Showboat

Winning a Super Bowl and having one of the best rushing seasons ever puts a bit larger target on your back.

The other risk with Barkley is that teams now have an entire season of film to see how the Eagles were able to get him free. I was continually amazed at how easily he was able to roam through defenses last season. It could be that the Eagles were just more talented, but everyone is now another year older and you've got to think that teams are going target stopping Barkley. Every season is different and eventually defensives adjust to counter the latest offensive success. To assume last season's production will simply be repeated is foolish. In fantasy football, nothing is a slam dunk, so as mentioned earlier, it would be perfectly reasonable to consider taking players like Gibbs, Bijan, JJ and Chase ahead of Barkley. I think those are the consensus top 5 in most drafts. There is true value to be leveraged if any of those five somehow drop into the bottom half of the first round.

To be fair, last season he often wasn't getting touched until hitting the third level (and sometimes not even then ).

The offer is certainly reasonable, but I'll stand by my original response - acceptance by the other team depends on what they think they can get in the draft at the QB position (as well as their opinion of Mayfield). Some (and I think at one time you were one) have suggested that Mayfield is just a mediocre QB. The crystal ball question being: was last season Mayfield's career year that he will never again equal or will he be able to build upon it becoming an elite (or at least borderline elite) franchise QB from here on out.

Hmmmm. I didn't think he would be able to keep both Barkley and CMC (or Taylor). My understanding was that Barkley was being traded in some other deal and he'd be keeping CMC and some other lower cost player. My response was from the other team's perspective.

That provides a bit more info. If it is only required to start 1 RB, not sure why the other team would do the trade. They can keep a solid WR group with CMC and focus their draft on QB and RB/WR depth.

It also kind of depends on if there are escalators on keeper values. In that case, it might not be worth keeping JT more than one year. I'd rather take my chances on CMC (and his lower keeper cost) and a fairly decent set of receivers. Whether the other guy accepts the trade probably depends on his chances to draft a QB.

The Commish ought to be able to define the position(s) a player is eligible for. If he plays a few snaps/per game on D he shouldn't be allowed to be started at CB, but if snaps on offense and defense are comparble, I could see allowing him to start at either position. I would be careful relying on platform defaults because they don't always get updated in a timely manner. There have been other past players such as K.Stewart and more recently Taysom Hill who were elegible as WR or TE on many ff platforms even when they were literally their teams starting QB. Stuff like that ain't right.

Sometimes, I think it's an ego thing and the head coach is just trying to do too much. With the bloated coaching staffs these days, surely there is some BS quality control coach available to monitor time management during the game and tell the HC when to take a time out.

Maybe - but these days with all of the NIL payments a lot of the college stars have plenty of money. There used to be a prevailing school of thought in the NFL to not sign rookie contracts until just before camp becuase giving a young kid a lot of money and a whole summer of idle time was just asking for trouble.

The answer depends on knowing your league and their drafting tendencies. I'd lean towards Chase, but if your league drafts RBs early and often, go with Bijan.

Clearly Jag was talking about Travis Hunter. Who knows who Chup was referring to - possibly Derrick Henry or Travis Hunter. Given the context, the retired Travis Henry is even less likely than Hunter Henry.

Also, I'd hate to be in a league where the team with the #1 pick got to also pick up Henry at the 2-3 turn (unless I was the one with the #1 pick).

No doubt with age there is increased risk, but there has really been nothing to suggest that Henry couldn't be the #1 fantasy back this year. Getting a player that has a reasonable shot to tbe the #1 fantasy back in the last half of round 1 seems to be about the proper age discount. If he falls to round 3, that would be ridiculous value (and I can't beliave there will be many leagus where he falls past round 2).

I'd say the same thing about someone paying $20 for someone's autograph. And trust me, the extra $5M ain't coming out of the rich owner's pocket - they just increase revenues through higher prices for tickets, concessions, TV deals, stadium subsidies, etc.

Whatever the market will bear - it is the American way. Nobody was forcing those "poor kids" into the store to buy over-priced crap and autographs. Really no different from any good player with a $20M contract holding out for $25M which then just leads to more exorbitant ticket/parking/food/drink prices (not to mention more ppv games on Peacock/Prime) that fans willingly pay.

Henry has really shown no signs of slowing down, but as mentioned RBs tend to fall off the cliff abruptly. The end will come. It's really just a question of whether it's this year, next year or the one after..... Mid to late first round is probably appropriate for the risk-reward profile - any position after that would be great value.

Quite honestly. I don't think there is a lot of difference among most head coaches at the NFL level with respect to Xs and Os. Some are clearly in over their heads (and they tend to get flushed out rather quickly). Their primary job is to assemble a competent staff and set an appropriate tone for the team that facilitates success. But the fact remains that over the long-term talent will win out over coaching. Belichick was certainly a great coach, but would his strategy to play solid defense (zeroing in on the opponents best weapon) and patch with role players have been successful without Brady? When Brady moved on, so did his success (and not that he was stuck in his ways - he even tried crazy stuff like co-offensive coordinators who were not really offensive specialists). Even the great Lombardi was the beneficiary of Packers teams during the 60s that had a talent level that was head and shoulders above the competition. When the talent got old, his message turned stale and he was run out of town.

Nice - difficult to pick a favorite. My least favorite would be Dan or maybe Shovel (but should be fine if Saquon repeats). I see Hawkeye as a dark horse.

This is true, but getting the exceptions right create value and separate the champs from also-rans. I recall the year Adrian Peterson was coming back from ACL (and I think it came late the previous season - want to say December). People had him on DND lists and were avoiding him like the plague. I was not even all that high on him, but he fell to a point where I thought it would be ridiculous not to take him. In that sense, not being inflexible with DND lists and such actually saved me because it allowed me to scoop up value where others had already made a predetermined decision that the player was toast. Getting back to the original topic, I don't think I've ever heard "availability is the best ability". It is a bit silly to label anything as the "best" ability - speed elusiveness, strength, smarts, etc. all play a role in football, but not sure how any one ability could be labeled as best. However, availability is fundamental because without it, none of your other abilities matter. If a player is not on the field he's of limited value to his team and he is worthless in fantasy.

Seems like a stupid question because the conventional wisdom is that he is a first ballot lock, but aside from the one Super Bowl, he has a long history of post-season flops. He never had a 5k passing season (and never even got particularly close), which seems odd for an era where most of the elite QBs cracked 5k at least once (and guys like Dak, Romo, Cousins, Eli and Matt Ryan were able to get to 4900+). He seems unlikely to catch Favre in career passing yardage and is still behind Rivers and Roethlisberger and seems likely to be caught by Stafford (assuming Stafford plays at least one season after a Rodgers retirement).

Not sure how a dude who has never taken a regular season NFL snap can be considered to have a floor.

There is no "news" in that article (at least nothing new that wasn't already obvious when Dimes was signed 3 months ago). We already knew that the Colts needed to see Richardson to play better and if he can't beat out Jones in camp, he won't be the Colts starter in 2025.

Not sure that will work out any better for MHJ than it did for Mr. Boston.

All stats have their anomalies: Foles and Tannehill are both in the top 6 for season passer rating but Brees is not off the map at 9 and 10 (and #7 for career - ahead of Brady at 12, but behind the likes of Russ and D.Watson). Passer rating is a bit of a convoluted formula - I suspect that Rodgers' TD-to-INT ratio (the one stat where he blows the competition away) contributes to his high passer rating.