It’s so weird hearing ATP not talk about Overwatch hahaha.I love the direction you’re headed in. Happy to be with you along your journey!- Did you play fantasy this year? How did you do?
Glad to have you! I did play fantasy btw.I finished top 4 in my league. Bad receiver production crushed any hopes of making the finals sadly. Made some mistakes that I wish I could have back but not a bad year.
@@atpsports2645 oh not bad. I had Ceedee, Amon-Ra, Breece Hall and Jordan Love. Along with Kyren Williams and Achane off the waiver wire. Practically cruised to victory after picking those two up haha
@@MaikaTzuyubro i was one win away from making the playoffs (first time ever doing fantasy i didn’t understand it and took courtland sutton 4th round 😭) but i lose that game, and somehow lost both consolation things and ended IN EIGHTH PLACE
It's never the sexy thing, but play-calling was THE difference-maker for most of the teams. The article about Sean McDermott paints a picture of someone I know: they want to be in charge but mentally fall into a pit inside their own soul when they get it. Mike McCarthy is the same, just less drastic. In the clutch he seizes up, shuts out all outside voices like those of his coaches & calls plays that feel right to him *only because they're familiar,* not because they're effective. It takes a conscious effort to recognize this urge is coming from inside you & figure out how to shut it out. Shanahan did this too in the S-B to a strange extent. He didn't call the Wrong Plays: but he also went into calling Familiar Mode & assigned them to the Wrong Player. He has a habit of starting by sending plays to McCaffrey & Samuel, then spreading things out. In the 2nd half it's like he hit 'reset' (& we're all well aware he is a *completely* different coach in the 2nd half), & forced the ball to Samuel. When that didn't work, he got more stressed & couldn't get past this 'reloading' going on his brain. Spags changed the D to man, Deebo excels against zone. The Texans suck at the short game: short passing & the run. Someone suggested Houston could be a target landing spot for Saquon. _that_ would help change them & they can draft a slot WR or TE. The Rams too are in surprisingly great shape moving towards the future & while McVay _can sometimes_ get lost in his own play-calling, it's rare. I think that having a terribly unlucky season (the Steelers game where a simple spotting of a ball beat them, the Ravens where the illegal block in the back penalty wasn't called) may have made him over-compensate. While it's not like the Chiefs had no hand in winning it, the Ravens beat themselves. Their strength is the Chiefs' weakness & after stupidly calling for 2 rushes to start the game (the Chiefs must have thought "coffee break") they abandoned it completely? & they had _no_ check-downs on most passing plays? They played right into the strength of the Chiefs, their secondary & their ability to knock down passes. The Lions have become Dan Campbell's ego. He's one of those people whose pick-up lines fail 47 times in a row & work once but he forgets all the failures. Goff & St-Brown like his tight structures & Monty, LaPorta & Gibbs worked well within them? So it doesn't matter how unhappy anyone else is. There is no One Way to make all players happy but I always wish _some_ coaches understood this. There's a reason that *four separate young players* came out of a meeting feeling like they needed to let off steam by breaking rules they were just warned about. My predictions are that while they'll have a decent draft, the Texans won't progress nearly as much as they just did. They'll likely take their division again with the Colts contending but they'll have glaring weaknesses. The Browns *need* a QB but because ownership is in denial they won't seek one. The Lions won't win their division. The Packers are on the rise. Both will likely contend but Campbell's worldview causes him to think he's arrived when he simply loses patience & he won't make changes he needs to make, just keep plugging away with what he has now. The Ravens shouldn't fall off _TOO_ hard but they need to stop thinking all they need is Lamar to win - even though that was correct for the past four years. Play-calling matters & also Zay Flowers is _good,_ not élite. Andrews is aging & fragile. They need help & many players are aging out. Plus they lost one of The Best DCs in the league. That's gonna cost 'em. The Cowboys can't win with McCarthy any more than the Bills can with McDermott or the Bears with Eberflus. Not in the clutch which means not in the playoffs. Still, the worst coaching may be in Philly because for Sirianni to even bring _in_ Patricia, then watch him & the OC fail week in week out & change nothing means he doesn't know wtf he is doing as HC. All in all this was a lot of good speculation. I mean Mahomes doesn't *catch* his own passes so your expectations based on their limitations were correct. Kudos to Stefanski for changing the offense to suit each QB he had, then it backfired. (Am I the only person who realizes Flacco had one great season but everything else was mediocre or terrible? Is _everyone_ judging him on his looks)?
Nah Dallas is out early this year no matter what. And maybe this isn't a hot take but I feel it will be a rematch from about a decade or more ago in the Harbaugh bowl for the super bowl in 49ers vs Ravens. OR the Lions sneak in over in the NFC. These are the most likely things imo. Just Dallas and Eagles i could see both going out in round 1 tbh
Hey man don’t disrespect The red nosed reindeer he’s been chucking the rock much like Joe Flacco only he has only 1 turnover and that was a fumble. HERE WE GO
