Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Rankings Rundown, Listener Questions, News

Wide receiver 3. You have Ruben Randall ahead of him. You have Eric Decker ahead of him. Brandon LaFelle. Charles Johnson ahead of him. Oh, I love Charles Johnson. I have to assume that the reason Andre is low, you have T.Y. pretty high. You've got him up at 13. So when you statted out the Colts, I imagine that you expect TY to continue from where he was. He clearly statted them wrong. Hilton is clearly still the one to me. And I just, Andre Johnson of what he has done.

that was around what I could give him, seeing him going and do an offense where there's so many high-powered players. I have Johnson for about 1110. That's about where I have him at. I'm not sure where you have him. With 90 catches, I think you hit. About 90. I don't know what my exact stats were last time I did it, but that's where I have him now. Probably about 85 to 90 catches, 1100 yards, 10 touchdowns. That's going to be an offensive.

They're just going to be in the red zone so much. I got him at 80 for 1,000 and 6. Okay, yeah. Touchdowns had to have been down a little bit for you to have some of these other guys ahead of him. And I mean, when you... So you think Perryman, you'll bring him down a little bit. Yeah, he'll probably come down. And the interesting thing when you're talking about, when you start getting into that tier of player where the 20s... Yeah, the stats might be really similar. I mean, the points are so close for what I have projected.

You tweak a guy five yards and he goes from 30 to 20. You had Amari Cooper all the way down at 35 and Perryman at 19. And that was something that surprised me. Do you not like, is it just the flacko versus car system? Yeah, it's the system of the Raiders are the Raiders. And Perryman's replacing a high volume of targets in Torrey Smith. And that team, while they have the amazing Justin Fawcett,

When you talk about their wide-out crew, you got Steve Smith Senior. Yeah, and then Breschard Perman. Since we're talking about Senior and Breschard Perman...

Oh, we'll leave him alone. No, I will not leave him alone. Until he shaves the deadlock. Leave alone. It's not fair, I know, but I have to share this story because you don't make fun of old people. I know, I apologize. So, if you hadn't listened to the show where we were talking about Bashad Perriman and now he has this old man's disease where he looks like an old man. So we were looking for a picture to put up for the show later that night.

And so we were Googling. And so I found a nice picture of him and his wife at the draft, right? This was when he's going up to the draft and he's right next to his wife. And then we were looking at him. I was like, I mean, honestly, you look at the picture and it's a man and a wife standing there. Middle age. Middle age man, middle age wife. And then it dawns on me.

Oh, that's his mom. Oh, no. Like, that's, that's, because as a middle-aged woman, and I just, honestly, it wasn't being mean. It was just like. We're not the only ones tweeting about that, by the way. Oh, my goodness. What was that? There was a picture of, oh, my goodness. I left a big piece of news off, by the way. I'm going to bring it up right now. Everybody needs to search. There's a picture of Amari Cooper and, and Devante Parker and Melvin Gordon. And then it said, and 63-year-old, Prashad Perriman. You have to look that picture up.

That brought me to the news, and I have to just stop right now. Devante Parker. Oh, yes. This happened like at the end of the week last week, and so I stupidly didn't put it in the news today. But Devante Parker is out. Yeah, they had to replace a screw in his foot. The Julio Jones surgery. Uh-oh. Yeah. Not looking good for Ryan Tannahill there, Mike. It does hurt a little bit. As I reminded Jason, I made the Tannahill cam bet before Devonte Parker was drafted.

Yeah, well, a long time ago, he made a Justin. I just think it's going to take a little time for Parker to get integrated. And to me, it bumps Landry up in my rankings a little bit. Landry is already going to be Tanya Hill's go-to guy. I know people are worried about him because he's not the touchdown monster. He's not a big guy. But he is. If you need another PPR monster, a target monster picture, Jarvis Landry is nine targets. He averaged.

after the second half of the season last year, and it's only going to go up. He's playing all over the field. He's even playing outside. When you talk about extreme differences where I say generally PPR versus standard, when there's not usually a huge difference, but then you get a couple random guys like Landry where his ranking in my standard compared to PPR is vastly different. I think like a gap of 20%.

he leaps up 20 spots or something just because he's going to catch so many balls. All right, we've got to move on to the mailbag section else. We're not going to get there today. So let's go ahead and answer some listener questions. We'll leave your tight ends off. People can go on the site, the fancy footballers.com. They can look at your rankings. You can see Jordan Cameron is much higher than I imagine he would be in your... Jimmy Graham is out of the top 10. No, he's not. No, he's not. Oh, my God. Is that clickbait? Yeah.

You ruined it. Go to the website. You won't believe what Jimmy Graham is not in. You won't believe what's at number four. That's right. That is actually true. That is legit. Well, go check it out. Number four. Mailbag. My own bag. Number four. Eat it. Okay. Didn't expect that.

All right, let's... It didn't come out as well as I have a question. You can email us mail at the fantasy footballers.com. You can call us 302-464 TFFB. If you haven't noticed, some of these voicemail calls get priority. Have you noticed that? We play them at the beginning of the mailbox section. Kind of like video results on Google. Exactly like that. Here's the first question. Go to the tap. Here we go. Let's answer some questions. What's up, fellas? This is Chad from Jacksonville, Florida. Home of the Future. Super Bowl champs.

I got a trade question for you as well as a keeper question. I play in a 10-team standard format. Keeper League where you're able to keep one drafted player outside of the first two rounds, losing two rounds if you decide to keep that player. My friend has Levy on Bell, which he can keep in the 10th round. I have the number one overall pick this year. I was wondering if you would trade your number one overall pick.

which I would get his pick, which would be pick nine, and give him this year's third round pick and next year's fourth round pick in order to get Levine on Bell from him, keeping him in the 10th round. My keeper question is, would you keep Latavius Murray or Joseph Randall in the 15th round? Love the show, fellas, man. Keep up with good work. Y'all take it easy.

Thoughts on the trade question first, and then we can answer the keeper one. They're not connected? No, he would give up his first round pick. But I'm saying if he makes this trade, then he can't keep. I don't think they're connected. Okay. Yeah, it doesn't, it didn't sound like it to me. I would say, you know, obviously there's thoughts to what the rest of the roster makeup are here to me. In general...

If this was a 12-team league, I would say do the trade. Because I actually like the value of getting a stud guy for, you know, when you're trading your number one, the number one pick for the number nine pick, it's not the same as trading the actual number one for the number nine because it's a keeper league. So most of the studs are gone already. And I like the value of being able to get Levi-on-Bell. The problem is, let's say it's a 10-team league, and the most that could possibly get in would be, I mean, normally it's four.

Right? Four teams get in, because you can't really have five. And if you're in a 10-team league where six make the playoffs, that's, I don't know, a little ridiculous. That's a lot of playoffs. Yeah, so I'm guessing only four teams make it. And so if you know that the first three games of the year, you know, that seems like a stretch to make up to me if only four teams make the playoffs. But forever now he gets to keep Lev Bell in the 10th. There's no future penalty? Wait, I don't know. Yeah, I mean, I wouldn't. Or wait, did he? I'm right on the edge. I probably do the trade.

I do the trade because we don't know if Lev Bell's suspension is going to get knocked down a little bit. I still think that's a possibility. I know a lot of people don't. I really do. So I lean towards doing the trade. I would do the trade. There you go. Nope. Keeper question. Latavius Murray or Joseph Randall in the 15th. For me, it's Joseph Randall. Absolutely. I really believe in Joseph Randall. And I think that's a steal in the 15th round behind that offensive line as long as he can stay away from the...

illegal activities if he's on the field. No department stores for Joseph Randall. All right, next question. Hey, fellas, I love the show and I love the feedback you gave from the last time. I was curious about something, so I just wanted to run some more things by you. I was curious in a lot of my draft where I kind of get stumped is I wait a little bit sometimes on like Y receiver because I feel like that's such a deep,

pick like there's a lot of depth with wide receiver this year and um i'm just having trouble like in the later rounds i've been ending up usually with uh kevin white as white receiver three and i'm kind of just stuck after that like am i going with like who do you see as like kind of late round like afterthoughts like maybe you can get charles johnson in the ninth or 10th or maybe you can get alan robinson you know could you give value to later round picks

which would kind of be my question. There's a few guys. I know Mike likes Alan Robinson a whole lot. Oh, boy. If you get any kind of points for reception, half or full, Alan Robinson, Target to the point. Michael Ford's another guy that comes to mind for me out of Arizona with Carson Palmer healthy. If you're wanting to go much later, one guy I think that a lot of people are down on, and they're pretty much down on it. I feel like year after year. But Marquis Colston is some guy that I would...

keep a lookout for. The ball has to go to somebody. He's always been tried and true. And if you want more, you know, if he's not sexy enough for you, you can go to Nelson Aguilar. He can be found a little bit later. But another tip that I would give, and I know Mike, you've given this out before, don't go crazy on the wide receivers. If you've got Kevin White is your third, grab a fourth, and then be done. You know, grab some running backs and put...

Put your late flyers there because there's a million late flyers you can take on wide receiver, but you don't need them because those late guys, you're just going to be able to, you know. Yeah, they show up a lot. And the last name all throughout, I don't know if we've talked about him at all. It's Marvin Jones in Cincinnati. Absolutely. I almost said his name just now. Because he's the forgotten man. He's forgotten completely. Where he.

Touchdowns? Where two years ago, he had a very solid year playing opposite of AJ Green. He got hurt. He missed an entire year. And now all accounts are that he's healthy, and he should easily regain his position as the second. Yeah. And we talked about Pierre Garzaan, too, if he falls in your league. All right, this question comes in off the website from Ken. He says, hello, Peter Ray, and Egon. Who are you going to?

Cool. There you go. If you're drafting on a site whose default ranks has a player a few rounds later than you have the same player rank, do you wait to pick that player to get a personal value or do you scoop them up early in what would be considered a reach for that site? An example of this is ESPN values Kelsey at 71 overall when you guys have him going in the 40s. A point of clarity on this is a lot of times if you're drafting or doing mock drafts online.

The default listing that they put into the mock draft is that cites rankings. And so sometimes you'll, you know, you're mock drafting at Yahoo. They have a guy way farther down than you have him or ESPN in this case has Kelsey much farther down than this guy would normally take him. So what's your answer to his question? Absolutely. You absolutely game the system and you use the rankings. People start seeing names in front of their face. And if they don't have a completely solidified.

list like you're talking about where they know exactly where they value a guy, they start seeing a name and they go, they start to question themselves. They go, oh, ESPN has that guy high. And while I'm not going to take that, I'm not going Kramer on an empty tank of gas on this and trying to push it to the limit. How far can you go? Yeah. But I'm going to use it and I'll probably try and squeeze a round or two out if I know the rest of my league isn't on that guy.

Yeah, well said. Yeah, I agree completely. Email comes in from Mike. He says, greetings Mo Larry and Curley. Jason's Curley. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You cleared that up. Thomas from Portland asks, he says, of all the fantasy relevant running backs,