Fantasy Football 2017 - Good Vibes/Bad Vibes, Rising Stars, Wk 1 News

Against the Vikings. Good defense on the road. Then he comes home. No Willie Sneed against the Patriots. Then he goes on the road against the Panthers. What do you think? It's interesting. I know you said you were thinking about Carson Palmer. I was looking for Carson Palmer because his first four weeks are, you know, just an excellent run. I'm still playing him. It's not the best looking schedule, but he's still Drew Brees. And, uh, uh, uh,

JJ Zachary some good friend of the show. He had pointed out, you know, when the suspension hit. Last year, uh, Willie Sneed missed week three. In that game, someone put up seven for 109 in a touchdown. Was it? Kobe Fleener. Yeah, my boy. Just saying, I'm not saying, but I'm just saying. Yeah, I saw that. I, whatever. Yeah. I mean, it's, it's, it's the ball has to go somewhere. And I don't think this is necessarily a bump.

for for ted gin my boy ted gin because it's it's a different i thought it was going to get his regardless i thought it was pretty funny that eddie lacey and adrian peterson faced their former teams in week one both of them good work and i face their uh former squads all right andrew luck is no longer andrew pup but he has been ruled out for week one so he's not on the pup list anymore so you can i guess it's like a compliment sandwich here yeah you can feel better that he's not ruled out for the first five weeks six weeks of the season

But he's not going to play week one. Scott Tolzine will start week one. The Colts acquired Jacoby Brissette after he lit up the Giants in the final preseason game. And they traded Philip Dorset, former first rounder over to the Patriots. Any interest in Dorset? No, no. But it's just another one of those things that the Patriots are doing something smart here. I think one thing that that does highlight is as the season goes on and Andrew Luck gets back, Kamar Aiken becomes possibly relevant. It also.

tells me that they do want to limit the reps for Danny Amadola because if you have Philip Dorset that you can throw out wide to go deep and play that Hogan role on the outside, Hogan can keep coming inside and spell Amandola in the slot. You saw this a little bit when Edelman went down in that week three game. You saw Hogan come into the slot. I think it actually raises a little bit of the value for Hogan in general to me because I think you're going to have them in a higher total catches role in New England.

Colts have placed Eric Swoop on injured reserve with a knee injury, so it's the Doyle show. Jack Doyle. Yeah, we all like Doyle, but that's a, you know, it certainly helps because last year you saw the split between Allen and Doyle. Now it's just kind of Doyle's role, but again, you need luck to come back. Hey, guess what? Joe Flacco's back. We! Return to practice on Saturday. We'll talk a little bit about that offense in a little bit. Here's a shocker. Shocking. Does anybody...

It was just like emphasis for you. I was a cheerleader in the background. Anybody know why this happened? Bills have waived Jonathan Williams. The Twitter. He was going to be the number two. Lost its mind. I lost my mind. I've got a lot of stock in Jonathan Williams. He looked great in preseason. He wasn't costing them a lot of money. What the heck? Buffalo. It's incredibly bizarre. I've seen, I mean, you know Tolber's the.

Backup now. Yeah. Are you talking to Buffalo? That's what you should be like, you know Tolbert's the backup now, right? You're just telling Buffalo that. Wait, wait, wait. Are you not aware? Wait, we don't have Carlos Williams anymore? It's either a incoming like seven rushing touchdowns for Mike Tolbert or maybe we cross our fingers and everything goes to shady. Everything, come on. If everything goes to shady, watch out.

Yes. Just watch out. Kyra Taylor up in the air with a concussion for week one. I don't think he's going to play. No, I don't either. And they're going to start a fifth round rookie instead. Hey, he looks good. Yeah. Yeah. Jordan Matthews still has not been fully cleared. He's on my bad vibes list. You mix a rookie with a new team and a bad offense. There's just, there's not a lot of upside there to me. Matt Jones, released by the Redskins claimed by the Colts. Hmm.

Hmm. This is one of those things where I think, you know, I'm not drafting Matt Jones, but now I'm not drafting Robert Turbin. Really that far? You know, Robert Turbin was a guy where in many drafts when I'm late and he's on the board, I wasn't drafting anyways, depending on roster construction. He was, you know, he was borderline draftable. But now it's like, okay, well, if he comes in and Matt Jones is splitting with the, you know, that role, how valuable is the backup?

All right. You know, I don't know if I want any of them. So that's fair. Mike Williams, back from the PUP. Yeah, this was a shock. Not to me. Not to, I've been drafting him. I've been telling people he's valuable. He can still come back and have, look, we've seen so many rookie wide receivers miss front halves of the year and be very valuable in the second half. And Philip Rivers, he's got what?

three or four straight, 4,029-plus season. So I still think there's room there. I think there's room for a breakout for Mike Williams in the second half of the year. And he's free. So, yeah, I mean, there's room. But I don't get how you're completely off of Jordan Matthews, who will be back soon. But Mike Williams, who's coming off of a back injury, had absolutely no training camp.

How are you so gung-ho for Mike Williams? Because he was a top-10 pick, and we've seen Jordan Matthews, and he's going to one of the worst offenses and offensive situations in the league. Whereas Mike Williams is going to one of the better offensive situations in the league, and he's young and unproven versus Jordan Matthews being injury-prone in his career. I would just like to say as a spectator, Mike, that was a great question. Andy, better response.

If I was Judge Giamatti, Andy would win this round. All right. Well, Brandon Oliver's lock. I could quote Jordan Matthews stats, but we'll move on. No, yeah, I mean, move on. All right. Brandon Oliver, James Connor, locked in as the handcuffs to their respective leadbacks there, Melvin, Gordon, and Lev Bell. The James Connor news is very interesting because Toussaint, Nile Davis and Trey Williams were all cut. They basically said, hey, look, James Connor, we trust you enough to...

To put you in a position, you took him yesterday, right, Jason? Yeah, I took him in the draft. I mean, I had said last week after Nile Davis had this great game that, you know, it appears there is officially no, handcuff. And the Steelers are like, no, we want a handcuff. We need a handcuff. So they got rid of every other backup. They did resign Fitzgerald Touss to the practice squad. But the fact that they would let him go be resigned and put him on the practice squad says they're confident in James Connor.

And look, if you've just drafted and you know you're going to be playing waivers in week one, which everybody will be, here's what I don't like. I don't like drafting Willie Sneed because he doesn't go on your IR or the out position. He sits on your bench and gives you no production, and then you're stuck with him for three weeks. Whereas drafting a guy like James Connor, okay, maybe you want to cut him in week two. That's fine. Yeah. But in week one, if something happened, if something happened, he's the back.

You know, we've seen what DiAngelo Williams did. At least there's a chance there that he has massive value if something happens. So Sammy Coates is no longer a Pittsburgh stealer. He was acquired by the Browns, essentially mostly free. I mean, they didn't have room for him. They didn't want to use him. Juju's there. Eli's there and Martavis is back. So Justin Hunter beat out Sammy Coates. And when I had mentioned Coates earlier, I wasn't saying I'm really excited.

for the fantasy implications of Sammy Coates. It's just for that team. Having another. You have a Tory Smith now. You have a guy who can burn everybody. And that gets Corey Coleman can help the coverage for him, can help out Kenny Britt. So that's what I was talking about. And as well, I'll jump ahead a little bit in the news, but Casson Williams getting picked up by the Browns as well because he was released by the Seahawks. I mean, they have an actual.

wide receiver core now in Cleveland. And it's exciting to see what they can do in the future. Here's the situation I want to keep my eyes on personally. I don't want to send up a bunch of warning lights for Lamar Miller. We all are not like, I don't think any of us are like waving the flag for Lamar Miller, but we understand his value. Alfred Blue is going to miss several weeks. Now, Deontza Foreman is listed directly behind Lamar Miller now in the rotation. I'm just curious to see what the first three or four weeks looks like.

how the split is between Lamar Miller and Foreman. Foreman is somebody who I think could take a big chunk of the carries if the year starts a certain way. He's kind of like, you know, you look at the James Connor situation. I think Deonti Foreman and what they want to do on that offense is just somebody to pay attention to. I thought about drafting him late last night. He did get drafted. I think he's just probably a better pick than Connor because Foreman could be a goal line back right away. We don't know. Yeah, and there's a lot of excitement about Foreman from.

that from Houston fans for whatever reason. So just something to pay attention to. Well, he played college in Texas. And so I think that's part of part of the excitement. And he was, he was amazing. I thought in college, he was my favorite. He played well. He was my favorite running back coming out of college when it came to just, you know, none of the huge names. He was the guy I really loved. So, yeah, keep him on the radar. Hey, before we move into the rest.

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Footballers, ZipRecruiter.com slash footballers. All right. He's back. He's back in the Mile High City. Brock Osweiler signed by the two Broncos. Do I have? Yeah, I mean, like that really, it fits here. Brock Osweiler is back in Denver. What is? Well, look, Paxton Lynch is out five weeks.

John Elway saved a bunch of money. I mean, he was a, they wanted to sign him. They tried to sign him. And he left for the Houston Texans. This is actually, I think, a somewhat good move by the Broncos. It's a, yeah, depth. Yeah, they get a backup that knows the system and did succeed. I mean, in this system with these wide receivers.

Might as well sign him for cheap. I believe aren't the Brown still paying part of his salary? They're paying almost the entire thing. That's great. I would do it. A couple other quick notes. Jake Butt on the reserve. And if I list, Carlos Henderson on injured reserve. Will Ty was released by the Giants claimed by the Jets? We have the... He wasn't on... What's that? He wasn't on the Giants, was he? Yeah. Wasn't Will Ty on...

Who am I thinking of? Oh, I'm thinking of Dinell on Baltimore. Yeah, you, you bypassed the 49ers news as well. The, the rookie, the off-season sensation, Joe Williams has been put on injured reserve with an ankle injury. Goodbye. And this, I, Matt, Matt, Matt, Matt, Brita is Barreda. No, it's Breed. Is it Brita? Yeah. It's like a, it's like a cheetah. It's like a, it is.