Fantasy Football Podcast 2017 - Rookie Steals, Keeper Quandaries, and Bears. Oh my!

clearly have a problem with Mark Ingram. Maybe in a similar fashion that they did with Brandon Cooks, where Peyton did everything you could last year to put Hightower on the field. Despite the production levels of Mark Ingram, something in the attitude department doesn't work. Now you've got Adrian Peterson. You've got Alvin Kamara. You've restocked a little bit. Is Travarez Cadestal on that roster? Yes, he is. He is. So you have, you have, you could ship him out if you don't like him. So, well, you're counting very much on Adrian Peterson if you sent Ingram out.

And you look at Philadelphia's backfield and you say, where is it? Like, where is the guy, right? As of right now, it's still Ryan Matthews. Mark Ingram, let's say he lands in Philadelphia. I guess that explains your feelings. I would be very excited. I am part of the free Ingram movement. And him going to Philadelphia, they need him. They need him bad. They can use Mark Ingram. You can catch the ball?

He's been very efficient. He's been a great runner the last couple of years in New Orleans. And for whatever reason, he's on the out. So from a fantasy perspective, he shoot up the ranks. Yeah, he'd be a one for me if he went to a good off you. Wow. Okay. So we'll monitor that, nothing definite of any sort right now. Here's some big news. Now we, this is big news. We mentioned this on, I believe, our fantasy election voting show a long time ago.

ESPN is changing their DST scoring, and it's good. It's real good, folks. If you have played on ESPN up until now, one of the biggest pet peeves that I've ever had with their scoring system is this circumstance, right? Let's say I have the Kansas City Chief's Defense, and Alex Smith. Well, this is a terrible example because Alex Smith never does this. But let's just stay here. Let's say I have the Chief's Defense, and they're shutting out the Steelers.

Alex Smith and the offense for Kansas City is on the field. And Alex Smith throws the ball and it's tipped in the air and a Pittsburgh DB grabs it and runs it in for a touchdown. Up until this moment in time, that counted against the Kansas City Chiefs. It's ridiculous. Counted against their defense and their special team. They're not on the field. They had nothing to do with the play. And so what this did was it caused problems, especially here's a real good example. Jacksonville had a very respectable defense last year.

But I was afraid to play them because if Blake Bortles threw a pick six or two, it goes against their defense. No more. It's gone. ESPN has changed that. Now defense special teams will no longer be docked for points surrendered by the team's offense. This is a great change. Bravo. Hooray. That's me clapping for whoever's running. And possibly bigger news is they are moving. ESPN is moving towards the future.

and PPR will now be their default scoring system. If you create a new league, this is, don't freak out. They're not changing your league. Your league can be run however you want. But when you start a new league, PPR will be the default scoring as to say PPR is now standard. Sure. So in a few years. That's like the worst way you could have said. I know, but it's the norm. That's the way it's going to be. Standard is no longer standard.

Well, in a few years, I imagine we'll be saying, okay, this is standard scoring or is this non-PPR? Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah, that makes sense. I mean, look, we are big proponents of a half point per reception. Yeah, they overshot what they should have done by half a point. We've been trying. We did our best. But now, if you had to choose between standard and PPR, I'm taking a PPR league. So that's exciting as well. In Smoking J. Cuddy News.

He announced his retirement from the NFL after 11 seasons. We'll be joining Fox Sports. What are you expecting from the Jay Cutler or Tony Romo battle in the broadcast booth? Who wins that one? Who wins? This is extremely interesting because... My money's on Jay Cutter. Jay Cutler is not known for his body language on the field. He's known for looking a little frumpy and grumpy. Yeah, frumpy is a good word. But...

I mean, I've heard that the man can have an electric personality when he unleashes it. And he's going to have to. Meanwhile, Tony Romo is taking over for Phil Sim. So Romo is going right into the big lights, which could be a bad thing. Maybe he's not prepared for that. Well, while Jay Cutler is going to earn his way up. Tony Romo is America's broadcaster.

He might be a little... I wonder how friendly he'll be. He may be too friendly. Jay Cutler will let something fly. He won't care if it's intercepted. Don't care! Don't care. All right, what else is going on? Jet's wide receiver, Robbie Anderson, who was a flash in the pan last year. He was arrested in Miami on Sunday. I believe he'll be the fourth jet to have an off-season suspension. He may be cut for all we know. This is not looking good, charged with resisting arrest and violence of obstruction of justice.

Big news on the, I don't think people realize this. Brooks, you're a, you're a Dallas Cowboy Finn. Now, there's talk of Jonathan Cooper ending up as the starting left guard. And if you don't know Jonathan Cooper was, is, was. Both are accurate. I believe he was the six overall picked the Arizona Cardinals. This was the year that I believe Eric Fisher came out. I believe that is correct. I think there were three offensive lines. Luke Jockel, Eric Fisher.

Who's the tackle on... Lane Johnson? Yeah, Lane Johnson is what I meant. But anyway, he was a flop. Cut by the Cardinals? I believe he was cut by... No, we traded him to the Patriots. The Patriots cut him. Patriots cut him, and then he's been cut since then. Now all of a sudden you have an unproven player, Jonathan Cooper, that could end up at left guard. This can't be good for the offensive line situation that we've considered so perfect in Dallas. Certainly not, but...

It's a little too early for me. You have great stability around it. It's just one of those things where, I don't know, when something changes, and you're moving somebody too. I mean, I believe they're moving Lael Collins to the right tackle position. So something to pay attention to see what that line looks like this offseason. So we're going to answer some questions spanning dynasty, keepers, commission questions, listener questions. This shows all about you and your league, your questions, and we want to answer them here on the show today. Before you do that, I want to thank Pristine auction.

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Oh, man. Yes. Yeah. ROR. This is a heck of a show. Who would have thought Jason brings stability to the podcast? He doesn't. He's like an anchor. Yeah. A lot of, a lot of, like, weight? GERTH. Oh, my gosh. We are rough. Jason is a close friend. Hey, Brooks, is this voicemail good to play here? Oh, yeah.

All right, hey, if you have a question, you want to submit it to the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Go to the website. Under the More tab, there is a submit a question button. You can send your questions into the show. You can visit us on Twitter at the FFB, or you can dial our voicemail hotline 302-464 TFFB. We're going to start off with a voicemail question from the listeners, and I'm pulling that up right now. Brooks says it's good, so I'm going to go with it. Everyone loves ranking stuff. I was wondering what your guys is Mount Rushmore of...

Sankey football players all time is. L.T. on there. Maybe Peyton Manning. Maybe Sammy Watkins. Oh, wait. No, he's terrible. No, I'd love to hear what you guys think. And I just want to thank you. Love the podcast. And have a great year. Okay. What's really funny is Mike. What does my piece of paper say right here? You have L.T. and Peyton. So he asked the question. The first two names were wrote down were L.T. and Peyton Manning. Yes. I think Marvin Harrison comes to mind. Sure.

He could be in that pantheon, that Mount Rushmore group. I'm going to put Randy Moss on there as well. Yeah. Despite... Tom Brady probably belongs on there. It's just... Yeah. Because he's had one of the best overall seasons, the consistency, the longevity. Those are the names that come to mind for me. Do you have anybody else popping into your head? I mean, some of the greats played before the prime fantasy football era. Which means pre-computer. Sure. Yeah. If you had to, you know...

mail it in with a newspaper, then it's probably not, you're not making the list necessarily. LT is the champ of all time. He's still. I mean, that was back in the day when it was, you would get in a bare-knuckle fight with your friends to get the 101. I was going to say, that's when the 101 meant everything. Yeah. Do you get the 101? He could carry you. Good news, guys. I won my league. Yeah.

Yeah. So what, do you have 30 touchdowns one year? It was bananas. All right. Question coming in here. Keep a question from Phil and Fresno. The show is great. Thanks. He says. I just bought the UDCA, I can't wait to dominate the season. You're going to love it. We are very excited about the UDK this year. All right. Keep two of the following players. Amari Cooper, DeMarco Murray, Alan Robinson, Marshaun Lynch, or Greg Olson. It's a half point per reception. League.

and they can be two chosen from the same position. So what two would you keep out of that group, Mike, in a half-point league and why? Murray's locked for me. He is locked for me too. Because he's on a run-first team with an actual good quarterback. I think of Houston and the Titans as a very similar structure, except one team has Marcus Marriota and the other one does not. So Murray, and he's still the lead guy to me. So DeMarco Murray is a lock.

and I'm probably, man, I'm looking at the two Raiders here. I'm taking Amari. Were you thinking him over? You were thinking of Lynch? I was just considering it, but I do lean Amari Cooper who. I'd go with the balance and have one of each in that situation. The good news with Amari Cooper is you know that at least you're getting a good player who he could absolutely take the leap this year and become a great.

I have DeMarco Murray as my sixth overall running back this year in half point per reception leagues just behind David Johnson, Lev, Bell, Zeke, LaShawn McCoy and Melvin Gordon. So he's in that shady tier for me. Sure, sure, absolutely. All right, let's move on here. Dynasty trade. Oh, by the way, I wanted to run this by you, Mike. I saw a Dynasty mock draft. This is post-Rookies, right? And it was curious. What do you think? O'Dell Beckham Jr. went after Mike Evans.

Mike Evans was the number one pick in this draft. And the justification for that pick, it was surprising, was the quarterback situation. Yeah, I understand. It was the long-term stability of James Winston in Tampa versus Eli Manning and what could be, I mean, if he flops those offensive pieces around him. Winston? No, no, no, no. If Eli Manning flops with those pieces around him, all of a sudden you're looking at New York has to find a new quarterback. And they're in a situation that the Cardinals are going to be in at the end of the year.