Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Fearless Predictions, Injury Updates, News, Mailbag

Game time decision is what's being said on Trey Mason. I am going to lean that he is not going to play. I would agree. Devante Freeman, they said hamstring at 90% is what he said today. Will he play? I believe he will play. I think he will play as well. All right. Everyone wants to know this question. I'm sure you guys have insight that nobody else has. Alshan Jeffrey, yes or no?

Yes. However, if it's a no, I am not going to be surprised if the injury is more severe than is being let on just like they did with Kevin White and it's going to be reported, you know, he might be out four weeks or something like that. Trepidacious yes from Jason. Mike? I heard a Bears beat reporter on the radio yesterday and it is hilarious what is going on in Chicago of the coaching staff will not tell them anything. The coaching staff won't even tell them who is starting on the offensive line because that is a huge advantage.

huge strategy going on from the Chicago Bears of buffoonery. He's being sneaky like a fox over there. John Fox. Johnny Boy. Yes or no, Mike. Yes or no. Yes, but very limited. Mike Evans. Yes. Yes. Leshawn McCoy, who I will add, participated in individual drills on Tuesday. Will Leshaun McCoy play? Yes. Yes. Joyke Bell. Yes. C.J. Spiller.

Yes. Uh, you, no. Duke Johnson. No, no. T. Y. Hilton. Yes. Yes. Roddy White. Yes. Sure. Confident. Michael Floyd. No. Devon. Oh, I'm sorry. Did you say no? I said no. Okay. Devante Parker. Yes. Yes. Well, that's exciting. I'm excited to see what he has. Yeah.

Victor Cruz. No, no way. Zacherts? No. Probably not. All right, so out of all of those guys, any other thoughts? I mean, if Michael Floyd doesn't play, John Brown looks good, week one. Yeah, there's a lot of things. Our rankings are slowly coming out. They are mostly there. Yeah, week one rankings are out. They're mostly there. Yeah, week one rankings are out. They might be, they'll definitely be tweaked as more news comes out through this week, but...

We are almost into week one mode. Starting tomorrow, we will be completely looking at the week ahead, every single player, who to start, who to sit, who's going to beat who, the matchups, the games. So make sure this is the time. I've been saying all offseason, if you're listening right now, you are the people who are going to keep listening through the year and win the championships because that's when they're won, not at the draft. Yeah, so you can go to the website, the fantasy footballers.com, click the rankings button and see who we have.

in week one. Jason, you're still don't show up. Well, they show up for me, so I don't know what to tell you. When I go to the website and look, I see all of my rankings. Oh, do you really? Maybe I just need to refresh. Yeah. Take your Jason block off your computer. Yeah, so the week one rankings. I personally block all jason. Well, I want my rankings accurate, so. All right. So let's talk about one of our sponsors. You've heard of them before. One of our favorite apps on the app store. Listen, the weight is finally over. The NFL regular season kicks off this week.

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right sometimes, but wrong a lot. And all of my predictions will come true. And I will be lifted upon the shoulders of the Foot Clan. Our Foot Clan knows right now that the Fantasy Reaper is speaking. So they can't wait to hear what you say so they know who will die. They got some handcuffs to pick up. Hey, Fantasy MVP. Who is the Fantasy MVP for 2015? Mike.

Let's hear that fearless prediction. I'm going with Jordan Matthews. Why am I taking Jordan Matthews? Great question. He is a guy in the third round who I believe can finish as a top five wide receiver. If everything goes right for him, he will be an absolute monster. The Eagles offense is about as high powered as they come in the NFL right now. Jeremy Macklin is gone. Chip Kelly has given us two high-level wide receiver ones.

In his two years, I think the guy is now Jordan Matthews, and the time is right. All right, Jason, who is your fantasy MVP from left field from way deep down the list? Oh, it's going to be crazy. Shock everybody. You might not have heard of him. His name is Eddie Lacey. Eddie Lacey at the top.

Look, I still need to put my name to this. And I actually do believe that he will be this year's fantasy MVP because there's very few question marks on him for me. With the loss of Jordy Nelson, I think he's going to be used more in the red zone. Oh, I thought you were going to say nine routes. Like they're going to send him out on more. I would love to watch that. No, Eddie Lacey to me is a surefire pick. And if you're picking in the first round, you don't want to bust.

And a lot of the guys that I look at in the first round have the potential to bust. Not that Eddie Lacey can't get hurt, but I see him as a sure thing, a young, healthy guy on a high-power offense. It's what you have to have to win a league. I don't look at any fantasy rosters at the end of the year and see that they don't have an R-B-1. So Eddie Lacey, to me, is this year's fantasy MVP? Is this Jason Moore or is this Taylor Swift over here?

Because this guy is fearless. Oh, my goodness. With Eddie Lacey. I didn't have the back of the album up, so I didn't know the Taylor Swift run down. All right, you want fearless. That's a joke for our tweeters. That's a joke for our tweeners. They're out there, man. Okay. Oh, yeah. Hey, my fantasy MVP is very compatible with mics because if mics happens, this is going to happen to some degree. It is Sam Bradford.

And so when I said he'd play 16 games, certainly I believed that's necessary for an MVP type of season, fantasy-wise. I think the sky is the limit for Sam Bradford. He has an offense that is going to get more plays run than anybody else, two-point conversion opportunities, better physical skills than anybody who's been in that offense before, has the ability to move around in the pocket to a degree.

that despite the ACL injuries is far greater than Nick Foles. And he has weapons and he has tools and he has Chip Kelly and DeMarco Murray and just a bunch of weapons. So I think Sam Bradford has the ability, like if I'm deciding late in drafts, which has happened a lot, if I'm looking to draft.

Tanna Hill or Bradford, it's Bradford. If I'm looking to draft Palmer or Bradford, it's Bradford. If I'm looking for Stafford or Eli, I'm just taking Bradford in all of my leagues because I can go stream a guy if he doesn't work out. It's true. I've seen it. So you heard it here first. Pick up Mark Sanchez. Oh, be nice. I think the two-point conversion thing here, we haven't talked about enough. Tim Tebow is gone. The experiment they were running was Tebow running those. I still think they run them with Chip Kelly and Sam Bradford can get you.

an extra four points a week if they go for multiples. Which is huge. Yes, it is. It's not small. All right. The surprise player of the season is, Jason? I'm going to go, we got a lot of Eagles offense here today, and I'm going to stick with it with Ryan Matthews as the surprise player of the season. Not only is he going to surprise as far as being super duper valuable. I've got him later on today as well. But when DeMarco Murray is playing,

Ryan Matthews is going to be valuable. I think Ryan Matthews can be a flex option week in, week out, and you're getting him in the seventh round. So I think that he's going to surprise a lot of people out there. Real quick, because he's a good pick for a surprise player. Every week, you'd start Matthews over Sproles? Absolutely. 100%. Okay. All right. Mike, who is your surprise player of the season? I'm going a little bit deeper, and I'm going with my man up in New York. I'm going with Eric Decker.

I think the Jets offense is massively improved, especially when you toss Brandon Marshall into the mix. We've seen Eric Decker be extremely productive when he is the number two wide receiver. Sure, that was Peyton Manning throwing him the ball. But Ryan Fitzpatrick, we've talked about him before, is a perfect quarterback for fantasy because he will sling the ball. He is a gun slinger.

A bearded gunslinger. He will take the chances, and Eric Decker, I think, is going to be the benefactor of some heavy double coverage on Brandon Marshall.

All right, my surprise player of this season is Frank Gore, and he is a surprise player to me because I think he has top five potential, despite his age and despite the fact he will not be extremely flashy. Last year, the Colts had 337 rushes from running backs for 1,300 yards and 13 touchdowns. Obviously, not every carry in the backfield is going to go to Frank Gore, but last year you saw a 3.8...

average across all of them. In fact, we knew Bradshaw was kind of the most efficient there at a 4.3, but he only had like 90 carries for the team last year. So T. Rich had a ton of carries. You had Boom Herron. You had even Tipton got carries. And Gore has had 10 straight years of 4.1 a carry and above. He is very consistent. And in limited work last year, Bradshaw caught 30.

two or 38, I think 38 passes in that offense, somewhere in that range, 32 to 38. Gore has caught 50, 60 before in his career. So just from a volume on a good offense perspective, I think Gore could kind of...

run his way to a top five finish with consistent week after week performances, staying healthy and being on an offense like that. I saw a really funny picture because we like to pilot on Trent Richardson. And it was... As does most defensive. So it's two Trent Richardson's. It's Trent and Alabama uniform in Colts. And it's Colts and Trent and Colts and I have Cable. Very nice. Well, that's true.

That's ridiculous. Yeah. Biggest disappointment of the fantasy season will be Joseph Randall. Okay. I can see that. I do not believe in Joseph Randall as a player. When you look at his production last year, it was a mirage. He was not getting his, he had over six a carry.