Buy or Sell + Mailbag Hodgepodge, Reverse Haircut - Fantasy Football Podcast for 12/30

probably the most talented of the three, but who's the quarterback for the Lions? Very interesting difference of opinion here, Mike. Where do you weigh in on this? Because to me, the path for Dobbins is very, very clear, and we saw more of Dobbins this year than Acres. We've seen more a larger sample size, but we have seen that when Acres is the featured back, it's 20 plus opportunities, 22 opportunities, 32 opportunities.

18 opportunities in the game where he got hurt against the New York Jets. What you are seeing from Dobbins right now, that's what I expect you'll see next year in terms of his opportunities. Dobbins is fantastic. I've had Dobbins ranked higher than DeAndre Swift in my just rookie prospect rankings. And I'm looking at the contract situation. Gus Edwards is currently on a one year.

So he's a restricted free agent next year. They'll probably bring him back because you'll be able to get Gus Edwards for a lower contract. Mark Ingram is going to be gone. But I think what you're seeing right now, that's what I'm projecting next year for the Ravens backfield situation. Yeah, Mark Ingram hasn't even been in the game. I expect Gus will be back. I expect it'll still be a two running back situation. And you have Lamar Jackson poaching touchdowns at the goal line all the time.

Jared Goff's not going to steal touchdowns away from Cam Acres when they get to the goal line. So I'm going to rank them Acres, Dobbins, Swift. We were looking at the situation for the Detroit Lions of Marvin Jones is not under contract next year. Kenny Gallaudet is a free agent next year. They know that they can franchise Kenny Gallaudet, but the Lions have a lot of stuff that they need to figure out. I don't even know if the Lions bring Matthew Stafford back.

Yeah, that's which would be the dumbest thing on the face of the planet for a franchise trying to rebuild having a franchise quarterback just sitting there that's 33 years old with tons of football left. But you just don't know. Yeah, those things do happen. Instagram question is Keenan Allen a top five wide receiver next season. Yes. Yep. He is for me. I agree. I can't imagine he's not.

I mean, you have Adams and Diggs are in the top five. You have Hopkins and Tyreek. So this is where Hopkins and Tyreek are both top five. Yep. They're locked in. So now the last spot is the question. And I would throw Diggs into this last spot area. Well, he's ahead of Diggs. I'd take over Hopkins. Yeah, but not. So Tyreek and Devante Adams are one and two, right?

In whatever order you want. I think Diggs could easily belong at two. Diggs is the best non-Divante Adams option, I think. I think it's right. Then you're talking Michael Thomas, Keenan Allen. Yeah, right there. Metcalfe in consideration. Yeah, Metcalf is absolutely in consideration there. Yeah. And then the Julio's will circle back and... Yeah, the thing is, if Keenan is not in your initial top five, I don't have a problem with that.

But seems like he belongs right there. But he is, he's easily a top 10. But he would be in my top five. He's, I believe, in Justin Herbert. And Keenan Allen's just going to get, he's going to continue to get Pepper with targets because he's always open. Yeah. Yeah. What do you, how do you evaluate his season with Herbert and then the absence of Echler for that portion of the year two? That is a fair point. That would be the only thing that pops into my mind is a question mark around Keenan.

You did see the target share go down. Justin Jefferson's going to be entering top 10 area too, isn't he? Yes. Yeah, probably. This is why you've got to stick around for the offseason. Yeah, it's a fun thought experiment when we haven't done yet, right? You're...

You're seeing it live. Our heads start to think about it. There's a three-game stretch here after Austin Echler came back before Keenan Allen got hurt, taking out the game that he got injured in. In those three games, obviously very, very small sample here. But while he had Herbert, who was on fire at this point and Echler in the lineup, it was a 16-game pace of 96 receptions for only 746 yards but 10 touchdowns. So he was used

very short, you know, screen game and short route targets. Too little to extrapolate from, but it certainly wasn't the top five Keenan that we saw without Echler. So maybe that'll end up being the tiebreaker when you're looking at, you know, Michael Thomas or those type of guys. All right. Instagram question from Mighty Merckley. What are some things that our dynasty league can do to stay active during the off season? First of all.

trades are now open. Yes. In all dynasty leagues, if yours aren't, then open the gates and seize the day. I thought you were going to say like you could play some pickleball or something. Yeah, sure. I mean, get together. Get IRL with your dynasty mates. Yeah, this is the time where for me, when I'm thinking about dynasty, I am active, but I am active underground. I'm not making trades right now unless someone comes to me.

and they blow me away of they're going to give me what I perceive as a great deal for myself. But this is where I'm looking at the research. I'm starting to dive into the rookies. We are, this is our full-time gig. So we don't have time to evaluate college prospects during the NFL season. So this is where we are all catching up, figuring out how I rank the rookies.

letting the free agency start of changing the value of how I see players. So I'm in education and evaluation mode right now, which is, to me, that's still active. I mean, I may not be, I mean, you may not perceive me as active inside the league, but this is where you've got to do your own evaluations and figuring that stuff out. And then the league will start picking back up probably around March, March, April.

Yeah, really, from the Super Bowl time until March 1st is a little bit of the quiet zone, but then it gets going pretty quick. It's the eye of the hurricane. All right. Last one from Instagram, Big Data Brett says, how is your rank determined against other rankers? For instance, when you say that Andy was ranked fourth amongst all rankers, how is that determined? There is a long and arduous process. You can read an article about it, but essentially what it does, the simplest way to put it, is.

where we rank players versus where they finish our allocated fantasy points, and then the addition and subtraction at the end of the year, you have thousands of what's referred to as gap points and lowest points. I think the simple way to say is rank is how you perform against a general benchmark consensus. So there's a general ranking every week of where, you know, hundreds of experts, if you combine to their rankings,

That's the consensus. And then you're ranked compared to how you perform against the benchmark. Right. All right. Anything else we need to talk about? Anything else going on? Brooks, how are you doing? Doing all right. Al, how are you doing? Doing well. We got prep. We got a prep for the America for the America 17. Well, we've got, we have the footcast.

We have the footcast this afternoon, which you can get a bonus episode every week, which is very valuable from, you know, January through June when we're two shows a week, you get an extra. And that is one of the perks, mini perks over at jointhefoot.com. The offseason footcasts are some of my favorite thing every week. We have so much fun on that show. It's almost like a spitballers.

which you can check that out as well yeah yeah it is a lot of fun so all right that'll do it for today's episode we'll be back with that uh that breathy megalodon show tomorrow take care foot clan stay safe goodbye thank you for listening to another episode of the fantasy footballers podcast join our fantasy football community on join the foot dot com and follow us on twitter at the f f ballers

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