Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Fantasy Rewind, News & Notes, Mailbag

He's worth grabbing. Let me ask you this, Jason. Would you consider a regular salad to be a sneaky value? No, not at all. Okay, just making sure. Ravens coach John Harbaugh has announced that Brashad Perriman has been removed from the Pup list. Congratulations, Brasad Perman. I would love to actually see you play a game of football. Yeah? He was running some routes off to the side today, I think. I would, yeah. He's as far as your draft board, am I moving him up?

I'm shaking my head. How'd you guys stat Jared Goff in case Keenum this year? I had originally... Looks like Keenom's going to start. I had originally after the draft, given pretty much everything to Goff. After Hard Knocks, I gave everything to Keenham. And I, you know, the reality is Keenom will start.

The Rams won't be very good. Goff will have to come in at some point through the year, whether that's in game two or seven. We don't know. So it'll probably be a 50-50 split on the year. That's exactly how I started my guys with a 50-50 split. All right, Kaepernick back at practice. I'm curious to see what happens in week three, but we knew he was missing some time. He should have the opportunity to play this week.

Redskins coach Jay Gruden said undrafted free agent Rob Kelly will get quote a lot of first team reps in Matt Jones's absence. That means undrafted free agent Rob Kelly is playing in front of seventh round Keith Marshall. Yeah, Keith Marshall. And this is really important. I think it's important to get a good look at him, not so much to determine, you know, the backup order, but to.

Take a look and see, do we need to bring in a veteran? Do we have guys behind that can't, they need to take a look and say, okay, we've seen a little bit of what we have of Keith Marshall, but do we need to bring in a Pierre Thomas, someone like that? I think that's the play here. Or this next guy. Well, I'm going to talk about Ezekia Elliott first. I don't think they can get Elliott from the Cowboys. Jason Garrett has confirmed that Elliott will play on Thursday. So are you ready to see EZE?

Yes. Yes, I'm ready. So we'll talk about how the Cowboys looked as we go through the review here. But he's going to play. And then Carlos Williams. Carlos. The off a cliff Carlos. He went unclaimed. Surprise me. A complete free agent. Yeah, I was actually a little surprised that he went unclaimed. There's a couple teams. I think Washington could use him. I think that the Colts could use him.

uh so he will be a named he's a guy to watch for where he goes could be a big fantasy impact obviously wherever he goes he's going to still miss the first four games of the year and he'll probably have to get in shape before he can i don't know pass a physical we actually told david johnson the news that carlos williams had been cut and he was shocked completely shocked which i think all fantasy owners were too i mean just a great rookie year what do you think of jonathan williams dynasty wise

now that Carlos is out of the picture. Because it seemed like Carlos is the future running back there and then boom. I mean, he's got some upside. He should absolutely be rostered if he wasn't. And he moves up in the rankings. But I'm not moving him up considerably with Reggie Bush there with Mike Gillisley. And shady still has plenty of life left. So Williams would have to play his way in. So before we get to the rest of the preseason run down, we want to thank today's sponsor, Indochino. Look, fellas.

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All right, let's jump back into the preseason rewind with the disclaimer. We're not overreacting. That's what we always give that tip, right? We say... You speak for yourself. Pay attention more to what you see with your eyes, less actually just ignore the stats altogether. I was joking when we were putting the show docs together. I didn't know who won any of these games. So if you want to know the perspective...

I have no clue what the records are of any team, and I don't know the scores of these games. I'm watching for the players themselves what they look like. Are they playing fast? Are they playing slow? How's the depth chart looks? So we're going to start. We're going to jump into the Redskins and the Jets game. Just the highlights in terms of the fantasy news there. Matt Jones went off the field with the shoulder injury. It's being reported that is an AC joint sprain. Is that correct?

I believe so, but right now there's no concern for him to miss week one. Okay, so are you adjusting him in your rankings? I am not, Matt Jones. We'll stay where he is. I think he's going to get the predominant workload. He looked okay before he got hurt, too. He sure did. He was hitting the holes nicely, making good moves, much better than what we saw week one where none of the Redskins running backs were able to move. So that was nice that they made some adjustments and gave a little glimmer of hope for him to be able to.

live up to some expectations. My biggest thing that I took away from this game was James and Crowder looked very solid. He had an amazing catch and run on a touchdown. Ended up getting called back. But I think that PPR folks, you got to pay attention to Crowder. I don't think that the touchdowns are going to be huge, but you know, you're talking the realm of 75, maybe 80 catches for a guy that's going very deep in your league. There's going to be value there.

Yeah, I think he is a trusted guy in that rotation at wide receiver. Last year he had a ton of games with five or more catches, and that was his rookie season. So I think the upside is there in PPR leagues for Crowder. I think it's good that you brought him up, Mike, as another name to pay attention to. Would you rather have Crowder or Pierre Garsohn? I would rather have Pierre Garcant. Yeah, right now. In a dynasty... It's Crowder. Yeah, for sure. Here's the real question. In a redraft, would you rather have Josh Doxon or Jameson Crowder?

In a redraft? Yeah, Crowder right now. Okay. Belal Powell played well. Crowder. We know that. Yeah, Crowder. It's Crowder. Sorry. No, it's not. I like it. Ballal Powell looked pretty good in this game. Who wrote this note? Why? What does the note say? The Powell looks dandy as candy? Yeah. What? He did. He did look very good. He got some yards after contact. He was able to.

go out in space. He was able to go up the middle. We know he's a good pass catching back. So, you know, there's been a lot of reports of, you know, is there going to be, you know, close to a 50, 50 timeshare with, with Forte and Powell? Forte has been hurt. Yeah. So this next week in week three will be important to see. But we know Powell is capable and can't get the job done. Very capable. Love him late. I wanted to give you the ADP of Powell versus.

Forte. Forte. So give me just a second to grab that. I'm curious. I'm guessing you're taking Powell in that situation. Oh, yeah. Between the value? He's going in the ninth. Forte is going in the fourth now. I think Forte's been going right around there. I'm actually more surprised at the ninth for Powell. He must be rising. Matt Forte or? See, that's the bigger question for me. Matt Forte or Arian Foster? Forte. Okay. Matt Forte or?

Jonathan Stewart. Stu. Stuart. Matt Forteer, Jeremy Langford. That's a tough one. I would go Langford. I think I would go Langford right now. Matt Forte are Ryan Matthews. Matthews. All right. Moving on. Cowboys and Dolphins. Alfred Morris ran wild in this game. Yeah, I loved it. The butler. I've always liked Alfred Morris. I thought he got an unfair shake there in his last season in Washington. And we have a different takeaway.

from this. You're talking about Alfred Morris versus Jason and myself? Yes. I think that we were talking about this before the show. The way I view it, Alfred Morris looked fantastic. To me, that just speaks to how amazing Ezekiel Elliott is going to be for fantasy football because I think that invest in the fourth pick overall, and what Jerry Jones says that Ezekiel Elliott is going to play the...

lion's share of the snaps. And they made Old Man McFad and the fourth best rusher in the league last year. Alfred Morris looks completely back. And so I can't even see the future of the upside of how great Elliot could look with his young legs. And his legs are much younger than the rest of his body. His legs are 12 years old. No, I don't have that perspective. Yeah. Formally, I disagree. I think that Alfred Morris showed a lot.

Left in the tank, the guy is not, he's not an old player, and they did. You talk about the investment they made. They invested in Alfred Morris in this off season. Yes. And I think if you have that kind of productivity, if you put him out on the field and he is productive, why not take the load off of Ezekiel Elliott? Yeah, and because it's Jerry Jones. Well, Jerry Jones isn't going to be the coaching. I mean, there are a report, look, if you look through the beat riders in Dallas, there are those that believe you should be starting Alfred Morris.

Hmm. I hadn't read those. So then the question becomes, but I'm just saying, I think there will be a little bit of work. The question becomes, is Elliott worth that middle to late first round pick for you? Or is the resurgence of Alford Morris pushing him back for you to, of you're going to be hands off? I'm not making any adjustment to where I have Zique. People question my Ezekiela Elliott ranking every day. They do. I have him, I think, at like 11.

I think. So you're a terrible human. I'm a terrible human being for ranking in that low. That's where I have them. So for me, I don't adjust him. For somebody that has Ezekieliot at like number one or two, watch the game on Thursday. You don't have to make the decision today. Some people do. Some people are drafted.

Another thing I would point out from this game, we had said last week we wanted to come and see if Dak Prescott could do it again. Granted this time it was not against the ones, but he had another great game. So if you're in a dynasty league and you don't have a good quarterback situation, Tony Romo is not going to be there forever. I think he's a good stash opportunity in case he ends up being the real deal. Everybody wanted us to talk about Dak as well. That's what I said? No, I know. Dak, Dak, what do you mean?