Top 10 Shocking Stats from 2018 + Trade Targets

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to the fantasy footballers podcast. Coming to you from pristineauction.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Another wonderful day, Mike. In the neighborhood. You got the hat on. You've noticed. Yeah. You've noticed, huh? Hat week is back. It's a thrilling conclusion.

Jason is here. No hats, no hair to cover. Yeah. Some people say, need hats because I've got no hair. You could do like a hat month. Yeah. Well, here's the thing our listeners may or may not know about Jason. The hair, yes, everyone knows that systems are failing. Jason in a hat is truly a sight to behold.

I don't know how certain people just aren't hat people. Right. Oh, yeah. No, I get it. But Jason, he's not a hat person. And this is not meant to be an insult because it's just you put a hat on him. It's just a fat. You look, you look like a strange person. And it doesn't matter the type of hat. It's just all hats. Give me that crisp bill. Phil looks stupid. Snapbacks. He's a fedora guy. Oh, no. I have not yet tried the fedora.

Oh, that's probably it. That's what you've been missing. Maybe a bowler. We did a top hat. You're a top hat kind of guy. We did a little analysis on our Super Bowl party. Oh. Because I don't remember who had the hat on, but we realized that Mike, his head is so large. Oh, it's mine. That you, on the hats that aren't fitted, you're on like the last clip. Not the last. I got. You're close. I think I got four dots. And I'm like. Four dots to my, that I can.

Level up to the other side. I'm like, you've got to turn that thing into a baby hat. Yeah, you've got to pull it as tight as possible. So you have a small head. Maybe that has something to do with it. Yeah. Very important stuff here on the fantasy footballer podcast. For Thursday, February 7th, and this show is going to be hot fire. It's going to be great. We have the top 10 shocking stats from last year. Not only are we revealing these on the show today.

courtesy of a number of people bringing some really good research to the table, including the Borgogan, Kyle, our editor-in-chief, found these stats. And we're going to talk through the implications of these stats from this past year on your fantasy team and the way that fantasy football is trending and the way that gameplay on the field is trending and what it means for your fantasy drafts coming up in 2019.

A reminder, as always, follow us on Twitter at the FF Ballers on Instagram, Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers. You okay there, Jay? I am doing great. Didn't want to duck away from the mic on that little. That was right in there. Right into the mic. Button not working? No. Oh, did you think you had pushed the mute button? Yes, I have this. Try it out. Yeah, no, that's definitely working now. It worked that time. Okay.

So you win some, you lose some. It did not look like you pushed it. You guys, you guys hear that? I apologize to the foot clan and to my family. It's great because he didn't realize anything that happened. Even though he's got headphones on, he can totally hear the cough. Well, I'm coughing, so of course I would hear it. But yeah, come to think of it, it was rather loud.

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See how much time I got left. I have a quick question idea for us too. But Nick Foles, Mike, you talked about this two days ago. Yep. He bought out his $20 million option for $2 million. Wouldn't you love to be in the position in life where you're like, I'm going to pay you $2 million to not pay me $20 million? Because he's going to get paid a whole lot more than $20 million. He is now a free agent. He'll be, now the Eagles could still. This is where it's interesting. The Eagles could still franchise tag him.

I don't believe they will. None of the indications that I've seen indicate that they will. So I expect Nick Foles to just be on the market and pretty much the best quarterback available in free agency. Yeah, you're probably going to have Ryan Tannehill out there in free agency. You're going to have Joe Flacco available. You have to trade for Flacco. Sure, sure. But wouldn't that be a bargain to do so?

Respect, depending on what you pay in terms of your yearly impact is going to be higher on a guy like Nick Foles than Joe Flacco? Yeah, but it depends on how much you like winning. Well, I was you saying, who would you rather have, Nick Folls or Joe Flacco? Nick Folls. I would rather have Joe Flacko. Yeah, I would much rather have Nick Folls, but I would much rather have neither. Oh, you'd go with no quarterback. I would go with any, I mean, I don't think either of them are.

the answers to a franchise at this point in their careers. All right. Rams coach, Sean McVeigh said Todd Gurley does not require off-season surgery. I know this was getting a lot of play because this was, you know, a news blurb. Good news. Todd Gurley doesn't need off-season surgery for the injury that they insisted he doesn't have. Like how is talking, how are they when they're talking about him not having surgery?

That was that important when you've been insisting for a month that he's not hurt? That is kind of interesting, right? It's like answering the question that shouldn't exist. Exactly. They cannot. I mean, quite a predicament. You know, I know a lot of people are saying, oh, it's going to come out, that he was injured, he's dealing with stuff. And the whole time, I'm thinking they literally can't. Even if he is, they can't because he wasn't on the injury report for several weeks. So if it comes out.

that he was injured, they'll be in trouble for that. But based on this news, our news section is now going to be two, three hours long because I'm going to start like this. Saquan Barkley, not having surgery. Oh, that's great news. For any injuries he has or has not sustained. Andrew Lux's throwing shoulder is not re-injured either. There was a lot of worry. Maybe he would re-injure that this season has not happened. That's good to hear. Greg Olson, this was news today, confirms to.

that he wants to play in 2019 because playing through foot injury is his jam. Also, I believe that Jason Whitten has sabotaged Greg Olson's chance to get into the booth immediately. No, I mean, Olson should be back. So he'll be relevant if he's on the field. He always is. But if he's not on the field, less relevant. Falcons have released kicker Matt Bryant, 43-year-old Matt Bryant dealt with injuries over the back half of the year. Moving another direction.

This one's a little wild to me. I understand the injuries, but when he's on the field, Matt Brian is still one of the best kickers in the league. And as we have seen plenty of times this season, if you don't invest in your kicker position at the NFL, we're not talking about fantasy. We're talking about having an actual good kicker on your team. That bites you in the butt more often than not. Fair enough. And then I don't know how much you want to talk about this, but you might as well mention it. Yeah.

Antonio Brown's lawyer is refuting that his client was involved in a domestic dispute last month. This was a TMZ Sports report that he was involved in a domestic dispute and not arrested. Okay, you don't. I mean, we know nothing. Yeah, there's no information here. We're passing that on. Yeah.

And then Ian Rampaport talking about the Raiders situation, Mike, do you want to sum up what's going on in Oakland, San Francisco, California? Oakland is looking for a place to play while they wait for the stadium in Vegas to be built. It was being reported that the deal was done. They were going to go play in the Giants, in the San Francisco Giants Stadium. The San Francisco mayor is not having any of that business. You were not bringing your football franchise down into 49er territory.

So not even if they wear 49er jerseys while they do it. Oh, they don't want that. That would be even worse. Don't you diminish our product? So we'll see. We'll see where Oakland gets to play. This is a mess. Yeah, yeah. That might just take the year off. Just like pass. 2019. Well, just, we'll pass.

That was today's news and notes here on the show. If you hate ads on your fantasy app, you know what? Sleeper does too. You can download the best free fantasy app on iOS and Android right now gets Sleeper. Here was the quick question that I so unkindly ignored at the top of the show. Who's the player that you are targeting in trades in Dynasty leagues this off season? And why? Is there a name out there right now that you want our listeners to pay attention to?

somebody maybe below the radar that could have higher value later on this offseason. Yeah, I like targeting in this time of year really, really cheap, free options that their situations could improve. To me, I really like John Brown. He's only 28 years old. He had a great season. If you remember, it's hard to remember because the Lamar Jackson Ravens barely used wide receivers, you know, certainly not enough for anyone to be relevant for fantasy.

John Brown was great. The beginning of the year, he was scoring, he was putting up big yardage, he was playing well, having great separation. He is now a free agent. So let me tell you some of the best free agents in this year's pool. Randall Cobb. Yeah. And Dante Moncrief and Jermaine Curse, Adam Humphreys, he's free agent. Tyrell Williams. Tyrell Williams. I mean, but my point is there's not like three or four.

Big name tier one wide receivers where there's teams every year that need to spend and bring in another guy. John Brown will get paid. He will go somewhere to be the number two for that team at least. And he's going to cost you absolutely nothing. No dynasty owner right now is thinking like, oh, I got to hold on to John Brown. That's probably true. Because I think there are, you know, there's the question marks of where he lands and what quarterback he has and whether I'll have a big role. Right. It works, you know.

This was the same situation for John Brown last year, and it worked out, where he found some place that he could become one of the go-to guys for Joe Flacco. I'm going to throw Robbie Anderson and Quincy Annois's name out there, both of them, Sam Darnal, coming into year two, Adam Gaze. You know, Ryan Tanilla had his best years under Adam Gays. Obviously, you had volume in the kind of, probably the Noonois would be most similar to what Jarvis Landry did in the offense.

And so I would just say keep your eyes on those two players. Anderson late in the season came on, had a streak of four plus games of being the number one wide out. So he may be more difficult to acquire. But Quincy and Nunwa, having been hurt halfway through the year, he's an interesting name. They re-signed him to an extension. So Quincy and Nunwa would be a potential John Brown-like snag. You expect that offense to be better next year with Year 2 under Arnold. I like it.