Awesome Stats and Player Props! (01/08 Fantasy Football Podcast)
Fantasy Football Today
CBS Sports
4.6 • 8.1K Ratings
🗓️ 8 January 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Get the best advanced stats for the Wild Card Round as SportsLine's Jacob Gibbs tells you what to expect from the Bills passing game, the Steelers WRs and Tom Brady.
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| 0:00.0 | Wild card round playoff props and stats to know right now on fantasy football today and five |
| 0:05.8 | What's going on who's ready for the NFL playoffs welcome to the show Adam Azer and Jacob Gibbs here on fantasy football today in five of podcasts |
| 0:13.5 | I get you caught up fast on the fantasy news and advice you need to know follow us and stream us on Spotify and |
| 0:20.1 | Jacob might be talking me out of Tom Brady today might be talking me into Chase Claypool |
| 0:25.2 | We will find out. Let's start though with the bills and the Colts and the Buffalo passing games gonna be another huge game for Josh Allen |
| 0:32.2 | What he got Jacob? |
| 0:33.4 | So it definitely could be but I am a little bit worried about Josh Allen in this spot |
| 0:38.3 | He's made tremendous strides in many areas in 2020. He's improved his downfield accuracy |
| 0:42.9 | He's been much better when under pressure and he's generally just not someone that I like to bet against at this point |
| 0:48.8 | But he had a pretty rough season when it comes to his ability to read zone schemes which is something we've seen from him |
| 0:54.9 | In every season to this point his career his three percent interception rate against zone is tied for 30th in the NFL |
| 1:01.0 | And his splits are up across the board and facing man coverage |
| 1:03.8 | I bring this up because the Colts used man coverage at the fifth lowest rate in the NFL |
| 1:08.4 | This doesn't just affect Allen either if you look at the bill's |
| 1:11.6 | Target distribution when facing man or zone coverage |
| 1:13.9 | It's clear that his perimeter whiteouts Stefan Diggs and John Brown specifically have faired much better against man coverage |
| 1:20.7 | Brown has been targeted on 22% of his routes |
| 1:23.1 | Versed man coverage, which is all the way down to 12.6% of our zone and his yards per route run rate drops from |
| 1:30.1 | 2.4 avers man all the way down to 1.05 for zone |
| 1:33.5 | And it's been the same thing for Stefan Diggs is 33% |
| 1:36.5 | Target per route run rate versus man coverage is the fourth highest mark in the NFL |
| 1:40.0 | But it drops all the way down to 22.5% of our zone and his yards per route run is cut in half down from |
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