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Speaker 2: here's your host, Paul Chargian.
Speaker 3: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: I am Paul Chargian, joining me like last week, Kent,
Speaker 1: Why Rock?
Speaker 4: Hey Ken, Hey Paul, how are we doing? Glad to
Speaker 4: be back. A shorter off season for me this time,
Speaker 4: just one week as opposed to one year. But I'm
Speaker 4: glad to be back.
Speaker 1: And how about you going to bat for Derek Carr
Speaker 1: in the podcast? And about the time I'm posting the podcast,
Speaker 1: he decides to hang it up.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, that's so tricky. And now, looking at
Speaker 4: that situation that the Saints have left behind in terms
Speaker 4: of the quarterback groom, that's truly missed a fine. I
Speaker 4: guess they're going to lean into Tyler Shuck and see
Speaker 4: what happens.
Speaker 1: Seems that way, he doesn't it because they got long
Speaker 1: looks at Hainer and Rattler last year and I just
Speaker 1: don't think they got it now. Granted that was behind
Speaker 1: a bad offensive line. That would have been tough on anybody,
Speaker 1: including Derek Carr as it turned out. But still you
Speaker 1: get the feeling by the way Derek Carr just did
Speaker 1: not want to play football for the Saints anymore.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he had been through a little bit of the
Speaker 4: ringer in terms of how he's been treated by you know,
Speaker 4: the different managements over the years and things like that,
Speaker 4: and how he gets respected from a media standpoint too.
Speaker 4: I think he's been dealt with in a lot of
Speaker 4: different ways where people are you know, he had his
Speaker 4: high year and then after that it kind of never
Speaker 4: really got back to that ceiling, and I think a
Speaker 4: lot of people held it against him, But I don't
Speaker 4: think that was deserved. I think he was a solid player.
Speaker 4: He had a really good career and it's unfortunate that,
Speaker 4: you know, the medical stuff is making him hanging up
Speaker 4: a little early.
Speaker 3: How much money would you guess he's made?
Speaker 4: Ooh, I probably should know that off tom My head.
Speaker 4: But I'm sure it's plenty. Yeah, it is plenty.
Speaker 1: But I I'm challenging you to take a stab at
Speaker 1: how much money Derek Carr has made in his career.
Speaker 4: Let's see back of the Napkin math he was in
Speaker 4: the league for about ten years. Let's say he made
Speaker 4: it to two hundred and twenty million.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're very very close. Two million. Yeah, well done.
Speaker 1: Well and you know he would have probably I think
Speaker 1: he played everything out. He'd gone a little over the
Speaker 1: two twenties. So yeah, nicely done, ken, nicely done. Not
Speaker 1: a bad not a bad earning for a guy who Boy,
Speaker 1: how many playoff wins for Derek Carr? That'll be that'll
Speaker 1: be your next question, and I'm gonna look it up
Speaker 1: while you're looking. Derek Carr playoff wins?
Speaker 4: Oh my goodness, I my brain jumps to a very
Speaker 4: low number. Maybe zero. Is it more than zero?
Speaker 3: Well, let's see playoffs.
Speaker 1: He had done don don one playoff start and it
Speaker 1: was a loss. Okay, zero was the correct answer. He
Speaker 1: lost to the Bengals in twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: That's it. So that is it. Yeah, a two.
Speaker 1: Hundred million dollars and zero playoff wins for Derek Carr.
Speaker 4: There's more than one way to earn a living, and
Speaker 4: he found a very lucrative one.
Speaker 3: So yes, he did, Yes, he did. Lucrative.
Speaker 1: Today, the amount of knowledge, the depth and value of knowledge,
Speaker 1: You're gonna get as we go through the AFC and
Speaker 1: NFC East, highlighting the off season changes for each team
Speaker 1: and whether or not we think these changes will be
Speaker 1: a net upgrade or down grade for each team. And
Speaker 1: so we're gonna we'll look at free agency, We'll look
Speaker 1: at trades, we will look at the draft, rolled together
Speaker 1: all the new.
Speaker 3: Things that have happened.
Speaker 1: Now that lineups are effectively set heading into training camp
Speaker 1: which arts and now only a little over a month
Speaker 1: or we're really getting close, now, Kent, let's begin the
Speaker 1: AFC side. I don't know why we always work right
Speaker 1: to left, east to west. Is because the sun rises
Speaker 1: in the east. You know, everybody always starts with the
Speaker 1: AFC East or the NFC East, and they sort of
Speaker 1: worked their way across the country like time zones. But
Speaker 1: we read left to right. You can make a case
Speaker 1: that we should be starting with the west, but nobody
Speaker 1: ever does. We always start with the east, and I'm
Speaker 1: not I don't know if there's any rhyme or reason
Speaker 1: for that, but that's how it's gonna work here too.
Speaker 1: And let's begin with the Miami Dolphins. Kent, this I
Speaker 1: have a lot of skepticism about and where was this
Speaker 1: last year. I have a lot of skepticism about this offense,
Speaker 1: but maybe things were so bad last year you.
Speaker 3: Feel like, in totality it's going to be better this year.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean, they pretty much for the talent that
Speaker 4: they had on the roster bottomed out. I would say, uh,
Speaker 4: you know, the head we talked about this last week,
Speaker 4: struggling offensive line. Now they've had Tarren Armstead retire. They
Speaker 4: signed James Daniels as a replacement, which I think is
Speaker 4: good but not going to fill the gap entirely, and
Speaker 4: they haven't done much else other than draft a second
Speaker 4: rounder guard to help accommodate for that. I don't see
Speaker 4: that being in net plus in terms of last year
Speaker 4: to this year. So I would wager that their offensive
Speaker 4: line ends up in a worse overall situation. And you know,
Speaker 4: that's kind of the starting point. When you're looking at
Speaker 4: both passing and rushing. It's all comes down to how
Speaker 4: your offensive line can either buy your quarterback time or
Speaker 4: you know, help the running back open them holes, get
Speaker 4: more yards before contact, stuff like that. So the name
Speaker 4: of the game in terms of what happened to the
Speaker 4: Dolphins last year and how they could improve this year
Speaker 4: based on the personnel they have a lot of the
Speaker 4: offensive personnel that's coming back is very similar. You still
Speaker 4: have Tu at the helm, you have Tyreek Kill Jalen
Speaker 4: Waddle as your main two pass catchers, You have John
Speaker 4: hu Smith as your tight end, and then your lead
Speaker 4: running back is going to be Devani. So that structure
Speaker 4: is coming back, and besides the slight changing offensive line,
Speaker 4: over all, the offense looks very similar. Some tertiary options
Speaker 4: that have been added. They've improved their backup quarterback situation,
Speaker 4: which I would say kind of matters considering Sua had
Speaker 4: his own fair share of you know, more concussions last year.
Speaker 4: I think it was.
Speaker 1: Okay, But did they improve their backup quarterback situation now
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson and Quinn Yours.
Speaker 4: That's fair. I think that Zach Wilson is a good backup.
Speaker 4: I don't think he was a good starter. I think
Speaker 4: he's a good backup, but better than you know. They
Speaker 4: had Tyler Huntley, Skyler Thompson, Tim Boyle all made starts
Speaker 4: last year or had playtime, so it truly was a
Speaker 4: train wreck in terms of their backup quarterback situation. I
Speaker 4: think it's an improvement. Quin Yours you know, drafted in
Speaker 4: the seventh round, doesn't have a lot of capital behind him.
Speaker 4: They didn't invest a lot. But in terms of a
Speaker 4: third person, I think it's a good kind of upside play.
Speaker 4: Maybe there's something they can turn them into, but it'd
Speaker 4: be a really long shot situation. But you know, like
Speaker 4: I said, I think having Zach Wilson there is better
Speaker 4: for the overall sake of the offense. But both Tyreek
Speaker 4: Kill and Jalen Waddle had their fair share of struggles
Speaker 4: and injuries last year. You know, Tyreek Hill's a year older.
Speaker 4: But in terms of some backup wide receiver options on
Speaker 4: this team, they signed Nick Westbrook of Kinney UH and
Speaker 4: Dwaynette Eskridge, which again I think our role players at best. Yeah,
Speaker 4: nothing really that's going to move the needle in terms
Speaker 4: of the overall offense, but might be a slight bit
Speaker 4: of help at best. You know, it's unfortunate last year
Speaker 4: Jalen Waddle, he truly disappeared. And the silver lining I
Speaker 4: would say is that he was actually fine when Tua
Speaker 4: was healthy and when turned Armstead was healthy and the
Speaker 4: entire offense was on the field, then then things were
Speaker 4: starting to shape up. But you know, in terms of
Speaker 4: any kind of personnel changes that are going to open
Speaker 4: things up for him, I really don't see a lot
Speaker 4: going on there.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this, if you believe, you know,
Speaker 1: we saw real signs of decline from Tyreek Hill last year,
Speaker 1: I mean eye test metrically, and he's thirty one years old.
Speaker 3: Is there a scenario.
Speaker 1: Where you could justify suggesting it's a torch passing year
Speaker 1: from Tyreek Hills the number one wide receiver to Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddle this season.
Speaker 3: Sure.
Speaker 4: Absolutely, And that's even if they're both on a team.
Speaker 4: And I also think it's a very high likelihood or
Speaker 4: relatively high likelihood, that he's still a trade candidate. I mean,
Speaker 4: there's all this discussion this offseason, maybe leading up to
Speaker 4: the draft they were looking to move him for some capital.
Speaker 4: It never came to fruition, but you know that that
Speaker 4: tension is still in the air. And I think that
Speaker 4: if the Dolphins are interested in kind of opening up
Speaker 4: their options post Tyreek Hill, this is where they need
Speaker 4: to look. And he still has some value. You know,
Speaker 4: he could be a great receiver for another team. He
Speaker 4: could be a great receiver for this team. I mean
Speaker 4: he could instantly turn it back on as well. But
Speaker 4: Jalen Waddle has the potential to step up and be
Speaker 4: the number one in this offense. I don't think he's
Speaker 4: like a quintessential true wide receiver one, But agreed, I
Speaker 4: think that these two intan and worked very well. And
Speaker 4: if you're moving Tyreek Hill, you know, there's always potential
Speaker 4: to get another player coming back to that, you know,
Speaker 4: if you want to balance things out. But the way
Speaker 4: the current state of the receivers are after Jalen Waddle,
Speaker 4: I would not recommend unless the season is truly lost,
Speaker 4: somewhere around week seven, eight nine range, you know, before
Speaker 4: the trade deadline, obviously, to move Tyreek Hill and then
Speaker 4: have Waddle finish out the years to one.
Speaker 1: At the running back position, Devine eh Chan was the
Speaker 1: do everything guy last year. Caught a ton of passes.
Speaker 1: I think he ran gallantly behind a bad offensive line,
Speaker 1: and he stayed healthy, which you know, going into the
Speaker 1: season that was all the talk about e Chan was
Speaker 1: Kenny possibly played play seventeen games, and he did. Then
Speaker 1: it goes to Jalen Wright, and then it goes to
Speaker 1: two guys who I don't even know they're going to
Speaker 1: make the team Ollie Gordon, who I dislike as a rookie,
Speaker 1: and then Alexander Madison, who I love is human being,
Speaker 1: but do not think that he's a requisitive of an
Speaker 1: NFL runner anymore. So, if if you want to if
Speaker 1: unless they're going to have to run a cham just
Speaker 1: as much this year, which I don't think they want
Speaker 1: to do. They had to do it last year, Jalen
Speaker 1: Wattle gets to be a kind of an interesting late
Speaker 1: round drafted dart throat to me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's true. They had some struggles running
Speaker 4: the ball last year for sure, and you know, well
Speaker 4: Hm was the lead back and was taking the majority
Speaker 4: of the work. I don't think there's any other running
Speaker 4: back on this team that could step up to take
Speaker 4: work to improve the overall situation. So you know, like
Speaker 4: Jalen Wright, he's probably the handcuff here because he's just
Speaker 4: been in the office for the offense for an extra year,
Speaker 4: whereas you know, Madison and Gordon both need to be
Speaker 4: ramped up a little bit. So yeah, this could be
Speaker 4: a bit more of a passing team. I mean, even
Speaker 4: Hm himself can be a pass catching back. So if
Speaker 4: they're not going to try to just you know, run
Speaker 4: smash mouth football, which no one expects them to. But
Speaker 4: they're certainly gonna lean into their pass options, which you know, again,
Speaker 4: you need to stay healthy and you need that offensive
Speaker 4: line to outperform our current expectations.
Speaker 3: I think I called Jalen right, Jalen Waddle.
Speaker 4: Nice of you not to Oh yeah, okay, I actually
Speaker 4: wasn't sure, but I think yeah, I think both were.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna why not.
Speaker 1: They're the ones who put two Jalen W's on their
Speaker 1: own team.
Speaker 3: So look, this is undemb not me. Uh.
Speaker 1: Overall, is this Miami offense going to be better or
Speaker 1: worse than last year?
Speaker 4: It's again, I think it comes down to health. I
Speaker 4: said worse by stagnation. I don't think they're really doing
Speaker 4: anything to help out their offense. I think that the
Speaker 4: changes that they made on the offensive line were valiant
Speaker 4: but falling short, and so I'm going with worse. If
Speaker 4: they stay healthy. You know, Mike McDaniel, he's offensive guru.
Speaker 4: He can pull it together and make it work again.
Speaker 4: And maybe there's an upside case, but I think just
Speaker 4: looking at personnel changes, it's worse.
Speaker 3: Let's go over to the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: The big change for Buffalo is in the wide receiver room.
Speaker 1: Amari Cooper free agent right now today. Nobody wants him.
Speaker 1: Everybody assumes he's cooked at this point. Khalil Shakir got
Speaker 1: a four year, fifty million dollar extension. I love it.
Speaker 1: He drastically improved last year, doubled his production from the
Speaker 1: year prior.
Speaker 3: A lot of it was.
Speaker 1: Shorter passes, some which he turned into big plays. He
Speaker 1: led all full time receivers in yards after catch last year,
Speaker 1: right around eight yards per catch. He was top twenty
Speaker 1: and target rate among all wide receivers. But where Khalil
Speaker 1: Shakir was not able to help us last year and
Speaker 1: this might not change, is they just don't throw to
Speaker 1: him anywhere near the the end zone.
Speaker 3: He had a ten percent end zone rate. That's it.
Speaker 1: Target rate, that's it. And so I think he had three,
Speaker 1: maybe four touchdowns last year.
Speaker 3: And that's that's caps.
Speaker 1: The upside for Khalil Shakir. I love everything else about
Speaker 1: his game. They brought in those journeymen that I honestly
Speaker 1: don't care about, Josh Palmer, Elijah Moore, levishkas Chanot.
Speaker 3: Ken Coleman returns year two.
Speaker 1: I'm actually pretty optimistic about a breakout in his sophomore year.
Speaker 1: You know, he missed a month of development time last
Speaker 1: year with that risk injury Kent, and then he got
Speaker 1: saddled with a part time role because they had brought
Speaker 1: in guys like Amari Cooper that they were filtering in.
Speaker 1: And I want to believe Coleman is sitting on a
Speaker 1: much better year in year two, and he's got Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football's number one quarterback in ADP throwing to him. I like,
Speaker 1: Keyan Coleman is as a dart throw that you can
Speaker 1: pick up in eleventh round of your league. What do
Speaker 1: you what do you think about Kean Coleman.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean they drafted him as a traits guy,
Speaker 4: and I know that his production didn't quite match his traits,
Speaker 4: but you know, he needed probably a year or two
Speaker 4: to truly break out in the way that we're used
Speaker 4: to in a fantasy landscape. And you know, he doesn't
Speaker 4: have the pressure of being the number one guy. This
Speaker 4: is a platoon receiving court. We kind of touched on
Speaker 4: that last week as well, So you know, Sekuur, even
Speaker 4: Elijah Moore, Joshua Palmer, they're all going to play a
Speaker 4: little bit. So kenk Colon shouldn't have any pressure on
Speaker 4: himself to be going out and taking the game into
Speaker 4: his own hands. Typically it's Josh Allen doing all that,
Speaker 4: and he's really good at that. So they're gonna spread around.
Speaker 4: Kean Coleman's gonna get his fair share if they need
Speaker 4: a big body in the end zone. Coleman's a dude
Speaker 4: who should have an uptick in touchdown potential this year.
Speaker 1: I would think the running back room basically unchanged. Offensive
Speaker 1: line also basically unchanged for Buffalo. The at the tight
Speaker 1: end position, You'd like to believe this is the year
Speaker 1: that Dalton Kincaid really exerts himself over Dawson Knox. We
Speaker 1: saw signs of that at the end of his rookie year,
Speaker 1: and then last year was an almost even time split
Speaker 1: between those two, which frustrated a lot of fantasy owners,
Speaker 1: including me. So I gotta believe that Kencaid's going to
Speaker 1: have more opportunities to distance himself from Dawson Knox. In totality,
Speaker 1: I think this Bill's offense is slightly better just because
Speaker 1: I think Keyon Coleman gets a little better. Ray Davis
Speaker 1: could have a bigger role now as a sophomore and
Speaker 1: Dalton Kincaid could have a bigger role and could be
Speaker 1: better in year number three. So we'll go slightly better
Speaker 1: for the Bills. Let's head over the Jets, Kent. We've
Speaker 1: got a whole new coaching staff to talk about.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Robert sala is out and we're bringing in Aaron Glenn,
Speaker 4: the former defensive coordinator from the Lions, who is also
Speaker 4: bringing along with him Tanner Engstround excuse me, Engstrand, and
Speaker 4: he was the pass game coordinator for the Lions. So
Speaker 4: if we're looking to, you know, kind of the focus,
Speaker 4: there's definitely a defensive head coach is something that's I
Speaker 4: would say a concern for most fantasy players, whether justified
Speaker 4: or not. But this is a first time offensive coordinator
Speaker 4: and that's going to be interesting to watch. It's you know,
Speaker 4: we'll get into it here. But a personnel that I
Speaker 4: think has gotten overall worse. They've made some improvements and
Speaker 4: we'll talk about him here. So the offensive line, you know,
Speaker 4: they now they've gone back to back years drafting first
Speaker 4: round offensive tackles Olufashawanda last year, our Man Membu this year.
Speaker 4: They have their full interior coming back and they all
Speaker 4: posted really good PFF blocking grades last season, So I
Speaker 4: think we have an improved offensive line situation. Unfortunately, I
Speaker 4: think that's probably the only part where they've made improvements.
Speaker 4: You know, Aaron Rodgers has gone. Justin Fields signed a
Speaker 4: two year, forty million dollar contract, and you know, last
Speaker 4: season he got replaced by Russell Wilson up in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 4: It was a very interesting situation. I think a lot
Speaker 4: of people kind of wanted to see Justin Fields keep going.
Speaker 4: He started the first six games of the year last
Speaker 4: year for the Steelers and he was QB six during
Speaker 4: those weeks. I mean, he was performing in terms of fantasy,
Speaker 4: it was just kind of the more NFL side that
Speaker 4: people had questions about his ability to win games. So,
Speaker 4: you know, that's a downgrade in terms of the quarterback.
Speaker 4: On the receiver side of things, obviously, Devon Adams is
Speaker 4: gone at him for eleven games last year after the trade,
Speaker 4: and now he's off gallivanting around on a new team.
Speaker 3: So when you when when you go to LA do
Speaker 3: you get to gallivant?
Speaker 4: Well, yeah, they do their fair share of gallivanting, and
Speaker 4: well if you do, if you do.
Speaker 3: If you go to any p Diddy's parties.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, they're gonna be Yeah, you'll do a lot
Speaker 1: of gallivanting.
Speaker 4: Let's hope that Adams didn't go to any of those.
Speaker 4: But uh, I digress. But Garrett Wilson is, you know,
Speaker 4: still the you know, left as the number one here again.
Speaker 4: And you know last year he was he was solid.
Speaker 4: One hundred fifty four targets, eleven hundred receiving yards, seven touchdowns.
Speaker 4: That's fine. He hasn't quite lived up to his hype
Speaker 4: that he had after he went in the first round.
Speaker 4: A lot of people were really high on him. Ohio
Speaker 4: State receivers, you know, they got this kind of monkey
Speaker 4: on their back they're still trying to get rid of.
Speaker 4: But I saw a tweet recently, actually, I think that
Speaker 4: is very telling us from Heath Cummings, who works for
Speaker 4: US Fantasy. Sometimes you know the answer before you even
Speaker 4: asked the question. Two receivers have seen at least four
Speaker 4: hundred targets in their first three seasons and have averaged
Speaker 4: less than seven yards per target. The first, Deontay Johnson,
Speaker 4: who as we know, has been kind of dealing with
Speaker 4: his own issues, can't seem to land on a team
Speaker 4: and establish a role anymore. And then the other is
Speaker 4: Garret Wilson.
Speaker 3: So not but those guys are nothing alike. You know,
Speaker 3: I swear Gara Wilson is actually good.
Speaker 4: He is, and I think you know Deontay Johnson. I
Speaker 4: won't go too deep into him, but he was always
Speaker 4: a volume guy. I think that's where most of his
Speaker 4: fantasy affinity came from. And Garret Wilson is a lot
Speaker 4: more dynamic after the catch and everything. So you're totally
Speaker 4: right there. I just it's it's again another sign he's
Speaker 4: just not quite what we've been what we wanted from him, and.
Speaker 1: We're quarterbacks, or as quarterbacks for Garrett Wilson, have not
Speaker 1: been what we wanted. Aaron Rodgers threw his arm out
Speaker 1: of socket last year, all of it to DeVante Adams.
Speaker 4: Yes, yeah, And you know, Garrett Wilson was the second
Speaker 4: fiddle there and now he's back to being first fiddle.
Speaker 4: But who's going to be second fiddled this year is
Speaker 4: the question. You know, we have Al Lazard left over
Speaker 4: from the Rogers recruitment campaign. He was a ghost without
Speaker 4: Rodgers in twenty three, so I'm not seeing Lazard stepping
Speaker 4: up this year. Josh Reynold was acquired for pennies on
Speaker 4: the dollar and free agency. They have Malchi Corley, who
Speaker 4: he saw six targets in twenty twenty four, and you know,
Speaker 4: he was more of a gadget kind of guy coming
Speaker 4: out a lot a lot of usage in the screen
Speaker 4: game and stuff like that. But they didn't even try
Speaker 4: to get the ball in his hands last year. So
Speaker 4: if there's a breakout coming, I don't think many people
Speaker 4: see it. And I don't know of this particular group
Speaker 4: who's going to be wide receiver too. Do you have
Speaker 4: any guesses.
Speaker 1: Out of those guys. I mean, if you make me
Speaker 1: pick somebody, I can't take Corley. He's just he's just
Speaker 1: not built to be at number two. I'll take Thizard
Speaker 1: and just yuck.
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, it's gross. And I think that's also a
Speaker 4: worrying sign for Gear Wilson, as he'll probably see more
Speaker 4: bracket coverage and stuff like that. So you know, if
Speaker 4: we switch up and talk about their running game a
Speaker 4: little bit, they're bringing back their same platoon from last year,
Speaker 4: Brailn Allen, Isaiah Davis, the same guys, and you know,
Speaker 4: it's Breese Hall's back field for now, and I think
Speaker 4: that he has a tenuous grasp on the backfield. As
Speaker 4: things stand, he had some home run hits, but when
Speaker 4: he's not hitting the home runs, he's striking out a lot,
Speaker 4: and that's really tough to see, you know. Braylen Allen,
Speaker 4: they tried to get him involved and he was kind
Speaker 4: of ho hum, a little bit of a plotter at times.
Speaker 4: Isaiah Davis I think had the most juice. He had
Speaker 4: five point eight yards per carry. He was plus one
Speaker 4: point four rushing yards over expectation per attempt, and all
Speaker 4: that was week fourteen and beyond, So they were getting
Speaker 4: involved late in the year. If you're gonna see any
Speaker 4: kind of transition out of this backfield, I think Davis
Speaker 4: has the chance to leap frog Braylan Allen. And you know,
Speaker 4: if Breesol can't find a rhythm, there could be potential
Speaker 4: that they start either going full balanced a third apiece,
Speaker 4: or they give Davis a little bit more of the
Speaker 4: carries down the stretch.
Speaker 3: I disliked.
Speaker 1: I dislike Davis until the very end of the year,
Speaker 1: and I was really disappointed in what we saw for
Speaker 1: the most part, given how much optimism we had when
Speaker 1: he came into the league. But he started to show
Speaker 1: signs at the end of the year. But I am
Speaker 1: not ready to talk about Breeze Hall losing his job.
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to go there. You are on an
Speaker 1: island as far as I'm concerned, gone that cat.
Speaker 4: I yeah, And that's we're talking like a five to
Speaker 4: ten percent scenario here. But in terms of, you know,
Speaker 4: we're bringing back the same guys, what changes could there be?
Speaker 4: That's the only one I could see a path for.
Speaker 4: That's kind of the way I'm putting.
Speaker 1: It, all right, So in totality, Jets over, are they
Speaker 1: better or are they worse this coming year?
Speaker 4: It's definitely worse. And the only way that they're gonna
Speaker 4: have a better outcome is if they have some miracle
Speaker 4: comeback season from Justin Fields as a passer, I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't see that as likely. So I'm just going
Speaker 4: straight up worse.
Speaker 1: Okay, let's go to the Patriots, where everything is new,
Speaker 1: new head coach, new offensive coordinator, but names you already
Speaker 1: know offensive coordinator or new coaches Mike Rabel, your offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator is Josh McDaniels. There's you know, we've seen the
Speaker 1: good and bad of Josh McDaniels offenses. More bad than good,
Speaker 1: and that part worries me when he hasn't ed Tom Brady,
Speaker 1: Josh McDaniels hasn't hasn't shown himself to be a terribly
Speaker 1: effective offensive coordinator. I think this team will be run heavy,
Speaker 1: like most people believe Mike Rabel Now, granted he had
Speaker 1: Derek Henry, but he ran the ball like crazy in Tennessee.
Speaker 1: We presume that's going to be that the Patriots will
Speaker 1: be focused that way this year, and that's probably why
Speaker 1: they added Traveon Henderson in round number two. Now, Ramondre
Speaker 1: Stevenson remains the presumed starter, at least at the beginning
Speaker 1: of the year, because he has got all the you know,
Speaker 1: all the history and everything else that you get with
Speaker 1: with the starters, but with the veteran But sometimes you
Speaker 1: bring in a whole new coaching staff, they don't care,
Speaker 1: you know, like you know Ramondre.
Speaker 3: They have no history with Ramondre. Maybe they won't care.
Speaker 1: I do like Ramondre, and I still think he starts
Speaker 1: the season, but I do worry about Henderson at some
Speaker 1: point that this either goes platoon or Henderson.
Speaker 3: Just beats him out at some point.
Speaker 1: I always feel like Ramandre Kent runs hard, He does
Speaker 1: what he can behind a terrible offensive line, which is
Speaker 1: most of what he's had for his entire career. A reminder,
Speaker 1: when Mike Rabel was the head coach of the Titans,
Speaker 1: they ran the second most running plays. Only Baltimore ran more,
Speaker 1: and they had Lamar Jackson. So this is gonna this
Speaker 1: should be plenty of running plays coming in this new offense.
Speaker 1: And then the offensive line got better. They got three
Speaker 1: new starters. They put the fourth overall pick into Will Campbell.
Speaker 1: They added longtime Minnesota starting center Garrett Bradberry and then
Speaker 1: journeyman right tackle Morgan Moses as well. They're all upgrades
Speaker 1: over what they had been trolling out on their offensive
Speaker 1: line for the Patriots.
Speaker 3: So kind of excited about that.
Speaker 1: The receiver situation did not get nearly the attention I
Speaker 1: thought it would, And I'm really disappointed about this as
Speaker 1: somebody who likes Drake may a lot Stefan Diggs, who
Speaker 1: knows at his age what his ability will be like
Speaker 1: to overcome an ACL. His availability for Week one is
Speaker 1: very much up in the air. They brought in mac Hollins,
Speaker 1: don't really care. They spent a third rounder on Kyle Williams.
Speaker 1: And the thing is he looks like a project. He
Speaker 1: did not wow anybody in college after his freshman season,
Speaker 1: and he might have to you may have to learn
Speaker 1: the slot in the NFL. It's just there's he doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like he's ready to make an immediate impact. So
Speaker 1: really bummed out about the offseason that the Patriots had
Speaker 1: to receive. And I understand ken they needed to fix
Speaker 1: like everything except quarterback and you couldn't get to it all.
Speaker 1: But man, I didn't love the moves that they ended
Speaker 1: up making it receiver. Do you do you see the
Speaker 1: receiver position for the Patriot it's any differently or more
Speaker 1: optimistically than I do?
Speaker 4: No, I don't. I don't think Kyle Williams is going
Speaker 4: to be a dynamic change, game changer to this receiving corps.
Speaker 4: One thing to note is that they do love using
Speaker 4: two tight ends. Both Hunter Henry and Austin Hooper get
Speaker 4: involved pretty pretty commonly, so they're not going to rely
Speaker 4: on the receivers in a very heavy way. And I think,
Speaker 4: you know, if they get digs back, this this is
Speaker 4: overall a decent receiving corps, you know, And looking at
Speaker 4: the draft, they spent their four first draft picks on
Speaker 4: offensive positions, whether offensive line, receiver, running back. They really
Speaker 4: wanted to make an effort to make things better for
Speaker 4: Drake May. I don't think it was as good as
Speaker 4: it could have been, but at least I'm seeing the
Speaker 4: effort and hopefully, you know, maybe we're a little bit
Speaker 4: wrong about Kyle Williams. Maybe he can step up and
Speaker 4: you know, be a larger role on this receiving corps.
Speaker 4: But it's it's still falling short of what you would
Speaker 4: hope to have in place for a guy like Drake May,
Speaker 4: who has showed all the trades of I think a
Speaker 4: really great quarterback, and you need to be able to
Speaker 4: put the team around him to make it work.
Speaker 1: The word I was using around Drake May is gallant.
Speaker 1: I think he played gallantly while trying to overcome the
Speaker 1: worst offensive line in football last year and the worst
Speaker 1: set of receivers all on the same team, and he
Speaker 1: was still fantasy viable in part because of his running,
Speaker 1: in part because he heaved up some bombs, because he
Speaker 1: does have the big arm. I think he is he
Speaker 1: is a candidate for a big jump this year if
Speaker 1: he's not under constant duress and it turns out any
Speaker 1: of his receivers can catch. We don't know that that's
Speaker 1: the case yet, we'll find out. So overall, you know,
Speaker 1: they finished thirtieth in points scored last year. They'll be
Speaker 1: better than that this year. Just with the improvements on
Speaker 1: the offensive line. Maybe Diggs will come back and be
Speaker 1: a you know, if you can just be two thirds
Speaker 1: of what he was a couple of years ago, that
Speaker 1: would we would we'd be very very happy with that.
Speaker 3: Can't. Let's take a break when we came back.
Speaker 1: Let's turn our attention to the n f C and uh,
Speaker 1: let's uh, let's dive into those teams, including the Eagles.
Speaker 3: We'll find out what changed, what is new in the
Speaker 3: super Bowl city of Philadelphia when we come back.
Speaker 1: Welcome back, Segment number two Fantasy Football Weekly Paul Charchian
Speaker 1: and kent Y Rock Kent. People can follow you on Twitter.
Speaker 1: I do, but then they have to spell your name.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and it doesn't the same way it sounds. So
Speaker 4: I'll go ahead and get other people out here. Yeah. Absolutely,
Speaker 4: So it's uh kent k e n t y rock
Speaker 4: w E y r a U c H and yes,
Speaker 4: it's super German.
Speaker 1: It's super German. Some people would say all Germans are
Speaker 1: super mm. That is not an easy one, and I'm not.
Speaker 1: Don't ask even I, who know you and have your
Speaker 1: name frequently, full name right in front of me, even
Speaker 1: I would struggle to nail that one down. That's in
Speaker 1: many ways worse than charging in I always feel like
Speaker 1: with charging, if you if I gave you three cracks
Speaker 1: at it, you'd probably get it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I rock, I would be like twenty.
Speaker 4: And I've heard all twenty from various round half around
Speaker 4: the block, So yeah, I've heard them all. I'm not
Speaker 4: offended any way when it gets mispronounced.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you can't be you'd be a ball of
Speaker 1: rage all the time. You absolutely can't do that. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the NFC. Speaking of rage, that would be
Speaker 1: your Philadelphia Eagle fans typically, but not this year, enjoying
Speaker 1: the aura of a Super Bowl victory. They're second in
Speaker 1: six years, I believe, So let's talk about Super Bowl champs.
Speaker 1: Not a lot of change here, but one of the
Speaker 1: big changes was that offensive coordinator.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right,
Speaker 4: And the Eagles have built up this roster, they've really
Speaker 4: done an excellent job with their team building over the years.
Speaker 4: But the new offensive coordinator situation is because Kellen Moore
Speaker 4: left to take the Saints head coaching job, which is
Speaker 4: its own interesting storyline we'll get to when we get
Speaker 4: to that division. But he's replaced by Kevin Patulo I
Speaker 4: believe it's pronounced, and he's been the Eagles passing game
Speaker 4: coordinator since twenty twenty one, so there's a lot of
Speaker 4: familiarity here. I have a feeling this is not going
Speaker 4: to be a major effect on the offense. A lot
Speaker 4: of the same tendencies and styles are going to be
Speaker 4: replicated from last year. So one thing that's really important
Speaker 4: to note, you know, talk about the Patriots drafting only
Speaker 4: offensive players early in the draft. The Eagles didn't touch
Speaker 4: offense until they got to round five, so they started defense, defense, defense.
Speaker 4: They really put a heavy heavyweight on the defensive side
Speaker 4: of the ball. And why not when your offense is
Speaker 4: so good, your offensive line is still really great. You know,
Speaker 4: it's mostly the same. They have a slight downgrade at
Speaker 4: right guard because as they lost Mecky mackay Becton to
Speaker 4: UH and they downgraded to Tyler Steen, but he is
Speaker 4: their third rounder from the twenty twenty three NFL drafts.
Speaker 4: So again, he's been in the building. This shouldn't be
Speaker 4: a major downgrade. Could be an upgrade. We're not really sure.
Speaker 4: We haven't seen a lot of him yet. But this
Speaker 4: is the same offensive line that's been able to handle
Speaker 4: the tush push, been able to handle you know, Saquon
Speaker 4: Barkley breaking two thousand rushing yards. This is a great
Speaker 4: offensive line. So how that applies to their passing game.
Speaker 4: You know, they're bringing back with the core Jalen Hurts, A. J. Brown,
Speaker 4: Devanna Smith, Dallas Godeer. They signed Terrace Marshall. Can you
Speaker 4: believe it? He was a raided year And I must
Speaker 4: have deleted that from because exactly I didn't you know,
Speaker 4: see him on the field whatsoever in any kind of
Speaker 4: meaningful capacity. But you know one thing that they did
Speaker 4: do is they brought on some tight ends. You know,
Speaker 4: Dallas goder there's again they're talking about maybe trading him
Speaker 4: very recently here, but they decided to rework his contract.
Speaker 4: He took a little bit of a downgrade and pay,
Speaker 4: and they brought in k Kylin grantson from the Colts
Speaker 4: and Harrison Bryant from the Raiders as well, So they've
Speaker 4: got a little bit better of a tight end room.
Speaker 4: I guess you could say behind him. You know, last
Speaker 4: year he missed some time and uh Calcutta, what was
Speaker 4: his first name? I don't even remember, Kata cal Katara,
Speaker 4: the rant Calata Grant cal Katara was the backup and
Speaker 4: he was just okay. So they needed some more depth
Speaker 4: at the tight end position. I think that's the main
Speaker 4: reason they brought those guys in.
Speaker 3: Calcutt a clipper, Yes, cut a clipper. That's what we'll do.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 3: A J. Brown and DeVonta Smith remained great.
Speaker 1: Funny John Dotson still on the team and you wouldn't
Speaker 1: even know it if you watched any of the games.
Speaker 1: It's uh what you know, Howie Roseman's the best GM
Speaker 1: in football, one of the two best, probably the best.
Speaker 3: But wow did he got you know? I think it
Speaker 3: was a fourth rounder that he gave up for Dotson
Speaker 3: and that was a that was bad. It was bad.
Speaker 1: Jerry Jones, not to be outdone, gave up that fourth
Speaker 1: rounder for Jonathan Mingo.
Speaker 3: Those were goodness.
Speaker 1: All of those wide receiver trades that we had last year,
Speaker 1: like none of them worked out. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: tough position to just drop some somebody new into.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately, so with.
Speaker 1: All everything else being so similar or well, I should
Speaker 1: mention this, they lost Kenneth Gainwell, and to my eyes,
Speaker 1: Kenneth Gainwell was coming off his best year by mile.
Speaker 1: I thought he looked really, really spry and efficient in
Speaker 1: that offense in a way that he hadn't before. I
Speaker 1: you know, obviously I'm not trying to jinx anything about
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley, but I think they would miss having Gainwell
Speaker 1: if anything were to happen to Barkley.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I could see that.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 4: They brought in aj Dillon is kind of a I
Speaker 4: don't know, replacement. He's not he doesn't run the same
Speaker 4: way as not All or anything like that. But in
Speaker 4: terms of having a backup there, that's the most likely option.
Speaker 4: Or they still have will Shipley as well. So I
Speaker 4: know it's it's it's not a good situation if Barkley
Speaker 4: were to go down. That's certainly the main takeaway here.
Speaker 4: And you know, we're talking about how things are affecting
Speaker 4: the future. Can we look at if Barkley is going
Speaker 4: to be able to repeat the success he had last year.
Speaker 4: I don't know that he can almost you know, right,
Speaker 4: almost can't act. And I think that's the larger takeaway
Speaker 4: from the Philadelphia Eagles, is that because they brought back
Speaker 4: all the same people, you could say, well, how could
Speaker 4: it get worse? And I think that the argument would
Speaker 4: be that they played at their ceiling. They played the
Speaker 4: best possible version of this offense. You know, Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 4: who is a very very good passer, very good runner.
Speaker 4: He kind of hit some high benchmarks in terms of
Speaker 4: you know, his yards per attempt a just a completion percentage,
Speaker 4: his run game or excuse his PFF run great, and
Speaker 4: then passer rating. So those are all highs for him.
Speaker 4: And you know, if you're telling me, or if you're
Speaker 4: asking me if I think he's going to repeat that,
Speaker 4: I would say probably not. He's just he's not the
Speaker 4: elite level of a passer. He's a very good passer
Speaker 4: and a very good runner, possibly elite runner as well,
Speaker 4: just maybe a shade behind kind of like the Lamar
Speaker 4: Jackson Jayden Daniels t here, but still very very good.
Speaker 1: All right, So Eagles as a team do they get
Speaker 1: but they almost can't get better. But you know, I'll
Speaker 1: give I'll put it in your hands. Do the Eagles
Speaker 1: offense is, in totality get better or worse this year?
Speaker 4: If I'm a betting man, I'll say worse. I don't
Speaker 4: feel good about it, but that's that's where the money
Speaker 4: should go.
Speaker 3: I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, just you know, like Barkley gets hurt,
Speaker 1: you know, or you know, Ag Brown gets hurt, who
Speaker 1: never misses time, rarely misses time. I'm with you, almost,
Speaker 1: you know, not that there's any reason for them to
Speaker 1: get worse. It's just they almost can't get better than
Speaker 1: what they were last year.
Speaker 3: All right, let's go to the Cowboys.
Speaker 1: That'll be your first game of the season, right, It's
Speaker 1: it's Eagles Cowboys Thursday night.
Speaker 3: Yeah well, yeah, yeah, I believe that is correct.
Speaker 1: And oh it's so exciting that they're putting the seven
Speaker 1: win Cowboys on national television in week Number one is
Speaker 1: the kickoff game. Because everybody loves America's team. Everybody's second
Speaker 1: favorite team.
Speaker 3: Is the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: I feel such a sense of patriotism when I think
Speaker 1: about America's team at they.
Speaker 4: Got to lose that Moniker. I don't know if that's
Speaker 4: so much the case anymore.
Speaker 3: I think it never was.
Speaker 4: Well, that's certainly possibility.
Speaker 3: Just me. All right, let's start at the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott comes back currently going off the board around
Speaker 1: quarterback nineteen or twenty.
Speaker 3: I think that's a little light. I like him a
Speaker 3: little bit better than that.
Speaker 1: And I believe that the addition of George Pickens will
Speaker 1: help get more downfield passing out a Dak yet a
Speaker 1: really short a dot last years twenty eighth in average
Speaker 1: distance of throw just eight yards last year. I think
Speaker 1: Pickens will unlock more downfield passing because of his go
Speaker 1: up and get it stylings that he has, And it
Speaker 1: really is different. You know, neither he nor ceede Lam
Speaker 1: or Burners, but we know that Pickens can do some
Speaker 1: really fun stuff downfield when he can dominate shorter, less
Speaker 1: physical cornerbacks. Maybe that ultimately ends up up helping Dak.
Speaker 1: And I think I think the quarterback upgrade certainly helps
Speaker 1: George Pickens as well, who becomes much more fantasy viable
Speaker 1: here than he was in Pittsburgh. They also added Paris Campbell,
Speaker 1: but I think at this point he's officially and we
Speaker 1: can officially deem him to be a journeyman. I'd liked
Speaker 1: him coming out of the draft, but then he had
Speaker 1: all those injuries in his first couple of years and
Speaker 1: just hasn't been able to put it together.
Speaker 3: Unfortunately.
Speaker 1: The biggest story for the Cowboys, though, ken without a doubt,
Speaker 1: it's the running back position. We all thought this team
Speaker 1: was going to invest in this the mother of all
Speaker 1: running back drafts, that this team was going to invest
Speaker 1: some real equity into the running back position, and they didn't.
Speaker 1: They brought in Javante Williams. Let's talk about in for
Speaker 1: just a minute now. Last year was his second year
Speaker 1: off ACL, so I mean, you don't get any You
Speaker 1: can't keep blaming the ACL forever that that's done with.
Speaker 1: He was third to last in rushing yards over expectation,
Speaker 1: well under expectation, about negative point six yards under expectation
Speaker 1: per carry. Among runners with at least one hundred carries.
Speaker 1: Last year, Williams ranked forty first in yards, forty sixth
Speaker 1: in yards per carry, and forty first in broken tackle rate,
Speaker 1: all of them very near the bottom of runners with
Speaker 1: at least one hundred carries. For Javonte Williams, I don't
Speaker 1: understand why they made the move to pick him up
Speaker 1: at all. I think if they hadn't, he'd be a
Speaker 1: free agent right now. They also brought in Miles Sanders,
Speaker 1: we know how his stint in Carolina went, and then
Speaker 1: they did draft a rookie, Jaden Blue. But the problem is,
Speaker 1: Jayden Blue looks just like a change of pace runner.
Speaker 1: He does not look like a special runner. He doesn't
Speaker 1: look like somebody who's gonna carry the ball more than
Speaker 1: six seven times a game.
Speaker 3: He wasn't in college.
Speaker 1: I don't see his game really translating to other than
Speaker 1: some scattershot, potential big plays now and again, I don't
Speaker 1: think Jayden Blue is going to be an answer. So
Speaker 1: I did not like what Jerry Jones ended up doing
Speaker 1: at running back, and I didn't see any significant change here.
Speaker 1: In totality, Cowboys will be better this year with Pickens
Speaker 1: getting Dak back, but I don't see this team getting
Speaker 1: a lot better. Dak could have some big games Kent,
Speaker 1: because I think the running game is going to be
Speaker 1: just awful again, and that's going to give an opportunity
Speaker 1: to pass a lot, and we may see Dak throwing
Speaker 1: the ball a ton. I should mention, by the way,
Speaker 1: before we move off to Dallas. They did put that
Speaker 1: first round pick into right guard Tyler Booker, and you never,
Speaker 1: you know, we always love teams that fortify their offensive
Speaker 1: line at the end of the day. That always almost
Speaker 1: always helps. And when Zach Martin retired, they had they
Speaker 1: had to do something. They had nowhere to go, so
Speaker 1: Tyler Booker goes in there. But to me, Zach Martin
Speaker 1: was so good for so long that's at best just
Speaker 1: sort of like a push on what was a mach
Speaker 1: offensive line last year.
Speaker 4: Yeah, the Cowboys, they had the pristine vision of what
Speaker 4: an offensive line should be for so many years, and
Speaker 4: then it kind of fell apart on him a little bit.
Speaker 4: And you know that's going to happen. You go through
Speaker 4: waves and cycles and I totally get it. But one
Speaker 4: other thing I wanted to note in regards to the
Speaker 4: Cowboys that you know, last year their defense was horrific,
Speaker 4: and I think that they did not make many meaningful
Speaker 4: additions there too, So you could see a lot of
Speaker 4: high over undertotal. That's the games that these guys are playing.
Speaker 4: It So in terms of fantasy, you know, you got
Speaker 4: decks slinging the ball either from behind or just trying
Speaker 4: to get ahead. So I'm with you. I've been in
Speaker 4: on Dak. I've been drafting him quite a bit recently
Speaker 4: here in Best Ball drafts, So I'm with you there.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to our next team, Washington Commanders.
Speaker 1: Now suddenly the thrilling what and another team that I
Speaker 1: thought was going to make a move at running back
Speaker 1: and much to my frustration, did not because I am
Speaker 1: just I am not a Brian Robinson believer.
Speaker 4: Well you know, I get it. But also they were
Speaker 4: third in rushing yards last year, so if it ain't,
Speaker 4: don't fix it once again.
Speaker 3: That's that was their quarterback, and Austin Eckler helped.
Speaker 4: Sure, yep, that's fair, I know that. You know, some
Speaker 4: of the advanced measures that were on the Commander's running
Speaker 4: backs were still pretty good. In fact, all of their
Speaker 4: running backs, Robinson, Eckler, McNicholas Rodriguez, they were all over
Speaker 4: expectation on rushing yards. So they were able to use
Speaker 4: their offense and their scheme in a way to make
Speaker 4: their running backs work well. In addition to Jane Daniels,
Speaker 4: who's obviously the cherry on in terms of transforming this
Speaker 4: into a really strong rushing offense, you know, and even
Speaker 4: so that they were so focused on rushing despite being
Speaker 4: near the back of the league and passing attempts they
Speaker 4: were ninth and passing touchdowns too, so they're scoring a
Speaker 4: whole bunch on the ground through the air. They drafted
Speaker 4: Josh Connerley at the end of the first round. I
Speaker 4: see that as more of a succession plan to Laramie Tunsel,
Speaker 4: who has I'd have to look, but I think another
Speaker 4: year or two left on his contract and he might
Speaker 4: get a shot at right tackle. They don't have a
Speaker 4: true starter right now on the right side, so that
Speaker 4: could be a camp battle kind of situation.
Speaker 2: Uh.
Speaker 4: You know, they were second in run block win rate
Speaker 4: of this offensive line last year, so again, I think
Speaker 4: it's all coming together under the scheme. Cliff Kingsbury really
Speaker 4: did a great job as the offensive coordinator here. I
Speaker 4: have to give credit where it's due despite his you know,
Speaker 4: head coaching. You know kurb Bunkle that he went through recently.
Speaker 4: So you know Jane Daniels, he yeah, Jane and Daniels.
Speaker 4: You know, he was the second Olverall pick. But obviously
Speaker 4: he lived up to the hype. He was sixth and
Speaker 4: EPA per play that's going to continue that he's so
Speaker 4: dynamic pass catchers that he's throwing to.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: They signed Noah Brown, which is a good third option,
Speaker 4: I'll say, And then they traded a fifth round pick
Speaker 4: for Deebo Samuel, which might sound like a load trade compensation.
Speaker 4: That's more of a contract age offsetting type of thing
Speaker 4: when it comes to the trades in the NFL. So
Speaker 4: I wouldn't put it past them to still be using
Speaker 4: Deebo Samuel quite a bit. He's coming off a little
Speaker 4: bit of a down year, but very much a down
Speaker 4: year from a fan. I downplayed it, or maybe uplayed it,
Speaker 4: whatever the correct way to say that is. But it's
Speaker 4: a down year for sure. And I think that this
Speaker 4: is a good offense for him to come to. And
Speaker 4: I think that if you know Kingsbury's going to continue
Speaker 4: with his offensive success, that he can scheme up Debo,
Speaker 4: get him some screen looks, get him out in space
Speaker 4: the same way he was used in San Francisco. So
Speaker 4: I think that he's a good fit for this offense.
Speaker 4: He pairs well with Terry McLaurin, who's kind of, you know,
Speaker 4: somewhat similar to and I, you sort of prototype, And
Speaker 4: I think this is a good combo of one two
Speaker 4: wide receiver.
Speaker 3: Let me ask you this about Deebo Samuel.
Speaker 1: I'm working on my guillotine player rankings now we're gonna
Speaker 1: post him fairly soon. I really really thought long and
Speaker 1: hard about zach Ertz, who was a terrific guillotine tight end.
Speaker 1: Not really explosive, but you know he was helping you
Speaker 1: out with like, you know, four catches and sixty yards
Speaker 1: a game and really really safe.
Speaker 3: But here comes Deebo.
Speaker 1: Samuel, and we know Deebo Samuel lines up in the
Speaker 1: slot a lot.
Speaker 3: He's about built like a tight end.
Speaker 1: And I'm a little bit worried that Deebo Samuel is
Speaker 1: going to eat into zach Ertz's just sort of game
Speaker 1: in and game out productivity that we saw last year.
Speaker 3: Do you have any thoughts about that?
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't see Ertz being replicating the success he
Speaker 4: had last year. He's already got Benson at behind him,
Speaker 4: kind of champion at the big.
Speaker 3: And it had like one catch last year. I'm not
Speaker 3: worried about that.
Speaker 4: Sure, that's fair, but you know, if if they're wanting to,
Speaker 4: you know, zech Ertz is up there in age, so
Speaker 4: they're gonna need some someone to step in once he
Speaker 4: is done playing. And and that's the current game plan.
Speaker 4: So maybe they change that in the in the coming years,
Speaker 4: but for now, that's the way I think they look
Speaker 4: at it. And yeah, I you know, Debo is going
Speaker 4: to cut into that if they have any you know,
Speaker 4: reduced success in terms of their overall offense, passing, rushing
Speaker 4: either way, you know, all of a sudden, Earth's becomes
Speaker 4: kind of a second option in this overall offense. They're
Speaker 4: going to go to their main guys like Debo McLaurin
Speaker 4: and then you know, Brian Robinson and maybe Eckler. But
Speaker 4: it's it's it's not someone that I'm I'm particularly interested
Speaker 4: in drafting a whole bunch this year for sure.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm I'm really I'm torn on that because guy
Speaker 1: he made he helped me in so many Guillotine leagues
Speaker 1: ers did where you don't need explosive output, you just
Speaker 1: need to have solid numbers for you know, up until
Speaker 1: about Thanksgiving, and I I want to believe that he
Speaker 1: could do that again in this in this offense, Washington's
Speaker 1: got so many different ways to score and hurt opponents,
Speaker 1: and you know, he could be you know, he could
Speaker 1: be remain a big tool in that, but we'll find out.
Speaker 1: So sorry, sorry to cut you off there. I'll let
Speaker 1: you continue, but I just wanted to get to a
Speaker 1: little zach Ertz chatter in there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, that's fine. The only point to touch on
Speaker 4: is the rushing game. You know, they bringing back the
Speaker 4: same group, so there's not a whole lot of changes.
Speaker 4: Eckler's getting old, so maybe they reduce his touch work
Speaker 4: a little bit. I'm not sure, But overall, I think
Speaker 4: this offense is better just for adding Deebo Samuel to it.
Speaker 4: And I think Noah Brown is a good addition as well.
Speaker 4: So I'm gonna I'm gonna look on the positive side
Speaker 4: for this one.
Speaker 1: Say better all right, I'm I'm I probably would say better,
Speaker 1: But Raminson just doesn't do it for me fortieth and
Speaker 1: avoided tackle. Right, He's just you know, for a guy
Speaker 1: his size, I want him to shred some dudes.
Speaker 3: I want him to break tackles, doesn't break tackles. Just
Speaker 3: not a power runner. Despite as you know, eye test,
Speaker 3: you think he's gonna be. Yeah, he's just a guy.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I don't just.
Speaker 1: I just I wish, I wish this team, and you know,
Speaker 1: they put a first rounder in their offensive line, which
Speaker 1: I always love and that ultimately, at the end of
Speaker 1: the day, I respect that part of it. But man,
Speaker 1: there were some game changing running backs that they passed
Speaker 1: on that I don't I don't understand. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the Giants, our fourth thought, well, eighth and final team
Speaker 1: for this podcast, saving the worst for last, I guess,
Speaker 1: so a lot of change a quarterback, right, So we
Speaker 1: have Russell Wilson, We've got Jameis Winston, and then in
Speaker 1: the first round they took Jackson Dart. Now, everybody believes
Speaker 1: that the ideal scenario here is Dart doesn't touch a
Speaker 1: starting NFL game this year. He is widely viewed as
Speaker 1: a project who is best learning from the bench for
Speaker 1: a year, in part because he came from the Lane
Speaker 1: Kiffin shotgun system, which is all all about building a
Speaker 1: skill set that does not work necessarily in the NFL.
Speaker 1: You get all these advantages of misdirection and false tells,
Speaker 1: and then all you have to do is go make
Speaker 1: your first read and Dart was good at that. But
Speaker 1: a lot of times those traits do not translate to
Speaker 1: the NFL right away. When you have to methodically make
Speaker 1: your reads. And the hope is that Dart would have
Speaker 1: to start that the Giants offense can be just fine
Speaker 1: with Russell Wilson, that it can be good enough, much
Speaker 1: like Russell Wilson was last year in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: At the White opposition.
Speaker 1: No notable changes tight ends, no notable changes running back though,
Speaker 1: Cam Scatapo's landing spot, and I liked this pick. I
Speaker 1: feel like he was an ideal pairing to go with
Speaker 1: Tyrone Tracy because Tracy converted wide receiver, not a great
Speaker 1: inside runner, not somebody you'd want to you feel comfortable
Speaker 1: giving the ball to at third.
Speaker 3: Down and two at the goal line.
Speaker 1: Scatabo, though, he's just he's going to bring the boom
Speaker 1: to that offense that Tracy just can't. I love how
Speaker 1: he is just out there looking for contact. He's trying
Speaker 1: to find defenders he can mow down, and you just
Speaker 1: don't see many players like that. And Scatabo is gonna
Speaker 1: get the goal line work that's going to eat into
Speaker 1: Tracy's upside. I'm down on Tracy. I've taken him in
Speaker 1: zero best ball drafts so far, and Scatterball, on the
Speaker 1: other hand, there's gonna be games or he's gonna get
Speaker 1: a couple of a couple of rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 3: He's gonna be all those guys.
Speaker 1: He's gonna have like six carries for four yards and
Speaker 1: two touchdowns in some games. Now, Scatabo is slow, he's short,
Speaker 1: and he's twenty three years old, which for your dynasty
Speaker 1: players is pretty old for rookie. I don't think you're
Speaker 1: gonna get a lot of explosive plays at the NFL level.
Speaker 1: But he's gonna break some tackles and he's going to
Speaker 1: get you some touchdowns. And I don't think Devin Singletary's
Speaker 1: going to make the team. We'll see maybe as a
Speaker 1: third running back.
Speaker 4: He was he was not too bad. He's kind of
Speaker 4: the same deal as that he's He shouldn't be a
Speaker 4: lead back and you know, Tyrone Tracy was better suited
Speaker 4: for that last year. But camp Scattabo is a great
Speaker 4: addition to this running back room if you are going
Speaker 4: to go platoon style. And you know who he kind
Speaker 4: of reminded me of was a modern day version of
Speaker 4: Mike Alstadt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I said.
Speaker 4: Too short, Mike Alstott. He's really fun to watch. I
Speaker 4: hope that they use him a decent amount this year,
Speaker 4: at least for our viewership sake.
Speaker 1: Thor comped him to David Montgomery, and I begged him
Speaker 1: to comp him doll Stott.
Speaker 3: He wouldn't do it. He could knock it off, he
Speaker 3: would not. He would not let me influence him that way.
Speaker 1: He kept his comp to Montgomery. But I just I
Speaker 1: see small all stop written all over him. Giants will
Speaker 1: be better this year thanks to the upgraded quarterback. Right,
Speaker 1: So no longer do we have to see Tommy DeVito
Speaker 1: and Drew Locke and Daniel Jones. We're going to see
Speaker 1: We'll see Russell Wilson probably most of all of the year,
Speaker 1: maybe a little dash of Jameis Wins and in there
Speaker 1: if it's something goes wrong with Wilson again. Hope we
Speaker 1: hopefully we do not end up seeing Jackson Dart. Well
Speaker 1: done Thor not Thor.
Speaker 4: Oh well, I know you've been hanging out with Thor
Speaker 4: a lot, But it's.
Speaker 3: Been a lot of Thor, a lot of Thorp, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean?
Speaker 4: And for good reason. He is his second to none
Speaker 4: when it comes to just spitting out information on any
Speaker 4: human player prospect team. He's got it all, man.
Speaker 3: He does have it all.
Speaker 1: Sorry about that, and you know you both have got
Speaker 1: your you have a much.
Speaker 3: Fuller, more manly beard though.
Speaker 1: Oh I think you know listeners can't necessarily tell that,
Speaker 1: but I think it's I think it just goes without saying.
Speaker 4: I appreciate it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, really really lustrous. I'm very impressed.
Speaker 1: Ken'd yes, and I don't. I think you're not back
Speaker 1: next week. I believe somebody else is handling. I believe
Speaker 1: we're going to the AFC and NFC North, and I
Speaker 1: don't believe you're on the docket next week.
Speaker 4: Well, I hate to ruin your day here, charge, but
Speaker 4: you got me for one more week and then I
Speaker 4: think we're cycling back to matt after that week. So
Speaker 4: all right, we're gonna talk AC, NFC North, excuse me
Speaker 4: South next week?
Speaker 3: Is it South?
Speaker 1: Yep, Okay, we'll do the fine, We'll do the South
Speaker 1: next week. The scott Fish needs to make an appearance
Speaker 1: some point.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 4: I've heard he's pretty busy with all his various pots
Speaker 4: that he sticks his fingers into it.
Speaker 1: He's a pretty busy guy. Yeah, you know, I got
Speaker 1: plenty going on. I'm in the middle of moving. I mean,
Speaker 1: I've got a lot going on. You know, I make
Speaker 1: time for the show. We got we gotta get fit.
Speaker 1: We need to get fish out here on one of
Speaker 1: these shows. I'm worried it's going to be like August
Speaker 1: or something before it gets out here, because we're going
Speaker 1: to turn into Scott fish Pull season. That's right around
Speaker 1: the corner.
Speaker 4: Oh, it's coming up fast, I know, I know.
Speaker 3: Great job, Kent. We will talk to you next week.
Speaker 4: All right, it sounds great. Excited to break down some
Speaker 4: more divisions.
Speaker 3: See you. Let everybody bye bye,