Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Early QB Rankings, News & Notes, Mailbag

destroying the team and putting in Johnny football. And we've said this before on this show, but if you want to see how smart Kyle Shanahan is, he put together a 32 slide presentation to pitch the head coach of letting him go from the Cleveland Browns, and it succeeded. He's clearly a genius. Let's move on to the fifth guy on our list here and get Jason's take on Peyton Manning. He is our consensus.

Number five. I have him at five. Jason has him at six. Mike has him at seven. So clearly he's not necessarily an agreed upon top five. But this is a big drop. He was the number one ADP last year. Yep. He finished the season despite the bad ending as the number four. Mm-hmm. I think his...

I think he could surprise us and be back in that tier again, but we have them at number five. So, Jason, give us your take before you have to step out. I've always been a Peyton fan. I refuse to believe he's going to die because he broke his neck and still came back and was awesome. I think that the trail off at the end of last year was really due to those quads. And as I started going through and looking at the numbers and getting things ready, my heart became a little sad.

Because I do think this is going to be the end of the prolific Peyton Manning. We've got him here at top five. I have him as my six. So he's all right. But I just don't see the year where he's going to put up monster numbers. I think this is going to be what you started to see from Tom Brady, where he's just kind of middle of the pack. And he's got a great name, which is really scary from an average draft position. That's exactly what I was going to say. Is he going to be overdrafted, Mike?

I would imagine he will be. I don't know that the last year's finish will really scare everybody off. But the transition of the team to the running team, that's where I am a little concerned in that they saw what would happen if they put everything in the stock of Peyton Manning. They got to the Super Bowl.

It did not end well. The team needs a running game. They need to be a tougher team. And because of that, and I'm not, Gary Kubiak's there now. Right. And Gary Kubiak likes to throw, and Gary Kubiak's homeboy Owen Daniels is there. I just don't see Manning finishing in that top tier. Now, of any of the guys who I have in the middle of my board,

I'm not going to be surprised if he does, but I'm not going to draft him like he's going to finish there. So in summary, we have Aaron Rogers at number one, Andrew Luck as our number two, Russell Wilson at number three, Matt Ryan ahead of Peyton Manning at number four on all of our boards. I think that's the most bold piece of the puzzle today. And then Peyton Manning in Denver at number five. And so that's our initial rankings here. We're going to go through.

6 through 10 at least, probably 6 through 15 on the next episode of the fantasy footballers. But we're going to move on to the mailbag now and take a question before we close out the show. Mail bag. The fantasy hitman added again. Give us some mail. You keep doing that and you're going to get, someone's going to take you away from our show. Yeah, I'm going to. You're going to get hired, I mean. You're going to be on tour.

By, I got some calls from Striper. Now, before I leave, does anybody know who Striper? Yeah, I know Striper. I did. I was born in the 80s. I am out of here, but I just want to say, as I had to leave last time early, for Michael Bay. Michael Bay, if you're out there from last week, I didn't get to weigh in. Go Mike Evans. Okay, don't listen to these fools. Actually, Mike did. Yeah, Mike did say Mike Evans. But.

It's Mike Evans. That's just the answer. All right. Unbelievable. Yeah. We have a bet. Oh, I got to go. All right. I'll just, I'll share it. We did bet a Watkins versus Evans. So just straight up. That's a water bet. Yeah, straight up water bet. So we'll see what happens. I could be wrong, but I like Sammy Watkins a little bit more. And I liked him more trading an 11 versus an 8. But.

You'd have to listen to the last show to understand what we're talking about. So today's question comes from Sean from Fresno, California. All of our questions have been keeper questions obviously right now. Help me pick a wide receiver, keeper from these three options. Martavis Bryant for a 12. Devante Adams for a 12. So I'm guessing those two guys were undrafted. So they probably have to give up the final pick of the draft. And then Andre Johnson for a 6. What you say, Mike?

What you say hit, man. It's got to be Martavis Bryant. I loved him last year. It took him a little bit to really get on the field where he had to keep splitting some reps. I think this year he takes another leap in playing time and opportunity that I love the Steelers' offense. They are so balanced. Coming after the first two games, of course, where Levy on Bell will...

be suspended and it's going to be Daniel Williams as the running back. However, for the rest of the games, you get Antonio Brown is a stud. He can do it all. He's underneath. And Brown and Martavis are the perfect compliment to each other where each of them will keep coverage off of the other. You can't, you don't have enough guys to double cover it, both of them.

So Bryant's your choice here. Yeah, Bryant and the 12th is fantastic value. And that's my answer as well. I love Martavis Bryant this year. You know I'm in on Andre Johnson. Yeah, I think we all are. As a potential top 12 wide receiver. Oh my. Yes. I don't know. I said 1112 range. I'm sticking to it. However.

The difference in draft pick, you're basically not giving up a draft pick. You're keeping Martavis Bryant versus giving up a six for Andre Johnson. I'm all about picking up Brian. I think I'm with you. I think you'll see a second year leap with him. Ben likes him. He's a red zone beast. He also is a big play guy down the field. So if he can just get more playing time, you're going to see the big plays with some stability in PPR. So I'm about Martavis Bryant here. Devante Adams is a talent for sure, but if Cobb had left, that would have changed the...

change the equation. So, Sean, I'd go with Martavis Bryant and then laugh at the rest of your league as you go away. With Brian and the 12th, you're getting a wide receiver two for free. I agree. I agree. If you have a question for us, you can email us. It's very simple. You open your email program. You go to AOL.com. No. You open your program and you send us an email. Mail at the fantasy footballers.com. Mail at the fantasy footballers.com.

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