Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 12 Thanksgiving Episode Part 1, Starts, Sits, Matchups

after what the lead-in is. Do you know what team in the NFL leads the league in average yards run per game? So as in which team runs them? Yeah, most average yards per game. Seahawks. That is correct. Thomas Rawls, your only guy there. Yeah. And I heard his number on the way in talking about how in the first half of the season the Seahawks had scored 12 touchdowns.

In the last two weeks, they've scored seven. Yeah. So getting it together a little bit. It could be turning around up there in Seattle. Well, the big thing, if you look at Russell Wilson, he had, I believe, eight straight games, seven straight games with one touchdown. And he had three this past week against San Francisco, including one to Rawls. So just confirming Rawls should be that number one waiver claim. I mean, by now he probably was for you, hopefully. All right, Peyton Manning. It's been announced he will miss at least the next two weeks.

I guess they want to set an expectation instead of a speculation out there. Fantasy, fantasy spin. And he's just, if, here's the deal, though, what I'm interested in. Let's say that Osweiler comes out, has a good game, beats the Patriots on Sunday night football. They are in a predicament in Denver to me. I don't know if Andy agrees because Andy thinks that Peyton Manning should be back in. If Osweiler plays well,

especially this Sunday and then over the next two weeks, I think you have to leave Oswald. Because Manning was a hindrance to that offense, but how much he was turning the ball over. It reminds me a lot of when Colin Kaepernick took over for Alex Smith. They had a good team that was winning with Alex Smith. Alex Smith goes down. Capernick comes in, plays better than Smith played. And they said, I got to stick with who's going to be the best in the flames. Yeah.

Yeah, it's going to come down to whether they actually believe a lot of Maining's problems were injury related or play related. You know what I mean? There's decision-making problems, but there's also your brain tells you what your body can do, and then if your body's not working. So it's going to be a balance there. And I think, you know, it could be a short leash for Peyton, too. That could be the situation when he comes back. Fantasy-wise, I think what this says is that Brock Osweiler is a guy that if he comes out, does all right, he's a streaming candidate.

that on the right matchup you should be able to play. Yeah, maybe. But yeah, we've got to see it. And really, if you're a Demarius Thomas owner, Mike, if you're an Emanuel Sanders owner, Jason, are you wanting Osweiler in there? Or is it TBD? That's to be determined because they still had, or I guess not Sanders because he didn't play. But Demarius Thomas had that nice big touchdown, but that was about all he did. If you're a Owen Daniels or a Vernon Davis owner, you sure want Osweiler in there.

Okay, so let's move it on. Johnny Mansell, the one selling point for that Monday Night Football matchup between the Cleveland Browns and the Baltimore Ravens is no longer starting. We got to make some new commercials. Hey, get together, we got to make new commercials. Get the B-roll on Matt Schaub. Get the B-roll on Matt Schaub. Is he going to throw some picks? Watch him throw some pick sixes on Monday Nighterball. It's improved from Matt Schaub versus Johnny Football.

to Matt Scha versus Josh McCown. Buck Allen might be the highlight in those videos. Oh, I sure hope so. Basically, Mansell demoted to third string. Mike Patton came out. There were videos and reports of him partying and basically he came out and said this, and this is the gist of the whole thing. You broke the trust of the team. You broke the trust that was put into you. It doesn't matter what you did.

You did something that was contrary to what we trusted you not to do as a leader of the team. And now he's not long for the, I don't think he's long for the Browns. I would agree. And he'll get, I think he'll get another chance, for sure, someplace. Maybe, you know, you keep saying with Johnny Mansell, maybe he'll wake up this time. He does not care about football as much as he cares about his personal. Yeah, well, I don't want to get into that too much because he could have a legitimate problem. So either way.

He got demoted. He partied his way into the third string. And what we don't know, actually, is if this is just one week, a one week demotion, and then they're going to reevaluate next week, or if this is a season long saying whatever, we're going to play, McCown, what I think is kind of leans towards it might be just this one week is, and I know NFL teams want to win games, but Josh McCown for how well he's played is not the future.

of the Cleveland Browns. If anybody has a chance, throw Austin Davis in there. He had a couple games last year where he was okay. If you want to check out, maybe do we have a quarterback of the future? You've got to put Austin Davis out there because McCowan is, he's likely done. Yeah, I think that Mansell's done with the Browns. I think the Browns more accurately are done with Mansell. That's why they put him behind Austin Davis. You know, Manzell next year, he'll get...

Cut or trade it and he'll go to Rex Ryan in the Bills and be a running quarterback there. Yeah, it's possible. So Dynasty League owners with Justin Fawcett and that broken arm, Ravens coach John Harbaugh came out and said Justin Fawcett is a, quote, big part of what we're doing moving forward. You don't need to put too much stock into that. We've got a whole office season to figure that out. But as a dynasty owner, you're curious, is he going to be, you know, is Buck Allen going to just...

take the lead dog role with Talley Fero next year. Sounds like Foress that they want to bring him back at least vocally right now. Danny Amindola, we had the news yesterday or two days ago about the sprain knee. The report is that he's not going to miss an extended period of time. How do you feel, Mike? That is fantastic news as someone who bought heavily into Amidola around my leagues. It's also a sigh of relief for Tom Brady owners, in my opinion. I think without Amidola or Edelman.

that Tom Brady really takes a hit. We saw what the bills were able to do against Grankowski, when there's really not the serviceable weapons around for Tom Brady. You just double him on the line, or you force him to block, and Tom Brady really took a hit, and he's got this matchup this week against Denver. I think that if Amadola is not playing, that Tom Brady will struggle to put up those high-level quarterback one numbers. I still have him as a QB1.

this week, but very low end. So there's other guys who I want to play. Did you start Brian Hoyer over Tom Brady this week? Man, that's a... The ceiling of Brian Hoyer is higher than Brady's this week. So I don't know if that means I will play him over Brady, but the ceiling, if you need ceiling, you would have to go with Hoyer. Yeah. What a world. I know, what a world. All right, Tyrod Taylor's expected to play this week. Alshan Jeffrey was limited in Tuesday's practice. You need to monitor him moving forward.

And really sad news that broke this morning. Stedman Bailey was shot in the head twice in Miami. Thoughts and prayers with his family. I know he's in the most recent report's critical but stable condition, not expected to be life-threatening. So, yeah, that's tough. Matt Forte confirmed he will play on Thursday against the Packers. Yep. That's a very interesting situation to monitor as well because I can't imagine that Forte comes in off of this injury.

at his age, and then they say, okay, you're going to take 80% of the snaps again, especially with how well Langford played. You got to expect something like a 60-40. Do you guys know Joseph Randall got arrested again? Yes, I saw that. Yeah. I saw that. In a casino, right? Are you surprised? The underwear burglar strikes again. Yeah, he was too drunk in a casino, and they tried to escort him out, and he went berserk on him, and now he got arrested. At this point, it's gone from, you know,

humorous jokes about underwear burglar, too. Dude probably has major life problems that need to be helped. All right, we, oh, so before we get to our sits of the week along with the rest of the Megalodon Thanksgiving edition of the fantasy footballers, oh, I love that. We just want to take a second to thank the sponsor of today's show, which is Fandle. Listen, Footclan, we want to turn that holiday spirit into a winning spirit.

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And the only way to get this exclusive offer is to go to fanduil.com. Click the microphone, use our promo code, ballers. All right, let's move it on. Sense of the wig. I forgot that we had to... Hey, look, you got to go with what you got. I have to... I'm the audio person of the show, and I was out of town. Yep. And they were into crunch, the fellas, and Andy did a spectacular job at hacking something to get it. Good enough.

Yeah, good enough. And I'll fix that up. We'll sit that audio drop next week. We'll get it polished. There you go. Hey, all right, let's start it. Sit to the week. My quarterback's shit of the week is none other than Tyrod Taylor. Let me read you the numbers that Kansas City has been giving up to fantasy quarterbacks last four weeks. 9, 14, 6, 8. They be shutting people down. Wait, quarterback numbers?

Those are the numbers that quarterbacks have been given up. Is that bad? That's not good. Those are not kicker numbers. Those are quarterback numbers. Ty Red Taylor's also banged up. Hasn't been that great in fantasy the last few starts. So sit him down. Pick somebody else like Brian Hoyer. Yeah, my quarterback sit of the week this week is Mattie Ice. Oh, Matt Ryan. Throwing ice. Yeah, he was right now he is currently not even in the top 12.

for fantasy quarterbacks, but his name and his main target in Julio, they make you want to play him, and sometimes he's a good play, right? And he had him last week. Last week as a stream of the week, and he was great, or I believe start of the week. This week, however, he's going up against Minnesota, and what we see from those Minnesota Vikings is, you know, generally speaking,

Low scoring games. We've seen that with Atlanta recently as well. So I just don't expect enough volume in this game to be a guy that's going to win you a week. I could see him having a down week. So I would sit Matt Ryan for other options this week. I'm going to throw this in there for you. Last week was the first week all year that he had three touchdowns. Do you know that? Yep. He has not had a three touchdown game except for last one. Matt Ryan has been very disappointing. A my sit of the week at the quarterback position is Russell Wilson.

Russell Wilson, and last week against San Francisco was his first multi-TD home game of the year, and now the Steelers are coming in, and the Steelers have revamped their defense. They are no longer the laughing stock of the NFL at the defensive side of the ball. So I don't think Russell Wilson is going to give you the quarterback numbers that you need.

Totally agree. Why don't you give us your running back? My running back, I'm going to sit Latavius Murray this week. It's been a rough couple weeks. He's averaging three yards of carry the last two games. And Tennessee has been surprisingly tough against running back. So if I have a better option than Latavius, I'm going to throw him out there. Okay. For me, I'm going to sit, I'm going to sit Jeremy Langford this week because Matt Forte is back.

You don't know how it's going to split up. I agree with you. I don't think that Matt Forte comes back in and gets 90% of the carries. But he said he was good to play last week. And so he took this extra time for this Thursday night game to get a little bit healthier. And so while we have to remember Langford in the beginning of the year, he was already used a little bit as a touchdown vulture. So he was.

It wasn't a 90% split in the beginning of the year anyways. So I just think you're going to see Langford go back a little bit more to what you had. You probably have other options because you picked him up off the waiver. I wouldn't feel comfortable starting Langford with Matt Forte back. Jeremy Langford or Matt Jones. Oh, man. I'm going to go with Jones. Jeremy Langford or C.J. Anderson. I think I actually have C.J. Anderson decent this week. No, I'm going to go Langford over C. Langford just for the touchdown. They're both.

Backups.