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

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Hey, this is Molly Cox, tight-in for the Indianapolis Colts, and you're listening to the Fantasy Footballers podcast. To the Fantasy Footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Welcome in. The Fantasy Footballers, Jason Moore, Mike Wright, Andy Holloway back with you. Wednesday, December 30th.

The clock is running out on 2020 and the fantasy football season. Oh. In the middle of week 17 analysis, which is really the best kind. So predictable. So much fun. Deciding if players will play through the entirety of a game. But we're here for you.

And really that's always. We're a year-round fantasy football podcast, so we are with you through week 17. We're with you after the season. Somebody messaged this morning and asked, is all of our off-season content, you know, dynasty-related? And the answer is really no. It's not. There is some dynasty mixed in. All of your, you know, mailbag and questions are very oftentimes oriented to Keeper in Dynasty leagues because those are the leagues active during the off-season.

and a lot of off-season talk. Really what you're talking about for redraft is 100% the same stuff you're talking about for Dynasty. You're talking about free agent moves. You're talking about rookie prospects. I mean, in the off-season, it's almost one and the same. Yeah, that's a good point. And we do a lot of reflecting on the year. We have the Truth Series. We have the awards coming out. And we have a lot of shows that are just...

You know, we have strategy shows as well, talking about how you think about fantasy football. We got word yesterday. The final results on the fantasy pros accuracy stuff came out. And congratulations to Pat Fitzmores for finishing number one on that. Really proud of our team here in the last four years we've been able to put together.

a level of consistency on the accuracy side that I think we're all really, really proud of. But that's really, you know, it's a little overrated. I'm going to just say it. It's true. It's true. It's overrated because there's so much nuance. I mean, we're top 10, you know, four years in a row. Four years in a row. Totally overrated. Overrated because your league, this show.

pounds it into your head all year long about how contextual your decision is. Do you need to score more this week? Are you the favorite? What is your opponent doing? The waiver wire. Everything's different and contextual to your league. So we'd rather train you how to think about fantasy football so that you can make the decisions that are best for your league. Teach a man to fish. Right. So the start sit tool, it's got a troll. And he'll have disgusting food. Yeah, you don't like fish, huh? It's growing on me.

Really? It's palatable. Now, did that start with your adventure into sushi? Yeah, yeah. Did that open your mind a little bit? Yeah, well, I mean, I started with the California roll as all people do with the training wheels. Because it's not really, yeah, it's not actually sushi. And you're like, oh, I like this. I like the sauce. All right. And then before you know it, you're slurping down sashimi. Yeah, baby. The California roll is absolutely the way that you can feel like your.

one of the rest of the people that eat sushi. One of the cool kids. So, like, you can go to the restaurant with the friends and be like, yeah, I'm doing it too. And then that's pretty much where I stopped. At the California roll? Yeah, and this spicy crab roll. Spicy crab. I like, spicy. I like, do you do a spicy tuna roll? I have, but I stay with the spicy crab. I like the sweeter stuff. I feel like that's a tricycle. Okay. All right, yeah.

I agree completely. I do not claim to be part of that crew. But anyways, we were talking about fantasy football or something. People ask, what do you talk about in the off season? Sushi. All right, we do have a quick question today. Now, this is just confusing, Brooks. This question comes from Dallas in Washington. Yeah. Really? Really? Bonjour?

We also had this question several places over on Instagram as well, which Instagram.com slash fantasy footballers. When would be a good time to do a dynasty startup draft for 2021 because we are turning the page here soon? Oh, man. Everyone wants to say now. Everyone wants to be like, now, now, now. It's so fun. I want to do it.

But it would probably be a mistake. It would. Because in the next few months, so many things will change. You need free agency to shake out at the very least. And probably you want to see what happens in the rookie draft. Yes. Right when the rookie draft is done, that's when we usually schedule all of our rookie drafts as well as startup drafts because.

At that point, I mean, when you have a startup dynasty draft, it's, it is so much more important than any other draft and any other type of league. You're talking about the next five years of your league will be established by that. And it just stinks when it's like you have this draft and you, you think certain things about players. And then all of a sudden a month later, this player's cut. That player's changing teams. This rookie's added. Perfect example would be because everybody's excited. And I understand that. I would want to be able to be making trades.

But a perfect example would be what happened with Leonard Fournett this past year where, you know, he was being drafted in redraft leagues in third round. Right. And so in dynasty drafts, you know, that is a potentially wasted dynasty pick. Obviously, had some here and their value this year. But those situations are pretty crazy. So by the way, just speaking of that situation, I saw some stats on James Robinson this morning. You know, that's the greatest rookie season?

ever by an undrafted rookie running back? Really? While missing two games. He played 14 games and ended up with 1,414 total yards. So he shut down for the season, but he is on a team with a negative game script constantly. And a bad quarterback where you could stack the box. That's impressive. Yeah. I will say I love James Robinson every time I watched him play. Like this guy is, how did the NFL miss so badly on James Robinson?

Like Philip Lindsay. Right. But Agumbo Wale also looked very good this past week. If he looks great again on Sunday, then you're, not that you're going to take away from James Robinson, but you go, whoa, Jacksonville apparently figured out how to run the ball. They certainly committed to it. Yeah. By all measures. Establish it. But next year, Trevor Lawrence will be the quarterback and James Robinson will be the running back.

based on what we know today. All right, but yeah, I would follow these guys' advice about delaying so that you get a better lay of the land and then enjoy your startup draft, enjoy your rookie draft if you do that separately, which most people do. And it'll be fun. Dynasty's great. It's a great format. It is. All right. What else is going on this week, Brooks? We want to let people know what shows are coming up. We've got a New Year's Eve show tomorrow.

where we are once again megaladone. Just the way the schedule worked out this year, we won't be releasing a new show on New Year's Day, so we'll have a double dose of week 17 analysis tomorrow. Oh, man, the only thing better than week 17 is a double dose of week 17. You got it, you got it. And then we have, when is...

the footy voting day because we got nominations going out for the footy awards yeah nominations will be announced on the tuesday episode and right when that gets published the voting is open and i know you're already working towards uh getting those ballots ready it's not just brooks there are hundreds of people brooks leads a team of hundreds yes of uh footy nomination

He even utilizes as a very kind of him. He utilizes his staff from his house. He uses all of his butlers and maids and they come to work for the footies during this time of year. Did you know? I didn't even know the Downton Abbey, that show, was based on one of his forefathers. That's right. They filmed it at his house. Right. So that's amazing. But yeah, Tuesday on socials on the show.

Get ready to vote on Tuesday because the winners are announced on the Thursday episode. It's so nice. He's so humble. He doesn't want to talk about his wealth. He lets us talk about it, but then he focuses on the show. So footie awards coming up soon. Let's do some buy sell. Buy or sell? Presented by pristine auction. All righty. Week 17, buy or sell? The best kind. Can I sell week 17? Is that just an option? You can. You can. Yeah. Just the week? Yep.

How much does that go for on the open market? Not much. Not much. Jalen Hertz against Washington this week. Buy yourself 325 total yards. So we're not talking passing yards. We're talking total yards rushing, passing. Washington's a good defense. Certainly better than Arizona and Dallas, where he put up over 400 total yards. Washington's allowing only around 300 total yards. So it's going to be very difficult for...

Jalen Hertz to get 325 total yards. I'm selling. You're selling that he will not get to that number. Correct. Yeah, Washington is good. Washington is very good. I'm going to buy, and here's why. Washington's defense is good. I am not taking anything away or denigrating what they've done, but when you look at the total amount of yards that they give up and you look at their schedule, obviously they are in the...

NFC East, so they've been played, they never played the DAC Broncos, or the DAC Cowboys version. They've played, you know, some, some poor offenses. Sure. Recently, you know, they played against Pittsburgh while they were reeling and whatever's going on with Big Ben and, you know, Cincinnati without Burroughs. So it is one of those where I think the defense is good, but the yardage totals are a little...

deflated. So I'm going to say that Jalen Hertz gets it done. 325 total yards. Huf, 325. So over the past couple weeks, he has surpassed that with just passing yardage. Yeah, I'm going to buy it as well. I buy Jalen Hertz as a quarterback. I buy his ability. I think he's going to be a special player. What did you think of his performance last week? The turnovers were the problem. That's where the rookie came out.

in the turnovers. If he could have figured out how to not turn the ball over, it would have been a much different situation. The Philadelphia Eagles would still be in the playoff hunt. Unfortunately, there was a mini meltdown there at the end of the game. So it was not what you were hoping for, but you could still see the flashes and you can still see.

him being the future of the Eagles. We were real close to a devastating performance from Jalen Hertz last week for fantasy because one 81-yard touchdown pass to Deshaun Jackson was his only touchdown pass of the game. But we'll see what he does against Washington this week. They're not playing for a spot, but they're playing for some pride. And he's a rookie. If they beat Washington.