Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - The TRUTH: Top 10 Fantasy WRs + Phony Finishes - Fantasy Football Podcast for 1/29

Episode Date: January 29, 2026

Fantasy Football show for Jan 29, 2026. The TRUTH series continues! A deep dive look at the top wide receivers from the 2025 fantasy football season! Consistency ranks, week-winning performances, and ...tons more. Plus, the latest NFL News including some important coaching hires. Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast.Connect with the show:Subscribe on YouTubeVisit us on the WebSupport the ShowFollow on XFollow on InstagramJoin our Discord Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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Starting point is 00:00:06 to the fantasy footballers podcast with your host, Andy Holloway, Jason Moore, and Mike Wright. Oh, welcome in. Thursday, January 29th. Welcome into the fantasy footballers podcast. Mike Wright is here. Jason Moore is here. The deucer's up to some funny business? Yeah, the deuces are up to something.
Starting point is 00:00:54 We were just, Matt asked me to turn his headphones down. That was it. Oh, is that all it was? Yeah. I see, I never know what to expect from you guys. Never know when a gag or a goof is just on the way. You don't know what happened is like, I think yesterday in the office as we were sitting there and Jason was signing cards for the rest of his natural life. Hand is so sore.
Starting point is 00:01:15 Sold out, by the way. Thank you. Thank you very much for the support. That was very fast and excited to get them in your hands out of Jason's hands. But Jason walked over. In the next year. And he like said something to Owl. like real quiet and maybe it was related to wheel of shame.
Starting point is 00:01:31 Is that what it was? That's what it was. See, I didn't know if it was some plot. At any moment, somebody could elect themselves into the Ballers Hall of Fame, Ring of Honor, whatever it is. That kid, there is a very thorough process. It just doesn't seem like. I just have completed it twice.
Starting point is 00:01:47 Right. No, Mike has completed the thorough process two times. Welcome into the show. Guess nothing weird is going on. January 29th, we have the truth about the wide receiver position on today's show. We got news. more news, more coaching news to talk about. A lot of fun stuff.
Starting point is 00:02:02 And we'll sneak into an abridged version of fantasy faceoff. Share some early thoughts on the Super Bowl. There's a lot going on. If you don't remember, Super Bowl Sunday is the day in which the UDK pre-orders go live. And there will be stuff to access immediately in the Dynasty Pass. The Ultimate Draft Kit pre-order day, always Super Bowl Sunday. I'm pretty sure they remember that. I mean, if you don't remember, there's also football on that day.
Starting point is 00:02:32 Yeah. But Super Bowl Sunday is really for the UDK pre-orders, the Dynasty Pass first drop, all of that. But also, the Seahawks will be playing against the Patriots later that day. Yeah, they just picked two random teams from the preseason time, and it was these two teams, and then they ended up in the Super Bowl. So the scouting has begun for the Dynasty Pass. And not just for that, but, you know, to know the rookies and all these things. Guys, I mean. You already got some favorites?
Starting point is 00:03:04 I've already got. I got a guy who I think, I'm like, oh. You already got a nasty boy? This is a third rounder and I'm going to be all about it. Third round is not too far back. I'm sorry, no, day three. Oh, big difference. No, third rounder is incredible.
Starting point is 00:03:17 I love a third round running back. That's not nasty enough. No, this is. Running back? Yes. Okay. And I'm pretty excited. I don't want to get ahead of it because I don't want to tamper any.
Starting point is 00:03:27 opinions that you have not formed on these players. Sure. Yeah, no, we're forming them. But I can't wait to find out who Mike will select to be probably on a Hall of Fame trajectory at this point. If not, for all of his injuries. That's his type. Yes. They burn hot, man.
Starting point is 00:03:48 Too hot for them muscles. And ligaments and meat, as Jason would say. Ten days until the Super Bowl and the UDK pre-orders. A reminder, you can watch the show. dot com slash the fantasy footballers click the bell you'll be alerted to all of our newest episodes we appreciate it all your comments we do read through them um some are just plain crazy just some crazy stuff y'all say but most of them are pretty cool uh Spotify leave us a five-star review apple as well and the communities over at join thefoot dot com we'll kick it off with some news
Starting point is 00:04:22 news and notes from around the league where do you guys want to start you want to start you want to start We can start with Arthur. We'll start with the catch up. It was older. Yeah, we should have brought it up on Tuesday. But, you know, I think it was just relief. We could finally put it out of our heads. Arthur Smith is.
Starting point is 00:04:43 It's not really. He's going to college. It's not fully NFL news. It's NFL adjacent. So you're kind of. He's gone, everyone. Arthur Smith can no longer hurt your primary running back in your primary wide receiver.
Starting point is 00:04:57 Did you hear the news next to it, though? What? What? They gave Johnny Smith another year of eligibility. Oh, yeah. He's going to Ohio State. Actually, on the Dynasty podcast today, Betts brought up this great point because we're talking about rookies.
Starting point is 00:05:13 We're looking at an overview of the rookies that are coming in this year. We realize, you know, wide receiver you, Ohio State, like, Jeremiah Smith is the next JSN. He's the guy that years ahead while all these great wide receivers are coming out, Jeremiah Smith is like wait until he hits the NFL. He's actually the best one amongst them. But that's now the number one wide receiver for Arthur Smith. So when he has a bad, when he has a down season at Ohio State this year,
Starting point is 00:05:47 just know it's Arthur's fault and buy the dip. Okay. So someone to blame when we don't have another great player. Yeah, so Arthur Smith leaving the NFL. Steelers, former offensive coordinator, Falcons, head coach. See you later. Heading to Ohio State. We also got news. More teams found their head coach.
Starting point is 00:06:09 The Bills decided to go with Joe Brady, their offensive coordinator. He will call plays for the Bills. He had been calling plays for the Bills. What a change they needed. I mean, this one just, it doesn't make sense to me. I think we were kind of debating it in the office, and you had a good counterpoint, but my thought process is this is a team with a Superman quarterback, right?
Starting point is 00:06:33 Josh Allen has single-handedly made this team good every year. And while obviously the coaching staff plays along, they've hit a wall that they can't get over. That's why they fired Sean McDermott. But then they just were like, we need change. But let's keep it exactly the same. Let's keep our offensive guy that we had. Like this was an opportunity, in my opinion, to go out and get, like, this was one of the most desirable jobs.
Starting point is 00:07:02 You could go and get someone that could take Josh Allen and not have Josh Allen carry the offensive mind, but have an offensive mind come in here and get the most out of Josh Allen. So I don't know. You can make the argument that Andy made, which is the problem had been their defense. Yeah, the offense was kind of cruising. This is good for James Cook from a schematic standpoint. point. It's really good for James Cutt. It's not as good for
Starting point is 00:07:29 Alan from consistency, but not necessarily like if you want to see them go back to the Stefan Diggs days. And I mean, they were the number one running team. They had the leagues leading Russia and James Cook. They'll probably do a lot of the same things. But they grew tired of the kind of, you know,
Starting point is 00:07:46 clearly McDermott had a problem with Bean about personnel. McDermott's a defensive minded head coach who really wasn't given a full deck of cards to go out and, you know, play the best defensive football he could play. He complained about it. It is a little weird. It feels a little bit more personal than it feels like strategic, I think, in some regards.
Starting point is 00:08:08 And we'll see what happens. I mean, I do feel like there were probably outcomes that would have been a little more unpredictable for us in fantasy than Joe Brady saying. Certainly. From a fantasy football standpoint now, it's predictable. We know that they're going to run the same offense and all of that. we don't have to worry about wholesale change here. So from that standpoint, it's good. But we would have been bullish on Josh Allen, no matter who they brought it.
Starting point is 00:08:33 Yeah, part of it was Brady leaving, too. There was the potential for Brady as a head coaching candidate and candidate for other jobs. I just like, I like, I don't ever trust good OCs with Hall of Fame quarterbacks. I just don't trust them. That brings me to my point. So friend of the show, Pat Thorman tweeted this out. He was highlighting that since Joe Brady has started coaching on the offensive side. His teams have ranked in points. Okay, ready? Fourth, third, first.
Starting point is 00:08:59 Awesome, awesome. Awesome. 24th, 29th. Not good. Second, fourth, third, and fifth. Awesome, awesome, awesome. Now, in that timeline, I'm going to see if you could spot where things may have gone right. So his quarterbacks in that time. Drew Brees. Uh, Joe Burrow at LSU with Jamar and Justin. Josh Allen. And then there's a year with Teddy Bridgewater and the year was Sam Darnold in there. Yeah. It's like what do you look,
Starting point is 00:09:27 I don't know what you do with that information because we know this. Like head coaches who have, I mean, we will, we can walk into another piece of, of news here as,
Starting point is 00:09:37 uh, the greatest head coach of all time. Oh my goodness. Is, is not a first ballot hall of famer. Um, for whatever reason, but it would be addicted in nature.
Starting point is 00:09:50 Talk of Bill Belichick. And some, Some things have been brought up, but like people are like, one of the arguments is, well, Tom Brady made Bill Belichick. Because Tom Brady left and he won a Super Bowl. Bill Belichick, without Tom Brady, not a good head coach for the New England Patriots. Or before Brady and it was okay in Cleveland. But it's so the point is like, what do you do with guys like Joe Brady where they have, you have, you have elite offensive numbers when you have an elite quarterback? But also you have elite offensive numbers when you have an elite.
Starting point is 00:10:23 quarterback which he has. So it's just hard to know what's corollary. There's so many moving pieces and that's what I mean like how much credit should Joe Brady get? The same amount that every single coach always gets when your team wins. It's just what it is. It's a mask for all of it. This is where like a Mike McDaniel would have made me excited. Like he he got a lot out of first. He got a lot out of Tua. You know what I mean? And I love guys that can schematically overcome poor quarterback play. or average quarterback play and get the most out of them. And I just wanted to see that with Josh Allen.
Starting point is 00:11:00 That would have been cool. Todd Monkin is the new head coach of the Cleveland Browns. This was the Ravens Offensive Coordinator. And it also is a bummer in the sense that we thought maybe this job would go to somebody else. And Todd Monkin would join Harbaugh in New York. That would have made me feel pretty excited about Dart and Scataboo and Neighbors, not that they can't replace it. We have the list of coaches, which we will have.
Starting point is 00:11:23 Greg Roman coming there? We will have a full list or a full episode where we're going to talk about head coaches and the impact that they have. But we have a list of over the last 25 years. We have seven first-time head coaches who were 55 or older when they got their first gig. It's not good. I mean, shocking stuff. It's not shocking to me of I think.
Starting point is 00:11:50 Arian's had to have been one of them. there's no way Bruce Arias was like the oldest first time head coach so like for the most part it is just not good of these guys who've never been able to work their way up to the top of the ladder at that age to me is like no I'm cool with Todd Monkin calling an offense I don't know about him being a head coach well I'm fine with it you know it's not going to work it's just like whoever the cardinal sign it's not going to work it doesn't it doesn't work at those franchise I would love to see this has seven first time head coaches over the last 25 years who were 55 or older. How would you give me the seven last first time head coaches of the Cleveland Browns?
Starting point is 00:12:29 And their average wins on a yearly basis. There's also that. Look, you didn't have an offense. You do have a defense. I mean, Stefanski had some success there. Did you see the reports? So they basically, the Browns have a great defense. And they've got Jim Schwartz under contract as their defensive coordinator.
Starting point is 00:12:48 And apparently, we kept hearing all these coaches are. pulling out of the Browns head coaching search because the Browns were adamant that Jim Schwartz is your DC and then yes and so people were like I don't want to bring my own person in there yeah no we need Jim Schwartz here but Monkin is like okay and then as soon as they hire him Schwartz is like I am pissed that I'm not the head coach I'm out of here yeah it's the most it's the most Browns hire ever oh man cardinals still looking they're interviewing Clint Kubiak for a second time. They've interviewed Mike LaFleur two times, and we'll see.
Starting point is 00:13:27 Any Coupiac, any LaFleur. Cardinals are the last team without a head coach? No, Raiders. Raiders. Yeah, two left. But I actually have some hope as an Arizona fan that they're going to get either Kubiak or LaFleur. I do too. I think LaFleur makes a lot of sense. It feels like the winds are blowing them.
Starting point is 00:13:46 It does feel like the wind are blowing the way. I agree. I think he is. Yeah, I don't care. I just want one of those. last names. LaFleur is he could be good but it's all McVeigh, right, that calls the offense there in Los Angeles, whereas Kubiak is the manufacturer of everything good that's happened in Seattle because their head coach is a defensive-minded guy. LaFleur did call the offense in his previous spot and then came to work under McVeigh, which is not a not too bad a path. I'm happy with either of them. Again, like I just said, sometimes when
Starting point is 00:14:16 franchises are kind of rotten from the top, it doesn't usually matter. You need to really strike gold for that to matter. And that's what I'm saying about Monkin and the Browns. It's like, okay, whatever. They're still going to be the Browns. You're still going to be mismanaged and misorganized. And then what's going on with the Jets is hysterical to me.
Starting point is 00:14:36 It is so outrageously funny. It is so, I mean, the Browns are going to brown and the Jets are going to jet because Aaron Glenn has fired everyone. Everyone. I mean, you're standing there like Wilson. Your linebacker coach, gone. You're wide receiver.
Starting point is 00:14:52 He's getting to the bottom of it, man. You're an O.C., you're D.C. You're just, just, man, what terrible hires. Everyone here stinks for me. Getting rid of bedbugs. Didn't you just hire all these people? And now guess who's going to hire the next set? Eric Glenn.
Starting point is 00:15:08 But it's going to get it right this time. Oh, it's going to be so much harder this time. Who would want that job? I mean, you're, I know Gruden doesn't. They're trying to go to Gruden. You're literally going into a job where you guarantee you're fired next year. I feel like you're going into a job where you guarantee that you have a shot to be an interim head coach. Okay, that's fair.
Starting point is 00:15:28 That's the sell. That would be for me. But is that the sell from Aaron Glenn? It's like, guys, I'm not going to make it through next year. You got a chance. Now, you're right in the fact that the odds are with the fact that that staff would all be gone with Aaron Glenn. Yeah. So you don't get the pick up the litter.
Starting point is 00:15:49 It's going to be. Because it's going to be all people that move from passing. game coordinator to OC and, you know, defensive backs goes to DC. That's what he's got to find. The Titans, this is kind of interesting. They're hiring Brian Daibel to be their offensive coordinator. I think this is still contingent on Daibel not getting a head coaching job, which could come in Las Vegas. There's been a lot of contingents. I mean, it's the smartest way to do it ever. I mean, it's how you lock a Mike McDaniel in there. And I mean, let these guys, rather than wait to see what's going to happen, negotiate a set deal for them, and then,
Starting point is 00:16:22 let them go out and see if they get the head coaching job. But what do you do if they get the head coaching job? Well, then you've got to hire somebody else. But I mean, you're going to be now. It's double contingent. It's if this, then that. It's if McDaniel gets a head coaching job, you're my O.C. I'm fourth on the list, guys.
Starting point is 00:16:39 I just need these three guys to get a head coach job. Cam Ward. I mean, Cam Ward, it's nice. It looked better at the end of the year. Yes. Brian Dayball is an offensive mind that, you know, I have some confidence that you know what he did for Jackson Dart
Starting point is 00:16:55 to begin his career was positive the right direction I think Sala and Dables a good one two punch I think yeah and the Jets officially like you said they're fired their OC to complete the set of firings the Broncos fired their OC I of course
Starting point is 00:17:11 they did because you know Sean Peyton you should have helped me in the snow with that backup should have called the better plan To be fair, all season, we were saying the issue with the Broncos was their offense. Their defense was great. And Sean Peyton's calling the place.
Starting point is 00:17:30 So you're going to blame the other guy. Well, he's not going to blame himself. You should have told me to call a better play. It's so Sean Peyton. And then Bill Belichick is not a first ballot hall of famer. Unbelievable. And the, oh man, this is so wild that he's not a first ballot hallfammer. Don't worry, guys. Pollian is getting in?
Starting point is 00:17:49 Yeah, Bill. No, yeah, I mean, they debated all the rumors. Why? They were. Have you seen? What are we doing here? I mean, you don't think SpyGate should have an impact? No, it already did.
Starting point is 00:18:01 Yeah, I mean. Well, I mean, it had an impact on his career. Yeah, but I'm just playing devil's advocate here because, you know, this is like steroid era in baseball to a degree where like, yeah, some of these guys got in, but they don't get to be first ballot hall of famers when you cheat. There was an article. So, I think it was the, the famous Miami. dolphins beat writer. Oh man, they're going to all think I'm like super anti-patriots by being
Starting point is 00:18:22 devil's advocate. I'm realizing what's coming in the comments, but I'm just asking the question because obviously 10 people decided that that was the case. Yeah, so it's so funny. If you, if you haven't been like plugged in here and reading the articles and it's seeing all the tweets from player Jimmy Johnson, that dude's pissed. He is he is dropping expletives online. And so the, the, the presentation was made. for Bill Belichick and in that room it is rumored that Bill Pollian basically you know said that this was an issue and for a spy gate you shouldn't be able to get it and then Bill Pollian has come out and said he didn't unequivocally that is not what happened and he said he voted for Bill Belichick
Starting point is 00:19:08 no he said that and then he said later I can't remember if I did or did not other people who were in that room my guy very confidently saying this dude was The reason. If you can't remember. I was shocked to learn Bill didn't get in polling and said he deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. Yeah. Well, he'll be there, just not first ballot. That's the quote was.
Starting point is 00:19:29 You cannot remember if you voted for Bill Belichick to be in the Hall of Fame or not, you should not be voting. This isn't the, this isn't the excuse you think it is. Like, done. You don't get to vote anymore. If you can't remember who you voted for? Yeah. Like you, what? Are you serious?
Starting point is 00:19:47 He remembers. He remembers. But it's, it's bad. right now to say that. But even after SpyGate, if you just look at after that. Remember when the Colts were pumping in noise into their stadium? Yeah. Well, Bill Pollyne was working there. So many coaches, Jimmy Johnson and Bill Cowher, they've come out and said like Spigate, everybody was trying to do what they did. Everyone was trying to steal signs. Like they got caught and they got punished. But after SpyGate, he won three Super Bowls. Right. Won like more games than John Man.
Starting point is 00:20:12 It was like his resume, if you go only after SpyGate, it was better than most coaches all time. insane. I will say Jason though, with this, I do have more doubts that Mike Evans will get in on his first ballot. Yeah, I wanted to know how you felt about first ballot. If the coach with the most super bowls of all time can't get in the first time, I don't know if Mike Evans could do it. It'll depend if he's dating a 20 year old at the time. The cool part, I did see, I wondered if that. I genuinely was like, are people just like upset because it's like, you know, the vibes. The reputation. is not what it once was. There were 10 guys in that room. They tried to send the same DMs and only Bill got the reply. You know, what's funny is, so I've seen a bunch
Starting point is 00:20:55 of clips from his coaching since this news has come out. And the famous play on the Super Bowl where they... Malcolm Butler. Yes, the interception against Seahawks when they should have given him Marshawn lunch. And I saw a clip I had never seen before of, because it's
Starting point is 00:21:11 pretty crazy that he didn't call time out there. In that situation on the goal line, the Patriots were down. They needed to get the ball back and score and the clock was about to run out. Two timeouts left. Pete Carroll really bailed him out. And he didn't call the timeout, but there is a clip if you have not seen it, where all the coaches, they all are talking about this and they clip up all the moments, all the players, all the coaching staff.
Starting point is 00:21:33 You want to talk about unfathomable brilliance in coaching and his choice to not call that. Where the clips are them saying call time out, call time out? People are saying, do you want a time out? And he's so intently watching. and he's seeing that the Seahawks are having struggle and they're kind of unsure what they're doing right now and their personnel and then all the coaching. I'll find it, I'll share it online.
Starting point is 00:21:56 It was like, this isn't just Tom Brady. That dude was brilliant. And then, you know, he'll be a second ballot all. All right, we'll take a break and come back with the truth of the wide receiver position. You want answers? I think I'm entitled. You want answers.
Starting point is 00:22:21 I want the truth. You can't handle the truth. This is my last thing is, why even have a first ballot. Why? Why? Don't do it. Well, I mean, I don't think they're doing it or not doing it, right? It's just of like, if
Starting point is 00:22:39 he can't get it on the first one, then just don't even talk about it. Just be like, hey, you're eligible. You were a finalist. We'll see you next year. We are into the truth of the top 10 wide receivers. We've done this with the quarterback position so far, the running back position.
Starting point is 00:22:56 Little overview at the top. Wide receiver scoring was down across the board in 2025. Second fewest total receptions and receiving yards by wide receivers over the last decade. I mean, we talked about the power of the running back this year, right? So I'll be curious how in draft season, if you have some, you know, what the swing is. Because I think it's very justifiable to go running back to start your draft. But I think this year in particular, I think Jamar Chase and Pooka and Nakua belong in the, one-on-one conversation personally.
Starting point is 00:23:31 Whereas I don't know if we've had multiples in that conversation at wide receiver lately, but those two guys, to me, I'm not going to argue with anybody, even if they want to take them over Bejohn, right? Like if you didn't feel, I mean, you do have a new head coach, offensive coordinator in Atlanta. No JSN in there? I had J-S-N too, sure. Jason and Puka were really well-matched. No, no, that's very fair.
Starting point is 00:23:53 I think all those guys, obviously, if a staffer doesn't come back or something. No Zay Flowers? No Zay flower. Hey, why you got to do this? We got to. I was that a good year. Yeah, okay. You want to guess how many receiving touchdowns we had this year versus last year in terms of the differential?
Starting point is 00:24:10 Oh, wow. I do not know. Do you know this number? I have no idea. I know it was down. It is down. 67 fewer touchdowns. Wow.
Starting point is 00:24:19 By wide receivers in 2025. So, for example, we had 10 wide receivers with eight or more touchdowns this year. we had 17 last year with eight or more touchdowns. This year's leader was Devante Adams. You only had four other double digits. It's Alman Ra, Higgins, Puka, and JASN. And then good old Olivae, Pickens, Juan Jennings, Jamar Chase, and Quentin Johnston are the others with eight or more.
Starting point is 00:24:44 What was that last one? Quentin Johnston. Quentin Johnston. Making sure people are hearing that name. I didn't hear Zay Flowers, though. Well, we'll talk about him on today's episode. Oh, my gosh. on today's top 10 episode.
Starting point is 00:24:58 Zayflowers is a champ. A league of record champ. A league of record. I was like he didn't make the playoffs. No. But yes. He was more, was it your Melvin Gordon and the Chiefs? Is that who he was? Well, how so? I just remember when Melvin Gordon was waving his Chiefs ring around?
Starting point is 00:25:15 Like Melvin Gordon's a Super Bowl champ with the Chiefs. Yes, I understand that. And you probably didn't remember that he was ever on the Chiefs. All right. Number one overall, Pooka Nakua, 24 years old. Number one at the wider seat. position. Number one, inconsistency. We take a look at the consistency of every player. That's what the truth is built on. It's not just where they finished in fantasy. It's how consistent were they week to week for your team? We look at their entire game log. We break it down into great games of 20
Starting point is 00:25:41 or more points for wide receivers, good games of 12 and a half or more, and bust games fewer than seven points. Puka, we know the story, but the numbers tell you 38% great, 81% good, 6% bust games for Puka Nakua. That number's down from 18% last year. Machine-like. He is, you look at his career and has one of the best rookie seasons literally all time and was so good top 10 in our consistency rank metric. And then the following season, even though he missed some games,
Starting point is 00:26:18 he was so much better than he was that rookie season, getting up to 73% of his games being good. And then this last year, even better. I mean, you can't ask for much more. He had one bust game on the entire season. He doesn't even score a ton of touchdowns. So it's possible we have not seen the best Puka. Like, if they start involving him around,
Starting point is 00:26:42 I mean, if Puka comes out one year and scores 12 touchdowns, because you know he's going to get the PPR work, I wouldn't be surprised if at the end of his career he had a 12 touchdown. season. He's fully capable. He's such a funny player. Um, and if you look at it in the isolated redraft single season, like, I just, I just feel like he's the number one pick in the draft. I really do. I feel like Puka Nakua is the number one pick in all fantasy drafts. I will see what my opinion is come, you know, June, July, August. That's how I feel right now. And now the Stafford thing, it's a ticking time bomb, right? Like, Stafford's career will be much shorter from
Starting point is 00:27:19 this point forward than Pookas will be. We will have a transition at the quarter of If McVeigh is still involved, we'll obviously be really in on Puka, but it's a one-year window, one year at a time, but 1,700 yards, 10 touchdowns, you know, stayed healthy? Man, they really need to draft a quarterback. Yes, they do. They need to have someone waiting in the wings. Do not Pittsburgh this thing. You know the end is coming for Matthew.
Starting point is 00:27:43 Yeah, yeah, well, I mean, I feel like there is a chance. The end for Matthew is the end for McVeigh. Yeah, and it kind of feels that way. It should be. It's like McVeigh's like, why prep for your time? I'm not here. Right. I want them to be as bad as possible when I leave. That way I can be a first ballot,
Starting point is 00:28:01 Hall of Finn coach. No one can be anymore. But yeah, we don't need to tell you how good Puka was really. You know it for fantasy, but the numbers you know, outstanding on a week-to-week basis. Stayed healthy. That was nice. Home road splits the same. Defensive, the same. You know, if it's top or bottom
Starting point is 00:28:19 defense. He just did the same thing. every week all the time. And it was awesome. JSN is number two. And number two in consistency. These guys were so similar. I think it's I mean, it's just a magical season from both of them.
Starting point is 00:28:35 One bust game for each guy. Basically, Puka had, I think, one better big outlier like heavy hitting score. Otherwise, JISN was just as consistent, just as regular. Never let you down. real fibrous.
Starting point is 00:28:51 I was going total Raisin Barron joking in my head, but I was like, no way Mike talks about this. Once a day. He's a regular. Every day. Have your JSN once a week and you'll always be regular. And is now in the Super Bowl.
Starting point is 00:29:05 6% bus game, 76% great, 20, or sorry, 76% good, which is a higher number. No, it's not. Pooka's an 81. Yeah, very, very similar numbers. Not a coincidence that these two guys just played each other for the right to go to the Super Bowl.
Starting point is 00:29:19 No. You know, it's like the two best wide receivers this year were getting their team there. 12 top 12 performances for JSN. Yeah. Yeah, that was awesome. Number three, Amun Ross St. Brown with a consistency rank of number five. In the first half, he was number four in consistency. He dropped off in the second half. 17th played through some injuries late in the season. We need to remember that. But 24% growth. That was up from last year. 59% good. That was right around where he was last year. The bus games went up, though. The previous two years, just 6% bus games.
Starting point is 00:29:59 This year, 24% bus games. Which is still a good number. It's still a good number, but it certainly... Hello, Drew, not what we are. The blobfish. It's certainly not what we're used to with Ammon Ra. But down the stretch, the lions had some problems. You know, their season kind of collapsed at the end.
Starting point is 00:30:19 and you saw it in the game log for Amman Ra. I'm not really that worried about it. You know, the Ben Johnson factor, him being gone, it made an impact. It really did. He was much better against bottom 16 defenses. So when things were easier for golf, obviously, they were much better for Amman Ra. Home Road splits were about the same.
Starting point is 00:30:44 The last three seasons in a row, do you realize he was the wide receiver three all three years? Yep. And this year he was drafted. at the 110. So he got the respect in the draft. That's where J.S.N stood out because it was, you know, Amon Ra went ahead of Puka, barely.
Starting point is 00:31:00 And then JASN's like a round and a half later. Yeah, the nice thing is for being, you know, not the giant 50-50 type of wide receiver, they use him around the goal line a ton. Let all wide receivers in red zone targets with 33. He had as many receiving touchdowns, inside the 20 as the Giants or Jets. Oh, as a team.
Starting point is 00:31:26 Yes. Oh. Do you, any surprise, you know, he was number 17 inconsistency in the second half. That's when, like, Leporta went down. Jameson Williams took full advantage. But somehow Amon Ra became less consistent over that time. I think that's interesting. I don't know if that's like the interior part of the field teams could focus a little bit more on
Starting point is 00:31:45 on Amon Ra without Leporta there. I mean, it could also be the fact that Jameson Rae. Miss and Williams really had a great second half of the year. And on those great games, those are drive-ending long touchdowns sometimes. And that will come at the expense of the other wide receiver. Number four, Jamar Chase. His consistency rank was number three. Like these are very corollary.
Starting point is 00:32:09 We didn't have any really surprise fantasy finishes that were, you know, crazy and consistent yet. But Jamar Chase, number five in the first half, four in the second half, the first four weeks of the year. Oh man. He was wide receiver 77, 44, and 60 in three of those four weeks, and Joe Burrow went out. It's hard to remember. And it was basically like panic in the streets. Yes. And it was a panic that I still think was, was, it was worthy.
Starting point is 00:32:37 It was appropriate. Without a trade he was doing. How do you possibly see a road out of this? Because good Lord Jake Browning in week three and four. You know who didn't get the Joe Flacco escape? match, Justin Jefferson. Right. Right?
Starting point is 00:32:52 That's the other side of the coin. You needed a Joe Flacco. Well, he got it for like two seconds with Carson Wins, sort of. Right. Where he was kind of okay. And then he's like he's gone and you didn't get that relief. I think we're realizing that there are three tiers of quarterbacks that matter for fantasy. There are the great quarterbacks.
Starting point is 00:33:11 That's awesome. You want your wide receivers to have it. When we look at these great wide receivers over the years, we talk about, oh, Larry Fitzgerald had his down years, still in his prime. but he didn't have a quarterback, Hopkins, et cetera. But it's a middle-tier quarterback with a superstar wide receiver can absolutely produce enough.
Starting point is 00:33:29 Yes. When they're hashtag bad, there's no overcoming it. And that's what Browning was. That's what the offense was. Go look at Chase Brown's numbers. And then it all turned around and you rode Flacco right into Burrow
Starting point is 00:33:43 and that ride was great. And he ends up with 185 targets, 1,400 yards. very similar numbers to last year. Same percentage of great games, basically the same good. The bus games were up because of the Browning weeks, but Jamar Chase is just,
Starting point is 00:33:59 when all the receivers in football are at their very best, Jamar Chase is the very best, is how I feel. I think that I would, if I was a general manager, he would probably be the wide receiver I would take. Like if I got my pick of every wide receiver currently in the NFL, I think it would be Chase. over Justin Jefferson, over Puka.
Starting point is 00:34:21 I feel like he's the hardest to truly stop defensively of all the other receivers. He tweeted out. So if you haven't seen the great Clint Kubiak design on that JSN touchdown in the National Championship. Yeah, he said he would have been truck sticked at the line. Exactly. He gets a little bit more focus on the defense. Not that the defense isn't trying to focus on JSN, but when you're playing against Jamar Chase, that's everything. He did have the biggest home road split of any top five wide receiver we've ever seen.
Starting point is 00:34:53 So he was 21.8 points per game at home, 9.6 on the road. Tell me those Browning games, were those at home or on the road? Yeah, okay. These are fudging the stats a little. Historical ranks through the first five years of Jamar Chase. Target's number one all time. Receptions number two behind Alman Ra, yards number two behind Jefferson. we always hear about Jefferson leading the, you know, having the record through his first five years.
Starting point is 00:35:22 And here's Chase also breaking all those other records. Tied for fourth behind Rice, Moss, and Des Bryant for receiving touchdowns through his first five years. And the highest-scoring fantasy player of all time through first five years. He's great. Now, interestingly enough, has averaged depthed target. It's dropped for five straight years. 12.9, 9.8, 9.1, 9.9, and 8.9.9. but again get the ball on his hands that was part of the recipe when flaco got there just find a way to get him the football at all times
Starting point is 00:35:51 all right we have number five my guy i mean not mine a guy a my guy the number one receiver for the dallas cowboys that would be george pickens i mean this year george pickens number five overall at number six in consistency. That consistency went from number six in the first half to 11 in the second half. I'll throw it C.D. Lamb into this analysis too at the same time, handle the Cowboys because he missed so many games that his fantasy finish
Starting point is 00:36:24 was much lower. 20th, but his consistency rank was 10. So he's actually less consistent than Pickens, even in the games he played. Lamb still had a very solid year. It really fell apart at the end, but it was solid. Yeah, aside from the missing time.
Starting point is 00:36:41 What was your takeaway from these two guys? I mean, one, do you expect Pickens back? 29% great, 53% good, 24% buck. I can't fathom a world where they let Pickens walk without franchising him. I haven't heard anything of that nature. Because there's no possible. You can't, no matter what, you have to get him under contract. Yeah, and he is going to demand a huge contract.
Starting point is 00:37:05 The next best wide receiver on the open market this year, I talked about this on the Dynasty show. It's not a good free agent class for wide receivers. What is it? Alec Pierce is the next best. Oh, is it? Yeah. There's a gap.
Starting point is 00:37:18 There's a huge gap. One can be your like, you know, Alec Pierce is not coming to be the one on a franchise. And the truth is that one of the reasons I wanted George Pickens as a my guy is because he has a perfect schematic fit for how DAC plays. DAC has not had that outside deep threat that, you know, over the last few years outside of CEDY, that he could let his very good deep ball find a home. And it was perfect for George Pickens.
Starting point is 00:37:49 So I want to see them, I want to see them, you know, run it back again next year. In those games when they were playing together, Citi was the more targeted player. But George Pickens had the more valuable targets deeper down the field. both are great. It's, yeah. I mean, I know you've got to franchise and you're, and you're going to figure it out from there, but like the cap situation,
Starting point is 00:38:14 Cowboys are... In the thick of it? Yeah, it's... They should just do whatever the Dodgers do, man. Pay Pickens like... The Dodgers thing is there's no salary cap. Well, pay Pickens all his money in like 2050. I literally thought you were wearing a Dodgers shirt. When we're talking about the Dodgers...
Starting point is 00:38:31 No, I know, of course. Why would you? You see, what I'm saying, right? The shirt that is modeled after a Dodgers shirt? Yeah, it's a fair enough. I didn't realize that that was modeled after a dog. So it's like long term teams make things happen. You know, they find ways
Starting point is 00:38:45 Yeah, the cap is fake. They find ways to figure it out. But they're going to cost him a lot of money. It's going to be difficult. Because I don't think they can afford a full contract here. If Pickens were to go on the open market, he's getting a monstrous deal. I don't think the Cowboys can afford that. Spotrakech projected his market value to be four years at one.
Starting point is 00:39:03 22.4. Yeah, I mean, he'll be probably a top, at least a top five wide receiver of all time just because of how the money moves up. So you mentioned Giovante's a free agent. Yes. Brandon Aubrey's a free agent. Oh. That's a projected 26, $27 million deal.
Starting point is 00:39:19 Yeah, you've got to pay Aubrey. And Giadian Clowny's a free agent too for them. But that one's less important. Yeah, get rid of the defense. Give me your, yeah, that worked out really well. If their defense improves, it will be a question about, you know. It'll be lame, man. CD Lamb, 7% great games.
Starting point is 00:39:36 He did not bottom. That number is insane. He had drop problems. His good game percentage was the same as Pickens. But how do you think the psychology of fantasy players will react to this season? And then going into the draft season where C.D. Lamb will be rounds ahead of George Pickens. And yet Pickens has this, you know, this is not a small sample. This wasn't all when C.D. Lamb was gone.
Starting point is 00:40:02 this was 17 weeks. Well, I mean, what do you think by rounds? Where do you project them? I mean, I imagine that C.D. Lamb is still pushing the second round, right? I think, yeah, I think maybe the first round. I don't think first. I think George will be, George will be a third round pick.
Starting point is 00:40:18 Yeah, in my estimation. Let's call it middle of the second, middle of the third. Sure, which I think that's a fair place to start them. And I think that both of them, that's fine. the if the fantasy community wants to drop C.D. Lamb into the second round, I will draft him everywhere. Yeah, me too. I'm still fully confident. Look at the year started, wide receiver 9 on the road against Philadelphia, wide receiver 11 against the Giants, and then he got hurt and like misses three.
Starting point is 00:40:48 I don't think they want to push him there, but you are not going to draft Ced Lam. I don't think you will see him draft it ahead of the, ahead of Amunrah, Puka, JSN, and Chase. Those are not happening. That's fair. Beyond that, I mean, sure. I mean, the truth is, if you look at his game log last year, he was basically on pace for 100 receptions of 1,500 yards. Awesome, awesome. And three touchdowns. Oh, right. So, I mean, the issue this last year for him and the no Bada Booms is he wasn't getting the touchdown this year. That's not the sticky stat. I'm going to look at the targets, the yards, and then project that he gets a percentage of the touchdowns, which is more in line with his career average, which will put him
Starting point is 00:41:31 pretty high up. Are you saying that his, his like yardage numbers? That was his projection without the injured games. Correct. Still at the 1300. Kyle's given us some early, for the absolute degenerates out there playing best ball already. I believe you are. Including week 18? And week three where he, the game he got injured. Oh, you took that one out? Yeah. Gotcha. So the best ball ADP. It's already going, everybody. Oh, yeah. Lamb is right now going at the seventh pick. So at least the early adopters are not penalizing CD Lamb.
Starting point is 00:42:06 And George Pickens is going like about the, just a little bit later in the second round. Lam's still 26, totally in his prime. All right, we'll take a break. We'll talk about some other names that surprised to find themselves in the top 12. Oh, baby. Yeah. Yeah, baby. We're so back.
Starting point is 00:42:33 Well, okay. Chris Olava comes in at number six. Consistency rank of eight. If you look at the first half of the year, this was not, that was not the time period in which Chris Olaville, you saw this coming. We call those the rattler years. 21st in consistency in the first half, number two in the second half. He got shook tonight. Oh, yeah, he did.
Starting point is 00:43:00 I mean, he was really, really great. you did not have, like the names beyond these top five. They're kind of wild. Olave at six. You have the disappearing act. We can talk about them because they're not going to be on the show. But like Jefferson isn't part of this conversation today. Malik neighbors expected him in this conversation.
Starting point is 00:43:20 He's not there. Ryan Thomas Jr. Thought he might be in this conversation. He's not there. Nico Collins. We'll talk about him. Chris Olave. But it's Chris Olavé.
Starting point is 00:43:31 Yeah, Tyree Kiel's done, right? Chris Olave in the Tyler Shuck games. So Tyler Shucks started starting in week nine. And then from that point on, from week nine through the rest of the season, Puka Nakua had 19.9 points per game. JSN had 17 points per game. And then Chris Olave was right behind him at 15.8. I guess technically in one game played Tori Horton is in there at 18 points.
Starting point is 00:43:57 But obviously does not count. How are you feeling, Jason? So you made a legendary footballer's move in our dynasty league. Jordan Addison off of his hot rookie year and two firsts for Chris Olavi. And last year felt pretty bad about it. Right now I'm feeling pretty good about it. You know, the truth is the big issue with Chris Olavie and it will be there forever is the concussion risk. He came out and talked about the fact that this offseason, he did consider walking away.
Starting point is 00:44:34 He had the conversations of should he stop playing football? I love that. I love that he's concerned about it, that he made it through the entire season without having a problem, and that he has a quarterback now that, I mean, part of the problem in concussions and wide receivers, I mean, if you go back and you look at the Chris Olavé concussions, I feel like several of them were basically murder balls. You know what I mean? Derek Carr throwing up these balls that Chris Olava is going to try to go get.
Starting point is 00:45:03 And he, if I'm confident that a quarterback here can protect Chris Olave and that Chris Olave is concerned with protecting himself, there's never been a doubt in my mind of talent. No, no, we've always believed in the talent. It was, it was a quarterback situation and injuries. And now you're dealing with the blood clot, right? At the end of the year, right after he's like, I'm finally going to play the entire. season. He goes out with, I think it was a blood clot.
Starting point is 00:45:29 Yes. Yeah, in his lung. And so you know, next year it'll be interesting. I don't think he's drafted anywhere near wide receiver six. No. But there'll be other players back. Like, I've not taken Olave over neighbors coming back from injury. I'm not taking him ahead of
Starting point is 00:45:45 Jefferson. I'm not. Those guys. I wonder how much people react to this. I think they'll be very aware, acutely aware, and try to steal him. And everyone will try to to steal him and he'll go higher than we give me his underdog ADP. Oh yeah. He's going 26th overall.
Starting point is 00:46:02 26 overall. Okay. Top of the third. That's expensive. That's probably where he's probably fair. Yeah, I don't know. Maybe 4th, early 4th in redraft. All things considered. He had never had a game over 20 fantasy points in his career before this year.
Starting point is 00:46:19 That is impressive. So it was special. Played much better against worse defenses. and was oh so good with Tyler Shucks. So there's a hope and a future there in New Orleans. When's rookie of the year? Is that stuff? So the finalists were announced for AP.
Starting point is 00:46:37 Yeah. For AP. And I know. When's the big reveal? Hola Ballou. I don't know the date. Is it the honors? Is it this weekend maybe? Maybe. If only we could find out.
Starting point is 00:46:46 If only we knew from every other year and could remember. February 5th, 2026 ahead of Super Bowl. So it will be NFL honors that night. So I believe Tederoa McMillan is a finalist. Yeah, it seems like Tyler Shuck and Jackson Dart. Seems like rookie of the year is Tyler Shuck or Tederoa McMillan. I believe the pro football writers of America already did theirs.
Starting point is 00:47:14 They named Tetero-McMillan their rookie of the year. And that was on January 20th. Zay Flowers comes in at number seven. Yeah, he does. I mean, this is where truth is, I mean, the truth is revealed. The truth is Zayflowers is not remotely the number seven. No, he didn't help you like that. He played all of the weeks.
Starting point is 00:47:39 He did at the end. His consistency rank was 16. It was 30th in the first half of the season. I'm looking at the game log. I would have smiled five times. you would have smiled a lot at the end. Yeah, I wouldn't have been there. I mean, you're there because you didn't have them in the beginning.
Starting point is 00:48:00 You traded for him halfway through the year. That's a good time to do it. Right. But you might not have been where you were if you had it in the first half of the year. And I do love Zayflowers. I think he is an excellent player. But I'm not doing a full cover and apology for how Zayflowers got to where he was. I mean, he did have, he was 86 for 1,200.
Starting point is 00:48:21 So that's, I mean, that's pretty. solid and then the questions are I mean like Lamar Lamar missed a good chunk of time Lamar Jackson came back and was quite bad at the game of football and and then Zay kind of overcame that at the end
Starting point is 00:48:41 so I just I wonder how you how you factor in those variables because I think they're very real and very fair but it's just how much do you weigh? Like if you were to ignore weeks five 3-8 when Lamar missed, you mean? You can't really ignore Lamar playing poorly because that was just his quarterback. I can get you the number if we take those games out, but in those games... No, I'm not necessarily looking for the numbers, just of like the overall, like the vibe,
Starting point is 00:49:07 the field. I think we're, we are years into Zayflowers, knowing that Zayflowers, despite finishing as a wide receiver one, he's a wide receiver two for fantasy. He's not bad. He's a very good player on the field, but they don't consolidate enough targets to him. Put it this way. It's not a takeover guy. Last year, he had 116 targets. That's not enough to be great on a regular basis. This year, he had 118.
Starting point is 00:49:36 Almost the same. When you look at wide receiver ones, they're usually up at 130, 140 targets or, you know, all the way up to. I mean, look at the consistency numbers. This is what the truth is about. 29% good games from the number 7 wide receiver. 29% is the lowest of any. wide receiver finishing in our top 14 in the history of the true series since 2017.
Starting point is 00:49:59 If I'm getting 29% of the games where I'm happy, Kyle was sharing a huge problem. 12.1 points per game is the lowest ever for a wide receiver finish. Wide receiver 7 finish. I mean, we opened the section with wide receiver scoring was down. Touchdowns were way down for the position. So looking at the last five years, the wide receiver 7 on average was about 14 points per game,
Starting point is 00:50:21 which is more is like a couple points of game at this level. That'll move stuff. So it's just down year. Zayflower's right place, right time. Yeah, yeah, exactly. And it's no disrespect to flowers. He has what he is. And he's always been a very valuable receiver from time to time that makes huge plays.
Starting point is 00:50:46 I don't think you ever really go into the game thinking, like, defensively, oh my gosh, like this, we got to stop Zay. Flowers today. That's all my point was. Like I don't think he, he's not one of the guys that we would ever say as a top five finisher. Who will be drafted higher next year? Zayflowers or Mecca Abuka?
Starting point is 00:51:04 Flowers. Depends on the offseason. Yeah. It depends on Evan. If Evans Godwin and McMillan are all back, then I'm baking Evans. I'm back to the bucks in that. It'll be flowers. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, if you could turn Abuka's first half in Zay Flowers
Starting point is 00:51:21 second half into one player. It would have been really strong. Would have been like Chris Olav. Devante Adams comes in at eight with a consistency rank of seven. It dropped off in the second half. He got hurt. His touchdowns were out of control. He was basically a goal line running back. He led the NFL in touchdowns despite missing three games.
Starting point is 00:51:43 He was that far ahead of everybody. He caught 60 passes? Is that correct? Yes, that is correct. So 14 of his 60 receptions were for a touchdown. His 17 game pace would be 17 touchdowns on only 72 receptions. That is. Must be weird for Cooper Cup to be like having that game against his former team. And then like now you're going to the Super Bowl and they're not.
Starting point is 00:52:08 Cooper Cup feels 12 feet tall. Yeah. Right now, guys. That had to feel so good. You know him and Stafford were best buds, man. Yeah, and Puka. I watched all the, you know, my best buds. can burn. All the post game, the immediate, you know, pads are still on going over and finding
Starting point is 00:52:25 Cooper Cup, sharing love, saying go get that title. They, you know, they love each other. Do you feel like the difference of Adams and Cup was that significant? Yes. I don't, I think it was significant for Matthew Stafford and for the ability to throw passing touchdowns. I think if, I think if it was Cooper Cup instead of Devante Adams, the Rams probably would just score more touchdowns on the ground. So I, I don't think it was like the net result for the rams wouldn't have been much different i don't personally believe it would have been that my idea the MVP story wouldn't have been there that's correct correct that's what i'm saying like this was really good for stafford um in his accumulation of i gotta give you the last two names here i know we're we're getting towards
Starting point is 00:53:05 the end of the show but say stafford like the last two years was 24 passing touchdowns and 20 and he jumped to 46 yeah no like that's devante adams i wonder what the total team touchdowns were from the last few years. Kyle, look that up. The offensive touchdowns from the Rams the last three years. They weren't number one in scoring. So it was definitely a special year. Nico Collins comes in at nine with a consistency of 11.
Starting point is 00:53:31 I feel like Nico is the, it's like Batman hiding in the shadows here. We all know Nico has the ability to be that top five. Like none of us is taking Zayflowers over Nico Collins. No. It's just it was very, you know, he got hurt, right? Week 7, I believe.
Starting point is 00:53:50 He was 7% great games. That's down three straight years now, 27%, 18%, 7%. And the good games, 53%. I'd much rather have Nico Collins than Zayflowers. I agree. As a linchpin of my fantasy team. Yeah, I agree. I think he'll definitely go ahead of him next year in the draft.
Starting point is 00:54:06 But yeah, he could have used some more help in this offense. From his quarterback? Yeah, he needs help from Stroud. from his quarterback and just, I think, having not just two rookies running around. Yeah, he was on pace for 1,600 yards and 107 receptions in the games without Stroud. Oh, and the Davis Mills games? What was he on pace for? Whatever I just said.
Starting point is 00:54:35 I'll go back. I'll go listen to the show. Yeah, it was three games. Yeah, I mean, I feel like the lack of a running game hurt this offense. I know Woody Marks eventually established himself, but like having a play action game, No Joe Mixing for the beginning of the year. You were running Nick Chubb a bunch. You're running Damien Pierce a bunch.
Starting point is 00:54:55 Nico Collins needs some time to run around down in the field. Offensive line in the running game are really going to impact what you get from him. He's probably one of those sneakier guys next year. I hope so. I just don't believe that people will be sneaked out. I think he's going to be drafted super high. You do? Yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:16 A.J. Brown or Nico? It'll be Nico over AJ. Jefferson or Nico? That one. Jefferson is the most interesting name to me. Where Jefferson goes next year. I mean, obviously we've got to find out who their quarterback is. But let's just say they're running it back with nine. You know, and they just got to go into year two and say he's going to take that, you know, that leap forward. I will not be drafting Justin Jefferson in the first round.
Starting point is 00:55:42 He was so far removed from anything relevant this year in fantasy that. But he will go probably in the first round, no matter who his quarterback is, because he's Justin Jefferson. I would take Nico over him, assuming it's McCarthy. Guys, number 10 is another lion. It's another lion's wide receiver. What? It's the second. Isaac Tesla.
Starting point is 00:56:04 It's the second my guy to make the top 10. Whoa. Was that supposed to be to slough? Because I'm now very scared for those at home. The lights all turned off, and we were electrocated. That was fun. James. Another migraine.
Starting point is 00:56:20 You want to hear a disparity of first half, second half. By the way, they no longer have the offensive coordinator. I mean, that was a one-year trial without Ben Johnson. Now they brought in a new one. Jameson Williams, still just 24 years old. Consistency of 15. Consistency in the first half was loose stool. 38.
Starting point is 00:56:40 Very liquid consistency. Zay Flowers was 30. Not regular. Jameson Williams was 38. He was basically nothing before the buy. And after the buy, he was everything. Number seven in consistency. The thing that stinks.
Starting point is 00:56:55 Better than Amun Ra. The thing that stinks a lot is that you played, where he was drafted, you played him at the beginning of the year. He was in your lineup over and over and over crushing you. And then once he got hot, it naturally took. Whoever scooped him up off of waivers was super happy.
Starting point is 00:57:14 It still took many weeks before he went. in your line. You're like, I don't trust it. Now, he did the entire second half, so he became trustworthy. Except for week 12. Sure. That was zero points. Second half consistency, 17 for Alman Ross 7 for Jameson.
Starting point is 00:57:31 Yeah. I mean, when Leporta went down and they switched the offensive play calling and Dan Campbell took over, there was a clear shift in how this offense operated. And I don't know if that means that these are bright days for Jameson Williams going forward next year, but that could very well be the case. He is so very much my Ken Walker. Because it's not about, like Mike's argument for Ken Walker is if you give him more work,
Starting point is 00:57:59 you'll get more Ken Walker. Yeah. The argument for James and William, you give him more targets. I mean, you just brought up. He turns out that he is good. He's good. So like, you just brought up the play calling change. Before they changed away from Morton, he was four and a half targets a game.
Starting point is 00:58:12 So that turned into 44 yards. after it was seven targets a game with Campbell and it was 85 yards a game. So, you know, if you target somebody more, they will score more fantasy points unless it's Emeka Abuka. And he'll just score less. But there you go. There's your top 10. And we have a lot of other names to talk about.
Starting point is 00:58:35 We do have a very brief, abridged fantasy face-off. Fantasy face-off, presented by prize picks. Well, we don't have We don't have football games. Do you guys know this? We're not putting any prize picks down on the Pro Bowl. Flag football. I mean, no should doer projections coming your way.
Starting point is 00:59:03 But we are going to reveal. I mean, the should doer jab. And then the Bill Belichick cross was like, does anything matter anymore? Right. Football. Yeah. I think we're going to reveal our three projections for our.
Starting point is 00:59:20 player pack for the Super Bowl before next week we'll put full lineups together. But I actually went Cooper Cup more than 31 and a half receiving yards. Do you guys find that to be odd or weird? He's been more involved in the playoffs, 5 for 60 against the 49ers, 4 for 36 last week. I think about Christian Gonzalez and the Patriots and I started thinking about Cooper Cup. I think Christian Gonzalez, the Patriots, the Patriots,
Starting point is 00:59:50 to take out the number one weapon and the need for... Is Gonzales guarding Ken Walker? Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Super Bowl MVP coming up. Probably. I doubt it.
Starting point is 01:00:05 For Sam Darnold. How awesome would it be? I mean, that would complete... How awesome would be? How awesome would be? The year of Mike? Full year. Yes.
Starting point is 01:00:15 Yeah. I got to go. I got to go. I got to go. things. Yeah. All right. So what's your what's your projection? I actually really really like mine. Well, that's good. It's yours.
Starting point is 01:00:27 Yeah. It's Drake May. I'm a beautiful person. Who? Did you hear the news that Drake May should play in the Super Bowl? I did hear that news. I also heard the news from Vrabel saying no one is, no one was injured in the playoffs or whatever.
Starting point is 01:00:44 Everyone's, I know. It was like everyone's fighting through things. We'll tell you what we have to tell you when it's required of us. But Jared Sidham will be starting for the New England Patriots. But Drake May's shoulder is injured. Like he is playing through a shoulder injury right now. And that's why, you know, his line, his projection at 225 and a half, this is a good defense he's playing in Seattle.
Starting point is 01:01:06 Great. Yeah, a great, a great defense with a bum's shoulder. I'm not saying they can't win because I'm taking less than 225. and a half. I mean, they just won with 86 passing yards from Drake May, but the passing yardage has, you know, the last two times we've seen him in the playoffs,
Starting point is 01:01:26 179, 86, now he's got a hurt shoulder against a great defense. They're going to, I feel like this game is going to be a coaching, a well-coached, good defense type of game. And so that to me says probably
Starting point is 01:01:42 fewer passing yards. And I've been watching this one. It has been active and moving. And Ramadre Stevenson, his projection is now down to 51.5 rushing yards. It started up at the... Taking the more? No, I am taking the less. This thing has been moving down.
Starting point is 01:02:02 So I still am okay with where it is at. That's the one I missed last week. That's why I'm the shame. Seahawks, the rush defense is stout, number one in yards per carry allowed, third in rushing yards per game allowed, fifth in EPA per round. fifth in EPA per rush. And while Ramandre has been he has been better than
Starting point is 01:02:20 Trevian Henderson in the playoffs and getting more work, the EPA on Ramandre and Henderson is actually bad. And I think that the matchup against the Seahawks, they're going to want to establish it. I just don't think they'll be able to. How good is the Rams offense?
Starting point is 01:02:38 I mean, because Seattle's defense is... Oh, we got the answer, by the way, to the touchdown. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Okay, so here is the Rams with Stafford, right? The Super Bowl year, 51 touchdowns. That's a ton. Nice.
Starting point is 01:02:51 Stafford hurt the next year. In 2023, 44 touchdowns. The next year, 37. This year, 63. Okay. Devante Adams made quite the impact. Did have a beard. Devonte Adams did have a beard.
Starting point is 01:03:06 But yeah, I mean, this is. So I'm taking the less on Ramandre. But if you're going to join me on that one, you better find a way in, because that thing is moving. Yeah. Yeah, he was 71 yards on the ground last week, but it's no game. With a jillion carries. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:03:23 Yeah. He had like, it'll depend on whether they're. This is a pro-Travion Henderson. It is not. No, this is a pro Seahawks defense. Yes,
Starting point is 01:03:31 and a, you're not going to be game scripted ahead. He had 25 carries last week. That was fantasy face off. By the way, I'm the wheel of shame for next week. Hazzah. I finally let Jason take a break.
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