Fantasy Football Podcast 2017 - Eye-Popping Stats + Offseason Hype

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Coming to you from the fantasy jocks.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, back again in the building. The three most important members of the fantasy footballers are here in a very intentional order. Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Jay Gris.

In the house, Mike is on the way back from a trip. We just got back from a trip. I just got back from a trip as well. Yeah, I was here locking it down with Brooks. Well, you two gentlemen gallivanting across the country. We were gallivanting in New York City. New York City. Yeah, we had the Fantasy Sports Trade Association that all three of us attended last week. Went very well.

Shout out to the many wonderful people we met, including Ed from the Foot Clan, who saw me and my wife walking down the street and said hello, big fan in New York. We also have Mike now, he's getting back from a bachelor party for a good friend of his. So he's coming back from Denver, and we'll be back with us later this week. In the meantime, Jason and myself, and of course, Jay Gris will be holding down the fort. We have a great show for you today.

going to be walking through the hype train once again a ton of stories news right tons of news came out you know players being propped up by their coaches and so we're going you know what it is this time of year it's opinions that are being reported you know it's like it's oh this report is coming out about what this guy thinks well that's hard to that's hard to navigate through sometimes

Yeah, that's fair. It's almost like at the end of every day, these news reporters, they have to push the button to send something out. And so at that point, you go and you look at what you have quotes-wise from different coaches. And, I mean, we've made the jokes all off-season long about Devante Parker and everybody on the entire Miami Dolphins offense.

because they have been the most prone to those type of comments. But we're going to take you through the hype train. We're going to take you through some actual news and notes. We're talking Eric Decker and some other players. And then we're going to get into the meat of today's show some eye-opening statistics identified by us, by some of our writers. We're going to talk about the implications of these stats. And I think you'll be really, really interested.

in hearing these. It's a very fun show. You know, sometimes those stat nuggets that pop out, you're like, what? That can't be true. Is that true? That's how you, that's how I see some of these things when we go deep mining into data. It can't be true. Quick question of the day. This one comes in from Michael in Jacksonville, North Carolina. What teams do you believe will see sizable increases in fantasy production?

due to improvements on their offensive line. And I want to highlight something for people out there. The offensive line is very important. And if you looked at how Carson Wins performed last year, weeks 1 through 4, weeks 15 and 16, there was something that he had going on in those six weeks that he didn't have going on in weeks 5 through 14. And that was Lane Johnson. And...

The passer rating, much better with Lane Johnson on the field through half as many touchdowns per game without Lane Johnson through, I think, three times as many interceptions percentage-wise. So the offensive line is really important. We've seen some teams make an effort to improve their offensive lines this offseason. So for you, Jason, what team do you think will see the biggest fantasy production increase due to their offensive line improving?

Well, I know you're going with the Cleveland Browns. I think that's a great pick. To me, it comes down to two teams outside of them. The Chargers, I think, made some good moves on their offensive lines, some of which are just getting healthy, right? You don't always need to go out and sign the free agent. They also had a very good draft, you know, fall in their lap, the number one guy that they were looking for. But the Broncos, to me, are a team that...

They're going from a position where their offensive line was so bad last year. Not a lot of people realize how bad the Broncos offensive line was. They go, they get someone from the Cowboys' great offensive line. You know, I think Ronald Leary will make a difference. Cowboys fans, as soon as anybody's gone, they're like, he's not that good. He's overrated. But, you know.

He's pretty good. Yeah, the Cowboys' Office of the line was pretty good last year. So I'm going with the Denver Broncos. Who benefits from that? Because that would have been one of the possible backfields to avoid on their last show. C.J. Anderson, Jamal Charles. I think you can also throw in Trevor Simeon. And like you said with Carson wins, when you've got a quarterback who is still younger, not an elite option, if you can protect him more, he had a few games last year where.

You know, he was a top five fantasy quarterback option, but most of the time he wasn't because that's not who he is. But you give him the time with Demarius Thomas, Emmanuel Sanders. I think it's just an overall offensive production. Could bode well for Demarius Thomas, having a, certainly, some continued success over 1,000 yards, 90 receptions last year. I am going with the Cleveland Browns, the lovable Browns.

I just think the improvements they've made on the offensive line, the things that I hear out of camp from Hugh Jackson, their commitment and desire to commit to the running game. I'm very high on Isaiah Carrell this year. I already had him as the 12th highest running back in my rankings. He's nine right now. What? He's nine. He had only 200. Is that true? He was the only running back in the top 20 last year without 200 carries. He has the potential, I think, to see that workload increased tremendously.

4.8 to carry last year in improving offensive line. I think he's somebody who will get the rock a ton and has done a lot with it. I believe he's only 22 years old. So we might not have seen the prime of, and you can vet that. You looked at me. You know, Jay Gris looked at me strange. He disagreed. How old is Isaiah Crowell? Isaiah Crowell? You can type very slowly. Well, see, here's the thing. Just so this is a tip for everyone. There's a tip for everyone. If you type just Isaiah Crowell,

And nothing else, it doesn't actually bring up the age, just so, you know. He's 24 years old, which still proves the point you were saying, but does it more accurately? Because the point is he's still very young. 24 years old is, you know, the prime age for a running back. And he's played a couple years now. So there's reason to believe that he could absolutely be an RB1 this year, especially for Hugh Jackman Jackson.

Yes, Wolverine himself. So that does it for the quick question. If you want to follow the show, we're on Twitter at the FF Ballers. Don't follow Mike, but you can follow Jason at Jason FFL. You can follow me at Andy Holloway. The website is The Fantasy Footballers.com. The fantasy community is join the foot.com, and we do encourage you check out the ultimate draft kit. Brooks, on a scale of 1 to 10, how would you rate the ultimate draft kit? It's 11. It's pretty good. From Brooks himself. Yeah.

Ultimate draft kit.com. No, we've had a lot of great feedback on the Ultimate Draft Kit, and we keep adding to it. I think we're going to have depth charts climb into there very soon and some other information. So check that out. What else is going on? We have a, if you didn't listen last week, we had David Johnson on the show. I've heard of him. Yeah. Good friend of the show. You want to listen to David Johnson. Check out last week's episode. And then last couple days here before July to get in on the Lev Bell jersey giveaway.

Just giving back to the Foot Clan. Go to Footclan giveaway.com and enter. We're also giving away some DFS passes and some fantasy footballers swag. So lots of good stuff. Let's go ahead and jump into the news. News and notes from around the league. All right, as I said before, we're going to start with the hype train. I'm going to get into this hype. Jason, it's a simple question. Buying or selling the hype. Are you ready? I'm completely ready.

Okay, now it is important. I want you to know this before I get into it. It'd be better for me if you bought the hype on players that are on my current dynasty roster. Okay, I'll keep that in mind. Take that under advisement. Thank you. All right. The Seattle Times Bob Kandatta said his best guess is that Eddie Lacey and Thomas Rawls will take a fairly equal share of the base down carries. Not buying it. Not buying it at all.

And look, I have in our dynasty league you're mentioning, I've got Thomas Rawls. That'd be great news because currently I don't think he's going to, you know, I'm not buying this. I don't think he's going to split evenly with Eddie Lacey. But the report makes complete sense. You want to know what Eddie Lacey is not doing right now? He's not a full participant in everything going on. You want to know who is? Thomas Rawls. And the reports are saying he looks great. Well, that's all fine and dandy.

you know, to say, well, this guy's looking really good for this season, but he's not really competing with Eddie Lacey right now. I mean, if you go and you look at what's going on in Seattle, you've got Pete Carroll talking about Eddie Lacey in the same breath as, you know, Earl Watson, guys that are basically resting as veterans who will be full go-come training camp. But that's what Eddie Lacey is.

When the pads get on and the violence comes out, I think they're going to see Eddie Lacey as the clear better runner. I think they want a Marshaun Lynch replacement. So I am not buying the hype on Thomas Rawls. Are you? Not really. However, I do think it would be strange for them not to use them. I mean, they seem to like him. And in the fantasy community, he's been discarded to the bottom of drafts. So I think there is a little bit of a sleeper play there for Thomas Rawls. What this report does do is...

pretty much say, hey, C.J. ProSise is going to be your third down guy. So I think that there is a roll carved out for him that is pretty defined and, hey, I'll have the opportunity to produce. Well, the nice thing is this should continue to hurt Eddie Lacey's draft stock and his value. Right now where Eddie Lacey is going, even based on what I said, I'm still not drafting him because there is the roll's risk. But if he falls a couple more rounds in drafts, then I think you can get a starting running back for a team that desires to run the ball.

you know, in the middle of dress. So the Rawls Royce is now the Rawls risk. Is that what you're saying? Yeah, I like it. I see what you did there. I like it. Hugh Jackson of affirmation, the Cleveland head coach. I beat myself up, he says, for not running Isaiah Coral Moore in 2016. The Brown's running backs coach says Crowell has only scratched the surface and isn't even in his prime yet. You're buying what I and the Brown staff have concluded as well? I just, I do believe.

I do believe in Isaiah Crowell. Yeah, we've been early adopters on Isaiah Crowell. I don't really like how his draft stock has risen to pretty much be grouped in with those tier two running backs at this point. I get the argument for it. He's a full-time starter for a team with an improved offensive line. But, you know, when we're talking about all these great statistics today, there was one from an article, Rich Ryebar wrote,