The TRUTH: Top Tier Fantasy RBs in 2019 - Fantasy Football Podcast

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excited to be back with you. Tuesday, January 21st, the Fantasy Footballers podcast. It's a running back truth episode, Andy Mike and Jason. You'll find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. Fresh off of Championship Weekend. Oh, yes. This is a good one. Half, half good. Half good. Yeah, I mean. I wouldn't say you'd call that good. I would say that it was not as good.

You're saying if it's half good, it's not good. Yeah. A good championship weekend would be two amazing games. No, then it would be amazing. I feel troubled. So Brooks is out of town. He's actually on vacation. We have Al Borland running the switches and the dials. And it just was bad timing for Al in general. Isn't that right, Al? Yeah, it's right. So we were on Slack talking about the 49er game. Al's a humongous Packer fan.

And it was a rough weekend, but I felt like the games were a little merciful. Like I knew I could, you know, plan some stuff for the second half of the game last night. But here we are. Kansas City, San Francisco. Patrick Mahomes doing basically everything for the Chiefs. Jimmy Garoppolo doing basically nothing for the 49ers. Although I'm always hesitant to criticize the Tanya Hill Garoppolo type of games because...

You do what's asked of you. He didn't do anything wrong. He just put up 77 yards passing on six completions. It's, yeah, it's one thing. It was like he played a quarter of a quarter of the game. Right. It's one thing if he plays poorly, he just didn't play. I mean, that's coach's decision, his D&P. I believe that Emmanuel Sanders and Debo Samuel could have, like, ran out for their routes and just set up a little table and had a meal. Like, they were unnecessary.

29 carries for Rahim Mostert. I was so surprised when Tevin Coleman went out that it was just Mostert for every carry for the rest of the game. No Matt Breda? Yeah. In fact, I didn't say no Matt Breder just now because I didn't want to sound stupid in case he was inactive. No, he was there. That's how not used he was, is I thought maybe he was just inactive for the game somehow. I thought maybe you forgot what his name was. Like, there's only Brita because Matt.

Burrito. No, he was. And also, thanks a lot, Mostert. Thanks for showing up for my beat the ballers two weeks ago when I picked you.

It's just very frustrating watching a guy that you hype up and you say he's going to be great and then he's non-existent. And then you try to take credit this week for your hype because even though he didn't do anything for you the other week, this is still the credit you want. It's how we cope. It's almost like no one knew Rahe Moser could do anything until now when you said it. When I said it first. You can find us on Apple Podcast. Appreciate you subscribing. Reviewing the show. We're on Spotify. We're out free on Stintcher Premium.

And obviously the YouTube channel, YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. The miracle run for the Titans falls short, 3524 Kansas City and 3720, the San Francisco game. Let's just get it out of the way right here, right now. Who's winning the Super Bowl? Kansas City. Yeah, I've got the Chiefs by six. I want the Chiefs to win. It's going to be tough. I think I'll just stick with my.

like before the playoffs began pick, which was San Francisco over the Chiefs. So they're a machine. San Francisco is a machine. They are, but like if they get Tyreek, you know, because like San Francisco, they're great secondary. Part of that is Richard Sherman has been absolutely outstanding this year recovering from a massive injury. Tyreek Hill is not the type of wide receiver that Richard Sherman can guard.

He mugs people at the line. He's a very physical dude. But as soon as Tyreek, he'll slips past him. I mean, he'll be able to take him out of some, a couple of plays when he's lined up on him. You know, he'll jam him good. But there'll be plays that if he doesn't get a hand on him, he'll just be gone. Two great head coaches, really excited for the opportunity for Andy Reid to get the victory. You know, as a Cardinal fan, I can't root for the 49ers, but I do think they'll end up on top.

There was some classic Andy Reed shenanigans going on at the end of that first half, man, where he got bailed out by Mahomes' ridiculous. His run? His 20-yard run. But you're like, you have timeouts, Andy Reid. What are you doing? Never heard of them. Never heard of them. Apparently. All right, let's do some buy sell. Buy or sell presented by pristine auction. All right, today's buy sell. It's a simple question. Hollywood Brown, Marquise Brown. Is he a?

Top 24 wide receiver in 2020. Let me give you a lay of the land here. He finished the year this past year at wide receiver 46. I don't really care about that at all. He missed some time, but he was 46 for 584 and 7 on 71 targets. He finished as a top 12 wide receiver in fantasy three different times. By the way, that's the same amount as Stefan Diggs, Jarvis Landry, Tyler Lockett, Odell Beckham, oh, more than Odell.

Only had a 16.7% market share in the offense. What do you think? Yeah, so this is going to be interesting. I mean, his struggles this year. I loved Hollywood coming in. And now you've seen a Baltimore Ravens offense that has taken a major step forward because Lamar Jackson has taken that step forward as a passer. So he's the clear number one wide receiver for a top, you know, offensive team. So you usually would put those guys in the top 24. The issue here to me is.

injury concerns, right? He came into the NFL already injured. He missed games. He got banged up. He's a tiny little guy out there, but he is electric. And when I am, you know, statting these guys out and looking, I usually assume unless there's an extreme case of someone who just has never in their career basically been able to play a season, I project health. And so I assume he will be inside my top 24. But he'll have a high.

risk rating, right? Because we've talked about the list frank and the type of injury that he's had before where the chance of re-injury on the first surgery is, you know, it's like 20%, which is really high, even though it's still a minority. So he'll be a very high risk top 24 guy for me. Yeah, I think top 24 is, it's pretty easy for Hollywood Brown. There are so many games where he wasn't even on the field for like 50%.

Of the offensive snaps for Baltimore as he worked his way back from injury. Oh, it's because he's not a tight end, Mike. They only allow. They play six tight end. Yeah. How surprised will you be when their first round pick is a tight end? Yeah, seriously. We can't get it. I like the math adds up. It's working for them. They had a great season. More tight ends means more wins. I like the fact that even though it was, I mean, they lost the playoff game.

His highest percentage of snaps was this last game. 11 targets over 100 yards. I know they're trying to catch up, of course. But see, I feel like a top 24 should be pretty easy for Brown. Yeah, I'm buying it as well. And the truth is, is he's built to be the kind of player that both finishes in the top 24 and possibly disappoints you because of consistency, because of big plays, because of...

you know, piling up a Stefan, like a Stefan Diggs top 24 type season is probably the template for what Marquise Hollywood Brown will do, where some games, the running game, Lamar on the ground, you might not need Hollywood. It's a good comp. And if you go back to our truth episodes of wide receivers and you look at how Stefan Diggs, you know, he had a great finish.

End of the year, he's a good fantasy wide receiver. But the truth is, he hurt players as often as he helped him. So maybe that is a template saying, be careful. I love what I saw on the field. You just want to see more of it on the field. Yeah, and you want to be able to see a target volume that allows for consistency in fantasy football. And you just brought it up, right? If they're dominating certain games, he can just be unnecessary. Right.

Right. That was by yourself from Pristine Auction. Check them out. Pristineauction.com. Use the code ballers. You get a $10 credit towards some sports memorabilia, autographed sports gear. Let's get into some news. News and notes from around the league. We did just get back from Las Vegas. We were at the Fantasy Sports and Gaming Association's winter conference. We took some hardware back, including the industry's best podcast award, which was pretty amazing.

Yes. And super honored to win that. And it's a reflection on you guys, the listeners, and where the shows come. But it was pretty cool. And I'll jump in. Thank you so much. Everyone who voted for us for numbers of things. But for me personally, I got the fan vote for the fantasy analyst of the gear. And everyone was trying to get this award. If you saw Twitter, you saw everybody was pushing for it. So the fact that the foot clan overcame.

heavy, heavy hitters in the industry, humbled as always, and just really, really thank you for that. The Foot Clan's undefeated. Yeah, that's true. I mean, you guys are amazing. Yeah. And gals. In the news, we've got Larry Fitzgerald coming back. In our big news. In our big news for a 17th season. This really is, yeah, the amount of exclamation points on the end of the sentence has to do with us living in Arizona.

But Larry's coming back for a 17th year. At the end of the day, he's going to help Kyler more than he helps your fantasy team anymore because he's probably a 600 receiving yard type of player at this point in his career. But having another reliable pass-catching third-down weapon, that's how I look at him now. So that's good for Kyler as they piece together this wide receiving quarter. I saw a great tweet from Pat Thorman who just said,

It said something like, Hey, Siri, set my reminders again to draft Larry Fitzgerald in August and trade him in October. Right. Yeah, the season, it starts to disappear later on. He's got like two or three games left in him. But when his fresh legs are there, he's still great. This was a huge surprise. A lot of news took place between last show and now. Luke Keekley announced his retirement after eight seasons. Now,

We're getting blamed in a fantasy reaper type of way for this. Who picked him? I picked him because it's a phenomenal pick. So this is your fault. So we said which we were asked, was it on the footcast? Yes. We were asked. Oh, is the AMA? Was it? Whatever. We were basically asked what current active NFL player, if you wanted him to be a coach.

he'd have to leave playing and be a coach right now. And it was like, Jason's like Luke Kinkley. Yeah, because he's going to be a great coach. So now he's open to the idea of coaching. Obviously, retires at a younger age before he turns 30, eight seasons, one of the best on the field ever. Huge blow to the defense in Carolina. They're in rebuilding mode, but, you know, maybe it's even more exhaustive now on both sides of the ball. The Jags, we talked about it. They fired John D. Felipe.

Bears hired Bill Laser as their offensive coordinator. Laserd. Bangles offensive coordinator. And the Giants hired. And the Giants. The Giants hired Jason Garrett as offensive coordinator. So let's try to, let's just try to step back from the meme life of Jason Garrett clapping on the sideline, the fatigue. When he was the primary offensive coordinator in Dallas, when he was calling the plays.