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Speaker 1: number twenty six of Fantasy Football Weekly. We are America's
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Speaker 1: on Paul Charchy from Guillotine League dot com, and Scott
Speaker 1: fish widely known for Scott Fishball. I Scott, my my
Speaker 1: team in your league just got blown up by Damian Williams.
Speaker 1: Yeah as well, but it was like an eleventh th rounder,
Speaker 1: so I didn't feel so bad. But I wasn't online
Speaker 1: yesterday what happened. Uh, yeah, that's gonna be a problem.
Speaker 1: We will get right into the significance of Damian Williams
Speaker 1: in just a minute, but lots of other stuff to
Speaker 1: go through over the course of the show, including all
Speaker 1: the off season moves that the notable, meaningful, fantasy relevant
Speaker 1: offseason moves for In case you know you're reasonably were
Speaker 1: sleeping for the last seven months, and I wouldn't blame you.
Speaker 1: You've plenty of time to block block out everything that's
Speaker 1: happened lately. We'll go through the training camp battles that
Speaker 1: we will be watching this spring. We will hit you
Speaker 1: up with a Dynasty Empire Rookie draft. A DP will
Speaker 1: look at all the rookies where they're going in Dynasty
Speaker 1: and Empire drafts, talk about the rookies individually, and also
Speaker 1: figure out whether or not America's got it right. Is
Speaker 1: this the right guys in the right place. Guys are
Speaker 1: going too high? Too low? We'll tell you that as well.
Speaker 1: Not America, the world, the world it has intergalactic even
Speaker 1: probably three tough questions as always, and the COVID plans
Speaker 1: that you need to get in place pronto before friendships
Speaker 1: are ended and it will happen. YEA. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: let's jump right in. Let's begin here with the news
Speaker 1: that Damian Williams has opted out. This means that Clyde
Speaker 1: Edwards Hilaire, who I think we were all intrigued by
Speaker 1: before becomes absolutely fascinating with the upside that he can
Speaker 1: bring to a fantasy team. The way I've asked you
Speaker 1: guys to work on this is this way, Scott, give
Speaker 1: me the best case scenario for Clyde Edwards Laire in
Speaker 1: Kansas City, and then Brian after he's done, I want
Speaker 1: you to give me the worst case scenario. Reasonable ones.
Speaker 1: I don't want to hear about a shattered femur or
Speaker 1: anything like that. You don't want here are one for me.
Speaker 1: Doesn't play right exactly with the time of research of
Speaker 1: cly I've gone back to multiple doctors, school, nurse, everything.
Speaker 1: But all right, fine, I won't do that. All right,
Speaker 1: thank you, Scott. We begin with you, Clyde Edwards Hilaire.
Speaker 1: What's the reasonable upside that he could bring a things
Speaker 1: break right for him in Kansas City. It's really we've
Speaker 1: seen it right like we saw we saw Spencer where
Speaker 1: uh Ters a c l and Kareem Hunt came in
Speaker 1: and he was a top you know, five six running
Speaker 1: back with Andy Reid and and Alex Smith, had a
Speaker 1: pro bowld base. He was an m v P quarterback
Speaker 1: for a while that year. It's not like uh it's
Speaker 1: not like he was terrible that year. We we've seen that.
Speaker 1: We've seen Damian Williams with a five game stretch of
Speaker 1: ninety plus yards in almost all of them and five
Speaker 1: touchdowns at the end of a couple of years ago
Speaker 1: there in. That's his upside. His upside is that twelve
Speaker 1: to total yard back with double digit touchdowns. That's he's
Speaker 1: now basically a first round running back. He's I I
Speaker 1: can't see any argument putting him outside the top ten.
Speaker 1: Let's get more granular than just first round, because I
Speaker 1: think he's going to go in the first round. I
Speaker 1: have missed my rby six right now, rby six should
Speaker 1: that would put him roughly pay you know eight, maybe
Speaker 1: even six if you're that's your strategy this year. You know,
Speaker 1: auction value, where would you peg him a Clyde Edwards
Speaker 1: a layer for for uh? For the maximum auction value
Speaker 1: that you I'm a tough guy to ask on this
Speaker 1: because I am such a thrifty auction right, I like
Speaker 1: just hammering the middle of the road, guys. So uh,
Speaker 1: probably in that you know, high twenties range. That's probably
Speaker 1: about right if you want for a typical player that's
Speaker 1: going in the middle end of the first round, Bryan,
Speaker 1: give me the worst case, reasonable, worst case scenario, non
Speaker 1: injury related for Clyde Edwards a layer. Okay, well, I
Speaker 1: think it would be safe to say before Williams opted out,
Speaker 1: we were looking at a fifty fifty time share between
Speaker 1: c H and Williams whoever, whoever. The starter doesn't matter.
Speaker 1: Now we're probably looking so DeAndre Washington and now the backup,
Speaker 1: of course, we're looking I think still at a sixty
Speaker 1: forty time share where c H is the lead runner,
Speaker 1: but it's not gonna be He's not getting all the
Speaker 1: work now that Williams is it out. DeAndre Washington is
Speaker 1: a very capable runner in the worst case scenario is
Speaker 1: it becomes a fifty fifty platoon. I didn't realize this,
Speaker 1: but DeAndre Washington was a college teammate of Patrick two
Speaker 1: two years of Texas Tech and then yeah, he wanted
Speaker 1: to Signington caught forty one passes from the homes at
Speaker 1: Texas Tech. DeAndre Washington picked up a lot of blitzes.
Speaker 1: They probably took a lot of showers together. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of bonding. What are you saying that's going on there?
Speaker 1: And Washington's no slouch when he's got a chance to play,
Speaker 1: he's been good. He's been with the Raiders. For those
Speaker 1: who don't know, last week last year, I'm sorry, three
Speaker 1: times he saw twenty touches in weeks thirteen, fifteen, and sixteen.
Speaker 1: He finished as RB nine, RB twelve, and RB nineteen
Speaker 1: in those weeks. I mean, right now, I've got him
Speaker 1: around running back fifty with the Naheim Hines and the
Speaker 1: Tavius Murray's of the world. And the worst case scenario
Speaker 1: is he plays well, and I think he will, and
Speaker 1: I'm downgrading all rookies. Still see Ages the prime rookie
Speaker 1: out there now. But he's just not gonna get eighty
Speaker 1: to send. You're sent of the touches, which most most
Speaker 1: people expect. That would be the worst case. So let's
Speaker 1: more a split. Let's play. Let's play that out. Let's
Speaker 1: assume that you're right and that split's going to be
Speaker 1: closer to than in your scenario. What's the right draft
Speaker 1: spot for Clyde Edwards Hilaire Almost where he was going,
Speaker 1: maybe around sooner he's going around round three before Williams. Yeah,
Speaker 1: still right around there, a little sooner, say mid to
Speaker 1: late second. But first seems a little first, seems like
Speaker 1: a little bit of reach for me and re draft
Speaker 1: that's that's me. But I know people are doing and
Speaker 1: I can see why. But Washington is not going to
Speaker 1: be a non factor. All right. So we've talked on
Speaker 1: this show and especially the podcast version, and welcome to
Speaker 1: everybody who's listening to us over the air on their
Speaker 1: their favorite radio station. But we podcast all year round.
Speaker 1: This is our first show of year, number twenty six
Speaker 1: over the air. On the podcast, we talked about stacking
Speaker 1: the two chiefs running backs in part because Damian Williams
Speaker 1: was so cheap. You were going Clyde Edwards all are
Speaker 1: at the end of the second or early third, and
Speaker 1: then you're getting Damien Williams in round eight, around nine,
Speaker 1: around ten, or in the case of the Scott fish ball,
Speaker 1: around eleven. So, now, what's the real viability if you
Speaker 1: want and is that? Is there any viability left in
Speaker 1: using as you're starting running backs Dwayne Washington, who's gonna
Speaker 1: go super late? Sorry, DeAndre Washington and Clyde Edwards A layer. Sure,
Speaker 1: I mean you're like I just kind of said, you
Speaker 1: might be paying a little more of a pre Well,
Speaker 1: you're gonna pay more of a premium now for a
Speaker 1: Layer in most cases. But that's the problem. On the
Speaker 1: tail end, it becomes more of a it's almost you're
Speaker 1: going all in or almost you're almost handcuffing. And when
Speaker 1: it was Williams, it wasn't really a handcuff scenario, right,
Speaker 1: So now it's almost more of a handcuff. So, long
Speaker 1: story short, I'm an advocate for it. If I do
Speaker 1: draft to Layer, I'm getting Washington though, no matter what,
Speaker 1: I'm in this weird spot where I started out this
Speaker 1: offseason going, let's handcuffed, because if someone gets COVID or something,
Speaker 1: we want his backup. And now I'm like, they're in
Speaker 1: the same room together all week, right if one of
Speaker 1: those gets I don't know that. I think I want
Speaker 1: to spread out my my who I have in my
Speaker 1: running back corps. I liked the tandem of Clyde Edwards
Speaker 1: Layer and Damien Williams because of the price you had
Speaker 1: to pay for them each, which was early third round
Speaker 1: and say the ninth round. But now that Clyde Edwards
Speaker 1: Laire is going to cost me a late first rounder
Speaker 1: in all probability to get I'm out, who do you
Speaker 1: want who would you rather take more based on their ADP.
Speaker 1: Of course Washington, Washington, because you know he's just you know,
Speaker 1: it's because somebody is going to take Clyde Edwards a
Speaker 1: layer in the first round. I can't. I don't think
Speaker 1: he's going to get out of first round. And if
Speaker 1: you pay that price, you're paying it with the mindset
Speaker 1: he's going to be the Bell Couse Studs. So why
Speaker 1: do you even want Washington if you're paying that mindset? Well,
Speaker 1: at that point, yeah, I think I'd rather just take
Speaker 1: Washington away from the guy who drafted Clyde Edwards, Hilaire.
Speaker 1: I think Brian's right that this might be closer to
Speaker 1: like a sixty forty split. And even though I'm on
Speaker 1: the wrong side of forty, that's pretty good when it's
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs averaging thirty three points a game,
Speaker 1: and you know, rookies hit the wall towards the end
Speaker 1: of the season when you really make your Hey, it
Speaker 1: happens a lot and I don't know what. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: very briefly, before we get into some of the key
Speaker 1: off season moves, Antonio Brown is we now know the
Speaker 1: terms of his suspension. It's it's it sounds like it's
Speaker 1: going to be eight games. There could be more at
Speaker 1: it on later, but it's eight games right now. Should
Speaker 1: people that are drafting at this time of year based
Speaker 1: on what we know right now? Is he draft able?
Speaker 1: And if so, where would you take him? I have
Speaker 1: a slightly hot take. I thought he was a good
Speaker 1: late round flyer. I think this worse thans his draft
Speaker 1: value for me because I know he's out for over
Speaker 1: half the season in a season that could get shortened,
Speaker 1: like I do, we have a ten game season. This
Speaker 1: almost puts it to the point I don't think I'm
Speaker 1: even throwing that late flyer on him anymore. All right,
Speaker 1: do you feel any differently, Brian? I think I agree
Speaker 1: with Fish, And you know, if I'm throw a dart
Speaker 1: very late, I think I'd still rather throw a dart
Speaker 1: at Josh Gordon or maybe than Jordan Reed, the former
Speaker 1: big names. But I think the standard take at this point,
Speaker 1: I thought, is value worse than I hate using up
Speaker 1: a roster spot on a guy that I know is
Speaker 1: not going to play for half of the year unless
Speaker 1: I'm in a really really deep draft, and you know,
Speaker 1: I know you love your deep draft. Scott and in
Speaker 1: that case, sure, but assuming you care anything about you
Speaker 1: know the weight of that roster spot and who else
Speaker 1: you could be putting there. I hate carrying guys for
Speaker 1: that long. All right, let's move on to the offseason
Speaker 1: moves by position. Um, I've asked you guys to look
Speaker 1: at each of the key moves in both the f
Speaker 1: C and NFC. Let's begin in the NFC with the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. So I have reason to believe you
Speaker 1: have a new quarterback. Yeah, Tampa Bay now, right, Tom
Speaker 1: Brady as we all know, a Buccaneer now and what
Speaker 1: can you say loaded in the passing game with Chris Godwin,
Speaker 1: Mike Evans, he should thrive and not to mention Rob
Speaker 1: Gronkowski of course. O J. Howard hopefully still coming into
Speaker 1: his own is this the best set of receivers he's
Speaker 1: ever had? If go to I mean, Moss might take
Speaker 1: him over the top. But let's speaking of great receivers.
Speaker 1: Having two great receivers always works out well, even for
Speaker 1: J Cutler and Josh McCown. In with Brandon Marshall and
Speaker 1: Alison Jeffrey, who were very early teammates being drafted in
Speaker 1: fantasy football, you combined McCown and Cutler, and they finished
Speaker 1: uh quarterback six overall basically, and that was McCown and
Speaker 1: Cutler with two great receivers. Give Brady these two guys,
Speaker 1: I mean, top six finish should be in the books. Um,
Speaker 1: and I think he'll be close in terms of touchdowns
Speaker 1: thrown top six, but other people will rush for fantasy
Speaker 1: more fantasy points because of the Russia. All right, let's
Speaker 1: go to the a f C. Let's go to the Colts.
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers goes to the Colts behind the best offensive
Speaker 1: line he's ever had. I don't know that the weapons
Speaker 1: are the best he's ever had, but he's got his
Speaker 1: checkdown running back like he had. He's he's got a good,
Speaker 1: good young rookie running back to to take the pressure off. Um.
Speaker 1: I think it might be, you know, pretty lateral to
Speaker 1: what he was last year. But the problem is is
Speaker 1: he washed. He did not look good at that in
Speaker 1: the last two years, like he couldn't make it a
Speaker 1: fall season before his arm died out. The upside is
Speaker 1: this offensive line that you alluded to, best offensive He's
Speaker 1: a statue back there. Best offensive line he's ever had
Speaker 1: in his seventeen year career. He had eleven yard run
Speaker 1: last year. Yes, and and now if you can get
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton back to what he was healthy, I
Speaker 1: think Paris Campbell's potentially sitting on on a nice rebound
Speaker 1: off of injury last year. It could be the guy
Speaker 1: that we thought he was. So maybe there's I think
Speaker 1: there's some sneaky upside to Philip Rivers as sort of
Speaker 1: last where he's let's go to Teddy Bridgewater in Carolina. Bran.
Speaker 1: That almost sounded like a place. Let's go to Teddy
Speaker 1: Bridgewater in Carolina. The Teddy Bridgewater is the answer to
Speaker 1: your question. Well, if you're a fan of the long ball,
Speaker 1: the deep ball, Teddy Bridgewater in Carolina is not. Uh yeah.
Speaker 1: So last year, among quarterbacks with at least a hundred
Speaker 1: past attempts, the average depth of target was eight point
Speaker 1: seven yards. Teddy finished at six point one dead last,
Speaker 1: more than half a yard behind the next guy. So
Speaker 1: but you know what, this is a good spot for
Speaker 1: a guy with a I don't wanna call it, say
Speaker 1: a noodle arm. He just doesn't go downfield, but he
Speaker 1: dump off to Christian McCaffrey. He dump it off to
Speaker 1: DJ More. These guys can take at the house do
Speaker 1: all the dirty work. But yet Teddy b is the
Speaker 1: guy in Caroline and they did not want Cam Newton.
Speaker 1: So there you go. All right, let's go to the Chargers.
Speaker 1: Chargers get Tyrod Taylor, who might who might actually end
Speaker 1: up in a little bit of a quarterback fight. But
Speaker 1: he's he's got guys on his side, Anthony Lynn from Buffalo.
Speaker 1: He's got better weapons potentially than he than he's had
Speaker 1: in his career. He's got some rushing upside. Uh, It's
Speaker 1: it's an okay spot for him. He's fine for where
Speaker 1: he goes. Is a late flyer even in super flexing leagues.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's draftable in one KB leagues mostly
Speaker 1: now he's not. You do get that running potential to
Speaker 1: Tyrod Brings. Let's go to Chicago. Don't play it yet
Speaker 1: because it's just talking about Nick Foles. We're gonna get
Speaker 1: into the heated battle between Nick Boles and and Sad
Speaker 1: from Bonds. Sorry, first episode, I can't say the name right.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that a little more, but yes, Nick
Speaker 1: Foles is in Chicago, all right. Then let's go to
Speaker 1: the Raiders now Las Vegas. Just to backup Mariotta is
Speaker 1: gonna backup car. They might have a have a training
Speaker 1: camp battle, but that's about all there is there. We'll see,
Speaker 1: we'll see if he can do it with a new
Speaker 1: team if he gets the job. Sounds good. A couple
Speaker 1: of quick backups that we might want to touch on
Speaker 1: that are pretty notable in the NFC. Brian, I want
Speaker 1: to just mention Jamis Winston, not because he's gonna be
Speaker 1: very relevant when something happens to Breeze, but it completed
Speaker 1: this perfect quarterback carousel between the Patriots, the Panthers, the
Speaker 1: Saints and the Bucks. They all interchanged quarterbacks. If you
Speaker 1: think about it, Newton to New England, New England, Brady,
Speaker 1: you went to Tampa Bay. But I won't go on.
Speaker 1: But uh yet really, uh doesn't matter in a one
Speaker 1: quarterback leaks a handcuff for Breeze and super Flex, but
Speaker 1: that's it. Speaking of the Patriots and Newton, Yeah, could
Speaker 1: you argue these are his best wide receivers he's had,
Speaker 1: I mean, Kelvin Benjamin Like it hasn't been good, Like
Speaker 1: it hasn't been great. Yeah, So Cam Newton goes to
Speaker 1: the Patriots. I have a feeling if if he's able
Speaker 1: to run again. If he's overall his injuries, he could
Speaker 1: be a top twelve quarterback once again. But uh, we're
Speaker 1: gonna have to see it first before we get to
Speaker 1: the running backs, the receivers, and the tight ends and
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Speaker 1: You're number twenty six, Segment number two a Fantasy Football Weekly, Guys.
Speaker 1: Last segment we started breaking down the player movements from
Speaker 1: the off season, touching a little bit on the fantasy
Speaker 1: relevancy of these moves. We got through the quarterbacks, Let's
Speaker 1: turn our attention to the running backs, beginning with the Broncos.
Speaker 1: Broncos brought in Melvin Gordon. They signed him to a contract,
Speaker 1: a little bit of a surprise move. Thought Philip Lindsay
Speaker 1: was gonna be the guy there, but they lost a
Speaker 1: bunt of book or so. Maybe they don't know, but
Speaker 1: I think Gordon is going to be the main guy there.
Speaker 1: But they'll both get work. It's it's kind of a
Speaker 1: it's kind of painful for both of them because it
Speaker 1: turned two bell cows into the half bell cous It
Speaker 1: really did. And Philip Lindsay is going very late in
Speaker 1: drafts right now, and I think being a little bit underappreciated.
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not positive Melvin Gordon's that good. We'll
Speaker 1: find out. We'll learn more about whether whether or not
Speaker 1: even in this new environment. Let's go to Let's go
Speaker 1: to Atlanta next. Bryan Todd Gurley returns home to Atlanta. Gurly,
Speaker 1: by the way, ranked number fifty one in the NFL's
Speaker 1: Top one list that's the biggest PS list of all time.
Speaker 1: Wow one maybe possibly Anyway, Atlanta was one of five
Speaker 1: teams that ran the ball less than twenty three times
Speaker 1: per game last season, and according to Pro Football Focus,
Speaker 1: the Atlanta offensive line posted their worst run and past
Speaker 1: blocking grades of the Matt Ryan era last season. That
Speaker 1: era is now lasted forever by the way that Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan era. And uh, the Falcons sunk two first round
Speaker 1: picks into their old line last year, Chris Lindstrom and
Speaker 1: Caleb mc gary. They both looked like busts last year.
Speaker 1: So they don't turn it around. It's not an ideal
Speaker 1: landing spot for girly. I'm not super excited about this. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's go to Miami where they've got two new running backs.
Speaker 1: Have to remember remember all the all the disaster level
Speaker 1: running backs they had last year. Yeah, apparently they didn't
Speaker 1: want Ryan Fitzpatrick to leave the team Russian again, so
Speaker 1: so they brought in Jordan Howard and they trade it
Speaker 1: during the draft fifth router from Matt breidauh Uh. I
Speaker 1: don't love either of them. I just don't for fantasy,
Speaker 1: but uh, I think Howard is most likely going to
Speaker 1: be the Bell Cow and uh, or the at least
Speaker 1: the main runner. He'll be the sixty of the sixty split. Uh.
Speaker 1: There's a little value there, but only if you get
Speaker 1: it cheap. Dolphins offensive line just dreadful, which makes it
Speaker 1: a little bit tricky to trust either of those guys.
Speaker 1: Seattle gets a guy. I think it's gonna be back up.
Speaker 1: Other people think that he's getting pressed for starting time.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Carlos side. It really thumbs down the
Speaker 1: Rashad Penny backup value. It's still Chris Carson is the guy.
Speaker 1: He's healthy. There was worried, worried about the worries about
Speaker 1: his leg going into the season. But he's good to go.
Speaker 1: Only if he starts foaming a lot, then Carlos I
Speaker 1: had becomes something. But we don't have to talk about
Speaker 1: him anymore. Okay, let's go to the Jaguars Scott where
Speaker 1: the Jaguars make kind of a you know, a modest move. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if they picked up Chris Thompson, if he can stay healthy,
Speaker 1: he might get a lot of he might get more
Speaker 1: receptions than people think. I mean. Leonard four Nette was
Speaker 1: third on the team in targets and first in receptions
Speaker 1: for the Jaguars last year for a running back, which
Speaker 1: is and for Leonard Fournette, which is crazy. So I
Speaker 1: expect Chris Thompson to eat into that, you know, losing
Speaker 1: value for Nett and maybe a little you know, flex
Speaker 1: value for Tomas and he's an old j Gruden guy,
Speaker 1: the new O C for the Jaguars. A mytory there.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the wide receiver position and Arizona with
Speaker 1: the biggest move at that position and maybe the biggest
Speaker 1: move overall this offseason. Yeah, definitely. Uh. Of course you're
Speaker 1: talking about DeAndre Hopkins now a Cardinal, and the main
Speaker 1: concern really is will he see the you know, the
Speaker 1: massive target sherre he saw in Houston And at first
Speaker 1: you think probably not. But I was shocked at Arizona
Speaker 1: wide receivers as a whole total the most receptions last
Speaker 1: year at two d and thirty eight nearly fifteen per
Speaker 1: game for reference, the Texans finished with two hundred eight.
Speaker 1: And it's not like it was basically Larry Fitzgerald Christian
Speaker 1: Kirk in the mere Bird. Yeah, and now Hopkins takes
Speaker 1: the mere Bird spot. So yeah, I'm not worried about
Speaker 1: Hopkins at all. In Arizona. I'm actually quite excited to
Speaker 1: see what happens here. Bird now just totally shot. I'm
Speaker 1: really really disappointed. Let's go to Buffalo where they gained
Speaker 1: Stefan Diggs. They did gain Stefan Diggs. He's he's probably
Speaker 1: the the de facto one now they're in Buffalo. Uh
Speaker 1: He's he's a nice target for Josh Allen. Uh I.
Speaker 1: I can see a very frustrating season for Diggs with
Speaker 1: the inaccuracy deep. Nobody's giving Emmanuel Sanders much loving in
Speaker 1: New Orleans, and I think this is a blown opportunity
Speaker 1: for fantasy owners. They should be as long as the
Speaker 1: target distribution doesn't go like this among wide receivers. Here
Speaker 1: was the distribution last year for the Saints. White out
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas one hundred and eighty five, Ted Gain fifty
Speaker 1: six Trey Kwan Smith. The next listed wide receiver on
Speaker 1: Pro Football Rippons was Taysom Hill with twenty two targets.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you would think Sanders will be pushing more
Speaker 1: of the one hundred target threshold than if he gets that.
Speaker 1: In that offense where Michael Thomas commands a lot of attention,
Speaker 1: he'll be a viable fantasy starter this season. Still got
Speaker 1: some gas in the tank for sure, Scott who fills
Speaker 1: the void left by DeAndre Hopkins. A couple of players.
Speaker 1: You've got Randall Cobb coming in and Brandon Cooks. Cooks
Speaker 1: will probably be on the outside with Fuller on the
Speaker 1: other side. Cobb playing the slot mostly is a nice
Speaker 1: big slock eye for them. Um, it's it's gonna be
Speaker 1: interesting to see that offense without DeAndre Hopkins. I'm a
Speaker 1: Fuller guy. I actually like Fuller both better than both
Speaker 1: of these guys. When Fuller is healthy, He's got that
Speaker 1: connection with with with DeShawn Watson. Yeah, of course, it's
Speaker 1: just all about the health, the Lennie's healthy part, right,
Speaker 1: real quick, I saw Randall Cobb just realized he needed
Speaker 1: glasses and he finds so you can find he just
Speaker 1: got so season coming Ford Cop. So you're the Panthers,
Speaker 1: you go and signed Teddy Bridgewater, the most feeble armed
Speaker 1: quarterback starting quarterback in the NFL. And so who do
Speaker 1: you decide to pair him with? Brian Yeah, this is
Speaker 1: fitting the square peg in the round hole with Robbie Anderson.
Speaker 1: Uh Over thirty of Anderson's targets, where twenty plus yards
Speaker 1: last season. That was one of the highest percentages in
Speaker 1: the league for deep past targets. And this is just
Speaker 1: like you said, not a good fit. So I don't
Speaker 1: see how this goes for Robbie. I will not touch
Speaker 1: him in redraft. He is a best ball uh spike
Speaker 1: week dart throw and left behind from the Jets. Who
Speaker 1: did they fill in Robbie Anderson with? Oh, they got
Speaker 1: Brashop Perriman and they Yeah, it's like Pairman is basically
Speaker 1: the same guy I love, by the way, and the
Speaker 1: last one I said big slock eye for red Cop.
Speaker 1: He's not big, but yeah, Perriman fills that role. Honestly,
Speaker 1: it could be very good for Pairman because they don't
Speaker 1: have much there. They got Perraman and Mims. What else
Speaker 1: are they gonna thy Jamison crowder Man. We'll go to
Speaker 1: war over that later. Let's go let's go to the
Speaker 1: tight end position. Atlantic gets one of my favorite sleeper
Speaker 1: tight ends. Yeah, Hayden Hurst coming over from Baltimore or
Speaker 1: coming down from Baltimore, I should say. Austin Hooper saw
Speaker 1: nineties seven targets last year with the Falcons. That was
Speaker 1: the sixth the most and he only played he didn't
Speaker 1: play a full season, and um, those are all going
Speaker 1: to Hayde and Hurst, and the Atlanta offense is a well,
Speaker 1: well oiled machine. Tight end has always been heavily involved.
Speaker 1: He won't. Atlanta tight end has seen at least eighty
Speaker 1: targets in eight of Matt Ryan's twelve seasons. I think
Speaker 1: Levine Toilolo was the one guy didn't do it and stuff.
Speaker 1: But remember Hayden Hurst drafted before Lamar Jackson. Right, yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go. He's gonna be a monster. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the Steelers with a sizeable void and yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: they brought into Eric Ebron, who has been tweeting that
Speaker 1: you should be taking him very rely. He thinks, he
Speaker 1: thinks he's basically he thinks he's got and d a
Speaker 1: a player, thinks he's good. He says, I play fantasy,
Speaker 1: I should I'm better than these guys. He's got the
Speaker 1: opportunity there. Let's go to the Seattle Seahawks. It's always
Speaker 1: been a it's been a revolving door since really the
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham trade went down. Let's talk about who they've acquired. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Greg Olsen not going up in the booth just yet.
Speaker 1: He is now Seahawks. The Seahawks tight ends between Will
Speaker 1: dis Lay and like Jacob Hollister. Guys like that actually
Speaker 1: totaled the twelve most catches in the fifth most touchdowns
Speaker 1: among tight ends last season. So Greg Golson gets the
Speaker 1: majority of run at the tight end position, he could
Speaker 1: be a viable fantasy asset. All right, thank you guys.
Speaker 1: Those are the offseason moves that matter the most to
Speaker 1: fantasy owners. I now want to turn my attention to
Speaker 1: the training camp battles that you're going to be watching.
Speaker 1: That we're all going to be watching. The guys. These
Speaker 1: the battles that you can get the winner you've got
Speaker 1: a real leg up on, and something that will want
Speaker 1: to track throughout the core of the preseason. A training
Speaker 1: camps will wetseason. So just have to keep our nose
Speaker 1: to the ground for news. I know it's gonna be crazy.
Speaker 1: It's you know, normally you can get so much good
Speaker 1: and sometimes bad data out of the preseason games. But
Speaker 1: you know, without that was gonna be a lot more
Speaker 1: guesswork on the ease. And that's okay. Well, we'll look
Speaker 1: and try to figure out the battles that we want
Speaker 1: to be tracking throughout the course of the preseason, but
Speaker 1: not any preseason games training camp. Maybe that's a better
Speaker 1: way to put it. All right, let's begin with the
Speaker 1: Let's begin in the A F C. Scott, what's the
Speaker 1: first training camp battle that you were monitored? Buffalo Bills
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary and Zack Moss. Zack Moss drafted by the
Speaker 1: Bills to I guess replace Frank Gore and all the
Speaker 1: other running backs. Uh. There, Singletary should get more of
Speaker 1: a workload. He was one of the most elusive backs
Speaker 1: in the NFL last year when he did get the ball.
Speaker 1: Both these guys can pass catch, so it's gonna be
Speaker 1: an interesting split. Singletary small, so I think maybe they
Speaker 1: just want to keep keep both of them healthy. They might.
Speaker 1: It might be one of those deals. All right, And
Speaker 1: we alluded to the Bears not that long ago last segment.
Speaker 1: What's going on? Uh do we really care? Is what's gone?
Speaker 1: But Okay, Nick Foles versus Mitch Dubisky, here's how it's
Speaker 1: gonna go. Foles will get the job to start the season.
Speaker 1: They're gonna hope you can manage some games and win
Speaker 1: behind a pretty good defense. But there are way too
Speaker 1: many holes on that team as a whole. So Bortles
Speaker 1: will come in at some point when they decide to
Speaker 1: tank for Trevor Lawrence Chicago. That is, they're going to
Speaker 1: finish with the worst record in the NFL. There's my prediction.
Speaker 1: And we shouldn't care about this when it comes to
Speaker 1: a fantasy football perspective, but there is a battle for
Speaker 1: quarterback in Chicago. You know, I gave I gave Nick
Speaker 1: Foles the happy trombone you never actually said the name
Speaker 1: of because I was figuring that that speaks for itself.
Speaker 1: I get, I get. I like that. I like the
Speaker 1: one where the guy plays the trombone with his his butt,
Speaker 1: though that one's way funnier. That's not No, he's playing
Speaker 1: with his mouth. And I'm thinking of a different scene. Yes,
Speaker 1: you know, I don't know what movie you're thinking. I think,
Speaker 1: uh huh, okay, yeah, I'll do my research. Right, let's
Speaker 1: more bars talk, please, Let's go back to the A
Speaker 1: f C. Scott Uh. Since Narny Bengals, we're looking for
Speaker 1: another receiver in that group from Tait and from aud
Speaker 1: T Higgins, John Ross. Uh. The way on tape played
Speaker 1: last year, I know they put some draft capital and
Speaker 1: Tee Higgins and the way John Ross played at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season. I think it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: pretty decent battle. There's there's a lot of upside with
Speaker 1: all of them. We're gonna be watching to see which
Speaker 1: one of them emerges as that three and uh, it
Speaker 1: could be some fantasy relevant games there all. Right. Back
Speaker 1: to the NFC and the Tampa Bay running back situation, Brian, Yeah,
Speaker 1: a new member to the party in Lashawn McCoy now,
Speaker 1: but it's still really Ronald Jones versus Keyshawn Von. Keyshawn
Speaker 1: Von of course is on the COVID list right now.
Speaker 1: But I guess that's a good thing because you know,
Speaker 1: you got it out of the way. Most likely you're
Speaker 1: not gonna get during the season. We don't even know
Speaker 1: that about COVID yet contact and didn't actually get it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: ding there for roster space alright, in a perfect world
Speaker 1: with no COVID, let's look at the football players at
Speaker 1: hand here. Uh. According to Warren Sharpe, who was one
Speaker 1: of the sharpest football minds out there, Ronald Jones ranked
Speaker 1: as a top three red zone running back last year
Speaker 1: among running backs with at least twenty plus carries inside
Speaker 1: the twenty. Rojoe had a very strong second half, finished
Speaker 1: as a top twenty four running back in PPR. Of course,
Speaker 1: Keyshawn von Keyshawn Vaughn rookie coming in gonna push him
Speaker 1: in camp. We just gotta have this plays out. But
Speaker 1: Bruce arians does like a workhorse back, So one of
Speaker 1: these guys should win the job and have a significant
Speaker 1: touches on a weekly basis. This is one of the
Speaker 1: few that I really don't have a strong feeling for
Speaker 1: who's gonna end up winning. It's just, you know, I
Speaker 1: just I need I need more data points on this,
Speaker 1: and I don't know if we're gonna get them. And
Speaker 1: just because without the preseason games, I tend to lean
Speaker 1: towards vet or and I would break my ties towards
Speaker 1: veterans right now if I had depict right now, Let's
Speaker 1: go to Denver and a running back situation. We've already
Speaker 1: alluded to, We already talked about it. I could go
Speaker 1: on to a new team or not. Go ahead, let's
Speaker 1: go to Houston. We've talked about Gordon and Lindsay. Let's
Speaker 1: let's talk about Houston. Duke Johnson, uh David Johnson got traded,
Speaker 1: got got traded there for DeAndre Hopkins somehow. Uh, that's
Speaker 1: gonna be a battle to watch because I think there
Speaker 1: are a lot of people out there they think David
Speaker 1: Johnson might just be washed. He didn't. He looked terrible
Speaker 1: last year. Uh, or is Bob going to try to
Speaker 1: shove him down our throats? Because it's gonna be interesting
Speaker 1: to see what both of those running backs have. All Right,
Speaker 1: we go to Washington where it's a four man battle
Speaker 1: for Carri's in the backfield. Yeah, or maybe three and
Speaker 1: a half because we're not sure what Antonio Gibson really
Speaker 1: plays yet, a rookie who was a running back in
Speaker 1: a wide receiver. But then the other three Adrian Peterson,
Speaker 1: Darius Guice and now Peyton Barber. Oh I mentioned earlier
Speaker 1: up from Tampa Bay. I want no part of this whatsoever.
Speaker 1: Washington's line currently ranked twenty nine by Pro Football Focus. Uh.
Speaker 1: Trent Williams is long gone, of course at left tackle,
Speaker 1: and um, it's all about his Darius guys. For real,
Speaker 1: he looks great with no shirt on on Twitter, but
Speaker 1: you know what, he's still not half of the physical
Speaker 1: specimen that Adrian Peterson is at aged thirties six, But uh,
Speaker 1: I still like ap Overall among this group, the Colts
Speaker 1: have got t Y Hilton. But after that, how do
Speaker 1: you think this thing is? It shapes up battling. Yeah.
Speaker 1: They invested a ton of draft capital in Paris Campbell
Speaker 1: last year, Michael Pittman this year. Zach Pascal had some
Speaker 1: decent games, mostly from the slot. Last year, I think
Speaker 1: we're looking more to the outside with Pittman and Campbell.
Speaker 1: Though it's Campbell's got a year in that system and
Speaker 1: Pittman's a rookie, So a lot of people are thinking
Speaker 1: this year fade rookies. Maybe that's the case with this alright,
Speaker 1: Detroit's running back situation is unique. At this time last year,
Speaker 1: I was optimistic that carry On Johnson was gonna shake
Speaker 1: off the injuries and all the problems he had in
Speaker 1: his rookie year and come back is a much better sophomore.
Speaker 1: Are that never happened? Continue to be heard and underwhelmed.
Speaker 1: They end up drafting DeAndre Swift. Yeah, and it was
Speaker 1: still kind of a surprise pick in the second round,
Speaker 1: but I think Detroit could not resist Swift, who was
Speaker 1: a first round talent, So they just had to go
Speaker 1: with him, and he's electric as they come a little
Speaker 1: undersized at five nine pounds, so I don't expect full
Speaker 1: bell cow usage out of the gate, or maybe not
Speaker 1: at all the season, But he's one of the one
Speaker 1: rookie runners who I think, uh usurps you know, the
Speaker 1: incumbent quite quite easily in Jacksonville. They got DJ Chart
Speaker 1: and then after that, what does this training camp battle
Speaker 1: look like? Yeah, they have Chris Connley, your guy that
Speaker 1: uh that seemed to go off all three times you
Speaker 1: called it. I know I was so dialed into Chris
Speaker 1: connin last year. You were texted him, is this your
Speaker 1: game this week? Yes? Uh? Then they got d D.
Speaker 1: Westbrook and they got Keeling Cole. Then they brought in
Speaker 1: Levisca Chennault Jr. Who I think might be the one
Speaker 1: that wins this out because they need to get him
Speaker 1: on the field, him with the ball in his hands especial.
Speaker 1: It's I mean, Cordell Patterson like it. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the rams and they're running back situation which looks very
Speaker 1: very convoluted. Hey, I want no part of this either.
Speaker 1: Cam Akers versus Darryl Henderson versus Malcolm Butler versus John Kelly,
Speaker 1: and this is the main takeaway. The Rams never threw
Speaker 1: to the running back last year thirty seven catches as
Speaker 1: a whole. That's bad dead last. I'm out. I'm out
Speaker 1: on this. We'll see what happens, but I'm not on
Speaker 1: this battle. Yeah, and um, they've also said they're going
Speaker 1: to use a hot hand approach, and just you know,
Speaker 1: so fantasyaters may not know on a week to week
Speaker 1: basis what to expect. All Right, let's motor through some
Speaker 1: of the other training camp battles that were monitoring in
Speaker 1: including the Kansas City Chief. Yeah, we we got DeAndre Washington,
Speaker 1: who we've mentioned, but Darryll Williams at the end of
Speaker 1: last season was really good, even even in the playoffs.
Speaker 1: So I think I think that is something to monitor.
Speaker 1: You think it's DeAndre, but we'll see how it plays out.
Speaker 1: Is there much of a battle in San Francisco between
Speaker 1: our he Morris and Tevin Tevin Coleman, Probably not considering
Speaker 1: Mostard had two yards rushing on the same amount of
Speaker 1: carries as Tevin Coleman. But Tevin Coleman is Shanahan's guy.
Speaker 1: He did get hurt early on the year. I think
Speaker 1: most of it is the guy they just resigned him.
Speaker 1: But there there's some competition there. Alright, let's see what happens.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Chargers. We've got a potential quarterback controversy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they invested a good amount of money and really high
Speaker 1: draft capital and Herbert. Uh. They brought in Tyrod Taylor.
Speaker 1: I think Tyrod Taylor was supposed to be the stop
Speaker 1: gap just in case. But Herbert's ready. I mean he
Speaker 1: he could, he could take it over early. Okay, Green Bay.
Speaker 1: I don't know that there's really competition at that number
Speaker 1: two receiver spot. I thought you're gonna say Rogers and
Speaker 1: Love right, it'd be delicious. No, not really. Devin Funcius
Speaker 1: was supposed to have some kind of competition for the
Speaker 1: number two wide receiver roles is. Of course, Davante Adams
Speaker 1: is locked in the number one, but it should be
Speaker 1: alms Ard over marquees of Baldiscandling again. But we'll see. Okay, well,
Speaker 1: let's go to Miami. This is Do you believe the
Speaker 1: two is gonna end up getting the week one? He's
Speaker 1: completely cleared. I don't know, though, It's it's one of
Speaker 1: those things I was hoping for too and not to
Speaker 1: because with Fitzpatrick we kind of know what we're But
Speaker 1: if two is in there, I might I might have
Speaker 1: some questions about the wide receivers, but I think it's
Speaker 1: a legitimate battle now that he's completely ready to go,
Speaker 1: and our finding final training camp battle be San Francisco
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel is gonna miss at least the start of
Speaker 1: the season, and foot injuries on wide receivers bad deal
Speaker 1: missing could could go for quite a while. What's shaping
Speaker 1: up in terms of training camp battles for the Niners. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is really a battle for temporary number one, but
Speaker 1: permanent number two. And despite being a rookie, Brandon and
Speaker 1: you probably the top wide receiver option in the in
Speaker 1: the eyes of the fantasy football community right now, but
Speaker 1: I'm targeting Kendrick Borne instead. Only saw six targets twice
Speaker 1: last year, but in those two games, he had forty
Speaker 1: plus yards in a touchdown in each. But don't don't
Speaker 1: fall in love with any San Francisco wide out as
Speaker 1: a whole. They averaged nine and a half receptions per
Speaker 1: game last year. They just run, run, run, Well, you know,
Speaker 1: the difference might be they can pass this year. They
Speaker 1: have so much more talent at wide receiver, so much
Speaker 1: more talent outside of George Kittle now that maybe they
Speaker 1: will pass more. Yeah. Absolutely, that's a training camp battle
Speaker 1: that we are going to watch as well, and our
Speaker 1: final one that we'll talk about here when we come back.
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Speaker 1: I'll charting with you Scott Fish, Brian Johnson getting you
Speaker 1: ready for fantasy drafts. Still a little early for most
Speaker 1: of us back. And then there's all the COVID stuff.
Speaker 1: We're gonna get to that later in the show. All
Speaker 1: the things that you need to be thinking about to
Speaker 1: get your league ready. For the inevitable. It's gonna happen.
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Speaker 1: We'll tell you all the things you need to know
Speaker 1: a little later in the show. Next. Now, let's look
Speaker 1: at the average draft position for the rookies across the
Speaker 1: across America, where they're being drafted, and whether or not
Speaker 1: you think America's got it right. So to set the table,
Speaker 1: these are PPR leagues one quarterback leagues, and the first
Speaker 1: pick overall is Clyde Edwards Hilaire Scott. Do you believe
Speaker 1: this is the right spot for him? I think it is.
Speaker 1: And and if you know me, I I'm usually in
Speaker 1: a wit now mode usually, so the recent news that
Speaker 1: Damian Williams sure helps helps that within by the number
Speaker 1: one ranking, um, and I don't think Marilyn Mack is
Speaker 1: a slouch either, even though I think Jonathan Taylor is
Speaker 1: just so much better. I think Marlon Max is gonna
Speaker 1: stick around there, So I'm I'm on board with Hilayer
Speaker 1: at one. Okay, let's go to pick number two. By
Speaker 1: your ADP world, You're selecting Jonathan Taylor number two. Brian,
Speaker 1: do you feel like that is the right spot for him.
Speaker 1: Too high? Yeah, it is the right spot. I do.
Speaker 1: Marlon mack Is is an able runner, but Taylor is
Speaker 1: probably the most talented running back in this class. And
Speaker 1: if there's a spot that's not as good as the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: it's probably the Colts with that offensive line. And uh so, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's just in the right spot one day one one
Speaker 1: be really Marlon mack is in the last year of
Speaker 1: his rookie deal. So as we're thinking in Dynasty and
Speaker 1: Empire League terms, remember he might be gone next next year,
Speaker 1: and Naim Hines maybe as well, now that I think
Speaker 1: about a year, Yeah, does he Okay, let's go with that.
Speaker 1: The third pick overall that you are selecting is DeAndre
Speaker 1: Swift to Detroit Is Scott? Is this too high? Too low?
Speaker 1: Or about right? Uh? It's a out right, It's it's
Speaker 1: not the three I would take it. He's he's probably
Speaker 1: my four. But uh so I guess too high one.
Speaker 1: Uh it's it's uh it's the Lions love to run,
Speaker 1: but all their runners get hurt. So I've I've gotten
Speaker 1: gun shy over the years. Their last like seven high
Speaker 1: drafted running backs got hurt. It feels like. But No,
Speaker 1: he's in a good spot if he can hold carry
Speaker 1: on off, which he should. I think he should be
Speaker 1: able to. It feels it feels right to me as
Speaker 1: Swift is just he's an extraordinary talent and the shifting nous,
Speaker 1: the ankle breaking moves. Wow, And at some point he's
Speaker 1: just got to separate from Kerry On Johnson. Right, you'd
Speaker 1: think so, he would think. So. Your fourth pick overall
Speaker 1: is j K. Dobbins, and I think that's where it
Speaker 1: starts to get a little bit more complicated pick. That's
Speaker 1: your third back. All right. I'm gonna say too high
Speaker 1: because I would have taken Dobbins over Swift for Empire
Speaker 1: Dynasty purposes. I like Swift more this season, but uh,
Speaker 1: Dobbins just built for that bell cow usage moving forward
Speaker 1: in the makeup of that Baltimore Ravens team, they run
Speaker 1: how you want the lead running back and not this year.
Speaker 1: But yeah, sooner than later he will be as good
Speaker 1: as mark Ingraman as j K. Dobtmins will take that
Speaker 1: job by next year. All right. Your ADP on rookies
Speaker 1: comes in at number five with cam Acres. Sure is
Speaker 1: just too high? Too low? About right? That's about right?
Speaker 1: That's how it usually goes in these one QB drafts.
Speaker 1: He's he's uh, he's got the cheap rookie deal for that.
Speaker 1: Los Angeles rams to excuse me, Yeah, Los Angeles ramsy,
Speaker 1: And I thought I was thinking charge. Yeah. I don't
Speaker 1: think Henderson is completely out of the way yet. I
Speaker 1: I thought he was a really explosive guy, explicit plays.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna factor in. We're gonna get a
Speaker 1: little more dirty as we go on here, But I
Speaker 1: think it's fair. I think it's where he usually goes.
Speaker 1: It's too high for cam Akers. This is a complicated
Speaker 1: backfield with four different runners, and you're not gonna know
Speaker 1: week in and week out who you can trust to
Speaker 1: get playing time. And if the coaching staff doesn't, I
Speaker 1: believe that they're going to use a hot hand approach,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be total guesswork. You know, the team doesn't
Speaker 1: even know who's gonna get the most, the most carries
Speaker 1: going into a game. Dog, you know, talking how much
Speaker 1: he loves seeing what they did in San Francisco, which
Speaker 1: but they're hot handed pro so I'm I'm not interested
Speaker 1: in cam Akers. Pick number five is too high. Let's
Speaker 1: go to selection number six. C D. Lamb is going
Speaker 1: six and a DP. He is the Dallas wide receiver.
Speaker 1: Is this too low? Too higher? Just right? I'll say
Speaker 1: just right. When it comes to wide receivers, he should
Speaker 1: be the first wide receiver off the board. I might
Speaker 1: take him over Cam Akers at five, but I'll say
Speaker 1: just right here, he should have been the first wide
Speaker 1: receiver taken in reality football, I can't believe the Raiders
Speaker 1: and the Broncos did not take Ceedee Lamb, who had
Speaker 1: thirty three touchdowns over his three seasons as an Oklahoma Sooner,
Speaker 1: never dropped a pass of twenty plus yards in those
Speaker 1: three seasons, forced a mistackle on overt of his receptions
Speaker 1: last year. It's just a crowded wide receiver room though
Speaker 1: in Dallas right now. But I love the long term
Speaker 1: prospects from I do too, and I'm just I believe
Speaker 1: this was too low for all the reasons you just mentioned.
Speaker 1: I would yeah, he was my wide receiver one as well.
Speaker 1: He's the best. I think he's the best receiver out
Speaker 1: of a deep deep, deep deep receiver class. I think
Speaker 1: he should be going earlier than this, even though he
Speaker 1: is in a crowded spot with receivers who probably aren't
Speaker 1: going anywhere in Dallas. Next your a DP for rookies,
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy going seventh to Denver. Do you feel like
Speaker 1: that's about right? J are too low, Scott, he was
Speaker 1: my wide receiver too, And and I just don't know
Speaker 1: that the immediate production is going to be there. You
Speaker 1: gotta really trust and Drew Lock but also Cortland's sons.
Speaker 1: There no fans there. They grabbed. They got Albert, Oh
Speaker 1: they have. They also got kJ Hammler, Tim Patrick's coming back.
Speaker 1: How they have so many, so many mouths to feed there.
Speaker 1: I know that's super cliche, but I think there are
Speaker 1: guys going after Judy on this list that are going
Speaker 1: to have, you know, similar to more production and a
Speaker 1: little bit higher upside in the next couple of years.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about those guys potentially right now. And I'm
Speaker 1: kind of with you on this, including the next guy,
Speaker 1: Jalen reagor At from Philadelphia is going eighth by your
Speaker 1: a DP ravage draft position, Brian, Is that about right? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think it's about right. And speaking of crowded wide
Speaker 1: receiver rooms in Dallas, I'm pretty sure they converted the
Speaker 1: wide receiver room in Philly to like a dog park
Speaker 1: or something. Rigor walks in is like the wide receiver
Speaker 1: one essentially is if you take out the tight ends.
Speaker 1: Of course. So not not a huge guy five ten,
Speaker 1: two oh five, but lightning fast had awful quarterbacking throughout college.
Speaker 1: So you can't glean from too much from his numbers,
Speaker 1: but uh, he probably he could be the highest producing
Speaker 1: rookie wide receiver this year Jeffreys play. So yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: I think Regor is going too low at number eight.
Speaker 1: He walks in he could be the noble one receiver
Speaker 1: wide receiver and on day one, opening Day, that's a
Speaker 1: possibility for Jalen Reagor. And were it not for the
Speaker 1: you know, the chaos of this preseason, I think that
Speaker 1: would be the case. All Right, your next rookie off
Speaker 1: the board in Dynasty Empire Drafts by ADP selection number nine,
Speaker 1: justin Jefferson. Does this feel right? Scott? I know this
Speaker 1: is Dynasty Empire, but I think this is your rookie
Speaker 1: wide receiver one for his first season. I think he's
Speaker 1: the best rookie receiver this season just because of opportunity.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna see a ton of targets I
Speaker 1: think he's made for what what the Vikings want to do,
Speaker 1: and man, Spielman and Zimmer got excited. I'm sure you
Speaker 1: saw that video when they got to draft him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Justin Jefferson highly productive in college, so I think
Speaker 1: he is. He is as much as anybody in this
Speaker 1: draft ready to walk in and be somebody that can
Speaker 1: assimilate to the NFL faster than others. This is he's
Speaker 1: too low at at pick number nine in my opinion,
Speaker 1: by your ADP number ten. Key Shawn Vaughan from Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay going tenth, Brian, is that too high now? I
Speaker 1: think it's just about right. All the big name running
Speaker 1: backs and big name wide receivers are gone, so you
Speaker 1: take a shot here on Vaughan, who you hope gets
Speaker 1: the lead job in Tampa Bay. I don't know how long,
Speaker 1: if he can keep it for a year in and
Speaker 1: year out. Let leave this one stat for Vaughan who
Speaker 1: went to Vanderbilt, who finished as a team with the
Speaker 1: lowest run blocking grade as a unit according to Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus. Even though that happened, Vaughan topped a thousand
Speaker 1: yards unless than two carries. That's pretty impressive. That is
Speaker 1: pretty impressive. Um, I feel like this is a little
Speaker 1: bit too high when I can't even tell you if
Speaker 1: he's the best running back on his team and if
Speaker 1: he can beat out when you can't for sure beat
Speaker 1: out Ronald Jones. I'm not sure how good you are
Speaker 1: if you're running back hungry though this you gotta take
Speaker 1: a shot here on Vaughan. All right, Your ADP pick
Speaker 1: number eleven is Henry Ruggs from your Las Vegas Raiders.
Speaker 1: Too high, too lower? Just right? Ah Man, It's tough
Speaker 1: for me because there's a long history of super fast
Speaker 1: guys that go top ten, the smaller super fast guys
Speaker 1: that just do not make it. They they just do
Speaker 1: not pan out. But I think this guy is actually
Speaker 1: pretty good. And in that offense, he's gonna have room.
Speaker 1: He's got all the opportunity in the world. It's it's
Speaker 1: Tyrell and it's him, and it's Hunter Renfrell. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's got room. He's got room to get a lot
Speaker 1: of targets. They he'll get playing to time, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Henry Ruggs about right at number eleven. Lastly, and briefly,
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow, first player taking in the draft, going at
Speaker 1: the end of the first round in Dynasty and Empire draphs,
Speaker 1: you had one quarterback league. That's about right. The real
Speaker 1: question is if you're you're in a super flex league
Speaker 1: and I know we're all playing a bunch, are you
Speaker 1: taking Burrow first overall? Are you're going with h? And Uh?
Speaker 1: I don't know what I would do at this exact moment.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure. But in the one quarterback league, you
Speaker 1: still got to take him over to of course, and uh,
Speaker 1: since he's gonna have a pretty fun team when it
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Speaker 1: Weekly here number twenty six. Paul Charge and Scott Fish
Speaker 1: and Brian Johnson with you. Last segment, we started the
Speaker 1: first round of your Dynasty Empire Rookie drafts. Your ADP America.
Speaker 1: The order you're taking every one of the players in
Speaker 1: We've evaluated if you're getting it right or you're getting
Speaker 1: it wrong. Now we go to round two, where it
Speaker 1: gets a lot sketchier and the names aren't quite as familiar.
Speaker 1: But this is where you're gonna unearth some of your
Speaker 1: great sleepers. I'll bragg for just a minute. This is
Speaker 1: where I got Michael Thomas, you die all the clock
Speaker 1: back five years ago. He was a second round pick
Speaker 1: in my dynasty league. I got Robbed Gronkowski the third
Speaker 1: round of a dynasty Yeah, there, there there, And I
Speaker 1: love this second round too. It's deepest. I really think
Speaker 1: this is the deepest fantasy draft we've ever had. I've
Speaker 1: been doing this professionally since this is the best and
Speaker 1: deepest draft we've had, so the second round still got
Speaker 1: a ton of value. We begin with t Hey Agins
Speaker 1: in Cincinnati. Is it is the first big of the
Speaker 1: second round. Scott. Is he too high, too low? Or
Speaker 1: just right? He's probably he's a little too high for me.
Speaker 1: I know people love him, uh they are just a
Speaker 1: bunch of guys in this round I like more than him.
Speaker 1: He's he's a big six ft four guy to replace
Speaker 1: the six ft four, two hundred fifteen pound guy to
Speaker 1: replace the six ft four, two fifteen pound thirty two
Speaker 1: year old aj Green. That's right, and isn't that the
Speaker 1: value that he brings. That's I mean to me, the
Speaker 1: whole point on Tie Higgins isn't this year. It's all
Speaker 1: about the probability that a j Green is somewhere else
Speaker 1: in the future and he becomes the de facto number one.
Speaker 1: I like Tyler Boyd and I respect him, but I
Speaker 1: don't think he's I think it's one receiver guy. Tie
Speaker 1: Higgins could be him in two years, ultra productive at
Speaker 1: Clemson by your average draft position. The next rookie to
Speaker 1: go second pick of the second round, Denzel Mims. Brian,
Speaker 1: do you think this is just right? No, I think
Speaker 1: he should have been a little higher over Higgins. Personally.
Speaker 1: Mims coming out of Bailor Love the side, six three pounds, uh,
Speaker 1: could very well be the best boundary receiver on the
Speaker 1: Jets right now. I'm not convinced Broshot Perryman is the
Speaker 1: answer one year deal to He's on a one year deal.
Speaker 1: I think Jamison Crowders He's a ton of targets this year,
Speaker 1: but I like Mims to have a role, a significant
Speaker 1: role this year and moving forward. He could be a
Speaker 1: stud alright. The third pick of the second round by
Speaker 1: your average draft position is Brandon Ayouk yep, who goes
Speaker 1: to the Niners. What do you think? Too high? Too low?
Speaker 1: Just right? I think it's fair, especially considering this year.
Speaker 1: Deebo is gonna start out on the on the probably
Speaker 1: on the pup. We'll see. I think it's I think
Speaker 1: it's all right. He could turn into the wide receiver
Speaker 1: one there. But I still feel like that team runs
Speaker 1: a ton It's Kittles team in the receiving game, and
Speaker 1: I can see them drafting more wide receivers in the
Speaker 1: coming years. It's okay, I think it's a little high
Speaker 1: for me, all right, I'm kinda with you on that.
Speaker 1: But again, I think San Francisto just got room to
Speaker 1: pass opportunity, and he's got up. He walks right into
Speaker 1: a starting role this year as a rookie, which is great.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Indianapolis where pick number four of the
Speaker 1: second round is Michael Pittman. Is this too high? Tool
Speaker 1: oranges way too low? And he went way too low
Speaker 1: in real football to over twelve hundred yards and eleven
Speaker 1: touchdowns at USC last year. Caught a hundred and one
Speaker 1: passes in college. That is unreal. Only three drops on
Speaker 1: a hundred and thirty three targets last year, for reference,
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy had seven drops on a hundred and eight
Speaker 1: targets uh and ridiculous wingspan uh. In addition to the
Speaker 1: size for Pittman of nearly eight inches, he's gonna he's
Speaker 1: gonna be a beast for years to come. In Pittman
Speaker 1: with the great body control and these lead big catches,
Speaker 1: with the big body ah and the crowded room. He's
Speaker 1: got the bloodline pedigree that Brian loves. He's got the
Speaker 1: football player father. Absolutely. I hope he's got the quite
Speaker 1: the biceps that that dad had. I don't think you
Speaker 1: want those a wide receiver. Didn't work out well for
Speaker 1: David Boston. But yeah, David. But I think we all remember,
Speaker 1: or at least you get the poster. I've seen it in.
Speaker 1: That's right. Um. One last thing in Michael Pittman, I
Speaker 1: think the big question is who's his quarterback next year?
Speaker 1: I don't know, so to me, that's the that's that's
Speaker 1: the big X factor on Michael on Michael pitt The
Speaker 1: next guy in the last time of the same question,
Speaker 1: all right, and that's Brian Edwards, the new Las Vegas
Speaker 1: d Yeah, I really like Brian Edwards. I like Rugs.
Speaker 1: Tyrrell might be gone after this season. Uh, Tyro is
Speaker 1: not very good. Yea and Renfro is going to be
Speaker 1: in the slot if they get if they get a
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback. I think Brian Edwards checks just about every box.
Speaker 1: I think he could be a good big receiver for them.
Speaker 1: We're going through Dynasty and Empire rookie drafts. This is
Speaker 1: your average draft position, America. And whether or not you're
Speaker 1: getting it right, and you're not getting it more wrong,
Speaker 1: then you're getting it On this pick, the sixth selection
Speaker 1: of the second round of Zack Moss. I'm gonna I'm
Speaker 1: gonna end up talking about Moss a little bit later
Speaker 1: in the show, so I'm not gonna steal. I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna even spend any more time on him here, but
Speaker 1: rest assured he's going too low. Definitely going too low.
Speaker 1: And if you listen to our podcast over the last
Speaker 1: few months, we've been praising Zack Moss practically every week. Uh,
Speaker 1: he will get the eighteen carries at Frank goregat inside
Speaker 1: the ten yard line. Last year, Devin Singletary had three
Speaker 1: carries inside the ten. Those are all going to Zack Moss,
Speaker 1: who is a five tool running back, by the way,
Speaker 1: so we'll talk about him more like charge said, love
Speaker 1: Zack Moss going way too low here, way too low.
Speaker 1: It picks six. Let's go to pick seven of the
Speaker 1: second round. Laviska chanlt a really really gifted athlete is
Speaker 1: and you talk to you don't break my heart. So
Speaker 1: you talk glowingly of him, a segment like I just
Speaker 1: love watching them on the field. There's so they're highlight
Speaker 1: reel material. I think he can grow into the wide
Speaker 1: receiver to there with Chark and with Minshew growing us
Speaker 1: pick seven of the second round to couple wide receivers
Speaker 1: I like less than him, so I do feel it's
Speaker 1: too low, alright, I agreed next to a Tagliabola is
Speaker 1: and for the Dolphins, I think I butchered his name.
Speaker 1: I'm not going to correct you, that's right. I'm just
Speaker 1: going at the draft, I had a doubt that, and
Speaker 1: I haven't said his name were than a couple of
Speaker 1: times since then. Alright, So at pick number eight of
Speaker 1: the second round, too low, too high, or just right,
Speaker 1: I think it's a little too low. He probably he
Speaker 1: would have been the first overall pick if not for
Speaker 1: the injury last year, and that doesn't seem to be
Speaker 1: too much of a concern. So he's probably going a
Speaker 1: little too low. And uh, you could make a case
Speaker 1: for taking him over borrow if you're thinking long term
Speaker 1: and not just for this year. But uh two has
Speaker 1: got a bright future ahead of him, hopefully, and this
Speaker 1: will probably you will look back and listen being like,
Speaker 1: why didn't I draft to that? Yeah, because don't you
Speaker 1: get that feeling? His weapons are so nice too, at
Speaker 1: least for me and Dynasty President Williams. Second. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: does have weapons around him. He's really in a good
Speaker 1: spot to succeed offensive line aside, which they need to improve.
Speaker 1: This the ninth selection in the second round by your
Speaker 1: average draft position in Dynasty and Empire leagues. Antonio Gibson
Speaker 1: from Washington, a guy that's flying under the radar in
Speaker 1: a lot of leagues. Too high to right. Uh, I
Speaker 1: think it's probably just right. I usually take him a
Speaker 1: little higher just because I really like him. He's he
Speaker 1: had so little production in college, but when he did
Speaker 1: get the ball, he was really hyper effective with it. Uh.
Speaker 1: And they didn't know if he was gonna be a
Speaker 1: running back or a wide receiver. The only problem is
Speaker 1: in Washington a lot of running backs, so maybe they'll
Speaker 1: put them out of wide receiver a little bit because
Speaker 1: they don't have a lot of those these jackknife guys,
Speaker 1: jack of all trade guys when they almost ever seemed
Speaker 1: to pan out from a fantasy. When they don't, they don't.
Speaker 1: When they pop like they pop, when they don't, they don't.
Speaker 1: He's not Alvin Camar. That's I don't think. I think
Speaker 1: this is too high for Antonio Gibson, who to me
Speaker 1: as a role player in that offense, and Chris Thompson
Speaker 1: replacement and yeah, at best to Chris Thompson replacement, and
Speaker 1: to me, that's not worthy of this selection in the
Speaker 1: ninth pick of the second round. But the tenth pick
Speaker 1: absolutely should be higher. And that's a J Dillon for
Speaker 1: the Packers, especially when you start thinking about twenty one. Brian, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm getting all the softballs here. A J Dillon going
Speaker 1: way too low here. If there's anyone that you could
Speaker 1: compare to Derrick Henry, he would be a J. Dillon.
Speaker 1: He's the house, but uh we can call him a
Speaker 1: mobile home because he can move to uh. Waiting at
Speaker 1: seven at the combine, but he only recorded the highest
Speaker 1: vertical leap among all running backs. That makes total sense,
Speaker 1: and he ran a four or five three forty Clyde
Speaker 1: Edwards Hilaire ran a four six. So there you go.
Speaker 1: Dylan is gonna he's gonna vulture some touchdowns from Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones this year. There's no denying that's this year. Now,
Speaker 1: next year, Aaron Jones a free agent, and so is
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams a bitter free agent. Yes, I mean there's
Speaker 1: no guarantee. I don't think Williams makes a team this year.
Speaker 1: That's not guaranteed. But yet next year's not probably not.
Speaker 1: So there's there's a real path for a J. Dillon
Speaker 1: to get a lot of a lot of work in
Speaker 1: future seasons. And so everybody that's that's maybe down on him,
Speaker 1: I think they're not just not thinking about years beyond
Speaker 1: this line. This is what happened into the second late second,
Speaker 1: especially a rookie drafts. You're playing one the eleventh pick
Speaker 1: of the second round by your average draft position in
Speaker 1: Dynasty and Empire leagues. Is Derrington Evans from Tennessee. Is
Speaker 1: this the right spot for him? I think he's too
Speaker 1: high now I think I think now that Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: has resigned, I think he's too high Now. I think
Speaker 1: he would have been fair at that price. Now you're
Speaker 1: buying a backup for a guy who probably won't come
Speaker 1: off the field, not now. And then the last guy
Speaker 1: that will end up talking about in this segment Chase
Speaker 1: Claypool from Tennessee. He's the wide receiver they drafted and
Speaker 1: he is the last selection of the second round. Is
Speaker 1: this feel about right for him? Brian, It's a little
Speaker 1: high for me. I think I would look at some
Speaker 1: of the some of the other running backs still around,
Speaker 1: like you know, Benjamin Lamacoll Porene, or even like Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 1: a long term quarterback that intrigues me. But Claypool looks
Speaker 1: like an intriguing PROSPECTS six four. He's got sized, but
Speaker 1: I think out out in order Dame. He did have
Speaker 1: thirteen touchdowns last year, but I just need to see
Speaker 1: more from him before I'm taking him with the last
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh was better at drafting and grooming wide receivers. They
Speaker 1: can never identify a good receiver, I believe, and I
Speaker 1: judice Smith Shuster's coming up to free agency, I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna walk. I don't think they're going to resign him,
Speaker 1: and I think they're gonna go with the other young
Speaker 1: receivers they have, including James Washington and Johnson. Johnson is
Speaker 1: really good. I think they're gonna go ahead with those
Speaker 1: guys next year. So I like Chase Claypool and I
Speaker 1: think there's going to be a spot for him on
Speaker 1: this roster in one. So I do think this is
Speaker 1: a good spot for him. Off the top of my head,
Speaker 1: names omitted that that could be second round picks, Lynn
Speaker 1: Bowden Raids maybe right, another player without a position. Those
Speaker 1: guys so rarely end up being meaningful Fantasy contributors. And
Speaker 1: I hear good things about Joshua Kelly who's on the Chargers.
Speaker 1: Now I'm interested in him. Uh and from the Ricky
Speaker 1: Scouting portfolio really knows his stuff, really likes Joshua Kelly,
Speaker 1: and I'll listen to Matt Waldman has to say. And
Speaker 1: I think he might flat out Justin Jackson. He might
Speaker 1: beat out Justin Jackson, and there's I think there's a
Speaker 1: real chance he'll do that. But Austin Ekeler, you guys
Speaker 1: saw the photo of him this week. The shirtless photo. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He was doing those video last year too. He's but yeah,
Speaker 1: now he looks even more. He's so ripped and it
Speaker 1: kills me. When people describe Austin Ekelers a scatback, you know,
Speaker 1: like he's this little guy who can't run between tackles,
Speaker 1: You're nuts, And dude is just power. He is a
Speaker 1: scat back. He leaves defenders scattered all over the field.
Speaker 1: It leaves him scatting their pants. That's that's what happens.
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Speaker 1: just a segment that we like to call three tough
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Speaker 1: oh through the gauntlet of the three tough questions. Are
Speaker 1: you ready? Tough question number one? Now that the Kansas
Speaker 1: City tandem backfield strategy is dead, how about a Brown's
Speaker 1: tandems backfield strategy? Are you advocating for it? Scott? I'm
Speaker 1: not really advocating advocating for the stacking or pairing of
Speaker 1: players this year, as I mentioned kind of before with
Speaker 1: with I don't want to I don't want players in
Speaker 1: the same room in case something happens. I will say
Speaker 1: for those, uh, those that are looking at that strategy,
Speaker 1: they're both decent prices and cream Hunt did produce really
Speaker 1: well as an RB two RB three when he played
Speaker 1: last year, so I think both are are very viable
Speaker 1: and if one goes down, you have a a stud
Speaker 1: RB one. So this is a this is a pretty
Speaker 1: good strategy if if that's your risk this year. So
Speaker 1: oh yes, is that answer? Or is that a No,
Speaker 1: I'm not making this move but so no, yeah, no,
Speaker 1: I guess I get it. But all right, Bryant, are
Speaker 1: you are well? I'll just reset the question. Are you
Speaker 1: interested in a Brown's tandem backfield strategy with your two
Speaker 1: starters as Nick Chubb and Kareem Hunt. No, I'm out
Speaker 1: on Chub this year based on his first round a DP.
Speaker 1: His red zone production last year was abhorrent. He had
Speaker 1: fifteen attempts inside the five yard line. Nick Chubb did
Speaker 1: for negative fourteen yards, fifteen attempts for negative fourteen yards
Speaker 1: just two touchdowns. Cream Hunt had one carrying inside the
Speaker 1: five for three yards and he scored. And I still
Speaker 1: think Hunt is the better running back than Nick Chubb,
Speaker 1: So I'm not Yeah, they're both weapons, but I'm not
Speaker 1: paying first round price for Nick Chubb. I would rather
Speaker 1: take Echolo or even Josh Jacob's reach for them over Chubb.
Speaker 1: That's me. Nick Chubb's really, really good. He was Profob'll
Speaker 1: focus his highest graded running back last year UM from
Speaker 1: weeks ten through sevent when Hunt was playing, depending on
Speaker 1: your scoring system, so roughly both of these guys ranked
Speaker 1: into the top fifteen of running backs. Both of them did.
Speaker 1: Now key to the understanding this Brown's tandem strategies to
Speaker 1: know the Chubb is going mid second round typically a DP,
Speaker 1: and Kareem Hunt is going to the mid sixth round.
Speaker 1: So that frees up my first round pick to not
Speaker 1: be a running back, my third round pick to not
Speaker 1: be a running back, my fourth rounder, my fifth rounder,
Speaker 1: all non running backs. I'm gonna be stacked at every
Speaker 1: other spot on the field. And now I've got the
Speaker 1: two Browns. Now they Cleveland Gains offensive coordinator former offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Kevin Stefanski from Minnesota, who ran the ball the
Speaker 1: sixth most times and the fourth most times in his
Speaker 1: two seasons offensive coordinator. Are you saying that's an upgrade
Speaker 1: over Freddie Kitchen? I am over Freddy Kitchens. We've seen
Speaker 1: him harness the abilities of several good running backs. Despite
Speaker 1: the fact that Chubb and Hunt are not built very
Speaker 1: much alike, they are actually used shockingly similarly. Chubb is
Speaker 1: the much bigger back, but he's very elusive and he's
Speaker 1: very fast. He's he was ranked number two in Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focuses elusiveness ranking despite his size, and Chubb posted
Speaker 1: the second fastest ball carrier speed last year two for
Speaker 1: a guy his size, it's remarkable right there. You can
Speaker 1: also catch, and before Hunt showed up, he topped three
Speaker 1: catches in six out of eight games Nick Chubb did,
Speaker 1: So we know Chubb can do a little of everything.
Speaker 1: He's got speed, he's got size, he's got ability. Then
Speaker 1: he had in Hunt, who I think most people know better,
Speaker 1: who did everything in Andy Reid's offenses, inside runs, outside runs.
Speaker 1: One of the best patch catchers in the league. And
Speaker 1: if you extrapolate hunts receiving numbers from his eight games
Speaker 1: last year to a full season, only Christian McCaffrey and
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler would have topped Hunting receptions, receiving yards, and
Speaker 1: receiving touchdowns. He had he was all. They were already
Speaker 1: using Hunt very very well as a receiver last year.
Speaker 1: So if I get all of that production combined together
Speaker 1: in an offensive has every reason to get better, especially
Speaker 1: with the improvements at offensive line. They got the best
Speaker 1: tackle in free agency and Jack Conklin. They put a
Speaker 1: first round pick into the other tackle spot. That offensive
Speaker 1: line gets a lot better. That productivity that Brian was
Speaker 1: concerned about at the goal line should go away with
Speaker 1: these new tackles. I think you can absolutely execute and
Speaker 1: I don't think it, I know it. You can should
Speaker 1: execute a Brown's tandem back field. Okay, it needs a
Speaker 1: better name though. He needed in a name for this,
Speaker 1: uh strategy will come listen. I'm listening Brown Town or
Speaker 1: next week? Tough question number two? Which second year quarterback
Speaker 1: is most likely to make a the biggest leap in
Speaker 1: fantasy point production? Which second year quarterback will make the
Speaker 1: biggest leap in fantasy point production? Brian, I'll give you
Speaker 1: a hint. He's got a mustache and it's Dner Minshew.
Speaker 1: Really only thirteen thirteen and a half games last year,
Speaker 1: finished with the tenth most passing touchdowns by a rookie
Speaker 1: quarterback since the merger in nineteen seventy. Uh. Here are
Speaker 1: the top three quarterbacks graded on throws of twenty plus
Speaker 1: yards downfield last season. Number one Russell Wilson, Number two
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson, Number three Gardner Minshew. And don't forget he
Speaker 1: can run as well. UH. Fifth in rushing yards among
Speaker 1: quarterbacks last year twenty four twenty five yards per game. Essentially,
Speaker 1: that's about a half of passing touchdown. You can add
Speaker 1: to his game log and Jacksonville is gonna be chasing
Speaker 1: points on the regular uh, playing from behind throwing the
Speaker 1: ball a Ton Gardner Minshew man top twelve potential all Right, Scott,
Speaker 1: which second year quarterback is going to make the biggest
Speaker 1: leap in fantasy point production? See when I read this question,
Speaker 1: I focused on biggest leap. Gardner Minshew is already a
Speaker 1: thirty two yard passer with two with twenty plus touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He does, he doesn't get respected that same with Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones three thousand yard pass the twenty plus touchdowns, uh,
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray thirty yards, five hundred on the ground, uh
Speaker 1: twenty four touchdowns. These guys would have to make large
Speaker 1: leaps to do what I think Drew Lock is going
Speaker 1: to do. Who averaged just over two hundred yards per
Speaker 1: game and one point two touchdowns per game. Now he
Speaker 1: has Courtland's son and Albert oh Noah fant a better line,
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon, He's got, he got, Jerry Judy's got kJ
Speaker 1: Hamler to to open up open up the top there.
Speaker 1: I think luck. I think Drew Lock has the most
Speaker 1: potential for the biggest leap of those people, you know,
Speaker 1: I look through. I looked through Drew Locks box scores
Speaker 1: and just to refresh my memory, and actually even went
Speaker 1: back and watched a little bit of video from last
Speaker 1: year of Drew Lock just so I remember liking what
Speaker 1: I saw, but I couldn't put it all together. And
Speaker 1: then I went back and watched him and look the
Speaker 1: box sers and I went, he's all right, yeah, that's
Speaker 1: all right, And I don't know, it's just good is
Speaker 1: you know? But I didn't. There was nothing that sort
Speaker 1: of jumped off the page for me. And then I
Speaker 1: went back to Daniel Jones. It's like, dang, that dude's
Speaker 1: got it on. He may feel like he just may
Speaker 1: have again, Um, like Gardner Minshew, the terrible defense for
Speaker 1: the Giants is going to provide a pass happy game
Speaker 1: script often times for him. Look at the receiving talent
Speaker 1: around Daniel Jones. You and you correct your app You're
Speaker 1: both right by that. You both have good answers, just
Speaker 1: not the best answer. It's lotstery talent around Golden Tate,
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd, Darius Slayton, Evan Ingram, Sa Kwon Barkley, all
Speaker 1: those people around Daniels and again none of they never
Speaker 1: played together in a single game. All those not one
Speaker 1: game last year were they on the field together. Jones
Speaker 1: still finished despite the fact that all of those guys
Speaker 1: missed copious amounts of time played hard, et cetera. He
Speaker 1: still finished his quarterback seventeen despite not starting four games.
Speaker 1: By the way, he's got a lot of room to
Speaker 1: move up from seventeen. He could cut that in half.
Speaker 1: He could be quarterback eight as a possibility this coming season. Um.
Speaker 1: I like the fact that he's got sneaky rushing production.
Speaker 1: He topped over twenty five rushing yards in half his
Speaker 1: games last year. Remember that first big breakout game that
Speaker 1: he had against Tampa Bay wery he ran into and
Speaker 1: he threw two and went berserk in that game. Now,
Speaker 1: the offensive line has been terrible in New York for years.
Speaker 1: The team spent the first, a third, and a fifth
Speaker 1: round pick this year into the offensive line. Zeitler comes back.
Speaker 1: Uh they had that's Andrew Thomas, Matt part and Shane
Speaker 1: Lemieux all got drafted. So the line figures to get better.
Speaker 1: Maybe not weak one, but those rookies will come around
Speaker 1: over the course of the season and should be able
Speaker 1: to help. Now many lists of the correct answers Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones many listeners might be thinking, what about Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: He's going off the border at as quarterback five and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of big But that's the thing, it's
Speaker 1: the biggest leap. Kyler Murvey is already putting up some
Speaker 1: pretty pretty solid total yards touchdowns. He'd have to have
Speaker 1: a Mahones Lamar Jackson. Oh yeah, and he got DeAndre
Speaker 1: hop in the off season helps right now. Nobody mentioned
Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins, who has nowhere to go but up, and there's,
Speaker 1: you know, from just a leap standpoint, because he did
Speaker 1: he provided so little last year. It was tempting to
Speaker 1: use Dwayne Haskins here, but that was my thoughts. I
Speaker 1: can't even tell you that he's got How many games
Speaker 1: are you gonna play? Can you? Can you beat out
Speaker 1: Alex Smith on one leg? I don't know. Can he
Speaker 1: beat on Kyle Allen? I don't know. So Kyle Allen
Speaker 1: over from Carolina. I'm ne I just I can't get
Speaker 1: I can't embrace Dwayne Haskins at this point. Tough question
Speaker 1: number three. All three of these d j's are going
Speaker 1: within one round of each other, so they're all within
Speaker 1: twelve picks, and you're on the clock. You have to
Speaker 1: choose from DJ Shark, d J Moore, or David Johnson.
Speaker 1: Who are you selecting, Scott? Oh, we're not going back
Speaker 1: and forth at freaked me out there? Oh no it is.
Speaker 1: I'm going with d J Moore. And honestly, it's really
Speaker 1: not that close for me. As much as I love
Speaker 1: DJ Shark. What d J Moore has done in his
Speaker 1: first two years being a guy that's under twenty three,
Speaker 1: only ten other wide receivers have had nineteen hundred total
Speaker 1: nine hundred receiving yards before the age of twenty three,
Speaker 1: and at that list is like Evans, Fitzgerald, Moss, Juju
Speaker 1: uh Andre Hopkins, that Josh Gordon and Allen Robinson type guys. Um,
Speaker 1: that's what I love his production. I know he's got
Speaker 1: Teddy Chark, He's gonna he's gonna get some targets taken
Speaker 1: away from him from Chris Thompson, from Chennault is going
Speaker 1: to be there now with Minshew, Um, David Johnson not
Speaker 1: for me at all. David Johnson is the guy that
Speaker 1: you're drafting in that spot because you punted running back
Speaker 1: for five rounds and you need to find someone who
Speaker 1: might be a starter. David Johnson doesn't even come and
Speaker 1: come close in my in my eyes, Brian, well, I'm
Speaker 1: taking David Johns in. Of course, it helps to know
Speaker 1: who's on your team already. I'm gonna build my team
Speaker 1: around the DJ's in the future. Grounds. But if I want,
Speaker 1: I like David Johnson this year, and people have basically
Speaker 1: put him out the pastor that's very unfair, uh, through
Speaker 1: Like anybody who's drafted him in the last three years,
Speaker 1: we all remember the last vision of him was an
Speaker 1: awful run late in the season. Everything running in molasses.
Speaker 1: But let's think about the first eight games. He finished
Speaker 1: as RB ten through the first eight weeks of the season.
Speaker 1: He only played in six of those games. He missed
Speaker 1: the Week seven game against the Giants, when Chase Edmonds
Speaker 1: finished as he RB won with three touchdowns and like
Speaker 1: two hundred combo yards. If David Johnson got he was
Speaker 1: knocked up, you know, banged up, knocked the lumbering around man.
Speaker 1: But you know, tally those numbers onto his first half
Speaker 1: of the season, he's RB one through the first half
Speaker 1: of the season. Yes, he came back late in the season,
Speaker 1: he looked awful, but when he was healthy, the first half,
Speaker 1: he was running behind the fourth worst graded run blocking
Speaker 1: line by Pro Football Focus. He had a volatile rookie quarterback.
Speaker 1: I'm giving I'm going glass half al with David Johnson
Speaker 1: here in Houston. I think Bill O'Brien they never throw
Speaker 1: of the running backs there. He has to flip the
Speaker 1: script on that in that regard. So David Johnson, let's go.
Speaker 1: He's gonna finish as an RB one. Let's be fair.
Speaker 1: He's only five years removed from a thousand yards season.
Speaker 1: So well, just the other day one of the one
Speaker 1: of the last years was a broken arm. You gotta
Speaker 1: give him a little break there. But I know he's
Speaker 1: got he's got some things to prove. We'll see if
Speaker 1: you can do it. Yeah, I just I'm I need
Speaker 1: David Johnson's lost the benefit of the doubt for me
Speaker 1: at this point, and he might hit. As it turned out,
Speaker 1: Carlos Hyde, who's awful, ended up being a meaningful fantasy
Speaker 1: contributor just by being the guy who got the ball
Speaker 1: in Houston. So I mean there's something to be said.
Speaker 1: You know, if he's unless he's so bad that they
Speaker 1: really can't even use him, David Johnson is probably going
Speaker 1: to be fine. And I don't like Johnson there though,
Speaker 1: because he's maybe the second best pass catching back after
Speaker 1: David Johnson. One of Yeah, they got to change that
Speaker 1: because we thought when they passed to the running backs,
Speaker 1: one of the lowest in the NFL DeShawn Watson, and
Speaker 1: they brought into Johnson and they still didn't pass to him.
Speaker 1: So receptions for running backs last year for the Texans
Speaker 1: fourth fewest. They had fifty the year before that was
Speaker 1: the least of the least. The correct answer is d J. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let's talk it through, guys. D J. Moore and Chart,
Speaker 1: by the way, finished last year depending your scoring system
Speaker 1: is roughly wide receiver fifteen and sixteen right next to
Speaker 1: each other, but then missed two games and were missed
Speaker 1: two games in fairness, and they got there very both
Speaker 1: similar and and odd allways. The similar part is they
Speaker 1: both thrived despite inexperienced quarterbacks who were very at times inconsistent,
Speaker 1: and that the fact that they were as good as
Speaker 1: they were with those quarterbacks I thought was a testament
Speaker 1: to how good they both are as receivers. Now. D J.
Speaker 1: Moore was a model of consistency. He put up you
Speaker 1: know you wanted your five years, your I've catches for
Speaker 1: seventy yards. DJ Moore was your guy if you want
Speaker 1: any touchdowns. He only scored in three games last year.
Speaker 1: That's it, just three. And then you bring in I know,
Speaker 1: then you bring in Teddy Bridgewater, who shortens the field,
Speaker 1: which just doesn't help it help Is he I don't know. Probably, yes,
Speaker 1: he probably is better than he's better than them, But
Speaker 1: is that is the kind of quarterback that Teddy is
Speaker 1: going to help any receiver flourish and take the next
Speaker 1: step forward in his progression for a young receiver. And
Speaker 1: I don't think Teddy's got it in him. DJ Chark
Speaker 1: though much more ex explosive. He scored in six different games,
Speaker 1: but those were his big games, and he had the
Speaker 1: bad games when Minshew just didn't hit him right or
Speaker 1: he just had you know, he had the three catch
Speaker 1: for thirty yard games. So Chuck was way more volatile.
Speaker 1: But I think Minshew, for the reasons that Brian elucidated
Speaker 1: moments ago, Minshew will end up righting the ship. He'll
Speaker 1: be better in year two. The team obviously thinks that
Speaker 1: Minho is gonna better because they made no moves at
Speaker 1: quarterback other than shedding Nick Foles. So this is a
Speaker 1: good opportunity for Minshew to get better, and he's got
Speaker 1: the arm to make any play a deep successful. To
Speaker 1: d J. Chark, he does with his legs and then
Speaker 1: she does. He draws a lot of comparisons to a J. Green,
Speaker 1: who thrived under Ja Gruden as a o C in
Speaker 1: Cincinnati unhealthy, So good Pointruden loves them, loves Chark and
Speaker 1: charking former first rounder. I like Joe Brady and Carolina too.
Speaker 1: Coming from I know, but I mean this is like
Speaker 1: I used I thought it was like tie break. I
Speaker 1: just like, I like, I'm hooking my wagon to Gardner
Speaker 1: Minshew before I am Teddy Bridgewater for fantasy purpose. So
Speaker 1: d J Chark the correct answer. When we come back,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about all the things your league
Speaker 1: needs to cover from a COVID perspective. How are you
Speaker 1: going to handle the eventuality for the players who get
Speaker 1: COVID and it's gonna happen in a worst case scenario
Speaker 1: for your league, and you have to get these things
Speaker 1: squared away in the preseason or you're going to in friendships,
Speaker 1: leagues will dissolve over the conflicts that are coming over COVID,
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Speaker 1: final segment, guys, we're gonna talk about two main things,
Speaker 1: the plans you need to cover now for COVID, and
Speaker 1: as we do in the final segment of every show
Speaker 1: every preseason, we each divulge one sleeper player. Some of
Speaker 1: these players have already been mentioned, but we'll get dive
Speaker 1: into them a little bit deeper. Let's begin with the
Speaker 1: COVID plans that you need to cover now. First, I
Speaker 1: think that the easy stuff, by the way, you have
Speaker 1: to do it now. You have to do it in
Speaker 1: the preseason. If you wait until the season is going
Speaker 1: and you try to make rules and adjustments, it's going
Speaker 1: to go haywire because people then have a vested interest
Speaker 1: in a particular outcome. You know, if if if I'm
Speaker 1: nine and one, I think that the you know, in
Speaker 1: the season goes ten weeks and I'm nine and one
Speaker 1: and you cancel the season in week ten, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: be feeling pretty strong. Only the best winning percentage ought
Speaker 1: to be the winner, right, So there's going I had
Speaker 1: the most total points exactly and Brian had the most
Speaker 1: total points, and he's really convinced that the most Totle
Speaker 1: points should be the way. And that's how you end
Speaker 1: up ruining a league, ruining friendships. You have to do
Speaker 1: this in the preseason. Uh. The easy part of this
Speaker 1: is think about your draft or your auction, whether or
Speaker 1: not you're gonna do that in person, you're gonna do
Speaker 1: it online. I think you could, you know, and you
Speaker 1: can socially distance in a backyard, and I think you
Speaker 1: can pull off either one in a backyard and you could.
Speaker 1: You could do it that way, and I think it'd
Speaker 1: be pretty easy to do in person, and the in
Speaker 1: person drafts a big part of fantasy football. You can
Speaker 1: even socially distance inside just mask up everyone mask Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you could. You could do it inside as well. It's
Speaker 1: easier outside in it's summer, so you know, why not
Speaker 1: do it. I'm not gonna do It' not gonna argue that, okay, Um,
Speaker 1: but you might have to change the you might have
Speaker 1: changed the date of your auction or draft. You might
Speaker 1: have to be a little bit nimble on that, but
Speaker 1: you probably will not have to. I'd like to think
Speaker 1: the NFL is not going to change the starting date
Speaker 1: of the season, but it's a possibility that it could
Speaker 1: be moved back. Scott, let's talk about COVID slots. Um.
Speaker 1: You know we're all familiar with I ARE. Do you
Speaker 1: believe that elite should have COVID slots for when a
Speaker 1: player does get designated as having COVID COVID and is
Speaker 1: it just I ARE or is it different than I ARE.
Speaker 1: It depends on what your host sets up. The hosts
Speaker 1: I have seen out there there at least a couple
Speaker 1: of them already that have them allow them on I ARE.
Speaker 1: And so in that case it's easy either unlimited i
Speaker 1: R or just increase the i R. It all depends
Speaker 1: on how much you want to be tracked. You know,
Speaker 1: if if you're trying to track an exact amount of
Speaker 1: COVID players are allowed on i R or an exact
Speaker 1: amount of our players, what your previous I R rules are.
Speaker 1: I think this is one of those years that we
Speaker 1: have to know concessions will be will have to be made,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to work within the confines of
Speaker 1: what your host allows. Your hosting site. Yes, yeah, and
Speaker 1: uh for many of the sites, they don't have something
Speaker 1: special for COVID. They just have I R and I
Speaker 1: guess you could use that. I like separating it is
Speaker 1: two different designations. If you can, if you're your hosting
Speaker 1: site allows that, but perhaps it does not. Um so
Speaker 1: is there you should should there be a limit on
Speaker 1: the number of COVID slots that you give a team.
Speaker 1: If I get stricken with eight players with COVID, should
Speaker 1: I only be able to put three on because you
Speaker 1: only have three COVID slots? Probably not? Probably shouldn't be unlimited, right,
Speaker 1: I'm already suffering enough. It should be unlimited. But if
Speaker 1: we're needing to use unlimited COVID spots, I'm pretty sure
Speaker 1: the season is over at that point. But yeah, but
Speaker 1: you want to more than usual. Of course, it also
Speaker 1: bull double the amount easily. You also have to keep
Speaker 1: an eye on your lely, like you might have anti
Speaker 1: hoarding rules, meaning you can't pick someone up off waivers,
Speaker 1: you know, just to put them on I R. Some
Speaker 1: leagues have that that might be tough to watch with unlimited,
Speaker 1: but you know, that's that's something to be aware of,
Speaker 1: all right. Related to that, and again we're talking about
Speaker 1: COVID eventualities that you need to be thinking about now.
Speaker 1: We're going to get into our our sleepers in just
Speaker 1: a moment. Some leagues are expanding the number of roster spots,
Speaker 1: assuming that some players are gonna be COVID, so this
Speaker 1: way you've got more players. I think this is the
Speaker 1: wrong approach. It's terrible unless your host doesn't allow them
Speaker 1: on IR. That's the only justification I can see, correct,
Speaker 1: because now you're what you're doing is you're thinning out
Speaker 1: the waiver wire, so there's no talent left on the
Speaker 1: waiver wire. And my guy gets stricken with COVID and
Speaker 1: you got nobody to turn to. And it's still benefiting
Speaker 1: in the teams that don't have COVID people, Yeah, right right,
Speaker 1: they're they're just getting all they get is more spots.
Speaker 1: Great point. Great point, don't don't expand and your roster size.
Speaker 1: Just allow an unlimited number of COVID of COVID players
Speaker 1: to go on I R or a COVID designation. That's
Speaker 1: the way, that is the appropriate way to do this. Um,
Speaker 1: we think when a player gets tested positive, he's going
Speaker 1: to be out what two weeks, two games, something in
Speaker 1: that something in that ballpark. Um, you know, these guys
Speaker 1: are not are very, very unlikely to be in any
Speaker 1: real mortal danger because they are young and in excellent,
Speaker 1: excellent conditions. So you know, I don't I don't think
Speaker 1: we're gonna have a scenario where we have a fatality.
Speaker 1: Let's let's certainly hope that's not the case. That is
Speaker 1: the sort of thing that good cancel the season, and
Speaker 1: and so let's let's move to that. Now, this is
Speaker 1: maybe the single most important decision that your league has
Speaker 1: to make. How many games need to be played for
Speaker 1: it to be a valid season? And then how do
Speaker 1: you determine the winner if it gets cut short? Correct?
Speaker 1: And how do you determine the winner? So I'm gonna
Speaker 1: run a couple of scenarios by you at guilloteam leagues
Speaker 1: dot com. We're using eight weeks if you you know,
Speaker 1: if we if you, if you grind through two months
Speaker 1: of play, we want to award prizing at that point
Speaker 1: and clarify eight week eight is in the books, complete
Speaker 1: completed weeks. Yep, eight completed weeks is what we are using.
Speaker 1: Now your only do it your way. But at the
Speaker 1: end of eight weeks, you haven't had even you haven't
Speaker 1: started any playoffs, right, So let's play out this this
Speaker 1: scenario where the playoffs haven't happened yet, and you the
Speaker 1: NFL canceled the season. By the way, the eight weeks
Speaker 1: don't have to be contiguous. It could be a month on.
Speaker 1: Then the league shuts down for two weeks. Every he
Speaker 1: gets healthy and they come back and play for me,
Speaker 1: interrupted interrupted season whatever. So, um, in that case, we're
Speaker 1: you know, we're we are deciding we're using winning percentage
Speaker 1: as the as the winning criteria and for and then
Speaker 1: after that total points scored as a tiebreaker. Sound reasonable.
Speaker 1: I've seen on the lower end like there there. I've
Speaker 1: seen it all all the way from four weeks to
Speaker 1: ten weeks. I seen ones on the lore end that
Speaker 1: are going by all play to a certain point and
Speaker 1: then switching to win loss just because at that point
Speaker 1: you have played enough, You've played enough games. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: can make sense. I kind of like the all play idea. UM.
Speaker 1: I actually I think I like it a lot the
Speaker 1: more that I think about that. Um. Then, so let's
Speaker 1: play it out a little further. Let's say it gets
Speaker 1: into the fantasy playoffs and the season is the season
Speaker 1: is canceled. So let's say it's the NFL week fifteen,
Speaker 1: and for whatever reason, the season is over right there. Yep.
Speaker 1: Now there's the old to me, the only winning only
Speaker 1: the teams that are still live are eligible to be
Speaker 1: winners at that point. So the teams that have still
Speaker 1: that are still live or in and it's just best
Speaker 1: winning percentage. It's still best winning percentage ever win the
Speaker 1: most games, and then again the tiebreaker would be total
Speaker 1: points scored or if you can get together with the
Speaker 1: guys or gals and the playoffs with you cage matched.
Speaker 1: What I have seen out there is the after week fifteen,
Speaker 1: there's four left, the four split after week sixteen, the
Speaker 1: chair up in second split, and the third place game split.
Speaker 1: I've seen that I could see. I'm just throwing it
Speaker 1: out there for listeners. I'm just not a big split
Speaker 1: the pod guy, and just you know, let's just be
Speaker 1: brave and have winners. Um, all right, let's talk to
Speaker 1: a couple other things. What if it doesn't get the
Speaker 1: season does not get to the the let's let's say
Speaker 1: eight weeks that you're using is a valid season, then
Speaker 1: what in my mind, everybody you've paid, you're paid for
Speaker 1: next year. You were just rolling over your funds to
Speaker 1: next season. Yep, we all agree on multiple levels. Dealing
Speaker 1: with money sucks, right, Yeah, so we just roll over,
Speaker 1: or some people might want their money back. I would
Speaker 1: give it to them in that regard to and then
Speaker 1: they can pay again next year. Of course, yes, you
Speaker 1: get your money back. Do you want that person in
Speaker 1: your league? Though? Like they want their money back for
Speaker 1: the like two months and then I suppose maybe if
Speaker 1: they're in a situation they needed. No, you don't, but yeah,
Speaker 1: but that's probably edge case anyway. But yeah, next Dynasty
Speaker 1: and Empire leagues, if you have a canceled season, how
Speaker 1: do you handle the draft order the next year? This
Speaker 1: is a this is a thorny issue. I don't believe
Speaker 1: you should just roll over last year's draft positions because
Speaker 1: the teams that drafted first, he's gonna go first again.
Speaker 1: You're that doesn't seem very fair. And the team that
Speaker 1: one champion that won the championships is gonna get penalized
Speaker 1: again and go last. I like a weighted lottery, a
Speaker 1: weighted lottery for the teams, for all of the teams.
Speaker 1: And if so, if you pin it, if you finished, uh,
Speaker 1: if you finished first, you have one ping pong ball.
Speaker 1: If you finished last, you have twelve ping pong balls,
Speaker 1: and I'd pull I'd pull balls for the lot the
Speaker 1: draft order next. If you're doing one through twelve like that,
Speaker 1: I would highly recommend not allowing someone to jump more
Speaker 1: than three spots up because that amount of balls, the
Speaker 1: best team in the league could very well go on. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I can live with that, that really could. But that's
Speaker 1: just me if you're very very unlikely. Though, if you're
Speaker 1: willing and able to go to auction, which you should be,
Speaker 1: you could also do based on your finishing, you get
Speaker 1: more of a budget. The worst your team was going
Speaker 1: into an auction for your you could you could do
Speaker 1: that too. I've also seen win loss or total points
Speaker 1: from the year before plus the weeks that you played. Alright, guys,
Speaker 1: we've got about two and a half minutes left in
Speaker 1: this show. Let's zip through some of our sleepers, our
Speaker 1: favorite sleepers, and I will begin with Brian Johnson, your
Speaker 1: sleeper this week. Al Right, Well, that's not enough time
Speaker 1: for me to dive into Dan Arnold. I'll do that
Speaker 1: next week. I'm gonna go with Steven Simms h Washington,
Speaker 1: who should be the number two wide receiver for Washington
Speaker 1: football team. This year. Uh, Sims ran only routes from
Speaker 1: the slot or from the boundary. Last year most came
Speaker 1: from the slot, but over the last four games he
Speaker 1: had a massive target share of He should see more
Speaker 1: work on the outside, and he'll see some creative usage
Speaker 1: from new o c Scott Turner who came over from Jacksonville. H.
Speaker 1: He'll be used the same way to used Curtis Samuel.
Speaker 1: We'll see a lot of handoffs to Steven Sims and Uh,
Speaker 1: he's gonna be starter worthy this year. And Nancy Football
Speaker 1: big guys too. Yeah. Absolutely, all right, Scott your sleeper
Speaker 1: this week. Jonta Johnson currently going wide receiver round U
Speaker 1: lead all rookies and receptions last year, and that was
Speaker 1: with dent Head and the duck throwing and passes last
Speaker 1: ye so big bend back. They've been known as support
Speaker 1: wide receiver to wide receivers forever. Uh. And I think
Speaker 1: he's I think he's the beneficiary. All right. I am
Speaker 1: going to go with Zack Moss, who is my either
Speaker 1: my favorite or my second favorite sleeper for this offseason,
Speaker 1: and I'll save the other guy for next week. Let's
Speaker 1: talk Zack Moss. He's the running back for Buffalo taken
Speaker 1: in the third round. Great in college at Utah. He
Speaker 1: left Utah's the all time leading rusher all time. He's
Speaker 1: a bigger, powerful back, He's difficult to tackle, he's got
Speaker 1: good hands. He's not fast, but he plays fast. And
Speaker 1: most importantly, it's about opportunity and where he fits into
Speaker 1: this Buffalo offense. He inherits the job left behind by
Speaker 1: the undead corpse of Frank Gore. Gore last year had
Speaker 1: nothing left in the tank at all, and he's still
Speaker 1: garnered almost two touches last year. And those two otter
Speaker 1: touches are gonna go to Zack Moss, who's gonna do
Speaker 1: a lot more with them than Frank Gore could. Now.
Speaker 1: Most importantly, and Brian alluded to this earlier in the show,
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary only was given two carries from inside the five.
Speaker 1: Last year, Frank Gore had eighteen carries inside the the
Speaker 1: ten and eleven carries inside the five scored twice. That's it.
Speaker 1: Zack Moss, built for goal line use, is going to
Speaker 1: be much more successful and is going to do much
Speaker 1: more with those juicy carries near the stripe. I love
Speaker 1: him to be potentially a double digit guy as a
Speaker 1: possibility for touchdowns this year because if you look at
Speaker 1: the eleven touchdowns are the eleven carries of Frank Corrians
Speaker 1: inside the five, you you want to convert those like rate,
Speaker 1: you get five six touchdowns just out of carries inside
Speaker 1: the five. Devin single Tarry is just not going to
Speaker 1: get those kind of of numbers. And Zack Moss might
Speaker 1: be better at the what Devon single theory does best.
Speaker 1: That Boss might do all those things better than single
Speaker 1: Dary too, and just totally leave him on the sidelines
Speaker 1: point of the season. Yeah, it's you know, and Devon's
Speaker 1: Singletary is a good back. I'm not knocking devil Devon Singletary,
Speaker 1: but he is what he is. He is a smaller,
Speaker 1: speedier scat back. He kind of guy, and there's a
Speaker 1: reason they drafted Zack Moss and they're going to use
Speaker 1: him right away. Thank you for listening, everybody. I encourage
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