Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - RB's 21-40, Chris Harris Interview, News, Mailbag

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Next week, we go to four shows a week because the football season is here. The draft season is certainly here. The fantasy drafts is. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Not the NFL draft season. That was a while back. Yeah. Correct. You didn't get drafted again. I know. This is like eight straight years. But...

You know, I do think that next year is going to be the one. You know what? You have to be a workout program the whole off-season. You can't just do this like... What? Well, I've heard that Jason's... The burst score of his mouth is off the charts. It is. It really is. And I'm thinking supplemental. I'm not thinking next year. Oh, I see. Yeah. Yeah, I think... Are you passing the personality interviews?

I think that might be the shortfall. Clearly the athleticism is there. Hey, hey, I got to let people know right at the top. We have an awesome show for you today. Chris Harris is here. It doesn't get much better than that. From Harris Football, formerly ESPN fame. We love Chris Harris. So we've got them on the show today. We're talking the top 20 running backs on Tuesday show. So today we're talking some of the...

20 through 40, some of the back half running backs. We got some news and notes. We've got mailbag today. It's a great show. Yeah. Back half running backs, also known as the picks that win leagues. That is accurate. I've got a very simple, quick question. Do you watch the league? The hit, the hilarious television show? Yes, the hilarious hit television show about fantasy football. The one that is at the league FXX on Twitter? That one. Oh. Do you guys watch that? I'm really curious why you're asking.

I'm going to let you break this, Mike. Foot Clan. We are halfway there. I don't know if halfway there, but... We have not come to them, but they have come to us. Yeah. Steve Ranazizi, Kevin himself, is going to be joining us next week on Tuesday's show. That is a way to kick off the regular season. Yeah. With Steve Ranazizi of the league on the show.

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All around us. Don't mention this first one. This is depressing news if you're a Cardinal fan or if you're a fantasy football fan. ESPN's, I don't know how to pronounce that name. Diana Marie. No, that's not hard. This one's from John Doe. Yes. The Cardinals have offered Chris Johnson a contrary, a one-year deal. Gross. Why is this happening? This is happening because of injury.

Ellington and David Johnson, rookie David Johnson, are dealing with injuries. David Johnson has a grade two hamstring injury, and Bruce Ariens is not happy with the depth there. This is very similar to what you're seeing in Cleveland with Isaiah Crowell and Duke Johnson and Terrence West, where they're considering bringing in another back. Atlanta is also dealing with the starters. Yeah.

Everyone's hamstrings. I don't know. You get a hamming. The worst thing is, these are all guys I wanted to see in preseason. I wanted to see David Johnson, or I want to see Duke Johnson, or I want to see Tevin Coleman. I hope it's just a motivational tactic. I'm going to say this right now. If Chris Johnson signs with the Cardinals, you can forget about David Johnson. I agree. For the entire season. I would disagree.

I don't think he sees the field if he's hurt. And then... And miss his training camp. Bruce Arrington. It will be much later than I anticipated, but he will be a second half guy. Yeah, could be second half, but definitely not a value. I would agree with that. Here's a bit of news for you. Mike Triplett, ESPN's Mike Triplett, reporting on the Saints, says he would not be surprised if Brandon Coleman emerges as the Saints number three wide receiver. Everyone loved Josh Hill because someone's got to replace...

someone's got to replace Jimmy Graham. Jimmy Graham, thank you. He's a name I should know. And he's pretty good. And so everybody hopped right over there. But Coleman here is the same physical type of specimen. And he's just a wide receiver, but he could move all around and play that role. So worth keeping your eye on. And Kenny Stills has gone as well. And Colston is, we also found out Colston took a huge pay cut to stay there. And we've talked about Colston. We love Colston. Where, I mean, I like him, but.

If Coleman is surging, he's a name that you need to pay attention to. I agree. In Swisham follow-up news, Garrett Hartley has been signed to a one-year contract with Pittsburgh. That is all I'm going to say about that. This was big-time news this week. Oh, man. Gino Smith punched in the face. By who, Andy?

I just want you to have to read the name. It's not in the blurb we put in the show doc, so I don't have to read his name. His name is Ike shall not be named. Ike something, and he got signed by the bills today after he was released by the jets. But the headline news is Gino Smith is gone. Ryan Fitzpatrick is there, and this is to me better fantasy news for Randem Marshall. Because Ryan Fitzpatrick, if anything, knows how to sling the ball around the field a little bit. It's magic. I'm not sure that...

Turnover differential is going to be much different. But this, the ball is going to Chris Ivory a lot. The defense is going to be the kind of rock of that team. But I like Brandon Marshall. I like Eric Decker. So do you think Rex Ryan just brought that, the third string guy in just so he could shake his hand and say thank you for punching Jets quarterback in the face? The guy who lost me in my jaw. Yeah. Maybe. Is it a reward. Eagles first round wide receiver Nelson Aguilar got all the first team reps.

at Josh Huff's spot on Tuesday. Worth noting and paying attention to because we've said that wide receiver, of course, committee like there's also a lot of really good reports about Jordan Matthews. I'm going to come on and say that even though I have not been the biggest Jordan Matthews guy. Jordan Matthews. He looks really good in camp. So, man, lots of news today. More Doug Martin news. I think Doug Martin is somebody I've been asked about more on radio shows than I could imagine.

Like, of all the guys, people are picking out Doug Martin because he represents a value in fantasy drafts. Tremendous value. And there are some reports that said they're excited he looks like 2012, Doug Martin. And this is Mike Mayock reporting this. So it's not just, that's nobody. That's good news, right? Because you would expect the team and the camp and even beat writers when they're a terrible team to be pumping people up. But Mike Mayock to say it. Doug Martin, this offseason, did what? What do you like to see at the running back? Oh, yeah.

What do I like to see? Oh, lost weight. Yeah. So, hey, he's got to be good. Texans camp. Alfred Blue is listed number one right now on the unofficial depth chart. We still don't know how it'll shake out. Preseason is going to tell us a lot. But Blue's the guy right now. I'll tell you something. There's one person in this room who watched Hard Knocks. You guys are failures. I cannot believe you're calling us out on that. The world needs to know this. Because we tried to watch Hard Knocks. Yeah, HBO go. Where are you at? Okay, we're calling out HBO.

Good, that's going to end well. What, shaking on giant corporations is a bad idea? You know what? We're fine. We got Nabisco on our side. We love HBO. All right, let's digress quickly. The Giants' initial preseason depth chart list, Rashad Jennings is the first team running back, and yet Shane Vereen took the most snaps, and yet Andre Johnson a week ago took the most first team snaps. Williams. I mean, Andre Williams. Andre Johnson is a wider receiver. Gross. So the summary is gross.

This is going to be a complete lotto ticket. I like Vereen because they just paid him. He's the most recently paid Benin. They paid Jennings a lot of money too, though. They did, but the thing that we pretty much know with Jennings is even though I believe he starts the year well and starts in first position.

I don't think he stays healthy, in which case Vareen will come into that role. But it is a mess there. It's one that I am right now avoiding. I do not doubt that someone who gets the right lottery ticket there will have found great value in the draft, but it's just two-thirds are going to get the wrong guy. And when the lottery is this mixed up, I want the cheapest ticket possible. So I'm going to take Hunter Williams.

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