Fantasy Football Podcast for 2015 - Free Agent Quarterbacks / Tight Ends and Fantasy News

Combine Warrior, which it is what is, but I like to see high combine numbers. Yeah. So if Niles Paul leaves, Jordan Reed, I mean, regardless, Jordan Reed starts there. What's Jordan Reed this year? If you, I mean, are we supposed to, you can't take injury out of it with a guy like that, so. No, you can't. It, um. He's a world of potential. Everyone will, it's like drafting Jordan Reed versus drafting Jermaine Gresham.

It's such an opposite feeling. Like, Jordan Reed is the, like... He's exciting. You're happy about it. It's a delicious treat that leaves you sad later. I have no problem. I have no problem grabbing Jordan Reed late. Whether it's Gresham or Reed, I'm drafting to stream. I'm probably changing my tight-in through the year. So, so what if he gets injured? When he plays, he's going to be in, and if he's healthy week one, grab him. He's a great grab late. The problem with Reed is he's going to be a guy that you want to hold on to.

on your roster. And you make bad decisions because you're like, he's so talented. I don't want to drop him. Someone else is going to grab him. Drop him. I can't believe this next guy is on the list. How much are we going to talk about Rob House? We're barely going to talk about him, but he's on the list because I actually think he fits the potential signing of the Patriots. I think New England could draft a guy like him as a move tied in. It's hard to draft the guy when he's already in the NFL. He can't. Did I say draft?

Yeah, but it's okay. I forgive you. The listeners don't, but I forgive you. Wow. Yeah. He's going to reenter the draft, and he's an eighth-round pick for him. So you like him to go to New Englandless to be a non-murderous, Aaron Hernandez? Right. I just think he has that. He's not a pass, I mean, he's not a blocker. No. So he just runs routes all day long and probably gets on Belichick's nerves and gets cut in a couple weeks. He got on my nerves when he was in Phoenix. He's a bum. I mean, he's a bum.

Maybe I'm, you know, scarred by his bumness in Arizona. He'll take a screen pass and go 8 to 10 yards. I think the where, how we feel about him in his bumness is because his potential was really high. I think it's because we ran a 4-4? It's something. It was really quick. I think it's because we thought his potential was really high. It's because he ran a 4-4. That's all it was. It's just because he was fast. He was just because he's fast. Yeah, he's fast and big.

You don't often get both of those. The opposite of Rob Hausler is probably the next guy. Oh, this is my man. Virgil Green. This is my man. Elway loves him. Elway calls him The Rock. I thought an interesting stat was that there were one in three without him when he got injured last year. That actually is a very interesting stat. 8 and 0 before he went out, 1 in 3 when he was out. I wonder how that lined up with Peyton Manning's legs. Just curious.

Yeah, I don't think that was quite that same area. But, oh, you mean him getting hurt? Yeah, I'm saying the game team missed was Peyton also injured because maybe Peyton's more important to the offense than Virgil. I don't think Peyton was hurt until double-digit weeks. Yeah. When was Virgil out? Yeah. He was out right after we get. And he, plus, I mean, he could have been the reason Peyton got hurt if he's a leading blocker. True. It was a blocker.

I don't like Virgil Green anymore as a potential sleeper. Oh, you're off that? Yeah, because I think they will sign and bring another guy in, and they'll use, I mean, it'll be the Tammy situation where you got a guy here, a guy there, and if Virgil Green has to be into block and they want the run game to protect Peyton, I just think you cap him out. I mean, he's just capped out on potential. He's not, I mean, maybe he's a guy who gets like six touchdowns because they, you know, decide to run him in the red zone.

I don't know. What are your thoughts? I still like him as a sleeper, but he's one of those, the sleepers where things have to fall into place before I get really excited about it. Let me give a piece of advice. Another thing to watch out for here. Julius Thomas, see, before Julius broke out, he was my preseason sleeper because...

I watched the preseason and you saw how Denver used their tight ends then. So I would watch for the same thing with Virgil Green. If you watch the preseason and all of a sudden he's running routes, maybe change your opinion. Kind of like Travis Kelsey last preseason? That's a really good point, man. You two are ridiculous. Travis Kelsey is my best friend. Zah! Yeah, as long as they don't throw any touchdowns to wide receivers again, which is probably likely. Yeah, what is the probability of that with Alex Smith?

Checking it down. Very good is the answer to that question. I'll fill it in for you. The bets on the waterboard. Owen Daniels is turning 50 this year. Congratulations. So send your... Did you snore? Oh, yeah. Sorry. I just woke up. I thought you said it. You were willing to talk about Jermaine Gresham, but you were not willing to talk about Owen Daniels. Yeah. I actually, you know, what's funny is I really like Owen Daniels as a... Like you guys are tight? Yeah. I just think...

You know, we went out to dinner and it was like, there's such a good time. Good personality. I hope he paid. Yeah. Yeah. Dennis Pitta, probably not coming back. I feel so bad for him. Yeah, he was, man, I liked me some Dennis Pitta, but he was a quitter. Oh, that said. His hips broke off. His body was a quitter. That sucks. Him and Jer Michael Finley. I can go on.

At least your Michael Finley took like a $10 million insurance policy out on himself. That's how you play the game. That's legit. Jordan Cameron. Every player should have that. What do you think the premium is on that? It's got to be outrageous. No, it's for career-ending injury, though. I mean, it's not just like, but it's a $10 million payout. Yeah, but you've got to break your neck. So Jordan Cameron should get that policy. It's probably pretty high. Jordan Cameron's not going to get that kind of a deal.

They're going to know what his tricks are. Premium is going to be $9 million. Is it football season yet? I believe it was Dave Richard tweeted out. We have 27 more Sundays. And the answer actually, Andy, is yes. Yes. Because it is always football season. That's true. We're in March. It is franchise day. That means free agency is coming up with haste. Eight more days. I cannot wait. Is it eight? Eight more days. It's got to be longer than that. March 10th. March 10th.

opens up something. We need the fact-checking team on this right now. Fact-checkers! Fact-checkers! That's how we order our fact-checking team. His name is Alfred, and he's in the other room, so I just say, fact-checkers! And then you hear him... He's on a typewriter. What do you got, Andy? I'm slow. My computer wasn't loading here. I would like to...

to know. March 2nd is the franchise player, which is today. So the 7th through the 10th is the situation. So yeah, March 10th. Oh, it's the 7th, the authorized tampering period. Yes. Oh, wait. Yeah, March 10th. We're so close. That is awesome. Yeah, that's next week. Man, Adrian Peterson can sign with Arizona then, and then DeMarco Murray can sign with Arizona. That Peterson situation. We didn't even talk about that.

about how he won his court case, and then the NFL had to flex their muscles and say no. So gross. Yeah. You, uh, he, it really, players are just, it really hurts Peterson. If he's, if he can't be cut or traded before free agency starts, and he can be really hosed, which is, which is why I think to Marco Murray's back in Dallas. Hosed not so much monetarily. Right. No, he's going to get.

more money because he's going to stay with the Vikings. Which I just, I want to re-emphasize our, or at least my position on this, of people thinking, because the networks are saying, oh, the Vikings have all the power. Kind of. I actually put more power in Adrian Peterson's court. The Vikings have the power to say, we're going to pay you $13 million to play football this year. If they don't want to pay him $13 million, the power is completely shifted.

to Adrian Peterson. I don't think they have a problem paying him that. They've got the cap space. They've got the ability to pay him that just fine. And I don't think that that's... So I really do think they have the power because I don't think they mind paying him that much. I mean, of course, they'd rather pay him eight, you know, math. But I don't think it's... As far as improving the team where Minnesota is on the rise, they are not there yet to the point where Adrian Peterson puts them over the hump.

But so that money is better used for that team elsewhere. I think if they look at having, say, an extra $5 million, if they were to pay him, you know, eight instead of 13, I think if they look at their team and see what they could get for that, it's probably not that big a difference. I think it is. Five million? You can get a great player for a $5 million. You're talking to Jermaine Gresham. Yeah. Okay, so you're right. You're right, Mike. They would go over the top.

I got it. But then you would be... With Jermaine Gresham? Yeah. Then you'd be replacing superstar Kyle Rudolph. He hangs out with Cameron, too. Let's drop his podcast. Kyle Rudolph. Drop my heart out of my body last year. I told you to draft him. Yeah, I believe we... But I didn't draft him, which should have been the clue. We sat and watched you take Kyle Rudolph. Steal him from you. Steal him from me, and then I was...

I had to resort to drafting Greg Olson. Who was awesome. Oh, man, that was such a value pick. So stupid. You were so upset at my Kyle Rudolph pick. I actually was. I don't know. All right. Let's wrap up the show. Remember, you can check us out at our brand new website, the fantasy footballers.com. You can send us an email at mail at the fantasy footballers.com. Any parting shots? Sending those questions. We're about to start talking keepers. That's right.

So get your questions in. You got a tough decision to make, and you've got to make it, you know, in the next little bit. Also, we do have a somebody did Photoshop a tattoo. Oh, yeah. Jeremy Hill on your chest. We need to talk about that. We need to post that on the site. Jeremy G. I did. Oh, it's on Facebook. Yeah. I will say this. The one disappointment I have is he actually toned down.

my physique in that picture uh-huh uh-huh in real life i'm a little bit more shredded than that i you're in the league jeremy jeremy g you're in the league by by shredded i of course mean softer and rounder right yeah we know uh all right that's it for the fantasy footballers we'll catch you up next week and then we're going to go to two shows uh you know when we feel like it see you later bye

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