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

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I hope everyone is singing along in the car. How many wives are upset right now? Hey, wow, David. The answer is none. Because they all play David Johnson, too. They all play David Johnson too. This week's championship brought to you by David Johnson. Oh, it is a beautiful thing.

We've never introed the show that way because David Johnson's never done that before. That was beautiful. I almost put it back on there. That was a beautiful thing, a beautiful site. Welcome to the show. This is the fantasy footballers podcast. And if you're joining us for the first time, you have no idea what's going on. But that's okay. It's week 16, so you're just getting a sneak peek into next year.

This is The Monday Show. We are fresh off a slate of week 15 playoff games, and man, is that intense. Fantasy football playoffs are intense. You can feel it. You can feel the pulse through Twitter. So much celebration and so much disappointment.

You know, it's out of your hands, and this is like that one week. You got A.J. Green, who goes down, gets pulled out of the game. You got McCoy. Those players are just, oh, don't get hurt on week 15 or 16. Oh, it is a tough, tough thing because during the regular season, it's easier to just brush off the loss that you didn't expect. But in the playoffs, it kills you. But there are a lot of people who...

sent us box scores with the David Johnson line. And some of the games were so close. It was like, I won by three. And David Johnson scored 47 for me. So it was like, can you imagine being the other owner? There are other people out there right now.

That got David Johnson. Not every listener on our show has David Johnson. Somebody else beat him too in some league. There was one tweet that came in and the total box score of this tweet, it must have been like a two-week playoff matchup because it was like 255 to 256. And the guy beat him by one point with 46 points from David Johnson. So you have to think if you're the other guy, oh, you got this locked up. David Johnson had to.

Go for 46 points. It's crazy. We'll go over all of that, by the way, on today's show. We've got the Fantasy Rewind. Our stud muffins are pooped, which will be...

talking about those guys in the fantasy context for next week. And there's some big time news that might affect your lineups for the championship week. Some of you are already in that championship matchup as well. So we'd love to hear from you. Okay. What do you want to know? Oh. Sorry about that. This is true. I have my team, which the Cameron Artist Paines is my team. It was funny because I posted our lineup between us.

And most people said, you have no chance because of Cameron Artisbane, which is true. Well, he had a pretty good game. Best out of all of your options on the waiver, so good job. Better than Fazi. So we've got a Monday night preview today. We've got the mailbag. We've got our congratulations to Jason for beating me and heading to the title in our League of Records. Still need one more victory, though. It's not over. Well, we'll get to it, but you might get some help from the league, the NFL. Yes. That might punish a certain naughty, naughty boy who's getting a...

You're getting coal in his stocking for sure. Seriously. From Josh Norman. If you want to follow the show, you can do so on Twitter at the FF Ballers. If you want to follow myself, it's at Andy Holloway. You can follow Jason at Jason FFL. You can follow Mike at FFFitman. You can go to the website, The Fantasy Footballers.com. See our weekly rankings. See the show archive. Catch up on everything that we've got going on. You can find links to...

merchandise, you can find our free app, the Wheel of Water app. I hope some people got watered this weekend after their bets, and we've got a lot of good stuff on there. Check us out on Facebook, on the Fantasy Sports Network, and on YouTube as well. So, I know you guys already know the answer to this, but so let me put it this way. Would you have thought Cam Newton, Kurt Cousins, Teddy Bridgewater, and Brock Osweiler would be your playoff?

championship quarterbacks. One of those things is not like the other. Or, yeah. Yes, for Cam. Yes, you needed to start all of the guys who have been not playoff fantasy options this year, and you would have been fine. The nice thing, though, is, I mean, I know we had a couple people be like, oh, no, I didn't start Kirk because you guys didn't like him. And, of course, he exploded. But most leagues, you weren't going up against these three guys.

You know what I mean? Unless you're in a two-quarterback league, the nice thing is. You might have been making the decision. We had somebody making the Tyrod Taylor, Kirk Cousins decision. It looked really bad for a while. Tyrod kind of came back. He finished as the number five. No, we got Kirk wrong. I mean, Kirk came out and played well. And honestly, the bills look like the Jets under Rex Ryan. Like a team that just occasionally fell apart, undisciplined.

pre-snap penalties, can't play defense, problem with Mario Williams now. I mean, just not what I expected. And the news came out before the game that they're not letting Kirk Cousins walk. He's either getting franchised or a long-term deal. And then he went out and he said, you like that! Now, next week in the championship, so let me ask you guys, Kirk Cousins, playing the Eagles who have been giving it up through the air. That's pretty...

That's pretty good as far as a streamer. When you have Deshaun Jackson playing at the level he's playing, Jordan Reed contributing in the ways. Rule 86. Put a slacking. And this is a division. It is a divisional game. And so if the Eagles went out, am I wrong? They are in the playoff. This is, yes. They control their destiny. This is a division. If you win this game, you win the division, right? No. Is that how, that's not how it works? No, because technically the New York Giants can still win. Oh. I know if Washington wins, they win the division.

That makes sense. I know that. That makes sense because they would win. They'd have the tiebreaker. They're already a game up on everybody. But Philadelphia, I guess they must play Washington and the Giants, right? And they lose the second game, which would be against the Giants. And the Giants win this week. Anyways, divisional game. So I'm not going to hyperbolicly stake her cousin's value as my point. But, hey, he's playing good. That team is showing up. The game's in Philadelphia. So the most gut-wrenching name on that list for me is my man, Brock Osweiler.

Because I streamed him last week when I was still alive in our playoffs because that was the game I was hoping to get. Well, he played very good in the first half. Oh, he played terrible in the second half. Well, and shoulder injury to boot. Yeah, that's fair. But the first half, there was nothing he could do wrong. It was just touchdowns and touchdowns. I think that the Chiefs will win the division. Because the Chiefs have two very...

Very easy matchups in the next two weeks. So I think the Chiefs will be at 11 wins. And the Broncos have to play Cincinnati next week. And I think they lose it. And the tiebreaker goes to the Chiefs. So we'll see what happens there. Let's get into the Rewind. Weekly Rewind. Now, obviously there's a big game tonight. The Saints and the Lions, a lot of fantasy players are counting on guys from that matchup. It's not a matchup that's absent of, you know, the...

Cooks and Stafford and Breeze and Hightower and a bunch of big names and Calvin, which we'll see what he does tonight. But here's the big news. The first piece that I alluded to, Schefter, is reporting this morning that Odo Beckham Jr. is likely to be suspended one game. Likely. Yes. Wow. Yes. So week 15 against Norman, just a mental... Unraveling. Yeah, almost like a childlike tantrum. I mean, just...

he made a huge drop and then it got in his head and Norman got into his head and he acted like a kid and then he tried to kill Josh Norman, hurt Josh Norman, which was ridiculous. Yeah, I think that there's a lot of people who love O'Dell Beckham Jr. who kind of lost a lot of respect for him watching him be this self-centered, selfish baby that really lost control. And, you know, I'm going to forgive him because, you know, that happens. He's still, you know, in his sophomore year. Fantasy forgiveness.

Well, here's a deal. This news, whether or not he's suspended, affects so many people because O'Dow Beckham Jr. over the second half of the year has been unbelievably good, meaning he has a lot of people in the title game, and people that are going to the title game who don't have him are facing him, a la me. And the value of one Eli Manning would take a monster. Nose dive.

So I agree. I don't know about likely suspended. Well, he can appeal the suspension. You still have that whole process. That will all get sorted out though quickly, in my opinion. I highly doubt that he's suspended this week. And let's say this. This is a big all eyes on the NFL. The Giants are the Sunday night prime time game. Will they suspend possibly the biggest star in that game as of right now?

I think they will suspend him. He will appeal. He will play and be suspended later. I think he's going to get just a big fine. We'll see. It is pins and needles for all the ODB owners and those playing ODB. I mean, the guy put together a second half that probably, to his mind, justified his behavior. I mean, honestly, that's what happens with hyper-talented guys sometimes. He goes out and he basically almost wins the game. A humongous comeback. One of the best games I've seen all year. All right, injury news.

Adrian Peterson, sprained ankle against the Bears. What do we expect from that injury? So he left the game right before the half. He did come back in, but he was not very effective. We saw Jerich McKinnon turn into the screenmaster. He was just dominant catching the ball.

So that's interesting moving forward regardless. But for Peterson, I would expect him to play. I haven't heard anything about it being a high ankle sprain. So it'll be a tape it up. Yeah, he wouldn't have been able to come back in the game if it was too bad of an ankle sprain. And we have to remember he has Wolverine blood. He heals like nobody else. So I expect him to be back this next week. I expect both Odell Beckham Jr. and Adrian Peterson to play. I'm hoping against both of them as.

The person in their championship plays. Because I'm a selfish, selfish man. Well, let's keep the focus on, yeah, the big context. Marcus, Mariotta, sprain is the word probably out for the rest of the year. He said he's probably out for the rest of the year. They'll just keep him out as a precaution. No reason to hurt your franchise quarterback. LaShaul McCoy.

Knee injury, they're saying MCL sprain day to day on McCoy. You're going to have to monitor that. We'll keep you in the know about McCoy for this upcoming week. He obviously was one of many candidates for Destroyer of Your Dreams this week. And it looked worse than if he's walking out with just a sprain, then you've got to be really happy. He seems to be.