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

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The Fantasy Footballers Podcast. It has been far too long. It's been too long. The season is done. The Super Bowl is done. Fantasy is done. Yes. Or has it just begun? Just beginning. You know, in the modern NFL, it has just begun. And speaking... I am, Andy Holloway, and I'm here with the fantasy hitman himself, Mike Wright. I was going to say, speaking of just beginning. Yes. You may have recognized. Well, not recognized, but you may have noticed.

A new voice. A new voice in the room. Who is this dapper-looking gentleman? Well, I can tell you what my nickname is. Oh, do you have a nickname already? No, I have a nickname. I have a crowd-sourced nickname coming up. So you listeners will be allowed to name me. Oh. Did you kickstart a nickname? Yeah, it's on 99 design, so you got to pay a little bit. Well, in the meantime, he goes by Jason Moore. So welcome to the show. Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers podcast. Thank you. Thank you.

We're happy to have you. It's 2015, and we wanted to add another guy to the roster. We had a combine. He put up some good numbers. Yeah, I ran a 7-4-240, and they knew that I was all about the fantasy. That's generous. That's generous. But yes, welcome to the fantasy footballers team. Jason will be with us from here on out. It is a trilogy of talent, a trifecta of fantasy football.

domination. And a little more about the show. If you want to subscribe to us, you can find us on iTunes. That's how most of our listeners find us. With an I. With an I. iTunes with an I. You can also find us on Facebook. Facebook.com slash the fantasy footballers. You can like us on there if you like us on here. I like us. Yeah, not too bad. You can also find us on Twitter. The show is found at the FF Ballers.

And should I give out our individual Twitters? Yeah, absolutely. So you can find me, Andy, at Andy Holloway on Twitter. That's H-O-L-L. Many people, they make that mistake. I can understand that. You can find Mike at F-F-Hitman. Yes. And Jason is at Jason F-F-F-L. So, yeah, I might change my handle. You guys are much more. We're cool, man. Yeah, you're too cool. We're very professional in this business. Yeah, absolutely. So if you've got a question, shoot me a tweet.

But yeah, the season is over. What did you guys make of that Super Bowl? That was, I went on the Twitter on the record officially. The Twitter. And I declared that the worst play call in the history of the NFL. I ended up getting into it with one of my friends of mine because he didn't. He was calling me Skip Bayliss. I noticed he was not being generous to you.

I was exaggerating too much, but I honestly don't think it was an exaggeration when you combine the... The magnitude of the game, the situation of the game, and the personnel of the team. I don't know. I completely agree. Worst call in the history of Super Bowl. You didn't bind any of Pete Carroll's explanations on the time management situation? No, because everyone was saying, well, you've got to throw, so then if it goes incomplete...

You only have one timeout. You can run, call the timeout run again. I said, well, why can't you run if it's unsuccessful, which there's a 90-something percent chance it would have been successful. Yeah, I was trying to think back. Then throw, if that's not successful, then you have, then they don't know what you're going to do. I mean, you can pass or you can run. I couldn't remember. I was trying to think back because I was a Marshall Lynch owner last year. You were a Marshall Lynch owner this year. Oh, it was delicious. And I was trying, and he, obviously, he led the league in touchdowns, which, you know. I think he was tied. 17.

Did he lead or was he tied? I thought he led. And then obviously one of the best goal line backs in history. Yeah. And I can't remember a time I was trying to think back to at least me watching when he got back to back stuffed on the goal line ever. Yeah. And we're talking within the one or two yard line. But at the same time, there had been no interceptions from the one. So it was a great play by New England. It was a fitting end to the fantasy football season. We talked so much about Marshall and Lynch at the beginning of this year.

And this brings up kind of something we face every year in fantasy football, which is how soon do you jump off the bandwagon of some of these workhorse backs that have, you know, they've got piles and piles of carries. And essentially, you know, it's going to end. I will. But are they Emmett Smith? Are they Marshaun Lynch? Are they some of the guys that you... Sean Alexander. Right. Well, he's a good example for...

You know, one year to the next, completely gone. Oh, just, he went from being an unbelievable talent in Seattle to dead to the world. Yeah, and people have been saying the same thing about Arian Foster over the last few years. Well, Foster's body is breaking down, clearly. But when he plays. His talent level is, so I guess he kind of. There's a difference from fading out, though, and being a little bit more injury pro. But I was, I was. That forte has a lot of carries. I was all over the fading lynch.

this year regrettably um i like you said i i had him so i jumped back in on him uh though i was highly concerned of the entire year just waiting waiting for the fall out to happen so you know what it came down to lynch was that is the hype train of the christian michael

Yeah. Yeah. If you've got somebody behind, you know, you're going to start hearing that with Niall Davis, Jamal Charles, this upcoming year, or not this upcoming year, but in the future. It's that type of situation where you don't have a scrub back behind. You have a talent. And guys like the idea of getting that next great big thing. Yeah. And we had all written, not all, but you know what I mean? We had all written that this was the last year of Lynch in Seattle. I think contract. They were going to get them out.

Christian Michael's going to take over. And now we're talking about Marshall Lynch getting extended. Multiple years. Tons of money. Finishes years. Are there guys on either of your minds that are in that category of might be dropping off this next year? Or who you think the general fantasy world will be. On top of my head. Be afraid of. I mean, is it a guy like Forte? No, I...

I don't think so. I think Forte is losing Tresman. He's got more carries on his body than Lynch does. Yeah, but Forte didn't need Tresman to be good. Forte's been good since his rookie year, and he always gets looked over. I think Forte is solid and he is fine. I think that, you know, if I was going to pick a guy to drop off, I'm going to go with old man, Grandpa, Fred Jackson, because eventually you have to die. Yeah, but he doesn't have the carries, though.

Like the other older guys, so his age and physical body may be older, but NFL body is not as old as the guys. Yeah, I guess there's not a lot of guys in that tweener category. There's still guys like Gore, but Gore's already made that dive a little bit. Yeah. And then you have some guys coming back into the picture like Jonathan Stewart that have been out for a little while. Oh, my goodness. Jonathan Stewart. Yeah, he'll be an interesting name in this upcoming year. But let's take some time.

And talk about some of the offseason moves, some of the coaching changes in the NFL and see what that might impact the 2015 season, which is, it seems like it's forever away, but it's just not. It's just not. It's going to be here before you know it. News and notes from around the league. All right. A lot of change. And it's always hard to, well, we haven't seen, you know, obviously the free agency situation come to fruition yet, but you do have a lot of coaching changes.

how big offensive schemes, defensive schemes impact the season. So let's go through some of these. Who's the first on the list here? The first guy on the list is our guy, Todd Bowles, has left us high and dry. Yes, defensive coordinator for the Cardinals last year. For greener pastures, and I do mean greener because the team is green. So he's now the head coach of the JETS.

Jets. He also took a lot of the assistant staff with him on the defensive side, so I think that'll help on the defense. But I see Todd Bowles as a great coach for NFL purposes and a terrible hire for fantasy football purposes. I just don't see them being an offense. Unless you're drafting their defense in the first round. Right, yeah. Yeah, I tend to agree. It's funny because I don't remember the exact stat now, but I think the Jets have hired...

something like six or seven consecutive defensive-minded coaches. And so you go from the defensive-minded Rex Ryan to the defensive-minded Todd Bowles. And I feel like that's very rare because almost every time an NFL quarterback is let go, the owner wants to like swing the other direction and they hire, you know, whatever the opposite of... It's an identity thing with...

the Jets, I think. But you know what scares me about the Todd Bowles higher is because he's a first time coach, the thing that scares me is Chang Galey. The fact that they're bringing in a guy who's been out of the league for two years. And honestly, I do not believe in Chan Galey. He spent 10 years as either a head coach or an offensive coordinator. And in those 10 years, only two times did he have a top 10 offense. We're not talking like top offense, but like in the third half, you know, in the...

top third of the league. I just don't believe in his offensive scheme. Jason, first episode, it's coming in hard. He's heated. I hate to say. I agree. I agree with that. I think Chang Galey's a name. I think Chang Galey's a name, and maybe the resume is not backing that up anymore. I mean, he obviously, he did some things with Spiller in Buffalo.

Those were some good things. That were good things. But I don't know if that was much more than getting the ball in his hands more often. So that'll be interesting to see. So from a fantasy perspective in New York, were we caring about any of these guys anyway? No. No. Do we care about Chris Ivory? Do we care about Eric Decker? I mean, Chris Ivory was a decent RB2 for the majority of the year. He was heavily touchdown dependent. But...

For where you drafted him, he still produced some strong value, and you were able to ride him. Does it matter if they get a quarterback? Yeah, of course. Every NFL offense matters if they get a quarterback, but they're not going to get a quarterback this offseason that's going to change anything. Well, I mean, they're in the line, I would think, for Marriota or Winston, whoever drops. I think it will be Mario. I think it will be a pretty good chance Mariotto be there for them. Because they're drafting at six. Yep. And so unless Chip Kelly.

decides that he's going to make a bunch of moves. I think Marriotti drops to sick. He'll be there if they want him, I should say. I don't know if they're going to take him or not because they are coming up there. Gino Smith run spread option. Yeah, I think Gino's done. If we stay in the AFC East, we move over, we see where Rex Ryan jumped to.

I just saw, I bet. The next Jets. Where he just got his tattoo. I was going to say, he filled it in. Jets tattoo filled in with blue. So it looks. He has his wife on his shoulder wearing a Jets jersey, and they had it changed up. Yeah, it was Sanchez. And you know who it, I don't know the guy's name, but you know who it is now? It's the punter. The number six? Yeah. That's funny. Yeah. So Rex Ryan going to the bills. I mean, again, fantasy relevant perspective here. Is there anything that you want to talk about? Running backs, man. Rex Ryan always has.