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

That could mean a lot for fantasy. If things go right for Larry, it could mean what we saw at the beginning of last year where it's like... He's a spot starter. Yeah. Agreed. Let's go to another voicemail here. Hey, Valor. This is Joey Farrell from San Diego calling about a flex question. Should I start? The safety of Mark Ingram or the shininess of Jonathan Taylor in week one. Thank you.

Yeah, the Colts have Jacksonville in week one and Baltimore has Cleveland and neither of those things matter at all because the answer is Mark Ingram. Yeah, I agree. I think that Jonathan Taylor has a situation where you can start him if you need to start him in week one. You don't need to start him. You have Mark Ingram who you drafted to be a starter. The offense, they're heavy favorites at home. That's great for a running back. Marking room would be my start. Agreed. All right.

Tom and Poughkeepsie have to pick up a defense for week one. Would you rather hang on to Alexander Madison in case of a cook injury or hang on to Malcolm Brown and see what he is after week one? What would you do in that situation? That's a very interesting question. If I have Dalvin Cook on my roster, I'm just going to eat it and I'm going to have the insurance. I'm going to have the backup. I'd rather have Madison. If I don't have Dalvin Cook, then I'm going to take the chance on...

on Malcolm Brown, see if he comes out and he's, you know, 65% of the workload for the Rams, which is possible. And then look, look, if Ram, if Malcolm Brown hits for the Rams in week one, you better see if anyone's tilting and ready to trade for Malcolm. I was going to ask that. It's not, it's not season long for Malcolm Brown. It could be the first chunk of the season, though. I would keep Alexander Madison unless my running back say I need a guy who can start.

You know, if I went heavy on wide receivers early and I'm like, man, I could really use someone in week two, week three that might need to be plugged into my lineup. But if either of these guys are going to be on my bench, feel like I'd rather have Madison for the high upside. Yeah. Yeah, you could be in that situation if you're like, if you picked up David Montgomery in your draft or you have some needs for a spot start to start the year. Then you'd want Malcolm Brown for sure. Yeah, yeah.

All right, Richard in Nashville has a roster construction question. He says, how do you guys feel about having a quarterback and running back from the same team? Specifically, Russell, Elshund. And Chris Carson. I'm not a huge fan of it. It's funny when you said that.

When you say specifically, there are specifics that I'm super happy with, and that's the heavy pass catchers. If it's Alvin Camara and Drew Brees, if it's the projected workload for Clyde Edwards Allaire and Pat Mahomes. But if you don't have a running back that projects to be a heavy pass catcher, I don't love having the quarterback running back stack. Yeah, it's not my favorite, but it's if you are confident about Seattle saying Seattle's going to score a whole bunch of points, then it's not a...

complete detriment to your team. All right. Another voicemail question. Hey, Ballers. This is Stephanie in Detroit. With James Robinson now officially listed as Jacksonville starting running back, would you drop Zach Moss or Chris Thompson to pick him up or would you hang on to these guys for the potential upside? Thanks. I know my answer, Jason. What do you think? Yeah, I'm definitely hanging on to Chris Thompson and Zach Moss. I think James, you know, he's listed as the starter.

But I don't know necessarily that his upside is what either of those other two guys are. Yeah, you know who's listed as the starter in Washington? J.D. McKissick. Is he really? He's the RB1? Well, yeah, he's listed as the starter. But, like, this is, and I'm sure my timeline is going to explode with that. I believe J.K. Dobbs is, like, fourth on Baltimore's depth chart. And, uh, yeah, the, uh,

Coach Harbaugh was very quick to say, we don't make that list. This list is being put out by PR teams. So don't worry about depth charts completely. That's why the James Roberts thing is, take it with a grain of salt. It might be Chris Thompson, who is actually the starting running back for Jacksonville. Were you disappointed that Thompson wasn't listed as the first on the depth chart? No. It makes sense because of his role in the offense. The official depth charts.

Right now are the most meaningless things that have ever been made. I was listening to Mike Fisher. He's a longtime 40-year beat reporter for the Cowboys. Talk about how irrelevant these things are. And he brought up, do you know who the Dallas Cowboys have listed as the Tightend One on their depth chart? Oh, yeah. Blake Bell? Nope. No, Schultz. Nope. Who? Jason Witten.

That is who they have currently listed as their tight-in to one. Now, to be clear, he does not play for them. That's true. He is a raider. And I just double-checked to see if it was still true. It is still true if you go to Dallas Cowboys. You know, they have as their quarterback on the debt chart? Goldberg. The goalie. Here's the funny thing. So I didn't realize how.

crazy Mike McCarthy has been. We talk about Nagy and all his magic tricks. Mike McCarthy, this camp, has been insanely secretive. He won't say anything. He doesn't actually know what's going on. I wouldn't doubt it. But like he won't name their punt returner.

They won't say who's going to return punts because they want that advantage. And this is purposeful. He said that there's no tape on them yet. There's no film. They don't know what they're going to do. So we want to keep these secrets. Wasn't McCarthy the one that eventually in Green Bay was just getting massages in his?

office while other coaches took care of things. I've not heard that. You didn't know that? That's a spicy story. No, that came out in the Aaron Rogers like tale that he kind of got to the point where he had other people doing so many different things that he would just get midday massages and stuff. Sign me up.

Well, I mean, look, he's watched every snap of film for the last couple of years, except not at all. I was getting a massage. And then my final stamp, back to the depth chart conversation. You know who the started was for the 49ers last year at the running back? It was Tevin Coleman. For the whole year. That did not matter. Probably will be this year, too. For fantasy. Rahim Moster was the dude. All right. Richard in Nashville. How do you guys? Oh, I already asked that one.

I meant Brady and Morton. He said, who do you guys think I should start week one is my RB2? So this is another Jonathan Taylor question, but it's Jonathan Taylor or Marlon Mack. Week one, it's a PPR league. Week one for, now, you know, just to revisit this in case you weren't with us this offseason, Frank Reich, he's come out, he said both of these guys, we've got a 1A, 1A, whatever language to say they're both the starter.

Week one, that's a tough decision because you don't want to be the person that started Marlon Mac and missed the Jonathan Taylor breakout. But I believe the right answer is probably, probability-wise, Marlon Mac. Yeah, it's going to be Marlon Mac for me. And here's the nice thing. If you are the guy that missed the Jonathan Taylor week one breakout and you started Mac over him, you want to know the comfort you're going to have is that you have Jonathan Taylor. Yeah. So you're going to be.

Okay. And I would start Marlon Mack week one. I would start Taylor. I'd go for it. I have been in our League of Record draft, which we have on Wednesday. And we have been doing some mocks and we've been doing some thinking. And yesterday I shared with Jason how unhappy I'm going to be after my first two picks no matter what I select. And there's a big keeper league and we have multiple firsts and stuff like that where we're thinking about these decisions.

But I've found myself, I have actually cooled off on Jonathan Taylor a little bit. I had been rising up. You guys have been bringing me with you, but I've cooled a little bit in the belief that they really will use all three of those backs because they're all really good players. It's not like, you know, I don't know how good Justin Jackson really is in Los Angeles.

and beat reporters are talking about. I'll say that's a great point. Joshua Kelly is in that conversation of you should throw him on the back of your roster. And I agree. Beat reporters around Los Angeles are saying that they don't expect Austin Ecklers carries to rise very much at all. So there could be about 200 carries on the table for Justin Jackson and Joshua Kelly. Jackson's healthy. He's going to play.

But Joshua Kelly is another one of those guys. But like I'm saying, we don't know. Like I know Marlon and Mac. I've watched him play football behind this offensive line. He's really, really good. Now, they didn't extend him. So the future is not Marlon Mc. But coaches care about the present as much as they do, anything else, especially this year. No preseason time for Jonathan Taylor. I've just cooled a little bit. Not saying I wouldn't draft him, but the way my team was looking at the draft, I'd have to take him in a place where I'm starting him within three weeks. And I was like, I don't know if I want to do that.

So there's a little hint into Wednesday, Mike. Maybe I don't, you know, draft Jonathan Taylor. All right. Here's the air for you. All right. David and Washington, where's a good spot to jump into a draft league last minute? All my friends have bailed. So you are, you're in a pickle, David. The season is coming quickly.

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