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

high-powered. I think that they're going to have to throw a lot. I'm still not a huge Matt Jones believer, and Kurt Cousins was one of the most efficient quarterbacks in the league last year. You give him Josh Doxon that you can grab in the later values to watch and see if he earns that role. So that's the value rookie that I'm going to go after.

Yeah, as far as Will Fuller goes, he's one of those that really people are split on because there's a couple guys that really believe in the talent. There's a reason he went so high. He's going to a team with Brock Lesner, Brock Lesner. Brock Osweiler. I was thinking about a strong arm, like a big cannon arm, and then UFC 200 is coming. Brock Lesnar can throw a football 500 yards. Oh, my God. But with Brock Osweiler, who can air out.

New nickname for Brock Othweiler, I guess. But I don't like Fuller for this season. And the reason is he's playing a very niche role. You know, that kind of Deshaun Jackson. That's my question, though. Is he going to play that role or could he surprise people? Because everyone wants to dismiss Will Fuller in the fact that he's going to have low volume, a few deep shots, and that's it. Yeah, and that is how I see him. I think there's other weapons there.

that are already ahead of him. Jalen Strong has looked good in camp. You know, I think he's going to, I think they got the speedy guy to play the speedy guy role. And so I think they're going to put him there for a rookie year and say, go run some nine routes. And every now and then he might catch a bomb for a touchdown and look great, but he's not going to be started on your roster that week anyways. So for me, if this isn't dynasty, if this is just redraft. People forget, and I don't disagree with you. I can't make the argument for Well Fuller's.

full usage in that offense. But people do forget, you remember when DeAndre Hopkins came into the league? That was DeAndre Hopkins. Right. He's going to run down the sideline. You know, he's going to compliment Andre Johnson. And in the first couple of years, I guess that's what you saw. So those guys can become, I guess, well-rounded, wide receivers in time. All right, let's go to at Raylick D. In your opinion, what's the best...

12-team dynasty and or keeper league format that you've ever seen looking to change from a redraft league the best well i'll say this i i think it's great that you're changing from a redraft league just from the perspective of it just is a more year-round engaging experience we do the show year-round because we participate in leagues like this that are you have whether it's a bunch of players in a dynasty you got your whole roster or just a few

The ownership of the team is what makes fantasy football so entertaining. Yeah, all redraft leagues are better as keeper leagues. I'm going to go on record and say that. Small. You know, you do it. Redraft leagues are great, but they're just better as a keeper league. Exactly. And you keep two or three guys. So if you're going to say what is the best format for me, my preference is three guys. I like keeping three. I like the rule.

where you can't keep more than one at each position, just because it kind of ends up with the draft pool being a little bit more even and stops any kind of weird powerhouse going on that trades a season for three absolute beast-wide receivers and then young guys. So I would say that that goes. Between whether or not you decide that those three keepers are essentially your first three picks or whether you keep them.

based on the value of where you drafted them last year, I think that's just to each their own. Both are fun ways. Our league of record is basically, we keep three guys, and that's it. We start to draft what would be, you could argue, as round four. All right, this next one comes in from at FFM Anderson, but I'm going to read it as FF Manderson. Thank you, because that's how I'm reading it. Because it's more entertaining that way.

Manderson. I believe, Andy, it is Fmanerson. It's Fmanderson. A wise man. For each of you, who is in your elite top tier? He's trying to choose his draft spot? So basically, how many guys are in our elite top tier? Oh, across all positions. Yeah. So, four? Yeah, I've got my big four. I've got...

Antonio Brown, Julio Jones, Odo Beckham, and Levi-on-Bel. David Johnson, for me... And Todd Gurley. No. Todd Gurley's... No, that... I only have the four. I'm saying... No, I'm just saying in the next tier. Oh, yeah. I was saying, for me, David Johnson is close, but he just is not in that elite tier. And for me, Gurley is close. Yeah, Gurley is close for me. I've got two kind of... My top four are the three-beast wide receivers and Levi-on-Bel, which, of course, is Julio Jones, Antonio Brown.

and Odell Beckham. And then I still really, I'm really high on Gurley and on AJ Green, so I go kind of six. Yeah, Green is very, he's close for me as well. All right, we're up to at STLP 333 with the question, who is the one running back, quarterback, and wide receiver that you think will one?

Most regret having taken. Oh, so a bust. Two, be pleasantly surprised with. So I'll break out in a bust, basically, right? From each major position. That's, ooh, off the top of your head. This is hardcore time now. And we're giving back to the Foot Clan. We're going to do it. I will say that a player that you may potentially regret drafting is Sammy Watkins. Sure.

So he is my potential bus. Not that I'm predicting that, but you're asking me to pick somebody you could be disappointed in. Running back, I will go Matt Forte, who is going too high, in my opinion, for what I expect to happen out of the New York Chess. Jason can give us a quarterback bus. My quarterback bus is going to be Ben Rathlisberger, and I know people aren't going to like that, but he's going ahead of guys that are...

definitely going to outscore him in fantasy this year, like Drew Bree. Oh, I was just going to say, is Breeze behind him? Yeah, Breeze is behind him. Even guys like Carson Palmer, Ben Rothlisberger has one year in his career throwing over 32. I think he is two. Okay, maybe it is two. You'll vet that, but he has a career high of how many? I know the career high is 32. I received quite a bit of Twitter hate for having Ben Rothersberger at 10.

On my ranking. That's still a B1. And it was like, that's very hatery, I think, was what they said. And I disagree. I think you just look at losing Martavis. Martavis meant seven more points to the Pittsburgh offense last year. Antonio Brown is great and will give Ben Rothersberger a baseline. Yes. But what I don't like about Rothersberger is that there are games where he throws zero one touchdown every once in a while. You are correct, Mike. He has had two. One was a decade ago with 32.

One was two years ago with 32. The thing is, Ben Rothlisberger, he carves up the yards. I'm not denying the fact that he will be among the league leaders in yardage. But he can throw over 401. And they have Levion Bell, who's just an amazing running back. So they don't have to go Jacksonville. Temper. Just temper your expectations with Rothersberger. As far as a breakout candidate.

I'm going to go Tyler Lockett at wide receiver based on his draft value. Draft value. You've heard us talk about him on the show. Somebody have a breakout running back or a quarterback they want to share? Quarterback, I'm going with James Winston. I've loved him all off season, and I've had no reason to change that. Him getting into shape. His second half was a strong improvement over the first half as far as yardage. And you take an elite stud, like Mike Evans, who scored three touchdowns, three receiving.

touchdowns and that has to go up. There's just no possible way that Evans has held the three or lower again. So I love Winston moving forward. For breakout running backs, there seems to be the same group of like four guys that you don't really like who all have a fourth round guys. Yeah, you've got the Jeremy Langford's, the Matt Jones, you know, those guys, Carlos Hyde. If I had to pick one of those that I actually think will do it,

I would pick Jeremy Langford. I believe that he is the guy that we saw last year when Forte went out. Look, he didn't put up great, you know, efficiency running back numbers, and yet he still put up a ton of fantasy numbers. They go out and they draft Jordan Howard and everyone's scared, but John Fox does not play rookie running backs that much, you know, barring necessity and an injury in front of him. So I believe...

in Langford, but I'm not happy to believe in Langford? I would say if the Langford owner has to be scared of anybody, it's Kadim Carey. As weird as that sounds. So maybe you hear that, you go, well, then I'm not scared at all. But if anyone's going to steal work and steal touchdowns, it's going to end up being Kadim Carrey. All right, I just found another question here from at Andy Holloway. At Andy Holloway is a question for Jason. Now that July is nearly upon us, when do you begin to put in your...

Oreo orders for all the drafts that are coming up. Are you double stuffing it again? Oh yeah. Oh yeah. For sure. I'm going to bring a double stuff package of Oreos. Do you bring a duffle bag? Is that more of a duffle? Well, the duffle bag is like a duffle stuff? Duffle stuff. A duffle stuff. I like it. No, I will bring a double stuff Oreos to each and every draft. I got to find like a portable refrigerator I can bring some milk with.

and just really dunk it on you guys. Like, every time I make a pick, like... Just a small diversion. What is the best way to, like, transport milk? I mean, do people... Is a thermos a place that you could bring milk in? Seems gross to me. Right, because it seems like it should be for soup. Yeah, I don't know. It's warm. But, I mean, how do you bring milk? Like, you want to pack milk away because you want to... I think you need to put it in, like, ice. Like dried ice? No, like... Is your duffel bag complete with dry ice? You get a cooler. You get a cooler. Like going to Halloween.

You're going camping. You fill the cooler up with ice. You put a gallon of milk in there. That reminds me of the time that I thought that I was filling my coffee with some creamer. I had a camping trip. And I had poured in a raw egg from a milk container. What? They brought a milk container and they put raw eggs in it so that they could just pour them on the griddle and cook eggs. I saw it on the side. I'm like, oh, I'm going to go get my... It was cold. Wait. It was cold. How long did they have the eggs in there?

I don't know. It was in their freezer. It was in the thing like Jason said. It was in a freezer. I go over. I'm like, I'm going to put some creamer. I felt the container of milk. And I'm like, this is ice cold. This is healthy, good milk. I poured in an egg. So how is the coffee? Well, not as good. Not as good. All right. Let's move on. I just want the double stuffed Oreos to continue this year because I want those people that are foot clan followers to show up at their draft and there'll be two people with the Oreos. So, all right. This one comes in from at.

Steve O. Middleton. Steve O. Middleton. Steve O. Middleton. Steve O. Middleton. It's hard to say. Going to be setting up a fab system for the first time. What's the best budget amount to use in the waiver schedule? Without a doubt.

Do $100. $100 is the best. Without a doubt. That's a really strong opinion. Yes. Hot take. Hot take. The reason why is because when you listen to the fantasy footballers through the year to win your hashtag Foot Clan title, every time we are throwing out an amount, it will be in the $100 range. Every time that you go look on a website and find what they would recommend, it's going to be in the $100 range.

Anytime you want to do math and say what percentage of my budget, it's just so easy because it's whatever number it is, that's the percent. I don't see any reason at all to ever set up a free agent acquisition budget. One million dollars. Yeah, I mean, like you could do that, right? You could say, I'm going to do $500, but it doesn't make a difference. It's all proportion. Everybody has the same amount. So go in with easy math. That's a pretty compelling argument from Duffel stuff.

As far as the best waiver schedule, there are a couple different ways that people do it. Sometimes after the fab goes through on Tuesday morning, generally, you can have open waivers. I think we do Wednesday. I'm sorry, Wednesday, right? Yeah, you've got to turn Tuesdays off. Yeah, yeah, because basically what happens is the Monday night games finish. You've got one day for people to set their bids on Tuesday, and then Wednesday morning they go through. What we do in our league is we have it run every morning then.

We have it run every single morning. It's exciting because every day you don't know who's grabbing who. Other leagues opened up after the fab period to just open waivers for the rest of the week. At Jason Adams. One other supremely important thing. You must have zero dollar bids on a fab system. Otherwise at the end of the year, you're going to hate the fab system. All right. There you go. At Jason Adams underscore 15. If you had to take somebody in the first round who is currently being drafted in the second or third round, who would it be? I really like that question. Oh, what a great question. I do.