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

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Andy Holloway, joined by Mike, the Fantasy Hitman Wright. Greetings. And Jason Moore. Salutation. Oh, we got them both. We are here, and we are ready to bring a deliciously good show to you today. Double stuff. Yes. We have the NFC West. We're going through the divisions right now and giving you everything you need to know about the offseason, which guys are coming in, which guys are going. All the fantasy relevant news and information about each and every team.

In each and every division. So we talked about the AFC West last week. Last Tuesday. Tuesday. Sorry. Feels like a week since then. And quick question. Now that it's Thursday, guys. Yes. And the spoiler buffer for Game of Thrones is over, which, by the way, is, I mean, if you are coming to this point without knowing, you have accomplished something incredible based on...

avoiding Twitter and Facebook and everywhere else that exists. Fast forward. People are actually going door to door now. Did you see what happened? John Snow? There's a town crier. So who's the John Snow this year in fantasy? Who's the guy that's going to get put down? Oh, man. Who's the surprise death from fantasy football this year that you don't see coming? Do they have to be killed by like the coach? No, no, no, no, no. No, no. This is figurative. Okay.

They don't have, oh, so they don't have to actually die and get stabbed today? No, no, no, no. No, this is, uh, this is figurative, which surprise player that's been good falling off a map. You guys got anybody? I know I'm putting you on the spot here. Jason looks like, uh, he just got done watching the episode. Kit. Kit, where are you? I talk to Jason, and he just keeps calling him Kit now. He's just the actor name. Hey, I want everyone to jump on the hashtag, not my John.

I'm starting a movement. Not my John. We're bringing it back. Hey, Melisandra. She showed up. I think he's coming back. Yeah, maybe. I'm looking through. So, Matt Forte is an easy pick. Yeah, I was trying to... But not completely falling off the map. I was trying to avoid that one because we are the ultimate shade masters of Miss Forte. Okay, I got one for you. Yes. Now, do I have to believe it?

Do you have to believe it? Yeah, you have to have some semblance of thought that it could happen. Oh, right. I really do think. Not that anybody believed John Snow was going down. Yeah, I really do think that this could be the end for Aryan Foster. Oh, come on, man. I'm just saying. He's missed a lot of games. He's got a lot of miles. He's old. I feel like if he had a bad injury or like a concussion, he'd just retire. That's cool, man. He's my number one, just so you know.

Like, he's my number one on my rankings. For real? These are, yes. So you're killing off my favorite player. Number one. John Snow is my favorite. Number two in PPR, number one in standard. Thanks, bro. If we're, these are contrarian, bold predictions like Jason has just made. This is hypothetical. ODB. Would not shock me at all if he.

drops back to reality. That would be a hamstring-related injury that sends him into the doldrums of fantasy football. Hamstrings and the target volume being realistic. And so it just all that, and I'm not saying like a wide receiver four, but if he dropped to a two, I would not be the least bit surprised. That's interesting. And, you know, on the spot, contrarian answers. But in reality, I like Aaron Foster and ODB. So what are you going to do? Just like you like John Snow.

All right, moving on. You can. Yeah, that should have been a sad music. We got, yeah, 15 seconds of that. You can follow us on Twitter at the FFBallers. We're always putting new news and information. Also want to let you know, you can go to the website, the fancy footballers.com. I never mentioned this, but we actually have a newsletter, a fantasy football newsletter that goes out. So if you subscribe to that on the website, you'll get information about new episodes and articles that we release on the site. So if you're interested in that, you know, we don't.

spam you with stuff. Yeah, we actually control it ourselves and we don't sign you up for anything else. So you can feel confident given time. I have a slow play announcement that we, I've just started working with our engineer, because I've had a few listeners ask me about the water wheel that we used to make our water bets. And we actually had two listeners, I don't know if they completely officiated this or not, but I thought two listeners were going to have a water bet. We're going to have a,

digital version of the water wheel on our website eventually. Yes, that's a promise. The long play. That's a promise. Just saying that we've thought of it and it's going to happen. And our water bets are now up there, by the way. Yes. As embarrassing as they are, as well as Mike and I's rankings for the upcoming draft, all of Mike's, some of mine, none of Jason's still working on it. Also want to bring up the...

Listener League, which we've been announcing from time to time. Another slow play. Yes, we have a listener league where we are selecting a few very creative, unique individuals to come and join a league with us and play. We've added three to this point. Three official. Three official. And so...

We're making some final selections, and we're going to announce a couple more. But remember, you can email us, mail at the fantasy footballers.com and send us something, you know, impress us. And it's not just, this isn't just about accolades of how well you've done in fantasy. This league is for fun. There's going to be... We actually prefer you suck so that we can... No, no. There will be lots of trash thrown around verbally. Uh...

So maybe you need to have a little bit of a thicker skin because it's all in fun. Yeah. But if you make a bad pick, I'm going to let you know about it. Yeah, you're in the Fantasy Footballers League. So other than that, you can email us any question that you have for the show, mail at the Fantasy Footballers.com or call our question voicemail box 302-464 TFFB. And as always, we like to read a review from our listeners from the iTunes store. So let's go and do that now. Okay.

Review Osores Rex. This one comes in from Craig in Okinawa. Oh, bonjour. Yeah. He says, whatever fantasy football podcast you are listening to now, if it is not this one, granted it is. Stop if you were listening to a different one. This cast, this cast creates by far and away the most informative and entertaining show around. The best part of this cast is, in my opinion,

is that they always provide useful information and do not feel the need to make outlandish and misleading predictions in order to secure listeners as clickbait. This just in, Aaron Foster and ODB. Click to see what happens. They die. Disregard the beginning of this show. Thanks, Okinawa. Yeah. I was imagining while you were saying that someone who has a split headphones with one show on one year.

and one of the other, and they're just absorbing all fantasy information? We don't recommend that as a... It's hard to process that much information, so... I do it. But we're going to talk through, I guess not really have too much news and notes to talk about. I'm sure you'd love to talk about Amir Abdullah. All the news out of Detroit camp is that Abdullah is looking great and Joick Bell is looking hurt. Joach is old busted. He is the...

ultimate of red flags for a running back, and Abdullah is the new hotness. I'm just going to keep my head in the sand about joick Bell and keep drafting him high. Oh, I don't suggest you do that. Well, let me see where I got joick. Hold on a second. I've got to see. We're splitting up our league. Oh, that's right. They, yeah. No, I got a message from one double stuff more who asked me on publicly on Twitter.

If I could slow the train down. This was like almost two weeks ago. I think I was early enough. And he wanted me to slow it down so he could jump on the Abdullah Express. Where is that train? I can't find it. Oh. Here it comes. Here. Joyke. Wait for me.

You two are ridiculous. All aboard. Yep, Abdul Express. You should see the disparity in our rankings. I've got Joyke Bell at 15 in a standard league. Mike has him. Oh, 33. You even gave him a spot. How kind of you. Yeah. Yeah. Just, hey, you know what? I love fantasy football. I love it because time answers all questions. Yeah, and time is not on Joyc Bell's side.

That is the truth. You know what is great about fantasy football is that this all plays out and we find out if we're good or if we're bad at what we say. Listeners, if you didn't listen through the year last year, you know, I knew it. I knew what he was going to do. What are you doing? Just let people listen. Well, but the thing is, is I want to make sure they keep listening through the season because the advice is so on point. It's just amazing. Oh my goodness. The two-toed horn from Jason Double Stuff.

All right. I like it because he wasn't even on the show last year. So that's really tooting our horns. Thank you. You're welcome. Thank you. Just fine. Fantasydraft wizard.com. We always mention it on the show. It's free. You can go there. You can practice fast mock draft. You don't have to wait on anybody to jump in. Pick a spot. Mock draft. Have some fun. Tweet us your pictures of the draft, not just your pictures.

Yeah, preferably the draft. Preferably the draft. We'll let you know how you did or which guys you like, which guys you don't like. Try out some different strategies. It's all there at fantasy draftwizard.com. Should be fun. You guys want to talk some NFC West? Do I? Hometown discount. I know. We're going to start out in Phoenix. Let's get it over with. The Arizona Cardinals. We're talking an offense that was completely destroyed.

by the lack of a quarterback last year. It was very difficult for us, Arizonans, to watch because this team was, they had a great year under a great coach. They made the playoffs and there's just nothing that they could do on offense. But Carson Palmer is back. Yeah, he's back. He's cleared. He's full goal. He's in 11 on 11s.

So he's looking good in the OTAs. And I was surprised because I was not, I mean, you know in the offseason, I have not been hot on Carson Palmer and watching him in the OTAs and seeing him move around. I think that I'm coming around. I really think he's ready for the year. He seems mentally ready, physically ready. And the Cardinals had some big additions with their first round pick, DJ Humphrey's, a tackle, David Johnson.

in the third round running back. They added Mikeyupati. The guard, he was the second best run blocking guard according to pro football focus last year. AQ Shipley. Huge upgrade at Center because even though AQ Shipley's not that great, Center was a bad deal for the Cardinals. Yeah, Lyle Sendline was, I believe, the worst or the second worst graded out center. But I like very much...