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Speaker 3: Nope, not Paul Charchian again.
Speaker 4: Where in the world is Paul Charchian?
Speaker 3: For sure? Indianapolis? Is that where he is?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Indie Indie gen Con.
Speaker 3: He's really late for the combine this year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, just a little bit. Well, yeah, I don't know
Speaker 4: what gen Con is. It's not comic Con, so I
Speaker 4: don't think there that comic It's books, comic book movies.
Speaker 3: It's all about the different genders there are.
Speaker 4: I don't know you could have a conference for that.
Speaker 4: I suppose probably board games.
Speaker 3: I think it is.
Speaker 4: That sounds like something CHARGE would be doing.
Speaker 3: This is Matt Grrison, by the way, along with Brian Johnson.
Speaker 3: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 4: So, Matt, I'm trying to like get pepped up. I'm
Speaker 4: dogs sitting for the Churchians. Well they're at gen Con. Yeah,
Speaker 4: I got my own dog, and going from one dog
Speaker 4: to three dogs, I can't imagine and I don't have kids,
Speaker 4: so I'm not like trained to like be this responsible.
Speaker 3: I got four kids.
Speaker 4: In one I'm not gonna get I'm not gonna get
Speaker 4: any sympathy from you or most people. But I'm tired,
Speaker 4: but I'm here.
Speaker 3: We have only a few more of these short shows.
Speaker 4: I think this is it.
Speaker 3: This is it. This is the last one. Next week
Speaker 3: is we're the full show. That's right.
Speaker 4: And next week what's going on?
Speaker 3: Next week the Fantasy Football Training Camp, Our first full
Speaker 3: length show of the season, will be live from Treasure
Speaker 3: Island Resort and Casino. Can't not sing it?
Speaker 4: Do they still use that?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 4: They jingle? Yeah, absolutely, I haven't seen have you Have.
Speaker 3: You been to Treasure Island recently?
Speaker 4: No, I mean definitely pre pandemics.
Speaker 3: I was. I was there over the winter and.
Speaker 4: As the big indoor water Yeah, okay, yeah, I've been there.
Speaker 4: It's been a while.
Speaker 3: And they use the to like get a hotel room there.
Speaker 3: The hold music is still the Treasure Island Resort and
Speaker 3: Casino song, but there's like more lyrics to it which
Speaker 3: I didn't know, and like extended version intended cut of
Speaker 3: the Treasure Island song. Pretty good, pretty good? Ten AM's
Speaker 3: when the radio show starts, it'll be Church and Brian
Speaker 3: and myself out there at TI and twelve pms when
Speaker 3: we do our deep dive off the air portion only
Speaker 3: for the people who show up in person. I know
Speaker 3: that Treasure Island giving away a thousand bucks to one
Speaker 3: lucky fans. That's pretty sweet. Just a thousand bucks in
Speaker 3: s pocket.
Speaker 4: Just to go losing the casino and the fun fun
Speaker 4: way to lose it.
Speaker 3: And the first one hundred people through the door get
Speaker 3: fifty dollars in free slot play.
Speaker 4: Oh does that include us?
Speaker 3: Because I feel like we'd be hopefully might be one
Speaker 3: of the first hundred.
Speaker 4: You might not be. Actually, when to the doors of
Speaker 4: I think nine to thirty, they said something something long,
Speaker 4: I'll be rolling it at like nine fifty nine, I.
Speaker 3: Said, well, Charch. Usually, when when we have like a
Speaker 3: situation like this, the music starts for the show and
Speaker 3: Brian and I are sitting on the stage ready to go,
Speaker 3: and then charges nowhere to be found, and all of
Speaker 3: a sudden he pops up like a whack a mole
Speaker 3: out of nowhere.
Speaker 4: He's out in the crowd, shaking hands, kissing babies.
Speaker 3: He kisses so many babies.
Speaker 4: Better than shaking babies. Yeah, that's hands.
Speaker 3: And then after the show you could probably play a
Speaker 3: hand of blackjack with me or Brian. You know, if
Speaker 3: we stick around, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 4: Probably a frosty bev.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there we go. For more info, go to kfan
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Speaker 3: and you'll find all the info about the fantasy football
Speaker 3: training camp coming up next weekend on the twelfth.
Speaker 4: I think we gave him all the info they needed.
Speaker 4: I don't thin anyone's gonn actually get to go to
Speaker 4: kfan dot com and type events into the.
Speaker 3: Search you know they tell you.
Speaker 4: I know, I know you're just following orders right now.
Speaker 3: All right, A Hall of Fame game happened last night, Brian,
Speaker 3: did you watch any of it?
Speaker 4: So I didn't have any skin in the game, didn't
Speaker 4: get any you know, DFS action didn't get to make
Speaker 4: any bets, So no, I didn't. I'm not a sick
Speaker 4: go I'm not watching preseason football if I don't have
Speaker 4: any action on. I used to, but now I know,
Speaker 4: I'm like, I'm well beyond that. It's yeah, I need
Speaker 4: some skin in the game, but no, no major injuries, right.
Speaker 3: No major injuries, nothing really noteworthy. I jotted down a
Speaker 3: couple of things. Is he a Bana Konda scored a touchdown?
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's he was. Belle Cowen probably. I would imagine.
Speaker 3: That's interesting just because if Brece Hall is not ready
Speaker 3: to go at the start of the season, that's a
Speaker 3: really crowded running back room all of a sudden.
Speaker 4: Yeah, we'll talk about it sort of a minute or two.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Zach Wilson started at QB for the Jets, obviously
Speaker 3: as a backup now and Kellen Mond went for the Brown.
Speaker 4: I saw how my boy Jerome Ford was inactive, which
Speaker 4: I liked. Okay, means he's certainly in for some usage
Speaker 4: this year. Yeah, behind Nick Chubb, of course.
Speaker 3: I think so. Usually the Hall of Fame game, they
Speaker 3: don't dress many people for that game.
Speaker 4: The people that don't matter really. Yeah, that's why I
Speaker 4: got such a kick out of it last year when
Speaker 4: they didn't play Josh Jacobs and everyone went the other
Speaker 4: way with it. They're like, oh, they're not even playing
Speaker 4: Josh Jacobs. He's gonna suck this year. Yeah, RB three
Speaker 4: total at the end of the season.
Speaker 3: By the way, Demitric Felton was the lead back for
Speaker 3: the Browns last night, ran seven times for forty six
Speaker 3: yards and added in some punt return yardage as well. So, uh,
Speaker 3: if if Felton impresses enough, maybe he uh squeezes Jerome
Speaker 3: Ford a little bit for that backup role to Nickchubb.
Speaker 4: I planted my flag and Ford a long time ago.
Speaker 4: I got my my victory lap zeats. Yeah, they're called
Speaker 4: now my posts victory posts.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: For Ford all queued up because he's he's gone from
Speaker 4: like undrafted now he's like in the top one hundred
Speaker 4: and fifty picks at least as he should be because
Speaker 4: something or we're having to Nick Chubb. It's all systems go.
Speaker 3: It seems like you were tough. You've driven a Ford lately.
Speaker 3: I have all right, Speaking of running backs, let's talk
Speaker 3: about a few of the free agent running backs that
Speaker 3: are still sitting out there. Let's start with Dalvin Cook,
Speaker 3: who did visit the Jets last week. Uh left without
Speaker 3: a contracts. What's your make on Cook and some of
Speaker 3: these other guys.
Speaker 4: I don't know you went to practice too. They rolled
Speaker 4: out the red carpet goes to practice. Fans are channing
Speaker 4: his name but I think something would have happened by
Speaker 4: now in terms of them signing Yeah Cook the Jets,
Speaker 4: that is so I don't know. This is just bizarre.
Speaker 4: Never before there been Obviously the running back landscape has
Speaker 4: changed drastically over the last few years, but never before
Speaker 4: this late in the offseason have we had big name
Speaker 4: guys like this granted summer at the tail end of
Speaker 4: their career. But Dalvin Cook learned, Fournette, Zeeke Elliott, Kareem
Speaker 4: Hunt still unsigned and then Melvin Gordon gets he gets
Speaker 4: picked up by Baltimore Baltimore last week. It forgot he
Speaker 4: even existed. So yeah, this is it's just bizarre that
Speaker 4: they're still sitting out there. Does it bodes well that
Speaker 4: they haven't for the aforementioned Breeze Hall. If Cook signed
Speaker 4: there that all but guarantees Hall is missing the first
Speaker 4: month of the season minimum. I guess now there's hope
Speaker 4: that he'll be ready. I still think he starts the
Speaker 4: season on the pup list, because like you said, it's
Speaker 4: still it's a crowded running back room and in New
Speaker 4: York already even without Dalvin Cook, if they were to
Speaker 4: sign him.
Speaker 3: Does the fact that they even kicked the tires on
Speaker 3: Dalvin Cook. Say enough about Breeze Hall's injury status.
Speaker 4: I think so, and I mean just history shows that
Speaker 4: running backs aren't ready right away. I mean, he tore
Speaker 4: his knee up late October, so he's well under. You're removed,
Speaker 4: and even when he does come back, he's not gonna
Speaker 4: be himself. We've talked about this a bunch. Quickly, I'll
Speaker 4: mention Javonte Williams is practicing in like he's gonna play
Speaker 4: in the preseason. I didn't see that coming. I thought
Speaker 4: he was going to be out longer than Hall, so
Speaker 4: I whifted there. So he's got that some of that
Speaker 4: you know, freakish Adrian Peterson, DNA and him because he's
Speaker 4: the only running backer's ever bounced back from a major
Speaker 4: knee injury to make an impact, a meaningful impact the
Speaker 4: following year. So so would you.
Speaker 3: Would you be moving bree Hall down your rankings right now?
Speaker 4: I haven't really been touching him in any format, like
Speaker 4: in a guillotine league. Undraftable to me because.
Speaker 3: If he's not readyboy Will's or third round.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, they have been, And good luck with that,
Speaker 4: because Brees Saw is a name that's going to be
Speaker 4: popping up on the waiver wires a lot of weeks
Speaker 4: in leagues, at least early in the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Chopped podcast, he'll be talking about him hitting
Speaker 3: the wire a lot.
Speaker 4: But my gut's telling me, uh, Paul, not ready week one.
Speaker 4: It's interesting. Well, I like a Bonaconda more than Carter
Speaker 4: and and Bam Night. But did Carter Knight? They didn't
Speaker 4: play on Thursday Night? Did they? So they they ran
Speaker 4: out of Bonaconda, meaning like that they're probably run out
Speaker 4: the rookie. I don't know. Yeah, it's it's it's it's
Speaker 4: a messy backfield. The Jets have one of the messier
Speaker 4: backfields out there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, outside of Garrett Wilson and Aaron Rodgers, do you
Speaker 3: feel much for the Jets?
Speaker 4: Not a ton. A lot of wide receivers that don't
Speaker 4: interest me. Outside of Wilson. I think Tyler Conklin is
Speaker 4: a intriguing late round tight end option, but uh no,
Speaker 4: it's there's just a lot too many warm bodies in
Speaker 4: the wide receiver room too. Outside outside of Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 3: They're very deep there. As you mentioned, Leonard Fournette, Ezekiel, Elliott,
Speaker 3: Kareem Hunt all unsigned as of right now.
Speaker 4: Places that seem like they would sign one of these
Speaker 4: running backs, well, I thought Den was a lock. But
Speaker 4: if they're really gonna roll Javonte Williams out week one,
Speaker 4: they got some am JP Ryan, I guess that they're
Speaker 4: less of a contender to sign one of these guys.
Speaker 4: They say, Miami is still in the mix.
Speaker 3: New England, maybe Dallas again, maybe Dallas again.
Speaker 4: Cincinnati could maybe use another running back lit depth, But
Speaker 4: any one of these guys, they're not gonna go in.
Speaker 4: I mean, Cook is still the most talented, arguably, but
Speaker 4: they're gonna muck up a lot of or they're gonna
Speaker 4: muck some things up wherever they land. Yeah, they're not
Speaker 4: gonna take all the touches. But don't feel too comfortable
Speaker 4: that all the backfield situations are settled because they are not.
Speaker 4: With these guys out there lingering.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's stay in the running back room and talk
Speaker 3: about maybe the bigger news to come out. I don't know,
Speaker 3: did this news hit before your last podcast, Jonathan Taylor?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think Fish and I briefly mentioned that he
Speaker 4: was on the We talked about him being on the
Speaker 4: pup list, but not that not the trade demand had
Speaker 4: not happened as of last week.
Speaker 3: He met a Jim Ersay and then after that meeting
Speaker 3: said yeah, I'm out, I want to trade. So right
Speaker 3: now he's on the active pup list with an ankle injury.
Speaker 3: There's a lot of speculation in Indy that he's healthy
Speaker 3: enough to practice, but but he's doing like a hold
Speaker 3: in until he gets a contractors traded. So are the
Speaker 3: Colts really gonna trade Jonathan Taylor? And are there people
Speaker 3: out there willing to pay a price that the Colts
Speaker 3: would want for Jonathan Taylor?
Speaker 4: Probably not both ways that they're they're asking price, I
Speaker 4: don't know what it is. It's going to be too
Speaker 4: high for anyone. Yeah, I'm sure you'd think.
Speaker 3: At least a second, it's not a first.
Speaker 4: Yeah, No, one's gonna pay a first for him because
Speaker 4: then they're gonna have to. He's gonna want a long
Speaker 4: term deal too, because he's in the last year of
Speaker 4: his rookie deal. Absolutely I believe. And yeah, and Ersay
Speaker 4: he's really rubbing and rubbing the salt in JT's wound
Speaker 4: right now. Because I don't know if this is entirely true,
Speaker 4: but I read it on X so must be true.
Speaker 4: I read a post or maybe it was a repost
Speaker 4: on X that Erse is funding the transportation of like
Speaker 4: a killer whale from some aquarium on like a private
Speaker 4: jet back to the ocean. It's gonna cost like twenty
Speaker 4: million dollars. So that's that's no problem.
Speaker 3: But he won't free John.
Speaker 4: There you go, well said, we'll put But yeah, I
Speaker 4: mean this is I mean JT's you know, his ADP
Speaker 4: is dropping like a rock. Uh. I don't he can't
Speaker 4: like sit out entirely because that he like docks him
Speaker 4: a year of service and like he would still be
Speaker 4: like on his I don't know all the ins and
Speaker 4: outs of this situation, but I think he plays one
Speaker 4: would hope, But I don't know. This is this is
Speaker 4: the depressing. Really, this running.
Speaker 3: Back, the whole running back thing.
Speaker 4: It's sad and we're not even running backs. I feel
Speaker 4: bad for the running backs, even though they're still the
Speaker 4: good ones are millionaires. But yeah, it's just it's bizarre.
Speaker 3: They're almost ready to unionize on their own.
Speaker 4: You'd think they should or just play tight end.
Speaker 3: All right, let's move on. Cooper Cup, another first round ADP.
Speaker 3: Right now, he's dealing with a hamstring injury. The Rams
Speaker 3: are calling him day to day, but the coaching staff says, oh.
Speaker 4: He'll be all right, He'll be just fine. Yeah, you can't.
Speaker 4: You can't pump any pessimism into your fan base or
Speaker 4: your team. I mean, I'm reading more. I've heard more
Speaker 4: like week to week, like he'll be ready to scrimmage,
Speaker 4: they said in a couple of weeks. So I'll buy
Speaker 4: the dip, you know in standard best ball or redraft leagues.
Speaker 4: But another guy right as of right now, I'm not
Speaker 4: spending the first round pick. And granted, first round picks
Speaker 4: are eighteen teams in a standard guillotine league. But I'm
Speaker 4: not easy fade for me right now because if he's
Speaker 4: not guaranteed he's ready to be week one, and I'm
Speaker 4: not if I if I'm not one hundred percent sure
Speaker 4: when I'm about to click that draft button whenever it
Speaker 4: is that at that moment the player is not playing
Speaker 4: week one, of course, something can happen. I'm not drafting
Speaker 4: him in a guillotine league.
Speaker 3: Where's his adp on guillotine right now?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: He was, he was like.
Speaker 4: Top eight pick. You know, he's top three or four wide.
Speaker 3: Because as far as wide receivers go amongst the safest
Speaker 3: players you can you can draft on once healthy.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it's it's uh Jefferson, Chase Cup his
Speaker 4: wide receiver three okay six point six ADP. So yeah,
Speaker 4: he's going before Tyreek Hill, Stefan Diggs, AJ Brown. I
Speaker 4: think we'll see that change in the next week or Joe.
Speaker 4: We have some more clarity on the injury. But it's
Speaker 4: not like he's had hamstring issues before. Stuff happens. But
Speaker 4: it's scary, but I will he will dip a little
Speaker 4: bit in other formats and I'll scoop him up. Scoop
Speaker 4: the coop, Scoop the coop. Cooper Scooper.
Speaker 3: Let's take a break and uh, maybe you can buy
Speaker 3: one of these Cooper Scoopers online. Welcome back to Fantasy
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Speaker 3: it's still Twitter to me. I know, I will never
Speaker 3: I do approve that you like are just like glombing
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Speaker 4: It's just so funny, Like how slow this like takeover
Speaker 4: has become like they have changed the tweet to post
Speaker 4: and search. Twitter now just says search, but when you
Speaker 4: get reposted, the notification still says has retweeted your tweets.
Speaker 3: It's so embedded, it's so yeah, ridiculous. Let's go back
Speaker 3: to the running back well, Alvin Kamara met with Roger
Speaker 3: Goodell on Wednesday, and it sounds like a suspension is coming.
Speaker 3: They haven't said quite yet how long that will be,
Speaker 3: and it might take a couple of weeks or a
Speaker 3: month they're saying for that suspension to be levied. My
Speaker 3: guess two to four games.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think six worst case scenario. I don't think
Speaker 4: he'll be more than six. But it sounds like he's
Speaker 4: going to avoid the legal trouble which.
Speaker 3: Fell any charges.
Speaker 4: Yes, so that if there were felony charges, he'd be
Speaker 4: looking of course, at jail time and a much longer suspension.
Speaker 4: So this is good news per se. It has been
Speaker 4: over the last week or two since the chargers were dropped,
Speaker 4: so yeah, his ADP has crept up a little bit.
Speaker 4: I would almost be reaching around on Kamara just if
Speaker 4: it's only two games, then that's like yachtea time. Even
Speaker 4: though he hasn't been as productive the last year or
Speaker 4: two as he has in the past. Jamal Williams in
Speaker 4: town now, of course, last year's leading rushing touchdown leader. Yeah,
Speaker 4: so crazy to say that they drafted Kendre Miller, who's
Speaker 4: kind of like a Kamara light. So there's competition for touches,
Speaker 4: but if it's on the that suspension is on the
Speaker 4: shorter side of things, at only two games, if you're
Speaker 4: getting them outside the top one hundred players, that still
Speaker 4: seems like a pretty good deal, especially in PPR leagues,
Speaker 4: because Derek Carr is like kind of like a check
Speaker 4: down king, So I think Kamara's game will fit nicely
Speaker 4: with Derek Carr.
Speaker 3: All right, Yeah, Camara is just not a guy that
Speaker 3: I've been on at all this year. I've been, you know,
Speaker 3: subscribing to the theory leave a year early then to
Speaker 3: stay on a year late.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he's going back to that Christmas game a
Speaker 4: couple of seasons ago when he had six touchdowns.
Speaker 3: He had six touchdowns.
Speaker 4: So you look at his Yeah, you look at his
Speaker 4: like season totals the last and they're all propped up
Speaker 4: by like three monster games, which is a headache unless
Speaker 4: you're playing bastball and it was only three games. That's
Speaker 4: still a headache even in fastball because you're not getting
Speaker 4: many spike weeks there.
Speaker 3: But obviously Kamara probably not draft the Bowl in the
Speaker 3: first five ish rounds.
Speaker 4: In a guillotine, I wouldn't. I wouldn't pick him at all.
Speaker 4: It doesn't matter how Anyone that's like surely going to
Speaker 4: miss the first two weeks, like Jamison Williams miss like,
Speaker 4: I won't even draft.
Speaker 3: Him tail end of the draft, not even like a bench.
Speaker 4: Spot now, because someone will take them sure like a
Speaker 4: round later. That person's just not going to be me
Speaker 4: around after ADP.
Speaker 3: Not even if we have seventeen Brian's, No, eighteen Brian's.
Speaker 4: In the league, we will let I'll take seventeen shots
Speaker 4: at Jamison Jamison Williams in a gullote.
Speaker 3: League, all right. JK. Dobbins still not practicing for the Ravens.
Speaker 3: It's an undisclosed injury.
Speaker 4: But yeah, this is more of a pay up scenario
Speaker 4: than Taylor even really. Oh yeah, I mean, so he
Speaker 4: played last towards the end of last year and he
Speaker 4: looked pretty good. They didn't give him enough touches in
Speaker 4: the playoffs or whatever reason, but he wants to get paid.
Speaker 4: He's also in the last year of his rookie deal.
Speaker 4: But unlike Taylor, he really hasn't done much.
Speaker 3: He's had almost two years of no production because of injury.
Speaker 3: And he did get injured in the preseason. Do you
Speaker 3: remember that week where Dobbins and then Gus Edwards both
Speaker 3: got acls in the same week.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Charge didn't get out of bed for like
Speaker 4: five days in that week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, sucking his thumb. It was weird. But it does
Speaker 3: seem like the Ravens could be just kind of keeping
Speaker 3: him under glass until it's time to break the glass.
Speaker 4: They could be. But but he has expressed, you know,
Speaker 4: displeasure with his contract. But hey, you're in your rookie deal.
Speaker 4: I was reading, like how he in like April. He said,
Speaker 4: you know, I signed the contract. I have to honor it.
Speaker 4: Blah blah blah. Then he signed hired a new agent,
Speaker 4: and that guy said the blood sucking Vampire. He's like, no,
Speaker 4: we're gonna be a big pain in the ass for Baltimore.
Speaker 4: So I would add Baltimore to that that, you know
Speaker 4: list of a short list of teams that might sign
Speaker 4: one of those running backs we were talking about earlier,
Speaker 4: because you know, Dobbins is good, but I don't I
Speaker 4: think they would get along just fine if they plopped
Speaker 4: in Dalvin Cook or Kareem Hunt for JK. Dobbins.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine them signing one of these free agent
Speaker 3: running backs and not signing JK. Dobbins though the guy
Speaker 3: they know.
Speaker 4: Well, it's I mean, because all those guys on the market.
Speaker 4: He wants a long term deal, though, I mean, if
Speaker 4: they're gonna if they could get Kareem Hunt for a
Speaker 4: year or two, basically, you know, they'd be paying them
Speaker 4: a little more than what they're paying Dobbins now on
Speaker 4: his rookie deal. But Dobbins wants like a max long
Speaker 4: term or you know, or a pretty big money long
Speaker 4: term deal. But you know, Zeke Fournette, Kareem Hunt, they're
Speaker 4: not really expecting that. They're not as young as Dobbins.
Speaker 4: So sure, I don't know. And it's a huge makeover
Speaker 4: for that offense in Baltimore now that Todd don't call
Speaker 4: me Art Mounkin is the new offensive coordiney. He's very
Speaker 4: pass friendly, so they're not going to be as run
Speaker 4: heavy as they were in the past. In Baltimore or so.
Speaker 4: I don't know. Dobbin's another guy. You've seen his ADEP plummet,
Speaker 4: but I don't think it's because of injury. So that's
Speaker 4: why I'm still buying. I'll buy that dip, but I
Speaker 4: don't think he can't afford to hold out, probably like
Speaker 4: literally can't afford to hold out.
Speaker 3: I know there was a lot of steam early on
Speaker 3: Dobbins in the season, but to me, this just seems
Speaker 3: like a backfield I'm trying to avoid. I think Gus Edwards,
Speaker 3: even if Dobbins and Edwards are both there, and maybe
Speaker 3: Melvin Gordon as well, is I think that this is
Speaker 3: a three headed beast and there's not over fifty percent
Speaker 3: touches for one of these running backs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, as of right now, I with their ADP baked in,
Speaker 4: of course, I'd take Edwards ten out of ten times
Speaker 4: over Dobbins right now, because, like you said, they both
Speaker 4: got injured. Was it the same game, It was like
Speaker 4: the same month two years ago. So Edward's also two
Speaker 4: years removed now from major knee injury. That's where you see, yeah,
Speaker 4: running back sort of return to form if they're not
Speaker 4: two old and Edwards is not Gus Edwards sounds like
Speaker 4: a thirty seven year old man, doesn't he.
Speaker 3: It's probably like in his fifties.
Speaker 4: But let's see old gust Edwards. I guess five. He's
Speaker 4: twenty eight, okay, but he doesn't have a ton of
Speaker 4: mileage on him, so he got some tread on those tires.
Speaker 3: Well, let's go to a couple of other running backs
Speaker 3: who you'd think have a lot of tread on their tires.
Speaker 3: Second year running back Kenneth Walker, the third in Seattle.
Speaker 3: He's nursing his groin, which he's wrong. He seems to
Speaker 3: like to do. He was a practice on Thursday, but
Speaker 3: with no helmet.
Speaker 4: Oh my gosh.
Speaker 3: He's been sitting out for about a week now. And
Speaker 3: Zach is it's charbonnet.
Speaker 4: Charbonnet.
Speaker 3: That sounds like a delicious ice cream treat or something
Speaker 3: like that. Can I get a chocolate sharbonnet.
Speaker 4: Charah that's on it?
Speaker 3: Delightful. He has a shoulder injury, but he did return
Speaker 3: to practice on Thursday. By the way, it was a
Speaker 3: no pad practice on Thursday in Seattle, so uh Charboney
Speaker 3: initially listed as the guy that they had an undisclosed
Speaker 3: amount of time on him, but he came back right
Speaker 3: away with the shoulder, Walker still nursing the groin. That
Speaker 3: makes me a little bit more nervous, and to me,
Speaker 3: I think I'd rather grab Charbonnet at the price than
Speaker 3: what Walker is and just gambled that at some point
Speaker 3: during the season, Zach Charbonet is the top running back there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he's certainly cheaper than Walker. They had the verbiage
Speaker 4: used by Seattle with these guys had heard on the
Speaker 4: same day earlier in the week.
Speaker 3: It was was it a shoulder to groin they ran
Speaker 3: into each other or something like that.
Speaker 4: I would rather be the shoulder in that scenario, but yeah,
Speaker 4: it's see. How they made it sound was like these
Speaker 4: guys could be miss serious time, but they didn't bring anyone.
Speaker 4: I feel like if that was the case, they would
Speaker 4: have brought in Zeke or Fournette just to kick the tires,
Speaker 4: because all they have behind Walker and sharpen A or
Speaker 4: DJ Dallas and Kenny McIntosh, who's a rookie, and neither
Speaker 4: of those guys are kind of, you know, early down
Speaker 4: bell cow type back, so I think both will be okay.
Speaker 4: But yeah, if you're gonna just go with one shoulder,
Speaker 4: shoulder injuries. Not great on a running back, but you'd
Speaker 4: rather have a shoulder injury than a growin injury because.
Speaker 3: It was soft tissue in the legs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, so, but I think both will be okay. Come
Speaker 4: Week one. You'll see a slight I've seen a slight
Speaker 4: dip in both in their ADP because these injuries. But
Speaker 4: I think you'll be you'll be glad you bought the
Speaker 4: dip on either one or both in a week or two.
Speaker 4: I think they'll be fine.
Speaker 3: All right. Last nugget that we're going to talk about
Speaker 3: Anthony Richardson now taking virtually all the first team reps
Speaker 3: in Indy. Sorry Gardner, Minshew, it's over. It never even
Speaker 3: started for you in Indy.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I was saying, there's no way they can role
Speaker 4: Richardson now week one, considering only started thirteen games in
Speaker 4: college as a quarterback, and generally rookie quarterbacks don't start
Speaker 4: Week one. But it seems like Richardson will start. But
Speaker 4: now you know, the Colts are an S show, So
Speaker 4: now it's like, what's the like that division's pretty wide open,
Speaker 4: the Jaguars heavy favorites, but outside of that, you know
Speaker 4: it's winnable. But I think minshew. I don't know. I think,
Speaker 4: I mean, does nothing gives him a better chance to win,
Speaker 4: but he'd just be a more stable presence for the
Speaker 4: first couple of weeks, see if you can get out
Speaker 4: of the September two and two.
Speaker 3: Like you said, Jim Mersey not the most stable of owners.
Speaker 3: I'm sure he's coming from the top that he wants
Speaker 3: Richardson to start.
Speaker 4: But yeah, that's a big boon for Richardson if he
Speaker 4: does start week one, you know, and like redraft best
Speaker 4: Ball formats, I was kind of fading him for for
Speaker 4: a while, but I started buying into him as we
Speaker 4: got deeper into the summer and now. But now, if
Speaker 4: you were getting him, I mean, he's months ago he
Speaker 4: was going as a top ten quarterback, which was crazy
Speaker 4: to me.
Speaker 3: I think he's like eleventh or twelve.
Speaker 4: He's still he's still he's still up there. So yeah,
Speaker 4: it's only obviously better for him if if he starts
Speaker 4: week one. Uh, you know, take those licks, take his
Speaker 4: lumps sooner than later, and let the learning process begin.
Speaker 4: It's going to be a pretty steep curve as it is.
Speaker 3: Absolutely I'm excited he's he's a cheap code.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: So he could be he could be the best running
Speaker 3: quarterback in the league this year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean he at the combine, he tested not
Speaker 4: among the quarterbacks all the time, like all positions. He
Speaker 4: was like the most freakish athlete ever to roll through
Speaker 4: Indianapolis until Paul Charchian just rolled through there.
Speaker 3: Charges running a four to one over at Lucas Oil.
Speaker 4: For sure. I've never seen Charge sprint of you, except
Speaker 4: when he runs up onto the stage because he's late
Speaker 4: for the start of the show at training came.
Speaker 3: I mean that's pretty quick though.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and he jumps like quite fleet to foot. It's
Speaker 4: like the standing broad jump onto the stage.
Speaker 3: He's been been doing his plios at home, for sure.
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Speaker 4: It reminds me like when you watch the actual NFL
Speaker 4: draft and you know they show war rooms all the time. Yeah,
Speaker 4: the whiteboards and people have to play. Like if I
Speaker 4: was the GM, I would be writing just a bunch
Speaker 4: of players. I have no interest in drafting all over
Speaker 4: my whiteboards and like with hearts and like smiley faces,
Speaker 4: like gotta get this guy.
Speaker 3: Do you think that's why the Lions took Jamiir Gibbs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they went off their fake whiteboard. They're like, oops,
Speaker 4: we got our white boards mixed up. All right, I
Speaker 4: don't want to talk about any more running backs.
Speaker 3: No, let's not all right? Thanks, Brian. This is Matt
Speaker 3: and Brian and we'll be back next week at Fantasy
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