Fantasy Football 2017 - The Fantasy MVP Show

That's six better than Kelsey. Six more points for a game? Yeah, than Kelsey. Wow. But get this, that's more per game than Mike Evans, Jordy Nelson, or Antonio Brown. You're outscoring your opponents at the tight-in position by 7 to 10 points a game on average. That's the gap between Rogers and Bortles. That's the gap. Get this. From Jordan Howard to Chris Thompson last year.

That's an unfair advantage. That's a fantasy MVP. So I think if you can get him in the third, even late second, I just, look, I'm banking on the health this year. He's been healthy. He's played in the preseason for the first time in a long time. And who else is there? His contract is incentivized to play games and to be helped. So I love Grancowski. He's my fantasy MVP pick this year. I love it because this is the first year I've ever been able to fully endorse people drafting.

Grunk. I can't take a tight end with my first pick. Sure. I can't take a tight end with my early second pick on the turn. But the back of the second, the early third for Grunk, absolutely. So I love that pick. Mine, I'm going with an extreme value pick. I'm going Ted Gin, Jr. Everyone, the value in your draft is insane. And we got a glimpse of preseason week three. We saw what Drew Breeze is going to do.

with Ted Ginn and that was the only one targeted less or targeted more that Ted Ginn, Michael Thomas, the team's number one wide receiver. Ted Ginn is the speed on this team. Michael Thomas is a 457 guy. Willie Sneed is a 462 guy. They lost cooks. They lost their speed and they said, hey, let's go get it with a veteran and Ted Ginn Jr. If he can get 10 touchdowns with Cam Newton, what is the floor here?

Yeah. For Ted Ginn Jr. who you're drafting in the double-digit area. End around. He had a 40-plus-yard end-a-round to start the game. Sean Payton is going to plan some special things for Ted Ginn, Jr. And I have grabbed him now lately since I've seen that, man, how they are going to use him. I'm grabbing him everywhere. I'm reaching two rounds because who cares?

Who cares? So what? So what? You grab him in the eighth or the ninth round. Maybe that's not his ADP. You're not getting full value. Who cares? I think that he's going to turn into a possibly a wide receiver two starter every single week. And if not, he's a flex play who can go off and win you a week at any given moment. I'm all in on Ted Ginn, Jr. this year. I really like it. He's somebody I'm targeting at the end of drafts along with a player like Adam Thielen. Mike, I love the pick.

Thanks to everybody who contributed fantasy. Yes, thank you so much. We'll be tweeting those out. We'll post them on the website as well, and we'll see what happens. Look, the NFL season is right around the corner, super excited to get started. Right now, you know what we're doing? This segment's going to be on every single week, and there is something on the line, so let's get to it. Daily Dose. Brought to you by Playdraft.

All right, the daily dose once a week. We are drafting head-to-head on play draft against each other. Mono v. Mono v. Mono. And look, this is so easy to do with your friends and with leagues that we have done it on the show. Like while we're doing the fantasy MVP, we set up this league and we just entered it and it starts in 30 seconds here. If you haven't played play draft, we're going to be going head-to-head against each other, all three of us every week. The loser, the basement. That person is going to get their lunch chosen.

by the other two, and I can tell you from experience. Here comes the eggplant. That is not a good thing. I will videotape that and show it to you. But look, I'm going to be on the clock here in five seconds. This is a very easy call for me. We're starting at the top. When the Steelers go on the road, they run the ball, and I am going Mr. Levion Bell back at practice today as the 101. So you're taking Lev 101. I'm jumping right in and taking David Johnson against Detroit in week one.

So if you don't know how this works, you draft two wide receivers or tight ends, two running backs and one quarterbacks. You play five players against each other. Mike is at the turn. I'm at the turn and I went wide receiver, wide receiver. I took Julio Jones against Chicago. And then I took Mike Evans, who's going to take on the dolphins.

I love the fact that. And if you're not familiar with draft, you go one quarterback, two running backs, and then there's two flex positions, which can be wide receiver or tight end. And I've filled up my wide receiver slots, and I'm very pleased.

I went with LaShaul McCoy to pair with David Johnson. McCoy takes on the Jets in week one. The workload and production should be available to him. So I'm going to pair those two running backs. And Jason's at the turn now. I love this. So my first pick is definitely going to be A.J. Green. He is the number one on my board for week one against the Ravens. I think he's got a better matchup than most of the other guys. You know, you've got Jordy, but he's playing against Seattle. For my second pick, I'm going to zig here.

And I'm going to go with a quarterback I don't want to lose out on, which is Russell Wilson, Matt Harmon's. Russell Wilson. I think they're going to be in a shootout with Green Bay. And I think Russell Wilson's going to be able to put up a lot of fantasy points. Really happy with my third pick here. It's an easy one. I'm taking Antonio Brown against Cleveland to pair with David Johnson and Sean McCoy. Mike, you got a couple picks here. And luck I only need two more picks and this draft is done. So I'm taking an Andy Holloway special here because he gets to play the Colts in week one.

Todd Gurley is not my favorite player for the season. I have him down on my list. But I love him for week one. And then I'm going to round that out with Jason's MVP because he's playing on Thursday. And he's going to be great on top of that. That's Kareem Hunt. He gets to open the season against the Patriots. I'm going to pair Antonio Brown with Doug Baldwin in week one. Love the matchup against Green Bay. Russell Wilson just went off the board to Jason.

And I'm going to mitigate some of that upside that Jason has by drafting his wide receiver. Yeah, I was totally going to go Doug Baldwin there as well. I wanted to get DeVant to Freeman. In good news, I got DeVant to Freeman. You know, part of me here now is looking at possibly going with a tight end who's got the touchdown upside. I was thinking about, I was thinking maybe Jimmy Graham to pair.

But I'm actually going to go with Greg Olson, reach a little bit deeper. Yeah, I like that pick. But he's got a great matchup against San Francisco. All right. Lay of the land here. My running backs, LaShaq. David Johnson, wide receivers, Antonio Brown and Doug Baldwin. It's my final pick. And I'm going to take Matt Ryan going against the Chicago Bears to finish out my week one roster. Oof. I mean, so I mean, I got the, the, the, the goats are going up against good defenses. Rogers play Seattle.

Brady plays Kansas City. I'm going to Zig here. Oh. We've seen how bad Oakland's defense has been this preseason. I'm going to take the number two overall draft pick, Marcus Mariatu. Wow. I thought you might go Big Ben against Cleveland.

I thought about it, but then Jason's right. They're going to run the crap out of the ball. So Jason's team, look, a lot on the line this week. I do not want to eat eggplant, nor will I, because my team is going to obviously win. Jason, Russell Wilson, Lev, Bell, Devante Freeman, A.J. Green and Greg Olson. I've got Matt Ryan, David Johnson, LaShawn, Antonio, Brown, and Doug Baldwin. And Mike went with Marietta, Gurley, Hunt.

Jones and Evans. I think Mike has the most matchup-centric team, but it'll be very interesting. That's the beauty of this game on Playdraft. So you can check it out. If you want a free entry, you can go to Playdraft.com slash ballers. I cannot wait to watch you fellas eat just. Wait, are both losers? No, no. I was going to say there'll be.

Either one or two. I'm inferring that I'm winning every single week is what I'm really talking about. You're just saying through the whole year. Yes. You're feeding us terrible food. Get ready for dog food. Wait, wait, there is rules here. You have to order it on a menu. We're going to have two. We're going to actually have two lineups before week one of the NFL. So there could be one person eating twice. Eating twice.

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