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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. Our slog through each of
Speaker 1: the off season divisions continues shows.
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Speaker 1: So the premise as we as we go through this
Speaker 1: month long tour of all not a slog, it's now
Speaker 1: a tour. I've upgraded from slog to tour. Uh, look
Speaker 1: at every NFL team, highlight the key differences from last year.
Speaker 1: Do we think these offenses are better? Do we think
Speaker 1: they're worse, you know, just get up to speed on
Speaker 1: all these different teams. Sure, we now turn our attention
Speaker 1: to the AFC West and the NFC West, Matt, and
Speaker 1: this is your first crack at it. We'll start with
Speaker 1: Kansas City. They get to go first.
Speaker 3: You do want to start with the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: When you win the Super Bowl, you get to go
Speaker 1: first on Fantasy Football Week.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Well, for additions and subtractions, Marquise Brown signed a
Speaker 3: one year deal there. The speedy Xavier Worthy was the
Speaker 3: Chief's first round pick. He should slot in a lot
Speaker 3: of wide receiver packages immediately. Uh, they did add Carson
Speaker 3: Wentz very quietly as the backup there.
Speaker 4: I like that move.
Speaker 3: I kind of like that move as well. Irv Smith
Speaker 3: now backing up Travis Kelcey. And addition by subtraction, maybe
Speaker 3: Marquez Veldez Scandling he's gone, Mikole Hardman, he's gone. A
Speaker 3: possible subtraction of Rashie Rice, who keeps getting an off
Speaker 3: season trouble. But we'll have to pay attention to that
Speaker 3: as we get closer to the season. Starting in the
Speaker 3: passing game, you still got Mahomes, Kelsey and Rice as
Speaker 3: your core. That just won you the Super Bowl. I'm
Speaker 3: feeling pretty good as a starting point right there. And
Speaker 3: you've added a steady veteran in Hollywood Brown, who gets
Speaker 3: some streaks of eye popping numbers in the past. He's
Speaker 3: been pretty good along the lines.
Speaker 1: And obviously with the best passer he's ever worked with. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: and if Xavier Worthy's not able to contribute early, you
Speaker 1: know Marquise Brown is going to be an intriguing guy
Speaker 1: to pick your spots to play.
Speaker 3: Well, especially if Rashie Rice is facing any kind of
Speaker 3: suspension or disciplinary action from the league. But I do
Speaker 3: think if Xavier Worthy flashes in camp in the preseason,
Speaker 3: I think they involve him right away. I think I
Speaker 3: think it'll be quicker than you think. The Chiefs did
Speaker 3: have eight different wide receivers average at least one target
Speaker 3: per game.
Speaker 4: That's a lot.
Speaker 3: How do you do that? It's impossible. Justin Watson and
Speaker 3: Sky Moore are currently the depth pieces on the roster.
Speaker 3: Kadarius Tony still under contract as well, but he hasn't
Speaker 3: played a snap since Week fifteen of last year. Tony
Speaker 3: likely only makes the roster if there's an injury or
Speaker 3: a right I think he gets cut for better or
Speaker 3: worse on the on the passing game, I think Brown
Speaker 3: and Worthy are additions that have to make their passing
Speaker 3: game look a little bit better than last year.
Speaker 4: Especially from a big play standpoint.
Speaker 1: You know we've seen we think of classic Mahomes and
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill Was there are just these long, deep bombs
Speaker 1: that would connect in the big plays. Just year after
Speaker 1: year that is slowly decreased, Shorter passes, fewer big plays.
Speaker 1: Now with Brown and Worthy, you feel like the Chiefs
Speaker 1: and Mahomes are ready to strike downfield again.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think that that's a fair assumption
Speaker 3: on the running side of the game. Maybe I'm wrong,
Speaker 3: but Isaiah Pacheco looks primed to be an absolute bel
Speaker 3: cow this year. In games where Pacheco touched the ball
Speaker 3: fewer than fifteen times, the Chiefs had a record of
Speaker 3: one in three. In games that the Chiefs won, Pacheco
Speaker 3: averaged twenty point three touches. Wow. He played eighteen games
Speaker 3: last year, including the playoffs. He scored a touchdown in
Speaker 3: eleven of them. Now, he's not gonna put up like
Speaker 3: Christian McCaffrey numbers or anything like that. But in this
Speaker 3: running back landscape, which it's harder to find guys who
Speaker 3: get huge shares of touches. I think Isaiah Pacheco sitting
Speaker 3: on a pretty good opportunity here. There were only fourteen
Speaker 3: running backs who had averaged seventeen touches per game last season,
Speaker 3: and he was one of them. Devon a Chain, for instance,
Speaker 3: he averaged eleven point eight touches per game. He's going
Speaker 3: a full two rounds ahead of Pacheco's ADP of forty
Speaker 3: or the mid fourth round. Yea. The backups are Clyde
Speaker 3: Edwards E Laire and Keyante ingram Over for Arizona non factor,
Speaker 3: non factors at all. I'm clearing of them at all.
Speaker 3: So better or worse is you can probably tell. I'm
Speaker 3: pretty bullish on Isaiah Pacheco, you know, maybe popping off
Speaker 3: and being a top five back at the end of
Speaker 3: the year that you can get in the fourth round.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if, if, if he's my first running back taken, he's.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: I never I've never taken running backs in the first
Speaker 1: three rounds, but he's.
Speaker 3: A perfect fourth round guy to start your running back.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, yea, I love it. Do you think the running
Speaker 1: game gets better this year?
Speaker 3: I think it does. I think I think with all
Speaker 3: the opportunities that the passing game has, I think Pacheco
Speaker 3: is sitting on a good year. Here, let's go to
Speaker 3: the Raiders.
Speaker 1: Raiders brought back interim head coach Antonio Peers in the offseason,
Speaker 1: and then he inexplicably hired former Bears offensive coordinator Luke
Speaker 1: Getzi why, I don't know whatever, overhauled their offensive line
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas, in including putting second and third round
Speaker 1: picks into their offensive line, which should help what it
Speaker 1: was last year basically a middle of the pack to
Speaker 1: slightly below average unit passing game. Here is the big
Speaker 1: story is the addition of rookie tight end Brock Bauers.
Speaker 1: Matt unexpectedly slid to pick thirteen in the NFL Draft,
Speaker 1: and I think at that point the Raiders like, we
Speaker 1: just got to take the best guy off the board,
Speaker 1: even though they had taken the first tight end off
Speaker 1: the board the previous year as well. You know, I
Speaker 1: think in a different year, when six quarterbacks weren't drafted
Speaker 1: in the top twelve picks, Bowers would have been like
Speaker 1: a top five guy besides on talent, besides all the
Speaker 1: way to number number thirteen. He brings the most college
Speaker 1: production and fantasy optimism as a rookie since TJ. Hockinson,
Speaker 1: Vernon Davis, Jeremy Shockey, from Old Guys, Kyle Pitts, Yep,
Speaker 1: Yep Raiders took. I mentioned Michael Mayer was the draft
Speaker 1: pick last year.
Speaker 4: His dynasty value.
Speaker 1: Just got destroyed. Did Yeah, that's it's he is officially
Speaker 1: dead at this point.
Speaker 3: That unfortunately, it is.
Speaker 1: It's It was a quick it was a quick life,
Speaker 1: the life and times of Michael Mayer. It's over unless
Speaker 1: Aiden O'Connell gets a lot better. Gardner, Minshew's going to
Speaker 1: take over a quarterback, Matt.
Speaker 3: I think it's Minshew's job. I think that they signed
Speaker 3: him to a pretty decent contract. Yeah, to say that
Speaker 3: h's his job.
Speaker 1: He was non awful last year, is in he's starting quarterback?
Speaker 1: I think we'd say, said Gardner, Minshew is just non awful.
Speaker 4: That's just what he is.
Speaker 1: That's right. He had a handful of good games, And
Speaker 1: so I was looking back at Minshew's stats as somebody
Speaker 1: most was didn't start most weeks. He'd have these spike games, Matt,
Speaker 1: where if you did start him, you got paid. But
Speaker 1: here was the catch. They were totally unguessable. It came
Speaker 1: against a great Cleveland secondary, a great New Orleans secondary, Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: you know, these great defense You never would have started
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew in those games, and that was what he
Speaker 1: went up.
Speaker 3: You know, you know what Gardner Minshew is going to become.
Speaker 3: He's going to be come Stu Beard. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Maybe, so he's going to be like that, Like that guy.
Speaker 3: Pass around to eighteen different teams, start for all of them,
Speaker 3: put up a couple of crazy six touchdown games when
Speaker 3: you're like, what, I should have had him in my lineup? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Maybe maybe Minshew caps the upside for all the Raiders receivers.
Speaker 1: His top receiver last year was Michael Pittman. He only
Speaker 1: scored four times. Minshew finished twenty seventh in a dot.
Speaker 1: I don't love that. The deep deep ball completion percentage
Speaker 1: was just thirty nine percent. That was that nestled him
Speaker 1: between Josh Dobbs and Will Levis in deep ball pass
Speaker 1: That's not good. That's not good. Thirty third in completion
Speaker 1: percentage at all depths. So it's just it's you know,
Speaker 1: this offense is just capped by the quarterback position. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: Devanta Adams managed an okase season despite the quarterbacking of
Speaker 1: Adian O'Connell and Jimmy Garoppolo and Brian Hoyer. You remember
Speaker 1: those starts? Ah, Yes, Yeah, Adams finished his wide receiver
Speaker 1: four teen. He was fifth in targets, which proves that
Speaker 1: just volume alone can't propel DeVante Adams to greatness. I mean,
Speaker 1: he needs better quarterbacking. He's not gonna have it here.
Speaker 1: Devanta Adams ADP very high. I think he's wide receiver nine.
Speaker 1: He finished his fourteen last year. He's on the second
Speaker 1: half of his career.
Speaker 3: Arc.
Speaker 1: I don't that feels a little bit high. You can
Speaker 1: get Jacoby Myers with what a nice season? Yeah, wide
Speaker 1: receiver fifty four.
Speaker 3: And I don't think that you're getting much of a
Speaker 3: drop off there.
Speaker 4: No, the drop offs not that severe.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so, but that's only if you really want to
Speaker 3: have a Raiders wide receiver on your team.
Speaker 1: Yes, and if I do, I'm paying. If I'm paying
Speaker 1: for one at their ADP Jacoby Myers pick one hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty two, not DeVante Adams pick fifteen.
Speaker 3: I'm kind of shocked that DeVante Adams has not demanded
Speaker 3: a trade.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I am too, to be honest, I mean, this
Speaker 4: isn't what he signed up for. No, right, you know?
Speaker 1: So, yeah, you're probably right, and maybe that ends up
Speaker 1: happening that maybe maybe let's move over to the Denver Broncos.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Russell Wilson is gone. That's the biggest
Speaker 3: change there.
Speaker 1: Wait, hold on, I forgot the whole running game for
Speaker 1: the Raiders. Oh gosh, give me a second.
Speaker 3: Well, Russell Wilson ran against the Raiders. Thank you. Nice try.
Speaker 1: Yeah, massive change here as Josh Jacobs was allowed to
Speaker 1: leave in free agency. Zamir Whites your presumed starter, Matt,
Speaker 1: and you'll remember he got some reps as the starter
Speaker 1: in the last month of the season last year, and
Speaker 1: he got some long looks. He had a seventeen attempt game,
Speaker 1: a twenty two attempt game, a twenty attempt game, a
Speaker 1: twenty five attempt game.
Speaker 4: And we love volume.
Speaker 1: You alluded to this with Checko hard to find volume backs,
Speaker 1: but Antonio Pierce like seems to like his workhorse backs.
Speaker 1: I thought White looked pretty good some explosive runs. In
Speaker 1: Zamir White's four starts, he had seven runs of more
Speaker 1: than ten yards. His backup is now Alexander Madison. He
Speaker 1: had explosive run rates of double that.
Speaker 4: Of Alexander Madison, which is in sane a lot.
Speaker 1: White only scored one touchdown in those four starts, but
Speaker 1: Alexander Madison's no threat to steal touchdowns. Dude never scores.
Speaker 1: So White's ADP is really interesting. It's our running back
Speaker 1: twenty three seventy seventh overall, despite being a high volume
Speaker 1: workhorseback with no competition for goal line work.
Speaker 4: I think he's a due the opposite magnet in the
Speaker 4: seventh round.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Maybe the offensive line gets better as well. With
Speaker 1: the improvements that they made, they reshuffling this offensive line,
Speaker 1: I think this running back running game for Las Vegas
Speaker 1: gets a little bit better, all right. Now, the aforementioned
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson in Denver.
Speaker 3: He's gone.
Speaker 4: He's gone.
Speaker 3: Jerry Judy gone as well, was traded to Cleveland, and
Speaker 3: starting center Lloyd cushion Berry, the third signed to the
Speaker 3: biggest center contract in the history of the league with Tennessee.
Speaker 3: So he's gone as well.
Speaker 1: Lloyd cushion Berry Thugh, Yeah.
Speaker 3: That's a pretty good name. The coaching staff under Sean
Speaker 3: Payton and coordinators stayed exactly the same. The biggest addition
Speaker 3: is new quarterback Bo Nix, who the Broncos took with
Speaker 3: the twelve pick. They also added wide receiver Troy Franklin
Speaker 3: in the fourth and audrich Estime in the fifth. Passing game.
Speaker 3: It all flows through bow Knix, who is the presumed
Speaker 3: opening day starter. Nicks known for his highly accurate short
Speaker 3: passing game. He completed seventy four point nine percent of
Speaker 3: his passes at Oregon over the last two years.
Speaker 1: Which in itself is impressive, but you know, his a
Speaker 1: dot was like five yards.
Speaker 3: He also had seventy four touchdown passes to only ten
Speaker 3: interceptions in that spans, so the numbers were good. Obviously,
Speaker 3: it's a step up and level of play. And he's
Speaker 3: not known for the long ball, but when Peyton was
Speaker 3: coaching in Drew Brees or Drew Brees in New Orleans,
Speaker 3: Breese wasn't really known as a bomber either. And if
Speaker 3: you remember correctly, Alvin Kamara and Mark Ingram caught a
Speaker 3: ton of balls out of the backfield. Yeah, and I
Speaker 3: mentioned this in the First Round Aftermath podcast that we
Speaker 3: did a couple of weeks ago. The last year the
Speaker 3: Broncos running backs were targeted one hundred and fifty times,
Speaker 3: and they led the league with one hundred and thirty
Speaker 3: one receptions.
Speaker 4: Impressive.
Speaker 3: Uh. Some may be excited about Courtland Sutton's role maybe
Speaker 3: increasing with the loss of Jerry Judy, but his a
Speaker 3: dot last year was a very deep fourteen point four deep,
Speaker 3: and of wide receivers who had at least eighty targets
Speaker 3: last year, only four players had a longer a dot
Speaker 3: than Sutton. That was Mike Evans, DeAndre Hopkins, Brandon Ayuk
Speaker 3: and DK Metcalf.
Speaker 1: Well, that, well, that's what I want.
Speaker 3: I want.
Speaker 1: I want receivers who get thrown too deep and can
Speaker 1: catch it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but ken Bow nicks through.
Speaker 1: Well, Okay, that's a fair question. That's that's that That's
Speaker 1: a fair question.
Speaker 3: That's the question. Yeah. So with that said, I don't
Speaker 3: think the quality of targets goes up for Sutton, and
Speaker 3: I think you're completely reliant on him duplicating his ten
Speaker 3: touchdowns they had last season. I'm I'm a little shaky
Speaker 3: on that one at best. If you're excited about Josh Reynolds,
Speaker 3: Marvin Mims, Troy Franklin, Tim Patrick, Lil Jordan Humphrey fighting
Speaker 3: over the number two and number three scraps in this offense. Yes,
Speaker 3: you can be that. Nobody's going to be Does it
Speaker 3: get better or worse this year? I think it's worse.
Speaker 3: From a touchdown perspective. The Broncos quarterbacks combined for twenty
Speaker 3: nine touchdown passes. That was the fifth most in the
Speaker 3: league last year. That's strange.
Speaker 1: That is weird.
Speaker 3: Wow that they had the fifth most.
Speaker 4: I'm shocked.
Speaker 3: So Nix is not sitting on twenty nine touchdown passes
Speaker 3: this year, not even close.
Speaker 1: I bet he's if he've plays the whole season, I'd
Speaker 1: put Nix on twenty yeah.
Speaker 3: So I was thinking half of that maybe, so fifteen
Speaker 3: to twenty yeah. I think it gets worse for the
Speaker 3: Broncos on the passing side. On the running game. What's
Speaker 3: exciting about the running game is that it what's not exciting,
Speaker 3: I should say, is that it could be a fourth right,
Speaker 3: a foe headed lizard. I wanted to say monster, but
Speaker 3: it's definitely not a monster. It's just a little lizard.
Speaker 1: Are you in hydra territory? How many heads do you
Speaker 1: have to have to become a I mean he's like
Speaker 1: two enough could be a hydra.
Speaker 3: You cut one head off and another two grow, right.
Speaker 4: Oh, so it's it's like a starfish.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Okay, the Denver starfish backfield, not the Rusty starfish. That's
Speaker 1: totally different.
Speaker 3: Okay is that an urban dictionary? So I believe it
Speaker 3: is Javante Williams, samaj p Ryan, Jaleel McLoughlin, and newly
Speaker 3: drafted Audric Estimate all in the running back room. Worth
Speaker 3: noting that Javante did hold the biggest piece of the pie.
Speaker 3: He was on the field for forty eight percent of
Speaker 3: the snaps last year, he had fifty four percent of
Speaker 3: the rushing attempts, and maybe most notably, he took forty
Speaker 3: seven percent of the rushing attempts inside the five yard line.
Speaker 3: But as we mentioned above, this offense could flow through
Speaker 3: the running backs via the passing game more and that's
Speaker 3: where the other names come into play. Williams averaged three
Speaker 3: point four targets per game, not bad. P Ryan had
Speaker 3: three point one. McLoughlin had two point one. So wrap
Speaker 3: those eight and a half target it's per game into
Speaker 3: one back. I'm really excited, right, But you're probably not
Speaker 3: looking at that. You're probably looking at three and maybe four.
Speaker 1: So but McLoughlin is the guy That fascinates me because
Speaker 1: he showed some special traits and we didn't get long
Speaker 1: looks at him. We didn't, but I he was the
Speaker 1: guy who seemed to pop off the off off the screen.
Speaker 3: To me, if if Samaj pe Rin wasn't in Denver,
Speaker 3: I would totally be all in on McLoughlin as like
Speaker 3: a sleeper guy this year. I just feel like they
Speaker 3: signed Samaj p Ran and told him he was gonna
Speaker 3: play last year. That was like Sean Payton's personal like
Speaker 3: promise to him. So it's like it's like he could
Speaker 3: be cut. You never know, he could be traded. But
Speaker 3: Javonte's going off the board at pick eighty four, that's
Speaker 3: the last pick of the seventh round. McLoughlin is at
Speaker 3: one seventy four, that's middle of the fifteenth and RB
Speaker 3: fifty six. Pe Urine's going basically on drafted at two five.
Speaker 3: I'm not I'm out at him, But with Javante getting
Speaker 3: as much of the running piece of the pie that
Speaker 3: he's getting, I actually kind of like Javante where he's going.
Speaker 3: I think he's a boring, sneaky upside play the tail
Speaker 3: end of the seventh round or early eighth yep, does
Speaker 3: it get better or we're slightly better because of the
Speaker 3: ppr angle for the backs.
Speaker 1: Let's go over the Chargers, the last team of the
Speaker 1: AFC West that we'll talk about. Massive overhaul to the
Speaker 1: entire offensive coaching staff Jim Harbaugh and now offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: Greg Roman and offensive line added tackled Joe Alt with
Speaker 1: a fifth overall pick, which makes it the third straight
Speaker 1: year the Chargers have invested a first round pick into
Speaker 1: their offensive line. M It's there were Sea Slater's. Yep,
Speaker 1: you know this is so classic Jim Harbaugh and Greg
Speaker 1: Roman and God love him.
Speaker 4: Because it's gonna pay off.
Speaker 3: It's gonna work. Yep. It might be two or three years,
Speaker 3: but it's gonna work.
Speaker 1: So Mike Williams, let's start with the passing game for
Speaker 1: the Chargers. Mike Williams released Keenan Allen traded to the
Speaker 1: Bears last year's first round or Quinton Johnson moves into
Speaker 1: like the number one, you know, go to receiver role
Speaker 1: after a dismal rookie season and despite all those injuries
Speaker 1: of the Chargers wideouts last year, Johnson was still very
Speaker 1: lightly used. He only was running twenty eight routes. Per
Speaker 1: game and getting targeted three and a half times per
Speaker 1: game and he only cut two passes per game. It
Speaker 1: was a bad year for Quinton Johnson. He's going to
Speaker 1: see in sizeable uptick in usage now because.
Speaker 3: He has to.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and maybe his pedigree here kicks in and you know,
Speaker 1: he becomes worthy of the first round pick that he
Speaker 1: had a couple of weeks ago. The Chargers GM Joe
Speaker 1: Hortitz said that Johnson is going to launch. That was
Speaker 1: his word, launch this season. So hopefully that's the case.
Speaker 1: You can get him almost for free wide receiver sixty
Speaker 1: five off the board pick one fifty three.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's nothing, that is nothing.
Speaker 1: The team also drafted Lad McConkey in the second round,
Speaker 1: and I think he's going to start over Josh Palmer.
Speaker 3: He ran you say, Colin mccochney, Colin.
Speaker 1: Mc coy I like it related.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'm sure they both come from the same British.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's slippery, he gets a lot of separation. We've
Speaker 1: we've broken him down a couple of times with Thor
Speaker 1: in previous shows. I like Lad mcconckie. I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna be better than Quentin Johnson. All probability. But you know,
Speaker 1: Johnson might get a lot better than your two. Like
Speaker 1: I said, so maybe maybe we're not wrong.
Speaker 3: There's room for two widers.
Speaker 1: Well it's a good point, and it's not like the
Speaker 1: tight end position is soaking up a bunch, so they
Speaker 1: could both be, you know, better than expected. If you
Speaker 1: were wondering where DJ Chark landed, it was here exactly.
Speaker 1: Get this where Justin Herbert has plummeted down to quarterback sixteen.
Speaker 3: Wow. Yeah, that's cheap.
Speaker 4: That is cheap on him. Now.
Speaker 1: Part of it, of course, is that we know they're
Speaker 1: going to run a lot, and so everybody's expecting the
Speaker 1: v volume to go way way down in the passing game,
Speaker 1: and I do two. I think the passing game overall
Speaker 1: gets worse. I'm gonna see a ton of running. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna explain some of this in just a minute. And
Speaker 1: then you take off Keenan Allen and Michael Mike Williams
Speaker 1: and replace him with two a first year player and
Speaker 1: a second year receiver, and the passing game likely suffers here,
Speaker 1: I could Yeah, all right, let's go the running game,
Speaker 1: where it's a lot more interesting for the Chargers. If
Speaker 1: history is any indication Harbaugh and Roman are going to
Speaker 1: have the most run heavy offense in the entire league,
Speaker 1: even though they've got Justin Herbert and he's great. Greg
Speaker 1: Rowman at Baltimore as offensive coordinator, his run play percentage
Speaker 1: ranks or most runs, the most runs, the eleventh most runs,
Speaker 1: and the third most runs. So obviously, you know, Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson skews those rankings a little bit because he was
Speaker 1: doing some of the running. But even without Jackson, the
Speaker 1: Ravens runners alone, we're averaging twenty one carries per game.
Speaker 1: We are going to see a ton of running here.
Speaker 1: Harbaugh did not pick Greg Roman by accident. You know
Speaker 1: that is because Greg Roman is fit what he wants
Speaker 1: to do.
Speaker 3: Brother might have said, hey, Greg Roman's right, pretty good,
Speaker 3: you might want to go there.
Speaker 1: Austin Eckler, of course, is gone. He's in Washington now.
Speaker 1: And Roman brought over familiar faces from Baltimore JK Dobmins
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards. But both of those guys never the same
Speaker 1: since they're acls.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that happened in consecutive weeks.
Speaker 4: Tell me about it.
Speaker 3: God, those murdering I remember those murdering my fantasy teams,
Speaker 3: those radio shows and podcasts.
Speaker 1: Yes, it was like no near suicidal. Many of many
Speaker 1: people are intrigued by six round rookie kamani Vidal. So
Speaker 1: his bed is, he's five foot seven, two thirteen pounds.
Speaker 1: He's a bowling ball. Very productive at Troy. I know
Speaker 1: you're breaking down a lot of Troy all twenty two. Yeah,
Speaker 1: becoming the all time leading rusher, including two thousand and
Speaker 1: seven hundred rushing yards the last two seasons. Wow, that
Speaker 1: is a lot of productivity for kimani Vidal. But the
Speaker 1: problem is Gus Edwards and JK. Dobbins are powerbacks two
Speaker 1: and this looks like a frustrating time share for me.
Speaker 1: I I much like what Roman had when he was in.
Speaker 3: Baltimore coaching Dobbins.
Speaker 1: Dobbins and Edwards, you know where he would use both
Speaker 1: of them. Yeah, and so this could be a three
Speaker 1: way time share. I'm even though the volumes gonna be
Speaker 1: really high. I'm nervous about guessing week to week. Is
Speaker 1: this a gust game? Is this a Dobbins game? Does
Speaker 1: Thedal get worked in?
Speaker 3: Sure? It's you know, you know how you play this
Speaker 3: Chargers backfield. You don't draft any of them. You wait
Speaker 3: till like week two, and somebody will one of them
Speaker 3: is gonna emerge and look like the better back, and
Speaker 3: then you can trade for them for peanuts because everybody's
Speaker 3: gonna be like sell high on Yes Edwards. That's how
Speaker 3: you want to play it. Yeah, like you you don't.
Speaker 3: You don't after Chargers back.
Speaker 1: So does the running game get better worse? I think
Speaker 1: better overall productivity because the run heavy approach that's coming.
Speaker 1: And then you add in Joe Alt at tackle. You
Speaker 1: know there's gonna be some big, big running lanes for
Speaker 1: this offensive line, but it might be more frustrating for
Speaker 1: fantasy use because of the probable and unpredictable shared backfield
Speaker 1: in LA.
Speaker 4: You want to do the NFC North.
Speaker 3: No, we're gonna do the NFC West, But we got
Speaker 3: to take first Church.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to the NFC West and the San Francisco
Speaker 1: forty nine ers.
Speaker 3: Not a ton of changes on the offensive side of
Speaker 3: the ball. The most notable change is Josh Dobbs goes
Speaker 3: from Minnesota to San Francisco and Sam Darnold goes from
Speaker 3: San Francisco to Minnesota. Yeah, Ricky Pearsall was added as
Speaker 3: a wide receiver with a late first round pick, but
Speaker 3: he's squarely fourth on the depth chart right now the
Speaker 3: passing game. I'm just gonna read off the names you
Speaker 3: brock Perty, Brandon Ayuk, Tebo Samuel, George Kittle, Juwan Jennings,
Speaker 3: then Ricky pearsall and the best receiving running back in
Speaker 3: the NFL, and Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 4: That doesn't bode well.
Speaker 3: Oh, piersoll and also one of the best offensive play
Speaker 3: callers in the league. And Kyle Shanahan.
Speaker 4: So and by the way, I love Juwan Jennings. I'm
Speaker 4: a huge Jean Jennings guy.
Speaker 3: Good point.
Speaker 1: He got a new deal a couple of days ago.
Speaker 1: He is a he is a solid wide receiver. And
Speaker 1: because he's such a good blocker, one of the best
Speaker 1: blocking receivers. He's on the field a lot that is
Speaker 1: going to block, It's gonna see block. Ricky Pearsol Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm getting on the field.
Speaker 3: Wow. Brandon Ayuk has been the squeaky wheel all off season.
Speaker 3: He wants an extension or maybe even a trade. The
Speaker 3: Niners have supposedly been working on him. With that, the
Speaker 3: price keeps getting higher and higher, though Amon Ross Saint Brown,
Speaker 3: Nico Collins, and Jalen Wattle just recently had contract extensions.
Speaker 3: The only way this goes south for this passing offense
Speaker 3: is if they can't figure it out, trade Ayuk, and
Speaker 3: even then I think they still be okay.
Speaker 4: They got plenty of talent here.
Speaker 3: I mean, if you're super high on Piersaw, he's totally blocked.
Speaker 3: Deebo and Eye Yuk are on the field almost every snap,
Speaker 3: Kittle CMC and Kyle Yuschek, who's on the field fifty
Speaker 3: five percent of the time. The Niners extended Jennings through
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty five season. I don't see a downturn,
Speaker 3: But I don't see a way that Pearsol's getting on
Speaker 3: the field for more than like fifteen twenty snaps a game.
Speaker 3: Maybe no agreed, and maybe he's just a special teams guy.
Speaker 3: The running game, you have Christian McCaffrey. He's going off
Speaker 3: at one one. The only thing that can derail McCaffrey
Speaker 3: as injury, which we have seen from him in the
Speaker 3: past when he was in Carolina.
Speaker 4: It feels like a million years ago.
Speaker 1: It's funny Weir I was talking about Christian McCaffrey with
Speaker 1: somebody a couple of days ago, and it was just,
Speaker 1: you know, a casual fantasy player, just regular fantasy player,
Speaker 1: not somebody in the industry. And he was like, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I got Christian McCaffrey on my dynasty's team.
Speaker 4: I just I love that he plays every game.
Speaker 1: And I'm like, it wasn't that long ago when he
Speaker 1: was with the Panthers and he was like the biggest
Speaker 1: risk there was. It's funny how short our memory has
Speaker 1: gotten on those Panther days when he was a constant
Speaker 1: soft tissue injury.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was twenty twenty and twenty twenty one when
Speaker 3: he missed those games. He's been an iron man in
Speaker 3: his two years in San Francisco. Worth noting, though he
Speaker 3: turns twenty eight in June, the mileage is very high
Speaker 3: for that body, and with that in mind, the Niners
Speaker 3: could pull back from his workload just a little bit
Speaker 3: to try to preserve his body for another deep playoff run.
Speaker 3: They didn't really do that last year, not at all.
Speaker 1: Many of us thought they would and they never did.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and Elijah Mitchell, I think everybody agrees he's a
Speaker 3: pretty capable backup. He had twenty twenty three total yards
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty three and had twenty one total touchdowns.
Speaker 3: That was his best season as a pro. It was
Speaker 3: on three hundred and thirty nine touches. It's a lot,
Speaker 3: and he had three hundred and twenty nine touches the
Speaker 3: year before? So will it be better or worse than
Speaker 3: mccaffreys To be worse, it has to be worse. He
Speaker 3: can't outperform one one, so you're drafting him at one one.
Speaker 3: I agree with the pick, but you can't expect him
Speaker 3: to duplicate last year's numbers or increase on it.
Speaker 1: Somebody out there has done the math or will do
Speaker 1: the math on other players who have had the nearly
Speaker 1: seven hundred touches the McCaffrey has had the last two years.
Speaker 4: And what happens the next year?
Speaker 1: Because I bet the I bet in.
Speaker 4: Carolinia, it may have.
Speaker 1: It may have. Yeh, yeah, all right, let's go to
Speaker 1: Let's go to the La Rams after San Francisco. No
Speaker 1: meaningful changes in the passing game at all. Jettison jettisoning
Speaker 1: Ben Scronic does not really count as.
Speaker 3: A meaningful all.
Speaker 1: So Cooper Cup returns healthy, which is nice, but he's
Speaker 1: now each thirty and appears to be really the second
Speaker 1: option in the passing game behind Pooka Nkua. Man his
Speaker 1: targets Cooper Cup's targets dropped from eleven per game two
Speaker 1: years ago last year down to eight. That's a big change,
Speaker 1: and his downfield target rate fell badly as well. Now
Speaker 1: working four Cup, he enters the season healthy and last
Speaker 1: year he never really seemed like himself. Rolled into the
Speaker 1: season with a hamstring and it just it just never
Speaker 1: seemed to get right for him. And working against Cup.
Speaker 1: You know I mentioned he's gonna he's age age thirty.
Speaker 1: Now he's gonna turn thirty one into the season. You know,
Speaker 1: a lot of good receivers start showing their age right
Speaker 1: in here.
Speaker 3: Yep. And you know.
Speaker 1: Time all is the ultimate winner. There's no beating time,
Speaker 1: and maybe this is going to be his time. Poka
Speaker 1: and Akua obviously exploding on the scene.
Speaker 4: Looks fantastic.
Speaker 1: Nicula right now going off the board wide receiver six
Speaker 1: ninth pick Wow, all, yes, Cup going off the board
Speaker 1: wide receiver twenty one, round three.
Speaker 3: And which one do you would you rather have?
Speaker 1: This is a harder one. I mean that that Pooka
Speaker 1: spot is high, but Sean mcva but we've seen Sean
Speaker 1: McVay power receivers to gigantic years.
Speaker 4: I think i'd take Nikola.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in these scenarios we are are Fantasy Football Weekly
Speaker 1: co host. As you know, we almost all go the
Speaker 1: second guy, the lower guy.
Speaker 4: I think i'd rather of Nikola.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna go with the first guy for all of them, just.
Speaker 1: To be different. I wouldn't blame you.
Speaker 3: He's better.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna say the passing game here is basically
Speaker 1: the same. I don't think this is really a situation
Speaker 1: where it gets a lot better or worse because almost
Speaker 1: nothing has changed. Okay, the running game, this is a
Speaker 1: lot more complex. Kieron Williams outlook changed a lot when
Speaker 1: they drafted Blake.
Speaker 4: Korum in round three.
Speaker 1: So Williams fit had a tremendous season. Kudos to Brian
Speaker 1: Johnson one last time we talked about him many times
Speaker 1: last year he was he was begging people to in
Speaker 1: the offseason to draft Kirian Williams. He finished his running
Speaker 1: back three last year. That was a huge hit for
Speaker 1: Brian and a huge hit for the Rams. But here's
Speaker 1: the thing. You everybody knows Blake Korum was awesome. Last
Speaker 1: year for Jim harborught Michigan, Korm had a ton of
Speaker 1: highlight plays using his low center of gravity to break
Speaker 1: a tackle and then bounce outside and just take off.
Speaker 1: He's got he doesn't have like track star speed, but
Speaker 1: he's got footballs and he had these massive lanes to
Speaker 1: run through at Michigan, and some do worry about how
Speaker 1: that's going to translate in the NFL. He's got to
Speaker 1: make more of his own yards. But here's the thing
Speaker 1: that a lot of people don't realize and I did
Speaker 1: not realize this. The Rams offensive line as run blockers
Speaker 1: finished fifth by Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 3: That helps open something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that does. Remember when the offensive line was a
Speaker 1: disaster two years ago. Credit the Rams for getting it
Speaker 1: back up to this level at least as run blockers.
Speaker 1: And as McVeigh proved with Pukinakua mat he'll play rookies
Speaker 1: and immediately, I mean pookau Is Game one was breakout game.
Speaker 1: So you know, Blake Corn figures to factor in here.
Speaker 1: Last year when Willie when Williams was really the only
Speaker 1: game in town for the Rams, he averaged twenty carries
Speaker 1: per game. One of the few workhorse guys so will
Speaker 1: Sean McVay use a timeshare in the three season since
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley was dominant for the Rams? Really, McVeigh used
Speaker 1: almost all split backfields, Sony Michelle, Darryl Henderson, Malcolm Brown,
Speaker 1: cam Akers. My god, remember these guys. This isn't even
Speaker 1: a long time ago, right, This is the running back
Speaker 1: position in a nutshell, It's like two years ago, right,
Speaker 1: like all those guys. Yes, So you know, I just
Speaker 1: think last year Williams got the workhorse role because everybody
Speaker 1: else sucked.
Speaker 3: There was nobody there, No, it was Royce Freeman was
Speaker 3: the next best runner. Sorry, Royce dropped the piano. Freeman,
Speaker 3: Well done your ADPs right now? Kyron Williams running back
Speaker 3: seven in round two, Okay, nope, yeah, I'm paying it.
Speaker 3: I'd rather have Isaiah Pachico in.
Speaker 1: Round four, round four, Blake Korum running back thirty nine, round.
Speaker 4: Eleven in sign me up? Yep?
Speaker 1: Does it get better or worse this year for the
Speaker 1: running game for the Rams? I think it gets worse
Speaker 1: for fantasy because carm and Williams are going to share
Speaker 1: more than fantasy managers want to believe. All right, let's
Speaker 1: go to our next team that is the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 3: Well, let's start with what happened there in the offseason.
Speaker 3: Pete Carroll and his staff are out after what like
Speaker 3: forty years there. Yeah, former Ravens DC Mike McDonald is
Speaker 3: the new head coach, and Ryan Grubb became the offensive
Speaker 3: coordinator and he didn't even have to change area codes.
Speaker 3: He held the same position at the University of Washington.
Speaker 3: Not too many huge on field personnel changes in the offense.
Speaker 3: It is notable that it's a new staff and they
Speaker 3: traded for Sam Howell, which gets me right into the
Speaker 3: passing game, where Gino Smith currently listed as the starter,
Speaker 3: and the coaching staff has stated publicly that that's going
Speaker 3: to continue. There's reports out there that McDonald said that
Speaker 3: Sam Howell knows he's the backup but believes he has
Speaker 3: a bright future.
Speaker 4: So I do, honestly, I do too.
Speaker 1: I see Howell as a great candidate as a reclamation
Speaker 1: project after he absorbed one point eight million sacks last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty much.
Speaker 1: And got was in a bad offense with the coaching
Speaker 1: staff that got fired, and I could see Sam Howell
Speaker 1: being rebuilt over time into a functional NFL starter.
Speaker 3: Well to that point, Gino is under contract this year
Speaker 3: and for twenty twenty five, but the cap hit to
Speaker 3: get out from his contract next year is only thirteen million,
Speaker 3: So feasibly, if Smith falters this year and Howell gets
Speaker 3: a shot and is successful, the path is pretty clear
Speaker 3: for Howell to take over. Yeah, and Gino Smith to
Speaker 3: be cut for now. We move on with Gino though,
Speaker 3: and he's got one of the better trios of wide
Speaker 3: receivers in the game with DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett and
Speaker 3: sophomore Jackson Smith and Jigba. JSN was a bit of
Speaker 3: an afterthought in the Shane Waldron offense last year. May sure,
Speaker 3: maybe it's because they just didn't focus on the slot.
Speaker 3: Maybe there were too many mouths to feed. But JSN
Speaker 3: finished with a average of like four catches and thirty
Speaker 3: seven yards per game, and that sucks.
Speaker 1: I think only a couple of touchdowns from what I recollecting.
Speaker 4: Off the top of my head.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Tyler Lockett turns thirty two in that time, the
Speaker 3: big X factor right there. He had a bit of
Speaker 3: a downturn last season as well, maybe due to JSN
Speaker 3: popping in. He averaged four and a half catches in
Speaker 3: fifty two yards per game, and his touchdown total did
Speaker 3: a dolly pardon it dropped from nine to five. Yeahicly done.
Speaker 3: There we go, all those young that is getting our
Speaker 3: dolly parton references here. Put Lockett and JSN together. That's
Speaker 3: one good wide receiver, but in last year's offense, neither
Speaker 3: is a sure thing to start in fantasy DK. Metcalf
Speaker 3: went from ninety catches to sixty six catches last year,
Speaker 3: but he had more receiving yards and more touchdowns, so
Speaker 3: the efficiency is off the charts right. He averaged almost
Speaker 3: seventeen yards per catch'ts and scored on one in eight receptions. Wow.
Speaker 3: If they can get him back closer to ninety catches
Speaker 3: at that rate, you're looking at fifteen hundred yards and
Speaker 3: twelve touchdowns. That's great. Metcalf going off the board at
Speaker 3: pick thirty eight, that's the beginning of the fourth JSN
Speaker 3: is in the ninth and Lockett as a tenth round ADP.
Speaker 3: I don't know who I choose. It probably Metcalf still
Speaker 3: at the higher ADP, just because I don't know if
Speaker 3: I can trust either of those guys yep to not
Speaker 3: cannibalize each other. So that's probably where I'm going Noah
Speaker 3: Fant by the way as the top tight end, but
Speaker 3: he'll go undrafted in most formats. And it is worth
Speaker 3: noting that Ryan Grubbs Washington Huskies offense ranked first in
Speaker 3: major college football in passing yards. They averaged three hundred
Speaker 3: and sixty nine passing yards per game last year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, a quarterback and at your quarterback and number one
Speaker 1: wide receiver both went in the top ten.
Speaker 3: Absolutely, so there's some reasons to think the passing game
Speaker 3: can get better this season. On the running side, Pete
Speaker 3: Carroll like to have a bellcow running back. Mike McDonald
Speaker 3: came from Baltimore where they constantly had backs churning due
Speaker 3: to injury, mostly, but Harbaugh did like to ride the
Speaker 3: hot hand too. Last year in Washington, Ryan Grubbs offense
Speaker 3: had a belcow back as well. Though Dylan Johnson carried
Speaker 3: the ball two hundred and thirty three times last year,
Speaker 3: the next closest teammate in rushing attempts was Michael Pennix
Speaker 3: with thirty five, so almost two hundred more. That bodes
Speaker 3: well if you're a Kenneth Walker believer, as Zach Charboney
Speaker 3: had a big chunk of the middle of the season
Speaker 3: where Walker was banged up and Charboney basically did nothing
Speaker 3: in three consecutive fourteen plus carry games. So I imagine Walker
Speaker 3: is the lead dog in Charbonay, just as the change
Speaker 3: of pace third down guy. Walker has scored exactly nine
Speaker 3: times in each of his first two seasons, and if
Speaker 3: he stays on the field and is healthy, it's his job.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 1: I'd love to make a case because of Sharboney's draft equity,
Speaker 1: and he didn't like to make a case for Sharbonay
Speaker 1: breaking out here with the catches, Walker looks good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's just a good back.
Speaker 3: He's good. He's good so you can catch the ball.
Speaker 3: He's a good runner. There's room for the running game
Speaker 3: him to approve here. I think it actually will a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Arizona Cardinals, our final team of
Speaker 1: this show. You already mentioned earlier in the show, Hollywood
Speaker 1: Brown gone now in Kansas City. In his place, Marvin
Speaker 1: Harrison Junior, the fourth pick of the draft.
Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, can't buy his jersey though.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, no yet, they'll work that. Aside from Trey McBride,
Speaker 1: there's basically no competition for targets for Marvin Harrison in
Speaker 1: this one. The other receivers are sophomore Michael Wilson, who,
Speaker 1: by the way preview of coming attractions, he will be
Speaker 1: one of my biggest sleepers of the year okay, and
Speaker 1: slack eye Greg Dortsch, along with journeymans like Zay Jones
Speaker 1: and Zach Pascal who do not count. Harrison will start
Speaker 1: on day one. Could have Rookie of the Year season,
Speaker 1: right I think currently the betting odds only of Caleb
Speaker 1: Williams ahead of Harrison to win Rookie of the Year.
Speaker 1: You already know Harrison is an elite prospect. Countless big
Speaker 1: plays at AU, athletic ability, route, savvy, finishing skills, big plays.
Speaker 1: Just there's so many things to like about Harrison, and
Speaker 1: I think you're talking about me right now, very very much.
Speaker 1: So you in the backyard with the it's a ball, Yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: growing out. Yeah, a pookinaool level of rookie usage is possible.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah for Marvin Harrison here due to his just
Speaker 1: NFL readiness is so high.
Speaker 4: Adp right now.
Speaker 1: Wide receiver ten for Marvin Harrison, there's a lot of respectimism.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of optimism right there.
Speaker 3: He's just picking yep.
Speaker 1: I can't remember another rookie going at that level of
Speaker 1: drafts at receiver. I mean it happens a running back
Speaker 1: all time, Yeah, not receiver. This is kind of uncharted territory.
Speaker 1: From off the top of my head, I have not actually, yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't analyze the data looking back, Like, I don't
Speaker 1: think Jamar Chase or C.
Speaker 3: D Lamb or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson, nobody liked that.
Speaker 4: I think was going that high.
Speaker 1: No. Trey McBride is the other big story. His breakout
Speaker 1: last year coincided with Kyler Murray's return and helped power
Speaker 1: a lot of teams to fantasy championships because you got
Speaker 1: him off the waiver wire mid season. Week eight is
Speaker 1: when he had his big breakout game. From Week eight forward,
Speaker 1: he was a top five tight end the rest of
Speaker 1: the way. He was the most targeted tight end in
Speaker 1: the NFL from Week eight forward, Tery McBride.
Speaker 3: So we have a top five tight end, we have
Speaker 3: a top five wide receiver. We got one of your
Speaker 3: favorite sleepers. You gotta be feeling pretty good about Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: You know Kyler Murray is he is going to be
Speaker 1: a value pick. I mean people are really down on him.
Speaker 1: And I've brought this up many times in the offseason,
Speaker 1: and I don't have the numbers memorized, but a Arizona's offense,
Speaker 1: which was dismal almost all year, but the final five
Speaker 1: games of the year, I believe they averaged twenty five
Speaker 1: and a half points per game. So we saw it
Speaker 1: starting to come to get other. Yeah, in Arizona at
Speaker 1: the end of last year, Kyler Murray is gonna be
Speaker 1: is gonna be a value for somebody. The ADP on
Speaker 1: Trey McBride tight end three round four, Wow, that's high.
Speaker 1: People are very optimistic it's gonna continue.
Speaker 3: Do you feel like this year the tight ends, at
Speaker 3: least that group of like five or six tight ends
Speaker 3: who are at the top are going to be just
Speaker 3: vaulted up, because after you get past that first block
Speaker 3: of tight ends, it's just a disaster. No.
Speaker 1: In fact, I think this is the first time in
Speaker 1: like five years where I feel like tight end is
Speaker 1: pretty deep. Okay, Yeah, in my estimation, weighting on this
Speaker 1: is because I'm never that guy like weight on tight end.
Speaker 1: This is the year I think I'm gonna wait on
Speaker 1: tight end.
Speaker 3: Interesting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, let's talk running gain. Oh well, By the way,
Speaker 1: does the passing game get better? Yes, obviously, yeah, I
Speaker 1: think clearly better with Marvin Harrison and Trey McBride now
Speaker 1: entering his third year running game. This is fascinating. I
Speaker 1: think the best runner on the Cardinals is rookie Trey Benson.
Speaker 3: You were pretty high on Benson going into the draft.
Speaker 1: I was, but it may take him a while to
Speaker 1: get onto the field in a meaningful way, and that
Speaker 1: part worries me. With Benson, you get a fast player
Speaker 1: with great vision, patience. He breaks tackles, he hits home
Speaker 1: run plays, he's got great footwork, literally never fumbled in college.
Speaker 1: He can catch, and he was lately used at Florida State.
Speaker 1: So you're not getting somebody with the bunch of mileage
Speaker 1: on him.
Speaker 4: I love him.
Speaker 1: The problem is James Connor had the best year of
Speaker 1: his season or career, best year of his career last
Speaker 1: year on a terrible Arizona team. It's wild where did
Speaker 1: that come from? He finished his Pro Football Focus's fifth
Speaker 1: best running back. He averaged five yards per carry, highest
Speaker 1: mark of his career. He ranked second in yards after
Speaker 1: contact James Connor three point nine yards after contact. He
Speaker 1: finished sixth in rushes of fifteen yards or more, all
Speaker 1: this despite a run blocking line that ranked twenty sixth
Speaker 1: by Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 3: He's doing it himself. He's doing it himself. He's a
Speaker 3: DIY runner.
Speaker 1: Yep. Now Connor is twenty nine years old. Yeah, so,
Speaker 1: I mean we're right on the cusp, but we're guys
Speaker 1: nose dive and I think Connor will not sustain that
Speaker 1: level of productivity.
Speaker 3: He's also got a big injury history too.
Speaker 1: He does, yeah, he does. Now, he's been lightly used.
Speaker 1: Connor's never top two und fifteen carries a season. So
Speaker 1: maybe the end, maybe it's not going to go on
Speaker 1: to these drive like Gena Davis off the cliff kind.
Speaker 3: Of Dealilman luis, Okay, right.
Speaker 1: So maybe, But I think the issue here is how
Speaker 1: long until Trey Benson takes over. It might be mid season.
Speaker 1: I think it might be mid season, could be beyond,
Speaker 1: But I just I can't see James Connor posting that
Speaker 1: kind of productivity.
Speaker 3: Again. Sure, and it's probably closer to a timeshare than
Speaker 3: maybe Trey Bentson taking over, But this is the most
Speaker 3: capable backup James Connor has seen in his.
Speaker 4: By a million miles.
Speaker 1: All Right, So the ADP here Connor's ADP is running
Speaker 1: back twenty four, Benson's thirty three. Oh, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to devil patience on Benson, but you can get him
Speaker 1: three rounds later.
Speaker 3: Thirty three is four rounds. Kind of high for a
Speaker 3: backup running that's on the high end of the backup
Speaker 3: that is it is. So you may have to reach
Speaker 3: around for a guy like Trey Benson. To steal a
Speaker 3: term from our preseason shows.
Speaker 4: Maybe we get both. Yeah, draft them both, you can.
Speaker 1: U does the running game get better or worse for
Speaker 1: Arizona in totality better because they have a better one
Speaker 1: two punch than they've had in.
Speaker 4: I looked it up.
Speaker 1: The last time Arizona had a good one two punch
Speaker 1: at running back Edger and James and Tim high Tower.
Speaker 1: That's how long it's been.
Speaker 3: I forgot for all those guys. I forgot both of
Speaker 3: those guys cardinals.
Speaker 1: And they went to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: Oh they did?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 3: Yeah. Emmett Smith as a former cardinal.
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson is a formal cardinal. Wow, yeah, we're cardinal
Speaker 1: Where running backs go to die.
Speaker 3: It is like a retirement community.
Speaker 1: It's the It's Sun City. It's perfect beautiful.
Speaker 3: It only makes sense hit Sedona during the day. Yeah, wonderful.
Speaker 1: Hey how about next week, Yeah, let's do the norths.
Speaker 3: The North's Yeah, the Black and Blue divisions.
Speaker 1: Yeah, respectively. That'll u we'll we'll touch on those next week.
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