2015 Underrated: Carlos Hyde

April 29, 2015 | 2015 Fantasy Football, 2015 Underrated | 2 Comments

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Despite the 49ers doing their best impersonation of a dumpster fire this offseason, there are still some interesting pieces on the roster that remain fantasy relevant. However, none of those pieces are located at the wide receiver, quarterback, or tight end position. So may I have mistakenly pluralized "pieces". Hey, who wants to ride the Reggie Bush train again? Yeah... and then there's Anquan Boldin... and his "meh" skillset. Okay, to be fair, Colin Kaepernick could be fantasy relevant again, but I'm pretty sure that's something you don't want to bank on, so really, that leaves Carlos Hyde as probably the most (and by default, only) interesting thing on the 49ers roster fantasy-wise at the moment.

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Podcast: A New Beginning Starts with the NFL Draft

by: Jay

As you may have figured out by now, Nick is still on vacation, which has now probably been upgraded to a missing person's report, but despite his one-year (?) sabbatical/kidnapping thingamajig, we still are here to bring you the most, well, vibrant auditory experience that we can. This is our first podcast of the 2015 Season, and Tehol and I are talking the NFL Draft, some random news and notes, along with some thoughts on Game of Thrones, the new Star Wars and Batman v. Superman trailers, and Woody Harrelson and Matthew McConaughey sucking up the environment. Which they should be doing at all times. So here it is, your one stop destination to get you ready for the NFL Draft and life in general. (I may be fibbing on the last one.)

Tebow Watch Begins

April 22, 2015 | 2015 Fantasy Football, Fantasy Football Daily Notes |

by: Jay

We have a NFL 2015 Schedule folks! But before we jump on that and some other tidbits around the league, thus feeding on the table scraps the NFL has given to us (mmm, football scraps) this week, first we'll have to talk about Tim Tebow. God... (LITERALLY.) So yeah, what a way to celebrate ~~Hitler's Birthday~~ Stoner ~~Christmas~~ Holidays in Philadelphia. Let it be known, from on high, that Tim Tebow has signed with the Eagles, and what has been said shall be done, just in time for their offseason program, in His name, amen. I think that's how the prayer goes. I was actually told that you could hear Skip Bayless orgasming from roughly 400-miles away when the news broke, but seeing as how I'm within that radius of Bristol, based on what I'm able to gather, I'm not quite if it wasn't Peter King instead.

2015 Sleeper: Jeff Janis

April 20, 2015 | 2015 Fantasy Football, 2015 Sleeper | 6 Comments

by: Jay

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The easy thing here would be to a drop a Janis Joplin pun, but I'll just allude to it and leave it there. Why? Because I've been through all of my Janis puns, and I'm pretty sure whatever you come up with will be better than what I have. So there we are... Jeff Janis may be unfamiliar to most in a America, except for those of you who reside in Wisconsin. All nine of you. Granted, his prospects as a productive receiver looked a bit better with Randall Cobb's status up in the air, but as it stands now, the Packers depth chart at receiver stays essentially the same with Jordy Nelson, the aforementioned Cobb, and both Davante Adams and Jarrett Boykin coming in ahead of Janis. Lucky for him, overtaking Boykin on the depth chart is something my great grandmother could do, and she's been dead for roughly three decades.

2015 Underrated: Theo Riddick

April 17, 2015 | 2015 Fantasy Football, 2015 Underrated |

by: Jay

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I've been knocking around the idea in my head that Reggie Bush is worthy of being considered underrated going into the season, but then I get distracted. Usually from porn. And bacon. Ah yes, the story of a single man. Is this story so bad? Porn, bacon, a barren wasteland of loneliness and despair... I guess it's not so bad. And then I think, wait, I was thinking about Reggie Bush. And then that thought process inevitably leads to what he left behind. (Again, that's after all the bacon and despair.) And while I will probably talk about Bush at some point this offseason, I can't help but thinking that Theo Riddick, who now holds the aforementioned Bush's old role on the Lions, is, in fact, underrated going into the 2015 season. Also, I can't believe I created a sentence that included the words "bacon" and "despair". I must be hungry.

2015 Overrated: C.J. Spiller

April 15, 2015 | 2015 Fantasy Football, 2015 Overrated |

by: Jay

One thing's for sure, the hype train has always been strong with this one. And deservedly so. A perpetual description of "incredible athlete on the brink of breaking out" was a yearly norm for C.J. Spiller. So much so, he's been heralded as such for the past 581 years. Alright, so maybe it's just four years, but still, in the NFL, that's an average career span right there. And after dealing with another season in which ineffectiveness and injury took precedent, well, finding himself on the Saints and in Sean Payton's offense is sure to give people some selective amnesia. In fact, it's already happening in New Orleans as we speak. Not that I don't like Spiller as a buy-low, but I doubt we ever see that price tag. This offseason hype train is sure to choo-choo once again, and because of that, he'll wind up being overrated and probably overdrafted for the 2015 fantasy football season.

2015 Sleeper: Josh Hill

April 13, 2015 | 2015 Fantasy Football, 2015 Sleeper |

by: Jay

To be honest, I'm not quite sure who or what Josh Hill, and that might be true for a long while. Well, I mean, I know he's human, and that he's also an American Football player, those seem pretty safe bets. But beyond that, I have no idea what his stock will be come opening week. He could very well be overrated by that time, perhaps underrated depending on the draft or any other transactions that may develop, or he just might remain a sleeper. In fact, I omitted him from my 2015 Way-Too-Early Rankings for the very fact that I have no idea what to do. Much like in life. I can say there are some things in his favor (mainly Drew Brees) and there are some things that may not be in his favor. Let's discuss!

2015 Way-Too-Early-Rankings, Updated

April 6, 2015 | 2015 Fantasy Football, 2015 Fantasy Football Rankings | 10 Comments

by: Jay

I figure with the way the offseason has progressed thus far (Chip Kelly rebuilding the Eagles with all the available free agents, plus trading for 80% of all league personnel, including the trainers), well, let's just say some things have changed. True, there are a lot of things that can change from this moment to when training camps start, but we are in the midst of Baseball starting, March Madness just fading out, and I think Basketball and Hockey are doing some interesting things (maybe?), so obviously Football is taking a backseat at the moment. Actually, if we're going with this metephor, perhaps the trunk is more apt. Or maybe the couch. Regardless, as we all do in Fantasy Football, we must put numerical value on players and then yell spiteful yet clever things about each other's mothers to argue why player "x" is better than player "y". The truth is, your mother is better than all of them, and that's the truth. I actually did attempt a Way-Too-Early Rankings back in Febuary, but as I admitted then, it was essentially an End-of-Year 2014 Rankings, seeing as we had just left that season and were struggling in a world without football. Well, as mentioned above, with all the deluge of transactions that took place the past month, I think it's fair to say that the picture has gotten just a little bit clearer. Follow me after the jump to get a snapshot of where everything stands as of now...