Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Fantasy Election Special, News, Mailbag

And you can grab him in the 11. This is a guy who should be a solid lock and loaded wide receiver 2 next year that you can grab at the end of the draft. You're not going to find a better value than that. Willie Sneed for the treasurer. I like that. I like Willie Sneed. I especially like the comment about rookies with over 1,000 yards, because that sure sounds like a vote for my candidate, Amari Cooper, for breaking out and becoming elite. Wait, didn't Mike Evans do it as well as rookie?

Maybe. There you go. Moving on. My value at this time, because I know that he will remain a value. Kamar Aiken of the Baltimore Ravens. I already have one of my opponents shaking their head at the name of Kamar Aiken. And here's what I will tell you he did last year. 127 targets, 75 receptions, almost 1,000 yards, five touchdowns. You think, you know, he stepped into the light when Steve Smith went down.

Before Steve Smith went down, he already had three games of 75 plus reception yards. And let me ask you a question. Did that not make sense? He had three games. No, I just never heard them referred to as reception yards, but continue. Moving forward. Let me ask you a possible trap question. Who had the most passing attempts in the NFL? Because it was the Baltimore...

Ravens. Certainly not going to be that way next year. Oh, no, certainly not because Joe Flacco, we know he went down, he tore up his knee. Here's the deal. Joe Flacco was on pace for 660 attempts, which would have been third in the NFL because they were throwing the ball that much. And these weren't games where they were garbage time climbing from behind. The average margin of defeat in Joe Flacco games, four and a half points. They were in close.

games. Steve Smith cannot recover from his Achilles injury. He is too old. Mike Wallace is old busted. Kamar Aiken is the new hotness. Shananigans. Kamar Aiken is a value pick and a steal in this year's fantasy draft. Baltimore, I'm just throwing this out there for the Foot Clan Lizard. Baltimore was blown out in almost every game they played for the first half of last year and then they came back.

by throwing the ball a lot and made it a close victory and lost very close games all the time. But if you watch the actual game, I feel like...

Not so much. I will say that Kamar Aiken is the worst candidate that has been presented this far. And that's why he will remain a value. I contend that this is what we hate about politicians like Kamar Aiken is that they're opportunistic. They take advantage of circumstances that were given to them for political gain. And you're not going to have no force set, no Steve Smith, no Mike Wallace, no Ben Watson, and no Joe Flacco next year.

Kamar Aiken is a trap selection and he will disappoint you in your elected office. But I'm going to move on in my guy. In the 13th round. In the 13th round. You will drop him. You will drop him because you can find a Kamar Aiken candidate on the street corner. All right. Jonathan Stewart is my candidate for the secretary of the treasury because I think his ADP value is just plain too good.

Right now he's going around the middle of the fourth. I don't know how that changes very much. He is a destined to drop in the minds of people. And I think that Jonathan Stewart is somebody who annoys people with his injury history, especially ending the year with three games on where he was kept out. And he probably could have played a little bit before that, but he didn't.

In his 13 games, he was just under 1,000 yards, 6 touchdowns, 242 carries. So that's a lot of carries. He's very, very valuable in your standard leagues. And guys like Anderson, Hyde, Yeldin, they're all going to go ahead of him, and they all probably shouldn't in my mind. I think Jonathan Stewart is a no-excuses running back on a prolific offense.

And there's no reason to think that that's going to change this year. So I think he is a great, great value and that you should elect him today. All right. So John Stewart, Willie Sneed, and Kamar Aiken will go. They'll be on your ballot. And so we're going to move on to one final spot. And this is the Department of Veteran Affairs. The Old Man Award. We need to select the best veteran, the old man of 2016, somebody who is over the hill.

Not really, and should be serving on Capitol Hill. Oh, that was well done. All right. My candidate is Jason Witten. Oh, man, I thought it was me. Jason Witten. Look, it's incredible to me that this is a man who has played 76 games without Tony Romo in his career and a 131 with him. But when Romo is there, Witten is...

always a value. And his pace with Romo and his career has been 84 receptions on the year, 936 yards and five touchdowns. He can easily do that again this year. People who think that he is too old or dropped off are wrong. He had 77 receptions in a very tumultuous year last year. He gets Romo back. There's no reason Jason Whitten can't be a great...

late round value at tight end. Just lock him in, try it and true. He's not going to give you those insane Jordan Reed three touchdown games. Don't get me wrong, but he's going to serve the people with consistent fantasy results every week. All right. Well, then I will take it with my guy who we were a little bit down on last year because we were worried about his reception total and we were worried about his age and all of these things. But you know what he did?

He showed up and he said, no, no, I'm not too old. I am fantastic. And in the first half of last year, that he said? Yeah, he did. He was the number four running back. He was the number four running back. I'm talking about Matt Forte. Now, what happened was he got injured.

a little bit towards the end of last year, and then when he came back, found himself in a very big time share. So he missed three games, had some of the year, you know, in a timeshare with Jeremy Langford.

And he still finished with over 1,000 all-purpose yards, actually had a higher yards per carry than his previous year and is not on a downward trajectory for his career. So what's he do? He goes and signs a brand new contract with a team that runs the ball more, runs the ball better, and the word around the Jets.

are that they view him as a three-down back. Now, sure, they have Belal Powell and they have Kyrie Robinson. Those things are going to keep Matt Forte fresh. Matt Forte will be a value. He is so talented as a runner. Is he the new Frank Gore? Well, I loved Frank Gore. That's exactly what he is. He is this year's Frank Gore.

I was all about Frank Gore last year, started slow, but actually Frank Gore finished as the number 12, an RB one last year in fantasy football. So give me Matt Forte as the 12th running back finisher as an RB1 in his age 30 season for the Department of Veteran Affairs. It's a compelling argument. Mike, why don't you close out this election season with your eighth round ADP selection? I appreciate that.

Let me say this, America. I am nominating Mr. Rashad Jennings running back from the New York Giants. Look, we don't mince words in this camp. We don't pretend things didn't happen. It was a pretty rough year for Rashad Jennings up in New York. They were not dedicated and giving him the ball, giving him the touches. They had.

At one point, a four-headed monster at the running back position. Isn't the foreheaded monster? Isn't that Peyton Manning? Oh, wait. Sorry. Oh. It took me as both a second? No, I needed you to touch your forehead to realize I was, oh, the foreheaded monster. Sorry, that was inappropriate for election season. We want to keep things really simple. All right, go on. Here's how Rashad finished out the year in the last four games. So the last 25% of the season.

21 and a half touches per game on the ground, 79 carries, 432 yards, two touchdowns. That is a 5.4 yards per carry clip. He was the number three, number three fantasy running back over that time. He plays for the New York Giants who were the sixth highest scoring offense in the league.

And I believe that new head coach Ben McAdo will McAdo the right thing and get rid of Andre Williams and commit to Rashad Jennings, a running back, a starting running back that you can get currently in the eighth round because he has disrespected. I cannot guarantee he will not break down. As an old man, this is the one thing I cannot guarantee is that his health will maintain that pace for 16 games.

but the value is there. I'm going to respect that pick because you hit the desk so many times while saying it. Has to be true. I do want to ask, what is he going to do for the taxes, taxes situation? Oh, well, he's up in New York, so. Going up. The taxes are going up. All right. So the candidates for the Department of Veteran Affairs are Jason Witt and Matt Forte and Rashad Jennings. Those will be on Twitter at the FF Ballers. You can vote for all five of the potential.

uh the potential spots here in the government of the 2016 fantasy football season so we are going to take a couple of minutes and hop into the mailbag mailbag vote for me cheater all right so if you have a question go to the website the fantasy footballers dot com click the submitted question button or dial 302464 t fffb and leave us a voicemail question i do want to take a quick moment and let you know

What makes a good voicemail question? We cannot play a very long voicemail question. We can also not play a question where you call us and then talk to us for a little bit and then ask the question. It just doesn't work in terms of getting them on the air. So I just wanted to let people know that sometimes we get really good questions that have a lot of kind of fluff at the beginning and end of them, and we don't want to take up too much time. We do appreciate and we hear them all.

We'd rather take up that amount of time by explaining voicemail questions, too. So, all right, so let me go ahead and jump in here. A voicemail question from BJ. Hey, guys, this is BJ in Hudson, Wisconsin. I'm calling about my keepers, half-point PPR, 10 teams. We've got to keep four of them for the round we drafted them in. Free agents are 10th rounder. I have two for sure's. I'm keeping left bell in the first.

and Kelvin Benjamin in the 15th. One of my others was going to be Martavis Bryant. Lost him. So between these four, I need two keepers. Got Travis Kelsey in the fifth, Jonathan Stewart in the sixth, John Brown in the eighth, and Jeremy Langford in the 10th. I do have the third pick overall because I finished eighth, just by going six and eight. So any help is appreciated. Thanks.

And he already has Love Bell and Kelvin Benjamin on his team. Yeah, I like those. I think Stewart is a value in the sixth. Yes, Stuart is a lock for me. I think Langford's a value in the 10th as of today. As of today, yes, Langford. I kind of went into Langford. I don't really like the talent, but the opportunity could very well be there. So if the Bears don't draft. That's the thing. You want to wait until the draft if you can to make that decision. If it's permissible in your league, that's the Langford tell to me.

Yeah, I agree completely. Those would be my three guys. If, for some reason, this is a two running back, three wide receiver league, and there's no flex, and you only have two, then I would, then I like John Brown in the eighth over, yeah, probably over Jay Stu and the Six, and I'd take Langford. Ooh, I love Stu in the Sixth. I like both. What's up, fellas? This buddy, man. I love the podcast. I've been listening since January. Every episode, y'all are great, man. Nice. And funny. Okay, my question is, I'm in an auction.