Fantasy Valentines + 2018 RB Rookie Review

I think what happened is they saw Case Keenham, not pushing the ball down the field. They saw his height, and they thought, if we could just get him a little taller, we could succeed. And so they traded for Case Keenum plus five inches, which is Joe Flacco. If you look at their career stats, it's unbelievable. You're talking about the same yards.

yards per attempt, completion percentage, passer rating, almost everything across the board is the same with the sole exception of five extra inches on Joe Flacco. He's taller. He is taller. The Broncos moved from 100 to one odds to win the Super Bowl to 125 to 1. So Vegas did not look at Joe Flacco as an up body. Flacco. And, uh,

Yeah, I mean, just kind of a little bit bewildering of a trade. They got $28 million locked up in the quarterback position now. And no future, right? The Ravens saw fit to move on from Flacco as their future. The Vikings saw fit to move on from Case Keenum for their future. And then they all gathered in Denver, I think under the illusion of we have a defense.

We just need somebody to Peyton Manning us to another Super Bowl. And maybe that's the case. I mean, their defense has been good. They're hoping that Joe Flacco will Peyton Manning them? Well, old Peyton Manning. The last year. Yeah, no, I mean, they genuinely are sitting here going, look, it worked to bring in the vet who had experience. This is a Super Bowl MVP. Well, Joe Flacco, you know, he did this before. He is a Super Bowl champion. Yeah, he does? Here's what I'm wondering, though, Jay.

They exchanged a 2019 fourth round pick for Joe Flacco. Sure. What would you have had to trade for five, like five inch lifts for the shoes of Case Kino? I doubt you have to give up a fourth. Much, much cheaper. No, this is a great deal for Baltimore. Go down to savers. If you are a Ravens fan, this is fantastic. You opened up enough cap room to be able to sign a significant free agent on any side of the ball. Like Mark Ingram? Maybe.

Man, I hope that's not true, but, but yes. You wouldn't take Marking Grum as a Baltimore Raven? No, I would, but my point is, I believe Markingrum is going to be back with the Saints. And, yeah, I believe we have a water bet on that. So if Ingram was on my dynasty team, I would be hoping he went to Baltimore. Sure, with big money. Absolutely. Get him the rock. But, you know, it's good for Baltimore. They get out of that. They get out of the worry of, you know, if Lamar Jackson's having a bad.

game or a bad stretch that oh do you bring in joe flacco and all of that they open up cap and they improve their fourth round pick it's a home run yeah the broncos had two fourth rounders they had one from the demarius thomas trade demarius thomas by the way just released yeah um had the torn achilles with houston ultimately didn't work out in houston

And he's done. It's going to be a long road back. And now I believe that they are looking to shop case Keenham around. Yeah. So teams can, if you are a general manager, you can go to eBay.com slash D Broncos. And that's how they're going to decide. They couldn't even get Denver Broncos? No. Someone claimed it. So I'm looking at, I'm on Spotrack here because I wanted to see what Joe Flacco was owed. I'm going to have to do some digging into this because.

At least the way that Spotrack has this, because they have the trade on here that he's going to be a Denver Bronco. He's going to make $18.5 million, which for, if you have a legit starting quarterback, that's not bad at all. That would not be bad. But they're saying he would now have zero dead cap after this season. So I don't know if Baltimore still had to absorb some of that into their overall salary cap.

Because if the Broncos can, in fact, test out Joe Flacco this year. Like, they still have an early enough pick that they could draft a quarterback this year, have him sit behind Flacco, who he's at least somewhat of an upgrade over Case Keenum to me. But if you can get rid of him next year for no consequence. Let's make this simple on everybody. Okay. The Broncos send Case Keenum in a second round pick to Arizona for Josh Rosen.

Cardinals draft Kyla Murray. No. And they have Keenham to back him up. No. Come on. I don't want Rosen. No. I don't want him. But let's talk bigger picture here. What does this do for Cortland Sutton, Deshawn Hamilton? Do you, Andy, do you like this for those two guys? Initially I did. Initially, because what I'm doing is I'm projecting a lot of what Joe Flacco was on what Joe Flacco is.

He's doing that too. Joe Flacco's been dealing with hip injuries, right? 20 ACL a couple years ago. He can't move in the pocket. If they don't protect him, he's not going to get the ball down field any different than Case Keenan will. And when you look at the career yards per attempt, yards per completion, look, Joe Flacco has always been known for having a good. But you've got to protect him. You've got to do a lot to make Joe Flacco good. So do I think it raises the potential of Cortland Sutton? I think a hair, 5% 10%. Like a Jason Moore hair?

Well, no, I said 5% 10%. This would be like a 1 to 4%. Speaking of that, ladies and gentlemen. Oh, yeah. If you, Andy mentioned subscribing to the YouTube channel, you're going to want to do that because of the overwhelming, I mean, there was a petition. I mean, this is a very political cause of mine. And the petition was an overwhelming success for Fedora Week for Jason Moore. So that is, the Fedora has landed. Yeah.

You look fedorable. I apologize to everybody. You know, usually I apologize for nothing. I apologize. I did. Oh, come on. Where's the rim shot on that? Here's the thing. Jason, you're growing your hair back out. Yes. I'm trying to give you the bridge. The bridge to growing your hair back out. You can pull that fedora off in a couple weeks. And I've got hair. And you've got hair. But I'm not going to wear it for a couple of weeks. Until we start another position. You're going to wear it for two weeks?

I'm wearing it for two shows one week. Because you're obligated by the fans. And then I will on YouTube burn it. All right. You can do that. All right. But I think you're going to like it. Speaking of trades and dead cap. Antonio Brown. Antonio Brown has officially asked to be traded. He went on his Twitter and basically said goodbye. He did a full Oprah.

Yeah, he's. I mean, he's living the secret right now. He just, if he believes it, he put it out into the universe that says, I'm moving on. And he has neither been cut nor traded by the Pittsburgh Steelers. You know, the Vegas odds are out for, you can actually, because you can bet on anything, you can bet on where he is going to land. And I believe the Steelers, I give them 10% chance that he's back there. But according to the Vegas odds, they were the second highest odds.

to land Antonio Brown next year, to have him. The Steelers were. Right. Because, man. Yeah, he's not going back there. He's not going back there. We'll see. Because I don't know how you can placate a guy like that at this point in time and not risk. The thing is, is the reports at the end of the season before the Bengals game is that something changed. I mean, nobody could reach him. Nobody could talk to him. Like it was not, it was off the grid different. And so I don't think they can risk that.

in this window they have with Big Ben. So I think he's moved. I want to agree, but he's got a lot working against him. I guess Pittsburgh does. You have, now he was guilty of a reckless driving. He's got a couple things that are out there in the ethos hanging over him. That mustache is not helping. No. Can any of you two, can anybody, Brooks, can you handle that blonde mustache? No. Look, I can't handle it. It's definitely.

A bold fashion statement. That's what I can say about that. And on top of that, you're talking $20 plus million of dead cap for the Pittsburgh Steelers to trade him away. So it's, I agree that I think he will be moved, but it's not going to be as easy as him tweeting out that I'm not on the team anymore. All right, that is it for the news and notes. Do you hate ads on your fantasy app? So do we.

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Back into the rookie review, our dive through the 2018 rookies, how they performed. We go through based on their spot in the NFL draft and kind of break down the truth of these fantasy rookies. Just covered the quarterbacks and wide receivers on the Tuesday show. So if you missed it, get back over there. Get over there. Listen up. All right. Running backs today. Let's go ahead and dive in here. Saquan Barkley. I've heard of him.

is pretty good. We did talk about him on the truth episode, so we'll keep it brief, the running back truth episode, just because he finished so high. He was the number two running back with the number four consistency ranking, but he never busted. He was absolutely dominant, especially against bottom 16 teams. He was elusive. He had the highest percentage of breakaway runs in the NFL this year, led the league running backs in scrimmage yards.

Third most all time for a rookie. What is there to add to Saquan Barclay? You know, there were rumors today. Mind you, bold prediction, Jay Glazer rumors about O'Dell Beckham Jr. leaving that team via trade. But is Saquan the backbone of this team for the next several years instead of Odell Beckham Jr.?

Yeah, I mean, I think Sequin is the center of their offense. That's what they want. They drafted him to be that. And that doesn't take away from O'Dell Beckham. But Sequin is, he's another level. I mean, I was watching some film on the Giants this last week. And every time that he broke away, I'm like, man, I just forget how different he is as a human. He's just, he's bigger, but he's also faster at the same time. And he's the very rare running back where.

You know, running backs, unlike a wide receiver, you usually, you get your fantasy points as the game goes on. You know, the first quarter, the second quarter, you know if you've got a good game or not, but there were several games. It was like, okay, looks like he's having a bad game, and he could bust off an 80-yard run, you know, regardless of whether they're down or up or, you know, any situation. So, Sequin Barclay should be in the conversation for the number one overall pick next year.

He probably won't be number one on ADP, but I can't see him being lower than fourth. He might be. He's in the tier one. By the way, to lay of the land this year versus last year, the number of games for rookies with 100 plus yards from scrimmage, there were 40 total total totaled than the 2017 rookie running back class. So we're talking about total yards from scrimmage. That includes the pass catchers and the like. Sequin did it 13 times.