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

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Hey, Foot Clan, as you get ready for your fantasy football draft, here's what I think that you should do. I think that you should go to UltimateDraftKit.com because that's where you get our official fantasy footballers draft kit. We got video profiles. We have our stat projections. We have our sleepers, our breakouts. We have the tiers. You heard us talking about how we draft with tears on last week's tips and tricks shows. Our tiers are only available in the Ultimate Draft Kit.

and get ready for your fantasy draft. Hey, this is David Johnson, running back of the Arizona Cardinals, and you're listening to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. To the Fantasy Footballers podcast, coming to you from the Fantasyjocs.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. Somebody's got a case of the Mondays.

I'm sorry, David. Welcome to the show. Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers podcast. We are back. Preseason week two is in the books. We're going to be covering an ocean of news. Just a seaworthy show today. We've got so much going on. It's exciting. We've got to spend some time with David Johnson this past weekend.

We grabbed a quick interview with him. We're going to share with you and some insight that he had on a little bit of the Cardinals' offense and what's going on there. And his formal response to Todd Gurley, which you need to hear. So that'll be good. Andy, Mike, and Jason back again. Today's show will have a ton of news. We'll get into the good performances of the week and the bad ones. We also have our rising stars, our Raising Cain's Rising Stars of the Week on today's show.

And then we're running through the games. And we're giving you kind of the, the cliff notes, maybe the big bullet points. Yes. Fantasy relevant bullet points. Yes, exactly. And you know what is this weekend, my friends? Tell me. Dress rehearsal, week three of the preseason. You got a wedding coming up? It is own. Oh, okay. It is own. It's the real thing almost. For a little bit. Like half the game.

Yeah, we'll get to see if guys like Colin Kaepernet get out there. Old dead arm. No, no, no, no. He'll be fine as fine as Colin Kaepernet can be. So did, like, did Blaine Gabbert just punch him in the shoulder? Did he give him a third grade dead arm? Oh, you remember that? You'd hold your fist up, and then you'd put the knuckle. Oh, the knuckle was key. You'd pop the knuckle out, and that would give the real good dead arm. I think most of the time it would just hurt your finger. I got so many dead arms from one kid. My dad had to call his dad.

I was like second grade, and this kid was a dead arm machine. You should have gave him a dead face. You know what happened, though? Kid never spoke to me or looked at me again. For the rest of his... Oh, the rest of the grade school. The dad got him. So, hey, I got a quick question for you guys, all right? This one comes in from Twitter at StayFung Loco. I got it. I got it. Nailed it. I think it's Stefan, but okay. You know, it's stay fun.

Stay fun Laco. It's definitely stay fun. Oh, you're looking at the Twitter handle. I was reading the guy's name. Oh, his name is Stefan. All right. What wide receiver three do you want? What wide receiver three based on the offenses in the NFL, you know, hypothetically guys like Devante Adams. Ooh, he's making catches. Or Philip Dorset or Michael Thomas or maybe Ted Ginn's considered a three in your mind. Can I just name the best one? Can I just hop right out?

I'd say the best wide receiver three this year will be Michael Floyd. Oh, I see what you did. Yeah, do you see what I did there? I see what you did. He hijacked John Brown. Because John Brown will be the number one.

Larry Fitzgerald will be the number two. Oh, come on. And Michael Floyd will be the number three for the Arizona. You're ridiculous. The hot take show. I like, because Jason really. I really do believe in John Brown. He relates with people with concussions. Look, I don't, the brain doesn't work well. We actually got. You know what someone said the other day? I want to hear. They said it's really hard for me to believe that Jason is the one who originally hired Andy and Mike.

And owned the company before. You know, there's a reason there's a phrase idiot savant. Okay. Wait a second. Is that like fantasy hitman, you're the idiot savant? Yes. You know it. I'm proud to own it. All right. But the truth is, I think that the best wide receiver three in the league is going to be the third wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals. I'll agree with that. And if for draft purposes, whoever is going last, which right now is going to be John Brown. Sure. Okay. I'm in.

Yeah, that's going to be the best, I think, for fantasy purposes. A guy who I'm very much rising on and now targeting towards the later rounds is Philip Dorset. Look, we saw, we'll talk about the Colts, but they were telling the truth. They are going three wide. And Philip Dorset is getting early targets. I know that Hilton was not part of the game, but they still ran three wide. They're getting that formation down. They're getting Andrew Luck used to that.

So Philip Dorset is going basically free in drafts right now, and he's going to have some fantasy production. They've talked about the short passing game there in Indianapolis as well, trying to get luck on rhythm. Luck had a very good first preseason or performance in this last game.

I don't know. I think Dorset can do some damage in that short passing game, too. So let's go ahead. We're going to get into the news. A reminder to everybody out there. If you want to connect with us, the fantasy footballers, head over to join the foot.com. That's our fantasy football community. You heard Mike talk about the ultimate draft kit. You can find that at ultimate draft kit.com. Last couple of weeks to get in on that as your drafts are taking place. Get that competitive advantage in your draft.

And then make sure you follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. You can follow us, subscribe on YouTube. All of our content goes over to YouTube as well. And we are putting a lot of fantasy football content out there. We're actually now on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network very soon, and we're on the Fantasy Sports Network. And you can find our website at the Fantasy Footballers.com. Let's jump into the news. News and notes from around the league. Well, there are some big news.

That I don't think anybody knows about. Nope. We do. Well, and now you will. Well, here's the deal. Every week, there are designations, injury designations given forth by the team, by the franchise. And there were three. There was probable, questionable, and doubtful. Now, what happened is, is last year, over 95% of...

players designated as probable played and the NFL I think took issue with that number being so high because it basically was an irrelevant designation basically all of those players played which is not the former intent of the probable designation I also think there was the issue of then if you're marked as probable and you don't play is the team accurately reporting what your injury is correct and so what they've done this season is there will be no probable tag

That is big news because that little P used to see next to your players is going to be gone. It gave you confidence. And I'm going to tell you right now, you're going to see a cue. You're going to see a lot of cues. Because that, yeah, go ahead. That's going to be the change. And this is going to be.

very, very hard this first year for fantasy players to understand, like, what does a cue mean this year? How risky is it? Because you're going to have a lot more questionables because there is no probable tag. And you're going to have a lot more questionable players who actually play or some percentage greater that play this year than what we're used to in years past. And I think this is a great, great thing.

for the listeners of this show. And the reason is because year one of big changes like this, man, it's hard for people to wrap their heads around. And I think we're going to do our best to get inside information on every team, on every player, on the injuries and all of that through the season and get the most accurate information out as to whether or not we believe a guy is going to start. So if you're...

I mean, the casual fan who isn't listening to podcasts and doesn't have, as our tip showed last week, the information super highway, they're going to make some bad start-sit decisions. And if you're listening here, I think we're going to help a lot of people in just a simple, hey, you started the right guy or you picked up the right waiver because, you know, you had more information on that questionable tag. Yeah. And one point that you should remember is that there is a 90-minute rule.

So on Sunday morning, on Thursday night, whatever it is, 90 minutes before the game, they are required to declare whether these guys are playing or not. And so you will have a 90 minute lead time, but that is not always enough time to make adjustments during the week. And so I think the best way to look at this is the NFL saying the questionable category is supposed to basically mean it is uncertain as to whether a player will play.

and doubtful means it is unlikely that they will play. Are they still doing the 50-50? No. No, that is the former. The 50-50 was the former view of questionable. Now they're basically redefining questionable and saying it means it is uncertain whether they will play in the game. I cannot wait for the entire Patriots roster every single week, every player will be marked with a cue.

It's going to be interesting. Every player. And you see a blurb like this and a piece of news. And you kind of, all right. But this is like going to impact the normal process for fantasy owners in a way that we haven't seen for 10 years. I mean, this is, you get used to the probable tag. And then you know those guys are playing. Yeah. It's exciting. Scary. All right. The Boston Herald reported. Speaking of Patriots. Big time news. We haven't got to talk about it yet.

Haven't had the chance. Dionne Lewis. Dionne Lewis needs another surgery, a cleanup surgery. He's going to be out for at least eight to ten weeks. What that means is he's going to start the season on the pup, almost certainly. Oh, yeah, yeah. And if you start on the pup, that means you are guaranteed out the first six games. You are able to come back after that, but not necessarily have to come back at week seven. This will likely mean that they do not have to cut.

Bolden, Gaffney, or Blunt, because they'll put him on the pup, and all three of those players will stay in the offense. James White, rising up the board's, Mike, you had the circumstances in your league that you locked into, right? The fantasy footballers riders were doing a league, or a writer's draft. It's a slow draft. I didn't know I was on the clock, and this news broke. I'm like, wow, I think I'm coming up here soon. I hope that James White slips to me.

I was on the clock. So James White's on my team in the 10th round. It's fantastic. My quick notes here on James White, yes, I have moved him up. But the question to me is, okay, we're now before the season has even started. What will the Patriots do? Will they roll that same offense where they're running through the air? Everything is the short passes. And they have the scat back, so to speak, with James White playing that D.N. Lewis roll. Or now they have Marty Bennett.