Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Mock Part 2, News, Notes, and Mailbag.

Are you, uh, you want to make a bet over Alan Robinson versus Jeremy Maclin? Absolutely. Oh, it's done, dude. Waterbed. You are making so many Jeremy Maclin bets. Dig that great. Andy is a Jeremy Maclin believer. If I'm going to bet on Jeremy Maclin putting up, by the way, just a good season, nothing special. I might as well get you both wet over it. Oh, man. That's going to be some of the most fun. You just bet Alan Robinson. I just want you to know this. You just bet Alan Robinson.

rookie wide receiver from the Jaguars last year. Yep. Injured, coming up an injury, versus Jeremy Macklin, the number one receiver who just got paid $11 million a year. I just want you to know. I don't care how much money anybody makes. That's fine. And you all care when you lose. Name recognition is one thing. So listeners, if you're listening and Mike and I are just crazy, you're thinking like Jeremy McClain is clearly better than Ellen Ross. You're right. Thank you. Please call the show.

302-464 TFFB and affirm me in the, oh, wait, that's for questions. Yeah, questions only. It's not as pretty and clear-cut as the names suggest. One player is... It will be when the season's over. That's the beautiful thing about fantasy football. We'll find this out. Someone will get wet. Mike and I will be super happy. And because it's the... Because it's not the name that's expected... I'm going to win. Before we get a little bit of a little bit more cred.

Dude, right now I'm just picturing Alan Robinson, Target Monster with... It's going to be like the ALS challenge over here on Andy at the end of the year. But with Alex Smith, Captain Checkdown, with Alan Robinson. Oh, my goodness. He'd have 400 receptions. Hey, you know what? You win it in your little argument now and I'll win it on the field. That's fine.

That was the target monster Alan Robinson. Did he just busted his knee again? No, he just ate 5,000 touchdowns. Oh, good. This just then, breaking news. Blake Bortles is Mike's number one quarterback.

Yeah, you got to put the math together on that. All right. We're out of time in terms of talking about the mock draft. We're going to post the entire thing. Go on there and take a look. Again, this is just a bunch of us getting together doing kind of our 1.0 middle of May, beginning of May mock draft. But it'll be good to see all the names distributed across there, which guys have dropped, which guys seem like great values, where you can start to see guys targeted, some average draft position, blah, blah, blah. We'll post it on the site. Let's get into the mailbag and answer some listener questions.

Mailbag. Mailbag. It, you know, it was good. It wasn't your best. Because I'm looking at my rankings, really hoping that I have Alan Robinson ranked out of the Jeremy Meadow. You'll have to let us know when you get to that. Yeah, can you read? Yeah, let me just search them real quick here. Find and replace. Did the emotions get the best? That's what I'm trying to figure out here. Okay, so we got him there. Hold on, hold on. Oh, yeah.

We're good to go. We're good to get. One of the numbers. 30 and 47. Yeah. 47. Oh, my good. The amount of Macklin bets I could make against you, let's just, you know, we'll leave it where it's out. Those are also just, those numbers will change, but I'm just saying that, that speaks to me that I feel very confident in Allen Robinson over Macklin. Yeah, you do. And you know what? If you're right, I'll give you credit. All right, Tim writes in via email in a 10 team, keep that in mind, 10 team PPR league. He gets to keep one player. Labion Bell was his guy.

But with the suspension, is it crazy to keep Arian Foster for a third, Jamal Charles for a first, or Emmanuel Sanders for an eighth? By the way, Levyon Bell was for a fourth. I don't think it's crazy to keep Arian Foster for a third. It's great value. But Levy and Bell for a fourth is also really great value. And also remember, it's three games right now. Maybe it goes down, but you get to keep him for a fourth.

forever. Unless otherwise stated. I mean, you still have the year after this for a fourth round pick. And while I'm sort of coming around on Foster, I moved him up a little bit because he's great. But Foster is not long for the NFL. He's already talked about retiring.

Levion Bell is just getting started. Well, and you know, you pretty much know Foster's going to miss three games too, right? I mean, you just don't know when. It's nice with Levian Bell that you can... Funny. You know when it's going to be. You know when it's going to be. And also, in a 10-team league, it's, I think, a little bit easier to find that extra running back to plug in. And during the home stretch, later in the year, when you're going to really need your absolute top-of-the-line guys...

Levy on Bell is going to be a real difference maker. Yeah, I understand you being worried, but Lev Bell for a fourth is still the right pick here. I love Aaron Foster. He's number one or two on my board right. But I don't, I can't pass on Bell. Bell for a fourth value. And not for just this year. Well, even if it is. Because we don't know if it is or not. But yeah, you're right. You're right. That was a good point on that. All right. This email comes in from Pablo. Pablo. He says, Dear Isaac Taylor and Zach. Do you know these, Mike? I do. You do know them? I know it. Tell the audience.

That, bat, do. Skimming up, better. That's the, uh, bat, doo. Oh, come. Beep-op boys. Come on. The beep-bop boys. The Hanson brothers. Oh, the Hanson. Do I need to sing their second single? Yes, please. Where's the love? Okay. I don't know. All right. My 16 team standard. By the way, that's pretty awesome. Get on my handsome level. I mean, I give some credit back to. I only drink Hanson. Dude, I was playing with Legos when Hansen was playing on the radio. All right. Dancing.

My 16 team standard league switched to six points per TD. 16. Yeah, I know. And that pays a big mind of this question. Six points per TD for QB. And now flex is only wide receiver tied in. So you can only start two RBs. What's the best strategy here? How does it change things when that flex goes from running back and wide receiver?

and tight-in to now just wide receiver tight-in, and it's a 16-te-le. And the quarterback goes to, yeah, six. Quarterback does not change much at all. I feel like I was reading a multiple choice question, and they threw in the six points per TD. It doesn't matter at all. Yeah, people are concerned about it when they haven't played, and it actually, the quarterbacks pretty much stay the same. Nothing changes other than you downgrade a very little bit, you downgrade.

your Cam Newton and your, you downgrade the running. They don't get the bonus. Yeah, the running touchdown quarterbacks. Just a couple points within the quarterback rankings, but you don't change at all. Quarterback strategy in the slightest. And if we're, so we can only start two running backs, but 16 teams, that's still 32 running backs that have to be started every single week. In a 16 team.

You got to get those running backs. And I'm going to disagree with you. As am I. 48 wide receivers are starting here. You have to start essentially 48 wide receivers. Yeah. So position scarcity now flips the script a little bit. No. Running backs are still important, but the priority changes to me. Yeah, because if you think about a standard. 48 versus 32. Maybe it evens out the board. No. Think about a standard 12-team league that...

This starts with the flex, and a lot of times there's the three running backs per team. I would say that's very common. So in a 12-team league with the three running backs, you actually have more starting running backs than you possible. You can have 36. Here, you can't have 36 starting running backs. You can only have 32. So you actually need less running backs in this league than you do in a 12. And so, whereas on the wide receiver position,

48 starting wide receivers. That's awesome. That's a lot. And I think that you really want to make sure that you get... Here's what I would really go after. One of those top guys. You have to get one of those wide receiver slots just filled in with an absolute week-in, week-out stud. You get, you know, you get your Antonio Brown or your...

It doesn't sound like we're going to give him a very good consensus here. So here's my point. Okay, so the 32nd ranked running back last year was Terrence West. He scored just under 102 points, so 101.7. To get 100, let's see, so then you go to a guy who's comparable as a wide receiver. 41st, Andre Johnson with 105.6 points. That's where the gap starts.

spreading dramatically between running back points and wide receiver points when you start getting that low. So to me, you still have to have the running backs because the wide receiver points are still there. I think it, I think, like I said in the beginning, I think it evens the spread. Because we talk position scarcity and we talk those statistics. And so to me, if it's even, then I'm still going with running backs. Okay.

hopefully we gave you some perspective there because really we broke the numbers down for you and let you know those disparities so don't change on the quarterbacks that's one consensus all right this question our last one comes in from jehoram i think i pronounced that right i really have no idea though in my league we're able to trade our draft picks which is like a couple of all the leagues we play in what are your thoughts on trading picks in general

And if you are for trading picks, which would you prefer, the one in the four or the two and the three? And I think I know you guys is the answer, but go ahead. Trading picks is fantastic. If you're in a league that is a keeper league, and I will admit it is a lot more work, but most keeper leagues have a very dedicated guy or two or, you know, hopefully 12 that will put in that work. But trading picks is awesome. I do think you need some restrictions and some rules to make sure that the economy of the league doesn't get...

So blown up where every year there's just tankers and mammoth, you know, behemoth type teams. But I really, really, really like, I'll just tackle that part of the question. I love trading picks. Do it and do it to win. I agree that I think trading picks is preferable to me. And for...

For our league, what it has shown me, well, some things can get out of skewed towards the end of the year where you have people who are really buying for next year. And so some super teams are created. Big time players get traded all the time in our league. Every single year, Adrian Peterson's, Marshaun Lynch, Rogers, I mean, top flight people who would not normally get traded, get traded because you can bump up the value of throwing...

a pick or a pick swap in there where in my other leagues these upper echelon guys just don't get traded and the trading really makes the league a lot more fun now for me it depends where i'm picking if if i want the one in the four but i might go with this year i might go with the uh the two and the three get so trade the one in the four for a two and three so two twos and two threes am i reading that correctly yeah

uh he just wants to know whether it's better to trade a one and a four for a two and a three or trade a two and a three for a one and a four i mean obviously which situation and that's what it comes down or right which pick position you have maybe yeah if you're in the second half of the first we talked about if you want jeremy hill and you think you can get him at the end of the first round beginning of the second round go grab the two three you know because then in that situation he has two twos two threes yeah then you're going to get hill and so you stock up earlier i do agree that this year versus other years this looks a little bit

better because I think that the very tip-top of talent is a little bit smaller this year and the second wave is a little bit larger. All right. Remember, there are three ways that you can send us your questions, probably more.

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