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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio.

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Speaker 2: Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly

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Speaker 2: source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and

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Speaker 2: whatever stupid stuff they decide to drop into the show. Now,

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Speaker 2: here's your host, Paul Chargion.

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Speaker 3: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly.

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Speaker 1: I am Paul charging My co host is Matt Harrison

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Speaker 1: Shock Fantasy.

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Speaker 4: Hi Matt, Hello, how are you doing.

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Speaker 1: Nice to have you back this week.

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Speaker 3: Yes, all right, back to back, Matt Harrison's.

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Speaker 4: I mean that's what the people want, that's what the

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Speaker 4: people get.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'd like to literally see your back on

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Speaker 1: the front and back, which would look weird. Oh, but

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Speaker 1: that Yeah, we can do back to back to back.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, my back is looking a little better than my front.

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Speaker 1: I I got to try to get the belly, had

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Speaker 1: to drop a few LB's. The problem is your proximity

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Speaker 1: to Big Boar Barbecue.

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Speaker 3: That is true.

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Speaker 4: It's about a mile mile and a half from my house,

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Speaker 4: and you need to move.

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Speaker 1: You're too close to Big Boar. You know, I'm twenty

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Speaker 1: minutes away, So it's a concerted effort for me.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe I should like only walk or bike there.

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Speaker 3: From now. Oh, that's a great idea. Yeah, I like it.

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Speaker 1: Of course in Minnesota that's half of the year. That's

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Speaker 1: a tricky proposition.

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Speaker 4: Well, it's not that far of a walk. I can

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Speaker 1: You gonna bike it in February.

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Speaker 4: No, and not when it's slippery. I'll put on the

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Speaker 4: snow shoes and walk it over there.

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Speaker 1: The people who do the biking in the winter with

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Speaker 1: the big fat tires, like that's dedication right there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't like it that much, if you know,

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Speaker 4: I don't like biking that much in order in order

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Speaker 1: No, I'm with you. Although I did e bikes for

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Speaker 1: the first time. Oh yeah, a couple of months ago

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Speaker 1: when I was when I was in Utah, and that's

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Speaker 1: ion they're so fun.

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Speaker 3: E bikes are a blast.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's they're not fully motorized, but they take everything

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Speaker 3: You get like five x the return one.

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Speaker 1: So you know, you can go up these really big.

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Speaker 3: Hills no problem. Okay.

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Speaker 1: And you know I was, you know, go uphill twenty

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Speaker 3: I did. I did not.

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Speaker 1: I did not expect it to be fun. They're blast

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Speaker 1: e bikes are super fun.

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Speaker 3: Are you're gonna get one? No?

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Speaker 1: Okay, because at the end of the day, like you,

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Speaker 1: at the end of the day, do I really want

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Speaker 4: Well, you could get get a couple and you could

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Speaker 4: keep them with the camper.

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Speaker 3: Oh that's true. Now, that would be the use case.

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Speaker 1: Would be in the camp Yeah for sure, not in it,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I could do that. But that's the the ideally

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Speaker 1: I think it'd be absolutely that's great. Why don't you

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Speaker 1: With that big Fantasy Football Week, I love it all right.

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Speaker 1: This is the fourth of our four shows breaking down

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Speaker 1: all the teams in the NFL, highlighting key changes from

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Speaker 1: last year, and out broad outlooks for each of these teams.

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Speaker 1: We've done everything but the North teams. So now we

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Speaker 1: go to the AFC North Matt. Let's start with the

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Speaker 4: The biggest addition to the backfield literally is Derrick Henry,

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Speaker 4: him in a minute. They did lose their other running backs,

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Speaker 4: They also lost three starting offensive linemen and Kevin Zeitler,

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Speaker 4: is expected to take over at right tackle, while Ben

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Speaker 4: the Ravens went eight to no in games where Lamar

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Speaker 4: so that factors into that passing game. Jackson missed nine

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Speaker 4: are right in twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two

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Speaker 4: in passing yards just about thirty seven hundred yards, a

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Speaker 4: Todd Mounkin. He certainly helped with that, as did the

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Speaker 4: emergence of Zay Flowers as a top flight receiving option

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Speaker 4: But I want people to keep an eye on rookie

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Speaker 4: in the season. They're talking about him as a guy

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Speaker 4: who just has just like raw athletic ability, and that

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Speaker 4: kind of seems interesting to me. In that offense, Mark

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Speaker 4: Andrews should finally be fully healthy at the starting training camp.

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Speaker 4: He's still a top five tight end, so will get

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Speaker 4: better or worse for the passing game. I struggled with

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Speaker 4: I'm nervous about how that O line gels with sixty

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Speaker 4: percent of new pieces. I agree the running game. Dereck

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Speaker 4: Henry is thirty years old. He's played eight seasons and

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Speaker 4: has had two thousand and thirty career carries.

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Speaker 1: That's that's a lot.

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Speaker 4: Forty second in NFL history. He just passed Roger Craig,

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Speaker 4: who played for eleven years. Yeah, Gerald Riggs who played

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Speaker 1: And Henry's at eight and those first few years he

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Speaker 1: was lightly used. Yeah, you know, he was in a

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Speaker 4: Right, But just for fun, if he gets another two

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Speaker 4: hundred carries this year, he's gonna pass these guys in charch.

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Speaker 4: I want you to give me a one sentence blurb

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Speaker 4: on each of these guys. Okay, they're from your fantasy passage, Okay,

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Speaker 1: Aman Green, he was shockingly good for the Packers, was

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Speaker 1: an all purpose back. But I never would have guessed

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Speaker 3: Two thousand carries.

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Speaker 1: All Right, Willis mcgahey, against all odds. He had the

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Speaker 1: horrifying injuries. Yeah, and everybody just assumed that, you know,

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Speaker 1: he would like never play again, and the fact that

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Speaker 4: Ernest Biner, Oh, Ernestiner, So he was.

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Speaker 1: It was the Kevin Mack Ernest Biner duo, frustrating fantasy

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Speaker 3: Yes, Terry Allen.

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Speaker 1: Terry Allen was a longtime Minnesota Viking who was the

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Speaker 1: the first player to come back from acls on each knee.

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Speaker 1: Chris Johnson, Chris Johnson, I because nickname. Maybe you've ever

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Speaker 1: given the tap dancing Nancy Chris Johnson.

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Speaker 3: I had forgot about that. He was a tap dancing Nancy.

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Speaker 3: That's what he was.

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Speaker 1: I hated that guy, and part because two thousand yards

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Speaker 1: of I hated that guy exact. He had a couple

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Speaker 1: of just great seasons and everybody was like, always better

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Speaker 1: Earl Campbell, Yeah, before my time too. But obviously Earl

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Speaker 1: Campbell one of the great power running backs of all time.

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Speaker 1: We've all seen the classic highlight of him literally shredding

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Speaker 1: the jersey if a player, No, they shred his jersey.

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Speaker 1: It just keeping just yeah and him just mowing down.

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Speaker 1: Sean Alexander, Yeah, I'll always first remember his six touchdown

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Speaker 4: And then finally Tiki Barber.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, he went on to he had a long, good career.

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Speaker 1: Crew with Brandon Jacobs brand. Yeah, it's nicely done. It was,

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Speaker 1: that was exactly what was Brandon Jacobs. Jacobs should have

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Speaker 1: It all kind of fizzled out. Tiaki had a long career.

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Speaker 1: Dereck Henry's going to pass all year with two two

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And by the way, all the goal line work,

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Speaker 4: He's had double digit touchdowns in six straight seasons. In

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Speaker 4: those six seasons, he's averaged twenty carries per game. If

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Speaker 4: That's three hundred and forty carries. He might not make it,

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Speaker 1: Yeah that's too bad, because man, he looked promising, you know,

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Speaker 4: Yeah, let's see Justice Hill is still there. I mean,

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Speaker 4: Ravens backs last year finished fifth in the league in

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Speaker 4: PPR Fantasy points. Most of that was due to twenty

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Speaker 4: I didn't know that they combined for twenty running back

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Speaker 1: Edwards led the NFL and carries inside the five.

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Speaker 4: Yeah? Is it better or worse this year? I do

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Speaker 4: You'd be like, yeah, sure, absolutely could see that feasible. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: for Deshaun Watson. As it stands today early June, the

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Speaker 4: It's basically built the current Houston tex.

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Speaker 1: It has into a Super Bowl continued you have going

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Speaker 3: That's right.

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Speaker 1: Through two injury Leyden seasons in Cleveland, Watson has been awful.

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Speaker 1: He's the NFL's highest paid quarterback. He ranked twenty sixth

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Speaker 1: the past two seasons, Deshaun Watson has played about one

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Speaker 3: You can't even hit nine times on that, No, I can't,

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Speaker 3: which is ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: Consider he's the highest paid player in the NFL and

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Speaker 1: he's given you seven and seven passing touchdowns and the

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Speaker 1: granted injuries factored into that.

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Speaker 3: That even if you were most.

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Speaker 1: Charitable and you were to pro rate his seven passing

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Speaker 1: touchdowns across a whole season, like if you played all

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Speaker 1: seventeen games, you'd have twenty passing touchdowns a year. That

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Speaker 1: is terrible. That is appropriate for a middle and rookie prospect.

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Speaker 1: He completed. Watson completed just sixty one percent of his passes.

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Speaker 1: That ranked him thirty sixth, and his adjusted completion percentage

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Speaker 1: isn't much better, ranking him thirtieth. And finally, and I've

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Speaker 1: hammered on this so many times, Deshaun Watson doesn't run anymore.

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Speaker 1: For everybody thinks you're getting rushing touchdowns because you're remembering

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Speaker 1: the Houston days. In two seasons of Cleveland, he has

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Speaker 1: one rushing touchdown. And even more poignant, last year, he

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Speaker 1: had thirty seven total rushing yards on designed runs.

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Speaker 3: That's it.

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Speaker 1: And he designed runs where they hit and not many,

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Speaker 1: but well, yes, that is something like that. Not even

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Speaker 1: he they don't use him that way, So ken Deshaun

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Speaker 1: Watson get better. Well, okay, sure, I mean he was

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Speaker 1: But what I don't know is is he just mentally broken?

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Speaker 1: we don't know for sure. Your glimmer of hope is

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Speaker 1: that is what Joe Flacco walked in and did. Yeh,

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Speaker 1: Because you could have said, in this Kevin Stefanski Cleveland offense,

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Speaker 1: no quarterback can ever be fantasy productive because it's always

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Speaker 4: Do you feel like the aforementioned Ryan Tannehill, who's still

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Speaker 4: a free atory at this moment, wouldn't that be kind

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Speaker 4: of nice if he was there?

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Speaker 3: I know that.

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Speaker 4: I think they signed Tyler Huntley as the backup.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Tyler Huntley is there.

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Speaker 4: I'm a little nervous about that, but it seems like

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Speaker 4: Tannerhill could come in and do a Flaco maybe if

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Speaker 4: Watson's not working out.

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Speaker 1: Your new face among the receivers is Jerry Judy. In Denver,

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Speaker 1: he ran over half his routes from the slot. But

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Speaker 1: the problem is that's where Elijah Mitchell and Cedric Tillman

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Speaker 1: him really anywhere to go there. The Browns don't pass

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Speaker 1: enough in my mind to feed Amari Cooper, David and Joku.

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Speaker 1: And well, frankly anybody else, including Jerry Judy. So I'm

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Speaker 1: at the end of the year, we're going to look

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Speaker 4: Yeah, be a take a chance, maybe a take a

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Speaker 1: That's the kind of player I think Jerry duty is

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Speaker 1: end of last year. Let's talk David Joku though in

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Speaker 1: many scoring systems, second half of last year, many of it,

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Speaker 1: much of it powered by Joe Flacco tight end one whoa.

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Speaker 3: I did not see that come.

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Speaker 1: From Week eight forward in Joku scored or topped fifty

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Speaker 1: eight yards in every game but one. Wow, really impressive

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Speaker 1: those blow and he had some blow up games almost

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Speaker 1: entirely with Joe Flacco. His average game under Watson just

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Speaker 1: thirty five yards and zero point two touchdowns per game.

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Speaker 1: Oh man, he was basically like, you know, double or

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Speaker 1: triple the fantasy points scorer under Joe Flacco. And that's

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Speaker 1: your danger within JOKU is what happens with Watson under quarterback?

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Speaker 3: Now?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So does the passing game get better or worse?

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Speaker 1: I think it's worse. I mean just Watson is a

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Speaker 3: I unless I was.

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Speaker 1: Out of the know at the beginning of last year,

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Speaker 1: come to this. The running game, uh, considering that Nick

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Speaker 1: You know, obviously we'll know a lot more about Chubb's

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Speaker 1: Dobbins suffered a brutal, brutal knee injury, just like Chubb did.

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Speaker 1: Never the same player, never the same and Dobbins looked

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Speaker 1: amazing pre injury. So right now, ADP Chubb's going off

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Speaker 1: I can get starters there. To me, that's too early

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Speaker 4: If you're if you're drafting in June, yes, maybe not

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Speaker 4: the best time.

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Speaker 3: To roll the dice on that.

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Speaker 4: But if it looks like he's slated to start and

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Speaker 4: and and all systems are go. I think Chubb's ADP

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Speaker 1: Yeah probably. I mean, you know, if he's ready to

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Speaker 4: And if Chubb is healthy, how does that backfield?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 1: Because Chub's not gonna go from zero to twenty carries

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Speaker 1: which is the Pittsburgh Steelers.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a whole new ballgame in Pittsburgh. Russell Wilson

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Speaker 4: They replace Kenny Pickett, Mitch Trubisky, and Mason Rudolph. They're

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Speaker 3: You may remember.

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Speaker 4: And now they're talking about how excited Pittsburgh is for

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Speaker 3: So let's go to the passing game. Okay, how can

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Speaker 4: I mean, you had Russell Wilson and Justin Fields, both

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Speaker 4: but beyond that, it's kind of looking scary. Calvin Austin

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Speaker 4: most NFL fans don't know who Calvin Austin is. He

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Speaker 4: Roman Wilson was a round three pick out of Michigan.

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Speaker 4: He should get some run. And then there's the retreads

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Speaker 4: After scoring seven times in his rookie year, Pat Fryarmuth

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Speaker 1: I'm stunned at his de evolution from that. So that

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Speaker 3: We'll see.

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Speaker 1: Washington is gigantic, specimen, physical freak.

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Speaker 3: It could.

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Speaker 4: Mouth had a big game late in the season where

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Speaker 3: Good Byelow. Who else is there to throw.

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Speaker 4: Now?

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson has like zero track record of throwing to

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Speaker 4: Absolutely. Is the passing game better or worse? I think

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Speaker 4: it's better, but not by much at all. I think

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Speaker 4: let's talk about the running game. Naji Harris has played

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Speaker 4: Jalen Warren had two hundred and ten touches. Last season,

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Speaker 4: four times. Now, Warren was much more heavily utilized as

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Speaker 4: gonna keep this job. He's six foot two, two hundred

443
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Speaker 4: thirty pounds Warren.

444
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Speaker 3: Is Is he really six foot two? Yeah, geez, that's.

445
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Speaker 1: Tall for a running back.

446
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Speaker 4: He's six inches taller than Warren five foot eight two

447
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Speaker 4: point fifteen.

448
00:21:24,359 --> 00:21:25,400
Speaker 1: I think he was six two.

449
00:21:25,840 --> 00:21:28,440
Speaker 4: In most cases, the bigger players in the NFL tend

450
00:21:28,440 --> 00:21:30,639
Speaker 4: to be more durable, and if Nagy has to plot

451
00:21:30,640 --> 00:21:32,880
Speaker 4: his way through the line to tire out the defense

452
00:21:33,160 --> 00:21:34,960
Speaker 4: to allow Warren to get those.

453
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Speaker 3: And Arthur Smith loves his plotters, yeah, absolutely.

454
00:21:38,240 --> 00:21:42,080
Speaker 4: The Steelers also brought in Corderyl Patterson as a change

455
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Speaker 4: of pace back. He was in Atlanta with Arthur Smith.

456
00:21:44,920 --> 00:21:51,160
Speaker 4: Soh in Atlanta in a similar spot last year. Bijeon, Robinson, Tyler, Algier,

457
00:21:51,240 --> 00:21:54,200
Speaker 4: and Patterson all had some run. Algier had two hundred

458
00:21:54,240 --> 00:21:57,560
Speaker 4: four touches last year. Bijon had two hundred seventy two.

459
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Speaker 4: It's almost the same as what we just talked about.

460
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Speaker 4: Naji's gonna be Beijon, Warren's gonna be Lgier. Patterson just

461
00:22:05,680 --> 00:22:09,040
Speaker 4: gets to be himself. Which is nice, better or worse.

462
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Speaker 4: I think it's better because I think they're gonna run

463
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Speaker 4: even more this year. It's gonna be like a ten

464
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Speaker 4: percent uptick in rushing attempts.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the Cincinnati Bengals. Everything looks like Joe

466
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Speaker 1: Burrow's going to return in time for training camp. I

467
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Speaker 1: have no real concerns about Joe Burrow for this year,

468
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Speaker 1: and obviously he's great. So's Jamar Chase awesome. I don't

469
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Speaker 1: think we have anything to even spend time on with

470
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Speaker 1: those guys.

471
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Speaker 4: And Joe Burrow's got the long hair now, so rocking it.

472
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Speaker 1: Yeah, all the cool guys grown their hair out.

473
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Speaker 3: You are growing your hair out.

474
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Speaker 1: Coincides you and Joe Burrow must have a lot more

475
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Speaker 1: than people know. T Higgins, though, has not signed his

476
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Speaker 1: franchise tag offer, and we could be heading into a

477
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Speaker 1: stalemate in training camp. So that is something Betty, to

478
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Speaker 1: keep it a track of. Yeah, if if you want

479
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Speaker 1: to roll the dice on Higgins getting traded or maybe

480
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Speaker 1: there's a tracted holdout, you could throw a dart. And

481
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Speaker 1: I like this as one of my favorite sleepers, andre

482
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Speaker 1: Yo Savash. He's flashed a little bit last year and

483
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Speaker 1: I'm interested in that kid, and he could walk right

484
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Speaker 1: in the starting role opposite Jamar Chase. Now they put

485
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Speaker 1: a third rounder into rookie Jermaine Burton from Alabama, but

486
00:23:22,359 --> 00:23:25,119
Speaker 1: he's viewed as a very very raw athlete who is

487
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Speaker 1: not very productive and on great Alabama teams, he's expected

488
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Speaker 1: to like a long term project. I mean somebody that

489
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Speaker 1: would need years to develop. So Andre Yo Savash, I

490
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Speaker 1: mean like last pick of your draft. Just keep this

491
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Speaker 1: in the back of your mind. And especially if you're

492
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Speaker 1: doing best Ball drafts now drafting for early for whatever reason,

493
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Speaker 1: and this T Higgins thing has not played out and

494
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Speaker 1: you think it's going to end badly for badly if

495
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Speaker 1: you think he's not going to be on this team,

496
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Speaker 1: either if I hold out or trade or whatever, you

497
00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:56,600
Speaker 1: can get a wide receiver two and for Joe Burrough

498
00:23:56,680 --> 00:24:01,280
Speaker 1: offense right for free. Yes, thank you, journeyman tight end

499
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:05,080
Speaker 1: Mike Giseki is your presumed starter at the tight end position.

500
00:24:06,080 --> 00:24:09,280
Speaker 1: But Kazeki has just proven and reproven himself to be

501
00:24:09,400 --> 00:24:11,119
Speaker 1: just like a spot starter and that's it.

502
00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:13,640
Speaker 4: Is He better than anything they've had at tight end

503
00:24:13,680 --> 00:24:16,520
Speaker 4: the last few years, though it feels.

504
00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:19,119
Speaker 1: Like slightly it's better nerves Smith, that's for sure. But

505
00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:21,360
Speaker 1: they also spent a fourth round pick on Eric All

506
00:24:21,480 --> 00:24:24,080
Speaker 1: from Iowa and previously Michigan, and that is a thort

507
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Speaker 1: nice from favorite.

508
00:24:25,359 --> 00:24:27,080
Speaker 3: Yeah, he likes Eric a lot.

509
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Speaker 1: So Yeah, so if Kazeki isn't great, I could see

510
00:24:31,680 --> 00:24:33,760
Speaker 1: them getting doing a little eric All, getting eric All

511
00:24:33,840 --> 00:24:36,240
Speaker 1: involved in this, but his timetable could be down the

512
00:24:36,280 --> 00:24:38,760
Speaker 1: road as well. So does the passing game get better

513
00:24:38,800 --> 00:24:39,400
Speaker 1: worse this year?

514
00:24:39,440 --> 00:24:39,640
Speaker 3: Better?

515
00:24:39,680 --> 00:24:41,919
Speaker 1: Because Joe Burrow's not gonna miss half the season, So

516
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Speaker 1: you know this is this is clearly uptick here and again, Andre, Yo.

517
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Speaker 4: I don't know if we're pronouncing that, No, I am.

518
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:53,800
Speaker 3: I looked it up to make sure I didn't screw

519
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Speaker 3: it up. Yo.

520
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Speaker 1: See bosh Okay got it.

521
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Speaker 3: Running game.

522
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Speaker 1: Joe Mixon sent packing to Houston Cincinnati should have sold

523
00:25:03,240 --> 00:25:05,040
Speaker 1: last year. I think they got out a year late,

524
00:25:06,359 --> 00:25:08,760
Speaker 1: but I think they ultimately made the right call here.

525
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:10,480
Speaker 1: So it looks like it's gonna be a two headed

526
00:25:10,560 --> 00:25:13,520
Speaker 1: attack with Chase Brown and Zach Moss. But I like

527
00:25:13,600 --> 00:25:16,480
Speaker 1: Moss better. You know, after years of misuse in Buffalo.

528
00:25:16,520 --> 00:25:19,080
Speaker 1: Of course, you know, Zach Boss goes to Indy. He

529
00:25:19,119 --> 00:25:22,080
Speaker 1: had those early starts where Jonathan Taylor wasn't right yet,

530
00:25:22,119 --> 00:25:25,680
Speaker 1: and looked really good. In the six games in which

531
00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:30,959
Speaker 1: Moss got eighteen or more carries, he averaged one hundred

532
00:25:31,000 --> 00:25:33,880
Speaker 1: and six yards in almost a full touchdown per game.

533
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Speaker 3: That's pretty good. That's pretty good.

534
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Speaker 1: This is the Zach Moss I was stumping for when

535
00:25:37,560 --> 00:25:40,440
Speaker 1: he was in Buffalo. We finally got a long look

536
00:25:40,480 --> 00:25:42,560
Speaker 1: at him with Indianapolis and he looked good.

537
00:25:43,400 --> 00:25:46,000
Speaker 4: And Devin Singletary got out of Buffalo and side, yeah.

538
00:25:45,920 --> 00:25:49,480
Speaker 3: Look good too. I know it's right. So James Cook

539
00:25:49,480 --> 00:25:50,880
Speaker 3: looks all right. He does.

540
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Speaker 1: They don't use him enough. Chase Brown look promising in

541
00:25:54,800 --> 00:25:57,480
Speaker 1: the small sample size that we had last year. He

542
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Speaker 1: can catch. That's Moss is not a natural pas catcher.

543
00:26:00,960 --> 00:26:03,399
Speaker 1: Brown had just forty four carries all last year, but

544
00:26:03,440 --> 00:26:06,440
Speaker 1: he had four explosive plays of fifteen or more yards

545
00:26:06,480 --> 00:26:08,800
Speaker 1: on those forty four carries. That's a great ratio, and

546
00:26:08,880 --> 00:26:14,360
Speaker 1: Brown finished fifteenth in Pro Football focuses elusiveness rating. Brown's

547
00:26:14,359 --> 00:26:16,440
Speaker 1: got room to get better in your two. But Moss

548
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,120
Speaker 1: should be the presumed starter here. He's proven he can

549
00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:21,800
Speaker 1: do a lot with a big workload. I think Moss

550
00:26:21,840 --> 00:26:23,840
Speaker 1: I think gets two thirds of the work. Brown gets

551
00:26:23,880 --> 00:26:24,760
Speaker 1: one third of the work.

552
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Speaker 3: And see that happening.

553
00:26:26,400 --> 00:26:29,760
Speaker 1: Yep, that feels about right to me. Zach Moss going

554
00:26:29,760 --> 00:26:32,919
Speaker 1: off the board at running back twenty eighth, sixth round.

555
00:26:33,160 --> 00:26:37,200
Speaker 1: Perfect do the opposite draft spot for Zach Moss? Yeah,

556
00:26:37,280 --> 00:26:39,720
Speaker 1: I like him. There pass saying we.

557
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Speaker 3: Do pat Now that's it.

558
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Speaker 1: Does he get better or worse for for Cleveland's running game?

559
00:26:43,800 --> 00:26:46,159
Speaker 1: I think it's better because I do not believe. I

560
00:26:46,200 --> 00:26:48,600
Speaker 1: didn't believe in Joe Mixon going into last year. He

561
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,400
Speaker 1: wasn't any good last year. Yeah, we're gonna We're gonna move.

562
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Speaker 3: On, all right.

563
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Speaker 1: I think that's all of our AFC North teams. Let's

564
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Speaker 1: take a break and go to the MC North sound good, yep.

565
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Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly returns Paul Jarchie and Matt Harrison with you.

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Speaker 1: We turn our attention to the NFC North. First team

567
00:27:06,440 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 1: up is the Green Bay Packers, Matt where we got

568
00:27:10,680 --> 00:27:12,880
Speaker 1: not a lot of change the passing side, but we've

569
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:15,480
Speaker 1: got some new faces in the running game.

570
00:27:15,560 --> 00:27:18,920
Speaker 4: By the way, this NFC North, it's it's gonna be

571
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:23,800
Speaker 4: a monster. These are some good teams additions and subtractions

572
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:27,280
Speaker 4: in Green Bay. Josh Jacobs replaces Aaron Jones in the backfield.

573
00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:30,719
Speaker 4: That's the headliner. The Packers also lost guard John Runyon,

574
00:27:32,000 --> 00:27:35,280
Speaker 4: tackle Yosh Nyman, and spent a first round pick on

575
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Speaker 4: Jordan Morgan on the offensive line. But they're pretty deep

576
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:41,800
Speaker 4: across the offensive line, so I don't think that they're

577
00:27:41,800 --> 00:27:43,119
Speaker 4: gonna miss a beat there.

578
00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:49,040
Speaker 1: And organizationally, man, do they churn out good lineman holy cow.

579
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Speaker 4: To get good offensive line play the passing game. The

580
00:27:54,840 --> 00:27:58,040
Speaker 4: band is back together again. Jordan Love looks to build

581
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Speaker 4: off a promising first year as a starter, and the

582
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Speaker 4: Packers may have more B B plus wide receivers on

583
00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:10,080
Speaker 4: their roster, not like letter grades in Fantasy Football Week exactly,

584
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:14,240
Speaker 4: but than any team ever because Jaden Reid, Romeo Dobbs,

585
00:28:14,600 --> 00:28:18,679
Speaker 4: Christian Watson, Dontavian Wicks. They'll probably all get drafted in

586
00:28:18,720 --> 00:28:21,440
Speaker 4: your fantasy league, Oh yeah, for sure. And then there's

587
00:28:21,520 --> 00:28:24,840
Speaker 4: Bow Melton, Malik Heath, and Samari Toure. They all had

588
00:28:24,840 --> 00:28:26,199
Speaker 4: a little bit of run with the team at the

589
00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:29,359
Speaker 4: tail end of last year as well. The problem is

590
00:28:29,359 --> 00:28:31,679
Speaker 4: their depth. They're all good players and they should all

591
00:28:31,680 --> 00:28:34,359
Speaker 4: get a chunk of the fantasy pie. There were only

592
00:28:34,400 --> 00:28:38,160
Speaker 4: two instances last season where a Packers wide receiver had

593
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Speaker 4: double digit.

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Speaker 3: Targets in a game.

595
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Speaker 4: Really yeah, wow, Romeo Dobbs in Week four Jacob Reid

596
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Speaker 4: in Week fourteen.

597
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:45,680
Speaker 3: Wow.

598
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,680
Speaker 4: There were only two instances last season where a Packers

599
00:28:48,720 --> 00:28:54,800
Speaker 4: wide receiver had one hundred yards two that's it. Neither

600
00:28:55,000 --> 00:28:58,040
Speaker 4: counted for you because it was Bow Melton in Week

601
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Speaker 4: seventeen and Red in Week eighteen.

602
00:29:01,720 --> 00:29:04,000
Speaker 3: Wow. Not in your fantasy playoffs, right.

603
00:29:04,360 --> 00:29:07,240
Speaker 4: So, as far as touchdowns go, Read and Dobbs both

604
00:29:07,280 --> 00:29:10,120
Speaker 4: had eight scores, Watson had five, Wicks had four, and

605
00:29:10,160 --> 00:29:12,560
Speaker 4: then there was a slew of others who had two

606
00:29:12,680 --> 00:29:15,680
Speaker 4: or one receiving touchdowns last season, including tight ends Luke

607
00:29:15,760 --> 00:29:20,400
Speaker 4: Musgrave and Tucker Craft. The point is, in this passing game,

608
00:29:20,440 --> 00:29:21,440
Speaker 4: I think you want Jordan Love.

609
00:29:21,520 --> 00:29:23,720
Speaker 3: I want Jordan Love, So don't have to guess everyone.

610
00:29:23,400 --> 00:29:25,640
Speaker 4: To deal with any of the wide receivers unless you're

611
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:26,080
Speaker 4: a best ball.

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Speaker 1: Well, well that's true best ball. That's a lot I

613
00:29:28,680 --> 00:29:30,320
Speaker 1: like it. It's a lot more compelling for best ball.

614
00:29:30,320 --> 00:29:31,640
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to try to guess week in and

615
00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:37,200
Speaker 1: week out, who's gonna be good. The smart people say

616
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:41,440
Speaker 1: the smart people quote say, you know, Wicks has got

617
00:29:42,000 --> 00:29:45,520
Speaker 1: freaky upside that perhaps others don't sure read to me

618
00:29:45,840 --> 00:29:50,320
Speaker 1: looked like Deebo Samuel Light. And I'm really intrigued by Reed.

619
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Speaker 3: And you love Dobbs, and I like do I love Dobbs.

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Speaker 3: I like Dobbs.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think you're right that I'm just gonna

622
00:29:58,600 --> 00:30:01,840
Speaker 1: lay off the whole group and not try to figure

623
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Speaker 1: that thing that thing out and try to guess right. So,

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Speaker 1: I think there's just gonna be too many games where

625
00:30:07,000 --> 00:30:10,960
Speaker 1: too many dud games when your guy, your packer receiver

626
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Speaker 1: just it's just not his day.

627
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Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. Offense up or down. I think the arrow

628
00:30:17,000 --> 00:30:20,880
Speaker 4: is trending up for the offense as they continue moving

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Speaker 4: forward in love second year in the Running Game in

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Speaker 4: twenty twenty two.

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Speaker 1: Hey, before we move on, Yeah, we should mention Tucker

632
00:30:28,480 --> 00:30:33,200
Speaker 1: Kraft had a torn bicept working out, and he looks

633
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Speaker 1: like he's going to miss like all of training camp

634
00:30:35,520 --> 00:30:38,720
Speaker 1: and might be reckep ready for the beginning of might

635
00:30:38,760 --> 00:30:40,560
Speaker 1: be ready for the beginning of the season, but might not.

636
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Speaker 1: And that might be the big difference that keeps him

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Speaker 1: safely below Luke Musgrave for a while.

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Speaker 4: Okay, got it, got it in so the running game.

639
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Speaker 4: In twenty twenty two, Josh Jacobs had three hundred and

640
00:30:52,440 --> 00:30:56,760
Speaker 4: ninety three touches three hundred and ninety three touches that led,

641
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Speaker 4: and he led the league in rushing yards head over

642
00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:02,240
Speaker 4: two thousand total yards score twelve times. Last year in Vegas,

643
00:31:02,280 --> 00:31:05,320
Speaker 4: we saw his yards per carry fall from four point

644
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:08,720
Speaker 4: nine to three point five, his touchdowns cut in half.

645
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:11,960
Speaker 4: He still had two hundred and seventy touches in only

646
00:31:12,000 --> 00:31:16,440
Speaker 4: thirteen games, and his explosive run rate fell to forty

647
00:31:16,560 --> 00:31:19,280
Speaker 4: first among forty nine qualified backs.

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00:31:19,400 --> 00:31:21,240
Speaker 1: Raiders knew what they were doing. They were just gonna

649
00:31:21,280 --> 00:31:23,560
Speaker 1: grind him up and then kick him to free agents.

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00:31:23,640 --> 00:31:24,160
Speaker 3: They did that.

651
00:31:24,560 --> 00:31:26,840
Speaker 4: Outside of twenty twenty two, he's missed a few games

652
00:31:26,840 --> 00:31:28,640
Speaker 4: every year, and when you look back at his five

653
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:31,040
Speaker 4: years a workload, you have to be surprised that he

654
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,280
Speaker 4: hasn't missed more over a seventy three game career. He's

655
00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:36,520
Speaker 4: kind of like Derrick Henry. He's averaging twenty and a

656
00:31:36,560 --> 00:31:39,880
Speaker 4: half touches per game for ninety six total yards.

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00:31:40,280 --> 00:31:40,440
Speaker 1: Now.

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00:31:40,440 --> 00:31:42,800
Speaker 4: He turned twenty six in February, so the age isn't

659
00:31:42,800 --> 00:31:46,360
Speaker 4: a concern, but the mileage has to be. And the

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Speaker 4: Packers did draft Marshawn Lloyd in the third round, who's

661
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Speaker 4: very very interesting. They brought back AJ Dillon as well,

662
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Speaker 4: not I don't know why. Yeah, Lloyd was able to

663
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Speaker 4: be a top twenty college back in basically every metric,

664
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Speaker 4: including PFF's elusive rating. So we may start the season

665
00:32:05,160 --> 00:32:07,800
Speaker 4: with a healthy dose of Josh Jacobs, but I think

666
00:32:07,880 --> 00:32:11,200
Speaker 4: we finished the year with Marshawn Lloyd really cutting into

667
00:32:11,280 --> 00:32:14,160
Speaker 4: Jacob's workload and possibly taking the bulk of the carries.

668
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Speaker 3: Yeah, my tis My worry is.

669
00:32:16,280 --> 00:32:20,080
Speaker 1: We know the way the Packers offense, and Lafleur likes

670
00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:22,400
Speaker 1: to work that offense is no matter what he.

671
00:32:22,400 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 3: Splits, he splits carries.

672
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:26,200
Speaker 1: It doesn't even matter how bad the number two running

673
00:32:26,200 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: back is. Now ineffective. AJ Dillon is, Yeah, I.

674
00:32:29,760 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 4: Say to him, kram At Lafleur. As a Vikings fan,

675
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,760
Speaker 4: I was not pleased that Marshon Lloyd was drafted to

676
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Speaker 4: Green Bay.

677
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Speaker 3: As a group, I think, well, it's a fantasy player.

678
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Speaker 3: I'm not happy that that was his landing spot.

679
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:45,280
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, But I think that by the end of

680
00:32:45,320 --> 00:32:47,920
Speaker 4: the season, I think we're looking at Marshaw Lloyd.

681
00:32:47,760 --> 00:32:50,000
Speaker 3: Maybe as maybe the next next big thing there, and

682
00:32:50,040 --> 00:32:51,120
Speaker 3: certainly in Dynasty.

683
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Speaker 1: I'm a lot more interested in Lloyd than I am

684
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Speaker 1: in in any in anybody else there. Yeah.

685
00:32:59,040 --> 00:33:02,600
Speaker 4: As a group, the pass running backs finished twenty seventh

686
00:33:03,120 --> 00:33:06,720
Speaker 4: in PPR Fantasy points last season, so I definitely feel

687
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:08,560
Speaker 4: like things are trending up in the run game for

688
00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 4: Green Bay.

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Speaker 1: Let's go to the Minnesota Vikings.

690
00:33:11,720 --> 00:33:14,000
Speaker 3: Let's a lot of changes in the passing game.

691
00:33:14,040 --> 00:33:17,400
Speaker 1: Obviously with Kirk Cousins gone. Sam Donald, well, that's really

692
00:33:17,440 --> 00:33:21,320
Speaker 1: the big change, Sam Donald, you're expected starter unless JJ

693
00:33:21,440 --> 00:33:25,280
Speaker 1: McCarthy just looks unworldly in the preseason. Yeah, the plan

694
00:33:25,400 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 1: is for McCarthy to have a long runway. Do not

695
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,840
Speaker 1: be surprised if you get zero starts out of JJ

696
00:33:32,920 --> 00:33:33,800
Speaker 1: McCarthy this year.

697
00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:37,760
Speaker 4: I would be very surprised if he gets zero starts,

698
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 4: because Donald would really have to have that win loss

699
00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 4: record in a great spot for the Vikings before the

700
00:33:46,040 --> 00:33:50,640
Speaker 4: fan base is just grumbling. And their early season schedule.

701
00:33:50,480 --> 00:33:52,640
Speaker 3: It's brutal, it's brutal. It's really hard.

702
00:33:52,720 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 4: They might be so they play like it's a week

703
00:33:55,840 --> 00:33:58,800
Speaker 4: five in London. Then they have to bye week, and

704
00:33:58,840 --> 00:34:00,880
Speaker 4: then they come back with a home game against Detroit.

705
00:34:01,200 --> 00:34:04,520
Speaker 4: If the Vikings are one and four after that London game,

706
00:34:05,280 --> 00:34:06,920
Speaker 4: you know they're gonna come back with Mike.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that.

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00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:09,319
Speaker 3: I think they will.

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00:34:09,400 --> 00:34:11,960
Speaker 1: I don't agree. I think they've I think they've got

710
00:34:12,000 --> 00:34:14,200
Speaker 1: a really really long runway on this kid and.

711
00:34:15,800 --> 00:34:16,240
Speaker 3: The people.

712
00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:20,360
Speaker 1: My understanding here MINNISODEA. I'm not gonna put names on things.

713
00:34:20,560 --> 00:34:23,319
Speaker 1: It's that the he is gonna have take. They're gonna

714
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:25,520
Speaker 1: take as long as they need with him. Now, the

715
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Speaker 1: other side of it is Donald finds himself in the

716
00:34:28,239 --> 00:34:30,680
Speaker 1: best spot of his career by a mile shore justin Jefferson.

717
00:34:30,719 --> 00:34:33,279
Speaker 1: You got Jordan Addison, You'll eventually get TJ. Hockinson back

718
00:34:33,320 --> 00:34:36,279
Speaker 1: from his ACL. You have bookend tackles to protect him.

719
00:34:36,520 --> 00:34:41,080
Speaker 1: They have Pro Football focuses, third ranked pass blocking offensive line.

720
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Speaker 1: I mean this is you know, this is you could

721
00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:46,080
Speaker 1: dream come true for Sam Donald, and I think probably

722
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 1: he just looks good enough to hold the job for

723
00:34:48,000 --> 00:34:48,400
Speaker 1: a while.

724
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:51,400
Speaker 3: Donald. Donald also gets the advantage.

725
00:34:50,960 --> 00:34:53,799
Speaker 1: Of a pass first offense and a quarterback friendly head

726
00:34:53,880 --> 00:34:56,960
Speaker 1: coach and Kevin O'Connell. And with all that surrounding talent

727
00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:01,400
Speaker 1: and the Vikings very realit give up a bunch of points.

728
00:35:01,400 --> 00:35:05,760
Speaker 1: I think Donald is gonna have some splash fantasy games. Okay,

729
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:07,960
Speaker 1: you know, like Nick Mullins at the end of last

730
00:35:08,000 --> 00:35:11,520
Speaker 1: year kept throwing for four hundred yards and right well

731
00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:13,440
Speaker 1: he wasn't through, was mostly on the ground. But yes,

732
00:35:13,920 --> 00:35:18,080
Speaker 1: So your adp on Donald right now is quarterback thirty five.

733
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Speaker 3: That's prettyure.

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Speaker 1: There's only thirty two teams. Yeah, it's the twentieth round.

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00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,200
Speaker 1: Totally in on Donald here. Now you're gonna hear more

736
00:35:25,239 --> 00:35:28,040
Speaker 1: from Brian Johnson later. Who's who thinks Sam Donald is

737
00:35:28,040 --> 00:35:30,560
Speaker 1: gonna be like a top ten quarterback. Yeah, I'm not

738
00:35:30,600 --> 00:35:31,200
Speaker 1: ready to go there.

739
00:35:31,360 --> 00:35:34,440
Speaker 4: Oh he thinks that the Vikings wasted a pick from Dorothy.

740
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 3: That's right. So Thor and Brian are gonna come to

741
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:37,960
Speaker 3: blows this year.

742
00:35:38,040 --> 00:35:42,600
Speaker 1: Yeah, it could be ugly, could be ugly. I love

743
00:35:43,080 --> 00:35:47,560
Speaker 1: Donald as your second quarterback, and let's see how this

744
00:35:47,600 --> 00:35:50,240
Speaker 1: thing plays out. Because the surrounding town's just so good

745
00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: and I do and the path he's could just buy

746
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:56,239
Speaker 1: your volume. Unless Donald is completely broken, he's gonna have

747
00:35:56,280 --> 00:35:58,680
Speaker 1: some splash games for you to pick a pick and

748
00:35:58,760 --> 00:36:01,520
Speaker 1: choose from. Okay, the thing to mention about Justin Jefferson

749
00:36:01,520 --> 00:36:04,920
Speaker 1: is his lack of contract extension, which could become an

750
00:36:04,960 --> 00:36:08,400
Speaker 1: issue rolling into training camp. Hopefully it'll get done before then.

751
00:36:08,880 --> 00:36:10,640
Speaker 1: You know everything you need to know about Justin Jefferson.

752
00:36:10,640 --> 00:36:12,879
Speaker 1: He's the first player, first wide receiver off the board

753
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,920
Speaker 1: in most drafts. Jordan Addison enters year two after a

754
00:36:16,080 --> 00:36:20,319
Speaker 1: solid rookie year seventy catches, eight hundred yards, ten touchdowns,

755
00:36:21,000 --> 00:36:23,960
Speaker 1: even more impressive knowing that Addison was catching passes from

756
00:36:24,000 --> 00:36:26,040
Speaker 1: Nick Mullins and Josh Dobbs for half the year and

757
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,040
Speaker 1: he was still able to put up in nine hundred

758
00:36:28,080 --> 00:36:33,800
Speaker 1: yards and seventy catches Justin Jefferson on a fantasy right, Sorry,

759
00:36:34,000 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: you're exactly right, But where would you pick him? No,

760
00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:37,200
Speaker 1: it's about right.

761
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:38,880
Speaker 3: So it's Tyreek Hill, right.

762
00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:42,200
Speaker 1: Cee Lamb, Ceedee labert Kill and Jamar Chase and then Jefferson.

763
00:36:42,200 --> 00:36:45,400
Speaker 1: Now that sounds a by right because of the quarterback differential. Okay, yeah,

764
00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,800
Speaker 1: Addison has room to get better if his quarterbacking doesn't

765
00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:51,280
Speaker 1: fail him. Addison could take a jump in his sophomore

766
00:36:51,320 --> 00:36:53,839
Speaker 1: year and improve on all those numbers. So I am

767
00:36:53,880 --> 00:36:57,120
Speaker 1: interested in him, and I think overall this offense gets

768
00:36:57,440 --> 00:37:00,560
Speaker 1: better than the non Kirk Cousins version of the Vikings

769
00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:02,920
Speaker 1: passing offense last year, but is worse than the Kirk

770
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Speaker 1: Cousins version when he led the NFL in passing yards

771
00:37:05,760 --> 00:37:08,920
Speaker 1: when he suffered his torn ACL Let's go to the

772
00:37:09,000 --> 00:37:13,400
Speaker 1: running game. Aaron Jones replaces Alexander Madison, and he's almost

773
00:37:13,440 --> 00:37:16,839
Speaker 1: certainly to be the starter here. Jones elite receiver, and

774
00:37:17,480 --> 00:37:21,359
Speaker 1: this is the best receiver Kevin O'Connell's had since he's

775
00:37:21,400 --> 00:37:24,120
Speaker 1: come over as the Vikings head coach. I think he's

776
00:37:24,120 --> 00:37:26,920
Speaker 1: going to see a lot more receptions to him than

777
00:37:26,960 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: any other running back has had with the Vikings. Jones

778
00:37:30,480 --> 00:37:33,399
Speaker 1: finished his Pro Football Focus is seventh ranked running back

779
00:37:33,480 --> 00:37:36,920
Speaker 1: and he ranked fifteenth and elusiveness, He's still got the moves.

780
00:37:36,920 --> 00:37:42,719
Speaker 4: Do you think the Packers downgraded at running back? They

781
00:37:42,760 --> 00:37:44,799
Speaker 4: paid jos a lot more, you.

782
00:37:44,719 --> 00:37:45,200
Speaker 3: Know what I think.

783
00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,000
Speaker 1: Yeah, they did what I think happened, and everybody loved

784
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,560
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones. And by the way, I mean elite human being.

785
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:55,040
Speaker 1: I think they got frustrated with the questionable tag after

786
00:37:55,080 --> 00:37:58,120
Speaker 1: his name every week. I think they were just, you know,

787
00:37:58,239 --> 00:37:59,640
Speaker 1: we need somebody we can count on.

788
00:37:59,680 --> 00:38:01,600
Speaker 3: It was just it was durability. Yeah.

789
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: Now, I had a chance to do the Vikings draft

790
00:38:04,040 --> 00:38:08,040
Speaker 1: party in US Bank Stadium and they they Aaron Jones

791
00:38:08,080 --> 00:38:09,759
Speaker 1: came on, you know, came in with us, and I

792
00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:11,560
Speaker 1: had a chance to chat with him a little bit

793
00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:14,320
Speaker 1: and stand right next to him. The dude is slight

794
00:38:14,440 --> 00:38:14,920
Speaker 1: of build.

795
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:16,080
Speaker 3: You wouldn't think it.

796
00:38:16,280 --> 00:38:19,920
Speaker 1: You would not think it the way he the way

797
00:38:20,120 --> 00:38:23,240
Speaker 1: he looks on the field, because he runs angry and tough,

798
00:38:23,360 --> 00:38:27,200
Speaker 1: and he he does. He plays way bigger than he

799
00:38:27,360 --> 00:38:29,239
Speaker 1: than he actually is in real life. So I guess

800
00:38:29,239 --> 00:38:31,719
Speaker 1: I'm in that regard to I'm not not surprised that

801
00:38:31,760 --> 00:38:35,600
Speaker 1: he's been He's broken down a few times. Kevin O'Connell's

802
00:38:35,640 --> 00:38:37,880
Speaker 1: an almost even distributor of the ball near the stripe.

803
00:38:37,880 --> 00:38:41,160
Speaker 1: He passes and runs at a roughly equal rate. There

804
00:38:41,200 --> 00:38:45,319
Speaker 1: will be some opportunities to run in touchdowns. I don't

805
00:38:45,320 --> 00:38:47,600
Speaker 1: think ty Chandler will be a factor at the goal line,

806
00:38:47,920 --> 00:38:49,840
Speaker 1: so I think Aaron Jones will have those chances. But

807
00:38:49,880 --> 00:38:52,560
Speaker 1: the catch is the nagging injuries. You just you can't

808
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,040
Speaker 1: make Aaron Jones your workhorse back. He's got to be

809
00:38:56,080 --> 00:38:59,280
Speaker 1: somebody who touches the ball like fifteen times a game.

810
00:38:59,400 --> 00:39:00,800
Speaker 4: That's still fait fantasy relevant.

811
00:39:00,800 --> 00:39:03,960
Speaker 1: It is enough to be fantasy relevant. He's currently running

812
00:39:03,960 --> 00:39:07,960
Speaker 1: back eighteen round five sounds about right. Sounds about right

813
00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,120
Speaker 1: running back. Overall, the running game for the Vikings gets

814
00:39:12,640 --> 00:39:16,920
Speaker 1: much better with Aaron Jones than Alexander Madison. You know,

815
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:19,800
Speaker 1: we got plenty of things wrong last year Damian Pierce,

816
00:39:19,960 --> 00:39:23,120
Speaker 1: tank Bigsby, but last year we warned you off of

817
00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:27,360
Speaker 1: Alexander Madison all off season. I'm in on Aaron Jones.

818
00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,680
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's go to Our next team is Chicago Bears.

819
00:39:31,520 --> 00:39:35,440
Speaker 4: Lots of changes in the Windy City this year. New

820
00:39:35,480 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 4: offensive coordinator Shane Waldron comes over for the Seahawks. He

821
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:41,399
Speaker 4: had a hand in the emergence of Geno Smith after

822
00:39:41,480 --> 00:39:45,120
Speaker 4: the past few years. Rookie quarterback and pick one oh

823
00:39:45,160 --> 00:39:49,160
Speaker 4: one is Caleb Williams, who replaces Justin Fields Keenan Allen

824
00:39:49,200 --> 00:39:53,280
Speaker 4: acquired via trade. Yeah, DeAndre Swift acquired in free agency.

825
00:39:53,800 --> 00:39:56,520
Speaker 4: Gerald Everett joined the tight end room with Cole kmet

826
00:39:57,080 --> 00:39:59,879
Speaker 4: Romo Doonesa was drafted with the ninth overall pick.

827
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Speaker 1: Yeah, they look think of think of all the all

828
00:40:02,360 --> 00:40:04,800
Speaker 1: the assets they threw himTo that Bears offense.

829
00:40:04,680 --> 00:40:08,640
Speaker 4: And Darnell Mooney and Deonta Foreman left via free agency, so.

830
00:40:08,680 --> 00:40:09,440
Speaker 1: They won't miss him.

831
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Speaker 4: No, I don't think they will at all. Passing game,

832
00:40:11,760 --> 00:40:14,279
Speaker 4: I think everyone is expecting a huge uptick in this

833
00:40:14,360 --> 00:40:16,960
Speaker 4: department for the Bears. Fields was really known more as

834
00:40:16,960 --> 00:40:20,160
Speaker 4: a running quarterback, and Williams is quite the opposite. Keenan

835
00:40:20,200 --> 00:40:22,879
Speaker 4: Allen takes the slot duties with DJ Moore and Romeo

836
00:40:22,880 --> 00:40:26,120
Speaker 4: Odunze on the outside. Moore's going off the board at

837
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Speaker 4: pick thirty, that's in the third round. Alan at forty

838
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Speaker 4: seven and a Dounza at eighty six. To me, I

839
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:37,279
Speaker 4: like my knee jerk reaction was Allen was going to

840
00:40:37,320 --> 00:40:40,160
Speaker 4: be higher than DJ Moore. I guess you get the

841
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,600
Speaker 4: flashy upside of Moore there, But if it's me, I

842
00:40:43,600 --> 00:40:46,480
Speaker 4: think I like Alan best out of these three receivers,

843
00:40:46,719 --> 00:40:49,560
Speaker 4: especially with a rookie quarterback. Yeah, a little bit shorter,

844
00:40:49,680 --> 00:40:52,239
Speaker 4: a dot maybe if he's a little nervous. I think

845
00:40:52,280 --> 00:40:53,799
Speaker 4: Alan as the savvy Vett.

846
00:40:54,000 --> 00:40:55,560
Speaker 3: I think he might be the best receiver.

847
00:40:55,840 --> 00:40:58,319
Speaker 1: He's not gonna he won't be the flashiest on him, right,

848
00:40:58,480 --> 00:41:00,279
Speaker 1: but he's gonna be the guy where at the end

849
00:41:00,320 --> 00:41:03,600
Speaker 1: of the day, he's got eight catches for eighty yards and.

850
00:41:03,480 --> 00:41:07,320
Speaker 4: As Scott Fish calls him, just the woobie, the woobie, Yeah, exactly.

851
00:41:08,040 --> 00:41:10,759
Speaker 4: Cole Comet, in my mind, is an above average tight end,

852
00:41:10,760 --> 00:41:12,880
Speaker 4: but he's going off the board at tight end fifteen

853
00:41:12,960 --> 00:41:14,760
Speaker 4: right now and an eleventh round pick.

854
00:41:15,600 --> 00:41:16,520
Speaker 3: You might disagree.

855
00:41:16,520 --> 00:41:19,040
Speaker 4: I think Gerald Everett's a pretty decent depth piece there,

856
00:41:19,080 --> 00:41:21,920
Speaker 4: and I think he cuts into it. But with all

857
00:41:21,960 --> 00:41:25,640
Speaker 4: the additions, if this passing game doesn't get better, I'd

858
00:41:25,640 --> 00:41:27,799
Speaker 4: be completely shocked and coaches.

859
00:41:27,480 --> 00:41:28,920
Speaker 3: Will be fight. Yeah, that could be.

860
00:41:29,480 --> 00:41:29,920
Speaker 1: That could be.

861
00:41:30,560 --> 00:41:33,719
Speaker 4: On the running game side. DeAndre Swift came over from

862
00:41:33,719 --> 00:41:35,839
Speaker 4: Philly and it was a weird season for him there.

863
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:39,719
Speaker 4: He tallied twelve hundred and sixty three total yards, he

864
00:41:39,719 --> 00:41:43,399
Speaker 4: had six touchdowns, he had a respectable four point six

865
00:41:43,480 --> 00:41:46,399
Speaker 4: yards per attempt, and he was seventeenth in the league

866
00:41:46,400 --> 00:41:51,200
Speaker 4: and explosive run rate, but he ranked fortieth in yards

867
00:41:51,200 --> 00:41:56,919
Speaker 4: after contact and thirtieth amongst qualifying runners enforced misstackles, which

868
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:00,200
Speaker 4: that's not great. So a lot of his success you

869
00:42:00,239 --> 00:42:03,920
Speaker 4: attribute to the Eagles offensive line. The Bears don't have

870
00:42:03,960 --> 00:42:06,520
Speaker 4: a line as good as the Eagles, but nobody wrote

871
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:10,160
Speaker 4: it's average, but it's not elite like Philly. So the

872
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:15,280
Speaker 4: bright side for Swift is there's no tush push.

873
00:42:14,360 --> 00:42:16,040
Speaker 3: Right to steal those.

874
00:42:16,239 --> 00:42:19,240
Speaker 4: So Swift might actually see some carries inside the five.

875
00:42:19,080 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 1: And foreman's gone who could have been a goal line threat.

876
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,880
Speaker 4: He may have to split those inside the five carries

877
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:28,120
Speaker 4: with a few capable backups and Khalil ground Bear and

878
00:42:28,239 --> 00:42:29,320
Speaker 4: Roshan Johnson.

879
00:42:29,719 --> 00:42:31,400
Speaker 1: I don't think we have ground bear.

880
00:42:32,800 --> 00:42:36,480
Speaker 3: We have? Why do I have a duck on here?

881
00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:42,240
Speaker 3: What did we need that for? We didn't we label

882
00:42:42,280 --> 00:42:44,480
Speaker 3: these at one time. I've only got a couple of

883
00:42:44,480 --> 00:42:45,040
Speaker 3: them labeled.

884
00:42:46,760 --> 00:42:54,040
Speaker 1: Not that you have to buttons. I gotta change that.

885
00:42:55,200 --> 00:42:58,080
Speaker 1: I gotta get I don't have the bear on here

886
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:06,160
Speaker 1: you have? Seriously, what is wrong with you? I gotta

887
00:43:06,239 --> 00:43:09,319
Speaker 1: update the sounds on the button bar. It's time on

888
00:43:09,360 --> 00:43:10,680
Speaker 1: our podcast.

889
00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,799
Speaker 4: So Khalil Herbert and Roshawn Johnson. Last year was an

890
00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:19,040
Speaker 4: almost even split between Herbert Johnson and Foreman from Inside Australia.

891
00:43:19,920 --> 00:43:24,000
Speaker 4: But maybe Waldron uses Swift as a bell cow similarly

892
00:43:24,040 --> 00:43:26,200
Speaker 4: to how he used Kenneth Walker in Seattle. Or was

893
00:43:26,239 --> 00:43:27,799
Speaker 4: that maybe a Pete Carroll philosophy.

894
00:43:27,840 --> 00:43:28,239
Speaker 3: I don't know.

895
00:43:28,440 --> 00:43:31,320
Speaker 1: Yeah, And the other thing that worries me is Swift

896
00:43:31,960 --> 00:43:34,080
Speaker 1: was the bell cow in Philly for the most part.

897
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:37,280
Speaker 1: I mean, you got overwhelming number of carries in. It

898
00:43:37,520 --> 00:43:40,760
Speaker 1: just didn't materialize outside of house in the Vikings. Literally

899
00:43:40,840 --> 00:43:43,719
Speaker 1: it was the tush push that did him in Well

900
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:44,719
Speaker 1: that that certainly hurt.

901
00:43:45,000 --> 00:43:47,840
Speaker 4: It hurts him a lot. So I think the running

902
00:43:47,840 --> 00:43:50,520
Speaker 4: game gets better in Chicago. I'm not sure it's going

903
00:43:50,560 --> 00:43:53,640
Speaker 4: to go all to Swift, but and it might be

904
00:43:53,680 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 4: more of a split than we like, but I think

905
00:43:56,160 --> 00:43:58,320
Speaker 4: that things overall get better for the Bears on the

906
00:43:58,400 --> 00:43:58,879
Speaker 4: running side.

907
00:43:58,920 --> 00:44:00,800
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the Detroit Allions, our last,

908
00:44:00,960 --> 00:44:04,760
Speaker 1: our last team here. This is the league's most unchanged offense.

909
00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:07,920
Speaker 1: You've got you have one new full time starter guard,

910
00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:13,640
Speaker 1: Kevin Zeitler. We referenced early Baltimore. Baltimore. Yeah, Jared Goff

911
00:44:13,640 --> 00:44:17,720
Speaker 1: got a contract extension. They did lose committee receiver Josh

912
00:44:17,760 --> 00:44:21,239
Speaker 1: Reynolds now in Denver passing game, he already know. I'm

913
00:44:21,280 --> 00:44:23,560
Speaker 1: on Ross. Saint Brown is great. Current ADP is seven

914
00:44:23,640 --> 00:44:26,560
Speaker 1: overall and it is totally deserved. No problem with that

915
00:44:26,600 --> 00:44:30,600
Speaker 1: at all. With Josh Reynolds gone, there's a big vacuum

916
00:44:30,640 --> 00:44:34,680
Speaker 1: after Saint Brown. It's not gonna be Cleiff Raymond. The

917
00:44:34,840 --> 00:44:37,920
Speaker 1: hope is Jamison Williams will fill it.

918
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:40,600
Speaker 3: That's the hope here. So let's talk it through a

919
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:41,040
Speaker 3: little bit.

920
00:44:41,080 --> 00:44:43,560
Speaker 4: Have been able to start either of the last two seasons.

921
00:44:43,640 --> 00:44:45,800
Speaker 4: Noh yeah, random stuff exactly.

922
00:44:45,880 --> 00:44:48,120
Speaker 1: So he had the rookie a cl and then his

923
00:44:48,200 --> 00:44:50,040
Speaker 1: sophomore year he had the Gable League suspension.

924
00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:52,160
Speaker 3: So will this be.

925
00:44:52,239 --> 00:44:54,719
Speaker 1: The year three breakout for Jamison Williams.

926
00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:57,600
Speaker 4: Do they do year three breakouts on wide receivers anymore?

927
00:44:57,960 --> 00:44:59,840
Speaker 3: I feel like we're still publishing.

928
00:44:59,400 --> 00:45:02,560
Speaker 1: The magazine Nico Collins. Nco Collins just had their year

929
00:45:02,600 --> 00:45:07,239
Speaker 1: three breakout. To this point for Williams, the problems opportunity.

930
00:45:07,360 --> 00:45:10,040
Speaker 1: He's not on the field enough. He's only averaging three

931
00:45:10,120 --> 00:45:14,040
Speaker 1: targets per game now. Fortunately Reynolds leaves behind four and

932
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:16,479
Speaker 1: a half targets per game. Maybe he gets half of those,

933
00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:18,880
Speaker 1: So maybe he gets up to like Williams gets up

934
00:45:18,920 --> 00:45:20,959
Speaker 1: to like five targets a game, And now you're starting

935
00:45:21,000 --> 00:45:24,000
Speaker 1: to get into quasi fantasy viability.

936
00:45:24,760 --> 00:45:26,240
Speaker 3: He had the deep a dot.

937
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:29,399
Speaker 1: As people know, he's all about the long ball over

938
00:45:29,520 --> 00:45:31,600
Speaker 1: sixteen yards per target.

939
00:45:31,760 --> 00:45:32,840
Speaker 3: That's huge. That's huge.

940
00:45:32,840 --> 00:45:35,239
Speaker 1: We love that from our fantasy players. It gives you

941
00:45:35,280 --> 00:45:38,239
Speaker 1: the opportunity for the big gains, you know, and Saint

942
00:45:38,280 --> 00:45:40,200
Speaker 1: Brown and Sam laport are gonna soak up a ton

943
00:45:40,200 --> 00:45:42,880
Speaker 1: of catches, but not enough that there can't be a

944
00:45:43,120 --> 00:45:47,360
Speaker 1: third meaningful fantasy player from this passing offense.

945
00:45:47,440 --> 00:45:49,840
Speaker 4: Well in, Saint Brown and Laporta are both kind of

946
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:50,760
Speaker 4: short a dots.

947
00:45:51,000 --> 00:45:51,319
Speaker 3: They are.

948
00:45:51,480 --> 00:45:52,120
Speaker 1: That's a good point.

949
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:54,320
Speaker 3: That's a good point. I gotta have somebody deep.

950
00:45:54,280 --> 00:45:58,319
Speaker 1: And that's that's where Jamison Williams figures in. Probably now

951
00:45:58,600 --> 00:46:00,440
Speaker 1: the other problem he's got to get over. He has

952
00:46:00,520 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 1: the fourth worst drop ball ratio in football, a staggering

953
00:46:04,719 --> 00:46:08,640
Speaker 1: fourteen percent drop rate for Jamison Williams on a small sample.

954
00:46:08,680 --> 00:46:09,560
Speaker 3: Suze yep.

955
00:46:09,960 --> 00:46:13,319
Speaker 1: Right now, Williams go off the board wide receiver forty nine,

956
00:46:13,640 --> 00:46:15,120
Speaker 1: round ten. What do you think of that?

957
00:46:16,280 --> 00:46:17,439
Speaker 3: It sounds about right.

958
00:46:17,520 --> 00:46:19,800
Speaker 4: I actually thought it might have been a little bit lower.

959
00:46:19,960 --> 00:46:22,280
Speaker 4: I did too, since his he didn't have the production

960
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:24,960
Speaker 4: in the past. But obviously people are baking in the

961
00:46:25,040 --> 00:46:26,440
Speaker 4: opportunity here for sure.

962
00:46:26,920 --> 00:46:28,000
Speaker 1: I don't think we have to spend a lot of

963
00:46:28,000 --> 00:46:29,759
Speaker 1: time on Sam Laporta going after the board is tight

964
00:46:29,800 --> 00:46:32,000
Speaker 1: end one end of the second round in the lead

965
00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:35,239
Speaker 1: talent that in an offense that that catered to him

966
00:46:35,239 --> 00:46:39,520
Speaker 1: and used Laporta copiously, no problem where he's getting drafted

967
00:46:39,520 --> 00:46:40,319
Speaker 1: into the second round.

968
00:46:40,400 --> 00:46:41,000
Speaker 3: He's awesome.

969
00:46:41,440 --> 00:46:42,840
Speaker 1: Does he get better or worse this year for the

970
00:46:42,840 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 1: passing game, It's hard to imagine it's going to get

971
00:46:45,560 --> 00:46:47,799
Speaker 1: better because it was already really good last year. I'm

972
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:51,120
Speaker 1: on Ross Saint Brown was fantastic, Laporta was fantastic. But

973
00:46:51,200 --> 00:46:53,520
Speaker 1: maybe Laporta gets even better. Is in a sophomore year,

974
00:46:53,800 --> 00:46:56,840
Speaker 1: so maybe there's a little increment up in his passing game.

975
00:46:57,480 --> 00:46:59,839
Speaker 1: So maybe slightly better. But I can't see it getting

976
00:46:59,840 --> 00:47:01,520
Speaker 1: a lot better because it was already great. Let's go

977
00:47:01,560 --> 00:47:05,080
Speaker 1: to the running game, no changes, Jami or Gibbs, David

978
00:47:05,120 --> 00:47:09,160
Speaker 1: Montgomery returning here, this kind of fun. Matt team put

979
00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:12,640
Speaker 1: a fourth round pick into a guy named Sion Vaki,

980
00:47:13,280 --> 00:47:17,799
Speaker 1: a two way player. He played safety and running back

981
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:22,560
Speaker 1: who spent three years in Tonga as a missionary for

982
00:47:22,640 --> 00:47:24,480
Speaker 1: the Church of Latter Day Saints.

983
00:47:24,920 --> 00:47:26,000
Speaker 3: You don't hear a lot of this.

984
00:47:26,120 --> 00:47:29,120
Speaker 4: It seems like just like a Dan Campbell guy. All

985
00:47:29,160 --> 00:47:31,600
Speaker 4: this guy is just a he's a football player.

986
00:47:31,719 --> 00:47:32,680
Speaker 3: I think that's some of it.

987
00:47:33,360 --> 00:47:36,160
Speaker 1: He was a finalist for the Paul Horning Award, given

988
00:47:36,160 --> 00:47:40,319
Speaker 1: to college football's most versatile player. Two way player makes sense, right,

989
00:47:41,200 --> 00:47:43,799
Speaker 1: slated to be a special teamer, so probably no big

990
00:47:43,880 --> 00:47:47,160
Speaker 1: change there. I thought, this is fascinating, though. Where do

991
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:50,960
Speaker 1: you think Gibbs and Montgomery finished in Fantasy points last year?

992
00:47:52,120 --> 00:47:53,600
Speaker 1: Off the top of your head. Off the top, and

993
00:47:53,640 --> 00:47:56,120
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to trap you, no, And it's a

994
00:47:56,160 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 1: little unfair to ask.

995
00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:59,879
Speaker 4: I think they're both right around top fourteen ish.

996
00:48:00,239 --> 00:48:03,120
Speaker 1: Nice job. Gibbs was nine, Monty was ten.

997
00:48:03,320 --> 00:48:05,320
Speaker 4: Okay, so I was gonna I was gonna say ten.

998
00:48:05,280 --> 00:48:08,840
Speaker 1: Twelve, like right there, Yeah, you did, absolutely, you were

999
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:10,640
Speaker 1: right in the window.

1000
00:48:11,280 --> 00:48:14,640
Speaker 4: And Montgomery mostly due to all the touchdowns he scored.

1001
00:48:16,000 --> 00:48:19,799
Speaker 1: Hold on, I think you're gonna be surprised, so our listeners.

1002
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:25,359
Speaker 1: So Gibbs going out the board, RB four. Yep, right,

1003
00:48:25,840 --> 00:48:31,360
Speaker 1: Montgomery going off the board RB twenty two. So you attempted,

1004
00:48:31,440 --> 00:48:33,520
Speaker 1: you know, you know, these guys finished nine and ten.

1005
00:48:33,719 --> 00:48:36,399
Speaker 1: Why is Gibbs going four in Montgomery going twenty two?

1006
00:48:36,560 --> 00:48:39,799
Speaker 1: And the the natural inclination might be to say, well,

1007
00:48:39,840 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 1: Montgomery got a bunch of touchdowns that Gibbs didn't get.

1008
00:48:44,320 --> 00:48:48,279
Speaker 1: They were within one of each other on touchdowns. Montgomery

1009
00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:53,200
Speaker 1: had had eleven hundred yards. Wow, eleven hundred yards. Gibbs

1010
00:48:53,239 --> 00:48:56,520
Speaker 1: had twelve hundred yards. They were almost identical in production,

1011
00:48:57,280 --> 00:48:59,160
Speaker 1: and yet they're going off the board. Is running back

1012
00:48:59,160 --> 00:49:00,440
Speaker 1: four and running back two two.

1013
00:49:01,960 --> 00:49:05,160
Speaker 4: This is just new player bias, which is huge.

1014
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:08,440
Speaker 1: Andsanactly what it is, and highlight bias because Gibbs is

1015
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:13,880
Speaker 1: a highlight machine and we remember the flashy plays. Montgomery

1016
00:49:13,960 --> 00:49:14,879
Speaker 1: wasn't flashy guy.

1017
00:49:15,200 --> 00:49:17,720
Speaker 4: And it's way more fun to say Jamir.

1018
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:20,040
Speaker 3: Gibbs than David montgomer.

1019
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:23,080
Speaker 4: There is something to that. I swear to God that

1020
00:49:23,200 --> 00:49:25,319
Speaker 4: people like names.

1021
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:25,680
Speaker 3: That are cool.

1022
00:49:26,400 --> 00:49:29,120
Speaker 4: David Montgomery is about the most boring name for a

1023
00:49:29,200 --> 00:49:30,279
Speaker 4: running back of all time.

1024
00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:33,040
Speaker 1: I you know what, I never considered that, but you're

1025
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:36,719
Speaker 1: a hundred Jamiir Gibbs is a way cooler sounding. Yeah, exactly,

1026
00:49:36,960 --> 00:49:39,520
Speaker 1: without a doubt, without a doubt. All right, that wraps

1027
00:49:39,600 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 1: up this episode. Thank you, Matt. Yeah, this has been

1028
00:49:41,520 --> 00:49:44,360
Speaker 1: add It has been a ton of fun. I'm drafting

1029
00:49:44,400 --> 00:49:47,840
Speaker 1: Montgomery picked running back twenty two. I think so seven.

1030
00:49:48,120 --> 00:49:49,719
Speaker 1: That's my DT. Oh, this is my duty.

1031
00:49:49,760 --> 00:49:50,680
Speaker 3: Opposite guy.

1032
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:54,040
Speaker 4: We We've covered so many over the last two episodes,

1033
00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:54,719
Speaker 4: so many.

1034
00:49:54,520 --> 00:49:55,680
Speaker 3: Do the opposite guys.

1035
00:49:55,760 --> 00:49:58,120
Speaker 4: Yes, we got Pacheco, we got we got some of

1036
00:49:58,160 --> 00:50:01,759
Speaker 4: the Chargers running backs. Late got it's got Montgomery. There

1037
00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:04,440
Speaker 4: there's a you can build a really good backfield I

1038
00:50:04,520 --> 00:50:05,799
Speaker 4: know between the fourth.

1039
00:50:06,280 --> 00:50:10,200
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely. Thanks for listening everybody. We'll be back

1040
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:13,800
Speaker 1: with more next week with more Fantasy Football Weekly. Fantasy

1041
00:50:13,800 --> 00:50:17,400
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