Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 9 Fantasy Football Questions, Mailbag

Got Norman, as I said. He got rained on and Norman. And it was gross. All right. That sucks. I thought I was going to go undefeated this week. You will also get rained on with a watering. Oh, I see. Yes. Very, very clever. Here's just super smart. Moving on. Matt and Boston. Hey, guys, love the show. I've been downloading and listening all year. Hey, thanks, Matt. Love the witty banner and the exceptional fantasy advice. Probably in that order. No, hopefully not in that order. I have Julio Jones and AJ Green along with

They're quarterbacks. Which quarterback should I start this week for the best possible QB are wide receiver stack. Ooh, okay. So Matt Ryan and Julio are playing San Francisco. Uh-huh. And Dalton Green are at home against Cleveland. Hoof. Hook me up with that Dalton Green. Yeah. Give me that Dalton Green. They're both great. It's no-brainer. They're both good, though. Yeah, but I'm going to go with Dalton.

I agree. Both both good options. The big difference here is the difference between what Matt Ryan's been doing and what Andy Dalton's been doing. That's what... The word's out of my mouth. That's what's the tiebreaker. So you definitely go Dalton and Green. Both could have... Mike is right. Both could have huge weeks. You could be talking about, you know, the best two stacks of the week. You could be talking about, like, Ty Hilton or Dante Moncrief. Bleu. That was rough. That was rough for that guy. All right. Kang, like kangaroo.

In Grand Prairie, Texas. Okay. What do I do with Peyton Manning? Do I keep him and hope he gets better? You're a few weeks late on this, I think. I think it's, you know, does he trade him? I still believe. I still believe you can get trade value for Peyton Manning. I still believe Peyton Manning could be all right, but he's a streamer. I would trade a bag of chips for Peyton Manning. Like generics or like full-on like...

Ruffles? No. No, you were getting no brand name chips for me for Peyton Manning. You are getting bottom shelf, mostly crumpled up. Some of them green in there? Yeah, there's probably some moldy chips in there. We've said this before, but what I would do is I would take one of your middle tier guys or even one of your upper guys, pair him with Peyton Manning and go and trade to upgrade that other guy. Go get Rivers. Good luck. Because the Rivers runs through it.

Thing, that's wave. That is so much better. The river runs through the Murray. All right. Show's getting away. All right. Jeremy in Illinois. Oh, I did it again. Dang it. I was reading it. Jeremy in Illinois, I am a levy on bell owner. How much fab do I spend on D'Angelo Williams? So some people have their waivers run a little bit later in the week. We talked about this yesterday. But in case you missed it.

everything. All of it. You take everything you have and you spend it on DeAngelo Williams to try and stay afloat. Shout out to a guy from our league, Nick, who three consecutive weeks signed DeAngelo Williams Sunday morning before the games. Yeah, a guy moves. It's just a maybe something happens. Yeah, a guy moves to out on your lineup. You move them to the IR and you pick up a guy off of waivers. That's such a good move. Paid off in a humongous way. So, um,

Mark Malcolm in Louisiana. Do you think Tyrod Taylor would, we'll play Week 9, if not would Brian Hoyer be a good start? I'm struggling through the rest of them. I'm proud of you, Mike. This is a bi-week start. I have Carson Palmer on by-week. Yeah, play Tyra Taylor. Absolutely. Jonathan in Fort Lauderdale, Charles Clay or Martellis Bennett. Yeah, so you get the easy one to read. Yeah, well.

Too bad. I like both of these options. San Diego and the San Diego Chicago game is the second highest scoring in Vegas. So I'm going to go Martellus Bennett here. Yeah, I like both these guys, but I'm going to, I would lean Clay with the return of Tyrod Taylor. Ah, it's a coin flip for me.

but I'll let it land on clay for this. I assume that Watkins and everybody is still going to be out, so the weapons for Buffalo are needed. Dev, Dev in New York, playing in a matchup against Big Ben Rothensberger. He has Heath Miller, DeAngelo Williams, and Martavis Bryant. Wondering if it makes fantasy sense to play Martavis over Amari Cooper in order to siphon off whatever points, don't go to Antonio Brown. This is one of those fantasy questions that comes up.

Very frequently. I think you're playing with fire. Now, Martavis might be the better start over Cooper. That's debatable on its own merits, but that's how I would debate the question. Because it can go both ways. It's great when the guy does siphon the points off. It's also terrible when the balls go to Antonio Brown or somebody else, Heath Miller, in the goal line, and you don't get anything from Martavis. And then it's like a double whammy. I always go with the better guy. I don't try and just mitigate.

Like you said, if the mitigation is natural because it's your best matchup, that's nice. But you go with the better player or the better start. So the question is, is Martavis or Cooper a better matchup? Cooper plays the Steelers and then the Steelers play. I would go with Cooper. Yeah, I think Cooper would be the better play. He would be statted ahead. But I do understand this question because they would be so close to me in my opinion that as a tiebreaker.

I might go Martavis, but I do expect, I mean, David Carr's, Derek Carr is my stream of the week, so I'm going to stick with Cooper here. Yeah, I'm with you guys. I'll stick with that. Here's a question, a league question from Corey in Alabama, or as he says, Bama. One of the guys in my league has obviously gone AWOL, his lineup had three guys on a bye week this week. That's fine and all.

But he's got several top tier guys on his team. How should I, as the commission, handle this situation? Should we have him drop all those guys so the rest of the league can divvy them up, leave things in and no one gets them? Or see if we can get him to come back just as long enough to make some trades for the guys we don't want. Option D. Replace him. Find another owner to come in and take over that team. If that guy wants out, then that's what I would do. I mean, if he's got a decent team. So...

Let's talk about, yeah, I completely agree with you. That is the best option. But let me throw something out there for you. If you can't do that, I don't think you, you know, you don't drop them. You don't divvy them up. No. But there's obviously an integrity, league integrity issue where somebody should be in the lineup. So is there any automation of this team that you would approach in the sense of, you know, okay, we look at the Yahoo ranks and we just start the guys that are highest ranked on that team for the integrity of the league?

do it in reverse and hurt other teams because you're not, you know... If you can't... Yeah, I don't think you can get rid of... You freeze this guy's team if you can't replace him as an owner and you just make sure... You just make sure that you put in the best starters based on... Yeah, based on the projections... Oh, you freeze the roster, but you still put guys in the lineup for him? What do you do, Mike? I like the replacing the owner. That's the best option. If that is not an option...

then I completely freeze the team. I leave it as it is. You do not adjust anything. It's not fair then. It's not fair for these teams that have already got to play pure buys to now going forward, the commissioner is going to run the team. It looks like it was one week, though. One guy got to play the three buys. Obviously gone AWOL. Yeah, that's just the way it falls sometimes in fantasy. I had a funny story that I wanted to bring up. It's sort of similar to...

just a league question because someone was asking me about a collusion type thing and they said a player in the league was tried to add a kicker late and then claimed the system would not let him put the kicker into the lineup something funky happened i don't know yeah it sounded fishy either way said so uh to uh to uh to move on from that that player then made a trade

with his brother to get Adam Venetieri, who played yesterday. Okay, so he corrected his own mistake and to get Venetary. And I'm like, well, as long as the trade was fair, you know, there's, I don't have any problem with it. I don't care if it's that, if it's his brother. You got to be able to trade with everybody. You can't have family. Don't be in a league with your brother if you can't have family connections. Then the guy comes back, says, okay, well, I just found out that the brother had no.

Did not know anything about the trade. Just logged in. The person logged into his brother's account and accepted the trade. Wow. Okay, so here's the question. Here's the question. I mean, clearly that's red flags are everywhere. You got everything is abort at this point. But the trade was Jordan Reed for Adam Vittary. What do you do?

Well, just on principle, you can't let the trade go through. Yes. And you've got to punish the guy doing this mayhem. He's got to get like a loss. The story just got better and better. I feel like he should lose Jordan Reed and Venetary and the week or something. That is ridiculous. Hey, listen, you want to win like that? Just go. It's really easy. It's free. Go to ESPN, start a league. Invite yourself.

And no one else. And you will win. Almost 100% of the time. How did he, did he think he was going to get away with that? Like the next week, someone would show up, where's my kicker? On a real serious note, guys, I need both of your login information just in case. Just in case you guys can't access your accounts or something. Right. And you need me to do something. Well, you know, the system can go wonky when you're trying to sign a kicker. Your phone doesn't work. Yeah, I really buy that story after hearing what he did at the end of it.

I'm sure this is... Oh boy, my phone didn't work anymore. The app's broken. Yeah, okay. You're playing for your brother, too. All right, that does it for today's show. Thanks for listening. Check us out on join the foot.com. We will be here again tomorrow talking starts of the week. Yes. Talking week nine? Week nine matchups. The drama. All the injury updates that you could ever imagine. I mean, just hours and hours of them. Yeah.

All right, just not hours and hours. But we'll give you the big notes. We'll let you know what's going on with guys that might be on your roster who you need to start. Let us know how you did on Twitter at the FF Ballers in terms of your waiver wire guys that you signed. And hopefully things are going well for you this week. Yeah, we have some, you can hit the button. But we have some big matchups in our League of Record. Yeah. The playoffs are on the line here. They're coming. Be sure to check out Harry's as well. Oh, absolutely. Use that code footballers.

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