WEBVTT - NFC West breakdown with Scott Fish 0:00:00.960 --> 0:00:04.680 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:06.800 --> 0:00:10.160 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from my Heart Radio, 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:14.840 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, 0:00:14.960 --> 0:00:17.799 and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. 0:00:18.320 --> 0:00:23.440 Now here's your host, Paul. Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:25.880 I am Paul charchy In. My co host this week 0:00:26.040 --> 0:00:30.320 is not Brian Johnson. It is Scott Fish. I'm back. 0:00:30.480 --> 0:00:33.920 You're back. It's only been five months or whatever we've 0:00:33.960 --> 0:00:37.080 missed you. It does feel that long. It's been way 0:00:37.080 --> 0:00:39.800 too long, way too long. It's gonna be back, though. 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:41.880 It is good to have you back. I blame I 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:45.000 blame the pandemic. It's a convenient excuse for many things. 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.040 And we'll but it's great to have you back. I 0:00:47.200 --> 0:00:54.320 blame Johnson. You'll be a regular back on the show 0:00:54.960 --> 0:00:57.880 beginning in August, which would be fantastic. And we're in 0:00:57.880 --> 0:01:03.040 the middle of f S s f B eleven, which 0:01:03.120 --> 0:01:06.080 is very exciting. I think I've I think I'm in 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:09.280 my drafts in round eleven right now. I think something 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:11.640 like that. Half way done, yeah, half way done. Lots 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:14.399 of quarterbacks going early. 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When as as 0:05:02.560 --> 0:05:04.800 we're taping this, it's not yet live, but it's I 0:05:04.880 --> 0:05:07.520 think it will be live when people hear this Guillotine 0:05:07.600 --> 0:05:11.039 Leagues dot com. The focus of the rest of this show, 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:15.200 Scott is the NFC West. Yes, we've been breaking down 0:05:15.400 --> 0:05:19.000 all of the teams forward looking not We're not repeating 0:05:19.000 --> 0:05:20.680 what you already know what happened last year. What do 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:22.119 you think is going to happen for the four teams 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.440 in the NFC West this season? And at the end 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:29.159 of each team will identify the riskiest player at current 0:05:29.160 --> 0:05:32.919 ADP and the play with the most upside based on 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:36.080 current a DP. Yep, it's exciting. I'm gonna let you 0:05:36.160 --> 0:05:38.880 go first a team. I'm very excited about a team 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:42.800 that I think will challenge the Bucks to be the 0:05:43.480 --> 0:05:45.359 in the Super Bowl for the NFC one of the 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:49.080 two favorites that is the Los Angeles Rams. I think 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.680 Vegas agrees with you on that one. It's they're right 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:55.640 up there at top five betting they should be the Rams. Okay, 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:59.040 So we'll start with the passing game. Matthew Stafford currently 0:05:59.120 --> 0:06:02.160 going off the board is QB twelve, eighth or ninth round, 0:06:02.240 --> 0:06:05.760 usually around the eighth round. Usually for me, quarterbacks going 0:06:05.920 --> 0:06:08.120 in the single digits is a little too high for me. 0:06:08.160 --> 0:06:11.039 But I love everything about Stafford this year. In fact, 0:06:11.120 --> 0:06:15.000 I think that QB twelve is his floor. Yeah, it 0:06:15.040 --> 0:06:18.400 feels that way, doesn't it, given the talent surrounding again, yeah, 0:06:18.480 --> 0:06:22.640 consistently with the Lions, he's had four thousand plus yard years, 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:25.760 thirty touchdown years, and now he goes to an offense 0:06:25.760 --> 0:06:30.440 where Sean they made Jared Goff a forty hundred yard 0:06:30.440 --> 0:06:34.560 and thirty two touchdown quarterback, and you could argue the 0:06:34.600 --> 0:06:37.160 weapons now are might even be a little bit better 0:06:37.200 --> 0:06:40.520 than they were because maybe the same similar But they 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:42.599 have a great defense. They had a great defense during 0:06:42.640 --> 0:06:44.720 that great golf year, so I'm not concerned about that 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:48.720 being slowing down. McVeigh. McVeigh has been proven to let 0:06:48.800 --> 0:06:52.760 his offense, you know, go, even with the defense being good, 0:06:52.800 --> 0:06:56.000 they don't slow down the game. I think though, that 0:06:56.120 --> 0:06:59.919 forty shred yards touchdowns is pretty much a floor for 0:07:00.040 --> 0:07:03.200 Stafford this year. It is, doesn't it feel? It feels 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.120 like he was a he was a top twelve quarterback 0:07:06.240 --> 0:07:08.800 with the Lions and all the things that were wrong there, 0:07:08.880 --> 0:07:13.120 And now Stafford gets by far the best coaching he's 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:17.320 ever had, and the best every best running game he's 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:22.280 ever had, uh and the best wide receivers receiving options 0:07:22.320 --> 0:07:24.600 he's ever had. And we'll go there with Cooper Cup 0:07:24.640 --> 0:07:27.280 and Robert Woods, and I'm gonna lump them together a 0:07:27.280 --> 0:07:29.240 little bit here because they're both going in the fifth round. 0:07:29.240 --> 0:07:31.000 You're probably not gonna get both on your team when 0:07:31.000 --> 0:07:35.600 you're drafting. That's maybe a corner maybe if you reach 0:07:35.960 --> 0:07:38.400 to a reach around on one of them. Maybe. But 0:07:38.840 --> 0:07:41.040 one thing I found very interesting with Cooper Cup when 0:07:41.080 --> 0:07:43.320 I was doing the research is that he's had ninety 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:47.360 catches in back to back years, even through injuries. And 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:50.680 that's not targets, that's catches. That's a lot of catches 0:07:50.960 --> 0:07:53.560 that is, and that's you know, that's where those of 0:07:53.640 --> 0:07:57.720 us that are drafting for safety, I like Cooper Cup 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.400 more than Woods. If you're drafting for upside, then I 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:02.680 think I like Woods more than Cup. Yeah, and I 0:08:02.680 --> 0:08:05.720 think that's fair and early reports from the OTAs and whatnot, 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:09.000 and there's a strong connection with Stafford. Uh. Woods is 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:12.040 the guy who was super consistent, like just sixty seventy 0:08:12.120 --> 0:08:13.840 yards every game for a couple of years in a row. 0:08:13.960 --> 0:08:17.480 Last year when the offense came down, he was he 0:08:17.640 --> 0:08:20.440 was He was no longer that consistent guy. But I 0:08:20.520 --> 0:08:23.360 think it comes back with with Stafford and he becomes 0:08:23.400 --> 0:08:26.920 a consistent option again. He's he's got great deep ball potential, 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.480 which is something that's been Stafford's strong suit for a 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:33.040 long time and something they never had with golf. Yeah, 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:36.800 so that field's gonna get stretched before it's It's interesting 0:08:36.840 --> 0:08:39.720 golf golf did have a lot of twenty plus yard 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:43.679 passes UM, but he won't have the completion rate or 0:08:44.200 --> 0:08:47.040 or the style of offense that the Stafford's gonna happen 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:51.520 with that UM. The other two receivers wide receivers at 0:08:51.600 --> 0:08:56.600 least Jefferson and Van Jefferson into Shan Jackson. Van Jefferson 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:59.200 obviously a rookie last year, got in a very very 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:01.280 tiny amount. But if they've hyped him up a lot, 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:04.559 if they loves him, but they did bring into Sean Jackson, 0:09:04.679 --> 0:09:07.559 I feel like as long as Deshan Jackson stays healthy, 0:09:08.120 --> 0:09:10.640 they're gonna hurt each other. For fantasy, they're just gonna 0:09:11.400 --> 0:09:13.400 they may have three wide receivers sets a lot, but 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:15.920 they might cancelate each other out just enough to not 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.480 be relevant for us from a fantasy standpoint. We need 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:21.240 Van Jefferson or de Sean Jackson to get hurt, and 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.400 it'll probably be de Sean Jackson. Yeah, yeah, if history 0:09:24.440 --> 0:09:27.240 tells the same thing exactly. Yeah, that is the concern 0:09:27.320 --> 0:09:29.640 with Jackson's that deep threat that when they had Cooks 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:31.800 is the third receiver they loved having that deep threat. 0:09:31.840 --> 0:09:35.000 So yeah, I'm staying away from both of them. What 0:09:35.000 --> 0:09:37.680 do you think about drafting Jackson got the last pick 0:09:37.720 --> 0:09:40.640 of your draft, and you could just we don't drop 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:42.880 him if he doesn't, drop him if it doesn't work out, 0:09:43.040 --> 0:09:45.000 or just start him in the first like three games 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:48.840 when you know that he's healthy and you could start 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.640 him there maybe, But I don't know. I think wait 0:09:51.679 --> 0:09:55.160 and see you and I are far more excited, yes, 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.240 by the tight end position are for Los Angeles. Yeah, 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:00.920 And it's it's really a lot about value. It's it's 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:03.800 Tyler Higbie. Gerald Everett is out of the out of 0:10:03.880 --> 0:10:06.760 town now. Um, we have like pretty much a five 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:09.560 game sample size of Higbie with Everett, you know, mostly 0:10:09.600 --> 0:10:12.040 out of the games and them running one tight end sets, 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:14.319 which is what we expect them to do this year. 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:17.000 And in that five game set at the end of 0:10:17.080 --> 0:10:21.920 twenty nineteen season, Higbee average nine catches for a hundred 0:10:21.920 --> 0:10:25.000 and five yards on eleven targets. That's not it's per 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:28.280 game numbers. That's really a hundred Even if you have that, 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:30.840 it's it's like a four or five for fifty five 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.719 tight end. That's the top twelve tight end nowadays. And 0:10:33.800 --> 0:10:36.320 if you if you took last year's numbers, where both 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:41.680 Gerald Everett and Tyler Higbee were neither were very startable, reliable, 0:10:41.800 --> 0:10:44.800 But if you put their numbers together last year, you 0:10:44.920 --> 0:10:49.199 had tight end five. Yeah. So if you think that Everett, 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:52.160 if you think Higby is gonna get most of Everett's work, 0:10:52.400 --> 0:10:54.319 you've got tight end five and Higbee and he's going 0:10:54.360 --> 0:10:58.199 off the boards. Tight end what's seventeen sev He's so 0:10:58.520 --> 0:11:01.000 misdrafted right now. A lot analysts have him in their 0:11:01.040 --> 0:11:04.400 top ten in rankings. It's it's just it's just a 0:11:04.760 --> 0:11:07.240 it's a discrepancy, is what it is. It's it's just 0:11:07.520 --> 0:11:10.079 too far off. You watch just changes between now and 0:11:10.920 --> 0:11:15.240 week one. Yeah, you Higby is gonna start incrementally going 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:19.880 up draft forwards and once again, once again we think 0:11:19.960 --> 0:11:22.040 this offense is going to be much better than that. 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:25.360 You mentioned Higgby plus Everett last year. Now, imagine with 0:11:25.480 --> 0:11:29.520 a much better offense, better quarterback, right Yeah, yeah, so 0:11:30.960 --> 0:11:34.600 so way undervalued right now. For for Higbie, it's yeah, 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:39.160 onto the running game. Acres is currently going RB ten. 0:11:39.440 --> 0:11:42.280 I I've mentioned I feel this is this is pretty fair. 0:11:43.360 --> 0:11:45.439 I feel like he ended this season with that twenty 0:11:45.520 --> 0:11:48.560 two twenty six touches per game, and people are hoping 0:11:48.640 --> 0:11:50.520 for that again. I think it's gonna be a little 0:11:50.559 --> 0:11:52.280 below that, but I still think he's going to be 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:54.599 a bell cow anytime you get a running back with 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:59.439 that much that many touches um going on. I do 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:03.160 think this is a year with seventeen games and reliance 0:12:03.200 --> 0:12:06.720 on second running backs all over the NFL that Henderson 0:12:06.880 --> 0:12:12.880 as RB fifty four round, I expect four touches for 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.599 running backs in this offense. I expect Henderson to be 0:12:15.679 --> 0:12:18.600 on the field twenty five percent at the time. Percent 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:21.320 of time. I think he's going to be a back 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:24.439 that will see nearing ten touches a game. And if 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:27.240 Acres for some reason goes down he went down last year, 0:12:27.960 --> 0:12:30.199 he could be huge. I'm trying to steal him in 0:12:30.200 --> 0:12:33.360 those middle double digit rounds, but I feel like Acres 0:12:33.559 --> 0:12:36.520 as a first round pick makes sense. Yeah, late first round, 0:12:36.559 --> 0:12:38.599 early second right. I love Acres. He's in my I 0:12:38.679 --> 0:12:41.760 think he's my running back five right now. And um, 0:12:42.000 --> 0:12:43.599 the reason I love him is the usage. At the 0:12:43.679 --> 0:12:45.599 end of the year, he was, as you mentioned, he 0:12:45.679 --> 0:12:47.920 was getting whatever twenty I think it was twenty five 0:12:48.000 --> 0:12:51.559 total touches per game because his targets could come up. Honestly, 0:12:51.679 --> 0:12:54.680 they could, they really need to. Going into the playoffs, 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:56.839 it was I think twenty five per game over the 0:12:56.960 --> 0:12:58.800 last like four or five games of the year. And 0:12:59.679 --> 0:13:03.200 then I go back to I know Sean McVeigh has 0:13:03.280 --> 0:13:05.800 run a committee the last couple of years. Before that, 0:13:07.800 --> 0:13:11.360 Todd Gurley was a freaking beast who he ran into 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:13.240 the ground and want to be part of that. An 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:16.520 absolute workhorse. So Todd mcveigh's got him, got it in 0:13:16.720 --> 0:13:18.679 him to have a workhorse back. I just think he 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:21.440 hasn't had a good enough back. You know, Malcolm Brown 0:13:21.559 --> 0:13:23.199 was never good enough to be a work horse back. 0:13:23.240 --> 0:13:25.360 I don't know. Maybe he's gonna maybe he saw that 0:13:25.440 --> 0:13:28.600 he ran Gurley down and he's gonna be like all 0:13:28.840 --> 0:13:31.280 running Gurley down was get me to a super Bowl? 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:37.240 Want why? Right? So? I think, um, I think Acres 0:13:37.360 --> 0:13:42.240 has got eighteen to twenty two is touches a game 0:13:42.800 --> 0:13:45.640 built into him and that that is going to be 0:13:46.440 --> 0:13:49.480 enough to make him a rock solid RB one And 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.920 I like Acres. Yes, all right, have we missed anybody? 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:55.160 I think we've covered No, We've covered all the key 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:58.040 points here. We've covered him. Uh. You mentioned at the 0:13:58.080 --> 0:14:01.439 top that you wanted me to give one who's super undervalued, 0:14:02.520 --> 0:14:04.520 give me the riskiest player at ADP and the play 0:14:04.600 --> 0:14:07.640 with the most upside based on ADP. Alright, So I 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:09.640 think the player with the most upside based on ADP 0:14:09.920 --> 0:14:14.280 is pretty clearly Higbie correct. I think at tight end seventeen, like, 0:14:15.440 --> 0:14:18.960 I think it's this well, I said Stafford being drafted 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.480 at his floor. I think Higby's being drafted well belowest 0:14:22.560 --> 0:14:26.360 floor for some for some reason. Uh so Higby's the 0:14:26.600 --> 0:14:28.840 that one. All right? How about the risk is riskies? 0:14:29.280 --> 0:14:31.600 This is really tough. I don't think any of them 0:14:31.680 --> 0:14:34.360 are that risky where they're going. I actually like the 0:14:34.480 --> 0:14:38.000 value on all of these players. But if I had 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:41.400 to pick one, it's just got to be Acres because 0:14:41.720 --> 0:14:44.440 he's a first rounder. But yeah, where's he going? Where 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.280 he's going? Yeah, and you know running backs, we saw 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:50.160 McCaffrey and Barkley last year, like and Acres got hurt 0:14:50.240 --> 0:14:54.720 last year. That's where where Acres. Where Acres is going from, 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:56.720 I'm putting out might do the opposite hat right now. 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:01.600 Where he is going is where all so many of 0:15:01.720 --> 0:15:04.200 the running back failures come is the end of the 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.400 first round beginning in the second round, when you're paying 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:10.280 this heavy price on a guy who isn't Derrick Henry 0:15:10.680 --> 0:15:14.280 Dalvin Cook. Right. You know, these these proven workhorse backs, 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:18.120 These are guys you're projecting to be great, but a 0:15:18.280 --> 0:15:21.120 lot of the time it doesn't work out. Yeah, that 0:15:21.400 --> 0:15:24.000 it's it's it's the range where they've shown the potential 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:26.720 and they've done it in Spans, but you don't know 0:15:26.840 --> 0:15:29.480 that they can do it for a full season. Correct. Uh, 0:15:29.600 --> 0:15:31.560 let's move well, actually, let's do this. Let's take a 0:15:31.680 --> 0:15:33.880 quick break, come back. I want to talk about the 0:15:34.080 --> 0:15:37.760 San Francisco forty nine, another team that could be a 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.280 fringe super Bowl team if things break the right way 0:15:40.320 --> 0:15:42.480 in an offense that's gonna get a lot better. Let's 0:15:42.480 --> 0:15:44.240 talk nine ers when we come back in just a moment. 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:49.440 Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul charch 0:15:49.560 --> 0:15:51.960 In and Scott Fish with you. We already broke down 0:15:52.000 --> 0:15:56.760 the Rams. Let's pivot from one brilliant offensive mind, Sean 0:15:56.880 --> 0:16:01.280 McVeigh to the best offensive end of the game, and 0:16:01.360 --> 0:16:04.280 that is Kyle Shanahan. For some reason, the way you 0:16:04.360 --> 0:16:07.840 said that like brilliant, like brilliant offensive mind, like I 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:14.240 was thinking, like George Carlin. Yes, I don't know. Uh, 0:16:14.560 --> 0:16:15.920 you know what the funny thing is if you go 0:16:16.040 --> 0:16:18.880 back now and listen to his stuff by today's standard, 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:22.640 so it's it's lukewarm. It's like, you know, it's like, 0:16:23.040 --> 0:16:26.280 I don't know, you could like a kid show. It's 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:30.520 nothing by today's standards. Carlin was great in his day. Um, 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:34.160 a lot of the stuff does not hold up all 0:16:34.240 --> 0:16:37.480 that well, like the trippy hippie Weatherman stuff. It's just 0:16:38.320 --> 0:16:41.160 it just isn't. It just doesn't. It just doesn't work today. 0:16:41.200 --> 0:16:44.040 But a lot of comedy is that way unfortunately. UM. 0:16:44.200 --> 0:16:46.080 Kyle Shannon has the best offensive mind of the game, 0:16:46.160 --> 0:16:50.080 and the Niners are primed for an offensive breakout after 0:16:50.200 --> 0:16:52.960 last year ranking fourteenth in yards and twenty one points 0:16:53.400 --> 0:16:56.640 using mostly Nick Mullins and c. J. Beth at quarterback. 0:16:57.160 --> 0:16:59.960 I think this team gets way way better on offense, 0:17:00.800 --> 0:17:04.119 and part of my optimism is around the offensive line. 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:07.240 The Niners get two huge boosts in the off season 0:17:07.320 --> 0:17:10.720 the resigning of left tackle Trent Williams. Williams was Pro 0:17:10.800 --> 0:17:14.120 Football Focus is number one ranked left tackle last year. 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.600 Why Washington ever got to a point where they let 0:17:17.680 --> 0:17:20.399 him go? It was crazy. And then they also signed 0:17:20.480 --> 0:17:25.080 center Alex math Mac, a longtime veteran. Sixteenth ranks center 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.800 doesn't sound like great, but when last year center ranked 0:17:27.880 --> 0:17:30.760 like thirty, it's way it's a sizable improvement for them. 0:17:31.080 --> 0:17:33.160 And they still have Mike McGlinchey, a former first rounder, 0:17:33.160 --> 0:17:34.800 on the right side, and he's very good, especially in 0:17:34.840 --> 0:17:37.159 the run. So I like the offensive line, and that 0:17:37.240 --> 0:17:39.560 really brings us to what's going to be one of 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:43.560 the best developments to watch in the preseason, Scott, and 0:17:43.680 --> 0:17:48.760 that is Trey Lance. How ready is Trey Lance to 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:51.800 make an impact and how soon? And watching him in 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:55.119 the preseason will be fascinating. He could be every bit 0:17:55.200 --> 0:17:59.280 as raw as an eleven start college player can be. 0:18:00.400 --> 0:18:03.800 But if he looks good Man, the runway on Jimmy 0:18:03.800 --> 0:18:07.040 Garoppolo could be very short. Yeah, I feel like it 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:09.440 would be. I have a couple of different thoughts on 0:18:09.520 --> 0:18:13.920 this that A Shanahan should probably see the tactical advantage 0:18:13.920 --> 0:18:16.159 of having a guy with that kind of mobility in 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:19.400 an offense he already likes to run. Uh. The other 0:18:19.480 --> 0:18:22.760 one is this is, you know, Jimmy Garoppolo. We have 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:26.800 a quarterback that was benched not for injury, but legitimately 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:31.240 benched for poor play by four C. J. Beathard and 0:18:31.320 --> 0:18:34.000 Nick Mullin's over the last two years. So I think 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:39.399 guided them to a Super Bowl two years ago. So 0:18:39.480 --> 0:18:42.760 I mean there is that. I mean Garoppolo has there 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:46.800 has been functional Yes, Yeah, it's it. He knows the offense, 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:50.400 he knows all the nuances. You know, there's I think 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:53.159 he's got real competition behind him now, so yeah, and 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:57.280 maybe he'll be better for it. Maybe um Lands is 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:00.680 the player fantasy owners want in the game. It's just 0:19:00.840 --> 0:19:03.040 a matter of when. And it makes it a tricky 0:19:03.200 --> 0:19:06.879 to draft Trey Lance knowing you may get literally no 0:19:07.160 --> 0:19:10.960 starts from him. Look look at Patrick Mahomes. They didn't 0:19:10.960 --> 0:19:14.240 start him his entire rookie year, well weeks, you know, 0:19:14.320 --> 0:19:17.800 in a meaningless week seventeen game. That's it. So um 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:24.960 the snazzy, the snazzy draft angle, Scott is this. You 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:29.320 draft both Garoppolo and Tray Lance at their ADP. For 0:19:29.440 --> 0:19:35.960 Garoppolo it's picked two hundred sixty two, it's free, and 0:19:36.040 --> 0:19:38.480 then Tray Tray Lance is going after board his quarterback. 0:19:40.359 --> 0:19:42.920 So you take Lance in like that was that's roughly 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:46.760 round twelve, round thirteen. So you take Lance there at 0:19:46.880 --> 0:19:50.280 twelve and thirteen. That's cheap considering how good Tray Lance 0:19:50.320 --> 0:19:52.359 can be. You back them up with Jimmy Garoppolo as 0:19:52.359 --> 0:19:54.440 the last pick of your draft, and you've got Kyle 0:19:54.520 --> 0:19:57.680 Shanahan starting quarterback, And why do you want Kyle Shanahan's 0:19:57.680 --> 0:20:00.640 starting quarterback? Even if it's Jimmy Garoppolo. The last three 0:20:00.720 --> 0:20:05.320 years Shanahan's quarterbacks as a team, San Francisco has finished 0:20:07.080 --> 0:20:10.080 and nineteen in touchdown passes, most of them thrown by 0:20:10.200 --> 0:20:13.840 Nick Mullins and c. J. Beathard. Yeah, that's that's pretty good. 0:20:14.080 --> 0:20:18.240 That's pretty good. And you've only invested a thirteen rounder 0:20:18.359 --> 0:20:21.800 and a twentieth rounder to get that quarterback hook up. Yeah, 0:20:21.840 --> 0:20:24.119 if I remember correctly, Matt Ryan had some good stats 0:20:24.160 --> 0:20:31.600 with Shanahan too. Matt Ryan did, Okay, Okay, let's talk 0:20:31.640 --> 0:20:34.520 to wide receivers. Brandon iok is fascinating to me. I 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:36.840 think he just had one of the better rookie seasons 0:20:36.920 --> 0:20:42.719 that nobody's talking about last year in his final six games, 0:20:43.000 --> 0:20:44.720 by the way, in the middle of which he had COVID. 0:20:45.440 --> 0:20:49.159 In his final six full games, despite catching one hoppers 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:53.359 from Bethard to Mullins, his average line was twelve targets, 0:20:53.880 --> 0:20:58.320 eight receptions, eighty three yards and almost a touchdown per game. 0:20:59.119 --> 0:21:04.879 That's almost Higby without everyting exactly exactly. Now, in fairness, 0:21:05.840 --> 0:21:07.879 Kittle was gone for half of those games. Samuel has 0:21:07.920 --> 0:21:11.040 gone for half of those games. But it also demonstrates 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:14.320 that I you can carry a passing offense. That's that's 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:16.480 the way I see it is that I showed that 0:21:16.560 --> 0:21:19.760 he's a true Alpha, even even with nobody else to 0:21:19.840 --> 0:21:23.280 throw too. He's got I think he has wide receiver. 0:21:23.480 --> 0:21:27.200 I think he has like wide receiver ten twelve upside 0:21:27.760 --> 0:21:32.080 Brandon Ayuk absolutely completely. Then there's Deebo Samuel who lost 0:21:32.200 --> 0:21:34.160 much of last year. First he had the preseason foot 0:21:34.200 --> 0:21:36.399 injury that cost him three or four games at the 0:21:36.440 --> 0:21:39.520 start of the season. Then he got COVID, Then he 0:21:39.560 --> 0:21:43.040 had a hamstring injury. But Deebo Samuel still played in 0:21:43.160 --> 0:21:46.360 seven games and he led the NFL in yards after 0:21:46.480 --> 0:21:49.440 catch at twelve yards. Just unreal, which is unreal. Yeah, 0:21:49.520 --> 0:21:51.639 he basically had a negat I'm pretty sure he did 0:21:51.720 --> 0:21:54.040 have a negative a dot average stuff that I think 0:21:54.080 --> 0:21:57.119 it was negative point two yards was a dot. So 0:21:57.400 --> 0:22:01.040 they're throwing bubble screens to him, and he was turning 0:22:01.119 --> 0:22:03.480 a typical bubble screen into a game of twelve yards, 0:22:04.480 --> 0:22:07.280 which is pretty impressive. It makes sense they used this 0:22:07.560 --> 0:22:10.040 as an extension of the run game, and run games 0:22:10.080 --> 0:22:14.520 are amazing. They are amazing. Um, if if they can 0:22:14.640 --> 0:22:16.840 stretch him a little bit more downfield and tray Lance 0:22:16.840 --> 0:22:18.800 would be the way to do that. Deebo Samuel gets 0:22:18.840 --> 0:22:23.800 even more interesting, but he is a remarkably powerful so 0:22:24.240 --> 0:22:27.080 he bullies people, he doesn't he I think he's the 0:22:27.119 --> 0:22:29.720 closest thing to Percy Harvin when Percy Harvan went Rookie 0:22:29.760 --> 0:22:31.200 of the Year and he was so good in those 0:22:31.280 --> 0:22:33.840