Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Week 13 Matchups, Hail Mary Fallout, Mailbag

Yeah, but, yeah, I'm not, I'm not, definitely not loving Latavius Murray. All right, Patriots running backs. Well, what do you do? Well, what, what was the stat that you were looking at earlier? Which that the Patriots run on 36% of place? Yeah, the lowest in the league. Yeah, Patriots running the ball. What do you do? You don't start them. Yeah. Okay. I mean, this is a. This is not a surprise. We, right. Garrett Blunt has a big game and we came on the show and said, okay.

The Patriots running back that you want to play is Danny Amandola, my start of the week as they run through the air. Okay, but they're the favorite. They're favored by about 10 points. Pardon and Bailey. We're expecting the Patriots to have a size of a lead. It's always possible. Does Lagart Blunt come from game flow and garbage man destroy the clock and put up decent fantasy production? Does he? Probably not.

Can he? Yeah, certainly. If you're picking between the three of these guys, are you going to go with that? Are you going to go with Bolden catching a touchdown? No, I'd go with Blunt over Bolden or White for sure. That being said, I give the blunt percentage chance at about 15% that that's the way the game goes. I give it about a 36% chance. About, about a 36.4%. The same percent that they run the ball. Okay. Jordan Matthews, maybe the biggest beneficiary of...

Oh, the Garbage Man Can. In football this year, in football this year, he has caught one touchdown on the last play of the game. He's caught one in overtime, which wasn't garbage time, but was really late. And then he caught one last week in pure garbage time and gave owners kind of a baseline. I mean, do you start Jordan Matthews? I would start him over any Patriots wide receiver? Not over Amandola. No. Not over Lafell. I would start.

Jordan Matthews over Keishon Martin. I really like Brandon LaFelle this week. I do too. This is going to be the one. This is going to be the week. He has not been good. He has not been good so far. Continue your verbal assaults on the name that is Danny Amadola. Besmirch him all you want. I'm not besmirching. I like him. What don't you like about him? I love Danny Amidola. Love him. Here's one of the weird things. You have the Eagles giving up a ton.

Through the air, they've been terrible, and yet they have still, during that same stretch, been fantastic against the tight end. They're still overall, as far as fantasy points given up to tight end, second. So what happens here with Scott Chandler? We saw him be essentially used in the same gronk kind of role when gronk went down, even though he's clearly no grong. Are you expecting big things from Scott Chandler because he's stepping into that role and you like it?

the Eagles been giving up a lot through the air or do not? I'm expecting Chandler to be serviceable. New England is one of those teams where, of course, Gronk, but I'm just saying as a team with schemes and ways to exploit matchups, they can find a way to get Chandler the ball if that's their desire. Now, I don't know if that's what they want because they're the Patriots and they can do this where we are expecting Scott Chandler to jump in.

block some and get maybe seven or eight targets. He could have two targets. That's just the way that the Patriots go. Having said that, would I start Scott Chandler off of other guys that are on the waiver wire? Yes, I still have him as low-end, tight-in one, a guy I would like to start. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not going to disagree with anything about that take. No need to go into anything else. I have hesitation based on the history of some guys having a lot of hype.

and then doing nothing, but I think you can start him. I think he has to catch him passes based on the passing options in New England. So, all right, I'm going to move on. Colts, Steelers, we like Big Ben, we like them a lot. Yeah, I like him a lot. Yeah, Rathlisberger against the Colts, their seven-point favorites, at home, high over, under. This is the perfect, perfect weather for some Antonio Brown and...

Mar-Tavis Bryant, good friend of the show. Oh, he is going to feast. He is my, he was my, he was my, start of the week, wasn't he? Don't ask me. You made me look, you looked at me like I was wrong. I was like, he's my start of the week. Gotcha. So, thank you. All right, we're starting Big Ben, we're starting Martavis, we're starting Antonio Brown. Yes. I'm going to focus on two aspects from this game. The first one is, last three weeks.

Steelers D giving up 85 yards on the ground and 0.7 touchdowns. Frank Gore has been a hot topic this week because nobody really wants to start in, but I feel like in so many different start-s-sit questions that we're being sent and being asked of us, it's been kind of like, well, you're starting gore. So is that just what it is? It's another volume. It's another Murray-Latavius or DeMarco. Is it another vegetable? No, I don't think it's a vegetable because...

He has been running... Does he taste better than a vegetable or worse? I think he tastes better than a vegetable, but he's not as healthy. I mean, he's just not... He's iceberg lettuce. Like a... Oh. Yeah, you always want the iceberg, but you know you're not getting nothing. Yeah, it's the base of the salad, but there is no nutritional value. No. But you kind of still think there is. You do, because it's a vegetable. Like when you're like, yeah, I'm going to keep the lettuce on there, because how many people would really want to keep lettuce on it?

Not as often. So, I'm not sure where this analogy has taken us and what this applies to Frank Gore. You're so stupid. Frank Gore's gonna get the volume. He's had, you know, 14, 19 carries in a row coming off of back-to-back 20 carry games. He hasn't, last game, 19 carries. Does anybody know how many yards he had? You ever had some, you were in the 20s, right? You ever had some bad iceberg? Yeah, where it's like floppy?

Not crunchy? You want the crunchy gore? You don't want the floppy goal. He was the floppy gore last week. 19 carries for 24 yards. That's like one. That's just barely over. You know when the show goes over one hour, I have no regard for human life. So the question here is going to be. Look out for floppy gore. The question's going to be, does he get involved in the past game with Ahmad Bradshaw out? I think he can. So he is an okay start. He's my sit of the week. That doesn't mean I wouldn't.

play him uh i have sat him on my own personal roster i put lamar miller in ahead of him obviously mark ingram ahead of him and i put mike evans ahead of him i'm going to keep the analogy for just a split second and then ask you a real question jason so stay with me all right but would you put would you put him in the fridge to crisp up a little bit for the playoffs if you're the colts or are you just rushing it i think you're you're worried that it's not going to make it to the playoffs so you've got to eat that

You've got to eat it now. I mean, the fridge probably isn't going to, it's only going to slow the wilting. It's not going to make a crisp. You're right. You're right. You're right. You've got to eat it before ruins. You know, based on that, start Frank Gore. And we're glossing over, we're glossing over something that we need to talk about. There's a couple undefeated quarterbacks in the NFL, guys. It's true. Cam Newton? Yep. And the legend, the living legend. Matt.

Hasselback. Undefeated. Seahawks quarterback? Yeah. From the 90s? At one time. No. He's playing great. He's doing exactly what they need to do. That being said, looking at their offensive production, you're in the 200s in yardage. They're conservative. They're making smart decisions. They're not turning the ball over. He's not a startable guy, right? Right. Very, very low-end quarterback three.

But there are only... That is all the quarterback. But... We have them at 21 in case anybody's curious because we're lingering on Hasselback. The point I was more going to get to was T.Y. Hilton had a great game. Two touchdowns last week. So did Moncrief. And Moncrief had over 100 yards. So that has to give you confidence that you can play these guys and not just...

have to go in the shower and cry. They will get space on the Steelers' defense. The Steelers' defense has given up. They've been bipolar in the passing defense. You saw it last week. Five touchdowns to Russell Wilson. It's not like Russell Wilson has done that all year long. Or ever in his life. Or ever in his life. All right. Cowboys, Redskins, Monday Night Football. What do we do here? Who's the best start in this game? Oh, oh. The best start in this game.

is probably Darren McFadden. And I don't love Darren McFadden. Out of pure curiosity, totally unrelated to anybody you know. Would you start the Bears defense against the San Francisco 49ers or this Redskins defense against the Dallas Cowboys? I would start the Bears defense against San Francisco in Chicago when the...

San Francisco 49ers go on the road. They are atrocious. Whereas Dallas, they've lost a lot of games in a row. They don't have Tony Romo. But they haven't been. That's Bryant. Yeah, they haven't been one of those teams that's imploded or hasn't been in a game or has been, you know, terrible against other fantasy Ds. So I'd definitely go Chicago. Except for last week. Sure. But that was Tony Romo. It was three picks. So the Cowboys, 44% of the receptions go to.

the wide receiver, which is a low, low number. That's because of how many duboffs have been going to the running back. So, I mean, Des Bryant, what are you doing with him? You're playing him because... But you're doing it with that voice. Yeah, exactly. You're playing him. And I will say this. Washington at home is a good football team. They're, I don't know how many wins in a row, but Kirk Cousins has a nice street going at home. They're completely different. They're like San Francisco, where

The stat I mentioned yesterday where the 49ers defense on the road is just atrocious. Washington at home is solid, so this isn't a game that I feel very confident throwing most cowboys out there. Darren McFadden, Des Bryant, I will play them. Really nobody else, but to your point of the question, Washington or Chicago, I might lean Washington.

just because I think that Matt Castle, it would be more prone to turning the ball over. Then Blank Gabbard? Yeah. In Chicago? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I want to say one thing, though. I sign the Bears. I'm playing the Bears against Jason. Okay. I don't think that Des Bryant is necessarily startable. And I say that because his name is Des Bryant, I feel a lot of questions where people just assume the answer is, well, you have to start Des because he's Des.

And I think the time has come, like, for instance, a great example. Someone was, like, asking between Des and Alan Robinson. And they were like, I know I just have to start my studs. So I should put Des in. And it's like, well, Alan Robinson is the, you're right. You have to start your studs. But that's Alan Robinson. So we can't get too attached to the name. I mean, Des Bryant, he's a physical freak. He's talented. He can definitely catch a touchdown. We've got him.

Me and Mike have him at 29. So, you know, he's one of those flex type receivers. But if you've got two good wide receivers, don't be afraid, I would say, to not roll Des out there or being afraid to sit him if you have good options just because of his name. It's a good point. It's the kind of point that needs to be made. Otherwise, you end up starting Randall Cobb every game in the entire season.

All right, we do not have time for daily dose today. We had some scheduling conflicts, so I apologize. We teased it. We normally have Chris Meaney on the show. We didn't connect with him, but we are going to get his picks for the DFS starts of the week, and we're going to tweet those out today. And so stay tuned for that, Mike. Make sure that happens. Keep me accountable, bro. Yeah, I will. I'll give you his number. All right. And then... I got it real, real quick. Des Bryant, he has the one game over 100 yards.

No other games has he surpassed 50 yards. Yeah, but how many has he played? Four? Six. Really? Yeah. Okay. All right. Just saying, just to back up Jason here. I do want to make sure we get to the mailbag and we answer some listener questions, so let's do that right now. Mailbag. I'm a little disappointed. You guys haven't talked about my, like, Jurassic Park sweater. It's delightful. I mean, that's what I call it. It's a dinosaur eating. A moose? A moose. It's a Christmas.

It's an ugly Christmas sweater, which is delightful. And the problem is... It's not really a sweater, but it looks like a shirt. If you're watching on YouTube, the one thing you're not going to be able to see is the blood on the butt of the moose. Where the dinosaur... It's Christmas blood. Christmas blood, of course. But... Hatchet, Christmas blood. So, yeah, so good. I love the hashtag.

Okay. I just want, I, I just feel like I need it. Yeah, those commercials are not my favorite thing to have come on every two seconds with your kids around. Like, it's in the middle of football games. You got crampus in these longed fingers with slashing. Or it's the best when you say, yeah, Christmas is canceled. Yeah, you want to know what happens when Santa Claus doesn't come? You get murdered. Crampus. Crampus. All right. You get the crampus. I got a bad case of the crampus. Brandon Mac. That's what you get from floppy gore.