Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Early Breakouts for 2016, News, Mailbag

All right, Richard in St. Augustine, Florida says, I am in a 12-team PPR league that drafts non-snake. What three should I keep with no round penalty? I'll be drafting from the 11th position each round. AP, DeMarco Murray, Randall Cobb, Cam Newton, Ryan Matthews, and Keenan Allen. Mind you, it's a PPR league. Man, that DeMarco Murray trade was pretty important for this guy. Because he's got DeMarco Murray and Ryan Matthews and not two great of options.

I'm struggling with the third. Peterson and Allen are in for me. As they are for me. I would probably, I'm going to go with DeMarco Murray. Man, that's... Make a call. That's tough. Math, I think it's Matthews for me. PPR, if this is the assumption that the Eagles don't add somebody of note, and Ryan Matthews looks like he's going to be that Charles for Douglas Peterson up there.

then it would be Matthews for me. Yeah, I think in a PPR I would have to do the same thing. Obviously, wait as long as you can in picking your guy. If they bring someone else in, which I think is very, or our ship Matthews out, that's a realistic proposition. Then go to Marco Murray. But Adrian Peterson and Keenan Allen are locks. Have we really swung that far away from Randall Cobb? Yep. One year.

I think he's going to present a good value. He's fine. He's going to present a good value for where he's drafted. But it's saying like he's a PPR stud. Was. Not over Keenan Allen. No, no, no, not over Allen. I'm saying over that third spot of where. I like DeMarco a lot. We're taking the gamble of Murray who, like you said, had just the absolute atrocious, atrocious year. Yeah, but he was a two, you said. Right. You send him to an offense that while.

we feel is ascending. But the workload, man. Yeah. The opportunities there are just saying that's, that is, that sucks for Cobb, man. The opinion on him has shifted so drastically. I think that's great for people who draft Cobb. He's being drafted right now as a 23rd wide receiver. What? Yeah. Well, he'll be 22nd because Martavis Bryant's ahead of him. Wait, what? As in that's too far for you? He was, when Jordi was there.

He was a wide receiver one. Time, man. Time goes by. Things don't stay the same. We don't get to go back in time. We don't get to say Ryan Matthews from four years ago is what it would be this year. We don't say Cobb from two years ago. That offense will be different. The players will be different. I'm with you. I understand. But he has to have a rebound. I don't think it will be that different. I don't think it's that different. It's not drastically different. So what are the odds that he repeats last year and has the same season? The most recent evidence we have of Cobb is disappointment. Right. But that's...

That's full on recency bias to me. I'm happy to be recently biased as opposed to the distant past biased. You're also not taking into account, though, that it's not just recency bias of he did it this year. But you have to look at, well, what was the reason? What was the reason? You cannot, for 100% sure, say, Jordy Nelson solves Eddie Lacey, Jordy Nelson solves Randall Cobb, Jordy Nelson solves Aaron Rogers. No, of course not. But what I can say for 100% certainty was that Jordy Nelson was out for the whole year.

and that that had an effect. On Randolph? No, on the Green Bay Packers. Okay. Well, when Mark McCarthy took over, everybody thought Randall Cobb, that was the excuse then, too. He's taking him over. Randall Cobb's going to be utilized heavily now that Mike McCarthy's calling plays, and it didn't happen. So I'm just reserving the possibility that that's an appropriate draft position for a guy who had a really disappointing season. I feel like this is a bear versus lion.

Oh, no. So we're going to close this out with apparently a very, very long question that Jason put in here. So I'm going to let him take care of it. Nick and Hunter. I don't. All right. It's more of a story. He says he's going to try to keep this short, but he doesn't. Says, we have a member who won the league in 2012. This was the first year of our league, and we had a trophy made. Well, the next year, our buddy from Hawaii won the league, and he never received the trophy. We finally got Jack.

to admit that he didn't send it because the shipping was too expensive. Hawaii. After the 2014 season, we had another champion, and when it came time for him to receive the trophy, Jack claimed he lost it when he moved. Dun, dun, we believed him. He had moved twice over this time with the trophy. Well, we are slackers at heart, and nobody replaced the trophy. Fast forward to this season, about halfway through the season. Me and Jack take a road trip.

To visit another buddy in Pennsylvania, I'm in his garage grabbing a soda for the road, and what do I see on the shelf? Our fantasy football trophy! After all this time, it's just sitting in his garage. We haven't called him out on it yet, but we have asked him if he's found it, and he still claims that it has been lost. How would you deal with this? Do we kick him out? Do we have him forfeit a first-round pick? Please help. I got a little lost here in this story.

Jack has the trophy. Yes. He said he lost it. He claimed he lost it so he didn't have to send it to the next winner. But then he went on a road trip, road trip with Jack. And when he went on that trip, he saw it in Jack's garage. Yeah. So I was seeing it at the buddy's house. No, so first and foremost, Nick, the question is, why didn't you say something when you saw the trophy in his garage? Hey, see something, say something. For instance. For instance.

What is that trophy doing in your garage? You said you lost it. Or possibly, hey, Jack, is that our trophy? What else we got? Or you could have gone with, hey, Jack, you cheap son of a gun. Why didn't you ship that to Hawaii or to the person that won the league? Let's help Nick out. What does he do now? Now that he's waited that long. There are different options. If you're close friends with Jack and you don't want to boot him out of the league, shame is the next best option. I agree. You force him to...

Pay a penalty of sorts. Maybe he's responsible for the shipping costs for the next five years of moving that trophy around the league. That's pretty good. If he wants to stay around. You could also water him. How would you? Get the water wheel. Wheel of water. I'm with you guys. I'm just, I am baffled. How do you see the trophy and not just annihilate him on site? Well, you don't know how big a deal it was.

You know, it might have been like, oh, man, do I bring this up? We made a big deal of this. Jack and I had a bad relationship in the past and we're finally together now. I'm going to give him the benefit that I'll make up a storyline for Nick here. All right. Well, um, call it to his attention. Say you saw it in the garage and just have him bring the trophy out and then publicly mock him. There you go. Did you take a picture? I mean, you have to like.

If nothing else, you take a picture. Well, if he lies about it when you call him out to his face, then it's time to move on. Find a new league, buy a new trophy. Say, say, Sire, nara. We can be friends, but not league mates. Yeah. So, hey, before we close the show out, and you do want to stay tuned for the show after the show on YouTube. I do want to say this. We're on Spotify now. Yeah. So our podcast, if you use Spotify and you'd like to listen to us there.

That is another place. You can follow us on Spotify. All our episodes show up there as well. So they've just added podcasts and they've invited us on board. And so we are in Spotify. And we'll be back on Thursday. So I hope you enjoyed the show. The early breakouts. If you have some ideas and things, send them into us, some questions. We'll be here. We got a fun show after the show today. Is that where we're going on? Okay.

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