Bold Predictions for 2014: Part Two

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For a few years now I have “written” a perennial article on bold predictions for the upcoming NFL season and beyond. I added the quotation marks in the previous sentence because what I really do is ask other people to write these predictions, collect their responses and then publish them taking most of the glory by having my name in the byline.

Just so you, the reader, has an idea of what is about to titillate your mind and make you happy or angry… I will tell you what I asked the DLF team members to give me. I first asked for three bold, but very possible, statements beginning with the words “I wouldn’t be shocked if.” Then I asked for one super bold statement with little chance of happening. Finally, I asked everyone to give me one statement reminiscent of Jim Carrey in Dumb and Dumber enthusiastically declaring, “So you’re telling me there’s a chance.” This final statement has virtually no shot of actually coming to fruition, but it’s likely going to be funny and you never know, it might just come true.

As with just about everything I do, I’m going to make this a contest. At the very bottom of this article you will find a form. In that form, I want you to make a bold prediction for the 2014 NFL Season. It has to be something that can be proven true or false by the end of the season like “The Broncos will not make the playoffs” or Julio Jones will score more fantasy points than Calvin Johnson and Jamaal Charles combined.” I cannot accept statements like “Josh Gordon will once again be a top five dynasty buy next season.”

So, why do I want you to make predictions?

At the end of the season, I will go through your predictions like a junior high teacher grading papers. I will determine which predictions came true. Once I have my list of correct bold predictions, I will have the DLF team vote on which prediction was the boldest of the ones THAT ACTUALLY CAME TRUE. Basically, you don’t want to play it too safe and you don’t want to go too crazy.  The winner will receive a free one-year subscription to DLF Premium and a DLF shirt.

We posted part one yesterday and split it up into two parts for easy reading. At this point, I got lazy and just put them in order of when I received them.

Jaron Foster

• I wouldn’t be shocked if Arian Foster finishes as a top 5 player at his position.
• I wouldn’t be shocked if next offseason Cordarrelle Patterson is a top 5 ranked dynasty player at his position.
• I wouldn’t be shocked if Kendall Wright has a better season than Victor Cruz
• Super bold prediction:  Marques Colston and Roddy White will both be top-15 WRs
• Ridiculously, almost hilariously bold prediction: Danny Amendola and Hakeem Nicks each start 16 games this season! Oh wait, you want this to be somewhat realistic? Andre Johnson gets traded to the Raiders to reunite with his BFF Matt Schaub and they both end the year on IR.

Eric Hardter

• I wouldn’t be shocked if Jordan Reed finishes as a top 5 player at his position.
• I wouldn’t be shocked if next off-season Andre Ellington is a top 5 ranked dynasty player at his position.
• I wouldn’t be shocked if CJ Spiller has a better season than Le’Veon Bell.
• Super bold prediction:  DeMarco Murray will stay healthy for 16 games and finish as a top-3 PPR RB.
• Ridiculously, almost hilariously bold prediction: Due to the immutable height/weight laws at the WR position, Kenny Britt will overcome his injuries and rightfully take his place as the only fantasy-viable pass-catcher on the Rams, finishing with 1,400 yards and 15 touchdowns.

Leo Paciga

• I wouldn’t be shocked if Alfred Morris finishes as a top 5 player at his position.
• I wouldn’t be shocked if next offseason Christine Michael is a top 5 ranked dynasty player at his position after Lynch spends most of 2014 nursing injuries and CMike capitalizes on the opportunity.
• I wouldn’t be shocked if Eli Manning (w/Ben McAdoo as OC) has a better season than Andy Dalton, Big Ben and Philip Rivers.
• Super bold prediction:  Aaron Dobson finishes the season with 70 receptions, 1,050 yards and 8 touchdowns for the Patriots
• Ridiculously, almost hilariously bold prediction: Da’Rick Rogers and Donte Moncrief finish as the top two receivers for the Colts in ’14.

Jason Blanton

• I wouldn’t be shocked if Kyle Rudolph finishes as a top 2 player at his position.
• I wouldn’t be shocked if next off-season Marcus Lattimore is a top 5 ranked dynasty player at his position.
• I wouldn’t be shocked if Jeremy Hill has a better season than Giovani Bernard.
• Super bold prediction: By the end of the season, Isaiah Crowell is a top 12 running back.
• Ridiculously, almost hilariously bold prediction: David Wilson will be a top 5 ppr running back.

Rob Pitzer

• I wouldn’t be shocked if Jerrick McKinnon is a top-20 dynasty back a year from now.
• I wouldn’t be shocked if Ladarius Green is a top-3 TE in 2014.
• I wouldn’t be shocked if the Rams or Cardinals bump the Seahawks or 49ers out of the playoffs.
• Super bold prediction:  Eli Manning is cut and Tom Coughlin is fired prior to 2015.
• Ridiculously, almost hilariously bold prediction:  Tony Romo throws for 6.000 yards and 75 TDs but the Cowboys go 2-14 as the defense gives up 800 points.  Romo receives the lion’s share of the blame.

[inlinead]Jeff Beran

• I wouldn’t be shocked if Jarvis Landry finishes the season as a top 5 rookie WR.
• I wouldn’t be shocked if Tavon Austin has a better sophomore season than Cordarelle Patterson.
• I wouldn’t be shocked if Marshawn Lynch once again starts all 16 games while receiving 300+ carries, causing weekly Twitter riots from the CMike Fan Club.
• Super bold prediction: Matt Ryan and Ryan Tannehill both finish the season as Top 5 QBs.
• Ridiculously, almost hilariously bold prediction: The Browns respond to Johnny Manziel‘s public display of displeasure (via his Instagram and Twitter accounts, obviously) with his crop of WRs by bringing in Terrell Owens, Chad Johnson, and Randy Moss for a workout. In an(other) act of desperate short-sightedness, they sign all three to appease their young star.  Before ESPN is even able to break ground on building their satellite office in Cleveland, Johnny Football is literally broken in half by a high-low hit from JJ Watt and Jadeveon Clowney in Week 11. Donations of cash bank rolls are requested in lieu of flowers at his memorial service.

Steve Wyremski

• I wouldn’t be shocked if Khiry Robinson is a top-20 dynasty running back a year from now.
• I wouldn’t be shocked if Cecil Shorts is a top 20 WR in 2014.
• I wouldn’t be shocked if Julian Edelman has a better season than Cordarrelle Patterson and Keenan Allen
• Super bold prediction:   Demetrius Harris finishes as a top 10 tight end.
• Ridiculously, almost hilariously bold prediction:  Ladarius Green both makes and crushes fantasy owners’ dreams as he relegates a future hall of famer to the bench and contributes to the bust of a sophomore dynasty darling, on his way to 100 receptions, 1,400 yards and 15 touchdowns, a 2014 TE1 finish and the best season by a tight end in NFL history. Allen owners are found torturing voodoo dolls with ‘Michael Clayton 2.0’ pasted to its chest.

Jacob Feldman

• I wouldn’t be shocked if Tony Romo finishes as a top 5 player at his position.
• I wouldn’t be shocked if next offseason Terrance West is a top 10 ranked dynasty player at his position after Tate gets hurt again, Crowell ends up in yet another doghouse and West runs away with the job.
• I wouldn’t be shocked if Mike Wallace has a better season than Corrdarrelle Patterson and Justin Hunter.
• Super bold prediction:  Lance Dunbar slides into the Joique Bell role for Linehan’s offense and has over 1,000 combined yards
• Ridiculously, almost hilariously bold prediction: Jonathan Stewart invites Christine Michael out to dinner and passes the curse on in a secret ritual without Michael’s knowledge. Michael misses eight games due to injury this season while teasing owners at times during the other games. Michael’s supporters are more feverish than ever heading into 2015 due to those teases, but he follows Stewart’s history of injuries. On the flip side, having passed on the curse, Stewart plays all 16 games and finishes with 1,000+ rushing yards and 8+ TDs.

Russell Clay

• I wouldn’t be shocked if Alshon Jeffery, Michael Floyd and Keenan Allen all don’t post a top 10 fantasy season.
• I wouldn’t be shocked if David Wilson is a top 15 running back by next off=season
• I wouldn’t be shocked if Roddy White has a better season than Pierre Garcon and Antonio Brown
• Super bold prediction:  Robert Woods goes for 1,100 yards and six touchdowns
• Ridiculously, almost hilariously bold prediction: Ryan Mathews gets hurt in week two and Donald Brown rumbles and stumbles to the most inconceivable top 5 running back season of all-time.

Eric Olinger

• I wouldn’t be shocked if Arian Foster finishes as a top 5 player at his position.
• I wouldn’t be shocked if next off-season Kyle Rudolph is a top 5 ranked dynasty player at his position.
• I wouldn’t be shocked if Golden Tate outperforms Percy Harvin in PPR leagues.
• Super bold prediction:  Terrance West locks up the lead gig in Cleveland is the Alfred Morris of 2014 with 1,100 yards & 10 TDs.
• Ridiculously, almost hilariously bold prediction: David Wilson will have six 100 yard rushing games this season and six games of fewer than 20 yards and still lead the G-Men in rushing to the chagrin of Rashad Jennings lovers.

The FF Ghost

• I wouldn’t be shocked if Kyle Rudolph finishes as a top 5 player at his position.
• I wouldn’t be shocked if next off-season Michael Floyd is a top 5 ranked dynasty player at his position.
• I wouldn’t be shocked if Marvin Jones outperforms Cordarrelle Patterson in PPR leagues.
• Super bold prediction: Sammy Watkins isn’t in the top three rookie wide receivers this season.
• Ridiculously, almost hilariously bold prediction: The 49ers will look to Michael Crabtree on the final play of their season for a third straight year…he will fail again.

Dan Meylor

Rob Leath (Last, because he took a shot at me based on jealousy of my amazing dynasty teams):

• I wouldn’t be shocked if Lamar Miller thrived in a new scheme on his way to 1,600 all-purpose yards.
• I wouldn’t be shocked if Andrew Hawkins became a safety valve for the Browns en route to 85+ catches.
• I wouldn’t be shocked if Zach Ertz became the latest dynasty staple at the position following a Top 3 finish in 2014.
• Super bold prediction:  Roy Helu earns heavy work as a pass catching back in Jon Gruden’s offense, racking up receptions and change of pace touches on his way to a Top 20 finish in PPR leagues.
• Ridiculously, almost hilariously bold prediction: Scott Fish wins a fantasy title.
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Scott started playing dynasty in 1992 and loves to regale people with how in his 1995 rookie draft he called J.J. Stokes the next Jerry Rice. In 1999, with a friend, he created what was then called College Farm System Dynasty Leagues. They are now widely called Developmental Dynasty leagues. Scott has been in the fantasy football industry since 2003 and in 2008 created his own successful site, FFOasis.com. In April of 2014 after 6 amazing years, Scott closed FFOasis and joined DLF. Scott is a member of FSWA. Unfortunately for the rest of the world, he is married to the most amazing woman that has ever existed in the history of everything. They have been together since 2001 and in 2013 welcomed a son into their family.

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