WEBVTT - Key Takeaways from the AFC East 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:04.080 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:06.200 --> 0:00:09.560 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio, 0:00:09.840 --> 0:00:14.240 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:17.959 and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. Now, 0:00:18.000 --> 0:00:23.800 here's your host, Paul. It's Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm Paul 0:00:23.880 --> 0:00:27.200 Charchian from Guillotine Leaks dot com. But my cohort is 0:00:28.040 --> 0:00:32.440 Brian Johnson. Hey, Brian, Yeah, been a while, a couple 0:00:32.479 --> 0:00:35.160 of weeks. Good to have you back on the show. Um. 0:00:35.200 --> 0:00:36.919 I can't say Matt filled in for you because you're 0:00:36.920 --> 0:00:38.920 both co hosts, but it's nice to have you back. 0:00:38.920 --> 0:00:42.040 I think you're you're here more often so it feels 0:00:42.080 --> 0:00:44.960 like you're co host one A. But but you're you know, 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.400 but I love all my kids equally, all right, but 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.120 can I be one A plus? Uh, we don't do 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:51.960 pluses in the show. I thought of the off season, 0:00:51.960 --> 0:00:56.880 they're allowed. I thought we determined that if two yeah, 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:59.360 you know what, I can't go there. I can't go there. 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:03.080 The premise of the next several shows is we're going 0:01:03.160 --> 0:01:06.240 to look back and last year, go through every team 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:09.000 and every notable player and give you sort of our 0:01:09.080 --> 0:01:11.160 key takeaways from the year, Like if there's one thing 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:13.280 you need to know about every every one of the players, 0:01:13.280 --> 0:01:16.720 every meaningful player, Like you know, we're talking about guys 0:01:16.760 --> 0:01:20.160 that you generally started. You know, we're in the starts, 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:23.200 start bench conversation every week. You know, what was the 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:27.960 one thing to take away? They weren't blow sea level, 0:01:28.280 --> 0:01:32.680 that's right, not C minus level Sea level guys most 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:36.520 weeks are higher on Fantasy Football Weekly. Um. So these 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:39.080 are quick hit er observations. These are not in depth dives. 0:01:39.080 --> 0:01:41.640 But this is just a broad look at all of 0:01:41.680 --> 0:01:44.319 the players. And we're starting with the a f C East, 0:01:45.040 --> 0:01:48.200 which had uh turns out, you know, you don't think 0:01:48.240 --> 0:01:50.520 the C is a fantasy powerhouse, but there was a 0:01:50.520 --> 0:01:53.400 lot happening under the hood of the a f C East. 0:01:53.400 --> 0:01:56.640 There's certainly a powerhouse and there certain and that's Buffalo. 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:59.360 Let's let's just start right there. Makes sense. Josh Allen, 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:01.800 I think this last year proved that the year before 0:02:02.560 --> 0:02:06.040 was not a fluke. His running throwing combo makes him 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:12.240 Fantasy Football's most reliable and most potent fantasy quarterback. Yeah, 0:02:12.280 --> 0:02:14.799 he's a guy I think even in one quarterback leagues, 0:02:14.919 --> 0:02:16.679 I don't think we'll see him taking in a lot 0:02:16.720 --> 0:02:22.320 of first rounds, but mid to late second, early third, 0:02:22.480 --> 0:02:25.440 which I know we probably saw Lamar Jackson going that 0:02:25.520 --> 0:02:27.800 early on a couple of years ago, coming off his 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:30.520 massive season, and that was kind of disappointment. But Alan's 0:02:30.560 --> 0:02:33.600 got that same upside. He's an absolute game changer at 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:35.440 the position, which I'm sure you're gonna dive into a 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:38.000 little more. Great passers don't have his rushing and great 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:40.760 rushers don't have his passing. He is the only quarterback 0:02:40.919 --> 0:02:44.440 that really gives you both. Uh with Lamar Jackson having 0:02:44.560 --> 0:02:48.080 having two straight down passing years and Josh Allen doing 0:02:48.120 --> 0:02:51.079 it in consecutive years, I think we can safely say 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:55.640 that Devin Singletary had the third year breakout, which is 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.640 it's not like it never happens with running backs, but 0:02:59.080 --> 0:03:01.239 usually by two, if you don't have it, you don't 0:03:01.280 --> 0:03:05.200 have it. And Singletary looked good, dominating Zack Moss and 0:03:05.240 --> 0:03:09.440 every other Buffalo runner and eventually just relegating everybody else 0:03:09.480 --> 0:03:11.320 to the bench and just eating up the Lion's share 0:03:11.320 --> 0:03:13.000 of the workload by the end of the season. It 0:03:13.000 --> 0:03:14.919 almost took half a season before they turned him into 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:17.040 a bell cow. But once they even Matt Barrita was 0:03:17.080 --> 0:03:19.640 getting some significant run in the mid towards the middle 0:03:19.639 --> 0:03:21.400 of the season. But yeah, the Singletary went off and 0:03:21.440 --> 0:03:23.720 going into the playoffs he was great. So and I'll 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.120 touch on that out. He scored two times in the 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:33.240 first fourteen weeks Stephen Singletary did. Then he scored had 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:37.840 a feeling nine times in Buffalo's final six games, nine 0:03:37.880 --> 0:03:41.600 times in six games. He will be a prime do 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.040 the opposite target Devin Singletary will be in next year's draft. 0:03:45.080 --> 0:03:47.320 I doubt he even had nine touchdowns in his career 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:50.640 prior to it. Definitely did not know he did it 0:03:50.640 --> 0:03:53.320 in the final six games, including the playoffs. Stefan Diggs. 0:03:53.320 --> 0:03:54.720 I felt like, get down here for Diggs. He had 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:58.120 twenty fewer catches, three fewer yards, but he set a 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:02.560 career high in touchdowns with ten touchdowns. Do you know 0:04:02.560 --> 0:04:06.760 how many games Steffon Diggs had with no touchdowns and 0:04:06.800 --> 0:04:13.440 fewer than fifty receiving yards this year touchdowns? I'll say one, 0:04:13.800 --> 0:04:16.599 zero zero. I mean that's the That's the thing you 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:20.440 love about Digs is he didn't give you the heartbreaking, 0:04:20.920 --> 0:04:23.680 you know, three point game four point game. You know, 0:04:23.760 --> 0:04:26.960 he always was giving you you know, the fifty yards 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:29.400 were accompanied by you know, four catches. He was you know, 0:04:29.480 --> 0:04:32.960 his bottom end was the nine point game, not the 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:36.560 three point game. And he didn't have that handful of 0:04:36.680 --> 0:04:40.200 like two yard two touchdown games that he was having 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:44.440 in splash games. There was still certainly a possibility for 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:46.279 more of those there were. Let's stick with the wide receivers. 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:48.600 I want to talk about Cole Beasley next. Just one 0:04:48.640 --> 0:04:51.839 touchdown all year, failed the top sixty four yards in 0:04:51.920 --> 0:04:54.719 the final twelve games of the year, including the playoffs, 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:57.680 which was bad for Beasley. Um there's only one year 0:04:57.720 --> 0:05:00.839 left on his deal and he'll likely need to restructure 0:05:00.960 --> 0:05:04.480 his contract to avoid getting cut. And if they cut him, 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:06.800 they get a cap saving of six million dollars. I 0:05:06.800 --> 0:05:08.880 think he's a cut candidate here, Yeah, I say him. 0:05:08.920 --> 0:05:11.720 Mackenzie sort of usurped him towards the end of the 0:05:11.800 --> 0:05:14.279 year as the top slot receiver, so they certainly have 0:05:14.400 --> 0:05:17.000 an able backup or a fill in for for Beasley 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:19.960 at a much much cheaper cost. Emmanuel Sanders was just 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.360 a spot fantasy starter at best, and he's a free agent. 0:05:22.360 --> 0:05:25.080 He's gonna be gone. But let's get to the guy 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:29.480 who's gonna benefit from Sanders leaving, Beasley potentially leaving, and 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:33.599 that's Gabriel Davis. Yeah, almost invisible in the first half 0:05:33.600 --> 0:05:37.400 of the season. And I mean invisible. I'm talking one catch, 0:05:37.680 --> 0:05:41.800 zero catch to catch, one catch, zero catch kind of numbers. 0:05:42.800 --> 0:05:48.719 Then in probably Gabriel Davis averaging sixty six yards in 0:05:48.760 --> 0:05:52.359 a full touchdown per game in the ten games, the 0:05:52.400 --> 0:05:55.320 final ten games of the season, including the playoffs. Now, 0:05:55.320 --> 0:05:58.400 it's a little bit skewed by his monster four touchdown 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:01.520 game against the Chiefs, but was still even with even 0:06:01.520 --> 0:06:04.240 taking that out, he was still averaging over half a 0:06:04.240 --> 0:06:08.919 touchdown per game. Yeah, that's what people remember most or last, 0:06:09.040 --> 0:06:12.800 is that touchdowns. And that's spilled over into the early 0:06:13.320 --> 0:06:16.440 Best Ball drafting season. People are pretty pretty high on 0:06:16.480 --> 0:06:18.320 game Davis, and for a good reason. But give me 0:06:18.360 --> 0:06:22.400 a rough round where he's going right now? Uh, six 0:06:22.640 --> 0:06:26.760 seven ish. You know he's in that top four definitely 0:06:26.760 --> 0:06:29.440 inside top thirty wide receiver range. Uh for a lot 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:31.440 of people that now there is some concern. You know, 0:06:31.480 --> 0:06:35.880 they've been courting Christian Kirk in Buffalo. I believe he 0:06:35.920 --> 0:06:38.680 can't court anybody yet it's you know, well, no, well 0:06:38.760 --> 0:06:42.200 it's it's it's tampering. Basically, Josh Allen's been hanging out 0:06:42.200 --> 0:06:43.640 with him. I think that they even went on vacation 0:06:43.720 --> 0:06:47.120 with their spouses and un Sam stop that they brought 0:06:47.120 --> 0:06:49.040 Sam Donald along for some reason. I saw the picture. 0:06:49.080 --> 0:06:51.200 He must be carrying the luggage. I don't know, but uh, 0:06:51.520 --> 0:06:53.400 but yeah, if they don't bring in a Christian Kirker 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.600 draft one of the bigger name wide receivers, all systems 0:06:56.640 --> 0:07:01.320 go gave Davis, Um, Sanders and b easily leave behind 0:07:02.360 --> 0:07:09.280 fifteen hundred snaps and two hundred targets. Who that makes 0:07:09.279 --> 0:07:13.440 Gabriel Davis a sexy What round pick? What? Do you 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:15.040 have a sense of what round he's going? He's only 0:07:15.040 --> 0:07:17.760 like six seven and I said I had mid round 0:07:17.760 --> 0:07:19.920 in my notes. Yeah, mid round. But he'll be a 0:07:19.960 --> 0:07:22.000 sexy pick and some people I wouldn't be surprised to 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:25.800 see his value get driven up, as if Beasley and 0:07:26.000 --> 0:07:28.920 Sanders end up leaving the team. If he skirts the 0:07:29.040 --> 0:07:31.440 free agency in the draft from many other big names 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:34.040 coming into wide receiver, he should be more in the 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.680 fourth round range. It could. I think it'll it'll bump 0:07:36.720 --> 0:07:40.080 up Dawson Knox turned into an improbable touchdown machine last year. 0:07:40.080 --> 0:07:43.080 After scoring two and three touchdowns in his first two seasons, 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:47.120 he exploded with nine this year, tied for the NFL 0:07:47.200 --> 0:07:49.280 lead among tight ends, and then by the way, he 0:07:49.280 --> 0:07:51.560 scored two more in the playoffs. He had eleven total touchdowns, 0:07:51.560 --> 0:07:55.600 which is more than anybody despite missing three games. Third 0:07:55.720 --> 0:07:58.840 year breakouts are common in tight ends, is not unheard 0:07:58.840 --> 0:08:01.760 of it all. And then it also Sanders and easily 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:04.360 leaving would free up some extra extra targets for him, 0:08:04.360 --> 0:08:06.360 and he only had seventy I think it was like 0:08:06.400 --> 0:08:09.960 seventy two seventy three targets last year for Dawson Knox. 0:08:10.600 --> 0:08:12.600 That number, could you know that number could vault up 0:08:12.600 --> 0:08:15.000 into the eighties or nineties and you could see even 0:08:15.000 --> 0:08:18.200 more upside, maybe not with touchdowns, but especially more in yards. 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:21.640 He certainly was still touchdown dependent, but you could depend 0:08:21.680 --> 0:08:24.160 on him getting a touchdown in most games. So as 0:08:24.200 --> 0:08:27.040 long as you're scoring touchdowns when touchdown dependent, yes, nothing 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:30.560 wrong with that. Let's go over to Miami. Mike McDaniel 0:08:30.560 --> 0:08:33.000 takes over as your new head coach. This is a rebuilt, 0:08:33.320 --> 0:08:41.280 rebuilt coaching staff. Almost entirely supposed offensive mastermind Mike McDaniels. Yeah, 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:43.600 we'll find out how much you learn from from Kyle 0:08:43.679 --> 0:08:47.040 Shanahan and Darryl Bevel takes over as the passing game coordinator. 0:08:47.120 --> 0:08:50.680 Now to Tungo, Viola looks to my eyes through two 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:54.480 seasons to be an average NFL quarterback. Last year, he 0:08:55.040 --> 0:08:57.400 his average game was two hundred twenty yards and one 0:08:57.400 --> 0:08:59.640 point three touchdowns per game. That's it. And I recall 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:03.160 him not coming through in some like juicy prime matchups, 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.319 big disappointment to A does not run and with the 0:09:06.400 --> 0:09:08.760 hip injury out in college, I guess that was you know, 0:09:08.840 --> 0:09:11.160 that was more of an expectation, So there wasn't necessarily 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.280 people thought he would be a bunch of a runner. Um. 0:09:14.320 --> 0:09:17.320 You know, if there was a pathway for Miami to 0:09:17.520 --> 0:09:21.040 upgrade from tah at the quarterback position, there'd be more 0:09:21.120 --> 0:09:24.240 talk about to uh, you know, them maybe already turning 0:09:24.240 --> 0:09:26.679 the page on to A. But there really isn't an 0:09:26.679 --> 0:09:29.360 obvious pathway for them to get anything better than to uh. No, 0:09:29.480 --> 0:09:31.600 it sounds like the Watson stuff is dead. Yeah, I 0:09:31.640 --> 0:09:33.880 think that's all dead, And like I don't know Russell 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.160 Will's going to get traded at the Dolphins. That wouldn't 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.559 hurt either team really, but you never know. Yeah, you 0:09:38.600 --> 0:09:40.800 never know, but they're probably going to They're probably not. 0:09:41.240 --> 0:09:43.440 So the upside here, I think for Tuah, and the 0:09:43.480 --> 0:09:45.720 reason to think things maybe get get better for Tuah 0:09:45.880 --> 0:09:48.720 is Jalen Waddle, who turned in a terrific rookie season 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:51.560 and could be even better. So let's talk Waddle a 0:09:51.559 --> 0:09:55.120 little bit more here. From Week six forward he topped 0:09:55.160 --> 0:09:58.720 forty eight yards in every game but two. He scored 0:09:58.840 --> 0:10:01.880 five times. And this is the biggest thing about Waddle. 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:07.640 He turned into a massive target hog for TUA. He 0:10:07.720 --> 0:10:11.360 pushed Davantae Parker into the back seat and became the 0:10:11.400 --> 0:10:14.440 go to guys I mentioned he averaged ten targets per 0:10:14.520 --> 0:10:20.640 game after Week six, targets per game. Drafting now he's 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:23.040 getting a lot of love. He's some I've seen him 0:10:23.040 --> 0:10:26.000 go over. He's kind of the tail ended round two, 0:10:26.000 --> 0:10:29.000 but some people are opting to go over Ceedee Lamb 0:10:29.120 --> 0:10:33.480 or DK Metcalf with the presumably safer j Waddle with 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:36.960 with the ceiling well almost as high as Metcalf, those 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.400 guys have to share looks, right, Ceedee Lamb has to 0:10:39.400 --> 0:10:41.880 share with Cooper unless he gets traded. You know, maybe 0:10:41.880 --> 0:10:44.520 they resigned Gallup, but I don't think so. Et Cedric Wilson, 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:47.960 you know, and DK Metcalf has to share with Lockett, 0:10:48.360 --> 0:10:52.200 but not Jalen Waddle and especially with DeVante Parker because 0:10:52.200 --> 0:10:54.360 he could be caught or restructured after back to back 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.959 middling seasons. He's only had really the one good year 0:10:57.880 --> 0:11:01.000 that was his money year, by the way, and he 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:02.960 was injured for half of last year. He only caught 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:06.120 two touchdowns all season. Parker never topped eighty five yards 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:11.240 all season. If he sticks with Miami and he stays 0:11:11.480 --> 0:11:15.600 healthy and Mike McDaniel is a good head coach, a 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:19.080 better head coach for an offense and to it gets 0:11:19.080 --> 0:11:21.760 a little bit better, then Parker could be kind of 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:23.720 a steel if you think he could bounce back to 0:11:23.720 --> 0:11:26.160 where he was three years ago. But we've now seen 0:11:26.280 --> 0:11:30.000 him for five seasons. He's had one good year. Yeah, 0:11:30.160 --> 0:11:34.360 you can't draft him uh as a starter or presumed starter. 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:37.680 You're just hoping he returns to for him and stays there. 0:11:37.760 --> 0:11:40.320 But like you said, you cannot stay healthy for the 0:11:40.400 --> 0:11:42.800 last few years. Will Fuller will be a free agent 0:11:42.880 --> 0:11:47.160 after catching four passes on his ten and a half 0:11:47.320 --> 0:11:52.360 million dollar contract, yet absolute disaster. How is that a 0:11:52.400 --> 0:11:55.960 bad signing? Oh man? All right, So let's go to 0:11:55.960 --> 0:11:58.840 the tight end position. Mike asiki uh after he was 0:11:58.880 --> 0:12:02.080 a frustrating season. He finished tight end twelve, which doesn't 0:12:02.120 --> 0:12:04.760 sound that bad thirty two teams. If you've got a 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:07.920 tight end twelve, that's great, But he just had two 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:14.440 touchdowns and from week eight forward, Gasecki averaged three and 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:18.320 a half catches thirty five yards and did not score. 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:22.800 And more frustrating because he really plays wide receiver, which 0:12:22.840 --> 0:12:26.559 is nice from a fantasy fantasy perspective because he's tight 0:12:26.640 --> 0:12:30.200 end eligible, but he's not like Kyle Pitts. He's a 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:36.000 very average wide receiver. So and also throws dynasty nugget 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.400 out there quick. There are talks on his next contract negotiations. 0:12:39.400 --> 0:12:42.000 They are gonna push for, you know, the wide receiver 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:45.320 eligibility in the real world. So because they want they 0:12:45.360 --> 0:12:48.160 want the money at wide receiver. You're sitting on gasick 0:12:48.280 --> 0:12:50.640 at tight end and you might be a good time 0:12:50.679 --> 0:12:52.520 to move him because if he goes to wide receiver, 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:57.800 he's value just you know, sinks incredibly. You touched on this. 0:12:57.880 --> 0:13:00.960 Gasecki note that he's headed to free agency, and you know, 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:02.600 we don't know where he's gonna land yet, but if 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:05.640 you're Mike McDaniel, you know you could probably convince him 0:13:05.640 --> 0:13:07.160 he could be the next George Kittle. And in a 0:13:07.200 --> 0:13:10.960 Mike McDaniel offense, well, they say that McDaniel likes his 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:13.480 tight ends to block, and that's why we get so 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:15.280 aggravated at times, is all we would do. We see 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:19.240 George Kittle blocking, uh, because he doesn't fit that. He 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.319 does not. He probably has one foot out the door. 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:24.199 We'll see, all right, Let's hit on Miami's backfield. Duke Johnson, 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:30.080 Miles Gaskin, Philip Lindsay Salvon. They're drafting somebody they have to. 0:13:30.280 --> 0:13:32.000 I think so too. I think this is a rebuild. 0:13:32.440 --> 0:13:35.040 In fairness. Duke Johnson, he took over the job in 0:13:35.040 --> 0:13:36.559 week fifteen and he shined. You average four and a 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:38.520 half yards per carry, which wasn't bad, and he posted 0:13:38.559 --> 0:13:41.200 the only two yard rushing games of the entire season 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:44.360 for Miami. We're both Duke Johnson games, but to me 0:13:44.559 --> 0:13:47.480 my eyes, they all look like replacement level guys, and 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.280 I think Miami should just overhaul the position. Yeah, that's 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.400 it's a place where, like Breece Hall Isaiah Spiller, I 0:13:53.400 --> 0:13:55.040 don't want to get too much into the rookies, will 0:13:55.040 --> 0:13:56.680 do that at some point, but it's a place where 0:13:56.679 --> 0:13:58.760 a rookie can walk in and take that starting job 0:13:58.880 --> 0:14:00.599 a great one, a great We we'll get into the 0:14:00.640 --> 0:14:03.560 rookies in UH, in the month of March more UH 0:14:03.640 --> 0:14:06.360 and into April, well, especially April is heading into the draft. 0:14:06.400 --> 0:14:09.160 We'll be talking a lot of rookies when we come back. 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:12.200 We'll go through New England and the Jets. The things 0:14:12.280 --> 0:14:15.200 we learned, the key takeaways from this season, what made 0:14:15.320 --> 0:14:16.920 us smarter at the end of the season than we 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:41.160 were at the beginning. Stay tuned. Fantasy Football Weekly, Welcome 0:14:41.160 --> 0:14:44.800 back Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul charchy In, Brian Johnson, Guillotine 0:14:44.880 --> 0:14:47.560 leagues dot Com. Some fun stuff coming to Guillotine Leagues 0:14:47.560 --> 0:14:52.560 next year. Can't say one. Maybe something maybe something maybe 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:57.320 maybe Yeah, look at the rule. Yeah, we'll see. Let's 0:14:57.320 --> 0:14:59.920 go over to New England. We're recapping the key takeaway 0:15:00.200 --> 0:15:03.760 from last season. Every meaningful player through the a f 0:15:03.840 --> 0:15:07.080 C East. This particular episode of Fantasy Football Weekly in 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:08.560 New England, I want to start with the running games. 0:15:08.560 --> 0:15:09.760 So running gave us the best part of the New 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.080 England offense by a mile, and also the most frustrating 0:15:12.120 --> 0:15:15.440 every year. But yeah, it was most if you could, 0:15:16.160 --> 0:15:20.320 you know, over the over Belichick's rain, if all you 0:15:20.440 --> 0:15:26.560 did was just blindly start like the best running back 0:15:26.680 --> 0:15:29.400 from the Patriots, you'd probably be more often than not, 0:15:29.480 --> 0:15:33.080 you'd probably be okay. But this has been it's been 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.520 really really tough to peg and going into any game 0:15:36.720 --> 0:15:40.040 like what the trend is, who might be valuable who hasn't? 0:15:40.360 --> 0:15:42.760 This year was a little bit more readable than most 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:45.360 I thought. So let's talk about Harris for a minute. 0:15:45.400 --> 0:15:49.760 Despite being in a frequent workload time share with Romandi Stevenson, 0:15:50.440 --> 0:15:55.760 Harris finished second in rushing touchdowns with fifteen. Wow, as 0:15:55.840 --> 0:16:01.400 predicted by somebody in the preseason who put Harris specifically 0:16:01.440 --> 0:16:06.760 on fifteen touchdowns, I did. We had we had to 0:16:06.760 --> 0:16:08.400 New York for the review on that, but I'll take 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:11.680 your word for it. Oh yeah, he spread those fifteen 0:16:11.760 --> 0:16:14.360 and I love this park. He spread those fifteen touchdowns 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:18.400 across eleven games. That's what you really want. And he 0:16:18.520 --> 0:16:21.280 was fourth in carries inside the five yard line. He 0:16:21.280 --> 0:16:23.880 had sixteen carries inside the five yard line, and he 0:16:23.920 --> 0:16:27.320 converted over fifty of his carries into touchdowns, which is 0:16:27.320 --> 0:16:29.840 where we want to be. That suggests to me there's 0:16:29.840 --> 0:16:33.360 no reason for Bill Belichick to stop giving Damien Harris 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:35.400 the ball at the stripe. He missed a few games too, 0:16:35.400 --> 0:16:37.400 if I recall he did, and we're gonna that brings 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:41.280 us to Romandre Stevenson. Even with Harris soaking up those 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.200 sixteen carries from inside the five yard line, Stevenson got 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:47.520 six carries, and impressively, he scored on four of them. 0:16:47.600 --> 0:16:51.920 All four touchdowns that Stevenson scored from inside the five. 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:58.000 We're games in which Damien Harris was missing. Very interesting, 0:16:58.200 --> 0:17:02.000 very interesting. Both he Harris and Stevenson average four point 0:17:02.080 --> 0:17:04.200 six yards per carry, and they both look like above 0:17:04.240 --> 0:17:08.760 average running back talents and below average receiving running backs. 0:17:10.160 --> 0:17:13.280 Um stevenson workload was just too low to start him 0:17:13.320 --> 0:17:16.679 on a regular basis when in the games that Harris played, 0:17:17.040 --> 0:17:21.399 Stevenson was seven, eight, nine touches and that's just you 0:17:21.480 --> 0:17:24.399 just can't you just can't cobble together and not getting 0:17:24.400 --> 0:17:26.720 those goal line looks. He wasn't giving you the touchdowns 0:17:26.720 --> 0:17:29.760 in those games. Either this is a situation where unless 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.480 it's best ball, that's different, but does for standard leagues 0:17:32.560 --> 0:17:34.960 drafted in August, you know, things sort of stay the same. 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:38.000 You really gotta pick which one you're going with because 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:41.040 they're pretty close in a DP S. I mean, Harris 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:45.600 is going four around, you know, weight round, light, third round, 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:49.240 fourth round, and then Stevenson's kind of in the late six, seventh, 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:51.200 eighth round. You really don't want to sink that much 0:17:51.200 --> 0:17:54.440 equity into one backfield. It's not like it's a clear 0:17:54.520 --> 0:17:57.760 it's not like a McCaffrey Cuba Hubbard situation or anything 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:02.000 like that, but you're clearly team Harris. Obviously. I like 0:18:02.119 --> 0:18:05.439 that both great. I love Stevenson. I love Stevenson, but 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:08.760 just the reality of their usage UH tilts towards Harris 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.239 pretty heavily, and because they were so good at what 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:13.600 they were trying to do. I think it stays with Harris. Yeah, 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.120 I think I remember his draft profile last year. Stevenson, 0:18:16.160 --> 0:18:19.520 who went to Oklahoma. I believe just basically his season 0:18:19.600 --> 0:18:23.560 was marred by injury, and he would have been around 0:18:23.560 --> 0:18:26.800 one running back. He had that kind of talents and 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.040 the UH potential in college and he didn't. He didn't 0:18:29.040 --> 0:18:31.119 get to live up to because of injury, but stayed 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.040 healthy last year or so, I did stay healthy, which 0:18:33.040 --> 0:18:34.679 is you can only get better. It looks like it's 0:18:34.720 --> 0:18:36.960 kind of the passing game. I thought mac Jones looked 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.960 like a middle to bottom tier fantasy quarterback with a 0:18:41.160 --> 0:18:45.440 very low ceiling and not even a particularly high floor. Um, 0:18:45.680 --> 0:18:48.680 even with all those electric weapons. And I know there's that, right, 0:18:48.720 --> 0:18:51.120 So yeah, to me, it's a slightly more explosive Teddy 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:54.240 Bridgewater and that's it. He hit three hundred yards just 0:18:54.320 --> 0:18:56.960 two times all year. UM. And by the way, it's 0:18:57.000 --> 0:18:58.520 like three or seven and three or nine. I mean, 0:18:58.640 --> 0:19:02.560 just eat over three hundred yards for mac Jones. Jones 0:19:02.640 --> 0:19:06.480 threw three touchdowns in two games out of seventeen, which 0:19:06.520 --> 0:19:08.800 is not great, but at least he hit three, UM. 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:12.920 But that's counteracted by ten games. Was zero or one 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:15.920 touchdown for mac Jones? Didn't he have zero or one 0:19:15.960 --> 0:19:21.960 passing yard in one game? Too? Was something like that, Yes, 0:19:22.040 --> 0:19:23.280 so you don't you don't want to look at per 0:19:23.600 --> 0:19:27.800 per game averages, but for mac Jones because they are snaps. 0:19:27.920 --> 0:19:31.600 By that game, Hunter Henry scored nine times, but when 0:19:31.640 --> 0:19:34.639 he did not score. Hunter Henry stung you with his 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:37.520 low volume and his meager yardage. And you can't even 0:19:37.560 --> 0:19:39.639 blame Jonny Smith because Smith wasn't even a factor in 0:19:39.640 --> 0:19:42.480 this offense. It was that's just how they used Hunter. 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:45.159 Henry is basically an end zone target, and for me, 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:47.160 that makes him just like a bye week fill in 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:50.000 and somebody where you know, if you're you just hope 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:52.400 you get that touchdown and can get out with because 0:19:52.440 --> 0:19:55.399 otherwise you're looking at two catches for even more so 0:19:55.520 --> 0:19:59.880 touchdown dependent than the four mentioned Dawson Knox for sure. 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:02.960 Let's go to New England's receivers Jacobe Myers, Nelson Aguilar, 0:20:03.040 --> 0:20:04.879 Kendrick Born. I'm gonna talk about him all sort of 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:07.960 in one breath here, Brian. They shared a meager ten 0:20:08.040 --> 0:20:12.120 touchdowns between them, and none of them I thought particularly 0:20:12.160 --> 0:20:16.560 distinguished themselves. Myers had a few more yards, Born had 0:20:16.560 --> 0:20:18.720 a couple more touchdowns than the group, but they were 0:20:18.760 --> 0:20:22.080 just they're almost entirely unstartable in a low volume, blow 0:20:22.160 --> 0:20:25.480 up side passing game. And I the Patriots seemed like 0:20:25.520 --> 0:20:28.359 a team that's gonna draft a bigger name wide receiver 0:20:28.440 --> 0:20:30.840 or bring one in free agency, whether it be an 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:34.000 Alan Robinson type with Mike Williams something like that maybe, 0:20:34.000 --> 0:20:36.680 But they spent big on Agilar and Born last year, 0:20:36.720 --> 0:20:42.480 which were dumb dumb signing was Yeah, they were both 0:20:42.520 --> 0:20:45.560 baffling to me. Um Myers had a productive stretch of 0:20:45.560 --> 0:20:47.399 games in December, I'll mention that, so he finished the 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:50.200 season a little hotter than the other guys. But still 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:53.200 I think on balance, these they all looked like danger 0:20:53.280 --> 0:20:56.000 signs to me. Jones probably gets better next year, but 0:20:56.080 --> 0:20:58.400 I don't know that he gets so much better that 0:20:58.440 --> 0:21:02.560 you have want to any reliance in any of those guys. Myers, Aguilar, 0:21:02.640 --> 0:21:06.320 Born ultimate just situational dart throws. Yeah, he's gonna be 0:21:06.520 --> 0:21:09.280 hovered in around that top twenty range, which means and 0:21:09.400 --> 0:21:14.320 standard No Matt Jones in a standard one quarterback, twelve 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:17.640 team league. He's a backup at best, but he might 0:21:17.680 --> 0:21:20.560 just be a floating free agent kind of guy throughout 0:21:20.560 --> 0:21:22.920 the season. Let's wrap up with the Jets. How long 0:21:22.960 --> 0:21:25.879 will this take? Not as long as he may not 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:28.520 be surprised here, but the lead story and if I 0:21:28.560 --> 0:21:31.720 were to, if I'm talking to anybody, especially in Dynasty 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:37.000 Empire leagues, Zack Wilson got a lot better in the 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:38.919 second half of the season. You remember he missed a 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:41.240 bunch of time in the middle of the year with injury. 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:45.479 The games before that were bad. The games after when 0:21:45.480 --> 0:21:48.800 he came back from injury, he played better. And it 0:21:49.440 --> 0:21:52.240