Fantasy Football Podcast 2017 - Free Agent Frenzy!

up almost 400 yards in my, you know, when we're statting guys out, just what you're going to say 400 spots. I was like, wow, you had him low. Very low. And now he's up to 20. Okay. You know, but I do think this is really good for Eli Manning. And if they're able to shore up that offensive line, well, before you crap on the offensive line, I'll say this, football out, football outsiders, the Giants ranked fantastic.

As a pass blocking. Right. No, that's been the case. Run blocking was absolutely garbage. Right. And they need to be able to run the ball a little bit more with the defense they have. But this is great news, I think, for O'Dell Beckham. A lot of, I've seen a lot of Twitter, you know, questions from people just worried, oh, Brandon Marshall's coming. Does that ruin my O'Dell Beckham? No. O'Dell Beckham is not going to see any kind of significant downcrease in targets or. Downcrease is a brand new word.

That is impressive. It's a special work. Wow. It's reserved for special situations. Victory is withstood. I had a down crease once. It was terrible. Well, man. I think historic share is going to be. How does it feel when you're really good fantasy football opinions get just derailed by your grammar? Ah.

It feels pretty par for the course. Okay, okay. Just feels like living. Just like. It feels like dreaming. L-I-N. Living. L-I-N. Living. Sorry, what, you were saying something? Yeah. I don't think his targets will decrease. No. No. And go down, you know, any significant way. But I do think that his double coverage could decrease. You know, his ability to break out into the open is going to be much.

better when Brandon Marshall is across the field on the other side and you've got to worry about him. And then also on third downs, you saw the offense of the Giants struggling at times last year just to convert to keep moving to score points. Well, if you've got Brandon Marshall keeping a drive alive on a third and eight play, you've got more touchdown opportunity later in the game. So I think this is great news for Odo Beckham. I don't personally believe Brandon Marshall has lost basically anything from his game. I do not.

I think he is an upper echelon type of talent. You think last year was just a complete outlier, injury, you're throwing at quarterback. Ryan Fitzpatrick got in late. Eric Decker went out. There was nobody else on the other side of the field. Brandon Marshall led the league last year as far as the worst percentage of catchable balls. He was in the around 44% of the targets that were thrown to him were deemed catchable.

It's a great, it's a great signing. Fantasy-wise. Eli will get that up to 46. I want Brandon Marshall if he's a fifth round pick. That's, I want Brandon Marshall. Sure. The production can be there for this offer. Fifth round. Yeah, well, right now he's a sixth in ADP, but that'll, he'll climb. Which is strange because it's just, to me, compared to if he was staying in New York as the one.

I still liked him more on the Jets as a fantasy producer. That being said, where do you guys see him? Like, is he a two this year? He's locked and loaded? To me, he'll be a strong too. I think that they throw the ball enough in New York that they'll be able to get at least production from two wide receivers. I'm with Jason. Otto Beckham will get his. He's still locked and loaded top three guy to me. And I think Marshall, I think he has enough to.

when you put an elite wide receiver next to him. I think that helps Brandon Marshall personally. Okay. All right. Let's go ahead. Anything else you want to get into on the New York side of the ball? For the Giants? Yeah. No. Okay. So the Jets now. It's Eric Decker show? Maybe. Yeah, he might be gone. I mean, it's the looking 2018 first round pick show. They're what's going on. They're looking at 2021.

Yeah, I mean, you don't know who the quarterback's going to be. It's as likely to be Gino Smith as it is to be Jake Cutler as it is to be Christian Hackenberg. Maybe they'll just go, let's start them so we can get that number one. I mean, you have no idea who the quarterback's going to be, who the wide receivers are going to be. It's a scary situation out there. So.

I'm avoiding almost every piece of fantasy from the jets. When the dust settles on those ugly situations, you can find the gyms. You can find the Terrell Priors, Quincy and Noonois. And Noon, that's a guy who I like. I think he's very talented. I mean, he's going to get on the field. And, I mean, we're very, very early, but I've always liked Devin Smith. Maybe he can be healthy and have an actual role on the field now.

All right, we won't get into the weeds with Kenny Stills anymore because we've already talked about him. Well, returning to the dolphins. Kenny Stills, it has some fallout. Do you think that the team at all is concerned about Devante Parker? There's been some bad, bad rumors from the bush is spreading about Leante Carew. And when you go out and you give a guy like Kenny Brett, like you're saying, I mean, it's unproven.

statistically on the field in the film it seems like it's there but the stats are not there and you have they gave up a lot to get carew devante parker first round pick and then you say no we're going to give a Kenny stills a boatload of money i think that they are focusing on something extremely important for NFL teams to have and very valuable for fantasy

football owners to have, which is continuity. You saw it last year with several teams, right? You saw it with the Atlanta Falcons. They came in with, you know, their system in place into the year two of Kyle Shanahan. You know, the running backs got it. The Julio already knew the system. Matt Ryan was a year, and you had it with other teams last year. Look at the Washington Redskins, how much their offense and their yards and their touchdowns went up. Kirk Cousins, we had a debate as to whether he would be a top 12 quarterback last year. He blew that out of the water.

He had a great year through for almost 5,000 yards. Well, that was because he had Pierre Garsohn and Jameson Crowder and Deshaun Jackson, everybody back. It was a complete continuity there. And so I think for the Dolphins, that's why I was talking about, look, I know Ryan Tanahill is not a name that we like to say. And, you know, I've ranked him high, which means I think he's like my 18th quarterback right now. So I'm not out there saying, hey, you've got to have him. But.

We forget that Matt Ryan was quarterback 22, two years ago in year one of that system. And while I think Matt Ryan is just better, obviously, than Ryan Tannahill, Ryan Tannahill, now comes into a system where he has a lot of weapons. They've added Julius Thomas to the mix of all the continuity that they had with all the wide receivers. So the Dolphins' offense as a whole, I like...

I like this next year. They're a sleeper offense for me for fantasy. We're going to talk about Kenny, or I'm sorry, about Kenny Britt, a different Kenny. But before we do that, I do want to thank today's sponsor, great friends of the show, our friends over at pristineauction.com. It really doesn't get better than pristineauction.com. There's a reason they're one of the fastest growing sports memorabilia sites on the web is because they treat their customers the right way.

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They're the best. They are. The Browns, or as my notes say, from the best to the worst. Am I right? My notes say the hashtag Browns are signing wide receiver Kenny Brett. Are you trying to get the Browns trending? I did not put that there. Brooks? Brooks? What's with the hashtag? Is taking off at Twitter. Oh, okay. All right. So that does make sense. Kenny Britt signs.

And while signs with the Browns four year $32 million deal. This impacts both him and possibly Terrell Pryor. Sure does. I think Pryor's gone. One of the things that is really, really funny is that Torell Pryor, right? He is this young, up and coming great stud. He's not really young. No, this is the point that I'm making. And Kenny Britt is this old.

Busted. Sorry to ruin your minds. Yeah. I mean, you really have this vision like in Dynasty leagues. Torel Pryor, you need to have him because he's going to be something great. Kenny Britt, you know, he's done with. Well, he was drafted in 1988. They're the same age. Are they both 28? No, Pryor's 27. Okay. So he's like. Got a couple months on him.

Uh, about a year. But yes, they're pretty much the same age. They are, uh, and it's a great point because you look at prior because of the transition into wide receiver, because his first real year showing that kind of potential, he took, what, three years off? I mean, a thousand yards in his first year as a, as a wide receiver on it, on an offense that had six different quarterbacks. And, you know, he showed what he could do. It's a good point.

Now, I don't know if, you know, Pryor is going to cost more on the market. I mean, $32 million deal for Britt, they certainly had the money to spend it. Maybe Kenny Britt's matured. Maybe that's why we saw a career year out of him, despite the quarterback situation there. He's certainly used to having nobody to throw him the ball. And they could still bring back prior. I mean, the Cleveland Browns had by far the most amount of cap space to make a splash. But this is bad news to me.

for Terrell Pryor of you have the team who said, I mean, you've gone from the only piece on this team that we will not consider trading is Terrell Pryor. You didn't franchise him. You've spent some decent money on a different wide receiver. What is going on with Terrell Pryor? There's, there's always those gross kind of rumors of like no one really likes Terrell Pryor in the locker room. I mean, this is bad news. Could we have a guy?

emerged of a great story, a great redemption story of a wide receiver gets a thousand yards and then just vanish? There are very few spots, I think, for Terrell prior to go, where he's going to be a real valuable asset for fantasy, where he can be a focus of an offense. And I agree with you, this is bad news.

for Terrell Pryor. Either way, if he stays. That's why I never wanted him to leave. That's the reason why is because I don't know, now that Piergarsan has gone to San Francisco, because that would have been one of the places I said. You land in San Francisco, maybe that's the, maybe. I still think that's maybe his best option. He could, what's ironic is he could flip-flop with Kenny Brand. I mean, St. Louis could end up bringing in Terrell Pryor. But yeah, I agree with all. I agree with those. Yeah. Did I say St. Louis? Yeah. Oh, man. Man, that takes some time.

I'm old. All right. The Buccaneers have agreed to terms of Deshawn Jackson. Yes. Formerly of the Washington Redskins. All right. So the prediction count here. I had Kenny Stills going back. Oh, on our free agent episode. Yes. I had him going back to Miami. I got that one. Mike, you're, uh, you got Deshaun Jackson going to the Bucks. Yep. So congratulations. Well, thank you. I, I love this move. That's, I was predicting it because that's what my heart wanted.

That's why? Yeah. Good reason. Logic be smirched. Well, I mean, there's logically made sense of that they need that weapon in Tampa Bay. James. Vincent Jackson is is gone. And James Winston, I mean, he, I believe back to back years now has led the league in air yards. I mean, the guy, he's got a cannon. He has a cannon. And he's not afraid to force the ball down the field. And now you can't just double cover Mike Evans.

A huge knock on Mike Evans this last year is he's being comped to DeAndre Hopkins two years ago where yards after catch was non-existent. And I'm trying to continue my flow of concentration here. And I have a cackling hyena next to me. Jason, explain yourself. Yeah. So to distract us just for one second from any fantasy football. So, you know, I'm drinking my coffee. It's almost gone.