Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 17 Fantasy Forecast, Sits of the Week, Playoff News

Yes. That's not how that works, Mike. All right. Saints at Atlanta, the Breeze Ryan battle. I said it yesterday. I like Ryan as kind of my streaming option this week. He was barely started last week. Obviously understandable facing Carolina. This week he gets the Saints and that beautiful, beautiful fantasy defense. All right. So who else do we? Tim Hightower, love him this week.

What do you think of Devante Freeman? You got to roll them out. Start everybody. Everybody in this game is the answer. Yes. Fantasy bonanza? Fantasy bonanza. I love everyone. The only question that you have here, right? Start Sneed, start Cooks, start High Tower, start Breeze, start Ryan. What about Julio Jones? No. Start Freeman. Start Julio Jones. The question to me is Bin Watson? I'd start Ben Watson. Yeah, you got to start. He took a metaphorical.

pooping his pants last week but it's it's a it's a matter of points points will be scored in this game there will be points yeah so you want you want a chip in there fifty two and a half point over under is a lot of point one of the highest over unders i have seen all year it's fantastic i want it i agree and the saints have proven

These games happen to, I mean, those type of, the Giants earlier in the year, you remember that Eli Manning, Drew Brie's. Six and seven touchdowns each quarterback. I mean, these type of games have happened over and over again with the Saints. This game's in Atlanta. Weather's not an issue. This is just going to be, let's lace them up and throw the ball. I also think this is going to be a game that helps cement DeVante Freeman's claim to that number one running back on the year. I think he's going to have a huge game. Yeah, he looked pretty good last week.

To my eyeballs. So let's move on. Oh, no. Sense of the week. Mike, I don't know how I forget. This is your full-time job, and you haven't corrected that drop. Yeah. Where is thy diligence? Do you want to know? And don't blame your child. Don't blame Azaroth. Don't blame any of it. I would never do that. Oh, okay. It's, uh, it's, I have nothing.

I have no excuse. All right. I apologize. All right. I'll just move on. Thank you. All right. So sits of the week. Let's start at the quarterback position. Mike, why don't you kick it off? Give us somebody that we can put on our bench. I'm sitting Derek Carr this week. He plays against the Chiefs. I mean, the Chiefs are allowing pretty much 10 points a game over the last month. It's just not a situation where I want...

to play. I'm not playing guys against them. And Derek Carr has, he's had some late season struggles going on. Amari Cooper seems to have hit a little bit of a wall, a rookie wall here, and he's also banged up. So I'm not playing Derek Carr. All right, Jason, you're up. What are these laughs about? Oh, this is what it is. My sit of the week to end the year. Hold on, hold on. It is not honorary. My sit of the week is a legitimate.

Russell Wilson. Ronald Wilhelm. Sorry. You are dancing with the devil. I am dancing. I'm dancing with the devil. He never really did it, right? I never really did it. Now, Andy and Mike started Russell Wilson's crazy barrage of great fantasy points by putting Russell Wilson as their sit of the week. And Andy told Mike the next week, well, I'm going to show you how it's really done. And Russell went on fire. That's why Russell Wilson since that time has been our honorary sit of the week.

But I'm going to show both of you guys how it's really done. How do you really sit? Russell Wilson has not thrown for less than two touchdowns in eight weeks. And do you want to know who the team was eight weeks ago? It was the Arizona Cardinals.

who he's facing now not at home, but on the road in Arizona, against the team where Bruce Ariens wants to win, has to win, needs to win, wants that home field against Carolina, should Carolina falter. I think our defense comes out great, comes gangbusters. I don't see Russell Wilson putting up his 300 yards and three touchdowns. So to me, I think there are better options this week, and I'm getting off of, I'm going to sit, Russell Wilson.

All right, it's bold. I'm going to take the softball at the quarterback position and sit down. Philip Rivers. If you're in a 12-14 team league, you're tempted to start Philip Rivers in the final game. I'm going to bench him against Denver, find another option. Yes, his name's Philip Rivers. Yes, he's owned and started in too many leagues, but don't do it this week. And I'm going to quickly move on to my running back sit of the week. It's Lamar Miller.

No thank you. New England's got the ninth best defense against fantasy running backs. You mix in the variables of what types of carries, or rather how many carries, Lamar Miller will get the opportunities. I don't like it. New England needs to win. New England's got a good defense. Sit him down. In my sit, this is really more of a gut check hunch type of a situation. I'm sitting Matt Forte.

They're playing against the Lions who, the defensive Detroit has been better. But where my concern is, it's the last game of the week, or the last game of the season for Chicago. It looks like they're prepping Jeremy Langford to be the workhorse next year. Matt Forte got a little bit banged up, but since Matt Forte came back, two of the last three weeks, Langford out touched him.

Well, you didn't even mention Cadeem Kerry vulturing two touchdowns. Yeah, and that happened as well. So with the team clearly not looking to give Matt Forte the kind of money that he's going to want, what reason do they really have to play him this week? This is their last chance to say, before the offseason to say, can Langford be our guy? So if you're the Forte owner and you've got Forte and Langford, I'm going to play Langford.

I like that. Don't you think the usage of Khene Carey is indicative of their plan for next year? The fact they're trying to get him more working to be the number two type guy on that roster next year, or at least compete for it. I like that sit. I really don't think you're going out on a crazy limb there. I think it's okay. Again, this is all contextual, right? If you have somebody on your team that is not comparable to Matt Forte, even if he has a bad game, you've got to start Matt Forte. Correct. Just if you have options in the same...

area as forte i just i i see a problem with him with his usage yeah my my set of the week uh i'll touch on it quickly because i mention it's denard robinson he has been okay in relief of t jeldon but he's been okay against indianapolis atlanta and new orleans where you expect bigger things and now he's coming up

against the Houston Texans, a great defense. I think it's possible DeNard catches something through the air that can go a long way, but I don't think he's going to get it done on the ground. I'm not loving him. I would rather start other guys again like a Frank Gore over Denard Robinson. At wide receiver, I'll move on for us and go with my boy. He was one of my most disliked players before the draft, who I ended up trading for and winning a championship with. That's how it happens. It is Mike Evans.

Mike Evans, he is a boom or bust type of player. He is a catch or drop guy, about a 50-50 odds. And this week he is going, traveling to Carolina. The Josh Norman, if there's a player that I think he could shut down, it would be Mike Evans. I'm not loving him. So if you've got a good wide receiver core, you know, I get a lot of questions of like four or five really good receivers. And Mike Evans is usually in that list.

I'd probably place him on the bench this. Evans was three. Oh, breaking news. In case you needed a further reason to start the Tennessee Titans, Des Bryant is on IR. Yeah, he's been there. But he's getting ankle surgery. Surgery now. Oh, okay. With surgery. Mike Evans was three for 32 the last time they played Carolina, and I believe that was without Vincent Jackson as well, where we were expecting big things from him. Yep, exactly. And last week against Chicago.

Only four for 61. I mean, it's all right, but it's not going to win you as championship. Yeah, I like it. I like that. That's it. All right. So, Mike, who am I? Oh, my wide receiver? I am sitting down the entire Colts wide receivers again. Give me Josh Freeman. You give me Ryan Lindley.

I've seen that show before. It always ends in a tragedy, a Shakespeare-level tragedy, so I'm staying clear of that. You know, it brings back bad memories having Ryan Lindley's name thrown out there around playoff time. All right, Sammy Watkins is my wide receiver. Sit of the Week. I alluded to it earlier versus Revis. This year, he was 3 for 14. He had his worst game of the season. This is a game that means a ton to the Jets.

I think the kind of the youth of Watkins and the pedigree of Revis, I don't think he's going to get separation this week. Revis has been playing better, obviously healthier. I don't like Sammy Watkins. Yes, I understand how that sounds. He's been really good, and he will get deep shots to him. And if he connects on one of those, he might give you an okay game because they're going to take the shots to him. I just don't like the odds of that. So if you've got a comparable option, you know, somebody might be out there saying, hey, do I want to start Brandon Cooks or Sammy Watkins?

because Watkins has been on fire. Just start Brandon Cooks. Don't mess around with Dorel Revis in this one. And then at the tight-in position, I'm going to sit down Richard Rogers. Ever since the miracle Hail Mary that endeared him to every fantasy owner under the sun, he's had one catch in every game. It's just not good. Was three games ago. Yeah. So three straight games with one catch. He's not a fantasy option at Tide-in. That is the end of that story. So who's your tight-end sit of the week?

Jason. It's a hot take. It's a hot take because I am going to sit the number two tight end on the year. I mean, that's like, what? What are you doing, Jason? Jason, he's the number two tight end. What are you doing? That's right. I'm sitting Jordan Reed. And so here's why. Tell us why, Jason. We have no idea why you'd be sitting Jordan Reed. Here's why I'm making him my sit of the week is because he will probably not play or if he plays.

He will play limited and very little. I'm worried about you said earlier, you know, if he gets the start, you'd play him. I'm saying I would not. If he's out there, I think he could very much end up with an honorable start, you know, get a drive and then be done. In which case, I'm saying plan for other options. Don't play Jordan Reed this week. And I am going to sit.

Again, Austin Safarian Jenkins, he got us. He got us with the Rochambeau at the end of the game last week. Told you how good he was. Yeah, he's very good. It only took for his second catch of the game with time expiring on a completely meaningless Hail Mary touchdown. But here's his snap counts the last three weeks. He came back, they ramped him up. He was at 45, then he dropped to 37, and then he dropped to 30% of snaps last week. Things are not trending.

the right direction for Safarian Jenkins. I'm not considering him this week. I don't blame me for that. The snap counts.

Certainly are not what you want from a tight-in. You can stream somebody that plays nearly every down. Why stream a guy that's barely out there and needs to rely on? Basically, a touchdown and two catches. Not just a touchdown. An expiring clock touchdown. That doesn't matter. Exactly. So we want to remind you, check us out on the web, the fantasy footballers.com on Twitter at the FFF Ballers. And we will also be doing a playoff challenge league and inviting everybody in. We already tweeted about it.

this morning. If you want to get involved in our fantasy footballers NFL playoff challenge just for some fun play against us, we have sent out the information for that and you can join us. We'll do that again. We'll put it on the website or something as well. So that is it. It's on the Twitter sphere. It's on the Twitter sphere. So that's it for today. Come back tomorrow with us as we get ready for 2016. We'll give you the rest of the matchups. We'll have some fun together. Jason will probably have his trophy and he'll be rocking it like a baby. And so we'll be back tomorrow. See you guys.

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