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Speaker 4: Hi Matt, Hello, how are you doing.
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Speaker 4: I mean that's what the people want, that's what the
Speaker 4: people get.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I'd like to literally see your back on
Speaker 1: the front and back, which would look weird. Oh, but
Speaker 1: that Yeah, we can do back to back to back.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my back is looking a little better than my front.
Speaker 1: I I got to try to get the belly, had
Speaker 1: to drop a few LB's. The problem is your proximity
Speaker 1: to Big Boar Barbecue.
Speaker 3: That is true.
Speaker 4: It's about a mile mile and a half from my house,
Speaker 4: and you need to move.
Speaker 1: You're too close to Big Boar. You know, I'm twenty
Speaker 1: minutes away, So it's a concerted effort for me.
Speaker 4: Yeah, maybe I should like only walk or bike there.
Speaker 3: From now. Oh, that's a great idea. Yeah, I like it.
Speaker 1: Of course in Minnesota that's half of the year. That's
Speaker 1: a tricky proposition.
Speaker 4: Well, it's not that far of a walk. I can
Speaker 4: do that walk.
Speaker 1: You gonna bike it in February.
Speaker 4: No, and not when it's slippery. I'll put on the
Speaker 4: snow shoes and walk it over there.
Speaker 1: The people who do the biking in the winter with
Speaker 1: the big fat tires, like that's dedication right there.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't like it that much, if you know,
Speaker 4: I don't like biking that much in order in order
Speaker 4: to like, you know, really commit to it in the
Speaker 4: winter time.
Speaker 1: No, I'm with you. Although I did e bikes for
Speaker 1: the first time. Oh yeah, a couple of months ago
Speaker 1: when I was when I was in Utah, and that's
Speaker 1: ion they're so fun.
Speaker 3: E bikes are a blast.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's they're not fully motorized, but they take everything
Speaker 1: that you pedal.
Speaker 3: You get like five x the return one.
Speaker 1: So you know, you can go up these really big.
Speaker 3: Hills no problem. Okay.
Speaker 1: And you know I was, you know, go uphill twenty
Speaker 1: miles an hour by pedaling, you know, a quarter as
Speaker 1: hard as you would have had to work on a
Speaker 1: regular bike.
Speaker 3: I did. I did not.
Speaker 1: I did not expect it to be fun. They're blast
Speaker 1: e bikes are super fun.
Speaker 3: Are you're gonna get one? No?
Speaker 1: Okay, because at the end of the day, like you,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, do I really want
Speaker 1: to I don't.
Speaker 3: I don't think I want a bike anywhere at the
Speaker 3: end of the day.
Speaker 4: Well, you could get get a couple and you could
Speaker 4: keep them with the camper.
Speaker 3: Oh that's true. Now, that would be the use case.
Speaker 1: Would be in the camp Yeah for sure, not in it,
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, brought with it. Yeah, exactly that space
Speaker 1: inside the camper.
Speaker 4: Well, if nobody's in the camper at the time, you
Speaker 4: could throw the bikes in there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I could do that. But that's the the ideally
Speaker 1: is you are in like national parks, state parks, and
Speaker 1: you know, seeing all kinds of cool stuff. Then yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it'd be absolutely that's great. Why don't you
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Speaker 4: That?
Speaker 1: With that big Fantasy Football Week, I love it all right.
Speaker 1: This is the fourth of our four shows breaking down
Speaker 1: all the teams in the NFL, highlighting key changes from
Speaker 1: last year, and out broad outlooks for each of these teams.
Speaker 1: We've done everything but the North teams. So now we
Speaker 1: go to the AFC North Matt. Let's start with the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean.
Speaker 4: The biggest addition to the backfield literally is Derrick Henry,
Speaker 4: who comes over from the Titans. We'll talk more about
Speaker 4: him in a minute. They did lose their other running backs,
Speaker 4: Gus Edwards and JK. Dobbins both find themselves on the
Speaker 4: West Coast.
Speaker 3: With the Chargers.
Speaker 4: They also lost three starting offensive linemen and Kevin Zeitler,
Speaker 4: John Simpson, and Morgan Moses. Second round rookie Roger Rosengarten
Speaker 4: is expected to take over at right tackle, while Ben
Speaker 4: Cleveland and Andrew Vorhees are slated to take over at guard.
Speaker 4: But anytime you placed three offensive line necks, a little
Speaker 4: bit of a red flag for an offense areed. Last year,
Speaker 4: the Ravens went eight to no in games where Lamar
Speaker 4: Jackson was sacked two or fewer times. Wow, okay, all right,
Speaker 4: so that factors into that passing game. Jackson missed nine
Speaker 4: total games. There we go nine high, Hey, there we
Speaker 4: are right in twenty twenty one and twenty twenty two
Speaker 4: due to injury. But at an MVP season in twenty three,
Speaker 4: where he was able to set a new career best
Speaker 4: in passing yards just about thirty seven hundred yards, a
Speaker 4: full five hundred more than his previous career high. That's
Speaker 4: Todd Mounkin. He certainly helped with that, as did the
Speaker 4: emergence of Zay Flowers as a top flight receiving option
Speaker 4: I like today. Flowers definitely started to bloom at the
Speaker 4: end of the season. He scored four scored four times
Speaker 4: in his last five regular season games and averaged five
Speaker 4: catches per game over that span. Rashad Bateman and Nelson
Speaker 4: Aguilar appear to be guys.
Speaker 3: Well you know, they're banging the drum for Bateman again. Yeah,
Speaker 3: they ah, this is going to be the breakout. Yeah, trying.
Speaker 4: But I want people to keep an eye on rookie
Speaker 4: devontees Walker maybe popping up and stealing some targets later
Speaker 4: in the season. They're talking about him as a guy
Speaker 4: who just has just like raw athletic ability, and that
Speaker 4: kind of seems interesting to me. In that offense, Mark
Speaker 4: Andrews should finally be fully healthy at the starting training camp.
Speaker 4: He's still a top five tight end, so will get
Speaker 4: better or worse for the passing game. I struggled with
Speaker 4: this one. I think it gets slightly worse, mostly because
Speaker 4: I'm nervous about how that O line gels with sixty
Speaker 4: percent of new pieces. I agree the running game. Dereck
Speaker 4: Henry is thirty years old. He's played eight seasons and
Speaker 4: has had two thousand and thirty career carries.
Speaker 1: That's that's a lot.
Speaker 4: Forty second in NFL history. He just passed Roger Craig,
Speaker 4: who played for eleven years. Yeah, Gerald Riggs who played
Speaker 4: for ten years, and herschel Walker who played for eleven seas.
Speaker 1: And Henry's at eight and those first few years he
Speaker 1: was lightly used. Yeah, you know, he was in a
Speaker 1: timeshare backfield, most dominating writers.
Speaker 4: Right, But just for fun, if he gets another two
Speaker 4: hundred carries this year, he's gonna pass these guys in charch.
Speaker 4: I want you to give me a one sentence blurb
Speaker 4: on each of these guys. Okay, they're from your fantasy passage, Okay,
Speaker 4: all right.
Speaker 1: Aman Green, he was shockingly good for the Packers, was
Speaker 1: an all purpose back. But I never would have guessed
Speaker 1: that he was at this level of I didn't remember
Speaker 1: having this kind of longevity in his career over.
Speaker 3: Two thousand carries.
Speaker 1: All Right, Willis mcgahey, against all odds. He had the
Speaker 1: horrifying injuries. Yeah, and everybody just assumed that, you know,
Speaker 1: he would like never play again, and the fact that
Speaker 1: he went on to a long, productive career was shocking.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Ernest Biner, Oh, Ernestiner, So he was.
Speaker 1: It was the Kevin Mack Ernest Biner duo, frustrating fantasy
Speaker 1: owners in the nineties for the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 3: Yes, Terry Allen.
Speaker 1: Terry Allen was a longtime Minnesota Viking who was the
Speaker 1: the first player to come back from acls on each knee.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Chris Johnson, Chris Johnson, I because nickname. Maybe you've ever
Speaker 1: given the tap dancing Nancy Chris Johnson.
Speaker 3: I had forgot about that. He was a tap dancing Nancy.
Speaker 3: That's what he was.
Speaker 1: I hated that guy, and part because two thousand yards
Speaker 1: of I hated that guy exact. He had a couple
Speaker 1: of just great seasons and everybody was like, always better
Speaker 1: than Adrian Peterson, It's not even close. And Peterson went
Speaker 1: on too obviously far out clips him.
Speaker 3: Okay, I got a couple more.
Speaker 1: Earl Campbell, Yeah, before my time too. But obviously Earl
Speaker 1: Campbell one of the great power running backs of all time.
Speaker 1: We've all seen the classic highlight of him literally shredding
Speaker 1: the jersey if a player, No, they shred his jersey.
Speaker 1: It just keeping just yeah and him just mowing down.
Speaker 4: Guys fanatics built jerseys back then.
Speaker 1: Sean Alexander, Yeah, I'll always first remember his six touchdown
Speaker 1: game against my Vikings.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yep.
Speaker 4: And then finally Tiki Barber.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he went on to he had a long, good career.
Speaker 3: He did. He was part of the Thunder and Lightning.
Speaker 1: Crew with Brandon Jacobs brand. Yeah, it's nicely done. It was,
Speaker 1: that was exactly what was Brandon Jacobs. Jacobs should have
Speaker 1: had a longer, better career, but it didn't. It all,
Speaker 1: It all kind of fizzled out. Tiaki had a long career.
Speaker 3: There, but those guys.
Speaker 1: Dereck Henry's going to pass all year with two two
Speaker 1: hundred carries seems very likely.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And by the way, all the goal line work,
Speaker 3: all the goal line work.
Speaker 4: He's had double digit touchdowns in six straight seasons. In
Speaker 4: those six seasons, he's averaged twenty carries per game. If
Speaker 4: the Ravens are planning on giving him twenty carries per game.
Speaker 4: That's three hundred and forty carries. He might not make it,
Speaker 4: but I do think he's gonna be an inside the
Speaker 4: five beast though another ten plus scores probably a lock
Speaker 4: if he stays healthy.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Backups are Keaton Mitchell, who probably won't return till mid season.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's too bad, because man, he looked promising, you know,
Speaker 1: and a lot of what I loved about him requires
Speaker 1: a two healthy knees.
Speaker 4: Yeah, let's see Justice Hill is still there. I mean,
Speaker 4: Justice Hill could be relevant if Henry starts suddenly.
Speaker 1: Is hurt?
Speaker 4: Ravens backs last year finished fifth in the league in
Speaker 4: PPR Fantasy points. Most of that was due to twenty
Speaker 4: running back rushing touchdowns last year.
Speaker 1: How about that?
Speaker 4: I didn't know that they combined for twenty running back
Speaker 4: rushing touchdown Gus.
Speaker 1: Edwards led the NFL and carries inside the five.
Speaker 4: Yeah? Is it better or worse this year? I do
Speaker 4: like Henry better than what they had last year, so
Speaker 4: I'll say it's slightly better. But I don't know if
Speaker 4: they can score at that twenty running back no rushing
Speaker 4: probably not.
Speaker 1: But if I told you Derrick Henry is going to
Speaker 1: lead the NFL and rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 4: You'd be like, yeah, sure, absolutely could see that feasible. Yeah,
Speaker 4: it's not a peacock off thing right there, It really isn't.
Speaker 1: That's it to go to the Cleveland Browns. Start with
Speaker 1: the passing game. It is a make or break year
Speaker 1: for Deshaun Watson. As it stands today early June, the
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson trade and its connected contract is the worst
Speaker 1: deal in NFL history. Herschel Walker points and mocks the
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson trade.
Speaker 4: It's basically built the current Houston tex.
Speaker 1: It has into a Super Bowl continued you have going
Speaker 1: to the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3: That's right.
Speaker 1: Through two injury Leyden seasons in Cleveland, Watson has been awful.
Speaker 1: He's the NFL's highest paid quarterback. He ranked twenty sixth
Speaker 1: as a passer by Pro Football Focus in between backup Now,
Speaker 1: backup Justin Fields and unrostered Ryan Tannehill. In each of
Speaker 1: the past two seasons, Deshaun Watson has played about one
Speaker 1: third of the year and accumulated seven passing touchdowns and
Speaker 1: seven passing touchdowns.
Speaker 3: You can't even hit nine times on that, No, I can't,
Speaker 3: which is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: Consider he's the highest paid player in the NFL and
Speaker 1: he's given you seven and seven passing touchdowns and the
Speaker 1: granted injuries factored into that.
Speaker 3: That even if you were most.
Speaker 1: Charitable and you were to pro rate his seven passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns across a whole season, like if you played all
Speaker 1: seventeen games, you'd have twenty passing touchdowns a year. That
Speaker 1: is terrible. That is appropriate for a middle and rookie prospect.
Speaker 1: He completed. Watson completed just sixty one percent of his passes.
Speaker 1: That ranked him thirty sixth, and his adjusted completion percentage
Speaker 1: isn't much better, ranking him thirtieth. And finally, and I've
Speaker 1: hammered on this so many times, Deshaun Watson doesn't run anymore.
Speaker 1: For everybody thinks you're getting rushing touchdowns because you're remembering
Speaker 1: the Houston days. In two seasons of Cleveland, he has
Speaker 1: one rushing touchdown. And even more poignant, last year, he
Speaker 1: had thirty seven total rushing yards on designed runs.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 1: And he designed runs where they hit and not many,
Speaker 1: but well, yes, that is something like that. Not even
Speaker 1: he they don't use him that way, So ken Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson get better. Well, okay, sure, I mean he was
Speaker 1: way better in Houston. He's only twenty nine years old.
Speaker 1: But what I don't know is is he just mentally broken?
Speaker 1: I mean, is you know, after what he did to himself,
Speaker 1: how he sabotaged his own career entirely at his own fault,
Speaker 1: is is he now mentally broken? And that's you know,
Speaker 1: we don't know for sure. Your glimmer of hope is
Speaker 1: that is what Joe Flacco walked in and did. Yeh,
Speaker 1: Because you could have said, in this Kevin Stefanski Cleveland offense,
Speaker 1: no quarterback can ever be fantasy productive because it's always
Speaker 1: going to be about what they can do on the
Speaker 1: ground first and everything else. But Joe Flacco walked in
Speaker 1: and rocked this passing game. Yeah, so maybe Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: can do some of what Joe Flacco did at age
Speaker 1: sixty two.
Speaker 4: Do you feel like the aforementioned Ryan Tannehill, who's still
Speaker 4: a free atory at this moment, wouldn't that be kind
Speaker 4: of nice if he was there?
Speaker 3: I know that.
Speaker 4: I think they signed Tyler Huntley as the backup.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Tyler Huntley is there.
Speaker 4: I'm a little nervous about that, but it seems like
Speaker 4: Tannerhill could come in and do a Flaco maybe if
Speaker 4: Watson's not working out.
Speaker 1: Your new face among the receivers is Jerry Judy. In Denver,
Speaker 1: he ran over half his routes from the slot. But
Speaker 1: the problem is that's where Elijah Mitchell and Cedric Tillman
Speaker 1: often play Okay slot as well, so that doesn't give
Speaker 1: him really anywhere to go there. The Browns don't pass
Speaker 1: enough in my mind to feed Amari Cooper, David and Joku.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about a little bit more in a second.
Speaker 1: And well, frankly anybody else, including Jerry Judy. So I'm
Speaker 1: out on Judy, not interested, and I think he's just
Speaker 1: going to go to Cleveland and Witherway and die. And
Speaker 1: at the end of the year, we're going to look
Speaker 1: back at like a four touchdown season and somebody maybe
Speaker 1: had to start once off the waiver wire in a
Speaker 1: bye week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, be a take a chance, maybe a take a
Speaker 4: chance on me cap player.
Speaker 1: That's the kind of player I think Jerry duty is
Speaker 1: going to devolve into here and already was at the
Speaker 1: end of last year. Let's talk David Joku though in
Speaker 1: many scoring systems, second half of last year, many of it,
Speaker 1: much of it powered by Joe Flacco tight end one whoa.
Speaker 3: I did not see that come.
Speaker 1: From Week eight forward in Joku scored or topped fifty
Speaker 1: eight yards in every game but one. Wow, really impressive
Speaker 1: those blow and he had some blow up games almost
Speaker 1: entirely with Joe Flacco. His average game under Watson just
Speaker 1: thirty five yards and zero point two touchdowns per game.
Speaker 1: Oh man, he was basically like, you know, double or
Speaker 1: triple the fantasy points scorer under Joe Flacco. And that's
Speaker 1: your danger within JOKU is what happens with Watson under quarterback?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: Yeah, So does the passing game get better or worse?
Speaker 1: I think it's worse. I mean just Watson is a
Speaker 1: downgrade from Joe Flacco.
Speaker 3: I unless I was.
Speaker 1: Out of the know at the beginning of last year,
Speaker 1: and now that DeShawn Watson's a downgrade from him, it's
Speaker 1: come to this. The running game, uh, considering that Nick
Speaker 1: Chubb tore his a CL, MCL and meniscus way back
Speaker 1: in Week two, to me, it's a little bit troubling
Speaker 1: that he was not able to do any running on
Speaker 1: it until April. I'd like to have seen that timetable
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier. Not a not a disaster warning sign,
Speaker 1: but I think that is a bit of a warning sign.
Speaker 1: You know, obviously we'll know a lot more about Chubb's
Speaker 1: timetable season gets closer longer than we'd like, maybe yea,
Speaker 1: and well, you know, we'll know more. But even when
Speaker 1: Chubb returns, who's to say that he goes back to
Speaker 1: being the workhorse that he was in this offense? They
Speaker 1: made him take a pay cut. And look what happened
Speaker 1: on JK. Dobbins as an example, right you know.
Speaker 3: JK.
Speaker 1: Dobbins suffered a brutal, brutal knee injury, just like Chubb did.
Speaker 1: Never the same player, never the same and Dobbins looked
Speaker 1: amazing pre injury. So right now, ADP Chubb's going off
Speaker 1: the board is running back thirty two in the seventh round.
Speaker 1: I can get starters there. To me, that's too early
Speaker 1: for somebody that may not start a game until mid season.
Speaker 1: I mean, we don't know right now right now, based
Speaker 1: only in June.
Speaker 4: If you're if you're drafting in June, yes, maybe not
Speaker 4: the best time.
Speaker 3: To roll the dice on that.
Speaker 4: But if it looks like he's slated to start and
Speaker 4: and and all systems are go. I think Chubb's ADP
Speaker 4: rockets up quite a bit from RB thirty two.
Speaker 1: Yeah probably. I mean, you know, if he's ready to
Speaker 1: roll day one of training camp. Yeah, this you'll you'll
Speaker 1: have gone back and gone seventh round. Oh my god,
Speaker 1: I go to steal. So you know understand the risk
Speaker 1: Jerome Ford returns. They added don to Foreman. Ford was
Speaker 1: never built to be a work horse. They had to
Speaker 1: use him as a workhorse for a lot of last
Speaker 1: year out of necessity. But that's that would not be
Speaker 1: the case here if Rub's not ready, I think it
Speaker 1: would be Ford and Foreman both effectively sharing carries.
Speaker 4: And if Chubb is healthy, how does that backfield?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 1: Because Chub's not gonna go from zero to twenty carries
Speaker 1: like the old days, and Foreman's not a terrible he's
Speaker 1: non terrible. Yeah yeah, I agreed. So does this get
Speaker 1: better worse than last year? Probably better eventually because Chubble
Speaker 1: returned at some point to something resembling full strength and
Speaker 1: so and last year again, you know, Ford was okay,
Speaker 1: but he's just he was never meant to be a
Speaker 1: workhorse back sure, all right, Let's go to our next team,
Speaker 1: which is the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's a whole new ballgame in Pittsburgh. Russell Wilson
Speaker 4: in as the starting quarterback, Justin Fields is the backup.
Speaker 4: They replace Kenny Pickett, Mitch Trubisky, and Mason Rudolph. They're
Speaker 4: all gone. Deontay Johnson gone too, leaving George Pickens as
Speaker 4: the unquestioned number one wide receiver there. And Arthur Smith
Speaker 4: is the new offensive coordinator.
Speaker 3: You may remember.
Speaker 4: Our Smith as the coach of the Falcons the last
Speaker 4: few years, and before that, the offensive coordinator in Tennessee
Speaker 4: where he just ran the heck out of Derrick Henry.
Speaker 4: And now they're talking about how excited Pittsburgh is for
Speaker 4: this new run first philosophy.
Speaker 3: So let's go to the passing game. Okay, how can
Speaker 3: Arthur Smith f this up? Well?
Speaker 4: I mean, you had Russell Wilson and Justin Fields, both
Speaker 4: guys not known for their downfield pass plays, and Jettison
Speaker 4: Deontay Johnson. It kind of sounds like you're gonna run
Speaker 4: the ball. Russell Wilson has to be seen as an
Speaker 4: upgrade from Kenny Pickett. Yep, So that's good. I guess,
Speaker 4: but beyond that, it's kind of looking scary. Calvin Austin
Speaker 4: is currently set as wide receiver too, and I bet
Speaker 4: most NFL fans don't know who Calvin Austin is. He
Speaker 4: was a fourth round pick for the Steelers last year.
Speaker 4: Roman Wilson was a round three pick out of Michigan.
Speaker 4: He should get some run. And then there's the retreads
Speaker 4: Van Jefferson, Les Watkins, Denzel Mims, Marquez Callaway.
Speaker 3: They're all on the current depth chart. Yikes.
Speaker 4: After scoring seven times in his rookie year, Pat Fryarmuth
Speaker 4: has only managed four total touchdowns in the following two years.
Speaker 1: I'm stunned at his de evolution from that. So that
Speaker 1: rookie year was so promising for him. And by the way,
Speaker 1: there's talk that the backup Washington could end up pressing
Speaker 1: friar Mouth for time this year.
Speaker 3: We'll see.
Speaker 1: Washington is gigantic, specimen, physical freak.
Speaker 3: It could.
Speaker 4: Mouth had a big game late in the season where
Speaker 4: I think he tallied like one hundred and nineteen yards
Speaker 4: in a game, so there was a little glimmer of
Speaker 4: hope there. He'll be on the field a ton. I
Speaker 4: think it's arrow up on Friar move.
Speaker 3: Good Byelow. Who else is there to throw.
Speaker 1: To Curry point? That's a very fair point, is it?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson has like zero track record of throwing to
Speaker 1: his tas true. But Arthur Smith, if you were to
Speaker 1: combine like Pitts and John new Smith together, Arthur Smith,
Speaker 1: as frustrated as we were about his usage on Pitts,
Speaker 1: I think he can get the ball to a tight end.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Absolutely. Is the passing game better or worse? I think
Speaker 4: it's better, but not by much at all. I think
Speaker 4: the upgrade at quarterback is not very significant, and the
Speaker 4: running game stands to benefit more under Arthur Smith. So
Speaker 4: let's talk about the running game. Naji Harris has played
Speaker 4: three years in the league. He's had at least twelve
Speaker 4: hundred total yards and eight touchdowns in every season. Last
Speaker 4: year he touched the ball two hundred and eighty four times.
Speaker 4: Jalen Warren had two hundred and ten touches. Last season,
Speaker 4: he had over eleven hundred total yards and he scored
Speaker 4: four times. Now, Warren was much more heavily utilized as
Speaker 4: a pass catching option out of the backfield. But Harris
Speaker 4: isn't that bad in his rookie year. He had a
Speaker 4: seventy four catch season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that was so promising.
Speaker 4: Yeah, everyone will point to Naji Harris had four point
Speaker 4: one yards per carry and Jalen Warren had five point
Speaker 4: three yards per carry, and they're all gonna say this preseason. Yeah, well, Nause,
Speaker 4: he's gonna get get, get take the back seat to
Speaker 4: Warren here. I don't think that's the case.
Speaker 3: I don't.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be a split backfield. And here's why Nase's
Speaker 4: gonna keep this job. He's six foot two, two hundred
Speaker 4: thirty pounds Warren.
Speaker 3: Is Is he really six foot two? Yeah, geez, that's.
Speaker 1: Tall for a running back.
Speaker 4: He's six inches taller than Warren five foot eight two
Speaker 4: point fifteen.
Speaker 1: I think he was six two.
Speaker 4: In most cases, the bigger players in the NFL tend
Speaker 4: to be more durable, and if Nagy has to plot
Speaker 4: his way through the line to tire out the defense
Speaker 4: to allow Warren to get those.
Speaker 3: And Arthur Smith loves his plotters, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 4: The Steelers also brought in Corderyl Patterson as a change
Speaker 4: of pace back. He was in Atlanta with Arthur Smith.
Speaker 4: Soh in Atlanta in a similar spot last year. Bijeon, Robinson, Tyler, Algier,
Speaker 4: and Patterson all had some run. Algier had two hundred
Speaker 4: four touches last year. Bijon had two hundred seventy two.
Speaker 4: It's almost the same as what we just talked about.
Speaker 4: Naji's gonna be Beijon, Warren's gonna be Lgier. Patterson just
Speaker 4: gets to be himself. Which is nice, better or worse.
Speaker 4: I think it's better because I think they're gonna run
Speaker 4: even more this year. It's gonna be like a ten
Speaker 4: percent uptick in rushing attempts.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Cincinnati Bengals. Everything looks like Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow's going to return in time for training camp. I
Speaker 1: have no real concerns about Joe Burrow for this year,
Speaker 1: and obviously he's great. So's Jamar Chase awesome. I don't
Speaker 1: think we have anything to even spend time on with
Speaker 1: those guys.
Speaker 4: And Joe Burrow's got the long hair now, so rocking it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, all the cool guys grown their hair out.
Speaker 3: You are growing your hair out.
Speaker 1: Coincides you and Joe Burrow must have a lot more
Speaker 1: than people know. T Higgins, though, has not signed his
Speaker 1: franchise tag offer, and we could be heading into a
Speaker 1: stalemate in training camp. So that is something Betty, to
Speaker 1: keep it a track of. Yeah, if if you want
Speaker 1: to roll the dice on Higgins getting traded or maybe
Speaker 1: there's a tracted holdout, you could throw a dart. And
Speaker 1: I like this as one of my favorite sleepers, andre
Speaker 1: Yo Savash. He's flashed a little bit last year and
Speaker 1: I'm interested in that kid, and he could walk right
Speaker 1: in the starting role opposite Jamar Chase. Now they put
Speaker 1: a third rounder into rookie Jermaine Burton from Alabama, but
Speaker 1: he's viewed as a very very raw athlete who is
Speaker 1: not very productive and on great Alabama teams, he's expected
Speaker 1: to like a long term project. I mean somebody that
Speaker 1: would need years to develop. So Andre Yo Savash, I
Speaker 1: mean like last pick of your draft. Just keep this
Speaker 1: in the back of your mind. And especially if you're
Speaker 1: doing best Ball drafts now drafting for early for whatever reason,
Speaker 1: and this T Higgins thing has not played out and
Speaker 1: you think it's going to end badly for badly if
Speaker 1: you think he's not going to be on this team,
Speaker 1: either if I hold out or trade or whatever, you
Speaker 1: can get a wide receiver two and for Joe Burrough
Speaker 1: offense right for free. Yes, thank you, journeyman tight end
Speaker 1: Mike Giseki is your presumed starter at the tight end position.
Speaker 1: But Kazeki has just proven and reproven himself to be
Speaker 1: just like a spot starter and that's it.
Speaker 4: Is He better than anything they've had at tight end
Speaker 4: the last few years, though it feels.
Speaker 1: Like slightly it's better nerves Smith, that's for sure. But
Speaker 1: they also spent a fourth round pick on Eric All
Speaker 1: from Iowa and previously Michigan, and that is a thort
Speaker 1: nice from favorite.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he likes Eric a lot.
Speaker 1: So Yeah, so if Kazeki isn't great, I could see
Speaker 1: them getting doing a little eric All, getting eric All
Speaker 1: involved in this, but his timetable could be down the
Speaker 1: road as well. So does the passing game get better
Speaker 1: worse this year?
Speaker 3: Better?
Speaker 1: Because Joe Burrow's not gonna miss half the season, So
Speaker 1: you know this is this is clearly uptick here and again, Andre, Yo.
Speaker 4: I don't know if we're pronouncing that, No, I am.
Speaker 3: I looked it up to make sure I didn't screw
Speaker 3: it up. Yo.
Speaker 1: See bosh Okay got it.
Speaker 3: Running game.
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon sent packing to Houston Cincinnati should have sold
Speaker 1: last year. I think they got out a year late,
Speaker 1: but I think they ultimately made the right call here.
Speaker 1: So it looks like it's gonna be a two headed
Speaker 1: attack with Chase Brown and Zach Moss. But I like
Speaker 1: Moss better. You know, after years of misuse in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: Of course, you know, Zach Boss goes to Indy. He
Speaker 1: had those early starts where Jonathan Taylor wasn't right yet,
Speaker 1: and looked really good. In the six games in which
Speaker 1: Moss got eighteen or more carries, he averaged one hundred
Speaker 1: and six yards in almost a full touchdown per game.
Speaker 3: That's pretty good. That's pretty good.
Speaker 1: This is the Zach Moss I was stumping for when
Speaker 1: he was in Buffalo. We finally got a long look
Speaker 1: at him with Indianapolis and he looked good.
Speaker 4: And Devin Singletary got out of Buffalo and side, yeah.
Speaker 3: Look good too. I know it's right. So James Cook
Speaker 3: looks all right. He does.
Speaker 1: They don't use him enough. Chase Brown look promising in
Speaker 1: the small sample size that we had last year. He
Speaker 1: can catch. That's Moss is not a natural pas catcher.
Speaker 1: Brown had just forty four carries all last year, but
Speaker 1: he had four explosive plays of fifteen or more yards
Speaker 1: on those forty four carries. That's a great ratio, and
Speaker 1: Brown finished fifteenth in Pro Football focuses elusiveness rating. Brown's
Speaker 1: got room to get better in your two. But Moss
Speaker 1: should be the presumed starter here. He's proven he can
Speaker 1: do a lot with a big workload. I think Moss
Speaker 1: I think gets two thirds of the work. Brown gets
Speaker 1: one third of the work.
Speaker 3: And see that happening.
Speaker 1: Yep, that feels about right to me. Zach Moss going
Speaker 1: off the board at running back twenty eighth, sixth round.
Speaker 1: Perfect do the opposite draft spot for Zach Moss? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I like him. There pass saying we.
Speaker 3: Do pat Now that's it.
Speaker 1: Does he get better or worse for for Cleveland's running game?
Speaker 1: I think it's better because I do not believe. I
Speaker 1: didn't believe in Joe Mixon going into last year. He
Speaker 1: wasn't any good last year. Yeah, we're gonna We're gonna move.
Speaker 3: On, all right.
Speaker 1: I think that's all of our AFC North teams. Let's
Speaker 1: take a break and go to the MC North sound good, yep.
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly returns Paul Jarchie and Matt Harrison with you.
Speaker 1: We turn our attention to the NFC North. First team
Speaker 1: up is the Green Bay Packers, Matt where we got
Speaker 1: not a lot of change the passing side, but we've
Speaker 1: got some new faces in the running game.
Speaker 4: By the way, this NFC North, it's it's gonna be
Speaker 4: a monster. These are some good teams additions and subtractions
Speaker 4: in Green Bay. Josh Jacobs replaces Aaron Jones in the backfield.
Speaker 4: That's the headliner. The Packers also lost guard John Runyon,
Speaker 4: tackle Yosh Nyman, and spent a first round pick on
Speaker 4: Jordan Morgan on the offensive line. But they're pretty deep
Speaker 4: across the offensive line, so I don't think that they're
Speaker 4: gonna miss a beat there.
Speaker 1: And organizationally, man, do they churn out good lineman holy cow.
Speaker 4: To get good offensive line play the passing game. The
Speaker 4: band is back together again. Jordan Love looks to build
Speaker 4: off a promising first year as a starter, and the
Speaker 4: Packers may have more B B plus wide receivers on
Speaker 4: their roster, not like letter grades in Fantasy Football Week exactly,
Speaker 4: but than any team ever because Jaden Reid, Romeo Dobbs,
Speaker 4: Christian Watson, Dontavian Wicks. They'll probably all get drafted in
Speaker 4: your fantasy league, Oh yeah, for sure. And then there's
Speaker 4: Bow Melton, Malik Heath, and Samari Toure. They all had
Speaker 4: a little bit of run with the team at the
Speaker 4: tail end of last year as well. The problem is
Speaker 4: their depth. They're all good players and they should all
Speaker 4: get a chunk of the fantasy pie. There were only
Speaker 4: two instances last season where a Packers wide receiver had
Speaker 4: double digit.
Speaker 3: Targets in a game.
Speaker 4: Really yeah, wow, Romeo Dobbs in Week four Jacob Reid
Speaker 4: in Week fourteen.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 4: There were only two instances last season where a Packers
Speaker 4: wide receiver had one hundred yards two that's it. Neither
Speaker 4: counted for you because it was Bow Melton in Week
Speaker 4: seventeen and Red in Week eighteen.
Speaker 3: Wow. Not in your fantasy playoffs, right.
Speaker 4: So, as far as touchdowns go, Read and Dobbs both
Speaker 4: had eight scores, Watson had five, Wicks had four, and
Speaker 4: then there was a slew of others who had two
Speaker 4: or one receiving touchdowns last season, including tight ends Luke
Speaker 4: Musgrave and Tucker Craft. The point is, in this passing game,
Speaker 4: I think you want Jordan Love.
Speaker 3: I want Jordan Love, So don't have to guess everyone.
Speaker 4: To deal with any of the wide receivers unless you're
Speaker 4: a best ball.
Speaker 1: Well, well that's true best ball. That's a lot I
Speaker 1: like it. It's a lot more compelling for best ball.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have to try to guess week in and
Speaker 1: week out, who's gonna be good. The smart people say
Speaker 1: the smart people quote say, you know, Wicks has got
Speaker 1: freaky upside that perhaps others don't sure read to me
Speaker 1: looked like Deebo Samuel Light. And I'm really intrigued by Reed.
Speaker 3: And you love Dobbs, and I like do I love Dobbs.
Speaker 3: I like Dobbs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but I think you're right that I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: lay off the whole group and not try to figure
Speaker 1: that thing that thing out and try to guess right. So,
Speaker 1: I think there's just gonna be too many games where
Speaker 1: too many dud games when your guy, your packer receiver
Speaker 1: just it's just not his day.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly. Offense up or down. I think the arrow
Speaker 4: is trending up for the offense as they continue moving
Speaker 4: forward in love second year in the Running Game in
Speaker 4: twenty twenty two.
Speaker 1: Hey, before we move on, Yeah, we should mention Tucker
Speaker 1: Kraft had a torn bicept working out, and he looks
Speaker 1: like he's going to miss like all of training camp
Speaker 1: and might be reckep ready for the beginning of might
Speaker 1: be ready for the beginning of the season, but might not.
Speaker 1: And that might be the big difference that keeps him
Speaker 1: safely below Luke Musgrave for a while.
Speaker 4: Okay, got it, got it in so the running game.
Speaker 4: In twenty twenty two, Josh Jacobs had three hundred and
Speaker 4: ninety three touches three hundred and ninety three touches that led,
Speaker 4: and he led the league in rushing yards head over
Speaker 4: two thousand total yards score twelve times. Last year in Vegas,
Speaker 4: we saw his yards per carry fall from four point
Speaker 4: nine to three point five, his touchdowns cut in half.
Speaker 4: He still had two hundred and seventy touches in only
Speaker 4: thirteen games, and his explosive run rate fell to forty
Speaker 4: first among forty nine qualified backs.
Speaker 1: Raiders knew what they were doing. They were just gonna
Speaker 1: grind him up and then kick him to free agents.
Speaker 3: They did that.
Speaker 4: Outside of twenty twenty two, he's missed a few games
Speaker 4: every year, and when you look back at his five
Speaker 4: years a workload, you have to be surprised that he
Speaker 4: hasn't missed more over a seventy three game career. He's
Speaker 4: kind of like Derrick Henry. He's averaging twenty and a
Speaker 4: half touches per game for ninety six total yards.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 4: He turned twenty six in February, so the age isn't
Speaker 4: a concern, but the mileage has to be. And the
Speaker 4: Packers did draft Marshawn Lloyd in the third round, who's
Speaker 4: very very interesting. They brought back AJ Dillon as well,
Speaker 4: not I don't know why. Yeah, Lloyd was able to
Speaker 4: be a top twenty college back in basically every metric,
Speaker 4: including PFF's elusive rating. So we may start the season
Speaker 4: with a healthy dose of Josh Jacobs, but I think
Speaker 4: we finished the year with Marshawn Lloyd really cutting into
Speaker 4: Jacob's workload and possibly taking the bulk of the carries.
Speaker 3: Yeah, my tis My worry is.
Speaker 1: We know the way the Packers offense, and Lafleur likes
Speaker 1: to work that offense is no matter what he.
Speaker 3: Splits, he splits carries.
Speaker 1: It doesn't even matter how bad the number two running
Speaker 1: back is. Now ineffective. AJ Dillon is, Yeah, I.
Speaker 4: Say to him, kram At Lafleur. As a Vikings fan,
Speaker 4: I was not pleased that Marshon Lloyd was drafted to
Speaker 4: Green Bay.
Speaker 3: As a group, I think, well, it's a fantasy player.
Speaker 3: I'm not happy that that was his landing spot.
Speaker 4: Yeah, exactly, But I think that by the end of
Speaker 4: the season, I think we're looking at Marshaw Lloyd.
Speaker 3: Maybe as maybe the next next big thing there, and
Speaker 3: certainly in Dynasty.
Speaker 1: I'm a lot more interested in Lloyd than I am
Speaker 1: in in any in anybody else there. Yeah.
Speaker 4: As a group, the pass running backs finished twenty seventh
Speaker 4: in PPR Fantasy points last season, so I definitely feel
Speaker 4: like things are trending up in the run game for
Speaker 4: Green Bay.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 3: Let's a lot of changes in the passing game.
Speaker 1: Obviously with Kirk Cousins gone. Sam Donald, well, that's really
Speaker 1: the big change, Sam Donald, you're expected starter unless JJ
Speaker 1: McCarthy just looks unworldly in the preseason. Yeah, the plan
Speaker 1: is for McCarthy to have a long runway. Do not
Speaker 1: be surprised if you get zero starts out of JJ
Speaker 1: McCarthy this year.
Speaker 4: I would be very surprised if he gets zero starts,
Speaker 4: because Donald would really have to have that win loss
Speaker 4: record in a great spot for the Vikings before the
Speaker 4: fan base is just grumbling. And their early season schedule.
Speaker 3: It's brutal, it's brutal. It's really hard.
Speaker 4: They might be so they play like it's a week
Speaker 4: five in London. Then they have to bye week, and
Speaker 4: then they come back with a home game against Detroit.
Speaker 4: If the Vikings are one and four after that London game,
Speaker 4: you know they're gonna come back with Mike.
Speaker 1: I don't know that.
Speaker 3: I think they will.
Speaker 1: I don't agree. I think they've I think they've got
Speaker 1: a really really long runway on this kid and.
Speaker 3: The people.
Speaker 1: My understanding here MINNISODEA. I'm not gonna put names on things.
Speaker 1: It's that the he is gonna have take. They're gonna
Speaker 1: take as long as they need with him. Now, the
Speaker 1: other side of it is Donald finds himself in the
Speaker 1: best spot of his career by a mile shore justin Jefferson.
Speaker 1: You got Jordan Addison, You'll eventually get TJ. Hockinson back
Speaker 1: from his ACL. You have bookend tackles to protect him.
Speaker 1: They have Pro Football focuses, third ranked pass blocking offensive line.
Speaker 1: I mean this is you know, this is you could
Speaker 1: dream come true for Sam Donald, and I think probably
Speaker 1: he just looks good enough to hold the job for
Speaker 1: a while.
Speaker 3: Donald. Donald also gets the advantage.
Speaker 1: Of a pass first offense and a quarterback friendly head
Speaker 1: coach and Kevin O'Connell. And with all that surrounding talent
Speaker 1: and the Vikings very realit give up a bunch of points.
Speaker 1: I think Donald is gonna have some splash fantasy games. Okay,
Speaker 1: you know, like Nick Mullins at the end of last
Speaker 1: year kept throwing for four hundred yards and right well
Speaker 1: he wasn't through, was mostly on the ground. But yes,
Speaker 1: So your adp on Donald right now is quarterback thirty five.
Speaker 3: That's prettyure.
Speaker 1: There's only thirty two teams. Yeah, it's the twentieth round.
Speaker 1: Totally in on Donald here. Now you're gonna hear more
Speaker 1: from Brian Johnson later. Who's who thinks Sam Donald is
Speaker 1: gonna be like a top ten quarterback. Yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: ready to go there.
Speaker 4: Oh he thinks that the Vikings wasted a pick from Dorothy.
Speaker 3: That's right. So Thor and Brian are gonna come to
Speaker 3: blows this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it could be ugly, could be ugly. I love
Speaker 1: Donald as your second quarterback, and let's see how this
Speaker 1: thing plays out. Because the surrounding town's just so good
Speaker 1: and I do and the path he's could just buy
Speaker 1: your volume. Unless Donald is completely broken, he's gonna have
Speaker 1: some splash games for you to pick a pick and
Speaker 1: choose from. Okay, the thing to mention about Justin Jefferson
Speaker 1: is his lack of contract extension, which could become an
Speaker 1: issue rolling into training camp. Hopefully it'll get done before then.
Speaker 1: You know everything you need to know about Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 1: He's the first player, first wide receiver off the board
Speaker 1: in most drafts. Jordan Addison enters year two after a
Speaker 1: solid rookie year seventy catches, eight hundred yards, ten touchdowns,
Speaker 1: even more impressive knowing that Addison was catching passes from
Speaker 1: Nick Mullins and Josh Dobbs for half the year and
Speaker 1: he was still able to put up in nine hundred
Speaker 1: yards and seventy catches Justin Jefferson on a fantasy right, Sorry,
Speaker 1: you're exactly right, But where would you pick him? No,
Speaker 1: it's about right.
Speaker 3: So it's Tyreek Hill, right.
Speaker 1: Cee Lamb, Ceedee labert Kill and Jamar Chase and then Jefferson.
Speaker 1: Now that sounds a by right because of the quarterback differential. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: Addison has room to get better if his quarterbacking doesn't
Speaker 1: fail him. Addison could take a jump in his sophomore
Speaker 1: year and improve on all those numbers. So I am
Speaker 1: interested in him, and I think overall this offense gets
Speaker 1: better than the non Kirk Cousins version of the Vikings
Speaker 1: passing offense last year, but is worse than the Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins version when he led the NFL in passing yards
Speaker 1: when he suffered his torn ACL Let's go to the
Speaker 1: running game. Aaron Jones replaces Alexander Madison, and he's almost
Speaker 1: certainly to be the starter here. Jones elite receiver, and
Speaker 1: this is the best receiver Kevin O'Connell's had since he's
Speaker 1: come over as the Vikings head coach. I think he's
Speaker 1: going to see a lot more receptions to him than
Speaker 1: any other running back has had with the Vikings. Jones
Speaker 1: finished his Pro Football Focus is seventh ranked running back
Speaker 1: and he ranked fifteenth and elusiveness, He's still got the moves.
Speaker 4: Do you think the Packers downgraded at running back? They
Speaker 4: paid jos a lot more, you.
Speaker 3: Know what I think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they did what I think happened, and everybody loved
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones. And by the way, I mean elite human being.
Speaker 1: I think they got frustrated with the questionable tag after
Speaker 1: his name every week. I think they were just, you know,
Speaker 1: we need somebody we can count on.
Speaker 3: It was just it was durability. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Now, I had a chance to do the Vikings draft
Speaker 1: party in US Bank Stadium and they they Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: came on, you know, came in with us, and I
Speaker 1: had a chance to chat with him a little bit
Speaker 1: and stand right next to him. The dude is slight
Speaker 1: of build.
Speaker 3: You wouldn't think it.
Speaker 1: You would not think it the way he the way
Speaker 1: he looks on the field, because he runs angry and tough,
Speaker 1: and he he does. He plays way bigger than he
Speaker 1: than he actually is in real life. So I guess
Speaker 1: I'm in that regard to I'm not not surprised that
Speaker 1: he's been He's broken down a few times. Kevin O'Connell's
Speaker 1: an almost even distributor of the ball near the stripe.
Speaker 1: He passes and runs at a roughly equal rate. There
Speaker 1: will be some opportunities to run in touchdowns. I don't
Speaker 1: think ty Chandler will be a factor at the goal line,
Speaker 1: so I think Aaron Jones will have those chances. But
Speaker 1: the catch is the nagging injuries. You just you can't
Speaker 1: make Aaron Jones your workhorse back. He's got to be
Speaker 1: somebody who touches the ball like fifteen times a game.
Speaker 4: That's still fait fantasy relevant.
Speaker 1: It is enough to be fantasy relevant. He's currently running
Speaker 1: back eighteen round five sounds about right. Sounds about right
Speaker 1: running back. Overall, the running game for the Vikings gets
Speaker 1: much better with Aaron Jones than Alexander Madison. You know,
Speaker 1: we got plenty of things wrong last year Damian Pierce,
Speaker 1: tank Bigsby, but last year we warned you off of
Speaker 1: Alexander Madison all off season. I'm in on Aaron Jones.
Speaker 3: Yeah, let's go to Our next team is Chicago Bears.
Speaker 4: Lots of changes in the Windy City this year. New
Speaker 4: offensive coordinator Shane Waldron comes over for the Seahawks. He
Speaker 4: had a hand in the emergence of Geno Smith after
Speaker 4: the past few years. Rookie quarterback and pick one oh
Speaker 4: one is Caleb Williams, who replaces Justin Fields Keenan Allen
Speaker 4: acquired via trade. Yeah, DeAndre Swift acquired in free agency.
Speaker 4: Gerald Everett joined the tight end room with Cole kmet
Speaker 4: Romo Doonesa was drafted with the ninth overall pick.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they look think of think of all the all
Speaker 1: the assets they threw himTo that Bears offense.
Speaker 4: And Darnell Mooney and Deonta Foreman left via free agency, so.
Speaker 1: They won't miss him.
Speaker 4: No, I don't think they will at all. Passing game,
Speaker 4: I think everyone is expecting a huge uptick in this
Speaker 4: department for the Bears. Fields was really known more as
Speaker 4: a running quarterback, and Williams is quite the opposite. Keenan
Speaker 4: Allen takes the slot duties with DJ Moore and Romeo
Speaker 4: Odunze on the outside. Moore's going off the board at
Speaker 4: pick thirty, that's in the third round. Alan at forty
Speaker 4: seven and a Dounza at eighty six. To me, I
Speaker 4: like my knee jerk reaction was Allen was going to
Speaker 4: be higher than DJ Moore. I guess you get the
Speaker 4: flashy upside of Moore there, But if it's me, I
Speaker 4: think I like Alan best out of these three receivers,
Speaker 4: especially with a rookie quarterback. Yeah, a little bit shorter,
Speaker 4: a dot maybe if he's a little nervous. I think
Speaker 4: Alan as the savvy Vett.
Speaker 3: I think he might be the best receiver.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna he won't be the flashiest on him, right,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna be the guy where at the end
Speaker 1: of the day, he's got eight catches for eighty yards and.
Speaker 4: As Scott Fish calls him, just the woobie, the woobie, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 4: Cole Comet, in my mind, is an above average tight end,
Speaker 4: but he's going off the board at tight end fifteen
Speaker 4: right now and an eleventh round pick.
Speaker 3: You might disagree.
Speaker 4: I think Gerald Everett's a pretty decent depth piece there,
Speaker 4: and I think he cuts into it. But with all
Speaker 4: the additions, if this passing game doesn't get better, I'd
Speaker 4: be completely shocked and coaches.
Speaker 3: Will be fight. Yeah, that could be.
Speaker 1: That could be.
Speaker 4: On the running game side. DeAndre Swift came over from
Speaker 4: Philly and it was a weird season for him there.
Speaker 4: He tallied twelve hundred and sixty three total yards, he
Speaker 4: had six touchdowns, he had a respectable four point six
Speaker 4: yards per attempt, and he was seventeenth in the league
Speaker 4: and explosive run rate, but he ranked fortieth in yards
Speaker 4: after contact and thirtieth amongst qualifying runners enforced misstackles, which
Speaker 4: that's not great. So a lot of his success you
Speaker 4: attribute to the Eagles offensive line. The Bears don't have
Speaker 4: a line as good as the Eagles, but nobody wrote
Speaker 4: it's average, but it's not elite like Philly. So the
Speaker 4: bright side for Swift is there's no tush push.
Speaker 3: Right to steal those.
Speaker 4: So Swift might actually see some carries inside the five.
Speaker 1: And foreman's gone who could have been a goal line threat.
Speaker 4: He may have to split those inside the five carries
Speaker 4: with a few capable backups and Khalil ground Bear and
Speaker 4: Roshan Johnson.
Speaker 1: I don't think we have ground bear.
Speaker 3: We have? Why do I have a duck on here?
Speaker 3: What did we need that for? We didn't we label
Speaker 3: these at one time. I've only got a couple of
Speaker 3: them labeled.
Speaker 1: Not that you have to buttons. I gotta change that.
Speaker 1: I gotta get I don't have the bear on here
Speaker 1: you have? Seriously, what is wrong with you? I gotta
Speaker 1: update the sounds on the button bar. It's time on
Speaker 1: our podcast.
Speaker 4: So Khalil Herbert and Roshawn Johnson. Last year was an
Speaker 4: almost even split between Herbert Johnson and Foreman from Inside Australia.
Speaker 4: But maybe Waldron uses Swift as a bell cow similarly
Speaker 4: to how he used Kenneth Walker in Seattle. Or was
Speaker 4: that maybe a Pete Carroll philosophy.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And the other thing that worries me is Swift
Speaker 1: was the bell cow in Philly for the most part.
Speaker 1: I mean, you got overwhelming number of carries in. It
Speaker 1: just didn't materialize outside of house in the Vikings. Literally
Speaker 1: it was the tush push that did him in Well
Speaker 1: that that certainly hurt.
Speaker 4: It hurts him a lot. So I think the running
Speaker 4: game gets better in Chicago. I'm not sure it's going
Speaker 4: to go all to Swift, but and it might be
Speaker 4: more of a split than we like, but I think
Speaker 4: that things overall get better for the Bears on the
Speaker 4: running side.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the Detroit Allions, our last,
Speaker 1: our last team here. This is the league's most unchanged offense.
Speaker 1: You've got you have one new full time starter guard,
Speaker 1: Kevin Zeitler. We referenced early Baltimore. Baltimore. Yeah, Jared Goff
Speaker 1: got a contract extension. They did lose committee receiver Josh
Speaker 1: Reynolds now in Denver passing game, he already know. I'm
Speaker 1: on Ross. Saint Brown is great. Current ADP is seven
Speaker 1: overall and it is totally deserved. No problem with that
Speaker 1: at all. With Josh Reynolds gone, there's a big vacuum
Speaker 1: after Saint Brown. It's not gonna be Cleiff Raymond. The
Speaker 1: hope is Jamison Williams will fill it.
Speaker 3: That's the hope here. So let's talk it through a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 4: Have been able to start either of the last two seasons.
Speaker 4: Noh yeah, random stuff exactly.
Speaker 1: So he had the rookie a cl and then his
Speaker 1: sophomore year he had the Gable League suspension.
Speaker 3: So will this be.
Speaker 1: The year three breakout for Jamison Williams.
Speaker 4: Do they do year three breakouts on wide receivers anymore?
Speaker 3: I feel like we're still publishing.
Speaker 1: The magazine Nico Collins. Nco Collins just had their year
Speaker 1: three breakout. To this point for Williams, the problems opportunity.
Speaker 1: He's not on the field enough. He's only averaging three
Speaker 1: targets per game now. Fortunately Reynolds leaves behind four and
Speaker 1: a half targets per game. Maybe he gets half of those,
Speaker 1: So maybe he gets up to like Williams gets up
Speaker 1: to like five targets a game, And now you're starting
Speaker 1: to get into quasi fantasy viability.
Speaker 3: He had the deep a dot.
Speaker 1: As people know, he's all about the long ball over
Speaker 1: sixteen yards per target.
Speaker 3: That's huge. That's huge.
Speaker 1: We love that from our fantasy players. It gives you
Speaker 1: the opportunity for the big gains, you know, and Saint
Speaker 1: Brown and Sam laport are gonna soak up a ton
Speaker 1: of catches, but not enough that there can't be a
Speaker 1: third meaningful fantasy player from this passing offense.
Speaker 4: Well in, Saint Brown and Laporta are both kind of
Speaker 4: short a dots.
Speaker 3: They are.
Speaker 1: That's a good point.
Speaker 3: That's a good point. I gotta have somebody deep.
Speaker 1: And that's that's where Jamison Williams figures in. Probably now
Speaker 1: the other problem he's got to get over. He has
Speaker 1: the fourth worst drop ball ratio in football, a staggering
Speaker 1: fourteen percent drop rate for Jamison Williams on a small sample.
Speaker 3: Suze yep.
Speaker 1: Right now, Williams go off the board wide receiver forty nine,
Speaker 1: round ten. What do you think of that?
Speaker 3: It sounds about right.
Speaker 4: I actually thought it might have been a little bit lower.
Speaker 4: I did too, since his he didn't have the production
Speaker 4: in the past. But obviously people are baking in the
Speaker 4: opportunity here for sure.
Speaker 1: I don't think we have to spend a lot of
Speaker 1: time on Sam Laporta going after the board is tight
Speaker 1: end one end of the second round in the lead
Speaker 1: talent that in an offense that that catered to him
Speaker 1: and used Laporta copiously, no problem where he's getting drafted
Speaker 1: into the second round.
Speaker 3: He's awesome.
Speaker 1: Does he get better or worse this year for the
Speaker 1: passing game, It's hard to imagine it's going to get
Speaker 1: better because it was already really good last year. I'm
Speaker 1: on Ross Saint Brown was fantastic, Laporta was fantastic. But
Speaker 1: maybe Laporta gets even better. Is in a sophomore year,
Speaker 1: so maybe there's a little increment up in his passing game.
Speaker 1: So maybe slightly better. But I can't see it getting
Speaker 1: a lot better because it was already great. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the running game, no changes, Jami or Gibbs, David
Speaker 1: Montgomery returning here, this kind of fun. Matt team put
Speaker 1: a fourth round pick into a guy named Sion Vaki,
Speaker 1: a two way player. He played safety and running back
Speaker 1: who spent three years in Tonga as a missionary for
Speaker 1: the Church of Latter Day Saints.
Speaker 3: You don't hear a lot of this.
Speaker 4: It seems like just like a Dan Campbell guy. All
Speaker 4: this guy is just a he's a football player.
Speaker 3: I think that's some of it.
Speaker 1: He was a finalist for the Paul Horning Award, given
Speaker 1: to college football's most versatile player. Two way player makes sense, right,
Speaker 1: slated to be a special teamer, so probably no big
Speaker 1: change there. I thought, this is fascinating, though. Where do
Speaker 1: you think Gibbs and Montgomery finished in Fantasy points last year?
Speaker 1: Off the top of your head. Off the top, and
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to trap you, no, And it's a
Speaker 1: little unfair to ask.
Speaker 4: I think they're both right around top fourteen ish.
Speaker 1: Nice job. Gibbs was nine, Monty was ten.
Speaker 4: Okay, so I was gonna I was gonna say ten.
Speaker 1: Twelve, like right there, Yeah, you did, absolutely, you were
Speaker 1: right in the window.
Speaker 4: And Montgomery mostly due to all the touchdowns he scored.
Speaker 1: Hold on, I think you're gonna be surprised, so our listeners.
Speaker 1: So Gibbs going out the board, RB four. Yep, right,
Speaker 1: Montgomery going off the board RB twenty two. So you attempted,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, these guys finished nine and ten.
Speaker 1: Why is Gibbs going four in Montgomery going twenty two?
Speaker 1: And the the natural inclination might be to say, well,
Speaker 1: Montgomery got a bunch of touchdowns that Gibbs didn't get.
Speaker 1: They were within one of each other on touchdowns. Montgomery
Speaker 1: had had eleven hundred yards. Wow, eleven hundred yards. Gibbs
Speaker 1: had twelve hundred yards. They were almost identical in production,
Speaker 1: and yet they're going off the board. Is running back
Speaker 1: four and running back two two.
Speaker 4: This is just new player bias, which is huge.
Speaker 1: Andsanactly what it is, and highlight bias because Gibbs is
Speaker 1: a highlight machine and we remember the flashy plays. Montgomery
Speaker 1: wasn't flashy guy.
Speaker 4: And it's way more fun to say Jamir.
Speaker 3: Gibbs than David montgomer.
Speaker 4: There is something to that. I swear to God that
Speaker 4: people like names.
Speaker 3: That are cool.
Speaker 4: David Montgomery is about the most boring name for a
Speaker 4: running back of all time.
Speaker 1: I you know what, I never considered that, but you're
Speaker 1: a hundred Jamiir Gibbs is a way cooler sounding. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: without a doubt, without a doubt. All right, that wraps
Speaker 1: up this episode. Thank you, Matt. Yeah, this has been
Speaker 1: add It has been a ton of fun. I'm drafting
Speaker 1: Montgomery picked running back twenty two. I think so seven.
Speaker 1: That's my DT. Oh, this is my duty.
Speaker 3: Opposite guy.
Speaker 4: We We've covered so many over the last two episodes,
Speaker 4: so many.
Speaker 3: Do the opposite guys.
Speaker 4: Yes, we got Pacheco, we got we got some of
Speaker 4: the Chargers running backs. Late got it's got Montgomery. There
Speaker 4: there's a you can build a really good backfield I
Speaker 4: know between the fourth.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely absolutely. Thanks for listening everybody. We'll be back
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