Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Fantasy Draft Questions, Fantasy News & Updates

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It's been too long. So I'm excited to get into these questions. We have a number of them coming in, Fast and Furious. Everybody's getting ready for their drafts. We had our, what do we do? Our running back rankings show yesterday. And we're going to finish that up tomorrow with 8 through 15 at least. Something like that. Let's go to 24. Let's take it to the limit. Yeah. All right. Keeper question coming in here from Mike in Buffalo, New York. Buffalo City.

It doesn't work. Hey guys, where do you see better value and why? I can only keep two players at any position for two years at the round drafted initially. So I have Antonio Brown for my last year in round three, and that's a gimmy. But here's my problem. Do I keep Julio Jones in the second, Brandon Marshall in the seventh, or Jordy Nelson in the 16th round? Wow. Is the value so much better with Nelson late?

Or do I just go with the best two out receivers with Brown and Julio? At this point, if you've got Brown guys, don't you have to take a value somewhere else? Oh, man. You don't have to. No. I don't think you're going to go wrong with this pick, right? I mean, I could make an argument for any of those three guys. I really, really could. You know, you've got, if pairing Julio with Antonio Brown is something that almost no teams get to do, and if you've got potentially,

are, you know, rankings, the number one and number two wide receiver. Plus, you still have your first round pick, you're going to be fine. But if you want to keep your first six picks and go with a, you know, a top five, five to ten in Brandon Marshall, you're going to be fine. If you want to keep all of your picks. What is your call here? Oh, this may make a call on it because I would go Antonio Brown and I would go Brandon Marshall and that would be the easy call for me.

Yeah, I think I would land on Brandon Marshall as well. You're mitigating a little bit of the risk with Julio or with Jordy Nelson's knee and whatnot if you've got to make that call right now. But you've still got a lot of upside. You get all your early picks. Yeah, I'm going to go with Marshall. I did not mention this in the news. I should have. Tyler Croft, the backup to Tyler Eifert in Cincinnati was injured yesterday. He was carded off. We don't know yet. It's a hyper extended knee. Oh.

It's a hyper-extended MRI coming in sometime today. I don't have a report on that yet. So stay tuned. He would be the guy to start in place of Eifford. These guys across from me thought that that was relevant. I never thought it was. He's a pretty talented guy. Croft? Yeah. I never thought he would be relevant this year. All right. There you go. Draft strategy question from Jake and Austin. He's a big fan of the show. He says, my question is specifically the quarterback position. He typically likes to wait on a quarterback.

load up on running back and wide receiver knowing he can usually get a good quarterback production streaming. Yes. Okay. We subscribe to that. However, last year I joined a new league where almost every player dropped to two quarterbacks, even though it is a one quarterback league. Made streaming very difficult for me as many of the top options were already on other teams' benches. Would you recommend jumping on a top quarterback earlier this year, even if it meant not getting good value with that pick? No. And once again, the friendly reminder of...

Streaming your quarterback is the backup plan. Your original goal is to just get value, get good value for a quarterback and try and get. That hopefully dominates. Yeah, they get a guy like a Carson Palmer last year where you took them in the double-digit rounds. You're good to go. You don't have to stream anymore. To me, maybe Philip Rivers is in that conversation. I know his ADP is a little bit higher this year. Eli Manning, Matthew Stafford. But there's these guys that you can get late that.

could be plug and play. So I'm not going to jump in early. And even if teams have 24 quarterbacks, I know it can make things a little bit more difficult. But once again, 40, 40 quarterbacks posted a top 12 week, a quarterback one week. So it can be done. Can be a little more difficult. That's the perfect answer. Yeah. And I think when it comes to drafting your first quarterback, you do it.

by a tiers-based system. You look and basically decide, I want to make sure I get one of these guys. And when I look at the list, that's like 20 or 22 guys. It's a lot. When I get to 24, I start going, okay, yeah, but, you know, if I'm getting to 18 and 18 are off the board and there's four guys left I like, then I'm going to take that guy. And here's the thing. If you're waiting until the 8th, 9th, 10th round to draft a quarterback. That's fine. If the other teams in your league have spent two of their top seven picks on quarterbacks, your team's going to be hot. That's ridiculous.

That's ridiculous. You can scoop up guys and then, I don't know, trade for those second quarterbacks for nothing. And it's not just the round you're drafting the quarterback. It's just the value at what you are spending where, like they said, if the rest of the teams in the league are investing these picks, you're scooping up great talent. So your value will be there for your quarterback. I'm taking a look at my quarterback rankings because I want to see just how far down I would go.

And right now I have Tyrod Taylor as my 19th quarterback. And that's not because I dislike Tyrod Taylor. It's because so many quarterbacks, I think, are very solid options. So that's 19 guys where I'm perfectly fine drafting just one of those guys and rolling with them to start the year as my only quarterback. All right. Daniel and Texas, do you guys think it is a good strategy to pair a quarterback in wide receiver together?

For example, Philip Rivers and Keenan Allen, Andy Dalton, and AJ Green, Tony Romo and Des Bryant, is pairing better than getting something like Tony Romo and AJ Green. The double stuff. I usually enjoy a pair. He enjoys a double stuff. I enjoy a pair, but I don't ever, ever reach for a pair. I don't, uh, let's see how far at the grocery store. Yeah, that's, I'm imagining you, you're like talking about the fruit. I imagine you don't reach for many pairs. Hmm.

No, I don't like the fruits and vegetables all that much. You've always the produce at all costs. Yeah. Would you have like a pear-flavored Oreo? Probably not. I don't need them. There's already delicious Oreos. That sounds awful. Fruit-flavored? A pear-flavored orio. Those are come out.

Not the pear flavor, but something ridiculous. I think a double stuff is basically a pair. You tell me there's no apple cinnamon Oreos out there probably. You're getting a pair of Oreos together when you get a double stuff. Yeah. But, you know. That's the kind of pair you want. The reality is this. There's upside to the strategy and downside to the strategy. Because when you pair them together, what it means is that you can beat anyone any week. If that guy throws two touchdowns to your wide receiver, you're going to just be a monster. You know, that...

You're going up against another high-powered team. You can put up huge points. But it also means if he doesn't, you know, you can have a big flop at two positions. It's really just a matter of do you want to go high upside a little bit more risk or not? And so, you know, I don't think that you're going to win one way and not the other. It's just a matter of personal preference. When we were on the show last week when Mike was out of town, Jason and I talked at length about, you know, what are some of the things you wish you knew the first time you started playing fantasy football?

And Jason mentioned, like, he really does like drafting guys from winning teams. I think that this strategy applies the absolute most to winning teams. For sure. You can get boxed into a lot of defeats in a row. If you're taking, like, I don't know, Matt Ryan, Julio Jones last year didn't really work out, right? That was a team that struggled from the midpoint of the season on because they just weren't that good of a team. If you ended up with, I don't know, Russell Wilson and...

Tyler Locker, Russell Wilson, and Doug Baldwin. I mean, Edelman Brady. You won life. Yeah, it's just one of those things where if the team is put in a position where it's so up and down, you can lose weeks that way. I had one of my first teams I ever had was foolishly the Saints the year they started off O'N7, and I had Drew Brees, Marcus Colston, Reggie Bush, and one other, and they started Owen 7, so did I. So did I. And it's, to me, it's,

I won't reach for it. If the cards fall that way, that's fine. But otherwise, you know, diversify. The probability that your quarterback is going to throw two touchdowns, or your wide receiver is going to catch two touchdowns from that quarterback, not so high. But the likelihood that Romo is going to throw, you know, equal touchdowns, it's just about spreading it a while. Spread the wealth around and gets fantasy points everywhere.

All right, this one comes in from, let's see here. Eben? No, I have a different one here. We have a trade question. Oh, sorry, Eben. I'm in a Dynasty League. I just traded DeAndre Hopkins for Keenan Allen and Randall Cobb. Did I win the trade? Is this come in from Schmooks? It came in from Schmooks. Schmarmian. Yeah. So I just traded Randall Cobb and Keenan Allen.

received DeAndre Hopkins. Who won that deal in a Dynasty League? I think in this specific Dynasty League knowing, when I first saw it, I thought, well, wow, you just stole DeAndre Hopkins at first. The more that I thought about it, there's a deeper roster that plays. These are two young guys, and I think I would prefer the depth in this specific league. I would say it's a fair trade for sure. The real question comes down to is Randall Cobb?

what we saw last year? Or is Randall Cobb, you know? He makes or breaks that trade? Yeah, if Randall Cobb bounces back in any fashion towards two years ago, then the clear winner should be the Cobb, Keenan Allen. Yep. It's interesting. I mean, yeah, if you subbed in Julio Jones name, do you change your opinion? Not much because, I mean, you lose a couple of years with Julio as well. Usually, we always advocate. We always advocate for the best player in a deal.

You know, if you're doing a two for one, usually the one wins the deal. And in this case, that's DeAndre Hopkins. He is the best of the three options. Yep. But the problem is the difference between Hopkins and Keenan Allen. That was my point. Might not be all that much. Thank you. Thank you for bringing it up for me. I don't think that Hopkins is that. He's not a whole tier above Keenan Allen for me. I do. I think that. So I like the Hopkins side of the deal because of that.

But it's all about interpreting. I think it is fair. I think that's the big point there. All right, Evan in Connecticut, hey guys, and all my mocks I've ended up with... David Johnson. AJ Green and Al Sean Jeffrey. Sorry, I can't help myself. As you may know, these three guys all have the same bi-week. Should I change my draft strategy because of this dilemma? Nah. No, the by-weeks, those kinds of things happen. But...

I don't generally worry about it. And the suggestion that Evan had talked about would maybe go Mike Evans instead of Alshan. And that's all right. I have those guys very close. So if you are wanting to avoid that bi-week dilemma, I'm okay going into audible there and taking Evans instead. And we've said this a lot. It bears repeating, especially in the next two weeks, as there's new listeners coming on and you want to win and you're dedicated right now because your draft season is here. But you don't win.

Fantasy football championships at the draft. You win them through the course of the year, making the right starts and sits, making the right waiver, wire moves, making the right trades. So for these three specifically, I believe from memory, all three of them have a week nine by. And if you're talking about, look, I'm nine weeks into the season, I'm just going to take the best talent at the draft because my team usually looks different by week nine, considerably so, from moves that you've made. So I would...