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Speaker 1: this week. Yeah, you know, Brian, most of these editions
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Speaker 1: We were having an offline conversation about one Hit Wonders,
Speaker 1: fantasy one hit Wonders, not the musical one hit Wonders,
Speaker 1: of which the greatest one hit wonder of all time
Speaker 1: musically Dexi's Midnight Runners with Come On, Eileen, the most
Speaker 1: important comma in the history of music. Now the runner
Speaker 1: up is Chumba Womba with tub thumping. Yeah, that would
Speaker 1: be that to me? Is the number is the runner
Speaker 1: up musically for one Hit Wonders. I'm drawn a blank.
Speaker 1: There are a lot out there. Hundred that's a I mean,
Speaker 1: that's right up high school. And so yeah, that was
Speaker 1: overplayed a lot overplayed songs. And but they all were,
Speaker 1: they all were. You know, it's not like now. It's
Speaker 1: not like now you just go load up your own
Speaker 1: playlist and just only hear songs you love. Back then,
Speaker 1: you had to listen to whatever they were playing. You know,
Speaker 1: it's less so this now, for sure. But one hit
Speaker 1: wonders from a fantasy standpoint in past years, but also
Speaker 1: some of the one hit wonders that we think may
Speaker 1: have happened last season. Candidates who have been one hit
Speaker 1: wonders last year. So guys who put up like they're
Speaker 1: one good year and are they going to come back
Speaker 1: and be able to do it again? But let's have
Speaker 1: a little fun to talk about some of the past
Speaker 1: one hit wonders. Yeah, we're gonna do a draft, right,
Speaker 1: so we're kind of these guys. But uh yeah, Number one,
Speaker 1: there's no arguing this one. The rest we can debate,
Speaker 1: like jockeying positions. One the fantasy one hit wonder of
Speaker 1: all time one one hillis in two thousand and ten
Speaker 1: for the Cleveland Browns. Again, no arguing this I won't
Speaker 1: have it. After two seasons with the Broncos to start
Speaker 1: his career, Hillis went to Cleveland in twenty ten and
Speaker 1: had a season for the Ages with one thousand, one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy seven rushing yards and eleven touchdowns. Wow,
Speaker 1: he did it through the air. Two added sixty one
Speaker 1: catches for four hundred and seventy seven yards and two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: And oh yeah, he landed on the cover of Madden
Speaker 1: Madden as a result. Now, Grant, I'm pretty sure that
Speaker 1: was a fan vote, but everyone was voting for Peyton Hillis. Yeah,
Speaker 1: after that. It was exciting at the time, and there's
Speaker 1: a huge push from Cleveland, of course, but the good
Speaker 1: times and not last too long for Hillis, sadly would
Speaker 1: only go on to play four more seasons, one more
Speaker 1: with Cleveland, then he went to Kansas City then finished
Speaker 1: his career with two seasons with the Giants, where he
Speaker 1: totalled fifteen hundred and three comboy yards and just six
Speaker 1: touchdowns in those four seasons. So he had a better
Speaker 1: year in twenty ten than he did for the remainder
Speaker 1: of his career. Pretty much his whole career, everything just
Speaker 1: came out of nowhere. Yeah, absolute league winner and it
Speaker 1: was just like it was insane and he was in
Speaker 1: the news recently. He saved saved a life his own children.
Speaker 1: I think both kids almost lost his but thankfully he
Speaker 1: came through that because absolute legend one hund Payton hillis
Speaker 1: absolutely I think that that certainly counts um and and
Speaker 1: good for him on literally saving lives. When you saving
Speaker 1: a drownding victim, very dicey because the drowned will try
Speaker 1: to kill you inadvertently while you're trying to save them
Speaker 1: because they're in a panic. Assuming that's what happened to
Speaker 1: hillis because he was an intensive care for quite some time,
Speaker 1: I think that's I think that's right. He's good to
Speaker 1: go now. Thankfully. I want to bring up as my
Speaker 1: one hit wonder And by the way, we used year
Speaker 1: two thousand as our cut offs or we're not going.
Speaker 1: We're going with quasi reason one hit wonders. David Johnson
Speaker 1: posted a two thousand, one hundred yard season with twenty touchdowns,
Speaker 1: unbelievable twenty sixteen. David Johnson pulled all that together. The
Speaker 1: next year was a hard Knox year for them, and
Speaker 1: we got to see David Johnson in the offseason and
Speaker 1: his beautiful girlfriend who eventually I think ended up marrying. Um,
Speaker 1: I forgot that they did because they've done the Cardinals
Speaker 1: twice now because they well the Cardinals was in season,
Speaker 1: so that's right. Yeah, this is the one where, yeah
Speaker 1: they were preseason. Yeah, it was the Priests. They didn't
Speaker 1: have the in season. One's back. So for the rest
Speaker 1: of David Johnson's career, outside of his twenty one hundred
Speaker 1: yard twenty touchdown season, his average non twenty sixteen season
Speaker 1: was six hundred eighty yards and five touchdowns, So fifteen
Speaker 1: hundred fewer yards in fifteen fewer touchdowns for David Johnson
Speaker 1: through the rest of his career. Yeah, I remember season
Speaker 1: average in twenty seventeen understandably, so he was basically the
Speaker 1: top overall pick and that broke his hand or something
Speaker 1: in like I think it was hand. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: that was brutal. I actually added David Johnson last year
Speaker 1: because he made he was on the Saints roster. Yeah,
Speaker 1: one point he was. And this is a deep dynasty league.
Speaker 1: Or I was just throwing darts wherever I could, and
Speaker 1: I was like, David Johnson, let's see, No, that he
Speaker 1: got some carry. I mean, it was crazy that he
Speaker 1: was even the last think only out of desperation. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, and it's not that he was a
Speaker 1: bad player, but he obviously fell into the exact right
Speaker 1: situation in twenty sixteen, and he was a decent enough
Speaker 1: catcher receiver that they helped him that way too, a
Speaker 1: little bit through the air. All right, who's your who's
Speaker 1: your your second selection or our third overall? In our
Speaker 1: one hit wonders, I'm staying in Cleveland and going with
Speaker 1: tight end Gary Barnage in twenty fifteen, Gary Barnage. Barely
Speaker 1: remember Gary Barnage. You will remember this probably well well,
Speaker 1: you will remember this. Prior to the twenty fifteen season,
Speaker 1: Barnage had been in the league for seven years. He
Speaker 1: missed all of twenty eleven with a broken angle, but
Speaker 1: no one missed him then. During that time, he totalled
Speaker 1: four hundred or sorry, forty four catches, six hundred and
Speaker 1: three yards and three touchdowns with the Panthers and the Browns.
Speaker 1: Then came twenty fifteen. Barnage saw one hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: five targets. She's he had eighty career targets prior to
Speaker 1: that wow one twenty five targets. He finished with seventy
Speaker 1: nine catches, one tho forty three yards and nine touchdowns,
Speaker 1: finished his tight end four. It was just out of notally.
Speaker 1: No one was drafting him. He was waiver wire gold.
Speaker 1: He was drafted such in twenty sixteen as a top
Speaker 1: tight end option. People are like, oh, Gary Barnage, but
Speaker 1: that turned out to be his last year. No, it
Speaker 1: was his last year. Wow, that was it hed sports
Speaker 1: herney surgery and I onlyink he ever really Wow again
Speaker 1: he was. That was like his ninth year in the league.
Speaker 1: Two he's probably thirty two, but uh yeah, that was.
Speaker 1: I mean he had a fifty five catches, six hundred
Speaker 1: and twelve yards, two touchdowns the next year. But nothing
Speaker 1: like that magical twenty fifteen for Gary Barnage. Maybe a
Speaker 1: guy I should have used last time, because I think
Speaker 1: this is another standard bear for one hit wonders Josh Gordon,
Speaker 1: that magical twenty thirteen season that people still remember and
Speaker 1: go back to when we draft. Josh Gordon was on
Speaker 1: fantasy rosters last year based really only on what he
Speaker 1: did in twenty thirteen with Jason Campbell throwing him the
Speaker 1: ball when he led the NFL with sixteen hundred receiving
Speaker 1: yards and the longest average reception in the NFL. And
Speaker 1: he didn't even play, by the way, the first two
Speaker 1: games of that season, because and you'll be shocked by this,
Speaker 1: he had been suspended for the first two games of
Speaker 1: the twenty thirteen season. But Josh Gordon still led the
Speaker 1: NFL in receiving yards his average game one hundred seventeen
Speaker 1: yards that year. He was awesome. He was amazing. I
Speaker 1: went back to his Wikipedia page because I was trying
Speaker 1: to figure out how many times Josh Gordon got suspended.
Speaker 1: I believe if I counted it upright, it was six
Speaker 1: NFL suspensions, and he got suspended in college, which I
Speaker 1: had not remembered. He got suspended in college as well.
Speaker 1: And the funny thing is it was all marijuana. They
Speaker 1: only even test for marijuana in a two week window.
Speaker 1: Now he would have like no suspensions by today's standards, potentially,
Speaker 1: and an honorable mention. Who a player who sadly kind
Speaker 1: of had the same career arc with we'll call it
Speaker 1: troubles with marijuana, was justin Blackman with the Jaguars. I
Speaker 1: don't think he ever had the talent. But oh no,
Speaker 1: he had the talent. He had agree level. Oh he's
Speaker 1: one good year, I'll look it up. Did Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he was a blue hit prospect. Oh, it
Speaker 1: was like the third pick in the draft. I remember that,
Speaker 1: but I don't remember ever putting together a meaningful NFL season.
Speaker 1: I got it right. Hold on, it'll be like twenty.
Speaker 1: He'll be right around that. I think he would. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go pick four. It was the Matt Khalil year
Speaker 1: or something. I would have been a twenty like fifteen,
Speaker 1: Well he was. I'm sorry. He showed promise as a
Speaker 1: rookie his rookie year in twenty twelve. Uh, in just
Speaker 1: fourteen games. Uh, eight hundred and sixty five yards, five touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He was starting eight hundred yards as a rookie's good
Speaker 1: in five touchdowns. But then twenty thirteen he played four
Speaker 1: games and that was it. That that's unbelievable. Wow, he
Speaker 1: was a first round pick though if I recall correctly,
Speaker 1: it's not showing me on this page. Oh he was.
Speaker 1: He was like the fourth or fifth pick in the draft. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was very high down draft pick. But he's in Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: so he knew he was at the top of the draft.
Speaker 1: So that that's three Browns. How about that to come
Speaker 1: three three Browns out of four? Pick We're not done. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the funny thing, all right, So one hit wonders,
Speaker 1: you've we've got four under our belt. Who's next. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with my This is my one non brown? No, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: my one non brown. This is your only non Browns.
Speaker 1: I got a Bronco, I got a Denver Bronco Brandon
Speaker 1: Lloyd in twenty ten. Prior to the twenty ten season,
Speaker 1: which was his second with the Broncos, people knew about
Speaker 1: Brandon Lloyd mainly for his like occasional eye popping catches
Speaker 1: made something crazy highlight reel catches in his six seasons
Speaker 1: forty nine Ers. Yeah, with the forty nine Ers, and
Speaker 1: then he was with Washington before Denver. Uh. He was
Speaker 1: waiver wire early on with the Niners, but kind of
Speaker 1: like a weekly streamer type guy. Never never a household name,
Speaker 1: especially in the fantasy football community. But then came twenty ten.
Speaker 1: And by the way, if you somehow grabbed Brandon Lloyd
Speaker 1: and Peyton Hillos off waivers in twenty ten, good for you.
Speaker 1: Those only two players right to win your league, right,
Speaker 1: But in twenty ten, Lloyd racked up seventy seven catches,
Speaker 1: fourteen hundred and forty eight receiving yards, and eleven touchdowns. Wow.
Speaker 1: Technically only started eleven games. He played all sixteen, but
Speaker 1: he wasn't even a starter until you know, a third
Speaker 1: into the season. He led the league in the receiving yards.
Speaker 1: He had fifty nine more yards than Roddy White, who
Speaker 1: finished second. The only wide receivers with more touchdowns than
Speaker 1: Lloyd that year were Dwayne Bow, who maybe could have
Speaker 1: been on this list, but people were expecting things from
Speaker 1: Duyne Bow, big things from Duayne Bow, and he didn't
Speaker 1: produce that year. But only receivers who had more touchdowns
Speaker 1: again were Dwayne Bow, Greg Jennings, and a guy named
Speaker 1: Calvin Johnson who most remember he did He did okay,
Speaker 1: but then Lloyd went on to play several more seasons.
Speaker 1: He'd never quite replicated that success he had in twenty
Speaker 1: fifteen before I'm start in twenty ten before retiring in
Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, but just an absolute monster in twenty ten.
Speaker 1: You're gonna kill Browns fans if it turns out that
Speaker 1: your candidates, one of your candidates for the for the
Speaker 1: one hit Wonder status from last year that we're gonna
Speaker 1: We're gonna hit down these at the end of the show.
Speaker 1: If one of those is a Brown, we'll find out
Speaker 1: we will Beanie Wells. Remember the name Beanie Wells. He
Speaker 1: had a nice twenty eleven season where he scored eleven
Speaker 1: touchdowns put up over a thousand yards, but he was
Speaker 1: only in the league for four years, and by comparison,
Speaker 1: his average non twenty eleven was three hundred yards and
Speaker 1: two touchdowns. So he had the one good year and
Speaker 1: back on November twenty seventh, twenty eleven, Wells Beanie Wells
Speaker 1: set a cardinal single game and personal record. He ran
Speaker 1: for two hundred twenty eight yards in one game. Then
Speaker 1: what happened in twenty twelve You might be wondering for
Speaker 1: Beanie Wells. Well he got turf toe and that kept
Speaker 1: him out of the first half of the season. Then
Speaker 1: he comes back from the turf toe in twenty eighteen
Speaker 1: and Beanie Wells has a bad game against the Bears
Speaker 1: four yards down. It's Week seventeen of that season. He
Speaker 1: has a four yard game against the Bears and then
Speaker 1: In the ensuing week, he's it's coming up to the
Speaker 1: last week of the season, and Beanie Wells declares that
Speaker 1: this week is his audition week for the other thirty
Speaker 1: one teams in the league to see what he can
Speaker 1: bring to the table. So what happens. Cardinals head coach
Speaker 1: Ken wizzen Hunt benches him. He doesn't get to play
Speaker 1: at all, and he doesn't get to audition for anybody. Beanie,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? Yeah, it didn't work out well
Speaker 1: for Beanie Wells. Let's go to player number seven. After
Speaker 1: we take a break. Thank you for listening Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: We'll continue on with the relatively recent one hit wonders
Speaker 1: and we'll wrap up with some one hit wonder candidates
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Speaker 1: it's something you love, is it? You really don't care?
Speaker 1: We're gonna we care what you think. Ryan, We've already
Speaker 1: knocked down six of the one hit wonders. Give me
Speaker 1: the seventh and is three Browns, two Cardinals. Yeah, what
Speaker 1: a Bronco and a parent tree. And guess what. We're
Speaker 1: going back to Cleveland with Thrill Prior a tortured fan
Speaker 1: base in twenty sixteen. Now you can say no one
Speaker 1: saw this coming, but that isn't true. I remember it
Speaker 1: like it was yesterday. Charge twas the night before Fantasy
Speaker 1: football training camp, and I was sitting in my house. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna I'm gonna stop rhyming there or stop
Speaker 1: the Christmas Eve thing. But yeah, I was watching Cleveland's
Speaker 1: a Cleveland preseason game, and Terrell Prior was going into
Speaker 1: his first year as a wide receiver. Yeah, the quarterback.
Speaker 1: He had been drafted by the Raiders quarterback quarterback out
Speaker 1: of Ohio State Universities. There were expectations of him being
Speaker 1: a great NFL quarterback, but that didn't happen, so they
Speaker 1: converted him to wide receiver. But I'm watching this preseason game,
Speaker 1: and yes it was the preseason, and it was probably
Speaker 1: like the second or third quarter or so. He's not
Speaker 1: up against the starters. But I'm like, man, this dude
Speaker 1: looks like Terrell Owens out there physically, and he was
Speaker 1: making plays. And I'm like, you know what, I don't
Speaker 1: have my sleeper pegged for training camp the next day.
Speaker 1: I gotta state, Terrell Prior, just throw a you know,
Speaker 1: last round pick. Take a chance in Terroll Prior. Now,
Speaker 1: I was braided by you, I'm sure, and the room
Speaker 1: of hundreds of people, they all booed you. And it
Speaker 1: was a thousand people, by the way, vociferously booing you.
Speaker 1: I could hear we could hear the people booing in
Speaker 1: their cars driving around the state of Minnesota, and I
Speaker 1: was getting it on Twitter. I was like, man, my
Speaker 1: feelings were hurt, but I was right Terrell for that year.
Speaker 1: You were right for that year, for that year. And yeah,
Speaker 1: he people went on to draft him the next year
Speaker 1: and did not work out. But yes, in twenty sixteen,
Speaker 1: he had seventy seven catches over a thousand yards and
Speaker 1: four receiving touchdowns. He added a rushing touchdown. Not massive
Speaker 1: touchdown totals, but those are incredible numbers for a converted
Speaker 1: quarterback who was not getting drafted. It was just an
Speaker 1: epic season for Terrell prior. But that was all she
Speaker 1: wrote for for Terrell was the league caught up to
Speaker 1: him somehow. Man, imagine if he just focused on being
Speaker 1: a wide receiver, right, that's a position to almost nobody
Speaker 1: makes a transition too late in their career, and by
Speaker 1: the time you get to the pros, I'm saying you're
Speaker 1: late in your career. Wide receiver is a hard position
Speaker 1: to pick up. Remember Matt Jones, Yeah right, people quarterback, Yeah,
Speaker 1: people thought he might make that, but he was drafted
Speaker 1: as a wide receiver. He couldn't even do it. He
Speaker 1: wasn't he wasn't expected play. He went early too. They
Speaker 1: took him with a meaningful draft selection. As I wrote,
Speaker 1: he was a first round pick. Was he really pretty
Speaker 1: sure or a second I remember my buddy was obsessed
Speaker 1: with him in Madden like we would be dining Smo Beatty.
Speaker 1: He's like he was the biggest Matt Jones fans in
Speaker 1: the world of it. He did not have any hits
Speaker 1: Matt Jones he took. He was a no hit wonder
Speaker 1: he was taking hits of something else. Yeah, that that
Speaker 1: makes more. It wasn't marijuana. Oh all right, you just
Speaker 1: outed your friend as a myth head. No, no, no no,
Speaker 1: Matt Jones, all right, okay. Ryan Grant in twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: do you remember what team he played for? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packer and Bay Packers fourteen hundred yards two
Speaker 1: thousand and nine, two thousand nine, Thank you, I miss
Speaker 1: spoke fourteen hundred yards and eleven touchdowns his average. Every
Speaker 1: other average season other than twenty nineteen, he averaged a
Speaker 1: thousand fewer yards in three touchdowns. He is the all
Speaker 1: time postseason single game rushing leader and Packers history with
Speaker 1: a two hundred and one yard rushing game against Seattle.
Speaker 1: Save for Ryan Grant, save that for Jeopardy or at
Speaker 1: least bar room trivia. There you go. Even Packer fans
Speaker 1: couldn't identify that. I think so. Then you might be
Speaker 1: wondering what happened to Ryan Grant in twenty ten. Well,
Speaker 1: he shattered his ankle and the season opener went on
Speaker 1: season ending. Ir lost his jobs to James Starks in
Speaker 1: the next year, it was a two headed monster for
Speaker 1: James Starks and Ryan Grant in a committee in Green Bay,
Speaker 1: and then he was done. Then came over I'm on
Speaker 1: Green or he was before that. I'm on Green was
Speaker 1: before that? Yeah, he was before that. Yeah, I'm on Green.
Speaker 1: Was really good by the Oh yeah he was leading.
Speaker 1: He was not a one hit wonder, Yeah, no, he was.
Speaker 1: He was a no Sam Kangato. If we want to
Speaker 1: go with a a year random, remember Sam Tondado. That's like
Speaker 1: two thousand or something or twenty two thousand and two
Speaker 1: or something. Packers lore all right, our ninth of ten
Speaker 1: one hit wonder players, Fantasy one hit wonders. Who you got?
Speaker 1: I got another Cleveland Brown No quarterback this time? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Derek Anderson in two thousand and seven, which was the
Speaker 1: second season in the NFL. Technically, Anderson started the year
Speaker 1: as quarterback three on the Browns depth chart, behind Charlie
Speaker 1: Fry and rookie Brady Quinn. Yeah, Crady Quinn was a
Speaker 1: like the six player taken in the draft tenth or
Speaker 1: something like that. But those are back in those days.
Speaker 1: They wouldn't really start there. Even though they threw Tim
Speaker 1: Couch into the fire a few that was that was
Speaker 1: several years before, but uh Fry was clearly not the guy.
Speaker 1: He was benched after Week one. He was actually traded
Speaker 1: a couple days later to the Seahawks, I believe, and
Speaker 1: the Browns didn't want to turn to Quinn yet, so
Speaker 1: they turned to Derek Anderson in Week two, where he
Speaker 1: went on to lead the Cleveland Browns to victory by
Speaker 1: throwing three hundred and twenty eight yards and five touchdown
Speaker 1: pass He further went on that season to throw from
Speaker 1: nearly thirty eight hundred yards and twenty nine touchdowns finished
Speaker 1: as quarterback six that year, the Browns almost made the playoffs.
Speaker 1: They were winning games with Derek Anderson, but sadly, Anderson
Speaker 1: did not turn out to be Kurt Warner two point zero.
Speaker 1: He did say in the league for eleven more years,
Speaker 1: but mostly as a backup. He threw just twenty six
Speaker 1: touchdown passes from two thousand in an eight to twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen for retiring, but two thousand and seven We'll never
Speaker 1: forget you, Derek Anderson. Magical, magical year for Cleveland. Yeah man,
Speaker 1: the Browns again tortured fan base. A quick um Tim
Speaker 1: Couch story for you back in our magazine days. So
Speaker 1: this is uh said Christmas have been in the late nineties.
Speaker 1: I would guess we had different players that would put
Speaker 1: on the covers of our magazine based on where we
Speaker 1: were selling. That you know, where we were going to sell.
Speaker 1: And Cleveland is a fantastic fantasy market and so is
Speaker 1: Ohio generally, and so we needed a Browns player, but
Speaker 1: there were no good Browns players. So that was in
Speaker 1: those Tim Couch's rookie year. That's when Cleveland was an
Speaker 1: expansion team, Yes, because they went to they became the Ravens,
Speaker 1: the original and this might have been this might have
Speaker 1: been the expansion This might have been the expansion year.
Speaker 1: And I sort of like, well, who do we put on?
Speaker 1: So we put we have Tim Couch on the cover. Actually,
Speaker 1: one of our summer magazine watched the thing about Tim
Speaker 1: brown So I know Tim Couch. Sorry, that was his
Speaker 1: rookie year. Was the first year of the new Browns. Yeah, anyway, yes, yep,
Speaker 1: so I think that was the year that we yeah,
Speaker 1: that we had Tim Couch. Somewhere in my basement, I
Speaker 1: probably got a Tim Couch cover Fantasy Football Weekly, but
Speaker 1: I won't go too into detail. But he got a
Speaker 1: raw deal. He got thrown in way too early. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think Ty Detmer was the starting quarterback, but they
Speaker 1: he got hurt and they went to Couch and it
Speaker 1: was an expansion team. In right waited. He was a
Speaker 1: number one overall pick and he ended up getting hurt in.
Speaker 1: He could have had a lot better career if he
Speaker 1: did not get drafted by Cleveland. Oh for sure. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm thinking of The Texans did the exact same thing
Speaker 1: with um uh yeah, Derek Carr, dere David Carry exactly
Speaker 1: exactly same story. Um you know, if they had they
Speaker 1: just rested him for you know, a year or whatever
Speaker 1: that then he could have been the quarterback future. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he started the very first game. I remember why it
Speaker 1: For some reason they played the Cowboys. The Texans played
Speaker 1: the Cowboys. I don't know why. I remember watching that game.
Speaker 1: David Carr absorbed I did I talied it up. He
Speaker 1: absorbed one thousand, eight hundred and seventy two sacks in
Speaker 1: his career. Honorable mentioned real quick Mike Furrey two thousand
Speaker 1: and well, wait, I'm not I still have a guy left.
Speaker 1: Oh my bed, I still have a guy left in
Speaker 1: our in our one hit wonder draft this match Shob
Speaker 1: match Shab one year led the NFL in completions and
Speaker 1: yards and had a season in which he scored twenty
Speaker 1: nine passing touchdowns and I think he ran in one
Speaker 1: or two as well. He's threw for more yards than
Speaker 1: and this isn't in their prime Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: and Peyton Manning fourth almost five thousand, four thousand, eight
Speaker 1: hundred yards for Matt Shab one season when he was
Speaker 1: the quarterback of Houston Texas. You got a Houston Texans
Speaker 1: well done. He was there for a long time. Now,
Speaker 1: Matt Shob credit him this. You know how long he
Speaker 1: was in the league. That earned him a pretty big
Speaker 1: contract was Atlanta. After he did he started and finished
Speaker 1: with the Falcons. That book ended his career. How many
Speaker 1: years at least ten, sixteen year career for mattch Job.
Speaker 1: Sixteen years just takes one hit. You set for life,
Speaker 1: it really does. Although if you can be just be
Speaker 1: on roster for sixteen years making the veteran minimum, you're
Speaker 1: set for life at that point. Um. Yeah, So it
Speaker 1: was a it was a magical season for Matt Job,
Speaker 1: who never got near any of those numbers again. You
Speaker 1: mentioned honorable mentions. You mentioned Mike Furrey, the old Detroit
Speaker 1: Lions received that two thousand and six and he got
Speaker 1: he got his way into the league through the Arena League,
Speaker 1: kind of like Kurt Warner get like fifty touchdowns one years.
Speaker 1: That caught the NFL as I. But in two thousand
Speaker 1: and six with Detroit ninety eight catches, one thousand and
Speaker 1: eighty six yards and six touchdowns, they went on to
Speaker 1: draft a guy named Calvin Johnson the next year. So
Speaker 1: I think that kind of put in in the rearview.
Speaker 1: And Brandon Stokely in oh four and you know that's
Speaker 1: prime Manning Marvin Harrison rechid days. But he had sixty
Speaker 1: eight for one thousand and seventy seven yards and ten touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He was a wow. That was That is a good one.
Speaker 1: That was a great year to have Peyton Manning on
Speaker 1: your fans. All right, so let's talk about guys from
Speaker 1: last year that could someday appear on this list as
Speaker 1: one hit wonders. Before we do that really quick, the
Speaker 1: valuable one of the main takeaways other than what we're
Speaker 1: going to talk about two is just pay attention to
Speaker 1: the waiver wire the first week or two season. I
Speaker 1: can see these things get all these guys. So this
Speaker 1: is a long time debate inside the fan ball offices.
Speaker 1: Was always overreact or underreact to Week one. I've always
Speaker 1: been an overreac I'd I'd rather, I'd rather, I'd rather
Speaker 1: be wrong. And because there are just things that pop
Speaker 1: up and you can Week one that you never saw coming,
Speaker 1: and a lot of times it's legit. Okay, uh candidates
Speaker 1: to appear on this list, and from last year, I'll
Speaker 1: go first. Good Devanta Smith put up a really good
Speaker 1: years wide receiver eight last season, but I don't know
Speaker 1: that that's replicable. And it's not because he's not a
Speaker 1: good receiver. He is a good receiver. AJ Brown's a
Speaker 1: better receiver. Dallas Goddard is a key part of that offense.
Speaker 1: They will continue to run like crazy. And where I
Speaker 1: really think Devanta Smith, with this frail little body, these
Speaker 1: toothpick legs and arms, I don't think he's going to
Speaker 1: be a reliable touchdown score. I think that guy. I
Speaker 1: think I think he's got like four touchdown downside to him.
Speaker 1: If if things don't break right for DeVonta Smith and
Speaker 1: that gives him I think the possibility of never having
Speaker 1: another season where he's sitting at wide receiver eight like
Speaker 1: he did last year. I can see it, hopefully not.
Speaker 1: This was actually the pull names from for this because
Speaker 1: really there is no one quite like any of the
Speaker 1: players we mentioned. Well, I think my next guy has
Speaker 1: got a very good candidate, is a very good candidate
Speaker 1: to be a one hit. Well, I'll throw out one
Speaker 1: real quick, and it's Daniel Jones, who before last year
Speaker 1: was viewed as a wasted draft pick, a bust. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, total mistake by my old friend Dave Gettleman.
Speaker 1: But last year he was easily getting drafted outside the
Speaker 1: top twenty quarterbacks. We mentioned him last week. He finished
Speaker 1: quarterback six or seven solely based on his legs really,
Speaker 1: but I don't know. We'll see if he can continue
Speaker 1: this success. They've added Darred Waller, which is nice. But
Speaker 1: one factor I hate to throw out there is he
Speaker 1: got the bag. He got the big bag of this offseason.
Speaker 1: We've seen the big money demotivate people. I don't think
Speaker 1: Daniel he certainly can finish as a top eight quarterback again,
Speaker 1: but there's a chance that he just is relegated back
Speaker 1: to that quarterback fifteen to twenty arrange and just never
Speaker 1: quite puts up the numbers like he did in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two. My guy also got paid this offseason, but
Speaker 1: I don't think it's gonna go to his head. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's gonna be somebody's gonna get paid and relax.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's that kind of person, Gino Smith.
Speaker 1: But we got to acknowledge that last year was so
Speaker 1: far out of bounds for everything we've ever seen in
Speaker 1: the history of Gino Smith. Well, most people thought Drew
Speaker 1: Locke was gonna win the job. I think the Seahawks
Speaker 1: might have thought Drew Locke was gonna because they had
Speaker 1: Drew lock in that trade forty three hundred passing yards,
Speaker 1: thirty passing touchdowns, and he chipped in some non trivial
Speaker 1: rushing as well. He gave you a three hundred sixty
Speaker 1: six rushing yards and a rushing touchdown for Gino Smith.
Speaker 1: I can't see a scenario coming where you're gonna end
Speaker 1: up with another season this good for Gino Smith and
Speaker 1: I for his sack. I hope. So it's a crazy
Speaker 1: good story. But he was quarterback eight last year. I
Speaker 1: just I can't see him finishing like that. Again, it
Speaker 1: just seems it seems incredibly improbable, depending your scoring system.
Speaker 1: By the way, some scoring systems like yahoos. He was
Speaker 1: quarter five last year, well, he had at least two
Speaker 1: or three passing touchdowns and all but five games five
Speaker 1: or seventeen games, maybe two or three, so twelve games
Speaker 1: of two and then he only had two games with
Speaker 1: out a passing touchdown against the Niners and Arizona that
Speaker 1: which was inexplicable. But yeah, crazy consistent out of nowhere, right, Um,
Speaker 1: you know he had. He got drafted in twenty thirteen
Speaker 1: by the Jets, thrown into his rookie year. He got
Speaker 1: thrown to the Wolves and they know they tried him
Speaker 1: and it didn't work out. Zone players were punching him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: remember that got literally punching him. He broke his jaw.
Speaker 1: I don't remember who the guy was, but he had
Speaker 1: from twenty thirteen up two up in two last year,
Speaker 1: up to last year, Gino Smith had scored thirty four touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He scored thirty one last year in one season, so
Speaker 1: you know, maybe he could. I hope, I hope it
Speaker 1: doesn't work out that way, but you have to acknowledge
Speaker 1: that it's such an outlier that there's a chance that
Speaker 1: last year is gonna gonna be the exception for Geno Smith.
Speaker 1: It's possible, but like you, I hope, I hope it
Speaker 1: doesn't happen. Stay tuned Fantasy Football Weekly, and by stay tuned,
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