Fantasy Football Podcast 2017 - Free Agency Predictions, Fantasy Implications

And we've finally convinced Andy, he is a good wide receiver. He has a good skill set. You had until Mike had been spouting this thousand yard thing out and got me believing he had 1,000 yards last year and he had 700 some. But regardless, what you said is he's replaceable. Yes. And I agree with you. Kenny Stills is a replaceable asset because he's kind of that fast burner guy who can.

you know, try to find an open spot. But a guy like Kenny Britt is not as easily replaceable. He's a monster. He's 6-3. He's a red zone threat. Exactly. He's a beast of a man. He's had great seasons for fantasy before. He just put up a pretty decent, yes, but he put up a pretty decent fantasy season this last year. I was starting in many, many weeks and happy to do so with Jared Gough. If he were to be able to go to a team like Tennessee and pair with Marcus Mariotta,

I don't think his draft value is going to soar, and I think he's going to be a very good value. So Kenny Britt. I agree with Mike. He's the bargain. He's the bargain on the free agent market. My question for you is Kenny Britt. You have him at Washington. You feel like he's a wide receiver three. So who is the one there? TBD. Okay. Because Kurt Cousins had almost 5,000 yards. I think it's Jordan Reed. Last year. No, look, he could be a two. I just don't know what the rest of that roster looks like. So for right now.

That's where I have them slotted in. Let's talk two more wide receivers before we turn to the big names at the running back position. Let's talk Pierre Garcin. Let's talk Terrell Pryor. I'll start with the latter. Terrell Pryor, I see him just staying in Cleveland.

I see him as a wide receiver, too, due to the inconsistency at the quarterback position. But I think Hugh Jackson likes Troll Pryor. He had a big hand. It's the only one who does. Yeah, he had a big hand in the transition from him being a quarterback into a wide receiver. It paid off big last year. To me, it's, I would say my confidence level of all these picks is the highest that Troll Pryor goes back to Cleveland. Yeah, I'm on board with that. I have him going back. I just, I don't think anyone, it's reported he's.

trying to get $10 to $11 million. I don't see people lining up for a guy who was... $106 million of cap space. Yeah, the Browns, I don't know. I thought there was rules about how much cap you had to spend. And yet the Browns are over there just sitting on their Scrooge McDuck bank vault.

as their team stinks into eternity. I think they'll make a run, and you guys are probably right that he'll go back to Cleveland. That was my auto. I started to type that in, but the more that I thought about, I mean, if he has 10 million a year, he is like a Kenny Britt, he's not replaceable. He is a freak athlete, and you saw some real good signs of him being a quality wide receiver last year for the hapless Browns. So I have him maybe getting that contract from the San Francisco 49ers.

and saying, hey, with Kyle Shanahan, let me get this crazy freak athlete wide receiver. I mean, he's no Julio Jones, right, coming from Atlanta, but you've got a young piece. And while the Browns do have the most cap space in the league, the second most is the 49ers. So they've got the money to spend on the possibility of a real superstar type wide receiver. Well, Toro Pryor is not that young. He's not that young, but he is...

that freakishly good. He will be 28 entering the season. All right. Let's talk Pierre Garsohn. I think if Britt is a bargain, Garcon is going to be a bargain, especially for a team that wants to contend and add a piece that is probably less expensive than, you know, you talk about Kenny Stills wanting how much? 12. We don't know what he wants. He probably wants 25. Well, okay, but Garcon is going to cost eight or nine at this stage in his career.

I see Baltimore is a great destination for him. A stabilizer, somebody that you can lean on. You saw Derek Mason and Joe Flacco in that relationship earlier in his career. How much is this related to Anquam Bolden's success? Oh, Ann Bolden. That's another great example. I mean, sure-handed, great route runner, team leader, somebody that Harbaugh, I think, would really love.

You know, Baltimore is the place that I think he can go and have an instant impact or play Steve Smith as that veteran leader. So I'll go with Baltimore for Piergarsan. I think there are a lot of good destinations for him, though. I love the Baltimore pick. I'm actually going to go with Baltimore as well because I think he wants to go to go to a decent team. But I'll throw out the Chicago Bears. You know, when you're in the stage of your career where it's like maybe you get one giant contract left, you might go and take the money. And the Bears are going to lose Al Sean, and they've got a lot of free agents. So he could end up.

in Chicago. I'm going on a team that has really not been discussed much with any fantasy or any free agent action. That's the Buffalo Bills. And the Buffalo Bills, I mean, yeah, you got Sammy Watkins, but Robert Woods, free agent, Marquise Goodwin, free agent, Justin Hunter, who they had caught a couple touchdowns here and there, free agent. I mean, their wide receiver core, much like Chicago, could.

be depleted by free agency. And I think that Pierre Garsohn would be a fantastic combination with Sammy Watkins. You have the fire and the ice. Because I'm calling Pierre Garsohn ice because he's just... I appreciate that. Just because reliable possession receiver to go with the big play guy. I think that would be a fantastic move for Buffalo.

All right. Let's move on to the running backs. Let's talk about Jamal Charles. We brought him up in the news and notes. I have Jamal Charles not resigning with Kansas City, although I think that's a possibility. He wants to play for a winner. Yes. I look at what teams around the league would consider bringing him in, and I think Seattle is a great destination for him. I don't think Jamal Charles is going to be expensive by any means. And you look at a team that struggled with.

using a myriad of backs last year. You know, Rawls was injured, ProSise was injured. C-MIC. C-MIC was there for a little while. You have some younger players. I think Jamal Charles going to Seattle is a great option. Fantasy-wise, I don't think he's anything more than a wide receiver. I mean, a running back three in a perfect scenario. I would be very sad if he went to Seattle. Sad for who? For Jamal Charles. Okay. Really?

That offensive line, man, we're not talking about 25-year-old Jamal Charles. But Jamal doesn't have to play anything but a third down roll there if they want him to. Well, that would be, I mean, this is just more of your smear campaign on CJ Pro Seize. Fair enough. All right, Mike, where do you have Jamal Charles landing? I got him going to a possibility of a winner and a team that's, they don't mind. They got to get younger, right? They don't mind having an older quarterback.

They got Frank Gore talking about the Indianapolis Colts to go with the strategy. You got oldie and moldy. Is that what you call the backfield? So from fire, from fire and ice, we get to oldie and moldy. Which one's moldy? That's got to be Frank Gore. Oh, he is. Frank Gore has never not been called the oldie. This is the first time. No, I think the need that Jamal Charles knees the moldy. Oh.

I can't wait for 13 treadmill videos of Jamal Charles. Now, wasn't Jamal Charles? I mean, he was actually released with a failed physical designation. Yes. Correct. Yeah. And he says he's healthy. The team says that that he is not healthy, smelthy. Yeah, that's exactly what they say. He's going to be a guy that I think similar to Aryan Foster last year. He's going to wait a while.

And he's going to sign. To eventually retire. He's going to sign later with a team. The team that I've got him going to later that's going to shock the world and bypass a running back in the draft because they always draft.

Not what they need, but what they think is the best available, which I actually think is... They do. That is a good draft strategy. 100% what Carolina does. The Carolina wants to improve their running game. And they had for a long time Jonathan Stewart and DeAngelo Williams as this one-two punch. They've said we've got to get better at running. If you can bring, you know, Jonathan Stewart and Jamal Charles... Oldie and Moldy Part two. I just love these combos that we're building in the back fields. What could go wrong?

You have a team that's one year removed from the Super Bowl. He wants to go to a winner. And while I would love to see, I mean, I don't go to Carolina. I wanted to put him on the Patriots. But, you know, he's got so many skill sets, you know, similar to the Dionne Lewis and the James White. You just call that backfield injured reserve. That's what you call that? The injured reserve. All right. Let's talk Latavius Murray, okay? Okay. You're still in love with Latavius Murray, Jason? Or are you in love with that O line? Because I don't think, I think Latavius Murray.

gets paid a little bit, lands in Minnesota and runs for about three a carry this year. Three of carry is, that's the rosy side of things. Yeah, in Minnesota, that's really good. I think AP ran for like 1.9 a carry in Minnesota. And I'm with Andy. I got Latavius going to Minnesota. They know that Jerich McKinnon is not the answer. Asiata, I believe, is a free agent. We'll see if they bring him back. But I have him as a...

I would have Murray as a two if he goes to Minnesota because that O line is atrocious. They just, you can't run the ball unless if Jared McKinnon will continue to be that the space back, the satellite guy, and Murray is not getting just dumped a bunch of targets, then running back to who's going to disappoint you a lot. I'm going to spoil.

a couple of my free agent running back picks because i've got and this has happened before but i have a triangle of three teams that are all shifting the running back one team um i have swapsies swapsies i've got latavius murray landing in green bay i think that he does a lot of what they want he that he can be the bigger back like

you know, like an Eddie Lacey was. He could catch the ball like a James Starks did from time to time. They've got a great offensive line. He could pass block as well. So I think if he goes there, if he ends up in Green Bay, I've got him as a running back one. I think that would be good. I think they would be able to pay for him. They have a lot, I mean, they have no money right now to the running backs. They have pretty much Ty Montgomery and no other running back on the roster. There is pressure on the general manager there in Green Bay to spend some money and not.

waste away these Aaron Rogers years. They are traditionally very unpacker-like. Yeah, they're very conservative in the free agent spending, although I think you don't have to spend that much to bring in a guy like Clitavius if you choose him over Eddie Lacey, who we'll talk about next because we have all these picks completely reversed here because I have Mike and I have Eddie Lacey staying in Green Bay. Jason has Eddie Lacey landing in Minnesota. And so there's your, there's the.

Part of the triangle. Part of the running back triangle. Who's a, you know, who's a better, who's a better get in a vacuum, Murray or Lacey? Who do you think is the better get? Lacey. You still believe in Lacey? Yes. I saw him running in a fitness pool the other day. So the hype change should be through the roof. I totally get the fitness is a factor with Eddie Lacey. But I think Eddie Lacey is actually a very, very good running back when he.

is in shape to play. Latavius Murray is a very athletic guy. I don't think he's a very good run. Bad vision. Yeah. Well, he's got that Mark Sanchez vision a lot where runs right into the back of his own. He targets that butt. Yeah. The butt target. All right. Let's talk about AP. Let's talk about Adrian Peterson's potential last stop in the NFL here. To me, to me, this has Oakland written all over it.

You have a team that you have to objectively look as Adrian Peterson will for a contender. They're absolutely a contender. You look for a team that does not need him to carry the full load, but he could if he had one of those, you know, AP type of years where he gets into great shape, has the potential to do it. I think he can come right in. You have an amazing offensive line, the inverse of what he had in Minnesota. And they have...

I think he comes in. He could be an RB2, RB3, and he could go to Oakland. It would not surprise me. If he goes to Oakland, I think he could have some decent production. I just don't think that Oakland wants him. I'm following the train of Adrian Peterson already before the release. There was some leaks happening that he would like to play for the New York Giants.