Fantasy Football Podcast 2015 - Jaw-Dropping Stats, ADP Changes, Mailbag

There's not much to say because I don't think Jordan Reed's in anybody's top list. But anybody who was like, oh yeah, Jordan Reed, he's got all that potential. Just remember he also had a procedure done again. Yeah. Cam Newton, Mike's favorite quarterback. Yeah. He's on the cusp of a $100 million contract extension because in the NFL, if you have a franchise quarterback or something like it, you've got to lock them up. And I agree that you have to pay him the money. That's the worst part about having a QB like Cam Newton.

is I don't think he's good enough to get a team to the championship to win Super Bowls, but he's good enough to get to the playoffs, and you can't just throw that guy away. I think he could win Super Bowls. Ryan Tennehill or Cam Newton, not fantasy. Just, well, give me both, fantasy and real. Tannenhill's for both. For both. For both. Interesting. I still take Cam Newton.

I think Tanna Hill is an actual quarterback where Cam Newton, Cam Newton is by far the superior athlete, but I just think he relies too much on that. I don't think he's taking enough, taken it serious enough to really work on his craft, where Tannenhill, he did a position change, so he's had to earn his quarterback stripes. I would not hesitate to take...

Cam Newton without batting an eye over Ryan Tennant Hill because he's the better quarterback. But a nice segue from that. You want to talk accuracy? No, I just want to talk about winning football games with the quarterback. You know what we'll do is we'll save... Oh, the Tim Tebow. Hey, we haven't had a fantasy face-off in a while, so we'll save that one. All right. Thursday, Thursday. Thursday, let's do it. And we'll have to come up with some water bet for Cam. Because I'm... It's going down on Thursday. All right. What were you saying, Jay? Well, you know where I would draft Cam Newton?

wherever he's a good value on fantasy draft wizard.com. That's where. Fantasydraftwizard.com is a free tool that we talk about like it's an advertisement, but it's not an advertisement because it's just a great tool. Go to fantasydraftwizard.com. It's free, and you can do mock drafts. You can do them quickly. You can do them from whichever spot you want. And I see so many tools out there that are like, sign up for this $500 tool and you can do a fantasy draft.

It's like, yeah, and this is free. There's a lot of $500. The Lollipop Guild is advertising fantasy sites now. They're all over it. And the Wicked Witch wants your money. So, no, but honestly, if you love fantasy football, which of course you do, you're listening in June. Try out fantasy draftwizard.com. You'll thank us later, as many people have. Absolutely. We love it. A lot of people write in and say that. Mike, you got something planned for us today.

I do. We have... I don't know what to expect. Mike has devised something. I took over the show. I said, hey, guys, take a break. I'm going to work up some things. A really, really big shout out to pro football focus. They made this job a lot easier for me. They had some things, some interesting information that I found from their Twitter and then using their site with a bunch of great stats and things. So it's a great site if you haven't used it. So we're going to...

We're going to play a little game. Is that right? Yeah, trivia time with the fantasy hitman. That got really dark. I just see that cut didn't make me really excited. I'm like scared. What's the loser in this kid? Is this Andy versus Jason? Geez. All right. Let's do it. Tell me what we're doing. All right. So I'm just going to give you some questions. Most of them are I tried to simplify with some multiple choice. Some are you just. Thank you. We have to go. Some of people. Some of you have to go off the top of the dome.

But so I got nine or ten questions here. Let's go. Let's start. And this one's actually, we're going to go with one bonus point on this one. It's a little tricky. Oh, we're keeping score? Yeah, of course we're keeping score. This is outstanding. You're keeping score, right? Yeah, I'll do. Okay, good. Over the last three seasons, I have had the best hands of any wide receiver grabbing 97% of catchable passes, 128 out of 132. That's a lot. AJ Green.

DeAndre Hopkins, Des Bryant, or Larry Fitzgerald. I got this one. DeAndre Hopkins. I'm going DeAndre Hopkins for sure. See, I thought Mike probably put Larry Fitzgerald in there to tempt me with my local bias. I'll just go Larry Fitzgerald for the sake of argument. The answer over the last three seasons is DeAndre Hopkins. Yes! However, if you change...

DeAndre's only actually played two seasons. That's why it's kind of a trick question. Okay. But if you say over the last two seasons, the answer is Larry Fitzgerald with one drop per year in the last two years. He's pretty good. So we both get a point on that one. Yeah. Yeah. So we'll go with, we'll keep that one and one. Good job. Where are we writing this down? Someone give me a piece of paper. I knew you'd have a problem with this. All right. Question number two.

There were four wide receivers with over 100 receptions. Rank them least to most according to number of drops. Okay. All right. So what are our four options? The four guys were Antonio Brown, Demarius Thomas, Julio Jones,

And Emmanuel Sanders. All right. Well, I know who's number one for sure. So do I. We've watched enough Bronco games to know D.T. has the most drops. He has a lot of them. And I think the same amount to know that Emmanuel Sanders has the least. So now, to me... Julio is actually up there, too, I think, and drops. So I'm going to go... I'll just give you mine right now. Okay. Demarius Thomas is at the bottom. Okay. Then Julio Jones, and then Emmanuel Sanders, and then Antonio Brown. Okay. I'm going to go...

Demarius Thomas most drops, Julio Nexmost drops, Antonio Brown, and then Emmanuel Sanders. Jason is correct. Whoa, all four? Yes. Demarius Thomas had nine.

Julio Jones had eight, and Tony Brown five. Emmanuel Sanders, two drops. So do I only get one point for this? Yeah, we'll go with one point. Because I got four right answers. Yeah, I got the bottom two, right? Just be happy with your point. All right. That's interesting. So Emmanuel Sanders makes the most of his targets. He had a great year, and he was catching everything. Are we giving the people at home enough time to answer these questions? I don't know. I don't know. Well, just as we're going. I'm here. Make sure I'm not going too fast. I think you're doing all right.

Next question. Over the 2014 season, I led the NFL in yards after catch with 709 yards and enforced missed tackles with 20. Andy's favorite, Jeremy Macklin. We were just talking about. O'Dell Beckham Jr., Golden Tate, or Randall Cobb. I don't think you'd allow Jeremy Macklin to be the answer to any question. If that would have been the amount we talked about it.

Interesting. So Jeremy Macklin, O'Dow Beckham Jr., Golden Tate, and Randall Cobb. Most yards after catch and most forced missed tackles. You know what's funny is when I read the question, I thought I knew the answer right away, which I thought for sure was DeMarius Thomas. He's not on the list, so I'm not going to go with DeBerius Thomas. I'm going to let you answer first. I'm going Randall Cobb. He is a beast mode, and I watched every Packer game because I was a big Andrew.

Andrews? Yeah, big Randall Cobb fan. I'm going to take the outlier of this list because I know he made a lot of big plays. Oh, and Golden Tate's your boy. So I'm going to go with Golden Tate. The answer is Golden Tate. Oh, no. Golden Tate had seven hundred and nine yards after the catch. Randall Cobb was fourth.

ODB was ninth, and Jeremy Maclin was seven. Oh, all right, all right. I thought you meant fourth in this list. So he was second. No, no. All right. So I get a point. In the NFL. So I get two points. No, I don't get any points. No, you lost that one, buddy. All right. See, Golden Tate is a shifty, man. I saw him catch a lot of short balls, and then he'd go down the sideline. Golden Tate is a very underrated, very good wide receiver. He has excellent hands. He just, and he showed that when Calvin Johnson was not there and he had the opportunity,

He was fantastic. So what's the score now? 2-2? But the problem with Golden Tate was when Calvin Johnson was there, he basically disappeared because Snapback Stafford locks in on Calvin Johnson. Next question. In 2014, I had the best throwing accuracy on plays under pressure. Under pressure. Sorry. I thought you were going to keep going. I appreciate that very much. Teddy Bridgewater, Tony Romo, Russell Wilson.

Ben Rothlisberger. Jason looks like he knows the answer. Best throwing accuracy on plays under pressure. Well, I definitely don't know the answer, but I know, I believe the year before the answer was Ben Rathlisberger, and he's known for holding out late, always being under pressure and delivering. So I'm going Big Ben. I'm going Big Ben as well. The answer is Teddy Bridgewater. What?

I'm starting to see a pattern in these lists from Mike. I'm going whoever's least expectant next question. Well, Teddy Bridgewater had a 75% accuracy when he was under pressure. And then this statistic also counts drops because they were just trying to gauge accuracy of the quarterback. So Bridgewater, 75%. Romo was 8th, Russell Wilson was 6th, and Rathlisberger was 3rd. Let me ask you a question. So he's still tremendous. We haven't actually spent...

very much time talking about Teddy Bridgewater. And I've seen him in more questions than we've spent on the show. So what do we think about Bridgewater being able to be fantasy relevant this year? Is that something you guys believe? It is absolutely possible. Could he be Russell Wilson light? I don't know about the heat. I don't know if he ran enough for me to really think of him as Russell Wilson. He's a great quarterback. He's accurate as well, he's smart. He's smart like Wilson and he makes the right play.

But does he put up enough numbers? Yeah, he didn't put up many numbers last year, but his efficiency was really good. When I ranked my quarterbacks and did all the stats, he was just outside of the top 12 for me. And so I could see him breaking into there, but I'm still going with him outside the top 12. Yeah, he's outside for me, but he's one of those guys who got Mike Wallace now. Yeah, Mike Wallace. Charles Johnson. Adrian Peterson is going to be huge for him.

You know, you're going to have to load up against the run. And, you know, he dumped the ball off a lot last year. And I would much rather, much rather drop the ball off into Adrian Peter's hands as a quarterback. Yeah. Versus Matt Ozziata. Oh, and a, just a fun fact for us because we always crush him. Jay Cutler was fourth under pressure. Under pressure. Yeah. So I found that to be an interesting.

Interesting statistic. Next. Take that, Cutler's mom, when you say we're mean all the time. Next question. In 2014, I forced an average of 0.27 missed tackles per reception, the best among wide receivers. Julian Edelman, Cole Beasley, Andrew Hawkins, Emmanuel Sanders. I got this one.

I'm definitely going Cole Beasley because I see a pattern here where there's one guy that seems like, well, no, it couldn't be that guy. And Cole Beasley would be the one that I would not pick out of this list. So you're just, you've now turned it into an uneducated. I play fantasy sports because I like to play and win games. Game theory, man. Game theory. And my game theory here says I'm taking Mike.

for Cole Beasley, and I'll look like a fool if I'm wrong. Give me Edelman, just for the sake of disagreeing with Jason, and you can take the point, Jay. Yes, it is Cole Beasley. Because I noticed that was happening, too. I tried so hard with Andrew Huggins and Edelman. Wow. So, so Beasley forced 10 missed tackles on only 37 receptions. So I especially like this one because Cole Beasley is a guy that we haven't talked about, and he signed a...

Pretty big contract for a guy of his caliber. He signed a four-year, $13.6 million contract, $4 million signing bonus, $5 million guarantees. He had 6.7 yards after catch that was tied for eighth. He had four touchdowns. Only 443 snaps. Wow. So Beasley was extremely efficient, and he was really... And now they seem to be committing to him. Yeah, and he showed up late, and... And they're going to be throwing the ball more, too. Yeah, that you would think so.

For sure. And so Beasley is a guy to... Man, I'm losing now. To keep an eye on. Well, hopefully this one's not as obvious. All right. Do it. In 2014, I broke four more tackles after the catch than Matt Forte, despite having 60 fewer receptions. Oh, we didn't... We're not letting up on Forte, are we? No, we are not. That's pretty impressive, though. So 60 fewer catches.