Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - #FootClan Mailbag Show, Fantasy News, Podcast Awards

I don't know, a possible flex on certain matchups? Let's play the game right here. Sterling Shepard or Richard Matthews? Matthews. I would take Sterling Shepard. Okay. Just because... Sterling Shepard or Tavon, Austin. Stirling Shepard or Sammy Coates? Sterling. All right, one more. Sterling or Tyler Boyd. Oh, that's a good one.

I'll take Shepard. Man, I'm going to say that you've got to go Shepard. I've been all about the Tyler Boyd love, and I do think he's good. I do think his opportunity is there. But if you look at the difference in those two players' opportunity, you have one coach who just threw O'Dell Beckham out there a couple years ago and said, go with it. And on the other hand, you have a coach that never, ever, ever plays rookies other than the AJ Green Dalton year.

Marvin Lewis does not play his rookies, especially on offense. One final one just for Mike. Okay. Sterling Shepard, Chris Hogan. Oh, come on now. You know I'm going with my man, Chris Hogan. Your ranking say you are. You got him 20 apart. Yeah, well, good. There's Hollywood Hogan up there in New England. Monster opportunity here. So that means he's got Sterling Shepard ranked number 21? No, there's a gap. No, I know. I just assume Hogan's your number one. Oh.

All right, Lev Bell with the MCL PCL injury came out, said he wants to, quote, be able to cut and run freely before camp. It's always a good idea. I mean, what is the... Did you hear more about this? No, it was more just an injury update, so clearly he is not cutting and running freely at this time. All right, so monitor that Hayes Carion of the Florida Times Union expects Julius Thomas to score double digit touchdowns this season. That is interesting. It would not surprise me.

And if he scores double-digit touchdowns, look, you've got a strong tight-in one. Yeah, you're Tyler Eifreding your way through the season. Yeah, it doesn't matter if he gets 50 or 60 catches. If he gets 10 touchdowns, he's a great tight-end option. I don't know if I'm buying into it. So right now, I have him at 11. So I have him at 11. Oh, you have him at 11 touchdowns at rank 11. At rank 11. Jason at 15, Mike at 17, as of today on our ranking.

on the website. So I do buy into the tight-in-one potential for him. Yeah, it's there. I'll take another look at Julius Thomas and my projections, but I'm not sure I can get in that much higher. Yeah, I'm putting the over under at like six and a half touchdowns. So I do not buy into the double-digit touchdowns here personally. Too many weapons there, plus you look at how many total touchdowns.

Blake Borrell's through last year knowing that none went, you know, to the running back on the ground. That's going to change this year. So not double digits for Julius Thomas. All right. Well, we are going to pay tribute to the Foot Clan in our own special way, answering Twitter mailbag questions on the show today. Before we do that, I want to take a minute and thank our sponsor, good friends of the show, pristineauction.com. That's exactly where we got this beautiful. You got to go on YouTube and check it out this Jordan Reed autographed, authentic jersey because...

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Uh, yeah, we need to get a towel in here. Look, you're the, you're the dog owner, right? You love that dog. Love my dog. Love my dog. Twitter loves my dog, too. Darla the Bulldog. That's right. All right. Let's get into the mailbag. Answer some fantasy questions. This first one comes in from at RCMB-323. Which QB has the most starter upside late in the draft, Mariotta, or Stafford? This is a, Andy special.

This is a battle. Because I like them both. Because you are in love with both of these guys. So I'm going to let Andy kick it off. Sure. I love both these guys. But the most upside late in the draft belongs to Matthew Stafford. Yes, it does. Matthew, thank you. That's your official. You are correct. You are correct. Ed McMahon. Look, Matthew Stafford has the. Yes.

track record of elite fantasy football seasons. He had the efficiency towards the back half of the year, basically where he played the second half. Had he kept that pace, much like Russell Wilson had a big second half, Stafford's second half would have been in the 40 touchdown range. I mean, he was hyper-efficient, only four picks, I think, in the second half of the season. Right. The upside is his offense as well, because Matt, I'm sorry, from Marcus Mariotta.

You have seen a limited offense. You don't know how much they're going to stretch the arm. I like his upside as being one of those guys that gains some on the ground, gives you a nice baseline. He has weapons around him, but Stafford's the answer to this question. Yeah, I go with Stafford for all of those reasons and just the weapons. I know that Calvin Johnson is gone, but that doesn't concern me for Stafford's long-term potential this year. All right, let's go ahead and...

Go over to at Noble Rabbit. I'm a noble rabbit. Are you getting a plaque or legit trophy for the podcast awards? If not, are you planning on ordering a custom trophy? We are receiving two trophies for the two awards. Yeah. That's a quick answer. Really nice, really large, really custom done for us through podcast awards.com. We've had to...

customize our roof. We had to raise it up because the trophies will be so big. Not quite, but we will take... You see those like karate trophies when you win first place? I assume that's what it's going to be, right? It's got to be taller than me. Right. We'll have to adjust camera, sight lines and things like that. All right. At Seth 280. Let's go with that one and I'll circle back there. How do you tell a league mate that it is time to move on?

When he keeps making excuses not to show up for the draft, but he doesn't want to ruin the friendship. This is life advice here for Seth. This is an extremely sticky situation. We've had to deal with it once or twice in our league. Oh, man, it's extremely tough. I will say... Oh, there's one easy way out. Oh, okay. Do you want to know it? Yeah, I do. Numbers. You don't hurt somebody's feelings as much if it's kind of a group decision.

I mean, you still might make them mad. But at least it's not the one-to-one guilt that you would have. Don't be the commission. It just goes and kicks them out. Just say, hey, look, we took a league vote. Unfortunately, the league wants to be more committed this year. We want everybody at the draft. You haven't been at the draft. You're not going to be able to make the draft. This was the league decision. I'm really sorry. Let's play in another, you know.

league together. Yeah, and revisit the problems over there. No, the... I'll be there. The reality here is that if you're kicking him out for that reason, if the reason is the fact that you don't have him showing up to the draft, then you have to just make the rule official before the draft. And then it's not you kicking him out, it's him...

kicking himself out because he's not adhering to the rule. If before the draft you say you have to be at the draft from here and out or you can't be in the league, sorry, you know, that's the way to do it. Not afterwards, you weren't at the draft because then you don't even solve the problem. You didn't have a guy at the draft and you kick him out. Just establish the rule up front and you should be okay. Yeah, hopefully. Hopefully you are. All right. Al-Saraphi-Meo. Wow. What?

I probably got some of that right. What rookie running backs and wide receivers do you believe will have the most value and usage based off their teams and their offense? Great question. We covered one guy today already. Sterling Shepard has the potential to have a great value and a great usage in the New York Giants offense. I would say my two favorite running backs as far as value.

would be CJ Pro Seis and Kenneth Dixon. I think that Pro Seize is going to have an immediate impact. Maybe it's not the kind of high-level running back numbers that you want, but he should be the passing downs guy. At least that's all the chat, the immediate chatter out of Seahawk camp, and I think they're going to pass a bit more than they have in the past. And for Kenneth Dixon, this has nothing to do with, I love Justin Forsett. I think that Forset can be the guy.

towards the end of the season, it's feasible. I'll leave the door open that Kenneth Dixon can become the starter. And if you're the starter on a Mark Tressman offense and you're starting running back, then you need to be on my team. Yeah, no, I think those are good. Obviously, we're going to bypass Ezekiel Elliott here. He is a, he's like an auto. Yes, he's going to have good opportunity and talent.

You know, I still like King and Drake. I think that his opportunity in a gaze system where they've always used the running back that catches the ball. Well, J. Ajai can catch the ball, but the reports so far out of camp have been. That's so weird. I know. Well, there are new routes and a new system, so he's been struggling a little reportedly. I don't expect King and Drake to be the guy, but I think he'll be, he'll have an opportunity there because there's really just no other option. And they also drafted him as the third.

running back off the board in the entire NFL draft. So there is, I think there's an opportunity, a pathway forward for Kenyon Drake. And while I don't think he's great between the tackles, man, I watch all the film on him. And when he gets out in open space, if they're going to use him as a pass catching, you know, third down type of back, I'm telling you he's going to break some plays for some big gains that finish in the end zone. Yeah, yeah. On the wide receiver side of things,

You know, one of the names naturally that comes to mind for usage is Corey Coleman. He's going to have usage in Cleveland. It's just a matter of what that equates to. I would like to get maybe both of your opinions on Will Fuller in Houston. Because right now I have them ranked at the 56 just ahead of, or actually just two spots below Josh Doxon and Washington. So maybe speak about both those guys, your expectations for them. Are they values? Is the usage going to be there?

I think that I'll start with Josh Doxon. I think the value can absolutely be there because he's not currently a starter. That situation could rectify itself, so to speak, in training camp or before the season if they move on from Garsohn or weirdly move on from Deshaun Jackson. If they make a move and Doxon is a starter, his 80 people rise. But I expect him to be a starter before the year is over. And the Washington offense is sneaky.