Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 16 Waivers, Streams, Monday Misery + Miracles

on the Jordan, uh, on the Jonathan Stewart 30 yards scamper. Oh, man. To end the game. That's just the way that that played out for the, for a playoff week on a Monday night was unbelievable. The drama was, even though I, I came out a half loser because I, I'm still going to the ship in our dynasty league. It just was, it was quite the night. Yeah.

This at JW4 needed 20 points from Amari Cooper, Sammy Watkins, and Jameson Crowder, and got 10. Yeah. And look, this is part of why fantasy football is so great. The fact that these kinds of losses, I mean, you're feeling this type of pain that makes when you win, that's why it's so great because this pain is so.

awful and agonizing for a ridiculous game. You can't have the high of victory without the sadness of defeat. Yes, my friend, the yin and the yang. You need a both. And you get a story to tell for years to come. You don't know good without bad, but here's the other. And you get to hate James and Crowder or love him for the rest of your natural life. Here's the other great part is that while we were watching this game, the game was not that good. Like if I was just a football fan, I was like, eh, Washington looks kind of a nap. It was okay. But that game was intense.

Every play mattered because this is playoffs and fantasy football. At KG Reynolds says any thoughts on that Odell drop that was called a catch? Can that be a stat correction? I'm afraid not, my friend. That's a catch. I'm afraid not. You cannot stat correct something that was not reviewed, challenged, and changed on the field unless you just want to do it in your heart. Oh, it's terrible. It was certainly not a catch, though. No, it certainly wasn't.

That screenshot can be your new logo. News and notes from around the league. I was wrong. The Texans named Tom Savage, their starter for week 16. Yes. RG3 will start week 16. Cody Kessler may play. They may go to Cody Kessler quite soon in this game. Stay far, far away from all Browns. I agree. You can't start RG3. Minus may be Isaiah Crowell. That would be the one player, especially.

I don't know if it's lower down in the news, but Terrell Pryor is dealing with ligament damage. He's going to play through it, but it doesn't matter. Yep. Well, I'm just saying if you're going to be getting low volume targets, you're going to be getting bad targets and you have a bum hand. Yeah. No, thank you. Big names, Julio Jones and Melvin Gordon. On the Melvin Gordon front, Mike McCoy said we're going to see how it goes.

Says he's chopping at the bit to play, but we're going to see if he practices. Julio Jones with the toe will have a full speed test on Wednesday to see if he is available to play. And we talked about AJ Green yesterday, very likely to play this week, but we don't know what that will entail snap count-wise. Practice will be important for all three of those guys to kind of get more of a gauge of how they can contribute to your championship week. It sure would be nice to be able to play your studs.

So I'm going to send a memo out to those guys. Let him know what's going on with the Foot Clan wanting to play A.J. Green, Julio Jones and Melvin Gordon. I think that Julio is going to play. Just my initial gut reaction. We have a concussion trade. Darren Sproles has been cleared from his. Kenyon Barner now has one. Bad news for Ryan Matthews. Kenyon Barner was still behind Ryan Matthews. Darren Sproles is ahead of Ryan Matthews. Makes it to where I don't want anyone involved there personally. Chamberrene?

Suffered another torn triceps. That is brutal. He was not really fantasy relevant at this point, but that is... Just sad for the news stinks, man. You skipped the most important news. Skipped? Yeah. The most important news so far. Maybe just waited until the end because it was so important. Oh, yeah. Is this Bryce Petty or Jared Goff News? This is the Jared Goff News. This guy over here. Wait to... Go ahead. Share it. Share it.

What they're considering starting Sean Mannion at quarterback? Yes, they are. And if Jared Goff is out with a concussion in our championship, listener league, I am playing Sean Mannion. That's not even a joke. I'm doing it. I'm going glory plays. His team is. Who are your other options? I got Big Ben at home against Baltimore. That's my, that's my other option. How in the world would you not play Big Ben at home, you cycle path? Because he wants the magic. Jason has. He wants to win with Sean Mannion at quarterback.

Just unbelievably magic season where he's nowhere near the top scoring. I look at your roster. It's terrible. It is awful. And he's in the championship. I have one week after week after week. I've paired it together. You know, I grabbed Charles Clay and I've done enough things to just make crazy moves to put me over the top. This is the most magic move. In other words, I was 2.9 points. Playing against Sean Mannion. Yes. And I have great matchups next week. I didn't have a Julio. Ah!

I know. It's not fair. The pain. Well, Bryce Petty is likely to start in week 16 for the Jets. Hooray, Robbie Anderson fans. Yeah. I'm not going to go in and try to win a title with Robbie Anderson myself. Yeah. He's probably a good play. Yeah. You might be right. I mean, he's been solid the last couple weeks. It's not just one. Let me ask you a question, guys. What head coach has had the last winning record for the Buffalo Bills? Oh. What, oh, um, Galey?

Doug Marone. Oh, the new interim head coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Maybe we should pronounce it like the car. Jaguar. Jaguar. Jaguar. Jaguar. Charles Robinson of Yahoo reports that John Gruden has become the focal point of the Rams list of head coaching candidates. This is kind of interesting because Gruden actually likes Jared golf.

And, you know, people on Twitter. Gruden likes everybody. He does. He does. Every play is the greatest play in the history of the NFL. People on Twitter were asking if John Gruden was a little quieter last night. They sensed a change in his comments. He did seem quiet. There were like times on last night's broadcast that he didn't speak for like a minute or two. Yeah, he's, he's changing. He's signed in paperwork. Or was it was it a matter of?

It's his brother is the coach of the team that is stinking. And he either doesn't want to rail on his brother or he's upset and sad for his brother that they're going to, they're blowing out the playoffs. They're what? Yeah. I'm going to go with signing papers, Mike. Oh, it would be very interesting to have him back in coaching. However, I would be very sad to lose him for Monday night. See, that's what I was about to say. I, as much as I like him, it's okay, Monday night's okay.

It's so much better. It's a completely different show. It's football, Mike. But it's, I'm saying it's a different network. These are not related. I know, but Alma, I'm just saying Al Michaels and I was listening last night and I was wishing it was Al Michaels and Chris Collins. Well, I mean, they're the goat. Yeah. All right. They are the goat. This is like a costume where someone is the butt and someone's the face. Sure.

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I'm throwing this out there. I don't want any Foot Clan listeners to start Sean Mannion. It's a dumb play. It's a true glory play. I feel like I'm in a position where I would rather have that as an underdog as the glory play. But I believe Sean Mannion is a better quarterback than Jared Goff. I really do. He showed it in preseason. I think that Jared Goff just has a bigger arm. But Sean Mannion is a quality...

backup quarterback, I believe, and they're playing the San Francisco 49ers. That's the key. And so, you know, the unexpected play. There's no kios for this. If golf is out, I really will play him. Oh, man. All right. And I hope nobody else out there does. If you are heading into your championship matchup or third place matchup, we've got your waiver wire figured out. It's been a different type of week. Obviously, you've had a lot of people stash players.

for the playoffs been listening for a few weeks quarterbacks we have our uh you know the streaming quarterback options they're thin all right they're thin if you if you take our standard of only having like a what 50% owner 50 to 60% ownership percentage

But let's fly through some wide receiver options right now. The big names that I would say need to be paid attention to. We already said one of them, Robbie Anderson, because he's barely owned. He was 4 for 80 in a touchdown last week. And if his best friend for life, Bryce Petty is available and healthy, which it looks like he will be. Robbie Anderson is another sneaky glory type of guy. He's a...

He's a very startable wide receiver three. When you hear Brandon Marshall was one for 11 on the targets and you've seen Robbie Anderson have success three straight weeks. You guys are right in that he plays against New England. So temper the scoring. The nice thing about Robbie Anderson is no matter how much he becomes the main guy for Bryce Petty, no opposing team.

will focus on Robbie Anderson over Brandon Marshall because they know that he is the more talented player that could burn them. It leaves Robbie Anderson open to secondary coverage. And the thing is, is it's not like Robbie Anderson is, I know he's had a touchdown in two of the three weeks that he's, that Bryce Petty's been there, but he's also putting up enough yardage to where, you know, two weeks ago he had 99 yards.

No touchdown and had a fine fantasy game. This week, 80 and 61 three weeks ago. So I do think Robbie Anderson is a startable player in New England. The amazing thing to me is the amount of questions we're already getting about Thai Montgomery and not playing Thai Montgomery. As though the 16 for 16, 162 and 2 game didn't happen. I don't know why. I mean, he's still available in 40 plus percent of leagues in both Yahoo and ESPN. To me, he's the number.