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

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Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. The fantasy footballers back with you Thursday, February 25th. Gentlemen, there is a lot on the plate today and plenty that I don't necessarily want to remember from 2020. However, however, there are some things. Well, we're not remembering the...

The bottom 10 things to remember from 2020 here. This is the top 10 things to remember. And the best part about it? The bottom 10 is bad. The bottom 10 is not great. It was not great. But the best part is that this is top 10 things to remember for fantasy football. So no matter what, it's going to be fun. Because I realized, I think today that I love to talk about fantasy football. You just realized that.

Yeah, and it was like big revelation, epiphany moments like, man, I love talking about fantasy football. Thousand-plus shows. That's what it took. We got here. He eased his way in. We've been dragging him along this whole time. Like a pair of pants. I'm on board now, though, fellas. That's good. And we have, we've done this show each and every year. We.

You know, the season is long and full of terrors. There's a lot that happens. There's a lot that goes on that we need to remember. And in recency bias and the way your season ended up and the way players played at the end or the beginning, you know, there's a lot that we learn each and every fantasy season. So we like to have these shows.

to gather that information together. Each of us brings three different things to remember from the past year. Lessons we've individually learned, things we want to apply to 2021 to make us better fantasy football players to make you a better fantasy football player. So that's what we're getting into today. Very excited about that. I'm going to be honest with you. I didn't look at your guys. Oh, fantastic. There's a chance I copied it. I mean, I wouldn't even know. Maybe it's like eight.

things to remember but two of us agree on them i do not know so i'm looking forward to hearing from each of you uh what you guys have on the 10 things to remember list before go ahead jason two of two of mine were you know it we talk about the the reason we do the show is because it's so quick and easy to forget the lessons we learn and we always think like oh i'm not i'm not going to repeat this mistake again i'm not like i will remember this

And then after doing this show for years, every time, you know, in the beginning, it was like, okay, we're going to come up with the things we want to remember. And I'm like, man, I knew I had so many, but what were they? And over the last couple years, I've started actually like, when I learn a lesson in midseason or, you know, towards the end of the season, I actually, you know, in my own little fantasy journal.

I'm dropping these things down. Like, I want to remember this. So this show helps amplify that. It's literally the lessons that I personally want to remember for the next year. And two of mine were things that I wrote down. And I'm so happy I did because I probably would not have remembered. And hopefully this becomes a prescription for me. Because, like, if I don't say it on this show, I probably will forget it again. Yeah, especially the older you get. I mean. Yeah. I'm almost 80.

You're getting up there. And I hope it's more of a lock and key diary situation where you run into the room, you pull it out from under the mattress, you look for the key, you find the key, you open it up and you scribble it in there. It's actually one of those voice activated ones where like the little brother tries to break in. Not today, Jr. And you'll reveal those secrets on today's show. Well, just a few of them. And Mike has stuff to say too. I mean, Mike, you have a good memory, though.

I do have a good memory. So no diary necessary. Big news. Big, big news. This is the last show before March 1st, which means this is my last chance to remind you. My birthday's coming up, everybody. Oh, great. Get your gifts in the mail. Gosh, dang it. We got to buy him something again. Every year. Gonna be a birthday boy again. Now, we did buy Mike a present, I don't know, three, four years ago.

We got him one of those like something on a Kickstarter. And it was supposed to deliver like in three months. And he is still waiting. I think we're on four years now. I think we're on four years. Which means if it comes soon enough, that will be this year's birthday present. I feel like almost putting them on blast. Maybe that's the key. But then it's like free advertising and they don't deserve anything. Okay. Well, I won't do that. But Mike, it's in the mail. It'll be here soon.

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And you get a chance to win a listener league spot. So this is a very important moment. The people love it. Yep. The socially distant studio audience really enjoying that promo. Ultimate draft kit.com, though, check that out. It is going to be very exciting to give that spot away. And I would just add to that. You know, we're making a big deal of the listener league spot that we're giving away. And that's just a cool giveaway for someone that is an early adopter of the ultimate draft kit. But don't forget that.

The ultimate draft kit is actually freaking outstanding. It's going to help you win in your leagues and win a championship. So it's well worth it. All right. Let's go ahead and do some buy sell. Buy or sell presented by pristine auction. Well, today's buy or sell is a topic I really don't even enjoy talking about it all. Really? No, I'm tired of talking about this. I think I'm worn out.

talking about this. So let's, you guys can rejuvenate me maybe with some optimism. Buy yourself Josh Jacobs having more than 35 receptions in this upcoming 2021 season. Josh Jacobs and reception speculation is, well, it's just always going to be there. He came into the NFL with a very small sample sizes between the tackles runner and a producer on the ground and a big sample size of being a great pass catcher that John Gruden doesn't necessarily.

want to use that way all the time. In 2019, he had 20 receptions in 13 games. Last year, I think we shot for the 35 mark. He fell short 33 in 15 games. He finishes the RB8. So why do I feel so bad about Josh Jacobs if he goes from RB18 to RB8? I don't know. Because a lot of his, a lot of his production came in some big games. And, you know, I think it was more about a little bit.

you know, a lack of consistency and also just a disappointment off of week one. Because even though he was good throughout the majority of the season, week one, he was, he was the running back one. So you start 2020 as the best running back. He was your my guy. So you're on cloud nine, has, you know, a hundred total yards, has three touchdowns, had had the receptions, right? Six targets, four receptions. You're on fire. You're ready to go. And then it was like, okay, well.

This was what could be, but it's not what we're going to do with him. So that's why he was disappointing. As far as the receptions, though, if you've got to buy or sell 35, he was already on pace for more. And if you look at, you know, I think the issue here, if you're going to sell, is injuries. He's sure. He has had a difficult time really staying healthy. Even when he's playing, he's playing through some of these injuries that are clearly having an effect on his utilization, his usage, his snap percentage. So I.

I'm going to buy because I think he's clearly got the talent for it. I believe they want to do it. And I'm not going to just project injury for a player who has to this point played through most of the injury. So he's not one of those, you know, one of those guys who just bows out at every little thing. So I think, you know, if he plays 16, he'll beat that mark.

35 is not a huge mark. I'm looking at it right now. We had 23 running backs that hit that mark, including James Connor, Chris Carson, Devin Singletary. It's just barely over two receptions a game. Gruded. Come on, man. Stop being a crumudgeon and pass Josh Jacobs the ball a little bit more. You told us all about how you wanted to get him the ball in the receiving game last year.

And you give us 33 receptions. It's diabolical the things that you did to us last offseason. And this is why I'm tired of talking about it because we said all of that stuff. And we still didn't get the full payoff. That being said, you make some good points, Jason. I should be more optimistic here. I will buy 35. I think that that's doable. I'm not going to presume injury, like you said. Over the last decade, 47 running backs have finished with at least 1,000 rushing yards, eight rushing touchdowns, and 35 receptions.

They've all been RB-1s. So he obviously proved last year, yes, he had a great week one. You still have to have about 14 other good weeks to end up as the RB8. And he got there. So it seems like he's going to be along with Derek Carr again next year. That's the way it's looking. Yeah, I'll buy it because I don't think 35 is very much. All right. That was buy yourself. Brought to you by our dear friends at pristine auction. Pristineauction.com used that code.

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Are you a robot? No, are you Adam Lefco? How many stop signs do you see? All right, pristineauction.com, use that code, ballers. Let's get into the news. News and notes from around the league. Now, to be fair, to us, I've been doing that ballers echo bit. I've been doing that way before I even knew who this Adam Lefko guy was. So, you've changed a little bit.

It's his now. It's got a different depth to it now. Yeah, it used to be like, ballers. Now it's like, ballers. Yeah. See the difference? You see the huge difference? Yeah, totally left though now. I feel like we're to be Batman all of a sudden. All right. News and notes, Big Ben's, player reps of the Steelers have confirmed they want him back for 2021. He sat down with the team. They're going to work on the contract. He'll be back. I mean, that's the message. Big Ben's going to be back.

We had his full statement from the team acknowledging all these things. But the end of the statement was, now we've got to fix the contract. Yeah, and they're going to. Did you see Juju say he desperately wants to be in Pittsburgh? He wants to retire there. He wants to have his legacy there. I just don't know how they afford him. I don't think they want to afford him. Right? Yeah, it seems like he wants it. That's really nice that you want to do that, Juju. Will you take $3 million? Nope.

Yeah. Maybe Big Ben can, he said he didn't need to get paid. Maybe he can donate towards the cost. We'll see. NFL networks Ian Rappaport reporting that Cowboys want to extend Dak. That's the news. Yeah, I think so. But they want to do it right now. Well, he can play out 2021 with a fully guaranteed $37.7 million under his second consecutive franchise tag. Or they can extend him. And the deadline's March 9th.