Top 10 Things to Remember + Second Year Studs - Fantasy Football Podcast for 2/24

You didn't hear the news about the cleanse. I didn't. They'll give it to me. The 12-day, I don't know how to pronounce about pancha karma. Sounds right. Sounds right. Includes things like therapeutic vomiting. Oh, yeah. He did his research. Yeah. No, he's critical thinking. All right. And a lot of Ria from both sides. Jeremy Fowler said many around the league expect James Winston back as the starting quarterback for the New Orleans Saints. He's their best option. I mean, he really. At this point, yes.

Quarterbacks aren't growing on trees out there. It's also, what is, like, what do you do with Taysome Hill then? Did you say vomiting? Oh, yeah. Vomiting's a part of it? No, no, but therapeutic. Yeah, thank you, Mike. This isn't just normal throwing up. This is. Yes, yes, there it is. We got it. You're welcome. Well done. Jarvis Landry says. Copy right. Get the domain. Get the dot com quick. I declare.

Jarvis Landry said he has put the ball in the Brown's court in terms of his future. The implications out there are that they ask him to take a pay cut. So now the ball is in their court to not do that or to extend him or to reconfigure his salary. They can save nearly $15 million if they cut him. Yeah, he had a five-year $75 million contract, of which he's on the final year, $16 million on the books, only one and a half dead cap. So he either will take, I don't.

It sounds like he doesn't want to take a pay cut. And so it's tough to imagine the Browns being able to cut him. Like they'll save a lot of money, but also they do need wide receivers. Right. This is not a place. You know, they shipped O'Dell Beckham out. So if Jarvis Landry gets cut, which financially makes a lot of sense.

What is left there? I mean, they're going to be drafting someone, signing someone, but the free agent market is terrible. So Donovan People's Jones is still there. Anthony Schwartz. Yeah. Exactly. Schwartz flashed a little bit. Oh, yeah. People's Jones. Yeah, but they're not like, I don't think there's a budding number one, right? I think Landry's playing this the way he should. He's 29 years old. Yes. If he gets cut.

He gets another deal that's going to be in excess of a reconfigured deal here probably. And he can go to somewhere where he can win. Yes. And if he doesn't get cut, then he gets paid a lot. So I don't think we have any other news, Brooksie. Did you get any information on this Aaron Rogers plan, health plan? This is plant man's stuff. Or this goes beyond the plants. Yeah. Well, now we're reading about butt oil.

There's butt oil involved? Yeah. I don't know if we should be talking about this. It's really not safe for work. This whole first impression thing is going sideways. I have no comment. No comment. You haven't tried it out? We'll get a rumpologist in here. I knew that was coming. Figure that out. All right. Let's move on. Don't forget to remember these things. Oh, baby. Yeah, nice one, Mike. Very good. We have 10 things to remember from 2021. I think lessons we've learned.

Things we want to commit to memory as we have a long off season here before kickoff. And just some things you want to remind yourself of. It's like, look, fool me once, fool me twice situation, except we're fantasy football players, we're human beings. Guilty is charged. I've fallen into the same trap several times. So this is a good episode where you look in the mirror and remind yourself, I got to stop falling for this. Okay. So Jason, you have number 10.

Number 10. Yeah, and this is actually a really nice segue from what Mike was talking about because this was something where at the very beginning of the fantasy season, after the draft season, I had this question to myself because I felt like I kept making the same mistake over and over and over. And so I wrote down a list of players. I call this one, hurt don't help. Okay. Hurt don't help because I wrote down a list of all the players who were relevant, drafted fantasy.

guys that you actually might have liked who basically missed all of preseason, all of training camp. They basically just weren't. They were told, oh, he's going to be ready to go for this season. So people are drafting these guys, but they, they hadn't been playing. They hadn't been practicing. And so I, I remember going to Brooks and we came up with a list together of like, who is it that, you know, I want to look at the end of this season and remind myself,

Are those players good to draft, bad to draft, irrelevant, a mixture? And my takeaway is avoid the players who miss all of preseason or training camp due to injury. Now, in hindsight, this will sound really obvious. But I wrote this down then because it was not. These were players. I loved Curtis Samuel. You get an injury dip discount as well. Absolutely. That's what's so enticing. It is enticing. So there were seven players that I wrote down. Curtis Samuel.

was one complete L, just apps never got healthy the whole entire season, even though they said he's going to be good to go for the season. Saquan Barkley was one of the players that basically was he's going to be ready to go, but he was coming off of the injury. Off, awful draft pick, complete lost season. Kenny Galladay, rough, ouch, just, I mean, worse than the other two, if you could even be worse than Curtis Samuel and Saquan. Odell Beckham?

who was a complete loss before the change to, you know, obviously late in the season goes to the Super Bowl champion Rams and did have a little bit of fantasy relevance. Amari Cooper was mostly an L on the season, never really looked great. And then the two other guys on the list who were good, Marquise Brown and D'Andre Swift, they missed, you know, the whole lead up to the season. But they were...

They struggled obviously with injury at the end of the year. They, you know, had a hot stretch, but then both basically became irrelevant at the end. I'd draw it Michael Thomas as well. Sure. Yeah, I guess I didn't even think of him because he was set to miss a chunk of the season coming in. But these guys who... Yeah, but people drafted him. Yeah, absolutely. People drafted him because of that dip. They think, well, if he's going down to round...

He was like round, yes. You know, how can you not grab Michael Thomas in round eight? And so this is one of those things where I want to remember this for next year because a couple of these players, Mari Cooper and Curtis Samuel, I loved in the off season. And coming up this coming season, I am going to employ a remove these type of players from my list entirely. I will not draft these guys who miss all of camp, all of preseason, even if they say they're good to go on week one.

Number nine. All right. I'm going to go with, I'm going to go with this one titled Plum the Deps. Plum it. Plum the depths. More than ever before. Plum's a good word. It is. Yeah. Also delicious. Plums? You like plums? Plums are good. They're a little underrated.

It's very hard. They're the same as prunes, right? Prunes are a dried out plum, right? What? Yeah, a prune is to plum like a raisin is to grape. You didn't know this, Jason? No, I didn't know that because one is good and one is awful. You don't like prunes. Are you sure you don't?

Well, I'm not, let me check my age. Yeah, not 80. Well, that's what I'm saying. Like, you, right now, I think you have an age bias going on saying that prunes are bad because they're for old people. That's, yes, I do. That is guilty as charged. But plums are for, for young folk? That's right. They're delicious when ripe. Go on in. I wish I'd name this differently. Let's talk about these plums. This is a reminder. This is a reminder about.

the importance of depth in fantasy football more than ever you got a 17 game season now right so you even have another full week maybe we'll get another one after that where you cannot and i have to remember this you cannot rely on that frame worthy starting lineup that you've assembled that idealistic starter centric beautiful amazing roster that you put together that you think is going to make it through the year look you only had three

Running backs out of the top 15 that played all 17 games this year. Jonathan Taylor, Najee, and Zeke, your championship winners were players like Rashad Penny, who you guys rode to a championship. Braxton Barrios, who Kyle should have rode to a championship. Sonny Michelle, Darrell Williams, Amun Ross, St. Brown, Jared Patterson, Kishon Vaughn. Look, you have to remember to stash and spend on Fab early.

when you don't need to. Because what can happen is you might have the best draft of your life. You might have made the best trade of your life early in the year. But that can cause you to be over attached to a starting lineup, thereby making you slow to make moves to pay for depth. Look, depth on your fantasy roster exists to answer the question, what do I do now before you have to ask it?

before the crisis. So I think for me, I want to remember to act like my team is in crisis before it is because it will be at some point in time unless I'm the luckiest fantasy player of all time. I mean, I was the team that had the rug pulled out for me with Derek Henry, right? This catastrophic linchpin of your roster. And more often than not fantasy players are going to have that happen to them.

But if you prepare yourself, if you spend early, if you don't have a two, three week delay because you're looking at how beautiful your lineup is or how well put together it is, you're going to be in a better position because that delay can cost you. You might not have been willing to spend on Elijah Mitchell early in the year, right? You don't have that catastrophic injury yet. You don't go spend on Elijah Mitchell. And that could have been the player that would have helped you through crisis on your team. So prune the depths, plumb the depths, whatever you want to call it.

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