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

Did you see Steve Smith went to the prom with that girl? Did you see that video? Because Steve Smith is the man. I love Steve Smith. He is a good dude. He really is. He really is. That was a cool video. So Steve Smith is supposedly coming back. Yeah. Well. Rashad Perryman, we've yet to see. I didn't watch the... How were his dance moves with his... And Mike Wallace is there. I don't think they come up for a wide receiver.

Yeah, I know. His dance moves looked good until he went down. No. And then you have the Browns. They're a possible destination. I said it to Matthew Friedman for Derek Henry to end up in Cleveland. The thing about the Browns is if you look, okay, what is the position of need for the Browns? Every single position. Quarterback, wide receiver, running back, defensive line, linebacker, offensive line. I think the one position they have failed is the head coach.

The head coach, they filled. Oh, yeah, it's because you're Hugh Jackson. I am. I like you, Jackson. All right, we need to move on here into the last three divisions, and we're going to have to abridge these. That way we can get to some mailbag as well. But the NFC North, the Vikings, Packers, Lions, and Bears. I've made the bold prediction. Derek Henry, lock it in.

Going to the Lions. It's a done deal. I heard my sources. I like how we have the Lions' needs written down, and there are no offensive positions on the list. They sign Marvin Jones. We have offensive tackle, but we don't have any of the... The skill players. Where Derek Henry might fit in. Yeah, well, it's... Which is incredible to know he's going there for sure. The Packers... I like how this is escalated. It went from bold prediction to guarantee...

Listen, listen, we make these crazy predictions at the beginning. I know. And now it's, I know for 100% certainty that Henry will be a Detroit lion. Well, we're talking about a guarantee here. An absolute. Oh, no. Bonifide. No, Derek Henry. That's trouble. Derek Henry needs to hit the isolation chamber immediately. You'll be all right in Detroit, Derek. You'll be all right. Let's talk about that. That is so ominous.

Yeah, I don't even. Derek Henry, you'll be just fine in Detroit. All right. Let's talk. Wide receiver for the Vikings. That's someplace that I know a wide receiver is landing. But is it a Treadwell? Is it a Coleman, Dawson, Fuller? Does it matter? Thomas. Could that, here's what I think. Minnesota is the number one destination for me for a wide receiver. Number one. Because Stefan Diggs, I think he's a really good player. I don't know if he's.

a one. And if you brought in a high impact wide receiver, the Vikings are the team in which they could make, he could make a huge impact right away. I know that Bridgewater isn't flashy. I know the running game and the defense is what makes that team go, but this is a division winning offense within a quarterback that's growing up. And if you put a bigger guy there, you know, right now Minnesota drafts at 23.

If Treadwell was to drop into the late teens and Minnesota hopped up to get a big guy like Tudwell, I think that's a 8 to 10 touchdown potential wide receiver in year one. Yeah, that's fair. Curious, because the Vikings' wide receiver position is just so gross. Do you even know who the number two is? Is it right? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, Jerry's right. And then, I mean, then, uh,

And Carl Rudolph is waving his hand over in the corner saying, this is my year. And Cordarell, meanwhile, is running really, really fast. Yeah. Yep. That's, well, not really anymore with the kickoff rules. Not very often. All right, the Bears need a pass rusher. They might draft a mid-round quarterback, in my opinion. They have Jeremy Langford, but they've made attempts at C.J. Anderson. So does Chicago fall into that? You know, where do you put Langford?

in all circumstances. So right now, where do you have them? And where do you have Langford if they draft an early running back there sitting there at 11? I got him down for a 20% chance at Ezekiel Elliott. If they get Elliott, Langford is a backup. Yeah, a big time backup. Yeah, and not like, I think there's, it'll be a timeshare, you know, 60, 40. Now, this is John Fox. This could be, he does. I would think if Ezekiel is drafted by the Bears, Langford starts game one. That is my prediction. Oh, good.

That's my guarantee. Sorry, that's my guarantee. Yeah, he'll come in for Snap number one and then they'll take him out just because he's John Fox and he's... I think they'll leave him in for an early part of the season. That's that kind of coach. I would be worried. That's a worry for me. Like, Elliot will succeed in Chicago, but I worry about the transition to success there. I wish I could attend the meetings that John Fox has. You know, like the last year, Forte goes down.

All signs. Everyone knows that Jeremy Langford is going to be the now the starting running back. Because you got, I can't even remember. Who's the backup? I can't even remember his name, the kid from U of A. Now you're making me space out here. Wow, this is terrible. Kadim Carrey. Yeah, thank you. So everyone knows this Langford.

And then Twitter explodes. And you know John Fox has this, I just imagine this chalkboard, because he's not on anything. He's not on a whiteboard yet. He's on a chalkboard, the green. There's chalk dust everywhere. He has broken pieces of chalk, and he has written up an entire thesis of why starting Kadim Carey will give his team an edge. He might not be on chalkboard. He might be on one of those projectors that we had. The overhead projectors from school with the screens you put on there and you wipe them off.

Oh, that's too high tech for Fox. And it says, 10 ways to throw off the press this week. Number one, White might be back. Kevin White may start. What? Oh, Foxy, Foxy. And I wish he had the mustache because he would just sit and he would twist his mustache like Snidly Whiplash from Dudley Dewwrights. Can't grow it. Yes. Yes, Cadeem Kerry. We have been fooled.

I think you can put him in the category of head coaches that probably won't appear on our show, John Fox. Unless he can get a competitive advantage, in which case we'll bring him on. So, AFC West, Chargers, Broncos, Chiefs, and Raiders. This division is wide open. It is. It's wide open. I think the Chargers and the Raiders will be improved this year. Yeah. I think that the Chiefs are a good team. Yes.

And I think that the Broncos have a lot of question marks and might be able to put it all together again because defense lets you do that. It does. I mean, you lost some pretty key pieces to that defense. And you get... He's got a good head coach. And you got... You have butt fumble throwing the ball. You don't like butt fumble. But Mark Sanchez, the butt fumble, throws so many freaking interceptions. I don't know why I like him.

I don't either. Like, I mean, I like him in this situation. I have no idea. I feel like in this situation, he can succeed. I mean, if you have the... Because Peyton Manning did, and Peyton Manning was awful. Yeah, I feel like they snuck out some games. I don't think Offsweiler's very good either. The Texas is perfect for this team. Don't you see? But Osweiler doesn't turn the ball over at the same clip. No, that would be the problem. He does, man. You're right. No, he does. He throws interceptions. So let's start with Denver.

They brought back C.J. Anderson. They re-signed his favorite running mate. Oh, Ron Hillman? Ronnie Hillman. But I mean, this is all a moot point since the starting quarterback Colin Kaepernick for the Denver Broncos will be happening on later today for the draft date. So if you haven't listened to the show, you know that there's a hanging bet debate about Colin Kaepernick being either the starting quarterback for the 49ers or not. I just got to make it through the draft, man.

I just got to get through the draft. I think what you want to see if you are a fan of C.J. Anderson or the fantasy prospects of the running game is you want to see the Broncos use some picks on the offensive line to solidify what they've lost. They obviously got rid of Clayty. They lost some other pieces. Who'd they lose the guard to? Tennessee. No, we got, wow, man, names are just not happening from you today. So they've lost some pieces. Evan Mathis. Evan Mathis.

The chargers, I don't see, you know, they could take a wide receiver in the mid rounds, but I don't see anything worthy of talking about right now. The chiefs are in that category too. What if one of those mid-range guys, not Treadwell, maybe not Doxon, but another mid-range guy, Fuller, Shepard, they land in Kansas City, other side of Jeremy Macklin. I think Macklin is injury prone. Yeah.

So that could be another destination for a wide receiver. I'm not sure they would. I mean, you have Albert Wilson there who I like him. Yeah, I like him too. I like him. And then Chris Conley, they had drafted him last year with a pretty high pick. So I'm not sure that they're going to be looking to add a high value pick at that position. Albert Wilson should be a sleeper if they don't.

He should be a really strong stream. He's on my list. You know, the bird alert. If you're on Twitter and you're, we're dinging over here, if you're on Twitter and you're into sports Twitter, you know about the bird alert. We throw them out anytime that Wilson does anything. All right. So anything else from that division? The Raiders? The Raiders, let's talk about Latavius Murray for a second. Jason's favorite player in the world. The Raiders draft at 14. Could...

Could they go Derek Henry? At 14? Yeah, let's say Zeke goes earlier. Zeke goes at eight, someone trades up, or he goes to Cleveland. I guess it's a possibility. I mean, it's... I think the Raiders probably just solidify the offensive line. I think they, if Elliot's there, they'll take him, otherwise they will...

Move along. Nothing to see here, people. All right. Speaking of moving along, last division to review real quick before we get into the mailbag, the Cardinals, the Rams, the 49ers, and the Seahawks, the NFC West. Look, the Rams, the Rams are taking golf or Wentz. Oh, I thought it was tight end. They're not going tight in, number one, Hunter Henry. They are taking golf, I think. Welcome to L.A. They need a wide receiver as well, but they have a really great running back.

Do you project Gurley any differently with Keenham than you would golf? Nope. Do you project them any better? Nope. Do you try to not mentally picture the quarterback position for the St. Louis Rams or the Los Angeles Rams at all? Yeah, I mean, I just hope that they go. I'm excited for hard knocks because of that. Oh, I forgot. Because of golf coming in. I forgot. The Rams are hard knocks. Yeah. Oh, that's tremendous. It is. You've got L.A.

You got Fisher. So he'll have, you talk about putting some up on the whiteboard or the chalkboard. Eight and eight is written right up at the top. I cannot wait for the beach shots of Jeff Fisher because you know he wears one of those 1920s, the full uniform swimwear. There is no chance he doesn't have the white on the nose. Oh, the zinc? On the nose. The zinc is on the nose. The zinc is on his entire face. Yeah. Because he protects. He protects his face. Yeah. And he goes out with the punter.

The punters who goes to the beach with. All right, so. I just see him playing beach beach volleyball, high-fiving people like in top gun, puffing his chest. He said, I knew this St. Louis thing was going to work out. Him and John Fox playing beach volleyball. Yeah. We need to make this happen. The Cardinals are solidified at wide receiver. I don't think there's anything that will happen of any sort for the Cardinals that you'd be excited about in fantasy. Well, we'll throw it out here. There's rumors in the bushes.

of a Michael Floyd trade, which... It's stupid rumors, though. I agree, but the people need to hear about these things. And our perspective on that is... So what are you hearing about the trade, though? To move up and grab somebody? I have no idea. It's just there's someone floated out here. It's all because of the contract situation with Michael Floyd. Yes. They're just talking about the fact that from the outside, I think the world sees Michael Floyd's contract situation, what's going on with Fitzgerald and John Brown and the money tied up with...

with other players and they say, oh, he's a prime candidate to trade, you know, get another cheaper option at the position. But I don't think those people realize that Arizona is all in this year. I mean, this could be Larry Fitzgerald's last year, Carson Palmer's long in the tooth. Michael Floyd. He's only got one tooth.

He's got one, two. So I don't buy into those personally. I agree. But it's worth mentioning. And then you got the 49ers. They are drafting at number seven, you know. They're going to need to draft a quarterback. Yeah, but you can't take Paxton Lynch at seven. Can you? Yes, you can. If you can draft golf and wins at one, too, you can draft Lynch at seven. If we could get Paxton Lynch and Blaine Gabbard, they're basically going to be the same guy. Get them on a team together?