Fantasy Football 2017 - Keep/Trade/Cut + AFC South Breakdown

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Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. It's Tuesday. It's Tuesday, July 25th, 2017. And we are the fantasy footballers show number 401. We are? We are the fantasy footballers. We are the fantasy footballers. We are the, that sounded like one statement, but we are the fantasy footballers show 401. We are the fantasy footballers, comma.

Show 401 begins now. Andy Mike and Jason, welcome in. I have announcement for Foot Clan. You have an announcement. Foot Clan. You are my weakness. Oh, I see what you did there. I'm weeping. Okay. That's a little Game of Thrones reference from last nights or two nights ago. We will do a Game of Thrones show after the show. Either today or on Thursday. Stay tuned. Here's the thing. We've got some updates coming to the UDK.

Some of the player profile videos, as we often do, we are updating Mike Wallace and Jeremy Macklin, Zecchio Elliott, a few other guys. Tyree Kill. Tyree Kill. Just updated some of our dynasty rankings on the UDK. So for those of you who have access, lots of updates coming your way. New consistency charts here on the horizon.

I hope. I hope someday. We've been promising. All right. Today's episode is a good one. We have the AFC South breakdown. First, we're going to jump into, in lieu of a quick question. We're going to play a little keep trade cut. Keep trade cut. Randall Cobb, Eric Decker, Jonathan Stewart, Brooks picked these names out. And apparently we all have different takes. So keep trade cut, Randall Cobb, Eric Decker, Jonathan Stewart.

Who wants to kick it off? Do you want me to go? Yes. All right. I'm keeping Jonathan Stewart. I'm trading Eric Decker, and I'm cutting Randall Cobb, and I'll tell you why. I value the running back position and the idea of getting depth in Jonathan Stewart. Right now, Jonathan Stewart and Jamal Charles are back-to-back in fantasy drafts. They're late eighth-round draft picks. And you look at Eric Decker. I want to trade Eric Decker because...

I think there is a lot of love for him out there, and I understand why. But you're bringing a player who is coming off of an injury into a new offense. Last year, Titans receivers averaged 9.9 catches per game as a unit. That's under 10 receptions total from the wide receiver position. That's second to last in the league. They passed the third least in the NFL. And so for me, that just makes Decker.

Too scary to be the keep here. He played three games. That's part of what makes it scary. He's in a new offense, and he was injured, and he's coming off an injury. Now he's in a place that doesn't pass a lot, and you're talking about a TD dependency. We're going to talk more about the Titans later on, but I'm going to keep Stewart, Trade Decker, Cobb. Well, I'll hop in here because my cut is your keep. To me,

Jonathan Stewart's just, look, I realize where he's going in the draft versus what he should do. He should outperform his running back rank. But I don't think that there's any true upside because last year he was the 23rd running back and half point scoring and standard. And he's going to be less than this year. He's going to be.

be less than the role he had last year. No, no, not less than in the rank, less than on the field. He's going to have fewer carries because Christian McCaffrey is going to, you know, eat into those. I'm not a huge McCaffrey supporter in the sense I think both these guys are really going to be splitting the workload, but I can't get myself to invest in a less than version of last year's Jonathan Stewart. And I want to keep Eric Decker just because he's such a touchdown machine paired with

another efficient touchdown guy, but I'm like Andy, I'm not convinced yet until I see something, you know, on film, in camp, that he's back, he's healthy, you know, reports are good. So I'm going with Cobb. I'm going to keep Cobb, trade, Decker, and cut Stewart. You know, last year you have a wide receiver one in Devante Adams, who we have said for a while, Devante Adams stinks. And in some ways, he's not an elite wide receiver to me.

But he was a wide receiver one because of Aaron Rogers. Randall Cobb has been a wide receiver one before. If the pendulum just swings and the touchdowns go to Cobb, I will take the quarterback upside with Aaron Rogers. We saw Cobb as a wide receiver one through the first seven weeks last year. It was close for me between those two. So good pick. So I missed the trade in the cut.

My, I trade Decker. I cut Jonathan Stewart. All right. I'm keeping Eric Decker. I traded him to you. And I gladly take him. He is. Of course you keep Eric Decker. Yes. Of course I keep Eric Decker. The last year. Yes, of course I keep Eric Decker. In the last year. Yes. But Jonathan Stewart and Eric Decker is coming off an injury.

Every single week, Jonathan Stewart is coming off of an injury. That's how frequent he gets heard. Eric Decker, I don't hold the touchdown efficiency against Eric Decker. He's going to Mariotto, who last year was unbelievably efficient throwing touchdowns. Eric Decker in the last six years, 13% of his receptions are touchdowns. And this is not a one or two-year sample. That's who he is. 51 touchdowns over the last six years, and he only played three games.

last year. I'm trading Cobb because there are still suckers like Jason who are buying into the pendulum swing as a possibility. Not really. I think that's in the realm of possibilities. And I'm cutting Stewart. I don't buy into this. He's keeping all the carries he had last year. You don't spend a top 10 pick on a running back to give 250 carries to the veteran. So we have three completely different picks. I'm a little surprised someone who values running backs like you, Mike, that you would go.

the Decker direction, but hey, we're going to talk a lot about the Titans on today's show, going to break down the AFC South teams. So very much looking forward to that conversation, which we'll start here in just a minute. Before we talk about that, I have a couple of exciting things to break down for listeners. First, a few days, there are a few days left for the 2017 podcast awards.

And so if you enjoy the podcast, you want to help us out, take a couple minutes. Go to footclanvote.com and nominate us for the people's choice in the best sports and recreation podcast for 2017. Do it. And we would really appreciate it. Do it. All right. We did have Show 400 on Saturday. Show 400 in our history. Smashing success. Yeah. And a big credit to Judge Giamati over there who.

Cut together about 11 minutes of our greatest hits. Misses, maybe. It's hard to say. You know, I never had so much reaction into the... Spread your legs. Spreading the legs comment. I was listening back. That was funny. And that one caught my wife very off guard. She said, wait, what did he say? It was like, hold on. There was a faux paw that happened. You expect that from the Wizard of Grammar over here, but...

All right, so I thought it would be fun. Before we talk, AFC South, I thought it would be fun too. I pulled the footclam. I pulled the listeners, and I basically gave them 12 questions of which footballer would you choose. I mean, 400 episodes in, you've got to know us pretty well. And so who would you choose for these various interesting things that you could choose one of us for and only one of us? And you told Mike and I to stay out. I told Mike, I don't know the answers. I posted it.

And then I handed it all over to Brooks. And I said, Brooks, you write down who wins. Who wins? Who wins? Who wins these ones? Who who's chosen? All right. So here's an example. All right. We'll start with this one. Which footballer would you choose to help you change a flat tire? Well, the question is, Jason, can you change a tire? I sure can. I've done it many times, but I'm sure you're surprised. I actually am very surprised. Yeah, I've changed the tire too. So which?

Which footballer did the foot clan choose to help them change a tire? Well, the foot clan was surprised also, Jason. You got last on this one. I would expect nothing, yes. Who won that one? The winner is Mike. Yes. 49% of the votes. Okay. Mike Wright. Mike Wright. You have chosen wise because I can change your tire. All right. We can make predictions on this. You know what else I can do? I can change your battery. Wow.

Yeah, that's above my... I was going to say Jason tried to help my wife change the battery when I was stuck watching the kids. He drove up there and... I helped take care of it. Fix nothing, but Andy came and fixed the problem the next day. So you are a wise listener-based foot clerk. All right, number two. Which football would you choose to help you, or I'm sorry, to babysit your children, to babysit your kids? What do you guys think? I'm going to... I'm going to... I'm going with Jason.

Really? Yeah, I mean, that would be the right. He's a clown. All right. Cheer my kids up. Who won that one? Who won that one?

The winner is Andy. Oh, the responsible one. Dad, of course. How did we not assume it would be dad? 56% of the vote. What was the next closest? Mike with 25. Jason 19. Left off. All right, here's a fun one. It's going to be some hurt feelings. Which footballer would you choose to take over as the voice of Siri on your phone? Oh, I'm taking me. Yeah, I took you as well. I answered these myself. I took you as well. Okay.

Who they pick? Who'd the Footlan pick? Well, Jason, you should have picked yourself, man. 39%. Jason is the winner. Congratulations. That's probably just because of the voice of public opinion. They want that as serious. No, no one wants that. How do I get to the local Albertsons? I'm sorry, I can't help you right now.