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

Maybe he can... I might get down on that matchup. Yeah. Let me shift gears for a second. Ask you a question about the wide receivers here. Brian Quick or Kenny Britt. Who would you rather have on your roster? Kenny Britt. I am really high on Kenny Britt. I'm not joking. That's not a joke from me as I am want to make. As opposed to Kenny Beard being really high on something else. There it is. Remember that off season where he was picked up like three times? Yeah. Yeah.

I think Kenny Britt has... And I don't mean by fantasy rosters. Yeah, I know. I know what you were talking about. Excuse me, let's just pull over to the... No, I'm actually... I think Britt represents some really sneaky value. And I am on the Brian Quick train of those two guys where in seven games he had 25 catches, 375 yards, three touchdowns for that Rams offense. That's not bad. And they were dealing with their own...

quarterback carousel in St. Louis. Yeah, you're right. And Brian Quick was, he was a sleeper waiver, not sleeper, but a waiver wire success story. And then he just dismantled his shoulder in a pretty bad injury. But all reports on him are that he's going to be ready and he's, he's on target. He's on the schedule to be ready.

So hopefully that gets you up to speed with the NFC West. We're going to keep going through the divisions, giving you all the news, notes, and information from the offseason and beyond and kind of projecting forward into the upcoming season. Do you guys have anything to add to either the Rams or the rest of the NFC West that we've chatted about? I do not. The defense rests. All right. Well, let's go ahead and get into the mail bag. Oh, mailbag. Mailbag. Interruptions.

I interrupted myself. So often I'm late to hit the button. This time I hit the button, a split second arm. You really surprised yourself. Your face was like, who did that? I did. Who'd interrupted me? I have no idea. Well, welcome to the mailbag section. We are, we're going to answer some questions here. Mail at the fantasy footballers.com is the email address. I'm losing it.

Get it together, man. I am losing it. Get it together. John Snow! Got to finish strong. Finish strong. All right, let's answer some questions. This is a good one, by the way. Hey, guys. Goodminer from Middville, Arkansas. Just find your app on the tuning radio app you guys doing it. It's fun just to see you guys talk on a leak of record if you have one, and how many guys have been playing together. And our league of record that we've been in is made up of little walks of life or whatever. Every year, just be interesting. That's a great question.

It is a good question. Yeah, because we do a lot of fun things in our league of record. You know, we play in several different leagues, but there's definitely one that we, what is it? We're coming up on year nine in our dynasty league. Yeah, we've played eight. And together, I guess Andy's been in it a while. Mike, you got in. I joined in 2011 for your league. For that, for that one that's now become our main one. Yeah, and so we do a lot of fun things.

Believe it or not, we have logos for every team. We have one of the guys in the league is a graphic artist. So he made helmets and jerseys and logos for every team, which is pretty cool. Yeah. We've had tuxedo-wearing gentlemen come and announce our draft picks for us at our live draft. We've always... The podium and speakers and all that, as we've got the team tables, you know, around. Yeah. And it's always, you know, those are the things like this caller had said that really make...

your fantasy league fun yeah there's there's some called fantasy for a reason there's some undercurrents of fantasy football that that he touched on and not to get like too mushy mushy but he it's a very good point of while there's the competition and there's the money making there is the family aspect that fantasy football really brings people together because you're you're playing just this ridiculous game

And, but you still get to compete. You get to interact with your friends and your family. And I have the one thought about the caller. He was, the leagues made up of all little brothers. There's got to be some big brothers in there, right? You can't, everyone can't be someone's little brother. That's true. But we just, we try and make it as outlandish and fun as possible. And every year we.

We attempt to add to it. Yeah, our water bets that we do on this show came from that league because we started water betting before the show existed. And we make the loser take 11 water wheels of torture and then draft completely soaking wet, one for each of the other teammates in there. So to answer his question on how well we do in the League of Record, I will go ahead and poop-p-poo! For you guys. Oh, yeah. Because...

You know, I'm the horn tutor, and it's ridiculous. In eight years, we have four championships. Yeah, and the last three. I mean, this is really ridiculous. And to the bane of my existence, as well as everyone else in the league, literally three years in a row, and this is with teams that have been blown up and reconstructed every single year. Mike the Fantasy Hitman Wright and Andy Holloway have...

literally played in the championship against each other. And this is a highly competitive league. This is not, you know, three experts and a bunch of scrubs. Everyone in this league knows what they're doing. And so I've run into Andy the last two years on the way to the championship and been knocked out. And as we are division mates, but three straight years in the championship for you guys. I will say this. Mike does not make it easy to be around him when he is the defending champion.

Yeah, do not lose to me. No. Which I did in the championship last year. Life tip number 45. Never lose to Mike. Fortunately, I won one in between those three because otherwise this would be, this show wouldn't exist. Mike and I would not be friends anymore. It would be the fantasy footballer's solo show with just me. Where Mike just sits here and plays Toots his horn and I'm the champ. Yeah.

All right. But yeah, that's a good question. Yeah, do things that bring people together. It's kind of sad because there have been guys that have left the league that I don't even talk to anymore. Yeah. And not because I don't want to, but just because the league always brought people back together and you'd spend forever trying to talk them into trading for job at best or something. Act like you like them. Yeah, pretend. All the things that I do. It really brings us together. All right. This email comes in from Eric from Tucson. Hey, all right. Yeah, welcome.

Welcome? Welcome to my state. My question is regarding drafting handcuffs. Over the course of the last few seasons, I've learned the importance of owning handcuffs. So do we consider that in a draft? For example, if you select DeMarco Murray in round one, do you consider taking Ryan Matthews in round five or six? If you select Lamar Miller in round three or four, do you take Jay Ajai in rounds nine through 11?

So what do you guys think about this? I think the two circumstances he gave, I would do. Yeah, when, if you're talking about drafting your handcuff, it's all about the quality of talent of replacement. Where with Murray, I believe if he goes down, Ryan Matthews is instantly a running back one. If Miller goes down, I think J.JU should have a good year. Now other guys, like let's say for Seattle.

Turbin or Michael, it's usually turban. Those are guys you don't necessarily need to have throughout the year. If you have the bench space, I recommend doing it. However, when you are ramping up for your fantasy playoffs, you better make sure that you have your two studs handcuffed because you do not want to be in a playoff situation where you are scrambling off the waiver wire, grabbing a running back four, who you don't even know if he's going to touch the ball.

So you have to have them when you're going in playoffs. Yeah. Into the draft, I always consider keepers. That's one of those guys where I have my players. I'm sorry, handcuffs. Oh, I thought we were answering a different question. No, no, no. I'm always considering handcuffs. This is why you're not in the championship with us. Wait, what's a hand. What's a hand cuff? What's a hand cuff? But accurate. Shame. But you can.

So the bell has changed. You always consider it, but you don't necessarily have to draft them. It's just like the rest of the rest of the time. Look at who your handcuff would be for whoever you drafted and compare them against who's on the board. I would rather have a guy on my team after a draft that is valuable. And, you know, a Danny Woodhead, I would rather draft over, you know, a Nile Davis. You know, it's funny, too, is don't panic if somebody takes your handcuff if they think they're getting you. Because...

Two or three weeks into the season when Nile Davis has no points on the bench, they're going to be scrambling for that bench spot, and they're just going to drop them. Yeah, when they come to trade them to you, say, no, the hinks, I don't need them. And then he'll be on the waiver wire. And then pick him up off the waiver wire two weeks. All right, this email comes in from J.T. He says, yo, Duterino's. Yo. And he worry about, oh, here's a handcuff. And he worry about Starks chipping into Lacey's workload?

It was a worry last year after Lacey's slow start. Well, last year should have told you all you needed to know about that situation. Yeah, I don't have any worry, but I actually, he's one of the handcuffs I like the most. I actually really believe that Starks is a talented back. You've always said that. I have, and every time, I think I've been proven right on that. But, yeah, I don't worry about him cutting in. When they're both healthy, Lacey is an RB1. That's a good point. All right, this email from Pablo, he says, Dear, Yaco, Wacko, and Dot.

Oh, yeah. Jason is dot. Point. Enemy X. I didn't even remember what that was. What? Oh, man. I grew up on. I'm sorry. We got baloney in our slacks. I know the show. I just didn't remember that it was. Oh, I'm so disappointed right now. Well, let me get to number one from Pablo. He says, did some chief's soul searching this weekend. Andy is right and Macklin is going to kill it this season. I wonder how this question got on. Yeah. You guys are the ones that put them in here. What is the definition of kill it?

Maybe break into wide receiver three? A thousand yards? Destruction. All right. On to his real question. You guys haven't talked too much about pick trading and redraft leagues. Speaking of, before I get to this question, somebody wrote in and said, we aren't answering enough redraft questions. My answer to that is send us your redraft questions if you have them. Because right now a lot of people are doing dynasty leagues. We're answering what's coming in. If you got your redraft questions, send them in.

Yeah. Were you got to say some? I was just going to say most redraft leagues aren't happening yet. No. And so the people that are listening right now are mostly... If you're in only redraft, we appreciate your passion for the game here. You are awesome. But we can only answer what we were given. Yeah, that's true. He is wanting some information on pick trading in a redraft league. He's got an offer to trade away his first rounder.

And his 10th rounder. Well, you've got to pick 15. Yeah, his pick 15 in the first round. So there's a 16 team league, I guess. So first rounder and 10th rounder in exchange for, I guess, this other trade partner, second rounder and fourth rounder. 23. Yeah, 23. So 15 and 15 and 152 for 23 and 55. 16 team league, flex. Everything else seems pretty normal. It doesn't matter. Yes. Yes, I will move back seven spots.

I do that definitely in a 16 team. Yeah, I'll trade back seven spots on my 10th rounder to get a fourth round pick. Yeah, absolutely. You move up 100 spots. We all agree. Yeah. This email comes in from Darren in Portland. Oh, man. Ace, Mitch and Rico. Somebody know who those are? No. You're going to have to Google that while I read the question. He says he thinks Mike Evans and Vincent Jackson could be a good value.

where he's seen them go in mocks. The Bucks have a great strength of schedule. Evans is a red zone beast, and V Jax is due for a bounce back season. How do you guys feel about these two and how comfortable would you be having both of them on your roster? For that matter, what about Nelson and Cobb or D. Thomas and Sanders on the same roster? 10-team standard. No. Yeah, standards. I mean, but his question is more just outlook on those two guys and having two from the same team.

I've all season been tooting V Jax's horn. I think he's going to be a great bounce back. Oh, that didn't sound. The best. But yeah, thank you, V Jax. I think that for where he's being drafted, he's got a lot of value. Mike Evans, I don't see with as much value for where his ADP is. And so I think that I would like V Jax. I would not want both of those guys on my team as far as, you know,

where you would start them. I guess there is some thought to the fact that like, you know, if you are able to get Vince Jackson late enough, maybe then you've almost got like the wide receiver handcuff. But personally, I would not deal with it. The only combo that I would roll with week in and week out, I would have no problem with Jordy Nelson and Randall Cobb. I would have no problem with Nelson Cobb or...