Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Fantasy Impact of Coaching Changes, News & Mailbag

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Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. We are back again. It is Thursday, February 11th, 2016. It's a leap year this year, guys. So we get an extra day this month. You can do anything you want on that day. Wow. It's like the purge. I was just thinking of that, too. There are no rules, no laws. I'll be locked in my house. Oh, you're not going to go out?

I'm going out. I'm going out and I'm going to take care of some business. Going Persian. Welcome to this show. We've got a good one for you today. We're going to talk about all the coaching changes that have taken place already in the NFL landscape and give you kind of our fantasy twist. We're going to let you know how the coaching changes and now two people in the studio are doing the twist and neither of them are me. We're going to let you know what it's going to do, what it's going to impact for these offenses.

and the defenses and these teams that have seen head coaches turn over this year. So we're going to do that. We're going to go through the news and we're going to go into the mailbag, dive right in and answer some questions, got some keeper questions that we're going to get into. And so it's going to be a jam-packed, a great show here in February. You guys look super excited. Jason, you're wearing a Honey Badger shirt. Yeah, the Honey Badger don't care, man. Come on.

Yeah, you sound tough. Well done. Oh, no, I was just, I was pulling up some information for the quick question. Okay. Well, we'll get to that in just a minute, but before we do, I want to let everybody know that you can follow us on Twitter at the FFBallers. Follow us on the website. Submit questions to the show. We're going to be adding a lot of good stuff on there, and the website is the fantasyfootballers.com. You can check out our fantasy football community of listeners at jointhefoot.com, where we release an extra episode every week, including.

all off season and in the prep season, draft season, you can check us out on Facebook, Facebook.com slash the fantasy footballers, and we are on YouTube as well. In fact, the show after the show has been a big success so far. So if you don't know what that is, it's the best part. It's the show after the show. We leave the camera running for an extra five, ten minutes, and we talk about something that either came up on the show, we debate something, could be something in the world that is taking place. We don't really know.

That's the truth. It's footballers after dark. Right. We turn the lights off. It's premium. It's HBO. Yeah. And so that's only on YouTube. So you should go to YouTube, subscribe to our channel, and you'll get the show after the show, the HBO version. Oh. All right. So quick question for the day, guys. Do you believe? Simple. It's direct.

Do you believe in Frank Gore, who is now 33? 33. Do you believe in him in 2016? He had 967 yards in 2015. He said himself, they were the toughest 967 he has ever got. And so do we read into that because his body resisted him or because the team was what it was last year, which was a...

Just the kind of disaster on the offensive side with Andrew Luck's situation who wasn't playing well, then he goes out, then it's Hasselback. So what, do you believe in Frank Gore? It was also a disaster that they had nobody else, really. They brought Josh Robinson in the draft with his triangle-shaped body. And that did not work out because he was cut.

uh just a few weeks into the season for a fourth round draft pick to give up on a guy that early speaks volumes to what they really thought of him they brought in bradshaw who had some success but then went full of mod bradshaw got hurt again and i feel like frank gore had to carry more of a load than they really wanted or they thought would happen they just didn't have a particular of a good backup so

I fully expect them to add somebody. Now, Frank Gore, as a leader of a timeshare, if Andrew Luck can get back to a being a high scoring, leading a high scoring offense, then yes, I will buy into Frank Gore because touchdown opportunity will be there. Running lane should open up a little bit more if Andrew Luck is there and you actually have to be.

scared of him throwing the ball. So I will, but to me, let's project a round. I think Frank Gore would be like a sixth round pick off the top of my head. And there's no chance that he'd be a six for you? Yeah. Because there's no way he's a six, if he's the starting running back for the Colts in the actual fantasy. What was in my head, I'm saying they've added somebody in the draft. So you're putting him in that timeshare, free agency, maybe, uh,

Hard to pick a name out, but somebody comes in there and... If they go into next year and they've done nothing, then he's going to be a much higher. He'll still slip in value because of age and production. Like he has for the past five years. Right. So it's way, way, way, way too early on the mock drafts, but he's going right now in the seventh round, late seventh. Boo-ya! I still believe in Frank Gore.

It's difficult to believe that a guy who's 33, who has always been over four yards of carry and came in to his age 32 season and fell to 3.7 yards of carry is somehow going to be better. And I don't necessarily think he is going to be better. I don't think he's going to be better. We forget Frank Gore was an RB1. In standard scoring, he was the 12th running back this year. But he had to play against stacked boxes with no passing game.

When Andrew Luck comes, and I hope they address the offensive line in the draft, those things will help. I believe in Frank Gore, and I think he's going to be a value. He's going to be what Fred Jackson was two years ago, a guy that's just completely forgotten. Nobody wants him because of his age, and he's going to produce. And now you pretty much touched on everything that needs to be said. I would say you might get 900 out of him again next year, but he'll be in a place.

Maybe in the draft that is more reasonable. You might get 900 or you could get absolutely nothing. Oh. Sorry about that. Oh, okay. My final thought was that with running backs, we see it. When it's over for a running back, it's over. It's over immediately. Not with... Okay. It's very common for that too happened. It's done. They don't come back. They're done. So...

I don't think that Gore hit that. Right. But if he is getting there, then it's over. So essentially, you have the potential for cliff drop, and then you have no potential for great increase because of the age and the... Yes. Which is why he'll be in the seventh, and he'll be a great... Like, if you want to go zero RB, to me, you know, and grab someone in the seventh round as an RB that can be consistent, I like it. All right. News and notes from around the league.

All right, what do you want to start with, guys? Should we talk about Johnny Mansell? No, never. Briefly. Just give an update. It's just getting worse and worse. There's come the point now. We've talked about it in the studio privately where he's no longer worth any sort of risk for another team. In the beginning of the offseason, it was kind of like Mansell, RG3, do they end up in Dallas? Where do they go to be backups and have the potential to be a starter? It's starting to get to the point where, okay, maybe Manzell.

finds some backup opportunity someday. But right now, the news gets worse and worse and worse. Everyone knows the only place that Johnny Mansell needs to go. And that's not an NFL team. That's a rehab. That's the truth. Yeah. And so all these different stories coming out about him and the threats and things. I don't want to get into all of that. But the Browns knew things were going on throughout the year. And the ultimate thing right now is that he gets help because even his own father came out and said,

He won't live to be 24 if it's the current path that he's on now. All right, so DeMarcus Ware, a big part of the Super Bowl winning Broncos. Big part. Says he's not planning on retiring, so he'll be back is the plan. You know what was funny? I was thinking about this the other day for the rise of the Denver Broncos in the last few years. How lucky and beneficial were they for ridiculous free agent signings?

actually signed a Hall of Fame quarterback as a free agent. Then the Cowboys have screwed up their cap so badly. They have to cut DeMarcus Ware, who is one of the best defenders in the league, especially at that time. And they're like, oh yeah, sure, we'll pick you up too. I mean, it's like... The big problem with... Come on. Yeah, with Ware is that his cap number is...

monstrous for this next year. I believe. And so over $11 million. Yeah. And so this is when it would, you know, he would be one of those guys that. But can they even cut him? What, what's his dead money if they cut him? It's only like $1.6 million. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay. So there's, I think the way that that will work out is he would either find another team. They'll restructuring or they'll just restructure something if they want to keep him around. You have to keep him around. Yeah, that.

That D-Line, you keep that intact. You keep the defense attacked, and then you do whatever little things you can to just make sure you have an offense. So another question that has come up with the Lashaw-McCoy News. There are arrest warrants pending, or that's what's being reported. Certainly there's going to be a legal headache here. You don't know where that's going to shake out. There's video. Yeah, there's video. You can see it.

But now what people want to know is, well, will they just cut him loose? Well, it's not a good cut loose situation for McCoy. The likelihood is that he'll remain on the bills. They're not just going to cut him free. Depending on the severity of the situation, maybe something changes. But right now, his money's guaranteed, and there's not really a benefit to cutting him. To me, it'll be the situation. You hold him because it's the guaranteed. Then if he gets, if there's trouble, then you say, okay, you owe us.

this much money. You owe us millions of dollars now, Sean McCoy. So thank you. All right. The Minneapolis Star Tribunes, Matt Vinsel, does not expect Mike Wallace back with the Vikings. I didn't know he had ever shown up this year. So not a big surprise. One of the bigger fantasy disappointments of the season was Mike Wallace and his lack of...

contribution to that team in a lot of different ways. I had hopes for Mike Wallace. Teddy Bridgewater in his rookie year for a rookie had a good deep ball. And so bringing Mike Wallace in seemed like a good fit. That just never worked out. They're not a passing team. Well, they also, we had high hopes. Well, I had high hopes for Charles Johnson. And.

Neither Charles Johnson nor Mike Wallace, the two guys we actually talked about, did anything. Yeah, that's because we had high hopes for Teddy Bridgewater. Or I'm saying Stefan Diggs did what I thought Charles Johnson would do, and I assume he did what you thought Mike Wallace would do for four games. I was just going to make the exact point of does what Charles Johnson did emerging and then, I guess, climbing back into a cave, does that scare you with how that offense works and then Diggs is kind of...