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Guaranteed Human. Hello, everybody. Welcome into the Fantasy Pros football podcast. I'm Ryan Wormley, joined by Andrew Erickson and by Jake Sealy from The Athletic. We are talking NFC West takeaways. This is the final division takeaways that we are taping here, guys. We have done eight of them across the last two weeks. So if anybody has missed any of them, AFC was last week, NFC was this week. Please go check them out. YouTube, audio, wherever you get your podcast. Go check those out. We'll start with the Seahawks. The one seed in the NFC, winning this division, obviously a very, very strong division outside of the last team. Seattle coming out on top Erickson. What's your takeaway for the Seahawks this year?

This offense will be very strong division outside of the last team. Seattle coming out on top, Erickson, what's your takeaway for the Seahawks this year?

This offense will be run heavy is a terrible process analysis in any way, shape, or form,

whether it's season long, in a week-to-week basis, it just doesn't work.

And JSN is a perfect example of that because the Seattle Seahawks had the third lowest passing play rate this year. They threw the ball on just 50% of their pass plays, which was, again, bottom three in the NFL, and JASN still led the NFL in receiving yards. So anytime an analyst talks about it, and I've been guilty of this in the past, and it's something that I need to stop from doing. But like, when the minute that I go to the crutch of, well, they're going to be too run heavy. No, just to stop. Take out your earbuds and stop listening because I think that that just doesn't pan out. And JSN is a perfect example of that. Another thing too about JSN and in this special season, I know that Jake really high on him, and I'd love for Jake to share any tidbits of what kind of keyed him in on JSN this specifically for this year. If you look at last year in terms of vacated air yard share and vacated target share, Seattle ranked top two in both those categories. So we talk a lot about how targets are earned, air yards are earned, and when you get certain situations where teams have a ton of vacated targets and air yards, well, that can

lead to seasons like a JSN where he showed last year, or in 2024, that he was an elite

target earner, and he was super talented.

And then when he had even more opportunity in office where he could be the total dominant alpha that he just took off and ran with it and finished with just such a special season.

So those are a couple takeaways I have from Seattle when it comes to JSN and trying to find like what went into this really special season because he was a, I mean, he was a major difference maker where he drafted him in the third round. I mean, he was a league winner across the board. Do you think, though, Erickson, that like, like, their offense being run heavy would have maybe impacted it more if there was another receiver in the offense. Like, this was a unique scenario where it was based, like, when they were throwing, it was basically all JSN. So that was basically all JSN so that was able to mitigate

the fact that the rushing rate is high.

Do you think that that's like a fair kind of critique of this takeaway?

Yeah, I think so.

I think that it also gives credit to those that kind of go in and dig into the math a little bit

more about, well, even if they are run heavy, well, what type of target?

You have to have a whatever JSN had this year, which was definitely north of 30%. I think you had the NFL's highest target share. I'm not sure if Jake, if you know it off the top of your head, but I mean, north of 30, 33%, which is... I have it here, 35.8%. Yeah. Like, it has to be like a, like, an insane number and, and, but Jason's that good.

So. I have it here, 35.8%. Yeah, like it has to be like an insane number and but Jason's that good.

So yeah, that's what it would take though in a run heavy offense.

It can't be, oh, I have a 25% target share.

It's like no, like it has to be 35% of the team's targets, air yards, etc.

For you to really thrive in a run heavier offense.

The gap between JSN and number two, Amin-Rah, St. Brown, at 31.3% is larger than the gap

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