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

clearly had enough value to net you a bunch of stuff. Looking for a keeper next year. Is it prior Devante Adams or Kenneth Dixon? What do you think? Ooh. I think of those three right off the... It's a PPR league. Right off the top of the dome, I feel like keeping Kenneth Dixon. Yeah, probably. I'm facing this situation. It's funny. Dixon's been brought up twice. I have our league of record. I have Andrew Luck, who you brought up earlier as a keeper, and I have Kenneth Dixon.

Mark Ingram, a couple guys to decide from. I really want Dixon to be that guy I can jump behind and, you know, that they'll commit to the run there. He can catch the ball. Kind of be what Fawcett was two years ago. Right. It's hard for me to say no to Pryor here as well. He's just a question of where he's going to be. Yeah, if he's back. So I don't think Adams is in consideration for me. I'll put it that way. So right now I'll go Dixon Pryor. I would go Dixon Adams prior. What is, oh.

He put Devonthe Adams face down on the desk. I'm actually, I am with you, Mike. I think I go Dixon Adams prior. Yeah. Depending on when you have to select it, you can't select prior right now because you don't know what team he's going to be on. You don't know what quarterback he's going to have. The only thing you're going off of his talent. And opportunity is king in fantasy football.

Devante Adams, you know he's catching balls from Aaron Rogers, which is... You don't know if Dixon will have West or other options. That's true. They'll draft somebody. I mean, Adams seems to be the safest of the three picks. You know Adams reminds me of small departure here? I feel like him, he must be best friends with Jordan Matthews. I feel like they are best friends. They are both temperamental performers in fantasy football and on the actual football field. Sometimes great catch, sometimes horrible drop. Right.

Both of them have gone up and down in people's minds. I consider them to be very, very similar. That's not too shabby. Not too shabby. Not too shabby. Not necessarily like play style. Just, yeah, temperamental. Yeah. All right. I got. Gabor in Budapest, Hungary. Oh, bonjour. You guys? You guys, I'm Hungarian. I did not know that. Did you know that I'm Hungary? Yes. You're a country? Cool. Hey, guys. I got my hashtag Foot Clan title. Tio. Thanks to you.

Before the championship game, I picked up Martavis Bryant from the waiver wire. So that means I could have him next year with a last round pick. Lev Bell is my other keeper and no other good running backs that I want to keep. Is that a good stash? Or do I go with Malcolm Mitchell as a last round pick as well? Thank you for your help. It was my first season with you. Definitely going to stick with you.

Well, that's a great question. In a standard league, would you rather have Martavis returning from suspension and all the risk that is associated with him? Or Malcolm Mitchell, is he going to come into his own? You've got a lot of mouths to feed in the wide receiver core there in New England. This is easy for me. Yeah, I know what you're going to say then. When you say it's easy, you go with Malcolm Mitchell. You're darn right, I do. Because if you think for one second that I trust that Martavis Bryant is going to stop doing...

what gets him suspended after every other opportunity, just like Johnny Mansell had opportunities and just like Justin Blackman had opportunities and Josh Gordon had out. Well, Tyrone Matthew did. Tyrone Matthews. No, no, no. Tyra Matthew never got to the point of repeat offenses where it's like.

At that point, when you keep doing it after, okay, you've been suspended once, you've been worn, and then you've been suspended, then you've been suspended 10 games. Now you're out indefinitely. It's going to happen again is the way I see it. If you told me that he's not going to get suspended again. Never again. Never again. Yeah, it's easy. That's Martavis Bryant. So you can wait as long as you can. Yeah, well, the thing is right now, you don't know if Martavis Bryant's playing next year. He's suspended. You're right. You're right. That doesn't, it's not a one-year suspension. It's an indefinite.

Suspension. Do you know how many leagues, MFL 10 style leagues like where you, the best ball you draft and you don't make roster moves? You know how many leagues that I had Josh Gordon in? Yeah. A lot of leagues because there was the temptation that he was going to come back. But when a guy has 10 strikes, why do you think he's not going to get an 11th? The real story here, and this is how you make decisions in the future for a lot of things.

If your option was Alan Hearns or Martavis Bryant, you might take the shot in the dark. But your option here is a pretty good option. Malcolm Mitchell is a good option to have. A rookie with Tom Brady who's coming on hot. Yeah. Coming on hot. Except for last week when you lost that bet. Fire. All right. Sleeper bus question from Jake and Washington. Right now, who is next season's fantasy? Oh, who in next season's fantasy draft will be an overrated player going in the first and second round? Melvin Gordon. And what people will...

What player will people overlook that will help us win games? So you want us to make a really early call on the underrated overrated. I think you said Melvin Gordon earlier. I'm going to say Jayae. I think he'll be overdrafted. Sure. In terms of underdrafted. I'm going to double down. Who are you going with? Alan Robinson. Sure. Alan Robinson is going to get buried. That's great.

I think Allen Robinson is a great pick. There are players that you have to look at that either disappointed towards the end of the year or consistently. You know, DeAndre Hopkins comes to mind. Obviously, he could drop down the list quite a bit. I'm trying to think of some other name. I'm very interested to see what had the guy that's most interesting to see what happens because he could either be overrated or underrated next year. But my guess is that he might be underrated. And that's LaShawn McCoy.

Fair? People think, well, he's... There are certain guys that get underrated every year, right? Frank Gore. Every year. Is he going to start getting the old running back treatment? Exactly. I don't think he will. And if he doesn't, then great. But I'm just saying, if you think, oh, he's old, there's a change in the offense. He's not going to have the season he had last year. I'm going to be picking him up in that second round happily in that third round if he drops there. You guys all in on Stephen Jackson next year. Oh, of course, man. The predator.

I'm looking at some names. I'm looking at some names here. I wonder, you know, Devonta Freeman, probably not in that consideration, but you just wonder if Coleman didn't get hurt this year, whether the numbers would be there. Spencer, where? Where is interesting with what happened? Underdrafted if Charles leaves? Yeah. Not seeing a ton of, I'm sure Mike will take Ryan Matthews a little too high again next year. Well, Ryan Matthews with his.

herniated disc in his back, which I don't even know if we've really talked about that, but that's, it's a pretty serious injury where we have to see if he's even going to be ready to start the year. Get ready for, uh, I think Robert Kelly be overdrafted. Uh, very possible. I think Latavius Murray will be under drafted. Interesting. We have a, we have a, we have a few, we have a few months to discuss it. Yeah. Is there any questions for this?

Current week? I got one here. Go from Xander Laxayo. Need big week 17 championship comeback. So looking for a Megalodon upside. All right. We got a few in here. Ertz or Olson. Okay. Hmm. The Megalodon upside falls on the Olson side for me. Yeah, for me as well. I would agree.

And then he also threw in Montgomery or Crowell this week. And that... I think you're going to go Crowell. Montgomery, he has a great chance of getting... I'm going to go Monty. Yeah. I'm going to go. I'm going to go Monty, too. Other than last week... Other than last week's performance by Crowell, I don't believe he had a game over 13 points for the entire year since week four. So you talk about upside.

I think Monty has more of it. Yeah, I'm switching. You're switching? I am. Making a change. Well, I'll say the honest reason. When you said Montgomery, and I was already defending my point of why I would choose Crowell, is because I heard and interpreted in my brain Moncrief. And I was going to say. Oh, yeah, he's probably not going to. Oh, Moncrief.

And I was going to say, you know, the upside isn't there for total yards for a guy. And for a guy who may or may not play. Yeah. But now Monty is better. A lot of downside. Last question. J.H. Shipley. Why if we give PPR so point per reception? Why don't we give points per carry? Some leagues do. In fact, our league of record, we give 0.1 points per carry. So it is something that, uh, that certainly does happen.

Yeah, I mean, it's just one of those things where you just have to balance it. I don't mind giving a point per carry. I mean, not a point. I mean, I don't mind giving something attributed to carries. I wouldn't do a point, though. We've had questions coming in before where people were saying, I playing a PPR and a point per carry. And you were like, holy crap, you have to have David Johnson or Libyan Bell on your team. Zeke, some guy that's just getting the work.

The whole point about... Zeke only gets 12 a game, 12 carries. How many? The only point of like should we reward carries or catches or any of this thing, Andy nailed it. It's just about balance. You want to try to balance these players and these positions among themselves to where there's a good amount where when you look at flex, you don't go, I have to draft all the blank position. And when you say we give a point per reception, we don't. Our preferred scoring format is...

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