Fantasy Football 2017 - Pump the Brakes, Season Defining Stats, #FootClan Questions

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Andy Mike and Jason, the fantasy football is back once again, and I hope you had a wonderful waiver wire morning. Everything went well. Mike is dancing. Jason is head bobbing. Feels like I'm running at a very rapid run. All things you can see on YouTube. Mike is still running. 60 minutes, man. I'm trying to burn those calories. Good luck. Get my sweat on.

Had your, I guess our waiver wire as of this moment hasn't quite gone through yet. Yeah, but I'm predicting it's going to go very well. Good, good confidence. It's a key to fantasy football success. Welcome into the show. We've got a good one for you today, pump the brakes on the show. I'm going to talk through some season-defining stats. That's what I'm calling them. Some things that have happened this year that have really affected fantasy football teams and the way that the season has gone.

So we'll reflect on some of that, talk about what that looks like rest of season. And look, this is the time of year where you're clinching a little bit. You're, the fantasy playoffs. I wasn't sure if it was like, is clenching. Is like, am I clinching the playoffs or am I clinching? Yeah, we'll go with that. You're clenching. I'm holding things in. You're just kind of a little bit more anxious about your decision making process here.

Now you might be like, I don't know, me. In our Dynasty League, 10 and no, you're not a care of the world. Just floating through the air. That's false. He's very worried about my head. Yeah, actually, I'm worried about losing one game in the playoffs. To me. Yeah, Mike is really sure that we're going, he's going to be the one to New York Giants Me. Brooklyn, this dynasty team. Unbelievable. What was that again? That's for the YouTubers.

Yeah. We've been talking about it. I'm talking about my running. Anyways, this is the time when these decisions they get, you know, trade deadlines. They're either done or about to be done. So you can make a final move. Hopefully you're in a league that does not permit trading all the way through the playoffs. If you are. Change it. Change it now. That would be my vote. To change it. Yes. You think just majority vote. Why go through another year where that can disrupt your...

your league. It's inappropriate, Jason. I get that and I think it's a stupid thing, but I would argue that you shouldn't change it in season. You should change it for next year because people have decided to make moves or to not make moves based on when that trade deadline was. If you can get a consensus in your league, make a compelling case, tell everybody, look, let's move this thing from being a year round, you know, no trade deadline to two weeks before the playoffs and everybody wants to do it. I'm like, sure.

Well, if everybody wants to, sure. Yeah. But anyways, we'll talk through a bunch of decisions that you've got to make today. The Twitter is at the FF Ballers. We're on iTunes. Thank you to everybody who leaves us reviews. Yes. Five-star reviews on iTunes supports the show. That's big for, you know, how we show up on iTunes and getting people to listen. And we've been more active over on Instagram as well. You've got to check that out. We call it the Graham. The Graham. Is that what we do that now? Mm-hmm. Just started.

That's what the kids are calling it. Tip. The Fantasyfootballers.com is the website. Our communities join thefoot.com. And I'm excited about today's show. It is Wednesday, which of course means, oh, oh, O'Reilly. O'Reilly. It is Pump the Breaks with O'Reilly Auto Parts, where we take a look at some of the big performers of the week before and tell you to just pump those brakes. Slow down. It might not be as good.

this week as it was last week. And I am pumping the brakes this week on Larry Fitzgerald. Hall of Famer. Hall of Famer. What are you doing over there? Look, when you look at Larry Fitzgerald's home road splits, it's unbelievable how well he performs at home. And comparing that to how he performs on the road, this was right, 12.2 difference in fantasy points? Yeah. Home road splits. Mike, was that over this season when you looked at that?

Yeah, I'm trying to verify it right now. But it's massive. You need only pull up his game log to see how well he plays at home versus on the road. And let me throw another wrench into the Larry Fitzgerald hype train, okay? And that is Blaine Gabbard. Now, I think Blaine Gabbard's a better quarterback than Drew Stanton. But I know that Drew Stanton locks in on Larry Fitzgerald when the going gets tough. I think that makes a bad quarterback.

a lot of the time. If you are just in a desperate place using one weapon, it's good. Tom Savage, yeah. It's good for Larry, but it's bad for the team. And so if Gabbard's a better quarterback will spread the ball around, he's on the road against Houston, I'm not enthusiastic about Larry having another monster week. So I am pumping the brakes. Yeah, I got 12.2 points better at home. That's just like a whole player. Yes. It's not the best.

I am going to pump the brakes. Now, I'm a little shocked that I have to be the one to do this as the residence. Yeah, Melvin Gordon-Hater is the word that you're- I was trying to find a nice way of putting it, but I accept your term of endearment with pride. But Austin Eccler, yeah, okay, he had a monster game. He had two receiving touchdowns of over 20 yards. I mean, this was a great performance the previous three weeks combined.

Combined in those three games, 16 total touches. He is a handcuff. Is he a very valuable handcuff? I think so, if something were to happen to Melvin Gordon. But I, despite my lack of belief in Melvin Gordon, I don't think that the charges are going to move away from him and giving him that extremely high volume of touches. And I've seen a lot of people out in the Twitter sphere and talking about waivers and saying that Eckler's a priority pickup.

So you're responding to that. I just, yeah, exactly. I don't, I do not see that. Yeah, exactly. It's coming through. Watch your face because the hype train is going to run you over. Yeah, you, I don't think you originally had picked Ackler for this segment. No, I did not. Until you started to see the hype being built up around this kind of. I got to put that kibosh on it. Stop it. Teho! Got to control the people. All right. Speaking about controlling the people, I'm going to talk about the king here, King Goffery.

Jared Goff, take the crown off that man. Look, Jared Goff has been on fire. I mean, the last two weeks, he's put up seven touchdowns. If you're in a six point for passing touchdown league, you're talking about almost averaging 40 fantasy points a game. So you want to stay in those flames, you want to roll with them. I say, nah, not so fast.

You have a very big difference in Jared Goff when he plays teams like the New York Giants in Houston, the teams he just played where he torched them, both of which have subpar or awful in the case of the New York Giants defenses when it comes to the passing game, to the quarterback position. And when you see the games where he played Seattle and through two interceptions, fumble the ball, no touchdowns.

Or Jacksonville, which I don't blame him. Is that true that he had two interceptions and a fumble against Seattle? Yeah? That's incredible because I was just looking at his stats on the year. He's the fifth lowest turnover percentage in the league at the quarterback position. Only five turnovers on the year. Apparently they were all against Seattle. Yeah. He only has two other games with an interception. But one of the things about his schedule, if you look at it,

It's been fantastic. I was just going to give you some numbers here, Jay. He has six games against bottom 16 past defenses, and he's averaging almost 21 points a game. The three games where he has faced a top defense, under 12 points a game. Does it remind you of Derek Carr's breakout season last year? A little bit it does. Where you can take, you know, you've kind of, it's not that golf hasn't leveled up, it's that we haven't had the opportunity to have that validation in tough matches. And moving forward,

I do like golf. I think he has some juicy matchups coming up, but I'm with Jason on this one. This particular week, I'm not ecstatic about playing him. Yeah, I mean, he's not going to be someone you have to bench. He'll probably be around my quarterback 15, you know, so you might be forced to play him. He's not going to be like, oh, you can't start this guy. But Minnesota's a great defense. It's in Minnesota. And the only two other games that he has played a top 10 passing defense.

He's been bad. So pumping the brakes on Jared Goff. And not only that, but when I looked, I mean, this is probably the most important stat. I was looking at what he did the last two weeks. Analysis. Yeah, this is hard cutting analysis. No interceptions. Well, that's pretty good. Seven touchdowns last two games. Okay. That's pretty good. Yeah. Then I was adding up those yards. He had 311 yards and 355 yards.

55. That adds up to 666. Oh, no. It's the mark of the beast. You got to pump those brakes. You got to pump those brakes. There you go. All right. That was pumped the brakes with O'Reilly Auto Parts. With science. Better parts, better prices every day with O'Reilly. Larry Fitzgerald, Jared Groff, Austin Eccler. Thank you, Jason. We appreciate that. News and notes from around the league.

Nice work. You know, it is amazing. I feel like the Rams this year are the equivalent of one of those 30-minute infomercials with one of those degreasers, you know, where they keep showing you like your pots and pans and just one wipe and you see the shine. And the pan before was what Jeff Fisher represented as a coach. Like it's just dirtied up. And then the more you scrape and the more you scrub this year with the Sean McVeigh mixture.

The shine. It just comes out. Todd Gurley's shiny again. Jared Gop doesn't look like a buzz. You know who else is shiny? Case Keenham. Oh, you brought that up yesterday. I mean, you escaped the clutches of the emperor. Right, because he had fish hurt last year. Yes. So I just wanted to to jump on Jason's science here. Devante Parker was six for 66, Jason. Oh, no. Oh, no. Watch out. This is what we've become.

Yes, the fantasy footballers, hard-hitting statistical. That is statistical analysis. We are doing math. All right, news. All right, news and notes. Big one. Big news. Big news this morning. Nathan Peterman is getting the start this Sunday against the Chargers. The bills are starting the rookie. Tyrod Taylor, not getting it done, I think. Let's see what happens. I mean, let's see the upside. Look, the passing volume.