Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Allen Robinson Interview, Fantasy News, Mailbag

thinks there won't be any problem at all with him being ready for week one is kind of what the Seahawks are saying, but it seems like that's just kind of worst-case scenario. He believes he'll be ready far before then. So Thomas Rawls looking good from that doctor's perspective. That's very good. All right, Matt Jones is another guy that is, I had a note to myself, because I do this frequently throughout the week, make a note about moving a guy up or down. Matt Jones is on my move-up list, and then we got news here from the...

what is that? CSN Washington's Rich Tanler said that he could see 15 to 20 carries per game, not touch his carries per game. Look, they didn't do anything to make you think he's not going to be the guy and that they don't have confidence in him. Matt Jones is going to go behind where he belongs in the draft because he's not, he's just not sexy. You think he'll fall? I think he will be. I think he should go higher. Yeah. Well, I don't think he's going to fall to a value. I think he's a value right now.

So where about is he a value fourth round? I'll give you the actual average draft position for Jones as of today pulling it up here. I think that he is a value now and I don't think he's going to move up very much. I could be wrong. I think that Matt Jones, right now he is eight. Where do you think he is? I think he's in the fourth round. What do you think? Jason. I would guess right now he's in the fifth, but I think he'll move up. He is the currently tight. He's going where Jeremy Hill is going. Second pick of the fifth round.

Okay, that's fair. The hard part of Matt Jones is read a couple names we're around here. I know. It's hard to move them past guys. I'm not going to move them past Jonathan Stewart. Okay. Dionne Lewis, C.G. Anderson, Jeremy Langford, Tavius Murray, Matt Forte. I think I take Matt Jones over Matt Forte. I think I would too. I would take... DeMarco Murray. Matt Jones over C.J. Anderson. Yeah, and he's in that discussion for me. But the point of me bringing that up is just saying if you're in...

the early fourth or whatever, you're going to have to make that choice of you're saying, I take Jones over all these guys. Yeah, and I don't think I'd take him over the upside of Hyde. I don't think I'd take him over Stewart. The reality is... But I might take him over, you know, Anderson, Langford, Murray, Forte. The whole conversation with Matt Jones is he looked terrible last year. You take out a couple of big plays and he looked awful.

He fumbled the ball four times. He ran for 3.6 yards of carry. But coming into this next year with a year under his belt, and he does have a bunch of physical tools that are impressive. On those big plays, you can see he's got the talent and the capability. There's only going to be a handful of running backs next year that have 250 carries. And he is going to be one of those guys with 250 carries. So it's hard to, from a fantasy perspective, say,

Well, I don't like the talent. He didn't show it last year. If you get the ball 250 times, you're scoring some fantasy points. Yeah, absolutely. And the thing is, I'm thinking about it right now with Jones. Will he do better with momentum in learning, getting into the game flow? If you watched the Washington games, I mean, you had Morris and Jones were just constantly going in and out. I just remember the face of Alfred Morris when he would go in for one run and get pulled out. You could see him just like,

Seriously? You're pulling me out? So maybe if Matt Jones is given that role, then he will be, his efficiency will go up. When I see the average draft position of some of these guys, and maybe it speaks to some depth at the running back position beyond the top tier guys, it makes me think more and more about those elite wide receivers early, because if I can actually get, let's say I walk into the season with John and Stewart and Melvin Gordon, but I've drafted two elite wide receivers, I'm okay with that.

I really am. I mean, Gordon. Here's the thing is sometimes when you play zero RB or you play a strategy like that, you end up taking a chance on low-volume guys. What I'm seeing in these mid-rounds are guys that are higher volume. They're not sexy, but Jonathan Stewart had, what, eight, nine straight weeks last year with 20 carries. You've got, Melvin Gordon's going to get the rock a lot. Jeremy Hill's going to get the rock a lot. I mean...

You're normally playing with guys like Gio Bernard or Amir Abdullah or Justin Forsett, somebody who you're not positive about the workload. I just think it's interesting now that I'm looking at who's there. It just seems like there are more names in the mix, and maybe some of those fall by the wayside. I don't know, but I don't see them. And this is why. TJ yelled it in the seventh. This is why we like to mock draft, which we're... Yeah, Thursday, right? Thursday, we're going to do a live mock and see how it shakes up. So, okay. The next bit of news.

Where if you've been following the show, you know that we've been talking about the drama, the legend that is growing in San Francisco of Colin Kaepernick will. He will not be traded. Andy was firmly behind Team Kaepernick putting him, oh, he's going to be in San Francisco. Well, Andy got that part right. However, according to...

That's the horn of Gabbard. According to many sources, the team is pulling for Blaine Gabbard to beat out Colin Kaepernick. What does it mean to be pulling for a guy? Do they go to him? Like, I really hope. They pull him over to the corner. I really, really hope he wins. I think you can't. I know. You can't tell him to his face. Otherwise, you're just saying you have the job. Is this like Brian, people rooted for Brian Hoyer?

Instead of Ryan Mallet. Yes, exactly. You're just not liked in the organization right now. But so Blaine Gabbardt is... Isn't Kaepernick better than Gabbardt? Isn't he just a better player? I feel like his upside is you have to have Kaepernick on the field. As an Arizona Cardinals fan, I'm glad this conversation is taking close. But so San Francisco get ready, because Blaine Gabbart could be your starting.

Quarterback. I'm not sure which one is better for Chip Kelly's system. We talk about the running quarterback that he always had in Oregon, but you haven't seen that in the NFL. I'm not sure that Kaepernick can play quick enough from the quarterback position as far as making the reeds, throwing the ball, to really capitalize on Chip Kelly.

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Oh, yeah, again. To cement himself in Tennessee. There are some concerns about him blocking more this year. There's a lot of talk about the way they want to run the power offense with DeMarco Murray. The exotic smash mouth. Exotic smash mouth, you need Delaney Walker in there. And Danny Amandola has decided that being a part of the Patriots is better than not being a part of the Patriots. Took a pay cut to stay. And Danny, that was a wise move. Kevin Hogan.

Still good. No, I know. Kevin Huggins looking good. All right, let's go ahead and let's bring in Alan Robinson. Yeah. You talking to me? The fantasy footballers are ecstatic to bring on a fan favorite, a favorite of our show, Mr. Allen Robinson of the Jacksonville Jaguars. How are you doing today, Mr. Robinson? I'm doing well, man. How about you?

Oh, we're doing great. This is really a huge privilege for us. You were a guy that, just speaking, fantasy football, we were really excited for what you could possibly do. And then, we'll be real, you blew everybody away with a monster year. So you dropped 14 touchdowns, which is just incredible. Do you have anything like a feeling of...

of we that your team schemed differently. How did you get at the end zone so frequently as compared to you only had the two touchdowns your rookie year? Then you just exploded. You know, I for sure got to give credit, you know, to my teammates, first and foremost in our coaching staff, for sure. You know, I mean, Blake, you know, by him being able to, being able to give me the ball and our line for, you know, holding up for him. And also, you know, our coach for us scheming up some things, you know.

Well, for us, you know, I just think, you know, what helped me out a lot as well, you know, just playing with so many weapons. You know, so once we get to the rare zone, you know, there's so many things that you've got to cover, you know. So, I mean, I was just fortunate enough to be putting some pretty good situations, you know, and make some plays. You know, I think it's just a real testament, you know, to our whole offense. Like I say, you know, we have so many weapons and so many things that people have to be worried about. Absolutely. So this past off season, did you do anything different? I know you were rehabbing the foot, but.

to make the jump from 11 yards of catch to over 17. I mean, that's just absolutely tremendous. So did you feel like you did anything different over the off season besides the rehab? You know, I had the main focus of getting stronger and faster. I don't think that was my number one. You know, coming to the off season last year, my number one goal was, you know, to be able to create more exploits for my team. You know, that was the main thing. You know, so it was watching out of film.

you know, being able to figure out how to execute and get those things done, you know, rather if it's, you know, getting off the ball, you know, better this year, you know, being more elite at the line, you know, and just some small things like that, you know, so that's kind of what I focus on, you know, to put myself in that position. Yeah, yeah, well, you know, coming out of college, people were saying you weren't the fastest, and last year you were actually one of the fastest track. I want to thank you personally, Alan, because...

In our league of record, in the championship week, your 90-yard touchdown was a thing of beauty. So thank you on behalf of all fantasy fans. Do you play fantasy football? I know the Jaguars. I do not. I do not. I do not play fantasy. Do other teammates? Obviously, Maurice Jones Drew was a big player when he was there. Is it something that's ever talked about in the locker room between players?

Oh, you know, it's joked around a little bit, you know, but I mean, we mostly here, for sure, you know, outside of football, you know, everyone, you know, whether it's on Twitter, you know, talking about their fantasy team, you know, or in person, you know, but I think it's pretty cool, you know, especially being able to be, to be recognized, you know, just around the country, you know, for you guys to have that common, you know, thing being fantasy, you know, you may take a person who in California, you know, who traditionally may not be a Jaguars thing, you know, but it's turning into.