Top 10 QB Rankings + Evolving Opinions, Deshaun Warlock - Fantasy Football Podcast for 8/13

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and Mike Ride. Oh, welcome in. Was that a howl? Everybody. Guys. Yeah. It's going to be a good one. I'm just not awake yet. Oh, yeah, we are. Would you like my coffee? I've had some coffee. It doesn't take. It hasn't taken. Welcome into the show, the Fantasy Footballers podcast, back with you. I guess I could tie the howl into a...

the NHL playoffs and the Arizona Coyotes. But you wouldn't want me to do that because you are not a sports fan. You're a football fan. You're looking right at me while you're saying that. And actually, I checked in on the Coyote's score last night. And I was disappointed. Uh-oh, did we lose? Yeah, we did. And it was really my fault because I followed the entire game and got myself some dinner. It was zero-zero with six minutes left in the game.

Spoiler, we didn't score again. I sit down to eat my dinner, and the avalanche score three times in like a minute. It was three nothing. It was like, I hadn't even finished a bite. And I was like, well, it is a waste of time. Totally your fault. Do they just stop the game after that? Like, they really should have. I mean, there was nothing. You got us. It's just one game, Mike. It's just one game. And we're not going to talk about the NHL anymore. That might be the first time in the, what is this, episode 1,000 something?

That might be the first time we've ever brought up NHL in this podcast. It's 919, Jason. We're not to 1,000. No, we're not there yet. We have quarterback rankings on today's episode, so that'll be fun. I'm going to walk through our top 10 quarterbacks. And I have a quick question. I feel like this one would apply daily with the way camp is transpiring and breaking down depth charts and looking at players and teams.

name a player that you've been changing your opinion on lately. So somebody that you have just, was it on yesterday's, maybe it was the footcast yesterday, I talked about how, or at the very end of the episode, Cortland Sutton, just kind of starting to wondering if I'm a little too low on Cortland Sutton. That was an example on yesterday's show. For me, it's Lev Bell. Okay. For whatever reason. In or out? In.

Oh. Into my top 10. Oh, oh, spicy. At 10. But it doesn't take much. We have to remember, like the Lev Bell experience last year was so melancholy. It was so, he finished 10th or 11th every week. It was just trudging along two yards of carry. And we have to remember, it doesn't take a whole lot when you were receiving back to get inside the top 10. I haven't projected for just over like a thousand yards rushing.

500 yards receiving. That gets into my top 10 with seven touchdowns total between rushing and receiving. So I just think there are so few true workhorsebacks. He's one of them. The offensive line, the quarterback situation, as bad as it could get last year, yet Lev still was okay.

I'm feeling positive towards Lev Bell. I do understand what you're saying. I totally get that. I don't feel the same way. In fact, yesterday Adam Gase came out and said a bunch of really good things, you know, that were... What do you say? The headlines were, you know, I'm going to use Love Bell much more effectively. You know, Lev Bell's in great shape. He slimmed down. Yeah, that was another piece. He's lost a little bit of weight. But it's one of those things where when I

watch that speech, that conversation that Adam Gase was having. I'm like, wait a minute. He's talking about how he used him incorrectly, tried to force him the ball in the beginning of last year, and he said he's 28 now. We've got to make sure he plays all 16. And I'm going to use it more effectively. To me, this says less volume, left, right, and center. Now, I agree with you. He's still a workhorse back. He's still going to get.

the vast majority of volume, but that made concerns for me. I almost moved him down, but I think I've got him at a spot that I actually like him. I still have him having about 20 fewer carries than last season. So I'm neutral. Leave it to Adam Gase to say, we got to spell our 28-year-old with a man who could file for AARP retirement right now. We got to spell him with Frank Gore. What are you doing?

Uh, here's this freaking guy, man. The player that... He's got quite the beard now, too. Oh, does he? Frank Gore? No. Oh, dude. Oh, I was like, that'd be... Adam Gaze's beard. Oh, man. I don't want to see Adam Gaze's beard. I want to see Frank Gore's beard. Yeah. It'd be awesome. It'll be a cool beard. He's, uh, he's in disguise. He's taking a vacation from himself. Who have you been changing on Jason? Uh, I've been changing on Todd Gurley, and this started...

This started on the fire and ice episode. Oh, my bad. Yes, it was it was due to you bringing up the total routes run and realizing that it wasn't, you know, there's a lot being made right now of, you know, last year the Rams did not throw to the running back. They were, you know, lowest in the league at the percentage of throws to the running back.

But that insinuates that was by design, and it wasn't because the routes run were up near the top of the league. They had the running backs going out. They had Gurley going out to catch passes. He wasn't getting the ball. So you question was it him? And now with the reports coming out of Atlanta that early, you know, when they saw Todd Gurley, he was walking with a noticeable limp, that they're looking at maybe limiting his workload. And you question.

Is there something wrong? Was there last year with Gurley himself? Is it going to carry over? Are they going to limit his touches? My hope coming into the offseason was, look, this is a one-year deal for a coach that has to win or he is out. Give it to Gurley. Keep him on the field. I don't care about his health or even getting to 16 because I need to win the next game now. And that was kind of my belief. And now I'm second guessing that and questioning.

Todd Gurley's ability. So he's someone that I've certainly been cooling on. Yeah, the thing with Todd Gurley is like, okay, when you're evaluating a fantasy player, what can go right and weigh it against what can go wrong? Like, if it goes right for Todd Gurley, he's not Los Angeles Rams, Todd Gurley. He's the running back 12. He's like, yeah, he's like Freeman last year, where Freeman still had a production. You weren't really pleased with it for fantasy purposes. So I'm.

Yeah, I'm with you. I am out. I'm out on Todd Gurley. I haven't, it's hard to really locate someone for me who I'm really changing on. I'm still waiting for the, you know, more reports to come in. The things that are kind of filtering out right now, I'm sure we'll talk about it, but Josh Jacobs is like 60 receptions. Now, okay, it's coming from the player. You know, we always have to temper those things.

I like when a player is driving his own hype train. That's very fun. I'm driving. He's on board with me, though. Co-piloting? Yeah. I told him to get the word out. When I'm changing, it's because I'm going back and forth in my head every single day. I have no idea what to do with Joe Mixing. Delanted running back. We saw it. And now you have the coaching staff coming out saying, well,

We see him as a volume running back. That means we have to get him the ball more, which is what they did in the second half of the season. They found that the more he touches the ball, the better their team is. Then they're talking about, well, we got to get Joe Mix and more involved in the passing game, which that's when you take a running back and you put the turbo boost on their fantasy production. But I don't.

quite trust the team. And then you've got a rookie quarterback. So when I'm changing, I'm literally going back and forth every single day on Joe Mixon, not knowing what to do, especially with his ADP. You know, you have to draft Joe Mixon, what, in the early second round or so to get him. And then your opportunity cost is I'm taking Joe Mixon instead of taking Kenyon Drake instead of taking Miles Sanders. So that's where I am. It's not, I haven't been pushed.

a direction where I am going to stick yet, but I am just waffling. You're waving in the wind. If I could go Jacobs Mixing, because you can, right? I mean, that works out. If I, if I'm drafting towards the back of the first round and I get to go Jacobs Mixing, it would be a dream come. I think it would be more likely to happen as Mixen Jacobs. I see Jacobs in the second more than, more than mixing. But, yeah, you could very easily walk away with that combination.

Yeah, the Bengals are going to be one of the more interesting teams in football overall because I like their potential on offense regardless of being, you know, a young rookie quarterback and a younger head coach. I think this is, I mean, last year we experienced the transformation. ADP right now for Jacobs and Mixins the same. Oh, my. One-11. But you saw this in Arizona with Cliff Kingsbury and the offense.

starting to figure it out with a young quarterback over the course of the year and it meant really good things for his value. And I think Joe Burroughs good. And I think getting AJ Greenback makes any quarterback better. And Joe Mixen is just a, he's a war course. I mean, he does get, if you watch the games last year, he does get better over the course of the game. He just wears you down. And he runs, he runs harder in the third and fourth quarter, even when they were down. That was the crazy thing about the end of last year.

Their season was over. They were in the running for the number one overall pick, and third and fourth quarter Joe Mixon was playing as if it was the Super Bowl. That's one of the things I really like about him on the field. He just never takes the playoff compared to maybe, I don't know, love Bill. All right, Twitter. How dare you? The guy that I'm like higher on now.

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