Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Week 1 Updates, News, & Mailbag

Tyler Lockett, we said he's listed behind Jermaine Curse. I think we all would rather play Tyler Lockett. I love Tyler Lockett this year. Kai Forbath. Yeah, if you're in cut, if you're using kickers and you had Kai Forbath, the Saints are now using Will Lutz, undrafted free agents over Kai Forbath. All you got to do is you just kick the ball in between the yellow, the post. That's all I got to do. Well done. I think your son's going to be a kicker. You can.

Really coach him up. Yeah. Yeah, I say kick it right there. You see those yellow things? I want to be a kicking coach. Kick it up there. Right there. Jeremy Curley listed at the-kick harder. Kick harder. Exactly. You're too far away. Kick harder. Sure, sure. If you're up close, you don't have to do it. That's hard. You might as well. Jeremy Curley listed as the starting slot receiver on the week one depth chart for the 49ers. It's interesting. It's interesting because not because I have any interest in Jeremy Curley, but because it is a.

sentence that describes the wide receiver's circumstances in San Francisco. That's what's interesting to me. And to me, here's the deal. Somebody's going to get targets. Somebody. Oh, it doesn't matter. Doesn't matter at all. I agree with Andy. I think it could matter. I mean, okay. Let's pretend for a minute. Jeremy Curley is listed as the Tennessee Titan starting slot receiver for the week one depth chart. It's a completely different offense. Okay, so.

It's an offense that is very up tempo. So this is your excitement for Curley is based on Chip Kelly. Yes. It's based on the Chip Kelly, high volume offense that somebody there's going to. High volumes. One target for Tori Smith in the preseason. That's what I like Troy Smith because I thought he would be the guy getting the targets. It's no one. They stink. So they're not going to throw the ball. They're going to throw the ball, but targets don't mean catches, baby. Oh.

I disagree. It will be interesting. I do see Mike's point of the fact that they're an NFL team that will be throwing the ball and having people catch the ball and they will be scoring touchdowns, albeit less than many other teams. It's just a matter of finding the right relevant player. For my taste, it's actually Vance McDonald. I think he's going to be the...

more consistent guy and the red zone opportunity guy more so than the slew of middling wide receivers who maybe one game, Tori Smith has a good one. I have no doubt you could flip a nine-sided coin and land on that one player that you could have started in your fantasy roster. That's fair. And I, the big sell is probably the, I mean, Sean Drone might have more fantasy relevance than just about anybody on that team. Nine receptions, week one. Is that what you have projected? No. All right.

Well, you guys have any other news you want to share? Anything else going on? You know, there is, I will say this. We posted our League of Record rosters, by the way. Oh, we did. And it was a very, what's so amazing about fantasy football is this. We put, people put team A, team, or Jason put team A, team B, team C. Everybody assumed whose roster was whose. Some people thought that I had taken Arian Foster in the third round because.

Our keepers were on the list. Our keepers were listed there, which was not the case, although whatever. You would have if he was there. Not quite. But what was funny is not that people had different opinions. Like there were tons of A's, B's and C's. I actually don't know who won. Like I would scan it down and people were voting for each team. But what's amazing is it's not, yeah, I think Team A. Yeah, I think Team C sucks. Team A is obviously the best team.

Team B for sure. Team C is a loser team. And then the exact opposite right next to him. Oh, yeah. Yeah, everyone is so sure that one is the best. And then that same one is the worst. It's just, it's amazing the perspective differences in fantasy football. Cool thing is we get to find out. Finally. Yeah, finally. Yeah, tomorrow, big game. We've got the Panthers and Broncos tomorrow in Denver. Very exciting. So let's go ahead and let's jump into the mailbag.

Mailbag. Yeah. Sounded good. Sounded very good. We're getting back. All righty. Let's go. Let's go to Brandon and Cincinnati. Hi, Brandon. He has a question. He says, should I drop Steve Smith or Justin Force set? I need a defense and it's getting close to crunch time. PPR League. What do you do for Brandon? You drop Steve Smith. Steve Smith.

You know, right now, I don't know the likelihood that he plays week one or that he doesn't. And if he does, how ready he is. Justin Forsett will be the starter. He will get the first opportunity and could be much more fantasy relevant in week one than Forset. Plus, if there's a, let's say it was an even tie, right? And both guys are equally valuable and equally dropable. Then I'm usually going to hold on to the running back because on waivers,

If I need to find a starter at wide receiver, I can usually do it much more easily than running backs. They are held on to more. So I would drop Steve Smith in this situation. I would agree. I agree as well. I think I've had a lot of people sending these questions where they didn't draft the defense. And then they want to know who to drop at this point, which, I mean, strategically, you did a great thing. But it is hard to drop one of these guys because there are more guys on the waiver wire now that I'd love to have on my bench that I can't. Yep.

All right, we're going to jump into a voicemail question. Hey, ballers. It's Billy from Jersey. Quick question, in a little bit of a jam, 0.5 PPR League. I got Thomas Rawls. I hear with that news with Pete Carroll, can I make up his mind. I don't know if I should start him or bench him for Danny Woodhead. Thanks, ballers. Halfpoint? That's what I, okay, half point PPR, Danny Woodhead, or Thomas Rawls?

That's tough because the matchup, I mean, you can be scared about Rawls, but the matchup for Danny Woodhead is not the best. I personally, I'm still going to roll out Rawls. And I would counter that by saying, yeah, Danny Woodhead's in a bad matchup where they're not going to be able to run. I don't think the charges will be able to run. They'll have to throw. On the other side, Seattle has a great matchup where they could be up by two touchdowns by halftime.

And they're not going to play Thomas Rawls then, in my opinion. I think they would pull him and save them. So you would go with Danny Woodhead. I would go Danny Woodhead. Based on my rankings this week, I'd go with Danny Woodhead. I don't think Rawls offers you the upside this week of Danny Woodhead based on the snap counts and things that are going on. He could prove me wrong. He could prove me wrong. I think that one's a very close call.

And so you can check out all of our rankings on there and make that decision as well. I didn't say this at the top. If you have a question for the mailback, go to the website at the fancy footballers.com. Click on the submit a question button in the upper right hand corner or dial our voicemail hotline like that question there, which is 302-464 TFFB. This is a question from Mike in Ohio. Is it okay to have Forte, Marshall, and Decker on the same fantasy team? Oof. What do you think?

Is it okay? Is it a Jets only league? I'll allow it? If that's the question. But it's in PPR, we've talked about having Marshall and Decker on the same team. And it feels bad. You don't because you don't really want to start both of them.

You would have been fine if you did, but yeah. You just, you don't feel great about it. There's no confidence in starting. Here's the problem I have with with stacking a team like this so, so deeply, especially going beyond just Marshall and Decker, but adding in forte. Week one is the perfect example. They go to play the Bengals and they are a good defense. The Vegas point spread in that game is very low. I think it's like 41, 41.5 points total to be scored in that game. So now you've got how.

You got half of your fantasy team at the most important positions here in a bad matchup. And so what? You just lose? That's why spreading the wealth around it allows you to have more flexibility based on weekly matchups, things like that. Yeah, very well said. And we were talking about this yesterday. Like there are so many situations in which logically, look, we're going to have lots of wide receiver tandems in our rankings that are both startworthy, right? They're both, you know, Jordi a Cobb or...

Or Marshall Decker. Sure, Marshall Decker. Hurons and Robinson. These, these. Eighth draft pick. Yeah, number one, Alan Hurons. Yeah. Manuel Sanders, Demarius Thomas. All of those guys are going to be startworthy. But here is why the mental hurdle is there for starting two guys. And it's okay on some teams, but not three very often. The problem is this. You mentally, as a fantasy owner, want the opportunity to have all of your players explode. That's what it is. It's the thought process that.

Marshall might score three touchdowns, but not at the expense of my other wide receiver. You know, if I have Marshall and Hearns, both of those guys could score two touchdowns today. But it's just not very likely that you'll have boom production out of both. I think that's why the mental thing there is there, even though the logic says, okay, they're both start whether you should just play them. It doesn't matter if they're both on your team or somebody else's team. Sounds like you don't believe in the beard. I don't believe in playing three from one team. You don't think he's throwing five a game?

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