Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 9 Review, Studs and Duds, MNF Preview, Fantasy News

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Welcome to this show, everybody. Are you okay, Mike? I'm recovering. Are you? I'm recovering from the I got the idas from all that sitting yesterday. Yeah, well, it's Monday, November 9th. We are the fantasy footballers, and we are back again. Recapping most of week 9, we still got the Monday night game. Did you guys have fun yesterday? Oh, man, it was a good day.

I noticed this as I'm going throughout the day of watching all the games and everything. Oh, did you watch some football yesterday? A little bit. A little bit. Cool. Cool. Yeah. My mood is so heavily influenced by our League of Record, where I was having a, I had a pretty good day yesterday, and I'm going to win. But it just, like, throughout the day, I'm noticing it about in the afternoon, I'm like,

I guess I got a little pep in my step. I'm like, oh, it's because I'm winning. Yeah. And the complete opposite is true, where I just become a cramudgeon and just an angry person where everything bothers me if, like when I see an opposing team member, like the Brandon Cook's touchdown, I was playing against Brandon Cooks. Even though you're going to win. If there was a level of like my cortisol, it just shoots through the roof. Yeah. That's why people listen to this show.

Because fantasy football, we don't want to lose. Yeah, I thought you were going to say that's why people need psychiatrists. Either way. I mean, check out our other podcast. So fear not, Foot Clan. I get as angry and as upset as you guys do when things don't go your way. I am passionate about winning these games. So what do you do if you're a person like me where I have won my week?

and lost Dionne Lewis. Yeah, you sound like me. What kind of week do you have then? That was the last week. Because two weeks ago, I won and lost Aryan Foster. And I'm getting kind of tired of it. Yeah, you heard some trubs, my friend. All right. Well, you know, in spite of that, we'll get to that, by the way. And I want us, based on when we're recording this podcast right now, we need to keep our eyes on the news pulled up. The news because the MRI for Lewis should be. I bet we get some breaking news here soon.

Well, okay, we've got our fantasy rewind today. We've got our stud muffins are pooped in their big boy pants section. Monday night preview, some mailbag. We got it all going on right here, right now. It's Monday, and we're in the thick of things in the NFL. And our starts of the week had some pretty good ones. We'll review some of those. If you want to find us, we're on Twitter at theFF ballers on the web at the fantasy footballers.com.

Definitely check out Jointhefoot.com, our fantasy football community, with almost a thousand of you listeners in there talking fantasy football. Probably, hopefully, congratulating one another on a win this week. Yes. It was an interesting week because a lot of the big guys did big things, especially at wide receiver. There weren't too many guys that didn't kind of go do what you expect them to do or close to it. But we'll go through all of those. I want to let everybody know, I put some Foot Clan shirts up.

On the site? Oh. I don't even know if Mike knew that. I actually saw the tweet. Oh, did you? No one decided to tell me personally. No. I found out when everyone else found out. Yeah. Yeah. You know, I had a little coffee at night, stayed up late. And I'm like, hey, you know what? People have been wanting some Footclan shirts. I'll put those up. Do work. Yeah. So took care of business. All right. Quick question for the day, guys. Rest of season. Andrew Luck or Derek Carr? Oh, man.

ROS. Oh, wow. Of season. Hold on. I got to check out some schedules here. I'll break down that end of season schedule. Because I know the Colts have a favorable schedule. Derek Carr was number nine. Moving forward. It was number nine before this week, and he had a big week. Yeah, four touchdowns. Sitting in the car. Do you think so? No, I'm looking. I was just referring to this current week. For me, I'm going to stick with Andrew Luck. Because of the playoff matchups, Denver, Green Bay.

San Diego. Yeah, that's not good for Derek Carr to play. I think San Diego should have a good three weeks, four weeks, though, before that. Yes. For the next several weeks, I would take Carr, but in the playoffs where it's going to matter, luck should very much outproduced Carr. Green Bay's secondary that's really hurt should be fine by that point in the season because they are a good defense despite.

these last two weeks. And same with San Diego losing their safety. They should be back. Didn't one of us really liked Derek Carr in the preseason? Yeah. Yeah, that was, it was, it was, Andy. Didn't one of us pick Derek Cars our start of the week? Who was that? Hey, I think he's at a 20 to 4 touchdown to interception ratio on the year. 19 to 4, 20 to 4, something like that. That's like the opposite of Peyton Manning. Close. I don't know. But I wanted the, the Raiders lost the game.

So there's that. Well, they may have lost the real life game, but... You want to know why? They made too many mistakes because they're the Raiders. Yeah, they're getting there. We know this. We were Cardinal fans. I don't disparage the Raider, Jacksonville, all these down teams. I say these with complete and utter understanding of what you went through. It takes time to move on from what you are. Yeah, from losing. When you lose, you know how to lose. You know how.

You write the book on it. And they, Taiwan Jones fumble on the punt, other fumbles, mistakes. Game was close. Big Ben went out. But, all right, let's go ahead and get into that. Andrew Luck's schedule is ridiculous. Yeah. Atlanta, Tampa Bay, Pittsburgh, Jacksonville, Houston, Miami. And then if you're in a week 17 league, or that you play in the 17th week, Tennessee. Yeah. That's ridiculous.

Pretty darn good. Pretty darn good. Let's go ahead and get into the Rewine. Weekly Rewin. You like that drop? I do very much. You know who likes it more? Who? Mike Evans. Mike Evans enjoyed that drop. Let's see what you did. Just a little bit more. All right. Let's get into the news. We'll get into that. Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Ben Rodnisberger has a midfoot sprain.

We're hearing one to two weeks. As of now, that's what we're hearing. But it's ridiculous because they were worried about list frank, and now I'm hearing it's not a list frank injury, a midfoot sprain as of now. Mike has been one of those Antonio Brown owners just waiting for him to come back, and then every prophecy has been fulfilled.

of an Antonio Brown who goes out and puts up a stratospheric 300 plus total yards. No, he was almost got to 300. No, he was above 300 total yards. He had two carries in the game. Oh, okay. He was 306 total yards. It's pretty good. And now Big Ben goes down and he is, from what I understand, he's been weeping in the corner of his room for.

Quite a while. Yeah, Mike asked us to allow him to put Antonio Brown on the IR spot while Big Ben is out. That was, yeah, that's funny. Hey, guys, I mentioned it earlier. Dang it. Dion Lewis. Dion Lewis has been injured. If you watch the play, it didn't look good because he just made a cut and then just...

Did that whole fumble while you fly and fall on the ground thing? Yeah, our... Injury fumble? Our buddies, the jocks and docks, they were breaking down the mechanism of the injury, and they said, yeah, that sure looks like an ACL tear. Nothing is confirmed right now. We know, what we do know is that the ACL is loose. I don't even know how one knows that their ACL is loose. First, the report came out.

They're hoping it's an MCL sprain. Then a report comes out, the ACL is loose, but there's no swelling. But swelling doesn't happen on these injuries until overnight, so we don't know anything. They'll get the MRI. The dude was crying while he walked off the field. I'm not expecting good news. All right. Eddie Lacey exited week. Okay, hold on. Let me go back. That's ridiculous that I moved on. Dionne Lewis, if he's out, what is the...

Do you sign Bolden or James White? Because I honestly don't think I know who would play week to week. James White had been the guy when Lewis was out before. Amandola is really the guy that ends up stepping up in the absence. But then Bolden had a touchdown and played good yesterday. Help me.

Yeah, that's tough. I would go Lagart Blunt. I think he's owned. No, I know. I know. I'm just saying I think he's the one that gets the biggest benefit, him and Amandola. Those two guys are the guys that I think get a bump up in their production. And you can run after, I would say it would be white. That would be my guess. That's the best I can offer as a guess. But I don't know that whites.

going to be able to produce anything near what Dionne Lewis produced. A lot of what you saw Dionne Lewis do. And if he's not the same player. And so here's my question. If Liguerre Blunt is in fact the beneficiary to this, what does this do to Tom Brady's video game fantasy scores? I don't agree that he would be the beneficiary. So who do you think it is?

I think that it will be a rotation of those two backs in Amandola. And it hurts Brady. Overall, it hurts Brady because the screen game had become just like another edge to the sword, so to speak, right? Where he just was... It's a triple edge. He was carving up. Triangle sword. There was Edelman, and there was Gronk, and there was now LaFelback, and Lewis was taking... He could take a screen...

that looked like it was getting nothing and get Brady 10, 20, 30 yards. And it stinks. It stinks for them. Stinks for Lewis who had recovered from injuries and finally was part of a good team. But we're moving on. We'll have to see what happens on the report. And if we find out during the show today, I'll let you know with a depressed voice. All right. Chargers tied in Lederius Green listed as doubtful tonight. I don't expect them to play. Gates should be in there. Matt Forte and Eddie Royal have been rude.

ruled out. Is Mikey Swellson a, if he had to? Oh, yeah. Absolutely to me. Big guy. He's stepped up in the past when he's gotten the opportunity. Yeah, with Royal Out and the points that are going to fly around tonight, Vegas has it as a high-scoring game, definitely think he's playable, streamable. Eddie Lacey exited with a groin injury and an injury to his pride. Oh, say that it was his groin?

Yes, his pride and groin are identical. He was basically phased out of the whole game. He fumbles. He did nothing. Stark's put up a good game. Official bust. At this point, you have to call it an official bust. And so we're back to this game of James Starks. Is he the guy? Probably. Probably. Yeah. But I wouldn't feel super great about it.