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Speaker 1: Paul church In my co host this week. Very happy
Speaker 1: to have both of my typical co host in one
Speaker 1: place at one time. That's Brian Johnson and Matt Harrison. Hello, guys, Hi,
Speaker 1: should we should mention Scott Fish? Who's I know, we
Speaker 1: just haven't had scotten two months months, but he's super
Speaker 1: busy with what's doing X right now? That's gonna be
Speaker 1: pretty big deal. He's Scott Fish bowling right now. I
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Speaker 1: today he's in the Scottish Bowl to have a team. Yeah. So,
Speaker 1: is uh the the guy from that thing you do
Speaker 1: that movie that was a long time ago and I
Speaker 1: don't know which that is? No, that guy Hanks? Is
Speaker 1: he still in quarantine? By the way? He did? Uh,
Speaker 1: he's good, he did it is fine. He came home
Speaker 1: after Australia. He did like an SNL from his living room,
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Speaker 1: The next four shows are going to be everything you
Speaker 1: need to know about two of the divisions, each of
Speaker 1: the teams, and two the divisions of the NFL. We're
Speaker 1: going to do the a f C East from the
Speaker 1: NFC East this week. That means we're going to analyze
Speaker 1: how this offense operates and then identify the riskiest downside
Speaker 1: players to draft based on their average draft position. Who's
Speaker 1: got the who's got the possibility moving of actually finishing
Speaker 1: the lowest compared to their ADP, and who has the
Speaker 1: most upside compared to their ADP. Who's the guy who's
Speaker 1: going at a moderate level right now or a low
Speaker 1: level right now, but has the chance to have the
Speaker 1: most upside. So we'll answer those questions for all eight
Speaker 1: of the teams and the a f C East and
Speaker 1: the NFC East. It's kind of quick fire on these guys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we begin in the a f C East and we
Speaker 1: begin with Brian and his new and I think most
Speaker 1: passionate team, the Buffalo Bills. Yeah, the Bills are gonna
Speaker 1: be a ton of fun. We kind of touched on
Speaker 1: some key members last week. Go through them again real quick.
Speaker 1: Stephen Diggs, the big free agent offseason acquisition wide receiver
Speaker 1: of course. Uh, rookies coming in. Zack Moss, running back
Speaker 1: drafted in the third round. Uh. Some wide receivers we
Speaker 1: won't mention. Gabriel Davis and Isaiah Hodges. Um you just mentioned,
Speaker 1: you just mentioned mentioning him, actually typed out their names.
Speaker 1: So I decided to mention them. You're the first person
Speaker 1: outside of the Buffalo media guys that's actually typed their names. Okay.
Speaker 1: Who I won't mention is the quarterback from Georgia the rookie.
Speaker 1: Won't mention that dude anyway. Uh, kicker talk. They drafted
Speaker 1: a kicker Buffalo, the kicker league. So sixth round pick
Speaker 1: Tyler Bass out of Georgia Southern. But always thought about
Speaker 1: the running backs. Steven Singletary, Zack Moss. Devin Singletary is
Speaker 1: going in the fourth round. He is your biggest downside
Speaker 1: risk by far. Only three carries inside the ten yard
Speaker 1: line last year eighteen for Frank Gore, eleven for Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: That brings us to Zack Moss, Who's ADP. We were
Speaker 1: all were we were gushing over him last week. He's
Speaker 1: already gone up two rounds since then. So the time
Speaker 1: is now to buy Zack Moss, who's going now in
Speaker 1: the thirteenth round around the hundred and six overall pick.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get all of Frank Um, all the Frank
Speaker 1: Gore touches inside the red zone eight. If you just
Speaker 1: all I need listen, I don't even care if Zack
Speaker 1: Moss doesn't get another carry. If he gets eighteen carries
Speaker 1: this year and they're all inside the five, he could
Speaker 1: be sitting on a ten touchdown season. I don't even
Speaker 1: need him to get another carry out of this season.
Speaker 1: And again he's been heralded as a five pound back.
Speaker 1: He will trucks. That's usually a pretty easy tackles. That's
Speaker 1: lighter than my dog. My bad on around, you run through,
Speaker 1: you make you miss, catch the ball, pass protect um,
Speaker 1: blow away in the way he's gonna Yeah, well he's
Speaker 1: gonna prot some wait before the season start. It's probably
Speaker 1: about two pounds a little twound short there, But Zack
Speaker 1: Moss your highest upside guy for sure. Eve been Stefon Diggs,
Speaker 1: John Brown. It's gonna be an exciting offense in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: It is could be exciting. I could go on and on,
Speaker 1: but yeah, Josh Allen of course not very accurate, but
Speaker 1: mobile threat. But and the big arm, I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: and he's got two receivers that can get down field.
Speaker 1: And so I think you're gonna have a lot. I
Speaker 1: think you're gonna have a lot of deep passing to
Speaker 1: impart set up the running game between those between Singletary
Speaker 1: and just hope Allen can be accurate, because this deep
Speaker 1: pass accuracy is terrible. Diggs will help improve on those numbers.
Speaker 1: I feel. Yeah, if there's anybody who's just the character
Speaker 1: is just perfect running and catching the football, Okay, alright,
Speaker 1: um yeah. The one downside for Buffalo from a fantasy
Speaker 1: football perspective of is the defense is pretty good. It's
Speaker 1: too bad they don't have an awful defense, because then
Speaker 1: they'd just be lightened up the scoreboard, Like I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna try to score anyway. They will, but they
Speaker 1: won't they won't necessarily be meeting points that they have
Speaker 1: in the past when they couldn't score any all Right,
Speaker 1: So the riskiest player to draft is Devin Singletary. The
Speaker 1: players got the most upside, yeah, Zack Moss and I'm ercent.
Speaker 1: Don't touch Devon Singletary basically is my recommendation. I traded
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary in an Empire League to our friend Ryan
Speaker 1: Boser not too long ago for Keenan Allen. Straight up, Wow,
Speaker 1: did I get a good deal? Did I get a
Speaker 1: bad deal? Because I had a little bit of regret
Speaker 1: letting go of Devin Singletary. This was prior to the draft, though.
Speaker 1: I just don't like. I don't like Keenan Allen. I
Speaker 1: can't even tell you his quarterback is gonna be, So
Speaker 1: I don't love that deal. Miami, Matt, let's go there.
Speaker 1: Tell us about them, the new look Miami offense. So
Speaker 1: they had a lot of additions this offseason. UM, and
Speaker 1: that's good because UM A lot of it stems from
Speaker 1: the offensive line being Pro Football focuses thirty second ranked
Speaker 1: out of thirty two offensive lines in the league. So
Speaker 1: they addressed that with Eric Flowers, Austin Jackson at the
Speaker 1: eighteen pick and Robert Hunt at the thirty ninth pick.
Speaker 1: So U two guys in the top thirty nine and
Speaker 1: then Eric Flowers, he's upgrade on nobody, nobody, No, he's awful?
Speaker 1: Is he? An upgrade on JaMarcus Webb, who left. Maybe maybe,
Speaker 1: but not like you can't know, because at best you
Speaker 1: could be a lateral move from awful to awful. Maybe
Speaker 1: The only thing Eric Flower is gonna address is an
Speaker 1: envelope if she wanted to. You know, they don't even
Speaker 1: let him have an email address. Erech email h Jordan
Speaker 1: Howard Matt Brita joined the team as running backs and
Speaker 1: to a tag of Viola looa. I'm never going to
Speaker 1: get that name perfectly correct hashtag to uh who was
Speaker 1: picked with the fifth pick. So the thing about the
Speaker 1: Miami offense is a dps are so low on every player.
Speaker 1: There's not really a guy with that much risk. The
Speaker 1: highest player in a DP according to Fantasy Pros Consensus
Speaker 1: ADP is DeVante Parker, who's going at sixty two, so
Speaker 1: you don't have to take him to the sixth round, right,
Speaker 1: and he was. He was a top ten fantasy wide
Speaker 1: receiver last year in the second half, and he was.
Speaker 1: He had seventy two catches for over yards and nine
Speaker 1: touchdowns last season. Basically is the only option. From November on.
Speaker 1: Preston Williams tours a c L In November, the Dolphins
Speaker 1: are hopeful that he returns by week one, but there's
Speaker 1: not guarantee there. So while DeVante Parker is just the
Speaker 1: highest on the board, I think that's what makes him
Speaker 1: the riskiest. But there's not really that much risk this guy. Um.
Speaker 1: The biggest upside I think is the combination of both
Speaker 1: of the quarterbacks. Um, you got to a who's going
Speaker 1: at quarterback right now and Ryan Fitzpatrick going at quarterback
Speaker 1: twenty nine and they're basically going in like the eighteenth
Speaker 1: round of redraft leagues right now. So what about a
Speaker 1: handcuff situation where you've got both quarterbacks. We saw Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: be a very serviceaball uh fantasy quarterback last year. And
Speaker 1: they're always behind it, they're always passing. Well, that's that's
Speaker 1: the thing. Is Stupird through the ball thirty five or
Speaker 1: more times in nine of his last eleven games, had
Speaker 1: seven games of over two seventy five yards in that span.
Speaker 1: Six of those games had multiple touchdowns. Baby, He's single
Speaker 1: handedly ruined the Dolphins tank for two US and they
Speaker 1: still got Yeah, thank you watching. So, especially if you're
Speaker 1: in a best ball league, I really like the idea
Speaker 1: of getting to h and Fitzpatrick both in the same thing.
Speaker 1: The whole team. I mean, you get Parker cheap, and
Speaker 1: then you you handcuff Preston Williams to him in Best
Speaker 1: Ball that you can get Howard and bred it cheap.
Speaker 1: I love the whole team in best Ball, you can
Speaker 1: get them. Dolphins are a there a fantastic do the
Speaker 1: opposite team for their running back? Um, yeah, Matt Brita
Speaker 1: is going above Jordan Howard, right, get that. I don't
Speaker 1: understand that at all. Howard scored six times on the
Speaker 1: ground in only ten games. Last steer for the Eagles
Speaker 1: had nine touchdowns in the previous two years. Matt Britas
Speaker 1: scored six times on the ground in his career, So
Speaker 1: the touchdowns are gonna go to Howard. It's this he's
Speaker 1: the fastest running back thing that that keeps popping up
Speaker 1: like he's the fastest clocked running back last year, so
Speaker 1: everyone's always like, okay, Yeah. The other guy that's kind
Speaker 1: of interesting is Mike GASSICKI I've seen him go up
Speaker 1: quite a bit in UH and and in our auctions
Speaker 1: and stuff. A lot of interest in him. UH. In
Speaker 1: five of his last six games he was targeted seven
Speaker 1: times or more and scored all five of his touchdowns
Speaker 1: from week twelve on. So people are really excited about
Speaker 1: Mike Gassicki coming in on his third year, finally figuring
Speaker 1: out the offense and getting ready to be that next
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews kind of guy. When you, Matt, divvied up
Speaker 1: the teams that we'd each be talking to talking about.
Speaker 1: You gave me the team that ranked thirty first in
Speaker 1: in total yard thirty feet and points per game and
Speaker 1: dead lack in total yards per game. And then the
Speaker 1: other team you gave me ranked dead last in points
Speaker 1: per game and thirty one in total yards per I
Speaker 1: wanted to make it easier. Thank you for giving me
Speaker 1: the Jets and the Redskins. Okay, so let's let's talk
Speaker 1: Jets first. This is a completely retooled offensive line in
Speaker 1: wide receivers, potentially five new starters from last year's offensive line,
Speaker 1: five new which ranked and pass blocking and and run
Speaker 1: blacking last last year. They spent a first round pick
Speaker 1: on Mackay peck Beckton from Louisville, and then center Connor
Speaker 1: McGovern was signed from Denver. Right tackle is going to
Speaker 1: be a battle between two different guys, including George Fan
Speaker 1: from Seattle Greg Van Roten was also added. He could
Speaker 1: push Brian Winters at right guards so effectively they will
Speaker 1: have no less than three new starters on the offensive
Speaker 1: line for the Jets, and up to five. Now that
Speaker 1: means it's going to take time to gel that offensive line,
Speaker 1: even if even if there's a talent upgrade. And by
Speaker 1: the we don't even know that. Most of these guys
Speaker 1: aren't aren't proven, and aren't good. We don't even know
Speaker 1: if there really is a talent upgrade. But if it
Speaker 1: does come, it's going to any time to gel. That
Speaker 1: worries me about this, plenty of time in training camp
Speaker 1: O crap. Both outside receivers are new this year, Breshad
Speaker 1: Perriman and Denzel Mims. Both guys are cut from the
Speaker 1: same cloth. They run fast, they run straight, and they
Speaker 1: don't do a lot else. Pairman's games developed a little
Speaker 1: bit over the years, but Mims was used almost entirely
Speaker 1: as a run straight, go route vertical receiver last year Baylor,
Speaker 1: and that will probably be the case here. So they
Speaker 1: are going to be It's all about the deep speed
Speaker 1: on the outside receivers. So how does this whole Jets
Speaker 1: offense function well with Perriman and Mims looking for these
Speaker 1: deep balls. The question is can Sam Donald deliver these
Speaker 1: deep balls, because that's what these receivers want to do.
Speaker 1: Last year he was brutal as a deep ball passer.
Speaker 1: He completed He threw fifty one deep balls. Of the
Speaker 1: fifty one he completed fifteen. He's just gotta stop smooching
Speaker 1: with everybody is smooching with my sister. His deep ball
Speaker 1: passer rating was seventy five, which put him behind Eli
Speaker 1: Manning is on deep ball passes for for Sam Donald,
Speaker 1: he was behind Eli Manning, Mason Rudolph and wait, wrong
Speaker 1: one nothing not trump bone, Oh the duck, the duck
Speaker 1: behind It wasn't it could have been, It could have
Speaker 1: been worse. Many apologies, Stephane Hodges. Or it was, in
Speaker 1: fact Duck Hodges a better deep ball passer and Mason
Speaker 1: ro Rudolph. By the way, Duck Hodges, Eli Manning and
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph all benched at various times last year, and
Speaker 1: they were all a better deep ball passer than Sam Donald.
Speaker 1: Now I'd like to say that Donald's deep ball is
Speaker 1: gonna get better this year, and his arm string is
Speaker 1: good enough to do it. But this offensive line might
Speaker 1: not give him the chance, so it might not matter.
Speaker 1: Jets called the seventh fewest runs last year, which also
Speaker 1: tells me that they like to get a passing game going. Um,
Speaker 1: but I don't know that they can. I don't know
Speaker 1: that they can do it. Levy On Bell figures to
Speaker 1: get the majority of the work. But they added depth
Speaker 1: that they did not have last year. They added Frank Gore,
Speaker 1: they added Lea Michael p Ryan in the fourth round,
Speaker 1: and I think if you look back through Adam Gaze
Speaker 1: his career, he's been more of a running back by
Speaker 1: committee guy. Last year they said, have anybody else to
Speaker 1: carry the ball, so they gave levy On Bell the
Speaker 1: vast majority of the carries. Last year, the Jets ran
Speaker 1: for the league's worst yards per carry as a team,
Speaker 1: three point three. That's it. There's nothing to like here, really,
Speaker 1: So who's the riskiest Jet by a DP? Even after
Speaker 1: last year's brutal season, Levian Bell is still going off
Speaker 1: the board at pick forty one. That's still too high.
Speaker 1: He's he's a year older, he's got far more competition
Speaker 1: for carries this year, and his rebuilt offensive line starting
Speaker 1: from ground zero, he can still go down from pick
Speaker 1: forty one. The biggest upside guy I believe is Denzel Mims,
Speaker 1: whose average draft position is pick number four. He's seventy
Speaker 1: first wide receiver going off the board, and that makes
Speaker 1: Denzel Mims almost free. When we'll take a break. When
Speaker 1: we come back, let's talk about the new look New
Speaker 1: England Patriots. Now obviously without Tom Brady. What can we
Speaker 1: expect from that offense? And it's it's been twenty plus
Speaker 1: years since we've had to talk about a really different
Speaker 1: looking Patriots offense. We'll find out about that when we
Speaker 1: return to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back to Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: Paul Charchi and Matt Harrison, Brian Johnson with you, were
Speaker 1: breaking down eight different teams fantasy style in quick action
Speaker 1: and identifying the one player who has the riskiest downside
Speaker 1: and the one player in each team that has the
Speaker 1: most upside. We shift now to the new England Patriots
Speaker 1: way for reason to believe there'll be a change of quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm more interested in the change of kicker. Stephens no
Speaker 1: longer kicking, foot punching for the Patriots. After fourteen years
Speaker 1: they to draft did a kicker. I'm looking at the
Speaker 1: Pills and the Patriots. I'm like, what do you drafting kickers?
Speaker 1: So justin Roar Vasser out of Marshall. Okay, if you're
Speaker 1: in a kicker league you like Patriots kickers, that's your guy.
Speaker 1: Um in the draft of Patriots also drafted two tight ends,
Speaker 1: Devin Asiasi and Dalton Keene. I'm starting at the tight
Speaker 1: end position. They'll compete with Matt Lacosse. I don't advocate
Speaker 1: drafting any of these guys and redraft, so we'll move
Speaker 1: on to another guy that I'm not going to advocate
Speaker 1: drafted and redraft, and that's the quarterback now, Jared stid Him,
Speaker 1: who Fantasy Pros has as quarterback thirty one right now,
Speaker 1: basically to Rod Taylor is the only starting quarterback getting drafted.
Speaker 1: You who wouldn't rather have Taylor is Chris Simms. Have
Speaker 1: you heard this? No, Chris Simms says Stidham is better
Speaker 1: than Tuah already, you'd rather have Jared Stidham, whatever, moving forward, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jared stid Him. In his four career pass attempts to completions,
Speaker 1: one was an interception. Granted it was Jamal Adam is
Speaker 1: the best safety in the NFL in my opinion, but um,
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of tape on Stidham, of course,
Speaker 1: just four career pass attempts. His preseason was overwhelmingly positive though. Uh.
Speaker 1: In yards for attempt he was tied for tenth quarterback
Speaker 1: rating tied for twelve. There's similar statistics that are kind
Speaker 1: of impressive, but it's preseasons, so we're not gonna glue
Speaker 1: too much for that. I'm there's certainly risk and reward here,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to mess with Stidham. We're not
Speaker 1: going to draft him. Moving on to the running backs
Speaker 1: a position from New England right always said don't draft
Speaker 1: any of these guys, and I continue to do that. Uh.
Speaker 1: Sony Michelle is outside of Julian Edmond Edelman, who will
Speaker 1: get to is the highest UH has ADP on New England. Uh,
Speaker 1: they might have higher a DPS in the Jets. This
Speaker 1: team is looking so brutal on paper. Uh. He's going
Speaker 1: in the seventh round, James White and late ninth James
Speaker 1: White only viable and PPR over ninety targets over the
Speaker 1: last two years. Julian Edelman in the late seventh. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's gonna fall off a cliff per se,
Speaker 1: that's coming, though it may not be this year, it's
Speaker 1: next year. He doesn't have your biggest downside yet he's
Speaker 1: your safest player. But there's no ceiling. No you don't.
Speaker 1: The upside isn't there? That he that he had under Brady.
Speaker 1: But he still probably catches a bunch of balls. He
Speaker 1: probably does, but a man with age, No, Tom Brady
Speaker 1: does have an injury history. I'm out on him entirely.
Speaker 1: Probably a year early, but it's better to be a
Speaker 1: year early than a year late in this regard. So
Speaker 1: that brings me to the end. Kill Harry by far
Speaker 1: the highest upside of anyone on New England going in
Speaker 1: the twelfth round. Right now, overall player wide receiver fifty five.
Speaker 1: People are acting like Harry is old and washed up.
Speaker 1: Treat like a decrepit injury injury riddled. I mean his
Speaker 1: name is Harry, so he old, washed up, Hary, Harold
Speaker 1: he he uh Granted, Harry graded out is a better
Speaker 1: rusher receiver by Pro Football Focus last year forty yards
Speaker 1: on five carries, so he's a pretty good ball uh
Speaker 1: ball carry. But again it was the last season due
Speaker 1: to injury. Only twenty three targets. I like Harry. I
Speaker 1: think Harry is gonna outscore every single rookie wide receiver
Speaker 1: this year. How's that for a call? Yes, he kill
Speaker 1: Harry is gonna outscore every Harry Judy can outscore Ceedee Lamb.
Speaker 1: And there's this can only really be a gut feeling.
Speaker 1: But he has all the intangibles. He's one year in
Speaker 1: and let on that Fie upside by far is in Kiel.
Speaker 1: Harry is going to get a shot as the number
Speaker 1: one wide receiver. Julian Edelman is not that never was,
Speaker 1: so I believe you with that. But this, Yeah, the
Speaker 1: notion that he's gonna outscore the best wide receiver crop
Speaker 1: of in our memory is absurd, coming in with no
Speaker 1: mini camp, a shortened preseason. Don't care. I cannot wait
Speaker 1: to be ready. That's the a f C East. Let's
Speaker 1: shift over to the NFC East. Matt. You've got the
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. This is quite quite a difference from most
Speaker 1: of the offenses we've just been talking about. Man, I
Speaker 1: think you know I want every Cowboy. Basically, should I
Speaker 1: have given you the Cowboys to talk about a Jets
Speaker 1: and the Red Sky They added Ceedee Lamb of course
Speaker 1: in the first round of the draft. Andy Dalton is
Speaker 1: the backup quarterback. Cameron Irving joins the old line, and
Speaker 1: uh Legatron Greg's urline joins that team. Uh. Not that
Speaker 1: we talked about kickers very much, but he's currently going
Speaker 1: off the board is the third kicker right now. So
Speaker 1: high powered offense and a good way. Uh. They lost
Speaker 1: Tavon Austin Randall, Cob Jason Witten. Now let's put lost
Speaker 1: in air quotes for those three. Can we just lose
Speaker 1: von Austin forever? That dudes made like a hundred million
Speaker 1: dollars in his career. Eighth overall pick um. They did
Speaker 1: lose Cameron Fleming from the offensive line and Travis Frederick retired. Um,
Speaker 1: and that was from Pro Football focuses number four offensive
Speaker 1: line last year. So uh, they got they got a
Speaker 1: little bit of a churn on the old line there. Um.
Speaker 1: As far as the riskiest player, I think you gotta
Speaker 1: go right to the top, and you guys really have
Speaker 1: covered it over the last two weeks. Ezekiel Elliott, who
Speaker 1: by Fantasy Pros consensus ADPs going off the board at
Speaker 1: number four right now, which is surprisingly behind Dalvin Cook.
Speaker 1: I feel like Zeke is going three in most of
Speaker 1: the league's I see. But the fact that he's going
Speaker 1: in the top three means there's just not that much upside.
Speaker 1: Um and and and the two of you guys have
Speaker 1: been spouting the virtues of Tommy Pollard for quite a
Speaker 1: while now, so a little about a year or two
Speaker 1: early on the Tony Pollard. Um. Yeah, so I I
Speaker 1: think that's your riskiest guy right there. Um, You're safest,
Speaker 1: but not safest players probably Dek Prescott because of the offense.
Speaker 1: It's gonna gonna be a part of anything. You don't
Speaker 1: want to worry about which of his capable electrifying receivers
Speaker 1: is going to catch the ball. Absolutely, they just take that.
Speaker 1: Prescott have to sweat trying to figure out which receivers,
Speaker 1: which Dal's receivers can the big The not safest part
Speaker 1: is what if he holds out and then Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: starting a couple of games at the beginning of the year.
Speaker 1: But Dak did put up yards and thirty touchdowns through
Speaker 1: the air last year, had two seventy seven yards on
Speaker 1: the ground and three touchdowns, and that was his worst
Speaker 1: rushing year. He's had six touchdowns on the ground in
Speaker 1: every other year and at least three hundred yards, So
Speaker 1: uh DA's pretty safe. Although I do want to give
Speaker 1: a special mention to Michael Gallup. He's going a little
Speaker 1: bit too high in ADP right now. He's sixty five
Speaker 1: off the board and wide receiver thirty. But he finished
Speaker 1: his wide receiver nineteen. Last year he had eleven hundred
Speaker 1: yards and six scores on sixty six catches. Now, granted,
Speaker 1: there's some open targets now that Cobb has gone, Witton
Speaker 1: has gone. Sure, Lamb is better than probably be better
Speaker 1: than Gallop overall, uh as as we go down the road.
Speaker 1: But I'm not gonna quite give up on Michael Gallup yet.
Speaker 1: You're getting a guy who's in a great offense. He's
Speaker 1: got wide receiver to potential, and and he's just sitting there,
Speaker 1: and I think that his ADP is going to continuously
Speaker 1: be pushed down as we go through this offseason. So
Speaker 1: keep an eye on Gallup if he's there in the
Speaker 1: seventh or eighth round. He's a guy that I'm probably
Speaker 1: investing in. Whoa, whoa, whoa, You're not done yet? What
Speaker 1: why aren't we talking come for you? Next? Next? Let's go,
Speaker 1: let's go to the Blake Jarwin desk, Brian, why you
Speaker 1: love Blake Jarwin? I can't. Dan Arnold might be listening,
Speaker 1: maybe next to me. All right, well, no, I mean
Speaker 1: Blake Jarwin basically off the top of my head. You
Speaker 1: take out Jason Witten last year and you give all
Speaker 1: those snaps targets to Blake Jarwin, and he Jason Witten
Speaker 1: was inside the top ten with Blake Jordan Blake Jarwin
Speaker 1: eating into his work. So it's uh. Of course, the
Speaker 1: addition of Ceedee Lamb is not ideal for any of
Speaker 1: the past catchers, but Blake Jarwin should not leave your
Speaker 1: draft undrafted. All They signed Blake Jarwin to a shockingly
Speaker 1: big deal this past off season who's been mostly unproven,
Speaker 1: and it's because they know they've been developing Blake Darwin
Speaker 1: for several years now, and they know they've got a
Speaker 1: kid that is ready to take the next step and
Speaker 1: be a functional starter for They know he's quarterback proof.
Speaker 1: So if they have to go, let's go to Washington.
Speaker 1: This offense was dead last in points scored and they
Speaker 1: ranked thirty first in total yards. There's a new head coach,
Speaker 1: Ron Rivere's you know, first time offensive coordinator Scott Turner
Speaker 1: will be there. Every fantasy position is filled with deep
Speaker 1: question marks in Washington. Last year, Dwayne Haskins incredibly inaccurate
Speaker 1: fifty eight percent completion rate, which was amongst starting quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: And there's not only thirty two teams. Scott Turner is
Speaker 1: going to be challenged to devise an offense that works
Speaker 1: to Haskin's best skills. But I don't even know what
Speaker 1: those best skills are. You know, watching a lot of
Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins last year, I can't tell you, well, here
Speaker 1: are the things he does really really well? Do you
Speaker 1: want to go emphasize because most of what we saw
Speaker 1: last year was bad. But the final two games of
Speaker 1: last year for Dwayne Haskins, he completed seventy two of
Speaker 1: his passes, he threw for four yards, four touchdowns, and
Speaker 1: zero picks. He had those last two games were this
Speaker 1: glimmer of hope that we're strong enough to get Miami
Speaker 1: to pass on to a They could have had him,
Speaker 1: and they let him go. They apparently feel like he's
Speaker 1: going to be good. Now. I'll mention this as well.
Speaker 1: It's another reason for optimism on Dwayne Haskins this offseason.
Speaker 1: He's been tweeting on Instagram all the time about all
Speaker 1: the workouts he's doing and all the work he's doing.
Speaker 1: I was hearing plenty of whispers from Washington that there
Speaker 1: was a problem with work ethic and dedication and mindset,
Speaker 1: and these could be signs of maturity for him that
Speaker 1: he's ready to that he's ready to take the next step.
Speaker 1: He's ready to dedicate himself fully to being the best
Speaker 1: quarterback he can be. And maybe that'll help a little bit. Now,
Speaker 1: if Haskins does get benched at some point because he's good,
Speaker 1: they've got Kyle Allen, who was capable last year and
Speaker 1: obviously knows the Scott Turner Ron Rivera system. So you
Speaker 1: know that is it would give them a transition that
Speaker 1: isn't a disaster like it would necessarily be, and maybe
Speaker 1: might be Kyle Allen's even better, say Washington or when
Speaker 1: Washington loses, sorry meant uh, the first three games for
Speaker 1: it's time to start tanking for Tyler Herbert at that
Speaker 1: point probably might see in Washington some other teams Tyler Lawrence. Yes. Sorry.
Speaker 1: If you google Dwayne Haskins, one of the first things
Speaker 1: that comes up is is Dwayne Haskins a good quarterback.
Speaker 1: That's all you need to know. And it's Trevor Lawrence right.
Speaker 1: I'm really it's too far ahead in the future for me.
Speaker 1: Haskins receivers are mostly unchanged. Terry McLaren was awesome last year,
Speaker 1: should have been offensive rookie of the Year, got completely jicked,
Speaker 1: lightly robbed, and I'm still better about it. Nine hundred
Speaker 1: yards and seven touchdowns despite getting one hoppers from case
Speaker 1: Keenum and Dwayne Haskins for most of the year. Those
Speaker 1: don't count as receptions. Church If if Terry mclauren we're
Speaker 1: playing in any other offense besides this one or my
Speaker 1: other team, the Jets, we'd be talking about. Terry mclaurin's
Speaker 1: upside is being like a top fifteen, top twelve wide
Speaker 1: receiver this year. I think it's still there, and it
Speaker 1: it's it's if everything goes perfectly that upside is there
Speaker 1: because McLaurin is that good day. The only other notable
Speaker 1: receiver rookie Antonio Gandy Golden will challenge Kelvin Harmon and
Speaker 1: Cody Latimer for time, but I don't think he's expected
Speaker 1: to make a quick impact here. Steven Sims and Trey
Speaker 1: Quinn are gonna battle for slot. Looks don't care. Garius
Speaker 1: Darius guys is gonna be your starter. Now, let's remind people, yeah,
Speaker 1: he is. He suffered the a c L, then he
Speaker 1: had a tournamentiscus, and then he had a sprained m
Speaker 1: c L. But when he's been on the field for
Speaker 1: these Glimmers, he's looked really, really good, So we assume
Speaker 1: that he's going to continue to be the starter. Adrian
Speaker 1: Peterson will get spot carries for sure, although I suspect
Speaker 1: the plan at the outset is going to be let's
Speaker 1: keep Adrian fresh with low carry, so at the end
Speaker 1: of the year, when geis is unlikely to be playing,
Speaker 1: we can go put Adrian Peterson in and then a
Speaker 1: lot of people interested in rookie and Tonio Gibson who's
Speaker 1: going to fill the past catching role vacated by Chris Thompson.
Speaker 1: Are either of you guys, Antonio Gibson, people, Sarah's I've
Speaker 1: seen a bunch of the Morales receiver, right, He's gonna
Speaker 1: be treated like a running back. The Raid writers, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be similar. They were talking about him and using
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey's name as a out of the Washington camp,
Speaker 1: but I can't imagine that happening. Offensive line for Washington
Speaker 1: have a couple of new starters and left tackle Garan
Speaker 1: Christian who takes over for Donald Penn, and left guard
Speaker 1: West Schweitzer replacing Eric Flowers, who we talked about earlier
Speaker 1: and he was brutal last year. So there's a little
Speaker 1: bit of churn on the on the offensive line, on
Speaker 1: the left side in particular. But Dwayne Askins doesn't need
Speaker 1: to you know, who needs the left side of your
Speaker 1: offensive line when you're a second year quarterback who struggled
Speaker 1: last year. So in summary with Washington, and it's probably
Speaker 1: too much time on this team. If Haskins takes a
Speaker 1: major leap forward, which is possible, and Darius Guys stays healthy,
Speaker 1: which I guess is possible, and Terry McLaurin improves a
Speaker 1: year two, which is almost certainly gonna happen, maybe the
Speaker 1: Redskins have a chance to be quasi competent on offense.
Speaker 1: But there's a ton of risk. The riskiest Redskin by
Speaker 1: ADP is Darius Guys going off as ADP of seventy four.
Speaker 1: The Redskin with the biggest upside is Terry McLaurin is
Speaker 1: not is going off the board at wide receiver thirty one.
Speaker 1: That's too low, that's too low. I believe he's got
Speaker 1: as we discussed earlier, things break right for him, he
Speaker 1: could be a top fifteen wide receiver. Let's take a break.
Speaker 1: When we come back our final two teams to break down,
Speaker 1: the New York Giants and the Philadelphia Eagles. I am
Speaker 1: of the belief that the Giants are going to take
Speaker 1: a big step forward this year. We'll see what Brian
Speaker 1: has to say about that when we come back to
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly. It's Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Charchie and
Speaker 1: Matt Harrison, Brian Johnson with you. We're breaking down on
Speaker 1: all of the East teams, the a f C East,
Speaker 1: the NFC East, looking at the holistically at the entire offenses,
Speaker 1: what's changed in the off season, offensive line changes, and
Speaker 1: were identifying the riskiest downside players to draft based on
Speaker 1: their average draft position and the players with the most
Speaker 1: upside based on their average draft position. We go to
Speaker 1: the New York Giants, a scorned lover for one. Brian Johnson, Well,
Speaker 1: I might be able to make my return after this
Speaker 1: season because there's no way Gettleman keeps his job after
Speaker 1: this year, especially after you see how bad. You see
Speaker 1: how bad this defense is going to be, which boats
Speaker 1: very well for the offense. So let's talk about them
Speaker 1: real quick. Some of my favorite sleepers across all of
Speaker 1: fantasy football right here on this team. Let's talk about him.
Speaker 1: First off, though, Joe Judge, new head coach for the Giants.
Speaker 1: Also new offensive coordinator, former New York Giants quarterback and
Speaker 1: former Dallas Cowboys head coach. Of course, Jason Garrett is
Speaker 1: a new offensive coordinator. Um. The Giants already awful offensive
Speaker 1: line lost Mike Remors to Denver, but the immediately that's
Speaker 1: that's addition by subtraction losing round. I don't know about
Speaker 1: for the Giants, maybe any other team, but they sunk
Speaker 1: major draft capital into Andrew Thomas the fourth draft of
Speaker 1: it and Matt Pert in the third round. Also signed
Speaker 1: Cameron Fleming. Is that a Pert plus shampoo humor there?
Speaker 1: So yeah, offensive line was one of the many issues
Speaker 1: pretty much the only issue on offense for them. There's
Speaker 1: been no major shake up at the skilled positions. You
Speaker 1: have Daniel Jones, s Kwan Barkley of course, Golden Tate,
Speaker 1: Darius Slayton Sterling Shepherd and wide receiver and Evan Ingram,
Speaker 1: a somewhat scary group of players who have never been
Speaker 1: on the field at the same have because Golden Tate
Speaker 1: and missed the first four. I made sure they never
Speaker 1: have played together in one single game, so hopefully they
Speaker 1: get to do that this year. Isn't that where I'm going?
Speaker 1: And I'm totally cutting you off here. I'm excited at it.
Speaker 1: This is why I like Daniel Jones so much, and
Speaker 1: I think he can use on the big the big
Speaker 1: second year breakout for Daniel Jones. I thought he looked
Speaker 1: good enough last year and showed a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of promise. I really liked the arm and for
Speaker 1: the first time he's gonna roll into a season with
Speaker 1: all of his receivers. It's really more about the Giants
Speaker 1: having an awful defense and they're gonna be chasing points
Speaker 1: and this is a very I'm not convinced Jones is
Speaker 1: the long term answer. I'm not saying he's a total bust.
Speaker 1: Of course, he looks like he has some some game,
Speaker 1: but yes, he is my highest upside player based on ADP.
Speaker 1: I mean, fan ah, He's going off in the mid
Speaker 1: tenth his quarterback fifteen right now is just surprise. It's
Speaker 1: that high. Actually, people are people are high on Jonesy.
Speaker 1: You know you had some monster games last year. But
Speaker 1: again it's again some bad teams say Kwon Barkley of course,
Speaker 1: could be your highest risk. We saw, we saw the
Speaker 1: his rookie year. We saw the ceiling last year, we
Speaker 1: pretty much saw the floor. Uh, even though he did
Speaker 1: finish it like a top ten running back but missed
Speaker 1: half the year due to injury. I will say the biggest,
Speaker 1: the scariest downside continues to be Evan Ingram, who right
Speaker 1: now is going on the seventh round is tight end seven.
Speaker 1: When he plays, he's he produces, but you just can't
Speaker 1: trust him to stay on the field. And in Jason
Speaker 1: Garrett super tight and friendly as an offensive coordinator. So
Speaker 1: if Ingram can stay healthy, I've said this for three
Speaker 1: straight years ago one and on a points three game basis.
Speaker 1: Now he's not gonna finish his tight end one he
Speaker 1: stays healthy as that pficial Now he doesn't. Why not?
Speaker 1: He has Travis Kelsey and George Kittle in him? Come on, man?
Speaker 1: Oh he does without? Yeah, when it comes to pass
Speaker 1: catching ability. I put him right there when he's healthy.
Speaker 1: But but he's your UM. I'm not going for Angram.
Speaker 1: I'm still I'm taking Dan Arnold in the last round.
Speaker 1: So you're risking his player to draft was you're risking
Speaker 1: this downside is every Ingram Daniel Jones. I'm going naked
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones. The fine names. You go quarterback and you
Speaker 1: don't invest in any other players, just you know you
Speaker 1: don't want to pair him with the wide receivers. Go
Speaker 1: naked Daniel Jones. He's got plenty of weapons and hopefully
Speaker 1: produces tastefully nude Jill Jones. Our final of eight teams
Speaker 1: that we're going to talk about from the a f
Speaker 1: C and NFC East is Philadelphia matt And this was
Speaker 1: an offense last year that was ravaged by injury. I
Speaker 1: think the overall value of all of the Eagles is very,
Speaker 1: very low right now. How do you see this offense
Speaker 1: coming together this season? Uh? The interesting part is the
Speaker 1: Eagles had Pro Football Focuses number one ranked offensive line
Speaker 1: last Yeah, how about that? They despite everything, they did
Speaker 1: lose Jason Peters though, and that's a pretty big subtraction
Speaker 1: right there. Uh. The other guys that they lost, not
Speaker 1: that big Josh McCown, Jordan Howard, Darren Sprowles, Nelson Agil
Speaker 1: or whatever they did add Jalen reagor uh in the
Speaker 1: first round of the draft, and uh, he's slotting in
Speaker 1: as one of the one of the two wide receivers
Speaker 1: that you should at least know about this year. Um So,
Speaker 1: the riskiest guy, probably the biggest upside and probably the
Speaker 1: biggest downside on the team is Miles Sanders, who, according
Speaker 1: to a DP is going off at number twenty two.
Speaker 1: Right now, I'm overall and I must be about running
Speaker 1: back that is going up. If you pay attention to
Speaker 1: what Fantasy Twitter is saying about Miles Sanders. By the
Speaker 1: time we're talking about this in August, Miles Sanders will
Speaker 1: be the first round or something that could be. Everyone's
Speaker 1: all over him. Seventeen touches are more in five of
Speaker 1: his last six games. In those six games, he averaged
Speaker 1: a hundred and five total yards and had four touchdowns
Speaker 1: in that span. So, I mean, there's something to love
Speaker 1: about seeing what happened in the last few games of
Speaker 1: the year, especially when Jordan Howard was out. Now Jordan
Speaker 1: Howard has gone yeah, he is. However, everybody was hurt
Speaker 1: last year except him. That mean the whole offense had
Speaker 1: to go through him by necessity. And we've seen this
Speaker 1: this offense in the past be very diverse with his
Speaker 1: usage of running back. So everybody was hurt, right, All
Speaker 1: the wide receivers were hurt. Award was their top wide
Speaker 1: receiver going into the playoffs. But yet Carson Wentz out
Speaker 1: of nowhere through the ball at least forty times in
Speaker 1: the last seven regular season games straight. He lost all
Speaker 1: of his wide receivers and they're like, yolo, let us
Speaker 1: throw the ball. So Carson Wentz is a really interesting
Speaker 1: guy and I think people are way down on him.
Speaker 1: He got injured injured in the playoffs. Again, He's not
Speaker 1: thrown a touchdown pass in only one game in three years. Wow,
Speaker 1: that's a great stat um. He's had exactly seven interceptions
Speaker 1: in each of the last three years. His his production
Speaker 1: almost exactly mirrors Matt Ryan. Like there, if you put
Speaker 1: their numbers side by side through their first four years,
Speaker 1: that's almost the same. So this is his fifth year,
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan had about four thousand yards, twenty seven touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and seven interceptions, just like Carson Wentz did last year
Speaker 1: excuse me? And did Ryan explode in year five yards
Speaker 1: and thirty two touchdowns. So I think that there's a
Speaker 1: big upside here on Carson Wentz. Everybody's down on him.
Speaker 1: This is this is you can you can really buy
Speaker 1: low right now. And Matt Ryan's like always had two
Speaker 1: good wide receivers going back to Roddy White and and
Speaker 1: his receivers. I mean, there's al Sean He's there, played
Speaker 1: only ten games last year eight or more targets and
Speaker 1: six of those, but Dallas Goddart and Zach Ertz are
Speaker 1: really his top receivers for sure's double digit targets in
Speaker 1: five of the last seven regular season games. Goddart had
Speaker 1: the same amount of touchdowns as George Kittle, Travis Kelsey,
Speaker 1: and Hunter Henry last year hit the same amount yeah
Speaker 1: of touchdowns touch The problem was the rest of the
Speaker 1: usage was very low. He also had six or more
Speaker 1: targets in every game from week eleven on a necessity
Speaker 1: and all that. That necessity is still there. But once
Speaker 1: they lost all their wide receivers, what did they do
Speaker 1: through the ball? It was it was kind of amazing.
Speaker 1: So maybe they've kind of figured something out with Wentz.
Speaker 1: If he comes back all healthy and he can stay healthy,
Speaker 1: I like him as a huge side play. What about
Speaker 1: Jalen Reagor? So is that now so is whence is
Speaker 1: your wence? Is your official with the most upside? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I think so. I mean Miles Sanders has the most
Speaker 1: upside and downside, but Wentz is the guy that you
Speaker 1: can get. That's the sleeper. Um. Jalen Reagor, I'm not
Speaker 1: really gonna go after Um. He's He's not going off
Speaker 1: the board very high. He's wide receiver sixty nine right.
Speaker 1: This is why I like him so much. Necessity, I
Speaker 1: think they have almost no choice but to get him
Speaker 1: the ball. They do get to Sean Jackson back, they
Speaker 1: have j j arthego white side, and look how that
Speaker 1: worked out for him. It's it's year two of don't care.
Speaker 1: He showed nothing last year when they desperately needed any
Speaker 1: warm body, a wide receiver. J j arthego white Side
Speaker 1: was still invisible. I have a feeling the Eagles are
Speaker 1: one of those offenses that just figures out, kind of
Speaker 1: like the Patriots did. They figure out the ways to win,
Speaker 1: and I think that their way to win is to
Speaker 1: play two tight ends into use Miles Sanders, So I
Speaker 1: think Carson Wentz is the guy shot Jeffrey goes down,
Speaker 1: which he will, or just stinks, which is something that
Speaker 1: he does a lot, and that's where Jalen Reagor's can.
Speaker 1: I think Jalen Reagors have a big impact for this
Speaker 1: year first round pick, and I don't trust Jeffrey to
Speaker 1: stay healthy and not stink. And they have to throw
Speaker 1: a wide receiver eventually. You can't just throw the tight
Speaker 1: ends all the time. I think Jalen Reagor is a
Speaker 1: nice by. I would make a dollar wager with you
Speaker 1: that uh, a running back has more targets than Jalen
Speaker 1: Reagor this year. Sanders is also really good pass catching back,
Speaker 1: and so it's Boston Scott so so that that's the
Speaker 1: problem is I think that both of those guys are
Speaker 1: in play. Has passed. I want to I want to
Speaker 1: take bets with Brian, not Matt. Brian is the one
Speaker 1: who's giving away money over there, smart over here, huh.
Speaker 1: I want nikkill. Harry is going to outscore every rookie
Speaker 1: wide receiver in this draft. I don't think put your
Speaker 1: money where your mouth. It's fetched. It's deeply fetched. Uh guy,
Speaker 1: Thank you for all your help with us forty minutes
Speaker 1: of breaking down every a f C, NFC East team
Speaker 1: fantasy style. Should we talk about the North next year? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Next week it's to the north a North remembers. Usually
Speaker 1: there's a cadence with these that you know, the listing
Speaker 1: always seems to go the teams on the east, the
Speaker 1: teams on the north, the teams in the south, and
Speaker 1: then the teams on the west. We do this reverse
Speaker 1: right thing. Maybe well, maybe that's that that that's maybe
Speaker 1: that's why it's I always I just figured it was.
Speaker 1: I don't know, like how the country grew started on
Speaker 1: the east coast. North south east west is usually how
Speaker 1: it goes from the compus campus wise, Yes, but that's
Speaker 1: that's maybe it's north. I just feel like I've said north, south,
Speaker 1: east west. I don't try to say anything that comes
Speaker 1: out of your mouth today. If that's what we've learned
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