Fantasy Football 2018 - Free Agency Preview + Fantasy Valentines

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To the fantasy footballers podcast. Coming to you from Draft.com Studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. It's Tuesday, February 15th. Oh! Sorry. She's trying to go Hugh Lewis on me. Calenders are difficult. Trying to go back in time. I was busy thinking about Jason, and he was talking about that.

Fantasy football jersey, and that made me think about how he and Brooks are in the middle of a rebranding in one of our leagues. Like, you're changing your team name. In the league of record. That's like one of the rules I just don't break. Brooks is my co-owner, and we are rebranding. Do you want to make an announcement? No, I do want to. Giamati and friends. We just have not officially landed on our rebrand. That counts.

The snack counts. I'm waiting. Keep them coming. Hey, if you're out there. Waiting with a big of his breath right now, Jason. Give me that team name. Well, something can, you know, hopefully you find something that can get you into the playoffs again. Oh. Oh, dude, there's, there's very little chance I don't win the championship next year. Oh, very, is that, was that your counterpoint? There's very low chance that I'm not the champion. So you just watch yourself. Yeah. I just, I call how I seize it. And it's a fact.

Okay, I can't really argue with that hypothetical. Welcome into the Fantasy Footballers podcast. We are excited to have you with us. Please subscribe, review the show, support us over there on Apple Podcasts, wherever you might be listening. We're happy you joined us. We've got a great show. Free Agent Preview today. We're going to walk through teams with the greatest free agent needs. We're going to walk through the different prominent free agents available on the market and get you a little bit.

aware of the ins and outs of free agency, the timeline. Get your hopes up that your team might land that player. Yeah. Before, you know, they signed somewhere else. Well, we're right on the, you know, the precipice of the most loving day of the year. I mean, Valentine's Day is tomorrow, gentlemen. And so without further ado, the quick question of the day is, who's your fantasy Valentine? Oh, my. For 2018.

Jason's giggling. What are those noises? Valentine's date just makes me giggle. I mean, sorry, are you inferring that yourself or your wife makes those noises? I'm, yes. Yes, I am. You just walk around the house. All right, Mike, who's your fantasy Valentine? Well, I'm glad you asked because my fantasy valentine this, this year, getting pretty.

Pretty hot and bothered. The clamped. Getting the face sweats. The vapos. Nick Foles. Oh. Yes. No, it's not Nick Foles. It's, uh, because all the chatter. All the chatter. The bell of the ball is Alvin Camara, Super Camaro himself. Who I almost made my fantasy valet. Oh. And that's exactly why I love Mark Ingram. He is going to be disrespected yet again.

in drafts for what were going on about 14 straight seasons of fantasy football players slapping him in the face. Well, that's no way to love on Mark Ender. And so I'm offering him a big hug saying, Mark Engram, I love you. I love your rushing touchdowns. I love your market share of the New Orleans Saints backfield. And I love that I'm going to get you probably two rounds later. He's only been a top 10 running back for the last three consecutive seasons.

So I'm sure. I honestly, I almost made him my fantasy MVP. There was only one other guy that are my fantasy Valentine that I thought about doing. And it was who Andy picked. Oh. Devante Adams. I have scorned your love. Wow. My goodness. I've spurned your love in the past. From worst to lover. I feel like the only way to make it up to Devante is to make him my Valentine. Because he's going to be Aaron Rogers Valentine all year long.

No one in the NFL over the last two seasons has more red zone touchdowns than Devante Adams. And the torch has been passed. I like Devante more than I like Jordy Nelson next year. And he deserves his due. He does. Well, he kind of got it in the form of... Touchdowns? Of currency. Money? Whatever it might be. Yeah. Touchdowns, money. And then Aaron Rogers coming back with a chip on his shoulder. So...

Devante Adams shipping his collarbone, am I right? Aye. Well, my fantasy Valentine for this coming 2018 is a wide receiver. Who's he's young? He's 23. Also, he was the number four wide receiver last year. And I'm drafting him in the fourth round. Give me that freak. Give me Tyreek Hill. I know you lost your quarterback. I ain't.

I ain't scared. I think you made Alex Smith. Alex Smith did not make Tyreek the freak. I'll take you on a date, Tyreek Hill. I really do. I think he's going to be great this year. And Insie. All right. Devante Adams, Tyreek Hill, Mark Ingram. I like it. You can find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. The website's the Fantasy Footballers.com. I want to remember something very important.

We need to give a shout out on the show today. Don't forget to remember. Yeah, we just had the remember episode. My mind is sharp as attack. Isabel Green. Oh! We want to give a shout out to longtime Foot Clan member, supporter, Donator to our wall of Foot Clan items. Isabel Green.

She's going to be having triplets. Is that today? Right now. She's not listening because, yes. What? She's not listening? She's adding three. In labor? Well, I'm sure that the hospital will probably put our podcast on in the delivery room. Yeah, you've got to get your home pot in there. But yeah, you're adding three members to the footclan and single thing. Triplets. I'm pretty sure that the fantasy footballers podcast is Dula approved. What is Dula? The Dula? The, the person who coaches them through labor? There you go.

Thanks, men. Making us look good. Well, congratulations to Isabel and her husband for their three amazing new babies. It's also a running back on the Detroit Lions. Isabel Greenis? The doula. Abdula. Oh, okay. Thanks, Mike. Very helpful. News and notes from around the league. That's what you get. Breaking news. The Arizona Cardinals.

have signed GM Steve Kine to an extension through 2022. All right. Well, does that mean he's already got like the handshake deal with Kurt Cousins? They're so impressed. Stevie. Stevie. See, you need to lock up. This is what you do in the offseason. If you're an owner that wants to go get him, you lock your GM up so he doesn't feel like he can make any mistakes. So he's wild and fancy free. So no matter what he does out there, he's not going to be at risk to losing his job.

We're also Arizona Cardinal fans, so we're really hopeful. We'll talk about Kirk Cousin shortly, but somebody else got paid. Jimmy G. Gee, Jimmy Hansomely. Jimmy GQ was paid handsomely. Five year, 137.5 million. What, like 72 guaranteed? Yes. Over 70 million guaranteed. Great contract. He has what? Scrooge McDuckin it. I believe eight games in his career.

and is now the highest paid NFL player. How many of those games has he lost, Jason? What's his winning percentage career? 100% percent. Yeah. That's a bargain if you're going to win every game. That's genius. Yeah, I'd pay a lot more than that if I knew I was going to win every game. 100% of games. Deonté Foreman had all of his charges dismissed from his July arrest. That's great news for DeA Foreman and the Texans. And the Colts have chosen to hire a coach. And the coach has chosen to...

sign a contract and the contract is for five years. Frank Reich, offensive coordinator from the Eagles is now the head coach of the Indianapolis Colts. I think it's fine. I think it's a good signing. I really liked everything that I saw out of it. I do worry a little bit about.

The Eagles, I know they're intact. They lost their quarterback coach as well. Yes, they lost their offensive coordinator and their quarterback coach. They're going to have a replacement after a successful year, very reminiscent of what happened with the Atlanta Falcons, you know, after their Super Bowl run. So coming into next season with Carson Wince recovering from the ACL, I do.

like want to remember to temper my expectations on this great powerful offense. I'm not saying they're going to be a bad team or, you know, calling for their demise. But I worry, that change at the top always has an effect. I wish that I could just argue vehemently against that point. But you have to consider so many things. The injury, the turnover, the Super Bowl.

situation where like teams generally coming off the Super Bowl you look you got to the Super Bowl for a reason you had a very special year and then you mix in those insane touchdown efficiency numbers of Carson Wins I'm I'm super excited for the future Carson Wins but you're going to have ebbs and flows in every career and it might not be another you know great ascension there's a lot stacked against him from a fantasy perspective so I have to consider that despite my ownership of him in Dynasty Leagues there you go

All right, any other news you guys want to touch on before we get into the free agency? So much to talk about there. Mike? I'm ready. Jason? I'm never ready, but let's go. Brooks? Brooks? How are you doing? Oh, Brooks. Let's do it. At the right volume level. Free agent frenzy. All right. Wow, that cut off quick, Mike. Hey, when you're in the hall with the Mountain King, you got to fade fast.

That's smart, smart. All right, well, we want to, we're going to have multiple episodes touching on free agency, especially as the league year begins, which is March 14th. We'll start to see the signings take place. But we want to give you a lay of the land, let you know what's going on, who's available, what teams have cap room, what you can expect from this upcoming offseason. And look, this is going to work two directions. There's the direction of new players on new teams.

And then there's the direction of removing a piece from the team they were on. And now that can open up a roster spot. That can open up a depth chart battle. That can change the equation for different teams. And we'll get into that on today's show. So let's talk first about teams that have a lot of money to spend. Mike, who are some of the teams that are going to be active in free agency from your estimation? This may shock you.

But the Cleveland Browns have a lot of money that they can spend. No way. So we will see there. There's a, you know, the connection of Kirk Cousins to Cleveland is being made frequently because of the amount of money that the Browns can throw at him front load it. Similarly, the, with, uh, Jimmy, he just got 43 million front loaded. Yeah. So it makes it, uh, you know, just an even more enticing contract. San Francisco has a very large cap.