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

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It is Monday, March 2nd, and we are the fantasy footballers. Welcome to the show. I'm Andy Holloway. I'm joined as always by Mike, the fantasy hitman Wright. Say hello, Mike. Happy Franchise Day, everybody. That is today. We are grasping at any NFL football news we can, and it is Franchise Day, which is a big day. I hope you didn't get tagged, and I hope you got a long-term extension. No, actually I got tagged. Jason Moore is with us as well.

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We've got some news and notes from around the league I wanted to talk about. Ooh. Before we get into today's show, which will be, we're going to talk mostly about free agent tight ends. Some quarterbacks. Some quarterbacks. It's kind of a nasty crop of quarterbacks, but there's some implications there in the fantasy world for who they, what teams are leaving and what that means for their other guys as well. But the news I want to talk about first here is Mr. ADP number one right now. Oh, yeah. Levy on Bell.

Yeah, the news I'm hearing is not the most flattering. Now we're talking about a maximum of a four-game suspension. People seem to have forgotten because he had such a monster year. They forgot the year started with him being arrested with his compadre, Lagarde Blunt. Yes.

In a unflattering situation. In a blunt situation. And last year, that dropped his draft stock in that first round. It was delicious. Andy Holloway and both of you guys recommending not to drop the draft stock because you knew he wouldn't be suspended last year based on NFL history. But now he will be missing some games. Yes. And to me, it's still likely that he misses two. But the implication for four games, because first timers on the

substance abuse policy, it's a flat two-game suspension. Correct. But when you're caught with multiple substances, there's the potential to go to four. And because marijuana is illegal in Pennsylvania, he also had the alcohol, there's the potential for a four-game suspension. It's not just he got busted for the pot. It's because he got arrested for a DUI. Yeah. So it's a double... Double substance. Double trouble. So what does that mean to this...

uh, ADP one overall guy right now. If he, uh, give me, give me the scenarios. If he goes a two game or a four game, where is he changed in your first round? Because I'm guessing he doesn't drop out of your first round. Uh, unlikely two game. I draft him as usual and I figure out what to do for two games. Four games, that's, that's a lot different. I mean, that's 25% of your,

Well, it's more than that. It's a third of the season for a lot of leagues because you're talking about the fantasy playoffs. 12-game season. Nobody likes this. I'm actually surprised to see him ADP number one, knowing the two-game suspension. He's great. I love him. He's going to put up numbers. But...

You have no clue who's going to finish number one. You never know for sure any of these guys. And there's a handful of guys that are all worthy of being able to finish number one. You know for a fact that he will miss two games. You know for a fact that will hinder him finishing number one. So why take that risk? I think it's because he's just so versatile. It's DeMarco situation too. I mean, if DeMarco is locked in and Dallas, I think he could have usurp.

Lavian ADP-wise already. Oh, yeah. You know what I mean? Yeah, I agree that if we knew for sure he was going back, but Bell is just responsible for so much of that offense. He is the reason, he's the engine of why it moves, and he helps Antonio Brown, he helps Big Ben. Plus that's just what you see in fantasy football. The guy from last year, this number one is the number one guy this year. Yeah, if I'm drafting him,

Let's say I have the first pick and I take Bell. It's not necessarily I believe he's going to finish as the first running back because, historically speaking, it's just unlikely. However, I consider him to be safe to finish in a top five position, what I really want. If I had the first pick, I don't want to blow it. That's exactly your goal. Your goal, as a piece of advice, your goal is to draft a guy who is the highest chance of finishing in the top five. You're not going to guarantee, like Jason said.

You know, nobody repeats unless you're Ladani and Tomlinson, most often. But a guy like Jamal Charles, you know, somebody who has a track record, we talked about Demarius Thomas in the wide receivers last week, a guy who has a track record of finishing in the top three, that's what you want. You don't want to miss the boat completely. Other news, we also have, we talked about it being franchised day. It is early in the morning here on March 2nd, so we haven't.

heard the franchise news, but all indications are that Demarius Thomas and Des Bryant will be franchised today. Thomas, they came out and they said he's getting tagged for sure. Done deal. Yeah, the Des is, I mean, that's got to be, what, a 99% chance. Yeah. I mean, they basically, I think, came out and said all indications are that he's being tagged today. Oh. Imminent. The Dez video. The release of the video. The Florio. Is imminent.

Wow. Kind of. Jerry bought it. Not there. Is that what it basically disappeared because somebody did buy it? Yeah. I still think there's a video. I just don't think it's ever going to come out because I think it's an extortion video and I think they're going to succeed in extorting. What are the implications on his draft position if he's got a video that's been extorted? No. No. If the video has disappeared already. I'm just, yeah, I'm just joking because it's ridiculous because he's, we don't know anything.

Yeah. We don't know anything except for the fact that Dallas probably wants leverage in a long-term contract deal. Yeah, and it's... Is he a first-round wide receiver? To me, yes. So back in 10th 11-12? Of course, that's Sands video. Well, yeah, let's live in a world without the video since we have no video.

Yeah, for me, I drop him out of the first, not in any way, shape, or form because of the video. I just think there's better wide receivers I'd like over him. I actually didn't. Who are you taking over, Des Bryant? I didn't put him in my top five for next year. And there's this website. Are you talking about the article? Yeah, it's called the Fantasyfootballers.com. Guys, it's amazing. You've got to go and check it out. But there's an article. How much does it cost? Oh, it's hugely valuable, but it's free.

Um, yeah, but on, on there, I put, uh, some of my, uh, projected top five wide receivers and standard scoring. You do have him at four. Des? Yes. Uh, scroll down. Oh, you're right. That was last year. My apologies. You know your article better than me. But he did, he did finish four last year. So Andy always on point. Oh, let's talk about Roy Hulu for a second. Okay. Okay. Because last week, no, no, no, it was John Quiz.

No, no, no, no, no. This is Roy Hulu. Because last week I got the business from both of you when I said... When you weren't listening. When you said I wasn't listening. But you brought up Roy Hulu as being a very poor pass blocker, and then I apparently... I could swear that was Jacques was Rogers. No, it was Roy Hulu, and you weren't listening either. And I told him, I go, well, yeah, you know, he had just said Roy Hulu is a terrible pass blocker. And I go, yeah, he's a wonderful pass blocker. He's really great. That's what you... The value is.

So he was, I guess, 49th last year, but I insisted to him that he had been a top pass blocker. And so what did you find out? I found out that he was the number 49 pass blocker last year. And the year before. The year before he was number three overall. So somewhere in the recesses of my Hulu brain. I was right, right-ish. Right-ish. Other news for you?

It's conceded that DeMarco is hitting the open market. You're hitting it, not necessarily leading. And his ADP is dropping right now. Not crazily, but you're talking about he was kind of fourth, fourth, fifth in the first round, and he's dropped a couple spots. Obviously, where he lands is humongous to his value, and we think it's not Dallas. We think it's Dallas. I mean, I kind of wonder how much money he's going to get elsewhere. I still think it's Dallas.

The only reason I don't see him going back to Dallas is if AP becomes completely available and obtainable by the Cowboys. Because I think the Cowboys want AP, but it doesn't look like the Vikings are going to cut him. And to trade him, he'd want probably too much money than Dallas can pay. So I still think DeMarco Murray ends up back in Dallas. He tests the free agent market. Free agent market's not going to be that great. And he's going to come back at a sad amount of money for him.

and great for the Cowboys. Let me ask the hitman a question. Yes, sir. Lavian Bell or DeMarco Murray back in Dallas right now? Oh, who, if Murray's back between them? If Murray's back in Dallas and you had the pick between the two, you're sitting there on the clock, I know at number one you'd take Eddie Lacey right now. That is actually, that's true. But if you had to choose between these two. If it's today, I guess you have to go Murray just.

to be safe because I'm spending a top pick and I'm scared of the four games. But if it's two games for Levi-on-Bel... You go back to Levyon. I probably still take bail because of the amount of carries that DeMarco Murray saw and touches last year is just ridiculous. I'm more scared of DeMarco Murray's body than I am Levy on Bell's suspension.

For that reason, I would go levy on Bell over to Marco Murray. And I was terrified for Murray. Every single week, I was expecting an injury to pop up. So adding the mileage, I understand I've never tried to take away from his talent. It's just a, I want my guy on the field. And Murray hasn't really done that except for last year.

He did it way too much, I guess. We should start a service for buying fantasy football leagues where people can buy player insurance against players like Murray. Murray would go very high then. Yes. Big news, guys. I don't know. Hold on to something if you can. Are you sitting down? Grab that paper. Josh McCown is a Cleveland Brown. Oh, man. He is now played for every CFL team and every NFL team.