Fantasy Football Podcast 2017 - Valentine's Day Picks, Free Agency Preview

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Welcome to the show. Jason, how you doing? It's Valentine's Day. I am a man of love, and so this is a great day. Shout out to my wonderful wife and my sweet daughter, who every year gives me a Valentine's Day card that she makes. We are the worst party poopers for Valentine's Day that could possibly exist in our house. By we, you're saying, speaking of the hallways. Pretty much every, yeah, the Holloways in general. Me and my wife, we do not really celebrate it.

uh so we normally like we'll have a passing mockery of the day uh give each other a kiss say we love each other and then we're done well happy i said party pooper a party pooper i don't know you know love advice from andy holloway hey going on 10 plus years here reluctantly the the key is to not celebrate things

There you go. Every day is Valentine's Day. When the bar is so low. When the bar is so low. Every day is Valentine's Day for us. Welcome to the show. We do have some Valentine's Day fun. We'll bring along your way. Bring along your way. Nailed it. Nailed it. We have a free agency preview. Who's going where? Who loves who? Or whom? And who would you love to see on your team? Yes.

And then there's a lot of, even beyond the regular free agency, which will go into the players that are available and the teams that are needy for various positions. But there are these rumors persisting about other players too, right? Like yesterday, Latavius Murray, talk of him, you know, not being a part of the Raiders. And what happens to, there's two sides of it, right? There's where these guys go. And then there's the holes that they may leave on these teams that get filled by draft picks.

and possible trades and other free agent pickups. So it's always very exciting. Yeah. Guys like Jimmy G. Jimmy Garapolo, all the hotness and trade rumors, not a free agent, but he's on the move. That's right. Why? If you want to follow us, I don't know. I don't know. It's a weird day. You know, sometimes there's, you know, we do the show, and it feels like you were just here in the studio, and, you know, you just did a show and we're here with another one. Today's one of those days where it feels like I haven't recorded a show in 13 years.

I just feel like I'm coming back from a big break. I don't know why it is. But shake the rust off. We're excited. We have right back to five shows a week. Let's do it. Oh, gosh. Well, can we get into the new studio, please? Yeah, Tuesday. Hopefully next week. If you want to follow us on Twitter, do so at the FF Ballers. You'll find out all about everything going on here, everything in terms of all the articles on the website and the exciting announcement we just talked about. Matt Harmon. We have his reception, perception.

content. And if you don't know what that is, Mike, why don't you explain briefly? So Harmon does this fantastic work where he breaks down wide receivers, their success rate independent of the quarterback. Because we know that wide receivers are so heavily tied to a quarterback. But how did a wide receiver do just running their routes against man coverage, zone coverage, double? And he breaks this down and see how successful were they? It's going to break down.

15 draft prospects, these rookies where you don't know much about them. He's also going to be charting 50 guys, 50 NFL players from last year for the, and that'll be exclusive for the ultimate draft kit. I mean, it's very, very exciting and it's excellent information if you've ever seen it before. Last year when we did the ultimate draft kit, we took a survey at the end and we said we had over a thousand people that wrote us and said what they loved, what they didn't love, what they wanted to see improved. And so we're taking all of that.

and trying to make the kit even better. The price stays the same, but we're adding Matt Harmon's reception perception. We're adding some auction values. We're adding a number of new things that we haven't disclosed yet. So very exciting to check that out. We're pumped, and you can follow all that news on our Twitter at the FFBallers. The website is the defanacy footballers.com. Guys, for the quick question of the day, you know, I'd be remiss if I didn't go with this one. What is your fantasy?

Valentine for 2017. So early Valentine pick. Look, we'll get to our My Guy episode in the middle of the summer. It's early. This is who do you love? But who do you think you'll love next year? Who are you falling in love with slowly? From a distance. I'll kick this one on. It can't be Latavius Murray because he might not have a home yet. But can I interest you in a man who has been...

A top 10 wide receiver the last two years? Does anybody want one of those? Well, here's the deal. There have been only four men who have done it the last two years. And you know their names. O.S. Julio. It's Odell Beckham. Antonio. You went to the South for a moment. I'm all over the place. Here's a deal. Odell Beckham. Julio Jones.

and Antonio Brown. Those are the only three guys who have finished in the top 10 the last two years. That's why they get drafted number one, number two, and number three. Oh, wait. Wait, there's another man who has done it the last two years. Only one other. He's got to be drafted number four, right? Or five, maybe, or six, or seven, eight, nine. Based on that logic. He is drafted behind 17 other wide receivers right now. And he is your Valentine. That is my Valentine. Doug Baldwin.

My heart goes out to you. Wow. You are undervalued, underappreciated, but not by this guy. I will have you on my roster next season. Yeah, I think it's shocking that, I mean, we're an early, we're very early drafted, uh, ADP data right now, but the guy for two years in a row, maybe you didn't buy in last year. I wasn't completely bought into Doug Baldwin last season, but he did it again. I know there was some inconsistencies at the beginning of the season, but we saw Russell Wilson.

extremely injured, could barely move. Then Doug Baldwin got it going on, and yet people are still not buying into it. But I'm jumping on with Jason. I love Doug Baldwin as well. But he is not my fantasy Valentine, and he's making an extremely strange face at me. Do you want to jump in here? I was trying to decide whether I want to go next, because mine is not a wide receiver. All right, Mike. Like yours is, Mike. Yes. I'll, I'll jump in here. Round into form.

My Valentine is a man who is much like Doug Baldwin getting very, very little respect as of right now. In fact, on the fantasy football calculator, great place for ADP. It's not even registering in their ADP, which is BNanas. That's crazy. BNanas. And that is Cameron Meredith.

From the Chicago Bears. Do I expect him to be undrafted come draft season? No. But I think that he will still be a draft value. Last year, he had more yards. More receiving yards than Alan Robinson, Jameson Crowder, Brandon Marshall. Pro Football Focus just highlighted Cameron Meredith as their best double route running wide receiver of last year. And this one's a shout out. A double move.

What did I? Oh, yeah, double move. Thank you. Running two routes at once is super impressive. I was going to say. The old double route. You know, I'm over here. I'm over there. Mike's normally so on top of these advanced metrics that I thought I was missing something. I remember that's double. And I already had Cam Meredith down as my fantasy Valentine. And then shout out to Jersey Jen who was tweeting about wide receivers. These are guys who posted five or more weeks as a wide receiver won. There's only nine of them. Only nine. You know who one of those guys is?

Cameron freaking Meredith. Yeah. Getting no respect. No respect in early February. Oh. Well, I think that happens because Alshan Jeffrey. He gone. I know. But he was intermittent last year and Meredith filled in the gaps and people had expectations for Eddie Royal. Then Eddie Royal gets hurt and they had expectations for Marcus Wilson. And then Marcus Wilson gets hurt. Don't forget about Kevin White. And Kevin White. So.

That's one reason. The other reason is the quarterback. The quarterback is going. Quarterback likely to change. Or is the quarterback improved, Mr. Hoy. Was there a quarterback? Because Cameron Meredith got it done with the trash that they had filling in all year. You got it. Hey, there's no reason not to be in love with an undrafted guy who had those numbers. And he's a talent and he's young. So I wanted him as my Valentine. I'll put it that way. Yeah, I took him to the ball, though. I'm going to bring up a name nice and early here in February.

And I know he will be on a lot of my teams. But he won't be on yours. Hmm. Because his name is Todd Gurley. Oh, no. You are correct. And I, frankly, I, I do. He's my fantasy Valentine because I'm going to jump in the jacuzzi with Todd early February, getting ready for the season. I believe in Sean McVeigh.

And I disbelieve in Jeff Fisher's capability to do anything right. You know who believes in Sean McVeigh? Big Bird and snuffalo off against. Hey, look. Sean McVeigh will come in. They'll renovate that O-line. The defense will be great underweight Phillips. I believe in McVeigh is an up-and-coming mind that can get them. And look, there is no one else. This team is built around Todd Gurley. The volume is there for Todd Gurley. We looked at this, right? Nobody had more.

carries inside the red zone and Todd Garland. Percentage. Percentage. People had more, but he had the most, the highest percentage of a team's rushing attention. So if that offense improves, I really, really believe in Todd Garland. So he's my early fantasy Valentine. We'll leave it at that. I know that he'll drop in some drafts compared to other players. We talked about this. I think I would put him right around that number five running back spot. I'm going to look at where he's going as of right now. Yeah, I would love to.

Love to hear that information. 2.0 in standard leagues. He is going at 204. Okay. And he is the 10th running back. The 10th running back currently. Oh, all right. I would probably take him 5'6. Okay. David Johnson, Zeke, Lev Bell. Shady? That's the one that I was like on the fence with. DeMarco. You're on the fence between Shady and Gurley? Melvin. Yeah.

I just named guys that I will be taking ahead of time. In a standard league, I'm on the fence. In a PPR, I think I'm going to lean shady and I'm going to lean. You know, Jordan Howard is up in that mix. Who else do we have? Did you say Freeman? Devanta Freeman is probably right above him. Yeah. So I'm just, I think I'm going to be on the upper side of Gurley's projection there. So I believe in the talent still. I think last year was one of those years that was just plain rotten. So. Well, no one disagrees with that. All right. Let's get to the news.