AFC East Breakdown, Handcuffs, Doppler Effect

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To the fantasy footballers podcast. Coming to you from pristineauction.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Be feeding a few. I feel like our introduction, he was, he's really wanting to be like our intro guy. Yeah. He was really punching it. You know what I mean? He was stepping on the pedal.

I liked most of it. The part that was weird was him. He actually was doing 360s while talking. Because that's why the sound was in now. Yeah. That was pretty nice, though. He was pretty nice. He's also a bit of a scientist. He wanted to, he wanted everyone to experience the Doppler effect firsthand. What is that? The Doppler effect? Yeah, what is the Doppler effect? That's when you're on. Really? Yep. I didn't know that. I don't know if you're right.

I have no idea whether that's correct. Go ahead and check it out. I thought it had something to do with weather. Yeah. Well, welcome in Tuesday, July 9th, the Fantasy Footballers podcast, Andy Mike and Jason back again. You can follow Mike. He has mostly science takes on Twitter. Mostly. At FF Hitman. Jason is at Jason FFL. I'm at Andy Holloway. The show is at the FF Ballers. And we've got a great show today. We are getting into the divisional previews.

If you're just coming back to fantasy football, congratulations. We've got you taken care of. We do. We've been working all year long. But you can come to the table now in July and get all caught up. Yeah, you get to reap the benefits. The fruits of our labor are for you. Welcome. Freeloaders. Free Loader. But we are in the AFC East on today's show. We have the divisional breakdowns.

And a couple of things to get into before we jump into the AFCEs. First of all, this Thursday, so this is the last show we have until it's showtime, right? Thursday, San Francisco, Ballerslive.com. Oh, I see what you mean. We have a live show at the Independent in San Francisco. We also have a giveaway right now. You can win a signed Patrick Mahomes jersey.

who very well, Patrick Mahomes, might win the Athlete of the Year ESP. Ooh. And Mike will be there. I will be. That was an excellent professional segue, Andy. That's right. Look, I'm going to be at the SB's. I'm not even nominated for Athlete of the Year, much less.

Wait, you didn't get your nomination. I got nothing. I am. Yeah, Jason, I got my nomination. Athlete of the year. I'm up for handsomest talking man of the year. That's not a thing. It will be when I show up. So, Mike will actually be at the espies ahead of the show in San Francisco. Yes. So he will be sharing that experience with all of you. Yeah, I'll be live tweeting, live on our main account, right? Totally, bro. Find it.

Follow all of it on Instagram. But yes, the signed Pat Mahomes jersey, footclang giveaway.com, and a bunch of ways you can enter to win that. So we want to thank pristine auction for their help on that giveaway. Here's your quick question of the day. Who is the most valuable running back handcuff for 2019? Do we really have more than one answer for this question? No, we do not. At least in my case, I saw Jason's answer.

It's the only answer. It's not the only. Look, people will bring up other names. For most valuable, it's the only answer. And that is? That is Daryl Henderson, rookie running back for the Los Angeles Rams because, look, we saw what C.J. Anderson was able to do, an old busted version of C.J. Anderson. Thank you. In that scheme, you know, behind that line in replacement of Todd Gurley, you already have the situation where.

Todd Gurley's probably being dialed back. Maybe Malcolm Brown picks up some slack, Darrell Henderson. But you also have the situation of week two. You could have Todd Gurley's knee swell up and say, I don't know how we're going to fix this thing. He needs to take six months off. And Darrell Henderson, we traded up for you for a reason. You're in. First of all, he's really good. Yeah. He looked great in college. All three of us were big fans of his film.

Has the draft capital, has the offense, the coach, everything is there, except for the fact that the guy in front of him is one of the best running backs of football. So as a hand, as a hand, that Vegas has the odds right now on offensive rookie of the year. Kyla Murray leads the way. Dwayne Haskins is second. Daryl Henderson is at 30 to 1.

to be offensive player of the year. All right. It is better than Nikiel Harry's odds. It is slightly behind David Montgomery's odds. Is Jacobs on that list? I don't have Jacobs in front of me. Is David Mopportunity on that list? Did they spell his name right? No, they spelled it Montgomery. Weird. So they haven't updated yet, their database. But here's the thing. They need a spell check. That's pretty good for a guy that's supposed to be a handcuff. Yes. To be beating out Nikiel Harry.

to be at the same level of a guy in David Montgomery that should start. He should have every opportunity to win that award. But that's why Darrell Henderson's being drafted in what the seventh, eighth round. Are you taking him where he's being drafted right now? Because I'm not. Sometimes I do. I was going to say that makes it the more difficult question because if the handcuff becomes, it's like the Tevin Coleman, Devonta Freeman from years past where Coleman is just like so high that you're like,

If I take him, I need to play him. But if I play him, he's not the starter. Maybe the reason that I'm not drafting him is because I'm also not drafting Todd Gurley. And I feel like the person who is reaching on Darrell Henderson to grab him a little bit earlier is the one saying, I took Gurley. He's worth it at that discounted second round price. If I lock up, you know, that backfield and say, I'm just taking Los Angeles Rams backfield. I believe in it.

Yeah, it'll be interesting. Mike, you have another name you want to bring up. Just to speak to Darrell Henderson, I'm in the midst of a mock draft, an industry mock draft, and I ended up getting Patrick Mahomes in the fifth round. Now, once again, we normally don't draft quarterbacks early, but this was a chance. Let's see what happens if I'm drafting against other industry pros who spend other time on this.

It's the fifth round. I mean, I imagine that everyone was, everyone in this draft was starting to get a little sweaty about pulling the trigger on Patrick Mahomes, and I was the one to do it. So that left me with a running back hole because I started running back, running back, and then I was filling in the rest, wasn't expecting it to, expecting to get a quarterback. So I did take Daryl Henderson in that draft because I needed, I needed someone with real upside.

at the running back position at that point. I didn't want, I just, I didn't want depth per se. I wanted someone who could explode and be a starter. In high stakes leagues right now, Daryl Henderson is going around Alshon Jeffrey, Evan Engram, Rashad Penny, Robbie Anderson, Dante Pettis, 70th overall. You play to win. Because if, if Darrell Henderson hits, he's a league winner. Yes, exactly. I like him. I just like him as a player. If it was someone I didn't believe in, it would make it.

I'd be less comfortable. Now, he could be a trap because Malcolm Brown could have way more work than we want. Sure. Because that's what happens in the NFL. Trust goes a long way when it comes to starting a player. Which is a big reason why we usually say as far as our handcuff philosophy is to not draft handcuffs. Handcuffs are very valuable later in the year, guys that you pick up off of waivers. But in the draft, you're going to end up going into week one.

Unless that guy happened to get injured that week and you're just the luckiest drafter ever, you're going into week one where you're going to need to make some drops. And, you know, especially for a guy you drafted early. You can't drop him. You can't drop him. You spent too much capital on him. And so, yeah, usually I don't like drafting handcuffs unless they have standalone value. Like I believe Latavius Murray can be a flex.

type player who will get a bump up if Camara were to go down. You would think Henderson has standalone value of some kind on the NFL's best offense. If you doubt Gurley, someone has to have standalone value behind Gurley. What's crazy is if we hadn't seen the C.J. Anderson, like you referenced it as a point of like, hey, man, somebody can do something in this offense that's not named Todd Gurley. But if Malcolm Brown had been healthy, maybe we would be clued in as to whether Brown would actually be the handcuff. Right. All right.

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Quick pieces of news. Number one, Delaney Walker does not know if he will open camp up on the active PUP list. Camp is coming quickly. Yes. So watch out for that if you're looking at some of that. You know, we've talked about Delaney Walker and Greg Olson late round kind of Tyler Iford, ignored tight ends. If he starts on the pup, I'm not, I'm less excited than I even was. Well, you're saying if he starts the season on the pup, obviously you're less excited. But I mean, I don't.

think people, I had not been under the mindset that he would be ready to go fully healed by the start of training camp. It would have, it would help. Well, sure. I would have liked it better if he'd never hurt that darn ankle. Yeah, Ravens tied in Mark Andrews. It's coming through. Can I hit it? Some hype could be a featured receiving target according to the team's website. I hate.

that I hate the hype because I was such a Mark Andrews fan. I drafted him. I like him. I really believe him. He's in our ultimate draft kit. He has been for months as a just a sleeper, tight-end monster. Early in the off season, he was one of the guys I brought some attention to like, hey, look, I believe on our Explain Yourself episode. I was very highly ranked on him, and I hate hating it because when I hear that news, the only reason you hear it. I'm not happy. Yeah. I'm upset because I've.

stupidly traded Andy this is this is why you know that we care about fantasy football right like because I actually care about winning our leagues and I so much I'm so upset that you have Mark Andrews and that you gave me you got him for John Ross I did and I feel ironically I feel almost exactly the opposite as you do when I hear this news I wonder why isn't that incredible play on a fantasy sports platform that does not suck

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