Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Sits of the Week, Nando Di Fino, Week 15 Mailbag

And my sit of the week, we put our brains together and we thought, we got to be bold. Who are we going to sit down? And we're sitting down Russell Wilson. Yes. Honorary sit of the week. I exempt myself from that. So we're sitting him down for you, Foot Clan. So that you can play him. Yeah, but seriously play him. He's been really good. That's a joke. If this is the first time you're listening to the show and you don't know. Yeah, that makes no sense. You don't know why we're sitting Russell Wilson.

We're sitting him so that you can start him. Yes. I know it doesn't make much sense. Just play him and you'll find out why. But totally a big set. Thank you. We almost missed that. So my actual sit of the week, Eli Manning, I know he's coming off a fire type game. Carolina Panthers coming into town. One of the best passing defenses in the league. I hope that the play callers for the Giants.

are smart enough to say, O'Dell Beckham, you play in the slot, you know, 25, 30% of the time. We're going to keep doing that so that Josh Norman is not covering you. Unlike in Atlanta, the buffoonery, I will go there, the buffoonery of not playing Julio in the slot at all. So I'm not saying O'Dell Beckham's going to have a bad game. I just don't trust Eli Manning in this situation. That's very fair. That's very fair. So running backwise, who are you sitting down, Mike? I'm sitting down. Buck Allen.

He takes on the Chiefs, and he was on the ground last week against Seattle. Eight for 14. That's a feat. That is a feat for Buck Allen. I know he's still got the five catches, so he has PPR value. 42 feet. 42 total feet gained. But the Chiefs are great. We need to get an update on Justin Houston, which we say every week because he's a defensive changing player.

But even without Justin Houston, the chiefs are on fire. The chiefs are gunning for the playoffs. They're in the playoffs right now. They control their own destiny. They keep winning. They stay in the playoffs. I don't like Buck Allen. And throw on top of that, Jimmy Cawson as your quarterback. Well, and that's what hurt Buck Allen, too, not having, you know, Shob at least showed he could dump it off to Cawson eight times in the game prior. 12 times. By the way, Justin Houston's replacement.

Three sacks. Three sacks last week. So they're getting it done. My running back sit of the week, I'm going to go with, you know. I hadn't seen it until now. Run DMC? Oh, I was looking at Jason's. Oh, no. Run DMC. I'm sitting down, Darren McFadden. The Jets D is stout against the run. You saw Turbin get some work last week. I just don't think.

that Aaron McFadden is going to get enough going on the ground. Yes, he's probably, if he's better than other options you have, you have to roll him out there because it's playoff time. But there are a lot of guys we talked about on the waiver show yesterday that I would, you know, depending on how things shake out. Would I play DeNard Robinson over run DMC? I probably would this week with the matchup. So I'm going to sit down McFadden comparatively to some of those other options. Yeah, I probably would have taken him as mine if I didn't already have other...

options from Dallas. We're not, I mean, one of the things that happened towards the end of the year is teams start playing for different reasons. The Jets are playing for the playoffs. They're in it. But if they went out and the Steelers went out, they're out. So they have to be winning these games. Their season, their playoffs are on the line. And Dallas is kind of wilted and their shot, their last chance was over. So that matchups not what I like. But at running back, for me, my set of the week is going to be.

Ronnie Hillman. Ronnie Hillman got his opportunity last week, and he did very, very little with it. This week, you've got C.J. Anderson has been more of the pass catching back, and you've got the matchup against the Steelers who also need to win to get in. And so you've got the number two run defense fantasy-wise.

You've got C.J. Anderson probably getting back. A higher scoring a fair game, which is bad for the running. So I just don't like anything with Ronnie Hillman. Give me that, uh, give me his running numbers from last week. Last week he got the ball 12 times. How many yards? 20. He had an 11-yard run. So he, that means 10 yards or 10 carries for nine for nine yards. Math. All right. So who is, who's your wide receiver?

Sit. I'll take it. My sit of the week. Brandon LaFelle, he's averaging only 30 yards the last three weeks. People keep believing it's going to happen. I had been one of those believers until the last few weeks because he was very good. He was heavily targeted. He was heavily targeted, and he was not dropping balls. I believe he had about six drops on the entire year. He has surpassed that.

in his limited work this year. And he didn't play the first half of the year. That's what I mean. I just don't think it's going to happen for Lafell, something strange is going on. Tom Brady still is taking shots to him, so a big play absolutely could happen. But would I start in this? They haven't yet. Would I start? No, I would not start Brandi Lafell.

All right, I'm going to go with Jordan Matthews. A guy I just plain can't trust. You know, he's had some garbage time touchdowns that have saved his fantasy days. Bad week last week. The Cardinals secondary is very good. This is a Sunday night game. The Cardinals are seventh against wide receivers. So I just don't like it for Jordan Matthews. It's a trust issue with him. It's not necessarily that he can't do it. It's that I just don't know if he will. And I feel like where he slots him on my team at this point.

He's not somebody I want to trust comparatively. I'd rather put some other guys out there. Who do you? Who do you trust? Well, I'll tell you who you don't. No, you don't get that reference? I'll tell you who you don't trust with my wide receiver sit of the week. Des Bryant. I mean, he's got the name you love and you want it, but he's got one, a bad matchup. Two, here's the stat you need to know the most. A bad quarterback. Well, yeah. He's got a bad matchup and a terrible quarterback. That's not a good combination. But he has, he, he,

He has what you want, which he just got 10 receptions. The only part that you don't want is that it took him four games. Four games to get those 10 receptions. I thought I had missed something. Yeah, you didn't miss anything. Des Bryant missed something, or someone missed Des Bryant on a lot of throws. So you just can't be confident in starting him. His name, you've got to forget his name, you know. So why don't you just go onto your tight end since we're staying on the same team?

Yep, and likewise, speaking of the terrible quarterback, Jason Witten, why is he still started in almost 40% of leagues? There are other options. Jason Witten is not a guy in the fantasy playoffs you want. Now, he got five receptions last week. He got five receptions a week before. Those are numbers where, you know, you care about targets, you care about receptions. They're using him. That seems good.

But he hasn't had a touchdown since week one. His yards with the new quarterback over the last four weeks, 27 yards, 36, 46, and 40. There's no touchdowns, no yards. He might get catches. No upside. No upside. That's basically what you're saying. Yeah, go with Richard Rogers, who can explode. Okay.

I'm going to sit down Kyle Rudolph. I don't buy into any momentum with him. He got involved in that screen game against the Cardinals. He's had a couple good games in weeks past, but the bears are solid against the tight end. They're in the top ten against tight ends, and I just, I'm eliminating Kyle Rudolph. Because what he has is, he's not an auto start for anybody, but I'm eliminating from my consideration of a guy I want to stream out there. All right, my take is a little hot, so you might want to put on your oven gloves. Woo! I'm sitting down, Travis Kelsey. I've had it.

I have had it. My man, Travis Kelsey, if you've been with the show all year, you know my affection for the man known as Zeus, Travis Kelsey. But here's the problem. Baltimore, their defense, they're still very good against guarding the tight end. And two weeks ago, Travis Kelsey, in one of the most delicious, succulent, juicy matchups for tight ends against Oakland, he got three targets. He got five targets last week.

They're just not getting him the ball. In the last two weeks, the situations were prime for Travis Kelsey to be involved, and it's just not happening. So I'm sitting him down. And they're winning games. So let me ask you this then. Would you consider, we're almost at the end of the season. I'm sure we will have shows in which we do this in a more complete fashion, but is he on your list of disappointments?

Yes. Well, he's on my list of disappointing just because of where I thought he could finish. I mean, he's still... I mean, you and I guess we made a waterbed about top three. I thought he would be a top three guy, and he just... He's still number six or seven, depending on your scoring format, because he was beginning yards. He just wasn't getting those big plays and wasn't getting touchdowns. But now he's just getting eliminated from the offense altogether. Sure, he could come out and have... If he has a big game...

This week, it would build that confidence back up. But I know that a lot of people, along with myself, they have to look at this decision every week. Travis, Kelsey, or Jordan Reed? Jordan Reed. That's what I was going to ask you is what other guys are they decided me to? And what about Kelsey this week or Antonio Gates? Ooh, what's the matchup for the Chargers? Gates has the dogs. It's better. I'm going with Gates. Okay. I'm going to Gates. And Gary Barnage is a guy that.

Zeus owners picked up and, yeah, you'd roll barnage. That's a really good example. All right, let's go ahead and what are we doing here now? The mailbag. Oh, there's the button. Mailbag. Yeah, if you ever want to know what I'm doing, if I say a sentence like, what are we doing here now, that's because I'm looking for the button. I normally have those set up so perfectly, I misplaced it. You know where it was? What was on top of that button? What? Oh, the garbage land can.

The garbage fan has not come out for a while. That's true. We've got to get that more involved. That's one of my favorites. Yeah. I mean, Ronnie Hillman's production last week. Yeah. Well, I guess it's not garbage. That's not really garbage time. Let's come back. Let's comeback time. By the way, I do disagree with you, Jason. I don't think that the, I don't think there's any chance that Denver Broncos Pittsburgh game is a high-scoring game. No. I think it's going to be a whooping. By the standards. By the standards of Denver games, it will be a high-scoring game.

Because all Denver games are low scoring, their defense is amazing. But that's the situation where you can run the ball. By their standards, there's going to be more points put up against them. That's my guess. It easily could have been a high scoring game last week. Oswald had over 300 yards, and they had to settle for field goals. So you convert a couple of those field goals, and there's points. It's going to be 56 to 50. That's what's going to happen. All right, we're answering some questions here on the show today. It's our mailbag section.

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and Lamar Miller locked in for next week, but I can't decide on who to flex. Should my flex be Devante Freeman at the Jaguars or David Johnson against the Eagles? Thanks for all the great advice this season. I couldn't have finished my first fantasy season 11 and 2 if it wasn't for the fantasy football. Fantastic. That's a great question. And to me, the Jaguars are actually a decent run defense. Atlanta is burning. Atlanta is burning to the ground.

David Johnson is on the best offense in football in a great matchup. I'm going to go with David Johnson. I second that. I'm going to go with David Johnson. We've got a unanimous. Incredible that we are saying that right now. Yeah. All right. Ian San Francisco, please pick a running back and a flex. Javorious. Nope. First the Chiefs. High Tower versus the Lions. Maybe. Ryan Matthews against the Cardinals. Kamar Aiken against the Chiefs or Antonio Gates against the Dolphins.

I'm going to, it's very. High tower is in for me too. The question then is, is we have Matthews against a very stout run, he's in a platoon, you got Gavorious against the Chiefs, and you got Aiken against the Chiefs. So for me, High Tower is in automatically. I'm having a hard time with the flex. I'm going with Gates. Yeah. It's a full point PPR. The dolphins are not a good pass defense, and Philip Rivers has to throw the ball to somebody. I agree. I would go Gates here, but I wouldn't love it. Gates are aching.