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Speaker 2: excited about today's subject.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you like a little Deontay Johnson.
Speaker 2: I'm super excited about tomorrow's player. Today's player is a
Speaker 2: little less exciting. Deontay Johnson. Hard to muster a ton
Speaker 2: of enthusiasm here. Even by by wide receiver one standards,
Speaker 2: there's only a couple of guys I think I'm less
Speaker 2: interested in than Deontay Johnson for a team's number one
Speaker 2: wide receiver. But let's play it out. Let's do a
Speaker 2: deep dive on him, find out what we like, what
Speaker 2: we don't like.
Speaker 3: All right, let's do it.
Speaker 1: Uh finish says the wide receiver twenty eight last season
Speaker 1: in total points and total points was the wide receiver
Speaker 1: forty three though in average points per game, So one
Speaker 1: of those beneficiaries who is that's a little flavor. You
Speaker 1: just look at the points because he played and I
Speaker 1: think get in all seventeen games, which is great from
Speaker 1: an injury standpoint. But didn't do much in those games.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's currently going off the board is why
Speaker 1: does he wear thirty six? And the big thing with
Speaker 1: Deontay Johnson was he had zero touchdowns.
Speaker 2: Last week, which obviously, you know, he's never been a
Speaker 2: big touchdown guy, but yeah, obviously he'll score more than
Speaker 2: zero next year.
Speaker 1: This is the one guy the regression bros love. Oh,
Speaker 1: I bet everyone who talks about he's due for aggressions whatever,
Speaker 1: standard deviation, whatever those fancy words are.
Speaker 2: The mean, Yes, yeah, that's what I was looking for. Yes,
Speaker 2: So I think there's probably some people just look at well,
Speaker 2: he gets he gets all. He's a big part of
Speaker 2: this offense. The ball gets in his hands a lot,
Speaker 2: and eventually good things will happen, would be the thinking, Right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's definitely the thinking and the case to like
Speaker 1: you said, going off that, the case to make for
Speaker 1: Deontay was he finished sixth in targets last season, which
Speaker 1: considering he finished.
Speaker 2: As why receiver thirty or whatever forty.
Speaker 3: Three average points per game, how do you it just
Speaker 3: doesn't make sense for me and.
Speaker 2: Zero efficiency with all the zero all those targets.
Speaker 1: He was also numbered nine in routes run number ten
Speaker 1: red zone targets, no touchdowns, and he he was number
Speaker 1: two with an unrealized air yards What that.
Speaker 2: Down unrealized What is unrealized air yards?
Speaker 1: So it takes your air yards, which is the mount
Speaker 1: the yards traveled the ball in the air to like
Speaker 1: when you on the target. So we had fifteen fifteen
Speaker 1: hundred air yards and they subtract it from his actual
Speaker 1: receiving yards. So basically on targeted ball. So like Kyle
Speaker 1: Pitts is a really high UH air yard stat because
Speaker 1: he was targeted on a lot of balls like deep
Speaker 1: down the field, and but he did he catch you
Speaker 1: didn't catch them because Marcus Mariota is not good.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well that's a problem here too because pick it
Speaker 2: also does not look like an NFL start.
Speaker 1: So he had eight hundred and seventy two unrealized area.
Speaker 1: So it's pretty much just how many yards he could
Speaker 1: have got. Yes, pretty much the stat.
Speaker 2: Had the balls been thrown accurately, maybe the coverage wasn't
Speaker 2: as good. Had he caught all the balls that he
Speaker 2: could have, he would have had fifteen you know, he
Speaker 2: would have had fifteen hundred area at fifteen hundred yards.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so the caseke is that maybe he catches more
Speaker 1: balls for some little bit more yards.
Speaker 3: But as we noted, the efficiency is just is not there.
Speaker 1: So his ad on his average depth of target, he
Speaker 1: was number fifty three among white is he.
Speaker 2: That is a killer for wide receivers. Now you're catching
Speaker 2: the ball at and around the line of scrimmage, you
Speaker 2: are not a fantasy factor.
Speaker 1: Yep, yards after catch number forty seven and he played
Speaker 1: seventeen games. That isn't a yards per like per catch,
Speaker 1: just like just a total amount of yards.
Speaker 2: And he break tackles. He's not elusive. He does not
Speaker 2: make people miss. He's not a yat guy.
Speaker 1: He was number fifty two in yards per route run
Speaker 1: and he was number eighty three in contested catch rate.
Speaker 1: He also had nine drops, good for second most.
Speaker 2: You know, I feel like what we're doing here is
Speaker 2: we're making a case for a breakout season for George Picktens.
Speaker 2: Is what we're doing here is what I feel like
Speaker 2: this has headed. Kenny Pickett is a problem to my eyes.
Speaker 2: He is a backup grade starter who was taken in
Speaker 2: the first round two drafts ago out of just sheer
Speaker 2: desperation when the team had to find a starter and
Speaker 2: to replace Ben Roethlisberger. You know, he gave us twelve
Speaker 2: starts last year. Kenny Pickett did. He had seven touchdowns
Speaker 2: in twelve starts. He never had two touchdowns in a
Speaker 2: single game out of twelve starts. No explosiveness, no downfield
Speaker 2: explosiveness whatsoever from Kenny Pickett. Now it's here too. He'll
Speaker 2: be better. But man, I just didn't see the traits.
Speaker 2: So you know what you're looking for a rookie quarterback,
Speaker 2: even if it doesn't materialize in the box scores, you
Speaker 2: want to see some special throws that make people go man.
Speaker 2: If he can expand on that trait, he's gonna really
Speaker 2: do something in the NFL. I didn't see anything that
Speaker 2: I could I could hitch my wagon to with Kenny
Speaker 2: Pickett that make me go wow. Year two, he's gonna
Speaker 2: be a lot better because he's gonna get better at
Speaker 2: this part of his game. And I think that's gonna
Speaker 2: take down Deontay Johnson as well. To get back to
Speaker 2: Deontay Johnson, I don't think that helps here either.
Speaker 1: I agree, And it's just you mentioned the change. What
Speaker 1: is going to change this year where Deontay Johnson just
Speaker 1: propels into this this next tier of guys.
Speaker 3: It's the same.
Speaker 1: He has the same oc that Literally, I think every
Speaker 1: Steelers fan absolutely hates in Matt Canada.
Speaker 3: I feel like I've heard tell you everything because Steelers.
Speaker 1: Fans are big on Twitter, they love Twitter, and it's
Speaker 1: just Matt Canada slander every single game.
Speaker 3: I'm just it's just not good.
Speaker 1: George Pickens, we mentioned it probably going to be more
Speaker 1: involved this year, considering as his rookie year last year,
Speaker 1: He's going to be more involved this year.
Speaker 2: And they got to know. I mean, you're the coaching
Speaker 2: staff of the Steelers, you're Matt Canada. You go back,
Speaker 2: you watch your tape of last year, you go, well,
Speaker 2: why were we throwing all those balls? So a guy
Speaker 2: who does nothing with them, we gotta change this up.
Speaker 2: I think they're gonna learn some lessons from this. And
Speaker 2: I've I'm walk I walked away from this. Deontay Johnson
Speaker 2: exercise more enthusiastic about George Pickens honestly.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And Alan Robinson's also in town, which I mean, I know,
Speaker 1: I know we saw last season. I know we lost
Speaker 1: last SEU season, but it's just another It's it's at
Speaker 1: least another name, so it's not I wouldn't say it's
Speaker 1: good for Deontay Johnson. It also feels like Pat friarm Youth,
Speaker 1: so just in terms of red zone goal line options,
Speaker 1: because people are talking about the touchdowns are going to
Speaker 1: go up, But all these guys I would take just
Speaker 1: on the goal line, they're all more red zone threats
Speaker 1: than Deontay Johnson. We got Pat fryarm Youth, big red
Speaker 1: zone for sure.
Speaker 2: Guardy already carved that out in two years.
Speaker 1: Najie Harris, George Pickens, and even if they used, if
Speaker 1: Darna Washington get established in this offense, he's a better
Speaker 1: red zone guy than Deontay Johnson is too.
Speaker 2: So I totally agree that there's just there's not a
Speaker 2: lot to like here.
Speaker 3: So it's so the question I'm asking is what am
Speaker 3: I missing that? Why is he going at wild?
Speaker 2: I know the regression guys who love him, but I'm
Speaker 2: just I'm out on Deontay Johnson. We know who he
Speaker 2: is and there's zero upside for this. The only format
Speaker 2: where Deontay Johnson makes any sense to me is a
Speaker 2: guillotine league. Yeah, and early, only early in the season,
Speaker 2: because in your guillotine league, you're just looking for guys
Speaker 2: who don't give you dud games. Deontay Johnson is always
Speaker 2: catching four or five balls, six ball, seven balls, doesn't
Speaker 2: do it anything with them, So it's like sixty yards,
Speaker 2: but five catches sixty yards is an eleven point PPR game,
Speaker 2: and that's good enough to give me, not cut. So
Speaker 2: the only format where I feel like deoncey J. Johnson
Speaker 2: helps me is an early season guillotine league where I'm
Speaker 2: gonna get the sure catches and the sure usage, assuming
Speaker 2: that they do keep going back to him at this level.
Speaker 2: But otherwise I'm out on this guy.
Speaker 3: Yep.
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Speaker 2: let's play the ADP. Game's going off at wide Receiver
Speaker 2: thirty six, and I can already tell you, not even
Speaker 2: looking at the list, I already like everybody else better.
Speaker 3: All right, yeah, so are you still gonna go through it?
Speaker 3: Or sure? I just do it? Mike Evans, why is
Speaker 3: he were thirty four?
Speaker 2: Yeah? And this is down as You've never been able
Speaker 2: to get Mike Evans that he cheap as cheaply as this,
Speaker 2: and I feel like they've dripped. He's actually a bye
Speaker 2: at wide receiver thirty six, So I'm taking Evans for sure.
Speaker 2: I get touchdown upside if nothing else.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Jordan Addison, why is he were thirty five?
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'll bank on the rookie being uh being an
Speaker 2: instant splash in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Adam You know how Adam Feelin had the second
Speaker 1: most routees ran last season too, and he's seemingly just
Speaker 1: gonna step right into that role.
Speaker 2: He he is gonna step into that role.
Speaker 3: Yep. I'm with it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm taking Yeah, I'm taking every guy over Deonta Johnson,
Speaker 1: but let's go through it.
Speaker 3: Cadarius Tony, why does he were thirty seven?
Speaker 2: Right? So, Kadarius Tony has done nothing in his career
Speaker 2: to deserve to be wide receiver thirty seven, but right
Speaker 2: now he is the go to wide receiver under Patrick
Speaker 2: Mahomes led offense. Now, in the past, that hasn't always
Speaker 2: meant anything. Look at last year. Jujus Smiths Schuster I
Speaker 2: guess was the go to. I He was not even
Speaker 2: startable for half of the year. You know, half his
Speaker 2: games were just dud games. So, but Cadarius Tony can
Speaker 2: be electric after the catch, and so I'll take Cadarius
Speaker 2: Tony and just hope he stays healthy for two thirds
Speaker 2: of the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and just all these guys.
Speaker 1: There is even more upside too, Like, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: Kadarius Tony might have a lower floor than Deonday Johnson,
Speaker 1: but way it does.
Speaker 3: Yeah, agreed, all right, Treylon Burks, why is you a
Speaker 3: thirty eight?
Speaker 2: Hopefully better in year two? I mean last year was
Speaker 2: a disaster. Hopefully this will be better. Yep, I'll bank
Speaker 2: on a year two receiver over Deontay Johnson.
Speaker 3: Yep.
Speaker 2: It's cruel, We're down, it's but this is this is
Speaker 2: a tough game. We're not here to make friends, Tyler.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely not.
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Speaker 2: guy I'm I love buying low on this season. Coming
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