Bonus Episode! 10 Things to Remember for 2024 - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/10

Keep the light on. He is at 1.42 yards per route run, which is under the threshold we want. Again, the threshold is just a kind of a level that you're hoping they're above. Trailing Berks, he's at 1.28, he's a sketcher and Wondell Robinson. He's there with Jameson Williams at 1.42. Honestly, just putting James and Williams with those other two guys. Really?

It does not give me a lot of confidence for Jameson Williams. It highlights where he is. Because I don't believe in those other two at all. Keep a dim light on. You know what I mean? He's at the top of that group, right? No, not really. He's tied with Wondale. But Wondale was also not a first round wide receiver. So he's overperforming compared to Jameson. Jahan Dotson is on the cliff. Yeah, he's the next tier. That looks scary. And then the guys where you're just where you.

I think you can pretty accurately just move on, unfortunately. John Metchie, Houston Texans, Tyquant Thornton, Alex Pierce, Sky Moore and the Sky People. Why are we putting Valus Jones in here? That's just mean to him. Jalen Tolbert, David Bell, who once upon a time was hoped to be the next guy for the Cleveland Browns. Yeah, David Bell's sitting in our dynasty waiver wire, if anyone's interested. But we do have a huge article coming out here, highlighting all the thresholds and things.

It's just, it's a metric. That's in the Dynasty Pass? Yeah, thank you. It's a metric for you to be aware of because what's nice about Dynasty Wide receivers when you draft them, even when they stink in their first year, more often than not, they at least hold their value. Like Sky Moore was, it was atrocious that first year. And there was so many glaring red signs. But now that NBS is gone. There was so many glaring red signs saying.

It's not going to work for Skymore. I know the draft capital was there. I know the team is there. It doesn't look like it's going to work. But the hope was still there. Like there were still things of you could trade Skymore over that first off season. I'm not sure you're going to be able to trade Skymore this far into the process. So be aware how a wide receiver where they were drafted compared to how they're performing through their first two years to help you make a real educated decision about do I wait this out?

Or do I try and move on? You know, and I'm sure, like you said, in that article to get into all the details, I think the big headline that I took away from that from practical advice was that if you pay attention to those thresholds, you know whether or not your belief in a player is justified by the metrics or is going to be an uphill battle. Like, I think that's what fundamentally I would be saying, like, if this player does break out and have success from this point forward,

they will be doing something that is unexpected. And that is saying something for the odds are not in their favor. Yeah. Historically speaking, it's so wild how you can look back in history and find these numbers. They're like they still, like they hold true. Yeah. The Skymore example is the example because we knew it. We talked about these metrics about how he was on the field as a rookie quite a bit. And he was.

really, really bad in that, you know, targets per route run and yards per route run. And so it's like it, you know, it, it never works out. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves in the thinking it might, but, but it might work for us. Let's get that quote. Yes. Let's get that quote back in here again. People always think it, but that's the time to get out because because there were people still thinking it's going to work. There's a Tobias Funk in your league right now.

who you can find one of these metrics and trade a wide receiver to them. We'll take another quick break and come back. Jason, I hope you're ready. You're picky about your fantasy draft. You got rankings, sleepers, mock drafts, and too many tabs open. You know what else you should be picky about? Buffalo sauce. Introduce a primal kitchen. The official buffalo sauce of the NFL. Primal Kitchen Buffalo sauce. It's made how it should be with real ingredients like avocado oil and

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Fooled. I give every year we get fooled. It's so hard not to. It's so hard because we're so excited for football and we want to see things. And I went back. I rack my brain. We want to trust people, Jason. We want to trust people and we want things to matter in the preseason. Well, it's to go on. We watch these games. Follow the signs. We're looking for something that matters because, I mean, one, that's our job. Like when preseason rolls around.

I'm watching these games whether I want to watch them or not. And I'm trying to look for something tangible. And I need to remember to stop. I need to stop. We do so much research through the offseason. We have so much historical data. We go through so many training camp reports that are in depth and long winded and watch coaching press conferences. And we develop.

as solid of opinions as we can based on the information we have this last year. I was so out on Damien Pierce. We had like three shows where I had a tangent on how that fourth round running back.

You know. Yeah, we argued about it. Yeah, it just doesn't work. And then a new regime came in and brought in a Devon Singletary, a veteran running back who's a quality back. Oh, man. I was so out on. Sounds like you're talking about Kyron now, though. What if Devon Singletary goes to the Rams? Yeah, well, I've got two things to remember. Yeah. So, yeah, I mean, and then all of a sudden in a preseason game. Oh.

Oh, baby, 89% of C.J. Stroud snaps at preseason week two went to Damien Pierce. He's the dude. He's going to be the pass catcher, but he was not. And I got fooled in. Andy, thank you. I had the 12th pick in that draft because I was the reigning champ. Yeah, I took Damian Pierce. Thank you. But I was totally going to take Damian Pierce. I was so angry when you took Damien Pierce because of just a preseason game.

And let me illustrate how the preseason. And the season before, but go on. The preseason game is not always indicative of future success. The Steelers' offense was amazing in preseason. The Steelers' first team offense had five touchdowns on five drives in preseason. They looked great. Jerome Bettis is talking about Kenny Pickett has the potential to be a superstar.

But he was not a superstar. There are so many, you know, examples of this. The Giovante Williams injury that we knew the timeline. Like we knew it. We knew it couldn't work out. That one still hurts my feelings. We knew it's just like medically impossible for him to be a rock star, but he got out in preseason. He played. And it was like, if you, now we do learn things from time to time for preseason. Who was the Orange Julius? Julius.

Thomas. Yeah, Julius Thomas. We saw that breakout coming because of preseason utilization, the tight end that year. But what it wasn't is it wasn't a change of strongly formed and informed decisions that we had made over the entire offseason. If you have a really well-informed opinion that you believe in based on a lot of evidence, don't let...

I'm talking to myself here. Self meeting. Well, I did. Get me on my Zoom. Tank Bigsby was another one. Yeah. Because it was like, you know, you guys, you know, he had an opportunity in the preseason. Look pretty good. I really want to make sure. Which plays into your earlier one. That I do not overemphasize preseason this year. That's the key because you do need to emphasize it. It's just a matter of like in fantasy football, I think our tendencies because we want stuff to talk about is that you go from.

witnessing something to making a pronouncement about it rather than just factoring it in, right? Like you could say, look, I'm not really a believer in Damien Pierce. He's looked pretty good this preseason, but fundamentally this is still my concern. But it's easy. It's so easy to go from, well, we were wrong. He's got to, this coach loves him.

But, yeah, I mean, it is... I'm going to de-emphasize. I am, because my natural human nature will automatically emphasize everything I see. It was just, there's just no way. I'm going to go in and try to de-emphasize it this year. Just stay in your head to say, you sure about that? Yeah. With whatever you see. Every... You sure about that? Yeah. Sure about that this way. Um, okay. And, yeah, there are many examples of situations like that. The preseason, you get vanilla offenses.

Right? And defenses. And you give vanilla defenses and you get different first team, second teams playing each other. I think in part the preseason has become less and less of an indicator over time as well. We produce the total amount of games. We don't play starters very much. We want to see different things from different players and you go out there and you're not executing what, you know, a normal game player. Yeah, it used to be the third week of the preseason. You're seeing two teams really prepare for the season with their main personnel packages now.

You've got to do heavy research even to see like, wait, okay, is this player going against the first team defense or is that cornerback their backup? You know, it's like. Yep. No, it makes sense. It makes sense. All right, we've got one more because we always share one at the end here. Number one. Now, Jason, you titled this one. Yeah, well, I'm a big fan of the movie. Remember the Titans. Yeah. And this is a show about remembering. Okay. I want you to remember the turds.

Remember the turds. Remember the turds. In your league. So what are we saying? We're saying that I don't know what we're saying. Well, we don't. Yeah, I mean, we could have said it differently, I suppose. But this is the reminder that the things in your league that cause you to have a bad experience, which may include a handful, a couple, single, there's all sorts of turds. But if there's some managers in your league,

that didn't add to the experience. If there were rules in your league, league formation, settings, week 17 or 18 championship games, sorry, week 18 title games. This is the time to kind of remember what went right, what went wrong, make the adjustments, get them in place. Maybe there's leagues that you were saying, man, I wish our league was like that league over there. Or I wish that this one manager.

set their lineup ever. This is the time to make the adjustments to boot out those turds and to get things right for your league. Lace up them boots. Now, I usually go with the flush. Oh, we could have flushed the turds. But I see you guys. No, we don't. You're actually like drop kicking a poo? I'm drop kicking it straight from the source.

Never hits the ground. It's incredible. That's, that's quite the image. Yeah. Yeah, it's a backwards kick. Oh, it's like a mule kick. Yeah, it's a mule kick. Yeah, it's a mule kick. What do you mean when you're camping? Well, I'm not doing it at home. I got a bidet. Wait, you do this for yourself? This is a joke. No, I know. I know. He's like, stop. You're the one who said camping.

Well, I mean, where else are you going to kick turds? I mean. You're doing good, Brooks? How are you doing it? Oh, yeah. Oh, I'm doing great. Did you learn anything from that last one? That was the most important one. That was definitely. Thank you, bro. Is there anything you, uh, you needed to remember? I know I'm putting you on the spot, but is there anything from this past year that, uh, like, do you remember, you guys, how old your dynasty team is? Yeah, start to remember that. Um,

Just in general, not plain afraid, which is a lot of your guys's points summarized. That's my problem. I was out of trades. And I go to his offer and I don't offer them. You know, I think that's, I think that's a good self-acknowledgement. Because I look at several people in our league. And it's usually the people that are hard to trade with.