Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - AFC North Breakdown, News, Mailbag

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You get to start the show? No, it's a delay. I was pausing a little longer, and you couldn't handle it. The mic? No, it got really awkward. An extra two seconds. You got that exact moment when you think I'm going to come in. I'm hyped. Hold on. Welcome to the show. Welcome to the fantasy footballers podcast. Woo! See? The delay was worth it. We got a celebratory cheer from Jason Moore. Anticipation makes the heart grow fonder. I was very fond. Oh, that's absence. Really?

Yeah, I think so. Yeah, that's absence. Yep. Mm-hmm. Mike, how you doing? I'm doing well. It's Tuesday, June 23rd. We are the fantasy footballers, and this is the fantasy footballers podcast. Welcome to the show. We've got a good one for you today. We are almost to July. Oh, you know what that means? There will actually be football in the season, right? Yes. Okay, good. Yes, I'm having a hard time waiting.

I feel like I read 12 Sundays somewhere. Really? Yeah. That's it? That's what I had read. That's not bad. No, I feel like that. Because you're going to, until the regular season or the preseason? Yeah. Oh, okay. So really, that just means eight Sundays until we're, or seven, if you count the Hall of Fame game. We could do the math, but I don't want to do that. Yeah, I guess it's very easy. But that means drafts are coming? It's exciting. Quick question for the day.

Fantasy teams are going to miss the playoffs this year because of... Hmm. Okay. Who do you have an answer? A player or are you saying like a stupid strategy? No, I think you... You can go any direction you want. It's the quick question of the day. You can do whatever you want to do with it. I left it blank. My answer to this question was a player. Then I'll go player. Okay. I'm going to go Tom Brady.

All right? Yeah, I like that one. Yeah, it's a little late in the draft, and normally those don't completely throw off your draft, but you've got to take two picks. So now I just feel like you're throwing away. And, to be quite frank, I think he's a middle-of-the-pack quarterback that you're reaching for in the seventh and then having to draft another guy. I just don't think it's going to help anybody's team. I had a guy on Twitter send me a question yesterday that said, when do you draft Tom Brady and when do you draft his?

another quarterback after him. And I said, well, I don't draft Tom Brady. He's off my board. I completely agree. Because it's a waste. Yeah, we talk so much about the value of your picks and about making sure that in those middle rounds, you grab somebody valuable versus, you know, filling, you know, that tight end spot you might need. But then people throw that out the window and...

throw a pick out the window by drafting Tom Brady because he's so dreamy and so handsome, and he's a Hall of Famer. But that doesn't help your fantasy team this year. No, that's a good one. That's a good one. Fantasy teams are going to miss the playoffs this year because of Jimmy Grimm. I thought about him, actually. When I was thinking about names, he's not mine, but... Just because of where you have to take him and where people are going to want to take him at the end of the second, beginning of the third, I just...

Now, we're not saying Jimmy Graham's going to be bad. No, not at all, but we're saying you're over, you might have to overpay. You're going to, you're going to overpay. I don't think he's going to cost you. He won't return the value of that draft position. I just don't think the volume is there. The touchdowns will be there, but then you're just like almost the rest of the pack of tight ends who are going to get a handful of touchdowns. That's a good one. I have Carlos Hyde.

I think fantasy teams are going to miss the playoffs here because of Carlos. Hyde has a lot to do with what you just said about Jimmy Graham. The value... Where's he going? Jason, you got it up. Yeah, you've got the ADP up. Of where you have to take him with the production, I actually think he'll give you. Beginning of the fourth round. That's not too bad. That's not too bad. But still, I think that...

If you're expecting RB1 numbers from Hyde, you might be disappointed. Reggie Bush is there. Kendall Hunter is back. The offense is changing. The defense is changing. He's a strict two-down back pretty much. And he only ran for under four a carry last year. So I have some concerns with him. And so I see the hype train. Certain circles have Carlos Hyde being dominant. And I am not in that circle. Who do you think is going to get drafted first? Once draft season goes, because I'm sure the ADP doesn't reflect this right now.

Joseph Randall or Carlos Hyde. It's crazy. That's the name I was thinking of is, is Randall, right now he's in the fifth somewhere. And I even heard on a show today, someone go, oh, that's too early for Joseph Randall. I said, what are you thinking? Yeah, I don't know. You see Ryan Williams? Ryan Williams might be gone. Yeah, I did see that. He still got Darren McFadden to worry about there, and obviously we don't think Randall's getting DeMarco carries. But yeah, I would.

You were saying who will be drafted first by the time drafts come around? I think it's Hyde. I think Hyde will be drafted first because Randall's going to come up in the ADP list, but he's not going to – I don't think he's going to pass a guy like that who everyone thinks is going to be a battle cow. Yeah, and, you know, I'm not saying I can't be wrong about Hyde, but that's the name I picked out. It's possible. So today we've got a good show. We've got the AFC North in our divisional breakdown. We've covered – we've covered the West.

The AFC and NFC West on last week's shows. So if you didn't listen to those, you can do so on iTunes. You can also go to the website, The Fantasy Footballers.com and listen to them there. If you are listening to us on iTunes, we always appreciate a review. If you like the show, if you like what we're doing each and every week, you can go on there, subscribe, give us a review, and we like to read a review on every show. So let's go ahead and do that. Yeah.

Review Osaurus Rags. All right. This one comes in from Bentonville Rock. He says, best fantasy football podcast out there. When everyone else is taking a break from doing podcasts, you guys are still throwing it out at least two times a week. The fantasy information and advice you provide is second to none. Keep up the good work.

And double-stuff Oreos have nothing on Smoors Oreos. Sir, you are wrong. I had an idea. Thanks for the review, though. Yeah. Thanks for the five-star review. I review your review with incorrect Oreo knowledge. What do you rate his review? I rank his review a four-and-a-half star. Okay. Because all reviews are at least a four-star. Well, he had great content other than that. In an upcoming show, I want to run this experiment.

I'm going to get the three plain Oreos. I'm going to get the regular, the double, and the mega. And we are going to have a blind taste test. It's going to be obvious. And we are, yeah, but that's all right. I have to be blind. Just be. Okay. This show is going to take a long. I'm just going to constantly be like, I need another. I'm not sure. So we can settle this on air because the people want to know. I think that one will ring the unanimous bell.

Just from predicting it now. If each of us, I'm the normal Oreo, you're the mega, Mike. No, I'm the double. No, he's the double. Well, I'm the double. He is double stuff, but I announced that the mega stuff was too much for me. And Jason wanted to say, hey, I want to test it. This is a confusing world. The problem, I mean, smores Oreos, the problem with these variants is that they're really good for like a week or two when you eat them. And then you just get tired of them. But there's a reason there's a classic. Mm-hmm. Although people would say, well, the double stuff's not classic, but I'd say you're an idiot.

So I'm, you know, I'm sorry, listeners. There's a lot of people that like regular Oreos. I love regular Oreos. If you want to share your opinions with Jason directly on all things Oreo or food related, you can do so at Jason FFL. You can also follow the show at the FF Ballers if you want to talk football and stuff like that. You can follow me at Andy Holloway, Mike, at FF Hitman. You can find us on Facebook. Facebook.com slash the fantasy footballers.

And if you have a question for us, we are getting indundated with questions. And I almost said that word correctly. Almost. I tried really hard. We have a lot of questions. I feel bad that we can't fit them all onto every show. We're going to have to start throwing out more Saturday mailbag shows. I'm just throwing that out there. Pressure is on. People liked it. We had that special Saturday show. I think he just volunteered for a solo. Isn't that your massage day, Mike? Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I don't skip massage day. I'm sorry, man. You got the man bun going on today. Yeah, it's full up, fully proper. Not bad. It's summer, man. It's hot. We're going to get our YouTube videos coming back soon, right guys? Yep. I'm throwing all sorts of things out of here. Everything we've talked about is getting brought up. This is good. Public, it's happening. Let's talk about football. Let's do it. Let's get some news and notes from around the league. Dang it. I just said the segment name. News and notes from around the league. Yeah.

Mid-season form. That sucked. All right. Speaking of sucking, Sean Green has been cut by the Titans. Everyone's fantasy darling. Oh, no, wait. Everyone's stuck in the mud running back. Sean Green is no longer a Tennessee Titan, which means he can no longer bring very, very, very minimal fantasy value to your team. What does this mean for David Cobb, Bishop Sanky? It means more touchdown opportunities for someone.

more carries to go around, more value to those other guys, and the more that I have thought about this since the Sean Green cutting, the more that I'm actually confident that I will not in any draft take either of these running backs. I really started thinking about it with Ken Wisenhunt, with how he has used early running backs in their careers before. I think that both of those guys are going to really frustrate teams and have a good game here, a bad game there, and not be worth

having on a roster. What about Antonio Andrews? Yeah, I saw that. Just another name to make you do what Jason's doing with the offense. Yeah, Antonio Andrews is a second year guy, right? Yeah, he was a practice squad guy. Is that correct? Yeah, but he's fighting for that big back role, the Sean Green roll. Was he down to like 10% muscle? To me, it's a situation that we do need to monitor because I think that David Cobb or...

I'm not going to buy into this Andrew's nonsense. Yeah, Sanky's going to have a role of some sort. He will, but I might fly on David Cobb late. I was going to say that. If there was anything I'd do, I'd fly on David Cobb late because he was a high enough draft pick to, you know, take a shot.

That's a shot you want. Eagles expected to keep Jordan Matthews in the slot. We talked a lot about Jordan Matthews this offseason. We talked a lot about the possibility of him moving outside and being used a little bit more in the Jeremy McLan roll. And it looks like that's not going to happen. Either of you guys throwing a little shade on him. Not at all. Yeah. Really? Not at all. I'm the only one of this group that is not.

All about Jordan Matthews. No, when we talked about him a long time ago, I mean, early offseason, when it was, you know, when we were months away from the draft, he was my number one breakout guy. And at that point in time, I fully expected him to stay in the slot. They loved him in the slot. They see him as a mismatch in the slot. So the numbers that I ranked him on were him being in the slot. His...