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Speaker 1: It is the final draft edition of Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: I am Paul Charchi and co host today the same
Speaker 1: as last week. It's the rare doubling up. Oh boy,
Speaker 1: Scott Fish, Brian Johnson.
Speaker 3: Hello, guys, Hey, I have to lock this job down. Man,
Speaker 3: I need the money. I don't have a moat and
Speaker 3: an ogre like you do over at your house, think
Speaker 3: at Drawbridge.
Speaker 1: Now, the ogre's not in the moat because he can't swim.
Speaker 3: No, no, And what I thought very interesting, very interesting
Speaker 3: the last time I went over. It's not like your
Speaker 3: traditional mythical ogre. You actually hired ogre from Revenge of
Speaker 3: the Nerds.
Speaker 1: So that guy was all he's smashing the beer cans
Speaker 1: on his ed right.
Speaker 4: Uh yeah, you're talking about no no, no, I don't
Speaker 4: know why I was thinking goonionies, didn't you My brain like, thank.
Speaker 3: God, it's the last stop putting charge.
Speaker 4: Season show we need to start the season.
Speaker 3: You're putting ideas in charges head for new hires over
Speaker 3: there at the moat.
Speaker 1: So much to get you this is this is a
Speaker 1: lot of drafts already done, but there are no busier
Speaker 1: times than the Labor Day, weekend and the days leading
Speaker 1: up to the season. Many people's drafts are just you know,
Speaker 1: we go the night before the start of the season
Speaker 1: every year. Some do it during the game on Thursday night,
Speaker 1: And we're going to break down the Thursday night game
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly style. Later, We're going to go through
Speaker 1: all the preseason storylines. Were calling all the information we've
Speaker 1: learned all preseason into one show for the best possible
Speaker 1: draft advice we can give you, including draft what we
Speaker 1: call draft day personas, the idea being you go in
Speaker 1: with an idea like I want to go rookie heavy,
Speaker 1: I want to go high risk, I want to do
Speaker 1: the opposite. Said, what does that roster look like if
Speaker 1: you pull it off? Which ones do you like the best?
Speaker 1: What if I'm wrong? We've been making a bunch of
Speaker 1: assumptions over the course of the preseason. There's some things
Speaker 1: that Okay, maybe you know, maybe we got this right.
Speaker 1: Maybe we got it wrong, impossible, three tough questions, and
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff to get to over the course
Speaker 1: of the show. Let's break down thirty two teams from
Speaker 1: the preseason storylines, beginning with the woeful Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 3: Yeah they're tanking tight end. Zach Ertz is uncertain for
Speaker 3: week one. He has been clear to practice, but he
Speaker 3: himself says he's uncertain for week one. And Jonathan Gannon
Speaker 3: won't name a starting head coach Jonathan Ain, Oh, it's
Speaker 3: so secretive. He won't name a starting quarterback yet. Or
Speaker 3: maybe he has in reporters simply fell asleep before he
Speaker 3: got to that part of the press conference, which is
Speaker 3: very possible.
Speaker 4: Or they just left because he's bat crap, crazy basoys.
Speaker 4: Jonathan Gannon, Now, I don't know about that. He's not
Speaker 4: doing himself any favors any time he opens his mouth.
Speaker 3: I think it's just doesn't seem very entertaining.
Speaker 4: He has a lot of fired up, a lot of
Speaker 4: weird stuff.
Speaker 3: Anyway. Kyler Murray has been put on the pup, which
Speaker 3: means newly acquired Josh Dobbs or Clayton Tune will be
Speaker 3: the starter for week one. But they just lost their
Speaker 3: center Pat Elfline for the season to an undisclosed injury.
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what part of the body undisclosed is.
Speaker 3: Where the undisclosed is. Maybe it's a new albore. I
Speaker 3: don't know where it is, but it's not safe for radio.
Speaker 3: It doesn't sound good. He's out for the season due
Speaker 3: to it. So that's not going to help things.
Speaker 1: Cardinals many have the worst offensive line of football, I mean,
Speaker 1: compounding all the other things that they might be worst
Speaker 1: at this year, Brian, the Atlanta Falcons, what are the
Speaker 1: what's the preseason storyline you want to share here?
Speaker 4: It's every week it's Bjon Robinson listed is the third
Speaker 4: running back on the on the depth chart for the Falcons.
Speaker 4: But we know he's not the third running back. He's
Speaker 4: the third running back. He being drafted in fantasy right now.
Speaker 3: So he might be one of the best third running
Speaker 3: back on the team's ever.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he might.
Speaker 1: He could be really good, you think playing behind Cordaryl Patterson.
Speaker 4: Ye, people are sleeping on how much work Tyler Aljier
Speaker 4: is going to get Bijon. We got to assume he's
Speaker 4: going to see the most touches among all Falcons running backs.
Speaker 4: But I don't think it's going.
Speaker 3: To be bell cow bell cow usage that he's people
Speaker 3: are expect to be the start.
Speaker 4: He's gonna be the starter, but will he be a
Speaker 4: bell cow only time? Hotel And Kyle Pitts looks good
Speaker 4: to go, coming off the knee injury that that ended
Speaker 4: his season prematurely last year. And I want to throw
Speaker 4: this out to all the Kyle Pitts haters, primarily you,
Speaker 4: Paul Charcion. Last year, Kyle Pitts among receivers with fifty
Speaker 4: plus targets, he was dead last and catchable target rate.
Speaker 4: Of course, Marcus Mariota was his quarterback one hundred and
Speaker 4: tenth among all players with fifty plus targets, Kyle Pitts
Speaker 4: was dead last.
Speaker 1: Casman Rider was also his quarterback last year, and I
Speaker 1: have no no he was not. Kyle Pitts was hurt
Speaker 1: when the switchovercast.
Speaker 3: So do we keep giving Brian the Kyle Pitts side
Speaker 3: And it's like doing that Atlanta Falcons aside.
Speaker 1: I know what's gonna happen when Brian heats hits the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia Eagles. If there was an interesting transaction that may
Speaker 1: have happened between them, we'll find out in a few
Speaker 1: minutes a tease. Baltimore, Ravens, Injured Ravens, Mark Andrews, Rashad Bateman,
Speaker 1: JK Dobbins all look ready for Week one, but Obj's
Speaker 1: recovery is murkier. He's still missing odds and end's practices,
Speaker 1: and I, you know.
Speaker 3: It's been eighteen months. That's interesting.
Speaker 1: I know the fact that he's still not like full
Speaker 1: go is a little bit of a worry. And I
Speaker 1: he may. I suspect OBJ plays Week one, but he
Speaker 1: may be on more of a snapcount than we would
Speaker 1: like to think. Let's go to the Buffalo Bills. Give
Speaker 1: us a preseason.
Speaker 3: Really not much. In the last week. Von Miller was
Speaker 3: placed on pup, which means it can't be back till
Speaker 3: week five, and it sounds like they're hopeful, but kind
Speaker 3: of iffy for even that.
Speaker 1: That's a big loss. Let's go to the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 4: Prime Djhark and Miles Sanders were banged up for the
Speaker 4: majority of training camp preseason, but they should be good
Speaker 4: to go week one. Again. This is a totally overhauled offense,
Speaker 4: starting with their quarterback Bryce Young, the number one overall pick.
Speaker 4: You know, Adam Thielen is a new edition DJ Shark,
Speaker 4: the aforementioned DJ Shark, Jonathan Mingo rookie wide receiver picked
Speaker 4: in the second round. Miles Sanders new started running back,
Speaker 4: so will this see and Hayden Hurst new starting tight end,
Speaker 4: so again totally overhauled offense. We'll we'll see how it
Speaker 4: goes in Carolina. But Chark and Sanders, there were some
Speaker 4: concerns with them, but they should be ready for the
Speaker 4: opener on Sunday in Chicago next Sunday.
Speaker 1: Sorry, very likely that Khalil Herbert is the starter, with
Speaker 1: Donta Foreman and Rashawn Johnson is the backups and probably
Speaker 1: role players. Here Foreman gotdinged up in the final preseason game.
Speaker 1: It should go in Week one. It's gonna be frustrating
Speaker 1: for fantasy purposes. The Bears have four runners, including Travis
Speaker 1: Homer they kept and projects to be a potentially frustrating committee.
Speaker 1: I've got almost no shares of any of these guys
Speaker 1: in my leagus. I'm worried about this committee. And I'll
Speaker 1: note that guard Tevin Jenkins, probably Chicago's best lineman, it's
Speaker 1: going to start the season on ir so he's going
Speaker 1: to miss some time Cincinnati Bengals.
Speaker 3: Sure, Bengals signed quarterback Will Greer from the Dallas Cowboys,
Speaker 3: who were actually I thought pretty classy and giving Will
Speaker 3: Greer an extra an extra paycheck, a full full preseason
Speaker 3: game to throw four touchdowns and get a job with
Speaker 3: the Bengals. Joe Burrow on track for Week one, but
Speaker 3: they say his mobility might be limited for the you know,
Speaker 3: early in the season and also a little bit of
Speaker 3: a you know, an analyst darling Chase Brown appears to
Speaker 3: have fallen to fourth on the depth chart, behind Chris
Speaker 3: Evans and Trevion Williams, so it might be a while
Speaker 3: for that one. Chris Evans is your backup, then.
Speaker 1: Chris Evans is the backup of note and you know,
Speaker 1: Joe makes a pass. I mean, you know, there's you know,
Speaker 1: there might be an angle here. We're talking about Cincinnati
Speaker 1: backup runners at some point. Brian Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 4: Really not a lot of news coming out of Cleveland
Speaker 4: all preseason. It's been about the backup running back situation.
Speaker 4: Nick Chubb the clear cut starter running back for Cleveland.
Speaker 4: Jerome Ford was the clear cut backup. He he injured
Speaker 4: his hamsterring a few weeks ago, but he's been back
Speaker 4: at practice, so he should be ready by a week one.
Speaker 4: But Cleveland did trade for Pierre Strong Junior coming over
Speaker 4: from the Patriots. He he could certainly push Jerome Ford
Speaker 4: for those backup duties. I'm still leaning forward a little bit,
Speaker 4: but now it's uh, it's murkier for if something were
Speaker 4: to happen to Nick Chubb. But Nick Chubbs still still
Speaker 4: in line to be a top He's my RB one still.
Speaker 4: Even with the addition of Pierre Strong, I think he
Speaker 4: will catch more passes than he has in the past.
Speaker 4: So but there it is. But Jerome Ford should be
Speaker 4: good to go, but he's been out on Pierre Strong.
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys cut Malik Willis speaking of running back changes,
Speaker 1: so Duce Vaughn moves into the undisputed role as Tony
Speaker 1: Pollin's backup. Reminder, Tony Palin has never been a workhorse before.
Speaker 1: Vaughan is an interesting prospect because of his unusually small stature.
Speaker 1: Also a very good receiver and could be a helper
Speaker 1: in PPR leagues. Really, the only other running back have noticed,
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones is on roster, but he's bad.
Speaker 4: Well, it's Rico Doubtel.
Speaker 1: Before he's no good here. Also, you already know this,
Speaker 1: Trey Lance traded to Dallas and will be the backup
Speaker 1: for Dak Prescott. Let's go to the Denver Broncos. Give
Speaker 1: me a preseason storyline here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, So the Broncos, after their their cuts and of
Speaker 3: trade of Albert Equibanam to the Eagles, only have three
Speaker 3: healthy wide receivers on their active roster Cortland Sutton, rookie
Speaker 3: Marvin Mims, and second year undrafted free agent Brandon Williams.
Speaker 3: They're going to start the season with three healthy wide receivers.
Speaker 3: For Week one, you may see a decent amount of
Speaker 3: workout of Adam Trupman and Greg Delsich, who Sean Payton
Speaker 3: compared to a joker rule like Taysom Hill, Reggie Bush
Speaker 3: and Alvin kamaras he wants to get the ball to
Speaker 3: him in many ways. We'll see if that pends up.
Speaker 3: Almost never pans out, or it'll be Taysom hillish where
Speaker 3: it'll be, you know, one good week and then nothing.
Speaker 1: It could be Jerry Judy not being on ir A
Speaker 1: was a big deal in this yes week, and it
Speaker 1: looks like he could be ready as early as maybe
Speaker 1: like we two Week three, so we're optimistic about that.
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions, Brian.
Speaker 4: Really not a new lot of news coming out of
Speaker 4: Detroit all preseason. I'm on ras Saint Brown had an
Speaker 4: ankle issue a couple of weeks ago. He should be
Speaker 4: good to go in week one. It's really we talked
Speaker 4: about this last week. No other wide receiver is being
Speaker 4: drafted for Detroit who isn't suspended for the first six games.
Speaker 4: That's James and Williams, of course, But I think Josh
Speaker 4: Reynolds deserves some attention as a late round dart throw
Speaker 4: for an offense that's going to be one of the
Speaker 4: most prolific offenses through the air supposedly, So Josh Reynolds
Speaker 4: keeping an eye on him going in the later rounds
Speaker 4: of your draft.
Speaker 1: In Green Bay, Romeo Dobbs' hamstring injury has a very
Speaker 1: real chance of keeping him out of the opener against Chicago,
Speaker 1: which just too bad. He looked great in the preseason
Speaker 1: prior to the injury and connection if he doesn't go,
Speaker 1: that really opens the door for second round rookie Jayden
Speaker 1: Reid to stake acclaim to the job. And you know
Speaker 1: that Chicago secondary looks to be bad. It was bad
Speaker 1: last year, it looks like it's gonna be bad this year.
Speaker 1: Read you know, Reid might have an opportunity here. And really,
Speaker 1: totality of the preseason for Jordan Love, I would like
Speaker 1: to say, we really learned a lot about Jordan Love.
Speaker 1: We have a better sense, but I think it reinforced
Speaker 1: all of our existing beliefs on Jordan Love, which is
Speaker 1: pretty good. Mobility, big arm, accuracy problems, decision making question
Speaker 1: marks on Jordan Love. I didn't see anything in the
Speaker 1: preseason with Jordan Love that changed my opinion on what
Speaker 1: we thought we knew.
Speaker 3: Being down weapons is not going to.
Speaker 1: Help Houston Texans.
Speaker 3: C J. Stroud has named the starter finally, and they
Speaker 3: also put Juice Scruggs, the center they traded up for
Speaker 3: in the second round of the NFL Draft on ir
Speaker 3: So had already not great offensive line taken a hit.
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts, Brian.
Speaker 4: Have you heard about Jonathan Taylor or what was happening
Speaker 4: Jonathan Taylor?
Speaker 1: Tell me more?
Speaker 4: What did something happen Jonathan Taylor? They failed to trade
Speaker 4: him or Jonathan Taylor failed to trade himself. Still kind
Speaker 4: of a gray area there, but he will or at
Speaker 4: the season on the pup list. Is he actually hurt,
Speaker 4: There's a chance, but it's really about payment here. But
Speaker 4: so that leaves Evan Hole, who we all love on
Speaker 4: this show. Deon Jackson or Zach Moss could return from
Speaker 4: his broken forearm injury sooner than expected. I think we're
Speaker 4: all on team Hole. Deon Jackson is still going like
Speaker 4: two rounds ahead of Hole that I've seen. I think
Speaker 4: Hole is still the guy you want to target. His
Speaker 4: past kept catching upside, very intriguing. But yeah, Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 4: a brutal blow to people who've been drafting him, even
Speaker 4: in the third round. He will miss the first four
Speaker 4: games regardless.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing him go in the sixth round a job.
Speaker 1: It's it's a disaster, but maybe too much. So remember,
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor can't just like hold out at the end
Speaker 1: of this because his contract will toll if he doesn't play,
Speaker 1: and then you have to replay this year this year's contract,
Speaker 1: so we won't do that, and presumably healthy by the
Speaker 1: end of four more weeks, so you know, you know,
Speaker 1: if he's going after more in the sixth round, I'm
Speaker 1: sitting in Jonathan town. Yeah, all right, let's go to
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville Jaguars. Calvin Ridley looked great all training camp
Speaker 1: and gave him extensive action, including in the last preseason game.
Speaker 1: He looked good. Tank Bigsby, I should it pains me
Speaker 1: to note it, but I need to say it. Goal
Speaker 1: line fumble last week, but otherwise a really strong preseason,
Speaker 1: averaging almost six yards per carry for Tank.
Speaker 3: Biggs led the NFL in an explosive run rate in
Speaker 3: the preseason.
Speaker 1: Oh, I love that runs. I think Big Sby that
Speaker 1: is our guy, right there? No, not that one. Wait,
Speaker 1: there we go. There's our tank, Big Sby. Give me
Speaker 1: some tank when we come back. We'll continue working through
Speaker 1: all thirty two teams as you get ready for your drafts.
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Our final
Speaker 1: draft edition. It next next week. It's all matchups.
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Speaker 4: We love it.
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Speaker 3: Well, I'm not going to No, you could do that.
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Speaker 1: beginning with Kansas City.
Speaker 3: Chiefs fantasy analysts. Darlene's wide receivers Rushie Rice and Justin
Speaker 3: Ross will start the season as limited time players, snap
Speaker 3: package players, not the full time we had hoped for.
Speaker 3: We'll see how Ctarious Tony's injury comes along for how
Speaker 3: many snaps they'll get. So yeah, let's should damper your
Speaker 3: hopes on them a little bit. But they're just really talented.
Speaker 3: So it kind of guy you want at the end
Speaker 3: of your roster. They also cut de Nerk Prince, who
Speaker 3: started off hot but then trailed off the end of
Speaker 3: the preseason. Once Pachecko got fully healthy, they just kept Pacheco,
Speaker 3: McKinnon and ce H Clyde Edwards E. Lair on roster.
Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards Law is getting drafted in almost all my leagues.
Speaker 3: Really, I'm like, he's not mine.
Speaker 1: None of my rosters said this was That's one of
Speaker 1: my personal biggest.
Speaker 3: Was in our league. He didn't, that's for sure.
Speaker 1: Las Vegas, by the way, speaking to Chiefs will break
Speaker 1: down the Thursday night game in a little bit, Las
Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders Ryan.
Speaker 4: Unlike the Jonathan Taylor situation in Indie, we've finally resolved
Speaker 4: the Josh Jacobs situation situation in Vegas. He officially inked
Speaker 4: a one year deal. So last year's RB three will
Speaker 4: be in action week one. He is he had slipped
Speaker 4: into the mid to late third round. I've seen him
Speaker 4: going more like late second now. But if he returns
Speaker 4: the forum from last year in absolute steel in the
Speaker 4: late second round, right now.
Speaker 3: I have a Raiders question. There have been images of
Speaker 3: Jimmy Garoppolo with a dark visor as a quarterback. If
Speaker 3: he does play with that, does he move up or
Speaker 3: down to the ranks?
Speaker 1: Charge?
Speaker 3: Because I know that's kind of cool.
Speaker 1: I kind of like it, Yeah, I kind of like it.
Speaker 4: There has been much talk about Jimmy g in preseason, though,
Speaker 4: which is a sort of alarming. Well, we said Aid
Speaker 4: and O'Connell.
Speaker 1: Connell's got a lot more buzz than he does.
Speaker 4: Keep an eye on him. He could take.
Speaker 3: But does he wear a dark visor? That's all I
Speaker 3: need to know.
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Charters Chargers dicker kicker won the kicking job
Speaker 1: as expected. He was there. He kicked for them at
Speaker 1: last year in parts of the season as well. Quentin
Speaker 1: Johnson looked good. But we should note that boring old
Speaker 1: Josh Palmer got far more first team reps in the.
Speaker 3: Pre Reporters really think he's the number three.
Speaker 1: Quinton Johnson did. So you know, if you're drafting Johnson,
Speaker 1: just know that this might be a bit of a
Speaker 1: slog before he gets on the field. And who knows.
Speaker 1: When you know Josh Palmer was he was, he was
Speaker 1: a We talked about him a lot at this time
Speaker 1: last year as somebody that we thought was going to
Speaker 1: be a nice like last pick of your draft. And
Speaker 1: he ended up like a sixty catch eight hundred yard season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, he's not a bad player. Next up the
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams, where we have to talk about Cooper Cup.
Speaker 1: Of course we.
Speaker 3: Do, we do. He had a slight set back this
Speaker 3: week with his handstring. We don't we actually don't. We
Speaker 3: know nothing. We know he had a setback and that's
Speaker 3: all it is. And he's day to day, which you
Speaker 3: never know how that's going to be with a hamstring injury,
Speaker 3: because those things tend to linger reinjure if they don't keep,
Speaker 3: they don't they're not easy on it. He's day to day.
Speaker 3: I think that risk pushes him back to round two,
Speaker 3: round three in many drafts. We don't, we don't know anything.
Speaker 3: We don't know if he'll be ready for Week one.
Speaker 3: I would guess.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 1: I believe I dropped him down to like wide receiver fifteen,
Speaker 1: which is going to put him like third round, fourth round,
Speaker 1: and face we know right now, usually if you re
Speaker 1: injure the hamstring, it's a do over. You know, the
Speaker 1: clock goes back almost to reset, and so it's you know,
Speaker 1: this is this is patained, potentially very dangerous for Cooper Cup.
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins Brian.
Speaker 4: More bad news when it comes to a fantasy football
Speaker 4: and unexpected development in the Dolphins backfield. On Thursday, when
Speaker 4: Jeff Wilson Junior was put on IR, he was he
Speaker 4: had missed most of camp with an undisclosed injuries. But
Speaker 4: no one really you know, read too much into that.
Speaker 4: But the beat writers in Miami let us all down
Speaker 4: big time because he's going to miss at least the
Speaker 4: first four games for Miami Miami, which makes Raheem Moster
Speaker 4: the queer cut starter. Yeah, for the Dolphins, Devin, it's
Speaker 4: a change. We'll back him up, and so we'll Salvin Achmed.
Speaker 4: So Raheem most are at the starter. But a Chane
Speaker 4: and Achmed, well, we'll see some touches out of that
Speaker 4: Miami backfield. But first four games, no go for Jeff Wilson.
Speaker 4: His agent, Drew Rosenhouse did say he does expect him
Speaker 4: to return shortly after the four games stint on IRS.
Speaker 4: Hopefully that's the case.
Speaker 3: That's where I just let everybody else draft the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: I don't have any Dolphine maas same vikings. Jordan Addison
Speaker 1: looked great all training camp in the limited preseason action
Speaker 1: and his offensive coordinator. This week, Wes Phillips described him
Speaker 1: as a Justin Jefferson clone, and you might be thinking, well,
Speaker 1: you know, it's his own coach, but coaches are very
Speaker 1: very careful about giving that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they know what Jefferson looks like in practice.
Speaker 1: So that's that says a lot ty Chandler won the
Speaker 1: backup running back job as predicted on this show, and
Speaker 1: he's uncontested there. Miles Gaskin was added for depth, and
Speaker 1: the Vikings re up t J. Hockinson to the biggest
Speaker 1: deal in tight end history, further cementing his role in
Speaker 1: the Vikings offense. Next up, New England Patriots.
Speaker 3: Not a whole lot here, Bailey Zappi was waived and
Speaker 3: then on practice squad after a pretty terrible preseason. They
Speaker 3: added Matt Coral and Jalen Rager, which from the Vikings
Speaker 3: it's not a whole lot there.
Speaker 1: Now kants New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 4: I've got more bad news. Kendre Miller. Rookie running back
Speaker 4: Kendre Miller injured his hamstring on Thursday, So his status
Speaker 4: for Week one is if he we all know, Alvin
Speaker 4: Kamara will missed the first four games. He's suspended, So
Speaker 4: Jamal Williams stocks surging, especially in guillotine leagues, but really
Speaker 4: all leagues when you want to get off to a
Speaker 4: hot start.
Speaker 1: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't even know who else is on the depth
Speaker 4: chart behind Miller in Kamara, so Jamal Williams in line
Speaker 4: for a Bell cow role. And lastly, I got to
Speaker 4: mention quickly if you watched the last preseason game for
Speaker 4: the Saints, Jimmy Graham looked pretty good. Is he gonna
Speaker 4: be a thing man I can't like in the red zone?
Speaker 4: I mean, he's hot, He's just gonna be used in
Speaker 4: the red zone. But he scored and it was vintage
Speaker 4: Jimmy Graham.
Speaker 1: He's still probably six foot six and get two.
Speaker 3: Can they get him on field for seven plays a game?
Speaker 3: He scores a touchdown or two maybe in that amount
Speaker 3: of snaps.
Speaker 4: It was like a textbook box out on the touchdown.
Speaker 4: I think he might have played basketball in the past.
Speaker 1: I don't know something.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Maybe in for the Giants, Cole Beasley and Jameson Crowder
Speaker 1: got cut, which means the Giants are down to three
Speaker 1: slot receivers.
Speaker 3: Oh man, that yeah.
Speaker 1: Just Paris Campbell was the starter along with Wendale Robinson
Speaker 1: and Sterling Shepherd. The handcuff to Saquon Barkley. I should
Speaker 1: mention Matt Brita going undrafted in most leagues, so if
Speaker 1: you want to get that handcuff, there's your guy. Next up,
Speaker 1: New York Jets.
Speaker 3: Dalvin Cook is now practicing there, so that's that's good.
Speaker 3: And Robert Sela says, uh, they're going to be smart
Speaker 3: with Breest Hall's usage, which says to me they view
Speaker 3: that the Jets are a playoff team, possible contenders, and
Speaker 3: they're going to run a little bit of a committee
Speaker 3: there to keep everyone healthy. I'm not I'm not sure
Speaker 3: how much I'm loving that. There's also a little bit
Speaker 3: of talk about Tyler Conklin has been Rogers number two
Speaker 3: and and might be the number two for the season
Speaker 3: behind Wilson, which I don't. We'll see how much Rogers
Speaker 3: buddies on the team are going to play into that layer.
Speaker 1: All right. Next up, Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 4: No, we're not going to talk about Dan Arnold.
Speaker 1: Why not? We spent a lot of time on Dan
Speaker 1: Arnold last week?
Speaker 4: All right, Well, the Dolphins or the Dolphins. I'm sorry
Speaker 4: that the Eagles made a huge mistake, because when Arnold
Speaker 4: gets targets in twenty twenty one, we are Arnold. I'm
Speaker 4: not done twenty twenty one with the Jaguars. Before he
Speaker 4: got injured, he was one of five tight ends to
Speaker 4: have three straight games with sixty receiving yards, with Travis Kelsey,
Speaker 4: Mark Andrews, George Kittle, Kyle Pitts.
Speaker 3: Can we just change this to Dantasy Football Weekly?
Speaker 1: Amazing?
Speaker 4: He will have his time.
Speaker 1: His time will come picked him up when he got cut.
Speaker 4: He's still out there.
Speaker 3: But don't worry.
Speaker 4: Hey, if we want to go over missus, we can
Speaker 4: do that. I never said like draft Dan Arnold in
Speaker 4: the first round or anything.
Speaker 5: He was like not yet.
Speaker 4: For now, Dan will be fine. I can own up
Speaker 4: to it. I'll go back to the Saints real quick.
Speaker 4: Kirk Merritt might be the backup running back. Yeah, I've
Speaker 4: never heard of career, but he's he's a real person.
Speaker 4: But who are we talking about? The Eagles. Yeah, we'll
Speaker 4: stick with the running back topic. Rashod Penny has made
Speaker 4: the team. Things were looking a little dicey for Penny
Speaker 4: in the preseason, but another backfield that is super murky
Speaker 4: in Philly with Kenneth Gainwell, who is still the supposed starter,
Speaker 4: DeAndre Swift, Rashad Penny. We'll just have to see how
Speaker 4: that that plays out. But really another one to you
Speaker 4: really want to avoid him.
Speaker 1: I'm just I'm willing to be wrong on the Eagles
Speaker 1: backs because I don't I don't want to play that game.
Speaker 1: Steelers first team offense had five preseason drives and five
Speaker 1: preseason too. Yeah, and Aleck, you know, you know it's
Speaker 1: only preseason. We're not trying to read too much into this,
Speaker 1: but Steelers offensive line looks much improved. Can He Pikett
Speaker 1: looks much improved. All the Steelers players available at a
Speaker 1: pretty healthy discount coming off of last year's down season,
Speaker 1: So you know, there might be it might be a
Speaker 1: buyer's market for the Steelers who have looked good this preseason.
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty.
Speaker 3: Nine ers Scott Elijah Mitchell returned to practice after the
Speaker 3: a doctor strain. The same week, the foy nine ers
Speaker 3: state they want to they want to have Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 3: get a little less work this year.
Speaker 1: So does that comment change your feelings on Christian McCaffrey
Speaker 1: right now? Going off the board as pick two, pick
Speaker 1: three in fantasy.
Speaker 3: He's still so I think they want to use Christian
Speaker 3: McCaffrey efficiently, and he's such an efficient player anyway through
Speaker 3: the passage.
Speaker 1: So do you like him more because they say they're
Speaker 1: going to try to keep him on the field lest
Speaker 1: you always hate that he's going to be Therefore, you
Speaker 1: always hate the takeaway a volume and you worry that
Speaker 1: part of that is goal line stuff where he has
Speaker 1: a great nose for the end zone. But maybe they
Speaker 1: want to take away those hits. So I know I
Speaker 1: don't like him more, but I certainly still have him
Speaker 1: ranked around the same. They also, and I you know,
Speaker 1: they obviously traded Trey Lance to the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: We've talked about that a little. But they released Chris
Speaker 3: Conley this week. No, I know, Yes, I had.
Speaker 1: Not our twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: I had to bring it up our twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Take a chance on me, superstars, superstar.
Speaker 3: Yes, he's not on a team now. He's somewhere with
Speaker 3: Dan Arnold hanging out Seattle Seahawks Brian.
Speaker 4: Rookie, wide receiver Jackson Smith and Jigba back at practice
Speaker 4: after undergoing rist surgery a couple of weeks ago. We
Speaker 4: were speculating he was gonna miss multiple weeks, but it
Speaker 4: looks like he might be ready for week one. And
Speaker 4: this is really more for the Dynasty players out there
Speaker 4: a deep stash. But if something were to happen to
Speaker 4: any of these starting receivers for Seattle, especially DK Metcalf,
Speaker 4: Jake Bobo, underrafted wide receiver out of UCLA getting rave
Speaker 4: reviews out of camp, made the team's six four, two
Speaker 4: hundred and ten pounds. Jake Bobo, We're big Bobo Bobo's
Speaker 4: now I'm a big Bobo Bobo.
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, the talk of training camp. Running back Sean
Speaker 1: Tucker easily made the cut and most people believe he's
Speaker 1: the immediate backup to Rashad White, and maybe this is
Speaker 1: closer to a fifty to fifty time share than people think.
Speaker 1: The Bucks are very high. Also on sixth round, wide
Speaker 1: out Trey Palmer Worth with Russell Gage out for the year.
Speaker 1: Palmer's rejected to get starting reps as early as week one.
Speaker 1: He's a former track star who ran a four to
Speaker 1: three three combine. He mostly ran in the slot in Nebraska.
Speaker 1: But the problem is Chris Godwin's in the slot, so
Speaker 1: the Bucks are trying to push him outside and maybe
Speaker 1: he can be an outside receiver opposite Mike Evans. Like
Speaker 1: most track stars turned football players, Palmer's kind of a
Speaker 1: one trick guy. Run fast, run straight. But maybe over
Speaker 1: time he develops into you know, develops some a a
Speaker 1: better repertoire of moves. So we'll see. We'll keep tracking
Speaker 1: Trey Palmer. Trey Palmer, Tennessee Titans.
Speaker 3: Let's let's stick with the trays and go with Trey.
Speaker 3: Lawn Burks back at practice and we already saw a
Speaker 3: great one handed catch landing on the leg that had
Speaker 3: the LCL sprain. He's also cutting. He's got the sleeve
Speaker 3: off now too. Looks like he's going to be good
Speaker 3: to go for week one.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's good news. We're excited for that. I continue
Speaker 1: to worry that Tennessee's just doesn't get fantasy points out
Speaker 1: of their second receiver.
Speaker 3: We'll see if that possible.
Speaker 1: Lastly, Washington Commanders.
Speaker 4: Wide receiver Terry McLaurin still uncertain for Week one with
Speaker 4: his turf toe injury. We all love Johan Dotson, of course,
Speaker 4: but if McLaurin were to miss a game or two,
Speaker 4: that bumps up Curtis Samuel and Diami Brown and Logan Thomas,
Speaker 4: who I had as a deep deep sleeper making progress
Speaker 4: with his calf injury. They've been cautious with him. But
Speaker 4: if you were to miss Week one, Cole Turner against
Speaker 4: the Cardinals for you daily players, bare minimum, ye, amazing matchup.
Speaker 1: Just Sam Howell.
Speaker 4: If you're into daily well that too. He's gonna be
Speaker 4: kind of.
Speaker 1: Chalky though you think he's gonna be too jockey.
Speaker 4: Everyone's gonna use the Cardinals in their eliminator, in their
Speaker 4: survivor pool too as well. I'm sorry that the Commanders
Speaker 4: against the Cardinals at home.
Speaker 1: This is Jame in Washington right here. Yeah, no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. When do we come back, We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: through your draft day persona. What's your mindset going into
Speaker 1: your draft? You go high risk, you going low risk,
Speaker 1: you're going rookies.
Speaker 4: What are you doing?
Speaker 1: We'll talk through what your roster construction looks like when
Speaker 1: you do that. Also, consider taking a shadow league of
Speaker 1: your regular league as a guillotine league. Take a lot
Speaker 1: save players play in a private guillotine league. Guillotine leagues
Speaker 1: dot com. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. It is draft season,
Speaker 1: last week of your chance to draft. Yes, yeah, coming
Speaker 1: up in a little bit. We're gonna talk about drafting
Speaker 1: it this time of year versus drafting a month ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll talk more about that later.
Speaker 4: Well, it is the last week in like standard leagues,
Speaker 4: but don't forget league ard. Anytime there is drafts week two,
Speaker 4: week three, you can always spin up a new yueteen
Speaker 4: league and they will be available at least through week
Speaker 4: nine ten.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, So you go into your draft with sort of
Speaker 1: a theme, a preset, a mindset like I want to
Speaker 1: be I want to choose safe players, I want to
Speaker 1: choose risky players.
Speaker 3: Whatever.
Speaker 1: I asked each of you to come up with a
Speaker 1: mind set to have. And then how does that draft
Speaker 1: look every round? You know, if you go into the
Speaker 1: particular mindset, what does that roster construction look like? In
Speaker 1: you listeners, you can listen to the totality of it
Speaker 1: and go, yeah, I like that or I don't like that,
Speaker 1: And that gives you a sense of which mindset you
Speaker 1: should walk into your draft with. I'm gonna start with
Speaker 1: a do the opposite draft. This should show nobody.
Speaker 3: This sounds fresh and new.
Speaker 1: This is fresh and new. Everybody. Everybody's doing it now,
Speaker 1: all the kids are doing Do the Opposite now, So
Speaker 1: if you haven't heard this show in twenty years, Do
Speaker 1: the Opposite is where you chue running backs until the
Speaker 1: mid rounds because running back to the most vallible position,
Speaker 1: and you don't want to put your highest draft capital
Speaker 1: into the most dangerous position, So we load up on
Speaker 1: other positions and then we hit then we hit running
Speaker 1: backs in the mid rounds. Here's what my draft looks
Speaker 1: like through eight rounds of Do the Opposite. Round one
Speaker 1: and I kind of would like right down the middle
Speaker 1: roughly of each of these rounds. Round one, Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 1: safe player, very good player. Round two Garrett Wilson. Obviously
Speaker 1: I'm not taking running backs. I love Garrett Wilson. I
Speaker 1: can get him in the middle of round two, coming
Speaker 1: off one of the best rookie receiver seasons ever.
Speaker 3: Earlier in the year, he was my guy outside the
Speaker 3: top twelve wide receivers. I thought could be wide receiver
Speaker 3: one this year. Now he's like wide receiver four.
Speaker 1: So you would say that exactly. I think. I think
Speaker 1: I've got him at six on my cheat sheet. Now
Speaker 1: it's round three, I've got two receivers. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson here for the freaky upside. Right then, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go round four. I'm still not going running back yet.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go Calvin Ridley. I've already got two receivers,
Speaker 1: so I'm filling a flex spot here with Calvin Ridley
Speaker 1: in around a lot. Now, why not take a chance
Speaker 1: to Ridley's got the super high upside. Maybe some downside
Speaker 1: to him. Sure, but I've already got two good receivers.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 1: Now it's round five. I gotta square my square away
Speaker 1: my tight end. You know how I feel about this.
Speaker 1: You gotta have You gotta have one of the six
Speaker 1: good tight ends in my world. Darren Waller, Oh, I
Speaker 1: love the upside.
Speaker 3: How are you passed on Damian Pierce over Ridley last?
Speaker 5: Well?
Speaker 1: Yeah, well I can't do that and do the opposite draft.
Speaker 1: So now now it's round six, and now I'm looking
Speaker 1: at running backs.
Speaker 5: A K.
Speaker 1: Dobbo. Yes, I get a starting running back on it,
Speaker 1: which should be a more balanced offense.
Speaker 5: Yeah.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk more about JK. Dobbins later.
Speaker 3: We will.
Speaker 1: I want you to round seven, Denver running back Javonte Williams. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: I'll play for the bounce back here and then round eight,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go running back again. I'll take aj Dillon.
Speaker 1: I'll get my call, I'll get the gold mine guy.
Speaker 1: I don't love Dylan, but it's round eight. I got
Speaker 1: a starting, I got a starter. He's a flex guy.
Speaker 1: Actually I don't know how to start them. He kind
Speaker 1: of just flex AJ Dillon. So there's my eight round.
Speaker 1: Do the opposite draft, Tyler Kill, Garrett Wilson, Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley, Darren Waller, JK. Dobbins, Javontay Williams, aj Dillon.
Speaker 1: I love this team. I'm ready to go to war.
Speaker 3: It's all right.
Speaker 4: It's good.
Speaker 3: I like it. I like it.
Speaker 1: If you do too, consider it. Do the opposite draft.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Brian with your draft strategy or your
Speaker 1: draft mindset.
Speaker 4: Called dto to do the opposite of the opposite.
Speaker 1: Do the opposite of do the opposite.
Speaker 4: And this is a retro draft. This is what people
Speaker 4: used to do. This is taking three running backs with
Speaker 4: your first three three picks. This is now like this
Speaker 4: is how it used to go fifteen twenty years ago.
Speaker 4: People would do this cause there would be.
Speaker 3: Like Sean Alexander twenty.
Speaker 4: Five running backs that dominated the backfield.
Speaker 1: Yeah, back when there were were course backs.
Speaker 4: Now there aren't many. So if you can actually successfully
Speaker 4: execute this, it will require some luck not getting any
Speaker 4: you know, injury bugs biting your backs. You have a
Speaker 4: major edge on most of your league. So we'll go
Speaker 4: through this round by round, and I got like a
Speaker 4: couple of candidates, so you can take in each round.
Speaker 4: Starting in round one, you should be able to and
Speaker 4: land Austin Eckler, Nick Chubb, or Bjon Robinson. I like
Speaker 4: Chubb and Eckler way more than Bijon because we still
Speaker 4: don't know if he's gonna get that bell cow usage.
Speaker 3: But running back, so yeah, he's the preseason so you
Speaker 3: so we'll go Echlo Chubb in round one.
Speaker 4: In round two, you can land either Saquon Barkley, Tony
Speaker 4: Pollard or Derrick Henry, who sadly is in the twilight
Speaker 4: of his career. I prefer Barkley of these three. He's
Speaker 4: in a contract year. Again, you can expect bell cow
Speaker 4: usage from Barkley in a very high scoring offense or
Speaker 4: offenses that's projected to be high scoring. So there's your
Speaker 4: first two picks. We'll just call it say Eckler and
Speaker 4: Barkley or Chubb and Barkley. And round three you're looking
Speaker 4: at Josh Jacobs, hopefully who again has signed a one
Speaker 4: year deal expected to get a ton of usage. Joe
Speaker 4: Mixon is kind of the last bell Cow candidate here,
Speaker 4: but I'm gonna keep Andre Stevenson in the mix. I
Speaker 4: know Ezekiel Elliott has signed with the Patriots, but their
Speaker 4: career paths are on totally different.
Speaker 1: Back like different arcs.
Speaker 4: Stevenson is surging, Zeke is on the way down. I
Speaker 4: don't think Zeke's gonna steal too much work from Ramandre,
Speaker 4: but I prefer Jacobs out of those three. So you
Speaker 4: got your three running backs there. Now you got to
Speaker 4: get your your wide receivers, your quarterback, and your tight end.
Speaker 4: So in round four, I'll go for my first wide receiver.
Speaker 4: Whether it's DJ Moore, Amari Cooper, or Christian Watson. Those
Speaker 4: are all the number one receiving options for their teams.
Speaker 4: I'd be happy to go with go to war with
Speaker 4: any of them as my wide receiver. One with those
Speaker 4: three running backs have drafted in the first three rounds,
Speaker 4: then in rounds five and six, you want to get
Speaker 4: your first quarterback end or your first tight end. In
Speaker 4: round five, you can go between either Joe Burrow or
Speaker 4: Darren Waller. I prefer to take Waller here because then
Speaker 4: in round six I can get Trevor Lawrence. That's my
Speaker 4: quarterback one. But if you went Burrow in round five,
Speaker 4: you can get TJ. Hockinson in round six. You can't
Speaker 4: be too upset with having t J. Hawkinson as your
Speaker 4: tight end one. Lastly, the last two rounds will need
Speaker 4: your wide receiver two and your wide receiver three. In
Speaker 4: round seven you're looking at Chris Godwin, Zay Flowers, Jordan Addam,
Speaker 4: all nice options in PPR, and then round eight Jackson
Speaker 4: Smith and Jigua. But I'd rather lean Michael Pittman's available
Speaker 4: there or Courtland Sutton were both the wide receiver ones,
Speaker 4: clear cut wide receiver ones for their team.
Speaker 1: Sol Sutton is for now, I mean for now, when
Speaker 1: Judy's back, he's the he's the ghost.
Speaker 4: I don't trust Judy at all, but hopefully I'm wrong there.
Speaker 1: I kind of do too. He's ad a heavy discount
Speaker 1: right now, all right, So there's your do the opposite
Speaker 1: of do the opposite. So running back, I don't give
Speaker 1: me one player from each round.
Speaker 4: You if you do the opposite of the opposite, you
Speaker 4: can get Austin Eckler, Saquon Barkley, Josh Jacobs, DJ Moore,
Speaker 4: Darren Waller, Trevor Lawrence, Chris Godwin, Michael Pittman. I like
Speaker 4: that team as long as my running back stay healthy.
Speaker 1: Scott, you took a what approach, a rookie heavy approach.
Speaker 3: Weird that I got this one, Yeah, strange like yeah,
Speaker 3: Thor being in here would probably get this one too.
Speaker 3: So all right, so and give me one player round. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 3: that's what I'm gonna do. I'm I'm just gonna go
Speaker 3: down the list and then I'm gonna give you what
Speaker 3: my roster looks like at the end.
Speaker 1: Okay, perfect.
Speaker 3: I started. First round, I went with John Robinson. If
Speaker 3: I'm going rookie heavy, it's probably got to be Jean Robbins.
Speaker 1: That's got to be the pick.
Speaker 3: The second round, not real, not a whole really, no
Speaker 3: rookies there. So I went Garrett Wilson, who I've been
Speaker 3: drafting everywhere.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Third round, my big options were Jamiir Gibbs or a
Speaker 3: wide receiver. Jamiir Gibbs being the rookie, and then the
Speaker 3: wide receivers are like DK Metcalf, you know, T Higgins types.
Speaker 1: So the rookie.
Speaker 3: I went with the rookie to stay rookie heavy, Bje.
Speaker 3: How do you feel about Gibbs. I'm nervous about the touchdown.
Speaker 3: I feel like he's I feel like he's a special player.
Speaker 3: I just don't know where his touches will be, and
Speaker 3: I don't know where he'll get if he gets goal
Speaker 3: line work. But I love that offense. I love what
Speaker 3: Ben Johnson's doing over there. So Jamiir Gibbs. Next round.
Speaker 3: I reached around a little bit for Jamian Pierce. I
Speaker 3: need to get me some Damian Pierce here. And now
Speaker 3: I've got three running backs in the first four rounds,
Speaker 3: which I don't love, but I did so knowing where
Speaker 3: the rookie wide receivers go in these drafts, and I
Speaker 3: already have my wide receiver one in Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 4: And Peters is like almost half a rookie because he
Speaker 4: missed half of his rookie season.
Speaker 3: Okay, you missed a couple of yeah yeah, Next round,
Speaker 3: like you charge, I gotta give me some Darren Waller
Speaker 3: in that fifth I said this last week. And if
Speaker 3: I'm in the fifth round and Darren Waller and Waller
Speaker 3: is there, it's an auto pick for me. So Darren Waller,
Speaker 3: then here's where I go wide receivers, and I see
Speaker 3: these rookies and whatnot, these young players I love. In
Speaker 3: the next three rounds, I knocked down Jordan Edison, Jackson
Speaker 3: Smith and Jigba and Johan Dotson. All those are my
Speaker 3: next three rounds. I got those three going with Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 3: I'm fine with that receiving corps. You've thrown out Wilson
Speaker 3: and Dotson and Addison and and Jigba for the first
Speaker 3: for your four wide receivers. I'm good. Uh. Then I
Speaker 3: go back to back of Kirk Cousins and Anthony Richardson.
Speaker 3: I take the super high upside rookie that can get
Speaker 3: tons of and then I take and I also take
Speaker 3: the safe other guy to make sure that I have
Speaker 3: a good I haven't after that tank bigsby Nico Collins,
Speaker 3: Roshan Johnson. I went thirteen rounds on you, okay, but
Speaker 3: I did draft six or seven rookies. So here's what
Speaker 3: I got in my rookie heavy at quarterback Ready Richardson
Speaker 3: and Cousins.
Speaker 1: You like that, Yeah, yeah, absolutely like you backed him
Speaker 1: up with Cousins.
Speaker 3: Yes, running back Bijon Robinson, Jamier Gibbs, Damian Pierce, Tank
Speaker 3: Bigsby Roshan Johnson. I'm happy with those, Yeah, I got.
Speaker 3: I got Bijon and pierces my starters, and some upside
Speaker 3: wide receiver. I got Garrett Wilson, Jordan Addison, JSN Jaxons
Speaker 3: Smith and Jigba, Johan Dotson and Nico Collins all could
Speaker 3: be wide receiver ones or twos on their teams. And
Speaker 3: then Darren Waller at tight end and wha.
Speaker 1: Waller's really the only old guy on this roster.
Speaker 3: He is, but when you're talking about the top six
Speaker 3: tight ends, my only other optionist pits and he didn't
Speaker 3: land right for my draft.
Speaker 4: You could make the argument that Garrett Wilson is a
Speaker 4: rookie in the sense that this is his first year
Speaker 4: to playing with a competent quarterback. Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: The same thing for Johan Dotson.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 3: So now that we all agree, I clearly have the
Speaker 3: best team. No, I think, well, you've got more players.
Speaker 3: So I got thirteen. I got thirteen picks, eight over here.
Speaker 1: All right, the last draft persona is the safe draft.
Speaker 1: If you just want proven guys that don't have all
Speaker 1: the sizzle. As you know, so many people walk into
Speaker 1: the draft going I want to be the smartest guy here.
Speaker 1: I'm taking the guy nobody's heard of or the guy
Speaker 1: that hasn't proved yet, and when it turns out that
Speaker 1: he's great, I'm gonna look brilliant. What if you want
Speaker 1: to flip that over proven players who don't get injured,
Speaker 1: generally play on high scoring offenses.
Speaker 3: Can I make a statement here? My son before this
Speaker 3: year was completely out of the you know, analyst echo
Speaker 3: chamber and listening to all this stuff, and he simply
Speaker 3: grabbed safe players that score points. He's never finished worse
Speaker 3: than second in the league.
Speaker 1: There's a lot to that, a lot to that.
Speaker 3: I just want safe players to score points.
Speaker 1: This is the opposite of what you just did. Basically,
Speaker 1: you took all upside young players exactly. So round one
Speaker 1: we're gonna go Travis Kelce available usually right round four
Speaker 1: or pick four, So of round one, round two we're
Speaker 1: gonna go Jalen Hurts proven everything that we needed needed
Speaker 1: him to prove. We loved him going into this at
Speaker 1: this time last year, and he paid off on that
Speaker 1: and he's got even more upside this year. Round three
Speaker 1: Seattle wide receiver DK Metcalf. Proven guy. You know what
Speaker 1: you're gonna get, and it's, you know, obviously very productive.
Speaker 1: Round four the old man Keenan Alley. Yep, it's look it.
Speaker 1: All he does is be productive. Yes, he misses a
Speaker 1: few games a year and I almost threw him out
Speaker 1: because of that, but you know, super productive guy. Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame career for Keenan Allen. Round five Damian Pierce.
Speaker 1: I think he's proven. All he needs to prove.
Speaker 3: Yep. Sure.
Speaker 1: Round six Alexander Madison. Now he's proven in that he
Speaker 1: belongs in the NFL. He's now starting at a proven
Speaker 1: offense and at the goal line they're probably gonna give
Speaker 1: him the ball. So yeah, sure, Alexander Madison is my
Speaker 1: sort of boring, safe draft running back. Then round seven,
Speaker 1: another running back. You'll notice that you also worked in
Speaker 1: a do the opposite. Here we went tight end, quarterback
Speaker 1: receiver receiver. Now we're going with three straight running shots
Speaker 1: David Montgomery. Okay, okay, so a lot of we're gonna
Speaker 1: have that right, and he can catch and he can
Speaker 1: you know, you can still get carries outside of the
Speaker 1: goal line, and he's a better non goal line runner
Speaker 1: the Jamal Williams was. And then round eight again, sticking
Speaker 1: with this theme of safe, kind of boring guys, Brandon Cooks.
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks is good, you know, finds himself in a
Speaker 1: good landing spot with a good quarterback, and.
Speaker 3: Especially at his price, he like always gets a thousand
Speaker 3: yards and we just yeah, we just no, no, no.
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks. Whenever nobody's nobody's excited to get Brandon Cooks.
Speaker 1: I am so Travis Kelcey, Jalen Hurts, DK Metcalf, Keenan Allen,
Speaker 1: Damian Pierce, Alexander Madison, David Montgomery, Brandon Cooks. That's the
Speaker 1: boring safe draft. Nobody loves it, nobody loves the sizzle.
Speaker 1: But these are all guys who are proven it.
Speaker 3: Did you take a you took a quarterback in both
Speaker 3: the years, Brian, did you take a quarterback in yours?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Quarterback?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 5: Burrow?
Speaker 4: I took Lawrence.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Burrow and Lawrence are in that five.
Speaker 3: So in all three years, do you do you feel
Speaker 3: you need to get one of those top eight quarterbacks?
Speaker 3: Do you feel that the drop offs that that big
Speaker 3: that you like If you're doing a draft, do you
Speaker 3: want to get one of those top eight or you're
Speaker 3: fine dropping out.
Speaker 4: It's not a necessity, but it just kid drop offs
Speaker 4: after Lawrence is like the consensus QB eight, and then
Speaker 4: it's Deshaun Watson like two rounds later, and you don't
Speaker 4: want to be the guy taking Deshaun Watson. Basically, we've
Speaker 4: talked about that a lot.
Speaker 1: Who doesn't like Joe Burrow. We all love Joe Burrow,
Speaker 1: we all love Trevor Lawrence. Here's the problem. Those elite
Speaker 1: rushing quarterbacks that style you two different ways are going
Speaker 1: in round one, round two, beginning a round three after that.
Speaker 1: Now I dropped down to the Burrow Trevor Lawrence stuff right,
Speaker 1: and I gotta pay fourth round for those guys, but
Speaker 1: I can get eighty percent of their production in the
Speaker 1: eighth round, Gino, tenth round, Gino Smith Kirk Cousins, I
Speaker 1: get eighty percent of what those guys and.
Speaker 3: Then you're getting a stud wide receiver or whatever exactly.
Speaker 1: I'm getting some study.
Speaker 3: That is another reason why I love Anthony Richardson and
Speaker 3: backing up safe because I think I read something like
Speaker 3: running quarterbacks that get over seven hun hundred yards rushing.
Speaker 3: Almost every single one has been a top twelve quarterback.
Speaker 4: Burrow and Lawrence both five rushing touchdowns last year, though
Speaker 4: four fourth most they can, They are mobile, and they
Speaker 4: get a little bit.
Speaker 3: They got a little bit Burrough's gun injury.
Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 1: tough questions.
Speaker 5: Tough question number one.
Speaker 1: Two years ago, Damian Harris surprised many with fifteen touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Last year, Jamal Williams had seventeen touchdowns. Give me an
Speaker 1: off the radar candidate for a fifteen touchdown season, Brian.
Speaker 4: I feel like I'm taking the easy Chalky way out. Bye.
Speaker 4: You're saying Jamal williams replacement in David Montgomery in Detroit.
Speaker 4: As you mentioned, Jamal Williams seventeen rushing touchdowns last year. Now, granted,
Speaker 4: I'm monro Saint Brown got tackled at the one yard
Speaker 4: line like five or six times, which helped contribute to
Speaker 4: that touchdown total. But Jamal Williams no longer in Detroit.
Speaker 4: David Montgomery signed to supposedly take over his role, or
Speaker 4: that's what we can all assume we know. Jamir Gibbs
Speaker 4: was also drafted by Detroit. They sunk a ton of
Speaker 4: draft capital into him, but he's really not built for
Speaker 4: the goal line. We talked about this last week. His
Speaker 4: stuff rate is incredibly high, his yards over expectation incredibly lowed.
Speaker 4: It's not what you want to see from a goal
Speaker 4: line back. So the Detroit offense shouldn't take many like
Speaker 4: big steps backwards from last year. So, and David Montgomery
Speaker 4: a household name when it comes to fantasy football players,
Speaker 4: but he's still RB twenty five. Seems kind of off
Speaker 4: the radar to me for a guy that does have
Speaker 4: double digit touchdown potential, maybe even fifteen touchdown.
Speaker 1: All right, David Montgomery's here, answers, Scott, give me an
Speaker 1: off the radar candidate for a fifteen touchdown season.
Speaker 3: So I thought about David Montgomery, but I kind of
Speaker 3: felt like you were trying to bait me into it
Speaker 3: after we talked about David Montgomery last week with similar situation,
Speaker 3: and Brian touched on a lot of those points. I
Speaker 3: have two. I have both. I don't know how off
Speaker 3: the radar they are, but I'm going to start with
Speaker 3: Anthony Richardson. I think it's very possible he punches fifteen
Speaker 3: in on the ground, the amount of design runs they
Speaker 3: have for him. We've seen what Jalen Hurts did scoring
Speaker 3: thirteen or fourteen last year. We saw justin Fields score
Speaker 3: ten last year, and I think there's a little more
Speaker 3: opportunity for him than there are for those two. Given
Speaker 3: Taylor's going to be out four weeks and they have,
Speaker 3: you know, a pretty good offense at least one of
Speaker 3: the best offensive linemen in the in the game, but
Speaker 3: decently decent offensive line. But my second one, I felt like,
Speaker 3: maybe you actually wanted a running back. So I'm going
Speaker 3: to go to a running back. I'm going to go
Speaker 3: with JK. Dobbins.
Speaker 1: All right, make your case.
Speaker 3: I'm going to JK. Dobbins in an offense that I
Speaker 3: think is going to be one of the top offenses
Speaker 3: in the league. I think it's going to be one
Speaker 3: where he's going to get a lot of opportunities. And
Speaker 3: if you look at the a few of the years
Speaker 3: with Todd Monkin when he was with the Jacksonville Jaguars,
Speaker 3: MJD went for fourteen touchdowns, sixteen touchdowns. He had a
Speaker 3: Fred Taylor MJD split, which I don't think there's really
Speaker 3: a lot of us split here with Dobbins where they
Speaker 3: combined for fourteen touchdowns. He's kind of done it with
Speaker 3: backs before. So with a top offensive line that the
Speaker 3: Ravens have, we saw JK. Dobbins's rookie year score nine
Speaker 3: touchdowns on he scored nine times.
Speaker 1: He scored nine times on just one hundred.
Speaker 3: And thirty four carries. He's going to get a ton
Speaker 3: more than that this year. His college and this isn't rushing,
Speaker 3: but his college tape showed he's like Damian Pierce, a
Speaker 3: capable bass catcher that just hasn't been asked to do it.
Speaker 3: I think that this might be a sneaky play here
Speaker 3: in JK. Dobbins might get to fifteen.
Speaker 1: All right, you gotta bring it down to one guy.
Speaker 1: You don't get two answers to this question. Pick Richardson
Speaker 1: or Dobbins.
Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, I'm gonna stick with Dobbins. I think
Speaker 3: Richardson might be more likely. I think Dobbins is the
Speaker 3: sneak year one. I'll go Dobbins.
Speaker 1: The correct answer is sneaky under the radar player who
Speaker 1: can score fifteen touchdowns? JK. Dobbins, Yes, answer that boom
Speaker 1: now prior to last year when Baltimore's offense was in
Speaker 1: tatters and you know Dobbins was hurt, Lamar Jackson was hurt.
Speaker 1: The here's the Ravens NFL ranks and rushing touchdowns over
Speaker 1: the previous four years tenth, third, fifth, sixth. I know
Speaker 1: what you're saying, Oh, but charge that was Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: running in all those touchdowns. No, it wasn't last year
Speaker 1: at two. The year before he had three rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: They don't use them at the stripe that way. Baltimore
Speaker 1: running backs have scored fourteen or more touchdowns and five
Speaker 1: of the past six seasons, and through JK. Dobbins career,
Speaker 1: he has turned thirteen career goal line carries into ten
Speaker 1: touchdown Yeah. That is a seventy seven percent conversion rate,
Speaker 1: which is mind bogglingly high. He is a goal line assassin. Boom, JK. Dobbins,
Speaker 1: Is he correct?
Speaker 4: An?
Speaker 3: I like that we landed on the same one.
Speaker 1: Well, that means you got it right side. Note by
Speaker 1: the way, JK. Dobbins to lead the NFL in rushing touchdowns,
Speaker 1: you can bet that. And if it's evel in your
Speaker 1: state forty five to one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, see it. When I was looking up the sneaky ones,
Speaker 3: I specifically looked at that to find someone who is
Speaker 3: well outside the top ten.
Speaker 5: Tough question number two.
Speaker 1: Most people believe there are six proven tight ends. Should
Speaker 1: you draft two of the six, creating further scarcity at
Speaker 1: the most short suited position, Scott.
Speaker 3: So I get the thought and I have done bully
Speaker 3: tight end drafting two of the top ones many times
Speaker 3: in my fantasy career. I love the move. It gives
Speaker 3: me a great flex player, and it keeps me out
Speaker 3: of bye week. Hell for my tight end, I absolutely
Speaker 3: love the move. It's just so tough this year, given
Speaker 3: that those six height ends pretty much are gone by
Speaker 3: the end of the fifth. Sometimes you'll get Pitts sliding
Speaker 3: into the sixth.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 3: It's really really tough. So I would say no, generally,
Speaker 3: there's just too much talent on the board. That said,
Speaker 3: I literally drafted Waller and Pitts in a draft this
Speaker 3: week because I got Pits at six eleven when.
Speaker 1: He's not counting the top one of the top six.
Speaker 3: Oh, okay, where you're.
Speaker 1: Getting this, Pits is one of the top six guys.
Speaker 3: He isn't he the sixth? ADP?
Speaker 1: Well, I'm talking like reality here now, Okay, Brian's fantasy
Speaker 1: were No, No.
Speaker 3: He's my tight end six, and I'm pretty sure he's
Speaker 3: sixth and tight end ADP all right, if.
Speaker 1: You can play that if you want. Okay, Kittle is
Speaker 1: out of your top six. No, no, okay, yes, Goddard
Speaker 1: is out of top six in eighty telling four. No, No,
Speaker 1: I agree. I like Goddard, so the is just outside.
Speaker 1: The answer for you is no, do not draft two
Speaker 1: of the top six tight ends?
Speaker 3: Or yes, it's it's no. There's a little too much
Speaker 3: value there, all right, right? I love the move.
Speaker 1: Should you draft to two of the six proven tight ends,
Speaker 1: creating further scarcity at the most short suited position.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna say no to if you draft Travis Kelcey,
Speaker 4: the clear cut tight end one. Supposedly you've Alreay sunk.
Speaker 4: That's the first round pick basically, so you can't go
Speaker 4: another tight end in my mind. But if if you
Speaker 4: don't have Kelsey and you're gonna go with a Mark Andrews, A,
Speaker 4: George Kittle, TJ Hawks, and Darren Waller. Those are all
Speaker 4: guys who were in the top eight among tight ends
Speaker 4: in points per game last year roughly around seven and
Speaker 4: half ppr. But if you go down to tight end
Speaker 4: eighteen nineteen twenty, it's only only a one and a
Speaker 4: half point difference. So I'm gonna say no, you don't
Speaker 4: need to draft what two of the top six.
Speaker 1: You tell me tight end eighteen is giving me one
Speaker 1: fewer point than tight end four.
Speaker 4: Greg Dolcich was at five point three. TJ. Howkin is
Speaker 4: in seven point five. Okay, that's like two points.
Speaker 1: Hackinson is only seven Fantasy points per game.
Speaker 4: And half point PPR not not PPR al right, full PPR.
Speaker 4: Ravis Kelsey twelve for reference in half point PPR t.
Speaker 1: Most people do not have two flex positions. You know
Speaker 1: we're doing guiote because it's an eighteen team league. Most
Speaker 1: people don't if you got two flex positions. I'm really
Speaker 1: in on this, this tight end really strategy because I
Speaker 1: gain you know, I'm not losing my one and only
Speaker 1: flex position. The reason I'm I don't draft two of
Speaker 1: the six tight ends and I always draft one of
Speaker 1: the six proven tight ends is because I'm putting myself
Speaker 1: in a position, right, I lose flexibility by putting I
Speaker 1: gotta now start my tight end in my flex spot,
Speaker 1: and I may very well have a different player that's
Speaker 1: scoring more Fantasy points then my tight my second tight
Speaker 1: end is So I'm on the no side of this.
Speaker 3: You draft that high, he's a starter, you're drafting the starter.
Speaker 3: If you can't start, that's.
Speaker 1: Right, round five to go get my second tight end.
Speaker 1: That's a starter. I can't. I can't do it unless
Speaker 1: you've got some I'm.
Speaker 3: Just mostly fine with taking shots at Kincaid's and Lamportas
Speaker 3: and guys like that later. I'm fine with it as
Speaker 3: a second trying Yeah for the second.
Speaker 4: Yeah, you mispronounced Gerald Everett.
Speaker 5: Tough question number three.
Speaker 1: With Jonathan Taylor's situation unraveling this last week, a lot
Speaker 1: of fantasy owners are dunking on those who draft before
Speaker 1: Labor Day? Are they right?
Speaker 4: Brian Well, as someone who started drafting in February.
Speaker 1: Before pre Super Bowl.
Speaker 4: They are not right because I laugh at the notion of, oh,
Speaker 4: my whole team is healthy going into Week one, nothing
Speaker 4: bad is going to happen to.
Speaker 3: My ten Christian McCaffrey gets injured week one.
Speaker 4: Well, let's go through some historic injuries in either week
Speaker 4: one or Week two of very significant relevant fantasy players.
Speaker 4: Starting in twenty twenty. Courtland Sutton, coming off a Pro
Speaker 4: Bowl season in twenty nineteen, injured week one, missed the
Speaker 4: rest of the season. Same year twenty twenty, Saquon Barkley
Speaker 4: injured week two, missed the rest of the season. David
Speaker 4: Johnson in twenty seventeen number one overall pick. Yeah, yep, injured.
Speaker 4: Like so the second drive of week one missed the
Speaker 4: rest of the season. Alan Robinson pro bowler at the
Speaker 4: time in twenty seventeen injured Week one, missed the rest
Speaker 4: of the season. Going further back, Jamal Charles in twenty eleven,
Speaker 4: first round pick, injured Week two, missed the rest of
Speaker 4: the season. Tom Brady in two thousand and eight, coming
Speaker 4: off he was that was like the one year to
Speaker 4: one quarterback leagues when a quarterback was getting drafted in
Speaker 4: the first round. Here Tom Brady coming off the twenty
Speaker 4: seven season right injured Week one missed the rest of
Speaker 4: the season. And you can make the case if someone
Speaker 4: gets injured in early August, they're essentially safe to start
Speaker 4: the season healthy because they're not going to suffer a
Speaker 4: major injury. So, no, it doesn't matter when you d
Speaker 4: draft whenever you want. You're not safe if you draft
Speaker 4: after Labor Day because something bad, unfortunately, is gonna happen
Speaker 4: to players in week one, Week two, week three, So
Speaker 4: there really is no difference in my mind.
Speaker 3: I believe Michael Vick was a Week two as well.
Speaker 3: That was another one back.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, brih Scott with Jonathan Taylor's situation and
Speaker 1: raveling last week. A lot of fantasy owners are dunking
Speaker 1: on those who draft before Labor Day? Are they right?
Speaker 3: So no, the answer is no. I'll start there. The
Speaker 3: answer is very clearly no.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: The thing that the thing about this for me is
Speaker 3: that I believe that you should draft when your owners
Speaker 3: can get together. You should, and you shouldn't league shame
Speaker 3: like ten man leagues, twelve man leagues, twelve person leagues,
Speaker 3: ten person leagues, whatever, whatever settings you like, don't league shame,
Speaker 3: don't shame when they draft. Everybody gets to enjoy fantasy
Speaker 3: the way they want to enjoy fantasy. That's where I
Speaker 3: start out. But as far as the dunking on people
Speaker 3: who draft before Labor Day, Brian mentioned all the early
Speaker 3: season injuries. I've made these tweets before I saw tweets yesterday,
Speaker 3: like this is why you don't draft before Christmas because anything.
Speaker 3: This is why you don't draft before the trade deadline
Speaker 3: because someone can get trade. My weird thing about this
Speaker 3: is also the ironic notion of when you see people dunking,
Speaker 3: they'll say it's you're stupid if you do, or you're
Speaker 3: an idiot. The smartest fantasy players in the world, the
Speaker 3: ones who make thousands upon tens of hundreds of millions
Speaker 3: playing fantasy draft before then. The reason is like a
Speaker 3: lot of those sharp, super smart fantasy minds can analyze
Speaker 3: these trends and forecast these things, and project these things
Speaker 3: and model it out into their range of outcomes and
Speaker 3: gain edges. They're actually the smartest fantasy players actually draft
Speaker 3: before Labor Day. Susie from accounting or whatever you said
Speaker 3: the other day, she's the one drafting after Labor Day.
Speaker 1: Susan's it was running at home depot as you may recall.
Speaker 3: Yeah, No, the smartest fantasy players actually draft before labor
Speaker 3: Day and after labor Day. But really, for me, it's
Speaker 3: mostly just draft. When you want a draft, or when
Speaker 3: you can get your people together, it doesn't matter. It's fun.
Speaker 3: Things like injuries and suspensions and weird things can happen whenever.
Speaker 1: Of course, the correct answer is draft when you want
Speaker 1: to draft. There's nothing more important, especially for in person
Speaker 1: fantasy drafts, to your friends. Just get together when you
Speaker 1: can get out everybody's schedules to align. Who cares when
Speaker 1: it is, there's nothing more important than meeting in the
Speaker 1: driveway or the backyard, the barbecue, the bourbon, the smack talk,
Speaker 1: handing off your traveling trophy, you know, like going from
Speaker 1: last year's winter to this year's winner, noticing all the
Speaker 1: receiding airlines without mentioning anything because you've got the save
Speaker 1: receding airline. All of that is awesome. And those finger
Speaker 1: wagging narcissists who say that you know you're doing it
Speaker 1: wrong if you're not drafting after the last preseason game,
Speaker 1: they can pounce sand pounding. I don't care, and I'm
Speaker 1: going to expand on what you said, Scott. Early drafting
Speaker 1: helps the kind of people who listen to this show
Speaker 1: because you're head of the curve at this stage the
Speaker 1: preseason where we are now, even the casuals know kind
Speaker 1: of everything all the you know, all the cheat sheets
Speaker 1: are updated. You know, everybody's up to speed now. But
Speaker 1: if you're draft the earlier draft, the earlier you draft,
Speaker 1: the bigger advantage you have serious fantasy football player to
Speaker 1: end up with a better outcome. Don't be so scared
Speaker 1: that your guy might suffer a hamstring injury. Odds are
Speaker 1: it won't happen to you. And that's just part of
Speaker 1: the variation of the game. You can't fight it all
Speaker 1: the time. You have a better advantage if you're a
Speaker 1: smarter player by drafting earlier. Yep, Brian said much of
Speaker 1: the same thing drafting back in February.
Speaker 4: Well, in most cases too, you're playing in a league
Speaker 4: or a bigger contest where everyone is subject to the
Speaker 4: same risk too. It's not just like so, yeah, it's preposterous,
Speaker 4: but yeah, like we've been banging the drum for John
Speaker 4: Dodson since March. Yeah, his ADP has gone up about
Speaker 4: five rounds.
Speaker 1: Real as it really has.
Speaker 4: Knock on wood, nothing happens at Johan Dodson in Week.
Speaker 3: One, but it's still mad again, Bucking sniped in my
Speaker 3: home league.
Speaker 1: Next segment, We've spent four shows, four preseason shows, talking
Speaker 1: about all the things we think are gonna happen. This
Speaker 1: is the one segment where we talk about.
Speaker 4: What if I'm wrong?
Speaker 1: What if you know some of our key assumptions aren't
Speaker 1: quite right. Stay tuned for a lot of this. I
Speaker 1: was maybe maybe we're not wrong yet, but we could be.
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Speaker 1: exactly right? What if I'm wrong? So you know we've
Speaker 1: you get a lot of big takes on this show.
Speaker 1: They're not all right. In fact, me in particular wrong
Speaker 1: a lot. We'll talk about the other side of the
Speaker 1: coin on some of our strongest takes from the preseason.
Speaker 1: Because we're not perfect, Scott, Let's begin with you.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's start over with Johan Dotson and Sam Howell.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna pair them together because I'm all in on
Speaker 3: the Washington offense this year for Fantasy at least, I
Speaker 3: love these two. I've had Dotson ranked ten to twelve
Speaker 3: spots higher than most places. It seems like that's come around.
Speaker 3: I love his route running, I love his connection with
Speaker 3: Howell in the preseason and the end of last year
Speaker 3: Week seventeen. But what if I'm wrong. It's very possible
Speaker 3: that offense just doesn't go. This was the twenty fourth
Speaker 3: ranked offense from a year ago. They have a bottom
Speaker 3: five offensive line. They have the ninth hardest strength of schedule.
Speaker 3: Their win total by Vegas is six and a half.
Speaker 3: They don't expect them to lowest. Yeah, if you look
Speaker 3: at that schedule, they don't seemingly have a lot of
Speaker 3: shootout type games either. They have more slog fests. They
Speaker 3: do have like a Bills game in an Eagles game
Speaker 3: and what but those are good defense. They do get
Speaker 3: the Cardinals in Week one, so maybe they prefer Week one.
Speaker 3: But McLaurin his injury, his lingering toe injury. That that
Speaker 3: you're like, oh, the hot Johan Dotson's could get more opportunity.
Speaker 3: What if it just sinks the offense more. Yeah, and
Speaker 3: they don't have as many opportunities. I could make counterpoints,
Speaker 3: as I'm sure you could charge, because we both kind
Speaker 3: of love them, but we could be wrong on that
Speaker 3: Washington offense and Dotson and Howell.
Speaker 1: That is that is possible. And by saying we you
Speaker 1: know it's me and you are on this first.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's why I brought it up. I wanted to
Speaker 3: bring you down with.
Speaker 1: Thank you for that. I appreciate it all right, Brian,
Speaker 1: what if you're wrong.
Speaker 4: About Oh you left me hanging there? Okay, take with
Speaker 4: it there last segment I said, I've been drafting since February.
Speaker 4: I'm a best ball degenerate. I've literally drafted hundreds and
Speaker 4: hundreds of teams. So I've viewed this as like what
Speaker 4: players I've essentially faded for the most part across the
Speaker 4: board at the number one guy for me has been
Speaker 4: Breeze Hall. So what if I'm wrong about Breese Hall
Speaker 4: and he turns out to be a top twelve running back.
Speaker 4: Last year, before injury.
Speaker 1: He was great.
Speaker 4: He could have been an RB one at the end
Speaker 4: of the year, but he blew out his knee in
Speaker 4: late October, so he will be less than a year
Speaker 4: removed from that injury. Going into Week one, I thought
Speaker 4: he might start the season on the pup list, but
Speaker 4: he should be playing. But the Jets signed Dalvin Cook.
Speaker 4: They drafted Isiabana Konda, not in the first or second round,
Speaker 4: but he's a promising looking rookie. Michael Carter still still
Speaker 4: in town, so very crowded running back room. The Jets
Speaker 4: essentially are all in right now by signing Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 4: and trying to win the Super Bowl. So I could
Speaker 4: be wrong. I don't think Breese Hall is gonna get
Speaker 4: the touches to be a top twelve running back. But
Speaker 4: if for some reason he makes this miraculous full recovery
Speaker 4: and gets twenty twenty five touches per game, he could be.
Speaker 4: So I'm worried I'm wrong there, but I don't think
Speaker 4: I am, but I could be.
Speaker 1: I've been slandering Deshaun Watson all preseason. Yes, you know
Speaker 1: the report, you know, all basically getting no preseason action.
Speaker 1: The training camp reports were all super negative.
Speaker 3: And he still doesn't look good.
Speaker 1: Hated what I saw in the first hated the way
Speaker 1: they used him, and what we saw last year in
Speaker 1: Cleveland where he averaged just he had only had four
Speaker 1: designed runs per game. You know, we're here for the running,
Speaker 1: not the passing. On Deshaun Watson, He's an average NFL passer.
Speaker 1: But maybe I'm wrong, you know, maybe this thing's gonna
Speaker 1: work out differently. Maybe Deshaun Watson's going to go right
Speaker 1: back to where he was in twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. Maybe that's possible. I don't think so, but
Speaker 1: not impossible. I suppose he's got Amari Cooper, he's good.
Speaker 1: Maybe Elijah Moore is gonna be a big spot that
Speaker 1: offense in that passing game. Maybe maybe there's more upside
Speaker 1: to him. Maybe the Drafters have it right. He's gonna
Speaker 1: have to board his quarterback nine. I have him ranked
Speaker 1: a quarterback twenty one. So you know, maybe I'm the
Speaker 1: one that's wrong in Deshaan Watson and he's gonna just
Speaker 1: revert right back to form like the Drafters think, Scott,
Speaker 1: who's your next? What if I'm wrong?
Speaker 4: Player?
Speaker 3: Mine has to be a guy who I believe I
Speaker 3: have in every single league, and I don't know if
Speaker 3: this is a good or bad thing. I have him everywhere.
Speaker 3: I reach a round or two for him just to
Speaker 3: get him, because fantasy is supposed to be fun. Anthony Richardson,
Speaker 3: The argument for me is his I feel like his
Speaker 3: floor is safe. Qbs rush for seven hundred plus yards
Speaker 3: are almost always top twelve quarterbacks. They basically all average
Speaker 3: fifteen plus Fantasy points per game. If he only throws
Speaker 3: for one hundred and twenty yards, I feel like he's
Speaker 3: gonna get fifty or sixty or whatever on the ground
Speaker 3: a guy like him, maybe he punches one in. But
Speaker 3: what if I'm wrong? What if his passing is in
Speaker 3: the low fifty percent completion rate so bad? What if
Speaker 3: we are looking at some early career Justin Fields type's number.
Speaker 3: What if they can't get that offense going the opposite
Speaker 3: of the rising tide raises all boats with Taylor gone.
Speaker 3: What if they can't move down the field and those
Speaker 3: scoring opportunities aren't there. What if it's early Justin Fields.
Speaker 3: What if I'm completely wrong on his floor and it's
Speaker 3: a low passing and the rushing just isn't there and
Speaker 3: they can't score.
Speaker 1: It's possible. I mean Justin Fields was not fantasy startable
Speaker 1: no for a long time, like I don't know, twenty
Speaker 1: games of his career. Yep, So yeah, that is a possibility. Okay, Brian,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try it again. What player might you be
Speaker 1: wrong about?
Speaker 4: I'm worried I might be wrong about George Kittle, who
Speaker 4: is being drafted his tight end five to five right now.
Speaker 4: And I am totally out on Kittle at that price.
Speaker 4: He certainly closed the last season he was the top
Speaker 4: tight end over the last four games. Last year, he
Speaker 4: scored seven touchdowns, was a league winner. But he hasn't
Speaker 4: played a full season since twenty eighteen. Just and he's
Speaker 4: had these big spike weeks, but his nonspike weeks are
Speaker 4: absolutely killer. He's not the most consistent player. It's either
Speaker 4: it's all or nothing with Kittle, and he's always He's
Speaker 4: just such a good all around football player, blocker, stuff
Speaker 4: like that, that he gets these injuries that other tight
Speaker 4: ends don't. So I could be wrong about George Kittle.
Speaker 4: I've been out on him though as a tight end five.
Speaker 4: I'm avoiding him at that price tag. So a player
Speaker 4: I could be wrong about, But again I hope I'm not.
Speaker 1: I just looked up justin fields first fourteen games he
Speaker 1: threw I believe that is eight touchdowns is in the
Speaker 1: first fourteen games? That is you know your runhing's gotta
Speaker 1: be good.
Speaker 3: I mean for the Colts, what is like that the
Speaker 3: Colts after cuts have three wide receivers on roster. What
Speaker 3: if Michael Pittman gets hurt and they don't have Jonathan Taylor,
Speaker 3: that offense might be sun cool.
Speaker 4: Well, it's not fair. You can't count week one because
Speaker 4: that was like the Monsoon game.
Speaker 1: I remember, I was not that was not in that
Speaker 1: that was that was Yeah, this goes back a little
Speaker 1: further than but you're right, we're and I'm like, kind
Speaker 1: of well, no, that isn't that he threw two in
Speaker 1: that game? Actually that gave him to him. That makes
Speaker 1: no sense out of that game. Yes, it doesn't make
Speaker 1: any sense. The Monsoon game. That was awesome.
Speaker 4: That a great defense in a Monsoon Soon.
Speaker 1: He threw two when he ran one because remember him
Speaker 1: sliding into the end.
Speaker 4: Yeah, they won that game too.
Speaker 1: He did win that game as massive underdogs in that game,
Speaker 1: that felt like such a sure thing for the Niners.
Speaker 1: That's why football is great.
Speaker 5: Ye.
Speaker 1: You know what else is great? The Vikings offense potentially phenomenal. Right,
Speaker 1: if Jordan Addison is a big step up over where
Speaker 1: Adam Feelen was at that stage of his career.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I don't know if you've heard this.
Speaker 3: I heard a rumor he's like a second justin Jefferson.
Speaker 1: I heard that on this show. There was a show
Speaker 1: I was listening to.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the coach I heard about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, what if Alexander Madison rises to the occasion and
Speaker 1: plays the best football of his career as the Vikings
Speaker 1: workhorse running.
Speaker 3: Back Peyton hillis here, maybe it's possible.
Speaker 1: I feel like the guy I've seen is just just
Speaker 1: a guy. He's just averag enifl running.
Speaker 3: I feel like he's been volume dependent, he.
Speaker 1: Very volume dependent, and he's been also Lions dependent, where
Speaker 1: he's rushing stats against Detroit throughout his career. Maybe he's
Speaker 1: just been lurking waiting to be a bellcow back and
Speaker 1: it's all gonna come together. I haven't. I have not
Speaker 1: ranked him that way. I don't have him for really
Speaker 1: any of my fantasy teams because I think I think
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some ty Chandler mixed.
Speaker 3: In there a lot more than people think.
Speaker 5: So.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but maybe he does. Uh do you have any left, Scott?
Speaker 3: I have one left? Okay, I have one left. I
Speaker 3: feel like this guy this I flipped it. The other
Speaker 3: two were people who I've been in on, and maybe
Speaker 3: I'm wrong. This is one who I have not drafted anywhere.
Speaker 3: I've been completely out on. I think he's Alexander Madison ish.
Speaker 3: I completely fade him. Nagee Harris, Okay, I've just never
Speaker 3: been I'm not in on him. I feel like Jalen
Speaker 3: Warren looks like a bet back. We talked about Jalen
Speaker 3: Warren so much last year. I really like the way
Speaker 3: he looks on the field. I still want him to happen,
Speaker 3: maybe kind of like Fetch from Make Fetch Happen. But
Speaker 3: Harris seems so pedestrian. He rarely has long runs, He's
Speaker 3: not explosive. He has trouble gaining into the four yards
Speaker 3: per carry range, didn't do it in his first two seasons.
Speaker 3: It all seems on volume. But what if I'm wrong?
Speaker 3: What if that three hundred plus touch volume with forty
Speaker 3: to seventy catches stays. What if Tomlin is like I
Speaker 3: like Bell cow backs and that's what I do, and
Speaker 3: we're gonna stick it with you. Nause hairis. The offense
Speaker 3: definitely seems much better in preseason and pick it appears
Speaker 3: to have made the leap. What if there's more opportunities.
Speaker 3: But if there's more opportunities for touches, catches, and touchdowns,
Speaker 3: of which he had ten each of the first two
Speaker 3: years of his career.
Speaker 1: Steelers put a first round pick into their offensive line.
Speaker 3: Absolutely yeah, what if there's just more possible, more high
Speaker 3: efficiency opportunities for Najie Harris this year and he gets
Speaker 3: all those touches again. What if I'm wrong? What if
Speaker 3: it's just the third year of what he's done for
Speaker 3: two years in a better offense?
Speaker 1: All right, Brian, what are you laying awake nights worried
Speaker 1: you got wrong?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm not worried about this. I know Thor would
Speaker 4: be worried about this. If we are, we would both
Speaker 4: be very worried if we were wrong about Evan Hole,
Speaker 4: especially over the last two weeks. Rookie running back for
Speaker 4: the Colts of course, Yeah, vaulting up ADP. Yeah, the
Speaker 4: writing was on the wall, has been on the wall
Speaker 4: for a while that Jonathan Taylor was not going to
Speaker 4: be a Colt. He still is a Colt. Put as
Speaker 4: we talked about earlier, he's on the pup list. They'll
Speaker 4: miss the first four games. But what if it's Deon
Speaker 4: Jackson who is the guy or charge? What if it's
Speaker 4: Zack Moss who is the.
Speaker 1: Running back and to roster jack Mos goes berserk.
Speaker 4: Now, I know that keeps me up at night, But
Speaker 4: I've been smashing the draft button on Evan Hole over
Speaker 4: the last few weeks. When Dion Jackson is there. Zack
Speaker 4: Moss has certainly been there. But I'm just essentially all
Speaker 4: in on Evan Hull at this point. But his past
Speaker 4: catching upside is just so intriguing and he is built
Speaker 4: for short yardage situations. But it could be the Deon
Speaker 4: Jackson show. But he seemed to fizzle out last year.
Speaker 4: But we shall see. I could be wrong about Evan
Speaker 4: Hall and Thorne could be wrong to him.
Speaker 1: My worries is going to take time for him to
Speaker 1: get on the field.
Speaker 3: I do like Evan Hall too, but like Beijeon, he's
Speaker 3: third on their depth chart. First on their depth chart,
Speaker 3: Zach Moss.
Speaker 1: Zack Moss. I know nobody's drafted Zach Moss at all.
Speaker 3: As Brian mentioned, I'm just letting you know he is
Speaker 3: first on the depth chart.
Speaker 1: What if I'm wrong about Packers quarterback Jordan Love, and
Speaker 1: I mean that in the opposite way. What if he's
Speaker 1: totally non functional. What if it's a disaster. What if
Speaker 1: Brian general manager Brian Gudukunz is only in this position
Speaker 1: because he's got to defend that first round pick from
Speaker 1: a couple of years ago. What if what if Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers was the glue keeping this entire offense together, and
Speaker 1: the entire Packers offense just dissolve around him. We know
Speaker 1: that he's got some arm talent, we know he's got
Speaker 1: some mobility. But what if Jordan Love is a cannot
Speaker 1: be a decision maker? What if he what if he
Speaker 1: withers under pressure? What if the bad accuracy stays as
Speaker 1: bad as it's always looked in every opportunity we've seen him.
Speaker 1: There's a chance Jordan Love is completely non functional and
Speaker 1: this Packers offense just goes belly up? Then what.
Speaker 3: Then we're all drafting Packers too high. I'm actually not
Speaker 3: really drafting too many Packers that they're values.
Speaker 1: But it could be. It could happen that way, Christian Watson,
Speaker 1: might you know, might end up being fools gold for
Speaker 1: all we know. You know, we don't know for sure.
Speaker 4: I'm bloated on Packers, so you better be wrong there,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we don't wish bad things on anybody, not even
Speaker 1: a team that's enjoyed thirty years of Hall of Fame quarterbacking.
Speaker 1: Not that I'm fitter about it as a Minnesota Viking fan.
Speaker 1: Final segment coming up, A Fantasy football weekly gonna break
Speaker 1: down the Thursday Night game FFW style with letter grades
Speaker 1: on every meaningful player, and reveal our final sleepers of
Speaker 1: the year. Stay tuned Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly. Paul Georgie and Scott Fish. Brian Johnson with
Speaker 1: you next time we talk. There's gonna be an NFL
Speaker 1: regular season game in the books.
Speaker 4: Unbelievable, So very thankful for that. It's been a long
Speaker 4: long The offseasons get longer every year.
Speaker 1: It seems like we are ready to go and it's
Speaker 1: a game.
Speaker 3: Two enjoyable offenses.
Speaker 1: Normally we don't like interrupt each other's matchups very much,
Speaker 1: but because we only got one to do in the show,
Speaker 1: and we got a whole segment to do what, I
Speaker 1: encourage you to jump in whenever you want. Detroit taking
Speaker 1: on Kansas City on Thursday. This is the team that
Speaker 1: allowed the most Fantasy points to opposing passers against the
Speaker 1: team that allowed the second most points to.
Speaker 4: Opposing pass A point orgy.
Speaker 1: It was a bit of a point orgy. Now there
Speaker 1: are some differences here. Kansas City's past defense got a
Speaker 1: lot better at the end of the season and into
Speaker 1: the playoffs, in no small part because Treent mcduffey got
Speaker 1: a lot better as the season went on. And also
Speaker 1: Detroit has completely revamped their secondary, and so there's that
Speaker 1: as well. So let's talk it through. I'm gonna start
Speaker 1: the Lion side. Jared goff sizzling. At the end of
Speaker 1: last year final seven games. He was averaging two hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty five yards and two touchdowns per game. That
Speaker 1: is a positive. I like the upgrades and Sam Laporta
Speaker 1: and Jamier Gibbs, but do you guys think those guys
Speaker 1: are gonna pay dividends right here? Week one, Sam Laporta,
Speaker 1: Jamier Gibbs minimally mm hmm. That's kind of my feeling too.
Speaker 1: In last year's seventeen regular season games, only one starting
Speaker 1: quarterback failed to score multiple touchdowns against the Chiefs, although
Speaker 1: some of those were rushing in there as well. And
Speaker 1: Kansas City gave gave up exactly one passing touchdown per
Speaker 1: game in their final six games all the way to
Speaker 1: the Super Bowl. So, as I mentioned, they got a
Speaker 1: lot better at the end of the year and end
Speaker 1: of the playoffs. Kansas City returns the exact same secondary
Speaker 1: pending Lagerius sneeds help help their cornerback he may not
Speaker 1: play in this game. And now at this point it
Speaker 1: looks like Chris Jones is definitely not gonna play in
Speaker 1: the game. If he's signed a contract right this minute,
Speaker 1: I don't know how available you'd be. So those are
Speaker 1: some reasons for optimism on Jared Goff, and I'm giving
Speaker 1: him a B grade in this game along with the
Speaker 1: B grade and one of my favorite players in this
Speaker 1: draft cycle, and that's i'man ross Aint Brown. One hundred
Speaker 1: and forty targets last year as Jared Goff's favorite receiver
Speaker 1: by a mile, got tacked, as Brian noted earlier in
Speaker 1: the show Inside the three yard Line a bunch of
Speaker 1: times as well, or his numbers overall would have been
Speaker 1: even better. He ran from the slot on sixty percent
Speaker 1: of his routes last year, and normally that would put
Speaker 1: him up against lagerious need, but he's got the knee problem.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna move cornerback Trent McDuffie to just
Speaker 1: basically cover him, shadow him. I'm on Ross Saint Brown
Speaker 1: in this whole game, and McGuffey. McDuffie was very good
Speaker 1: as a rookie and got better. It will likely get
Speaker 1: better this year McGuff McDuffie's games as a slot starter.
Speaker 1: I went and logged those. He averaged forty seven receiving
Speaker 1: yards allowed and point three touchdowns per game. That's you know,
Speaker 1: that's that's pretty good. And I'm on Ross Saint Brown's
Speaker 1: gonna do better than that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was gonna say, Amanra is probably better than
Speaker 3: any of the slot receivers that guy faced.
Speaker 1: Very possible, so I still would be great, And I'm
Speaker 1: on Rossaint Brown.
Speaker 4: Wait, are the Chiefs one of the sixteen teams that
Speaker 4: drafted a wide receiver. I'll get a check on that
Speaker 4: real quick.
Speaker 1: I'll get back to are the Lions? Yeah the chief Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're exactly right. Absolutely, Let's go to David Montgomery. It's
Speaker 1: not sexy, but I expect him to get more touches
Speaker 1: than Jamier Gibbs does in Week one. I'm a little
Speaker 1: worried that the Chiefs only allowed two rushing touchdowns in
Speaker 1: their last ten games of last year, including the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Now again, if defensive tackle Chris Jones doesn't play, I
Speaker 1: gotta like the inside running game better for the Lions.
Speaker 1: So we'll go b Grade and Montgomery. If Chris Jones
Speaker 1: does not play, and a C grade if he does.
Speaker 1: Jones known for his pass rush as an interior pass rusher,
Speaker 1: but he was also Pro Football Focus is seventh best
Speaker 1: run stuffing defensive tackle last year. I mean, Chris Jones
Speaker 1: is awesome at everything. So again, B grade without Joones.
Speaker 1: C grade for David Montgomery if Jones plays, all right,
Speaker 1: how about Jamier Gibbs. You drafted him in like the
Speaker 1: third round. You want to start him right here. Chiefs
Speaker 1: allowed the most running back receptions and the fourth most
Speaker 1: running back receiving yards last year, so I like that.
Speaker 1: I don't think he scores in this game, but I
Speaker 1: think he cobbles together. What do you think, like five
Speaker 1: receipts five receptions for Jamier Gibbs, maybe forty receiving yards,
Speaker 1: Maybe forty rushing yards for Jamior Gibbs. So maybe he
Speaker 1: gets around you like ninety yards. I don't think he scores.
Speaker 1: That gives you, you know, somewhere in the neighborhood of
Speaker 1: about fourteen PPR points, So we'll go.
Speaker 3: Low inflex Well, I mean that's actually not bad. Fourteen. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we like that.
Speaker 1: That would be a B grade. I'll give him a
Speaker 1: secret in this one because I'm a little bit worried
Speaker 1: about his first NFL game. I got Sam Laporta on
Speaker 1: the bench. I think he likely starts here. But we
Speaker 1: always worry about production from Ricky tight ends, and the
Speaker 1: Chiefs are very good against tight ends last year. Get this,
Speaker 1: including their playoff run. Only three tight ends topped forty
Speaker 1: eight yards against the Chiefs all of last year. That
Speaker 1: was whatever nineteen games and only one top forty eight
Speaker 1: yards in the final fourteen games of last year. Sam
Speaker 1: Laporte is on the bench.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry to report that the Chiefs are not one
Speaker 4: of these sixteen teams that drafted a wide receiver before
Speaker 4: a'man Rossaint Brown the most recent receiver drafted before him
Speaker 4: with pick one oh nine. A'mnra went pick one to
Speaker 4: twelve Dez Fitzpatrick to the Tennessee.
Speaker 1: Titan A disasters. DESI that one.
Speaker 4: Now, out of these sixteen receivers drafted before Sun God,
Speaker 4: you can justify two, maybe three Jamar Chase, Jalen Waddle,
Speaker 4: maybe DeVonta Smith. Those are the top three wide receivers
Speaker 4: drafted that year. But then it was uh it was
Speaker 4: but Darius Tony was drafted as the fourth wide receiver
Speaker 4: about the Giants. So that's like somewhat of a spike game.
Speaker 5: He wanted.
Speaker 4: You want to show up Tony, Yeah, if he plays,
Speaker 4: I'm sure you're going to get to that in a second.
Speaker 4: Are going to get to that in a second.
Speaker 1: We should imagine for people who don't know, I'm on
Speaker 1: Rossaint Brown has memorized every team and player at his
Speaker 1: position that was drafted before him, and he's got a
Speaker 1: grudge against those teams and players.
Speaker 3: And literally memorized. He's rattled him off off the top
Speaker 3: of his head in order before.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the camp. Oh, by the way, Marvin
Speaker 1: Jones is I looked by the way he played with
Speaker 1: jacksonvill last year he played against Kansas City. One catch,
Speaker 1: Barbon Jones, We're not going to go there. Josh Reynolds
Speaker 1: were also not going to go there, pending. We just
Speaker 1: were gonna find We're gonna find better matchups than this
Speaker 1: one Kansas City. Obviously, Mahomes and Kelsey are automatic A
Speaker 1: grades virtually every week and they are here too. Fantastic
Speaker 1: positive matchup overall for both of them. Let's stick with
Speaker 1: the passing game. Sky Moore, I feel like this is
Speaker 1: the one receiver that I'm willing to roll the dice
Speaker 1: on into one.
Speaker 3: I came drafting.
Speaker 1: Yeah, barely on the field last year, but did manage
Speaker 1: a touchdown on his only catch in the Super Bowl,
Speaker 1: So one catch, one touchdown. Most people, including Scott and
Speaker 1: I for sure, think that the sophomore evolution is going
Speaker 1: to hit for Sky Moore. I think he's going to
Speaker 1: take over most of Juju Smith Schuster's routes and he's
Speaker 1: just more explosive and he's a better downfield receiver than
Speaker 1: Juju Smith Schuster was. So I'm really intrigued here. Now,
Speaker 1: the Lions did a massive makeover of their secondary. They
Speaker 1: brought in three new starting quarterbacks cornerbacks Cameron Sutton, Emmanuel Moseley,
Speaker 1: Chauncey Gardner Johnson. They're all solid, but there was a
Speaker 1: reason they were available. They're not great corners, but they're
Speaker 1: better than what the Lions have been trotting out for
Speaker 1: the last I don't know decade at cornerback. So an
Speaker 1: upgrade here. I wanted to give skymore B grade. I
Speaker 1: can't quite get myself to do it. I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: se grade because there's still a lot of unknowns that
Speaker 1: he was so lightly used last year.
Speaker 3: If only there was something in between those two.
Speaker 1: And sadly there's not. And how about no letter that
Speaker 1: appears between B and C?
Speaker 3: What if I do remind you that Skymore wears my
Speaker 3: number twenty four?
Speaker 5: Oh? Does that help?
Speaker 1: Like scooperfish twenty four?
Speaker 3: Yeah? Does that push him up?
Speaker 1: That does? Kadarius Tony coming off a knee injury. I'd
Speaker 1: only consider him if he's completely off the injury report
Speaker 1: and you decide that you want to take a flyer.
Speaker 1: I do like the matchup against that secondary. But the
Speaker 1: Tony thing is so fluky, and they use him in
Speaker 1: such weird gadgety ways that I don't know that you
Speaker 1: can get consistent production. I feel like Cadarius Tony just
Speaker 1: the dart throw and that's it.
Speaker 4: What if he had a toe injury and a knee injury,
Speaker 4: that would make perfect sense.
Speaker 1: For carry's toe knee? I like where you're going with that. Wow,
Speaker 1: Isaiah Pachecko quietly. The Lions allowed the second fewest running
Speaker 1: back fantasy points last year. Really yeah, but they gave
Speaker 1: up four point eight yards per carry. But they just
Speaker 1: didn't give up touchdowns. They gave up the fifth oh
Speaker 1: and the fifth most rushing touchdowns. You know what they
Speaker 1: didn't give up. It was receptions to run backs. That's
Speaker 1: where the Lions were shockingly competent. But for Pacheco doesn't
Speaker 1: matter because he doesn't catch much anyway. I think this
Speaker 1: is a B grade on a guy that's going to
Speaker 1: get virtually all the carries. He's not going to get
Speaker 1: the receptions. We already knew that going in. Lions gave
Speaker 1: up the fewest running back receptions and the fewest running
Speaker 1: back receiving yards. So there you go, Isaiah Pachecko B
Speaker 1: grade and which should be a solid rushing game and
Speaker 1: he's not gonna help you out for PPR. But you
Speaker 1: knew that. That's okay? What do you think? And by
Speaker 1: the way, that puts Jerick McKinnon in bench territory because
Speaker 1: the Lions were so good at that particular element. I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna find somebody else jack McKinnon on the
Speaker 1: bench in this game.
Speaker 3: Interesting red hot down the stretch last year. Of course,
Speaker 3: you've just drafted your team. You're probably not putting your
Speaker 3: sixteenth round pick into the starting lineup.
Speaker 1: Anyway, Probably not, probably not.
Speaker 3: All right, let's unveil some of our sleepers what about
Speaker 3: Travis Kelcey didn't.
Speaker 1: Hey automatically, Gary, but I have to expand on Mahomes
Speaker 1: or Kelsey. You just start these guys every week.
Speaker 3: Okay, I know I was. I was gonna bench Mahomes
Speaker 3: for Anthony Richardson just to.
Speaker 1: You might actually the way you're talking about Richardson now, love,
Speaker 1: I would. All right, let's get to our final Sleepers
Speaker 1: of the year. Finally stops of the year. Scott, you
Speaker 1: want to start.
Speaker 3: I am going to go back to a little bit.
Speaker 3: You know a guy I talked about a bunch of
Speaker 3: times last year. I still really like him, and it
Speaker 3: kind of goes to the what if I'm wrong segment
Speaker 3: because I think I'm right on this one. I'm going
Speaker 3: to Jalen Warren, running back for the Pittsburgh Steelers, who,
Speaker 3: once again I feel like I'm just trying to make
Speaker 3: him happen. But he's going in the thirteenth round. He's
Speaker 3: the clear backup for an offense on the rise. I
Speaker 3: don't like the guy in front of him. Jalen Warren
Speaker 3: has looked good in preseason. He's averaged and last year,
Speaker 3: compared to Naji Harris, he averaged over a yard per
Speaker 3: carry more than Naji Harris. He averaged over two yards
Speaker 3: per a reception more than Naji Harris. He had more
Speaker 3: explosive plays I believe last year than Naji not just
Speaker 3: did last year, but in the last two years. And
Speaker 3: he just looks like a better running back, looks more explosive.
Speaker 3: This season, he split first team snaps in the five
Speaker 3: Pittsburgh Steelers drives fifty seven percent to Nase forty three
Speaker 3: percent to Jalen Warren. If that split even comes close
Speaker 3: to holding, he's going to be a steal in the
Speaker 3: thirteenth round. And if anything happens to Naji Harris wheels up.
Speaker 3: I saw someone compare this to Elliott and Pollard last
Speaker 3: year that that could be what is I will take
Speaker 3: the Pollard Jalen Warren size.
Speaker 1: Yeah, especially thirteen rounds later.
Speaker 3: That's what I'm taking that, yep. Jalen Warren.
Speaker 1: All right, Brian, give us your final sleeper of the preseason.
Speaker 4: I'm going super deep with a tight end sleeper. It's
Speaker 4: Miami's Durham smythe Wow Smite is deep smithe Tyson.
Speaker 3: For those drafting in your twenty team leagues this week,
Speaker 3: I'm just kidding I'm just kidding.
Speaker 4: Smythe could turn out.
Speaker 1: Just did a twenty draft last night. Durham Smite did
Speaker 1: not get drafted.
Speaker 4: Well he should have, because really everyone is excited about
Speaker 4: this Dolphins offense, presuming Tua stays healthy. They were top
Speaker 4: seven in pass play percentage last year. But the only
Speaker 4: pass catcher is getting drafted are Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle.
Speaker 4: There's no wide receiver three getting drafted. No one's drafting
Speaker 4: Durham Smythe, but why not. Smith has never been the
Speaker 4: guy tight end. It's always been Mike A. Sicki wasn't
Speaker 4: Adam Troutman. It doesn't even matter that their other tight
Speaker 4: end he's out of town. So Smythe is clearly the guy.
Speaker 4: When given a chance, he's been productive, averaging nine plus
Speaker 4: yards per catch. Overall, Miami's tight ends did not post
Speaker 4: impressive numbers last year, but again, two only played in
Speaker 4: roughly eleven games. There was turmoil at the quarterback position,
Speaker 4: and also last season, Mi Kasicki had more targets inside
Speaker 4: the twenty than Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle. Kasiki had
Speaker 4: fifteen targets inside the twenty. Hill had nine, Waddle had
Speaker 4: eight so Miami went to the tight end in the
Speaker 4: red zone, and again Smith is the only guy essentially
Speaker 4: at tight end for the Dolphins, an offense that everyone
Speaker 4: is excited about, but they're only drafting outside of the
Speaker 4: running backs Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle. I think we
Speaker 4: might be overlooking a diamond in the rough in smythe Tyson.
Speaker 4: I just like saying, smithe Tyson.
Speaker 1: Oh, it's time for Sam Howell.
Speaker 4: Is that Sam Howley's music.
Speaker 1: We've talked about him every show, but I have I
Speaker 1: need to formally anoint him as one of my sleepers.
Speaker 1: You guys have already heard the rationale. He's the perfect
Speaker 1: kind of guy that you want to throw a fourteenth
Speaker 1: round pick on, which is where he's going right now.
Speaker 1: He's got the mobility, he's got the big arm. If
Speaker 1: at all clicks together for Sam Howell, the upside is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: We love the budding connection with Jehan Dotson, burgeoning connects
Speaker 1: with j Han Dotson. Downfield, Howell's gonna run, you know,
Speaker 1: like thirty forty fifty yards a game. He's gonna connect
Speaker 1: on some of those deep passes. I love him here
Speaker 1: also just gonna empty my notebook. Why not, it's our
Speaker 1: last show. Taj Spears top ten running back if anything
Speaker 1: happens to Derrick Henry and maybe even he might even
Speaker 1: be better than Derrick Henry this year. How about a
Speaker 1: little Gabe Davis who was going in the fourth round
Speaker 1: last year going in the eighth round this year. Sean
Speaker 1: Tucker in the one two punch for the Hey.
Speaker 4: I used Tucker last year?
Speaker 1: We did you?
Speaker 3: Okay?
Speaker 1: And what about Isaiah Hodgins Love Isaiah Hiyah Hodgins another
Speaker 1: one of my favorite late round sleepers, giants outside receiver.
Speaker 1: All those guys some of my favorite late round drafters.
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