Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - News and Notes, Sleepers for 2015, Special Guest, Mailbag

Major sleeper candidate because Matthews is going to get drafted by name recognition alone above Huff. And he should. And he should. He's a more talented player than Huff. I just don't know that where he is in the offense, he's going to necessarily. Value-wise, you might get a lot more out of Huff where you take him in the draft. Absolutely. Absolutely. So the other pass catcher I want to talk about is a guy I like a lot. He has all the tools. Give me your thoughts on Zackertz. Does he have the ability to become?

In this offense, an elite tight in, or is that not coming for him? He has to block. That's really all what it comes down to. The guy's got to learn how to block. Because he won't stay on the field then, right? Because Selleck was on the field for a big portion of last year because you couldn't block. Yeah, it's the same thing with Lashon McCoy and the lower body strength. You know, Chip, Chip, he's proven that he's fine getting rid of anybody, no matter how transcendent their talent is. You know, and he had some, he had some words for,

Deshawn Jackson, here's things you need to do. He didn't do him. You're gone. LaShawn McCoy, here's what we need your game to develop into. He didn't do it. You're gone. Zackertz has to learn to block. He can't be on the field the way that this system works. Your tight end needs to be a blocker. The way that this zone read run scheme works, you have to have that edge blocker. And Brent Selleck is miles.

So you think it's going to be tough for him to make the jump that he'll probably be projected to make in light of the losing of the...

the wide out we'll see you know we'll see what he did i mean the thing is that that there are other guys since chip has gotten here like brandon graham who's not a fantasy relevant player because he's a defensive player but he has done everything that he was told he needed to do and he got rewarded this offseason with a big extension um the four-year contract and he's going to be the starting outside linebacker because he worked on all those things he lost the weight he worked on the speed he got his back pedal together so he could do some coverage and you know it's

Ertz, we haven't seen Ertz, if he put on 15 pounds, if he worked on the hand position, if he gets blocking down, he will be on the field. And if he's on the field, he is the best route running tight end I've ever seen. I was going to say, us fantasy players, man, we don't care where his hand position is unless it's up in the air, catching touchdowns. But I guess he has to work on that to get on the field. You got to get on the field. Chip will, you know, he's a guy who's big about accountability.

If he shows you something on film and your whole team is watching it and you don't improve on it the next week, he can't put you on the field because the message that sends is, well, we don't have to really do what coach tells us to do. Never a dull moment in Philadelphia. We really appreciate having you on here again. Andrew Goldwasser, staff writer for the Eagles over at NFL SpinZone. Check out his work. It's...

Great stuff. We appreciate having you on. I'm sure we'll bring you on next week when all these guys have been traded to other teams and you have an entire new roster to diagnose for us. Please do. Oh, yeah. When Marriota gets in and all those things, when it's a Marioita Tebow competition for the start. Right, right. Yeah, we'll save the Tebow chatter. I don't know. And also I'm new, I'm new to Twitter. I'm new to Twitter, so I want to shout out to your fans. A.D. Goldwasser. A.D. Goldwasser.

That's my handle. That's the word that people use on Twitter. That's my handle. So join. And I post all the links to my articles there and also a lot of general NFL chatter throughout the day as news breaks. Hey, you couldn't have picked a better team to follow. Thanks again for coming on and we'll touch base down the line. Thanks so much for having me. You guys are great. Take care. All right. And so with that, and we thank Andrew for coming on, we want to talk a little bit about some upside sleepers that have been birthed from

The Free Agent Madness. And so one of those guys, Andrew just mentioned, Josh Huff, what do you guys think about what he said about Josh Huff? Josh Huff had entered my radar. Your sleeper, sleeperometer. Yeah, maybe two weeks ago. And this was one of those throwaway blurbs from Roto World where Chip Kelly was really talking up Josh Huff, which could just be because of...

The Oregon ties, and Chip Kelly has gone mad with his love for the ducks. But, I mean, Chip Kelly's been there two years. In two years, he has produced a fantasy monster, and both were different guys. So who's to say that it couldn't be Josh Huff in 2015?

He's certainly a late round flyer that, you know, you have to have on your draft boom upside list because when you get to those late rounds, he's probably going to be there unless, you know, other people start catching on to what we're saying. But the potential, you know, when you talk about the ceiling of guys, his ceiling is a great unknown. And in that Chip Kelly offense would be higher than most. So I really like him as one of those guys I'll take a flyer with at the end.

I was like you. I saw that information a couple weeks ago. I just thought it was them trying to spin losing Jeremy Macklin. But hearing from the insider from the Philly area, I really like that. Yeah, and we'll have to keep an eye again on camp. How he's performing in camp is he one of those guys that's standing out. And what do they do in the draft? So take these early sleepers with a grain of use your brain. When you're talking about value, it's going to, Jordan Matthews is going to be drafted.

infinitely higher probably what fourth fifth round around there i like them there though yeah and we like john matth yeah we're not saying that but but josh huff if you're talking about a guy who you can get in the 10th 11th 12th round who could potentially put up even greater numbers i mean that's you have to take that risk yeah these are guys i guess it's not in those rounds if if you don't see it come to fruition you can drop them but um worth worth the value let's talk about another josh

Josh Hill in New Orleans, a little bit of buzz about him, naturally. When you trade a guy like Jimmy Graham, you have to make your next tight end up sound pretty good. But he is a guy who had five touchdowns on 14 receptions last year, so they did already like to use him in the red zone. What is Josh Hill? Who is Josh Hill? What will he do here in light of Jimmy being shipped out of town? What?

Oh, no, go ahead. I went back and watched a lot of film on him and took a look at his plays last year. And I think that, you know, I really wanted to come in here and just be like, oh, get ready for Josh Hill. And every single time that I wanted to make the bold prediction, I realized why he was also undrafted as a rookie. He is very...

physically big and large and decently fast, but he is no Jimmy Graham. His routes were kind of sloppy, and most of his touchdowns came on just real broken coverages. Now, I think that that is also because of the New Orleans Saints, and he will get more broken coverages. They were smart trees that left him wide open, and I think that they'll use him. Here's my advice on Josh Hill, and it's going to be also for Owen Daniels and any of these tight-ins that we're looking at.

Tight end is my favorite, and I think you've said this before, Andy. Tight end is my favorite position to watch in the preseason. They don't mask the tight end. They test the tight end in preseason. You know, you can't watch what happens at the running back position and go, oh, man, this guy's going to be awesome. But in the tight end position, you could see how they're trying to plan to use them. And I think that that's going to be huge for Josh Hill because he does have the potential to catch touchdowns, to put up yards, but I would really temper it. I see him.

as an absolutely average player. And I also see his floor much lower than the average players that we already know what we have in him. So I probably won't be drafting him depending on preseason. If he's used a lot in the preseason, you look at, we saw that with Julius Thomas. We saw that with Travis Kelsey. You can watch preseason tight in and see this is a guy that's going to blow up. That was a very thorough breakdown of Josh Hill. Has Josh Hill ever been talked about more?

in his life. The fantasy footballers. He's a guy who, if I'm going to punt tight-in, which I probably will, unless someone of like Travis Kelsey falls into my lap, which I wish he would do in real life, because that's so much I love Travis Kelsey. I'll take the risk on Josh Huff and go for those tight-in, or go for those touchdowns.

I don't necessarily think that his upside is catches. And, oh, Jason Moore is leaving the building. Yes, yes. He has another arrangement, another appointment. I will miss you all. We'll have you back on Thursday. Yes. So I don't think he's the yardage guy like Jimmy Graham was. But he might be more of the Kyle Rudolph production. Touchdown monster. And if they, let's say they're really going to that.

a little bit run heavier. That play action, little tight end running it out, clear out with nobody there. That's going to work. So Josh Hills and...

Sure, I'll probably take a – keep your eye on him. And that's what a sleeper is, right? He's a guy – he's not guaranteed to produce, but he's a guy you need to pay attention to, and you might get great value for in your draft because no one else is paying attention or listening to our show. Joseph Randall, like apparently all the sleeper's names begin with Jay. Joseph Randall in Dallas. Do you have any thoughts on what Dallas is doing? They signed Darren McFadden. That was a piece of news we didn't drop earlier because he's a piece of news not worth dropping –

Very often. Although, you know, I've always been a Darren McFadden fan personally. I have to. I like his running style. I like watching him run. And when he had, who's the coordinator I'm thinking about? Hugh Jackson. When he was in Oakland, there was a pretty good chance that, you know, he had good production. They had a system that worked for him, a downhill guy, a one-cut guy, a zone-blocking scheme.

But it hasn't come together for him in the past few years. Well, what hasn't come together is his body. Well, and that's been the problem for a long time, though. That's not going away. That's upright running style. DeMarco Murray had the same issues with that running style. But you do bring him into a system where your offensive line is outstanding. So does he have upside? Randall and McFadden, what do you see from them? Or do they bring another guy in? I will.

I definitely see them bringing another guy in, but I was going to put this question to you. Let's say they don't bring another guy in. They have been on the record saying they think Darren McFadden is a home run hitting backup running back. Let's say they don't bring anybody in. Who are you drafting? I'm drafting Randall. You're taking Randall? I'm drafting Randall. Yeah, to answer your question. I just don't think the utilization of McFadden is going to be there.

to the degree that they would, you know, and I don't think the money they paid him shows that they don't look at him as their guy. And I think they want Randall to succeed there. Now, Randall's had history with the law and different problems in general. So there's some potential behind that line. But yeah, I draft Randall. So in some interesting numbers about Joseph Randall and the possible Demarco Murray effect.

on him, which Murray was still there in 2013 and was a solid player. But here's it. 2013, Joseph Randall, 54 carries 164 yards. 2014. 51 carries, 343. He hit some home runs last year. Exactly. And he's, I believe his numbers are really inflated by just big runs. So, and if he becomes that non-

They're not spelling the running back. They're not doing the third down, dump whatever. I'm not, I don't know. I feel like Dallas would have gone. If they believe that Joseph Randall was the guy, they would have no problems. Okay, DeMarco Murray, go ahead. We can plug whoever we want into the system because they're offensive line. They kind of did, but they didn't go all in on Randall. It's just insurance, I think. It's unknown. I mean. And I'd rather have a guy whose numbers are inflated by big runs than not.

I mean, it's obviously low carry is equal. You know, you see this a lot of the times. I think a lot of people are expecting the towards the end of the first round. It's going to roll. Dallas is going to be on the board. Melvin Gordon is going to get drafted. Well, let's talk about one more guy in the upside sleeper list. The guy we both like a lot. So Brian Hartline, Mike Wallace. Brian Hartline is the guy that we like. No, no, no, no, no. Sorry, yes. Brian Hartline and Mike Wallace are gone in Miami.