Early Breakouts & Busts - Fantasy Football Podcast

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Welcome into the show. Mike Wright is here. That is correct. Fantasy hitman. A fantasy hat man these days. Get a haircut. We were just talking about that. You have, uh... There's a troubled situation. There's so much. Yeah. I can see it's growing out over your ears. It's going to get in the way of your earbuds soon. It's a problem. It is a problem. We went to the close-up. Thank you.

We apologize. Take the hat off. Showed off, Mike. Oh, hey, that's looking. Put the hat on. Put it on. Oh, wow. It's too late. I will trade you all of your hair for very little of mine. Which would you prefer, Mike? Oh, I'll take mine. Thank you.

Yeah, it doesn't feel great sitting on the sidelines when people complain about the fact they need a hair. I've got too much hair. It's just so thick. My hair's so thick and it's just out of control. It grows so fast everywhere. Do you know the cost I have to pay on shampoo? Jason Moore is here if you didn't notice. Yeah. My hair grows slow enough where I'm still okay. To be clear, I said Jason Moore is here, not Jason Morris's hair. No, yes, of course.

Great show for you today. Early breakouts and busts. Some news to talk about. We'll get into the mailbag. You can find us on Twitter at the FF Ballers. Giving away a signed Devante Adams jersey right now at footclane giveaway.com. And definitely check out the website, the fantasy footballers.com, for new and exciting articles each week. Aaron Larson just threw one up there, make the most of your mock drafts, which we did on Tuesday.

And it turned out pretty nice. Yep. Thank you, David Montgomery, for falling into the fifth pick or whatever it was. You guys want to do some buy sell? Yep. Buy or sell presented by pristine auction. It's weird that I just don't even want to talk about this guy anymore. That is weird. Buy or sell Baker Mayfield 27 or more touchdowns in 2020. In his rookie season, that's the number he hit, 27.

So rookie record? Yes. So in 13 starts. Correct. And then in 16 starts in 2019, he put up a sweet 22. So are you buying or selling 27 or more? I'm selling. Give the man a chance. I'm buying. Yeah, there we go. You know, I looked, obviously, we stat everybody out for the ultimate draft kit.

Let's see if I'm buying or selling based on that. I have Baker Mayfield throwing 30 touchdowns this year. And that doesn't necessarily mean that he's some fantasy superstar. Yeah, he might throw 30 interceptions. Exactly. I've got him with 15 interceptions. So he's down at my quarterback 16. But he does have a great cast to throw the ball to. Maybe you could make an argument. It's the best in the league between Odell Beckham.

Jarvis Landry, Austin Hooper, Kareem Hunt, I still believe in David and Joku. And a lot of those... Is that like his official legal name now? You can't just call him David and Joki. You have to refer to him as, I still believe in David and Joku. Yes, I still believe in David and Joku is on the Cleveland Browns. But I think that, you know, that a lot of the problem last year was Freddie Kitchens. I don't know that Stafansky is the solution, but I do know for sure that there are great

receiving options. So if Baker, I mean, this is just a matter of... Did we just play a clip from last year? I mean, that was true last year. It was true. He had great receipts. Sure, he didn't have Austin Hooper. He didn't have Cream Hunt for half the year and he didn't have Austin Hooper. So I think those are two pretty big differences. It was year one with O'Dell Beckham, who was also injured. So, you know, I...

He had 22, 27 the year prior. This is not out of the realm of possibility. Yeah, 27 is not impossible by any stretch. I'll sell it. I think this team's identity will be the running game. I saw some people talking about Cam Newton, because Cam Newton was working out with O'Dell, talked about him being a backup option in Cleveland. If the upcoming season were to go the way last years went for Baker, having some competition, having somebody to step in would have been important.

I mean, he was arguably the worst starter in the NFL last year. He was bad. Yeah, he was very, very bad. And the thing you didn't mention, Jay, it's the offensive line. Massive, massive, massive upgrades for the Cleveland Brown's offensive line compared to last year. And that's what... That's what the difference to me. Right now, I have Baker projected for 26. So, you know, I'm selling based on my projection, but that's very, very close. It's a soft sell. Yeah, it's...

I certainly see 30 in the realm of possibilities. Andy, what do you have him stat it out for? 12. 20. 20. What? He's getting worse? That is correct, Mike. Based on mathematics, you are accurate. Yes, he's getting worse. All right. Actually, I don't have him collapsing this team. Like I said, the identity, the Stefansky offense, the fact that...

Nick Chubb and Cream Hunt can carry the load, and they can have success with that. Yeah, I mean, 20's low. 20 is very low. Last year, so Kirk Cousins, when things had completely changed for Minnesota, and I'm not, you know, Kirk Cousins is a better quarterback than Baker at this point. But in 15 games of a regular season, Kirk Cousins was at 26. So that even with the identity being completely on the running game, he's still hit 26.

It is about efficiency. It is about efficiency. But that also wasn't, it wasn't just like some abnormal low touchdown total. It was a low yardage total. It was not having success. He played 16 games. He only threw for 3,800 yards. I think it's fair to look back at last year and say that Baker Mayfield was bad at quarterback. He was missing guys that were wide open. I mean, when you watch, if you go back and look at all the targets to O'Dell Beckham, you would talk about two people on a different.

page of the playbook. They were so out of sync, so many uncatchable targets. He was just flat out bad. And so this is why it's a matter of, what do you believe about Baker? Is he just not actually good enough to be an NFL franchise quarterback? We're about to find out. Yeah, and then this is going to be the maker break. I still believe in David and Joku and Baker Mayfield.

All right, that was by yourself from pristine auction. Pristineauction.com. Use the code ballers. Get a $10 credit on some sweet sports memorabilia. News and notes from around the league. Well, we have some, this is unfortunate Eagles news. This has become par for the course Eagles news in some ways. First, Alshan Jeffrey.

without a timetable for return. If you have to add, I still believe, in front of David and Joku, you have to add without a timetable for return after Alshan Jeffrey. He had a Liss-Frank injury in 2019. No timetable to return. Yeah. Al-John Jeffrey once again looking as.

unreliable as ever. Yeah, if you read the injury blurbs in the ultimate draft kit, that's really telling on Alshan Jeffrey. I mean, that was, you know, done a month ago where it looked like just based on the injury, what it was when it happened, that it would be a very, very real possibility he starts the season on the pub. And now I think that's the expectation of a lot of Eagles beat writers is that he's going to miss six games.

And that is bad, bad news for the Eagles, bad for obviously Alshan and his value. Good news for Jalen Rager trying to get a chance to come in as a rookie with high target volume. But yeah, that's not good. And it's not the only bad piece of news from the Eagles game. I think that's secondary. Go on. Right. I think the bigger news is that Star right guard Brandon Brooks has suffered a torn left Achilles tendon.

He will miss the entire 2020 season. Brooks told me to hit the loser horn, but that felt really demeaning on a person's actual injury. Yeah, that was more about the... To me, that was a horn of sadness. Thank you. That's how I interpreted it. We were with... That's why I was coming from. Yes. Yeah, but this does not summarize the... I mean, that just doesn't summarize the gravity. Hey, Mike, did you hear Mike broke his leg?

All right, I see where you're coming from. I see where you're coming from. But this is big news. Yeah, well, yeah, like this sucks. This sucks really bad. Not only for the Philadelphia Eagles, but just as fans of football, because this, the Brandon Brooks injury to me is more impactful than the Alshan Jeffrey injury. One, because Jeffrey should be back eventually, but you need the offensive line for everything, for whence, for all.

From when Allison Jeffrey comes back. This is very unfortunate news. He was, in fact, PFF, pro football focus, number one overall guard in 2019. Think about Carson Wince when Lane Johnson is there and is not there. This is like two bits of news that just put the Eagles in the exact same spot they were in last year. Offensive line problems, wide receiver problems. Carson Wins' career, much, much.

better projections with Alshan Jeffrey in the lineup from a touch. Like he's played 23 games without him. His 16 game pace touchdown wise without Alshan Jeffrey is 18. With Alshan in 33 games. That's worse than 20. Yeah, with Alshan, it's 34 on a season. And you've seen it down in the red zone. Alshan's just kind of like a go-to guy. As annoying as he is for fantasy owners. He's great on the field. He's really helpful for Carson wins.

And here the Eagles are in the same boat as they were last. And he, you know, dynasty-wise, he should be able to come back fine. He's actually had this injury already on his other leg. And he came back. Talking about Brandon Brooks? Yes. Oh, it's like Alishan Dynasty. No, I would not want. Just talking about the Eagles and Carson Wentz and with Brandon Brooks's injury. He'll be able to come back, but it's not going to be in 2020. 49ers extended Kyle Shanahan.

This is according to, they're following the obligatory, made it to the Super Bowl rule where you have to do this immediately following it? It wasn't just an extension. He had three years left because if you remember, the 49ers went all in on Kyle Shanahan when they signed him. So it's actually a new six year contract because the three years that he's on, or that he had left, they have now been replaced with a pay raise. Kyle Shanahan offenses are.

Great. They are great. Everywhere he has gone, he has had a great offense. Won't be the last time we're talking about a Kyle Shanahan offense on today's show. All right. You guys want to talk? Oh, one more bit of news. Sort of. Saints running back coach, Joel Thomas confirmed Alvin Camara played through knee, ankle, and back injuries last season. I guess confirmed what our eyes showed us, what the production showed us.

We've talked a lot about the Saints offense, how they went from this. You know, Camara, I think, at 18 total touchdowns the year before. Last year, the rushing touchdowns dropped off the map for New Orleans. Maybe they didn't have confidence in Alvin Camara around the goal line. Well, and we knew he had the ankle sprain that cost him some games, but knowing that he was also dealing with a knee and a back injury. Does this concern you at all for durability? Do you look at him and say, not really?