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

A big portion of that is Alshan Jeffrey. Absolutely. Is Alshan Jeffrey good to go? If he was, would you play Cutler over Yates? Yes. Okay. I'm going to still say Yates. Against the banged up Minnesota defense, I would still go with, I would go with Cutler. But if there's any concern over Alishon, yeah, I mean.

Yates? I know. But listen, what do we say? The Colts have given up, you have to pay attention to the trend. 96 points given up by the Colts. Might be Whitehurst, might be a beat-up Matt Hasselbeck. I think the potential for Yates to have three touchdowns is actually very high. And I've heard that this DeAndre Hopkins fellow, he might become a thing. Yeah, he's good. Very close. He's very good. He's very close to that. All right. Next question. Now, Yates was the...

Yates was the quarterback who won the playoff game for the Texans, right? Yes. Oh, he's solid. He's a hearted veteran. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Keep expounding. Hey, fan of official ballers is Diego Diaz, Renovalli, California, and I have a running back situation. I have Amir Abdullah, Belia Powell, or Matt Jones, for an RV2 position. Please let me know what you guys think. Thanks so much. Love your show, man.

Wish we knew if that was PPR or not. Amir Abdullah, Bilal Powell, Matt Jones. And I, okay, so answer for both. I would lean. I would probably play Matt Jones in both. Really? I probably would. I'm going to go, I'm going to go Amir Abdullah. I know that. Really? In both? Yeah. Wow. In PPR, I might actually go Bilal Powell. But I guess Chris, I forgot Chris Thompson got torn in half.

Well, no, he might be back out there. But regardless, after being torn in half, Chris Thompson is back. Let me just break something to you. And, you know, without Jason here, it'll be accurate. So basically, Chris Thompson was not torn in half. Wait, wait, wait. He's actually whole. Jason, Jason gave me the assumption that he was torn in half. He said he had a huge tear. Yeah, well, I assume that these are torn in half. No, no, no, no, no. He's actually fine.

He'll be okay. Torn Labrum might play regardless. Buffalo has not been as good against the run statistically as you think they are. The game's in Washington. I'm taking Manchones. I would go, I'm going to go Abdullah. The Saints, we've talked about their defense. They're with the passing defense being slightly better, but the run defense is still bad. All right. All right. Let's get to the next one. Hey, fancy footballers.

I just want to thank you guys for getting me to an 11-2 season. Oh, yeah. I thank you guys and I also dedicate gratitude to Devanta Freeman, who I am having some mixed feelings about. I mean, he got me to the playoffs, and now I feel like I can't trust him going up against the Carolina defense if I do make it to Week 16. Who would you guys feel comfortable playing over Devanta Freeman?

I just picked up Tim Hightower, and I also have Matt Forte, a couple other people off the waiver wire. But let me know who you guys, who you think you would feel comfortable playing over at Avanta Freeman at this point. Thank you. This week? This week I'm okay with Freeman. Me too. I'm perfectly fine with Freeman. Moving into Championship Week? I'd play both those guys over him in Championship Week. Yeah, I can... I'd play Hightower and Forte. Now, if Hightower poops the bed this week...

Then it totally changes the quick. And Forte. If either of those guys doesn't look good this week, then I probably stick with Freeman. And Jason had brought this point up yesterday where, and we took a deeper look. This guy. All right. Jason? Of Forte's splitting situation. It was very, it was right down the middle and Langford actually out-targeted Matt Forte. So pay attention to that this week where Chicago could be, you know,

They don't have anything to play for this year. Do they want to get a better look at the rookie? Matt Forte on an expiring contract? Are they going to bring him back? Are they just going to move forward with the rookie? For Hightower, he gets to take on Jacksonville, which we've talked about their running defense is okay. But with Drew Brees in there, why you like a guy like Hightower, your probability for a goal line carry?

is pretty solid when Drew Breeze is your quarterback. There's going to be points put on the board. Can you get him from the running back? So assuming that everyone, that Hightower has a good game this week, I'm more than likely going to roll him out in championship week over Freeman against the Panthers because that is just rough. I think what we said earlier, you can't just assume Devante Freeman is going to be.

what he was for those power weeks. You can't do it right now. I know it's hard to swallow, but play the guy that's going to win you the game. Yeah, I mean, it's just too hard for me to make him an auto elite the way the offense is playing. 29 points in three weeks does not a lot of opportunities on the goal line make. Thanks, Yoda. I think I said words. Pat in Indiana, I can't believe I'm actually having to debate this. I thought I would go all year without using him due to injury.

Waver while availability, and Frank Gore's performance, I have to now debate Frank Gore or Melvin Gordon. Ooh, half point PPR? Help me, says Pat. I might go Melvin Gordon here. What was, I don't know? Melvin Gordon? You would go Gordon? I think I'd go Melvin Gordon here. All right, I would. Oh my gosh. Yeah, that's insane. They both feel like they have.

the most oppressive ceiling atop them as they can. Like, neither guy has the potential to be great this week. I'll just play Gore. Stay safer, yeah. Yeah, Vincent and Road Island. Hey, guys, big fan, Randall Cobb or Julian Edelman this week. Randall Cobb. Either way. I agree. Kyle and Charlotte, Russell Wilson or Carson Palmer. Stay in the flames or go with the guy who's been steady all year round. We had this debate in the studio yesterday.

Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson. Yeah, Russell Wilson. I got those guys at one and two. Yeah. So I have Wilson at one. Let me give you a number, 16. 16 touchdowns in four weeks. I'm going to go with Russell Wilson. He's playing Cleveland at home. The funny thing about that argument is... He's the only guy I would start over Carson Palmer this week. With that kind of confidence. Of that argument, you're like, wow.

How can you not play him? And then at the same time, you think, because that's impossible for him to continue to do that. It may be impossible, but you're playing Cleveland at home this week. With a lack of running game or potential lack of running game. And a perfect pass rating when you empty the backfield. You got to go with Russell Wilson. I just stay in the flames. Because not only does, I think Russell, does anybody think Russell poops to bed this week? No.

That is the thing. If that was a potential problem, you could just say stay with Palmer. But I don't think he poops to bed. And what is his upside? It's been five touchdowns for a couple weeks in a row. His upside might be seven touchdowns. All right. This is both the best and longest show we've done in a while. So we're going to wrap it up. We're done. Oh, man. I had a least good luck this week. I have five minutes left. Hey, pay attention on Twitter. We'll keep you updated at the FF ballers with all the injury reports. Everything you need to know. See you on Monday. Goodbye.

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