Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Rookie Preview w/Matthew Freedman, News, Mailbag

You get the hammer that is Derek Henry, and I'm interested. How about Derek Henry second round to the Cowboys with that offensive line? I'm going up some big holes. I'm far more interested in that. What would you do if he went to Cleveland, but it was Hugh Jackman that was a coach as opposed to Hugh Jackson? Wolverine? Yeah, Wolverine himself. There's Adamantium advantages to that situation.

I don't know if you can actually share. Could Wolverine save Cleveland? This is the question I'm asking you. Wolverine could save everything. Okay. I'll just make it sure.

Ryan in Austin, Texas. I need help deciding on my last keeper so I can repeat my hashtag foot clan title next year. Well done, sir. He can keep Mike Evans in the ninth or Jordy Nelson in the 14th. Oh, no. Is this the Jordy Nelson hour? They picked them up late in the draft. That's what all of our listeners did because we probably told them to. That's wise. It was a wise move if you know your league rules. I would take Mike Evans in the ninth round. Thank you very much.

And I would take Jordy Nelson for the third time. I just don't think there is that big of a difference here. There's not that big of a difference between a ninth round and a 14th round. I give you that. I was literally wanting to pull up my specific rankings to see what the point differential was in my projections between those two guys to make sure that I am not wrong. So, Mike, who would you take? And I will tell you if those guys are far apart. Oh, man. That is brutal. I'm going to go. Obviously, it's a keeper league, guys.

A keeper league with Mike Evans. Okay, that's very... Then I would lean... If we're talking multiple years, Evans, if it's just one... Does he say the scoring system? If it's just one year, I might go to... Standard 12th. Okay, well... Evans, I'll go Evans. In standard, I have Jordy Nelson and Mike Evans. This is a cool thing you'll be able to see at our draft kit. I have them each with 189 points. They are tied in my rankings. But...

You do bring up a great point that this is a keeper league and year over year. I got him on my side finally. You're jacked for your point. I'm jacked because you guys have been against me the entire show. Yeah, I have no problem if you want to take Mike Evans. I would probably still take Jordy Nelson. So you've been against Jordy Nelson then using that logic. I just don't think he's as guaranteed. I'm not against him at all. I think the odds, I would put the odds in his favor to be great. But...

Yeah, them being in his favor does not mean that they're as high as Hopkins, Odebuckham Jr., or in this case, Mike Evans. That's fair. I think all three of those situations, you had extreme value with David Johnson in the two previous ones. So I take my extreme value, and I take my guarantee, and I put them in, you know, on my team, and I'm happy. Sure. Thomas in Las Vegas says he's in a 12-team PPR league. He traded Mike Evans and J. Cutler for Adrian Peterson and Marcus Mariotta. Okay, so I think they're asking who, oh, who got the better trade?

Oh, wait. He got his first and second 2016 round picks as well. Oh, my goodness. You did, my friend. That kind of puts it over the edge there. Well, it was probably over the edge to me anyway. I like Mario de Morton Cutler, and I like Peterson more than Evans, although it's a PPR league. No, not in a PPR dynasty. No, not in a dynasty. I think it's in your favor, with the first and second round picks. Yeah, first and second round picks makes it in your favor. It's close, I guess. Dynasty PPR, you got your rookie draft pick? No, I like it in your favor.

As long as those are decently high picks. So, are you on the fence? Yeah, well, because Evans, man, I love Evans and Dynasty. He's great. But what about Marriota? I was going to say, Marietta's great. I don't see, I like him. I just don't see him as a top three quarterback. I mean, I think he'll be a quarterback one for a decent amount of time. But I don't see.

it translating to you're like he's an elite he's erin rogers he's cam newton he doesn't have to be in this trade for it to be more beneficial for uh for him does it for thomas i just giving up a young wide receiver here here's what i like about it this is the way that i can look at it your team improved this next year okay and so it was trading for now to run after that championship

at the expense of your future, except you didn't completely do the expense of your future because of those first and second round picks. You got that back. So you're good this year. You're good in the future. I like it for you. Yeah, I agree. All right. So let's go to Ricardo and Sacramento here. He's stuck between choosing his keeper. He has it narrowed down to Alan Robinson and Dionne Lewis. He has some studs, but he could probably get them for the same high dollar amount as prior years. Both are pretty cheap. Alan Robinson, five bucks for Deion Lewis for zero.

The Tom Brady News makes this an easy call to me. I worry about Dionne Lewis without Tom Brady there. He is the pass catching back, so I'm going to go. Not that Dionne Lewis is not that I'm not going to draft him or I think he's going to be bad by any means, but if it was a close call beforehand, I'm going to go with Alan Rob. Do you have any leanings, any thoughts toward maybe somehow?

The Brady suspension helps Lewis. Is Lewis a safety valve who's just going to get peppered with targets from Garapolo? Far too speculative to make fantasy decisions on either direction with Dionne Lewis. It pays no mind for me in this situation considering the Brady suspension at all. It's Alan Robinson regardless. I have no concern. I'm just talking general for Lewis. But yeah, with Lewis put it this way. Are you...

So the news came out today that Brady is going to lose four games. We're going to go back and adjust Brady, adjust our stats on guys. If you were to adjust Dionne Lewis, are you leaving him completely the same? I'm leaving him 100% the same. Okay. I will probably take him out. I will not affect him at all. I mean, we saw, who am I thinking of, Javoris Allen with 13 targets to a backup quarterback in Baltimore. I'm not going to, I don't have enough data to speculate on that. I know it's not good for the Patriots as a whole necessarily.

But for Lewis, who's coming off an injury and all these other variables, I'm just leaving it alone for now. So that's just my take. That's my take. Either way, I'm taking Robinson in that situation. All right. So Luke in North Augusta said 32-team Dynasty Team Dynasty League. Not every day you run into those, but you do hear about it. That's like the reality sports online type of stuff. Should he trade his 101? Okay. Which is going to be Ezekiel Elliott. Yeah. His 110.

And a 2017 first rounder for Todd Gurley right now. And right now his backs are Langford in Hyde. Absolutely not. So that's easy. That's 100% no for me. Hmm. That is not 100% no. It's too much. It's too much for me. I'm a no. I do think because it is a full PPR, Todd Gurley is not necessarily a pass catching back where Ezekiel Elliott could be. So yeah, let's not do it, Luke. Yeah.

All right, so that does it for today's show. I want everyone who is listening to pay attention to this. If you want to hear some predictions about the draft, you're going to want to get on to the podcast early on Thursday because we're going to have that up. It'll be up very early. You'll have it for your commute on Thursday, but make sure you listen that day because you'll hear all the predictions. Obviously, I'm going to get most of them right. Jason will get a couple accidentally right, and Mike will get very few, correct.

But last year when we did this, we talked a lot about David Johnson and certain players that we really liked. So I think it'll be a fun. The energy for the show on Thursday is going to be incredible because we will be just moments, seconds from the draft. Actually screaming. The whole show. The whole show. I love the draft. I'm so excited. Mike always comes up with something fun for the draft. Just wait for the, maybe this will be a nice surprise intro like we had last year.

We'll see. Probably not. But we've got a good Thursday show for you. Make sure you stay tuned for the show after the show. After we're done here, that is over on YouTube. Follow us on Twitter at the FF ballers. Check out the draft kit. Ultimate draft kit.com. We just released it and you can save some money before June 1st if you want to grab it. You know, it's really pretty cheap compared to other draft kits to get out there. And we have a lot more content in it. So I think you'll really enjoy that. And that does it for the show.

That it does. You all right, Jason? I'm just gearing up for the draft. You're coming down with the sickness? Down with the sickness. Nope. He sounds just like him. Goodbye. For listening to another edition of the Fantasy Footballers podcast, don't forget to visit us on the web at www.thefantasyfootballers.com and follow us on Twitter at theFF ballers.

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