Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Keep/Cut/Trade, Fantasy News & Mailbag

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You will be prepared for your draft. Your league will be frightened of you. And you will kill them. To the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, my goodness. Liam takes this very serious. It's a very serious turn at the end. And you will kill them. And you will kill them. That's pretty dark.

Oh, thanks, Liam. Good friend of the show. Good friend of the show, Liam Neeson. Thank you for coming on. Wow. Welcome to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Yes. Just taking some time, some celebrity introductions to the ultimate draft kit. I'm thrown off a little bit by this. We have a good show for you today. Andy, Mike, and Jason back again. The Fantasy Footballers is June 23rd. It is Thursday. We are inching towards three shows a week.

which will begin in July. Are you guys excited? Oh, super pumped. If we're at three shows in July, that only means that football is drawing extremely close. It only means that five shows is coming quickly. One month after that, August, five shows a week, life is complete. Yeah. Life is complete slash, that's a lot of shows. But I'm looking forward to it. I mean, it's great.

No complaints from my hint. We got a good quick question for you. Today we are doing a game that Mike has come up with. I have come up with a game. It is a twist on a game that I believe most of you will recognize the concept of the game, and we'll talk about it more when we get there. Yeah, but it is essentially you will be making some decisions with your fantasy team, which is great because...

That's what you're doing right now if you're in a keeper or dynasty league, and that's what you will be doing with your redraft leagues. And you guys can play along with us. Oh, yeah, absolutely. And we're looking, it's going to be fun, going to be light, maybe humorous. Some of these decisions may be like, oh, that's ridiculous, that won't happen. But we're putting, basically, you are forced into a corner here. Yeah. Forced into a court. You are like a rabid dog, and you've got to make a decision. Look, your fantasy football ability is refined.

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The fire. And we're going to put you in the fire today and make you make some decisions with us. And we'll make some and we'll make our argument. So connect with us over on jointhefoot.com or fantasy football community where you can grab an extra episode every week, exclusive content. We've got giveaways. We've got a July 6th giveaway coming out. We've got a Tyrod Taylor jersey, a signed Tyraud Taylor jersey. Oh, it's so nice. From pristine auction that we're giving away. You can follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. We're also on YouTube, the Fantasy Sports Network, and Facebook. And if you want to submit a question,

the show. We're going to answer some more of those today. You can do that on the fantasy footballers.com. So quick question, gentlemen, who have you been changing your opinion on lately? Because this is the season for changing opinions. We are water. We are not stone. Absolutely. When injuries, when quarterback situations change, we change because we are trying to project the future, not kind of sit on a prediction made in May. I'm jumping in here first.

because this guy might get taken. If I don't do it right away. Taken, huh? I see what you did. And it's not that my opinion has changed. Like, I'm not flip-flopping. I am simply rising even more on this character. My esteemed colleague and the host of this show has already announced his love recently on the Twitter. And I'm going with, as he shakes it said, I had to get in here first. Yeah, you want to know why I'm shaking my head is I'm going to the ranking so I can find a new guy.

Yeah, good. Good. And that is Russell Wilson. Mr. Russell Wilson up in Seattle. Look, one of the largest, largest questions of the offseason for Seattle skill players, what are they going to be doing? What are they going to look like? Will they try and turn their running backs? Either it's Crystal Michael, Pro Seize, Thomas Rawls, whoever, will they try and turn them into Lynch? Will they allow Russell Wilson to just be the man?

Be the man up there in Seattle like he was in the second half. And sure, we are definitely in the season of the coach speak where can you trust what is actually being said. But for Pete Carroll to come out and say that moving forward, they expect that their offense will look closer to what it was in the second half of the year. That has piqued my interest. We already liked Russell Wilson a lot on the show, but he has moved up for me.

And he is now currently my number two, number two quarterback across the board. It's ridiculous that you chose Russell Wilson for this segment because he's my number one. That was going to be the headline. That's much more impactful. That's like, Andy, it's your turn. Love it. Who's your guy, Andy?

Well, luckily I don't just focus on one player in analysis, so I do have another player. I'm going to say that Latavius Murray is starting to creep. Yes. Up my board a little bit. He's at 27 on my rankings, which I believe makes him the lowest of the three of us. Really? I have them higher? I did bump him up a little bit. Yeah, you do. You have him at 24, Jason 21. I raised him up like Josh Grobin. Yeah, I have him at 27.

The reality for me is that he deserves RB2 respect. I mean, it's kind of ridiculous to have him at 27 with the workload that he has had before. You know, he's a guy who, well, I don't have the number right in front of me. He's in the top five in attempts at the running back position. I know that. He's somebody who, you know, is good after contact. He had 500 plus yards after contact this year.

He's a player that deserves the respect of an RB2 at least because of the opportunity. And until something changes, I don't think I need to knock him down the board just because he didn't do what I hoped last year. You hope to see more flashy plays, some more big plays from Latavius Murray, and you hope to see more of the confidence of the coaching staff. And so those things didn't seem to come to fruition, but the plain and simple numbers of Latavius Murray tell me that he warrants to be in that.

in that 18 to 22 range. And so that's a guy whose opinion is changing for me, whereas I think I just unfairly had him a little too low. Yeah. But Russell Wilson is my number one quarterback now. Latavius Murray is at the line. That could have been my cool story. It was a cool story on Twitter, but that's all busted. We had to get to the new hotness, which was him raising up in my rankings. Yeah, keep it up, Grobe. And also, I would like to welcome both of you.

to essentially my rankings, right? Mike, after you made your changes, your top four just looked exactly like mine already did. Okay. It's the worst. Yeah, the worst intro ever to the show. I have a lot of guys that I've changed on recently in small ways. You know, I'm always bumping a guy up, bumping a guy down, affecting a change in my mind. And I would say that obviously, Kamar Aiken is one of those guys that I've actually changed on. I was anti-Aken.

And now I'm making for smakin. But since we talked about him last episode, I'll throw a different name out there that I don't think we've really talked about. And it's really two names, but I was going to go with Gio Bernard. I'm rising on Gio Bernard a lot, which necessitates a small lowering for me of Jeremy Hill. The more that I think about it and look at their offense, look at their quarterback coach going to take over the offensive coordinator role.

the value where both of those guys are going in the draft. I believe that Gio Bernard is a really good, talented running back, who has the trust of his team, of his offensive coordinator, of his quarterback. He was used surprisingly a lot in the red zone, not necessarily on the goal line. And for his opportunities, he should have scored more. So I think that he presents a really good value this year. And if that is correct, then Jeremy Hill...

who I was kind of really high on coming into this year thinking, okay, this is going to be the time. I think now I'm just bumping him down to where most people have Hill. Jeremy Hill is such a curious fantasy football case. There was an article by Jason Markham over on one of the Bengals websites, and he kind of references Matthew Berry's Top 100 stats article that recently came out. But the concept was this idea that Jeremy Hill is a simultaneous star and dud.

Yeah, that makes sense. And if you look at last year, I mean, I believe that, you know, nobody's had more touchdowns than Jeremy Hill since the time Jeremy Hill came into the league as far as the running back goes. And so you have these things that if you just read them independently, you'd be like stud, stud. But then you had what took place last year, which is a disappointing...

Fantasy impact. I will put it that way. Didn't Jeremy Hill win the footy award from our show for most disappointing season? Yeah. And he finished as like the 14th best running back. So something crazy because of his touchdown totals. Really weird. Yeah. So Mike stole Russell Wilson. I had Latavius Murray. Whoa. That's slanderous accusations. All right. Whatever. Whatever. Fight. Fight. We're moving on.

Maybe. Maybe we'll move on. News and Notes from Around the League. If you ever wonder why sometimes the drops seem like they're on mute, it's because I've probably recently visited NFL.com and didn't want one of their advertisements to come through the speakers. So that's the kind of caution you have to have when, you know, as much as I'd love to advertise Visa to everybody here. All right, let's get into the news and notes. Not a lot today.

No, no, not a lot. Mike put these in. Brandon LaFelle says he and Dandy Dalton are on the same page. That is not news, Mike. I put it in because... Why? Because there is someone on this staff who has said that he is rising on Brandon LaFelle. Yeah, I guess I could have gone with him as well. Yeah, yeah. It's too bad we didn't have a close-up of Andy's face. Yeah, he's like, shocked. What are you? Because it was the look of someone who had... It just had...

A horrific odor had emitted from Jason's face directly into Andy's nostrils. Jason could barely talk. Wait after he heard that. So this is in here so that we can talk about Brown-Lafel is what you're saying. Yeah, the floor is yours, Jason. Okay. And we do mean the floor because Lafell establishes the fantasy football floor. He's got a really safe floor of zero. Here's my thinking on Brandon Lafell. A couple of years ago in the Patriots offense, we know he finished, I believe, as a... It was a two.

Was he a two? I thought he finished 12th. But he was very high. He was very high for that season. So we know he can get it done. Obviously, he was a garbage can for the Patriots last year, dropped half of the balls that were thrown his way, it seemed. But the point of me rising on Brandon LaFell is not to say that I think he's going to be great. It's to say that he's going undrafted. And he is, as of right now, even though I like Tyler Boyd a lot, he's the number two.

in their camp. He's the guy that is right now filling in for Mohamed Sunu and Marvin Jones who just left. And he's going undrafted while in deep. And I'm talking deeper leagues. I'm talking about where you go 18, 19, 20 rounds. I've had MFL tens where they finish and you're 20 rounds deep and you don't draft a kicker. And Brandon LaFelle is out there while you're picking up guys that are. Okay, but let me ask you this. It's a simple question. If he caught 49 passes for 627 yards.