Fantasy Football Podcast 2017 - Free Agency Winners & Losers, Marshawn Lynch Rumors, News

Maybe. I don't know if that's allowed. But there are a lot of things that have to happen. But to answer the question, Oakland is certainly, I believe Oakland is certainly going after. Let me digress for a second, because we are jumping right into the middle of the conversations that are going on around the studio all day long. This, on Friday, ESPN's Adam Schefter reported the Raiders are considering luring Marcheon Lynch out of retirement. This proceeded through the weekend. You had.

Jordan Schultz of the Huffington Post reported that Marshall Lynch asked for his release. On Monday, Peter King said that he really wants to play for the Raiders. He also wants to do great things for his foundation in Oakland. If you know Marshall Lynch, he was always a two-city guy. He was Seattle and he was in Oakland. He lives in Oakland. Mr. Oakland. And then Ian Rappaport tweeted on Monday that this groundbreaking report that unretiring is realer than it's ever been.

And it's Raiders or bus. So there's not Marshawn going back to play for Seattle to join that backfield. You know, to me, the fact Eddie Lacey signed there, and then the timing of this, you know, you talk about an intelligent Marshall and Lynch. He's picking a spot if he is trying to come back, putting him, putting Seattle in a situation where they just can't possibly take up three quarters of the remaining cast space on Marshall and Lynch's dead money. I'll say that the Huffington Post where they talked about that he asked for his release, that was also disputed by another.

team related source that said it was just a personal visit yes and that he just visited he did not ask for his release uh this so much smoke there was there's a lot of smoke this year it may not have been this much but there was plenty of this chatter last year that that marshon was in fact going to come back uh it's just it's it's a fun thing to talk about and for me the point is while i would add him like i said for this miracle jackpot's uh

lottery, so to speak, I think even if he comes back, that I think he's just, I don't think he's going to be able to get it done. He's a guaranteed lock at a top 10 for me. And I've seen, I've seen other analysts that are high and other analysts that are low on, on Marshall Lynch. Oh, you're high.

Marshaun Lynch only ran for 3.8 yards of carry, and his last year was Seattle. So he was breaking down the, you know, you could say. Exactly. Seven games. You could say that, you know, you look at Oakland and they kind of spread, they didn't give the ball entirely to Latavus Murray. Would they really give the ball entirely to a 31-year-old Marshaun Lynch? They might, you know, give him a little bit of rest with Jalen Richard and with DeAndre Washington. However, you have Latavius Murray, who is not nearly.

in any way, shape, or form is good of running back, who is basically an RB12.

type of player with Oakland year after year. If Marshaun Lynch goes there after a year of rest, remember when Ricky Williams had his years of rest, and then came back when he was 32 years old, he was a RB7. I think that if Marshaun Lynch comes back and is part of that offense that has a lot of points being scored and he is a goal line machine, Marshaun Lynch is a lock for top 10. That is where I was transitioning to ask the fantasy implications. Jason, you found a stat.

that despite Marshall Lynch taking a year off. Well, not credit to me. This was Nathan Jankey, unless I'm pronouncing that wrong from Pro Football Focus. This is unbelievable if you haven't seen this. Marshaun Lynch has had 245 players mistackles on his carries in the last four years, okay? The next closest player in that time over the last four seasons is DeMarco Murray, who's not even close with only 179.

I mean, Marshaun Lynch did not play last year, and the year before that didn't play half of it. And he's still dominated. And he's still 50 plus almost 70 up on second place. Yes. So when he was playing, he was that much better than everybody. Mike, I do not want to hear arguments about injury with Marshall and Lynch from you. You are the biggest Dante Moncrief and Jordan Reed apologist in the world. And those guys take every other Sunday off.

Brooks, I want you to handicap this for us. What's your percentage chance that you believe? You know, how much are you reading into the smoke? What's your percentage, Brooks? I'm right around 40. You're at 40. Mike's at 0.5. Jason is at. I would be about 40. I think it's less than 50, 50. But where there's this much smoke, there's usually a little bit. All right. The NFL's overtime period could be shortened from 15 minutes to 10 minutes in 2017. It's proposed to the competition committee. This is based on the fact that they believe it's a great disadvantage win. Teams have a...

an overtime period that goes over 10 minutes and have a Thursday game the next week. It makes sense. Could lead to more ties. You certainly had a number of games that went, you know, 22 of the 86 overtime games went past 10 minutes. So that would stand a reason. I mean, teams might take more chances, and so you might not have 22 ties next year. Would you guys... Would you guys... Would you like to see the college rules implemented in the NFL? I don't have any problem with that. I really don't.

I mean, I'm okay with that. Where everyone, you get the balls. I don't even know what yards spotted. I think in college you get it to 25, and both teams get a possession. And then if it goes to another overtime, you just flip-flop again. You just keep doing it until. Yeah, I mean, you could have three or four overtime games. I like it. But actually, I think in college, they forced you to go for two in the third overtime. Yes. So, yeah. Kamar Aiken has signed.

with the Indianapolis Colts. Oh, no. Boom. Mediocre signing of the week. No doubt about it. No doubt about it. He got pushed out in Baltimore last year. He did. He was productive when he was the last man standing in 2015. He heads to the Colts. I tweeted about it this morning. I think he helps Andrew Luck in as much that Andrew Luck no longer has to throw the ball to Philip Dorset as often.

because it's always a one-and-three shot that Philip Dorset catches it. Yeah, this is the new GM saying, okay, I have to make sure I do not draft a wide receiver this year at the NFL draft. We've got to go sign someone. Hold me back, fellas. His support group said, now you go sign Kamar Akin right now. Yeah. No, Kamar's good. He had a good year two years ago when injuries in front of him.

gave him the opportunity. He's not overtaking Dante Moncrief for T.Y. Hilton, so he is not in himself going to be super fantasy relevant. However, he is a really good piece should Dante Moncrief, who's been injured many times, get injured again, or T.Y. Hilton go down. He's a serviceable piece that can step in in replacement. All right. Last bit of news. The big salad is heading to the big city. Former. He said to the big apple. The big apple.

Oh, yeah. It's also a big city. There's a smoothie going on in New York. Yeah, Sean Drone, signs with the New York Giants. Added to a backfield with what, Bobby Rainey and Shane Vereen and Paul Perkins. So it's going to be stellar. They were really sad that Travars Cadet signed as well with the Saints he resigned today because they wanted all of them. Have you heard they're saying in New York? No. Every down is third down.

There you go. That's the... We need more third downbacks. But yeah, so not very... Not very exciting. Yeah, all right. Well, look, let's get to the big show, which is the winners and losers for free agency. Free agency changes everything for players value going into draft season. We are going to cover...

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We can't have anyone freak out out there, okay? We've got to keep our composure. We've got too far. It's always exciting to find out what Mike is cooking up for our drops. Yeah, I mean, we can freak out a little bit if we want to. We can pick some of these. Let's freak out over a few of these. All right. The big winners here. Look, to me, I'll kick it off. I'm just going to, you know, you know how I feel about Hugh Jackson.

Yes, this is true. Best Wolverine. No. Isaiah Crowell is my big winner of free agency. You know, you look at Isaiah Crowell last year. There was a lot of doubt in my mind about what he'd be able to do in that situation in Cleveland with little to nothing at the passing game, but 24 years old, had a great season, averaged 4.8 a carry last year on 198 carries, seven touchdowns.

40 receptions, which was a big piece of the puzzle. But look in the offseason, Cleveland has shorted up that offensive line. They signed two, excellent, excellent offensive line pieces. Kevin Zitler from Cincinnati and J.C. Treter from Green Bay, both ranked in the top 10 at their respective positions at Guard and Center. They gave their other guard, a contract extension, Joel Betonio, and Joe Thomas is still there. So this is a top 10 offensive line.

And this is a Todd Tin offensive line on a team that successfully ran the ball last year, on a team that wants to run the ball where Hugh Jackson has come out and already said before the offseason, look, Isaiah Crowell, he's part of our future. He's part of what's going to make this team move. And so for me, I put my money where my mouth was. I went out and I traded for Isaiah Crowell.

very quickly. I made a transaction in our Dynasty League, moving Paul Perkins, getting Isaiah Crowell onto my roster. I want a piece of him. I think the opportunity is going to be there. And so I think it extends a little bit to Duke Johnson as well. If you look at Duke Johnson's numbers last year, they were impressive. They were okay, yeah. I mean, he actually was 4.9 to carry. So when he got an opportunity to run the ball, it all added up in Cleveland on the running game. So do we know who's going to be quarterback? I don't know.

If they can get Colin Kaepernick, that helps the running game as well. Those read-option type of quarterbacks open up lanes for running backs to hit the head. And the thing about Isaiah Crowell is he's not going to be drafted over a number of big names. I mean, it's just an impossibility. You're just not going to see Isaiah Crowell with that team go above a number of guys. So I think he's a value. I think I'll end up in our draft kit as a value. And to me, he's the biggest free agent winner. So what they've done to the offensive line and free agency is.

gorgeous. I mean, they have to have a top five offensive line. You can't argue that they're below top five. So certainly. All right. I'll take it over next. My biggest free agency winner this offseason so far. And I'm shocked by this, by the way. You are? I was not shocked, but surprised. Okay. I hope you're pleasantly surprised. I think it's Terrell Pryor. And this is why. Terrell Pryor last year.

Okay, as really his first year as a wide receiver in the NFL. I mean, that was. Yeah, of course. I'm sorry. Not his first year as a wide receiver in the NFL. The first year is a wide receiver. Like he didn't, he wasn't wide receiver in college. This was his first year saying, hey, let me try this thing out. He went over a thousand yards. And he did that with garbage throwing him the ball. Literally.

piles of garbage was launching footballs out from behind the center and he was able to catch 77 of those garbage flung balls. I feel like this is the second time that you've used a garbage related analogy like that. You watched a lot of film on prior. Yeah, I spent yesterday kind of investigating. I trust you with the garbage comment.