Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Matt Harmon Mailbag Show!

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To the Fantasy Footballers Podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, we have a special show today. If you're on the YouTube, you already know. And if you're not, you don't. But we've got a good show. It's Tuesday, June 16th, the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. And we have an in-studio guest that... First time. What? First time ever.

Matt Harmon from NFL.com is here. How are you doing, Matt? I'm spectacular. This is an honor to be the first in-studio guest. I don't really know how we got here, but here we are. Well, Matt Harmon had a, he was on a voyage around the continental United States, sent on a picture. I'm going to be in northern Arizona, and I was like, what?

How do you go to Northern Arizona and you don't come down and hang out with the fantasy footballers? Absolutely. Well, after seeing all of the beautiful parts of the state of Arizona, which, by the way, is quickly climbing up my state power rankings. Oh, really? Yeah, oh, absolutely. There are so many good things to see in this state. I'm...

enthralled by the natural beauty of it. So after that, obviously, I got to come down here to the hot part of the state. Oh, the really hot part. Take it down a notch on your love. Yeah, exactly. I had to cool it down a little, you know, the whole time I'm driving through the painted desert, seeing the meteor crater. I've got the Grand Canyon tomorrow. And then, but of course, I got to, you know.

like you said, sobered up a little bit, realize that there's part of the States where it's like 115 degrees. Welcome. You're seeing the Grand Canyon tomorrow, you said. Yes, that's like the last thing I'm doing. Oh, so you'll go right back up the list because that's just incredible. Yeah, little known fact. I lived here my whole life. Never seen the Grand Canyon. What? Dude, what do you do? I know. That's shameful. That's weird. I hate myself. And also, Harmon's.

timing was perfect because we have been in an excessive heat warning now for about four days. Right. You're welcome. For all those that ask how white we are, it's because we do not go outside. No, you don't want to burn alive. So we got an exciting show. We're doing mailbag with Matt Harmon today. So we're going to answer questions. We put it out there on Twitter, so we grabbed a few that are Harmon specific. They want to ask you some questions. And then we've got a lot of mailbag questions sent in on the website, the fancy footballers.com. You can go there, submit a question.

You can visit us on Jointhefoot.com or Fantasy Football Community, where we have an extra episode every week. We just did a giveaway, and we're getting the giveaway for next month altogether, which will be a lot of fun. Follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. And obviously, I mean, with an in-studio guest, you've got to go to YouTube, you've got to subscribe to the show on YouTube and catch us on there. The harm and hair is on fire right now. Looking good. I really appreciate that. He's going to be here.

For the show after the show as well. He is. I'll be here for a while. Hey, listen, I got nowhere to be. The longest show we're ever doing. So, quick question for the day. We'll start it off right now. What player going outside the top three rounds right now? Do you expect to surprise people this year? So it's a broad question. You expect it's going to happen. Yeah, somebody going outside the top three rounds. A big surprise outside of the top three rounds. Could be good or bad.

Couldn't be good or bad. I'll go with a good one. I'll skip over my Kobe Fleener love because I share that too often. You should skip that. I'm going to go. I think Isaiah Crowell is a guy. I mean, we're talking, I know you said outside of the top three rounds. I could say outside of the top, whatever, 13 rounds, wherever he's going. 8.10 right now, 8.10. Yeah, so he's going very late.

You know, the Wolverine-led offense there for the Cleveland Browns. Hugh Jackman. Hugh Jackman, who I've now nicknamed. It's terrific. I loved that. That was great. I saw somebody. I think you guys retweeted. Somebody Photoshopped that. Yes. Well, let's get that going. Let's get that nickname stuff. Well, I saw Mike said, you know, he would absolutely coach shirtless. If Wolverine was the coach, yes. He would have no shirt. For sure. Yeah, so I just believe. Jim Tom Sula. If he.

Jim Tom Sula was so upset. He didn't, well, he wasn't actually fired. He quit because he couldn't coach shirtless. Yeah, that was the big deal. But with Isaiah Crowell, what I think is going to happen is I think you're going to have a team that runs the ball as their primary function. They spent, you know, they had 14 draft picks. None of them went on a running back. Duke Johnson is getting all the love right now.

And if you're in a standard league, I think Isaiah Crowell will outperform his value easily. I'm not saying he's going to be a top back, but definitely somebody that you can grab in the eighth that can be in your roster making a difference for your team, getting points. If you're starting wide receiver heavy and you need to be able to have someone to plug in that's going to get points, I think Carl is going to, going to surprise. All right. Who's next? Man, I'm looking through the list here, trying to figure out a name that maybe we haven't brought up who I believe in.

still. And right now, the name who's popping off, because I wanted to go real late, we've mentioned it before, but I want to give him a little bit more, and that is Willie Sneed from the New Orleans Saints. Yeah, Harmon approved. Great call. And look, he had almost 1,000 yards in what was essentially his rookie year. It wasn't actually his rookie year, but I think the people are reacting strongly to the Michael Thomas draft pick.

And I just, Willie Sneed is plugged in. He's got the trust, he's got the chemistry already built up with Drew Breeze. I think we tend to forget about those types of things. We forget about this human element. We think we just, oh, he's a good receiver, plug him in, and he's great in the system immediately, where Willie Sneed has shown it. And getting drafted in the 11th round, the number two wide receiver for the New Orleans Saints. Drew Breeze leads the league almost every single year or is in the top three for completions and yardage and touchdowns.

How would you not want that guy on your team? Yeah, I think we agree with that. I'm with you on that one, and I think that actually Michael Thomas, and there have been some positive reports out of there. Well, there's been some reports where he's going to not beat out Brandon Coleman. And then there's also been he and Breeze are completely sympathetic already, which is great. I actually think that...

Thomas hurts Fleener, sorry to say. No, that's fine. I think that he hurts Fleener a little bit more because I think the appeal of Fleener was him, you know, splitting out wide, playing in the slot in the red zone. That's the things that Michael Thomas is going to do. And I think Sneed is cemented already in that role. I really like him. He's a reception favorite. If I ever do actually get back to my real life and start writing about football again, he'll be one of the first ones that I talk about. I think I'm going to throw this name out there because we mentioned him a little bit. There's so many guys that...

At the tight-in position, we feel like you can wait on. I'm going to throw Vance McDonald's name out there. As somebody who could surprise, because, I mean, your options are surprised. That's it. I mean, he's outside the 13th round. And Vance McDonald's, somebody who was coming on stronger towards the end of the year and had the concussion, probably the week that everybody finally rolled him out there. And you have Tori Smith.

I know, you know, Harmon and, uh... Yes. Mike, I have some support. Oh, you finally. Finally, if Tori Smith comes up, there's actually a battle. Again, not reading too much into the coach speak, but yesterday, a good report that said Tori Smith was, I think I told you this, Mike. I said he's, uh, they said he's the best looking 49ers wide receiver. Mike's like, okay. Well, of course. Do they, do they have other receivers? In theory, they do. In theory.

Like there are bodies there are. On the roster, they put the W.R. W. R. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like Vance McDonald. He wouldn't surprise me to finish as a top 10 tight end, but the question is, no, I would not be surprised the same. You saw Gary Barnage last year. It's one of those type of roles where the opportunity is there. But my question is, would you draft him? Would you actually draft Vance McDonald in a standard normal redraft? Yeah, I would draft Vance McDonald late. If I had waited on a tight end and I wanted to take, I mean, maybe there's somebody ahead of him. I mean, I'd choose Ebrun over him. Yeah.

If you're sitting late in the draft, but I would consider it. So, Harmon, for these bodies in San Francisco, is there anybody else at the wide receiver position there that you give any kind of care about? Yeah, actually, I really do like, okay, first, I like DeAndre Smelter coming out of school a lot, but there's already, you know, there's some kind of negativity with him, like that there's, you know, he can't hardly get the reps without having to see a trainer, you know, he missed all of his rookie season, but he's really talented. Also,

super, super deep. I like Bruce Ellington a lot coming to school. And, you know, one thing about this trip is I've, like, you know, a lot of time. I haven't done a lot of research lately, but I haven't been hooked up to a lot of internet, but I've been... You found the right show. Yeah, no. No research, just straight shooting. No, but seriously. Um...

I have been, you know, just meditating on these things. And I remember really liking Bruce Ellington at South Carolina. I think he fits kind of in the profile of the athletes that Chip liked to use in San Francisco. So, you know, you can get him in like the 20th round of MFL tens. And I will definitely take a shot because I think he's talented. And he's shown some interesting production like as a rusher and a receiver and a return man in the NFL and back at South Carolina. So he's someone to keep an eye on. All right.

Yeah, I mean, it's one of those things where you have to kind of find some names in San Francisco with the quantity of plays that are going to be run. They might be disaster plays, but the quantity will be there. And the deal is there will be points scored. Maybe they're not going to lead the league in points, but they'll get yards, they'll get points. They're still a professional football team.

They won't have negative yards every single week. Yeah, that's maybe a couple times. That's the argument that I keep getting into people with Gino Smith. Like I know Marcus Grant, you know, God love him. He's a 49ers fan. And we go back and forth about this when we're like, you know, getting our aggregate rankings. He's like, well, what's the point of all these plays if, you know, 75% of the balls thrown at him are going to be at his feet? And it's like, but still, the play volume matters, especially when you're that late in fantasy drafts. Like somebody, like you said, some of these guys are going to score points. That's why I liked MFL tens.

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