Fantasy Football 2018 - Browns Browns Browns! Free Agency + Big News

that's, you know, yet to be seen. They probably want to see what's going to happen with their own free agent searches, you know, with Alan Robinson and Sammy Watkins, those type of guys. But I do agree with you that, you know, a lot of people, and I think wrongly, incorrectly, whichever one is correct, I think that they have been seeing Cam Meredith too high this offseason as like, oh, he's going to be great next year.

Because Chicago needs a wide receiver, and he is very talented. I agree with that. But he's not there one next year. He never was going to be the one next year. With their cap room and Mitchell Trubisky and an offensive-minded coach, they are absolutely paying up for some wide receiver. ACL surgery. He's coming off of that injury. Yeah, it was a monster injury. Two years ago, 66 receptions, 888 yards in the breakout.

back half of that year. That's the one where, you know, Marshall didn't pan out. Just for me to not take the gamble for an extra $1 million to almost guarantee that Cam Meredith will be on your team and can be your wide receiver two or wide receiver three. I think it's just a grave mistake. It's interesting. The Jaguars have tendered restricted free agent running back. Corey Grant at a second round level. That's very interesting. That's how you do it. They did what the Bears could not do. 2.9 million plus for Cory Grant.

Because he's a drafted. I don't think people are going to sign him away. No. And Chris Ivory's gone. He could be more involved in this backfield next year. Yeah. He's certainly more of the past catching, line him up in the slot, do fun stuff with him. Yeah, he's a freak athlete. Yeah, he's quick. He's got the Darren Sproles effect going on. All right. Big trade this morning.

Big trade for fantasy implications. The Bengals have acquired left tackle. Cordy Glenn from the Bills, monstrous trade. This allowed the bills to move up from 21 to 12 in the draft. This solidifies, helps to begin solidifying an offensive line that was decimated that Joe Mixin, Joe Bernard and company felt last year in the running game that Andy Dalton felt in the passing game.

A big trade for the Bengals. If he can stay healthy, you know, that's been his issue. He's graded out highly as a left tackle, but he has not been able to stay healthy. His foot issues should be fixed now. But if he can play, left tackle for the Bengals, this will be a huge upgrade for them. Last season, if you remember, they lined up without an offensive left tackle every play. They just have four on the line. Four on the line. They played 10 on 11.

We can. Cardinals did that for about a decade, if I recall back in the 90s. It doesn't work out well. And speaking in terms of the Buffalo Bills, this is certainly the beginning of the climb as they trying to get into the top five to draft one of these quarterbacks. Absolutely. And we're going to get. These picks belong to the Browns. We're going to get into the hype train right now. We're going to let you know the latest news that we have, rumors, information. But just let's maintain the.

the tease of teases. We're going to talk about the Cleveland Browns at length very shortly. This is why we succeed as a show. We tease you with the right kind of tease. Really? The Browns. The Brown? Well, you tease and then you please. So it works. That's what they say. Let's jump into the hype train. Ian Rappaport is doing all sorts of work. Who are the Packers going to sign now?

Saints are talking about a contract with Jimmy Graham. Also, Ian Rappaport reports, or I'm sorry, NFL.com's Mike Garofalo reporting the Packers have reached out to him. We all picked Jimmy Graham back to the Saints, I believe, on our free agent predictions episode. At least two of us. Two of us did. Jason picked the Texans, I think. Yeah, that's, that's right. So we'll see where he ends up. That's the best fit for him. And the real question will be, I mean, Kobe Fleener will be.

cut immediately. Oh, yeah, he's done. They probably already changed the locks on him. But Jimmy Graham, if he's... But this is my locker, my sucks in there. He's back. Yeah, we're seizing it all, Kobe. Get out. You only had 52 receptions again for the 15th for the year. I had a picture of my family inside. So Jimmy Graham, fantasy implications. If he went back to New Orleans, do you like him more or less than you did at the beginning of last year with Seattle? About the same.

I would say at the beginning of the year. Maybe a little bit more. About the same, because I believed in him going into last year more than what he showed up on film. You know, to be perfect, they'll sign him, right? And he, because it seemed like he was devastated to be traded last time. And then Drew Brees will sign somewhere else. And then he won't get to come back with Drew. And he'll end up with somebody else. Oh, that'd be sad.

Well, we'll see what happens. All right. Adam Kaplan's at least reporting that Kirk Cousness is going to be a Minnesota Viking. Yes. There are reports that multiple teams will offer him a three-year, fully guaranteed deal at 27 plus per year. Breaking the NFL system. But here's the thing. Kirk Cousness is going to go on visits. This is going to be a lot like when Peyton Manning was a free agent several years back. We're not going to have, I think, a conclusive report on Kirk Cousins. I bet you the... I bet you the...

Other teams will get a sense of whether they're really in on it and we'll move on to other quarterbacks sooner than we'll have a final deal by Kirk. Kirk will not be the first domino to drop. It'll be Case Keenham or. AJ McCarran, Dan Bradford. Here's some other quick hits on the hype chain. Rams working to sign Sammy Watkins to re-sign him. Jets, Titans, and Colts in play for Dionne Lewis.

All makes sense. Ravens seem focused on Moncrief, which Jason had as his predicted possible destination. The news did come out that the Colts are done with Dante Moncrief. So he will be moving on. Alan Robinson, where is he going to end up? 49ers. Yeah, you made a stone cold lock, right? I did. You said that a week ago that you guarantee he ends up on the 49ers.

There have been rumors from the Packers. There have been rumors about the Bears. The Packers' rumors with both Alan Robinson and Sammy Watkins. What people have to understand, it is a little bit bizarre. If that were to happen, because right now, if you look at guaranteed money to wide receivers in the NFL, the number one team, by a mile, is already Green Bay. So they're not going to add an Alan Robinson.

to the mix. If they were to make an, you know, an attempt to sign him, that would be saying, okay, Jordy, you're out of here. Cobb, you might be out of here too. No, both would go. And it, it's not necessarily a bad move if you're going to cut both Jordy and Cobb. You move forward with Devante Adams and Alan Robinson as your two wide receivers. That's nice. I think that'd be very successful. If I was Alan Robinson and I've been playing with Blake the Snake, oh, I'd much rather, uh,

Much rather have Aaron Rogers. So a lot of rumors with Sammy and Alan Robinson to the Bears. I think the Bears will end up with one of those two players. I really do. Also, Paul Richardson, he's not going to get re-signed in Seattle. He hinted that he's done there. We'll see where he ends up. CJ Anderson will not be cut, at least at this time. Very surprising. According to local reports, they're going to listen to trade offers. See, I don't know why you're celebrating because here's what's going to happen. They're going to report that he's not going to be cut.

They're going to shop them. They're not going to find a trade partner, and then they're going to cut it. And then that would be really sad. And then the spots will be all full. Yeah. Oh, man, CJ. Oh, man. My Dynasty team needs you back. Here's what has to happen. Every quarterback needs to sign with a non-Denver Broncos team so that they're just paying for a rookie quarterback this coming year, and they can afford CJ. Well, let's bring CJ on to chat about it.

Oh, stop it. Get out of here. Stop it. CJ Anderson is extremely efficient, is a very good running back. Oh, my gosh. And didn't get the touches. What kind of, do you think I'll put up equal or the, or better numbers than what Ryan Matthews put up last year? I'm going to, I'm going to go better. Better? Okay. Chargers, planning on placing a second round tender on wide receiver Tyrell Williams. That was. Williams has drawn interest around the league and maybe a trade candidate. I was going to say they might get a second round pick.

For Tyro Williams, he played incredible a few years back when he had to take over for Keenan Allen. Is there something wrong with that statement? I couldn't figure out if he was supposed to be incredible or credibly, incredibly. He played incredibly well. Incredibly well or incredible. Yeah, I think you're both right. Nailed it. Hey, I was just thinking over here. You didn't have to ask. Here's the deal. A couple years back, over 1,000 yards when he had to be the man. And he was young. Yeah. This is interesting.

If Los Angeles does, in fact, keep him. We'll get to Andy's cackles in just a moment. But now they have Keenan Allen, Travis Benjamin, Mike Williams, and Tyrell Williams. I mean, you have a log jam here. So many Williams. That's why I was really surprised to see a second round tender. I mean, he's a player deserving of it. They will get a second round pick for him. Or they, or they're like Andy said, they'll just, they'll sign and trade him. It's only 26 years old right now. I was just laughing because some, yeah, Ian Rappaport.

report about Kirk Cousins and his sister living out in this area. Did he delete it? No, he didn't delete it, but one of our foot claim members said, we all know the real reason he's suddenly drawn to Arizona. It's the pheromones that FF Hitman put out a few weeks ago. You're darn right. I'm like a skunk. He doesn't know why he's drawn here.

I'm pretty sure skunk would keep people away. I'll not bring them in. What kind of skunk brings them in, Mike? No, he doesn't. No, come on. That's a bad. All right, speaking of skunks, let's get into the brown segment. I spray. I spray positivity. Not like a skunk, though. They don't spray positivity. I'm just talking about where it emits from. We thought. Nothing good emits. We thought and thought. That's what I've learned.

That's true. Nothing good emits from anything. I think soaring over the world at Disney's sculpture. Oh, the orange, the orange spray? Yeah. Okay. I found it. We thought about what drop we should have for the, you know, for the browns. Let's go something vanilla. Browns. Is that good? Sure. Browns. I was thinking it would be something a little bit more like, because we're like, what's brown? What, you know, it's like.

Wee! That was what happened this last weekend. That's the difference between Mike in control of all of our sound drops and Jason. Jason just made a fart sound and said we at the end of it. Put your vote in at Twitter.com. Vote for Jason for sound effects. Drop of the year. All right. It is time. We've been asked, I mean, the tweets were coming like fire after all the Browns moves. Let's start at the top. Big time trades.

A 2018 fourth rounder and a 2019 seventh rounder have been traded to Miami. And Jarvis Landry is now a Cleveland Brown. And this is a very interesting move. I want to hear your take. You've had a chance now to digest the Jarvis Landry move. He had been in that will he play on the franchise tag territory. Jarvis Landry has the most receptions through four years of any player in NFL history.

And do we undervalue him? And will he be worth what he was worth in Miami in Cleveland? Is his talent undervalued? Yes. But he cannot be the number one and number two options in this passing game. Not with Josh Gordon, not with Cory Coleman. Oh, he can absolutely be the number two.

Yes. I'm saying he can't be the number one and number two like he was in Miami. Oh, I see what you're saying. The entire offense funneled through Jarvis Landry. Yeah, he can be the number two. What does that mean? He gets up to 80 receptions? I see what you mean. Yeah. 80 receptions for 700 yards. I like Jarvis Landry. I think he's a great wide receiver. But because of his, because of his skill set, if he's not getting up near 100 receptions,

he's not going to be the same fantasy value that he was when he was in Miami. When you say up near 100 receptions, the last three years for Jarvis Landry, he has averaged 153 targets a year. Right. And this isn't like, oh, he's got 110 targets. Last year, there wasn't a single brown.

who had 100 targets on the team. Now, some of that was injury. Josh Gordon came back for five years. So we'll forgive that. But I don't see him having 150 targets in this, in this offense for the Browns. I see no upside here for Jarvis Landry to improve. You're hoping that he is as good as he was in Miami. But I think the situation has gotten drastically worse.