Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeart Radio.
Speaker 2: Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly
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Speaker 2: here's your host, Paul Chargion.
Speaker 3: It is not Paul Charchion this week. Paul Charchian. I
Speaker 3: don't even know where he is. It's me, Scott Fish
Speaker 3: and Brian Johnson here taking the reins for a week.
Speaker 4: What's up, Scott.
Speaker 5: Yeah, charch is blanketing the East Coast doing his radio
Speaker 5: tour all the stops the major metro areas of the
Speaker 5: Northeast on his Madden bus.
Speaker 3: And I imagined it was some kind of trip he's
Speaker 3: taken with the wife and they're they're shopping for blankets
Speaker 3: all over the place or something.
Speaker 4: No, he's shaking hands.
Speaker 3: Like couponin or whatever. It's just like a it's a
Speaker 3: term they have for for doing that.
Speaker 5: Okay, shaking hands, kissing babies, spreading the good word about
Speaker 5: guillotine leagues.
Speaker 4: I'm sure good.
Speaker 3: Good for him. Maybe he's spreading the good word about
Speaker 3: fancy football training camp.
Speaker 5: Yes, we were instructed to certainly mentioned Fantasy Football training camp.
Speaker 3: First they instructed, I say threatened.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we were certainly threatened.
Speaker 5: When it is in August twelfth, if you're in the
Speaker 5: Twin Cities area, and if you're.
Speaker 3: Not, fly in for it, fly in go to Treasure Island.
Speaker 4: And Treasure Island.
Speaker 3: You know most of us can suit for singing that.
Speaker 3: I wonder if you can.
Speaker 5: We're gonna find out. I don't do they still use
Speaker 5: that song. It feels like an early two thousands jingle.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I honestly don't know.
Speaker 5: But some dude in Seattle right now is like, what
Speaker 5: are these guys talking about?
Speaker 6: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah, August twelfth, Treasure Island Fantasy Football Weekly Training Camp.
Speaker 3: Brian will be there, Matt'll be there, Chart will be there.
Speaker 3: I will not be there.
Speaker 5: You'll be there in the spirit, yes, will you will
Speaker 5: miss you, but yeah, it'll be a good time. We
Speaker 5: haven't done one of these since before the pandemic, so.
Speaker 3: I miss it. It's fun. It's fun hanging out with
Speaker 3: lots of like minded folks enjoying a radio show and
Speaker 3: getting some deep dive info or whatever, and you know,
Speaker 3: whatever else goes on. I hear there's some interesting possible
Speaker 3: plans for it, so we'll see.
Speaker 5: As far as I know, it's free, free admission show up.
Speaker 5: The show will start at the radio show ten Central
Speaker 5: until noon, and then hang out afterwards and drink some
Speaker 5: beers and talk some ball.
Speaker 4: Sound a good time.
Speaker 3: It sounds like an amazing time. But that's where we
Speaker 3: should go right now. We should talk some ball. We
Speaker 3: should dig into some of the news that hasn't been
Speaker 3: discussed recently on the show. What do you think about that?
Speaker 5: Yeah, training camp has started. The hype videos are in
Speaker 5: full swing on Twitter or ZR or whatever.
Speaker 4: Yeah the hell it's called.
Speaker 3: These days, everyone is in the best shape of their life.
Speaker 3: Lots of great plays.
Speaker 5: But yeah, we've done all the prognosticating weekend this offseason,
Speaker 5: like who we like, who we don't like, what running
Speaker 5: backs to watch, YadA, YadA, YadA. Now things are actually happening,
Speaker 5: actionable injuries for some which is unfortunate, pay cuts which
Speaker 5: could lead to some potential signing.
Speaker 4: So yeah, let's dive into it. We got nice news.
Speaker 3: Let's let's see if any of this news actually means anything.
Speaker 3: This one I think does you haven't discussed on the
Speaker 3: show yet, even though it was a week or two ago.
Speaker 3: DeAndre Hopkins signed to the Titans.
Speaker 5: Yeah, that's it's kind of old news, but we didn't
Speaker 5: really cover it. Not the most exciting landing spot for DeAndre.
Speaker 5: You know, the Chiefs were rumored to be in the mix,
Speaker 5: but no, he will be a Tennessee Titan.
Speaker 4: What do you.
Speaker 5: I'm not super thrilled for Hopkins. What do you think
Speaker 5: this does for Treylon Burke? So do you think it?
Speaker 3: I think it drops Burkes a little. I think it
Speaker 3: drops Chig a little. Upside for those two players were
Speaker 3: just the sheer amount of volume. I mean, we're talking
Speaker 3: about Tannehill here, who hasn't thrown for over four thousand
Speaker 3: years yards since his Miami days, and not even his
Speaker 3: most recent Miami days. We're not going twenty fifteen or
Speaker 3: so this last time he had even a four thousand
Speaker 3: yard season. I know he's had a few years with
Speaker 3: the injuries and stuff.
Speaker 5: But yeah, Tennessee a bottom six team in passing play
Speaker 5: percentage last year that they love to run. So yeah,
Speaker 5: it's kind of it's not great for Hopkins. You know,
Speaker 5: we always say a rising tide lifts all boats. I
Speaker 5: do think it dings Berks in Oconquo a little bit,
Speaker 5: but I think it will also free up some space form.
Speaker 5: I don't think burn was ready to be the guy yet.
Speaker 3: I think I think it absolutely does that. I think
Speaker 3: I think the offense will be a little will be
Speaker 3: a little better. They when Hopkins said I'm gonna, you
Speaker 3: know me coming is gonna help the other wide receivers
Speaker 3: on my team, I'm sure that's true, but I also
Speaker 3: am not sure that's true for fantasy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, those who listen to the show know I'm a
Speaker 5: best ball degenerate. So I've been drafting since before last
Speaker 5: season ended or last years playoffs ended. So I've been
Speaker 5: watching ADP so for everybody, and and Hopkins rose. When
Speaker 5: Arizona released them, everyone you know was again hoping, maybe
Speaker 5: you go to the to the Chiefs or a high
Speaker 5: powered offense like that. But since he signed with Tennessee,
Speaker 5: I've seen his ADP fall Burks and Chegokonkoo. I'm not
Speaker 5: really buying the Hopkins dip, but I'm still intrigued by
Speaker 5: the Burks and the Oconco dips.
Speaker 3: Feel Henry will have a little bit a few more
Speaker 3: lanes with another rep weapon. You would think, so hope
Speaker 3: so well, it'd be about the same.
Speaker 5: Fantasy wise, I think it should the boxes should be
Speaker 5: a little less stacked for Henry now that they have
Speaker 5: Hopkins in tow. I mean, arguably the best wide receiver
Speaker 5: Tennessee has had since Drew Bennett potentially. Yeah, you gotta
Speaker 5: be old to get that that reference.
Speaker 3: Yes, he had a great, great stretch that one here.
Speaker 3: I think I think it's twofold. With Henry, he'll probably
Speaker 3: see less touches. He may be more affectionioned on those touches,
Speaker 3: so fantasy wise it might be a push. Let's go
Speaker 3: over to a guy that roto World recently thought has
Speaker 3: has projected to be like a top five rushing yards guy.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've been all over over Dobbins. I'm not liking
Speaker 5: what what's been in the news lately.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, he's not he's on the pup list.
Speaker 3: Not practicing, but not even with the team apparently.
Speaker 5: But he it can't be injury related. It feels like
Speaker 5: this is contract related. He's in his last year of
Speaker 5: his rookie deal. He wants a he wants a long
Speaker 5: term contract. He hasn't earned it, though.
Speaker 3: Harbaugh's quotes on it were not. He danced a little,
Speaker 3: which makes me makes me think you might be right
Speaker 3: on that. He didn't specifically say, oh, he's injuredies. He
Speaker 3: does want to get back to full health, no question,
Speaker 3: but it seemed like something else was up and that
Speaker 3: might be contract.
Speaker 4: Ex see.
Speaker 5: I mean he played it, he came he came on
Speaker 5: strong towards the end of last season, and he looked good.
Speaker 5: They didn't give him the ball enough, especially in the
Speaker 5: playoffs against the Bengals. But I'm a little concerned bring
Speaker 5: to see his ap dip. I probably still buy, though.
Speaker 5: I think Gus Edwards deserves a lot more attention now.
Speaker 5: He's also two years removed from knee injury, so he
Speaker 5: should be much more spry this season than last year.
Speaker 4: But again, JK. Dobbins got to keep an eye on.
Speaker 3: I kind of like if there's a dip, because every
Speaker 3: time I get to JK. Dobbins tier in my when
Speaker 3: I'm drafting, I'm like, man, I like him, but this
Speaker 3: is this is a little pricey. There's a few question
Speaker 3: marks here. If he dips, I think I like it
Speaker 3: a little bit more.
Speaker 5: Speaking of epic dips, real quick, the Barkley dip for
Speaker 5: the last two weeks. You know when the holdout concerns, Yeah,
Speaker 5: came up. I saw him falling. I mean he was
Speaker 5: going borderline first round, early second, then he dropped to
Speaker 5: like early mid third. So if you scooped him during
Speaker 5: that week or two where we were worried about him
Speaker 5: holding out, congratulations. But he's gonna he's gonna shoot right
Speaker 5: back up into that early second even late first, depending
Speaker 5: on format.
Speaker 3: I want to talk about that for a second year
Speaker 3: because how like I remember when I was a kid,
Speaker 3: demon Smith holding out for two games, right and whatnot?
Speaker 3: Like holdouts are they barely ever happened into the seat
Speaker 3: like into the season now, and when they do, it's
Speaker 3: like one or two, Like it's not not very common
Speaker 3: at all right now. So I feel like that Barkley
Speaker 3: dip was way way too reactionary, and I think that
Speaker 3: leads us to Josh jacobsy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, which his ADP dipping time now too. Who you
Speaker 4: know he could.
Speaker 5: So the difference between the Jacobs and the Barkley situation
Speaker 5: was when you know, it was a deadline for them
Speaker 5: to sign the franchise tag or whatever, except the tag
Speaker 5: whatever the term is. The Giants actually offered Barkley contract,
Speaker 5: not the one he signed, but they made have an offer,
Speaker 5: he declined. Word on the street was the Raiders didn't
Speaker 5: even offer Jacobs anything. There's like, okay, yeah, let me
Speaker 5: play a game of chicken here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've seen. I've definitely seen both sides on that.
Speaker 3: I've seen he wasn't offered anything, and I've seen that
Speaker 3: he was offered the same as Bark twelve million, supposedly
Speaker 3: like he left on a flight out of Vegas earlier
Speaker 3: this week.
Speaker 4: So posturing a little bit, maybe he's.
Speaker 3: Just completely leaving the situation. If the twelve million is true, man,
Speaker 3: if he passed on that, I don't know that he's
Speaker 3: gotten a better deal than that. If if there wasn't
Speaker 3: an offer, which I suspect also has a very high possibility.
Speaker 3: I really it's really tough when agents are saying one thing,
Speaker 3: team is saying one thing, like that kind of stuff.
Speaker 3: It's it's tough to parse that out.
Speaker 5: Yeah, if he wasn't on your radar already, Zamir White
Speaker 5: needs to be on your radar. He was going from
Speaker 5: virtually undrafted and he's crept into the later rounds an
Speaker 5: underdog at least.
Speaker 3: So the other thing with Jacobs is that he did
Speaker 3: play last year on that one year. You know, like
Speaker 3: he's definitely a spot where he does. I can see
Speaker 3: him not wanting to do that again because he played
Speaker 3: on the one and he proved himself, like seriously proved
Speaker 3: himself last year.
Speaker 4: I know he's getting right now.
Speaker 3: I feel kind of bad, But uh, I never feel
Speaker 3: like a holdout is gonna happen, and when I when
Speaker 3: I do, I feel like it's gonna be short. So
Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not dipping too much here on Jacobs,
Speaker 3: but this one I get a little bit more than Barkley.
Speaker 4: Yep, I hear it. I'm with you.
Speaker 5: But hopefully they sort that out. But I think, you know,
Speaker 5: the Raiders know they're not gonna make any noise in
Speaker 5: the AFC this year.
Speaker 6: I can't I can't wait.
Speaker 3: I can't wait to go through this with Eckler next year.
Speaker 4: Oh no, it's gonna be It's gonna be a bloodbath.
Speaker 4: All right. What we gotten next?
Speaker 6: Uh?
Speaker 3: Let's you know, I suppose we could spend a minute
Speaker 3: talking about always injured Kadarius Tony.
Speaker 5: Yeah, minor minor knee procedure could be ready for Week one.
Speaker 5: But yeah, I'm on the the glass half empty side
Speaker 5: of that right now based on his injury history.
Speaker 3: Yeah, injury history plus is the Chiefs. They they walk
Speaker 3: people along. They don't they don't push them for they
Speaker 3: they know they are contender. They they play for the playoffs.
Speaker 3: They are not gonna rush any players injury.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Tony was getting drafted. Is the Chiefs top wide receiver,
Speaker 4: not top pass catcher. That's Travis Kelcey of course, he
Speaker 4: has an ADP of eighty. Then sky Moore.
Speaker 5: It was generally the second off the board going around
Speaker 5: pick one hundred, then Rashi Rice pick one forty two,
Speaker 5: mvs pick one fifty, Richie James pick two hundred, and
Speaker 5: keep your eye on Justin Ross yep could make the
Speaker 5: team now, especially.
Speaker 3: Him and SFP.
Speaker 4: He's the round I think at this point.
Speaker 5: I think he's the most intriguing because he's the cheapest,
Speaker 5: essentially free.
Speaker 3: I got him in the twenty second round of the Fishfall,
Speaker 3: So I think Rashie Rice is pretty interesting too. He's
Speaker 3: been playing with the ones basically every snap in camp,
Speaker 3: which is which I find kind of interesting. But I
Speaker 3: know that there have been a lot of players, you know,
Speaker 3: in and out of that in and out of that
Speaker 3: lineup in camp, so far in this short time in camp,
Speaker 3: so that might be wid.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he's got the he's got like the prototypical alpha
Speaker 5: to build, yeah, physically at least, So it'll be interesting
Speaker 5: to see how that shakes out.
Speaker 4: But again, it's gonna be Travis Kelsey all day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So, uh, you want to cover one more thing
Speaker 3: or you want to take a break.
Speaker 5: I guess we should mention Kyler Murray's on the pup
Speaker 5: list real quick before we break. I don't think he
Speaker 5: starts the season.
Speaker 3: He is major avoid for me, Like it feels like
Speaker 3: his best fantasy days in years or when he can run,
Speaker 3: and when he's played while injured or with a slight injury,
Speaker 3: he doesn't run, And man, I just can't. I just
Speaker 3: can't with him. I think he's what going about QB
Speaker 3: sixteen seventeen off the board.
Speaker 5: So yeah, he's an intriguing like backup quarterback option, But
Speaker 5: I don't I think you're not going to get the
Speaker 5: Kyler Murray.
Speaker 4: No, at least not this year that we've seen in
Speaker 4: the past. I don't know. It seems like you're drafting him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're drafting him hoping for the later season, uh,
Speaker 3: return to fall health Kyler Murray. That's kind of what
Speaker 3: your hope is when you draft him as your QB two.
Speaker 4: Any interest in Colt McCoy or Clayton Tune.
Speaker 3: Honestly, not really, not neither, not.
Speaker 4: Even in super flex. I don't want to even.
Speaker 3: It's that headache you know, on my plate if if
Speaker 3: they either of them start the year like you're like,
Speaker 3: they should be rostered in super flegs, but I just
Speaker 3: don't want to start the Arizona starter agreed. All right, Well,
Speaker 3: let's take a quick break here, Payson Bills, as Brian
Speaker 3: likes to say, and uh see you see you around
Speaker 3: the corner on the other side of.
Speaker 6: The break, and we're back.
Speaker 3: We're back to talk about Brock Purdy, the most exciting
Speaker 3: thing possible to talk about right now. Right, Yeah, I
Speaker 3: suppose that forty nice correct situation is a little bit interesting,
Speaker 3: but uh.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I've got some I've got some takes on the
Speaker 5: on that okay quarterback situation. Well, first off, there John Lynch,
Speaker 5: general manager of the forty nine ers, saying Purdy is
Speaker 5: good to go full clearance for for training camp. But
Speaker 5: then he says he's on a pitch count where he's
Speaker 5: gonna sit out a couple of days, and Sam Darnold
Speaker 5: and Trey Lance are gonna, you know, take split the
Speaker 5: first team reps. But I don't know. I'm shocked at
Speaker 5: Perty's ready right now. He had Tommy John surgery. I
Speaker 5: know he's not a starting pitcher, but being an NFL quarterback,
Speaker 5: it's pretty taxing on pretty taxing on your arm. So
Speaker 5: this pitch count is intriguing. And we all know Perdy
Speaker 5: came in last year the last pick in the draft,
Speaker 5: mister irrelevant, but he played very well. He was like
Speaker 5: top ten quarterback in his six seven eight.
Speaker 3: Start touchdowns in every regular season game he played. I mean,
Speaker 3: you factor that, that's a thirty four touchdown year if
Speaker 3: he extrapolate that.
Speaker 4: But don't you. I don't know.
Speaker 5: It feels like almost any capable quarterback can step into
Speaker 5: that offense and have done that. He still feels like
Speaker 5: just a guy to me, but he's the QB one.
Speaker 5: I'm still I've started to draft party now because I
Speaker 5: was thinking he would start the season, you know, out
Speaker 5: first four to six weeks, but now it's looking like
Speaker 5: he will start Week one. But I'm not convincing he
Speaker 5: just holds on to that job. I think Sam Darnold
Speaker 5: has a chance.
Speaker 3: Arnold has a chance.
Speaker 5: If we were having this conversation about Gino Smith last year,
Speaker 5: everyone would laught in your face. Everyone was drafting Drew
Speaker 5: Locke over Gino Smith. Gino Smith is trash, trash on
Speaker 5: the like. There's so many parallels between Geno Smith and
Speaker 5: Sam Donald going to the NFC West, much better offenses
Speaker 5: than they played on in the past, better coaching staff.
Speaker 5: So I'm still throwing darts on Sam Donald in the
Speaker 5: last round of super Flex. Interesting in super Flex leaks
Speaker 5: with I don't Trey Lance. I don't know what's going
Speaker 5: on there. He's third to me by a mile. Interesting,
Speaker 5: you'd rather go Lance over Donald?
Speaker 3: I'd rather go neither on it. I'd rather go Party
Speaker 3: if he's cheap enough, and probably just not invest in
Speaker 3: the other two.
Speaker 5: But well, the dip is done for Perdy. He's starting
Speaker 5: to rise now with this news. But but yeah, we'll
Speaker 5: see how that shakes out. But yeah, if an elite
Speaker 5: quarterback we're in San Francisco, they would be Super Bowl favorites.
Speaker 5: Probably it. I'm not sold that Perdy is the next
Speaker 5: Tom Brady. I think he's just in a great spot.
Speaker 5: But again we shall see.
Speaker 3: I think that's fine. I think he's he's, you know,
Speaker 3: a game manages mistake free, you know, like that's and
Speaker 3: sometimes that's just what you need for fantasy. A guy
Speaker 3: who's going to get one to two touchdowns two hundred
Speaker 3: and fifty yards and just not not throw, not make turnovers.
Speaker 4: And from my recollection, I don't think there were many games.
Speaker 3: Last years priced too.
Speaker 5: I don't think there are many games last year when
Speaker 5: when Purdy was the quarterback towards the tail end of
Speaker 5: the season, where Deebo, Iu, Kittle, and McCaffrey like all
Speaker 5: played together because Deebo was dealing with injury.
Speaker 4: From what I remember, there's probably some games played, most
Speaker 4: of them. Macaffrey played most of them. He was he
Speaker 4: was just learning the offense. Of course, he's you'll have
Speaker 4: a full offseason under his belt.
Speaker 5: So there is certainly there's some intrigue in Party or
Speaker 5: or whoever ends up being the starter for the majority
Speaker 5: of the season for San Francisco. So I am throwing
Speaker 5: darts there. I'm starting to draft Purty, but I'm holding
Speaker 5: out hope for Darnald.
Speaker 3: All right, all right, the pup list is is a
Speaker 3: point of contention at this point because we're a month
Speaker 3: away and it basically means nothing because you can take
Speaker 3: you come off at any time.
Speaker 4: Guys have been on it for like a day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, far guy goes on it for a day. Guy
Speaker 3: doesn't go on it and then doesn't practice. It's it's interesting.
Speaker 3: But we do have you know, Brishall on the pup
Speaker 3: We got Javonte Williams who didn't go on the pup.
Speaker 3: Do you make anything of that or is it just
Speaker 3: it's just words.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was.
Speaker 5: I was expecting both of them to start the season
Speaker 5: on the pup list and not start the season.
Speaker 4: I'm shocked.
Speaker 5: Javonte Williams Yeah, the preseason, sorry, but potentially really the
Speaker 5: season too, like the first four weeks just really both
Speaker 5: suffered major knee injuries, and they were somewhat late in
Speaker 5: the season. Uh bries Hall was late October and Javanta
Speaker 5: Williams a few weeks before that, but obviously not even
Speaker 5: a year removed. Javonte Williams had like towards a cl
Speaker 5: MCL and like his PLC not his PEE. We went
Speaker 5: over this a couple of weeks ago. It sounded really bad.
Speaker 5: But he's out there and they say he's looking spry.
Speaker 5: So SAMs was too good to be true from where
Speaker 5: he was getting drafted, like he was going so late
Speaker 5: and you're like, he's gonna be the starter, Jamonti Williams
Speaker 5: is gonna miss games.
Speaker 3: I think, I think what you hope for is Lombardi
Speaker 3: to uh and Peyton to do what they've done before.
Speaker 3: They're not gonna be more Peyton, more Peyton than Lombardi,
Speaker 3: but Lombardi with the a little more conservative run, a
Speaker 3: lot of running like where he and UH Peyton with
Speaker 3: a double double situation he had in with the Saints,
Speaker 3: Kamara and you know mark Ingraman before.
Speaker 5: Yeah, p Ryan still has value, of course, if Williams
Speaker 5: is going to be ready week one, but not as
Speaker 5: much of Williams was gonna miss time. But Javonte Williams,
Speaker 5: he was barely inside the top one hundred picks and
Speaker 5: he was pretty I was pretty much fading him, and
Speaker 5: I'm sorry to regret it. Now I might have to
Speaker 5: change courses and start drafting Javonte, but his ADP is
Speaker 5: sure to start rising as if he keeps staying healthy
Speaker 5: and looking like the old Javonte Williams. I'm shocked he's
Speaker 5: back like this. Maybe he has some of that Adrian
Speaker 5: Peterson dog in him. Not only Adrian Peterson would ever
Speaker 5: come back this quick from a knee injury. But now
Speaker 5: let's go to the breeze Hall side. Yeah, we're recording
Speaker 5: on Thursday right now, and news is Dalvin Cook going
Speaker 5: to New York for a visit?
Speaker 3: Yeah, flew out there to Yeah we're recurring thirty Thursday,
Speaker 3: so it flew out there today. Flew to New York
Speaker 3: today for a visit.
Speaker 5: And already a crowded running back room with Breecee Hall.
Speaker 5: Is he a bona Conda?
Speaker 4: A rookie? We both like Michael Carter. Bam Knight certainly was.
Speaker 5: A service last year. So that that is a situation.
Speaker 5: I'm I'm pretty much all out on I've I've been
Speaker 5: sprinkling in some is is he picks because he's cheap enough?
Speaker 5: Is he a Bonnaconda? But man, if they do sign
Speaker 5: Dalvin Cook, that is just.
Speaker 3: On a football side, I kind of like it because
Speaker 3: Dalvin should be ready. You know, he's healthy past his
Speaker 3: surgery now his shoulder surgery, and then they can give
Speaker 3: brist All time to get ready. And if they truly
Speaker 3: believe their contenders. I kind of like just loading up
Speaker 3: that room with talented, right.
Speaker 5: No doubt from reality from a reality football standpoint, it'll
Speaker 5: be a great move. But I think if the Jets
Speaker 5: do sign Dalvin Cook in the next day or two,
Speaker 5: it all but guarantees Hall is starting the season on
Speaker 5: the public that's.
Speaker 3: That's We're gonna let Bris get fully healthy.
Speaker 5: No doubt, and then they should. Really they got enough
Speaker 5: talent there, especially if they sign Dalvin Cook. A great defense.
Speaker 3: So I like how we transition straight from the pup
Speaker 3: list with Javante to Brie and then Briese to Dalvin
Speaker 3: go to the Jet Man. That was some smooth transition.
Speaker 3: Weird topics right there. People didn't even notice we moved
Speaker 3: I think, seamless.
Speaker 4: Geez, and we didn't even practice that.
Speaker 3: We should retire at this point, just go.
Speaker 4: Out on top like Costanza.
Speaker 3: Let's let's make a hard left to the the possibly
Speaker 3: annoying Philadelphia backfield.
Speaker 5: It's gonna be very annoying. But yeah, ra shot Penny.
Speaker 5: He's running with the first team. Everyone just assuming DeAndre
Speaker 5: Swift was going to be the starter, but he's being
Speaker 5: quote unquote deployed in a variety of ways. So that
Speaker 5: doesn't sound like a bellcow running back at all. I mean,
Speaker 5: no one was really expecting bell cow usage. But you know,
Speaker 5: Penny went healthy, granted.
Speaker 3: Went healthy when healthy, and he gets fifteen fourteen to
Speaker 3: fifteen touches.
Speaker 5: Yeah, he was borderline elite great with the Seahawks, but
Speaker 5: he hasn't been able to stay healthy. So I think
Speaker 5: we'll see a bit of a dip here with Swift.
Speaker 5: And really the guy I'm targeting most in this backfield
Speaker 5: is still Kenneth Gainwell, just because.
Speaker 4: He's so so damn cheap and.
Speaker 3: Much like the Jets talk like, I like it for
Speaker 3: an NFL standpoint, Like you split up the touches a
Speaker 3: ton to keep Penny healthy. Boston Scott again on the
Speaker 3: goal line when he plays the Giants. We got that
Speaker 3: to the side. They resigned him for that.
Speaker 5: Yeah, set your DFS lineups well in advance for an end.
Speaker 5: When the Eagles played the Giants, which.
Speaker 3: Jalen hurts with a tush push for ten plus touchdowns
Speaker 3: a year, still, DeAndre Swift deployed all over. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: like it for NFL.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 5: The moral of the story is all these muddled backfields
Speaker 5: in my opinion, and I think we are in some agreement.
Speaker 4: You just go with the cheapest guy. If you're so
Speaker 4: inclined to draft.
Speaker 3: Running back, go with the cheapest guy or a guy
Speaker 3: that slips far enough you feel they've they've dipped full
Speaker 3: in your specific draft.
Speaker 5: All right, we kind of just I mean, if you're
Speaker 5: on Twitter these days, there's plenty of practice videos and
Speaker 5: everyone gets super excited about them. Overreactions glore, of course.
Speaker 5: But there was one that I thought was legit and
Speaker 5: really caught my eye.
Speaker 3: It was the catch by Logan Thomas, right, Sam Man,
Speaker 3: that was.
Speaker 4: I saw that go semi viral.
Speaker 5: This one thought it was someone else, right, Yeah, It's
Speaker 5: like it's not even who is that?
Speaker 4: Who is the some rookie turner. There's there's a deep,
Speaker 4: deep deep Diynasamy.
Speaker 3: My reply was, that's Logan Thomas.
Speaker 5: But the one video that really caught my eye, and
Speaker 5: I don't like to overreact to these videos, it was
Speaker 5: Calvin Ridley one. I'm sure you've seen it too. I have,
Speaker 5: and it was it starts off they're just running, you know,
Speaker 5: routes against there's no defense. They are wearing helmets, which
Speaker 5: which was nice to see. But starts with Zay Jones
Speaker 5: running a route and Jay Jones, very good wide receiver,
Speaker 5: put up good numbers last year, and he ran the route.
Speaker 5: You're like, yeah, say it looks all right. Then Calvin
Speaker 5: comes right behind him, runs the same route and it
Speaker 5: looks like he's doing it two x speed.
Speaker 4: It is. If you haven't seen this.
Speaker 5: Clip, just search Twitter for Calvin Ridley and it'll pop
Speaker 5: up and he looks again. I don't want to overreact
Speaker 5: to like a ten you're dig route or whatever, but
Speaker 5: it was like, here's.
Speaker 6: Here's the thing.
Speaker 3: He like the way he uses his body and runs
Speaker 3: in that one clip, You're like, he's fully healthy and
Speaker 3: he's not worried about it, like about his injuries obviously,
Speaker 3: like he's had like over a year off, right.
Speaker 4: But uh more and some than some he is.
Speaker 3: He was very public about it, and I don't know
Speaker 3: if you read that Player's Tribute, an article that was
Speaker 3: was really really good, but he talked about how even
Speaker 3: in his best year he was playing with a foot injury,
Speaker 3: like the whole year, Like he apparently he's basically never
Speaker 3: played fully healthy and he's been this this good in
Speaker 3: those small samples. Ezes for for Atlanta. Well, I shouldn't
Speaker 3: say small. I'm playing a lot of games, but.
Speaker 4: It was a long time ago.
Speaker 3: There's a long time ago. But mostly what I noticed
Speaker 3: when I see clips like that is okay, he looks
Speaker 3: not only does he look fully healthy, he looks like
Speaker 3: he's not afraid to make moves and throw himself into
Speaker 3: the ground or throw himself into things like he's. It
Speaker 3: looks like he's he's fully ready to go.
Speaker 4: Which I like he recently.
Speaker 5: Right now, he's currently being drafted in general wide receiver sixteen.
Speaker 5: He has leap frog guys like Maari Hooper, Deebo, Samuel
Speaker 5: Keenan Allen, and Jerry Judy who were all getting drafted
Speaker 5: before Ridley for this recent hype built up. So does
Speaker 5: he do you think he will surpass? These guys are
Speaker 5: still going ahead of him, you know in August? Do
Speaker 5: you think, uh dk Metcalf? Would you rather have Ridley
Speaker 5: to Metcalf?
Speaker 6: Man?
Speaker 4: I had Metcalf wide receiver fifteen right now.
Speaker 3: I feel like probably right about the same range I
Speaker 3: think Man, I'd probably rather. I'd probably rather have Higgins
Speaker 3: and Metcalf honestly Overdleys that. I think the bigger question
Speaker 3: is does he leap frog Kirk now or has he?
Speaker 6: Oh?
Speaker 4: Yeah, he started out ahead of Kirk, which I thought
Speaker 4: was insane.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 3: See earlier in this offseason, I was like, I'd rather
Speaker 3: have Kirk, like he's cheaper. His Yeah, his his year
Speaker 3: of his year with Lawrence as well.
Speaker 4: But yeah, Kirk is wide receiver twenty seven right now,
Speaker 4: going man fiftieth close now fiftieth.
Speaker 5: Overall, and Ridley's going nearly twenty picks ahead of him.
Speaker 3: I was doing some analyst mocks last month and it
Speaker 3: was it was like it was literally the same round.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's kind of like the car the carry over.
Speaker 4: These teams of elite pass catchers where there's.
Speaker 5: Not a ton of targets to go around, you might
Speaker 5: still want to go with the cheap guy. I think, yeah,
Speaker 5: if I if I had to pick one, I would
Speaker 5: probably still go with Kirk uh just based on the
Speaker 5: discount you need to get over Ridley. But you'd be
Speaker 5: fun if Ridley returns to that form of elite form
Speaker 5: from from Atlanta.
Speaker 3: And that's funny, fun for Ridley, fun for the Jags.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and really fun for Trevor Lawrence. Trevor Lawrence has
Speaker 4: the potential to finish his QB one this year in
Speaker 4: Fantasy football. You can't. I'm not saying he's gonna, but
Speaker 4: he's he could.
Speaker 5: He could do it with the weapons he has around him. Yeah,
Speaker 5: especially Tank Bixby charges a guy.
Speaker 3: It's it's definitely there. He doesn't have Dan Arnold there
Speaker 3: though he's for the He's.
Speaker 4: A big mistake, big mistake, Dan Arnold walk.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think I think that's enough news
Speaker 3: for today. I think you should come back and uh
Speaker 3: and chat with Matt next week.
Speaker 4: Sounds good.
Speaker 5: We might go to the Castle of Charge because he
Speaker 5: will still be somewhere gallivanting across this great but.
Speaker 6: Yeah, awesome.
Speaker 4: It's good to see you, dude.
Speaker 6: Good to see you too.
Speaker 4: I think we did a good job.
Speaker 6: It was good.
Speaker 3: Chuck doesn't listen back.
Speaker 4: Now he won't.
Speaker 5: We should uh in event he does any you know,
Speaker 5: he did threaten us with the violence again. Fantasy Football
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