Speaker 1: Hello, everybody, Welcome into the Fantasy Pros Football Podcast Microcast edition.
Speaker 1: I am Ryan Warmley, joined today by Andrew Erickson, and
Speaker 1: we are reacting to day one of NFL free agency.
Speaker 2: It's not really day one.
Speaker 1: It's day one of the tampering period of NFL free agency,
Speaker 1: and we're also going to be talking about some of
Speaker 1: the moves that happened over the weekend. It just gets
Speaker 1: earlier and earlier every year. Eric said, it seems like,
Speaker 1: so we've got a few different days worth of stuff
Speaker 1: coming here on this episode. We're gonna be with you
Speaker 1: every day this week, assuming there actually is news coming out.
Speaker 1: If there's a day where nothing really happens, we might
Speaker 1: skip it. But all week long we're going to be
Speaker 1: dropping in quick microcast reacting to everything going on in
Speaker 1: the NFL offseason. Ericson what is your kind of like
Speaker 1: overall reaction to this early swarm of free agency news.
Speaker 3: Not a lot of love for the running backs. There
Speaker 3: are not teams going after these running backs, very different
Speaker 3: from last year. I think the first signing was DeAndre
Speaker 3: Swift getting the back from the Chicago's affairs.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that was a week.
Speaker 3: Running back class. This running back class we know is
Speaker 3: much stronger, and I think NFL teams know that, so
Speaker 3: they're not investing their high end premium dollars into veteran
Speaker 3: running back when they know, hey, we can get these
Speaker 3: guys potentially cheaper in the NFL draft.
Speaker 1: There also isn't a Saquon Barkley or Derrick Henry available
Speaker 1: this year in terms of the veterans, and.
Speaker 4: That they don't do nausea like that, man, I mean
Speaker 4: I will.
Speaker 2: Do nauja like that. I stay by it.
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Speaker 2: We obviously have a ton of names to.
Speaker 1: Get through here ericson and a short amount of time
Speaker 1: to do it, So just to kind of let everybody know,
Speaker 1: we have more analysis on the website Fantasypros dot com.
Speaker 1: We will have other longer episodes where we can kind
Speaker 1: of dive deep into free agency winners and losers later
Speaker 1: on in the This is just kind of a quick
Speaker 1: what are we thinking, maybe some early thoughts on rankings,
Speaker 1: what's going on here in kind of this first free
Speaker 1: agent flurry. We'll start with the quarterbacks, and we'll start
Speaker 1: with the first one of the move these moves to happen,
Speaker 1: Gino Smith goes to the Raiders for a third round pick,
Speaker 1: reunited with Pete Carroll. Obviously, it's a franchise that had
Speaker 1: a need at quarterback. Geno is somebody who's been you know,
Speaker 1: certainly better than a lot of people expected when he first.
Speaker 2: Signed in Seattle.
Speaker 1: He's been able to overcome a week offensive line, He's
Speaker 1: had good receiving options. What was your initial reaction to
Speaker 1: seeing this move, Ericson? Was it about where my ranking
Speaker 1: Gino Smith? Was it about what is he doing for
Speaker 1: Brock Bauers and Jacobe Meers? What are they going to
Speaker 1: do in the draft? Was the first thing that came
Speaker 1: to your mind when he saw this move?
Speaker 3: Oh, no, I need update. I need to update my
Speaker 3: mock draft. That was the first thing that ended up happening.
Speaker 3: Because I had the Raiders going for Jue Sanders, which
Speaker 3: probably doesn't seem like the case, although them bringing in
Speaker 3: Geno doesn't necessarily mean they can't draft a rookie court
Speaker 3: by Gino Smith's coming to be thirty five years old,
Speaker 3: so he's not necessarily a spring chicken. But I think
Speaker 3: it goes back to again, we're fantasy guys we're talking about.
Speaker 4: I don't really care.
Speaker 3: He's going to mean the QB two range, someone that
Speaker 3: you're not going to draft in a one quarterback league.
Speaker 3: He's a pocket passer, doesn't add a lot of dalue
Speaker 3: with his legs, so it's about the pass catchers. How
Speaker 3: can he support this offense? And the one thing that
Speaker 3: Gino Smith has been his calling card the last three
Speaker 3: years in Seattle with all different offensive coordinators, is he's
Speaker 3: been super accurate, like he knows how to get the ball.
Speaker 3: He knows to get the ball to his playmakers, and
Speaker 3: Brock Bowers and Jacoby Myers at times last year did
Speaker 3: not have that. When they had Dezen Ridder throwing in
Speaker 3: the football. I mean, you had no faith that their
Speaker 3: receivers were going to get anything done. So I think
Speaker 3: it just helps justify the cost of Rock Bowers as
Speaker 3: the tight end one. I didn't think that Gino was
Speaker 3: going to be an option when we were looking at
Speaker 3: the landscape of potential quarterbacks. So I think that justifies
Speaker 3: him as the tight end one, and it's really good
Speaker 3: for Jacoby Myers. So that's kind of my take with
Speaker 3: Gino headaching to the.
Speaker 1: Raiders just quickly on Bowers. Gino doesn't throw to the
Speaker 1: tight end a lot. Is that to you more reflection
Speaker 1: of the tight end room in Seattle or like, are
Speaker 1: you worried at all about that from the Bower's perspective.
Speaker 3: Not really, because then we had this thing too with
Speaker 3: Russ when rust and throw the tight end either because
Speaker 3: of the offensive I mean, it has a.
Speaker 4: Lot to do with Shane Waldron.
Speaker 3: They were not a three wide receiver sets, so there's
Speaker 3: more receivers on the field.
Speaker 4: I think that they know who the best.
Speaker 3: Receiver on their team is and it's Brock Bowers, and
Speaker 3: Gino is going to feed that guy. And we've seen
Speaker 3: Gino put guys in position to succeed DK metcalf Lockett
Speaker 3: last year JSN, so I think Bowers will be heavily involved.
Speaker 1: Speaking of the Seahawks and quarterback, they spent over a
Speaker 1: hundred million dollars on Sam Darnald. I think it was
Speaker 1: something like fifty five million of that guaranteed over three years.
Speaker 1: Donald coming off a great year in Minnesota, but he
Speaker 1: was surrounded by great talent. He had awesome pass catchers,
Speaker 1: a good offensive line, a great play caller. I don't
Speaker 1: know if any of those is true for the current
Speaker 1: iteration of the Seahawks. I don't really understand this move
Speaker 1: from the franchise perspective, and I don't know that I
Speaker 1: can really get too behind it and optimistic from a
Speaker 1: fantasy perspective.
Speaker 2: What was your reaction to Darnald.
Speaker 3: His numbers are gonna be way worse with the Seattle Seahawks.
Speaker 3: This team, I think that you said at the top,
Speaker 3: the Vikings situation is the best you could ask for
Speaker 3: a quarterback. So wherever he goes, even if he went
Speaker 3: somewhere that was still kind of good, it was still
Speaker 3: gonna be a downgrade going anywhere from Minnesota. He has
Speaker 3: JSN that's his only wide receiver that he has to
Speaker 3: work with. I don't even it's not even worth me
Speaker 3: the listing off the other guys on the Seahawks' depth
Speaker 3: chart for receivers because they need to add to that
Speaker 3: position because of is.
Speaker 2: Jake Bobo their wide receiver two right now?
Speaker 3: Right now, Jake Bobo is the current wide receiver too.
Speaker 3: I know there's some Jake Bobo Truther's out there, but
Speaker 3: I mean going into the season as a wide receiver two,
Speaker 3: I don't love that for Sam Donald. So for me,
Speaker 3: it's definitely concerning with Donald. I don't think that it's
Speaker 3: going to I think it's good for the players like Jasn,
Speaker 3: like he's really the main guy we're drafting for fantasy purposes.
Speaker 3: We saw Sam Donald fuel a bunch of receivers to
Speaker 3: success multiple guys. So now if those targets are concentrated
Speaker 3: on Jsn, I mean, jaysm was averaging over eighteen points
Speaker 3: per game and half PPR when he got double digit targets.
Speaker 3: So although this offense with Klint Kubiak projects to be
Speaker 3: run heavy, they want to feature Ken Walker, feature Zach Sharbina.
Speaker 3: It had its moments last year when Derek Carr was
Speaker 3: actually playing with healthy receivers. Wasn't that long, but he
Speaker 3: did have his moments. So I don't think that Donald
Speaker 3: is going to be horrible. But I don't think he's
Speaker 3: going to be a top twenty four fantasy quarterback. I
Speaker 3: don't think he's gonna be getting close to his numbers,
Speaker 3: But I think he's gonna be able to support the
Speaker 3: guys we care about in the Seattle offense, assuming and
Speaker 3: this all predicates on they have to make the offensive line.
Speaker 1: I really worry about Donald behind this current offensive live.
Speaker 2: Yes, that is the that's priority one, two and three
Speaker 2: for the rest of this offseason for them.
Speaker 1: Yes, another quarterback here, Justin Field signs with the Jets
Speaker 1: for two years, forty million. This is a prediction that
Speaker 1: fits has made a lot this offseason as the next
Speaker 1: Jets started quarterback was going to be Justin Fields reunited
Speaker 1: with his college wide receiver Garrett Wilson. Obviously, Fields has
Speaker 1: been just like a remarkable fantasy asset to watch in
Speaker 1: the last few years.
Speaker 2: In terms of when.
Speaker 1: He's running, he looks like a top five fantasy quarterback.
Speaker 1: He's often not the starter, he hasn't been accurate, just
Speaker 1: a really difficult guy to to put your finger on.
Speaker 1: Over the last couple of years. He was somebody that
Speaker 1: I really liked in the class and actually thought the
Speaker 1: Jets should have drafted instead of Zach Wilson in that
Speaker 1: twenty twenty one class.
Speaker 2: So now they get their chance to unite in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Is field somebody that you see as hey, if he's
Speaker 1: a starter, just like the running is what it is.
Speaker 1: He is a top twelve fantasy quarterback as long as
Speaker 1: he's a starter or are you more hesitant?
Speaker 3: Now he's got the Konami code, he's got the running ability.
Speaker 3: And it's funny you mentioned he should have been drafted
Speaker 3: by the Jets way back when. That's why the Jersey
Speaker 3: swap pictures came out so quickly on social media because
Speaker 3: everybody had them in the queue ready to go from
Speaker 3: all those years ago when the Jets should have drafted
Speaker 3: him in the first place instead of Zack Wilson. So
Speaker 3: I don't think we need overthink it. He's a mobile quarterback.
Speaker 3: Because of the stink on his play the last couple
Speaker 3: of years, I don't think that he'll be that expensive
Speaker 3: as he should be. And he'd be reunited with Jarrett Wilson. Right,
Speaker 3: he played with Garret Wilson Ohio State. So we saw
Speaker 3: the chemistry with some of these receivers and quarterbacks. It
Speaker 3: translates to the field. I think we're gonna see that.
Speaker 3: So last year we got Arre Wilson wasn't the guy,
Speaker 3: he was DeVonta Adams. That's not gonna be the case,
Speaker 3: Like Garret Wilson is going to be the guy here
Speaker 3: with Justin Fields and are gonna be played.
Speaker 4: With yet again the best quarterback of his career so far.
Speaker 4: Is that the argument? So I do like this for
Speaker 4: Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 3: For Breese Hall, I don't love it from a pass
Speaker 3: game perspective with him because I don't expect Fields necessarily
Speaker 3: checked the ball down as much as some of these
Speaker 3: non mobile quarterbacks. So I will say I don't necessarily
Speaker 3: like this for Breese Hall, but definitely boost for Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 1: One other kind of quarterback adjacent move here, the Commanders
Speaker 1: traded for Laramie Tunsel right before we started recording. By
Speaker 1: the way, just to give everybody a sense, it's about
Speaker 1: four o'clock eastern, So any moves that come later on
Speaker 1: in the evening will hit on those tomorrow in that recap.
Speaker 1: But yeah, just before we started taping, Laramie Tunseel trade
Speaker 1: to the Commanders obviously a boost for Jaden Daniels Tunzel
Speaker 1: wasn't his like same crazy dominantself last year as he was,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe in twenty twenty three, So obviously they
Speaker 1: are kind of banking on him bouncing back to that level.
Speaker 1: But Tunsll is very very talented player. I think he's
Speaker 1: what only like thirty ish or something like that still,
Speaker 1: so it's not like he's old. He could be a
Speaker 1: real boost to this offense.
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 3: Look, they they need to build around Jade and Daniels.
Speaker 3: You have the quarterback on the rookie contract, so let's
Speaker 3: get in these players that we can establish as starters.
Speaker 3: Upgrades at receiver, at offensive line, no arguments for me.
Speaker 3: This is obviously boost for Jade Daniels, even though they
Speaker 3: didn't go after Again, we learned this last year where
Speaker 3: you can get all the flashy receivers for guys like
Speaker 3: Caleb Williams, but if the offensive line isn't intact, it
Speaker 3: doesn't matter. So I kind of like how the commanders
Speaker 3: are going about this, making sure his protection is good
Speaker 3: to go.
Speaker 1: Moving on from the quarterback position, I want to talk
Speaker 1: about some of these wide receivers. The biggest news probably
Speaker 1: maybe yet. I tell me if you disagree in terms
Speaker 1: of just strictly fantasy impact. Is DK Metcalf being traded
Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh Steelers gave up a second round pick. He's
Speaker 1: now currently as of right now paired with George Pickens.
Speaker 1: I know there was some talk online of maybe they're
Speaker 1: going to look to flip Pickens for picks. Don't know
Speaker 1: if that will happen or not, but right now it's DK,
Speaker 1: Mecha and George Pickens in that wide receiver room. What
Speaker 1: was your reaction to this one? Was it more about
Speaker 1: what it means for DK Metcalf? Was it more about
Speaker 1: what it means for the guys he's even behind in
Speaker 1: Seattle and namely JSN. Was it more about how this
Speaker 1: impacts George Pickens? What was kind of the first takeaway?
Speaker 3: I'm just kind of looking at Metcalf as a receiver.
Speaker 3: It's kind of always been that cusp of ahwa is
Speaker 3: he going to be a top five guy? He's always
Speaker 3: kind of been more of that fantasy back end, fantasy
Speaker 3: wide receiver one. I think the conversation we've always had is, well,
Speaker 3: him and Tyre Lockett just put up the same numbers
Speaker 3: every single year, but we always draft lock it way
Speaker 3: way way later. So I think Metcalf has left some
Speaker 3: to be desired with what the expectations have been. I
Speaker 3: think that might be the case here again with Pittsburgh,
Speaker 3: we know that's not going to be justin fields as
Speaker 3: his quarterback, so we still need to kind of put
Speaker 3: that to the test. We'll see who's throwing him the football.
Speaker 3: But I don't think I'm going out in a limb
Speaker 3: saying that. There's obviously an overlapping skill set between him
Speaker 3: and George Pickens. So it wouldn't surprise me if they
Speaker 3: moved on for Pickins. They traded him, And if there's
Speaker 3: anyone that knows when to Gophers receivers and when to
Speaker 3: get rid of them, it's Pittsburgh Steelers. So the fact
Speaker 3: that they trade for Metcalf instead of extending George Pickens first,
Speaker 3: that tells me they viewed Metcalf as the alpha. So
Speaker 3: if these guys are playing together, it's no contest for
Speaker 3: me who the guy I want would be, and that
Speaker 3: would be Metcalf. And obviously that's going to be dependent
Speaker 3: on who the quarterback is. With a couple guys thrown
Speaker 3: out here in some rumors.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we'll have to see the quarterback as to
Speaker 1: really kind of reacting further, and maybe that's something we'll
Speaker 1: find out by this time tomorrow. By the way, just
Speaker 1: going backwards of it, because I meant to ask this
Speaker 1: and I don't want to ignore this side of it.
Speaker 1: On that Laramie Tunsil trade, quickly, what do you think
Speaker 1: about CJ. Stroud as a result of this?
Speaker 2: Because the offensive line.
Speaker 1: Was already bad last year and it was a real
Speaker 1: problem for that offense. Like, are you worried Tunsil is
Speaker 1: not a very easy guy to replace?
Speaker 2: I wouldn't think so.
Speaker 3: I think the thing with the Texans, and I thought
Speaker 3: that was really interesting, was so in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 3: so they hit a rookie year. The Texans offensive line
Speaker 3: was really injured, yes, but it ended up not playing
Speaker 3: that horribly last year. They actually had most of their
Speaker 3: guys for the most of the season. They just all
Speaker 3: played terrible. So I think it was really more of
Speaker 3: a schematic thing than anything else. So I think that
Speaker 3: this is a move for Houston looking ahead, saying I
Speaker 3: don't know if Tunsel fits what we want to try
Speaker 3: and do and implement here with our new offensive coordinator
Speaker 3: coming from the Rams, I don't know if this is
Speaker 3: the right guy that we need for our new offense
Speaker 3: and kind of what we're gonna do to help protect CJ.
Speaker 3: So that would be my take on it. Again, you're
Speaker 3: still losing a talented guy, but like you said, he
Speaker 3: was there last year and didn't help. So maybe this
Speaker 3: is a way that the textas are trying to cut
Speaker 3: their losses with the player that in the market is
Speaker 3: viewed higher than you in the building.
Speaker 1: Back to the receivers. Devanta Adams another big name on
Speaker 1: the move. He signs with the Rams two years, forty
Speaker 1: six million. The you know talk from pretty much everybody
Speaker 1: is going to slot right into that Cooper Cup role.
Speaker 1: Does this knock Puka down a few spots for you
Speaker 1: just because now there is and Devanta Adams, Like, I
Speaker 1: know the offense is that he was in last year,
Speaker 1: weren't that productive. He's still a good player, Like maybe
Speaker 1: he's not what he was in his prime, but he's
Speaker 1: a good player. Matthew Stafford is a good quarterback, Like
Speaker 1: this seems like a really attractive landing spot pretty much
Speaker 1: all the way around, even on the Puka side, Like
Speaker 1: we'll take away some targets, yes, but now Puka's not
Speaker 1: the only option in this offense.
Speaker 3: When this move went down, my immediate thought was Devanta
Speaker 3: Adams already one free agency before it started. Like that
Speaker 3: was my initial reaction to it. So I was I
Speaker 3: thought this was the best landing spot that he could get.
Speaker 3: You made a point where if he's in this Cooper
Speaker 3: cup role, we've seen Matthew Stafford. This guy turns anybody
Speaker 3: into a receiver god when it comes to fantasy production.
Speaker 3: Remember Kenny Galladay, remember him, Yeah, he was good with
Speaker 3: Maview Stafford. So I think that Devanta Adams, yes, exactly,
Speaker 3: and Matthew Stafford made him a thousand yard receiver catching
Speaker 3: double digit touchdowns. So I love this move for Adams.
Speaker 3: I think that he's hardly he's very far from wash.
Speaker 3: And even though it's not Aaron Rodgers, not Derek Carr
Speaker 3: throwing him the football, it's Matthew Stafford. So I don't
Speaker 3: even really see necessarily. Maybe he's not jammed as many
Speaker 3: targets in the red zone as Rogers would do, but
Speaker 3: Stafford is definitely good enough to help support him. We've
Speaker 3: seen him support double digit or two up to two
Speaker 3: fantasy wide receiver ones. I'm not sure if that'll be
Speaker 3: the case. But just imagine this Ryan, where there's a
Speaker 3: week where pokin Aakua misses a game where you're ranking
Speaker 3: Devanta Adams.
Speaker 4: In your rankings that week.
Speaker 2: I mean, for sure sure top five.
Speaker 1: I was gonna say easily top eight, probably higher exactly.
Speaker 3: So if you have that scenario where I Pooka misses
Speaker 3: a bunch of games, this is a month because of
Speaker 3: the way that he plays, Oh wow, now you have
Speaker 3: that other element of Adams game where yeah, I think
Speaker 3: that both guys into your first point, your first question.
Speaker 3: It does knock Pooka Nikoua down a little bit just
Speaker 3: because Adams is such an alpha. But if the trade
Speaker 3: off is, okay, he's not averaging top three production, but
Speaker 3: maybe he stays a little bit healthier because he's not
Speaker 3: being thrown as many targets. We know the Rams like
Speaker 3: to have the concent traded offenses anyway, So I think
Speaker 3: both guys are going to eat and I think I
Speaker 3: want to draft both of them.
Speaker 1: I think it's clear of the quarterbacks we've talked about
Speaker 1: so far that Sam Darnold is the guy you're gonna
Speaker 1: rank lowest and Field is the guy you're gonna rank highest.
Speaker 1: Outside of Jane Daniels, who we just kind of hit
Speaker 1: on tangentially, But those other two, Gino Smith and Matthew Stafford,
Speaker 1: who do you prefer out of those two?
Speaker 4: Stafford?
Speaker 2: You like Stafford better?
Speaker 4: For Matthew Stafford, yeah, I still think.
Speaker 2: That I would have him there too. I just wanted
Speaker 2: to make sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I still think with I mean, we'll see how
Speaker 3: the Chip Kelly offense, the rumblings in terms of what
Speaker 3: they're going to be offense, pass heavy or run heavy,
Speaker 3: things like that.
Speaker 4: I think just Stafford.
Speaker 3: To me, it's about the touchdowns, right, and when you
Speaker 3: have Davante Adams and Pokinaku as your top two wide receivers,
Speaker 3: I think that Matthew Stafford could throw a lot of touchdowns.
Speaker 4: Really. That's uh so that's kind of my take.
Speaker 1: Another wide receiver going to a new team, a guy
Speaker 1: you and I have talked about on many occasions on
Speaker 1: various iterations of the show. Josh Palmer signs at the
Speaker 1: Bills three years, thirty six million. I regret to inform
Speaker 1: you as a Ravens fan, I love this move for
Speaker 1: the Bills. I think it's a great signing. I think
Speaker 1: he's going to help this team I think Palmer is
Speaker 1: a good player. I don't know as far as fantasy goes,
Speaker 1: because Josh Allen like part of what led him to
Speaker 1: winning his fraudulent MVP last season was the fact that
Speaker 1: he spread the ball around so much.
Speaker 2: There wasn't that Sefon Diggs type.
Speaker 1: Obviously now that Josh Palmer was Stefan Diggs, you know,
Speaker 1: before coming to Buffalo. But I would imagine this is
Speaker 1: still a scenario where they are just taking what defenses
Speaker 1: are giving them with the soabigns whoever is open. But
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I think Palmer is
Speaker 1: a good player and he makes this offense better.
Speaker 4: I agree.
Speaker 3: I think it's a good real life signing. The Bills
Speaker 3: needed to add another pass catcher. If anything, the fact
Speaker 3: that it's Josh Palmer more of a complimentary receiver. I know,
Speaker 3: I was really high in him last year. He ended
Speaker 3: up not firing. It was Mconkie and Quentin Johnson and
Speaker 3: I'm having the best seasons. I know that Palmer was
Speaker 3: also kind of banged up again, so that's the other
Speaker 3: thing with him. He is constantly kind of dealing and
Speaker 3: playing through injuries, but he's flashed ceilings at times. So
Speaker 3: we'll see we're gonna have to be digging through all
Speaker 3: the off season reports to try to figure out which
Speaker 3: one of these Bills receivers is going to step up
Speaker 3: for me. It still goes back to I'm willing to
Speaker 3: go back to the Dalton King Kid well because everything
Speaker 3: that they've talked about with him last year was this
Speaker 3: guy was so injured that he could barely function. So
Speaker 3: if I'm looking for, what do I win when I win?
Speaker 3: If I win with Dalton Kid Kinkaid being the guy
Speaker 3: that's the main pass catcher besides Khalil Shakir at tight end,
Speaker 3: that's the biggest win in my estimate. And trying to guess, oh,
Speaker 3: I hit on the right Bills wide receiver, Well, there's
Speaker 3: other receivers I could draft. Whereas if I hit on
Speaker 3: King Kid and he actually does emerge as that tight
Speaker 3: end one, well, now I have an advantage at the
Speaker 3: tight end position with King k now going outside the
Speaker 3: top ten tight ends, or at least that's what I
Speaker 3: would guess.
Speaker 1: We'll wrap it fire through the rest of these to
Speaker 1: make sure we get out on time. The other two
Speaker 1: names that changed teams that at least wanted to mention
Speaker 1: Elijah Mitchell going to the Chiefs. I think it's probably
Speaker 1: a good thing for Pacheco. Mitchell's not going to steal
Speaker 1: any of the pass catching work from him, so maybe
Speaker 1: that's an opportunity for Pacheco. And then Deanmie Brown to
Speaker 1: the Jags one year deal. You know, he's a fine
Speaker 1: piece any just great quick thoughts on Mitchell or Brown.
Speaker 3: Elijah Mitchell will not be this year's JK. Dobbins, I'm
Speaker 3: afraid to report. I don't think that's going to be
Speaker 3: the case here. I think the thing with Dobbins and
Speaker 3: even Cream Hunt, when these guys signed with their teams,
Speaker 3: they had coaching connections to them that made me more
Speaker 3: bullish or at least bullsh on JK. Dobbins because he
Speaker 3: was getting reunited with Greg Rohman. That was the reason
Speaker 3: why I was like picking back. I'm like, why did
Speaker 3: I end up turning a little bit? And obviously you
Speaker 3: were in my ear about JK. Dobbins as well, and
Speaker 3: I was thinking about Shad Mitchell be that guy that's
Speaker 3: been injured for so long? Do you think he could
Speaker 3: come back and be this player? And then I thought
Speaker 3: about it more. I'm like, doesn't really have any coaching connections.
Speaker 3: To me, it seems like more like, hey, he's free,
Speaker 3: he's a depth piece. Let's Adam. We had a bunch
Speaker 3: of running back injuries, so I agree with him. Not
Speaker 3: super into Mitchell and Dimie Brown. Yeah, I think that
Speaker 3: he's a you know, wide receiver.
Speaker 1: Three.
Speaker 3: He's a deep threat, combinedary piece to Brian Thomas, who's
Speaker 3: going to get all the targets in Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: Just gotta read through some of these other ones. Jalen
Speaker 1: Warren's second round tender from the Steelers. Aaron Jones resigns
Speaker 1: with the Vikings. A couple of tight ends. Zach Ertz
Speaker 1: resigns with the Commanders, Mike Sicki resigns with the Bengals.
Speaker 1: Marquise Brown is back in Kansas City, so myajp Rhyan
Speaker 1: does not go to Tampa.
Speaker 2: He resigns with the Bengals.
Speaker 1: The last one that I can get your thoughts on
Speaker 1: before we wrap up, Chris Godwin resigns with the Bucks
Speaker 1: three years, sixty six million, one of the bigger moves
Speaker 1: of the day. Sticking in Tampa Bay. Apparently turned down
Speaker 1: more money he could have gotten from the Patriots, which
Speaker 1: I would have loved as a big Drake May investor.
Speaker 1: What were your thoughts seeing Godwin stick around? And you know,
Speaker 1: obviously Liam Cohen has gone, offense might look a little different.
Speaker 2: What do you think about this one.
Speaker 3: I don't know why nobody wants to play with the Patriots.
Speaker 3: It was almost sixty degrees today. Man, this is the
Speaker 3: warm weather right here in March. So blows my mind.
Speaker 3: No one wants to play with Drake May. Couldn't be me.
Speaker 3: I think that it's a great signing for Chris Gobin
Speaker 3: to go back to the Buccaneers again. It seemed like
Speaker 3: there was a chance he was going to go elsewhere.
Speaker 3: Like you said, the Patriots were offering him more money.
Speaker 3: But he wants to succeed and he knows he's gonna
Speaker 3: find success in Tampa Bay. I know that Liam Cohen's gone,
Speaker 3: maybe his role is a little bit different with the
Speaker 3: new officic coordinator coming in, but he was with the
Speaker 3: team last year, and before that he was with Miami,
Speaker 3: and you know, Miami had a couple good receiver seasons
Speaker 3: between Jalen Wall and Tarry Kill over the last couple
Speaker 3: of seasons. So I'm confident that this Buccaneer's offense with
Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield still at the helm. Again, I sometimes think
Speaker 3: we over evaluate the coaching thing a little bit when
Speaker 3: we don't look at, well, who's the quarterback, like he's
Speaker 3: the one that matters. Like Baker mayfield'sen getting guys jobs
Speaker 3: left and right because he's been playing well. So Godwin
Speaker 3: was the he led the NFL receptions before his injury
Speaker 3: last year. And I know it's his second season ending injury,
Speaker 3: but ankle dislocation a little bit different than like a
Speaker 3: horn acl injury or something along those lines. So I'm
Speaker 3: excited for Chris Goblin. I think that the fact that
Speaker 3: it's Godwin, Evans and Ngelackmillan all back, I think it's
Speaker 3: gonna suppress their prices. I do think this hurts McMillan
Speaker 3: a little bit in terms of his second year breakout potential,
Speaker 3: just because there's two alphas in front of him. But
Speaker 3: I think that I want pieces of all these really
Speaker 3: productive guys. They're all really good players, and Godwin was
Speaker 3: on such a tear before his injury last year, and
Speaker 3: he's only twenty nine.
Speaker 2: So you did hear me say rabbit fire right? Just
Speaker 2: just clarify, I did say that, man, you got me on.
Speaker 3: Chris Cobbin, you got me on the Patriots like that
Speaker 3: rabbid fire does not exist.
Speaker 2: We're off of there.
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