Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 7 Review, Studs and Duds, MNF Preview, Fantasy News

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No, no, no, no, no. No! Gosh, darn it. Oh, my goodness. Way to keep it clean for the kiddos. I know. I was remembering our clean rating right when I said that. What? I'm just beside myself on what has transpired over the weekend. You know, Arian? You're my boy. Twice, man.

Two times? You know, this is, it was tough, man. It was tough to see Arian go down. I don't know if we're going to see him play football again. No, I don't think so. So it's a torn Achilles for Arian Foster. Ironic, because he's probably the Achilles heel of many teams at the moment. You know, I am just three games. You burn bright, my friend. You burn bright. I got an email.

I got a lot of emails, a lot of tweets. And, you know, they were always in capital letters. And they said things like, I was bulldozing my league, and then you reaped Aaron Foster. You know, I reap myself. Okay, I have a team. What did I tell you guys? I told...

The Foot Clan, the listeners, about my team in our League of Record that had all the points and good team play. But I was one and four. Well, I'm going to win again, thanks to Arian, his final gift to me is a 29-point game in that league. And I'm going to win. I'll be three and four. But I was looking so good. Because Arian was there. I...

You know, as a four and two, five and two team, I'm very happy the Aryan has gone down. Not to you, Mr. Foster. The Reaper was... You're happy just because of me. Yeah, just because I like to win. The Reaper was in full effect this weekend. I mean, Nick Mangold, who came on the show, he went down a little bit. You had Fred Jackson and a car wreck, you know, this last week. Oh, come on. I'm just saying. Oh, come on. Hey, I haven't said anything about our show. This is the fantasy footballers podcast.

I'm Andy Holloway, and I'm an Aryan Foster owner. It's like a meeting. It's like a confession. This is our show for Monday, October 26. We've got a show for you. Normally I say a good show, but I'm going to just dedicate and commit the show to Arian Foster's memory. You can find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. You can find us on the web, the fantasy footballers.com.

You can check out our fantasy community on Jointhefoot.com. We've got our fantasy rewind today. We're going through the stud muffins. We're going through the pooped in their big boy pants, which, by the way, Aaron didn't do. He was in both categories. He had the decency to tear his Achilles at the very, very, very end of a game. We're going to preview the Monday night game. We got a mailbag section. It's good stuff.

It's good stuff. So I also want to remind everybody those Back to the Future shirts that we got going on, they've got a couple days left. You can get them on the fantasy footballers.com. And sometime this week, we're getting spray tans in association with our bet with the listeners, basically. Yeah, it's coming. Did you guys have any, you know, real quick weekend impressions before I move on? No, let's move it on. Okay, well.

In lieu of a quick question today, I'm going to do something different. I've got some Monday morning confessions, all right. So I'm going to point at you, Mike, and you're going to give me a little lead-in to each of these, and then I'm going to just go on a mini rant about these four things. Confessions. All right, I'm going to start with the Toby Gerhardt, Gus Bradley situation. I have publicly said I am a Gus Bradley supporter. All you Jacksonville fans out there, you know, I've supported the team. I'm done.

It's over. You gave the ball to Toby Gerhardt four times on the one-yard line and watched them get stuffed over and over and over again. Yes, I know you're not the offensive coordinator calling the plays. You're the head coach. Say something into your microphone. Say, get them off the field. T.J. Yeldin owners are mad at you, and I'm not even one of them, but they've got to be mad at you. I'm mad at just, you know, the integrity of the NFL being poo-pooed on by Toby Gerhard. It's ridiculous. It's dumb. It's dumb. That you have Yeldin who is, and he's...

He's playing well. Not well. He was on fire. He was running through everything. And if they, you know, they won the game. If they hadn't won the game, oh my goodness. Confessions. All right, I'm going to move on to Richard Matthews. I've got to confess, you're legit. You're a good player. I thought Devante Parker. I thought Devante Parker would move past you. I thought it would be easy. But now you've put up double digits in five of six games. You made a monster play, taking that pass all the way to the house through.

Honestly, that's the worst defense I have ever seen played in that game in the first half by Houston. I feel like the safety ran angles that aren't even part of geometry to miss tackled. I mean, it was disgusting. It was some of the worst defense I've ever seen until Jarvis Landry did the exact same thing about three plays later. Yeah, exactly. So, all right. Confessions. You guys will like this one. Dante Moncrief, you are a legit fantasy option.

Double digits in six. Welcome to the team. Double digits in six of seven games. There's nothing I can say other than the fact he's putting up touchdowns and he's obviously going to stay productive with Andrew Luck. So there you go. Confessions. All right. Last one. Last confession. Todd Gurley is the best running back in the national football league. Oh my. We're already there? We are. And, you know, this is less of a, this is not me coming back off of something I said. I thought he would take the lead.

roll and literally run with it, but not like this, man. He broke so many tackles in that game, two touchdowns, 32.2 points. I believe he broke some kind of record on points. I mean, it was like 95 of yards were after contact. It was unbelievable. Didn't he have negative yards after the first quarter? Something like that. Then he finished with 160-something yards. 128. Otherwise, he would have broke the record for three straight, 140-plus game. He's very, very good. He's also the first rookie to have his first three games over starting.

First three starts over 125 yards on the ground. I sent a text to the girly owner in my league, just basically saying, is there any possible way under the sun that you would ever trade him to me? And he said no, and that he's his franchise player forever. So I guess, you know, until it's probably better. It's better for the fantasy football community that he's not on your team. Yeah. So that's it for my fantasy confessions of the weekend. Let's go ahead and get into the Rewine. Weekly Rewine.

All right, I got to get to the injury news. You guys give me your reactions to some of these injuries. Obviously, Arian Foster down with the Achilles. My reaction to that is if you're confessing Gus Bradley, how dare you put Toby Gerhardt in for four plays in a row? O'Brien, you're down by a cajillion points and you got one of the most injury-prone guys. What in the world was he even doing in that game? That's all I'm saying. Here's my argument to that. They're always down.

By a billion points. I almost made the same joke just now. So they're always in garbage time, so you have to play Foster. He was playing well, too. So, okay, so fantasy implications of the injury. You drop him. Well, yeah, I know you drop Aryan Foster. Unless you're in a dynasty, in which case you probably still drop him. He's a quick healer. But I would put him on your, you can keep them on a dynasty. All right, who are we picking up? Well, that's the question. I think it's got to be Alfred Blue, just for between the tackle stuff. Chris Polk can't do it between the tackles. I've seen that too often. What about Grimy?

Grimes, no. Grimes, no. Grimy, yeah. It's going to be an ensemble of mediocrity. The problem is when you look at the snaps and touches and things of the first couple weeks without Aaron Foster, it's just a mess of one guy had it here, one guy had it there. They all, they all stunk. Aryan Foster actually on the ground.

was not performing very well. No, he wasn't. This was his first week where he was over three yards of care. That's correct. So there's... And we're still putting up 30 points. There's honestly nobody that I'm going to pick up from the Texans back field. I would spend my fab on Alfred Blue because in the right matchup, he's had good games. Yeah, I agree. To get a starting running back. Yeah, he's a spot flex play or a spot running back play on a good matchup. Sure, but this is not Charkandric West's situation. Well...

No, it's not. I mean, it's going to be game flow dependent. Chris Polk will be in there when they're down. I'm referring to like waiver priority and fab budget. I'm not blowing my fab budget. Some people will. Yeah, but I'm advising. Sure. I would not do that. Philip Dorset fractured ankle four to six weeks. This only further solidifies the Moncrief involvement. What about the Andre Johnson target numbers? Are they going to change? They might go up. I don't know. I still don't have.

I don't feel he will be a weekly, reliable. Yeah, it didn't seem like Dorset was really cutting in much anyway, so I don't expect anything to change. What's the latest on Vincent Jackson's injury? Because I had heard knee injury. He missed some snaps. No, he left the game. Right.

And he left in the third. I haven't heard an update of how he's doing if they've had to MRI it or anything that's going on. We'll have to wait until tomorrow. Yeah, it's a little early. Yeah, I was going to say we'll have to watch and see. But this is great news. He was questionable to return. That was the team designation at the end of the game. So was Peters last night. Well, and the report came out with Peters that he's fine. I'm saying, but you watched him go down. No, I know. Oh, he's questionable.

No, he's not. He's not coming back. Fair point. Fair point. Vincent Jackson knee injury. Antonio Gates was out. Yeah. Although I've heard it's a very low-grade strain. It was an MCL. Low-grade strain that he could have, you know, it was will he go, won't he go? They sat him out. The Chargers, they really got people yesterday with, in the morning, all, everybody, I'm including all the big wig reporters.

Like the big network guys were saying, Melvin Gordon is out. He is out. So we said, yeah, he's going to be out, get him out of your lineup. And Antonio Gates was, well, he's a game time. We get to game time. Antonio Gates is out. Melvin Gordon was in.

Yeah, but I actually like that they did this. It avoids the Chris Ivory thing that happened earlier in the year where he was active, but then he doesn't play at all. Melvin Gordon actually wasn't playing in the game. They put him active and said he wasn't going to play, and he pretty much wasn't. It was almost like when the game got completely out of hand, then they're like, well, let's go see what Melvin Gordon can do. It was almost like, it was so weird, like garbage time coming in, but it showed that it could.

How much of it was the ankle? It was exactly what I was going to say. It's not the ankle if you put a guy in late in garbage time. Right. It's you're being cast down for your fumbles. Yeah. That's a scarier situation there. Hopefully you guys, you know, we say at the beginning of the show our Twitter handles, but it is, you know, if you want our advice up to the minute, Twitter's pretty important because we'll post things there, you know, before the game. We told people get gates out. We recommended Jordan Reed and Laderius Green. And if you, if you.

took them out and went with one of those two options. You were pretty happy this week. What's the latest on Matthew Stafford's left hand? He's X-rays on it, so it's his non-throwing hand. All accounts are he's going to be okay, and he'll be good to go next week. Josh McCown's shoulder injury looked like he was hurting in post-game interviews. Man, yeah. It was a rough game for Josh McCown. He was getting beat up not only by the players on the field. He was getting beat up.