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Speaker 1: We're down to the point where where we were out.
Speaker 1: This weekend is the last of the preseason games. Training
Speaker 1: camps are wrapping up. We've got so much stuff to
Speaker 1: get to. We're gonna go through every single team and
Speaker 1: talk about what we learned from their training camps and
Speaker 1: for in a few cases we don't have final answers yet,
Speaker 1: but there's always been things to draw on over the
Speaker 1: course of this training camp period. We'll talk through those things.
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Speaker 1: Toughest decision in every round. We're going to go through
Speaker 1: the first ten rounds of drafts and look at what
Speaker 1: is the what's the player in that round that really
Speaker 1: makes me think about this pick? This is the one
Speaker 1: where I'm really undecided. That's the toughest call in each round.
Speaker 1: We'll go through those. We'll talk about whether or not
Speaker 1: some older players have anything left. It's a segment we
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Speaker 1: with three tough questions and reveal our sleepers.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, let's go through all of the Let's go through
Speaker 1: all the training camps. Sure, one by one here training
Speaker 1: camps winding down. Let's start with the Buffalo Bill Scott.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so Ray Davis and Ty Johnson are essentially tied
Speaker 3: as James Cook's back up right now. But it's based
Speaker 3: on what's needed on the field. Davis Moore the backup,
Speaker 3: and a little bit all around. Ty Johnson will get
Speaker 3: some work because the clear pass catching option when they
Speaker 3: need when they need a pass catcher behind James Cook.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the Miami Dolphins store.
Speaker 5: I got. I got three.
Speaker 6: Quick hitters here, starting with Tyreek Hill has a thumb issue.
Speaker 6: Does not sound like a big deal. John new Smith
Speaker 6: appears to be over Odell Beckham for what will be
Speaker 6: their third wide receiver, third pass catcher. But on that note,
Speaker 6: debonauchain I had to bring this up. He's been crushing
Speaker 6: at this preseason. In the last game. They used him
Speaker 6: a good bit in the past game and deployed out wide.
Speaker 6: He ran eleven routes in the one preseason game he's
Speaker 6: played in. Four of those were either in the slaughter
Speaker 6: out wide. That's thirty six percent. If we can get
Speaker 6: him around that during the season and he gets some
Speaker 6: accompanying targets. If one of these other guys doesn't emerge
Speaker 6: as an ancillary target guy, we know that the Dolphins
Speaker 6: need a third receiver, So if he starts getting some
Speaker 6: targets in the passing game, it's Wheels even higher up
Speaker 6: on devonaut chain.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's expensive to get, but the upside is tantalized.
Speaker 5: Absolutely. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the New York Jets. Mike Williams is
Speaker 1: starting to get practice reps with the team. He tore
Speaker 1: his acls September and his availability for week one still murky,
Speaker 1: but trending towards positivity here. And if you want the
Speaker 1: handcuff to Breese Hall, it looks like it's gonna be
Speaker 1: rookie Braylen Allen. They've been throwing to him a lot,
Speaker 1: despite the fact they didn't get a lot of receiving
Speaker 1: work in Wisconsin. No back everything, no right. So, but
Speaker 1: it turns out James White. They think he can catch
Speaker 1: James White long time a lot that that was a
Speaker 1: long time ago from his Wisconsin days. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots.
Speaker 3: Got Yeah. So there is still no decision on the
Speaker 3: starting quarterback between Drake May and Jacoby Brissette. We're kind
Speaker 3: of expecting I think I'm personally kind of expecting me
Speaker 3: to take it sooner than later. Brissett just hasn't looked
Speaker 3: that great this preseason and in no wide receiver room
Speaker 3: apparently kJ Osborne has held off Jelln Polk for that
Speaker 3: starter role. That that one of the starters there.
Speaker 1: Thor is not a Polk guy with no tam He
Speaker 1: did make a really nice acrobatic catch on us on
Speaker 1: the sidelines in last week's preseason game, but we'll continue
Speaker 1: to watch that one. We're team Baker over here. Yes,
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 6: There has been big time buzz on Reshob Bateman and
Speaker 6: camp m HM like like always, I mean, this is
Speaker 6: another year of it. You do have to mention though,
Speaker 6: he's the third option in the offense, so how many
Speaker 6: targets will he generate if he can even get through
Speaker 6: this season?
Speaker 5: But it is worth mentioning there.
Speaker 6: The other thing I wanted to mention is speaking of buzz,
Speaker 6: rashinau Lee is getting in their camp, the rookie from Marshall.
Speaker 6: It's promising on two fronts. Number one that he is
Speaker 6: even out there because he's coming off a torn bicep
Speaker 6: as recently as the senior ball so I wasn't even
Speaker 6: sure he was going to be. In fact, I didn't
Speaker 6: think he would be. But he's out there and he's impressing.
Speaker 6: And this is a guy who last year. Marshall's offense,
Speaker 6: the offensive line just went into the toilet. So the
Speaker 6: fact again that he got through that injury quick and
Speaker 6: he's quitting himself well in camp is definitely notable.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Rashina a Li, I mean if anything happens to
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry, Yeah, lottery tickets, yes, yes, yest year.
Speaker 3: So I mean Mitchell's going to start the season, so yeah.
Speaker 1: Keep me out right. His timetables like November, right, So
Speaker 1: let's give Ra the FFW Darthrow right there, last pick
Speaker 1: of your draft. I like it interesting, Cleveland Browns. It's
Speaker 1: trending towards Nick Chubb not being ready for the start
Speaker 1: of the season, and even if he makes progress now,
Speaker 1: I think it's unlikely he gets a lot of carries
Speaker 1: in those first games back, so you know, plan accordingly
Speaker 1: on this. It's unfortunate, but that's the case. Down to
Speaker 1: Foreman could be your week one starting running back if
Speaker 1: you think like I do, that they may move Jerome
Speaker 1: forward to his natural role, which is more of the
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt in this offense. That would put Foreman in
Speaker 1: you as your week one starting running back for the Browns. Possible.
Speaker 3: That's certainly worth watching.
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson's been in and out of practice due to
Speaker 1: his surgically repaired shoulder, and his players looked highly inconsistent.
Speaker 3: This is kind of the.
Speaker 1: Last year this experiment. But Deshaun Watson, right, it's gotta
Speaker 1: be I don't know, it doesn't it's been bad and
Speaker 1: it doesn't feel like it's getting a lot better. Still
Speaker 1: early we'll see, hopefully we're wrong.
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh Steelers Jalen Warren expected to miss multiple weeks with
Speaker 3: a hamstring injury, but he might be ready early in
Speaker 3: the season. Still, those things can linger, though you never know.
Speaker 3: Obvious beneficiary if it does linger, Harris, who has kept
Speaker 3: ahead of him anyway, And you know how Arthur Smith
Speaker 3: loves Cordero Patterson. Not a bad deep threat or a
Speaker 3: deep dart throw there as a guy who could take
Speaker 3: on the some goal line work Patterson did.
Speaker 1: Scott. They just put him on the the NFL eye
Speaker 1: list for some non team related injury. But I don't
Speaker 1: know what. I don't know what it is.
Speaker 3: Out to herbies or something.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 6: It appears right now that Chase Brown it would be
Speaker 6: the RB one A in the committee to Zach Moss's
Speaker 6: one B if it's indicative of anything of the preseason snaps,
Speaker 6: and then some of the reports we've gotten out of there,
Speaker 6: something to keep an eye on. I'm sure we'll get
Speaker 6: back to that later this episode. The one other thing
Speaker 6: I want to say about the Bengals, the wide receiver
Speaker 6: three competition is heating up. Andre Yoshi Vas, that's my god,
Speaker 6: appears to be the front. I like andre Yoshi. VA's
Speaker 6: a lot of physical talent on that guy. He's a
Speaker 6: burner in a big package.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 6: I think he opens as wide receiver three. Jermaine Burton,
Speaker 6: the rookie third rounder, is a little bit behind right now.
Speaker 5: I think he's still.
Speaker 6: Worth taking a shot on late because he could potentially
Speaker 6: overtake Yoshi Vas later in the season or if there's
Speaker 6: an injury. Of course, he's the next man up there.
Speaker 6: But it's looking like Yoshi Boss right now.
Speaker 1: I love and Plus his name is yosh yos Yes, sir.
Speaker 1: Houston Texans a backup role behind Joe Mixon is a
Speaker 1: battle between Damian Pearson Cam Akers more in that situation.
Speaker 1: A little later in the show, Nico Collins leads the
Speaker 1: Texans with a ninety three percent route participation on plays
Speaker 1: with c J. Stroud this preseason. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: concern about the Houston receivers cannibalizing each other, but Collins
Speaker 1: looks like it may be the safest of the group.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Jacksonville Jaguars.
Speaker 3: Christian Kirk's still not pacicing with that calf industry in
Speaker 3: jurye but they are. But he's expected to be fine
Speaker 3: for the season. And Brian Thomas still doing Brian Thomas
Speaker 3: like things out there. Yeah, but can I just call
Speaker 3: it Brian Thomas like I don't know his own things now?
Speaker 3: I don't know every every week it's just take up
Speaker 3: on the highlight and I only do my rankings based
Speaker 3: on preseason pypes.
Speaker 1: That'll work out great. Indianapolis Colts star.
Speaker 6: Jilanie Woods had surgery for turf toe. The Colts tight
Speaker 6: ends right now, they're total stay away. I mean, this
Speaker 6: could be a three guy committee here to start the
Speaker 6: season today. Every year, Yeah, stay totally away from that thing.
Speaker 6: The other thing I wanted to say, Anthony Richardson had
Speaker 6: an up and down preseason game here on Thursday.
Speaker 5: I don't care. I literally do not care.
Speaker 6: He had a good first drive, made a couple of
Speaker 6: mistakes after that, but as far as his fana, you're
Speaker 6: still fully on board, fully on board with Anthony Richards
Speaker 6: in Tennessee. In a small sample size, Tony Pollard has
Speaker 6: looked better than Taj Spears, but neither separated himself from
Speaker 6: the other in training camp. It looks like a potentially
Speaker 6: confounding situation.
Speaker 1: Will Levis's training camp has generally been described as inconsistent,
Speaker 1: but a lot more tools at his disposal now, including
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley and a past friendly Brian Callahan offense here,
Speaker 1: should give will Levis a chance to redeem himself from
Speaker 1: frankly a pretty bad rookie year.
Speaker 3: Outside of that first game, he'd have to be a
Speaker 3: lot better.
Speaker 1: He'd have to be a lot better, that's right, and well,
Speaker 1: not going to get into the old history on that
Speaker 1: first game, but even wheah happened on this show, we
Speaker 1: were like, that was some flips.
Speaker 3: Stuff, three really big passes.
Speaker 1: Exactly, and that weren't even well thrown balls. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 3: Scott Xavier Worthy. He spent last week hanging out behind
Speaker 3: opposing defensive coverages and catching balls. He's looked great recently.
Speaker 3: Clyde Edwards Hilaire has been dealing with some PTSD issues
Speaker 3: from a twenty eighteen self defense incident. It's kept him
Speaker 3: out of practice, kept him out of the last game.
Speaker 3: Denark Prince and Carson Steel are the backups to him
Speaker 3: and may make the roster now. Carson Steele had a
Speaker 3: one heck of a run the other night against thirteamers. Granted,
Speaker 3: but he was bulldozing everyone like he was fighting for his.
Speaker 6: Job, which might come for him. As Tim Riggins from Play,
Speaker 6: I love it. So you're saying he's drunk right now?
Speaker 5: Yeah, he might be.
Speaker 6: Yeah, either that or he's breaking a tackle or both
Speaker 6: at the same time. Las Vegas Raiders. Let's talk about
Speaker 6: the Raiders backfield. Gardner Minshew is going to begin this
Speaker 6: season as this starter. I do not think the leash
Speaker 6: will be long, so we'll see how long he makes it.
Speaker 6: But he's going to begin the season as KB one
Speaker 6: and then at the running back position. Zamir White has
Speaker 6: looked good so far in limited action this preseason. Dylan
Speaker 6: Lobby our Boy, is also having a really good camp
Speaker 6: and I believe he will be the passing down back
Speaker 6: from day one as we've been saying for a while, and.
Speaker 1: Mere Abdulla might get released because of that. Correct, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a possibility. Let's go to the Denver Broncos. Not surprisingly,
Speaker 1: Bonix's name is the starter. We'll talk a little more
Speaker 1: about him later in the show. Rookie runner Audric Estime
Speaker 1: has earned consistent praise and could emerge as the goal
Speaker 1: line back. You know he's big enough for that job
Speaker 1: for ye you you know that's a possibility here, Jalil McLaughlin,
Speaker 1: this is one of my favorite players.
Speaker 3: I love this kid.
Speaker 1: Continues to be a part time starter in the Broncos
Speaker 1: rotation of backs. He's been the second back into the
Speaker 1: game in the preseason game, is getting a lot of
Speaker 1: pass catching work in practice and games. I've talked about
Speaker 1: him several times during the offseason shows. I'm just I'm at.
Speaker 3: I'm into be. Reporters keep saying he's gonna be a
Speaker 3: ton touch a guy game. Yes, but I like him
Speaker 3: too and ten touch hard efficient with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, with ten touches, it's hard to get to fantasy relevancy.
Speaker 1: But if five of them are catches.
Speaker 5: I may be talking about Julia later.
Speaker 3: Oh okay, then.
Speaker 1: I've all stop mowing your low. I'm sorry about that.
Speaker 1: And if you're feeling daring. Samaj p Ryan I think
Speaker 1: is going to be the odd man out of this rotation.
Speaker 1: Agreed he could be cut and Dallas needs an upgrade
Speaker 1: at running back. Just you know, if you feel like
Speaker 1: you know there's some team where that you know, some
Speaker 1: hate to.
Speaker 3: Break it to you, I'm actually signing with Dallas. You
Speaker 3: might be better.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk more about that too. We have lots
Speaker 1: of good stuff coming up in the show. Last team
Speaker 1: before we take a break, Los Angeles Chargers.
Speaker 3: Yeah, one week after being on the roster, Bubble com
Speaker 3: Ony Videll lives. Yes, let's go. Yeah, really good game.
Speaker 3: He's he's mostly over his injury. Uh, injury woes back
Speaker 3: in line to make the roster. We're gonna talk about
Speaker 3: the Charges to talk about Yeah, we'll talk about the
Speaker 3: pass game Later's start there. That's a. Uh.
Speaker 1: The people who guess right on that Chargers rushing attack
Speaker 1: are gonna get paid.
Speaker 3: It's gonna fla it is.
Speaker 1: That's a That's a great way to put it when
Speaker 1: you get it right there. Whether it's Gus Edwards, I
Speaker 1: don't think it's JK. Dobbins, Kimani Vidal. When you guess right,
Speaker 1: you are gonna get paid in that rushing attack for
Speaker 1: Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: Oh, we love it.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we're gonna go through the things
Speaker 1: we've learned of about the training camps in the NFC,
Speaker 1: including the aforementioned Dallas Cowboys, find out if any running
Speaker 1: back has emerged here, what do we have left in
Speaker 1: the tank. We'll talk more about that when we come back.
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Speaker 3: It's Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: Paul Church and Scott Fish throw an eistrom with you,
Speaker 1: getting you ready. It's this is like key draft time
Speaker 1: right here. We're in the heart of it right now.
Speaker 1: I got like five drafts going right this minute. Scott,
Speaker 1: you were juggling drafts all day today or I think
Speaker 1: you've probably got several going right listeners do to so
Speaker 1: much stuff to get to and one week from today,
Speaker 1: when we're doing next week's Fantasy Football Weekly, we're.
Speaker 3: Gonna be breaking down the Thursday night game.
Speaker 5: I love it.
Speaker 3: We're that close to the start of the season.
Speaker 5: So close you can almost smell the tailgate from here.
Speaker 1: Hopefully barbecue, not just like the I don't know the
Speaker 1: emanations of.
Speaker 6: A tailgate Kansas City. You got to get to that tailgate.
Speaker 6: That's they do the best, right, they do it right. Yeah, yeah, Yeah,
Speaker 6: everybody's got a better tailgate than that. Let's go to
Speaker 6: the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: We're breaking down what we've learned in training camp from
Speaker 1: every team we've done. The AFC would turn our attention
Speaker 1: to the NFC and the East Dallas Cowboys. This is
Speaker 1: a thor Nystrom production.
Speaker 5: We just talked about there.
Speaker 6: The running backs a little bit with p Ryme potentially
Speaker 6: Rico Daldo has looked good in camp. Ezekiel Elliott, you know,
Speaker 6: he looks like what he is. It just you know
Speaker 6: he'll be the solid veteran fella, but does not preclude
Speaker 6: the acquisition of a potential running back. The other note
Speaker 6: I wanted to make here, Jalen Tolbert has been Dak
Speaker 6: Prescott's go to guy with Ceedee Lamb of course holding
Speaker 6: out with the contract stuff.
Speaker 1: Yeah it's a deep dart throw, but maybe last pick
Speaker 1: you're drafting case. I think this Ceedee Lamb thing is
Speaker 1: gonna go upside down.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 1: I think Seed's gonna get gonna get paid. Yeah, newly
Speaker 1: acquired Johan Dotson Philadelphia Eagles, by the way, has a
Speaker 1: chance to earn the number three job in Philadelphia once
Speaker 1: he gets up to speed. His competition is Johnny Wilson
Speaker 1: in Britain, Kobe. That's not much competition, yes, correct, and
Speaker 1: they paid a hefty price. I mean, third round pick
Speaker 1: for Johan Dotson feels like a lot right now. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna ultimately earn that job. Dallas Goddard status
Speaker 1: for the opener in doubt due to an oblique injury
Speaker 1: the often You're tight end, missed three games left last
Speaker 1: late season. He was a disappointment in last year's offense.
Speaker 1: But Kellen Moore's you new offensive coordinator. Maybe they'll get
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard more involved. But right now it feels like
Speaker 1: Dallas Godder was somebody you liked to have two years
Speaker 1: ago on your team and not so much now. All right,
Speaker 1: let's continue ahead. Our next team is the New York Giants.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just an update on Malik Neighbors and Tyrone Tracy
Speaker 3: that both sprain their ankles last week but are doing
Speaker 3: fine back at practicing and likely to suit up this weekend.
Speaker 6: Washington Commander Store, you mentioned that Johan Dodson trade. Of course,
Speaker 6: leaving Washington, does this set up a Brandon a trade.
Speaker 3: That's a you're talking my language right there, baby.
Speaker 5: It might.
Speaker 6: Otherwise, Luke McCaffrey, it wheels up for him if they don't,
Speaker 6: especially if they don't get Brandon Aiyuk. I've been trying
Speaker 6: to tell you everyone out there, draft Luke McCaffrey. Draft
Speaker 6: Luke McCaffrey, All summer draft Luke McCaffrey. Other note here,
Speaker 6: Cliff Kingsbury praised Brian Robinson this week. Brian Robinson as
Speaker 6: solid camp. He's gonna be the early down guy and
Speaker 6: then Eckler will be the passing down back.
Speaker 3: I've been joking I want Luke McCaffrey to go in
Speaker 3: that I trade over to over to San Francisco to
Speaker 3: be with his brother.
Speaker 5: Double up on McCaffrey, double McCaffrey.
Speaker 3: Yeah, McCaffrey's tremendous.
Speaker 1: That would be tremendous, wouldn't it. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: I think we're on the Detroit Lions. Yeah, that's me.
Speaker 1: Hamstring injuries to Sam Laporte and Jamior Gibbs should not
Speaker 1: be a factor for Week one, but given the history
Speaker 1: of re injury. We all know hamstring's reinjury all the
Speaker 1: time and aggravate will We'll keep monitoring that situation. And
Speaker 1: Khalif Raymond is locked down the number three receiver spot
Speaker 1: and he's mark my words, he's going to be to
Speaker 1: take a chance on me.
Speaker 3: Guy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Khalif Raymond's gonna pop up three, four, five times
Speaker 1: over the course of this season.
Speaker 3: This feels unfair because you can literally make that happen, like,
Speaker 3: whether you want to, you can make that come true.
Speaker 1: I can make that call. Green Bay Packers Scott.
Speaker 3: Aj Dillon has a stinger he's been dealing with. Uh,
Speaker 3: they're gonna be careful with it. Marshall Lloyd is out
Speaker 3: with his hamstring injury, meaning Josh Jacobs might be in
Speaker 3: line for almost every touch early in the season, which
Speaker 3: he's completely used to after the last two years in Oakland.
Speaker 1: So he remains he remains pretty safe. He's not he
Speaker 1: doesn't feel nearly a sexy this year. No, but yes,
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs very safe. But Minnesota Vikings Store.
Speaker 6: What I want to talk about here is I've seen
Speaker 6: Justin Jefferson falling in Round one following JJ McCarthy's injury.
Speaker 6: Like as as low as like eight. I think that's ridiculous.
Speaker 6: I would take Jefferson as early as number two. The
Speaker 6: fact that he's falling down in the first round because
Speaker 6: of that, I think it's ludicrous.
Speaker 5: He's quarterback proof. He's already shown that in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Nick Bullins, Josh Dobbs exactly, I mean, you know
Speaker 1: you can. You know he can. He can post good
Speaker 1: numbers there. Correct, It's probably just fine. Let's mention Jalen
Speaker 1: Naylor has pretty much like the number three job. Yes, Minnesota,
Speaker 1: great camp, yep, had a great camp, really separated and
Speaker 1: every else.
Speaker 6: A physically gifted kid who in college dealt with injuries
Speaker 6: a lot. That's the one that he just has to
Speaker 6: prove he can stay healthy. But this skill has been
Speaker 6: manifesting on the practice field.
Speaker 1: We'll go to the Chicago Bears next. And while Caleb
Speaker 1: Williams was not perfect and there were some bad plays, man,
Speaker 1: he flashed some signs of possible greatness with his play
Speaker 1: and its wheels up on Caleb Williams. He's turned into
Speaker 1: my most drafted quarterback across my leagues, going off the
Speaker 1: board in roughly round nine of fantasy drafts. I'm in
Speaker 1: you know, if you don't, I am I going to take
Speaker 1: the first tier of rushing quarterbacks. If I don't, I
Speaker 1: want the second tier rushing quarterbacks with Caleb Williams. For
Speaker 1: those who sleffed the tight end position, let me note
Speaker 1: this Cole Comet, who was already a hazard to your
Speaker 1: fantasy team, has now found himself in a preseason rotation
Speaker 1: in the with the first team with Gerald Everett. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not good. And last thing, Romandonsay has flash signs
Speaker 1: that he's going to be effective early in his stud Yeah.
Speaker 1: I know you love stud I know I love and
Speaker 1: I love you because you love Roman Dons, Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Speaker 3: Scott Yeah. A guy I've been drafting laid a lot
Speaker 3: more recently is Bucky Irvine, mostly because I love taking
Speaker 3: backup running backs to have a line to belkow usage
Speaker 3: if there's you know, something happens, if there's an injury,
Speaker 3: you don't want to root for that. But he has
Speaker 3: totally claimed the backup role to Rashad White, and he's
Speaker 3: one of those guys who can catch, just do it
Speaker 3: all if whatever goes down.
Speaker 1: Yeah, straight ahead runner. He would be we since for
Speaker 1: goal line carries. Anything happened to Rashad Webbs. It was
Speaker 1: shocking the effective at the goal line. But yeah, Bucky,
Speaker 1: you're an interesting guy. New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 6: Taysom Hill being used all over the field as is
Speaker 6: his wont and Yahoo came out and said they added
Speaker 6: tight end eligibility back for him, so you have that
Speaker 6: going for him. Taysom Hill is draftable in formats that
Speaker 6: have that tight end designation. And of course I couldn't
Speaker 6: get through this without mentioning Rashid Shahed but he is
Speaker 6: dealing with his toe or foot or both or whatever
Speaker 6: it is. But he is not going to miss significant
Speaker 6: time and if he falls past ADP, I think he's
Speaker 6: worth a look at worth a look at a discount.
Speaker 6: The other thing, Juwan Johnson is back at practice, and
Speaker 6: I also have to mention Chris Lave is going to
Speaker 6: eat this year.
Speaker 5: Draft Chris al Lave.
Speaker 1: I know you're banging the drum over and over again,
Speaker 1: and I wish he had a better quarterback.
Speaker 3: I may have him in our homely charge. If you're
Speaker 3: looking to trade.
Speaker 1: For Atlanta Falcons, haven't let anybody who's remotely possible to
Speaker 1: be a starter near a preseason field, So We've really
Speaker 1: gained very little intel on the plan for the starters here.
Speaker 1: The biggest story, though, Tyler Algier. Coaches just continue to
Speaker 1: sing his praises and insisting Algier is going to be
Speaker 1: a major part of the offense. We're going to talk
Speaker 1: more about the Tyler Algier Bijon Robinson dynamic.
Speaker 3: A little later in the show.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 3: Scott Deanta Johnson injured his foot or inkle this week,
Speaker 3: not really disclosed exactly what got hurt, but now he
Speaker 3: missed yesterday's practice with an illness, so he's got a
Speaker 3: lot of stuff going on, but he should be fine
Speaker 3: for the season. Dave Canalis has said he will be
Speaker 3: the centerpiece of their offense, which is that's my words.
Speaker 1: Yea, that is very important and that's a pass first
Speaker 1: coach right there. Dante Johnson being underdrafted yep, agreed with
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers.
Speaker 6: Gotta talk about the Brandon Ayu groomers and and what
Speaker 6: would be the fallout if he does get traded. Ricky
Speaker 6: Pearsall is still dealing with his shoulder injury. He's been
Speaker 6: hurt on and off all camp Piersall would probably yeah,
Speaker 6: all off season, Pearsall would probably need to slow ramp
Speaker 6: up if they do deal Iyuk, So maybe at the
Speaker 6: start of the season would wouldn't be as much, but
Speaker 6: certainly if they keep by, you got Pearsall off the
Speaker 6: fantasy radar early in the season.
Speaker 1: All right to the Rams. Rookie Jordan Whittington has been
Speaker 1: a preseason standout. Highly productive preseason games suggest he could
Speaker 1: press DeMarcus Robinson in two to two at well for
Speaker 1: time now, Thor, I know you're not the biggest fan
Speaker 1: of Jordan Whittington, but the usage has been there in
Speaker 1: the preseason for whatever that's worth. Now, granted, Stetson Bennett's
Speaker 1: usage has also been high, Yeah, but at least catching
Speaker 1: what's thrown to him.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and he's a manufactured touch guy and you get
Speaker 6: this off their coverage in preseason, but you know it's
Speaker 6: going to help them potentially win a roster spot here.
Speaker 6: But yeah, I don't see much for him in the season.
Speaker 6: Lot confine manufacturer touch.
Speaker 1: Guy Pokinakuas knee injury should be cleared by week one,
Speaker 1: so no real concerns there, and Blake Korm has not
Speaker 1: played in the preseason which for the Rams means good things. Yes,
Speaker 1: I mean they like you and they do not need
Speaker 1: to see you so positive. I guess it's a positive
Speaker 1: that we really don't have a lot of new data
Speaker 1: points from him. All right, Two teams left, Seattle Seahawks, Scott.
Speaker 3: Yeah, not much here except Howell. Sam Howell has looked decent.
Speaker 1: But it is are you referring to?
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's the clear backup there. He's looked decent. He's
Speaker 3: putting some tape out there for his next job. It's
Speaker 3: Tino's job, though, and Ryan Grub is supposedly tailoring the
Speaker 3: offense around Gino. He's really excited about Gino this year.
Speaker 3: So maybe it's steal late, maybe a second super flex option.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because I just don't want to be wrong
Speaker 1: about all my Sam Howell love at this time last year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I just I don't think we've heard the last of
Speaker 1: Sam Howe. I think he got dealt a bad hand
Speaker 1: last year with a coaching staff that deserved to be fired.
Speaker 1: And I think there's a little something there for Sam
Speaker 1: Howell find out. All right, our last team, Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 6: Store Marvin Harrison Junior looks absolutely amazing.
Speaker 5: In camp. He's gonna be. He's already made star. He
Speaker 5: will be from week one.
Speaker 6: The other thing I wanted to mention here, Trey Benson
Speaker 6: looked much better in preseason Game two than he certainly
Speaker 6: did in preseason Game one.
Speaker 1: He looked really good, but he.
Speaker 6: Came in so far behind James Connor that I don't
Speaker 6: think it's gonna matter for this season.
Speaker 5: Trey Benson. It's now he needs to win the RB
Speaker 5: two jump.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well against Amari Dimarcado, correctly, and he should. He should,
Speaker 1: he should, he really should. You know that's I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to that. I'm as you remember Thor when we
Speaker 1: were doing shows back in March and looking into the draft.
Speaker 1: I love Trey Benson. I think there's a lot to
Speaker 1: like with that kid. He's got straight ahead power, he's
Speaker 1: got some wiggle to him. There's I want him to.
Speaker 1: I want him to be successful here. And if you
Speaker 1: ask me who the starter is for the Cardinals next year,
Speaker 1: I gets Trey Benson.
Speaker 6: I say it's by the end of the season. Speculate
Speaker 6: on Trey Benson. If he is free falling in your league.
Speaker 6: It's not gonna be at the start of this season.
Speaker 6: But James Connor watched out that kid's coming for you.
Speaker 3: I like that attitude. I like that attitude.
Speaker 1: When we come back, we're going to look through the
Speaker 1: key vacated targets and touches for teams that give some
Speaker 1: opportunity to players who maybe weren't great last year, but
Speaker 1: now things are shaping up in a way that they're
Speaker 1: going to get the ball in their hands a lot more.
Speaker 1: That's coming up next Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly. Paul Chargie and Scott Fish and Thor Nystrom
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Speaker 1: and Thor is at thor K you you're wearing a
Speaker 1: Jayhawk's shirt right now you'll remember, Yeah, so I did
Speaker 1: my daughter and I did the K you campus tour
Speaker 1: and campus is. It's a really nice campus. That's very
Speaker 1: very impressed.
Speaker 3: Was there a statue of Thor? There was?
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, yes there was it. There
Speaker 1: was a statue of Thor. What it should not surprise
Speaker 1: you to learn the campus tour ends inside the basketball arena.
Speaker 1: What's the name it?
Speaker 5: I forgot field house what sold me exactly?
Speaker 1: Yeah, they they end you there and they've got championship
Speaker 1: banners and that is that's.
Speaker 6: O kyu right there. I was sold right then? Yeah,
Speaker 6: don't where do you want my signature?
Speaker 3: Done? Done?
Speaker 6: We didn't choose, but that's okay, Oh no, that's right.
Speaker 6: It's stupid reason the transfer portals still open.
Speaker 5: Charge.
Speaker 1: We went to that, right We went there on the
Speaker 1: day in the summer when it was like ninety five
Speaker 1: degrees and my daughter just melted on the pavement and she's.
Speaker 3: Like, I can't, I can't go.
Speaker 5: It does get muggy there.
Speaker 1: It does a little bit a little programming adjustment. We're
Speaker 1: gonna do vacated targets next segont This segment the toughest
Speaker 1: decision in every round. We're gonna go through the first
Speaker 1: ten rounds and guys, and it's okay if we've got
Speaker 1: the same players.
Speaker 3: We haven't coordinated this at all.
Speaker 1: We're looking at the average draft position the twelve players
Speaker 1: in each round, and I want you to tell me
Speaker 1: who's the player that is the toughest conundrum on whether
Speaker 1: or not you should take that player in each round. Yeah, Scott,
Speaker 1: We're going to begin with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So when I did mine, I kind of went
Speaker 3: towards it in a lens of this is such a
Speaker 3: tough decision, I'm just gonna pivot. So these are the
Speaker 3: ones I freaking chicken I want to do, but I
Speaker 3: end up pivoting because I can't. I can't pull the trigger.
Speaker 3: And in the first round, end of the first round,
Speaker 3: when Marvin Harrison is sitting there, I want him really bad.
Speaker 3: I know that we've seen so many rookies come up
Speaker 3: and be Fantasy stars right away, Chase Lamb, Jefferson, a Monra.
Speaker 3: It just feels really really high for me. I know
Speaker 3: he's got little target competition, It's an offense that's going
Speaker 3: to be behind all the time, lots of passing, but
Speaker 3: it's still rookie. Maybe the ramp up is slow, kind
Speaker 3: of like justin Jefferson's was and many others. And maybe
Speaker 3: Kyler Murray's inconsistent or gets injured.
Speaker 1: All right, Marvin Harrison the toughest decision every round Round one,
Speaker 1: by the way, Yeah, Marvin Harrison, one right, who's your
Speaker 1: round one toughest decision?
Speaker 6: Thor I would say it's a Monos Saint Brown, who
Speaker 6: I'm a little bit lower on and it's like this
Speaker 6: scenario Win McCaffrey, Jefferson, Bjeon, Jamar Chase, Ceedee, Lamb Breesaw
Speaker 6: and Tyreek Killer off the board. It's like a monast Brown,
Speaker 6: AJ Brown, you go, Pooka, you go Jonathan Taylor? Do
Speaker 6: you go out the aforementioned Marvin Harrison Junior. That's the
Speaker 6: situation where I get in the biggest dilemma.
Speaker 1: I've got, Beeshn Robinson is my toughest dilemma in Round one.
Speaker 1: The Falcons offense is going to be way way better
Speaker 1: with Kirk Cousins and the new offensive cordinator, Zach Robinson.
Speaker 1: I'm really optimistic about and the Falcons have by like
Speaker 1: every metric you can imagine, the easiest schedule this year.
Speaker 1: There are like no stuf on this schedule, including their
Speaker 1: their divisional schedule, and obviously Bjon Robinson's great. But how
Speaker 1: much will Tyler Algier eat into Robinson's workload, especially at
Speaker 1: the stripe or Last year, Algier had twice as many
Speaker 1: carries as Robinson. Granted with the different coaching staff in
Speaker 1: the first round, I want somebody who's the focal point
Speaker 1: of their team's offense. Okay, and I don't know that
Speaker 1: it's Bjon Robinson. That makes him a really tricky decision
Speaker 1: in round one.
Speaker 3: I get it.
Speaker 1: Let's go to round two, Scott, who's your toughest decision.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's Cooper Cup. If it's the Cooper Cup
Speaker 3: that we saw the last month of the season, he's
Speaker 3: absolutely worth a second round pick. Where he's getting so
Speaker 3: much of the red zone. Looks he's not as efficient,
Speaker 3: but he's gained so much volume. Five to seven, nine
Speaker 3: catches again, whatever, I absolutely love that. But he's clearly
Speaker 3: taken the back seat role the number two in that offense.
Speaker 3: Stafford's already dealing with injuries. Yeah, there's I just don't
Speaker 3: know that I can do it.
Speaker 1: All right, Thor your toughest decision in round two.
Speaker 5: So in round two, the guy that I want is
Speaker 5: a Lava. Have I brought him up?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Already you mentioned Yeah, this is not a tough decision
Speaker 3: for you.
Speaker 5: If a Lave is off the board.
Speaker 6: Though, my biggest element in round two is when do
Speaker 6: I pounce on Malak Neighbors like win is too soon.
Speaker 6: I think the league neighbors that he should be closer
Speaker 6: in drafts to Marvin Harrison, it's getting closer, but that
Speaker 6: I think it should be even closer than it is.
Speaker 6: That guy's gonna be a star right away.
Speaker 1: I've got Miami running back to von A Chan as
Speaker 1: my toughest decision. Thor you articulated the upside already. They
Speaker 1: use it more in the passing game, of course, you
Speaker 1: get the guy who averaged seven yards per carry, You
Speaker 1: get the highlight speed. Also, there's where he moster are
Speaker 1: stealing all your close touchdowns, the history of injury that
Speaker 1: he's got, and the deepest rotation of backs. It's a
Speaker 1: it's a tough one. If you get it right with
Speaker 1: the von A Chan, you win your league. If you
Speaker 1: get it wrong, you're you know, you've just wasted a
Speaker 1: pick potentially. So this is a I think that's the
Speaker 1: toughest call in round two. Let's go round three. Scot
Speaker 1: your toughest decision.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this one's Stephan Diggs for me. He could be
Speaker 3: hitting Brandon Cook's third team portion of his career where
Speaker 3: he gets a thousand yards and five touchdowns or less.
Speaker 3: Or he could be the number one in a very
Speaker 3: very potent offense demanding the ball consistently. I can see
Speaker 3: either option. I just I like Nico better, I like
Speaker 3: Tank a little bit better, but I can see any
Speaker 3: one of those various outcomes, so I just can't pull
Speaker 3: the trigger. All right, your toughest call in round three.
Speaker 6: So round three to me, it's the brandon Au paradox,
Speaker 6: and it's like, a Am I taking him here? Or
Speaker 6: do I go to Derrick Henry or Isaiah Pacheco? Is
Speaker 6: like what I always find myself in and about half
Speaker 6: the time I'll do one, half the time I'll do
Speaker 6: the other.
Speaker 5: There's no consistency.
Speaker 3: But Ayuk is in there or not?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: No, he's in there? Yeah all right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: I'll be honest. You were here earlier. I took him
Speaker 3: in the fourth round and I was in the same
Speaker 3: conundrum in the around later.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, Like he's there's question, you know, but I'm
Speaker 1: buying a dip on I yeah, I mean this is
Speaker 1: he should not be going this fow. I think the
Speaker 1: probability he's playing for the forty nine ers and I'm
Speaker 1: buying the dip yep. My round three also, Stefan Diggs,
Speaker 1: and you already articulated all the reasons why Scott, So
Speaker 1: let's go to round number four.
Speaker 3: Who's your toughest call? Yeah, so, man, there are actually
Speaker 3: so many in this round that are tough calls for me.
Speaker 3: I think the one that stands out the most is
Speaker 3: Amari Cooper. It's it's not as much about Amari Cooper
Speaker 3: as it is everybody else in that round. I really
Speaker 3: like and Amari Cooper although he should be a stud
Speaker 3: fourth round receiver getting the majority of the work in
Speaker 3: that offense, and it should be an okay offense if
Speaker 3: it wasn't for Deshaun Watson, who have zero trust in bed.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of with you on that analysis on Cooper.
Speaker 1: He's great, by the way, and I love that dude
Speaker 1: plays to injury all the time, love that he is
Speaker 1: an iron man. Round four, your toughest decision thor.
Speaker 6: Before we started recording, charging one of those five drafts
Speaker 6: concurrently that he doing right now. We had a discussion
Speaker 6: about one of his picks a little bit later than
Speaker 6: round four, but Visa v tight ends, and I think
Speaker 6: the tight end question for me it begins in round four.
Speaker 6: The question that I persistently have there is am I
Speaker 6: going to start that tight end run with Laporta or
Speaker 6: Kelsey here? Or do I wait around for Dalton Kincaid,
Speaker 6: another guy that I love or do I wait a
Speaker 6: couple more rounds for Brock Bauer's a guy that I
Speaker 6: think should be getting drafted higher as well.
Speaker 1: Do you love anybody who's not any Any player gets
Speaker 1: older than about three years in, they're all dead to you.
Speaker 6: They're done. I'm a Leonardo DiCaprio TP.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's gonna be yeah, absolutely absolutely all right, I'm
Speaker 1: going to in round five? Sorry, Round four. My toughest
Speaker 1: call Kansas City Wide receiver Rashi Rice. Tons of moving
Speaker 1: parts here, I mean. But first, he's a really good player. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and last year in his rookie season, he finished second
Speaker 1: in yards after the catch. That's pretty darn good when
Speaker 1: you know number one's Deebo Samuel and then Rashi Rice.
Speaker 1: He is a good player. He figures to improve in
Speaker 1: his second year, and his usage last year went berserk
Speaker 1: after Thanksgiving when he averaged nine targets per game. But
Speaker 1: a will he be suspended? B Hollywood Brown see Xavier Worthy.
Speaker 1: Those are big variables that could all eat into the
Speaker 1: productivity of Rashi Rice, making him I think my toughest call.
Speaker 3: Four twenty two target red zone targets for a rookie.
Speaker 4: YEA, how about that?
Speaker 3: Really impressive?
Speaker 1: Really impressive? But was it because they you know, you
Speaker 1: are other people on roster, the sky Moore.
Speaker 3: And they're on the red zone a lot too, so.
Speaker 1: They are in their red zone a lot. Let's go
Speaker 1: round five. What's your toughest call?
Speaker 3: Yeah? For me, it is the start of several rounds
Speaker 3: of packers wide receivers. I can't make heads or tails
Speaker 3: of it. I think I just want one of the
Speaker 3: cheapest ones. I love me some Jane Reid, he could
Speaker 3: lead the lead the NFL in wide receiver rushing yards.
Speaker 3: He could, Yeah, absolutely, But Jordan Love spreads the ball
Speaker 3: round and their top four wide receivers, any one of
Speaker 3: them any week can be the top guy or the
Speaker 3: number four guy in that offense, and I just can't
Speaker 3: bite at that point on Jayden.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to thor your toughest call in
Speaker 1: round five?
Speaker 6: When we're in round five, it becomes a three dimensional
Speaker 6: chess game. And my biggest question now he's in round
Speaker 6: five is if Anthony Richardson is there in my slot?
Speaker 5: Do I take? Is it Anthony richard in time?
Speaker 6: Or I do I want to wait a couple of
Speaker 6: rounds four Jayden Daniels, and it usually just depends on
Speaker 6: the other guys that are out there, but yeah, Anthony
Speaker 6: Richard is.
Speaker 5: The guy that I'm thinking about. Round five.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for me, I'm going back to the Kansas city
Speaker 1: wide receivers. Xavier Worthy is now up to round five,
Speaker 1: so you know, if I want him, I got to
Speaker 1: do this because last week and he posted those two
Speaker 1: big downfield plays. Skyrocketing is adp and Worthy is.
Speaker 3: Going to have big plays.
Speaker 1: Hopefully he'll unlock a downfield passing attack that Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: has been missing the past few years. But what happens
Speaker 1: in games where you don't connect on the big downfield play?
Speaker 1: To Xavier Worthy? Am I looking at two catches for
Speaker 1: twenty five yards? I'm nervous about that. Track stars turned
Speaker 1: receivers usually fail in the NFL.
Speaker 3: I'm nervous.
Speaker 1: Maybe it's because I'm in so many guillotine leagues that
Speaker 1: the downside scares me. But that's the upside in the
Speaker 1: downside for Xavier Worthy makes him I think a very
Speaker 1: tough call. Agreed, let's go to let's go to round six, Scott.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so this one I could easily continue with Green
Speaker 3: Bay wide receivers with Christian Watson Sydney in this round.
Speaker 3: But I've kind of said my piece on that at
Speaker 3: least for now. We'll see if there's another one. Uh,
Speaker 3: But for me here it's Joe Mixon. He's Joe Mixon
Speaker 3: is going to be one of the last potential lead
Speaker 3: backs that we'll see. He's likely the goal line back,
Speaker 3: very high powered offense if there's anything left in the tank,
Speaker 3: and he is the guy in that offense and at
Speaker 3: the stripe. It's very interesting. But is he cooked?
Speaker 4: Like?
Speaker 3: Is he cooked? Maybe we'll talk about that all right?
Speaker 1: Four? Your round five toughest decision? Sorry six run round six?
Speaker 6: Yeah, every round six of every draft, I have the
Speaker 6: exact same dilemma, which is just how quickly do I
Speaker 6: announce Roman dunes A?
Speaker 5: Do I slow roll it?
Speaker 6: Do I auto picka? That's your toughest that's my toughest one.
Speaker 3: Got you you like rub your beard? Who should I take?
Speaker 2: Here? So?
Speaker 1: I love that you've had fun with this this exercise.
Speaker 1: That's fantastic. Round six Houston running back Joe Mixon, Thank you? Familiar?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I believe I just mentioned him.
Speaker 1: Yep, that's my guy and We're going to talk more
Speaker 1: about cam Akers Damian Pierce later in this show. Let
Speaker 1: me mention this because you didn't give some of these metrics.
Speaker 1: Let me give you some Joe mix and metrics. Last
Speaker 1: year he drooped down to PFFS running back thirty five
Speaker 1: and he went all the way down to running back
Speaker 1: fifty in elusiveness.
Speaker 3: But he's the lead back in a Houston offense.
Speaker 1: That offense could be a top three scoring offense this year.
Speaker 1: This is I think that is a brutal call to
Speaker 1: try to make in round six.
Speaker 3: He also last year led the league in runs up
Speaker 3: the middle into the line that made you roll your eyes.
Speaker 3: Don't league in that hate that category?
Speaker 1: Go around seven, Scott your toughest call round seven.
Speaker 3: It's probably Naji Harris at this point here and Enticey
Speaker 3: as enticing as an Arthur Smith runner is Jalen Warren
Speaker 3: not beating out Nause says that Nase's still got something
Speaker 3: he can't. He caught balls at Alabama. He can catch balls,
Speaker 3: he doesn't really do it in the NFL. The only
Speaker 3: other competition would be Patterson, who we've talked about earlier.
Speaker 3: Naji Harris should get a decent amount of work in
Speaker 3: this offense. I just I worry. I worry that he
Speaker 3: looks like Naji Harrison. I worry that other players are
Speaker 3: going to get more work later down the road.
Speaker 1: So your toughest call in round seven.
Speaker 5: I love round seven. Round seven.
Speaker 6: It's like, you know, people ask me, like, what's your
Speaker 6: favorite day of the draft. It's not Day one. It's
Speaker 6: either Day two or Day three. Round seven of fantasy
Speaker 6: drafts this summer.
Speaker 5: Interesting.
Speaker 6: It's the same sort of thing. I think there's an
Speaker 6: embarrassment of riches here. For me, it's the three dimensional
Speaker 6: chest thing of did I take Anthony Richard in two
Speaker 6: rounds ago?
Speaker 5: Or do I need it to Jaden Daniels or Kyler
Speaker 5: Murray here?
Speaker 6: If I have the quarterback though, Jackson Smith and Jigbaught,
Speaker 6: Lad McConkie, Aaron Jones, it's like all three of those
Speaker 6: guys I want on my roster. So that's where it
Speaker 6: because I think Jackson Bid the Jigbud is going to
Speaker 6: jump jump up this year. I think Lad McConkie goes
Speaker 6: in is immediately wide receiver one with the Chargers, and
Speaker 6: Aaron Jones is running behind the Vikings best offensive line
Speaker 6: in the last decade like and Sam Darnauld going to
Speaker 6: check down to him plenty in the past game.
Speaker 5: So yeah, I love this.
Speaker 3: This is a great round. Brian Thomas, Kean Coleman, just
Speaker 3: oh man.
Speaker 1: I'm not picking any of those guys though as my
Speaker 1: toughest call, because maybe in Parks I like a lot
Speaker 1: of those guys. Yeah, Aaron Jones, the seventh round can
Speaker 1: have came on? Yeah, how about Detroit wide receiver Jamison
Speaker 1: Williams for a tricky call, right, His playing time is
Speaker 1: going to go way up this year. He's finally fully healthy.
Speaker 1: From that acl Josh Reynolds out of the picture. He
Speaker 1: gives you first round equity and a pension for big plays,
Speaker 1: But can he be more than a once in a
Speaker 1: month home run hitter. Where is he in the pecking
Speaker 1: order of balls? Because I'm on Ross Saint Brown and
Speaker 1: Sam laport I gotta be fed. You got to throw
Speaker 1: a few balls to Jamir Gibbs. Where does Jamison Williams
Speaker 1: fit in? The upside? Is bonkers, big plays and a
Speaker 1: third year receiver who could put it all together. Your
Speaker 1: downside is the fourth passing option in the Lions offense.
Speaker 1: Let's go to round eight. What's your toughest call, Scott.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I had several down here that I wasn't sure
Speaker 3: about which one I like. I think Curtis Samuel is
Speaker 3: one that he plays that coveted Bills slot role. Knows
Speaker 3: the offense. There is a absolute ton of vacated targets
Speaker 3: in a high powered offense. I just worry that Coleman's
Speaker 3: gonna take over more of a role than we think
Speaker 3: Shakir's there, Kincaid, I don't know that there's enough meat
Speaker 3: on the bone left for Samuel.
Speaker 1: All right, So Curtis Samuel your toughest call, But it
Speaker 1: doesn't sound that tough. It sounds like you're just scared. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're just nervous about him. Round eight your toughest call.
Speaker 6: Or this is the roun where if I don't have
Speaker 6: a tight end yet, we are popping brock Bowers. But
Speaker 6: let's say that we do and we're looking around at
Speaker 6: other positions. The biggest guy that I go back and
Speaker 6: forth on is Courtland Sutton with Bonix. Starting at court
Speaker 6: Bonix is just a checkdown artist, like he never in college,
Speaker 6: shot back in the pocket, surveyed his options, and then
Speaker 6: threw downfield. The Oregon system was just pre delineated. Reads
Speaker 6: Courtland Sutton, You're gonna be the top target there, But
Speaker 6: how many targets are you going to get?
Speaker 1: My round eight toughest called Jonathan Brooks the Carolina running.
Speaker 3: Back, right, I mean, it's how long do you want
Speaker 3: to wait for that part? And when he comes back?
Speaker 1: What if he comes back a little bit earlier than
Speaker 1: we think, you get the starting running back and what's
Speaker 1: going to be a much improved offense, or maybe it
Speaker 1: just takes him a long time to come back. Maybe
Speaker 1: the first year off the ACL just doesn't work for
Speaker 1: Jonathan Brooks. Yep, let's go to round nine.
Speaker 3: Scott uh Man, I had an I had another Green Bay.
Speaker 3: I can keep keep picking on Green Bay receivers. I'm
Speaker 3: not gonna do that here. I'm gonna go with Pollard
Speaker 3: should get a decent workloun work workload for a ninth
Speaker 3: round guy. He is sounds like the lead, but I
Speaker 3: just like Spears so much better that I just can't.
Speaker 3: I just can't take him here.
Speaker 1: It's he's he's a tough call here, thor your round
Speaker 1: nine toughest decision.
Speaker 6: It was gonna be Jonathan Brooks, but it looks like
Speaker 6: I gave myself a disc time you really you went
Speaker 6: the round before, all right, ta J Spears.
Speaker 5: I get aggressive for here.
Speaker 6: But the one guy here that where it's it's the
Speaker 6: biggest dilemma for me, is Chase Brown for all the
Speaker 6: reasons that we talked about with Cincinnati's weird backfield.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I've got Zack Moss going in the same
Speaker 1: round and as a as a tough call for a
Speaker 1: lot of the same reasons. Now, if you if you
Speaker 1: hit that, if you hit that Cincinnati backfield, right jackpot baby,
Speaker 1: I think it's more likely to be Moss just for
Speaker 1: the consistency, the veteran stuff.
Speaker 3: Or do you think he'll be go line?
Speaker 1: And I think he'll be goal line.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Chase Brown was not a touchdown big touchdown score in Illinois.
Speaker 5: Didn't break a ton of tackles either.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so that's I lean Zach Moss here. Tough
Speaker 1: call though, when we don't know what's.
Speaker 3: Going on with Chase Brown. Great job, guys.
Speaker 1: When we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly, we're going
Speaker 1: to go through the vacated targets and touches from around
Speaker 1: the league. What are the big opportunities that have now
Speaker 1: teams find themselves in. Players find themselves in that maybe
Speaker 1: they weren't in in the past. Our Number two Fantasy
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Speaker 1: go through the vacated targets around the NFL. Scott, No,
Speaker 1: I believe this is Thor. We start with you.
Speaker 3: Yep, sure, vacated targets.
Speaker 1: So we're looking at and we say that we're talking
Speaker 1: about a team where the players so many players have
Speaker 1: left that they're in the offseason. There's a big vacuum
Speaker 1: created for targets for new players that weren't getting fed
Speaker 1: last year but might get fed this year. Thor talk
Speaker 1: to me about the teams with the most vacated targets.
Speaker 6: The number one team in the NFL for most percentage
Speaker 6: of targets vacated also number one in receiving yards vacated,
Speaker 6: as the Los Angeles Chargers. You have to replace Keenan
Speaker 6: Allen one hundred and fifty targets. You have to replace
Speaker 6: Austin Eckler's running back targets. You have to replace Gerald
Speaker 6: Everett's tight end targets, et cetera.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Mike Williams doesn't even count in this because
Speaker 1: he tours ac on September, but that's also a missing
Speaker 1: starter from this time last year.
Speaker 6: Indeed, and I think the biggest benefactor here Lad McConkie,
Speaker 6: who I love. And also I had to say this,
Speaker 6: I'm not actually recording in the studio today with these guys.
Speaker 6: I'm recording from Quinton Johnston Island. I'm the only one
Speaker 6: who never left. I've been sipping my ties all off season.
Speaker 6: I'm not leaving QJ Island. He's wide receiver seventy seven
Speaker 6: if you're in a super deep league.
Speaker 5: Maybe take a flyer there.
Speaker 6: Quintin Johnson's best game ever, by the way, was when
Speaker 6: TCU upset Michigan in the College Football Playoff a year
Speaker 6: and a half ago. Yeah, the year before Michigan won
Speaker 6: the national title.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 6: Of course Jim Harbaugh was watching on horrified in that
Speaker 6: game as TCU upset them. Is because Quentin Johnson went
Speaker 6: ballistic in that game. Still keeping hope for him.
Speaker 1: All right, So who's the second So that's team number one?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 3: What number two?
Speaker 6: I'm sorry. One other thing I wanted to mention. We
Speaker 6: brought up Camani Vidal earlier in this episode. Here's the
Speaker 6: three running backs that are around there outside of him.
Speaker 6: You have Gus Edwards only thirty career receptions, JK Dobbins
Speaker 6: only twenty seven, Jared Patterson only ten. Kamani Vedah was
Speaker 6: the best pass blocking back in this past draft class.
Speaker 6: I also think he has more received. He had twenty
Speaker 6: plus catches last four years. He's going to get involved,
Speaker 6: I think on the passing downs. The number two team
Speaker 6: for targets vacated is the Washington Commanders as of the
Speaker 6: last forty eight hours.
Speaker 1: Right right, Well, yeah, with John Dotson out.
Speaker 5: They move ahead of the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 6: We'll talk about in a second, but fifty nine point
Speaker 6: five percent of their targets are vacated for the Commanders
Speaker 6: twelve hundred and forty receiving yards out the door. Besides
Speaker 6: the Dotson trip. Before the Dotson trade, of course Lost Curtis,
Speaker 6: Samuel Logan, Thomas biggest benefactors here. It's the rookie class,
Speaker 6: Luke McCaffrey the third round pick, and then of course
Speaker 6: Ben Sennett the second round tight end. I think you
Speaker 6: might see some more twelve personnel offense out there for Washington.
Speaker 6: And when they do go twelve personnel and take off
Speaker 6: the third receive, that's when Senate's going to come in
Speaker 6: alongside zach Ertz, especially for later in the season.
Speaker 5: I love the dart throw on Senate.
Speaker 6: And if the Commanders do not trade for Brandon ayuk Uh,
Speaker 6: it's it's it's Luke McCaffrey time.
Speaker 1: And we're trying to we're just trying to speak into
Speaker 1: existence the Brandon ayuk to Washington.
Speaker 3: There's no there's no actual substances at all.
Speaker 1: We decided we just all think it would be really
Speaker 1: interesting to give Jayden Daniels, a talent like Ayuk for
Speaker 1: should be, which would be great. I think I think
Speaker 1: the guy you didn't mention, I think Austin Eckler. It's
Speaker 1: gonna have a really nice oh yeah, really nice PPR year.
Speaker 1: All right, So then that that leaves the Bills as
Speaker 1: the third team in vacated targetstore.
Speaker 6: Yeah, so they're just behind now Washington. After that deal.
Speaker 6: Of course, Stefan Diggs and Gave Davis departed, and then
Speaker 6: you signed Curtis Samuel, Marcus Valdez, Scanting, Matt Collins. I
Speaker 6: those guys in Samuel has some interest to me. We
Speaker 6: talked about him earlier in the episode. I think the
Speaker 6: biggest benefactors here are Dalton Kincaid, who I think has
Speaker 6: the huge breakout year, and then Khalil shak.
Speaker 1: Yeah, my guy, you're boy charged.
Speaker 6: Yes, so yeah, I think it's wheels up on Kincaid.
Speaker 6: But Shakir, recall he finished last season very very strong,
Speaker 6: and now you have all these vacated targets and you
Speaker 6: have receiving playing time to soak up. I also think
Speaker 6: James Cook is going to see an increased targets as well,
Speaker 6: which if you go down the stream on this one
Speaker 6: upshot of that or one side affected. This could be
Speaker 6: that Ray Davis gets on the field a little bit
Speaker 6: more because Cook is getting more touches through the receiving game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think Cook is. I think Cook is going
Speaker 1: to get more catches, gonna get more carries, more goal
Speaker 1: line opportunities. There's some real opportunity for Cook to really
Speaker 1: break out of the you know that RB sort of
Speaker 1: two three flex thing he's been in lately.
Speaker 6: For sure, they're gonna need some upside here. Yeah, all right,
Speaker 6: do you have any more vacated target teams?
Speaker 5: I do.
Speaker 6: Cincinnati comes in fourth with forty three point eight percent
Speaker 6: of their targets vacated. Of course, Joe Mixon going to
Speaker 6: the Texans, Tyler Boyd out the door.
Speaker 5: Biggest benefactors here.
Speaker 6: It is that Jermaine Burton against Andrey Yoshivas thing that
Speaker 6: we talked about before. We like Yoshi Vas a little
Speaker 6: bit more for this coming season. And then of course,
Speaker 6: you know, you look at the tight end situation as well.
Speaker 6: I think there's gonna be more targets going there. Eric
Speaker 6: All is the deep, deep sleeper that I want. Of course,
Speaker 6: they have Gaseiki as well, but Eric All is a
Speaker 6: stud pass catcher and I think he's gonna get on
Speaker 6: the field for passing downs.
Speaker 3: I took him in the last second, last round on
Speaker 3: the fish Bowl.
Speaker 5: Love it.
Speaker 1: I like that pick. That's that's some deep stuff with
Speaker 1: eric All. But by the end of the year, who knows.
Speaker 1: I mean, traditionally tight ends starts slowly. I think he
Speaker 1: is probably somebody who would not be somebody I'm going
Speaker 1: to be starting in October. But maybe for sure, man,
Speaker 1: we'll see.
Speaker 6: Yeah, and coming off injury, but yeah, he's already back
Speaker 6: at camp and we're ready to go.
Speaker 1: All right.
Speaker 3: Do you have a fifth team on vacated target?
Speaker 6: I do number five Jacksonville Jaguars forty one point three
Speaker 6: percent of their targets vacated. Of course, lost the most
Speaker 6: targeted wide receiver in Kelvin Ridley, also cut Zay Jones.
Speaker 6: Biggest benefactors here. I think it's going to be Brian
Speaker 6: Thomas Junior, who the first round. Kid is a stud
Speaker 6: down field. It speaks for itself. He's an absolute assassin
Speaker 6: down the field. Can they teach him the other routes
Speaker 6: and will those come out as a rookie? But if
Speaker 6: nothing else, you have that home run ball downfield and
Speaker 6: then Christian Kirk and gave Davis course there as well.
Speaker 6: But I think the big benefactor is Brian Thomas Junior.
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be Gabe Davis. There's never been a
Speaker 1: volume guy. I don't think it's it's gonna be Thomas. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: of the I would not be surprised if Thomas is
Speaker 1: sitting on one hundred targets.
Speaker 6: Could right, there's the opportunities there, I mean, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: And I love Christian Kirk and Kirk's still my preferred
Speaker 1: choice of the two, just for this year. But Thomas
Speaker 1: has got.
Speaker 6: Like the body for touchdown and Babe and for sure,
Speaker 6: and that all comes down can he get to that
Speaker 6: target volume as a rookie. It's gonna come down to
Speaker 6: Kenny winning the intermediate range. We know that kid can
Speaker 6: win downfield if he shows that he can create separation
Speaker 6: in the intermediate range, that's where he jumps up in targets.
Speaker 1: Let's go to vacated touches, sure, Scott, Now this is
Speaker 1: different than vacated targets, And.
Speaker 3: You did mention a few few running backs in there.
Speaker 3: Vacated basically vacant to touch his vacated opportunities carries plus targets. Uh,
Speaker 3: you know what, what opportunities can a running back have
Speaker 3: in an offense that lost a lot. We'll start with
Speaker 3: the Cowboys here, who lost Pollard, who had over three
Speaker 3: hundred plus carries plus targets last year. The obvious benefactors
Speaker 3: right now are Ezekiel, Elliott, rico'dono and whoever they pick
Speaker 3: up sometime in the season, who we don't know who
Speaker 3: that is. But interestingly enough, they lost twenty one inside
Speaker 3: the five touches about twenty one touches inside the five.
Speaker 3: So if you can take a stab at one of
Speaker 3: those two having that role, and I think it might
Speaker 3: be Elliott to start on. I think so too, because
Speaker 3: all the history.
Speaker 1: Of goal line US said Elliott had in Dallas. I mean,
Speaker 1: I just think they're hardwired to think exactly that Zeke
Speaker 1: is a goal line runner still.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you give him twenty one of those and
Speaker 3: he scores eleven of them, They're going to keep going
Speaker 3: to him. That make a wish thing he jumps in
Speaker 3: or the yeah, the po the pot. They might need
Speaker 3: to have that be like a kiddie pool so he
Speaker 3: can actually jump in it. Now at his age.
Speaker 1: Salvation Army.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Salvation Army. That's what it is, all right. So
Speaker 3: that number one is Dallas, Yes, yeah, A lot of
Speaker 3: these lost like three hundred plus. You know, Carrie's plus
Speaker 3: targets Pollard there obviously, the Giants lost three hundred plus
Speaker 3: with Barkley. That's Singletary and maybe Tracy with some you
Speaker 3: know in between the twenties, a little bit of receiving work,
Speaker 3: some gadgety work. But Singletary has a real opportunity to
Speaker 3: be a huge volume back kind of for the first time. Yeah,
Speaker 3: to and we saw that a couple of games with Houston,
Speaker 3: But he has an opportunity to really, for the first
Speaker 3: time just take on a full on roll and we'll see.
Speaker 3: I don't know who else is gonna take the goal
Speaker 3: line rolls there even to start.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's it's Singletary's got to be the guy, right,
Speaker 1: But his pet agree at the goal line is not strong.
Speaker 3: No, so I don't I remember correctly. It was forty
Speaker 3: percent or something, maybe even less than.
Speaker 1: It's like a thirty five percent conversion rate something in
Speaker 1: that ballpark, which is not not terrific. Then in Singletary's
Speaker 1: not a power back exactly.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now I've got him in a couple of my guillotine
Speaker 1: leagues just because of the volume. Right, I just feel
Speaker 1: like he's going to touch the ball fifteen plus time
Speaker 1: pretty much every game. I wish he was more of
Speaker 1: a contributor through the air, but he just isn't.
Speaker 3: Yep, another team with three hundred plus opportunities vacated the Chargers,
Speaker 3: who thor had kind of gone over. But I think
Speaker 3: one of the interesting points not brought yet is nineteen
Speaker 3: inside the five carries. Where does that go Gus Edwards?
Speaker 3: We think that's Gus Edwards.
Speaker 1: Yes, I do think it's Gus Edwards says.
Speaker 3: He being under drags.
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards had the most carries in you know, the
Speaker 1: most touchdowns from inside the five last year. Twelve touchdowns
Speaker 1: just from inside the five. Dude's a converter on those.
Speaker 1: So I think it'll be Gus Edwards there.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, then some of these are very clear what happens
Speaker 3: with them. The Eagles lost fifteen carries inside the five,
Speaker 3: they lost two hundred and eighty plus touches. That's basically
Speaker 3: Barkley this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he'll pick those up.
Speaker 3: That's basically Barkley. You got the Titans with sixteen inside
Speaker 3: the five carries and three hundred plus. Henry touched that. Yes,
Speaker 3: is it Spears or is it Pollard? Who's going to
Speaker 3: take the goal line?
Speaker 1: I can't even you know, even though we don't know
Speaker 1: for su I can't get myself to draft Tony Pollard anymore.
Speaker 3: I can't either. Spears is better? Yeah, exactly, yes, And
Speaker 3: I know I know the word word out is Pollard.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I think we all are team Spears on
Speaker 3: this on this side.
Speaker 1: Now, we've got our dart throw sound right here, right,
Speaker 1: so there's a dart would a spear sound similar but
Speaker 1: like more basy?
Speaker 5: Like, yes, we need a sounder, Robbie.
Speaker 3: Can you just take that sound? And like, yeah, right,
Speaker 3: can we take that little?
Speaker 1: We make that deeper, Robbie, Yeah, I need you to
Speaker 1: get onto a spear sounder that's different from the dart
Speaker 1: throw sounder. We'll see how that goes. Hopefully we can
Speaker 1: get that done.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And I could just wrap up quickly with four
Speaker 3: the four last ones, the Raiders lost all of Josh
Speaker 3: Jacob's stuff, and Thor already talked about uh Dylan Lobby
Speaker 3: coming on for the pass catching role and Samir White.
Speaker 3: We talked about the Bengals a ton. They lost twenty
Speaker 3: one carries inside the five. You think it's gonna be
Speaker 3: Moss two that didn't lose a lot of opportunities, but
Speaker 3: they lost a lot of inside the five opportunities. The
Speaker 3: Ravens lost twenty four, that's mostly that's Derek Henry and
Speaker 3: the Bills lost sixteen. But I think there's a question
Speaker 3: mark there Ken Ray Davis take on that role. Are
Speaker 3: they gonna give it to James Cook to start?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's that's gonna be a fascinating one to watch
Speaker 1: for sure. Lat freaking Latavius Murray with twelve carries from
Speaker 1: inside the five last year downs shocking that they had
Speaker 1: done that, And you know that was that's sort of
Speaker 1: a slap in the face to James Cook, like we
Speaker 1: don't trust you here. We're gonna go with Latavius Murray.
Speaker 1: Maybe they still don't trust James Cook and they.
Speaker 5: Go to Rake.
Speaker 1: Could be it's gonna be a Shafts draft that whole
Speaker 1: Bill's offense. It's gonna be it's gonna be a Week
Speaker 1: one revelations when we see how that thing unfurls. Can't
Speaker 1: wait for that when we come back, we will go
Speaker 1: through hang on, Oh it's is it time for three
Speaker 1: tough questions?
Speaker 3: No, I think it's cook. Are well done? Older players?
Speaker 1: Do the guys have anything left? Or are they completely cooked?
Speaker 1: Find out when we return Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchi and Scott Fish and Thor
Speaker 1: Nystrom with you, getting you ready for draft time.
Speaker 3: I need the other sounder. I need Robbie.
Speaker 1: I need a sizzling sounder. I need I need some
Speaker 1: some steak on the grill.
Speaker 3: We can work on that charge. So this is a segment. Now.
Speaker 3: We started this last week and I want.
Speaker 1: To expand on it.
Speaker 3: Are we gonna do it in season?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 3: Or not?
Speaker 1: I don't think well, but we might be referring to
Speaker 1: guys as cooked often in the season. And then I'm
Speaker 1: gonna want some that's more. That's eating pro that's not
Speaker 1: eating steaks.
Speaker 3: That doesn't work.
Speaker 1: That doesn't work. I think we're gonna I think we're
Speaker 1: gonna need some sizzle in our in our soundbar the
Speaker 1: debate here. I'm giving you older players. I want you
Speaker 1: to tell me are they cooked? There?
Speaker 3: We go? Well done? My man?
Speaker 1: Wow button bar that wow.
Speaker 3: All right, there's our sizzle.
Speaker 1: Are these guys completely cooked or are they merely medium
Speaker 1: well cooked or medium?
Speaker 3: Well?
Speaker 1: We begin with Ezekiel Elliott twenty nine years old, twenty
Speaker 1: four hundred career carries and receptions.
Speaker 3: Scott, Yeah, I'm going cooked on this one. Scored twice
Speaker 3: on his five carries from inside the five last year,
Speaker 3: his one point five yards after contact was one of
Speaker 3: the worst rates in the NFL, and of his career,
Speaker 3: his explosive run rate has basically dropped to almost nothing.
Speaker 3: I think he had eight total explosive plays last year.
Speaker 3: I'd love to rewatch the replays on the blocking on
Speaker 3: those that got him that far down field, the third
Speaker 3: worst rate for backs over one hundred and fifty carries.
Speaker 3: But he may get the goal line work, so he
Speaker 3: may have fantasy value. But we want touchdowns. But touchdowns
Speaker 3: aren't super predictable. So I'm gonna go with cooked.
Speaker 1: All right, cooked one cooked on Ezekiel Elliott four.
Speaker 5: This guy is Delvin cooked.
Speaker 6: He's done, he is done. You might get some of
Speaker 6: those shortyards carries and the goal line carries like we're
Speaker 6: talking about, but yeah, this guy has an average over
Speaker 6: four yards per carry since twenty twenty one, three and
Speaker 6: last four seasons has been four flatter under last year three.
Speaker 5: And a half, He's done as a difference maker.
Speaker 1: Dallas, he has cooked. Dallas might not have an NFL
Speaker 1: caliber starting runner. When we're talking about samizing Ryan perhaps
Speaker 1: showing up and being your best runner, that's a bad sign.
Speaker 1: You guys have already hit on a bunch of the metrics.
Speaker 1: But I'll note that Zeke fell all the way down
Speaker 1: to running back forty seven in PFF grade, his yards
Speaker 1: after contact dropped to running back fifty this year. All right,
Speaker 1: Next up, I'm cooked versus medium well.
Speaker 3: Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: He's thirty five years old, twelve years in the league,
Speaker 1: five thousand, six hundred career passes and almost one thousand
Speaker 1: rushing attempts. Russell Wilson cooked or medium well? For this
Speaker 1: time we begin with you.
Speaker 5: Russell Wilson is cooked.
Speaker 6: And Mike Tannebaum stop putting those rumors out about trying
Speaker 6: to get him to Minnesota.
Speaker 3: I know, yeah, please know.
Speaker 6: Russell Wilson might be a backup quarterback this year justin
Speaker 6: Justin Field is nipping at his heels.
Speaker 5: Russell Wilson is cooked, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Scott Russell Wilson cooked or medium Well.
Speaker 3: I've been anti Russell Wilson for several years now, so
Speaker 3: I feel like there's a little bit of bias in here.
Speaker 3: But he's cooked. He's cooked. Last year, sixty one percent
Speaker 3: of his passes where five yards are less downfield. He
Speaker 3: doesn't even have the arm he used to have. League
Speaker 3: average is about fifty percent. Only fourteen percent deep ball
Speaker 3: that's over twenty yards. Takes a ton of sacks now
Speaker 3: third most. Last year, his first year with the Broncos
Speaker 3: was rough, but man, it's last year was better. But
Speaker 3: I think he's cooked.
Speaker 1: I'm going medium well on Russell Wilson.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 1: Last year kind of good, despite a completely diseased situation
Speaker 1: in Denver in which his team ultimately benched him for
Speaker 1: the final two games of the year after blackmailing their
Speaker 1: own quarterback.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's come on this. I mean it was
Speaker 3: a horrible.
Speaker 1: But yet despite all that second half of the season
Speaker 1: weeks eight through sixteen before they benched him, he finished
Speaker 1: his quarterback seventeen or higher, which is not terrible thirty
Speaker 1: two NFL teams. He threw touchdowns in every game. He
Speaker 1: scored multiple touchdowns in every game but one second half
Speaker 1: of last season. He was not a bad quarterback. And
Speaker 1: here come the Steelers. They're used to Kenny Pickett, one
Speaker 1: hop in balls around the field. Russell Wilson just by
Speaker 1: virtue of throwing a catchable pass is going to look
Speaker 1: good enough to secure that job. I don't think justin
Speaker 1: Fields can do it.
Speaker 3: Let's go to.
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara, Cooked or medium Well, twenty nine years old,
Speaker 1: thirteen hundred career carries, five hundred receptions, Cooked or medium Well, Scott.
Speaker 3: I feel like I'm just cooking up all these players
Speaker 3: right now. I'm putting cooked on here. He was bottom
Speaker 3: ten and almost too many categories to count last year.
Speaker 3: Most rushing categories explicit plays ten plus fifteen plus yards
Speaker 3: per tach, yards per carry, Like everything rushing wise, it's
Speaker 3: gone from him. But pass catching it's still there, but
Speaker 3: it's all volume. Even his yards after the catch was
Speaker 3: bottom ten among running backs. So he's just catching the
Speaker 3: ball out there. So he may have fantasy value, but
Speaker 3: because of those catches and that volume of catches outside
Speaker 3: of that, there's really not much left there, all right.
Speaker 1: So you're on cooked with Alvin Kamara, all right? Thor
Speaker 1: for you Alvin Kamara cooked or merely medium. Well, this is.
Speaker 6: A medium well here for Alvin Kamar, all right, last
Speaker 6: year was weird of chorus. Was limited to the thirteen
Speaker 6: games because of the late start to this season. But
Speaker 6: he did have a bunch of catches last year seventy
Speaker 6: five that maybe the efficiency wasn't quite as good as
Speaker 6: in recent years.
Speaker 5: But again got the late start to the season.
Speaker 6: And by the way, the situation there, Dennis Allen hates
Speaker 6: Kendray Miller.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he absolutely does, calling him out publicly.
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like he's his enemy or something. The situation
Speaker 6: is great for Kamara, and I think he'll have a
Speaker 6: better season.
Speaker 3: This is where I am. He should be fantasy viable,
Speaker 3: but I don't think as a player he's that much
Speaker 3: good anyway. By the way of his catches, like thirty
Speaker 3: five of them came in two games.
Speaker 5: That's okay.
Speaker 3: It's funny.
Speaker 1: Scott and I have almost the exact same talking points
Speaker 1: here on Alvin Kamara, but I will I flipped to
Speaker 1: the medium.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm just so negative today, even the tough decision
Speaker 3: every round, I'm just I'm going to be super negative today.
Speaker 3: You scratched your job this morning. And your I did out.
Speaker 3: I'm still pissed about my car.
Speaker 1: You're so right about Camara as a rusher, just in
Speaker 1: that respect, he was so explosive and so many big
Speaker 1: plays earlier in his career. That's all dried up. But
Speaker 1: the receptions just keep him viable. Here seventy five receptions
Speaker 1: last year, second most across all the league for runners,
Speaker 1: and that was despite missing four games. But you have
Speaker 1: played the full season, he would have led the all
Speaker 1: running backs and receptions.
Speaker 3: By the way, it was twenty five and two games,
Speaker 3: not thirty five. Thirty five would be unreal.
Speaker 1: That would be two very strong games.
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: Let's go to cooked or medium well for Austin Eckler
Speaker 1: twenty nine years old, just shy of one thousand carries
Speaker 1: and four hundred and forty career receptions to Austin Eckler
Speaker 1: thor cooked or just medium well.
Speaker 6: Austin Eckler's cooked. Austin Eckler's cook. Now, is he gonna
Speaker 6: get the receiving down work initially in this season? Yes,
Speaker 6: I do, but I don't know about after that. I
Speaker 6: don't know how well he's going to quit himself. There
Speaker 6: certainly is a full time back that's over. Brian Robinson
Speaker 6: gonna be doing the early downstuff. But yeah, I think
Speaker 6: Austin Eckler's cooked.
Speaker 1: Scott Austin Eckler cooked or me or merely medium.
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, I'm still going medium well on this. He
Speaker 3: like maybe a few factor in the injuries I feel
Speaker 3: like he was dealing with injuries last year. The pult
Speaker 3: stuff down. But even after the catch last year ten
Speaker 3: point three yards after the catch, the complete in verse
Speaker 3: of Kamara, he was still very efficient with his touches,
Speaker 3: not so much in the red zone, like one point
Speaker 3: six yards per carrying the red zone. But that's not
Speaker 3: what he's gonna be for Washington. He's going to be
Speaker 3: the pass catcher. I kind of like him in that
Speaker 3: role in Washington.
Speaker 1: Austin Eckler is medium well. Light usage early in his
Speaker 1: career helps so that at age twenty nine, he doesn't
Speaker 1: have all the mileage that some others have had, and
Speaker 1: he's not going to be a workhorse, but he's going
Speaker 1: to catch a ton of passes, sprinkle in some high
Speaker 1: value rushes.
Speaker 3: Man man Brian Robinson.
Speaker 1: Zero threat to catch passes and by the way, terrible
Speaker 1: the goal line. Austin Eckler might end up stealing some
Speaker 1: goal line work here. Young quarterbacks love to dump off
Speaker 1: the ball. Jayden Daniels could use Eckler copiously as a
Speaker 1: safety valve. I feel really good about Austin Eckler's being
Speaker 1: a PPR helper this year. We will say medium.
Speaker 3: Well, okay, all right, let's do a couple more guys.
Speaker 1: Mike Evans thirty one years old, seven hundred and sixty
Speaker 1: receptions for almost twelve thousand yards in his career. Mike Evans,
Speaker 1: is he cooked or is he medium?
Speaker 3: Well? Why is he on this list? I don't even
Speaker 3: see why he's on this list. He's I guess medium well.
Speaker 3: He's coming off a year where he led the league
Speaker 3: in touchdowns, even with his QBU who is admittedly out
Speaker 3: of shape with the new baby now back in shape.
Speaker 3: But he was top ten in first three targets red
Speaker 3: zone targets in an offense with no real threats in
Speaker 3: the wide receiver room, especially on the outside. His yards
Speaker 3: per reception and ad out we're also both top ten.
Speaker 3: It doesn't seem like his metrics have completely dried up.
Speaker 1: All right, Mike Evans cooked or medium well, or they're.
Speaker 6: Gonna have to wheel him off an NFL fio for
Speaker 6: me to be like, he's cooked.
Speaker 5: That guy is ageless, he is timeless.
Speaker 6: I was in I was in the crib when he
Speaker 6: made Johnny Mantel Johnny Football, a first round pick back
Speaker 6: at Texas A and M. And every single year after
Speaker 6: a thousand yard thousand yard, thousand yard not cooked.
Speaker 3: I'm excited, excited to hear where you go, hush.
Speaker 1: Oh, he's medium. Well, okay, okay, he's not cooked.
Speaker 3: Mike Evans not cooked now, and the Bucks believe in him.
Speaker 1: They just give me a new two year deal worth fifty
Speaker 1: two million dollars and they know better than we do
Speaker 1: what Mike Evans has left in the tank coming up
Speaker 1: that great year with Baker Mayfield scoring more Fantasy points
Speaker 1: for Mike Evans last year since twenty eighteen. So still
Speaker 1: certainly appears to be completely viable here.
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 1: I worry about the loss of Dave Canalis, who just
Speaker 1: works magic. But nevertheless, Mike Evans one more good year
Speaker 1: left and our final contestant, can we call him?
Speaker 3: Contestants?
Speaker 1: Sure and cooked their medium well. Keenan Allen thirty two
Speaker 1: years old, nine hundred recepts for ten thousand, five hundred yards.
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen cooked or medium wealthor.
Speaker 6: I'm going to say cooked against what he used to
Speaker 6: be and what people still perceive him to be. Now,
Speaker 6: I don't think he will be the number two option
Speaker 6: in that Chicago passing attack. I think he'll be third
Speaker 6: behind my boy Rob Dons.
Speaker 1: All right, Scott Keenan Allen cooked or medium well?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know that the reports are coming out that
Speaker 3: he weighs two thirty. Now, I don't know that that's true.
Speaker 3: He does look bigger. New team will have. Like when
Speaker 3: wide receivers change teams this late in their career, it's
Speaker 3: never a good thing, almost never a good thing. He
Speaker 3: has other players drying coverage. Though he might be the
Speaker 3: wood bee for Caleb Williams, we don't know super wide
Speaker 3: range of outcomes. I'm gonna go with well done. He
Speaker 3: still had a top ten catch rade depended on when
Speaker 3: drives when he was needed great inside the ten. I'm
Speaker 3: going well done.
Speaker 1: All right, Keenan Allen. I am also going medium, well, medium,
Speaker 1: well such. You know, I debated calling it well done
Speaker 1: versus cook, but you know what well done steak throw.
Speaker 3: In the garbage.
Speaker 1: Come on, what are we doing yes or no, camer
Speaker 1: You can't do that. Keenan Allen's on a Hall of
Speaker 1: fame trajectory if you can get a couple more good
Speaker 1: years in.
Speaker 3: Not quite there yet.
Speaker 1: I'm a bit nervous that Alan's going to be surpassed
Speaker 1: by Roma Duonesay in time.
Speaker 3: But he feels like such a perfect safety valve.
Speaker 1: Will Keenan Allen be in exactly the right spot on
Speaker 1: every route?
Speaker 5: Hell?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Will he catch everything you throw to him? Yes?
Speaker 3: Last year a.
Speaker 1: Career high in receptions at one hundred and eight. He's
Speaker 1: also at a career high in gains of twenty or
Speaker 1: more yards. The game is still there.
Speaker 6: Keenan Allen will be in Canton one day to give
Speaker 6: Roma dundas.
Speaker 3: Man when we come back.
Speaker 1: Our final segment, Three Tough Questions are our final Sleepers
Speaker 1: of the Week final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. If
Speaker 1: you haven't tried a Guillotine league yet, we highly encourage
Speaker 1: you to do so. You know how this format works.
Speaker 1: You've heard me talk about it for years. Leagues of
Speaker 1: up to eighteen team owners, no head to head play.
Speaker 1: Every week, the low scoring team gets chopped. Their players
Speaker 1: go to the waiver wire, where the rest of us
Speaker 1: end up in a position where we are feasting on
Speaker 1: the players from the dead teams. We build superstar rosters.
Speaker 1: All you have to do is not finish last in
Speaker 1: any week. You can win the whole thing by finishing
Speaker 1: second to last every week of the season. It's a
Speaker 1: ton of fun, totally new way to play, all new
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Speaker 6: You get an auction every single week. We all acknowledge
Speaker 6: that preseason drafts, it's better to do the auction than
Speaker 6: the regular draft. Guillotine leagues, you have an auction every
Speaker 6: single week when another team hits that buck.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's the blind bidding. I mean, just and ask
Speaker 1: yourself this. So you got a thousand dollars to spend
Speaker 1: on the waiver wire all season long? Week one comes
Speaker 1: in some we run thousands of leagues. In some of
Speaker 1: those thousands of leagues, Christian McCaffrey's getting cut. Even if
Speaker 1: he has a good game. The rest of the players
Speaker 1: on that roster might have a bad game. Here comes
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey on the waiver wire in week one. How
Speaker 1: much of your one thousand dollars for the season do
Speaker 1: you throw out to try to get Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 6: I've been way too aggressive initially in my past guillotine leagues,
Speaker 6: and I'm not doing well. So I've been reading a
Speaker 6: lot of the articles at Fantasy Life about the strategy
Speaker 6: for guillotine leagues. When do you disperse all that money
Speaker 6: that you're giving for the free agents.
Speaker 3: I'm I'm not sure I've spent a penny before week six. Wow,
Speaker 3: I think I got discipline. I really hold off. It
Speaker 3: takes discipline. I feel like just the pure percentage of
Speaker 3: chance of getting cut week one, week two, week three
Speaker 3: is so low, it's very low. I can hold off.
Speaker 1: You have to to do that, and it's God bless
Speaker 1: you if you can. If you can hold all thousand
Speaker 1: for six weeks, you have to draft. Well, that's the
Speaker 1: whole thing which I do.
Speaker 3: This is all.
Speaker 4: Here.
Speaker 1: Sometimes injuries is hid not your fault, right, You gotta pivot.
Speaker 1: Sometimes you know there's no point in getting chopped with
Speaker 1: a thousand dollars thousand dollars, so you have to evaluate yourself,
Speaker 1: figure out your risks, and really try to know your roster.
Speaker 1: But one of the beauties of the guillotine league is
Speaker 1: if you don't draft. Well, you can reverse it by
Speaker 1: just going all right, fine, you can. You know, I
Speaker 1: blew it on these two picks, but I'm going to
Speaker 1: turn it around by spending some real capital to try
Speaker 1: to go get great players, which you can do.
Speaker 3: You can go get Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 1: If you're running back, you're starting running back, goes down
Speaker 1: with injury or you just guessed wrong or whatever. Yep,
Speaker 1: all right, let's move on. It's time to play a game.
Speaker 1: We call three tough questions.
Speaker 4: Tough question number one.
Speaker 3: Nobody's panicking yet.
Speaker 1: Okay, but what's the exact date when you start dropping
Speaker 1: your rankings for the holdout wide receivers Brandon Ayuk, Jamar Chase,
Speaker 1: ce D Lamb. We begin with Scott Fish.
Speaker 3: So I had originally put Tuesday, September third.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's what I'm looking for in exact day.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I noticed today, even when I had my
Speaker 3: little draft button on Brandon Ayuk, I'm sitting there thinking
Speaker 3: about it, hesitating right now. Yeah, but I in my
Speaker 3: head that was more about the other options there than
Speaker 3: you know, DK metcalf versus Brandon Ayuk than it was
Speaker 3: Brandon Ayuk. I think it's September third. We like we
Speaker 3: saw lev Bell set out, but before that it was
Speaker 3: like Emmitt Smith, you know, we've seen rookies do it.
Speaker 3: We've and I and you know, stuff like that, but
Speaker 3: it just really doesn't happen. I'm not going to worry
Speaker 3: until September third.
Speaker 1: Okay, September third, Yeah, put a date on it, that's
Speaker 1: what I'm looking for, Like.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Tuesday before, because we've seen we've seen these
Speaker 3: before get closed like three four five days before the season,
Speaker 3: so three days before.
Speaker 1: Sure deadlines spur action.
Speaker 3: I wrote that exact line in here. I just didn't
Speaker 3: say it. It's like you read it off my screen.
Speaker 1: Maybe I did through the series of mirrors that I've
Speaker 1: co cocted in our studio here. Yes, Thor, nobody's panicking yet.
Speaker 1: But what is the exact date when you start dropping
Speaker 1: your rankings for the holdout wide receivers?
Speaker 6: The date is Sunday, September first, at noon, and then you're.
Speaker 1: Order the minute.
Speaker 3: We have a draft going on that day, yes we do.
Speaker 5: We're down the middle in your draft.
Speaker 6: It's the week leading up to week one, right, Like,
Speaker 6: we just don't know right now, so you can't overreact.
Speaker 6: But these guys can come off the couch and play.
Speaker 6: So as long if it's before September three, we're still
Speaker 6: in August.
Speaker 5: I don't care.
Speaker 6: Once we start getting into September, that's yeah, now we
Speaker 6: we're going to move them down.
Speaker 1: Uh So you took September one, Thore, Yes, Scott, you
Speaker 1: took September third. The correct answer is Labor day September Zach.
Speaker 3: I thought about that. I thought about that.
Speaker 1: Three days before the first NFL game, six days before
Speaker 1: these guys play games at that point. You know, if
Speaker 1: they do sign on September second, they'll play.
Speaker 3: In week one.
Speaker 1: But how much is unclear? You know, what's the conditioning, Like,
Speaker 1: are these guys ready to you know, run.
Speaker 3: Full speed for four quarters?
Speaker 1: Probably not, and that's going to hurt them in the
Speaker 1: week one, maybe into week two. So for guante leagues
Speaker 1: where I'd really like to not have my season end
Speaker 1: in week one, yeah, you know, these guys start getting
Speaker 1: a lot more dangerous, even potentially earlier than that. But
Speaker 1: for standard leagues, the correct answer Labor day, September second.
Speaker 4: Okay, tough question number two.
Speaker 1: Will there be a clear winner of the Bengals running
Speaker 1: back job? And if so, who will it be? This
Speaker 1: is a tough question, and we start with Thorneistro.
Speaker 6: I don't know who the winner will be, but I
Speaker 6: know that we're all the losers. Are the losers this
Speaker 6: is about I am totally avoiding. I don't think I
Speaker 6: have one chair of either of these guys. I also
Speaker 6: don't think there will be a clear winner. I think
Speaker 6: Brown enters this season as the one a guy, just
Speaker 6: based on the preseason snaps and camp reports.
Speaker 5: But I think this is going to be closer to
Speaker 5: a fifty to fifty proposition.
Speaker 6: We talked about it earlier in the episode, the ways
Speaker 6: in which Moss will vaulter out Brown's value and vice versa.
Speaker 5: Scott.
Speaker 1: Will there be a clear winner of the Bengals running
Speaker 1: back job and if so, who will it be? Thor says, no,
Speaker 1: there won't be.
Speaker 3: What do you say, will there be a clear winner?
Speaker 3: Clear as mud like? There's no. There's not going to
Speaker 3: be a clear winner, at least I don't think so.
Speaker 3: We did see Zach Moss have kind of a bellcow
Speaker 3: role for a few weeks there last year in Indy,
Speaker 3: but Chase Chase Brown's going to be hard to keep
Speaker 3: off the field. He looks more dynamic. Thori even thinks
Speaker 3: he'll be the one. A Mike Clay, who's always been
Speaker 3: awesome with projections, has them at a near even split.
Speaker 3: I can see them wanting to keep both of them healthy.
Speaker 3: Now with Chris Evans out for the year, I think
Speaker 3: the split. I think it's this no clear winner.
Speaker 1: For the Bengals and Zach Taylor. He has always had
Speaker 1: a primary runner who has dominated the carries, yes, always.
Speaker 1: I think he's going to go back to what he
Speaker 1: wants to do. He wants to have a main back
Speaker 1: and he'll sprinkle in some of the secondary back like
Speaker 1: he did Chase Brown last year. So if Zach Taylor's
Speaker 1: going to go back to what he knows and what
Speaker 1: he wants to do, which of the two will it beaks.
Speaker 1: That's how we framed up this very tough question. Right,
Speaker 1: Zack Moss, in those five starts that he had last year, dude,
Speaker 1: look good.
Speaker 3: He had.
Speaker 1: He had an he had a one hundred and seven
Speaker 1: yard total game. He had one hundred and fifty yard game,
Speaker 1: he had a seventy yard game, he had a one
Speaker 1: hundred and ninety five yard game. In his starts, Zack
Speaker 1: Moss can be and longtime listeners know, I've been on
Speaker 1: the Zack Moss thing from the day he got drafted
Speaker 1: by Buffalo and it killed me that they never used him.
Speaker 1: So you will not be surprised to know that. I
Speaker 1: think even though Chase Brown is a very different back
Speaker 1: and he's a more dynamic runner than Moss, but you
Speaker 1: know what Moss does. He can be a workhorse guy
Speaker 1: and he's proven it in that sample size that we
Speaker 1: got last year. Moss has more pedigree as a touchdown score.
Speaker 1: Zach Moss is gonna win. Is gonna be the workhorse
Speaker 1: back and an offense that where the coach wants a
Speaker 1: workhorse back, and it's going to be some fantasy gold.
Speaker 3: Okay, we'll find out.
Speaker 4: Tough question number three, bow.
Speaker 1: Knicks has been named the Broncos starter. How many times
Speaker 1: will nis be a take a chance on me quarterback
Speaker 1: in future episodes of Fantasy Football Weekly? Of course, to
Speaker 1: take a chance on Me segment For those of you
Speaker 1: that might be new, maybe you don't know this Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly, We've got take a chance on Me every
Speaker 1: week where we highlight a player that you would not
Speaker 1: normally start, but you could this week for whatever reason.
Speaker 1: And we always try to choose non obvious players. So
Speaker 1: bo Nicks, how many times will bo Nicks be a
Speaker 1: take a chance at me quarterback? In this year's Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly Episodes, Scott, we start with.
Speaker 3: You, okay, So most sites Lee list Denvers having one
Speaker 3: of the tougher pass schedules. My eyeball eyeball count just
Speaker 3: based on pass defenses from last year, and obviously things change,
Speaker 3: and even in season, things are going to change. With
Speaker 3: respect to that, I count like about five good matchups,
Speaker 3: three bad, and nine middle of the road defenses nine times.
Speaker 3: Nine times you say yeah, yeah, no threat to be
Speaker 3: taken out of games or losing his job. In my opinion,
Speaker 3: we had a guy at the fair this morning talk
Speaker 3: about come up and say he Sean Payton's going to
Speaker 3: make Bonnicks happen or die trying or something to that effect.
Speaker 3: So I think he's going to be in there the
Speaker 3: whole time. There are three qbs we pick weekly for
Speaker 3: a total of fifty four qbs over the course of
Speaker 3: the season. Thor is doing a ton of shows, so
Speaker 3: that'll never be a pick. I'm gonna go with three
Speaker 3: three times that three times me. You are Matt will
Speaker 3: will take him this season?
Speaker 1: All right, Thornystrom.
Speaker 6: Yeah, the Vegas sportsbooks set the line at zero point
Speaker 6: five for how many times I would bring up Bonex
Speaker 6: and take a chance. I mean bet the mortgage that
Speaker 6: he is going under that number, bet the house.
Speaker 5: Overall, I think they would be two and a half.
Speaker 6: Would be would be the line that with the other
Speaker 6: gentleman on the panel. But yeah, you will not hear
Speaker 6: that name from me that.
Speaker 1: So how many times, Scott, you're the other apparently you're
Speaker 1: the other gentleman on the panel.
Speaker 3: Maybe, so how many times? How many times do you
Speaker 3: think we will do it?
Speaker 5: I'll say two?
Speaker 3: Two times? Okay, I guess you can't. It won't be you.
Speaker 1: It'll be zero from Thor It's zero for me as well,
Speaker 1: but not just me. Hold on, that's not the group.
Speaker 1: So let me do here's my here's my issues. By
Speaker 1: the way, congratulations of back Nicks on beating out Jared
Speaker 1: Stideman Zach Wilson. Super impressive, very impressive competition there. You know,
Speaker 1: loved his college well, okay, he was productive at Oregon.
Speaker 1: I didn't like his style of play and I don't
Speaker 1: think it translates to the NFL. I don't like first read,
Speaker 1: quick hitting quarterbacks, which he is. And if you want
Speaker 1: to see bon Nix get flummox when he has to
Speaker 1: try to make a second or third read, the wheels
Speaker 1: just come off this kid.
Speaker 3: It did in college.
Speaker 1: Now I need to see what happens when NFL defenses
Speaker 1: take away bon Nicks's first read, which they will do.
Speaker 1: I need to see Nicks completing downfield strikes because those
Speaker 1: are we want down We want downfield passing. That's fantasy points.
Speaker 1: Bonis didn't give us that. It's very early for this preseason,
Speaker 1: but watching bon Nicks in the preseason, I'm seeing the
Speaker 1: same can i Son college. I don't like what I've seen.
Speaker 1: There's thirty two NFL quarterbacks. Bonix might be the worst
Speaker 1: of the thirty two. I'm not giving him one. But
Speaker 1: somebody else here might do it sometime, might be desperate enough.
Speaker 1: Because here's what's gonna happen. We're gonna go into some
Speaker 1: bye week where like five four teams are on by,
Speaker 1: six teams are on by. I'm gonna call out my
Speaker 1: take a chance on me first, and then Thor is
Speaker 1: going to go second, and then some other RANDO host
Speaker 1: is going to end up in some desperate spot and
Speaker 1: they're going to try bon Nicks one time and learn
Speaker 1: their lesson.
Speaker 3: Yep, When do you ever go first and take a
Speaker 3: chance on me?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't on air, but I do off air
Speaker 1: when we're choosing taste.
Speaker 3: Ye see. That was my theory behind the three is
Speaker 3: thor never and then each of us maybe one each.
Speaker 3: But maybe that's even wrong.
Speaker 1: In the last segment of every preseason show, we reveal
Speaker 1: our sleepers of the week, Thor Let's start with you.
Speaker 1: Who you got.
Speaker 6: Let's stay with the Denver Bronco as I already tipped
Speaker 6: this one off. Julia mclofflin, that's my guy.
Speaker 5: I love now.
Speaker 6: Javonte Williams having a good preseason and is the presumed
Speaker 6: early down back. But Fish mentioned earlier on the amount
Speaker 6: of touches that they were forwarding that they're going to
Speaker 6: get Julia mclafflin anyway, and of course they are. He
Speaker 6: is going to be the receiving down back. Charge you
Speaker 6: mentioned earlier that samaj p Ryan is on the roster
Speaker 6: bubble that's being reported. Odrick estimate is not a receiving back.
Speaker 6: Odrick estimate is to break the tackles at the line,
Speaker 6: and he's the Leroy Horde of if you need five yards,
Speaker 6: to get you three yards. If you need one yard,
Speaker 6: I'll get you three yards. That's Odrick estime. He's not
Speaker 6: the receiving down guy. Julia McLoughlin's the only receiving back
Speaker 6: that they have on the roster. And of course they
Speaker 6: have an epic chuckdown artist right now as their starting quarterback,
Speaker 6: and Bowneck's going forward. All he does is throw screens
Speaker 6: in shrackdowns. Julia McLoughlin is going to catch a ton
Speaker 6: of balls this year.
Speaker 1: I like that kid. I just hope he gets the
Speaker 1: ball in his hands enough times to be Fantasy viable flex.
Speaker 1: Just all I need is Jealia McLaughlin flex guy, and
Speaker 1: I'm happy.
Speaker 5: That's it.
Speaker 1: All right, Scott, let's go to you. You're sleeper of
Speaker 1: this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm going with Michael Wilson the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 5: I like this one.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think that with the amount of coverage that is
Speaker 3: going to be drawn to Marvin Harrison and Trey McBride,
Speaker 3: he's going to be open fourteen plus yard eight out
Speaker 3: last year top fifteen yards per target. So when he
Speaker 3: got a target, he was getting chunks nine point seven yards,
Speaker 3: so like one target, he's getting ten yards. They throw
Speaker 3: the ball five hundred and fifty to six hundred times.
Speaker 3: It's an offense that is going to be behind, a
Speaker 3: team that's going to be behind all the time. I've
Speaker 3: mentioned this on other shows. Their defense is terrible, they're
Speaker 3: going to be behind. They're going to have to throw. And
Speaker 3: if they have a full healthy year out of Kyler Murray,
Speaker 3: who's a much more a higher completion percentage, much better
Speaker 3: passer than you know, the other ones that have Clayton
Speaker 3: Tunes and the Josh Dobbs that have gotten playing time.
Speaker 3: Those yards in chunks, that third option, single coverage. I
Speaker 3: like Michael Wilson and.
Speaker 6: With Marvin Harrison, they're moving to the top of the
Speaker 6: packing order. Now Michael Wilson can become what he is
Speaker 6: destined to be. He's a big receiver who, by the way,
Speaker 6: at the Senior Ball his year where he was there,
Speaker 6: he was the only player regardless of position, to be
Speaker 6: in top five both in max deceleration and max acceleration.
Speaker 6: That guy gets open by stopping on a diamond, screaming
Speaker 6: back for a guy who's in a bigger frame he's
Speaker 6: a possession receiver in the NFL, and now he has
Speaker 6: found his destiny.
Speaker 5: I love that. Take Fish.
Speaker 1: This is something I did not at all think i'd
Speaker 1: be talking about right now.
Speaker 3: We have. We've already said Sleepers, we do it at
Speaker 3: the end of the show. Everyone, well, no, nothing, this guy.
Speaker 1: We've talked a lot about Joe Mixon and how we
Speaker 1: don't trust Joe Mixon and we think he's cooked.
Speaker 3: So if he's let's say he's.
Speaker 1: Bad, and they need to get go down the depth
Speaker 1: chart and they need to start finding other runners.
Speaker 3: Oh, British Brooks, British bris We're not going quite that far.
Speaker 3: We're not going quite that far. Okay.
Speaker 1: Now, I've been team Damien Pierce in the past, but
Speaker 1: I've also seen enough troubling things. And it really appears
Speaker 1: the backup right now, based on preseason play and who's
Speaker 1: been getting time and when Cam freaking acres off, the
Speaker 1: double Achilles, I mean single Achilles is a career ruiner
Speaker 1: for ninety eight percent of running backs, Cam Akers has
Speaker 1: looked shockingly spry.
Speaker 3: I can't. That's how it works. The one Achilles bad,
Speaker 3: but the other Achilles brings it right right back in and.
Speaker 1: Brings the equilibrium to the Achilles. Look, this is really
Speaker 1: about Joe Mixon in this great offense. Maybe Joe Mixon
Speaker 1: can be bad and still be productive just getting what
Speaker 1: the offense gives him, which will be considerable. But if
Speaker 1: at some point they want something somebody more dynamic, they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to go another way. And I don't know
Speaker 1: if I can stick my neck out for Damian Pierce anymore.
Speaker 1: And maybe I don't have to, because it really looks
Speaker 1: like cam Akers is going to win the number two job. Amazing.
Speaker 1: I didn't think i'd be saying it. All right, guys,
Speaker 1: let's take a look at another couple of things. Here,
Speaker 1: where's the tight end drop off this class of tight ends?
Speaker 3: Do you want me to read the tight end? ADP?
Speaker 3: And you guys can shout out where do you think
Speaker 3: it is?
Speaker 1: I like that angle?
Speaker 3: Do that all right? Sam Laporta, Travis Kelce, Trey McBride,
Speaker 3: Mark Andrews, Dalton Kincaid, Kyle Pitts, George Kittle. We're still
Speaker 3: going here deep here, Ingram, Jake Ferguson Stop.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's for me. I've just hit my comfort zone
Speaker 1: right there.
Speaker 3: And here's where we get to Thor's Rock Bauer.
Speaker 1: Now I'll make first I want to mention this about
Speaker 1: Jake Ferguson. Despite last year being effectively his rookie year,
Speaker 1: it was his sophomore year, but the first year he
Speaker 1: got real time on the field. Jake Ferguson was the
Speaker 1: second most targeted player in the NFL inside the five
Speaker 1: yard line. In these high leverage passes that Dallas needed
Speaker 1: to make inside the five yard line when they needed touchdowns,
Speaker 1: they threw to Jake Ferguson ten times during the season.
Speaker 3: That is a ton.
Speaker 6: That kid was playing right as a true freshman in
Speaker 6: the Big ten. And you know he's not the freak
Speaker 6: athlete of Kyle Pets or one of those guys, but
Speaker 6: reliable he can do. You know, he's a multi multifaceted
Speaker 6: tight end. Not a surprise that Wheels went up on him. Yeah,
Speaker 6: so that's that is my guy. You've already talked to
Speaker 6: Brock Bauers a little bit, so, but after that, you know,
Speaker 6: if we go farther down the list were yeah, yep,
Speaker 6: so hit some of the next guys up that that
Speaker 6: worry us.
Speaker 3: Uh, it's me and Djoku Goddard.
Speaker 4: Uh.
Speaker 3: Firemouth Schultz then we're to Hawkinson and then we're way
Speaker 3: down there. We are, like it really jobs.
Speaker 1: Hockinson will payoff dividends eventually, obviously, when you're gonna have to,
Speaker 1: you know, that might be October. I you know, I'm
Speaker 1: no reason to rush him either, No, no reason, honest.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're just gonna be honest about the prospects
Speaker 1: for the Vikings this season. It's it looks like there's
Speaker 1: no reason to rush him back this year. Correct, you know,
Speaker 1: we'll see it. Yeah, I know NFL teams don't think
Speaker 1: like that, but just playing it out probably goes that way.
Speaker 1: Got a great job today, Yeah, yeah, thanks a lot, Robbie.
Speaker 1: Thanks for all of your help today. I appreciate it.
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