Fantasy Football 2018 - Free Agent Predictions & Combine Reactions

doing the giveaway for Todd Gurley and Love Bell signed jerseys at Footclan giveaway.com. Get in there. Yeah, it's easy. Footclane giveaway.com. All right, let's get into the rest of the news. News and notes from around the league. Now, Mike, you really want me to use this drop because you made it like two years ago. Yes. Thank you. What's my age again? All right. We had a bit of an age controversy on the show the other day because Cameron Artis Payne. We were bringing him up. Mike, uh, he, uh, he,

Do the first correction. The first correction, I was talking about Cameron Artis Pain, or Jason was, and I mentioned why he's a free agent. We'll see if they bring him back. I was reading it incorrectly. He is on the team for another year. He's a Carolina Panther. That is not the only thing that is incorrect about Cameron Artis Pain. We found two ages for Cameron Artis Payne. We found that he was 25 or he was 27. And of course we concluded that he was 25 because that would not make sense.

based on the year he was drafted for him to be 27 already. But we're wrong. He is 27. He is 27 years old. The official Panthers website has him listed. Apparently there was some kind of a story about he was. He admitted it after his draft. He tried to hide his age because. Smart man. His age, like Jason said, it didn't make sense for the year he was being drafted. I am also entering a local college here as a 19-year-old freshman.

And I'm going to live out my dreams, guys. You do that. Players should really do that more often. So Cameron Artis Payne is 27. There you go. But he's not a free agent. No. No. He has some potential. He's a sleeper candidate in Carolina. Yeah, it's just a matter of, you know, wait and see if Carolina brings in another running back drafts, another running back. Or if they go forward with the team they have, which would include Cameron Artis Payne being very involved.

Ian Rappaport reports that despite the early optimism about Love Bell signing a long-term deal, they're expected to franchise tagging. Yep. Which is fine. I know I saw some people on Twitter worried still about the fact that he said he'll sit out the year, but he retracted that. He will play on the franchise tag. Probably won't sign it for a while. I'm going to skip.

The Matt Miller news about Kirk Cousins. I'm going to tease it, and we're going to talk about it in the free agency segment. Oh. There's some talk about Kirk Cousins. I figure we bring it up there. Makes more sense. C.J. Fedorowitz, Texans tied in, plans to attend off-season workouts. He's dealt with multiple concussions. They thought he might retire. He had a brief moment in the sun in terms of fantasy, but we just hope he's okay.

Roster Watch is tweeting that Alan Robinson will not be franchised. I was going to say, do we want to hold this? I'm going to hold that too. Again, I want to remind people, this is the time of speculation. This is when things are great. It is March 6th. You want to get nuts? And things are crazy. And so I want to caution you some of these reports until the... Look, we saw this with Frank Gore. The fog of war is everywhere. Until the pin is on the paper, until it's signed and reported.

Some of these things are going to change. Frank Gore was going to be a Philadelphia Eagle two years ago, and he wasn't. And so I'm just warning you. There are a lot of rumors going around, and they're fun. They're exciting. We want to hear about them. But, yeah, we'll get into Alan Robinson here shortly as well. There's a report that the Eagles have already been offered a second round pick for Nick Foles, and a report said that they are very confident that Carson Wins will be available and ready to start the season. So there was also another.

Further report that the Eagles are asking for more than a first for Nick Fulis. It's a difficult, if you're, okay, if you're the Philadelphia general manager, you just want a Super Bowl, Nick Foles. He's great insurance, Wins coming off an injury. There's like two completely different ways to think about that. There's the, we have the best backup situation in a league where look at last year how many backups were necessary needed and won you a Super Bowl and knows the system and loves Doug Peterson and all this. And then there's the,

Do you cash in? Do you cash in and get some picks? Going to say, back up quarterback. The other situation is Philadelphia, while they have kind of their key pieces locked up, their cap situation is very tight. You can add to the farm of cheap players if you get a second round pick. You just get another shot at a long-term player for your team. And that'll have a lot to do with how comfortable they are with the rest of their quarterback deck chart.

and so on. So I'm not going to get into any other news. I want us to jump into the free agency segment. You guys have anything else you want to talk about? Are you good? I'm good. Jason, you got anything you got to get off your chest? In free agency, yeah. Free agent frenzy. We are not looking to franchise or long-term deal, Jason. We're going to ride this out. We're going to see if he is willing to work without pay.

And just go from there. We'll give them the one-year veteran minimum. There you go. I'll prove it deal. I'll prove it. You've proven it already, Jason. I'll prove it all over the place. Okay. Wide receivers. Let's start at the wide receiver position. We're going to hit the highlights. There's obviously a ton of free agent wide receivers. We're going to hit the big names and just give you our predictions why we think they might land where we think they're going to land. And let's start with Jarvis Landry, who has now been tagged.

and has signed his tag for Miami. This does not mean he's not leaving. And so let's start out this one with a staying or going. I think he still leaves. And I think Baltimore or Chicago are both destinations that I think he's going to end up in one of those two places via trade. I believe he will be traded as well. I don't know the spot yet. I could see the 49ers entering into the situation too. But I don't think he'll be a dolphin next year. Mike?

I'm going to go with he ends up being a dolphin. Okay. They're not able to find a place, find a location that Jarvis wants to sign and he'll just say fine. I'll play one year under the franchise tag and then I'll be a free agent and I'll get to sign my own contract. Yeah. Yeah, definitely could happen. Let's circle back to Alan Robinson. Yeah. There was a report.

a tweet with an unnamed source that he won't be franchised. And this is from that they're going to keep Marquis Lee. Right. Who we thought for sure was leaving. This is from Ross or Watch, which shout out to the trash man. What's up, buddy? And the reason why this is interesting because it, look, it's an unnamed source. We don't know what's happening. But then shortly after Alan Robinson, first of all, he liked the tweet, which is strange.

And then he tweeted, he vague tweeted, you reap what you sow. There's some more vague tweeting going on from Alan Robinson. The team has not yet franchised him, at least as of this recording. And I'm, I'm kind of buying it. That there's something weird going on.

with Jacksonville and Alan Robinson. And my projection for Alan Robinson, if he does, in fact, hit free agency, this is a stone cold lock of the week. He will be in San Francisco. Really? They will throw a boat ton of money at him. And he's fantastic. The fit is there. The cap is there. The need is there. Interesting. I can definitely see San Francisco. If he is, I expect him to be franchised.

or a long-term deal reached, and he stays there. It could explode by the time you hear this. Look, Doug, yeah, I know. The franchise tag deadline is basically today, March 6th, at 4 p.m. Eastern or something. And we recorded the show the day before right now. So something could happen. Tomorrow. If he is not kept. Now, Doug Marone, as a counterpoint, he's come out and said, look, we want to keep Ellen Robinson here. We're discussing things with his agent. We want him to be here.

If he doesn't go there, I expect Baltimore to be his home. Okay. I expect him to be the new number one in Baltimore, who is completely revamping the entire wide receiver core. Yeah, I would agree with that. Baltimore... They have nobody. They have... They have Brashad Perrin. Right. That's literally who they have. Well, technically, Macklin is still on the team, but he's expected to be a cap casual. Yeah, and then Mike Wallace is a free agent. So, Jason, do you expect Alan Robinson back in Jacksonville? Right now, I do. I think he will be back.

as a jag. If he is not, I would throw Chicago out there, the place where currently I am projecting for his teammate Marquis Lee to land. Chicago is going to need to improve its wide receiver position. They've tried and failed over the last several years with Kevin White and Marcus Wheaton. Kendall Wright. How'd that work. So they're going to need a more proven commodity. I saw a very nice tweet.

a very nice picture of Kevin White looking. Oh, he's looking shredded. He's, I mean, that's never, Josh Gordon impression. That has never been a problem for Kevin White. Right. This is an athletic family. His brother was in this, this year's combine. We've got to see that. He's a beast. He just never played football. We'll talk about Marquis Lee. I'm with you on Chicago with Mark East Lee. But I'm going to hit the pause button right now because support for today's show comes from Squarespace and we want to thank Squarespace.

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Perfect compliment piece there, in my opinion, to, I think they'll bring in a few names. Sure. And Mark East Lee, we've got them going to the Bears. Mike, if you buy in on Alan Robinson leaving. I've got, funny enough, we have the complete inverse here because I'm, I'm listening to the bushes and the whispers of the Jags keeping Markey's Lee. So I've got him staying there. All right. Well, let's turn it over to 24, 24 year old Sammy Watkins.

All that potential and up and down production, low volume, high touchdown, first year in Los Angeles, weeks without production, confused. A lot of fantasy owners. I flipped him. I literally flipped him at the best possible time. I got lucky to go grab DeAndre Hopkins when Watkins had a big week. Nonsense. Does he stay in Los Angeles? What do you expect to happen with Sammy?