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PFF Fantasy Football Podcast

10 questions with Michael Fabiano

PFF Fantasy Football Podcast

Fantasy Football

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4.72.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2021

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Host Ian Hartitz welcomes on Sports Illustrated senior fantasy analyst Michael Fabiano to discuss recent NFL developments as well as the Divisional Round. The guys start things off by going over which landing spot would lead to the most 2021 fantasy value for free agent Allen Robinson. Ian and Michael agree that Diontae Johnson should be treated as a legit top-20 WR in 2021 fantasy drafts, but keep an eye on the potential for an unnecessarily large ADP disparity between him and Chase Claypool. Conversation continues with a look at 2021 expectations for Trevor Lawrence and the Jaguars, what to expect from the Seahawks without OC Brian Schottenheimer, and where Joe Burrow stacks up in the dynasty QB ranks. The guys next get into the divisional round. Both Ian and Michael think the Browns have a good chance of covering  and we shouldn't discount Baker Mayfield and company in DFS either. Things might not be easy for Aaron Rodgers and company, but it's going to be tough for Jared Goff to keep pace. Conversation winds down with more analysis on the Saints-Buccaneers and Ravens-Bills matchups before the guys finish things off by pondering which team would an alien be best off following and becoming a fan of for the next five years.

0:08 Intro

2:13 Dream landing spot for Allen Robinson II?

5:07 How will Diontae Johnson/Chase Claypool fare in 2021?

8:27 Year 1 expectations for Meyer/Lawrence in JAX?

12:25 Concerned about Seahawks’ offense in 2021?

15:33 How many QBs would you take ahead of Burrow?

17:36 Do the Browns have a shot at beating the Chiefs?

21:18 Can the Rams great defense stop the Packers great offense?

26:04 Will the Buccaneers finally beat the Saints?

31:40 Prediction for Baltimore/Buffalo news headlines?

33:48 Team to root for over the next 5 years?

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, welcome to PFF, Pansy football podcast. I'm your host Ian Hartitz. And today we were going to the divisional round everybody. I know your fancy football season long leagues have ended, but we still got DFS. We still got game like we still got good all fashion real life football.

0:22.2

So I want to go through everything that's on the agenda for the divisional round, but we do only have four games. I want to also touch on some of the more just league wide news that has dropped over the past week.

0:31.2

So it's very special guest is here to help me accomplish these tasks. Senior fantasy and let's just force illshade and FSWA Hall of Famer Michael Fabiano, Michael. What's going on man? Happy divisional round.

0:41.2

Yeah, man, this is like the most fun week of the post season because you've got you've got all the stud teams. You got the Browns in there. Can they can they knock off the chiefs after what happened last week and you know the Rams going into Lambo.

0:57.2

And this is this is going to be a lot of fun. I like that. I feel like the pretenders are out of hearing, you know, having the extra wild card team. We had, you know, the John Wolford matchup gone last week Taylor Henning, a Hanuki. Hey, credit them for kind of exceeding.

1:10.2

I mean, I made an argument on my fantasy Dirt Show on serious XM because I'm a Cowboys fan as you can tell. And I did not want anything to do with the playoffs. None. I'd rather have give me the 10th overall pick rather than a playoff spot where I didn't deserve it and get my ass handed to me in the first round, which I think Dallas would have inevitably had happened to them watching and played Tampa tough though.

1:34.2

That's kind of what made the entire Giants uproar makes a little sense to me the whole time. Like you guys are complaining this much just to get dealt this first round off. Here's what's going to happen.

1:42.2

They're going to end up getting a really good player at 11 overall and all the Giants parents are going to go crazy. And then I'm going to go on Twitter and be like, you guys remember earlier on when I said I'd rather have the pick than the playoff birth.

1:55.2

Yeah, okay. There you go. Literally three months ago, you have to go back for that one. But yes, at OCES side, we finally have that dumpster fire of a division out of the picture. So we will be focusing on a few other things. And this one, I prepared 10 questions for Michael myself to discuss and we will get to those right now, everybody.

2:12.2

So first off, the bears bring them back, General manager Ryan Pace and head coach Matt naggy much to the, you know, just general hatred of the entire bears public. It seems like so. No, season, no clear solution under center. Alon Robinson, today's appear to be numbered. Now again, getting away from this dumpster fire that is a Chicago bears.

2:28.2

Where would you most like to see Alon, Robinson end up in 2021 from a best case fancy football perspective. So there's a few teams, but the problem is that the teams that I'm thinking don't have quarterback situations that are set right now.

2:43.2

The cults would be a good spot, but I don't know if rivers is going to be back. Maybe it's Carson wins. The Jaguars would be a nice spot, although I don't know if you'd want to go back to do ball county Trevor Lawrence. The patriots should be in the mix, but I don't know who their quarterbacks going to be. Maybe it's going to be Jimmy Caropolo.

3:00.2

Maybe it'll be Matt Ryan, maybe something of crazy will happen. And then the jets, but I don't know what their quarterback situation is either. So when you're looking at the money, the Ravens, the dolphins are also I probably, I probably have to say that if it was right now, the most attractive, it would be Baltimore with Lamar Jackson under center.

3:19.2

Those, you know, those other teams that I mentioned could end up being in better situations in the quarterback position as we get through the offseason and ultimately be better landing spots for a rap. I just hope he's out of Chicago.

3:30.2

The poor guy, he said Blake Bortles, Nick Foles and Mitchell Trapisky, and he's still been great. You can even go back further, man, we can go back to Jacksonville. We had Bortles and Bortles Chad Henney. Hell, go back to Penn State, Matt McGuon and Christian Hackenberg. We need

3:46.2

a lot of sense to find a quarterback. Hackenberg. I hope I hope A Rob, let's all the cards fall. And then he goes wherever the hell to Sean Watson is because the Sean Watson loss of number one of my receiver in Hopkins somehow got better. I think bringing in a true alpha number one

4:01.2

and I'm going to see a lot of water seeker like a Rob will get the best out of both players. So wherever to Sean Watson goes, would be my pick. I love the Ravens call look at Josh Allen getting stuff on digs Kalamurri getting the onto Hopkins Baker getting no BJ even though that didn't work out quite as well as we wanted like

4:15.2

these young quarterbacks, a legit alpha number one wide receiver. And you know, I sent this out about hoping Lamar Jackson to get a number one. Everyone just said, oh, you know, why is not it's going to be way sees running back under center. All those mean things that we want to say about Lamar Jackson is ability to throw the ball also platter Josh Allen last year. Look at what stuff on digs there. So yeah, I don't

4:34.2

want to miss in the Ravens, you know, I think that would be almost even help Hollywood Brown as more of a number two than, you know, being pigeonhole, not number one. Yeah, because he's not a number one. He's a he could be a really good number two, but he's certainly not a number one. And then you draw away number one corners from him to that should help his value as well.

4:49.2

100% got some playmakers on that Ravens offense already, but they're missing all do what JK Dobbins. I have a I have a very creepy unhealthy man crush on Jay.

4:59.2

I have ever since he came out of college love love that kid that you know how jump cut that is for sure. All right, so some AFC North news here at Ben Rossberger's contract runs to the end of 2021.

5:10.2

Got some A plus off season coach speak from Mike Tomlin and over the past week, we said it's reasonable to assume there's a chance Ben Rossberger is going to be back certainly. Thanks a lot, Mike. That really gives us a lot of clarity on situation.

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