Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Fantasy Mailbag, Injury News, Review-a-Saurus

I'd go Matthews in the 6th because I don't believe in the talent of the other two. Randall. I would actually go with Ruben Randall's in the 14th, too. They paid Randall to come in there. And I think with the change in leadership, Randall would be the one of their player that intrigues me as an undrafted prospect, a sleeper type of guy, because he is capable. He's a big body. He scores touchdowns. I will say this. I'm going to affirm the Zach Ertz information. Ertz is just a player that they want to.

stay involved in the game plan. And if Bradford is indeed the quarterback this season, which I think he will be, they built a rapport in the second half of the season that put him on pace to be one of the top guys. And I haven't met number three right now in my rankings. So I know that is bold, but you know what? We'll have your apology video next week. Well, you can have to wait for it. Got to give me a few weeks into the season. So let's go to Cody and Flagstaff, Flagstaff, Flagstaff, Arizona. Hey, guys, first off, love the show. Thanks for the water wheel.

Hey, all right. So he says it is now the decision maker for the last place punishment. Tremendous. Which it is in our league, too, the wheel of water app. If you don't have every other team in the league participate and water them 11 times, you're missing out. Yeah, you are. So, all right, he said he drafted very lucky last year. He was able to jump at the chance to fill the roster with high upside receivers. We can only keep one player in our league, and he has the option of DeAndre Hopkins in the fourth.

Alan Robinson in the ninth or Lamar Miller in the seventh round. He's going to draft within the top four and can grab a running back there if he keeps a receiver. But Miller's potential in Houston and the scarcity of running back has me pushing back in that direction. So he did say, he says, I know you're not so high on Miller. Love Miller. Yeah, I think we're pretty high. I think we both have them. I think everybody's got him in the top six. Yeah, I think we're very high on Miller, but high enough to take him over Alan Robinson and the ninth guys. What do you think? Nope.

Alan Robertson in the ninth would be my pick here. Would you then go running back with one of those top four? I would consider it. You're in a 10-team league, so it can go either way. It just depends on the talent level there at pick four. All right. For me, I'm...

I'm going to take Lamar Miller. I get that out first so that you can split the difference here, Andy, and be the final boat. I would take Lamar Miller because you're in a 10-team league. You need those guys who really separate at the position. And while I like Alan Robinson a lot, I don't expect him to be able to replicate a top five wide receiver performance this year. I think he'll be...

Pretty good. But Lamar Miller, I could see having the potential to be a top five running back, a real separator at the position. Neither pick is costing you much in the seventh or the ninth. So I go Lamar Miller. What say you, Andy? Two points. One, I think this is as close to a split decision as you get, which is great to have those options at the keeper position. Two, I think it's a bit of a fallacy to say, Alan Robinson, who's already done the great thing, might have a bad season.

But Lamar Miller, who hasn't done the great thing, might have a good season and have that be the logic to win the argument. That being said, I'm going to go with Lamar Miller. Great. Because your argument was just so good. Now, just because I think the value for Miller is there, I prefer the value at a wide receiver, or at running back more than I do the value of wide receiver. So like I said, it's as close to 50-50 as I think I've seen on here. So I will go with Lamar. Now, Mike in New Jersey has a question. He says, four keepers.

And he can trade whomever he doesn't keep. So who does he keep? Aaron Rogers. Russell Wilson or I guess. Shady McCoy, Des Bryant, Alan Robinson, Mike Evans. And how many can he keep? Four. Yeah. Ooh, four keepers, huh? Here's a deal. In a four-keeper league, I will say this. Ten team PPR. I think he's going to get a lot of trade value for those quarterbacks.

So, you know, people... I keep the last four guys. McCoy, Des, Robinson, Evans. And then trade Aaron Rogers and Russell Wilson. Now, if it's a two, if there's no flex and it's a two-wide receiver league, do you say the same thing? Yeah, I say the same thing because I think quarterbacks fetch great value. I know that people listening to this show who have listened for a while, they probably wouldn't pay any value for a quarterback because they realize...

They realize the fallacy of quarterbacks being valuable by comparison to other positions. But the rest of your league probably doesn't. You're going to get the most total value by keeping those last four guys and trading Aaron Rogers and Russell Wilson. Unless, of course, of course, if it's a two-quarterback league, then you keep both those guys. I'm completely on board. I keep the four positional players and trade off or whatever, let them go for the quarterbacks. Ten team.

Easier to find a valuable quarterback, easier to stream a quarterback. But it is not easy to replace three wide receiver one level guys. Yeah, and I'm going to throw this in there before we go on to Chris's question from Missouri. If you want to see all those players, all six of those guys.

video breakdowns on each of them. I haven't mentioned at the top of the show about our ultimate draft kit that is available on the website right now. So I did want to throw in a quick plug for that. For pre-order right now. But it's pretty cool. You're going to have over 100 different player profile videos in there, all the premium rankings. We've got off-season reports. Sleepers, breakouts, busts, values. We're genuinely, we've set out to make an off-season draft kit that is a value...

that seems like it's 10 times more than what you pay for it. So you can go on there right now and you can get it at a discount. That's ultimate draft kit.com and see what we really think about Mike Evans, which we've probably already told you. All right. Chris in Miller, Missouri, would you trade Thomas Rawls for Alan Robinson in a keeper league, half point PPR? Team with Rawls has Gurley and Bell and the team with Robinson has Julio Amari and Alshan.

So would you trade Rawls for Alan Robinson in a keeper league half point? I would. I would for sure. You would? I would. Okay. You can keep up to seven players in this half point PPR, and absolutely I would trade Thomas Rawls for Alan Robinson. Yes. In light of the rosters, for sure. Yeah, because it's so big. I mean, if you're talking you can only keep two to three guys, you already have Julio, Cooper, and Alshan, then maybe I want...

Rawls on my team to bounce out my starting lineup, and I'm not just wasting a guy on my bench. But because everyone's keeping that many guys, give me the monster wide receivers. And the guy that's going to have presumably a longer career. Wide receivers. When you keep seven guys, there's not as much changeover. Almost a dynasty. Exactly. It's right on the cusp there. Keaton. Michael? I only hope. He's in California, right?

It's probably in Hollywood filming something. It's probably him. It's probably Michael Keaton. I love Michael Keaton. You were waiting for someone to jump in. I was. I was. All right. Keeping OBJ. and the 8th. Need one more. 10-team PPR League. Is it C.J.J. Anderson in the 7th? Jordan Reed in the 10th. Duke Johnson in the 10th. I can trade anyone I don't keep for picks. I'll go first. I was tempted with C.J. Anderson. I'm not a huge believer in him, but...

The fact that you get him in the seventh is a good value, but I have to lean with Jordan Reed Rule 86. And the reason is because when I look at drafting Jordan Reed this year, I see an extreme value. Like if he hits, if he replicates what he did last year, he is every bit worth a second round pick, but I can't give up a second or a third. I'm hard-pressed to even give up a fourth round pick when the tight-in position is deep. But if I can grab him at the 10th round, there's no risk.

So the upside there is far higher, I think, than anyone else on this list. I agree. I'm going to go with Jordan Reed on that. What do you think, Mike? It's absolutely Jordan Reed from weeks 10 to 17. He was outscoring basically every other tight end by an average of two points a game. That includes Robert Grankowski. I don't believe it. Jordan Reed was, I don't expect the pace that he had the second half of the year to be something he can sustain for an entire year.

But we know that when he's healthy, he is the focal point of the offense for Kirk Cousins. So that's where I go. Did I tell you guys that I was offered? We have our Keeper League, which is a three-keeper league that just recently had all the keepers are figured out now. I had one of the owners of the league come and up his offer for Mr. Julio Jones and offered me 1321 and C.J. Anderson. Oh, okay. And I declined that offer. But what would you think about that?

hesitate to decline that offer. Okay. I just wanted to make sure. And for perspective, for those listening, that means that obviously three rounds are gone. You don't keep people for picks. So essentially, the first round pick is a third round pick. Yeah, kind of.

More or less. More or less. As soon as you get to the second round, then it's pretty much true. A second rounder is a fourth round. But basically what you're saying, in your opinion, Julio Jones is nearly untouchable in our format of three keepers. What I'm really saying is that C.J. Anderson has a wide value range in the minds of fantasy owners. Some people, if they receive that offer and they really bought into C.J. Anderson, it's a no-brainer.

Right. Some people who, like me, have my doubts about him, it's a no-brainer to say no. So it's more of the point of C.J. Anderson, if you throw him out there, if you kind of tease him out there in your league, you might find three or four guys that love him and three or four that hate him. And you're going to have to attach to the guys that love him if you want to move. Yeah, you're going to have to do a lot of shopping with Anderson.

All right, Chris and Lincoln, Nebraska, do you guys ever play in MFL 10 leagues? If so, what is your general strategy? I'm in the middle of my first one and would appreciate any tips. I know, Jason, you've been in the middle of drafting one. Yeah, I am in the middle of one right now. I love MFL tens. For those of you that don't know, that's my fantasy league. It's basically $10 and you join a league. The thing I like about it, it's like a mock draft, except everybody's really trying.

Nobody's trying out new strategies because if you win, you win $100. And so some of my strategies, it's a PPR league. It's a, you know, three wide receiver, two running back. So I tend to skew very heavily towards wide receivers. I really like getting good wide receivers at the top, and I want to make sure I've got at least eight of them. Drafts quarterbacks very, very late, not much different than other things. I like to have three defenses normally.

Normally two tight-ins, two quarterbacks, but I'm fine going three on one of those. That'd be some of my tips. All right, there you go. All right. Luke in Northbridge says, if Tom Brady falls to the seventh or eighth round, should I take him and then draft a quarterback later for the first five weeks or four weeks? Or does he just ignore quarterback the rest of the way in the draft and stream the quarterback position? As opposed to, you know, maybe he just...

Doesn't draft Tom Brady. What is his best option here? Brady, okay, seventh round is no for me. Eighth round is likely still no. It all depends on the size of your bench. If you got a bench, that's only five deep. And that, so you have four spots that you get to play with for the first four weeks. And that's four spots of the hot waiver guys that show up after weeks one and two. But you're going to have to hold on to Brady who provides.

nothing for your team in that time. You're going to be kicking yourself wishing that you had a roster spot that you could free up. Now you can do smart trades of two for ones earlier on and try and clear up a bench spot for that waiver periods. But eighth round to spend it on Brady a guide to miss four weeks is really, really tough for me to do. And I would not do it.

I think you bring up a really good point with the bench size. It's something a lot of people don't think about going into a draft. If you've got a six bench, then it's much more manageable to pick him up. If you're only got five on the bench, then just push the value back later, right? But in the eighth round, if I've got six on my bench, I would take him. It's really difficult in the beginning part of the season to...

to roster somebody you cannot use it all and not have the flexibility to play with the waiver wire early or move guys in and out. It just, it kind of eats at you earlier in the season more than it does late in the season. So, yeah, very good points there, Mike. All right, let's go to Al in New York. He said he just won the right to pick his draft position in a 12-man point per reception league. So he has his choice. He could pick anywhere from 1 to 12. Where would we pick and why?