Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Studs, Duds, Rising Stars, Injuries

uh six weeks from now hey you know pick up adrian peterson once it's coming closer if you got to hold them for uh a week or two that's that's that's amazing that was completely accidental wow i i thought that the yeah that was a yeah that's that's an open drop them drop them look wow that's all the initial reports for three to four months and even if it's two months i'm not going to burn an entire spot on adrian peterson on my bench

Yeah, I understand. I lean towards the IR-only or deeper bench situation. I'm just saying if you're a competing team in the playoffs and you get to pick up a guy that might get the workload, just throwing it out there for now. You can always drop him in a week or two if you have more clarity as well. Let's talk about Amir Abdullah, done for the year. Adam Shepter is reporting done for the year. They said the lines think. Yeah, it keeps going back and forth.

I think we've got to wait for more information, but this is the last report. Because if this is, I mean, sure, this one might be the right one, but the previous one could have been the right one that yesterday was like, oh, he's going to be back in week 10. Yeah, we don't know. So the answer is we just don't know yet. All right. Eli Rogers left the game with a toe injury. No big deal. Jordan Cameron, concussion. He's going to miss Thursday. Jeremy Langford carted off with an ankle injury. There's a big one.

There's a big one. It immediately came out that you had an Achilles problem, which is that's going to send fear and panic to everywhere. And Jordan Howard immediately skyrockets to the top of the wave wire. Foot Clan, I hope that you were stashing Howard. We talked a little bit about it last week that Howard has appeared to be the much better running back. We don't have a complete handle on Langford's injury at this moment. I don't think it's Achilles because he was in a walking boot after the game. So that's not something you do with a.

ruptured Achilles. Sure. But all reports right now are he's at least going to miss some time. So Jordan Howard is still going to be a good pickup this week. Alshan Jeffrey is the master of producing fantasy points. Well, partially injured. And he put up another nine or ten points last night, but he was clearly hobbled. He was in a knee brace after the game. Look, welcome to.

life with Alshan Jeffrey. You just have to do the stupid dance every single week with Alshan because he's just not, he's prone to injury. He's prone to injuries that aren't severe enough to take him completely off the field all week of practice, but limit him during the game and make him annoying to play. Yeah, if you want to trade him, trade him early in the week because reports are going to come out this week that he's not participating in practice and people will see that late in the week. I mean, honestly, I say that as.

I already got a trade offer for him this morning. Dynasty League trade. What would you do in my shoes? Ooh. I like him. I was offered Devanta Freeman and Jordan Howard for Alshan Jeffrey. Pass. Yeah, that's an easy pass. I would rather have the water series. Aryan Foster, Adam Gase came out, said he won't play on the Thursday night game this week. They're going to give him more time off. So it'll be the Kenyon Drake show and then J. Ajaya will come in for all the overtime touchdowns. That was so upsetting to me. Drake was.

Can you imagine if you started Ajai, he saved your day on the last play of the game. And what was crazy was, so Drake got the largest share of snaps. And he performed the best with the carries that he was given of the entire of the four. There were four running backs used. But then in overtime, it was like it started. And I go, what? Why is Ajai out there? And then he gets that touchdown. I was so sad. That's why.

Oh, there you go. All right, Rashad Jennings was the late scratch. They said because of the hand injury, he couldn't catch the ball, so they didn't, you know, they couldn't use him in the passing game. I thought it was a little strange that he had a cast on the hand. They were always going to play. You're going to play a running back with a cast? I mean, that just sounded a little bit strange to me. So the scratch was not that. So if that's the case, do you think he's, you know, going to miss another week? I think he's going to miss more time. We'll need to pay attention, but I think he will.

You know, those of you that scooped up, Shane Marine. Yeah. You're the lucky one. Lev Bell's going to be back. Wee. We get her, we get a rank him this week. I know where he's going to be on. My name. My number one. My number one running. I'm not sure about his matchup yet. But he'll probably be number one, no matter what. On the first week back. Yes. I mean, he's been healthy for a long time. They played him.

into the third and I think even into the fourth quarter in the preseason. Apparently they could use him. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I, uh, that was a rough week. Yeah, that was a good, a good trap game. Uh, and the Eagles, man. Apparently the Eagles are good. Carson Wentz is for real. Carson Wentz and their defense is pretty good. Yeah, I, they're going crazy up there over Carson wins. And he.

Look, I would. If you saw the play, the play that impressed me the most in that game, I mean, there were many, and again, he hasn't thrown an interception. He steps up in the pocket, and he had such athleticism. It reminded me of, like, Andrew Luck, bursting through the pocket, comes out the right side, and then he goes, Russell Wilson, on the run, hits, sprawls in stride for the 73-yard touchdown. I mean, if you watch, whether it's Russell Wilson or Luck or anybody else, if you can get out of the pocket.

and throw on the run in this league. That's when your opportunities come. Aaron Rogers does that all the place. I mean, the athleticism, the accuracy and not making mistakes, it's just been really impressive. And their defense, unbelievable performance by their defense, giving up three points to Pittsburgh, this vaunted Pittsburgh offense. Look, they gave up a bunch of yards to Antonio Brown, but it didn't matter. So are you adding Carson wins anywhere? No, no. Because I think that team wins in a...

in a fashion that is just two-rounded in the Alex Smith fashion. So I think Wynce is streamable in the right matchup, just like Smith is. But I don't think you're going to be seeing prolific games regularly from Wins. He may have a few, but that's my take. Do you guys have different opinions on Wins? I agree. I just wanted to see where you are you. I'm not going to freak out over three games, but I've certainly been impressed, been impressed with him. All right.

Almost time to get to the stud muffins. Before that, though, we want to share... Sound delicious, by the way. Stud muffins are delicious. Really? Yes. They come with a lot of points.

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And we appreciate you supporting the show. See, Geek. Let's move on. Let's talk about these. Delicious stud muffins. This week's fantasy stud muffins. Do you bake, Jason? Are you a baker? I mean, can you bake a mean pan of muffins? I don't bake extraordinarily well, but I eat baked goods as good as anyone. I would say I'm expert level at eating baked goods.

And other non-baked goods as well. So just any food. But no preference. No, I prefer baked. Edible? That's it. Yeah. Jason, for Sunday's football, though, the people want to know, how was your snack count? Did it remain high? Yeah. Snack count. Snack count this week was 100%. Okay. 100% snack count. For the fourth consecutive, third consecutive week, 100% snack count.

All right. Well, we always run through those numbers. Let's start with the clear-cut winner of this week. Everyone started him. He was the number one quarterback, and everyone saw it coming. The Trevor Simeon. What? I guess. Let me, if you started Trevor Simeon in your league, will you please tweet us with a screenshot? Yeah. They're ashamed. They're ashamed at their 700 points they got. Trevor Simeon. The Trevor Endeavor, 312 yards.

Four touchdowns. No picks. Against the Bengals. What? And really, you know, really nice throws. Yeah. These were not, this was not a screen pass to Demaris that he took to the house. This was an over-the-top ball to Emmanuel Sanders. Squeak, squeak, squeak, squeak. Yeah, squeaky wills. Demarius Thomas saves the day with a 50-something yard touchdown.

got the oil. When I was looking up the game splits for Denver, they definitely have a tendency to throw more on the road and run more at home. So it's something going forward to keep in mind. Would that just be explained? I'm just asking simply by the fact they're probably winning at home.

And they're probably competing in games on the road. Yeah, I mean, it definitely makes sense. But for a team that you just assume is only going to run, run, run and barely throw, when they're on the road, we might be able to look at Emmanuel Sanders and Demarius Thomas with rose-colored games. As you would say. As I would say. All right, Matthews, snapback, and Aaron Rogers battled it out.

Unbelievable game for both of them. Stafford had 385 yards and three touchdowns in the comeback attempt. Aaron Rogers, he never needs more than about 200 yards to throw his touchdowns. Four touchdowns for Rogers. He only threw 15 completed passes in the whole game. Four of them were touchdowns. This is Rogers. They're still figuring this offense out. And you saw it in the second half. They did not put this game away. I mean, this was. Right.

interesting. And there were reports coming out that they're retooling that offense. Did you guys see those? T. Y. Hilton, or T.Y. Hilton. T.Y. Hilton. T.Y. Hilton. T. Y. Montgomery. Trying to get on the roster. They're talking about changing. And look, I would. I mean, I don't know what it is. If you're a Randall Cobb owner, you're probably done with him. I'd be done with him. I mean, there's nothing consistent there. I don't want to roll that out there. Well, he's going to have, he'll have his big games, but that's not a player. I'm going to.

Start every single week. Ryan Tannahill, Kirk Cousins, Carson Wentz, and James Winston all had very big fantasy games. You know, what do you think? What do you think about these guys? Who has the long-term value here? I mean, Tana Hill was one of our starts of the week. I think we saw this game coming.

So it was nice that he actually performed. He does well when he's favorite at home. Carson Wins was the biggest surprise for me, pleasant surprise, but we've talked about him. And James Winston, man, he can. They lost. He can ball it out. 58 passing attempts. 58. 400 yards, three touchdowns, only one pick.