Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Top 20 RB's, Preseason, Fantasy News, Mailbag

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I'm Andy Holloway. I'm joined as always by Mike the Fantasy Hitman Wright. Yeah. And his beautiful beard. Yeah, thank you. That is true. Thank you. That's some good stuff. We'll talk about why it's so beautiful a little bit later. And Jason, double stuff. Hello. I am here. Both of me. We're ready to go. Don't say that. Hey, we've got a great show for you today. We got our top 20 running backs on the show. We've got a lot of news and notes, a lot of things breaking in camp.

We got some mailbag for the show today, answering some questions from the listeners. If you want to follow the show, you can do so on the web at the fantasy footballers.com. You can also follow us on Twitter at the FFBallers. You can follow us on Facebook. You can visit us on YouTube. Very easy to follow the fantasy footballers. We'll bring you everything you need to know to win your league this year. That's right. And every year forever. Well, we'll die eventually. That's true. Someone else will take over.

Quick question for you guys today. Did you learn anything at all of fantasy value during that mostly meaningless Hall of Fame game? Yeah. I did. I did. Did you really? Yeah. Don't draft Sean Suisium. Oh, poor Sean. That stinks. Torn ACL? Yeah, he's done. Yeah, I was going to say, I always went a kick. Football's back! When Kingers, I learned. You just learned that? It was like, what just happened? Football's back.

When kickers do that, I'm always, my first reaction is always, how? Did they do it? Did you see it? No, I didn't see it. What was it on? He tackled. He tackled. Oh. He went big man for the Hall of Fame game. Was it worth it? No. Yeah, clearly he would answer. Nope. Should have fallen that one in. Yeah, fair enough. But if we have to have an injury to a starter, sorry, Sean, we're picking you. And just in for legitimate, Teddy Bridgewater looked good.

Yeah, he looked. I mean, he didn't do anything to stand in the way of a lot of people's opinions that he's going to have a good year that he's going to have some more weapons. Obviously, Adrian Peterson did not play. But he looked good. He looked sharp. He did. Adrian Peterson looked really sharp in that uniform. That's true. He was. He had the pads on. Mustache was ready. This tells you how kind of boring last night's game really was. All the tweets about the game were like, Antonio Brown.

Looks like he might play. He's putting his pads on. Oh, stop it. He's got his, he's got his ankles taped. Lev Bell's got his ankles taped. As, as always, it's the best, worst football game of the year. It's great because it means football's back, and I'll take meaningless football over no football any day of the week. I will tell you that. Amen, brother. Yeah. Hey, big news. Big news, guys. Next week, we go to four shows a week. Yes. That is double stuff. Yeah. When it comes to episodes. We're normally running.

Two shows. Quattro. Now we've got four. So stay tuned for that. It's going to be pretty sweet. All right. Let's go ahead and read a review. Reviewosaurus rags. This one comes in from Dirty P. I just dawned on me how that sounds. He says, I am a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru.

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News and notes from Around the League. All right, I'm going to hit these kind of quick. You guys let me know if there's anything big that stands out for you, but I want to make sure people know what's going on before we get to our running backs. This is something we've talked about. Saints Camp. Ben Watson is listed officially as the number one tight end on the Saints' first depth chart of this season, not Josh Hill. RAPE, Josh Hill's fantasy value. Yeah, 2015. It was never there. It was never there. It was an illusion.

The cloud of hope was there. No, you know what it was? It was the Alfred Blue effect. It's when something happens, somebody has to quickly just usher somebody into the throne. And for some reason, Josh Hill had the unfortunate, he was the one chosen for Jimmy Graham's role. Yes. And it didn't last long because he's not Jimmy Graham. I think it would be fortunate if I was him. Get my name out there a little bit.

So here's a bit of news worth mentioning. Often injured, Jordan Reed is second on the depth chart behind Niles Paul in Washington. Yeah. I love that. Jake, it is good news. It's great news because Niles Paul is a good player, is dependable and reliable. Healthy. And when he was playing, he was great. The problem is he was behind an always injured guy. So it's just a mess. If this sticks, I love it. I don't expect to stick.

I do. I mean, Jordan Reed's talented. I don't think he's going to miss the field. It's just interesting to see that I think what this is is an investment into Paul because he'll be around. Yeah. So Bears Camp, first round wide receiver, Kevin White could miss the entire preseason. I think that's very likely. That's brutal. Yeah, because we already know John Fox doesn't like starting. This is Eddie Royal bump to me. Eddie Royal is looking better and better and better as weeks go by.

Jeffrey, Royal, Forte, I think Bennett, you know, those are the guys involved in the passing game. I don't think Kevin White is anything but a dynasty play right now. Yeah. I mean, he could surprise me and he could come out and do something in the second half of the season. I wouldn't doubt that. It's probably next year. But it's not going to be consistently. Steelers camp, we've been talking about Martavis Bryant. Marty McBride had the cast removed from his elbow on Saturday. Good. It was a good news for him that none of these starters played so Marcus Whedon couldn't go out there. I mean, if they're competing, it's better that they all go out there together, right?

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was trying to think of the quarterback's name. Landry Jones? Landry Jones. We're all very lucky. Wouldn't have mattered how good of a route? Well, Cote's, Sammy Coates, torched one of the DBs on a stop and go. Landry airmailed it out of the end zone. I would say other than, I like the tight ends in Minnesota during the game a little bit. Rudolph and Peru were both involved, just from a, you know,

Rudolph's only played half the season, so it was cool to see Pruitt have a good game. But the other thing I was curious to see was Coates, just to see him on the field because rookie wide receiver, they don't play him a lot in Pittsburgh, but it was interesting to see him on the field. And he looked okay. Three Archer also had a little bit of juice. Yeah, he did. You know, because I was really interested in the running back game, knowing that Lev Bell's not going to be there, the first two games. I wanted to see what's happening. You just can't trust the Hall of Fame game. You've got to watch the next few.

Preseason games, but I was talented. He was very fast. I have to wonder if New England would like him right now. Oh, please don't put another running back in New England. Please. I am having such a hard time with the ridiculous amount of running backs in New England. They're going to cut some of them. Please cut like three. Bill? Are you listening? Billy? Out of Brown's camp? Not looking good for the running backs. Running backs coach Wilbert Montgomery called out...

His position group after Sunday's practice for failing to take hold of the starting job. We're talking Duke Johnson, Isaiah Crowell, turns West. Mostly Crowell because Duke and Brown. They've been on the shelf. Duke and West have been hurt. So it was a subtle way of saying his name out loud, saying, Isaiah Crowell, you're not grabbing the job. Yeah. So what is, does this do anything to what you're thinking about? No. Not really yet. You know, I was really, really close in statting my guys and looking at how the stats broke up last year.

I was really close to actually believing that it was going to be like 100 carries, 100 carries, and 100 carries. Honest to goodness. I've been much higher on Crowell, and I still think he will be the guy to emerge during preseason, but it's worth noting. He's calling him out right now. And then just a bit of news here, the Rams signed Nick Foles to a two-year deal. I was on Yahoo Sports Radio and asked about Nick Foles last night by Dylan Gwyn. Yeah, and I am, I must say, how do you not crush Nick Foles right there?

You had a national audience. I would have just devastated him. I don't think I was kind to him. I'm just saying I would have crushed him. I said I don't think he's going to have a good year. And I would have said he stinks. I don't think Nick's Bull stinks. Yeah, he is, I think, going to be exposed for being a not good quarterback. I know. You've been saying that. I'm going to, you know, be kind to him. He came out of Arizona here. Oh, that's what it is. I don't like, I'm an ASU guy. I'm not a U of A guy.

So I should probably crush them. Yeah, yeah. You're really hurting your cause here, Andy. Dang it. You're right. Hey, let me remind everybody about Fandul. It's Fandle time, people. Yeah. If you are not signed up for Fandle, do it right now. Go to fandul.com. Use the promo code, ballers, and you can get up to $200 towards your first deposits and get ready for this NFL season. You know what everyone should do? What?

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Consensus. Man, I was not expecting that at all. We are going to dive into running backs today, but we're not going to linger too long on any specific running back, because we want to make it through more than these kind of early guys that we've talked a lot about. So we're going to try to get through our top 20 running backs. This is our consensus rankings. If you want to see our individual rankings, all you've got to do is go to the fantasy footballers.com.

uh myself mike jason all of our rankings are on there you can download them uh you can compare them on the website no we added that there was the foot clan were clamoring saying can we get downloadable copies of those and they were clattering clamoring did i say clanner no i think you said clamor well whatever they wanted them and andy hooked you guys up you're welcome yep you can download them all uh we've we've all updated them fairly recently i think some more updates are going to go through tomorrow but you know things are changing jeremy hill