{"id":23405,"date":"2013-12-13T11:22:59","date_gmt":"2013-12-13T15:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=23405"},"modified":"2022-04-01T04:11:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T08:11:11","slug":"fantasy-football-start-emsit-em-week-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2013\/12\/13\/fantasy-football-start-emsit-em-week-15\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantasy Football Start &#8216;Em\/Sit &#8216;Em Week 15"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fantasy-football4.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-15996\" alt=\"fantasy-football\" src=\"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/fantasy-football4.gif\" width=\"180\" height=\"81\" \/><\/a>Welcome to another installment of who to start and who to sit while making your weekly fantasy football lineup decisions for the 2nd week of the playoffs. \u00a0We went 14-8 in the start \u2018em portion and 9-9 in the sit \u2018em portion, worst week in awhile. Let\u2019s get to this week\u2019s list;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Start \u2018Em<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Tom Brady \u2013 Keep riding the hot hand even without Gronk.<\/li>\n<li>Phillip Rivers \u2013 He plays well vs the Broncos and should have to throw all game.<\/li>\n<li>Alex Smith \u2013 He continues to be a top 10 QB in the past 6 plus weeks.<\/li>\n<li>Matt Ryan \u2013 He has a great match up plus White seems to be hitting his stride.<\/li>\n<li>Kirk Couisins \u2013 This is a great match up for his trade for a draft pick rehearsal.<\/li>\n<li>Ben Tate \u2013 He had a shaky game last week but should explode vs the Colts.<\/li>\n<li>Le\u2019Veon Bell \u2013 Even if he does not have a great running game, he is getting at least 6 targets a game.<\/li>\n<li>Steven Jackson \u2013 He has been getting the carries and with the Redskins on board, he should be good.<\/li>\n<li>Danny Woodhead \u2013 Expecting a ton of passes, he should have a big game in Denver.<\/li>\n<li>Pierre Thomas \u2013 The Rams have been solid vs the run but he gets enough targets with Sproles not playing much these days.<\/li>\n<li>Torrey Smith \u2013 Could not handle the snow but he should shine in dome vs the Lions.<\/li>\n<li>Keenan Allen \u2013 The best rookie season in years will continue,<\/li>\n<li>Jordy Nelson \u2013 He is solid even with bad QB play, pencil him in for 80 yards and possible touchdown.<\/li>\n<li>Riley Cooper \u2013 He is a favorite of Foles is an easy matchup vs the Vikings.<\/li>\n<li>Julian Edelman \u2013 He will shine again like he did last time Gronk was out.<\/li>\n<li>Dwayne Bowe \u2013 He has a td in \u00be weeks and should continue this week.<\/li>\n<li>Mike Wallace \u2013 The Patriots got killed by Browns and Campbell last week, expect more of the same from Wallace.<\/li>\n<li>Delanie Walker \u2013 He is healthy and gets the worst tight end defense in the league.<\/li>\n<li>Dennis Pitta \u2013 He came back strong with 11 targets last week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Bench \u2018Em<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Russell Wilson \u2013 On the road, in bad weather and against a secondary that other than last week has played well.<\/li>\n<li>Colin Kaepernick \u2013 He has been just average and without running is not a startable fantasy QB.<\/li>\n<li>Toby Gerhart \u2013 He is banged up and Eagles are an improving defense.<\/li>\n<li>Fred Jackson \u2013 Jaguars have been a top 10 run defense the past 4 weeks, stay away.<\/li>\n<li>C.J. Spiller \u2013 See above.<\/li>\n<li>Chris Johnson \u2013 He looked awful plus gets the tough Cardinals defense.<\/li>\n<li>Bobby Rainey \u2013 He is all or nothing and I see the 49ers holding him down.<\/li>\n<li>Chris Ivory \u2013 Another tough defense in Carolina shuts him down.<\/li>\n<li>Ray Rice \u2013 He did have 100 yards last week but still struggling plus the tough match up keeps him on the bench.<\/li>\n<li>Vincent Jackson \u2013 Glennon is struggling a bit and he runs into the 49ers defense.<\/li>\n<li>Steve Smith \u2013 Even with a great match up he just does not put up good enough numbers.<\/li>\n<li>T.Y. Hilton \u2013 Now 5 weeks in a row of less than 50 yards, stay away.<\/li>\n<li>Coby Fleener \u2013 He is just too inconsistent to be started in the playoffs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Have a great week and let me know if you have any questions.<\/p>\n<p>Fantasy Mike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to another installment of who to start and who to sit while making your weekly fantasy football lineup decisions for the 2nd week of the playoffs. \u00a0We went 14-8 in the start \u2018em portion and 9-9 in the sit \u2018em portion, worst week in awhile. Let\u2019s get to this week\u2019s list; Start \u2018Em Tom [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":14578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23405","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fantasy-football","8":"category-fantasy-sports","9":"category-featured-editorials"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/fantasy_football1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-65v","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23405"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23411,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23405\/revisions\/23411"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}