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

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Hey, this is Alan Robinson from the Jacksonville Jaguars, and you're listening to the Fantasy Footballers podcast. To the Fantasy Footballers podcast, coming to you from the Fantasyjocs.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome to the show. Another day. It's upon us. Oh, not just any day. Not just any show. It's Wednesdays.

special going on jason i think there is i think this is a show that uh every year people want it's the my guys show it is the my guys show we are going to tell you who our guys are that's that's what it is we tell you we're going to tell you three three players that we think are uh you know what would you call them can't miss um i don't necessarily i call them i plant my flag on this guy and

I draft them in over 90% of my leagues. Mike, you sound terrible. Yeah, you do. You don't sound good. The sickness has moved down into the chest. Yeah, the, uh, the, please leave. When you talked about the ultimate draft kit before the show, it was a little raspy. Well, that's just because that's my, uh, my sexy voice. It wasn't from screaming when I sniped all of the guys from your. That probably had something to do with it in the listener. But no, it's simply that.

I was at, what was I at like 85% yesterday. Somehow I've gone backwards, just vocally. I feel okay. Okay. But the voice, I'm going to push through. All right. Well, it is the last day of August here. September is tomorrow. And we will have our bold predictions episode this week as well. Yes. A lot to cover in the news. Everybody's heard the Teddy Bridgewater news. And we will get into that. I've got a quick question for you guys.

This one comes in from Twitter at JJ Free, 2381. Debate the future of the Ravens backfield. The future? Yeah. I assume this year. This year's future. Kenneth Dixon should be the future. But this season, correct. You've got four legitimate running backs there, right? You've got Justin Fawcett, the current starter. You have Buck Allen, his backup, who has been.

Pretty quiet, even though he's done nothing wrong. Terrence West behind him, who's gotten a lot of buzz, has looked good in camp. And then Kenneth Dixon, the hot rookie, who looked amazing. And then tore his MCL is out to start the season, but it is not expected to be a long-term injury. So how do you make sense of it all? Well, I think Justin Fawcett gains a certain level of safety that he didn't have before Dixon went down. I drafted him in the listener league yesterday. I'm not.

extremely excited about Justin Forset. I know that Buck Allen will be in there sharing, passing down duties, spelling Forset. I think Terrence West could steal goal line. But Forset's the guy I would want to own. And I'm okay with him as a flex kind of reliable option in that backfield. I think that that'll probably be the case for most of the year. I don't know how quick Dixon can come back or what they're going to try to do with him when he does come back.

That's about how I see it laying out. I'm sure it depends on how well Forset and Buck Allen play. Because if they're moving and the team, the offense is doing excellent, why would you rush Kenneth Dixon from, I mean, tearing an MCL, that does not sound good. That doesn't sound like something you should just jump off the couch as soon as you're ready and get in. So if they don't need him, I imagine he'll be eased in overtime. I expect it to be four set.

and Buck Allen at this point. I drafted both of those guys in the draft yesterday, got Alan, I don't know, super late. Second to last round. Was that a good decision to go with Alan alongside Forset, or do I just have two players I'm going to be annoyed with? I think for where you drafted them, it was a good decision. I mean, that's what it comes down to. Justin Forsett, to me, is a good value in drafts. Not a guy I'm targeting, but a guy that...

when he just keeps falling and keeps falling and keeps falling, because I expect that he'll start the year okay. Now, I'm a little different than you guys in the sense that, and this is funny, because I was Mr. Justin Fawcett last year. I don't see a way that Justin Fawcett...

by the end of the year is carrying, you know, a lion's share of that workload. There's just too many guys there. This is not a team built for a Super Bowl. This is a team that's building for the future. Justin Forset clearly isn't it, and they're going to need to work those other guys in and get prepared. So to me, I like Justin Forsett's value. I'm fine with drafting him where he's going in drafts and starting the year. But I think it's smart to grab a backup. And I might have looked more at Dixon.

Just thinking second half of the year, especially because in our leagues you have an IR and you could throw him on the IR, not waste a bench spot. All right, we're going to jump into the news, talk about Teddy and his major injury and a number of other stories that came out yesterday after Jason said how nice the offseason had been to everybody. I apologize to all NFL players. But I am sure.

that there will be no more injuries. Oh, come on. Before the start of the UK. Somebody came out on Twitter and said, probably a Minnesota fan, came out on Twitter and said, boy, I am positive that the fantasy footballers are not going to have any injuries.

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One of the best tweets I've ever sent out last night. I set up a commercial that I want the car people to make. So you start with a wide shot, you zoom in. There is a dad, and he's in a minivan, and he's driving very carefully on the freeway, getting passed by sports cars. But he's got the music blaring, and it's life in the dad lane. I did see your tweet.

That was amazing. You got all that in in 140 characters. The Twitter version was summarized. Life in the Dad Lane. Today you should just tweet Ribbet. Because I sound like a frog. Maybe. All right. And Jason's at Jason FFL. You can follow me at Andy Holloway. And if you have a question, head over to the Fantasy Footballers.com. Click the submit a question button.

We got a DFS section going up on the website as well. We're going to have some articles introducing people to DFS. And we have, obviously, our regular articles that are going up every single day for your league. If you're preparing to get week one rosters line up set. It's coming. Pretty exciting. So let's get into the news. News and notes from around the league. There is no patience anymore. There's no such thing as patience. There is only...

speculation and panic, especially on Twitter. And when Teddy Bridgewater suffered an injury and the ambulances came out, you just, you know, the modern age, man, the modern age is just a hunger for any kind of news whatsoever. Speculation from doctors, speculation from people. Oh, this kind of ambulance only comes out for this type of thing. Oh, we're instantly watching videos of ambulances.

Just driving down the street. Sure. Knowing that Teddy Bridgewater is inside. Oh, they canceled practice. Yeah. Like they say, okay, we're done. No, we're done. I don't like, I, and I liked Zimmer, you know, afterwards, like we treated it like any other injury. Like, you canceled practice, man. The Vikings, we all know. The Vikings announced completely torn ACL, dislocated knee.

for Teddy Bridgewater. They do expect him to recover. However, we do not know if that will be in time for 2017. And so here we are. The Vikings, one of the better teams in football. Obviously, not, you know, their success is not predicated on the quarterback position. It's predicated on a good running game and a good defense. They have Sean Hill as a backup. There's been a lot of speculation even into this morning about Mark Sanchez and a possible interest in acquiring Mark Sanchez. How does this affect?

the outlook of the Minnesota Vikings. Prepare from a fantasy perspective. Prepare for Adrian Peterson to break the all-time rushing attempts record. That's what I'm getting ready for. So you think it helps. Now, we talk to. I don't know that it helps. I'm just saying that Peterson's going to have, break the single season for attempts. The box will be as stacked as it can be against Adrian Peterson. Thankfully, we have a.

Plenty of evidence of him running through very stacked boxes. So that's very nice. You can't box it, Adrian Peterson. The difference, I think, between the Tony Romo and the Teddy Bridgewater injury from fantasy to its outline parts are the fact that Teddy Bridgewater threw about 200 yards a game last year. You're not needing...

much to be replicated. I think they were dead last in past attempts. Exactly. Exactly. So this is not a team that moves the ball through the air or needs to. They're a defensive running team. So Adrian Peterson, I think Stefan Diggs will do about what Stefan Diggs was going to do. They do take a step back without Bridgewater, no doubt. But I think moving on to Mark Sanchez, I think that would be a mistake. If you look, I mean, what do you need from the quarterback position in a team like Minnesota?

Don't turn the ball over. Exactly. That, to me, is the number one thing. All right. Let's talk about Bruce Ellington, Fantasy Darling, Matt Harmon's good buddy. Look, Ellington statistics are going to be poor this year because he's been placed on season-ending IR. Sorry, Bruce. So no opportunity to break out there, Bruce Ellington on IR. Is this rise Toy Smith up for you, Mike? If he can get some freaking targets. That's why they signed Jeremy Curley, by the way, in the...

Mediocre signing of the week. Oh, come on. You know what's funny? That drop does not specify wide receiver. I could have used it yesterday for Stephen Ridley. You sure could have. Jerome Simpson is out there crying somewhere. Yeah, yeah. I'd rather play Jerome Simpson. Would you rather play Jerome Simpson at quarterback from Minnesota or Mark Sanchez? See, I thought you were going to go. Would you rather play Jerome Simpson or Bart Simpson? I'm not signing Jerome, no matter what it takes. I don't care.