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

Whether or not he can really return to form out, I mean, he's had two devastating leg injuries in recent history, but clearly the Ravens believe in him. They have come out and said that his signing was not related to the suspension of Kenneth Dixon. They tendered Terrence West, and Terrence West appears to be the goal line guy. Danny Woodhead appears to be the passing downs guy. Where does that leave room for Kenneth Dixon this year?

There's nothing carved out for him at least. I think you're going to end up seeing a lot of three running backs used in every single game when they're healthy. And so if that's the case, if you're seeing all three of them. That's disgusting. Exactly. For fantasy purposes, it's stay away. It's the only guy that's really valuable there was whoever's the pass catcher in a PPR league, which will probably be more Danny Woodhead. Do you guys see that that Nick Falk got $750,000 guaranteed in his contract with Tampa Bay?

So he could be odds on favor to kick second round pick, Aguio out the door. Because Aguio only has like $500,000 left on that contract. That is unfortunate. I mean, the reality about that is you can't just like, it's the NFL. We've been saying that all show. You can't just hold the guy because you spent draft capital on him if he sucks.

All right. Other wide receiver losers to me, Sterling Shepard jumps off the page. When you bring him Brandon Marshall, you thought Shepard would be the two. He's not the two. And he's certainly not going to get the goal line attention that he would have received had it been him and ODB. So Sterling Shepard, I don't like his situation. I like it eventually. But this year might be tough. Kenny Stills, to me, could have landed somewhere else and had a bigger role. Yeah, I don't think this is.

terrible he's not a gigantic loser he's just not a gainer he could pathetic loser he could have like you said he could have gone to take an established wide receiver two role he chose not to do that so he's he's a loser by not winning speaking of losers uh in more ways than one well jeremy hill yeah these these were geo bernard less less

I think it impacts him less because he doesn't run between the tackles all the time. He's his fancy value. What tackles? Yeah, well said. The Bengals running backs is what I was getting at. The Bengals' offense as a whole has taken a kind of a turd during this off season. I mean, they're just, they're losing guys. I was really hoping. They're losing important guys. So I like Andy Dalton. I feel like I have spent the last five years as an Andy Dalton apologist. I think he's really good at.

You know, at football. He's not one of the elite Hall of Fame quarterbacks, but he's the next tier. He's really good. He's Philip Rivers type to me. He just hasn't had the weapons. So I was hoping for a good offseason. Instead, they re-signed Brandon LaFeld, didn't bring in any other wide receivers, and took their offensive line and said, see ya. And I mean, their offensive line, which was, I think, a strength of the team has just been decimated in free agency.

And I believe they've lost three pieces from that offensive line. It's going to affect them. It's going to affect Dalton. It's going to affect Hill. Are they a surprise team to draft a running back? It's very possible. But, I mean, you've got to get an offensive line. And, I mean, despite losing, like, they were dealing with injuries last year. And they were not great for running backs. They averaged 1.44 yards before contact running backs did behind that line, which is.

near the bottom of the league. So, I mean, you take that, you've gotten worse now. And Jeremy Hill is a big loser. I think Jeremy Hill, I think it was his last year of his deal. He's coming into the last year. Coming into it, I mean. Yeah, this upcoming year, I think, is the last year of his deal. I will double check that, but I believe you're correct. Very little. Yeah, he has not turned the right direction to me. So far for, uh, we haven't seen the ascension.

Continuing the losers at the running back in free agency. This is the final year of his contract. As of this recording, I think it is very fair to say Adrian Peterson and Jamal Charles are big losers. Old running backs. Yeah, old running backs. I mean, there's just not a lot of love. Teams don't need to commit large contracts. And AP and Jamal Charles aren't going to go play for veteran minimums because they're Adrian Peterson. They will soon.

Right. I know. I mean, it's one of those things where it's like they're going to wait a couple months, try to stay in shape, and then go, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if Jamal Charles ends up signing really late after. Yeah. Now, this is they're both post-OTA, but this is a real question. I'm not trying to troll you. But if you are Oakland and you really are saying you have no interest in Adrian Peterson, Jamal Charles, but you would have interest in. No, you do have interest in those guys. Okay. But you don't have it above. Excuse me.

You don't have it above your, you know, a guy who's had a year off who hasn't been injury prone. Most would consider taking year off as a bad thing when you are not running backs necessarily. Yeah, I don't know that that's. Well, look, I know that the story. So AP had a year off. AP had a year off. How'd that work out for him? Yeah. Wouldn't you agree? Jamal Charles, a year off? I mean, those. Jamal Charles has not been back.

Both of those, I'm saying the examples you're bringing up are not guys that have been healthy or played. So they've had as much time off as Marshawn Lynch, only not with, they've had major injury. The Peterson year off, I concede that because he wasn't hurt. He wasn't spending the year rehabbing. No, no, no, no. I'm saying right now, Adrian Peterson's basically had a year off. Jamal Charles. No, he's been rehabbing, though. Like, he was hurt.

He wasn't just relaxing, staying in shape. Yeah. There's a difference between rehab and a year off. The point is the Andy is making, I believe, is that you're questioning, why wouldn't they go after Jamal Charles and Adrian Peterson? But all three of those running backs have essentially had the last year off, two of them have been rehabbing, which is worse than resting. And so of the three that have had the year off. But they're committed to football at least. You're saying because they're rehabbing injuries. And they didn't retire. Yeah, I, I.

I would definitely lean the, I would rather my guy be resting. I mean, obviously, if he's not in football shape, I wouldn't want him. But I don't think they would, I don't think that's the situation from what we've heard around Marshawn Lynch. It's a perfect ending to today's show to be talking about Marshawn, my dear friend. Come on back. Come on back to me because I really, it's important to me for my life.

To see Jason's face, especially to see Mike's face and to see Brooks face. I mean, all three of you have been really dreading the potential return of Marshall Lynch simply so that I, because of my gloating potential. You're misreading the situation. There's no dread over here because it's 0.5%. There will be. All right, that does it for today's show. We appreciate you tuning in. Check out the ultimate draft kit at ultimate draft.

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