Fantasy Football - Top 10 Things to Remember + Mike’s Gripes - Podcast for 3/6

Which, I mean, you're really talking about not a play caller, not a play caller, not a play caller. Right. That's why they've been able to help. That's why they've been able to hold their job. All four of them, their head coaches have been the play call. But that second year, that second year, we can see players take that leap forward. For instance, remember two years ago. Oh, Todd Monk has come into Baltimore. Very, very, very excited. So excited. He had a track record of massive offensive. output and we were so excited to see what Lamar Jackson and the run game, the past game could do in this Todd Monkid system. And you know what? It was okay. Yeah. It was okay. But that second year when they were in that system for a while, all of a sudden, every player on that team was, you know, Lamar Jackson. Dude, Rashad Bateman. Rashad Bateman was resurgent. Derek Henry was great. Lamar had the most top 12 fantasy finishes in a single season, 16 of 17 games. You had Buffalo.

Now, say what you will. Maybe, you know, Joe Brady in his second year in his system, I thought maybe he would get figured out. You know, he gets figured out sometimes. But it turns out his run game that he wanted to establish the second year in that system, you had James Cook go nuts. He tied, tied or broke the rushing record for touchdowns, which that was the knock on him. Even Denver. Sean Payton there for two years and a good offensive mind gets his quarterback. who fits his system. Cortland Sutton is great. And so I think that there's very few opportunities for that second year because a lot of times people are replaced after one year. So here are some examples of teams I'm paying attention to coming up in 2025 who get that second year, that continuity from their offensive coordinator. Atlanta. You got Zach Robinson there. Maybe Kirk Cousins was holding him back. I mean, in the final two games of the season, Michael Pinnock's.

They were averaging 31 points per game, 69 plays per game. That is so nice in the top five. They've got a great offense. If Pinnock steps forward. That one will be interesting because it's sort of Pinnock's his first year in the system, but not really. He's there in practice. Yeah, he's there the whole season. I mean, that's like Mahomes played one game, his rookie year, came out next year, did not look like a rookie by any means. And so you've obviously got talent there with. Bijon and Drake Lundon and Kyle Pitts. You think they're happy they drafted Michael Pennix? I think they are right now happy they drafted Michael Pennix. Pretty good decision. The inverse. You think they're happy they gave Kirk Cousins all that money? No. That was the problem. Both couldn't be true. You have Carolina going into the second year with Dave Canales and they seem to figure something out with Bryce Young at the end of the year. So maybe that is an opportunity for a leap forward. Greg Roman and the new

Los Angeles Chargers, the Ravens West, going into year two. You saw this. Herbert, the first half of the year was not utilized right. They were figuring this out. It was the first year in the system. That's a team to me that I could see going into the top five as far as scoring on a regular basis. They've got a great quarterback. They're going to have continuity this next year. And then maybe they'll have D.K. Mecca. Yeah. And then the Washington commanders. Cliff Kingsbury gets year two. They've added Debo Samuel now an improved offensive line, and Jaden Daniels could become an MVP type player. So those teams, I think, are, they have the chance to be hyper undervalued because you don't see the leap forward. So I'm going to remember last year's second year offensive coordinator leaps and try to replicate it in 25. All right, Mike, help us bring it home with our last thing to remember. Number one.

It's act now and get it done. Get her done. We, uh, we as human beings, we like to, uh, if there's something I can do tomorrow, you're darn tooting. I'm doing that thing tomorrow. I am not doing that today. And then tomorrow shows up. I'm like, yeah. I can, bro. I can, I can swing this next week. Eventually you say, ah, I should have done that yesterday. Yeah. So, uh, yeah, we're interested in you having fun in your leagues. Yeah. So, you know, like just like my diet. One of these days. Tomorrow. Yeah. But it's been pushed off for a very, very long time. Day after tomorrow. I usually go with Monday until next Monday. I mean, it was your birthday week, Mike, and then. You know what I mean? Everything's okay. It's your birthday month. We're talking about your fantasy football league. And yes, it's early in the off season right now. But this is when you really got to start thinking about this stuff. If you're the champ and you got an in-person draft, be working on it right now.

What do you mean? What do you mean working? What am I supposed to do? I mean, you're setting up your celebration, how you're going to rub it in. Al, do you need to take out a loan or something? No, we got it on lock. Oh, you've already, he's already planned. He's already thinking about it. I'm a little, I'll be honest. I'm a little worried about what he's going to do. Oh, I am very excited. I am very excited. But that's it. Get, get things ready for your celebration because the draft will, just like everything else, it'll be here before. You realize it. If someone in your league shouldn't be in that league anymore, now is. You're talking about the turds. I'm talking about the turds. You got to flush them. And right now is a great time to do that. Like going up to someone just, yeah, I know you've been in the league for a while in our drafts in two weeks, but we're going to replace you. Doing it right now, I think that this is easy. They're already sick of it. This is the best time emotionally to, to handle those types of things.

If you want to start figuring out what your new rules or scoring settings that you want to implement. So just look at your league, whatever it is that you want done to make it better. Start actually doing that right now. Yeah. Take your league to the next level. And if you need to find non-turds, footclanleagues.com, our Discord community, you can find people on there. to replace the turds in your league. And look, look, some people are turds, yes. Some people are just aimless, though. You know what I mean? Like they're they're just in it because they're in it. Maybe they're begging you to say, hey, you know, if your heart's not in it. I release you. I release you from this obligation of this thing you have to check that you don't want to do. And every, look, a great league can be brought down by one or two absent managers. Yeah. So, you know.

Get your house in order, get things organized. Make sure you're happy with what your league is for next year. So that'll be our last thing to remember here. And if you have your own little tidbit of information, something that you're wanting to remember for the new year, feel free to share it in the comments. If you're watching over there on YouTube, you can leave comments on Spotify if you're following the show there. And guess what? Free agent frenzy next week. Oh, my goodness. We already have. an opportunity for teams to, you know, Monday, they'll get to tamper legally. We got to come up with a new way to describe that. It's just early negotiations. Hey, that's what it should just be called. The NFL was, the people who called it early tampering. I know. It's like, ooh, you can't tamper normally, but here's it. But here you go. Tampering. It implies negative. It implies an illegal activity. I think the legal word actually implies like.

it's the fact that it's legal tampering like legal murder yeah it's the first hour at the store you can legally steal if you just called it tampering period it'd be okayish but legal tampering means it's like wait a minute i like it was more it was tampering Because you're like, I'm getting a- It's happening. I'm getting away with something. So next Tuesday, we'll talk about Free Agent Frenzy. We're going to record and release that show early Tuesday morning. And then on Thursday, the Free Agent Frenzy will continue. We'll talk about all the moves that have been made. We got the mailbag. So, yeah, lots going on. And a reminder, like the Dynasty Pass within the Ultimate Draft Kit is getting its post-combine update. It's gotten. It's done. Yeah. And it's done.

So the next update is live, UltimateDraftKit.com. It's part of the UDK Plus. If you're playing Dynasty, if you're interested in these rookies, if you're interested in the team opportunities and all of what's going to happen in free agency, basically anything going on in the fantasy football world from right now until draft season, you want the dynasty pass. And that's available discounted, pre-order pricing, UltimateDraftKit.com. Our new rookie mock draft is up. It is. Yeah. I jumped into the number one spot in that mock draft to build the suspense. You don't know who I took. You're going to have to find out. All right, footclang giveaway.com. If you want a chance to win that signed Drake, London, Jersey, just go to footclang giveaway.com. Free to enter over there. We'll catch you soon. Goodbye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on Jointhefoot.com.

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