's tough dude. I'm going to say out.

But I lean towards out. Which makes Houston's defense just all the more incredible. Well, I mean, Whitehurst isn't a turnover guy, but as long as you're getting points for opposing yardage and offensive score, then he's going to be great. Running backs in or out, C.J. Anderson. I'm going with N. He practiced even on, and the highlight of the practice was on turf, which is rough on your feet and your ankle, so he's going to be in. Here's a big one. T.J. Yeldin.

He's got to be out. You know what's crazy is he has the ability with his decision on this game or whatever takes place to severely disrupt fantasy owners. Because it's not so much the Yeldon owners that, oh, we get to put him back in. It's all the Dynard Robinson signers that have been putting him in place above other guys, the Ralls owner that grabbed Dinnard Robinson. Oh, no, what happens to have yelled? Everybody out there in the world wants T.J. Eldon to take a week off. If you...

I think that other than T.J. Yelden and the Jaguar. If Yelden plays, then all the waivers from this week are just destroyed with Seattle having their situation of adding Michael back in. Now, if we put Yelden back in, all these options on Tuesday, Tuesday morning with, oh, how glorious we have. We have backup options, everybody. Do not panic. And then if Yelden plays, it's full panic. Suddenly Fosie Whitaker rises to the top.

of this heap. So I think that T.J. Eldon will play. Do you? I do. I don't think he plays. But take this, do not take this as canon here with T.J. Eldon. We are giving opinion because we haven't got the Friday practice report yet. So today's report will tell you everything you need to know about Yeldon and what the coaches are saying. So that'll be a game time decision, I think. I don't think it'll be ruled out today, but I could be wrong. If you're starting Fosie Whitaker and Tim Hightower in your playoff semifinals, let us know.

Because we want to enjoy that moment with you. Absolutely. Yeah, that's a great way to win a matchup and have the ability to mock your opponent for years to come. Spencer Ware, in or out. I'm going to go with, I think he's, I think he'll play limited. Okay, Carlos Williams, in or out. Probably out. All right, wide receivers.

Big one. Alshan Jeffrey sat out Wednesday and Thursday with an illness, in or out. Not just an illness, but Wednesday was a calf injury. Thursday, we didn't really get an update on the calf because it was said to be an illness. Sounds so John Foxy, dude. It sounds so. It sounds so John Foxy to say here's what he does. So he's having calf problems. He also gets sick. We're just going to say Thursday was all because of the sickness. Now the opposing team thinks Alshan Jeffrey's fine.

I've seen it before. I need somebody with tremendous video editing skills. Just put forth like a funny montage of John Fox with Foxy Lady over the top. Not bad. They'll be tremendous. So I think now I'm picturing, you know, John Fox going over, throwing some, you know, sneeze, some pepper under the nose of Alshan Jeffrey, getting him to sneeze a few times and you're out for an illness and we don't know. We don't know. What we do know is this. Alshan Jeffrey.

and his calf have been an issue all year round. Runs over with like a thermometer. Yeah. Alshan, you look, you look pale. He's like, I'm fine. I got a sore calf or whatever. He's like, no, no, you're getting bad. He's got the boobotic plague. Yeah, so, uh...

All humor aside, most of you owners out there are going, shut up and tell me whether my superstar is going to play. And I don't blame you. And I actually think that I'm concerned. So I'd have a backup plan in place. But if he starts, he is. He's in. If he plays, you got to play him. All right. Jarvis Landry, interesting case here. He was limited Wednesday. He was out Thursday. Possible regression there. What's up with Jarvis Landry? That is bad news. To get downgraded to out on a Thursday.

That's never something you want to see. If he can get in limited work today or it gets labeled as limited because it's mostly a walkthrough and all those things, then I'll be okay. And Landry's the same thing. If he plays... 18 targets. If he plays football, he plays fantasy football. All right, let's do these ones. In or out, Alan Hearns. In. All right. Julian Edelman. I think he's going to be out. Okay, I'm going to say in on that one just to...

So pay attention there. And we disagree. You think if he's in... Yes, we do disagree on that. You say if he's in, you're playing him. Yes. And for me, if he's in, I'm not playing him. Now, what's interesting there, and I don't want to linger too long, but I just want your comment. You had the same situation with Amandola coming back, where Amandola was coming off the knee, and you were like, man, if he's back, I'm going to play him. Why isn't that the viewpoint here? Is it because Amandola is there as well?

It's more of the injury. The actual injury. It's the actual injury of it was his foot. He broke his foot. A bone in his foot. Edelman's entire game is shiftingness, quickness, and cutting. So I don't see a situation where he's gotten back this quickly. I mean, this Wolverine-type healing, if Edelman is to play this weekend and play an entire game, I would be very impressed. Not saying it's impossible. No, and that's good perspective. And the truth is, is for me, even though I think I would start him.

If you have somebody in the same tier, why risk the injury component? I try to reduce my variables of failure in facing football. There's so many variables of failure anyways. I just pull back from any that are like I can induce upon the player. And if you, okay, let's compare him to say, Gronk. Because, I mean, you got the same team. Maybe they treat him the same way. Gronkowski played limited snaps. Yep. Now, he happened to have a monster game because he had a touchdown and two big catches.

But if Edelman... And who's to say Edelman would play a full second half if this game's put away for some reason? That's my concern. Yeah. Deshaun Jackson, in or out? I think he's going to play. Dante Moncrief, in or out. I'm going to say out, and this is what is important about Dante Moncrief. If you're trying to get sneaky and slippery. Philip Dorset is back. 12, 14, 16 team leagues. He is cleared to play. I wouldn't start him. I don't know. I'm not saying start him, but...

Pay attention? Put them on your bench. If you got a spot and you put them on your bench, speculate, maybe Moncrief misses some more time, and Dorset has a great game, and you think, hey, next week, Matt Hasselbeck, or maybe even Andrew Luck is back next week, and Philip Dorset is starting. Never know. Who knows? Who knows? All right, two more guys at the wide receiver position, Stevie Johnson and Kendall Wright. I'm going to go without for both. Me too. All right, four tight ends I want to mention Greg Olson limited on Thursday. In or out? In.

Tyler Eifert? I'm going to say out. Zach Miller? In. Charles Clay. Probably out, but if he's on the football field, is he actually out there? Right. Is he in or out on the field? That's confusing. But, man, Clay has been... Clay's a good player. Clay has been disappointing for me. I love him. I loved him in Miami. And...

They're not game planning for him. It's the same thing with Jordan Cameron. Loved him in Cleveland. He's not getting attention. It's just, and this is one of the risks. I'm telling you, free agency always looks so juicy. It always looks great on paper because they pay these guys big money to come and play for them. And then the roles change, you know, it's just a strange thing. And we're going to see it again this year. We'll give you all the insight to our thoughts on that as well. Before we get into the rest of the fantasy forecast, go through the matchups, drop some knowledge on you in terms of who you can start and who you can't.

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But it really feels like a bad start when Mike Evans scores 20 on you on Thursday night football. Right? Like now I'm at the point where I'm looking at it. I'm going, is there another Hail Mary play out there? I mean, that's kind of a new aspect of fantasy football that didn't exist maybe five, six, seven years ago when Thursday night football wasn't every week. I mean, there's a Saturday game this week. There is not just set your lineup and lock and load. Everybody wants to do that, but...

If Mike Evans last night, here's a good example. I'm playing Jason, he's got Mike Evans. If he put up a two last night, my position with my running back two becomes, I want a safe guy that gets me 10 points. If he puts up a 20, I started thinking, who's a home run candidate? Could I really start Christine Michael in this game? Could I start somebody that has the opportunity to break too long touchdown? You know, I start thinking in terms of, and then I have Ivory and Marshall on Saturday night.

And depending on what they do, that'll determine Saturday morning as well for me. And you kind of have to play back and forth, I think. Last week you had Larry Fitzgerald have a bad Thursday. I was going to say last week, I sure could have used 20 points from Larry. Sure. That would have been nice. But because of his bad game, I played, I actually played Austin's Fern Jenkins over Gronk because I didn't know what Gronk was going to do whether he'd be active on Sunday night. I was playing it safe. It might have been different had he put up 20. I might have played Gron.

So just some perspective, it's different. It's different than it used to be. So Panthers at the Giants, this is, believe it or not. Andy's almost upset of the wig. Possibly grandly foolish. That's not even a normal sentence in the English language. That's why it's the almost upset because we're not going all in on it. Here's the thing. We know this from New York. Every once in a while, they can put up.

offensive points on anybody. You have the best young wide receiver in the game. You have Eli Manning who can catch fire. And you have variables with the Carolina Panthers right now, with an injured Jonathan Stewart, a possibly limited Greg Olson. We don't know going on the road. A very good defense. I'm not saying this is a shoe in, but I think it's possible. That's all I'm saying. I agree with you. I think it's possible. We saw the Panthers escape by the skin of their butt.

against the Saints. And the Colts. And the Colts, too. But I'm going, Saints recently of, I mean, if you watch that game, the Panthers really should have lost that game. But they didn't because they're a championship type team. So I agree with you that it's very possible for this to turn into a shootout. You saw Ruben Randall had a good game last week. Yeah, Roos. Rashad Jennings had a good game last week. And Odell Beckham Jr. was.

insane last year. Did you see the quotes from Kaufflin when when people were asking about Jennings if he was going to get that kind of carries? Yeah. He was saying, why do you guys care? Why do you guys care about this? Why don't you join my league, Tom? It's called a billion dollar industry, Tom. We pay your bills. Yeah. I'm always amazed that a head coach can be surprised. The media wants to ask him a question. It's like, how do you get paid what you paid?

How do you get 70,000 people to come watch you in the stadium? Well, we do what we want to do, and you shouldn't know about it. John Fox. We got a game going on here, Fox, or not Foxx, Coughlin. We got to get it going. They probably hang out. All right. Cam Newton, he's a locked and loaded starter. Yes. The running back situation in Carolina, if you had to just start a guy, is it Fossey? It's Fossey. It's Fossey because the coach has given the nod.