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Speaker 1: two offseason debut. Scott Fish, what's going on charts? It's
Speaker 1: been too long. We've missed you. Listeners have missed you.
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Speaker 1: the Vikings win a Super Bowl months from crazy top
Speaker 1: months from now? Do they win a Super Bowl? Yeah,
Speaker 1: just eleven months from now, hundred four hundred, yeah, some
Speaker 1: some number of months. The focus of this, oh is
Speaker 1: all the offseason macinnations that we've had and Scout there's
Speaker 1: so many that we've decided to limit our scope. Here
Speaker 1: two players who move teams, so we're not doing Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins extension. We're not even doing Aaron Rodgers and Tom
Speaker 1: Brady staying with their teams somewhat unexpectedly. Um, we're gonna
Speaker 1: focus on new players and new places, and we might
Speaker 1: hit some of the other, you know, some of those
Speaker 1: things later on, but you know, in those cases, it's
Speaker 1: more like you know, you already know about Tom Brady
Speaker 1: in Tampa. It doesn't have all of the talk ability
Speaker 1: and all the if you're listening to a fantasy football
Speaker 1: podcast on March in March, right, yeah, you know Tom
Speaker 1: Brady's yes, and you know most of what that already means.
Speaker 1: Probably by the time people hear this, Deshaun Watson probably
Speaker 1: has a new home. But in this moment, Friday afternoon,
Speaker 1: on the of March, we don't know where he's going
Speaker 1: to end up quite yet, So will be keeping keeping
Speaker 1: that might be the a the A topic of next
Speaker 1: week's podcast. I guess I'm very good chance for that.
Speaker 1: So let's begin here, speaking of quarterbacks in new places.
Speaker 1: I'd like to start with some of the quarterbacks. Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson going to the Broncos adds a fourth talented quarterback
Speaker 1: to a stacked a f C West and I want
Speaker 1: to get your initial thoughts on this, and let's start
Speaker 1: with Russell Wilson in my estimation, his fantasy value is
Speaker 1: relatively unchanged as he goes from an offense that had
Speaker 1: two good receivers in it to an offense with two,
Speaker 1: maybe three good receivers in it too, maybe three good ones.
Speaker 1: Their defense is better, so he may not have to
Speaker 1: put up as many points, might not be fighting back
Speaker 1: comebacks like he used to. Better running back, better running back.
Speaker 1: They'll have a better running game if he keeps that
Speaker 1: efficiency though, with an uptick and volume, that would be
Speaker 1: pretty nice. But yeah, I it didn't move move him
Speaker 1: a ton for me, except it maybe made me feel
Speaker 1: a little more cure with him, like I used to
Speaker 1: feel like. Russell can have these stretches, especially at the
Speaker 1: end of the season, where you're not confident starting him,
Speaker 1: And I think it puts him in that category where
Speaker 1: I'm like, he could be an every week starter. I'll
Speaker 1: draft him lay, but he could go almost every week. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that's probably the case. Courtland Sutton gets a
Speaker 1: bump up, Jerry Judy gets a bump up for sure,
Speaker 1: and one of your favorite guys, Albert, Oh, what do
Speaker 1: you think? Yep, Albert, I I love it. I I
Speaker 1: think that they traded away fant knowing that Aqui buon
Speaker 1: um um um could uh could really fill in that role.
Speaker 1: He's really the only tight end pass catcher they have. Now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he'll get some. Look, I believe in this offense, and
Speaker 1: I think for especially for anybody who can wait maybe
Speaker 1: even another year. Is he this will be a third year.
Speaker 1: This will be his third year, So I don't know
Speaker 1: if this is the breakout year. But you know, if
Speaker 1: he's my second tight end, fill pretty good. Well, you know,
Speaker 1: after the first six or seven tight ends, it's kind
Speaker 1: of a cluster anyway, So he's a high upside play.
Speaker 1: You can draft him late after this top six or
Speaker 1: seven tight ends. Everybody thinks they're gonna find a guy man.
Speaker 1: More often than not, Robert Tonyan does not produce, you know,
Speaker 1: and whoever touch yeah, whatever, whoever, whatever that guy is
Speaker 1: that you were looking for to help you, a tight
Speaker 1: end man doesn't come along very often. Okay, where does
Speaker 1: this sleep see out? I mean, now this totally daggers.
Speaker 1: Totally daggers. Uh. The dk DK metcalf Tyler Lockett, right,
Speaker 1: and that's gonna be a problem until they solve it.
Speaker 1: Although Matt Ryan could end up there. I think there's
Speaker 1: something to be said. That true. Luck if he is
Speaker 1: the quarterback, he does throw a decent amount of yolo
Speaker 1: balls deep though, so those guys, Yeah, it works for
Speaker 1: both those guys, but I think it's still just gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of running and we're gonna miss the efficiency.
Speaker 1: You'll have startable weeks from them. But you can't like
Speaker 1: him as much you like DK Metcalf tweeting, U, I
Speaker 1: just want to lay off d Drew Lock. I wouldn't.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be shocked if Matt probably not metcap, but
Speaker 1: I wouldn't be shocked if lock It gets traded. They
Speaker 1: feel like they're in a rebuild and it feels like
Speaker 1: there's some teams. But do they mean there were some
Speaker 1: some media reports in the last twenty four hours saying
Speaker 1: that they were interested in Matt Ryan, and that's the
Speaker 1: right that Matt Ryan for sure is not a rebuild cornerback. Okay,
Speaker 1: they are in a rebuild, but they may not realize
Speaker 1: Yeah you think you think they would because of the
Speaker 1: older players they've let go Bob Wagner, right and of
Speaker 1: course Russell Wilson, but maybe maybe not, maybe not. You know,
Speaker 1: it's a team that's traded away so many early round
Speaker 1: picks in the past, fans value doesn't change for me.
Speaker 1: He goes to it, you know, low volume offense that
Speaker 1: with the same quarterback. I think that's probably about right. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's go over to Carson Wentz is your new quarterback
Speaker 1: of the Commander. I don't hate Wentz as much as
Speaker 1: everybody else. I don't love him, but like I was
Speaker 1: in on him last year, I thought he'd be a
Speaker 1: good value behind that awesome offensive line. But it wasn't. Well,
Speaker 1: the total numbers for him were not that bad, not
Speaker 1: to get a seven interception season. Everybody thinks he's he
Speaker 1: makes all of these horribly detrimental plays, and some of
Speaker 1: his plays are super ugly, But I don't think he's
Speaker 1: a bad quarterback compared to say Drew Lock, who we
Speaker 1: were just talking about. You have an NFL team that
Speaker 1: right now would have to go to with Drew Lock
Speaker 1: or Sam Ellinger. And you know, I believe that he
Speaker 1: was better than Lawrence was last year. Everybody was better
Speaker 1: than Trevor Lawrence last year. What do you think this
Speaker 1: does for Terry McLaurin. Uh, it's got to improve it.
Speaker 1: It's got to improve it. You got you got. It's
Speaker 1: clearly a quarterback upgrade. No matter how much you love
Speaker 1: Taylor Heineke, it's clearly an upgrade. So you gotta love
Speaker 1: it from McLaren. I don't know that he can support
Speaker 1: more than that, though. I don't know that they'll have
Speaker 1: more than that. Yeah. Last pick of the of your draft,
Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel. Yeah, lost the whole last year on injury.
Speaker 1: Had looked good the year before, and let's be honest,
Speaker 1: a few years ago he was kind of running that
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel role. And it's a copycat league. Maybe Ron
Speaker 1: River is like I did this with you in Carolina.
Speaker 1: That was the hope last year just wasn't He was
Speaker 1: just never healthy. Unfortunately. Then there's this guy, oh, the
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh Steeler quarterback. Yeah, the Pittsburgh Steelers are going to
Speaker 1: war with Sad Trombone Ski. Almost everything I've heard Scott
Speaker 1: has been positive. You feel about Sad Trombone Ski is
Speaker 1: the trigger man for the Pittsburgh Steelers in comparison to uh,
Speaker 1: in comparison to Mason Rhodel. Maybe it's a upgrade. Um,
Speaker 1: I do want to dig into the out on which
Speaker 1: side of the field Deontae Johnson lines up on So
Speaker 1: I know because because Trabisky can't throw left, but don't
Speaker 1: forget middle a problem and he's not great at right either,
Speaker 1: But uh no, I'm fine with it. I better sper
Speaker 1: has not been good the last two years. I don't
Speaker 1: think it's the big, big of a downgrade for these
Speaker 1: past catchers as we think it is. Who says it's
Speaker 1: a down grade even maybe not compared to what Ben
Speaker 1: was giving you? Right. The only wonder is if he's
Speaker 1: gonna check down like he like he was never Trabinsky
Speaker 1: has never been a checkdown artist to running backs, and
Speaker 1: that was a huge thing for Naji Harris. So I
Speaker 1: wonder if that's gonna be an issue. But can I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna have a problem throwing a
Speaker 1: swing past to Naji Harris, But I don't think. I
Speaker 1: just worry that he likes to go fifteen yard player.
Speaker 1: I was I was gonna say big play, but he
Speaker 1: doesn't really big play kind of doesn't, does he? Um
Speaker 1: Deonta Johnson, Chase clay Pool and too and Pat Fryarmouth.
Speaker 1: What do you think about them now that Mitch Dubinsky
Speaker 1: is there. I have them all about the same place
Speaker 1: I had them. Honestly, I haven't. I haven't moved him
Speaker 1: a whole lot. I worry that Deontae Johnson's volume is
Speaker 1: not going to be there because Ben just just hyper
Speaker 1: targeted him, and and Rabinsky has never really been a
Speaker 1: hyper target or either, So I guess if I had
Speaker 1: to move someone down and be Deonte Johnson. Chase Claypool
Speaker 1: I think was overvalued last year. I think it's come
Speaker 1: back down to a reasonable value because he's a good
Speaker 1: contested catch guy. He's a big guy that can catch
Speaker 1: dot downs. It might even be but he did it
Speaker 1: last year, which was really frustrating. Yeah, but maybe they
Speaker 1: had like two bombs back this year. You can get
Speaker 1: nine receiving the year before as a rookie who didn't
Speaker 1: even do much in the first like third of his
Speaker 1: rookie year, and then Chase Claypool came alive. Juju Smith
Speaker 1: Schuster I believe is he's still free agentist? Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't think. I don't think he's anywhere yet, so would
Speaker 1: be interesting to find out. Now. He lingered a long
Speaker 1: time last year's free agency and deal probably got hurt.
Speaker 1: So have not not a good year for the one
Speaker 1: year proved deal. No, it really was not. I think
Speaker 1: that's the key quarterbacks that we know have moved. Let's
Speaker 1: go to some of the other key key elements, including
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson going to the Rams forty six and a
Speaker 1: half million dollars. He's coming off a dreadful season last year.
Speaker 1: That I but he's He's literally never had good quarterbacking
Speaker 1: until now. Yeah, and not only that, his whole career
Speaker 1: he has been the number one receiver with terrible number two.
Speaker 1: Is like he has always had to face either the
Speaker 1: best coverage or bracket coverage, and now he's going to
Speaker 1: a place where there's Cooper cover right there and he
Speaker 1: gets to be the second man with his his talent. Granted,
Speaker 1: he's older and he hasn't showcased it quite as Munch
Speaker 1: in recent years, but I kind of love this position
Speaker 1: for him. The money is a little shocking. I am
Speaker 1: a little surprised he got as much as he did,
Speaker 1: although happy for him. Yeah. Absolutely, What do you think
Speaker 1: this means for Robert Woods coming off the A c L.
Speaker 1: You're hearing these a trade candidate, and I don't doubt that,
Speaker 1: damn man, um. I think I think it's a bigger
Speaker 1: sign that they probably won't bring O b J back,
Speaker 1: even though they've they've expressed that they want to. I
Speaker 1: think O b J might just rehab all year and
Speaker 1: then mid season be like, who's the super Bowl? Cadat,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go there, go there. But you're right, I
Speaker 1: don't think O b J is going to be on
Speaker 1: a team for a while. Yeah. I do think that
Speaker 1: they want Robert Woods back, but you've heard the rumors. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it'll be fascinating to watch how that ends up
Speaker 1: playing itself out. Davante Adams goes to the Raiders, costing
Speaker 1: them a first and second round pick. Obviously a huge,
Speaker 1: huge signing for the Raiders. Who now Derek Carr's got
Speaker 1: three really good targets right now, Hunter renfro who was
Speaker 1: so good in the last half of last season. Um,
Speaker 1: and then obviously Davante Adams and Darren Waller. What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on that offense? Now, Adams turned out more
Speaker 1: money from the Packers to go to Las Vegas, his
Speaker 1: dream scenario, his dream play go home, to play there
Speaker 1: and to play with his college quarterback. Um, I really
Speaker 1: like it. Like I I think that offense is gonna
Speaker 1: it was already decent. Like car is not as bad
Speaker 1: as people think he is. But he's the fourth best
Speaker 1: quarterback in his division. So it looks weird a lot.
Speaker 1: But that offense should be so much, it should be
Speaker 1: absolutely good. I hope they work on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: It was bad, lady. You know, they blew it all
Speaker 1: up last year. I think it's better this year if
Speaker 1: they had some pieces to it, and that would certainly
Speaker 1: help Adams. Does Adams stay in the first in the
Speaker 1: first round in your mind? I think I moved him
Speaker 1: around while receiver seven or eight, um, So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean he's on that edge, like I think he's
Speaker 1: gone by he's gone in the first two rounds. Still
Speaker 1: he might be gone on the corner. But it's it's
Speaker 1: he's really pushing that I think he moves out of
Speaker 1: them to me the middle of the first round, because
Speaker 1: he was the sole focus of a passing game led
Speaker 1: by Aaron Rodgers to now being one of three very
Speaker 1: good viable targets in a Derek Carr. That's just enough
Speaker 1: to push him in the second. There's there's enough guys
Speaker 1: that are just clear ones or clear Belk House or
Speaker 1: you know a tight end in the first Marie Cooper
Speaker 1: goes to the Browns, where he becomes the go to receiver.
Speaker 1: The leading Brown's receiver last year had five hundred seventy
Speaker 1: three yards. That's it. That's it. I'm taking the over
Speaker 1: that you certainly hope so much. Do you see his
Speaker 1: picture with his jersey, He did not look happy to
Speaker 1: be your brown It wasn't up to him. I'm sure
Speaker 1: he doesn't want Baker Mayfield as his quarterback or who
Speaker 1: it's third quarterback here? We don't know. I don't think
Speaker 1: Baker's coming back. I think Baker's Baker's get here's what
Speaker 1: I think Baker's. He was so like, Baker lives there.
Speaker 1: That's the stadium's house, right, Yeah, they're being the stadium correct.
Speaker 1: So he kind of has to stay. Baker is in
Speaker 1: the last year as rookie deal. He's making really good
Speaker 1: money this year, and he just he needs to perform
Speaker 1: well here and get his big next contract. And I
Speaker 1: know he wouldn't rather do it in Cleveland, but really,
Speaker 1: where else could he go that is a viable opportunity
Speaker 1: for him. I mean, there's a few places he could
Speaker 1: go to the Saints or loses out in the Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson thing. Maybe Carolina. I mean, they're all other places,
Speaker 1: but people I wouldn't ah Carolina there. That's it's a
Speaker 1: It's just they're kind of stuck right now. They don't
Speaker 1: get Deshaun Watson, and he's gonna end up in the division.
Speaker 1: It's getting end up with the falcons of the Saints.
Speaker 1: It's a tough spot. I don't know. I think I
Speaker 1: think Baker Mayfield. I'm not as down on may I
Speaker 1: think Mayfield, with a chip on his shoulder through all
Speaker 1: of this, might be better. And it might be a
Speaker 1: bit of a wake up call that his immaturity is
Speaker 1: being called out um and some of the locker room
Speaker 1: stuff is being called out on him. I can see
Speaker 1: that it might be good for him. Maybe I'm I'm
Speaker 1: more optimistic than most. Chase Edmonds goes to Miami two years,
Speaker 1: twelve and a half million dollars. This has become a
Speaker 1: crowded backfeal of mediocrity. Yeah, that's I was gonna I
Speaker 1: was gonna say that's that's a nice way to put it,
Speaker 1: because it's he Mostard signed there. Duke Johnson finished the
Speaker 1: season with a couple of good games Miles Gaskin. You
Speaker 1: never knew when to start him. Um. I think Philip
Speaker 1: Lindsay ended the season there, but he's an unrestricted free agent. Um,
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel brought in his old fullback to so yeah
Speaker 1: from a couple of stops ago so alec Ingole something
Speaker 1: like that, and so yeah, And he brought in Mostard
Speaker 1: from right. Most are got a pretty good deal for
Speaker 1: a guy who's it feels like he's gonna run that
Speaker 1: same scheme the four Niners ran, and he's going to
Speaker 1: use a bunch of different backs. Probably bad for fantasy.
Speaker 1: I think you're right about that. Okay, let's go to
Speaker 1: well how about this, let's take a break. Um, give
Speaker 1: our sponsors a chance to sell you a bunch of stuff,
Speaker 1: and we'll come back and talk through some of the
Speaker 1: other things, including a what feels like totally new Jaguars
Speaker 1: team and maybe some fantasy angles that we did not
Speaker 1: expect with the Jacksonville Jaguars when we come back. Welcome
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Speaker 1: us because we are very very fun to follow. So
Speaker 1: it's so much fun. So many stories about my son.
Speaker 1: I got one all the time you mentioned uh busted
Speaker 1: his first ever busted bracket. It was so cute. So
Speaker 1: do you remember where you were when you when your
Speaker 1: kid busted his first bracket? Imagine imagine picking Iowa as
Speaker 1: the champion, but also picking Kentucky to lose. You have
Speaker 1: the Kentucky loss, but then picked Iowa. Were Mom and
Speaker 1: dad grew up in St. Peter, Minnesota, So St. Peter's um. Anyway,
Speaker 1: on the Jacksonville situation, we're gonna talk about jackson first.
Speaker 1: Let's go with the Christian Kirk signing for an insane
Speaker 1: seventy two million with and it could be more with incentives.
Speaker 1: What yeah, So this is where I was going with
Speaker 1: my son is He asked me, why did the Jags
Speaker 1: get a bunch of not so good receivers when they
Speaker 1: could have gotten a really good receiver? Fair question. It's
Speaker 1: it's tough to tell the nine year old why bad
Speaker 1: teams stay bad, Like, I don't know how to have
Speaker 1: that conversation with him. It died, So maybe you could
Speaker 1: help me with that. Judge, you can't always get what
Speaker 1: you want, and if you're the Jaguars, you might want
Speaker 1: to have the best receiver available, but they could be
Speaker 1: that person doesn't want to play for your team. So
Speaker 1: now you have to buy mid tier talent and make
Speaker 1: them make a monetary decision and commit to your team
Speaker 1: that way. So Trevor Lawrence gains all of this, most
Speaker 1: importantly Brandon Sheriff. So they have a new starting right
Speaker 1: guard that was one of the best guards in one
Speaker 1: of the best guards in the league, and they needed
Speaker 1: that because Trevor Lawrence was under siege all the time.
Speaker 1: They they went back to the franchise tag on Cam
Speaker 1: Robinson again. It will be a second straight year with
Speaker 1: the franchise tag. Then they added Za Jones, who flashed
Speaker 1: some signs of competency with the Raiders last year. And
Speaker 1: then also uh they added as we mentioned, Christian Kirk.
Speaker 1: How do you this, Evan Ingram may I w should
Speaker 1: mentioned that three steving options? Good God, it reminds me
Speaker 1: of the Patriots last year with all the bad money
Speaker 1: they spend up receivers and tight ends last year. Okay,
Speaker 1: so your thoughts on this whole offense and how much
Speaker 1: better it may get next year? And we still don't
Speaker 1: know who the running back is going to be. The
Speaker 1: running backs a total mystery at this point. James Robinson
Speaker 1: and a t M does come back, but James Robinson
Speaker 1: probably won't. And most people felt felt going into last
Speaker 1: year a team would not be a full time back.
Speaker 1: So what are your thoughts on this? On this Jaguars offense,
Speaker 1: it's it's got to improve. Uh, Trevor Lawrence through twelve
Speaker 1: touchdowns passes last year, Like that's that has that has
Speaker 1: to improve. And I think that this is this is
Speaker 1: their mid tier way of being like we're going to
Speaker 1: surround you with you know players, um, players that are
Speaker 1: better options than were last year. They still have Dan
Speaker 1: Arnold too. They can run a lot of twelve personnel
Speaker 1: and have to. But then you got two tight end
Speaker 1: pass catchers out there. Jamal Agnew should be back and healthy.
Speaker 1: He was a little a little scatterbug out there like
Speaker 1: he he made some plays. Um, it's got to be
Speaker 1: a little bit better. But it's not going to be
Speaker 1: like oh the Chiefs or the or the Chargers of
Speaker 1: the Raiders. It's gonna be better. But we're talking maybe
Speaker 1: touchdown pass better, not twelve, right, which would help a
Speaker 1: lot actually, you know, we'll take the twenty three if
Speaker 1: we can get to that point. Um. For those in
Speaker 1: dynasty leagues and especially in Super Flex that drafted Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence early last year, this this is it's it feels
Speaker 1: like we're all ready to make or break year they've done.
Speaker 1: All of these are all of their off season machinations
Speaker 1: for the Jaguars were all designed around putting Trevor Lawrence
Speaker 1: in a position to better what it was. And if
Speaker 1: he an if he isn't, that's really he's you know, JaMarcus,
Speaker 1: you know we drank if you're going purple drank Lawrence.
Speaker 1: But if it doesn't work, if he throws twelve touchdown
Speaker 1: passes in his set a year with more weapons than
Speaker 1: a year to have, he'll have the full off season,
Speaker 1: which he didn't have last year. You know, he's instead
Speaker 1: of a COVID shortened gets drafted off season, he gets
Speaker 1: a full off season. This year. It's a second year.
Speaker 1: Things are slowed down. If he can't perform, he might
Speaker 1: just not be it. He might not be it. And
Speaker 1: I thought even when given a clean pocket and an
Speaker 1: open receiver, he was misfiring over the field. We talked
Speaker 1: about this I watched a lot of the Jags games
Speaker 1: in my rewatches, and I'm like, this is the most
Speaker 1: off target quarterback in the NFL. Yes, he's off target
Speaker 1: all the time, all the time, and not all of
Speaker 1: that was because his offensive line wasn't good enough, his
Speaker 1: receivers weren't good enough. He just missed, God, just missed.
Speaker 1: So you know, I love that the Jaguars are doing
Speaker 1: so much to answer to the question of what they've
Speaker 1: got in Trevor Laurence. To me, that's still not of
Speaker 1: those point of Evan Ingram's interview. Could you be okay
Speaker 1: with the quarterback's off target? That's all I know. He's like,
Speaker 1: this is this is good for me. D J Charko
Speaker 1: left Jaguars and went to Detroit. That Detroit offense is
Speaker 1: kind of good. I mean, so let's let's talk through
Speaker 1: Detroit for just a minute. They added DJ shark I'm
Speaker 1: on Ross st. Brown, I tweeted about this. His final
Speaker 1: six games of last year, he was averaging eight catches
Speaker 1: a game. On top of my head, eight catches a game.
Speaker 1: I think it was sixty nine yards almost a touchdown
Speaker 1: per game. He was Jamaar Chase's full season. He was
Speaker 1: in those final six games. Now, I mean we always
Speaker 1: have the caveat Hackinson. Swift missed all of it or
Speaker 1: most of it, like injured or missed all of it
Speaker 1: all of those games, and so that offense almost had
Speaker 1: to go through I'm on Ross Brown, but he was
Speaker 1: a rookie who performed very well. You know me, I
Speaker 1: love this on God. I think that was just his
Speaker 1: natural way of growing throughout the season. And then they realized, yes,
Speaker 1: this kid's good. We're gonna but we're coming to this year.
Speaker 1: There's going to be more options. You know, it's but
Speaker 1: the offensive sneaky good. Swift can do it through the
Speaker 1: air and on the ground. Hockinson is one of the
Speaker 1: better tight ends in the league. Chark has had decent
Speaker 1: flashes with you know, pretty bad quarterbacks, but he'll unlock
Speaker 1: a deeper passing game than we've seen Detroit since Kenny
Speaker 1: Golladay was good. And aman Ras there and I think,
Speaker 1: you know, like Desmond Ritter is going to be the
Speaker 1: quarterback probably like a thirty two. It's not it's not impossible. Um,
Speaker 1: this is let's remember the offensive line for the Lions
Speaker 1: as well. Three first round picks. I mean, this is
Speaker 1: they can protect whoever their quarterback is and find ways
Speaker 1: to get the ball to the handful playmakers they've got.
Speaker 1: I'm I'm bullish on the Lions. They have some really
Speaker 1: they have an interesting setup and that they have a
Speaker 1: lot of near the line of scrimmage playmakers that can
Speaker 1: get the ball short and then make plays like Swift
Speaker 1: and Cliff Raymond resigned there and am all those guys
Speaker 1: can do shorts, take short stuff and make something happen. Right,
Speaker 1: I've got a couple more for you. Hayden Hurst went
Speaker 1: to the Bengals, and I think this is I think
Speaker 1: this is a quiet, sneaky move. We're always looking for
Speaker 1: our tight end sleepers, and you know that second tight
Speaker 1: end you can throw a dart at. He goes right
Speaker 1: to the top of the depth chart. He's gonna beat
Speaker 1: out Drew Sample. And granted it's Jamaar Chase and Tee
Speaker 1: Higgins and and Tyler Boyd and those guys are always
Speaker 1: going to be one, two and three. But we've seen,
Speaker 1: we've seen, you know, flashes of use for that tight
Speaker 1: end position spread out across different guys, and there could
Speaker 1: be there could be a little something here for Hayden Hurst.
Speaker 1: I think he's You're going to be your classic take
Speaker 1: a chance on me, matchup play guy seven times, five
Speaker 1: to seven times next year. That's that's where I view him.
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson left the Cedric will disappointed me frankly by
Speaker 1: leaving the Cowboys because I liked him to step into
Speaker 1: the Marii Cooper role. That's not going to happen now.
Speaker 1: It looks like they wanted to go with Gallop off
Speaker 1: the A c L and for more money then Cedric Wilson.
Speaker 1: It seemed like every time he was they asked him
Speaker 1: to fill in. Cedric Wilson did really well. I don't
Speaker 1: understand the move. So anyway, he's now in in Miami,
Speaker 1: which puts him in kind of a crowded spot, although
Speaker 1: you know he's been in crowded spots before. DeVante Parker, UM,
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson, Preston Williams is there, and of course Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddle coming off a very good season. Yeah, Preston Industry
Speaker 1: signed um. At least they got rid of will Fall
Speaker 1: will Fuller. UM. I believe that this is DeVante Parker's
Speaker 1: last year too, and Cedric Wilson was three years so
Speaker 1: maybe maybe it's a long term thing. Um, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's a little bit crowded right now. And Mike
Speaker 1: McDowell seems to think everything's gonna run through Waddle. I
Speaker 1: like I am. Teddy Bridgewater is a very limited quarterback,
Speaker 1: but I love I love him as a backpack up right.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, this gives me confidence that if
Speaker 1: anything happens to to a including you know, the prospect
Speaker 1: that his play just doesn't get any better, Um, that
Speaker 1: there's a guy behind him that is not a disaster.
Speaker 1: And that's you know, their only a handful of teams
Speaker 1: in the NFL that can say that the final guy.
Speaker 1: I want to talk you about a Scott fish favorite,
Speaker 1: Okay Russell gauge Tampa Bay three years and if there's
Speaker 1: one thing that we learned last year, when you know,
Speaker 1: if there's one key reason why Tampa got knocked out
Speaker 1: of the playoffs early, it was all the injuries at
Speaker 1: wide receiver and also because Tom Brady hates everyone wide
Speaker 1: receiver except for God, he really does. I mean Tyler Johnson,
Speaker 1: you know, had I don't know fourteen opportunities to be
Speaker 1: like step up and beat a man, and and Brady
Speaker 1: won't even throw to him. You know how big of
Speaker 1: a difference this is. Do you heard the story of
Speaker 1: how Russell Age got got to Tampa. Tom Brady personally
Speaker 1: called him up and told him to come to I
Speaker 1: didn't know that. Yeah, personal phoc on and people are like,
Speaker 1: if you're Russell Gauge, you're like, yeah, okay, you kind
Speaker 1: of go. And it's especially if they're gonna throw thirty
Speaker 1: million at you. What I I don't think we're sitting
Speaker 1: in a situation where Tom Brady is gonna hate Russell Gauge.
Speaker 1: I don't think so. These are Gauge is the guy
Speaker 1: that I consistently saw make really good leaping splash plays,
Speaker 1: but not consistently and a lot of times he needed
Speaker 1: a lot of targets. Um, we'll see. We'll see Chris
Speaker 1: Godwin of course coming off of so you know, it
Speaker 1: could be the Russell Gauge and Mike Evans in a
Speaker 1: late season like four, like a late season, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's it could be Halloween before Godwin's getting you know,
Speaker 1: regular full time reps probably won't be the A c
Speaker 1: LS are so much faster now the US, but um,
Speaker 1: and I think Rob Gronkowski probably comes back now they
Speaker 1: probably get four net back, they get the gang back
Speaker 1: together one more try. It feels like it's going to
Speaker 1: go down that way. Excited for it. I am excited
Speaker 1: for it. Those are the key big tea players who
Speaker 1: changed teams. And again we're not doing, at least not
Speaker 1: this episode, players who stayed. Next week, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: more of the same, Scott, it'll be players who you know,
Speaker 1: players have moved or maybe in that case because these
Speaker 1: are now we're next week seconds more second tier players.
Speaker 1: We might do some of the players who stayed as well.
Speaker 1: But such an exciting time of year. Oh gosh, it's
Speaker 1: so much fun. It's it's amazing how even with much
Speaker 1: badness going on, the NFL is like, no, we're going
Speaker 1: to handle the news cycle. It's okay. They're never out
Speaker 1: of it. No selection Sunday was ruined by Tom Brady
Speaker 1: went down at the exact same time. Man. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: just it's the NFL. It's younger, not unlike anybody. Thank you, Scott,
Speaker 1: thank you yea. Hopefully we'll have you back on soon. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Matt and Brian need to stop hogging all the all
Speaker 1: the all the spots exactly. We've already already got Matt
Speaker 1: lined up for next week, but maybe the week after
Speaker 1: that we'll have you back. Sounds good, all right, Thanks
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