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Speaker 1: I want to start here. Josh Gordon is now back
Speaker 1: in the league. At this time yesterday he was not,
Speaker 1: but twelve hours ago he got reinstated. Give me some
Speaker 1: of your give me your people here, have got my
Speaker 1: chee cheat. You can see where've got him ranked. I
Speaker 1: believe what receiver twenty five? Right? Oh? I have something
Speaker 1: to say about this? All right? Good? I got that
Speaker 1: three tough question right last week. Now, officially, it's not
Speaker 1: changing the score on he was that cronk over Josh Gordon. Hello,
Speaker 1: it's is the regular season here. No, if you don't
Speaker 1: have it right yet, oh, wild on. So you're gonna
Speaker 1: reserve the right until week one to change the score
Speaker 1: on this. Yeah. Absolutely, we're going back. We're looking at
Speaker 1: we're looking at it all right. So you guys don't
Speaker 1: want to talk about Josh Gordon. I take it. I
Speaker 1: maybe I'll just take it. He jumps right into like
Speaker 1: the mid fifth for me and the Calvin Ridley Cooper
Speaker 1: Cup range, and that's probably gonna go up higher. He's
Speaker 1: not quite in the d J. Moore and Mike Williams
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett zone for me. But yeah, he's a whoever
Speaker 1: got him in Best Ball or he got him late
Speaker 1: in drafts. Congratulations to you because this could be a
Speaker 1: game changer. But again, you don't want to root for
Speaker 1: a relapse with a guy like that, but it's certainly
Speaker 1: a possibility. So I'm selling high in Dynasty if I
Speaker 1: own him and chart you're really really high on Julian
Speaker 1: Edelman this year. Does that do anything to his ranking
Speaker 1: for you at all? Does it bump it up, does
Speaker 1: it move it down? It doesn't really change it. I
Speaker 1: kind think, you know, in my mind, it's just one
Speaker 1: more player to take good coverage away from Julian Edelman.
Speaker 1: So for me, it doesn't change a lot with Edelman um,
Speaker 1: And I worry a little bit now. People may not
Speaker 1: realize Josh Gordon's a big name. We think he's a
Speaker 1: great talent. I think there's a lot of people out
Speaker 1: there relive in if you look at if you look
Speaker 1: at what Josh Gordon gave you last year, and he played,
Speaker 1: He played all but three games last year. He came
Speaker 1: in in my league as roughly wide receiver thirty five
Speaker 1: in my scoring system. Go back to your leagues, you're
Speaker 1: gonna see something similar. He was a middling fantasy producer
Speaker 1: last season, and now he's one year older, and I
Speaker 1: don't think I don't think there's a reason to consider
Speaker 1: him to be this game changing guy. The only thing
Speaker 1: that's game changing about Josh Gordon is people were drafting
Speaker 1: him with the last pick of the draft, and now
Speaker 1: you've got a guy who's roly a fift or six rounder.
Speaker 1: Advocates Yes. In three games without Gronk last year, four five,
Speaker 1: a touchdown one. Let's hope that gron doesn't come back
Speaker 1: for Josh Gordon's sake, then maybe it'll maybe it'll end
Speaker 1: up working out that way as as this as the
Speaker 1: season goes on, Um, I'm not reaching for him again.
Speaker 1: He's my wide receiver twenty? Where did I put him?
Speaker 1: Wide receiver twenty? Where is Josh Gordon? What is? What
Speaker 1: does the duper Brady for you? Now? Though? Because he
Speaker 1: was like QB twenty, Yeah, you'll move up a spot
Speaker 1: or two. But that's to me, that's about it. I
Speaker 1: don't know. You can't go above the Russell Wilson's of
Speaker 1: the world. There's there's too many good rushing quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: just pilot points with their legs and he's never going
Speaker 1: to be one of those guys. Obviously, over the course
Speaker 1: of the show, will recap some of the key preseason
Speaker 1: notes from the past couple of days, will identify the
Speaker 1: Bell Cow running backs. The guys that you can feel
Speaker 1: confident are going to get the rock most of the time.
Speaker 1: Did anybody bring a cow bell? All that have been
Speaker 1: so smart? More cow but we need a lot more
Speaker 1: cow Do you see a lot of people brought their
Speaker 1: trophies though, chart right, Yeah, that's fantastic. We got some
Speaker 1: good ones here. This one is money right, hold that
Speaker 1: trophy up that baby, Yeah, it's they told me the
Speaker 1: name in the middle. I think that's Andre the Giants
Speaker 1: and it's very nice. Um and everybody's favorite preseason segment
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Speaker 1: different from the reach around all the sleepers and we'll
Speaker 1: talk about do the opposite. So lots to get to
Speaker 1: over the course of the show. Let's let's dive into
Speaker 1: some of the preseason action, beginning with Brian Buffalo took
Speaker 1: on Carolina last night. Anything come out of this not
Speaker 1: on the Carolina side. Virtually nothing to talk about there.
Speaker 1: But Josh Allen looked really sharp. Nine for eleven for
Speaker 1: a hundred two yards, and he was locked in on
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley and the one quarter they played five catches
Speaker 1: forty four yards. Beasley going undrafted in most drafts. I
Speaker 1: think a part of that's got a change in PPR
Speaker 1: now because they went out and got him in free agency,
Speaker 1: and uh, he looked like Alan's woo be. So that's
Speaker 1: my main takeaway is Cole Beasley, keep your eye on
Speaker 1: him late and drafts. Yeah, Za Jones is getting dropped
Speaker 1: in a lot of leagues, not being drafted either. Um,
Speaker 1: John Brown is there a little bit and some people
Speaker 1: think that might be a hook up, but that's a
Speaker 1: tough offense. And Robert Foster is running with the twos
Speaker 1: right now. Robert Foster. Yeah, what happened to Robert Foster? Fish?
Speaker 1: He's your guy. I love him. I think he's a
Speaker 1: perfect fit with Josh Allen. But they got John Brown.
Speaker 1: They're bringing John Brown if they loved him, I don't know, alright, Uh,
Speaker 1: anything on the al right, So let's move on from
Speaker 1: that game. Can anyone rationalize what Buffalo does no one.
Speaker 1: They're not even their GM and their fans. We can't
Speaker 1: rationalize what they do either. Don't put that pressure on Fish. Correct.
Speaker 1: Next Philadelphia taking on the Jacksonville Jaguars. Matt, Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: not a lot of fun stuff that happened in this game.
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders did look pretty good, a couple of nice
Speaker 1: runs with the first team average six point two yards
Speaker 1: per carry, and that was really all the fantasy knowledge
Speaker 1: that you need to know from this game. Because Cody
Speaker 1: Kessler started at quarterback for the Eagles, followed by a
Speaker 1: lot of Clayton Thorson. There's not a lot of lean
Speaker 1: from that passing game. And then the Jaguars, I mean,
Speaker 1: they actually scored points in this preseason game, so I
Speaker 1: guess that's a plus. But unless you're thinking about drafting
Speaker 1: backup quarterback Gardner Minshoe or maybe Tommy Tommy Rawls, y'all, well,
Speaker 1: we have a new backup quarterback, Josh McCown. Oh did
Speaker 1: he he came back? Yeah, they brought They brought back
Speaker 1: Josh McCown. Uh to do the backup quarterback because they've
Speaker 1: already lost two of their backups and then they lost
Speaker 1: Nick Foles. In the off season, so they're kind of
Speaker 1: short three backups, all right in Philadelia. There's nothing else
Speaker 1: to talk about here, alright, Jets taking on the Atlanta Falcons.
Speaker 1: Scott there was there's a little something here, a little more. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I thought Donald looked extremely good. A lot of tight
Speaker 1: window throws. I feel like, Uh, you noticed that it's
Speaker 1: a much more up tempo offense, which is not what
Speaker 1: Gaye did in Miami, And I wonder if that was
Speaker 1: just personnel because he did a lot of no huddle,
Speaker 1: a lot of up tempo. I think that they're they're
Speaker 1: going to run a lot more plays. Miami obviously last
Speaker 1: year was lowest in the league in place per game. Uh.
Speaker 1: Donald looked real good. He was QB one in in QBR.
Speaker 1: He was the number one quarterback in the a month
Speaker 1: of December last year. I think he's he's extended that
Speaker 1: he's he's in for a big leap this year. Looked
Speaker 1: good with the first team time. Montgomery looked really good.
Speaker 1: I was actually surprised by that. The Beat Ruyter Beat
Speaker 1: writers have been all over that. They they said they're
Speaker 1: going to use him quite a bit. He's becoming late
Speaker 1: round dart thrill type of guy. But I don't want
Speaker 1: to buy any Time Montgomery. How many times I was
Speaker 1: and never liked him until now. I'm kind of just
Speaker 1: because he's so cheap. That's the only reason I was
Speaker 1: never buying him at his a DP before. Right now
Speaker 1: he's the last round guy. Maybe I'm buying him. On
Speaker 1: the Atlanta side. The biggest takeaway is that Edo Smith
Speaker 1: is the backup. He's the backup. There was talking about
Speaker 1: Brian Hill last week. There was two of Brian might
Speaker 1: fight you on that one. Uh. There was talking about
Speaker 1: Brian Hill last week. There was Quadrea Allison looked decent.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of Dynasty hype for him. But Edo
Speaker 1: Smith retook reclaimed it. Okay, let's move on green Bay,
Speaker 1: took on Baltimore. There was no Aaron Rodgers on the
Speaker 1: green Bay side, No Aaron Jones. Deshaun Kaiser started and
Speaker 1: looked brutal. I can we can safely say if anything
Speaker 1: happens Daron Rodgers, it's season over for the Packers again. Uh,
Speaker 1: but you're wishing for injury. Um, I guess these guys
Speaker 1: are gonna draft Davante Adams or something. Maybe not well,
Speaker 1: I bet they would for Baltimore. Three different tight ends
Speaker 1: got first teamwork. There's a lot of steam for Scott Fish, Bobo,
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews, but he was just one of three tight
Speaker 1: ends I got targeted during the first team offense, along
Speaker 1: with Boyle and Hurst, and I think that's gonna be
Speaker 1: something of a problem. Lamar Jackson was inaccurate on his
Speaker 1: deep passes, but the short stuff worked pretty well, and
Speaker 1: that seems to be his sweet spot. Is that eight
Speaker 1: twelve yard range for Lamar Jackson? And then there was
Speaker 1: this amazing run and if you didn't see the highlights
Speaker 1: of it, it's it was pretty epic. He um. It
Speaker 1: was not a designed run. In fact, there were no
Speaker 1: designed runs in the preseason game, which is smart. I
Speaker 1: wouldn't design run him either, But he scrambled out of
Speaker 1: a pass play. He put a move on Jaire Alexander
Speaker 1: that was so epic they the grounds crew at MT
Speaker 1: Bank Stadium had to spend the entire night jackhammering JayR
Speaker 1: Alexander's jock out of the cement under the turf of
Speaker 1: M ANDT Bank Stadium. Under the turf, under the turf,
Speaker 1: under the cement, it's deep. They needed paleontologists to go
Speaker 1: in there with the brush and the little chisel and
Speaker 1: to pull out the jock um. He looked fantastic on
Speaker 1: that on that play. So Jackson highlight touchdown run got
Speaker 1: called back by penalty. Unfortunately didn't met at a preseason
Speaker 1: but he still got all those moves. Justice Hill got
Speaker 1: a lot of work with the third team. Looked okay
Speaker 1: running back Justice Hill uh back to Brian. Chicago took
Speaker 1: on the Giants. Chicago did not play a single starter
Speaker 1: on either side of the ball. So I don't know
Speaker 1: that there's a ton to see there, no no nothing
Speaker 1: for Chicago and that kind of, you know, dumbs down
Speaker 1: what the Giants did on offense. Eli Manning threw a
Speaker 1: touchdown at those Hall of Fame numbers. I thought Eli
Speaker 1: actually looked pretty good. I wanted him to not look
Speaker 1: like because a bear second team I'm still saying. I
Speaker 1: just I thought the arm looked kind of lively and
Speaker 1: he was accurate. That's all I'm saying. And Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: looked good against the freshman team in the second half,
Speaker 1: eleven for fourteen for a hundred and sixty one. He
Speaker 1: fumbled twice though, But you know Eli will start the season.
Speaker 1: But Daniel Jones will take over that job. At some point,
Speaker 1: one would think, yeah, let's hope. So Cincinnati taking on
Speaker 1: the Washington Redskins, Matt Yeah, Joe Mixon had one carry
Speaker 1: that was called back for holding and then he sat
Speaker 1: down for the rest of the game. That one carry
Speaker 1: was awesome though. Yeah, yeah, but they were cheating. Well
Speaker 1: he's well, he's stiff armed the guy into into a
Speaker 1: new solar system guy. It was Josh Norman, of all people.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's better than that ended Josh Norman. Um.
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton led the team down the field on the
Speaker 1: on his opening drive, with a whole bunch of Washington
Speaker 1: penalties aiding that drive, and then threw a really ad
Speaker 1: pick six from the ten yard line, and the rest
Speaker 1: of the Bengal starters barely played. I think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be a really, really rough year for that Bengals offense.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not looking forward to many of those guys,
Speaker 1: although I might have a sleeper from that team later
Speaker 1: in the show. Um. On the other side, Adrian Peterson
Speaker 1: still looks like he's got it. Had a nice twenty
Speaker 1: six yard run where he he looked quite spry. Uh
Speaker 1: and Case Keenum is still starting for the Washington professional
Speaker 1: football team. Uh. He played the first three series and
Speaker 1: led the team to two punts and a really long
Speaker 1: missed field goal. Then Dwayne Haskins came in first drive
Speaker 1: fifty five yard touchdown to Robert Davis on a nice
Speaker 1: deep ball that he threw. So it looks like, uh
Speaker 1: that that quarterback controversies alive and well, and Dwayne Haskins
Speaker 1: could end up coming out of this as the starter
Speaker 1: in week one. Colt McCoy is still not able to
Speaker 1: practice even yet, and beating out case Keenum isn't that
Speaker 1: tough thing to do, so that could very well be
Speaker 1: the case. So now we got Dwayne Haskins in the
Speaker 1: first game through a touchdown to the other team, and
Speaker 1: then in this game he threw one to the right team,
Speaker 1: so he's at net zero right well, So the other
Speaker 1: thing I'd like to note, Washington has now allowed a
Speaker 1: special team's return touchdown in both preseason games. If if
Speaker 1: you want to stream defense and special teams in your league,
Speaker 1: look at Washington as the team to stream against. All right, Uh, Scott,
Speaker 1: Let's go to the next game, that is Oakland taking
Speaker 1: on Arizona. Kyler Murray. Kyler Murray did look back, udged
Speaker 1: him down a couple of spots. Really teach it. I
Speaker 1: got that nervous Wow, just stuff of that, some preseason
Speaker 1: overreaction and probably preseason overreaction, but I got nervous, and
Speaker 1: I like a bunch of other guys. That first team
Speaker 1: played a quarter and a half and they totaled fifty
Speaker 1: two yards, zero points in the point deficit, and ended
Speaker 1: their last three drives with negative yards. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: It was not good. Brent Huntley came in scored two
Speaker 1: touchdowns on two consecutive drives after taking over. Of course,
Speaker 1: against backups. Um, neither Russian team game looked really really good.
Speaker 1: But I thought DJ looked. David Johnson obviously looked better
Speaker 1: than his stat line. Jacob's had over five yards per carry,
Speaker 1: so he looked, Okay, he's probably gonna get a good
Speaker 1: amount of work. I did notice they were throwing to
Speaker 1: the tight end a lot in the red zone for Oakland,
Speaker 1: which they overthrew Waller once Derek Carrier caught one and
Speaker 1: they threw another one. It looks like that they're really
Speaker 1: looking tight end in that red zone and that that
Speaker 1: might bode well for a previous sleeper we had on
Speaker 1: this show, Darren Waller. Yeah, that's a Brian Johnson official
Speaker 1: sleeper right there, Darren Waller, last pick your draft. You
Speaker 1: sleft that tight end position for a while. That might
Speaker 1: be a guy that you could go with. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure what to do with Andy Isabelle on this either.
Speaker 1: He did not come into the game until ten minutes
Speaker 1: left in the He's missed a ton of practice of injury,
Speaker 1: and he's fighting three other three other rookie wide receiver
Speaker 1: for time and they're still He did do kickoffs, but
Speaker 1: he came in late in the game, made a great
Speaker 1: TV catch. All right, we'll keep our eye. And he
Speaker 1: was the He was the top drafted of the rookie
Speaker 1: wide receivers for for the Cardinals final final preseason game.
Speaker 1: To break down, Miami took on Tampa Bay. Brian Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: Not a lot to talk about. Jamis Winston played just
Speaker 1: one series. Ronald Jones, Payton Barber two carries each, so
Speaker 1: really nothing to glean from that. Um the Ryan Fitzpatrick
Speaker 1: truck stick charge. Did you see this? No? What are
Speaker 1: you talking about? Ste beards at a truck stop? Well
Speaker 1: is his new name is Ryan hits Patrick, Now, really
Speaker 1: do you have to see this charge you have? Yes,
Speaker 1: your pants would be often santaneously someone who wants to
Speaker 1: see charge with his pants off. Nobody wants to see
Speaker 1: charge comes on the highlights. Well stop, there are some
Speaker 1: really confused staring applause out there for starters. I'm not
Speaker 1: wearing pants, so let's begin there. Yeah, that's true, but
Speaker 1: that to me again, Josh Rosen. Rosen got the start.
Speaker 1: Actually you look decent, but it's Patrick will will still
Speaker 1: start the season. Your boy, though, charge Preston Williams, but
Speaker 1: your underwear back on charge. Yes, your boy, Preston Williams.
Speaker 1: I like Preston Williams. Just one catch on six targets,
Speaker 1: not as exciting of the games. I almost had acrobatic
Speaker 1: thirty yard touchdown, didn't keep all right, So still lif
Speaker 1: in that one. I like that sleeper call. That that's
Speaker 1: the guy that Xavien Howard said could be a wide
Speaker 1: receiver one in this league. Yes, I Preston Williams in
Speaker 1: dynasty umpire formats who maybe absolutely a viable target right there.
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Speaker 1: next segment. Who are the bell Cow running backs you
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Speaker 1: bell cow runners. All that and more coming up with
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Speaker 1: talk about the bell cow running backs. It's a time
Speaker 1: share league, but not for every team. There are a
Speaker 1: handful of bell cow runners you can identify and get
Speaker 1: and man, does it matter. The bell cow running backs
Speaker 1: change everything. Talk to me about the bell cows. They
Speaker 1: do they do matter. A couple of years ago, something
Speaker 1: like sixt lot over sixty percent of championship teams. Championship
Speaker 1: game teams had Todd Curley. Last year it was over
Speaker 1: with Christian McCaffrey. Uh, bell cows. The way I identified
Speaker 1: it is I looked at the numbers. There were eleven
Speaker 1: running backs last year with touches and played in at
Speaker 1: least nine games. All right, so let's slow that down
Speaker 1: for just second, son running backs. Eleven running backs with
Speaker 1: two D twenty five five touches and played at least
Speaker 1: nine games at least nine times, nine times. I don't
Speaker 1: have the button bar. Wow, it's a good everybody, Principal,
Speaker 1: Brian Rooney. That's all I'm going to contribute to this
Speaker 1: segment is that every single one of those eleven running
Speaker 1: backs finished in the top fifteen in all formats, every
Speaker 1: single one, non PPR half pr every single one of
Speaker 1: those eleven that met those two qualifications. So who were
Speaker 1: these eleven running backs that went over two touches and
Speaker 1: played in at least nine games? Reading a list of
Speaker 1: names always plays well. Elliott, Girle, Barkley of course, Connor McCaffrey, Mixon,
Speaker 1: David Johnson, Chris Carson, Yeah, Chris Carson, who will be
Speaker 1: out half season? Uh, Gordon and Kamara? All right, So
Speaker 1: those are the guys that powered people to championship with
Speaker 1: the guys high high percentages of playoffs from those guys
Speaker 1: making your playoffs just by having one of those guys.
Speaker 1: Those two touches amount two about fourteen per game, but
Speaker 1: all of those eleven actually averaged around eighteen or more
Speaker 1: touches per game. So I took a look at the
Speaker 1: guys I think outside of those that have a shot
Speaker 1: to be a Bell cow back, I think Cream haunts out.
Speaker 1: Girl is probably out. I don't I don't know that
Speaker 1: he can hit that this year, z can Gordon, we
Speaker 1: don't know. But some other guys I took a look at.
Speaker 1: Damian Williams has every chance of of hitting that Bell
Speaker 1: cow back. He had eighteen touches per game at the
Speaker 1: end of last year. The final five games, including the playoffs.
Speaker 1: If he's healthy, if that soft tissue injury doesn't keep
Speaker 1: keep hitting up. He doesn't really have much for backups
Speaker 1: behind him. Darwin Thompson maybe, but he has every chance
Speaker 1: to hit it. David Montgomery, David Montgomery, I love David Montgomery.
Speaker 1: I believe it's two hundred seventy three vacated running back touches.
Speaker 1: Two two seventy was just Jordan by himself. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard is not good. David Montgomery is good. And
Speaker 1: you're gonna talk about this later. That's a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of goal line stuff too. Yeah. They went away. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're gonna talk a lot about that. Yeah, that's that's
Speaker 1: that just right there. That's about eighteen touches breaking gone
Speaker 1: from the Bears. He's got a chance to be that guy. Okay, Uh,
Speaker 1: Carrie on Johnson, Carry on Johnson. This is one of
Speaker 1: my favorite angles, and I've got him ranked as high
Speaker 1: as any fantasy expert. I feel, between me and you,
Speaker 1: we could talk for the next half an hour about
Speaker 1: carry on Johnson. This don't happening. The Detroit Lions lost
Speaker 1: nearly two hundred carries and also nearly a hundred receptions
Speaker 1: from the running back positions. Good Bye THEO Riddick. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know for all of us that ever were like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna pick up THEO Rittic this week on the
Speaker 1: bye week, and he's gonna catch a bunch of balls
Speaker 1: and he's gonna, you know, help me out. Nope, never worked.
Speaker 1: He already averaged carry On Johnson, that is fifteen touches
Speaker 1: per game when he was healthy. Now you add all
Speaker 1: of those numbers, all of those touches that and and
Speaker 1: not to mention we've talked about the coaching, Patricia already
Speaker 1: moved it to more of a run heavy offense. Then
Speaker 1: they bring in Daryl Bevil. Yes, so Darryl Bevil. Of course,
Speaker 1: he was the offensive coordinated from Minnesota and Seattle. He
Speaker 1: already knew that. During his time as offensive coordinator, he
Speaker 1: ran the ball the second most in the NFL. Matt
Speaker 1: Patricia has said, we want to run the ball. And
Speaker 1: the Lions went from rushing thirty one and rushing attempts
Speaker 1: before Patricia got there. Last year they went right to
Speaker 1: the middle of the pack. There was a huge jump
Speaker 1: in attempts. Patricia wants to run the ball. The Patriots
Speaker 1: ran the ball, and he saw that, he saw the
Speaker 1: Patriots win championships. He wants that. So who's the offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator he brings in when he gets rid of Jim
Speaker 1: Bob Coooner, Darryl Bevil who runs the ball? The Lions
Speaker 1: are going to run constantly And that's a lot of why.
Speaker 1: Like Carrie On Johnson by the way, he's also a
Speaker 1: really good talent all those years Devilhead guys like Marshall
Speaker 1: Lynch and Adrian Peterson. Are we sure Kriyan Johnson is
Speaker 1: He's not? Probably not, probably them, but but are we
Speaker 1: sure he talented enough to fill that role for him?
Speaker 1: I think he is. You know, I'm going to really
Speaker 1: miss Grandma Cooter on The Power Trip Morning Show though
Speaker 1: that was one of my favorite bits. Uh, no doubt.
Speaker 1: We We're gonna miss Grandma Cooter quite a bit. Um.
Speaker 1: The Lions have the best names. Jim, Bob Cooper Cooter.
Speaker 1: Remember Andrew Peacock, Drew A Drew Pecock, Dre Peacock is
Speaker 1: one of the best names in the history of the show.
Speaker 1: The peacock on our coin. His name is Drew. That's right,
Speaker 1: that's a that's right. We should get him on the show.
Speaker 1: Sometime he's you know, he's probably like an actuary and
Speaker 1: you know in Boise or something. We should find we
Speaker 1: should track down Drew Peacock. Why you do that? Yeah? Alright?
Speaker 1: Moving on? Who's our next bell cow for this year?
Speaker 1: I think I'm just gonna skip over Levy on Bell.
Speaker 1: I think that's kind of obvious. He's Lady on Belly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he should just he should walk into three hundred touches
Speaker 1: or two for the whole offense goes around Lady on Bell. Church.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Leonard Fournette. Who this is a This
Speaker 1: is a sticky one, isn't it. I'm real mean on
Speaker 1: him a lot this year, and I feel dirty that
Speaker 1: I'm warming on him so much. Who all got burned
Speaker 1: a lava on? Sorry? I'm Leonard four net last year?
Speaker 1: Be honest, if you were one of those people, there's
Speaker 1: a four net Jersey here I saw. Where are you
Speaker 1: four net Jersey guy? Where are you? Believer? Back there?
Speaker 1: I love it? Church, you got kicked out of a
Speaker 1: guillotine league because the Leonard Fournette last Leonard four net
Speaker 1: was my exit out of the guillotine league. That guy
Speaker 1: killed me and that was my mid season exit was
Speaker 1: because I spent too much money. I'm wondered four net whoops?
Speaker 1: But what about this year? This year they shipped away
Speaker 1: all of his backups and they only brought in Alfred
Speaker 1: Blue and uh right, qual Armstrong. Alfred Blue sucks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's not good and right Quill had twenty nine receptions
Speaker 1: in college I believe all four years combined. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: Nene of those the guys are pass catching. So the
Speaker 1: Beat reporters talking about four net in the passing game,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of buying it given what they brought in.
Speaker 1: When Alfred Blue retires, will they will be change the
Speaker 1: spelling of his name to be l e w as
Speaker 1: in past tense? Yeah? They really shut Can we just
Speaker 1: do that now? Why? Why do we have to wait
Speaker 1: until after he retired? The fantasy stand up comedian Brian Johnson,
Speaker 1: everybody very good. You need to do a fantasy stand
Speaker 1: up show sometimes anything else on Leonardo. He ed nineteen
Speaker 1: point four touches per game last year, twenty three point
Speaker 1: four the year before, twenty one point one over his career.
Speaker 1: So we're one year removed from Leonard Fournette being taken
Speaker 1: at the end of the first round last year. Of
Speaker 1: course it was the groin injury that never got better
Speaker 1: and they brought him back too fast. Everything else. It's
Speaker 1: super huge, high risk, high reward guys. Right, you know,
Speaker 1: he could be one of the highest scoring running backs
Speaker 1: in fantasy football, or you could have another week one
Speaker 1: groin injury and nobody would even think twice about that happening.
Speaker 1: So two years ago he was the top ten back
Speaker 1: and he only played their team games. So maybe you
Speaker 1: don't even need him to stay healthy the whole season.
Speaker 1: You just need him for a few games a portion
Speaker 1: of it because it gets twenty plus touches and the
Speaker 1: jack Bar's offense gets better by by any measure. It
Speaker 1: will be better this year. Last year they had no
Speaker 1: consistency at quarterback in the offensive d is terrible. So
Speaker 1: Leondard for net All right, we've already we've pounded him
Speaker 1: into the ground. Let's move on, all right, Marlon Macklin.
Speaker 1: Mack great offensive line gets most of the goal line
Speaker 1: work when healthy, averaged almost eighteen touches per game, and
Speaker 1: we're looking for fourteen touches per game to be a
Speaker 1: bell cow. Data foreman and Jordan Wilkins aren't going to
Speaker 1: take from him. All right, Devin Cook, let's go to
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook for do I like Dalvin Cook. My number
Speaker 1: five running love Dalvin Cook. This year. Yeah, they lost
Speaker 1: over ten touches per game. Madison could take that. But
Speaker 1: in the goal line they only ran inside the five
Speaker 1: yard line eight times last year, so I'm not exactly
Speaker 1: worried about that part of it. But Cook, when healthy
Speaker 1: over an eight percent snap right and fifteen point seven
Speaker 1: touches per game. That's great wealth. That's always and that's
Speaker 1: when he was in more he had when he had
Speaker 1: Latavius Murray was siphoning off some work. I don't think
Speaker 1: Gallaxanna Madi is going to be that guy. This is
Speaker 1: a Dalvin Cook lad offense. Any other any other Bell
Speaker 1: Cows you want to mention as we we could mention
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry, but that's a lower risky Well that's okay,
Speaker 1: go ahead. Yeah, at the end of the end of
Speaker 1: the last season, he was obviously a bell cow for
Speaker 1: the last four or five games. La Fleur is gone.
Speaker 1: He's no longer splitting that up. He's going to go
Speaker 1: to Green Bay and split split that up. Really in
Speaker 1: my fantasy owners, but he already averaged fourteen to fifteen
Speaker 1: touches per game last year. All he needs is a
Speaker 1: few more. Okay, yeah, alright, what about Nick Chubb is
Speaker 1: a bell cow for half a year, he's a half
Speaker 1: bell have that down. You're giving me the wind up symbols.
Speaker 1: So I mentioned these, well just one give me, yeah,
Speaker 1: give me Nick Chubb half cow. Over the second half
Speaker 1: last year, the last ten games, he averaged nineteen point
Speaker 1: six touches per game, and he was a top ten
Speaker 1: fantasy running back top ten, so in a better offense
Speaker 1: for the first half of the year and just Hilliard
Speaker 1: behind him. Now that they shipped off Duke John he's
Speaker 1: he's gonna be a bell cow until week ten. Nick Chubb.
Speaker 1: The if Nick Chubb is a half cow, the half
Speaker 1: cow goes yeah, all right, there you go. Uh, there's
Speaker 1: some of the bell cows you can you can go
Speaker 1: to war potential bell cows. Oh Joe, just stick your
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Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Week the Fan. Welcome back to Fantasy Football
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Speaker 1: All the deep dive data coming up at noon. We've
Speaker 1: got the commemorative coins, we've got the cheat sheets, and
Speaker 1: we've got everybody's favorite segment, the reach arount. This is
Speaker 1: when we identify a player who you should reach one
Speaker 1: round early year or two go get. We will go
Speaker 1: through the first several rounds and we will help you
Speaker 1: identify the player you should draft one round early, and
Speaker 1: so the players that you're seeing on the screen right now,
Speaker 1: if you're here, are the players that are going in
Speaker 1: round two. Will tell you which one of these guys
Speaker 1: we think should go in round number one, and then
Speaker 1: we will go through the next ten rounds. That's the idea.
Speaker 1: So we begin with it's the first round. But who
Speaker 1: are you going to take? With a second round average
Speaker 1: draft position? I will begin with Scott Fish. This is Oh,
Speaker 1: I know who it is. D D. Westbrook. I don't
Speaker 1: know how many people listen to that. There's some lasts,
Speaker 1: some people listen. Uh no, Juju Smith Schuster apparently two
Speaker 1: oh one in a DP actually considered him early, like
Speaker 1: mid one the other day. I like him that much
Speaker 1: without Brown. He averaged seven Frady five last year and
Speaker 1: scored in every last two years and scored in every
Speaker 1: game that Antonio Brown didn't play. Yeah, and people are like, oh,
Speaker 1: he can't handle being the number one receiver. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he can do do. Smith Schuster is going
Speaker 1: to be great, averaging seven catches the game without him.
Speaker 1: Not bad, all right. I would take Travis Kelsey in
Speaker 1: round one. I'd take him as high as number four
Speaker 1: or number five. He's the overall. Overall, he's the top
Speaker 1: tight end in the league. He's in a tear by himself.
Speaker 1: He's on the best offense in the league, and he's
Speaker 1: got the best quarterback in the league, and he's probably
Speaker 1: the best weapon on that offense. He's gone through the roof.
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey is an easy pick for me. Yeah, I'll
Speaker 1: mention this, by the way, to listeners, we did not
Speaker 1: I purposely did not coordinate this to make sure like
Speaker 1: we all pick different guys or whatever, because if we
Speaker 1: all picked the same person, I think it's just that
Speaker 1: much more impactful. So you know, this just goes where
Speaker 1: it goes. And sometimes we're going to Greece, sometimes we won't.
Speaker 1: Let's see what Brian Johnson says, which player are you
Speaker 1: going to reach around four in round one? Well, if
Speaker 1: I miss out on like the big four or five
Speaker 1: running backs, I would reach for Dalvin Cook because, like
Speaker 1: Fish said, he is healthy. Uh, the much improved offensive
Speaker 1: line here in Minnesota, an offense that can spread the
Speaker 1: field so we won't see a ton of stack boxes.
Speaker 1: And like Fish said, uh, when healthy, he's on the
Speaker 1: field over eight percent of the time. And uh, I
Speaker 1: see that happening this year he stays healthy as RB
Speaker 1: one potential. I don't see Alexander Madison taking goal line
Speaker 1: carries like some people seem to fret about. I don't
Speaker 1: think the rookie is gonna suddenly get thrust into that
Speaker 1: money job right off the bat. My selection for my
Speaker 1: reach around in round number one is also Juju Smith
Speaker 1: Schuster for all the reasons that Scott mentioned already. Does
Speaker 1: that give me an extra point for tough questions there? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You can spend that point on your your coming wrong
Speaker 1: answer and ex sitment resolutely. Yeah, I think you should
Speaker 1: plan it that way. Passing offense will go through him,
Speaker 1: and then you've got the one hundred sixty eight targets
Speaker 1: vacated by Antonio Brown. Let's go to round at number
Speaker 1: two looks like this. For those of you that are here,
Speaker 1: you can see all the players with a second round
Speaker 1: average draft position. Scott, who are you taking in the
Speaker 1: second round with these players that have a third round ADP?
Speaker 1: This is so tough for me because I love Carrie
Speaker 1: on Johnson and I'm feeling that might be your guy.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna go with George Kittle because he's a
Speaker 1: guy I've been loving for a couple of years, and
Speaker 1: I want. I feel like there's a huge drop off
Speaker 1: after Kelsey and Kittle for me, and it allows me
Speaker 1: to hammer the other positions for the rest of my draft.
Speaker 1: I'll take Kittle around earlier. He's got Garoppolo a better quarterback.
Speaker 1: This year, he's got better weapons aroout him better, more
Speaker 1: talented weapons. But those talented weapons that they have to
Speaker 1: cover only twenty seven career receptions between Samuel and Pettis combined.
Speaker 1: So I think that the lean on Kittle, he will
Speaker 1: be the number one targeted player in the San Francisco
Speaker 1: offense this year in all probability. George Kittle and you
Speaker 1: touched on something interesting. I think it's fair to say
Speaker 1: for all of you who struggled with tight end last year,
Speaker 1: and that was most of you, because there was only
Speaker 1: like three good ones, there's a lot of people like,
Speaker 1: I'm not going through that again. I'm just getting my
Speaker 1: good tight end and I don't I knowing that I
Speaker 1: can sleep easy knowing I don't have to sweat that position.
Speaker 1: I'll see, all right, Matt, who are you taking in
Speaker 1: the second round of the third round a DP? Well,
Speaker 1: if I don't get Travis Kelsey, I too, am taking
Speaker 1: George Kittle. Um. I would definitely want to get one
Speaker 1: of those two guys because I view Travis Kelsey as
Speaker 1: tier one of tight ends in a tear by himself. Yes,
Speaker 1: I viewed George Kittle in tier two in a tear
Speaker 1: by himself and then it's the rest for me. So
Speaker 1: Kittle is definitely my guy in round two. All right, Brian,
Speaker 1: I would take Kittle too, But to make things interesting,
Speaker 1: I'll say Leonard four NET because Fish made a great
Speaker 1: case for him in the bell Cow segment. When healthy,
Speaker 1: you're looking at twenty plus touches easily t j Yelden gone,
Speaker 1: So four net should sy even more work in the
Speaker 1: passing game if he's on the field. And seventeen the
Speaker 1: Jacksonville defense was elite and that really bode well for
Speaker 1: four NET. Last year not so much and Fournette was hurt.
Speaker 1: So if that defense can rebound, they want to focus
Speaker 1: the offense around him and lake Cook for Net does
Speaker 1: have top three five RB one potential if you can
Speaker 1: stay healthy. I would take carry On Johnson for the
Speaker 1: reasons that we just talked about last segment as the
Speaker 1: lead back in a will a soon to be Bell
Speaker 1: cow style offense and honestly believe that he's sitting on
Speaker 1: a very, very big season. But we know we just
Speaker 1: talked about that last segment, So let's move over to
Speaker 1: Round three. Which are the players of the Round four?
Speaker 1: A DP. Are you going to take Scott? You know,
Speaker 1: I have to take Chris Godwin. You always have to
Speaker 1: take christ for a couple of years now, I always
Speaker 1: have to take Chris Godwin. But this is finally the year. Yes,
Speaker 1: this is finally the year it's gonna happen. His numbers
Speaker 1: without d Jacks were averaging about seventy three yards per game,
Speaker 1: and he scored in the four of the six games
Speaker 1: without without DeShawn Jackson. And there's over a hundred vacated
Speaker 1: targets from the wide receiver position. Yeah, he'll walk into
Speaker 1: a sizeable start. And Mike Evans said that that Mike
Speaker 1: Evans and Chris Godwin are compete for the wide receiver one.
Speaker 1: He has that much faith in him that suys plenty.
Speaker 1: All right, Matt, to me, you gotta take the guy
Speaker 1: who's got enough hype that he definitely won't last until
Speaker 1: the next round. Yeah, and for me on that list,
Speaker 1: that guy is David Montgomery. I think that he everybody
Speaker 1: else on that list that we have right there, I
Speaker 1: feel like I can wait till round four and they're
Speaker 1: gonna be there. I don't think David Montgomery is going
Speaker 1: to be there. Uh, he might be a tail end
Speaker 1: of round three pick anyway. And I think he's got
Speaker 1: the sexy name and he's got the ability to maybe
Speaker 1: be a bell cow in Chicago this year. Interesting that
Speaker 1: the Bears didn't play him in the preseason game last
Speaker 1: week last night because they already know what they got.
Speaker 1: They don't need to see him anymore. All right, Brian,
Speaker 1: who is your reach around player in round three? I
Speaker 1: am really warming up to Tyler Lockett, who had more
Speaker 1: targets than Tyler Lockett last year. Josh Gordon had one
Speaker 1: more target than Tyler Lockett, who scored ten touchdowns for
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. Yeah, Doug Baldwin had more targets than Tyler
Speaker 1: lock Doug Baldwin is gone, Yeayler Locket's gonna see a
Speaker 1: hundred plus targets. He saw seventy last year, almost had
Speaker 1: a thousand yards with ten touchdowns. Those numbers gonna go up.
Speaker 1: There's no one else to throw to. In Seattle. Other
Speaker 1: than him, they're gonna run a lot, but Wilson is
Speaker 1: gonna be eyeing Lockett all game long every week. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take Julian Edelman because of the safety that he brings.
Speaker 1: We know that he's gonna catch a buzzillion passes from
Speaker 1: Tom Brady. Uh. Josh Gordon only really helps matters because
Speaker 1: that's going to diversify defenses and force them to not
Speaker 1: not uh not spend extra time on Julian Edelman. And
Speaker 1: I just think he brings extraordinary safety to the field.
Speaker 1: So I will take Julian Edelman. Let's move over to
Speaker 1: round four as we look at the players with a
Speaker 1: round five average draft position, who are you reaching a
Speaker 1: round for Scott? For me, here, it's Chris Carson. They
Speaker 1: vacated a hundred fifty one running back touches when Mike
Speaker 1: Davis left and others hundred fifty one vacated and they're
Speaker 1: one of the most run heavy teams in the league,
Speaker 1: and they're allowed to be because of how efficient Russell
Speaker 1: Listen is. I love I love Locket by the way
Speaker 1: as well, Brian, but there's there's just a lot of
Speaker 1: touches to be had for Carson, and he was already
Speaker 1: double digit Fantasy points ten of the fourteen games he played. Okay,
Speaker 1: I too would give Chris Carson a reach around done.
Speaker 1: The one guy you don't want to reach around on
Speaker 1: is Cooper cup Fish, and I don't have to go that.
Speaker 1: We've been hating this guy forever. We love him long term,
Speaker 1: but not george him. I'll say. Allen Robinson m last
Speaker 1: year coming off the a c L was a little
Speaker 1: slogan getting going, but towards the end of the year
Speaker 1: he really really rammed it up. Popped off in the
Speaker 1: playoff game against the Eagles. His targets should go up.
Speaker 1: It's all about Mitch Dubisky though he's a little interest worthy,
Speaker 1: but if he can get his keep his head straight,
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson has a top fifteen wide receiver potential. Chris Carson.
Speaker 1: I can get a bell cow back in the fourth round,
Speaker 1: and that's my guy. Three of the four of us
Speaker 1: going to war with Chris Carson. My number six running back,
Speaker 1: uh seven, my number seven running back on my cheat sheet.
Speaker 1: Right now, let's go to the next round, round number five.
Speaker 1: These are the players with a sixth round a DP.
Speaker 1: Who are you gonna reach around for Scott. For me,
Speaker 1: it's Robbie Anderson. He's donald stop target. I I haven't
Speaker 1: ranked a good ten spots higher than his ADP currently is.
Speaker 1: I think I think Donald takes a leap forward this year.
Speaker 1: He had Robby Anderson, that is, had at least seven
Speaker 1: targets in seven of the last eight weeks last last year,
Speaker 1: and he scored in three the last four games. Have
Speaker 1: three catches in the last preseason game in just two drives.
Speaker 1: Robby Anderson, you've spoken glowingly of Sam Donald already in
Speaker 1: this show. You now you like his one viable deep threat.
Speaker 1: That makes sense, all right, Matt. Everybody in this group is, uh,
Speaker 1: get a quarterback late kind of guy. But there's a
Speaker 1: couple quarterbacks I'm gonna mention in the next few rounds
Speaker 1: of reach around here that I think have the potential
Speaker 1: to be league winners. And I think one of them
Speaker 1: is Deshaun Watson. He's got the massive rushing upside. His
Speaker 1: receivers are absolutely awesome. Uh, He's got the ability to
Speaker 1: be a guy who can end up end the season
Speaker 1: as QB one and just put up significantly bigger numbers
Speaker 1: than everybody else at the quarterback position, So I will
Speaker 1: I will reach around for Deshaun Watson, okay, and Brian
Speaker 1: Two weeks ago in the peacock off, I said, Evan
Speaker 1: Ingram will be a top three tight end, So I
Speaker 1: gotta go Evan Ingram. Only four tight ends over the
Speaker 1: last decade have logged more receiving herds than the first
Speaker 1: two seasons. And Evan Ingram, and that's George Kittle, Gronk,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Graham, and Aaron Hernandez. And the company of course
Speaker 1: has missed six He really called seven games. He's got
Speaker 1: early in a game, so and he's an absolute beast
Speaker 1: in the red zone. In his career, he's picked up
Speaker 1: a first down or scored a touchdown on seventy of
Speaker 1: his targets. And he's the number one wide receiver on
Speaker 1: that team. I don't care that he plays tight end,
Speaker 1: all right, I am going to take the other tight end,
Speaker 1: Hunter Henry, who has started twenty three career games. The
Speaker 1: former first rounder has scored in half of them. If
Speaker 1: you can get half a touchdown per game production out
Speaker 1: of your tight end, that is bonkers to I. Roll
Speaker 1: Williams has gone for the Chargers. Antonio Gates finally done
Speaker 1: for the Chargers. This is the year Hunter Henry puts
Speaker 1: it all together with the monster season. He has my
Speaker 1: number three tight end overall, and I can get him
Speaker 1: in round five. Let's go to round six with the
Speaker 1: players that have a seventh round average DRAFF position. I'm
Speaker 1: going to Miles Sanders here. There's a couple of backs
Speaker 1: in this, uh, this group being that I like, but
Speaker 1: I'm going with Miles Sanders. I think the cream is
Speaker 1: gonna rise to the top and by the end of
Speaker 1: the year, he's gonna be getting what like, kind of
Speaker 1: like a g I did with the fifteen touches a game. Uh.
Speaker 1: It may not happen early, but eventually he's going to
Speaker 1: get on the field more and more. Okay, it's getting
Speaker 1: silly in this round. Miles Sanders is also my guy,
Speaker 1: but I did consider will Fuller just because of his
Speaker 1: ability to score basically every timey place. So if he
Speaker 1: can stay healthy for an entire year, will Fuller is
Speaker 1: a big time player. All right, Yeah, Miles Sanders is
Speaker 1: the pick. You're a great old line in Philly, and
Speaker 1: just watching him play this preseason, he is way way,
Speaker 1: way better than Jordan Howard. Um. You guys have have
Speaker 1: missed on the running back you do want to take
Speaker 1: care and that's Darryl Henderson is the running back you
Speaker 1: want to take with your reach around pick and round
Speaker 1: six chronically arthritic knee. Who wants to invest in that?
Speaker 1: I don't want to be chronically well you, Scott, I
Speaker 1: don't want to be chronically things I like to do.
Speaker 1: I don't want to chronically have sex. I don't want
Speaker 1: chronically anything. There's Todd Gurley has a chronically arthritic knee.
Speaker 1: Every week. You're gonna have to look that, and then
Speaker 1: that's gonna open the door for Darryl Henderson. If you
Speaker 1: believe like I do, there's at least a coin flips chance,
Speaker 1: perhaps even your fantasy football with the commemorative coin flips chance,
Speaker 1: that Todd Gurley is going to finish this season on
Speaker 1: I R. You want Darryl Henderson, we get this State
Speaker 1: Fair T shirt that says I don't want to chronically
Speaker 1: have sex. Please Ryan Donaldson make that happen with a
Speaker 1: little Paul Church. He had add your face on there too.
Speaker 1: Round seven. These are what players with an eight round
Speaker 1: a DP. Are you reaching a round four? Oh Man
Speaker 1: Num just you're all flustered, a lustered Curtis Samuel is
Speaker 1: my guy in this round. They've been raving bottom in preseason.
Speaker 1: His round running ridiculous. Was ridiculous last year, and it's
Speaker 1: gonna be this year. It's just him and d J.
Speaker 1: Moore out there for the receivers, and Cam is finally healthy,
Speaker 1: is deep balls back he you know, he her shoulder
Speaker 1: last year. I think that's gonna be a good offense.
Speaker 1: And I want every piece of Samuel in that round. Okay,
Speaker 1: I've got Kyler Murray similar to what I said about
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson. Uh, Kyler's got the hype that you need,
Speaker 1: so you're gonna have to reach around early to get him.
Speaker 1: He's got the maybe, the ability and the offense to
Speaker 1: put up all those Patrick Mahomes kind of numbers. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying he's going to do that, but he's got
Speaker 1: the potential. And uh, even if you miss, you swing
Speaker 1: and miss on Kyler Murray, you go get another quarterback
Speaker 1: later in your draft. You get Kirk Cousins in like
Speaker 1: the fifteenth round. Hey, you're just fine, all right, Brian.
Speaker 1: I got Kurtis Samuel too in his third year. Now,
Speaker 1: last year didn't really get consistent playing time until midway
Speaker 1: through the season. And but if you extrapolate his red
Speaker 1: zone usage across a full year, he was among the
Speaker 1: top ten in terms of targets interceptions, and he's also
Speaker 1: a legit threat running the ball. He's not a gadget player.
Speaker 1: Um and Cam Newton is healthy and I believe you'll
Speaker 1: have a big year. So I like Samuel A. Lott.
Speaker 1: Vance McDonald is the selection I'm making here. Get this,
Speaker 1: If you take Vance McDonald last year and Jesse James,
Speaker 1: the other Pittsburgh tight end last year, and add their
Speaker 1: production together, you would have had last year's tight end four.
Speaker 1: Now Jesse James is gone, he's in Detroit. It's all
Speaker 1: Vance McDonald's job. And Antonio Brown's gone with one sixty
Speaker 1: eight targets with him, it's a great opportunity for Vance
Speaker 1: McDonald my number five tight end. Overall, let's sneak in
Speaker 1: a couple more rounds, beginning with round eight, and these
Speaker 1: are the players that have a ninth round average draft position.
Speaker 1: I'm going with Mark has Valdes Scantlin a few good
Speaker 1: games last year end of the end of the season
Speaker 1: with seventeen targets over the final two games. He's it's
Speaker 1: well spoken that he has Aaron Rodgers trust. I think
Speaker 1: he's going to be the number two on that team.
Speaker 1: I'll take the number two on that offense. I hate
Speaker 1: this round. You don't like anybody I didn't like. I
Speaker 1: kind of rather take Shane Falco or Ray Finkel in
Speaker 1: the back row there. Uh, let's let's let's go Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson kind of for the same reasons Kyler Murray and
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson are there. I like, I like shooting for
Speaker 1: the moon on quarterback, got it, I'll take a quarterback.
Speaker 1: I don't think Jared Goff He's got three his wide
Speaker 1: receivers going in the first five rounds. No one else
Speaker 1: can say that for themselves. And according to Pro Football
Speaker 1: Focuses Jeff Radcliffe, goth as the most favorable strength of
Speaker 1: schedule among all quarterbacks and do a ton of weapons,
Speaker 1: including the aforementioned Darrell Henderson, who's now on the mix.
Speaker 1: So goth it up. You've talked me into golf, I'm moving.
Speaker 1: I'm going to move him up my cheat sheet and
Speaker 1: I'm going to take him here as well, and very quickly,
Speaker 1: let's knock down this. Uh, this last round this is
Speaker 1: the ninth round players with the tenth round ADP. Who
Speaker 1: would you who's your final reach around candidate. I think
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Anthony Miller in this round. Uh.
Speaker 1: He scored in seven of his twelve healthy games, and
Speaker 1: he was he put up the stats he did last
Speaker 1: year injured with the shoulder injury. All there, right, and
Speaker 1: so I think there's a lot of upside there. Kareem
Speaker 1: Hunt is the only name on this list that has
Speaker 1: potential playoff game winning ability. Kareem Hunt could win you
Speaker 1: your league and get him on your roster and you
Speaker 1: hide him at the bottom of your bench for eight
Speaker 1: weeks and you're gonna feel good after that. Hey, I
Speaker 1: take Miller if Hunt was not on this list, but
Speaker 1: I gotta take Hunt as well. He could win you
Speaker 1: up because I knew people are gonna take Hunt. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm Kareem Hunt as well. And you know, here's
Speaker 1: the thing that cream Hunt and everybody's like, oh god,
Speaker 1: I gotta hold him for like nine weeks, and that's
Speaker 1: that's a real thing. But if your team is good
Speaker 1: and you've got Kareem Hunt, he's easy to hold because
Speaker 1: you know you're headed to the playoffs, and he's going
Speaker 1: to style you. If your team's bad and you've got
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt, you've got a trade. You've got a very
Speaker 1: tradeable commodity to some team that starts five and oh
Speaker 1: and four and one, and you're telling them a story
Speaker 1: about how it's a night even story, it's reality about
Speaker 1: how they are going to go crush their playoffs with
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt. So would you recommend a Nick Chubb Kareem
Speaker 1: Hunt stack, or as I called it this morning, a
Speaker 1: chunt stack, the chunt stack. I don't love it. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think you could possibly do that. It's the hub. Yes,
Speaker 1: I hate. Hub is a good word. Um, we will,
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Speaker 1: call three tough questions. We encourage the audience to play along.
Speaker 1: This is a knockout variety game here. We're gonna we're
Speaker 1: gonna be monitoring how well you do. And let me
Speaker 1: tell you, this is not gonna be easy. This is
Speaker 1: gonna be hard, very hard. We begin with tough question
Speaker 1: number one, Max Max. This is your Max Tough question
Speaker 1: number one. There we go, alright, alright, We'll go with
Speaker 1: that tough question number one. It looks like we won't
Speaker 1: see Andrew Luck in the preseason. Can owners come out
Speaker 1: of their drafter auction with Luck as their presumed starter? Yes?
Speaker 1: Or no? We begin with Brian Johnson. That's a big
Speaker 1: no from me. We've seen Luck has burned people in
Speaker 1: the past. I don't think this injury is nearly as
Speaker 1: serious as the shoulder injury from a few years ago,
Speaker 1: but a quarterback is just so deep that I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna risk taking my top quarterback with the guy who's
Speaker 1: not playing in the preseason with injury history, and you know,
Speaker 1: Luck is an amazing reality quarterback. But in fantasy, they
Speaker 1: got a good defense, they got a good running game.
Speaker 1: I like teams in garbage time chasing points. So basically,
Speaker 1: I'm just waiting on a healthier guy on an offense
Speaker 1: that it's probably be chasing points all year rather than
Speaker 1: protecting leads. Matt I said yes, because the upside of
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck is clearly as high as any quarterback in
Speaker 1: the game. Plus quarterback is so deep. I kind of
Speaker 1: pounded it into the ground in the last segment. Even
Speaker 1: if you wish on Andrew Luck and he's hurt for
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks or a month, you can get
Speaker 1: these guys in the tenth round or later who are
Speaker 1: quarterbacks fifteen or worse in a DP, Philip Rivers, Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo, Lamar Jackson, and Dak Prescott. I could go
Speaker 1: to war with any of those guys and have Andrew
Speaker 1: Luck still waiting. Okay, yes or no? Can you go
Speaker 1: to war with Andrew Luck as your starting quarterbacks? Scott?
Speaker 1: I think so. I don't think he's gonna miss a
Speaker 1: lot of time. Maybe it's just week one. They're they're
Speaker 1: they're optimistic he might even play week one. But if
Speaker 1: he miss his Week one, you know who you can
Speaker 1: get a quarterback Matthew Stafford against the Cardinals one who
Speaker 1: lost Patrick Peterson into suspension and Robert Robert Alfred just recently.
Speaker 1: That might be a good play there. He he was
Speaker 1: m KEP three. You've now moved Baker ahead of him.
Speaker 1: Baker may feel ahead of him. I'm cautious, but I
Speaker 1: think you can. I think, like Matt said, you can
Speaker 1: you can get people to use Yeah, the correct answer
Speaker 1: is yes, you can go to war with with Andrew Luck.
Speaker 1: This isn't like an A C L right, you know,
Speaker 1: he he may he may start week one. If he
Speaker 1: doesn't start week one, it's not like they're talking about
Speaker 1: a missing months. It may be just a few games here.
Speaker 1: And it's not like the injuries to his arm or
Speaker 1: his shoulder. This is you know, his passing is not
Speaker 1: going to be affected by this, and presumably he's passing now,
Speaker 1: so it's his leg and he was the least hit
Speaker 1: quarterback in the NFL s Yeah, great point, great point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: great offensive line you can go to war with Andrew
Speaker 1: Luck and you'll probably get him at a discount right now,
Speaker 1: because everybody's nervous about Andrew Luck and heck, I've moved
Speaker 1: him down a few spots on my cheat sheet, but
Speaker 1: that doesn't mean that he can't be your starter going
Speaker 1: into the season. Now we go to tough question number two.
Speaker 1: There's Max, well done, Max back at the station, all right.
Speaker 1: How by the way, how many of you are still alive?
Speaker 1: How many of you want one? And oh in the
Speaker 1: first round? Oh, that's not any okay, we are only
Speaker 1: about only about. Everybody's down on it, all right. How
Speaker 1: many running back handcuffs are justifiable? Right now? Brian, I
Speaker 1: gotta go first again, go to man. I don't even
Speaker 1: do the show yesterday. You guys are putting pressure on me,
Speaker 1: all right. Let me think Tony Pollard is the number
Speaker 1: one handcuff you need out there right now. Even if
Speaker 1: you don't Tony Pollard at your zke owner Chase Edmonds,
Speaker 1: if you own David Johnson is a must me. He's
Speaker 1: a guy that can step in and do three down
Speaker 1: work just like David Johnson does. If something were to happen,
Speaker 1: Alexander Madison. I believe the handcuff you need because people
Speaker 1: are putting a lot of faith in Dalvin Cook. I'm one.
Speaker 1: I said I'd reach around and take him in the first,
Speaker 1: but if he goes down, I need to have Alexander
Speaker 1: Madison on my team. I don't know you count the
Speaker 1: San Diego Backs in this convo, but you I can't
Speaker 1: answer your question for you. I'm looking for a number
Speaker 1: really all right, Well it's a little big, a bit
Speaker 1: of a question, but I'm going to Justin Jackson over
Speaker 1: awesome Ekeler because he looks like the true That is
Speaker 1: a handcuff that needs to happen. Yes, sir, and I'll
Speaker 1: just go with that. Four four, So you're on four, okay,
Speaker 1: Matt charge This one was pretty tough. Damaged the limbic
Speaker 1: system in my brain. I thought it might have. Yeah,
Speaker 1: my emotion, long term memory, and behavior is all whacked
Speaker 1: out right now, as always watched out. Yes, I here's
Speaker 1: what I got and and I've thought about it. Brian's
Speaker 1: right on the Cowboys running backs and the Cardinals running backs.
Speaker 1: Chase Edmonds there, it's too Joe mix into Geo Bernard.
Speaker 1: That's three. Dalvin Cooked, alex Madison, that's four. I believe
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake and Klin Balage that's five. James Conner, Jalen
Speaker 1: Samuel's six, And I think that's it all right. And
Speaker 1: here here's why. If you're gonna take a handcuff, it's
Speaker 1: got to be a guy who goes way later than
Speaker 1: the tenth or eleventh round. It's got to be a
Speaker 1: guy that you get on the cheap. So those are
Speaker 1: guys that you can get on the chief and match
Speaker 1: up and handcuff. Okay, I think I agree with most
Speaker 1: of the ones they said. I guess at the base.
Speaker 1: I don't handcuff. I don't care about handcuffing. I've taken
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard without Zeke, I've taken Henderson without Girley. I
Speaker 1: don't care. I'm gonna grab those guys anyway. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: guess you probably have a number somewhere in the neighborhood
Speaker 1: of five or six. So I'm just gonna guess six
Speaker 1: and try to get it right. All right. First, So
Speaker 1: I don't love handcuffing either, because now I've poured extra
Speaker 1: picks into some guy that's just sitting on my bench
Speaker 1: doing nothing, and I gotta wait and hope for an
Speaker 1: injury to one of my starters. That's weird, and I
Speaker 1: could take somebody with all the upside of the guys.
Speaker 1: So you're just talking about in our in our reach
Speaker 1: around segments for example. So for me, it's got to
Speaker 1: be a lot of like what Matt said, it's got
Speaker 1: to be a quality starter with a player that I
Speaker 1: can put a non meaningful pick against that Zeke and
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard, Who's goes around sixteen, that's carry On Johnson
Speaker 1: to see j Anderson around eighteen, that's Nick Chubb to
Speaker 1: cream Hunt in round ten. That's where we differ. Is
Speaker 1: not late enough by these standards? Well, that's your opinion.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a hand. We're throwing out Austin
Speaker 1: Ekeler because you gotta pay too much. We're throwing out
Speaker 1: Darrell Henderson, you gotta pay too much for him round seven.
Speaker 1: Those guys cost too much to be a real handcuff
Speaker 1: Dalvin and Alex Madison. The correct answer is three do
Speaker 1: we have anybody still alive? Two and oh one to three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten,
Speaker 1: eleven of you out of several hundred, Congratulations for the
Speaker 1: eleven of you still alive. Let's go to tough question
Speaker 1: number three. At a boy and he Reid says he's
Speaker 1: looking for a running back by committee. This is a
Speaker 1: direct quote from Andy Reid. So this is not me talking.
Speaker 1: This is Andy Reid talking. I did a little bit
Speaker 1: of that back when I was in Philadelphia, kind of
Speaker 1: a running back by committee deal and we had some
Speaker 1: success with it. We'll do that here, you're Andy Reid.
Speaker 1: Boy sucks. That wasn't even close to that. Sounded like
Speaker 1: an at I need. I need to have a mustache
Speaker 1: that curls into my mouth like his does. Did a
Speaker 1: little bit of that back when I was in Philadelphia.
Speaker 1: That was That's my Southern gentleman. That Andy Reid right there.
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Speaker 1: The appropriate level of panic for those people who have
Speaker 1: drafted Damien Williams or those thinking about drafting Damian Williams
Speaker 1: from Kansas City, is it none him or a bowl
Speaker 1: loosening level of existential anxiety. We begin, I'll go to
Speaker 1: ban No, fine, thanks? Uh. Well, Andy Reid is bulle
Speaker 1: crap because Brian Westbrook and Lashawn McCoy were bell cows.
Speaker 1: There was no platoons. There was Alco later on in
Speaker 1: a life there. I can't remember exactly, but when it
Speaker 1: was Darren Sprowles and some other mismatch whatever, maybe he ran.
Speaker 1: Uh But Damian Williams is by far the best running
Speaker 1: back on this team. Carlos Hide is awful. In the
Speaker 1: last three years, he's finished last few yards per carry
Speaker 1: amongst running backs on his own team. And Zorrowin Thompson
Speaker 1: is a rookie. The only thing that worries me is
Speaker 1: the hamstring. But let's just not worry about injuries. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say none, no platoon and Casey are the team.
Speaker 1: He's bad. No, I don't. I don't know that that's
Speaker 1: a guarantee. All right, Well, Scott, I'm looking at you.
Speaker 1: Let's go. Let's go with you next. Well, I did
Speaker 1: have an answer yesterday when I was thinking about it.
Speaker 1: I think I've been talked out of it now I
Speaker 1: haven't said anything. You don't know the right answer, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't. I also don't care what Andy Reid says.
Speaker 1: About this. I feel like you should be a little
Speaker 1: worried about where you're draft you name, you're drafting him
Speaker 1: so high with some risk, but uh, I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: with none. That Brian's right, there's really nothing behind there.
Speaker 1: And I think that offense gets is so explosive, so
Speaker 1: so many points that you shouldn't worry about him that much. Okay, Matt,
Speaker 1: I too have done in eleven regular season games last season,
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt had less than seventeen touches only once. In
Speaker 1: fifteen games in Kareem Hunt had less than seventeen touches
Speaker 1: only twice. And Williams took over in Week thirteen last
Speaker 1: year as a starter in a timeshare, so he only
Speaker 1: had seven touches in week thirteen, but then they figured
Speaker 1: it out twelve the next week, sixteen, the next week, Yeah, twenty,
Speaker 1: the next week in the playoffs, Thirty touches in his
Speaker 1: first playoff game, fifteen in the second. And that includes
Speaker 1: almost five receptions per game in games he's are it
Speaker 1: and finished. Plus is the closer we get to the
Speaker 1: season starting, the more BS comes out of head coaches
Speaker 1: mouth is in the NFL, and Andy Reid is completely
Speaker 1: lying here. There's no no, no, no worry. The correct
Speaker 1: level of panic is none. How many of you with
Speaker 1: three and oh one two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight?
Speaker 1: We have eight stone cold liars in our group. Congratulations, No,
Speaker 1: we t mark road him town. Well done. That's physical
Speaker 1: proof right there. Well done. Uh and you're right well
Speaker 1: these coaches they are liars. It's not just these eight guys,
Speaker 1: the coaches as well. Back in back in May, running
Speaker 1: back coach Eric b Enemy specifically said we are a
Speaker 1: workhorse team. We find our guy and we run him.
Speaker 1: And that's what's going to be the case there as well. Uh.
Speaker 1: Coming up next segment, we will move on to this
Speaker 1: stinkhole and beyond. Nobody wants to be in the stinkhole.
Speaker 1: After those top three running backs, your pick number four,
Speaker 1: what are you supposed to do? That's the stinkhole. This year,
Speaker 1: we will tell you what to do with pick four
Speaker 1: and every other pick in the first round. After that,
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Speaker 1: It is time to talk about what in the world
Speaker 1: to do when you've got pick number four. Alvin Kamara
Speaker 1: gone Sekon Barkley gone, Christian McCaffrey gone. Well, now what
Speaker 1: we will help answer what to do when you are
Speaker 1: in the stinghole. We've devised trying to think of something funny,
Speaker 1: but sting hole, we have devised a We went through
Speaker 1: and we mapped out what we think is the perfect
Speaker 1: first round from picks four through twelve, and we'll tell
Speaker 1: you about the guys that we debated between for each
Speaker 1: one of these picks, and then who ultimately won in
Speaker 1: that selection. So essentially, this is a moving stinkhole. This
Speaker 1: that's a that's a good way to play catch the stinkhole. Alright,
Speaker 1: it is a pick number four. Those big three running
Speaker 1: backs are off the board. Now we need to figure
Speaker 1: out what to do. Beginning with pick four, we considered
Speaker 1: David Johnson. Matt make the case for David Johnson here. Well,
Speaker 1: I think we can all agree, everybody in this room
Speaker 1: can agree that the Cardinals were a disaster last year. Right,
Speaker 1: is that correct? Yes? Uh? He's still finished third in
Speaker 1: the league and rushing attempts and he added fifty receptions.
Speaker 1: He finished with almost four total yards and tent total touchdowns,
Speaker 1: which had him as a top ten fantasy back in
Speaker 1: literally every format this year with Cliff King's rye and
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray. That combo can make the offense only trend upward.
Speaker 1: It has to look up. So as far as David Johnson,
Speaker 1: if he can stay healthy, he's he's a He's a
Speaker 1: bell pow with the high ceiling. All Right, we debated
Speaker 1: between David Johnson and DeAndre Hopkins. I'll talk about Hopkins.
Speaker 1: I guess right. Okay, the first rounds all about mitigating risk.
Speaker 1: You don't want to lose your draft, lose your your
Speaker 1: season because you made a bad pick in the first round,
Speaker 1: which you can do. DeAndre Hopkins is as safe a
Speaker 1: selection as there is in the entire league. If you
Speaker 1: just want safety and production. What's who who's ever been
Speaker 1: disappointed didn't take DeAndre Hopkins. Hopkins wide receiver rank and
Speaker 1: his two years with Deshaun Watson two and one, number
Speaker 1: one and number two, that's pretty good. I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1: Double digit touchdowns in three of the last four years,
Speaker 1: twelve hundred yards and four of the last five years
Speaker 1: for DeAndre Hopkins. He's awesome. The only down ish year
Speaker 1: he had in fantasy was when brick Oswidler was throwing
Speaker 1: him those wobblers, those one hoppers. Other than that, he's
Speaker 1: been fantastic. The Texans have played one hundred games since
Speaker 1: they drafted DeAndre Hopkins. He has started of the one hundred.
Speaker 1: So it came down to David Johnson and DeAndre Yes,
Speaker 1: let's see what the crowd thinks we should. Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: great point. How many of you take David Johnson by
Speaker 1: you gotta make sounds by sound? How many of you?
Speaker 1: All right? How many would take DeAndre Hopkins? What? No, Brian,
Speaker 1: who did we choose ding DeAndre Hopkins? Well done, crowd,
Speaker 1: You guys got it. So now we move on to
Speaker 1: the fifth pick in the first round. We're gonna roll
Speaker 1: forward David Johnson and now put him up against Davante Adams.
Speaker 1: Tell us a little bit about Davante Adams. Scott, First,
Speaker 1: we do put our money where our mouth is. I
Speaker 1: had the one of four twice this week and took
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins. Good, good job, all right, Davante Adams in
Speaker 1: the air. Rodger's career top wide receiver has finished in
Speaker 1: the top fifteen in Fantasy thirteen times, yeah, including three
Speaker 1: times in the top ten in the last four full
Speaker 1: seasons that Aaron Rodgers has played. Davante Adams has double
Speaker 1: digit touchdowns three years in a row and has the
Speaker 1: most receiving touchdowns in the NFL in that span. I
Speaker 1: think it's Adams. I think we go Adams here, all right?
Speaker 1: Now you heard the case for David Johnson. You've heard
Speaker 1: Davanta Adams. How many of you would take David Johnson?
Speaker 1: How many of you would take Davante Adams? No? Not again,
Speaker 1: listen to this, do the opposite crowd. I love you, Brian,
Speaker 1: who did we select? The people? Are correct? All right?
Speaker 1: So our fifth John Adams. I like that too. So
Speaker 1: we're gonna roll forward David Johnson again, and this time
Speaker 1: we're gonna put him up against Michael Thomas. Now you've
Speaker 1: also got Michael. A lot of my guys. Is gonna
Speaker 1: win this one? I think so. Um. It's so it's
Speaker 1: always dangerous to just replay last year in fantasy football.
Speaker 1: So we're just gonna forget about the eleven games where
Speaker 1: Thomas had eight or more targets. We're just gonna forget
Speaker 1: about that. It's almost like you never just said it.
Speaker 1: We're gonna forget that he topped eight yards or scored
Speaker 1: in all but four games. We're gonna just forget. So
Speaker 1: we'll look at the last forty one games he's had
Speaker 1: as a pro, where he's averaging nine and a half targets,
Speaker 1: seven point two receptions, eighty six yards and half a touchdown.
Speaker 1: In those forty one games, he's only had ten duds.
Speaker 1: So his consistency is that about seventy of his games.
Speaker 1: And I'll take that all day in the first round
Speaker 1: if we're mitigating risk. Alright, So it came down to
Speaker 1: David Johnson and Michael Thomas. How many of you would
Speaker 1: take David Johnson? Here, crowd starting to warm up, how
Speaker 1: many want Michael Thomas? All right, I'm gonna win. Who
Speaker 1: did we pick? Hey? Mr DJ, keep playing that song,
Speaker 1: David Johnson. David Johnson goes wins six pick. We're gonna
Speaker 1: little forward Michael Thomas, and now we put him up
Speaker 1: against By the way, they're a little sour about where.
Speaker 1: That's why we're moving on. People are leaving, heading to
Speaker 1: the doors over that. Michael Thomas goes up against Ezekiel
Speaker 1: Elliott and breaking news in the last few minutes, Ezekiel
Speaker 1: Elliott is is no longer in Cabo. He is back
Speaker 1: in his home in Dallas. So maybe that's a good sign. Maybe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: last time I was in Cobbo, he got stung by
Speaker 1: a jellyfish. Honestly with that news to move him up more.
Speaker 1: Now that stung by the jellyfish news? Anybody on you
Speaker 1: when you got stung by the jelly Well, yeah, I
Speaker 1: made a mistake of scuba diving with R. Kelly. So yeah,
Speaker 1: that's see. Never ever scuba diving. You take nothing away
Speaker 1: from from these two hours of programming. Never scuba dive
Speaker 1: with R Kelly. Okay, okay, so we have another T shirt.
Speaker 1: Now we need a picture, a photoshop picture of you
Speaker 1: and R Kelly scuba diving exactly. Don't do any activit
Speaker 1: you with R Kelly. Well there is that alright, So
Speaker 1: we were pick seven. Consider rolling forward. Michael Thomas tell
Speaker 1: us about Ezekiel. Elliott's got most touches per game last year,
Speaker 1: second most behind Levan Bell the year before. In his
Speaker 1: three years, he's averaged over twenty five touches per game.
Speaker 1: He's he led the NFL and carries in yards in
Speaker 1: both non suspension years. He led the NFL in rushing
Speaker 1: yards per game all three years of his career, and
Speaker 1: last year he caught seventy seven passes. I don't think
Speaker 1: he does that again. Bit shows that he can get
Speaker 1: you points there. He has nine total touchdowns every single
Speaker 1: year he's played. All Right, how many of you believe
Speaker 1: with pick seven we should go Michael Thomas and how
Speaker 1: many of you think we should go Ezekiel Elliott? Alright,
Speaker 1: everybody in a bit of a slump because I see
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas as the winner of the seventh Michael Thomas.
Speaker 1: We do orient towards doing the opposite here, and uh,
Speaker 1: but I like the fact that most of the people
Speaker 1: here thinks Zeke's gonna sign and I do too. All Right,
Speaker 1: let's roll forward to We'll roll Zeke forward to pick eight.
Speaker 1: It comes down to Ezekiel Elliott and Julio Jones. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about Julio Jones for a minute. He was the
Speaker 1: most targeted player in the NFL last season. He was
Speaker 1: third in receptions, first in yards. He finally started to
Speaker 1: find the end zone last year. He had eight touchdowns
Speaker 1: last season. Now, his offensive coordinator, Steve Sarkisian gone. He
Speaker 1: gets Dirk Cutter. Dirk Cutter knows him. He was his
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator in and that during Dirk Cutter's time there.
Speaker 1: That was the only time he ever posted a double
Speaker 1: digit touchdown season was with Dirk Cutter. So there's your
Speaker 1: case for Julio Jones. Are we taking Ezekiel Elliott or
Speaker 1: are we taking Julio Jones? Answer is Tony Pollard. No,
Speaker 1: I'm just kidding at Zeke Zeke. Alright, we're rolling forward
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott are sorry, we're taking Zeke here, We're rolling
Speaker 1: forward Julio Jones. Now in competition with Travis Kelsey for
Speaker 1: pick number nine. Tell us about Travis Kelsey, Matt Well,
Speaker 1: if you're into safety and reliability, look no further than
Speaker 1: the Toyota Camray. No. Um. If you want upside as well,
Speaker 1: you also look at Travis Kelsey in two years with
Speaker 1: Alex Smith at the Helm over eighty catches, over a
Speaker 1: thousand yards, four and eight touchdowns. In his two years
Speaker 1: with Alex Smith UH with Patrick Mahomes that balloon to
Speaker 1: one hundred and three receptions, over yards and ten touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and among all pass catchers only DeAndre Hopkins, Davante Adams,
Speaker 1: and Antonio Brown best at those numbers. Last season, he's
Speaker 1: the best received on the best offense in the league
Speaker 1: and you get a top tier player at a position
Speaker 1: that's kind of scarce. So I'm picking Travis Kelsey here.
Speaker 1: All right, So it's pick number nine. It's between Julio
Speaker 1: Jones and Travis Kelsey. How many like Julio Jones? Wow?
Speaker 1: Almost nobody? So everybody else Travis Kelsey? Yeah, dang, how
Speaker 1: about that? Coming to my side? All right, Brian, Unfortunately
Speaker 1: the magic eight balls is Julio Jones. What what are
Speaker 1: we are we doing that? They loved Julio Jones lapping
Speaker 1: round here. You're a very fickle crowd. You're like Julio
Speaker 1: Jones more with the previous pick than this pick. We're
Speaker 1: taking Julio Jones at nine, but will roll Travis Kelsey
Speaker 1: ahead for his next spot of battle with Odell Beckham,
Speaker 1: now in Cleveland. Scott tell us a little bit about
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham. Todd Munkin's. Todd Munkin's though, see there. Now
Speaker 1: he was with Tampa Bay last year and he did
Speaker 1: wonders for Mike Evans and for Jamis Winston and your
Speaker 1: beloved Stu Beard. Now now he's in Cleveland. Odell is
Speaker 1: better than Mike Evans. Baker is better than Jameis Winston
Speaker 1: and yes, Baker is better than Stu Beard charge It's true.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry to say so. He's got a whole lot
Speaker 1: more weapons there when he plays O. B J is
Speaker 1: a force. Beckham has hit a hundred yards in almost
Speaker 1: forty one percent of his games. He scored intent of
Speaker 1: his games. He's done one or the other in over
Speaker 1: two thirds of his games. Dylan promise. He's missed more
Speaker 1: games than Sammy Watkins and they were drafted in the
Speaker 1: same year. There is that. There's the hell thing. He's
Speaker 1: stunned when he's on the field. Now, let's test the
Speaker 1: audience again. It's Odell Beckham versus Travis Kelsey. How many
Speaker 1: choose Odell Beckham Travis Kelsey? Where's jeefs Guy? Okay? What
Speaker 1: have Chiefs Guy? Is an annual fixture here? How busy?
Speaker 1: We have eight Chiefs guy? But not the chiefs guy
Speaker 1: over there and there? All right, let's let's see who
Speaker 1: our winner is. Harrison is gonna hate it because it's
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham jor we will roll Travis Kelsey one more pick.
Speaker 1: You can tell how many people in the audience got
Speaker 1: burned to tight end last year, can't you? Holy cow?
Speaker 1: There's a lot of there's a lot of people that
Speaker 1: really wish they had had Travis Kelsey last year. Up
Speaker 1: against Travis Kelsey, Pick eleven is Juju Smith Schuster. Man,
Speaker 1: you guys are gonna pick Juju for sure. You was
Speaker 1: terrific last year and could have been even better with
Speaker 1: and could be even better this year with Antonio Brown's
Speaker 1: hundred sixty six targets available. Yes, he'll face better coverage now,
Speaker 1: but Antonio Brown made at work with number one coverage
Speaker 1: and Juju is awesome. What's he ever done wrong? He's
Speaker 1: been an elite talent from the moment he started games
Speaker 1: in the middle of his rookie year. And how good
Speaker 1: is Juju Smith Schuster. The reason Antonio Brown left because
Speaker 1: his ego couldn't handle being the second best receiver on
Speaker 1: his own team. That's the reason. That's the reason he
Speaker 1: left Pittsburgh. Juju was a top ten Fantasy wide receiver
Speaker 1: last year. He'll be even better this year because there
Speaker 1: isn't many more reliable people for Ben to throw to.
Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster or Travis Kelsey. How many of you
Speaker 1: picked Juju Smith Schuster? How many Travis Kelsey? I think
Speaker 1: a boo Boo's tail is out here now, Yesla, alright,
Speaker 1: who do we go with with pick number eleven? For
Speaker 1: those familiar with my Fantasy League draft room, Travis Kells. Yes,
Speaker 1: I don't even know what you're talking about. We're taking
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey. Yeah, Travis Kels charge, Come on, you don't
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't No, I don't get that. Alright,
Speaker 1: So Travis Kelsey finally gone. You got your ways. Pick eleven.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the last pick of thee of the
Speaker 1: first round, pick number twelve, the stinkhole and beyond we
Speaker 1: rolled forward Juju Smith Schuster. Now he does bad with
Speaker 1: Levy on Bell. Tell us about Levan Bell. This doesn't
Speaker 1: have a chance. Should I even go? You never They
Speaker 1: could be a running back friendly crowd. You never know,
Speaker 1: all right, Levan Bell top three running back each of
Speaker 1: the two years prior to his his year off, he
Speaker 1: was on pace for four hundred plus touches or got
Speaker 1: four hundred plus touches each of those year, lad the
Speaker 1: league in touches. Each of those year the Jets paid him.
Speaker 1: It's going to be more of Temple offense. They're gonna
Speaker 1: use him. I wouldn't be surprised. If he gets twenty
Speaker 1: plus touches a game. All right, Juju Smith Schuster versus
Speaker 1: Levy on Bell. How many have got Juju and how
Speaker 1: many have Leban Bell. That's almost an even split. Sprised,
Speaker 1: I thought that's what they're at the end of the
Speaker 1: first round. They can have they get up both. The
Speaker 1: great point you can take them both there is that.
Speaker 1: Who did we take with the twelve pick? I was
Speaker 1: about to say that you get them both? Yeah, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: whateverybody wins. There you go, it's ju Ju though over
Speaker 1: taking Juju first optics. Then you can go with Levy
Speaker 1: on Bell if that's what you want to do, although
Speaker 1: I would I'd go Tyra kill. I would go Juju
Speaker 1: into Tyrek and that would be that. That's just me
Speaker 1: when we come back. By the way, where would you
Speaker 1: like to pick in the first give me I want
Speaker 1: just a numeric answer, and I don't want anything else
Speaker 1: with it because we're way over on time. If you
Speaker 1: can pick anywhere in the first round, what is the
Speaker 1: spot that you want to pick from? Scott four? I
Speaker 1: want to start with Hopkins three. You want one of
Speaker 1: the running backs, say three or twelve? Three or twelve.
Speaker 1: I'll take twelve. Yeah, I like, I'll take I'll take five. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll take five. I will get any virtually any receiver
Speaker 1: I want. And I'm a little quicker on the way back.
Speaker 1: I like, I love to be in the middle of
Speaker 1: the first one of those drafts where I got where
Speaker 1: I did Hopkins at four, I got Juju in the second.
Speaker 1: That's a gift. That is a gift. When we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll release this week's sleepers. Will we do it in
Speaker 1: the last segment of every preseason show and we will
Speaker 1: recap do the opposite. Was it a good strategy last year?
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Speaker 1: segment from now. It's my favorite part of the year.
Speaker 1: I can't wait. Let's reveal our sleepers for this show.
Speaker 1: I will begin with Scott by the way, you've already
Speaker 1: given out over the course of this preseason, Jalen Samuel's,
Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel, Donte Montcreef, c J Anderson, Darren Waller, and
Speaker 1: Latavius Murray. Who are gonna add to our list? You know,
Speaker 1: I had Robby Anderson before, but I've talked about him
Speaker 1: a lot. I've talked about that Jets. That's team a lot.
Speaker 1: You have switching it up. I know, d d U
Speaker 1: s bro this is your t D. West. I'm never
Speaker 1: going to lift this down. You jump to the right,
Speaker 1: you shake that hand. Yes, jump to the left, you
Speaker 1: shake that hand. Meet you friends, tie that yarn? How
Speaker 1: you do Scar? Trey Quinn. Trey Quinn is my guy.
Speaker 1: He did them. I don't have any idea what you guys,
Speaker 1: just man, I've seen the office, alright, Tray Quinn scored
Speaker 1: a touchdown last year and did the scarn in the
Speaker 1: end zone, and so he will be my love forever.
Speaker 1: Is the scarn Scranton? Is it a Scranton thing? It's
Speaker 1: Scott Scott's movie. Yeah, secret agent that it's been a
Speaker 1: secret agent in the world him at the end of
Speaker 1: the office. No, no, I just don't remember season six.
Speaker 1: All right, she's going to do the scarn during the
Speaker 1: day to dive to Yes, I know, said on the wax.
Speaker 1: Do you even give your guy? I got a trump.
Speaker 1: Make your case for Drake Quinn because he did the
Speaker 1: scar and yeah, that's it. That's it. There's nothing more.
Speaker 1: He had two games last year he had he caught
Speaker 1: nine of his ten targets and caught a touchdown in
Speaker 1: those two games. He started. Now he's the soul slot
Speaker 1: receiver for the Washington Redskins, and if case Keenum gets
Speaker 1: to start, I'm fine with either quarterback. But case Keenum
Speaker 1: loves himself a good slot, loves a slot than of
Speaker 1: the annunciation on that. Yes, all right, mad Brian, can
Speaker 1: you stand up for me for this? All right? And
Speaker 1: can you unzip your sweatshirt and show off who day?
Speaker 1: Because it's the Cincinnati Bengals and it's Tyler I first,
Speaker 1: you can pick Tyler Eiffort with the last pick in
Speaker 1: your draft. I don't know why you'd want to, though,
Speaker 1: because he's missed a whopping fifty four games in the
Speaker 1: last five seasons and only played in that span. However,
Speaker 1: during those twenty eight games, he's had nineteen touchdowns. That's
Speaker 1: well over half a touch down per game. And let's
Speaker 1: review how he's gotten dinged up over the past couple
Speaker 1: of years. And they're all not the soft tissue injuries.
Speaker 1: They're cute. I got hit by a guy injuries. He
Speaker 1: was hit after a catch, dislocated his right elbow, missed
Speaker 1: the rest of the season owen he played thirteen games.
Speaker 1: He missed two games for the next stinger. Then went
Speaker 1: to the Pro Bowl, tore a ligament in his ankle
Speaker 1: in the Pro Bowl and missed the first six games,
Speaker 1: then missed four more after getting hit in the back.
Speaker 1: Then he had back surgery after getting hit in the
Speaker 1: back again and missed basically the whole seventeen season. Double
Speaker 1: aw fractured an ankle that caused him to miss twelve
Speaker 1: games last year. He's soft tissue recurring injuries like a
Speaker 1: degenerative knee condition like Todd Gurley detenerative arthritic knee. Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton is playing for his life in Cincinnati. This could
Speaker 1: be it for Andy Dalton. A J. Green is missing
Speaker 1: for a month to two months. Besides Tyler woid Who
Speaker 1: else is he going to throw too? With the last
Speaker 1: pick in your draft? Go get Tyler Eiffort? All right,
Speaker 1: who is your sleep for this week? Brian reminds me
Speaker 1: one of my favorite team names. It hurts when effort. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's good. I can't take credit for that. I just
Speaker 1: saw that. I got. Adam Humphrees led the league in
Speaker 1: slot receiving yards last year, one of fifteen wide receivers
Speaker 1: with double digit red zone targets. Whether it's Ryan Tannehill
Speaker 1: or Marcus Mariotta Humphreys is gonna be the safe people
Speaker 1: blanket for either one of those terrible quarterbacks and gonna
Speaker 1: lead that team in receptions. It's not gonna be a J. Brown,
Speaker 1: It's not gonna be Corey Davis. It's not gonna be
Speaker 1: Delaney Walker. It's gonna be Adam Humphreys. And I'm Humphreys. Actually,
Speaker 1: I I like that one um. A guy touted last
Speaker 1: year and frankly didn't do as much as I had liked,
Speaker 1: was Peyton barber Um. But we're gonna go back to
Speaker 1: the well again. And I understand that you're gonna be skeptical,
Speaker 1: but this is really about Bruce Arians, who's a phenomenal
Speaker 1: offensive mind. In his past three seasons as head coach,
Speaker 1: twice he was in the top ten in yards and
Speaker 1: points scored, and Arians was able to squeeze production out
Speaker 1: of former runners like Rashar Mendenhall and the undead corpse
Speaker 1: of Adrian Peterson. And of course then David Johnson shows up,
Speaker 1: gets teamed with Bruce Arians and totally dominates. The coaching
Speaker 1: staff is trying to build little steambind Ronald Jones, but
Speaker 1: we'll believe that when we see it. When Bruce Arians
Speaker 1: showed up in Tampa, he looked at all the game
Speaker 1: tape of sixteen games and he decided he did not
Speaker 1: need to draft a single running back. None were drafted.
Speaker 1: He likes Peyton Barber. If you believe the Bucks offense
Speaker 1: is gonna get a lot of a lot better like
Speaker 1: I do, go get that team starting running back at
Speaker 1: pick one hundred thirty nine of your draft. Peyton Barber. Now, hey, charge, Yes,
Speaker 1: I just wanted to mention we got a coin total
Speaker 1: from from the show we do uh six hundred and
Speaker 1: fifty dollars that are going to uh fan Fantasy Cares.
Speaker 1: Thank you very much everybody. Did you get the awesome coin?
Speaker 1: But the donation you made too Fantasy Cares and then
Speaker 1: toys for Tom and Scott. Tell us about Fantasy Cares really,
Speaker 1: uh real, anybody who doesn't want to know. Yeah, we
Speaker 1: we created it to basically raise money to give toys
Speaker 1: for Christmas to Toys for Tots. We do help other
Speaker 1: charities around there, but it's it's a way to grow
Speaker 1: and activate the fantasy community into giving charity. I like
Speaker 1: to giving the charity. I like to tell people maybe
Speaker 1: take one of your entry fees from your league and
Speaker 1: give it to it. It It doesn't have to be mine,
Speaker 1: it could be any charity. Just just try to do
Speaker 1: something good. There's hundreds of thousands of leagues out there.
Speaker 1: We can do a lot of good together. Absolutely, uh
Speaker 1: follow and Scott has been the the entire industry's first
Speaker 1: mover and trying to get charity rolling through fantasy leagues,
Speaker 1: and we're very grateful do the opposite. You guys know
Speaker 1: the premise of this because you're a local listening audience
Speaker 1: and we've talked about it for years. Running backs are
Speaker 1: the most vulnerable position. They get hurt, they suffer when
Speaker 1: their quarterbacks are bad, they suffer when their defenses are bad,
Speaker 1: they suffer when their team is losing in a game.
Speaker 1: They suddenly get old, and one year you were good
Speaker 1: and the next year you are garbage. Those are all
Speaker 1: the things that happen to running backs. And instead, wide
Speaker 1: receivers in tight end just performed like you expect almost always.
Speaker 1: So those early round picks in your draft should should
Speaker 1: have the least amount of risk. Those are the most
Speaker 1: valuable picks. So we turned those into wide receivers and
Speaker 1: tight ends more than we do with running backs. Last year,
Speaker 1: the top ten performing wide receivers were Tyree Hill and
Speaker 1: Tonio Brown, Davante Adams, DeAndre Hopkins, Julio Jones, Michael Thomas,
Speaker 1: Adam Phelan, Mike Evans, Juju Smith, Schuster, and Stefan Takes.
Speaker 1: It seems like a pretty good list. No surprises in
Speaker 1: the list at all. Wide receivers. Good wide receivers perform
Speaker 1: every year. Only one wide receiver that with a solid
Speaker 1: top three round a DP failed to finish in the
Speaker 1: top ten, and that was Odell Beckham because he missed
Speaker 1: the months of December. I know you've got a great
Speaker 1: injury staffs as well. Let's hear injury yeah talk. Over
Speaker 1: the last three years, the top twelve running backs in
Speaker 1: ADP have missed one in twelve games. Over that same
Speaker 1: three years, the top twelve wide receivers in ADP have
Speaker 1: only missed sixty six half as many. Yeah. That's from
Speaker 1: Adam's CBS. I like to I like to credit when
Speaker 1: I get stats from other people. Last year, among the
Speaker 1: top fourteen running backs, half of them were from outside.
Speaker 1: From the middle rounds and lowers. You can find running
Speaker 1: backs later in your draft. James Conner's ADP was one
Speaker 1: hundred sixty last year. James White was one eighteen. Tarik
Speaker 1: Cohen was ninety three. Philip Lindsay's ADP last August was infinity.
Speaker 1: He was not being drafted. Nick chubbs August ADP was
Speaker 1: one hundred thirty one. Chris Carson's ADP at this time
Speaker 1: last year was one hundred three. You can go get
Speaker 1: you can get good running backs later in your draft year.
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones another great example. These are all guys that
Speaker 1: you could have gotten for cheap, super cheap that ended
Speaker 1: up in the top half of the top fourteen, so
Speaker 1: within or within the top fourteen. So the overall premise
Speaker 1: of do the opposite again and is the is to
Speaker 1: put your risk ist positions into the middle and bottom
Speaker 1: half of your draft. And I don't think there's any
Speaker 1: you should feel compelled in any way to pick a
Speaker 1: running back before the fourth or fifth round and then
Speaker 1: you take a bunch. So let's say last year you would, uh,
Speaker 1: let's what what, Matt, what would a a you've got
Speaker 1: the you've got the rounds in front of you very quickly,
Speaker 1: what would a what would the top three or four
Speaker 1: rounds look like if you didn't take a running back.
Speaker 1: So we did this exercise yesterday and what we ended
Speaker 1: up with a team was Jared Goffitt quarterback, Chris Carson
Speaker 1: and Lamar Miller at running backs as middle to your
Speaker 1: guys middle round guys, DeAndre Hopkins, Adam Feeling and Brandon
Speaker 1: Cooks as wide receivers, and Travis Kelsey as your tight end.
Speaker 1: With Darryl Henderson and Royce Freeman on your bench, that's
Speaker 1: not bad. I mean I'd go I'd go to I'd
Speaker 1: go to war with that team in a in a second.
Speaker 1: That that is some do the opposite love for those
Speaker 1: of you that have been following that for years. Hey, everybody,
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