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Speaker 1: his three sons, four sons. Yeah, he's got a bunch
Speaker 1: of kids. Uh yeah, in this area, as I recall,
Speaker 1: and they're all good athletes as well. Obviously, let's talk
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley. We're here to break down Calvin Ridley. We
Speaker 1: thought a refresher would be great because obviously a year
Speaker 1: away from the game, and Ridley was an impact player
Speaker 1: prior to all the stuff that went down. Got traded
Speaker 1: to the Jaguars. You may or may not remember that
Speaker 1: because you haven't played with the Jaguars yet. Finds himself
Speaker 1: in a far better situation than he would have been
Speaker 1: a head he stayed in Atlanta and it's not close.
Speaker 1: Let's start here, Tyler, give us a refresher on Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 1: What had where was he heading into the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: two season that never happened for him? Yeah, so, I
Speaker 1: mean before he was suspended and that we were kind
Speaker 1: of like you mentioned the twenty twenty one season where
Speaker 1: he was just kind of on and off whatever. His
Speaker 1: first three leagues, first three, his first three years in
Speaker 1: the league, he finished as the wide sep. Twenty two,
Speaker 1: his rookie year wide receiver eight seen and then that
Speaker 1: third year he really broke out wide receiver four and
Speaker 1: average points with that because Julio Jones was constantly out
Speaker 1: of that. He constantly hurt that year, and so he
Speaker 1: turned into wide Receiver one when Matt Ryan was still good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think it's one of the things as interesting
Speaker 1: is I read his letter. I don't know if you
Speaker 1: had a chance to read. I did read that open
Speaker 1: letter that it was very insightful, kind of like behind
Speaker 1: the scene look of everything, and I just it was
Speaker 1: a really good letter. He mentioned on that that he
Speaker 1: was on painkillers for two straight years of because of
Speaker 1: bones spurs, and then he broke his foot halfway through
Speaker 1: twenty twenty, so he said he put up that wide
Speaker 1: Receiver four finished on like bones spurs, broken foot craz stuff,
Speaker 1: which is insane, that is. And then twenty twenty is
Speaker 1: kind of where it went, kind of like your twenty
Speaker 1: twenty one where it went kind of down the hill
Speaker 1: for him. His house was broken into, which kind of
Speaker 1: really rattled him. It sounds like that's why he didn't
Speaker 1: go to that London game, if you remember, he didn't
Speaker 1: travel there, and there was the whole kind of mental
Speaker 1: health stuff being tossed around with him, and let's go
Speaker 1: so let's just pause on this for a second. I've
Speaker 1: been subject to a break in, and it is unnerving.
Speaker 1: I don't anybody who's like, your house got broken into.
Speaker 1: Why couldn't you travel to London? Look, it mean it's
Speaker 1: to know there was somebody in your house who wanted
Speaker 1: to do bad things to you and your family. Is
Speaker 1: I mean, it really does mess with you a bit. Oh,
Speaker 1: I bet I can't even imagine what that must be like,
Speaker 1: because he mentioned in that letter that that's kind of
Speaker 1: why that was like the breaking point when he took
Speaker 1: he to take some time off because he was genuinely
Speaker 1: worried about the safety of his girlfriend, his and his daughter. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it was it was a really big thing that
Speaker 1: hit him, and I think he took some steps away
Speaker 1: from the game. He obviously had the parlay that led
Speaker 1: into his suspension for the rest of for the rest
Speaker 1: of last year, So he included the Falcons in a
Speaker 1: eleven leg parlay three hundred dollars. Yeah, it was three
Speaker 1: hundred dollars to win. It was four hundred eighty one
Speaker 1: to one odds, So I think he would have won
Speaker 1: one hundred and twenty eight dollars or something in that.
Speaker 1: I don't know. Something in that ballpar I'm trying to
Speaker 1: do some top of a headmap that's something like that.
Speaker 1: I would have ended up on br betting if you
Speaker 1: would have hit that, you know where they always just
Speaker 1: post winning tickets that are crazy. That would have had
Speaker 1: to hide the name Draft Kicks. But I think where
Speaker 1: it's important to talk about kind of where we are
Speaker 1: now with Calvin Realley. The last thing that I will
Speaker 1: say about the letter, he says that he's getting fourteen
Speaker 1: hundred yards. This healthy. Yeah, that's what you're saying. Anything
Speaker 1: they want. Adrian Peterson every year was like, I'm going
Speaker 1: for three thousand yards. No you're not. Yeah, no, you're not.
Speaker 1: The fourteen hundreds at least getable though, which would be
Speaker 1: the most yards in his career. It's worth mentioning. But
Speaker 1: I think he, like you mentioned, this might be the
Speaker 1: situation where he gets done. This best situation might be
Speaker 1: in as a as a pro. For sure, we saw
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence take a massive, massive step forward last year.
Speaker 1: He turned into the quarterback we thought he was going
Speaker 1: to be, you know when he was drafted, but obviously
Speaker 1: Urban Meyer blew up that whole rookie year start over,
Speaker 1: Trevor looked pretty darned good down the second half of
Speaker 1: the season in particular, and Calvin Ridley walks into a
Speaker 1: spot where, really, outside of Christian Kirk, who was very
Speaker 1: productive last year, Calvin Ridley, you know, he might be
Speaker 1: the best. He might be the best, clear best receiver
Speaker 1: on the team if he's healthy and in the same
Speaker 1: kind of shape and ability that he had prior to
Speaker 1: last year. Even if we get like ninety percent of
Speaker 1: what he was that wide receiver for a year in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: He's definitely the best talent on this team at receiver,
Speaker 1: and you kind of look at the opportunity and you
Speaker 1: gotta like what you see from just an opening standpoint. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, they obviously have guys like Christian Kirk. He's
Speaker 1: mainly a slot guy though web Calvin was in Atlanta,
Speaker 1: he'd eighty eight percent of the time he'd lined up
Speaker 1: on the outside, So he'll be on field all the time.
Speaker 1: He'll be on exactly. Christian Kirk's not going to take
Speaker 1: any snaps away from Calvin Ridley. Also, Marvin Jones, he's
Speaker 1: a free agent. I mean, he hasn't we haven't heard
Speaker 1: any news about Marvin Jones, but I can't imagine he
Speaker 1: will be back there. And then you got Zay Jones,
Speaker 1: who was kind of their outside guy last year, who's
Speaker 1: lined up there seventy percent of the time. He was
Speaker 1: the wide deceiver twenty six last year, which is pretty
Speaker 1: good for a guy like Za Jones right exactly, and
Speaker 1: doesn't have nearly at the athletic ability of Calvin Ridley exactly.
Speaker 1: So I'm just trying to imagine, like what the ceiling
Speaker 1: could be for Calvin Ridley if he is just that
Speaker 1: number one guy. The only thing that might scare me
Speaker 1: is that there is Christian karrict Is, Evan ingrams A, Jones,
Speaker 1: as we mentioned, isn't terrible, and you have Travis Etn
Speaker 1: maybe eating some targets as well. But in terms of
Speaker 1: the offense that he's in there, there's definitely some room
Speaker 1: for Calvin Ridley to make some noise. Calvin. If everything
Speaker 1: breaks perfectly for Calvin Ridley, he's got wide receiver ten
Speaker 1: upside in him. Where is he going in ADP right now?
Speaker 1: Right now? He's the wide receiver in nineteen. Wow, that's
Speaker 1: higher than I thought. Yeah, it's so about round four
Speaker 1: in best ball, which the format, and that's little different
Speaker 1: because it's a wide receiver heavy yeah, first, but still
Speaker 1: wide deceiver nineteen. I'm really surprised. Just I have figured
Speaker 1: a year away from the game, unknown situation with Jacksonville,
Speaker 1: that people would shy away from him. But it sounds
Speaker 1: like there's at least one believer in every league it's
Speaker 1: willing to take him round four. Wow. That's um. I
Speaker 1: thought I was going to get better value and Calvin
Speaker 1: Ridley I thought, I'm like, I'm thinking, okay, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: buy in, and Calvin Ridley I just said he came
Speaker 1: his wide receiver ten upside. That's if everything breaks perfectly,
Speaker 1: just the odds are it's gonna miss some games. He's
Speaker 1: we don't know what kind of shape he's gonna be
Speaker 1: in mentally, physically, where he's gonna be a year away
Speaker 1: from the game. I know, is he up to speed
Speaker 1: in week one or do you have to wait until
Speaker 1: week eight f him to get his football legs under him? Again,
Speaker 1: we don't know. There's a lot of question marks in
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley. I don't think wide receiver nineteen's too high.
Speaker 1: A yeah, I don't know. I just don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't know if it's too high for me personally. I
Speaker 1: just don't know, because you saw what he could, what
Speaker 1: he was in Atlanta, and people that next year were
Speaker 1: drafts him as a top five wide receiver, So we
Speaker 1: know what the talent is. And I don't know if
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence is Trevor Lawrence better than Matt Ryan when
Speaker 1: he was with when Matt Ryan was actually good obviously,
Speaker 1: but because he's not that anymore, miney means. But I
Speaker 1: think I'll take I'll take a dart throw on on
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley just because I think there is that top
Speaker 1: ten wide receiver finished potential with him, and this is
Speaker 1: something sometimes you just gotta take some shots and some
Speaker 1: players that you like. I think cal really we know
Speaker 1: the talents there. It's just whether or not that he's
Speaker 1: gonna be acclimated to this offense in time. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: is Christian Kirk gonna still get fed? Churse Kirk was
Speaker 1: a top ten He was a top ten wide receiver
Speaker 1: last year too, so you know, if they're both, they're
Speaker 1: not both going to be top ten receivers and all
Speaker 1: probability and that is Christian kirking to give up a
Speaker 1: lot of that productivity to Calvin Ridley. I don't know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of questions here. If I'm like, if
Speaker 1: I'm asking myself, I'm in round four and I've got
Speaker 1: for me, I'd already have two wide receivers. But let's
Speaker 1: just say you're a normal person and you've only got
Speaker 1: one wide receiver. It's round four. You're on the clock.
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley's there, I'm going some other way, some other direction.
Speaker 1: That's too early for me to take that risk, all right.
Speaker 1: Let me throw out some players are kind of going
Speaker 1: around him right now then, Yeah, Terry McLaurin, Ridley, Michael Pittman,
Speaker 1: not knowing their quarterback but knowing it'll be a rookie,
Speaker 1: Ridley Ave, Chris All. I think i'd go Chris Alave. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's I mean, he's proven himself to be very very good.
Speaker 1: I think I would go a love all right. Last one,
Speaker 1: Drake London. I'm bored with Drake London and that man.
Speaker 1: He is so underwhelming last year and again run first offense.
Speaker 1: I don't know. That's yeah, I'm not I'm not sold
Speaker 1: on London, all right. I expected so much more from
Speaker 1: him last year. I don't think I'm ready to get about.
Speaker 1: So maybe it turns out I do like Ridley more
Speaker 1: than I thought. Maybe he's gonna be my guy wide
Speaker 1: receiver nineteen. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, um, that's yeah,
Speaker 1: that's that's It's an interesting case and a guy who's
Speaker 1: got massive upside and plenty of risk associated with him.
Speaker 1: But hey, that's how sometimes, that's how you win fantasy leagues. Right,
Speaker 1: You take three or four big risk players. You hope
Speaker 1: two or three out of those three or four hit. Yeah.
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