Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - AFC West Breakdown, News, Mailbag

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Welcome to the fantasy footballers. It is Tuesday, June 16th. Andy, Mike, and Jason are with you again. How are you guys doing today? Pretty good, pretty good. I picked myself up off the floor after Sunday nights. After Sunday night, the season's over. That's all I'm going to say about it. Oh, we'll wait until Thursday. Thursday world. Yes.

You're talking about Game of Thrones. Yeah, it's over, and I'm very sad. Now it's an entire year without Thrones. Yeah. Yeah, I don't know. That's the reason. That's the reason. Right. That's the only reason. I've got dinosaurs on the brain. Oh, man. Jurassic World. Oh, so didn't you go see Jurassic World with that amazing dude? Nope. Oh. It's, uh, for those of us that were like Jurassic Park fans, like I was like 10 years old when that movie came out.

It was the perfect homage to that movie. I loved it. I loved every minute of it. I did too. I was really afraid it was going to be way over the top and really stupid. It was way over the top and really awesome. Yeah. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Very good. Welcome to the show. We are the fantasy footballers. No, we don't talk about Jurassic Park and Game of Thrones all the time. We talk about fantasy football. Fantasy dinosaurs. I got the raptors. Yeah.

You can follow us on Twitter at the FFFballers. You can visit our website, the fantasy footballers.com. If you have a question for us, you can email us, mail at the fantasy footballers.com, or you can call our voice mailbox 302-464 TFFB. A quick question for you guys today. I'm throwing this one out there. Does it bother you when your opponent has the quarterback throwing to your main wide receiver?

Your wide receiver want. Does that bother you, or do you like it? I love it. But I hate, I mean, it stands the reason. If I like that, I hate having the opposite. I hate when my quarterback has the guy, you know, where, because essentially, wide receiver makes more on every single play. So it's like, not an.

Every league, but I would say the majority of the league, because they're getting yards per 10 versus 25 for a quarterback. Yeah, exactly. So it's like one of those things where every single time that the quarterback throws to the wide receiver, the wide receiver wins and the quarterback loses. Yeah, but they could just not throw to that wide receiver. Yeah, there's always that potential where the quarterback can have a good day and your wide receiver can stink. I've had it go both ways. I've had a, you know, I've got Demarius Thomas and I think I'm going to shut.

Oh, that means Peyton's going to throw the ball to him all the time, and then he just checks it to Julius Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders and no touchdown. I don't know. I don't like it any time that they can be nullified. It's a frustrating situation. It's similar to when you're playing your stud, and then in the other league, you're playing against him. So you are...

simultaneously very happy and very upset whenever they score. So follow-up, quick question. Do you enjoy having the quarterback and the wide receiver combo on your own team? Yeah. Yeah, I love it. Oh, yeah. We've been over the double stuff. Yeah, yeah. Speaking of the double stuff, I did some further research because I felt it had to be done. I went. All food research has to be done. It is. This is for science. This is for the footballer nation. The listeners need to know. I got a pack of mega stuff. Ooh.

That's a lot of stuff. Did you have to eBay that? No. It was... Just in the local supermarket? Yeah. In the local food market. There was just a small bag. I got him. It's too much. Too much good stuff, huh? It's the cream to cookie ratio is too much. You got to have that double stuff. The double stuff is the Goldilocks, baby bear version of the cookie where the regular is too little.

That mega stuff is just too much. I really appreciate you doing that research for us, Mike. Yes. That's hard work. If you could bring that here so we can verify the scientific experiments, test the outcomes. We've got a really good show for you today. We're starting some divisional breakdown. So we're going to go through the AFC West today. We're going to talk about all the new additions to those teams. If you haven't followed the offseason very closely or if you want to kind of get a rundown.

Of each of those teams, we're going to go through that today. We're also going to hit the mailbag, go over some news and notes, and right now we're going to read a review from our listeners. Right? Review Osoris Rex. This one comes in from J. Mani. Five.

Five stars. He says my favorite podcast hands down. These bros have great advice and keep it real. I will tell my league mates to listen, ain't scurred. Very nice, Jemani.

These just get better every week. Thank you for that. I was not prepared for Jaymani. Oh, man. Well, you too can leave a review for us on iTunes. Just search for fantasy football. You'll see us there. And then click on our name, leave us a five-star review. We really, I can never do that transition. We really appreciate it. They really help the show out with the charts and exposure as we try and grow.

Yeah, and if you have a question, you can also hop onto Twitter and talk to Mike. Mike's always on there. We're on there, too, but Mike just trumps us. He's just stuffing Oreos in his mouth and answering questions all day long. I got lightning thumbs. Yeah, so you guys want to talk some news and notes? Let's do it. News and notes from around the league. All right, let's talk Eagles. They released, this was kind of rumored for a while, that he probably wouldn't be here. Evan Mathis, guard for the Eagles. He was the number two ranked.

guard on pro football focus last year for whatever that's worth uh he played in nine games for them last year and he's been released he is gone cut and he will no longer be with the team he will definitely be with another team yeah yes that's kind of what i was going to get at so is he going to make more of an impact going into someplace than he is leaving philly or are you worried about this at all or um i'm not let's see i'm not worried for mathis i think he's going to jump on and i bet he jumps on a team

But nobody's drafting Mathis. That's true. But Mathis will improve a running game tremendously. We saw what happened to the Eagles last year when Mathis was out and when he was in the running game was far more productive. And this is something people need to pay attention to because where he goes, it may improve the value of a running back. So if it improves the value of a running back, doesn't it stand to reason that it hurts DeMarco Murray?

I say yes, it does hurt him. I mean, this is not something where it's a massive change in how we would rank a guy. But here's why I think it definitely hurts them. We had Andrew Goldwasser of NFL Spin Zone. He's the Eagles beat writer. He's been covering that team for many, many years, knows them inside and out. And he...

has talked all offseason how much he does not want them to lose Evan Mathis. No matter what kind of problems he was causing, he did not want to lose him because of how good he is on the field. And so I think this is one of those things that in fantasy football, you don't blow this up and make it more than it should be and drop to Marco Murray out of your top 20 or something silly like that. But you file it away as a difference maker in the back of your mind when you're comparing him with somebody else. I mean, that's what I do when I get news like this is I say, well,

You know, these two guys are on the scale. It's DeMarco Murray and it's Arian Foster. It's DeMarco Murray and it's this other guy. This is something that goes in the negative category for DeMarco and Ryan. Actually, I shot Goldie. That's what we call him. He's our buddy. Goldie, a message right after this happened. And I said, what's the impact? Who's replacing it? And he was talking, he talked up Alan Barbary. I believe that's how you pronounce it. He said he's good. And the other guard spot will be probably Matt Tobin.

who he's not very sold on, but at least one of the replacements, uh, candidates is still a solid player. So do you think, do you think Chip Kelly has gone like power crazy? Yeah, a little bit. I mean, it's like if things work out this year, I think we'll go too over the top with like mad genius, you know, but they're like, I respect a lot of the things he's doing. The fact that he's breaking the mold that he's willing to do what he sees is right.

But, you know, you go against the grain too much so often, and you better be right, or you're going to be a fool. Yeah, you just have to be right. That's what it comes down to. I remember when Green came into Arizona and he, like, got power hungry and, like, who did he, one of our best offensive line, and he just cut to send a message. Didn't work out well. No, it didn't work out well. So, I mean, that wasn't necessarily this case, but yeah, I...

It better work. If it works, he's a genius. Let's move on to the Ravens. I want to talk about, we've talked about Bashad Perryman a lot. We have. As a volume candidate in Baltimore as a rookie coming in with a good opportunity with Joe Flacco to make a mark. The Baltimore son did mention Kamar Aiken as a legitimate competitor for the Ravens number two spot. They said he's looked really good in OTAs. What do you make of that competition? Do you think Perryman comes out on top? I would assume that Perryman.

will come out on top. The investment. Yeah, well, it's not just investment. It's the reports on Perryman have been great. And I don't know Aiken's measurables, but there's no possible way he's faster than Perryman. The guy is pure lightning. So I just think that he'll end up, I think Perryman still wins out the job, but this is something to keep an eye on. Yeah.

Just something to push Paramount, I see. Throwing something out there. Des Bryant News out of Dallas. Never liked to hear this. Possibly a holdout that could last into this season. He is quoted. He's on the record now where he has said, this is not a rumor. I will hold out if he doesn't get a contract. Is that just posturing? I mean, what percentage chance do you think this has to come to fruition? That would be the best thing for fantasy. I think this has...

a 75% chance of him missing a game. Right now, that's what I would put in. That might sound like really, really high, but I just don't see them making an offer because Jerry Jones has been playing hardball all year. And I don't know. He's just, he's been doing some crazy things. And I think that they'll continue to do that and have them miss a game and then sign a contract. That's my prediction. But I certainly think that if they don't pay him, Des will miss a game. Yeah, I completely agree. If they don't give him the contract, I think he sits.

He just seems to have the temperament of the guy who he knows what he's worth. Pay me what I'm worth. I know what I do for this team. And speaking of power hungry, I mean, or power crazy, Jones and Dallas, I mean, we're not really sure what they're doing with the arrogance of the running back situation. You throw this into the mix of...