Fantasy Football 2018 - Free Agency Winners & Losers, Commish Tips

Indianapolis, Washington, there are these juicy places that were available. And he ended up in Cleveland. Yeah, my biggest Brian Ketren of the offseason free agency goes to Jordy Nelson. He has done what the 2015 All-Star team has done and he has gone to Oakland to die. Look, Jordy.

Isn't that where MJD went to die? Yeah. That's where MJD went to die. It's where... James Jones went to die there, right? Yes, he did. But then he was... He rose like a Phoenix when he went back. Yeah, I was going to say maybe Jordy will go back to Green Bay when he's like 36. He actually said he's pretty upset. I'll bet he was upset. He came out and talked about the fact that they didn't do more to try to keep him after all the years he spent there. Yeah, it's certainly not the Green Bay way. Obviously, a new general manager kind of...

running the show there. But the thing with Jordy is two years ago with Aaron Rogers, he wasn't good. He was the number one, you know, in half point formats, which is what we look at. He was the number one wide receiver just the year before last. And he was on fire with Aaron Rogers last year. But when Rogers left, he was gone. Coming into this season, had he stayed on the Packers,

Jordy would be a huge discussion point. Yes, he's a little bit older, but is he going to bounce back to where he's lived with Aaron Rogers, which is as a top five wide receiver, he might have been a steal in the second or third round. Instead, he goes and plays with, you know, the guyliner man himself. Oh, oh, oh, oh, car. Oh, look, you're not, Derek Carr's not terrible. Send in the car. Send in the car. But he is.

He is 10 hundred miles from Aaron Rogers. Aaron Rogers since 2011 has averaged on a per 16 game pace 38 touchdowns a year, whereas Derek Carr, and I'm getting rid of his rookie season, of course, including his great season, you know, his sophomore year, he's averaged 29 touchdowns. The touchdowns are the difference. When Jordi was the number one wide receiver two years ago,

33% of his fantasy points came from touchdowns. He's a touchdown guy. He's not a huge yardage, huge volume guy at this point in his career. And now he's going to, and just for reference, the next five guys behind Jordi that year, they were 22% of their fantasy points were from touchdowns. So that's Jordy's game. And now he's going to a place where there's not going to be as many passing touchdowns. And as Andy, I think rightly said, he's going to be last year's.

Tennessee Titans Eric Decker. So who's excited about that? Nobody. I just can't believe you took a shot at Derek Carr. No, I didn't say anything bad about Guy Liner. I'm just saying. You made me search. You made me search on Google for famous raccoons. I've never done that before. Ranger Rick did. Ranger Rick came up. He said interesting. His eyes look very dark when he has the helmet on. Yeah. They're just a little sunken. Oh, okay. I'm going with.

The Jacksonville Jaguars pass catchers for fantasy purposes. So a collection of losers. Yeah. And it's not that it's a bad situation. It's the fact that there are so many pieces up in the air with you lost Alan Robinson. Okay. Mark Eastley, maybe we can be the featured guy except they threw $10 million. They stuffed a briefcase full of $10 million. They threw it at Dante Moncrief who.

hasn't done anything, but he oozes potential. You bring in Austin Safarian Jenkins. You already had D.D. Westbrook. I mean, poor Keel and Cole, after helping the team out tremendously last year, his reward is to sit on the bench and to not play. It's, I just don't know where to go with Jacksonville on a run first team thinking you had something in Marquisley to enter this offseason or Alan Robinson, whoever was going to be the alpha for the passing game.

And then they bring all these other guys in. It creates a very murky situation where you're not going to want to pay the draft price for any of these players. At least I will not want to. Someone may hit, but it's a full roulette wheel here with these guys. A few other losers, guys. Do you agree that Doug Martin's a loser?

Is this a free agency question? A little below the bell? Just free agency. Just free agency. Yeah, I mean, he would have been the only way he could have been a winner is if he went and became the starter. But Marshawn is still the starter. Yeah, Doug Martin could have gone to Cleveland. I would have liked him more there than backing up Marshawn Lynch. Eric Ebron, Jack Doyle, a couple of losers. I disagree with Eric Ebron. I really do. What? Frank Reich is going to look for his Zacherts.

And what do you think that lines have been doing all these years? They've been looking for their I think. I think Eric E. Braun's been very good. If you, if you gave him, wait, they didn't think that. Well, they just didn't think he was worth the fifth year option. Did they not call you? They needed to see what you saw. They said, and maybe this is proving your point or disproving it, but the NFL agreed with the lion said he wasn't worth the fifth year option money. They think he's a good player.

But they couldn't pay him that amount. Right. And the Colts did pay up enough to say, hey, look, we want you to be involved. They just paid Jack Doyle last year. So Jack Doyle is not going away. Right. No, I do agree with that. But I just don't, I don't think he's a gigantic loser here. Which one? Eric Ebron. Okay. Just like a baby loser? No loser at all? A winner? Eric. MVP? He has a neutral. It is so great to know that he has stapled.

A picture of Eric Ebron to his body. It's for this year. Because 2018 is now, it's continuing. He's my new Kobe Fleener. Oh, no. Oh, no. Well, you can always trust Jason's track record with sleeper tight ends. There is, yes. Kobe. All right. Let's hit the mailbag. Mailbag. Welcome in to the mailbag.

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So startup dynasty. Who do you want? Tyreek Hill, Adam Thieland, Alan Robinson. Wow. As much as we talk about Adam Thielen, in a Dynasty League startup, he's out from this question. You're just saying because of age, he's 28 years old. He's 27 right now. Yeah, in this season, he'll be 28 when he plays. Yeah, I'll take Robinson Hill, Thielen. Robinson Hill, Thielen. I lean that way as well. I'm going to go with the guaranteed one here in a Dynasty League, even though Hill might be that.

I think it's a 1A1B there in Kansas City. That's why I've been on the... With Sammy Watkins? Draft Sammy Watkins at the late value over Hill. Yeah, I agree completely. All right. This one's off of Twitter at Andrew Held 13. Quick question. Would it be in poor taste as the league's commissioner to hype up a bad player that got picked up by another friend's favorite team just so that he will draft him instead of a better player? What?

Heck, no. Oh, dude, this is what you got to do. Yeah, this is part of the game. Does it change if you're the commissioner versus just another league? No way. Not at all. You are not forcing them to do anything. Here's where it changes if you're the commissioner. Let's say you're the commissioner and you started this league with your friends and family, people who don't know football. And you're bringing this thing together with a bunch of people. This is their first year they've never played. And then you pull this.

Like, oh, dude, you should totally draft this guy. You know, in that situation, you get everyone a UDK and you make sure everyone's smart enough. But no, you, if it's a competitive league or even a, boy, that Jimmy Graham. That Jimmy Graham for your hometown Packers. Before we had the podcast. Second round pick, man. I actually like Graham. I do too, but you can definitely get someone to draft them before they should. Yes. Before we had the podcast where.

We have to tell the truth about our opinions and guys that we like. I used to do this all the time, and it was glorious. Because when you manage to pull off an inception and get someone to like a player that you hated, oh, man, and they draft them, there's, it's a top. Man, I'm excited about Doug Martin coming to Oakland. Oh, man. Have you seen 400, 400, 1400, 1400. We can't do it anymore.

You know, it's funny. We just had our live stream. What was that yesterday? Yeah. Yeah, for the join the foot.com supporters. And one of them asked a question about, they were like, did you have any other names besides the fantasy football? So Mike and Andy started looking up old emails. And they see when they were really looking at starting the podcast up, their biggest concern back and forth. The number one biggest concern was.

just the fact that people in the league would know their true opinions. This is the greatest problem you have. It's like, dang it. They'll know I really like this guy or I really don't like this guy. When we launched this podcast in 2014, we were strategizing as to what the best time to release it was so that they would get the least amount of information from us on a personal level. So good to look at those. Twitter question.

what's an appropriate age to let your child play in a family fantasy league asking for a friend i would say as young as they're interested yeah maybe maybe we asked the question two ways i would agree with that as like a co-owner but in terms of owning a single franchise what's the i think that would be the question because if you had a family league and then you said hey my four-year-old wants a team i think everybody in the league would go well your four-year-old probably can't handle a team it'll disrupt the we always talk about great leagues great people i would agree with those people

A four-year-old is not ready for fantasy football. So what are the standards that they have to be able to do? Must be 48 inches high. It's a Disney ride. It's mostly height related, actually. Can you ride Indiana Jones at Disneyland? You can't play. If you can't stick the name up on the draft board up high. Oh, you can't reach the first round, huh? Yeah. You don't get any picks.

They need to be able to. Probably eight, eight years old, seven, eight years old. That was the number that popped in my head. They're probably woke enough at eight to be able to sit down and really enjoy a football game. Well, they have to nap in between the draft. Like during the draft, if they have to nap, they're not old enough. Yeah. Yo, you got a nap? Then you can't come. I guess Jason has had to nap a couple times. If you guys want to. If it's food coma related, that's completely different. That shows you're old enough to have no metabolism. And you're invited.

I might start a motion that we do a nap halfway through the truck. You know, it is pretty intense. Yeah. I think Raising Cains can induce that. Just a quick power nap. A nice intermission. By the way, Jason mentioned it a minute ago, but we do a show every single week filled with.

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during the week and we don't move to five until August. So you get a bonus. Bonus. But you get a, you know. Three shows a week. I mean, that's, you get, you get odds of getting your question answered a lot higher too because there's less people in there right now. So one final question here from Rob. He says, what free agents still available are you keeping your eye on? I've got mine. Hey, Rob. I've got mine. All right. Who are your guys? DeMarco Murray.

Purely selfish reasons, but I got him on my dynasty team. I want to see him land somewhere. Mine are somewhat selfish because he actually is on my dynasty team as well, but that is Jordan Matthews. I still believe in him, but the man is hurt. He cannot get a job right now while he is hurt. No, no, he can't. Jason, do you have one? I don't know if I've got a guy that I'm really waiting for. I mean, obviously DeMarco is probably the...