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

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Tuesday, July 14th, and we are back again, everybody. Hey, this is the Fantasy Footballers podcast, fresh off of a bonus episode Saturday edition, which I'm still sore. I'm still healing. Is that from being hit? No, my throat. Oh, okay, because you also, we had a bit of a lot. Yes. An accident around the studio here. World came down on you.

Pretty hard. Part of the studio fell on to Mike. While I was texting. Yeah, it wasn't your best moment, Jason. No, I was playing on my phone mid-show after it had gone off and called, and then the world fell down on Mike, and I wasn't there to save you. I'm sorry, Hitman. It's all right. Everything's going to be all right. We have a good show for you today. We've got our last divisional breakdown. The NFC East, we're covering them today looking at all the fantasy implications of the moves during the off season. And so these have been...

really good. People seem to have liked all the divisional breakdown. So if you haven't heard some of the other divisions, you can go back and listen to those on iTunes. Got some news and notes to talk about today. Some fresh stuff. Big deadline tomorrow, right? Yeah, tomorrow's big day. Yes, yes. And I've got a quick question for you guys. Uh-oh. A.J. Green can finish as high as number one. Number one, yeah. Okay. I mean, if you're saying...

Can finish as high. I think that there's about, I don't know, 10 guys somewhere around there that could make the case could finish his number one. Yeah, I got an email from somebody who was kind of making the case for A.J. Green saying why?

Why do you like Calvin or Julio or these guys? Why wouldn't Green have just as good of a chance? He does. He's got, and that's kind of my point, too, is that's how I see him too. You can finish number one easily. I mean, you have certain guys like Stafford and Calvin, you know, Ryan and Julio that have a rapport that they built up over the years. And as much as you can say in the negative sense about the Red Rocket, him and Green have a rapport.

Yeah, well, and that's all you do, right? It's an amount of how much evidence do you have to make the case for one of those guys. And so I, you know, there is more evidence for other guys than AJ Green, but there's enough where AJ Green could be there. There's plenty. He's been a top three guy. Absolutely. Multiple times. Yeah. Back-to-back years, I think if you throw last year out. Yeah, he's healthy now, you know, had the football last year. Oh, he's awesome. Yeah, I just thought I'd bring it up in case you guys had a different opinion, but no, it sounds like we're all the same. What's, was.

was interesting as over the off season there was i i don't know how many times i saw people trying to trade a j green away for branding cooks what tons of times just this particular trade i saw it all over this is that recency bias guys isn't it even there for that situation yeah yeah um if you want to get a hold of us you can do so on twitter at the f f f ballers

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You want to read a review? Yeah, let's do that. I'll do it. Reviewosaurus rags. This one comes in from Dane Ger, 73. I thought you were going to go with GER. Dane Gur, 73. Watch out. Title is New Foot Clan member. Oh, yeah. Yes. Says I've listened to a lot of podcasts, and this is my favorite. Three Things Matter on Fantasy Football Podcasts. Excellent content. Mixed with a little humor.

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contributed in that way. We really appreciate it. Yeah, let's go ahead and get into some news. News and notes from around the league. Well, well, well, here we are. It is almost Wednesday, and we got a deadline. Yeah. It's ballers in real life. Yeah. Yeah. You guys been watching that at all? I have. Yeah, I've seen it too. This reminds me of a scenario that would be in the show. Well, Des Bryant. Yeah.

It's the back and forth with Des. It looks like we were right on the cusp of a deal, a long-term deal with him. What, a week ago. In fact, I think you even put a teaser in the show notes and then instead of deleting it, you actually strike through it. Like, you wanted to make the point that this was close and didn't happen. And Des has basically come out and... Not basically. He did. Okay, he did come out and say, read the tweet. Yeah. He says, this is a tweet from Des Bryant. As much as I love football.

On my beautiful babies, I apologize Cabboy Nation, but I will not be there if no deal. And he punctuated by saying, hashtag fact. Should we be worried? Yeah, I don't know, man. Because Vince Jackson, once upon a time, burned a lot of fantasy owners by sitting out up until the 10th, 11th game of the season. I believe him. I really do. I think if there's no deal tomorrow, I mean, obviously we don't know. This could just be a game of poker and, you know, he's bluffing.

But the person who would call his bluff is Jerry Jones. And the person who would hold out is Des Bryant. And so if you just look at like attitudes and personalities and direction, it's pointing, if there isn't a deal done by tomorrow, I move Des, wait, wait, I move him to the bottom of all my top guys. Right now he's- Until, until further information. Right. Until things change. If you have to draft during that time, if you're doing, you know, an MFL 10 or, you know, whatever you're doing.

I'd be a little worried. Mike? I agree. I have a little bit of concern. I'm not going to, I'm not going to panic move. I'm not going to sell Des, or I'm not going to really move him down. But there's concern there in my heart for Des Bryant. She's so hard to imagine going to, I mean, that changes. And that's not just Des Bryant. No, I know, but this is why he holds out, right? It's like,

He knows how valuable he is. Imagine that offense what changes. Where does Terrence Williams go in your rankings? Where does Cole Beasley go in your rankings? How does that entire Tony Romo? Romo. I mean, you're already changed. I mean, if you're taking Des and Dez and DeMarco out of that offense and trying to figure something out. 13 rushing touchdowns from DeMarco Murray gone. If Dez were... Was it? 14? 14. 14, yeah. Yeah. So, I mean... 27 of Romo's, what, 30... How many do you have?

33, 5, 6, something like that? 37 for the team. I don't think he was out one game. I mean, that's just an astronomical percentage. Yeah. Gone. That'd be crazy. So if there is no deal, maybe next week we can talk about what the repercussions would be for Dallas, but too early to tell yet. Demarius Thomas is also unlikely to get an extension by the deadline. However, Demarius is playing nice. No tweets from Demarius. Well, he's just not saying anything. Well, he has said earlier,

He said earlier he'll play on it. He's just not going to play until he has to. And I think he's doing the, it's the risky thing, but to me it's the smarter thing for him is to gamble, bet it all, get one more great season with Peyton Manning, then go cash out, get maximum money from wherever you want to go and not be stuck.

with the rebuilding at the quarterback position in Denver. Let me ask real quick, fantasy-wise, DeMarius Thomas has basically put up identical numbers over the last three seasons. Last year was actually higher than the years before, and the years before were almost the same. Double-digit touchdowns, 1100-plus yards. Is this the season that, is this just same old, same old Demarius Thomas, or do you see any reason to believe he could step back this year?

No, I see no reason to step back. You have him as a great... Even with a different offensive coordinator. Even with a different offensive coordinator because you lose Julius Thomas, one of the red zone targets. The biggest beneficiary from that is going to be D.T. He's clearly the number one target. You know, you can say Emmanuel Sanders, who knows. But DeMas, or DeMarius Thomas is going to be DeMarius Thomas this year for sure. All right. Out of Eagles camp, Mark Sanchez has led a group of workouts in San Diego.

This is news. Well, I put it in there because it's important to me who the Eagles quarterback is. I don't know about you guys, but I'm going to give an interesting stat later on. But Mark Sanchez is doing everything that he possibly can to hold on to that starting position. He has an uphill battle after they traded Nick Foles and a pick to get Sam Bradford. But Bradford is still not healthy. We don't know what's happening with his recovery. It's seeming to take longer than it should.

And Sanchez was very, very fantasy relevant last year. Well, and that's really the gist of this whole thing at the quarterback position. The quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles will put up fantasy numbers. Yes. That's the end of the story, right? No matter who that is, they were such a good offense last year. We're going to talk about them a lot more in our divisional section today. Last report here is, it's an interesting one. Tampa Bay reports are that Austin Safarian Jenkins was virtually uncoverable during OTAs and mini camps.

He's a 65-262 tight-end. We've heard a lot about his potential. Can you imagine? Like, you come in. Being that large? That would be awesome. Yeah. Yeah, just looking down on everyone in life. That's what I think of every time I watch Dwayne Johnson on Ballers. I'm like, I can't imagine. Like, every suit they make him, every, like, shirt he's wearing looks like it's about.

to explode off of his body. Because his body is about to explode. Like, is it always kind of getting... He is massive. He accidentally flexes. Yeah, there's a lot of... But anyway, so what are you going to say? Can you imagine? No, I was just saying, can you imagine coming in, you're the number one draft pick into the NFL, and you have three six-foot-five monsters to throw the ball to? When you're used to throwing interceptions or not having those targets at Florida State? Yeah, that doesn't hurt your first season. Mike Evans, Vincent Jackson,