Fantasy Football Podcast 2017 - Free Agent Frenzy!

was just an absolute target monster under Kyle Shanahan, so maybe we can get that connection with Hoyer and Garsohn. And Good one, I mean, that's not going to be a guy you're going to go out and sign for your fantasy team, but that easily replaces a deep threat. I mean, good one is very, very fast. Yeah, we're talking. Very, very fast. Worldly fast. All right, Danny Woodhead signs with the Baltimore Ravens. This was shocking.

He's fully healthy after the ACL surgery in 2016. Hey, Kenneth Dixon owner, how do you like that signing? I tried to tell a Kenneth Dixon owner the other day. It's just, it's going to be, it's going to be muddy there. Now, you wonder with this signing, they tindered Terrence West at the original round level. And you have Kenneth Dixon. Which is, that's, he was a second round pick, I think.

Terrence West was a very high draft. I'm going to, I'll check that out. So you have now a backfield. Oh, that's barf. You have a backfield. You know has Danny Woodhead. Abort. You know you have Canada Dixon, and you might have Terrence West in the mix. It starts to look like, okay, Baltimore's not going to use that high pick on a running back. Right. And at least it appears that way. And if they do, for goodness sakes, who in the world would.

have any confidence in that running game. Third round for Terrence West. Yeah, and yeah, no one's going out and spinning a third rounder for Terrence West right now with as deep as this draft class is. So you've got all three guys back. And Danny Woodhead has been a very valuable piece for every team he has ever been on in the NFL. Two years ago, he led the league in receptions as a running back. So you know they're not going to sign him. And you know Danny Woodhead, who the Chargers wanted anyways. They did sign him.

Yes. Well, you said you know they're not going to sign him. No, no, I was in the middle of the thought of saying, you know, they're not going to sign him to not use him. And the Chargers wanted him, and they would have paid for him. So you also know that not only did they sign him, but they signed him for enough and with enough promise to say, you're going to be involved here. And his past catching role is really what I think people were excited about with...

with Kenneth Dixon saying you have some of this talent and some of the so I agree the the muddy uh water as the back field I will gladly be drafting Danny Woodhead everywhere I think that he will go later in the drafts and you're talking about a team uh Joe Flacco threw the ball one less time than Drew Breeze last year how many catches did use check have last year a lot I'd look it up but I can't spell his last name

Nobody can. But the fact that your fullback caught that many passes, I mean, what a weapon. He got paid. And you lose Steve Smith. And so if they don't add to that wide receiving court, even more reason to believe that the tight end in the backfield, the third down back can make it happen. Mike Glennon signed with the Bears. Is that official? It's going to be a three-year, $45 million deal that includes $19 million guaranteed. It's kind of interesting to me. You know, they spent that money there.

are still in the battle for Alshan to return. But do you think next year that I'm just throwing this out there, do you think next year the San Francisco 49ers are going to grossly overspend for a bad quarterback? Because this is what happens in the wake of Brian Hoyer. Brian Hoyer leaves the Texans and they go, hey, we don't want Brian Hoyer. We want, we want Brock. Hey, we don't, hey, the Bears are like, we don't want Brian Hoyer. We don't like Lenin.

That was almost a triple of love Mike. I know. I like Mike Lennon. I think that he showed me enough on tape to say that he deserved to get a chance. And you say, well, he got put to the side in Tampa Bay because Tampa Bay had their overall number one pick and they saw that James Winston to them was a for sure franchise quarterback. And when you see a for sure franchise quarterback in your eyes, you have to take him. So I think that Mike Lennon.

It can get some things done. He'll be interesting to see it for fantasy purposes, especially if Alshan is back. If you have Alshan, you have Cameron Meredith, I think that's, it could be okay. He's just going to be a streaming quarterback at best. But I personally like the signing. The Dallas Cowboys are expected to release Tony Romo today. Tony Romo, we all made our predictions. I went with Houston. I believe you both went with Denver.

I was going to say set the Denver Broncos alert. Those are the only two destinations even being discussed at this point for Tony Romo in the rumor mill. So I'm very curious to see where he lands. I wonder if it's just going to be a situation where he picks the best fit for him. It would be very interesting for him to stay in Texas and play for the Texans. So we'll see what happens with Tony Romo. Not much news to report about.

The Seahawks, Ian Rappaport reports the Seahawks and Jamal Charles have a mutual interest. That's interesting. I could use this one to get on the board for my free agent predictions. It made sense to me. You've had an inability for that backfield to stay healthy over the last couple of years. So they're going to sign Jamal Charles. Right. The key to health is more guys that can get hurt, but not at the same time, hopefully. So this would obviously, it would damage. It would damage hopes for Rawls once again. So.

Let's see here. Adam Thielen, second round tender by the Vikings. Yeah, I like it. He almost had a thousand yards last year. Yeah. He seems like he's... He said, take that Kenny Stills. And he's good. You know, I don't want to overstate it, but he is... He has the size, the speed, the hands. He's developed into a good route runner. I'm going to be really excited to see Matt Harmon's...

reception on Adam Thiel. He's one of those guys I want to see, like, what are you seeing on every route run? Because you have the best quarterback in the history of completion percentage last year, throwing him the ball now in San Bradford, which I was really surprised. Sam Bradford had a very good, very good real life. You're talking about Thielen? Yeah. Oh, you said throwing him the ball now, so I thought maybe it was somebody else that had.

No, no. You're just saying last year he was, okay. Gotcha. Yeah, absolutely. By the way, the Los Angeles Rams have $80 million invested in Robert Woods and Tavon Austin. The best wide receiver combo in the league, right? Oh, Tavon. Doesn't really get better. I still believe, I totally think Tavon is a better. I think he makes more of a real NFL impact.

Like we, that's the problem, right? Like we evaluate everything through the lens of fantasy football. And so for a guy like Tavon Austin who doesn't catch as many passes necessarily or the red zone, it's hot and cold, like I think Tavon Austin helps an actual football team more than your fantasy football team. I can agree with that, but I don't think he helps an actual football team anywhere near his salary. Let's say the only thing. His salary is top five wide receiver in the league. What he's helping his football team do is when someone needs a loan.

And Tavon's there like, I got you cover, man. Oh, so he's short-term loans for the entire roster. He's the money guy. And so Tavon, enjoy the season because next year he is very cuttable. Okay. Contract-wise. All right. We'll see what happens there. There was a report this morning. Maybe it's worth discussing. Maybe not. I don't think it's legitimate, but.

ESPN's Diana Rossini reported the Patriots are considering a trade. Oh, you got to talk about it at least. That would send Malcolm Butler to New Orleans in exchange for Brandon Cooks. I don't get the deal. I mean, I do. Like I understand Malcolm Butler, you're going to have to pay him next year. You know, there were reports that the Patriots had tried to trade the 32nd overall pick for Brandon Cook. So I think the smoke is turning to fire there on their desire to put Brandon Cooks on the roster.

To me, I just don't understand why you would necessarily give up Malcolm Butler, a kind of consensus top five corner in the league to do it. What do you guys take? Let's say Brandon Cook's, because this is the fantasy bend. He lands in New England. He is, is it a lateral move? Is it an upgrade? Or as Jason would say, a down crease. The crease is trending downward for me if you put him in New England. I mean, there's...

One, he's outside. If you look at Brandon Cook's splits of, you can look home away and then you start looking indoor, outdoor. He performs poorly. Outdoor. Harmon actually just tweeted out a chart on Brandon Cooks. What's his success rate against coverage? Because the thing about Brandon Cooks is, if you've had him on your fantasy team, you know.

Where did Brandon Cooks go? He has vanished at times. Just Houdini has disappeared from games. And you look at what Matt Harmon charted out about his success rate versus coverage. It's very poor. He's got great hands. He has great speed. But he is not beating his coverage. And then if you go up to the New England Patriots, I can't. No dome. No dome. I can't imagine they're going to cut Chris Hogan. Malcolm Mitchell, there's.

I think they really, really like Malcolm Mitchell. There's no way that they're going to replace him. He's for the future of that team. Amandol is still around. Edelman is the designated slot guy for the foreseeable future. Where does Brandon Cooks fit in if you're going to talk a full-time role? Tom Brady is...

It's fantastic, but Tom Brady's not a 5,000-yard passer like Drew Breezes. So you know that there's always going to be enough to go around for the New Orleans Saints offense. I would not like this. And then on top of that, it doesn't make sense for New England's the way that they treat wide receivers. Sure, he's cheap this year. He's about $2.6 million for the contract. Next year would be that first round option, which is expensive.

It's not franchise money, but it is nothing remotely cheap like the New England Patriots like to pay. Yeah, yeah, I agree. By the way, it's kind of interesting. The Robert Woods deal and the Kenny Stills deal, very similar money, and they're both only 24 years old. Robert Woods and Kenny Stills. I'll take Stills. Yeah, I think it depends on your team. I really do. That's fair. Because I was going to say I'd take Woods, but that's not on every circumstance.

solid he's a he's had over 550 yards in every single season he's played he's kind of like uh just he's not the big play threat that that kenny stills is that's for sure so oh it's hard to keep up guys there's so much especially when stuff's breaking right in the middle of uh the show so let's let's talk here i don't know if we got into

Tori Smith's fantasy value in Philly? Do you want to hold off on that to see what happens with Alshon Jeffrey? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I do. Okay. Apparently, one of my destinations for Adrian Peterson, the Raiders... I love this news. It says that... Adam Kaplan says that Adrian Peterson's more interested in joining the Raiders than the Raiders are interested in having him. But, Glenn, I don't know if you're very familiar with this, but there's a, I believe, a pretty popular book who is called He's Just Not...

that into you. This is the personification of that. Yeah. We need a new book called They're Just Not That Into You, co-authored by every team in the NFL on Adrian Peterson. It's really tough for me to think that I'm a GM. And the reason I picked the Raiders as the landing spot I thought he would go to is because you have to have a very specific team. You've got to have a team that thinks they can win a championship if they had that running back piece this year.

Because you're not even thinking I can get two years out of Adrian Peterson. You don't know. He's already 32. You're thinking hopefully I can get one good year out of him and I'm going to pay, you know, what, $6 million? You're going to have to give him a decent chunk of change, more than he should get paid. Right. And so there's very few teams, very few teams that I can even imagine that would be willing to sacrifice the future to make the run to say Adrian Peterson puts us over the top this year.

With the Robert Woods news breaking and Marquis Goodwin already leaving Buffalo and Sammy Watkins having a history of not playing football. Are we not concerned with past catchers in Buffalo and Tyrod Taylor's? I mean, look, you lose Wood, you lose Goodwin. Are you guys concerned about his potential production without anybody to catch the ball over there? I think it actually. I mean, I know you've got. It's not really Tyrod's. If you're talking for fantasy purposes, sure. That's not Tyrod's game. I mean, he's a 3,000-yard passer.

You can find the guys off the street plus Sammy Watkins to get you to 3,000 yards. That being said, you know, had we, if we were to do our free agent prediction shows, you know, on Tuesday, and we start fresh knowing everything we know now, Buffalo would be a destination for me that I would say they're probably looking at wide receivers and the wide receivers that are left. I think they might go out and make a move. Yeah, I have somebody going there. I don't remember who it was, though. You want to hear something crazy?