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Speaker 1: Now here's your host. Hey, it's Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm
Speaker 1: Paul Charity and Brian Johnson with me. Hey, Brian, see
Speaker 1: free agency just days away. Can't wait to see all
Speaker 1: the macin nations, the moves, the big names, all the changes.
Speaker 1: I don't recall being this excited for free agency and
Speaker 1: quite some time. There are a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of big names. There are a lot of big names,
Speaker 1: and I can't wait to go through that. That will
Speaker 1: be next week's show. This week, we will be continuing
Speaker 1: to drill down on the key things to know and
Speaker 1: remember from last year, division by division. Last week we
Speaker 1: did NFC East, We've all done in the a f
Speaker 1: C East. For switching our attention this week to the
Speaker 1: a f C South, where my my new favorite team resides.
Speaker 1: Your new favorite team is the Jacksonville Ars. Niting the bank,
Speaker 1: the Bengals abandoning them, but I brought them to a
Speaker 1: near championship caliber level. And they're they're they're good. They're
Speaker 1: gonna be just fine. I gotta take my talents elsewhere.
Speaker 1: So I'm going to Jacksonville, New Bengals. They need your help.
Speaker 1: They they did. And for anybody who doesn't know, you
Speaker 1: gave up on your Giants before Burrow was drafted when
Speaker 1: the Bengals are a very very bad team. So you
Speaker 1: get plenty. You're not a front runner on this Bengals
Speaker 1: bid at all. No graduation. We're remember this. So in
Speaker 1: Jacksonville is in the super Bowl calling it you're calling
Speaker 1: it two years. I think that they couldn't make the
Speaker 1: playoffs this year. Let's talk about all right, let's start
Speaker 1: with jackson Start with Trevor Lawrence. Um, what way way
Speaker 1: under reported story? How bad he looked last year? Yeah,
Speaker 1: disaster rookie season. Just twelve passing touchdowns, fifteen game sames
Speaker 1: with zero or one passing touchdown. It was basically unusable
Speaker 1: in fantasy. But um not giving up on Lawrence just yet.
Speaker 1: I was pretty rough on him. I mean, there was
Speaker 1: things certainly not working in his favor, starting with Urban Meyer,
Speaker 1: his head coach, probably one of the worst head coaches
Speaker 1: in NFL history. Albeit it was only like a half
Speaker 1: a season. Uh, Doug Peterson massive upgrade a head coach,
Speaker 1: I think, especially from an offensive perspective. Uh, Travis e
Speaker 1: t N missed all of his rookie season. That didn't
Speaker 1: help Trevor Lawrence at all. Um. And by the way,
Speaker 1: she mentioned e t N is ahead of schedule according
Speaker 1: to recent media reports. And we'll certainly talk about him
Speaker 1: a little more in a minute or two here. D J.
Speaker 1: Chark was hurt. So it was just a disaster all
Speaker 1: around the offensive line. Okay, Okay, that's all true, and
Speaker 1: there's a lot of reason, there's a lot of excuse making.
Speaker 1: But if you watched Trevor Lawrence, he looked bad in
Speaker 1: situations in which he had no reason to look bad
Speaker 1: when you would have a clean pocket. Misfiring all of
Speaker 1: the accuracy, really really bad, misfiring or not hitting guys
Speaker 1: in ride, not catchable passes or or difficult catches that
Speaker 1: shouldn't be difficult. It just I'm telling you, even if
Speaker 1: I factor out all these other things and I just
Speaker 1: look at try to isolate Trevor Lawrence, Brian, it was
Speaker 1: a bad it was he did not perform well. No,
Speaker 1: and I was worried you know, he put up these
Speaker 1: massive numbers in college, but he was basically playing for
Speaker 1: a pro team. Yeah, right, like he had amazing talent
Speaker 1: all around him. But I don't know. I people are
Speaker 1: way down on Lawrence. He's kind of a guy I'm
Speaker 1: targeting as like a top backup, and I still think
Speaker 1: he could with the right pieces around him. They're gonna
Speaker 1: address the offensive line for sure. They're gonna take Evan
Speaker 1: Neal first. Overall, everyone's saying mass mountain of the offensive
Speaker 1: lineman from Alabama. So I hope they do. I am.
Speaker 1: I'm buying into Lawrence in in redraft this year and
Speaker 1: certainly dynasty if if the price is low enough. So uh,
Speaker 1: I'm glass half half full with Trevor Lawrence. UM over
Speaker 1: to his wide receivers uh D J Shark unrestricted free agent,
Speaker 1: he's basically gone um assuming he's not gonna be on
Speaker 1: the team. So we'll talk about Marvin Jones. As of
Speaker 1: right now, he is their wide receiver one. Jacksonville is
Speaker 1: certainly going to add a receiver or to via the draft,
Speaker 1: of free agency or both. But Jones by no means
Speaker 1: is he a sexy pick in drafts. But he's someone
Speaker 1: you can likely count on to roughly seventy catches, nine yards,
Speaker 1: five or six touchdowns. So a guy you'll drive my
Speaker 1: fifth wide receiver on my team, and he'll be a
Speaker 1: spot starter in so weeks, certainly in in heavy bye week.
Speaker 1: So Joan is still a relevant fantasy player, but I
Speaker 1: think he'll thrive more if they can bring in a
Speaker 1: bigger name receiver via free agency or draft a Treylon
Speaker 1: Burks or Garrett Davis, which which they could could be.
Speaker 1: It could be something they do most box I'm seeing
Speaker 1: have Jacksonville taken a because they have the thirty second pick.
Speaker 1: I believe as well know that that's Detroit's got thirty two.
Speaker 1: Because of the I still think, oh yeah, maybe I'm
Speaker 1: just thinking that they got thirty three. Yeah, they're definitely
Speaker 1: taking a receiver first overall, but a lot of marks
Speaker 1: I see you have. I'm taking a receiver with that
Speaker 1: thirty third pick, and there'll be some some enticing options there. Um,
Speaker 1: why did we spend so much offseason time talking about
Speaker 1: lavis Chanel, Hyped by many many people as a sleeper.
Speaker 1: He had the huge December last year the year before
Speaker 1: last and rolled into this and we're like, man, all
Speaker 1: the physical gifts and now he's got he's got a
Speaker 1: first round quarterback to throw him the ball, first overall
Speaker 1: pick quarterback. His lack of involvement in that offense was shocking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: just sixty three catches SI nineteen yards, zero touchdowns. Didn't
Speaker 1: get a ton of carries either. We see more work
Speaker 1: on the ground. Jacksonville's GM recently said the ship has
Speaker 1: not sailed on Chenal, which is a good thing, I guess,
Speaker 1: but on the flip side is not a good thing
Speaker 1: when you have to make a standard right attack like that.
Speaker 1: But uh another he's a serious buy low candidate as
Speaker 1: of right now. Everyone looking for the next Deebo Samuel
Speaker 1: these days. He's you would think he's got that skill set,
Speaker 1: so a guy you can get very cheap. I'm intrigued
Speaker 1: by Chanel. I'll take a flyer on him in some
Speaker 1: leagues and I just hope that he hits that ceiling.
Speaker 1: But if if he doesn't show massive improvement this year,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's over. But the ship has not sailed,
Speaker 1: especially in fantasy football on labishka Um. Now, speaking of guys,
Speaker 1: I really like no Nay. I love Dan Arnold tight
Speaker 1: end Dan Arnold. Funny, how you got Jacksonville? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know I set that up for this reason. Yes, I know.
Speaker 1: Arnold traded from Carolina to Jacksonville mid season, didn't have
Speaker 1: much time to acclimate to his new team. Uh, got
Speaker 1: hurt in Week twelve and missed the rest of the
Speaker 1: season um because of the injury. But before he got injured,
Speaker 1: there was a nice three game stretch when he really
Speaker 1: clicked with Trevor Lawrence. And this is like right when
Speaker 1: he got traded. There saw target totals of ten seven seven.
Speaker 1: He topped sixty yards in each of those games. Uh,
Speaker 1: he ran nearly seventy his routes from the slaughter outside.
Speaker 1: So he's really a wide receiver. The tight end eligible
Speaker 1: in fantasy football, and I love the Doug Peterson higher. Yeah,
Speaker 1: tight ends is significant. I'm not saying daniar Old is,
Speaker 1: you know, not tight end one, not even tight end
Speaker 1: top twelve tight end, but a guy you can take
Speaker 1: in the very later rounds as your backup tight end.
Speaker 1: Is going tight end twenty four right now, there is
Speaker 1: upside there. They might bring in another tight end, but
Speaker 1: I think that'd be more traditional inline blocker guy, probably
Speaker 1: because it's not much of a blocker. You know, I
Speaker 1: had to talk about Dan Arold. He's still fantasy relevant
Speaker 1: and we'll be giving him some some c's, maybe even
Speaker 1: some bes uh this regular season on f W make
Speaker 1: that Bowl prediction. And lastly for the Jaguars running backs,
Speaker 1: Travis e t N and we'll talk James Robinson and
Speaker 1: we can't look back on e t ns rookie season.
Speaker 1: He missed the whole thing with the Liz Frank injury
Speaker 1: I suffered in training camp. Um, people, he's pretty much
Speaker 1: getting drafted where he was getting drafted last year. The
Speaker 1: hype is still there for e t N more appealing
Speaker 1: in PPR formats, though he seems like more of a
Speaker 1: receiver than a rusher. It's unlikely he gets used in
Speaker 1: a Bell cow roll. He'll certainly get see some carries,
Speaker 1: but the question is who will be there who Who
Speaker 1: will he be splitting those carries with? That is not clear. No,
Speaker 1: James Robinson tours Achilles late in the season. Uh, he
Speaker 1: was a viable RB two before the injury. Um, but
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's gonna be ready to go.
Speaker 1: No Achilles injuries are you know, we've talked about this
Speaker 1: a lot with cam Akers. Chilles injuries on running backs
Speaker 1: are usually a career ender. Um. You know, Acres came
Speaker 1: back in for the playoffs, totally mundane like three yards
Speaker 1: a carry. Um it is. It is really really hard
Speaker 1: to the high water mark for any running back. Often
Speaker 1: achilles is Donta Foreman last year four years removed from
Speaker 1: his achilles. It's a It is a brutal injury, and
Speaker 1: I think the expectation should be that you're not going
Speaker 1: to get help from James Robinson next year, not meaningful help. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So know, be a little wary draft in Travis et
Speaker 1: N He's not even though there's no clear competition right now,
Speaker 1: there there will be, and he's just he's just not
Speaker 1: going it's going to be that twenty plus carry guy.
Speaker 1: He's not built for that, even if the draft equity
Speaker 1: they put into him would suggest as much. That's it
Speaker 1: for Jackson. When I was at the combine back a
Speaker 1: I guess now, uh week ten days ago, Um, I
Speaker 1: had a chance to sit down with Tennessee offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: Todd Downing had a nice chat um and Downey it's
Speaker 1: a massive challenges last year with Tennessee, right he had
Speaker 1: injuries to Derrick Henry, A J. Brown, Leo Jones, a
Speaker 1: variety of linemen moving in and out, in and out
Speaker 1: every week. Um, not a lot of depth of receiver either, right,
Speaker 1: and they're having to make you know, Chester Rogers needs
Speaker 1: to step up, Nick Westbrook, Conte needs to step up.
Speaker 1: Picante Sauce needs to step up. And so they put
Speaker 1: they may do when they got to the playoffs and
Speaker 1: you know, and to turn out Mike. You know, Mike
Speaker 1: Vrabel got coach the year contract extension. Yeah. I think
Speaker 1: that the game they lost the Bengals in the divisional round,
Speaker 1: that was like one of two or three games where
Speaker 1: it was they had A J. Brown, Julio Jones, and
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry and Henry Henry was for that game sixty
Speaker 1: rushing yards in the game and it ended up being
Speaker 1: a sixteen to nineteen game at defensive tussle. Let's talk
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry pre injury dominating every rushing stat by a
Speaker 1: mile record setting pace. It was m v P pace.
Speaker 1: It was. He was absolutely dominating. And it was his
Speaker 1: average game pre injury one hundred forty four total yards
Speaker 1: and one and a half touchdowns per game. And you
Speaker 1: can easily make the case that says, don't care about
Speaker 1: the injury, don't care about all the workload. I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna draft Derrick Henry again because I know that Todd
Speaker 1: Downing will run him into the ground as whatever it takes.
Speaker 1: And if he breaks down again, I'm gonna, you know, up, fine, Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm through eight weeks. I'm gonna be damnity or undefeated
Speaker 1: because I've got Derrick Henry pumping in hundred forty four
Speaker 1: yards and when I have touchdowns per game, I'll deal
Speaker 1: with it. If he goes down that that's a viable
Speaker 1: case to be made for taking Derrick Henry as as
Speaker 1: early as the second pick of a draft. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: pretty much the stance I'm taking. I'm not I'm not
Speaker 1: too worried about the foot injury. I don't think he's
Speaker 1: gonna you know, he subject to broken feet now, probably not.
Speaker 1: Probably not. Let's go to the passing game and Ryan
Speaker 1: Tannehill finished with seven rushing touchdowns, and you might be
Speaker 1: thinking to yourself because I kind of was, well, I
Speaker 1: got seven rushing touchdowns because Derrick Henry got hurt. But
Speaker 1: as it turns out, half of those seven three we're
Speaker 1: before Derrick Henry got hurt and he had seven rutching
Speaker 1: touchdowns year before that. When Derrick Henry is healthy, he
Speaker 1: dude scores rushing touchdowns. Well, he's an athlete, he was,
Speaker 1: He's a converted wide receiver exactly exactly Dan Hill's passing.
Speaker 1: It wasn't bad. But the real problem last year, and
Speaker 1: you could view it as an admiration if you want,
Speaker 1: is he just didn't throw touchdowns. He had just twenty one.
Speaker 1: That was his lowest touchdown output since he was a dolphin,
Speaker 1: and he scored zero or one passing touchdowns in fourteen games.
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence was fifteen. Wow, that was a that's the
Speaker 1: part that killed him. But the total yards wasn't half bad. Uh,
Speaker 1: it just didn't convert in the end zone, and that
Speaker 1: might you know, that could easily end up flipping. He
Speaker 1: has the same yards and I think off top of
Speaker 1: my head, it was like thirty yards. He has the
Speaker 1: same thirty seven hundred yards. He should have more than
Speaker 1: one touchdowns year. I mean, losing Derrick Henry really hurt.
Speaker 1: Not that Henry was catching a lot of touchdowns, but
Speaker 1: defenses had just had to respect the rung and that
Speaker 1: opened up I mean Dante Foreman looked good in Henry's absence,
Speaker 1: but that was that was huge for tan Hill and
Speaker 1: that whole offense. A J. Brown other frustrating season of injuries,
Speaker 1: this time chest, knee, hamstring injuries. Sometimes he dominated, like
Speaker 1: in monster games against Buffalo, Kansas City, Indy San Francisco
Speaker 1: and that Bengals playoff loss in a monster game, and
Speaker 1: in those moments A J. Brown looks like the best
Speaker 1: receiver in the league. But the problem was his other
Speaker 1: nine games. He averaged three catches for thirty eight yards
Speaker 1: and scored twice in those nine games, and he torpedoed
Speaker 1: your team. Yeah, you'd like to see those games be
Speaker 1: more like a six catches for seventy Yeah, right, That's
Speaker 1: what I wanted floor to be. But it wasn't that way.
Speaker 1: And the frustrating part is you can't say, well, it's
Speaker 1: because Derrick Henry was eating all the carries, because half
Speaker 1: the season he didn't. You can't say it was because
Speaker 1: Julio Jones was siphoning off so much work, because he
Speaker 1: wasn't even available for most of those games. They just
Speaker 1: didn't schematically go to A J. Brown that much. And
Speaker 1: maybe it was because he was playing the chess knee
Speaker 1: and hamstring injuries many times, but very frustrating for for
Speaker 1: fantasy owners. With a j Brown, Let's go to Julio Jones.
Speaker 1: I think that Julio Jones trade looks like a lose lose.
Speaker 1: You know, the Falcons kind of needed him based on
Speaker 1: what happened to their wide receiver group. Um, they didn't
Speaker 1: have him, and then the Titans gave up the second
Speaker 1: round pick and more to get a guy who really
Speaker 1: didn't even help this year. He did not score a
Speaker 1: touchdown until the final week of the season. Julio Jones
Speaker 1: topped sixty two yards, which is not a high threshold.
Speaker 1: Leo Jones top sixty two yards once went healthy, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: nagging injuries for Julio Jones all the time, which was
Speaker 1: an ongoing problem and has continued to be now for
Speaker 1: three straight seasons. By the way, now thirty three year
Speaker 1: old Julio Jones, that's getting kind of ancient. I'm talking
Speaker 1: wide receivers. I think I think Tennessee is a prime
Speaker 1: candidate to spend some draft equity at the wide receiver position.
Speaker 1: I agree, where there's certainly some enticing names out there
Speaker 1: free agency, there's no guarantee Julio Jones on this team
Speaker 1: next year. That might have been his window right there.
Speaker 1: Let's take a break. When we come back, let's try
Speaker 1: about Indie alright, plenty of controversy at the quarterback position
Speaker 1: and absolutely none at the running back position. Back in Moments,
Speaker 1: segment number two Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Charchi and Brian
Speaker 1: Johnson with you. Let's turn our attention to the Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 1: Where would you like to start? Is it? Do we
Speaker 1: start with Jonathan Taylor? Consensus first, he will be the
Speaker 1: first player taken in almost every fantasy league next year,
Speaker 1: pretty much the consensus first overall pick in in one
Speaker 1: quarterback leagues. Of course, a ton of impressive stats I
Speaker 1: can throw at you. Uh, this one from Pro Football
Speaker 1: Focus really stood out, though. Uh. The most rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: against eight plus man boxes or stacked boxes over the
Speaker 1: last two seasons. Jonathan Taylor two, Derrick Henry twenty, Dalphin
Speaker 1: Cook nineteen. Sop. Uh, Yeah, I mean he can only
Speaker 1: he's certainly we're not sure if he's peaked. He might
Speaker 1: can only get better, especially if they upgraded quarterback, bringing
Speaker 1: another weapon at wide receiver to take some of the
Speaker 1: attention off Jonathan Taylor, so taking him first, I can't
Speaker 1: argue that whatsoever. Lock it in and think about your
Speaker 1: round two pick. Taylor seems about as safe as a
Speaker 1: number one pick as it can be. I hope that
Speaker 1: doesn't chinx them too much. So yeah, nothing more to
Speaker 1: say about Jonathan Taylor. Really not a lot to say
Speaker 1: about wide receivers at the moment other than talking about
Speaker 1: Michael Pittman. Just six touchdowns last year, but he was
Speaker 1: top fifteen in catches and yards among wide receivers. I
Speaker 1: think he has that wide receiver one potential, meaning he's
Speaker 1: a you know, a top twelve wide receiver. Um getting
Speaker 1: drafted right now is you know, like wide receiver twenty
Speaker 1: seven twenty eight. I like the value as of right now.
Speaker 1: And Michael Pittman, I mean he's a monster in the
Speaker 1: in the red zone and in the end zone six
Speaker 1: four like two thirty, set all the physical attributes you're
Speaker 1: looking for. So I'm buying buying into Pittman. And as
Speaker 1: for the Indie's wide receiver to uh, not on roster
Speaker 1: as right now, it's not No, I don't think I
Speaker 1: think Tylton's dap on it. It's it's not former favorite
Speaker 1: sleeper of the show, Paris Campbell. Unfortunately, it never helps them,
Speaker 1: never healthy. It's not Zach Pascal, it's certainly not Ashton
Speaker 1: Doulan or Desmond Patton Patton Munn. Sorry, So, so nothing
Speaker 1: more to say about the wide receivers for the Colts
Speaker 1: at this time. Then it's kind of the same way.
Speaker 1: It's just there's no lead tight end. Well, there's runways
Speaker 1: that Jack Doyle might retire, which would make mo Alei
Speaker 1: Cox a whole lot more interesting, But they've got this
Speaker 1: uh kyl and grantson kid who they like who was
Speaker 1: a rookie last year. So even if Doyle retires, it
Speaker 1: still feels like there's gonna be this annoying platoon a
Speaker 1: tight end for the Colts. So pretty much the position
Speaker 1: is irrelevant from the fantasy perspective right now. But we'll
Speaker 1: see what happens with Doyle. If he does retire, then
Speaker 1: my interest is peaked with Moiley Moiley Cox, But as
Speaker 1: of right now, nothing much to say, And really is
Speaker 1: there much to say about Carson Wentz. I mean, we
Speaker 1: can talk about it if he's gonna be the quarterback, Okay,
Speaker 1: it's a good chance he won't be based on what
Speaker 1: they're saying. But and I know Wentz makes big mistakes
Speaker 1: and big spots that people hate, but dude, through seven
Speaker 1: interceptions last year, I think touchdowns seven interceptions, I mean,
Speaker 1: definitely great ratio. He wasn't bad. People act like he
Speaker 1: was terrible. I don't think he's I don't think. I
Speaker 1: don't think Carson Wentz as bad as he was. He
Speaker 1: was an adequate fan or reality quarterback. It's the fantasy
Speaker 1: players who were saying this guy sucks because just three
Speaker 1: games with two seventy plus passing yards, that's not great.
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor. They played to their strengths and that's probably
Speaker 1: what we're looking at this year. So really, Wins is
Speaker 1: a guy if he stays on the Colts. Uh, clearly
Speaker 1: a backup from a fantasy perspective, But and really, for me,
Speaker 1: probably one of the last ones I would want. I'd
Speaker 1: probably rather take a chance on a rookie or Yeah.
Speaker 1: So that's it for Carson Wins and that's it for
Speaker 1: the Colts. Okay, let's go to Houston. New head coaches
Speaker 1: Lovey Smith an uninspired higher I believe, with a dismal
Speaker 1: track record as a head coach, but an awesome beard.
Speaker 1: Now the beards, the beard is amazing, one of the
Speaker 1: best beards out there. Yeah, for sure. Um. His offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator is Pep Hamilton's, who I did not like as
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator for Andrew Luck. As you may recall,
Speaker 1: I nicknamed him who Hamilton's at the time he was.
Speaker 1: But in fairness to Pep Hamilton's who gets to be Pep?
Speaker 1: He gets to be Pep until proven otherwise. He was
Speaker 1: with Justin Herbert two years ago for his explosive rookie year.
Speaker 1: Last year passing game coordinator for Davis Mills and Houston.
Speaker 1: They kept him on and why not. Davis Mills is
Speaker 1: one of the great success stories of the draft from
Speaker 1: last year. Speaking of keeping him on, they better keep
Speaker 1: Davis Mills as a quarterback with Let's go right to it.
Speaker 1: He was the third round pick and despite only starting
Speaker 1: I believe it was fourteen games in college. I think
Speaker 1: it was just fourteen games at stamp Stanford. That was
Speaker 1: it he got. And again they threw him at actual
Speaker 1: right away because David Tyrod Taylor got hurt in week two.
Speaker 1: They had to bring him in and the plan was
Speaker 1: to rest Mills because he was so green. So they
Speaker 1: played Mills for five or six games, and then when
Speaker 1: Taylor came back, they went to Taylor, but Taylor only
Speaker 1: lasted three games. They went right back to Mills. And
Speaker 1: I really want to focus on Mills the rest of
Speaker 1: the way. His average game after returning from that point
Speaker 1: forward this week fourteen through eighteen. So we've got a
Speaker 1: five game set two hundred fifty one yards and almost
Speaker 1: two touchdown passes per game. Over the final five weeks
Speaker 1: of the season, Davis Mills was quarterback ten. How about that?
Speaker 1: And think about the thing about the quality of player
Speaker 1: around him. The offensive line, the receivers was scraps. He
Speaker 1: had no running game nothing. Mills is not a runner.
Speaker 1: I'll mention that with That's something if you didn't already know,
Speaker 1: we learned this year. Unclear how high of an upside
Speaker 1: Mills had as because he played a little in college.
Speaker 1: He plays, he's played so little at the NFL level,
Speaker 1: He's had so little help around him. The upside could
Speaker 1: be way higher than what we've seen so far. The
Speaker 1: upside here could be a top ten fantasy quarterback down
Speaker 1: the road. Yeah, I mean, we've seen quarterbacks go away
Speaker 1: later in the draft that turned out to be superstars.
Speaker 1: We could start with Tom Brady. I'm not calling Davis
Speaker 1: Mills and a third round quarterback, and certainly we've seen
Speaker 1: undrafted quarterbacks turned into a Bible fantasy assets. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a big fan of Davis Mills as well. I
Speaker 1: really hope they just give him the keys and let
Speaker 1: him go. I test just he the dude. Can the
Speaker 1: dudes a baller? He's kid, His arm is good enough
Speaker 1: to make all the throws that he's got, the poise,
Speaker 1: all the intangibles I want. I like Davis Mills, and
Speaker 1: he is an NF he belongs in the NFL's an
Speaker 1: NFL as a Viking fan. How area that they could
Speaker 1: have taken Davis Mills And I was literally the next pick.
Speaker 1: Vikings too him on first and I was banging the
Speaker 1: table all April to take Davis. Remember we were talking,
Speaker 1: and nope, they went mind and they're going to regret
Speaker 1: it anyway. Uh, let's talk Brandon Cooks, who was the
Speaker 1: only receiver you really cared about on this team. Despite
Speaker 1: a lot of turmoil at the end, you know, all
Speaker 1: the quarterback position changes and everything else, Cookes was pretty reliable.
Speaker 1: Only five games where he had less than fifty yards
Speaker 1: and did not score all year. So he was a
Speaker 1: guy who almost usually got you over fifty yards, helped
Speaker 1: you out with some touchdowns. And if I look at
Speaker 1: the games just under Davis Mills, Cook's averaged nine targets,
Speaker 1: six and a half catches, sixty eight yards and half
Speaker 1: a touchdown per game. Who is the comparable So again
Speaker 1: this was Brandon Cooks in just Davis Mills starts, You're
Speaker 1: comparable player this year was Seedee Lamb For those numbers, Yeah,
Speaker 1: nine targets, six naf catches, sixty eight yards and half
Speaker 1: a touchdown. Actually, Cooks scored more touchdowns because Lamb only
Speaker 1: had six and Cooks had nine. So I think you'll
Speaker 1: continue to be a target hog. Then what if Davis
Speaker 1: Mills gets a lot better in year two? What if
Speaker 1: Davis Mills is a you know what if he's a
Speaker 1: top twelve quarterback, which you know maybe he is, was
Speaker 1: just the top fifteen quarterback, then you know, Brandon Coakes
Speaker 1: could be yards and twelve touchdowns next year. Davis Mills
Speaker 1: could be the best quarterback in the a f C
Speaker 1: South this year, I mean if it stays when, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not that far fetched. Nico Collins did nothing all year, really,
Speaker 1: and we kept hoping that the breakout was coming. It
Speaker 1: never emerged, never even got hardly even got on the field.
Speaker 1: Tons of raw talent. Hopefully has a bigger role next year.
Speaker 1: He's a guy I'm targeting right now in best Ball
Speaker 1: in the later rounds because again, you think Mills gets better,
Speaker 1: you know, and if Collins gets better in year two, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he could be the last pick of the draft.
Speaker 1: He's got the pedigree to the play. Let's get the
Speaker 1: running backs. Burkehead David Johnson, Royce Freeman. Burkehead moved to
Speaker 1: the top of the depth chart at the end of
Speaker 1: the year, but still on the average three and a
Speaker 1: half yards per carry on the season, and aside from
Speaker 1: torching the Chargers one week with the worst run defense
Speaker 1: in the NFL, he was totally mundane PC For one second,
Speaker 1: I used Burkehead as might take a chance when the
Speaker 1: player in like week team against the Chargers. Yeah, alright,
Speaker 1: was like I wish in sixty yard two touchdown game,
Speaker 1: I think royal Twitter. You know, he's a fan of
Speaker 1: the show. He was so grateful he listened to the
Speaker 1: show and he told his son, who just started playing
Speaker 1: fantasy football. Hey played Rex Burke had any one he
Speaker 1: wanted to ven moo me money, alight, they'll take that.
Speaker 1: I certainly did, all right, I like it. Burkehead is
Speaker 1: under contract for next year, David Johnson is not. He's
Speaker 1: a free agent, and Royce dropped the piano. Freeman stinks,
Speaker 1: So he's not even a fact Houston will be drafting
Speaker 1: a running back. I think I think there's a chance
Speaker 1: they all they're all gone, and maybe Burkhead's back is
Speaker 1: a backup. This is a team that ken and should
Speaker 1: draft a running back, the Houston Texans. Hey, last guy,
Speaker 1: I want to mention, brevn Jordan's tight end flashed at
Speaker 1: the end of the year. If you're in a deeper
Speaker 1: dynasty league, just you know somebody you might want to
Speaker 1: think about. He's he's gonna He's a guy going late
Speaker 1: rounds right now, Brevin Jordan's. It's because there's you know,
Speaker 1: they've been trying to find consistency. Jordan Aikins, a lot
Speaker 1: of others that they've rotated through tight end over the
Speaker 1: past few years. None of it's come together. Maybe Brevin
Speaker 1: Jordan's and he should be the guy this year, that
Speaker 1: that could be, and that being the guy. Second year
Speaker 1: tight ends generally don't do a lot either. Usually it
Speaker 1: takes like three years, like Dawson Knox breakout three year.
Speaker 1: Uh So, I don't expect a ton from Brevin Jordans,
Speaker 1: but he maybe good enough to be your backup tight
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