Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Questions and Answers, Latest News

Yeah, I mean, we have to monitor it, but I think right now it's not just a hope. I think it's an assumption that he is ready week one. The timetable says he should be. So, yeah, I mean, you could call it hope, but as of right now, he should be ready week one. I wouldn't expect them to come out and necessarily give other teams the inside look into his health. So a lot of what we do, though, as fantasy owners, in draft preparation, is we compare players with...

Different risks. Yeah, for sure. Risk versus reward on every draft pick. And so this is one in the bad category for Levy on Bell. High reward, a little bit of risk here. More risk than some other guys. More risk than you want when you're drafted at number one or number two. There are people that are going to come and say the safety of an Adrian Peterson is better than the upside of Levy on Bell. Absolutely. And I wouldn't even blame it. And I saw Lev Bell on one, a friend of ours.

his top 10 had Love Belt 9, which is the lowest that I had seen him. So it's interesting how we will evaluate that going forward. Last bit of news, the Chicago Tribune is reporting that there's no way that the Bears let Al Sean Jeffrey hit the market, whether it's by franchise tag or resigning. Just an affirmation of kind of what we thought. You kind of knew that. Last week when they were saying, oh, there's a chance he could hit the market. That's when teams are just trying to, you know, that's his agent trying to drum up, you know, interest in saying,

Give me the money. All right. So are you ready, Jason? Oh, man. I was practicing in the shower this morning about this drop. I can't do it. Mailbag. That's the best I can do. I'm no Mike. You, no, you're not, but we appreciate the effort because I'm sure as heck not going to do it. Brandon in Syracuse has a question for us. He said, hey, guys, starting to think about his 2016 keepers, here's the players in the round that he would keep them in. Lev Bell for a first.

Eric Decker for a sixth, Jarvis Landry for a 15th, Dionne Lewis for a 16th, David Johnson for a 16th, and yes, he was singing. You can do that one, right? David Johnson! All right, just making sure. Jordan Reed for a 16. Wonder, if you're wondering why if three guys is a 16th rounder, my league takes waiver guys for the last pick. And on that note, I will give my obligatory...

Oh, yeah, because you don't like that. I am super anti that. Yeah, because you don't like rewarding people for being smart. I think they were rewarded by picking them up and having them play great, and they weren't rewarded for drafting them. And so when you come to draft season, you're not actually rewarding being smart enough to draft them. So here's the question. How many keepers does he need? That is a great question. We don't know because he doesn't tell us. So let's rank the top three. That's... David Johnson is number one for a 16th rounder. Do you agree with that? I completely agree with it. All right. I will say...

I would go, man, I'd leave all the wide receivers on the board, and I would take David Johnson, Dionne Lewis, and Lois. Would you take Jordan Reed over Lev Bell? I would, over Levy on Bell. If you already had David Johnson and Dionne Lewis at Running Back? You know, that's not a bad idea. Dionne Lewis, David Johnson, and Jordan Reed. And you give up nothing. And I would give up nothing. I would have my first. But that's not what I would do. I don't blame. That would be my second choice. I would actually prefer to keep Levy on Bell have.

You know, a great high-in, you know, maybe the best player in the league. Oh, and go David Johnson, Jordan Reed? David Johnson, and I would actually go Jarvis Landry. For the 15th. In the 15th. It's pretty much the same. No, I kind of looked over him and I shouldn't have. That's basically a free wide receiver 1-2 type of guy. All right, Nate D. in Bloomington, Illinois. I can keep one player, Alan Robinson in the 7th, Jordan Reed in the 15th, or Jeremy Langford in the 15th. Thank you. Love the podcast. So this is the debate of...

Upside of Langford, in my opinion, in the 15th versus the kind of, you know, seventh round value for Alan Robinson is pretty darn nice. That is very nice. He's going as high as the first round, no lower than the top of the second right now, which we've said on this show is too high for Alan Robinson, but you give him to me in the seventh, and I'm all about it. I will take Alan Robinson in the seventh here. I agree. I think he is safer than Langford. You already know what he can do in that role.

there's a lot of hope there. I mean, he could come out and be one of the best running backs next year, but we haven't really seen him in that role. We don't know what they're doing with adding running backs through the draft through free agency. Exactly. And I, you know, if Alan Robinson was sitting here for a two, I would think completely different about it. I agree. So, I mean, how do you see, do you think, Langford will step into that role? We saw actually today the Seahawks come out and say, hey, they're not handing the job to Rawls.

They're not going to give him that starting job. They're going to bring in guys to compete with him. Yeah, as they should. That could be the exact same attitude that Chicago takes. As Chicago should, right? Right. You wouldn't, you would be doing your team. Well, as opposed to Arizona, who has said David Johnson gets the keys to the castle. Kind of. But they also, we know that they're going to bring in another guy like Chris Johnson to spell him or through the draft or through free agency. But that's different than saying he's going to have to earn his starting job. Well, David Johnson earned his starting job. Jeremy Langford and.

You could argue Thomas Rawls did. Rawls had more contributing games than David Johnson did. They both had the same amount of starts. And I would say without their starts, David Johnson contributed more. So I disagree. But, I mean, I don't blame them for doing that. There are big question marks with some of these so-called first-round running backs. All this sophomore class, I feel like this first round of running backs, and we'll talk about this in the show after the show.

It's just a bunch of sophomore running backs who have so much sexiness and so much risk. And we're just completely overlooking the risk because they're shiny and new and huge upside. Well, the thing people need to realize is Jeremy Langford looks like the guy who's going to take the job, right? Yeah. And Melvin Gordon's coming off a year where he just made you frustrated. But there's no real reason in my mind that Melvin Gordon should be less hyped.

than Jeremy Langford. Right. At this point in time. Which provides a value then to Gordon, who's going much later in drafts. Exactly. So the safety of an Alan Robinson 22 years old in this situation, I can't see myself in any league format taking Langford over him right now. If you knew, you know, we're a week from the start of the season and Langford's going to, you know, it's just Khadim Carrey behind him. It doesn't give me a lot of fear. Right. So Grimm in Tampa. He sounds angry.

Florida. Grim? Yeah. Sounds a little grim. He does. He can keep three. Can keep him forever. Ooh. No pick penalties. Keepers locked in as the first three rounds. Jamal Charles, Aaron Rogers, Keenan Allen, Dionne Lewis, Devante Parker, and Melvin Gordon. This is a really tough one. Does the keep forever do anything for you? Not really. I mean, you could maybe say that there's more value for.

a quarterback or a wide receiver over a running back. But I, you know, we play one of, our league of record is essentially that way to a point. And I never factored in. And that's what I was going to bring up philosophically is that I think that players who over-emphasize rules like that destroy their teams. Yes. Because here's the thing. You can trade players, okay? You're not, nobody, unless your league is just dead. I mean, if you're in any type of a good league with this type of a rule,

You can trade players. Take the guys that are going to win you this year or next year. Don't take a guy just because it's a keep forever rule. Right. Like Devante Parker here.

I can't pick Devante Parker here. No way. No way can you pick. But when you hear Keep Forever, oh, he's 21 or whatever he is and he's going to be a superstar so then I can have the superstar for 10 years. You want to know the problem with taking Devante Parker here is you've committed to that mindset, which means next year you're committing to that mindset. Oh, yeah, then you're buried. And every year. Okay, so by the time Devonte Parker is great and he's a top guy, the rest of your team still sucks because you're taking guys who are going to be great three years from now. Or he's never great, and then you've...

You've taken three years of investment and you feel stuck. Take the best guys. So in this, who are the three best guys? I think to me. Jamal Charles. Jamal Charles. Keenan Allen. Yes. And then the third one's a tough decision. Between, are you saying Lewis, Rogers? I think between Lewis and Gordon to me. I would rather have. I actually lean Gordon. Really? Well, you know what? You're like the Dionne Lewis guy.

Yeah, pairing him with Keenan Allen here doing two chargers doesn't make me happy. So I would go Charles Allen and Lewis. I'm going to go Charles Allen and I'm going to shock you here and go Aaron Rogers. Really? I am because I think Aaron Rogers in the third round is enough of a value. He's not in the third. You might as well say he's in the first. All right. I mean, I see what you're saying, but you've got three players. I think Kenan Allen's your second round pick. Yeah. You're fine with that.

More than Dionne Lewis. So Lewis in the third, you're taking Aaron Rogers in the third over Dionne Lewis and the third. That's the point. No way. I think you got undone. I got undone there. You were undone. No way if Dionne Lewis is there and Aaron Rogers is there. Charles Allen Lewis. There you go. We're in agreement. All right. Jim in Ma. That's short for Massachusetts. Yeah. We're educated here. I have the number one pick in a dynasty league. What wide receiver? Could I get back in a trade for it?

And what kind of player could I send with it to get Hopkins? Also, is it better to trade now or after the draft? These are our least favorite questions in a way. Well, they're just so open. Part of that question is good. But when you say something to us, just public service announcement for questions, we love your questions. We answer them on Twitter at the FF Ballers. We answer them on YouTube. We answer them on the website, submit a question. We love your questions. But...

We don't know the ins and outs of every team in your league. And so an open-ended question that says, what wide receiver could I get back for? Well, I don't know. That's my answer to that question. The truth is, we don't know. We can give you ballpark guesses. I love the second part of his question, though. Is it better to trade now or after the draft? And the truth is, it's always going to be better to trade after the draft.

because that's when guys start getting publicity. That's when everybody is being talked about more. The guy that gets drafted by Team X who looks like the best position. I mean, every year there's somebody who is in a position. They're drafted and they look like they're going to be the Belcow running back or they're going to be, you know, they went to a good quarterback team as one of the top wide receivers, something like that. And that gives that number one pick more value.

Right now, there's just so many question marks. I will agree with you, mostly because of a situation that always happens in the draft where, you know, the Falcons trade all their picks to get Julio Jones and you understand at that point the investment they make on a certain player. Right. And I think that weighs it. I think that there are times, you know, where you can take advantage of hype when a certain player's coming out and they're just the bar, you know, bar none number one type of guy.

I think it can be irrelevant at that point, but I agree with you for the most part. In terms of Hopkins, what could you trade for it to get Hopkins? With that number one pick? What caliber wide receiver do you need to pair with the number one pick in a Dynasty League draft to get Hopkins? Well, your point, your goal here is to win a trade, not to necessarily figure out even value. Yeah. So, I mean, I wouldn't do a whole lot there.

I'm not going to send another one in my number one. So, I mean, maybe somebody in the Eric Decker category. I'd send Eric Decker in the number one dynasty. Or like a Larry Fitzgerald, you know, it doesn't have as much value in a dynasty. Yeah, look for somebody in that. I wouldn't do a lot for that. No. So let's move on here to John in Chicago. He says, hey, guys, love the show. I was wondering if you could go over draft tiers for players and come up with your own.

that we could use for our drafts. Absolutely. Can't wait to listen to on Tuesday and Thursday. Can't wait to get back to five days a week. And he ends the question with hashtag Foot Clan title. So congratulations, John, on your title. Yes. We love bringing people championships. So will we go over draft tiers for players? Yes, I will explain tiers now. We don't have our tiers made yet.

Because we don't really go in depth on our rankings until after the NFL draft and a little bit of free agency. It would just be foolish. We would blow everything up again. But the way that draft tiers, which we will be getting to in specific, are going to work, is essentially you take the guys that you think are, like, let's look at tight ends. Tight ends to me are the easiest. Tight ends are quarterbacks. They're really easy to see. You look and you go, okay, you got one tier in Grong.

He is the clear-cut number one tight end. He is by himself. Now, some people are maybe squeezing Jordan Reed into that category, you know. That's up to you when you determine your tears. Right, when you determine your tiers. For me, I would be like, Gronk is his own tier. Then in that next tier, there's those. Jordan Reed, Greg Olson. Greg Olson, Jordan Reed. Those two are for sure there. Maybe I would put a Travis Kelsey or a Tyler Eifert near there.