Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Biggest Surprise, Fantasy Questions, News

Duke or Woodhead. Duke or Woodhead to get a good running back. I would do that because then you still have the other Moncrief or Decker to plug into that third spot. Yeah, except for when I try to do stuff like that, people are like, no, someone told me not to do that on a podcast. And it was me. All right. Tony Romo does Bryant question from Josh in Seattle. Guys, I just had my draft on Saturday morning. I picked up Des and got Terrence Williams late.

An hour after the draft, the Romo news came out. Does the news about Romo change how you feel about Bryant and Williams? And if so, what should I do with them? Well, first, this is why we draft as late as possible and why our League of Record draft is... That's going pretty late, though. Oh, I... No, I understand. And I think I'm just giving the example of why we try. Not everybody can do that. We've drafted earlier because people are out of town and can't do stuff and, you know, it's out of your control. That being said...

The guy that took the biggest hit for me is Terrence Williams. Yeah, I would drop him. I would drop him. Yeah. There's probably a better flyer on your waiver wire than Terrence Williams at this point. Yeah, Des is kind of, you know, in another echelon where he's just going to be fed whether they want to or not. Yeah. At this point, if you have Des Bryant, you're wondering what to do. You do nothing because there's no way you're going to get enough value for who he is. So you're not going to, I think if you trade him right now, you're making a mistake.

And he's still going to be good, but he's not going to be as good as probably where you drafted him if you drafted him before the news. There's nothing you can do, though. I feel the need to pause and talk about Dak Prescott for a minute. Because some of the feedback that we got about our comments on Dak Prescott, as they contrasted with, let's say, Melvin Gordon, right? Both of them have had like a good preseason and people maybe perceive, well, but you don't like Dak Prescott, but you like Melvin Gordon.

I want to explain for a second. Sure. Dak Prescott has been nothing short of impressive. I mean, there aren't things to say about him in the preseason other than he's been very impressive. What you have to understand is that Dad Prescott, unlike Melvin Gordon, Dak Prescott's a rookie quarterback in the NFL, and he's playing in a vanilla system as he acclimates to the offense, and he wasn't expected to be a starter, and he was drafted in the fourth round, and he's going to have opportunities, and I think he will succeed.

Third round, I believe. It's fourth. He succeeded. Prescott is a fourth round. He did succeed, and he will succeed. But he will not succeed to the level of Tony Romo. They will not put as much on his plate as they would a guy like Romo. And I'm not saying he cannot become something special. I'm saying, let's be realistic about this. A guy does not walk into the NFL, whether you're Andrew Luck or a first round guy. Or Peyton Manning.

or you're a fourth round guy, you don't get to walk in and have things handed to you. People will adjust, put pressure on them in different ways, and all I'm saying is that it is not, some people wanted to just translate, well, Tony's looked much worse than Dak in the preseason, so Dak's going to just walk in, and you know what, if he does, I'm going to be blown away, because that doesn't happen in the NFL very often. You're going to have games you struggle, and what's going to happen to the Cowboys, if you had to define everything.

Let's say DAC performs up to snuff. He's going to have off games, and those off games are different than what Romo would have had, and so it's going to kill you some weeks. That's my take on it. And just wait until there's tape. These teams are not game planning to play against Dak Prescott in the preseason. They're not even game planning, much less against him. They're going to start. These are professional coaches who are going to break down tape and figure out where Dak Prescott struggles, and they will take advantage of it. I'm with Andy that. I think there's going to be.

There's going to be some good stuff. There'll be good stuff for Prescott, but he's going to have games where he just takes a beating. Yeah. And it's just an interesting situation to even be here because if you didn't have his name's escaping me, the guy that broke his ankle, they're back up last year. Kellem Moore. If he doesn't break his ankle, Prescott probably doesn't get these type of opportunities. And, you know, it's good for Dallas that they have a guy that they can groom.

But anyway, I just wanted to cover that. There was a voicemail question that came in. I'm going to summarize it for you guys. It was too long to play on the air. But basically, he was insulting his commissioner because he found out after the draft that it was a two-quarterback league. What? What? So, look, yeah, those are that. Wait, what? That's the hand he's been dealt. Bush League. Yeah. I'll say this. Check your league scoring format. Like, what do you?

Yeah, well. Unless this commissioner right before the draft changed everything, it didn't tell people. That's a good point. It's fair. But here's his situation. He found out after the draft. So his two quarterbacks are Andy Dalton and Dak Prescott right now. That being said, we just talked about Prescott. Should he drop Dak Prescott for Alex Smith or Ryan Fitzpatrick? Yes.

Do wait, so Alex Smith and Fitzpatrick are on their own waiver wire. Do the other people in this league know it's a two-quarterback league? Yeah, because I know. I know. I'd pick both those guys up. I would pick both of them up. Yeah, it's a two-quarterback. You want to have three on your roster. And if I had those three, I'd be fine. Yeah, I would too. Dalton, Smith, and Fitzpatrick, you could luck into being just fine in a two-quarterback league. You probably drafted great now that these three are here. I was just going to say the fact that you pretty much only had Dalton.

and got Prescott probably with your last pick or picked them up off of waivers already means that your team is probably stacked around your quarterback. Yeah, grab them both immediately. I agree. All right. Mdog Millionaire in Portland, Maine says based on matchups through the first four weeks of the season, who is the best option as a late round quarterback to pair with Tom Brady. Ooh. One of the guys that I'll bring up, and you can look, Mike, and see if you can pick out some guys.

I'm going to bring up Matthew Stafford to start the year. He has a very good first week matchup with the Colts defense. I like that matchup compared to guys like Cousin starts against the tougher defense. I think the Steelers. I like Stafford as a late round option. He's one of those guys that in some drafts is falling all the way to the back. That would be one that I'd pick out. I think Alex Smith can be that guy. Now, you weren't on the show yesterday, Mike, but I came out and I said it. The team that I'm most impressed with,

on preseason tape is the Kansas City Chiefs. Yeah, they've been very, they've been excellent. And we know the ceiling and the problems with Alex Smith, but he does run the ball a little bit. He has weapons with Kelsey, Macklin. Conley looks good to me. Charles is back. I think he could be a good guy to pair with him, and he'd be free. Here's a guy out there. You don't even have to draft him. I'll throw out there, Derek Carr. Derek Carr for the first, here's his first four weeks. He opens with the New Orleans Saints. All right. That's delightful. Then the Atlanta Falcons.

That's pretty good. Tennessee Titans, sign me up. Baltimore. I think those four teams in the first four weeks you don't have are at least good matchups plus matchups from last year. If they play the way they played last year, he should get off to a hot start. What are the first two? New Orleans, Atlanta, Tennessee, Baltimore. And the way I would be handling the situation is I'm just looking at those first two games.

um for like car is perfect because his the four game schedule sounds great right now we know that things could turn around very quickly in the NFL uh but as long as his first couple games look solid that's where I'll start and then if I have to stream the the next two then so be it and and really Philip Rivers Philip Rivers to me I mean he he has a great beginning his week one not so hot against Kansas City but that's just a we always say in this in the

on this podcast that when you draft a late quarterback, your hope is to have them for the season. And there's only upside there, even if you draft them with Tom Brady. If you can get Philip Rivers, you know, if he drops late and you compare him with Tom Brady, great. Trade one of them if they're doing, if they're both great later on. All right, let's go ahead and jump into another voicemail question. Hi, this is Rick from Rochester, New York, and I already had my fantasy draft. In fact, I drafted Dionne Lewis the day.

before it was announced that he was going to be on the Pupp list for the first six weeks. So my question to you is, should I drop him and pick up someone with the likes of James White when I have David Johnson, Jamal Lewis, Justin Forset, and Charles. Charles Sims on my roster, or should I just hold on to Dionne?

and wait until he comes back and see if he can give me a boost for the second half of the year. Thanks a lot. I appreciate it. Well, first thing you do is you cut Jamal Lewis. Right. He was really, really good. Yeah, that was a while ago. He must admit Jamal Charles. This guy is having a rough day. I'm going to give him a pass. Look, here's all we need to discuss. Do you drop Lewis for James White if you have Lewis right now? If that's the choice you have, do it. Yes, you do. I obviously assume he doesn't have an IR.

If you're in like a standard five bench league, holding Dionne Lewis for that long for nothing. He's got the cable guy as well. Yeah, that's tough. Maybe it's six. Maybe it's 10. Yeah, and then you're a running back to come back and get volume to be important. Yeah. It's just really difficult. It sucks. It sucks for Dion. Wide receiver question from Thomas and Jasper, Georgia. I'm in a standard three wide receiver league. How do you feel about drafting two wide outs from the same team like Marshall and Decker? What do you think? Don't like it.

I don't usually like it because Marshall and Decker were fine if you started them every single week last year. But every single week, if I had that choice to make, I would have a very difficult time plugging them in. I just don't want to assume that I get one team's offensive output and it's got to go to my guys. I just don't like that. Yeah, you know for sure that they cannot score at the same exact time. Although I feel like I've talked about this before. I think we made that joke. Did you see the play with, I think it was Prescott.

who was trying to hand the ball off. He was trying to do a read option. Didn't want to let go. Yeah. And I think it was Alf was just holding on to it. I was like, my dream. My dream. Yeah. Simultaneous possession. Two touchdowns on one play. Are there any? You know, they could pitch it. They could pitch it to Brandon Marr so he could throw it to Decker. Yeah. Are there any wide receiver pairs that you would want? I mean, this is a good option, right? One of the best.

Last year, these guys and Alan Robinson, Alan Hearns come to mind. But are there any pairs in the league that you would say, I want both of them on my roster? On my roster, yeah, I'm fine with them on my roster. I, you know, I'm trying to think of what I want to roll them both out there every week together. I don't know. I mean, I think Jordi and Cobb are the two that I would probably say I'd be okay in a three wide receiver league, 12 team, 14 team league, just throwing them both out there. I'm not going to care. That's fine. What about?

like Fitzgerald and Floyd. Probably not. Probably not. I just, I don't know. Normally when you're in a, when you're in a draft, wherever the guy is that you like, I was just going to say. There's someone else. Vincent Jackson and Mike Evans. You know, most time when you're in a draft and you're picking a guy, you're picking between two or three very evenly static guys. If one of them shares the team with your guy, I would go another direction. All right.

draft pick trade from Zach in Cleveland. He has the number three overall pick. He just received a trade where he would get the 11th pick and the 29th for his third. So he'd give up the third and he'd get the 11th and the 29th. Do you risk missing out on Julio or OBJ to get depth? Do you risk, you're not risking. You're giving him away. Yeah. And I do not. I don't either. I don't think the 29th player off the board is going to be worth.

giving up that positional advantage that, you know, there's only five or six guys in the league that are those true, absolute elite difference makers. Those guys are usually on playoff teams. I'm keeping Julio or ODB here. And again, I'll remind people the best way to mentally think about trades like this is just pick a guy in the 11th and 29th in your mind right now and decide whether you would take that trade for Julio Jones. You know, most of the time,

If you listen to our tips and tricks show, we talked about the guy getting the one, the single player, not the double, is oftentimes the winner of those trades because you also afford yourself another waiver wire spot and you have, you know, the better, more talented player, the better contributor. Could you luck into, okay, you get Mike Evans at number 11 and he ends up a top three guy and then the 29th pick, you get Sammy Watkins and he's great. You could, but now you've got variables at two.

with two players where you have none with Julio or OBJ. So, man, I will say this, though. Matt Ryan is the restrictor of Julio Jones. I just looked so bad. He just, he looks like. Can you believe he threw another red zone interception? I thought like, okay, we're done with last year. Yes, I can. I mean, I feel like as time goes by, he looks less and less like a championship winning quarterback and more and more like a.

he's got the deer in the headlights or something. Like, I don't know. This system doesn't seem to compliment him. And I'm going to... He's Benjamin buttoned. You know, he came into the league real good. And he's just gotten more like a rookie as time has gone out. Oh, yeah. You know, it's... Remember we talk combine expectations? When you come in as a rookie, your expectations are so low. Look at Dak Prescott. He's the Super Bowl champ now. But if in three years, Doc Prescott looks like he does now... Yep, no good. That's not good. So, uh...