Fantasy Football Podcast 2017 - Super Bowl Banter, 2016 Trivia, News & Updates

All time NFL, you look at the historical data of best quarterback rating paired with a wide receiver. And you find the greats. You find, you know, the Peyton Manning and Harrison. You find Jerry Rice and Montana. You want to know who's right up there with all of them is Russell Wilson when he targets Doug Baldwin. And when I saw that, it was he's so good with that. They're not going to go away from it. It's part of that offense.

He's already signed. They've got... Pop quiz. How old is Doug Baldwin? I'm going to go 26. I'm going to go 27. You're both wrong. He's 28. Oh. But that was obviously the next one. But that would have been your next guest. All right. I love Doug Baldwin next year. I'll be on record saying that. He's a wide receiver one to me. You fix that O line a little bit in Seattle? But I'm not.

What does that sound? That was them attempting to fix their offensive line. More eggplant? Is that what that way? Their offensive line is the eggplant of the offensive line world. Yeah. Well, it can only be. It's very mushy. It can only be better. All right, a mushy. It just falls apart. And yet. And yet. And yet. And yet. And it just wide receiver 10. That's the point. He's a beast. All right. How many of these can you get? All right. Any order. You can guess these in any order.

These are top five questions here. Top five sacked quarterbacks. Andrew Luck. In the past two seasons in any order. The past two. I'm still going with this. This is over the past two years. Certainly Andrew Luck's going to be number one. I'm going with Andrew Luck. Russell Wilson. Okay. I just saw Blake Bortles. Oh, you're looking at the screen? Don't look at the screen. Well, I got to pull the winners up here. Sorry. I have the dock, but you're going to cheat. I'm going to go.

So you got Wilson, Bortles. Yeah, I wouldn't say Joe Flock. Newton? Luck is not one of the answers. He's not? He's not. Because of the time missed? Neither is Cam Nude. Oh, it's over the last two years. Yep. Wilson, Bortles. That, by the way, they're the top two. Wilson 86 times, Bortles, 85 times. Yeah, Wilson gets sacked all the time. The last three are 81, 81, and 78 sacks. Last guesses. Man, of the last. Philip Rivers? Nope. All right. Aaron Rogers.

Oh, yeah. Aaron Rogers. That makes very much. Matthew Stafford. Stafford and Rogers both have 81 and Tyrod Taylor. Oh, I know. Tyrod led the league this year. He was ahead of Andrew Luck. Perfect follow-up question to the offensive line situation, right? You have Wilson, Bordles, Rogers, Stafford, Taylor. Wilson and Rogers have clearly overcome the O-Lines situation, the sacks, to be fantasy relevant. Stafford has for the most part.

Bortles, we've seen the good and the bad for the past two years. Kind of the decent in the bad. When it's good, it's bad. And then Tyrod Taylor, product of holding onto the ball looking to run some of those things. Is Tyrod Taylor a starting quarterback in the NFL next year? Ooh, that's an excellent question. For the whole year, no. Yeah, I mean, for week one. Probably not. Probably not. I'm going to go, no. Yeah, I'm going to say yes. I'm going to say yes. Okay.

Tyro Taylor, yes. All right. Top five running backs in terms of touchdowns for 2016 in any order. I know you're going to get a few of these, but in all touchdowns? Yep. The top five touchdowns for. Blunt. DJ. Zeke. Zeke. Who are the last two? I'm going to go DeMarco? No? No? Ooh. No. But you're.

Yeah, you're kind of warm. Oh, Latavius. I'll go with the other, Mr. Murray number 12, 12 for Latius. And then one more. Murray. Yeah, let's, was it Freeman? It wasn't. It wasn't. It was, uh, as slippery as a make plan. Oh, really? I was going to guess him, but yeah, he did. He had a great touchdown year after last year's debacle. Yeah. And, uh, little snack with, with, you know, that's with Mike Gillisley.

Taking all my touchdowns. A little stat nugget for you. According to PFF's end-of-season offensive line rankings, four of these guys had top 11 offensive lines. Which one did not? So you have... We got to go through the list again. Well, you know the list. Blunt, D.J., Zeke, McCoy, and Murray. Oh, I would look at a blunt. No. Murray. What? The Raiders? No, no, no. I honestly didn't mean that. I meant shady.

No. No, they're great. What? I didn't mean that. Oh, oh, oh. This is David Johnson. Our offensive line was garbage. Offensive line for the Cardinals was 26th was 26th line. Good work, gentlemen. That's what we're here. David Johnson, the 26th ranked offensive line. I'm glad you guessed all of them, except for David Johnson there. We didn't get Zeke. That's true. Thank you, Mike. Your geniuses. A high five. Top five wide receivers in yards per reception.

Minimum 65 catches. Julio. Oh, Julio Jones. Dang it. Top five. So you said Julio? Yeah, Julio. I'm going to go Mike Evans. Jordy. Jordan knows. Brandon Cooks. I don't think Jordy's in there. Brandon Cooks. You have Julio's in there? Okay. Brandon Cooks is in there. Yeah. The only two you got right. He had a 98 yard. Wait. Evans is not in there? No. Wow.

No, Julio is the leader. 16.98, Cook's 15.4. Tyrell Williams. Yes. Yeah. 15.35. Two left. Any, any guesses? They are not, well, one of them is definitely not prolific. The other one is pretty good. Pretty darn good. Oh, minimum is 65. I think D. Jax is under that reception. He's not one of them. Yeah. Oh, Hilton? T. Y. Hilton. Oh, yeah, that's a great one. 15.91.

And then the last one is the one I have a follow-up with. Oh, great. He's 28 years old and he's a free agent. He was wide receiver 26. He had 68 catches. And he was in the top five in yards per reception. Oh, who's a free agent? Cameron Merrick. Oh. Is it Adam Thielen? No. That's a good guess. I don't think he had 65 catches, though. Yeah, probably not. Kenny Brett.

Oh, yeah. Kenny Britt, 28 years old, a free agent. We just talked about Doug Baldwin being 28 years old. Britt has all the physical talent in the world, as long as he's not rolling his golf cart like he did in hard knocks. Do you know how hard it is to get a thousand yards season when you're a wide receiver, right? Your game is built on agility, speed, and you have this thousand pound weight of Jeff Fisher wearing you down every single day.

Did you see the question somebody asked Jason yesterday? No. Oh, would you rather? What was it for the next two years? No, it was 10. It was next 10 years. For the next 10 years, which of these things would rather do? Eat eggplant for every meal or have Jeff Fisher be the Cardinals coach for 10 years. I don't want to answer it because it shows a little bit of selfishness. No, I said Jeff Fisher. It's definitely Jeff Fisher. That was inedible. Because I will die. I feel so, I feel like I just, I hit the jackpot. Jeff Fisher went to a Super Bowl once. We can, we can dream.

That's what all owners say themselves. Well, I guess he went once. Yeah, all right. Here we go. He's very good. These are interesting. Some random trivia for you. Only six, only six quarterbacks have thrown for 50 plus touchdowns in their first two seasons, right? You combine not 50 per year. Oh, wow. But the combined total for their first two years in the NFL, only six quarterbacks have done it.

Dan Marino is the top of that list. He had 68 combined touchdowns in his first two seasons. Winston and Marioo? Who? No, hold on. I haven't given you the question yet. Darn it. Which active quarterback is second on that list? So Marino leads it, 68 combined touchdowns. Which quarterback active right now is second on the list? So 50 plus touchdowns in his first two seasons. That's right.

Well, it's not going to be Andrew Luck. His explosion was... It is not Andrew Luck. Was his third year. Andy Dalton? No, I'm not going to go. I know he came in strong year one with AJ Green. 50 plus touchdowns in two years. He just did it. Oh. So, recently. Very recently. Wait. Well, I'm not giving you, when you said like Andy Dalton, that was a long time ago. Sure. So I'm just saying he...

And it's not Winston or Mario. It is not. So, and it's throwing, so it's not Cam. Now, is this, is this a qualified? Is this their first two, like, they're starting the entire year? Their first two years in the league. Oh, very first two years. This, this quarterback just finished his third year. Wow. There's a lot of clues that have been given for us to not get this. He just, a third year quarterback.

Is it Bortles? It is not. Okay. It is. It is. It is Derek Carr. Wow. 50? 53 touchdowns in his first two years. Not bad. Here's a, by the way, Peyton Manning, Russell, Wilson, Carson, Palmer, James Winston are the other four. So Winston. Oh, James did do it. Winston was right and wrong because he wasn't second on the list, but he was in that group. So Winston hit 50. I'll take the victory. Yeah, of course. Wow.

Derek Carr, man. All right. In 2016, the top two players in Red Zone targets and targets inside the 10-yard line are both from the same team. Whoa, say that again? Read that again. In 2016, the top two players in Red Zone targets and targets inside the 10-yard line are both from the same team. What team? Which players? I'm going to go Jordie and Devonte Adams.

Jordy and Devante is correct. Yeah. All right. That's a high fiver. So they were top two in both Red Zone targets and targets inside the 10 yard line. Because Aaron Rogers don't like Russian touchdowns. No. Russian touchdowns? Yeah. Like Vladimir Putin touchdowns? Exactly. Those are the, those are not good. Yeah, you don't want Russian touchdowns. Unless you're listening. You want America touchdowns. To the show in Russia, then bonjour. Hey, yeah. Bonsure. In that case, bonjourner.

That picture, that graph that was shared after the Super Bowl on Twitter that was so funny. It was just. Super Bowls won by country? Yes. Global Maps. Super Bowl's won by country. That was from at Terrible Maps on Twitter. 100% U.S. I love that stuff. Welcome to America. World champions. Oh, my gosh. All right. Last one. Last one. Tide-in Hunter Henry had eight receiving touchdowns this year, rookie year. Only four other tight-ins ever.

have had eight or more touchdowns in their rookie year. That was Mike Dicka in 1961, Junior Miller in 1980, Lee Evans in 2004. Who was the most recent before Henry? This one shouldn't be hard. Is it Gronk? It's Gronk. Yeah. It's Gronk. This is just to say how good Henry could be. Gates, get out the way. You heard it here. Gates get out the way. I thought you said Gron get out of the way for a second. I'm like, hold on. No, no, no. They clearly don't need Gronk.

I mean, that's what we learned, right? Oh, absolutely. Worthless player. Unnecessary. All right. So did it, is gronk, uh, what do you do with him next year? Well, I was, other than trepidatiously draft him wherever he goes. This is a more important question. Did grunk party harder than everyone on the Patriots team after winning the Super Bowl, despite not playing in the Super Bowl? 100%. That's all he had to do was party. Did you see the two videos?

Where he's like, Brady's the best, baby. No, I've not seen this. Five Super Bowls, I got two. And then he just runs off. I mean, he's just. He is the biggest child. Yes, he is the largest child. He is the largest child. On earth. So, all right, just some eye-opening trivia to add to all of the other chatter. Definitely check out the new articles up on the website. We're getting four or five of those up every week.

Going to get some rookie previews and rookie shows going very soon. You want to know what else is coming really soon? I do. A new studio where right before shows, my microphone is not falling off on me and cutting my arm. Did you cut your arm? No, but it could have. Could have? Yeah. So we're giving Mike a hard time because he was late today. Yep. And so we're sitting here literally twiddling our thumbs, getting ready to start the show.

Mike comes hustling in. And like moments before we start the show, Jason's entire microphone stand and microphone just collapsed and falls right on him. So that would have happened in the show. So now Mike's going to use it as justification to be late. It was ghosts. All right. Stay tuned. It was ghosts. Before we jump off the air, I had one more thing just like a quick discussion point that I wanted to hit on because the Twitter, the Twitter trolls are out. The Twitter trolls are out in full force. Michael Floyd.

One Super Bowl ring, Larry Fitzgerald, zero rings. But that's not really the point of the question that I wanted to ask. But let's say you are an NFL player. I mean, we're going very off topic here, but you're an NFL player. You are inactive for two-thirds of the playoff run. You joined that team late. When you get that Super Bowl ring, do you actually feel joy? I wouldn't.