WEBVTT - BFFs 8/1 Hour 2: Nick Ercolano Joins The Show! NFL Injury Updates 0:00:00.000 --> 0:00:02.719 Okay, the highest paid player on our team, the highest paid, 0:00:02.840 --> 0:00:05.400 I believe, highest paid quarterback in the NFL, Russell Wilson. 0:00:05.720 --> 0:00:07.320 We should probably let him throw the ball a little 0:00:07.320 --> 0:00:09.360 bit more. But even if he doesn't throw the ball 0:00:09.360 --> 0:00:13.840 a little bit more, just natural volume increase for Tyler 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:17.239 Lockett here is going to take place. Because Doug Baldwin 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:19.400 led this team with like seventy two targets last year, 0:00:19.600 --> 0:00:22.880 Tyler Lockett finishes a top twenty wide receiver, scored ten 0:00:22.920 --> 0:00:26.400 touchdowns on just sixty six targets. Now, his efficiency is 0:00:26.400 --> 0:00:28.880 going to regress, but it's going to be canceled out 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:30.720 by the fact that his volume is going to go up. 0:00:30.920 --> 0:00:33.040 I think we're gonna see him anywhere from like a 0:00:33.120 --> 0:00:35.680 hundred to a hundred and fifteen targets this season. So 0:00:35.720 --> 0:00:38.440 when we're talking about that breakout wide receiver, tier Lockett, 0:00:38.560 --> 0:00:41.640 Mike Williams, Calvin Ridley, D J. Moore, Tyler Boyd, everyone's 0:00:41.640 --> 0:00:44.800 excited about these wide receivers. I have Tyler Lockett at 0:00:44.840 --> 0:00:47.440 the top. Let's say, Nick, Yeah, I'm smashing the button 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:49.159 on Tilder lock It there as well. I think you 0:00:49.159 --> 0:00:51.280 know the point you laid out obviously, they're going to regress. 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:55.800 My problem with people's analysis on Tyler Lockett is if 0:00:55.840 --> 0:00:57.920 you have to look at a player and you're only 0:00:58.080 --> 0:01:01.080 negative point about the player is that he's gonna regress. 0:01:01.200 --> 0:01:03.160 That's not a good argument. You're basically saying he's a 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:05.760 very good player, And I don't really have a point 0:01:05.840 --> 0:01:08.039 except for I think he's gonna aggress and we've seen 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:11.360 that bite people, you know, very a few times over 0:01:11.360 --> 0:01:12.880 the last few years. Like if you were on the 0:01:12.920 --> 0:01:14.840 Tyreek Hill train of him aggressing, you missed out on 0:01:14.880 --> 0:01:18.119 his like a fit Listen. Some guys are just good 0:01:18.160 --> 0:01:20.440 at football. Tyler Lockett is one of those guys. Doug 0:01:20.480 --> 0:01:22.800 Baldwin had more targets than Tyler Lockett did last year. 0:01:22.800 --> 0:01:24.600 I didn't even realized Doug Baldwin played in more than 0:01:24.640 --> 0:01:26.520 like four games, but he ended up with more targets 0:01:26.560 --> 0:01:29.080 and Tyler Lockett. Tyler Lockett is going to slide into 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:31.560 the slot, which I think is gonna be a very 0:01:31.720 --> 0:01:34.840 I'm gonna try to say this correctly voluminous role. So 0:01:34.880 --> 0:01:37.000 he's gonna see a lot of targets coming from the slot. 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.240 It's also a great deep ball threat. What does scare me. 0:01:39.280 --> 0:01:40.679 I will say that kind of puts me on a 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:43.000 little bit of a pause. Is that is that Seattle offense? 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:45.720 I was looking at some Vegas odds. Um Draft Kings 0:01:45.720 --> 0:01:48.440 just put on their their sports book. Um, the player 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:52.280 props for the future. Russell Wilson is penciled in for 0:01:52.360 --> 0:01:55.280 like thirty six hundred passing yards as is over under, 0:01:55.520 --> 0:01:57.800 and I'm like, oh, boy, Like you might have to 0:01:57.800 --> 0:02:00.120 take a step back and look at things objectively, but 0:02:00.160 --> 0:02:03.280 I look at that receiving group and it's gonna throw 0:02:03.320 --> 0:02:05.520 the balls. That's the question. You can like DK Metcalf, 0:02:05.520 --> 0:02:07.760 but A's a rookie. He's realistic, Realistically, best case I 0:02:07.760 --> 0:02:09.400 don't even like him, to be honest, No, I actually 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:11.080 hate him. But best case scenario, what do you do 0:02:11.080 --> 0:02:13.840 to you? Uh not not personally. I'm sure he's a really, 0:02:13.919 --> 0:02:16.400 really nice guy. Plus if he hears that, he honestly 0:02:16.440 --> 0:02:18.200 might snap you in half. Yeah, he might snap both 0:02:18.200 --> 0:02:21.160 of us. He'd take the Baja boys out, no questions asked. Um. 0:02:21.200 --> 0:02:23.240 But I mean he's not gonna get more than seventy 0:02:23.600 --> 0:02:25.600 targets maybe if that right, And then you look at 0:02:25.680 --> 0:02:27.480 it's just guys that have been in the NFL and 0:02:27.520 --> 0:02:30.280 haven't proven anything or other like later round rookie picks, 0:02:30.480 --> 0:02:32.080 it's locked it there and Russell wilson't at the end 0:02:32.120 --> 0:02:34.000 of the day, is one of the most efficient quarterbacks 0:02:34.040 --> 0:02:36.239 in the NFL. So give me a hundred targets from 0:02:36.280 --> 0:02:38.680 Tyler Lockett, a hundred fifteen targets as you might have 0:02:38.680 --> 0:02:41.239 projected for Tyler Lockett over any of those mid round 0:02:41.240 --> 0:02:43.920 guys because he is an explosive playmaker. He will hit 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:45.600 those deep threats even from the slot, but he will 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:47.359 also now get volume from the slot, So I think 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:50.000 he's gonna be seeing eight nine targets a game. And 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:53.400 shout out to Evan Silva and Adam Levitan. They do 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.440 a great job. They just start up to Establish the 0:02:55.520 --> 0:02:57.320 Run podcast. I was listening to it on my way 0:02:57.360 --> 0:03:00.080 in today and they made a really good point. The 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:02.760 Seattle Seahawks defense is not going to be nearly as 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:04.880 good as it has been in years past. You know, 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.160 Jarren Reid has a six game suspension. Now they don't 0:03:08.200 --> 0:03:11.639 have Frank Clark anymore, so the defense isn't gonna be 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:13.360 as good. Are they gonna be in the same position 0:03:13.360 --> 0:03:16.040 to run as much as they want to in years past, 0:03:16.400 --> 0:03:18.160 the defense isn't as good. They might be in some 0:03:18.200 --> 0:03:21.080 more shootouts, so I'll take that into consideration. I might 0:03:21.120 --> 0:03:23.240 have to like re rank and move Russell Wilson around 0:03:23.240 --> 0:03:24.720 a little bit because I thought that was a really 0:03:24.720 --> 0:03:26.960 good point y. I'll throw this one year way. I 0:03:27.000 --> 0:03:29.440 know someone that you've been talking up no e Y here, 0:03:29.440 --> 0:03:31.520 all right, so we'll we'll wait to get you buy back. 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:32.960 Let me know in my ear when we when we 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:34.800 do have him back, or whether or not he's just 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:36.560 like gone for the rest of the show. But I 0:03:36.600 --> 0:03:38.680 know that someone that e Y was on was David Moore. 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.200 He's actually pretty excited about him playing the outside. We 0:03:41.240 --> 0:03:43.440 saw David Moore pop off a little bit last year. 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:46.680 I would lean towards him having more of a role 0:03:46.680 --> 0:03:48.800 than DK Metcalf. And I know, you know, people might 0:03:48.840 --> 0:03:51.440 go up in arms again. DK Metcalf might might snap 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:55.440 the Baja boys in half here. But as Jack is, 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:58.080 DK metcalf is, he doesn't have any body fat, that's 0:03:58.120 --> 0:04:01.760 perfectly fine. You watch this guy run routes. He can 0:04:01.760 --> 0:04:03.880 get down the field, There's no doubt about it. I 0:04:03.920 --> 0:04:06.240 saw a route that he ran during O t A 0:04:06.400 --> 0:04:11.119 S where it was a comeback route, so many steps 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:14.160 to try and come back. I said, dude, this guy 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.360 is almost built like a tight end and he's gonna 0:04:16.360 --> 0:04:19.720 be playing wide receiver. Like everything that you've heard about 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:22.840 his ability to move laterally is absolutely true. And I 0:04:22.880 --> 0:04:25.680 still think that he's really raw as a wide receiver. Now. 0:04:26.240 --> 0:04:28.640 Is he a freak athlete, no doubt about it. Is 0:04:28.680 --> 0:04:30.559 there a chance that he can develop his route running 0:04:30.839 --> 0:04:34.520 for sure? Is it gonna happen in year one? I'm skeptical. 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:36.080 I A lot of people are talking about him for 0:04:36.120 --> 0:04:39.080 Best Ball and stuff. I'm I'm staying away like in Dynasty. 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:41.280 I get it, like there might be upside down the line. 0:04:41.560 --> 0:04:43.800 But if you're expecting anything out of him year one, 0:04:43.880 --> 0:04:46.240 year two, I don't think it's gonna happen. And you 0:04:46.279 --> 0:04:47.880 could save this and if I'm wrong, you can make 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:50.080 me eat my words later on. It's perfectly fine. But 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:53.760 I am very skeptical of dk Metcalf this year. So really, 0:04:54.160 --> 0:04:56.120 the only downside of tire locket, I would say, is 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:57.960 he's been kind of injury prone in the past a 0:04:57.960 --> 0:04:59.640 couple of years. Yeah, I guess that's kind of like 0:04:59.680 --> 0:05:01.760 recent bias because we're coming off of last year where 0:05:01.760 --> 0:05:03.800 he played so well. Yeah, yeah, I mean behind him, 0:05:03.839 --> 0:05:05.440 though I want nothing to do with that passing game. 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.479 I will say I take DK Metcalf over David Moore 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:11.120 straight up, but I'm not touching either. Then, before you know, 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:13.400 very late in drafts, I think David Moore. I mean 0:05:13.839 --> 0:05:15.960 I like the talent, and I understand why there's a 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:17.920 little bit of HiPE behind him. But if we're really 0:05:17.920 --> 0:05:20.400 expecting Russell Wilson to throw for thirty six hundred yards, 0:05:20.400 --> 0:05:22.600 how many wide receivers are really gonna eat in that offense? 0:05:22.600 --> 0:05:24.560 I mean, they said they have the same offensive coordinator, 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:26.480 They're they're gonna do the same thing. They're gonna run 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:27.920 the ball and run the ball and run the ball. 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.760 If anything, there could be just one wide receiver that eats, 0:05:31.240 --> 0:05:33.960 and it's going to be Tyle Lockett. So I'm right 0:05:33.960 --> 0:05:35.720 there with you. I like him the most out of 0:05:35.760 --> 0:05:37.480 that tier. Do you agree with that you have him 0:05:37.520 --> 0:05:40.360 higher than like the Calvin Ridley's Mike Williams of the world. Yeah, 0:05:40.400 --> 0:05:42.200 I uh, lock It would be a top that list 0:05:42.200 --> 0:05:44.680 for me too. All Right, we only have two minutes left, 0:05:44.720 --> 0:05:46.080 so we're not gonna have time to really hit on 0:05:46.120 --> 0:05:48.120 these guys as much as we wanted to do, but 0:05:48.160 --> 0:05:50.400 I'll just throw them your way. It's Kicky q T 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.680 obviously a lot to like with the Houston Texans offense. 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:54.480 I think you just want to get as much exposure 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:56.640 to this offense as you possibly can. We saw it 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:58.320 in the playoff game last year, like he has the 0:05:58.360 --> 0:06:01.080 Shawn Watson's trust. He had a monster playoff game. And 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:05.599 if anything happens to Will Fuller or DeAndre Hopkins throughout 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:07.200 the course of the season, probably not Hopkins, he's an 0:06:07.200 --> 0:06:09.520 iron man, but if anything happens to Will Fuller, which 0:06:09.640 --> 0:06:12.719 is definitely possible, Kiki qt s upside is like top 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.440 twenty four, maybe top twenty wide receiver. So I love 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:19.440 that call on Kiki as well, Dak. I understand it. 0:06:19.440 --> 0:06:21.640 He's finished as a top twelve quarterback each season he's 0:06:21.680 --> 0:06:23.479 been in the league. That is dependent on the six 0:06:23.560 --> 0:06:27.240 rushing touchdowns. How fluky are those rushing touchdowns? Like, I 0:06:27.279 --> 0:06:29.000 think they have a package for him in the reson 0:06:29.080 --> 0:06:30.520 that they like to use. He's done in three years. 0:06:30.520 --> 0:06:31.839 He's done it three years in a row. So it's 0:06:31.880 --> 0:06:34.240 basically a trend at this point. But if any of 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:37.240 those rushing touchdowns come back. Like, I do have some 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:39.760 pause when it comes to Dak Prescott, but I see 0:06:39.800 --> 0:06:42.600 why people like him. Yeah, I mean the rushing touchdowns. 0:06:42.600 --> 0:06:43.919 I would never look at his stats and be like, 0:06:43.920 --> 0:06:45.520 this is the reason why I'm drafting dec. I look 0:06:45.560 --> 0:06:48.920 at that offense and I think that with after Mark 0:06:48.920 --> 0:06:51.000 Cooper came on, I think most people probably heard the 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:53.200 splits once in Mark Cooper came to Dallas. They were 0:06:53.200 --> 0:06:55.640 throwing the ball. It went from over the first half 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:58.599 of the season, Mark Cooper comes, that's up to percent 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:00.960 and that over the long run is gonna end up being, 0:07:01.000 --> 0:07:03.520 you know, an extra fifties seventy five pass attempts for DAC. 0:07:03.680 --> 0:07:05.960 He was on fire. He set like his career highs 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:08.200 and yardage twice over the second half of the season. 0:07:08.480 --> 0:07:10.560 Big games came from him, and those splits were like, really, 0:07:10.560 --> 0:07:12.840 really good. He's finished as a top twelve fantasy quarterback 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:15.320 all three years that he's been on the team. Um so, 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:17.040 I mean that looks like his floor and this is 0:07:17.040 --> 0:07:18.920 gonna be a good offense with their offensive line back 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:21.080 to full strength. Hick q C. I'm excited to talk 0:07:21.080 --> 0:07:23.600 to the doctor because Will Fuller towards a c L 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:26.880 like later on in the season, and we know time 0:07:26.920 --> 0:07:28.560 tables for a c L returns. People want to say 0:07:28.560 --> 0:07:30.680 that he's a percent, but we have beat reporters out 0:07:30.720 --> 0:07:32.600 here just reporting whatever they want. They don't have any 0:07:32.640 --> 0:07:35.440 science to back it up. So I'm I'm more nervous 0:07:35.480 --> 0:07:37.400 about Will Fuller not actually being right and Keiki being 0:07:37.400 --> 0:07:39.720 the real wide receiver tow in Houston. That's Nicker Kalano. 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:42.040 I am Frank Stanford. Coming up next, we'll have Virginia 0:07:42.120 --> 0:07:46.200 zakas of Inside Injuries Don't Go Anywhere. 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He's celebrating another bachelor party. 0:08:42.440 --> 0:08:45.640 I mean, busiest man in the world, Greg Susman, real quick, 0:08:46.040 --> 0:08:49.160 for we uh, we get into Virginia's kice here of 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:52.560 inside injuries. I believe she is here. Virginia, are you here? 0:08:54.920 --> 0:08:57.840 We'll find out after that she is here, but we 0:08:57.880 --> 0:09:01.800 will get to Virginia after this, real quick, Nick, Dave 0:09:01.840 --> 0:09:05.040 Matthews Band or Metallica, you had to listen to one. 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:07.320 If you don't listen to either perfectly, I'm probably gonna 0:09:07.320 --> 0:09:09.439 fade both of them. Neither of them really get Neither 0:09:09.480 --> 0:09:12.000 of them sink my submarine. Man, it's not my type 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:14.760 of music. You should have let me choose the music 0:09:14.800 --> 0:09:16.920 for commercial breaks prior to this. Man. All right, so 0:09:16.960 --> 0:09:21.480 I am on the side of the bahamns here. It's 0:09:21.520 --> 0:09:24.760 on the Fantasy Sports Network. It's Nick Big Dog's Gotta Eat. 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:28.120 I have seen Metallica like seven times live in concert, 0:09:28.160 --> 0:09:30.120 but I listened everything, so it doesn't really matter. Greg 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:32.200 loves Dave Matthews Band. I rag on them all the time. 0:09:32.520 --> 0:09:35.800 Admittedly not a big Dave Matthews band guy. How about you, Virginia, 0:09:36.200 --> 0:09:38.400 are you a Metallica or Dave Matthews Band, if you 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:41.040 had to listen to one of them, I go with 0:09:41.120 --> 0:09:44.640 Dave Matthews if I had to choose one the people 0:09:44.679 --> 0:09:46.600 that I'm surrounded by right now, this is not working 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:49.760 out very well. Nick is fading both. Virginia is listening 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:52.240 to Dave Matthews Band. All right, I'll have to make 0:09:52.280 --> 0:09:54.640 do with with what we've got going on. Virginia, how 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:57.520 is everything going? How are you doing today? Very well? 0:09:58.600 --> 0:10:00.559 It's good to hear. We obviously you have a lot 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:02.880 of fantasy football injuries that we want to ask you about. 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:06.280 But first and foremost, Greg through a baseball player on here, 0:10:06.320 --> 0:10:09.439 because Greg selfishly likes to throw players on here that 0:10:09.520 --> 0:10:12.360 affect our teams or fantasy teams. You would like me 0:10:12.400 --> 0:10:15.000 to ask you about Luke Void. Luke Void, who's going 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:16.319 to be out for the next six weeks for the 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:19.120 New York Yankees, maybe even longer, depending on what you 0:10:19.160 --> 0:10:24.200 guys have a regarding um, you know, his uh, his timetable. 0:10:24.400 --> 0:10:25.920 What do you have on Luke Void? Is is he 0:10:25.960 --> 0:10:30.360 gonna be ready to go for let's say the baseball playoffs? Yeah? 0:10:30.440 --> 0:10:33.320 So he landed on the aisle with sports hernia. UM. 0:10:33.440 --> 0:10:34.960 Last I heard they weren't sure if he was going 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:37.240 to have surgery, but this is one of those situations 0:10:37.240 --> 0:10:41.480 where surgery is very likely. UM. Once he has surgery, 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:43.760 the recovery time is around six weeks, which is in 0:10:43.800 --> 0:10:46.120 line with what they're reporting. So I do think it's 0:10:46.160 --> 0:10:50.640 realistic for him to return, probably UM late September. UM. 0:10:50.679 --> 0:10:52.439 Of course, he's a high injury risk right now. He 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:55.520 should not play anytime in the next few weeks, even 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:58.160 if he doesn't have surgery. I also add he had 0:10:58.160 --> 0:11:02.439 an abdominal strain early year in July, and UM, this 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:06.120 is this injury is very closely related to that. It 0:11:06.160 --> 0:11:09.000 also sounds like this may have started even over a 0:11:09.040 --> 0:11:11.800 month ago and just continue to get worse and worse. UM. 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:14.439 And if that's the case here, then surgery definitely is 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:16.720 the route to go. Get him healthy, get him ready 0:11:16.720 --> 0:11:19.840 to go for the playoffs. So there you go. That's 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:21.400 what we have on Luke Boyd. Hopefully he's good to 0:11:21.400 --> 0:11:23.640 go for for the playoffs for the Yankees. For all 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:25.200 of our Yankee fans in the chat, for any of 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.559 our fantasy baseball fans still in the chat, I will 0:11:27.559 --> 0:11:29.720 now save you Nick because I assume that you don't 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:31.600 play fantasy baseball or care about it at all. Yeah, 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:34.280 you'all are talking another language to another language. If you 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.000 had asked me what sport he played, I wouldn't have 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:38.480 been able to answer it. Uh So you're not a 0:11:38.520 --> 0:11:41.360 you're not a Yankee fan either. Uh No. You know what, 0:11:41.440 --> 0:11:44.040 most of my close friends or Yankees fans and Giants 0:11:44.080 --> 0:11:47.240 fans shout out snacks and they're really annoying. So that 0:11:47.360 --> 0:11:49.280 made me not want to be a New York fan anymore. 0:11:49.640 --> 0:11:51.600 All right, so you can leave the studio now. Now 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:55.600 I want to ask let's move into the football injuries. Now, 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:57.679 we were talking about this in the first hour Virginia. 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.200 Very interesting with what's going on with Andrew Luck right 0:12:01.240 --> 0:12:05.080 now in the Indianapolis cold. He's been nursing this calf injury, 0:12:05.160 --> 0:12:07.520 but he's been kind of nursing it since like O 0:12:07.720 --> 0:12:10.840 t a S for a couple of months. Now there 0:12:10.920 --> 0:12:13.760 might be something more severe than they're letting on. What 0:12:13.800 --> 0:12:16.920 do you guys have regarding Andrew Luck and do we 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:19.080 think he's gonna be ready to go for the regular season? 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.640 Is this something that we have to worry about potentially 0:12:21.720 --> 0:12:23.920 him re injuring once the season starts. What do you 0:12:23.920 --> 0:12:27.640 have on Andrew Luck. Yeah, Unfortunately, there's a very high 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:30.480 possibility that he reinjures his calf if he doesn't take 0:12:30.520 --> 0:12:33.040 the time now to get it healed. Um. The good 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:35.320 news is he's he's saying all the right things. It 0:12:35.320 --> 0:12:37.720 sounds like he's learned his lesson from, you know, coming 0:12:37.720 --> 0:12:39.760 back from that shoulder surgery where he ended up missing 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.280 an entire season and kept having other problems like with 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:46.079 his biceps. Um. You know, so he is taking it slow. 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.960 It sounds like. Um. What also concerns me here though, 0:12:49.000 --> 0:12:51.000 is it sounds like it's more than just his calf. 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:53.800 It also sounds like there's paying around his ankle, which, 0:12:53.880 --> 0:12:57.240 of course they're very closely related. Um. The calf stream 0:12:57.320 --> 0:13:00.560 likely led to this ankle problem as well. Um, but 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.960 there's two things going on here. We're showing that he 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:05.400 needs at least four weeks right now starting at this 0:13:05.440 --> 0:13:08.520 point because it sounds like he aggravated it. So he 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:11.600 really should not see any time in the preseason. Um. 0:13:11.679 --> 0:13:13.200 If he doesn't get back on the field in the 0:13:13.200 --> 0:13:15.520 next few weeks and really starts to test it out, 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.280 I would not be shocked if he misses the first 0:13:18.320 --> 0:13:21.199 few weeks of the season. Um, but I'm really hoping 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:23.640 that the Colts don't get impatient and they keep giving 0:13:23.720 --> 0:13:25.920 him plenty of time to rest and they don't turn 0:13:26.040 --> 0:13:28.760 back out there before his calf is fully recovered. This 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.400 is very scary. Yeah, this is horrifying. Before you actually 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:33.440 came on, you know, I was talking up Marlon Mack 0:13:33.520 --> 0:13:35.520 and he's one of my favorite players to draft this year. 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:37.520 But I wanted to preface with the fact that this 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:40.320 Andrew luck calf thing is scaring me because it's been 0:13:40.360 --> 0:13:43.319 so long. There's obviously something more serious going on with it. 0:13:43.640 --> 0:13:45.760 So you didn't exactly put me at ease, but I 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:47.520 know you're just doing your job, so no hard feelings 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:50.200 are Virginia, by the way, I'm nice to virtually meet 0:13:50.240 --> 0:13:52.280 you as well. I want to jump into a running 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:55.560 back that, um, some people are very high on. I'm 0:13:55.559 --> 0:13:57.480 not particularly high on him, but I'm starting to like 0:13:57.559 --> 0:13:59.760 a little bit more and more as Derrick Henry he 0:14:00.120 --> 0:14:03.559 up in a walking boot after practice one I think 0:14:03.600 --> 0:14:06.320 last week or something, we learned that it's a strained 0:14:06.480 --> 0:14:10.480 calf muscle. With the strain calf muscle, I From what 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:12.800 I understand, it's it's similar to a hamstring and that 0:14:12.880 --> 0:14:15.000 you need to let it rest for a couple of weeks, right, 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:18.280 And some players try to jump back in and do 0:14:18.440 --> 0:14:20.760 so too early and they either have some kind of 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.480 compensation injury or they re injure it. With Derrick Henry, like, 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:25.880 I kind of look at it as Jerrick McKinnon last year, 0:14:25.880 --> 0:14:28.080 someone I was really high on. He suffered a calf strain. 0:14:28.320 --> 0:14:30.320 I think it was early August and came back to 0:14:30.360 --> 0:14:32.160 early ended up tearing his c CL. I don't know 0:14:32.200 --> 0:14:34.240 if the two were related um at all. But what 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:37.840 is your concern when it comes to Derrick Henry's calf strain? Yeah, 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.080 definitely concerned here. Like he said, calf injuries probably more 0:14:41.120 --> 0:14:44.280 than any other lower body muscular strain, They just linger. 0:14:44.360 --> 0:14:46.840 They're so slow to recover. Even the ones that are 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:50.160 supposedly very mild end up taking weeks and weeks until 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.720 a player starts to feel better. Um. On top of that, 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:54.440 he was also seen in a walking boot for a 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:57.400 few days, so that kind of tells me that this 0:14:57.480 --> 0:14:59.640 isn't just you know, a little bit of tightness in 0:14:59.680 --> 0:15:02.440 his calf. There's definitely a string. Here, we're showing up 0:15:02.440 --> 0:15:05.440 grade one to two injury right now. Um, the minimum 0:15:05.440 --> 0:15:08.600 optimal recovery time for this is three weeks for Henry, 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:10.480 So that means we really shouldn't see him back on 0:15:10.520 --> 0:15:14.359 the field until you know, mid to late August, UM, 0:15:14.400 --> 0:15:16.320 and before then, you know, it's really important that he 0:15:16.360 --> 0:15:19.720 tested out very slowly to start with, jogging, no cutting, 0:15:19.800 --> 0:15:23.560 no jumping, because any of those explosive movements, UM, pushing 0:15:23.600 --> 0:15:27.040 off the line, accelerating, sprinting at full speed, that puts 0:15:27.040 --> 0:15:29.240 a lot of stress on the calf. So that's one 0:15:29.240 --> 0:15:31.120 of the reasons it's so tough for football players to 0:15:31.160 --> 0:15:34.280 fully recover because literally any movement on the football field 0:15:34.440 --> 0:15:37.160 put stress on the calf. UM. And also, like you said, 0:15:37.200 --> 0:15:39.560 there's a lot of compensatory injuries that take place when 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:42.040 a player is returning from the calf, whether it be 0:15:42.080 --> 0:15:46.720 an achilles injury, a hamstring injury, a knee injury, UM, ankle. 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:49.280 There's just so many things that can go wrong if 0:15:49.320 --> 0:15:51.720 the calf doesn't fully heal, So they need to make 0:15:51.760 --> 0:15:53.880 sure they don't rush him back. UM, even if it 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:56.200 means he's not to start the season and he has 0:15:56.240 --> 0:15:58.240 to sit a few games. It's worth it to get 0:15:58.280 --> 0:16:00.400 him healthy for the rest of the season. And I 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:03.120 thought that's a great point that Virginia made here regarding 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:05.440 the calf. I mean, we just saw this if you 0:16:05.480 --> 0:16:08.200 were watching the NBA Finals, Kevin Durant comes back too 0:16:08.200 --> 0:16:11.160 early from the calf injury, ends up tearing his achilles. Obviously, 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:13.400 we don't wish that to happen to Derrick Henry, but 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:15.680 it sounds like they're taking the cautious approach. Everything that 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.080 we've read so far was, you know, he didn't necessarily 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:19.840 even need the walking boot, but they put him in 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.200 that because they're trying to be cautious with him. I 0:16:22.240 --> 0:16:25.320 would imagine, you know, like that timetable you mentioned Virginia 0:16:25.360 --> 0:16:27.360 that he's probably out for the next two or three weeks. 0:16:27.600 --> 0:16:30.920 Maybe we see him in like one or two preseason games. Honestly, 0:16:31.040 --> 0:16:33.040 we probably don't even need to see him in the preseason. 0:16:33.040 --> 0:16:35.040 He's been around for a while. You know what this 0:16:35.080 --> 0:16:37.240 has done, at least for me, is it kind of 0:16:37.320 --> 0:16:39.600 ruins the draft value of Dean Lewis because that's someone 0:16:39.640 --> 0:16:42.320 that I was grabbing everywhere in Best Ball because you're 0:16:42.320 --> 0:16:44.920 getting in basically for free. And yeah, I'm starting to 0:16:44.920 --> 0:16:47.120 see his a DP climb up a little bit. But 0:16:47.320 --> 0:16:49.680 even with Derrick Henry healthier not I still think that 0:16:49.720 --> 0:16:51.800 Dean Lewis is a really good value where he's going 0:16:51.880 --> 0:16:55.240 right now. Hopefully Derrick Henry can get right soon. Another 0:16:55.320 --> 0:16:58.080 running back going in the early rounds that is dealing 0:16:58.080 --> 0:17:01.080 with an injury. It's Damie and Williams, and he's already 0:17:01.080 --> 0:17:04.679 a very polarizing player because look, he's he is a 0:17:04.760 --> 0:17:07.720 running back in the league's best offense. There's no need 0:17:07.760 --> 0:17:11.400 to overthink this. But he's never really had a full 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.960 workload at the NFL level and he's already now dealing 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:17.399 with his hamstring injury. Virginia, I might be wrong about this, 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:19.000 but I'll just kind of throw it out there. You 0:17:19.040 --> 0:17:22.520 mentioned that for a running back, and specifically any skill 0:17:22.560 --> 0:17:25.280 position player at the NFL level, when you're trying to 0:17:25.400 --> 0:17:28.119 explode a lot of the times you're using your calf 0:17:28.160 --> 0:17:30.520 and your hamstring to help you do that. I would 0:17:30.520 --> 0:17:35.480 imagine seeing this now regarding both Derrick Henry and Damian Williams. 0:17:35.480 --> 0:17:38.080 While they're different injuries, they're kind of similar in that 0:17:38.160 --> 0:17:40.640 you need your hamstring and your calf to be good 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:43.480 to go in order to have that explosiveness on the field. 0:17:43.480 --> 0:17:45.920 So what do you guys have on Damian Williams. What's 0:17:45.920 --> 0:17:47.760