Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Fantasy Favorites, News, Listener Mailbag

With Julius Thomas probably missing those first games, I think it bodes well because he could set himself up as a red zone target. All right. So let's take a break here. I want to talk Daily Fantasy Sports for a second because Fan Duels one week games are almost here. And we're super excited about that. We've got Chris Meaney from the Fantasy Sports Network coming on once a week, daily dose section. We know how much you love Daily Fantasy. And I am super excited that FanDuel is almost here. Look, FanDuel is the leader.

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Very high reward, a very entertaining time. You know what? For the Foot Clan, we want to talk about DFS. You want to talk about it? You tweet me at FF Hitman. We'll talk some DFS. Yeah, yeah. DFS is the next big thing. So if you want to play DFS, you're going to play DFS on FanDuel. Go to FanDuel.com and click on the microphone in the upper right hand corner and use our code.

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Ballers, click that microphone. And yeah, go to Fandul.com, where every single day is a new season. That's F-A-N-D-U-E-L.com. Sign up today. I'm surprised you can spell that. I could read it. Oh, there you go. Hey, speaking of our guys, fan favorites, I want to tell you guys about the best new way to find amazing deals on football tickets. It's easy. It's called the Seat Geek app, and we've talked about it for a while, and people love it. Our listeners love it. They send us.

tweets all the time talking about the deals they got, the games they're going to. It is a very, very cool app. Yeah. The Seek app is truly, honestly, the best, and here's why. I'll give you three reasons. I use it myself. The Seek app searches over 100 different websites for seats. So you're getting all of the seats that are out there, anywhere you think about searching, search on the Seat Geek app, and then it pulls in the best price. Then...

When you're looking at the app, it actually shows you like a color-coded grid where you could just look and say, oh, that's the best value right there. There's a big green circle. And you just find the best seat, the best priced seat of anyone, anywhere from over those hundred. And their new app, oh, it makes it so easy. It's like one-touch buying. So if you like going to games, go and get the Seat Geek app. All right, here's what you do, Foot Clan. You go download the free Seat Geek app today.

You enter promo code footballers. That's promo code footballers. And you know what Seatkeek's going to do? They're going to send you $20 after you've made your first Seekek purchase. 20 bucks for already cheap tickets. Get the free Seatkeek app. Promocode footballers. All right. Let's talk some more of our guys. And it's Jason's turn here. You're on the docket. Who is your guy? You've said Lamar Miller is one of them. This next guy, who is he?

My next guy is going to be similar, very similar to Travis Kelsey. We already mentioned him a little bit, but it's Greg. His name is Kelsey Travis. His name is Kelsey Travis. Greg Oden is what I was going to say. Greg Olson. You know, Greg Oden would be a good tight-in. I'm just throwing that out there for one game until he gets crumbled into pieces. Crumbled. Crumbled. Hashtag crumbled Odin.

So the footballers as a group, we've been very high on Travis Kelsey. And the reason is because where you get him versus where you have to take gronk or Jimmy Graham presents a unique value that you really don't get from anyone else in the draft until Kelvin Benjamin went down. And when he went down, you saw exactly what you saw from last year out of Greg Olson when there was only one target.

And now there's zero targets other than Greg Olson. Kelvin Benjamin had 146 targets last year. And Greg Olson had over 1,000 yards last year. So this year, if you watch that third preseason game, we talked about it a little bit. He got every other pass. And here's the thing. He's the only guy on the Panthers that knows how to catch those passes because every other pass bounced off a Panther.

But Greg Olson caught them. I mean, he is just such a reliable target. And the thing I love, you can get him in the fifth round. He's going on an average in the fifth round. PPR, he's an even bigger value. I think you've got him second on your board in PPR, right? I do. Getting a guy that's second in your position in the fifth round is just fantastic. I honestly can't get the mental picture of Greg Oden running routes out of my head.

Why does he sound like a dinosaur? I don't know, because he looks like a dinosaur. All right, all right. Well, let's go, we got one more guy each, so let's go through those kind of quick here. My guy, my third guy here is not like Foster and Macklin in that they have been my guy for a long time. But it's Sam Bradford. Sam Bradford is my guy, and I drafted him as my quarterback on Sunday. He's your teammate. He's my quarterback. That's my quarterback.

He's going behind guys like Stafford and Brady and Romo, and I think he'll finish above all of them. In 2013, Nick Foles and Michael Vick combined for the second best quarterback behind Peyton Manning and his 55 touchdowns. That is the upside of an Eagles quarterback. Nick Foles, people. Yeah. Nick Foles. You heard Chris Harris's thoughts on Nick Foles yesterday. That guy. If you live in St. Louis, we love Nick Foles. Oh, yeah. I forgot about that.

Last we saw him, Sam Bradford, in 2013, he looked great. Mike's talked about it before. He had 1687 yards and 14 TDs in seven games. That's a two, it's a lot like what we've seen from, you know, Palmer, to a game touchdown average, and the potential of this offense is immense. He's dumping the ball off to guys like DeMarco Murray and Darren Sproles and Ryan Matthews all game long. And then he's got great wide receivers that have the ability to take screen passes and those type of small, accurate.

things that he does better than Foles or Vic would do, and take him to the house. And so, you know, this preseason, 13 for 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15, 15 yards, 3 TDs, and a lot of fist pumps. Lots of fist pumps. So, Sam Bradford is a, similar to San Bradford, late round quarterback. I've talked about him all off-season Carson Palmer. Since he's been with the Cardinals, not counting last year, because he missed half the year, over 4,000 yards.

The guy gets it done. The offense is set up perfectly for Carson Palmer. Bruce Ariens loves to take the shots. He loves to throw the ball. I think this is the best offense that Carson Palmer will have been a part of. Now, the line is shaky to start, but by a few weeks in, I think the line will repair itself with Upati coming back and them getting their Massey back at right tackle.

But last year, he had two TDs, two plus TDs in every game except for the ACL tear game. If you extrapolate his numbers, he had over 40. Are you telling me he won't throw two TDs in any game he tears his ACL? He might. He might. But he had over 40, he would have had over 4,300 yards with 30 touchdowns. This is a guy who's going in the 11th round, the back of the 11th round. So if you are waiting on quarterback like I am, and then people start snaking Sam Bradford.

from you. Carson Palmer is a completely competent quarterback because your roster will be so loaded with depth that you can start through with Carson Palmer. People have been listening. People have been listening to you, Mike. I've seen him on a lot of rosters that I wouldn't have expected to see him on because he's been that value late. And, dude, John Brown is ready to break out. I agree with you. Yeah. He was a Bob Allen Robinson, right? And what you were saying from Harmon? Yes.

My last guy, you've heard me talk about him a lot through preseason, and that's really what's turned me on to him is Chris Ivory. Chris Ivory is still going in the fourth round. Last year... That's stupid. Last year... Well, no, I just... I don't think that you reach for him. I'm not telling you to take him in the second or the third, but I'm saying in the fourth, he is so much better than the other guys that are right around him, because you've got a guy who has done it before. Last year, he was an RB2.

He was in the middle of the RB2s, and he split the workload all year long with Chris Johnson. Well, Chris Johnson's leaving. He also, you want to know what he didn't do? He didn't catch passes. But the offseason, they said they're working him in as a pass catching back, and we've seen it all preseason. So he is the lead workhorse back for a running team, and he is a...

quality back. The only issue with Chris Ivory is injury because he's had a history of him. But, I mean, you've got that issue with any running back. And if you're in the fourth, take him. He's going to be valuable. I agree. I completely agree. I am embarrassed to admit what I just had to do. I had to search Google to see if Zach Stacey.

was traded back to the Rams because I had a dream that he was traded back to the Rams. And I literally had to go look it up because I don't know why that happened. I thought in the dream, I thought it was really quite silly that he would go back to the Rams. And in fact, it didn't happen. You dream very hardcore to make you believe, to make you believe that that could have happened today. You know, it's draft season, people. We're not sleeping a lot. I'll tell you what I'm dreaming about. We are in.

I dream about ultimate draft reports that I'm filling out nonstop every day of my life. That's a good point. You can get your own ultimate draft report on the website, the fantasy footballers.com. I also want to let everyone know that the foot clan members over at Patreon at join the foot.com. We have an exclusive mailbag episode that's coming out today just for our supporters on that. That's the only way you can access that episode. So we have an extra bonus. Bonus episode.

a mailbag episode, answering your questions on jointhefoot.com. So stay tuned for that. If you are a supporter of this show, let's go ahead and take a minute and answer a few mailbag questions right now. Mailbag. All right, this one comes in from Michael in Wichita. It is a grade the trade question. One team traded Greg Olson and Arian Foster and received Jordan, Cameron, and Lamar Miller.

Look at that. Three of our guys in the single trade. Hmm. So you got Greg Olson. You guys are pondering over there because what you're seeing is, I got to break it down. Yeah, I know. It's a tough one because it depends on their other guys on your roster. That's what I was going to say. I mean, it completely depends. If you've got, you know, if you need Lamar Miller, then taking Lamar Miller is good. Because if you didn't have a running back to start, then you need that. Exactly.

But if you've got running back depth, then I'd much rather have Greg Olson and Aryan Foster. If you can get through those first few weeks until Aryan Foster comes. But if you're in need of that running back, then you know I love Lamar Miller. The pure talent of all the players combined, the Olson Foster side is better to me. Do you agree, Mike? Yeah, I thought Jason spelled it out completely. Because I like Jordan Cameron, but not as much as Greg Olson. All right. This one comes in from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Sniper.

That's his name. Okay. As a member of the Foot Clan, he loves the show, but why have you not talked about Scott Chandler going to the Patriots after seeing what happened in 2011 with Gronk and Hernandez 1 and 3? Because we've seen what the Patriots have done with Titans since that event. There have been a lot of guys in which that logic has been applied. Tim Wright.

is one of them. Zach Sudfeld. Wasn't Moiyaki there? And people thought there was it. So the question is. That's the reason why. Yeah. Scott Chandler is okay. Scott Chandler is not Aaron Hernandez. Aaron Hernandez was a better player than Scott Chandler. It's pretty simple. Well, they really crafted an offense around Hernandez at that time. That's why you got production and unique production from an athlete like him. This is my prediction for Scott Chandler. Exactly what Tim Wright was last year.

You'll have games. Occasional touchdowns. He'll have one catch, one touchdown games. And if you want to rely on that, then you're dancing with some evil. Yeah. What do you think about people who are drafting Josh Hills, they're tied in, their only tight in? I think it's fine to start the, I think it's completely fine. Okay. All those, at that area, those back end guys, it's about touchdowns. And Josh Hill has shown that he can catch touchdowns for any of their.