Top 10 Things to Remember for 2021 - Fantasy Football Podcast for 2/25

And they can tag him while they work on an extension too. Did you guys realize the franchise tag window is now open? So players can be tagged as of today going forward through March 9th. All right. Some free agency news. Chris Godwin says he wants to remain in Tampa, but he wants to get paid too. So doesn't want to give him a hometown discount. Top 10 wide receivers getting paid 16 million plus per year right now, according to Spottrack. He seems like a great.

Franchise tag candidate. Yeah, go back, run it back. Franchise tag. That thing is brutal. This is rough. For the player? Yes. I mean, like, imagine being that player. You have, you have earned yourself a multi-year contract extension to be one of the highest paid wide receivers in the league. This is how it works. You prove it. And that money keeps going up and up and up. And then the team's like, well, hold on. We'll give you a lot of money.

but it's only for one year. Don't get hurt. I think you're right. I think you're right. It is a little weird. It's rough. Yeah. I mean, you do get paid, but... Only for one year. You've got to prove it again, and you got to stay healthy and whatever you do, don't get older. Yeah, just... Whatever you do, don't get older. Exactly. There is a... It seems like a high probability that some of these guys, you know, are going to have a down year, a Godwin could get hurt, and all those things that you said. Kenny Galladay, a candidate for the franchise tag, would that be under the...

principle of trying to trade him for a draft pick or just give Jared Goff a weapon? Possibly. The trade speculation makes the most sense to me. They've acknowledged that they are rebuilding. They've burnt it to the ground. Now they need the ashes to rise like the Phoenix. Why would you franchise tag Kenny Galladay pay him all that money for one year when you can get another piece to try and rebuild? It just, it doesn't make sense to

When you have the foundation that they have, you don't go and get the wide receivers. You need to build at other positions of need. Yeah, and you could always spend a lot less to bring in a one-year wide receiver kind of placeholder if you needed to. There are 20 million over the cap after taking on Goff's contract, so I don't think he's hanging around. I don't see him as a candidate for the franchise tag, honestly. But Aaron Jones could get up to $15 million a year in free agency. This is reported.

speculation from the athletic. There's only three that get paid that right now, CMC, Zik, Camara. It's going to be tough with the salary cap going down. He's going to make a lot of money, but I don't know if he'll get up to 15. There is the interest of the dolphins. The dolphins would be an incredible landing spot for Aaron Jones. He would see a ton of volume. The team would. The offense would be built around him. So if you've...

If you've got Aaron Jones on your dynasty team, you better be crossing your fingers for that one. Jason, Aaron Jones to Miami or Aaron Jones back to Green Bay, which is better for you? I would prefer him in Miami. You'll have fewer scoring opportunities. So even if his total fantasy points at the end of the season happens to be slightly lower or the same, I feel like the way they come is going to be far more consistent. You're going to have every single game he is, you know, the centerpiece of the offense, at least the...

complete centerpiece of the running game. Whereas, you know, you look the year before last when he was the running back two, but was not even a top 12 guy in consistency. That's what can happen when you're in this three-headed timeshare. You know, Jamal Williams, I expect him to resign with Green Bay. They've got A.J. Dillon there. So the touchdown opportunity will be less in Miami, but I still think that, you know, you saw what they did with Miles Gaskin and Ahmed. And, you know, if they took Aaron Jones and gave him $15 million a year,

He'll be one of my absolute favorite running max. That's interesting. I actually would go the other direction myself. Oh, you're wrong. But continue. You know what? That makes sense. No, the warning the warning bells are going off for me. Get paid. Been historically, what, like a 200 to 220 type of carry guy on a great offense, high efficiency. This is like I've used the example before. It's reminded me of the.

You know, Miami Lamar Miller, 200 carries, five and a half a carry. You go to an offense where you're going to get the ball more. You're not going to score 16 touchdowns like you did in 2019. You might not get to nine like you did last year. And then you have, I mean, that's a lot of volume in the passing game that is all of a sudden going to be translating to Tua. I mean, 49 receptions in 2019, 47 in 2020. I think I'd be slightly less.

bullish on him in Miami personally. But I know that's a destination people want running back to go to. I'm just not sure what it's going to represent next year. I'm with Jason. I would be very excited. And speaking of Dolphins news, we do have a verified ESPN account tweeting Deshaun Watson would approve a trade to the Jets, the Dolphins, and the Panthers. There could be more teams we don't know about, but those three have been confirmed. Andy, which of those teams would make you the most excited for

Watson. I mean, we're all excited for Watson. I get that. But which of these teams would you be most excited about? Carolina. Carolina had, they've got the receivers that give me confidence and they have a head coach and flashes from last year, CMC coming back. Like if he went there and they don't lose CMC, I think that would make me the most excited.

of those destinations. Jason? Where it would make me the most excited, it's actually not one of those three, but it is technically the second highest Vegas odds on favorite right now. So he hasn't confirmed that he would approve it. But the Broncos are coming after him with a lot of heat. And that's one of those situations where we've talked a lot about. Is this Jerry Judy related? It's Cortland Sutton, Jerry Judy, and Noah fans. It's all three. It's, I like the players. And I don't want any of them on my fantasy rosters next year.

But if all of a sudden they inherit Deshaun Watson, I'm like, let's let these talented players be relevant for fantasy and give me confidence in them. I'd be all about that life. We're going to find out what happens. It's going to be a very, you know, impactful piece of news for all the peripheral pieces. You know, if he leaves Houston, we'll find out. We'll find out what happens to DJ Moore, Robbie Anderson. Oh, baby.

There's no player this offseason that's going to affect more other players because you had Stafford changed teams, a golf changed teams, Carson Winsch changed teams. They didn't really affect that many players all that drastically. But the new destination, those wide receivers and pass catchers will be ginormously impacted. And then conversely, you're still impacting, you know, Brandon Cooks, who's a great fantasy option right now, becomes far less relevant or David Johnson.

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Don't forget to remember these things. That's good advice. You don't want to forget to remember them. You know what I mean? Or do you? I can't remember. Thank you for the setup there. 10 things to remember from 2020. Mike is going to kick it off. All right. Number 10. I forgot that was happening. But here we are.

This happened to me this year, and I was guilty. I'm on a fantasy football show. We are giving waiver advice each and every week. But here's the thing. It's better to be a few weeks early on rookies to stash them than it is to be too late and look for the buy weeks. Those have been a very strong signal in the past that a team is going to make a switch to running backs.

Look at what J.K. Dobbins, DeAndre Swift, Cam Acres, all of them, their opportunity wasn't the clearest to begin the year. I mean, some of them were still drafted like it was there. But these rookie running backs who have established veterans in front of them, they get drafted early. And a lot of the times these players get dropped because the first three to four weeks, they aren't as involved as you want. And...

Then when you get into the middle of the season, just start stashing these players. Who else are you going to pick? I mean, you can pick up a guy for a one week thing, but you've got to think long term. You've got to start getting ready for the second half and for that playoff push. And no one is going to give your team a boost like a rookie running back who inherits a starting job or takes over a starting job, especially after that buy week. Like, look, Dobbins after the buy week, week eight, he was the running back 17.

And it was done. Like, if you had waited to pick up Dobbins at that point, congratulations. You're spending your waiver priority. Any fab you have left, you're going to have to drop it on him. This same thing for DeAndre Swift coming off the buy week, the running back 13. And then Cam Acres, after the buy week, it was, I believe it was the highest running back rush share that he had seen.

over the season after the buy week. And then eventually he started picking it up and getting huge volume and winning people weeks at the end of the season. So stash these guys. It's okay. Be early. Let them sit on your bench. Let them, you know, over time, like a fine wine. Well, it's, it's hard. It's, I'll give you my experience with this. And the advice is important because it bears itself out every year, but it's still very difficult because I was the case of adding Cam Acres as a,

mid-season ad and when a rookie sits on your bench for a couple weeks doing nothing and you are scrambling and you are streaming other positions and you are making injury adjustments holding onto him i didn't hold on to him

I let him go back into the free agency. So it was something that I regretted, obviously in the end, when Cam Makers was on fire, but it's still a very difficult thing to do. And yet year after year, you bring up this year's examples. You know, Miles Sanders came on so strong the year before. And it happens. Nick Job a couple years ago. That's right. Yeah. And it's like you're saying, keeping a rookie running back on your bench.

Well, you're like, well, this wide receiver four is producing. I have some buy weeks coming up here that I'm going to, I know that this guy's actually producing and this running back isn't doing anything. I think in the long run, it's better to hold on to that rookie running back and then figure out the wide receiver who has to fill in on the buy week and just be ahead of the curve a couple weeks. That is the approach that I will be taking.

next year. Yeah, part of the reason we do these, you know, things to remember shows is the difficulty. It's the fact that it's not, it doesn't happen naturally. You're not going to have a rookie stink three weeks in a row picking them up halfway through the season and want to hold on to them. We have to remember to hold on to it because it's, it feels unnatural, but we've got enough history and evidence to say, you know, let's do it. And that, I think, leads in.

Well, to my next tip, number nine. Number nine. All right. This is going to be tough. It's emotionally difficult to do this. But I am going to remember to sell my wide receivers who are on fire one month into the season.