Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - BONUS Episode: Mailbag and Listener Questions

Would you take him over Antonio Brown? No. Over Julio Jones? No. Okay. So it's tough to see. Yeah. That's what, it's tough for me too, because I'm like, I say eight, but it might be actually further for me. And especially with injury risks. He still has injury risks. Yeah. One year going by does not, you know. Thank you for bringing that up. And the gronk, I'll admit this. If while I say no on, I won't pass on those other receivers, I could get caught up in the emotion of the draft.

I won't lie about that, where if all of a sudden, Gronkowski's there, and I think that I can get Hill on the way back or something, it could happen. It could happen. Jason is playing with my McFarland sports picks that are laying out on the desk. I don't know. Moving along. The nice thing is, is if you hop into Fantasydraftwizard.com, or actually, if you go to our site now, you can just actually start a mock draft right on our site.

There's a little start mock draft button on the right, and you can actually kind of go up against the consensus and see where experts are picking Grunkowski and take a chance on them, see what your draft looks like. And on that note, if you go and you mock draft through our site, I would just recommend to people. A lot of times I've seen people that do all of their drafts against the expert.

rankings, and I would really encourage people in regular leagues to change that, to draft against the average draft position of like fantasy football calculator or whatever. There's other options in that mock draft tool, but I think that it's more common. You're going to see the normal ADPs in your personal leagues, and I want you guys to be set up for success. Like sometimes you draft against experts, and you can pretty much always get Aaron Rogers or Andrew Luck in the third round, and I don't think that's going to happen.

your normal drafts. Yeah, that's good advice. Stephen from New York City asks, he says... New York City. Oh, man. Sorry. Was that salsa? Pace Piccante? Yeah. New York City. We should have a big bag of chit. That wouldn't be good for radio. Gosh. Unless we were sponsored by them. In which case, I love Doritos. Oh, I was going to go with Chipotle.

Chips and guas are the best. He has an issue. Stephen has an issue, guys. And it's with his keepers. Oh, that's a lot better. He's allowed to keep two guys in this format. But he can only keep, there's some qualifications. So he can only keep one of these three. Love, Bell, Marshawn, Lynch, and Des Bryant. And then he can keep one of these four. Emmanuel Sanders, Jeremy Maclin, Isaiah Crowell, and C.J. Spiller.

So for those first three, he'd have to go a first round pick. So who do you take? Lev Bell, Marshawn Lynch or Des Bryant. I go Lev Bell. Was this a PPR? This is a one-half-point PPR. Man. Yeah, I think I'm still going to go Bell. Bell, bell for me as well. Oh, it was a bell. So this is a little harder. One of these, Emmanuel Sanders for a fifth, Jeremy Macklin for a fifth, Isaiah Crowell for a 16th.

CJ Spiller for a third. I know my answer. And my answer is C.J. Spiller for a third round pick. Really? Wow. I did not see that coming. I did not either. In a half point PPR, third round for Spiller. Hmm. I have spoken. Did you forget that you, that Macklin was there? The Mac attack. So I am debating between Emmanuel Sanders and the 5th and Isaiah Correll in the 16th. I think Emmanuel Sanders...

is still going to be a very good receiver this year. I mean, if you're debating between Emmanuel Sanders and Jeremy Macklin, those two guys are not going to finish the year anywhere near each other. Emmanuel Sanders, I like the value of Isaiah Correll in the 16th, but I think I am going to go with Emmanuel Sanders in the 5th. Mike? I'm going to go with the crow. All right. We need an anti-consensus bell. And the reason is because my...

My first round pick is suspended for three games, possibly. I want Crow, who I think could have good value this year. He'll be the touchdown guy in Cleveland. That's actually a really good point. And honestly, I hate to be so wishy-washy, but if this was my real team, I would absolutely do that. So I completely, you won me over there with Lev. If I can get Isaiah Crowell on the 16th, I would absolutely have no fear of taking Levy on Bell.

early, and so that's a good combo. I'll stick with Spiller. Keep the bell away from this. This question comes in from Josh from Independence, Minnesota. Mike, you've been there? I've not been there, but Skull, my friend, Skoll. Skull Vikings. Oh, well, I see. I guess if you're a Vikings fan. Yeah. All right. Hey, guys, one point per reception league, 12 team.

Three-player keeper league, no cost. Keeping Des and Jordi. Debating between Sammy Watkins and Jordan Matthews or Kelsey. So, no cost. Who do you take, Watkins, Matthews, or Kelsey? Based on Des and Jordy, my answer is Travis Kelsey. Oh, yeah. Because he has Des and Jordy already, and so you get to choose one of those three, and for me it is Travis Kelsey. And you said Jordan Matthews, though? Yes, I did. I'll go Matthews.

So you'd rather have... So if you believe Kelsey is a positional advantage, you'd still rather have the three wide receivers and give up the positional advantage? Because I can get Kelsey. I'm confident that I would be able to draft him. I'm not confident I would be able to draft Matthews in this format. I don't think you're giving up a positional advantage there because by drafting those three wide receivers, you're actually gaining.

a real big positional advantage in the wide receiver. So I would keep the three. I'm not as high on Jordan Matthews. Yeah, that's the difference. For me, that's three wide receiver ones. Well, I would go close to that, but not that far. I'm saying for me. Yeah, yeah, I was saying mine. So, yeah, I would go the three wide receivers as well. Carson from Virginia Beach, Virginia.

That's a good place for that beach to be. Yeah, I wouldn't put it anywhere else. He's got a minor keeper dilemma. He can keep any of these three in a PPR league. Or I'm sorry, he can keep any, is that what he says? Any three of these in a PPR league. CJ Anderson, Keenan Allen, Jarvis Landry, Julius Randall? I think he meant to. Did he, like, fuse two guys? No, isn't Julius Randall the Power Ford for the Los Angeles Lakers? Oh, is that the guy who broke?

Yeah, he broke his leg. Keep him. He meant Joseph Randall. Rashad Jennings, Kenny Stills, and Teddy, Bridgewater. He said he is leaning Anderson, Allen, and Landry. And he also said, should he consider Bridgewater a little bit more? It's a super competitive league where four of the five QBs go in the first round. Two QB league. So that makes a difference. In a two. Well, Anderson, for sure.

Yeah. I think I would... A full point PPR, I'm going Allen as well. And I'm going Jarvis Landry. Yeah, I like the three. All right. This next question comes in from Matt, the Milkman from New Jersey. Matt the milkman. Simple keeper question. Should he keep a question in the 16th or Andrew Luck in the fifth round? That is a great question. That is a great question. Value. Wow. Because both are...

Exceptional value. Wow. Oh, man. That's really tough. I'm going, Matt. I'm taking Maddie Ice. Manila ice in the 16th round. Hoo! Hoo! I'm going with Matt Ryan in the 16th. Give me Matt Ryan for free. Give me Matt Ryan for free versus Andrew Luck in the 5th. Yeah, it's easy to ride the, come on and ride the train with Andrew Luck. Okay. Would you... No, we just asked you? No, I'm just... No, would you trade?

Matt Ryan and Martavis Bryant for Andrew Luck. No, I would not. No. Would you trade Matt Ryan and Giovanni Bernard for Andrew Luck? No, I would not. No. And finally, would you trade Matt Ryan and Jarvis Landry for Andrew Luck. Twelve team PPR? No, I would not. Two. Yeah. All right. Well, then it makes sense. Matt Ryan.

All right, we're going to go ahead and jump into Jerry from Indianapolis as Jason's phone goes off in the middle of a show. Yeah, I'm so popular. You know what? It's the weekend. You don't have to turn your phone off on the weekend. We didn't know we were doing a show. Remember before the show, though, when I was like, put your phone on silent? Nope, you said on Do Not Disturb, and I did that. Well, that didn't work. No, Jerry had been disturbed. Jerry from Indianapolis. I can keep, you didn't do it again, did you?

Did you turn it off? Did you turn it off? I saw you pulling it back out. I'm like, oh, wait. I did it. I put it on the show. That's all right, right? Just don't mind me. Keep going, guys. I can keep four of these five players and any order in rounds 12 through 15. CJ Anderson, Charles Johnson, Isaiah Crowell, Amir. Amir. I'm here. What is going on here? Remedy. Remedy. Jason, save him. I'm playing hurt. I didn't even see that. I'm playing hurt.

One of the benefits of YouTube is if you manage to go to this point in the show, you will see a... Near-death experience. A room divider that came down upon Mike and... I was almost decapitated. Oh, that's really an exaggeration. But coming from hyperbole Mike... What, me? Oh, no. I was going to say earlier in the show, too, the best part about you just hating...

certain guys is how exceptionally wrong you could be. It's not, I mean, when you say verbatim, Devante Freeman sucks. No, I said he stinks. Oh, golly. You wanted to say verbatim. That's fair enough. But, okay, Devante Freeman sucks. There we go now. And so, well, I mean, goodness, 11, 12 carries, you know that by now. But that my point was just that how great it is. When you're this polar, I can just,

Go back in the shows, cut out these bits, play them with, like, music and interludes and songs. I'm going to shoot fireworks off. I mean, it's going to be great. Or I'm going to be wrong, but if I'm wrong, I'm passively wrong, not crazily wrong. Yeah, because he won't do any of that. He won't cut them up and bring him back. He'll just passively ignore them. Oh, of course I won't. Why would I? Jerry from Indianapolis wants to know. Sorry, Jerry, we're back. He wants to have this question answered. Standard, keeper.

Which do you keep? And in what order? Four of these five. He says four of these five, and they are C.J. Anderson, Charles Johnson, Isaiah Crowell, Amir Abdul, and Alan Robinson. It is a standard league. Wait, how is Abdullah in this? What? How is Abdullah involved in this? He just is. He drafted him, and now he has to re-keep him? No, what's likely is that you had a rookie draft and then you trade the rookie for the last pick in the draft or something. Okay.

But pick 4 or 5. If it's me, I'm dropping. Yeah, so we got to drop one guy. This is tough because it's a standard league, and I almost dropped Alan Robinson out, and I think I will drop Charles Johnson out. I'm dropping out Charles Johnson from that list. All right. Cole from Maryland wants to know. He says, hey, Alvin, Simon, and Theodore. Just started listening to your podcast. It's my favorite by far.

Thank you. I was wondering who you would take with the seventh overall pick, Arian Foster, Antonio Brown, C.J. Anderson, or LaShawn McCoy. Thank you for your advice. I'll make sure to give you a great review on iTunes. Well, thank you for that. He is in an eight-team standard league, and this is a pretty no-brainer for me. Yeah, you're... And that is, uh, give me, Arian Foster. Yeah, right, as of right now, it's Arian Foster. If everything...

everything in the preseason says that C.J. Anderson is the workhorse. Then it will become C.J. Anderson. Yeah. I had this position today in an MFL draft almost identical. And I decided to go with Arian Foster. All right. Arian Foster, it is from the fantasy footballers. James from Boston wants to know what are your, that was the cue to like hit the bell. It wasn't unanimous though. It was. I said Anderson.

No, you said right now. Yeah, okay, okay, I guess. I gave two answers. Yeah, that's cheating. James from Boston. What are your expectations for Calvin Johnson this year? What factors play into your predictions? Well, those are two questions. Top five finish, and six foot five. Those are your predictions? No. My prediction is he finishes top five, and what factor plays in is six foot five. I thought you were predicting.

That he's, no, I'm saying that it's his physical freak nature that makes me think he's going to have a top five. He will not grow this year. Yes, he will not grow past six foot five. Some people think, but they're stupid. Yeah, I have them top five. I have them at number one in a standard league. That's, and that's perfectly fine with me. What factors play into our predictions in general, though?