Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - SATURDAY Special: Mailbag and Listener Questions

3-4, like 3-6. Yeah, you have to know your breaking point and who those guys are. For me, I also add C.J. Anderson in there. I would take C.J. Anderson if he's there. But the other guy you mentioned, like, Alfred Morris, no way. You don't want Alfred Morris over the number one or number two wide receiver. Yeah, it's tough because it's a 12-team league, so you know that the running back position is going to thin out even quicker than a 10-team league. So I agree with these guys. I think...

I'd probably like to, I'd like to take a running back, but if it is that breaking point, I'm not drafting Alfred Morris, I'll take a top tier, wide receiver. Thanks for the question. This one comes in from Josh C from OKC. How is the Lev Bell suspension not a bigger issue? Do you still take him ahead of Marshawn Lynch? Three games was much larger than the difference between in and out of the playoffs for a lot of fantasy teams last year. We don't disagree.

I don't think. I think that the majority... That's a quarter of your season. I think that the majority of podcast analysts do disagree. And I also actually think that even the way that we talk about Love Bell, they would disagree with why he's saying. Like, why... We might bump him down a spot or two, but we're still picking him, you know, what, third, fourth? Oh, yeah, yeah. My point was, I'm agreeing with his factor about the three games is a big difference. Yeah. I'm not necessarily agreeing about... I don't think I take him...

I take him over Marshawn Lynch. Yeah, me too. Well, Marshawn Lynch, you got to think a lot of these guys, Marshawn Lynch could miss three games. He's older. There's reason for that, but then you don't know when it is. You can't prepare for it. Well, then Bell could get hurt, too. Well, yeah. I mean, I'm just saying the nice thing about the suspension is you can plan for that later in your draft and go after guys like Trey Mason or, you know, guys that you know are going to have a good start to the year that you can get. Chris Ivory. Right. Yeah.

and plan for that. And then the other reason is because the point differential on... Left Bell's good. Yeah, he was so good. He's a monster. But is anybody worried about the injury? I don't hear that being talked about. I was just going to bring up that we haven't even talked about Levy on Bell's knee. Yeah, I feel like... He didn't play in the playoffs. The suspension has actually become the only reason, the only question mark on him.

It's the only thing being talked about, and I don't think it should be. And if his knee is still lingering and having a problem, I don't know. That's just something that I feel like what we're acting like is if he wasn't suspended. He's just the clear cut. There's no question marks on him. But yeah, he missed the playoffs, and he's still got a knee problem. There was a report on May 26th that his right knee was close to 100%, which led us to believe that the injury was worse. But he should be full go. You would.

You would think. And you know what? If he gets three games, he gets three more weeks to heal up his knee and then be a monster again. Yeah, I think it's just the talent. The reason he's staying at the top of boards is because he's just that good. He catches passes. Especially in PPR. Yeah, exactly. But none of us have meant number one. That's for sure. Mrs. Fantasy Football Guru from Minnesota has this question for us. School. Who should I keep for my fantasy football league? Here are her options. Jordy Nelson for a second. Julian Edelman for a third.

Jimmy Graham for a fourth, Kelvin Benjamin for a fourth, and Mike Wallace for a ninth. 12-team PPR league. One keeper? Do we know? She said who should she keep, so one-keeper. Okay. This is interesting, and I'm actually going to go a little outside the box for you guys, maybe. I'm taking Julian Edelman in the third round, and that is my pick here. In a 12-team PPR, I'm not going to lose my second round pick, and I'm going to go Julian Edelman. Not shown on the audio version of the podcast.

My eyebrows almost shot through my hairline. I know. Because I'm so baffled at taking Edelman in the third round. They almost got all the way up to your man bun. Almost. They would have been a lot sexier if they did. You're Jordy Nelson. I, yes. I'm going to take Jordy. I definitely like Jordy more in the second. But will you read me those again? Jordy Nelson in the second, Julian Edelman in the third, Jimmy Graham in the fourth.

Kelvin Benjamin in the fourth, Mike Wallace in the ninth. So there's really only one value pick, and that's Mike Wallace. No, that's not true. I think Jimmy Graham and the fourth is a value. Yeah, the gross value. Yeah, I know I'm higher on Jimmy than you two are. You have them higher than the fourth? Than the fourth round? Have you always said it's higher than the fourth? So you're a third round? Yeah, I've got Jimmy ranked as my number two. I've got them ahead of Kelsey. So when you guys are willing to draft, you know, Kelsey's the fourth for us.

That's why it's not a value to me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm just saying he's worth discussing. You took Adam in the third, so I think Jimmy Graham is definitely worth discussing. Yes, I would agree with you. But all that said, my pick would be Jordy as well. All right, there you go. Let's go ahead and grab another voicemail question here. Hey, you guys. I'm in a very savey league. It's an eight team, but we're all dedicated, so I think it makes it pretty competitive.

point PPR. So my question is, when you're doing a draft with so little teams, it pretty much means that there are a lot more people getting studs. Pretty much every team has a good list of all stars. So I guess my question is, I know you guys don't like to take quarterbacks early, but when you're in an eight team and there's so much value, even after the draft, there's still a lot of good players left in the waiver wire, would you suggest?

maybe reaching in the second or third round for an Andrew Luck or an Aaron Rogers, knowing you only have so many spots of feeling. And those guys do have a pretty good point differential compared to guys like Cam Newton and then Rappesberger that are going later on. So you're kind of curious. I will say this. In the final past two years of our playoffs, the top guy who had won the championship.

every year had one of the top quarterbacks. So food for thought, just let me know. Thank you. I've got the answer. It's a very simple answer. You just switch to a 10 or 12 team league. Hey, hey, hey. I'm just kidding. I'm just joking. He is 100% right. Quarterbacks, tight ends. Here, it's not, I shouldn't say that. It's not quarterbacks and tight ends become more important. It's the few people at each position that become...

You have to have the differentiators at the top, and those are the guys that win eight team leagues. So Grunk is huge here. Andrew Luck, Aaron Rogers are huge here because it's always about point differential, but there isn't as big a gap. Everyone's got good players on their team. So what you really need is you need that gap in points between...

who are good and who is the best. There is a big spread between those top guys. So I wouldn't get carried away with, you know, thinking, oh, I need to get Peyton Manning because he's going to be, you know, in my view, middle of the pack. I would definitely, if I've got the guys on the board that I think are a step above the elite, then you grab those guys. And in running backs, who is it? We don't really know, you know. We can't target them as well as we can target.

You know, Rogers, Luck, and Gronk. Those three guys to me stick out as guys I want in an eight-team league. I agree completely on Gronk. I don't agree on the quarterbacks because I think Peyton Manning still has a great year. I really like Matt Ryan. But in an eight-team league, I feel even more confident in my ability to stream the best possible matchup in the NFL with that little teams. As long as people aren't hoarding quarterbacks.

might your pool is even larger of guys that you can grab to for to play for a matchup yeah that's a tough question i mean it's tough to take an 18 league and then go to 10 in our in the way we discuss these strategies and just go the other i'm probably somewhere in the middle is what i'm saying i'm probably somewhere in the middle of that i really do agree with difference makers mattering but i think they matter in 10 team leagues they matter in 12 team leagues um i had one thing i've completely blanked to bring this up in the last show because i'm starting a movement

I'm starting a movement. I don't know how many of our listeners are familiar. I would think it's a lot with the show The League on FXX, right? Hey, you want to push it. It's a really funny show and it's a show about people who play fantasy football. You can relate to it very much. They're in their final season. So this is our one chance to get...

The foot clan, to rally the footclan to get the fantasy footballers on the league. Their final season, we have one shot. So I'm going to start bringing this up. I want people to get on their Twitter at the league FXX demand that the fantasy footballers get a guest appearance on the final season. I deplore. We're sending, not deplore. I implore. Master shredder and the foot clan. Get over there. Because it would just be.

Awesome. It would be awesome for all of us. It would be awesome for the Foot Clan. At a minimum, we can really annoy whoever does their Twitter account. Yeah. And the cool thing is, when you see it, you would know that you were part of it. So what's the handle? At the League FXX. All right. Get on there. Demand the Fantasy Footballers. Yeah. You completely cut off my question. The movement is beginning. No, no, no, no. It's good. Let's do another one. Hello, this is Foot Clan Spy number four.

409, calling you somewhere south and west of Maine. He can help. I'm getting in a new dynasty league. No drafts. It's going to be an auction. It's a standard 12 team. No point per run or anything like that. But I don't mind really, quote, quote, sucking the first year and taking some of my dollars and spending it on super young players.

We're in a year or two I will have. It's a four-person keeper every year. What are some I can bid on that will be good a year or two down the line. And like I said, I don't mind them riding the bench and just kind of sucking for a year or two. Thanks again. Keep up the good work. Bye. Good question. So he said four-keeper. Yeah, which I think. To me, I don't have to suck. Right. I can be great this year and I can still load up.

on young talent that I think is going to be very cheap for me to keep them following year. Yeah, that's not like a full roster dynasty type of league in which you have to throw in, you know, throw a league away or a year away if you want all the young talent. Yeah, I was tracking with him all the way up until he said it's a four-person keeper. As soon as I knew, you only keep four, you're not really going to be keeping guys that, you know, are a year or two away.

You're just not. You're going to be keeping your better guys anyways. Well, if you want a few names in that category, there are several that happen to be rookies in that category. Matt Jones.

Out of Washington is somebody to pay attention to this year because Alfred Morris is in the final year of his contract. And there's a lot of excitement about Mount Jones, third round draft pick, Washington. Amir Abdullah is absolutely in that category. He might cost a little bit more, though. He might. He might cost a little bit more. He could contribute to you both directions, by the way. Yes, he can. He could contribute this year and hugely next year. Yeah. Philip Dorset, I think, is a great one. You're on.

You know, the wide receiver for the Indianapolis Colts. Yeah. When you got Andrew Luck throwing you the ball and you're a phenomenal talent, but there's just people ahead of you. Down the line, he'll be great. And I also think Javorious Buck Allen. That might be a couple years, though. Yeah, maybe. But four sets, you know, a little older. The one name I'll give out is Jerich McKinnon. Because I believe that unless the Vikings are a step.

Let's say they get to the conference or divisional round in the playoffs, and they want to make the push for next year, it will not surprise me at all to have the Adrian Peterson drama again and them just cut him. And then Derek McKinnon, I think, will be very good. Well, Derek McKinnon, I'll tell you this. And he'll be cheap. He'll be cheap, and he will not have any extra tread on his tires. Because I don't think you see in the field a lot this year. Exactly.

Connor from Atlanta, Georgia wants to know. He's trying to decide between keeping three of the following players, and he loses the corresponding draft pick. So pick three out of this group for him. It's a half-point PPR 10-team League. LaShawn McCoy for a first. Julio Jones for a second. DeAndre Hopkins for an eighth. Mike Evans. These other guys are basically free. They were off of waivers. Mike Evans, Martavis Bryant, and Latavius Murray. So pick three out of that group.

Well, I am not taking Leshawn McCoy with the depth in that group and giving up my first round pick. I am probably going to give up my second round pick for Julio Jones myself. And so I probably go with personal preference here. I go Julio Hopkins Murray. Okay. I lock in Evans and Bryant for free. And my last pick I am debating between Latavius Murray and Hopkins. And I...