Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio.
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Speaker 1: and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. Now,
Speaker 1: here's your host, Paul. Welcome to our first truly off
Speaker 1: season edition of Fantasy Football Weekly on Paul Charchi and
Speaker 1: my co host today Scott Fish. What's going on? What
Speaker 1: a super Bowl man was? Indeed, it's it's the off
Speaker 1: season now. What was if? When you remember the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two season, including all the way through playoffs, what
Speaker 1: are you gonna remember the most? What's your your one
Speaker 1: big like I'll never forget that? Well, you know this
Speaker 1: this one isn't even fantasy related ones. Honestly, it's nothing
Speaker 1: for the listeners. Really, It's just I will remember how
Speaker 1: much I enjoyed watching football every week with my son
Speaker 1: who became super involved in it. So I think that'll
Speaker 1: be my number one takeaway from this year. How how investing,
Speaker 1: That's how I you know, that's how That's how I
Speaker 1: ended up a football fan as my dad was a
Speaker 1: football fan and the one day, you know, he worked
Speaker 1: Monday through Friday, and you know, the one day that
Speaker 1: I knew I could get time with my dad was
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoons Vikings games. So for me as a Viking
Speaker 1: life life Viking fan, the for sure, the high water
Speaker 1: moments where that builds victory in Buffalo, the crazy ending,
Speaker 1: the fumble in the end zone, the Justin Jefferson one
Speaker 1: of the greatest catches in the history of the NFL,
Speaker 1: and then the come from behind thirty three point recovery
Speaker 1: against the Colts, and he just you know, unbelievable moments
Speaker 1: for a very special season for the Vikings that you
Speaker 1: know ended early in the playoffs but still had just
Speaker 1: these moments of just jaw dropping. You're like, what did
Speaker 1: I just see some amazing week? So it was good
Speaker 1: to see so many one score wins. It you know,
Speaker 1: the year the year before we had fourteen one score games,
Speaker 1: but we did not have that win record or whatever.
Speaker 1: It was good to see so many close games come
Speaker 1: down to the wire, you're all stressed, intense, and you
Speaker 1: pull them out. That was that was pretty fun. It's fun.
Speaker 1: The premise of today's show is the five things each
Speaker 1: that you and I want to remember next August, Right,
Speaker 1: everything is fresh in our minds right now, all of
Speaker 1: these and all you know all you know what all
Speaker 1: the players did, who's good down the stretch, you know everything.
Speaker 1: It's all it's all fresh now, and I feel like
Speaker 1: over the course of the sixth month off season some
Speaker 1: of it stays percolating at the top through the fantasy community.
Speaker 1: People are talking about it, uncovering new stats and stuff
Speaker 1: and going back in analyzing season. Other things you just
Speaker 1: forget over time. And there are things I don't want
Speaker 1: to forget. So what I'd like to do is bounce
Speaker 1: the ball back and forth through the five things we
Speaker 1: each do not want to forget. And I will let
Speaker 1: you go first. Okay, I'm gonna start with one that uh,
Speaker 1: you know I I went to I went to Twitter
Speaker 1: to say, hey, I'm going to crowdsource this. What are
Speaker 1: your guys thoughts? That took some of the best ones.
Speaker 1: Some of them were ones that I had already thought
Speaker 1: of as well, of course, yeah yeah, but this one
Speaker 1: came via Sam Wagman, Crystal scour and Spencer Hankle if
Speaker 1: you're listening. But the QB landscape has has changed now
Speaker 1: where waiting isn't as much as the strategy anymore. The
Speaker 1: top five or six can really be difference makers and
Speaker 1: you might not want to wait on them. We saw,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna elaborate here just a little bit, but
Speaker 1: we saw fifteen of championship rosters have the have the Mahomes,
Speaker 1: the Jalen Hurts, the Josh Allen, and I think you
Speaker 1: can piece something together with the late r on ones.
Speaker 1: But it's so nice to have that extra roster spot,
Speaker 1: to not have a backup and just have one of
Speaker 1: the studs and not worry about it, and they pull
Speaker 1: you ahead each week, like you can get massive points
Speaker 1: out of those guys any week. It's it's worth it again.
Speaker 1: First round quarterbacks. Jalen Hurts is going to go in
Speaker 1: the first round? You think so? On a past show,
Speaker 1: maybe two three weeks ago, we built it. We briefly
Speaker 1: made a case for him at one one. I would
Speaker 1: not do that. But Josh first round, Patrick Mahomes first
Speaker 1: round you could get and all three of those are
Speaker 1: reasonable first round picks. Okay, I think I don't know
Speaker 1: if I could do it, but here's here's the best
Speaker 1: reason for it. Here's the best case in my mind. Unlikely,
Speaker 1: like far less likely for injury than the other guys
Speaker 1: that we routinely grabbing the first where five of them
Speaker 1: get injured at some point in the season for a while,
Speaker 1: I think those three, those three are less likely. For that,
Speaker 1: people have to have figured out the quarterbacks get hurt
Speaker 1: in the pocket more often than they do up running
Speaker 1: in the field. I mean, you know, the pocket is
Speaker 1: the most dangerous, especially now that quarterbacks know how to
Speaker 1: slide and get out of bounds and protect themselves a
Speaker 1: lot better than back in the day. Absolutely for sure.
Speaker 1: But all right, so I want to remember the qub
Speaker 1: landscape has changed, and I can I can avoid my uh,
Speaker 1: you know, my tendency is to just wait forever on quarterback.
Speaker 1: I gotta stop that now, I'm with you. My first
Speaker 1: thing to remember, cam Akers looked downright, spry at the
Speaker 1: end of the year. I thought it looked great. And
Speaker 1: this is the guy that we warned everybody about, all
Speaker 1: you me, you know, everybody in the show. We're all
Speaker 1: we're all unified on that. We were right. For half
Speaker 1: a season, about more than half. The first fourteen weeks
Speaker 1: of the year, which is the entire regular season, cam
Speaker 1: Akers averaged three point three yards per carry, and he
Speaker 1: was running back fifty one. I mean you couldn't even
Speaker 1: start him for the first fourteen weeks, so it was
Speaker 1: not drafting cam Akers was right thing to do. But
Speaker 1: then in weeks fifteen through eighteen Fantasy playoffs, he was
Speaker 1: five point five yards per carry and he finished as
Speaker 1: running back four running back four in the final four games.
Speaker 1: He had the three touch down game in Week sixteen
Speaker 1: against a good Denver defense, And keep in mind his
Speaker 1: offensive line was completely shattered by this stage of the season.
Speaker 1: Yet cam Akers still managed to be an effective running back.
Speaker 1: So there's and I'm I'm I'm the Achilles doubter in
Speaker 1: the room. I'm always like, you have to show me
Speaker 1: before I'm going to believe that you're the same running back.
Speaker 1: With the Achilles and doubting, cam Akers was the correct
Speaker 1: call until December. Yep, I I agree he look good
Speaker 1: and if he keeps that role, which he should, I
Speaker 1: don't see any he wouldn't. Yeah, the contract, all right?
Speaker 1: What is your next thing to remember? All right? This one?
Speaker 1: This one is one I thought about a decent amount
Speaker 1: this last year because this happened with a lot of
Speaker 1: rookie wide receivers. But from Scott Lord and Kevin Tompkins.
Speaker 1: Rookies are really the last true places to find bargain
Speaker 1: a DP and draft a handful of rookie wide receivers
Speaker 1: with upside who can ascend instead of the boring vets
Speaker 1: in those middle to late rounds, those Christian Watson types
Speaker 1: that were like that we're taking you know, a random
Speaker 1: vet over, don't do it. There's so much more upside
Speaker 1: with the rookie wide receivers. And over the last few years,
Speaker 1: rokie wide receivers have made so many splashes. It's not
Speaker 1: like year three anymore. They're making splashes usually later in
Speaker 1: year one. And now, okay, let me ask you that
Speaker 1: the last three years have been an insane bumper crop
Speaker 1: of wide receivers. And this year looks like and it's
Speaker 1: the draft is still a couple of weeks. It's way worse.
Speaker 1: There may only be one or two drafted in the
Speaker 1: first round this year. After we're getting you know drafts
Speaker 1: where there's like five wide receivers taken in the first round.
Speaker 1: So maybe we've just we happen to have run into
Speaker 1: this group that in totality has been really good lately.
Speaker 1: One of those that one of the one of those
Speaker 1: two uh two tweets did not mention wide receivers. They
Speaker 1: just said players, um, and I think that's fair to
Speaker 1: There are probably going to be a bunch of running
Speaker 1: backs like the Tyler l years from this last year
Speaker 1: that are in those later rounds. Go for the upside
Speaker 1: plays instead of the vets that you know have been
Speaker 1: ho hum and you know what you're getting, Tyler. You
Speaker 1: watched Tyler L. Gear Yeah, August RB, that's going to
Speaker 1: be a DP. The average draft position of Tyler L.
Speaker 1: Geer is going to creep up, up, up, up up
Speaker 1: as people start to realize what he did down the stretch.
Speaker 1: And you know, that could have been one of these
Speaker 1: top five things that I could have been not on
Speaker 1: my list, but he yet he really he looked like
Speaker 1: much improved running back. I'm going to message him in
Speaker 1: our league chat. So even in the I like that,
Speaker 1: that's good. My next thing to remember, Tyler Murray may
Speaker 1: not be fully recovered until mid season, and I think
Speaker 1: we'll be much more aware of that in August, but
Speaker 1: I didn't at the time. We're so used to people
Speaker 1: just coming back the next year from the a C
Speaker 1: l UM. His is a c L omniscus. Apparently it's
Speaker 1: pretty bad in there when they got in into the
Speaker 1: clean up. The timetable is being reported as mid season.
Speaker 1: Josh Wine Fuss of ESPN also indicated that there's been
Speaker 1: rumblings that Murray could be at risk of missing the
Speaker 1: entire year. Albert Breer reports, Murray hasn't been the guy
Speaker 1: to set the tone for the organization. When your QB
Speaker 1: doesn't show up for half of the offseason program, that's
Speaker 1: a problem. These are now I've turned this also into
Speaker 1: reasons I'm not drafting Kyler Murray. Don't. There's that um
Speaker 1: and even when Murray comes back, what happens with his mobility?
Speaker 1: So is he gonna be you know, is he gonna
Speaker 1: be like Dak Prescott last year? You know, Dak was
Speaker 1: so good as a running passing hybrid for all those years,
Speaker 1: then he had the ankle injury. Then last year, that
Speaker 1: ankle injury, and he's still He's never gonna be the
Speaker 1: same rusher off of that totally reconstructed ankle, and then
Speaker 1: you lose a lot of that. So I looked up
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray's just the passing numbers. We took his rushing
Speaker 1: numbers out of it, he would have been quarterback twenty
Speaker 1: I remember, remember what was it, it was last year
Speaker 1: or whatever. He had that injury and he wasn't rushing anymore.
Speaker 1: And each week we're like, he's more of a C
Speaker 1: grade now because the rushing was gone. It's weird because
Speaker 1: he's one of those quarterbacks that could be like a
Speaker 1: five thousand yards maybe eight hundred to a thousand yards
Speaker 1: rushing quarterback went healthy, but he keeps he keeps getting
Speaker 1: hurt this year. Yeah, I think we're going to hear
Speaker 1: a lot more about his situation. You know, came August.
Speaker 1: It will probably remember it because they'll be talking about
Speaker 1: a decent amount. But uh, I will say Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: had supposedly similar to slightly worse injury, had it a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks earlier, and he was ready by week one.
Speaker 1: So who do you Who do you trust more to
Speaker 1: be serious about their rehab all season? Burrow? That's a
Speaker 1: very good point. I think it's a factor. I really do. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, we've done four things to remember. Let's get
Speaker 1: in a fifth one and then we'll take a quick break. Um, okay,
Speaker 1: let's let's go over here, and this is just might
Speaker 1: be almost anecdotal for me. But for the longest time,
Speaker 1: wide receivers switching teams was almost always a bad thing.
Speaker 1: Guys almost almost never lived up to what they were before.
Speaker 1: And then Stephen Diggs switched teams and he was just fining.
Speaker 1: He was even better. And then this year Diggs did it,
Speaker 1: Tyree Kill did it. Um they did great, but other
Speaker 1: players the same result is before Allen Robinson, Judic Smith, Schuster.
Speaker 1: Just what where I'm going is? I want to remember
Speaker 1: to notice when a wider superswitches teams, were they a star,
Speaker 1: were they on the decline? Or were they underused in
Speaker 1: their offense? And under used example would be Christian Kirk.
Speaker 1: I can't put them all in the one bin anymore.
Speaker 1: I have to. I have to take a closer look
Speaker 1: at where was their trajectory before the switch, because it
Speaker 1: seems like that man is more because teams are letting
Speaker 1: wide receivers walk just because of contracts. A J. Brown
Speaker 1: just because the contracts now it's not it's no longer
Speaker 1: because we don't want you anymore, right the cop because
Speaker 1: the big the position has become so expensive. Elite wide
Speaker 1: receivers command thirty million dollars a year thirty. That's Davante
Speaker 1: Smith and that's our sorry, Davanta Adams and and Tyreek
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hiller thirty million dollar guys. Scott Justin Jefferson might
Speaker 1: be a thirty five million dollar guy. So we even
Speaker 1: saw it when Tyree Hill left there, like will he
Speaker 1: be the same with two and with Wattle taking etcetera. No, no,
Speaker 1: just let's let's just assume that these players are on
Speaker 1: a certain trajectory and let's try to let's try to
Speaker 1: see when in Allen Robinson. Allen Robinson's numbers were nearly
Speaker 1: identical from Chicago to the Rams, So maybe that bad
Speaker 1: he was right, especially at that age, at that stage
Speaker 1: of the career, those two got me like that. Maybe
Speaker 1: it's because those are with my worst calls of the
Speaker 1: year is I thought ju Ju to the Chiefs, and
Speaker 1: I thought Allen Robinson replacing the Odell Robert Woods role.
Speaker 1: I thought, great, No, they were declining, That's just what
Speaker 1: it was, and Juju shouldn't be declining at age seven
Speaker 1: or whatever. But you know, and he's it'll be a
Speaker 1: free agent this offseason, ju will and I think the
Speaker 1: markets for him is going to be pretty soft, even
Speaker 1: though there are a lot of great receivers free agent
Speaker 1: wide receivers. I think the market's gonna be pretty soft.
Speaker 1: You know, they're gonna look and go okay with Ben
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger and Patrick Mahomes. You were a mid production guy,
Speaker 1: so you know, what are you gonna beat? What's Houston
Speaker 1: gonna give him much? I don't think. All right, let's
Speaker 1: take a break when we come back the five other
Speaker 1: things we want to try to remember or try not
Speaker 1: to forget between now and next draft season. Welcome back
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchi and Scott Fish with you.
Speaker 1: We're going through the things we do not want to
Speaker 1: forget between now and next draft season. We've done five,
Speaker 1: We've got five left. That means I'm up. Derrick Henry's
Speaker 1: offensive line was god awful last year. Scott and completely
Speaker 1: injury ravaged. Um. You know, I think those two might
Speaker 1: have had a thing to do with each other, correct, Yes,
Speaker 1: no doubt. Taylor the one, Dylan rad Dunce, Ben Jones,
Speaker 1: Nate Davis, all hurt Um and Ben Jones mostly backup anyway.
Speaker 1: But um Luan set to make fourteen and a half
Speaker 1: million dollars, and he he said this last week he
Speaker 1: expects to be released because of his contract, and also
Speaker 1: he's thirty two and you know whatever. You know, sometimes
Speaker 1: just things just sour with an organization. He'll probably he'll
Speaker 1: probably land on his feet somewhere else and help somebody else.
Speaker 1: But I think Derrick Henry's ADP is gonna slide pretty far,
Speaker 1: and if they can rebuild that offensive line, I'm kind
Speaker 1: of back on board. What are your thoughts on not
Speaker 1: on Eric Henry, where I think he's ADP is now
Speaker 1: going to drop into like pick ten, pick twelve, somewhere
Speaker 1: in that range where I think we might be starting
Speaker 1: to hit the last couple of years of Zeki Elliott
Speaker 1: for Derrick Henry to where people are like, oh, he's
Speaker 1: kind of old hat and where he'll start slit an age,
Speaker 1: so he'll just start slipping even though he's got these
Speaker 1: ears left. I'm with you on this and and more
Speaker 1: than just like, can I make up broader statement on
Speaker 1: the offensive line thing? I feel like we need to
Speaker 1: pay better attention to the offensive line, and because it
Speaker 1: seems to have really mattered this year for both passing
Speaker 1: and run games, Like there's a lot's a point at
Speaker 1: which if it's bad enough do you just can't succeed?
Speaker 1: And Tennessee's wasn't good to begin with. That's what I mean.
Speaker 1: Are You're throwing a couple of injuries and now they're
Speaker 1: like the thirtie best offensive line and Derrick Henry, even
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry can't do anything with that. Yep, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: I'm with you on this. I I will buy the
Speaker 1: I will buy the dip. I actually was buying him
Speaker 1: last year too. I don't I feel like I've always
Speaker 1: just been buying in on Terrick Henry. The last most
Speaker 1: part of what is your next thing? Not to forget? Okay,
Speaker 1: let me let me get back over here, and I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go with um. I need to pay closer attention
Speaker 1: to the contract to your players because and we talked
Speaker 1: about it a lot on the show about we talked
Speaker 1: about it last year with se Kwan and Jacobs and
Speaker 1: like maybe they just run him to the ground. They did.
Speaker 1: They did. Look at Tony Pollard and Miles Sanders on
Speaker 1: their contract years this year, like the contract to your players,
Speaker 1: it's it's been a stereotype because it kind of happens
Speaker 1: a lot. Okay, Okay, but wait, you put in the past,
Speaker 1: the thinking was always the player tries harder in their
Speaker 1: contract year. For many of these guys, it was the
Speaker 1: team team wants to put all of this workload on
Speaker 1: a guy that they're going to go exactly. It's it's
Speaker 1: one of those you can have a couple of different
Speaker 1: names for it, but it's the same end result in
Speaker 1: fantasy uptick, especially running back, where they they're trying to
Speaker 1: put my pals on on the guy on that exactly
Speaker 1: where I was going. I mean, I think this is
Speaker 1: mostly and someone on Twitter Saturday I believe too, But um,
Speaker 1: it's mostly for the starting level or at least time
Speaker 1: share high level, you know, the one a of a
Speaker 1: timeshare one whatever. Running backs like the defined role running
Speaker 1: backs is more of what this is about. My next
Speaker 1: thing I don't want to forget justin higher maybe draft
Speaker 1: him high for sure. Justin fields passing didn't improve as
Speaker 1: much as people are going to think it improved, so
Speaker 1: you know, there's I just think there's still some risk
Speaker 1: with fields passing, which August drafters are going to be
Speaker 1: quick to overlook because of his incredible running and the
Speaker 1: fantasy upside that is running gives you, um and the
Speaker 1: upgrades that are assuredly justin Fields is going to get me.
Speaker 1: They're going to have receiver upgrades in Chicago in this offseason.
Speaker 1: They're coming. I don't don't know who they are yet,
Speaker 1: but they're coming. I mean now, ideally it's gonna be
Speaker 1: just like what A J. Brown did for Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 1: I think A J. Brown was pretty instrumental in Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts getting a lot better. I think that certainly helped
Speaker 1: that whole, that whole offense and giving him that target
Speaker 1: and then also drawing less coverage to other players. And
Speaker 1: you know, Hurts got a lot better and Fields could.
Speaker 1: But and I'm not saying you won't, but I think
Speaker 1: in our minds we've decided that. And J and I also,
Speaker 1: by the way, I expect Chicago to trade out of
Speaker 1: one one that first pick of the draft because they're
Speaker 1: going to settle on Hurts. And I really think the
Speaker 1: narrative is gonna build that Fields is a better passer
Speaker 1: than than he was this year. So let me give
Speaker 1: you some data to back this up. Fields finished sevent
Speaker 1: in expected completion percentage. He finished dead last in passes
Speaker 1: into tight windows. That's the next gen stat which makes
Speaker 1: you question just his judgment as a passer um and
Speaker 1: also by the way wide receivers weren't gett open, so
Speaker 1: you know, I don't think those guys were getting a
Speaker 1: lot of cushion, so that might have been part of
Speaker 1: it too. But he was throwing. He threw them. He
Speaker 1: was dead last and passes into tight windows. He was
Speaker 1: thirty feet in turnover worthy plays when under pressure he
Speaker 1: was thirtieth, and adjusted completion percentage when under pressure he
Speaker 1: led the leagues in league in sacks absorbed. Justin Fields,
Speaker 1: who obviously has the mobility to get out of these
Speaker 1: sacks right and get out of trouble, but Scotty didn't
Speaker 1: because it's just positional awareness and you know, holding the
Speaker 1: ball too long. Things like that bad offensive line pressured
Speaker 1: him some, for sure, but its offensive line it wasn't
Speaker 1: as bad as we thought. In fact, get this first
Speaker 1: half it was bad. Get this, the quarterback with the
Speaker 1: most time to throw in the NFL, justin Fields, yet
Speaker 1: he absorbed the most sacks. I want to know if
Speaker 1: that I would love to know if that counts after
Speaker 1: he's outside the pocket to the time he delivers the ball,
Speaker 1: Like I'm not sure it's a that is a Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus T T T time to throw stat and
Speaker 1: I'm not, you know, I don't. They don't clarify that
Speaker 1: part of it. But presumably if you have to break
Speaker 1: the poel, you're not you don't have time. That's when
Speaker 1: the time to throw in. I feel like, yeah, I
Speaker 1: feel like it's that would make sense. If it's snapped
Speaker 1: to bald Leave's hand, that would make sense to me.
Speaker 1: Sat And the last thing I'll mention her fields passing.
Speaker 1: Just again, on the passing part. He ranked thirty six
Speaker 1: among starting quarterbacks by Pro Football Focus in passing for
Speaker 1: last year. Now he's certainly got better, means there was
Speaker 1: there was some backup quarterbacks that did better, that did
Speaker 1: better than Justin Fields. It is a passer, so well,
Speaker 1: Justin Fields is going to be in the top five
Speaker 1: of everybody's quarterback rankings because the running is absurd and
Speaker 1: they will continue to run him. I have no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. The passing isn't as complete as it is
Speaker 1: for Josh Allen and Justin Fields and guys that are
Speaker 1: also gonna be sitting in that rarefied ranking. I think
Speaker 1: Fields is the type of guy you I don't He's
Speaker 1: not there yet in ADP justin fields, he's closer to
Speaker 1: the ten to twelve range. But I feel like he's
Speaker 1: the kind of guy that once that one on one
Speaker 1: trade happens, they're probably going to either draft a wide receiver,
Speaker 1: get a wide receiver, free agency wide receiver, and that's
Speaker 1: that's when he's gonna get pushed up. So if you
Speaker 1: like fields and Wade fields, you probably want to get
Speaker 1: it before the draft that trade. All right, what is
Speaker 1: your next thing that we should not forget? So many
Speaker 1: to choose from, but I'm gonna go with three players
Speaker 1: who ended the year well, sometimes it hits, sometimes it doesn't, Um,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to forget that they did the
Speaker 1: first cold come at. We're gonna stick with the Bears
Speaker 1: here for a second. He was tight end thirty one.
Speaker 1: Weeks one through eight he was tighten he was me
Speaker 1: but tight end six, yes, you are correct. It depends
Speaker 1: on your scoring, but yes, tight end six at top
Speaker 1: six in every scoring really most scorings. Well, the touchdowns
Speaker 1: finally started. The touchdowns finally start a hit. You have
Speaker 1: to expect the offensive line to get better fields. Fields.
Speaker 1: I would hope to improve, but maybe not um another
Speaker 1: wide any other option to draw coverage, any other option
Speaker 1: to get him open in the middle. Um, I want
Speaker 1: to remember how he ended the season, especially since tight
Speaker 1: ends are really Kelsey or wait six years, because it's
Speaker 1: really just Kelsey. Um. The other two are Chicken kN
Speaker 1: Ku and Rashid Shim for the Saints. If Derrick cargoes
Speaker 1: that he ended with really good metrics, both of those
Speaker 1: guys ended with really good metrics, especially for rookies, especially
Speaker 1: a conque for being a tight end. Um, if you
Speaker 1: get Card of the Saints, I think that only improves him,
Speaker 1: and I think a conqu he has a good chance
Speaker 1: to be a really good player for at the Titan position.
Speaker 1: You're forgetting my We're forgetting my other rookie tight end
Speaker 1: that I love. We're talking, we're talking late round guys
Speaker 1: that I don't want to forget about. Gillanni Woods and
Speaker 1: I believe mo Elly Cox is a free agent. I
Speaker 1: believe who's the Paris Campbell, which we could open up
Speaker 1: the middle of the field a little bit for Woods.
Speaker 1: I mean, Johnny Woods had some splashy moments, so I'm
Speaker 1: excited for his. Leson will still be there though, oh no,
Speaker 1: oh no, he's a small sucker though weird that he
Speaker 1: takes snaps. That's what I mean. Uh, my last thing
Speaker 1: to remember, Trevor Lawrence is really good. Um, I think
Speaker 1: you and I both agreed that in the Urban Meyer year,
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence was playing badly and it wasn't all just
Speaker 1: like scheme and everything else. It was bad. It took
Speaker 1: him half a year to to take the funk out.
Speaker 1: In his final ten games of the year, including the
Speaker 1: playoff loss or playoffs excuse me, the two playoffs, the
Speaker 1: playoff win and the playoff loss, he averaged two d
Speaker 1: fifty four passing yards and two touchdowns and he had
Speaker 1: just three picks other than the four in reception half
Speaker 1: that he had against the Chargers. So we had that.
Speaker 1: But aside from that over the final ten games, three
Speaker 1: interceptions that's it, which is really impressive. And so because
Speaker 1: what is so what is two fifty four yards for
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence and two passing touchdowns put him on par
Speaker 1: with well that was right in the area of Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: Jared Goff to Ah Josh Allen's passing not as rushing
Speaker 1: obviously is passing. I mean those are you know, that's
Speaker 1: like he was in QB eight, QB nine, QB ten,
Speaker 1: territory and deport Lawrence looked like a top ten fantasy
Speaker 1: passer in the second half of the season, and I
Speaker 1: think he was. And he chips in some rushing yards
Speaker 1: to seventeen rushing yards per game. He scored five rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: That stuff adds up. Uh, yeah, I agree with that.
Speaker 1: Um right now in a an underdog ADP, he's going
Speaker 1: QB eight. Yeah, that's about That's about where he finished
Speaker 1: this year for the second half of the season, So
Speaker 1: that makes sense. But do you think he can go higher?
Speaker 1: He's got I think he's for sure. Do you think
Speaker 1: he's got to? It's really just his second year in
Speaker 1: the in the league, you know, you know, yeah, right here,
Speaker 1: the first year doesn't count, but then you know, so, yeah,
Speaker 1: he has the potential to get even better based on
Speaker 1: the college pedigree and his second year in the Doug
Speaker 1: Peterson system. Yeah, I'm I'm a big fan. And we
Speaker 1: are two guys that talked routinely about Trevor Lawrence the
Speaker 1: last two years because we we watch a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of the games. We watch a lot of
Speaker 1: games more than he was really in the first week
Speaker 1: he wasn't that great, and then starting week two, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he really turned it up. By the way. I feel
Speaker 1: like I mispronounced Rashi Shahid's name a little bit ago.
Speaker 1: It's Rashi Shahid. I don't know. I don't know what
Speaker 1: to say. I don't know what you did. I felt
Speaker 1: like it did. I thought I had a either Rashim
Speaker 1: or Shahim. I think I had an m. It's funny
Speaker 1: you say that, because when you said it, my mind
Speaker 1: would is that right? And I purposely didn't say his
Speaker 1: name because then you built himself down in me as
Speaker 1: as to whether or not I was saying like on
Speaker 1: one of them, I accidentally miss I liked his big
Speaker 1: play potential. Yes, I mean he was that kid can
Speaker 1: run after the catch. He's got he's got some gallop. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm saying. In such a small sample size,
Speaker 1: him and a conqu in their small sample size, looked legite.
Speaker 1: Thank you, absolute conversation with you a little bit there. Uh,
Speaker 1: thanks for thanks for coming by and doing the show.
Speaker 1: Appreciate it. Uh, not positive who's on next week at
Speaker 1: this stage, but I don't know. I don't know either.
Speaker 1: I was impressed. I remember all three riddles when I
Speaker 1: was to cross the Yeah, that's right. It's like, is
Speaker 1: it the minotaur who makes me answer the riddles? I
Speaker 1: think it's a minutea they're not. You gotta grow. You
Speaker 1: gotta grow on yourself, can't You can't just go to
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