Fantasy Football look at Offseason Coaching Changes, Fantasy Risers, and Draft Tools

He's going to have the same recipe. Dependable. Yeah. He's defense ground. Run the ball. Dominate on defense. Absolutely. Yeah, you see Greg Roman coming over from the Niners. Same exact method. He wants run the ball, ground, and pound. So I like the running back situation there. But the problem is we don't know yet who the running back is going to be. I don't think it's going to be C.J. Spiller. I think he's going to be Fred Jackson. I really do. I have such a hard time depending on him. He's 42 years old now.

He just qualified for those. He's getting his check. You know, but he's proven time and time again that he can do it. It's one part talent and it's one part locker room. He is every coach's favorite player. He shows up early. I think he will win the job, is my point. It's just the truth. But, you know, they're a candidate to draft a guy, too. Yeah, but they have no first round pick. Well, not in the first round.

Well, but I'm saying, but what I mean by that is when you don't have a first round pick, your second round pick, you can't take a running back there. Well, if spill or leave, somebody's coming in. So I don't, you know. How would it feel to go from Gino to E.J. Manuel? Well, like, very twilight zone. Yeah, just similar. That would be awful. One thing I will say about Fred Jackson is generally it's, he's that two-minute offense, dump the ball, PPR relevant.

guy so let's uh let's swing around here let's talk about john fox uh that terrible coach john fox so bad that he had to be let go i just i don't he's he's in the chan galley book for me yeah i don't he's uh jeff fisher to me yeah where yeah congratulations you've had some success when your team is optimized when you have patent manning i mean how many how many jobs did patent manning get people yeah

Everyone in that close tree. Those are always hard things to parse through because you had Ken Wisenhunt. He's a hot name during the Warner years. He gets two jobs since then. And how's that gone? Well, not well in Tennessee, but it went okay in San Diego. So it's hard to see. But from a fantasy perspective, what does this mean? Is it more Tressman leaving than it is Fox coming in when you talk about, let's go through the names here, Brandon Marshall, Jay Cutler, Al Sean Jeffrey, Matt Forte, and even Martellus Bennett? So you've got.

This is not a team that had no fantasy impact last year. This is a team that had a huge fantasy impact last year. And I'm worried that we're going to go too far the other direction, losing Tressman, that people are going to jump off all these guys.

I mean, what do you expect to see? I think that this is going to hurt the weapons, but I think it's actually going to improve Jay Cutler a little bit because the defense was so terrible last year. And I fully expect a big turnaround on defense with John Fox coming in there, which normally isn't great for fantasy and isn't really even great for quarterbacks. But with a quarterback like Jay Cutler, I think he's going to have to do less, which will be a good thing for him. And I also still think that Matt Forte being a great...

talent is going to be fine in any system, whether he's running more and catching less, it's still going to work out even. And so I like those. I like all of those guys. I think that the biggest person that this is going to impact negatively is going to be Martellus Bennett because he's not going to need to use as many offensive weapons. But when you've got two big wide receivers, they're both still going to get the ball. So I still like the Bears here. Now, I am not as high on Matt Forte as Jason is. I still like.

Matt Forte, he's a very talented running back. He's got a proven track record. But for where he's going to be drafted this year, which should be in the top five, top six currently. He's not there for you? Unless things shake out. No, he's not there for me because he's, I don't think he's going to finish as a top five. How many receptions did he have last year? 80 plus? He, no, he was over 100. Yeah. Because he, did he break the record?

He was real close. I don't think he broke the record. Where do you think Forte is going to finish? If he's not top five, where do you see him finish? Five to ten? I see him in the top ten. See, I'll spend the top five pick to secure someone that I am sure or relatively sure will finish top ten. I'd rather do that than really. I suppose that that's fair. I guess it depends on what those top five kids are. I mean, obviously they're top five for a reason. You believe that they're going to finish in the top ten. So...

But, yeah, that'll be interesting to see what his impact leaving does, because he's been top five before without trust. Without trust. And I also, I'm not sure that Jay Cutler is going to be the Chicago Bears starting quarterback next year. That blew me away when you said that. I have not heard anything like that, especially with Tressman leaving. I thought that that was like, you know, an indication that they are on Jay Cutler's side. Yeah, it's possible. For John Fox, I don't know.

Obviously, the hard part is getting rid of him because of his contract is an albatross. It's a guaranteed thing. You can't just cut him, or they'll have a giant amount of dead money. But they, I'm sure that they're sending feelers out. And if you're talking a lower-level team, like, hey, give us a third-round pick, and you can have a guy who is kind of a franchise quarterback. I'll tell you right now, as a Cardinals fan, I would take him.

on the Cardinals with the cannon for the long ball over basically nobody that we have right now. Yeah, I agree. Where are we? Carson. Carson. Carson. But one of the things that I think is worth mentioning, and there are certain quarterbacks that are conducive to garbage time fantasy points. Oh. And there are certain quarterbacks that aren't. And it's something I'm going to talk about a little bit later with Matt Ryan in our up and coming for next year segment. But guys like Jay Cutler, they get themselves in a lot of trouble.

And so I do agree that the lack, if he's around, John Fox coming in and shoring up the defense can make an impact to him. Yeah. Less is more sometimes. So let's talk actual exciting. Yes. Exciting coaches. I almost want to save these guys until later, though. Well, okay. So let's hit Jack Del Rio to the Raiders and nobody cares. Yeah, Jack Del Rio goes to the Raiders.

Except for defensive-minded coach. The Latvian. Yeah, Latavius-Marry. I do like Latavis-Marie. I like Latvius-Marie. I like it from an opportunity perspective. As a defensive-minded coach, that's also, I think, a good thing unless they drafts him. What you're going to see happen in Oakland is you're going to see them develop a system that works to Latavius-Murie's strengths. I had him last year. I know what that Oakland fan base grasps onto, and it's a couple pieces of...

A couple pieces of talent. Were we dead? No, we're still here. Oh. It sounded like our show was turning off for a second. But he's their most talented player. And I do like Derek Carr. And so that offense showed me at times that it can move the ball. It had no defense. And so I do like the Tavis Murray, but Jack DeRio doesn't do a lot for me. Jack DeRio was the, he was coaching when MJD was primetime, right? Yeah.

So, I mean, there is a track record of riding a guy, riding a workhorse. Yeah. Yeah, Latavis Murray has talent oozing out his pores. It's just so hard to trust a raider. Mark, oh, I really like this one. Mark Tresman, he's not the head coach, but he's O-Cing.

I think, Jason, you had some thoughts on Tresman to the Ravens. Oh, my goodness. I was such a big fan of Tresman when he was going to the Bears. And when I heard he was going to the Ravens, I was all about every player there. I wanted Flacco. I wanted whatever running back is going to be back. And then when I saw that he is keeping...

the offensive plan that was already in place by Kubiak, and he's going to come in. He said something along the lines of, well, it's easier for me to learn a whole new system than all the players. I'm thinking, what are you doing there? You know, it's like I love the man, but I hate the plan. And that rhymes. So it's got to be solid, you know? It's true. And so I am.

I'm not, I'm not, yeah, I'm not buying into any improvement because of Trestman, even though I like Trestman. I see them the same as I saw them from the finish of this last year. Are you? Well, the only thing I was going to bring up was one thing that predominantly Trestman has been involved in is involving his running backs in the passing game. So that would be the one thing that I would hope you see an uptick in. Do you think it's four set or are they bringing someone new in? Or is it?

Ray Rice. Lorenzo Telefiero. Did you say Ray Rice? Yes, I whispered it. I whispered it, though, because I didn't want. You only whispered. That's how they're, the gym, you're talking about Ray Rice for the next off season, too. They're whispering. I don't know. I don't know. I think it's most likely that they'll bring somebody in. For me, with Trussman in, I'm a notoriously all in on Trussman guys.

I was all in on Jay Cotler last year. And it worked out for the majority of the year. And I wrote an article for fantasy pros talking about who I like for my top five guys. And I didn't put him in because I'm not that insane yet. But I'm loving me some Joe Flacco next year. I don't mind. Someone needs to tell him he's on the road and in a playoff game before every single game.

Where I sit today in February, it wouldn't bother me to just hold it out, hold it out, hold it out, Joe Flacco. All right, well, let's go ahead and talk about John Fox's replacement in Denver, Gary Kubiak, a longtime coach of the Houston Texans. Now he's in Denver. Jason's giddy. I just find it so entertaining that he's like, he comes out one day and says, I want to be a part.

of this Ravens team. There's something special here. And then one week later when that job opens up, he's like, see ya. It's just the nature of the business. It's crazy. It's funny because you have to say all the right things. It's his dream job from what you hear. Really? Yeah. He played there. He's good chums with Elway. Now, what do you make of the fact that he wasn't interested in bringing Peyton into Houston? Did you hear about this? Was it his decision?

Well, apparently he was against it. He decided to stick with Matt Schaub. Maybe you've heard of him. Well, you have to be kind of fair with the situation. They were coming off a division title, right? Yeah, Matt Schaub hadn't turned into the crap monster yet. The pick six monster. So Matt Schaub was still riding decently high. And...

Peyton Manning was just, it was unknown. Yeah, you didn't know whether he was going to be able to come back from the next week. So Gary Kubiak's coming in. What does it mean to, and it's, let me take a deep breath. C.J. Anderson, Peyton Manning, Demarius Thomas, Emmanuel Sanders, Julius Thomas. Did I get through the major list? Yeah, that's the big guys. Is Wes Welker still playing? I'm going to guess he's going to retire, but they have to figure out the contract situation of Demarius and Julius.

the Thomas boys first. I can't see this being bad for that offense. No, because Peyton's still going to run the, he's still going to run it. But the one person that I am all in on completely is C.J. Anderson. And I think, C.J. Anderson is going to kill it because Kubiak's going to come in. And the one thing that he is going to change is that zone blocking scheme. Think about the running backs for Kubiak who have just destroyed. Yeah. I agree with that except for.

I'm going to make a prediction right now on the air here on February 6th. Oh. I predict that C.J. Anderson will not be the starting running back for the Denver Broncos. Strong words from your fantasy footballers. Who is it? I'm not sure. All right. I don't know. But I'm telling you, this has it written all over it to me. I think C.J. Anderson is, he had a great end to the year, and I do not think he will start as the running back for that team. Here's why C.J. Anderson.

Hellman, Ball, someone else. Here's why C.J. Anderson will get the starting job. I know that's bold. Because C.J. Anderson is the best running back on that team. He passes every eyeball test. He is incredibly talented, and Kubiak knows running back. He needs to pass Kubiak's eyeball test. And I believe Kubiak will. In camp, and he needs to do it in the preseason. Agreed. And...

He didn't begin the year, obviously, at the top of the depth chart last year. With a different quarterback. And I don't know. I just want to see what Kubiak says about it. When you have a three-headed no-name monster, I've seen these things go from hype to disappointment too quick. So I'm not jumping all in on C.J. Anderson just yet. However, I will concede the point that a running back, if given the opportunity in a Kubiak system, should be proficient.