Fantasy Football Podcast 2017 - More Free Agent Madness, Mailbag

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Oh, it is. It is. Not, no, no, Jason, no, no, not that kind of pie. You don't have to tell me, bro, this is 3-1-4. This is my... I just didn't want, it's not banana cream day. I do love that kind of pie. You know, I think it's actually both. I think because it is pie day, it's also like go have pie day. You head down to the village in. Yeah, get some pie. Also, more importantly, shout out to my...

twins who were born on Pye Day who turn eight today. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. That's exciting. Yeah. What are you doing? Are you going to celebrate it? Yeah. No, we're letting them out of the cage today. So it's a big deal for them. It's cage day. Cage day. Yeah, we're going to go to the big new aquarium. Yeah. See fish.

Okay, that makes sense. You know what Arizona was missing? Was a desert aquarium? A giant place for fish and dolphins. Do the tanks have just like cactus and like tumbleweeds in them? I'll find out today. They should thematically design that aquarium. Welcome in, everybody. It is Tuesday, March 14th. This is the fantasy footballers podcast. Glad you're joining us today.

Whatever you're doing, we're glad you've decided to tune in. We have a good show today. We're going to get into more of the free agent madness. It was madness over the weekend. So much has happened for so many players that aren't running backs.

because running backs everyone's holding off till the draft they have it rough there's there's there's a song right it's like parents don't let your kids grow up to be cowboys we need a new version for 2017 GMs don't let your team no parents don't let your kids grow up to be running backs impoverished running back because you're you're not going to make the money that other players get you're going to take a beating worse than any other position it's uh don't do it

Nobody wants them. Latavius Murray, Jamal Charles, Adrian Peterson. Eddie Lacey. Sitting out there on the market. But we'll get into all the other signings, a lot of good discussions. We also have frequently asked fantasy questions later this week, and we'll get into the mailbag, and we'll just be talking fantasy football. That's what we do. That's what we want to do. That's what the people want. They want to know the takes on all of these. Well, I want to know some opinions on this show.

for our quick question here. If you want to follow us on Twitter, where we posted a poll about this question, you can do so at the FFF Ballers. We're also on YouTube. We're on the Fantasy Sports Network, and the website is the Fantasy Footballers.com. We have tons of articles hitting the website all the time, including Matt Harmon's reception, Mike is wiggling his finger at me. Look, Fookland, if you're not following Andy Holloway on Twitter, I don't know where he's...

found these news sources lately. Hot fire. He's getting just absolute incredible things that I'm not seeing these anywhere else. No. At Andy Holloway. It's, uh, yeah, I'm Schefter levels. Yeah. You are, you're getting the scoops. Um, all right, quick question of the day. A trade went down in the most peculiar fashion yesterday between Jason and myself in a dynasty league. However, this trade begs, uh, a bit of a debate, I think.

I traded Tyreek the Freak, who I have been very publicly supportive of. Only 23 years old. And you shipped him out of town. I did. To a guy who's been very not supportive of Tyreek. I shipped Tyreek Hill. This starts well. And then now this trade, explain what happened. Okay. Yeah. I guess, Mike, you don't even know what went out. No, I was not around. So.

The trade, I was looking to secure a slightly better running back. My running back, too, is a little weak, and the rest of my team is championship caliber. So I just wanted someone to plug in. And Terrell Pryor was on my bench. And I really liked Torel Pryor. We'll talk about him today coming up. And so I had looked at trade opportunities with Andy. And I kind of had on one of my tabs that were open, Torel Pryor.

And I threw in Jalen Richard, just a, you know, a throwaway piece for my team. Possibly. Possibly. No, sure. And then from him, Tyree Kill and Theo Riddick. So I can get, you know, a younger wide receiver, you know, and then I can get Theo Riddick as a startable option on my bench to get that running back two spot. I did not offer the trade because I was not sure.

that I wanted to actually do that. I'm not sure that I like that trade for me. And Andy turns to me a couple minutes later and says, how can I get Terrell prior from you? And I go, oh, that's interesting because I had a trade up. I go to my computer, I click the sin trade button, basically so he could see the trade. I was like, I literally had one up that I was looking at. He takes a look at it. And I'm thinking, well, I don't know that I actually want to offer that. I go to the page to look at canceling the trade. What could you?

I go to look at like, maybe I should cancel this trade offer before he accepts. And I hear Brooks from the other office go, a trade has been accepted in your league. I was like, what? I did pull the trigger very quickly. Hold on, hold on, hold on. So in your infinite wisdom, you thought, I could tell him.

with my mouth using the English language. This is what I was thinking about offering. Instead, you thought you would send a binding contract. There was a novelty. There was a novelty to it that was like how funny that I had something up. I want you to see it. I want to prove to you that I was looking at a deal.

And we made it. So that's the deal. The deal is done. Terrell Pryor, Jalen Rashard, or do you like the Tyreek Hill? Theo Riddick side. We put the poll up on Twitter. It was currently 454 in favor of Tyreek Hill and Theo Riddick. However, I like the replies that said this is team specific. Oh, certainly is. I mean, this is the classic running back upgrade for a wide receiver upgrade type of situation. So you believe in Pryor over Hill? Yes, I do.

But it's very interesting because like I had alluded to earlier, I think that it's a possibility that Jalen Richard is not a throwaway piece. If they don't draft another running back or sign another running back then, he was great. You know Derek Carr once compared him this past year to Barry Sanders? Yeah. He says he has his sight set on being legendary. He was tremendous. I mean, the guy is shifting. The guy earned playing time.

over an actual draft pick. Right. That is true. Do you know how many times he got 10 carries last year? I looked this out. Zero. Yeah. Yeah, but five, five point nine a carry last. How many times did Theoretic get 10 carries? Well, solid. Sure. Different type of running back. So, no, they're the exact same running back. No, not at all. When you come to pass catching ability, that's, that's theoretics game. Yeah.

That's James Richard's game, too. It didn't catch a lot of passes. It's an interesting trade. I took it. Some people might, someone in our league said, hey, I'm kind of confused. You love Tyreek Hill. Why'd you do that trade? And it was about team makeup to me. My team has Jarvis Landry and Jameson Crowder. Trell Pry represents Red Zone threat to me. He represents that big-bodied receiver that can do some things that, you know, Jarvis Landry historically can't do.

And so for me, I took it as an opportunity to get one of the bigger athletes in the league. But I definitely understand the perspective. I feel like I paid a lot. I mean, Richard was tied for low carries, but with those low carries, was tied for second in yards per carry. 5.9. Also, just to answer your question, six times is the answer for Theo Riddick, who did not play a full season. Neither did Amir Abdull. Yeah, say how many those games were Amir Abdullah playing. All right, let's get into the news.

News and notes from around the league. Numbers are so fun. Yeah, they are. You can just make them. Say what you want? This is what I want the numbers to say today. Yeah, that's how I get trades done. All right, Steelers running back Levion Bell finally had surgery today to fix a core muscle injury. This was yesterday, so not today. Normal timeline for recovery on this is about six weeks. He's tweeted that he's feeling good.

thanked everybody for their support. Anything of note to worry about here with love? Nope. No, I mean, in six weeks, he'll be perfectly fine for OTAs, training camps. The bigger question for Lev Bell is this period while he's franchise tagged, do the Steelers give him an actual long-term deal? When my wife and I went and celebrated our anniversary last summer at Universal Studios, we got on one of those backlot tours.

It's starting to feel like Seattle is giving those tours to all of the aged running backs with Adrian Peterson leaving the Seahawks leaving Seattle without a contract. Jamal Charles is visiting tomorrow Wednesday. Latavius Murray was going to visit Seattle. And so it seems that we can't say who's going, but it sure seems like Seattle would like another running back. Someone is going. Someone is, I mean, I doubt that they bring all of these guys in and then say,

Nope, Thomas Rawls is our guy. It just doesn't seem that way. In fact, this news is part of the reason I made the trade offer because Thomas Rawls was my RB2. And I'm worried he's, you know, he was a guy that was not drafted to be the heir apparent. He had a very good back half of the rookie year. And then they gave him the next year as a shot. And he couldn't stay healthy. And now Seattle's saying.

We got to fix this. So it's worrisome to me at the very least. Yeah, I agree. I have him as a potential keeper in another league. I'm very concerned. I believe that if you're a fantasy owner right now, my best advice is to cash in it on any name value that Thomas Rawls currently has in your league because he does have some because he was an attractive piece at the beginning of last year.