The TRUTH: QBs Part 2 + Deep Dives, Pendulum Swings - Fantasy Football Podcast for 1/21

And then they got Stephon Diggs. He leveled up. He became a good, you know, more consistent thrower. If you watch the first year or two of Josh Allen, you got head-scratching throws that were just like, man. Josh Allen fixed. He was fixed with mechanics. Yes. If you go back and you really look at the way he threw the football, you listen to him talk about it, it was one specific trainer changing one specific movement in the way that he threw the football. Well, let's get your phone number. Okay. This sounds very easy. Now that we know, let's just ask who that guy.

That guy and like five VR headsets. Five to ten. You better burn all the time. Burn them out. Last name I want to talk about because I know Jason wants to talk about it. So Bryce Young, who came in as the 25th ranked quarterback, 18th in consistency, 29th in the first half, lost his job. Second half, 14th, showed some flashes. It was interesting to see at the end of the year. I don't know if Dave Canales figured something out. I don't know if it was a softer schedule. I don't know if the game slowed down for real for Bryce Young.

I think it did. But it gives you some hope. When we're talking fantasy, it's not always about will you start Bryce Young next year. It's about can you start his wide receivers? Can you start a running back because they're going to be in the red zone? Or is this offense as inept as it was for a year and a half? It's nice to see. Yeah, this will not be a projection of top ten Bryce Young next year. No, he can give us other players. Watching Bryce Young over the second half was so exciting. The man, he got his confidence back.

He was happy. In a big way. Yeah, he was happy. He's doing turnaround touchdown celebrations. Like, he really, really, I think he found it. I don't know. I don't think Bryce Young will ever be a... Did he ever do the Jameson Williams celebration? Oh! I don't think he was that happy. That was out of control. That was something. That was out of control. It's all right. Only two pumps. Yeah, three is the penalty. Yeah. The nice thing is, you know, the second half of the year, and for fantasy purposes, what I hope we get from Bryce Young, I think a lot of times he's really seen or assumed because he was a timing passer and he's a smaller guy that's not this incredible athlete that he's pure pocket passer.

But, you know, after that bye week when he got back in, he was on pace for 432 rushing yards. That is a real... That's a dual threat. You know, that's kind of the numbers we're talking about with Bo Nix where you have games where he's rushing for 30 to 50 yards. It's not every game, but at least it can provide you a way for... They're going to add another wide receiver here, right? They tried to get Deontay Johnson to fix the problem. Yeah, they didn't have... I mean, Leggett's the only one under contract past 2025, so definitely, to me, he played...

The comp to me in the second half of the year, he played more like Baker Mayfield. Yeah. He was eyes downfield, a lot of escapability, making stuff happen. I think he'll be a very good quarterback, too, to draft in fantasy. You know, when we're looking at these guys who are going to be drafted, you know, either not drafted in single quarterbacks, or if you're in a super flex league and they're drafted, you know, 13 through 32, he'll probably be a better value than the guys around him. The truth about Bryce Young is that he will be an NFL quarterback, I think, for a little while,

which didn't seem like was going to be the case when Andy Dalton took over for him. It's really nice to be drafted with the number one pick, because I think if he was a second round... If he was a Will Levis, he never would have gotten the opportunity again. Certainly, yeah. The leash is longer. So we'll get into the truth of the running back position on Thursday. Saquon is breaking it. Yeah, you looked at me like you had stared at these documents. Dude, he's not number one. I mean, I'm going to auto-make him number one, because according to our metrics...

Are you going to break the data? What is happening with you and the data, man? He just... Well, we don't have a historical comp for, like, games over 30 points. He's not getting enough credit for the incredible games, which he had five of. How about you... We'll give that context. Yeah, we'll get that next... We'll give that context. ...next episode. All right, a couple reminders here at the end. You can go to ShotBallers.com. Check out the Foot Clan title swag if you won a championship this last week. One of the ways that you can help this show, if you have a few free moments, click that follow button.

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