Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Mid Round Madness, Fantasy News, Mailbag

With the 10th pick overall and then serpentine, so the first pick at the next round, do I take Gromk with the fourth, Lev Bell with the fourth, or I also have Alan Robinson. All right, thank you. So he just has a keeper decision here. He's drafting 10th in a serpentine draft, and he has to decide between Lev Bell, Grunk, or Alan Robinson in the fourth round. And for me, it's... A serpentine draft. Yeah. That's very fancy. Serpentine. Yeah, I like it.

This one's easy. This one's easy for me. It's Love Bell. It's Love Bell. And I'm going to go ahead and be contrarian and say it's Gronk. It's a 10-man league. I think Gronk is a position separator. And the fact that you can still go and draft wide receivers and running backs with those first few picks. Gronk in the fourth to me, I mean, he won his title last year, keeping Gronk in the fourth.

I say if it ain't broken, stay in those flames. Dr. Double Stuff is writing himself some bad prescriptions because that's just crazy talk over there. Well, look, I'll make it a logical argument for you. All 10-man leagues, Jason now says draft Gronk over Lev Bell. If you can get them in the fourth, I do. You are correct, I said. Why is the fourth any relevance? If you're sitting in the first round, and it's the 10th pick of the first round, and Gronk and Lev Bell are on the board, you're taking which one? No, the reason that it does make a difference is because if I have to give up my first round pick,

to grab gronk. That means I'm going to be hurting at running back and wide receivers. I would rather punt tight-ins and be able to grab a late guy. But the situation flips here because now I can still have great running backs and wide receivers with my early picks and have that difference maker at tight-in. Not nearly as good. You're talking 11 other guys will be kept at least. No, I realize it's deeper. Your pool is not as deep. All right, Chase and Eat in Ohio.

I have heard you guys mention the use of Fab for the waiver wire and really like that idea. However, I am not sure how to make it happen in our league. It is, is it only on certain websites or am I missing something? I think you might just be missing something. It should be available on all online services. NFL.com, ESPN, Yahoo, all have Fab available. Yeah, and I don't know a system where it's not there. You know, CBS, my fantasy league. All the providers, maybe you're just looking in the wrong spot for it.

I don't know that they use the acronym. It's normally a free agent auction budget. I think F-A-A-B, what's, I just had this thought of maybe you can't see it. I believe you have to make the declaration of waiver or fab before you kind of launch the league.

You do not on ESPN. ESPN, you can change. You can change. I'm not certain that you can on the others. That's a possibility. So Benjamin in Portland, Oregon, what is your opinion about drafting Ryan Tannahill? I keep waiting on quarterback super late. I get him in my final round before defense, and he is sitting there in the very late rounds. I do this so that I am able to pick as many wide receivers and running backs in earlier rounds as possible. Thank you for the advice. Love the show. I'm a recent convert. All right. That's better than a recent convict.

Yes, from what I understand. I have no problem with drafting Ryan Tanna Hill late. I don't know whether or not, you know, in that situation, whether there's some other quarterbacks I might like more than him. But there are reasons to believe Ryan Tanna Hill can produce Adam Gase coming down there. Devante Parker on the outside with Jarvis Landry. The weapons are there. I also think Jordan Cameron is a guy that is getting overlooked with Gase there who uses the tight-in.

I have no problem drafting Ryan Tannahill with my last quarterback. Ryan Tannahill or Colin Kaepernie? Tannenhill. Wow, I would take Caperney. I don't even know that Kaepernick's going to be a quarterback. If he was starting. That's all I meant. And I've kept Ryan Tannahill a little bit more quiet this year. I was huge, huge supporter of him last year. And it failed pretty much. But I'm a huge believer in Adam Gase.

And if you look at Tannenhill's overall numbers, not that bad, over 4,200 yards, 24 touchdowns, you need the touchdowns to go up. What was pretty disappointing from him is the running cut in half. He had 311 yards in 2014, down to 141. That was a separator for him. That was the Alex Smith-like separator where you get that extra yardage to help balance the bad weeks. Yes, and completely. But like Jason's saying, Jarvis,

Parker, they drafted Carew. I mean, the weapons are there for Ryan Tannahill to succeed. So if all of a sudden he's a quarterback won by the end of the year, it will not shock me. And King and Drake will add to Tanna Hill's value because he's going to take one or two of those little screen passes a distance when he gets in open space. But no Lamar Miller. Yeah. Which obviously helped him a lot last year in those spaces. So my.

You know, we'll see what they got going on there. That team has so many question marks to me. Yeah. When you got Devante Parker as a question mark, gays coming in, Tanna Hills down year, two, you know, a rookie, basically almost two rookie running backs with Ajai having such limited work last year. I mean, there's just a lot of questions. I'm targeting almost no dolphins. And almost all of my drafts, I don't think I've had one. But when you're at that last pick, that's where it's like, hey.

Right. Take the shot on the question. So that's it for the mailbag today. I want to let everybody know on Thursday we're going to have Jamie Eisenberg from CBS Sports as a special guest on the show and we'll do some other fun stuff that day.

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