Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Live 12 Team Mock Draft, Sleepers, News & Notes, Listener Questions

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What is going on? It is August 4th. It is Tuesday. We are the fantasy footballers. And we are back again for another episode of the podcast. I am here. As always, with Mike, the fantasy hitman, right? Good something. Morning, whatever, whenever you're listening. That's true. I am Andy Holloway. That was Jason Moore. Hello, Foot Clan. We're happy to be back. I am. August.

I'm feeling kind of desperate in between shows right now because so much is happening. And we have been recording podcasts since February. Oh, yeah. Two in the off season. Yeah. And so I am feeling desperate because we were, you know, in the off season, middle of the off season, it was like which mediocre wide receiver was signed this biweekly period. And now you have like 20 pieces of news dropping and you have to parse it and figure out what's going on.

I'm excited because we got a Hall of Fame game coming up. Sunday. There are no more Sundays without football. For a long time. For a long time. I could cry right now. Welcome to the show. If you are a new listener, we welcome you into the fantasy footballers. We deliver all the latest fantasy football news information. We got a mock draft going on today. We have a website.

www.thefantasyfootballers.com. You can follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. We got a YouTube channel. Be sure to check that out. Every show goes on there. We also answer some questions on the YouTube channel. I have a quick question. Jason's waving at the camera. I was saying hello to YouTube. That was super smart. Yeah. Quick question. Quick question. Let's talk sleepers. Yeah. All right. Give me one sleeper or deep sleeper that you have your eyes on right now.

If you want me to define the difference. No, I think we can get it. I do. All right. I was wrong. I kind of just wanted to talk about the difference, but I look at sleepers as somebody who's probably rounds 9 to 12, and deep sleepers is probably undrafted. That you could grab with the last pick, because otherwise we shouldn't talk about them. So who wants to go first? Who has a sleeper? I got my sleeper that I love.

I love him. He's my, he is the guy that I am targeting in every draft so long as there's any kind of half point PPR or PPR. And that is Daniel Woodhead. He goes by Danny Woodhead if you're going to draft him. Only his mother calls him Daniel. Yeah, his mother and me. Danny Woodhead, a lot of people forget about him mostly because he was injured all last year. Not because he's so short.

Well, he's short, he's a little bit older, and he was injured last year. Kick him out of the league. He's like Waldo. It's very hard to find. Very hard. Hard for the defenders to find it as well. Helpful. Because the last time that he played two years ago, he finished the year, and nobody realizes this, as an R.B. Uno. As an RB1. Two years ago in a PPR league, he finished as a top 12.

running back. That is incredible, and he's coming back now, and the reports out of camp from the Chargers say that Melvin Gordon is not doing well in pass protection. Shocking. And Melvin Gordon came in. Rookie running back? Not good in past protection? Well, that's probably because he came in with a rap sheet that said he couldn't catch the ball because he wasn't used in those situations, so he's no experience. So who's going to be on the field every time it matters? Danny Woodhead. So I love him. I love him. Yeah, that's a good one. Thanks.

My main sleeper. Yeah, I know, I know yours and I don't like it. I know you don't like it. I don't like it. And yet I'm starting to agree with it and I'll tell you why. But go ahead, go ahead. Is Mr. Roy Hulu of the Oakland Raiders. I think he's right, Jason. What? I'm going to tell you why. Time out. Time out.

I feel like right now, I am trying to agree with Andy, who does not agree with himself. I don't know what's going on. No, no, no, no. I like that I don't even have to explain everything, so Andy's going to do it. All I'm saying is this. I don't think Trent Richardson makes the roster. And if he doesn't make the roster, and Latavius Murray's, he's going to be the guy. Mike, you don't disagree that he's going to be the RB. I don't disagree that he will get the first shot. All right. So, Roy Huloo.

He's a little bit shorter, but he's 5-11-220. And he's so he's thick enough to handle the beating of the NFL. That's not that short either. Well, for... NFL running back? Yeah, well, do you say what's the optimal height for a running back? Six-one? Is it? Maybe 5-11, probably? I don't know. That's an interesting question. Yeah. But anyway, so his rookie season was the only year where he's gotten a significant workload. It was 150 carries. He had a 4.2 yard per carry average.

But steaming hot fantasy tip. The average height for a running back in the NFL is between 510 and 5.11. Well, then he is the perfect height. There you go. He's even better than I thought. Thank you, Andy. Yeah, you're welcome. More Hulu love for no reason. So Hulu gets a ton of targets every year because he's an excellent pass catcher. And he's a great pass protector. He's excellent at blocking.

And what Andy said about Trent Richardson has actually upped him in my sleeper value, where I thought maybe Trent Richardson would get some carries here and there. Maybe they look at him to be the guy. But I agree with Andy. I think his chances of actually making the roster are not so good. He showed up overweight. He was placed inactive to start the training camp. It's not looking good for Mr. Richardson. And lots and lots of people like Latavius Murray.

The talent is there. I'm not disagreeing with the talent. I'm just not sure it's going to translate. And he's never had the workload. He's never proven anything. That's the thing. And you need to apply that exact same thinking, in my opinion, to the rookie running backs. I was going to say you need to treat Latavius Murray mostly like a rookie. He had a few games. You have a different offense, a different system. Treat them the same way you do those guys, which is a little bit, you know, you have to keep the...

The Monte ball alert in the back of your head. Well, if there was only a rookie ahead of Roy Hulu, then I would say Roy Hulu would be a good pick. So according to you, that's good. And I think his average draft position is off the border. Hulu is in the 13th. Yeah, Murray is in the fourth. Yeah. Well, I would like it if... I don't compare them because he's a sleeper. No, but I'm just saying lots of people like Murray, but he hasn't played and he's going in the fourth round. I like it just so I can doubt fire and always say... Hello! Hello!

That is one of the perks of starting him in your fantasy league. I'm drafting him. I'll get through mine really quickly. It's amazing that he is a sleeper, but this guy is being drafted in the 13th round. So Vernon Davis. Vernon Davis is being drafted in the 13th round. All but forgotten.

reports have come out that he was pretty injured last year, and he did not perform well in Harbaugh's system. But this is a guy that's had 2-13 touchdown seasons. He's also got Tony Sparano coming in as the tight-in coach, who if you remember Sparano, he also was the coach for Witten during a couple of his Pro Bowl seasons. We know that the talent's there, at least my only doubt with Vernon Davis is it somehow a physical thing that is no longer left. He's only 31. For tight-ins, that's not too bad. Yeah, but he's in, his game was, he wasn't.

athletic freak. Right. Once you hit that cliff, man, it's done. And that's the question. But, I mean, he is 31, and I do think he's going to have a pretty good year. So I think if you're in that draft, the guy late, take a shot. I mean, Vernon Davis is a guy we've at least seen perform. So let's go ahead and read a review from our listeners, and then we'll move on to some news. Review Osores Rex. This one comes in from Brian A. He says, Foot Clan, Unite.

These guys are great. Not only are they hilarious, but they're extremely accessible for all your fantasy slash Oreo related questions. Both? I listen. Yeah, it's really true. We'll answer Oreo related questions. We're kind of experts. I listen to a lot of fantasy football podcasts, and I can safely say that these guys are my favorite. Hashtag Foot Clan for Life. Well, thank you very much for that, Brian A. We appreciate your review. It sounded like you're mad at him.

I'm happy. Brian A. And I just a quick note. We really, really. It wasn't like A, like Canadian A, right? That's why I was going to ask. Is it E H? No, no, no. I actually truncated his last name because he put his whole name. Thanks to the review. We really appreciate the reviews. They really help the show out a ton more than you'll probably ever know. And we really appreciate them. More than we'll ever tell you. More than we ourselves know. We have no idea if they help.

So right after we solicit some reviews, let's go ahead and tell everybody that there's no more spots left in the listener league. Yay! Yes, it has been filled. We had a couple open spots left. We resisted the temptation to eBay one of those off. Or did we? Is there a 13 spot? Is there a 13 spot in this league? I'll sell my team. I'll sell my team for the league. It's like selling your wow character. Or your firstborn. I'm putting it on eBay. Yeah, that's right.

That's right. Mike, why don't you say something to all the fine people that submitted entries? Thank you very much. We really appreciate the support. And the entries, it got very, very difficult towards the end to make the selection. There was some fantastic stuff coming in, the passion. The support is really overwhelming. We weren't expecting this many entries. So it was kind of a difficult thing to really, really get the cream of the crop.

And so thank you to everyone. A lot of time invested. So we really appreciate that. Thank you for those. And so welcome to the league, those that made the cut. Check your email. Check your email. We'll have the information for the league. Let's go ahead and talk some news. News and notes from around the league. Have I even said we're having a mock draft on this show? Yes. I think in passing. Yes. Okay. We have a live 12-team standard mock draft coming up. It's the golden...

I mean, it's the standardist league, right? Well, we threw another wide receiver in just for fun. Yeah, I think a lot of people playing through. Oh, you're right. They do. So stay tuned for that. Let's get through these news and notes. I'm going to read these off. You guys jump in if you think there's something specific, but I want people to know what's going on. Camp is rolling. Rolling, breaking news for us. So out of Jets camp.

Rookie wide receiver, Devin Smith, has fractured ribs, a partially punctured lung, four to six weeks. He's a guy we briefly talked about as just every once in a while I was going to catch that deep ball. I talked about him from Ohio State. He can catch him, but he is not going to catch him for a while. No. That's the only thing to say on it. That's just sad. Yeah. Feel bad for the guy. Out of Pittsburgh, there is some news about Martavis Bryant. He's missing some time with an elbow infection. This one is worth...

talking about, I think, for a second. Well, let me, yeah, let me mix in the second part of the news, which is that Ben Rothersberger did come on a local show and talk. No, he was on serious. On serious. And talked about Marcus Wheaton. And the context of that was the possibility of Wheaton being that number two, or we know they're kind of competing and the foregone conclusion in the offseason was that Bryant would run away with it. But there's some concern that, you know, maybe they're splitting time exactly like last year, which I still think isn't the worst for Bryant's standard league value.