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FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

Early 2018 Rankings & Sleepers + Playoff Predictions (Ep. 169)

FantasyPros - Fantasy Football Podcast

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Fantasy Sports, Sports

4.810.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2018

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

It's time for playoff football and with playoff-only leagues happening, we'll be going through each matchup and naming our favorite players to use (5:21). Of course, we're also taking a look ahead for the 2018 season as we name our top 10 players and disagree right from the start between Todd Gurley and Le'Veon Bell (18:58). And no matter how early it may be, find out who we like as our favorite sleeper candidates (42:11).

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, welcome back to the Fincy Pro's football podcast.

0:19.4

I'm Bobby Sylvester with Mike Tagliere and yes, I did lose the calm by imbet, but really

0:24.8

only because Sammy Watkins made his team so good that he didn't even get to play in week

0:29.1

17 right tags.

0:30.1

It kind of makes up for the fact that a Marikouper played what was a week 14, week 15 where

0:35.9

he played essentially, it might have been week 13.

0:38.3

He played like one snap and hurt his ankle again and then missed that entire game.

0:41.6

So it counted against me, but it's kind of payback for that.

0:44.2

I'm just happy that both of them closed out the year pretty strong.

0:47.2

I mean, Sammy Watkins, I was going through this earlier, Bobby.

0:49.8

And I wanted to mention to you at the top of the podcast, I want to tell you, Sammy Watkins,

0:53.6

here's some fun numbers for you.

0:55.3

He ranked 59th among wide receivers and targets, 63rd in receptions, 51st in yards, but

1:02.0

his eight touchdowns ranked seventh in the NFL.

1:04.5

Now, here's the funny part.

1:06.2

The funny part is that there were 12 running backs with more targets than him.

1:09.9

There were 17 with more receptions than him and then there were five running backs with

1:14.5

more yards than him, including Todd Gurley, his teammate.

1:17.8

So it's just, it's amazing what happened with Watkins, like his talent still there on

1:22.1

a per target basis, his point production was good.

1:24.8

A Marie Cooper was more volatile than we would have liked, but the rumors are coming out

1:28.5

out of Oakland that they may be cutting Michael Crabtree this off season, which would open

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