WEBVTT - Do The Opposite - RBs to Target 0:00:00.200 --> 0:00:03.880 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:06.000 --> 0:00:10.280 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:14.320 source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and 0:00:14.360 --> 0:00:17.720 whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. Now, 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:19.520 here's your host, Paul Charchian. 0:00:23.040 --> 0:00:26.760 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm Paul Charchian. Co host 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:28.840 today Kent Wyrock. 0:00:28.920 --> 0:00:32.320 Hey, Kent, Hey, how are we doing? Paul Well? 0:00:32.400 --> 0:00:36.840 I spent last weekend at Circa Swim in Las Vegas 0:00:36.840 --> 0:00:41.400 for the Scott Fishbowl, the first drafts len of the 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:46.440 Scott Fish Bowl season. And as much as I love Minnesota, 0:00:46.920 --> 0:00:49.879 and as much as I love the Minnesota event, it 0:00:49.920 --> 0:00:52.960 ain't the same as being at Stadium Swim at Circa. 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:55.520 Let me tell you, Kent, oh, one hundred percent. I've 0:00:55.560 --> 0:00:58.320 been there for a different fantasy draft actually, and I 0:00:58.440 --> 0:00:59.800 was out there with some buddies, so we had a 0:00:59.800 --> 0:01:02.720 lot of fun. And man, it's it's that plays down 0:01:02.760 --> 0:01:05.960 in the downtown is like nothing else that that's around it. 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.000 It's yeah, it's the oasis of downtown. 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:10.440 Isn't Circa Fremont Street and all the man that's going 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:11.960 on there, And then down at the end you got 0:01:12.000 --> 0:01:14.080 circa just lighten up the city. 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:17.440 All right now, since we're talking about Fremont Street, and 0:01:17.520 --> 0:01:20.640 I don't want to go old man and everybody shaking 0:01:20.680 --> 0:01:25.360 his fist in the front lawn. But Fremont Street has 0:01:25.400 --> 0:01:30.840 got people bring their kids all the time to Fremont Street. A. 0:01:31.400 --> 0:01:34.199 You shouldn't be bringing your kid to Fremont Street. It's 0:01:34.200 --> 0:01:38.280 like every twelfth person is smoking a doobie. There's a 0:01:38.880 --> 0:01:43.000 you know, barely clothed people. There's all the all the 0:01:43.040 --> 0:01:47.120 weed shops, there's these all these T shirt places that 0:01:47.160 --> 0:01:53.000 have got really really deeply disturbing T shirts and just 0:01:53.000 --> 0:01:55.240 stuff that no kids should have to have, that you 0:01:55.240 --> 0:01:58.000 know should have that, in my opinion, have all of 0:01:58.040 --> 0:02:02.520 that input on them. And so I got two the 0:02:02.520 --> 0:02:04.600 two problems with the parents and some of them I 0:02:04.640 --> 0:02:06.720 think don't know how bad it's going to be until 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:10.079 they get there. And then I just don't think Las 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:12.919 Vegas should should have that stuff in such in an 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.880 area that is where you know you're going to track families. 0:02:16.040 --> 0:02:18.600 I'm not saying that stuff shouldn't exist. I just think 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:22.239 it shouldn't be somewhere where you know it's swarming with families. 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.360 But Paul, what about the guys wearing the twelve year 0:02:25.360 --> 0:02:27.320 old Ninja turtle costumes asking you for money? 0:02:27.400 --> 0:02:30.880 Yeah? Getting sure friendly, Well right exactly. That that bugs 0:02:30.919 --> 0:02:34.360 me too, is you know, like every fifteen feet there's 0:02:34.400 --> 0:02:36.520 some performer trying to shake you down for money. 0:02:37.080 --> 0:02:39.440 Oh, big time. It's a shakedown city. I mean, if 0:02:39.440 --> 0:02:40.720 we're being honest, well. 0:02:40.560 --> 0:02:44.520 It's certainly become a shakedown city. But I had the 0:02:44.520 --> 0:02:47.000 first I had the six pick of the Scout fish Bowl. 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:52.760 And this new weird scoring system Kent is basically anybody 0:02:52.760 --> 0:02:54.440 with a ball in their hand a lot is worth 0:02:54.440 --> 0:02:56.960 a lot. Tight ends are still at a premium. And 0:02:57.000 --> 0:02:59.560 so with pick six overall, I took the second tight 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:02.079 end off the board in Trey McBride. 0:03:02.560 --> 0:03:04.400 I was gonna say it was Bowers one, huh and 0:03:04.400 --> 0:03:05.560 then McBride second. 0:03:05.600 --> 0:03:07.760 Yeah, yep. He prow was the first to go, and 0:03:07.800 --> 0:03:11.440 then McBride. And honestly, I don't I don't necessarily have 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.160 a problem with that. In round two, I got to 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:16.560 Pukinnakua was there in the middle of round two, so 0:03:16.560 --> 0:03:18.680 I'm like, okay, I'll do that. A lot of quarterbacks. 0:03:18.680 --> 0:03:21.600 There were five quarterbacks taken in the first round and 0:03:21.880 --> 0:03:25.920 just yeah and yeah, and so I decided I didn't 0:03:25.919 --> 0:03:28.400 intend to, didn't go into the draft planning to slough quarterback, 0:03:28.440 --> 0:03:31.400 but I did, and I ended up later taking Drake May, 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.400 Jordan Love, Gino Smith, and now I may take a 0:03:34.400 --> 0:03:37.520 couple more stabs at quarterback later. But you know, we 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.240 don't have anything to go by. We were the very 0:03:39.360 --> 0:03:41.720 first draft to go off the board, so we don't 0:03:41.760 --> 0:03:45.240 have any Scott fish Bowl ADP. We don't have a president. 0:03:45.280 --> 0:03:47.240 We're not you know, we didn't crack open the scoring 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:49.520 system necessarily the way people are going to later on. 0:03:50.440 --> 0:03:52.800 Yeah, there were some people doing some mock drafts out there. 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:54.800 You can, you can find a little bit of information 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:56.480 if you want. But what I've found over the years 0:03:56.560 --> 0:03:58.800 that when you get to the real deal, people pull 0:03:58.840 --> 0:04:01.360 out the strategies that they've keeping up their sleeves even 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:04.640 through the mock draft season. So, uh, it's pretty tough 0:04:04.680 --> 0:04:06.720 to get a good read on Scott Fishful stuff before 0:04:06.720 --> 0:04:09.320 it happens, because it's different every year. It's always something 0:04:09.360 --> 0:04:11.560 new with Scott and and it's great. I love that 0:04:11.640 --> 0:04:13.560 because it you know, it's a good reason for me 0:04:13.640 --> 0:04:15.600 to kind of go through the numbers a little bit. 0:04:15.640 --> 0:04:17.680 See how it affects things like are people going to 0:04:17.720 --> 0:04:20.320 be asleep at the wheel going through their normal routines 0:04:20.400 --> 0:04:22.320 or are they going to be prepared to know what's 0:04:22.320 --> 0:04:24.039 a little bit more valuable in this type of scoring. 0:04:24.120 --> 0:04:26.560 So yeah, it's a lot of fun Two because it's 0:04:26.640 --> 0:04:30.480 all flex this year. There are no mandatory positions at all. 0:04:31.520 --> 0:04:34.240 One of our teams went seven straight running backs to 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.600 open the draft, and one of them went six straight 0:04:36.640 --> 0:04:40.560 wide receivers to open the draft, and that's this is 0:04:40.560 --> 0:04:41.800 the only time you're ever going to do that. 0:04:43.040 --> 0:04:45.200 I was gonna say that that's funny to me because 0:04:45.200 --> 0:04:46.560 I don't know if I'm want to be drafting any 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:50.240 wide receivers. If I'm being honest, you don't find out. Yeah, yep, Yeah, 0:04:50.279 --> 0:04:52.160 it's it's a weird scoring system, for sure. 0:04:52.279 --> 0:04:54.720 It is. And some people have got are going to 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:56.919 have some real advantages if they if they cracked the 0:04:56.920 --> 0:04:59.840 code early on it for sure. Speaking of drafting a 0:05:00.000 --> 0:05:04.400 a lot of receivers early today, you and I are 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:07.760 going to talk about do the opposite. Now Kent, longtime 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:11.240 listeners are familiar with do the opposite because we've been 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.080 talking about it on this show for almost twenty years, 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.560 and then some guy put his own spin on it, 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.160 while it's not his own spin, he took, he took 0:05:20.240 --> 0:05:23.720 our spin, called it zero running Back, and he had 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:26.279 a bigger platform than this podcast did, apparently, and the 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:30.479 thing took off. But we're talking about fundamentally the same thing. 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.039 It originated here on this show and in the print 0:05:33.080 --> 0:05:35.279 versions of Fantasy Football Weekly, and we still call it 0:05:35.320 --> 0:05:37.120 do the opposite because we know that we were first 0:05:37.160 --> 0:05:39.480 by a decade and we're not a Johnny come Lately 0:05:39.560 --> 0:05:43.400 to this concept. The IgA idea Kent, as you probably know, 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:46.680 is that running backs have the highest injury rate and 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:50.720 the highest failure rate. So we shouldn't be spending our first, 0:05:51.200 --> 0:05:53.360 our most valuable picks at the top of the draft 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:57.560 on the most dangerous position, and we should put that 0:05:57.680 --> 0:06:00.760 risk into the middle of our draft and go with 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:05.000 other other position players quarterbacks, wide receivers, and tight ends. 0:06:05.480 --> 0:06:09.000 And you know, running backs obviously get hurt constantly because 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:11.880 they get tackled constantly, and it's all kinds of contact 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.720 for them, in high speed contact. And the other part 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:17.560 is they just they just come and go so fast. 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:19.719 Ken I'm gonna give you from just two. We're just 0:06:19.760 --> 0:06:24.760 two seasons removed from these players being top ten EIGHTP 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:26.480 running backs two seasons. 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:30.040 Jeremy I don't like this, but let's go for it running. 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:36.679 Back two, Austin Eckler running back four, Nick Chubb running 0:06:36.720 --> 0:06:41.880 back seven, Romandre Stevenson running back, nine, Najie Harris running back, ten, 0:06:42.160 --> 0:06:46.880 Travis Etn. All of them are outside of the top 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:52.880 thirty running backs now just two years later. Meanwhile, Kent, 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:57.080 here's the here's the wide receivers were from the same year, 0:06:57.160 --> 0:07:02.520 twenty twenty three. Top ten wide receivers by ADP, Justin Jefferson, 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:07.320 Lamar Chase Tyreek Hill, Cooper Cup, Stefan Diggs, Ceedee lamb, 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:10.600 aj Brown, I'm on Ross Saint Brown, DeVante Adams, Garrett Wilson, 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:12.640 and Jalen Waddle. Almost all of. 0:07:12.600 --> 0:07:14.800 Them essentially all still in the mix, right up to. 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:16.920 All of them at least partially in the mix, and 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:20.440 most of them, most all of them going inside the 0:07:20.480 --> 0:07:26.120 top thirty, unlike Eckler, Chubbs, Stevenson, Harrison, etn. And it 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:28.480 tells you about just the volatility and the drop off 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:36.120 cliff for running backs. And by the way, quarterbacks. Just 0:07:36.120 --> 0:07:39.800 as a side note, only two of the of the 0:07:39.840 --> 0:07:43.680 top ten quarterbacks from a couple of years ago are 0:07:43.800 --> 0:07:46.560 outside of the top ten this year. Otherwise it's the 0:07:46.560 --> 0:07:48.560 same eight guys. Eight of the ten of the are 0:07:48.640 --> 0:07:51.320 still in the top ten ADP. Right now, there's so 0:07:51.440 --> 0:07:53.240 much stability at the quarterback position. 0:07:54.000 --> 0:07:56.400 So yeah, we kind of went through a banner change 0:07:56.600 --> 0:07:58.880 around that time from the old guard of like the 0:07:58.880 --> 0:08:01.520 Philip Rivers, Ben Rotha Burger era, and now we're in 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:04.000 this kind of new standard era. So that's going to 0:08:04.080 --> 0:08:05.280 last for a long time. 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:06.840 I think I want to tell you one of those 0:08:06.840 --> 0:08:11.360 ten quarterbacks that were in the top ten two years ago, 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:18.600 Deshaun Watson. Now, yeah, those dumbasses, and I remember at 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:20.880 the time, I'm like, you guys are crazy, you don't 0:08:20.880 --> 0:08:23.520 know what you're doing. And I think everybody's optimistic they 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:25.400 were going to get the old Deshaun Watson in Cleveland, 0:08:25.440 --> 0:08:28.080 but it did not obviously did not work out that way. 0:08:29.000 --> 0:08:33.040 So for do the opposite, we essue running backs for 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:35.240 five rounds. That was where I drew the line in 0:08:35.320 --> 0:08:37.040 the sand. You get to decide if you want it 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:38.720 to be four, you wanted to be seven, or eight, 0:08:38.800 --> 0:08:41.240 however far you want. But I for me, I go 0:08:41.320 --> 0:08:45.199 five rounds. And let me tell you. If we were 0:08:45.200 --> 0:08:46.920 to just draft Kent, you and I were going to 0:08:47.000 --> 0:08:50.600 draft right through the middle of every round. Right now, 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:53.360 Let's go through five rounds without taking a running back, 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.160 and I'll tell you what your team would look like 0:08:56.320 --> 0:09:00.840 picking guys by today's ADP as we're recording from the 0:09:00.840 --> 0:09:03.439 middle of every round, and what your what your roster 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:06.480 would look like heading into round six. And then you 0:09:06.520 --> 0:09:09.840 and I are going to reveal the running backs that 0:09:09.880 --> 0:09:14.920 we would take beginning round six. So here's my here's 0:09:14.920 --> 0:09:17.080 my sample draft. And obviously you could do your you 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:19.120 could do your own variations on these, and you might 0:09:19.120 --> 0:09:21.080 be picking at the beginning of the first round, the 0:09:21.080 --> 0:09:23.000 beginning of the first round, whatever, But we're just gonna 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.959 go through the middle. Your first five rounds could look 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:33.040 like ce d Lamb, Brock Bowers, Davante, Adams, or Terry McLaren. Kent. 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.480 You make the pick you want, Adams or mclauren. I 0:09:35.520 --> 0:09:40.000 still like Adams there Adams to me too, Lamb, Bowers, Davante, Adams, 0:09:40.400 --> 0:09:43.160 Jade and Daniels in the fourth round, and I'll go 0:09:43.280 --> 0:09:46.320 Zay Flowers in the fifth round. So, Kent, how do 0:09:46.320 --> 0:09:48.520 you feel about this team of CD Lamb, brock Bowers, 0:09:48.559 --> 0:09:51.880 Davante Adams, Jaden Daniels, and Zay Flowers through five? 0:09:52.600 --> 0:09:54.000 Well, I'll tell you what I'd be I'd be pretty 0:09:54.000 --> 0:09:56.360 happy with that. If we can, you know, find some 0:09:56.480 --> 0:10:00.920 running backs here that either can out outperform a or 0:10:00.960 --> 0:10:02.640 if we get a little lotto ticket kind of on 0:10:02.679 --> 0:10:05.400 the back end of the draft, we'll be fighting our 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:07.319 way into the playoffs maybe, but then by the time 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.480 we get there, we're gonna be crushing everyone. That's that's 0:10:09.559 --> 0:10:10.400 that's the whole idea. 0:10:10.480 --> 0:10:13.280 That is the whole idea. It's you just either you 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:18.719 get just competent running backs who stay upright and you know, 0:10:18.880 --> 0:10:21.199 just help you fill out your roster and let these 0:10:21.240 --> 0:10:24.680 other superstar receivers go be great, or you hit a 0:10:24.679 --> 0:10:27.199 lottery ticket with one of these picks and now you've 0:10:27.200 --> 0:10:29.960 already got awesome receivers who are probably going to be fine. 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.559 And there we go. All right, I'm gonna let you 0:10:33.600 --> 0:10:36.440 go first, Ken, So we've gone through five rounds, give 0:10:36.480 --> 0:10:40.319 me your do the opposite first, do the opposite running 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:41.839 back you can get round six or later. 0:10:42.720 --> 0:10:44.760 Yeah. So the first one I'm gonna go with here 0:10:44.840 --> 0:10:46.760 is Tony Pollard. And you know, depending on where you 0:10:46.840 --> 0:10:49.800 look with ADP, like I looked at NFFC, he was 0:10:49.920 --> 0:10:52.840 seventy two, so technically that last fifth round pick. But 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:54.960 we'll just say you can get him in the early 0:10:55.000 --> 0:10:57.880 sixth round most likely. He's got three straight years of 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:02.320 thirteen hundred scrimmage yards and at least five touchdowns. That's 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:04.520 someone who's a running back too. That's someone who's you're 0:11:04.559 --> 0:11:07.040 gonna throw in your lineup. You're gonna be fine with it. 0:11:07.280 --> 0:11:09.680 You're gonna play the lotto tickets later and then get 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:11.880 someone who can have a little bit more upside than him, maybe, 0:11:11.920 --> 0:11:15.959 but he's rock solid. Last year he was RB twenty 0:11:15.960 --> 0:11:18.960 three points per game. He's never played fewer than fifteen 0:11:19.000 --> 0:11:22.160 games in his six NFL seasons, which is a little 0:11:22.160 --> 0:11:24.079 bit shocking to me. It's just rare to find a 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:27.920 running back these days that is, you know, always not 0:11:28.040 --> 0:11:31.400 always healthy, but the best ability is availability. 0:11:31.480 --> 0:11:34.360 So yeah, and I think that's key to do. The 0:11:34.360 --> 0:11:37.679 opposite is we just alluded to this some minutes ago. Ken, 0:11:38.679 --> 0:11:40.720 Just give me running backs who are going to be 0:11:40.840 --> 0:11:43.680 healthy and just get me some decent point. Give me, 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:47.480 you know, ten PPR points on a weekly basis, and 0:11:47.520 --> 0:11:49.600 that's all right, because we're talking round six, round seven, 0:11:49.679 --> 0:11:52.559 round eight, round nine, round ten. Give me tech double 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:55.080 digit PPR points and that's a win in this. In this, 0:11:55.400 --> 0:11:58.320 do the opposite format absolutely. And I know a lot 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:00.400 of people like to call this like the unning back 0:12:00.440 --> 0:12:02.600 dead zone. It's a place where you don't want to 0:12:02.600 --> 0:12:05.960 touch running backs because they're kind of, you know, still starters, 0:12:05.960 --> 0:12:07.840 but not quite good enough to be the elite tier. 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.720 And I disagree. I think totally Pollard is pretty solid. 0:12:10.760 --> 0:12:13.640 He's had positive rushing yards above expectation and every year 0:12:13.640 --> 0:12:16.400 except twenty twenty three, so five out of six seasons. 0:12:16.440 --> 0:12:19.439 It's pretty good. He was fifth among all running backs 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:22.680 in fifteen plus mile an hour rushes per game last year. 0:12:22.679 --> 0:12:26.440 He's got the juice. And it's important that you find 0:12:26.440 --> 0:12:28.440 guys that you know, a lot of this stuff can 0:12:28.440 --> 0:12:30.600 come down to scheme and offensive line block and stuff 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:33.360 like that. So when they get their holes open to 0:12:33.400 --> 0:12:35.760 them and available, they got to just you know, fly 0:12:35.920 --> 0:12:38.880 through and pick up the yards and get the offense moving. 0:12:38.920 --> 0:12:41.320 And I think Tony Poler is a guy who's capable 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.800 of that. He's not the most elusive of backs, but 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.120 he's someone who if you give him a good hole, 0:12:46.200 --> 0:12:48.920 he's going to just run right through a real heart. 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:51.959 So he was doing these fifteen mile hour runs on 0:12:52.040 --> 0:12:54.280 twenty two percent of his attempts last year. Where his 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:56.720 backup co running back whatever you want to call him, 0:12:56.760 --> 0:12:58.760 to Jay Spears, he was only a fourteen percent of 0:12:58.760 --> 0:13:00.640 that metric. So he's got a little bit more juice 0:13:00.640 --> 0:13:02.760 where Spears might be a little bit more elusive, might 0:13:03.600 --> 0:13:07.439 you know, force more mistackles. But Tony Pollard's the starter, 0:13:07.640 --> 0:13:10.480 and yeah, we're just gonna We're gonna like that. So 0:13:10.960 --> 0:13:13.400 you know, they added Kevin Zeeler to this offensive line. 0:13:13.400 --> 0:13:15.680 They were twenty first in run block win rate last year, 0:13:16.000 --> 0:13:18.040 So yeah, I really like it. I think that he's 0:13:18.040 --> 0:13:18.760 going to do just good. 0:13:19.320 --> 0:13:21.200 Kent. Let's take a quick break and when we come back, 0:13:21.520 --> 0:13:24.520 more of the do the opposite running backs we are 0:13:24.600 --> 0:13:30.480 targeting in the middle rounds of your draft. I'm gonna 0:13:30.480 --> 0:13:33.040 go with Tyrone Tracy, the running back from the Giants. 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:34.679 You can get him in the ninth round so we 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:37.880 don't have to use like sixth round equity here. Currently 0:13:37.880 --> 0:13:40.720 ADP is one hundred and three. There are few, if 0:13:40.840 --> 0:13:44.800 any starting running backs being drafted lower than Tyrone Tracy. 0:13:45.559 --> 0:13:48.000 He's running back thirty three as of this writing. Not 0:13:48.120 --> 0:13:51.959 a special talent in my opinion, Kent, but I think 0:13:52.000 --> 0:13:55.560 he can be helpful enough that he can validate a 0:13:55.640 --> 0:13:58.880 ninth round pick. Giants offense should be better this year. Right, 0:13:58.960 --> 0:14:00.800 last year we were going to work with Daniel Jones 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:03.200 and Drew Lock and Tommy DeVito. We got to half 0:14:03.240 --> 0:14:06.880 a game out of Tim Boyle Oh boy Right. Malik 0:14:06.960 --> 0:14:10.400 Neighbors threw one pass incomplete for the Giants last year. 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:12.840 I think he's the best passer on the team last season. 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:16.199 So now we get Russell Wilson and Jameis Winston. Those 0:14:16.240 --> 0:14:20.080 are sizeable upgrades. The Giants offense should be better. It's 0:14:20.080 --> 0:14:21.480 not gonna be great, but it's going to be better 0:14:21.520 --> 0:14:23.480 than it was last year. But the real thing for 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:26.280 me on Tyron Tracy where he gets interesting not a 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:29.000 lot of competition. Cam Scattabo is not going to be 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:31.280 in every down back. He's going to be a situational back, 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:35.960 and now as a sophomore, Tracy could be dramatically improved. Ken. 0:14:36.160 --> 0:14:37.880 I know you know this, and some of our listeners do. 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.880 He's a converted wide receiver who is only a starting 0:14:40.960 --> 0:14:44.200 running back one season in college and then last year, 0:14:44.480 --> 0:14:47.200 so totally learning on the job the nuances of the 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:49.520 ring back position last year, and even with all the 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:52.520 disadvantages we talked about Tim Boyle and Drew Lock and 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:56.040 everything else, the average four point four yards per carry 0:14:56.080 --> 0:14:58.720 in a backwards offense with a broken offensive line. So 0:14:59.400 --> 0:15:01.320 I think Tyrone Tracy's the kind of guy that can 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:02.720 help you do the opposite approach. 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.640 Yeah, and I was I was coming here actually expecting 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:07.200 to disagree with you, but I liked some of his 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.880 advantaged metrics too, considering he was a late convert, he's 0:15:09.920 --> 0:15:12.680 really picked it up quickly. And if they can put 0:15:12.720 --> 0:15:14.880 together any kind of offense, he's in a good spot. 0:15:15.120 --> 0:15:16.720 He isn't a good spot. Who is your second do 0:15:16.800 --> 0:15:17.600 the opposite runner? 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.960 Yeah, we're going with Isaiah Pacheco. And you know, this 0:15:21.000 --> 0:15:23.480 one's a little bit unfortunate because last year was really 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:25.800 disappointing compared to his first two years in the league. 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.800 But again, he's going in the sixth round. You know 0:15:28.840 --> 0:15:30.720 that the health concerns are valid. It's kind of based 0:15:30.720 --> 0:15:33.040 on his aggressive running style. You know, last year he 0:15:33.040 --> 0:15:34.960 had a fractured fibula and that was the reason that 0:15:35.000 --> 0:15:37.800 he went on ir We two came back, tried to play, 0:15:38.040 --> 0:15:40.680 didn't look so good, and the Chiefs really leaned on 0:15:40.760 --> 0:15:43.080 cream Hunt instead, even all the way through the playoffs, 0:15:43.120 --> 0:15:46.120 which might fear, you know, make some people afraid to 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:49.520 be drafting Pacheco here. But personally, I think that if 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:51.400 he can bounce to any kind of form like he 0:15:51.560 --> 0:15:53.440 was in his first two seasons, that he's in a 0:15:53.440 --> 0:15:56.000 good spot. First two year prior he was tenth to 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.440 success rate, fourth and success rate, and then in rushing 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:03.360 yards over expectation per attempt eighth and thirteenth, so not 0:16:03.440 --> 0:16:06.040 bad number the efficiency metrics going for him. If he 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:08.160 can just get healthy of a good long off season. 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:11.240 They brought back Kareem Hunt on a cheap deal. I 0:16:11.240 --> 0:16:14.840 think he's just going to be an insurance case. You know, 0:16:15.240 --> 0:16:17.040 he really wasn't that good last year. He had some 0:16:17.040 --> 0:16:20.040 pretty rough metrics and he's turning thirty. He was tied 0:16:20.080 --> 0:16:22.960 for second worst yards after contact per attempt too. The 0:16:23.000 --> 0:16:25.680 only one worse was Javonte Williams, So that's telling you 0:16:25.720 --> 0:16:26.280 something great. 0:16:26.160 --> 0:16:28.280 That that is, and we'll actually mentioned him later in 0:16:28.360 --> 0:16:33.600 passing Kareem Hunt. By almost any metric you can think of, 0:16:34.160 --> 0:16:36.720 was the worst running back in the NFL at his 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:40.600 number of carries last season. Yep, my second do the 0:16:40.600 --> 0:16:45.680 opposite running back Denver's JK Dobbins currently going off the 0:16:45.720 --> 0:16:48.840 board round twelve. Now, there could be some It could 0:16:48.880 --> 0:16:51.280 be that he's he's sneaking higher, and we haven't seen 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.160 a lot of the ADP lists sort of adjust since 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:55.040 his signing, but that was two weeks ago. I mean 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:58.040 I think by now, I think he's settling into round twelve. 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.360 And I found out due to research on JK. Dobbins 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:09.000 his full name ja kaaln Jay apostrophe Kaylin and that's 0:17:09.040 --> 0:17:13.760 the JK in JK. Dobbins never knew that. Yep, God 0:17:13.760 --> 0:17:16.320 bless him. He's had an ACL, an MCL, and an 0:17:16.359 --> 0:17:21.200 achilles rupture and has no earthly business being an NFL 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:23.399 running back at this point with all those injuries. But 0:17:24.960 --> 0:17:28.600 he's only twenty six years old and Kent. Let's remember, 0:17:29.800 --> 0:17:32.800 Dobbins was on pace to be the comeback player of 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.560 the Year. Through ten games. He was like the money 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:38.679 line Vegas leader and then he suffered an mcl' sprain. 0:17:39.080 --> 0:17:40.840 He missed a month and then came back at the 0:17:41.040 --> 0:17:42.880 bitter end of the season and didn't do very much 0:17:42.960 --> 0:17:46.840 after this after the knee injury, But through those ten 0:17:46.880 --> 0:17:50.800 games through Week eleven, he averaged four point eight yards 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:54.119 per carry of seventy two rushing yards per game and 0:17:54.200 --> 0:17:56.639 almost a full touchdown per game. He had eight touchdowns 0:17:56.640 --> 0:18:00.359 and eight in ten games, and his twenty one percent 0:18:00.600 --> 0:18:06.280 broken tackle rate ninth best during those first eleven weeks 0:18:06.320 --> 0:18:10.639 of the season for JK. Dobbins. So Denver signs him. 0:18:11.840 --> 0:18:15.159 We all know that they also drafted RJ. Harvey, and 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.560 it was very excited about that because RJ. Harvey had 0:18:17.560 --> 0:18:19.880 this clear path to a bunt to a starting job. 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:22.919 I think JK. Dobbins at a minimums is going to 0:18:22.920 --> 0:18:27.280 be the starter for a month or two Kent, Yeah. 0:18:26.560 --> 0:18:29.320 And you know with RJ. Harvey what he did last 0:18:29.359 --> 0:18:32.280 year and the year before. We're both very good collegiate seasons, 0:18:32.280 --> 0:18:34.400 don't get me wrong, but it's always a little bit 0:18:34.640 --> 0:18:37.919 sketchy when it requires you being a few years older 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.159 than the guys you're playing against in terms of you know, 0:18:40.200 --> 0:18:42.560 these guys are you know, still growing in physicality and 0:18:42.600 --> 0:18:45.240 athleticism and stuff. So if you need to have those 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:48.440 bonus years of growth in order to put up these numbers, 0:18:48.440 --> 0:18:50.399 I get a little sketched out. What he did was great, 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:53.040 But Jigie Dobbins is getting a deal that could be 0:18:53.080 --> 0:18:56.679 worth up to five point something million. And I joked 0:18:56.680 --> 0:18:59.000 on Twitter X whatever you want to call it, that 0:18:59.000 --> 0:19:00.720 that's more than the rest of the running back room 0:19:00.760 --> 0:19:03.840 combined in Denver right now. Probably, I don't think they're 0:19:03.840 --> 0:19:05.520 not going to use him. I think they're going to 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:07.200 let him hit the field plenty. 0:19:07.480 --> 0:19:10.520 I think so too. The fact that Dobbins they you know, 0:19:10.520 --> 0:19:14.360 they drafted Harvey, they got some looks at him in OTAs, 0:19:14.440 --> 0:19:17.439 and then they signed JK. Dobbins, And I think, to me, 0:19:17.680 --> 0:19:20.359 it just it's screams that Harvey's not going to be 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:24.280 ready for a sizeable workload early in the season. I 0:19:24.280 --> 0:19:26.399 think that person's going to be JK. Dobbins. All right, 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:30.480 let's go to your third and final do the opposite player, Kent? 0:19:31.680 --> 0:19:34.600 All right, we're going with Isaac Garrindo over in the 0:19:34.640 --> 0:19:36.120 Santa Francisco forty nine ers. 0:19:36.160 --> 0:19:37.760 There's your lottery ticket right there. 0:19:37.600 --> 0:19:40.960 Baby, Yeah, No, kidding twelfth rounder right now, so certainly 0:19:40.960 --> 0:19:42.960 you don't have to invest a lot of capital into him. 0:19:43.359 --> 0:19:45.320 And he is a handcuff. He's not a guy you're 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:47.240 going to be flexing on any given week or anything 0:19:47.320 --> 0:19:49.640 like that unless they change up their style. But Kyle 0:19:49.640 --> 0:19:52.800 Shanahan has always seemed to lean into one player getting 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:55.760 the majority of the workload. So I really should have 0:19:55.800 --> 0:19:58.000 just labeled my selection here. Whoever the handcuff is on 0:19:58.080 --> 0:20:00.000