The TRUTH About Fantasy QBs in 2018, Part 2

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Footballers Lowe's is the new home of Krasman. To the fantasy footballers podcast, coming to you from pristineauction.com studios with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages. I'm talking to you, Jason Moore. I am all of those things. Thank you for talking to me so.

broadly. I am everything and nothing at the exact same time. Welcome to the podcast, the fantasy footballers podcast, our fearless leader, our Captain Kirk, he's a man down right now. He's down with the sickness, too much disturbed. Get better, Andy Holloway, but we're holding it down. I am your host for today, Mike the Fantasy Hitman Wright. Jason Moore is to my right.

I am happy to be here. I feel like you're more of a, you're more of a Kirk. Andy would be more of a Jean-Luc. He's a Picard. He's a Picard. Look. I got the look for Picard now. I gladly accept being Captain Kirk over Picard. Yeah. Look, Captain Kirk lived his best life on a weekly basis. Yes, he did. Beating up monsters and just being a ridiculous human being.

Oh, and of course, cardboard bear extraordinaire. Jay Grizz holding it down over there. We're going to have to fight me and him when we get to Mitchell Tribisky today. Oh. Yeah. I'm bringing, I'm, I'm going to steal your salmon, son. That is a great point. Let's get into the quick question. We put this out on social media, had a lot of buzz, a lot of great answers for this, but I pose this to you, Jason.

If you could pick, now, Jason, I need you to listen very carefully. Okay, I'm listening. Very carefully because the question. I know you don't like my answer. The question is distinct. There is nothing that could shake the foundation of the question. Of the wording. Okay. I'm going to really tune in. If you could pick any two people to sub in for Romo and Nance announcing the Super Bowl, who would it be?

For entertainment purposes. Uh, give me Romo. Give me Romo. Now, Jason. And Al Michaels. I said, without a shadow of a doubt, make sure you listen to the question verbatim. I heard your question, but I saw, look, I, he came to the bench and I was like, oh, no, shoot, get back out there. We need you. He's subbed in for himself. Look, if I had to, if I had to take. You called the time out so he could just.

Get back in without missing a play. Exactly. If I got to take Romo out, then I've got to go. Now that we're down to two, I'd probably go you and me. Oh, we would smash. We would sub in for them. The problem is I feel like we're both color commentators. We are. We would just like we don't need to do the whole play by play. Like you're watching the game. You see what happens. Like, oh, he fires, you know, he kicks the ball. It's a high looping. No, just watch the plays. We'll give you the color. It would also be a lot of.

That guy. Look at that guy. Look what he did. I really doubt it would be, Mike. Shame on you if that's true. We had some great answers coming in off the socials. A lot of Madden and Summerall. My personal favorite, which when I read this, shame, shame, shame on me. For not coming up with it? Well, for one, not coming up with it. And two, not immediately getting the reference. I went, wait.

Who's that? Oh, yes. Who is Pepper Brooks and Cotton McKnight? Pepper needs new shorts. There's a bull move cotton. That's the announcers from Dodgeball. A lot of Will Ferrell and John C. Riley. WWF or E, depending on where you're coming from, just classic. Jim Ross and Jerry Lawler. And a lot of people wanted Morgan Freeman and or Snoop Dog. It was a high kick looping in the air.

I saw a ton of Pat McCaffey, the ex-punter, who is such a fun guy. He's a unique fella. He's a unique fella. He'll have you entertained. He'll bring some hype. Mark Waltonberg. Oh, goodness. Mark Waltonberg. Not Mark Walton. Mark Waltonberg. A fictitious person. A fake person commentating. I'll be the sideline reporter.

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league you got to check out the sleeper app and the sleeper platform we highly recommend that jay let's get back into the truth you want answers i think i'm entitled you want answers i want the truth you can't handle the truth this is quarterbacks part two if you miss the top five it's in part one yeah just go back that was tuesday's show jay break down what we are talking about

for these quarterbacks. So we take a look and we go through and actually, you know, if there's a game that the player missed, that's not counted, nobody started them. If they played two snaps and got a concussion, you know, a la Aaron Rogers week 17. We left that in because you people started that player. And so we wanted to take a look at what is the truth on these quarterbacks, not just where do they finish. You know, we're going to talk about Aaron Rogers here in a second. He finished quarterback six and four points scoring.

But was he as consistent? Was he the sixth most consistent? Did he actually help you win on a regular basis? Or did he cause losses in fantasy? We'll take a look at that. We categorize them into three categories. Great games. Great games where you are basically usually going to land in the top three at the quarterback. Like you won the week on the back of that Pat Mahomes. Yeah, you Pat Mahomes that week.

a good game where you score more than 17 points, and you're on average going to be in the top 12 at the position, and then the games where you bust, where you, so there's that in-between period where he just had a game, but then the games where if your quarterback was not- They just had a game? Right, like, eh, he's not good, but he didn't kill me. He just- He had a game. Usually the phrase had a game.

infers that something very positive happened. I'm an unusual fellow, Mike. Brooks, are you following me on that? I'm with you, Mike. I had a game, which is, it's funny to, it's a funny phrase to imply that you crush. You're like, yeah, I had a game. Yeah, I had a game. How about, I had a humble brag. I had a, me. No. Wait, were you trying, you were trying to go a full mic right of, yes. Matt, mm. Yes, I had a ma'am.

That's it. That's the new game. It's not as easy as you think. I mean, you're a pro meher. But, yeah, he had a me. Otherwise, the bust games, those are the ones where he's not even in the top half of the league, not in the top 16 at the position. Mistakes for me. You're scoring fewer than 15 points. And they, you probably did not overcome that just awful quarterback performance that week. And then we, we put it to our proprietary ranking and come up with their consistency rank.

So number six on the year, you alluded to it, Mr. Aaron Rogers. Number six on the year, but a consistency rank of 11. I mean, that's, thank you. Look, where you took Aaron Rogers and nobody, when you draft Aaron Rogers, you had him all year. Nobody traded Aaron Rogers because you were the guy that reached for him and took him high. And other.

other people when he's disappointing and not being the number one quarterback. He wasn't Pat Mahomes this year. He was the number six quarterback. So nobody's trading for Aaron Rogers. He's been a disappointment. So you hold on to him. And you're not going away from Aaron Rogers. You drafted him high. You're not switching out and putting in, you know, Josh Allen over Aaron Rogers in most situations. So you're just rolling with. Oh, excellent. Excellent. Josh Stallion. Thank you, Mike.

Yeah, so Aaron Rogers was a guy. You played every single week all year long, and did he help you? Yeah, so certainly not for where you drafted him. He didn't. The problem was Aaron Rogers, only 19% of his games were great. And that's where Aaron Rogers, it usually reigns supreme. Yeah, Aaron Rogers will have so many four touchdown games because, you know, he's, we've talked about this in the past. He's had a large chunk of years.

from 2011 on where he was averaging when he had Jordy, he was averaging 40 touchdowns a season. I mean, he was checking the mic. He was either one or he was number two. Right. Every year on the season. That's why he earned his spot. 25 touchdowns this year. But only 19% of his games were great. 56% were still good. He only busted 19% of the time, which for a quarterback is still a solid number.

This is what I wanted to bring up about Aaron Rogers. You taught the 25 touchdowns. That is, or that is an anomaly for Aaron Rogers. This was his lowest touchdown percentage by over, or by an entire 1% since he became a starter in 2008. I mean, and that's not, that's not completion percentage where, oh, one percent is nothing. Touchdown percent, the difference between if you're four and a half percent or five and a half percent is monumental.