Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 16 Christmas Episode Part 1, Starts, Sits, Matchups

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To the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, ho, ho, ho, ho, ho. Santa? Merry Christmas. Boys and girls? I think I turned Russian at the very end. I had a little bit of the count from Sesame Street coming in there. The number three. Merry Christmas. More like.

Mary ship miss. Oh, to the ship. It's the ship week. I had no clue where that was headed. Championship! And even after you said it, I was confused for a second. Mike got it. It is the champ. Well, you know, you understand more than anybody because you've defeated both of us on your way to a title game in our big league. Drink to that. Welcome. How are you holding up? You were not here yesterday. That's right. Jason is back. I am back. I have...

I've been flushed out, and I'm ready to go. That's good. I was a little worried that the physical stress of being in a championship week had taken you out to the show yesterday? I listened, yes. We conjectured that the stress from my matchup with you is what led to your immune system failing. I mean, that could be the truth. That could be. We don't know. I'm not a doctor. But you're back. You're back, and you just had a fresh caramel. Caramel. And you must be fine. Yep.

Back to normal. When you get healthy, you start your morning off with caramel. Yes, yes. So welcome. It is Wednesday, December 23rd. And this is the Megalodon episode. Part two. The Christmas episode. The revenge. Right. That's the storyline. Uh-oh. We're back. The Megalodon's getting revenge on us. Christmas revenge. We've got a gargantuan, monstrous, humongous, giant, tiring show.

For us, but not for you. You'll enjoy it. We've got all the news, all the injury reports. We are trying to get you as ready as possible for your holiday Christmas championship battle. I mean, it's timing up as a Christmas gift to you. Your championship is a Christmas gift. And so we've got sits of the week. We've got starts of the week. We've got all of the matchups. We have a special...

A Christmas-e themed surprise. That's the way I'll put it. All right. I don't want to tease too much. We've got the mailbag on the show today. We've got some trivia. Whoa. I mean, strap in. I'm starting to stress again, guys. Jason is falling ill. He's just going to run out of the room. Goodbye. Look, hop on the whale. It's time to ride. Yeah, ride the whale. That was a big hit. You know what's funny is we never once mentioned Eddie Lacey's name.

And yet, every tweet about writing the whale had pictures photoshopped of people writing Eddie Lacey. And that is just wrong, people. I cannot confirm or deny that I found those to be funny. You did, very much. All right, you can follow the show on Twitter at the FFBallers. You can visit the website, The Fantasy Footballers.com and see everything we got going on over there. We're on YouTube, the Fantasy Sports Network. We're on Facebook. And, of course, we're on iTunes. So click that subscribe button. We're a year-round podcast. We will be...

recording all year around. We'll have shows in your pocket in January, in February. It doesn't matter. Sure, your fantasy football season's over. You'll be in the afterglow of your title, running around your workplace, mocking people, making them feel terrible. Christmas spirit. Right, right. But it'll be great. So, hey, let's start right now with some trivia, some quick questions for you guys. Let's do it. All right, this season has been the best of my career.

I have had double-digit fantasy points in every game but two for the whole season. Since week six, I've been on an absolute tear, having 50 or more receiving yards in every game, and this season cracking the top five in points for my position. Don't forget, I've been able to do all of this while only eclipsing 100 yards one time. What? What? Okay. I think I've got mine, but I think it's this guy every week. So...

I'm probably wrong. Hold on. Hold on. Okay. So double digits in every game but two. Only eclipsing 100 yards once. That's where I'm getting psyched out, man. I'm getting psyched out over here. You go ahead, Jason. You go ahead, Jason. I'm going to go. I don't believe he's top five, which is probably why it's wrong. But I refuse to not ever answer Eric Decker. I know he's only got one.

100-yard game, I believe, and he scores a touchdown all the time. This one is stumping you, and I like it. Yeah, I was going to go, I was going to go with Brandon Marshall, actually. You guys have both walked down the wrong road. Because the answer is Delaney Walker. Oh, you trickster. Hey, it said, I've been in the top five in my position, best of my career. Delaney Walker, huge season from him. Absolutely. Wow. All right, let's see if we can get this next one. And Delaney Walker just.

We can permuse. I just made up a word. I like it. Permuse? Look it out. Let's permuse him for a moment. Hold on. I'm going to make a Wikipedia page real quick that says that word exists. But he's been... That's where words are defined. He's been great. I get all my info from there. He's been great. We don't expect him to take a huge hit with Zach Mattenberger, but he...

In my opinion, he does take a slight bump down. All right, number two here. After an awful performance last year, I have significantly turned it around this season. PPR leagues, I'm a top five player at my position this year, and I don't even play 60% of my team's snaps. My coach must not be paying attention as I have led the league in rushing yards since week 11. Put me in, coach. Who am I? I am very confident. I know this answer, but I am not confident.

that the 60% of team snaps is right. Yeah, that's where I'm getting thrown off. That's impossible. I believe, I thought it was Doug Martin. Yeah, Dougie Martin. He was bad last year. He's top five. And I'm very confident that he has led the league in rushing since the last few weeks. His name is Doug Martin. Yes. Is he really only getting 60% of the snaps? Yeah. That's crazy because he's one of the league. You see sins out there. You see it all the time. And, and.

Game flow? But he is one of the league leaders in carries, which means when he's out there, he must be getting the ball like 80% of the time. When you get a game of over 200 yards that really helps. How do you like Doug Martin against the Bears this week? I can dig it. Yeah. I can dig it. Very happy with Doug Martin. I think it's top five for me. You guys did well there. I'll give you the last one here. This one's tough, although you will appreciate it. I have never.

Received enough love from fantasy owners. I have scored double-digit fantasy points in nine games this season and have been top three at my position every year since 2010. What? What? People forget that this season I have more fantasy points than Jeremy Hill, Eddie Lacey, Michael Floyd, and Jason Whitten. Who am I? Top three in the last five years running? No. Yes, this is accurate. What?

You guys got to get outside of your Christmas boxes. I think I got, I've got my guess. I have been a top three. I think I've got it. What? I know. If it wasn't for the first question, I would probably get this wrong. Of course, I might still get it wrong. All right, go ahead, Jay. I'm going to go Greg Olson. It can't be a running back or a wide receiver. No way. Greg Olson's only been. I'll give you five more seconds and it is not a running back or wide receiver. Okay.

I was, I was thinking, Aaron Rogers, but he had that injury. What? Give it to me. Stephen Gaskowski! Oh, you trickster! Oh, what? Oh, he has indeed been pretty incredible, pretty consistent, lock and load. I don't like kickers, but if you got to start one, why not the guy who's just...

The guy. Yeah, I refuse to ever answer with a kicker because they don't exist. I had a little fun. Also, will you do me a favor next Wednesday for the next quiz? Will you make Eric Decker the answer to one of those questions? You won't answer next week that way. That's why it will happen. I've got one off the cuff here that I found an interesting little stat nugget the other day. So I wanted to see if you guys knew what this was. All right. Love it. I am leading the NFL.

In completion percentage, I also have a 2-1 touchdown to interception ratio with over 3,500 yards in the air. Completion percentage. I'm trying to avoid the big names that used to be at the top of that list, which would have been like Drew Brie's was at the top of that list. Because he throws so much of the running back, I'm going Blake Bortles. I don't think his completion percentage is up there. I'm going to guess Derek Carr.

Derek Carr's been under 50% the last two weeks, just so you know. So that was a terrible guess. Thank you. However, the answer is Kirk Cousins. Kirk Cousins is leading the league in accuracy, and he has 22 touchdowns on 11 interceptions. That's impressive. He may have a part in our show a little bit later on. Yeah, that's why I wanted to give him a little. Let's move on. Let's move on. News and notes from around the league.

All right, big news reported. Tyler Eifert will not play in week 16 against the Broncos, and it's possible he doesn't play again until the playoffs. All right, find somebody else. Is that the story? Yes, for sure. You could play him. Okay. You'll get a zero, but you could play him. You can play them if you're playing against me, please? So that is a bummer for fantasy owners that got to ride Tyler Eifert so many weeks towards their playoffs, but now they have to find somebody else.

Tide-ins we liked this week. We mentioned a little bit yesterday. Will Tye is a guy that we have a lot of upside attached to. We'll go through some more on our starts and sits today. Day to day is the report on Drew Brees torn plantar fascia. So this is the same type of injury that Peyton Manning underwent. You could see Brees was severely hurt on the field. He stayed on the field and he still, I think, intends to play the final two games. That's what he has said, but that is a situation to monitor. Every single.

Ben Watson, Tim Hightower, Brandon Cooks, Willie Sneed owner in the world is desperately pleading for Drew Brees to play in those games because it changes everything. Makes a huge difference for whether or not you're playing Willie Sneed. If Drew Brees isn't there, I'm not playing Willie Sneed. I mean, that's something you have to watch. Tim Hightower is the only guy that I, and still takes a hit because you can.

You know, you can load up more on the box. You're not so worried about the passing game, but at least you know he's still going to touch the ball. The backup would be Matt Flynn. It would be? Yeah. They're not going with the rookie. That's what I have read. That does not. Sources. No confidence. Hey, Brian Hoyer is expected to practice on Wednesday. So all you Brandon Whedoners out are probably bummed out. So big news there for the division leading Houston Texans.

Who do they have this week? The Titans? Yes, it's the Titans. So, hey, they might start running away with the division. Which is just delightful. All right. Sean Drone, knee injury isn't considered serious. Do you think he'll play this week? I think he does. I was concerned there for the Big Salad. They did sign Duan Harris. Well, they signed Duan Harris and the cut Javar's cadet, which was a little strange. So that implies to me they believe Sean Drone is okay. Hmm.

With that, when you said the word a little wrong there, it reminded me that yesterday on our website, you know, Jason, Jason normally posts the episode of the website. I can't believe this is a point towards Jason being more accurate at typing. But it went up and you put, instead of streamers, you put steamers. Yeah. Not the same meaning. And so some people thought we were talking about Devante Adams for most of the episode. You realize what happened there? It was a rookie mistake.