Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 7 Matchups, In-or-Out, Bye Bye Bears

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Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Well, I don't think being doused in water would be helpful to Jason right now. No, it would not. Jason is gone. We let him go. We put him down. We put him down. No, Jason's not here today. He's not feeling well. And I think he was going to try to tough through it, but then he woke up and he had no voice at all, which to some, blessing.

Sure. But. And I cannot confirm or deny his upcoming schedule of menus for next week after our lunch bet. So you're taking the victory over the Chicago defense? They had 10 points in our league. Yeah, but they scored. They had 10 fantasy points. I know. But I would be like taking the victory, but like with my tail between my legs, like kind of subtly realizing the fact that they didn't play that well. Well, to be fair.

They played fantastic for an entire half. I agree. And then Brian Hoyer broke his arm and ruined everything, which we will get into. So, right, that's going to be our quick question. We're going to talk through the game last night. 10 points is 10 points, my man. Would you, would you call 10 points from your defense in our league a good start? Yes. That was the bet. So you're picking his meals? Absolutely. Are you going to starve him? What are you going to do? Ooh, I didn't even think of that. You're not going to do something for his own good?

I don't know. I got an entire weekend to figure this out. You should pick at least you should do that one time. You should pick something terrible one time. All right. But, I mean, he's known to consume most anything you put in front of him. We'll figure it out. But yeah, he's out today. So it's Mike and Andy, the fantasy footballers minus one today, Friday, October 21st. Getting ready for the week's seven games.

Other than last night's game, which we're going to get into in a second. It is Friday, it's a Foot Clan Friday. It's a Foot Clan Friday. We give out a gift card to Shotballers.com to a Foot Clan member from Join the Foot.com. And today's winner is Derek Dornfield. Dornfeld. That sounds like a superhero. Derek Dorn. Like the alias before he becomes? What do you think Derek's actual superhero is? A beetle.

He's a super beetle. He's a super beetle. Derek Dornfeld, you seem to have won and lost today. But congratulations. We'll send over your gift card. All right. So let's get right into it. Takeaways from last night's game. Death by a thousand cuts is the way I'm going to approach this when you have 39 completed passes by Aaron Rogers on 56 attempts. There's so much to take away from this game.

Now, Ty Montgomery. Time Montgomery was great. And thankfully, because whenever I pick a Thursday night guy as my start of the week, it's a little trepidatious because I don't want to come in here Friday and be wrong. I know. And then you had the Brian Hoyer broken arm, which absolutely buried all Bears players that game. If you are like me, on Twitter, I poured one out digitally for my team because I lost in my money. Oh, is this for the Bears?

This is for all the Bears players for the rest of the season. All fantasy players who played Bears last time. It's for you, Jordan Howard. This is for you, Cameron Meredith. For you, Alshan, three-catch, Jeffrey. I'm going to miss everybody. I want to miss you all. It's a good call on this song, Mike. Look, goodness sakes. I mean, I actually had regrets trading Cameron Meredith this week. I was like, oh, what am I doing?

And apparently I did the right thing. Yeah, well, sometimes you look into some things and sometimes you're in your Money League and you play Brian Hoyer and you lose the entire week in the second quarter of the Thursday night football game. Jordan Howard, seven for 22, one second half touch. Alston Jeffrey, three for 33. Cameron Meredith, one for 12. Yeah. I mean, if you want to pick anybody to smile, like, crack a smile on, it'd be Khadim Carey.

Yeah, 10 for 48 and he caught a pass. Yeah, and people... And nobody played him. So you're saying, you know, what's going on with Jordan Howard? This is John Fox. Well, number one is John Fox. And maybe, maybe just maybe, looking back so you know who he played. He had those two monster games. That was Detroit and the Colts. Yeah, and now he's got Minnesota next week and a buy. So Jordan Howard owners, if you can trade him, which you probably can't, then, you know, I'm...

I regret not moving him, and I got two points out of him last night for my team. Part of fantasy football is you get these guys who go hot and you got to make a decision. It can go the other way, too. You want to keep them because they're going to turn into O'Dell Beckham from a couple years ago, or do you move them and try and strike while it's hot? 56 attempts, 39 completed passes, and only one completed pass to Jordy Nelson. He's seen his volume drop.

In recent weeks, you had the monster game from Devonta Adams. We didn't even know if he was going to play. 13 for 132 and two touchdowns. I think everybody chose Montgomery or Cobb over him and Nelson. Yeah, Devante Adams went from the Limburger to like a sharp cheddar that I enjoy very much. He even made a tough catch. Yeah, he did. His first touchdown was spectacular. The one with the guy's arm right in the, yeah.

And look, here's my takeaway from Green Bay. That was not it. There was no fix last night. It took them until the second half against a team that had zero offense to get it going. Like I said, for the first half, what was it, six to three? Yeah. Going into the half? Yes. And then they came out and fumbled and went behind 10 to 6. Exactly.

Things are not right. If Hoyer was playing last night. Things are not right. Things would have been. So, Jordy Nelson, rest of the season? Severely concerned? No. Offense isn't going down field? I would say concerned. He's not a one for me. No, no. He's certainly not a one. And you were getting wide receiver one production because he was scoring so many touchdowns.

All right, let's move on here. Before we get into the news, I want to remind you where you can find us on Twitter. It's at the FF Ballers. Make sure if you're listening on iTunes, you subscribe, review the show. We appreciate all of that. And find us on YouTube. You can subscribe there as well if you want to watch the show. Put it on your big screen. Reminder, the Sunday, the weekly Sunday Periscope, will be one hour earlier this week. Yeah, so Mike will be on Periscope Sunday. Twitter's where you're going to get.

get the heads up when that's live. Yeah, or follow us on Periscope as well. Just real quick before we move off from Green Bay. Would you try and sell Rogers or are you going to hold him after that? In season long. You know, if you can get old Aaron Rogers values, sure. He had a big game.

Maybe someone's, oh, but he also did what Aaron Rogers can do, which is like have nothing for a half and still put up 35 fantasy points. So, or, you know, 33 in our league or whatever it is. So I don't know. I don't know what it showed me last night. I really don't. I almost don't count it towards any fix or not fixed for Dream Bay. It's like status quo. So here we go. News and notes from around the league. And I think those people that are like jumping on the bandwagon again.

I mean, you have a one in six Bears team, and you were at home. And they had no offense. So this is not a banner-waving type of win. This is that you better have got this win. Oh, yes. You know? All right. We're going to jump into the news. Do you have any updates before we kind of get into the injury report? Fridays are when we run through players real fast, tell you what we think, in or out, that type of situation. But is there anything outside of that framework that you want to update?

I don't believe so. I was just doing a scour again to make sure there was no outstanding news. But besides injuries, I think we'll just get to those. I see what you mean about Shady, too. We'll do that. Here we go. What's it going to be my fly? Are you in or out? In or out? Joe Flacco and Carson Palmer. So I think Carson Palmer will play. He has mispracticed with the hamstring issues. Joe Flacco is more concerning because it's actually his, it's his throwing shoulder, correct? Yes.

Yeah, he's got, what, tennis elbow? Tennis elbow. So Harbaugh is saying that Flacco should play, but you keep an eye on it. I mean, no one's, Flacco is just a streamer at this point. So stream elsewhere, I would say. All right, Latavius Murray, in or out. I'm going to go in. He's been practicing all week. Theo Reddick. He has not practiced all week, so I'm going to go without. Dwayne Washington on that same backfield. I think he'll play. I think he's been limited to practice. Does he have an upside?

Yeah, I think he has upside. It's, I don't think that Justin Fawcett is the answer for them. And just going off of, you know, the whispers in the bushes and trying to read the tea leaves, the team clearly likes Dwayne Washington more than Zach Zenter because they want Washington to play. They keep trying to give him the opportunity, but he's been hurt. All right. Let's talk about Sean McCoy. Breaking news. You got to go back to the beginning on this one. So yesterday, we, uh,

Was that yesterday? Was that two days ago? I'm lost in this. The report that he was... No, it was two days ago at lunch. Okay, so two days ago at lunch, it was he injured his hamstring. It was a mild to moderate strain. Breaking news. Then yesterday, all hell broke loose and LaShawn McCoy was expected to miss multiple weeks. Gillisley became skyrocketed to the top of the waiver wire. Breaking news.

Then today his agent, Drew Rosenhouse, is on the radio saying, well, he's a game time decision. He might play this week after all. Well, no, that was Associated Press that reported the game time decision. And then Drew Rosenhouse himself. Yeah, then Drew Rosenhaus came back out. And then hold on. We got one more. Breaking news. LaShawn McCoy present. At the start of practice today. What is going on? So we have no idea. Come on, man.

So LaShaul McCoy, he's a running back. He has two legs, plays for the bills. It's freaking ridiculous. That's all we got. That's all we got for you. All right, let's move on to the wide receivers. O'Dell Beckham, in or out. He's going to play. Just before we move on. I know the players, they don't give a crap. The coaches don't care about fantasy football. But fantasy football is paying your bills right now. Fantasy football.

is, I think, the biggest factor for the growth of the NFL in the last 10 years. Just give us some accurate news. That's all I'm asking. Just give us some accurate news. All right. Look, we'd love it. It'd be great. Just stop it. Do you know how hard it was last night to try to figure out what was going to happen in the Green Bay backfield? Yeah. I mean, I was sitting there. I was scouring everything I could to give a report to people.