Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Risers and Fallers, Preseason Week 2, News, Mailbag

He has looked good this off season? He has. Trent Richardson is, yeah, yeah, well, I got a lot of Latavius Murray bets, so I hope he can just salvage some of those for me. I can't wait. If Joyke comes back and has a good game, I can't wait to hear Mike's tears. I want to hear the tears rolling on the microphone. Yeah. You will not see that happen. See, that's why I.

I really am looking for it. No, we've got the camera on. You can go to YouTube. We'll see it. Yeah. No, I'm referring to Joach Bell coming back and having a good game. Yeah, well, I'm patient. I'm a patient, man. It's a great thing about fancy football. We figure out. Week 10 is going to be so good for you. Hello. I was waiting for it. I just, I read a tweet from someone that said, in their draft, Roy Hulu got drafted, and some guy across the room goes, hello.

And he knew he had a kindred, you know, spirit in the draft. And he said that their two teams were the best. Yep. Of course. Of course. But pretty funny, though, if you hear somebody, somebody chomping on some Oreos on the other side of the room and chomping in, hello. Yeah. It is really fun to say. All right. Let's talk about some fallers, guys that we're worried about, guys and offenses that we're concerned about. But first, but first.

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a guy who that's what he does in Shane Vereen. On top of that, the O-line was not really rebuilt to run the ball. And you have a recipe for kind of fantasy disaster for Jennings. And Jennings is, while I like him, he has a career arc that isn't.

star-studded, right? He had a few kind of inconspicuous seasons, and then he had a very good year, and he looked okay in New York last year, but he doesn't have the pedigree of necessarily being a guaranteed workhorse back when he's healthy and back. And so they like Andre Williams, they drafted him, they keep giving him carries. I think he led the team in rushing this past week, and Vareen is there, like Mike said. So my thoughts that Rashad could be a steal are starting to fall away. It's unfortunate.

So, Jason, what other fallers, what other guys are slipping a little bit? Washington pass catchers have been brought up a little bit because of how bad that offensive line.

The line in, who's the quarterback? R.G. Throffle. Sorry. You know, I love, I was so high on RG3 when he came out. And he had one of the best rookie seasons of all time, and I just don't get it. Why can't he be a good quarterback? Because the guys behind him look great. I mean, they look great. Like, if you're Washington, how do you start RG3?

How do you actually keep going with RG3 instead of putting in either guy behind him? And I feel like I would be much higher on the pass catchers if you put in the backup. So I don't know. I would love nothing more than to see Washington succeed and J. Gruden succeed. But I am worried about this season. I feel like it's just going to be an unwinnable.

situation with RG3 and J. Gruden and what that offense is doing. So I'd be concerned about consistency from the past catchers there. Not that there's not talent. I mean, D. Jacks, we already know, isn't consistent. He can perform huge. He can win you a week. But Garsohn has been a couple years since he's been super consistent. And then Deshaun Jackson is just up and down. And so I don't know. It's a red alert for me. They have to make the move at this point. If RG3 gets cleared and he plays again, and he puts up another

Just stinker in the dress rehearsal week for the NFL season, you got to go to McCoy or Captain Kirk. So in a switching gears, in a half point or full point PPR league, do you still take Ingram over Spiller? Yes. In all formats then. Yes. See, I'm starting to rotate there too. Spiller's slipping a little bit. If you watch the game with Ingram,

He actually caught the ball out of the backfield. They've been working on that. They threw him a wheel route over the shoulder. He caught it, ran down the sideline. Threw him a couple in the flats. I mean, Kyrie Robinson was catching passes too. I'm a little worried about Spiller because how many times can he fool us with health or thoughts and all this top speed hope? Yeah.

Too many times, too many times to have promise blown up in your face. So Spillers dropped down for me. I was really excited about the possibility of him being Darren Sprouls. He could still be fine. We're not saying he. And I'm still going to, I like that his ADP is going down because I still want to take the gamble on it. Well, that's really what it is, right? It's a value play. Can you get him where he's worth it? Yeah, Mike, where do you want Spiller right now? Where do you hope he falls to in your draft?

You're drafting tonight, and it's a half-point PPR. Devante Adams or C.J. Spiller? Adams. Adams. And I would be extremely excited if I got Spiller in the 6th. Extremely. I can dig that. That's the round that popped up for me, too. I got to stop saying Chris Ibray on the show. He's ahead of Spiller now.

And I... He should be. Oh, in ADP? Yeah. He should be. Well, he should be. Sure. I just don't want him to be. Well, he was another name we didn't even bring up in the risers yet. This is another thing. Are you in PPR? Yeah. No, I don't think I am. But Fuglan, if you're out there, whoever we talk up, just always talk them down to your friends. That is a good rule of thumb. Talk down the good guys, you know. In PPR, Spiller's still going ahead. Of ivory. Well, that makes sense. Yeah.

But yeah, he's coming up. Ivory's coming up. A lot of these late-round values are, you know, it's draft week. It's draft time. It's August 24th. Oh, yes. Is that the Pillsbury doughboys? Yeah, well. How did you get here? Double stuff. Double stuff gets you got a lot of Pillsbury Gough. Let's go ahead and transition here. Let's answer some listener questions. Mailbag. Mail bag. All right, if you have a question, go to the website.

The Fantasy Footballers.com, click the submit a question button. You can also call us 302-464 TFFB and leave a voicemail question. All right, Andrew in Canada is in a 14-team league. He drafted Alfred Morris as his running back one. How worried are we that Matt Jones won't eat into Alfred Morris's touches? He says they only have four bench spots, and he's stashing Foster, so should he pick up Matt Jones?

I have my thoughts, but I'll let you guys answer. They might be different. My first thought is your team better be really, really good if Morris is your RB1. I mean, your receivers, and I assume... Well, Arian might have been his RB1. That's, I mean... It's also a 14th team. No, no, he got him in the 14th round, Arian Foster. But anyway, so back to the question of, do I think Matt Jones eats into Morris's carries? It's a...

It's a slight concern for me, but I still think Morris is the guy. I know Matt Jones has looked solid during the preseason, but Morris, he's tested, he's proven. Even though I love Matt Jones and his potential for the future, when I watched the Washington game, I kind of said to myself, I'm undervaluing.

Alfred Morris again, because he's just going to produce. He's not going to be flashy, but he's going to produce. Yeah, and the reason that Matt Jones had the opportunity to look so good was because Alfred Morris was sitting on the sidelines getting rest, knowing he was the starter. That's always a good sign. I mean, we're not scared off at Adrian Peterson being on the sideline right now. That's a done deal. He's fine. We don't need to play him. So, yeah, Alfred Morris is still, I wouldn't be too scared. And I wouldn't drop one of your bench guys to get Matt Jones if you've only got four.

Yeah, that's probably fair. Brian in Connecticut says, hey guys, the subject of this question was really stupid question. There's no stupid questions. No, no. He said he got stuck with the worst pick this year, number one overall. He says he usually goes zero RB, however, and loves the big wide receivers should he draft Julio Jones at number one. Hmm.

But he does say this. He says maybe he's overthinking it, but he hates drafting a guy who misses two straight games right off the bat in Levion Bell or an age risk in AP or Jamal where he'd be stuck rostering Nile Davis. So take Eddie Lacey. Yeah. I don't see, if you don't have concerns on Eddie Lacey, I'm taking him number one. I have such a hard time being at the number one spot and not taking a running back. Here's a little reminder for everybody.

The two players that went down this past week, their name were Kelvin Benjamin and Jordy Nelson, and neither of them play the running back position. That reminds me, guys. I forgot to put him in the fallers section. I'm falling on Jordy Nelson. Oh, oh, oh, yes. He's looking like a down here on the field, down on the field. No, I mean, had somebody else send me an email, too. They're like, we don't understand why everybody thinks wide receivers are more safe.

I mean, that's the general thought process here, is they're more safe, but everybody can get hurt. Yeah, they're a little more safe, but, I mean, it's not like, well, I'm going wide receiver so that I'm guaranteed. Tell that to Jordy Nelson. And when I did my study of it was the last two or three years, and yes, the RB bust factor of the first round was higher, but there was still busts.

from the wide receiver position drafting of that height. Like Andy said, anybody can get hurt. Running backs are more prone to getting hurt. But the numbers, to me, the way that I read the statistics tells me to take a running back. Yeah, fair enough. Also, I see later in his question, Jimmy Graham at the two, three turn? No. No. Yeah. Andrew in Dallas. He has a work league. The commissioner wants to change things up. Uh-oh.

It was a 0.5 PPR. And he wants to bump it to two points per reception. That's silly. And he also moved quarterbacks from four to six points. So now he's having trouble finding any good information for ADP for this kind of a league and wonders if we have any tips for a two point per reception league, which I've heard a few leagues do. But, man, he really wants to change it up.