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Speaker 2: here's your host, Paul Chargian.
Speaker 3: Nope, it's not Paul Charchion. It's Matt Harrison along with
Speaker 3: Brian Johnson, live from Church's kitchen.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Church is like Joshua Tree or something, is he?
Speaker 4: I don't know. He's hitting the open road, baby.
Speaker 3: Oh. I thought, like, you know, doing lots of illicit drugs.
Speaker 4: Well, that's what you do with Joshua here. Yeah, but
Speaker 4: he's out at Region somewhere west.
Speaker 3: Out west young Man is r V. Yeah, him and
Speaker 3: Roxy packed it up. They're on the open road. Let's
Speaker 3: see what happens. So Brian and I are here today
Speaker 3: to hold down the fort and we're we're going to
Speaker 3: take the easy way out because that's the way to
Speaker 3: do it. And when the boss is out and we're
Speaker 3: going to do a a round or two of a
Speaker 3: redraft mock draft. Right now we are.
Speaker 4: We should be drinking whiskey too, even though it's ten
Speaker 4: thirty in the morning. I know where it is. You
Speaker 4: know where it's, you know over there, I'm sort of
Speaker 4: looking at it. I'm looking how I would get to it. No,
Speaker 4: I won't do that.
Speaker 3: What else we have in the pantry, corned beef, hash.
Speaker 4: Goldfish, crackers, and whiskey. That's all you need? Okay, that's
Speaker 4: all I'm saying. Yeah, you don't. You don't load up
Speaker 4: before you go across country.
Speaker 3: So that's true.
Speaker 4: Selin pickings here. But all you need is the brown drink?
Speaker 3: All right, Brian? I was so you don't want a
Speaker 3: part of this, this mock draft that I gave you
Speaker 3: the first pick? So did Yeah, you didn't want to
Speaker 3: talk about the schedule release? Oh and you watch any
Speaker 3: of the pomp and circumstances. I watched the Tennessee Titans
Speaker 3: release video, which was freaking hilarious.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I saw that.
Speaker 3: I actually thought it was better than The Chargers, weird
Speaker 3: anime one. But a lot a lot of uh, a
Speaker 3: lot of a lot of work went into the Chargers. Well,
Speaker 3: probably not as much work as it's going out on
Speaker 3: Broadway and Nashville and asking people.
Speaker 4: I hear the ESPN put in like the production effort
Speaker 4: of like the draft basically for the schedule release. I
Speaker 4: didn't watch a second of it, even though it's a
Speaker 4: big day for the best ball degenerates like myself. You
Speaker 4: get to see how badly the buys are going to
Speaker 4: screw you for all the drafts I suppose, and then
Speaker 4: of course, moving forward, it helps to have the bye weeks.
Speaker 4: Now I haven't done uh, you know, looked over the
Speaker 4: rosters to see how much damage has been done via
Speaker 4: bye week. But of course the NFL is totally bricked.
Speaker 4: Some of these bye weeks. The big ones are week seven,
Speaker 4: in week thirteen. Week seven there are six teams on
Speaker 4: by there, so week five, four teams on, by week
Speaker 4: six two, week seven, six teams, Week eight none like why.
Speaker 3: The one week in the middle of the season.
Speaker 4: And then week nine, ten eleven, four teams on by
Speaker 4: each week, Week twelve none, then week thirteen, six teams
Speaker 4: are on by oh my gosh, and then two and
Speaker 4: week like.
Speaker 3: Like on Underdog. That's the fantasy, is that in the.
Speaker 4: They figured it out right where they're at fifteen, sixteen,
Speaker 4: and seventeen. Okay, so, but some there's two teams on
Speaker 4: buy and week fourteen, and some of the bigger leagues
Speaker 4: are gonna have playoffs running then Cardinals and Commanders. So
Speaker 4: but Week thirteen is huge Ravens, Bills, Bears, Raiders, Vikings, Giants.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, that's a blood pack.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So well that's like the scott Fish Bowl playoffs for
Speaker 3: sure because that that starts in.
Speaker 4: Week twelve, right and there are no buys in week
Speaker 4: twelve the week before.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Interesting and yeah it's nuts. And the other takeaway big
Speaker 4: takeaway and Best Ball Land is you know people are
Speaker 4: all about correlating their Week seventeen or they're drafting around
Speaker 4: the week seventeen matchups. I have them want that sexy
Speaker 4: to me on paper? Yeah, the one I'm really looking
Speaker 4: at where you can feasibly stack players from both teams,
Speaker 4: just Raiders at colts. That could be a fun one.
Speaker 4: That could be seventeen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. When when you do your Best Ball drafting
Speaker 3: now now that the bye weeks are out, do you
Speaker 3: prefer to do bye week stacks or do you prefer
Speaker 3: to try to spread it out over the course of
Speaker 3: the season.
Speaker 4: You definitely if you you know bye week's really hit
Speaker 4: your hard quarterback tight end where you generally draft two
Speaker 4: or three, you definitely don't want to leave a at
Speaker 4: least for a quarterback you don't want to have.
Speaker 3: You don't want a kusag No at tight end.
Speaker 4: You could get away with it if you had like
Speaker 4: Travis Kelcey and Marking or just Travis Kelsey and anybody.
Speaker 3: But yeah, ideally know you.
Speaker 4: Try to just look at the buys as you're drafting
Speaker 4: and be like, at least, of course, we don't know
Speaker 4: what's going to happen in the future in terms of
Speaker 4: injury or whatever, but you want to be like, I
Speaker 4: can at least feel the full roster in weeks seven
Speaker 4: when I have all these guys on buy. So yeah,
Speaker 4: as you get later in the draft, like, I won't
Speaker 4: not draft a guy my RB two, make sure he
Speaker 4: doesn't have the same biasman RB one. I don't care
Speaker 4: about that. But you're getting later in the draft and
Speaker 4: you got four running backs with the same bye, You're like,
Speaker 4: I can't take another guy with the same buy because
Speaker 4: Gooseggs will kill you even just one. Yeah, in a
Speaker 4: big tournament.
Speaker 3: Absolutely So, all right, let's hop into this redraft mock
Speaker 3: that we completed, and it's just us going back and forth,
Speaker 3: and once we get to the second round, we do
Speaker 3: a little bit of a reversal, but we're drafting.
Speaker 4: We're like representing each of the twelve teams. Sure, it's
Speaker 4: not like it's a head to head and we're building
Speaker 4: two mega teams against each other.
Speaker 3: And it's May. So it's very early.
Speaker 4: But never too early these days, though, I get.
Speaker 3: The feeling that ADP is really going to kind of
Speaker 3: shake out this year, and I think by the time
Speaker 3: we get to July, I think this is going to
Speaker 3: be pretty close to what's out there, barring any injuries.
Speaker 4: I agree, And you referenced Underdog before. That's half PPR,
Speaker 4: which is a big time difference in full PPR, which
Speaker 4: is what we're drafting under Sure, here you'll see running
Speaker 4: as as they should in my opinion, running backs go.
Speaker 4: They have a little more premium and half PPR than
Speaker 4: they do in full PPR.
Speaker 3: You're gonna start it out with a PPR guy, right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's well, I would say it's the slam dunk
Speaker 4: obvious fit. But I still think he'll go first in
Speaker 4: most full PPR drafts and justin Jefferson, Minnesota guy, I
Speaker 4: don't think I have to justify it too much. But
Speaker 4: since twenty twenty his rookie year, he has forty eight
Speaker 4: hundred plus receiving yards. DeVante Adams is second with forty
Speaker 4: four hundred and change. So just a monster. And we
Speaker 4: know he's got some help now, which I think will
Speaker 4: help him more than hurt him. In Jordan Addison will
Speaker 4: help free up some of those double coverage assignments that
Speaker 4: have been put on him that Adam Thielen was not
Speaker 4: offering any relief really, so I'm not I think the
Speaker 4: Addison edition really only helps Jefferson. And who's on pace
Speaker 4: to go down is I know. I know the stats
Speaker 4: change in terms of it's a past friendly league and
Speaker 4: there's seventeen games per season, but that's what's going to happen.
Speaker 4: And Jefferson is on his way just being the number
Speaker 4: one receiver of all time statistically.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And Kirk Cousins in the in the contract year,
Speaker 3: so I'm sure he's motivated to put up some huge
Speaker 3: numbers this year as well, and those numbers are going
Speaker 3: to Jefferson. I had picked two in my mind, there's
Speaker 3: a top tier of tight ends of one player and
Speaker 3: it's Travis Kelcey. The other guy considered was Jamar Chase
Speaker 3: Here but I think Travis Kelcey stands alone as the
Speaker 3: top tight end. And I mean just showing last year
Speaker 3: in a standard league he was sixty points ahead Fantasy
Speaker 3: points ahead of the number two tight end, which was
Speaker 3: George Kittle in standard scoring, and then in PPR leagues
Speaker 3: he was over one hundred points ahead of TJ. Hockinson
Speaker 3: at number two. He's just in a class by himself.
Speaker 3: He's he's worth an extra touchdown per game, six points
Speaker 3: per game in PPR leagues over the next closest tight end.
Speaker 3: And I can't pass on that. Yeah, I probably would
Speaker 3: have taken him at one.
Speaker 4: Two. Yeah, he's he's always in the conversation and one.
Speaker 4: And normally we're like, you want to get out on
Speaker 4: a guy because he's getting older. He's probably his thirty three,
Speaker 4: thirty fourth year on this.
Speaker 3: He's on the land his thirty fourth year. He is
Speaker 3: thirty three, turns thirty four in October.
Speaker 4: But you don't know what. You can't get out a
Speaker 4: year early on Kelsey because if you said that the
Speaker 4: last two years you've been you're holding the bag. So
Speaker 4: I'll go down with that ship. But usually it's like
Speaker 4: a running back, you like like like a guy like
Speaker 4: Derrick Henry. He might be a little skeptical right now,
Speaker 4: but yeah, Kelsey can't go wrong in there. He's still
Speaker 4: going to be the top receiving option. If the Chiefs
Speaker 4: have added like a DeAndre Hopey or I know they
Speaker 4: drafted a Rashie Rice like in the second round, but yeah,
Speaker 4: Kelsey's still the guy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think Kansas City is just going with throw
Speaker 3: a whole bunch of darts and see if any of
Speaker 3: them hit the bulls eye at the wide receiver position.
Speaker 4: I was able to do a draft where I got
Speaker 4: nine Chiefs and do you only do that best ball?
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 4: So it was Mahomes, Well, I went Kelsey and then
Speaker 4: Mahomes and then like in no particular order, I got
Speaker 4: all the wide receivers, which is uh Tony mvs mvs.
Speaker 4: Sky Moore, Rice, Richie, James, Justin Ross, and I got
Speaker 4: Jared mccannon.
Speaker 3: Do you find Justin Watson in there too?
Speaker 4: It got to a point where like, I can't have
Speaker 4: this many Chiefs, but yeah, if you whatever, Justin Watson
Speaker 4: scores a touchdown or why am I blanking Checko rushes
Speaker 4: one in? That's gonna hurt for that team.
Speaker 3: Because talk about a bye week stack.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so I got that's one. I go back
Speaker 4: and check and make sure all my other players don't
Speaker 4: have the same buy as Kansas City or I'm screwed.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, all right, let's go to pick three,
Speaker 3: Jamar Chase.
Speaker 4: He was also could be taking a one overall to
Speaker 4: You could make that case for him only played twelve
Speaker 4: games last year, still had eighty seven catches, one forty
Speaker 4: six yards, nine touchdowns. Of course I extrapolated that over
Speaker 4: a full season would be one hundred and twenty three catches,
Speaker 4: nearly fifteen hundred yards and thirteen touchdowns, numbers he could
Speaker 4: easily attain. And he does fine when t. Higgins is
Speaker 4: not on the field, and he does fine when te
Speaker 4: Higgins does play. That doesn't really affect him either way.
Speaker 4: And really the biggest differentiator was between Jefferson and Chase
Speaker 4: was Chase had more competition for targets. But that gap
Speaker 4: has closed now that the Vikings have signed Addison and
Speaker 4: now they have t. J. Hockinson for a full year,
Speaker 4: So Chase could easily be that end up being who
Speaker 4: should have been the number one pick in PPR leagues this.
Speaker 3: Year out of the top three picks. He said that
Speaker 3: you would have picked Chase. You could have picked Chase
Speaker 3: number one. Maybe you could have picked Kelsey number one.
Speaker 3: Is there anybody else in the conversation at number one
Speaker 3: right now? For you?
Speaker 4: Not in full PPR. There's a couple of running backs
Speaker 4: we'll get to here, but no, those are the top three.
Speaker 4: For me.
Speaker 3: At pick four, I picked Christian McCaffrey, and I think
Speaker 3: that to me, he's the running back that might be
Speaker 3: in a tier by himself. If not, it's the guy
Speaker 3: that you're about to take next, who I think actually
Speaker 3: might be the number one running back off the board
Speaker 3: by the time we get July and August. But hard
Speaker 3: to argue with McCaffrey in the Shanahan system for a
Speaker 3: full year, had eighty five receptions last year that just
Speaker 3: vaults you in PPR and did end up scoring thirteen
Speaker 3: touchdowns in seventeen games last week or last season. I mean,
Speaker 3: hard to argue just that weapon in that offense.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, and there's competition for touches there, of course,
Speaker 4: and quarterback is kind of up in the air right now.
Speaker 4: Even though I'm a big sand Donald guy, I believe
Speaker 4: in the Sam Donald could do the Gino Smith thing.
Speaker 3: I think Sam Donald could do what brock Perty did.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, yeah, I mean people, of course, Sam Donald is
Speaker 4: an easy target. You know, he's a punching bag. But
Speaker 4: let's not forget that he played for the Jets as
Speaker 4: a rookie, who were just the Jets are a joke.
Speaker 4: Maybe that changes now finally, but back then they were
Speaker 4: huge joke and he had injuries, he had mono.
Speaker 3: And now he gets his reunion with Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 4: It's hisnion. Yeah, I gets that. But yeah, then he
Speaker 4: went to Carolina who there they are joke too, and
Speaker 4: he but he had some top twelve games at the
Speaker 4: towards the end of last year with the Panthers without Yeah,
Speaker 4: Christian McCaffrey, if he's starting for the forty nine ers,
Speaker 4: don't be laughing at what Sam Donald could do. And
Speaker 4: right now he's their best option in I don't believe
Speaker 4: Purdy is going to be ready. I'm the doctor, but
Speaker 4: Tommy John, I know he's not a starting pitcher, but
Speaker 4: you gotta be able to Throwing a football is hard
Speaker 4: on your arm.
Speaker 3: Like when you throw it.
Speaker 4: Like people think they can go out there and like
Speaker 4: throw a football far and fast. No, you can't. We'll
Speaker 4: try and throw it, especially in an NFL ball like.
Speaker 4: I don't believe he's gonna be ready for Week one.
Speaker 4: That's me and Trey Lance. Who knows what the tree lance.
Speaker 4: But anyway, Yeah, McCaffrey. The only downside with him is
Speaker 4: he's not gonna get the total touches I think you want.
Speaker 4: But the bell cow is a dying breed across the league. Really,
Speaker 4: Elijah Mitchell is going to factor in, but.
Speaker 3: Ended up with three hundred and thirty touches last year.
Speaker 4: He did that was across both teams, both teams. Of course,
Speaker 4: you know San Francisco expects to make a deep run
Speaker 4: in the playoffs regardless of quarterback. But long story short,
Speaker 4: McCaffrey can't fault him. Yeah, fault you for taking him
Speaker 4: at four.
Speaker 3: And now we go to pick number five, where you're
Speaker 3: gonna take Sam Darnold.
Speaker 4: If it was a super flex league, maybe maybe we'll
Speaker 4: talk about that next week. I went, there's two running
Speaker 4: backs here for me, one older guy. We'll get to him.
Speaker 4: But I went with the shiny, new flashy toy and
Speaker 4: Bjon Robinson, of course drafted by the Falcons, who got
Speaker 4: zero primetime games.
Speaker 3: By the way, that does and that doesn't hurt my
Speaker 3: feelings at all.
Speaker 4: I want. I mean, there's talk that they did that
Speaker 4: because here the NFL wanted Atlanta to take a quarterback
Speaker 4: and they're upset that they didn't, so they're not putting
Speaker 4: him on TV.
Speaker 3: They they've scheduled spike games.
Speaker 4: For the pretty much. But Atlanta runs the ball way
Speaker 4: too much. They'll continue to do so. And Jon is
Speaker 4: the you know, the next Saquon Barkley type prospect. Adrian
Speaker 4: Peterson can do it all and can certainly he can
Speaker 4: catch so PPR. Let's just hope he gets seventy eighty
Speaker 4: percent of the touches. I think Tyler Algier will still
Speaker 4: factor in, but that division is wide open. You draft
Speaker 4: Vjon that soon, you got to. You gotta give him
Speaker 4: the ball, and then Atlanta runs more than anybody. So
Speaker 4: there we go.
Speaker 3: Jon Robinson, Yeah, absolutely, pick number six. Uh, I can't
Speaker 3: help it. I kind of just went back in time
Speaker 3: and pretended we're in in the spring summer of twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two and went, hey, why not take Cooper cup
Speaker 3: who just had an injury plagued season. Lost Stafford halfway
Speaker 3: through the guy had almost two thousand yards in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty one and sixteen touchdowns. If there's anybody who can
Speaker 3: put up absolute monster numbers out of the rest of
Speaker 3: these guys, I think Cooper Cup's the guy who can
Speaker 3: just put up the huge upside.
Speaker 4: Yeah, people are a little worried about the quarterback situation,
Speaker 4: but Stafford should be good to go to start the season.
Speaker 4: But it doesn't really matter who the quarterback is. The
Speaker 4: guy just finds a way to get open. It's pretty
Speaker 4: incredible in PPR.
Speaker 3: And he did it with Stafford before, so I'm not
Speaker 3: too afraid.
Speaker 4: To Stafford before. So yeah, it's pretty safe pick with
Speaker 4: an incredibly high ceiling if you can get back to
Speaker 4: those twenty target games, which you probably will.
Speaker 3: All Right, we're gonna do a break and hopefully you'll
Speaker 3: hear Paul Charcion's voice with some sort of ad that
Speaker 3: you know of a product that you really want to buy.
Speaker 3: That's my favorite product ever too.
Speaker 4: I'm going to get two.
Speaker 3: Yes, pick number seven, Brian, what did you go for?
Speaker 4: This was the one I was wavering on when I
Speaker 4: was representing the team from the fifth spot when I
Speaker 4: took Bijon. If I didn't go Bijon, I would have
Speaker 4: went Austin. Eckler will take here in PPR one hundred
Speaker 4: and seven catches last year, I mean, had he had
Speaker 4: eighteen total touchdowns. There was some rumors he would get traded,
Speaker 4: maybe cut, the Chargers might draft Bijon Robinson, but uh,
Speaker 4: but they did and it's Eckler is the guy, and
Speaker 4: this almost just feels like, you know, most likely his
Speaker 4: last year in LA.
Speaker 3: Well, considering there are rumors that he wanted to be
Speaker 3: traded and was on the trade block there maybe going
Speaker 3: into the draft season.
Speaker 4: Yep. But they're going to ride with him, and they
Speaker 4: considered themselves Super Bowl contenders. They took Quenton Johnston in
Speaker 4: the first round to bolster that offense. They're going for it,
Speaker 4: and I think they just, you know, they run and
Speaker 4: run routes with Equator into the ground this year, and
Speaker 4: he basically finishes RB one last year. In the fact
Speaker 4: that we're taking two running backs before him might be
Speaker 4: a little disrespectful, but I don't know, you worry. He's
Speaker 4: getting up there in age, but he's still got a
Speaker 4: lot of tread on the tires. He wasn't getting three
Speaker 4: hundred plus touches every year going into this year. So
Speaker 4: in PPR, definitely eat these good value pick at seven,
Speaker 4: I think.
Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, And he finished number two in twenty twenty
Speaker 3: one as well, so I mean there's you got that
Speaker 3: going for you, a guy who's finished top two each
Speaker 3: of the last two years. I'm gonna go with the guy.
Speaker 3: I'm rewinding the clock again. I think I'm getting great
Speaker 3: value on the consensus number one overall pick from last year,
Speaker 3: Jonathan Taylor at pick eight. I do like the addition
Speaker 3: of Anthony Richardson there the running quarterbacks ten to help
Speaker 3: running backs a lot, and Jonathan Taylor. He's not a
Speaker 3: super big pass catching guy, which that's usually the downside
Speaker 3: of the running quarterback takes away from some of the receptions.
Speaker 3: But in his other worldly season in twenty twenty one,
Speaker 3: he only had forty receptions on fifty three targets, so
Speaker 3: that wasn't really a part of his game. He was
Speaker 3: a ground and pound guy. And I think it's Richardson
Speaker 3: running one way and Jonathan Taylor running the other, and
Speaker 3: defense is trying to figure out who's got the ball
Speaker 3: all year for the Colts.
Speaker 4: So when do you think, yeah, Taylor's a fine pick
Speaker 4: regardless of quarterback. When do you think Richardson plays. Some
Speaker 4: people think week one.
Speaker 3: I think week one.
Speaker 4: Really, I just can't get on board with that. And
Speaker 4: his ADP right now is insane. He's going as a
Speaker 4: quarterback nine, He's still like the top eighty picks.
Speaker 3: Here's kind of why I think this. Jim Irsay is
Speaker 3: a madman.
Speaker 4: It's true.
Speaker 3: And Chris Ballard is on his last legs as a GM.
Speaker 3: And if this season gets off to a poor start
Speaker 3: like it did last year, I think Ballard's looking for
Speaker 3: a new job. And it's quicker than they think.
Speaker 4: Agreed, I think the season's off to a slow start,
Speaker 4: but I feel like they give Minshew the keys to
Speaker 4: start the season, and hey, what if they win. All
Speaker 4: he's got to win is like two of the first five. Like,
Speaker 4: as long as there's some semblance of life in that division,
Speaker 4: which very well could be, Jacksonville is becoming an an
Speaker 4: elite team. But I don't know. Just thirteen career starts
Speaker 4: for Richardson in college, that just seems a little in
Speaker 4: experience for me to coach, you know, So I could
Speaker 4: be wrong, but to me, just talk about Richardson in
Speaker 4: redraft right now. For him to be going like eightieth
Speaker 4: overall is crazy. But of course the rushing upside, that's
Speaker 4: what it's all about these days. But I don't know
Speaker 4: he needs to start by week five or six. Yeah,
Speaker 4: return that kind of valley.
Speaker 3: But so even off Taylor, if it's Gardner Minshew behind center,
Speaker 3: either way, I think Taylor is sitting on a great year.
Speaker 4: I said, it's fine pick regardless of quarterback.
Speaker 3: All right, let's go to pick number nine.
Speaker 4: Number nine. I got a look at Cheeks. I forgot that.
Speaker 4: I took Tyreek Hill here, which I'm never really excited
Speaker 4: about drafting Tyreek Hill, but you're always excited when he
Speaker 4: has those monster games. Yeah, I'm so good at this.
Speaker 4: But he has those down games at times too. But
Speaker 4: last year he got off to a ridiculous start. I
Speaker 4: think through the first like seven or eight weeks, he
Speaker 4: was definitely leading the league in receiving yards by like
Speaker 4: hundreds of yards. He had more receiving yards and like
Speaker 4: most teams through the first half of the season. But
Speaker 4: he really fell off towards the end of the year,
Speaker 4: only top to one hundred yards once in his last
Speaker 4: six games. Still finished second in receiving yards. Jalen Waddle
Speaker 4: obviously a threat to steal some targets. We hope to
Speaker 4: stays healthy all year, But Tyreek Hill he'll give you
Speaker 4: dud we with sobil every player. He's a guy you
Speaker 4: just you start him every week, regardless of matchup, and
Speaker 4: he'll give you plenty of spike weeks as for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Absolutely, at pick ten, I went with AJ Brown.
Speaker 3: He's a guy like a little bit more than Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 3: just because it seems like AJ Brown tends to put
Speaker 3: up just solid numbers every week and you don't have
Speaker 3: to worry about too many just absolute bummers of a week.
Speaker 3: He did have one. He had two games last season
Speaker 3: in the fantasy season where he didn't get double digit
Speaker 3: PPR Fantasy points just too.
Speaker 4: So.
Speaker 3: I think that the reliability of AJ Brown, combined with
Speaker 3: the upside of being in that offense, I think it's
Speaker 3: it's a pretty great guy to grab at the back
Speaker 3: end of the first round and have one of your
Speaker 3: wide receivers really locked up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I agree, and in rejer even if you're in
Speaker 4: standard leagues and not best Ball. I remember I had
Speaker 4: Jalen Hurts, AJ Brown, and Tay Smith all on one
Speaker 4: team and I didn't mind. I started them every week
Speaker 4: and I was just fine. So but we had taken
Speaker 4: a J. Brown late in the first definitely opens the
Speaker 4: door to pair him up with Hurts coming back in
Speaker 4: the second round. Yeah. Absolutely, always fun. Are we at
Speaker 4: eleventh overall pick?
Speaker 3: Yeah? All right, this was the one guy that you
Speaker 3: picked and I was like, damn it. I thought I
Speaker 3: was gonna get him over the turn.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I saw during the regular season last year you
Speaker 4: said he was gonna be your wide receiver one regardless.
Speaker 3: I don't know if I said regardless, but I did
Speaker 3: make that bold claim.
Speaker 4: He was definitely a slam dunk second round pick. But
Speaker 4: now he's creeping into the first round range with the
Speaker 4: suspension of teammate Jamison Williams.
Speaker 3: We should probably mention the player name.
Speaker 4: I'm just building it up and Williams teammate wide receiver
Speaker 4: of I'm on Ross, ain't Brown. Here we go. I'm
Speaker 4: the Detroit Lions. As we all know, sung God, but yeh,
Speaker 4: Jamison Williams missing the first six games is huge, and
Speaker 4: so God was is gonna have a fine season anyway,
Speaker 4: especially in PPR. But now with Williams out for the
Speaker 4: first six games, You've got why am I blanking on
Speaker 4: receiver that is back in Marvin Jones, Marvin Jones and
Speaker 4: o'ler Jones, and you know that's really it. DJ Shark
Speaker 4: is gone. They did draft Jamir Gibbs, who's a running back,
Speaker 4: was going to play a lot of receiver. Sam laporta
Speaker 4: kind of a flashy tight end. But a'mnross Saint brown
Speaker 4: especially with Jameson Williams out looking ten targets a game minimum,
Speaker 4: and when Williams comes back that probably just just opens up,
Speaker 4: you know, more space for for Amanra. With Jared Goff,
Speaker 4: he was like dead last and average depth of target
Speaker 4: last year. Amns Saint Browns is gonna catching balls left
Speaker 4: and right, gonna be a PPR monster.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, last pick of the first round, I went with
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes, and I think you and I a quarterback
Speaker 3: slip to the twelfth pick in the first round. I
Speaker 3: get the feeling that we're going to see Mahomes, Allen,
Speaker 3: and Hurts go in first rounds of drafts. In most drafts,
Speaker 3: I think this fall, what do you think? Super flex?
Speaker 3: Absolutely for sure? But in single QB league, Yeah.
Speaker 4: In one quarterback league, they're gonna they're gonna push first
Speaker 4: round territory. I've seen some go in the first round
Speaker 4: on underdog. Again, that's half point PPR, which you know
Speaker 4: dings wide receivers just slightly enough to move the qbs
Speaker 4: into Round one. But even in full PPR, can't fault
Speaker 4: anyone for taking one of the big three quarterbacks. They were,
Speaker 4: you know, consistently, they were constant on every team you
Speaker 4: saw winning their leagues last year. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean
Speaker 4: Jalen Hurts got hurt. I mean I'm still not over that.
Speaker 4: I was Jalen Hurts on like every team.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that hurt bad. I had a championship roster that
Speaker 3: missed out on his playoff week and it killed me.
Speaker 4: Yeah it was against the Cowboys and Minshew had like
Speaker 4: four touchdowns. Jalen Hurts would have just obliterated these fools.
Speaker 4: But but yeah, Hurts mahomes Alan, if we were I
Speaker 4: think we're not. We've gone long enough on this. But
Speaker 4: you'll see, like that you checked a watch that I've
Speaker 4: been worn a watch since like fifth grade.
Speaker 3: You're still looking at your wrist. I'll be like.
Speaker 4: I don't know's it's like a tick on something that's
Speaker 4: not ticking on my wrist. But yeah, yeah, you'll see
Speaker 4: you took Mahomes twelfth overall. Yeah, you'll see. You'll see
Speaker 4: Alan and Hurts not go much further past the middle
Speaker 4: of the second round.
Speaker 3: All right, So we won't go into the second round
Speaker 3: because we've gone a little long. But let's talk really
Speaker 3: quick before we go about the top tier. How many
Speaker 3: do you think are in the top tier of the
Speaker 3: quarterback position?
Speaker 4: Well? Three, yeah, well I'll still hold it three. But
Speaker 4: L Jacks is back, baby, yeah, Lamar Jackson. If you
Speaker 4: bought the dip on him, he was going after justin fields,
Speaker 4: you know, in like in one quarterback leagues. But talking
Speaker 4: late third, early fourth, now that we know he's going
Speaker 4: to be playing for Baltimore under a new offensive coordinator,
Speaker 4: Todd Munkin, who's very past friendly and not Art, not
Speaker 4: Art Monkin. Yeah you heard that one though. Yeah, that
Speaker 4: was a great Freudian slip, one of my all timers.
Speaker 4: But yeah, Todd Mounkin, Odell Beckham. Granted, we'll see where
Speaker 4: he's at, uh physically and mentally, but they drafted z Flowers,
Speaker 4: Shot Bateman could be healthy course, and so L Jacks
Speaker 4: is pushing that top tier. But it's still in any order. Really,
Speaker 4: I can't fault you. It's Alan Hurts, all right.
Speaker 3: How many are in your top tier of running backs?
Speaker 4: I think we drafted him in the first round in McCaffrey, Jean, Ekler,
Speaker 4: jt Of course, Sakuon Barkley is still right there. But uh,
Speaker 4: that's it. That's that's the top five for me, and
Speaker 4: then shortly after that you'll see Tony Pollard. Yeah, I
Speaker 4: think Chubb, Jacobs, Henry. It's kind of gets muddled after
Speaker 4: that top five.
Speaker 3: I think it's a two man top tier for me,
Speaker 3: with a three or four man second tier. I think
Speaker 3: it's CMC and Bijon as the top tier for me,
Speaker 3: Ekler Taylor, Yeah, Barkley, how about Uh?
Speaker 4: I like Barkley because it's his contract year, last year
Speaker 4: of his contract, and I don't think the Giants are gonna.
Speaker 3: Be able to franchise him a second time or if.
Speaker 4: They're going to sign him long term, so they might
Speaker 4: just be like time to run away with You know,
Speaker 4: he was this contract year last year too, so it's true.
Speaker 4: But yeah, they did not extend him long term, and
Speaker 4: he's getting up there in age for running back sadly
Speaker 4: already twenty six, twenty seven, So poor guy might get
Speaker 4: that that sweet, sweet Marco Murray treatment.
Speaker 3: How about the wide receiver position, where's your top tier end?
Speaker 3: Is it just Jefferson in Chase.
Speaker 4: Jefferson in Chase, but you know, cup Tyreek AJ Brown,
Speaker 4: i'mn ra has gotten in there, and I think you
Speaker 4: can even lump uh Stefan Diggs of course and Ceedee Lamb,
Speaker 4: Garrett Well, Devonte Adams.
Speaker 3: Second tier is let's put it that way.
Speaker 4: Definitely.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And then finally the tight end position is just
Speaker 3: Kel's for you.
Speaker 4: It's pretty much Kels, pretty much Kels. But we all
Speaker 4: you know Mark Andrews, he was looking Kelselake first quarter
Speaker 4: of the season last year. But a lot of competition
Speaker 4: for more competition for targets in Baltimore now, even though
Speaker 4: it'll be a more past friendly offense. But yeah, Andrews.
Speaker 3: As my number two tight A lot of people do.
Speaker 4: And then shortly after that, based on where you're at
Speaker 4: with Kyle Pitts who faith Yeah, I know I know
Speaker 4: where you stand. Yeah, but I'm curious. I think Darren
Speaker 4: Waller makes a He's going right the tight end eight
Speaker 4: right now. I think he's a guy that could get
Speaker 4: back in that top three.
Speaker 3: I can't believe he's going that late, considering all the
Speaker 3: hype that he was getting after that trade.
Speaker 4: People are just you know, they they just remember that
Speaker 4: he hasn't done much in the last two or three
Speaker 4: years and he gets hurt.
Speaker 3: So No, I and he's a guy who probably won't
Speaker 3: end up on any of my teams this year because
Speaker 3: I think somebody will like him two rounds more than
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 4: I think he will start getting drafted sooner than he
Speaker 4: has been going because people have to realize that he
Speaker 4: is the number one wide receiver on the Giants right now. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 4: It's a bunch of slot guys and Hodgens who I like,
Speaker 4: but they're gonna play Waller as their primary wide receiver.
Speaker 3: From the slot or an outside.
Speaker 4: No, there's too much. The Giants have like five slot
Speaker 4: wide receivers now. It's pretty such.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Wandale Robinson, a guy like quite a.
Speaker 4: Bit, Jalen Hyatt who they just drafted, Zerling Shepherd.
Speaker 3: You know he was in Crowder who maybe listeners don't
Speaker 3: know that we mispronounced Travis Kelcey as Kelse because of
Speaker 3: my Fantasy league's shouty. Who would shout out the draft
Speaker 3: picks and CALLI, yeah, Travis kelce She was like, Travis
Speaker 3: kelce Hey.
Speaker 4: But he said that's how it's pronounced himself, but no
Speaker 4: one says it, so I think he just gave up
Speaker 4: on it. Oh really, I don't know. I don't I
Speaker 4: never watched like the podcast with him and his brother.
Speaker 4: I've seen like snippets of it, but I'm pretty sure
Speaker 4: they call themselves Kelsey.
Speaker 3: Do they wear crazy hats and sing beastie boys?
Speaker 4: Probably. I'm getting getting little tired of Travis Kelcey, to
Speaker 4: be honest with you. I still love him in fantasy football,
Speaker 4: but he's been a little too much on the TV.
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