The TRUTH About Fantasy QBs in 2020, Part 1 - Fantasy Football Podcast for 1/19

The only thing that could take them, Seattle, if you're going to get back to the Super Bowl, there's only one man who can do it. Look, if you want to take that second half of the year production for Russell Wilson and spread it out more evenly and just get that second half kind of production. If you want to know what to expect from Russell Wilson, you get Adam Gays in there. That's all I'm saying. Adam Gays for president. All right. Number seven, Ryan Tannahill. Well, that's impressive right there. Number seven overall at the position, Ryan.

Stinking Tannehill, released from the Behole. And here we are. We're consistent. We're the number 11 overall consistency quarterback. There are a number of, look, the first 10 weeks, you really were only happy you played Ryan Tannahill three times. Yeah. He was much better from week 11 on. He was.

He was just a streaming option. He wasn't drafted to be anything special even with his insane half of a season a couple years ago where he took the job from Marcus Mariod and then he got the huge contract. The beginning of this year was bad. He was just a streaming guy. And then what makes no sense is that last third of the season when it's what is Derek Yetty time.

Ryan Tannenhill and Derek Henry were living in perfect harmony putting up monster fantasy games. That's because when you play action with Derek Henry, when he's on his Yeti mode, all 12 defenders jump on top of his body, whether it has the ball or not, and you can go deep to A.J. Brown. Let me just say this. Ryan Tanyhill, let's call him the king of the stream. He is not somebody that I want. He's not somebody I want to draft. He's not somebody I want to start every week.

He is the king of the stream. He had 44% good games. That's not a good number. 38% great. That's a good number. That's a good number. 19% busts. Look, he went from a 90% good game rate in 2019 during that breakout year to 44%. 44% is not lock them into your lineup. 44% is, look, you can be the king of stream mountain. I don't, you don't need to be drafted and locked into my roster. Tana Hill.

We never thought he'd be that. So let's just be happy with... He's got... He has an offensive change heading his way because he's lost Arthur. Oh, sure, sure. Yeah, he does. And maybe he loses Cory Davis, too. I mean, how heartbreaking would that be for that offense? Maybe more than we think, yeah. Yeah. All right. Otherwise, better at home. Much better against bottom 16 defenses, a seven-point disparity.

So when it looked like, I mean, that's another way of saying when it looked like you could play Tannahill, you could play Tannahill, right? Wasn't his, I mean, how many games did he play in that breakout season? Is that like 11 or something? Maybe it was all second half. Ryan Tannehill doesn't like the heat. Maybe. Maybe he needs, is he like a mini Yeti? He might be. Hmm. Yeah, I didn't think about that. There's something there. We'll figure it out. It was the second half of the, uh,

The year, this year, too, where he was on fire, Week 11 on. Yeah, he needs the snow to get on fire. Interesting. That's not normal. He burns too hot. He's got to be cooled down. He's like, isn't that what they do with steel? You throw it into the water and then you beat it and then you put it back in the fire? Yeah, I think that's... You're a blacksmith, right? Yeah, you know, tempering. Sure. Blacksmith. Fire. To the, to the...

To the furnace. To the forge. That's the word you're looking for. Yes, it was. Dang it. All right. Number eight on our list is the plant man himself. Tom Brady. Look, quarterback's all around him. Decline. Tom Brady just, he keeps doing it. And it was the perfect combination. Tom Brady and Bruce Ariens. Now, a little rough.

At times to start the year, three weeks where he was number 19 or worse at the position. 56% good games, 31% great, 31% bus games. Much better road quarterback, eight points better on the road. But again, weird year. And a much better against the bottom 16 defenses, eight points better against them. But here you are with the Bruce Arian's recipe again for Tom Brady, which is.

You're going to lead the league in air yards. You're going to have turnovers that are kind of uncharacteristic because you're taking so many chances. I love how this happens to every single quarterback that plays for Bruce Ariens. Yeah. And he's always like, well, it's clearly your fault, you dummy. That's true. He blames all his quarterbacks for how bad they play. How many new quarterbacks do you need before he go, huh, maybe there's a flaw in my system. Bro, that mask that Bruce Ariens is wearing.

is about 18 sizes too small. That mask is screaming at the top of its lungs all. Get that man a bigger mask. You're going to pop his head. All right. What was your impression then? What is the truth about Tom Brady moving forward? Because how does anybody bank on a player with that, you know, level of, you know, decline concern, right? He's 43 and a half years old right now.

He is the outlier at the quarterback position. We already knew that. You said at most air yards in the league. He finished with the most 20 plus yard completions and attempts of his career, which is great news. But what is this offense next year? Chris Godwin, not under contract. Antonio Brown, not under contract. You have Mike Evans. If you play Dynasty and Tyler Johnson.

is around you might want to see if you can grab him fifth round pick made a big play last night yeah oh man that catch was insane uh you might want to see if you can sneak him onto your team so that's that's the first question i need to know what are the weapons around tom brady brady he i didn't think he had anything or i didn't think he had this left so i was proven very very wrong the egg was on my face but

If you take away his weapons, can he still get it done? I mean, or will he look like Tom Brady, New England, who didn't have weapons? Well, and if Bruce Ariens is there, you know that Bruce is going to try to throw the ball down field. I mean, it was prototypical Tom Brady in the sense that if it was Scotty Miller's week, sure. If it was Cameron Brate's turn, Rob Grankowski's turn, Tyler Johnson, there was a lot.

of good in this season. Now, I don't know if fantasy players knew exactly when they could start Tom Brady. I think that was hard. But part of that was acclamation. You know, you talk about history with Bruce Ariens. Whether it was Carson Palmer. Yeah. You know, the second year is always much, much better. Right, right. And, you know, 4,600 yards and 40 passing touchdowns at 43 years old. Yeah, if it gets better than that, then.

All right. I mean, I would accept that. I need some of those plants, Mike, but plants are so gross. I know. He's, that's probably the most amazing thing about Tom Brady is not his football career. It's just vegetables? He can eat so many plants. Oh, my goodness. It's true. Led the league in air yards. Like I said, Winston was first in air yards.

Winston and Fitzmagic were first in air yards. This is the third straight year that Bruce Ariens has manufactured that. This is the most, remember everyone said he couldn't throw the ball deep? Yeah, because he couldn't. He finished with the most 20 plus yard completions in his career. Yeah, it's, it's absurd. I don't know, man. How much longer does he legitimately play? Is next year the final year? I'll say one more. I'll say one more.

You know, he's giving Frank Gore an infinite all run for his money. Yeah, can we get Frank Gore on the bucks? Oh, my goodness. Just be the oldest team you could possibly be. All right. We are going to continue the quarterback truth series on Thursday with a ton more names. Got through the top eight today. Like I said, Thursday, come right back here. Jason will be back. We want to thank Pristine Auction for supporting the podcast. Here are some current...

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got ourselves a few plastic helmet concussions in those things because we thought we were real players. So that'll do it for today's show. My best friend, Mike the fantasy hitman. Oh, thank you, best friend, Andrew Holloway. Otherwise, we'll catch you later on Thursday with Mr. Jason Moore. YouTube.com slash the fantasy footballers. Check it out. Take care. Goodbye.

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