The TRUTH: Top 10 Fantasy QBs + Seeing is Believing - Fantasy Football Podcast for 1/19

Not great. 41%... Most of that was the first half of the year, though. 41% or sorry, 44% bus, 31% good, 13% great for him. Didn't have weapons. Correct. You know, a little bit Justin Fields-esque in that regard where, you know, 708 rushing yards on the season, just 15 passing touchdowns. I don't know what Daniel Jones can become. I mean, he can become the defending Super Bowl champion. All right. All right. That sounded dumber. I don't know. I mean, this is a 15 touchdown season for Daniel Jones. It was impressive that he protected the football. He doesn't throw the ball very far. That was a key to his success because we all know Daniel Jones has a James Winston season in him if he was in that type of an offense. You know, this was.

A league led the league in adjusted completion percentage, 81%, which accounted for drops from all those non-wide receivers he has. I don't know if Daniel Jones could have done more with this season than what he did with it. I think that's the highest praise you can give him. But I don't know what the future holds. I don't know if Daniel Jones is going to be in any fantasy discussions ever. And he's not really in one today. He could. I've been saying like they could, this team has to. revamp their entire pass catching core over there. I mean, Wondale Robinson will theoretically be back. He tore his ACL, what was that, week 11? Yeah. So is he going to be ready to start the season? We don't know. Sterling Shepard was an ACL in week three. Now that's, you know, back-to-back seasons of an Achilles and an ACL. Can they count on him moving into the season? They have to, they have to do something.

I agree, but I don't know if we're going to be able to take that something and say Daniel Jones is going to do anything with it, the way that we were talking about giving an elite weapon to Justin Fields. Yeah, but he, I mean, he could become like a Kirk Cousins tier of fantasy wide receiver. I think they built a good NFL team around the players that they had if they were to get a wide receiver core that. would say, hey, let's open this up for Daniel Jones. I don't think he's going to protect the ball as much. I think you're going to end up with more turnovers. We've had enough time to see what he is as a player. So I'm never going to. Maybe you saw him with bad coaching. For fantasy purposes, obviously he runs the ball so he can have some good games, I think, in a streaming conversation. But I would never leave a non-best ball league with Daniel Jones as my

one quarterback. Five games inside the top 10 at the position on the season. Yeah, and some of those were really good games because it was rushing ability and obviously no wide receivers, but I don't think he is the guy. The three names that I think are worth bringing up before we end the show, they dealt with injuries this year, but coming in at five, six, and eight respectively in the truth metric. But not in the top 10 finish. But not in the top 10 finish on the season would be Lamar Jackson, Kyler Murray, and Dak Prescott. Those guys were good for fantasy. They missed games, so they didn't finish as a top 10 quarterback options. Which is why we're talking about Daniel Jones and why we're talking about Jared Goff. Exactly. Now, Kyler is going to be a whole different discussion. I don't think we really need to get into him. We don't know his coach. We don't know his health. He probably won't be there week one. And we'll discuss that a lot as the offseason goes on. Lamar and Dak, though.

Dack was very good. Yes. Dack finished number eight in the truth metric. And, you know, obviously, do you guys remember when they're like, oh, Dax should be replaced because we're winning games while he's injured? What nonsense that was. He's, that's a team that, I wouldn't be surprised if there's another offensive weapon that gets added to that roster. Jared Gough, I'd be talking about, Dack is a, Super Bowl champion. Oh, boy. That one at least could be plausible. I, Jared Goff was 18% great, 35% good, 47% bust. I think golf was funny because he was somewhat predictable as a streamer. He was super predictable. He was like the super streamer at the quarterback position. Was he at home? Was he at home in a plus matchup?

Boom, you play him. Is he on the road against a really, really inferior opponent? Then maybe. Then maybe it's going to work. Anything else? Yeah. Bailout. James, though, going to be back, healthy. He's a dynamic playmaker. Can change in offense with Alman Ra. This is a team on the rise. They didn't make the playoffs. They were as close as you can get. and Goff seems to be part of their future. So I wouldn't ignore him completely in fantasy. I think that they could put him in a position where, you know, their defense is middle of the pack. They're in these battles week and week out, but you have more explosive plays. Yeah, I mean, if you're not able to grab one of those great options at quarterback, the guys that in this, you know, the truth metric rank far ahead of golf, if you don't grab one of those players in your draft and you are going with a late approach,

Kirk Cousins and the Gino Smith are going to go far ahead of Jared Gough. And I don't even know if they're actually better with the weapons he's going to have the offensive line. He's going to have the continuity with the coordinator going into another year. So I agree with you. Jared Gough is probably one of the super late, like, you know, just use your last pick on him type of quarterbacks that I would rather leave with him than Daniel Jones. His ceiling to me is better. And factor in the touchdown luck of Mr. Jamal Williams. just stumbling and finding himself in 17 rushing touchdowns because they were on the one yard line like every other drive. And like if those touchdowns, just a few of those bounce in the direction of Jared Goff in a passing touchdown, then he's even higher on this list. What did he end with total touchdowns? It was 29 passing touchdowns. And that's wild. 29. Almost double Daniel Jones. And one running back at 17.

That's a lot of scoring. All right. That is going to do it for today's episode of the show, the first quarterback truth episode. There will be a second. And there will be many more. As we break down this past season, I learned a lot today. I feel like I've been educated. Hope the listeners did as well. So quarterback truth episode number two coming up next week. And if you want a bonus episode of the show, Mailbag show. Go to jointhefoot.com, become a part of our team. Goodbye. Bye. Thank you for listening to another episode of the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Join our fantasy football community on join thefoot.com. And follow us on Twitter at theFF ballers.