Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Fantasy Risers, Questions & Answers

awfulness of his wide receivers. He threw strike after strike after strike right in guys' hands that were tipped up for interceptions, that were batted to the ground, that were, I mean, in his entire career, I feel like I watched three balls overthrown. That's the one thing. I really wish we could have seen him with Jeremy Macklin. I know McClain took the money and left, but having a veteran wide receiver instead of, I mean, Jordan Matthews, yeah, should be good. Nelson Aguilar, a lot of potential.

I love what he's got out of the backfield. Sproles and Matthews and Murray can all catch the ball. I am really intrigued to see who's going to be the deep guy. Because someone will be the deep guy, and I think that no matter who it is, they're going to be a whole lot better than Brandon Gibson. I actually think it's going to be on the Rams. I think it will be both Matthews and Aguilar. I think they're going to do some switching back and forth with the slot. But Sam Bradford is the perfect...

late round quarterback candidate. He's right up there for me with Carson Palmer, where these are guys... Ryan Tanhill. Ryan Tanhill is going to go much earlier, I think, than these guys. He's not right now, though. Not to mention, if you're employing streaming, not to mention, the guys that Rotovis pointed out that Vegas odds, week one, he has the highest over under. The week one matchup, he's got the highest over under in the entire league as far as points scored in the game. So if you're wanting a streaming candidate, you know, take them. He's...

Perfect. Other than his ACL. All right. And, no, I'm just kidding. Isaiah Crowell. We threw him on the board. My confidence level is not quite as high on him as I am the other three guys on our list. But it kind of seems like with the draft pick of Duke Johnson, we thought, oh, maybe that muddies the water. But really, it might kind of indicate that first and second down roll is there for Coel if he wants it. Yeah. And, and.

As we've noted, the Browns have a very strong offensive line, but the captain is Alex Mack. And last year when Alex Mack broke his late. Mac is back, baby. Yes. Everything fell apart for the Browns. They were a playoff team, and then Alex Mack got hurt. Now, this year, they went out in the first round, and they drafted Cameron Irving Center. And right now he's projected to play as a right guard. So they already have another improvement.

And on top of that, they have Alex Mack insurance if something were to happen to him. He's not coming back. Not to mention he's going to opt out and he's going to leave next year. So they grabbed Duke Johnson, who's going to take the third down work. Duke Johnson was constantly nicked up when he's playing in Miami. All the time, he's leaving the field for just minor injuries. We're not talking, he's not missing games, but he's having to take plays off. And when you have that kind of frailty in college, and now you have.

the big dog's hitting you. I'm not sure that Duke Johnson can hold up. Maybe he went. Maybe not. I don't know. But also, they didn't draft a quarterback. So they're running with Josh McCown or Johnny Football. One of those guys, what does that mean? They're going to have to run. And the number one selling point for Isaiah Crowell, they have brand new uniforms in Cleveland. Yeah. He's going to look spectacular.

That's key. Here's what I love about Crowell. What I love about Crowell, and so we've got this as our risers, right, rising up our board. That doesn't necessarily mean that I'm putting him above other people, but what it means is that the value to me is skyrocketing because Crowell, ever since Duke Johnson was drafted, his ADP is going in the toilet.

Which means most people listening, right? I mean, most people listening right now, they probably think, oh, man, I don't want anything to do with the Brown's backfield. You've got Isaiah Crowell. I wanted it at first, but now you've got Isaiah Corwell. You got Terrence West. You got Duke Johnson coming in. But Andy, you pointed out the fact that Duke Johnson, he's a pass catching back. He's coming in to take that third down roll, that third down duty, which means that first and third. Yeah, I said it. We are the worst children about this duty business.

Third down duty. Because the third down guys, they take the dumps. Yeah, they do. They get the dump-offs. And his name is Duke. Oh, no. So Duke is taking the dump-offs as he comes in for the third down duty. Didn't you just post the melody of flagellation on Facebook? That was a work of art. I don't know if you... This guy loves his poop jokes, man. He really does. But that really does. I...

I think that it does open up Corral to dominate the first and second down on an offensive line that is fantastic. And his stock, if you just look at it, he is dropping like crazy. He's at the end of the fifth round right now, and there is no end in sight to his drop. And I love that because it just provides more and more value. So keep going to fantasy draftwizard.com and doing these mocks and watch how late he goes this week, watch how late he goes next week, and just keep an eye out for him because I think his value is going to be insane. One thing people are scared.

about with Corolla is because he was kind of this undrafted, you know, value for them. But if he wouldn't have had problems in college off the field, he was a five-star recruit, right? Yeah, he would have been like a third round pick in the NFL draft. So he has that kind of talent. He's not just a could be. He's a can be. He is a B. All right, I want to jump into the, uh, I want to go ahead. Let's go ahead and move on. Let's move on and go into the mailbag because we have a ton of questions. So let's answer some of them. Mailbag.

My old bag. Very nice tonight, Mike. Last week I had a little bit of a chromagony. You were worrying about the, we were in the middle of the Macklin, Alan Robinson. Oh, that's right. And you were checking your board and somehow you had Macklin as like the 900th wide receiver. I dropped him even more.

Just for spite? Just spite drop. Hey, if you heard the show last week, you might have heard us give you our number for our question voicemail box. So if you don't want to write us, which you can write us, mail at the fantasy footballers.com, most of our questions tonight are email or Twitter. But you can also call us. You can call us at 302-464-T-F-FB. Wait a minute, Andy. I didn't write that down fast enough. What was that number? 302. 302-464. 464.

T-F-F-B. Like the fantasy footballers. It's really quite easy. That's also 8332. If you have a Blackberry. 8332. So we're going to go ahead and take one of the questions we got out of our voicemail box, and then we'll answer the rest. Hey, fellas. I'm sorry, dudes. I had a question about roster construction. I'm in a 14-te-te-te-te-league, and normally I'm all with you on eight-round quarterbacks and tight-ins. However, this is a

one quarterback, two running back, three wide receiver, one flex, one tight end, roster with only four bench spots on it. And so those binge spots are kind of out of creamy. And so I was wondering, in your opinion, do you think it's better to maybe go after either a stud quarterback or stud tight end? Can't really do both in order to just use one roster spot.

on that position for the season, unless it gets hurt, or to still try to stream, even though that will probably involve often keeping two quarterbacks or two tight-ins or even both on your roster and chewing up valuable bench spots you could use for sleepers. Sleepers at RV and wide receiver, I mean, you know, I've shifted back and forth in the past couple of years, and I'm not sure who's right, so I thought I'd ask for opinions.

Thanks. Yeah, that's a really good question because we talk streamer options for quarterback, for tight end, a lot, but what is the difference if you have a league like this that has a really limited bench where, because that's part of streaming, right? You've got to keep a couple guys on your roster maybe. Or plan ahead, right? You do need to plan ahead, but you need to know who you're going after. Generally speaking, I still only have one quarterback on my team, and I just drop them and replace them every single week.

There's only certain situations where I'll have the second quarterback lined up, and that's because the next week matchup is maybe it's crucial for my playoff chances, or maybe it's my playoffs. But normally I just have the one quarterback, and then I find the three to four options that I think are solid for next week, and I try and grab one. You know, one of the things I actually like about streaming in this league is you're not going to have as many...

players holding on to two quarterbacks on their roster because they only have four bench spots. So, you know, a lot of times in streaming leagues, you'll have the guy that's got Aaron Rogers and for some reason on his bench, he's got Ben Rathesperger or something, you know, just holding up a spot. So you're actually, if you're brave enough to go and say, I am going to stream, I think you're going to be rewarded even more in a league like that with a smaller bench. Your options are going to be better. I do...

kind of see what you're saying with multiples. You know, if you're going to be streaming your defense and your tight end and your quarterback, eventually you will run out of spots and hurt yourself. So I don't think it would be a bad idea to look at, you know, making sure you grab Kelsey in the fourth to get that plug and play every week tight end or maybe even, you know, if you got to get them early in the fourth or, you know, gronk in the first, if, you know, if you are late in the first, I would say. 14 team, though. Well.

Okay, late in a 12 team. If you're 10 or later, I would still take Gronk there. Yeah, I think that's really good insight. I think you can still do the stream. I think the one thing it might hurt you on is, what if a guy like Bradford, you're streaming him early, he's doing really good, and you think he might be that franchise guy, so you don't want to let him go. That's kind of the... But you don't have to. You don't have to. Just hold on to it. Draft Sam Bradford, draft Carson Palmer, draft Eli Manning, because these guys, I think, are going to pay off for the entire year.

All right, that answers that question. All right, this email comes in from Stephen. He says, hey guys, my name's Steve. I thought it was Stephen. Quick question. Should I keep O'Dell Beckham Jr. for a 16th? Evans for a 12 or Fawcett for a 16th. Also, he wants us to give a shout out to his league, 10 little cupcakes. Oh, I love 10 little cupcakes. Good league. Are we talking about sprinkles cupcakes?

What was that voice? Oh, yeah. Dude, now I've got to have sprinkles cupcakes, but what up, ten little cupcakes? It's ODB for me. 16th round ODB? I mean, I guess an argument could be made for Fawcette, Mike. Actually, in this situation, I'm going to hold on to ODB in the 16th because you're going to hold it. I assume you can keep holding on to him. It's beautiful. Forset is going to be tremendous this year, but he just has a couple years left where...

Beckham Jr. in the 16th, he's free forever and should, if he becomes what we all think he will be, he'll be a top five wide receiver for who knows how long. Yeah, and I think, you know, I love Forset. I think the value of Forset at the end of the year could have, could be as important as ODB, but you have to keep in mind so many other things like the draft value, where you're going to be able to get these guys in the draft, and also the trade value. Who are you going to be able to trade?

easier for more value ODB or Forset. I was not even in question. I was reading some good Buck Williams news. Oh. Yeah, I saw that too. They like him. Yep. They really like him in that trustman offense. That trustman offense is going to have enough. It's going to have enough cupcakes to go around. It's going to have 10 little cupcakes. You're probably right. Every game. Yeah, but we all like ODB for that. All right. Jay writes in via email. He says, hey guys, just found the show and love it. Keeper question. It's a 14 team league with standard scoring.

Four points for quarterback TDs. Auction draft, $200 budget. He can keep two of the following guys. And I guess it increments $5 each year if he keep holding on to him. So Russell Wilson for $11. Jordie Nelson for $31. Gronk for $40.000 for $50. Ooh. So what do you think? Two guys. Oh, man. Two guys. You can keep two of the following. Yeah. I'm still going to keep.

Peterson. For 50? Yeah. Out of 200. Yeah, I'm still going to do it. That's a lot of money for Grankowski. Yeah, and with spending 50 bucks on Peterson. I think Peterson and Nelson would be the two guys I would keep. I also wouldn't mind if you're going to go AP and Russell Wilson. It looks like he gave up Calvin Benjamin to get AP, so it'd be kind of dumb to let him go now.

So I'd be fine with AP and Wilson, AP and Nelson. Jason, you got any other thoughts? I like the value of Nelson. I would keep Nelson on that list for sure. And then I personally would go back and forth between AP and Grunk. Okay. All right. This one comes in from Derek from Salem, Oregon. If Peterson suits up, oh, this fits. If Peterson suits up for the Vikings, and it sounds like he will, do you think he will play like the savage he is or not so much?

He's going to be a... He's going to be a savage. I talked to somebody today about him, and they said, oh, he's too much of a question mark. I said, what? What? What is the... If he's not a question mark coming off an ACL, why is your question mark coming off a little spat? Yeah, coming off some rest and... He is going to be just a... Guys, don't doubt him. He will be a ferocious savage. He could be number one very easily. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. In the category. His team is good.