The TRUTH About Fantasy QBs: Part 2 + Dynasty Mailbag - Fantasy Football Podcast for 1/20

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podcast. Just in case. You don't think we can get away with just the fantasy footballers? No, we probably could. Yeah. I mean, we're more than just a podcast. We're a show. Yeah, I thought you were going to go with a worldwide phenomenon, but whatever. I mean, both are true. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. You can watch the show. You can subscribe, click the bell. They'll tell you when the new show is happening. Brooks is here.

Brooks, how are you doing today? Excellent. Oh. Yeah, life treating you all right? Excellent. You got any New Year's resolutions that you've been, are you a resolution guy? Um, kind of. It's more just rough goals, like, but do they, don't eat as much later in the night and the day. Oh, okay. But you like made that rough goals. You made that thought. Yeah, my goals end up pretty rough at the end of the year. The idea, do you have a resolution? No, but I got a rough goal. That might be more achievable, right?

New Year's rough goals? Yeah, there you go. It's just a rebrand because resolutions have failed so many times. I mean, we should be capable as people of making resolved decisions at any point in the year, not just January 1st. We should be able to make resolutions January 1st, too. Like, we should be able to succeed. We can't. I didn't get it into time. Right. Sorry. Didn't put it in the dream journal. I meant to write that down, but I guess 2022 is going to be wild.

but what was yours yours was not not as much late at night yeah yeah indigestion issues over there i i don't know mike man this is the off season you're cackling but in my head that's what it was yeah it's because if you what else is it if i eat too late i wake up with the bubble guts this is life for me it's just weight gain that's it there's that yeah that's your resolution

Exactly. I wanted to hit one for once. I wanted to really, really succeed. And so I was like, I'm going to put on about 10 this year. And I think with enough work, I can do that. Now, we have the second half of the truth on today's show, the truth of the quarterback position. It's an ugly truth. It is? It is. You've already, wait, you previewed it? Well, yeah, I do prepare for the shows. Yes, that is correct. I know everything we're going to talk about. It's quite amazing.

You went to the screening ahead of time. That's good. Truth about the quarterbacks on today's show. We just did part one on the Tuesday episode. We have a great quick question. The quick question here comes from Bert Bathtub on Twitter. Bert Bathtub? Burt Bathtub 5, the fifth one. Burt Bathtub 1 through 4 were taken. They were taken. Well, maybe though, by his.

father and, you know, this is Burt back of the fifth. Here's the question. Which NFL team ended up being the most different from how you envisioned it before the 2021 season? And there are lots of examples of what you might have expected. So I'll let, I'll let you guys start. I will kick it off here because this is a team that, I mean, it's changed a lot of people's opinions of what they've done.

recently to end of the year going into the playoffs. But also, for me personally, I was not a giant believer of the draft value of the Cincinnati Bengals this last year. Our bold prediction shows, if you remember. Oh, no, were they? You got it wrong. I had like five years in a row of correctly nailing a bust team for fantasy. And this year, it was the Bengals. I thought that Jamar Chase was...

being overdrafted that Burrow would get off to a slow start. Mixing has, you know, has been unreliable over the years, yada, yada, yada. But the Bengals are a very good team. They have surprised. Jamar Chase is the best rookie of all time. Burrow has, he did get off to a slow start, but he has caught fire and looks great. So overall, I did not think that the Bengals.

would be as good. And, you know, for fantasy purposes, I'm speaking specifically offensively. I did not think that their offense would be clicking and humming as well as it is right now before this season started. Mike? I guess the, I'll go with the disappointment, and it's the Baltimore Ravens of, like, it seemed like coming into the season, you had the team, you know, with their actions telling you, well, we're going to.

try to be a more pass, a heavier pass approach to our offense here. Like they added a first round wide receiver, Rashad Bateman. I mean, he goes down to injury at the beginning of the year. That's not his fault, but just changed some things. And then the loss of their running backs of Dobbins and Gus Edwards right at the beginning, going down to ACL tears before the season even starts. It just was overall pretty disappointing. And like,

Lamar Jackson will be talked about on this show, which means that he was not a top 10 quarterback. Now, Mark Andrews was incredible, but overall, what you were hoping for and expecting fantasy-wise and the offensive output of the Baltimore Ravens, it was pretty disappointing. I think most of that was injury. I really do think most of that was injury because when you delete the running back core,

in its entirety from the draft process or the start of the season. And you bring in old veterans who can get the job done, but they're not helping your offense. If you look at like the first nine games that Lamar Jackson played, he was on pace for 4,600 passing yards. That is like very not Lamar Jackson. So I think what you were saying, you know, we were looking at their transactions and what we expected. I think that was.

on its way, but the injuries to, you brought up Rashad Bateman, all the running backs. Lamar himself really derailed that. So I don't know. I think the Bengals, they get a free pass for me. Right. We'll get into the Ravens. We'll get into Lamar a bit more, but through the first 10 weeks, he was a top 12 quarterback five times and outside of that four times. So it's just, that's not what you were hoping for when you drafted Lamar. I don't know if I have one team.

I think I have a handful that I'll group together in the quarterback slash offense just never got going and it deleted a bunch of fantasy options category, which is Denver and Carolina and the Saints, where pass catchers on all those teams were almost universally useless. You know, you can kind of say, okay, DJ Moore gave you something sometimes.

But, I mean, Robbie Anderson was one of the busts of the year. You had no one viable in the New Orleans offense, pass catching wise, across any position. And the Broncos, like, it wasn't. You'd love to look at the Broncos and be like, okay, they just alternated big weeks because they were taken from each other. And, you know, Sutton went off and then Judy. And then it was Patrick. No, it was mostly they just all just, none of them did anything. Oh, for sure. I mean, they, I think the biggest offensive bust of the year has to be the Broncos.

I mean, you had, you had Giovante, who was drafted ahead of Melvin Gordon, disappoint because of the timeshare. The only real value there was Melvin Gordon, the man left for dead. Everyone was excited for, no offense, and could Corlin Sutton come back? Could Jerry Judy really take that year to leap? And everybody that was like, that you were excited about, they all sucked. Yeah, and I think it should be.

You know, it's always easy. I think on the last show we did a lot of, like, projecting how it can get better for people. I think that's just because that's human nature. We want to see the best pathway forward. We do this as hometown fans. We do this as fantasy fans. Like, unfortunately, a bad quarterback slash offensive coordinator system, it can really be impossible to overcome. I think we all agree that.

Kyle Pitts is extremely talented. I think we can all agree that DJ Moore, Terry McClellan, Jerry Judy, these are all players that if they were given volume in a good offense would perform for fantasy. And yet they can kind of be eliminated from weekly consideration just based on how the offense is performing. How can we not have more better quarterbacks? More better quarterbacks? Yeah. Yeah, I mean.

When you think about how many people are in the world, and the fact that only... Only five or ten of them are good at this game. It can be 32. It's hard. I won't be greedy and say that all the backups have to be really good. Just the starters. I should have done it. I should have gone pro. Yeah. I mean, I thought that there were enough. You denied us. I didn't do it because I thought there would be a lot of people that could do it. There's just too many of them around. I won't stand out. Join thefoot.com. If you want to become a part of our fantasy football community.

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Yes. Mike haste to lose. More than I like winning. Yes. Yes. Yes. So don't make Mike sad. Yeah, Phooklampo.com. Let's get into the truth. You want answers? I think I'm entitled. You want answers. I want the truth. You can handle the truth. All right. We covered the top 10 quarterbacks by way of Total Fantasy Point production where they finished on the last show, on the Tuesday show.