WEBVTT - NFC Least 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:04.040 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:09.520 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio, 0:00:09.760 --> 0:00:14.200 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, 0:00:14.320 --> 0:00:17.920 and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. Now, 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:24.160 here's your host, Paul. It's a combined edition kind of 0:00:24.200 --> 0:00:27.040 a Fantasy Football Weekly on Paul Charchie and my host 0:00:27.160 --> 0:00:29.520 Brian Johnson. Hello, what's up charge? I wish I was 0:00:29.560 --> 0:00:32.200 at the combine with How was it? I was there midweek? 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:34.880 It was It was great. It was very busy. It 0:00:34.960 --> 0:00:37.839 was just like the old combines and in many ways 0:00:37.920 --> 0:00:40.960 even busier than the previous ones. And I thought maybe 0:00:41.000 --> 0:00:42.640 COVID and everything, and I knew a bunch of people 0:00:42.640 --> 0:00:45.320 who weren't going. A lot of my industry friends weren't there, 0:00:45.800 --> 0:00:47.440 so it's really weird. There wouldn't be a lot of 0:00:47.440 --> 0:00:49.159 people there, but they were there. There was There was 0:00:49.240 --> 0:00:52.800 great overall from a just speaking about, you know, fantasy 0:00:52.840 --> 0:00:55.680 relevant rookies. How excited are you for this class, because 0:00:55.920 --> 0:00:58.280 like I feel like six months ago it was No, 0:00:58.440 --> 0:01:01.440 it's not a great class. I'm a little more excited 0:01:01.480 --> 0:01:02.960 than I was a few months ago. There are some 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:05.919 good receivers, and we're gonna break these down really into 0:01:06.040 --> 0:01:08.440 into April. We've already got all planned out April. We're 0:01:08.440 --> 0:01:11.240 gonna be breaking down with the positions. Some really good receivers, 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:16.560 I think tight ends, pretty bad quarterbacks, pretty bad running backs. Okay, 0:01:16.640 --> 0:01:18.399 and we'll we'll have plenty of guys that we can 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:21.959 talk about, you know, in those about those positions when 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.400 the time comes. But yeah, I got some good dirt 0:01:24.480 --> 0:01:27.160 and you know, some insight into a few things, and 0:01:27.200 --> 0:01:30.800 it's yeah, it's it's always fun. But the focus of 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:32.840 this show, like the focus of the last show, is 0:01:32.959 --> 0:01:37.400 we go back through one of the divisions and we 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:43.000 highlight key elements for every player in that division. And 0:01:43.120 --> 0:01:47.200 this week NFC East. Now, the goal here is not 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:49.120 to recap the season you already know, because you already 0:01:49.160 --> 0:01:52.720 know about that, but hopefully to shed some insight that 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.480 maybe you know when you're deep in the weeds playing 0:01:55.480 --> 0:01:57.520 it every week, there's some stuff that you just maybe 0:01:57.560 --> 0:02:00.480 don't realize uh is happening in how you have you 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:02.960 chance to reflect on a full season with all these 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:06.000 players and speculate a little bit into what's going on 0:02:06.080 --> 0:02:08.880 next season. Let's do it let's begin in the end. 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:12.240 We're doing the NFC East this week, the NFC least. Yeah, 0:02:12.320 --> 0:02:15.160 it really is. There's some bumber teams in here. That's 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:19.040 the reality football. There's plenty of good fantasy stuff. Yeah, exactly. 0:02:19.600 --> 0:02:23.239 Let's start with the Philadelphia Eagles. Yeah, start when the 0:02:23.280 --> 0:02:25.840 Eagles will start with their quarterback as of right now, 0:02:25.919 --> 0:02:28.639 Jalen Hurts. Rumors always seem to be swirling like he's 0:02:28.639 --> 0:02:31.200 gonna get traded or they don't trust him as their starter. 0:02:31.280 --> 0:02:33.359 But they shouldn't trust him yet he has not earned 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.800 trust yet. I don't know. I'm with you there. Um, 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:40.239 one player has amassed four thousand passing yards and one 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.239 thousand rushing yards through their first twenty career starts. I 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:46.119 want to guess that is Apparently it's it's Jalen Hurts. 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:49.160 And guess what, He's only started nineteen games too. So 0:02:49.320 --> 0:02:52.680 I finished his QB ten last year with basically just 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:55.560 one wide receiver. It was a rookie, Devanta Smith. We'll 0:02:55.560 --> 0:02:57.359 talk about him in the second. Uh. You also have 0:02:57.440 --> 0:03:00.520 the fifth most rushing touchdowns with ten, and that's among 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:05.560 running backs. Uh. So Philly Shirley will pad the receiver 0:03:05.680 --> 0:03:09.399 position through free agency, the draft, or both. So I'm 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:11.960 buying Jalen Hurts. I think he can get better. I 0:03:11.960 --> 0:03:14.959 don't think he's peaked. I don't know. I know you're 0:03:15.200 --> 0:03:20.240 as as my worry is as a passer, I don't 0:03:20.280 --> 0:03:22.520 know how much better he can get, and hopefully he 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:26.320 can um. But if he doesn't, man, I'm just I'm 0:03:26.440 --> 0:03:30.200 nervous about his his long term prospects of just even 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:33.560 retaining the job if his passing doesn't get better. True, 0:03:33.600 --> 0:03:35.880 but I mean in fantasy football though, that rushing floor 0:03:36.480 --> 0:03:38.920 it was so safe and give him such a high ceiling. 0:03:39.000 --> 0:03:40.720 So I'm still in on Jalen Hurts. It is not 0:03:40.720 --> 0:03:43.640 a guy who I'll be fading. Uh. Speaking of that 0:03:43.720 --> 0:03:47.040 one wide receiver we mentioned, Davante Smith led all rookie 0:03:47.080 --> 0:03:50.600 wide receivers in airy yards per reception last year over 0:03:50.680 --> 0:03:53.800 twenty three His a dot average depth of target was 0:03:53.840 --> 0:03:56.760 a massive fifteen point two yards, nearly one and a 0:03:56.760 --> 0:03:59.760 half yards more than Jamaar Chase. So big play potential, 0:03:59.800 --> 0:04:03.440 sir there for Smith. On the downside, he didn't give 0:04:03.480 --> 0:04:05.920 you the big play. Yeah, he had some very bad weeks, 0:04:06.360 --> 0:04:08.960 which makes him more appealing in best ball formats. But 0:04:09.040 --> 0:04:11.720 I think we do see some more consistency this season, 0:04:11.840 --> 0:04:14.600 especially if Philly or when Philly brings in fresh blood 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:17.080 at wide receiver. I don't think that's gonna hurt Devanta Smith. 0:04:17.080 --> 0:04:19.440 I think it's only gonna help him more. And of 0:04:19.480 --> 0:04:21.600 course it all depends on the arm of Jalen Hurts. 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:23.880 But uh again, I for one think he can improve 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:26.880 as a pass or so Davante Smith. Another guy I'm 0:04:26.880 --> 0:04:29.400 gonna be targeting in draft this year, but not as 0:04:29.440 --> 0:04:32.400 much as I'll be targeting tight end Dallas Goddard, who 0:04:32.440 --> 0:04:36.719 didn't post eye popping numbers last year, but he had 0:04:36.800 --> 0:04:39.880 Zach Hurts for six seven weeks in there as well, 0:04:39.960 --> 0:04:41.640 and he was He was hurt a little bit, missed 0:04:41.640 --> 0:04:44.840 a couple of games, but the underlying metrics very impressive. 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:48.039 For Goddard average two point two yards per target in 0:04:48.120 --> 0:04:51.120 PPR leagues. He was second in yards per per reception 0:04:51.160 --> 0:04:54.680 at fifteen, first in yards per route run. He led 0:04:54.720 --> 0:04:58.120 all tight ends and completed area yards per target. The 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:01.240 only problem was he only saw seventies targets. That's why 0:05:01.279 --> 0:05:03.279 the numbers weren't there. But again, there was the Earth's 0:05:03.279 --> 0:05:06.040 effect um and even and what but what if this 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.080 team gets better at wide receiver in the off season, 0:05:09.120 --> 0:05:11.200 which I think there's a good chance they do, I 0:05:11.240 --> 0:05:14.240 think that can really only help Godard maybe because I 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:18.240 mean he was probably the primary focus for defenses, either 0:05:18.320 --> 0:05:20.640 him or Vante Smith. So and you know when and 0:05:20.680 --> 0:05:23.080 when zach Ertz got traded, Yeah, that cleared up targets 0:05:23.080 --> 0:05:25.240 for Goddard. But it kind of it's a shock to 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:28.320 that offensive system, I would think, because they were really 0:05:28.320 --> 0:05:29.720 like a two tight end offense and all of a 0:05:29.720 --> 0:05:31.840 sudden they were one tight end offense. So now they 0:05:31.839 --> 0:05:35.120 got all offseason too kind of build their offense around 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:37.760 Goddard hopefully, who again only at seventy six targets when 0:05:37.800 --> 0:05:40.279 you're talking about guys like Mark Andrews and Travis Kelsey, 0:05:40.320 --> 0:05:42.680 they saw twice that, if not more, and all those 0:05:42.680 --> 0:05:46.440 metrics I just mentioned, he was well ahead of Travis 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:49.039 Kelsey and Mark Andrews and all those crazy at tight 0:05:49.160 --> 0:05:52.080 end seven. Right now, I'm where he's roughly getting drafted 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:54.320 right now. I'm big on Goddard, who has the top 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:56.680 three tight end potential this year if he sees the volume. 0:05:56.720 --> 0:05:59.719 So I'm liking Goddard, but not like in the running 0:05:59.720 --> 0:06:03.920 game too much in Philly. Miles Sanders, Kenneth Gainwell. We'll 0:06:03.920 --> 0:06:07.040 talk about these two really quick disaster season for Sanders 0:06:07.160 --> 0:06:12.679 last year less than one thousand combo yards, zero touchdowns UM, 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:15.680 but he only played twelve games. He was dinged up 0:06:15.760 --> 0:06:20.440 Jordan Howard and Boston Scott altered lots of opportunities, especially 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:26.159 line um. So I don't know Miles Sanders, he's fallen 0:06:26.200 --> 0:06:28.839 into in these very early drafts, like the ninth tenth 0:06:28.960 --> 0:06:32.880 round range. So he's kind of a nice some value there, yeah, 0:06:33.040 --> 0:06:36.120 in both redraft and dynasty formats. But don't sleep on 0:06:36.200 --> 0:06:40.599 Kenneth Gainwell, who certainly flashed at times last year. Not 0:06:41.560 --> 0:06:44.799 you did score five rushing touchdowns on just sixty eight attempts, 0:06:45.040 --> 0:06:48.400 average four point three yards per carry. He's kind of 0:06:48.400 --> 0:06:51.200 the go to receiving back as well, and that offense. 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:54.600 So runners, runners have an opportunity to get better in 0:06:54.680 --> 0:06:56.520 year two. And we've seen it a lot where you know, 0:06:56.560 --> 0:06:58.560 there are rookies that come out at running back and 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:01.279 they don't they don't do much, and you're two. You's 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.440 usually you know, that's where you see for most backs, 0:07:04.520 --> 0:07:06.960 that's that's sort of your your last chance to really 0:07:07.000 --> 0:07:09.400 show in the NFL, although there are exceptions, and it's 0:07:09.400 --> 0:07:12.000 an offensive line. Philly, they got a good old line, 0:07:12.040 --> 0:07:14.720 so uh yeah, that's the Eagles, and people are asking 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:18.720 what about Jalen reagor, don't ask about he is dead, 0:07:19.560 --> 0:07:23.480 although it'll be his third year, right, and sometimes receivers 0:07:23.480 --> 0:07:25.280 come to come to life in the third year, but 0:07:25.560 --> 0:07:28.320 usually usually not when they're as dead as he's dead. 0:07:30.000 --> 0:07:34.080 The Washington Commander's first time I've talked about the Commanders 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:37.400 the Commander. Yeah, it still feels weird, and it's such 0:07:38.160 --> 0:07:42.520 a bad name. Man so uninspired. Look at what the 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:47.320 Seattle Kraken did by going an offbeat, unique name. People 0:07:47.320 --> 0:07:50.480 are like, you can't. They've they've selling the most merchandise 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:53.000 in the NHL because they have a cool logo and name. 0:07:54.200 --> 0:07:56.440 I gotta go on a real quick mini rant. Not 0:07:56.440 --> 0:07:59.600 not the Commander's logo, but like their crest that will 0:07:59.640 --> 0:08:02.600 be on they put for the Super Bowls they won. 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:07.400 They put the year where the game was played Sea, 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.720 which is not how anybody acknowledges there are Super Bowl wins, 0:08:11.720 --> 0:08:13.680 and the fans are upset. I mean, it was such 0:08:13.720 --> 0:08:17.480 a massive oversight that that is weird. Isn't it. I'm 0:08:17.480 --> 0:08:19.320 not even a fan and it bothers me, But yeah, 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:21.680 people are pissed in U in the belt Way about that. 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:25.440 Let's start at the quarterback position. Taylor Heinik had zero 0:08:25.600 --> 0:08:31.000 or one touchdown pass in eleven games, and he was 0:08:31.040 --> 0:08:35.360 particularly ineffective after Week four. Once defensive coordinators got some 0:08:35.360 --> 0:08:37.440 good tape on him. He had a pretty nice little 0:08:37.520 --> 0:08:41.040 run in like weeks one, two, three, four, and then 0:08:41.160 --> 0:08:43.120 just the wheels came off and he was a very 0:08:43.200 --> 0:08:47.920 ineffective quarterback. After week four he was Fantasy quarterback twenty one, 0:08:48.480 --> 0:08:50.719 which meant that, you know, most weeks you were by 0:08:50.720 --> 0:08:53.319 a mile better off not starting him than somebody else. 0:08:53.720 --> 0:08:56.600 His scrambling, he's he's got, he's got pretty good wheels, 0:08:56.640 --> 0:08:59.880 but he scrambling was very anemic. The average just seventy 0:09:00.200 --> 0:09:04.199 yards and zero rushing touchdowns after week four. Um, he's 0:09:04.200 --> 0:09:06.760 gonna be a free agent. Ran Fitzpatrick won't be retained 0:09:06.920 --> 0:09:09.559 and Washington is clearly in the market for a new 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:14.440 quarterback next year. Russell Wilson DeShawn Watson in play draft 0:09:14.480 --> 0:09:17.200 in a rookie, We're gonna go one of those. The 0:09:17.280 --> 0:09:21.520 problems gonna be Washington might be the least compelling destination 0:09:22.280 --> 0:09:25.200 for any free agent quarterback who can control his own 0:09:25.240 --> 0:09:28.520 destiny because of all the turmoil with that team right now, Well, 0:09:28.520 --> 0:09:33.240 Wilson's willing to go there like well, that's the word. 0:09:34.160 --> 0:09:36.440 It's not defendive. I don't know about that. I don't 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.360 think I don't think anybody wants to go to Washington 0:09:38.480 --> 0:09:40.920 right now. All right, let's talk about Terry McLaren, who 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.680 suffered under Heineke. He slumped all the way to wide 0:09:43.679 --> 0:09:47.480 receiver thirty seven after week five. From week five forward 0:09:48.120 --> 0:09:51.200 wide receiver thirty seven, he scored just two times the 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:53.679 rest of the way, and that put him behind guys 0:09:53.679 --> 0:09:58.319 like Kendrick Bourne and Devanta Smith and Marquez Callaway. Come on, 0:09:58.480 --> 0:10:04.200 you're Terry McLaurin. His stats from last year weren't that 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:07.200 different than the year before in total stats. But we 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:09.800 all expected him to do far better and really improve 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:12.040 on year two into year three, and it just didn't 0:10:12.080 --> 0:10:15.960 come together without Stuberd there and Taylor Heineke throwing him wobblers, 0:10:16.040 --> 0:10:19.120 and it just never it never really came together. Still, 0:10:19.400 --> 0:10:24.680 McLaren's obviously got loads of talent, and if the commanders 0:10:25.520 --> 0:10:31.240 can find themselves a quarterback, then there's some real upside 0:10:31.280 --> 0:10:33.680 to be had in McLaren. Next year, mclauren's in that 0:10:33.760 --> 0:10:37.120 like cursed group of like Andre Johnson and Alan Robinson, 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:41.600 still amazing great receiverscking right, uh, And there's no other 0:10:41.600 --> 0:10:43.960 good receivers on this team. Diamie Brown was a total 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.959 washout in his rookie season, just twelve catches. Maybe he 0:10:47.200 --> 0:10:49.800 sparks next year, but we got nothing from him this year. 0:10:50.320 --> 0:10:51.760 Kurt and they didn't even put him on the Brown 0:10:51.800 --> 0:10:54.760 he was on the field. He was inactive most many games. 0:10:55.280 --> 0:10:59.000 Curtis Samuel injured throughout the entire season, starting in training 0:10:59.040 --> 0:11:01.920 camp and lasting all year or long. It was this 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.000 last year. It was his first year into his thirty 0:11:05.160 --> 0:11:09.840 four million dollar deal. Oh, he caught just six passes. 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:13.360 Six passes for Curtis Samuel. He was hurt a ton though, 0:11:13.440 --> 0:11:15.240 he was hurt a ton. So I mean to me, 0:11:15.920 --> 0:11:17.920 you know, like last pick of your draft, you could 0:11:17.920 --> 0:11:19.920 throw a dart at him and see what happens. I've 0:11:19.920 --> 0:11:22.120 got I've got interested in the later rounds if they 0:11:22.200 --> 0:11:25.960 upgraded quarterback, if he stays healthy, I think he could there. 0:11:26.000 --> 0:11:29.880 But there's there's still I gotta believe there's still some 0:11:29.960 --> 0:11:31.520 of the talent that we saw in his last year 0:11:31.520 --> 0:11:35.040 in Carolina. Alright, Logan Thomas tight end injured all season. 0:11:35.120 --> 0:11:37.200 Just a reminder if you forgot, he tore his A 0:11:37.240 --> 0:11:38.640 c L and m c L in December, So we 0:11:38.640 --> 0:11:40.280 don't even know if Logan Thomas is gonna be ready 0:11:40.280 --> 0:11:42.760 for Week one or what point during the season he 0:11:42.760 --> 0:11:45.880 would come back and be effective there. Um Ricky Seals 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.760 Jones is a free agent, but they like their other 0:11:49.000 --> 0:11:51.560 their rookie from last year, John Bates, who flashed a 0:11:51.600 --> 0:11:54.120 little bit when Seals Jones was hurt and Logan Thomas 0:11:54.120 --> 0:11:55.760 was hurt and they had to go to Bates give 0:11:55.800 --> 0:11:58.240 him more time. He flashed a little something. I think 0:11:58.280 --> 0:12:01.480 they'll let Seals Jones walk and assume Bates can can 0:12:01.640 --> 0:12:03.640 fill in and be the backup if it turns out 0:12:03.679 --> 0:12:05.600 Logan Thomas isn't ready to go. But I liked about 0:12:05.640 --> 0:12:07.560 Logan Thomas when he was healthy. Was he was playing 0:12:08.080 --> 0:12:13.559 literally the snaps with a tight end. Yes, the healthy one. 0:12:13.600 --> 0:12:15.720 So if if he can stay healthy, he's another guy 0:12:15.720 --> 0:12:18.040 who's got undervalued. Right now, let's go to the running backs. 0:12:18.040 --> 0:12:21.680 Intonio Gibson. He had a hundred yard ten touchdown season. 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:24.600 When I say d yards and ten touchdowns, you're like, hey, 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:26.880 that's that's a pretty good year. But why didn't it 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:31.000 feel like Antonio Gibson had a better season. It's because 0:12:31.040 --> 0:12:35.440 he was an erratic performer and unpredictable, and it was 0:12:35.600 --> 0:12:37.800 very hard to know when you were safe putting him 0:12:37.800 --> 0:12:41.439 in your lineup and when not to. He succeeded against 0:12:41.440 --> 0:12:45.320 some very hard run defenses when some people reasonably would 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:48.440 have benched him, and he flopped against some really bad 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:52.680 run defenses. And the past catching really never developed like 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:54.679 we thought it would in the off season. We had 0:12:54.679 --> 0:12:57.400 spent much of the offseason talking hawking ourselves into a 0:12:57.440 --> 0:12:59.720 reduced role for j D. Mckissa, for a guy who 0:12:59.760 --> 0:13:04.240 knew increase a wide receiver basically in college too. We 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.280 thought we we thought he'd come together more. He hit 0:13:06.280 --> 0:13:09.520 one hundred rushing yards just once, and one of them, 0:13:09.520 --> 0:13:12.040 I'm sorry, just two times, and one of them was 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:15.840 in Week eighteen when nobody was playing fantasy football. That's Gibson, 0:13:16.040 --> 0:13:19.280 and four of his ten touchdowns were scored in December, 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:20.760 and at that point you may not even been in 0:13:20.800 --> 0:13:22.960 the playoffs. He did have a shin injury. He played 0:13:23.000 --> 0:13:24.679 most of the season on that shin injury, and he 0:13:24.760 --> 0:13:29.680 never really this season looked his dynamic and elusive as 0:13:29.720 --> 0:13:33.840 he had in twenty the year before. Brian so Gibson, 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:36.719 I think, um is, I believe he will fall out 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.400 of the top two rounds in many drafts next year 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:41.560 based on what we saw last year. Yeah, he's going 0:13:41.760 --> 0:13:44.839 from what I've seen, it's literally, of course late second release, 0:13:44.880 --> 0:13:46.480 he's going. He's more of a mid mid three. I 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:49.640 think that sounds right. JD. McKissick was a spot starter, 0:13:50.120 --> 0:13:52.360 and then you know he was a spot fantasy starter, 0:13:52.440 --> 0:13:55.160 not starter for their team. He may not remember he 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:57.120 finished with a concussion of Week twelve and that was 0:13:57.120 --> 0:13:59.120 the end of his season. And I you know, I 0:13:59.200 --> 0:14:00.960 you never knew what to do with mckissa He was 0:14:01.000 --> 0:14:03.160 just like a dark throw by week guy. And um, 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:04.800 it'll be interesting to see whether or not they decided 0:14:04.800 --> 0:14:11.000 to retain his services. Let's go over to the Cowboy Cowboys, 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.680 Dallas Cowboys. It looks like we're gonna have a little 0:14:13.640 --> 0:14:16.160 shake up at the wide receiver position. Yeah we will. 0:14:16.200 --> 0:14:17.480 I'll get there in a minute. Let me just get 0:14:17.679 --> 0:14:19.000 let's make it a dack out of the way. We 0:14:19.040 --> 0:14:21.280 don't have to dive too deep into dak Uh somewhat 0:14:21.280 --> 0:14:23.600 of it down here for him statistically, but he was 0:14:23.680 --> 0:14:26.840 fourth h fourth most passing touchdowns with thirty seven, the 0:14:26.840 --> 0:14:29.400 same amount as Patrick Mahomes and Aaron Rodgers. Uh. He 0:14:29.440 --> 0:14:32.520 did go under underwent shoulder surgery this pass offseason, but 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.400 it's not his non throwing arm should be fine. They're 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:38.320 roughly going around QB six and drafts right now, but 0:14:38.440 --> 0:14:42.080 still has that quarterback one potential even if the Cowboys 0:14:42.080 --> 0:14:44.840 offense undergoes a bit of a makeover, which it likely will. 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:46.680 We'll talk about that and then in just a minute. 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:48.680 But uh, let's talk about a guy who will definitely 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.880 be a Cowboy this year. Mass Ceedee Lamb. Even though 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:54.720 there was some Arizona rumors swirling a week or two ago. 0:14:54.760 --> 0:14:57.600 You didn't buy into that either. Uh speak down years, 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:00.720 oh Lamb. People were expecting a top five of top ten. 0:15:00.760 --> 0:15:02.640 I was, and I think I think I had him 0:15:02.680 --> 0:15:05.720 ranked right around ten going into the season. Yeah, wide 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:10.560 receiver twenty in PPR. So he he under exceeded everyone's expectations. Now, 0:15:10.840 --> 0:15:15.520 can you under exceed when like, am I making this word? 0:15:16.520 --> 0:15:19.280 But it makes sense, it does um. But you know, 0:15:19.840 --> 0:15:22.600 I think Ceedee Lamb could be this year's version of 0:15:22.600 --> 0:15:26.080 Cooper Cup. Now he's not getting drafted as late as 0:15:26.080 --> 0:15:28.440 Cup was getting drafted last year, but he's still falling 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:31.240 into the late second, early third round right now. But 0:15:31.280 --> 0:15:34.120 that's still good value for a guy with overall wide 0:15:34.120 --> 0:15:36.160 receiver one potential. But here's the key for him to 0:15:36.200 --> 0:15:40.400 do it. They gotta use him in the slot more. Um. 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:42.800 He checks all the boxes outside that He's got the size, 0:15:42.840 --> 0:15:44.920 to speed, the talent, a good quarterback got off a 0:15:44.960 --> 0:15:47.480 good offensive line. Lamb only took a third of his 0:15:47.520 --> 0:15:50.040 snaps from the slot last year, and I'm saying we 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:52.520 at least double uh those snaps from the slot of 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:54.600 him this year because his biggest games came when he 0:15:54.600 --> 0:15:58.520 saw at least sixteen snaps from the slot. Uh nine 0:15:58.560 --> 0:16:01.280 catches a hundred forty nine yards, two touchdowns against New England, 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:04.800 two touchdowns against Atlanta, seven for one oh four and 0:16:04.800 --> 0:16:07.120 a touchdown against Tampa Bay. This is are in games 0:16:07.120 --> 0:16:09.480 where he was seeing significant snaps from the slot, and 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.240 that a lot of that tied to win. Gallup was 0:16:11.280 --> 0:16:14.680 healthy or not. You know, Gallops much is was traditionally 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:17.680 more of an outside guy, and they would move Lamb 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:19.240 more into the slot when Gallup was on the field. 0:16:19.240 --> 0:16:21.200 But Gallup missed most of the season or half the season, 0:16:21.760 --> 0:16:24.880 so that was that ended up pushing Lamb outside more. 0:16:24.960 --> 0:16:26.760 And I'm with you, I just think he's a natural 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:28.800 slot received. Yeah, I'd like to see him using the 0:16:28.800 --> 0:16:31.040 slot a lot more because hey, that's where Cooper cup plays, 0:16:31.160 --> 0:16:34.680 right for the most part. Um, speaking of Michael Gallup, Uh, 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:40.240 and Mark, let's talk about tomorrow. Cooper, right, so he's 0:16:40.240 --> 0:16:42.360 basically gone. It's not even a rumor. It's just there's 0:16:42.400 --> 0:16:45.120 a fact they can't afford. And I caught him. They 0:16:45.160 --> 0:16:48.480 mismanaged that this all goes to Zeke's contract. That's like 0:16:48.560 --> 0:16:51.440 ruined everything. Like but now they're just gonna let Cooper 0:16:51.480 --> 0:16:54.320 walk when they could have at least tried to trade him. 0:16:54.000 --> 0:16:57.440 To be clear, they tried to trade him. They were 0:16:57.440 --> 0:17:00.200 no takers. I'm sure they were. Their offers are They're 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:03.080 asking price was way too high? Remember what they gave up? 0:17:03.200 --> 0:17:06.679 Was it not two first rounders to get him, Marie Cooper? 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.640 I think it was two first rounders? Yeah. Jones is 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:14.440 not very good in the front office, So we're gonna assume, 0:17:14.560 --> 0:17:17.280 not even assume Cooper is gone. But that's gonna clear. 0:17:17.560 --> 0:17:19.960 And Michael Gallup is an unrestricted free agent as well, 0:17:20.080 --> 0:17:23.560 so Cedric Wilson, Uh yeah, I think Wilson is going 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:27.240 to be there. Um Gallup kind of on the fence. 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:28.960 The weird thing with Gallup is he he blew out 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:31.600 his knee late in the season. He waited like a 0:17:31.640 --> 0:17:34.359 month to have the surgery. He just had the surgery 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:35.480 a couple of weeks ago, so I don't know if 0:17:35.520 --> 0:17:37.960 he's gonna be ready for the start of the season. 0:17:38.040 --> 0:17:41.320 It wasn't an a c L, was it. There was 0:17:41.440 --> 0:17:44.080 mcl okay, a c L is worse, right, But either way, 0:17:44.119 --> 0:17:46.359 he waited like six weeks, which was kind of bizarre. 0:17:46.400 --> 0:17:51.600 It's like, just get it over with. But really, I'm 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:55.720 most excited about Cedric Wilson knowing that Cooper is pretty 0:17:55.760 --> 0:17:58.320 much gone. I don't know if Gallops could be ready 0:17:58.640 --> 0:18:00.720 to start the season. And Wilson look great when given 0:18:00.760 --> 0:18:04.520 the opportunity. Forty five catches, six hundred and two yards, 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:08.400 six touchdowns on just sixty one targets. Yeah, that's those 0:18:08.400 --> 0:18:12.000 are hundred twenty, which is viable or feasible for a 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:15.400 wider season starting We're talking a thousand yards and potentially 0:18:15.400 --> 0:18:18.720 double digit touchdown. So Wilson is a guy going very 0:18:18.800 --> 0:18:21.040 late right now. I think he's gonna be climbing round 0:18:21.040 --> 0:18:23.280 by round as we go up. Months like that comes 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:25.240 through the seasons, especially if Gallop is not going to 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:26.840 be a factor next year either or not on the 0:18:26.880 --> 0:18:29.959 team or because of because of the knee, and now 0:18:29.960 --> 0:18:33.160 because of the cap crisis in Dallas. Another guy who 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:36.760 might not be Cowboy next year's tighten Tighten or this 0:18:36.840 --> 0:18:40.199 year tight end Dalton Schultz. But I think now that 0:18:40.240 --> 0:18:44.080 with the the Cooper news, I think they retain Dalton 0:18:44.160 --> 0:18:46.960 Showed Schultz and hopefully they do because he thrived in 0:18:47.000 --> 0:18:48.960 a full time role in Dallas. Was one of three 0:18:48.960 --> 0:18:51.800 tight ends with at least eight hundred yards and eight touchdowns, 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:55.959 the other two Travis Kelsey, Mark Andrews. Schultz was one 0:18:56.000 --> 0:18:58.760 of six tight ends the top a hundred targets, finished 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:01.560 third and catches at the position with seventy eight, so 0:19:01.880 --> 0:19:04.600 he looked great. He's comfortable in that offense. And as 0:19:04.600 --> 0:19:07.359 for Blake Jarwin, not a concern when it comes to 0:19:07.400 --> 0:19:09.520 Shultz is playing time. He's the guy now. The Cowboys 0:19:09.560 --> 0:19:12.679 actually are saying they have concerns about Jarwin the hip surgery. 0:19:12.880 --> 0:19:15.560 Had he's the first pro football player to ever have it. 0:19:16.160 --> 0:19:20.480 They're saying only hockey and basketball players who knows how 0:19:20.480 --> 0:19:23.600 he reacts to hip surgery. So don't be concerned with 0:19:23.640 --> 0:19:26.639 the Blake Jarwin. If you're rolling up wanting to roll 0:19:26.680 --> 0:19:29.199 into two with Dalton Shultz as you're tight end one, 0:19:29.240 --> 0:19:31.720 he's another guy I'm liking. If you have, you fade 0:19:31.800 --> 0:19:33.720 the big name tight ends in your draft. All right, 0:19:33.760 --> 0:19:35.960 let's get to the running backs because we have it's 0:19:35.960 --> 0:19:38.760 gonna be frustrating a lot of talking Ezekiel Elliott and 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:41.880 Tony Pollard. Will this be the year that Tony Pollard 0:19:41.920 --> 0:19:46.919 finally usurps? I'm done thinking that the Cowboys will do 0:19:47.000 --> 0:19:49.159 the right thing here because we've been asking for it 0:19:49.240 --> 0:19:51.240 for two years and it hasn't happened here. And we 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:52.919 all know Zeke is on the climb. But here's a 0:19:53.000 --> 0:19:57.040 very very alarming stat. Elliott had fifteen carries of twenty 0:19:57.040 --> 0:20:02.840 plus yards into fifteen carries of twenty or more yards 0:20:02.840 --> 0:20:06.920 in what year? So all the way back to rookie year. Yeah, okay, 0:20:06.960 --> 0:20:09.560 and that's three carries in that that year. But since 0:20:11.000 --> 0:20:14.560 he's had seven four carries, he's only had ten carries. 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:22.000 Of yards is gone, totally gone. On the other hand, 0:20:23.800 --> 0:20:27.080 hell yeah, average five point five yards for carry per 0:20:27.080 --> 0:20:30.640 Pro Football Focus. He graded better than Elliott as a rusher, receiver, 0:20:30.880 --> 0:20:33.879 and pass blocker man and pass blocking was always one 0:20:33.880 --> 0:20:36.399 of the big catches for him, for he was not 0:20:36.480 --> 0:20:38.640