Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Sleepers, Fantasy News, Mailbag

There were a lot of people who noted our water bet on the last show in which you repeatedly said, that is binanas. Yeah. When I said Kenneth Dixon would outperform Justin Fawcett, which I think more people agreed with you that I was binanas. But that's okay. Really? That was the sentiment? No, I don't know. I'm just giving people credit. There was some sentiment out there that agreed with Jason. Did you see my tweet about Justin Fawcett's snap percentage?

No. He was... I was busy. For the 10 games... Yeah, that's right. You were flying across the country. For the 10 games that Joseph Fawcett played in last year, he was on the field 66.7% of the time. I don't care. That's ahead of Adrian Peterson, Frank Gore. I mean, that's... He was the guy. What was Kenneth Dixon? And he was good. What was Kenneth Dixon's snap percentage last year? Zero percent. Exactly. Exactly. He wasn't on the team. No, but my point is... This is really good. But when he went out...

What? I can't think of the name of the back. Talley Farrow? Buck Allen. Buck Allen. There's many there. There are. And so what happened when Buck Allen had 67% of the snap percentage. They don't have. They didn't have anybody else. You just named a bunch of guys. Talley Farrow, Terrence West. Okay, Talley Farrow was injured. Fawcett broke his arm. So yes, the snap percentage of Buck Allen was very high.

Well, when they were all healthy, Fawcett was high, and I love the water bet. You will eat the bananas at the end of the year. Oh, it's going to be a banana in the face. All right. Well, let's talk about Pete Carroll and this Seahawks offense that everybody wants to know about. He came out, he said that the offense will resemble the form in the second half of last year. Again, coach speak to me because you're saying, we're going to resemble the good part of the year. I mean, you want to succeed in your offense. And last year...

You know, they didn't have Marshall Lynch. They won't have them this year. So, yeah, they're going to put more into Russell Wilson's hands. To me, I'm so high on Russell Wilson. We have been. Jason's been kind of the flag waiver at the front of that parade, but we all have them rated high. I might move him up even more. I think I am, too. And I love him. I love Tyler Lockett. Mike and I have made no qualms about...

our love for Tyler Lockett as a well-rounded receiver. He's somebody who is dynamic. He's somebody who, if the targets are there, I think will surprise people. And right now, Tyler Lockett is going in the seventh round, the back of it, 7-11. Baldwin is 4-10. I'd take Lockett every day right now. What I think the important part of this news information is just that he's even acknowledging it. He is saying, yeah, it went really well for us, and we want to try and

and model after that. So the fact that he is aware of it, you know, he's talking to the public about it. I personally think it's a big deal because that was one of the biggest fantasy questions of the offseason. Who are the Seahawks now? Are they going to try and go back with Rawls and turn Rawls into Lynch and just ride that again? Or are they going to let Russell Wilson ball out like he did the second half? So Seahawks offense rising, rising to me. They'll...

We'll probably do a show on the offenses that we like this season because a lot of the sleeper or value or those type of guys come from, you know, putting yourself in the position to draft guys in a good offense in fantasy football. And so we'll probably do a show about that. Seattle's definitely at the top of that list. They just have so many dynamic players. Russell Wilson is a force. So let's go ahead and talk about the Colts for a second. You know, we know Frank Gore is in the backfield. Let's talk about un-

Undrafted Free Agent Josh Ferguson, Mike. Yes. And I just want him to, I want this name on the radar. Does this appear on the radar? Yeah. Yeah, so Foot Clan, if you have not heard of Josh Ferguson. That was more sonar, I guess, yeah. Yeah, I don't know. That worked. I like it. That was Ferguson's signal. So start paying attention to Josh Ferguson. Right now, Robert Turbin is the backup for Frank Gore. And we know that Frank Gore is an Iron Man, but look, the Colts are reportedly.

They like him. He was undrafted, but they were thinking about drafting him as early as the fourth round. They just liked other guys a little bit more. So this is a name to monitor where if Frank, even if Frank Gore doesn't go down, Josh Ferguson could earn a role in this offense. If you look last year and the other Josh, the square shape Josh, Robinson.

What you did see from the Colts was a willingness to give some third downs away to another back because they didn't want Gore to be worn down. That could happen again. So this is put him on the radar, sonar, whatever you want to call it. Well, and we've seen the Colts have two competent fantasy backs where Bradshaw was the passing guy and he was scoring touchdowns and boatloads and Ferguson's very interesting to me. All right, Jason, you should take this next bit of news.

The next bit of news is that... Wow, it's not really new news, so let's clarify that. Yeah, it's older. But Austin Safarian Jenkins, he issued an apology for getting kicked out of practice and then arguing with Bucks fans on Twitter. I was high on ASJ, just from a talent standpoint, but I will say this. I'm not high on ASJ anymore. And this situation is actually one that I believe warrants that because you have a coach kicking him out of practice. You have an alternate...

alternative option there is it's not like they have to have ASJ and then what his response was like you kick a guy out of practice that's to see like look you got to step this up or you're not a part of this team and then he goes on a baby rampage and shows that he does not have a good head on his shoulders and that's just I look when I draft there's a couple of other things I like I like good offenses I like good play callers I like smart

players like that's one of those things i prefer and and as j to me seems like you know a knucklehead that that is not going to be a guy i want to put my trust in the thing is is you overlook knucklehead knuckleheadness when you aren't putting up like three catches a week right i mean there's just so many red flags i'd rather i mean there's so many guys i'd take dennis pitta probably

You know, over, well, maybe not. Probably not him, but the point is like there's just other options. There's so many guys. I mean, you're telling me you wouldn't take Dwayne Allen over him. Easily. So Cameron Brate is on notice just as very, very deep right now. Yeah. Though the sonar has to be very quiet, but that would be the name to pay attention to if something goes even more south with Safarian Jenkins. All right. Coach Speak alert. The Florida Times Union expects the Jaguars to start.

Chris Ivory over T.J. Yelden. I didn't understand what this was news because I thought that was the assumption all along. I think it didn't scare me off of Yeldin as one of my kind of, what do I have him classified in our draft kit as a sleeper? I believe he is in as a sleeper. Or a value. Value. Yeah, I think I haven't been in as a value. I mean, by the way, sleepers are all values.

Just in case you're curious. That's true. We label them differently. The reason we call them sleepers is we're pretty much classifying these as guys that go outside the ninth round and beyond in drafts. But if you get a sleeper that works out, that is a value as well. Let's talk about the big salad. He's back. We did it, America. You can never fill up on too much salad. No. He's back for seconds. There are reports that Mike Davis' fourth round pick last year, the running back who was not

Not very good. And he might not make the 53. And I was Evan Silva tweeted out. Look up for Sean Drone again. This is fantastic. I love it. I love it. And look, I am one of the biggest Carlos Hyde supporters this year. But he doesn't catch the ball. No, he's he really doesn't. He's never been in that role as the past catcher. And just for my own personal pride.

to see Chondrone rise again from the salad bar? Yes. It would be delightful. Gabbard and him had a rapport on those checkdown. Oh, yeah. I mean, he averaged 4.3. I believe that's called fear. Yeah, he takes the ball. It's an overstatement to say rapport. But how about this? They played together. They did. And Dron was getting catches and bunches. He was affected. Well, spoiler alert, we will not have any sleepers.

from the San Francisco 49ers on this episode. No. But we will get into some awesome sleepers. Sleepers are going to win your league for you if some of these guys pan out. Before we do that, we want to take a second and thank our awesome sponsor, Pristine Auction. You've heard us talk about them before. They are the best and only place to get sports memorabilia signed.

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are getting sleepy, sleepy. Yeah. We had to pull that one out of the archives. That's an archive drop right there. I got my lay-misarob tickets off a sea geek. Yep, there you go. You can get all the theater stuff off there too. All right, let's go. Where are we going to start here? Well, look, aforementioned Baltimore Ravens' offense seems like a good place to start. Okay, good, because this makes me so very happy.

That was an appropriate drop for how awesome this guy is. That was superhero music. That was the story time with Jason drop. Yeah, well, I'll take over. And I'll take over and I'll give you a little bit of story time on my sleeper, a sleeper that I will admit, Mike was on board of first. And when he was, I was not. I think back on our election show, he liked him. And I thought, no, not in. And since then.

I've studied a little bit more of his film. I've seen some more things break his way. And I'm talking about Kamar.

Aiken. Look, this guy is actually really good. The thing is, is he didn't have a great college production, comes in undrafted, bounces around from team to team. But he has the physical tools. His comps, his measurables are actually in the same area of like a D'Andre Hopkins. He's 6'2 with 4 or 5. Now, I'm not saying he is D'Andre Hopkins by any means, but he has the physical tools to get it done. So what if things break his way? Well, here's what's breaking his way.

Seems like he's going to be a health risk that is not going to come in and be the number one for Baltimore, the way that people might have hoped coming in. And yet he will be playing and kind of taking some of that value away from Mike Wallace.

There's also news saying that Steve Smith. It's going to be a tough road for Smith. It's going to be a tough road back. He talks about how he's not where he thought he would be now. And he admitted he just wants to get to, you know, a certain number of historical receptions. He just wants a thousand. Yeah, he wants a thousand receptions. And that's what he's playing for, which is, you know, he's pushing his body to do something that he's not going to be really great at.