Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Fantasy News & Updates, NFC East Breakdown

Jonathan Stewart. And he just, he hasn't turned out that many powerful fantasy years. I look at, I look at Ryan Matthews in the same thing. Everything needed to go right for Jonathan Stewart to have a blowup year last year. They had to have a really good team that was able to kill the ball at the end of the game. Are you telling me if the Eagles are a mediocre team and they're losing in, you know, 60% of the games, I just feel like it's going to be Sproles out there. It could be. There was the reports. And you're going to be like, dang it, because Ryan Matthews is really good. Why don't you put them out there? And then that happened last year.

And we were like, dang it, why isn't Ryan Matthews out there? Sproles is a guy I almost answered as the quick question. Oh, I love it. Darren Sproles right now is the 54th running back taken off the board right now. Oh, my goodness. He has several years as well of being an actual quality fantasy producer in PPR leagues. And if he is firmly in that...

number two role. See, last year you had Ryan Matthews and DeMarco Murray, and then Darren Sprouls was behind both of them, firmly had a much lower volume of usage than the previous years. But that, like, ruins our mind. And we forget that Darren Sprouls was a fantasy producer. When he gets the rock, he actually produces a lot. So I think Darren Sprouls is a guy that I would probably rather have, you know, even over Legerat Blunt.

who I use as my answer. That's pretty bold. That's pretty bold. The best part of this conversation is I automatically win the argument when I don't let Mike talk. I mean, it just makes it. That is your go-to move. Super easy. Super easy. So for a guy who, where did you have him ranked? What was it, Jason? What did Andy have him at? 19th. Okay, it's 19. He's currently the 23rd running back off the board. Which means he's a value. So you're getting value. That's fine. Yeah. And so he's like, it's value to like.

He's now with my 30 second. No, no, no. This is, that's a ridiculous thing to say because the problem here isn't that Ryan Matthews is going to be a fantasy contributor. The problem is just the difference in hype between myself and mostly you and a little bit of Jason on how good you think Ryan Matthews can be. That's the thing. Oh, because he's a great running back. All right. All right. We're done. We're done here. Zach Ertz. I really like Zach Ertz.

I think he's going to suffer from the inconsistency of the offense in the quarterback position. In the early part of the off season, when things looked a little bit cleaner for that offense, I like the rapport between Bradford and Earths, but I don't even know if it's going to be Bradford. So just real quick. So their offensive ranks, they were 14th in the league in rushing yards per game and 12th in passing yards per game, which might surprise some people because I think the overall feeling was that the offense stunk last year. And they were actually top half. What?

I just say, eh, because, I mean, they were down. A lot of garbage time. Rushing. A Kelly offense. Okay, well, garbage time, fine. They were 12th and passing. They were 14th and rushing. How can you be, if you're all garbage, how can you be 14th and rushing? That's just middle of the road, though. That's actually, that's upper half. Oh, come on. I'm not sure if you know how it's upper half by one. Upper half. By one. Yeah. Oh, is one how you described your grades to your mother when you were in, uh,

Great school. Hey, mom, got a 54 on this test. Upper half. Upper half grades, mom. I got more right than I missed. Super smart. I do like you holding firmly to the 14th that's upper half, though. Because it is mathematically. My question was more just... It's a perfect symbol of the Ryan Matthews argument. Where do you see the Eagles offense this year? Do you think they're lower? They're much lower than that? I would put them at like 23rd in the league. That'll be my guess.

I think that's a fair random arbitrarious. Yeah, totally. So, all right, we're done talking NFC East right now. We'll be back. Guess what? We'll be back tomorrow. So hit that subscribe button. Do not miss out. We're here for your commute every single day. We're here for around the house on the computer. If your kids are loud, crank us up louder. We'll be around.

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