Speaker 1: Hello, everybody. Welcome into the Fantasy Pros Football Podcast. I'm
Speaker 1: Ryan Warmley, joined by Pat fitz Morris and by Derek Brown.
Speaker 1: We are talking takeaways from the fantasy perspective for the
Speaker 1: AFC East. Today, we're running through every single division. This
Speaker 1: is our AFC East episodes. We're gonna be talking some
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills, some Miami Dolphins, some New York Jets, and
Speaker 1: some New England Patriots. Guys, let's dive right in because
Speaker 1: these are a little bit shorter episodes of the Bills
Speaker 1: right at the top of the division thirteen and four. Obviously,
Speaker 1: they are the two seed in the AFC playoffs. Deebro,
Speaker 1: this one is gonna be yours. What is your fantasy
Speaker 1: takeaway from the Bills this season?
Speaker 2: Throughout the entirety of draft season, boys, we tried to
Speaker 2: answer the question of which Buffalo pass catcher should we
Speaker 2: be drafting. Is it Dalton Kin Kate, Oh, he's gonna
Speaker 2: lead the team in targets? Is it Khalil Shagir a breakout?
Speaker 2: Is it Curtis Samuel for the value? And the answer
Speaker 2: at the end of it was it was none of them,
Speaker 2: because none of them step forward as a top twenty
Speaker 2: four option As far as wide receivers, don't kick Kaid
Speaker 2: tight end eighteen. Shakir had moments, but was he a
Speaker 2: consistent guy you felt good about plugging your lineup every
Speaker 2: single week. Finishes a wide receiver thirty three Kean Coleman
Speaker 2: again didn't mention him earlier because he didn't do much
Speaker 2: for the entirety of the season. Splash plays here and there,
Speaker 2: Wide receiver fifty five, Curtis Samuel, wide receiver ninety five.
Speaker 2: So sad as it is one of the best offenses
Speaker 2: in the AFC, and we're like, who's the guy to
Speaker 2: draft everywhere outside of Josh Allen, It's got to be
Speaker 2: a pass catcher. The answer was no.
Speaker 1: One. When you frame this debro for twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: do you kind of take away from twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: that you want to avoid a lot of these pass
Speaker 1: catchers again next year, or do you think this is
Speaker 1: more looking backwards and trying to just kind of describe
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty four season rather than trying to predict
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: I think looking at this passing offense for twenty twenty five,
Speaker 2: unless I'm getting one of these guys to fall to me,
Speaker 2: and it fits a build or a past ADP. I'm
Speaker 2: not that in on buffalo passing attack. I just we've
Speaker 2: seen it over how many different seasons, not even just
Speaker 2: twenty twenty four, where it's like, I mean, Josh Allen
Speaker 2: is awesome, but he doesn't consistently bring people along for
Speaker 2: the ride.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Fits. I was gonna bring up Josh Allen because
Speaker 1: I know that was a conversation that you and I
Speaker 1: and Deebro and a bunch of us at Fantasy Pros
Speaker 1: had in you know, over the summer and in August,
Speaker 1: about how maybe this was the year to finally not
Speaker 1: fade Josh Allen out of the upper tier of quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: but to look at some of those other elite fantasy
Speaker 1: quarterbacks ahead of him on draft day, and that just
Speaker 1: turned out to not be the case once again. You know,
Speaker 1: I think he's finished top two in like five straight years,
Speaker 1: just another like tremendous, tremendous fantasy season despite not having
Speaker 1: that one pass catcher that was kind of lifting everybody
Speaker 1: else up, you know, the same way Stefan Diggs might
Speaker 1: have in the past. What was your takeaway from that?
Speaker 3: First of all, I will cop to being one of
Speaker 3: the fade Josh Allen. Guys just seen what happened to
Speaker 3: pay Pat Yeah, Patrick Mahomes when he lost all his weapons,
Speaker 3: and how his passing numbers really went in the tank,
Speaker 3: and I was worried the same thing might happen to
Speaker 3: Josh Allen. We knew he was gonna do good things
Speaker 3: as a runner, of course, but maybe that just sort
Speaker 3: of kneecapped his value and kept him maybe a tier
Speaker 3: below Lamar Jackson because he had lost so much weaponry.
Speaker 3: Turnout that was not the case. But generally fantasy managers
Speaker 3: want to invest in good offenses, and Buffalo certainly has
Speaker 3: a good offense. But this is just such a weird
Speaker 3: case because Buffalo rotates everyone at the skill positions like
Speaker 3: they have been using a four receiver or more rotation
Speaker 3: down the stretch with Amari Cooper, Khalil Shakir, Kean Coleman,
Speaker 3: and Mack Hollins, like they are giving Mac Collins as
Speaker 3: many snaps as any of these other guys. You know,
Speaker 3: James Cook still has like high end RB two value,
Speaker 3: but they've been working in Ray Davis and Ty Johnson
Speaker 3: all year and at tight end, I mean they use
Speaker 3: Dalton Kinkaid and Dawson Knox. So this is really kind
Speaker 3: of a confounding offense for fantasy managers. I don't know
Speaker 3: how it's gonna change. It's weird that they've never fully
Speaker 3: integrated Amari Cooper into the offense. Maybe that starts to
Speaker 3: happen in the playoffs. I kind of doubt it. But like,
Speaker 3: am I fading these guys for next year? Not necessarily.
Speaker 3: But the thing is, I don't think anyone's going to
Speaker 3: be ranking or drafting Khalil Shakir or Kean Coleman as
Speaker 3: like starting caliber guys. I think they're gonna be like
Speaker 3: wide receiver three, wide receiver four types.
Speaker 1: You're not expecting maybe a step forward from Coleman just
Speaker 1: because fits I know you really liked him as a prospect,
Speaker 1: you know, in rookie drafts at least last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we saw the ball skills that, I mean,
Speaker 3: this guy has special ball skills, like he has George
Speaker 3: Pickens type ball skills. But I just don't know if
Speaker 3: the targets are going to be there for him to
Speaker 3: be anything more than a depth piece next year.
Speaker 1: Deeper lasting on the bills. Do you expect them to
Speaker 1: add more receiving talent because you know, a lot of
Speaker 1: the conversation obviously, like you know from the MVP discussion,
Speaker 1: has been will Josh Allen is kind of dragging up
Speaker 1: a team that doesn't have a lot of talent around him.
Speaker 1: I think that's maybe a mischaracterization of what the situation
Speaker 1: he's actually in. But particularly with the pass catchers, there
Speaker 1: isn't that one guy. Do you think they're gonna take
Speaker 1: maybe another swing, you know, late first round draft pick
Speaker 1: or in free agency of trying to address that position,
Speaker 1: or will they say, hey, this went pretty well even
Speaker 1: not having a star there, we have Josh Allen, so
Speaker 1: we're gonna fix the team elsewhere.
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna fix the team elsewhere. This defense
Speaker 2: needs a lot of parts of pieces, especially along the
Speaker 2: defensive line. You can make a case for the O
Speaker 2: line in certain aspects and stuff. So I think it's
Speaker 2: gonna be a lot of like maybe boring moves in
Speaker 2: the NFL draft and things like that. I don't see
Speaker 2: any splash moves for Buffalo coming. And to Fitzi's point,
Speaker 2: real fast even on James Cook, dude like yeah, we
Speaker 2: can all points and saying like okay, he was the
Speaker 2: RB eleven and fantasy points per game. Took him freaking
Speaker 2: eighteen total touchdowns to get to that point. So if
Speaker 2: the touchdowns come back next year and people are gonna say, okay,
Speaker 2: well James Cook was the guy to draft. Were any
Speaker 2: of us saying walking into this season that James Cook
Speaker 2: was going to score eighteen touchdowns? No, so you bring
Speaker 2: that down to a more reasonable number, like eight to
Speaker 2: nine touchdowns or something like that. Like Fitzy's point, you're
Speaker 2: talking about RB twenty probably somewhere in that range and
Speaker 2: not RB eleven.
Speaker 1: So what you're saying is we're in for another year
Speaker 1: of you setting out a thousand James Cook trade offers
Speaker 1: in our dynasty league.
Speaker 2: And everybody's saying no, and him being more valuable on
Speaker 2: my rebuild team.
Speaker 1: Then And I couldn't hear it him away?
Speaker 2: No, I can't, I can't try. Nobody wants to.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the Dolphin, s Bro. This
Speaker 1: is also gonna be one of your teams with the takeaway.
Speaker 2: So I know we're looking back on this season and
Speaker 2: we're saying, okay, how everything played out? Is John O'smith real?
Speaker 2: Is this situation real? And what are we going to
Speaker 2: do with him in twenty twenty five. My takeaway is
Speaker 2: that John O'smith was a top five tight end and
Speaker 2: I think he should be ranked as such twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: And this is not any of the Tyreek Hill I
Speaker 2: want to get out of Miami. I'm quitting Miami, all
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff. This is not even in that equation.
Speaker 2: So don't even like, let's not misconstrue this point, John
Speaker 2: new Smith, what he did this season needs to like,
Speaker 2: people need to take note of this. He was freaking fantastic.
Speaker 2: Oh no, regardless of whatever metric you put up, and
Speaker 2: that flash of talent, that demanding of targets, that spot
Speaker 2: in this passing attack with Tyreek kill there and walking
Speaker 2: into next year, even if he's on the team another
Speaker 2: year older, he's still a top five tight end, man. Like,
Speaker 2: looking at him, even since Week eleven, he was the
Speaker 2: tight end three in Fantasy points per game. You look
Speaker 2: at him in all different metrics amongst qualifying tight ends
Speaker 2: with at least twenty five targets, this dude was fourth
Speaker 2: in yards per route run and he was first in
Speaker 2: first downs per route run. So the production is real.
Speaker 2: We've seen the flashes of talent. Now he's in a
Speaker 2: spot where they are feeding him the football. I think
Speaker 2: this is absolutely real and I'm going to be drafting
Speaker 2: a ton of him next year.
Speaker 1: Fits I mean, he deeper kind of mentioned Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1: There's some uncertainty as of when we're recording this about
Speaker 1: you know, he had those comments after the game that
Speaker 1: he's out and is very open to going elsewhere, and
Speaker 1: I don't know what will end up happening. It seems
Speaker 1: like a very tricky player to deal for a number
Speaker 1: of different reasons that we don't really have time to
Speaker 1: get into. But if he's not there, that really changes
Speaker 1: the shape of this passing game.
Speaker 3: It does, But I'm kind of echoing Deebro's sentiments, like
Speaker 3: I kind of want to keep that separately here because
Speaker 3: I don't think it mattered. Like Jalen Wattle is awesome too,
Speaker 3: and I'd almost like to see Tyreek Hill go so
Speaker 3: Jalen Wattle could play a bigger role. I just think
Speaker 3: Johnny is such an important part of the two A
Speaker 3: tongue of I low a preservation plan for the Dolphins
Speaker 3: and like keeping him, you know, out of concussion protocol
Speaker 3: and potentially having to reckon with the end of his
Speaker 3: career if he sustains another one or two. John Who's
Speaker 3: averaged depth of target this year was four point nine yards.
Speaker 3: Like they are trying to get the ball out quickly,
Speaker 3: and they're trying to get it to John H. So look,
Speaker 3: I've got John Who ranked tight end eight for twenty
Speaker 3: twenty five. I don't think there's a case to be
Speaker 3: made that he deserves to be ranked ahead of any
Speaker 3: of brock Bauer's Trey McBride, George Kittle, or Sam Laporta.
Speaker 3: I think you can make arguments with the next three
Speaker 3: guys I have ranked ahead of him, Mark Andrews, TJ. Hockinson,
Speaker 3: and David Nijoku. I think he's kind of on a
Speaker 3: similar tier with those guys. But I agree that John
Speaker 3: Who's season was no fluke whatsoever. Like he's actually good,
Speaker 3: which is why we saw him cutting into the production
Speaker 3: of Kyle Pitts last year and we were kind of
Speaker 3: blaming Arthur Smith about that and getting mad for him.
Speaker 3: Maybe we owe Arthur Smith a little bit of an
Speaker 3: apology for that, because now people are going to be,
Speaker 3: you know, unanimously ranking John Hu ahead of Kyle Pitts
Speaker 3: next year and probably well ahead of him. So yes,
Speaker 3: we do still have a lot of valid grievances with
Speaker 3: mister Smith, but maybe we oh him a little bit
Speaker 3: of grace for that.
Speaker 1: Well, our Twitter is now negatively impacting tweets that are
Speaker 1: negative in nature. They are hurt in the album, so
Speaker 1: we're not allowed to post about Kyle Pitts or Arthur
Speaker 1: Smith anymore. On the Fantasy pros, I really, you know,
Speaker 1: to me, like David and Joki, like I will not
Speaker 1: be taking him over Johnny Smith, Like I mean there's
Speaker 1: a whole offseason, like we'll see what happens, but I
Speaker 1: really don't expect to be ranking him ahead of John
Speaker 1: Whu And I think I will have Hockinson ahead of him,
Speaker 1: like another year removed from the injury. You know, I
Speaker 1: have so much faith in that passing infrastructure. To me,
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews another year older, had the slow start this year,
Speaker 1: like obviously finished really strong, running hot with touchdowns. I
Speaker 1: think Andrews versus John Hu Deebro is going to be
Speaker 1: a really interesting debate for me personally in my rankings
Speaker 1: next year.
Speaker 2: Yep. As FITZI was laying that out, I think and
Speaker 2: how I looked at my twenty twenty five rankings. Right now,
Speaker 2: I've got Johnny at tight end five. I think that
Speaker 2: looking at him in the same tier as TJ. Hockinson
Speaker 2: and Mark Andrews, who have a tight end six and seven,
Speaker 2: is exactly how I want to approach it. I think
Speaker 2: that that is the tier of guys that they have
Speaker 2: the top five, top three upside and stuff like that,
Speaker 2: but they're just they're a little bit outside of my
Speaker 2: top four. Trade McBride, brock Pauers, George Kittle, and Sam
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Speaker 1: All right, fits your takeaway for the New York Jets.
Speaker 3: It is do not fade bris Hall in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: And I know brius Hall did not live up to
Speaker 3: the expectations fantasy managers had when they drafted him in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty four. But when you look at the overall numbers,
Speaker 3: thirteen hundred and fifty nine yards from scrimmage, eight touchdowns
Speaker 3: in sixteen games, not too bad. I know. Jets fans
Speaker 3: were very frustrated by the lack of carries for bris Hall.
Speaker 3: Maybe not getting carries befitting a man of the sort
Speaker 3: of talent that bres Hall has. Maybe part of that
Speaker 3: was just because the Jets were thrust into so many
Speaker 3: negative game scripts. Their defense certainly didn't live up to,
Speaker 3: you know, the elite billing it was getting back in August.
Speaker 3: Hall averaged thirteen point one carries a game this season.
Speaker 3: There was only one game where he had more than
Speaker 3: sixteen carries. He got eighteen carries against the Bills back
Speaker 3: in October, had one hundred and thirteen rushing yards and
Speaker 3: maybe not so coincidentally, the Jets almost knocked off the
Speaker 3: Bills in that game. They lost twenty three to twenty
Speaker 3: with Tyler Bass kicking the game winner with under four
Speaker 3: minutes to go. But Hal did have fifty seven catches
Speaker 3: this year. He had seventy six catches in twenty twenty three.
Speaker 3: Very productive as a pass catcher. I'm not sure we
Speaker 3: want to see him turn into Alvin Kamara, but maybe
Speaker 3: that wouldn't be the worst thing. But like he has
Speaker 3: that sort of pass catching ability, I just think there's
Speaker 3: more meat on the bone for him as a runner.
Speaker 3: And you know, look, the Jets probably aren't going to
Speaker 3: have Aaron Rodgers as their quarterback next year, and maybe
Speaker 3: some of Rogers. We know he likes to audible a
Speaker 3: lot maybe he was not audible and audibling into running
Speaker 3: plays all that often. So it's hard to imagine the
Speaker 3: Jets having an above average quarterback situation next year. So
Speaker 3: maybe they would be wise to build the offense around
Speaker 3: bris Hall, this twenty three year old, freakishly athletic, highly productive,
Speaker 3: versatile running back. And you know, I think there's the
Speaker 3: potential to be much more valuable as a fantasy commodity
Speaker 3: for Brisall than he was in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: If I force you to bet your entire year's salary
Speaker 1: fits on one guy to be the quarterback for the
Speaker 1: Jets in twenty twenty five, who is taking that first
Speaker 1: snap in Week one?
Speaker 3: Justin Fields?
Speaker 2: Yep?
Speaker 1: Fields, justin Taylor.
Speaker 4: That's where I mean.
Speaker 3: It's it's gonna be a game of musical chairs and
Speaker 3: there are not enough chairs, and I think Fields is
Speaker 3: going to be one of the very last chairs. And
Speaker 3: you know, the Jets not really having the draft capital
Speaker 3: to get one of the top two quarterbacks in this class,
Speaker 3: I think that's the way they wind up going. I
Speaker 3: don't think they're bringing Sam Darnold back. No, I don't
Speaker 3: think that marriage ended all that well. So I don't
Speaker 3: know if there's another Sam Darnold go around with the Jets.
Speaker 1: Deever, what do you think about this takeaway for the Jets?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I'm with Fitzy on this one. I
Speaker 2: think we're looking at very very different situations and stuff
Speaker 2: like that. But I think we're looking at kind of
Speaker 2: a Bee John Robinson situation of last year, where you
Speaker 2: got a lot of different things. He'd let a lot
Speaker 2: of people down. I know that a lot of the
Speaker 2: circumstances are very very different, but I think we're gonna
Speaker 2: see a bounce back season for Breese Hall because all
Speaker 2: the peripheral numbers still look really good man, Like you're
Speaker 2: talking about all the qualifying running backs with one hundred
Speaker 2: or more carrious for the season, Breese Hall is still
Speaker 2: top seventeen and explosive run rate yards of the contact
Speaker 2: for a tenth like and I think there's still meat
Speaker 2: on the bone like fits he was talking about, Like
Speaker 2: for me, for Breese Hall to regain some more of
Speaker 2: that explosiveness, because there were times this season where you
Speaker 2: watched him play and that second gear where you would
Speaker 2: have seen before the injuries, Breese Hall would have taken
Speaker 2: a run like it would have been a home run
Speaker 2: for eighty ninety yards whatever, sixty seventy yards and he's
Speaker 2: petering out at like forty yards or guys are catching
Speaker 2: him from behind. I think an off season where he
Speaker 2: can enter hopefully and we know he was dinged up
Speaker 2: to the finish the regular season. Hopefully he can enter
Speaker 2: this offseason relatively close to full health and we could
Speaker 2: see an even better version of Breeze Hall. So if
Speaker 2: he's gonna fall in drafts, especially like if we're talking
Speaker 2: about justin fields, Tyrod Taylor gonna be the quarterback maybe
Speaker 2: for next year for New York. Yeah, give me all
Speaker 2: the Breeze Holl.
Speaker 1: No explanation or a deep dive breakdown, Just give me
Speaker 1: a number. He will be ranked overall, and not at
Speaker 1: the position amongst running backs. Overall, He'll be ranked where
Speaker 1: for you next year, de bro.
Speaker 3: Top twenty fits, yeah, edge of top twenty, between.
Speaker 2: Top twenty and top twenty four. Definitely in the top
Speaker 2: two rounds.
Speaker 1: Yeah, agreed, All right. So that was the Jets. They
Speaker 1: went five and twelve last year. By the way, I
Speaker 1: didn't mention Dolphins were eight and nine and missed the playoffs.
Speaker 1: Patriots four and thirteen. They miss out on the number
Speaker 1: one overall pick because because they won in the last
Speaker 1: week of the season fits. What was your big takeaway
Speaker 1: from the Patriots this season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Look, the Patriots only had one objective this season
Speaker 3: and that was to integrate Drake May into the offense.
Speaker 3: Mission accomplished. Drake May's rookie season suggests that he will
Speaker 3: be a top ten fantasy quarterback for the foreseeable future.
Speaker 3: And this was like one of my favorite things about
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty four season seeing Drake May performed so
Speaker 3: well after the Patriots made him their starter in Week six.
Speaker 3: May just was not over his head at all as
Speaker 3: a rookie. A sixty six point six percent completion percentage,
Speaker 3: fifteen touchdowns and ten interceptions in twelve starts, only thirty
Speaker 3: four sacks and no more than four sacks in any game.
Speaker 3: Six point seven yards per attempt. I mean, that's not great,
Speaker 3: but that number is going to come up and the
Speaker 3: rushing numbers, that is what should really have people excited
Speaker 3: about Drake May for Fantasy four hundred and twenty one
Speaker 3: rushing yards in starts plus one very short relief appearance.
Speaker 3: Also had a couple of rushing touchdowns. This dude is
Speaker 3: going to be running for six hundred to seven hundred
Speaker 3: yards every season, and that is rushing yardage that moves
Speaker 3: the needle in fantasy. That is the Konami code we're
Speaker 3: looking for. And look, May had this awful supporting cast
Speaker 3: last year. Patriots had one of the worst groups of
Speaker 3: pass catchers in the league. It looks like they might
Speaker 3: have busted on the two receivers they drafted last April,
Speaker 3: Jalen Polk and Javon Baker, neither of whom did anything
Speaker 3: this year. PFF graded the Patriots offensive line second worst
Speaker 3: in the league in pass blocking this year, So it
Speaker 3: was a dumpster fire around Drake May and he was
Speaker 3: still able to thrive. But here's the thing. The Patriots
Speaker 3: are picking early in the draft, even though they're not
Speaker 3: picking quite as highly as they should be. They have
Speaker 3: a ton of salary cap space, more than any other
Speaker 3: team in the league, over one hundred million in cap space.
Speaker 3: Their offseason mandate is to throw the kitchen sink into
Speaker 3: helping out Drake May. And they're gonna upgrade the offensive line.
Speaker 3: They're gonna upgrade their outside receivers. Get guys better than
Speaker 3: Kaishawn Booty and Kendrick Bourne. I have Drake May rank
Speaker 3: QB ten next year, and I think he is going
Speaker 3: to be a top ten, if not a top five,
Speaker 3: fantasy quarterback for a long long time.
Speaker 1: I could not agree more. He is a quarterback. I
Speaker 1: guarantee I will be ahead of consensus on Drake May
Speaker 1: next season. I don't know where consensus is gonna fall,
Speaker 1: but I will make it a point to be ahead
Speaker 1: of consensus. I really and maybe I'm putting a little
Speaker 1: bit too much faith in what the organization is going
Speaker 1: to do, Like he needs other pieces around him obviously
Speaker 1: for that to pan out. I'm just believing that the
Speaker 1: Patriots are going to draft either an offensive lineman or
Speaker 1: one of these high level receivers with the fourth overall pick.
Speaker 1: I'm believing that they're going to make a smart head
Speaker 1: coach higher that is going to put strong pieces around him,
Speaker 1: you know, deepbro. The way I kind of think about
Speaker 1: it is when I'm actually drafting Drake May next year,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure where specific I'm going to have in ranks.
Speaker 1: Like I said, I want to be ahead of consensus.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure what that number is going to be.
Speaker 1: But if we were doing a draft of just quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: in terms of who's the most likely to finish as
Speaker 1: QB one next year, Like talking pure ceiling, not even
Speaker 1: taking in consideration the floor. If they don't hit there
Speaker 1: in the volatility, I think May might be like my
Speaker 1: sixth or seventh quarterback off the board in that theoretical draft.
Speaker 1: Like that's how high I see the ceiling if they
Speaker 1: put the right pieces around him. Because again, like fits
Speaker 1: hit on it. The running is just a differentiator from
Speaker 1: every other quarterback that doesn't run the way he does.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I agree a lot of the points
Speaker 2: of job both have made about Drake May. I'm a
Speaker 2: little bit lower on him.
Speaker 1: And this is not just going.
Speaker 2: Back to prospect stuff like that, Like the rushing is
Speaker 2: definitively there to hoist him up in fantasy purposes. I'm
Speaker 2: a little bit lower as far as him as a passer.
Speaker 2: I still think it's a work in progress. What he
Speaker 2: showed can so the offensive line, the weapons and all
Speaker 2: that kind of stuff was really good. I still want
Speaker 2: to bring up the fact that he was eighteenth in CPOE.
Speaker 2: He was outside the top twenty quarterbacks in catchable target rate,
Speaker 2: So there are some things that he's got to clean
Speaker 2: up as a passer out with notwithstanding of the pass
Speaker 2: catchers around him. But the rushing aspect I think is
Speaker 2: really what needs to be highlighted here because I mean,
Speaker 2: we're talking about a guy that was top ten and
Speaker 2: rushing yards and rushing yards per game. He reproduces that
Speaker 2: next year, And I mean, look, Alexan, like, I was
Speaker 2: not a fan.
Speaker 4: Of Drod Mayo.
Speaker 1: Glad he's gone.
Speaker 2: Glad their OC is gone because I thought he was
Speaker 2: one of the worst offensive coordators in the entire freaking league.
Speaker 2: So not having him with a hands on the playbook
Speaker 2: and the future of Drake may is absolutely fantastic. I
Speaker 2: really want to see who do they hire, Like I
Speaker 2: think Mike Rabel is going to be the next coach
Speaker 2: of the New England Patriots. So for me, this all
Speaker 2: comes down to you need to smash the offensive coordinator
Speaker 2: that you freaking and that higher is going to depend
Speaker 2: on where I'm at on may Is he a mid
Speaker 2: ish QB two next year or does he sneak into
Speaker 2: my top twelve? The OC higher is going to kind
Speaker 2: of push me in one one way or the other
Speaker 2: as well as their offseason moves.
Speaker 3: Let's hope it's not a Mike Frabele Arthur Smith reunion.
Speaker 2: No, I was just I was just thinking that Fitzy.
Speaker 2: I was like, but I mean, could you see, like
Speaker 2: if Drake May were to do some Ryan Tannehill stuff
Speaker 2: with his legs, like, I don't think i'd hate that either. Yeah,
Speaker 2: hated for all the pass catchers, not so much for
Speaker 2: the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I can just tell you this, Like my strategy
Speaker 1: at quarterback next year, I already know it's going to
Speaker 1: be I'm gonna want one of Alan Lamar or Jade Daniels,
Speaker 1: Like I do think that they are kind of separate
Speaker 1: from everybody else. If I don't get them, if they're
Speaker 1: just going too high and I don't feel comfortable taking
Speaker 1: the quarterback where they're going, my next goal will be
Speaker 1: to wait several rounds, kind of pass on the the
Speaker 1: guys who aren't running as much and who I just
Speaker 1: there's question marks about and waiting to take Drake May
Speaker 1: Like I think I'm gonna have a lot of Drake
Speaker 1: May in leagues next year. That was our AFC East episode,
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