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Speaker 1: what's up, everybody, Welcome back, very exciting edition of Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly coming at you with your host John Lageza
Speaker 1: and my good pal in yours, mister Jake Trobridge. We're
Speaker 1: fresh off the NFL Draft.
Speaker 2: How did it go for you?
Speaker 3: I mean, I lived to tell the tale that I
Speaker 3: got out at the other end of this draft. There
Speaker 3: was ups and downs. It was it was a roller
Speaker 3: coaster ride. Not really, I mean part of it was.
Speaker 3: Some of it was like the most expected stuff that
Speaker 3: you could ever expect, and some of it was pretty wild, though, John,
Speaker 3: I will say, especially some of these middle picks that
Speaker 3: we're going to talk about here today. Uh, some of
Speaker 3: the weird trading that happened. I wasn't fully prepared for
Speaker 3: all of it, but I enjoyed it. You.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I was doing a draft stream. We're kind of
Speaker 1: trading back and forth. It was a lot of fun
Speaker 1: to see how these markets move and just how much
Speaker 1: one how much uncertainty there is, and to how you know,
Speaker 1: how unpredictable and even the most accurate mock drafter probably
Speaker 1: gets I don't know, twenty five percent of these picks correct, right,
Speaker 1: Nobody even gets all thirty two of the humans correct, right,
Speaker 1: So forget landing spots. So it's a lot of fun
Speaker 1: and felt the guests, my jets did okay, there are
Speaker 1: always the point of consternation.
Speaker 2: We'll get into them in a little bit.
Speaker 1: You did us the solid of kind of mining all
Speaker 1: the Fantasy Relevant offensive picks. We're gonna go through them
Speaker 1: in order as they came off the board yesterday, and
Speaker 1: then Fantasy Impact we've got adp We're gonna talk some
Speaker 1: depth charts where these guys fall and how we're gonna
Speaker 1: attack them. So at any further Ado was mister Fernando Mendoza.
Speaker 1: Before I could bet on the Raiders not taking him,
Speaker 1: they had snatched him right up. I just all right, man,
Speaker 1: you know what I thought, if any team might have
Speaker 1: been one percent crazy enough to do it, it would
Speaker 1: have been the Raiders. Put it was after the Cousins, right,
Speaker 1: so they had to kind of address it, and I
Speaker 1: thought maybe that was them telegraphing if we don't take it,
Speaker 1: we don't want to ride in the streets.
Speaker 2: At least we actually have a quarterback.
Speaker 1: So Mendoza we talked about, we know you're not too high,
Speaker 1: when do you think he's under center? I think that's
Speaker 1: a good question.
Speaker 3: That's what's so hard about this, and it was it
Speaker 3: was very expected. I was also hoping for a last
Speaker 3: minute trade, just for the drama of it all. We
Speaker 3: didn't get that, and that's fine. But I do think
Speaker 3: the issue with Mendoza for a redraft is exactly that
Speaker 3: I don't know when he's gonna start. I mean, reasonably,
Speaker 3: you could say like maybe week five. I guess if
Speaker 3: we're basing this off of what happened last year with
Speaker 3: say the Giants, because there is kind of a similar
Speaker 3: issue with Jackson Dart although he was taken much later
Speaker 3: in round one, but they had Russell Wilson, another old VET,
Speaker 3: and he just didn't know. I would say the earliest
Speaker 3: is week five, but it could be. I mean, it
Speaker 3: could be week ten. It might not be until Kirk
Speaker 3: gets hurt or they just bail late in the season
Speaker 3: because they're out of the playoffs. I don't know John,
Speaker 3: but that's what's keeping me from wanting to draft him
Speaker 3: at a hall in redraft. I think we talked about
Speaker 3: this you're a little bit more okay, perhaps with the
Speaker 3: risk if he goes late enough in drafts, right, yeah, for.
Speaker 1: Fantasy rights, putting the puzzle together because you can't rely
Speaker 1: on him early on. Mendoza makes a good pairing for
Speaker 1: a sure thing quarterback. Right if I got a top
Speaker 1: five QB and now I don't want to overlever myself
Speaker 1: spend too much draft capital at the position. Mendoza feels
Speaker 1: like a piece that if there's an injury or maybe
Speaker 1: you give him some time to mature. Jake, I love
Speaker 1: all those comps. They're all, like most every analysis, very
Speaker 1: much grounded in reality. They're all really smart. The problem
Speaker 1: isn't the difference with the Giants. I had to check
Speaker 1: to myself, like I knew this. The contract to Raiders
Speaker 1: gave Cousins five years, one seventy two. I just don't
Speaker 1: get how that's sympo contract. It's even yeah, it's it's
Speaker 1: a lot of money, and it's pretty long for a
Speaker 1: guy that's not only old but coming off a downswing.
Speaker 1: So it's like a lot of very confusing stuff. Again,
Speaker 1: you can't always rely on the Raiders to be too rational.
Speaker 1: We could put a bow on this Venosa right now
Speaker 1: is going off the board as the QB twenty eight
Speaker 1: ADP one seventy seven. So again I think, whether or
Speaker 1: not you love it, there are weapons in Vegas, and
Speaker 1: I think you don't have to overpay, and that's always
Speaker 1: kind of my key to success, especially with the youth
Speaker 1: in Fantasy. Next up was another one. I mean, I
Speaker 1: wish I had the family feud buzzer that e because
Speaker 1: I got them all wrong.
Speaker 2: And you know what, you gotta wear these l's, you know,
Speaker 2: el el for Love.
Speaker 1: It was Jeremiah Love. He went to Arizona, which I
Speaker 1: thought was a luxury pick. Didn't really make sense. They
Speaker 1: could have moved down, gotten to first rounders for the
Speaker 1: price of one that might actually kind of boost the
Speaker 1: team that went out and paid Tyler Algier. So here
Speaker 1: we have another team at the top of the board
Speaker 1: making a pick that they don't necessarily need week one.
Speaker 1: I mean, what do you think about Love? To me,
Speaker 1: it's really tough right now, he's the RB twenty seven
Speaker 1: and it's ADP seventy two, so it's not like you're
Speaker 1: really paying up what you are drafting him quote unquote
Speaker 1: as a starter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this wasn't just a luxury pick. This was this
Speaker 3: was egregious to be for the Cardinals to take him.
Speaker 3: You had premier defenders, you had offensive linemen available, which
Speaker 3: they desperately need, and both of them are gonna help
Speaker 3: your team a lot more than this admittedly extremely talented
Speaker 3: running back. So I think they drafted the player that's
Speaker 3: gonna help them sell more jerseys rather than help them
Speaker 3: win more games. So I'm not a fan of it
Speaker 3: from their perspective, but from a fantasy perspective, which is
Speaker 3: all we really care about, I'm still fine with it.
Speaker 3: Wherever he went, save for I don't know a hand
Speaker 3: full of spots, he's going to be the guy. It's
Speaker 3: just a matter of how helpful is the rest of
Speaker 3: the team going to be and getting him to like
Speaker 3: top ten status on a week to week basis, because
Speaker 3: right now he's somewhere between Bijon Robinson and Ashton Genty,
Speaker 3: like Bijeon Robinson in terms of if you want to
Speaker 3: look at how much workload he's gonna get, it's it's
Speaker 3: probably just that, like move aside, James Connor, You're not
Speaker 3: gonna be relevant in this backfield, Bye bye, Trey Benson.
Speaker 3: You might be traded before the season starts, and so
Speaker 3: it's probably gonna be like those Falcons backfields of the
Speaker 3: last few years, ironically also having Tyler aljear in it now,
Speaker 3: so Love is going to be the Bijon Robinson to
Speaker 3: Tyler Algiers. Tyler Aljier, I guess this poor guy. But
Speaker 3: from an efficiency standpoint, the old line's still bad as
Speaker 3: of right now. We're recording this on Friday before round two,
Speaker 3: so maybe they addressed the old line more in the draft,
Speaker 3: but as it stands, it's probably an ashton Gent level
Speaker 3: of efficiency.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Wow, when you put that talent cump on him, I
Speaker 1: started scrolling to see where alger is right his compliment.
Speaker 1: Maybe the market anticipated the Love thing. You know, these
Speaker 1: markets are sharp because Algier is RB thirty two, that's
Speaker 1: pick ninety eight, so both.
Speaker 2: Of those are after love.
Speaker 1: And man, if you're going to put that type of
Speaker 1: talent profile on Love, considering he's still kind of reasonably priced,
Speaker 1: knowing they's some uncertainty with his direct threat going even later,
Speaker 1: I think we liked him as a pair. Now how
Speaker 1: effective that offensive line is going to be is another question,
Speaker 1: and we've seen it sync supreme talents before. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: I'm worried, right because again these are teams Cardinals in particular,
Speaker 1: that defense was so bad that spurned the Jacoby Brissett
Speaker 1: throw fest, right, the forty five drop backs a game
Speaker 1: or whatever we've been getting. Yeah, it was fantasy goodness,
Speaker 1: but it's really death to the run game, to any
Speaker 1: kind of stability in the run game. And then you
Speaker 1: have Alger kind of eating up red zone touches. You
Speaker 1: know what, These prices probably stick and you probably get
Speaker 1: a good value, especially if you pay him. So next
Speaker 1: one was the Titans. This is another one get the
Speaker 1: buzzer wrong again, John, where I said, well, the one
Speaker 1: thing that Titans don't need or more receivers, right for
Speaker 1: a team that was as bad as they were, that
Speaker 1: position was still I considered it a relative strength. I
Speaker 1: thought i am Anour showed us a lot as a rookie.
Speaker 1: You get growth in through a petition. I thought jamier
Speaker 1: Dk showed us a lot as a special team player.
Speaker 1: And in the slot ability is a number one option.
Speaker 1: And they go out and they drafted Tait, who is
Speaker 1: apparently a freak right now, he's wide receiver forty five.
Speaker 1: That's ADP one oh four and he's gonna join Wondale Robinson,
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley, and then I am Anir and Jamiir DK.
Speaker 1: That is quite a lot of mouse to feed again
Speaker 1: with something you and I spoke about Wandale soaking up
Speaker 1: a lot of those layup targets. What do you think
Speaker 1: about Tate? Can you give me this year and then
Speaker 1: maybe even like a Dynasty take looking forward?
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's a good call out. By the way,
Speaker 3: I should quickly mention if you're doing your super flex,
Speaker 3: you know, rookie Dynasty drafts, I still have Jeremiah Love
Speaker 3: is my one oh one even in super flex, I
Speaker 3: have Mendoza's my one o two, just because of positional scarcity.
Speaker 3: And then we get to these wide receivers. Carnal Tate
Speaker 3: is gonna be my one oh four in Dynasty rookie drafts.
Speaker 3: I don't hate it, John, because you mentioned all these
Speaker 3: wide receivers, but none of those guys make me go
Speaker 3: like ah, Carnal Tate can't beat them, you know, no
Speaker 3: disrespect to any of them. I'm a Wisconsin guy, so
Speaker 3: I'll always love DK, especially, but I think he probably
Speaker 3: suits in more naturally as a compliment or as a
Speaker 3: special teams guy, and then you have Wandale as kind
Speaker 3: of like the second in command. But I didn't know
Speaker 3: if any of these wide receivers would step into wide
Speaker 3: receiver one status on the day that they're drafted, And
Speaker 3: that kind of remains true with Tate, like he'll be
Speaker 3: a one A, but Wandell will probably soak up those
Speaker 3: targets and be a one B. So for redraft purposes,
Speaker 3: he's the most pro ready guy, it seems to me.
Speaker 3: So I think you get some comfort from drafting him.
Speaker 3: I don't know that you get a ton of upside.
Speaker 3: People are, of course going to be critical of Tate
Speaker 3: because in college he didn't have a ton of production,
Speaker 3: never had a thousand yard receiving season. I get all that,
Speaker 3: But also neither did Lad McConkey, and he finished his
Speaker 3: workie season just fine. So I've tried not to make
Speaker 3: that a big crux of my argument one way or
Speaker 3: the other for these guys. So I don't know if
Speaker 3: it's like Tate versus Mike Evans when we get to
Speaker 3: that point and redraft, I will probably take the upside
Speaker 3: of a guy like Mike Evans, but I could see
Speaker 3: the argument either way.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, Evans might be a tough one. I think
Speaker 1: I want to see that the health situation first. Again,
Speaker 1: there's always a game of pricing and value. So Tate
Speaker 1: right now is going right after Quentin Johnston, which is
Speaker 1: an interesting pick, right before Jayden Reid, and that's right
Speaker 1: around Makay Lemon, who are going to talk about in
Speaker 1: a minute, Josh Downs.
Speaker 2: Khalios Shakir.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you again, if you think that talent could
Speaker 1: rain out, and if it's good for the goose, it's
Speaker 1: good for the gander. I don't want to write off
Speaker 1: cam Ward taking that step forward. My problem again is
Speaker 1: I didn't It didn't feel like a wide receiver problem.
Speaker 1: It never felt like a wide receiver problem. Ward through
Speaker 1: for five point seven ypa. He took fifty two sacks.
Speaker 1: The Titans again have tried to build the interior. Just
Speaker 1: because it doesn't work doesn't mean you need to give up.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of first round picks on that line
Speaker 1: in the past couple of years. But just because they
Speaker 1: don't work doesn't mean they're like, oh right, well, maybe
Speaker 1: that's a bad idea. It's the process of the pick
Speaker 1: that wasn't working. I would have been looking to protect
Speaker 1: Ward and trying to cultivate those young pass catchers. I
Speaker 1: think Tate will be good, and I guess at one
Speaker 1: O four next to those other players, you could spin
Speaker 1: yourself a tail where he's clearly the most talented. But
Speaker 1: the volume and the quality of that volume, and the
Speaker 1: contextual environment if anything Tennessee stinks, will always be behind them.
Speaker 1: I guess you'll always have that, right, Well, we'll always
Speaker 1: have that to share, Jake.
Speaker 3: We'll always have that. Can we quickly note? Though, what
Speaker 3: a win for Tony Pollard and ty j Spears. If
Speaker 3: you have these guys like on your die. They avoided
Speaker 3: the Adam bound that was Jeremiah Love, which is where
Speaker 3: we were expecting him to go, or a lot of
Speaker 3: people were anyway, So good for them. I don't know
Speaker 3: that I'll be nuts drafting them either, but they definitely
Speaker 3: came out winners.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Pollard, it's funny you mentioned that this is kind
Speaker 1: of an interesting topic to either write about or cover.
Speaker 1: Would be like the unsung winners of the draft? Right,
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard is quietest winner of the draft. Well, everyone
Speaker 1: is talking about, right, the rookies and the big moves.
Speaker 1: It's actually Pollard who was probably suppressed because of the
Speaker 1: anticipation that didn't manifest. He now should move up slowly
Speaker 1: as people kind of say, wait, he's a starting running back.
Speaker 1: There's legit projectable volume there, and he was pretty good.
Speaker 1: So hey, I guess the fantasy gods closed the door.
Speaker 2: They opened a window. Apparently.
Speaker 1: Next at the number eight, pick this one. I did nail.
Speaker 1: I actually hit this one right on the head. A
Speaker 1: few analysts had talked about this. It kind of made
Speaker 1: sense to me. That was Jordan Tyson. He went to
Speaker 1: the Saints. The idea was there's a need for pass catchers.
Speaker 1: They appear to have found what they like beyond the
Speaker 1: center and Tyler Shuck, who I think was very good.
Speaker 1: I think people are rough on him as just a
Speaker 1: strict game manager. He started to show us not only
Speaker 1: pass efficiency but the ability to run, which wean his
Speaker 1: fantasy gamers. He's one of my favorite late round quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: They all need weapons. The von Veley might be a
Speaker 1: nice three. He could be a really nice three if
Speaker 1: Tyson eats up these inbreaking routes with a lavee kind
Speaker 1: of doing the field stretching. So I'm seeing Jordan Tyson
Speaker 1: wide receiver fifty three ADP one twenty one, And if
Speaker 1: you can't tell me the inflection of my voice, I
Speaker 1: am certainly interested because I see positive trajectory and I
Speaker 1: see suppressed costs. These are my favorite things as a
Speaker 1: fantasy cheap skip.
Speaker 3: That's good to know. I'm going to clock that for
Speaker 3: future reference. By the way, if we're ever in a
Speaker 3: leadue together, I need to know these things about you.
Speaker 1: John.
Speaker 3: I will say well for you personally, because you called
Speaker 3: this with Jordan Tyson to the Saints. How many games
Speaker 3: are you worried about the injuries at all? How many
Speaker 3: games are you okay with him missing in a given
Speaker 3: year before you go, ah, this guy's not worth it?
Speaker 2: What is it? Six'.
Speaker 1: Ten i've become injury agnostic in my old, age AND
Speaker 1: i feel LIKE i just got the best EVIDENCE i could,
Speaker 1: get and it's in the, Past, like let's hold. It
Speaker 1: the last fourteen months of The caldary, Year christian McCaffrey
Speaker 1: went over four hundred touches And jacob De gram made thirty.
Speaker 1: Starts and the REASON i say that is everybody is
Speaker 1: so certain of, injuries who are they're going to affect
Speaker 1: when and? How and we just don't know and then
Speaker 1: SOMETIMES i even make the counter of you could guarantee
Speaker 1: me That tyson is going to get, hurt a stone hold,
Speaker 1: Guarantee BUT i would still have the question of. When
Speaker 1: what if it's in the first round of the? Playoffs
Speaker 1: what if, it's you, know In week eighteen after the
Speaker 1: fantasy season is wrapped. Up AND i hate to put
Speaker 1: the negativity out, there but it's a game of attrition
Speaker 1: and injuries are, real So I'M i don't want to
Speaker 1: say him flat out ignoring. It i'm considering this baked
Speaker 1: into the price for the, potential AND i JUST i
Speaker 1: like The saints as a cheap place to. Invest what
Speaker 1: do you think about? That that part of might take,
Speaker 1: like are you seeing The saints as an arrow up?
Speaker 1: Team And i'm not talking about a top five, offense
Speaker 1: but do you see them trending in the right way?
Speaker 3: Directionally, well that's kind of WHY i, asked because if
Speaker 3: The saints are okay drafting him where they took, him
Speaker 3: THEN i think we should be comfortable with. It, obviously
Speaker 3: they know his injury track record and he did have
Speaker 3: that workout shortly before the draft that kind of said, like,
Speaker 3: Hey i'm mostly healthy Now i'm. Good SO i actually
Speaker 3: like the landing spot BECAUSE i do think that there's
Speaker 3: plenty of room for a second pass catcher to emerge
Speaker 3: here as a maybe not elite fantasy, asset but somewhere
Speaker 3: in that. Proximity And Jordan tyson without the injury, HISTORY i,
Speaker 3: think is the de facto number one receiver for most.
Speaker 3: People So New orleans threw the ball at the fifth
Speaker 3: highest rate in the league last. YEAR i think part
Speaker 3: of that is because there were also backfield, struggles to be,
Speaker 3: fair But Kellen moore's offenses do this. Historically he has
Speaker 3: pass heavy offenses when he has the healthy personnel to
Speaker 3: get that. Done so maybe this is a lash back,
Speaker 3: to you, Know Kellen moore's days In, dallas Where Ceedee
Speaker 3: lamb And Amari cooper were both kind of. Thriving to some,
Speaker 3: EXTENT i still Think Chris olave is the number. One
Speaker 3: he's less. Exciting probably in your, drafts you're probably gonna
Speaker 3: get bigger boom weeks out Of, tyson, though.
Speaker 1: YEAH i think, yeah for, ME i totally agree With
Speaker 1: lave is kind of a clear. ONE i, think you
Speaker 1: know WHAT i think is the the unherlded loser.
Speaker 2: Here is Probably Juwan.
Speaker 1: Johnson if you remember back to the end of last,
Speaker 1: year there was an unreal amount of volume going through
Speaker 1: him just out of. Necessity, yeah SO i think that
Speaker 1: shifts to are gonna it has to be a Healthy.
Speaker 1: Tyson but where we're drafting, him, YEAH i think if
Speaker 1: you're getting a high talent load with AND i don't
Speaker 1: want to be galaxy braining is too, hard but there's
Speaker 1: a lot of times WHERE i like a young player
Speaker 1: to step into A b role and not THE a
Speaker 1: role where you need to beat the most elite corners
Speaker 1: in the toughest. Routes like let's get him on the
Speaker 1: second best corner in somewhat right where he can kind
Speaker 1: of be shifty and maybe slant over the. Middle, AGAIN
Speaker 1: i love these high probability, routes AND i also love
Speaker 1: the home environment for the, scenes, RIGHT a lot of
Speaker 1: indoorsed offf in that division.
Speaker 2: Also all, right so.
Speaker 1: Before we turn this into The tyler you Know shakastan,
Speaker 1: podcast because he's like if you could google By niam
Speaker 1: and his name And mike froto to the. Ring last,
Speaker 1: year our, Fates our fates resigned Mister. Troubridge all, Right next,
Speaker 1: up it Was, okay this had to be the shock
Speaker 1: of the. Draft OBVIOUSLY i took a huge l on this,
Speaker 1: one both betting in markets and then also as A jet.
Speaker 1: FAN a few people hyped me up that it would
Speaker 1: be The New York jets coming down with Quarterback Ty.
Speaker 1: Simpson he goes to the very Competitive, rams who have
Speaker 1: an agent quarterback who heals in. Spaceships, Apparently i'm Just
Speaker 1: i'm just telling you what we. Know i'm just talking
Speaker 1: what we know about, This and the cherry on top
Speaker 1: WAS i don't know if this is.
Speaker 2: TRUE i didn't hear it out of the horse's mouth.
Speaker 1: BEFORE i understand that McVeigh and him hadn't spoken, yet
Speaker 1: SO i DON'T i don't know how much of this is.
Speaker 1: Real maybe The rams, are you, know working us a
Speaker 1: little BIT ww. Style i'm not one hundred percent. Sure
Speaker 1: so what do you take on the? PICK i, mean
Speaker 1: there's so much to so many. ANGLES i don't even
Speaker 1: want to rally right.
Speaker 3: NOW i don't get. It what what? Happened what did
Speaker 3: they Draft Ty simpson for spare parts For Matthew stafford
Speaker 3: in case he does break? DOWN i don't. Know part
Speaker 3: of because bad saying THAT i also kind of. FEEL
Speaker 3: i almost feel bad For simpson because he's about to
Speaker 3: become the most heavily scrutinized player in the league and
Speaker 3: he didn't do. Anything he just got. Drafted but every
Speaker 3: single game he doesn't, play every misstep that him or
Speaker 3: the organization, makes it's gonna be AND i told you
Speaker 3: so moment for anybody who's criticized the, pick which includes.
Speaker 3: Myself but ALL i could think when they made this
Speaker 3: pick was, like they must really hate Mackay lemon over
Speaker 3: there because he was still on the. Board The rams
Speaker 3: Have DeVante adams at age thirty, three they Have, pucinacua
Speaker 3: who is you, know a, walking talking time bomb off
Speaker 3: the field at this, point and then you draft a
Speaker 3: quarterback who has started one season in college that almost
Speaker 3: never pays, off almost never the. HISTORY i, MEAN jj
Speaker 3: McCarthy to The. Vikings different. Situation admittedly a lot of
Speaker 3: people LIKE jj, McCarthy but there are questions and then you, go,
Speaker 3: well he's with The, vikings so it's all gonna be.
Speaker 3: Fine With kevin, O'Connell it hasn't been fine. Yet Anthony
Speaker 3: richardson to The, Colts Trey lance to the forty nine,
Speaker 3: Ers Mitch trubisky to The. Bears there's so long of
Speaker 3: a track record where you just, GO i Know sean
Speaker 3: McVay is a very smart, guy but we can't just, say,
Speaker 3: ah send him there and it'll all be. Fine he
Speaker 3: has a succession. PLAN i still need to see it
Speaker 3: to believe.
Speaker 2: It.
Speaker 3: Don't Maybe i'm being too harsh on. It just felt,
Speaker 3: no really.
Speaker 1: Range too easy on him right, now to be, honest
Speaker 1: all of this kind of all the niceties right, now
Speaker 1: this is all the emotional capital that McVeigh has earned
Speaker 1: over the years making good decisions and stuff like, that
Speaker 1: and that is. Warranted this to me seems. CRAZY i
Speaker 1: can't help but wonder if maybe they know more About
Speaker 1: stafford than we. DO i joked about the, spaceship but
Speaker 1: he was banged up or a little. Injured they were worried.
Speaker 1: Somewhat he ends up giving you a full season of.
Speaker 1: Brilliance what else is? New this just really felt out.
Speaker 1: THERE a lot of draft analysts, thought not only did
Speaker 1: you not Need simpson you could have gotten it, later
Speaker 1: what are you even getting out of? It and if
Speaker 1: you needed, him is he even that? Guy? Like just
Speaker 1: every kind of conceivable, right every conceivable. QUESTION i, mean
Speaker 1: he had a really nice year to close, out, sure
Speaker 1: but before that he either had injuries or Sat, AGAIN
Speaker 1: i don't pretend to know played more than six games
Speaker 1: in any season before twenty, Five so there isn't experience.
Speaker 3: Barely five hundred pass attempts in his college. Careers that's another.
Speaker 1: List that's another list of guys that hasn't worked. Out,
Speaker 1: right you you kind of labeled. Yours then there are
Speaker 1: those guys that we've tried to extrapoly experience Onto Anthony richardson,
Speaker 1: right and a lot of them they don't even end up, like,
Speaker 1: ah you, know that wasn't that wasn't. Optimal it's like
Speaker 1: this is a. Zero this is a stone cold zero
Speaker 1: when you fast forward fifteen months or.
Speaker 2: Something SO i don't want to put the car before the.
Speaker 1: HORSE i don't know the, future BUT i do KNOW
Speaker 1: i don't understand the. PICK i was laughing at the time,
Speaker 1: too again following prediction. Markets it's not the, future but
Speaker 1: it is telling you what people think and where the
Speaker 1: money is. Going AND i was laughing at what we
Speaker 1: thought was gonna be the sneek pick, again as if
Speaker 1: The rams don't have. ENOUGH i just don't want to
Speaker 1: talk about that.
Speaker 3: Though that's as if.
Speaker 1: They don't have enough tight. End there's a nice little.
Speaker 1: Segue let's get Into. Sadiq he went to My jets
Speaker 1: at pick. Sixteen right now he's the tight. End twenty
Speaker 1: ONE adp one fifty nine talked to me About, sadiq
Speaker 1: where you think he, fits what you think The jets might,
Speaker 1: do and after drafting a titand last year With Meson,
Speaker 1: Taylor i'm.
Speaker 3: Bummed i'm, Bummed. JOHN i Like sadiq so much as a,
Speaker 3: prospect and there weren't that many places WHERE i felt
Speaker 3: like he would go and THAT i necessarily want to
Speaker 3: draft him for. Redraft you, know there's a lot of
Speaker 3: places THAT i thought he would go and be great for.
Speaker 3: Dynasty Though i'm worried that he's no longer good for
Speaker 3: redraft or dynasty with The, jets because if you, squint
Speaker 3: this is sort of like The raiders' situation where they
Speaker 3: Drafted Michael mayer in round two in twenty twenty, three
Speaker 3: and then they follow that up the next year by
Speaker 3: Taking Brock bauers in round. One, obviously that worked out For,
Speaker 3: bowers and The jets Drafted Mason taylor last year in
Speaker 3: the second, round and now they Take sadik in the
Speaker 3: first and, yes he's very, athletic but he is also
Speaker 3: a pretty raw. Prospect so he's got the, upside but
Speaker 3: it to be. Polished are The jets the place For
Speaker 3: sadiq to get that? POLISH i am worried about. That
Speaker 3: and so you, know the difference Is bowers has the
Speaker 3: college production behind. Him you feel more secure with that.
Speaker 3: Situation he obviously leap, frogs you, Know Michael, MAYER i
Speaker 3: don't know if the same is going to be true
Speaker 3: For sadik And Mason. Taylor maybe they're frustrating to. Split
Speaker 3: So i'm just staying away In. Redraft he's off My redraft.
Speaker 3: Board i'm not gonna mess with.
Speaker 2: It For.
Speaker 3: Dynasty he falls down a few spots for me as,
Speaker 3: well just BECAUSE i don't know where his come up
Speaker 3: is with this. ORGANIZATION i, mean you're a Frustrated jets.
Speaker 3: Person you tell me what you think About Kenyan.
Speaker 1: SIDIK i, Mean jets fans of, anything we know not
Speaker 1: to ever get too high and just trying not to
Speaker 1: get too low because the lows are, coming so there's no.
Speaker 1: Need you, Know, awn good, time my. Friend, again it's you,
Speaker 1: know it's a new front, office AND i think THE
Speaker 1: i have done the responsible, thing collecting a lot of draft.
Speaker 1: CAPITAL i thought, AGAIN i thought the situation was there
Speaker 1: to make The mendoza. Move maybe they feel the way
Speaker 1: about him that you do that it just wasn't worth
Speaker 1: mortgage in the, future which might have been a Stereotypical
Speaker 1: jets move doing the wrong thing, right buying the Magic
Speaker 1: bean because people were yelling that you need the Magic.
Speaker 1: BEAN i. DON'T i don't quite. Know i'm trying to
Speaker 1: keep the faith and just be realistic. Again we love
Speaker 1: the draft capital they are, building building some skill set
Speaker 1: where brought a major impact player on. Defense the quarterback,
Speaker 1: situation it's a Little. Harry i'm gonna ask you your
Speaker 1: take on where The jets went at pick. Thirty they
Speaker 1: moved up to Get cooper After simpson was. Gone we'll
Speaker 1: get to that in a. Minute SO i don't. Know
Speaker 1: gino has never really been a big been a big
Speaker 1: tight end. GUY i also went and looked it. Out
Speaker 1: jets were bottom f five in two tight end sets last,
Speaker 1: year which unless we totally Think Mason taylor just not a.
Speaker 1: Thing AND i know there are gonna be prospectors that, say, oh,
Speaker 1: man you don't know anything About. Sadek he's so much
Speaker 1: better Than. Taylor that's a lot of times that's not
Speaker 1: how these things. Work taylor showed the ability to be
Speaker 1: a VIABLE nfl player both on the line and. Receiving
Speaker 1: and remember there are two sides of that. Coin we
Speaker 1: talked about it off. Air taylor played six hundred and
Speaker 1: twenty five, snaps ran three hundred and fifty. Routes he
Speaker 1: earned five targets a. Game you know he was out
Speaker 1: there nineteen percent target or. Outrun so here's the. Scenario
Speaker 1: if you do Believe sadik bumps him out of the,
Speaker 1: way he's a massive value because even just a one
Speaker 1: v one swap into that functional role with a decent
Speaker 1: quarterback is a huge. Value, again you AND i have
Speaker 1: been talking about HOW i believe OR i think we're in.
Speaker 1: Agreement tight ends we should be. Waiting there's a lot of. Talent,
Speaker 1: yeah there's a lot of potential, pops AND i think
Speaker 1: we should be. Waiting SO i would Make sadik part
Speaker 1: of a part of a. PLAN i wouldn't take up
Speaker 1: as my tight end one and forget about. It but
Speaker 1: where he, goes you can get your entire tight end.
Speaker 1: Room let's, say you, know because they're all they're also
Speaker 1: they're all kind of going solely just So sadiq is
Speaker 1: going right After Breton, strange WHO i really, like right
Speaker 1: Before Chiga, konquo who we both like with the. ATHLETICISM i, mean,
Speaker 1: RIGHT i would be fine with that as MY i
Speaker 1: would take those guys as my three tight ends on
Speaker 1: a best ball team where you didn't even have to
Speaker 1: think about.
Speaker 2: Where cats your.
Speaker 1: Spike weeks and you pay him with maybe more floor
Speaker 1: with a guy Like, strange WHO i think could also.
Speaker 1: Spike so, Yeah i'm pretty much sold on punting tight,
Speaker 1: ends AND i Think sidik is part of a. Plan but,
Speaker 1: YEAH i think you have to understand there's a chance, that,
Speaker 1: right there's a few zeros to start the year and
Speaker 1: some frustrating. Utilization, right that's, Fair.
Speaker 3: Yep more than.
Speaker 1: Fair, Yeah, okay so next to, me you Mentioned Makai.
Speaker 1: Lemon this is another really interesting. Situation lemon goes at
Speaker 1: twenty to The. Eagles, YEAH i mean a lot of
Speaker 1: people feel like it's not, definite but this feels like
Speaker 1: it portends a move of Aj. Brown, again it's not
Speaker 1: certain that writing felt like it's, been it's somewhat been
Speaker 1: on the.
Speaker 2: Wall it's a.
Speaker 3: FORMALITY i would say it. This, yeah he's getting traded
Speaker 3: After june. ONE i don't know how you make this, Pick,
Speaker 3: AY i don't know how you trade? Really, Yeah, well
Speaker 3: because can we talk about how this pick actually went,
Speaker 3: down because it was the most entertaining part of the
Speaker 3: Direct The cowboys are on the clock at pick, twenty
Speaker 3: and then there's reports that you, know they're gonna take the,
Speaker 3: defender it's, assumed and Then pittsburgh he's already Calling lemon
Speaker 3: in the, meantime, saying, hey we're taking you with the
Speaker 3: twenty first, pick and Since dallas was expected to go
Speaker 3: with the defensive, player that all seemed. Fine but then
Speaker 3: The cowboys trade their pick to The, eagles to their,
Speaker 3: rivals who then sniped The steelers on McKay. Lemon it, was,
Speaker 3: oh just souped ants best entertainment of the night in my,
Speaker 3: opinion all that went. Down but you don't make a
Speaker 3: trade with your rival like. That you don't even make the,
Speaker 3: call you don't even pick up the phone unless you
Speaker 3: have a plan for McKay lemon to be a big
Speaker 3: part of your offense and presumably then see you, LATER Aj,
Speaker 3: brown you, know smell you later After june. First that's
Speaker 3: How i'm reading it.
Speaker 1: Anyways, now what do you think about the archetype? Here
Speaker 1: he's five eleven one. Two it doesn't feel like the
Speaker 1: again prototype one v one. Replacement not to say you
Speaker 1: need to do, that, right BUT Aj brown had a
Speaker 1: pretty clearly defined man one of the TRUER x. Receivers big,
Speaker 1: body like, fast over the, top very physical high. Point like,
Speaker 1: literally if you want to make a huge wide receiver
Speaker 1: ONE x guy in the, lamb it's. Him this doesn't
Speaker 1: quite feel like.
Speaker 2: That.
Speaker 1: Now it doesn't mean you need to hurts, moves and
Speaker 1: that tends to open up or break down defenses a
Speaker 1: little bit. More plus you have a really impactful underneath
Speaker 1: guy still In. Smith so what do you think About
Speaker 1: lemon again wide receiver forty eight FEELS i, MEAN i
Speaker 1: want to, say extremely late if we think he's at
Speaker 1: all a replacement FOR Aj. BROWN i, Mean, jake we're
Speaker 1: on year four or five Of brown And smith both
Speaker 1: going in.
Speaker 2: The top like thirty six.
Speaker 1: Overall so if this is a super talented, player there's
Speaker 1: there's gotta be value somewhere Or i'm completely.
Speaker 3: Mistaken, YEAH i, Mean lemon is my favorite receiver in this.
Speaker 3: Class he is in no way a one for one
Speaker 3: replacement FOR Aj, brown BUT i do think he's the
Speaker 3: most well rounded guy in this. CLASS i think people
Speaker 3: look At Jalen hurts and they just, go, well he
Speaker 3: doesn't throw over the. Middle he's never gonna throw to the,
Speaker 3: slot and that's where Mackay lemon. Thrives and, yes he's
Speaker 3: very good as a slot, player but he's also very.
Speaker 3: Versatile he can bounce. OUTSIDE i think we'll see a
Speaker 3: lot of mixing and matching with him And DeVante. SMITH
Speaker 3: i don't think That DeVante smith is necessarily the number
Speaker 3: one on this team AFTER Aj brown leaves and McKayle
Speaker 3: lemon is. There BUT i don't know That lemon is
Speaker 3: gonna be the wide receiver one. Either it's probably gonna
Speaker 3: be some ONE a ONE b. Situation AND i don't
Speaker 3: know if we'll love either of them as like a
Speaker 3: top twelve pick or top tel twelve. Receiver BUT i
Speaker 3: could see them both doing very. Well it's probably just
Speaker 3: gonna be an adjustment to the offense of how they.
Speaker 3: Operate it's not gonna be the same as when they
Speaker 3: HAD Aj, brown which might not be a bad Thing,
Speaker 3: john because maybe McKay lemon isn't gonna be over there
Speaker 3: reading books on the, sideline if he isn't getting thrown to,
Speaker 3: enough maybe it's ultimately better for the offense as a.
Speaker 3: Whole so In, dynasty, Certainly i'm well into McKay. Lemon
Speaker 3: he will be my one oh.
Speaker 2: Three In.
Speaker 3: Redraft we'll, See i'll see how he.
Speaker 1: Falls, YEAH i, Mean hurts has always been very much
Speaker 1: a targeter of the, whiteouts AND i almost kind of
Speaker 1: walk myself into the trap of. Redundancy and it's not
Speaker 1: always a bad. Thing WHERE i was, Saying, oh you
Speaker 1: don't necessarily need TALL x AND y re shifty. Flank
Speaker 1: you don't necessarily have to do. That football is about.
Speaker 1: Mismatches and if you think that we're talking about a
Speaker 1: player that is maybe more Like DeVonta smith THAN Aj,
Speaker 1: brown it doesn't mean A. J brown is better Than
Speaker 1: smith in every. Scenario and you can see how two
Speaker 1: of those players right with enough speed and enough, separation
Speaker 1: can really cause a lot of. Havoc right hard enough.
Speaker 2: To cover, one let alone.
Speaker 1: Two maybe they're seeing a more like a faster offense
Speaker 1: closer to the line of. SCRIMMAGE i Know eagles fans
Speaker 1: wouldn't mind that they were On hurtz's case a lot
Speaker 1: for holding the ball to. ALONG i, MEAN i kind
Speaker 1: of like to see him takeoff. More but it will
Speaker 1: get to The eagles when we're doing team previews. Stuff,
Speaker 1: YEAH i like The lemon pick AND i it to,
Speaker 1: me it feels very much like a value. Here Makai
Speaker 1: lemon is going After Xavier. Worthy that's right there in
Speaker 1: that same SECTION i mentioned, Before Khalil, Shakiir Matthew, Golden Jalen. Coker,
Speaker 1: Like i'm not interested in those guys at. All we're
Speaker 1: talking about every down player on The, eagles like instantaneously
Speaker 1: competitive and another player to kind of suck up a
Speaker 1: lot of. Attention so, Yeah i'm all over The lemon.
Speaker 1: Pick last impact player was number twenty. Four Casey concepcion
Speaker 1: went to The. BROWNS i, MEAN i don't even. KNOW
Speaker 1: i know they were desperate for wide outs AND i
Speaker 1: know at points they looked really. Exciting, also REALLY i
Speaker 1: remember being shocked at was It? Bond Isaiah bond was
Speaker 1: a player who made A he cracked a couple of.
Speaker 1: Defenses now when do you see. Concepcion he was really
Speaker 1: causing a lot of you, know polarizing.
Speaker 2: Arguments so he goes to The.
Speaker 1: Browns he's wide receiver fifty. Nine he might be the
Speaker 1: wide receiver one walking IN adp one forty.
Speaker 2: Four do you like the?
Speaker 1: Situation what about the quarterback?
Speaker 2: Stuff brown's a little bit into blend.
Speaker 3: There, Yeah BUT i mean that is the thing with,
Speaker 3: him that's the positive is he's walking into a wide
Speaker 3: open path for. Targets so we can debate about whether
Speaker 3: The browns are gonna be a good offense or, not
Speaker 3: but when it terms to just sheer target, availability you
Speaker 3: have to figure he might even have the best situation
Speaker 3: out of any receiver we've talked about so, far just walking.
Speaker 3: IN i try not to negatively have the landing spot
Speaker 3: impact a good talented, receiver which he, is because nine
Speaker 3: times out of, ten the talent just wins out in most.
Speaker 3: Scenarios people hated the landing spot From Lake, neighbors hated
Speaker 3: it For, egbuka they hated it FOR. Jsn SO i
Speaker 3: Think conceptciona has enough talent to have it work, out
Speaker 3: and hopefully If shade Or sanders is the guy throwing the.
Speaker 3: Ball he's a little bit more like his seasons In
Speaker 3: colorado right where he could Keep Travis hunter well fed at,
Speaker 3: least and so concepcionn and Fan in for our, purposes
Speaker 3: those are the two guys we care about for. Fantasy
Speaker 3: maybe they can still. Thrive so depending ON, adp it
Speaker 3: might be a nice upside play in. Redraft AND i
Speaker 3: very much have him as my fourth wide receiver than In. Dynasty,
Speaker 3: YEAH i can dig.
Speaker 1: THAT i think you nailed the opportunities of the thing
Speaker 1: that first get me, interested and then the price is
Speaker 1: what gets me to kind of seal the. Deal so
Speaker 1: it's always a price. Thing and if you're getting a
Speaker 1: guy who could and should be the target dominator on
Speaker 1: whatever that, means you, know even on the worst, offense it's.
Speaker 1: Something and if we think they're gonna be bad and throwing,
Speaker 1: late that's something.
Speaker 2: Else.
Speaker 1: Yeah if he's going late after guys that are kind
Speaker 1: of backup, play, right like backup plans or after, thoughts
Speaker 1: he's going, Around, uh That's Tarik hill and That's Deebo samuel.
Speaker 1: NAMES i Recognize Tank dell is back. There so you're
Speaker 1: taking a lot of like injury risk and. Stuff people
Speaker 1: that don't have the same kind of clear. Pathway so,
Speaker 1: Yeah i'm with you on that. One actually like a
Speaker 1: little bit of the wide, receivers AND i Guess i'm
Speaker 1: kind of bullish on this wide receiver. Class So, jake
Speaker 1: that was. Awesome, man what a really great kind Of
Speaker 1: round one fantasy. Recap AND i think that'll do it
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