Speaker 1: Okay, the highest paid player on our team, the highest paid,
Speaker 1: I believe, highest paid quarterback in the NFL, Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: We should probably let him throw the ball a little
Speaker 1: bit more. But even if he doesn't throw the ball
Speaker 1: a little bit more, just natural volume increase for Tyler
Speaker 1: Lockett here is going to take place. Because Doug Baldwin
Speaker 1: led this team with like seventy two targets last year,
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett finishes a top twenty wide receiver, scored ten
Speaker 1: touchdowns on just sixty six targets. Now, his efficiency is
Speaker 1: going to regress, but it's going to be canceled out
Speaker 1: by the fact that his volume is going to go up.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna see him anywhere from like a
Speaker 1: hundred to a hundred and fifteen targets this season. So
Speaker 1: when we're talking about that breakout wide receiver, tier Lockett,
Speaker 1: Mike Williams, Calvin Ridley, D J. Moore, Tyler Boyd, everyone's
Speaker 1: excited about these wide receivers. I have Tyler Lockett at
Speaker 1: the top. Let's say, Nick, Yeah, I'm smashing the button
Speaker 1: on Tilder lock It there as well. I think you
Speaker 1: know the point you laid out obviously, they're going to regress.
Speaker 1: My problem with people's analysis on Tyler Lockett is if
Speaker 1: you have to look at a player and you're only
Speaker 1: negative point about the player is that he's gonna regress.
Speaker 1: That's not a good argument. You're basically saying he's a
Speaker 1: very good player, And I don't really have a point
Speaker 1: except for I think he's gonna aggress and we've seen
Speaker 1: that bite people, you know, very a few times over
Speaker 1: the last few years. Like if you were on the
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill train of him aggressing, you missed out on
Speaker 1: his like a fit Listen. Some guys are just good
Speaker 1: at football. Tyler Lockett is one of those guys. Doug
Speaker 1: Baldwin had more targets than Tyler Lockett did last year.
Speaker 1: I didn't even realized Doug Baldwin played in more than
Speaker 1: like four games, but he ended up with more targets
Speaker 1: and Tyler Lockett. Tyler Lockett is going to slide into
Speaker 1: the slot, which I think is gonna be a very
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to say this correctly voluminous role. So
Speaker 1: he's gonna see a lot of targets coming from the slot.
Speaker 1: It's also a great deep ball threat. What does scare me.
Speaker 1: I will say that kind of puts me on a
Speaker 1: little bit of a pause. Is that is that Seattle offense?
Speaker 1: I was looking at some Vegas odds. Um Draft Kings
Speaker 1: just put on their their sports book. Um, the player
Speaker 1: props for the future. Russell Wilson is penciled in for
Speaker 1: like thirty six hundred passing yards as is over under,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, oh, boy, Like you might have to
Speaker 1: take a step back and look at things objectively, but
Speaker 1: I look at that receiving group and it's gonna throw
Speaker 1: the balls. That's the question. You can like DK Metcalf,
Speaker 1: but A's a rookie. He's realistic, Realistically, best case I
Speaker 1: don't even like him, to be honest, No, I actually
Speaker 1: hate him. But best case scenario, what do you do
Speaker 1: to you? Uh not not personally. I'm sure he's a really,
Speaker 1: really nice guy. Plus if he hears that, he honestly
Speaker 1: might snap you in half. Yeah, he might snap both
Speaker 1: of us. He'd take the Baja boys out, no questions asked. Um.
Speaker 1: But I mean he's not gonna get more than seventy
Speaker 1: targets maybe if that right, And then you look at
Speaker 1: it's just guys that have been in the NFL and
Speaker 1: haven't proven anything or other like later round rookie picks,
Speaker 1: it's locked it there and Russell wilson't at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, is one of the most efficient quarterbacks
Speaker 1: in the NFL. So give me a hundred targets from
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett, a hundred fifteen targets as you might have
Speaker 1: projected for Tyler Lockett over any of those mid round
Speaker 1: guys because he is an explosive playmaker. He will hit
Speaker 1: those deep threats even from the slot, but he will
Speaker 1: also now get volume from the slot, So I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be seeing eight nine targets a game. And
Speaker 1: shout out to Evan Silva and Adam Levitan. They do
Speaker 1: a great job. They just start up to Establish the
Speaker 1: Run podcast. I was listening to it on my way
Speaker 1: in today and they made a really good point. The
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks defense is not going to be nearly as
Speaker 1: good as it has been in years past. You know,
Speaker 1: Jarren Reid has a six game suspension. Now they don't
Speaker 1: have Frank Clark anymore, so the defense isn't gonna be
Speaker 1: as good. Are they gonna be in the same position
Speaker 1: to run as much as they want to in years past,
Speaker 1: the defense isn't as good. They might be in some
Speaker 1: more shootouts, so I'll take that into consideration. I might
Speaker 1: have to like re rank and move Russell Wilson around
Speaker 1: a little bit because I thought that was a really
Speaker 1: good point y. I'll throw this one year way. I
Speaker 1: know someone that you've been talking up no e Y here,
Speaker 1: all right, so we'll we'll wait to get you buy back.
Speaker 1: Let me know in my ear when we when we
Speaker 1: do have him back, or whether or not he's just
Speaker 1: like gone for the rest of the show. But I
Speaker 1: know that someone that e Y was on was David Moore.
Speaker 1: He's actually pretty excited about him playing the outside. We
Speaker 1: saw David Moore pop off a little bit last year.
Speaker 1: I would lean towards him having more of a role
Speaker 1: than DK Metcalf. And I know, you know, people might
Speaker 1: go up in arms again. DK Metcalf might might snap
Speaker 1: the Baja boys in half here. But as Jack is,
Speaker 1: DK metcalf is, he doesn't have any body fat, that's
Speaker 1: perfectly fine. You watch this guy run routes. He can
Speaker 1: get down the field, There's no doubt about it. I
Speaker 1: saw a route that he ran during O t A
Speaker 1: S where it was a comeback route, so many steps
Speaker 1: to try and come back. I said, dude, this guy
Speaker 1: is almost built like a tight end and he's gonna
Speaker 1: be playing wide receiver. Like everything that you've heard about
Speaker 1: his ability to move laterally is absolutely true. And I
Speaker 1: still think that he's really raw as a wide receiver. Now.
Speaker 1: Is he a freak athlete, no doubt about it. Is
Speaker 1: there a chance that he can develop his route running
Speaker 1: for sure? Is it gonna happen in year one? I'm skeptical.
Speaker 1: I A lot of people are talking about him for
Speaker 1: Best Ball and stuff. I'm I'm staying away like in Dynasty.
Speaker 1: I get it, like there might be upside down the line.
Speaker 1: But if you're expecting anything out of him year one,
Speaker 1: year two, I don't think it's gonna happen. And you
Speaker 1: could save this and if I'm wrong, you can make
Speaker 1: me eat my words later on. It's perfectly fine. But
Speaker 1: I am very skeptical of dk Metcalf this year. So really,
Speaker 1: the only downside of tire locket, I would say, is
Speaker 1: he's been kind of injury prone in the past a
Speaker 1: couple of years. Yeah, I guess that's kind of like
Speaker 1: recent bias because we're coming off of last year where
Speaker 1: he played so well. Yeah, yeah, I mean behind him,
Speaker 1: though I want nothing to do with that passing game.
Speaker 1: I will say I take DK Metcalf over David Moore
Speaker 1: straight up, but I'm not touching either. Then, before you know,
Speaker 1: very late in drafts, I think David Moore. I mean
Speaker 1: I like the talent, and I understand why there's a
Speaker 1: little bit of HiPE behind him. But if we're really
Speaker 1: expecting Russell Wilson to throw for thirty six hundred yards,
Speaker 1: how many wide receivers are really gonna eat in that offense?
Speaker 1: I mean, they said they have the same offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: They're they're gonna do the same thing. They're gonna run
Speaker 1: the ball and run the ball and run the ball.
Speaker 1: If anything, there could be just one wide receiver that eats,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be Tyle Lockett. So I'm right
Speaker 1: there with you. I like him the most out of
Speaker 1: that tier. Do you agree with that you have him
Speaker 1: higher than like the Calvin Ridley's Mike Williams of the world. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I uh, lock It would be a top that list
Speaker 1: for me too. All Right, we only have two minutes left,
Speaker 1: so we're not gonna have time to really hit on
Speaker 1: these guys as much as we wanted to do, but
Speaker 1: I'll just throw them your way. It's Kicky q T
Speaker 1: obviously a lot to like with the Houston Texans offense.
Speaker 1: I think you just want to get as much exposure
Speaker 1: to this offense as you possibly can. We saw it
Speaker 1: in the playoff game last year, like he has the
Speaker 1: Shawn Watson's trust. He had a monster playoff game. And
Speaker 1: if anything happens to Will Fuller or DeAndre Hopkins throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the season, probably not Hopkins, he's an
Speaker 1: iron man, but if anything happens to Will Fuller, which
Speaker 1: is definitely possible, Kiki qt s upside is like top
Speaker 1: twenty four, maybe top twenty wide receiver. So I love
Speaker 1: that call on Kiki as well, Dak. I understand it.
Speaker 1: He's finished as a top twelve quarterback each season he's
Speaker 1: been in the league. That is dependent on the six
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns. How fluky are those rushing touchdowns? Like, I
Speaker 1: think they have a package for him in the reson
Speaker 1: that they like to use. He's done in three years.
Speaker 1: He's done it three years in a row. So it's
Speaker 1: basically a trend at this point. But if any of
Speaker 1: those rushing touchdowns come back. Like, I do have some
Speaker 1: pause when it comes to Dak Prescott, but I see
Speaker 1: why people like him. Yeah, I mean the rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I would never look at his stats and be like,
Speaker 1: this is the reason why I'm drafting dec. I look
Speaker 1: at that offense and I think that with after Mark
Speaker 1: Cooper came on, I think most people probably heard the
Speaker 1: splits once in Mark Cooper came to Dallas. They were
Speaker 1: throwing the ball. It went from over the first half
Speaker 1: of the season, Mark Cooper comes, that's up to percent
Speaker 1: and that over the long run is gonna end up being,
Speaker 1: you know, an extra fifties seventy five pass attempts for DAC.
Speaker 1: He was on fire. He set like his career highs
Speaker 1: and yardage twice over the second half of the season.
Speaker 1: Big games came from him, and those splits were like, really,
Speaker 1: really good. He's finished as a top twelve fantasy quarterback
Speaker 1: all three years that he's been on the team. Um so,
Speaker 1: I mean that looks like his floor and this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a good offense with their offensive line back
Speaker 1: to full strength. Hick q C. I'm excited to talk
Speaker 1: to the doctor because Will Fuller towards a c L
Speaker 1: like later on in the season, and we know time
Speaker 1: tables for a c L returns. People want to say
Speaker 1: that he's a percent, but we have beat reporters out
Speaker 1: here just reporting whatever they want. They don't have any
Speaker 1: science to back it up. So I'm I'm more nervous
Speaker 1: about Will Fuller not actually being right and Keiki being
Speaker 1: the real wide receiver tow in Houston. That's Nicker Kalano.
Speaker 1: I am Frank Stanford. Coming up next, we'll have Virginia
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Speaker 1: Greg Sussman is not here. He's celebrating another bachelor party.
Speaker 1: I mean, busiest man in the world, Greg Susman, real quick,
Speaker 1: for we uh, we get into Virginia's kice here of
Speaker 1: inside injuries. I believe she is here. Virginia, are you here?
Speaker 1: We'll find out after that she is here, but we
Speaker 1: will get to Virginia after this, real quick, Nick, Dave
Speaker 1: Matthews Band or Metallica, you had to listen to one.
Speaker 1: If you don't listen to either perfectly, I'm probably gonna
Speaker 1: fade both of them. Neither of them really get Neither
Speaker 1: of them sink my submarine. Man, it's not my type
Speaker 1: of music. You should have let me choose the music
Speaker 1: for commercial breaks prior to this. Man. All right, so
Speaker 1: I am on the side of the bahamns here. It's
Speaker 1: on the Fantasy Sports Network. It's Nick Big Dog's Gotta Eat.
Speaker 1: I have seen Metallica like seven times live in concert,
Speaker 1: but I listened everything, so it doesn't really matter. Greg
Speaker 1: loves Dave Matthews Band. I rag on them all the time.
Speaker 1: Admittedly not a big Dave Matthews band guy. How about you, Virginia,
Speaker 1: are you a Metallica or Dave Matthews Band, if you
Speaker 1: had to listen to one of them, I go with
Speaker 1: Dave Matthews if I had to choose one the people
Speaker 1: that I'm surrounded by right now, this is not working
Speaker 1: out very well. Nick is fading both. Virginia is listening
Speaker 1: to Dave Matthews Band. All right, I'll have to make
Speaker 1: do with with what we've got going on. Virginia, how
Speaker 1: is everything going? How are you doing today? Very well?
Speaker 1: It's good to hear. We obviously you have a lot
Speaker 1: of fantasy football injuries that we want to ask you about.
Speaker 1: But first and foremost, Greg through a baseball player on here,
Speaker 1: because Greg selfishly likes to throw players on here that
Speaker 1: affect our teams or fantasy teams. You would like me
Speaker 1: to ask you about Luke Void. Luke Void, who's going
Speaker 1: to be out for the next six weeks for the
Speaker 1: New York Yankees, maybe even longer, depending on what you
Speaker 1: guys have a regarding um, you know, his uh, his timetable.
Speaker 1: What do you have on Luke Void? Is is he
Speaker 1: gonna be ready to go for let's say the baseball playoffs? Yeah?
Speaker 1: So he landed on the aisle with sports hernia. UM.
Speaker 1: Last I heard they weren't sure if he was going
Speaker 1: to have surgery, but this is one of those situations
Speaker 1: where surgery is very likely. UM. Once he has surgery,
Speaker 1: the recovery time is around six weeks, which is in
Speaker 1: line with what they're reporting. So I do think it's
Speaker 1: realistic for him to return, probably UM late September. UM.
Speaker 1: Of course, he's a high injury risk right now. He
Speaker 1: should not play anytime in the next few weeks, even
Speaker 1: if he doesn't have surgery. I also add he had
Speaker 1: an abdominal strain early year in July, and UM, this
Speaker 1: is this injury is very closely related to that. It
Speaker 1: also sounds like this may have started even over a
Speaker 1: month ago and just continue to get worse and worse. UM.
Speaker 1: And if that's the case here, then surgery definitely is
Speaker 1: the route to go. Get him healthy, get him ready
Speaker 1: to go for the playoffs. So there you go. That's
Speaker 1: what we have on Luke Boyd. Hopefully he's good to
Speaker 1: go for for the playoffs for the Yankees. For all
Speaker 1: of our Yankee fans in the chat, for any of
Speaker 1: our fantasy baseball fans still in the chat, I will
Speaker 1: now save you Nick because I assume that you don't
Speaker 1: play fantasy baseball or care about it at all. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you'all are talking another language to another language. If you
Speaker 1: had asked me what sport he played, I wouldn't have
Speaker 1: been able to answer it. Uh So you're not a
Speaker 1: you're not a Yankee fan either. Uh No. You know what,
Speaker 1: most of my close friends or Yankees fans and Giants
Speaker 1: fans shout out snacks and they're really annoying. So that
Speaker 1: made me not want to be a New York fan anymore.
Speaker 1: All right, so you can leave the studio now. Now
Speaker 1: I want to ask let's move into the football injuries. Now,
Speaker 1: we were talking about this in the first hour Virginia.
Speaker 1: Very interesting with what's going on with Andrew Luck right
Speaker 1: now in the Indianapolis cold. He's been nursing this calf injury,
Speaker 1: but he's been kind of nursing it since like O
Speaker 1: t a S for a couple of months. Now there
Speaker 1: might be something more severe than they're letting on. What
Speaker 1: do you guys have regarding Andrew Luck and do we
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be ready to go for the regular season?
Speaker 1: Is this something that we have to worry about potentially
Speaker 1: him re injuring once the season starts. What do you
Speaker 1: have on Andrew Luck. Yeah, Unfortunately, there's a very high
Speaker 1: possibility that he reinjures his calf if he doesn't take
Speaker 1: the time now to get it healed. Um. The good
Speaker 1: news is he's he's saying all the right things. It
Speaker 1: sounds like he's learned his lesson from, you know, coming
Speaker 1: back from that shoulder surgery where he ended up missing
Speaker 1: an entire season and kept having other problems like with
Speaker 1: his biceps. Um. You know, so he is taking it slow.
Speaker 1: It sounds like. Um. What also concerns me here though,
Speaker 1: is it sounds like it's more than just his calf.
Speaker 1: It also sounds like there's paying around his ankle, which,
Speaker 1: of course they're very closely related. Um. The calf stream
Speaker 1: likely led to this ankle problem as well. Um, but
Speaker 1: there's two things going on here. We're showing that he
Speaker 1: needs at least four weeks right now starting at this
Speaker 1: point because it sounds like he aggravated it. So he
Speaker 1: really should not see any time in the preseason. Um.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't get back on the field in the
Speaker 1: next few weeks and really starts to test it out,
Speaker 1: I would not be shocked if he misses the first
Speaker 1: few weeks of the season. Um, but I'm really hoping
Speaker 1: that the Colts don't get impatient and they keep giving
Speaker 1: him plenty of time to rest and they don't turn
Speaker 1: back out there before his calf is fully recovered. This
Speaker 1: is very scary. Yeah, this is horrifying. Before you actually
Speaker 1: came on, you know, I was talking up Marlon Mack
Speaker 1: and he's one of my favorite players to draft this year.
Speaker 1: But I wanted to preface with the fact that this
Speaker 1: Andrew luck calf thing is scaring me because it's been
Speaker 1: so long. There's obviously something more serious going on with it.
Speaker 1: So you didn't exactly put me at ease, but I
Speaker 1: know you're just doing your job, so no hard feelings
Speaker 1: are Virginia, by the way, I'm nice to virtually meet
Speaker 1: you as well. I want to jump into a running
Speaker 1: back that, um, some people are very high on. I'm
Speaker 1: not particularly high on him, but I'm starting to like
Speaker 1: a little bit more and more as Derrick Henry he
Speaker 1: up in a walking boot after practice one I think
Speaker 1: last week or something, we learned that it's a strained
Speaker 1: calf muscle. With the strain calf muscle, I From what
Speaker 1: I understand, it's it's similar to a hamstring and that
Speaker 1: you need to let it rest for a couple of weeks, right,
Speaker 1: And some players try to jump back in and do
Speaker 1: so too early and they either have some kind of
Speaker 1: compensation injury or they re injure it. With Derrick Henry, like,
Speaker 1: I kind of look at it as Jerrick McKinnon last year,
Speaker 1: someone I was really high on. He suffered a calf strain.
Speaker 1: I think it was early August and came back to
Speaker 1: early ended up tearing his c CL. I don't know
Speaker 1: if the two were related um at all. But what
Speaker 1: is your concern when it comes to Derrick Henry's calf strain? Yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely concerned here. Like he said, calf injuries probably more
Speaker 1: than any other lower body muscular strain, They just linger.
Speaker 1: They're so slow to recover. Even the ones that are
Speaker 1: supposedly very mild end up taking weeks and weeks until
Speaker 1: a player starts to feel better. Um. On top of that,
Speaker 1: he was also seen in a walking boot for a
Speaker 1: few days, so that kind of tells me that this
Speaker 1: isn't just you know, a little bit of tightness in
Speaker 1: his calf. There's definitely a string. Here, we're showing up
Speaker 1: grade one to two injury right now. Um, the minimum
Speaker 1: optimal recovery time for this is three weeks for Henry,
Speaker 1: So that means we really shouldn't see him back on
Speaker 1: the field until you know, mid to late August, UM,
Speaker 1: and before then, you know, it's really important that he
Speaker 1: tested out very slowly to start with, jogging, no cutting,
Speaker 1: no jumping, because any of those explosive movements, UM, pushing
Speaker 1: off the line, accelerating, sprinting at full speed, that puts
Speaker 1: a lot of stress on the calf. So that's one
Speaker 1: of the reasons it's so tough for football players to
Speaker 1: fully recover because literally any movement on the football field
Speaker 1: put stress on the calf. UM. And also, like you said,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of compensatory injuries that take place when
Speaker 1: a player is returning from the calf, whether it be
Speaker 1: an achilles injury, a hamstring injury, a knee injury, UM, ankle.
Speaker 1: There's just so many things that can go wrong if
Speaker 1: the calf doesn't fully heal, So they need to make
Speaker 1: sure they don't rush him back. UM, even if it
Speaker 1: means he's not to start the season and he has
Speaker 1: to sit a few games. It's worth it to get
Speaker 1: him healthy for the rest of the season. And I
Speaker 1: thought that's a great point that Virginia made here regarding
Speaker 1: the calf. I mean, we just saw this if you
Speaker 1: were watching the NBA Finals, Kevin Durant comes back too
Speaker 1: early from the calf injury, ends up tearing his achilles. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we don't wish that to happen to Derrick Henry, but
Speaker 1: it sounds like they're taking the cautious approach. Everything that
Speaker 1: we've read so far was, you know, he didn't necessarily
Speaker 1: even need the walking boot, but they put him in
Speaker 1: that because they're trying to be cautious with him. I
Speaker 1: would imagine, you know, like that timetable you mentioned Virginia
Speaker 1: that he's probably out for the next two or three weeks.
Speaker 1: Maybe we see him in like one or two preseason games. Honestly,
Speaker 1: we probably don't even need to see him in the preseason.
Speaker 1: He's been around for a while. You know what this
Speaker 1: has done, at least for me, is it kind of
Speaker 1: ruins the draft value of Dean Lewis because that's someone
Speaker 1: that I was grabbing everywhere in Best Ball because you're
Speaker 1: getting in basically for free. And yeah, I'm starting to
Speaker 1: see his a DP climb up a little bit. But
Speaker 1: even with Derrick Henry healthier not I still think that
Speaker 1: Dean Lewis is a really good value where he's going
Speaker 1: right now. Hopefully Derrick Henry can get right soon. Another
Speaker 1: running back going in the early rounds that is dealing
Speaker 1: with an injury. It's Damie and Williams, and he's already
Speaker 1: a very polarizing player because look, he's he is a
Speaker 1: running back in the league's best offense. There's no need
Speaker 1: to overthink this. But he's never really had a full
Speaker 1: workload at the NFL level and he's already now dealing
Speaker 1: with his hamstring injury. Virginia, I might be wrong about this,
Speaker 1: but I'll just kind of throw it out there. You
Speaker 1: mentioned that for a running back, and specifically any skill
Speaker 1: position player at the NFL level, when you're trying to
Speaker 1: explode a lot of the times you're using your calf
Speaker 1: and your hamstring to help you do that. I would
Speaker 1: imagine seeing this now regarding both Derrick Henry and Damian Williams.
Speaker 1: While they're different injuries, they're kind of similar in that
Speaker 1: you need your hamstring and your calf to be good
Speaker 1: to go in order to have that explosiveness on the field.
Speaker 1: So what do you guys have on Damian Williams. What's
Speaker 1: the latest and will he be good to go buy
Speaker 1: seasons start. Yeah. So very similar to calf these lower
Speaker 1: body muscler strains. UM, we see them happen all the
Speaker 1: time in the preseason just because players aren't used to
Speaker 1: going full speed. No matter what you do in the
Speaker 1: off season, no matter how much training you do, it's
Speaker 1: not the same. It's stepping on the field, going through
Speaker 1: contact drills and really going at So these injuries are
Speaker 1: unfortunately very common. Um. Like I previously said, very very
Speaker 1: important to rest it now, let it fully heal so
Speaker 1: it doesn't become a lingering injury. UM. For Williams, we're
Speaker 1: showing a Grade one hamstring strain, which is relatively mild
Speaker 1: and this comes with a two week optimal recovery time. UM.
Speaker 1: He was hurt on Sunday, I believe, and he hasn't
Speaker 1: returned to practice yet. UM. Again, really hoping he sits
Speaker 1: up at least through later next week and then he
Speaker 1: slowly starts to work his way back just to be
Speaker 1: sure his hamstring is going to respond well to you know,
Speaker 1: first jogging, then running close to full speed. UM, waiting
Speaker 1: to do any cutting or really full acceleration until he's
Speaker 1: tested it out for at least a few days and
Speaker 1: make sure that when he wakes up the next day
Speaker 1: he's not feeling any additional pain that he didn't experience before. UM.
Speaker 1: So no surprise. Right now, he's a high injury risk
Speaker 1: at and his health performance back there's below average at UM.
Speaker 1: If he does wait a full two weeks to return,
Speaker 1: I'm showing that he should get back into that elevated
Speaker 1: risk category, which is a pretty significant improvement, and his
Speaker 1: HPF would be back at above average. Virginia, we only
Speaker 1: have about a minute left in this segment. Can you
Speaker 1: stick around for the next segment as well? So we
Speaker 1: go over the rest of these players. Absolutely appreciate that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw this your way. Nick, just real quick,
Speaker 1: we got the break coming up. How have you been
Speaker 1: approaching Damian Williams? Are Are you pro Damian Williams or
Speaker 1: you out? Yeah? Um? Depending on his draft price, I'm
Speaker 1: probably out in the second round because we've never seen
Speaker 1: him hold up over the course of an entire season.
Speaker 1: So I think you know you don't you don't necessarily
Speaker 1: look at a guy's injury prone like Damian Williams, but
Speaker 1: the fact that we haven't actually seen him hold up
Speaker 1: means that he very well could be. You know, we've
Speaker 1: never seen him take that type of um workload in
Speaker 1: terms of hits on his body. So third round and
Speaker 1: pool with it because the upside is there. This hamstring
Speaker 1: injury obviously terrifies me. I drafted him in a Dyncy
Speaker 1: start up this off season, which is not you know,
Speaker 1: not not exactly not ideal. It's not ideal, not ideal.
Speaker 1: Thankfully I got him in the sixth round, so it
Speaker 1: won't kill my team, but nervous, I'm scared. It's Nick
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to the BFFs here on the Fantasy Sports Network.
Speaker 1: I am Frank Stanfeld. That is Nick Kalano. Very inappropriate
Speaker 1: song to be playing. Well, Virginia here, we're talking about
Speaker 1: this yesterday because I I quizzed my co's Craig Susman
Speaker 1: if he can name the movie that that song is from.
Speaker 1: He named the movie. It's Austin Powers. Austin Powers. Yes,
Speaker 1: it's a lot of friends are very upset with robots.
Speaker 1: The female robots start going crazy because Austin Powers is
Speaker 1: just too damn sexy. Scene. That is a great scene.
Speaker 1: We are here with Virginia zakas of Inside Injuries. Make
Speaker 1: sure you follow them on Twitter as well. For me,
Speaker 1: I have my notifications turned on. Whenever Inside Injuries tweets
Speaker 1: out anything, I get a notification to my phone so
Speaker 1: that I could be up to date with all the
Speaker 1: latest injuries that are going on throughout NFL training camp.
Speaker 1: And with that, Virginia, I need to ask you about
Speaker 1: a running back that we were talking about in our one.
Speaker 1: It's pretty much right in the mold of all these
Speaker 1: other guys were talking about Derrick Henry, Damian Williams. You
Speaker 1: heard the diagnosis on Williams regarding his hamstring injury. How
Speaker 1: about when it comes to Aaron Jones, because he's dealt
Speaker 1: with a lot of knee injuries. I believe he's torn
Speaker 1: his m c L twice already. Could that be poying
Speaker 1: into him potentially straining his hamstring here? And because of that,
Speaker 1: can he have a longer timetable to return? Definitely? And
Speaker 1: I'll also add that he missed around two weeks during
Speaker 1: the preseason last year with another hamstring injury. That's making
Speaker 1: this a lot more concerning, so to hamstring injuries to
Speaker 1: m c L injuries in the last two years. Um
Speaker 1: Not surprisingly, he was already an elevated injury risk. He
Speaker 1: was around eight before this hamstring injury. He's not a
Speaker 1: high injury risk. Um. You know, they're saying it's pretty mild,
Speaker 1: which is obviously good, but that's seems to be always
Speaker 1: what coaches say. They never really say that they're not
Speaker 1: concerned unless you know someone suffers a fracture or something
Speaker 1: like that. Um. So again, he needs to really make
Speaker 1: sure that he sits out enough time. We're showing around
Speaker 1: two to three weeks for for him, um, again mainly
Speaker 1: because he's had these other injuries before. So even though
Speaker 1: it's mild, because he's had past camstring issues, he needs
Speaker 1: to take even more time to allow it to heal.
Speaker 1: So not really a great day for players that you
Speaker 1: are targeting, Nick, if I'm being perfectly honest here, we
Speaker 1: have some concern over Aaron Tones, we have some concern
Speaker 1: over Andrew Luck and obviously that affects Marlon Mack as well.
Speaker 1: Virginia's just doing her job, but I mean these are
Speaker 1: things to take into consideration when drafting a player as
Speaker 1: early as Aaron Jones. I mean, we have to take
Speaker 1: this guy in the third round, and we have to
Speaker 1: realize the risk that comes with that. It's exactly why
Speaker 1: I told you carry on Johnson over both of those guys.
Speaker 1: He still scares me from any concern. No one's safe
Speaker 1: out here. Nobody is safe. Alright, Alright, I got one
Speaker 1: more question for you, Virginia. UM, and this is concerning
Speaker 1: a guy I want no part of, but hopefully maybe
Speaker 1: you can, you know, help me buy in a little
Speaker 1: bit more. This is Delaney Walker. I am not sure
Speaker 1: how oldly is at this point, but I know it's
Speaker 1: old and he's coming back from a broken ankle. When
Speaker 1: I'm targeting guys coming back from injuries, I mean, I
Speaker 1: look at like A c L S and I want
Speaker 1: them to years removed from the a c L, not
Speaker 1: the year they're coming back from it. But when we're
Speaker 1: talking about a bone, can you kind of dive in
Speaker 1: and let me know what are the chances of re
Speaker 1: injury when it's coming from bone as compared to something,
Speaker 1: you know, like an A c L. And what are
Speaker 1: his uh, what is his risk coming back if we
Speaker 1: can assume that he's actually healthy and he's practicing in
Speaker 1: full for like the week the two weeks prior to
Speaker 1: week one kicking off. Obviously doesn't have to be there
Speaker 1: for training camp in preseason games because he's Landey Walker.
Speaker 1: But um, can you talk about that and just just
Speaker 1: the bone in general being a re injury risk. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So if if this was just a fracture, um, he
Speaker 1: would have around twelve months to recover and I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be very concerned about him. But he when he was hurt,
Speaker 1: it was a dislocation that caused a fracture and ligament damage. UM,
Speaker 1: and from what I can tell, the ligament damage was
Speaker 1: also addressed during surgery, which means there are some tearing
Speaker 1: of the ligaments in the ankle UM that makes this
Speaker 1: a lot more serious and is now it's now more
Speaker 1: in line with you know, an A C L tear
Speaker 1: where yeah, he's would be back and he should be
Speaker 1: playing this season, but there's just so many different things
Speaker 1: that could go wrong, very high injury risk, killed deal
Speaker 1: with soreness, his strength isn't going to be what it
Speaker 1: was UM, So he's someone that I would probably try
Speaker 1: to stay away from. UM. I was actually pretty surprised
Speaker 1: when I was reviewing his injury history. He's had quite
Speaker 1: a few issues over the last few years UM, everything
Speaker 1: from his toe, hamstring, wrist, concussions. But surprisingly UM, since
Speaker 1: two thousand seven, he's played in at least fourteen games
Speaker 1: every single season until last year, which shocked me. UM.
Speaker 1: But that could just I see that as a sign that,
Speaker 1: you know, he's kind of gotten pretty lucky with a
Speaker 1: lot of injuries in his past, and UM last year's
Speaker 1: injury is just sort of the beginning of a bit
Speaker 1: of a downfall. For him. Hope I'm wrong here, but
Speaker 1: his injury risk is is still high. It's thirty right now. Um.
Speaker 1: One other thing to note that was HPF is above average,
Speaker 1: which is seventy seven percent. So that's telling me if
Speaker 1: he doesn't suffer any sort of setbacks or anything at
Speaker 1: training camp, um, and doesn't suffer any new injuries, he
Speaker 1: should go out there and be able to play pretty well. Um,
Speaker 1: he's not peaked like he was before he got hurt
Speaker 1: last year, but you know he's good enough to get
Speaker 1: out on the field and perform. Okay, Um, it's just
Speaker 1: I don't trust that he's going to be able to
Speaker 1: stay out there for most of the season. Delaney Walker
Speaker 1: an interesting late round tight end target, especially if you're
Speaker 1: playing best ball, is like your second tight end on
Speaker 1: your team. But overall a lot of things just going
Speaker 1: wrong for the Tennessee Titans right now. First it was
Speaker 1: Taylor Ljuan, then it was Derrick Henry, so you know,
Speaker 1: we'll see. Well, these are things to monitor throughout training camp,
Speaker 1: throughout the preseason, but hopefully Delaney Walker is good to go.
Speaker 1: Nick I would like to consider myself a professional broadcaster.
Speaker 1: Probably not really, but what I did today regarding the injuries,
Speaker 1: I buried the lead. We're almost twenty minute, twenty minutes
Speaker 1: in here talking to Virginia. We haven't even asked her
Speaker 1: about a J. Green. So that's obviously that was the
Speaker 1: biggest news coming out over the weekend, and we haven't
Speaker 1: talked to you since then, Virginia. I feel like we
Speaker 1: might have talked about a J. Green already, like a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks back to regarding his toe and whether
Speaker 1: or not he was completely healed from that, and then
Speaker 1: of course everything else happens regarding a J. Green, And
Speaker 1: it came out today that are in the past couple
Speaker 1: of days that Zach Taylor, their head coach, does expect
Speaker 1: a J. Green to miss multiple games. So I mean,
Speaker 1: what do you have regarding a J. Green? Like what
Speaker 1: is his healthy to return date? Like how worried should
Speaker 1: we be he's falling down draft boards, but is he
Speaker 1: even going to be worth taking later on if he's
Speaker 1: going to just reinjure himself. What do you have on
Speaker 1: a J. Green? Virginia? Yeah, I would not touch a J.
Speaker 1: Green this year unfortunately, um, you know, last season ended
Speaker 1: with torn ligaments in his toe because unfortunately he returned
Speaker 1: too soon from another toe injury. UM. That was supposed
Speaker 1: to come with a roughly three to four month recovery.
Speaker 1: We said it was going to be a little longer. Um.
Speaker 1: I think he did too much early on, you know,
Speaker 1: the first day of practice, and now here we are
Speaker 1: he's had surgery on his the ankle to his opposite side. UM. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's a different body part, different side, but definitely related. Um.
Speaker 1: When a guy is coming back from such a serious surgery,
Speaker 1: their body, just like I said before, it's just not
Speaker 1: ready to go. Their strength isn't what it used to be. Um.
Speaker 1: There's probably some other factors in play here. I know
Speaker 1: there was talk about the field they were playing on. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, that of course could have been a factor.
Speaker 1: But I think it was only a matter of time
Speaker 1: before Green got hurt. We're showing here a roughly ten
Speaker 1: week optimal recovery time, which means he really shouldn't return
Speaker 1: until mid October. Um. They've given him a six to
Speaker 1: eight week recovery, and they said his surgery was minor.
Speaker 1: But when there's ligament damage to the ankle, there's really
Speaker 1: no such thing as a minor surgery. They were just
Speaker 1: cleaning it out or there was a bonespur or something.
Speaker 1: Sure that could be minor, but we know in this
Speaker 1: case there's ligament damage because he had that m R I,
Speaker 1: So it should definitely be longer than six weeks. And
Speaker 1: you know, when guys have these ankle injuries and these
Speaker 1: two injuries, they really are highly, highly recurrent injuries. So
Speaker 1: I'm sure he's going to have problems later in the year.
Speaker 1: His injury risk is it's seventy six percent right now,
Speaker 1: which is one of the highest I've seen. So I
Speaker 1: would stay away from Green no matter what. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was so far off of Green for you know, all
Speaker 1: the reasons that you mentioned, even before this stuff started
Speaker 1: popping up in the new foot injury whatnot. I think
Speaker 1: he needs to be completely off your draft board. I would.
Speaker 1: I would bet a lot of money. I bet the
Speaker 1: mortgage that he ends up on the publist as soon
Speaker 1: as uh they as soon as the Bengals came out
Speaker 1: and said he's gonna miss at least a couple of
Speaker 1: regular season games. In my head, I was immediately like
Speaker 1: four to six weeks easily. I don't think he's back
Speaker 1: until week six. Just throw him on the publist. I
Speaker 1: think they're just trying to downplay it for now. I
Speaker 1: would put a lot of money that ends up on
Speaker 1: the publist, so I think that will save a lot
Speaker 1: of drafters. But if I'm drafting, I'm I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I don't even think it's worth like a late round
Speaker 1: pick on that guy because he's gonna be sitting on
Speaker 1: your bench for a long time. I actually, coming off
Speaker 1: a serious injury like this, it's almost as if you know,
Speaker 1: he doesn't have the upside that he had anyways, he
Speaker 1: might be like a wide receiver three flex and are
Speaker 1: you really going to hold on to a guy that's
Speaker 1: not gonna give you great production towards the end of
Speaker 1: the year. Anyways, It's it's a really really long stretch
Speaker 1: for him to be out to be worth any sort
Speaker 1: of like reasonable draft capital and fantasy. One guy that
Speaker 1: I've been, you know, getting higher and higher on throughout
Speaker 1: this offseason is Calvin Riley the Falcons. I'm a Falcons fan.
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily like the hiring of Dirt Cutter, but
Speaker 1: we know they're going to be very, very very past heavy,
Speaker 1: probably between like sixty five and seventy of their offensive plays,
Speaker 1: which is great for Julio great for Calvin Ridley. We
Speaker 1: saw him blow up his rookie season, even with Julio
Speaker 1: leading the league in targets and whatnot. But now he
Speaker 1: goes and pulls the hamstring and I believe he's been
Speaker 1: out of practice for a week or so. My concern
Speaker 1: with Ridley is he tried to get back into like
Speaker 1: practice immediately he pulls the hamstring and beat reporters like
Speaker 1: he tried to get back on the field for the
Speaker 1: next few plays. So for me, it seems like this
Speaker 1: young second year wide receiver who's um really excited to
Speaker 1: get back on the field, and that tells me that
Speaker 1: his mindset is going to be like I want to
Speaker 1: get back on the field for practice in a week,
Speaker 1: in two weeks, and that's probably not long enough for
Speaker 1: him to rest. So what are your feelings on Calvin
Speaker 1: Ridley and the hamstring. I know you've went over hamstrings
Speaker 1: for a while, but um, I'm interested if maybe this, uh,
Speaker 1: there's a different take with Calvin Ridley. Yeah, so exactly
Speaker 1: what you're saying. Also happened last year when he had
Speaker 1: a bone bruise to his ankle. He didn't miss any games,
Speaker 1: but he was playing when he shouldn't have UM, and
Speaker 1: it definitely showed UM. He also played with some with hand, elbow,
Speaker 1: and quad injuries last year, so he's one of those
Speaker 1: guys that I think he just wants to play no
Speaker 1: matter what. But it's just not smart, especially this early
Speaker 1: in the preseason, especially with a hamstring injury. I kind
Speaker 1: of can't believe. I saw the play where he got
Speaker 1: hurt and then they let him go right back out there.
Speaker 1: I could not believe that the medical staff let him
Speaker 1: back out on the field that same day, UM, because
Speaker 1: it's just not worth the risk. UM. From what I
Speaker 1: can tell, he's been working with the rehab group, which
Speaker 1: tells me he's made a little bit of progress over
Speaker 1: the last week. UM. I actually think it's good news
Speaker 1: that he hasn't been fully cleared to practice yet. There's
Speaker 1: just no reason for him to be playing right now
Speaker 1: and to be pushing it. UM. This injury, if mild,
Speaker 1: comes with a two week optimal recovery time, So given
Speaker 1: another week and he should be able to get back
Speaker 1: out there right now. He's a high injury risk at
Speaker 1: is the cut off for elevated UM. If he does
Speaker 1: wait the full two weeks to return, I think he'll
Speaker 1: get in that elevated risk category, which will be a
Speaker 1: significant improvement for him. Yeah. I think this is all
Speaker 1: on the team. When it comes to the Atlanta Falcons,
Speaker 1: they just have to protect Calvin Ridley from himself. I
Speaker 1: know he's a young player, he's hungry, he wants to
Speaker 1: get out there, but they need to sit him down
Speaker 1: and make sure that he's on before he returns so
Speaker 1: that he doesn't risk that re injury. We're all crossing
Speaker 1: our fingers hoping that Calvin Ridley is good to go
Speaker 1: for the regular season because obviously he does have immense upside.
Speaker 1: Somebody else who has emens upside. Tyreek Hill finished as
Speaker 1: the wide receiver one last season, and he actually is
Speaker 1: suffering from an injury completely different than anything we've talked about. Yet.
Speaker 1: He's dealing with a bruised quad, I would imagine, and
Speaker 1: this is me taking a guess that this isn't as
Speaker 1: severe as the hamstring or calf. But what says you,
Speaker 1: Virginia when it comes to the bruise quad of Tyreek Hill? Yep,
Speaker 1: definitely doesn't seem as serious. Um, but we are showing
Speaker 1: that this is a Grade one injury, not a soft
Speaker 1: tissue injury. UM. If it was just a bruise, that
Speaker 1: would be soft tissue fine in less than a week. UM.
Speaker 1: This is a quad continu usion, which that likely means
Speaker 1: the bruise is a little bit deeper, affecting the muscle
Speaker 1: a little bit. UM, not as severe as a strain
Speaker 1: or anything, but you know, it can still affect a
Speaker 1: player UM and can cause them to suffer another injury.
Speaker 1: I think um O b J last year had something
Speaker 1: sort of similar, not exactly the same, but UM, you know.
Speaker 1: So in this case, we're showing a two week optimal
Speaker 1: recovery time. I think he will return sooner than that,
Speaker 1: but this is something to watch over the next few weeks. UM,
Speaker 1: he'll likely be dealing with some soreness UM and some tightness.
Speaker 1: If the tightness gets too severe, that's what can lead
Speaker 1: to a more serious strain. So it's important to make
Speaker 1: sure that he stays loose. UM. If if he ever
Speaker 1: feels any pain, UM, make sure he shuts things down
Speaker 1: for the day. UM. And it'll be important to focus
Speaker 1: on his rehab over the next few weeks so that
Speaker 1: this doesn't become something more serious. That is Virginia Zakus
Speaker 1: of Inside Injuries. Make sure you go follow Inside Injuries
Speaker 1: on Twitter. Virginia, thank you so much. We'll talk to
Speaker 1: you again next week. That's good. Thanks guys, appreciate it. Virginia.
Speaker 1: And of course I want to thank you Nick for
Speaker 1: joining me today. I wanted to give you these last
Speaker 1: thirty seconds or so to just kind of like promote
Speaker 1: everything you've got going on so people could go find
Speaker 1: your work and check it out. Sure, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: First of all, I had a blast. Absolutely, It's a
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Speaker 1: I am Frank Standfeld joined live in studio. Someone that
Speaker 1: I've been following for a while now puts out great
Speaker 1: content on YouTube, Nick Lano. I believe I'm saying your
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Speaker 1: You can fall on Twitter at Nick Underscore b d
Speaker 1: g E. I know you have a huge following on
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Speaker 1: I'm excited to be here. Man. Anytime I can get
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Speaker 1: That is uh something that they say. I don't know
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Speaker 1: This is a virtual handsheek? Is that cool? If I
Speaker 1: call you e y? Can we start off with like
Speaker 1: the abbreviations right off the bat? Yeah, everyone calls me
Speaker 1: that Eric Young is what it stands for. But almost
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Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna go with Eric. Then what do
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Speaker 1: do you want Eric Yeah? I mean e wise Fine,
Speaker 1: it's easier to say, um, long story short, Eric Young
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Speaker 1: and Eric Young could be the worst fake name of
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Speaker 1: As I mentioned what we want to do today, I
Speaker 1: brought Nick in studio, not only because Greg Susman is
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