Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Live Mock Draft, Interview with Brian Tesch

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It is Thursday. It is June 11th, and we are the fantasy footballers. Welcome to the show. I'm Andy Holloway. I'm joined, as always, by Mike, the fantasy hitman. Are you going to say my last thing? Right. Right? Hey. Hey, everybody. The music just seemed a little louder in my ears, and it kept going, so I wasn't. It is pretty rocking. Yeah, it was awesome. I didn't introduce double stuff. Jason Moore is here. Good day? Did you? Yeah.

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Welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast. We are glad you're with us. We have a very jam-packed, awesome show for you today. We'll be joined by Brian Tesh, NFC West correspondent for Fantasypros.com. He also writes a bunch of articles for them. Great guy is going to answer some questions about the Seahawks. Is that right, Mike? That is correct. You got a chance to sit down with him. And what else do we got going on? We're going to do a live mock draft. Mock Draft. Mock Draft.

Batman? Is Batman here? Swear to me. Yeah. No, I'm just super excited for Mike. I love doing mock drafts. I like mock draft shows. I think that we can learn the most ourselves and listeners. Yeah, we're going to run through a live mock draft on FantasyDraftwizard.com. We're going to draft from the sixth spot in the draft, and we're going to do it live. We're doing it live. We're going to.

I think so we're going to kind of talk through the picks of who's available. So we're going to talk some strategy that each individual person would do. And then we're going to take turns. Correct? Is that what we're doing? We'll take turns with the pick? We'll just give a definitive. We'll let somebody have the final word. If we don't have a consensus, we'll let somebody make the final pick. But it'll give you an idea of what we're thinking about when we're going through a mock draft or a draft right now, middle of June, some of these options that we have out there.

It should be fun. I got a quick question for you today. It's a little different than some of the other ones. Who's the better dynasty wide receiver between these guys? I had a hard time. DeAndre Hopkins or Mike Evans? Oh, man. Who's the better dynasty wide receiver? I'm going to go with Evans. I think Evans has only scratched at his potential. And last year it was a...

the deep ball constantly with a bunch of touchdowns. I think bringing James Winston in is great for him. Maybe not the greatest this year, because Winston's going to be trying to learn the position in the NFL arena. I still think Evans is going to have a great year, but once they really get a chemistry built up, because Winston has a great deep ball, and that's going to be fantastic for Evans. Yeah, for me, I think...

I would agree that Evans is the better because of the quarterback. You don't know the quarterback future in Houston, and currently it looks pretty ugly. You call it Brian Hoyer ugly? Not to his face. But at the same time, I think that if I, you know, if I was in a fantasy league playing this year in a dynasty league where the opportunity to have one of those two players comes, I would actually prefer DeAndre Hopkins.

Because I, you know, I prefer to go for championships. I think he's going to put up much better numbers this year. He's still going to be valuable. And then, you know, if we're talking longevity of time from now until the end of his career, I'm probably going to trade either guy before. What about PPR dynasty? Does it change at all? Because I'm wondering if Evans ever becomes a volume guy. No. I know. I don't. That's what I was alluding to. Right. Will that actually pick up? If it's PPR, I might have to lean Hopkins.

Yeah, I was just curious. We have a lot of Dynasty players. I wanted to throw a question out there related to Dynasty wide receivers, one of the more valuable positions, obviously. And so, yeah, good answers on those. If you want to follow the Fantasy Footballers on Twitter, you can do so at the FF Ballers. If you want to follow Mike, it's at FF Hitman. Join me. Yes, on Twitter. Yes. Mike is by far the most active on Twitter.

Hey, I do what I can. He is extremely active on our main page at the FF Ballers answering questions as well as on his own page. You can follow Jason at Jason FFL and you can follow me at Andy Holloway if you're interested. And we have a website, the fancy footballers.com. You got to go on there because we have four new articles that just went up this week by one of our guest writers.

And he's answering some questions about the NFC West, which is pretty timely because we have Brian Tesh on talking NFC West today as well. And so go check those out on the Fantasy Footballers.com. And let's go ahead and read a review from our listeners. Review Osores Rex. This one comes in from Craig Five Stars. Did you just knock over about half the things we have on the table here?

Let me just say right now for all the listeners, I'm very happy that we are not doing video at this moment. That was graceful. Yes, very graceful. You got to get the title that's key. Better than the birth of my kids is the title. Better than the birth of his kids. That's amazing. Just kidding. My four kids take the cake. But nonetheless, these guys really provide me with great football knowledge so early in the off season and cupcakes full of shenanigans that keep me entertained. Keep up the good works.

Craig. Is that how you pronounce it? Craig? Craig? Anyway, thank you for the review. Five-star review on iTunes. Oh, is that a cue? Yeah. Yeah, that's a cue. My eyes, man. You're having issues. Are you able to eat food now, by the way? Oh, yeah. He's back on the three-by-three diet? Yeah, I had a lot of chili dogs. You've recovered. Right to chili dogs. Straight to chili dogs. Man, you are. I throw up one day. Once I'm back, I'm chili-dogging. All right. Let's get into the news and notes.

News and notes from Around the League. All right. This is one I hate to say, but I'm, you know, obligated. I'm obligated to read it. The Lions aren't sure if Joyke Bell will be back into shape by training camp. He's got Achilles injuries. Oh, no. Is that the Abdullah Express? All aboard.

I've got to admit, I don't like the sound of a overweight and uncomfortable 4.0. What did he average? 3.9. All right. Yeah, I might have to fade joick a little bit with the Abdullah coming in and... Sounds like Trent Richardson 2.0 here. Hold on now. I'm not fading on him completely, but I will probably get him at a good value now.

Uh, so are you concerned? Obviously you are. I am very concerned. Just one of those things you don't want to see on a bounce back year. No. If you want him to bounce back. No, I was already very high on Abdullah. And I was high on him to take the job from about the halfway point through the year. But if he's going to get all the reps...

in training camp and OTAs. He's not going to get all the reps. You know what I mean? But he's going to run with the ones instead of have to earn his way in. He's just going to be thrust into that position. No, no, it's good for him. Definitely good for him. And there was another note talking up Abdullah as a player today from OTAs. Yeah. Yeah. I don't want to focus on Joach Pal anymore. It's making me depressed.

The problem with Abdullah, to me, because I'm not all the way on the express, I just don't think he's going to get a gigantic carry, you know, a gigantic share of the load, even in the second half. I'm off joick. I'm not high on him right now. I just don't really get excited about that backfield at the moment. Moving on to Washington, a guy we've been talking about...

in little drips over the last few weeks. Niles Paul is looking exceptionally good in OTAs, which contrasts with how Jordan Reed is looking all the time. How's Jordan Reed looked these days? Not so hot. I haven't been to the hospital recently. He's looking good. Yeah, I haven't seen him. He's created in the seated positions. You've got to visit him. I'll make a, I'll make a, let me write that down. Yeah, Redskins reported John Kime reports. Niles Paul has been a different player. He's a guy who definitely flashed last year. We know that.

RG3 has, you know, an ability to go to the tight end a lot when plays break down. Niles Paul has a lot of talent. So if he's in that starting role, you can just add him to the pile of possible. Yeah, in weeks 1 through 4 when Paul was really had the position because Reed got hurt immediately, he averaged 78 yards a game in five catches. That's pretty good for a replacement level tight end. Yeah, and a lot of targets his way.

Did you have something you were going to add, Jason? No, I just was in love with him last year, and I wish he was the starter. Last year and this year. Out of Oakland, much better for me news than the Joyc Bell News. Raiders Camp is more of a question than it is really news. But a source told ESPN's Adam Kaplan that Latavius Murray has a chance to have a huge year in new offensive coordinator Bill Musgraves system. So let's talk Murray a little bit. We talked about...

Yeldin and Murray, because we, you know, we were going through your rankings last time. I've, I've been on the Latavius Murray bandwagon since the offseason began, really since the end of last year, just from what I saw on tape, I know it was limited. We got a new offense now. We have Trent Richardson that was signed with all that extra money that they had to spend. We have Roy Hulu in the backfield in Oakland. Does this change your opinion about Latavius Murray at all?

I really wanted to talk about this because we got a really impassioned letter from a Raiders fan, which was fantastic. We love passion from the listeners, and he just felt like we were dogging his team a little bit too much. But I had to remind him that we do talk up Raiders. I talk Raiders. I'm pro Raiders over here. And this is where I will admit I wasn't really considering fully the Bill Musgrave system where in Minnesota he was there when Peterson had his 2,000-yard year. He was there when Harvin

was a superstar wide receiver won. So maybe I need to give a little bit more credit. However, what I will say for Murray versus Yeldin when I was saying, I know that I'm very confident in Yelden. Teams, while fantasy players are, we're done with Trent Richardson. NFL teams are not. And we saw that with the Colts all year until the very last game. They still kept giving them the ball. The Raiders are going to give Trent Richardson the ball. If Murray's not just going to take everything.

And Roy Hulu is a fantastic third down back. So that's where a little more clarification on the Yeldon versus Murray. Yeah, but I see Murray as getting more, if you're going Yeldon versus Murray again, I feel like there's more murkiness for Yelden, who's a rookie, and there's still a lot of backs there with. One thing you said on the last show is that you thought Yelden's definitely getting the goal line, and I do not think that's the case at all. I think it's all going to be. Who's going to be?

Gerhard. Yeah. He was awful on the goal line last year. Just awful. Get ready for it. Yeah. I don't think it's a done deal for either situation. But this news coming out, this news makes me happier about Latavus Murray. Because I think he's got the talent. My whole question has been, will the Raiders actually just use him?