WEBVTT - NFL Fantasy Football Podcast: Combine Fantasy Preview 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:14.239 Wow, everybody, It's Thursday, February twenty ninth, twenty twenty four. 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:17.119 Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast, where we're not 0:00:17.200 --> 0:00:18.880 planning to throw either. It's me and your man, MG 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:21.920 Marcus Great, joined by Michael F. Floyo and Laqwan Jones. 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:24.840 Happy leap Day, fellas. Do you guys have any plans 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:28.680 you get one extra twenty four hour period this year? 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:32.480 Do you have anything special you plan to do with it? Nope, 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:37.400 that sounds like a no at all. I forgot it happened. Yeah, 0:00:37.479 --> 0:00:40.400 I you know, I was just like I I didn't 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:42.600 even think about it. So I was I was driving 0:00:42.760 --> 0:00:44.599 It's when I went to go drop my kid off 0:00:44.600 --> 0:00:47.200 at school. When I'm driving home and I'm like listening 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:50.080 to the radio and like they're talking about like, oh yeah, 0:00:50.080 --> 0:00:51.559 a lot of people are getting married today, Like the 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:53.480 county courthouse is going to be fool people getting married 0:00:53.479 --> 0:00:55.640 because it's funny get married. I was like, one, I 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:59.200 never really thought about that, but also like people actually 0:00:59.280 --> 0:01:01.360 plan something for today, Like I was just like, it's 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:04.759 just Thursday. In my wow, I was ready to. 0:01:04.720 --> 0:01:07.240 Like pay the bills, you know, first of the month, right, 0:01:07.959 --> 0:01:09.560 we get a day off of that. 0:01:09.959 --> 0:01:12.360 Yeah, Rinz do, that's pretty much. You know, it's got 0:01:12.440 --> 0:01:14.640 it like I'm gonna do this show and then I 0:01:14.640 --> 0:01:16.200 don't know, maybe maybe work out. Like I have no 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:20.360 idea what I'm gonna do, No I do anyway, we're 0:01:20.360 --> 0:01:24.480 any talking obviously the Combine is going on now in Indianapolis, 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:27.400 and yeah, you know, I'm sitting here and we were 0:01:27.400 --> 0:01:30.280 talking before the show, and our own Daniel Jeremiah moved 0:01:30.280 --> 0:01:34.360 the sticks on Twitter. Is he's out tweeting measurements. I 0:01:34.400 --> 0:01:36.720 mean it was as I was saying, it's the super 0:01:36.720 --> 0:01:40.520 Bowl for hand size Twitter. Everybody's getting fired up about 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.199 hand measurements and that sort of thing. And we're gonna 0:01:43.240 --> 0:01:46.880 have large men running forty yards in spandex very soon. 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:48.920 So that's the thing that we'll be paying attention to 0:01:49.360 --> 0:01:51.800 over the weekend. But we will talk about the Combine. 0:01:51.840 --> 0:01:53.960 We'll do some hype trainer, smoke screen, a little bit 0:01:53.960 --> 0:01:56.040 of what we know. It's kind of things we are 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:59.080 looking for at the Combine. I think once this is 0:01:59.120 --> 0:02:02.520 all done, we can sort of dive into some guys individually. 0:02:02.800 --> 0:02:04.920 We're gonna reach out to our pow Bucky Brooks and 0:02:04.960 --> 0:02:06.640 see if he wants to come on and kind of 0:02:06.640 --> 0:02:09.760 give us a rundown of what he saw, who he likes, 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:13.720 who he thinks maybe we should avoid a little bit, though. 0:02:13.760 --> 0:02:15.440 We'll try to get him on in the coming weeks 0:02:15.480 --> 0:02:18.680 after that. But let's get start with a little bit 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:21.200 of news, A couple of headlines of notes since we 0:02:21.440 --> 0:02:25.440 last spoke to you. The Cincinnati Bengals plan to use 0:02:25.480 --> 0:02:28.960 the franchise tag on T. Higgins. I don't know that 0:02:29.000 --> 0:02:31.799 it's a major surprise. I mean, I thought we were 0:02:32.520 --> 0:02:34.359 maybe hoping he would get to test the waters and 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:36.200 see if he could find a new spot, But it 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:38.639 appears that his new spot will be his old spot 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:42.480 back in Cincinnati. I went over to Underdog and looked 0:02:42.520 --> 0:02:46.320 at his ADP. It is currently wide receiver twenty eight. 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:50.720 He has sandwiched between Cooper Cup and Amari Cooper Florio. 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:53.600 Are you cool with that right now? I'm cool with 0:02:53.680 --> 0:02:58.200 T Higgins going there. I'm not cool with those other 0:02:58.320 --> 0:03:00.800 names though, like me either. 0:03:01.080 --> 0:03:05.000 What does a Marii Cooper have to do? Man Last year, 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:09.920 in a season where his starting quarterback played six games 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:13.120 and then he had three other quarterbacks throwing him the ball, 0:03:13.680 --> 0:03:16.280 he averaged more points per game than like Chris Olave, 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:20.800 DeVonta Smith, Calvin Ridley, who I'm sure are all going 0:03:20.840 --> 0:03:24.120 ahead of him in these drafts. So as Cooper Cup, like, 0:03:24.160 --> 0:03:26.359 I understand last year was kind of a down year, 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:29.639 but he could still finish as a top five fantasy 0:03:29.639 --> 0:03:31.920 wide receiver I think. And if you want to say, well, 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:36.360 he has Phoka Nakua now to deal with, Higgins has 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:37.880 Jamar Chase. 0:03:37.680 --> 0:03:40.360 To deal with. Who is going to be a target vacuum? 0:03:40.440 --> 0:03:44.200 So I'm okay with I feel like any of these 0:03:44.240 --> 0:03:46.800 three names actually could go a few spots higher and 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:49.960 I'd have no issue with it at all. But yeah, 0:03:50.040 --> 0:03:53.080 to me, the bigger takeaway was like why, especially Amari 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:54.560 Cooper man, Like, what does he have to do to 0:03:54.600 --> 0:03:55.400 get some respect? 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:59.200 I am, yeah, I'm kind of with you, Like disrespect 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:02.600 it is, and I'm looking so I'm looking at it 0:04:02.680 --> 0:04:05.200 right now. Right So, Mariy Cooper's wide receiver twenty nine. 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:07.960 Zay Flowers is right behind him at thirty, Jayden Reid's 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:11.360 at thirty one, Drake London is at twenty six, Keenan 0:04:11.360 --> 0:04:17.760 Allen at twenty five. I mean that's a lot to 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:21.240 take in right there. What is going on. I'm I 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:24.080 didn't mean for this to become a wide receiver ADP discussion, 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:26.039 but now that I'm here, I'm scrolling through some of these. 0:04:26.080 --> 0:04:31.599 I mean, Marvin Harrison Junior is at eleven. Nico Collins 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.960 is wide receiver nine right now, which I tie. I've 0:04:34.960 --> 0:04:36.880 seen a lot of buzz for Nico Collins, a lot 0:04:36.880 --> 0:04:39.360 of people excited about him. You know, our friend and 0:04:39.720 --> 0:04:43.080 wide receiver whisper Matt Harmon is out saying that he 0:04:43.160 --> 0:04:46.679 thinks Nico Collins has wide receiver one potential and maybe 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:51.480 wide receiver nine feels like a reach for him right 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:52.920 now because he's great. 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:54.400 I think a lot of people are living off the 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:57.000 hype of him finally breaking out because I'm one of 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:59.839 those people. But I'm even saying wide receiver nine is 0:05:00.080 --> 0:05:02.640 tab bit right now. It might get humbled tunes when 0:05:02.680 --> 0:05:03.320 we get closer. 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:06.920 Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I know Tank Dell 0:05:07.000 --> 0:05:08.720 got hurt sort of later in the year, but he 0:05:08.800 --> 0:05:12.919 still exists. Malik Neighbors is wide receiver twenty three. Some 0:05:13.000 --> 0:05:15.360 weak Neighbors right now going five spots ahead oft Te Higgins, 0:05:15.440 --> 0:05:21.120 six spots ahead of Amari Cooper. Wow. I hear silence. 0:05:22.400 --> 0:05:25.640 Yeah, that's a lot though, Like I feel like, you know, 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.080 oh man, we're getting really excited about these rookies, and 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.360 I feel like, you know, Mike had already on the 0:05:32.480 --> 0:05:36.120 disrespect for Marik Cooper and for Cooper Cup. But T Higgins, Man, 0:05:36.360 --> 0:05:38.359 it looks like it's a spot right now where it 0:05:38.400 --> 0:05:41.599 looks safe because it's still the unknown. So I like 0:05:41.720 --> 0:05:43.760 a lot of the names that we're naming that I 0:05:43.760 --> 0:05:46.719 would take before T Higgins, But it's just like a 0:05:46.760 --> 0:05:47.880 lot still needs to happen. 0:05:48.000 --> 0:05:50.120 Still a little bit early. Yeah, I mean I think 0:05:50.120 --> 0:05:51.920 I'm with you, though, Floria that I think I think 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:56.920 T Higgins at Wide Receiver twenty eight feels okay. Cooper 0:05:56.960 --> 0:06:00.680 and Cooper and Cup, Cooper Cup, I feel a little bit. 0:06:01.320 --> 0:06:03.520 I feel a little bit. I'd like to tell you 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:07.080 I was planned, but it wasn't. But those guys feel 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.360 a little bit low where they are right now. I mean, look, 0:06:10.400 --> 0:06:12.320 Drake London at twenty six. You guys know I love 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:16.040 Drake London, right but you can have a quarterback right now. 0:06:16.800 --> 0:06:20.040 And you know, I saw a lot of buzz about 0:06:20.360 --> 0:06:22.799 maybe Justin Fields is going to get traded to Atlanta, 0:06:23.320 --> 0:06:27.360 but as of this moment, his quarterback is still Desmond Ritter. 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:32.800 Yeah that right there, So you know, I don't know 0:06:32.800 --> 0:06:34.640 that I take him ahead of cup or Cooper at 0:06:34.640 --> 0:06:38.000 this point. And yeah, I think a lot of it is. 0:06:39.680 --> 0:06:43.120 We're we're so early in the process that people want 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.800 a flag plant and stuff and be like, like I 0:06:45.839 --> 0:06:49.000 could pull up eighty my drafts from February when I 0:06:49.120 --> 0:06:49.640 was all over. 0:06:49.920 --> 0:06:52.280 Everyone wants to be first on a guy. 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:56.800 But like even like DK Metcalf going where he's going, Like, 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:00.920 no disrespect to him, But in a game less Amari 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:04.280 Cooper scored more Fantasy points, He's picked up more yards, 0:07:04.320 --> 0:07:07.920 he averaged over a point more per game, so like. 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:10.960 Yeah, he's a clear one too. Yeah. Yeah, I think 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:12.320 some of it is muscle memory. 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:14.160 I know that's something you talk a lot about, Marcus, 0:07:14.160 --> 0:07:16.280 like we're just so accustomed to pulling this guy up 0:07:16.320 --> 0:07:16.760 the board. 0:07:16.960 --> 0:07:18.200 But yeah, I think the other part. 0:07:18.040 --> 0:07:20.800 Is everyone just kind of wants to be first. That's 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:25.640 why ADP now is fun. But until after the draft. 0:07:25.680 --> 0:07:28.520 I think a lot of it, especially free agency, a 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:29.480 lot of it is guessing. 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.559 Yeah, I think we always get there are a couple 0:07:32.560 --> 0:07:35.440 of course correction times. I think for ADP, I think 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.800 after free agency, as you mentioned, is one. After the 0:07:37.920 --> 0:07:40.239 draft is another one. And I think the biggest course 0:07:40.240 --> 0:07:45.120 correction we get is honestly, like, yeah, mid July early August, 0:07:45.120 --> 0:07:47.720 when you get a lot more casual players jumping in 0:07:48.800 --> 0:07:52.200 people who aren't who aren't sickos like us who are 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.360 up to their neck in this all year long, right, 0:07:54.440 --> 0:07:58.520 who look, maybe those maybe some of those folks have 0:07:58.680 --> 0:08:01.440 kind of heard the name Malik Neighbors, maybe they've sort 0:08:01.480 --> 0:08:04.160 of heard the name Rome Odoonz, but they don't know 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:07.440 them where. It's like, I know Amari Cooper, I've had 0:08:07.440 --> 0:08:10.239 Amari Cooper on my fantasy team before. I'm drafting Amari 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:13.280 Cooper over this kid from the University of Washington that 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:15.320 I don't really know anything about. Like, I feel like 0:08:15.400 --> 0:08:19.320 that is the other big course correction where some of 0:08:19.360 --> 0:08:22.480 these names that maybe US nerds are really really high 0:08:22.520 --> 0:08:25.360 on in February sort of get pulled down an ADP 0:08:25.560 --> 0:08:28.200 because a lot more casual people just aren't willing to 0:08:28.240 --> 0:08:30.520 take that shot on them early, Like, could we put 0:08:30.520 --> 0:08:32.000 a Mari Cooper in that tier? Now? 0:08:32.120 --> 0:08:34.560 The Mike Evans and Keen Allen's where their ADP is 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:37.280 like disrespectfully low, and they show up in the season 0:08:37.640 --> 0:08:40.480 in the top twelve, Top fifteen conversation. 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:43.480 I am making a note to myself right now as 0:08:43.520 --> 0:08:46.480 we talk about this, to write something about just a 0:08:46.559 --> 0:08:49.079 list of wide receivers that I think we take for granted, 0:08:49.360 --> 0:08:52.240 right And I think Amari Cooper's one. Mike Evans is one. 0:08:52.400 --> 0:08:56.040 Mike Evans is one, Keenan Allen is one. He's a dog. 0:08:56.760 --> 0:08:59.320 You know, for years, I thought Tyler Lockett was one. 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.839 Lockett was last year, but before that, Tyler Lockett, Tyler 0:09:03.880 --> 0:09:06.000 Lockett was on that list of guys. It was just like, 0:09:06.200 --> 0:09:08.600 I'm not drafted Tyler Lockett, and then he gives you, like, 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:10.920 you know, ninety catches and eleven hundred yards and like 0:09:10.960 --> 0:09:13.839 six or eight touchdowns. Yeah, him and Robert Woods were 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:16.360 in that pocket. Bobby Trees. Bobby Trees was there for 0:09:16.400 --> 0:09:18.720 a while for sure, for sure. But there are guys 0:09:18.720 --> 0:09:20.600 that are just like I think we take them for granted, 0:09:20.600 --> 0:09:23.760 and I think Amari Cooper is definitely falling into that 0:09:24.080 --> 0:09:26.240 category right now. In that vein. 0:09:26.360 --> 0:09:28.800 I also feel like there's a lot of wide receivers 0:09:28.880 --> 0:09:32.760 that we not us three in particular, but as a 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:36.439 fantasy community over hype, like because the two like chrysal 0:09:36.520 --> 0:09:38.640 Lave comes to mind, Like we know that he on 0:09:38.679 --> 0:09:41.880 a different team could be amazing, But he's a wide 0:09:41.920 --> 0:09:44.720 receiver too, as long as Derek Cars his quarterback. London 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:48.280 is another one, and these rookies, everyone wants to be like, well, 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.520 if things break right for this guy, he could be 0:09:50.559 --> 0:09:51.680 a wide receiver one. 0:09:52.080 --> 0:09:54.720 But things are not going to break right for all 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.280 of them, all right, So let's let's let's just play 0:09:57.360 --> 0:10:00.839 hypotheticals here, right, Let's say the Saints to you know what, 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:03.920 we've seen enough of Derek Carr, let's go with Jamis. 0:10:04.280 --> 0:10:06.599 Let's go where we go? Where are we going to 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.040 Chris o'lave. Then if it's Jamis and I'm not saying 0:10:09.040 --> 0:10:10.360 this is gonna you know, this is not gonna put 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.400 the Saints into the playoffs, Like they're not gonna become 0:10:12.440 --> 0:10:14.920 some kind of contender with Jamis at quarterback. But for 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:18.000 our own selfish, greedy fantasy purposes, what does this do 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:22.240 to Chris o'lave for you? Top ten? Top ten Locke? 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:24.440 I mean, honestly, he's gonna get a chunk of his 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:27.240 fantasy points on the long ball because we know Whinsington 0:10:27.320 --> 0:10:31.560 still air it out. And after having a conversation with 0:10:31.679 --> 0:10:34.120 him in New Orleans, by the way, I told him 0:10:34.120 --> 0:10:35.800 straight to his face, I was like, one thing I 0:10:35.840 --> 0:10:37.360 do know about you still got that long ball. 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:38.120 His face lit up. 0:10:38.160 --> 0:10:40.240 He was like, oh, yeah, you know, I still got that. 0:10:40.880 --> 0:10:43.040 I'm like, oh, we need you on the field because 0:10:43.040 --> 0:10:44.920 we need Chris olave to have these points and I 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:46.760 think that's where most of his points will come from. 0:10:46.760 --> 0:10:48.720 I feel like you and Jamis would have been BFFs. 0:10:48.720 --> 0:10:49.120 After that. 0:10:49.400 --> 0:10:51.240 Oh my god, I was fanning out, but I had 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:52.679 to calm down and keep it professional. 0:10:53.000 --> 0:10:54.679 So speaking of what you, we're gonna talk to you 0:10:54.679 --> 0:10:56.079 because you were in New Orleans last week for the 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:58.200 HBCU Legacy Ball. I want to get your thoughts on 0:10:58.200 --> 0:11:01.040 that in just a little bit. But yeah, that Tonty 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:04.160 man Jamie. The quarterback situation makes all the difference. I 0:11:04.160 --> 0:11:06.360 think for Chris o'lave there in New Orleans, we know 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:08.720 the talent, it's just is there a guy that can 0:11:08.720 --> 0:11:12.640 get him the ball consistently. Other bit of news, nothing 0:11:12.679 --> 0:11:15.520 has actually happened yet with any of the running backs. 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:19.319 With Saquon Barkley in particular. But the Giant's sort of 0:11:19.440 --> 0:11:21.880 musing that now that we've got the new salary cap 0:11:21.960 --> 0:11:24.080 numbers and they are higher than I think a lot 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:28.160 of people anticipated that maybe they could use the franchise 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:33.640 tag on Saquon a second time. What it sounds like 0:11:33.640 --> 0:11:36.680 this is news to you. Yeah, they might. You know, look, 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.680 they haven't said anything definitively one way or another, but 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.120 you know, the idea came up and they thought, you know, 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.480 maybe this is not a crazy idea. So I think 0:11:45.480 --> 0:11:47.880 for Saquon it sort of stinks, and that this is 0:11:47.920 --> 0:11:50.120 your chance to maybe test the free agent market, see 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:53.079 what's out there, see what's going to happen. I thought 0:11:53.120 --> 0:11:55.319 about the idea of Saquon to the Chargers, which seemed 0:11:55.360 --> 0:11:59.600 really really interesting potentially, you know, I think somebody else, 0:11:59.600 --> 0:12:02.800 I'll try to another team that somebody brought up that 0:12:02.840 --> 0:12:05.920 I'm blanktags right now, the Texans. That's it. That could 0:12:05.920 --> 0:12:10.240 be really really interesting for Saquon. But uh, I mean, LQ, 0:12:10.800 --> 0:12:14.160 if he gets tagged, is he better off staying with 0:12:14.200 --> 0:12:16.880 the Giants? He's been comfortable there, he's had some decent 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.440 amount of success there. Is he better sticking there than 0:12:19.480 --> 0:12:21.439 trying to learn a new offense in a new city. 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:25.080 I don't know, man, I feel really weird about this 0:12:25.120 --> 0:12:29.679 situation because if Saquon leaves, then who's left there on 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.720 that Giants offense to get anything going? If you're gonna 0:12:32.720 --> 0:12:35.640 stick with Daniel Jones with this contract, I mean, they 0:12:35.640 --> 0:12:38.240 don't have really big name premiere players like we have 0:12:38.400 --> 0:12:40.920 the Wandel Robinsons and you know the rest of the 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.200 guys that we want to do good. And Darren Waller 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:46.720 needs to stay healthy. But I think the right decision 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:49.719 here is to tag him again, as bad as that sounds, 0:12:49.800 --> 0:12:52.880 just to have some building blocks to go into this draft, 0:12:52.920 --> 0:12:55.840 to basically hit this draft and hid in areas that 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:57.760 you've been lacking for the last couple of years. But 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.360 if they tag him again, it's it's eleven point nine 0:13:00.400 --> 0:13:02.679 million for that tag that that's pretty pricey for a 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:04.240 guy you're still unsure what about. 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:07.280 I don't're unsure about Saquon. I think it's just the 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:09.120 idea of paying running backs at all. 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.800 That they're unsure health. He needs to stay healthy. That's 0:13:11.880 --> 0:13:13.600 also the factor in that as well. 0:13:13.720 --> 0:13:17.800 That's fair, but you also look at this this is 0:13:17.800 --> 0:13:24.280 not a great running back draft class. No, the the 0:13:24.280 --> 0:13:27.800 the guy that is the top running back in this 0:13:27.960 --> 0:13:30.480 class is a guy coming off an a cl tair 0:13:31.400 --> 0:13:36.679 right who may not be ready for the the start 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:41.280 of the season. And just that, that to me says 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:46.880 a lot about where we are in terms of this 0:13:46.960 --> 0:13:51.160 running back draft classic. Nobody's really excited about this group 0:13:51.840 --> 0:13:55.680 right now. That's a hard place to be. And I 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:57.440 think if you are, look, if you're the Giants, if 0:13:57.440 --> 0:14:01.920 you're anybody you know, why would we wait until day late, 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:04.160 day too early, day three to try and take a 0:14:04.240 --> 0:14:06.920 running back to fill this gap. We could just, you know, 0:14:07.360 --> 0:14:10.000 even even at a slightly elevated price, bring back the 0:14:10.040 --> 0:14:13.440 guy that we know and have had some familiarity with 0:14:14.760 --> 0:14:15.600 and get them ready. 0:14:16.400 --> 0:14:18.839 But my thinking though is like, because I agree, I 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:23.400 think for fantasy purposes, there's better landing spots than the 0:14:23.400 --> 0:14:26.680 Giants or take one Barkley. But yeah, he's kind of 0:14:26.720 --> 0:14:29.240 like the old school running back in his sense where 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:32.600 he is the identity of his football team and has 0:14:32.680 --> 0:14:35.760 been since they use the number two draft pick on 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:40.680 him back in twenty eighteen. I also believe if because 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:44.400 Sterling Shepherd I believe is retiring, so tak one might 0:14:44.440 --> 0:14:47.400 be the longest tenured New York Giant at this point, 0:14:48.600 --> 0:14:50.400 I think what he means to the fan base and 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:53.120 stuff matters a lot. And then when you start talking money, 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:55.720 the fact that it's a bad draft class, paired with 0:14:55.760 --> 0:15:00.040 the fact that the cap jumps like unprecedentedly high and 0:15:00.120 --> 0:15:03.160 it is a loaded free agent class, that we could 0:15:03.200 --> 0:15:04.880 see these free agents. 0:15:04.480 --> 0:15:05.640 Get larger deals. 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:07.440 Not look, they're not going to break the bank because 0:15:07.440 --> 0:15:09.160 they're still running backs, but they could get more than 0:15:09.240 --> 0:15:12.200 running backs gotten past years, which makes it kind of 0:15:12.200 --> 0:15:15.760 smart to franchise them. And if you're Saquon at this point, 0:15:15.760 --> 0:15:17.880 with the injuries and the wear and tear and stuff, 0:15:18.080 --> 0:15:20.000 it might just be better for you to stay in 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.080 the environment that you know and where you are such 0:15:22.120 --> 0:15:25.840 a big deal because we've seen, like I know, it's 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.200 a little different, but like think about Ezekiel Elliott or 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.920 or Le'Veon Bell or a lot of these running backs, 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:33.160 when they change the team that they have made their 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:37.000 legacy with, they're they're not rewarded the same opportunities in 0:15:37.040 --> 0:15:39.360 the new landing spot. So I think this could be 0:15:39.400 --> 0:15:42.040 a good thing for Sequon and the Giants. 0:15:42.360 --> 0:15:43.800 Yeah, I mean, I think I think in the end 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.200 it probably is the best I would, you know, I 0:15:46.240 --> 0:15:48.520 don't know. I just maybe because I'm so underwhelmed with 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:51.040 the Giants offense. I just want Sekuan to go somewhere 0:15:51.040 --> 0:15:54.160 where maybe he can, you know, text them or runs. 0:15:55.920 --> 0:15:59.280 Because obviously Damian Pierce last year was not it didn't 0:15:59.320 --> 0:16:01.200 work out the way they wanted it to be. Devin 0:16:01.240 --> 0:16:03.400 Singletary had a decent year, but I don't think. Look, 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:05.640 I think given the choice, I don't think they want 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:08.840 him to be their main back. I don't think that's 0:16:08.880 --> 0:16:13.120 what they are looking for. Houston would be interesting. I 0:16:13.120 --> 0:16:16.440 think Saquon with Greg Roman and Justin Herbert and Jim 0:16:16.480 --> 0:16:20.640 Harbaugh in Los Angeles could be interesting. But I think 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:23.760 we're gonna get in New York with Daniel Jones again. 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.000 Now they need a new quarterback man, Danny dins ain't it. 0:16:29.400 --> 0:16:31.360 I don't know what they're gonna do, how they're gonna 0:16:31.440 --> 0:16:36.760 I mean, I don't know. Maybe this is your chance. Yeah, 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:38.920 I don't know, man, I think you're gonna do that. 0:16:38.960 --> 0:16:41.280 I think you trade back a couple of spots because 0:16:41.920 --> 0:16:46.000 by the time you get to six, Williams, may And 0:16:46.000 --> 0:16:49.520 and Daniels will all be gone. Six feels too early 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.560 for any of the other guys out there. I'm not 0:16:52.600 --> 0:16:55.080 taking I'm not taking McCarthy, I'm not taking Nicks, I'm 0:16:55.080 --> 0:16:59.600 not taking Pinnix. At six, maybe you trade back a 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:01.560 couple of spots, you get some assets, and then you 0:17:01.560 --> 0:17:03.560 get the quarterback you want. But at six, I just 0:17:03.640 --> 0:17:06.600 I you know, I think I do that. You can 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:09.320 take a wide receiver, take a receiver at six. 0:17:09.359 --> 0:17:14.280 I agree, but I think that long the Giants. Look, 0:17:14.320 --> 0:17:16.360 we all said it last year when they signed that deal, 0:17:16.400 --> 0:17:18.199 we were like, what are you doing, Like, that's a 0:17:18.200 --> 0:17:20.960 lot of money we give to Daniel Jones, But now 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:23.159 he has a neck injury and a torn acl on 0:17:23.240 --> 0:17:25.760 top of it. So what made him so appealing two 0:17:25.800 --> 0:17:32.320 years ago was his rushing. Yeah, that's gone now. I look, 0:17:32.440 --> 0:17:34.280 they said when they signed that contract with Daniel Jones, 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:36.520 that said it's gonna put them in football purgatory for 0:17:36.560 --> 0:17:38.680 a while, and maybe that's where they are. 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:43.440 And then they lost forty to in the first game. Ah, 0:17:43.800 --> 0:17:49.200 I forgot about that. That's rough. Obviously the combine going 0:17:49.240 --> 0:17:52.000 on in Indianapolis, but I know there's sort of combine 0:17:52.000 --> 0:17:55.320 of swords happened last week down in Worlans the HBCU 0:17:55.440 --> 0:17:59.840 Legacy Bowl and uh Lakwan and doing doing his actual 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:02.480 not just goofing around with us here on this show, 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:05.920 actually a researcher for NFL media. And you got the 0:18:06.040 --> 0:18:08.280 chance to go, I say work. I use that term 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.239 advisedly because you were in New Orleans and you were 0:18:10.240 --> 0:18:12.600 hanging out with Steve Wish and Bucky Brooks and Charles 0:18:12.680 --> 0:18:14.639 Davis and I'm sure eating all sorts of good food 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.560 and you know, oh my god, the food, howling around 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:20.879 with Jameis Winston and all that sort of stuff. But 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:22.280 you got to be down there. I got to see 0:18:22.280 --> 0:18:24.560 this thing firsthand. And I know, you know, I know 0:18:24.640 --> 0:18:26.640 that Bucky sort of wrote a recap. I think Charles 0:18:26.680 --> 0:18:29.200 Davis wrote a recap of it. But for you, from 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.919 what you saw, anybody that really stood out to you 0:18:32.119 --> 0:18:34.680 that past week in New Orleans, Like the headlines were 0:18:34.680 --> 0:18:37.679 the quarterbacks, man, I mean, Davis Richards, Jeremy Moosa. 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:40.480 These guys were like the headlines of the entire week, 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:42.760 just to see them in the combine, see them practice 0:18:42.800 --> 0:18:45.119 and stuff like that. But there was one guy on 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:48.280 defense that just kept showing up, I mean, breaking up passes, 0:18:48.400 --> 0:18:50.960 Jabim Morton from Morgan State. Man, Like I got a 0:18:51.040 --> 0:18:53.200 chance to like really rap with him after the third 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:56.200 day of practice, and I'm like, man, yo, you're explosive. 0:18:56.359 --> 0:18:59.440 Like he's just a simple guy that just knows football. 0:18:59.480 --> 0:19:01.520 And he kind of just like ran the routes for 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:03.720 a lot of the wide receivers out there when he 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.240 was picking them off and breaking them up. So I 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:08.880 can really see him Jamie Morton man from Morgan State. 0:19:08.920 --> 0:19:10.960 I can see him end up in the camp somewhere, 0:19:11.240 --> 0:19:14.320 you know, just just absorbing and getting better at his crap. 0:19:14.400 --> 0:19:16.399 But he was one of the defensive backs that just 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:17.919 kind of popped off for me. 0:19:18.400 --> 0:19:20.320 Uh yeah, I mean I saw I know, Davis Richard 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:22.200 was what was a name that popped out a lot, 0:19:22.760 --> 0:19:24.520 you know, I know he got hurt early in that 0:19:24.600 --> 0:19:28.400 game first quarter man years that it doesn't get isn't 0:19:28.400 --> 0:19:30.800 anything serious. So that's sort of some good news there. 0:19:30.880 --> 0:19:33.439 But these are interesting things because as you mentioned, there 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:35.680 aren't these aren't a lot of names that we're gonna hear, 0:19:36.320 --> 0:19:38.320 you know, maybe the first couple of days of the draft, 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:40.240 if anything, you hear them maybe day three or a 0:19:40.280 --> 0:19:42.800 lot of them signed as free agents. But you know, 0:19:42.800 --> 0:19:46.400