WEBVTT - December in February -- Part 2 0:00:01.320 --> 0:00:05.000 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:11.400 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:15.440 source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:18.560 whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. 0:00:18.600 --> 0:00:20.640 Now here's your host, Paul Chargion. 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:28.240 Welcome to the second of two Drew Bennett Drills. This 0:00:28.280 --> 0:00:32.920 is where we identify Drew Bene ben I Drew Bennett 0:00:32.960 --> 0:00:37.320 drills do. This is where we identify December players who 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:42.000 blew up, and we established whether or not that December 0:00:42.400 --> 0:00:45.559 fantasy run is sustainable. Is it a trend or is 0:00:45.600 --> 0:00:46.520 it a mirage? 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:52.040 Dunt dun, dun, Drew Bennett, Drew Bennett drill. 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:54.960 The Drew Bennett Drill, that's what we're calling it. Last 0:00:55.000 --> 0:00:58.720 week we did quarterbacks and running backs. I have already 0:00:58.800 --> 0:01:03.160 confessed that we're We taped this week's show right after 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:06.240 last week's show because I'm at Whiskey Weekend right now. 0:01:06.640 --> 0:01:09.240 As you're listening to this now, you might be wondering 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:13.399 what's Whiskey Weekend. You know all about it, Brian. Whiskey 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:20.679 Weekend is goes like this, Twelve guys in the dead 0:01:20.720 --> 0:01:23.000 of winter go to a lodge in the middle of 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:27.320 central Minnesota. Everybody brings a bottle of whiskey that's never 0:01:27.360 --> 0:01:31.800 been brought before. The top of every hour, you do 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:35.320 a blind taste test between two whiskeys. You don't know 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:37.600 what you're drinking. It's a versus B. You don't get 0:01:37.640 --> 0:01:39.720 to see the bottle, you don't know anything about it 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:44.280 except what's in the cup, and you vote for A 0:01:44.520 --> 0:01:50.480 or B. Once a bottle has lost twice, it's knocked out. 0:01:50.720 --> 0:01:54.760 It's over. Once it's lost two times, it is out 0:01:54.800 --> 0:02:00.640 of the competition for good. So we play through the 0:02:00.720 --> 0:02:05.240 last bottle standing and we show up Thursday at a 0:02:05.360 --> 0:02:08.320 round land lunch time to like, you know, noon and two. 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:12.160 To get to the end. It takes us about through 0:02:12.919 --> 0:02:17.600 Saturday nights, Sunday into Sunday before we've got we've got 0:02:17.600 --> 0:02:18.760 a winter established. 0:02:19.320 --> 0:02:20.480 It's a lot of whiskey drinking. 0:02:20.600 --> 0:02:21.840 It's a lot of whiskey drinking. 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:24.000 It is. Is there anything you want to want to tell 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:27.800 future charge right now or warn future charge about whisky weekend? 0:02:30.440 --> 0:02:33.080 You know, if I could go back and tell my 0:02:33.360 --> 0:02:37.880 younger self something, it would be the expensive whiskeyes usually 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:41.920 don't win, you know, for our palettes, which it's a 0:02:41.960 --> 0:02:48.040 lot of casual drinkers. They like lower proof, sweeter bourbons. 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:51.000 That's it. So I would have saved some money and 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:54.200 gone in that forty dollars price range with easy drinking, 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:57.840 pretty simple bourbons, because that's a lot of are who 0:02:57.880 --> 0:02:58.560 are guys like. 0:03:00.400 --> 0:03:03.800 Now, what uh? What do you use to like cleanse 0:03:03.880 --> 0:03:05.360 the palate most I'm. 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.280 Glad you asked, yeah, because you have to write. We 0:03:08.360 --> 0:03:10.920 used to delivered almonds or whole almonds. 0:03:10.960 --> 0:03:14.920 Yeah, yeah, like raw almonds. I've taken a shine to 0:03:15.120 --> 0:03:15.960 raw almonds. 0:03:16.040 --> 0:03:16.920 Yeah that's good. 0:03:16.960 --> 0:03:19.360 But I got the East Coast, I say, almonds. I 0:03:19.360 --> 0:03:21.079 can't help it, Almonds. That's that's you. 0:03:21.400 --> 0:03:23.280 You've been on the East Coast for less than a year. 0:03:23.800 --> 0:03:25.760 Almends. Well, I grew up in New Jersey, so that's 0:03:25.840 --> 0:03:29.320 the I suppose ingrained in my DNA Minnesota Bourne. 0:03:29.400 --> 0:03:31.359 Try to beat it out anyway, Almends. 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:33.200 I can't help but I say, almends. 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:36.240 So if you if you're a Bourbon fan and you 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:38.960 want to follow this competition, I tweet it in real 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:44.040 time as bottles get knocked out. So as a bottle loses, 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:46.720 I go all right, here we go. We got twelve bottles. 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.760 Here's bottle twelve, is this one and it's garbage, and 0:03:50.880 --> 0:03:53.560 then we work our way up. Now, some of my 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:56.400 regular listeners will know that I've got a bottle that 0:03:56.760 --> 0:04:02.440 I hand selected with great yuck spirits, and that's called 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:08.080 Old Red Reserve. Because I was talking about whether or 0:04:08.080 --> 0:04:10.000 not to put it in the competition, Brian and I 0:04:10.080 --> 0:04:13.320 decided it's to lose lose if Old Red Reserve. If 0:04:13.360 --> 0:04:15.520 I put it in the competition are blind taste test 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:18.760 and it happens to win, everybody will think it's rigged. 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:25.280 I'll be like, yeah, yeah, sure, and if if and 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:29.479 if it finishes I don't know, like seventh then, which 0:04:29.640 --> 0:04:33.240 I really shouldn't because I think it's delicious. But if 0:04:33.240 --> 0:04:35.640 it finishes seventh then then that's no good either. So 0:04:35.720 --> 0:04:37.839 there's just no winning scenario for it. So I'm bringing 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:40.960 Old Reid Reserve just as a sipper on the side. 0:04:42.200 --> 0:04:44.320 I like it. You got to save me a bottle, though, 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:46.480 don't forget. I don't know if it's a limited run 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:46.919 or what, but. 0:04:47.160 --> 0:04:49.080 It is a limited run, right, yes, And I've got 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:51.000 I do have a bottle in here waiting for you 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:51.920 to come back home. 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:56.800 Sounds good. I I miss uh miss you, of course, 0:04:56.839 --> 0:04:59.960 but I miss dog sitting for you guys. Yes, because 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:04.440 name of the superfluous amount of whiskey you have stashed 0:05:05.240 --> 0:05:09.880 from all your whiskey weekends, I would indulge and. 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:12.080 That would be okay. Anybody who takes care of my 0:05:12.160 --> 0:05:13.120 dogs ask. 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.360 And sell that. Yeah, whiskey. 0:05:15.520 --> 0:05:15.720 It was. 0:05:16.080 --> 0:05:20.080 We had our own whiskey weekend. I tell him, I said, hello, deal, deal, 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:21.000 all right. 0:05:21.080 --> 0:05:24.400 So this show, like last show, is about December trends 0:05:24.480 --> 0:05:27.480 and mirages. We already hit quarterbacks and running backs. We're 0:05:27.480 --> 0:05:29.880 gonna work through receivers and tight ends. This time. There's 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:34.839 a couple more of those players. Let's begin with you, Brian. 0:05:35.040 --> 0:05:39.000 How about Jerry Judy, who posted some monster games down 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.960 the stretch that all he needed was Deshaun Watson to 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:42.440 get benched. 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:48.000 Yeah, who, by the what? I don't want to get 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:49.719 into Shaun Watson. He's need to be in the league 0:05:50.279 --> 0:05:52.320 ends upcoming season. Who knows? But ye. As soon as 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:56.720 Jameis Winston came in, Judy's production went through the roof, 0:05:56.839 --> 0:06:00.120 starting in week eleven when he had six K his 0:06:00.120 --> 0:06:02.080 one hundred and forty two yards. I won't go through 0:06:02.120 --> 0:06:05.200 all his games, but just monster Box scores basically from 0:06:05.200 --> 0:06:09.080 week eleven through week eighteen one. People might remember most 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:12.880 this is really like a November December run for Judy 0:06:13.000 --> 0:06:17.920 when he had his revenge game at Denver that nine catches, 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:20.320 two hundred and thirty five yards and a touchdown in 0:06:20.400 --> 0:06:25.039 that game. But what also coincided with Judy's epic run, 0:06:27.240 --> 0:06:31.120 not outside of Jamis Winston, was Cedric Tillman got hurt 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:31.839 in Week twelve. 0:06:32.000 --> 0:06:33.800 That was a factive play for. 0:06:33.880 --> 0:06:36.679 The remainder of the season, and Tilman was coming on strong, 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:39.920 didn't He might have the draft pedigree that Judy had 0:06:39.920 --> 0:06:42.720 a couple of years ago, but Tilman looked great and 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:47.200 that there really was no other true outside receiver to 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:51.120 challenge Jerry Judy per se. After Tilman went down, it 0:06:51.200 --> 0:06:54.039 was really like Elijah More and David and Joku whose 0:06:54.279 --> 0:06:57.240 tight end he was getting a ton of targets. But 0:06:57.320 --> 0:07:00.080 it was really Judy was a one man show. And 0:07:00.600 --> 0:07:05.560 you can't expect that going into the twenty twenty five season. 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:09.440 And what you can't expect is quality quarterbacking from whoever 0:07:09.600 --> 0:07:11.880 is the starting quarterback for Cleveland. As it's Sam Donald, 0:07:11.920 --> 0:07:13.640 I hope it's not Sam Ronald Actually know what, I 0:07:13.640 --> 0:07:16.240 wouldn't hate the Browns, oh I would either. 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:18.920 Chemic Stefanski is a legitimately good coach. 0:07:19.520 --> 0:07:21.200 I always got to circle back to Donald, I have 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.920 a disease. But anyway, but Judy for his price tag 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:29.360 right now for early best ball drafters sixty third overall 0:07:29.640 --> 0:07:35.040 wide receiver forty people are buying into trend here. I can't. 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:39.520 I just can't do it. If Tilman was alongside him 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:42.360 through his whole ride and Judy was looking like the Alpha, 0:07:42.600 --> 0:07:46.480 then I would lean trend. Did I say trend? I 0:07:46.600 --> 0:07:49.840 met Mirage. I'm going mirage with armorrage yep on Josey. 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:52.720 He was, he was the only show in town. Basically, 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.800 if Tilman, if he was just out shining Tillman weekend, 0:07:55.880 --> 0:07:58.160 week out, it would be a different story. But Tilman 0:07:58.280 --> 0:08:01.160 wasn't there Tilman last played week twelve. So I gotta 0:08:01.200 --> 0:08:03.160 I gotta go mirage right now for Jerry Judy. 0:08:03.600 --> 0:08:06.400 I like Tilman as a sneaky last pick of your 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.960 draft right now, and what third year? 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:14.960 What bodes well for Judy and basically any wide receiver 0:08:15.040 --> 0:08:18.200 we talk about. Unlike the previous episode when we said 0:08:18.520 --> 0:08:20.160 the running backs that we discussed. You need to be 0:08:20.240 --> 0:08:22.120 worried about the incoming rookies. 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.760 Yeah, not so much. Bad wide receiver class, yeah. 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:27.560 Very very very bad wide receiver class outside of a 0:08:28.440 --> 0:08:33.040 one one elite player and a couple pretty good UH prospects. 0:08:33.080 --> 0:08:35.560 But I don't. I'm not worried about Judy getting beat 0:08:35.600 --> 0:08:37.560 out by a rookie or anything like that. But Cedric 0:08:37.600 --> 0:08:40.000 Tillman still might be the better receiver on that team. 0:08:40.080 --> 0:08:40.559 We shall see. 0:08:40.600 --> 0:08:42.720 I like and I'm with you on that analysis. Let's 0:08:42.720 --> 0:08:46.160 go to Jamison Williams, the Lions wide receiver. Brian he 0:08:46.280 --> 0:08:50.719 finished December is wide receiver ten, one spot ahead of 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:54.559 I'm on ras Saint Brown. Unbelievable. He was still a 0:08:54.600 --> 0:08:59.920 big play guy. But the change that unlocked Jamison william 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:05.720 production was antithetical to what you might think shorter passes. 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:10.800 His December average air yards per target was eight and 0:09:10.840 --> 0:09:15.320 a half. September October November, where he was much less 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:21.840 fantasy productive, his average air yards thirteen, almost double. They 0:09:22.000 --> 0:09:25.040 stopped doing these low you know, the deep stuff that 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:27.840 they had been using to Jamison Williams. It's just low 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:32.760 probability stuff. When he's from twenty yards downfield. It's hard 0:09:32.840 --> 0:09:36.280 to hit on those. The short passes meant more receptions, 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.959 less boom or bust. For Jamison Williams, it gave him 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:43.880 more opportunities to run after the catch. And also I'd 0:09:43.960 --> 0:09:48.320 like to think that in December in particular, Jamison Williams 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:51.959 matured a little bit. You may not know this. The 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.800 Lions put Teddy Bridgewater. Remember the Lions brought in Teddy 0:09:55.800 --> 0:09:59.319 Bridgewater near the end of the season. They put Bridgewater 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:04.120 on and Jamison Williams ass late in the season because 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:08.600 they wanted Teddy to help train Jamison Williams about how 0:10:08.640 --> 0:10:10.800 to be a pro and Teddy is the perfect guy 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:11.040 for that. 0:10:11.880 --> 0:10:13.880 Teddy's like a player coach at this point. 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:15.559 Basically, he basically is a player. 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:18.080 I mean he was literally coaching high school football. 0:10:18.200 --> 0:10:22.280 Then they to the championship. They won a Florida Championship. 0:10:22.760 --> 0:10:26.079 So for Trender Mirage and Jamison Williams, I'm on trend. 0:10:26.480 --> 0:10:30.040 Not at the wide receiver ten level. That's a little excessive. 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:32.040 That's what he did in December, but I think he'll 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:35.160 be close now. Offensive coordinator Ben Johnson's gone. Your new 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:39.280 offensive coordinator, john don't call me Johnny. Morton can't be 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:43.120 oblivious to the huge uptick in Williams productivity when he's 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.719 not running fly routes every play. So I'd like to 0:10:45.800 --> 0:10:48.160 think that John Morton is going to continue to give 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:51.760 shorter looks to Jamison Williams, who can get the ball 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:55.800 in his hands more often. But Brian, no matter which 0:10:55.880 --> 0:10:59.360 Lion you're talking about, you have to talk about the 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:01.600 fact that they they just have so many mouths to feed. 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:04.840 You know, all of the Lions are subject to down 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:09.320 games when the ball just doesn't come their way. So that's, 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:11.800 you know, to me, that's an ongoing concern for all 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:16.120 of the Lions. I'm still going trend on. I'm still 0:11:16.160 --> 0:11:19.400 going trend on Jamison Williams, but you know, not at 0:11:19.400 --> 0:11:20.480 the wide receiver ten level. 0:11:21.679 --> 0:11:24.319 Yeah, I'm with you. I think Williams is on trending. 0:11:24.480 --> 0:11:26.720 You don't have to pay wide receiver ten prices right now. 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:28.959 He's going off the board. Is a wide receiver twenty two, 0:11:29.600 --> 0:11:31.760 kind of like a mid third round pick, but a 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:34.800 guy that I've I've reached for kind of late second, 0:11:34.880 --> 0:11:38.959 early third. I believe we are on trend with that production. 0:11:39.080 --> 0:11:42.080 And just you mentioned some God, I'm an Ross Saint Brown, 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.640 who is going inside the top ten wide receivers. He's 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:48.839 wide receiver six. Right now, I am all out on 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.559 Amnros Saint Brown at that price tag, mainly because of 0:11:52.720 --> 0:11:55.240 James and Williams and then all the mouths there are 0:11:55.480 --> 0:11:58.240 Feed and Ben Johnson. It's gone. So just to throw 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:01.599 that in there quick, I am fully fading. I'm on 0:12:01.720 --> 0:12:03.839 Ross Saint Brown in the first round right now. Give 0:12:03.920 --> 0:12:07.560 me if I'm picking between him and Jmo, gimme Jamo 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.360 in the mid third. Ten out of ten times, on God, 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:10.800 right now. 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:12.120 I think I think I'm with you on that, and 0:12:12.200 --> 0:12:14.280 I love I'm on Ros Saint Brown. He is a 0:12:14.360 --> 0:12:17.319 great player. It's just all the things that you mentioned. 0:12:17.760 --> 0:12:20.319 All right, Let's go to our next player. Brian Thomas 0:12:20.600 --> 0:12:25.600 Junior drafted him on our Empire League. I was super 0:12:25.720 --> 0:12:29.880 excited about his future, and then Christian cashed out our 0:12:29.920 --> 0:12:32.360 Empire League, so I need to go back and get 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:35.800 some more. Brian Thomas Junior loved the development that we 0:12:35.840 --> 0:12:38.040 saw this year. This is going to be a trend. 0:12:38.120 --> 0:12:42.200 Answer, Yeah, I mean, it's it's a true I mean 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:45.839 he had starting in week thirteen through week eighteen, he 0:12:45.920 --> 0:12:51.839 saw double digit targets, totaled five touchdowns, seventy six eighty six, 0:12:51.880 --> 0:12:53.800 one hundred and five yards, one hundred and thirty two yards, 0:12:53.920 --> 0:12:56.040 ninety one yards, one hundred and three yards In his 0:12:56.160 --> 0:13:00.400 last six games all season, he was legit. Here's the 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.680 list of rookie wide receivers in history with over twelve 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:08.400 hundred receiving yards, Randy Moss and Kwan Bolden, Odell Beckham Junior, 0:13:08.840 --> 0:13:13.520 Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase, Brian Thomas Junior, and Malik Neighbors, 0:13:13.520 --> 0:13:16.319 who was a rookie last year. So yeah, fully on 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:21.000 trend with BTJ. Who is I mean, he's going off 0:13:21.040 --> 0:13:23.600 the board as wide receiver seven right now, one pick 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:27.960 after or one wide receiver spot after Aman Rossaint Brown. Wow, 0:13:28.080 --> 0:13:31.600 we're just talking about taking I'll take BTJ ten out 0:13:31.640 --> 0:13:34.160 of ten times over over Sun God right now. I 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:36.880 mean there's some concerns, like there's some trade rumors with 0:13:37.000 --> 0:13:37.880 Trevor Lawrence. 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:40.320 Yeah, well, I don't think those are whatever lies. 0:13:41.200 --> 0:13:44.359 I don't yeah, I don't. I don't care either. BTJ 0:13:44.679 --> 0:13:48.240 looks for legit, and I mean if you were redrafting 0:13:48.920 --> 0:13:56.080 wide receivers last year, like I think Neighbors goes before Harrison, Right, yeah, sure, 0:13:56.720 --> 0:13:57.080 but then. 0:13:57.000 --> 0:13:58.840 It is, isn't it. Then it would be Brian Thomas 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:00.800 would go before a Well. 0:14:00.840 --> 0:14:06.200 Yes, Harrison didn't show the eliteness we thought we'd see. 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:09.360 We saw that from Brian Thomas Junior for sure. So yeah, 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.960 definitely a trend. If this isn't a trend, he's going 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:16.240 to be in the discussion for one of the biggest 0:14:16.280 --> 0:14:18.120 busts next year because he's going at the end of 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.400 the first round, early second round if you're lucky, so 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:23.560 you're paying up for BTJ, but he should be worth 0:14:23.600 --> 0:14:23.960 the price. 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:29.080 DeVante Adams finished December is wide receiver two behind only 0:14:29.200 --> 0:14:33.520 Jamar Chase. Aaron Rodgers went berserk with him, peppering in 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:38.160 with targets week thirteen forward. He was getting eleven targets 0:14:38.240 --> 0:14:41.280 per game from Aaron Rodgers. Unbelievable. 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:42.000 Arret Wilson. 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:47.000 Yeah, and DeVante Adams scored in five of the final 0:14:47.120 --> 0:14:50.840 six games, So trender mirage on DeVante Adams. Who's this 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:53.040 is a nuance to answer, because obviously he's still a 0:14:53.240 --> 0:14:56.280 very good even at his advanced age thirty two years old, 0:14:56.520 --> 0:15:00.160 he's still very good. And nobody's suggesting that he's going 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:02.800 to fall off a cliff, but from wide receiver too, 0:15:03.600 --> 0:15:06.760 he can only be a mirage from there. He has 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.800 signed for two more years with the Jets. We don't 0:15:09.880 --> 0:15:12.280 know who the Jets quarterback is going to be, but 0:15:12.400 --> 0:15:15.800 it is likely not somebody who's going to Pepper eleven 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:21.240 targets per game, eleven competent targets per game at DeVante Adams. 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.720 There's they picked seventh in the draft the Jets do. 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:29.440 That's not a spot that's gonna yield a surefire starting quarterback. 0:15:30.040 --> 0:15:32.280 Cam mort will be gone should or Sanders will be gone. 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.600 The best free agent quarterback, Sam Darnold isn't going to 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:37.600 go back to the Jets. I don't think that would 0:15:37.640 --> 0:15:41.720 take That would take a miracle. Justin Fields or Cooper 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:45.200 Rush might be your starting quarterbacks for the Jets. And 0:15:45.360 --> 0:15:49.120 that is why we're on mirage for DeVante Adams. Yeah, 0:15:49.800 --> 0:15:52.840 I'm with you, sad, all right, let's go to WI 0:15:53.720 --> 0:15:54.720 is the option? 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:55.280 Maybe not? 0:15:55.800 --> 0:16:00.400 Maybe? Yeah, maybe, Although honestly I'd run fields. I'd roll 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:01.240 the dice on fields. 0:16:02.160 --> 0:16:07.360 Yeah. I like lake fields, you know me. I'm an 0:16:07.400 --> 0:16:12.680 Advanced Awards market better fields four hundred to one MVP 0:16:12.840 --> 0:16:14.880 just's given him a starting job. I'll take any quarterback 0:16:14.880 --> 0:16:16.400 at four hundred to one to win MVP. 0:16:18.880 --> 0:16:21.920 Yeah, let's talk Glad McConkie, next guy up. 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:23.880 Lots to talk about. 0:16:23.800 --> 0:16:26.400 Quite a quite a finish to the year for him 0:16:26.480 --> 0:16:29.560 and somebody that just got consistently better over the course 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:30.120 of the season. 0:16:31.240 --> 0:16:37.880 Yeah. Really, the Chargers did not throw the ball basically 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:39.840 for the first half of the season, and McConkie was 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.920 still very much a PPR helper. But from Week eleven 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:49.040 on he was. He was elite and that came to 0:16:49.120 --> 0:16:51.760 fruition big time in the in the wild card game 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:54.280 against the Texans when he had nine catches, one hundred 0:16:54.320 --> 0:16:56.720 ninety seven yards and a touchdown. And by the way 0:16:56.760 --> 0:17:00.560 I saw this doesn't go all regular season, but in 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:04.960 the playoffs, McConkie had the highest recorded speed of any 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:08.639 player in the playoffs, wier than Barkley. Wow, Barkley, who 0:17:08.680 --> 0:17:11.080 had a you know, McConkie had like an eighty yard touchdown, 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.239 so we got to get the full speed. Barkley did two, 0:17:13.840 --> 0:17:16.720 so did Jamiir Gibbs. McConkie faster than both of them 0:17:16.760 --> 0:17:20.800 in the postseason. So wow, he's a He's an athlete, 0:17:20.840 --> 0:17:25.760 and he's he is, He's great, He's gonna be, he 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:27.120 could be. He's gonna be a Hall of Fame wide 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:30.120 receiver if he stays healthy as a rookie. More yards 0:17:30.160 --> 0:17:34.800 than Garrett Wilson, more receptions than Tyreek Hill, more touchdowns 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:38.280 than Ceed Lamb. Last year, his win rate versus man 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:42.879 coverage was seventh in the NFL. Only seven wide receivers 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:48.520 averaged two point two five yards per route run against 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:53.399 man and zone coverage. McConkie was one of them. The 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:57.320 other ones the week neighbors Justin Jefferson, a'man Ross, Saint Brown, 0:17:57.600 --> 0:17:59.720 Puka Nakua, Nico Collins. 0:18:00.040 --> 0:18:01.880 Some put them in that company right there. 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:06.960 Wow, get into that's the bonus little like sneaper sleeper. 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:09.760 Go out and get him. Marvin Mims Junior in that 0:18:09.880 --> 0:18:10.520 category too. 0:18:10.680 --> 0:18:12.720 He's gonna be one of my favorite sleepers for next year. 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.800 But uh, anyway back to McConkie, not done yet. Here's 0:18:16.840 --> 0:18:20.560 the highest e p A per target by a rookie. Now. 0:18:20.640 --> 0:18:23.840 E p A stands for expected points added. It's a 0:18:23.960 --> 0:18:27.000 metric used to evaluate the performance of a wide receiver 0:18:27.480 --> 0:18:30.280 in the NFL by measuring how well a player performs 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:33.560 compared to what was expected on a play by play basis. 0:18:33.960 --> 0:18:36.840 So all time highest e p A per target by 0:18:36.880 --> 0:18:41.280 a rookie, Eddie Royal was number one in Oha, then 0:18:41.359 --> 0:18:44.920 Lad McConkie number three, ahead of Justin Jefferson, Jamar Chase. 0:18:45.080 --> 0:18:48.560 I'm on Ross Aint Brown, Phuka Nakua, and Kwon Bolden, 0:18:48.800 --> 0:18:52.399 the aforementioned Brian Thomas Junior. These are these are all 0:18:52.440 --> 0:18:56.879 elite wide receivers. In McConkie is in that group if 0:18:56.920 --> 0:19:00.720 you whether you like it or not, So trend conky. 0:19:00.560 --> 0:19:02.679 Is a top ten Fantasy wide receiver. 0:19:03.400 --> 0:19:06.440 Yeah, he's going off the board as technically right now eleven. 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:11.320 Interesting he's going before Tyreek Hill right now, I would 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:12.480 take him before Tyreek Hill. 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.520 Yeah, it's right before him. Is a j Brown, Drake 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:21.320 London Neighbors Thomas Son guy, like I would. I wouldn't 0:19:21.359 --> 0:19:24.000 take him over Almah because where he can get Aman 0:19:24.080 --> 0:19:26.720 Ross Saint Brown in the first round, you could probably 0:19:26.760 --> 0:19:29.000 get McConkie in the second round. But like, I want 0:19:29.119 --> 0:19:32.520 McConkie over Aman Ross Saint Brown at costs without a doubt. Yeah, 0:19:32.640 --> 0:19:35.000 I'll go running back in round one, which I'm not 0:19:35.080 --> 0:19:37.199 loving this year. Like most years. If I know I'm 0:19:37.240 --> 0:19:40.080 getting McConkie in the second round, like he has wide 0:19:40.119 --> 0:19:45.520 receiver one ability Fantasy real life. He's got the goods trend. 0:19:45.920 --> 0:19:48.919 Friend, We'll take a break when we come back. Adam 0:19:49.280 --> 0:19:53.560 Feelin he's uh, he's thirty four years old and he 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:56.960 was awesome down the stretch last year. We'll talk about 0:19:57.080 --> 0:19:59.960 his forthcoming season trend or mirage when we come back. 0:20:09.280 --> 0:20:11.919 Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charging and Brian Johnson 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:15.800 with you breaking down the December stars and whether or 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:20.160 not these players will continue that the ascension we saw 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:25.440 in December or is it just a fraud? Is it 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:29.359 a mirage? We begin next? Can you begin next? We 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:33.240 next go to Adam Thielen. In December, he was wide 0:20:33.280 --> 0:20:38.320 receiver fifteen. His late season serge coincided with Bryce Young's 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:42.320 tremendous second half of the season. Some of Thelen's success 0:20:42.960 --> 0:20:45.920 was tangible and showed up in box scores, like he 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:49.800 averaged very healthy six catches seventy five yards from Week 0:20:49.880 --> 0:20:52.760 thirteen forward. Six catches seventy five yards. Those are good numbers, 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:57.520 but also the quality of Adam Thielen's catches Last year 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:00.520 he made three of the ten best catches of the season. 0:21:01.160 --> 0:21:03.920 Just eye popping. Oh my god, I can't believe he 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:06.840 came down with it. He made those kinds of catches 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:09.720 and he looked great. Did not look like he was 0:21:09.800 --> 0:21:15.040 thirty four years old. So trend of mirage, I am 0:21:15.119 --> 0:21:20.600 going trend question mark. Yeah, So, I mean the big 0:21:20.720 --> 0:21:24.399 questionnaire is his age. Will he lose a step at 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:26.920 age thirty four? Will he struggle to get separation? 0:21:27.320 --> 0:21:27.439 Now? 0:21:27.560 --> 0:21:31.240 Fortunately, speed has never been Theelan's game. Really, It's always 0:21:31.240 --> 0:21:33.719 been elite footwork, route running hands. I mean, it's been 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:36.879 just like the whole package. But the other thing is 0:21:37.800 --> 0:21:41.600 we need Adam Thlan to not suffer a six week 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:44.160 long hamstring injury, which seems to happen to him every year. 0:21:45.040 --> 0:21:48.639 That part's been very frustrating, But everything else is positive, right. 0:21:48.840 --> 0:21:52.520 Dave Canalis is a wizard. Bryce Young has room to 0:21:52.560 --> 0:21:54.920 get even better. Well, I think you will get better. 0:21:55.480 --> 0:22:01.280 And if unless this team pours capital into the wide 0:22:01.320 --> 0:22:05.760 receiver position, you know, he's wide receiver one. Adam Feelen 0:22:05.880 --> 0:22:09.040 is wide receiver one to start the season. Xavier Legett 0:22:09.119 --> 0:22:12.320 might get better. Jalen Cocher. We mentioned last two names 0:22:12.359 --> 0:22:15.560 you mentioned last episode. Maybe they get better, but I 0:22:16.359 --> 0:22:18.040 and I don't think they're gonna throw like a first 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:21.000 round pick at wide receiver. I don't think the Panthers will. 0:22:21.000 --> 0:22:22.840 I think they got to figure out the offensive line 0:22:22.880 --> 0:22:25.000 and if they do, that will also help Adam Feelin. 0:22:25.080 --> 0:22:27.360 So I have trend to question mark at Adam feel. 0:22:28.359 --> 0:22:30.639 Yeah, I'm with you. I just like as long as 0:22:30.680 --> 0:22:34.200 they don't sink too much, like significant draft capital into 0:22:34.280 --> 0:22:39.000 wide receiver. Yeah, you gotta love Feelin's outlook. If he 0:22:39.040 --> 0:22:41.960