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

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Andy, Mike. That's it. End of story. End of story. Welcome in. Oh, you don't have your best friend anymore, Mike. What are you going to do about that? That's got to be disappointing. That is incorrect, Andy, because it's just the rules of the two-man show because you know who my best friend is right now? Yeah, baby. It's you. It's Andy Holloway, my new best friend. Now I'm feeling good. The computer says that is accurate. Mark it down.

New Best Friend Day, January 18th. Put it in the calendar. Oh, baby. I've been waiting for this. All you had to do is get it on two-man show. It's not that difficult. I just got to get rid of Jason. My standards are very low. It's just, is there someone else there. Not bad, not bad. Well, we get to start the true series today, Mike. Oh, man. I'm your best friend. The truth. 100%. And we're talking quarterbacks.

On today's show amongst a bunch of news. You know, you had the big divisional round games this weekend. But the truth episodes, that's where it's at because this is information that you have to have to get ready for 2021. Yes. There are so many, I guess I'd say misleading metrics, stats.

You know, you always hear about players that are right. Better NFL players than they are fantasy players. That's certainly true. And then there are players whose end of your stat lines, the ranking, right? The end of year ranking is a little bit deceitful compared to what they actually did for your fantasy team. That is correct. I mean, we all like to you to cite the final ranking. We all like to cite those final points.

guilty as charged when it serves my argument, I will use them. Yes. I will weaponize the end of season rankings if I must. But that's why these are, these truth episodes are so good to go through because it, you, look, I mean, I don't know what his finish is in terms of our, uh, breaking him down for the truth yet. But Tyler Lockett will be a victim of circumstance, so to speak, where he finished very high, but.

The truth is he really hurt you more than he helped you. Which seems to be kind of a theme for the Seahawks in general. But we'll be going through all of the rankings. That is true. It is. The Seahawks organization could be getting ready to just destroy their fan base and souls as well. I don't think it'll happen. Let me just lead with that for a moment. Come on. Come on. It's got to happen. Moments before the show started.

My eyes found a wondrous, stupendous, incredible tweet that alluded to the possibility that Adam Gaze could resurface as the offensive coordinator of the Seattle Seahawks. And this was from ESPN's Jeremy Fowler. They said they spoke with Adam Gaze. Now, I realize they're speaking with a number of names. The likelihood of this happening.

It's low, but I do want to be very clear about something, Mike. Yes. I will do anything to make this happen. You just need to reach out to me, those of you in charge, make a request of me, anything at all. If you would like one of my children, I might be willing to part. We just got a new puppy. That's up for discussion. Whatever you want, if Adam Gaze becomes the offensive coordinator of the Seattle Seahawks, not only will this show go to new heights. Right.

But I, as a Cardinal fan, will be overjoyed. How would you feel about that? I don't have the words to describe the joy and the pleasure that that would bring me, that a team that I want to see fail on just, you know, a personal level because they're my rivals, that they would, how is anybody, anyone in the NFL, how is anyone talking to Adam Gase about anything other than like the weather?

I mean, if you're in the NFL and you're talking to Adam Gase about football and about hiring him, what are you doing? How many times does this man need to fail without Peyton Manning before you go, maybe that Peyton Manning feller was good enough to make Adam Gase look like he knew what he was doing?

It honestly, it is a, it's amazing that he has, gets to have the conversation. It's awful. He's not going to get hired probably. No. The fact that he gets a phone call. The fact that. That's what I mean. I don't get it. Is he the greatest on the phone of anybody? Like, what is it that gets him the, is he a good interview? His charisma just goes out the, out the roof when he's talking on the phone. And you know, you know who would really like that hire.

Their new safety, Jamal Adams, who forced his way out of New York to get away from Adam Gates. I hadn't even thought about that. Yeah, if you're asking. If Adam Gates gets signed by the Seahawks over under two and a half days before he gets punched in the face by someone. That should be part of the signing bonus. He's like, okay, listen, we will bring you on, but Jamal gets to punch you, okay?

Anyways, that was kind of the news carrying us into the show. So we, I'm sure we'll return to it because Adam Gaze will resurface someplace. It's not right. It's not right. That is true. You can follow the show over on Instagram, Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers, Twitter at the FF Ballers. We've got some great articles on the website that are coming out in conjunction with these truth episodes with lots of stats.

positional stats that you can check out from my editor, Kyle. Oh, man. That thing is jam-packed. I just went through that one this morning. The 25 quarterback stats. It's hot. Very, very nice. Let's get into the rewind. Weekly rewind. All right, the divisional games in the books. I think I have, I think we wanted a classic matchup here in the divisional rounds. There have been some good games. There haven't been any classics.

But the Cleveland Brown's Kansas City game due to the drama surrounding Patrick Mahomes, that game was pretty darn exciting. That was pretty crazy having him go down. And then Andy Reed, the willingness. How do you, you know, you can't make the call. And if you didn't watch the game, they're essentially in a fourth and one with Chad Haney at quarterback. After Chad Hennie had just scrambled for, what, 11 or 12?

I think it was like 14 and a half yards. It was a very long run where it was what are the Cleveland Browns defense, what is happening over there? It is a complete meltdown by them. Henny almost picks up the first down. They review it. He was in fact short. It's fourth and one. And the Cleveland Browns have no timeouts. It's going to be under two minutes. Does Kansas City punt and then say our defense will hold them? Or does Andy Reed offensive genius say,

I can get one yard with a backup quarterback and win the game. Well, and it wasn't just going for it. It was the, what if they did that play that you think of that nobody ever does? It was the, what if somebody takes the play clock all the way down? Right. Try to pretend. Awesome. Yeah, try to get them to jump off sides, be obvious about the fact that you're just trying to get them to jump off sides. Then they actually snap the football. How did they?

Like, did they practice that? They had to. Or was the team just so lock, just hive mind when Andy Reid is like, sell it. So you're going to make him jump and then run this play. The play, I mean, it was a bit different, but it reminded very much, reminded me of the Devante Adams touchdown from earlier where Adams motioned one way and then and then just went full sprint the other way and he's wide open. And that's, to me, it's just, this just expresses again.

In the NFL, I get the defenses that are paid to do their job, whatever. How can your team, how do you not have plays that say, I guarantee, or whatever, high probability, that I'm going to get one yard, one simple little, little meager yard, I have a special play for it that is not, line up the middle jimbo package, we're sending the beef.

And then we get one yard. And then you get stuffed because that happens all the time because it's the stupidest play you could do. And then these offensive geniuses like Reed and LaFleur are like, no, we got this. We could do this. This is not a problem. It's one of the reasons why I think our frustration with Cliff Kingsbury is so, you know, omnipresent because that was a full sub tweet.

He could never get, oh, was it? Yeah, I didn't even know that. Because he can never get one yard on an innovative play. You know, Andy Reed stays up late. He makes these plays. Now, let me just say this. If that play, there's a lot that could have gone wrong. Now, Tyreekill could have dropped the ball. That's what I mean. It's not a guarantee, but it's high probability. But you have to have the intestinal fortitude and the Andy Reed immunity level of like, look, if this play goes wrong.

He's an idiot if they lose that game. We need to be clear about that, but that's how you win games. If you want to live in the middle where nobody criticizes you in the media, then you just punt the football and you move on. If you want to win the football game with the best play possible, you do what he did. And it was just another feather in the cap of Andy Reed and Eric Bion to me in the offense and what they did. So that game was pretty incredible. I'll be honest, we did our brackets.

My bracket, the final four, it's right on exactly what you're in? You're 100% right now? Actually, you know what? No, I'm not. I have three of four. I had Seattle making it through over Green Bay. I just remembered that. And I'm a Chiefs fan, but I wanted to see the Browns do it at that point. I kind of wanted, I just wanted to see the 2020 season might as well have the Browns in a championship game. That's how I saw it. The Bills took care of the Ravens where another MVP went down to concussion.

That was a rough game with Justin Tucker. And the wind. The wind was bad, man. Yeah. And I don't know where it's back to the argument. And I'm with Jason. Obviously, you can't just, everyone can't just build a brand new stadium. But the fact that we have the most important game of a lot of the players in that game, they will never be back into a divisional playoff game. This was the most important game of their career.