Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Matt Harmon Mailbag Show!

you know, added me, you know, mentioned me on Twitter like, hey, you got to move, you got to move Beckham down the rankings. And again, this was when I was out in the wilderness. And I'm like, what's, what happened? What if I missed? And then I was like, oh, this is it? I know. He's hurt. He's hurt. Oh. I know. I was like, oh my God. He tore an ACL or like he had some sort of like. They brought me on a radio show and that was the only question they asked me was the Kardashian impact on Odette Beckham Jr. And they were really trying to force it. After I said, don't worry about it. He's really good.

It was like, yeah, but you got to move him down, right? I was like, move him up. He's really good. Move him up. Contrarian pick. You're going to move. All right, let's go to another question here. This is Mike in Chicago who tries to throw a bonjour in there, but, dude, you don't get to say that. You're from Chicago. That's for international. Yeah, come on. Hey, guys, love the show, withstood many victories with all the good help and got third last year. The champ was the only other listener of your podcast in the league. And so bad luck for him, I guess.

He said the league just voted out kickers this year, which is something that he was against. But they added a flex position that allows you to put a kicker in as well if you want to, which I've never heard of, actually. So now his question is, does this mean I should try to pull a fast one and grab a kicker in the draft? No. Is that a value? No. I wouldn't. I mean, the fluctuation of the kicker is just...

week to week. I mean, you look at a guy who's great, like Justin. Well, Gaskowski is actually pretty consistent. Would you draft Gaskowski? Because he's going to put up, you know, 12 points in that flex spot. Look, it's a question of league size to me. If the league's big enough and there's enough, you know, they're flexing out a guy. It's two or three wide receiver. I don't know. You might have a baseline that's safer with a Gaskowski alone.

Him, but... This is me trying to make the story. Anybody else? It would be... No. I don't know. Where's the camera that I can look into here? Hold on. We'll get you. We'll put it on. Perfect. But anyways, one of these cameras. There you go. Right there. Right there. Listen, well, I know, I do want to speak to the people here real quick because I think this is a time to do it. If you guys read Adam Ranks column on NFL.com, it's taken... I've seen a takeover Twitter. I've seen what happened. Yeah, we saw what happened with it. I just want to put a little PSA out there with the people.

Read the whole article. Like he never actually says, I'm taking a kicker in the fifth round, and you should too. Unfortunately, our social media people at NFL, God love you guys, but they said in the original tweet when they tweeted his article out, he makes the case for why you should take a kicker. It was just a fun little story. Let's everybody relax on that. But I want to stand up for rank because he's good people. But in terms of the actual question, I have no idea. Other than Gaskowski, these kickers are so hard to predict. Yeah.

I mean, that's true. Now, I saw you shrug at when I celebrated the removal of the kicker position. I've been for years in our league trying to do that. What's your take on, because I know a lot of people are, you know, look, there's kickers in the NFL. They score points. We had another question came in. The guy said the same thing. He says he doesn't want to remove it. If they're in the NFL, they should score on your fans. And our league that I've been trying to get it voted out in in our league of record. We've always said that I'm the crazy one. And that's.

Fine, I usually am. But Harmon, what's just your opinion on the kicker position? Get it out. Oh, right. Get it out. I don't care. I mean, listen, there are a lot of players in the NFL. You know, are you going to do a full IDP then? Right. Where's the offensive line? Right. Are you going to have a fantasy football? I want a fullback. Right. I mean, all these sort of, like the blocking tight end specifically. Can you imagine if there was a fullback position? Like, there's...

Just a small handful of guys. They become the new Bronx. Mike Tolbert, first round. The name that's escaping me. Who is the guy that he was in Baltimore? He also. Ron McLean. No, he's the fullback that was in front of Arian as well. Wasn't that? Was that him? Loron McLean was a guy who ran like for 900 yards and scored a bunch of touchdowns. Oh, yeah. I just, the fullback used to get in. One random year and then he like never got touches again. All right. From Twitter at Bin 155.390.

At bin, 15589 was taken. Oh, yeah. He had to go up one. All right. What is Matt, this is for you, Matt. What is your absolute favorite place of nature is how he terms it in terms of this road trip? What's your favorite place you visited so far?

That is, uh, that is tough. And I'm glad he specified nature. Also, this is Ben Cummys. Shout, shout to Ben. Yeah, yeah, it is. He's a good writer for RotoViz and I think he does some stuff with two QBs too. So, uh, check, definitely check him out. But I think, it's tough to say. Like, I'm glad he included nature because it would be kind of insulting if it was like, I drove all the way across the country to see my family. And, you know, they're like bottom five. But there's a painted desert and then my mother. Um, yeah, no, this is, this is a really good question. And I.

It's so hard to say. It would definitely be somewhere in Arizona, because like I said, this place is just full of breathtaking stuff. Like, honestly, when I saw the meteor crater yesterday, I think that was the most, like, wow moment I've had so far. Like, you just really feel the, like, power of nature and the, like... How small you were. Yeah, like, right. Like, that tiny, like, they have the telescopes there where you can see into, like, these little tiny things that are now in the center. I'm like...

I can't see that at all with, like, just my naked eye. That's, I'm just, yeah, I'm so insignificant and small, which is definitely a nice thing. Enjoy the Grand Canyon. Oh, are you going to do the Skywalk? I think, is that what's called? That's on the north side, though. Of the canyon? Yeah. Yeah, the trouble with all that is, like, I guys, obviously I have Charlie with me, have the dogs. Like, I'm limited in what I can do with the Grand Canyon. I think they only let dogs on, like, the South Rim. Okay. There you go. But it just gives me a reason to go back. Yeah, I've never gotten to do the walk. I've been to the canyon, but that thing looks just insane.

The skywalk? Yeah, where you're on the glass pane. Do you know what that is? Yeah, that's where you walk through the glass. Yeah, you can walk out on the glass. I don't think I'd be able to do it. Honestly. It's crawling. I'd be crawling. And if there's any kind of like metal beams in between the glass, I'd be on that part. My wife. Okay, so as if the glass breaks, you're going to balance. Then I'm going to hold on. Yes. My wife and I went there for our anniversary this past year.

And I literally, my apprehension was not with myself falling off. I couldn't stand watching all these kids walking out to get photos. You know, because everybody's got there, like, the amount of selfie sticks I saw at the Grand Canyon was insane as well. I should have thrown them all into the canyon. Just grab them and toss them in. Those are the worst. But I was afraid for other people. That's what I really, I was like, oh my gosh, don't do that. Don't go out there. And, you know, every year, like two or three selfie stick people fall in. So.

Don't do that, Harmon. I do not have a selfie stick. I have, I've, like, bogarded so many strangers on this trip to be like, can you take a picture of me and my dog? There you go. That's how we used to do it. What's wrong with that in the cold days? Before the skywalks. All right, here we go. VoiceMail question. Let's jump back into it. Hey, guys, Big Pacey here. I just had a quick question about my formatting, and I've got to keep your league, 10 men. Two of the players dropped out. We're trying to replace them.

but we need to find out how do we replace them with the keeper position? The eight other people in our league want to keep their players? What's the most fair way of doing it? Of signing new keepers. Thank you. I got two ways to do it. Sounds like Big Stacey was taking the left. Oh, Big Stacey. I heard Dick Tracy. It's Big Pasty. I thought it was Big Tasty. It's Big Pasty. Well, whoever was. I thought it was tasty. Oh, no. So nobody knows me. Nobody knows. But I heard the blinker.

I hope you were on Bluetooth. Oh, he was in the car? Two responses that I have right away for that. One, I mean, look, you were already a keeper league so they can just inherit the keepers. Yes. Or choose them from the existing roster. But if you didn't want to do that, you could do it the same way we would expand in a keeper league, which is, you know, essentially let those guys have a keeper draft. Supplemental. Supplemental, pre-draft, pre-regular draft, if, you know, two or three keepers, and let them alternate picks, flip a coin, whatever you want to do.

to establish their initial keepers. That way everybody can keep the ones that they have. Yeah, that's the way I got into our League of Record. I also have my other main kind of League of Record, and that one is a little bit more harsh, and if you're a new team, you just don't get a keeper. Or actually, I think there's just very, very restrictive keeper rules of you can hold a guy, but that's it. You get them for one year, and then you've got to find your own, essentially. So there's multiple ways to do it. But the best way is let him,

Pick from the roster. Yeah, just give them the team. Say, okay, you now own this team. Select your keepers from the team. If your team sucks. Sorry. Welcome. Welcome to the league. That's how you got in. I was, so what you were described is kind of like a dispersal draft. Yeah, I was saying beforehand, yeah. That was what I would have said now. Yeah. Yeah. And we did that. It worked out well. It worked out a little bit better in our league because we restricted keepers to a per position basis. So somebody couldn't, in the supplemental grab like.

Three running backs, sure. So that made it easier. All right, Rob in Canada. Bonjour. My question is regarding draft tiers. I used them for the first time last year, and I found myself flip-flopping between picks less often. In a standard league, are running backs more valuable than wide receivers from the same tier? For example, in your consensus standard rankings, he says he loves the ultimate draft kit, by the way. Thanks, Rob. You have Mark Ingram and Amari Cooper at the top of your third tiers.

Would you take Ingram over Cooper in a standard league? Also, would you consider adding a ranking for all positions in one with tiers? So he's asking for a top 200? Yeah. The top 200 is coming. We've been asked that a lot. It's coming. So much so that we have almost got it finished. We just wanted to do it smart. Yeah. One of the problems I have with having a top 200 personally, and I guess this is really just preference, but I prefer to draft with separate.

ranked tiers of positions. That way I can look at who's left at each position really clearly. Take a look at, you know, my wide receiver tier versus my running back tier. And your team makeup. Yeah. You know, I think it's just clearer that way. But the people want it. We're going to give it. So as far as our running backs more important in a standard league.

I would say, you know, wide receivers will score less in a standard league, but in our rankings on the draft kit, that's already factored in. And I think it comes down more to roster makeup, right? Yes. If you've got two running backs, two wide receivers and a flex, in a standard league, I would say, yeah, running backs, if you're in the higher tier where they're scoring, I would rather have a running back. If you've got, you know, the three wide receivers, then wide receiver would be more important. Let's say you gentlemen.

Actually, I want to flip it real quick for Harmon. How do you fall on running backs versus wide receiver? Do you still, like the old school, you got to have a strong running back? Have you been swayed by the zero running back arguments at all? Where are you in that area? Yeah, I kind of tend to do like a hybrid of the zero running back where like I'm fine taking...

one running back within the first kind of five rounds, but really I do want to, you know, heavily get involved in the receivers. Like this year especially has been doing mock drafts and MFL tens. Like I don't really feel good about my team if I don't come away with like two of those top 15 receivers. Okay. You know, and a lot of times it's been, because I seem to keep getting, this is first world problems, but I keep, I seem to keep getting like top three picks in MFL tens, which is really starting to get on the nerves. Every time. So I end up with a lot of like Odell Beckham.

you know, Julio Jones, and then like Demarius Thomas. And I feel really good about that start this year, especially. But, yeah, so I kind of tend to do a little bit of a hybrid of it. Okay, that's how I lean to. I still like to get a strong running back. I understand the variance and the fragility. And these guys get hurt. It's just part of the game. And, I mean, we saw wide receivers can get hurt.

to everyone you're playing football it's a it's a pendulum thing too you know you have one year where you know like the rookie wide receivers from a couple years ago all of a sudden everybody wants to overdraft rookie wide receivers you just got to be cautious with the pendulum swing all right the king in the north oh in virginia wait is this from the grave is this rob rob rob

Yeah, Rob Stark. Oh, where going Game of Thrones? It took me a second to get back into it. The king of the north. If it's the king of the north of Virginia, that's like my people. So who's the king of the north? Are you the king? I thought it was me. Did you write this in? This question comes from Matt Harmon. I thought I took that title officially when I went back to visit, just to remind people. It's implied.

Yeah, he might have to file like a trademark claim here or something. That is a good point. He says, hey guys, reigning foot clan champion here. Well, it's definitely not me. Who should I use my keeper pick on in this season? Can choose only one. John Brown in the fifth, Ryan Matthews in the seventh, or Duke Johnson in the seventh, and here's the kicker. Full point per reception league, 14 team. Oof. That's an easy one for me, so I'm going to go last. All right.