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

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Jason Moore and Mike Wright. Welcome in, everybody. It is Wednesday, hump day, August 3rd. Yo, yo, yo, what day is it? Hope day. I'm actually wearing a shirt from my football hall. Yes. I got my Brett Favre throwback shirt on, so look out for some interceptions.

It's going to be a good show today. Andy Holloway, Mike Wright, Jason Moore, the Fantasy Footballers podcast, back again. If you're joining us for the first time, welcome in to the show. Welcome in. Thank you. Welcome. I'm glad to have you here. Glad to have you here. That's like an S&L throwback, isn't it? Yeah, pretty much.

I thought we were, and we were like going full NPR. Yes, yes. Welcome in. We've got a good one. Today's a mailbag show. We're answering a ton of fantasy football questions. Your questions. Your questions. The Footclans questions. A bunch of them off of Twitter, off of the website, the fancy footballers.com. We also have a good quick question I want to get into here in just a minute. And we have a bunch of news we want to share with you about all that is happening in training camp because we finally have things to talk about.

that are actually taking place with real athletes, which is nice. Trent Richardson's not around anymore. Goodbye. I believe his quote in the beginning of the summer was, my career ends with me putting on a gold jacket. Well, where did he buy the gold jackets? Yeah, you get gold jackets all over the place. Maybe he's going to, yeah, yeah, it's not going to happen. All right. You can paint a jacket gold. Yeah. There's all kinds of ways to have a gold jacket. It's probably plastic.

That's my guess. I don't know. It's probably not going to happen for him. All right, quick question of the day. This one comes in from at J.C. Crocker on Twitter. Which member of the 2016 all suspension team is the most likely to reward people who roster them? So we're talking Josh Gordon, Lev Bell, Tom Brady, Carlos Williams. The list soon to be added to. And probably some more pretty soon here.

I think, you know, the guy that I would clearly draft first would be Levy on Bell. He is a difference maker at a position with very few difference makers. Whereas Tom Brady is great, but, you know, you've got more opportunity in your draft, in your league, on your waivers to do something with that position that you just flat can't do with running backs. Yeah, I agree for me. It's Lev Bell. I'm trying to think through the value of these guys. Where does Gordon end up in drafts come?

Let's say he's just in the seventh round. Right. In the seventh round, missing the four games. And where do you think Bell ends up just the second round? Yeah, maybe the back of the first. Still, to me, it's Bell. I know who Levi-on Bell is. I know what he's going to bring. He was, before he went down last year, he was just dominating, just dominating in all assets or facets of the game. For Josh Gordon, how many games has he missed? 30.

3, 32, something like that. Since the last time he played? No, not just the last time he played. So he missed all of last year, and then he will have missed four games. Is that, so he's at 20? And then some the year before. But so.

It's been a long time. In fact, if you want to debate, you know, we always do fantasy face-offs here. We've started rolling those out on the website as well. Our articles, we're doing fantasy face-off series where we'll take a guy and we'll make an argument for him and we'll make an argument against him. I see Andy's eyes eyeballing the championship ring here. I caught that. There's blinging in here. But this is perfect timing for the quick question. We didn't even mean to do this, but today.

we have an article fantasy faceoff on Josh Gordon hitting the website. So you could see the case for him and the case against him. I just saw that we had put up the case for and against Latavius Murray as well. Yes, we did. So this is good. To me, it's still Bell. There is very high risk that Gordon is not who we think he should be. Yeah, and for Andy, it's Carlos Williams. All right.

Moving on. No, no. I was trying to interpret that as who will reward people the most for the cost of investment. I still think it's Bell, though. All right. Connect with us on join the foot.com, our fantasy football community. You can grab an extra episode every week, exclusive content, and we have a giveaway coming up on Friday, a bunch of autographed gear. We also have some stuff from fantasy jocks, which is what Jason's wearing on his thumb. It's a...

It looks like the most expensive ring you've ever seen in your life. Super heavy. He's wearing it on his thumb for an example. Why do I get to wear this this year? All right. All right. Follow us on Twitter at the FFB. We're also on YouTube, the Fantasy Sports Network and Facebook and Facebook. And if you have a question for the show for days like today, you can send them into the website, the fancy footballers.com or dial our voicemail hotline, which is 302-464. TFFB. Let's go ahead and get to the news. News and notes from around the league.

All righty, suspended running back Levy on Bell has had, quote, no problem making open field cuts in his recovery from last year's MCL and PCL tears. Yeah, I think we expected that. That's why he was our number one running back before the suspension because we expected him to hit the ground running week one being ready to go. Open field cuts in his suspended weeks, not as good. What's that? I said his open field cuts during those four weeks are not going to matter. No, no, no. They're not going to produce a lot of fantasy points for you.

I felt like at least silver lining of the suspension was full health for Love Bell when he comes back. That's what excited me for my Keeper League of Levion Bell. No, what excited you for your Keeper League was the fact that because he was suspended, he dropped down to like a fourth round value and you got to keep him for a... I don't make the rules. Yeah, for like two days. He would just remind us. He would act like we hadn't heard before and he'd be like, do you guys hear? I get Love Bell for a fourth in that league.

No, just saying. Just saying. It's great. All right. All right. We have one of these. Mediocre signing of the week. It's such a long drop, Mike. It's good, man. Hey, it's all that James Jones deserves because James Jones was signed by the Chargers. He's our mediocre wide receiver signing of the week. Congratulations. Oh, no. Yes, voice of public opinion. Isn't James Jones 36 years old? Yes.

A little too old for fantasy football? He is only 31 years old, voice of public opinion. What? Yeah, he's, but he looks 36 and plays like he's 41. Well, the good news for James Jones is whenever he has not had Aaron Rogers throwing him the ball, he's been very excellent. Yeah, I think he was cut from the Raiders. He was also cut from, like, the Giants and. Look, it's. At least it's Philip Rivers. It's mediocre for a reason. Philip Rivers is a great.

quarterback and he's not going to be fantasy relevant. Yeah, this is a depth. Hakeemnix signed with the Saints, right? That would have been. That is correct. He's only 28, but he feels 36 too. So there you go. This is just a depth move. It's not, it's not going to change anything. The one thing that this makes me think, you know, because the reports still aren't officially out yet on Stevie Johnson, but it's like if they thought he was going to be back in, you know, four or five weeks, if it turns out with a second opinion,

Would they really go and grab James Jones? Maybe, but probably not. He's not. He'll be gone longer than that. He's had, you know, I feel bad for him. I really like Stevie Johnson. Me too. I think he's very good. He's unique. You know, he doesn't do everything the same way other receivers do it. But he's had a really hard time with injuries over the past few years. That's just, I mean, that might be his, he might get one more shot at coming back and being healthy and being a contributor. Yeah, we were excited when he went to San Diego. Yeah, and he performed. Couldn't stay on the field.

All right, let's two other quick bits of news. All right, we have a report out of the Indianapolis Colts camp that some reporters have been underwhelmed by Andrew Luck. Yeah, okay. Whatever. All right. Thanks for, thanks, Indianapolis. All right, this is the big one. Yes. Now, Mike is going to be excited about this. Listening to the Giants running back coach, Craig Johnson.

It's clear that last year's four running back committee is not in the plan this year. Yes. And Rashad Jennings is the number one running back. Yeah. Yeah, Rashad Jennings. I've been trying to get people hyped for old man's strength. You have. I give you a lot of credit. For a long time. Early, early off season, I feel like January, you were saying we need to remember Ashad Jennings. It's not going to be a four running back.

committee there you saw what they did at the end of the year and i was not buying in until this day and it's yes and uh give you kudos because rashad jennings over the final four games was an absolute monster will you get 16 games out of rashad jennings probably not

But you're going to be able to get him in seventh, eighth round of your drafts, which is a perfect value for a guy that you can plug in as a starter for, I would say, you know, a good portion of the year. If he has that role. I'm so excited. On an offense that has that kind of a passing game. Or a high-powered offense. Well, and Jennings, he can catch it.

Oh, yeah. He reminds me a lot of a Justin Fawcett type of guy where in the past, when he was behind people and got opportunity, he was good on it. You know, if an injury behind him or in front of him went down, he was like, oh, this guy would be pretty good if he ever got the chance. And now he's kind of getting that chance, hopefully for the whole season. A couple of years ago, Justin Fawcett won people leagues. That's true. That's true.

Yeah, opportunity-wise, performance-wise, if he has the ball, he'll do some things. Remember that play last year down the sideline? Yes. Oh, yeah. Unbelievable value in Rashad Jennings right now. Was that against the bills? At the very end where he threw the guy right off of him onto the ground? Yeah. Or the Jets. He ruined someone's playoffs. I remember that. All right. Well, before we get into the mailbag, that's what we're going to spend the rest of our time doing answering questions from the listeners. Before we do that, I want to thank our sponsor of today's show.

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