Fantasy Football 2018 - Big Offseason Questions + Combine Hype

That's massive, especially for the situation he was in. However, his pace for his starts was 19 touchdowns. That number has to go up. It probably will. But I'm with Jason that I think that the hype train for Jimmy Garoppolo is going to just continue to grow to a place. Where do you think he gets drafted? Come draft season. As a top 10 quarterback.

Yeah, that's the question is where among quarterbacks do you see him getting up? Well, we just talked a lot about James Winston on the last show. Do you think people are going to go and take the shot on Jimmy G over Wednesday? I do. Okay. So that, I mean, is that the line that you see? Philip Rivers or Jimmy G. Rivers. Okay. For sure. Well, that's who you believe in, but who do you think is going to be drafted? Oh, sorry. I.

I bet that's pretty close. League dependent, but you'll see Jimmy Garoppolo draft in front of River. It really is one of those things where I believe in Jimmy G's talent. So if people didn't get on board and he was dropping to, you know, that quarterback 15 through 18 where you're drafting him like James Winston will, that's where I'm going to be taking one of those guys. Would you rather have Jared Goff or Jimmy Garoppolo? Oh, that's an excellent question. And I think Jared Goff. I lean Geroplo there. Eileen Goff.

Second year growing with Sean McVeigh. I'm going with that one. We'll call it second year growing with Kyle Shanahan. Hey? Like one and one and a half. One and a half. And on what were the Rams like the number one offense? Yeah. Now where to go but down. That's what I heard. Okay. That's kind of your offseason strategy though with Matt Ryan. It worked out. All right. This one's off of Instagram. Would you?

What would your highest and lowest ranking be for Saquan Barclay, depending on which team he's drafted to? This is from Maselli underscore 914. Yeah, so, you know, I'll hop in. I think the worst place for him to go, which is a very realistic place for him to go, would be the Cleveland Browns. I realize that there was some talk last year of their offensive line being improved, but they're, you know, if you're a bad team, I...

That's not a great place for a running back to be. If you're down in the fourth quarter, now granted, he's got past catching ability, so that's helpful. But that, you know, I would just say that's the lowest for me. And if he were a Brown, he'd probably still be about RB12 to me. So, you know, if he goes to the Colts and Andrew Luck is back healthy, something like that, I would see more touchdown opportunity, higher upside with just the, you know, better offense winning.

ball game. So there, you know, I might see him about RB 7 or 8. It's not a wide range for me personally. Where do you guys stand? Yeah, it's not a wide range for me either. I think that his past catching ability just, his floor is going to be so high because the team that invests the draft pick necessary to get Saquan Barclay must use Saquan Barkley, the same way we've seen high profile draft picks be used. To me, this is Christian McCaffrey's past catching skill set mixed with between the tackles ability that

far exceeds Christian McCaffrey. So if he goes to Cleveland or New York or wherever he goes, I just think the floor is super high. It's top 10 high to me. Yep. I completely agree. I have nothing to add. Here's another question, though, in the same vein, off of Instagram, apart from Barclay, what other rookies are you the most excited to watch next year? And this gives me the first opportunity to drop the name.

Ronald Jones the second. You're all about it. USC running back. There's the eye test, right? And he passes it for me. I'm very curious to see what his combine numbers look like. I know there are holes in his game. But what I like about Ronald Jones is the fact that I think he has game-breaking ability, big playability. And so I really like him. He's who I'm most excited to watch outside of Barclay for sure. For me, it's Rashad Penny.

I've just seen some stuff that makes me go. Yes. Woo! And so I want to see more of that. So you've had some things that make you go, mm-hmm. Yes. All right. It was more of a horse sound that came out there. I was trying to help him out with a wild Mustang. With a much better sound. Can't be tamed. The guy that I'm very interested to watch, Sequant Barkley, of course. I love Sony Michelle from Georgia.

And you like Chubb too, don't you? Of course. Yeah, they're both. They're both great. But the guy I've talked about the most in this office, and Jason can attest this, is Royce Freeman from Oregon. He absolutely blows up my production model. He's a little lower than I want in the actual market share of the model. So I'm, he is my most. You're excited to see what he's got. He's the guy I want to see the most in what he puts up in these athletic measurables at the combine.

All right, this one comes off of Instagram as well. Where does Camara go in 10? I think he meant 10 team PPR redraft leaks. You got to read these people's names. This is Rhymes Walker. Yes, Instagram off of Rhymes Walker. You know, I'm still gun shy after my, you know, Colbert, Colbert situation earlier. These are Instagram names. It doesn't matter. Okay. You're going to get them wrong every time. All right, Dr. Rimes Walker wants to know where does Camar go?

In a 10 league PPR redraft. 10 team. 10 team. What did I? Oh, yeah, yeah. I'm Ron Burgundy. Yeah. So he will go in the top five. Look, if you've read through my article, at this point, you understand the reasons why I believe so much in Alvin Camara. Yeah. So nobody understands reasons why yet. Andy's case for Camara is coming out.

to... Andy's near you. Andy's case for Camara is somewhere... Focus grouping it. Along with Cameron Artist Payne's birth certificate. They are in the same exact location. They're in the same room. Yes, absolutely. As soon as we get one figured out, the other will follow. I could see Camara being...

the widest range first round draft pick. If he goes number one to someone because they just think he was unbelievable and they read Andy's article, I'm not going to be shocked. If he drops to, you know, eight or so because people think. I would not be. In a PPR. Full PPR. I guess that is a little bit harder, maybe seven, six, but. Oh, be shocked. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I think he's got a wide range. I think he's going to go high. All right. On Instagram, this one comes in from R. Jorison.

Yeah. I'm so happy anymore, are you? What makes a good fantasy football team name? That's what he wants to know. That's an excellent question. What makes a good name? Brooks and I are in the middle right now of rebranding our League of Record team. That's taken a lot longer in my article. I'll tell you that. Yeah, we'll see which one happens first. But these are what matters to us. We've had these discussions.

I want it to be a team name that can last. You want to put it on a trophy and have it be there for the foreseeable future now. So, you know, I don't want to change my team name every year. And I want it to be something that matters to, in our case, to both of us. What things do we have in common pop culture reference? And then I want it to sound like a team name. Yeah, like what if you went with the seven and sixers?

Oh, mercy. That's not bad. Them's fighting words. That's not bad. I say that and I made the playoffs. He didn't make the playoffs. We were both seven and six. Would that be good for you? I'm with Jason. I like longevity to my name. And if you're going to go with a player pun name, there's nothing wrong with that. Love me dad jokes. Love me some pun names. Yeah. But you got to have come up with it. You can't.

Don't just Google search player pun names. Right. Because then everyone's going to have, everyone has someone over Duanebo. We got it. We understand. Little Red Fort Nett. Yeah, we've done. We got it. I've already drove it. It's washed. You got to make it happen by yourself. Yeah, and if you want to protect yourself against feeling like you need to own that player, pick somebody remote. Somebody that's not, you know, high profile. There's a lot of people who kind of, oh, my name is this and I have to own that player then. Right. That's kind of the trap.

All right, Caddy 14 says, I'm the commissioner, and this will be my second year. It's a Keeper League, and we did it online. Does this year have to be a live draft, or can it be online? So I think he's wanting to know technology-wise, because there are keepers, are you able to do an online draft? And the quick answer is yes, very easily if you aren't doing massive pick trading. Because a system like ESPN,

You have a keeper league. You can put those keepers on those teams and then run an online draft. If you have massive pick trading, that's going to make it more complicated. That's when we choose to do all of ours offline just for the flexibility. And for the fun. Yeah. You can still do it in person online. Right. And you can do online offline. As in it's not live. It's not live through the ESPN system. Right.

Google Hangout or whatever and talking through things so you don't have the rigidity. Rigidity? Yeah, there you're there. Gotcha. Of being confined through the system. So both are perfectly fine. Yeah, the old offline online. Oh, Mike's got it. Off and on. Be biffle 89. Oh, I'm so happy you made them read these Instagram names. Dynasty trade. Be biffle. Dynasty trade offer. I was offered 101 and O.J. Howard.

for Alvin Camara in 303. This is very, so you were offered Sequin Barclay and O.J. Howard. So, Sequin Barclay and O.J. Howard for Camara and the 303. That's really interesting. Yeah, it's very interesting. You try not to overreact because, you know, without knowing where Barclay's team is and things like that, you, I tend to say, look, Camara, you saw what you got with Camara. Man, that's tough. I would actually want to know if this was.

Well, no, with Barclay, it doesn't matter. I was going to say a full PPR league. Man, I probably stick with Camar. I think I take it. And funny enough, O.J. Howard helps me swing this over to the Barclay side, because I believe in O.J. Howard long term. We know that tight ends, aside from Evan Engram having a monster fantasy season, it takes tight ends multiple years. And we saw it from O.J. Howard. We saw the flashes.

So you're getting a first round tight end. The way that I see it is the 101, Saquan Barkley versus Alvin Camarad. Let's just talk that straight up. I'm taking Camara. If this is, you know, if I'm drafting and Saquan's available, I would take Camara ahead of Saquan. Just because you know. Because I know, yes, exactly. I've seen it in the NFL. I know. And both are good. I know I'm not going to be disappointed with Camara, barring injury or something like that.

But O.J. Howard, this is a team need to me. If you're solid at tight end, I'd rather have the known commodity in Alvin Camara, keep the draft pick. But if OJ. Howard will actually help your, you know, if you've got Greg Olson and nothing behind him, no youth whatsoever, you don't have an Injoku or an Ebron or, you know, Kittle, then, yeah, I would grab OJ. Howard in the Dynasty League and let that swing it. So I guess I agree with you, Mike.

It's tough because the ceiling for the potential ceiling, the unknown ceiling of Sequin Barclay is much higher than Alvin Camara. I think you're right. I think you're right about that. Is both being the number one running out. Hmm. All right. Interesting. All right. Mike Dorset off of Instagram. Are we banking on Watson and Hopkins making magic again next year? Great show, guys. Hopkins, yes. Watson, I am not. I know I.

tried to throw cold water on the flames and couldn't. Might as well keep it going. That's the Olympic torch, my friend. That thing cannot go out. I was like, I just couldn't get him out. It was what, five points a game better than any other fantasy quarterback during that stretch? Yes. But if you listened to last episode and the numbers that I gave on the unsustainability of Carson wins at seven and a half percent of his throws going for touchdowns,

He was not number one last year. I think it was up in the nine's was Watson. I'll double check this for you. Yeah, you double check that. And that is just completely unsustainable. I don't care who you are. That's not sustainable for Aaron Rogers. So I'm not going to bank on a mobile quarterback coming back off of an ACL tear with unsustainable numbers. I'm not saying he's going to be bad, but I'm not baking on him staying.

Magma. All right. Jay Soulgate Jr. Thanks again. What? Sounds like he uses a quit. What day of the Combine covers the snack counts? And what are your expectations for your snack count this year? Jason. Snack counts are 100% and Saturday is usually the best day. For snack counts? Well, yes, for snack counts and combine. See, I find it easiest to eat throughout all football games.