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2015 Coach Otis All-Value Team <(^v^)> (1 Viewer)

Otis

Footballguy
Look up there! What is it? It's a bird! It's a plane! No, no, definitely a bird!

OMG.

It's a HAWK.

BOOM.

Greetings sportsfans. It's September. This is what you've been waiting for, as you've been pummeled with e-mails from guys with names like Bob, Joe, Drew, Steve, Henry, Aaron, Jason; as you've been creasing the corners on your sweet FANTASY mags; as you've been loading up apps, and dominators, and dominatrixes, and VBDs and ADPs and IDPS. This is what you've been smiling about as you go to sleep each night, your head hitting your pillow like a kid on Christmas eve. "Coach is coming. Coach is coming."

Coach is here.

First, apologies for our delay. We got tied up in Hawk HQ this season, after we got hit with some viruses and DOS attacks and whatnot from the guys over at FFToday or The Huddle or Fantasy Flyer, or whatever the hell they're called. But that's all behind us now. We're recovered, and we're here, and we've got the best fantasy content you'll see this side of the net.

You want to really show the guys in your league who's boss? Throw away your first round pick. Seriously. Toss it. When you're sitting around the table and your pick comes up and everyone looks at you, just politely say "pass," then nonchalantly take a sip of your beer. Do the same thing in the second round. Let them laugh. That's just a sign of their insecurity. The quiet ones are the ones who are realizing, right at that very moment, that they aren't dealing with just any ordinary fantasy magic football guy. This is a real life hawk, sitting right across the table from them, and the one thing that is going through their mind is what they should be putting in the Memo field of the $50 check they are writing to you, because this fantasy season has already ended for them. It’s like the schoolyard bully taking everyone’s lunch money, except he doesn’t have to ask--the kids just line up and fork it over.
This is it. The 2015 All-Value All-Otis All-Day All-Hawk Team. Toss your first few picks in the crapper and start from scratch. Don't be the nerd who brings a stack of handwritten notes to the draft. Don't be the even bigger nerd who's got an extension cord running out poolside and asking Jake for the Wifi password because you need to fire up a draft spread sheet on your tablet. No. Instead, you roll in without any cheatsheets or sheet cheats or draft rankings or ADPs or APDs; when it's your turn in the first few rounds, you just politely decline to pick. Grab a few beers, wait for the mid-rounds, and then make fantasy history.

Babe Ruth wasn't great because he was chubby and won a bunch. He was great because he called his shots and then smashed baseballs out of stadiums. Step up to Hawk level, call your shot, and show the dorks from your buddy's college fraternity how it's done.

With that said, let's sharpen up the claws and have at it...

QB

  • Philip Rivers
Philip Rivers is the guy who dated your older sister in high school, and you used to look at him and think "### #### that guy is so freaking cool and handsome." And so you would go down to your basement and do sets of pushups with the Whitesnake mix tape rocking in the background and think about Phil. And then you started attending practice and watching him, and you would study his moves. And then you started clipping pictures of him from the high school Badger Gazette and start taping them to the corners of the mirror in your workout room. It got a little weird.

What's even weirder is the nerds in your fantasy league, who supposedly agonize about this crap all year long, taking 13 other QBs off the board before someone takes Rivers. That's just insane.

Keenan Allen will emerge from a sophomore slump with a chip on his shoulder and a new man who helps move the chains all day every day. Ledarius Green is going to continue to catch a touchdown basically every time the ball is within 10 feet of him. Gordon and Little Ollie are going to keep taking it to the house on dump-offs. And Rivers is going to profit.

Take him at QB 14 or 15, after all the other nerds have picked QBs, and end up with a guy who finishes top 5.

Top 5 QB finish


RB


  • Duke Johnson
Names matter. When we are young, our parents give us names, and that can seals our destiny. It guides us in life. From that very moment, our path crystallizes. A name can impact where you live, what your job will be, how much money you'll make. It can affect where you'll live. It's a part of you.
THE DUKE. Enter Duke Johnson. What a great name. If you're going to have a baby and make him be an NFL football star, calling hime "Duke" is a great way to get there. He's also going to be the lead runner on an improving Cleveland Browns team that will start the season slow but finish strong, and the Duke will be the engine of this offense.

When you draft him somewhere around RB42, fully expecting you are getting a top 15 RB, you need to draft him with pizazz. You've maybe been pretty laid back the rest of the draft, but this is the time to get animated -- look up at everyone, then widen your eyes, then stand up, slam your beer down on the table, and yell, "the DUKE!!!."
Top 15 RB finish

  • Knile Davis
Priest Holmes. Larry Johnson. Jamaal Charles. Knile Davis. It's not hard to see this pattern.

Jamaal Charles has about a million miles on those wheels at this point, and it's going to start to show. Make no mistake, he WILL get nicked up. And when he does, Knile Davis, probably the best backup RB in the league, will swoop in and win championships for fantasynerds everywhere.

At RB45, you're getting a guy who is ready to bust at the seams. He's been a dynamo whenever he's gotten the playing time. This year, he'll get more of he playing time. So you draft him late, and you end up with a guy who will shoulder the load for your team come playoff time.
RB12-RB16 finish


WR

  • Allen Hurns
The Hit Man. He's still the best and most effective receiver on a team that is young and improving, he'll earn a starting spot and earn the affections of fans everywhere. Yeldon takes a bunch of attention of defenses at the line of scrimmage, Juilius Thomas takes a bunch of other attention underneath, and Bortles is just going to lollipop footballs to Hurns all day and all night and watch Hurns glide into the end zone.



He is WR70+ off the board right now. But he's a guy who has the talent and conviction to lead this league in a bunch of categories. If there is a guy who can come out of nowhere to jump into the top 15, it's him. That said, we'll predict conservatively that he'll finish between WR 25-30.

Top 25-30 WR

  • Markus Wheaton
That you can get Wheaton at WR 47 seems silly to me. It reminds of the time I went down to East Texas and gas was 2 bucks and cigarettes were 5 bucks and I remember thinking "come on, this can't be serious." It WAS serious. For real.
Markus Wheaton is a 12 dollar pack of cigarettes on sale for less than half that. He is a young stud on the verge of a breakout. If you don't draft Markus Wheaton in your drafts this year, you might want to think about picking up other hobbies. Don't listen to what your friends say, there is absolutely nothing shameful about collecting stamps. Also, model rockets can be fun. These days they have all sorts of cool ones, like model rockets you can build that look like Star Wars planes, and, like, you know, ones that look like the Top Gun fighter jets. I mean, Maverick and Goose right? C'mon?!

In other words, there are lots of other things you can do with your talents I'm sure, and none of those things has to be lame, or boring. It can all be cool. We're all cool. That's what's so great about us as people. We're all different and special in our own ways, and that's what makes us unique and individual.

Markus Wheaton is unique and special because he can help you beat all your nerdy friends in fantasy football.

Top 20 WR
TE

  • Ladarius Green
In his fantasy drafts, Jimmy Graham is drafting Ladarius Green. Julius Thomas asks Green for his autograph. Everyone everywhere stares in amazement at Ladarius Green. And yet he's typically going as he 28th TE in your draft. Why is that?

Maybe your leaguemates don't like winning. Maybe they haven't paid enough attention to football this year or last year for that matter. Maybe they drink too much. Maybe their wives don't give them much attention at home, and their kids aren't doing well in school, and they're really frustrated with the neighbor who dumps his grass clippings over the property line. Maybe they're still dealing with the fact that their parents got divorced when they were young, and to this day they still have that dream that they're drowning, and they wake up in a panicked sweat, and they always feel like they have something to prove. Maybe they just have no confidence because Jim in accounting totally got into their heads. It doesn't really matter. What matters is that you're not a therapist, you're not there to make a donation, you're there to win.

Green is freakishly big, fast, strong, has incredibly good hands, has had another year of tutelage from one of the best TEs of all time, and has an undeniable ability to help you win. Oh, and with Gates suspended, he'll start hot. By playoff time, this guy will be rolling at top 5 TE production. At TE28, that's :moneybag:

Top 5 TE


K

  • LOL

Stay tuned, fly high and stay dry my feathered friends.

- Coach


 
Rivers is what he is, streaky but a good QBBC candidate. Half the time he'll give you a top 6 numbers, others he'll be in the bottom half of scoring

Duke won't get enough work to finish top 15.

Everyone loves Knile Davis's measurables but he's actually been a poor runner heavily dependent on volume when given the chance. Keep an eye on West.

Only chance Wheaton finishes top 20 WR if Bryant rolls up another blunt.

Green is really good in Madden 16.

 
With you on Hurns for sure coach. I think he could really have a good year.

 
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Thank you coach. I drafted Gates with my last pick, and now feel much better about it.

 
dammit, i picked a few of these guys in the subscriber contest.

oh, and rumor is that Duke's noodle is fried.

 
Otis said:
RB

  • Duke Johnson
Names matter. When we are young, our parents give us names, and that can seals our destiny. It guides us in life. From that very moment, our path crystallizes. A name can impact where you live, what your job will be, how much money you'll make. It can affect where you'll live. It's a part of you.
THE DUKE. Enter Duke Johnson. What a great name. If you're going to have a baby and make him be an NFL football star, calling hime "Duke" is a great way to get there. He's also going to be the lead runner on an improving Cleveland Browns team that will start the season slow but finish strong, and the Duke will be the engine of this offense.

When you draft him somewhere around RB42, fully expecting you are getting a top 15 RB, you need to draft him with pizazz. You've maybe been pretty laid back the rest of the draft, but this is the time to get animated -- look up at everyone, then widen your eyes, then stand up, slam your beer down on the table, and yell, "the DUKE!!!."
Top 15 RB finish
Stay tuned, fly high and stay dry my feathered friends.

- Coach
LOL. Mush mellon head doesn't have the body nor the dome to carry the load.

 
Like my brethren cast of hawks die-hards, I look forward to this every year with bated breath.

Even the long delay didn't phase me -- I knew it was just part of the hawk psychology, letting everyone frantically collect ADP and Top 200 lists while I sat by idly sharpening my talons, waiting for the rallying screech from The Almighty Alpha Hawk Otis for us to take flight and, like the Mighty Icarus, touch the sun with gilded wings (or flame out spectacularly in a ball of hellfire trying).

But I feel a little let down with this clutch of info-eggs. The brood this season isn't as strong.

I guess I was used to the kind of Ferruginous hawk advice of years' past -- big, bold bets that strike like a giant brown bolt out of the semi-arid sky, bringing down teams as powerful as Golden eagles or thwarting cunning snipers who keep one eye on the waiver wire like so many Great Horned Owls.

This was the advice that toppled other birds of prey from their roosts by a counter-intuitive thunderclap of taking an untested WR3 who sits behind two aging stars, or correctly identifying the right sleeper out of the tens of preseason wannabes with sharp, raptor eyes.

I would also be fine with the kind of Red Tailed Hawk advice doled out in the past -- constructing a team that looks as puzzling and varied as the myriad lands this hawk dwells upon. Enduring the dry desert of forgoing any running back until the 5th round; loading up on mid-tier TEs with huge upside like so many riberries from the tropical rainforests of the meso-Americas.

This kind of advice enabled you to soar the heavenly aeries, or like the Red Tailed Hawk, dive to the cellar at over 120 mph. Either way, you were in for a thrilling ride that made all the other mangy rodents and foul weasels in your league tremble before your majestic shadow overhead while you did it.

But this year's advice is kind of like a Swainsons Hawk -- smaller, dull of feather and claw. Preferring the bland grassland habitat of known upside sleepers like Wheaton and Green; safe in its nest of vanilla selections like Rivers and flex contributors like Duke Johnson.

Maybe it's just this old bird getting older and jaded. Maybe the sheer thrill of previous hunts have made me too desensitized to this years' genius. Or maybe it's just that this year's advice seems more cobbled together last-minute than usual. Either way, I'm just not inspired as I was in years' past.

Don't get me wrong, I will still join the Otis-led echelon in the Yearly Great Migration to another championship. How could you not when faced with such ongoing Delphic predictions of genius?

But my Hawk Screech won't be as shrill this year.

 
That's a fun read.

I almost spit my drink out when I read about Allen Hurns having conviction. Lolz

 
Huh, I was already starting to get really bad vibes about Duke Johnson's apparent brittleness. Perhaps it's time to dump him onto the waiver wire.

 
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Thanks O. It was worth the wait. And to all you haters, how bout you make some formal *thread* prognostications?

In on Rivers / Crowell - not sure how to feel about that... hoping the laws of averages are in my favor.

And props for this one "In his fantasy drafts, Jimmy Graham is drafting Ladarius Green."

 


Look up there! What is it? It's a bird! It's a plane! No, no, definitely a bird!

OMG.

It's a HAWK.

BOOM.

Greetings sportsfans. It's September. This is what you've been waiting for, as you've been pummeled with e-mails from guys with names like Bob, Joe, Drew, Steve, Henry, Aaron, Jason; as you've been creasing the corners on your sweet FANTASY mags; as you've been loading up apps, and dominators, and dominatrixes, and VBDs and ADPs and IDPS. This is what you've been smiling about as you go to sleep each night, your head hitting your pillow like a kid on Christmas eve. "Coach is coming. Coach is coming."

Coach is here.

First, apologies for our delay. We got tied up in Hawk HQ this season, after we got hit with some viruses and DOS attacks and whatnot from the guys over at FFToday or The Huddle or Fantasy Flyer, or whatever the hell they're called. But that's all behind us now. We're recovered, and we're here, and we've got the best fantasy content you'll see this side of the net.

You want to really show the guys in your league who's boss? Throw away your first round pick. Seriously. Toss it. When you're sitting around the table and your pick comes up and everyone looks at you, just politely say "pass," then nonchalantly take a sip of your beer. Do the same thing in the second round. Let them laugh. That's just a sign of their insecurity. The quiet ones are the ones who are realizing, right at that very moment, that they aren't dealing with just any ordinary fantasy magic football guy. This is a real life hawk, sitting right across the table from them, and the one thing that is going through their mind is what they should be putting in the Memo field of the $50 check they are writing to you, because this fantasy season has already ended for them. Its like the schoolyard bully taking everyones lunch money, except he doesnt have to ask--the kids just line up and fork it over.





This is it. The 2015 All-Value All-Otis All-Day All-Hawk Team. Toss your first few picks in the crapper and start from scratch. Don't be the nerd who brings a stack of handwritten notes to the draft. Don't be the even bigger nerd who's got an extension cord running out poolside and asking Jake for the Wifi password because you need to fire up a draft spread sheet on your tablet. No. Instead, you roll in without any cheatsheets or sheet cheats or draft rankings or ADPs or APDs; when it's your turn in the first few rounds, you just politely decline to pick. Grab a few beers, wait for the mid-rounds, and then make fantasy history.



Babe Ruth wasn't great because he was chubby and won a bunch. He was great because he called his shots and then smashed baseballs out of stadiums. Step up to Hawk level, call your shot, and show the dorks from your buddy's college fraternity how it's done.



With that said, let's sharpen up the claws and have at it...





QB

  • Philip Rivers
Philip Rivers is the guy who dated your older sister in high school, and you used to look at him and think "### #### that guy is so freaking cool and handsome." And so you would go down to your basement and do sets of pushups with the Whitesnake mix tape rocking in the background and think about Phil. And then you started attending practice and watching him, and you would study his moves. And then you started clipping pictures of him from the high school Badger Gazette and start taping them to the corners of the mirror in your workout room. It got a little weird.



What's even weirder is the nerds in your fantasy league, who supposedly agonize about this crap all year long, taking 13 other QBs off the board before someone takes Rivers. That's just insane.



Keenan Allen will emerge from a sophomore slump with a chip on his shoulder and a new man who helps move the chains all day every day. Ledarius Green is going to continue to catch a touchdown basically every time the ball is within 10 feet of him. Gordon and Little Ollie are going to keep taking it to the house on dump-offs. And Rivers is going to profit.



Take him at QB 14 or 15, after all the other nerds have picked QBs, and end up with a guy who finishes top 5.



Top 5 QB finish

RB

  • Duke Johnson
Names matter. When we are young, our parents give us names, and that can seals our destiny. It guides us in life. From that very moment, our path crystallizes. A name can impact where you live, what your job will be, how much money you'll make. It can affect where you'll live. It's a part of you.





THE DUKE. Enter Duke Johnson. What a great name. If you're going to have a baby and make him be an NFL football star, calling hime "Duke" is a great way to get there. He's also going to be the lead runner on an improving Cleveland Browns team that will start the season slow but finish strong, and the Duke will be the engine of this offense.



When you draft him somewhere around RB42, fully expecting you are getting a top 15 RB, you need to draft him with pizazz. You've maybe been pretty laid back the rest of the draft, but this is the time to get animated -- look up at everyone, then widen your eyes, then stand up, slam your beer down on the table, and yell, "the DUKE!!!."





Top 15 RB finish





  • Knile Davis
Priest Holmes. Larry Johnson. Jamaal Charles. Knile Davis. It's not hard to see this pattern.



Jamaal Charles has about a million miles on those wheels at this point, and it's going to start to show. Make no mistake, he WILL get nicked up. And when he does, Knile Davis, probably the best backup RB in the league, will swoop in and win championships for fantasynerds everywhere.



At RB45, you're getting a guy who is ready to bust at the seams. He's been a dynamo whenever he's gotten the playing time. This year, he'll get more of he playing time. So you draft him late, and you end up with a guy who will shoulder the load for your team come playoff time.





RB12-RB16 finish





WR

  • Allen Hurns
The Hit Man. He's still the best and most effective receiver on a team that is young and improving, he'll earn a starting spot and earn the affections of fans everywhere. Yeldon takes a bunch of attention of defenses at the line of scrimmage, Juilius Thomas takes a bunch of other attention underneath, and Bortles is just going to lollipop footballs to Hurns all day and all night and watch Hurns glide into the end zone.



He is WR70+ off the board right now. But he's a guy who has the talent and conviction to lead this league in a bunch of categories. If there is a guy who can come out of nowhere to jump into the top 15, it's him. That said, we'll predict conservatively that he'll finish between WR 25-30.





Top 25-30 WR



  • Markus Wheaton
That you can get Wheaton at WR 47 seems silly to me. It reminds of the time I went down to East Texas and gas was 2 bucks and cigarettes were 5 bucks and I remember thinking "come on, this can't be serious." It WAS serious. For real.



Markus Wheaton is a 12 dollar pack of cigarettes on sale for less than half that. He is a young stud on the verge of a breakout. If you don't draft Markus Wheaton in your drafts this year, you might want to think about picking up other hobbies. Don't listen to what your friends say, there is absolutely nothing shameful about collecting stamps. Also, model rockets can be fun. These days they have all sorts of cool ones, like model rockets you can build that look like Star Wars planes, and, like, you know, ones that look like the Top Gun fighter jets. I mean, Maverick and Goose right? C'mon?!



In other words, there are lots of other things you can do with your talents I'm sure, and none of those things has to be lame, or boring. It can all be cool. We're all cool. That's what's so great about us as people. We're all different and special in our own ways, and that's what makes us unique and individual.



Markus Wheaton is unique and special because he can help you beat all your nerdy friends in fantasy football.



Top 20 WR



TE

  • Ladarius Green
In his fantasy drafts, Jimmy Graham is drafting Ladarius Green. Julius Thomas asks Green for his autograph. Everyone everywhere stares in amazement at Ladarius Green. And yet he's typically going as he 28th TE in your draft. Why is that?



Maybe your leaguemates don't like winning. Maybe they haven't paid enough attention to football this year or last year for that matter. Maybe they drink too much. Maybe their wives don't give them much attention at home, and their kids aren't doing well in school, and they're really frustrated with the neighbor who dumps his grass clippings over the property line. Maybe they're still dealing with the fact that their parents got divorced when they were young, and to this day they still have that dream that they're drowning, and they wake up in a panicked sweat, and they always feel like they have something to prove. Maybe they just have no confidence because Jim in accounting totally got into their heads. It doesn't really matter. What matters is that you're not a therapist, you're not there to make a donation, you're there to win.



Green is freakishly big, fast, strong, has incredibly good hands, has had another year of tutelage from one of the best TEs of all time, and has an undeniable ability to help you win. Oh, and with Gates suspended, he'll start hot. By playoff time, this guy will be rolling at top 5 TE production. At TE28, that's :moneybag:



Top 5 TE





K

  • LOL


Stay tuned, fly high and stay dry my feathered friends.



- Coach
Great stuff. I SO wish I would have come across this, before my draft. You are only wrong about one thing: the "much improved" Cleveland Browns.

 
Let's see if Coach was right, and Knile is the play here, or whether West swoops in for the gig.

:popcorn:

 
Excellent, I have zero overlap!
Sorry to hear that. Then I guess you missed out on Rivers, Hurns, Duke Johnson and Ladarius Green all outperforming their draft slots. Better luck next year.
I paired Eifert and Green together in just about every league, thinking Green would look so good they wouldn't give Gates his job back, but it appears we were both wrong and the Chargers did give Gates his job back, so I don't know why you are beating your chest about that one. Green was great value while Gates was out, but he won't matter during the important part of fantasy football. =/ I'm not any happier about it than you are, but I'm at least willing to admit the reality of the situation. The salt in the wound is that he's now injured, too.

Duke Johnson is a middling play at best in standard leagues. You forgot to stipulate he was a PPR only pick. Half credit.

You hit on Hurns, but he's not "the best and most effective receiver on that team." Still get full credit.

Rivers was just outside the top 5 and now he's lost his top target. He'll be a sketchy play down the stretch. I'll still give full credit.

Davis and Wheaton are terrible.

You get credit for 2.5 out of 6. Not bad. Not braggable, either.

 

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