Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - QB Rankings Part 2, News & Notes, Mailbag

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Good morning. It is Tuesday, March 23rd. I guess it might not be morning wherever you're listening to this podcast. But this is the fantasy footballers podcast. And we're back again. What? He's feeling better. Jason Moore. Still a little sick, but I'm with you. I'm excited. I'm excited to talk fantasy football. You got the hitman. You got the hitman. Got the fantasy hitman with us. Mike?

Greetings and salutations. Yeah, I got to give them some echinacea. That's what you said, huh? We are the fantasy footballers. You can find us on the web at W-WW. Do people really do? WWW still? Some people need it. Yeah. I want to live in a world. Otherwise, they're confused. I want to live in a world where there's no WWW anymore. AOL keyword fantasy football.

Yes, www.thefantsyfootballers.com on Facebook, facebook.com slash the fantasy footballers. You can find us on Twitter. Twitter's the place to be, man. Twitter is, Twitter's too happening. It's all instant news. I had somebody the other day who was showing me a trade rumor app on their phone for like football and baseball and things like that. And I'm looking at the update times on there and it's like 52 minutes ago.

And I'm like, that's old. I'm like, I don't want this app. I want something that's quick. I want to know exactly when Adrian Peterson signs his contract extension with Arizona Cardinals. Well, he's got a contract. Is he coming? Man. I don't know. It's sounding more and more like the Vikings are just going to dig in. No way. I don't know. I have always said that he's going to play for the Vikings, and now I'm finally turning and saying... It seems like more often than not, the teams have to...

be this way up until the moment they make the trade. Mm-hmm. Percy Harvin's a good example. There's some other guy. Oh, he's going to be here. There's no way we're trading that. Goodbye. Yeah, I think it's going to come down to, I don't, they're not going to release him, but is somebody come through with an offer that they think is acceptable to move their franchise face. What's crazy is with Norv Turner there and Bridgewater in a second year and that team,

Like, they're actually, if Adrian Peterson stayed there, I think they're pretty good. Yes, I agree. I think they're a really good team. I don't know if they're a playoff team, though. I think they're a Cusp team. They're a 9 and 7, 10, and 6 team maybe. Really? I do. I mean, last year they were not that bad towards the end of the year. I think they were 6 and 10, though. Yeah, that's a big jump. That's, of course, with really no Adrian Peterson. They had them in game one. But I just think bringing in, they brought in Mike Wallace,

Turner's got another year. Oh, you're laughing at Mike Wallace? I am. Chris Johnson? Oh. Mike Wallace is a good pickup for them. Charles Johnson? Charles Johnson, yeah, who came on last year. I don't think I ever gave our Twitter handle at the FF Ballers. They can follow us there. The people know it. They know it. So let's get into the very minuscule amount of news that we have. News and notes from around the league. This is a big one, guys. Dwayne Bo.

Dwayne Bow signs with the Cleveland Browns. Straight cash, homie. Is there anything to say? Is this as impressive as when they signed Miles Austin last offseason? Yeah, about it. It's identical. We're assuming that Josh McCowan is the quarterback, and he's not good. That's not what I'm saying.

You're saying he's capable of maybe throwing the ball to one guy? That's exactly what I'm saying, where he was not good, but Mike Evans still put up numbers when McCown was playing. He put up numbers with Jeffrey and Marshall in Chicago. So I'm not completely off of the Dwayne Bow as a four with possible three upside. I think that's taking it too far. I think Duane Bow is better than a four.

If he's their number one? I'm not drafting him as anything higher than four, though. Yeah, I agree. Really? Both of you? I don't see Dwayne Boe doing anything relevant. I don't see the Brown's offense being an offense. I want to be. That's the key. Even Andrew Hawkins was relevant last year with Cleveland. Sometimes. Sometimes. Well, I'm just saying he's no Dwayne Bo. He also was not in my lineup for sure. He was in my lineup a couple weeks. Oh, Hawkins. Yeah, absolutely. Hawkins was. But it's just it's about the Cleveland Brown's not.

I mean, I admit Duane Bow is a perfect fit for the Cleveland Browns. I mean, when we talked about Richardson signing with Oakland, now you got Bo with the Browns, those are just perfect matches made in heaven. Places that those guys can go and get overpaid for their reputation. What was the stat you found this morning, Mike, about Trent Richardson? Oh. So we're going to bile onto him? I have no problem doing that. I guess because Browns, so it's related.

This just in. Trent Richardson's longest career run 32 yards. Peyton Manning's longest career run is 33 yards. That's embarrassing. So Peyton Manning is one yard better than Trent Richardson. That's embarrassing. He got, what did I read? He only got $600,000 guarantee. Yeah, the contract wasn't nearly as good as... Why does that keep happening?

Where they look great on paper. These reporters got to get it together. Stop giving me inflated numbers. It was the same with the Darren McFadden contract. If I was looking at that, whoa, they gave him a lot of money. No, no, they didn't. Yeah. Well, Trent Richardson is not a big threat to Mr. Latavius Murray, so I guess in some ways that's a good sign for him. It could be a lot like the Bush signing, where Jason had the take last week that Hyde would be.

the guy because they brought in Bush, they're probably not going to bring in another. Yeah, but Mr. Hulu is there as well. Don't forget him. Yeah, that's true. Hello! Is that Mrs. Doutfire? Yes, yes. Yes, it was. Roy Hull. That's Mrs. Doubtfire is, that's... She's a big fan. She's a huge fan of Roy Hulu. I have my doubts about Mr. Hulu in Oakland. I thought you had doubts about Mrs. Delfire. I guess I jumped into the news and notes a little quick. We didn't get to do our...

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And the news is a little bit slim. The only other thing I had of minuscule note because of the way they're receiving chorus right now is the fact that Greg Jennings was talking to the Panthers. He hasn't signed, but if he goes there, do we care? A little bit, actually. Okay. So like on a more than Jericho-Catchery kind of way? Yes. And I care on it from a Cam Newton way. I think Cam Newton had a really down year, and I believe we're talking about him today. So I will hold...

This to the rest of the show. Okay. So that's pretty much the news and notes that we have other than my own internal dreams of Adrian Peterson coming to Arizona and wanting to break that news. But maybe next week. So we're talking fantasy quarterbacks. We started this last week and we went through our top five consensus ranking. So Mike, myself, Jason, we all went through. We did our beginner.

March initial. Yeah, our initial rankings at the quarterback position. And so we looked at those. We all had Andrew Luck, or I'm sorry, Aaron Rogers at number one, Andrew Luck at number two on all of our boards. Jason and myself had Russell Wilson at number three. Mike has him at four. We had Matt Ryan, which I think was the biggest surprise from that top five. We all had Matt Ryan as our consensus number four. And I've actually changed my mind a little bit on him.

You're still three for me, Matt Ryan for life. Wow, number three for you. Yeah, and then Peyton Manning was our consensus number five. For me, for me, I just backed off Matt Ryan a little bit. I have Peyton Manning at four, Matt Ryan at five. Was it after you heard the rushing stat?

Yeah, once I heard Manning had broken off at 33-yarder, I'm like, I have to find that play. I want to see what the defense did to, like, sit down. How long is that clip, is the real question? It's 25 seconds. That must have been rookie year or something. So we're going to get into our consensus 6 through 10, or we'll go farther if we have time. Here's an amazing, amazing number 6 for us. He is Ryan Tannahill.

Ryan Tennehill is sitting at number six on our boards. He's actually ranked seven on mine, nine on Jason's, seven on mics.

Now, important to clarify here. So somehow he becomes our sixth. Very important to clarify here to the listeners, if you are listening for the first time, is that these rankings that we've done, we've statted out every single stat for the quarterbacks, but these rankings are according to standard traditional scoring, which is why Ryan Tanna Hill is so high here. So it's six points for running touchdowns, also known as rushing touchdowns. Also known as. And then four points for passing touchdowns.

You've got the quarterbacks that use their legs are always valued higher here. So he would clearly drop if it was not just a rushing. Do you boys remember where he finished last year? I do have the number. I'm just curious. Oh, eight? He was number nine. He was the number nine quarterback last year. I went and looked at if you wanted to be a top five quarterback last year in fantasy, in standard scoring, you had to average.