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One of the things I value most whether it be in film, music, or literature, is originality. When you get a hold of something with a truly fresh concept, it is mind-blowing. I remember the first time I saw Robert Downey Sr.’s Putney Swope. I had never seen humor and satire done in such a confrontational and blunt manner. I was used to the kind of satire found in the early works of Mel Brooks and Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove. Incredible works on their own, but Putney Swope was truly another level for me. If you’ve never seen the film, it tells the story of the only minority executive member of an advertising firm, who is accidentally put in charge after the sudden death of the chairman of the board. Restricted by the company by-laws from voting for themselves, members voted by secret ballot for the one person they thought would never win: Putney Swope. It is hilarious, raw, and confronts the race issues of the late ’60s as I had never seen before. Originality is paramount when it comes to me consuming my content. That being said, today I am to talk about sleepers for this 2021 season.
Monthly Archives: August 2021
What's even better than one set of picks? A whole slew of picks from many different people! It's time to see the sane picks, the wild picks, the bold picks, and the bland picks. Too bad we didn't include the ab pics? Next time, next time. But for this time, let's jump in and see what the Razzbois have to say about their favorite picks for 2021 fantasy football:
Top 20 Tight Ends for 2021 Fantasy Football
August 23, 2021 | Fantasy Football Rankings | 31 Commentsby: Donkey Teeth
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Part of me wondered if anyone would even notice if I only ranked the top 10 tight ends for 2021 fantasy football. We all remember what Confuscious said, "If a fantasy football tight end ranking post falls in the forest and nobody's there to read, then did it happen?" I believe Confuscious also told us to draft Darren Waller each of the last two seasons. Wait. No. That was Donkey Teeth. People confuse the two of us so often that sometimes I get confused myself. Identity crises aside, someone must rank the Irv Smiths and the Adam Trautmans of the world, so why not Confuscious Teeth? If you're just looking for a plain old list of rankings without the fluff, you can stop right here and go check out my top 200 for 2021 fantasy football. Anyway, here's my top 20 tight ends for 2021 fantasy football:
Click here to see all 2021 Fantasy Football Tiered Rankings.
*Note: These rankings are geared toward half PPR scoring. Projections provided in this season’s rankings are NOT my own, they come from Rudy Gamble’s World-Renowned 2021 Fantasy Football Projections. These preseason projections are available free of charge, while Rudy’s in-season weekly projection subscription is currently available until August 31st at an early bird discounted price of only $17.99 for the entire season! These are the same weekly projections that won Rudy Gamble the FantasyPros designation of “Best Bold Ranker” for the years 2017-2019 (and likely 2020!).
IDP Training Camp Battle: Dallas Cowboys Linebackers
August 22, 2021 | IDP Report |by: Jordan Loupe
If there’s one buzzword that coaches absolutely love to use this time of year, it’s “competition.” Hey coach, how’s your first round rookie looking? “He’s competing every day, and that’s all we can ask of him.” Wow, thanks… Or how about this one? “We love the additions we made through free agency and the draft, it’s added some great competition to our locker room, and it’s pushing everyone to be better.” Blah, blah, blah. These guys really know how to say something without saying a thing don’t they? In all honesty, most of the competition happens on the back end of the roster, as teams have to decide who to keep and who to cut as they trim the roster to 53 players. Most of these decisions don’t have a major impact on fantasy football, as we already have a good idea who the impact players are. There are always a few legitimate competitions, however, that WILL make a difference for your IDP rosters. Since coaches rarely tell us exactly what their plans are, I’m here to help you read the tea leaves for one of the top defensive battles in the league, the Dallas Cowboys linebackers.
In this article, we break down Fantasy Points Per Reception or FPPR regression candidates from 2020 at the wide receiver position. The goal of this article is to help you identify players to potentially fade in 2021.
A couple of things you might want to know first. The league average FPPR for wide receivers over the past 10 seasons is 2.19. For a wide receiver to see one point less per game they need to average four receptions per game and see a decrease in FPPR of .25.
Which Back Are You Backing? – Part 1
August 21, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy | 2 Commentsby: JB Barry
The role of the every-down workhorse running back in todays NFL has pretty much disappeared. Guys like Christian McCaffrey, Dalvin Cook and Derrick Henry are top tier backs who carry the bulk of their backfield’s workload, but even Alvin Kamara, Nick Chubb and Ezekiel Elliot all have other backs who could be a thorn in their sides. After you get through the first few rounds in your draft, you land in that questionable territory at running back. This is the point where there are many backs who are going to be in a split backfield situation of some sort. This two-part series will look at some of those backfields and I will answer the question of “Which back are you backing?”
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You know why you're here. You're either ready to have your delusions validated by the equally delusional or to become uncontrollably mad when your predictions are contradicted (how could that jackass say that about Taysom Hill?!).
You're probably already a pretty savvy fantasy mind if you've meandered your way over here to the "MENSA of Fantasy Content", RazzBall Incorporated. You're no spring chicken, I'm sure and you probably have your own, unique homer-isms and biases when you sit down to draft. Unless you are a complete stat-junkie in hyper-competitive, ultra-high stakes fantasy competitions the odds are emotions play a role in your strategy.
They certainly do for me, I make no apologies for occasionally being an emotional idiot sports fan fantasy player and there are gut feelings that just pan out. Sometimes they can win you leagues and occasionally they tell you to draft Sixto Sanchez 1st overall in RazzSlam and end up on the fantasy baseball version of the no-fly list (meaning, I am now legally no longer an overweight white man with a beard).
All that being said, some of these predictions are reasonable, backed up by stats, and truly plausible... and some might end me with me being "totally dunked on", "owned", "fired from writing your stupid articles, Skorish, for christ sakes these suck!", etc., etc.
These 4 bold predictions are going to be somewhat ordered from most likely to most ridiculous.
So let's get to it!
In this article, we break down Fantasy Points Per Reception or FPPR positive regression candidates from 2020 at the wide receiver position. The goal of this article is to help you identify players to potentially buy in 2021.
A couple of things you might want to know first. The league average FPPR for wide receivers over the past 10 seasons is 2.19. For a wide receiver to see one point more per game they need to average four receptions per game and see an increase in FPPR of .25.
Top 200 for 2021 Fantasy Football
August 19, 2021 | Fantasy Football Rankings | 25 Commentsby: Donkey Teeth
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Rankings! Rankings! Get you rankings!
Who doesn't love a good list? My wife (yes, still imaginary) makes me lists all the time. Grocery list. Honey-do list. Reasons-I-wish-I-had-married-Chauncy-LaBeau-from-high-school-instead-of-you list. Of course, I glance at all of these lists once and then forget they ever existed. Nothing comes of them. Such is my expectation for your experience with this list of two-hundred men who will handle the pigskin in the twenty-second year of the twenty-first century. Nevertheless, the list must be compiled and neurotically reordered for the next two weeks as information comes in about stubbed toes, disgruntled divas and Antonio Brown's helmet. Anyway, here's my top 200 rankings for 2021 half PPR fantasy football:
*Note: I have not included my own projections in any of this year's rankings. Rudy Gamble’s World-Renowned 2021 Fantasy Football Projections are all you need! These preseason projections are available free of charge, while Rudy’s in-season weekly projection subscription is currently available until August 31st at an early bird discounted price of only $17.99 for the entire season! These are the same weekly projections that won Rudy Gamble the FantasyPros designation of “Best Bold Ranker” for the years 2017-2019 (and likely 2020!).
Darrell Henderson Can Rise From the RB Dead Zone
August 18, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy | 2 Commentsby: Son
Rounds three to six of fantasy drafts are considered the running back dead zone as RB scoring plummets after the second round. Jack Miller of Establish the Run and Rotoviz mapped out the data. I have been leaning more wide receiver and elite tight end at the top of most of my drafts this year but I have dabbled into the dead zone fray. Myles Gaskin. Mike Davis. Trey Sermon. I know, I'm a stupid, stupid man. There has been one player who has been growing on me the more that I think about things, and that player is Darrell Henderson of the Los Angeles Rams. Here's my thinking why I believe Henderson can rise from the dead zone ashes and potentially vault himself into Top 10 territory.
I Don’t Want None Unless You Got the 1.01
August 18, 2021 | Fantasy Football Strategy | 20 Commentsby: everywhereblair
Let's get right to the point: don't be afraid to take whoever you want at the top of the draft. OK, don't be afraid within reason. You're not winning your league with Miles Sanders as the 1.01 pick (curse me if it happens this year). But personally, I see people feel trapped when they get the 1.01 pick: they get Christian McCaffrey, or Dalvin Cook. OK, that's not a bad start, right? But why not Jonathan Taylor or Alvin Kamara or Derrick Henry or Aaron Jones or, or, or? Why do we as a fantasy community argue about "Can Jonathan Taylor be the RB1?" Yes, yes he can! Last year, the top 3 RBs came from the 4th, 5th, and 6th draft spots (Alvin Kamara, Derrick Henry, and Dalvin Cook). In 2019, the top 4 RBs came from the 2nd, 4th, 28th, and 58th draft spots. In 2018, the top 3 RBs came from the 1st, 6th, and 15th draft spots. You see my point, right? The consensus RB1 doesn't really matter. And the only reason you should concern yourself with the consensus RB1 is if you're drafting in only one league, which is rarer and rarer in modern fantasy football. Let's dive into the stats after the jump.
We are looking at early season matchups to play, fade, or stream entering the 2021 fantasy football season. Today we focus on the tight ends, which unlike wide receivers, teams allowed the least amount of fantasy points per game. Only the Jets and Bears allowed more than fifteen PPR fantasy points per game to tight ends last season.
