Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - FNTSY Network's Jake Ciely, #FootClan Mailbag, News

where if they have a good thing going, I don't know if they'll change. If you're a guy like me who in our League of Record has Thomas Rawls is one of his three. I would feel shaky. Three keepers, you would feel shaky? Yeah. That was the question. I'm not jumping off the ship yet, just saying that this news is, you're going to have to watch him. All right. Let's talk about ESPN's reporter. What is this? Jeff Legwold said the Broncos like Mark Sanchez more than you think. That's interesting. So do I. I think they have to.

I've said this. I think Mark Sanchez is very fine for that offense. And all you need is very fine. Have you seen Peyton Manning? I mean, last year, he was just regular fine. He was not even fine. He was terrible. He was bad. I mean, he was leading the league in interceptions by a wide margin. On purpose. All right, ESPN's Todd Archer believes it's still possible that Cowboys would trade Darren McFadden. That's nuts, man. There was apparently... Well, you're not trading...

Alf after Alf gets signed. There was reports that they were getting offers for both McFadden and Alfred Morris after they grabbed Elliot. Better not be the Seahawks calling. Oh, they'll get me the shakes. That's a mess. So that's interesting as turns for the handcuff in Dallas. Yeah. I mean, because we've said on the show McFadden's the one to own because third down work, he could get some of that until...

They feel comfortable with Ezekieli's past protection and how he feels in the scheme. I don't think it'll be long, though. I think Zeke's going to be out there a lot. First round wide receiver, Josh Doxen hurt his foot on Tuesday. Apparently hurt his foot is in quotation marks. Yes. It's just worth monitoring whenever someone hurts their foot. Teams are never very forthright. X-rays came back negative.

They say, you know, he'll be back in maybe seven to ten days. He's going to miss the OTAs or the rest of them. But I've also heard many reports of, oh, he's coming back next week because he has a foot injury all the way to the end of the season and he never plays the rest of the season again. That's not what I'm saying about Doxon, but you never ever want to hear about a foot injury, especially this early. All right, Jeff Fisher News.

Jack Fisher believes Tavon Austin can double his 52 catches. I think this is just interesting to talk about Tavon Austin for a second because... Yeah, I think it is. He did surprise me last year. He's a value right now where he's going... He's a running back. He is. He is a running back. It's funny because some of those players, you know, if you're on a website, say like Pro Football Reference, great website, and you're looking up player stats, they automatically sort based on, you know, is he catching the ball or is he running the ball? And when you go to Tavon Austin's page,

It's like his running stats come up first as if he's a running back. He's 5252. There you have it. 52 catches, 52 attempts on the ground. 435 rushing yards. That's not bad, man. So if he believes that he can be, he can increase those PPR numbers, if Fisher's, let's say Fisher is, I don't know, wrong about something. And instead of 104 catches, he catches 65. And he gets...

434 on the ground. Last year he was actually a valuable wide receiver in fantasy football. It was difficult to predict because you never really wanted to put him in the game. But especially in certain leagues, I mean, you want to talk about a best ball league where they use them around the goal line in kind of bizarre plays and running plays that you don't see coming. That's how he got several of his touchdowns last year. And so I think if I'm in a MFL 10, he's going way too late for what he can produce on a

irregular basis, which is kind of fine. Ryan Gurley helps him on the ground. Don't make any mistake there. He's the kind of guy like Percy Harvin was where you run jet sweeps with him. You're keeping, you know, all these guys are stuffed in the box to stop Todd Gurley, and you surprise defenses with quick screens and those type of plays. He's a weapon if they would use him as a weapon. And they did start to do that last year. Even if he, they're not going to double his catches. He's not going to get over 100 receptions. But that might be a good team goal. If Tava.

Her completions. Gough put the 100 up. If Tavon catch, what if Tavon catches 75 passes? Right. No, that's what I'm saying. He becomes interesting. He becomes very interesting. If he caught 75 passes with those rushing numbers, you'd start talking about it. You'd be talking about him and Jarvis Landry in the same breath. Baltimore. Oh, you're skipping the Nick Falls one. All right. Nick Foles is skipping OTAs out of protest. Gone full Sam Bradford. This can't be true.

It has to be true because I want it to be true. Did him and Sammy Bradford talk to each other about this? I tweeted about it earlier. I just said, who does he think he is? Sam Bradford. I mean, go out there and win the job. Jason, do your Sam Bradford impression again. I can't remember how it went. How did that go? No, no, do your best Nick Foles. Oh, I actually have the audio for Nick Foles. Oh, you do have that one. Let me find it on the, okay, here, hit it. Here you come in the name.

I'm going to stay at home driving one of the rookie quarterback. This is ridiculous. That was yesterday. Live from Nick Falls Hotel Room. Yeah. On the floor. All right. Baltimore's sons Jeff Zeribiac. Yeah. Considers Kamar Aiken to still be the Ravens quote best option as the number two receiver. I told you.

Camar Aiken. I told you. I love this world of fantasy has happened yet. Exactly. I told you. I told you. Tell me once he's on the field. And it will, I will. Now Jeff Zrebeck has, whatever his name is. Look. Oh, I love fantasy football. Camar Aiken is just being a tossed into the garbage. And I don't think he deserves to be there at all. Yeah. Well, Kamar Aiken is, we'll find out. He's okay. It's, you.

Anybody could say that the ex player on the Ravens is going to be the number one or number two. I mean, who is it going to be? Is it going to be Bashar Perriman? Or is it going to be Kamar Aiken? Or is it going to be Steve Smith? Oh, Mike Wallace? Mike Wallace? I mean, Ben Watson. I can say it will not be Mike Wallace. Yeah, that's true. So can Mike Wallace. Well, we're going to get. Yeah.

We're going to get into, because of everything that the Foot Clan's been doing for us lately in voting on podcast awards, we wanted to have a mailbag show, answer as many listener questions as we could today. But before we get into that, we want to take a second and thank Fantasy Jocks, an awesome sponsor. We have personally shopped at Fantasy Jocs for years. Mike used to get his big old championship rings there. Yes, I did.

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Oh, yeah. Just try it. Wherever you go. All right. So we are going to, let's chat with Jake Sealy of the Fantasy Sports Network. Jason and I recorded this interview earlier today. Mike was dealing with the drama in the house. Burning down the house. The CIA was at my house. Burning down the house. Yeah. So let's go ahead and talk to Jake. We'll play that interview and then we'll get into the mailbag. You talking to me?

The fantasy footballers are now excited to bring on Jake Seeley, the all-in kid himself, award-winning, accurate writer for roto experts and part of our brotherhood on the Fantasy Sports Network. Jake, how are you this fine, beautiful day?

I'm doing terrific. Even with no mic here, I'm doing terrific because Chick-fil-A's got their free app giveaway today. So I got my free lunch. Oh, that's great. So we just want to look at some rankings. We've been talking through them a lot. We just released our ultimate draft kit, which has all of our rankings in there. And so we were looking at your most recent rankings with tiers and just wanted to bring up a few names. And the guy I'm going to lead it off with is somebody you have right now in Tier 4.

There are many question marks around him. There's been different news coming out of late, and that's Thomas Rawls. You haven't at RB24 right now, and so kind of give us some perspective on why you have them ranked there. What do you see as possible outcomes being in 2016? I actually think there's a wide range of outcomes here, and 24 is just because I don't feel confident, and I love the guy they drafted a CJ Pro size. I'm probably one of the biggest supporters you'll find out there for CJ Procise. I think that he can be a full-down...

back, although even if Rawls is healthy, he still will be in the passing game plenty enough to be. I said at least an RB3 in PPR leagues. And I think that he could even have RB3 value, flex value in standard leagues. But my biggest concern is still as of today, we haven't had a lick of good news. It's not even like, oh, he's getting back to practice or the healing's going well. There's been nothing. And they drafted pro size. They drafted Collins. They had an undrafted free agent. They're still talking about Kristen Michael, which we don't need to get back.

back into that situation. But, you know, I'm just looking at the fact they have a ton of options. They drafted two more. We haven't heard any good news. I just don't know that he's ready for week one. Now, if he's ready and if they're going to give him 20 touches a game, he can easily be in a top 15 running back. He does have that talent. But I just haven't seen anything so far, especially with the moves they've made in the offseason to say, hey, I want to trust him as my top 15 running. I don't even want him in the top 20, as you can see. Yeah, and that's the difficult thing right about.

You know, it's June 1st here today when we're talking to you. And you have to kind of weigh the risks and the unknowns when you put these early rankings together. Now, if, you know, Mike were here with us right now talking, he would bring up Chris and Michael, and that's all we would discuss for the entirety of the interview. So we'll prevent that from happening. But a lot of question marks with Rawls, but then you had, you know, the end of last year. So that's where people are having the hard time ranking him. I definitely understand that.

I think we're big fans of ProCise too, just unsure of how often and how much they're going to use him. Yeah, ProCise is a guy. He looks great. A lot of comparison to a guy we love in David Johnson. Do you see that comparison for ProCise? Do you think it's fair?

I think it's a fair comparison. I called him 90% David Johnson. He's not quite as talented, and there are some concerns because he has concerns with – which is funny because he's a past-catching guy, but he has concerns with drops and handling the ball. So there is that aspect, and especially if you're a rookie and you're not holding on to the ball, that's going to play into the downside of pro-size. But that's something that can be straightened out. If you're talking about one of the areas of a rookie getting things straight out in the NFL, I would probably want it to be fumbling and not something else, because as we've seen, all the way back to Tiki Barber, we can figure these things.

things out with running back. So I do like his upside and that's why I think that even if Rawls is ready to go week one, I still think we'll see enough of pro size that he'll have a geo-binar type of value.

Yeah, that's good. So David Johnson, speaking of David Johnson, he's a guy we love, we had him on the show, and we catch a little bit of flack sometimes because he certainly seems, when you look at those guys who are going super early, like he does have a couple of the question marks that could make you bust. Now, you are a three-time top three most accurate guy, and you have David Johnson ranked as RB2. So for all of us, David Johnson, truthers, explain yourself.

You know, it's funny yesterday on Twitter, somebody was like, well, if you take out that game against Philly, and if you do that, and Chris Joss, I'm like, I hate when people do that. I do too. I hate that. Yeah. Take this game out and don't factor in this. And if you account, you can make anything you want with stats. Take out all the long runs. If you take out his 70-yard touchdown run, his yards would carry terrible. Yeah, that's my favorite. Yeah. That one big game, you know, if you eliminate that. So, but look.

David Johnson, if you just take the weeks where he was starting, he was the number one running back, even in standard, by four points per game over the next closest, which was actually DeAngelo Williams last year. But for looking at what he can do, I've always loved this talent. Going back to last year's draft, he was my second rated running back going into the draft only behind Todd Gurley. I know that Chris Johnson is back, but give it a break. Chris Johnson only was there starting because the team wasn't ready to trust a rookie and David Johnson, who they didn't spend a high draft pick on. So it's not like there was.