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H Yeah, this is the Fantasy 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:55.880 best Friends Forever here on the Fantasy Sports Radio Network 0:00:56.000 --> 0:01:00.600 alongside Frankie Stample. I am Greg Sausman. Bragga, go on, man, 0:01:01.160 --> 0:01:07.000 Greggy football is back, my man, are you ready? I'm ready? Man, 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:13.440 I'm I said, are you ready? Yea ready, I'm ready 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:16.120 to rock. Things are good. It's awesome, man, it's I 0:01:16.120 --> 0:01:17.920 can't believe it. I kind of did. I kind of 0:01:17.959 --> 0:01:20.280 can't because we've been working really hard on it. Um. 0:01:20.600 --> 0:01:22.679 It's been a grueling off season. It's been a grueling 0:01:22.720 --> 0:01:27.280 last season in particular, in particularly a grueling week for sure. Um, 0:01:27.319 --> 0:01:29.000 I just feel like we're just not stop doing stuff, 0:01:29.000 --> 0:01:31.880 which is awesome. And what's even cool about that is 0:01:31.880 --> 0:01:35.640 just just NonStop news breaking. That's the crazy part to me. 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:40.560 There's NonStop news breaking all week long. And and really 0:01:40.560 --> 0:01:42.720 it starts and kind of ends with Lavi on Bell. 0:01:42.760 --> 0:01:44.959 I read the tweet on the air yesterday. We we 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:47.960 weren't sure if it was real, but people are believing 0:01:47.960 --> 0:01:49.640 that he's not coming back in the next ten games. 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.080 His offensive line called him out and said, listen, you 0:01:52.160 --> 0:01:55.240 run behind us. We do your job before you and 0:01:55.920 --> 0:01:59.760 ultimately a lot of shock waves next can the shock 0:01:59.800 --> 0:02:02.520 wave is be resolved that he shows up today? For instance, 0:02:02.880 --> 0:02:05.040 I happen to think, so you've been our record, and 0:02:05.120 --> 0:02:08.200 and on Twitter certainly saying, hey, I think he's played 0:02:08.240 --> 0:02:10.240 his last game in his Steelers uniform. You don't know 0:02:10.240 --> 0:02:12.040 that he can come back from this is Levy on 0:02:12.080 --> 0:02:15.639 Bell situations on the crazier ones. We've never seen advantage coupall. Yeah, 0:02:15.680 --> 0:02:17.280 and it's two years in a row now right where 0:02:17.280 --> 0:02:20.400 there's a polarizing situation involving a big name running back. 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:22.760 Last year it was Ezekiel Elliott really threw us for 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.000 a loop. We didn't know where to draft him because 0:02:25.040 --> 0:02:27.079 of that. Was he gonna get suspended six games? Was 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:28.480 it going to be the start of the season. Was 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:30.080 it going to be the end of the season. It 0:02:30.200 --> 0:02:32.520 ended up being the middle of the year for Ezekiel Elliott. 0:02:32.560 --> 0:02:35.160 And and now we have this Levian Bell situation, And 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:37.760 you're right, I tweeted it out yesterday. I don't think 0:02:37.800 --> 0:02:40.520 he plays another game with the Pittsburgh Steelers. I just 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:43.440 think this has gone completely awry. I mean, his offensive 0:02:43.440 --> 0:02:45.440 line calling him out now. I mean, maybe I'm just 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:48.880 reading too much into it, maybe maybe I'm a sensitive Greg, 0:02:49.120 --> 0:02:51.440 But if these guys can find a way to just 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:53.720 sweep it under the rug and Levian Bell comes back, 0:02:53.760 --> 0:02:55.560 I mean, if this team gets off to a slow 0:02:55.600 --> 0:02:58.239 start and they're like, look, we take back what we said. 0:02:58.360 --> 0:03:01.720 We need Levian Bell, and maybe they make amends rather quickly. 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:04.680 But I just think it's gone. It's gone so south. 0:03:04.840 --> 0:03:09.440 From the front office, the gm uh, Mike tomlin Um, 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:12.240 the offensive lineman even calling him out Big Bend, it 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.840 just seems like everyone has turned their back on Levy 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:18.320 on bell Um, It's it's it's just crazy to say, 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:19.840 like the verbage right, Like the way it sounds like 0:03:19.840 --> 0:03:23.080 they're turning their back on him, It's like taking sides. 0:03:23.160 --> 0:03:25.560 Did Levyan Bell turn his back on them. Uh, it's 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:28.480 it's tough. It's a tough situation. And it's like if 0:03:28.520 --> 0:03:30.800 if there were stillse drafts happening, which there are, there's 0:03:30.800 --> 0:03:33.160 some like big high stakes drafts that were going on. 0:03:35.400 --> 0:03:39.520 Like what do you do, Yeah, drafting tonighttand I we 0:03:39.560 --> 0:03:42.200 have auctions tonight going on. There's snake drafts still going on. 0:03:42.520 --> 0:03:44.920 I don't know what to do. Like you were mentioning before, 0:03:45.120 --> 0:03:46.680 both on the air and off the air about James 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:48.640 Conner and like how we've gone to the other side 0:03:48.640 --> 0:03:51.160 with James Conner treating in like Levy on Bell seeing 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:55.120 this crazy crazy offers of of Aaron Rodgers for James 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.720 Conner and the like, I mean, one of the craziest 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:01.200 offers you've seen. I've seen a Green involved in some 0:04:01.240 --> 0:04:03.400 trades for James Conner. I think yesterday someone in the 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:06.360 chat asses they were all for Tyreek Hill. I've seen 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:09.960 Dog Baldwin thrown out there. So this guy is James 0:04:09.960 --> 0:04:14.280 Conner is being valued as a near second third round 0:04:14.320 --> 0:04:18.240 value right now, especially for the Levian Bell owner. It's 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:21.279 it's crazy. So you know it's interesting because like I 0:04:21.360 --> 0:04:23.839 get it right, Like we've seen it with the Steelers. 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:26.240 That's really the difference in that we have seen it 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:31.279 with the Steelers in that they are a workhorse running 0:04:31.279 --> 0:04:34.479 back team. When levy On Bell has been hurt or suspended, 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:37.640 they give the ball to D'Angelo Williams five hundred times. 0:04:37.640 --> 0:04:39.880 Like we've seen that, and I think people have that 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:42.240 in their minds of James Connor. What I can't tell you, 0:04:42.240 --> 0:04:43.680 and I read you the stat this morning, I'm gonna 0:04:43.680 --> 0:04:46.320 do it again. If you're an Antonio Brown owner, you 0:04:46.320 --> 0:04:49.320 should feel pretty awesome right now because in the last 0:04:49.360 --> 0:04:53.000 sixteen games without Levan Bell, Antonio Brown has played has 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:55.000 posted a re line of it is the sixteen games, 0:04:55.040 --> 0:04:58.560 so basically a full season one hundred six receptions, two 0:04:58.600 --> 0:05:03.560 hundred targets, thousand and eighty yards, or thirteen touchdowns. That 0:05:03.680 --> 0:05:06.640 is good for four hundred and thirty five p p 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:10.440 R points. This comes from Anthony Stags on Twitter. Brown 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:13.480 has also played in thirteen games over the last three 0:05:13.520 --> 0:05:15.919 seasons without levy On Bell. If you want to extrapolate 0:05:15.960 --> 0:05:18.640 that to the sixteen games only, you know, three games extrapolation, 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.320 it would lead to a hundred and fifty five receptions 0:05:21.440 --> 0:05:26.520 on nineteen targets over yards, fourteen touchdowns, and fifty five 0:05:26.600 --> 0:05:31.320 PPR points. In theory, whenever Levian medals in play, Antonio 0:05:31.440 --> 0:05:36.239 Brown goes off. Yeah, while James Conner or whoever fills 0:05:36.240 --> 0:05:39.039 in for Levion Bell, we assume it's James Conner, He's 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:41.400 going to be the workhorse for this team. I don't 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:43.159 know that he's going to catch the ball as much 0:05:43.160 --> 0:05:46.080 as Levian Bell would have. Right, like Levian Bell sees 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.840 at least, you know, six seven targets a game. He's 0:05:49.880 --> 0:05:52.919 around that, you know, five receptions of game pace, um, 0:05:52.960 --> 0:05:56.240 you know, consistently seventy receptions plus per year. I'm not 0:05:56.279 --> 0:05:58.240 like James Conner is going to be the workhorse for 0:05:58.279 --> 0:06:01.200 this team, But I'm with you, especially with Antonio Brown stats. 0:06:01.200 --> 0:06:04.000 I mean, there are numbers to back it up. James 0:06:04.000 --> 0:06:06.480 Connor will catch the ball still, Yes, probably not as 0:06:06.560 --> 0:06:08.880 much as Levian Bell would have. And for that reason, 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:11.320 those extra targets that are left behind are gonna go 0:06:11.360 --> 0:06:14.440 to Antonio Brown, They're gonna go to Jujus Smith schuster Um. 0:06:15.120 --> 0:06:18.640 And ultimately, like James Connor isn't probably isn't going to 0:06:18.680 --> 0:06:21.039 be as dynamic as Levian Bell. So it just opens 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:24.040 up the more more opportunity for Antonio Brown. So I 0:06:24.040 --> 0:06:27.000 agree with you on that front. Remember last time in 0:06:27.040 --> 0:06:29.440 two thousand and fifteen, Levion Bell played from week three 0:06:29.480 --> 0:06:33.200 through eight week nine on D'Angelo Williams. This is carries 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:39.240 total week nine seven, Week ten, seventeen, Week eleven, by 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:42.440 week twelve eight carries, Week thirteen, twenty six, Week fourteen, 0:06:42.480 --> 0:06:46.520 twenty three, Week fifteen, fourteen, Week sixteen, seventeen carries. So 0:06:46.920 --> 0:06:49.360 I mean there were three games in that stretch where 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:52.599 he had twenty three plus carries. That was D'Angelo Williams, 0:06:52.880 --> 0:06:57.760 and at that point he was general thirty three years old. 0:06:58.360 --> 0:07:01.000 Three James Connor is much younger than that, and he 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:04.120 has looked very sprite in the preseason. So I look, 0:07:04.160 --> 0:07:06.039 I just hope that if you are a Levan Bell owner, 0:07:06.120 --> 0:07:09.560 you have James Conner. Um. You know there's a league 0:07:09.800 --> 0:07:12.000 that I that I have Greg where I lost Jack 0:07:12.120 --> 0:07:14.680 McKinnon and now I lost Levian Bell and I don't 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:17.200 have James Conner. So this will be the ultimate test 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:22.240 to see if I can in my fourth picks. Right 0:07:22.240 --> 0:07:24.640 after me, I took Girly, he took Bell, you took 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.679 McKinnon and I took Royce Spreeman and things are going well. Yeah, 0:07:28.360 --> 0:07:32.640 you're welcome, Greg. Things are things going very very well. Um, 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:35.080 it's crazy, this Levy on Bell thing. Like we knew 0:07:35.080 --> 0:07:38.880 the for instance, last year, the Ezekiel Elliott suspense, it 0:07:38.920 --> 0:07:43.120 was hanging over us. When players are suspended, it's hanging 0:07:43.160 --> 0:07:45.480 over Guys are always going to be injured. It happens 0:07:45.520 --> 0:07:48.920 every year. But this is the one year where we 0:07:49.000 --> 0:07:52.360 kind of ignored Leavian Bell being holding out. We saw 0:07:52.400 --> 0:07:55.200 it last year. We figured he'd just show up and 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:57.560 maybe he will. Like that's the craziest thing. Do you 0:07:57.560 --> 0:08:00.640 have a draft to night you see Levy on Bell 0:08:00.720 --> 0:08:02.280 just dropping and you're like, all right, at what point 0:08:02.280 --> 0:08:03.840 do I just do this? And you have it in 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:05.640 your hand, I'll just take James Connor early. And in 0:08:05.680 --> 0:08:07.840 my league, Levyan Bell went to Overall. This this draft 0:08:07.920 --> 0:08:10.480 is on Tuesday night before the report broke yesterday, he 0:08:10.520 --> 0:08:12.560 went to Overall and they took James Conner in the 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.960 eighth round. And it ultimately it doesn't matter when you 0:08:14.960 --> 0:08:16.560 have to take James Connor. You just have to make 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:21.200 sure you do it. And I was seeing Chris McCarroll 0:08:21.280 --> 0:08:22.920 tweet like I have a he has the tenth pick 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:24.400 tonight because I don't. I don't. I don't know what 0:08:24.480 --> 0:08:26.920 to do. If Levian Mills staring at me at fick ten, 0:08:27.080 --> 0:08:29.480 what do I do? And I don't know the answer. 0:08:29.840 --> 0:08:33.800 I don't think anybody can. If you were drafting tonight, Greg, 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:37.520 at what points you're like, what name do you need 0:08:37.559 --> 0:08:41.240 to see next to Levian Bell in the running back tab? 0:08:41.920 --> 0:08:43.640 And be like, this is the time that I take 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:46.040 Levia right at the time take Well, that's that's that's 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:51.199 the question I is um from my draft rank purposes, 0:08:51.800 --> 0:08:56.079 I've moved him behind Christian McCaffrey, and obviously is he 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.880 behind Leonard? For that? For you, yes, okay, so he's 0:08:58.960 --> 0:09:02.360 behind in front of Davante Freeman and Jordan Howard. That 0:09:02.400 --> 0:09:05.959 means that's exactly where I've pushed them to. I think 0:09:05.960 --> 0:09:09.520 at that point, yeah, you you can take that risk, 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:12.080 and then you get the next question you ask yourself 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:14.960 is when do I take James Conner, which you know 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:17.800 people were asking me yesterday. I know Truck tweeted at 0:09:17.840 --> 0:09:19.120 me and said he saw him go in the sixth 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:21.600 round of a draft. So you pull the trigger in 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:23.559 the fifth the sixth round. You have to dedicate your 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.040 maybe your late first early second round pick on Levian 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:28.840 Bell and then your fifth or your sixth round pick 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:33.160 on James Connor. Brutal. And you have to because if 0:09:33.200 --> 0:09:37.440 you into week one without your first second round pick 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:40.079 and you know everybody and you know everybody in that 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:43.360 draft is gonna be ten today jameson Connor throughout the draft. Yeah, 0:09:43.520 --> 0:09:45.000 you might go in the fourth round. You might go 0:09:45.000 --> 0:09:48.560 earlier than that, probably, I don't know how many. We 0:09:48.600 --> 0:09:50.640 have a lot to get to today. Obviously, great, we're 0:09:50.640 --> 0:09:53.400 gonna we're gonna talk to h inside injuries about week 0:09:53.400 --> 0:09:55.720 one injury updates. We're gonna give you a prediction for 0:09:55.880 --> 0:09:59.200 tonight um start and sit for tonight's game. The Eagles first, 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:01.560 the Falcons obviously, and we're gonna go through predictions as well. 0:10:02.559 --> 0:10:04.600 But if you have any crazy James con I want 0:10:04.600 --> 0:10:06.960 to hear it trades or Levy on Bell, trades or 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:10.240 situations that you need to call in a four four eight, four, three, 0:10:10.559 --> 0:10:13.320 six eight seven nine. I want to hear what some 0:10:13.440 --> 0:10:15.400 crazy stuff that's going on out there right now. I 0:10:15.440 --> 0:10:18.360 just don't I just don't know what to do. I 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:24.160 it's crazy it's absolutely crazy. Oh my goodness, leaving on 0:10:24.240 --> 0:10:27.680 Bell News is just wild. Um. I don't blame I 0:10:27.679 --> 0:10:30.480 don't blame him at all. He could afford this is 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:32.040 my opinion on it. He could afford to lose the 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:34.880 money he's need a lot of money. Is a hip 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:37.400 hop career as well, He's going to make a lot 0:10:37.480 --> 0:10:40.040 of money wherever he signs. I always take the side 0:10:40.080 --> 0:10:41.520 of the player, and this is no different. Like I 0:10:41.559 --> 0:10:43.720 get your teammates are a peo to you, and this 0:10:43.760 --> 0:10:46.040 is this is the weird thing, right Whenever you have 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.720 these players disputes, normally the players all back to you 0:10:49.200 --> 0:10:53.080 every single time. This is what's weird. Do you wonder 0:10:53.160 --> 0:10:56.200 if he like lied to them, if he's just like, yeah, 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.200 I'll be back after labor dad. That's probably what it 0:10:58.240 --> 0:11:01.960 is though, because all along his agent was saying Levian 0:11:02.040 --> 0:11:04.320 Bell is bound for the best season of his career. 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:06.880 And there was a tweet that resurfaced yesterday that Levian 0:11:06.920 --> 0:11:09.400 Bell tweeted out back and I think it was May 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:13.000 and he put the date like nine slash nine slash eighteen, 0:11:13.640 --> 0:11:16.600 like that's week one date or whatever, saying pretty much 0:11:16.640 --> 0:11:19.360 indicating like I'm gonna be there right, so you that 0:11:19.360 --> 0:11:23.360 that's what I think they're met there. They take that 0:11:23.440 --> 0:11:26.319 they take most to heart is that he misled them. 0:11:26.360 --> 0:11:28.080 If he would have came out during May and he's like, 0:11:28.120 --> 0:11:30.840 look holding out, I'm not playing until week ten, and 0:11:30.880 --> 0:11:32.520 I think or if he said I'm not paying until 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:36.000 I get paid, whatever, it's different. I think it's different. 0:11:36.000 --> 0:11:41.040 I think that's fair. I think that's fair. Man crazy, 0:11:41.120 --> 0:11:43.200 And maybe it was not even playing tonight. We have 0:11:43.200 --> 0:11:47.079 another couple of days. That's great. Tonight Eagles and Falcons 0:11:47.200 --> 0:11:52.000 kick us off. No Carson went which we speculated it 0:11:52.040 --> 0:11:55.880 on back in November, right when this team went started 0:11:55.920 --> 0:11:57.920 this run. When he gets hurt tears z cl in 0:11:57.960 --> 0:12:00.720 that game against the Rams, and we speculated on it 0:12:00.720 --> 0:12:02.480 when he won the Super Bowl and I sat here, 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:05.000 Frank talking to you, and I'm like, when Nick Foles 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:07.679 starts week one and there's no by the way, guarantee 0:12:07.760 --> 0:12:09.920 or indication Carson Wentz is back in week two, that 0:12:10.080 --> 0:12:14.559 like he hasn't started practicing with contact yet, so there's 0:12:14.600 --> 0:12:18.160 no guarantee he's back next week. If Foles goes on 0:12:18.200 --> 0:12:23.080 this run again, it's gonna be our dimension. It's going 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.160 to be our dimension. I said it back in November. 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:29.040 Y'all laughed at me, And I get how Nick Foles 0:12:29.040 --> 0:12:32.000 look in the preseason, like he looked terrible, But what 0:12:32.040 --> 0:12:33.760 did you say to me before we came up here? 0:12:34.800 --> 0:12:37.600 People are writing off the Eagles tonight. People are writing 0:12:37.600 --> 0:12:40.800 off Nick Foles like they always do. You see all 0:12:40.840 --> 0:12:42.880 the money going towards It was a trap game when 0:12:42.920 --> 0:12:46.120 they played Atlanta in the Divisional round last year. I 0:12:46.120 --> 0:12:48.040 think I think had opened at like four and a half. 0:12:48.080 --> 0:12:50.560 It was a trap game when they played Minnesota at 0:12:50.600 --> 0:12:52.920 home last year. It was a trap game in the 0:12:52.960 --> 0:12:55.480 Super Bowl last year, and once again they're at home. 0:12:55.760 --> 0:12:57.400 It would not surprise me if all of a sudden, 0:12:57.400 --> 0:12:59.079 this is pick him in this in the Super Contest, 0:12:59.120 --> 0:13:01.560 it's a pick him game. It not surprised me if 0:13:01.559 --> 0:13:04.840 it gets there later. Tonight is game. It's down to 0:13:04.920 --> 0:13:07.840 one point. It opened at four and a half grade. 0:13:07.880 --> 0:13:12.160 This is a trap, written all, and I understand Frank 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:14.199 Reik's not there, and I understand that this is the 0:13:14.200 --> 0:13:16.760 guy that won the Super Bowl, But I'm telling you, 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.240 this is such a trap. How about this Greg the 0:13:20.280 --> 0:13:22.559 Falcons money line or now it's now minus one time 0:13:24.320 --> 0:13:28.720 let's pick on that. Let's pick them. It's it's crazy, yeah, 0:13:28.760 --> 0:13:32.319 but it does have trap game written all over it. Um, Yeah, 0:13:32.360 --> 0:13:33.760 I'm worried. I don't think. I don't think there's a 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:35.640 lot of points scored in this game either. If I'm 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:37.520 looking at the over under at forty four and a half. 0:13:37.720 --> 0:13:40.040 Actually looked at this last night a week one. The 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:44.839 past three Thursday night games in Week one, three out 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:47.920 of four of them have gone over barely. Last year, 0:13:47.920 --> 0:13:49.560 it was crazy how high scoring it was, and that 0:13:49.640 --> 0:13:52.640 was a huge shot Kansas City beating New England last year. 0:13:52.720 --> 0:13:56.199 But even even following that trend, I think I think 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:58.360 we see more defense tonight than anything. I don't think 0:13:58.360 --> 0:14:01.520 that is very good. Michael Benn will play um that 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:04.800 no idea. The Falcon's defense has improved too, so maybe 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:07.360 a little low, so maybe we are going lower in there. Well, 0:14:07.400 --> 0:14:12.280 I'm taking the under. Interesting, crazy, absolutely crazy. What's going 0:14:12.320 --> 0:14:14.400 on in the NFL right now? Eight four four eight 0:14:14.440 --> 0:14:18.840 four three six eight seven nine eight four four eight 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:21.800 four three six eight seven nine that's the number to 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:26.240 join in? Um tonight, Frankie, Uh, I know j G 0:14:26.320 --> 0:14:28.120 I is not your guy, but do you think he's 0:14:28.160 --> 0:14:32.240 a major workhorse tonight without Carson Wentz, given that he 0:14:32.240 --> 0:14:33.960 does seem to be healthy, do you think he's a 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:36.000 major workhorse or do we get a glimpse of what 0:14:36.040 --> 0:14:38.760 you were shared about all season, all off season long, 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:40.920 with a GI with a mix of Corpy, Cummand and 0:14:40.920 --> 0:14:42.720 went will smaller and so on and so forth. Yeah, 0:14:42.720 --> 0:14:44.600 I think that's exactly it. I still have a GI 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:47.240 ranked as a low end RB two right now, just 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.200 based on the rest of the matchups. I don't think 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:52.320 this is great for him. Yes, the Falcons give up 0:14:52.320 --> 0:14:55.240 a lot of receptions and receiving yards two opposing running backs, 0:14:55.560 --> 0:14:58.400 but they only allowed six rushing touchdowns two running backs 0:14:58.440 --> 0:15:00.640 last year, so they actually don't allow out running backs 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:02.840 to score all that much on the ground. I actually 0:15:02.840 --> 0:15:04.680 think this is a better game, a better matchup for 0:15:04.680 --> 0:15:06.880 guys like Corey Clement and Darren Sprowls. So I could 0:15:06.880 --> 0:15:09.840 see see all three of these guys getting mixed in. Again, 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:11.880 he's a low end RB two. I don't really want 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.760 to have to trust him um and and plus he 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:16.920 was nursing a foot injury which he just got cleared 0:15:16.920 --> 0:15:19.400 to play, so I'm not sure that he's on a 0:15:19.440 --> 0:15:23.280 full snap count either, He's probably in that twelve to 0:15:23.360 --> 0:15:25.960 fifteen touch range, so I think that makes him like 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:27.760 a low n RB two, high end RB three. But 0:15:27.840 --> 0:15:32.160 I will say in a full PPR, I would start 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:34.280 Darren Sprowls and Corey Coleman over to Tevin Colton tonight. 0:15:34.480 --> 0:15:38.560 Why don't you tonight? Just how potent the Eagles rushing 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.560 defense was last year. They were either number one or 0:15:41.680 --> 0:15:45.000 number two in the least amount of points allowed against 0:15:45.040 --> 0:15:47.280 running backs last year. I know the Vikings were up 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:49.080 there as well, and all they did was make that 0:15:49.160 --> 0:15:51.640 defensive line better. They go out and get Michael Bennett, 0:15:51.880 --> 0:15:54.320 So I do think that it's gonna be hard to 0:15:54.320 --> 0:15:56.400 come by. I don't even love DeVonta Freeman. I still 0:15:56.440 --> 0:15:58.880 have him as like a solid to high end RB two. 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.600 He's not a top twelve running back from me this week, um, 0:16:01.640 --> 0:16:04.200 And I don't want to start Tevin Coleman if I 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:06.000 could get away from him, if I could start one 0:16:06.000 --> 0:16:08.000 of those other guys instead, I could give you a 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:09.960 couple of other names that I have ranked just ahead 0:16:09.960 --> 0:16:11.880 of him in a standard league. How about this, Greg, 0:16:11.920 --> 0:16:14.080 I would startle Garrett Blunt over Tevin Coleman. I think 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:15.680 he has a chance to score against the Jets this week. 0:16:15.760 --> 0:16:19.400 Would you start Theorytic over Tevin Colan in the PPR League, 0:16:19.400 --> 0:16:21.440 I would? Would you start Mike Gillisly over Tann Coleman. 0:16:23.120 --> 0:16:30.640 That's where That's where it becomes Harriet, I'd probably start 0:16:30.640 --> 0:16:33.480 Tevin Coleman, started Jordan Wilkins over Tarren Coleman. I would, 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:37.040 I would start Jordan Wilkins. I think he I think 0:16:37.120 --> 0:16:40.240 Jordan Wilkins he's the starter in that game. I think 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:43.280 he probably gives you untill Christian Michael's starting. Probably, but 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:45.680 I think we get like twelve plus touches out of 0:16:45.760 --> 0:16:50.080 Jordan Wilkinson that game, and at the touches tonight for 0:16:50.160 --> 0:16:52.880 Tevin Coleman, and just overall terrible Terraman over under three 0:16:52.880 --> 0:16:54.480 and a half catches with Calvin Ridley tonight and his 0:16:54.600 --> 0:16:58.560 debut over over nice can't kid for Calver Realley. Then 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:01.640 I have him as a of like low end wide 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:03.800 sea of four. It's like right around eight for me. 0:17:04.000 --> 0:17:06.840 So okay, enough, let's take a break. When we come back, 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:09.960 we joint by dr a inside injuries. That happens next 0:17:12.520 --> 0:17:16.840 Daily Rodo dot Com learned from the game's best DFS players. 0:17:17.200 --> 0:17:21.520 We don't just give you premier advice. We play every day, 0:17:21.880 --> 0:17:26.000 all major sports, all year round. 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We have a ton of injuries 0:17:54.840 --> 0:17:57.440 we obviously want to get to today, and not just 0:17:57.520 --> 0:17:59.800 skill position players We've been talking a lot about Um, 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:03.040 but also some of these offensive linement and defensive linemen 0:18:03.080 --> 0:18:05.439 that could affect who you were starting in sitting tomorrow, 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:07.639 no doubt all your calls start to sit on the 0:18:07.720 --> 0:18:10.359 show straight out on a Friday. Obviously that comes your 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.040 way tomorrow. But as we wait Dr A, we will 0:18:13.080 --> 0:18:14.480 work to get him on. I want to go over 0:18:14.560 --> 0:18:16.399 some of the headlines and players that are practicing that 0:18:16.440 --> 0:18:18.399 we're not gonna get a chance to ask Dr A 0:18:18.520 --> 0:18:20.800 about Frank Um, and I want to start in Seattle 0:18:20.840 --> 0:18:23.320 with Doug Baldin, who is practicing in full. It's been 0:18:23.320 --> 0:18:25.119 an up and down ride For those that have drafted 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:28.400 Doug Balbin this summer where you drafted him early. Great, 0:18:28.480 --> 0:18:31.360 you have this borderline wide receiver one. Then he gets hurt, 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:34.040 so you drop him a little bit. As all the 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:37.399 optimism starts to rise for Doug Baldwin, he jumps back up. 0:18:37.520 --> 0:18:40.000 All right, cool, He comes out and has press conferences 0:18:40.040 --> 0:18:42.440 like listen, I'm not going to be a hundred percent 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:46.040 all season long. I'm gonna be like eight. And back 0:18:46.119 --> 0:18:49.040 down he goes, And then things kind of settled where 0:18:49.160 --> 0:18:53.840 he rose again. Doug bald is practicing in full. We're 0:18:53.880 --> 0:18:56.440 gonna get a glimpse of what Doug Baldwin is this week. However, 0:18:56.640 --> 0:18:59.080 very tough matchup against Detroit. I'm sorry. He gets Denver 0:19:00.080 --> 0:19:02.240 and a very good cornerback and Chris Harris who will 0:19:02.240 --> 0:19:05.359 be all over the field with Doug Baldwin. How do 0:19:05.400 --> 0:19:08.800 you feel about starting him this week? First of all, 0:19:08.840 --> 0:19:11.080 I'm encouraged that he's practicing in full, so that's a 0:19:11.160 --> 0:19:13.560 good sign for a week one of the season. But 0:19:13.720 --> 0:19:15.560 going up against Denver, like you mentioned, it is a 0:19:15.640 --> 0:19:18.080 tougher matchup, but you know they do move Doug Ballwin 0:19:18.119 --> 0:19:19.919 around a lot. He doesn't just play on the outside. 0:19:19.920 --> 0:19:21.359 He doesn't just play on the inside. You know, they 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:23.680 get pretty creative with him and they find ways to 0:19:23.720 --> 0:19:26.200 move him all over the field. I'm not sure that 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:29.920 Chris Harris necessarily follows him inside the slot or whether 0:19:30.000 --> 0:19:32.880 it's Bradley Roby. They still do have talented corners there. 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:35.119 Don't just think that because they lost a keep to 0:19:35.200 --> 0:19:39.080 leave that the secondary really, you know, they take a 0:19:39.200 --> 0:19:40.760 huge step back. I still think that this could be 0:19:40.800 --> 0:19:43.040 a very very strong defense. I think he's a solid 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:45.280 wide receiver too. I'm encouraged that he's practicing in full 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:46.960 for week one. Great. Yeah, I think it's obviously a 0:19:47.080 --> 0:19:49.800 very encouraging cybery Doug Baldwin that he's a normal, normal 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:52.040 work week for him, even if he gets these maintenance 0:19:52.080 --> 0:19:54.920 days on Wednesday. Going forward, all good, Let's see what 0:19:55.000 --> 0:19:57.159 he can do obviously on Sunday against Denver. Right, for 0:19:57.240 --> 0:20:00.240 what it's worth, um, they have they have the Atto 0:20:00.320 --> 0:20:03.560 coverage matrix on the Pro Football Focus. It's that they 0:20:03.600 --> 0:20:06.200 have right and they show you every single week that 0:20:06.320 --> 0:20:10.720