Fantasy Football Podcast 2017 - Free Agency Predictions, Fantasy Implications

Don't do it to me. When Rashad Jennings was cut, he said, wow, what's going on with the New York Giants? What do we have here? Hey, guys. And now we have Ben McAdoo saying, well, I'll take a look at Adrian Peterson. And part of me wants this just to destroy Andy's dynasty roster because Andy, because Andy has acquired both Paul Perkins and Adrian Peterson over this off season. Put them together. So if they can just.

destroy each other's value at the exact same time. I'll be very happy. The only way that works out for me is if we get the Arian Foster Ajai backfield. We're in a couple weeks goes by and Adrian Peterson just says, you know what? I don't have it anymore. And then Paul can run with it. Look, Adrian Peterson will not do that. Adrian Peterson is not foster. Adrian Peterson. Adrian Peterson, Hall of Fame running back, unbelievable. One of the greatest running backs to ever play the game. There's two things.

though that he can't really do i mean if you want to throw a pass catching you can you can kind of throw that in there but one is hold on to the football right he's a fumbler always has been always will be which to me uh that's an instant death to all the patriots nonsense and the he does bill bellichick does not want to the second thing that he is not that good at is running out of the shotgun yes so if he goes to the new york giants who run out of the shotgun

run three wide receiver. This is just a terrible, terrible fit for him. So I, with Andy, I've got him going to Oakland to complete that triangle shift where those three teams. This triangle is key. Yeah, it sure. I want it to come true because I want the meme to begin. Yeah. Jason, the triangle.

What's a love triangle? It's a Phil Jackson-led shift of teams. You run the triangle. Is Scotty Pippin' ball? Yeah. All right. Tight-ins. Let's talk Martellis Bennett. Let's talk Jared Cook real quick. Some potential destinations. For me, I think they got the money. I like yours the best. Jacksonville is the home for me. I think they have a ton of cap space, third most in the league. They just shipped off Julius Thomas because he can't block. Martellis can block. He can catch the ball as.

probably better than Julius could anyways. Bring in Martellus, give Blake Bortles another stability piece there, help the running game. To me, he could be there. Hey, you know, he's still a tight-in two to me because I think he's hitting mess week to week. Yeah, I would agree that he'd be a two. The thing about the Bennett brothers, we know they like their money. I don't blame them, but they like their money. And he's got the ring. I mean...

That's a wrap, man. I'm going to go get that huge contract, and Jacksonville has the space on the roster to acquire him, and they have the space in their salary cap to give him a huge truckload of money. So I like that. The hypothesis I'm thrown out, though, is like the Oakland. We've talked about them a lot, but I like the idea of them adding an even more dominant blocking piece of that offensive line and just another really solid weapon.

for Derek Carr. But Mike. Yes, voice of public opinion. But no, you could just call me Andy. They have Clive Walford. Bulford is so good. I don't think people outside, because Andy always talks up Clive Walford. I don't think people inside note think that I like Clive Wofford. Yeah, we know. You haven't done it on air, but you talk Clive Wofford like he is the next. I do not talk.

Here's when I mentioned Clive Walford. When you're talking up Lance Kendrix like he's the second coming. Kendrix isn't even going to be the number one tight end on that team. All right. We got a Lance Kendrick, Clive Wofford, water bet. For beats. Wait. A Lance Kendrick Clive Wofford? Yeah. No, I didn't. I thought you were going to make a Higby bet. No, a Lance Kendrick. No, I'm not making that bet. That doesn't sound like someone who believes in Clive Wofford. If I could talk about Clive Wofford less, I would.

But you forced my hand. Well, all I know is you're talking about Clive Walford. Okay. All right. Wow. Jay, I actually had your answer down as my original. My original? You shouldn't have changed it because like I said in the beginning, I do know, you know, Cameron Bray is a good tight end, but it shows that they feel they need a tight end. There have been rumors that they're looking. What shows that they need a tight end? That camera brates good? No, no, no, that they put the tender offer on Cameron Brate, the news that we share. It wasn't a.

It wasn't a tenure. It was an exclusive rise. Yes. But I think Martell's Bennett is, I think that's the best landing spot for him to go to Tampa Bay. They've always wanted that big tight end. You know, they drafted Austin Saffarian Jenkins, but he didn't have it upstairs. And, you know, the other thing is you want to talk money, right? Money is what matters to Martell's Bennett right now. And that's not a bad thing necessarily. He said that. He's not bad at all. You know, if you were in my shoes, you would too. He's got the ring. So Tampa Bay has got a ton of money.

and you don't pay taxes for the state. Oh, yeah, the state tax. Oh, you're going to take that money to the next level. Very nice. Jared Cook, and we all have them back in Green Bay. Yeah. Just very honest. The only thing we disagree on is Jason has him as a fringe one. Yes, I do. A fringe one. I know it's gross because I think. It's disgusting. It is. Look, I want it known. Jared. Jared Cook, bad football player.

I think he's an okay, but I just, they don't use the tie-in. You want to know him, public announcement. Public announcement, Jared Cook, bad football player. Okay. Public announcement. Aaron Rogers can overcome bad football players, parentheses C. Devante Adams. The, in parentheses. The, uh, the tight-in position accounted for 16% of Green Bayes passing yards. Okay. This.

You're not getting a tight end one out of that. Well, he was hurt. He was hurt for the majority of the year. He would know he was not hurt for a majority. Yes, he was. Let me count. You have seen years before with Green Bay with Aaron Rogers. Ten games. Yeah, he missed a pretty big chunk. Ten games is enough. That's missing over a third of the season. Yeah, good point, Jason. Yeah. But in those ten games, he gave you 30 receptions and 377 yards. Okay. Yeah, but look at what he did in the playoffs.

No, those are Green Bay games. That's games with Aaron Rogers throwing the ball to Jericho. All right. He's not a one. Anything is possible. He's not a one. All right. Hey, look, we got to jump into quarterbacks now. I want to cover three guys. Tony Romo is set to be cut. Hasn't been cut yet. His destination. We'll talk Jay Cutler and we'll talk Colin Kaepernick as well as Kaepernick is now a free agent.

And then we'll pick somebody that is a nobody to somebody, a free agent that most people don't really care about, that we think can turn into a fantasy starter. So let's talk Tony Romo first. Where does he land? I'm going to go with Houston. I think Houston is a team. They're ready to rumble. They're ready to rumble. That team just needs not Brock. That's the key to their success is the not Brock movement.

Are you ready to Brock? Like if I had to put up, you know how like cities before the season start? They put up the banners around with like the team model for that year. Yeah. All in. It would be a, yeah, all in. Rise up Red Sea. This would be like a big, a big picture of Romo and then hashtag not Barack at the bottom. Right. You know who's going to hang that up there? Way up there. Brock. See, that's the hike. He can get it up there for them. That's good. No, I like that. I like that.

Look, if the Texans can get a cheap quarterback to come in and replace Brock, I think it's going to be good. They're not going to get Tony Romo cheap. I have him going to Denver. I think he's the leading candidate. Yeah, if you want, if you're Tony Romo, you want to go. Yeah, but Simeon's almost going to be back for training camp from his injury. Hey, look, I picked Simeon up in our Dynasty League. I think he's going to be an okay streamable quarterback. No, Clive Woffer. Tony Romo is not there. But if I'm Tony Romo, I want to go to a place where there is a very good defense.

where I've got Demarius Thomas, where I've got, yeah, Demarius Thomas. Demarius Thomas. You could say DeAndre Hopkins. Sure. But then Emmanuel Sanders. Yeah. Will Fuller. I guess they're both. This is some Will Fuller disrespect right there. Yeah. I'm with Jason. Tony Romo to Denver. I love it. It would be spectacular for fantasy purposes. Manuel Sanders and Thomas will skyrocket. Oh, yeah. The running game.

I mean, to me, that improves the running game if you actually have to respect the quarterback. And I think if Denver does this speaking, just real-life football, just slot them, slot them right into the playoffs. Yeah. Okay. All right. Jay Cutler? Oh, my best friend. I think he lands in San Francisco. I changed this pick. Oh. Yeah, I had him going to New York.

play for the Jets. I changed my mind. I think San Francisco, I'm with Mike. We both see him as a QB2 in San Francisco pairing up with maybe an Alshan. Maybe it's somebody else. Yeah, it's the reunion. They're back together. The band is back together. Look, if there's one thing Cutler knew how to do, it's Chuck the ball at Alshan or whoever's one is. And my whole off-season narrative I've been buying into the Jay Cutler to the New York Jets. But as soon as Kaepernick.

strangely opted out of the contract. I don't think that he can get anything close to what he was going to make. I think that Jay Cutler could be a good fit for Kyle Shanahan as a bridge quarterback. Yeah, that's, you know, when it comes to Jay Cutler, it's hard to imagine teams paying up for a guy who has, you know, every destination he's been, the teams got to a point where they hated him.

and they could not get out from under him because he was still a little bit better than their backups. He was paid enough. And so it's tough for me to imagine someone paying him. And I'm thinking, you've got to be a team that just really hates your current quarterback and needs to do something a little bit better in your eyes to justify pay for Jay Cutler. So I've got two, I got the Texans, right, the not Brock. And I've got the bills. He's going to both. I still think.

I still think, you know, Tyrod Taylor should be their quarterback and probably will, but there's plenty of reports saying that they don't want them there. And if they could go get Jake Cutler, I don't know. Jay Cutler, he should be a backup. He should take backup money and go be a backup. I think that was the best summary of Jay Cutler's career right there. Yes. I don't know. All right. Colin Kaepernick, the last quarterback we'll discuss here. It looks like we all have them going the same place, being the same thing. The Jets. The Jets, huh?

Yeah, they've got to do something. No Ryan Fitzpatrick holdout talk this year. No excitement to bring him back. Well, he's going to hold out. He's just going to be holding out. Holding out hope. For a team that wants him. So Colin Kaepernick in New York? Hey.

Yeah, I mean, his late, look at last year. I mean, you put him, he was on as bad of a team as you could be on, still had fantasy relevance for multiple weeks at a time. In fact, had a really consistent run in the middle of the year because he can run the ball. He can run the ball and he looked good enough to get your fantasy numbers, but nothing you can count on. Certainly not on a team that, you know, if they cut Brandon Marshall and Eric Decker, they change up their wide receiver core, there's going to be a lot of question marks. So I don't think we can project him as anything outside of a, you know, QB2. Fair?

Yeah, that's very fair. All right. We'll pick that nobody to somebody name. It's not going to be Ryan Fitzpatrick. I don't think he's the impact free agent. He's somebody to nobody now. For me, the free agent that isn't a free agent yet that I think will be is Ryan Matthews. Wait, what? Yeah. Ryan Matthews will count for five million. I wish I had like fireworks and the confetti cannons. Because I think he'll be cut.

No, because you think that he's going to be a somebody. Well, look, he counts. He's going to be somebody. He counts for $5 million against the cap. They save $4 million if they cut him. I think they cut him. There was a report last night I saw that they're going to keep Sprouls. Yeah, I mean, this is a guy who traditionally has both been always injured and has ball security issues, but he is a good runner when given an opportunity. So you want to talk about a team that...

Let's say somebody brings Ryan Matthews in. Oh, man, Washington. They don't pay, that's... Make it happen, Washington. Didn't I write that down there? Yeah, I don't know. Did you? Yeah, you have Washington and Indianapolis. Because if both of those destinations... What is that a Ryan Matthews train? The hype train will start. You can't even control yourself over there with Ryan Matthews. I love Ryan Matthews. Well, you...

You're a bit of a fumbler yourself, so that makes sense. Yeah. All right. That's my pick for Washington Indy. Ryan Matthews could land there. A guy like Gore could be done. All of a sudden, Ryan Matthews is handling the majority of the carries in Indianapolis. Man, I would love it if he goes there because Mike's hype train would derail his own dynasty team that has Rob Kelly. Yeah. Hey, I'll take it. Works for me. I will take it.