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

Brita. Okay. I promise it's Brita. I stand correct. But he is the, he's the guy in the back field now behind Carlos High. I have him in a couple places because despite my love of Carlos. And in love for Carlos Hyde, he's never finished a season. And the starting running back will have some value for San Francisco. And I was going to say, I just, just complimented Lynch on his rookie GM year.

they have released Jeremy Curley, who they signed earlier in this off season to an extension. I mean, that's, that's the mismanagement right there. Well, is there any other pieces of news that you think have to be out there? Because I want to move on to good vibes, bad vibes. I want to talk about Jeremy Langford was released. Yeah, that's fair. By the Bears. Kadim carries on IR, Tarique Cohen time, baby. And Jordan Howard. I think it's good for both of those guys. We all know it's Jordan Howard time, but just saying Cohen.

Cohen now has a clear path to be involved in this offense. The only other piece of news I would mention because a lot of times kickers get completely left off and you might have even drafted Josh Lambo and you don't realize he is not a kicker anymore for the Chargers. Young Hoku, which if you want a good time, go watch his little highlights. He's doing like ninja move backflip kick field goals. I haven't seen that before. It was pretty good. Robert Aguayo is released, waived.

Is that news? Canadian football leagues calling your name Roberto. That stinks. Oh, and talk about a bad start to your career for Jeremy McNichols. Oh, yeah. You know, released by the Bucks, signed to the practice squad of the 49ers. But this is a guy that fell in the draft due to his shoulder, then gets drafted in what, the fourth round? I think it was the fourth or fifth round and just bombs the preseason and gets cut by this. The Buccaneers are making a habit now of drafting players in the first five rounds and then just throwing them away.

Yeah, that's a really good point. That's not the, it's not the best way to build the football team. It's not the best strategy. No. All right, let's talk good vibes, bad vibes. Some good vibrations here. Let's start in the AFC East. Wow. We went different ways there. No, I was the background, man. Oh, really? Yeah. I thought you were a ghost. Yeah, it sounded more like a ghost. Listen to the song. All right. There's a ghost. There's our drop for that segment. Yeah.

Thanks, guys. Got it. Nailed it. All right. We're going to just quickly go through some good vibes, bad vibes. I broke these up by division. Okay. So in the AFC East, here's what I got. Bad vibes. Tyrod Taylor and Jordan Matthews. I'll completely agree with the Tyrod Taylor, the concussion, the seeming like they don't want him around. It's getting rid of all of his passing weapons.

that he's really not nice just like they're like what are they what are he doing well i mean i guess i know what they're doing they're setting them up to fail they'd rather see that's trash peterman wouldn't they yes yes clearly they would

They want Peterman in there. And look, I am a Jordan Mathers. Jordan Math. Well, I want to say a truther. So it went to that. But Jordan Matthews, I'm a believer. I'm a truther. But I do actually side with you here. The vibes aren't good. You can't say the vibes are good for him when he gets traded to a bad team where the quarterback is injured and, oh, you're injured. He's probably going to miss week one. Yeah, it's just terrible vibes for both of those guys. I think the bills in general.

are horrible vibes with one exception, which we touched on earlier. Yeah, good vibes for the Sean McCoy and Devante Parker in this division. Those are the two names that I threw out there. So are you are buying the good vibes for Shady to spite everything. Everything around him is a disaster. So I'm a little cautious that if, if.

If an opportunity comes up in the year to trade LaShawn McCoy because some other team goes, you know, has someone go down. That's true. I wouldn't be shocked if the bills pull the trigger on that. That being said, he would probably be going to a good team. And so I'm fine with Shady right now. And I mean, Devante Parker, the three of us, I think, are just skyrocketing on his value. I haven't seen a draft in the last few weeks where he does not go. He is always ahead of.

Landry? Landry. So I was on the clock yesterday or approaching my pick and talking to my co-owner and we were debating the merits of like, I wanted Tyree Kill and I wanted Michael Crabtree. But he just, like he wanted Devante Parker more than Tyreek Hill. What do you think of that? I don't, I don't dislike it. I mean, Devante Parker, the boom is there where, I mean, look, I guess the boom is technically there for Tyreek Hill, but it's, I don't.

It's not like the big boy boom. It's not a big guy 12. I should say it's not it's not eight plus touchdowns. I think you're wrong.

Well, I'm glad you do because I draft the Tyree Kill. All right, AFC West, good vibes, bad vibes. On the good vibes side, I've got Jamal Charles on there. We can talk about that. I've also got Keenan Allen and Mike Williams because of the surprise activation. Keenan Allen looking so good in the preseason. But Jamal Charles, not only making the 53, but what I saw on tape and the fact that I believe that there's going to be a split of usage in this backfield now. What do you think? There's...

I would agree that it's in the realm of possibility. I still see C.J. Anderson is the clear starter for this. Jamal Charles is not the Dramal Charles you remember from two years ago, but he's still going to be a fine player. But they came out and they said, I mean, before he made the team, like, we're going to try and get him to eight to ten touches a game. And that's still fine if you're talking C.J. Anderson's volume. Yeah, I would say it's good vibes for him from the standpoint of.

for him as a man. I'm really happy for him. He made the team. He's got a chance to prove it. He took a prove-it deal. You know, nothing was guaranteed for him. For fantasy, I don't think he'll have enough work to have good vibes where, you know, personally, I'm not drafting him. I think he definitely hurts C.J. Anderson, even though he's the clear starter. If they are getting him eight, ten touches, I think they're going to give Jamal Charles just enough touches to not be relevant, but hurt.

CJ Anderson. I look at it a lot like the Lacey Rawls situation where if one player goes down in a group of injury prone players, right? Like Charles, Anderson, Lacey and Rawls are all injury concerns. If the Bafield becomes clear for either guy, it could be very good. Like if C.J. Anderson, who has been injured frequently, if he goes down, Jamal Charles is a startable running back. Yeah, he definitely would be a startable running back in that situation.

I just worry that can he handle it? Can he keep up? For sure. All right. AFC North, good vibes, bad vibes. Good vibes? I have one debatable topic. We can bring it up. First, I'll say Corey Coleman, so I agree with Mike on that one. Also, James Connor, right? The clear backup role in Pittsburgh. I think good vibes for the Ravens offense. Jason literally has a note.

on our show doc that says this has to be the wrong place, right? And he highlighted it in red. So we have some disagreement. For me, I think everybody's been just kind of like glossing over anybody on the Ravens offense with Joe Flacco out and just not even looking at them. I mean, Jeremy Macon last night dropped way down in the draft. And I was ecstatic. So I'm happy. Look, we talked about this before.

You know, Flacco has produced fantasy relevant wide receivers, but Jason, you lean on the bad vibe side, so this is a split decision. Yeah, I mean, look, is it good to have Joe Flacco back? Absolutely. That's, that is one little good vibe in a sea of bad vibes. I think the Ravens' offense has just been nonstop bad vibes. You lose your, you know, number one pass catcher, your tight end, you lose some wide receivers, you lose some running backs, you basically.

They have just been depleted of most of their talent. And yeah, Joe Fleco is back. But he's back, you know, today for the first time, having had no preseason, no training camp, none of that. And so I still see. Andrew Luck is like lucky. I still see a situation where the vibes are very bad. And I don't like the Ravens offense right now. I mean, when I look at this division, the number one thing that pops out to me is.

for good vibes, bad vibes is, oh, just the Ravens offense, bad vibes all the way around. Did you know that Joe Flacco in his career has one losing season? I'm not surprised of that. I think it's a well-run organization. I think he's fine. Yeah. I mean, so were we talking fantasy football? Yeah. Were we talking real football? No, we're talking real football, which and will lead to, I'm saying Joe Flacco.

I think he's perfectly fine to have missed training camp. There'll be some rust at the beginning of the season, but long term, it's good vibes. I believe they take on the Bengals week one. When Andrew Luck comes back.

He's going to be throwing to T.Y. Hilton, who he's used to playing with. Dante Moncrief, who he's used to playing with. Doyle, who he played with last year. When Joe Flacco gets back, all of his weapons that he threw to last year, I feel like, are gone. Is Brashard Perriman? Is he, is he on the field right now? Joe Flacco's been taking those mental reps, man. Sure, he's been taking those mental reps. But, you know, Steve Smith is gone. Dennis Pitta is gone.

Kenneth Dixon is gone. It's just he's going to come back. Sounds like a lot of Jeremy Macklin targets coming up. I hope so. I have a lot of Jeremy Macklin from just how far he has been falling in different drafts. It rhymes with Doyle. Nick Boyle. Is he worth paying attention to? He's the like lead dog in the in the tight end world for a team with what Jason said, a depleting amount of weapons. So someone to pay attention to at least. Yeah, waivers.

Week 1 waivers. Bad vibes, Jesse James with the trade for Vance McDonald. If you wanted. JV. JV. Jesse James. J.V. Jesse James. That's, that's mean. AMC South. I didn't coin it. AMC. South, good vibes, bad vibes. We've got to throw the good vibes out there for J.J. Watt. He's raised all that incredible, just an incredible amount of money for the people in Houston.

That thing took off. I remember when he first put that up there, he was hoping for like a million dollars or $2 million. I think it's over 15 last I saw. Yeah, so JJ Y gets the non-fantasy related good vibes. The bad vibes are all about the Colts right now. The Colts offense and Andrew Luck have the bad vibes. And I am somebody who's been telling people, go grab Andrew Luck late. And I still think it's going to pay off for you.

But do what I did. Grab Carson Palmer, who has a great first four weeks. Grab somebody. He's probably on your waiver wire, too. Yeah. And just he's the stopgap for Andrew Luck. I think Luck will miss probably, I'd say two games, hopefully. And then he can roll back in. Hopefully. What else we got? Good vibes. Jason, you like Marcus Mariotta. Yeah, I mean, I think he gets off to a good start with Oakland. And the vibes to me are, you've got Corey Davis who.

They're saying is going to be ready week one. Tewan Taylor's look great. Eric Decker should be back for Charlottes Matthews. I think the vibes are good vibes. NFC. East, good vibes. Let's go Robert Kelly on the good vibes. Things have been trending the right direction for Robert Kelly. Good preseason. I'm going to throw Ezekio Elliott in there because... You are? I am because you... Look, you have to compare the offseason to now. I took Ezekiel Elliott at number 11 in our listener league draft on Friday, which is a first round pick.

and things are trending towards him playing more than we thought he was going to play in the middle of the offseason. So I have to throw him in there. And then Evan Ingram is a great name because you, Mike, you've been talking about him in the preseason. He is nasty. They may use him a lot. The fact that they let Will Ty go says to me that they are completely happy and confident in Evan Ingram. He right now has gone from the guy that I did not believe in.

during draft season to my number one rookie tight in. Very nice. I think he'll finish ahead of Injoku, ahead of Howard, ahead of everybody. Yeah, it looks that way right now. Bad vibes, Paul Perkins and Lagart Blunt. Paul Perkins looks like. Who's looked better? Paul Perkins or Lagart Blunt? Oh, Perkins, by far. By far, don't do that to smash Jackson. Yeah, I mean, you have Shane splitting reps.