Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Getting Ready for Week 1, Breaking News

Get one or two extra sauces. That is the hot tip. Always. Always. We're going to take a couple minutes, answer some mailbag questions before the end of the show today. Mike, you all ready? Yeah. Mailbag. Mailbag.

All right. If you have a question for the mailbag, you can go ahead and dial our voicemail hotline 302-464 TFFB or head over to the website, the fancy footballers.com, click the submit a question button in the upper right-hand corner. Send your question into the show. We are here to help you win your league. That is it. That's the only reason we exist. Well, and entertain you. Help have fun in the process. We're here for a lot of different things. Dylan in Philadelphia, I just had my half.

point per reception draft this weekend, is it worth dropping someone like Paul Perkins to pick up any handcuff for either LaShawn McCoy or Thomas Rawls? So would you drop Paul Perkins? Yeah, I would. To pick up either... Basically, Kristen Michael is... Or Reggie Bush or Kristen Michael? I'd pick up Michael. Mike Gillisly.

I'm not picking up any of the bills. I'd pick up Michael if I had Rawls. I can speak to this personally from this last week, and I have Thomas Rawls in our startup dynasty, and I made a trade for Kristen Michael. Yes, I was the one who said. I expect 15 touches to Thomas Rawls and seven to Michael. But the thing is, since we don't know for sure, we haven't seen it in the preseason, and Kristen Michael did play good. It's safe. Well, he played well. He played well. Forgive me, America.

It's really good to have the handcuffs that could make that impact week one. Usually I don't have handcuffs at this time of the year, except those guys that could make that surprising week one contribution. But then you also have the reality that if Thomas Rawls went out and got injured, well, then I totally believe in C-Mike. So I would definitely rather have C-Mike than Paul Perkins. Peter in Tokyo, Japan. What? Bonjour. Yeah, bonjour, Peter. I have Blake Bortles, Carson Palmer, and Derek Carr on my team.

I picked up Derek Carr for just for week one. Are three quarterbacks too many? Who should I drop? And Duke Johnson, DeAndre Washington, and Jared McKinnon are on the free agent market. Personally, you know, I'm fine rolling one quarterback. The problem here is I think Bortles and Palmer, you probably don't want to drop either of those guys.

So I would hold on. I just play Palmer week one and drop Derek Carr. Exactly. So of those three, Duke Johnson, DeAndre Washington, basically, those two. I assume you're picking up Duke Johnson. For sure. Yeah, for sure. He has a locked in roll. Even I would pick up Duke right there. Even you. Scott and Washington says, I have Charles in both West and where are available in my league. Who should I grab off the wire before it's too late? Scott, what are you doing? It's got to get where. Yeah. Well, I've seen this question so much.

Because, you know, people that are just coming into fantasy now and they haven't really seen what's happened this off season, they look back at last year, and Charcantric West, Charzard West was the guy, you know, to have for a big portion. So this is like another one of those PSAs to everybody, all the Jamal Charles owners out there. It is where who you want to have not Charler. Where is somebody that I'd love to start week one? I mean, I just, he's got a good matchup against San Diego. Oh, love it. Jason.

D in Turner, Oregon says I have Matt Ryan and my opponent has Julio Jones. Should I be playing the quarterback that is throwing to my opponent's star? Or should I play Ryan Fitzpatrick? Well, usually, I would say it's mostly okay. For a guy like Matt Ryan, who Julio is his, I mean, a huge percentage of targets are going to Julio. I would not like that for week one. However,

I also don't like Fitzpatrick. I believe he's playing against the Bengals. That is correct. Week one. So there are so many good week one matchups out there. I just play Matt Ryan in week one. I would drop Matt Ryan and see if you could pick up a Stafford, a car. I mean, maybe those guys aren't available. Yeah. But, you know, that's what I would do. Fair enough. That is it for today's mailbag episode. I appreciate everybody hanging in there with me. Feeling under the weather. Thanks, guys, for holding the show. I think you did great. I appreciate it. You ripkin through it.

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