WEBVTT - 8/16 Action Hour: Auction Draft Strategies and more... 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:03.640 Hey, thanks for downloading the podcast, and remember, if you 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:07.160 want to listen live, download the I Heart Radio app, 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:10.080 download the tune and app, and just search for Fantasy 0:00:10.240 --> 0:00:14.760 Sports Radio Network and you could listen to this program live. Also, 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:17.360 if you want to watch the video of this podcast, 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:20.960 check us out on YouTube, on Twitch, or on Periscope 0:00:21.120 --> 0:00:24.840 and type in you guess did Fantasy Sports Network. You'll 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:28.200 find us there. Enjoy the show and thanks for listening. 0:00:42.200 --> 0:01:07.200 Ladies and gents. This is the Yeah Hour and over 0:01:07.360 --> 0:01:12.199 two pfs. The Action Hour is here alongside Eric Young, 0:01:12.400 --> 0:01:15.440 I am Greg Sausman gave a bit of an auction primer. 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:19.920 Is there with Brian kendrick Y, I feel like I 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:23.440 feel like you're in a good spot in this league. Yeah, yeah, 0:01:23.480 --> 0:01:25.880 for sure. I Mean the truth is is he uh 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:28.440 he's one of the most whimsical dudes. I know. He's 0:01:28.480 --> 0:01:33.119 just uh is super intelligent. Uh. He thinks probably more 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.759 than any human being should. Um. And it's I love 0:01:36.920 --> 0:01:39.560 being around the guy. He's always jovial, he's always in 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:42.920 a good mood. And some of my best conversations I've 0:01:42.920 --> 0:01:46.200 had in and around wrestling have been with Brian kendrick There. 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:50.160 So he's a super cool guy loves fantasy football. Um. 0:01:50.280 --> 0:01:52.480 The reality is is most of the guys like look like, 0:01:53.640 --> 0:01:56.680 if you added up the hours of preparation, I'm gonna 0:01:56.720 --> 0:01:58.840 I'm gonna surpass every single one of them in the 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:01.840 league by double triple. That's just the reality I am. 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.320 I'm a lunatic, and that's fine. This is something that 0:02:04.360 --> 0:02:06.920 I love to do. I've loved it for a long time. 0:02:07.000 --> 0:02:11.400 Every year my love for it seems to grow. Um 0:02:11.720 --> 0:02:14.560 because it's expanding. Um, It's out there in the world. 0:02:14.639 --> 0:02:17.440 It's one of America's favorite pastimes. I think one of 0:02:17.440 --> 0:02:20.320 the one of the favorite hobbies of of the United 0:02:20.360 --> 0:02:24.320 States and Canada is fantasy football. People play it, like 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:26.679 my my wife plays it. Everyone plays it. It's a 0:02:26.760 --> 0:02:28.840 thing that you can talk about, uh, and I love 0:02:28.880 --> 0:02:31.079 talking about it. Um. So yeah, I mean true is 0:02:31.160 --> 0:02:35.480 the draft is one third of what we do. So 0:02:36.120 --> 0:02:37.840 there's a bunch of knowledgeable guys in the league. But 0:02:37.840 --> 0:02:39.600 there are a bunch of guys that that they just 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.120 don't follow along enough to know. So I don't take 0:02:42.160 --> 0:02:44.120 advantage of it because I like to win. You can 0:02:44.160 --> 0:02:46.400 tell the Brian Brian ket just from the hour that 0:02:46.400 --> 0:02:49.120 we spoke to him here he just thinks it overthinks 0:02:49.160 --> 0:02:50.920 and like, did you have to tell you girl for 0:02:50.960 --> 0:02:53.440 me three hours? Why? I don't know, I'm an idiot 0:02:53.480 --> 0:02:55.400 and wonder why did you spend the money on him? Man? 0:02:55.639 --> 0:02:57.880 Yere at all? You do whatever you want. And he's 0:02:57.919 --> 0:03:00.760 just like there it is right there. You know, he 0:03:00.840 --> 0:03:03.000 thought about that pick, and he's overthought about that pick. 0:03:03.160 --> 0:03:05.320 And I think that what you get in your own 0:03:05.360 --> 0:03:08.399 hands sometimes with these things, it makes it much tougher. Yeah, 0:03:08.480 --> 0:03:10.720 for sure, it's and and part of that too, I 0:03:10.720 --> 0:03:12.160 think in an auction is we did talk of a 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:15.680 little bit about it is the intimidation factor of you know, 0:03:15.760 --> 0:03:18.040 a guy, a person having more money you a guy 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:20.200 that that that goes in quickly, like every every time 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:23.360 a buzzer goes off. I know Joe pizzapia um in 0:03:23.400 --> 0:03:25.000 his Black Book. I buy it every year. It's a 0:03:25.040 --> 0:03:28.960 super interesting read. Uh love love Joe Love the Black Book. Um. 0:03:29.040 --> 0:03:32.400 He talks about an auction strategy is you wait for 0:03:32.560 --> 0:03:36.280 the two on every single bid you do, because it 0:03:36.320 --> 0:03:39.720 wears people down. This is part of an auction. Don't 0:03:39.800 --> 0:03:42.720 kid yourself stuff like this. It's part of it for me. 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:46.240 If I was to do one today. My approach would 0:03:46.240 --> 0:03:49.000 be the same for every player. I'm I'm I'm going 0:03:49.040 --> 0:03:51.440 to wait to a certain amount on the clock, maybe 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:54.640 not too I feel that's kind of a jerk move, 0:03:54.760 --> 0:03:57.360 but but the reality is is there is no rules 0:03:57.400 --> 0:03:59.120 when it comes to that. But I would want to 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:03.520 keep a a constant strategy of when I bid, how 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:06.240 I bid. Then that way there's no reading me. There's 0:04:06.280 --> 0:04:08.880 no oh, he's going in really quick, he really wants 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:10.640 this guy. I might go in really quick four or 0:04:10.640 --> 0:04:12.160 five times on a guy that I know is going 0:04:12.200 --> 0:04:14.560 to go for fifty bucks. If it's down to twenty five, 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.599 I might do five or six bids until it gets 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:18.640 up to thirty five or something, and then I cut off. 0:04:18.680 --> 0:04:20.600 I say, look, if if I'm gonna get Andrew Luckett 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:25.719 at then then so be it. So I bid like 0:04:25.760 --> 0:04:28.320 a crazy person until twenty after it gets to twenty 0:04:28.360 --> 0:04:31.800 and said, okay, I'm out. It's really there's so much 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:34.320 strategy there is, so there is so much strategy involved. 0:04:34.320 --> 0:04:36.279 And I think you bring up this exhaustion factor again, 0:04:36.320 --> 0:04:38.520 and I think you're right about that, because if you 0:04:38.600 --> 0:04:41.200 bid every time when there's two seconds remaining on the clock, 0:04:41.520 --> 0:04:43.560 over and over and over again. You're gonna piss everybody 0:04:43.600 --> 0:04:47.160 off in the room. But ultimately people may say, you know, 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:49.200 what's screw it, Let you have him. I'm not dealing 0:04:49.200 --> 0:04:52.160 with this crap anymore. Fine, you pissed everybody off. People 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.320 have the better team, so you can't worry about that. 0:04:55.400 --> 0:04:57.640 At the end of this, you're all friends anyway. So 0:04:57.880 --> 0:05:03.360 I think all up love and fantasy, and there is 0:05:03.440 --> 0:05:05.400 no rules when it comes to that kind of thing. 0:05:05.720 --> 0:05:08.000 So I think, whatever you feel comfortable with and do it. 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:11.599 You know, like it's a different strategies is going to 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.120 work for different people. You know, some people you know, 0:05:14.120 --> 0:05:16.840 they're they're gonna know that because I'm bidding a really quick. 0:05:16.880 --> 0:05:19.080 It doesn't make any difference, it doesn't. They know that. 0:05:19.240 --> 0:05:20.800 I mean, if they watch the show, then they know 0:05:20.839 --> 0:05:23.520 there's players that I'm high on. They know there's guys 0:05:23.520 --> 0:05:25.599 that I'm going to go after. So a strategy for 0:05:25.640 --> 0:05:27.719 them would be to bid me up. You mean, like 0:05:27.760 --> 0:05:29.480 someone like Hunter Henry, who I have ranks in my 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.880 number four. If you want me to spend money, then 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.599 maybe you get into a bidding battle. I'm going to 0:05:35.640 --> 0:05:38.920 get him one of my players. I'm going to get him, 0:05:39.120 --> 0:05:41.560 you know, like pretty much, no matter the cost. And 0:05:41.600 --> 0:05:44.159 part of that and maybe is ego, but part of 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:46.520 that is that's a guy that I believe in, In 0:05:46.600 --> 0:05:48.640 my God, I believe he's gonna have a huge year. 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:52.120 And there you know, of course there's a limit. I mean, 0:05:52.120 --> 0:05:54.120 I'm not gonna let someone bid me up to seventy 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:56.719 dollars or something crazy like that. But no one's going 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:59.320 to do that, like unless they're looking to lose. That's 0:05:59.320 --> 0:06:02.520 another thing, right when you are price enforcing, it doesn't 0:06:02.520 --> 0:06:05.320 always work. Have you been Have you done that and 0:06:05.400 --> 0:06:08.160 got caught? Oh? Yeah, for sure. That The first one 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:10.800 I did, the Man's League, the ESPN Man's League. I 0:06:10.839 --> 0:06:13.440 had no idea what I was doing. Also, I was 0:06:13.560 --> 0:06:16.960 driving on a highway with any earpiece in listening to 0:06:16.960 --> 0:06:19.720 my buddy and he's relaying the draft because I don't 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:22.600 have a computer in front of me. Um. I mean 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:25.560 I was short change to begin with. I I it 0:06:25.680 --> 0:06:27.719 was my first auction. I had no idea. It was 0:06:27.760 --> 0:06:31.160 a two quarterback league, which is my fault. You know, 0:06:31.200 --> 0:06:33.480 I didn't do my research. And even if I would have, 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:36.400 I probably would have waited, you know, too long for quarterbacks. 0:06:36.400 --> 0:06:38.920 And had you know, one good one in one one 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:41.360 one not good one in the rally is if if 0:06:41.360 --> 0:06:43.599 you want if you're gonna start two quarterbacks, you have 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.520 to have three sometimes four. So um And in the 0:06:46.560 --> 0:06:48.960 sixteen team league, quarterbacks went quick. So I mean I 0:06:49.000 --> 0:06:50.960 and they would go for crazy money and I was like, no, 0:06:51.040 --> 0:06:52.880 I'm not doing that. I can get so and so 0:06:53.000 --> 0:06:55.560 for five dollars later that didn't happen. So it's and 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:57.560 And the truth is is, like you said, like your 0:06:57.600 --> 0:07:00.000 price enforce, and I ended up with players I can't remember. 0:07:01.279 --> 0:07:03.520 I do remember in a couple auctions I've been in, 0:07:03.720 --> 0:07:05.720 I'm trying to price and force, and I end up 0:07:05.720 --> 0:07:07.960 with a guy that I don't want on my team. 0:07:08.000 --> 0:07:10.760 So it's you gotta be careful that it's just for me. 0:07:11.000 --> 0:07:14.000 It's a it's maybe it's just too stressful for me 0:07:14.040 --> 0:07:16.640 to deal with them. Why I don't do them. You 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.200 can see right there, like the amount of thinking that's 0:07:19.240 --> 0:07:21.560 going into it, and I and you haven't. You don't 0:07:21.560 --> 0:07:25.160 even do them anymore? Yeah, I mean I would gladly 0:07:25.160 --> 0:07:26.680 do them, but the realities of the leagues that I 0:07:26.760 --> 0:07:29.160 play in, UM, nobody wants to do them. They're two 0:07:29.160 --> 0:07:31.440 time consuming. No one has done them, so it's the 0:07:31.520 --> 0:07:35.440 fear of the unknown. Um, I mean, anyone can do it. 0:07:35.440 --> 0:07:37.360 It's it's just the dollar amount. It's no big deal, 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.200 you know. I like guys in the n x T draft. 0:07:40.560 --> 0:07:43.720 I know one percent will come in with the magazine 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:48.080 they bought at Walgreens and draft off that list. Don't 0:07:48.160 --> 0:07:50.600 draft guys that ever. I mean, if you paid attention 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:52.480 even a little bit, you would know they're out for 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:56.120 the year. I mean, like will happen. They're literally they're 0:07:56.120 --> 0:07:59.240 literally giving your money to you. It's literally, and I'm 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:02.320 willing to take me too. All Right, we have a 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:04.080 lot of stuff that gets you here before I let 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.480 you go, Um, especially about Melvin Gordon. I want to 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:08.760 get into Melvin Gordon and Austin Ekeler here a little bit, 0:08:08.800 --> 0:08:11.360 as he's like Keenan Allen also, So there's a lot 0:08:11.400 --> 0:08:13.240 more to get to. So let's break it down next. 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.760 I'll talk about players, No more strategy. Let's get right 0:08:15.760 --> 0:08:17.360 into the players. We'll do that when we come back. 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:23.360 He's Eric Young and Gregg Susman and it's easy back. 0:08:23.440 --> 0:08:26.920 New Jack the man Hollow. The Fantasy Sports Network is 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.320 hitting you from all angles with the best fantasy sports 0:08:29.400 --> 0:08:31.920 and betting analysis. 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If that's Frick 0:11:37.960 --> 0:11:40.480 Suspen alongside Eric Young, I want to go over some 0:11:40.559 --> 0:11:43.880 of the headlines, a lot of good auction conversation. I 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:47.360 feel prepared now than I was, and I get ready 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:50.720 for Sunday now Eric. One of the questions, I don't 0:11:50.720 --> 0:11:53.679 think we've talked about in a while. He's Melvin Gordon, 0:11:54.520 --> 0:11:56.559 the Zincue Elliott. We've continually brought it up because I 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.640 guess Jerry Jones is more in the news, uh than 0:11:59.720 --> 0:12:04.480 Tom to LESCo and uh spanos out there in Los Angeles, 0:12:05.200 --> 0:12:08.280 there's a lot of talk about Ezehel Elliott. And the 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:10.360 more I read the team leaves, like I said yesterday 0:12:10.400 --> 0:12:12.679 to you, the more I feel comfortable that z is 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:14.440 gonna be fine, that if he falls for whatever reason 0:12:14.440 --> 0:12:18.160 in any draft, I'm gonna pounce. I don't and I 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:20.480 know you don't either, really feel the same way about 0:12:20.520 --> 0:12:22.559 Melvin Gordon. But it feels like I don't know that 0:12:22.640 --> 0:12:26.240 we've written him off, but it certainly feels like we're 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.240 writing him off a little bit. And if that's the case, 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:31.920 knowing how successful the running game has been with the 0:12:32.000 --> 0:12:35.000 Chargers in the years past, shouldn't we be moving Austin 0:12:35.040 --> 0:12:41.000 Ekeler and or Justin Jackson? Yeah? I mean, for me, 0:12:41.600 --> 0:12:44.760 for this, you have to history, you know, learned from history, 0:12:44.880 --> 0:12:50.240 or be doomed to repeat it. Lavian Bell changed the NFL. 0:12:50.559 --> 0:12:52.240 I mean, no matter which way you look at it 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.280 and it and it could be fear. There's could be 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:58.240 fear talking, but the reality is, as he showed, if 0:12:58.280 --> 0:13:01.640 you hold out, you can get your money from another team. 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:04.959 Now I believe both Ezekiel Elliott and Melvin Gordon these 0:13:05.000 --> 0:13:08.360 are different contracts situations. Levian Bellows and a much different 0:13:08.360 --> 0:13:12.320 such situation had been franchise tagged. I think twice Um 0:13:12.480 --> 0:13:15.839 and the Pittsburgh Steelers were basically saying with their money 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:19.160 that we're not interested in paying you. And I don't 0:13:19.160 --> 0:13:20.920 want to play for a team that doesn't want to 0:13:20.960 --> 0:13:23.520 pay me either, And I saw I'm most of the time, 0:13:23.520 --> 0:13:26.080 I'm gonna side with the players I signed with Elliott, 0:13:26.240 --> 0:13:29.360 I signed with Melvin Gordon, especially, he's one of the 0:13:29.400 --> 0:13:31.160 top ten running backs in the league and should be 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:34.040 paid accordingly, and he's not. And people want to get 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.160 up in arms and say, all five million dollars, it's 0:13:36.200 --> 0:13:38.400 such it's a crazy amount of money. I would take 0:13:38.400 --> 0:13:41.280 it to play in the NFL. Listen, that is all relative. 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.720 We're not comparing their salaries and your salaries. I'm comparing 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:48.400 Melvin Gordon to like running backs like him, and he's 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.520 he's in the bottom pay for running backs. Running Backs 0:13:51.559 --> 0:13:53.800 are getting screwed in the NFL because of you know, 0:13:53.800 --> 0:13:56.240 the Bell cow thing not really being a thing. And 0:13:56.320 --> 0:13:59.920 I believe the two contracts situations there are different. As 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:02.640 Sekiel Elliott needs to play this year to make it 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.920 to free agency. He has to play a certain amount 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:07.559 of games. I don't know what the amount is. I 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.240 can't remember at the top of my head. Numbers are 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:13.080 not my my strong point, but I know his situation 0:14:13.200 --> 0:14:17.280 is different. Melvin Gordon doesn't need to play. He's saying 0:14:17.320 --> 0:14:19.480 that he will hold out and he will go into 0:14:19.520 --> 0:14:22.680 free agency if they drop him, and he's not a 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:25.560 player for them. So it's it's a completely different situation. 0:14:25.560 --> 0:14:27.920 And the big thing for me is this San Diego 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:30.720 does this. They've done it before. They did it with 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.120 Vincent Jackson, they did it with la Damian Thomason, one 0:14:33.120 --> 0:14:36.480 of the best running backs ever. Uh So, like, look, 0:14:36.480 --> 0:14:38.680 they're they're they're for me. They're just not going to 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.320 pay that. They have a track record of doing this, 0:14:41.360 --> 0:14:44.600 of holding out and and and and not showing their hand. 0:14:44.840 --> 0:14:47.280 So Gordon scares me more than Elliott. I think Elliott 0:14:47.280 --> 0:14:50.200 will play Gordon. It's up in the air. But I mean, 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.640 like players are going down there if they want to compete, 0:14:52.680 --> 0:14:56.360 they're gonna need Melvin Gordon. Yeah, and I think everything 0:14:56.400 --> 0:14:59.320 you bring up exaccurate. It's a very different situation than 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.720 Lady on Mill. I technically support the players as well 0:15:01.760 --> 0:15:04.760 because their bodies on the line ultimately, and a player 0:15:04.800 --> 0:15:08.680 like Melvin Gordon realizes being on the press business free agency. 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:10.960 If he gets hurt now before he gets his new deal, 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.680 that's over, right, Like everything's over, especially at that position. 0:15:14.720 --> 0:15:16.720 So he wants to get paid now. This is his 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:20.080 one true chance at a big time contract, especially at 0:15:20.080 --> 0:15:23.880 that position. We've seen play. It won't absolutely not, and 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:25.760 they're not going to pay him if he doesn't ask. 0:15:26.520 --> 0:15:28.360 Of course, this is how you ask. This is how 0:15:28.400 --> 0:15:30.280 you ask. You don't show up. If you just go 0:15:30.320 --> 0:15:31.680 to him and say, oh, I'd like more money, and 0:15:31.720 --> 0:15:33.680 then you're showing up at practice, they know that you're 0:15:33.720 --> 0:15:37.080 not serious. They know that there's no urgency whatsoever to 0:15:37.120 --> 0:15:41.640 do it. Absolutely So, ultimately, Melvin Gordon probably in the right, 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:43.680 and you're right, maybe he'll show up midway through the year. 0:15:43.760 --> 0:15:45.320 I forget the number as well. I want to say 0:15:45.560 --> 0:15:47.760 Vincent Jackson showed up in a week eleven. But I 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.640 don't know if that's the same case here for Melvin Gordon. 0:15:50.960 --> 0:15:53.280 But let me just talk about it from a fantasy perspective, 0:15:53.360 --> 0:15:55.520 and Melvin Gordon misses the first eight weeks, tend weeks, 0:15:55.560 --> 0:15:58.640 whatever it is, Where should we draft Austin Ekeler and 0:15:58.680 --> 0:16:03.480 Justin Jackson? Um? For me, Eckler is just going way 0:16:03.520 --> 0:16:07.400 too high for for my choice. UM. I like Eckler. 0:16:07.520 --> 0:16:10.360 I think he's a great receiving back, but he I 0:16:10.400 --> 0:16:14.960 think from my my opinion, last year he proved when 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.680 Gordon went down and he was the running back, the 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.320 starting running back and the Balquau guy there for the 0:16:20.360 --> 0:16:22.920 two or three weeks that he was before he got hurt. 0:16:23.400 --> 0:16:25.440 Is he proved that that that's not who he is. 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:29.440 He's not that kind of back. He can't be effective 0:16:29.440 --> 0:16:31.800 in that kind of workload. He's more of a you know, 0:16:31.920 --> 0:16:36.760 an eight to twelve touch kind of guy. Uh, swing passes, screens, 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.760 stuff like that. That's where he's effective. Justin Jackson at 0:16:39.760 --> 0:16:42.560 the end of the year proved that maybe maybe he 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:44.600 can be that guy. So if I'm gonna get one, 0:16:44.880 --> 0:16:46.920 it's gonna be Jackson, but it's gonna be late, because 0:16:46.920 --> 0:16:48.480 I mean, the reality is that we just don't know. 0:16:48.760 --> 0:16:52.040 They probably trust Eckler Moore because he's he's been there 0:16:52.120 --> 0:16:54.560 longer and been in the system longer. But Justin Jackson 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:56.480 had some flashes at the end of last year when 0:16:56.520 --> 0:16:58.480 he played, and I think that's the guy to own. 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:00.560 So I do want to read this. Just Raven of 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.800 the Action Network tweeted this out about an hour ago. 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:08.720 In Chargers offensive coordator still offens coordinator Ken Wizzon Hunt 0:17:08.960 --> 0:17:11.520 gave danny Wood had nine and a half carries per 0:17:11.600 --> 0:17:13.840 game in the first two games before he towards a 0:17:13.880 --> 0:17:17.080 c L that would have shattered danny Wood has previous 0:17:17.160 --> 0:17:20.080 high of six point six carries per game, which took 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:24.200 place three years prior to that. Obviously, Ken Wizzon Hunt 0:17:24.280 --> 0:17:28.000 was the o C there then o C now um 0:17:28.040 --> 0:17:30.679 his previous high of six point six harries for game. 0:17:31.680 --> 0:17:34.359 Kenn wizzen Hunt was also the offensive coordinator then before 0:17:34.400 --> 0:17:36.840 he went to Tennessee to become the head coach for 0:17:36.880 --> 0:17:39.800 a bit. I think, and again we're just judging coaches 0:17:39.840 --> 0:17:42.480 by schemes and whatnot. Austin was going to in every 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:45.520 opportunity to be the guy like I don't think that 0:17:45.520 --> 0:17:49.560 Wizzon Hunt cares about build and how small he is. 0:17:49.840 --> 0:17:52.480 I think that he thinks Heckler is the better talent. 0:17:52.840 --> 0:17:54.920 He's gonna give him every shot. I know what Justin 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:58.520 Jackson looked like down the stretch last year, but I 0:17:58.600 --> 0:18:02.760 kind of like Austin Ekeler. Yeah, I mean in his 0:18:02.880 --> 0:18:05.879 teach her own just for me Eckler. I think for 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:08.159 me it was glaring. He showed me last year that 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:11.000 he can't carry the ball that often. He he can't. 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:13.679 He can't be the guy that's going to have that workload. 0:18:14.080 --> 0:18:18.879 And Justin Jackson is younger, Um, he has more size 0:18:18.920 --> 0:18:21.280 to him. I just believe it's going to be Justin 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:24.440 Jackson's job and Ackler's role is not going to change 0:18:24.440 --> 0:18:27.480 if Melvin Gordon doesn't play UM. But this is something 0:18:27.520 --> 0:18:29.680 that we really got a monitor for sure. Melvin Gordon, 0:18:29.720 --> 0:18:33.040 in my opinion, he's not gonna play UM. He might 0:18:33.080 --> 0:18:35.840 play this year, but it won't be until much later 0:18:35.840 --> 0:18:37.920 in the season. Uh. They did it. They held out 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:41.360 with Bosta last year until we uh nine or ten, 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:43.600 I can't remember what it was. So they're gonna do 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:46.720 it again and they don't have they don't have to 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:50.280 pay this player. That's just the reality of it. And 0:18:50.520 --> 0:18:52.720 I think they do believe in Eckler and Jackson can 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:56.400 get it done. Losing Allen though, they just lost James 0:18:56.600 --> 0:19:02.400 the the safety All Pro safety man. I'm I'm definitely 0:19:02.400 --> 0:19:04.760 when we get off here, I'm moving Mike Williams way 0:19:04.760 --> 0:19:08.199 way up. Their defense is going to be hindered. He 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:11.439 might be one of the best, uh best players in 0:19:11.440 --> 0:19:14.120 the secondary in the whole NFL, and having him not there, 0:19:14.119 --> 0:19:16.880 it's going to change their defense. And you already know 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:19.520 how good Hunter Henry is or how much we like 0:19:19.640 --> 0:19:23.239 Hunter Henry, so that's something that's just ultimately solidifying our 0:19:23.320 --> 0:19:25.720 or love for him. Speaking of charges banged up Keenan, 0:19:25.760 --> 0:19:27.720 Allen has a been of an ankle injury. That's because 0:19:27.840 --> 0:19:31.280 potentially knocked him out for the preseason. Again, we see 0:19:31.280 --> 0:19:35.520 a sorry surgery, had surgery, and he's not going to 0:19:35.600 --> 0:19:37.359 play in the preseason at all. And I didn't really 0:19:37.359 --> 0:19:39.040 I didn't realize keen now On at surgery. I thought 0:19:39.040 --> 0:19:41.600 it was just injured. I thought I was just reading 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:43.600 that on Twitter during the break. I thought I had 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:47.359 saw surgery. So God none old me to that. But 0:19:47.400 --> 0:19:50.840 that's what I just read. Very I'm look at this 0:19:50.880 --> 0:19:53.159 uping now hold on, now, I just have to know 0:19:53.200 --> 0:19:55.640 because keen now is on my guys. Let me see here, 0:19:55.640 --> 0:19:58.600 because surgery is a big and always have surgery much 0:19:58.640 --> 0:20:01.560 bigger deal to have a sprained ankle here, ankle surgery 0:20:01.680 --> 0:20:03.879 likely to miss the preseason. That comes from Field the Eights, 0:20:03.960 --> 0:20:09.800 Oh my god, ankle surgery. Hello. Mike Williams, so schefter 0:20:09.960 --> 0:20:12.960 tweeted out that an ankle injury not keeping him serious, 0:20:13.080 --> 0:20:15.840 not this is yesterday, knock him out of the Chargers 0:20:15.880 --> 0:20:18.800 three free season games, and then field Yates tweeted less 0:20:18.800 --> 0:20:21.639 than an hour ago, ankle surgery to miss the preseason. 0:20:21.920 --> 0:20:23.600 Are we sure he comes back ready to go over 0:20:23.640 --> 0:20:26.760 a week one year? Yeah, I mean as far as 0:20:26.840 --> 0:20:28.280 I know. I mean, like like I've had a couple 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:32.439