The TRUTH: Second Tier WRs in 2019 - Fantasy Football Podcast

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Coming to you from pristineauction.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Another one of these, huh? Hey! Thursday, January 16th, excited to be with you, Andy Holloway. Jason Moore, Mike Wright, the fantasy footballers. Hey!

It's 2020, Mike. It's time to get those 2020 teams. What is happening? Ready to go. He started it. Mike, he can't handle some. I don't like it. Some nuance with the welcome in from time to time. No, man, it's not nuance. I'm following your lead. I thought we were taking us to the top. You lead, we follow, Andy. So if I get you going, if I start high, you stay there. Yeah.

You're like, oh, I wound up this little joy and it went forward. Like, what do you think's going to happen? Don't wind them up. Show 851. Did you know that? Show 851. Doesn't it feel like only about 825? Not a day more. Not a day more. Welcome in. Look, this show exists to get your team ready to go. And a big part of that is evaluating what happened last season. I hope you're ready to go right now. Trends.

You mean for the upcoming season? Yeah, just out of tickled my fancy. Mike, do you want to just take over? You want me to do it? Can I finish my sentences? On today's show, we're going to be talking about the truth of fantasy wide receivers, the second tier fellas. We made it through eight on Tuesday's show. What do you want, mime? No, I mean, I'm just doing what you're doing. Oh, throwing my hands around. It's been a really good start. These guys today are feisty.

Feels like 890 shows, am I right? Yeah, Mike's right. We got the truth on today's show. We're digging into some of the middle, middle tier, second tier wide receivers. We got through eight on the last episode, breaking down consistency scores, breaking down their fantasy finish, home road splits, top defenses, bottom defenses, talking about whether we trust these guys to be top finishers in 2020.

Today is almost more interesting to me because you get into some of these names, players that either struggled with injury so they finished further down in the wide receiver rankings but had good consistency when they played. Some of the wide receivers that maybe more decisions need to be made. You know, everybody knows Julio Jones is going to be a top receiver. You should draft him. Yeah, you should pick them up.

Yeah, but there are a lot of guys that maybe they got off to a slow start this year. But then when you look back and you might have a negative perception of them, but you say they were actually very good for fantasy teams this season. The name that comes to mine, obviously, it was a my guy. So it's a little, you know, a little extra horse in the race. But like Robert Woods, he got off to this slow start seemed sucky. Yeah. But on the season.

You know, he was the number 13 most consistent. And actually, you know, we had him in league one. And it was, it felt really nice to have Robert Woods for the whole second half of the year. We did have, I guess that was a team that I think most people were disappointed with Woods. Like they were probably just like he was just on the outside. Yeah. Looking in of that top 12 consistency. I think they were probably on the outside of the playoffs looking in. But no, no, plenty of teams made the playoffs with Woods. But that's, that's what I'm talking about. The whole point of this series of the truth.

is to highlight the things that our feelings might get in the way of. The opinions because X, Y, or Z happened in the playoffs, or X, Y, and Z happened at the beginning of the year, or a guy was injured, and so you just don't remember how things went. This really takes a look, you know, statistically at did they help when they were on the field? Yeah, I think with the Rams wide receivers specifically, there are some very big conversations to have about trusting them. We talked about Cooper Cup on the last episode.

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Assuming Ryan Tannahill is back with the Titans in 2020, and we'll see how they do in the AFC title game this weekend. But assuming he's back, which is a fair assumption right now. Derek Henry, Ryan Tannehill, pull up the Brinks trucks. They've already overperformed any expectation you could possibly have. Tannenhill made a great decision to go be the backup for Marcus Mariotta, you know, sitting down with the agent saying where do I want to go where I've got a chance to get back into the starting, you know, lineup and then get.

a big deal. He found it. Assuming he's back, though, he will be a top what quarterback? Where will he be drafted? How will he finish? How do you project him moving forward? He obviously ended the year very, very strongly for fantasy owners. Yeah, basically the entire season that he started of that stretch, he was the quarterback three. Now, a lot of that was giant big plays from A.J. Brown that aren't necessarily repeatable, but...

That doesn't mean that they can't be repeated. Is A.J. Brown still there? A.J. Brown is, yes, that's my point. And he's going into year two. He should get better, not worse. But there will be arguments made against Tanna Hill because of the passing volume and, you know, the touchdown percentage of things like that. But I believe next year, Ryan Tannahill will be a top 10 fantasy quarterback. Wow. Top 10. I do. I mean, I don't think that's a stretch. He was way better than that.

When he was there this year, he runs the ball a little bit, enough to be relevant for fantasy and has some great weapons now in the passing game. Yeah, saying it's a stretch, maybe not a stretch, saying the names out loud, the other quarterbacks. That's where it's tough for me. Whether you'd take them over, you know, Tanna Hill over them, I mean, I can't see myself getting there. Lamar Jackson. Stop me when you would take Tana Hill over them, okay? Oh, you did that, no, those, okay, all right.

All right. Whether, you know, fantasy finish wise. We're not talking about it. Just where they finish. Yeah, this is not a draft. This is, this is just stop the year. Stop me when you'd rather have Tanne Hill than this player. Okay. Lamar Jackson. Nope. Patrick Mahomes. Nope. Dachron Watson. Nope. Josh Allen? No. No. Give me Josh Allen. Yes. Aaron Rogers. Yes. Kyle Murray. No. No. Matt Ryan. Yes. Give me Matt Ryan. Russell. Wilson.

No. Give me Russell. James Winston. Assuming Winston is back with Tampa Bay, give me James Winston. Carson wins. I'll take. I'll take Wins. I'll take, uh, Tannehill. Okay. So I, yeah, maybe, maybe it gets there for you. Right on the fringe for me. I think he's, uh, just on that QB12 fringe for me. The nice thing is where he's drafted will certainly not be there because the names that you brought up are bigger names. I mean, Baker Mayfield could end up being drafted ahead of.

You know, of Ryan Tannahill. And, you know, who knows what happens with the guys coming back like Cam and Big Ben, Gough, Kirk, Stafford. There are plenty of guys who could go ahead of Tannahill. He, you know, him and Fitzmaug, assuming he's back. Those are like my two early favorite early late round. You know, early season, late round draft picks at quarterback. It's not fair because of how consistent Tanna Hill was at the end of the year, although we didn't get a whole season, but I want a.

team who can't win without the quarterback performing in a big way. Sure. That's certainly not tail. That'll be the argument against. But, you know, 12 to 15 range seems safe. And with high upside, we saw it this past year. All right. Before we get into the rest of the truth about fantasy wide receivers, we got some business to attend to. Eat the Ballers. Presented by Monkey Knife Fight.

All right, beattheballers.com's the address. We're playing a fresh round of playoff fantasy football at beattheballers.com heading into the AFC and FC title games. Here is what happened last week. We don't need to talk about that. Oh, we sure do because I had to deal with this last week. Let's start, though. Let's start at the top. Mike had Devante Adams, Aaron Jones, Tyler Lockett. Yeah. Mike beat.

All but 15% of the listeners that beat the dollars.com. Sorry, not sorry. So that means that only 129 users beat all three of us and split that $2,500 pot. I had, I beat 74%. Mike beat 84%. I beat 74%. Whoa, whoa, 85. Thank you. Okay. You were correct.

And I made sure you all got another chance to play for free. Jason, he beat 1.8%. My stupid tab. Read your lineup. Read your lineup. All right. My lineup was Rahim Mostert and George Kittle. All right. And Dalvin Cook, three really good players who combined to be less than most other teams single best player. I just want you to feel this. 830 of our listeners beat you.

830. Out of what seems to be about 840. But again, a reminder, if you beat all three of us at beat the ballers.com, you win a share of a $2,500 price pool. You get two entries into the Ballers Bowl, which is fast approaching. Yeah, you get a $10,000 price pool in that one. If you beat two of us, you get a free $10 game entry and one entry into the Ballers Bowl. And if you beat Jason, you get a free. Or me last week. Yeah, or me last week. I know. I'm just, I got to enjoy it while it's not me.

So this week, just fantasy-wise real quick, like, Mosterd. I just wanted to have a quick conversation about it because it just happened. This is why during the season, like I, you never bought in enough. I could never ever get into Rahim Moster, even though I'm 100% in on the talent. I think he's a freaking good running back. But like, you know, do you guys realize who started that game? Moster. Matt Brita.

Matt Barita was the first running back. He did. And he had the first carry. Not that whoever starts finishes the game. But that's the point is like people are going to be clamoring. Like I guarantee over this off season that out around the industry, people are going to be say, Rahim Moster. Mostard is this is my sleeper. Really? I guarantee this is going to happen. I don't guarantee that. I just can't.

Get on board with it. Do you just make three lineups and you just pick one with Coleman, one with Brita, one with most. I don't think you need Brita. You know one of them's going off. When you zig, Kyle Shanahan Zags. Yeah. And that is the fear. And that is why Brita represented in the off season to me such a great value. You did. Is simply because of the variable of, look.

game plan. Yeah, and then Moster kicked open the door. Who brings him coffee in the morning first? Is that what it is? It's like when he opens his door, which running back's holding the Frappuccino? Yeah, and what level? Like, he's got the Frappuccino. Someone's got like a steak. Yeah, I'm in the mood for the steak today. All right, you're starting. But this week...

Uh, same story. We're each picking three lineups. Now, there's only two games to be played. So, uh, we're going to be sharing a game. But same story, you beat all three of us. You win a share of the $2,500 prize pool, beat the ballers. My three guys this week, I'm going, uh, I'm jumping into the San Francisco Packers game. I'm going to go George Kittle. Yep. He's going to treat me nicer than you treated Jason. I'm going to go Devante Adams. You have to.