NFL Coaching Changes, Fantasy Impact + Top Rookie Picks

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Another fabulous show about to begin. Fabulous. And important as, you know, look, some of these. Well pronounced. Well pronounced, Jason. Thank you. Important. Yeah. Today's show is very, very important. As far as the off season, the elongated preseason shows go, I would say this is up near the top, near the pinnacle. I don't disagree. We're going to go over all the coaching changes from this past off season.

And we've seen the impact that one change at the top, either in the offensive coordinator position or recently in the head coaching position, Chicago with Matt Nagy, two years ago, Sean McVeigh, it makes a humongous difference. You see players that were completely fantasy irrelevant. You remember the offseason of what happened to Todd Gurley. Is he another Trent Richardson? Those words came out of people's mouths. Now, look, McVeigh gets a lot of credit, and of course, rightly so.

If Jeff Fisher just leaves that Rams team and they are uncoached. There's nobody there. There's no head coach. How far between Fisher's Rams and McVeigh's Rams do they actually end up? Right in the middle. So what you're saying is if you're a prospective head coach candidate, you want to look at a place, I don't know, like Zach Taylor going into Cincinnati. Yes. With the shadow of Marvin Lewis and all those years there. Because the disparity, how good you look.

Like, for example, Steve Wilkes in Arizona, he had to replace Bruce Ariens. It didn't go well. Didn't go well because the gap, I mean, you only went backwards. Well, you replaced a great. They were very backwards. Three wins. You replaced a good coach. He was just got another job. So we're going to talk through all of them on the show today and break down how we see things playing out for 2019, what it will mean for some of the players on each of these rosters.

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There were five commissioner tips at the end of that show, got a lot of great feedback on them. Part of our job here is to help you have a better league so you enjoy fantasy football more. Yes. That's why we got into this. And to give you hot musical drops, Jason, how just inflamed? Inflamed, of course. Were your mentions after the beatboxing went live? I mean, I had like two people that were like.

Yes, the beatboxing was great. So I was pretty lit. Pretty lit. Pretty lit. I don't know if you want your, I don't know if you want your mentions inflamed or not. I just don't know. That's because you don't know anything about social media for that. Don't you? No, that's engorged. No, it's not. All right, quick question of the day. Call a doctor. Mike. I've got a.

bulging disc on my Twitter timeline. Brooks, if you need to leave, I understand. All right? Okay. Thank you. There's a door real close to you. If you just need to take off one day, I get it. All right. Post-combine quick question. Who is the 101 right now in a dynasty rookie draft? No, the draft hasn't happened. The NFL teams haven't selected anybody. But Mike, you mentioned on the show.

Tuesday that you thought maybe the first three or four picks were going to be wideouts. Who do you think the number one picket? As of right now, to me, it's Nikiel Harry. And I think that surprises people. We talked about Metcalf on the Combine show because he was the big story, a man who's literally all his body is made out of muscles. He has actually no skeleton frame.

Just muscle. His skeleton is made out of more muscles. They're making new textbooks based on this person. This is how strong he is. He ran a 433, except his agility drills were close to catastrophic for, especially compared to the 40 that he just ran. His production profile is down. He's actually a pretty raw receiver. He's still going to go very high in the first round. Nikiel Harry is, if Metcalf.

Weren't around, Nikila Harry would be the talk of the Combine to me. And I think he'll end up at a good spot and is a little bit more well-rounded wide receiver at this point. So I would take him with the first pick. But this rookie class is very interesting because I feel like the last few years, you knew who the first pick was. It didn't matter what's going to. You knew it was going to be Sequin Barclay. You knew a couple years ago it's going to be Zeke. It doesn't matter where he goes. You knew it was going to be Leonard Fournette, too.

I would say it was pretty much assumed it was going to be him. You always knew what the top tier was. But this is a year, we need to see how things shake out. After the NFL draft, it could literally be one of six or seven different people. They fall into the right spot and they look best. I'm with Mike. I actually like Nikiel Harry the most. He would be my 101. I think he is.

A good enough route runner. So great yards after the catch. He can go deep. He can box people out. He looks like a red zone. Perfect body type and target on those contested catches. So since we don't know where they're going, I'm going to lean Nikiel. And it's so ironic because Nikiel's my guy. Yes. But I think D.K. McCaff will go ahead of him in dynasty draft because I think he'll be drafted fairly, you know, probably 10 or 15 picks ahead of Nikiel, Harry.

In the NFL draft? I think so. Yeah, I wouldn't disagree. And based on that fact alone, I think between combine hype and being the higher drafted wide receiver, I think that'll be enough to get him to that one-on-one spot. But we will see. You know, you put Nikiel in the right place or Hakeem Butler or another one of these wide receivers and things change pretty quick. So big time news. All right, we ran the ultimate draft kit pre-sale giveaway.

And that ended on March 1st. Now, you can still pre-order the ultimate draft kit. In fact, you still get pre-order bonuses by ordering the ultimate draft kit, including bonuses on shotballers.com and fantasychamps.com. And it's still the lowest possible price. And you can get that at ultimate draft kit.com. What is over with was your chance to pre-order and enter to win the very first listener league spot. We also gave away two jerseys from fantasychamps.com.

And we gave away a studio tour and sit in on the show. And I have those winners for you. You guys ready for this? I can't wait to find out. The jersey winners? David. Oh, man, Jason. Why don't you handle this one? Oh, David Mkovitz. Thank you. Thanks, Borat. He went from at the beginning of the name. Nailed it. He was American. And then at the end of the name, he was certainly not. All right. And then you have Michael Bailey won another one of the jerseys.

And the studio tour, Oscar Flores. Congratulations. Congratulations. And the big winner, the listener league. First entry, although all three of us are in it. Fourth entry. If you're listening right now, I just want you to know, I hope it's you listening at home right now. I hope you're the winner. Right now, get excited. It could be you. John Kinzer. John Kinzer. Congratulations, John. Welcome in. Now we will let you know a little bit later in the off season.

when we will open up the entries. The fifth spot. The fifth spot and through 12. And you guys can send in different stuff every year. Through 14. It's a 14 team. That's what I meant. Through 14. The way we open it to 12 and then eventually we'll get 13 and 14. I follow you. I'm with you. Okay. All right. You've confused me. That's really what you've done there. But we will let you know how you can enter to win. Congrats to John and every other winner.

Pre-order the Ultimate Draft Kit right now at Ultimate DraftKit.com. Very excited. Working on the app, working on custom scoring, and all the great stuff you know and love from the Ultimate Draft Kit will be in it. Let's get into the news. News and notes from around the league. Presented by Sleeper. Now, I mean, the headline news, again, we won another flag football game. They call that a winning streak. That's two games in a row. Okay. I want to say.

extremely impressive. I believe I came to the sideline after the game, and Jason's wife was able to come and watch Jason play. And she said to me, and I quote, you didn't suck. And that felt very kind. That felt real good. That felt real good. And I did no look past to Jason. Did he tell you this? I did not. He Mahomes did it. And Jason caught it, went into the end zone, and then did a full-on jet plane.

arms out sailing jet plane. I kind of, I flew right through the other guys on the other team and the referee said excessive celebration. Celebration. You got flagged? No, he didn't flag it. But he just said that's excessive. And I said it was necessary. Flying like an airplane is excessive. I flew for a long time. He flew for a really long time. I was circling the other team. This was an overseas flight.

It was first class, my man. I told the referee to let him off the hook because he's 36 years old. Yeah. So the funny part about it is my boy had football practice yesterday and he busted off a huge touchdown run. He also turned into the airplane. Nice. Did he really? All right. I wonder where he gets it from. I guess we'll talk some. Hey, so that was for an extra point real quick. Yeah. How many points did we win by? One. Nice. Hmm.

That extra point that you scored. All right. Antonio Brown, the sweepstakes, they're heating up. It's heating up. Whatever you want to say about Antonio Brown, the Steelers have begun telling teams that it's moving quickly and to give them their best offers. And the report we have as of now is that the Jets and Cardinals are out, and it could be wrapped up as soon as Friday. In fact, by the time you're listening to this, it's probably done. It's probably done. And the even newer report is it's now a one-team race, allegedly.

That's what's coming out. The Raiders and the Raiders. It sounds. Wait, what's the latest? That it's, we're down to the one team. What team? Well, it's not being reported. That's not even a, I mean, that's not even a wink wink. That's not good for the Steelers compensation. No. A one team race. Or that you can run as slow as you want and win at a run team, one team race. Those are my favorite kind of races. Look, it's, I think it's more of just that perhaps the deal is.

essentially done. They're just working out on finalizing a couple things, but huge implications. Seems like he'll be a raider. Everybody that owns Antonio Brown in a Dynasty or Keeper League, you're waiting to hear what team it is. And this is huge. This is huge for the Steelers' offense. Say what you will about blonde mustaches and strange videos and all the peripheral. On the field, Antonio Brown's a difference maker for fantasy football owners.

Yes. And so we will have a lot to talk about it. If this breaks before, you know, or, you know, before this show was released, we'll talk about it on the next show. Yeah. We'll break it all down. The Raiders is, it's not my favorite landing spot because I, Derek Carr is, eh, but Derek Carr has sustained higher level fantasy wide receivers. If you, yeah, he has. We're just a couple years removed from Michael Crabtree being.