Fantasy Football 2017 - Holiday Awards, Week 16 Matchups, Starts of the Week

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May they be cheery and bright and filled with championships. Look, I realized this morning, Mike, that's my name. I mean, it just wraps up on Monday night on Christmas. I know. How, I mean, the memories for you and I are going to be very different this Christmas. They certainly are because it comes down to...

I will have Michael Crabtree playing Monday night. You will have Alshan. Alshan playing Monday night. And more than likely the way that our teams are stacked up, that's going to be for everything. It's going to be Crabtree versus Alshund. Not if I put a call into Todd Gurley and I said, upgrade you. Let's go five TDs this week. I don't want four. I want five.

I want to put that game away. I don't want to be reliant. I like Crabtree this week. That's the problem. You said it on the show yesterday. You've got your picks. And then after you make your picks, because they're knowledgeable, intelligent, unbiased, based on the facts, based on the hard evidence. At that point, you begin to root against them if they're facing you. It's quite the conundrum. Oh, we've got a great show for you today. We have the fantasy forecast, the week 16 matchups, starts of the week.

Jason's boom, boom kicker. And we've got some. You ready, Jay? Holiday Awards. Super ready. Are you even able to speak today? Barely, but I'm here. I'll chime in every now and then. Some hot tea? Some lozenges? Both are at the ready and in the belly. I don't know what's going on with you. I hope at the ready is not related to in the belly as in they're going to come back from the belly. No. Whoa. All right.

All right, quick question of the day. We have this new Christmas Day Awards article up on the website by our editor, Kyle. Oh, the Borgogan. I tried. I tried Kyle. Sorry. And he gives away a bunch of really creative fun holiday awards to fantasy players. I'm going to give you guys three awards, their description, and I want to see if you can guess who the winner is. Oh, all right. So some holiday awards today.

This first one is the department store fake Santa. Oh, mm-hmm. This guy smells just like beef and cheese. As a kid, you thought he was the real deal. Turned out to be a sad sack with no real pull in getting gifts. Oh, man. All right. All right. Take your shot at the department store fake Santa. Look, I know a guy who came on. You thought he was real. He was fake. But this championship week, Santa's coming to town.

And I'm going Mike Gillisley here as the make Santa. And I need you. Please provide one real gift. Jason is rolling with the heart of stone, the innards of steel this weekend with Mike Gillisley. And I thought we were supposed to give our own winners.

Oh, that's also known as guessing. That works fine, too. I've got mine, uh, and mine was in fact Mike Gillesley as well. Was it really? Because I had many, many shares of Gillesley and there were many high kicks and cartwheels and celebrations through week two. I thought I had a top. I don't even remember who Mike Gilsley is. Oh, you're going to. Yeah. The winner was Doug Martin.

Doug Martin's the department store, fake Santa. With some honorable mentions, I think Gillisley qualifies. Isaiah Crowell, Amir Abdullah. Yeah, but Abdullah is just not big enough. I was going to say the padding isn't there. Gillisley's got padding. Go to Dougel's got padding. Martin's got padding. Maybe, yeah. Going to Doug Martin is, that brings me some holiday cheer. You know, I think it would look good in that outfit, too. CJ Anderson. I think CJ would look nice. CJ Anderson running back too.

Yes, this week. This week. You're right, Mike. On the season. Oh, my gosh. If you had him as your RB2 all season, you ain't talking about this week. Fair. All right. This one's the Joseph and Mary Memorial Award. Finding a bundle of riches and gold in the midst of a stinky, crowded manger. Okay, what do you? I love it. This must relate to a gym on a bad team. Yeah, or the way I took it when I read that award description was kind of the.

the committee back that is still usable and great. And to me, it was easy and obvious. That's funny if we have the same answer, but I took it the way that Andy described it. So who are your winners? I'll hint that it's more towards Jayla Jason was saying. All right. Well, I don't need your hints. This award is confusing. I was already there. I'm going with Alex Collins. I had the same answer. Oh, did we just become best friends? High five. Yes.

Guys are ridiculous. The winner is Alvin Camara. Yeah. I would have rather seen Mark Ingram there than Alvin Camara. I would not call the Saints backfield situation a stinky crowded manger. It sure started that way. It started crowded. Adrian Peterson and Mark Ingram. They were a little bit stinky in the beginning. Yeah. Brooks, you had something to contribute there. Oh, that's going to point out. Adrian Peterson. Honorable mentions Case Keenham. Robbie Anderson.

All right. Quick detour, but Bill Barnwell of ESPN came out with a great article today about all of the possible quarterbacks changing teams this year. He brings up the Bridgewater Bradford-Keonem situation in Minnesota. That's going to be tough. Brings up the Bortle situation, the fifth-year option, $19 million, whether Bortles leaves town, whether Alex Smith could get traded. Yeah, Kirk Cousins was the only one in the franchise QB category.

He also talks about like Breeze and Garampolo. Those are the not leaving, but great category. Brings up the Eli Carson, Ryan Tannehill, kind of the aged vet, the young upside of A.J. McCarran or Jacoby Brissette. And then the Tyrod Taylor situation. And then you've still got Josh McCall. Oh, going to play until he's 50. All right. One last award. The Grinch.

Coach's Choice Award, the arch enemy of Christmas, a fun sucker of one and all, one with a heart, two sizes. I miss the part. Coach's choice. I miss the same thing. I miss the same thing. I can switch my answer real quick. See, Brooks can clue us in on what this is. Yes. Coach. Then I'm going, Marvin Lewis. A fun sucker? Oh, yeah. That's interesting. You know, John Ross wasn't able to get involved. It took an injury to Jeremy Hill before.

uh, you know, mixing was allowed to play with the big boys. Yeah, it's, that's an interesting, interesting, uh, choice there. My, my choice goes to the Giants. My gun, no, my choice goes to the man, uh, who will be positive yards will be on the opponent's side of the field on the 40, fourth and one. And he will punt the ball.

Every time. John Fox? That is John Fox. I don't know the answer yet, so I'm going to take my shot at Ben McAdoo for crumpling some of the value there. John McAdoo representing mobsters from the 70s. I want a shout out. If it was a player, I was prepared for Marcus Marriota. Oh, sure. We're all excited for, is Corey Davis or Eric Decker? Mine was a Mari Cooper. Yeah, all right.

So the winner is John Fox. Yes. And the reason is because choosing to punt every time kills the Christmas spirit and Jay Gris' soul. Because Jay Gris, he don't like to punt. He's nothing if not a Bears fan. Absolutely. Did you know that Grizzly Bears play to win? Every time. Yeah. They fight to win. Also, honorable mention Andy Reed when he refuses to feed Corrine. And Jeff Fisher just because. Oh, come on.

It's really the Jeff Fisher Award. You hear Jeff Fisher wants to get back into coaching? Sure, he does. I want to be an astronaut. Just in case you're curious. You can do anything, Andy. Here's the other thing. The only upside of Jeff Fisher coming back is he will certainly become the losing his coach of all time. Oh, that's true. You need him to come back for a few games. Right now he's got that time. Probably just one. I'm guessing it'll happen in his first outing.

There should be a hard knocks version for, like, following the fans of a Jeff Fisher team and how you can turn on your own team and become depressed. I genuinely do want him to come back. Oh, no. Because it's just such. It's good for the show. Such fun. Our ratings go way up with Jeff Fisher involved. 500 level broadcasts. Jeff Fisher. All right, Twitter, you can find us at the FFFballers. The website's the Fantasy Footballers.com. Follow and support this podcast. Get lots of perks, extra stuff. And stay with us all offseason.

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So if you go to Footclan Giveaway.com, you can enter. It's completely free to enter. And let's get into the news. News and notes from around the league. All right, I'm going to try to fly through these. We have a lot of matchups to get into. I want to illuminate some of these games this weekend so you know who to start and who to sit. But let's start here. The Jags confirmed Leonard Fornett is going to play on Sunday. So that's good news. Yep. If you're still around after what happened last week. Julius Thomas is on IR. O.J. Howard's on IR.

So can't start them at the tight-in position. Keenan Allen. He's not even on the injury report. This is very interesting. Keenan Allen, because Keenan Allen this week against the Jets, fantastic matchup. He's been, I mean, just absolutely nuclear hot. The question for people will be, where's your trust level in Keen and Allen? The fact that he's not even on the injury report, I got to say this, it's full trust.

from this guy over here, I would fire him up with no hesitation. Does anyone disagree with me? Nope. All right. Alan Hearns returned to practice. He said this morning he's not even close to 100%. I would guess that he plays in this game, though, because Marquis Leia is out. And that will redistribute some of the, you know, Keelan Cole, D.D. Westbrook. It'll be those two and Hurons. Mickens and his outlier game is probably...