Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Guest: Nick Mangold of the Jets, Week 1 Listener Questions

My personal experience, it was fine. It definitely, there was a lot more going on that training camp. But at the same time, you knew where you could get away to and how to get away. And I think coaches don't like it because they don't like anyone other than other coaches and players. So it's always going to see what teams get picked. And back to the Jets. Behind Chris Ivory, can you talk a little bit about Bilal?

and Stacey, how are they doing with the offense right now? They're doing really well. I think BP is one of the most dogs that I've been around. He does protection very well. He can catch out of the backfield, and he's got a quick burst to him. I think he's fantastic running. I appreciate all the stuff he does. And how's Zach holding up right now?

He's doing well. You know, he had a good preseason for us and made some great runs, and I can expect that to continue. So a big thanks to Nick Mangold for taking the time to join us today. We want to remind everyone that he has teamed up with Prylasek. They're fighting hunger. This is an extremely good cause. They're partnered with the taste of the NFL donating 1 million meals to families in need. You can go to You Can't Beat Zero.com.

make a donation, and you get entered to win a trip to Super Bowl 50. So is there anything else that you want to talk about, Nick? This is your soapbox right now, your one chance. Anything you want to say? Yeah, and for fans who upload a picture of their home gating party, you can get an extra chance to win in the sweepstakes there. So it's a great opportunity. It's a great win-win for everybody. Everyone enjoys it. Great stuff, Nick. Thank you so much for your time.

Thank you. Have it going. A big, big center-sized thank you to Nick Mangold. We really appreciate that. He's here for a good cause. Make sure you go check it out. And before we jump into the mail bag, I just wanted to talk a little about our sponsor, Tops Huddle. They have a new app that you can collect digital cards. Do you remember when you were a kid and you collected football cards? One of my most prized possessions when I was young was a Tom Tupa.

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I have like 500 joig bells in there. I'm just collecting all joint bells from everybody else. All the joic bells. If you open a joic bell, give it to Andy. Isn't it exciting that we get to kind of see that whole backfield come to a head? I got to be honest, I'm a little weak need about it.

Are you? Yeah, because, I mean, Abdullah is a great talent, and I think he's going to offer fantasy value regardless of Joyke, because he might, a lot like Spiller has in the past, he doesn't necessarily need a ton of opportunity to maybe break one or two long ones. And if Joyc does waver a little bit, he's going to run away. Did you hear the news, though? Amir Abdullah, his third on the depth chart, whoa, blah. Hey, Theo Reddit got tons of work in the preseason. Yeah, it's Abdullah.

I'm not, that was a sarcastic. I'm not scared of Theoretic. Abdulah. Joyke. All right. We're going to spend some time in the mailbag, so let's do that right now. Mailbag. Mailbag. We should have recorded Nick Mangold singing that part. Oh, man. Yeah, we dropped the ball on that. I wonder if anybody would actually do that for it.

That's what I should have gone with. Oh, that would have been good. Do you want me to read? No. All right. So, hey, we have a lot of questions we want to answer. People have been sending them in. Most of these are a week one questions, which makes sense because we're in week one. So are you guys ready to go? You ready to answer some questions? Look at this first week. Let's do it. All right. Ryan in New York City. New York City. He said, hey guys, I'm in a half point PPR league for week one. Who should he start at his flex spot?

G. O. Bernard or Kindle Wright. What do you guys think? That's a pretty narrow choice there. I will tell you what. Kendall Wright is a guy that I feel like I'm going to be disappointed that I do not own. I have zero shares of Kendall Wright because he's just, he burned some people last year. He just is not a sexy pick. The Titans aren't the offense that you really want a piece of, but he is Marriota's boy. He is going to dump the ball to him often, frequently.

Non-stop. Yeah, but they got to go up against Tampa Bay this week, Mike. The Tampa Bay Buccaneers with their all-starred events. I would go in this situation, Kendall Wright. I actually have him listed this week as a wide receiver two. He's the last one. Oh, my. He's 24th in my ranking. Don't you have Tampa's defense ranked really high this week? I mean, just to, you know, call you out on that one? Yeah, well, like five or seven or something. Here's the truth. You've got the first pick in the NFL.

draft against the second pick in the NFL draft. Okay, so neither team is very good. So you've got good options on defense and offense. It's just a matter of who's going to take it. But Kendall Wright is going to be the main target. So you guys are both Kindle Wright? I have Kendall Wright at 27 right now. Yeah. So correct. Okay. All right. I'll take right. So Tommy Pastrami in the deli counter. Wait, hold on. That's what this one. This one comes in from Tommy Pastrami in the deli counter. Pistrami is...

an underrated meat. Yeah, it's delightful. We haven't talked enough food lately, so. No, here's, now let me ask you this question. Have you ever had a, I believe it's called a New Yorker. Yeah. It is a pastrami, but instead of sourcrow like a Ruben, they put coleslaw on it, and it is a delight. Sounds like an upgrade. For your mouth. Coleslaw over sourcrow. Yeah, I'm not a huge sourcrow guy.

You're not a huge coleslaw guy either. No, that's true. So you get it done. You get the pastrami and you get the coleslaw and it's got the crunch. Well, we'll see. Maybe you'll get one. All right. I got to go to lunch, guys. Maybe you'll get one like mailed to you after we answer this question because that'll taste delicious. Coming in the mail. Moldy. All right, Tommy Pistrami wants to know. He said he's looking for an option to slide into his second wide receiver spot.

His choices include Alan Robinson, John Brown, Terrence Williams, or Jarvis Landry. So he has good options. Half point PPR. Half point PPR. So who do you slide in there for week one? Javis.

Landry would be my answer. I think he's got a great matchup this week. He's going to get peppered with targets as well. And there's not very many people I like more than Landry this week. So that would be my answer. I think the answer for me might be Robinson a lot of weeks, but I will agree this week with the matchup, Washington. I'm going to go Jarvis Landry. Yeah, right now they're very close on my rankings. I have Robinson slightly ahead. But I think I like Landry more. So I'm going to make an adjustment.

I'm going with Landry. Yeah. So the thing that's hard with Landry is that we all like him, right? We all think Landry is a really good player. He's a swell guy. But he didn't, like, especially obviously in standard leagues, but he didn't put up like a big fantasy season last year. So this is not par for the course for him, our projections. This is more like saying he's going to.

We think he's going to improve. And I think that is what will happen this year. I think he will take a leap in that offense, the second year. All indications are that he will. Exactly. We know wide receivers get better. It used to be the third year. Now it kind of is trending to the second year. So I love Landry in the matchup against Washington. Well, in the first half of last year, the first half of the games, he was normally three targets, five targets, four targets. And then the second half, listen to his targets last year.

9-11-11-6-11-9. That's great. How can that sustain with Cameron Stills, Parker, Jennings? Well, I think an improved offense is one thing that's going to help it sustain, right? If your offense is improving and you're running a little bit faster, you know, Mike, you've always been talking about the offensive coordinator coming over from the Eagles wanting to get faster pace, I think that Landry is the guy that's going to help you do it. Well done. Good reason.

Well done. I'm excited to see Devante Parker this weekend, too. Me too. Check my mailbox for my New Yorker sandwich. That will be... I need to make sure they send that direct to you. Not to the actual show address, but send it right to your house so you can get that Coleslaw three-day-old. One, two, three-day-old. One, two three, Mike's mouth lane. All right, Adam in Columbia, I have two running back battles in two separate leagues. So in one league...

For his running back, too, does he go John Stewart or T.J. Yeldin or Amir Abdullah? You go with Jonathan Stewart, who is going to get the ball until he vomits this week. I agree with you. All right. Jason, do you agree? That sounded like you did not. I do. I was just looking at the second question. He said John Stewart or Alfred Morris. Or as he said, Freddie Morris. Ooh, Freddie. I like that. John Stewart again. John Stewart. Yep.

You got The Daily Show. The Daily Show is living on your teams. All right. Tom in the Jersey Shore. The Jersey Shore? Yeah. He's in the Jersey Shore. He says, Curious who you guys think I should start in my Flex for week one. His options are Chris Ivory, Nelson Aguilar, and Eddie Royal. Hmm. Hmm. But he also has Duke Johnson on the bench, but I don't think any of us are starting Duke Johnson, because I believe we said yesterday we don't think he's going to play.

He has a concussion. He could play. Yeah, he could. But I wouldn't start him over these guys. So if I'm looking Flex Week 1, it's Chris Ivy. Yeah, for me, I'm going to go with Chris Ivory, although I do really like Eddie Royal, especially with the situation of the mystery that is Alshon Jeffrey's calf. We don't know because they've shrouded it in a fantasy fog that we cannot peer through because they don't want to give up their strategic plans, those devils.

In Chicago. Yeah, if Alshan sits, I would go Eddie Royal, otherwise Chris Ivory. You'd start Royal? I would. Just roll them out there. I think he's just going to have to get targets if Alshan's gone. I don't hate it, but I would lean to ivory. I think Bennett stands to benefit as well. Yeah, well, it's going to go Bennett and Royal, I think, would soak up all the targets there. Yeah, I agree. And someone was asking me the other day whether they should hedge their Jeffrey with Royal, and I'm like, yeah.

Yeah, and keep in mind, the Vegas line on that game is gigantic. So they're expecting a lot of points to be put up in that game. All right, this one comes in from, oh, there's no way I can pronounce that name. We're going to go with Clyde. Clyde and Parts Unknown. You coward. Oh, man, you got to try it. That's pretty good. Giblings.

Okay. Tiddly winks. Who do I start? It's another Jonathan Stewart or question. Randall or Jonathan Stewart? Joseph Randall or Jonathan Stewart in week one? Well, the daily show all day here. Yeah. For, let me verify because as much as I do not like Joseph Randall... Now, they're playing the Giants. As much as I don't like him long term, he's going to get the shot week one, and the Giants offense was a sieve for running back production.

Does that make it pretty close for you? Yeah, I'm just pulling it up to verify. Who did you guys have? I've still got Jonathan Stewart ahead of him. And I have, I'll go with, sorry, I lost it. I got Stewart ahead. I'm taking Stewart. Okay, this one is from Shoppa-Lop-Ding-Dong. Did you audit these?