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Speaker 1: Brian Johnson. Hello, what's up charge? I wish I was
Speaker 1: at the combine with How was it? I was there midweek?
Speaker 1: It was It was great. It was very busy. It
Speaker 1: was just like the old combines and in many ways
Speaker 1: even busier than the previous ones. And I thought maybe
Speaker 1: COVID and everything, and I knew a bunch of people
Speaker 1: who weren't going. A lot of my industry friends weren't there,
Speaker 1: so it's really weird. There wouldn't be a lot of
Speaker 1: people there, but they were there. There was There was
Speaker 1: great overall from a just speaking about, you know, fantasy
Speaker 1: relevant rookies. How excited are you for this class, because
Speaker 1: like I feel like six months ago it was No,
Speaker 1: it's not a great class. I'm a little more excited
Speaker 1: than I was a few months ago. There are some
Speaker 1: good receivers, and we're gonna break these down really into
Speaker 1: into April. We've already got all planned out April. We're
Speaker 1: gonna be breaking down with the positions. Some really good receivers,
Speaker 1: I think tight ends, pretty bad quarterbacks, pretty bad running backs. Okay,
Speaker 1: and we'll we'll have plenty of guys that we can
Speaker 1: talk about, you know, in those about those positions when
Speaker 1: the time comes. But yeah, I got some good dirt
Speaker 1: and you know, some insight into a few things, and
Speaker 1: it's yeah, it's it's always fun. But the focus of
Speaker 1: this show, like the focus of the last show, is
Speaker 1: we go back through one of the divisions and we
Speaker 1: highlight key elements for every player in that division. And
Speaker 1: this week NFC East. Now, the goal here is not
Speaker 1: to recap the season you already know, because you already
Speaker 1: know about that, but hopefully to shed some insight that
Speaker 1: maybe you know when you're deep in the weeds playing
Speaker 1: it every week, there's some stuff that you just maybe
Speaker 1: don't realize uh is happening in how you have you
Speaker 1: chance to reflect on a full season with all these
Speaker 1: players and speculate a little bit into what's going on
Speaker 1: next season. Let's do it let's begin in the end.
Speaker 1: We're doing the NFC East this week, the NFC least. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it really is. There's some bumber teams in here. That's
Speaker 1: the reality football. There's plenty of good fantasy stuff. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: Let's start with the Philadelphia Eagles. Yeah, start when the
Speaker 1: Eagles will start with their quarterback as of right now,
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts. Rumors always seem to be swirling like he's
Speaker 1: gonna get traded or they don't trust him as their starter.
Speaker 1: But they shouldn't trust him yet he has not earned
Speaker 1: trust yet. I don't know. I'm with you there. Um,
Speaker 1: one player has amassed four thousand passing yards and one
Speaker 1: thousand rushing yards through their first twenty career starts. I
Speaker 1: want to guess that is Apparently it's it's Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 1: And guess what, He's only started nineteen games too. So
Speaker 1: I finished his QB ten last year with basically just
Speaker 1: one wide receiver. It was a rookie, Devanta Smith. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about him in the second. Uh. You also have
Speaker 1: the fifth most rushing touchdowns with ten, and that's among
Speaker 1: running backs. Uh. So Philly Shirley will pad the receiver
Speaker 1: position through free agency, the draft, or both. So I'm
Speaker 1: buying Jalen Hurts. I think he can get better. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's peaked. I don't know. I know you're
Speaker 1: as as my worry is as a passer, I don't
Speaker 1: know how much better he can get, and hopefully he
Speaker 1: can um. But if he doesn't, man, I'm just I'm
Speaker 1: nervous about his his long term prospects of just even
Speaker 1: retaining the job if his passing doesn't get better. True,
Speaker 1: but I mean in fantasy football though, that rushing floor
Speaker 1: it was so safe and give him such a high ceiling.
Speaker 1: So I'm still in on Jalen Hurts. It is not
Speaker 1: a guy who I'll be fading. Uh. Speaking of that
Speaker 1: one wide receiver we mentioned, Davante Smith led all rookie
Speaker 1: wide receivers in airy yards per reception last year over
Speaker 1: twenty three His a dot average depth of target was
Speaker 1: a massive fifteen point two yards, nearly one and a
Speaker 1: half yards more than Jamaar Chase. So big play potential,
Speaker 1: sir there for Smith. On the downside, he didn't give
Speaker 1: you the big play. Yeah, he had some very bad weeks,
Speaker 1: which makes him more appealing in best ball formats. But
Speaker 1: I think we do see some more consistency this season,
Speaker 1: especially if Philly or when Philly brings in fresh blood
Speaker 1: at wide receiver. I don't think that's gonna hurt Devanta Smith.
Speaker 1: I think it's only gonna help him more. And of
Speaker 1: course it all depends on the arm of Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 1: But uh again, I for one think he can improve
Speaker 1: as a pass or so Davante Smith. Another guy I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be targeting in draft this year, but not as
Speaker 1: much as I'll be targeting tight end Dallas Goddard, who
Speaker 1: didn't post eye popping numbers last year, but he had
Speaker 1: Zach Hurts for six seven weeks in there as well,
Speaker 1: and he was He was hurt a little bit, missed
Speaker 1: a couple of games, but the underlying metrics very impressive.
Speaker 1: For Goddard average two point two yards per target in
Speaker 1: PPR leagues. He was second in yards per per reception
Speaker 1: at fifteen, first in yards per route run. He led
Speaker 1: all tight ends and completed area yards per target. The
Speaker 1: only problem was he only saw seventies targets. That's why
Speaker 1: the numbers weren't there. But again, there was the Earth's
Speaker 1: effect um and even and what but what if this
Speaker 1: team gets better at wide receiver in the off season,
Speaker 1: which I think there's a good chance they do, I
Speaker 1: think that can really only help Godard maybe because I
Speaker 1: mean he was probably the primary focus for defenses, either
Speaker 1: him or Vante Smith. So and you know when and
Speaker 1: when zach Ertz got traded, Yeah, that cleared up targets
Speaker 1: for Goddard. But it kind of it's a shock to
Speaker 1: that offensive system, I would think, because they were really
Speaker 1: like a two tight end offense and all of a
Speaker 1: sudden they were one tight end offense. So now they
Speaker 1: got all offseason too kind of build their offense around
Speaker 1: Goddard hopefully, who again only at seventy six targets when
Speaker 1: you're talking about guys like Mark Andrews and Travis Kelsey,
Speaker 1: they saw twice that, if not more, and all those
Speaker 1: metrics I just mentioned, he was well ahead of Travis
Speaker 1: Kelsey and Mark Andrews and all those crazy at tight
Speaker 1: end seven. Right now, I'm where he's roughly getting drafted
Speaker 1: right now. I'm big on Goddard, who has the top
Speaker 1: three tight end potential this year if he sees the volume.
Speaker 1: So I'm liking Goddard, but not like in the running
Speaker 1: game too much in Philly. Miles Sanders, Kenneth Gainwell. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about these two really quick disaster season for Sanders
Speaker 1: last year less than one thousand combo yards, zero touchdowns UM,
Speaker 1: but he only played twelve games. He was dinged up
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard and Boston Scott altered lots of opportunities, especially
Speaker 1: line um. So I don't know Miles Sanders, he's fallen
Speaker 1: into in these very early drafts, like the ninth tenth
Speaker 1: round range. So he's kind of a nice some value there, yeah,
Speaker 1: in both redraft and dynasty formats. But don't sleep on
Speaker 1: Kenneth Gainwell, who certainly flashed at times last year. Not
Speaker 1: you did score five rushing touchdowns on just sixty eight attempts,
Speaker 1: average four point three yards per carry. He's kind of
Speaker 1: the go to receiving back as well, and that offense.
Speaker 1: So runners, runners have an opportunity to get better in
Speaker 1: year two. And we've seen it a lot where you know,
Speaker 1: there are rookies that come out at running back and
Speaker 1: they don't they don't do much, and you're two. You's
Speaker 1: usually you know, that's where you see for most backs,
Speaker 1: that's that's sort of your your last chance to really
Speaker 1: show in the NFL, although there are exceptions, and it's
Speaker 1: an offensive line. Philly, they got a good old line,
Speaker 1: so uh yeah, that's the Eagles, and people are asking
Speaker 1: what about Jalen reagor, don't ask about he is dead,
Speaker 1: although it'll be his third year, right, and sometimes receivers
Speaker 1: come to come to life in the third year, but
Speaker 1: usually usually not when they're as dead as he's dead.
Speaker 1: The Washington Commander's first time I've talked about the Commanders
Speaker 1: the Commander. Yeah, it still feels weird, and it's such
Speaker 1: a bad name. Man so uninspired. Look at what the
Speaker 1: Seattle Kraken did by going an offbeat, unique name. People
Speaker 1: are like, you can't. They've they've selling the most merchandise
Speaker 1: in the NHL because they have a cool logo and name.
Speaker 1: I gotta go on a real quick mini rant. Not
Speaker 1: not the Commander's logo, but like their crest that will
Speaker 1: be on they put for the Super Bowls they won.
Speaker 1: They put the year where the game was played Sea,
Speaker 1: which is not how anybody acknowledges there are Super Bowl wins,
Speaker 1: and the fans are upset. I mean, it was such
Speaker 1: a massive oversight that that is weird. Isn't it. I'm
Speaker 1: not even a fan and it bothers me, But yeah,
Speaker 1: people are pissed in U in the belt Way about that.
Speaker 1: Let's start at the quarterback position. Taylor Heinik had zero
Speaker 1: or one touchdown pass in eleven games, and he was
Speaker 1: particularly ineffective after Week four. Once defensive coordinators got some
Speaker 1: good tape on him. He had a pretty nice little
Speaker 1: run in like weeks one, two, three, four, and then
Speaker 1: just the wheels came off and he was a very
Speaker 1: ineffective quarterback. After week four he was Fantasy quarterback twenty one,
Speaker 1: which meant that, you know, most weeks you were by
Speaker 1: a mile better off not starting him than somebody else.
Speaker 1: His scrambling, he's he's got, he's got pretty good wheels,
Speaker 1: but he scrambling was very anemic. The average just seventy
Speaker 1: yards and zero rushing touchdowns after week four. Um, he's
Speaker 1: gonna be a free agent. Ran Fitzpatrick won't be retained
Speaker 1: and Washington is clearly in the market for a new
Speaker 1: quarterback next year. Russell Wilson DeShawn Watson in play draft
Speaker 1: in a rookie, We're gonna go one of those. The
Speaker 1: problems gonna be Washington might be the least compelling destination
Speaker 1: for any free agent quarterback who can control his own
Speaker 1: destiny because of all the turmoil with that team right now, Well,
Speaker 1: Wilson's willing to go there like well, that's the word.
Speaker 1: It's not defendive. I don't know about that. I don't
Speaker 1: think I don't think anybody wants to go to Washington
Speaker 1: right now. All right, let's talk about Terry McLaren, who
Speaker 1: suffered under Heineke. He slumped all the way to wide
Speaker 1: receiver thirty seven after week five. From week five forward
Speaker 1: wide receiver thirty seven, he scored just two times the
Speaker 1: rest of the way, and that put him behind guys
Speaker 1: like Kendrick Bourne and Devanta Smith and Marquez Callaway. Come on,
Speaker 1: you're Terry McLaurin. His stats from last year weren't that
Speaker 1: different than the year before in total stats. But we
Speaker 1: all expected him to do far better and really improve
Speaker 1: on year two into year three, and it just didn't
Speaker 1: come together without Stuberd there and Taylor Heineke throwing him wobblers,
Speaker 1: and it just never it never really came together. Still,
Speaker 1: McLaren's obviously got loads of talent, and if the commanders
Speaker 1: can find themselves a quarterback, then there's some real upside
Speaker 1: to be had in McLaren. Next year, mclauren's in that
Speaker 1: like cursed group of like Andre Johnson and Alan Robinson,
Speaker 1: still amazing great receiverscking right, uh, And there's no other
Speaker 1: good receivers on this team. Diamie Brown was a total
Speaker 1: washout in his rookie season, just twelve catches. Maybe he
Speaker 1: sparks next year, but we got nothing from him this year.
Speaker 1: Kurt and they didn't even put him on the Brown
Speaker 1: he was on the field. He was inactive most many games.
Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel injured throughout the entire season, starting in training
Speaker 1: camp and lasting all year or long. It was this
Speaker 1: last year. It was his first year into his thirty
Speaker 1: four million dollar deal. Oh, he caught just six passes.
Speaker 1: Six passes for Curtis Samuel. He was hurt a ton though,
Speaker 1: he was hurt a ton. So I mean to me,
Speaker 1: you know, like last pick of your draft, you could
Speaker 1: throw a dart at him and see what happens. I've
Speaker 1: got I've got interested in the later rounds if they
Speaker 1: upgraded quarterback, if he stays healthy, I think he could there.
Speaker 1: But there's there's still I gotta believe there's still some
Speaker 1: of the talent that we saw in his last year
Speaker 1: in Carolina. Alright, Logan Thomas tight end injured all season.
Speaker 1: Just a reminder if you forgot, he tore his A
Speaker 1: c L and m c L in December, So we
Speaker 1: don't even know if Logan Thomas is gonna be ready
Speaker 1: for Week one or what point during the season he
Speaker 1: would come back and be effective there. Um Ricky Seals
Speaker 1: Jones is a free agent, but they like their other
Speaker 1: their rookie from last year, John Bates, who flashed a
Speaker 1: little bit when Seals Jones was hurt and Logan Thomas
Speaker 1: was hurt and they had to go to Bates give
Speaker 1: him more time. He flashed a little something. I think
Speaker 1: they'll let Seals Jones walk and assume Bates can can
Speaker 1: fill in and be the backup if it turns out
Speaker 1: Logan Thomas isn't ready to go. But I liked about
Speaker 1: Logan Thomas when he was healthy. Was he was playing
Speaker 1: literally the snaps with a tight end. Yes, the healthy one.
Speaker 1: So if if he can stay healthy, he's another guy
Speaker 1: who's got undervalued. Right now, let's go to the running backs.
Speaker 1: Intonio Gibson. He had a hundred yard ten touchdown season.
Speaker 1: When I say d yards and ten touchdowns, you're like, hey,
Speaker 1: that's that's a pretty good year. But why didn't it
Speaker 1: feel like Antonio Gibson had a better season. It's because
Speaker 1: he was an erratic performer and unpredictable, and it was
Speaker 1: very hard to know when you were safe putting him
Speaker 1: in your lineup and when not to. He succeeded against
Speaker 1: some very hard run defenses when some people reasonably would
Speaker 1: have benched him, and he flopped against some really bad
Speaker 1: run defenses. And the past catching really never developed like
Speaker 1: we thought it would in the off season. We had
Speaker 1: spent much of the offseason talking hawking ourselves into a
Speaker 1: reduced role for j D. Mckissa, for a guy who
Speaker 1: knew increase a wide receiver basically in college too. We
Speaker 1: thought we we thought he'd come together more. He hit
Speaker 1: one hundred rushing yards just once, and one of them,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, just two times, and one of them was
Speaker 1: in Week eighteen when nobody was playing fantasy football. That's Gibson,
Speaker 1: and four of his ten touchdowns were scored in December,
Speaker 1: and at that point you may not even been in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. He did have a shin injury. He played
Speaker 1: most of the season on that shin injury, and he
Speaker 1: never really this season looked his dynamic and elusive as
Speaker 1: he had in twenty the year before. Brian so Gibson,
Speaker 1: I think, um is, I believe he will fall out
Speaker 1: of the top two rounds in many drafts next year
Speaker 1: based on what we saw last year. Yeah, he's going
Speaker 1: from what I've seen, it's literally, of course late second release,
Speaker 1: he's going. He's more of a mid mid three. I
Speaker 1: think that sounds right. JD. McKissick was a spot starter,
Speaker 1: and then you know he was a spot fantasy starter,
Speaker 1: not starter for their team. He may not remember he
Speaker 1: finished with a concussion of Week twelve and that was
Speaker 1: the end of his season. And I you know, I
Speaker 1: you never knew what to do with mckissa He was
Speaker 1: just like a dark throw by week guy. And um,
Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see whether or not they decided
Speaker 1: to retain his services. Let's go over to the Cowboy Cowboys,
Speaker 1: Dallas Cowboys. It looks like we're gonna have a little
Speaker 1: shake up at the wide receiver position. Yeah we will.
Speaker 1: I'll get there in a minute. Let me just get
Speaker 1: let's make it a dack out of the way. We
Speaker 1: don't have to dive too deep into dak Uh somewhat
Speaker 1: of it down here for him statistically, but he was
Speaker 1: fourth h fourth most passing touchdowns with thirty seven, the
Speaker 1: same amount as Patrick Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers. Uh. He
Speaker 1: did go under underwent shoulder surgery this pass offseason, but
Speaker 1: it's not his non throwing arm should be fine. They're
Speaker 1: roughly going around QB six and drafts right now, but
Speaker 1: still has that quarterback one potential even if the Cowboys
Speaker 1: offense undergoes a bit of a makeover, which it likely will.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that and then in just a minute.
Speaker 1: But uh, let's talk about a guy who will definitely
Speaker 1: be a Cowboy this year. Mass Ceedee Lamb. Even though
Speaker 1: there was some Arizona rumors swirling a week or two ago.
Speaker 1: You didn't buy into that either. Uh speak down years,
Speaker 1: oh Lamb. People were expecting a top five of top ten.
Speaker 1: I was, and I think I think I had him
Speaker 1: ranked right around ten going into the season. Yeah, wide
Speaker 1: receiver twenty in PPR. So he he under exceeded everyone's expectations. Now,
Speaker 1: can you under exceed when like, am I making this word?
Speaker 1: But it makes sense, it does um. But you know,
Speaker 1: I think Ceedee Lamb could be this year's version of
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup. Now he's not getting drafted as late as
Speaker 1: Cup was getting drafted last year, but he's still falling
Speaker 1: into the late second, early third round right now. But
Speaker 1: that's still good value for a guy with overall wide
Speaker 1: receiver one potential. But here's the key for him to
Speaker 1: do it. They gotta use him in the slot more. Um.
Speaker 1: He checks all the boxes outside that He's got the size,
Speaker 1: to speed, the talent, a good quarterback got off a
Speaker 1: good offensive line. Lamb only took a third of his
Speaker 1: snaps from the slot last year, and I'm saying we
Speaker 1: at least double uh those snaps from the slot of
Speaker 1: him this year because his biggest games came when he
Speaker 1: saw at least sixteen snaps from the slot. Uh nine
Speaker 1: catches a hundred forty nine yards, two touchdowns against New England,
Speaker 1: two touchdowns against Atlanta, seven for one oh four and
Speaker 1: a touchdown against Tampa Bay. This is are in games
Speaker 1: where he was seeing significant snaps from the slot, and
Speaker 1: that a lot of that tied to win. Gallup was
Speaker 1: healthy or not. You know, Gallops much is was traditionally
Speaker 1: more of an outside guy, and they would move Lamb
Speaker 1: more into the slot when Gallup was on the field.
Speaker 1: But Gallup missed most of the season or half the season,
Speaker 1: so that was that ended up pushing Lamb outside more.
Speaker 1: And I'm with you, I just think he's a natural
Speaker 1: slot received. Yeah, I'd like to see him using the
Speaker 1: slot a lot more because hey, that's where Cooper cup plays,
Speaker 1: right for the most part. Um, speaking of Michael Gallup, Uh,
Speaker 1: and Mark, let's talk about tomorrow. Cooper, right, so he's
Speaker 1: basically gone. It's not even a rumor. It's just there's
Speaker 1: a fact they can't afford. And I caught him. They
Speaker 1: mismanaged that this all goes to Zeke's contract. That's like
Speaker 1: ruined everything. Like but now they're just gonna let Cooper
Speaker 1: walk when they could have at least tried to trade him.
Speaker 1: To be clear, they tried to trade him. They were
Speaker 1: no takers. I'm sure they were. Their offers are They're
Speaker 1: asking price was way too high? Remember what they gave up?
Speaker 1: Was it not two first rounders to get him, Marie Cooper?
Speaker 1: I think it was two first rounders? Yeah. Jones is
Speaker 1: not very good in the front office, So we're gonna assume,
Speaker 1: not even assume Cooper is gone. But that's gonna clear.
Speaker 1: And Michael Gallup is an unrestricted free agent as well,
Speaker 1: so Cedric Wilson, Uh yeah, I think Wilson is going
Speaker 1: to be there. Um Gallup kind of on the fence.
Speaker 1: The weird thing with Gallup is he he blew out
Speaker 1: his knee late in the season. He waited like a
Speaker 1: month to have the surgery. He just had the surgery
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, so I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's gonna be ready for the start of the season.
Speaker 1: It wasn't an a c L, was it. There was
Speaker 1: mcl okay, a c L is worse, right, But either way,
Speaker 1: he waited like six weeks, which was kind of bizarre.
Speaker 1: It's like, just get it over with. But really, I'm
Speaker 1: most excited about Cedric Wilson knowing that Cooper is pretty
Speaker 1: much gone. I don't know if Gallops could be ready
Speaker 1: to start the season. And Wilson look great when given
Speaker 1: the opportunity. Forty five catches, six hundred and two yards,
Speaker 1: six touchdowns on just sixty one targets. Yeah, that's those
Speaker 1: are hundred twenty, which is viable or feasible for a
Speaker 1: wider season starting We're talking a thousand yards and potentially
Speaker 1: double digit touchdown. So Wilson is a guy going very
Speaker 1: late right now. I think he's gonna be climbing round
Speaker 1: by round as we go up. Months like that comes
Speaker 1: through the seasons, especially if Gallop is not going to
Speaker 1: be a factor next year either or not on the
Speaker 1: team or because of because of the knee, and now
Speaker 1: because of the cap crisis in Dallas. Another guy who
Speaker 1: might not be Cowboy next year's tighten Tighten or this
Speaker 1: year tight end Dalton Schultz. But I think now that
Speaker 1: with the the Cooper news, I think they retain Dalton
Speaker 1: Showed Schultz and hopefully they do because he thrived in
Speaker 1: a full time role in Dallas. Was one of three
Speaker 1: tight ends with at least eight hundred yards and eight touchdowns,
Speaker 1: the other two Travis Kelsey, Mark Andrews. Schultz was one
Speaker 1: of six tight ends the top a hundred targets, finished
Speaker 1: third and catches at the position with seventy eight, so
Speaker 1: he looked great. He's comfortable in that offense. And as
Speaker 1: for Blake Jarwin, not a concern when it comes to
Speaker 1: Shultz is playing time. He's the guy now. The Cowboys
Speaker 1: actually are saying they have concerns about Jarwin the hip surgery.
Speaker 1: Had he's the first pro football player to ever have it.
Speaker 1: They're saying only hockey and basketball players who knows how
Speaker 1: he reacts to hip surgery. So don't be concerned with
Speaker 1: the Blake Jarwin. If you're rolling up wanting to roll
Speaker 1: into two with Dalton Shultz as you're tight end one,
Speaker 1: he's another guy I'm liking. If you have, you fade
Speaker 1: the big name tight ends in your draft. All right,
Speaker 1: let's get to the running backs because we have it's
Speaker 1: gonna be frustrating a lot of talking Ezekiel Elliott and
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard. Will this be the year that Tony Pollard
Speaker 1: finally usurps? I'm done thinking that the Cowboys will do
Speaker 1: the right thing here because we've been asking for it
Speaker 1: for two years and it hasn't happened here. And we
Speaker 1: all know Zeke is on the climb. But here's a
Speaker 1: very very alarming stat. Elliott had fifteen carries of twenty
Speaker 1: plus yards into fifteen carries of twenty or more yards
Speaker 1: in what year? So all the way back to rookie year. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: and that's three carries in that that year. But since
Speaker 1: he's had seven four carries, he's only had ten carries.
Speaker 1: Of yards is gone, totally gone. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: hell yeah, average five point five yards for carry per
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus. He graded better than Elliott as a rusher, receiver,
Speaker 1: and pass blocker man and pass blocking was always one
Speaker 1: of the big catches for him, for he was not
Speaker 1: a good pass block The only reason they keep giving
Speaker 1: Zeke more run is because they're paying him so much.
Speaker 1: It's all about the money. So when Pollard saw ten
Speaker 1: plus opportunities last year that's carries and targets, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: were nine in one. When his opportunities were in the
Speaker 1: single digits. Dallas was one in five. I mean, he's
Speaker 1: there in front of you is to start Tony Pollard,
Speaker 1: so hopefully they do. That's it for Dallas. We'll take
Speaker 1: a break. When you came back, we'll talk through the
Speaker 1: New York Giants with a new head coach, find out
Speaker 1: back end. Oh yeah, and general manager and they both
Speaker 1: have Bill's roots. Well, we'll talk through that team in
Speaker 1: just a moment. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Chargie
Speaker 1: and Brian Johnson with you New York Giants. Knett coaches
Speaker 1: Brian Dable, who teams up with the Bill's former assistant
Speaker 1: general manager Joe Sheen, who now runs the Giants as
Speaker 1: their general manager. First order of business is Daniel Jones,
Speaker 1: and it sounds like they're gonna give Jones yet another
Speaker 1: in a series of final opportunities to prove himself as
Speaker 1: an NFL quarterback. But here's why I'm kind of intrigued.
Speaker 1: What if they us What if Brian Dable just runs
Speaker 1: him like he ran Josh Allen? Brian, doesn't that get interesting? Now?
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones is not nearly as good of a runner,
Speaker 1: but he's not bad. He's not bad. He's not a
Speaker 1: bad runner. What if they give him, well, unless he
Speaker 1: runs like more right, he goes boom. What if they
Speaker 1: give Daniel Jones six seven eight design runs a game? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that could be good for fantasy purposes, but like,
Speaker 1: you don't have to respect his arms as much as
Speaker 1: you have to respect Josh Allen's. Well, so I don't know,
Speaker 1: you might see that coming a little more, even though
Speaker 1: everyone knows Josh Allen's we run the ball. But I
Speaker 1: don't know I'm still soft on Jones. I'm not. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I'm given where you'll have to where you'll take him,
Speaker 1: and he will go undrafted in many leagues. Um, he
Speaker 1: will go, you know, round thirteen fifteen as my third quarterback.
Speaker 1: I'm really interested in Daniel Jones from just that angle,
Speaker 1: and then if the rushing doesn't materialize, I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: cut him and I don't care, I'll move. We won't
Speaker 1: spend too much time on this, but I have heard
Speaker 1: the Giants in the DeShawn Watson conversation, and they could
Speaker 1: maybe Daniel Jones would certainly be part of that trade package,
Speaker 1: So that would be interesting to see. All right, let's
Speaker 1: go over to the too. Kenny Golladay, his absurd seventy
Speaker 1: million dollar contract, just pounding the final nail in Dave
Speaker 1: Gettleman's career as general manager. So many nails pounded into
Speaker 1: so many cuts, and he's the guy who set up
Speaker 1: every one of those nails and pounded him in. Um,
Speaker 1: he wasn't. I remembered his season with him being hurt
Speaker 1: all the time. Dude played a lot. He only missed
Speaker 1: three games. He was on the field for fourteen games.
Speaker 1: This year, and he was so bad. He did not
Speaker 1: score in the fourteen games. His average game two and
Speaker 1: a half catches for forty five yards. That's not even
Speaker 1: an average game. And in the other sense of the word, no,
Speaker 1: it's not start of receiver. He finished his wide receiver
Speaker 1: hold one next to Josh Reynolds and DeAndre Carter. I
Speaker 1: don't even know what team DeAndre Carter is on, Washington, Washington,
Speaker 1: think about that for Kennedy seventy million dollars, so Holiday,
Speaker 1: obviously they he will. He will almost certainly be back
Speaker 1: on the team. They don't have a choice. They can't
Speaker 1: even work around the contract right now. He'll be back
Speaker 1: with the Giants. He'll have to be a dramatically better
Speaker 1: and more improved version. But I gotta believe that there's
Speaker 1: gonna be a ton of wariness since it's been two
Speaker 1: seasons or two full seasons removed from him having a
Speaker 1: meaningful fantasy. We could do a draft of bad contracts
Speaker 1: in the NFC East. I think Holiday would be your first.
Speaker 1: Then there's this guy who would be in the conversation,
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd, who has reportedly been asked to take a
Speaker 1: pay cut, which tells you plenty about the season that
Speaker 1: he's coming off of. He's slated to make twelve and
Speaker 1: a half million this year. They can cut him and I,
Speaker 1: as memory serves, that will not get that'll it'll his
Speaker 1: cap impact will be about half if they caught him.
Speaker 1: I think he will take the I think he will
Speaker 1: end up having to renegotiate his deal. He missed half
Speaker 1: the season. Shepherd hasn't played a full season since. He
Speaker 1: was questionable constantly. He and every Sunday you didn't know
Speaker 1: if Sterling Shepherd was actually gonna play or not. And
Speaker 1: every Sunday morning you're like, Oh, he's in, but I
Speaker 1: don't trust a lot of times he was out though,
Speaker 1: kind of feel like you would play exactly. So get
Speaker 1: this on Sterling Shepherd Week one, seven catches, hundred thirteen
Speaker 1: yards and a touchdown. Oh yeah, you looked like the
Speaker 1: steel of your draft that point, You're like game on.
Speaker 1: After that, his average game forty two scoreless yards. Sterling
Speaker 1: Shepherd didn't score again and didn't have another one hundred
Speaker 1: yard game the rest of the year. Ka Darius Tony
Speaker 1: is the better talking point out of the wide receivers,
Speaker 1: but even he was frustrating. He erupted in weeks four
Speaker 1: and five, and if you combine those two weeks together,
Speaker 1: Brian sixteen catch is for two hundred sixty seven yards.
Speaker 1: He looked slippery, almost unguardable after the catch, and somehow
Speaker 1: the Giants never went back to him again. In the
Speaker 1: rest of his games other than Week four and five,
Speaker 1: he averaged three catches for Tony and he never scored
Speaker 1: a touchdown all season. Darius Tony, Yeah, he he did
Speaker 1: look special though when he was playing his hand. Now
Speaker 1: he suffered a hamstring injury, a thumb injury, a shoulder injury,
Speaker 1: quad injury, oblique injury, and an ankle injury. He got
Speaker 1: COVID twice. So if you take all that o ay,
Speaker 1: you figure, if he can go through next season healthy,
Speaker 1: if Daniel Jones and Brian Dable can stoke up something
Speaker 1: resembling an NFL passing game, Tony's got some real upside
Speaker 1: to him. And maybe last season with all those maladies,
Speaker 1: the bad play, a coaching staff that was about to
Speaker 1: get fired, you know it's gonna suppress his draft value.
Speaker 1: You and now, if you want to go roll the
Speaker 1: dice on kid Darius Tony as your wide receiver four
Speaker 1: in the eleventh round. You could do it. You don't
Speaker 1: like having COVID prone players. We have, we've had injury prone,
Speaker 1: but he's like the most COVID prone player in NFL history.
Speaker 1: Blue won't have any of those. Evan Ingram's headed a
Speaker 1: free agency and he will be gone. He's gone. Former
Speaker 1: first round pick don Sa Kwon Barkley is the last
Speaker 1: guy I want to talk and Kyle Rudolph they let
Speaker 1: him go, so they got a wide open uh, which
Speaker 1: which is intriguing. I would see who lands there. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, Table did good stuff with Dawson Knox eventually, eventually, eventually. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, so let's talk s Kwon Barkley. UM general
Speaker 1: manager Joe Shan says he's willing to trade Barkley after
Speaker 1: an unproductive season last year. In the last season before that,
Speaker 1: Barkley slated to make seven point two million this year
Speaker 1: because it's that fifth year of your rookie deal where
Speaker 1: if they lock you in, which gentleman did it this
Speaker 1: time last year he locked in the fifth year on
Speaker 1: st Kwon Barkley. Now they're obligated to pay him seven
Speaker 1: point two million dollars. And now the new GM wants
Speaker 1: out on that. Barkley, needless to say, had a bad season, Uh,
Speaker 1: in part because the offensive line's had good there right
Speaker 1: twenty first and run blocking by Pro Football Focus. But
Speaker 1: even so, the explosiveness, the elusiveness. Man, I was watching
Speaker 1: some of the se Kwon Barkley highlights his front while
Speaker 1: I was at the combine, his combine runs his rookie year.
Speaker 1: Dude was insane. He was so good. I will say
Speaker 1: this blew out his a c l in like in
Speaker 1: week two. So historically they say, you know, running backs,
Speaker 1: even young running backs, takes like two years to like
Speaker 1: fully come back. So and when he got hurt last year,
Speaker 1: it was like a fluke ankle roll like he rolled,
Speaker 1: he like stepped on his teammates, you know, something dealt
Speaker 1: with for a lot of the year. People are pegging
Speaker 1: him his injury prone, not COVID prone, but injury prone.
Speaker 1: So I don't I think that's unfair. So I am
Speaker 1: buying low Barkley's falling into like, oh, I'm sure second,
Speaker 1: late second, early mid third round, and it's that high. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and taking him in the second round by that, But
Speaker 1: I mean, if he stays healthy and they improve that line,
Speaker 1: which they can only improve. I think you still got
Speaker 1: that top. I mean he was RB one in his
Speaker 1: rookie season. I think you can still get back there.
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