Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 15 Review, Studs and Duds, MNF Preview, Fantasy News

capable of this where he just never suffers the devastating injury but he's had like five knee injuries this year it feels like where they're just sprains or strains or and he comes back it was the hamstring earlier well no but there was a there was a knee too yeah but yeah his legs are just saying he doesn't go down he hasn't gone down for big injuries he has gelatin like legs there was news on saturday afternoon i believe about a j green and an updated injury report with his back and then he ended up going out in this game

and being held out the rest of this game. And so AJ Green was another guy that really killed people this week. Twitter kind of tilted when all that news was starting to come out of, like, he's questionable to play. And then you have some other people jump in once he's out there. Like, man, that report was such crap. I don't know why we're spreading this around. And then he leaves the game with a back injury. You're like, ah, Twitter, who do I believe? Yeah.

Very scary. And you start, your head starts spinning when those new, that bits of news comes in. And you don't know what to do. And it's hard to make the right decision. Danny Mandola is another guy. If you played him, one catch a fumble, hurt, you're gone. Ouch. But yeah, that was brutal. That's, that's, he got the only thing that can be worse than a zero.

And that is negative. Yeah. Alshan Jeffrey went down again, this time with a hamstring problem. He caught, I believe, one pass for a touchdown. So if you played him, you weren't destroyed by him. Wait, it was his hamstring on his calf? Correct. Dude, that guy's legs are a mess. I mean, because it was the calf keeping him out of practice this week. And now the hamstring, his quad is about to blow. It's the whole, it's the whole leg, all of it. Yeah. Top to bottom. It just moves up and down. Really hard to trust him.

this next week in a championship match. We've just seen him actually hampered on the field too many times this year. Melvin Gordon injured. Yeah, you know who was not injured. Danny Woodhead. I need to publicly apologize. Do you? Do you really? I do. I absolutely need to. All right. Go ahead. You know, we had made the joke last week that Danny Woodhead was retired.

Because even though he was so great at the beginning of the year, they have forgotten to use him. And so someone tweeted asking me C.J. Anderson or Danny Woodhead. And I told, I mean, I'm not. Listen to this line, Jason. Danny Woodhead, eight carries for 10 yards. That's no good. See, I was right to say C.J. Anderson. Oh, wait a second.

six for 50 and three touchdowns through the air, and he scored in those eight carries on the ground. Yeah, so he was really good this week. Hope you played him. Here's his last five weeks. 2.7, 8.1, 5.2, 3.1, 34. Yeah, there's no way that you had any confidence playing. I know that some people out there had him. That's a painful decision, though, if you went CJ. But it's more of a Chargers management. What are you doing?

What have you been doing for five weeks? Well, if Gordon is out now, if for any reason he's not able to get back next week, that gives you more confidence to play him. They're playing the Raiders on this championship week coming up. So Raiders have been really good against the run, but Danny Woodhead really makes his value in the air. So I think he'd be an okay play if Gordon's out. Yeah, I mean, it was just one of those days for Danny Woodhead. I don't know, do we know the implications of the injury for Gordon?

No. We don't know yet, right? Because I haven't seen anything other than the fact he was just downgraded out in the second half with a knee injury. So left knee. I will take a look right now and see if we find anything else just so people know. More for the Woodhead owner. I don't know if a lot of people are counting on Gordon in the playoffs. Left knee injury. He went down on a draw play and there's no update yet.

Another guy, big start of the week this week. Tedgin Jr. had two more touchdowns. Did go out of the game with an injury for a little while, came back in later, monitor him. TJ 8's ACL and also got me watered because I bet him versus McCarran. I'll let you off the hook on that one. Because of the injury? Yeah, and McCarran didn't do that great anyways. That's appreciated. But I'm not letting you off the hook on the Lamar Miller carries. That's bad. No, I deserve water on me. And actually, Lamar Miller.

and the coaching staff deserve water on that more than anyone. So we should take a look at who our fantasy stud muffins are, who are pooped in the big boy pants are. But first, we'd like to thank the sponsor of today's show, pokerstars.net. If you haven't started playing pokerstars.net,

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and let you know whether you can keep playing these guys next week in your title game. Flash in the pan this week or here to stay. Obviously, Cam Newton. What can you even say about him? We pretty much need to say nothing other than he's going to be in your lineup next week against Atlanta. Yeah, you can't sit Cam Newton at all. He has been the best quarterback on the year. I'm curious who's got higher between him and Brady on the year, but I think it's got to be Cam at this point. At this point, it has to be Cam. So.

I mean, 33 touchdowns through the air on the year, rushing the ball well, just an incredible season and really showed me a lot. Yeah, he is the MVP this year. I mean, if you put a different quarterback on that team, they couldn't run that same style of offense because not only did he have the five touchdowns through the air, but 100 yards on the ground. And those were important third down pickups where third and long.

And you see him rushing right up the middle, sliding for that first down marker, keeping the drives alive. That's why their offense is so potent. And Tegin Jr., who was the start of the week, did you see his drop again? Yep. Oh, I did not. No, another touchdown. It was another one where he has just burned him, a bomb. Turns around and, like, gets to, like, gets the punt return catching. I know that sounds ridiculous. But if you're running, that's my point. He had slowed down.

And turned around. And his back was to the end zone. And he just gets to... Do you think at this point he's saying in his... I can do this. Yes, every time. I can do it. I can do it. Don't drop it. Don't drop it. If he catches 50% of the easy bombs, he's a great play. No, no doubt about it. I mean, and I think Newton is a better discussion for Dynasty and Keeper Leagues, too, because, you know, this season began with Kelvin Benjamin being lost.

You draft Devin Funches, who's becoming more and more involved in the game plan. Moving forward for years to come, I don't see a reason why Cam Newton won't provide this kind of value, assuming he can stay healthy. That will always be the risk with him. That being said, he's a very big guy. I trust his, it's like Kaepernick. I trust those two guys to not get hurt running the ball. Yeah, Devin Funches is going to, or when Devin Funches gets back.

Tedkin Jr. is only going to get more open on those deep plays. It's just a lot of great, and, you know, Greg Olson, a one-hand catch-a-week. So, Kurt Cousins, Russell Wilson, Teddy Bridgewater, Brock Osweiler. Teddy Bridgewater. Yeah, Bridgewater. Four touchdowns. That's got to be a career high. Oh, yeah. By about three. It wasn't just four. He ran one in. He had five full touchdown. So Teddy Bridgewater, man.

So is this what we could see from him if AP is limited or out? No. Okay, just making sure. Just making sure. I would love it because Teddy was a guy I liked coming into the year. He's been very disappointing for fantasy purposes. But, I mean, for 17 completions, four of those going for touchdowns, that's not a very sustainable percentage there. No. Tyrod Taylor had a big game.

as well in the end, thanks to Sammy Watkins, some deep balls, and then a lot of yards on the ground, nine for 79 on the ground. Big Ben, he served to prove the point that if you are good enough, it doesn't really, the matchup's not going to matter as much. They're at home, 40 for 380 and three touchdowns, a comeback win. We saw that. Same with Antonio Brown. That's not a big tutupe for the show. That's just...

factual, I mean, we saw Tom Brady have success against them. How many touchdowns to wide receivers in this game? Three? Yeah, Brown had two and I think Wheaton had one. Okay, so three. On the year, Denver had given up. I think three on the year. Two. Was it? It was two. I thought they gave up two in the second time. I'll take a little. And so basically, I believe Harris, by the way, who got torched by Antonio Brown. If you started Antonio Brown, you're happy. If you benched him because you're afraid of Denver, you're...

You're as sad as we would fear. That's why it's really hard. That's why it's very, very difficult to actually bench your big studs. Because if they do what they do normally in those matchups, you are just going to kick yourself for making such a, I mean, he had 16 catches. Well, the questions people were asking were like, okay, Tyler Lockett or Antonio Brown? No, and you know what I'm going to do next? I was thinking about this on the drive-in, what I want to do next year.

is it won't be a very scientific keeping track of stats or anything, but I want to do a kind of like a start your studs tracker and just write down the matchup of what people are scared of and the result. And then we'll see how often, more than often or not, that a stud performs in these matchups. If there's actual evidence of, should you be kind of worried about this? Well, and you saw, I mean,

Not to throw everybody who would have sat him under the bus. You saw Amari Cooper last week get destroyed by the matchup. But there's a difference between Amari Cooper and Antonio Brown. There's a difference between Derek Carr and Big Ben Rothersberger on a lot of levels. And there's so many people that are afraid of the numbers. And I understand that because Denver was so dominant. But you couldn't sit him down. I didn't have the guts to scent him down and then lose my match in that way. So if you did, I am sincerely sorry for you.

Genuinely. That's not an I told you so. I'm sorry because I understand you might have had an option that felt better. There might have been an AJ Green or Antonio Brown, and you said, you know what? Why wouldn't I just play? And if you did that, I can see it. Yeah, yeah. I can see it happening. Mike wouldn't have done it, but I could see it happening. Same game. Emmanuel Sanders, and for that matter, Demarius Thomas had a good game as well, but Emmanuel Sanders went off.

10 for 181 and a touchdown. Brock Osweiler went off in that first half. He was throwing for a ton of yards the week before. So what do we make of the wide receiver core? We got a lot of teams that have these two superstar wide receivers. Who do they play next week? I hate them for dropping everything last week. But this is more of what you would expect out of a crew of...

Sanders and Demarius Thomas. Who do they play next week? They play the Bronca, or the Bengals. They play themselves. Well, yeah, it's Osweller versus Manning. It's a shadow match. Who do they play? They play the Bengals. They'll probably win. The Bengals, it's tough matchup, and we don't know the quarterback situation. It could be Peyton next week. Yeah, if Brock is actually hurts, which it was his non-throwing shoulder. He came back in and he said he did not. He said he wasn't affected by it.

Yeah, that's what they all say. But yeah, a big comeback for Pittsburgh, keeping their playoff hopes alive. Jason mentioned it, Emmanuel Sanders' monster game. I think you probably play him, unless you have a significantly better option. Amari Cooper, six for 120 and two against Green Bay. Huge game for him. What do we think about Amari Cooper next week? He's got the Thursday night game against the Chargers. Yeah, you got to like that situation. Crabtree.

I don't know if he came back in the game. I know he got knocked out for concussion protocol. I can't recall if he got back in the game. But against the Chargers, that's a great matchup. You got to love Cooper next week.