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

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Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome to the show. The fantasy footballers back again. However, you're listening, wherever, whenever, we are here delivering the fantasy football news. You need to have the strategy talk. You need to digest. Andy, Mike, and Jason, back again Thursday, May 19th. How are you guys doing?

I'm doing well, doing well. We're here. You have to digest it, Mike. For some reason, that was kind of funny to me. I don't know why. Is it because you're, like, digesting lunch right now? That may be it. Chapoile brurito? Those things happen. Very good. We've got a good show. We've got, I think, a very intriguing, quick question. A bunch of fantasy news today. We're going to do the reviewosaurus. We're going to hit the mailbag.

Hit it hard. We're going to hit it hard. Answer a lot of questions and a lot of good questions that apply to a lot of people, I think, too. Well, part of that is because we've got genuinely the best listeners and their questions make a lot of sense. They've got great questions. We've got all the questions. We've got the best questions. That turned into Trump fast. You went straight into Trump. All the words, all the best words. Exactly.

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coaches that got my trophies wrong when I was a kid. Unlike hallway. That's really cute. Everybody spells it H-A-L-L. Yeah, like I took a walk down the hallway. Yeah. And you know what? I will not let that happen to my son who I just signed up for baseball for the very first time. Who will be playing with Jason's son in a league? That's right. And my son's going to steal your son's trophy. I'm going to from the same team. That's not how I was expecting this to go. I thought they were going to be teammates. Yeah. You're just a vindictive.

champion for fantasy football. You can also find us on YouTube on the Fantasy Sports Network on Facebook and on the website The Fantasy Footballers.com. That's where you can submit questions to the show to be a part of the mailbag section, the mailbag segment of the show. Before, well, no, let's do this first. Quick question. All right? Yeah. This question, let me pose it this way. Heading into the 2016 fantasy season, what player, if they disappoint,

will make you cry. So what player do you have good expectations for or somebody that you're just going to be so sad if they don't deliver in 2016? I will go ahead and I will open this up and I'm going with my man up in Philadelphia, Ryan Matthews. Okay. I have already invested time into a trade. I have already traded for him. I have already acquired him.

And because I really believe in him this season. I think the opportunity is spectacular. I think he's by far the best running back on the team. I think he's a hyper-talented running back. Why this will be an exponential cry because the last time I was this excited for Ryan Matthews was the double collarbone fracture here. So I'm hoping that the things are all glued together. And if not. Get that gorilla glue on there. You'll have the tissues out.

Yeah, the tears will come streaming down my face. Heartbreak. Jason, you want to give me yours? Yeah, the guy that comes to mind actually is because he just made me sad already. So I'm like pre-sad about him. Oh, I know who this is. Which is Sammy Watkins. I see such big, I saw such big things.

For Sammy Watkins this year, I really believe in the talent. I actually think Buffalo, despite the bad week they have had, I think their offense could be something pretty good. Charles Clay is a sneaky good tight in. I think Tyrod Taylor's a sneaky good quarterback. Sammy Watkins shouldn't be a sneaky good wide receiver. Should just be like a known great wide receiver. My point is I think they could, and LaShawn McCoy.

He should be great. Will he be sneaky good? Right. But with Sammy Watkins, I really, really hope he has a great year. He'll be fine. I hope so. I think he'll be fine. So don't get, wipe those pre-tears away. Thank you. All right, who you got in? Looking like Sam Bradford over here. You know, I'm going to go, I'm going to go with Lamar Miller.

If Lamar Miller fails in this opportunity, got paid the money, switched to a franchise that knows how to run the ball, wants to hand the ball to a workhorse guy, can catch the ball out of the backfield, if he disappoints, it will be very sad. You know what? It's not the perfect comparison, but all the hype around a guy like Percy Harvin for years where he keeps landing in new destinations and you keep waiting for him to be something special. Lamar was something special, but it was such a limited workload that you just didn't know when you could count on it. So if he fails in Houston,

If he disappoints in Houston, I'm going to, I'm going to be sad. I'm going to be sad for you, too, Jason. It's not just you, though. I think the entire fantasy football community will have a big collective shower cry if Lamar Miller fails. I mean, we've all... I don't want to be a part of that. Why do we all have to be in the shower? Gosh. Because you do your best crying in the shower where no one can see the tears. But if you're there together, it's terrible. I'm a real man, Mike. I'll cry in public.

I do it all the time. All my crying is Ace Ventura style, bald up, nude in the shower. Well, that's what makes you special, Mike. All right, before we jump into the news, we want to take a second and read a review from iTunes. One of the big things that you can do to help the show is to support us on iTunes, and so let's do that right now. Jason is the official review reader, so we'll start right now.

Review Osaurus Rags. This one comes in from Zach Hems. This one says, saved my sanity. The offseason podcasts have let me keep my sanity as my seven month old has decided to give up on sleeping through the night. Thanks.

for keeping it going. The quality of the shows and the content is excellent. I look forward to hearing a new episode every Tuesday and Thursday in the off season. Well, Zach H., you're my best friend. I believe it's Herms. And me and you, Zach, we're, we are living the same life. My two-year-old has decided that going to sleep is for the birds. He has learned how to crawl out of the crib.

So at any moment, and he's a ninja. He's a ninja getting out of the crib. So you're a little bit proud and a lot sad? Yeah. And he just all of a sudden he sneaks. And his favorite thing to do is he sneaks up on you and he screams, I want to tell you a joke. And then he gives you the knock, knock, knock, interrupting cow joke. This is what he does. He just screams just to, what, like to startle you? Yeah, this is my night. At 10 p.m. I get to hear knock, knock. At 10 p.m. You get woken awake by.

I'm going to tell you a joke. Yes, that's pretty good. You want to know how I got these scars? Well, that just took a term for the worst. All right, so before...

I have one more thing I want to address before we get into the news. And we pride ourselves. Look, we have a good time on the show. We like each other, I think. We try to be entertaining and enjoy, you know, talking to the listeners. But we want to be accurate. Absolutely. And we want to help you win your league. There's a reason there are so many people writing in with hashtag Foot Clan title. And that's because you mix the enjoyment of the podcast with victories. And that is the goal of this show.

I say all that because, look, it doesn't happen very often, but there was- Give it to me. Jason made a mistake on the last show, so I'm just going to let him explain, and I may or may not have to give him some music. Well, I saw a stat, and that stat was wrong, and sometimes people want to, they just want to hide their failings. But not you. But here, I feel I need the shame.

I need to self-shame and be shamed by others. Actually, you begged us not to, but go ahead and continue. Because last week I said that the Patriots had a week four by, and the truth is they did in 2015. But they do not have that in 2016. I was looking backwards, not forwards. And Foot Clan out there, I apologize. You expect accurate...

information on here, and we're going to give it to you. And when we don't, we will come to the confession table and call ourselves out on it. I apologize. All right, let's have a great show. I feel pretty good about that now. All right, we can move on. News and notes from around the league. I will say this. Everyone out there is now very prepared for the next time the Patriots have a week four by and the implications on the roster. So, all right, let's talk about the news that we just missed after we recorded.

last on Tuesday, the Tuesday show. We did not get to talk about Sammy Watkins' foot injury. Now, this could be a blessing in disguise that we didn't get to talk about it yet. Right. Because when these things break, whether it's on some app that you have or on Road to World or someplace else, you just don't know a lot yet. You haven't heard a lot from the team. The news was that Sammy Watkins had a broken foot, and he had surgery. But now we're understanding that the expectation of Sammy Watkins should, and that is a big word in fantasy football, it should be back.

and the surgery took place about a month ago. So how are you feeling? I mean, you brought up Sammy Watkins. If he disappoints you, you're going to cry. I told you not to worry about it, so that's how I'm feeling. But Mike, what about you? What is your Watkins fears when you hear something like this? At this point, I'm not going to let it over control me. I haven't touched him in my rankings. I think he's perfectly fine where he is.

uh jason has been at the forefront of the sammy watkins love for this office and mind i we actually had the discussion on monday i was like man i'm just digging through it some more the more warming getting ready for the draft kit you know i'm really warming up to watkins to to to move him up up a tier and then of course the foot problem happens and i mean the

The information about the foot is all over the place. He just broke his foot. No, he had the surgery a month ago. He should be ready for training camp. He might miss the beginning of the season. So this is still a very hodgepodge up in the air situation where we don't have, I don't think we have concrete facts yet.