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

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Jason Moore and Mike Wright. I don't know if I can do this today. This is maybe the strangest beginning to a show in the history of shows. Welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast. You've got to get onto the YouTube's and see this. I don't know. Yeah, I have to describe this to our listeners out there. I am sitting at the table here.

attempting to host a fantasy football podcast. Across for me, in the second strangest thing in the room, across for me with a paper bag over his head is Mike the fantasy hitman right. Mike, how are you this fine day? I'm doing excellence. I wanted to have a big reveal for the Foot Clan who were incredibly generous with helping out my aunt with her medical bills, fixing up her teeth.

So your hair has been cut. My hair has been cut off. I gave a little teaser on the Twitter sphere. So we can get what this is, you're the, the, uh, I'm the captain. I'm going to, you're going to get to it right away. We're going to get to it right away because I have to explain the most strange thing. All right. Are we getting a good shot of this, Brooks? Mike is going to reveal his haircut or, uh, his lack of a mop. So, and your hair is gone.

My hair is gone. For the most part. It looks mighty fine. Well, thank you. Looks better than Jason looks today. I'll tell you that right now. The other news, hey Jason. Jason could not be with us this morning. No, he is. Ask him a question. Jason, how are you doing? Yeah, because only on this show would you find a, this is to scale. In place of Jason today is a two-scale grizzly bear. Yep. Because, I don't know.

I don't know why. Instead of Jason here this morning, he had some things he had to attend to, so Mike and I are holding down the fort. In his place is a full cardboard cutout of a grizzly bear. Because, I mean, Jason is the grizzly bear of the show. He's the hairiest. He's the hairiest. Just as good. Yeah, the takes will be scary, just like a grizzly bear is scary. The grizzly bear is very hairy. Jason's the most likely to hibernate of the three of us. Yes, that's true. On a regular basis. Now he's got that bushy beard, too.

So if you hear any hot takes, that's Jason. So we are going to talk fantasy football on the show today. I promise you that. This is going to be a good one. We're going to talk rookies. We're going to talk fantasy football news. We're going to answer listener questions. We have some new information for everybody out there. We have a bunch of new articles on the website, including articles on rookie wide receivers by Keaton Dinley, QB Landing Spot article.

tier-based drafting article on the website. We are big proponents of drafting based on tiers. And so that's what you'll find in the ultimate draft kit and our new cheat sheets in the ultimate draft kit. And we'll talk about that as well. So it's going to be a fun one. Mike and I holding down the fort. Mike, where do you find the fantasy footballers on the Twitter sphere? At the FF ballers. You can follow Andy at Andy Holloway. If you want to follow the fantasy bear.

over here at Jason FFL and you can find me at FF Hitman. There are only so many cardboard cutouts you can get overnight on Amazon Prime, you see? And this one made the most sense to us. When it arrived today, I was very impressed. All right, quick question, Mike. This is one that's been on my mind. A lot of people doing rookie drafts. A lot of people wanting to know the future, right? I mean, I have had so many posts on Twitter.

What kind of years Dalvin Cook going to have? Where do you rank Leonard Fournette? And my question is this. Who's your favorite rookie rookie that is not projected to be a first round rookie draft pick, right? Fantasy Pros just recently did a mock draft, a rookie mock draft. So we'll use that as our baseline there. So the first round, the first round of that draft, you had Corey Davis and Christian McCaffrey and Joe Mixin, Leonard Fornett, John Ross, Dalvin Cook.

Mike Williams, O.J. Howard, Alvin Kumar, Kareem, Kareem, and then Evan Ingram, who you snagged in our rookie draft in the second round, late the second round somehow. But he goes in the first round here. So second round and beyond, who's the rookie that you just playing like the most, that you'd spend some of that, you know, off-season fad money on? There's quite a few rookies, so I like the landing spot. I'm going to jump up here with a...

And I don't know your answer. I have no clue. It's true. He was drafted by the Indianapolis Colts. He goes by the name. Marlin Mac Dick, Dick, Dick, Mark. Marlon Mac. Oh, yes. With the Billy Joel reference. Of course. So you like Marlon Mac. Yeah, I like Marlon Mac. I like the talent. I like the athleticism. He's a scat, back, back, back, back, back, back. I think that he could be big enough to be more than just a scatback back for them. And Frank Gore.

should be retiring after this season? I mean, that's absolutely a question mark. His contract only runs through 2017 and landing spots, offense. It's so important to where these running backs end up because you can get a guy who, by the NFL standards, they believe he's an incredibly talented guy like Todd Gurley. He ends up in a situation that is just the pits.

for fantasy. And then on the opposite is a guy like Marlon Mack here. He fell in the draft, middle round pick, but he ends up on a very, very high-powered offense and could be in line for a large workload, not necessarily this year, but we're talking dynasty here. So you've got to think a little bit longer term. Okay. All right. I am answering this question. I hope you go with the guy that you drafted because I left him for you.

Sure. Yeah, and you're talking about Joe Williams. I am. Yeah, I am going more short term in this answer. I was thinking more than the context of like, hey, what situation do I love the potential of happening this year, right? Because here's what I do. Well, there goes my pen. Here's what I do believe. I believe that one of the second round running backs is going to end up in a situation that is just plain spectacular. The second round rookies? Yeah, second round rookie running backs. And so Joe Williams is in that equation, right?

I think Joe Williams has the potential to really, by mid-season, be the guy in San Francisco. I think Shanahan loves him. I think Shanahan wants somebody else back there and somebody to grow with that team. Another guy, two other players, Jamal Williams and Deonti Foreman. Both of them could end up in incredible situations this year, depending on the health of Lamar Miller. And then Jamal Williams could be the back in Green Bay by...

a quarter through the season in terms of first and second down work on that team. So I think one of those three guys ends up in a Jordan Howard-esque really nice situation this year. It's just impossible to predict with injuries and things like that. So I'll go with Joe Williams because I think they're the team that is most willing to hand those keys off to somebody younger as they rebuild. You know, nobody's expecting San Francisco to compete this year, right?

Brian Hoyer and injured Carlos Hyde and the team with all the holes that it has and how bad they were last year. To me it's a lot harder. The other two teams are playoff teams. The Packers and Houston are both playoff teams. So handing the keys to a rookie unlikely in those situations. So I'll go with Joe Williams. I like Joe Williams. I traded up in our dynasty draft to snag him, throw him on the bench. DeWan Harris was just cut today from the San Francisco backfield. So now they only have like 14 other guys. Mike Davis has gone as well.

Because they got picked up by Seattle today. Right, right. And they traded for bibs, I think, during the draft, and you have Gore, and you have Kyle Usecheck. Gore? I'm sorry. I'm going way back. No, hide. They only do four-letter running. And for Deonti Foreman, because I love to look at, for these rookie running backs and rookies in general, I love to look at the contract situation. Lamar Miller was given a hefty contract for a running back. It was very front-loaded.

And if they want to, after the 2017 season, it would be a $2 million dead cap hit to remove his contract from the books. Which is certainly feasible if Lamar Miller falters this season. Yeah, he's one of those players that can go either way this year. Where Lamar Miller, you gave so much of the benefit of the doubt to guys like Lamar Miller and DeAndre Hopkins last year because the year was just disheveled on the offensive side of the ball.

disheveled equals Brock Oswald. Who's very good at shoveling, by the way? But now you've invested in, yeah, he is. It's a construction man. Very strong, long arms. But now you've invested in a rookie. Somebody that, look, I mean, they had Alfred Blue had, what, over 100 carries last year. And so there's opportunity to be had there. And if Lamarie Miller goes down, all of a sudden, Deonti Foreman should headline a run first offense.

All right. So Mike lets you know where to find us on Twitter. We're also on YouTube. The website is the fantasy footballers.com. And you got to check out the beginning of the show. If it sounded like chaos at the beginning. Can you do a zoom in on Jason here, Brooks? Can you? There he is. There's Brooks. Oh, I'm sorry. There's Jason. It's incredible. Hot takes from Jason. All right. Let's get into the news. News and notes from around the league.

I knew it was going to be a strange show. One thing I forgot to mention at the top of the show, there are a number of new shirts over at shopballers.com. We've got some, and I love Michael Keaton shirt on there, some fantasy football shirts, and some new fantasy footballers shirts. So check it out at shopballers.com. I know the I love Michael Keaton demand. The personal favorite. Demand is very high. So, all right, several things to talk about in the news. I'm going to start with a rumor.

And then I'm going to get into these news. Well, I want to bring up this Mark Ingram situation because fantasy owners all over the world with the signing of Adrian Peterson and then the drafting of Alvin Kamara, the panic in the streets for Mark Ingram is high. And it should be. I took a temperature of the bushes scorching. Scorching like an apex of a fever. Okay. I don't know what any of that meant. Very concerned. I'm very concerned. The bushes are worried.

Well, if the bushes are the Saints, then Mark Ingram might be on the way out of the bushes. You're familiar with the movie The Happening, right? That was a terrible movie. Well, in The Happening, the trees start taking revenge. That's what the bushes want to do. They want to take revenge on Sean Payton and the Saints coaching staff. Are you following any of this, Brooks? Are you with? A little bit. Okay. Here's the deal. A rumor today. So Max Unger.

So that's news. Max Unger underwent foot surgery this past weekend. It's very doubtful. The Max Unger's Center for the Saints will be available to start the year. So rumors have now abounded from multiple sources about a potential Mark Ingram for Jason Kelsey, right? Center for the Philadelphia Eagles. The Eagles have several centers available. And the Saints are in need. And the Saints for whatever reason.