Baker Mayfield: Strong Fantasy Football Option? Analysis
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00:02 - Does Baker Mayfield give me 20 points today?
00:08 He's sitting at 6,800 on Fandle, 5,500 on DK.
00:12 What do you foresee as a point total
00:14 for Baker Mayfield today?
00:16 - I think he can get close to it.
00:18 I think this range here between the 18 to 21 point range
00:21 is within his grasp.
00:23 Gardner Minshew is a little interesting too
00:24 against Tennessee this week,
00:27 but Mayfield I give the slight edge to.
00:28 They're kind of similar in price,
00:30 but I'm gonna give the slight edge here to Baker Mayfield.
00:33 And here's why.
00:33 Number one, he's at home.
00:34 I know Carolina has been good against the pass,
00:37 theoretically, but again,
00:38 they've been good against the pass
00:39 because all teams do all day is just run on them
00:41 because you can't, you can run for days.
00:44 This is where I start to question,
00:45 can this Carolina team get their act together
00:50 and show up on the road here
00:52 after firing their head coach,
00:53 firing their quarterback coach,
00:55 firing their running back coach?
00:56 I mean, those guys are all involved in the game planning.
00:59 And now all of a sudden you're passing that responsibility
01:01 off to a lot of other teams,
01:03 a lot of other people, excuse me, in that clubhouse.
01:05 I think that's a lot.
01:06 I think that's a lot to ask for.
01:08 So I don't know if that locker room is ready
01:10 for this kind of challenge.
01:11 I really don't.
01:12 I don't think it's a big rallying cry to fire Frank Reich.
01:14 I think he's probably a very well-liked guy.
01:17 It just seems like the results weren't there.
01:19 Now, Baker Mayfield, when it talks about results,
01:21 I know last week against Indianapolis
01:23 and then San Fran the week before, a little underwhelming,
01:25 but he had lots of opportunities
01:26 in that San Francisco game.
01:27 He just fell short.
01:28 That pass rush was just too much for him.
01:30 If you go back before that against Tennessee, 19 points,
01:32 against Houston, 19 points,
01:34 against the Buffalo Bills defense, 21 points.
01:36 So that version of Baker Mayfield today
01:39 against the Carolina Panthers, I think is really possible.
01:43 And if you look at that price tag,
01:44 I think it really becomes an interesting investment
01:46 because this is the guy that allows you to unlock
01:49 Bijon, A.J. Brown, the same lineup,
01:51 Amon Ra, A.J. Brown, the same lineup.
01:54 Like that's the kind of stuff that you want to get into.
01:56 So if you don't want to go up to the top of the board at QB,
01:58 you want to fade it down here in draft Kings,
02:00 especially where you really have to do that
02:02 in the big tournaments.
02:03 I think Baker Mayfield is very much in play.
02:05 And if you look at the easy pairing with him and Mike Evans,
02:08 I know Horn is back, but it's his first game back in a while.
02:11 I think Evans, that touchdown equity for him,
02:13 he's just been on such a roll.
02:14 He's averaging over his last six games, a touchdown a game.
02:17 I think you got to look at that combo this week.
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