Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Draft Show w/Team Overviews, News, Mailbag

I share his opinion about Henry being an impact, high volume fantasy impacting type of running back. So I think that he could be more of the steel because he could end up in a better situation to Detroit at number 16. Now, we'll see. So we'll go ahead and get into the draft preview here in a second. Is that all the news? That's all we got. So before we get into our full draft preview, we want to remind the Foot Clan about reality sports online.

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Yeah. Oh, man. We've seen that. Oh. What? I got to give out the sausage dip. Oh, well, okay. We can. So if you weren't with us last year, Mike likes to give away the sausage dip recipes. I had some more requests, actually, that people wanted here. So here it is, Foot Clean. This is a staple at every draft party that we've been at. The ultimate sausage dip, dip, this is all you need to do. You go buy a pound of sweets.

Italian sausage, you're going to brown half of it. You get a block of cream cheese, Philadelphia cream cheese. You get one can of Rotel mild. You throw that on a crock put, crock pot, a crock pot, and you're good to go. And you were going to wow people with this dip. Yeah, you can crock put it right in the crock pot. So, all right, let's go ahead and start in the AFC East. How does that sound?

Uh, like the best place to start. All right. So we've got the bills, the paths, the dolphins, the jets. The teams looking for some offensive weapons seem to be the bills and the Patriots. Yeah. We also, you know, if the dolphins were to, they're one of the teams where if they drafted Ezekia Elliott, traded up for Ezekieliot. Jay Ajai, where do you drop him? I mean, where do you have him now? Where does he go in the event that they draft a running back? If they don't draft a running back.

like EZE. I like Ajai, man. I like the opportunity. The guys... Do you think it's teams, you know, coach speak from Gay's to say he likes Jai? Or do you think... Of course. I mean, everything, everything at this point coming into the draft is coach speak, especially when you're trying to smoke screen who your pick is going to be. Yeah, that's the problem. However, I think Ajai has, can get it done. You saw him in college. In college was just an absolute dominant machine.

And I think he's got enough. If you give him the opportunity, he can produce somewhat similar to Lamar Miller. I think Miller is from a fantasy side. Yeah, from the fantasy point. So it's hard to see them not drafting a running back in the draft. The question is... It just will be an impact. Yeah, is it going to be... What if it's somebody further down the list, like Kenneth Dixon or a pro size from Notre Dame? Does that make you think that those guys come in as the two?

Yeah, where Ajaii stays the one. Well, especially Pro Seis, but I think they would, I think Ajai would likely be the guy in that event. He could get passed by the end of the year, but it would likely be a time share with those two guys. Now, do you know offhand where you have J. Ajai in your rankings today? Offhand, I do not. Because I want to look that up and just kind of see what kind of a...

where you have him projected you have him he's a little way down here yeah i think i had there's a big disparity there who's really high on him is that me yeah i had anticipated that they would be making move with all the so you just ranked him in line right with another pay i have him in 18 wow you guys have met 40 yeah i well because i had him as a backup see i i i guess i rated him as if the starter yeah as the starter today so what's funny is that

I clearly did the opposite with Rashad Jennings. Which, Rashad Jennings, I have at 40. You have at 21. Yeah, I love Jennings. Probably the exact same situation where I just don't think he'll end up getting the lion sharing you do. So let's talk about the bills. We know Percy Harvin won't be there. Oh, Percy. We know they have a need at wide receiver. I don't think they love, other than Sammy Watkins. I don't think they really love anything they have. They lost Hogan. Woods. I mean, Woods.

Woods is fine. Okay. Woods is, he doesn't get you up in the morning. That is almost worse than saying someone is bad. You're like, well, it's fine. Here's the deal. Woods is fine. And if you put him in Cleveland, he'd probably be the number one. Hey, how dare you? Is that Brian Hartline's, Brian Hartline's territory? Um,

What kind of an impact does it have on Tyrod Taylor? I feel like people are very split in the fantasy community on Tyrod Taylor. I was listening to, I think it was the CBS Sports Podcast with Azer in Eisenberg, where they, I think Jamie really, really likes Tyrod Taylor as a sleeper this year. And a lot, I understand, right? Like he had low pass attempts, still produced as a pretty...

upper echelon type of quarterback missed a couple games. If you project that over the whole season, he's got a better numbers, probably in the top 10, I think, top 12. I just think that the quantity of passes will not come up. Yeah. But does another wide receiver in the draft change that at all for you? No. It would just be, I think it would be create that fool's gold situation where you are going to make a strong narrative assumption about Rex Ryan, a guy who is.

proven for years and years and years as a coach that the high volume of passing just won't be there. So I just... And to me, they... They'll take a receiver, but it won't be... Up high. It won't be a notable guy. Okay. So let's talk about then the Jets as the last piece here. We know they didn't use the tight end at all last year. I mean, it was... OJace Amaro. Non-existent. I mean... Tomorrow will see you tomorrow. Yeah, or not at all.

I love that from a fantasy perspective. It was just so clear who the end zone targets were every single game. It wasn't hard to predict. You didn't have to... Because you just say, who's going to score? Eric Dacker. Or Brandon Marshall. That's all it was. I mean, you just said one of those two guys were going to score if they were passing in the red zone. That being said, is tied into a position where, you know, I think we've talked about it before. It doesn't really make a difference. I don't think he'll be...

They schemed in. And on top of that, you're, I mean, we talked with Friedman. There's just, there's no buzz for tight ends. There's no, there's no, there's no Max, Max Six Williams. Hunter Henry out of Arkansas is the only name that really gets talked about. So if you're talking, I guess maybe Dynasty, somebody goes there and then in five years they become somewhat of note, but you're, you probably need to look elsewhere.

All right, let's talk about the AFC South, the Texans, Colts, Jags, and Titans. Now, the one that really intrigues me is the team I've been kind of behind from a fantasy perspective this offseason, which may surprise the universe because they were so bad last year. But that's part of the puzzle, right? Like, you can't, nowhere to go but up. And that's, that's Tennessee. The problem with nowhere to go but up, that's true. But there is, there is a complete chance to just stay where you are lateral.

Well, a lateral movement. You're right. But that would have to take, for the Titans to go lateral, then you're saying that Richard Matthews, the two additions to the offensive line, Mario to second season, and DeMarco Murray, and what I think will be a very high-wide receiver draft pick, again, have no impact. And so I am projecting those guys. You think they'll take a wide-out? I do. I think they'll take a wide-out very early. I do. I think that they will take one.

I think they want to do what Tampa's doing to equip their investment with the best weapons they can, and I think they need one. I think Harry Douglas is done. Right, well, Douglas, but I mean, the starters, you got Dorio Green Beckham, and now you have Richard Matthews. Yeah, and you got injury prone, Kindle Wright. Yeah, and Wright is still there. I don't know, I would be pretty shocked. Teams do. The thing about the draft is no matter how many mock drafts the experts do,

something crazy happens every single year like a Christian ponder going what it was top 10 to the Vikings, the Rams drafting Todd Gurley, which I don't think I saw a single person say, oh, the Rams, they're a player. Almost like, you know, Derek Henry going to like the Lions, number 16. But now you've said it so it can't happen. No, I'm jumping all over this. I'm going to put.

A whole show's worth of strong confirming thoughts about this. And then when it happens, I'm going to look amazing. I'm going to get tweets all over the place when Derek Henry goes off the board of 16 tonight. Get ready, people. Oh. Hashtag genius. Okay. I'm all in. I'm all in. The Titans, I'm letting the sour feelings about the Titans bring the draft position of guys I like down.

I think DeMarco goes lower than he should. I think Mariotto goes lower than he should. I don't know about Delaney Walker yet because I hear about him blocking more and those type of things. But just throwing it out there. So you got the Jags, the Colts, and the Texans. Is there something you want to talk about with the needs of those teams? You made the joke about the Colts taking a wide receiver. They could take a running back.

Yeah, oh yeah, they absolutely could take a running back. But probably not in the first round. They have so, oh, man. Yeah, Trent Richardson has had a lasting impact on that franchise. They're just, anyways, Texans, I think the Texans, a takeover receiver high. I think they're a team that needs it. You have, I mean, you have Hopkins and Jalen's strong with his. Do you think he's just a flop? Strong? Yeah. I don't know.

He's a guy who I was, when we were starting to research and get everything ready for next year, he's a guy who I kind of liked, you know, because he had a kind of like a burst showing towards the end of the year. And then he had a showing on TMZ.com, so which we don't. That's never good. We don't know. I never want to be on TMZ.com. Ever. I don't know what the fallout is yet from that situation, which.

You never know. You never know with Goodell what's going to happen. So it could be a few games here for Strong at the beginning. But the Texas is just overall. They need another weapon besides Hopkins. To help Osweiler. Right. And their defense is so stout. I mean, you can always add to the defense. But you pay Brock Osweiler a guy who played five games. You give him 70-something million dollars.

you're going to want to put him in a place where he can succeed throwing the ball. Talk to me about this. If a Corey Coleman, Doxon, if Sterling Shepard ends up in Houston. Now, I was looking at some stats on Houston's pass attempts last year. They were actually, their quarterbacks averaged two more pass attempts per game than even Aaron Rogers did. Yeah, because they had that weird thing where they were out snapping everyone for the first half of the year. But projecting a possible impact destination for a wideout,

Is Houston a good one? Because everybody's got their eyes on Hopkins, but you did have, like last year you had, what was it? Not Nate Washington, right? But Cecil Short's had some games. You had other receivers have the ability, but you had so many different revolving door type of situation there. Yeah, they didn't have the lockdown number two guy. You put, I don't know if the foot clan would agree with me, but you put Coleman on the Texans, a guy who can just