Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Rising Stars, Preseason WK2, David Johnson Interview

Do they say, okay, we're going back to two tight ends. We're going to grind it out with the Garrett Blunt. There's just, to me, there are big questions. Now, bigger questions now for the Patriots running backs. Okay. Well, I'm going to, I want to try to get through as much of the news as we can. We're going to jump into a quick interview right now. We had the chance to visit with David Johnson, or as we say, David Johnson. And so Mike got a chance to interview him quickly. We're going to.

Play that interview and then give you some updates on a couple of the Cardinals players and then the rest of the news. You talking to me? All right, the fantasy footballers are live, human in person with David Johnson. Yeah. So that's for the Foot Clan. Look, we sang it to him. He thinks it's pretty cool. So, David, how are you feeling with the way the preseason is going with the way that training camp is going? Feeling good. I'm feeling excited. Can't wait for the actual regular season to start. Everyone's.

Getting in the groove, everyone's getting excited. So we had Todd Gurley on the show, and there was a quote. You said you saw it. And Todd said, tell David to sit down. We need an official rebuttal back towards Mr. Gurley. He's going to get hard. He better get ready to lose to me. That's all I got to say is I'm definitely going to beat him. But, you know, it's all in good fun. But he's going down. So what is your personal goal?

for this the upcoming season. Basically just to help out the team. Mostly is to help us, you know, first off, get to the NFC championship and then the Super Bowl. But my main goal is just to get better and continue to help out the team. All right. And then officially for the record, I asked you earlier, what's the snap percentage breaking down to right now?

I don't know. We're all playing in these preseason. Me, Chris, and Andre are all getting reps with the ones. And, I mean, we all got a great chance of playing. And I think we'll all play the whole year. All right. Well, thank you so much, Mr. David Johnson. Have a great season. We know you will. We know you will not let. Not the Cardinals and fantasy players. You're hooking them up big time. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I won't let them down. All right, thanks, man.

All right. We're back here. That was fun. Oh, man. He was a tremendous guy. And his triceps are bigger than my waist. Every second that you're around him, it looks like he's flexing. But he's not. He's just completely relaxed. I mean, I believe he actually told us not to make his muscles look small. Which we were doing regularly. He was a very funny guy. Here's the thing. We did get a chance to ask him about Larry.

There was some news about Larry Fitzgerald and his MCL. He put that fear to rest. He said Larry's fine. He's a veteran. He just basically was sitting that game out. He also gave us the update about John Brown and some really interesting context on the concussion test and protocol that players have to go through. John Brown had been sitting out of practices. He actually got cleared today to practice. But basically said he was fine. He was running around. He just had not been cleared.

He hadn't passed the test. He hadn't been given that test to pass. And so John Brown's all right. Larry Fitzgerald's all right. And we're moving on with the Cardinals. And Josh Gordon is practicing with the first team offense in Cleveland, an offense that suddenly looks all right. Yeah, very possible. How about the change in passing weapons? It reminds me of Carolina last year where going into the season, it was like there was no wide receivers. And then all of a sudden, it turned out they've got a nice wide receiver core. That's what's happening over here in Cleveland.

Terrell Pryorne and Josh Gordon and Corey Coleman and Barnage. Yeah. Still have Andrew Hawkins. Yeah. So very interesting. And Duke Johnson come out of the backfield. All right. Let's talk about Josh Doxton. Looks like he may, we don't know yet, may open the season on the PUP. Yep. Just further affirming the redraft lack of value for Josh Doxon. Yes, completely does. Thomas Rawls resumed practicing without limitations.

ESPN Seahawks reporter, Shield Capodia, says Rawls is on track to start the opener. Okay. There you go. That's a situation to continue to monitor. Jeremy Langford was in a walking boot after the preseason game. He has shed that for practice on Sunday. I think they said his foot was just stepped on, something like that. Yeah, nothing to worry about. There are some reports that Ronnie Hillman may not make the 53. Yep. About time. Sorry, Ronnie.

I expect that he will still make it, but it shows that he has at least gone to the third on the depth chart for sure. At least third. There's reports of him being fourth. The next player we're going to talk about here in the news is a guy I picked up in our Dynasty League this morning. Oh, no. What did you do? That is Andre Williams of the Giants.

They say he's all but won the Giants backup job. If you watch the preseason, Andre Williams, looks much faster than he has in the past. And we know that Rashid Jennings is not a pinnacle of health. I think you'll see some goal line work for Andre this year. And then if Jennings goes down, he'll be the starter. And we know that the Giants love him. Nobody understands why. But I think they're like maybe he's a cousin of someone up high or something. He looks good now. He does. Here's the thing. Passes the eyeball. I realize this this morning, whether it was about Andre Williams or any other player there,

You no longer have Tom Coughlin in the back of your head. Like Tom Coughlin's irrationality about some of these situations. Of like destroying David Wilson. It's like a fresh breath of air now. Like where I'm thinking about these different players on the team on New York. And I'm going, you know, maybe he's got a shot. Maybe if he, you know, he doesn't run around just going, don't fumble. Don't fumble. Please. Oh, please don't fumble. Please don't fumble.

All right, last little bit here. Eric Ebrun will be ready for week one, according to Dave Burkett from the Detroit Free Press, or thinks he will be. That is not official, but just pay attention to Eric Ebrun. We like him in late in drafts, but he needs to play. And then just for Jason, Dirk Cutter said that ASJ, Austin Sfarion Jenkins, has, quote, earned the right to split first team reps with Cameron Brate. That could be just unfortunate for the tight-in situation for fantasy owners in Tampa.

It could also just mean that Austin Saffarian Jenkins is going to get back into being the starter. He looks better in preseason. He was good in run blocking. Although, look, you could put Antonio Gates on that roster in his prime. And if James Winston looks like he did in week two, nobody's catching the ball. So do you like ASJ more than Bray? Yeah, I still like him more than Brate personally. I've never been a huge believer that Brate will end up being the guy.

Uh, the Broncos coach Gary Kubiak said Paxton Lynch could start week one. Yeah, that's interesting. There was not great play from Simeon or Sanchez. And at that point, why would you not just play your first round pick if the other guys stink? Chip Kelly insists Colin Kaepernick's arm is fine. Until Blaine Gabbard gets him again. Yeah, with that dead arm. All right. Dead arm. We're going to jump into our raising canes, rising starts of the week. But first, I want to thank today's sponsor.

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Raising Cain's Rising Stars of the Week. All right, we're doing this every Monday through the entire season. We're picking out some rising stars, guys that are moving up our boards right now before the season begins. And then during the regular season, guys that we will be picking out as trade targets, waiver targets, those type of players. All right, Mike, I'm going to let you kick this off. I know I, here's the thing. I know I agree with all three picks today.

Oh, that's fantastic. So that means I have validated. Andy Holloway has validated these picks. I've actually validated them all as well. I like them all. So I'm driving to our pristine auction event. And, you know, I've got the games tape. And I'm going to watch them all later. I'm getting my texts are blowing up from my friend who is, he's like, dude, Caj Sharp.

This is absolutely ridiculous. And he's giving me crap for how we have buried the Titans receivers. He's saying, no more talk about capping a Titans receiver because Taze Sharp is looking great. I'm like, okay, well, I got to check this out. He looks fantastic. And you know when a wide receiver looks fantastic is when the ball is just going to him nonstop. He's getting open. He's making tough, tough catches. The Sharp over the off season was getting all this praise of.

but it sounded like it was motivational. We're just trying to get Green Beckham going because Tajay Sharp's going to start. No, they're telling the truth there that Sharp is their guy. He's running with the ones. He is, I'm not, while I'm pumping him up, don't go too crazy and overdraft him, but he is definitely a target now. If you're in PPR leagues later on in the draft, he looks like he could become the go-to guy for Mario. Yeah, and the fact that they...

finished they traded doyle green beckham shows that they have faith in taj sharp he he should be involved i like that pick i will say this i mean just because you're the biggest uh the best titans wide receiver let's pretend that for a minute sharp ends up out pacing everybody in targets and receptions which is still a leap right based on a preseason game yes but let's say he does that that's still possibly a very low ceiling

for a guy on an offense that's going to run the ball heavy with DeMarco Murray and Derek Henry. Last year, there was only one team in the NFL that did not have a top 50 wide receiver, and it was the Titan. Yeah, so good news for, I think Titans fans, fantasy owners that are considering the Sharp. They got one right. Would you go Taj Sharpe or Richard Matthews, though? See, I'd probably still take Matthews. I think I still go Matthews. Yeah, personally. And they like Matthews as well. Well, let me give you a rising star.

that we will actually draft and who could be a true game changer. And for me, that's Jeremy Langford. Here's what's happened to me this offseason. And analysts talk about this a lot. That coming into the offseason, we've got our, you know, we've done our data. We've done all the watching film last year. We've, you know, statted these guys out and they're great. And then as, you know, camp and coach reports and all the, all the, you know, news starts going in preseason games.

things change and a lot of times afterwards we go man i wish i didn't change i wish i didn't change based on all the the fluff and all the you know reports that were coming out jeremy langford is that type of guy for me because i had him as a real breakout candidate early on i i believe that he was going to be you know more