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

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It's Tuesday, September 8th. That's what day it is. That is the day. Two days. Two days. The calendar says Tuesday, and we are the fantasy footballers. Back again, yet another episode of the podcast. And we are excited for this season. My name is Andy Holloway. I am joined by Mike, the fantasy hitman, right? Greetings, Ting. Greetings. That sounded like green tings. Yes. Green tings from Mike.

Jason Moore is here as well. Hello, everybody. Reddingtons. Thank you for being yourself. Welcome. Welcome to the show. We have a good one for you today. We're going to be bringing some fearless predictions to the airwaves. I hope you didn't have too much coffee because these takes are bold. They are bold. They are strong. I didn't sleep last night.

On the energy and power of some of these takes. Yes. Yes. So we're also going to go through an injury rundown. There are a lot of guys that are kind of questionable for week one. So we want to pull the experts here and ask them, hey, are they going to play or not?

because you need to know that information. So you can find us on YouTube. You can watch us on the Fantasy Sports Network. Yay! Yeah, we love the Fantasy Sports Network. We're on there three times a day. You can follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. We're pretty active on Twitter. We try to answer questions and interact with the listeners.

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Just a brief second. I've got a quick question for you. But I want to talk for just a second about this show. If you've been listening to the Fantasy Footballers podcast, we've been putting out episodes all season long ever since February. Off season. Yeah, off season. Off season, in season, around the season. It's always football here. So we, if you've been listening, though, we've had some ads in the show.

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believe in these sponsors and we've vetted them and we suggest them to you and they support the show and so we appreciate our sponsors and uh we know that's a little different than what it was like before but that's really what keeps the show going and so if you hear from some sponsors we we appreciate it when you check them out yeah and we turned down a lot of a lot of sponsors because we don't we don't let everybody on yeah and and one thing that's really cool is to see the response of listeners to different sponsors especially like handsome fancy yeah you know people

sending how much they enjoyed the product and things like that. So we appreciate your support of our sponsors and we just want you to know how much we appreciate the sponsors because they get the show going. We're like the lifeboats from the Titanic. Not everyone gets in. That's sad. Yeah. Yeah, I went a little dark with that one. People died there, Mike. Yeah. That was a long time ago. We've moved on. They're still dead. Yeah. Too soon.

All right, so let's get into it. The quick question of the day is a simple yet complex one. Sam Bradford, how many games will he play in this season? There are 16 regular season games, and he will play in 12. Really?

Yeah. So you're just taking kind of an arbitrary, probably injured for a few games perspective? Yes, what else could I do other than an arbitrary answer to this? I don't have an actual crystal ball. Here's where I'm coming from. That's a fair point. Where I'm coming from is the fact that he has, you know, I think his rookie year and one other year he played 16, and every other year he's been injured. And so you just have to, you know, I'm splitting the difference here. I'm giving him the majority of the year. I think he's going to be incredible when he's in. But I expect that he'll miss a couple, right? I mean, that's why the question's in here. Yeah, it is. I'm all in.

All in on Bradford, baby, all year. All 16. Andy, tiebreaker. We're going to find out right now, is Sam Bradford going to play the entire season? We get to find that out early. Here's a question. Do we know where his ACLs repaired from cadaver ACLs? I have no information on the matter. Like Titanic? No, not the Titanic cadaver.

Real quick question for Jason before I answer. Okay. Was the four games he's missing, are those in the middle of the season, or are you talking season-ending injury? Season-ending injury. He's going to play 12 and at 13. We said fearless predictions. I'm going to say he's going to play all 16 games. Oh, the Fantasy Reaper has cursed him. We just found out that Sam Bradford is out for the year. No. Breaking news. That sucks, especially for our fearless prediction section later where he will be involved in my predictions.

Sam Bradford is certainly a hot topic. He's an exciting name, and compared to some of the kind of middling quarterbacks, he's the one I want to own in a lot of leagues. So, yeah, pretty excited about that. Pretty excited about Fandual as well, because week one is almost here. Guys, we need to talk about daily fantasy sports. Fandul is the leader. Week one is here. The salaries are ready. You can get your team going. Let me tell you something.

Fanduel pays out more winners than any other site. They pay out over $75 million a week. A lot of cash. That's a lot of cash. It's a salary cap format, and that means you get to pick any players you want. This isn't a draft. You say, I want Sam Bradford. I want Adrian Peterson. Boom. They're on your team. Your entry fees start as little as $1 so anyone can play. And little fuel to the Fandual fire.

I suggested the Jaguars is a possible cheap defensive selection. They're like $4,000 in Fandul. Yesterday it came out that Carolina is not starting Devin Funches. Like it's Ted Ginn Jr. and Corey Brown. So this better be the Jonathan Stewart Show or you're going to get some defensive production from Jacksonville. That is my fearless prediction for the Fan Duel section. But yeah, we love Fan Duel.

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News and notes from around the league. And we will transition this news section into the injury rundown as well. But a couple bits of news. One big one is T.J. Yeldon has been officially listed as the starter for week one. This is good for Yelden owners that were concerned. Dinard Robinson might start the season top of the depth chart. Yelden is an interesting fantasy commodity. Very interesting. Because...

He is young and he is very talented and he can catch the ball. In fact, in preseason, the limited work that we saw from him, the best work I saw was in the passing game. So he doesn't have a very good week one matchup, but he is the starter. And so what are your thoughts on Yeldin in this announcement? And is there anything to grab onto for what you expect from him?

Well, I expected him to be the starter week one, so I don't feel like this is news. As far as my outlook on Yeldin, it's essentially that he is a somewhat talented back. I don't think we're talking about, you know, a Todd Gurley here, and he's in a middling offense. So I think his ceiling is very, very capped. He's not going to be all that great. You say that, you know, you liked what he saw more in the passing game this preseason, and I agree. But it wasn't because he did anything special in the passing game. It's because he was atrocious in the run game.

Come on now. Well, I'm just saying. I didn't think. Yeah, I mean, I thought he looked okay. My eyeballs. That's just my take. But I think he's going to be, you know, he's going to get the volume. He's definitely going to get the opportunity to start. The problem, I think, is going to be a talent and team position. So I see him as, you know, an RB3. Another depth chart.

Note, Rashad Jennings was listed as the starting running back in New York atop the death chart. We also had Matt Castle signing with the bills. He's back. He's back. And so anything to say about those at all? I mean... It was a salary move. He is now, I imagine, very, very cheap for the bills to have on there. And that puts a little bit of fire on that E.J. Manual resurgence hype that people were hoping for. Yeah, I wasn't hoping for that.

Some people were. Why couldn't Fred Jackson have resigned? Well, they had to save money for Matt Castle. Yeah. Adam Schaefter has reported that Arian Foster could return in four weeks, but that he could be sidelined six or more. So Schaefter is taking the entire gamut of possibilities for this news break. Here's the deal. Aaron Foster could play week one. He could play week 16.

Breaking news. Breaking news. So this was kind of the first negative-ish report that we've had about Foster since the kind of the weeks were shrinking in his injury. So just keep that in mind. The truth is we don't know. I think that's what that report tells us is he could be back in early October. He could miss a couple extra weeks. We don't really know. I think we do know this.

When he's back, he will be back. That is the approach they've taken with him returning from injury, and they rely on him a lot. And so when he's back, he will be valuable to your team. So hopefully he will be back sooner than later, at least for all of the teams in which I own him. All right, so let's go through the injury rundown. This is a will they, won't they play this week? Give me your thoughts on them. The first one on the list, Trey Mason.