WEBVTT - Roman Legion 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:04.640 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:11.040 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:15.080 source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and 0:00:15.120 --> 0:00:18.480 whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. Now, 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:20.160 here's your host, Paul Charge. 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:27.600 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. Our slog through each of 0:00:27.600 --> 0:00:32.200 the off season divisions continues shows. 0:00:33.440 --> 0:00:35.840 You know what the show that you and Fish had 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.040 last week, it was it was super fun. I enjoyed 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.200 listening to your greasy belly flop. 0:00:40.960 --> 0:00:42.840 Creamy belly flop, and it was fantastic. 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:44.639 You guys did a great job. Thank And if you're 0:00:44.680 --> 0:00:46.959 not listening to that show, I encourage you to go 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:49.720 yeah about that podcast episode, to go back to that 0:00:49.800 --> 0:00:50.320 good stuff. 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:53.240 It was. Uh, nobody ever breaks down belly flops anymore, 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:54.240 so we're here for. 0:00:54.160 --> 0:00:57.880 That fantasy belly flops. Yeah, absolutely exactly. 0:00:58.200 --> 0:01:00.560 So the premise as we as we go through this 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:03.400 month long tour of all not a slog, it's now 0:01:03.400 --> 0:01:08.240 a tour. I've upgraded from slog to tour. Uh, look 0:01:08.280 --> 0:01:11.760 at every NFL team, highlight the key differences from last year. 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:13.800 Do we think these offenses are better? Do we think 0:01:13.800 --> 0:01:16.600 they're worse, you know, just get up to speed on 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.640 all these different teams. Sure, we now turn our attention 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:22.880 to the AFC West and the NFC West, Matt, and 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:25.880 this is your first crack at it. We'll start with 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:28.600 Kansas City. They get to go first. 0:01:28.680 --> 0:01:30.360 You do want to start with the Super Bowl. 0:01:31.000 --> 0:01:32.319 When you win the Super Bowl, you get to go 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:33.640 first on Fantasy Football Week. 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:38.039 Yeah. Well, for additions and subtractions, Marquise Brown signed a 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:41.480 one year deal there. The speedy Xavier Worthy was the 0:01:41.560 --> 0:01:44.160 Chief's first round pick. He should slot in a lot 0:01:44.200 --> 0:01:47.880 of wide receiver packages immediately. Uh, they did add Carson 0:01:47.920 --> 0:01:50.120 Wentz very quietly as the backup there. 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:50.920 I like that move. 0:01:51.160 --> 0:01:53.160 I kind of like that move as well. Irv Smith 0:01:53.240 --> 0:01:58.040 now backing up Travis Kelcey. And addition by subtraction, maybe 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:02.280 Marquez Veldez Scandling he's gone, Mikole Hardman, he's gone. A 0:02:02.440 --> 0:02:05.640 possible subtraction of Rashie Rice, who keeps getting an off 0:02:05.680 --> 0:02:08.200 season trouble. But we'll have to pay attention to that 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:12.440 as we get closer to the season. Starting in the 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:16.320 passing game, you still got Mahomes, Kelsey and Rice as 0:02:16.360 --> 0:02:18.880 your core. That just won you the Super Bowl. I'm 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:21.480 feeling pretty good as a starting point right there. And 0:02:21.520 --> 0:02:24.000 you've added a steady veteran in Hollywood Brown, who gets 0:02:24.360 --> 0:02:26.760 some streaks of eye popping numbers in the past. He's 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:28.360 been pretty good along the lines. 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:32.519 And obviously with the best passer he's ever worked with. Absolutely, 0:02:32.600 --> 0:02:36.000 and if Xavier Worthy's not able to contribute early, you 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:39.399 know Marquise Brown is going to be an intriguing guy 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:41.280 to pick your spots to play. 0:02:41.120 --> 0:02:43.800 Well, especially if Rashie Rice is facing any kind of 0:02:43.840 --> 0:02:47.560 suspension or disciplinary action from the league. But I do 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:50.520 think if Xavier Worthy flashes in camp in the preseason, 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.200 I think they involve him right away. I think I 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.440 think it'll be quicker than you think. The Chiefs did 0:02:55.480 --> 0:02:59.200 have eight different wide receivers average at least one target 0:02:59.240 --> 0:02:59.679 per game. 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:01.240 That's a lot. 0:03:02.600 --> 0:03:06.240 How do you do that? It's impossible. Justin Watson and 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.200 Sky Moore are currently the depth pieces on the roster. 0:03:09.680 --> 0:03:12.760 Kadarius Tony still under contract as well, but he hasn't 0:03:12.760 --> 0:03:15.800 played a snap since Week fifteen of last year. Tony 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:18.679 likely only makes the roster if there's an injury or 0:03:18.720 --> 0:03:22.600 a right I think he gets cut for better or 0:03:22.760 --> 0:03:24.960 worse on the on the passing game, I think Brown 0:03:25.000 --> 0:03:28.040 and Worthy are additions that have to make their passing 0:03:28.040 --> 0:03:30.160 game look a little bit better than last year. 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.040 Especially from a big play standpoint. 0:03:33.040 --> 0:03:35.560 You know we've seen we think of classic Mahomes and 0:03:35.680 --> 0:03:38.600 Tyreek Hill Was there are just these long, deep bombs 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:41.560 that would connect in the big plays. Just year after 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:46.880 year that is slowly decreased, Shorter passes, fewer big plays. 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:51.160 Now with Brown and Worthy, you feel like the Chiefs 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:53.840 and Mahomes are ready to strike downfield again. 0:03:54.000 --> 0:03:56.160 Yeah, I think I think that that's a fair assumption 0:03:56.920 --> 0:04:00.800 on the running side of the game. Maybe I'm wrong, 0:04:00.920 --> 0:04:04.960 but Isaiah Pacheco looks primed to be an absolute bel 0:04:05.040 --> 0:04:08.800 cow this year. In games where Pacheco touched the ball 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.760 fewer than fifteen times, the Chiefs had a record of 0:04:12.800 --> 0:04:16.799 one in three. In games that the Chiefs won, Pacheco 0:04:16.960 --> 0:04:21.040 averaged twenty point three touches. Wow. He played eighteen games 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:23.400 last year, including the playoffs. He scored a touchdown in 0:04:23.440 --> 0:04:25.560 eleven of them. Now, he's not gonna put up like 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:28.560 Christian McCaffrey numbers or anything like that. But in this 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:31.360 running back landscape, which it's harder to find guys who 0:04:31.440 --> 0:04:34.440 get huge shares of touches. I think Isaiah Pacheco sitting 0:04:34.480 --> 0:04:37.560 on a pretty good opportunity here. There were only fourteen 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:41.200 running backs who had averaged seventeen touches per game last season, 0:04:41.400 --> 0:04:45.039 and he was one of them. Devon a Chain, for instance, 0:04:45.080 --> 0:04:48.880 he averaged eleven point eight touches per game. He's going 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:52.679 a full two rounds ahead of Pacheco's ADP of forty 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:56.800 or the mid fourth round. Yea. The backups are Clyde 0:04:56.880 --> 0:05:01.880 Edwards E Laire and Keyante ingram Over for Arizona non factor, 0:05:02.040 --> 0:05:04.200 non factors at all. I'm clearing of them at all. 0:05:04.320 --> 0:05:06.880 So better or worse is you can probably tell. I'm 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:10.440 pretty bullish on Isaiah Pacheco, you know, maybe popping off 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:12.440 and being a top five back at the end of 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:14.040 the year that you can get in the fourth round. 0:05:14.240 --> 0:05:18.160 Yeah, if, if, if he's my first running back taken, he's. 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:19.720 Right. 0:05:19.800 --> 0:05:22.120 I never I've never taken running backs in the first 0:05:22.160 --> 0:05:23.679 three rounds, but he's. 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:26.440 A perfect fourth round guy to start your running back. 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:28.599 Absolutely, yea, I love it. Do you think the running 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:29.920 game gets better this year? 0:05:30.040 --> 0:05:32.480 I think it does. I think I think with all 0:05:32.520 --> 0:05:36.240 the opportunities that the passing game has, I think Pacheco 0:05:36.320 --> 0:05:38.400 is sitting on a good year. Here, let's go to 0:05:38.440 --> 0:05:38.920 the Raiders. 0:05:39.279 --> 0:05:42.400 Raiders brought back interim head coach Antonio Peers in the offseason, 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:47.120 and then he inexplicably hired former Bears offensive coordinator Luke 0:05:47.160 --> 0:05:51.520 Getzi why, I don't know whatever, overhauled their offensive line 0:05:51.560 --> 0:05:54.800 in Las Vegas, in including putting second and third round 0:05:54.839 --> 0:05:57.440 picks into their offensive line, which should help what it 0:05:57.480 --> 0:05:59.200 was last year basically a middle of the pack to 0:05:59.440 --> 0:06:02.920 slightly below average unit passing game. Here is the big 0:06:02.920 --> 0:06:05.400 story is the addition of rookie tight end Brock Bauers. 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:09.119 Matt unexpectedly slid to pick thirteen in the NFL Draft, 0:06:09.160 --> 0:06:10.680 and I think at that point the Raiders like, we 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:12.520 just got to take the best guy off the board, 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:16.360 even though they had taken the first tight end off 0:06:16.400 --> 0:06:20.160 the board the previous year as well. You know, I 0:06:20.200 --> 0:06:24.920 think in a different year, when six quarterbacks weren't drafted 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:27.160 in the top twelve picks, Bowers would have been like 0:06:27.200 --> 0:06:30.760 a top five guy besides on talent, besides all the 0:06:30.760 --> 0:06:35.520 way to number number thirteen. He brings the most college 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:42.080 production and fantasy optimism as a rookie since TJ. Hockinson, 0:06:42.440 --> 0:06:48.599 Vernon Davis, Jeremy Shockey, from Old Guys, Kyle Pitts, Yep, 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:53.480 Yep Raiders took. I mentioned Michael Mayer was the draft 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:54.760 pick last year. 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:56.800 His dynasty value. 0:06:56.600 --> 0:07:01.440 Just got destroyed. Did Yeah, that's it's he is officially 0:07:01.480 --> 0:07:03.039 dead at this point. 0:07:03.279 --> 0:07:04.359 That unfortunately, it is. 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:06.080 It's It was a quick it was a quick life, 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.080 the life and times of Michael Mayer. It's over unless 0:07:09.120 --> 0:07:11.600 Aiden O'Connell gets a lot better. Gardner, Minshew's going to 0:07:11.640 --> 0:07:12.960 take over a quarterback, Matt. 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.440 I think it's Minshew's job. I think that they signed 0:07:15.520 --> 0:07:18.560 him to a pretty decent contract. Yeah, to say that 0:07:18.640 --> 0:07:19.280 h's his job. 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:23.280 He was non awful last year, is in he's starting quarterback? 0:07:23.520 --> 0:07:26.480 I think we'd say, said Gardner, Minshew is just non awful. 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:27.840 That's just what he is. 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:31.640 That's right. He had a handful of good games, And 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.760 so I was looking back at Minshew's stats as somebody 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:38.760 most was didn't start most weeks. He'd have these spike games, Matt, 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:41.320 where if you did start him, you got paid. But 0:07:41.400 --> 0:07:45.040 here was the catch. They were totally unguessable. It came 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:51.040 against a great Cleveland secondary, a great New Orleans secondary, Pittsburgh, 0:07:51.160 --> 0:07:53.440 you know, these great defense You never would have started 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:56.280 Gardner Minshew in those games, and that was what he 0:07:56.320 --> 0:07:56.640 went up. 0:07:56.680 --> 0:07:58.960 You know, you know what Gardner Minshew is going to become. 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.640 He's going to be come Stu Beard. Yeah. 0:08:01.640 --> 0:08:06.720 Maybe, so he's going to be like that, Like that guy. 0:08:05.760 --> 0:08:09.200 Pass around to eighteen different teams, start for all of them, 0:08:09.440 --> 0:08:11.960 put up a couple of crazy six touchdown games when 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.400 you're like, what, I should have had him in my lineup? Yeah? 0:08:14.440 --> 0:08:19.880 Maybe maybe Minshew caps the upside for all the Raiders receivers. 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:22.400 His top receiver last year was Michael Pittman. He only 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:26.520 scored four times. Minshew finished twenty seventh in a dot. 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:29.800 I don't love that. The deep deep ball completion percentage 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:33.319 was just thirty nine percent. That was that nestled him 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:36.959 between Josh Dobbs and Will Levis in deep ball pass 0:08:37.080 --> 0:08:40.520 That's not good. That's not good. Thirty third in completion 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.760 percentage at all depths. So it's just it's you know, 0:08:43.880 --> 0:08:47.880 this offense is just capped by the quarterback position. Unfortunately, 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.360 Devanta Adams managed an okase season despite the quarterbacking of 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:56.000 Adian O'Connell and Jimmy Garoppolo and Brian Hoyer. You remember 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.560 those starts? Ah, Yes, Yeah, Adams finished his wide receiver 0:08:59.720 --> 0:09:04.280 four teen. He was fifth in targets, which proves that 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:09.480 just volume alone can't propel DeVante Adams to greatness. I mean, 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:12.720 he needs better quarterbacking. He's not gonna have it here. 0:09:13.280 --> 0:09:17.160 Devanta Adams ADP very high. I think he's wide receiver nine. 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:21.040 He finished his fourteen last year. He's on the second 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:22.120 half of his career. 0:09:22.320 --> 0:09:22.440 Arc. 0:09:23.240 --> 0:09:25.080 I don't that feels a little bit high. You can 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:29.240 get Jacoby Myers with what a nice season? Yeah, wide 0:09:29.240 --> 0:09:30.400 receiver fifty four. 0:09:31.320 --> 0:09:33.040 And I don't think that you're getting much of a 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:33.719 drop off there. 0:09:33.760 --> 0:09:35.360 No, the drop offs not that severe. 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.040 Yeah, so, but that's only if you really want to 0:09:38.080 --> 0:09:40.160 have a Raiders wide receiver on your team. 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:42.360 Yes, and if I do, I'm paying. If I'm paying 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:45.439 for one at their ADP Jacoby Myers pick one hundred 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:48.480 and twenty two, not DeVante Adams pick fifteen. 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:51.440 I'm kind of shocked that DeVante Adams has not demanded 0:09:51.440 --> 0:09:51.880 a trade. 0:09:53.320 --> 0:09:54.920 Yeah, I am too, to be honest, I mean, this 0:09:54.960 --> 0:09:57.120 isn't what he signed up for. No, right, you know? 0:09:57.200 --> 0:09:59.600 So, yeah, you're probably right, and maybe that ends up 0:09:59.600 --> 0:10:05.840 happening that maybe maybe let's move over to the Denver Broncos. 0:10:05.960 --> 0:10:08.600 Yeah, I mean Russell Wilson is gone. That's the biggest 0:10:08.840 --> 0:10:09.320 change there. 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:11.000 Wait, hold on, I forgot the whole running game for 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:13.000 the Raiders. Oh gosh, give me a second. 0:10:13.000 --> 0:10:17.160 Well, Russell Wilson ran against the Raiders. Thank you. Nice try. 0:10:17.280 --> 0:10:20.760 Yeah, massive change here as Josh Jacobs was allowed to 0:10:20.840 --> 0:10:23.800 leave in free agency. Zamir Whites your presumed starter, Matt, 0:10:23.800 --> 0:10:27.280 and you'll remember he got some reps as the starter 0:10:27.400 --> 0:10:30.160 in the last month of the season last year, and 0:10:30.200 --> 0:10:33.720 he got some long looks. He had a seventeen attempt game, 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.680 a twenty two attempt game, a twenty attempt game, a 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:38.160 twenty five attempt game. 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:39.440 And we love volume. 0:10:39.480 --> 0:10:42.440 You alluded to this with Checko hard to find volume backs, 0:10:42.520 --> 0:10:47.359 but Antonio Pierce like seems to like his workhorse backs. 0:10:48.080 --> 0:10:51.320 I thought White looked pretty good some explosive runs. In 0:10:51.760 --> 0:10:55.920 Zamir White's four starts, he had seven runs of more 0:10:55.960 --> 0:11:00.319 than ten yards. His backup is now Alexander Madison. He 0:11:00.400 --> 0:11:03.040 had explosive run rates of double that. 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:05.560 Of Alexander Madison, which is in sane a lot. 0:11:05.800 --> 0:11:08.040 White only scored one touchdown in those four starts, but 0:11:08.080 --> 0:11:11.760 Alexander Madison's no threat to steal touchdowns. Dude never scores. 0:11:12.240 --> 0:11:15.880 So White's ADP is really interesting. It's our running back 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:21.040 twenty three seventy seventh overall, despite being a high volume 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:25.079 workhorseback with no competition for goal line work. 0:11:26.640 --> 0:11:28.800 I think he's a due the opposite magnet in the 0:11:28.840 --> 0:11:29.520 seventh round. 0:11:29.520 --> 0:11:30.000 Absolutely. 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.560 Yeah. Maybe the offensive line gets better as well. With 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.240 the improvements that they made, they reshuffling this offensive line, 0:11:36.240 --> 0:11:38.160 I think this running back running game for Las Vegas 0:11:38.160 --> 0:11:42.000 gets a little bit better, all right. Now, the aforementioned 0:11:42.040 --> 0:11:43.720 Russell Wilson in Denver. 0:11:43.520 --> 0:11:44.040 He's gone. 0:11:44.120 --> 0:11:44.520 He's gone. 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.600 Jerry Judy gone as well, was traded to Cleveland, and 0:11:48.000 --> 0:11:51.120 starting center Lloyd cushion Berry, the third signed to the 0:11:51.120 --> 0:11:54.120 biggest center contract in the history of the league with Tennessee. 0:11:54.280 --> 0:11:55.440 So he's gone as well. 0:11:56.240 --> 0:11:59.280 Lloyd cushion Berry Thugh, Yeah. 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:02.040 That's a pretty good name. The coaching staff under Sean 0:12:02.080 --> 0:12:06.240 Payton and coordinators stayed exactly the same. The biggest addition 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.920 is new quarterback Bo Nix, who the Broncos took with 0:12:08.960 --> 0:12:12.600 the twelve pick. They also added wide receiver Troy Franklin 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:17.240 in the fourth and audrich Estime in the fifth. Passing game. 0:12:17.320 --> 0:12:20.079 It all flows through bow Knix, who is the presumed 0:12:20.120 --> 0:12:24.960 opening day starter. Nicks known for his highly accurate short 0:12:25.000 --> 0:12:28.840 passing game. He completed seventy four point nine percent of 0:12:28.840 --> 0:12:31.439 his passes at Oregon over the last two years. 0:12:31.320 --> 0:12:34.640 Which in itself is impressive, but you know, his a 0:12:34.760 --> 0:12:35.840 dot was like five yards. 0:12:36.040 --> 0:12:39.000 He also had seventy four touchdown passes to only ten 0:12:39.080 --> 0:12:43.080 interceptions in that spans, so the numbers were good. Obviously, 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.840 it's a step up and level of play. And he's 0:12:45.840 --> 0:12:48.840 not known for the long ball, but when Peyton was 0:12:48.880 --> 0:12:52.240 coaching in Drew Brees or Drew Brees in New Orleans, 0:12:52.480 --> 0:12:54.920 Breese wasn't really known as a bomber either. And if 0:12:54.960 --> 0:12:58.440 you remember correctly, Alvin Kamara and Mark Ingram caught a 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:00.800 ton of balls out of the backfield. Yeah, and I 0:13:00.880 --> 0:13:03.760 mentioned this in the First Round Aftermath podcast that we 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:06.960 did a couple of weeks ago. The last year the 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:10.360 Broncos running backs were targeted one hundred and fifty times, 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:12.880 and they led the league with one hundred and thirty 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:13.800 one receptions. 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:14.360 Impressive. 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.720 Uh. Some may be excited about Courtland Sutton's role maybe 0:13:17.760 --> 0:13:20.280 increasing with the loss of Jerry Judy, but his a 0:13:20.400 --> 0:13:24.160 dot last year was a very deep fourteen point four deep, 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:26.840 and of wide receivers who had at least eighty targets 0:13:26.880 --> 0:13:29.480 last year, only four players had a longer a dot 0:13:29.520 --> 0:13:33.120 than Sutton. That was Mike Evans, DeAndre Hopkins, Brandon Ayuk 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:34.240 and DK Metcalf. 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.600 Well, that, well, that's what I want. 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:37.200 I want. 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:39.800 I want receivers who get thrown too deep and can 0:13:39.840 --> 0:13:40.200 catch it. 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:42.280 Yeah, but ken Bow nicks through. 0:13:42.520 --> 0:13:45.240 Well, Okay, that's a fair question. That's that's that That's 0:13:45.280 --> 0:13:45.840 a fair question. 0:13:45.880 --> 0:13:48.240 That's the question. Yeah. So with that said, I don't 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.720 think the quality of targets goes up for Sutton, and 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.760 I think you're completely reliant on him duplicating his ten 0:13:53.840 --> 0:13:57.560 touchdowns they had last season. I'm I'm a little shaky 0:13:57.640 --> 0:14:00.440 on that one at best. If you're excited about Josh Reynolds, 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:05.760 Marvin Mims, Troy Franklin, Tim Patrick, Lil Jordan Humphrey fighting 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:08.880 over the number two and number three scraps in this offense. Yes, 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:12.800 you can be that. Nobody's going to be Does it 0:14:12.800 --> 0:14:14.760 get better or worse this year? I think it's worse. 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:19.040 From a touchdown perspective. The Broncos quarterbacks combined for twenty 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.760 nine touchdown passes. That was the fifth most in the 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:24.200 league last year. That's strange. 0:14:24.240 --> 0:14:24.920 That is weird. 0:14:25.760 --> 0:14:27.560 Wow that they had the fifth most. 0:14:27.880 --> 0:14:28.560 I'm shocked. 0:14:28.720 --> 0:14:31.480 So Nix is not sitting on twenty nine touchdown passes 0:14:31.520 --> 0:14:32.720 this year, not even close. 0:14:32.800 --> 0:14:35.360 I bet he's if he've plays the whole season, I'd 0:14:35.360 --> 0:14:37.840 put Nix on twenty yeah. 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.840 So I was thinking half of that maybe, so fifteen 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.200 to twenty yeah. I think it gets worse for the 0:14:43.200 --> 0:14:46.240 Broncos on the passing side. On the running game. What's 0:14:46.280 --> 0:14:49.840 exciting about the running game is that it what's not exciting, 0:14:49.880 --> 0:14:52.040 I should say, is that it could be a fourth right, 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.680 a foe headed lizard. I wanted to say monster, but 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:56.640 it's definitely not a monster. It's just a little lizard. 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.080 Are you in hydra territory? How many heads do you 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:01.680 have to have to become a I mean he's like 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:03.640 two enough could be a hydra. 0:15:03.760 --> 0:15:06.480 You cut one head off and another two grow, right. 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:09.160 Oh, so it's it's like a starfish. 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:10.080 Yeah, exactly. 0:15:10.120 --> 0:15:15.160 Okay, the Denver starfish backfield, not the Rusty starfish. That's 0:15:15.200 --> 0:15:15.920 totally different. 0:15:16.000 --> 0:15:19.560 Okay is that an urban dictionary? So I believe it 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:24.920 is Javante Williams, samaj p Ryan, Jaleel McLoughlin, and newly 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:28.400 drafted Audric Estimate all in the running back room. Worth 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:31.520 noting that Javante did hold the biggest piece of the pie. 0:15:32.000 --> 0:15:34.040 He was on the field for forty eight percent of 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.400 the snaps last year, he had fifty four percent of 0:15:36.400 --> 0:15:39.840 the rushing attempts, and maybe most notably, he took forty 0:15:39.880 --> 0:15:43.040 seven percent of the rushing attempts inside the five yard line. 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.200 But as we mentioned above, this offense could flow through 0:15:46.200 --> 0:15:49.080 the running backs via the passing game more and that's 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:52.440 where the other names come into play. Williams averaged three 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.440 point four targets per game, not bad. P Ryan had 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.920 three point one. McLoughlin had two point one. So wrap 0:15:58.960 --> 0:16:00.720 those eight and a half target it's per game into 0:16:00.720 --> 0:16:04.160 one back. I'm really excited, right, But you're probably not 0:16:04.440 --> 0:16:06.880 looking at that. You're probably looking at three and maybe four. 0:16:07.480 --> 0:16:11.640 So but McLoughlin is the guy That fascinates me because 0:16:12.000 --> 0:16:16.320 he showed some special traits and we didn't get long 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.920 looks at him. We didn't, but I he was the 0:16:18.960 --> 0:16:22.120 guy who seemed to pop off the off off the screen. 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:25.520 To me, if if Samaj pe Rin wasn't in Denver, 0:16:25.960 --> 0:16:29.920 I would totally be all in on McLoughlin as like 0:16:30.000 --> 0:16:32.720 a sleeper guy this year. I just feel like they 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:35.280 signed Samaj p Ran and told him he was gonna 0:16:35.280 --> 0:16:38.680 play last year. That was like Sean Payton's personal like 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:42.960 promise to him. So it's like it's like he could 0:16:42.960 --> 0:16:44.760 be cut. You never know, he could be traded. But 0:16:45.800 --> 0:16:48.280 Javonte's going off the board at pick eighty four, that's 0:16:48.320 --> 0:16:51.120 the last pick of the seventh round. McLoughlin is at 0:16:51.160 --> 0:16:54.440 one seventy four, that's middle of the fifteenth and RB 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:58.480 fifty six. Pe Urine's going basically on drafted at two five. 0:16:58.520 --> 0:17:01.240 I'm not I'm out at him, But with Javante getting 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:04.320 as much of the running piece of the pie that 0:17:04.359 --> 0:17:07.240 he's getting, I actually kind of like Javante where he's going. 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:10.400 I think he's a boring, sneaky upside play the tail 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:13.120 end of the seventh round or early eighth yep, does 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:15.760 it get better or we're slightly better because of the 0:17:15.800 --> 0:17:17.399 ppr angle for the backs. 0:17:18.359 --> 0:17:20.359 Let's go over the Chargers, the last team of the 0:17:20.440 --> 0:17:24.159 AFC West that we'll talk about. Massive overhaul to the 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:27.640 entire offensive coaching staff Jim Harbaugh and now offensive coordinator 0:17:27.760 --> 0:17:31.800 Greg Roman and offensive line added tackled Joe Alt with 0:17:31.840 --> 0:17:34.760 a fifth overall pick, which makes it the third straight 0:17:34.880 --> 0:17:37.400 year the Chargers have invested a first round pick into 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:43.280 their offensive line. M It's there were Sea Slater's. Yep, 0:17:43.600 --> 0:17:46.800 you know this is so classic Jim Harbaugh and Greg 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:48.800 Roman and God love him. 0:17:48.680 --> 0:17:49.760 Because it's gonna pay off. 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:52.000 It's gonna work. Yep. It might be two or three years, 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:52.800 but it's gonna work. 0:17:52.920 --> 0:17:54.919 So Mike Williams, let's start with the passing game for 0:17:54.960 --> 0:17:57.600 the Chargers. Mike Williams released Keenan Allen traded to the 0:17:57.600 --> 0:18:01.639 Bears last year's first round or Quinton Johnson moves into 0:18:01.720 --> 0:18:04.640 like the number one, you know, go to receiver role 0:18:05.520 --> 0:18:08.840 after a dismal rookie season and despite all those injuries 0:18:08.880 --> 0:18:12.400 of the Chargers wideouts last year, Johnson was still very 0:18:12.480 --> 0:18:15.680 lightly used. He only was running twenty eight routes. Per 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:18.280 game and getting targeted three and a half times per 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:20.919 game and he only cut two passes per game. It 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:24.200 was a bad year for Quinton Johnson. He's going to 0:18:24.240 --> 0:18:27.280 see in sizeable uptick in usage now because. 0:18:27.000 --> 0:18:27.720 He has to. 0:18:28.240 --> 0:18:31.199 Yeah, and maybe his pedigree here kicks in and you know, 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:33.280 he becomes worthy of the first round pick that he 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:36.520 had a couple of weeks ago. The Chargers GM Joe 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:41.560 Hortitz said that Johnson is going to launch. That was 0:18:41.600 --> 0:18:44.800 his word, launch this season. So hopefully that's the case. 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:47.320 You can get him almost for free wide receiver sixty 0:18:47.440 --> 0:18:50.680 five off the board pick one fifty three. 0:18:50.920 --> 0:18:52.639 Yeah, that's nothing, that is nothing. 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:55.800 The team also drafted Lad McConkey in the second round, 0:18:55.840 --> 0:18:57.679 and I think he's going to start over Josh Palmer. 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:00.000 He ran you say, Colin mccochney, Colin. 0:18:59.840 --> 0:19:02.080 Mc coy I like it related. 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.560 Yeah, yeah, I'm sure they both come from the same British. 0:19:06.600 --> 0:19:11.200 Yeah, he's slippery, he gets a lot of separation. We've 0:19:11.280 --> 0:19:13.200 we've broken him down a couple of times with Thor 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:16.680 in previous shows. I like Lad mcconckie. I think he's 0:19:16.680 --> 0:19:19.719 gonna be better than Quentin Johnson. All probability. But you know, 0:19:20.520 --> 0:19:22.159 Johnson might get a lot better than your two. Like 0:19:22.200 --> 0:19:23.840 I said, so maybe maybe we're not wrong. 0:19:23.920 --> 0:19:25.119 There's room for two widers. 0:19:26.000 --> 0:19:28.240 Well it's a good point, and it's not like the 0:19:28.280 --> 0:19:30.280 tight end position is soaking up a bunch, so they 0:19:30.280 --> 0:19:33.960 could both be, you know, better than expected. If you 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:39.560 were wondering where DJ Chark landed, it was here exactly. 0:19:40.520 --> 0:19:45.520 Get this where Justin Herbert has plummeted down to quarterback sixteen. 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:47.800 Wow. Yeah, that's cheap. 0:19:47.960 --> 0:19:49.880 That is cheap on him. Now. 0:19:50.600 --> 0:19:55.520