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

Yeah, he left briefly before halftime, but he came back out in the third quarter, and he was six for 11 for 70. Not a bad matchup, just didn't get into the end zone. Reminds me a little bit about the game we saw from Michael Floyd last night, where he played very well. That one-handed catch on the sideline was incredible, but he didn't get into the end zone, and that hurt you. Sammy Watkins. He has been on fire. Beat balls to Sammy Watkins work.

Yeah. Five for 111. He's faster than them. So next week he's going to be facing the Cowboys, whose defense has still showed up, and they're, I mean, they are a good defense. All their losses this year, even with the pitiful play at quarterback, have been three, four points. I mean, it's just been a tough luck year for them. Their defense has played very, very well. And, you know, we didn't talk much about it, but Darren McFadden played very, very well as well. Well, we haven't gotten to running backs. Oh, yeah. That's probably why we didn't talk about it.

But I was still right. We hadn't. Tedgin Jr. 6 for 85 and 2, Jordan Matthews, with a little bit of... Oh, the Garbage Land can. Oh, yeah. Come on. When you're down 37 to 10 or 3717 and you get a bomb over the top on a blown coverage, that's nice. Absolutely. He did have about, what was it, something like 50 yards in that first drive or so. No, he played well. He did play well. He had, I mean, that one catch was worth a lot, but he had eight.

other catches, 159 total yards. So, you know, he was playing very well. Do I have confidence in him moving forward? No. No would be the answer. He's not a terrible play, but you can't feel confident in that. Another guy that we have to mention yet again in our stud muffins. Yeah. I mean, honestly, it's ridiculous. Here's his touchdowns for the last four weeks. Three, two, three, two,

So three touchdowns next week for Doug Baldwin, everybody. Unbelievable. He only had four catches for 45 yards and two of them were once again touchdowns. Playing the Rams. What do we make of the Rams defense? They have been great. They have been good. They have been bad. They have been terrible. Who are the Rams? You stay in the flames with Doug Baldwin and you stay in the flames with Russell Wilson. I agree. And the Rams are okay. But this game is important for Seattle.

They did clinch a playoff spot. Cardinals clinch the division. That game is in Seattle. The Rams, I will say this. They like to beat the Seahawks. The Rams historically show up against the Seahawks, so we'll see. But that's not going to make me fade Baldwin myself. Deshaun Jackson, Kamar Aiken. Mike Evans and Tavon Austin had big time games this week. Anybody want to talk about from that year? I want to talk about Kamar Aiken.

Now, I think that's fair. Aiken is a guy that we really liked when Steve Smith, Sonor, went down. And then there was, he had a couple bad matchups. Well, of course, he lost his quarterback. So you faded him for that. Then he had some bad matchups and you faded him for that. Is there, in this crazy world, is there potential that Kamar Aiken is actually just a good wide receiver? Apparently. He's shown it with different quarterbacks. Hail Mary catch, too.

That was a great play, too, the way he streaked across, caught the Hail Mary in traffic, and then said, oh, see you. Because he wasn't in the end zone when he caught. This was one of those games where, okay, Kamar Aiken was 8 for 1, 28 in a touchdown. Kansas City's defense scored twice, kind of dominated the game, but Jimmy Cawson was fairly capable. So if he's the starter for Baltimore, he seems like he can rely on Aiken. Aiken might be an okay play. I think he might be right. Who do they play next week? Next week they play Pittsburgh.

at home in Baltimore. You can throw on Pittsburgh. Well, yeah, exactly. We saw that. Brock Oswald had a very good half against Pittsburgh plus. They're likely to be down. There's no reason why he can't get some targets there. So Tavon Austin was the Thursday game along with Mike Evans, who had a big monster game. Mike Evans owners without Vincent Jackson, you can expect a lot of targets. Yeah, target vacuum for sure. So running backs.

I think you've got to put the music on again. Oh, no. Do you have it closed? I did. I close it down. I don't think we... That takes a long time to get to the crescendo. No, you wouldn't go all the way in. You would just start the music again. Well, let the audience say it. Okay, ready, set, go. David Johnson! You said let the audience say it, and then you pointed to me.

Oh, no, that was more like to the sky. He was pointing to the audience. Oh, all right. Yeah. I apologize. All right. David Johnson, the numbers bear repeating, 29 for 187, three touchdowns on the ground, four for 42, through the air, and a beast mode-esque run that was just, it just kept going and going. First, oh, how do you get out of that? Oh, how do you stiff arm that guy? Oh, how did he get down the sideline?

If you didn't watch the game, this is one just as a football fan. You got to look up. You got to watch that play. It was unbelievable. And if you are not a math wizard and you wonder, that would be 33 touches that David Johnson got. A full bell cow. Two things I want to say about David Johnson. One, you should check our Twitter at the FF Ballers because I posted that play.

along with the Bet Midler song, You're My Hero. Oh, no, wind beneath my wings. And two, that game last night changed my dynasty keeper thought process on David Johnson. It showed me he can be a bell cow type back and they can lean on him, and that makes him a difference maker for the Cardinals and for fantasy owners. Ariens said after the game in an interview that he said, I don't consider him a rookie anymore.

That's what he said. And that's a big deal for Arians because he treats rookies like rookies. He said earlier in the year when it's like, oh, you've got three great guys. Who are you going to sit? He's like, oh, that's easy. We've got a rookie. And he said after the game, he's like, I don't consider him a rookie anymore. And he's picked up blitz coverage. So, I mean, that's just great. And total touchdowns on the year. You could really argue that David Johnson's been outside of, I guess, Gurley and his performances. You could say David Johnson's been the best rookie running back. The Arizona Cardinals are a high-powered, high-scoring offense. And David Johnson.

before this game was leading them in touchdowns. I mean, that's not who you would have probably guessed. You know, you'd have been like, oh, it's fits or it's Michael Floyd or someone like that. And so now he's getting the opportunity that he didn't even have in the beginning of the year. Definitely a must start guy. The last thing I'll say for David Johnson, because clearly we love him so much. But that was the highest scoring running back fantasy performance of the year, according to fantasy data. So, wow. Breaking news.

The move that we expected to happen last week, the New England Patriots have signed three-time Pro Bowl running back Stephen Johnson to the team. Stephen Johnson? You just ruined that. You're literally reading. Wow. Stephen Jackson. Can we do that again? I got it. Breaking news. I pointed at him. I said, you take it. Stephen Jackson has been signed by the New England Patriots. He is reading it.

He's reading it right off of the news. It's a tiny watch. Tiny watch. Is that David Johnson, man? Dyslexic people convert Jackson to Johnson? Is that what happens? Oh, that is... Anyways, I think you get the gist there. Is there fantasy significance? I don't know. I mean, it was... Bolden got the carries, but he didn't do anything special. It wasn't just bold. It was the... Then that guy, I don't even remember his name. Because we got Belicheked again.

Well, I expected that. I didn't expect Bolden to do much. This past week, I think Stephen Jackson would have been a good play. A lot of people lost running backs. Now, I don't think it's that important because... Yeah, 14 carries for... I didn't even know how to pronounce that. ISFA? Oh, yeah, I think that's close. That's close enough. But he scored, right? Yeah. He had a long run to score. Yeah, last week we had a ton of...

A ton of players lose running backs who are still in the playoffs. If you lost too many running backs and you need a guy off of waivers to start, you know, lower chances that you're in the championship now. And they played the Jets in this week 16 matchup. So that run. He did not score. You were thinking of the James White screen. He did not score. Yeah. That running D, I wouldn't feel comfortable starting Stephen Jackson against the Jets in the championship week. No, but that's interesting for their long-term kind of needs as...

the Patriots head into the playoffs. And it's also nice for the lore of botched breaking news. So, Devante Freeman, Matt Forte, Rashad Jennings had big games. Char West, who I, everybody who asked me about Char West at the end of the week, I was just rising on the guy because Spencer Ware, it looked like limited to emergency to out. And Char West had a good matchup. It just seemed like he had the potential in this game. He didn't blow the cover off of, you know,

Uh, that's more of a baseball reference. Whoops. Uh, Char West, 16 for 76 and a touchdown, two for nine through the air. Okay game for him for sure. He helped you out. Blal Powell had a huge game. That's worth talking about because Chris Ivory owners were very upset this week. You think? Yeah. You can probably speak to this better than anybody. Um, you know, watching the game, the one thing you saw was that Chris Ivory.

wasn't on the field as often as, you know, he was the first half of the year at all. And it wasn't just when they were down. Now, obviously, once they get down and they're passing, then, yeah, Belal Powell's in. But even before that, when they were up or tied or it was, you know, a three-point game, Belal Powell was in there because I think they see their offense as better passing the ball than running the ball, which it is right now. Fitzpatrick has been great.

And if they're passing the ball, blow Powell's in. Well, the offensive snaps were 37 snaps went to Ivory. And then Powell was on the field for 23 snaps. But he made more of those, right? He was targeted five times compared to Ivory's two targets. He was more efficient and made that touchdown run when he got it near the goal line. So, you know, this is one of those things. People, they might say, oh, my goodness, I can't believe I started Ivory. Oh, I should have started. It was the right play. He had a goal line carry. I mean, he got stuffed.

He gets in the end zone there. It's not the worst. He scores 11, 12 points. I mean, it's what he's been all year. But it's worth mentioning because I think you can start below pal. And in PPR or half PPR leagues, which is what you're talking about. We're very early. But next week, the Jets take on the Patriots. What's your, give me your thermostat level on Chris Ivory in a game against the Patriots. I'm at about 70 degrees. What's the right temperature? Well, I mean, if I'm, if I'm really loving a guy, I'm going to be, I'm going to be up triple digits.

I got you're at 70. 70. It's a little chilly. I'm not, you know, I'm not saying it's snowing outside. So it's nice. You're not saying it's snowing at 70? Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. Stephen Ridley got 13 too many snaps. Yeah, he does not look good. And that was, that was troublesome. So basically, I think I would play ivory. All right. That's the gist. So, Christine Michael.

Yeah. Somehow, some way. I snuck him on the list. I snuck him on the list. So what is there to say? I like him next week. At this point, you have to at least think about it. I'll put it that way. Bryce Brown actually was productive as well. We cannot overreact to a game against the Browns because if you were watching that game, the Browns defensive scheme was that of a schoolyard football team and was just

Just horrific. The reason he deserves to be on this list is because of what happened game flow-wise. Game flow-wise, Kristen Michael was not the first guy to get the ball. You know, they had Coleman get the ball first, which was weird, and then he didn't touch it again, you know, after that first drive. But Bryce Brown had the first opportunity. He played okay, but in the second half, in the second half, the majority of...

carries went to Christine Michael and what they said after the game about his maturity and he seems you know he's acting different from the last time he was on the roster those are things you say when you're saying I like this guy he's going to be important for our team I'm going to try to build his confidence up so if I had to start one of these two guys it would definitely be Kristen Michael to me yeah you're saying of Michael versus Brown yeah

Hands down. Hands down. You saw exactly what took place in the game. By the second half, Michael had all the carries. And he looked good. I mean, he was gashing him for five yards. Yeah. And by the way, that is, I believe I read the wrong snap counts on the ivory. Oh. Yeah. I don't have this week's up. I couldn't find this week's. I think somebody wrote it as week 15 in the article, and it was not week 15. So I just want to throw that out there because it didn't look that way.

No, it looked like snap count wise that Belal Powell was out there at least as much, if not possibly more. Anyone who has not made it this far in the podcast now is going to think you're an idiot. Me? For giving the wrong step. Okay. Tight-ins. Jordan Reed, seven for 84 and two touchdowns. Delaney Walker, two for 64, two touchdown. And one of those touchdowns was amazing.