Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - The "My Guys" Episode, Fantasy Favorites, Teddy

Ladarius Green is on the PUP. That means he can return what? Week six? Yes. After week six. Jesse James stream that guy, man. A lot of injury notes here. After somebody made a comment. People are wondering if you're the Reaper now. My Twitter blew up with people angry at me. The funniest. Deservedly so. The funniest version.

uh was all the people that were listening to the show after so much injury news had broke you know when none of that happened before i was saying that we have had the most injury free preseason i can remember and then all of a so you're all this injury news coming out and then you turn on the ballers and you have me saying there's no injuries in the world however i need it to be clear that this is still andy and not myself because yesterday if you if you listen to the tape

I was arguing it was injury free. Andy was trying to say that it was very injury riddled. You know, he was bringing out Tony Romo and other guys. And then I said, well, I rest my case. And Andy, he went behind the scenes. All right. He won the battle. I will grant you. You won yesterday because of all the trickery you did on those players. You know who's getting hurt in this offseason? Nice guys. Ben Watson, torn to kill him. Yeah. Teddy Bridgewater. One of the nicest people in football.

It's a good point. I mean, Pac-Man Jones isn't getting hurt. I'm just kidding. All right, Lederius Green. We talked about him on the pup. Jesse James is somebody that I would be happy streaming. He looked all right in the preseason, and they used the tight end, and they don't have a lot of other options. They also won't have, you know.

They won't have Bell for the first three weeks. So I like those first three weeks for Jesse James. Keith Marshall, seventh round guy that some people drafted in Dynasty Leagues for no reason, is on injured reserve with the damage UCL in his elbow. He's done. Mike, one of the most entertaining things that I had.

to that I did yesterday was watch Mike try not to draft Matt Jones. Oh, man. I mean, you know that pretty much had to. You avoided it by drafting a guy you, another guy you don't like, Matt Forte. But here's the deal. You know what in the movie draft day when he pulls out the note and it says that player's name, no matter what. Is that Matt Jones for you? Well, I have a note that says never Matt Jones. Oh, come on. No matter what.

Wasn't there a period of time in this offseason that you respected Matt Jones? No, never. Never. You're going to pay for it. I respected his opportunity and I am fine. His opportunity's there now. I'm fine missing it. All right. Well, that sounds like DeVantz Freeman if I've ever heard one. Yeah, that is his. So yeah. There you go. Wait, say it then. Say it. Matt Jones stinks. Yes. Yes, I'm drafting him immediately. Oh my goodness. Okay. Dionne Lewis is on the pup. Yeah.

We knew it was coming. We talked about James White and him yesterday. John Brown cleared to practice. That's a sigh of relief. That's a grunt of relief from Jason. Yeah. I mean, I look, I'm a little concerned with concussions. But as we might or might not find out today, I kind of like John Brown. Eric Ebrun, 50-50 to play in week one, making his draft stock annoying.

Yeah, I agree. He was another guy in consideration for me for my guy. I really like him this year. But he is going to get off to a slow start. I don't like that. So not going to happen. You don't need to draft them. Chiefs reporter Adam Teicher reports Jamal Charles has not regained his feature back role. Yet. Yet. Yet. He said almost all first teams are going to Spencer Ware. I think, you know, I saw other reports that referred to Jamal Charles' behind schedule. I mean, that was the language used.

Yeah, I read that entire report because I wanted to make sure, like, what was this really saying? And that's, you just nailed it. He's behind schedule in his recovery right now. I expect that he will get to the point where he is the lead workhorse back. But I am a little bit scared that it's not going to happen in two weeks when they start their first, you know, regular season game. Yeah, I do too. I don't like that news. He is currently my RB 13 now.

Wow, he dropped into 13? Yeah, I mean, they're not just because, I mean, there are guys I like. And when I'm on the clock and I'm looking at a guy that, you know, a Mark Ingram who I believe in, I think is going to be good or Jamal Charles, who I believe in, but I think might not be the starting workload guy on week one. I'm going to, you know, I'm going to go safe. Carlos Hyde cleared for non-football activities. Is that serious the story, non-football activities? Right. Well, he's just keeping, yeah.

I guess. That was a direct quote. So he has a concussion. He's been cleared to not play football. I was cleared last week to not play football. Carlos Hyde has been cleared to grocery shop. Okay. Well, that's exciting. Go to Target. I feel like somebody might want to, like, follow up on that one a little bit for us while I, uh...

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Carlos Hyde has been clear for non-football activities. If he wakes up, symptom-free on Wednesday, he will be officially cleared to resume practice. The pause there was humorous to me. If he wakes up, he's cleared. If he doesn't wake up, odds of football production go way down. So let's go ahead and you ready? That's funny. You have your list? Let's do it. That drop, man.

You just go from from nice and easy to heavy. Sometimes you got to go from the hot tub to the cold pool and back to the hot tub. That is the most perfect analogy for that job. So you wake up the senses. All right. We did this last year. It's our My Guys episode planting our flag, three players each, giving you some names, you know.

For me, I just use this as an opportunity to cross three names off my list. Whoever Mike says, just, you know, Devanta Freeman. Is he on your list this year? He is not on my list. That's a shame. All right. So let's kick it off here. Mike, take it away. Give me one of your guys. Sure. I'm going to start this one off with a guy I find myself drafting every single time under almost every circumstance. And that is Willie Sneed. I cannot seem to pass.

his value i'm in a draft late last night and i'm thinking you know i'd like to grab a running back here but willie sneed is just sitting there is such a higher tiered wide receiver to me than everybody else i have to grab him last year sixty nine catches almost a thousand yards and only three touchdowns willie sneed is going currently

according to fantasy football calculator at the top of the tenth round he was a wide receiver three and he you can draft him in the tenth round he can literally not be any better and you're still getting a great value on willie sneed who i think is going to improve we've already seen that the connection is there with drew breeze he's had a great

preseason. He's being drafted behind guys. Travis Benjamin, Devin Funches, Kevin White, Devante Parker, Stefan Diggs. The guy had almost 1,000 yards. And Drew Brees is his quarterback. I think it's crazy the value that you're getting currently on Willie Sneed. And if you look through all my teams, you're going to find that I'm in the danger zone. The danger zone and I got the need for Sneed. I, you know what?

I think that's, you stumbled on exactly what makes a guy, our guy, which is, he ends up on most of your teams in drafts. That's, yeah. So it's a mixture of us liking that player and, and how they're going to perform, but also the value and where they seem to drop to you in draft. So Willie Sneed, Mike's my guy. I think I would take Sneed over everybody in that list. I would think twice about Devante Parker, but that's it from that list. So, I mean, I'm on board.

Told you, I kind of, Saints fans won't like me for this, but I just kind of think the window might be closing for them. I think it's a difficult division. I think it's been very up and down in the preseason. It was up and down last year. I know they ended strong, but they were still seven to nine teams. So I worry a little bit about them from a, just a success standpoint. Well, let me continue on with the next my guy then, because I'm going to stick with the Saints.

And we're going to go with the guy I've talked about all offseason. I really like his value. And that is Kobe Fleener, the Saints tight end. Look, I kind of agree with you, Andy, that the Saints window, you know, for being a...

a playoff contending Super Bowl contending team is closed. They're not that good. But the Jags aren't that good. And there's plenty of fantasy relevance to be had. And there's plenty of fantasy relevance. Gus and I beg to differ. That's fine. Yeah. The Gus Buss and you.

I'll bring him up later. I'll take Drew Breeze. I'll take Kobe Fleener. I'll take Brandon Cooks. I'll take Willie Sneed. Mark Angroom. These are fantasy relevant players who will put up points. And look, if their defense isn't getting it done, then they got to score more points. And I'm all about that. Here are the target counts for the last three years with your Andy New Orleans Saints. Seats? Seints. 156 targets.

182 targets and 148 targets the last three years to the tight end. So let's take a low number of that and just say 125 targets. 125 targets. If that's what Kobe Fleener gets, last year he caught 64.3% of his balls. Let's only give him 60%. That's 75 receptions.

75 receptions is basically what Greg Olson and Gary Barnage got last year that helped you win leagues and he's going. You can get him as your seventh or eighth player where you've got a good solid roster. You've filled out all your running backs, all your wide receivers. You might even have someone on your bench already. And then it's like, hey, I can get a guy at tight end that I don't have to stream. I don't have to be dropping guys and picking guys up.

You know, I stream tight-ins very often. But whenever Kobe Fleener's on the board, if I'm in the eighth round, I'm going to take him. He really is my guy in that situation. And I think he's going to be reliable this year. I love him. I got sniped on him by one pick last night. I don't know why I'm still hesitant on him. All the arguments are there. I want to remind you, Josh Hill is going to take at least 30 of those targets.

So, no, I do. I like the upside of it. And he represents something that, you know, he's not a fantasy vegetable. He's a guy that at least, you know, he has the potential in that kind of an offense and with what they've done with the tight end before to definitely outperform expectations and certainly outperform that draft selection. So I'm going to jump on to a player who, look, his greatest attribute might be the fact that Gus Bradley's his coach. But it's not. It's not. It's T.J. Eldon. I wish I had the sound board. All off season.