Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Pump the Brakes, Wk 17 Playoff / Keeper Mailbag

Stack corrected into the championship. So it's hope floats, man. I like that. I like that. All right. At Jay Bush 2121 says he has one right receiver, two running backs, and one flex spot to fill for this week's game in a PPR league. You got Mike Wallace. You got Ty Montgomery. You got Dixon, Stewart, and the Crow. Who do you have?

Well, I'm locking, I'm going to go ahead and lock the crow in there after last week's performance. I'm going to lock Dixon in in a PPR situation. Sure. At a running back there. And then, basically, bench one guy, right? Yeah. Yeah, this was basically bench one guy. I'm going to bench, I'm going to bench Wallace. Yeah, okay. That's. I'm going to play J-Stu. I, yeah, man. In a PPR? Yeah, in a full PPR. I'm going to bench.

Stuart. I'm going to stick with Andy's on this one. I think in a full PPR I would still bench Mike Wallace over those other guys. I like Stewart. I like Crow. I like Dixon. I like Montgomery. All right. Interesting question from Nicodemus in Wisconsin. Nicodemus. By night. Is this from the secret of NIM? No. Nicodemus.

All right. Have you seen The Secret of Nim? No, I just, mine's a biblical reference for Nicodemus. Okay, that's fine, but have you seen the secret. This is spelled differently, though. I have not seen the secret of name. Hold on, hold on. I have not. No, me neither. This is the, that's the lead there? Yes, it's the, if you have seen the Secret of Nim, it is the lead. If you haven't seen it, it means nothing. Oh my gosh. Fookland. Falkland, assemble. Don't be some. Let them know that the Secret of Nim.

That was, dude, the childhood cartoon, the secret of him? Can I ask the question? No, we, what is the secret of Tim? It's a, it's a cartoon. Maybe I have seen it. It's a Dawn Bloom cartoon, the guy who made Dragonslayer, and it's about the mice that come to life. I've probably seen it. It was terrifying. Not the one with the witches, right? I don't think there's witches involved in the secret. I think that one was called witches. The rolled doll story? Yeah.

No, that's Nicodemus. The guy with the eyes. The guy with the eyes. The guy with the crit. There he is with the big old beard and the crazy guys. And we're past it. Sorry. Moving on. In a money league, the person who won the championship started Marcus Mario. Because he had Bell and David Johnson. We're in an auction draft league. How do I prevent this from happening next year? Oh. Well, um, you know, we can listen to the show to start and know which guys to bid on. I mean, letting.

him have Bell and David Johnson. This happened, this would not have happened in a normal next year. If Bell isn't suspended, this doesn't happen. This happened because he got Lev Bell on the cheat. What are the chances Bell has the suspension next year? 50-50. But, but look, this happened, we played in a Sleeper Wire League.

And this is the approach I took. I drafted David Johnson with my first pick. I drafted LaShawn McCoy with, I think, my third pick. And then my second pick, I spent on Love Bell. I don't know why you went one three, two. Yeah, because I, at first I thought that I took McCoy in the second round. But it was, but the point is, is you got to stack those superstars because of the suspect. It also sounds to me like this league went, they swung that pendulum. And they said, we're going wide receiver. Sure.

The running backs are letting us down. They're failures. We need all the wide receivers because they're so safe. And that, apparently you can stream injured quarterbacks and win this league. Yeah, well, of course you can. And that kind of just leads me to the point of next year, wait for the pendulum. It's going back. Yeah, don't swing so far that you're going to blow all your money on two stud running backs thinking that's the only way you win a championship. Be in the middle. Talk about being water.

Zigging while people are zagging. So he probably got those guys cheaper than he should have while people are throwing all their money to the wide receivers. Cody in Indianapolis, do I trust Stafford who had a monster game against Green Bay earlier this year? Obviously those two teams playing for something. No. 31 in his league, you know, early in the year. And that was in Green Bay. Or do I start Kaepernick against Seattle? Who needs to win for the two seed? I start Matt Stafford. Yeah. That's not close to me.

Yeah, it's not for me either. It's closer for me. Matt Stafford with the with the bum finger is a is a bum fantasy quarterback Seattle needs that win and Seattle's really good and Kaepernick is not good. Those things combine with those forces combined. I'm going to take Stafford against a bad secondary. Yeah, no doubt about it. Yeah.

I understand the logic. I'm just saying that Stafford has notoriously let people down in December. Now he has a finger that does not work, and that finger is on his throwing hand. That's true, and he hasn't been the same since that finger injury. But if you're, I can tell you right now in my rankings, when I publish them later today, there's no way Matt Stafford is behind Colin Kaepernick against Seattle. Are they coming out on hardback?

Yes, yes. You can get them in a local safeway. Matt Stafford in our league the last two weeks, 12.8 and 15.2. Isn't that that good? I'm starting Matthew Stafford. Okay. I'm starting Matthew Stafford. Are you starting Matthew Stafford? I don't know. Andy's got his finger over a water. I haven't completed my rankings, but if you want to make that bet, I mean, I'm...

I would take, as of right now, I would take Kaepernick over Stafford. I'm not going to bet you if you're not wanting to make the bet. Well, we've got to make the bet. Waterbet. I wonder if it's been too long since we told people what a water bet was. Here, let me. Could be. Yeah, go ahead and say that and then I'll chime in. Well, we make water bets on the show, but that's all based around the water bet app that we have. It's just a free app. Makes it fun to bet one another on frivolous things.

and you spin the wheel of water and there are about 20 different ways to get doused with a cup of water and they're fine and you can you can send them to us on Twitter we'll retweet them they're fun to watch it's always fun in the middle of winter watching these people go out in the snow and get water dumped on the wheelof water dot com yeah so I know you guys love when I take people's questions and answer them with something that isn't in their question we do

No, I'm saying you know. You don't. Start Aaron Rogers. Oh, oh, yes. Okay. However, would you guys? So the reason that I choose Stafford over Kaepernick isn't because of my love of Stafford. It's because I think Kaepernick's going to have a really bad game against Seattle. All right. All that said, would you rather have Matthew Stafford? Or a guy that is almost certainly available, Blake Bortles. Indianapolis. I'll take Bortles. Yeah, I think I'll take Bortles too. So just throwing that out there is another option.

All right, Justin and Marquette, who do you think will be the first tight end off the board, and where will they be taken in 2017? I can tell you right now, it's going to be Gronk. It depends on Gronkowski's health. It depends on his health. If we have the year where you're going up into draft season and you don't even know if he's going to be on the Pup list or not, I would agree with you if Jordan Reed had had a great season or wasn't dealing with injuries.

Or it's Travis Kelsey. I don't know if it's Travis Kelsey. I think it'll be Gronk, but I think it's going to be pushed back this year. I mean, usually Gronk is more of a second round pick. This year he was the first round. Yeah, people take him in the first. And so I think, but I'm saying this coming year, he'll be solid in the second round. Not a solid pick. I'm saying that's where his average draft position will be. James in Pennsylvania wants to know. He says, hey, ballers, what is your order for these running backs in week 17 in a PPR league?

Fitzgerald Toussaint, Tevin Coleman, to quiz Rogers. Thanks, bunches from James. Ooh. Ooh. So, PPR League. Coleman, Rogers and Fitzgerald Touss. Yeah, I am going to take, I think I'm going to go Rogers, Coleman, Tucson. Yeah, that's what came into my head as well.

Yeah, that was my first instinct as well. Coleman, I believe, is at home. It's like the volume of Jquiz. That's the only reason I take over Coleman. And he's been great. Yeah. He's been very efficient as the starter for the team. There you go.

Here's a Keeper League question from Mike in Philadelphia. Apparently, everybody's in Pennsylvania today. In my Keeper League, you can keep up to three players losing the pick in the round where they would draft it. Oh, man, getting a question like this already. Yeah, keepers. Fun. You cannot keep a player for more than five years. I'm undoubtedly keeping... More than five years? Yeah. That's a long time. Undoubtedly keeping Levion Bell again in the third round. With the remaining two spots... Undoubtedly.

With the remaining two spots, I am deciding between Andrew Luck and the 7th, Doug Martin in the 9th, Eddie Lacey in the 10th, and Kenneth Dixon in the 14th. We have to decide by the Super Bowl making Lacey and Martin Risky. What? Which two players would you guys? I like that too. I have no problem with it. I mean, so long as it's universal for everyone in the league. If you're going to reward people.

indefinitely with the round they drafted those guys, then make them make the decision by Super Bowl. I love it. Yeah, that's funny. But I'm keeping Kenneth Dixon for basically free here. Oh, for sure. And then the other decision's tough. I mean, I probably am going to keep. I'm going to keep luck in the seventh. I agree. I don't usually like to keep a quarterback, but you know luck's going to be around. Yeah, I'm cool with that. A seventh round value is absolutely fine. If he was available in the seventh.

In most years, I'm going to take him at the seventh. Is Doug Martin on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers next year? I've already said I don't think so. By yesterday's show, I think I said it was about a 5% chance in my opinion. So that's in. I'm going to up that to 10, though. In the ninth, I believe is what was said. But you have no idea where he's going to be. It was the same with Eddie Lacey. Both him and Lacey. If the gap was different, if those two guys were 16th round picks, I might take a shot with one. Probably Dougie. You know.

If you're alternating good year, bad year, like you said. All right, so let's move on to Stephen in Indiana. He says, who's a better keeper for next year? Todd Gurley, Keenan Allen or Demarius. Thomas is a PPR league. Man. That's a tough question because you want, like all things being equal, no injuries, no history. It's Keenan Allen and a PPR league.

I'm going to stick with Gurley in this in Mike. I'm going to go with Gurley. I'm going to go Keenan Allen. I think I'm going to go Keenan Allen here as well. Gurley is certainly tempting just because you have, honestly, part of it might be the coach that comes in. If there's a coach I really believe in coming in to L.A., then I might lean to keep Todd Gurley. I usually prefer running back over a wide receiver as a tiebreaker. You know, if Kyle Shanhan comes in, Grudham comes in. That's interesting. If Kyle Shanahan.

became the head coach of the Rams. That would be very interesting for Gurley. McDaniels. Yeah. I don't know. He, yeah. I wouldn't, he wouldn't sway me as much. Shanahan's more, Chanahan's running system is more interesting to me. All right. Yeah, there you go. But yeah. Otherwise, it's Keenan. Angel in Phoenix. I wonder if this is the O.A. Oh, this is the original. What is the best way to select the draft order this offseason? Should I do a lottery from 12 to 1? Question mark.

There's a lot of different ways to select draft order. Most leagues are going to do something based on previous results of the last year. Yeah. But if it's a redraft, did they say if there's a keeper or a redraft? No. If it's redraft, I mean, it's no holds barred. It's whatever.

Right, right. Yeah, you can do anything. You can make it a go to a putt putt and do mini golf and whoever wins gets to pick where they draft. March Madness bracket. Yeah, I like things like that if it is a true full redraft. Or I like saying, hey, the guy that won, you know, gets the first pick. Because not pick number one, but they get to choose where they pick. Because here's the reality. In a snake draft, full redraft, there is no guaranteed best spot to draft.

You know, you can say, oh, I definitely want a top three pick. And you might say, oh, I don't want to be that far away from my number two. So, so there's no clear advantage. So have fun with it is what we're saying. All right, Dolph, Dolph in Elmhurst, Illinois says, thank you for the great advice this year. I won a hashtag Foot Clan title with only two players that I originally drafted. Nice. Looking for a keeper next year. You see the players you drafted, though?