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Speaker 1: Wow, what is up? Welcome to another edition of the

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Speaker 1: NFL Fantasy Football Show, presented by Draft Kings. It's me

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Speaker 1: your man, MG Marcus Grant masking and socially distancing when

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Speaker 1: and where appropriate, and you can see it over my shoulder.

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Speaker 1: One more day until we reached the start officially of

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Speaker 1: the NFL season. This has been the longest shortest time

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Speaker 1: so exciting. We are certainly ready to get things going.

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Speaker 1: We got a big show for you. It is the

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Speaker 1: moment you have been waiting for. We will give you

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Speaker 1: our first starts and sits of the season. Will also

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Speaker 1: kind of give you some strategies for Week one and

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Speaker 1: for those of you who are out there straggling and

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Speaker 1: still have some drafts to do, you know there are

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Speaker 1: a couple of you. Will give you some last minute

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Speaker 1: draft tips to kind of help you build that perfect

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Speaker 1: fantasy squad going into this season. By the way, it

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Speaker 1: Get your friends together, get your drafts going. You can

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Speaker 1: still get in on this thing before it is too late. Well,

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Speaker 1: before we get too much into this show, let's go

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Speaker 1: talk to our faithful producer, Senor Edward L. Murphy Esquire Murphy.

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Speaker 1: We have finally made it through the long dark night

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Speaker 1: of the offseason. How excited are you for the start

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Speaker 1: of this year. I really couldn't be more excited. I

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Speaker 1: think obviously as a nation, we all need football back,

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Speaker 1: whether it's you know, pro football or college football. Week

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Speaker 1: one for me, my Giants playing the Steelers. What a

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Speaker 1: great matchup. Have one more fantacy draft later today, have

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Speaker 1: all my teams almost ready to go. I mean, it's

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Speaker 1: just it's a great time, and it's, like I said,

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Speaker 1: it's something that we all need to u just enjoy

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Speaker 1: for once instead of worrying about all the you know,

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Speaker 1: perfect time. Yeah, no doubt about it. I mean it

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Speaker 1: has been kind of a To say it's a weird

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean, I know, it's been great having

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Speaker 1: the passing of time so very much. Looking forward to that. Well,

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Speaker 1: now joining me every week on this show every Wednesday,

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Speaker 1: looking forward to it a whole lot. I mean, you

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Speaker 1: know him, uh, you love him, unless you were a

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Speaker 1: But it is Adam Rank. Uh so Glad Rank. I

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Speaker 1: can't believe they're letting us to do a show together.

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Speaker 1: I'm curious to see how long this lasts. But for

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Speaker 1: now I'm just gonna sit back and sort of enjoy

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Speaker 1: this thing. That was very bold of you to say

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Speaker 1: feel like I could wear out my welcome in about

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Speaker 1: what was going on. It was very disconcerting. I didn't

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Speaker 1: we start, Well, what is I guess? Week one? Essinmcially

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Speaker 1: for US, Sean McVeigh says he is planning a three

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Speaker 1: in l A. What's up with you, Sean McVeigh, You

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Speaker 1: This offseason, I sort of stayed away from this backfield

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Speaker 1: at some point. So you may be right, cam Akers

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Speaker 1: By the way, stop the b roll. This isn't Fantasy Live.

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Speaker 1: Jared Goff because last season only the Tennessee Titans ran

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Speaker 1: But without a Bell Cow running back, that means more

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Speaker 1: passing opportunities for Jared Goff. That was it. That was

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Speaker 1: A Green reportedly looks good, but Zach Taylor says they

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Speaker 1: You know, I think you're probably right. The question is

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Speaker 1: of news in New England, Damien Harris is going on

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Speaker 1: been a battle back there between Sony Michelle and Damian Harris.

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Speaker 1: You know, James White is still there, Rex Burkehead. But

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Speaker 1: not sure how much of an impact that should really have.

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Speaker 1: What you were doing is picking him for the future.

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Speaker 1: And so I still believe that by the end of

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Speaker 1: the running back. And we've noticed this from the from

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Speaker 1: win the division. H Maybe that's different this year, but

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Speaker 1: I still think by the time the season's over, Damien

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Speaker 1: the guy that I anticipate getting the most opportunity there.

430
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Speaker 1: And you look at the forty Niners as a perfect

431
00:19:44,880 --> 00:19:48,000
Speaker 1: example right there, where they they seemingly had a new

432
00:19:48,080 --> 00:19:50,600
Speaker 1: running back every week. And so I know a lot

433
00:19:50,600 --> 00:19:53,680
Speaker 1: of people who drafted Raheem most probably don't feel great

434
00:19:53,680 --> 00:19:55,760
Speaker 1: about it. You're like, yeah, this is probably not gonna

435
00:19:55,800 --> 00:19:58,600
Speaker 1: work out. And then Keevin Coleman is gonna get his run,

436
00:19:59,040 --> 00:20:01,720
Speaker 1: and McKinnon gonna eventually work in there, and then they're

437
00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:03,879
Speaker 1: gonna go and find some guy in the Arena League

438
00:20:04,080 --> 00:20:06,560
Speaker 1: and he's gonna show up and he's gonna score twenty

439
00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:08,760
Speaker 1: points one week and it's gonna be disappointing, and Matthew

440
00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:10,919
Speaker 1: Berry is gonna go and have a rant about it,

441
00:20:11,240 --> 00:20:14,240
Speaker 1: and then it's gonna touch off the whole thing. But anyways,

442
00:20:15,680 --> 00:20:18,480
Speaker 1: my my feeling is again, you wanted to look at

443
00:20:18,480 --> 00:20:21,280
Speaker 1: a situation that was pretty good, like that you felt

444
00:20:21,280 --> 00:20:23,879
Speaker 1: pretty good about. That is why it never made sense

445
00:20:23,920 --> 00:20:27,640
Speaker 1: to me that more people weren't jumping on the bandwagon

446
00:20:28,240 --> 00:20:32,359
Speaker 1: for Josh Jacobs and so that is always distressing. But

447
00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:35,080
Speaker 1: I do like another show in the Browns right now.

448
00:20:35,119 --> 00:20:37,479
Speaker 1: So I'm sorry, Marcus if I'm gonna step over one

449
00:20:37,520 --> 00:20:38,919
Speaker 1: of your points, because I know you made this on

450
00:20:38,960 --> 00:20:42,440
Speaker 1: the Tuesday NFL show, but I was no. I was

451
00:20:42,480 --> 00:20:45,960
Speaker 1: thinking about this too. Is like looking at Kareem Hunt.

452
00:20:46,080 --> 00:20:48,040
Speaker 1: If you feel like they're gonna have to throw the

453
00:20:48,040 --> 00:20:50,440
Speaker 1: ball in that game, like you should start Kareem Hunt, right.

454
00:20:52,359 --> 00:20:54,119
Speaker 1: I agree, And I think I think that's part of

455
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Speaker 1: the way for me to sort of look at this right,

456
00:20:55,840 --> 00:20:58,760
Speaker 1: if I'm drafted, if I drafted a back that's going

457
00:20:58,800 --> 00:21:00,359
Speaker 1: to be in a committee, or if I'm starting a

458
00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,440
Speaker 1: back that's going to be in a committee. I want

459
00:21:02,440 --> 00:21:05,160
Speaker 1: to feel good that the team you know that they're

460
00:21:05,200 --> 00:21:08,120
Speaker 1: on is going to be playing in in games where

461
00:21:08,160 --> 00:21:10,800
Speaker 1: they are you know, are close or ahead where there's

462
00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:12,640
Speaker 1: going to be a chance for them to run the football.

463
00:21:12,640 --> 00:21:14,320
Speaker 1: I mean, it's one thing to get a committee back

464
00:21:14,320 --> 00:21:16,280
Speaker 1: on a team that's possibly going to be losing. I mean,

465
00:21:16,280 --> 00:21:18,719
Speaker 1: that's that's why I sort of gotten a little bit

466
00:21:18,840 --> 00:21:21,560
Speaker 1: leary of the Antonio Gibson hype as his a DP

467
00:21:21,720 --> 00:21:23,720
Speaker 1: has risen, because I still think Washington is going to

468
00:21:23,760 --> 00:21:25,560
Speaker 1: be bad and there's gonna be a lot of games

469
00:21:25,680 --> 00:21:27,800
Speaker 1: when they sort of have to abandon the run game,

470
00:21:27,840 --> 00:21:31,160
Speaker 1: and that could potentially affect Gibson or even Bryce Love.

471
00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:33,120
Speaker 1: But if you look at you mentioned San Francisco, that's

472
00:21:33,280 --> 00:21:35,440
Speaker 1: that that's going to in theory be competitive this year.

473
00:21:35,880 --> 00:21:39,320
Speaker 1: Indianapolis is another team that should be competitive. So Jonathan

474
00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:41,440
Speaker 1: Taylor and Marlon Max should still get on the field

475
00:21:41,480 --> 00:21:43,800
Speaker 1: quite a bit. I think even Tampa Bay, for all

476
00:21:43,840 --> 00:21:46,960
Speaker 1: the you know, the digital fist fighting we've done over

477
00:21:47,119 --> 00:21:50,240
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones and Leonard four Nett and Lashawn McCoy. The

478
00:21:50,320 --> 00:21:52,360
Speaker 1: Bucks are going to be better this year, so there's

479
00:21:52,359 --> 00:21:54,520
Speaker 1: still a chance that those running backs will be involved

480
00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:56,760
Speaker 1: in the third and fourth quarter. Whereas you know, there

481
00:21:56,760 --> 00:21:58,760
Speaker 1: are other teams that that could be bad and their

482
00:21:58,840 --> 00:22:01,080
Speaker 1: running backs are not good at be quite as effective

483
00:22:01,119 --> 00:22:03,800
Speaker 1: because they're just they're gonna be throwing the football a lot.

484
00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,160
Speaker 1: So that that is I think my caveat is just

485
00:22:06,160 --> 00:22:08,159
Speaker 1: just have a feeling that your team is going to

486
00:22:08,240 --> 00:22:10,480
Speaker 1: be in the game when you start the running back

487
00:22:10,760 --> 00:22:15,480
Speaker 1: in that particular contest. All right, last bit of strategy here,

488
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Speaker 1: What is the advice you have for anybody who's looking

489
00:22:18,400 --> 00:22:20,840
Speaker 1: at starting rookies in Week one? Just general? I mean,

490
00:22:20,840 --> 00:22:23,000
Speaker 1: I know, like the cch is great, but just kind

491
00:22:23,000 --> 00:22:26,119
Speaker 1: of a general overarching approach to rookies. Well, the wide

492
00:22:26,119 --> 00:22:28,400
Speaker 1: receiver position. I don't believe that you can trust any

493
00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:30,840
Speaker 1: one of them. I I just feel that when you're

494
00:22:30,880 --> 00:22:33,720
Speaker 1: a receiver, there's too much feel where someone like C. E.

495
00:22:34,000 --> 00:22:37,119
Speaker 1: H played in a pro style offense like L s

496
00:22:37,240 --> 00:22:40,080
Speaker 1: U was actually the thirty third NFL team last year,

497
00:22:40,440 --> 00:22:43,040
Speaker 1: so he was playing he was playing for an offensive

498
00:22:43,080 --> 00:22:47,639
Speaker 1: coordinator who's now calling plays on the NFL level in Carolina.

499
00:22:47,880 --> 00:22:50,800
Speaker 1: So I feel very comfortable going in with cch on

500
00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:54,600
Speaker 1: Thursday nighty place for Andy Reid. I'm sure they've they've

501
00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:56,879
Speaker 1: got him up to speed. He's playing with a team

502
00:22:56,880 --> 00:22:59,960
Speaker 1: that's locked and loaded and ready to go like Odd

503
00:23:00,040 --> 00:23:02,840
Speaker 1: Viosually they're the defending Super Bowl champions. But those guys

504
00:23:02,880 --> 00:23:05,720
Speaker 1: know what they're doing. It's gotta be really easy when

505
00:23:05,720 --> 00:23:09,160
Speaker 1: you join a team that's turn key ready and it's

506
00:23:09,840 --> 00:23:12,159
Speaker 1: right there for you. So I feel a lot of

507
00:23:12,200 --> 00:23:16,280
Speaker 1: confidence with him. The rookies at the wide receiver position

508
00:23:16,400 --> 00:23:19,280
Speaker 1: probably not as much for me. What about Jonathan Taylor?

509
00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:21,840
Speaker 1: You like him? Jonathan Taylor? I love. I think Jonathan

510
00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:23,399
Speaker 1: Taylor is going to have a huge Week one. I

511
00:23:23,400 --> 00:23:25,840
Speaker 1: mean I talked about Indianapolis is one of those teams

512
00:23:25,880 --> 00:23:29,000
Speaker 1: that I think it's going to be in fairly positive

513
00:23:29,080 --> 00:23:31,399
Speaker 1: or neutral game scripts a lot this year, and I

514
00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:33,880
Speaker 1: think in Week one, especially against Jacksonville, I could see

515
00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,440
Speaker 1: a situation where the Colts get out to a lead

516
00:23:36,560 --> 00:23:38,679
Speaker 1: and in the second half they just sort of ground

517
00:23:38,680 --> 00:23:40,960
Speaker 1: and pound, and so I think Jonathan Taylor is gonna

518
00:23:41,160 --> 00:23:42,840
Speaker 1: kind of burst on the scene in a big way.

519
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:44,880
Speaker 1: I'm with you though on the wide receivers. I think

520
00:23:44,920 --> 00:23:48,000
Speaker 1: it's just gonna be a tougher transition for them. Um,

521
00:23:48,920 --> 00:23:51,320
Speaker 1: I know I'm oversimplifying when I say at the running

522
00:23:51,359 --> 00:23:53,240
Speaker 1: back position, it's just get the ball hit the whole.

523
00:23:53,280 --> 00:23:55,919
Speaker 1: I know that's that's a little simplistic, but I do

524
00:23:56,000 --> 00:23:59,120
Speaker 1: think that makes it a little bit easier for those

525
00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:01,440
Speaker 1: guys to sort of get acclimated to the game versus

526
00:24:01,480 --> 00:24:04,000
Speaker 1: trying to run routes and and learn coverages and that

527
00:24:04,080 --> 00:24:06,080
Speaker 1: sort of thing. So I'm sort of with you on

528
00:24:06,119 --> 00:24:08,240
Speaker 1: a lot of the rookie wide receivers. I'm gonna wait

529
00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:10,679
Speaker 1: a week or two, see how they fit into this office,

530
00:24:10,880 --> 00:24:13,520
Speaker 1: their their offenses, and then decide what I'm gonna do

531
00:24:13,560 --> 00:24:16,800
Speaker 1: with them right there, So about twenty four hours from now,

532
00:24:16,880 --> 00:24:19,320
Speaker 1: we will be gearing up for the start of the

533
00:24:20,080 --> 00:24:23,119
Speaker 1: NFL season. It starts with the Chiefs and the Texans,

534
00:24:23,119 --> 00:24:26,119
Speaker 1: the defending champs, against the team they rolled in the

535
00:24:26,119 --> 00:24:29,160
Speaker 1: playoffs last year. They they spotted the Texans twenty four

536
00:24:29,200 --> 00:24:31,240
Speaker 1: points and like, all right, let's go uh and then

537
00:24:31,280 --> 00:24:33,360
Speaker 1: they're just like running past them like the Texans were

538
00:24:33,400 --> 00:24:35,840
Speaker 1: standing still. So we get to have a redo, so

539
00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:39,159
Speaker 1: to speak, to start the season this year, when we

540
00:24:39,200 --> 00:24:41,920
Speaker 1: look at the Texans offense, the one of the huge changes.

541
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:43,600
Speaker 1: There are a lot of change, but the biggest one

542
00:24:43,640 --> 00:24:47,000
Speaker 1: is that they sent DeAndre Hopkins away to Arizona. So

543
00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:49,120
Speaker 1: what do you think this Texans passing game is gonna

544
00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:51,560
Speaker 1: look like this year without Nuke? You know? Can I

545
00:24:51,600 --> 00:24:54,560
Speaker 1: say one thing though, Like, sure, Devanta Freeman is still

546
00:24:54,600 --> 00:24:58,400
Speaker 1: an unsigned free agent. Would you rather have David Johnson

547
00:24:58,960 --> 00:25:01,199
Speaker 1: and the guys that run out there their stable of

548
00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:06,959
Speaker 1: receivers or would you rather have DeVonta Freeman and DeAndre Hopkins? Like?

549
00:25:07,040 --> 00:25:12,280
Speaker 1: Does that? I don't know? And that's all day. What

550
00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,119
Speaker 1: is happening Billip? Why is he being praised like he

551
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:18,399
Speaker 1: You signed Deshaun Watson? Congratulations? But anyways, I know the

552
00:25:18,480 --> 00:25:21,359
Speaker 1: question what's about the receiving corps And one of the

553
00:25:21,359 --> 00:25:25,560
Speaker 1: biggest questions will be how long can will Fuller stay healthy?

554
00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:27,240
Speaker 1: And I hate to bring this up because he's a

555
00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:29,919
Speaker 1: fantastic player, and he's he's a great talent, and I've

556
00:25:29,960 --> 00:25:31,920
Speaker 1: been drafting him all over the place. I felt really

557
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:35,760
Speaker 1: comfortable taking him as a wide receiver three in a

558
00:25:35,800 --> 00:25:38,600
Speaker 1: three receiver league or a flex guy and a two

559
00:25:38,600 --> 00:25:42,440
Speaker 1: receiver league, because when he's on the field, he's amazing.

560
00:25:42,600 --> 00:25:46,360
Speaker 1: When he's targeted more than seven times, he will put

561
00:25:46,480 --> 00:25:50,280
Speaker 1: up huge fantasy numbers. So the only thing it comes

562
00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:53,800
Speaker 1: down to is he's available. And to me, here's the thing,

563
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:57,159
Speaker 1: I don't care. I'm drafting him, and I I go

564
00:25:57,240 --> 00:26:00,720
Speaker 1: in knowing that he might not always be there. It's

565
00:26:00,720 --> 00:26:03,560
Speaker 1: like your friend who lives across the country, Like, yeah,

566
00:26:03,760 --> 00:26:05,840
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be here every week, he's not gonna

567
00:26:05,840 --> 00:26:07,840
Speaker 1: hang out all the time. But the weekends he comes in,

568
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:09,800
Speaker 1: you're gonna hang out with him and you're gonna have

569
00:26:09,800 --> 00:26:11,880
Speaker 1: a good time. And that's the way I feel about

570
00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:15,119
Speaker 1: will Fuller. I'm completely on board with that, and I

571
00:26:15,119 --> 00:26:17,359
Speaker 1: think early in fantasy draft season I was sort of

572
00:26:17,400 --> 00:26:19,359
Speaker 1: like the I don't know, he's gonna get hurt. And

573
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:21,840
Speaker 1: then I started looking at where he was available in drafts,

574
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:23,640
Speaker 1: and I'm like, well, wait, if I have two other

575
00:26:23,760 --> 00:26:26,480
Speaker 1: receivers that I really trust and believe in, why wouldn't

576
00:26:26,480 --> 00:26:28,680
Speaker 1: I take will Fuller as like my third receiver or

577
00:26:28,720 --> 00:26:31,320
Speaker 1: the flex as you mentioned? Because the upside is so great.

578
00:26:32,160 --> 00:26:34,760
Speaker 1: I do think the the Texans went out and basically

579
00:26:34,800 --> 00:26:37,240
Speaker 1: got a whole lot of the same guy. When you

580
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:40,399
Speaker 1: talk about Will Fuller and Brandon Cooks and they have

581
00:26:40,640 --> 00:26:43,199
Speaker 1: Kenny Stills and I think they added Randall Cob. I

582
00:26:43,200 --> 00:26:45,080
Speaker 1: mean they have like the same guy like four It's

583
00:26:45,080 --> 00:26:48,520
Speaker 1: like multiplicity basically in real life there in Houston. But

584
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:51,679
Speaker 1: the idea is if if these guys stay healthy, we

585
00:26:51,760 --> 00:26:54,080
Speaker 1: know how productive they can be. I know Brandon Cooks

586
00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:56,280
Speaker 1: didn't have a great year last year with the Rams,

587
00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,119
Speaker 1: but I think that was sort of a blip on

588
00:26:58,160 --> 00:26:59,800
Speaker 1: the radar when you look at what he had done

589
00:26:59,840 --> 00:27:01,880
Speaker 1: all the years previous to that. I think he gets

590
00:27:01,880 --> 00:27:04,680
Speaker 1: back to being productive again with Deshaun Watson. You talked

591
00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,800
Speaker 1: about Will Fuller. There are a lot of things I

592
00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,320
Speaker 1: think to like in this this Texans passing game, and

593
00:27:09,320 --> 00:27:11,399
Speaker 1: it is just a matter of these guys staying on

594
00:27:11,440 --> 00:27:14,320
Speaker 1: the field on a week to week basis. Uh sort

595
00:27:14,359 --> 00:27:16,320
Speaker 1: of side note though, Rank, what do you think the

596
00:27:16,320 --> 00:27:18,960
Speaker 1: Cardinals passing game looks like now that Nuke is down

597
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 1: there and just signed a big extension down in the desert. Well,

598
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:24,000
Speaker 1: I really like him. I mean I think that he's

599
00:27:24,000 --> 00:27:27,040
Speaker 1: gonna walk into that situation and play very well. I

600
00:27:27,320 --> 00:27:29,200
Speaker 1: think that He's shown over the course of his career.

601
00:27:29,240 --> 00:27:32,159
Speaker 1: Even before DeShawn Watson became the quarterback, he was a

602
00:27:32,160 --> 00:27:35,080
Speaker 1: good receiver. So I'm not really worried about it. I'm

603
00:27:35,119 --> 00:27:36,960
Speaker 1: not sure that he's gonna go out there and be

604
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:39,879
Speaker 1: the benefactor of a hundred and fifty targets unless Cliff

605
00:27:39,960 --> 00:27:42,800
Speaker 1: Kingsbury can actually do what he says he's always gonna

606
00:27:42,800 --> 00:27:44,479
Speaker 1: do and speed up the game. It's like, yeah, bro,

607
00:27:44,600 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 1: that was a good plan. You never did it last year.

608
00:27:47,400 --> 00:27:49,879
Speaker 1: So if they do go out there and they become

609
00:27:49,880 --> 00:27:52,600
Speaker 1: this offense that it's dialing it up and they're running

610
00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:55,119
Speaker 1: more plays than everybody else, it's gonna be great. And

611
00:27:55,119 --> 00:27:59,359
Speaker 1: there's no way that I'm gonna avoid DeAndre Hopkins. I

612
00:27:59,359 --> 00:28:02,000
Speaker 1: I really do. Like this was crazy to me, is

613
00:28:02,040 --> 00:28:05,000
Speaker 1: that I wasn't getting enough shares of DeAndre Hopkins just

614
00:28:05,040 --> 00:28:07,800
Speaker 1: based on where I was in drafts. Over the weekend,

615
00:28:08,240 --> 00:28:11,600
Speaker 1: I got a trade offer that was I was getting

616
00:28:11,680 --> 00:28:15,960
Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin straight No, I was sending Terry McLaurin straight

617
00:28:16,040 --> 00:28:19,320
Speaker 1: up for DeAndre Hopkins. I spent three hours trying to

618
00:28:19,359 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 1: find injury news, Like what am I What am I seeing?

619
00:28:22,840 --> 00:28:26,919
Speaker 1: Like I said, like I understand, like he might not

620
00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 1: have the numbers that he had with the Texans, he

621
00:28:29,560 --> 00:28:33,040
Speaker 1: is still a great receiver. Like, what what has happened?

622
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:35,120
Speaker 1: This could be something that you pull out in week

623
00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:37,400
Speaker 1: seventeen and be like, hey, Rank, remember when you thought

624
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,800
Speaker 1: that Hopkins was gonna be better than Terry McLaurin. But

625
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:44,760
Speaker 1: he is still a fantastic receiver and should benefit down there.

626
00:28:44,920 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: And Christian Kirk is another receiver who I like out

627
00:28:47,360 --> 00:28:50,400
Speaker 1: of that offense. Yeah, I've heard a lot of people

628
00:28:50,480 --> 00:28:54,560
Speaker 1: sort of downgrading DeAndre Hopkins, and yes, he's not going

629
00:28:54,600 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 1: to get the same target share in Arizona that he

630
00:28:56,800 --> 00:28:59,360
Speaker 1: got in Houston, but he will still see plenty of volume.

631
00:28:59,800 --> 00:29:02,320
Speaker 1: I know, I like Christian Kirk, but I still have

632
00:29:02,440 --> 00:29:05,240
Speaker 1: sort of waiting for him to have that big breakout moment.

633
00:29:05,400 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 1: I know Larry Fitzgerald is there and he is still

634
00:29:07,240 --> 00:29:10,520
Speaker 1: gonna somehow clock about you know, seventy receptions for about

635
00:29:10,560 --> 00:29:13,120
Speaker 1: seven hundred and fifty yards and maybe a couple of touchdowns.

636
00:29:13,120 --> 00:29:15,800
Speaker 1: But this is probably the last go around for for

637
00:29:15,800 --> 00:29:19,160
Speaker 1: fits down there. DeAndre Hopkins is still going to get

638
00:29:19,200 --> 00:29:21,960
Speaker 1: plenty of run in this offense, and so maybe he's

639
00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:25,320
Speaker 1: not you know the hundred catch guy, but I still

640
00:29:25,320 --> 00:29:28,320
Speaker 1: think he puts up solid numbers and I haven't understood, uh,

641
00:29:28,440 --> 00:29:31,120
Speaker 1: the Knox on him and why people have downgraded him

642
00:29:31,160 --> 00:29:36,160
Speaker 1: so much. Back to Houston though, when Hopkins went to Arizona,

643
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:37,960
Speaker 1: the guy who came back the other way in that

644
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,200
Speaker 1: trade was David Johnson coming off a couple of really

645
00:29:41,240 --> 00:29:44,240
Speaker 1: poor seasons down there with the Cardinals. How do you

646
00:29:44,240 --> 00:29:47,080
Speaker 1: see him fitting into this offense in Houston? How did

647
00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,640
Speaker 1: you see his video of that game in Tampa Bay

648
00:29:50,080 --> 00:29:52,960
Speaker 1: last year? Like you did? Did Bill up Ryan not

649
00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 1: watch tape? Like it's one of those things that like

650
00:29:56,400 --> 00:30:00,160
Speaker 1: we've seen him play and it hasn't been great, Like

651
00:30:00,200 --> 00:30:02,160
Speaker 1: he had one big season and two was the two

652
00:30:02,160 --> 00:30:03,640
Speaker 1: thousand fifteen. What was the year that you won the

653
00:30:03,640 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 1: Fantasy lively whatever? It was like you were David john

654
00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:10,560
Speaker 1: You were the one we're ahead of the game. You

655
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,080
Speaker 1: were the David Johnson above all else or no matter

656
00:30:13,120 --> 00:30:16,960
Speaker 1: what whatever the line is from game day or draft

657
00:30:17,040 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 1: day and so. But like he had a great run,

658
00:30:21,240 --> 00:30:25,720
Speaker 1: But we've seen running backs just disappear. I've never seen

659
00:30:25,760 --> 00:30:28,120
Speaker 1: one fall off the table for a number of years

660
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:31,320
Speaker 1: and then have this return to greatness. We just don't

661
00:30:31,360 --> 00:30:33,720
Speaker 1: see it in the NFL. And I'm just not confident

662
00:30:34,080 --> 00:30:35,720
Speaker 1: that it's going to happen. And I know that he's

663
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:37,560
Speaker 1: in the best shape of his life, and he's looked

664
00:30:37,560 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: amazing in camp. And yet here's my thing is they've

665
00:30:40,720 --> 00:30:43,520
Speaker 1: got Duke Johnson there like he might not even David

666
00:30:43,600 --> 00:30:46,920
Speaker 1: Johnson might not even be the best d Johnson in

667
00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,720
Speaker 1: that backfield, Like what is happening? So I have I

668
00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 1: have no shares of David Johnson anywhere. I would rather

669
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:55,840
Speaker 1: have Duke Johnson. And if I have to go out

670
00:30:55,840 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 1: and wear this one in week seventeen and admit that

671
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:01,000
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, I will do that. I don't feel that

672
00:31:01,160 --> 00:31:04,680
Speaker 1: is going to be the case. Early in the spring,

673
00:31:04,760 --> 00:31:07,160
Speaker 1: I told myself a story where I saw a David

674
00:31:07,240 --> 00:31:09,280
Speaker 1: Johnson revival because I went back and I watched his

675
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:11,480
Speaker 1: first four or five games last year and he didn't

676
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:14,240
Speaker 1: look bad. Then he got hurt, he had the back injury.

677
00:31:14,360 --> 00:31:16,360
Speaker 1: I think he sort of rushed back from that a

678
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,760
Speaker 1: little bit, especially once Kenyan Drake stepped in there and

679
00:31:18,800 --> 00:31:21,480
Speaker 1: started playing well. I think David Johnson really tried to

680
00:31:21,520 --> 00:31:24,360
Speaker 1: rush himself back and the results were not great. So

681
00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:26,640
Speaker 1: I told myself the story that maybe having the year

682
00:31:26,680 --> 00:31:29,320
Speaker 1: off to get healthy was gonna do him some good.

683
00:31:29,640 --> 00:31:32,640
Speaker 1: But then you mentioned Duke Johnson. He's there. They have

684
00:31:32,760 --> 00:31:35,280
Speaker 1: all those wide receivers we just talked about, and the

685
00:31:35,320 --> 00:31:38,479
Speaker 1: fact that Deshaun Watson is not known for throwing the

686
00:31:38,480 --> 00:31:40,920
Speaker 1: football to running backs and he's a guy who likes

687
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:43,640
Speaker 1: to throw the football down field. So that just doesn't

688
00:31:43,680 --> 00:31:45,840
Speaker 1: seem to bode well for David Johnson. So as we

689
00:31:45,920 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: got more into the summer and closer to the season,

690
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:51,440
Speaker 1: I really backed off drafting David Johnson because I just

691
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:53,720
Speaker 1: I just think he's gonna be okay. I don't I

692
00:31:53,760 --> 00:31:56,280
Speaker 1: don't think the big rebound is coming. I don't think

693
00:31:56,280 --> 00:31:58,560
Speaker 1: there's gonna be comeback player of the year talk for him.

694
00:31:58,560 --> 00:32:00,760
Speaker 1: I think he's just gonna be, you know, a guy

695
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: there in Houston, And that has sort of made me

696
00:32:02,840 --> 00:32:05,320
Speaker 1: concerned about what about what he can be this year

697
00:32:05,480 --> 00:32:09,200
Speaker 1: in that Houston offense. There'll be a or two but no, no,

698
00:32:09,280 --> 00:32:11,240
Speaker 1: there'll be a game or two where he crushes it

699
00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:14,480
Speaker 1: and then that's when everybody's gonna blots. I told you

700
00:32:15,120 --> 00:32:18,240
Speaker 1: that's all wrong about him. Like, Bro, he's gonna have

701
00:32:18,320 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 1: at least one or two Pop games, and I'm gonna

702
00:32:20,960 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: and we're gonna look or at least me, I'll look

703
00:32:23,160 --> 00:32:25,520
Speaker 1: like an idiot. But you know what, I'm fine with that.

704
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:28,520
Speaker 1: I'm used to it. I should say we're used to

705
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:30,080
Speaker 1: that in this job. You just sort of shake it

706
00:32:30,080 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 1: off and you move on to the next week. On

707
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:35,520
Speaker 1: the flip side, the Chief's offense is one that you know,

708
00:32:35,680 --> 00:32:38,800
Speaker 1: we talk about in glowing terms for good reason. They

709
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:41,920
Speaker 1: have so many starters there, they are so dynamic. Is

710
00:32:41,960 --> 00:32:44,400
Speaker 1: there something and if there is, what is it that

711
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,600
Speaker 1: worries you about this offense this year? I mean, I

712
00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:50,520
Speaker 1: know it's probably dumb to say, because it's a good

713
00:32:50,560 --> 00:32:54,080
Speaker 1: problem to have, but it is really difficult to focus

714
00:32:54,120 --> 00:32:56,640
Speaker 1: in on one guy that you know is going to

715
00:32:56,720 --> 00:32:59,600
Speaker 1: crush it weekend and week out. Now, obviously, last year,

716
00:32:59,640 --> 00:33:03,520
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey had is what fourth fifth consecutive season with

717
00:33:03,560 --> 00:33:06,040
Speaker 1: a thousand receiving yards and he was great, and I

718
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:10,640
Speaker 1: had plenty of shares of Travis Kelsey, but he wasn't

719
00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:14,400
Speaker 1: the superstar that you would have expected him to be.

720
00:33:14,520 --> 00:33:16,600
Speaker 1: For somebody in an offense like this, you would be like,

721
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:19,920
Speaker 1: I want him to have eighteen hundred yards and thirteen touchdowns.

722
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:22,800
Speaker 1: But he was solid. And that's what we get with

723
00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,239
Speaker 1: a lot of these Chiefs players is that you have

724
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:28,360
Speaker 1: good football players. Tyree Hill is a good football player.

725
00:33:28,520 --> 00:33:31,880
Speaker 1: He has these amazing games. It's just hard week to week,

726
00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:35,680
Speaker 1: like compared to what DeAndre Hopkins was working with last year,

727
00:33:35,720 --> 00:33:37,800
Speaker 1: where it's like every game he's got to get targeted

728
00:33:38,360 --> 00:33:41,479
Speaker 1: nineteen times. With the Chiefs, You're like, you could go

729
00:33:41,600 --> 00:33:44,920
Speaker 1: a full game and not give Tyreek Hill a single

730
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,160
Speaker 1: target and still beat your opponent by thirty one points.

731
00:33:48,480 --> 00:33:50,240
Speaker 1: And I know this is getting into the weeds and

732
00:33:50,240 --> 00:33:52,360
Speaker 1: it's the dumbest thing to be worried about. It's like

733
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: it's like if you know, if Zac Efron is worried

734
00:33:55,720 --> 00:33:57,840
Speaker 1: about being too handsome, You're like, shut up, I don't

735
00:33:57,840 --> 00:34:01,480
Speaker 1: want to hear oh you sing well, Like I'm I'm

736
00:34:01,560 --> 00:34:04,400
Speaker 1: busted up for you. So I get it. I know

737
00:34:04,440 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 1: it's a dumb thing to be complaining about. Well, but

738
00:34:06,960 --> 00:34:08,600
Speaker 1: I think it's a like I I go back to

739
00:34:08,719 --> 00:34:11,160
Speaker 1: some of those Saints teams, you know, a few years ago,

740
00:34:11,320 --> 00:34:14,440
Speaker 1: where Drew Brees had so many options to throw the

741
00:34:14,480 --> 00:34:17,600
Speaker 1: football to that you could never really peg whose turn

742
00:34:17,640 --> 00:34:20,000
Speaker 1: it was going to be on any given week, and

743
00:34:20,200 --> 00:34:22,319
Speaker 1: so I I do think that that is sort of

744
00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:24,040
Speaker 1: a concern. It's not going to be enough of a

745
00:34:24,040 --> 00:34:26,879
Speaker 1: concern for us to not start any of these key

746
00:34:26,920 --> 00:34:29,960
Speaker 1: players in any given week. But I do understand where

747
00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,680
Speaker 1: you're coming from it. And by the way, our producer,

748
00:34:31,760 --> 00:34:33,960
Speaker 1: Ryan Bartlet, who was a Chiefs fan, I'm sure he

749
00:34:34,080 --> 00:34:36,359
Speaker 1: is smiling ear to ear over the fact that we're like, oh,

750
00:34:36,480 --> 00:34:38,480
Speaker 1: the Chief's offense is so good, we don't know what

751
00:34:38,480 --> 00:34:41,040
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. I'm sure he's I'm sure he's tickled

752
00:34:41,040 --> 00:34:43,960
Speaker 1: pink by this whole conversation. I'm not. I'm not. I'm

753
00:34:43,960 --> 00:34:48,799
Speaker 1: not happy with him, and I still hate Hosmer. You're

754
00:34:48,840 --> 00:34:51,120
Speaker 1: still salty about Eric Hosmer. Come on, we gotta let

755
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:58,080
Speaker 1: that go. I probably not. We we talked about, obviously,

756
00:34:58,120 --> 00:35:01,480
Speaker 1: the skill position. Guys in Kansas City, Kelsey, Tyreek Hill,

757
00:35:01,560 --> 00:35:04,960
Speaker 1: Clyde Everwardy Layer are top of mind. If you were

758
00:35:04,960 --> 00:35:07,400
Speaker 1: going to dig a little bit deeper and try to

759
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,680
Speaker 1: find somebody else there, which player would it be in

760
00:35:10,680 --> 00:35:13,719
Speaker 1: that offense? Well, I do believe that everybody, when you

761
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:15,560
Speaker 1: get to your end of your draft, you always see

762
00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:17,960
Speaker 1: me Coole Hardman and you're like, oh my gosh, this

763
00:35:18,000 --> 00:35:19,960
Speaker 1: guy has all the talent and he could be a

764
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:23,200
Speaker 1: breakout type of player and he's exciting. But again, it

765
00:35:23,239 --> 00:35:26,200
Speaker 1: goes back to the situation of there's just way too

766
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,120
Speaker 1: many guys. There's way too many players. It's it. It

767
00:35:29,120 --> 00:35:31,879
Speaker 1: goes back to the Saints example that you were talking about,

768
00:35:31,880 --> 00:35:34,480
Speaker 1: where they would have Kenny Stills would have a pop

769
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,080
Speaker 1: game where he had double digit touchdowns, And there's gonna

770
00:35:37,080 --> 00:35:39,919
Speaker 1: be times where you're watching these games and you're gonna

771
00:35:39,920 --> 00:35:42,960
Speaker 1: be really excited because you're not quite paying attention and

772
00:35:43,040 --> 00:35:45,400
Speaker 1: you see it and you you started Tyreek Hill and

773
00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:47,640
Speaker 1: you're like, this is amazing, and you're like, dang it.

774
00:35:47,640 --> 00:35:50,080
Speaker 1: It was Nicole Hardman. So that is the guy though

775
00:35:50,120 --> 00:35:53,359
Speaker 1: I would look at probably is the guy to look

776
00:35:53,400 --> 00:35:55,839
Speaker 1: at there. Although keep in mind that there will be

777
00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:59,359
Speaker 1: the one Sammy Watkins game, because there's always the one

778
00:35:59,440 --> 00:36:03,759
Speaker 1: Sammy Wypkins game. It's just trying to figure out when

779
00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,759
Speaker 1: that game is. Yeah, so I mean there is like

780
00:36:06,800 --> 00:36:08,640
Speaker 1: here do we see it week? It was week one

781
00:36:08,719 --> 00:36:11,600
Speaker 1: last week Sammy Watkins game, right, So like if you

782
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:16,280
Speaker 1: if you somehow started Watkins in week one congrats to you, dude.

783
00:36:16,560 --> 00:36:18,919
Speaker 1: That was it. That's all you got. I gotta tell you.

784
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:23,160
Speaker 1: Um Mama Dina, who is a huge fan of NFL

785
00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:25,520
Speaker 1: Fantasy Live. She's a friend of mine. She's she's like,

786
00:36:25,520 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: she's a friend of her show. She's a personal friend

787
00:36:27,160 --> 00:36:30,840
Speaker 1: of mine. And so last year in our league, she

788
00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:34,080
Speaker 1: had Sammy Watkins and started him and I'm like, Dina,

789
00:36:34,200 --> 00:36:36,480
Speaker 1: you gotta trade them, like it's not gonna get rid

790
00:36:36,520 --> 00:36:38,360
Speaker 1: of them, trade them, like train him to anybody, like

791
00:36:38,440 --> 00:36:40,880
Speaker 1: get anything. She's like, no way, I'm gonna hold on

792
00:36:40,920 --> 00:36:43,480
Speaker 1: to him. And I beseeched her and she just would

793
00:36:43,480 --> 00:36:46,440
Speaker 1: not listen to me, and it didn't work out. But

794
00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:48,400
Speaker 1: you know what, she ended up with the second overall

795
00:36:48,440 --> 00:36:51,640
Speaker 1: pick in the draft this year. So sorry, and it's

796
00:36:51,680 --> 00:36:56,480
Speaker 1: based on record, so I guess something came out of it.

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806
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 1: starts for the week. Let's let's start the quarterback position.

807
00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:24,840
Speaker 1: Who are you loving on right now? I love Jared

808
00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,200
Speaker 1: Goff and I this is one that I kind of

809
00:37:27,239 --> 00:37:30,759
Speaker 1: presented late in the fantasy season because my friends loved

810
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:33,320
Speaker 1: to snipe my picks so much, so much so that

811
00:37:33,520 --> 00:37:37,240
Speaker 1: last year when nobody was taking Lamar Jackson, Mark Apollo

812
00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:39,400
Speaker 1: took him in the fifth round because he knew how

813
00:37:39,480 --> 00:37:41,920
Speaker 1: much I loved him. So I kind of slow played

814
00:37:42,320 --> 00:37:44,440
Speaker 1: Jared Goff this season, and we talked about it a

815
00:37:44,480 --> 00:37:46,359
Speaker 1: little bit earlier in the show. Why we do it?

816
00:37:46,400 --> 00:37:48,960
Speaker 1: First of all, they're gonna be more run heavy than

817
00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: they've been in recent years. Although he did throw for

818
00:37:51,920 --> 00:37:54,600
Speaker 1: a lot of yards last season, his touchdowns did fall,

819
00:37:54,680 --> 00:37:57,520
Speaker 1: but again without Todd Gurley. When they get near the

820
00:37:57,560 --> 00:38:00,840
Speaker 1: goal line, I anticipate them throwing the ball an awful

821
00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:03,719
Speaker 1: lot more. And you look at Sean McVeigh and is

822
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:06,680
Speaker 1: what now fourth year? I really do believe that this

823
00:38:06,719 --> 00:38:08,759
Speaker 1: is gonna be a huge opportunity for golf to go

824
00:38:08,800 --> 00:38:12,359
Speaker 1: out there, play a little bit better, get those touchdowns

825
00:38:12,400 --> 00:38:15,960
Speaker 1: back up into about the thirty range. And this matchup

826
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:18,240
Speaker 1: against the Dallas Cowboys should be pretty good because again

827
00:38:18,440 --> 00:38:21,320
Speaker 1: they're without Byron Jones is now in Miami, Queinn has gone,

828
00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:25,200
Speaker 1: Mike Nolan is a new defensive coordinator, Sean McVeigh undefeated

829
00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:29,320
Speaker 1: in season openers, start Jared Goff. It could be a

830
00:38:29,320 --> 00:38:31,960
Speaker 1: pretty high scoring game, I think too, between the Cowboys

831
00:38:32,080 --> 00:38:34,480
Speaker 1: and the Rams, both with pretty good offenses, a lot

832
00:38:34,480 --> 00:38:37,520
Speaker 1: of weapons at the wide receiver position. Running back, you

833
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:40,160
Speaker 1: were staying in the NFC West for your top running

834
00:38:40,160 --> 00:38:42,160
Speaker 1: back this weekend. Yeah. I went back and forth because

835
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:45,200
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake is a definite start for me, and part

836
00:38:45,200 --> 00:38:47,239
Speaker 1: of me feels this was an obvious pick, and I'm

837
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:49,719
Speaker 1: trying to stay away from super obvious picks. But I

838
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:51,800
Speaker 1: have been getting a lot of questions about people because

839
00:38:51,800 --> 00:38:54,200
Speaker 1: of course the forty Niners defense is so great, so

840
00:38:54,239 --> 00:38:56,799
Speaker 1: they don't know. So I'm gonna say start Kenyan Drake

841
00:38:56,840 --> 00:39:00,239
Speaker 1: and everybody remembers the huge premier game that he had

842
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:03,279
Speaker 1: last year against the San Francisco forty Niners, and why

843
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:05,759
Speaker 1: you chose not to run that tape? I will never know,

844
00:39:06,000 --> 00:39:09,080
Speaker 1: but whatever, I'm not gonna harp on it. The thing

845
00:39:09,160 --> 00:39:11,759
Speaker 1: is is he had that that monster game against the

846
00:39:11,800 --> 00:39:14,799
Speaker 1: forty niners. Is great, everybody remembers it. But then they

847
00:39:14,880 --> 00:39:18,280
Speaker 1: played two weeks later and he was still good. Against

848
00:39:18,280 --> 00:39:21,239
Speaker 1: the forty niners. He scored fourteen plus points, which I

849
00:39:21,239 --> 00:39:23,479
Speaker 1: know you're it's not great. It's kind of a little

850
00:39:23,480 --> 00:39:25,359
Speaker 1: bit of a letdown, but it's still pretty good. It's

851
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:28,480
Speaker 1: like when you watch Oceans eleven and you watch Oceans

852
00:39:28,480 --> 00:39:30,400
Speaker 1: twelve and you're like, this is garbage. You know, like

853
00:39:30,400 --> 00:39:32,879
Speaker 1: it's not garbage. It's not as good as the original one,

854
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:34,640
Speaker 1: but it's still pretty good. And you go back in

855
00:39:34,719 --> 00:39:36,400
Speaker 1: hindsight and you watch it and you're like, oh, it

856
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:38,719
Speaker 1: was pretty good. So I think coming here in Week one,

857
00:39:38,760 --> 00:39:41,160
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a pretty good opportunity to get double

858
00:39:41,160 --> 00:39:43,720
Speaker 1: digit points again. Fifteen to twenty I think is a

859
00:39:43,760 --> 00:39:49,319
Speaker 1: is a safe, comfortable projection. So I'm starting him this week. Yeah.

860
00:39:49,360 --> 00:39:51,680
Speaker 1: I've been a big Kenyan Drake stand pretty much all

861
00:39:51,719 --> 00:39:53,799
Speaker 1: off season long. I sort of have a bone to

862
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,279
Speaker 1: pick with you at wide receiver because for the last

863
00:39:56,320 --> 00:39:58,600
Speaker 1: couple of weeks you've been poo pooing on Kenny Dolladay,

864
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:00,960
Speaker 1: But you love him in week one? What gives? Especially

865
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:03,680
Speaker 1: against the Bears. What gives? He's a Bears killer, like

866
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:07,680
Speaker 1: he's been destroying them. And last year he destroyed the

867
00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:12,719
Speaker 1: Bears in on Thanksgiving with David Blow as his quarterback.

868
00:40:13,040 --> 00:40:17,360
Speaker 1: David Blow the quarterback equivalent of the tepid coffee you

869
00:40:17,400 --> 00:40:19,720
Speaker 1: get a jiffy luke when you're getting an oil change.

870
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:21,560
Speaker 1: He went out there and had a pair of touchdowns

871
00:40:21,600 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: against the Bears. So he's become this Bears killer. And

872
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:27,360
Speaker 1: even though the Bears defense is gonna be much improved

873
00:40:27,400 --> 00:40:29,799
Speaker 1: this year, I really do believe that you start Kenny

874
00:40:29,840 --> 00:40:33,640
Speaker 1: Golladay with some confidence. I think overall that the Lions,

875
00:40:33,719 --> 00:40:35,759
Speaker 1: if the Lions are good this year, they're gonna run

876
00:40:35,760 --> 00:40:38,319
Speaker 1: the ball more. If Matt Patricia really wants to bring

877
00:40:38,360 --> 00:40:41,360
Speaker 1: in the Patriot way, he is going to run the football.

878
00:40:41,400 --> 00:40:44,520
Speaker 1: And that's why they drafted DeAndre Swift, That's why they

879
00:40:44,560 --> 00:40:47,840
Speaker 1: panicked and brought in Adrian Peterson. But for one week,

880
00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:52,120
Speaker 1: I really love Kenny Golladay in this matchup against the Bears.

881
00:40:52,480 --> 00:40:55,200
Speaker 1: So am I reverse Jinxingham. But you'll just have to

882
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:58,400
Speaker 1: wait and see. I do remember leading up to that

883
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:00,960
Speaker 1: week because David blow will start, because it was the

884
00:41:01,000 --> 00:41:03,040
Speaker 1: Bears on a fairly short week, we were all sort

885
00:41:03,040 --> 00:41:04,880
Speaker 1: of like, maybe you should fade Keenan Golladay, and I

886
00:41:04,880 --> 00:41:06,960
Speaker 1: think a lot of people felt that way. And then

887
00:41:06,920 --> 00:41:09,719
Speaker 1: I remember, you know, midway through the second quarter of

888
00:41:09,760 --> 00:41:12,280
Speaker 1: my father, who knows just the basics of fantasy football,

889
00:41:12,320 --> 00:41:14,319
Speaker 1: was like, so, did everybody start kidding Galladay this week?

890
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,759
Speaker 1: Like like, yeah, I don't, I don't. I don't think so,

891
00:41:17,920 --> 00:41:22,280
Speaker 1: I don't think that happened. Tight End Darren Waller was

892
00:41:22,280 --> 00:41:24,319
Speaker 1: was huge last year, sort of came, I won't say

893
00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:27,080
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, but was very much a surprise pick

894
00:41:27,160 --> 00:41:29,879
Speaker 1: for a lot of people. I have questions about him

895
00:41:30,040 --> 00:41:33,040
Speaker 1: this season overall, but Week one you like him, though, Yeah,

896
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:37,160
Speaker 1: It's it's a difficult one because obviously Foster Monroe is

897
00:41:37,200 --> 00:41:39,320
Speaker 1: there and he's kind of a Dallas Goddard type of

898
00:41:39,320 --> 00:41:41,600
Speaker 1: player who takes a lot of action. They brought in

899
00:41:41,680 --> 00:41:44,400
Speaker 1: Jason Witten, and so there's a lot of questions with

900
00:41:44,480 --> 00:41:46,560
Speaker 1: Darren Waller, but number one, I wanted to go with

901
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:49,320
Speaker 1: somebody who had a little bit of familiarity with his quarterback.

902
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:52,200
Speaker 1: Obviously him and Derek Carr had a pretty good connection.

903
00:41:52,520 --> 00:41:55,759
Speaker 1: We talked about looking at the defensive coordinators. There's a

904
00:41:55,840 --> 00:41:58,759
Speaker 1: there's a whole new staff in Carolina. There's a bunch

905
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 1: of rookies who were to be starting this game for

906
00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,080
Speaker 1: the Carolina Panthers as well. So I'm trying to get

907
00:42:04,120 --> 00:42:07,360
Speaker 1: as much shares of Raider players in this game. And

908
00:42:07,440 --> 00:42:11,480
Speaker 1: Darren Waller seems like a pretty obvious one. Uh. And

909
00:42:11,520 --> 00:42:13,680
Speaker 1: then's wrapping it up with the deep at the side

910
00:42:13,680 --> 00:42:17,640
Speaker 1: of the football, Uh, the Pittsburgh Steelers, and they've got like,

911
00:42:17,719 --> 00:42:19,879
Speaker 1: I love Daniel Jones this year. I think he's set

912
00:42:19,920 --> 00:42:21,879
Speaker 1: for a big year. The start of his schedule though,

913
00:42:21,920 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 1: does him no favors. And he opened it up with

914
00:42:24,120 --> 00:42:25,840
Speaker 1: the Steelers in a week one. Yeah, this is a

915
00:42:25,840 --> 00:42:27,759
Speaker 1: pretty easy one for me. The Steelers one of the

916
00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: top defenses in Fantasy last season. They create a lot

917
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:34,200
Speaker 1: of turnovers, they get a lot of sacks. The Lion

918
00:42:34,360 --> 00:42:36,120
Speaker 1: or excuse me, the Giants have a problem with the

919
00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:39,200
Speaker 1: offensive line. They have a problem with Danny Dimes turning

920
00:42:39,239 --> 00:42:41,439
Speaker 1: the ball over. So this is a combination of two

921
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:44,120
Speaker 1: things coming together. It's a Monday night game, it's exciting.

922
00:42:44,520 --> 00:42:47,000
Speaker 1: So the Steelers to me are a pretty obvious selection

923
00:42:47,080 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: and probably one of the chalkiest picks. And I know,

924
00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:53,879
Speaker 1: if you're still doing a draft, I would actually put

925
00:42:53,880 --> 00:42:56,520
Speaker 1: a little bit more capital into taking the Steelers, if

926
00:42:56,520 --> 00:42:58,480
Speaker 1: for nothing else, for week one. If you're you know,

927
00:42:58,520 --> 00:43:00,359
Speaker 1: if you're down at the end of your draft picking

928
00:43:00,440 --> 00:43:04,000
Speaker 1: between you know, Paris Campbell where the Steelers, why not

929
00:43:04,040 --> 00:43:06,040
Speaker 1: take the Steelers defense because I think they'll end up

930
00:43:06,040 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: giving you double digit points in Week one. I think

931
00:43:09,120 --> 00:43:11,080
Speaker 1: I think people forget that the Steelers were the number

932
00:43:11,120 --> 00:43:13,680
Speaker 1: two defense and fantasy because they were so far behind

933
00:43:13,719 --> 00:43:16,280
Speaker 1: the Patriots, because the Patriots were just so great last

934
00:43:16,360 --> 00:43:18,720
Speaker 1: year that we got to forget about what what happened.

935
00:43:18,760 --> 00:43:21,200
Speaker 1: But behind them there, you know, that was Secure starts

936
00:43:21,280 --> 00:43:26,279
Speaker 1: presented by Visa. So we've done the starts. Now, in

937
00:43:26,320 --> 00:43:28,560
Speaker 1: the interest of fairness, we have to do the sit.

938
00:43:28,680 --> 00:43:31,200
Speaker 1: So let's start at the quarterback spot New York Sit.

939
00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:33,480
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, this is not just because you were

940
00:43:33,520 --> 00:43:35,560
Speaker 1: a Bearrass fan that you're picking this quarterback to sit.

941
00:43:36,120 --> 00:43:39,040
Speaker 1: They're playing the Packers, so I'm screwed either way. I

942
00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:41,040
Speaker 1: don't want to have to put praise of the Packers

943
00:43:41,120 --> 00:43:44,359
Speaker 1: defense but in two games last year against the Green

944
00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:48,240
Speaker 1: Bay Packers, Kirk Cousins did not score double digit points.

945
00:43:48,280 --> 00:43:50,799
Speaker 1: He was held to what nine points or less? In

946
00:43:50,880 --> 00:43:54,680
Speaker 1: Week sixteen, he was sacked five times. It was kind

947
00:43:54,719 --> 00:43:56,719
Speaker 1: of an embarrassing game, the kind of game where you

948
00:43:56,760 --> 00:43:59,120
Speaker 1: would have been embarrassed for the player had it not

949
00:43:59,320 --> 00:44:01,960
Speaker 1: been Kirk. So this is an easy one for me.

950
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,359
Speaker 1: I think the Packers defense could be really good this year.

951
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:07,600
Speaker 1: They're really starting to to grow as a defense, which

952
00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:10,279
Speaker 1: I kind of hate. But yeah, this is one. I mean,

953
00:44:10,320 --> 00:44:13,440
Speaker 1: even even so, like even if even in a perfect world,

954
00:44:13,520 --> 00:44:16,719
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer doesn't want to throw the football anyway, like

955
00:44:16,800 --> 00:44:20,600
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer approaches the passing game the way my dad

956
00:44:20,600 --> 00:44:23,200
Speaker 1: approaches his iPhone, in that he doesn't want to use it.

957
00:44:23,480 --> 00:44:25,200
Speaker 1: So this is an easy sit for me for a

958
00:44:25,280 --> 00:44:28,080
Speaker 1: variety of reasons. I don't think you'll survive if you

959
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:32,479
Speaker 1: start Kirk Cousins all right over at the running back spot.

960
00:44:32,520 --> 00:44:35,000
Speaker 1: You sort of hinted at it a little bit earlier,

961
00:44:35,040 --> 00:44:38,359
Speaker 1: but Derrick Henry a guy who was a top top

962
00:44:38,400 --> 00:44:41,239
Speaker 1: five running back last season. People have those expectations for

963
00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:44,160
Speaker 1: him again this season. But you're not expecting a big

964
00:44:44,200 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: start for him in Week one. Alright, all the Titan

965
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,840
Speaker 1: fans are getting crazy. And if there is one fan

966
00:44:49,920 --> 00:44:54,040
Speaker 1: base or team that has benefited from injuries to other players,

967
00:44:54,080 --> 00:44:55,799
Speaker 1: it's been the Titans. Because the only reason they made

968
00:44:55,800 --> 00:44:58,440
Speaker 1: the playoffs last year's because the Steelers had injuries and

969
00:44:58,480 --> 00:45:01,319
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger was out. Otherwise the Titans wouldn't have made

970
00:45:01,360 --> 00:45:03,360
Speaker 1: the wild card. But what does this have to do

971
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:08,080
Speaker 1: with Derrick Henry. Well, last year the Broncos shut him down,

972
00:45:08,480 --> 00:45:12,439
Speaker 1: held into less than five points. The Broncos shut out

973
00:45:13,000 --> 00:45:15,320
Speaker 1: the Titans. So all the Titan fans who are getting

974
00:45:15,360 --> 00:45:18,279
Speaker 1: upset at me like great coats the Titans. First of all,

975
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:21,080
Speaker 1: I'm a cow State Fullerton alumnus. I can't hate the Titans.

976
00:45:21,440 --> 00:45:25,400
Speaker 1: Number two, they shut you out last year, and obviously

977
00:45:25,480 --> 00:45:27,120
Speaker 1: things are gonna be a little bit different this week.

978
00:45:27,160 --> 00:45:30,920
Speaker 1: When I picked these guys, von Miller was still a

979
00:45:30,920 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: active member of the Broncos defense. But they got Bradley

980
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 1: Chubb back there. They're more. The Broncos defense is more

981
00:45:36,680 --> 00:45:40,320
Speaker 1: than one guy. So if you're in a standard family league,

982
00:45:40,640 --> 00:45:44,160
Speaker 1: you're starting Derrick Henry. If you're playing Draft Kings, you're

983
00:45:44,200 --> 00:45:48,920
Speaker 1: not putting them in your lineup at the wide receiver spots.

984
00:45:49,120 --> 00:45:51,320
Speaker 1: DeVante Parker was a guy that was coming off the

985
00:45:51,360 --> 00:45:54,319
Speaker 1: board and in the middle rounds um. He kind of

986
00:45:54,480 --> 00:45:57,719
Speaker 1: created the cardinal sin of creating bulletin board material for

987
00:45:57,760 --> 00:45:59,920
Speaker 1: the Patriots. That seems like a no, no, what are

988
00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:03,279
Speaker 1: you doing? DeVante Parker? Congratulations to you. You had a

989
00:46:03,280 --> 00:46:07,200
Speaker 1: monster game against the Patriots in Week seventeen last year.

990
00:46:07,600 --> 00:46:09,960
Speaker 1: Just live with that, Just go around, tell your friends,

991
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:12,120
Speaker 1: you can bring it up and all that stuff. But

992
00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:13,920
Speaker 1: then you had to go on social media and pop

993
00:46:13,960 --> 00:46:16,320
Speaker 1: off about it. And I know that Bill Belichick doesn't

994
00:46:16,360 --> 00:46:19,560
Speaker 1: go on the insta book or the face Graham or

995
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,960
Speaker 1: whatever it is, but he still knows when you're talking

996
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 1: s about his team. And I really do believe that

997
00:46:26,160 --> 00:46:29,839
Speaker 1: the Patriots will be happy even if they lose, as

998
00:46:29,880 --> 00:46:33,520
Speaker 1: long as they shut down Davante Parker, Like, you just

999
00:46:33,600 --> 00:46:36,719
Speaker 1: don't do that. It's just how You've played in the

1000
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,640
Speaker 1: NFL long enough to know this. So I'm gonna I'm

1001
00:46:39,680 --> 00:46:44,000
Speaker 1: gonna sit him. Unfortunately, all right, I would agree. I

1002
00:46:44,000 --> 00:46:46,719
Speaker 1: I Plus, I've been big on Preston Williams this whole offseason,

1003
00:46:46,800 --> 00:46:49,239
Speaker 1: so that that just sort of feeds into my uh

1004
00:46:49,280 --> 00:46:52,400
Speaker 1: my own validation in that one uh tight end spot.

1005
00:46:52,480 --> 00:46:55,200
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper goes to a new team we talked about

1006
00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:57,239
Speaker 1: the Browns. It just for me feels like there's just

1007
00:46:57,280 --> 00:46:59,200
Speaker 1: too many mouths to feed in that offense for Hooper

1008
00:46:59,239 --> 00:47:01,840
Speaker 1: to be productive year. Well, even in a great matchup,

1009
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:04,200
Speaker 1: you figure that Austin Hooper is going to be the fourth,

1010
00:47:04,239 --> 00:47:07,359
Speaker 1: maybe the fifth option for the Cleveland Browns. But then

1011
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:09,839
Speaker 1: you look at the matchup against the Baltimore Ravens, who

1012
00:47:09,880 --> 00:47:12,839
Speaker 1: did not allow a tight end last season to have

1013
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:15,399
Speaker 1: more than fifty receiving yards. And I know we talked

1014
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:17,960
Speaker 1: about this earlier in the show. How much do you

1015
00:47:18,040 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: put into last year's totals? Well, the Ravens defense is

1016
00:47:22,080 --> 00:47:25,360
Speaker 1: still pretty good, you know, even without Earl Thomas. They

1017
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:29,360
Speaker 1: brought in Calais Campbell. So I really am fearful of

1018
00:47:29,440 --> 00:47:32,520
Speaker 1: this team that's been together, that had the best record

1019
00:47:32,520 --> 00:47:36,440
Speaker 1: in football last season, going up a first year NFL

1020
00:47:36,520 --> 00:47:40,200
Speaker 1: head coach that has that is working with a tight end.

1021
00:47:40,239 --> 00:47:42,440
Speaker 1: Like I saw, somebody was asking me about this on Instagram.

1022
00:47:42,440 --> 00:47:45,680
Speaker 1: They're like, Hey, should I start Hooper or Blake Jarwin him?

1023
00:47:45,680 --> 00:47:48,560
Speaker 1: I know Blake Jarwin is it's the Darling and somebody

1024
00:47:48,560 --> 00:47:50,720
Speaker 1: that I've been advocating. But it's like, you can't start

1025
00:47:51,440 --> 00:47:56,200
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper this week. You have to sit him. Yeah,

1026
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:58,120
Speaker 1: I mean Hooper going to the Cleveland sort of took

1027
00:47:58,160 --> 00:47:59,719
Speaker 1: him off my board. But I think this week is

1028
00:47:59,760 --> 00:48:01,200
Speaker 1: that Lee not a week that I would I would

1029
00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:04,800
Speaker 1: mess around with starting him. And then defensively, Seahawks Falcons

1030
00:48:04,880 --> 00:48:07,080
Speaker 1: looks like a very interesting game at least to watch

1031
00:48:07,080 --> 00:48:09,719
Speaker 1: my football perspective, But you are staying stay away from

1032
00:48:09,719 --> 00:48:12,440
Speaker 1: that that Falcons defense this week. Yeah, the Falcons defense.

1033
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,000
Speaker 1: One of their biggest question marks coming into the season

1034
00:48:15,120 --> 00:48:18,040
Speaker 1: was can they get to the quarterback? And they lost

1035
00:48:18,120 --> 00:48:21,280
Speaker 1: Vic Beasley and they replaced him with Dante Fowler. Dante

1036
00:48:21,320 --> 00:48:23,960
Speaker 1: Feller had a breakout season last year in Los Angeles

1037
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:27,799
Speaker 1: after moving on from Jacksonville. But you wonder how much

1038
00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:32,440
Speaker 1: of the success of Dante Fowler came from playing with

1039
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:35,400
Speaker 1: Aaron Donald in that Rams defense. It's like, oh, like

1040
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:39,200
Speaker 1: if you were one of the periphery characters and Oceans eleven, Like, oh, yeah,

1041
00:48:39,239 --> 00:48:41,080
Speaker 1: you were in a movie with George Clooney, and of

1042
00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:43,560
Speaker 1: course that was a huge moment for you, But now

1043
00:48:43,920 --> 00:48:47,919
Speaker 1: not so much, so I'm gonna sit the Falcons this week. Yeah,

1044
00:48:48,040 --> 00:48:50,239
Speaker 1: I have the fact that I think is interesting because

1045
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:51,880
Speaker 1: at the end of the season last year they started

1046
00:48:51,920 --> 00:48:53,600
Speaker 1: to pick things up and play better. But it's just

1047
00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:55,719
Speaker 1: something a poor matchup for them to start the year.

1048
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:57,560
Speaker 1: They were better. They were better. So you waited for

1049
00:48:57,640 --> 00:49:00,400
Speaker 1: the absolute last possible minute to do your AFT. We

1050
00:49:00,400 --> 00:49:02,239
Speaker 1: know there are some of you out there that are

1051
00:49:02,280 --> 00:49:05,440
Speaker 1: waiting until the latest you possibly could, so we'll give

1052
00:49:05,440 --> 00:49:08,360
Speaker 1: you some eleventh hour draft hips. Adam Rank, what do

1053
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:10,319
Speaker 1: you suggest to folks who are going into their draft

1054
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:12,719
Speaker 1: and the next day or two, Well, it's not a

1055
00:49:12,719 --> 00:49:15,640
Speaker 1: bad strategy because now you've seen everybody's cards. I mean,

1056
00:49:15,640 --> 00:49:18,839
Speaker 1: it's like playing poker and everybody has their cards up.

1057
00:49:18,920 --> 00:49:21,000
Speaker 1: So okay, if you want to get that advantage, like,

1058
00:49:21,200 --> 00:49:24,680
Speaker 1: don't don't. Don't be concerned about it. But the one

1059
00:49:24,719 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 1: thing that I've really noticed in all of my drafts

1060
00:49:26,760 --> 00:49:29,600
Speaker 1: is that even though that I've been zero R B

1061
00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:33,759
Speaker 1: A Jace in recent years, you really got to walk

1062
00:49:33,760 --> 00:49:36,120
Speaker 1: out of the first round with two running backs. And

1063
00:49:36,160 --> 00:49:39,120
Speaker 1: I even say this knowing that you might get a

1064
00:49:39,200 --> 00:49:42,640
Speaker 1: chance to get George Kittle for Travis Kelsey or something

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Speaker 1: like that. But I've just noticed every team that I

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Speaker 1: feel really good about has that opening base of two

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Speaker 1: great running backs. Either you're in the top four and

1068
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Speaker 1: you get cmc Zeke Quan or Kimera, or you're at

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Speaker 1: the end and you can choose between Jacob's Drake, Miles

1070
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Speaker 1: Sanders and that other guy. Why am I forgetting the

1071
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Speaker 1: other guys Clyde Edwards, Hilaire's in the middle. So that's

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Speaker 1: probably what I'm thinking about. I just feel like you

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Speaker 1: gotta have to two running backs, and then you look

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Speaker 1: at that that run in the middle rounds. There's so

1075
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Speaker 1: many greats. I just find myself, Marcus, every time I'm

1076
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Speaker 1: in the third, fourth, fifth round, there's like twelve receivers

1077
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Speaker 1: I would be very happy to have. And so I

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Speaker 1: think that's the best way to go. And so that's

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Speaker 1: how that That would be my one piece of advice

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Speaker 1: for you. Yeah, no, I completely agree with that. My

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Speaker 1: piece of advice would be, look, a DP is just

1082
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Speaker 1: a suggestion. It is not hard and fast rule. So

1083
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Speaker 1: just look, if there's a guy you want and he's

1084
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Speaker 1: maybe a round or so earlier than the a d

1085
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Speaker 1: P says, don't worry about it. Don't get him. Just

1086
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Speaker 1: to make sure you have that piece of minding you

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Speaker 1: feel comfortable with with what what you're gonna do? What's this?

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Speaker 1: What is this thing? Wait? Hold on what I want

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Speaker 1: to point to it? No, I can't point that thing.

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Speaker 1: The download the if the Fantasy Football podcast. If I

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Speaker 1: just took my phone like that without work, Uh yeah, no,

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Speaker 1: I don't think that's working. I don't. I don't think.

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Speaker 1: Let me try to work. That's so cool. How go

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Speaker 1: just like that? You can download the NFL Fantasy Football

1095
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Speaker 1: Podcast And that seems like a good spot to uh

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Speaker 1: say goodbye. We appreciate you watching and listen. You know

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Speaker 1: what's it? That is that we are done? Thank you

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Speaker 1: for hanging with the NFL Fantasy Football Show presented by

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Speaker 1: Draft Kings. You know the drill. Tell two friends to

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Speaker 1: tell two friends rate review and remember sports is just

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Speaker 1: God's way of teaching us time zones, be safe, take

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Speaker 1: care of each other, wear a mask, and we will

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Speaker 1: see you on Friday. Yea yea k as all the

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Speaker 1: tow