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

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Hey, Foot Clan, fantasy football season is upon us. Training camps have opened. We are all getting ready for our fantasy drafts. This is what you need to do, Foot Clan. You head over to Ultimate DraftKit.com. That's where you can find the official fantasy footballer's Ultimate Draft Kit, where we are breaking down everything. We have our tiers. We have video profiles. We have breakouts, bust values. We have everything that you could possibly need to be prepared.

for your draft, head over to ultimate draft kit.com. To the fantasy footballers podcast. Coming to you from the fantasy jocks.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Ah, it's August. It's August. Prepare. Prepare your bodies. As you would say, it is officially August. Yes. I like that.

I like the B-Nannas and the O officially. We like to enunciate. I put the emphasis on the wrong syllable. Salable. Welcome back, Mike. It's good to be back, America. Oh, I tell you, it's good to be back if you heard the primal screams coming out of this studio over the week. You know that I did. Oh, man. Shout out to Brooks. Did you see Brooks put on our Twitter that, like, the triple primal scream where he cut all three of ours together? What we have to do next is.

a race from our memory? No, no, no. The men and black thing. We need a three-man harmony rolling on the primal screen. We do need to do that. We knew to improve yours. Jason's was pretty solid. I think he can hold down the root. I think I could burp into the mic and it would be an improvement over what mine was. At least we'd hear it. Welcome to five days a week, everybody. This is the fantasy footballers podcast. We know we have a lot of new listeners joining us for the very first time with the

Football season upon us. So welcome in, everybody. If you're a brand new listener, we especially welcome you in to the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Andy Mike and Jason here. You can find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. We are here five days a week from now through December. Mike's shaking his head with anticipation. Well, I'm driving into the studio. And it just, it doesn't even feel real. Like, you know, well, you have this such anticipation where we've been here all year long. Yep. And you know that football is so close.

But I just, it was a very, very surreal feeling. August is football. I mean, we have the Hall of Fame game immediately. You know it's football when players start to get carted off the field. That's the first sign. And it's sad, but it's true. I mean, you know that they're out there doing something most likely to be the reason why they were carted off. So we're going to break down all the fantasy football news and information you need to know today. We're going to break down the NFC East Division.

Got another divisional breakdown for you. This is going to be a jam-packed week. We're going to talk sleepers and busts and breakouts and different things. We're going to talk, well, your questions. You're going to send them in on the fantasy footballers.com. Click the submit a question button. We answer some of those. Maybe on today's show. We also have a mailbag show this week. It's going to be a really, really exciting time. I've got a lot of players that I want to talk about. I haven't got the opportunity to gloat.

to Mike about Ryan Fitzpatrick yet. So that's going to be a high priority event on today's show. Very excited. Yeah, very, very excited. I just tweeted a picture of Brandon Marshall's ADP. And, you know, it looks like Nintendo's stock price when Pokemon Go came out. That's what it looks like. So, all right, we've got a quick question of the day. This one comes in off a Twitter at H. Gerald Martin, who, in your opinion, could be the steal of the draft this year.

AKA late round gold. Late round gold. I feel like those are different questions in a way. And let me explain because I think that the steel of the draft is going to be some guy like a D'Andre Washington who gets drafted late. Latavis Murray goes down ahead and he wins you the season. He was the late late round steel of the draft. But when I'm looking for gold and thinking like, okay, who is going really, really, really late?

That's just way out. Like, you shouldn't be able to get this person so late. That's kind of what I take as gold. So that's the question I'm going to answer. Sure. Ignore his question because he meant them as the same thing. But okay. Well, then I'll give you two. DeAndre Washington is a great late round gold type of guy in case someone in front of him goes down. But without someone in front of him going down, I'm going to stick with the running back position because people are going so wide receiver heavy early. So I think late in the draft, they need to find that running back.

I've said it recently. I've tweeted it recently, but I really do think Legerat Blunt is a great value right now. I mean, he's going in the 10th round, and he is the starting running back goal line, third down type of running back, who was really successful last year in the games that he actually played. We forget that. A lot of double-digit performances. Jason, you convinced me this. You brought me to the books. You showed me the stats. You got rid of the bad taste in my mouth for Blunt.

It's not somebody I want to lean on, but you don't have to lean on him in the 10th round. That's the point. That's the exact point. In the 10th round, you can get a guy who's probably going to score eight, nine touchdowns this year. We just added him to the ultimate draft kid, did we not? We sure did. As a sleeper? Yep. Yeah. I'm going to bring up a name that I have not brought up as a kind of a late round steal or value that I think I'm going to start talking more about. And it's Sterling Shepard.

Sterling Shepard is a guy who, I think he's in the eighth round. I think he's got a little bit of that bump up because of that rookie hype. I mean, bump up, I mean, eighth round, right? And I think this guy might legitimately be a wide receiver, two, three bubble guy all year long. I think that he's going to be integral to that offense. That offense passes the ball so much. Short passing game. Not every ball is going to O'Dell Beckham Jr. And so I really like the upside of Shepard. I don't think Cruz's impact is going to be.

much, if anything. You know, he's at a point where I see him contributing the way Roddy White contributed last year. So Serling Shepard's a guy. I'm going to look to acquire. Some teams and some coaching staffs make a big difference when it comes to allowing a rookie to be involved, right? I mean, the reason, I like Tyler Boyd, right, but.

We know Marvin Lewis does not really let his rookies off that leash. But we saw a couple years ago with Odell Beckham. And part of that was Odell Beckham. But we know the Giants are not afraid to say, hey, you're the starter. You're going to get 100 targets year one. And I actually, I'm shocked to hear you name that name because this weekend I moved him up my board quite a bit. Well, the thing is, is it's not even, I mean, the coaching staff has turned over since the Odell Beckham Jr. breakout. But.

Eli hasn't. And Eli is the one who had the confidence in O'Dow Buckham Jr. And I think he'll have confidence in Sterling Shepard based on all the reports I'm seeing about him. I think he will have an impact in half point and full point per reception leagues. Who's your guy, Mike? I've been looking through. I want to grab a guy who's going very late that I don't think needs an injury in front of him. And I'm going to go with the guy he's going at the back of the 13th round. That is Sammy Coates.

Wide receiver for the Pittsburgh Steelers. I know we've talked about him a lot, but just the, and we're in, we are in the realm of coach speak, which we will get to. But the news out of Sammy Coates in camp has been great. He's in amazing shape. He talked about he's been putting in an off days, three workouts a day. So the man is putting himself in a position to succeed as far as his physical conditioning.

And then you have Marcus Wheaton, who is considered he's the most likely guy to be the number two. But even like the last quote from Wheaton is, I don't really know what my role in the offense is going to be. And maybe he's just, you know, humble, being a humble guy, whatever. But to me, Sammy Coates is a tremendous athlete. He's still kind of raw as a wide receiver. But with the Martavis Bryant situation of him being suspended all year long,

And you have coach who is a very comparable athlete who could fill that role possibly for Bryant. So that's where I'm going to go extremely late, could outplay Wheaton this preseason and take over that number two job. All right. We're going to jump into the news and notes. Before we do that, I want to remind everybody about join thefoot.com or fantasy football community where you can get an extra episode. Like if five is not enough for you and you want six. Never enough.

Never enough. You want to overload your fantasy football brain. You can get an extra episode every week over at jointhefoot.com. We also have a giveaway that's taking place in like, I don't know, three days where we're giving away an autograph to Marius Thomas Jersey from pristine auction.com. We're giving away a bunch of gear from fantasy jocks.com. We're giving away a listener league spot in our official.

Listener league. You just throw that in like it's one in a list. Well, it was one in a list is the reason why. Fair enough. But it's a big one. It is a big one. And some other things, too, a bunch of photos, stickers. It's going to be exciting. It's going to be fine. It's always fun to do those at the beginning of every single month. We do this. So let's jump into the news. News and notes from around the league.

Well, you want to watch your step when you jump into the news because you might end up carted off the field. We have a couple of bad injury notes here. Not going to go into depth without the reports, but Stevie Johnson was carted off on Sunday, Chargers wide receiver. Eddie Royal got news this morning.

that he was carted off, and that's literally all the news I have that Eddie Royal was carted off. There's a little bit more news on Stevie Johnson, specifically. It's official that he tore his meniscus, and it was on a non-contact injury. So is he out now? It is not clear whether that's out for the season, but it's clearly very bad. Not a good, dude. So Don Trell-inman. Yes. Come on down. Well, so the question is...

Yes. Does it make you feel any different about Travis Benjamin if you just have like that wide receiver three that Stevie Johnson was out of the picture? No, to me, it maybe it is a slight. Gates? It's a slight. Yeah, Gates could get the increase. I think Benjamin is his role is his role. I'm not going to change my ranking of Philip Rivers. It does stink for him in that offense. Stevie Johnson has still been.

a very capable, especially if he's in the three role and you don't have to lean on him. Just disappointing to start their off season the same way last season for San Diego. I think, you know, Stevie Johnson might be towards the very end of his career at this point. DeAndre Hopkins ended his, what, one day holdout? This was a message sent. And he, uh, he, uh, did you, did you read his statement? No, I did not. Of just, disappointment. He is.

letting the Texans, he's putting the Texans on blast saying, you better fix this. Well, they said they would negotiate with them. You know why? He came back because there was that situation where if he wasn't there, 40,000 a day. Reporting, he lost his roster bonus of like $490,000, which was like a third of all the money owed to him. So it's like, yeah, I'm going to come back, but I'm not happy. Yeah. Well, just keep catching passes for fantasy owners. All right, dolphins.

news somebody that we are going to update in our ultimate draft kit uh probably do a video on him arian foster quote annihilated his conditioning test arian foster is not on the pup he was activated from the pup cleared to practice took snaps and j ajai has a bone bruise and is now missing practice i will say this just real quick what i know what is inferred when they say he annihilated his conditioning test