Free Agency Madness + Brees Retires, Big Stimmy - Fantasy Football Podcast for 3/16

I won't be shocked now at this point if they bypass running back in the draft or grab a seventh round special teams guy. So this is great. But it clearly means James Robinson will take a step down from what he was last year. And that's kind of the...

projection we've talked about in market share in market share and and therefore i believe in fantasy points he will not be as good in 2021 as he was in 2020 and that's kind of we i've taught i've brought up the philip lindsay comp that massive breakout rookie year undrafted free agent but you're not going to get the same workload going forward i you know i've been advocating a hold of james robinson in in dynasty leagues um and

He's good. He's a really, really good player. He'll be the lead dog, but he will take a step back and hopefully the team is good. Because if the team is good with James Robinson, then he has a chance of sticking around. But what odds do you say that the Jacksonville Jaguars are good in 2021? Yeah, little. Yeah, like 30%. Yeah. Yeah, little. But Robinson was good on a bad team. I agree with you.

Carlos Hyde is good enough to get on the field, but I think if you have Robinson on your dynasty team, you should exhale and feel good about this move. They have to have someone else on the roster, and Carlos Hyde is not going to take over. I dreamed they were going to add a fourth round running back. I feel like this is adding a fourth round running back. This is adding a veteran.

Yeah, it's adding a veteran, but here's the danger with a fourth round running back. Sometimes fourth round running backs are excellent, and they pop, and then in training camp, you go, holy crap, we have to get this guy in the field, not just we have someone to give James Robinson a rest every once in a while. Okay. The Buccaneers are bringing back Gronk on a one-year deal after he allegedly was going to.

Test the free agent market. Yeah, that came out this morning that he was going to dip his toes into the free agent market. See what's out there. Mike and I are like, yeah, right. There's no chance he plays. It was not just us. It was everyone. There's just no chance he plays somewhere else without Tom Brady. He was going to retire. He forced. Oh, and the Patriots were going to trade him to the lions. He retired. Yes. He said, oh, no, I will take my ball and I will go home. Of course, he's back with Gronk.

We'll see how that plays out. We need to hear about O.J. Howard, how is he, he is recovering. But Gronk could be a spot start for your tight-end position. And then in this news, mediocre signing of the wig. What are the Texans doing? They're bringing in a guy for the locker room. They're bringing in someone to support the head coach, the new head coach. What are they doing? They have signed Mark Ingram, formerly of the Ravens,

which there was a, the head coach for the Texans was on the Ravens team. When the Ravens made the decision, we will get better as a football team if Mark Ingram does not play for us. Right. If he just sits to the side and we put our better running backs in, our team will be better. And well,

The running game was. The running game was better because it didn't have Mark Ingram. And so he's like, we got to bring that Mark Ingram guy. That's it. What is Coley doing? No, I, so I talk tongue and cheek about it, but I genuinely believe that this move is not as much an on-field move for them. This is David Coley coming over, wanting a leader in the locker room who has his back, who he's worked with before, who believes in him. This is a locker room veteran presence. And I honestly,

David Culley needs it right now. The locker room is, is not the locker room that I would say has the best, you know, buzz around it right now. Yeah, they're probably not very united. Does this do anything to David Johnson? Will he eat into the workload enough to matter? Probably. But they're going to head into the season with David Johnson and Mark Ingraham. Good luck. 2016 would have been great. Yeah, just jump in the time machine.

A couple of important offensive line signings because offensive line, we don't really pay attention to much defensive signings unless it's our Arizona Cardinals. But offensive line is important. The Chargers have signed Corey Lindley. They stole them away from the Packers. They gave him a big boy deal. He is now the NFL's highest paid center. The Chargers had the worst offensive line according to PFF last year. So this is a huge boost for that team. Froston Echler.

for Justin Herbert. Both of those, this is one of those, you can't ignore these offensive line changes. You're literally, literally going from the worst to the best at the center position as far as like pressure rate given up. They had the 32nd ranked and they're going to the number one ranked. That matters. It does. Your guards on both sides. The offensive line will be better. So, man, Austin Echler.

Austin Echler, a great friend of the show. He's been on the show. We love Austin Echler. Dude has been playing around with gamma radiation because I saw another photo where it's like, I thought he was small, but I think he. Well, he's, he's, he's shorter. He's, I mean, I, this dude is ripped like. The dude is jacked. I mean.

Goodness gracious. His veins had muscles. His actual veins had muscles in them. It's unbelievable. Uh, the Kansas City Chiefs, they said, we don't need our tackles. However, we are bringing in guard Joe Tuny formally from the Patriots. They're giving them a five year, 80 million dollar contract.

That's huge for a guard. He's now the fifth highest paid lineman and at guard. That's what it was going to take to get him, which is crazy because you think with Pat Mahomes, you know, you might get like this, you want to play for Pat Mahomes. No way, man. Joe, get that money. Yeah, no, I don't blame him. But this is obviously, it's funny because if you didn't know the news where they released, you know, they had three of their five offensive linemen starters, the chiefs did.

are no longer with the team. They're gone. So they have to make an adjustment. This is a great signing for them, very important. But at the end of the day, like I think the Chargers' offensive line is clearly and utterly improved. It went just up. I don't look at the Chief's offensive line as better now because they signed someone after releasing a couple of important players. Hopefully it stays the same. And he has a guard. It's going to help the offensive line.

Hopefully this helps Clyde Edwards Aller as well because the guard will help the running game. And the Ravens, they brought in guard, Kevin Zitler. They gave him a three-year deal. Do you have any other, do we have any of the breaking news, fellas, that I missed while we were chatting? I mean, we're itching over here. The amount of refreshing Twitter and every news feed we can get our hands on. But hopefully.

Look, their silence is saying nothing is happening. We're watching nothing. The Thursday show will also will be maybe an even bigger free agent frenzy because it better be. This year's interesting. There are so many.

wide receivers that are good. Even after the franchise tags of Gobwin and Alan Robinson, you have a lot. You've got Will Fuller. You have Kenny Gulladay, Juju Smith-Schuster. There are a handful of really important big name wide receivers. And they're all waiting for someone to set the market. Like nobody wants to be first because they want to come in over the top. So it'll be a couple days. But once someone signs. Now Nelson Agalore has set the market.

Oh, man. Nelson Aguilar, he's getting paid more per year than Aaron Jones. Mama, don't let your children grow up to be running packs. Yes. Well said. But, yeah, I think Thursday's going to be very exciting with all those wide receivers. Mailbag. Mailbag for you. Jason, we're going to do the mailbag. Let's go. I don't know if you were ready for that. We got off of the website. This is Morton from Denmark. Oh, bonjour.

Levisca-Schanalt or the rookie pick 110. Leviska-Shanalt or the 110 in this year's rookie draft, half-P-R, single quarterback. Okay, single quarterback makes a big difference because the 10th pick in the first round is pretty good if you're in a super flex. There are four really legitimate first round quarterbacks in this year's draft. So in a single quarterback league, it becomes...

Very close. If the Chark News were to happen, I would probably take Levisca Chonaut. The Jaguars are denying it. Right. So I'm, you've got a good quarterback coming in. You've got a head coach that likes to use the, you know, multifaceted gadget type player that Leviska Chonaut can be. He showed a lot in his rookie season. He's going into year two. And that's important. You get a year.

earlier of production when you're taking a player versus a rookie, right? Sometimes it takes a year for a player to break out. And even if both players, like let's say Levisca-C-Chanel and whoever you drafted the 110 have identical careers, 100% the same career, then it's better to have Levisca-chanolk because you're, you've fast-forwarded that rookie year. I think I'm going to go Levisca. Okay, overtaking the shot. Overtaking the shot at 110 because the way that I look at it is pretty simple. Like the 110.

has the chance to be better than Leviska for sure. But it also has a chance to be nothing. Leviska does not have that chance. I think he's going to be solid? I mean, are you more into the more? I'm taking Chanel. Okay. I'm taking Chanel here. There are, uh, it's a, it is a weak running back draft class. They're, for our scouting at least.

We're locking in. We've got the big three running backs. The big three. And then there's a couple of guys that if they get draft capital, I think they'll matter. Like Michael Carter, Kenny Gallagherty, or Kenny Gainwell. There's a couple of guys here and there that maybe a team surprises us with a day two pick on them. But there are a lot. It is deep at wide receiver. Yes. There's a lot of wide receivers. So the one, the one 10 could be a better wide receiver than Chanel. But yeah, I'm going to take the.

Fast forward a year and take Chanel here. We got an Instagram question from KT. Schultz 99. Which Giants wide receiver has the most dynasty value? Kenny Gallaudet. Oh, you're calling it. You are calling it. I'm just saying they are really trying to go get some big name wide receiver. And that's who I would want. Otherwise, if we're just talking guys on the wrong, I expect them to do it.

I expect one of these big-name wide receivers to go to the Giants. That's who I'd want. Otherwise, it's Sterling Shepherd for me because I just think he's a solid wide receiver. All right. Dynasty question here from James and Texas. I picked up Tyler Johnson and Dynasty in hopes that Chris Godwin would sign elsewhere. Excellent. That's a very proactive move. With Godwin being tagged, should I drop Johnson, half PPR? I would say no.

You're not going to drop Tyler Johnson at this point. Who are you going to drop him for? Number one. But this is what you have to do in Dynasty. You have to just take shot after shot after shot and of projection, of calling what's going to happen. If Godwin had left, that would have been an incredible signing for your dynasty team, Tom Brady, with Mike Evans and Tyler Johnson.

likely would have ended up. So don't despair. Keep taking those shots. And we had a question that I thought kind of fit into there. This one's from... Well, before you move on. Oh, you have Tyler Johnson thoughts. Yeah, I do have Tyler Johnson thoughts. I think when the Chris Godwin franchise tag came out, I know that you want Chris Godwin to just leave. But there was, and still is, there's still time to come to terms on a longer term contract. But the fact that they've signed all their other...

players. I think that Godwin is one year for the Buccaneers. He'll play on the franchise and I don't think they will be able to afford him. They're going to be in some cap trouble here because of all the signings they're doing today. So Tyler Johnson, I expect, I know you don't want to wait two years for that third year breakout, but I think that he will have his opportunity. That is a part of Dynasty is you've got to have patience with some of these players.