Fantasy Files: Can Justin Jefferson and Adam Thielen both function as WR1s?
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🗓️ 11 July 2021
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
Host Ian Hartitz breaks down the fantasy stock of both Justin Jefferson and Adam Thielen ahead of 2021. The Vikings didn't exactly achieve their goals in 2020 from a wins and losses perspective; just realize this offense was still as elite as they come. This was thanks in large part to Justin Jefferson emerging as a great replacement for Stefon Diggs. Jefferson was great as a rookie, but he was a great receiver period, regardless of year. Thielen also deserves plenty of credit for catching 14 (!!!) touchdowns last season, although father time is approaching. Ian concludes the podcast with Jefferson and Thielen's specific ranks.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to PFF Fancy football podcast. I'm your host, Dean Hardickson. Today we continue our fantasy |
| 0:13.7 | finals series with a look Justin Jefferson, Adam Dillon's Minnesota Vikings passing game. Hope you |
| 0:19.1 | have all had a good start in the July. But we got far more of these continue only about a month |
| 0:25.0 | now until preseason football. I can't wait fantasy drafts if you have to do a bestball should be |
| 0:29.7 | getting started again soon. Great, great day, great time to be great everyone. So with that said, |
| 0:34.8 | let's focus on the Vikings passing game because last year I understand, you know, we didn't get |
| 0:39.7 | the playoffs success that a lot of Vikings fans are hoping for, but that was not because of this |
| 0:44.2 | offense. They ranked 11th and scoring and they scored 26.9 points for game at least 26 points |
| 0:50.3 | in all before games last year. The problem was the defense. Only the Raiders had the same margin |
| 0:56.9 | between points for game rank and points for game of loud rank than the Vikings last season. |
| 1:01.9 | Like Mike Zimmer before the year, basically said, I'm never coached of bad defense. I don't |
| 1:06.3 | plan on coaching a bad defense here in 2020. Unfortunately, Mike Zimmer can no longer say that |
| 1:11.2 | because the league's raining 29th rank scoring defense was anybody's idea of a fairly awful defense |
| 1:17.9 | last season, but I just don't think people necessarily realize how good the Vikings were. They sent |
| 1:23.3 | stuff on Dicks to Buffalo. On any other like trade, they'd probably be considered the giant losers of |
| 1:29.9 | that because of how freaking good digs was with the bills last year, but because of how damn good |
| 1:34.9 | Justin Jefferson is in his own right. We're actually looking at a trade where I think both teams |
| 1:39.5 | got better and got what they wanted. So you throw in the presence of Dalvin Cook and again, this was a |
| 1:44.0 | lethal offense. Everybody last year in terms of EPA per run or pass play, which just expected points |
| 1:50.9 | added per play. It's a good way to kind of get everything's down to points, which matter most |
| 1:56.0 | in a football. And then also just keeping in mind, you know, what was expected that like how much |
| 2:00.7 | did this play help your chances of winning the game? And with that in mind, you know, I got a |
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