Good Vibes, Bad Vibes + ADP Price Check

You know, year one, that could be another bad vibe right now. And Cam Meredith, we only talk about the injury, but we need to realize he's switching teams, new offense, all that in addition to coming back off of that injury a la Al-Shon Jeffrey. Or, no, that was not who I want to say. Alan Robinson, the injury and the team switch. All right. Mike.

What do you think? Where are some bad vibes? All right. I have, what's giving you the shakes? What wakes you up and, you know, gets you scared? And he's my guy. I still stand by him being my guy for the long haul of the season. But at least right now, you got to admit there's some bad vibes for Royce Freeman with Vance Joseph coming out and saying that Devante Booker is the starter. Apparently Royce Freeman may play in preseason week four, which is.

absolutely ridiculous. We need to bring up Phil Lindsay's name too. Sure. And I'm fine with Lindsay. The situation is just if this is now going to be a three-headed running back committee, at least for the first part of the season, that's very unfortunate for Royce Freeman. Booker was heavily involved in preseason getting snaps, getting carries. Royce Freeman was.

The more explosive player is better when you break down the metrics of yards after contact. Just making big things happen at the running back position. That was all Royce Freeman. I still 100% believe Royce Freeman will be the man. But when you're taking a running back in the third of the fourth round, you're expecting him to produce right away. So you've got to have the bad vibes, unfortunately, that's going to take some time for Freeman to establish himself as the starter.

It shouldn't, but yeah. You're right. It shouldn't, but here's where we are. That's the way the NFL works. Yep. Jason. Yes, I'm going to highlight two defenses, two team defenses that have looked so bad in preseason that it's really boggled my mind. Maybe some very good week one matchups streamer type decisions could be made based off of this? 100%. I mean, I will be looking to target. So like the Bengals.

are another sort of bad vibe to me because their offensive line. Man, I've been focused on their offensive line. I wanted them to get better, and they just haven't shown me enough improvement for everything that I wanted, but they get indie week one. And so their offensive line's going to be great because the Colts defense, not only up front, but also their secondary. I mean, there's just...

It's just a train wreck. I think that the Indy defense, they do not have enough pieces right now. Vante Davis was the one torched by John Ross. Yes, he was. They don't have enough pieces right now to show. And Kansas City, the Chiefs have done their best job to make Indies defense look terrific because the Chiefs were torched by the Bears' second.

string players we got there look the chiefs yeah the bears didn't even play starter no and they were the chiefs made chase daniel chase daniel look fantastic the man again the man was 15 for 18 almost 200 yards and two touchdowns 150 passer rating

This is not trending. And it wasn't just that game. It's the whole preseason. They lost a lot of pieces on their defense. We brought this up, though, as a reason to like Pat Mahomes. Yes. And because if you're in that situation where you are constantly, like of all the players and all the coaches to air it out, to keep it up, they have the tools to keep up. They have the players to keep up. Mahomes could be a.

He could lead the league in passing. That's the thing that you have to differentiate. A lot of times people say, oh, you don't want garbage time production because how did you get there? You got there by sucking. Completely agree. You don't want garbage time. But when you have a good offense with a bad defense, it's not garbage time. It's trying to win a game. You're in the game. You've been in the game. It's what the argument that I make of Drew Brees from years past where their offense was terrific, but their defense sucked. And that made a lot.

a lot of fantasy owners happy. You wanted Saints players years, you know, week in, week out, year in, year out. And I think we very well might see that this year with the Chiefs. Here's some bad vines. The Eagles offense in general, and I wrote down for the first half of the season, because who you start in week one, Mike? Yeah. Who are you playing? Zach Ertz and no one else. There's no one else you can have confidence in.

whether it's Ajay or Clement. I mean, they're missing so much of the first team office. That's my point. The bad vibes is there aren't people to play. There hasn't been production. And when week one comes around, it's all right. They have foals. You don't know if Carson Wentz will be in there. Now you know Jeffrey won't be in there. You don't know what's wrong with the Johnny. You don't know how healthy and capable Darren Sproles is or how healthy and capable of Corey Clement is.

You don't know how Mike Wallace is going to acclimate. You don't know how Nelson Aguilar is going to be. So to me, there's just so many, I think that there's just some unsettled problems that are going to persist for the first part of the year. I think if you can figure that out and you head into E4, 5, 6, 7, and 8, they're going to figure it out. Doug Peterson will take care of business. But this is a team that spreads the ball around.

I don't like the vibes in Philadelphia. And again, in addition to all the injuries, they also did lose their offensive coordinator and their quarterback coach. This is a new team of coaches for the offensive side of the ball. I mean, I told Andy this yesterday. You know, on our bold predictions show, I'm three years running picking a team that's going to seriously disappoint in fantasy. Philly is who I wanted to pick.

except their ADPs were so low, you know, Carson Winses. It wouldn't have been as impactful for our listeners. Exactly. But that's who I am really not liking the offensive outlook for this season. So I have a question here for Jason Moore. Mm-hmm. Resident Marcus Mariotta, Truther. Mm-hmm. How's your vibes on the Tennessee Titans, my man? Well, so here's the thing.

Water is healthy for you, and I've gotten a big glass of salt water. And so, yeah, it hasn't, it hasn't hydrated me the way that I was hoping. You thought you were getting some electrolytes. You've heard that salt. Right. Yeah, it's going to store that water. Look, I will say this. I think there have been.

legitimately both good vibes and bad vibes with the Titans. There have been things that you've seen in the running game that look great. And the offense, you know, in this preseason that looked good. Tewan Taylor has looked good. Marcus Marriota, week one, looked good. But the last couple weeks, the problem specifically has been with Marioita and his accuracy that is scary reminiscent of what I... Last year. Exactly.

It's so I mean... It looks like... This is one where I don't want to overreact. He looks like himself. I don't want to come to a conclusion based on preseason, but it's something you hold on to and you get a little worried and you pay close attention to in these first two weeks. Things are a little rocky for those back-to-back picks from that draft class. Winston and Mario. Yes, they are. The path forward. Like, would you rather... Let me ask you this. Would you rather have...

Darnold or Marioo right now is a franchise. Wow. Darnold. So the unknown of Darnold. Donald, to me, was a much better prospect than Marioita coming out of college. You've got four years. That's a really hard question. And then on top of that, I mean, you're coming to the point where you have to make the decision on are you going to pay Marioita? Yeah. Oh, man. I think I'd rather have Darnel. That's a crazy hard question.

Crazy hard question. Yeah. That you haven't answered. Yeah, that's my answer. Okay. It's a very difficult question. I quit. Jordan Reed? Jordan Reed has been a bad vibe because look, the issue has always been, is he on the field or not? And yeah, you go, well, he hasn't shown anything. But that's the problem. I need to see him playing football. His floppy toes aren't getting on the field. They're just blowing in the wind.

So, yeah, I mean, look, I don't want, I would never right now, I'm, Jordan Reed is undraftable. I'm not going to stash him and I'm not going to play in week one. So maybe you out there draft him. Has some courage, Jason. Maybe you, well, it would be you, Mike. Because you love Jordan Reed. Maybe you draft him late. You get a value week one, he's on the field and he's great. I'm not taking that risk. There's just no reason. I don't see.

Enough reason to do it. So Jordan Reed or David Injoku? Injoku. Jordan Reed or Ricky Seals Jones. Ricky Seals. Yeah. Look, I get it. I get it. You can't live on the name. Jordan Reed is the name now. He's a name. Hasn't had over 600 yards in multiple three years now, something like that. Let's help out the folk clan. Let's get into the mail bag.

Mailbag. Mailbag, yeah. All right. And one year, Andy, just so you're aware. Last year, he did not surpass 600 yards, but the year before he did. 600 and, he was in the 600, right? In 2016, he had 686 yards. Hasn't surpassed that in more than two years. Fair. I won. You got me. Dang it.

If you have a question for the show, go to the fancy footballers.com. Click to submit a question button, dial our voicemail hotline 302464 TFFB. Let's start with the voicemail question. Hey, ballers, Papa Bear in Pennsylvania, new foot clan member. I just had my draft last weekend, and I took your advice. I did not draft a kicker or a defense. But now I've got three players. I've got to figure out who to drop before week one between the following. Cortland Sutton, that is.

Jordan Wilkins and Anthony Miller. Question is, who would you keep and who would you cut between those three? Thanks. Miller's gone. Yes. You cut Miller for sure. Yeah, that one's... And the honest truth is you don't have to be like Andy. You don't have to do it right now today. I was so stupid to do it now. You can wait. That's the best part of this strategy is you let the NFL tell you who you need to cut, but more than likely it's going to be Anthony Miller.

And you hold on, Jordan Wilkins is the perfect player for this strategy. Because you could get declared a week one starter. Exactly. Or you could have Michael declared the week one starter and then you feel cozy dropping Wilkins. Michael Healthy and Marlon Mack is helping week one. And then all of a sudden you go, okay, Wilkins is not getting in right now. Yeah. Or you could have watched the offensive line play and then jettison them all. But Miller is the drop. Well, it.

But I think he's saying he's going to have to drop two because it's kicker defense. Yep. So, I mean, that's why you just wait as long as you possibly can. And it's likely going to, if I were him, it's probably going to end up being Wilkins and Miller. That's what I would guess. For me, it would more than likely be the two-witers-seat. Yeah, that's where it is for me as of right now. But, yeah, wait and see until you can get a decision made last possible minute. Don't be an Andy. That's what they say. Don't be an Andy. You know,

Here's the funny thing about that is I had the drop queued up yesterday, but yesterday happened to be Tuesday. And even though we're not in the regular season, Tuesday's the day when the waivers don't go through. And my drop was actually not for a kicker. My drop was Tyler Lockett to pick up O.J. Howard. That's what was queued up until about five minutes before the waiver wire this morning. And when I said, well, what can really happen?

That's literally what I said to miss up. I go, what can really happen? And why do I want to pick my week one kicker last minute, maybe some other people are doing the same thing? Let's just go grab a guy that I like their week one matchup now. Because what can really happen? And we always say, don't be in and yet. Four minutes after, like if it happens five minutes before, Tyler Locke is still on my team. It happens to the best of us.

Now, I want to point out something because I have to. Tyler Lockett has failed the top 600 receiving yards and has only scored three times since. He's wearing that war blanket of hate. Stoke the fires. All right, here we go. Hey, ballers, this is a sigh out in Oklahoma. With all the hype surrounding Royce Freeman is now the time to sell. And if so, what kind of deal can I get with packaging Royce Freeman and Golden Tate? Thanks. There's always a time to sell.