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

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What is going on? It is Thursday, July 2nd, and we are the fantasy footballers, and we are back again. Would you believe it? It's good to be back. It's always good to record about fantasy football. It's good to be back, America. We've got a good show for you today. And the world. You're going to have to go through like 46 countries. I guess the world is... The world of podcasting is broad, my friend.

We are the fantasy footballers podcast. We've got a great show for you today. We've got some news and notes. We're going through the AFC South. We've been doing some divisional breakdowns. Coming off a great PPR live mock draft show, so if you didn't see that show, that makes sense because it's a podcast. So you can't see it. You hear it, Mike. You beat me to it. I know. I guess I didn't introduce us. I'm Andy Holloway. Joined, as always, by Jason Moore. Yes.

It's just my... And Mike, the fantasy hitman, right? Hello. We're bringing you some con knowledge today on the fantasy football. World. World two. I got a question for you, all right? This is the quick question for the day. Hypothetically, this is... I'm pretending to be somebody. I got drafted in a fantasy draft like I am a part-time player, but I'm actually going to be a full-time player. That's pretty good. Good for...

Who am I? I'm going... For you? For me? Yeah. And now I'm not going with the... You draft him and then all of a sudden he becomes a complete bell cow. However, the guy that I think is being drafted like a complete throwaway who's going to be a full-time flex option or better all year long is Danny Woodhead. I think Danny Woodhead is...

Completely left out. PPR or standard are you? Half point PPR or PPR. I think even in a standard he'll be serviceable, but in a half point or full point PPR, he's going to be on playoff teams. You know, every league. Every league is going to have a playoff team with Danny Woodhead on it. Interesting. I'm going with Ruben Randall. His ADP is in the 12th round. He's going to be the wide receiver two for an up-tempo fast-paced offense that likes to throw. So.

So who are you, Andy? I'm a Randall as well, but I'm Joseph Randall. Ooh. I believe. You think he's going to be drafted as a part-time player? He is right now. Yeah. When the real drafts happened. He's right now. Yeah, he would be a first rounder if you knew that there was going to be the full-time. 250 carries. No, no, I'm saying. That's my prediction. Where do you think his ADP will be in August? I don't know why you think the hype train is going to go crazy on him.

Because he's the Dallas running back. Then why isn't he getting drafted like it now? Frank Gore is getting drafted that way. Because it's not cemented. I think come draft season, he's in the fourth round. At least. I think he's at least there. And that's still not a full-time play. I mean, that's not an RB starting running back spot. That's behind everybody.

So anyway, that's my guy. You got Ruben Randall. I love that pick. I'm really coming around on him. I think he has a chance to be something special this year if ODB comes down off those numbers a little bit. I mean, Eli Manning. Even if he stays are. Almost the most attempts, I think, in his career last year. It's up there. He had a very, very good year. I was looking at some Eli Manning numbers. If you want to follow the show, you can do so on Twitter at the F.F. Ballers. You can visit us on the web.

The Fantasy Footballers.com, and that's where you can actually submit a question for the show. It's up in the upper right corner. Submit a question. You can also call us at 302-464 TFFB and record your question on our voice mailbox. As always, we read a review from our iTunes page, so let's go and do that now. Reviewosaurus Rex. Comes in from Gaffer dudes. He says, I discovered this podcast yesterday.

And I've already listened to their last four episodes. Love it. I can't wait to see how great this show is during preseason and the regular season, my new favorite podcast, period. Then he gives us a hashtag Foot Clan and a hashtag Joyke Bell Cow to make Andy happy. So thank you very much, Gaffer dudes. And also, thank you to... So glad. Oh, go ahead. Just every... Our reviews, we have the best...

Our foot clan that is out there are the best. I won't toot-toot myself, but I will definitely toot-toot the Foot Clan. Thank you for the reviews. I'm on iTunes. You guys are awesome. You help us be a good show, and those matter a lot for us. So if you want to be part of the Foot Clan, make sure go to iTunes in your podcast app or on your computer and give us a good review. I might just read it. It's hard to pick these out. Yeah. I was going to say there's two things accurate.

with that final hashtag. Joy can cow. He's really wanting to say that. I've been so happy with the rubber banding that's going on on Twitter. A lot of people don't agree with your... Because it is a crazy train, my friend. The Abdullah Express is not leaving the station for me. I'm sorry. It's fine. It's not.

Joyc Bell, as we come into news and notes here, we'll skip the intro under there. I just want to go right into news and notes because Joyc Bell came out and who can you trust more than the player himself? That's the most accurate thing you've ever said. Joyc Bell said he's going to rush for 1,200 yards this year. Wow. Breaking news. While I don't believe that is news at all, I appreciate you putting it in the news section, Mike. You were trying to give me some help there.

I will say this, and I put it on Twitter this week, if you take the last eight games from Joyke Bell last year, 4.5 a carry, he would have had about 1,100 on the season, 400 receiving, and 10 touchdowns. So that's all I have is my case for Joyc Bell, and I believe having him on a bunch of teams last year and watching Detroit a lot, I believe the coaching staff trusts him. And I believe that when you bring a rookie into an offense...

and it comes down to the end of the game, and he's a guy like Joyke Bell who has good hands. I just don't think Abdul is going to establish himself. Does he? I feel like he's got a great hand. Well, no, no, not catch. I feel like Bell's kind of a fumbler. Oh, I don't think he's a fumbler. Definitely a good pass catcher. But anyway, I'm not disagreeing with that. I'm going to say this, though, because, you know, you're giving me some leeway here on Joyke Bell and not, you know, you haven't rode your train into the station yet. But here's the deal. If he's injured.

Which he is currently. And I don't, yeah, I know. It's July 1st. But if he's injured going into the year and Abdullah has more opportunity in the beginning of the season, it changes things, obviously.

But I still think even when Joick's healthy, they're going to want him in the mix for sure. I think if Joyc is still hurt at minicamp, it makes a big difference. Because all of a sudden, you start developing that trust that normally takes you, you know, you don't get that in a minicamp preseason with a rookie unless he's coming in to be the starter. But if he comes in and gets a bunch of first team reps, now you've got more confidence than all of a sudden the second half of the year starts becoming three quarters of the year. And to be honest, just the way I play fantasy football is I just don't.

speculate on those things i i trust what i see and what i see is joick bell is an rb one in on that team okay oh man but uh i'll have to i'll have to check my rankings over over under three fumbles for joick bell i'm guessing you're going to say over because you got to you got to tell me something here five well just cut him he's gone no no just cut him i'm just five that's a that's a fumbler

Okay, so if he holds onto the ball, he'll have even. That was just last year. And the year before? Four. He's my 15th ranked running back, by the way. All right, some news out of Eagles camp. This is more what, CSN's Philly's, CSN Philly's Jeff Mosher. Mosher. Do you know how to pronounce that? I'm going with Mosher because that sounds way cooler. Yeah, expects Zach Ertz to make a sizable jump in snaps this season. I think we all want to see it.

Are we going to see it? We are going to see it. I am confident in that. I think that they're expecting that. They've already been talking about their future number two tight end. And so they're putting Ertz into that first spot. And I think he's going to play 75% of the snaps. And if he does that and you just extrapolate the same stats, not that he gets it any better, which I think he will.

also get better, he would be a fantastic tight-in. He's currently my number one targeted tight-end. That's who I'm looking for in drafts because I like where his value is. I can get him very late, but I am, I said that last week, and that was one of the guys we were looking for on the mock draft or I was. Zach Ertz, I really like because I think he's going to get on the field more. My confidence level in Kelsey is 100%. That's why I will take him in the fifth round. But if I miss on Kelsey,

I agree with Jason. One of my top targets is I'm going to fly on Ertz. Eifer. As well as Eifert? Yeah, we're talking about Eertz right now. But Eertz, because last year playing only 50% of the snaps, he finished with a stat line of 58, 702 yards, and three touchdowns. So you can expect the touchdowns go up in the yard. He'd easily go over a thousand. Macklin's gone. So there's a good chance he could be.

one of, if not the top receiving target on the year. Yeah, he will be a beast if he plays like 70%. Marshaun Lynch told Conan O'Brien he considered retiring before the Seahawks gave him a new contract that included $12 million in 2015. We talked to Brian Tess a little bit about Marshaun Lynch. We know he likes to play football, but we also know he's an eccentric dude, and he could hang it up at any time. So is this more of a warning to Dynasty guys? Yeah, that's why I threw it in the news.

people need to be aware that this could be the final year of Marshawn Lynch of the beast mode where his contract is set up that Seattle can easily get rid of him after this year. He's probably going to be a ferocious beast if Seattle's looking at it that way and they're just going to wear him out. But it's just something to think about. If you can get good value on Lynch right now, I would be more inclined to take it.

Yeah, and a keeper. In a keeper, in Dynasty. Side note, did you see, did you see this, Marshawn on Conan? Is this, did he dive into a... He dove into a pool of Skittles. Very nice. It's amazing. I'm amazed he went on Conan. Yeah, he feels like all of his... He loves Conan. Well, no, I, I just mean the, like, publicity, public eye person. I mean, maybe that's reserved for reporters, I guess. Yeah, because outside of the locker room, he's actually pretty great. That, that...

What was it during the Super Bowl? Was it during Super Bowl when he was with Conan and playing Gronk? They were playing Mortal Kombat. That was awesome. If you're listening, go Google that video. Maybe we can tweet it out. That video was so funny. All right. Our last bit of quote-unquote news, because not a lot has actually happened on the field between Tuesday and today. I didn't even see this. So ESPN's Ron Jaworski says he likes the future of the Jets with Gino Smith at quarterback. So Mike, you threw this in there.