Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - AFC East Breakdown, News, Mailbag

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How's it going, everybody? It is Thursday, July 9th, and we are the fantasy footballers. Yes, we are. Are you sure about that date? I know. If you listen to the show on Tuesday, I told you it was Tuesday, July 5th, two times. It was July 7th, believe it or not, two days ago. But we're here now, and it is Thursday, July 9th.

And we are the fantasy footballers, and this is the fantasy footballers podcast, and we are back again talking about fantasy football. What else would we talk about? Is there another thing you can't talk about? Firecrackers? Oh, quick question of the day. How many fingers does Jason Pierre-Paul have left? Is that something you should joke about? Yeah. Oh. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Did you see Schefter is the one that leaked that information? Adam Schefter got the medical files.

For Jason Pierre Paul and then release them to the public. This is breaking news. I think most people will not know this. Breaking news. Jason Pierre Paul has nine fingers. Nine and a half. Yeah, let's be fair. That's the first time we hit that button in like 10 shows and it's finger Jason Pierre Paul related. You lose a digit though. Now I'm worried about you a little bit. Well, and I believe I read that he elected for the surgery because his recovery would be quicker.

Well done. Once you make a mistake, quickest way back, baby. You got to make those millions. We got a good show for you today. We've got some news and notes from around the league. We've got the AFC East in our divisional breakdowns. We are also, we're going to do some mailbag, answer some listener questions. Wanted to tell everybody about our YouTube channel. If you haven't visited us,

Go ahead and look for us on YouTube. It's linked on our website, The Fantasy Footballers.com. All our videos are going up there, too. All the shows are on there. It's a good way to get some... We're answering some listener questions on there. Yes, we are. Doing some top ten lists and things like that, player profiles. You can watch this very show on YouTube. Yeah. On YouTube. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. And you can follow us on Twitter at the FFF Ballers. You can visit us on Facebook. Facebook.com slash the Fantasy Footballers.

Any other news? I mean, we got, we're everywhere, bro. There is news about how amazing the Foot Clan is. If I can play the Toot-toot-Horn, I'm just blown away by our, the Foot Clan. You guys out there? That's what it says in the show notes. Shout out to the Foot Clan. Well, there you go. I didn't even read that, but I'm giving a shout-out to the Foot Clan. Which one of you wrote that in there, Mike? I did. Oh, well, yeah. Shout it out. Hey.

All right. Well, with that, let's read a review. Mike went through it. Yeah, yeah. Let's do it. Let's do it. Reviewosaurus regs. Did you need something, Andy? I just figured if you wrote it in, you had something long-winded to say, but the beard says it all, I guess. Yeah. All right. Go ahead. Well, let's hear what the foot clan say. This one comes in from Mickleka. I don't know how to say that. Title is Awesome Sauce.

Pod, and he says, this podcast definitely has the sauce. Uh-huh. It has the perfect mix of having the sauce, but not getting lost in the sauce. They give absolutely brilliant info and opinions that can and will help you dominate your pals in any league format. Thank you, Mikkelka.

And also, thank you to all of the people who are reviewing. This was one of the hardest reviews to pick because I was just blown away by the love that we're getting on iTunes. I'm normally the tut-toot, but goodness gracious, we can't be that good a show. We just can't be. It's impossible. No, that was a tut-toe right there. Absolutely. What is going on? You're baitness. It's a backwards. I thought, see, the proper thing to say, well, I really thought. It's like the humble brag. I thought you were getting to the point where you were going to say, you know what?

I just thank you to everyone. Just say thank you. You know what? Thank you. Very much. I really do appreciate it. Much better. We all do. We do appreciate the reviews on iTunes, on Stitcher, and all the feedback on Twitter. Lots of love. You appreciate what we're doing, and we enjoy what we're doing. So we're going to keep doing it. It's almost like I'm on Twitter about 24 hours a day. My goodness. It's close. I'm exhausted. I know. In a good way. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe sometimes.

I wake up, like, let's say my sleep is interrupted or something. I'm like... You're on call, right? I should probably check the Twitter. Just like an emergency room doctor. Are you the on... People have emergency fantasy questions. If you have a trade question... On July 8th, they have a lot of... You gotta get back, man. Yeah, I have the same thing. You wake up for a midnight potty break? You know, it's like, oh, I should grab the phone, check it on my way. You realize this whole discussion here is not going to help the quantity coming in. It will only increase it.

It's all right. I know. We love them. All right, let's get to some news. News and notes from around the league. Yeah. Say that the Andy has spoken? What? Oh, I know. This is good. You share this piece of news. I would never toot my own horn. So, news from Saints camp. Coach Sean Payton said he thinks Nick Toon snaps will go, quote, way up this season. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. When you have an open outside receiver position, generally someone has to play there. Yeah, every week. And on the offense that was number one in yards last year with a Hall of Fame quarterback, I don't mind taking a chance on a Nicktoon. People did it with Kenny Stills last year and it paid off for them. So watch camp. It might not be tuned. It could be Morgan. I mean, something could happen, but keep your eyes on Nick Tune. If you're in looking for a late round flyer, he might be sitting there and no one knows about him.

News out of Broncos camp. Tight-in Virgil Green attended Peyton Manning's Duke workouts this offseason, and that's news. Well, it's news because a blocking tight-in wouldn't just go to a camp, spend all that time trying to catch patches from Peyton Manning. No, it's a good point. And actually, we'll get to it in the mailbag section, but people have been asking about the tight-in situation in Denver and want to know our thoughts on that. So this will lead into that discussion, but.

you know, the Owen Daniels, Virgil Green, where did Julius Thomas targets go, Wes Welker, that type of thing. So that's interesting news. Out of Eagles camp, another guy that we have mentioned a couple of times in our sleeper reports, Josh Huff has been very impressive in OTAs in minicamp. Well, this is very similar to the Nicktoon situation because you're going to have likely snaps.

There are snaps available in Philadelphia. Pre-draft, we were very much on the Josh Huff train, or at least talking them up as, look, somebody's got to catch the ball there. He's a really talented guy who they really like, who didn't really play much as a rookie. And after the draft, everything went Aguilar.

And so we went, you know, oh, it's going to be, you know, it's going to be Aguilar and Jordan Matthews. But the truth is, Aguilar could come in the way that, you know, Huff came in last year. I don't expect him to, but it's definitely a guy worth picking up late. If you're in a deeper draft, if you've got a bigger bench or anything like that and you're looking for deep sleepers, Josh Huff is a guy worth grabbing. Josh Huff is on every best ball league that I'm in right now because you can get him with the last pick of the draft because nobody's paying attention. And you never know.

You never know. And I like never knowing on really good offenses. If you are interested in mock drafting this offseason, you've got to use FantasyDraftWizard.com. That's what we do over and over again. We did all of our live draft shows with FantasyDraftWizard.com, and you can just pick your favorite spot. What's your favorite place to draft, Jason? If I'm in a 12 team, I like the 8 or the 7. Okay. I like... All right. If I'm in a 10 team...

I like the eight or the seven, so I'm not sure why I specified the 12. That's about where I like to be. Same spot. Yep. And I was going to say that there's been a couple people who have asked us to do a two-quarterback draft. Really? Yeah. Yeah, because those are so different. Yeah, people have also, I mean, they just want more of the live mocks in general. So we'll have to try to get, we'll definitely be doing some more, but we'll have to try to figure out what formats we want to do, what position. And if you want to figure out what your favorite spot is, it's easy to go in there and pick from the second spot, pick from the 10th spot.

Change PPR standard. Play around on FantasyDraftWizard.com. And don't forget getting ready for the football season. It's close. It's so close. It's getting close. FanDwell. Get your bank roll ready. I actually had some people message me on Twitter about FanDuel this week saying, do you guys play FanDuel? Do you guys talk about FanDwell? Yes. Yes. And yes. When the season comes upon us, we'll definitely talk about some daily fantasy sports. Right now, if you're signing up getting prepared, you could play baseball right now. But if you are signing up,

Use the promo code Ballers. That's our promo code. It gets you up to $200 matched. And it gets us a little something if you put it in. So just put it in. Okay? No, that's pretty good. And we will have, like Jason said, we'll have a daily section or a daily segment on every show during the year. We just can't tell you who to start right now because there's no one to start. But you can count on it. If you're a daily fantasy sports player like we are. A couple of years from now, they're going to have like camp daily fantasy sports.

Just the guy's playing in camp. You could draft them just in like OTAs. Oh, you're talking about off season? Yeah. Off season, daily fantasy. It's coming. Yeah. Considering they bet on every single thing in the universe with the Super Bowl and all that stuff, I wouldn't doubt it evolved. What color underpants was Peyton Manning wearing? Blue. Everyone knows that. Andy, go on. Let's get divisional. Let me hear your body time. Wow, you just, the music took over.

I channeled my inner Olivia. Yeah, I was going to say. Not too bad. We're talking AFC East today, fellas. Big division. Yeah, it is a big division. Super Bowl champion, New England Patriots, first on the docket. Going over every fantasy relevant implication we can in about five or ten minutes. So that means the next ten minutes are about Patriots running backs.

The next 10 minutes is how long it will take to recite the names at the running back position. But a quick overview of the Patriots, they were the 11th best offense in terms of yards per game, ninth in passing, fourth in scoring offense. They did lose Shane Vereen and Stephen Ridley. The two of the...

I don't know, four or five that they were using last year. And they did add Travarez Cadet at the running back position. They added a guard in the fourth round and a center in the fourth round. And they added Scott Chandler at tight end, which is interesting. Yeah, I mean, I feel like there have been a few of these guys that they've added over the years that I'm like, oh, this guy's, Tim Wright's really, Tony Moiyaki's like a, they're still looking for Aaron Hernandez. Well, they stop pile tight ends.

I can give you the address. It's like, oh, where's Waldo Bo? Where's Aaron? Found him. Found him. The same place for a little while. He'll be, yeah, he'll be there for a bit. He's in bright orange. So, so let's talk about this offense because, and let's start with the running backs, like you said. So from what I can tell right now, there are seven running backs in the mix right now. It's ridiculous. So we're talking Lagert, James White, Jonas Gray, Travarez Cadet, Tyler Gaffney, Brandon Bolden, and.