Fantasy Football 2017 - Ballers LIVE! - Bold Predictions + Fantasy Stories

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I can get behind. Oh, yeah? Well, think about it. I mean, this was one of my guys. You're still in my guy. All right. I have a quarterback here. And I got this quarterback sneaking up into the top three. He's new on the scene. Well, newish. That's Dak Prescott, quarterback. Yeah. See, I knew there'd be cowboy fans here. That's all right. But Mike. Yes. Yes, boys. Yes. But Mike, don't you think that he's too young and?

The Zeke being out hurts him? Well, here's the thing, voice of public opinion. I have him going for a Blake Bortles, a Derek Carr touchdown jump. Derek Carr, rookie to sophomore year, plus 11 touchdowns, passing touchdowns. Blake Bortles, plus 24. Did you know that that Dak Prescott is tied for the second most rookie passing touchdowns since 2000?

I mean, with Andrew Luck. He threw the same amount of passing touchdown as Andrew Luck, who everyone has already put into the Hall of Fame. And you have Dak Prescott, who is a dual threat. He runs them in and with design runs. Not Cam Newton. The play is broken down, so I'm just going to muscle it in. We designed it, and I just slip in unscathed. So I've got Dak Prescott jumping up into the 30s. I got Des Bryant easily covering some double-digit. You got Des everywhere. Because that's what he, because he's the man.

He is good. People have forgotten how good he is. And they are, oh, you can get, just Brian got hurt. Grumpy people. Stop it. Just stop it. Because he is amazing. So I've got my bold, hot take care is. Top three is bold. Jumping into the top three. He keeps those interception totals down in the single digits. Exactly. And here's the theory with Zeke. And the secondaries got worse. The team has to put more on the shoulders, the very sculpted.

Broad shoulders of Jack Prescott. He's a man. I see how you build your teams now. This is good. Broad shoulders. Hey, a win. Nice haircuts. Wins and Dicker. Tyler Riper. Yeah. I got it. Hey. Now, listen, there is a blank spot in our show, Doc, right here. Yeah. And I'm afraid. Yeah, I didn't want to put this one in there. Because Jason's talking, and there's a blank spot in the top. Yeah. I'm going a little wild. Let me just see this. Wild card. Wild card. Hey, uh.

Underneath your seats, you will find a barf bag. You will need it for this bold prediction people. I have no doubt. And I hope somebody checked, but there is no barf bag under you. He did. That guy checked. He was hoping for a barf bag and didn't get it. We let him down by not giving a barf bag. Only here at Ballers Live. Okay, so here's a deal. I'm going to say a name, and you guys can boo. Okay. But I'm calling this guy.

as a top five tight end, and that's Kobe. Kobe Fleener. Yeah, bring it off. I'll play the... You stay out of this, Jay Gris. Look, Kobe Fleener, I know. He let everybody down last year because you had to draft him so high. Just last year? And every year. But his whole career...

Here's the thing about Kobe Fleener that I like. He is free. If you want to not draft the tight end at all, not draft the defense. You're better off. Just not drafting one than drafting Kobe Fleer. You can go right now. When you get home, you can go to your waiver wire and you can pick up Kobe Fleener. Now, a lot of people are surprised. Did you draft him last night? I did not because Martell's Bennett was there very late. I'm not saying, here's the thing.

With Kobe Fleener, last season, his first season with the Saints, keep that in mind, his first season with the Saints, he finished as a top 12 tight end. I mean, he finished as a tight end won last year in a year that everybody is complaining about saying that he was a bad year for tight ends. Yeah, because the thing is, is he didn't get as many targets as we thought he would get. But now Brandon Cooks.

is gone. To start the year, you have Willie Sneed gone for the first three games. Mike, you brought up on, you know, this morning show or yesterday show. I did, regretfully. The fact that... What day is it again?

The fact that when Willie Sneed missed a game last season, they relied on Kobe Fleener to the tune of 7 for 109 and a touchdown. You also have history of, you know, tight ends taking a year to come to fruition with the New Orleans Saints offense. Obviously, you know, Ben Watson, when he stepped up, he stepped up in a big way. And then you have Jimmy Graham, who went from his first to second year, added...

Not total, but added 954 yards to his total and added six touchdowns and added over 100 targets. So I think that this year, Kobe Pleaner could be more involved. And if he is more involved, I'm saying he's got the potential to finish the top five first. It's neat hearing you make an argument for it. It's fun to watch. Yeah, there you go. Hey, if you're right, though, if you're right. Glory. Look at all these people that are going to see it. I will.

I will mock you all. Then you're just mocking people with Kobe Fleener, and how exciting is that? Yeah, it's very exciting for me. All right, those were our bold predictions for 2017, which means we're going to have the Ballers Live mailbag drop here in a minute. So.

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All right, who's ready for the mailbag? Let's do it. Mailbag. Yeah. We did it, America. Amazing. We did it. We did it. We did it. Well done. All right. Hey, we're going live. Sure, indeed. Mailbag right now, right here. Come up. Say your name. Say your question. It'll be about the show, the history of the show. We love answering those questions. This guy's got a note. Oh, man. He brought his whole roster. I've seen this guy on Twitter. I've seen him on Twitter.

It's a present for me. Do I save this or do I open this? Open it up, man. Open it up. All right. You can also raise that microphone. More questions like this. Bro, you've been served. If you had been served in this way. Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. Thank you. Thank you, sir. The unverified checkmarked. Self-esteem. Read the back. Read the back. Read the back. Read the back.

FF Hitman, too cool to be verified. Too cool. You are definitely too cool. That is definitely the only reason. Yeah. All right. You have a question for the Hitman as well? Thank you. I do. Recently, Philip Dorset just got traded. Yeah. Give me a reason why I shouldn't buy in. Oh, God. To Philip Dorset? Malcolm Mitchell, Amir Poole. No, but here's the thing. Here's why you don't buy in. Brandon Lloyd.

So start going through the list of guys who have gone to the Patriots and flamed out. Here's the thing. Philip Dorset will catch a couple touchdowns this year. No doubt. I actually think this move, if you want my perspective on, it is Chris Hogan that benefits from this. Because with Amandola, or I'm sorry, with Edelman's injury, and Amandola unable to play full allotment of snaps without getting hurt. Like that's just his career arc. You're going to see them want Hogan in the slot. And you can only do that with another threat on the outside. You bring Indorset.

And you have Malcolm Mitchell's kind of banged up right now. I think that's the benefit that you see. So for me, I think it comes down to you just add to this giant pool of hard-to-predict fantasy-wide receivers in New England. I look at it from the lens of who else does it benefit? Because Philip Dorset is... I mean, he did have Andrew Luck for a while. Right. And he couldn't do anything. My problem with Philip Dorset is I don't think he's very good. I don't think he's a great separator.

I don't think he's got... He's really fast. I will grant you that. He is very, very fast. And that's it. I think the biggest beneficiary here, once Andrew Luck comes back, is Kamar Aiken in the vacancy. Because we've seen Philip Dorset have opportunities and be used and have the snap percentage. And he failed. He couldn't do anything with it with Andrew Luck. I think Kamar Aiken could in that role. All right.

Next question. Well, hi. Hello. Into the microphone. So kind of two part real quick. Round 10, should I pick up Doug Morgan. Yeah, oh yeah. Round 10, pick up Doug Morgan. Yeah, give him a kiss. Congratulations. Are you on the clock right now? They thought they were just sneaky. You're on the clock right now. They know, they'd know where I'm at. I'm like, you guys know, I'm here. They made the mistake. They did. You're on a live fantasy show. They did. Second part, I'm excited for Jacoby Preset. Okay. When is he going to become fantasy?

When? When do you think he's going to be coming into? If Andrew Luck goes on IR, but he's probably still not relevant. Yeah, I don't think so. I think this is a depth play. I believe that he will stay behind Scott Tolzine. Sad day. For a game, for two. I think they brought him in. I mean, Tolzing's been bad. I think he's going to be real bad in the first two weeks. They're going to get beat up in week one. They're going to get beat up in Arizona. And if luck isn't back, but fantasy relevance is a different story.

Starting in fantasy relevance. It's hard to expect a guy who just came to this team to have any fantasy relevance. He had some. In the one game he started last year for the Patriots, but I agree. The only way we really see him is if Andrew Luck misses a long amount of games. Otherwise, they'll just ride it out with Tolzee. Did you get Doug Martin? There goes Doug Martin. Thank you guys so much. Hey. I'm live on the show. Next question.

My question is directed at Mike. I was sitting over there and I was looking at his neck tattoo. Did you see this? I'm not even sure if it's Mike, but... Right, it's hard to know. It is now. Could be anybody. I saw his tattoos going into his beard a little bit. So was there a time that you didn't have a beard or did they just tattooed under the beard? He was born with a beard. That's what I thought. The beard, the story behind the beard was, I mean, I've always had, you know, facial hair of some kind. And then I joined.

a band for a time period was actually my father-in-law and we were a bunch of hillbillies and we would perform classic rock songs like hillbillies would play them and we all had large beards and then I grew it out and I went oh hey look I can grow a beard so

Let's just keep it. If you can, you probably should. Right. And here we are. Razor is probably not strong enough at this point. No, no, it's like Superman. If I pull a hair out, I can have two giant weights suspended in a museum. All right. Thanks, guys. Next question. Hey, guys. What's up? So Ty Montgomery was on your MVP show last week. And I was just wondering how to...

Well, do you think that Jamal Williams is going to probably take the roll over? I have a lot of people on my draft team saying, oh, why would you pick Ty Montgomery in the second? I was just like, they're giving you grief? Yeah. Yeah, they didn't watch the games. I mean, Ty Montgomery is on today, this morning show, he was my rising star for this week. I've been rising on him for the better part of three weeks. Mike's been on that train for a long time. He just, just watch, just watch him in preseason. Not only does he know the offense, not only can he catch the ball.