Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Mailbag Episode, Guest: Christopher Harris

For Antonio Brown and Golden Tate. You pretty much take Palmer a little bit out of the equation. Yes, I agree. Look wide receiver and running back versus two wide receivers. I like the Alshan Palmer and Stewart side of it. I personally do to the... This is a trade, so I imagine it needs to be answered relatively quickly because this calf injury... Yeah, that's what I was wondering. The calf entries...

concerns are starting to grow the, and these are just subjective reports, so understand these are subjective, but people, the news reporters are saying that Fox looked a little uncomfortable when he was talking about the injury, which is not something you want to hear. He had some bad bacon. That's possible. That's very possible. No, that's, is there bad bacon? No, that was a trick question. He's fine. The only bad bacon is uncooked bacon, and I can speak to that from a camping trip.

Really? Hold on. Hold on. You ate raw bacon? I did not, but my friend did, and I woke up. You know those little, so at the bottom of a tent, there's those little tiny windows that are like on the bottom for like a heater? I woke up with my friend laying on his stomach, on the floor with his head right out of the, literally popping out of that little hole on the side, throwing up into the ground that is an inch from his face. Like he's just throwing up straight onto the ground.

And that was from raw bacon. So there's bad bacon is the answer to that question. Pro tip from the fantasy footballers. Cook your meat. Cook your meat. All right. Nick in New York City. New York City. There is. I'm on the out. I'm going to take the Alshun's side. All right. I'm going to introduce this guy one more time. Oh, wait. You know one thing to say because we are going to roll it out. We've been.

You know, when it comes to trade questions and in season questions, a lot of times it's hard to get your questions answered. We're going to try to roll out something where you can get your question answered in like two hours for those. Emergencies. Emergency questions. Like an emergency, you just ate raw bacon? That would be a huge emergency. If you just ate raw bacon, you can now contact us within two hours and we'll answer it. Directly from the fantasy footballers. I would recommend 9-1-1. But if you want to ask us about it, we have some experience with raw bacon, apparently. True.

We've got everything covered. We've got everything you could want in a show. Nick in New York City. New York City. Hey, guys, and Reaper. My, yeah, I wonder who that is. You're not even a guy anymore. No idea. I'm just a Reaper. That's such a weird word. My draft is this weekend, and the rules have been changed in my league, which makes absolutely no sense, but he can't do anything about it.

That sucks. Quarterbacks now receive full yardage points. So 100 yards passing is 10 points. So from 25 down to 10. So that is 1 per 10 instead of 1 per 25. Mike is grimacing. Send that grimace to your commissioner. Quarterback TDs are also 6 points. So how does he approach this draft now? He wanted to stream quarterbacks this year, and now he doesn't know if it's a viable option.

And I'm with you, buddy. I don't know if that's viable anymore. Well, what you need to look up and what I'm looking up now, because I don't know at the top of my head, is the disparity between, say, the first and the 12th guy in passing yards. So Ryan Tannahill, and I'm sorry, Joe Flacko last year was number 12 at 3,900 yards. And number one was 4,900 yards, which would be a thousand points difference. 100.

Oh, yes, you're right. It's not a point per 100 points difference, which makes a little bit of a difference. But it's still matchups to me, and honestly, I wouldn't be overly concerned with it. I think maybe Rogers and Luck, they get a bit of a bump up. But I'm still comfortable. The position scarcity argument exists the exact same. That doesn't change what's going to exist. I can still take a late round guy like Tanna Hill, Bradford. Man, get Bradford. Here's where it does change.

Guys that don't throw for yards. Guys that you used to look for that were... Because not only do you have six points per passing touchdown, but...

Now, if you don't throw for yards, if you're a Russell Wilson, you have to take a bump down. Russell Wilson. Russell Wilson. Aaron Rogers, right, he's our number one, but he was seventh last year in yards. He's efficient. He's not like the Drew Breeze that's going to be throwing for 5,000. He threw for 4,300. So it actually makes that position scarcity even closer together because some of the higher passing guys aren't the high touchdown guys. So I agree. I think you can stream this.

And something that we actually didn't talk about when we were reviewing the Philly game, Philadelphia went for two on their first two touchdowns. Now, it was Tim Tebow in there, who went for it, and he failed miserably both times. The first time was not miserably. The first time I thought he almost got in. He ran straight into the back of his pile, and he was about a foot away. The second time, he almost threw a pick, a pick two. So he failed and then failed miserably. And then...

After the third touchdown, they shanked the extra point. So what it says to me, at least at the beginning, which we've talked about this before, Kelly's going to be willing to go for two. And if you get the two points like you should, Sam Bradford could put up a nice little cushion of maybe gets two to four extra points a week, which is fantastic. So there are a number of kind of difficult to figure out fantasy situations still.

kind of being figured out right now. We don't know the answer to all those. So let's go ahead and talk to one of our friends here, Chris Harris. You talking to me? The fantasy footballers are excited to welcome in a friend of the show yet again from HarrisFootball.com and the Harris Football Podcast. It's Christopher Harris. How you doing, Chris? Doing so well and so happy to be back. You guys are a total blast, and you're going to be on my show. I think...

Right after week one, I can't remember, but sometime early September. Super excited. Yeah, thanks for coming on. We love talking to you. And first, I just want to bring this kind of rumor. This is something that comes up kind of frequently on our show now. I think we've gotten to some dirt and a mystery that we think needs examination. Yeah, we have dubbed Fred Jackson the depth chart assassin. And we're trying to put the pieces together here because it seems like,

Where he goes, he plays. Okay, so Jason was super disappointed with the cut. It was super surprising to us, but it seems like he finds his way to the top here. So now rumors about him going to Seattle. And is Marshaun Lynch? Should he be afraid? Well, I'm going to say no, but I hope not. I think it's funny that you say Fred Jackson.

wherever he goes. He's only been on one team. Unless you're talking about like NFL Europa. He was a total depth charge. Yeah, I guess I mean, whoever comes in, they just can't pass him. I mean, and that's why they cut him. They just wanted to give another guy a chance. Right. LaShawn McCoy, you need to, you need some, that money wasn't enough. You need some sure, sure that you, it's not enough when Fred Jackson's doing his sneaky stuff. We, you know, we remembered Marshaun was back in Buffalo. Obviously, that's kind of.

probably how these two got connected and him heading back to Seattle. But, you know, Lynch, Lynch was banged up back at Buffalo. Right. And like, so no, I mean, I would think this is much more of an insurance policy than anything else. Obviously, anything can happen. But no, I'm not lowering Lynch in my ranks. You know, I looked at Robert Turbin plus Kristen Michael.

And I assigned that workload to Fred Jackson. And of course, Fred Jackson's, even at 34, is probably a better player than either one of those guys. But I think the Seahawks are smart enough to know that they can't be given, you know, 34-year-old Fred Jackson a huge workload relative to Marshaun Lynch, who last time we saw an NFL game that mattered was the best running back on the planet. But are you guys lowering Lynch at all in your ranks? No, no, we're just having fun with it. I'm not at least. I think it's better for Seattle, the actual team, that Fred Jackson's there.

I think that's the veteran presence, and he has a better player, just like you said, but I'm not lowering Lynch. Yeah. But I was having fun with it. So let's go ahead and talk about, I'm going to give you three wide receiver situations, three or four, and I want to know who you kind of see at the top of some of these battles, okay? Yeah. So the first one I want to ask you is which Rams wide receiver are you drafting highest right now?

Brian Quick. And really, he's the only one who I'm considering drafting. Kenny Britt, for me, is just not, you know, all the physical ability is there. He's a former first round NFL pick, and I just don't think he's got the head for it. I think he's a total knucklehead. And Brian Quick.

will come in a decent value. I mean, it's funny, I was like totally throwing cold water all over the fantasy stock of Brian Quick when he had his couple of good games in a row last year because it was Austin Davis. And there was just no chance it was going to continue. It didn't. Of course, then he got hurt. And there is questions about that shoulder. He could get re-injured. But for where you have to take him, I am interested in actually in owning Brian Quick. And, you know, Kenny Britt can go punt as far as I'm concerned. And so for breaking down the film of the Rams, what do you...

What do you think of Nick Foles right now? Oh, so bad. So freaking bad. Which is why, of course, hopefully you're not going to have to use either one of those guys. No, he's terrible. And, you know, I sort of made my bones on Philly radio a couple years ago when Foles was having his big ear saying, guys, this is a mirage. It is not going to last. I'm watching these. I mean, obviously everyone in Philly was watching too, but they were watching with green tinted glasses.

He was a disaster even when he had two interceptions and 27 touchdowns. There's a reason why the Eagles got rid of him, you know, that he was bad. And he's been just so bad in the preseason. Speaking Mike's language over here. He's been saying that for a while as well. So I want to know about the Browns because there's a bet that Andy and Mike have in their wide receiver course. So who do you like there at the Browns? Are you a believer?

We use the word like very liberally in these situations, but if you have, gun to your head, you know. I mean, we haven't seen him play, but it would still be Dwayne Bo. Yes. You know, I don't have him too far ahead of Brian Hartline, though. You know, I actually probably... That was the bet we made, was Hartline Bo. Yeah, I mean, Heartline's a fine player. Bo is a different sort of athlete. I mean, if he's anything like what he was in Kansas City, what he does that Brian Hartline's never going to do is jump.

You know, he's just an... Overrated. He's an insane leaper. And so, you know, there's just a lot of red zone value to that. You wouldn't have known it from the chiefs with Alex Smith. But, you know, there are touchdowns probably there for Dwayne Bo. I wouldn't be shocked, honestly, if it's like touchdowns go to Bo and Yardage goes to heartline. And neither one is any good at all. Yeah, that's kind of the feeling we have to. So staying with the wide receivers, moving to the Arizona Cardinals. We know Michael Floyd is still sidelined, but there's...

The latest thing I was reading is there's Hope he'll be back week one, but with Fitzgerald, Smokey John Brown, Floyd. Are you taking anybody from that roster? Yeah, John Brown. He's the one I want. He was my number one flag player for this year. I believe, you know, especially, you know, flag players for me are about guys I'm planning my flag on in terms of value, you know, where you can get them. And all three of those cardinal receivers, well, really, Floyd's.

draft stock has fallen off. But all three of them are in the neighborhood, you know, same neighborhood. And in that neighborhood, I've much, much rather have Brown. You know you're not getting a consistent producer. He's probably more of a Deshawn Jackson, T.Y. Hilton. That's his upside to be a boom or bust kind of guy. But you don't have to start him for where are you going to take him. You don't have to start him. I'm a believer. I think the T.Y. Hilton analog is facile. But in this case, totally.

totally accurate, you know, super deep burner guys who don't have any size and it kind of doesn't seem to matter because corners are scared of death of them. And just a quick follow-up because we're Arizona fans as you know. What have you thought of Nelson? Do you see any potential there for Nelson to break out? I have to be honest that the most I've seen of him was this past game and I don't think that's the fit the tape that he would want me to see.

We agree with that one. Yeah, he's caught a couple deep passes. He reminds me a little bit about, you know, what John Brown looked like at the beginning of the preseason last year where they took some shots with him. So one situation that, you know, people have been...