Fantasy Nose-dives, Mailbag & AMA

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Two-time member of the listener league, and you're listening to The Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Podcast. Coming to you from pristineauction.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in to the show. Howdy. Thursday, June 13th.

Jason and Andy experience once again. Mike will be back on our next episode. Not to worry. Not to worry. Jay Grizz is here representing. Demanding for Mike to stay away, saying, this is my show now. You can hear that in the roar. I see he's reading a book. During the episode, Brooks. He's a learned man. Yeah, he's studying up. He's a learned bear for a mailbag. It's not a man. From what it looks like, it is a,

A pretty thick read. A lot of pictures. It's from an Alaska state of mind. The name of the book is The Salmon Way. That's RBBC philosophy that you don't know about. Welcome in. Great show today. Tackling some mailbag questions. Also solicited the Foot Clan for some AMA questions. So some of those, you know, questions about the...

podcast or the business or I think there was a pet related question in there. We'll sprinkle those in with the fantasy football questions today. Here's the quick question of the episode, Mr. Moore. I put this in here this morning because I just want to know the answer. I want to know your answer.

Which fantasy football offense takes a nosedive in 2019? And the reason this is top of mind is because I went and I looked up last year's points per game numbers, NFL offenses. You had the high of highs, the Kansas City Chiefs leading the league. And then three touchdowns below them on average was the low of lows. The Arizona Cardinals offense averaged one point one point more.

Then the amount of goals the U.S. women's national team scored yesterday. Yeah. Which was 13. If the Arizona Cardinals raised up to like a bottom five offense, like raised all the way up to be bottom five, they'd score an extra touchdown a game. That's how bad that offense was last year. They were so far and away the worst. They were like seven points worse. Yeah. One might call it a touchdown. A time. So what offense takes a nosedive in 2019?

What do you think? What's your answer? So I think the offense, if we're talking about what great offense takes a nosedive, the first one that comes in mind is actually Kansas City, but I don't like calling in a nosedive because they're still going to be a great offense. They're still going to be top. But historically, the great offenses, the Peyton Manning Broncos when he came back and also threw 50. Those have huge, huge drops the next season. But if we're looking.

for one that could actually nosedive, like someone that was one of those top five scoring offenses that could end up really disappointing, I would throw the Seahawks out there because you look at the extreme touchdown efficiency of Russell Wilson, how much they want to run the ball, be a defensive-minded, run, run your team gently down the stream. And the thing is, is that doesn't usually produce great.

offensive output. They could still be a very good team, but the touchdown regression could come. It's an interesting, you know, Doug Baldwin retiring, not part of the offense. If Chris Carson wasn't healthy, could Rashad Penny bear enough of the load to provide the kind of offensive numbers that you had last year? It's an interesting. I believe he could. Yeah. Well, there you go. Okay. The answer for me has to be Pittsburgh.

I just have to believe that it's Pittsburgh. Last year, the fourth highest points per game in the league at 26.8 points per game. And I just don't believe you can be better without Antonio Brown on offense. The pressure that Antonio Brown takes off of a player like James Connor, who I do not believe is as skilled as Levion Bell, there was opportunity for Connor to come in, be efficient, be effective. That's not to say Connor's not a good player.

for fantasy or for, you know, everyday Sunday purposes in the NFL. But you're not better without Antonio Brown. And you're not better without Lev Bell on the roster. It's a wide receiver core that at a minimum you have to concede is being rebuilt, right? I mean, you have Juju Smith-Schuster.

who has to take a new role as the number one target. Yeah, and you don't even know, is it Dante Moncrief? Is it James Washington? Is it? Deontay Johnson. Exactly. I mean, and, you know, they really, they lost Jesse James. Oh, gosh. So, like, you know, you talk Antonio Brown. Okay, sure, but the outlaw is also going to affect this offense in drastic ways. Follow this show on Twitter at the FF Ballers. You can follow us all.

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There you go. You can find us on Apple Podcasts, subscribe and review on Spotify, and ad free on Stitcher Premium. We are going to get right into the news. News and notes from Around the League, presented by Sleeper. A lot to talk about in the news, stuff we didn't cover on the last episode, Jason. We had the head-to-head mock drafting. If you didn't listen, you can go back to Tuesday's show. Rave reviews. I mean, Rotten Tomatoes.

Through the roof. 98% fresh. Now, there was a lot of... When you have a mock draft, you have a lot of opinions. Right. Not just from us. Like, we have our opinions on who we thought had a better draft, and then people grade drafts based on, oh, do you like the starters? Do you like the whole roster? What do you... Do you like the Texans? These are questions that people bring up. And so, yeah, I heard a little bit of feedback on having three Texans.

So I want to talk about that for two seconds. Can I have two seconds? I'll give you 10. And that is just to say that throughout a draft, because I had just said, hey, look, I don't want to stack Hopkins and Miller. And then I took Miller a round later. And I don't know if I made the right decision. It probably didn't, right? It was a mock draft. I probably should have just stayed away. That being said, I want people to understand there is a value for everybody. Well, Mar Miller was a round cheaper than he was the round before.

And so where you draft a player represents something different for your team. So if you took two of your first four players on the same team, it means something different for your roster than if you took players later. And I had made the argument, look, I'm not going to draft a handcuff for Lamar Miller later in the draft for the same reason. But I think it's interesting as the draft proceeds, even if you're in that situation where you don't want to have multiple players from the same team, you have to take them eventually.

Yeah, if the value is too good for a player, don't be too cute and be like, oh, I've got too many people on the same bye week or, oh, I've got, if the value of the player is right, think about the 16 weeks and the roster that you need to build and you'll be fine. And there's a lot made about a running back wide receiver stack being bad.

And I actually don't believe that it is bad. It is bad when it comes to maximizing your high scores, right? We've talked about a wide receiver and running back. Can't usually score a touchdown on the same play. But on the reverse of that, the consistency is higher because if you've got two guys that are going to score at the end of the year, a lot of fantasy points, they probably didn't all come in the same.

five or six games. They were spread out a little bit more. So, I mean, we've seen that before when people stacked Saquan and Odell Beckham. I mean, obviously extreme examples, but you said, you know, you don't take two of your top four picks. You would have done that last year. And the consistency that you gained from having a running back wide receiver stack, they can work. In that round, too, you know, it wasn't, Lamar Miller wasn't going to be a starter. Lamar Miller was guaranteed carries at the position.

on your bench, which is different than stacking them the other way. That being said, I look back and I probably got dominated. Is that what you were going to say? No, I probably got dominated? That didn't help me. Yeah, I mean. You know, my favorite part of the comments on any head-to-head draft, I guess here in June is I was reading them to you yesterday. And it was like sequential. It was like, Jason, worst draft ever. Burning, burning trash draft. Next guy. Best draft ever by Jason. Love his team. One of those was correct.

All right, news and notes. We haven't talked about a few things. Let's get into some contract news. Carson wins four-year $128 million contract extension through 2024. Not much to read about that. You want to make the argument, oh, good, then that means the back is healthy. It doesn't really matter. It doesn't matter. They have to give this contract. It's good for Carson. Good for the Eagles. Good job. You got money. This one matters a little more. Vikings have re-signed Kyle Rudolph to a four-year, $36 million contract extension.

Sorry, all you Irv Smith owners. Yeah, I mean, I modified my Irv Smith dynasty ranking in the aftermath. And if you spent a rookie pick on Irv Smith, you barring something, you know, Kyle Rudolph could get cut before a four-year contract is fulfilled and probably will be. But he is going to be the starter for the next several years. And you don't have the Minnesota Vikings. They're not the offense where it's like you're going to have two.

Fantasy relevant tight ends. It's disappointing because it caps the upside, no doubt. Blah Powell, re-signed by the Jets. Oh, Blah, Pao! Look, this is gross. Not for Blau Powell. I'm so happy for him coming off the neck injury, but there are now 162 running backs.

playing for the New York Jets. They're going to have to make massive cuts, but you sign Levi-on-Bel. You give him all this money, and then you still keep adding running backs. I mean, look, they've got to-Ty Montgomery. They have a style. If you look at the style of running backs are going for it, they want flexibility. Well-rounded. Yeah, I mean, Blal-Pow, Ty Montgomery, those are past catching running back, same as Levy on Bell. And so maybe you say, okay, well, they've got.

backups if Love Bell goes down, or maybe the history of Adam Gaze says LeV Bell might not be the Pittsburgh Steelers version of Bell Cow. Would you say that at this point, Adam Gaze is reserving his right to be whole? Oh, yeah. And he is stocking up on cheese right now. He's just eating so much cheese ready to. All right, sir. Ready to, you know. Moving on.