Fantasy Football Podcast 2016 - Fantasy Impact of Coaching Changes, News & Mailbag

What do you guys think? Yes or no? Is it from a fantasy? From a fantasy perspective, what I think you'll see is different tendencies for their usage for some of those guys than what we've seen in the past. We've always, Hugh Jackson is always the first one to come out and talk about the ups and downs of a Jeremy Hill. Right. And so it's a different guy now. It's a different guy managing that relationship. Jeremy Hill is a up and down kind of player. So yes. But I don't know if it's going to be bad or good.

it's going to be up to, you know, the tape to show us what he's going to do. But change, yes, I think there will be changed. So, all right, Guns Mahoney is out. Joe Philbin is out. I saw a, what was that on? One of the late night shows.

They called Joe Philbin the most likely to be in a painting holding a pitchfork. That was his official awards. It was Fallon. He looks just like the guy in that famous picture. American Gothic. Oh, they put them up next to each other. They put them up to each other. And it was great. So Adam Gase, Vladimir Putin himself. And if you think I'm joking, go look up those two names in Google.

And there's enough pictures of them side by side that other people have thought the same thing. Wait a minute. So Putin takes over in Miami. I'm just testing it out, okay? This is not good. All right. Adam Gase takes over in Miami. He's a guy who's had a lot of success with the quarterback position. And wouldn't you know they need somebody who's had success with the quarterback position? Because Ryan Tanna Hill went backwards in every way, shape and form last year.

So what do we do here in Miami? I have some thoughts on guys that I like in the fantasy landscape with Adam Gase. He had a lot of success with Demarius Thomas and now, Sean Jeffrey. So Devante Parker has to be really high on that list. Yeah, Devante Parker, you can go back in the rookie show where we really broke him down. He's a guy that I like a lot moving forward, and I think the Adam Gase hire is tremendous for Devante Parker in the schemes and the ways that they will try and get him involved.

like the bubble screens they do with the Marys Thomas frequent or he did with Thomas frequently and it just it wasn't it wasn't the best year I would say for Adam Gase in Chicago but there was what were you to do your superstar in Alshan Jeffrey is basically non-existent for for the year Matt Forte gets dinged up you lost Brandon Marshall before the season but you did help Cutler yes and and Cutler he

He really cut down on Cutler's interceptions, correct? Yeah, down to 11. Which that's... On the whole season. For Jay Cutty, I mean, Jay Cutty's a guy who doesn't care. Three of those were in week 17, so he had eight in 16 games. That is Jake... That is not Jay Cutler. That's impressive. I mean, he doesn't care. He's just going to throw the ball and maybe gets intercepted and maybe doesn't. So if he's able to do that work with Jake Cutler, we have to hold out some hope.

for Ryan Tannahill in that department? I don't have very much hope for Ryan Tannahill from just a football perspective. I watched a lot of his play this year, and I'm not sure if he couldn't take the step forward this year that we really hoped he would, I'm not sure what's going to happen to make him take that step forward the next year or the next year. How long do you wait for a guy to really...

get it and leap forward. So he is, to me, something that's holding this offense back. I think from a fantasy side, and you probably, you could be very right about him, we'll get the opportunity to see it. He'll be there. You're going to have a lot more clarity in the offensive passing options in Miami this year, where it's a Landry and Parker show. Greg Jennings. Greg Jennings is gone, and Richard Matthews is almost assuredly gone.

Will they use Jordan Cameron? Or did they sign him? I think Jordan Cameron might be gone. I think he'll get cut. Well, he'll restructure his contract or he'll be gone. It's very, very, very possible. So we'll see what Gays wants to do with that offense. But it's a hiring that at least has some potential because you're bringing in a guy who solves some of these issues where he, okay, you've got a top wide receiver. Let's.

Here's a guy who's had success with that. You've got a quarterback that struggling. Here's a guy who's put that together for them. So in that sense, I like it. But, you know. You also have continuity that you didn't get this year because I don't think anybody thought Philbin was a good leader, a good leader, a good offensive coach for this team. No, he wasn't. And so he had the, you know, the preseason and all the mini-cams and all that. And then gets fired. And Guns Mahoney comes in, Dan Campbell, and he wants to.

Completely change it. Say, we're a running team, even though he still didn't do it. Sorry. Guns Mahoney is still in the NFL, by the way. Yeah, he went to the Saints. So just so we know where to look. For the guns. If you hear clanging of weights banging together, it's because he's blasting his biceps. But the continuity is a very good thing for the dolphins receiving and hopefully for Ryan Tannahill.

This is because of this hire, it's like you give them one more chance to take this step forward. Yeah, you have to. Yeah, you have to. Something I do not want to gloss over is the running back position with J. Jai. We expect Lamar Miller to be gone again. Sixth in attempts last year in Chicago. I know they had Forte and Lankford running the show, but Adam Gaze is not opposed to running the ball. 11th and 12th as far as rushing attempts when he was in Denver as the O.C.

So the tragedy is if Gase is there and Lamar Miller's back, he will find ways to use him and his skill set catching and running better than anybody's ever used Lamar before. Yeah, that's true. So it could be the best destination for Lamar Miller is to stay home. Maybe. Yeah, it could be. But it's unlikely. We'll see. And then the last coaching change, of course, Jim Tom Sula out, Chip Kelly in. So they just gained a head coach is all they did.

They didn't lose anything. Oh. I'm sorry. I blasted Jim Tom Sulla last year and... That's just because he farted during that one... No, no, no, no. That interview. I'm talking about... The press conference. No, I'm talking last year when they hired him and we did our coach change episode. That's just because his shirt was open and his chest hair was popping out. It's because he was a bad hire. That's just because he was a bad coach. Yeah, it's just because he was a bad coach.

Now, here's the thing. It's because he's Carl. I am on the from Aquitian. I'm on the record. Stone cold luck of the week. I believe Chip Kelly. A year of the century. Of the century. I believe Chip Kelly is a very good head coach, a very good offensive mind. This year, things didn't work out great, but you can't discount his entire body of work, including two years in the NFL as a successful game, you know, winning.

and offensive producing coach. The problem with him is the alienation of players that has taken place over three years. But the alienation of those players, while some of those happened while he was just head coach, most of those happened once he had that role of being the GM. You're talking about a fine, upstanding character in the Sean McCoy. Yeah. That was offended by Chuck Kelly. He was offended. That's not working out.

Shady. Maybe a little redemption there for Chip Kelly. The question is, can Chip Kelly do anything with the pieces? Anquine Bolden does not strike me as a Chip Kelly type of like, hey, we're going to run a bunch of extra plays and we're going to be super fast and go nonstop. Why is that? Age. I think Bolden can still get it done. Bolden's great, man. I love it. He's one of my all-time favorite. Probably in better shape than Nelson Aguilar.

That's true. You're a number one guy. Stop saying that. Please. And for the record, Andy Holloway loves. Loves. Not as much as you like Sam Bradford. So a guy, I'm going to throw it out now because you're going to hear me talking of him. Yeah, we hate this too. We're shaking our head in disgust. Is Tori Smith. And that's because I still believe.

in Chip Kelly as a play caller and I believe in his offenses. And I know it didn't work out this year, but the previous two years, go look at Deshaun Jackson's numbers before Chip Kelly got into town. He was a good wide receiver.

And around the 55% catch rate, you know, hovering just under 1,000 yards. Chip Kelly gets there in his first year, Deshaun Jackson jumps over 120 targets. His catch rate goes to over 65%. And I think he had over 1,300 yards or so. You're correct on all three of those. It just, it might not happen. But Tori Smith is a guy you're going to be able to get later in the draft. Just saying he is.

Right now, one of my top sleeping. I shake my head. I shake my head no because of my disdain for Tori Smith this year. And I felt like I was burned by him. But I actually believe that there is a lot of logic to what you're saying. The value in a late pick, the upside of Tori Smith, if he got involved and got targets, would, I mean, he only had 62 targets on the year. That's the problem, though, guys. We're burying the lead here.

The lead is Kaepernick. Can Chip Kelly make Kaepernick see a wide open Tori Smith when no one guards him on the side of the field or not? That was the problem. Is it going to be Kaepernick or is it going to be Gabbard? I think it's going to be Kaepernick. There's a ceiling with both of those situations unless you think he's going to transform one of them. He didn't transform San Bradford. He surely transformed Nick Foles. That's true. For a while.

Yeah, that's all I need. Just give me one year. So you take the historic inconsistency of Tori Smith, and you part that with the hopes of Chip Kelly transforming an inconsistent quarterback, and that's your value.

That's a value when you can get them late in a draft. Let me just say this. I don't like the fact that you changed in the middle of this. I didn't change. I still can't stand the idea of drafting Tories Smith from an emotional side. Throw those guys out. Give me Carlos Hide. Give me a guy who's coming into Chip Kelly, who was fourth, seventh, and 11th in rushing attempts in his three years in Philadelphia. Carlos Hyde is the guy that's going downhill as long as he can, and I mean that in a good way. Down the field downhill. Not downhill.

Fantasy-wise. He's going up fantasy. All right, this is confusing. I'm with you. Carlos Hyde. I like him. Okay. I'm completely with you, too. Carlos Hyde showed... He proved a lot of things to me last year in that limited amount of time when he was actually healthy, and the team was not in complete disarray. And I'm with you on the Chip Kelly on the rush attempts. We saw great things happen for runners in that...

in Chip Kelly's offense before this year. And even DeMarco Murray and Ryan Matthews, they were okay. Hey, hey, hey. There's a really important question here. We can't, we can't forget about Chip Kelly's guy that he has already said he's very excited about at the running back position. Is it a salad? No, that no. Nope. No. It's Jared Hayes. He's going down under. The Australian rugby player. If I had a dollar for every excited coach and.

Distant third string player, I'd be really rich. They like all their players. The coaches like all the players on their teams. When they first get there. Not Chip Kelly. He gets rid of them. All right. Let's move on. Maybe. Maybe we'll move on. Oh, it was so smooth. Mailbag. It tricked me because it worked the whole show. It worked well. And then the drop didn't come. So thanks for singing, Mike. You got it. All right.

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