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

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Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Oh, we've heard from the North. We appreciate it. It's tough to get a good signal up there at the wall. You've got to send a Raven. Yeah. You've got to hope the Raven brings it back to you in like high quality, high fidelity audio. I'll say getting a thumb drive up there to the wall. That's a feat. That is. Welcome to the show. This is the fantasy footballers podcast, Andy Holloway. Jason Moore and Mike, the fantasy hitman Wright.

Coming at you Tuesday, May 24th, 2016. Thank you, John Snow. He does know something. Just a little something. Speaking of John Snow, stay tuned after the show. We will be talking. On YouTube. Yes, only on YouTube. Exclusive to YouTube, we will be discussing Game of Thrones. All right. Today's show, fantasy-wise, we're going to be bringing the mid-round madness on the show today. We're going to look at, I think we got like nine guys picked out that.

that fall in that fourth to eighth round that we want to highlight. This was actually the first time that we ever had a listener recommended show where someone sent us an email a little while back and said, boy, I'd really love a show that highlighted some of the mid-round picks that...

I should be looking for. And there are a lot of guys in that category. This is essentially what you would call a value show. Guys, we think that are of a good value based on their average draft position. So that's what we're doing on the show today. But we have a lot of news for you as well. Fantasy football news. We're going to get into the listener mailbag and answer some fantasy football questions as well.

If you want to connect with us, you can do so on our website, the fancy footballers.com. You can also go over to join thefoot.com, which is our fantasy football community. We just added a bunch of neat things over there, including some giveaways. We're going to be giving away a David Johnson signed jersey at the beginning of June, as well as some other NFL stuff and some stickers and shirts and things like that. Early access to podcasts. Yeah, yeah.

That is available as well. They're available before we even record them. It's amazing. Yeah, yeah. It's special. You can follow us on Twitter at the FF.F. Ballers. And Jason said it earlier. We're also on YouTube, the Fantasy Sports Network. You can follow us on Facebook. And on the website is that's where you can also submit questions for the show. The ones that we answer on the show is at the fancy footballers.com. Also, before we get into the quick question, which I think is an interesting one,

I do want to highlight some news we got yesterday, very exciting. Oh, yeah. This is entirely a giant thank you to our listeners, the Foot Clan, for making this happen. We were nominated not only for the best sports podcast on podcastawards.com, but we were also nominated for the People's Choice Award, along with nine other nominees. Foot Clan!

And look. Mike about lost his mind. I was going bananas last night. I was insufferable of saying just ridiculous things of how happy I was with the nomination with punches and air kicks. Yeah. And I will say this, as great as this accomplishment is. This is like the old Nintendo, old Super Nintendo games where you've taken down the final boss. You're celebrating. You think everything's good.

And then the real boss shows up and you've got to take him down because there will be a daily vote that will start in about a week. We will give you more information as it becomes available and get you guys ready for that. But we are more, I mean, we can't thank you enough for getting us the nomination. But let's close this thing out. Close the deal. Let's close it out. Big thank you. I mean, it's very cool. Very humbling. Very exciting. Ten.

podcasts of all podcasts in the world. To be nominated for that is very cool. There were 1,800 podcasts that were considered. And so it is an especially amazing honor. And it is all thanks to you, the listener, all the feedback, everything. Yeah, it's incredible. So thank you very much for that. That is big time news. It means a lot to us. All right. Quick question of the day. What team, what NFL team could surprise?

from a fantasy perspective in 2016. What team that maybe we're not expecting a lot of contributing fantasy players from might surprise people this year? What do you guys think? Well, I'll start this off, and I'm going to go with the Chip Kelly led San Francisco 49ers. And why this might be surprising to a lot? Because in the football community, the 49ers roster is considered one of the worst in the NFL. They have some real work to do there.

However, I think Chip Kelly, with his volume, with the rate of play, brings a huge opportunity here. Remember, we're playing fantasy football. We do not need the 49ers to be a successful real-life team for them to have value for us. For how down people were on Kelly last year, he still gave us a running back two and a wide receiver two in Jordan Matthews and DeMarco Murray. So I don't understand the backlash is so strong.

But there's guys like Carlos Hyde, who showed a lot last year, even behind one of the worst offensive lines, was still very elusive. Dealing with a horrific foot injury, he's back. Tori Smith has shown us before with plus thousand yards for season, a double-digit touchdown season, and he will be the number one guy. So I think there's a big opportunity here for San Francisco. And Vance McDonald. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Vance McDonald was a waiver wire guy tied in that we picked up where...

No one, everyone had left him for dead. And right now he's the guy. And we've saw the success of Zach Ertz under Chip Kelly. So even McDonald has an option. He could be this year's like Gary Barnage that, no, that's a great comparison. Nobody, but he might be after week one. You go, oh, wow, he got, he got nine targets and was pretty good. So it's a name to monitor. Yeah, yeah. And I'll give you my team here. I'll comment briefly on the 49ers. I will say this. They are the, uh,

The oasis in the desert, right? I'm standing from a distance, and Chip Kelly's supposed to be the sparkling pool of water for fantasy owners. And I'm not sure if it's a mirage or not, I know that if I get up, if I get up there and I put my mouth down to drink and I get sand for a second year in a row, I'm never doing this again.

So my team I'm going to bring up is the Baltimore Ravens. I think that they in real life are one of the biggest candidates for a bounceback season along with Dallas, obviously. But from a fantasy perspective, I think you have Kenneth Dixon breaking onto the scene. Rashad Perryman is essentially a brand new rookie in a wide receiver core that there's a lot of need. You've got Mike Wallace that just arrived. You have Steve Smith.

coming back with no expectations, essentially, Ben Watson just arrived, and you still got Gervorius to Helen, you've got Aiken. I just think there are enough names and enough proficiency in that offense, because you still have, you know, Flacco for all that he is and isn't in the fantasy community is still a top, probably top third quarterback as an actual NFL quarterback, which...

means that he can make weapons around him relevant. And Fawcette, I didn't even mention Fawcett. I think it might be their best. I don't appreciate that. Camar Eakin was the last name in that list. Well, now it was Fawcett. I will say this. I think that there's a good chance that Baltimore as a team puts out plenty of production. The real hardship with Baltimore, though, is...

Who is it going to be? Because when I come, this week we're taking another deep look by the end of this week at our rankings. And when it comes time to really stat out the Baltimore wide receivers and the Baltimore running backs, I'm like, who is it going to be? There's just so much depth and so much unclarity. So they might be a good offensive producing team, but hard to predict who. My team.

I'm not going to go with the bills because I've talked about them recently as a surprise offense. I'm going to go. I saw them picked as a surprise Super Bowl winner. What?

Somebody picked the Texans and the Bills. The two AFC teams that could surprise. Hey, I'm just throwing it out there. Wow. Okay. Saw it on the press. Interesting. Go ahead. Someone believes in Rex Ryan. I am going to. Was that Rex, did Rex Ryan pick himself? That was a Rex Ryan article. Yeah, that was. I'm going to go with the Chicago Bears. The Chicago Bears, the John Fox Chicago Bears as a surprise offense. Because last year, what you saw was the decimation.

Sorry, I couldn't help myself when you said John Fox. Okay, so let me explain why I think that they could be a real surprise fantasy offense for this coming season. Last year, you have Martellus Bennett, gets injured. You have Kevin White, the number seven pick in the draft, injured for the year. You bring in Eddie Royal, injured. You have Al-Jean Jeffrey, though. Oh, he's injured. Come on. Well, at least you have Matt Fort. Ah, dick!

nagget. Matt Forte got injured too. They got the pieces there. I loved it. And Jay Cutler, for me. Jay Cutler last year was really efficient. He looked like a decent quarterback. So now you get Jeremy Langford coming into his own with Jordan Howard as a good rookie option there.

Kevin White, we'll talk about him later today. I think he's an awesome pick. Alshan Jeffrey should be healthy. Eddie Royals should be healthy. I think there's pieces there, including Zach Miller, a ton of weapons that are completely discounted right now. You've convinced me to at least think about it. There you go. So that's, you've done well. That's a surprise. News and notes from around the league. All right, guys, I want to blitz.

Through this news, I actually have a lot of information I want to pass along to the Foot Clan right now. The OTAs have started for many teams, so that's kind of exciting because you have players on the field actually doing things. I was telling the guys before the show, I watched LaQuan Treadwell, you know, spend some time with Teddy Bridgewater and get to know that offense a little bit, be running around. You know, these guys get to be pros for the first time. Big news here. Tom Brady will file an appeal Monday for the second hearing.

by the second U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn his four-game to flakegate suspension. We expected Tom Brady to fight. The implications here are that this fight might mean he plays a full 16 again. That's right. And if I were him, my objective would now be to do this for as long as I can until I can retire. Until I can retire. Right. Ian Rappaport tweeted out that if the Second Circuit grants Tom Brady this ban that he's requesting, it basically guarantees he plays a full slate in 2016.