Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Keep, Trade, Cut + #FootClan Mailbag

So I would go Ingram Langford, Matthews, Riddick. And what's interesting is this is the same game. On Monday night football, Philadelphia is playing Chicago. So you got Ryan Matthews against Jeremy Langford. I'm going to go with the team that is home and that is favored to win because the running back usually scores a lot more fantasy points in victories than in losses. And when, I mean, when you look at these two guys, they're pretty even like just, you know, in a vacuum. So that's you predicting Philly to lose. That's right. I think what I have this theory. We've talked about it in years past.

Week two of new quarterbacks is always really, really difficult. They come out week one, whether it's in the middle of the year, their first start for a rookie. Nobody has true game footage on him. Coming to that second week, people can really game plan. Plus, he loses Ertz going on the road to Chicago. I think Chicago wins this game, so I'm going to go Langford, and Ingram is a must start in a game that Vegas has is the highest scoring game of the week. All right, let's jump into another voicemail question from the footland. Hey, ballers.

Billy from New Jersey. Trick trade question. Should I trade DeAngelo Williams and Marvin Jones for Latavius Murray? I'm really lower at running back right now. My RV one is Thomas Rolls, sadly. So, yeah, thanks, guys. I know why I picked this question out. And it was because of the passing comment on Thomas Rawls. I told Jason in the studio yesterday, I'm building out my ranks.

I think agreed with me, but said it might take another week. Yeah, I'm one week away from what you're at. I believe you're going to see a breakout for Thomas Rawls this week. Based on what I saw in film, what Pete Carroll has said about the usage level of Thomas Rawls, I think this is the week. Against the Rams? Correct. Well, Carlos Hyde just was fine against the Rams. Mr. Taste My Hyde. Yeah, because he had two touchdowns. Look, I.

I'm coming at it wasn't injured. They're going to depend on the, neither is Rawls. Well, coming, sorry, coming back from injured. He's not injured. He's fine. You saw it on the film. He still, he was a horse. He was moving the pile. To me, this is the week where you can buy Rawls on the cheap because somebody like this is saying, I'm going, so the answer is, would I do this trade if I had Thomas Rawls? I might. I might want Murray in the long term.

If I can afford to lose Marvin Jones, it's fine, fine with the trade. But don't discount Rawls as a long-term answer at running back, because I think he will be at least by week three, maybe not week two. Yeah, I agree with your notion. As far as the trade goes, if you've got other wide receiver depth, which usually you do because Marvin Jones was very affordable in your draft. You probably have another Michael Crabtree or a Willie Sneed or someone like that that was kind of fighting for that flex roll with Marvin Jones. If you're doing that, then I like turning a...

a short stint player in DeAngelo Williams into a long-term option in Latavis Murray. I would take that deal. Also, on the Rawls Michael debate, think about this. The offensive line is so terrible for Seattle. You have an immobile, possibly immobile, starting quarterback for the first time in Russell Wilson. He's never missed a game, by the way. Do you know that? Russell's never missed a game. I believe he's never missed a snap of practice, honestly. That's true.

I heard that from Paulson. Or an episode of Family Guy. No, he has not missed one. Even repeats. No, he records them all. But the point I'm making is, do you trust Kristen Michael in pass protection for your star quarterback in that situation against a good pass rush? Yeah, it's a good question. I think you trust Thomas Rawls. I think it's his job. I think Michael will obviously see the field. Yeah. Yeah, they'll still split this week.

I'm not making Michael my start of the week. And I might make Rawls my start of the week. We'll see. Whoa. That would be bullshit. I dare you. I dare you to do that. Well, you know. We'll see. I know that if I do and we waterbed it, you won't take the water. So, you know, we're fine. Who should I start as my flex, says Nadim in Atlanta. My options are Michael Floyd. I wasn't sure for a split second. You still remembering Malcolm Floyd when I see that.

My options are Michael Floyd, Alan Hearns, Amir Abdullah. 12 point PPR. Oh, my. All right. 12 point PPR. Sorry, 12 person league. 12 point PPR. No, that's a tough one. It is. I would go with Amir Abdullah. Really? I think so. Amir against the Titans? Well, yeah, I don't think the Titans are.

The Titans that just shut down Adrian Peterson? No, they just shut down the Minnesota Vikings who didn't have a quarterback the same exact way that St. Louis got shut down when they didn't have, it's like, hey, we're going to put all of our team against the run. Now you're actually playing a team as opposed to a running game. I think that the Titans defense has impressed me. I can't remember which game it was in preseason, but that combined with week one.

I think that might be okay. That being said, I'm going Michael Floyd here. I'd go Michael Floyd at home. There you go. By the way, the snap counts for the Cardinals in week one. Michael Floyd was at, I believe, 95%. Fitz was 97. John Brown was down at the 59%. John Brown did not impress me in that game. That was the other piece. I loved that snap count notion because you have a guy coming off of...

You know, it's rare, or I guess it's not rare, but it's scary. I should say, when a guy gets a concussion and is out for weeks comes back and is still having headache problems, and the fact that his snap counts are low and that he's not being involved right now in the, he wasn't returning puns or returning kicks or anything like that, says to me, they're wanting to make sure he's healthy. And so some of what you saw, because I don't think John Brown is going to stay at that, at that percentage of snap counts for three wide sets. John Brown?

Tajay Sharp. Oh, John Brown. If I could trade Tajay Sharp for John Brown right now, which I probably could, I would absolutely do that because the upside of both of those guys, I think, is very different. Also, huge shout-out. We have an incredible article that hit the website today. Marcus Meaney wrote a Snap Count Observations article, and it is super valuable. Really valuable. You've got to go check it out. You know, just go to the fantasy footballers, scroll down to articles or click articles. I believe it.

If you're listening to today, it'll be the top one on there or scroll for it. But that is a great article, and that's where you can find some of these great nuggets. Completely agree. We're going to close it out with a great question here from Taylor and Baltimore. Curious what you guys would count as a more successful week. Number one, the Cardinals win, but all of your fantasy teams lose, or number two, the Cardinals lose, but all of your fantasy teams.

When? What week is it? What week is it? I think, look, it's been a couple years on the air with the show delivering this every single day. Oh, gosh, I don't know the answer. I thought that was leading to the answer. I was going to say I have enough integrity to say it's all about the fantasy teams. I'm going to throw in a third option. Yeah. Let's say the Cardinals lose. Your fantasy teams lose. But all your...

All the starts, all the guys that you have been talking up have monster weeks. Totally. That's the one. That would be the answer for sure. And here's the thing. Hopefully they're not only these options. Mutually exclusive. Hopefully the Cardinals win and my teams win and my picks are correct. But let me see this. This past week, I had a rough week in fantasy. And then the Cardinals lose on that last kick, a game that should have won at home. And my solace, albeit, you know.

difficult in the emotions of the Cardinals' loss. My solace was found in the fact that the majority of our starts of the week, the majority of what we said about players, was accurate. We would much rather be accurate than having to come on the air and be like, oh, guys, we missed everything, but the Cardinals won. That's not a very good show. Sorry, not sorry. That being said, to answer this question, I'm going to say, I want the Cardinals to win this week. We can't go 0 and 2.

We. We. I want to know in all of my league. You'll take the loss. And it's good because here's the thing. You don't go on tilt when you lose in a fantasy league. You'll be fine. I'll still make the playoffs. All right. All right. That's it for today. Show. Come back for the matchups tomorrow. And we've got our starts of the week. Tomorrow's going to be great. Fantasyjocks.com for all your trophy needs with the code footballers. All right. Bye, everybody. Thank you for listening to another episode of the fantasy footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on join the foot.com.

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