Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Top 10 WR, Sleepers, News, Mailbag

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Hello, hello, hello. Oh, good morning. It is Tuesday, April 7th, and we are the fantasy footballers, Andy, Jason, Mike, back with you again. Oh, it is a good day. You sound thrilled. Well, isn't it obvious? It's because Duke won the title. Oh, they did. Congratulations to. Jason, what are your thoughts on? Yes. Duke is a...

First of all, hold on, hold on. I want to try this right now. What's coming? Sport am I talking about. You're talking about the NCAA basketball. Okay, you passed test number one. Who'd they play? Minnesota. No.

No, no, no, no, no, no, hold on here, Kentucky. No. No, Michigan State. Wisconsin. Yes, there you go. First try. I told you. I was going to have to point out how little he knows about any other sport. Oh, man. You just asked me about football. Does that make people more or less confident in Jason's ability as a fantasy football analyst? It should make you more confident. Yeah, because I follow football. I don't have time for other nonsense.

Yeah, the fantasy hitman and I were more well-rounded than you, I'd have to say. You guys just want to, correct me if I'm wrong here, but you guys just won a championship in a basketball fantasy league. Is that incorrect? Well, actually we did just win a fantasy battle. Well, we're about to. It's a little preemptive, but come Sunday, we will be the champions of a fantasy basketball league. That's true. And a little note for the listeners out there.

Oh, championship note. Yeah. Oh, man, we are winners. Listen to this. All of the three of us are on a flag football. We're on a middle-aged. Well, some of us are middle-aged. Some of us are 20 years old. None of us, though. Not our team. But we're on an adult flag football team. That sounds really stupid, but it's true. It's awesome. Yeah. We don't just watch football. We live. We are out there. We do play. Fantasy, real, all of it. We finally won a championship.

It was top 10 moment of my life. It was awesome. It was great. I'm still, like, glowing over that victory. That was five years in the making. Yeah, the first year, we scored one touchdown all season and went winless, and now we won the championship with the same core group of guys. We are identical to Duke. We are exactly the same. We are. In terms of, like, accomplishment. Hey, championship's a championship, right? There you go. All right, well.

Welcome back to the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Now that we've covered the Duke part of the show. We've got some news and notes for you today. We're going to get into our, I love this, our top 10 whiteouts. We're going to go through our top 10 early rankings at the whiteout position. We're also going to answer some mailbag questions. If you want to follow the show on Twitter, you can do so at the FF Ballers. You can send us questions there too. We've been answering them all week from...

listeners of the show. You can find us on the web at the fantasy footballers.com. And of course, you can subscribe to us on iTunes. Leave us a review if you'd like. If you like the show. Please do. We've been getting a lot of reviews lately of people who just love the fact we're recording in the off season twice a week. Because there's a need for it. Yeah, there's people like us who love fantasy football and want to listen. You want to hear about it. You want to talk about it. You want to think about it. Absolutely. So anything else going on, guys?

Uh, football, football, football, football, football. News and notes from around the league. From football. From football. I want to start with this little tidbit of information, since every week now we start with a very mediocre receiver signing someplace, which is called the off-season news and notes. Uh, the Bengals have agreed to terms with wide receiver Denarius Moore, formerly of the Oakland Raiders to a one-year contract.

Danerius Moore was my... Burst onto the scene. He was my guy. He was years ago. He was your guy? I didn't know he was anybody's guy. No, he, well, he was like, he was a guy. Yeah, he showed, he is still a guy. He showed so much potential and then was just had it all sucked away in the black hole. Yeah, so he's out of the black hole, Mike. Any fantasy relevance here? Not at this time. Trip, chert. Fred Jackson.

recovering from surgery of some sort. Not really news. Not really news other than I want to know, we've talked LaShawn McCoy in our running back show. If you didn't hear that, go ahead and you can go back and listen to that one on the website or on iTunes. But Fred Jackson, what's his role going to be? Because here's my knowledge of Fred Jackson. Everybody loves Fred Jackson. If you know Fred Jackson, if you're in the locker room, Fred Jackson. If you're a coach, you love Fred Jackson. Here they paid a brand new contract to LaShaul McCoy. He's clearly going to get a huge role.

So what is Fred Jackson going to do? Will he surprise us again, or will he eventually age? Well, eventually he'll age, but Rex said that he's going to work him in on passing downs. I expect him to get about half of the passing downs. LaShawn McCoy will be a three-down back half the time, and he'll spell LaShawn McCoy with some F. Jacks. But, yeah, no, I agree. He's a real great guy. He's true. He's a pleasure to be a real humdinger. Yeah, I would think maybe...

what, seven to ten carries at the high end. And then, so maybe like 10 touches a week. All right. Well, this next guy, I have to take an opportunity here to give Mike the mic. And do you have anything to say about this next bit of news? ESPN's Chris Mortensen saying the Browns have mostly moved on from your boy, Johnny Mansell. Yes, well.

Calling it my boys is a bit of a... I had to do that anyway. It's a bit of a stretch. I did. I was a believer that his skill set could translate. However, I did not anticipate the level of the clown show that Johnny Mansell is running and completely, completely bought into everything ever said about him and his own greatness.

And now he's going to... He's going to pay the Roddy Piper with his career. The rowdy Roddy Piper. Yeah, it's not looking good for Johnny Mansell, especially if you were for some reason in a dynasty league and you took him. I've got nothing more to say about him. Just as a side note, I like my NFL quarterbacks to not be a moral clown show. That's just... Fair enough. Yeah, because the leader of the team, that type of thing. Speaking of...

questionable moral character, perhaps. Adrian Peterson will meet with the NFL this week to discuss his reinstatement. So likely this will be showdown time between him and the Vikings because the reinstatement will happen. No indications that it won't. And then we'll be moving on to the issue of will he play for them or will he force a trade out of Minnesota. I would love to have some Adrian Peterson related news to talk about. Three weeks left of...

Possibilities, and then it's the draft, and then everything dies. I'm tired of the... Stop talking about the Dallas thing. That's not happening. Not happening. I read today why it's his dream scenario. It can be his dream, but there's no money. Dallas would have to restructure everybody's contract. It would be so Jerry. Old Jerry. They'd be maxing their credit cards for at least three years just to get Peterson. I don't know. I might do it if I were then.

I would not. It's not worth it. I wouldn't. 3,000 yards? Behind that line? Just kidding. All right. Today we're going to go through our top 10 whiteout, so I want to get started on that as soon as we can because we've got a lot of guys to talk about. I'm sure we'll have a lot of information to disperse to you. So we're going to count them down. We're going to do it a little different than we did on the other shows. We're going to count it down from our number 10 consensus ranking. Number 10. There you go. Randall Cobb.

Number 10, Randall Cobb. Plenty to like about Randall Cobb. Obviously, his quarterback is a piece of that. I was reading something the other day about he's in that top five group of highest percentage of fantasy points coming from touchdowns. What are you guys' thoughts on Randall Cobb? I see that, Mike, you have him at number 11. Jason, you have him at 13. So Randall Cobb heading into the year, what do you think? Where Randall Cobb is...

is such a fantastic guy to have on your team is because of the high floor, especially if you're in any kind of half point or full point PPR. I was preaching the touchdown, the craziness that Randall Cobb was having at the beginning of the year, and if you break down his actual targets, what was crazy is when the first half the year, when he was getting the high volume of touchdowns, he was actually getting

the lower amount of targets compared to the second half of the year when his touchdowns disappeared. That Rano Cobb, to me, is not a super touchdown scoring guy. The second half was probably more indicative of what he is on the field, because that's what we saw in years past too. Yeah, absolutely. And he's still going to score touchdowns. Absolutely. You've got the best quarterback in the league, and you're playing opposite one of the best wide receivers in the league.

So he's going to get it done, but that's why he's in the back half of my wide receiver ones. Yeah, what's amazing is he's always been able to, I mean, granted he's with Aaron Rogers.

But he's always been able to score touchdowns. It's not like a fluke season. You know, obviously he had 12. But his sophomore year, he had eight. And then, of course, he got injured and only played six games the following year. So people kind of soured on him. But after his sophomore campaign, the first time that he really, I mean, his, you know, his rookie year, he only got 25 receptions. So his sophomore year was his first bust onto the year scene. Everyone was freaking out about him. He was going to overtake Jordy Nelson. He was going to be the best thing.

got hurt the next year, and it's like people completely bailed, completely jumped ship, and then it comes back and has an awesome year, 1,200 yards, 90 plus catches, and 12 touchdowns. I expect the touchdowns to regress. I actually expect the targets and yards to increase. So, yeah, that's why I've got him, what did you say? I've got them as, like, my top wide receiver 2. You haven't at 13, actually, so yeah, your top wide receiver 2 in a 12-man league. So you guys have him ahead of

A few guys here that are not on our list. Anybody you want to talk about from this list? Vincent Jackson, Jordan Matthews, Mike Evans, Andre Johnson, Kelvin Benjamin. A few of these guys did not make our top 10 list. Maybe pick one out and tell me a guy that you think, I mean, Jordan Matthews would be the guy. Do you really want me to get my Jordan Matthews? Yeah, Mike. 60 seconds. Jordan Matthews, go.

He's your number 10, so let's just talk about him for a second. So here's the deal. People like new up-and-comers. Here's the deal with Jordan Matthews. Last year, it took him a while to really get things going, but he finished with 67, 872, and 8. He did that on 103 targets. Here's why I like Jordan Matthews. The previous two years, Chip Kelly took his power smoothies and energized receivers into career gears. We're talking Deshaun Jackson, who finished as the 10th.