Fantasy Football Podcast Host and Writer | @FantasyPts | @SiriusXMFantasy | @FSWA Football Article of the Year | Syracuse Sports + Wrestling Takes
Syracuse, New York
Joined August 2018
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Being nominated by the @FSWA is a great honor. This category is loaded with brilliant writers.
Thanks to @FantasyPts, @TheHuddle, @FantasyPros, and @SKProFootball for allowing me to produce content for them this year.
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Here’s an actionable thread on what defenses we can exploit for Fantasy Football.
Using Dropback EPA and Rush EPA, I looked at what defenses are Explosion Spots, Dead Spots, Run Funnels, or Pass Funnels.
I also included Opponent Pass Rate Over Expected for context.
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OBJ has the best agent and PR team in the league.
He’s toast. Hasn’t done anything in years and yet his agent gets Insiders to tweet that he’s going to have a role.
He won’t.
Sources: The #Vikings are signing WR Odell Beckham Jr. to their practice squad.
OBJ was active for MNF vs the Bills, and Minnesota expects him to play a role the second half of the season as they make their playoff push.
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When a GOAT who has done thousands of excellent episodes says “maybe my favorite ever” it’s a must listen 🔥🔥
Maybe my favorite episode we’ve ever done.
- NFL Trade deadline reaction
- How Kirk Cousins impacts Vikings
- Keenan Allen as an outside WR
- Is fantasy football still fun?
- Why are middle aged guys not going to the bar for games?
Lots of fantasy football trade talk on the Week 11 Fantasy Points Podcast w/ @Fantasy_Guru
ESPN built and destroyed college football.
Conferences are bloated and nonsensical.
Bowl games are irrelevant.
Transfer portal ruins fan interest.
It will inevitably go to a football super league with regional divisions. Those will hopefully look like old traditional conferences that accentuate rivalries in your area. Not Oregon playing Maryland or Stanford at Boston College.
Some will get in. I’m afraid many schools get left behind and maybe that’s OK.
Maybe my favorite episode we’ve ever done.
- NFL Trade deadline reaction
- How Kirk Cousins impacts Vikings
- Keenan Allen as an outside WR
- Is fantasy football still fun?
- Why are middle aged guys not going to the bar for games?
Lots of fantasy football trade talk on the Week 11 Fantasy Points Podcast w/ @Fantasy_Guru
Week 10 Fantasy Trade targets
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The Everything Report from me and @GrahamBarfield is up, and this week only, it has NO PAYWALL!
We took a deep dive into rest-of-season schedules and covered all the important shifts from an insane slew of injuries and deadline trades. Check it out!
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Week 10 Fantasy Football Streaming Defense Article.
My FREE look at which D/ST units you should be adding off the waiver wire.
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Saying Syracuse basketball has NEVER had a point guard with the skill set of 6ft point guard - who has played 3 games - who had D1 offers from the likes of Providence, Siena, and Akron is quite the statement.
Perhaps spend the night on YouTube looking up Pearl Washington, Sherman Douglas, Tyler Ennis, Michael Carter Williams, Billy Edelin, Jonny Flynn, or even Judah Mintz.
Ryan Moesch is SU’s 6th man but somehow also the best point guard in their history.
My lord.
Bold statement.... but @Cuse_MBB has never had a point guard w the all around skills that Ryan Moesch has, he is lightning quick, exceptional ball handler, as fast as anyone on the court if not faster, he can create, phenomenal passer, can spot up & shoot jumpers from anywhere. Oh, and he's a freshman who seems poised and confident beyond his years. I'm from the Pearl & Sherman Douglas era, but Moesch seems like he can be the all time great.
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The waiver wire is calling!📞🔥
@DrakeFantasy has the top pickups to target who could make an immediate impact on your fantasy football roster. 🏈
The Colts trading everyone except Jonathan Taylor, who could've gotten the best return, is why this franchise is a dumpster fire.
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Kyle McCord starting games during the fantasy football playoffs to win people big money is why we play this crazy game.
Week 10 Fantasy Football Streaming Defense Article.
My FREE look at which D/ST units you should be adding off the waiver wire.
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Week 9 in fantasy football saw:
- Jonah Coleman takeover
- Packers lose Josh Jacobs but bombs away offense wins
- Puka Nacua injured, how badly?
- Saquon Barkley is a mascot
- Brock Purdy for MVP
- Jets hand backfield to Breece Hall
Entire Sunday broken down with @Fantasy_Guru
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Chasing a Packers RB off the waiver wire isn't the best idea. This offense is dead last in rushing yards in the NFL.
Packers run game ranks:
32nd in stuff rate (or first depending how you look at it)
31st in rushing success rate
31st in rush yards over expected
30th in runs contacted at or behind LOS
Josh Jacobs' replacement won't be very good, no matter who it is.
Josh Jacobs (finger) is set to undergo surgery this week and is expected to miss up to three weeks.
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College basketball is great because of the NCAA Tournament, and unfortunately that’s all the season has become.
Syracuse plays Cornell on a Wednesday night this month. Lower-level seats (in a 30,000-seat Dome) are $57 each.
Plus parking and concessions, that’s a few hundred dollars for a two-hour college game.
College hoops' second-biggest problem is that every game is on TV. There’s no reason to attend when I can watch at home. There’s no scarcity. No reason to get me off the couch.
Teams play a 30+ game schedule that largely doesn’t matter with rosters of kids you don’t know, and by the time you do, they leave.
I LOVE college basketball, but the game has massive issues.
This is happening everywhere. Siena is coming off a championship run, gave Syracuse fits, then drew 4,300 the next game.
Part of it is the college basketball calendar going up against football so people dont care until February.
But a lot of it is college basketball becoming more of a niche sport and with other entertainment options the crowds of 20 years ago arent coming back.
If your fantasy football team has you feeling like crap today, enjoy the best SNL skit ever to cheer ya up.
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I worked in radio ad sales in the heyday of MNF bar specials.
Bars spent thousands of $ weekly to advertise MNF specials.
Then everyone got a 60” TV in their living room.
Beer and wing prices jumped.
DWI enforcement spiked.
NFL is a TV product best enjoyed at home now.
