Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Early RB Rankings, Fantasy News & Mailbag

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Tuesday, March 29th. We sure? I'm pretty sure. I can never be certain that the date is right. At this age of my life, knowing the date is a challenge, but I believe it is Tuesday, March 29th. We are the fantasy footballers. I'm Andy Holloway, joined by Jason Moore and Mike the fantasy hitman, right? We are here. Jason, are you here? I am ready to go.

We have been, everyone looks forward to rankings. We've been working tirelessly, statting guys out, and now the show that everybody's been waiting for, including myself. The running back rankings. Yes. We've got our consensus top 12. Yeah. Let's put it plainly before you. And I'm excited to debate some of these names. This is, as I said, the consensus top 12. So you have all of our individual rankings brought together.

And we will discuss kind of each individual player where we have them individually, you know, when there is a big separation between them. It'll be a lot of fun. We've got some news for you. We have the mailbag. And we have the election results. Whoa. Yeah. A lot of people like the election episode.

It felt good, man. It was fun. And so got a lot of good feedback on that. And we have the results for you today before we get into that. I do want to remind everybody about join thefoot.com, our fantasy football community. You can go. You can engage in fantasy football discussion with our listeners. You can get an exclusive episode every single week. We record an extra episode just with questions from our Foot Clan members. And there's a lot of other good stuff on there. You'll be able to join Foot Clan leagues.

It's a great way to support our show. Go on to Twitter if you want to follow us at the FFBallers. We're on YouTube. The Fancy Sports Network, Mike, is sporting that shirt today. Yeah, company man. That's right. There you go. And so a lot of good stuff, but let's get into the results. What you can do. All right, if you need a refresher on what took place, last week we had an election show. We were electing five offices for the 2016 fantasy football season. These included the...

president, which we're going to get to now. Each of us nominated a candidate, and in this case, obviously, the best man won. America. President. Let me down. The newly elected president of the 2016 fantasy football season. There were three names on the ballot. Eddie Lacey tied Gurley and Mark Ingram. And Eddie Lacey did not win. That's really the important.

You're bitter. Todd Gurley won with 72% of the vote. We are united together. Todd Gurley won that one. Did you guys have any thoughts on the president this year? No, I assumed he would be the runaway winner. He is the guy who is going to be drafted the highest out of these three gentlemen. Very fair. And so he will, you know, name recognition goes a long way. Okay, 72% of the way. As does being the new hotness.

Well, that always helps. He's also really good. It helps. No, no, I'm not taking that away from it. Just the new hottest, as you can see in the vice president, that also helped. All right. The vice president was a player that was going to become elite this year. Maybe a future president of the fantasy football world. And the nominees were Zach Ertz by me. Yeah. Mike Evans by Jason. And a Mari Cooper.

Who, I will say, I wanted to claim, Mike grabbed him, and Amari Cooper is the new vice president serving alongside Todd Gurley with 60% of the vote. I'm actually happy at the showing of Zach Ertz. 9% of the vote. I was shocked. Because with it being that high? Yeah. Oh, okay. Well, to me, that's an underrated pick of, it's just not a sexy name. Like, Zach Ertz, it's a tied end.

but I completely agree that he could very well become elites and a potential league winner. Because when you get those elite tight ends very late, a Jordan Reed, a Tyler Eifer. Oh, Eiffel last year. That changes your entire season. Sure does. Kobe Fleener. Yeah, Kobe Plainter this year. Sure. Jason sneezed. Yeah, excuse me. All right, the attorney general was the bounceback player. The idea here was somebody that was going to.

Uh, bring some justice to his name. And this was a little bit closer. You had Andrew Luck, Carlos Hyde, and Jamal Charles in the running here. And the winner for the bounceback player was Andrew Luck with 52% of the vote. Jamal Charles was pretty close with 37% of the vote. And Carlos Hyde came in last with 11%. Not unexpected. No. Andrew Luck, the new attorney general. Yeah. He was, he strikes me as a sheriff.

with his beard. He's coming with the cowboy hat on. Is he a sheriff or a serial killer when he's, because he sounds like Buffalo Bob from Silence of the Lanes. It puts the lotion on a train. I threw a touchdown. Yeah, it's dangerous. And I don't think you should give him the same name as his predecessor either. The sheriff, Peyton Maney. Oh, yeah. All right. Do people really call him the sheriff? Yes. Yes, they do. They do. Yes, they've called him that for years. I'm with, I'm with Mike. I'm like,

I don't remember, I mean, I know it, but I just don't remember actually seeing it in action. I don't think I've ever once called him the sheriff. You can call, you can call Andrew Luck White Earp, maybe. Doc? Doc. We'll see. All right. Treasury Secretary was the best ADP value, okay? This is the player that you're going to get the best value for. Look, it was close again. You had Jonathan Stewart, Willie Sneed, and Kamar Aiken.

I was surprised that 14% of the vote went to Kamar Aiken. Because America knows. 14% of America does. So Jonathan Stewart won that 49% of the vote. Willie Sneed with 37%. Kamar Akin with 14%. And all three are probably very good values for you. That's the reality of the situation. And then we've got the Department of Veteran Affairs, the best veteran.

This was a runaway. This was no contest because he's barely a veteran. Matt Forte, 82% of the vote. Barely, he's a veteran. He's a 30-year-old running back. 12% of the vote. Well, okay. But when you picture Matt Forte and Jason Whitten, which one has got the Walker? Well, that's fair. It's not Grandpa Award. It's a veteran award. Well, Matt Forte, I think we like his potential in New York, despite.

the peripheral running back pieces. I mean, you saw, what I loved about New York last year, brief aside, is kind of the just reliable predictability of that offense, which makes getting Ryan Fitzpatrick back in it so important. But you kind of just ho-hummed your way to Marshall, Decker, Ivory, they were just solid. Which the word on the street is, I just want to bring this up real quick. The word out of the bushes is the jets are offering Fitzpatrick.

$7 million a year, which is just embarrassing. They said they're willing to go up to nine. Even $9 million, anything under double-digit figures for a starting quarterback who almost got you to the playoffs is a slap in the face and ridiculous. You're standing up for Ryan Fitzpatrick. Absolutely. I don't think he's worth the 16 he wants, but to say,

We'll start negotiations at 7. That's why there's no deal right now. Yeah. Give him 10. Give him double digits. It's just ridiculous. Do you make a prediction right now on the air? One, is he back? Two, what will his salary be with whatever team he signs with? I think he will be back at 10 million. I agree with that. I agree with that. I will predict that he is back at 9 million. It's fair. If you can't get paid anywhere else, which... All right.

Let's move on to what do we got? The news? Got some news and notes. Let's do it. News and notes from around the league. All right, we did have a report today, and he always takes precedence in my life. Arian Foster, reportedly visiting the dolphins. I have read that this is an exploratory type of visit. They want to see where he's at physically with the Achilles injury. They have also, they were apparently the dolphins were involved with Alfred Morris. You had them involved with C.J. Anderson.

there was, they're looking for another back. They don't want to, I don't think that's a lack of confidence in the NFL anymore. Just because you're looking for another back doesn't mean you say, boy, I don't like J. Ajai. Well, no, you can't give a guy every carry. Yeah. You also can't play with no running back if one gets hurt. So it's no offense to Ajai. They just probably don't want to give them the ball. The interesting thing is just these players of note.

that they keep trying to bring in and they're talking to guys who, in my opinion, would instantly supplant Ajai to be the lead back in the timeshare. Foster is in a different category, though. I think Foster would, that would be a timeshare secondary. You know, he would come in like Moreno came in there with Lamar Miller, and there would be, I think, a very even split, if not a Jai. Moreno is a great comparison because Foster will get there, look great, and then after one game will...

Be dead. There you go. Jared Cook has signed with the Packers on a one-year deal. It's interesting. It's interesting. Yeah, I'll give you that. But how interesting is it? Is it Vernon Davis to the Broncos interesting? It's more interesting. I think it is more interesting than Vernon Davis to the Broncos. But it's not, it's not, here's what it does for me. Fantasy football, the tight-in position this year looks so deep. I just don't.

need to stress and worry about taking one of those middle of the pack guys because Jared Cook, look, I probably won't. How many times will he be streamed next year? Exactly. I probably won't draft him. A couple. And if I do draft him, it will be with my third to last pick and I'll be fine, whatever. But he seems like a perfect streaming candidate. You've seen him be able to be productive in spot starts and in, I mean, when he was with Matt Hasselbeck back in the day.

He was a pretty good tight end. Now give him Aaron Rogers. I think that's an upgrade over his quarterback last year. How dare you? How dare you? Jeff Fisher disagrees. You should tell the story of your little, your son's random superstar. Superstar toy? The random superstar toy. Oh.

So if you don't follow us on social media, we got the kids the Easter basket inside the basket for the two sons. You have these mystery packs. They're NFL players. It's a mystery pack. You don't know. You don't know who you're going to get. You know, I love mystery packs. And they're Lego guys. So you combine the child's love of the Legos with the football, which my older son is...

He's asked me now daily, his football on. Nice. He's starting to get the sickness. So luckily he got LaShawn McCoy. I was like, oh, you know, that's not bad. Aside from the beating people up in a club, you know, Shady McCoy, it's pretty good. My younger son, luckily it was the younger one, and he has no idea what's going on because I open it up or my wife opens it. She's like, I think it's the Rams number five. I'm like, is that Nick Fools?

I was like, I thought this was a superstar pack. It literally says superstar on the front of it. Really? Nick Foles? Oh, that's... Like, I would... Give me Tavon. Keenham. Give me Keenham. Nick Foles? All right, we did have an episode on Thursday last week. It was the off-season tips, the top 10 off-season tips for your team, your fantasy team. One of those was to, you know...