Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Free Agent Frenzy, DeMarco Murray, Jimmy Graham, Sam Bradford and more...

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This is the fantasy footballers podcast. It is Thursday, March 12th. And we are here for a second time this week because the NFL is a buzz. Too time. It's crazy. Oh, my goodness. Two time. This is your host, Andy Holloway, and this is a new habit we have from Mike, the fantasy hitman, who cannot handle the level of NFL news that is breaking right now across Twitter. No. He's just in a football seizure, I believe. My hand.

Has, uh, I've got carpal tunnel from refreshing Twitter. From Twitter refresh. Uh, yeah, my fingers are sprained. My wrist is, uh, grade three. Yeah. Broken. Well, it's dangerous. It's a dangerous world right now in the, uh, new fantasy NFL. Uh, I, I want to introduce our other analyst, Jason Moore. Say hello, Jason. Hello, how is everybody doing on this happy Chip Kelly day? Oh, what in the world? I've never seen somebody teeter between disaster and just.

Absolutely brilliant. Crazy like a fox, man. Yeah, I don't know. This is like schizophrenic, like a crazy, like a asylum person. So we will have, we'll have Eagles correspondent Andrew Goldwasser on the show next week to discuss. Oh yeah, we're bringing them on? Yeah, to discuss whatever the kind of implications are for the...

end of this Murray deal and the Bradford trade and all of those things. Here's my prediction. Next week they have Joe Flacco and Adrian Peterson. Right, right. And then he'll come on and say Marietta has no, he has no interest in it whatsoever. To be fair, he didn't say that. He just said he's not going to trade up allegedly. Yeah, it's just, it is a crazy world. The Eagles are often the center of attention during these off seasons.

But, yeah, we'll have Andrew Goldwasser on the show. He writes for a number of places and is an Eagles fanatic. So have some good fantasy insight for us. We are the fantasy footballers. You can find us on the web, the fantasy footballers.com. You can email us at mail at the fantasy footballers.com. Email any questions. I think the questions people have right about now are keeper-related.

We also have some questions about forming leagues, getting leagues started. We can give you some advice if you are trying to decide between some options, some settings for your league, if you're a new player, maybe some advice as commissioners of new leagues on the best way to run a league and the best way to get the most out of your fantasy fun. And you can also find us on Twitter. We've been retweeting some of the biggest things going on.

posted a spray chart of Russell Wilson. Oh, man, that was amazing. Where he's throwing the ball and kind of saying that Jimmy Graham and him will be just fine. Yep. So we'll talk a little bit about the Jimmy Graham trade as well. We also ask that you subscribe to us on iTunes. Leave us a five-star review. We have, I believe, all five-star reviews right now. Yeah, we're doing a... People enjoy the show. That is correct. So we were going to read a couple of these. You want to read one of these, Jason? Yeah.

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Thank you, Dan Joe 1. You are correct. Yes, that is true. And I like the brevity of this one. This is my favorite one. This one wins the review of Soros Rex. Yeah, this is Jake Hoff 76. I love this show and I did win my league. That's all you need to know. That's all you need to know. And his title? This show is so money. Yes. I agree. That's all you need to know. Yeah. Subscribe on iTunes. Drop us a five-star review.

We really do appreciate it. We really do appreciate it. It means a lot because it moves us up the charts and starts to replace some of the talking heads of the fantasy football podcast world that really don't know what they're doing and are too afraid to go out on a limb and make a prediction that isn't obvious. Start, start Aaron Rogers. Start Aaron Rogers. Predictions like Ryan Matthews will be signed by the Philadelphia Eagles.

Oh, you mean the one that you just made, yeah. You know, I went back and listened to some of our predictions over the last few weeks. I'm very impressed by us, gentlemen. I mean, I really am. I was listening back and I was like, we said a long time ago Gore was going to the Colts. You were predicting Matthews to the Eagles, which granted, now, now it might not happen. But it looked pretty good for a while. Nobody else was predicting these things when we were calling these shots. I also...

I mean, it's still to be determined with Bradford, but I said two days ago, I believe, when everyone said Bradford is getting shipped off immediately, oh, this has everything written about, he's going to be traded immediately. He doesn't want Bradford. I said he'd be there, and he'd be their quarterback. And then Chip Kelly came out and at least affirmed that as a very strong possibility. So now that we're done with tooting our own horns for the beginning of the show, let's get to some of the news. News and notes from around the league.

And there's a lot of it. And we're actually, we're recording here at, what, 917 Pacific time right now? Is it saying Pacific right now? I think because daylight happened. And Arizona don't care about daylight. The latest reports are that DeMarco is pretty much going to Philadelphia. Yeah. They're saying Dallas is calling around for other RBs. Is that what you're going to report? Drop us the latest Twitter news, Mr. Carbiltanil. Well, the, through my pain.

Everything right now is pointing towards Murray signing with the Eagles. It makes sense. He was embarrassed by their offer because Dallas's offer truly was embarrassing, saying that you're barely more valuable than our kicker. Going to a division rival, he'll get to play the Cowboys two times. He could be personally responsible for knocking the Cowboys out of the playoffs. However, with this caveat,

is I'm still hearing that he will give the Cowboys an 11th hour chance to match or beat whatever offer he is about to sign. This is such a brilliant move on the Eagles part. It's a win-win for the Eagles because they either drive up the price for their division rival and make them pay what they didn't want to pay or they get their star running back to pound against them.

Two times a year. This exact same thing happened with the Cardinals about three years ago when Kurt Warner was negotiating a two-year contract. Oh, yeah. And he flew into San Francisco and met with, I think it was, who's the coach there then? The guy who mooned everybody. I forget his name, as does all 49er fans. The linebacker. I don't know. I can't remember his name. But yeah, Warner flew in there basically as a leverage play, right?

And the 49ers might as well indulge it because if it costs the Cardinals more money, it's a win. And if they get Kurt Warner, it's a win. So, yeah. Singletary. Yeah, Mike Singletary. That's weird. Yeah, I know. A little brain fart there. So let's talk to Marco Murray. If he ends up in Philadelphia, which is not something we talked about Tuesday, which just tells you what the landscape of the NFL is right now with these trades and insanity going on. What is his fantasy?

upside in Philadelphia because we talked about all the places he could land. We didn't mention Philly because it didn't seem possible. And we said he'd be losing value no matter where he went because he'd be leaving that offensive line. But now you go to a system that might not mean that. That Mike you pointed out last week has the best offensive line. Everyone said Dallas has the best, but grade-wise, the Philadelphia Eagles have a better offensive line. I mean, it's exciting. Also, Adam, just...

Throwing this out there because I know it is early in the morning. It's not official. But Adam Schaefter is saying he's reporting that DeMarco Murray is going to sign with the Eagles and that he's also saying that Dallas is calling other running backs looking for other running backs because they know they've lost Murray. So at 9 in the morning, it's unofficially official. I love it. I suppose this is the second best place for Murray to be. I think he fits in...

with what Kelly wants. I mean, it's, he saves, Kelly's smart, he saves money going from McCoy to Murray. And people are talking about, it doesn't make sense for Murray to fit him with the system. But I think Murray is more of a back that Kelly actually wants in the system. He was, he wants a guy just go forward. Don't dance. Yeah, stop with this, this crap of.

Oh, I'm so shifty. And maybe you get a yard or two. No, take the four yards. Those are going to turn into 15 and 20 yard runs every once in a while. Murray doesn't necessarily have the breakaway speed that he's going to hit home runs all the time. But as we saw in Dallas, he chunks constantly. He's a monster. And he's a downhill guy. It's a reason why Chip Kelly put Polk in on the goal line.

So he's just tired of seeing shady dance around and lose yardage at the goal. And even if he could get in nine times out of ten, he didn't like that as the expectation from his running back. Which team puts up more points in the NFL? Dallas Cowboys or the Philadelphia Eagles next year. Just regular points on the board. That's a good question. I think it's Philly. I do too. Yeah, I would agree. And I think that losing Macklin only makes Murray all that more valuable from a touchdown standpoint.

I really like Murray going there. I would definitely keep them top five right now. Well, I look forward to hearing from Andrew Goldwasser next week as we talk more about Murray. And we'll wait to see if this news breaks or not or if we look really stupid when you listen to our podcast. After tuning our own horns. It's only fair that we... On a quick, quick side note, because we're saying Macklin leaves, boost Murray. Murray leaves, do we bump Des Bryant at all? I think... I don't bump. I don't bump him.

I guess you can make an argument about Red Zone, but I don't think you can bump him much more than where he was on the Red Zone. And the reason I don't bump him is because their philosophy worked last year. And I think they're going to have the same philosophy as far as... Now, if they're not productive in the running game, maybe it changes a little bit. But I don't think he moves too much in my book. Yeah, the only way that I'd bump him is Red Zone, and he had 16 touchdowns last year. I mean, can you really sit there going into the year and say, well, maybe he'll get 20? I won't. That's true. So is there anybody who you have...

Just a, that gut hunch will end up in Dallas. Or are they going Gordon or drafting Gordon or Gurley? I think they will sign somebody. I don't know if it's, I mean, Spiller is a possibility. He's still out there. I think they will have to bring somebody in, even from a fan perspective. You know what I mean? But yeah, it is being reported that he's going to sign with Philly. So it's just unbelievable. Just unbelievable. So the question is, is how does that impact?

Ryan Matthews was just going to say. Ryan Matthews was reported to have agreed in principle to sign with Philadelphia. Do you believe he'll back out of that contract or is he going to sign and they will just be, I mean, what a running team that will be. If I'm Ryan Matthews, I still sign. So do I. That's funny. Yeah, so do I. Because the pros and cons are, does he want to go somewhere where he's going to be the guy in hopes of.

taking off, maybe leveraging one more big contract. But it's where the downside for us is it's that Carolina situation where you have Jonathan Stewart and D'Angelo Williams two super talented running backs, both eating away at each other's value. However, the running backs like it because it sustains their health. They don't get beat up as much. They can play longer. Maybe you don't get the massive contract break. But if you play longer, you're going to get...