Fantasy Football 2018 - The TRUTH About Fantasy RBs in 2017, Part 1

Well, yes, he did. His third down passing was great. But honestly, you know, the Shazir-less Pittsburgh Steelers, their defense has not been the same since he went down. And, you know, the Steelers' offense did everything they could. I mean, whenever you get a 42 to 45 game, that was a really fun one. But it's going to be exciting to me. Blake Bortles, playoff losses, zero, Tom Brady, nine. Is that Blake Bortle's fact? Yes. Did you guys catch the clip?

of Callais Campbell being interviewed a week ago. Yes. And he threw out the scores of something. We can either beat him three to nothing or we can beat him 45 to 42. Wow. Yeah, called out the exact score. That's impossible. They won twice in Pittsburgh. And then look, this comes down to me. You know, you can say what you want about Tom and the play calls at the end and the onside kick and the timeouts. There was some really weird Haley play calls. But that's kind of like.

You know, that's like the last bite of the Sunday. The defense didn't show up. You don't give up 45 at home to the Jags and then get mad about an onset kick. You didn't time up right. I mean, to me, it's just that game was lost, you know, in the second, third, and fourth quarter when they gave up, you know, so many points. Yes. So, and then the Saints and the Vikings, the game to end all games. Unbelievable.

Unbelievable performance by both teams, the Saints. They came back, they looked dead. They come back in the second half. They put the game on ice, or so we think, and then a play that you just can't explain. I've never been more thrilled for a people group at the same time as being heartbroken. A purple people group? A purple people leader group. I mean, around here, we just happen to have, just by luck, a lot of our friends.

Our Vikings fans and a lot of our friends are Saints fans. So it was like, I felt so sorry for people. I mean, nobody deserved to lose that game. Yeah, the horns. Hey, for a preseason Saints Super Bowl call to, no, to go down against that, that was the play that had to take away the magic. That's fine. I got trawled this morning. Someone sent me a message and said, yeah, your Saints call looks pretty bad now, doesn't it?

I'm like, I guess. Wow. I mean, they lost. Technically we did lose. They did lose. We're very incorrect. I am so down. That's like, that's as good as my favorite Blake Bortles fact, which is, which is this. Blake Bortals and Tom Brady have combined for five Super Bowl titles, four Super Bowl MVP awards.

13 Pro Bowls and two NFL MVP awards. And they're going head to head this coming week. All right, we'll move on. I want to get into this consistency stuff with the running backs. That's the meat and potatoes of today's show. A little bit more news. Now, entering the game against the Patriots, a lot of talk about the Titans head coach Mike Malarkey. The report was that he was still on the hot seat. And then breaking news. Good news.

Or bad news, depending on your perspective. Mike Malarkey set to sign an extension with the Titans. This news broke after the big week. They told him you're our guy. We're going to extend you after the game is over. Cool. All right. Breaking news. The Titans and coach Mike Malarkey have mutually agreed to part ways. Oh, all right. This is all right. So now we're hearing that Josh McDaniels, offensive coordinator for the New England Patriots,

is expected to take the Colts job. He's going to leave the Titans. Now, who are the Titans going to get? I thought you were going to keep this breaking news thing running because it was breaking news like 20 minutes ago or, you know, however long ago, that he was going to take the Titans job. Yeah, that's why I started that news bit right there is I forgot that it had already switched. Yeah, and now apparently he is set to take Colts job. We don't know who's the leading candidate now for the Titans. I'm hearing.

Could be Mike Vrable. Mike Vrable, yeah. Yeah, Texans D coordinating. And then Pat Schumer is currently expected to take the New York Giants head coaching job, the current offensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings. And Matt Patricia is supposed to go to the Lions. Yeah, a lot of changes. I will say this, for everyone out there, people love these truth episodes. I think they're really valuable. But the episodes that I...

or the episode that I think is the most valuable, my favorite one to research during the off season is our coaching changes episode. We won't do that until all the chips land and we have time to do really good research. But looking back year after year, those things are what moves.

needles in gigantic fashions for teams. So stay tuned and look forward to that. Some of those big impact situations, Tom Cables know the offensive line coach in Oakland. Good luck, Oakland. The bills fired their offensive coordinator, Rick Denison. That's going to matter. You know, they brought in ex-Alabama offensive coordinator Brian DeBall. You have the former Oregon head coach. I love it. Going to Chicago now, Mark Al-Rick. Oh, man.

I love it. I mean, this is a guy he played under, or he coached under Chip Kelly, eventually rose to the head coach. Get fresh offensive minds in here. Stop hiring freaking Norv Turner. Oh, yeah. The Panthers hired Norv Turner. Oh, yeah. I mean, stop. Just just stop with these guys who are bouncing everywhere. I mean, get, I love it. I'm so happy for the bears that they're moving in this direction. As opposed to.

You're not a big fan of what Oakland's doing. No, I am not. Because Oakland's bringing in a lot of... Look, I saw Mike Shanahan. When he went to Washington, it didn't work to just sign guys that were good a while back. Yeah. And that's the concern with the staff that Gruden's putting together. Look, we have these movies. Every generation starts putting them out. And Hollywood comes out. All the old guys. You know, what was the last ones? Expendables. Freeman. But they all come together. They're old. They're going to rob a bank.

There's a certain demo that likes these movies and goes to see them. It doesn't work anymore with the youth of the NFL. Things are changing in the NFL big time. And you'll hear some of these numbers for when we're going to talk about what is happening to running backs. To go with the retread, I think is a gigantic mistake. And my concern for Oakland is just is building and building. All right, before we get into the truth of the running backs.

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running backs for this past season, what a year it was for one, Todd Gurley. Let me break this down for you. If you look at the difference in fantasy points between positions, the RB1, which was Gurley, and Levion Bell, who was the RB2, 52.5, 52.2 fantasy point difference. And this is half point scoring. In half point scoring. The difference between...

Gurley, the RB1 and the RB5 was 92 fantasy points. If you go from RB1 down to RB12, that's 163 point difference. That's massive. And then you go from RB12 to RB24, that gap is only 38 points. So this is starting to, you're starting to get the picture of what the high profile top tier...

running back does for your fantasy team and the difference it makes. And for the people who are like, wow, well, Todd Gurley, I mean, that was an unbelievable performance. The season was incredible. Last year, David Johnson had more fantasy points than Todd Gurley had this year. So this is not abnormal. You see the top three running backs when everything is shaken out are massively valuable to your team. And I just wanted to give an overview.

of what running backs are looking like because it was down, running backs just on the ground. It was overall down compared to 2016. It wasn't as bad as the bleak 2015. We all remember when running backs were pronounced dead and everything was zero running back. We've bounced back a little bit since then. However, last year, seven running backs, 10 plus rushing touchdowns this year, only two. Here is the big difference.

I want to start in 2015. Eight running backs had 50 or more receptions. 2016. 11 running backs had 50 or more receptions. This year, 14 running backs had 50 plus receptions. Now, it hasn't changed or affected how many running backs are scoring 4 plus receiving touchdowns, but more and more in today's NFL. This is what I was talking about. The NFL is changing. Passing to the running back is

crucial in today's NFL 14. In the matter of two years, you have almost doubled the amount of running backs getting 50 plus receptions. That is what they call a boat load. It's one of the reasons why I'm very uncertain about a guy like Derek Henry, whereas I think maybe DeMarco Murray, you know, they cut him and they say they're $6.3 million. They're going to draft somebody.

That's my prediction for Tennessee. They're going to draft another running back to compliment Derek Henry to provide more in the past game. Say what you will about Derek Henry in his ability. The confidence that the previous coaching staff has shown in his past catching ability isn't there. I think you're going to see a compliment there. That's why I don't know what to do with him exactly in Dynasty leagues. We'll find out. But you're right. Look at the players that made huge impacts. I mean, Alvin Kamar is a wide receiver.

He lines up at wide receiver all the time. What Kareem Hunt did in the past game, running a seam route early on in the year and taking it to the house. Yeah. I mean, Lev Bell with 85 receptions. Todd Gurley was 64. Those four running backs right there. Todd Gurley, Levion, Bell, Cream Hunt, and Alvin Camara all outscored the number one wide receiver, DeAndre Hopkins. So we're going to break down the fantasy running backs. We're going to go.

in order of fantasy points produced, and then we're going to give you their consistency rank for the year. And a reminder, here's how we broke down consistency. We looked at players, and we basically said, hey, how many great games did they give us? Great games in the running back?