Eli Manning Farewell, Plus Daniel Jones Best Ball Strategy
This post is going to cover best ball strategy and will also provide justified reasoning to target Daniel Jones in drafts.
But first, LET ME GET THIS OFF MY CHEST.
This is what Eli’s future has come to. Partnering with Red Hot.
I really do not feel bad for Frank’s poor business decison. Not only do they partner with the most overrated quarterback in NFL history, but they elected to advertise on the least successful social media platform for advertisement. Not to mention, the fantasy communities presence is most heavily weighted on Twitter vs. other social media platforms. Disgusted by poor production, no fantasy manager is bound to click. Except for maybe the three blind Eli supporters that are blinded by super bowls and drafted him because they think that made him a good fantasy producer.
The only thing worse than Eli’s Manning’s continued supporters thinking that he had any fantasy value, was watching him try to evade a sack. Then being on the sideline having that annoying expression on his face that looked like he just farted and found out he misspelled the word CAT in a spelling bee.
I thought my hatred for Eli Manning was unmatched, until I told Bun that I just saw a post about Eli causing an uncontrollable urge to to write about my hatred. His response:
Instead of sending an exclamation point or F him GIPHY. He instead followed it up with:
I AM ALL ABOARD THAT TRAIN:
Now that all FU members that have social media have partially put Eli in his place for all the heartache and wrongdoing he has caused all fantasy managers and NFL viewers, we will finish him once and for all.
We will now focus on why Daniel Jones is overall a more valuable fantasy asset than Eli Manning, and why Daniel Jones is a great target for best ball.
Daniel Jones Vs. Eli Manning
Table 1 below breaks down the performance for the last four years for Eli Manning and Daniel Jones lonesome Rookie year.
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To make it easier, check the below rankings…
This just in..BREAKING NEWS FROM BUN:
Let’s try this again. To make the analysis more aesthetically pleasing, please find table 2 below, which ranks each category of table 1 comparatively between Manning and Jones performances.
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In short, in comparison to one another, the green means Manning or Jones finished first in the metric for the years shown. Yellow means they finished second.
Jones had more top three weekly quarterback finishes than Manning. Jones had four, Manning had one in 2017.
Manning didn’t finish one week from 2015-2019 as the QB1 for a week. Jones did it twice!
Jones averaged three more points per week than Manning’s meagly 15.81 best in 2018.
Manning couldn’t manage to throw more 300 yard passing games than Jones in four years. Manning even averaged more attempts and completions per game every year. Those green 1s and yellow 2s for completions and attempts really should be RED.
Even with Jones tying for the 10th most interceptions in 2019, Manning had more in 2016 and 2017. 2016 was a bottom 5 performance, 2017 a bottom 7 for Manning.
I literally just started laughing thinking about rushing. Manning averaged -1 yards per game in 2016. I’ll give to him though, they did make the playoffs that year. Then Aaron Rodgers hail-married all over his ass for four touchdowns.
ELI MANNING WAS AWFUL...But Daniel Jones has potential and is the perfect candidate to fill a roster spot on your best ball team!
Best Ball Strategy
Let’s again focus on the number of top finishes Daniel Jones had in 2019.
There is only one other rookie quarterback to have at least one first place top weekly finish in a rookie season. That player is DeShaun Watson who also had two in 2017.
His four top three weekly finishes are the most by a rookie quarterback in the last four years. More than Josh Allen’s three in 2018 and DeShaun Watson’s three in 2017. Okay. DeShaun Watson is really good and did that in 7 games, but Carson Wentz and Dak Prescott didn’t even have one top three finish their 2016 rookie season. Dak Prescott finished as the QB6 in 2016! Finishing 6th, the most points Dak had in one game was 28.28 points and he finished that week as the QB5. His second best score was 25.64 points. Daniel Jones finished his top four weeks with the following points: 36.24, 35.28, 30.32, 30.18!
The Giants were beat down with injuries last year. They also had a minor encounter with a little performance enhancement violation:
Golden Tate (WR) missed 4 games due to a PEDs and 1 game due to a concussion.
Sterling Shephard (WR) missed 6 games total due to concussions and a thumb injury.
Darius Slayton (WR) missed 2 games due to a hamstring and groin issue.
Evan Engram (TE) was placed on season ending IR and missed half the season.
Saquon Barkley (RB) missed two games due to an ankle injury.
Jones also missed two games due to an ankle injury.
On top of having beat up receivers or no receivers to throw to, the Giants offensive line was the tenth worst in PFF.com pass block efficiency ranking, allowing the 9th most sacks (25). To address this issue, the Giants management team spent two of it’s top three 2020 draft picks on offensive lineman. One of who, Andrew Thomas, was the 4th overall pick and the highest graded OT by PFF in the 2020 draft class. Note: Since writing this veteran OT Nate Solder has opted out of the 2020 season, which probably off-sets the gain of both drafted rookies.
Final Thoughts
So… Daniel Jones, who had four games over 30 plus points in 2020 will be getting all of his weapons back healthy. There is not only reason to love the high ceiling week potential, but there could be room for consistency improvement and potential to end the year as a QB1.
Jones is currently being drafted in the nineth to tenth rounds. A more than manageable price tag for the upside.
After years of waiting, let’s all take a moment to be excited for real fantasy potential and production for all positions in a Giants uniforms. Thank you, Daniel Jones.
Let’s also all just take a moment to remember how awful, overrated and absolutely terrible Eli Manning was.
After I had Texas Pete for the first time, I haven’t purchased Red Hot since.
Danny Dimes should partner with Texas Pete.
If you enjoyed this post and want to support all fantasy managers that were tormented and abused by Eli’s poor production, please block @EliManning. S/o us out on twitter @fantasyunleashd with a screenshot of your block and we’ll retweet. Feel free to add in any commentary on how you feel about, Eli.
Warning!: Daniel Jones has a difficult schedule to start the season (Pittsburgh, Chicago, 49ers, Rams). Understand that his production may be limited in early weeks!
Data Source: All raw data for weekly analysis was pulled from pro-football-reference.com
