NFL Coaching Changes & Fantasy Impact, Why Not Andy? - Fantasy Football Podcast for 3/4

It's easy. It's really like no joking. It is easy to identify what their identity will be. They've talked about it and they've hired coaches to back it up. They want to be a tough, you know, hard nose. Hard nose, hardworking, man's man of a team. You look at who they've got Deuce Staley, Anthony Lynn, Mark Brunel, Antoine Randall, Dan Kipp. They're hiring.

players to come out here. These guys work hard. But the problem is that hard work, that fighting, that man's man, that's going to be difficult to work without the talent on the roster to take that next step up. You know, it doesn't strike me as schemers. This doesn't strike me as a group of, you know, chess playing.

You know, matchup creating offensive systems here. This strikes me as we're going to want to hit them in the face harder than they hit us and be stronger and, you know, that type. Is that going to work with the beach boy running the offense? I don't know. I will say this to Dan Campbell's credit. Now, they signed him to a longer term deal. They know that it's a longer term project. Yes. This was somebody that John Payton trusted.

To be his assistant head coach, to be a tight-in coach on his team, to come into an office that we consider to be innovative and an offense that is on the forward-thinking edge of the NFL side of things. So, you know, that's a credit to Dan Campbell coming from that pedigree, somebody well respected, somebody that, look, when you don't have the personnel, you need a coach like this sometimes. Certainly. Because you can get, you know, this is a team that I think will compete.

Maybe more than people think. What we know about these types of systems, when you have a coach that's like that. I mean, we're having fun over. We're turning Dan Campbell into a caricature, which he's not because we also, you know, in that what got lost in his comment of saying we're going to be biting kneecaps was also him talking about how, well, we're going to get DeAndre Swift involved in the slot because we're going to utilize our pass catching running back. So positive things for fantasy football.

But this very high-t approach, when you're losing, it does not work. Like Joe Judge up in New York, I have my concerns for Joe Judge long term. If he doesn't get it going this year, the players are going to turn on Joe Judd's with the old school approach. And if you look at the talent that Detroit does have, they were.

solid on the offensive line. They were 13th ranked offensive line. They have DeAndre Swift. He's a talented player. They have Anthony Lynn. What can he do? He can run the football. So if you look at that and then you contrast it with the history of Detroit, which is we can't run the football, that will be the thing you have to see change. There were 30th and rushed attempts, 30th and rushing yards last year. So, sure, move DeAndre Swift into the slot. Also, line him up and hand him the football.

try to stay competitive in these games. That's the angle that I'm looking at. That's the area of confidence that I would have with Anthony Lynn. You're going to, you're not going to ask Jared Goff to win every game for you, especially when you have, or any, every or any, especially when you probably won't have Kenny Gallaudet. You're not going to have Marvin Jones. T.J. Hawkinson won't carry your offense. This is a running football team. That's the direction we're heading. Compete, keep it close, win the turnover battle, bite some kneecaps.

But now we're down 14, now we're down 18, we're down 21. We want to keep running the ball. Oh, is that the old Hugh Jackson Cleveland offense? How did we get from 14 to 18? Well, you know, they scored a couple safeties. No, it does remind me a little bit of like you can have an identity. You want to run the football. You want to.

be able to do that, but when you're down 21 points, what do you do then? Hugh Jackson wanted to run the football in Cleveland. That's all I'm saying. Who was the running back that we, uh, uh, Crowell, Coral, Isaiah Corwell. Um, I'm trying to think.

of Sean Peyton's coaching tree. You know, Sean Payton is as respected as it gets. When I think of the best coaches, the best minds in the NFL, you know, Andy Reed, Sean Peyton, you know, Shanahan McVeigh, you know, are maybe in that conversation. Bill Belichick is still a good coach, Jason. Sure, sure, sure. I'm talking about offensive minds. Okay. Specifically. Bill Belichick, unbelievable. But like the coaching tree from Sean Peyton, I'm scratching my head to like,

I can't think of anybody that's come from that. And now I don't know if Dan Campbell would be considered that. He obviously was an interim head coach in the past when Guns Mahoney was all the rage. But I will say this, to wrap this up, his biceps and arm, they're amazing. And so Dan Campbell deserves that credit. Just to put a bow on it. Just to put a bow on it. Well, they're playing actually to get the salary cap under control. They are arm wrestling for contracts. Oh.

They're not going to give out a lot of contract. No. Well, I'm saying you get a raise if you beat him in arm wrestling. Okay. If you're not going to win a lot of games, your coach would be really strong. That's one of the fundamental pieces of the NFL. Jacksonville, new head coach, new offensive coordinator. Irvin Meyer, welcome. Doug Marone, farewell. Daryl Beville. Hey, how you doing? Jay Gruden, peace out. The carousel is truly ridiculous.

In Jacksonville? No, just of coaches in the NFL. Oh, Darrell Bevel is, he's going everywhere. Oh, yeah. We just talked about where he had a job. Yeah. And he was released. Oh, don't worry. You got a new job. Not to mention, I mean, obviously we know he's from Seattle, spent six years in Seattle as their offensive coordinator, spent time with Minnesota. Urban Meyer. Okay. Comes from the college game. It should. If nothing else is going to be really fun.

to watch the Jacksonville Jaguars and figure out what can Urban Meyer do in the in the pros. I mean, he is one of the most successful coaches in college history. 187 and 32. Oh my gosh, man. Different organizations. Florida and Ohio State created two monstrous juggernauts. Yeah. And, you know, needs to draft the right quarterback.

at the 101, which should be Trevor Lawrence and needs to implement an offense that, you know, he's been a spread guy. You know, does this mean good things for Leviska? A talented athlete, are the athletes in this office going to have more of an opportunity to be put into good positions? And what does it mean for James Robinson? Somebody that was so productive for fantasy players last year that everybody's kind of like afraid to believe in going into year two. And rightly so.

But Darrell Bevel, run the football? Yeah, which Bevel is going to show up? Seattle Bevel or Detroit Bevel? Because in Seattle, I mean, they were top five rushing offense year after year. I mean, and that's, that was the Beast mode years. That was the Marchion Lynch years. Then in Detroit, you know, a top 10 passing attack the last couple years with.

with Stafford. So which should, that's a credit to Bevel of morphing to the players around him. I was going to say that that seems like if you're telling me that you are such a run heavy coordinator and you're working for Pete Carroll, if we've seen anything this off season, it's Pete Carroll's DNA that he wants to run the ball. So when Darrell Bevel's there, he does it. And he might have been more of Carroll's influence. Exactly. And he succeeded with that. And then, you know, he was a good, you know, passing.

game coordinator with Stafford. So I think it's tailoring to the personnel. The issue, I think, for the 2021 season for fantasy football is will the personnel be good enough in the rookie season? Strikes me similar to what we saw from the Carolina Panthers, right? Yeah. Kind of a complete ground-up rebuild. And they're long-term plans. And so you're going to have a rookie quarterback and a lot of changes, and they're going to be okay and show some flashes. But for the most part,

Probably not be that great. Here's a reason to believe in James Robinson, assuming they don't add some marquee free agent running back or draft another running back that's going to steal a bunch of touches. 30th. That's what Jacksonville ranked in points for a game last year. 28th and total yards. 32nd in rushing attempts. 31st in rushing touchdowns. And he was very, very productive. If you have an offense that like, I think Carolina is the great comp. That shows some flashes.

Shows some creativity. I have no doubt that Trevor Lawrence is going to be able to do some of that in this offense. Maybe it will mean good things even if the percentage of rush share that James Robinson has goes down inevitably, right? Because he had everything. He had all the carries on the 32nd ranked rushing attempt team. Sure. All right. Los Angeles, the Chargers. Anthony Lynn, he is elsewhere. They have a new head coach, Brandon Staley. They have a new offensive coordinator, Joe Lombardi.

This is the scariest one by far to me. Because of the promise we saw from Justin Herbert and company. There are, I mean, there are a lot of pieces. You have, you have a quarterback one. You have, in my opinion, a running back one in Austin Neckler. You have a wide receiver one in Keenan Allen. And Brandon Staley, he has a defensive coach. So this is, okay, we're going to be leaning on Joe Lombardi, who, yeah, he's been in the league a long time.

He's had a shot. He's got that last name, bro. He's got the last name. He had a shot to be an OC in Detroit for two years. It didn't work. He had to go crawling back to being the quarterbacks coach in New Orleans again. Which he's got 10 years worth of two stance of being that position. That is a long time to just be a quarterback's coach. So this one, and I'm not saying that he can't succeed.

I'm just saying that this is the most concerning where we have big time fantasy players and we have a very unproven offensive mind coming in to be the leader of that offense. Let's put this into what happened last year too. You have some things to lose here. I mean, he says he wants to be up-tempo. Well, you can't really get much better than they were last year. They were second in pace of play in all of football. So that's cool. Maybe you want to maintain that.

Well, you could be number one. You could be number one. Number two is the first loser. Fifth and pass attempt, sixth in passing yard last year. Austin Eccler's injury probably contributed to that to a large degree. Sure. But a lot to lose here with Justin Herbert's potential if things don't go right. And, you know, Anthony Lynn was an offensive-minded coach.

I would have really have preferred for the hiring to be exactly the opposite, where they get a nice offensive mind in there and maybe an unproven defensive coordinator. Because the truth is, and we've talked about this, you know, plenty in the season, a little bit in the off season. The Los Angeles Chargers on paper have one of the most talented defenses. They lost so many pieces to injury this past season that their defense was atrocious, which helped them become so, you know, they had to.

Play fast. When you're down by a lot of points, you don't get to huddle up for, you know, 40 seconds. So I worry that Brandon Staley is a great hire for real football. And he's going to come in and take this great defense on paper and make them a really good defense.

protect that and slow it down be able to they don't want to slow down their offense but when you're up when you have a lead you want fewer possessions right exactly you you want the opportunity to play slower and win the game and i think they're going to do that i think it's a good hire head coach i'm not inspired by the offensive coordinator and so that's like a double whammy here where i will have some worries some

You know, every team that is making a coaching change has a variable when you're drafting these offensive players, and this is a larger variable to me. All right, the Jets, new head coach, new offensive coordinator. Oh, boy, they were not good last year. No. They hired Robert Saleh from the 49ers. Michael Flore comes in as the offensive coordinator. This was the worst offense. I mean...

Adam Gaze, the stink remains. I mean, it takes a time. Power washing. Fumigation. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, they're really going to need to bring in the big guns. I mean, they may have to hang up some really, really big, those air fresheners from the car, like the Christmas trees all over the building. I know they have called a lot of septic people. They're pumping out all the tanks. So, you know, the Ghostbusters are showing up. That's right. We go from number two. Thank you. We go from the team I'm the most nervous about to the one I'm.