Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 15 Matchups, In-or-Out, Playoff Decisions

interrupt. He's limited in practice, so that says he probably plays. Wide receivers, Julio and AJ Green. Julio's the big question mark. We need to see some limited practices on today. I don't think he's going to play. You lean out. I think he's going to sit, yeah. What about AJ Green with limited practices Wednesday and Thursday? I think he's going to sit out this week. Calvin Benjamin? He should play. Michael Thomas.

He's back. Michael Thomas. He's back to limited practices. So I expect him to play. But it's the Cardinals tough matchup. Des Bryant? Eh, he's Des Bryant. He'll play. And then. Moncrief. You got to get in on it with me. I thought you were going to give an in or out at the end of that baseline. All right. Go again. Out? Yeah. He's not braxing with the hamstring. I don't think anybody you played him last week would want to play him even if he was back. What's another storyline here? Philip Dorset.

Added to the injury report, he did get in limited. But, I mean, that's, do you, what do you do with T.Y. Hilton? Obviously, you play him, but how your feelings on T.Y. Hilton, if Moncrief is out, I think that stinks personally. As the T.Y. Hilton owner, I wish Moncrief was in there. But if T.Y., if Moncrief and Philip Dorset are out, do you, are you going to buy into the, well, Hilton's the only show in town, they're going to pepper him with targets, or.

that he can just be triple covered? I buy into option A. I think he'll probably be pepper with targets. Okay. I also would move up Dwayne Allen. I think you'd have to use. Allen, maybe Jack Doyle. Yeah, you'd have to use a tight end more often there. I mean, it's just, you lose Moncrief, you lose Dorset. Well, we haven't gotten to tight ends yet, but Dwayne Allen also missed practice and then was limited. Yeah, that's, I mean.

You're losing options. We're getting Doyle rules back. Actually, who it affects is, I mean, you start looking at Andrew Luck and saying what can he do without passing options. Brandon Marshall, John Brown, Adam Humphreys. So Marshall is apparently going to be on a pitch count if you weren't going to play him anyways. No, I wasn't. Yeah. John Brown Limited, just you can't use him right now. And Humphreys has cleared the concussion protocol so he will play. That's more just an upgrade for Winston. All right, tight-ins, Fedorowitz.

He had a concussion. Is he going to play? I don't think he's going to play. Dwayne Allen, we just talked about it. You think he will play? Yes, I think he will. And then Jared Cook. He had that chest injury last week during the game, knocked him out. I think that he will play. Okay. Anybody else you want to discuss? Did you guys? Did you guys? I'm so used to saying that. Jason, what are your thoughts on Levian Bell's potential? I was just going to bring it up. Yeah, Lev's going to be likely franchise tagged. I think that's a genius move by Pittsburgh.

He's worth the money. He's worth the short-term money. He's worth short-term money, and it's rare that a running back gets franchise tagged. But he falls into that category where you can't let him go. No. And so, very interesting. That's unfortunate for Mr. Bell. I agree. Yeah. I agree. Fantasy forecast. I know we're coming off the crazy week, but is Love Bell, do you think he's the best running back in football? Uh, I think you. Yeah.

I think he is. His skill set, at least in recent memory, there's no one who runs like that, where everything just looks like it's in slow motion because he's so patient. But then as soon as it's go time, he just explodes. And he's got great hands as well. Not a lot of running backs have that. It's him. It's David Johnson and Zeke, probably, right? Top three backs?

I'm not putting... You're not putting Zika in there? I'm not going to put Zika up there yet. Offensive line? Is that one? Yeah. And that's unfortunate for Elliot. He could be that, but it's hard to really know this early in his career when, no matter who's behind that line, Darren McFadden was garbage. Derring McFadden was a thousand-yard rusher last year. And it looked great. So it's unfortunate that we won't...

We don't know his true talent yet. The Packers Bears game, here's an update for you on the weather for that game. These two teams have played 193 games between them in 95 years. The game at Soldier Field on Sunday might be the coldest. What? Might be the coldest game they've ever played. The current record is a two-degree game on December 22nd, 2008. So not very long ago.

But there's a chance this game beats that. So it's going to be cold. It's going to be cold. And these, and I'm fine with, with the running backs. These people like to be out in that? No, they don't like to be out in that. They like to be out in that. They continue to love Lambo. Oh, you're talking about the fans? Yeah. That should talk about the players. No. It's like they've got to play. No, they don't want to. Well, the guys with their nose sleeves.

I would be out there in the, I would look just so poofy. Wait, do you be wearing like one of those big old? Yes. I would, they say what jersey do? Haven't you ever? No, I know we're Arizona's, right? But you've played in the snow, right? Yeah. Once you get moving, well, of course, Arizona snow, right? Like you're talking 30 degrees. But I've never been in the cold, cold words. Once you get running around and stuff, you sweat. Yeah. I've played in the snow in like a tank top. Here's the thing about football. You're running around.

And then you go sit on the bench for about 10 minutes. And then you go smack. And you have that sweat on your body while the wind is freezing it. Yeah, it's hypothermia. You can play better with hypothermia. Titans and Chiefs. Titans and Chiefs. Here's another weather game. Sunday could have the coldest temperature in Kansas City since March of 2014 when it was 5 degrees. We're not expecting heavy winds. There should be sunshine, just really cold temperatures. So I'm not worried about the weather. Nope.

But I am worried about the Titans offense in this game. Yeah, I can agree with that. The Chiefs are, you know, a very, very competitive defense at home. You know, they've only allowed to complete some, one of the lower completion percentages in the league to opposing quarterbacks. I just don't know if there's going to be enough on the table for Mario to give you anything. So we pump the brakes on him for a second week in a row. On the other side, look, I mean, I think people are feeling pretty burnt by Spencer Ware right now.

Yeah. Can you expect him to do much against the Titans third-ranked run defense? He's still a fine play. I mean, the Titans defense has only allowed six rushing touchdowns, so that does not fare well with where not scoring a lot of rushing touchdowns right now. There's not likely a better option sitting on your bench, so I'm still okay. Yeah. I'm not going to go dumpster diving on the waiver wire to replace him. But you would have played wear over Gurley in a heartbeat, right?

Yeah. Yeah. I would have. Yeah, me too. Do you stay in the flames with the two on fire chiefs, Travis Kelsey, Tyreek Hill? Yeah, I do. The Titan secondary. So bad. We saw Trevor Simeon continue that with D. Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders. And I'm not, I haven't been, you know, gung ho for Tyreek Hill because the snaps have been so low. I recognize his ability and the talent. I have no problem with the player. It just the opportunity was so low.

But now with this matchup being so delicious, so delightful for wide receivers, it's one of those, yeah, he'll probably bust a deep one. For context for our listeners, we have Tyree Kill as a consensus number 19 overall wide receiver this week that is in the range of D. Jacks and Golden Tate and Julian Edelman, just ahead of those guys actually as a consensus. So there's some context. I mean, on the other side, the confidence level of DeMarco Murray and.

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It's unfortunate timing for fantasy football in the middle of the playoffs to have the Colts have to go take on the Vikings. I was going to say the Colts not only have those things working against them with the injuries, but you face the third rank passing defense in Minnesota. You know, T.Y. Hilton's going to see the X-Man. Here's the thing. He doesn't usually kind of shadow around the small guy. And Hilton actually plays quite frequently in the slot. That's why it's such a bummer.

if Moncrief does not play, that you don't have his presence on the outside keeping them honest. It's what Rhodes might have to stick on him, where if there's a lack of talent in the past catchers, they might say, okay, Rhodes, just cover Hilton. So what's the confidence level in luck based on the matchup and the injuries? It's still a... Is he good for 202? Yes. I would think so. I mean, he just, the volume is great. You might...

want to upgrade. No Harrison Smith. You might want to upgrade Gore and say, well, he's going to get more touches if they don't have passing weapons. But I don't think Gore really gets that upgrade to me. Luck just always has volume. So I'm good playing him. Yeah. As a, if you're speaking for confidence, I'd say, you know, that middle, middle, low middle quarterback one. Really like Kyle Rudolph in this game being targeted seven and a half times per game.

Very good baseline. Second in the league for red zone targets. Yeah, the Colts are not a great defense. We know this. It's at home in Minnesota. I think if you have to handicap a tight-in getting a touchdown this week, I'm not sure there's anybody I'd put ahead of Kyle Rudolph on the odds and potential of doing that. Sam Bradford loves him. It's probably Rudolph. I'm okay with Diggs in a PPR league. I'm okay with Thielen too. Thielen has been, yeah. He's been performing. It's.

Adam Thielen at this time of the year, it's black out the name. So you cannot see who it is. And just look at what he has been doing. And he's been a solid wide receiver three at the worst. Did you play him over Randall Cobb? Ooh, over Randall Cobb. I might. Against the Colts secretary? That's a wild one, but I think I might do that. Would you like Thielen or J.J. Nelson this week?

J.J. Nelson, what do you do with that volume against the Saints? I'd probably still go Nelson because I think he can boom. I'm having a really hard time not playing J.J. Nelson in our listener league matchup. Yeah. I'm sitting there with Crabtree who ticked me off last week. But he's my start of the week, so he's playing. He's solid. Sammy Watkins against Cleveland. How are you struggling? J.J. Nelson's on the bench. Julio Jones.

Well, Julio probably won't play. If Julio goes out, it's Tyree Killer J.J. Nelson. That's the hard problem for me. And then I would, I'd probably go Hill. Yeah, I know. I'm going, I can't play JJ. That stinks. I'm going to change the roster format to an extra wide receiver, just like I'm playing this week. Can you change it so that only your team has an extra? I think people want us to talk about Gore and then the running backs on the other side. If you're picking between Ozziata and McKinnon, for me, I'm playing Ozziata. I'm playing Oziana.

If you're picking between Gore and Gore, I'm going with Gore. That's astute. Yeah. Lions. Giants. We're moving on. Weather in this game, nothing too crazy. So I think we'll be okay there. Stafford and Eli talked about Stafford's finger injury. This game's in New York. New York's a really good defense this year. They're great. Not a lot of confidence in Stafford in this game, to be honest with you.