WEBVTT - Darn Old Man 0:00:00.680 --> 0:00:04.400 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:10.800 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:14.840 source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:18.239 whatever stupid stuff they decide to drop into the show. Now, 0:00:18.280 --> 0:00:20.000 here's your host, Paul Chargion. 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:25.640 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. 0:00:26.000 --> 0:00:29.880 I am Paul charging My co host is Matt Harrison 0:00:30.040 --> 0:00:31.160 Shock Fantasy. 0:00:31.280 --> 0:00:33.000 Hi Matt, Hello, how are you doing. 0:00:33.159 --> 0:00:34.240 Nice to have you back this week. 0:00:34.360 --> 0:00:36.640 Yes, all right, back to back, Matt Harrison's. 0:00:36.760 --> 0:00:38.560 I mean that's what the people want, that's what the 0:00:38.640 --> 0:00:39.159 people get. 0:00:39.280 --> 0:00:42.080 Yeah, well, I'd like to literally see your back on 0:00:42.200 --> 0:00:44.800 the front and back, which would look weird. Oh, but 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:47.560 that Yeah, we can do back to back to back. 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:50.840 Yeah, my back is looking a little better than my front. 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:52.240 I I got to try to get the belly, had 0:00:52.240 --> 0:00:55.880 to drop a few LB's. The problem is your proximity 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:57.120 to Big Boar Barbecue. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:00:57.800 That is true. 0:00:57.840 --> 0:01:00.400 It's about a mile mile and a half from my house, 0:01:00.480 --> 0:01:02.560 and you need to move. 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:06.240 You're too close to Big Boar. You know, I'm twenty 0:01:06.240 --> 0:01:08.480 minutes away, So it's a concerted effort for me. 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:12.160 Yeah, maybe I should like only walk or bike there. 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:14.520 From now. Oh, that's a great idea. Yeah, I like it. 0:01:14.560 --> 0:01:17.960 Of course in Minnesota that's half of the year. That's 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:19.240 a tricky proposition. 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:21.679 Well, it's not that far of a walk. I can 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:22.200 do that walk. 0:01:22.240 --> 0:01:25.040 You gonna bike it in February. 0:01:24.560 --> 0:01:26.520 No, and not when it's slippery. I'll put on the 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:28.360 snow shoes and walk it over there. 0:01:28.440 --> 0:01:30.319 The people who do the biking in the winter with 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:33.680 the big fat tires, like that's dedication right there. 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:36.440 Yeah, I don't like it that much, if you know, 0:01:36.520 --> 0:01:40.679 I don't like biking that much in order in order 0:01:40.720 --> 0:01:43.800 to like, you know, really commit to it in the 0:01:43.840 --> 0:01:44.440 winter time. 0:01:44.840 --> 0:01:47.160 No, I'm with you. Although I did e bikes for 0:01:47.200 --> 0:01:49.160 the first time. Oh yeah, a couple of months ago 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:54.640 when I was when I was in Utah, and that's 0:01:54.640 --> 0:01:56.280 ion they're so fun. 0:01:56.600 --> 0:01:57.600 E bikes are a blast. 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:02.640 Yeah, it's they're not fully motorized, but they take everything 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:03.400 that you pedal. 0:02:03.520 --> 0:02:06.920 You get like five x the return one. 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:09.280 So you know, you can go up these really big. 0:02:09.160 --> 0:02:10.720 Hills no problem. Okay. 0:02:10.760 --> 0:02:12.960 And you know I was, you know, go uphill twenty 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.880 miles an hour by pedaling, you know, a quarter as 0:02:15.919 --> 0:02:17.760 hard as you would have had to work on a 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:18.440 regular bike. 0:02:18.880 --> 0:02:19.680 I did. I did not. 0:02:19.960 --> 0:02:22.520 I did not expect it to be fun. They're blast 0:02:22.600 --> 0:02:23.680 e bikes are super fun. 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:27.160 Are you're gonna get one? No? 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:29.680 Okay, because at the end of the day, like you, 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.160 at the end of the day, do I really want 0:02:31.200 --> 0:02:31.799 to I don't. 0:02:32.200 --> 0:02:33.519 I don't think I want a bike anywhere at the 0:02:33.600 --> 0:02:34.000 end of the day. 0:02:34.000 --> 0:02:36.200 Well, you could get get a couple and you could 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:37.400 keep them with the camper. 0:02:37.919 --> 0:02:39.639 Oh that's true. Now, that would be the use case. 0:02:39.680 --> 0:02:41.400 Would be in the camp Yeah for sure, not in it, 0:02:41.440 --> 0:02:44.480 but yeah, yeah, brought with it. Yeah, exactly that space 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:45.360 inside the camper. 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:47.840 Well, if nobody's in the camper at the time, you 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:49.320 could throw the bikes in there. 0:02:49.360 --> 0:02:52.080 Yeah, I could do that. But that's the the ideally 0:02:52.200 --> 0:02:55.680 is you are in like national parks, state parks, and 0:02:56.080 --> 0:02:57.880 you know, seeing all kinds of cool stuff. Then yeah, 0:02:57.880 --> 0:02:59.639 I think it'd be absolutely that's great. Why don't you 0:02:59.639 --> 0:02:59.960 buy me. 0:03:02.200 --> 0:03:02.280 That? 0:03:02.400 --> 0:03:07.919 With that big Fantasy Football Week, I love it all right. 0:03:08.320 --> 0:03:11.680 This is the fourth of our four shows breaking down 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:15.760 all the teams in the NFL, highlighting key changes from 0:03:15.880 --> 0:03:20.080 last year, and out broad outlooks for each of these teams. 0:03:20.639 --> 0:03:23.480 We've done everything but the North teams. So now we 0:03:23.560 --> 0:03:26.200 go to the AFC North Matt. Let's start with the 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:27.040 Baltimore Ravens. 0:03:27.080 --> 0:03:27.600 Yeah, I mean. 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:31.480 The biggest addition to the backfield literally is Derrick Henry, 0:03:31.800 --> 0:03:34.000 who comes over from the Titans. We'll talk more about 0:03:34.080 --> 0:03:36.960 him in a minute. They did lose their other running backs, 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.720 Gus Edwards and JK. Dobbins both find themselves on the 0:03:39.720 --> 0:03:40.640 West Coast. 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:41.040 With the Chargers. 0:03:42.080 --> 0:03:46.640 They also lost three starting offensive linemen and Kevin Zeitler, 0:03:46.720 --> 0:03:51.680 John Simpson, and Morgan Moses. Second round rookie Roger Rosengarten 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:55.160 is expected to take over at right tackle, while Ben 0:03:55.280 --> 0:03:58.800 Cleveland and Andrew Vorhees are slated to take over at guard. 0:03:59.200 --> 0:04:02.000 But anytime you placed three offensive line necks, a little 0:04:02.000 --> 0:04:05.680 bit of a red flag for an offense areed. Last year, 0:04:05.720 --> 0:04:08.400 the Ravens went eight to no in games where Lamar 0:04:08.480 --> 0:04:12.840 Jackson was sacked two or fewer times. Wow, okay, all right, 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:17.719 so that factors into that passing game. Jackson missed nine 0:04:17.800 --> 0:04:22.240 total games. There we go nine high, Hey, there we 0:04:22.360 --> 0:04:25.040 are right in twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two 0:04:25.080 --> 0:04:27.919 due to injury. But at an MVP season in twenty three, 0:04:28.200 --> 0:04:30.640 where he was able to set a new career best 0:04:30.720 --> 0:04:34.200 in passing yards just about thirty seven hundred yards, a 0:04:34.240 --> 0:04:37.440 full five hundred more than his previous career high. That's 0:04:37.480 --> 0:04:40.120 Todd Mounkin. He certainly helped with that, as did the 0:04:40.160 --> 0:04:43.120 emergence of Zay Flowers as a top flight receiving option 0:04:43.800 --> 0:04:47.919 I like today. Flowers definitely started to bloom at the 0:04:48.040 --> 0:04:51.760 end of the season. He scored four scored four times 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:54.720 in his last five regular season games and averaged five 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:58.800 catches per game over that span. Rashad Bateman and Nelson 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:00.960 Aguilar appear to be guys. 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:03.360 Well you know, they're banging the drum for Bateman again. Yeah, 0:05:03.400 --> 0:05:05.799 they ah, this is going to be the breakout. Yeah, trying. 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:08.640 But I want people to keep an eye on rookie 0:05:08.720 --> 0:05:12.360 devontees Walker maybe popping up and stealing some targets later 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:14.760 in the season. They're talking about him as a guy 0:05:14.800 --> 0:05:18.840 who just has just like raw athletic ability, and that 0:05:19.120 --> 0:05:21.760 kind of seems interesting to me. In that offense, Mark 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.159 Andrews should finally be fully healthy at the starting training camp. 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:28.680 He's still a top five tight end, so will get 0:05:28.680 --> 0:05:31.520 better or worse for the passing game. I struggled with 0:05:31.560 --> 0:05:35.000 this one. I think it gets slightly worse, mostly because 0:05:35.000 --> 0:05:38.560 I'm nervous about how that O line gels with sixty 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:42.239 percent of new pieces. I agree the running game. Dereck 0:05:42.360 --> 0:05:46.160 Henry is thirty years old. He's played eight seasons and 0:05:46.240 --> 0:05:49.800 has had two thousand and thirty career carries. 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:50.640 That's that's a lot. 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:54.119 Forty second in NFL history. He just passed Roger Craig, 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:57.680 who played for eleven years. Yeah, Gerald Riggs who played 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.360 for ten years, and herschel Walker who played for eleven seas. 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:03.520 And Henry's at eight and those first few years he 0:06:03.600 --> 0:06:05.760 was lightly used. Yeah, you know, he was in a 0:06:05.760 --> 0:06:08.640 timeshare backfield, most dominating writers. 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:11.640 Right, But just for fun, if he gets another two 0:06:11.720 --> 0:06:14.760 hundred carries this year, he's gonna pass these guys in charch. 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.320 I want you to give me a one sentence blurb 0:06:17.720 --> 0:06:21.200 on each of these guys. Okay, they're from your fantasy passage, Okay, 0:06:21.279 --> 0:06:21.640 all right. 0:06:21.640 --> 0:06:25.920 Aman Green, he was shockingly good for the Packers, was 0:06:25.920 --> 0:06:27.839 an all purpose back. But I never would have guessed 0:06:27.880 --> 0:06:30.520 that he was at this level of I didn't remember 0:06:30.560 --> 0:06:33.440 having this kind of longevity in his career over. 0:06:33.240 --> 0:06:34.159 Two thousand carries. 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:38.200 All Right, Willis mcgahey, against all odds. He had the 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:42.479 horrifying injuries. Yeah, and everybody just assumed that, you know, 0:06:42.560 --> 0:06:44.800 he would like never play again, and the fact that 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.200 he went on to a long, productive career was shocking. 0:06:47.400 --> 0:06:47.799 Yeah. 0:06:48.000 --> 0:06:51.160 Ernest Biner, Oh, Ernestiner, So he was. 0:06:51.279 --> 0:06:54.920 It was the Kevin Mack Ernest Biner duo, frustrating fantasy 0:06:54.920 --> 0:06:58.200 owners in the nineties for the Cleveland Browns. 0:06:58.320 --> 0:06:59.920 Yes, Terry Allen. 0:07:00.960 --> 0:07:05.119 Terry Allen was a longtime Minnesota Viking who was the 0:07:05.120 --> 0:07:09.520 the first player to come back from acls on each knee. 0:07:09.720 --> 0:07:09.920 Yeah. 0:07:10.480 --> 0:07:16.600 Chris Johnson, Chris Johnson, I because nickname. Maybe you've ever 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:19.840 given the tap dancing Nancy Chris Johnson. 0:07:19.880 --> 0:07:23.320 I had forgot about that. He was a tap dancing Nancy. 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:24.720 That's what he was. 0:07:25.360 --> 0:07:29.280 I hated that guy, and part because two thousand yards 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.960 of I hated that guy exact. He had a couple 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.960 of just great seasons and everybody was like, always better 0:07:35.000 --> 0:07:38.480 than Adrian Peterson, It's not even close. And Peterson went 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:40.400 on too obviously far out clips him. 0:07:40.480 --> 0:07:41.600 Okay, I got a couple more. 0:07:41.680 --> 0:07:46.280 Earl Campbell, Yeah, before my time too. But obviously Earl 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.680 Campbell one of the great power running backs of all time. 0:07:48.760 --> 0:07:52.280 We've all seen the classic highlight of him literally shredding 0:07:52.320 --> 0:07:56.080 the jersey if a player, No, they shred his jersey. 0:07:56.080 --> 0:07:58.720 It just keeping just yeah and him just mowing down. 0:07:58.520 --> 0:08:02.000 Guys fanatics built jerseys back then. 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:06.920 Sean Alexander, Yeah, I'll always first remember his six touchdown 0:08:06.960 --> 0:08:08.200 game against my Vikings. 0:08:08.320 --> 0:08:08.960 Yeah, yep. 0:08:09.040 --> 0:08:10.600 And then finally Tiki Barber. 0:08:11.240 --> 0:08:13.960 Yeah, he went on to he had a long, good career. 0:08:14.040 --> 0:08:16.720 He did. He was part of the Thunder and Lightning. 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:19.680 Crew with Brandon Jacobs brand. Yeah, it's nicely done. It was, 0:08:19.720 --> 0:08:22.680 that was exactly what was Brandon Jacobs. Jacobs should have 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:26.560 had a longer, better career, but it didn't. It all, 0:08:26.560 --> 0:08:29.120 It all kind of fizzled out. Tiaki had a long career. 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:29.800 There, but those guys. 0:08:29.960 --> 0:08:32.839 Dereck Henry's going to pass all year with two two 0:08:32.880 --> 0:08:34.120 hundred carries seems very likely. 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:37.080 Yeah, And by the way, all the goal line work, 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:38.480 all the goal line work. 0:08:38.520 --> 0:08:42.040 He's had double digit touchdowns in six straight seasons. In 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:45.000 those six seasons, he's averaged twenty carries per game. If 0:08:45.040 --> 0:08:47.640 the Ravens are planning on giving him twenty carries per game. 0:08:47.640 --> 0:08:50.080 That's three hundred and forty carries. He might not make it, 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:52.400 but I do think he's gonna be an inside the 0:08:52.440 --> 0:08:56.840 five beast though another ten plus scores probably a lock 0:08:56.880 --> 0:08:57.800 if he stays healthy. 0:08:57.920 --> 0:08:58.120 Yeah. 0:08:58.200 --> 0:09:01.400 Backups are Keaton Mitchell, who probably won't return till mid season. 0:09:01.480 --> 0:09:04.280 Yeah that's too bad, because man, he looked promising, you know, 0:09:04.320 --> 0:09:06.400 and a lot of what I loved about him requires 0:09:06.440 --> 0:09:07.760 a two healthy knees. 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:11.000 Yeah, let's see Justice Hill is still there. I mean, 0:09:11.200 --> 0:09:14.800 Justice Hill could be relevant if Henry starts suddenly. 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:15.200 Is hurt? 0:09:16.000 --> 0:09:18.960 Ravens backs last year finished fifth in the league in 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:22.680 PPR Fantasy points. Most of that was due to twenty 0:09:22.840 --> 0:09:25.040 running back rushing touchdowns last year. 0:09:25.040 --> 0:09:25.520 How about that? 0:09:25.679 --> 0:09:29.240 I didn't know that they combined for twenty running back 0:09:29.320 --> 0:09:30.400 rushing touchdown Gus. 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.160 Edwards led the NFL and carries inside the five. 0:09:33.280 --> 0:09:36.240 Yeah? Is it better or worse this year? I do 0:09:36.360 --> 0:09:38.520 like Henry better than what they had last year, so 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:40.760 I'll say it's slightly better. But I don't know if 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:44.520 they can score at that twenty running back no rushing 0:09:44.720 --> 0:09:45.320 probably not. 0:09:45.440 --> 0:09:49.240 But if I told you Derrick Henry is going to 0:09:49.360 --> 0:09:51.319 lead the NFL and rushing touchdowns. 0:09:51.360 --> 0:09:54.640 You'd be like, yeah, sure, absolutely could see that feasible. Yeah, 0:09:54.679 --> 0:09:58.040 it's not a peacock off thing right there, It really isn't. 0:09:58.400 --> 0:10:01.040 That's it to go to the Cleveland Browns. Start with 0:10:01.040 --> 0:10:03.079 the passing game. It is a make or break year 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:07.720 for Deshaun Watson. As it stands today early June, the 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:11.600 Deshaun Watson trade and its connected contract is the worst 0:10:11.720 --> 0:10:16.840 deal in NFL history. Herschel Walker points and mocks the 0:10:16.880 --> 0:10:18.200 Deshaun Watson trade. 0:10:18.240 --> 0:10:20.640 It's basically built the current Houston tex. 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.880 It has into a Super Bowl continued you have going 0:10:22.920 --> 0:10:23.680 to the Super Bowl. 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:24.440 That's right. 0:10:25.160 --> 0:10:31.760 Through two injury Leyden seasons in Cleveland, Watson has been awful. 0:10:33.360 --> 0:10:37.320 He's the NFL's highest paid quarterback. He ranked twenty sixth 0:10:37.520 --> 0:10:41.160 as a passer by Pro Football Focus in between backup Now, 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:47.000 backup Justin Fields and unrostered Ryan Tannehill. In each of 0:10:47.000 --> 0:10:49.720 the past two seasons, Deshaun Watson has played about one 0:10:49.840 --> 0:10:54.000 third of the year and accumulated seven passing touchdowns and 0:10:54.120 --> 0:10:55.520 seven passing touchdowns. 0:10:56.240 --> 0:10:58.760 You can't even hit nine times on that, No, I can't, 0:10:58.800 --> 0:10:59.880 which is ridiculous. 0:11:00.160 --> 0:11:02.200 Consider he's the highest paid player in the NFL and 0:11:02.240 --> 0:11:04.439 he's given you seven and seven passing touchdowns and the 0:11:04.520 --> 0:11:06.319 granted injuries factored into that. 0:11:06.320 --> 0:11:08.280 That even if you were most. 0:11:08.120 --> 0:11:11.520 Charitable and you were to pro rate his seven passing 0:11:11.559 --> 0:11:14.480 touchdowns across a whole season, like if you played all 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:19.080 seventeen games, you'd have twenty passing touchdowns a year. That 0:11:19.320 --> 0:11:23.520 is terrible. That is appropriate for a middle and rookie prospect. 0:11:23.760 --> 0:11:27.200 He completed. Watson completed just sixty one percent of his passes. 0:11:27.240 --> 0:11:32.199 That ranked him thirty sixth, and his adjusted completion percentage 0:11:32.280 --> 0:11:36.240 isn't much better, ranking him thirtieth. And finally, and I've 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:40.400 hammered on this so many times, Deshaun Watson doesn't run anymore. 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:43.280 For everybody thinks you're getting rushing touchdowns because you're remembering 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:46.040 the Houston days. In two seasons of Cleveland, he has 0:11:46.160 --> 0:11:51.880 one rushing touchdown. And even more poignant, last year, he 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:57.400 had thirty seven total rushing yards on designed runs. 0:11:59.000 --> 0:11:59.640 That's it. 0:12:00.000 --> 0:12:01.960 And he designed runs where they hit and not many, 0:12:02.000 --> 0:12:05.240 but well, yes, that is something like that. Not even 0:12:06.080 --> 0:12:09.760 he they don't use him that way, So ken Deshaun 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:12.480 Watson get better. Well, okay, sure, I mean he was 0:12:12.520 --> 0:12:15.400 way better in Houston. He's only twenty nine years old. 0:12:16.040 --> 0:12:19.840 But what I don't know is is he just mentally broken? 0:12:20.400 --> 0:12:25.040 I mean, is you know, after what he did to himself, 0:12:25.360 --> 0:12:29.200 how he sabotaged his own career entirely at his own fault, 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:33.360 is is he now mentally broken? And that's you know, 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:36.840 we don't know for sure. Your glimmer of hope is 0:12:36.920 --> 0:12:39.800 that is what Joe Flacco walked in and did. Yeh, 0:12:39.840 --> 0:12:44.480 Because you could have said, in this Kevin Stefanski Cleveland offense, 0:12:44.679 --> 0:12:48.640 no quarterback can ever be fantasy productive because it's always 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.440 going to be about what they can do on the 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:54.199 ground first and everything else. But Joe Flacco walked in 0:12:54.440 --> 0:12:59.680 and rocked this passing game. Yeah, so maybe Deshaun Watson 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.960 can do some of what Joe Flacco did at age 0:13:03.000 --> 0:13:03.600 sixty two. 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:07.120 Do you feel like the aforementioned Ryan Tannehill, who's still 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:10.120 a free atory at this moment, wouldn't that be kind 0:13:10.120 --> 0:13:11.000 of nice if he was there? 0:13:11.000 --> 0:13:11.240 I know that. 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:13.760 I think they signed Tyler Huntley as the backup. 0:13:13.840 --> 0:13:15.080 Yeah, Tyler Huntley is there. 0:13:15.120 --> 0:13:18.920 I'm a little nervous about that, but it seems like 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:21.240 Tannerhill could come in and do a Flaco maybe if 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:22.720 Watson's not working out. 0:13:22.960 --> 0:13:26.040 Your new face among the receivers is Jerry Judy. In Denver, 0:13:26.200 --> 0:13:28.560 he ran over half his routes from the slot. But 0:13:28.640 --> 0:13:32.319 the problem is that's where Elijah Mitchell and Cedric Tillman 0:13:32.520 --> 0:13:36.000 often play Okay slot as well, so that doesn't give 0:13:36.080 --> 0:13:38.600 him really anywhere to go there. The Browns don't pass 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:41.839 enough in my mind to feed Amari Cooper, David and Joku. 0:13:41.960 --> 0:13:43.440 We'll talk about a little bit more in a second. 0:13:43.880 --> 0:13:47.160 And well, frankly anybody else, including Jerry Judy. So I'm 0:13:47.160 --> 0:13:49.840 out on Judy, not interested, and I think he's just 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:51.800 going to go to Cleveland and Witherway and die. And 0:13:52.160 --> 0:13:53.319 at the end of the year, we're going to look 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:56.680 back at like a four touchdown season and somebody maybe 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:58.599 had to start once off the waiver wire in a 0:13:58.640 --> 0:13:59.120 bye week. 0:13:59.559 --> 0:14:01.640 Yeah, be a take a chance, maybe a take a 0:14:01.720 --> 0:14:02.680 chance on me cap player. 0:14:02.760 --> 0:14:04.319 That's the kind of player I think Jerry duty is 0:14:04.320 --> 0:14:06.120 going to devolve into here and already was at the 0:14:06.200 --> 0:14:09.520 end of last year. Let's talk David Joku though in 0:14:09.600 --> 0:14:13.520 many scoring systems, second half of last year, many of it, 0:14:13.880 --> 0:14:17.079 much of it powered by Joe Flacco tight end one whoa. 0:14:17.640 --> 0:14:18.840 I did not see that come. 0:14:18.840 --> 0:14:23.880 From Week eight forward in Joku scored or topped fifty 0:14:24.000 --> 0:14:28.720 eight yards in every game but one. Wow, really impressive 0:14:29.520 --> 0:14:32.200 those blow and he had some blow up games almost 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:37.240 entirely with Joe Flacco. His average game under Watson just 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:41.560 thirty five yards and zero point two touchdowns per game. 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:45.080 Oh man, he was basically like, you know, double or 0:14:45.120 --> 0:14:49.040 triple the fantasy points scorer under Joe Flacco. And that's 0:14:49.080 --> 0:14:53.280 your danger within JOKU is what happens with Watson under quarterback? 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:53.480 Now? 0:14:53.640 --> 0:14:56.520 Yeah, So does the passing game get better or worse? 0:14:56.560 --> 0:14:58.280 I think it's worse. I mean just Watson is a 0:14:58.280 --> 0:14:59.400 downgrade from Joe Flacco. 0:15:00.080 --> 0:15:02.320 I unless I was. 0:15:02.280 --> 0:15:05.040 Out of the know at the beginning of last year, 0:15:05.160 --> 0:15:08.680 and now that DeShawn Watson's a downgrade from him, it's 0:15:08.720 --> 0:15:11.440 come to this. The running game, uh, considering that Nick 0:15:11.520 --> 0:15:15.840 Chubb tore his a CL, MCL and meniscus way back 0:15:15.880 --> 0:15:18.320 in Week two, to me, it's a little bit troubling 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.880 that he was not able to do any running on 0:15:20.960 --> 0:15:24.080 it until April. I'd like to have seen that timetable 0:15:24.080 --> 0:15:28.520 a little bit earlier. Not a not a disaster warning sign, 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:30.320 but I think that is a bit of a warning sign. 0:15:31.080 --> 0:15:33.080 You know, obviously we'll know a lot more about Chubb's 0:15:33.120 --> 0:15:36.760 timetable season gets closer longer than we'd like, maybe yea, 0:15:37.880 --> 0:15:40.480 and well, you know, we'll know more. But even when 0:15:40.560 --> 0:15:43.840 Chubb returns, who's to say that he goes back to 0:15:43.880 --> 0:15:46.720 being the workhorse that he was in this offense? They 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:50.480 made him take a pay cut. And look what happened 0:15:50.480 --> 0:15:52.560 on JK. Dobbins as an example, right you know. 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:52.880 JK. 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:57.240 Dobbins suffered a brutal, brutal knee injury, just like Chubb did. 0:15:58.000 --> 0:16:01.200 Never the same player, never the same and Dobbins looked 0:16:01.520 --> 0:16:06.080 amazing pre injury. So right now, ADP Chubb's going off 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.440 the board is running back thirty two in the seventh round. 0:16:09.240 --> 0:16:13.160 I can get starters there. To me, that's too early 0:16:13.240 --> 0:16:17.800 for somebody that may not start a game until mid season. 0:16:17.840 --> 0:16:20.160 I mean, we don't know right now right now, based 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:21.000 only in June. 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:24.600 If you're if you're drafting in June, yes, maybe not 0:16:25.040 --> 0:16:25.880 the best time. 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:27.840 To roll the dice on that. 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:31.480 But if it looks like he's slated to start and 0:16:31.480 --> 0:16:34.240 and and all systems are go. I think Chubb's ADP 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.040 rockets up quite a bit from RB thirty two. 0:16:37.440 --> 0:16:39.760 Yeah probably. I mean, you know, if he's ready to 0:16:39.840 --> 0:16:43.400 roll day one of training camp. Yeah, this you'll you'll 0:16:43.440 --> 0:16:45.280 have gone back and gone seventh round. Oh my god, 0:16:45.280 --> 0:16:48.120 I go to steal. So you know understand the risk 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:52.240 Jerome Ford returns. They added don to Foreman. Ford was 0:16:52.280 --> 0:16:53.720 never built to be a work horse. They had to 0:16:53.800 --> 0:16:55.360 use him as a workhorse for a lot of last 0:16:55.440 --> 0:16:58.600 year out of necessity. But that's that would not be 0:16:58.640 --> 0:17:01.280 the case here if Rub's not ready, I think it 0:17:01.280 --> 0:17:05.480 would be Ford and Foreman both effectively sharing carries. 0:17:05.760 --> 0:17:09.639 And if Chubb is healthy, how does that backfield? 0:17:10.119 --> 0:17:10.280 Right? 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.640 Because Chub's not gonna go from zero to twenty carries 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:17.120 like the old days, and Foreman's not a terrible he's 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:20.800 non terrible. Yeah yeah, I agreed. So does this get 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:23.680 better worse than last year? Probably better eventually because Chubble 0:17:23.760 --> 0:17:26.600 returned at some point to something resembling full strength and 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:29.520 so and last year again, you know, Ford was okay, 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:30.919 but he's just he was never meant to be a 0:17:30.920 --> 0:17:33.440 workhorse back sure, all right, Let's go to our next team, 0:17:33.560 --> 0:17:36.520 which is the Pittsburgh Steelers. 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:40.600 Yeah, it's a whole new ballgame in Pittsburgh. Russell Wilson 0:17:40.760 --> 0:17:44.040 in as the starting quarterback, Justin Fields is the backup. 0:17:44.320 --> 0:17:47.960 They replace Kenny Pickett, Mitch Trubisky, and Mason Rudolph. They're 0:17:47.960 --> 0:17:52.080 all gone. Deontay Johnson gone too, leaving George Pickens as 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:56.640 the unquestioned number one wide receiver there. And Arthur Smith 0:17:56.800 --> 0:17:58.560 is the new offensive coordinator. 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:00.159 You may remember. 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:03.120 Our Smith as the coach of the Falcons the last 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:06.240 few years, and before that, the offensive coordinator in Tennessee 0:18:06.680 --> 0:18:09.280 where he just ran the heck out of Derrick Henry. 0:18:09.960 --> 0:18:13.159 And now they're talking about how excited Pittsburgh is for 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:15.240 this new run first philosophy. 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:19.920 So let's go to the passing game. Okay, how can 0:18:20.040 --> 0:18:22.760 Arthur Smith f this up? Well? 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:25.280 I mean, you had Russell Wilson and Justin Fields, both 0:18:25.359 --> 0:18:28.880 guys not known for their downfield pass plays, and Jettison 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:31.160 Deontay Johnson. It kind of sounds like you're gonna run 0:18:31.160 --> 0:18:33.239 the ball. Russell Wilson has to be seen as an 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.200 upgrade from Kenny Pickett. Yep, So that's good. I guess, 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:40.480 but beyond that, it's kind of looking scary. Calvin Austin 0:18:40.600 --> 0:18:43.000 is currently set as wide receiver too, and I bet 0:18:43.040 --> 0:18:47.159 most NFL fans don't know who Calvin Austin is. He 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:49.680 was a fourth round pick for the Steelers last year. 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:52.880 Roman Wilson was a round three pick out of Michigan. 0:18:52.880 --> 0:18:55.600 He should get some run. And then there's the retreads 0:18:56.359 --> 0:19:01.320 Van Jefferson, Les Watkins, Denzel Mims, Marquez Callaway. 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.000 They're all on the current depth chart. Yikes. 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:08.520 After scoring seven times in his rookie year, Pat Fryarmuth 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:12.199 has only managed four total touchdowns in the following two years. 0:19:12.320 --> 0:19:16.239 I'm stunned at his de evolution from that. So that 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:20.640 rookie year was so promising for him. And by the way, 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:25.760 there's talk that the backup Washington could end up pressing 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:27.200 friar Mouth for time this year. 0:19:27.240 --> 0:19:27.680 We'll see. 0:19:28.359 --> 0:19:31.679 Washington is gigantic, specimen, physical freak. 0:19:31.840 --> 0:19:32.280 It could. 0:19:32.400 --> 0:19:35.440 Mouth had a big game late in the season where 0:19:35.440 --> 0:19:37.800 I think he tallied like one hundred and nineteen yards 0:19:37.800 --> 0:19:39.960 in a game, so there was a little glimmer of 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.520 hope there. He'll be on the field a ton. I 0:19:42.520 --> 0:19:44.840 think it's arrow up on Friar move. 0:19:45.080 --> 0:19:46.960 Good Byelow. Who else is there to throw. 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:49.760 To Curry point? That's a very fair point, is it? 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:49.919 Now? 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:53.199 Russell Wilson has like zero track record of throwing to 0:19:53.280 --> 0:19:56.320 his tas true. But Arthur Smith, if you were to 0:19:56.359 --> 0:20:00.560 combine like Pitts and John new Smith together, Arthur Smith, 0:20:01.160 --> 0:20:03.680 as frustrated as we were about his usage on Pitts, 0:20:04.920 --> 0:20:07.040 I think he can get the ball to a tight end. 0:20:07.119 --> 0:20:07.359 Yeah. 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:10.800 Absolutely. Is the passing game better or worse? I think 0:20:10.840 --> 0:20:13.760 it's better, but not by much at all. I think 0:20:13.840 --> 0:20:16.919 the upgrade at quarterback is not very significant, and the 0:20:17.000 --> 0:20:20.280 running game stands to benefit more under Arthur Smith. So 0:20:20.400 --> 0:20:23.760 let's talk about the running game. Naji Harris has played 0:20:23.760 --> 0:20:26.320 three years in the league. He's had at least twelve 0:20:26.359 --> 0:20:30.080 hundred total yards and eight touchdowns in every season. Last 0:20:30.160 --> 0:20:32.520 year he touched the ball two hundred and eighty four times. 0:20:33.600 --> 0:20:36.480 Jalen Warren had two hundred and ten touches. Last season, 0:20:36.520 --> 0:20:39.240 he had over eleven hundred total yards and he scored 0:20:39.280 --> 0:20:43.239 four times. Now, Warren was much more heavily utilized as 0:20:43.240 --> 0:20:45.600 a pass catching option out of the backfield. But Harris 0:20:45.640 --> 0:20:47.680 isn't that bad in his rookie year. He had a 0:20:47.720 --> 0:20:49.199 seventy four catch season. 0:20:49.240 --> 0:20:50.320 Yeah, that was so promising. 0:20:50.440 --> 0:20:53.800 Yeah, everyone will point to Naji Harris had four point 0:20:53.800 --> 0:20:56.720 one yards per carry and Jalen Warren had five point 0:20:56.800 --> 0:21:00.960 three yards per carry, and they're all gonna say this preseason. Yeah, well, Nause, 0:21:00.960 --> 0:21:03.960 he's gonna get get, get take the back seat to 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:07.720 Warren here. I don't think that's the case. 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:08.840 I don't. 0:21:08.920 --> 0:21:12.120 It's gonna be a split backfield. And here's why Nase's 0:21:12.119 --> 0:21:15.160 gonna keep this job. He's six foot two, two hundred 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:17.040 thirty pounds Warren. 0:21:16.720 --> 0:21:19.760 Is Is he really six foot two? Yeah, geez, that's. 0:21:19.600 --> 0:21:20.560 Tall for a running back. 0:21:20.600 --> 0:21:23.600 He's six inches taller than Warren five foot eight two 0:21:23.600 --> 0:21:24.240 point fifteen. 0:21:24.359 --> 0:21:25.400 I think he was six two. 0:21:25.840 --> 0:21:28.440 In most cases, the bigger players in the NFL tend 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:30.639 to be more durable, and if Nagy has to plot 0:21:30.640 --> 0:21:32.880 his way through the line to tire out the defense 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:34.960 to allow Warren to get those. 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:37.560 And Arthur Smith loves his plotters, yeah, absolutely. 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:42.080 The Steelers also brought in Corderyl Patterson as a change 0:21:42.080 --> 0:21:44.800 of pace back. He was in Atlanta with Arthur Smith. 0:21:44.920 --> 0:21:51.160 Soh in Atlanta in a similar spot last year. Bijeon, Robinson, Tyler, Algier, 0:21:51.240 --> 0:21:54.200 and Patterson all had some run. Algier had two hundred 0:21:54.240 --> 0:21:57.560 four touches last year. Bijon had two hundred seventy two. 0:21:58.400 --> 0:22:01.160 It's almost the same as what we just talked about. 0:22:01.560 --> 0:22:05.639 Naji's gonna be Beijon, Warren's gonna be Lgier. Patterson just 0:22:05.680 --> 0:22:09.040 gets to be himself. Which is nice, better or worse. 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:11.119 I think it's better because I think they're gonna run 0:22:11.320 --> 0:22:13.080 even more this year. It's gonna be like a ten 0:22:13.119 --> 0:22:15.520 percent uptick in rushing attempts. 0:22:16.280 --> 0:22:19.440 Let's go to the Cincinnati Bengals. Everything looks like Joe 0:22:19.480 --> 0:22:21.520 Burrow's going to return in time for training camp. I 0:22:21.560 --> 0:22:23.920 have no real concerns about Joe Burrow for this year, 0:22:24.800 --> 0:22:27.440 and obviously he's great. So's Jamar Chase awesome. I don't 0:22:27.440 --> 0:22:30.239 think we have anything to even spend time on with 0:22:30.840 --> 0:22:31.399 those guys. 0:22:31.440 --> 0:22:34.719 And Joe Burrow's got the long hair now, so rocking it. 0:22:34.800 --> 0:22:37.200 Yeah, all the cool guys grown their hair out. 0:22:37.320 --> 0:22:38.800 You are growing your hair out. 0:22:39.160 --> 0:22:43.080 Coincides you and Joe Burrow must have a lot more 0:22:43.119 --> 0:22:46.159 than people know. T Higgins, though, has not signed his 0:22:46.400 --> 0:22:49.520 franchise tag offer, and we could be heading into a 0:22:49.560 --> 0:22:52.920 stalemate in training camp. So that is something Betty, to 0:22:53.000 --> 0:22:55.720 keep it a track of. Yeah, if if you want 0:22:55.720 --> 0:22:59.399 to roll the dice on Higgins getting traded or maybe 0:22:59.400 --> 0:23:02.600 there's a tracted holdout, you could throw a dart. And 0:23:02.640 --> 0:23:05.600 I like this as one of my favorite sleepers, andre 0:23:06.880 --> 0:23:11.879 Yo Savash. He's flashed a little bit last year and 0:23:12.000 --> 0:23:14.600 I'm interested in that kid, and he could walk right 0:23:14.640 --> 0:23:19.360 in the starting role opposite Jamar Chase. Now they put 0:23:19.400 --> 0:23:22.320 a third rounder into rookie Jermaine Burton from Alabama, but 0:23:22.359 --> 0:23:25.119 he's viewed as a very very raw athlete who is 0:23:25.200 --> 0:23:29.480 not very productive and on great Alabama teams, he's expected 0:23:29.520 --> 0:23:31.879 to like a long term project. I mean somebody that 0:23:31.880 --> 0:23:36.919 would need years to develop. So Andre Yo Savash, I 0:23:36.960 --> 0:23:38.800 mean like last pick of your draft. Just keep this 0:23:38.880 --> 0:23:41.080 in the back of your mind. And especially if you're 0:23:41.080 --> 0:23:44.760 doing best Ball drafts now drafting for early for whatever reason, 0:23:44.760 --> 0:23:48.119 and this T Higgins thing has not played out and 0:23:48.200 --> 0:23:50.640 you think it's going to end badly for badly if 0:23:50.640 --> 0:23:52.040 you think he's not going to be on this team, 0:23:52.040 --> 0:23:53.960 either if I hold out or trade or whatever, you 0:23:54.000 --> 0:23:56.600 can get a wide receiver two and for Joe Burrough 0:23:56.680 --> 0:24:01.280 offense right for free. Yes, thank you, journeyman tight end 0:24:01.440 --> 0:24:05.080 Mike Giseki is your presumed starter at the tight end position. 0:24:06.080 --> 0:24:09.280 But Kazeki has just proven and reproven himself to be 0:24:09.400 --> 0:24:11.119 just like a spot starter and that's it. 0:24:11.320 --> 0:24:13.640 Is He better than anything they've had at tight end 0:24:13.680 --> 0:24:16.520 the last few years, though it feels. 0:24:16.280 --> 0:24:19.119 Like slightly it's better nerves Smith, that's for sure. But 0:24:19.200 --> 0:24:21.360 they also spent a fourth round pick on Eric All 0:24:21.480 --> 0:24:24.080 from Iowa and previously Michigan, and that is a thort 0:24:24.200 --> 0:24:25.240 nice from favorite. 0:24:25.359 --> 0:24:27.080 Yeah, he likes Eric a lot. 0:24:27.320 --> 0:24:31.640 So Yeah, so if Kazeki isn't great, I could see 0:24:31.680 --> 0:24:33.760 them getting doing a little eric All, getting eric All 0:24:33.840 --> 0:24:36.240 involved in this, but his timetable could be down the 0:24:36.280 --> 0:24:38.760 road as well. So does the passing game get better 0:24:38.800 --> 0:24:39.400 worse this year? 0:24:39.440 --> 0:24:39.640 Better? 0:24:39.680 --> 0:24:41.919 Because Joe Burrow's not gonna miss half the season, So 0:24:42.160 --> 0:24:48.280 you know this is this is clearly uptick here and again, Andre, Yo. 0:24:50.000 --> 0:24:52.000 I don't know if we're pronouncing that, No, I am. 0:24:52.320 --> 0:24:53.800 I looked it up to make sure I didn't screw 0:24:53.840 --> 0:24:54.920 it up. Yo. 0:24:55.240 --> 0:24:57.359 See bosh Okay got it. 0:24:57.680 --> 0:24:58.200 Running game. 0:24:58.480 --> 0:25:03.119 Joe Mixon sent packing to Houston Cincinnati should have sold 0:25:03.240 --> 0:25:05.040 last year. I think they got out a year late, 0:25:06.359 --> 0:25:08.760 but I think they ultimately made the right call here. 0:25:08.840 --> 0:25:10.480 So it looks like it's gonna be a two headed 0:25:10.560 --> 0:25:13.520 attack with Chase Brown and Zach Moss. But I like 0:25:13.600 --> 0:25:16.480 Moss better. You know, after years of misuse in Buffalo. 0:25:16.520 --> 0:25:19.080 Of course, you know, Zach Boss goes to Indy. He 0:25:19.119 --> 0:25:22.080 had those early starts where Jonathan Taylor wasn't right yet, 0:25:22.119 --> 0:25:25.680 and looked really good. In the six games in which 0:25:25.880 --> 0:25:30.959 Moss got eighteen or more carries, he averaged one hundred 0:25:31.000 --> 0:25:33.880 and six yards in almost a full touchdown per game. 0:25:33.960 --> 0:25:35.520 That's pretty good. That's pretty good. 0:25:35.520 --> 0:25:37.520 This is the Zach Moss I was stumping for when 0:25:37.560 --> 0:25:40.440 he was in Buffalo. We finally got a long look 0:25:40.480 --> 0:25:42.560 at him with Indianapolis and he looked good. 0:25:43.400 --> 0:25:46.000 And Devin Singletary got out of Buffalo and side, yeah. 0:25:45.920 --> 0:25:49.480 Look good too. I know it's right. So James Cook 0:25:49.480 --> 0:25:50.880 looks all right. He does. 0:25:50.920 --> 0:25:54.720 They don't use him enough. Chase Brown look promising in 0:25:54.800 --> 0:25:57.480 the small sample size that we had last year. He 0:25:57.520 --> 0:26:00.520 can catch. That's Moss is not a natural pas catcher. 0:26:00.960 --> 0:26:03.399 Brown had just forty four carries all last year, but 0:26:03.440 --> 0:26:06.440 he had four explosive plays of fifteen or more yards 0:26:06.480 --> 0:26:08.800 on those forty four carries. That's a great ratio, and 0:26:08.880 --> 0:26:14.360 Brown finished fifteenth in Pro Football focuses elusiveness rating. Brown's 0:26:14.359 --> 0:26:16.440 got room to get better in your two. But Moss 0:26:16.640 --> 0:26:19.120 should be the presumed starter here. He's proven he can 0:26:19.160 --> 0:26:21.800 do a lot with a big workload. I think Moss 0:26:21.840 --> 0:26:23.840 I think gets two thirds of the work. Brown gets 0:26:23.880 --> 0:26:24.760 one third of the work. 0:26:25.320 --> 0:26:26.320 And see that happening. 0:26:26.400 --> 0:26:29.760 Yep, that feels about right to me. Zach Moss going 0:26:29.760 --> 0:26:32.919 off the board at running back twenty eighth, sixth round. 0:26:33.160 --> 0:26:37.200 Perfect do the opposite draft spot for Zach Moss? Yeah, 0:26:37.280 --> 0:26:39.720 I like him. There pass saying we. 0:26:39.760 --> 0:26:40.520 Do pat Now that's it. 0:26:40.520 --> 0:26:43.760 Does he get better or worse for for Cleveland's running game? 0:26:43.800 --> 0:26:46.159 I think it's better because I do not believe. I 0:26:46.200 --> 0:26:48.600 didn't believe in Joe Mixon going into last year. He 0:26:48.640 --> 0:26:51.400 wasn't any good last year. Yeah, we're gonna We're gonna move. 0:26:51.280 --> 0:26:52.719 On, all right. 0:26:52.800 --> 0:26:55.800 I think that's all of our AFC North teams. Let's 0:26:55.800 --> 0:26:57.600 take a break and go to the MC North sound good, yep. 0:26:58.840 --> 0:27:02.119 Fantasy Football Weekly returns Paul Jarchie and Matt Harrison with you. 0:27:02.240 --> 0:27:06.320 We turn our attention to the NFC North. First team 0:27:06.440 --> 0:27:10.520 up is the Green Bay Packers, Matt where we got 0:27:10.680 --> 0:27:12.880 not a lot of change the passing side, but we've 0:27:12.880 --> 0:27:15.480 got some new faces in the running game. 0:27:15.560 --> 0:27:18.920 By the way, this NFC North, it's it's gonna be 0:27:18.960 --> 0:27:23.800 a monster. These are some good teams additions and subtractions 0:27:23.840 --> 0:27:27.280 in Green Bay. Josh Jacobs replaces Aaron Jones in the backfield. 0:27:27.280 --> 0:27:30.719 That's the headliner. The Packers also lost guard John Runyon, 0:27:32.000 --> 0:27:35.280 tackle Yosh Nyman, and spent a first round pick on 0:27:35.400 --> 0:27:38.720 Jordan Morgan on the offensive line. But they're pretty deep 0:27:38.840 --> 0:27:41.800 across the offensive line, so I don't think that they're 0:27:41.800 --> 0:27:43.119 gonna miss a beat there. 0:27:43.160 --> 0:27:49.040 And organizationally, man, do they churn out good lineman holy cow. 0:27:51.200 --> 0:27:54.800 To get good offensive line play the passing game. The 0:27:54.840 --> 0:27:58.040 band is back together again. Jordan Love looks to build 0:27:58.040 --> 0:28:00.679 off a promising first year as a starter, and the 0:28:00.720 --> 0:28:04.879 Packers may have more B B plus wide receivers on 0:28:04.920 --> 0:28:10.080 their roster, not like letter grades in Fantasy Football Week exactly, 0:28:10.400 --> 0:28:14.240 but than any team ever because Jaden Reid, Romeo Dobbs, 0:28:14.600 --> 0:28:18.679 Christian Watson, Dontavian Wicks. They'll probably all get drafted in 0:28:18.720 --> 0:28:21.440 your fantasy league, Oh yeah, for sure. And then there's 0:28:21.520 --> 0:28:24.840 Bow Melton, Malik Heath, and Samari Toure. They all had 0:28:24.840 --> 0:28:26.199 a little bit of run with the team at the 0:28:26.200 --> 0:28:29.359 tail end of last year as well. The problem is 0:28:29.359 --> 0:28:31.679 their depth. They're all good players and they should all 0:28:31.680 --> 0:28:34.359 get a chunk of the fantasy pie. There were only 0:28:34.400 --> 0:28:38.160 two instances last season where a Packers wide receiver had 0:28:38.200 --> 0:28:39.160 double digit. 0:28:38.880 --> 0:28:39.960 Targets in a game. 0:28:40.720 --> 0:28:44.080 Really yeah, wow, Romeo Dobbs in Week four Jacob Reid 0:28:44.080 --> 0:28:44.880 in Week fourteen. 0:28:45.160 --> 0:28:45.680 Wow. 0:28:45.800 --> 0:28:48.680 There were only two instances last season where a Packers 0:28:48.720 --> 0:28:54.800 wide receiver had one hundred yards two that's it. Neither 0:28:55.000 --> 0:28:58.040 counted for you because it was Bow Melton in Week 0:28:58.160 --> 0:29:01.360 seventeen and Red in Week eighteen. 0:29:01.720 --> 0:29:04.000 Wow. Not in your fantasy playoffs, right. 0:29:04.360 --> 0:29:07.240 So, as far as touchdowns go, Read and Dobbs both 0:29:07.280 --> 0:29:10.120 had eight scores, Watson had five, Wicks had four, and 0:29:10.160 --> 0:29:12.560 then there was a slew of others who had two 0:29:12.680 --> 0:29:15.680 or one receiving touchdowns last season, including tight ends Luke 0:29:15.760 --> 0:29:20.400 Musgrave and Tucker Craft. The point is, in this passing game, 0:29:20.440 --> 0:29:21.440 I think you want Jordan Love. 0:29:21.520 --> 0:29:23.720 I want Jordan Love, So don't have to guess everyone. 0:29:23.400 --> 0:29:25.640 To deal with any of the wide receivers unless you're 0:29:25.640 --> 0:29:26.080 a best ball. 0:29:26.280 --> 0:29:28.600 Well, well that's true best ball. That's a lot I 0:29:28.680 --> 0:29:30.320 like it. It's a lot more compelling for best ball. 0:29:30.320 --> 0:29:31.640 We're gonna have to try to guess week in and 0:29:31.680 --> 0:29:37.200 week out, who's gonna be good. The smart people say 0:29:38.040 --> 0:29:41.440 the smart people quote say, you know, Wicks has got 0:29:42.000 --> 0:29:45.520 freaky upside that perhaps others don't sure read to me 0:29:45.840 --> 0:29:50.320 looked like Deebo Samuel Light. And I'm really intrigued by Reed. 0:29:50.600 --> 0:29:54.479 And you love Dobbs, and I like do I love Dobbs. 0:29:54.520 --> 0:29:55.320 I like Dobbs. 0:29:55.440 --> 0:29:58.520 Yeah, but I think you're right that I'm just gonna 0:29:58.600 --> 0:30:01.840 lay off the whole group and not try to figure 0:30:01.920 --> 0:30:04.200 that thing that thing out and try to guess right. So, 0:30:04.440 --> 0:30:06.320 I think there's just gonna be too many games where 0:30:07.000 --> 0:30:10.960 too many dud games when your guy, your packer receiver 0:30:11.320 --> 0:30:12.920 just it's just not his day. 0:30:13.040 --> 0:30:16.960 Yeah, exactly. Offense up or down. I think the arrow 0:30:17.000 --> 0:30:20.880 is trending up for the offense as they continue moving 0:30:20.920 --> 0:30:25.200 forward in love second year in the Running Game in 0:30:25.240 --> 0:30:26.120 twenty twenty two. 0:30:26.000 --> 0:30:28.400 Hey, before we move on, Yeah, we should mention Tucker 0:30:28.480 --> 0:30:33.200 Kraft had a torn bicept working out, and he looks 0:30:33.200 --> 0:30:35.400 like he's going to miss like all of training camp 0:30:35.520 --> 0:30:38.720 and might be reckep ready for the beginning of might 0:30:38.760 --> 0:30:40.560 be ready for the beginning of the season, but might not. 0:30:41.200 --> 0:30:44.320 And that might be the big difference that keeps him 0:30:44.720 --> 0:30:46.640 safely below Luke Musgrave for a while. 0:30:46.720 --> 0:30:50.040 Okay, got it, got it in so the running game. 0:30:50.040 --> 0:30:52.360 In twenty twenty two, Josh Jacobs had three hundred and 0:30:52.440 --> 0:30:56.760 ninety three touches three hundred and ninety three touches that led, 0:30:56.800 --> 0:30:58.640 and he led the league in rushing yards head over 0:30:58.720 --> 0:31:02.240 two thousand total yards score twelve times. Last year in Vegas, 0:31:02.280 --> 0:31:05.320 we saw his yards per carry fall from four point 0:31:05.400 --> 0:31:08.720 nine to three point five, his touchdowns cut in half. 0:31:09.400 --> 0:31:11.960 He still had two hundred and seventy touches in only 0:31:12.000 --> 0:31:16.440 thirteen games, and his explosive run rate fell to forty 0:31:16.560 --> 0:31:19.280 first among forty nine qualified backs. 0:31:19.400 --> 0:31:21.240 Raiders knew what they were doing. They were just gonna 0:31:21.280 --> 0:31:23.560 grind him up and then kick him to free agents. 0:31:23.640 --> 0:31:24.160 They did that. 0:31:24.560 --> 0:31:26.840 Outside of twenty twenty two, he's missed a few games 0:31:26.840 --> 0:31:28.640 every year, and when you look back at his five 0:31:28.720 --> 0:31:31.040 years a workload, you have to be surprised that he 0:31:31.080 --> 0:31:34.280 hasn't missed more over a seventy three game career. He's 0:31:34.360 --> 0:31:36.520 kind of like Derrick Henry. He's averaging twenty and a 0:31:36.560 --> 0:31:39.880 half touches per game for ninety six total yards. 0:31:40.280 --> 0:31:40.440 Now. 0:31:40.440 --> 0:31:42.800 He turned twenty six in February, so the age isn't 0:31:42.800 --> 0:31:46.360 a concern, but the mileage has to be. And the 0:31:46.400 --> 0:31:50.440 Packers did draft Marshawn Lloyd in the third round, who's 0:31:50.600 --> 0:31:53.400 very very interesting. They brought back AJ Dillon as well, 0:31:53.520 --> 0:31:57.200 not I don't know why. Yeah, Lloyd was able to 0:31:57.520 --> 0:32:01.280 be a top twenty college back in basically every metric, 0:32:01.400 --> 0:32:05.120 including PFF's elusive rating. So we may start the season 0:32:05.160 --> 0:32:07.800 with a healthy dose of Josh Jacobs, but I think 0:32:07.880 --> 0:32:11.200 we finished the year with Marshawn Lloyd really cutting into 0:32:11.280 --> 0:32:14.160 Jacob's workload and possibly taking the bulk of the carries. 0:32:14.280 --> 0:32:15.920 Yeah, my tis My worry is. 0:32:16.280 --> 0:32:20.080 We know the way the Packers offense, and Lafleur likes 0:32:20.120 --> 0:32:22.400 to work that offense is no matter what he. 0:32:22.400 --> 0:32:23.720 Splits, he splits carries. 0:32:23.760 --> 0:32:26.200 It doesn't even matter how bad the number two running 0:32:26.200 --> 0:32:29.400 back is. Now ineffective. AJ Dillon is, Yeah, I. 0:32:29.760 --> 0:32:34.320 Say to him, kram At Lafleur. As a Vikings fan, 0:32:34.400 --> 0:32:36.760 I was not pleased that Marshon Lloyd was drafted to 0:32:36.880 --> 0:32:37.440 Green Bay. 0:32:37.840 --> 0:32:40.160 As a group, I think, well, it's a fantasy player. 0:32:40.200 --> 0:32:42.120 I'm not happy that that was his landing spot. 0:32:42.160 --> 0:32:45.280 Yeah, exactly, But I think that by the end of 0:32:45.320 --> 0:32:47.920 the season, I think we're looking at Marshaw Lloyd. 0:32:47.760 --> 0:32:50.000 Maybe as maybe the next next big thing there, and 0:32:50.040 --> 0:32:51.120 certainly in Dynasty. 0:32:52.000 --> 0:32:55.000 I'm a lot more interested in Lloyd than I am 0:32:55.560 --> 0:32:58.960 in in any in anybody else there. Yeah. 0:32:59.040 --> 0:33:02.600 As a group, the pass running backs finished twenty seventh 0:33:03.120 --> 0:33:06.720 in PPR Fantasy points last season, so I definitely feel 0:33:06.760 --> 0:33:08.560 like things are trending up in the run game for 0:33:09.120 --> 0:33:09.600 Green Bay. 0:33:10.240 --> 0:33:11.600 Let's go to the Minnesota Vikings. 0:33:11.720 --> 0:33:14.000 Let's a lot of changes in the passing game. 0:33:14.040 --> 0:33:17.400 Obviously with Kirk Cousins gone. Sam Donald, well, that's really 0:33:17.440 --> 0:33:21.320 the big change, Sam Donald, you're expected starter unless JJ 0:33:21.440 --> 0:33:25.280 McCarthy just looks unworldly in the preseason. Yeah, the plan 0:33:25.400 --> 0:33:29.440 is for McCarthy to have a long runway. Do not 0:33:29.520 --> 0:33:32.840 be surprised if you get zero starts out of JJ 0:33:32.920 --> 0:33:33.800 McCarthy this year. 0:33:35.080 --> 0:33:37.760 I would be very surprised if he gets zero starts, 0:33:37.800 --> 0:33:42.160 because Donald would really have to have that win loss 0:33:42.200 --> 0:33:45.640 record in a great spot for the Vikings before the 0:33:46.040 --> 0:33:50.640 fan base is just grumbling. And their early season schedule. 0:33:50.480 --> 0:33:52.640 It's brutal, it's brutal. It's really hard. 0:33:52.720 --> 0:33:55.720 They might be so they play like it's a week 0:33:55.840 --> 0:33:58.800 five in London. Then they have to bye week, and 0:33:58.840 --> 0:34:00.880 then they come back with a home game against Detroit. 0:34:01.200 --> 0:34:04.520 If the Vikings are one and four after that London game, 0:34:05.280 --> 0:34:06.920 you know they're gonna come back with Mike. 0:34:07.240 --> 0:34:07.840 I don't know that. 0:34:07.960 --> 0:34:09.319 I think they will. 0:34:09.400 --> 0:34:11.960 I don't agree. I think they've I think they've got 0:34:12.000 --> 0:34:14.200 a really really long runway on this kid and. 0:34:15.800 --> 0:34:16.240 The people. 0:34:16.600 --> 0:34:20.360 My understanding here MINNISODEA. I'm not gonna put names on things. 0:34:20.560 --> 0:34:23.319 It's that the he is gonna have take. They're gonna 0:34:23.320 --> 0:34:25.520 take as long as they need with him. Now, the 0:34:25.560 --> 0:34:28.239 other side of it is Donald finds himself in the 0:34:28.239 --> 0:34:30.680 best spot of his career by a mile shore justin Jefferson. 0:34:30.719 --> 0:34:33.279 You got Jordan Addison, You'll eventually get TJ. Hockinson back 0:34:33.320 --> 0:34:36.279 from his ACL. You have bookend tackles to protect him. 0:34:36.520 --> 0:34:41.080 They have Pro Football focuses, third ranked pass blocking offensive line. 0:34:41.400 --> 0:34:42.919 I mean this is you know, this is you could 0:34:42.960 --> 0:34:46.080 dream come true for Sam Donald, and I think probably 0:34:46.120 --> 0:34:47.960 he just looks good enough to hold the job for 0:34:48.000 --> 0:34:48.400 a while. 0:34:48.920 --> 0:34:51.400 Donald. Donald also gets the advantage. 0:34:50.960 --> 0:34:53.799 Of a pass first offense and a quarterback friendly head 0:34:53.880 --> 0:34:56.960 coach and Kevin O'Connell. And with all that surrounding talent 0:34:57.600 --> 0:35:01.400 and the Vikings very realit give up a bunch of points. 0:35:01.400 --> 0:35:05.760 I think Donald is gonna have some splash fantasy games. Okay, 0:35:05.840 --> 0:35:07.960 you know, like Nick Mullins at the end of last 0:35:08.000 --> 0:35:11.520 year kept throwing for four hundred yards and right well 0:35:11.560 --> 0:35:13.440 he wasn't through, was mostly on the ground. But yes, 0:35:13.920 --> 0:35:18.080 So your adp on Donald right now is quarterback thirty five. 0:35:19.440 --> 0:35:20.600 That's prettyure. 0:35:20.600 --> 0:35:22.919 There's only thirty two teams. Yeah, it's the twentieth round. 0:35:23.000 --> 0:35:25.200 Totally in on Donald here. Now you're gonna hear more 0:35:25.239 --> 0:35:28.040 from Brian Johnson later. Who's who thinks Sam Donald is 0:35:28.040 --> 0:35:30.560 gonna be like a top ten quarterback. Yeah, I'm not 0:35:30.600 --> 0:35:31.200 ready to go there. 0:35:31.360 --> 0:35:34.440 Oh he thinks that the Vikings wasted a pick from Dorothy. 0:35:34.560 --> 0:35:37.120 That's right. So Thor and Brian are gonna come to 0:35:37.160 --> 0:35:37.960 blows this year. 0:35:38.040 --> 0:35:42.600 Yeah, it could be ugly, could be ugly. I love 0:35:43.080 --> 0:35:47.560 Donald as your second quarterback, and let's see how this 0:35:47.600 --> 0:35:50.240 thing plays out. Because the surrounding town's just so good 0:35:50.440 --> 0:35:52.560 and I do and the path he's could just buy 0:35:52.600 --> 0:35:56.239 your volume. Unless Donald is completely broken, he's gonna have 0:35:56.280 --> 0:35:58.680 some splash games for you to pick a pick and 0:35:58.760 --> 0:36:01.520 choose from. Okay, the thing to mention about Justin Jefferson 0:36:01.520 --> 0:36:04.920 is his lack of contract extension, which could become an 0:36:04.960 --> 0:36:08.400 issue rolling into training camp. Hopefully it'll get done before then. 0:36:08.880 --> 0:36:10.640 You know everything you need to know about Justin Jefferson. 0:36:10.640 --> 0:36:12.879 He's the first player, first wide receiver off the board 0:36:12.880 --> 0:36:15.920 in most drafts. Jordan Addison enters year two after a 0:36:16.080 --> 0:36:20.319 solid rookie year seventy catches, eight hundred yards, ten touchdowns, 0:36:21.000 --> 0:36:23.960 even more impressive knowing that Addison was catching passes from 0:36:24.000 --> 0:36:26.040 Nick Mullins and Josh Dobbs for half the year and 0:36:26.040 --> 0:36:28.040 he was still able to put up in nine hundred 0:36:28.080 --> 0:36:33.800 yards and seventy catches Justin Jefferson on a fantasy right, Sorry, 0:36:34.000 --> 0:36:36.520 you're exactly right, But where would you pick him? No, 0:36:36.600 --> 0:36:37.200 it's about right. 0:36:37.440 --> 0:36:38.880 So it's Tyreek Hill, right. 0:36:38.760 --> 0:36:42.200 Cee Lamb, Ceedee labert Kill and Jamar Chase and then Jefferson. 0:36:42.200 --> 0:36:45.400 Now that sounds a by right because of the quarterback differential. Okay, yeah, 0:36:45.440 --> 0:36:48.800 Addison has room to get better if his quarterbacking doesn't 0:36:48.800 --> 0:36:51.280 fail him. Addison could take a jump in his sophomore 0:36:51.320 --> 0:36:53.839 year and improve on all those numbers. So I am 0:36:53.880 --> 0:36:57.120 interested in him, and I think overall this offense gets 0:36:57.440 --> 0:37:00.560 better than the non Kirk Cousins version of the Vikings 0:37:00.560 --> 0:37:02.920 passing offense last year, but is worse than the Kirk 0:37:02.960 --> 0:37:05.680 Cousins version when he led the NFL in passing yards 0:37:05.760 --> 0:37:08.920 when he suffered his torn ACL Let's go to the 0:37:09.000 --> 0:37:13.400 running game. Aaron Jones replaces Alexander Madison, and he's almost 0:37:13.440 --> 0:37:16.839 certainly to be the starter here. Jones elite receiver, and 0:37:17.480 --> 0:37:21.359 this is the best receiver Kevin O'Connell's had since he's 0:37:21.400 --> 0:37:24.120 come over as the Vikings head coach. I think he's 0:37:24.120 --> 0:37:26.920 going to see a lot more receptions to him than 0:37:26.960 --> 0:37:30.480 any other running back has had with the Vikings. Jones 0:37:30.480 --> 0:37:33.399 finished his Pro Football Focus is seventh ranked running back 0:37:33.480 --> 0:37:36.920 and he ranked fifteenth and elusiveness, He's still got the moves. 0:37:36.920 --> 0:37:42.719 Do you think the Packers downgraded at running back? They 0:37:42.760 --> 0:37:44.799 paid jos a lot more, you. 0:37:44.719 --> 0:37:45.200 Know what I think. 0:37:45.280 --> 0:37:48.000 Yeah, they did what I think happened, and everybody loved 0:37:48.000 --> 0:37:50.560 Aaron Jones. And by the way, I mean elite human being. 0:37:52.080 --> 0:37:55.040 I think they got frustrated with the questionable tag after 0:37:55.080 --> 0:37:58.120 his name every week. I think they were just, you know, 0:37:58.239 --> 0:37:59.640 we need somebody we can count on. 0:37:59.680 --> 0:38:01.600 It was just it was durability. Yeah. 0:38:01.680 --> 0:38:03.520 Now, I had a chance to do the Vikings draft 0:38:04.040 --> 0:38:08.040 party in US Bank Stadium and they they Aaron Jones 0:38:08.080 --> 0:38:09.759 came on, you know, came in with us, and I 0:38:09.840 --> 0:38:11.560 had a chance to chat with him a little bit 0:38:11.600 --> 0:38:14.320 and stand right next to him. The dude is slight 0:38:14.440 --> 0:38:14.920 of build. 0:38:15.360 --> 0:38:16.080 You wouldn't think it. 0:38:16.280 --> 0:38:19.920 You would not think it the way he the way 0:38:20.120 --> 0:38:23.240 he looks on the field, because he runs angry and tough, 0:38:23.360 --> 0:38:27.200 and he he does. He plays way bigger than he 0:38:27.360 --> 0:38:29.239 than he actually is in real life. So I guess 0:38:29.239 --> 0:38:31.719 I'm in that regard to I'm not not surprised that 0:38:31.760 --> 0:38:35.600 he's been He's broken down a few times. Kevin O'Connell's 0:38:35.640 --> 0:38:37.880 an almost even distributor of the ball near the stripe. 0:38:37.880 --> 0:38:41.160 He passes and runs at a roughly equal rate. There 0:38:41.200 --> 0:38:45.319 will be some opportunities to run in touchdowns. I don't 0:38:45.320 --> 0:38:47.600 think ty Chandler will be a factor at the goal line, 0:38:47.920 --> 0:38:49.840 so I think Aaron Jones will have those chances. But 0:38:49.880 --> 0:38:52.560 the catch is the nagging injuries. You just you can't 0:38:52.880 --> 0:38:56.040 make Aaron Jones your workhorse back. He's got to be 0:38:56.080 --> 0:38:59.280 somebody who touches the ball like fifteen times a game. 0:38:59.400 --> 0:39:00.800 That's still fait fantasy relevant. 0:39:00.800 --> 0:39:03.960 It is enough to be fantasy relevant. He's currently running 0:39:03.960 --> 0:39:07.960 back eighteen round five sounds about right. Sounds about right 0:39:08.960 --> 0:39:12.120 running back. Overall, the running game for the Vikings gets 0:39:12.640 --> 0:39:16.920 much better with Aaron Jones than Alexander Madison. You know, 0:39:17.400 --> 0:39:19.800 we got plenty of things wrong last year Damian Pierce, 0:39:19.960 --> 0:39:23.120 tank Bigsby, but last year we warned you off of 0:39:23.360 --> 0:39:27.360 Alexander Madison all off season. I'm in on Aaron Jones. 0:39:27.440 --> 0:39:30.680 Yeah, let's go to Our next team is Chicago Bears. 0:39:31.520 --> 0:39:35.440 Lots of changes in the Windy City this year. New 0:39:35.480 --> 0:39:39.080 offensive coordinator Shane Waldron comes over for the Seahawks. He 0:39:39.120 --> 0:39:41.399 had a hand in the emergence of Geno Smith after 0:39:41.480 --> 0:39:45.120 the past few years. Rookie quarterback and pick one oh 0:39:45.160 --> 0:39:49.160 one is Caleb Williams, who replaces Justin Fields Keenan Allen 0:39:49.200 --> 0:39:53.280 acquired via trade. Yeah, DeAndre Swift acquired in free agency. 0:39:53.800 --> 0:39:56.520 Gerald Everett joined the tight end room with Cole kmet 0:39:57.080 --> 0:39:59.879 Romo Doonesa was drafted with the ninth overall pick. 0:40:00.040 --> 0:40:02.319 Yeah, they look think of think of all the all 0:40:02.360 --> 0:40:04.800 the assets they threw himTo that Bears offense. 0:40:04.680 --> 0:40:08.640 And Darnell Mooney and Deonta Foreman left via free agency, so. 0:40:08.680 --> 0:40:09.440 They won't miss him. 0:40:09.440 --> 0:40:11.719 No, I don't think they will at all. Passing game, 0:40:11.760 --> 0:40:14.279 I think everyone is expecting a huge uptick in this 0:40:14.360 --> 0:40:16.960 department for the Bears. Fields was really known more as 0:40:16.960 --> 0:40:20.160 a running quarterback, and Williams is quite the opposite. Keenan 0:40:20.200 --> 0:40:22.879 Allen takes the slot duties with DJ Moore and Romeo 0:40:22.880 --> 0:40:26.120 Odunze on the outside. Moore's going off the board at 0:40:26.160 --> 0:40:29.160 pick thirty, that's in the third round. Alan at forty 0:40:29.239 --> 0:40:34.640 seven and a Dounza at eighty six. To me, I 0:40:34.760 --> 0:40:37.279 like my knee jerk reaction was Allen was going to 0:40:37.320 --> 0:40:40.160 be higher than DJ Moore. I guess you get the 0:40:40.200 --> 0:40:43.600 flashy upside of Moore there, But if it's me, I 0:40:43.600 --> 0:40:46.480 think I like Alan best out of these three receivers, 0:40:46.719 --> 0:40:49.560 especially with a rookie quarterback. Yeah, a little bit shorter, 0:40:49.680 --> 0:40:52.239 a dot maybe if he's a little nervous. I think 0:40:52.280 --> 0:40:53.799 Alan as the savvy Vett. 0:40:54.000 --> 0:40:55.560 I think he might be the best receiver. 0:40:55.840 --> 0:40:58.319 He's not gonna he won't be the flashiest on him, right, 0:40:58.480 --> 0:41:00.279 but he's gonna be the guy where at the end 0:41:00.320 --> 0:41:03.600 of the day, he's got eight catches for eighty yards and. 0:41:03.480 --> 0:41:07.320 As Scott Fish calls him, just the woobie, the woobie, Yeah, exactly. 0:41:08.040 --> 0:41:10.759 Cole Comet, in my mind, is an above average tight end, 0:41:10.760 --> 0:41:12.880 but he's going off the board at tight end fifteen 0:41:12.960 --> 0:41:14.760 right now and an eleventh round pick. 0:41:15.600 --> 0:41:16.520 You might disagree. 0:41:16.520 --> 0:41:19.040 I think Gerald Everett's a pretty decent depth piece there, 0:41:19.080 --> 0:41:21.920 and I think he cuts into it. But with all 0:41:21.960 --> 0:41:25.640 the additions, if this passing game doesn't get better, I'd 0:41:25.640 --> 0:41:27.799 be completely shocked and coaches. 0:41:27.480 --> 0:41:28.920 Will be fight. Yeah, that could be. 0:41:29.480 --> 0:41:29.920 That could be. 0:41:30.560 --> 0:41:33.719 On the running game side. DeAndre Swift came over from 0:41:33.719 --> 0:41:35.839 Philly and it was a weird season for him there. 0:41:36.360 --> 0:41:39.719 He tallied twelve hundred and sixty three total yards, he 0:41:39.719 --> 0:41:43.399 had six touchdowns, he had a respectable four point six 0:41:43.480 --> 0:41:46.399 yards per attempt, and he was seventeenth in the league 0:41:46.400 --> 0:41:51.200 and explosive run rate, but he ranked fortieth in yards 0:41:51.200 --> 0:41:56.919 after contact and thirtieth amongst qualifying runners enforced misstackles, which 0:41:57.000 --> 0:42:00.200 that's not great. So a lot of his success you 0:42:00.239 --> 0:42:03.920 attribute to the Eagles offensive line. The Bears don't have 0:42:03.960 --> 0:42:06.520 a line as good as the Eagles, but nobody wrote 0:42:07.560 --> 0:42:10.160 it's average, but it's not elite like Philly. So the 0:42:10.200 --> 0:42:15.280 bright side for Swift is there's no tush push. 0:42:14.360 --> 0:42:16.040 Right to steal those. 0:42:16.239 --> 0:42:19.240 So Swift might actually see some carries inside the five. 0:42:19.080 --> 0:42:21.440 And foreman's gone who could have been a goal line threat. 0:42:21.760 --> 0:42:24.880 He may have to split those inside the five carries 0:42:24.920 --> 0:42:28.120 with a few capable backups and Khalil ground Bear and 0:42:28.239 --> 0:42:29.320 Roshan Johnson. 0:42:29.719 --> 0:42:31.400 I don't think we have ground bear. 0:42:32.800 --> 0:42:36.480 We have? Why do I have a duck on here? 0:42:37.120 --> 0:42:42.240 What did we need that for? We didn't we label 0:42:42.280 --> 0:42:44.480 these at one time. I've only got a couple of 0:42:44.480 --> 0:42:45.040 them labeled. 0:42:46.760 --> 0:42:54.040 Not that you have to buttons. I gotta change that. 0:42:55.200 --> 0:42:58.080 I gotta get I don't have the bear on here 0:42:59.760 --> 0:43:06.160 you have? Seriously, what is wrong with you? I gotta 0:43:06.239 --> 0:43:09.319 update the sounds on the button bar. It's time on 0:43:09.360 --> 0:43:10.680 our podcast. 0:43:11.000 --> 0:43:14.799 So Khalil Herbert and Roshawn Johnson. Last year was an 0:43:14.840 --> 0:43:19.040 almost even split between Herbert Johnson and Foreman from Inside Australia. 0:43:19.920 --> 0:43:24.000 But maybe Waldron uses Swift as a bell cow similarly 0:43:24.040 --> 0:43:26.200 to how he used Kenneth Walker in Seattle. Or was 0:43:26.239 --> 0:43:27.799 that maybe a Pete Carroll philosophy. 0:43:27.840 --> 0:43:28.239 I don't know. 0:43:28.440 --> 0:43:31.320 Yeah, And the other thing that worries me is Swift 0:43:31.960 --> 0:43:34.080 was the bell cow in Philly for the most part. 0:43:34.200 --> 0:43:37.280 I mean, you got overwhelming number of carries in. It 0:43:37.520 --> 0:43:40.760 just didn't materialize outside of house in the Vikings. Literally 0:43:40.840 --> 0:43:43.719 it was the tush push that did him in Well 0:43:43.760 --> 0:43:44.719 that that certainly hurt. 0:43:45.000 --> 0:43:47.840 It hurts him a lot. So I think the running 0:43:47.840 --> 0:43:50.520 game gets better in Chicago. I'm not sure it's going 0:43:50.560 --> 0:43:53.640 to go all to Swift, but and it might be 0:43:53.680 --> 0:43:56.120 more of a split than we like, but I think 0:43:56.160 --> 0:43:58.320 that things overall get better for the Bears on the 0:43:58.400 --> 0:43:58.879 running side. 0:43:58.920 --> 0:44:00.800 All right, let's go to the Detroit Allions, our last, 0:44:00.960 --> 0:44:04.760 our last team here. This is the league's most unchanged offense. 0:44:05.120 --> 0:44:07.920 You've got you have one new full time starter guard, 0:44:08.080 --> 0:44:13.640 Kevin Zeitler. We referenced early Baltimore. Baltimore. Yeah, Jared Goff 0:44:13.640 --> 0:44:17.720 got a contract extension. They did lose committee receiver Josh 0:44:17.760 --> 0:44:21.239 Reynolds now in Denver passing game, he already know. I'm 0:44:21.280 --> 0:44:23.560 on Ross. Saint Brown is great. Current ADP is seven 0:44:23.640 --> 0:44:26.560 overall and it is totally deserved. No problem with that 0:44:26.600 --> 0:44:30.600 at all. With Josh Reynolds gone, there's a big vacuum 0:44:30.640 --> 0:44:34.680 after Saint Brown. It's not gonna be Cleiff Raymond. The 0:44:34.840 --> 0:44:37.920 hope is Jamison Williams will fill it. 0:44:38.560 --> 0:44:40.600 That's the hope here. So let's talk it through a 0:44:40.640 --> 0:44:41.040 little bit. 0:44:41.080 --> 0:44:43.560 Have been able to start either of the last two seasons. 0:44:43.640 --> 0:44:45.800 Noh yeah, random stuff exactly. 0:44:45.880 --> 0:44:48.120 So he had the rookie a cl and then his 0:44:48.200 --> 0:44:50.040 sophomore year he had the Gable League suspension. 0:44:50.560 --> 0:44:52.160 So will this be. 0:44:52.239 --> 0:44:54.719 The year three breakout for Jamison Williams. 0:44:54.840 --> 0:44:57.600 Do they do year three breakouts on wide receivers anymore? 0:44:57.960 --> 0:44:59.840 I feel like we're still publishing. 0:44:59.400 --> 0:45:02.560 The magazine Nico Collins. Nco Collins just had their year 0:45:02.600 --> 0:45:07.239 three breakout. To this point for Williams, the problems opportunity. 0:45:07.360 --> 0:45:10.040 He's not on the field enough. He's only averaging three 0:45:10.120 --> 0:45:14.040 targets per game now. Fortunately Reynolds leaves behind four and 0:45:14.080 --> 0:45:16.479 a half targets per game. Maybe he gets half of those, 0:45:16.520 --> 0:45:18.880 So maybe he gets up to like Williams gets up 0:45:18.920 --> 0:45:20.959 to like five targets a game, And now you're starting 0:45:21.000 --> 0:45:24.000 to get into quasi fantasy viability. 0:45:24.760 --> 0:45:26.240 He had the deep a dot. 0:45:26.280 --> 0:45:29.399 As people know, he's all about the long ball over 0:45:29.520 --> 0:45:31.600 sixteen yards per target. 0:45:31.760 --> 0:45:32.840 That's huge. That's huge. 0:45:32.840 --> 0:45:35.239 We love that from our fantasy players. It gives you 0:45:35.280 --> 0:45:38.239 the opportunity for the big gains, you know, and Saint 0:45:38.280 --> 0:45:40.200 Brown and Sam laport are gonna soak up a ton 0:45:40.200 --> 0:45:42.880 of catches, but not enough that there can't be a 0:45:43.120 --> 0:45:47.360 third meaningful fantasy player from this passing offense. 0:45:47.440 --> 0:45:49.840 Well in, Saint Brown and Laporta are both kind of 0:45:49.880 --> 0:45:50.760 short a dots. 0:45:51.000 --> 0:45:51.319 They are. 0:45:51.480 --> 0:45:52.120 That's a good point. 0:45:52.280 --> 0:45:54.320 That's a good point. I gotta have somebody deep. 0:45:54.280 --> 0:45:58.319 And that's that's where Jamison Williams figures in. Probably now 0:45:58.600 --> 0:46:00.440 the other problem he's got to get over. He has 0:46:00.520 --> 0:46:04.600 the fourth worst drop ball ratio in football, a staggering 0:46:04.719 --> 0:46:08.640 fourteen percent drop rate for Jamison Williams on a small sample. 0:46:08.680 --> 0:46:09.560 Suze yep. 0:46:09.960 --> 0:46:13.319 Right now, Williams go off the board wide receiver forty nine, 0:46:13.640 --> 0:46:15.120 round ten. What do you think of that? 0:46:16.280 --> 0:46:17.439 It sounds about right. 0:46:17.520 --> 0:46:19.800 I actually thought it might have been a little bit lower. 0:46:19.960 --> 0:46:22.280 I did too, since his he didn't have the production 0:46:22.400 --> 0:46:24.960 in the past. But obviously people are baking in the 0:46:25.040 --> 0:46:26.440 opportunity here for sure. 0:46:26.920 --> 0:46:28.000 I don't think we have to spend a lot of 0:46:28.000 --> 0:46:29.759 time on Sam Laporta going after the board is tight 0:46:29.800 --> 0:46:32.000 end one end of the second round in the lead 0:46:32.040 --> 0:46:35.239 talent that in an offense that that catered to him 0:46:35.239 --> 0:46:39.520 and used Laporta copiously, no problem where he's getting drafted 0:46:39.520 --> 0:46:40.319 into the second round. 0:46:40.400 --> 0:46:41.000 He's awesome. 0:46:41.440 --> 0:46:42.840 Does he get better or worse this year for the 0:46:42.840 --> 0:46:45.440 passing game, It's hard to imagine it's going to get 0:46:45.560 --> 0:46:47.799 better because it was already really good last year. I'm 0:46:47.840 --> 0:46:51.120 on Ross Saint Brown was fantastic, Laporta was fantastic. But 0:46:51.200 --> 0:46:53.520 maybe Laporta gets even better. Is in a sophomore year, 0:46:53.800 --> 0:46:56.840 so maybe there's a little increment up in his passing game. 0:46:57.480 --> 0:46:59.839 So maybe slightly better. But I can't see it getting 0:46:59.840 --> 0:47:01.520 a lot better because it was already great. Let's go 0:47:01.560 --> 0:47:05.080 to the running game, no changes, Jami or Gibbs, David 0:47:05.120 --> 0:47:09.160 Montgomery returning here, this kind of fun. Matt team put 0:47:09.200 --> 0:47:12.640 a fourth round pick into a guy named Sion Vaki, 0:47:13.280 --> 0:47:17.799 a two way player. He played safety and running back 0:47:18.400 --> 0:47:22.560 who spent three years in Tonga as a missionary for 0:47:22.640 --> 0:47:24.480 the Church of Latter Day Saints. 0:47:24.920 --> 0:47:26.000 You don't hear a lot of this. 0:47:26.120 --> 0:47:29.120 It seems like just like a Dan Campbell guy. All 0:47:29.160 --> 0:47:31.600 this guy is just a he's a football player. 0:47:31.719 --> 0:47:32.680 I think that's some of it. 0:47:33.360 --> 0:47:36.160 He was a finalist for the Paul Horning Award, given 0:47:36.160 --> 0:47:40.319 to college football's most versatile player. Two way player makes sense, right, 0:47:41.200 --> 0:47:43.799 slated to be a special teamer, so probably no big 0:47:43.880 --> 0:47:47.160 change there. I thought, this is fascinating, though. Where do 0:47:47.239 --> 0:47:50.960 you think Gibbs and Montgomery finished in Fantasy points last year? 0:47:52.120 --> 0:47:53.600 Off the top of your head. Off the top, and 0:47:53.640 --> 0:47:56.120 I'm not trying to trap you, no, And it's a 0:47:56.160 --> 0:47:57.000 little unfair to ask. 0:47:57.040 --> 0:47:59.879 I think they're both right around top fourteen ish. 0:48:00.239 --> 0:48:03.120 Nice job. Gibbs was nine, Monty was ten. 0:48:03.320 --> 0:48:05.320 Okay, so I was gonna I was gonna say ten. 0:48:05.280 --> 0:48:08.840 Twelve, like right there, Yeah, you did, absolutely, you were 0:48:09.239 --> 0:48:10.640 right in the window. 0:48:11.280 --> 0:48:14.640 And Montgomery mostly due to all the touchdowns he scored. 0:48:16.000 --> 0:48:19.799 Hold on, I think you're gonna be surprised, so our listeners. 0:48:20.239 --> 0:48:25.359 So Gibbs going out the board, RB four. Yep, right, 0:48:25.840 --> 0:48:31.360 Montgomery going off the board RB twenty two. So you attempted, 0:48:31.440 --> 0:48:33.520 you know, you know, these guys finished nine and ten. 0:48:33.719 --> 0:48:36.399 Why is Gibbs going four in Montgomery going twenty two? 0:48:36.560 --> 0:48:39.799 And the the natural inclination might be to say, well, 0:48:39.840 --> 0:48:42.520 Montgomery got a bunch of touchdowns that Gibbs didn't get. 0:48:44.320 --> 0:48:48.279 They were within one of each other on touchdowns. Montgomery 0:48:48.320 --> 0:48:53.200 had had eleven hundred yards. Wow, eleven hundred yards. Gibbs 0:48:53.239 --> 0:48:56.520 had twelve hundred yards. They were almost identical in production, 0:48:57.280 --> 0:48:59.160 and yet they're going off the board. Is running back 0:48:59.160 --> 0:49:00.440 four and running back two two. 0:49:01.960 --> 0:49:05.160 This is just new player bias, which is huge. 0:49:05.160 --> 0:49:08.440 Andsanactly what it is, and highlight bias because Gibbs is 0:49:08.480 --> 0:49:13.880 a highlight machine and we remember the flashy plays. Montgomery 0:49:13.960 --> 0:49:14.879 wasn't flashy guy. 0:49:15.200 --> 0:49:17.720 And it's way more fun to say Jamir. 0:49:17.360 --> 0:49:20.040 Gibbs than David montgomer. 0:49:20.280 --> 0:49:23.080 There is something to that. I swear to God that 0:49:23.200 --> 0:49:25.319 people like names. 0:49:25.040 --> 0:49:25.680 That are cool. 0:49:26.400 --> 0:49:29.120 David Montgomery is about the most boring name for a 0:49:29.200 --> 0:49:30.279 running back of all time. 0:49:30.719 --> 0:49:33.040 I you know what, I never considered that, but you're 0:49:33.040 --> 0:49:36.719 a hundred Jamiir Gibbs is a way cooler sounding. Yeah, exactly, 0:49:36.960 --> 0:49:39.520 without a doubt, without a doubt. All right, that wraps 0:49:39.600 --> 0:49:41.480 up this episode. Thank you, Matt. Yeah, this has been 0:49:41.520 --> 0:49:44.360 add It has been a ton of fun. I'm drafting 0:49:44.400 --> 0:49:47.840 Montgomery picked running back twenty two. I think so seven. 0:49:48.120 --> 0:49:49.719 That's my DT. Oh, this is my duty. 0:49:49.760 --> 0:49:50.680 Opposite guy. 0:49:50.960 --> 0:49:54.040 We We've covered so many over the last two episodes, 0:49:54.080 --> 0:49:54.719 so many. 0:49:54.520 --> 0:49:55.680 Do the opposite guys. 0:49:55.760 --> 0:49:58.120 Yes, we got Pacheco, we got we got some of 0:49:58.160 --> 0:50:01.759 the Chargers running backs. Late got it's got Montgomery. There 0:50:01.840 --> 0:50:04.440 there's a you can build a really good backfield I 0:50:04.520 --> 0:50:05.799 know between the fourth. 0:50:06.280 --> 0:50:10.200 Yeah, absolutely absolutely. Thanks for listening everybody. 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