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Speaker 2: here's your host, Paul Chargion.
Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchian. My
Speaker 1: co hosts have for a long absence, abnormally long absence.
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson, Welcome back. It's been a couple of months,
Speaker 1: it has.
Speaker 3: But uh, understandably so I've been off the show because
Speaker 3: it's been Thoris.
Speaker 1: It's sad. It was really Thor season, absolutely.
Speaker 3: And uh, no one can break down the rookies in
Speaker 3: the business better than Thor. And we're gonna mention some
Speaker 3: rookies on this episode at some point, but I'm not
Speaker 3: gonna I'm not gonna dive into it. People just go
Speaker 3: back and listen to those episodes if they want to. Yeah,
Speaker 3: get a real breakdown of the rookies, because no one
Speaker 3: does it better than Thor again, the in the whole industry.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's he's He's become one of the best already
Speaker 1: and our listeners have already already been paid on a
Speaker 1: lot of thors insight last year, and I think he's
Speaker 1: had a great officers. We'll find out. I mean, if
Speaker 1: JJ McCarthy bombs that alone, will we'll end up either
Speaker 1: that'll move him down a peg. But if JJ hits,
Speaker 1: he's gonna look brilliant. I mean he had he had
Speaker 1: JJ's his number three quarterback overall.
Speaker 3: He was right on JJ. And this is we don't
Speaker 3: know that yet, We don't know that, we don't know yet. Well,
Speaker 3: he was right that his stock was way too low at.
Speaker 1: The beginning of the guess at the beginning of the process.
Speaker 3: Yes, but now JJ in my mind, and again this
Speaker 3: is no knock on JJ McCarthy. And I don't want
Speaker 3: to get too into the weeds on this, but he's
Speaker 3: gonna have to wait a little bit because Sam Darnold
Speaker 3: is going to turn some heads chart.
Speaker 1: See, I know you believe that, and there are a
Speaker 1: lot of people in Minnesota who do right. Briefly, make
Speaker 1: your case.
Speaker 3: I mean, this is his first real shot. That's basically
Speaker 3: it at a at a real no one if you
Speaker 3: put any quarterback in a time machine forward put him
Speaker 3: on the jets with Adam Gasee as his head coach,
Speaker 3: a twenty year old kid going to the Jets, Like,
Speaker 3: who's going to succeed in that environment? And then they
Speaker 3: go to and he goes to Carolina. I'm blanket on
Speaker 3: the head coach there, but I mean it was just
Speaker 3: a disaster. But you know, Shanahan, Mike Shanahan, the head
Speaker 3: coach of the forty nine ers, and trust that Donald
Speaker 3: is the backup. And there's a good shot that you know,
Speaker 3: brock Purty wasn't going to be ready to start the
Speaker 3: season last year with the elbow injury, and he was
Speaker 3: ready to roll with Donald. The Vikings are ready to
Speaker 3: roll with Donald. They weren't guaranteed to get a quarterback.
Speaker 3: They have faith in him, and hey, he's an athlete,
Speaker 3: he's twenty six years old, He's got Justin Jefferson and
Speaker 3: a bunch of other weapons we know about. So I
Speaker 3: want to I'm excited to see what he can do.
Speaker 3: And if you can't do it, then it's JJ time. Obviously.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Sam, Sam will be the first one up. I
Speaker 1: believe he'll start the season week one for the Vikings,
Speaker 1: and you know he gets to throw to Justin Jefferson,
Speaker 1: probably not TJ. Howkins, in Week one, probably not, but
Speaker 1: Jordan Addison we're gonna see a little more. We're gonna
Speaker 1: see some more throws of the running back in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones can catch in a way that the Viking
Speaker 1: seven had in a long time. Sam Darnold's had fifty
Speaker 1: six games started. I mean, it's not like we don't
Speaker 1: know anything about him, but this is the best spot
Speaker 1: that he's ever been in by a wide margin, for
Speaker 1: in terms of ancillary talent, for sure. But this is
Speaker 1: not necessarily a Sam Donald related show. Let's jump. Let's
Speaker 1: get into the topic of the day, which is, you know,
Speaker 1: draft is over. We now from a fantasy standpoint, in particular,
Speaker 1: ninety nine percent of what we need to know in
Speaker 1: terms of the rosters are now set going into at
Speaker 1: least training camp and in many ways all the way
Speaker 1: into the beginning of the season. So we're gonna start
Speaker 1: highlighting every NFL team beginning this week. We're gonna do
Speaker 1: the AFC and NFC East Today. We'll talk about some
Speaker 1: of the key differences from last year on each of
Speaker 1: these AFC and NFC East teams till you think they're
Speaker 1: gonna get better or worse, And we begin with the
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. Brian Let's break down the Bills offseason. It
Speaker 1: was a tumultuous one.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, lots of changes in Buffalo. Let's dive right
Speaker 3: into the passing game as most No gone is Stefan
Speaker 3: Diggs and to a lesser extent of fantasy relevance, Gabe Davis,
Speaker 3: who's now in Jacksonville. Diggs in Houston, of course, so
Speaker 3: incomes Curtis Samuel from Washington. They drafted rookie Keon Coleman
Speaker 3: pretty high in the draft, I believe late first round,
Speaker 3: if not, no early second round. Second ye yeah, like
Speaker 3: the first pick in the second round. Yep. Khalil Shakir
Speaker 3: remains from last year. Buffalo also signed Marquez Valdez Scantling.
Speaker 3: We're not too interested there, which leaves really so there's
Speaker 3: no alpha wide receiver in Buffalo anymore by any means.
Speaker 3: Curtis Samuel right now in early drafts wide receiver forty nine,
Speaker 3: rookie Keon Coleman wide receiver forty. Shakira is wide receiver
Speaker 3: fifty five. So a very stack friendly team. If you're
Speaker 3: looking to stack the Bills in best ball, you know,
Speaker 3: if you get.
Speaker 1: You can certainly do it if you want to, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, definitely. Josh Allen Clearcut quarterback one. He was finished.
Speaker 3: Last year's QB one is getting drafted as QB one.
Speaker 3: I don't see that changing. But I mean the alpha
Speaker 3: dog in the passing game is tight end Dalton Kincaid. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm must be a top wide receiver.
Speaker 1: YEP. I was wondering if you were going to go there.
Speaker 1: He could be sitting on eighty ninety catch season for
Speaker 1: Dalton Kincaid.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was. He was solid last year as a rookie.
Speaker 3: Of course, you don't see a lot of Brookies have
Speaker 3: success at the tight end position, but he's really more
Speaker 3: of a hybrid wide receiver in the line of you know,
Speaker 3: Travis Kelcey, by boy Kyle Pitts. But right now, Dalton Kincaid,
Speaker 3: he's getting drafted head of Mark Andrews. He's going his
Speaker 3: tight end four inside the top fifty picks overall, So
Speaker 3: you know, he's one of the I'm not I think
Speaker 3: the price tags on guys like Sam Laporta, he's tight
Speaker 3: end one, Travis Kelcey are pretty high. I would bypass
Speaker 3: those guys for guys like Kincaid, and I'm just gonna
Speaker 3: focus on Kinkaid. I like trade McBride a lot until
Speaker 3: they drafted Marvin Harrison junior. But right now I think
Speaker 3: Dalton Kinkaid has the highest prospects of all the tight
Speaker 3: ends based on him being the top receiver A on
Speaker 3: the team and he can get him his tight end
Speaker 3: for so but really, you know, this passing game, it's
Speaker 3: it's all about Josh Allen. He's gonna be spreading the
Speaker 3: ball around. I will I'm not going out of my
Speaker 3: way to draft Samuel Coleman or Shakir because right now,
Speaker 3: based on their ADPs, they're not their flex guys at best.
Speaker 3: It's all about Kincaid and Allen in the passing game.
Speaker 3: Over to the running game, things have changed there in
Speaker 3: terms of backups, leaving James Cook still remains. He is
Speaker 3: the lead back. He's going off the board as RB
Speaker 3: thirteen right now. That's early fifth round. A little too
Speaker 3: early for me considering Buffalo had twenty two rushing touchdowns
Speaker 3: last year. But you want to take a guess how
Speaker 3: many James Cook account at four those twenty two rushing
Speaker 3: touchdowns four close half of that two Jeez thought rushing
Speaker 3: touchdowns with James probably there's no I don't know. Uh yeah,
Speaker 3: so James Cook way over valued at RB thirteen. I'm
Speaker 3: passing on him there. I'd rather go for his backup,
Speaker 3: which will presumably be rookie Ray Davis, who is selected
Speaker 3: in the fourth round. Davis a very intriguing he can
Speaker 3: prospect out of Kentucky. Again, if you want to learn
Speaker 3: more about Ray Davis, go back and listen to the
Speaker 3: Rookie running Back episode with Thor. I'm sure he'll break
Speaker 3: he breaks it down much.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, we did talk about ray Davis and we like,
Speaker 1: we both like ray Davis. Thor feels like his he
Speaker 1: doesn't have a high ceiling, but we also we think
Speaker 1: he comes in with NFL ready traits and that he
Speaker 1: can be an immediate starter. It just Thor doesn't feel
Speaker 1: like Ray Davis has got high upside in his game
Speaker 1: and that may ultimately limit him. But right now he's
Speaker 1: going off the borders running back fifty four in a
Speaker 1: backfield that has traditionally been a shared backfield, and I'm
Speaker 1: kind of intrigued by that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, me too, for sure. I mean he's a guy
Speaker 3: I would be looking to draft even if I didn't
Speaker 3: draft James Cook. And again I'm not actively looking to
Speaker 3: draft James Cook. I think he's overvalued. But yeah, Davis
Speaker 3: an injury away from being the starter and bull buffalo.
Speaker 3: But again, you know, whether it's Cook or Davis, it's
Speaker 3: all about Josh Allen at the goal line mainly, so
Speaker 3: he's Alan and Kincaid are the you know, the flashy
Speaker 3: toys in this offense. So in terms of this offense
Speaker 3: getting better or worse than last year, even though he
Speaker 3: faltered towards the end, you know, the loss of Stefan
Speaker 3: Diggs is gonna overall, right, so I'm gonna go slightly worse.
Speaker 3: But I really I think Josh Allen might have a
Speaker 3: better year just because they lean on his legs a
Speaker 3: little more or they'll need to, and I think he
Speaker 3: has adequate enough support around him, you know, to spread
Speaker 3: the ball around and put up pretty good passing numbers. Still,
Speaker 3: so uh, again, it's not gonna be a better offense
Speaker 3: even at best you know, lateral move, but I'm leaning
Speaker 3: slightly worse, but it'll still be a high powered offense
Speaker 3: with Allen at the helm.
Speaker 1: So I looked up Dalton Kincaid's numbers last year just
Speaker 1: to get refamiliarized and hit seventy three receptions last year,
Speaker 1: so maybe he's got one hundred reception upside now if
Speaker 1: assuming that Dalton Knox is going to fade into the
Speaker 1: background here, which is not necessarily a valid assumption, but
Speaker 1: if he does, no, you know, Kincaid could easily see
Speaker 1: a you know, thirty percent up tick and end up
Speaker 1: getting himself into the one hundred reception range, which for
Speaker 1: a tight end would be fantastic. Kinkaid just the two
Speaker 1: touchdowns last year. All right, let's switch over to the
Speaker 1: new England Patriots passing game. Well, obviously you've got a
Speaker 1: new coaching staff. I think a whole new breath of
Speaker 1: fresh air in the room, which is great. The quarterback
Speaker 1: position obviously big change here. Only Bailey's appey remains from
Speaker 1: last year. Drake May Jacoby Brissett come in. It's not
Speaker 1: a certainty that Drake May starts the season because Jacoby
Speaker 1: Brissett is a proven quality NFL backup who can start
Speaker 1: in pinches, and they may decide to take their time
Speaker 1: on Drake May. It's not clear that Drake May starts
Speaker 1: Week one, but almost no matter what, the passing game
Speaker 1: gets better, because anything is an uptick from what they
Speaker 1: had last year with Mac Jones, Bailey Zappy disaster scenarios
Speaker 1: unfolding for the Patriots. I think, do you remember how
Speaker 1: many times Mac Jones got benched.
Speaker 3: Six?
Speaker 1: I think it was four. I think get four different
Speaker 1: benchings in one season, which is which is pretty tough
Speaker 1: to bounce back from the wide receiver room. You have
Speaker 1: some returning vets like Kendrick Bourne and Damario Douglas, who
Speaker 1: had a couple of nice moments. I don't know why
Speaker 1: they've hung on to Juju Smith, Schuster and Jalen Rager,
Speaker 1: but they have. They added free agent kg Osbourne who
Speaker 1: will run from the slot, but Douglas is already there.
Speaker 1: They drafted Jalyn Polk in round two and Javon Baker
Speaker 1: and Thor and I talked about these two just last week.
Speaker 1: Thor likes Baker, doesn't like Polk, so you can go
Speaker 1: back and listen to last week's if you want to
Speaker 1: hear more details on how why he feels that way.
Speaker 1: But those guys are now there, but overall, this is
Speaker 1: still a wide receiver group that feels like you want
Speaker 1: to avoid unless you do want to throw some darts
Speaker 1: around at a guy like Javon Baker, who you can
Speaker 1: get basically for free if you want to. He's wide
Speaker 1: receiver eighty one. Right now, Hunter Henry remains like Koseki left.
Speaker 1: He gets replaced by Austin Hooper, who coming out just
Speaker 1: call Austin Hooper a journeyman.
Speaker 3: I would say, I think he's more than that. I
Speaker 3: don't know what would be beyond a journey, and he's.
Speaker 1: Like super elite. Super journey was something like that.
Speaker 3: Five teams, six teams.
Speaker 1: Something like that. Former first rounder, if I recall correctly
Speaker 1: on Austin Hooper obviously hasn't worked out. So does the
Speaker 1: passing game get better in New England? It basically can't
Speaker 1: get worse. It was totally non functional last year, so
Speaker 1: you know it will get better. But your big payoff
Speaker 1: on this, on this passing offense is probably in seasons
Speaker 1: to come for the running game. I want to start
Speaker 1: by talking just a little bit about new offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: Alex van Pelt. He was Kevin Stefanski's offensive coordinator for
Speaker 1: four years and Stefanski was the primary offensive mine behind
Speaker 1: the Browns offense, not Van Pelt. But if we assume
Speaker 1: that Van Pelt has been taking his cues from Stefanski,
Speaker 1: you could suggest that he's going to carry over some
Speaker 1: of Stefanski's tendencies towards running the ball. So with the Browns,
Speaker 1: over the last four years when Alex van Pelt was there,
Speaker 1: the team finished in run play percentage, The Browns finished fourth, sixth, eighth,
Speaker 1: and then last year when Nick Chubb got hurt, they
Speaker 1: dropped down to seventeenth, but still four, six and eighth.
Speaker 1: I mean, it tells you this is a This was
Speaker 1: a run first, power running team when they had Nick Chubb.
Speaker 1: And maybe that's what happens with Romandre Stevenson here, which
Speaker 1: would be interesting. Stevenson returns, but he fell off badly
Speaker 1: last year, and maybe it was just because he was
Speaker 1: getting no help from the passing game, but he failed
Speaker 1: to Pro Football focuses running back twenty six. He had
Speaker 1: typically been inside the top ten. He was down to
Speaker 1: four yards per carry, which was down a full yard
Speaker 1: from five yards per carry the weird year before for Stevenson.
Speaker 1: And worse, the receptions just completely dried up, cut in half,
Speaker 1: down to just thirty eight receptions last year. And he's
Speaker 1: ideally built for goal line used, but the dude just
Speaker 1: hasn't reliably scored touchdowns, but again, there is reason to
Speaker 1: think it could change under Alex van Pelt and maybe
Speaker 1: Stevenson's going to be that guy they brought in Antonio Gibson,
Speaker 1: Brian to me. That to me, I just don't think
Speaker 1: Gibson's all that good. And maybe he I think he
Speaker 1: could see I could see him a pass catching role,
Speaker 1: but I don't think he's gonna take a lot of
Speaker 1: carries from Rmando Stevenson. What do you think?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you there. This is the year to
Speaker 3: even though the Patriots are going nowhere, Stevenson deserves just
Speaker 3: a shot at being the bell cow. And I know
Speaker 3: we fell off last year. I believe he did suffer
Speaker 3: a somewhat serious ankle injury that caused him to miss
Speaker 3: some time, didn't come back as strong. But Antonio Gibson,
Speaker 3: he might be the best wide receiver on that team
Speaker 3: right now. Former college wide receiver Antonio Gibson.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you hope.
Speaker 3: So, I mean, overall, the Patriots. If you had to
Speaker 3: pick one team where you just were disallowed from drafting
Speaker 3: anyone in fantasy football, it's the Patriots. With a bullet
Speaker 3: For me, this is probably the least exciting offense and
Speaker 3: all the football and all these teams.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that might be our queue to sort of
Speaker 1: move along. They didn't, unfortunately. You know, they did put
Speaker 1: some draft picks into offensive line, third and fourth rounders,
Speaker 1: and maybe that'll improve an offensive line that didn't help
Speaker 1: a lot. So well, the Patriots running game get better. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it probably will, because it fell off hard. And I
Speaker 1: just think through if we think that Alex van Pelt
Speaker 1: is going to have a run first orientation and protect
Speaker 1: his young quarterback, assuming Drake May gets reps at some point. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of intrigued right now. Ramandra. Stevenson going off
Speaker 1: the board is running back nineteen. Not bad. If I
Speaker 1: can get a work horse what I hope I think
Speaker 1: will be a workhorse running back running back now.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's one of the one of the first candidates.
Speaker 3: If you deployed the do the opposite strategy, it will
Speaker 3: be there round round five, round six. I like him
Speaker 3: a lot more than the aforementioned James Cook, who is
Speaker 3: going six seven spots in terms of running backs ahead
Speaker 3: of Stevenson. I take Stevenson all day over James Cook.
Speaker 3: Stevenson really the only guy won on New England. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm really looking.
Speaker 1: Pretty much, let's go to a much better offense. Let's
Speaker 1: talk Miami. Now here's here's some offense.
Speaker 3: Definitely some offense. But here's something to keep in mind
Speaker 3: when you're going to draft Dolphins this year. As we
Speaker 3: all know, this schedule has come out and a lot
Speaker 3: of people tend to look at the bye weeks and
Speaker 3: then they look at the playoff schedule, the fantasy playoff schedule.
Speaker 3: Miami's playoff schedule sucks. Here it is starting in week
Speaker 3: thirteen at green Bay. We know Miami does not like
Speaker 3: cold weather. Green Bay decent enough defense, so starts off
Speaker 3: a little rocky there. Then week fourteen they have the
Speaker 3: Jets at home. Jets, great defense. Week fifteen at Texans,
Speaker 3: shootout potential there indoors with Texans.
Speaker 1: Texans past defense has been has been good, Yeah.
Speaker 3: Very good. And Week sixteen they're at home. That's good
Speaker 3: against the forty nine ers, though presumably gonna be a
Speaker 3: bad matchup defensively. And then week seventeen, here's here's the
Speaker 3: cherry on top per se at Cleveland in week seventeen.
Speaker 1: That's like it's a it's a tough road right there.
Speaker 3: Bench everyone, but there's a long way to go till
Speaker 3: we get there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, you know I I don't put a
Speaker 1: ton of weight in the playoffs schedule. And here's why.
Speaker 1: A lot of times, if that playoff schedule's hard, the
Speaker 1: rest of the season is pretty easy. If I'm if
Speaker 1: i get to the halfway point of the season and
Speaker 1: I'm motoring with my Dolphins and I'm already projecting ahead.
Speaker 1: You know, it's week nine and I'm seven to two
Speaker 1: and I'm already starting to look at the playoffs, and
Speaker 1: I'm still worried about those defenses. If those four defenses
Speaker 1: are still really good, okay, then maybe I'm making a
Speaker 1: change and ide I can make a trade at that
Speaker 1: point if I need to. So I don't know, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't let that bother me so too much. No,
Speaker 1: I'm with you.
Speaker 3: I shouldn't say I'm not like fading the Dolphins in drafts,
Speaker 3: but the schedule is not even Keep in mind for scenario,
Speaker 3: like you said, you get your money's worth out of them,
Speaker 3: then you you know, you flip them for something better,
Speaker 3: knowing that the road gets a lot tougher for him
Speaker 3: later in the season. But just keep that schedule in
Speaker 3: mind for sure, But by no means are you fading
Speaker 3: any of the Dolphins. Starting with Tyreek Hill, who's going
Speaker 3: off the board is wide receiver too right now, his
Speaker 3: running mate or counterpart, Jalen Waddle wide receiver nineteen. We
Speaker 3: both kind of know what we get with those two guys.
Speaker 3: Tyreek Hill can be the best wide receiver in the
Speaker 3: league on any given day something happens to him. Jalen
Speaker 3: Waddle sees a major uptick and volume, but Waddle is
Speaker 3: certainly the robin to Tyreek Hill's batman. The question here
Speaker 3: is the wide receiver three role, where we have two
Speaker 3: very different options in the very old Odell Beckham Junior
Speaker 3: and then rookie Maleek Washington. Both are dirt cheap and
Speaker 3: for good reason, they have a well they both have
Speaker 3: very low floors. We know that if Odell Beckham can
Speaker 3: somehow rekindle his magic his youth, he takes the job.
Speaker 3: But leak Washington and intriguing and intriguing prospects here. If
Speaker 3: something were to happen to either Hill or Waddle and
Speaker 3: or Beckham, Washington could get some run in a high
Speaker 3: octane offense. So he's a wide receiver I'm targeting late
Speaker 3: in redraft, not just dynasty, especially if I'm looking to
Speaker 3: stay Dolphins. And if you're stacking Dolphins, you're looking at quarterback.
Speaker 3: Their quarterback tu Tungo Viola. I haven't said the last
Speaker 3: name in a while. I took cat us right.
Speaker 1: It takes a minute. If you haven't, you haven't practiced it.
Speaker 3: Right now, I was a little you know, Tuas going
Speaker 3: off the board as QB fourteen right now, and I'm like, man,
Speaker 3: that seems like kind of a good deal. He must
Speaker 3: have been a top ten quarterback last year. I went
Speaker 3: back and looked. He finished as QB seventeen in points
Speaker 3: per game, which is not very good for an offense
Speaker 3: that was as high powered as the Dolphins. To to
Speaker 3: threw for three touchdowns in Week eight against New England,
Speaker 3: and that was the last time he hit that milestone
Speaker 3: all season. It was in Week eight. Yeah, from that
Speaker 3: point on, he threw for multiple scores, meaning two touchdowns
Speaker 3: in just three games post Week eight.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that hurts.
Speaker 3: Zero zero rushing touchdowns all season for Tua. So right now,
Speaker 3: that QB fourteen price tag maybe seems a little overvalued now,
Speaker 3: So you think you think Tyreek Hill you think Jalen Waller,
Speaker 3: You're like, oh, I gotta have Tua. But Tua did
Speaker 3: not post the numbers that you that I remembered last year,
Speaker 3: and uh, he's probably gonna fall in line with the
Speaker 3: same kind of production. Unless I cannot go to the
Speaker 3: running game without mentioning the new tight end in Miami,
Speaker 3: John u John who baby John?
Speaker 1: By the way, he's your starting tight end. It's you know,
Speaker 1: he's been locked into these dual roles where he's had
Speaker 1: to fight for fight for starting time. John Hu Smith
Speaker 1: is your probable starting Week one tight end. And talking
Speaker 1: about der cheap you can get John Hu Smith, I mean,
Speaker 1: name your price, right, you know who's gonna take him.
Speaker 1: He's tight end twenty three off the board. He's the
Speaker 1: Dolphins starting tight end, and he's a crazy athlete. He
Speaker 1: fits the profile you know of no doubt of what
Speaker 1: you of what the Dolphins want with these crazy athletes.
Speaker 1: You know, John Whu Smith is all about athleticism.
Speaker 3: The problem though, is like the Dolphins do not involve
Speaker 3: their tight ends a whole lot, like I said, they
Speaker 3: might have not they haven't had an athlete like John
Speaker 3: Hu Jho. So we'll see how that changes. He's worth
Speaker 3: a he's worth a dark throw in the later rounds
Speaker 3: or not the later rounds like.
Speaker 1: The last round. Yes, going off the board player one
Speaker 1: eighty three right now.
Speaker 3: Now over to the running game. This is where it
Speaker 3: gets really really messy. We'll start with Devin A. Chan
Speaker 3: going off the board as RB eight.
Speaker 1: It's a big price to pay.
Speaker 3: It's a big price to pay. I mean, he was
Speaker 3: he has some monster games. That's why he was fourth
Speaker 3: in Fantasy points per game among running backs last year,
Speaker 3: but he only played eleven games due to injury. That
Speaker 3: led paved the way for Raheem Moster, who led the
Speaker 3: league in rushing touchdowns with eighteen, second in overall in
Speaker 3: overall points among running backs. He's going off the board
Speaker 3: is RB twenty nine right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so I don't understand the differential between those two.
Speaker 1: Sure eight, Chan's your highlight machine, but Moster was the
Speaker 1: more consistent back. And the fact that there's twenty running
Speaker 1: back spots You're put twenty running backs between those two
Speaker 1: feels weird.
Speaker 3: Definitely feels weird. I mean, if you have to pick one,
Speaker 3: I know, in the one of the first you know,
Speaker 3: if our regular season shows that start in August, we
Speaker 3: do the which teammate would you rather draft? I think
Speaker 3: we could put this one in the books already that
Speaker 3: it's Moster.
Speaker 1: Always the lower ranked to guy too as that as
Speaker 1: that bit usually plays out.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it is most are a guy I think in
Speaker 3: dynasty leagues, if you're if you're in win now mode,
Speaker 3: go see who has Raheem Moster if anyone's in any
Speaker 3: kind of He's just had eighteen touchdowns last year and
Speaker 3: he's going RB thirty and in dynasty he's gonna be
Speaker 3: way undervalued. So if you're in win now mode in dynasty,
Speaker 3: he's a guy I'd be looking at, but a great
Speaker 3: discount on Moster. But Miami really threw a wrench in
Speaker 3: the mix when they drafted rookie Jalen Wright, who a
Speaker 3: lot of people are excited about, I know after the
Speaker 3: war was he He's going off the boards RB forty four.
Speaker 3: That's it's only fifteen spots behind Raheem Moster, which is insane. Again,
Speaker 3: not an ideal landing spot for fantasy perpose.
Speaker 1: If they're injury.
Speaker 3: If there's an injury, he will certainly become relevant. But
Speaker 3: uh yeah, it's a loaded backfield. So this is almost
Speaker 3: and if I had to pick one of the three,
Speaker 3: I'd probably go with right, Just go with the cheapest
Speaker 3: one there because uh, you know, he has a similar
Speaker 3: athletic profile to a chan So but again it's a
Speaker 3: loaded backfield. Most are the most intriguing to me is
Speaker 3: RB twenty nine of the leading touchdown scorer, again among
Speaker 3: running backs on the ground. And when we talk will
Speaker 3: this offense get better or worse this year, it's really
Speaker 3: just a I don't see how it gets any worse.
Speaker 3: I don't know if it's a ton better, Jalen writes,
Speaker 3: A nice ad adds a little depth to the backfield.
Speaker 3: If OBJ can rekindle some magic, I'll say better. But
Speaker 3: overall it's about the same for me.
Speaker 1: All Right, let's go to the Jets. Will note that
Speaker 1: they put a first round pick into the offensive line,
Speaker 1: which is going to ultimately be helpful here. And obviously
Speaker 1: they get back Aaron Rodgers, who's kind of like a
Speaker 1: new face, all right. I mean they got four plays
Speaker 1: out of him last year, so Aaron Rodgers comes back. Notably,
Speaker 1: they did not draft tight end Brock Bowers. They passed
Speaker 1: on him, which I you know, some people may view
Speaker 1: that ultimately as a mistake, they went with Olufashanu instead.
Speaker 1: They they jettisoned almost every wide out from last year
Speaker 1: aside from Garrett Wilson, which makes sense, and keeping Allan Lazard,
Speaker 1: which does not make any sense. I assume it's just
Speaker 1: for contractual reasons. They added Chargers free agent Mike Williams
Speaker 1: in New York. Williams, you know, you know what you're
Speaker 1: getting out of Williams. You get those periodic big plays
Speaker 1: downfield or uses his big bodied box out defenders wedd
Speaker 1: He's healthy, which is you know, all bit a continuing
Speaker 1: problem for Mike Williams, but you know, healthy at least
Speaker 1: to start the season. They also drafted Malachi Corley in
Speaker 1: the third round. Is really interesting. It's a pure slot receiver,
Speaker 1: incredibly slippery after the catch, and in twenty twenty two,
Speaker 1: so two seasons ago, he led the FBS in yards
Speaker 1: after catch and for and forced missed tackles, which is
Speaker 1: pretty impressive. He's he's got a little Deebo Samuel to
Speaker 1: his game. Malachi Corley just keep you know, keep your
Speaker 1: eyes on him and in in Dynasty, Like you know,
Speaker 1: I think he's going roughly round four of Dynasty drafts.
Speaker 1: That's rookie Doney Straw. That's kind of interesting to me.
Speaker 1: You know this, this whole passing offense for the Jets
Speaker 1: almost certainly gets better. Obviously obviously gets better with Aaron Rodgers,
Speaker 1: it goes, It goes without saying Tyrod Taylor's you knew
Speaker 1: backup there by the way as well. And you know,
Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson presumably gets on track in a big way,
Speaker 1: has the kind of season that we all thought he
Speaker 1: was going to have last year. He still remains a
Speaker 1: great receiver, and I think just I think a little
Speaker 1: bit underappreciated right now, because you know, we were all
Speaker 1: excited about his his year two last year didn't all
Speaker 1: come together the way we thought it would. I think
Speaker 1: some people might be a little down on him. But
Speaker 1: he's going off the board at wide receiver eight, which
Speaker 1: feels to me to be about about right for Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 1: So obviously passing game gets better for the Jets. We'll
Speaker 1: flip over to the running game for a second. Breeshall
Speaker 1: remains really impressive here last year despite coming off the
Speaker 1: ACL and getting zero help in the passing game at
Speaker 1: all behind him, though, the backup situation is worth watching,
Speaker 1: and Thorn and I talked about it last week. You know,
Speaker 1: they drafted the two rookie running backs Alan and Davis
Speaker 1: in rounds four and five, and that really makes the
Speaker 1: backup situation here pretty muddy, especially with Izzy Abanacondo there
Speaker 1: from last year, although he really did nothing last season,
Speaker 1: only twenty two carries, and didn't do anything with those
Speaker 1: twenty two carries, so maybe they won't even factor in.
Speaker 1: But just the fact that Alan and Davis are both there,
Speaker 1: and they're both stylistically very similar, means I don't see
Speaker 1: a scenario where I'm going to run the risk of
Speaker 1: drafting either one of those guys and hoping, you know,
Speaker 1: he ends up being the winner winner should anything happen
Speaker 1: to Brice Hall, who clearly they're they're very comfortable pounding
Speaker 1: the rock to like they did last year. But because
Speaker 1: the whole Jets offense is going to get a lot better,
Speaker 1: the running game will be more balanced and it'll be
Speaker 1: better as well. So we've got strong betters on both
Speaker 1: the Jets passing game and the Jets rushing game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the fantasy community not happy with the double the
Speaker 3: double tap of running backs by the Jets draft.
Speaker 1: No, absolutely not Brisall going off the board. By the way,
Speaker 1: running back two running back too off the board behind
Speaker 1: only Christian McCaffrey. So a lot of optimism with Breece Hall.
Speaker 1: And honestly he's my running back two as well. So
Speaker 1: I'm totally on board with that. Zero problem with that.
Speaker 3: People people flipping a coin between Hall and Bjeon Robinson
Speaker 3: basically for RB two RB three, I.
Speaker 1: Want the guy who's going to get the ball at
Speaker 1: the stripe. I don't know that that's b Jhon Robinson.
Speaker 1: To me, it's not to me, it isn't that close.
Speaker 1: But you're right, they're being drafted very right by each other.
Speaker 1: So there is that. Let's take a break when we
Speaker 1: come back, let's flip over to the NFC East. The
Speaker 1: Giants have got a variety of new parts. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about that when we come back. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly.
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Speaker 1: Let's go to the Giants of Brian where there was
Speaker 1: a lot of offseason thoughts that maybe the Giants would
Speaker 1: make a change a quarter back, and they ultimately decided
Speaker 1: to go back to Daniel Jones one more time. Let's
Speaker 1: see if he can crack the fifteen touchdown mark, something
Speaker 1: he has not done since his rookie year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not too optimistic that Daniel Jones breaches that milestone,
Speaker 3: and the drafting community isn't either. As of right now,
Speaker 3: Daniel Jones is went off the board. Is quarterback thirty?
Speaker 3: Oh boy, there might be some backups going before him
Speaker 3: at that range. Just last year he was like a
Speaker 3: top ten quarterback. I mean, everyone believed in the in
Speaker 3: Daniel Jones, especially the Giants who gave him like a
Speaker 3: quarter billion dollars.
Speaker 1: It was not that much. I think it was like
Speaker 1: a one hundred and twenty million or something.
Speaker 3: That was exaggerating, but that's that's feel. It feels like
Speaker 3: a hundred for him. It's like one hundred billion dollars
Speaker 3: and Daniel Jones terms.
Speaker 1: That is true. That is true, So.
Speaker 3: Not a lot to be excited about in the passing game.
Speaker 3: The only thing to be excited about is rookie Molik
Speaker 3: Neighbors sixth overall pick in the NFL draft. He's think
Speaker 3: drafted his wide receiver twenty right now. An amazing talent
Speaker 3: in college. The sky's the limit for him, but he
Speaker 3: might be held back by Danny Dimes and his counterparts
Speaker 3: at wide receiver because no one is really too concerned
Speaker 3: with Wandale Robinson or Jalen Hyatt, who are just kind
Speaker 3: of gimmicky slock guys. They're going off the board as
Speaker 3: wide receivers eighty and ninety four, respectively, so they're pretty
Speaker 3: much dead in fantasy terms, at least in redraft. And
Speaker 3: Darren Waller's career might be dead as well. He's on
Speaker 3: the verge of retirement. Supposedly, maybe he comes back. I
Speaker 3: really don't care if he does. The days of elite
Speaker 3: Darren Waller are long gone and they were short lived
Speaker 3: sadly as well. If Waller does retire, we're looking at
Speaker 3: rookie Theo Johnson or Daniel Bellinger. There's there's nothing here
Speaker 3: outside of Malik Neighbors basically, and my hopes aren't very
Speaker 3: high that he has a successful rookie year. I like
Speaker 3: how he called off. I think it was Neighbors who
Speaker 3: made the bet with Jaden Daniels, like who's gonna win
Speaker 3: offensive Rookie of the Year or something that for ten
Speaker 3: thousand dollars. Yeah, and then the league stepped in and
Speaker 3: Neighbors was probably thank god. He looked around like I
Speaker 3: got no shot at this. Playing for the Giants and
Speaker 3: going over the running game, it only gets worse because,
Speaker 3: as everyone should know, gone as Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about that a second.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, hit the Jersey Turnpike, headed down to Philly.
Speaker 3: So in comes Devin Singletary from Houston. He is their
Speaker 3: presumed starter. Worth noting Singletary has averaged four point six
Speaker 3: yards per carry in each of the last two seasons,
Speaker 3: great in pass protection. The Giants guaranteed him almost ten
Speaker 3: million dollars this season, so I think they're going to
Speaker 3: get their money out of him. And at RB thirty five,
Speaker 3: another very viable due the opposite candidate. If you're bypassing
Speaker 3: running backs in the early rounds and if you go
Speaker 3: Devin Singletary or even if you don't, I'm intrigued by
Speaker 3: rookie Tyrone Tracy Junior. He's not going much later, He's
Speaker 3: going off the board as RB fifty six. I think
Speaker 3: they're gonna want to see what he has to offer.
Speaker 3: He will push Singletary for some playing time, but I
Speaker 3: think Singletary does see the bulk of touches to start
Speaker 3: the season, and so again a good to the opposite
Speaker 3: back to target, uh you know, seven, round seven, round eight,
Speaker 3: somewhere around there. And lastly, will the offense get better
Speaker 3: or worse this year? I don't know if he can
Speaker 3: get worse than last year.
Speaker 1: No, probably, I.
Speaker 3: Mean Dan Daniel Jones was hurt, as we all know.
Speaker 3: It was a total disaster. You know, Tommy DeVito. I
Speaker 3: almost said Danny DeVito there. Danny DeVito might have been
Speaker 3: a better option than Tommy Dvito. We had a couple
Speaker 3: of fun weeks there, but it's it'll be the same
Speaker 3: at best. I don't think it's gonna get much better
Speaker 3: unless Malik Neighbors turns out to be the next coming
Speaker 3: of Randy Moss. But again, I don't trust Daniel Jones
Speaker 3: to get the ball to them. Enough so there's not
Speaker 3: a lot to love in New York, especially their new
Speaker 3: throwback uniforms. If you've seen those that are absolutely hideous.
Speaker 4: They're gonna the ones of those ones of those people
Speaker 4: will love them are Giants, Burner accounts on Twitter, owner
Speaker 4: shut those are the only people that love him.
Speaker 1: Going over to the Eagles, Kellen Moore is your new
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator, replacing the lesser Brian Johnson who got swept
Speaker 1: out of town and are observedly so based on how
Speaker 1: he tanked that offense last year.
Speaker 3: Did he get a new job Brian Johnson?
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's in the NFL T I don't remember exactly
Speaker 1: where he wound up. Let me let me let me
Speaker 1: see if I can say.
Speaker 3: I hope it is nothing against my fellow Brian Johnson.
Speaker 3: But watching them is Washington now watching Eagles games last year,
Speaker 3: they would say his name like I felt like a.
Speaker 1: Hundred and you turn into the TV.
Speaker 3: Huh what Yeah, nothing more tilting than sitting there watching
Speaker 3: a game and they keep saying your name over and
Speaker 3: over again.
Speaker 1: I can't even imagine what that's like. I mean, you
Speaker 1: and I have got the opposite names in terms of frequency.
Speaker 1: I'm literally the only Paul Charcion on the planet. And
Speaker 1: there's like one million variations of Brian Johnson.
Speaker 3: Right, pretty much. There haven't been many successful Brian Johnson athletes, sadly,
Speaker 3: and you can throw me in that next at least
Speaker 3: when it comes to the pros. But there was a
Speaker 3: place kicker Brian Johnson, I believe.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, the most notable Brian Johnson is the ac
Speaker 1: DC version for sure.
Speaker 3: Right. Oh, I thought you're gonna say me, but yeah,
Speaker 3: I guess so to version and the Breakfast Club version.
Speaker 1: Oh was he It was his name, Brian Johnson.
Speaker 3: His name was Brian Johnson. I didn't know that, okay,
Speaker 3: Anthony Anthony Michael.
Speaker 1: Hall, Yeah, yeah, which is you know? They they played
Speaker 1: him up as being a dorky dweeb, right, but they
Speaker 1: didn't give him a dorky name like they did like
Speaker 1: Revenge of the Nerds. All the guys in Revenge of
Speaker 1: the Nerds have got super nerdy names, right Revenge to
Speaker 1: the I'm gonna look it up right now for Revenge
Speaker 1: of the Nerds, unlike Brian Johnson. So they were names
Speaker 1: like Poindexter, wormser Gilbert Lewis, Booker, Lamar. Those were your
Speaker 1: core Nerds. In Revenge of the Nerds, they got nerdy names,
Speaker 1: but not breakfast club Brian Johnson.
Speaker 3: Not the coolest name ever. They really messed that up.
Speaker 1: Drop the ball there in the Eagles passing game, no
Speaker 1: notable changes except at slot receiver, where Paris Campbell's going
Speaker 1: to get another shot to make good on his lofty
Speaker 1: draft position of the second round for the Colts, but
Speaker 1: injuries derailed him there. Then he did nothing in a
Speaker 1: totally broken Giants offense. So maybe it all comes together
Speaker 1: here and Paris Campbell, you know, this is the presuming
Speaker 1: he stays healthy, this is gonna be by far the
Speaker 1: best offense he's ever been in. Devonte Parker showed up
Speaker 1: in the Eagles, but he's not even notable, and he
Speaker 1: signed a one year VET minimum deal and I think
Speaker 1: he gets cut in the preseason. Howie Roseman threw Day
Speaker 1: three picks at Annias Smith and the Elephantine Johnny Wilson.
Speaker 1: Wilson totally logjammed for playing time behind DeVante Smith and
Speaker 1: AJ Brown. But Smith, Brian he played slot in college
Speaker 1: and he could beat out Campbell, but that's still unclear,
Speaker 1: and he projects is more of a special team er.
Speaker 1: An occasional gadget guy, and I don't think Anaya Smith
Speaker 1: is gonna really make much of an impact here, but
Speaker 1: you know you could watch that they but this is
Speaker 1: an offense that's got nothing reliable out of their slot
Speaker 1: position all year. The new backup quarterback behind Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: is Kenny Pickett for those looking for a deep handcuff.
Speaker 1: Hurts passing dipped badly in the second half of last year,
Speaker 1: along with the really the fortunes of the entire team,
Speaker 1: but his rushing production production kept fantasy outcomes very high
Speaker 1: for Jalen Hurts really all season long, and that likely
Speaker 1: repeats here and so really no change for this Eagles
Speaker 1: passing game. Running game, though big changes. Saquon Barkley enters
Speaker 1: the new lead runner. He replaces DeAndre Swift who went
Speaker 1: off to Chicago. Barkley to me Brian, he feels old.
Speaker 1: He's twenty seven, which is not that bad, and he's
Speaker 1: got one two hundred career carries, which also not as
Speaker 1: bad as you would think considering he's been a bell
Speaker 1: coow back for five years. So I think I think
Speaker 1: there's a little tread left on that tire. And Kenneth
Speaker 1: Gainwell has done nothing to suggest that he should have
Speaker 1: a larger role here. They put a fourth round pick
Speaker 1: into Will Shipley, who looks like a change of pace
Speaker 1: guy with a broad skill set. But I don't think
Speaker 1: he is a much of a factor this season unless
Speaker 1: there's some injuries ahead of him. I look through Kellen
Speaker 1: Moore's track record with Bell cow Backs Brian and it
Speaker 1: was really mixed. You know, last year, Austin Eckler was
Speaker 1: only getting thirteen carries per game. But if you go
Speaker 1: back to when Kellen Moore was in Dallas during Zeke's
Speaker 1: workhorse years, Zeke was averaging nineteen touches a game. So,
Speaker 1: you know, the hope here is that we're gonna see
Speaker 1: that version of Kellen Moore. If we can get nineteen
Speaker 1: touches a game. Heading to Saquon Barkley, his fantasy viability
Speaker 1: goes up quite a bit. You know, Barkley's lost just
Speaker 1: a lot of his game. I think it was sapped
Speaker 1: by the l the constant ankle injuries that he's had,
Speaker 1: and the guy was unbelievable in his rookie year. Year
Speaker 1: after and it just everything's gone downhill. Last year he
Speaker 1: dropped all the way to RB fifty one in Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus's elusiveness ranking. And this has been a guy
Speaker 1: who was, you know, pre acl he was somebody that
Speaker 1: was elusive as any running back in the league. And then,
Speaker 1: of course the limiting factor on all the Eagles runners, Brian,
Speaker 1: it's the tush push Jalen Hurts just cannibalizing the easy
Speaker 1: touchdowns from inside the five and that just to me,
Speaker 1: that puts a hard cap on all of the Eagles runners.
Speaker 1: It just the ceiling on all of them, to me,
Speaker 1: is just very, very high. Saquon Barkley going up the
Speaker 1: board right now at what I feel is an inexplicable
Speaker 1: and unsustainable running back six, A borderline first round for
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley. I don't I don't under stand how people
Speaker 1: can how people can justify that that high of a
Speaker 1: spot for Saquon Barkley when you know he's not going
Speaker 1: to get touchdowns from inside the five yard line and
Speaker 1: you also have to worry about the diminishing ability. Why
Speaker 1: did the Giants just you know, walk away from him
Speaker 1: and give good money to somebody else, you know, what
Speaker 1: do they know? So I feel like that's a that's
Speaker 1: a bad spot for Saquon Barkley. How do you feel.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not touching Barkley. At that price tag. You
Speaker 3: can get most drafts, and I've got a fair amount
Speaker 3: under my belt. You can get Jonathan Taylor, Kyron Williams,
Speaker 3: who stock is plumbting by the way, Kyraen Williams all.
Speaker 1: The draft that one got from him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, but still yeah, Barkley way over price. Do
Speaker 3: you think the Tush push, the effectiveness of the Toush
Speaker 3: push is going to be dinged by the retirement of
Speaker 3: Jason Kelsey? Was he the real catalyst behind the toushplus,
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 1: It was awfully important because the Toush push, it only
Speaker 1: goes a gap and right, you know, directly behind center,
Speaker 1: so you know it probably he will not help to
Speaker 1: have him gone. Nevertheless, I'll take my chances. I think
Speaker 1: it until teams prove they can stop it. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm not too worried. You know, they they've got they've
Speaker 1: got Cam Jurgens, a second round pick to be the replacement.
Speaker 1: So I mean, in terms of draft equity, they've got
Speaker 1: a they've got a center that they think is gonna
Speaker 1: be is gonna be pretty good. So yeah, I'm not
Speaker 1: that worried about hurts.
Speaker 3: Honestly, Kelsey seems like the guy Jason Kelsey would come
Speaker 3: in and just coaching him up for free for a
Speaker 3: little bit too. He loves his former team that much.
Speaker 3: Let's go to the Dallas throw a few beers back,
Speaker 3: show up at practice, some.
Speaker 1: Flip flop spears. Yeah, that sounds about right. I'll's go
Speaker 1: over to the Cowboys.
Speaker 3: All right, Dallas Cowboys. Worth noting they used the first
Speaker 3: round pick on offensive tackle Tyler Geiton to bolster the
Speaker 3: O line that has been on the decline in recent years.
Speaker 3: Was elite several years ago, so that should hopefully offer
Speaker 3: a little more protection for Dak and helped the running game,
Speaker 3: which we'll get into a minute. But let's get back
Speaker 3: to the passing game and Dak Prescott and uh, well,
Speaker 3: we're gonna start with Dak's top target and he quite
Speaker 3: literally was the top target in the league last year.
Speaker 3: That CD lamb wide receiver one right now with the
Speaker 3: bullet and drafts, basically the first guy off the board
Speaker 3: after Christian McCaffrey and virtually every draft I've done. CD
Speaker 3: led the league in targets, receptions, yards. Last year. He
Speaker 3: was second in touchdowns with twelve just an absolute stud.
Speaker 3: And I will never let the Denver Broncos forget that
Speaker 3: they drafted Judy for Cede Lamb, who you and I
Speaker 3: were both laughing at them mercilessly for doing so all
Speaker 3: in that.
Speaker 1: And Rugs Let's not forget that. Henry Ruggs went.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, Rugs so bad. And and of course
Speaker 3: Justin Jefferson went after all those guys. But at the
Speaker 3: time the hype wasn't it wasn't what it should have
Speaker 3: been for Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I had Lamb one and Jefferson two that year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, did you good? I didn't have Jefferson that hig.
Speaker 3: I don't remember, but I definitely liked Lamb a lot.
Speaker 3: But anyway, that's the past. The Cowboys benefits benefited from
Speaker 3: that mistake by Denver, of course, but not a lot
Speaker 3: of uh benefits coming from the other wide receivers on Dallas.
Speaker 3: In my mind, we're talking Brandon Cooks. He's going off
Speaker 3: the boards wide receiver sixty one.
Speaker 1: Which, by the way, I mean, okay, hold on, just
Speaker 1: stop them. Wide receiver sixty one for Brandon Cooks, is
Speaker 1: I mean you know, we're talking pick one hundred and
Speaker 1: forty something. That's you know, that's pretty good value for
Speaker 1: a guy that sure is Brandon Cook's special. No, but
Speaker 1: you know, is he good compared to that relative draft position?
Speaker 3: Yeah? You know.
Speaker 1: Now I'm kind of interested. Got scored eight touchdowns last year.
Speaker 3: He's more of a best ball target to me, where
Speaker 3: I don't know, he's hard to predict when his production's
Speaker 3: gonna come. It's almost like you need something to happen
Speaker 3: to CD Lamb. I guess there's good value in Cooks.
Speaker 3: I'm just personally not very interested in either Cooks or Tolbert.
Speaker 3: If I'm going to target another pass catcher on the
Speaker 3: Cowboys outside of CD Lamb, it's it's tight end. Jake Ferguson,
Speaker 3: who was one of seven tight ends to see one
Speaker 3: hundred plus targets last year. Right now, he's going off
Speaker 3: the board is tight end nine. That's great value for
Speaker 3: a guy who finishes a top seven tight end. He's
Speaker 3: going twenty to twenty five picks after guys like Kyle
Speaker 3: Pitts and George Kittle, who he outperformed last year. So
Speaker 3: you know, Dallas, even after they lost Kellen Morris OC
Speaker 3: last year, they still heavily utilized their tight end, and
Speaker 3: Jake Ferguson improved. He can get the job done. So
Speaker 3: a great value on Jake Ferguson if you're going to
Speaker 3: bypass the elite tight ends, he is a borderline elite
Speaker 3: tight end available much later in drafts. Love love Jake Ferguson.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and he could still get he could still get better.
Speaker 1: I mean he's still young, twenty five years old, so
Speaker 1: you know, for Ferguson, there's you know, there's a real
Speaker 1: opportunity as really he'll be entering his third year starting
Speaker 1: a lot of tight ends to the big uptick in
Speaker 1: year three. I'm really interested in Jake Ferguson. That's a
Speaker 1: that is a strong play, and he should be going
Speaker 1: off the board earlier than what'd you say is tight
Speaker 1: end eight, end nine, tight end nine, tight end nine.
Speaker 3: George Kittle twenty picks twenty twenty five picks ahead of him,
Speaker 3: which is that's too big of a delta for me.
Speaker 3: They're virtually the same player in terms of production, I feel,
Speaker 3: fantasy wise, so because Ferguson's the second option, Kittle is
Speaker 3: yeah fourth sometimes four, yeah, well sometimes one and then
Speaker 3: sometimes fourth, and it's really hard to know.
Speaker 1: You know which game you're going to get out of
Speaker 1: George Kittle at any given time.
Speaker 3: Over to the running game, it's is pretty ugly. Dallas
Speaker 3: claimed to be all in. They did not go all
Speaker 3: in in the draft. They did not draft any offensive weapons,
Speaker 3: including running back, which a lot of people thought they
Speaker 3: would target in the draft. Instead, they brought back Ezekiel Elliott,
Speaker 3: who is forty years old in football terms, he's RB
Speaker 3: forty as well in drafts, just go on a few
Speaker 3: picks ahead in terms of running backs of Rico Dowdell,
Speaker 3: who showed flashes last year. I liked what I saw
Speaker 3: out of Dowdell. He arguably it was a better fantasy
Speaker 3: player than Tony Pollard, who some people pegged as a
Speaker 3: a guy who's gonna finish his RB one in the
Speaker 3: last year's preseason. But Pollard gone, he's in Tennessee. So
Speaker 3: but this is clearly are surely going to be a
Speaker 3: running back by committee for Dallas with Zeke and Rico Dowdell. Surprisingly,
Speaker 3: Zeke caught thirteen or I'm sorry, fifty one passes last year.
Speaker 3: That was thirteenth among running.
Speaker 1: Backs as a backup primarily Yeah, so some sneaky PPR
Speaker 1: production from Zeke.
Speaker 3: But again, this kind of feels it's like a fifty
Speaker 3: to fifty split. If I have to pick one, I'll
Speaker 3: take the chief for guy and Dowdell, but it's not
Speaker 3: much of a discount off of Zeke. Just we talked about,
Speaker 3: do the opposite candidates, I don't really see him here.
Speaker 3: Dowdell is RB forty three, that's that's virtually the same
Speaker 3: ADP as Dead and Singletary, who we talked about earlier,
Speaker 3: and Zeke going around the same range. I would reach
Speaker 3: half around for Singletary all day over either of these guys.
Speaker 3: And in terms of the offense as a whole getting
Speaker 3: better or worse, it's another I feel like I'm getting
Speaker 3: all the lateral lateral movements here. I don't think they
Speaker 3: get worse. I don't think they get a whole lot better.
Speaker 3: I think we're just looking at the same offense as
Speaker 3: last year, which means Dak Prescott in line for a
Speaker 3: safe you know, QB eight to ten outcome range outcome.
Speaker 1: I would saying nothing on the ground, not anymore.
Speaker 3: He's got the best, arguably the best wide receiver in
Speaker 3: the NFL, and Cedee lamb, and you got to like
Speaker 3: whoever is throwing the ball to him, and that's Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Washington Command. There's there was talk
Speaker 1: that they could change their name. Can we hates sen
Speaker 1: that they command? It's the worst name in the Big
Speaker 1: four sports outside of the Cleveland Guardians, which is even worse.
Speaker 1: You know, we're gonna, we're gonna, we're gonna, We're gonna
Speaker 1: go like clean slate on the post Snyder era in Washington.
Speaker 1: Can we just dump the dumb commander's name? Please?
Speaker 3: Yeah, you gotta erase everything from Daniel Snyder's exactly. That's
Speaker 3: the last thing lingering. It stinks.
Speaker 1: It is, which brings us to the whole new coaching
Speaker 1: staff that's in place. Dan Quinn's your head coach. Cliff
Speaker 1: Kingsbury is your offensive coordinator. Quinn's a defensive guy, so
Speaker 1: Kingsbury's gonna have mostly controls at his disposal for the offense.
Speaker 1: Offensive line is a huge problem in Washington. Last year
Speaker 1: they got some middling upgrades on low dollar deals on
Speaker 1: former Cowboy center Taylor beyaz Dish and former Chiefs Guarden Algaretti.
Speaker 1: But those aren't big upgrades. But they're better what they had,
Speaker 1: so optimistic that this offensive line will get a little
Speaker 1: bit better. The passing game now led presumably by Jade
Speaker 1: and Daniels, I gotta believe he's gonna start Week one
Speaker 1: or shortly thereafter. They've also got Marcus Mariota, Jeff Driscoll.
Speaker 1: I don't think those guys are compelling starts in week one.
Speaker 1: I think they'll go right to Daniels, the second overall
Speaker 1: pick in the draft. Kingsbury's experience with these similarly mobile
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray is encouraging, But as we've always cautioned with
Speaker 1: Murray on Fantasy Football Weekly when we're doing our our
Speaker 1: in game stuff, he just he's not much of a
Speaker 1: goal line carrier, and or at least wasn't for Kingsbury.
Speaker 1: So Kingsbury did not deploy his mobile quarterback at the stripe.
Speaker 1: And I don't think there's gonna be a case to
Speaker 1: be made where they're gonna do that here either for
Speaker 1: Jaden Daniels, because you know, Daniels is very slight of build.
Speaker 1: You know, this is nothing like Jalen Hurts getting the
Speaker 1: tush push. He's so thin. I just I don't see
Speaker 1: him getting goal line work. Kyler Murray averaged just five
Speaker 1: carries per season from inside the five yard line with
Speaker 1: Cliff Kingsbury, and I don't even know if you're going
Speaker 1: to get the five per season on Jadeen Daniels.
Speaker 3: Jayden Daniels not not built like a Josh Allen or
Speaker 3: even a Jalen Hurts. I saw we'll call it a
Speaker 3: highlight reel of him running the ball in college, and
Speaker 3: he's very reckless, like leaving his feet just taking bo
Speaker 3: nasty hits, and those hits hit you a lot harder
Speaker 3: in the NFL. So I'm a little worried about him.
Speaker 3: He's gonna have to I mean, we saw Anthony Richardson
Speaker 3: go down last year, and Anthony Richardson probably weighs fifty
Speaker 3: more pounds for Jaden Daniels. So Jadeen Daniels is going
Speaker 3: to have to learn to get down or he's going
Speaker 3: to be going on IR sooner than later.
Speaker 1: Rice rookie Luke McCaffrey, the other McCaffrey joins the receiving car,
Speaker 1: and you know he could walk into the slot roll
Speaker 1: vacated by Curtis Samuel, but slow receivers under Cliff Kingsbury
Speaker 1: and Arizona were very unreliable fantasy producers, and many of them,
Speaker 1: like Rondell Moore, had much higher draft equity and NFL
Speaker 1: prospects than McCaffrey. Many people think McCaffrey went too early
Speaker 1: in this draft where he was selected, so I don't
Speaker 1: have a lot of optimism there. I'll mention former first
Speaker 1: round pick Johan Dotson, who was an epic failed last year.
Speaker 1: I had like five really bad takes last year. One
Speaker 1: of them was Johan Dotson stepping up last year did
Speaker 1: not take at all. But you know where, let me
Speaker 1: quick up, look where he's going off the board. Now,
Speaker 1: I gotta believe he's basically for free John Dotson sixty
Speaker 1: three wide receiver sixty three right now at that price,
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit interested. And here's why he's the
Speaker 1: Commander's best downfield threat. Jaden Daniels got the big arm.
Speaker 1: So maybe there's gonna be some big plays to be
Speaker 1: had for Johan Dotson. You probably won't know when they're coming.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be maybe much more of a best ball scenario,
Speaker 1: uh for John Dotson. But for where he's getting selected,
Speaker 1: I'm still a little bit intrigued there. Thorn Nystrom favorite
Speaker 1: is rookie tight end Ben Sennett. He's gonna need to
Speaker 1: get past zach Ertz, which may take a while and
Speaker 1: maybe even all year. Maybe it's next year we're talking about. Ben.
Speaker 1: Senate is a reliable fantasy starter, but certainly somebody to
Speaker 1: watch here. They put real draft equity into him, and
Speaker 1: it wouldn't take a lot to get by zach Ertz
Speaker 1: at this stage of his career. So I do think
Speaker 1: the Washington passing game gets better if if only for
Speaker 1: some deep ball connections from Daniels based on what they
Speaker 1: had last year for the.
Speaker 3: Running people do not expect sorry to cut you off,
Speaker 3: youple do not expect to send it to wait long.
Speaker 3: Not saying he won't. But he's getting drafted aggressively right now,
Speaker 3: like he's getting paid like people are pegging him as
Speaker 3: like this year, Sam Laporta, that's the hype that's building
Speaker 3: around Senate. The price tag is getting a little little
Speaker 3: hefty for me. Yeah, thanks, Thor swim Ertza. Thorn moves
Speaker 3: the market yet again.
Speaker 1: The Commanders let Antonio Gibson walk. As we mentioned earlier
Speaker 1: in the show, they signed Austin Eckler to an eight
Speaker 1: million dollar deal over two years, which is you know,
Speaker 1: middling money, I guess for a guy of his pedigree.
Speaker 1: But you know, Brian Robinson just isn't good. You know,
Speaker 1: he ranked his Pro Football running Pro Football Focus is
Speaker 1: running back forty three last year, including ranking twenty second
Speaker 1: in yards after contact, which is what Brian Robinson was
Speaker 1: supposed to be great at, and he didn't come through
Speaker 1: that way at all. Chris Rodriguez got a few nice
Speaker 1: moments at the end of last year and they ramped
Speaker 1: up his usage, but it looks like it's going to
Speaker 1: be Eckler at if nothing else, Eckler's going to be
Speaker 1: very reliable from a past catching standpoint. I'm just not
Speaker 1: sure how much of a how good he is as
Speaker 1: a runner anymore. He was Pro Football Focus his fifty
Speaker 1: first ranked runner. He dipped all the way down to
Speaker 1: thirty third in elusiveness and down to forty fifth and
Speaker 1: yards after the contact. So I'm nervous about what Eckler
Speaker 1: brings as a running back. And I don't like Robinson either.
Speaker 1: Just don't like this running game very much. But I
Speaker 1: think Eckler's still going to have a spot as a
Speaker 1: receiving back. Just don't obviously, you know, nothing like what
Speaker 1: he's given us. In years past, Chargers were Pro football focuses.
Speaker 1: There's the Chargers where obviously Eckler was Last year, Chargers
Speaker 1: were Pro football focuses. Bottom ranked run blocking line last
Speaker 1: year and Washington was ninth. So hopefully Washington gets you know,
Speaker 1: provides him with better blocking, and maybe we get better
Speaker 1: running performances from Eckler. But I don't I can't tell
Speaker 1: you for sure that that's going to be the case.
Speaker 1: And Eckler's going off the board running back twenty seven.
Speaker 1: So where how do you feel? I feel like that's
Speaker 1: about right for Eckler. How do you feel about that spot?
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's worth taking a flyer on him
Speaker 3: there because again or not again. But for those who forgot,
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty two, Austin Eckler was essentially Fantasy's top
Speaker 3: player right points scorer outside of quarter One year removed
Speaker 3: from that, Yeah, one year removed from that. So hopefully
Speaker 3: it was more situation last year than skill set. Like
Speaker 3: you said that, the Chargers were the worst run blocking
Speaker 3: line in the league, So hopefully behind a better line,
Speaker 3: he's probably gonna be a little a little motivated to
Speaker 3: stick to some people. I think you probably wanted to
Speaker 3: go to a contender, right yeah, in the twilight of
Speaker 3: his career, and you didn't get much interest on the
Speaker 3: market outside of Washington. So I think he wants to
Speaker 3: give a little fu to the whole league. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I'm buying at that price right now.
Speaker 1: Love it, love it all. Right, Well, there you go,
Speaker 1: the AFC and NFC East. It's a lot of teams
Speaker 1: to get through. But you know, we pack everything into
Speaker 1: just a little longer show than we normally have, which
Speaker 1: is fine. We get to do that here.
Speaker 3: We only talked about Brian Johnson's for like ten minutes.
Speaker 1: There is that some of it's on us, for sure.
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