Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Trivia Time, News & Notes, Combine Reactions

period. But one of them had... Final three games. One of them had four. Okay. So I... In the last three weeks of the season, I had more than any other wide receiver, which was half my total on the year. And I'm going to go with a guy who I still believe in. And people, the shine is now way off of him because the first half of his season was complete trash. Speaking of trash, he was the ultimate garbage man. However, the second half of the year, he put up...

Great stats for fantasy. I'm going with Jordan Matthews. Oh, I'm going to surprise myself here because it was the one name I wanted to not have on this list when you first read it. But thinking more clearly, if he had three touchdowns in these last couple games and that doubled his total, that means he didn't have many on the year, six. And I'm going to go Demarius Thomas, who...

just had a really disappointing year. Well, actually, you want to listen carefully. He would have had four. I said they all had three, but one had four. So he would have finished with eight. The correct answer is Jordan Matthews. I'm doing bad on this listening part. Who finished with eight. You got to write this down. I got to be able to read this.

But yes, Jordan, so Baldwin, Maclin, and Thomas, all had three. Matthews had four, which was half of his eight on the year. And he's another guy who, like Mike said, the shine was off of him because he started so poorly. But he really did end up with another great season overall. And it sounds like, to me, sounds like Sam Bradford will be back. Allegedly Philadelphia has already upped their contract offer to him. You get another year of...

of chemistry, at least, between Bradford and Matthews. I know it's going to be a new offense because the coaching staff is completely different, but you've got to like the longer-term chemistry between the two. Yeah, that's a good point. More importantly, where are we at score-wise? It is five to five. How many questions do we have left? We have several. Okay. These next couple, you do not get multiple choice. Oh, man. You are forced to guess them. All right. Number eight.

If you took my last five games of the 2015 season, which were, by the way, 16 passing touchdowns and one interception, and averaged that out over an entire NFL season of 16 games, I would have thrown 51 touchdowns and had three interceptions. Which quarterback? Am I? You got to set your phasers to kill. Go, Kirk Cousins? Hmm.

I was not going to go with Kirk Couss. Oh, all right. We got Kurt Cousins from Jason. I was going to go with another favorite of the show, Russell Wilson. The answer. Well, let me put it this way. One of you got it right. And one of you did not. And the one who did not had 13 touchdowns and one interceptions. Oh, no. So we were both right on the money just one of us. Very close. But the answer is.

Russell Wilson. Kurt Cousins had 13 and 1. I knew I hate Kirk Cousins. Why did I say his name? Cam Newton went 15 and 1 over that span. Blake Bortles went 13 and 5 over that span. But Russell Wilson, 16 passing touchdowns and one interception. Russell Wilson and Mike in the lead now. Look, honey baked hands. The power of the Baldwin. Is he the, yeah, Doug Baldwin. I think he's the newest Baldwin, brother.

Yeah, put him in the brothers. Yeah, we need a Photoshop picture of all of the Baldwin brothers with Doug Baldwin there. That'd be a good team name, the Baldwin's. So, you know, we all hesitate to ascribe greatness to Doug Baldwin. But do we hesitate to ascribe it to Russell Wilson for next season? Oh, man. 51 touchdown pace. This is not, you know, a small sample size. No, this whole second half of the year, he went.

Just bananas. And of the earlier guys, the quarterbacks right now, I really like Russell Wilson because at least to me, he won't be one of those first four-round guys. Maybe he will be by the time draft season rolls around. I'm still not going to pay that price. But if I'm going to go in on any of the guys, let's say I can get Cam or Rogers in the second or I can get Russell Wilson.

in the four or five area, I'd go to, I'd go with Wilson. I think it's interesting because the reality that we need to, we can all like Thomas Rawls. You can love him. You can do whatever you want. The odds of him being as efficient a runner as March on Lynch are almost none. Yeah. It just doesn't happen like that.

We can all remember Jeremy Hill and all the potential Jeremy Hill had. It's very, very hard to be really, really good in consecutive years and to build a career like Marshall Lynch. That leans me towards thinking Russell Wilson is going to keep throwing the ball the way he was. Now, it might not be Baldwin. It might be Lockett. It might be Lockett. If he keeps throwing the ball like that, Lockett and Baldwin should both have great years. Sure. So, six, five, Mike's in the lead. All right. Question number nine. This.

Wide receiver was second in the league in receptions through the first eight weeks of the season. Who is he? Second most receptions through the first half. And if we need to go to multiple choice, we can. There's two names that come to my mind. We'll give you one guess each, then we'll go to multiple choice. DeAndre Hopkins and Julian Edelman were unbelievable. This is this targets or receptions? I didn't listen again. Receptions. Second most. Second most. So those are the two guys that come to mind like one and two. I'm with you.

Julian Edelman. Because I think DeAndre Hopkins was leading by a long shot. Ooh, that's a very valid. That's a very valid point. I'm trying to think of a third player X who could possibly be at, ooh, Julio Jones had a hot start. Yeah. A hot start to the season. And.

Hopkins was the first name that popped into my head. The second is a little conflicting with that, but I'm going to go with Hopkins. All right, you're both wrong. Yeah. Except for Mike was right. Julio Jones was first at that point in the season with 70 receptions. This player had 67. It's not Hopkins. It's not Edelman. Do we want more guess? Halfway through the season, 67 receptions, the leader was Julio Jones was 70. Oh. Antonio Brown? No. No. All right.

Sorry, guys. Jason gets a guess. One guess, Jason. Jarvis Landry. Where's the music? Yes. This is the perfect time for the music. That's a great guess. It is not Jarvis Landry. That's a really good one, though. You guys, I thought you would get it right away. He's one of my... Brandon Marshall? Oh, really. Not Brandon Marshall. This is just going to be... Who is this? Who is this? Keenan Allen. Oh, yes. Keenan Allen, guys. I forgot about him.

That's what's so great about Keenan Allen. That is literally, bringing this back to fantasy football for next year, that is what's so great about Keenan Allen. Give me Levion Bell in the first and Keenan Allen in the second round, maybe. I'm with you, man. I'm all on, all aboard on Keenan Allen. Those kidney lacerations, those don't happen back to back years, hopefully. He's got two. So you guys earned a cool zero points each on that one. All right. All right. Question number 10. Nailed it.

In 2015, I had eight touchdowns against top ten opponents, which is more than Ben Rothesberger, Andy Dalton, Eli Manning, and Kirk Cousins. Oh, I'm not even a quarterback. Who am I? You really threw me off there. I'm like racking my brain through quarterback. Here's here. In 2015, I had eight touchdowns against top ten opponents. I'm not a quarterback. Your options are A, Doug Baldwin, B, Jeremy Hill. C, Rob Grankowski, or D.

Tavon Austin. I'm so upset that you didn't even name the name of the guy. And let me say this. All four of those names I gave you had at least six touchdowns against top ten opponents. All right, you got to give me the names again because I was just waiting for my guy to be named. Doug Baldwin, Jeremy Hill, Rob Grankowski, and Tavon Austin. Who do you think? It's kind of a weird question. So that's a hard one. It's a little bit weird. That's a weird one. But I remember, I seem to recall Jeremy Hill having multi-touchdown games.

So I'm going to go with the burst effect of – I know he dropped a couple, at least on the Cardinals. So I'm going to go with Jeremy Hill. Yeah, that's – Doug Baldwin, Jeremy Hill, Rob Gronkowski, Tavon, Austin. Strong guess. Obviously – And I know Hill had a bunch of – He had 10 plus. Doug Baldwin had a lot of multi-touchdown games. I'm not sure that it was against the best competition. I'm going to go with Gronk. I know he put up some against good competition. Very close. Gronk had seven.

Hillhead 6. The answer is Doug Baldwin. Oh, my boy. Doug Baldwin. So you both have failed again. We have two questions left on this quiz. Jason is trailing 6 to 5. This is unacceptable. I got a sweep. Impressive year for Doug Baldwin, no doubt. All right. Number 11, I did, I'm sorry. I do not start at running back, but I have over 50 receptions and have the same amount of rush attempts in 2015 as I do receptions. Okay.

So same amount of rush attempts as I do receptions. Am I Theoretic? Oh, I already had a guess. Am I Tavon Austin? Am I Gio Bernard? Am I Dexter McCluster? My guess was the aforementioned. He was in the previous question. And I'm going with the... Oh, man. I feel like you only had... I feel like you only had like 20-something receptions. I'm going with Tavon Austin. I'm going with Gio Bernard.

The answer is Tavon Austin. Yes. It's done. This game is done. This game is frank. I didn't tell you the last question has bonus points. Oh, no. Tavon Austin had 52 rush attempts and 52 receptions. Well, that's more than receptions than I gave him. Theo Riddick had 43 rush attempts and 80 receptions. Gio had 154 rush attempts and 49 receptions, and McCluster was 55 rush attempts 31. So Tavon Austin, the...

Enigmatic Tavon Austin. I never want to start Tavon Austin, and yet if I did, I would be happy every third game, maybe every other game for a while there during the season. I love, love when I have a wide receiver that gets the ball handed to him. I loved having Percy Harvin during that eight or nine games he had with Minnesota where he got into rounds and he got opportunities to run the ball. We've seen Randall Cobb do that before. Exactly. So here we go.

All right. If Jason can get this one, I'll give you one more question, just to make it close. All right. Number 12. Even though I was one of only 10 wide receivers in 2010 to catch 10 plus touchdowns, I had a lower catch rate than anyone from wide receiver 1 through wide receiver 5. Did you say 2010? No, I'm sorry. I said, even though I was one of only 10 wide receivers.

in 2015 to catch 10 plus touchdowns. Okay, so this wide receiver 10 plus touchdowns? Had 10 plus touchdowns, but he had a lower catch rate than anybody from the span of wide receiver 1 to wide receiver 5. Oof. All right? Okay, catch rate. Really low catch rate, 10 plus touchdowns. And this is a guess one. Well, the first thing that comes to mind is Mike Evans because you can't catch the ball. Yeah. But I'm, yeah, I'm going to go with Mike Evans.

I'm not sure that did Evans have to be touched? That was my question. I don't think he did. I don't think he did. Oh, come on! Well, you're looking at a player list over here. No, I looked at a player list, and now I know the answer, but I'm not going to say it because it was after I... Off the top of my head, I know he had a great year with Ryan Fitzpatrick. He's still not the most accurate quarterbacks. I'm going to go Brandon Marshall. This is sucky obvious, I think. And then I'm going to get that right. Well, let's see how dumb you are.

All right, let's see how I'm I am. It's got to be Ted Ginn Jr. It is Ted Ginn Jr. I mean, the guy can't catch. We had 44 receptions on 97 targets, which is a 45% catch rate, and he had 10 touchdowns. Other guys in that, this will be interesting for you, because maybe this will change your perspective on one of them. James Jones was 50 on 100 and had eight touchdowns. Emmanuel Sanders was 76 on 137, which is only 55% catch rate, and had six touchdowns. Alan Robinson.

was 80 on 153 targets, which was only a 52% catch rate, but had 14 touchdowns. So that might take a little bit of the fading Alan Robinson. Maybe his touchdown numbers go down, but maybe it gets to 90, 100 receptions, evens that out a little bit next year. Sure. But the answer is Ted Ginn. Yeah. Another player, if you were rolling Tavon Austin and Ted Ginn out there. Dancing with the devil. Scary stuff. You did not win your championship, if that's what happened. Maybe. Yeah, might have.

the stars would have had to align on a weekly basis. Well, Mike, congratulations, Mike. You are the winner of Player Game. You're a winner of the Demon Game for 2016 on this leap year to wait March 1st. We have a mailbag show on Thursday. If you have a question that you want to answer on the show, that's what we do.