Super Bowl Picks + Roster Madness, Draft Blitz - Fantasy Football Podcast for 9/8

that's when you can capitalize on them in Dynasty. If you could swap him for, you know, I mean, someone might trade Clyde Edwards a lair for Alvin Camara, the unknown for the known. And I would do that in a heartbeat. So obviously he's good. I wouldn't be trading him for nothing. But if you can if you can capitalize now is the time. Because.

Like you said, Andy, if the Saints, if Drew Brees leaves after this season, which I think is most people's expectation, it's mine at least, then what is that team? Is it James Winston? Right. And are they going to be good enough with Winston? Probably. And there was a little note. I don't know if you guys had caught it, but Camara reiterated the epidural. He said, I did this last year too. So yeah. Hopefully we don't have to worry about that.

All right, the Lions were the lucky winners in the Adrian Peterson sweepstakes, a one-year deal with Detroit. He said they're giving me the opportunity to play. I know Matt Patricia is enamored with Adrian Peterson. So Bo Scarborough and injured reserve. DeAndre Swift has been banged up. Carry on Johnson has a permabrace. So Adrian Peterson could get some run here. He could.

in Detroit. Do you care in terms of like free agent acquisition, end of draft? I'm not going after Peterson. It, I mean, it could affect how you feel about DeAndre Swift. Yeah, did it move Swift down the board for you guys? I didn't make a move. I already had him kind of, you know, in that like RB2, RB3 area. Swift is the best running back on the team right now. But does that really, does that really matter? Will that turn into enough?

opportunity. I've been off of the Detroit backfield entirely Swift. Forever. I've never been on this for 2020. I haven't wanted to go in. I mean, we've talked about that, right? Like, who's going to be the first man up? Is it carry on? Is it Swift? It probably doesn't matter because they're both going to be involved. Now with Swift's injury, I started to, you know, we've had a couple drafts that have happened in the last couple days before the Adrian Peterson news. And it was like,

you know, carry-on's a value there. He could be the clear starter to start the season that you're getting in late rounds. Now with the AP signing, I'm back. It was like a week, a week-long blip. A little fling? Yes, just a little, you know, with my ex. You smell some of the perfume from last year? Exactly. But, you know, it basically means I'm off of all three. So this was good for you. This was necessary. Adrian Peterson signing. Yeah.

DeAndre Swift has been in the UDK bus all offseason just from the perspective of a shared backfield in Detroit. And what they're, you know, when I made the case for Matthew Stafford as a top five fantasy quarterback, it was because they've entrusted him to be an aggressive, you know, pass first type of offense. Lynn Bowden was traded. Running back.

slash every position because we weren't sure what Lynn Bowden was going to be when he was drafted by the Raiders in the third round. What we know now is he will not be a Raider. A Las Vegas Raider. So they took their third round pick, tried to convert him to running back. And they said, how about Miami? We'll give you Bowden and a sixth round pick if you give us a fourth round pick for next year. Oops. Whoops. Whoops. Yeah. And I.

It failed. The dolphins are looking at him as a wide receiver. I'd rather be the Cardinals trading Rosen for a second than the dolphins releasing Rosen. So if it didn't work, there you go. But Lynn Bowden was somebody that people worried about threatening Josh Jacobs as a pass catcher. And who was that other guy that was brought up 400,000 times in my Twitter mentions? Theoretic. Theoretic. Yes. Who was cut? He was. So now we have two.

fewer reasons to troll me, Mike. That's always a good feeling. So Josh Jacobs has every opportunity. Before you ride off on that high horse, I will remind you that the two running backs behind Josh Jacobs are specifically past catchers. Yeah. I know they are. But Theoretic isn't one of them. Is one of them named DeAndre Washington? No. That's right, because he is not on the team anymore. He left. So I'm on team Jacobs. I think that the past catching work will be there this year.

I know Mike doesn't understand what he started when he began trolling me with Theoretic and the amount of people that just blitzed to me. And I said, what did I say to you within five seconds of you telling me he signed? I said, I will bet you anything you want. He's cut. Yes. And I would not take that bet because. Because you knew. Because I knew you would be good. All right. Hey, it's a good day for me. Zach Taylor says AJ Green is full go. He'll be a full go on Sunday. For the first time. Hey.

I can't say anything better than that. He's going to be a full go on Sunday. Will you start him? You drafted A.J. Green. Are you confident to start him week one? He's A.J. Green. He's a full go. Or do you bench him? Andy? I think based on what I've done in mock drafts and where I get A.J. Green, I'm not always in the position to have to start him with the price. Right. So I would I, if I needed to, yeah. I mean, I guess it's anybody on your roster if he needed to.

But like if you're asking me to Sean Jackson or AJ Green in week one, I probably probably played D Jacks and see how AJ is doing out there. But yeah, I'm willing to. He's just not very expensive in drafts. Golden Tate sidelined. He hasn't practiced since the final week of camp has a soft tissue issue.

I would start Sterling Shepard in week one. I certainly would. I looked into Darius Slateen quite a lot this weekend because he was someone I was going to target for our league of record draft, which is the day before kickoff. Oh, that's tomorrow. That's exciting to say. And I was looking at Darius Slayton for that draft. And the more I looked into it, I saw an, he got injured like a week ago. And I saw nothing on it. Talking about Slate.

Yes, Darius Slayton. And I can't find any follow-up news. I saw one person from that area who was a New York Giants Twitter account saying that they fear he could miss some time. But I haven't seen this anywhere, anywhere. And so now here in Golden Tate's hamstring, Sterling Shepard could very well be an awesome piece. Evan Ingram. Yeah, Evan Ingram too. Oh, certainly. Evan Ingram. I need to move him up. That being said, you might want to just.

Watch it play out if you're not confident in the Giants against the Steelers in week one. So Steelers defense is pretty solid. They're pretty good. We did get an injury update Devante Parker. So if you bought the dip on Devante Parker with some ambiguity around his injury, he did return to practice today. So that's some good news. And we know Ryan Fitzpatrick is starting the season as the starter in Miami.

So after all the doubt and fear and all that stuff, you end up with Devante Parker and Ryan Fitzpatrick in week one. So it is the Patriots. Yeah. Which worked out well the last time. Yes. What else is going on? We have Debo Samuel. This is big news. This is big news. Devo Samuel off the NFI list. He is not on the short term IR. They're saying he could play. He is eligible to play. I am not starting Devo Samuel.

Week 1, despite the juicy matchup against the Arizona Cardinals. But this is fantastic news. I've been drafting Debo Samuel in that seventh, eighth round for a player that, if he had never been injured, would have been a third, maybe a fourth round pick. The hype on Debo Samuel was real. And it was warranted. He's an excellent player. So that's very exciting stuff for Debo if you were drafting him later.

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Which means, I don't know, how many games? Four? Maybe. I mean, fewer than six, right? Is at least their hope or their, you know, is probably their expectation, definitely their hope. It's in, and you guys see, there was some whispers that they're trying to trade him. Interesting. No, I did not, I did not see that. Yeah. Unsuccessfully. Good luck. Yeah.

Damien Harris on injured reserve will miss at least the first three weeks of the NFL season for the Patriots. There was a lot of hype around Damian Harris. Right now, just pay attention to this for Clint. Put them on your IR. You can pick them up after your draft. Throw them on your IR spot if you have it in your league. And at least...

wait and see how that backfield looks because Lamar Miller's been cut. We have given this tip many times before. I've used it this last week in drafts, but it's using your last positional pick to grab an IR eligible player. I've been grabbing Alshan Jeffrey left and right because he's there with my last pick. And then as soon as your draft is over, you throw him in on the IR and pick up a free waiver pickup that you probably could have drafted there anyways.

All right, Brandon Cook's limited in Monday's practice. We don't know a whole lot more, but they do play Thursday. So pay attention to that if you were going to start him on Thursday. That's a big deal, a quad injury as well. So soft tissue, you can't just say, well, the game's Thursday, we're good. It might be time to fly in formation. Ooh. That flying V. Oh, yeah? Yeah. I mean, look, I've been on the Brandon Cook side. You could be the Goldberg and all this. I.

I assume that's a fat reference. I haven't seen the movie. You've never seen The Mighty Ducks? I think I've brought this up before, but there's two movies that I'm ashamed. I've never seen The Mighty Ducks. Yeah, it's Space Jam. And I've never seen Space Jam. Which is like, those seem right up my alley, my age group, by everything. So you don't know what knuckle puck time is. So I've seen a couple clips. Isn't that like he puts the puck up on the side? Yeah. Yeah. So I do know that one. Also, uh,

As anyone knows, if you saw that movie as a kid, you went home immediately. If you had a hockey stick, you're like, well, I'm going to check this out. It doesn't, the hockey puck doesn't actually do that. It doesn't fly like a knuckleball. It doesn't perplex your friends, family, and everyone in the area into some sort of time war? It goes, you just, how many people went home and broke a window? I want to know the percentage of Post Mighty Duck window breaks.