Matthew Berry Continues To Blow Himself For Being A Mediocre Fantasy Analyst
I just did a post on DeVonte Smith earlier today. We’re not done with stories about the Eagles wide receiver. This next story is going to blow your mind and the topic today is about our good friend, Matthew Berry.
I’m not sure if you have been keeping track of the Matthew Berry challenge. We’re only six weeks through the year but it’s on pace to be an absolute bloodbath. You thought we embarrassed Sean Allen? This is somehow on pace to be worse. Don’t worry, we’ll have a nice video to review that when the season ends. NBC Sports pays Berry millions of dollars to have 1% of my talent. Truly incredible.
The fact that we’re on pace to humiliate NBC Sports’ fantasy expert who gets paid millions of dollars isn’t even the topic today. The actions that Berry pulled yesterday should be considered embarrassing and I don’t think I’ve ever seen a respected analyst in any sport blow themselves quite like this. Berry didn’t just try to suck himself off. He tried to suck himself off on a take that he got wrong.
I present you the evidence:
Berry made sure to suck himself off after the former Alabama receiver had a singular catch on the first drive of the game.
Berry, of course, ended up being wrong. Smith had five receptions for 44 yards. That was good enough to finish the week as WR48 in standard formats and WR36 in PPR formats. That’s not even including whatever happens in the Monday night games with CeeDee Lamb, Keenan Allen, etc. that need to play yet. I don’t know what qualifies for “big game” but I’d imagine top 20 is the bar, not? Smith wasn’t close to that.
Berry predictably never said a word after the game ended. He never addressed the fact that he tried to suck himself off for a take that he got wrong. We got some great comments under his Tweet.
Let me wrap things up with a few thoughts that need to be said:
A: I went into this year not even hating Matthew Berry. I respect the fact that he’s the face of fantasy football. I just think he’s mediocre at it. That’s all. However, the more I’ve dug into him, it’s hard to respect him anymore. This is the cheese he pulls? Blowing himself on a take he got wrong? Running victory laps one drive into the game? Then having ZERO accountability to address it? Totally pathetic. It’s becoming more and more obvious that this guy knows NOTHING about football. Also, you have a clam between your legs if you run your mouth and then hide when things don’t go you’re way. That’s SO sad.
B: I understand that predicting weeks is part of the job as a fantasy analyst. I’m just not sure why you would ever go this far on a limb when the NFL is totally unpredictable on a week-by-week basis. I’m not saying there isn’t skill in picking daily fantasy lineups, but there is a reason why best ball should be the standard for fantasy leagues.
I’ll give you the perfect example. I have Josh Allen in the league I care about. He had his lowest scoring output of the year against the terrible New York Giants. Nobody is predicting that out on a limb. It’s just very dumb to run your mouth like this predicting a one week fantasy output for any player. The smart people who do fantasy lead every weekly conversation with that talking point.
C: This is not the first time Berry has been dead wrong about a weekly prediction like this. In fact, the last one I called him out on. Berry predictably ran and hid. I guess this is becoming a pattern.
Olave finished that game with one catch for four yards. Here is the link to that game.
D: DeVonte Smith actually said he had a terrible game. It’s not like Smith had an okay game and it was a passable performance. Smith was bad and had an awful drop in the game that really cost the team. It was more than one too. He even said this…
“Nah, I just f— dropped them,” Smith said. “Gotta be better.”
“Ain’t nothing to learn,” he said. “Catch the damn ball.”
What more do you want me to say? The guy is so comically wrong that he has to cling to victory laps that he’s not even right about. Coming into this week, Smith had zero drops. Berry said he would go off and he couldn’t catch. Talk about a jinx! Then didn’t even own up to being wrong. Could never be me. I’d never act like this. I hope the audience knows that. This is the guy you pay millions of dollars to? Explain to me how he’s better at fantasy than me. I’ll wait.
Subscribe to Vendetta’s Twitch
Subscribe to Vendetta’s YouTube
Check out the Vendetta Shop
Click here for more Fantasy Football content
