WEBVTT - East Clintwood 0:00:01.280 --> 0:00:05.000 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:07.120 --> 0:00:11.360 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly 0:00:11.440 --> 0:00:15.400 source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and 0:00:15.480 --> 0:00:18.840 whatever stupid stuff they decide to drop into the show. Now, 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:20.600 here's your host, Paul Chargion. 0:00:22.560 --> 0:00:26.520 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchian. My 0:00:26.640 --> 0:00:30.240 co hosts have for a long absence, abnormally long absence. 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:33.560 Brian Johnson, Welcome back. It's been a couple of months, 0:00:35.040 --> 0:00:35.720 it has. 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:39.160 But uh, understandably so I've been off the show because 0:00:39.159 --> 0:00:40.200 it's been Thoris. 0:00:39.960 --> 0:00:43.760 It's sad. It was really Thor season, absolutely. 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:45.720 And uh, no one can break down the rookies in 0:00:45.760 --> 0:00:48.800 the business better than Thor. And we're gonna mention some 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:50.960 rookies on this episode at some point, but I'm not 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:52.879 gonna I'm not gonna dive into it. People just go 0:00:53.000 --> 0:00:55.480 back and listen to those episodes if they want to. Yeah, 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:57.600 get a real breakdown of the rookies, because no one 0:00:57.600 --> 0:01:00.520 does it better than Thor again, the in the whole industry. 0:01:00.600 --> 0:01:03.360 Yeah, he's he's He's become one of the best already 0:01:03.480 --> 0:01:06.720 and our listeners have already already been paid on a 0:01:06.720 --> 0:01:09.319 lot of thors insight last year, and I think he's 0:01:09.360 --> 0:01:11.160 had a great officers. We'll find out. I mean, if 0:01:11.240 --> 0:01:15.360 JJ McCarthy bombs that alone, will we'll end up either 0:01:15.480 --> 0:01:17.440 that'll move him down a peg. But if JJ hits, 0:01:17.800 --> 0:01:19.920 he's gonna look brilliant. I mean he had he had 0:01:20.000 --> 0:01:22.600 JJ's his number three quarterback overall. 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:26.480 He was right on JJ. And this is we don't 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.280 know that yet, We don't know that, we don't know yet. Well, 0:01:29.280 --> 0:01:32.559 he was right that his stock was way too low at. 0:01:32.480 --> 0:01:34.560 The beginning of the guess at the beginning of the process. 0:01:34.600 --> 0:01:37.360 Yes, but now JJ in my mind, and again this 0:01:37.440 --> 0:01:39.800 is no knock on JJ McCarthy. And I don't want 0:01:39.800 --> 0:01:41.600 to get too into the weeds on this, but he's 0:01:41.600 --> 0:01:43.480 gonna have to wait a little bit because Sam Darnold 0:01:43.520 --> 0:01:44.680 is going to turn some heads chart. 0:01:45.000 --> 0:01:47.240 See, I know you believe that, and there are a 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:49.800 lot of people in Minnesota who do right. Briefly, make 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:50.280 your case. 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:54.240 I mean, this is his first real shot. That's basically 0:01:54.280 --> 0:01:57.160 it at a at a real no one if you 0:01:57.200 --> 0:02:00.800 put any quarterback in a time machine forward put him 0:02:00.800 --> 0:02:03.680 on the jets with Adam Gasee as his head coach, 0:02:03.720 --> 0:02:05.880 a twenty year old kid going to the Jets, Like, 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:08.560 who's going to succeed in that environment? And then they 0:02:08.560 --> 0:02:11.920 go to and he goes to Carolina. I'm blanket on 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:13.359 the head coach there, but I mean it was just 0:02:13.440 --> 0:02:17.720 a disaster. But you know, Shanahan, Mike Shanahan, the head 0:02:17.800 --> 0:02:19.840 coach of the forty nine ers, and trust that Donald 0:02:19.880 --> 0:02:21.680 is the backup. And there's a good shot that you know, 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:24.600 brock Purty wasn't going to be ready to start the 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:26.640 season last year with the elbow injury, and he was 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:28.880 ready to roll with Donald. The Vikings are ready to 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:31.200 roll with Donald. They weren't guaranteed to get a quarterback. 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.920 They have faith in him, and hey, he's an athlete, 0:02:33.960 --> 0:02:38.320 he's twenty six years old, He's got Justin Jefferson and 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:40.000 a bunch of other weapons we know about. So I 0:02:40.040 --> 0:02:41.360 want to I'm excited to see what he can do. 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:44.240 And if you can't do it, then it's JJ time. Obviously. 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:46.800 Yeah, Sam, Sam will be the first one up. I 0:02:46.840 --> 0:02:49.440 believe he'll start the season week one for the Vikings, 0:02:49.560 --> 0:02:53.120 and you know he gets to throw to Justin Jefferson, 0:02:53.200 --> 0:02:55.880 probably not TJ. Howkins, in Week one, probably not, but 0:02:55.960 --> 0:02:58.399 Jordan Addison we're gonna see a little more. We're gonna 0:02:58.400 --> 0:03:00.560 see some more throws of the running back in Minnesota. 0:03:01.000 --> 0:03:02.880 Aaron Jones can catch in a way that the Viking 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.239 seven had in a long time. Sam Darnold's had fifty 0:03:06.440 --> 0:03:09.240 six games started. I mean, it's not like we don't 0:03:09.280 --> 0:03:12.280 know anything about him, but this is the best spot 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:14.840 that he's ever been in by a wide margin, for 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:20.520 in terms of ancillary talent, for sure. But this is 0:03:20.560 --> 0:03:24.600 not necessarily a Sam Donald related show. Let's jump. Let's 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:27.720 get into the topic of the day, which is, you know, 0:03:27.800 --> 0:03:32.040 draft is over. We now from a fantasy standpoint, in particular, 0:03:33.000 --> 0:03:35.280 ninety nine percent of what we need to know in 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:39.280 terms of the rosters are now set going into at 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:41.280 least training camp and in many ways all the way 0:03:41.280 --> 0:03:43.160 into the beginning of the season. So we're gonna start 0:03:43.240 --> 0:03:46.880 highlighting every NFL team beginning this week. We're gonna do 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:51.360 the AFC and NFC East Today. We'll talk about some 0:03:51.440 --> 0:03:55.360 of the key differences from last year on each of 0:03:55.400 --> 0:03:58.160 these AFC and NFC East teams till you think they're 0:03:58.160 --> 0:04:01.280 gonna get better or worse, And we begin with the 0:04:01.280 --> 0:04:04.400 Buffalo Bills. Brian Let's break down the Bills offseason. It 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:05.800 was a tumultuous one. 0:04:07.520 --> 0:04:09.880 Yeah, yeah, lots of changes in Buffalo. Let's dive right 0:04:09.920 --> 0:04:13.320 into the passing game as most No gone is Stefan 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:17.320 Diggs and to a lesser extent of fantasy relevance, Gabe Davis, 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:21.479 who's now in Jacksonville. Diggs in Houston, of course, so 0:04:21.600 --> 0:04:27.279 incomes Curtis Samuel from Washington. They drafted rookie Keon Coleman 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:30.320 pretty high in the draft, I believe late first round, 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:33.120 if not, no early second round. Second ye yeah, like 0:04:33.160 --> 0:04:35.760 the first pick in the second round. Yep. Khalil Shakir 0:04:35.920 --> 0:04:40.120 remains from last year. Buffalo also signed Marquez Valdez Scantling. 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:44.800 We're not too interested there, which leaves really so there's 0:04:44.839 --> 0:04:48.440 no alpha wide receiver in Buffalo anymore by any means. 0:04:48.520 --> 0:04:52.240 Curtis Samuel right now in early drafts wide receiver forty nine, 0:04:52.680 --> 0:04:56.720 rookie Keon Coleman wide receiver forty. Shakira is wide receiver 0:04:56.800 --> 0:05:00.240 fifty five. So a very stack friendly team. If you're 0:05:00.240 --> 0:05:02.120 looking to stack the Bills in best ball, you know, 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:02.760 if you get. 0:05:02.720 --> 0:05:04.719 You can certainly do it if you want to, right. 0:05:05.040 --> 0:05:08.520 Yeah, definitely. Josh Allen Clearcut quarterback one. He was finished. 0:05:08.560 --> 0:05:10.840 Last year's QB one is getting drafted as QB one. 0:05:10.880 --> 0:05:12.920 I don't see that changing. But I mean the alpha 0:05:12.960 --> 0:05:15.800 dog in the passing game is tight end Dalton Kincaid. Yeah, 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:17.280 I'm must be a top wide receiver. 0:05:17.400 --> 0:05:19.800 YEP. I was wondering if you were going to go there. 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:25.560 He could be sitting on eighty ninety catch season for 0:05:25.680 --> 0:05:26.560 Dalton Kincaid. 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:30.560 Yeah, he was. He was solid last year as a rookie. 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:32.520 Of course, you don't see a lot of Brookies have 0:05:32.920 --> 0:05:35.800 success at the tight end position, but he's really more 0:05:35.800 --> 0:05:38.159 of a hybrid wide receiver in the line of you know, 0:05:38.240 --> 0:05:42.240 Travis Kelcey, by boy Kyle Pitts. But right now, Dalton Kincaid, 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:44.840 he's getting drafted head of Mark Andrews. He's going his 0:05:45.120 --> 0:05:48.919 tight end four inside the top fifty picks overall, So 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:53.520 you know, he's one of the I'm not I think 0:05:53.720 --> 0:05:56.039 the price tags on guys like Sam Laporta, he's tight 0:05:56.120 --> 0:05:59.960 end one, Travis Kelcey are pretty high. I would bypass 0:06:00.040 --> 0:06:04.440 those guys for guys like Kincaid, and I'm just gonna 0:06:04.440 --> 0:06:06.800 focus on Kinkaid. I like trade McBride a lot until 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:09.800 they drafted Marvin Harrison junior. But right now I think 0:06:09.880 --> 0:06:12.479 Dalton Kinkaid has the highest prospects of all the tight 0:06:12.560 --> 0:06:15.360 ends based on him being the top receiver A on 0:06:15.440 --> 0:06:17.000 the team and he can get him his tight end 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:20.840 for so but really, you know, this passing game, it's 0:06:22.279 --> 0:06:24.040 it's all about Josh Allen. He's gonna be spreading the 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.200 ball around. I will I'm not going out of my 0:06:26.240 --> 0:06:31.080 way to draft Samuel Coleman or Shakir because right now, 0:06:31.160 --> 0:06:34.000 based on their ADPs, they're not their flex guys at best. 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.479 It's all about Kincaid and Allen in the passing game. 0:06:38.520 --> 0:06:41.240 Over to the running game, things have changed there in 0:06:41.320 --> 0:06:44.520 terms of backups, leaving James Cook still remains. He is 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:47.599 the lead back. He's going off the board as RB 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:51.920 thirteen right now. That's early fifth round. A little too 0:06:52.040 --> 0:06:56.520 early for me considering Buffalo had twenty two rushing touchdowns 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.920 last year. But you want to take a guess how 0:06:58.960 --> 0:07:01.640 many James Cook account at four those twenty two rushing 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:10.239 touchdowns four close half of that two Jeez thought rushing 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:15.640 touchdowns with James probably there's no I don't know. Uh yeah, 0:07:15.680 --> 0:07:18.640 so James Cook way over valued at RB thirteen. I'm 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:20.760 passing on him there. I'd rather go for his backup, 0:07:20.800 --> 0:07:24.680 which will presumably be rookie Ray Davis, who is selected 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.360 in the fourth round. Davis a very intriguing he can 0:07:27.400 --> 0:07:29.480 prospect out of Kentucky. Again, if you want to learn 0:07:29.480 --> 0:07:31.400 more about Ray Davis, go back and listen to the 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.240 Rookie running Back episode with Thor. I'm sure he'll break 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:35.040 he breaks it down much. 0:07:35.160 --> 0:07:38.240 Oh yeah, we did talk about ray Davis and we like, 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:42.400 we both like ray Davis. Thor feels like his he 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:44.880 doesn't have a high ceiling, but we also we think 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.440 he comes in with NFL ready traits and that he 0:07:47.480 --> 0:07:50.080 can be an immediate starter. It just Thor doesn't feel 0:07:50.080 --> 0:07:54.000 like Ray Davis has got high upside in his game 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.000 and that may ultimately limit him. But right now he's 0:07:57.040 --> 0:07:59.920 going off the borders running back fifty four in a 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:03.840 backfield that has traditionally been a shared backfield, and I'm 0:08:03.920 --> 0:08:04.960 kind of intrigued by that. 0:08:06.320 --> 0:08:08.280 Yeah, me too, for sure. I mean he's a guy 0:08:08.280 --> 0:08:10.280 I would be looking to draft even if I didn't 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:12.600 draft James Cook. And again I'm not actively looking to 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.480 draft James Cook. I think he's overvalued. But yeah, Davis 0:08:15.520 --> 0:08:18.800 an injury away from being the starter and bull buffalo. 0:08:18.880 --> 0:08:22.160 But again, you know, whether it's Cook or Davis, it's 0:08:22.160 --> 0:08:25.000 all about Josh Allen at the goal line mainly, so 0:08:25.400 --> 0:08:28.840 he's Alan and Kincaid are the you know, the flashy 0:08:28.840 --> 0:08:31.920 toys in this offense. So in terms of this offense 0:08:31.960 --> 0:08:35.680 getting better or worse than last year, even though he 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:37.920 faltered towards the end, you know, the loss of Stefan 0:08:38.000 --> 0:08:43.880 Diggs is gonna overall, right, so I'm gonna go slightly worse. 0:08:43.960 --> 0:08:46.320 But I really I think Josh Allen might have a 0:08:46.320 --> 0:08:48.800 better year just because they lean on his legs a 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:50.400 little more or they'll need to, and I think he 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:54.240 has adequate enough support around him, you know, to spread 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.319 the ball around and put up pretty good passing numbers. Still, 0:08:57.360 --> 0:09:01.120 so uh, again, it's not gonna be a better offense 0:09:02.720 --> 0:09:04.760 even at best you know, lateral move, but I'm leaning 0:09:04.760 --> 0:09:07.520 slightly worse, but it'll still be a high powered offense 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:08.480 with Allen at the helm. 0:09:08.679 --> 0:09:11.080 So I looked up Dalton Kincaid's numbers last year just 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:15.360 to get refamiliarized and hit seventy three receptions last year, 0:09:15.800 --> 0:09:20.200 so maybe he's got one hundred reception upside now if 0:09:20.520 --> 0:09:22.880 assuming that Dalton Knox is going to fade into the 0:09:22.920 --> 0:09:26.160 background here, which is not necessarily a valid assumption, but 0:09:26.240 --> 0:09:29.679 if he does, no, you know, Kincaid could easily see 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.880 a you know, thirty percent up tick and end up 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:35.440 getting himself into the one hundred reception range, which for 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:38.840 a tight end would be fantastic. Kinkaid just the two 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:41.840 touchdowns last year. All right, let's switch over to the 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:46.040 new England Patriots passing game. Well, obviously you've got a 0:09:46.240 --> 0:09:48.840 new coaching staff. I think a whole new breath of 0:09:48.960 --> 0:09:54.280 fresh air in the room, which is great. The quarterback 0:09:54.320 --> 0:09:58.600 position obviously big change here. Only Bailey's appey remains from 0:09:58.679 --> 0:10:03.320 last year. Drake May Jacoby Brissett come in. It's not 0:10:03.480 --> 0:10:06.600 a certainty that Drake May starts the season because Jacoby 0:10:06.640 --> 0:10:12.680 Brissett is a proven quality NFL backup who can start 0:10:12.720 --> 0:10:15.840 in pinches, and they may decide to take their time 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:18.800 on Drake May. It's not clear that Drake May starts 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:22.520 Week one, but almost no matter what, the passing game 0:10:22.559 --> 0:10:26.679 gets better, because anything is an uptick from what they 0:10:26.720 --> 0:10:30.840 had last year with Mac Jones, Bailey Zappy disaster scenarios 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.640 unfolding for the Patriots. I think, do you remember how 0:10:33.640 --> 0:10:35.520 many times Mac Jones got benched. 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:39.240 Six? 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:42.600 I think it was four. I think get four different 0:10:42.600 --> 0:10:45.360 benchings in one season, which is which is pretty tough 0:10:45.400 --> 0:10:48.960 to bounce back from the wide receiver room. You have 0:10:49.160 --> 0:10:52.520 some returning vets like Kendrick Bourne and Damario Douglas, who 0:10:52.559 --> 0:10:54.880 had a couple of nice moments. I don't know why 0:10:54.920 --> 0:10:58.600 they've hung on to Juju Smith, Schuster and Jalen Rager, 0:10:58.679 --> 0:11:02.080 but they have. They added free agent kg Osbourne who 0:11:02.080 --> 0:11:04.280 will run from the slot, but Douglas is already there. 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:08.600 They drafted Jalyn Polk in round two and Javon Baker 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.880 and Thor and I talked about these two just last week. 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.920 Thor likes Baker, doesn't like Polk, so you can go 0:11:16.000 --> 0:11:17.559 back and listen to last week's if you want to 0:11:17.600 --> 0:11:20.480 hear more details on how why he feels that way. 0:11:20.520 --> 0:11:23.560 But those guys are now there, but overall, this is 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.719 still a wide receiver group that feels like you want 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:30.160 to avoid unless you do want to throw some darts 0:11:30.200 --> 0:11:32.520 around at a guy like Javon Baker, who you can 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:35.280 get basically for free if you want to. He's wide 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:41.640 receiver eighty one. Right now, Hunter Henry remains like Koseki left. 0:11:41.640 --> 0:11:44.360 He gets replaced by Austin Hooper, who coming out just 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:45.800 call Austin Hooper a journeyman. 0:11:47.480 --> 0:11:49.000 I would say, I think he's more than that. I 0:11:49.040 --> 0:11:50.920 don't know what would be beyond a journey, and he's. 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:54.280 Like super elite. Super journey was something like that. 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:57.679 Five teams, six teams. 0:11:57.120 --> 0:12:00.360 Something like that. Former first rounder, if I recall correctly 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:03.120 on Austin Hooper obviously hasn't worked out. So does the 0:12:03.160 --> 0:12:05.400 passing game get better in New England? It basically can't 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.480 get worse. It was totally non functional last year, so 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.559 you know it will get better. But your big payoff 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:13.040 on this, on this passing offense is probably in seasons 0:12:13.080 --> 0:12:16.840 to come for the running game. I want to start 0:12:16.880 --> 0:12:19.800 by talking just a little bit about new offensive coordinator 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:24.600 Alex van Pelt. He was Kevin Stefanski's offensive coordinator for 0:12:24.640 --> 0:12:28.280 four years and Stefanski was the primary offensive mine behind 0:12:28.320 --> 0:12:32.600 the Browns offense, not Van Pelt. But if we assume 0:12:32.679 --> 0:12:35.800 that Van Pelt has been taking his cues from Stefanski, 0:12:36.360 --> 0:12:39.240 you could suggest that he's going to carry over some 0:12:39.280 --> 0:12:45.720 of Stefanski's tendencies towards running the ball. So with the Browns, 0:12:45.760 --> 0:12:48.600 over the last four years when Alex van Pelt was there, 0:12:49.920 --> 0:12:57.160 the team finished in run play percentage, The Browns finished fourth, sixth, eighth, 0:12:57.480 --> 0:12:59.000 and then last year when Nick Chubb got hurt, they 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.760 dropped down to seventeenth, but still four, six and eighth. 0:13:01.800 --> 0:13:03.719 I mean, it tells you this is a This was 0:13:03.760 --> 0:13:07.720 a run first, power running team when they had Nick Chubb. 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:11.560 And maybe that's what happens with Romandre Stevenson here, which 0:13:11.559 --> 0:13:15.680 would be interesting. Stevenson returns, but he fell off badly 0:13:15.840 --> 0:13:18.360 last year, and maybe it was just because he was 0:13:18.400 --> 0:13:20.600 getting no help from the passing game, but he failed 0:13:20.600 --> 0:13:23.679 to Pro Football focuses running back twenty six. He had 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.240 typically been inside the top ten. He was down to 0:13:26.360 --> 0:13:29.480 four yards per carry, which was down a full yard 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:32.840 from five yards per carry the weird year before for Stevenson. 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:37.839 And worse, the receptions just completely dried up, cut in half, 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:41.200 down to just thirty eight receptions last year. And he's 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:43.000 ideally built for goal line used, but the dude just 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:46.880 hasn't reliably scored touchdowns, but again, there is reason to 0:13:46.880 --> 0:13:49.120 think it could change under Alex van Pelt and maybe 0:13:49.120 --> 0:13:51.640 Stevenson's going to be that guy they brought in Antonio Gibson, 0:13:51.679 --> 0:13:55.720 Brian to me. That to me, I just don't think 0:13:55.760 --> 0:13:59.000 Gibson's all that good. And maybe he I think he 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:01.040 could see I could see him a pass catching role, 0:14:01.360 --> 0:14:02.760 but I don't think he's gonna take a lot of 0:14:02.800 --> 0:14:05.079 carries from Rmando Stevenson. What do you think? 0:14:06.120 --> 0:14:08.560 Yeah, I'm with you there. This is the year to 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:12.360 even though the Patriots are going nowhere, Stevenson deserves just 0:14:12.440 --> 0:14:14.200 a shot at being the bell cow. And I know 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:15.960 we fell off last year. I believe he did suffer 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.640 a somewhat serious ankle injury that caused him to miss 0:14:18.640 --> 0:14:23.240 some time, didn't come back as strong. But Antonio Gibson, 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:26.000 he might be the best wide receiver on that team 0:14:26.080 --> 0:14:29.720 right now. Former college wide receiver Antonio Gibson. 0:14:29.800 --> 0:14:30.440 Yeah, you hope. 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.840 So, I mean, overall, the Patriots. If you had to 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.080 pick one team where you just were disallowed from drafting 0:14:37.120 --> 0:14:41.520 anyone in fantasy football, it's the Patriots. With a bullet 0:14:41.560 --> 0:14:44.680 For me, this is probably the least exciting offense and 0:14:44.760 --> 0:14:46.880 all the football and all these teams. 0:14:47.000 --> 0:14:49.320 Yeah, and that might be our queue to sort of 0:14:49.600 --> 0:14:52.440 move along. They didn't, unfortunately. You know, they did put 0:14:52.440 --> 0:14:54.720 some draft picks into offensive line, third and fourth rounders, 0:14:54.720 --> 0:14:56.920 and maybe that'll improve an offensive line that didn't help 0:14:56.960 --> 0:15:00.360 a lot. So well, the Patriots running game get better. Yeah, 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:03.600 it probably will, because it fell off hard. And I 0:15:03.680 --> 0:15:06.960 just think through if we think that Alex van Pelt 0:15:07.080 --> 0:15:09.480 is going to have a run first orientation and protect 0:15:09.480 --> 0:15:14.560 his young quarterback, assuming Drake May gets reps at some point. Yeah, 0:15:14.880 --> 0:15:18.320 I'm kind of intrigued right now. Ramandra. Stevenson going off 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:21.080 the board is running back nineteen. Not bad. If I 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:23.600 can get a work horse what I hope I think 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.360 will be a workhorse running back running back now. 0:15:26.400 --> 0:15:28.520 Yeah, he's one of the one of the first candidates. 0:15:29.080 --> 0:15:32.880 If you deployed the do the opposite strategy, it will 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:35.560 be there round round five, round six. I like him 0:15:35.560 --> 0:15:38.520 a lot more than the aforementioned James Cook, who is 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:42.600 going six seven spots in terms of running backs ahead 0:15:42.600 --> 0:15:45.520 of Stevenson. I take Stevenson all day over James Cook. 0:15:45.960 --> 0:15:48.040 Stevenson really the only guy won on New England. Yeah, 0:15:48.480 --> 0:15:49.200 I'm really looking. 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.200 Pretty much, let's go to a much better offense. Let's 0:15:51.200 --> 0:15:53.640 talk Miami. Now here's here's some offense. 0:15:54.920 --> 0:15:57.080 Definitely some offense. But here's something to keep in mind 0:15:57.120 --> 0:16:00.840 when you're going to draft Dolphins this year. As we 0:16:00.880 --> 0:16:04.480 all know, this schedule has come out and a lot 0:16:04.480 --> 0:16:05.920 of people tend to look at the bye weeks and 0:16:05.920 --> 0:16:08.480 then they look at the playoff schedule, the fantasy playoff schedule. 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:14.400 Miami's playoff schedule sucks. Here it is starting in week 0:16:14.480 --> 0:16:18.560 thirteen at green Bay. We know Miami does not like 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:22.280 cold weather. Green Bay decent enough defense, so starts off 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:25.200 a little rocky there. Then week fourteen they have the 0:16:25.240 --> 0:16:29.560 Jets at home. Jets, great defense. Week fifteen at Texans, 0:16:30.120 --> 0:16:32.840 shootout potential there indoors with Texans. 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:36.680 Texans past defense has been has been good, Yeah. 0:16:36.280 --> 0:16:39.880 Very good. And Week sixteen they're at home. That's good 0:16:40.120 --> 0:16:42.600 against the forty nine ers, though presumably gonna be a 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:46.840 bad matchup defensively. And then week seventeen, here's here's the 0:16:47.240 --> 0:16:51.920 cherry on top per se at Cleveland in week seventeen. 0:16:53.160 --> 0:16:55.800 That's like it's a it's a tough road right there. 0:16:55.600 --> 0:16:58.120 Bench everyone, but there's a long way to go till 0:16:58.160 --> 0:16:58.480 we get there. 0:16:58.760 --> 0:17:00.920 Yeah, you know, you know I I don't put a 0:17:00.960 --> 0:17:03.720 ton of weight in the playoffs schedule. And here's why. 0:17:04.680 --> 0:17:07.800 A lot of times, if that playoff schedule's hard, the 0:17:07.840 --> 0:17:11.720 rest of the season is pretty easy. If I'm if 0:17:11.720 --> 0:17:13.840 i get to the halfway point of the season and 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:17.600 I'm motoring with my Dolphins and I'm already projecting ahead. 0:17:17.640 --> 0:17:19.840 You know, it's week nine and I'm seven to two 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:24.040 and I'm already starting to look at the playoffs, and 0:17:24.119 --> 0:17:27.480 I'm still worried about those defenses. If those four defenses 0:17:27.480 --> 0:17:30.359 are still really good, okay, then maybe I'm making a 0:17:30.440 --> 0:17:32.639 change and ide I can make a trade at that 0:17:32.680 --> 0:17:35.560 point if I need to. So I don't know, I don't. 0:17:35.920 --> 0:17:37.800 I don't let that bother me so too much. No, 0:17:38.359 --> 0:17:38.680 I'm with you. 0:17:38.760 --> 0:17:41.160 I shouldn't say I'm not like fading the Dolphins in drafts, 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:44.000 but the schedule is not even Keep in mind for scenario, 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:46.080 like you said, you get your money's worth out of them, 0:17:46.119 --> 0:17:48.040 then you you know, you flip them for something better, 0:17:48.119 --> 0:17:49.880 knowing that the road gets a lot tougher for him 0:17:49.920 --> 0:17:52.080 later in the season. But just keep that schedule in 0:17:52.119 --> 0:17:54.600 mind for sure, But by no means are you fading 0:17:55.040 --> 0:17:57.560 any of the Dolphins. Starting with Tyreek Hill, who's going 0:17:57.560 --> 0:18:00.359 off the board is wide receiver too right now, his 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:04.720 running mate or counterpart, Jalen Waddle wide receiver nineteen. We 0:18:04.800 --> 0:18:06.560 both kind of know what we get with those two guys. 0:18:06.560 --> 0:18:09.040 Tyreek Hill can be the best wide receiver in the 0:18:09.119 --> 0:18:12.399 league on any given day something happens to him. Jalen 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.439 Waddle sees a major uptick and volume, but Waddle is 0:18:15.480 --> 0:18:19.919 certainly the robin to Tyreek Hill's batman. The question here 0:18:20.160 --> 0:18:24.160 is the wide receiver three role, where we have two 0:18:24.320 --> 0:18:28.719 very different options in the very old Odell Beckham Junior 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:33.040 and then rookie Maleek Washington. Both are dirt cheap and 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:36.119 for good reason, they have a well they both have 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:39.239 very low floors. We know that if Odell Beckham can 0:18:39.280 --> 0:18:42.520 somehow rekindle his magic his youth, he takes the job. 0:18:42.560 --> 0:18:47.240 But leak Washington and intriguing and intriguing prospects here. If 0:18:47.280 --> 0:18:49.680 something were to happen to either Hill or Waddle and 0:18:50.840 --> 0:18:53.400 or Beckham, Washington could get some run in a high 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:56.520 octane offense. So he's a wide receiver I'm targeting late 0:18:56.920 --> 0:18:59.800 in redraft, not just dynasty, especially if I'm looking to 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:05.040 stay Dolphins. And if you're stacking Dolphins, you're looking at quarterback. 0:19:05.359 --> 0:19:08.000 Their quarterback tu Tungo Viola. I haven't said the last 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:09.439 name in a while. I took cat us right. 0:19:09.680 --> 0:19:11.720 It takes a minute. If you haven't, you haven't practiced it. 0:19:11.840 --> 0:19:15.240 Right now, I was a little you know, Tuas going 0:19:15.280 --> 0:19:18.680 off the board as QB fourteen right now, and I'm like, man, 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:20.640 that seems like kind of a good deal. He must 0:19:20.680 --> 0:19:24.239 have been a top ten quarterback last year. I went 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:28.600 back and looked. He finished as QB seventeen in points 0:19:28.600 --> 0:19:32.040 per game, which is not very good for an offense 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:34.440 that was as high powered as the Dolphins. To to 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:37.919 threw for three touchdowns in Week eight against New England, 0:19:38.440 --> 0:19:40.840 and that was the last time he hit that milestone 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:43.560 all season. It was in Week eight. Yeah, from that 0:19:43.640 --> 0:19:47.120 point on, he threw for multiple scores, meaning two touchdowns 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:49.560 in just three games post Week eight. 0:19:49.920 --> 0:19:50.600 Yeah, that hurts. 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:55.359 Zero zero rushing touchdowns all season for Tua. So right now, 0:19:55.560 --> 0:19:59.960 that QB fourteen price tag maybe seems a little overvalued now, 0:20:00.119 --> 0:20:04.040 So you think you think Tyreek Hill you think Jalen Waller, 0:20:04.040 --> 0:20:06.080 You're like, oh, I gotta have Tua. But Tua did 0:20:06.160 --> 0:20:10.280 not post the numbers that you that I remembered last year, 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:12.960 and uh, he's probably gonna fall in line with the 0:20:12.960 --> 0:20:17.080 same kind of production. Unless I cannot go to the 0:20:17.160 --> 0:20:19.440 running game without mentioning the new tight end in Miami, 0:20:19.760 --> 0:20:22.240 John u John who baby John? 0:20:22.520 --> 0:20:25.439 By the way, he's your starting tight end. It's you know, 0:20:25.480 --> 0:20:28.960 he's been locked into these dual roles where he's had 0:20:29.000 --> 0:20:31.879 to fight for fight for starting time. John Hu Smith 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:37.399 is your probable starting Week one tight end. And talking 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:39.840 about der cheap you can get John Hu Smith, I mean, 0:20:39.920 --> 0:20:42.160 name your price, right, you know who's gonna take him. 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:44.760 He's tight end twenty three off the board. He's the 0:20:44.800 --> 0:20:47.399 Dolphins starting tight end, and he's a crazy athlete. He 0:20:47.440 --> 0:20:52.160 fits the profile you know of no doubt of what 0:20:52.200 --> 0:20:55.480