WEBVTT - 10 Things To Remember For Next August 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.920 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:09.400 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio, 0:00:09.680 --> 0:00:14.080 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:17.799 and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. Now, 0:00:17.840 --> 0:00:24.960 here's your host, Paul. Welcome to our first truly off 0:00:25.000 --> 0:00:28.680 season edition of Fantasy Football Weekly on Paul Charchi and 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:31.920 my co host today Scott Fish. What's going on? What 0:00:32.000 --> 0:00:36.559 a super Bowl man was? Indeed, it's it's the off 0:00:36.600 --> 0:00:39.839 season now. What was if? When you remember the twenty 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.199 twenty two season, including all the way through playoffs, what 0:00:43.240 --> 0:00:45.560 are you gonna remember the most? What's your your one 0:00:45.640 --> 0:00:49.400 big like I'll never forget that? Well, you know this 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:52.400 this one isn't even fantasy related ones. Honestly, it's nothing 0:00:52.440 --> 0:00:56.880 for the listeners. Really, It's just I will remember how 0:00:57.360 --> 0:01:00.200 much I enjoyed watching football every week with my son 0:01:00.240 --> 0:01:03.680 who became super involved in it. So I think that'll 0:01:03.760 --> 0:01:07.480 be my number one takeaway from this year. How how investing, 0:01:07.880 --> 0:01:09.400 That's how I you know, that's how That's how I 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:11.160 ended up a football fan as my dad was a 0:01:11.160 --> 0:01:13.200 football fan and the one day, you know, he worked 0:01:13.240 --> 0:01:15.240 Monday through Friday, and you know, the one day that 0:01:15.360 --> 0:01:18.080 I knew I could get time with my dad was 0:01:18.120 --> 0:01:21.640 Sunday afternoons Vikings games. So for me as a Viking 0:01:21.720 --> 0:01:25.360 life life Viking fan, the for sure, the high water 0:01:25.440 --> 0:01:29.880 moments where that builds victory in Buffalo, the crazy ending, 0:01:29.880 --> 0:01:32.679 the fumble in the end zone, the Justin Jefferson one 0:01:32.680 --> 0:01:34.760 of the greatest catches in the history of the NFL, 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.839 and then the come from behind thirty three point recovery 0:01:38.840 --> 0:01:42.760 against the Colts, and he just you know, unbelievable moments 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:45.160 for a very special season for the Vikings that you 0:01:45.160 --> 0:01:48.880 know ended early in the playoffs but still had just 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:53.960 these moments of just jaw dropping. You're like, what did 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.280 I just see some amazing week? So it was good 0:01:57.280 --> 0:02:00.240 to see so many one score wins. It you know, 0:02:00.280 --> 0:02:03.400 the year the year before we had fourteen one score games, 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:06.480 but we did not have that win record or whatever. 0:02:07.640 --> 0:02:09.680 It was good to see so many close games come 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.280 down to the wire, you're all stressed, intense, and you 0:02:12.400 --> 0:02:14.760 pull them out. That was that was pretty fun. It's fun. 0:02:15.000 --> 0:02:18.520 The premise of today's show is the five things each 0:02:18.919 --> 0:02:22.440 that you and I want to remember next August, Right, 0:02:22.440 --> 0:02:24.800 everything is fresh in our minds right now, all of 0:02:24.840 --> 0:02:26.400 these and all you know all you know what all 0:02:26.400 --> 0:02:29.080 the players did, who's good down the stretch, you know everything. 0:02:29.200 --> 0:02:32.280 It's all it's all fresh now, and I feel like 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:35.680 over the course of the sixth month off season some 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:39.840 of it stays percolating at the top through the fantasy community. 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:42.720 People are talking about it, uncovering new stats and stuff 0:02:42.760 --> 0:02:46.240 and going back in analyzing season. Other things you just 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:49.239 forget over time. And there are things I don't want 0:02:49.280 --> 0:02:51.799 to forget. So what I'd like to do is bounce 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:54.760 the ball back and forth through the five things we 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:57.080 each do not want to forget. And I will let 0:02:57.120 --> 0:03:00.560 you go first. Okay, I'm gonna start with one that uh, 0:03:00.639 --> 0:03:02.840 you know I I went to I went to Twitter 0:03:02.960 --> 0:03:05.600 to say, hey, I'm going to crowdsource this. What are 0:03:05.639 --> 0:03:08.120 your guys thoughts? That took some of the best ones. 0:03:08.160 --> 0:03:10.200 Some of them were ones that I had already thought 0:03:10.200 --> 0:03:13.880 of as well, of course, yeah yeah, but this one 0:03:13.960 --> 0:03:18.040 came via Sam Wagman, Crystal scour and Spencer Hankle if 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:22.080 you're listening. But the QB landscape has has changed now 0:03:22.280 --> 0:03:26.240 where waiting isn't as much as the strategy anymore. The 0:03:26.280 --> 0:03:29.320 top five or six can really be difference makers and 0:03:29.520 --> 0:03:31.360 you might not want to wait on them. We saw, 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:33.760 and I'm gonna elaborate here just a little bit, but 0:03:33.840 --> 0:03:39.040 we saw fifteen of championship rosters have the have the Mahomes, 0:03:39.080 --> 0:03:43.160 the Jalen Hurts, the Josh Allen, and I think you 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.520 can piece something together with the late r on ones. 0:03:45.960 --> 0:03:48.960 But it's so nice to have that extra roster spot, 0:03:49.000 --> 0:03:51.320 to not have a backup and just have one of 0:03:51.360 --> 0:03:54.360 the studs and not worry about it, and they pull 0:03:54.440 --> 0:03:57.600 you ahead each week, like you can get massive points 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:01.000 out of those guys any week. It's it's worth it again. 0:04:01.160 --> 0:04:03.600 First round quarterbacks. Jalen Hurts is going to go in 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:05.720 the first round? You think so? On a past show, 0:04:05.800 --> 0:04:08.560 maybe two three weeks ago, we built it. We briefly 0:04:08.600 --> 0:04:11.160 made a case for him at one one. I would 0:04:11.160 --> 0:04:15.520 not do that. But Josh first round, Patrick Mahomes first 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:17.520 round you could get and all three of those are 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:22.800 reasonable first round picks. Okay, I think I don't know 0:04:22.839 --> 0:04:25.159 if I could do it, but here's here's the best 0:04:25.200 --> 0:04:29.799 reason for it. Here's the best case in my mind. Unlikely, 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.960 like far less likely for injury than the other guys 0:04:33.000 --> 0:04:35.800 that we routinely grabbing the first where five of them 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:37.680 get injured at some point in the season for a while, 0:04:37.720 --> 0:04:40.240 I think those three, those three are less likely. For that, 0:04:40.480 --> 0:04:43.080 people have to have figured out the quarterbacks get hurt 0:04:43.120 --> 0:04:46.000 in the pocket more often than they do up running 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:49.320 in the field. I mean, you know, the pocket is 0:04:49.320 --> 0:04:53.080 the most dangerous, especially now that quarterbacks know how to 0:04:53.640 --> 0:04:55.920 slide and get out of bounds and protect themselves a 0:04:55.960 --> 0:04:59.160 lot better than back in the day. Absolutely for sure. 0:04:59.560 --> 0:05:02.200 But all right, so I want to remember the qub 0:05:02.360 --> 0:05:06.240 landscape has changed, and I can I can avoid my uh, 0:05:07.040 --> 0:05:09.800 you know, my tendency is to just wait forever on quarterback. 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:14.000 I gotta stop that now, I'm with you. My first 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:17.240 thing to remember, cam Akers looked downright, spry at the 0:05:17.320 --> 0:05:19.280 end of the year. I thought it looked great. And 0:05:19.360 --> 0:05:21.000 this is the guy that we warned everybody about, all 0:05:21.240 --> 0:05:23.200 you me, you know, everybody in the show. We're all 0:05:23.360 --> 0:05:25.480 we're all unified on that. We were right. For half 0:05:25.480 --> 0:05:30.960 a season, about more than half. The first fourteen weeks 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:34.600 of the year, which is the entire regular season, cam 0:05:34.640 --> 0:05:37.680 Akers averaged three point three yards per carry, and he 0:05:37.720 --> 0:05:41.240 was running back fifty one. I mean you couldn't even 0:05:41.320 --> 0:05:44.200 start him for the first fourteen weeks, so it was 0:05:44.400 --> 0:05:47.320 not drafting cam Akers was right thing to do. But 0:05:47.400 --> 0:05:51.160 then in weeks fifteen through eighteen Fantasy playoffs, he was 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.120 five point five yards per carry and he finished as 0:05:54.240 --> 0:05:59.000 running back four running back four in the final four games. 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:01.160 He had the three touch down game in Week sixteen 0:06:01.160 --> 0:06:03.640 against a good Denver defense, And keep in mind his 0:06:03.680 --> 0:06:07.719 offensive line was completely shattered by this stage of the season. 0:06:07.760 --> 0:06:11.599 Yet cam Akers still managed to be an effective running back. 0:06:12.800 --> 0:06:17.120 So there's and I'm I'm I'm the Achilles doubter in 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.080 the room. I'm always like, you have to show me 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:21.240 before I'm going to believe that you're the same running back. 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:24.920 With the Achilles and doubting, cam Akers was the correct 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:29.160 call until December. Yep, I I agree he look good 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.040 and if he keeps that role, which he should, I 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.920 don't see any he wouldn't. Yeah, the contract, all right? 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:37.520 What is your next thing to remember? All right? This one? 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.240 This one is one I thought about a decent amount 0:06:41.440 --> 0:06:44.560 this last year because this happened with a lot of 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.560 rookie wide receivers. But from Scott Lord and Kevin Tompkins. 0:06:49.160 --> 0:06:52.280 Rookies are really the last true places to find bargain 0:06:52.320 --> 0:06:54.960 a DP and draft a handful of rookie wide receivers 0:06:54.960 --> 0:06:58.159 with upside who can ascend instead of the boring vets 0:06:58.240 --> 0:07:01.840 in those middle to late rounds, those Christian Watson types 0:07:01.880 --> 0:07:04.760 that were like that we're taking you know, a random 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:08.680 vet over, don't do it. There's so much more upside 0:07:08.680 --> 0:07:10.880 with the rookie wide receivers. And over the last few years, 0:07:10.920 --> 0:07:15.560 rokie wide receivers have made so many splashes. It's not 0:07:15.640 --> 0:07:19.520 like year three anymore. They're making splashes usually later in 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.360 year one. And now, okay, let me ask you that 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:26.080 the last three years have been an insane bumper crop 0:07:26.120 --> 0:07:28.920 of wide receivers. And this year looks like and it's 0:07:28.920 --> 0:07:31.120 the draft is still a couple of weeks. It's way worse. 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.200 There may only be one or two drafted in the 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:36.200 first round this year. After we're getting you know drafts 0:07:36.200 --> 0:07:38.640 where there's like five wide receivers taken in the first round. 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:42.280 So maybe we've just we happen to have run into 0:07:42.320 --> 0:07:45.640 this group that in totality has been really good lately. 0:07:46.120 --> 0:07:48.239 One of those that one of the one of those 0:07:48.280 --> 0:07:51.640 two uh two tweets did not mention wide receivers. They 0:07:51.680 --> 0:07:54.120 just said players, um, and I think that's fair to 0:07:54.280 --> 0:07:55.960 There are probably going to be a bunch of running 0:07:55.960 --> 0:07:58.120 backs like the Tyler l years from this last year 0:07:58.200 --> 0:08:01.280 that are in those later rounds. Go for the upside 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:03.720 plays instead of the vets that you know have been 0:08:03.760 --> 0:08:06.200 ho hum and you know what you're getting, Tyler. You 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:13.080 watched Tyler L. Gear Yeah, August RB, that's going to 0:08:13.120 --> 0:08:16.160 be a DP. The average draft position of Tyler L. 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.000 Geer is going to creep up, up, up, up up 0:08:19.040 --> 0:08:22.440 as people start to realize what he did down the stretch. 0:08:24.840 --> 0:08:26.360 And you know, that could have been one of these 0:08:26.400 --> 0:08:29.240 top five things that I could have been not on 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:31.800 my list, but he yet he really he looked like 0:08:32.040 --> 0:08:34.720 much improved running back. I'm going to message him in 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:41.840 our league chat. So even in the I like that, 0:08:41.840 --> 0:08:46.240 that's good. My next thing to remember, Tyler Murray may 0:08:46.240 --> 0:08:49.560 not be fully recovered until mid season, and I think 0:08:49.559 --> 0:08:51.640 we'll be much more aware of that in August, but 0:08:52.160 --> 0:08:54.199 I didn't at the time. We're so used to people 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.240 just coming back the next year from the a C 0:08:56.440 --> 0:09:00.240 l UM. His is a c L omniscus. Apparently it's 0:09:00.320 --> 0:09:02.199 pretty bad in there when they got in into the 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:05.520 clean up. The timetable is being reported as mid season. 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:09.440 Josh Wine Fuss of ESPN also indicated that there's been 0:09:09.520 --> 0:09:11.600 rumblings that Murray could be at risk of missing the 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:16.840 entire year. Albert Breer reports, Murray hasn't been the guy 0:09:16.920 --> 0:09:19.240 to set the tone for the organization. When your QB 0:09:19.360 --> 0:09:21.560 doesn't show up for half of the offseason program, that's 0:09:21.559 --> 0:09:24.160 a problem. These are now I've turned this also into 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:29.360 reasons I'm not drafting Kyler Murray. Don't. There's that um 0:09:29.400 --> 0:09:32.840 and even when Murray comes back, what happens with his mobility? 0:09:32.920 --> 0:09:34.560 So is he gonna be you know, is he gonna 0:09:34.559 --> 0:09:36.680 be like Dak Prescott last year? You know, Dak was 0:09:36.760 --> 0:09:40.200 so good as a running passing hybrid for all those years, 0:09:40.200 --> 0:09:42.720 then he had the ankle injury. Then last year, that 0:09:42.720 --> 0:09:44.599 ankle injury, and he's still He's never gonna be the 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:48.280 same rusher off of that totally reconstructed ankle, and then 0:09:48.320 --> 0:09:50.320 you lose a lot of that. So I looked up 0:09:50.360 --> 0:09:54.160 Kyler Murray's just the passing numbers. We took his rushing 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:57.640 numbers out of it, he would have been quarterback twenty 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.960 I remember, remember what was it, it was last year 0:10:02.040 --> 0:10:04.720 or whatever. He had that injury and he wasn't rushing anymore. 0:10:04.800 --> 0:10:06.640 And each week we're like, he's more of a C 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:10.640 grade now because the rushing was gone. It's weird because 0:10:10.640 --> 0:10:12.840 he's one of those quarterbacks that could be like a 0:10:13.880 --> 0:10:16.320 five thousand yards maybe eight hundred to a thousand yards 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:21.199 rushing quarterback went healthy, but he keeps he keeps getting 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:23.480 hurt this year. Yeah, I think we're going to hear 0:10:23.520 --> 0:10:27.480 a lot more about his situation. You know, came August. 0:10:27.559 --> 0:10:29.840 It will probably remember it because they'll be talking about 0:10:29.880 --> 0:10:35.920 a decent amount. But uh, I will say Joe Burrow 0:10:36.000 --> 0:10:41.080 had supposedly similar to slightly worse injury, had it a 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.080 couple of weeks earlier, and he was ready by week one. 0:10:43.120 --> 0:10:45.040 So who do you Who do you trust more to 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:50.200 be serious about their rehab all season? Burrow? That's a 0:10:50.480 --> 0:10:55.400 very good point. I think it's a factor. I really do. Yeah, 0:10:55.480 --> 0:10:57.640 all right, we've done four things to remember. Let's get 0:10:57.640 --> 0:11:01.320 in a fifth one and then we'll take a quick break. Um, okay, 0:11:01.920 --> 0:11:06.000 let's let's go over here, and this is just might 0:11:06.040 --> 0:11:08.720 be almost anecdotal for me. But for the longest time, 0:11:09.440 --> 0:11:13.920 wide receivers switching teams was almost always a bad thing. 0:11:14.880 --> 0:11:17.760 Guys almost almost never lived up to what they were before. 0:11:17.840 --> 0:11:22.600 And then Stephen Diggs switched teams and he was just fining. 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:26.040 He was even better. And then this year Diggs did it, 0:11:26.200 --> 0:11:29.960 Tyree Kill did it. Um they did great, but other 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:35.160 players the same result is before Allen Robinson, Judic Smith, Schuster. 0:11:35.360 --> 0:11:38.920 Just what where I'm going is? I want to remember 0:11:39.000 --> 0:11:43.360 to notice when a wider superswitches teams, were they a star, 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.600 were they on the decline? Or were they underused in 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:49.560 their offense? And under used example would be Christian Kirk. 0:11:50.000 --> 0:11:52.320 I can't put them all in the one bin anymore. 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:54.880 I have to. I have to take a closer look 0:11:54.880 --> 0:11:59.120 at where was their trajectory before the switch, because it 0:11:59.160 --> 0:12:02.480 seems like that man is more because teams are letting 0:12:02.480 --> 0:12:05.280 wide receivers walk just because of contracts. A J. Brown 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:08.400 just because the contracts now it's not it's no longer 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:11.080 because we don't want you anymore, right the cop because 0:12:11.080 --> 0:12:14.640 the big the position has become so expensive. Elite wide 0:12:14.679 --> 0:12:20.640 receivers command thirty million dollars a year thirty. That's Davante 0:12:20.679 --> 0:12:24.680 Smith and that's our sorry, Davanta Adams and and Tyreek 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:29.199 Tyreek Hiller thirty million dollar guys. Scott Justin Jefferson might 0:12:29.240 --> 0:12:32.840 be a thirty five million dollar guy. So we even 0:12:32.840 --> 0:12:35.120 saw it when Tyree Hill left there, like will he 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:39.679 be the same with two and with Wattle taking etcetera. No, no, 0:12:39.760 --> 0:12:42.120 just let's let's just assume that these players are on 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:44.880 a certain trajectory and let's try to let's try to 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:48.319 see when in Allen Robinson. Allen Robinson's numbers were nearly 0:12:48.360 --> 0:12:52.640 identical from Chicago to the Rams, So maybe that bad 0:12:53.080 --> 0:12:56.760 he was right, especially at that age, at that stage 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:59.040 of the career, those two got me like that. Maybe 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.000 it's because those are with my worst calls of the 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:03.440 year is I thought ju Ju to the Chiefs, and 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.839 I thought Allen Robinson replacing the Odell Robert Woods role. 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:09.760 I thought, great, No, they were declining, That's just what 0:13:09.840 --> 0:13:13.200 it was, and Juju shouldn't be declining at age seven 0:13:13.320 --> 0:13:16.000 or whatever. But you know, and he's it'll be a 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:19.080 free agent this offseason, ju will and I think the 0:13:19.120 --> 0:13:21.160 markets for him is going to be pretty soft, even 0:13:21.160 --> 0:13:23.360 though there are a lot of great receivers free agent 0:13:23.400 --> 0:13:25.480 wide receivers. I think the market's gonna be pretty soft. 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:29.040 You know, they're gonna look and go okay with Ben 0:13:29.120 --> 0:13:34.360 Roethlisberger and Patrick Mahomes. You were a mid production guy, 0:13:35.000 --> 0:13:36.760 so you know, what are you gonna beat? What's Houston 0:13:36.800 --> 0:13:40.680 gonna give him much? I don't think. All right, let's 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:42.880 take a break when we come back the five other 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:46.959 things we want to try to remember or try not 0:13:47.040 --> 0:13:57.920 to forget between now and next draft season. Welcome back 0:13:57.960 --> 0:14:00.280 Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchi and Scott Fish with you. 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:03.160 We're going through the things we do not want to 0:14:03.160 --> 0:14:07.200 forget between now and next draft season. We've done five, 0:14:07.320 --> 0:14:10.760 We've got five left. That means I'm up. Derrick Henry's 0:14:10.800 --> 0:14:15.640 offensive line was god awful last year. Scott and completely 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:19.560 injury ravaged. Um. You know, I think those two might 0:14:19.600 --> 0:14:21.800 have had a thing to do with each other, correct, Yes, 0:14:22.640 --> 0:14:26.080 no doubt. Taylor the one, Dylan rad Dunce, Ben Jones, 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:30.240 Nate Davis, all hurt Um and Ben Jones mostly backup anyway. 0:14:30.280 --> 0:14:34.840 But um Luan set to make fourteen and a half 0:14:34.960 --> 0:14:37.920 million dollars, and he he said this last week he 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:41.960 expects to be released because of his contract, and also 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.600 he's thirty two and you know whatever. You know, sometimes 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:46.840 just things just sour with an organization. He'll probably he'll 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:48.960 probably land on his feet somewhere else and help somebody else. 0:14:49.360 --> 0:14:52.680 But I think Derrick Henry's ADP is gonna slide pretty far, 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.000 and if they can rebuild that offensive line, I'm kind 0:14:57.000 --> 0:14:59.560 of back on board. What are your thoughts on not 0:14:59.720 --> 0:15:01.720 on Eric Henry, where I think he's ADP is now 0:15:01.800 --> 0:15:05.720 going to drop into like pick ten, pick twelve, somewhere 0:15:05.720 --> 0:15:08.280 in that range where I think we might be starting 0:15:08.280 --> 0:15:10.600 to hit the last couple of years of Zeki Elliott 0:15:10.640 --> 0:15:13.200 for Derrick Henry to where people are like, oh, he's 0:15:13.280 --> 0:15:17.240 kind of old hat and where he'll start slit an age, 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:19.480 so he'll just start slipping even though he's got these 0:15:19.520 --> 0:15:21.600 ears left. I'm with you on this and and more 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:23.760 than just like, can I make up broader statement on 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:26.880 the offensive line thing? I feel like we need to 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:30.040 pay better attention to the offensive line, and because it 0:15:30.080 --> 0:15:33.160 seems to have really mattered this year for both passing 0:15:33.240 --> 0:15:35.520 and run games, Like there's a lot's a point at 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.360 which if it's bad enough do you just can't succeed? 0:15:38.840 --> 0:15:41.440 And Tennessee's wasn't good to begin with. That's what I mean. 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.360 Are You're throwing a couple of injuries and now they're 0:15:44.400 --> 0:15:48.560 like the thirtie best offensive line and Derrick Henry, even 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:52.240 Derrick Henry can't do anything with that. Yep, I'm I'm 0:15:52.280 --> 0:15:54.120 I'm with you on this. I I will buy the 0:15:54.240 --> 0:15:56.120 I will buy the dip. I actually was buying him 0:15:56.200 --> 0:15:58.080 last year too. I don't I feel like I've always 0:15:58.080 --> 0:16:00.520 just been buying in on Terrick Henry. The last most 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:04.840 part of what is your next thing? Not to forget? Okay, 0:16:04.920 --> 0:16:07.840 let me let me get back over here, and I'm 0:16:07.840 --> 0:16:11.840 gonna go with um. I need to pay closer attention 0:16:11.880 --> 0:16:14.920 to the contract to your players because and we talked 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.560 about it a lot on the show about we talked 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:20.400 about it last year with se Kwan and Jacobs and 0:16:20.440 --> 0:16:22.680 like maybe they just run him to the ground. They did. 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.800 They did. Look at Tony Pollard and Miles Sanders on 0:16:25.840 --> 0:16:29.040 their contract years this year, like the contract to your players, 0:16:29.960 --> 0:16:32.640 it's it's been a stereotype because it kind of happens 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:36.960 a lot. Okay, Okay, but wait, you put in the past, 0:16:37.040 --> 0:16:40.520 the thinking was always the player tries harder in their 0:16:40.520 --> 0:16:43.920 contract year. For many of these guys, it was the 0:16:44.080 --> 0:16:47.240 team team wants to put all of this workload on 0:16:47.280 --> 0:16:50.880 a guy that they're going to go exactly. It's it's 0:16:50.920 --> 0:16:53.040 one of those you can have a couple of different 0:16:53.120 --> 0:16:54.960 names for it, but it's the same end result in 0:16:54.960 --> 0:16:59.560 fantasy uptick, especially running back, where they they're trying to 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:02.440 put my pals on on the guy on that exactly 0:17:02.480 --> 0:17:04.760 where I was going. I mean, I think this is 0:17:04.800 --> 0:17:08.720 mostly and someone on Twitter Saturday I believe too, But um, 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:13.080 it's mostly for the starting level or at least time 0:17:13.160 --> 0:17:16.040 share high level, you know, the one a of a 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:20.359 timeshare one whatever. Running backs like the defined role running 0:17:20.400 --> 0:17:24.920 backs is more of what this is about. My next 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:28.520 thing I don't want to forget justin higher maybe draft 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:35.480 him high for sure. Justin fields passing didn't improve as 0:17:35.600 --> 0:17:40.960 much as people are going to think it improved, so 0:17:41.320 --> 0:17:43.560 you know, there's I just think there's still some risk 0:17:43.640 --> 0:17:46.159 with fields passing, which August drafters are going to be 0:17:46.200 --> 0:17:49.040 quick to overlook because of his incredible running and the 0:17:49.080 --> 0:17:52.679 fantasy upside that is running gives you, um and the 0:17:52.800 --> 0:17:56.879 upgrades that are assuredly justin Fields is going to get me. 0:17:57.040 --> 0:18:01.000 They're going to have receiver upgrades in Chicago in this offseason. 0:18:01.000 --> 0:18:02.560 They're coming. I don't don't know who they are yet, 0:18:02.560 --> 0:18:06.119 but they're coming. I mean now, ideally it's gonna be 0:18:06.200 --> 0:18:08.240 just like what A J. Brown did for Jalen Hurts. 0:18:08.480 --> 0:18:11.000 I think A J. Brown was pretty instrumental in Jalen 0:18:11.080 --> 0:18:13.480 Hurts getting a lot better. I think that certainly helped 0:18:13.600 --> 0:18:16.000 that whole, that whole offense and giving him that target 0:18:16.040 --> 0:18:19.159 and then also drawing less coverage to other players. And 0:18:19.440 --> 0:18:21.400 you know, Hurts got a lot better and Fields could. 0:18:21.880 --> 0:18:26.160 But and I'm not saying you won't, but I think 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:29.520 in our minds we've decided that. And J and I also, 0:18:29.560 --> 0:18:31.359 by the way, I expect Chicago to trade out of 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:33.520 one one that first pick of the draft because they're 0:18:33.520 --> 0:18:35.080 going to settle on Hurts. And I really think the 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:38.760 narrative is gonna build that Fields is a better passer 0:18:38.880 --> 0:18:41.560 than than he was this year. So let me give 0:18:41.560 --> 0:18:44.520 you some data to back this up. Fields finished sevent 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:51.000 in expected completion percentage. He finished dead last in passes 0:18:51.119 --> 0:18:55.000 into tight windows. That's the next gen stat which makes 0:18:55.040 --> 0:18:58.240 you question just his judgment as a passer um and 0:18:58.440 --> 0:19:00.520 also by the way wide receivers weren't gett open, so 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:02.000 you know, I don't think those guys were getting a 0:19:02.040 --> 0:19:04.000 lot of cushion, so that might have been part of 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:05.919 it too. But he was throwing. He threw them. He 0:19:06.040 --> 0:19:08.399 was dead last and passes into tight windows. He was 0:19:08.480 --> 0:19:13.760 thirty feet in turnover worthy plays when under pressure he 0:19:13.840 --> 0:19:18.359 was thirtieth, and adjusted completion percentage when under pressure he 0:19:18.520 --> 0:19:22.280 led the leagues in league in sacks absorbed. Justin Fields, 0:19:22.320 --> 0:19:25.040 who obviously has the mobility to get out of these 0:19:25.080 --> 0:19:28.719 sacks right and get out of trouble, but Scotty didn't 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:32.800 because it's just positional awareness and you know, holding the 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:36.840 ball too long. Things like that bad offensive line pressured 0:19:36.920 --> 0:19:39.560 him some, for sure, but its offensive line it wasn't 0:19:39.600 --> 0:19:41.560 as bad as we thought. In fact, get this first 0:19:41.600 --> 0:19:45.240 half it was bad. Get this, the quarterback with the 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:51.160 most time to throw in the NFL, justin Fields, yet 0:19:51.200 --> 0:19:53.400 he absorbed the most sacks. I want to know if 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:57.040 that I would love to know if that counts after 0:19:57.080 --> 0:20:00.159 he's outside the pocket to the time he delivers the ball, 0:20:00.760 --> 0:20:02.600 Like I'm not sure it's a that is a Pro 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:05.240 Football Focus T T T time to throw stat and 0:20:05.240 --> 0:20:07.600 I'm not, you know, I don't. They don't clarify that 0:20:07.800 --> 0:20:10.280 part of it. But presumably if you have to break 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:12.840 the poel, you're not you don't have time. That's when 0:20:12.880 --> 0:20:15.000 the time to throw in. I feel like, yeah, I 0:20:15.000 --> 0:20:18.080 feel like it's that would make sense. If it's snapped 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:20.879 to bald Leave's hand, that would make sense to me. 0:20:22.359 --> 0:20:24.600 Sat And the last thing I'll mention her fields passing. 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:28.680 Just again, on the passing part. He ranked thirty six 0:20:28.960 --> 0:20:33.359 among starting quarterbacks by Pro Football Focus in passing for 0:20:33.520 --> 0:20:37.879 last year. Now he's certainly got better, means there was 0:20:38.119 --> 0:20:41.040 there was some backup quarterbacks that did better, that did 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:43.960 better than Justin Fields. It is a passer, so well, 0:20:44.000 --> 0:20:45.640 Justin Fields is going to be in the top five 0:20:45.680 --> 0:20:48.919 of everybody's quarterback rankings because the running is absurd and 0:20:48.960 --> 0:20:51.080 they will continue to run him. I have no doubt 0:20:51.119 --> 0:20:55.080 about it. The passing isn't as complete as it is 0:20:55.160 --> 0:20:58.080 for Josh Allen and Justin Fields and guys that are 0:20:58.119 --> 0:21:00.920 also gonna be sitting in that rarefied ranking. I think 0:21:01.000 --> 0:21:04.160 Fields is the type of guy you I don't He's 0:21:04.200 --> 0:21:07.439 not there yet in ADP justin fields, he's closer to 0:21:07.440 --> 0:21:09.640 the ten to twelve range. But I feel like he's 0:21:09.640 --> 0:21:12.199 the kind of guy that once that one on one 0:21:12.240 --> 0:21:15.879 trade happens, they're probably going to either draft a wide receiver, 0:21:16.240 --> 0:21:19.560 get a wide receiver, free agency wide receiver, and that's 0:21:20.040 --> 0:21:23.560 that's when he's gonna get pushed up. So if you 0:21:23.560 --> 0:21:26.000 like fields and Wade fields, you probably want to get 0:21:26.000 --> 0:21:28.399 it before the draft that trade. All right, what is 0:21:28.440 --> 0:21:30.760 your next thing that we should not forget? So many 0:21:30.880 --> 0:21:33.720 to choose from, but I'm gonna go with three players 0:21:33.720 --> 0:21:37.919 who ended the year well, sometimes it hits, sometimes it doesn't, Um, 0:21:38.080 --> 0:21:40.560 but I don't want to forget that they did the 0:21:40.600 --> 0:21:42.879 first cold come at. We're gonna stick with the Bears 0:21:42.920 --> 0:21:45.160 here for a second. He was tight end thirty one. 0:21:45.240 --> 0:21:47.720 Weeks one through eight he was tighten he was me 0:21:48.440 --> 0:21:52.840