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Speaker 1: Welcome to the thirtieth anversary edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. Yes,
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Speaker 1: up over the course of the show, the one thing
Speaker 1: you need to know about each team's offseason. If you've
Speaker 1: been sleeping through the offseason a little bit or otherwise
Speaker 1: having a life, we're gonna get you up to speed
Speaker 1: on the key thing you need to know from each team.
Speaker 1: We're gonna go through our peacock offs something we've done
Speaker 1: every preseason now for many years, where we give bold
Speaker 1: predictions that we hope to peacock with. Later, you're gonna
Speaker 1: get tired of hearing tired of hearing that. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think over the course of the peacock off, we'll talk
Speaker 1: about some of the players that we love but hate
Speaker 1: the ADP love the player, but don't like the draft position.
Speaker 1: Identify those we've got sleepers, We've got our black list,
Speaker 1: players that we are not drafting. Three tough questions and
Speaker 1: so much more to get to over this are Now
Speaker 1: we're back to our long extended editions of Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: All right, let's jump in the one thing you need
Speaker 1: to know about each team's offseason, Matt. We begin with
Speaker 1: the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they have a completely new wide receiver room. Stefan
Speaker 3: Diggs and Abe Davis, they're gone right now. The top
Speaker 3: of their wide receiver depth chart is Khalil Shakir, Rookie
Speaker 3: Keon Coleman, and Curtis Samuel. Then there's also Mac Hollins
Speaker 3: and Marquez Veldez, Scantling and kJ Hamler and Chase Claypool
Speaker 3: and actually a bunch of other dudes. They have twelve
Speaker 3: wide receivers in camp right now, which means the search
Speaker 3: is not over for the right wide receiver in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: No, and a bunch of those all play slot as well,
Speaker 1: and so I think it's going to be tricky to
Speaker 1: find fantasy value there. I know we're going to talk
Speaker 1: about one of those guys in detail later in this show, Brian,
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Miami Dolphins. The one thing we
Speaker 1: need to know about their offseason.
Speaker 4: Will was once the most famous Smith to go to Miami,
Speaker 4: but that is now John U.
Speaker 1: Yeah, baby, John new Smith.
Speaker 4: I had to pick John Smith for the one thing
Speaker 4: to talk about the Dolphins. We don't want to talk
Speaker 4: about Tua and Tyree Hill and Wadley's Johnny John, Yes,
Speaker 4: Johnny John Hu. The Dolphins haven't approved of this. I
Speaker 4: knew you would. Pants are already off. You're dry humping like.
Speaker 1: A okay, let's not let's not go quite that far,
Speaker 1: all right, Well, he scores in week one, you will
Speaker 1: be right then you say it or when when? So
Speaker 1: guarantee when he scores in with week one, I'll remember
Speaker 1: to bet that the pants will be in orbit.
Speaker 4: Bet that any time touchdown, I gotta remember that but
Speaker 4: Dolphins haven't utilized tight ends much in recent years, much
Speaker 4: to the chagrin of my Durham smite sleeper call last year.
Speaker 4: But uh, John, who is a freak in a good
Speaker 4: way and at tight end twenty three? Why not right?
Speaker 4: Charge tight end twenty three?
Speaker 1: Johnny, you know what you're getting in John Nosmith because
Speaker 1: I've talked about him for three years now. Incredible athlete,
Speaker 1: fast is periodically back in this Tennessee days they would
Speaker 1: give him handoffs out of the backfield. I mean, he
Speaker 1: is just, you know, the athleticism off the charts, just
Speaker 1: waiting for some team to put him in a spot
Speaker 1: to utilize him a little better than he's been used
Speaker 1: to this point. Let's go to the New York Jets.
Speaker 1: You know Aaron Rodgers is back, but you may not
Speaker 1: remember that they quietly signed former Charger receiver Williams. And
Speaker 1: you know he's off the radar because he blew out
Speaker 1: his ACL last year and then the team cut him,
Speaker 1: and then he quietly signed with the With with the Jets.
Speaker 3: He's on the pup list right now. He just came
Speaker 3: off the pup list like Yester.
Speaker 1: Okay, they go just off the pup list. Now he
Speaker 1: might be available Week one or the ACL way back
Speaker 1: in September. So wouldn't be surprised if Mike Williams, maybe
Speaker 1: maybe not doing all the reps in Week one, is
Speaker 1: the starting wide receiver for the Jets. But I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be surprised to be the starter for the Jets. And
Speaker 1: somebody are going to be able to get Uber cheap
Speaker 1: if you're so inclined, if you want one of Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers off starting wideouts basically for free. Sup All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to the new England Patriots.
Speaker 3: Man Bill Belichick and Mac Jones are gone, Alex van
Speaker 3: Pelt is the new offensive coordinator, and Jacoby Burssett is
Speaker 3: slated to start a quarterback with Drake May waiting his turn.
Speaker 3: But in my mind, outside of Ramandre Stevenson, there probably
Speaker 3: won't be any other Patriots on standard fantasy rosters this
Speaker 3: draft season.
Speaker 1: We'll be talking more about Alex van Pelt later. You
Speaker 1: probably didn't think we were going to deep dive Alex
Speaker 1: van Pelt, but it's coming. Let's go to the Baltimore Ravens.
Speaker 4: Brian, you got to talk about King Henry now when
Speaker 4: we're talking the Ravens still twenty touchdown potential in this
Speaker 4: offense in my mind, even at his age, and maybe
Speaker 4: three down back potential. Here's a quote from Ravens offensive
Speaker 4: coordinator Todd Don't call me Art Monkin when talking about
Speaker 4: Derek Henry. To me, he's a really versatile player, not
Speaker 4: only running the ball, but getting the ball in space
Speaker 4: and throwing him the ball and getting him out on
Speaker 4: the perimeter and see if some of your defensive backs
Speaker 4: can tackle him. So if he deploys Henry in that way,
Speaker 4: that is a first round draft capital. He's going in
Speaker 4: the third right now. So I think in the third
Speaker 4: he's going too late. I think he's a slam dunk
Speaker 4: pick in the second round.
Speaker 1: He's starting to trend into the second round a lot
Speaker 1: of drafts, and we'll be monitoring that closely. And I
Speaker 1: know you're a little later in the show, you're going
Speaker 1: to talk about another Baltimore running a little bit later,
Speaker 1: let's go to the Land. Brown's the one thing you
Speaker 1: need to know about this team's offseason. And obviously we're
Speaker 1: tracking Nick Chubb's rehab process. But you may not remember
Speaker 1: their draft day acquisition of Jerry Judy. I think it
Speaker 1: was draft day. It could be wrong. The Browns acquired
Speaker 1: him for a couple of Day three picks and subsequently
Speaker 1: signed him to a three year extension. So they obviously
Speaker 1: like Jerry Judy and he's probably going to start. This
Speaker 1: is not a team that was deep at the receiver position,
Speaker 1: and based on the contract, it would suggest that he's
Speaker 1: going to be a starter. He found himself in Sean
Speaker 1: Payton's voluminous mansion like doghouse, and Judy couldn't get out
Speaker 1: of that. Now he gets a fresh start and he's
Speaker 1: starting opposite Amari Cooper. Another starter you can get almost
Speaker 1: for free.
Speaker 3: I like the idea of a really big doghouse. That's
Speaker 3: a mansion that's fun to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in Denver. In Denver, maybe it's the size of
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson's old house with the fourteen toilets.
Speaker 3: Hey, let's talk about Russell Wilson. Yeah, good call, nice,
Speaker 3: let's do it. He's the starting quarterback in Pittsburgh. Now
Speaker 3: Justin Fields is the backup at this point. They said
Speaker 3: so as much over the weekend where they were talking
Speaker 3: about yeh, Russell's the number one and Fields is the
Speaker 3: number two. They also moved on from Deontay Johnson leaving,
Speaker 3: really just George Pickens as the clear wide receiver one
Speaker 3: in the steel City and then a bunch of other guys.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be a fascinating one to watch. I
Speaker 1: think the Steelers are a sneaky, really good team. They
Speaker 1: already had one of the best defenses in the league.
Speaker 1: They've been way down by awful quarterbacking ever since been retired.
Speaker 1: I just I get the feeling that offense and that
Speaker 1: whole team is just sitting on a much better season.
Speaker 1: They can just get competing quarterback in which for us
Speaker 1: can bring.
Speaker 3: They are picked to finish last in the AFC March, I'm.
Speaker 1: Taking the over. Yeah, Cincinnati Bengals while we're staying in
Speaker 1: the NFC North Bryan. One thing to know about their offseason.
Speaker 4: Joe Burrow will be good to go after rists surgery
Speaker 4: that ended his season prematurely last year. T Higgins's back
Speaker 4: the franchise tag. But I want to know who will
Speaker 4: be the third receiving option for the Bengals. People are
Speaker 4: excited about rookie Jermaine Burton, second year receiver Andre Iosa.
Speaker 1: Bus that's my guy.
Speaker 4: I was about saying, I wish Scott was here. To
Speaker 4: correct me.
Speaker 3: But you guys people call him Yoshi.
Speaker 4: I believe I like that. I'm gonna go with that
Speaker 4: from now.
Speaker 3: We probably need a Yoshi button. Now.
Speaker 4: I know likes Yoshi too. I'm pretty sure that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't remember that robe he lays an egg
Speaker 1: a perfect well, let's hope he doesn't play an egg.
Speaker 3: We don't want Yoshi laying eggs. He spit eggs too, right, Oh,
Speaker 3: he could spit him out.
Speaker 1: Eggs just pouring out of Yoshi some egxcellent performance.
Speaker 3: Yoshi's kind of gross.
Speaker 4: I'm just thinking of that. I think you should leave
Speaker 4: eggs all right. Back to what were we talking about?
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, the Bengals.
Speaker 1: That sales receiver tight end, Mike Kasiki.
Speaker 4: I'm a little intrigued by Mike Siki. Uh In sinci now,
Speaker 4: so I bet turns into a He's more of a
Speaker 4: wide receiver anyway than a tight ends A little bit little.
Speaker 4: I'm intrigued by him. He's he's virtually free as well.
Speaker 1: He's going to be a take a chance on me guy.
Speaker 1: That'll pop up a couple of times this year in
Speaker 1: the in Houston. Everybody knows about Stefan Diggs showing up
Speaker 1: there and complicating that receiver room. But maybe you didn't notice.
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon is now the presumptive starting running back. To
Speaker 1: my eyes, Mixon looked cooked last year. Let me put
Speaker 1: some numbers to that. Oh, do you want to put
Speaker 1: numbers to that? Because we're gonna talk a lot about
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon later. We'll hold on and the cooked portion
Speaker 1: then you can chime in. All right, Well, rest ashured.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about Joe Mixon in a minute. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars, Matt.
Speaker 3: Calvin Ridley, he's gone and he's being replaced by Gabe
Speaker 3: Davis and rookie first rounder Brian Thomas Junior. Thomas is
Speaker 3: six four to two oh five and it's pretty good speed.
Speaker 3: He was second on the depth chart at LSU, behind
Speaker 3: Malik Neighbors, but he could be the primary option for
Speaker 3: Trevor Lawrence in short order, and Lawrence had a pretty
Speaker 3: good average depth of target last year. Brian Thomas Junior
Speaker 3: is a pretty interesting rookie player.
Speaker 1: I'm interested. Bigger, bigger body, and a lot of opportunity
Speaker 1: potentially like it.
Speaker 4: I've never done that before. I always Yeah, people are.
Speaker 1: Calling him fish of you right there.
Speaker 4: People are calling him a BTJ now, So I just
Speaker 4: need him to work an X in there and then
Speaker 4: I can sell my Twitter handle to him when he
Speaker 4: signs his second contract. That got it all figured out.
Speaker 3: He plays the X receiver.
Speaker 1: Oh perfect, btx J. You can follow Brian on Twitter
Speaker 1: at BTXJ.
Speaker 3: Well at least for now, and then it'll be a
Speaker 3: Brian Thomas Juniors. He sells it.
Speaker 1: I think next up is the Tennessee Titans. Calvin Ridley
Speaker 1: come back to me real quick on the court.
Speaker 4: Sorry, no worries. Josh Downs Wide receiver Josh Downs recently
Speaker 4: went down with a high ankle spring He's out at
Speaker 4: least six weeks. That's a big bump for a Donnie
Speaker 4: Mitchell and Alec Pierce. People might have forgotten about Alec Pierce,
Speaker 4: who I think ran the most miles on the field
Speaker 4: last year. Yeah remember that it was the most cardio
Speaker 4: of ascular fit player in the NFL. But yeah, Josh
Speaker 4: Downs is going to miss some time and coming back
Speaker 4: from a high ankle that takes some time, and the
Speaker 4: Colts are still going to want to run the ball
Speaker 4: a lot. So I'm kind of just out on Downs
Speaker 4: and even I'm not buying the dip put it that way.
Speaker 1: Now, the Titans, Yeah, afore mentioned Calvin Ridley signed up
Speaker 1: what I considered be a stunning ninety two million dollar deal.
Speaker 1: I agree, I do not that despite the incredibly inconsistent
Speaker 1: season that he had in Jacksonville last year, new head
Speaker 1: coach Brian Callahan says that he'll use Ridley in much
Speaker 1: the same fashion that he used Jamar Chase. So we
Speaker 1: like that because Callahan was the offensive coordinator there. It's
Speaker 1: worth noting that DeAndre Hopkins is going to miss a
Speaker 1: much much of the preseason with injury, and he's also
Speaker 1: thirty two years old, so Ridley could roll into the
Speaker 1: season as the undisputed number one receiver for Tennessee. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Kansas City Chiefs. So what's the one
Speaker 1: thing we need to know?
Speaker 3: The Super Bowl champs added a few new weapons to
Speaker 3: the offense. Marquise Brown comes over on one year deal
Speaker 3: from the Cardinals, and first round rookie Xavier Worthy, who's
Speaker 3: one of the fastest wide receivers in the league. The
Speaker 3: problem is is he's super small, and I just don't
Speaker 3: foresee Worthy or Marquise Brownie clipsing Rashi Rice is the
Speaker 3: preferred target unless Rice ends up facing suspension or in
Speaker 3: jail for driving cars poorly.
Speaker 1: Rishie Earnhardt Rice as we like to call him, poorly
Speaker 1: and fast. Let's go to the Las Vegas Raiders, Brian.
Speaker 4: I want to know who the quarterback is going to
Speaker 4: be in Vegas? Is this gonna be? Is it gonna
Speaker 4: be Aiden O'Connell or Gardner Minshew because they have weapons
Speaker 4: now in Las Vegas, starting with Devonte Adams. I've always
Speaker 4: liked Jacobe Myers. He is legit, and now they got
Speaker 4: phenom tight end Brock Powers, who's not going to play
Speaker 4: much tight end in my opinion. He's more of a
Speaker 4: wide receiver. So is it gonna be Minshew or Aiden O'Connell.
Speaker 4: This is the one quarterback battle I am truly watching
Speaker 4: because I think there's some serious late round value whoever
Speaker 4: wins this job.
Speaker 1: For the rooting for Minshew from a fantasy standpoint, for sure.
Speaker 4: I'm room for AOC the rookie. I mean, I think
Speaker 4: he's We've seen what minch you can offer. He can
Speaker 4: give you a sweet mullet and jorts, and we've seen
Speaker 4: his ceiling.
Speaker 1: Almost a playoff berth for the cold third game away
Speaker 1: from making the playoffs. Minshu's at least capable, and maybe
Speaker 1: I'm being tainted by eight and O'Connell getting shut out
Speaker 1: by the Vikings, and I just don't see any upside
Speaker 1: with him.
Speaker 3: Antonio Pierce started one quarterback as a coach, that was eight,
Speaker 3: and O'Connell he started all nine of Antonio Pierce's head
Speaker 3: coaching games last year and they went five and four
Speaker 3: in that time.
Speaker 1: So all right, we got two more to get to
Speaker 1: before we take a break. Denver Broncos. After jettisoning Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: the Broncos starting quarterback situation is unsettled. We've got rookie
Speaker 1: bow Knicks battling journeyman Jared Stidham, and I don't think
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson's really in this battle at all, but I'll
Speaker 1: know he's on roster. Most assumed that bow Nick's draft
Speaker 1: equity alone will make him the starter before long, maybe
Speaker 1: even as early as Week one. We'll watch that as
Speaker 1: it as it goes. Zach Wilson getting third team reps
Speaker 1: and the final AFC team we'll talk about before we
Speaker 1: take a break. The Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: Chargers, everyone but justin Airbear is gone Austin Eckler, Keenan Allen,
Speaker 3: Mike Williams all gone, new coach Jim Harbaugh, new running
Speaker 3: backs Gus Edwards, JK. Dobbins and Kamani Vidal, new wide
Speaker 3: receivers and rookie Lad McConkie and DJ Shark. Even the
Speaker 3: tight ends are new, Will Disley and Hayden Hurst. The
Speaker 3: question will be how all these new pieces gel in
Speaker 3: Los Angeles with the Airbear.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about at least one of those players
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Speaker 1: their off seasons when we return to Fantasy Football Weekly.
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Speaker 1: Brian Johnson with you thirtieth anniversary edition. This week, we're
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Speaker 1: off seasons. We left off with the NFC. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, Jerry Jones doesn't seem to care that
Speaker 4: Ceede Lamb is holding out, unsigned and angry great GM
Speaker 4: Jerry Jones is, So we'll see what happens there. Hopefully
Speaker 4: they signed him. But I'm really looking at the running
Speaker 4: back room in Little D. I call it Little D
Speaker 4: because the Cowboys are not good. Ezekiel Elliott is back.
Speaker 4: Rico Dowdell is the presumed favorite. Royce Freeman has been
Speaker 4: turning head favorite.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I guess he's looked the best in camp, and he
Speaker 4: was there last year. I think people are leaning his
Speaker 4: way as a starter at but it's really going to
Speaker 4: be a split between Zeke and Dowdell most likely maybe
Speaker 4: Royce Freeman mixed in. Long story short, I'm out entirely
Speaker 4: on this backfield all about the passing game. It's CD
Speaker 4: holt up.
Speaker 1: It's go to the Philadelphia Eagles. Their new starting running
Speaker 1: back is Saquad Barkley, who crossed enemy lines for a
Speaker 1: bigger pay day and the opportunity to move up about
Speaker 1: thirty one spots in offensive line quality. Can't blame him
Speaker 1: for that. Barkley should get plenty of use, hopefully as
Speaker 1: a receiver as well, and the Eagles depth chart at
Speaker 1: running back isn't nearly as cluttered as it has been
Speaker 1: in previous years. Right, so there's Kenneth Gain Well, then
Speaker 1: there's the rookie will Shipley, who does not really look
Speaker 1: to be much of a factor here. Barkley could be
Speaker 1: looking at a workhorse season, but you know, inside the
Speaker 1: three four yard line, what's gonna happen? All tush pushes
Speaker 1: baby m That's a limiting factor for his upside. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Giants, Matt.
Speaker 3: The Giants actually made a lot of offseason move The
Speaker 3: biggest one was getting edge rusher Brian Burns. But let's
Speaker 3: talk about the offense. Saquon out, Devin Singletary in, Drew
Speaker 3: Locke is in as the backup quarterback, and if Daniel
Speaker 3: Jones and all the videos from this preseason or any
Speaker 3: indication Drew Locke might get some play this year. John
Speaker 3: Runyon was brought into bolster the O line, and Malik
Speaker 3: Neighbors is the best wide receiver the Giants have had
Speaker 3: since Odell Beckham.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he looks extremely promising. I've got a fantasy league.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to choose between Malik Neighbors and Marvin Harrison,
Speaker 1: and I don't in a dynasty league, and I don't
Speaker 1: know for sure what I'm gonna do yet.
Speaker 4: It's just preseason, but they didn't target Neighbors in the
Speaker 4: Giants for his preseason game. It's like, come on.
Speaker 1: Maybe they're trying to keep him hidden.
Speaker 4: Maybe he hasn't been playing.
Speaker 3: No one's gonna figure it out.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Washington Commanders Brian all Right.
Speaker 4: Washington took quarterback Jaden Daniels with the second overall pick.
Speaker 4: He is listed as the starter. They're not messing around
Speaker 4: like they are in New England, and I'm buying Daniels
Speaker 4: for Offensive Rookie of the Year at plus five point
Speaker 4: fifty uh failed for former Cardinals head coach Cliff Kingsbury
Speaker 4: is now the OC in Washington. He is very past friendly.
Speaker 4: Daniel Daniels is also very mobile. He has the limit
Speaker 4: the hits he's going to take, though, because he got
Speaker 4: knocked around in college quite a bit and they hit
Speaker 4: a lot harder in the pros. But Daniels currently going
Speaker 4: off the board is QB eleven. That's ahead of rock Perty,
Speaker 4: Caleb Williams, who's the favorite to win Offensive Rookie of
Speaker 4: the Year. Yeah, Trevor Lawrence.
Speaker 1: So we're going to talk more about it, sure, and
Speaker 1: a little later in this show as well. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the Detroit Lions. Almost no changes to the Lions offense,
Speaker 1: aside from letting go a receiver Josh Reynolds. Khaliff Raymond
Speaker 1: is an intriguing deep sleeper. He's been splitting time with
Speaker 1: Reynolds and you won't have to do that anymore. The
Speaker 1: uptick and playing time could mean Khalif Raymond is like
Speaker 1: a spot fantasy starter. I can see scenarios where he's
Speaker 1: going to be to take a chance on me, guy
Speaker 1: Khalif Raymond this year, and if Jamison Williams can't stay healthy,
Speaker 1: which has been a problem, then Raymond to get even
Speaker 1: more of a bigger role and he could be the
Speaker 1: team's kick returner, which could add some fantasy value as well.
Speaker 1: So a little kerlif Raymond deep steam for you. Let's
Speaker 1: go to our next team, Green Bay Packers. One thing
Speaker 1: to know about their offseason.
Speaker 3: Mat biggest change was the Packers sent Aaron Jones packing
Speaker 3: and in a rare move, they signed a free agent
Speaker 3: to a somewhat big money deal at the running back position.
Speaker 3: That would be former Raider Josh Jacobs. I'm not sure
Speaker 3: Jacobs is an improvement though, as all of his metrics
Speaker 3: suffered in twenty twenty three. Bad miss tackle rate, bad
Speaker 3: yards after contact, super high stuff rate. I'm not so
Speaker 3: sure that rookie Marshawn Lloyd won't be stealing touches by
Speaker 3: the end of the year.
Speaker 1: There, and Lloyd is built for fantasy value. You know.
Speaker 1: He is a big, thick, goal line style back and
Speaker 1: he could he could be a workhorse down the road.
Speaker 3: Let's hope he's a little bit better than a big,
Speaker 3: huge aj Dillon.
Speaker 1: Exactly. Yeah, he's I think he's a cut candidate.
Speaker 5: He is.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 4: Brian, I'm a shocked I'm talking about the Vikings house. Well,
Speaker 4: if I want to talk one thing about the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1: What would that be from off season moves? What was
Speaker 1: what's a notable off season move? Right?
Speaker 4: Your starting quarterback and a lot of you Viking fans
Speaker 4: out there have to deal with it is Sam Donald
Speaker 4: who is going to be a screaming value with the
Speaker 4: last pick in your draft. This is his first real
Speaker 4: football team he gets to play for, and he has
Speaker 4: the best wide receiver in the world. And I am
Speaker 4: full on believing in Sam Donald. And there are so
Speaker 4: many Vikings fans who want him to fail, which makes
Speaker 4: no sense. I'm excited. You want to see Ja McCarthy,
Speaker 4: I am too. Rising tide lifts all boats, right Church, Yeah,
Speaker 4: you want Donald to succeed. I'm buying he's gonna. I
Speaker 4: don't care about the tough schedule. I don't care as
Speaker 4: these ghosts. I love Sam Donald. I hope you hear this. Sam,
Speaker 4: I believe in you, and lots of others do on
Speaker 4: to you.
Speaker 1: Chuch, Sam going off the board as quarterback thirty four?
Speaker 1: Right now? How many NFL teams are there?
Speaker 3: I believe thirty two?
Speaker 1: Thirty two? All right, so there's at least one backup
Speaker 1: being taken before starter Sam Donald. All Right, most people
Speaker 1: nationally do not understand that Sam Donald is going to
Speaker 1: be the starter and has a long runway. They're gonna
Speaker 1: ease in JJ McCarthy as long and take as long
Speaker 1: as they need before they feel comfortable getting JJ out there.
Speaker 4: Love it.
Speaker 1: Let's go to our next team, the Chicago Bears. A
Speaker 1: really just massive upgrades everywhere around this offense for Chicago, really,
Speaker 1: but you know, this whole assignment, this whole this is
Speaker 1: it's all about one move. So I'm just gonna constrain
Speaker 1: on one thing. It's got to be Caleb Williams. No
Speaker 1: rookie in recent memory has been dropped into a better
Speaker 1: spot to succeed than Caleb Williams has. I mean, you
Speaker 1: get DJ Moore, you get a future Hall of Famer
Speaker 1: in Keenan Allen, you get lottery pick Roma Dunza, you bit,
Speaker 1: you get Williams's big arm, you get the all the
Speaker 1: you know, and the mobility. People aren't talking enough about
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams. Of mobility. He's got like five rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: in him. Maybe this year wouldn't surprise me at all.
Speaker 1: He's he's going to be the first Bear, assuming he
Speaker 1: doesn't get hurt, he'll be the first Bear to throw
Speaker 1: for four thousand years, and he's gonna years yards and
Speaker 1: he's gonna do it.
Speaker 3: In four thousand years.
Speaker 1: Yes, that'd be a bad average. Yeah, I took your
Speaker 1: four thousand years too.
Speaker 3: Could you argue that JJ McCarthy was dropped into as good,
Speaker 3: if not a better spot.
Speaker 1: But not the starter? So yes, but that is when
Speaker 1: he's dropped. It's a it is a pretty good spot
Speaker 1: for JJ as well. Let's go to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Speaker 3: Man, they really just re signed everyone on the team,
Speaker 3: Mike Evans, Baker Mayfield, Levante David Tristan Wurf's, Chase McLaughlin,
Speaker 3: Antoine Winfield. They're basically just running it back from last season.
Speaker 3: So maybe the most interesting fantasy nugget, Chris Godwin is
Speaker 3: actually healthy this year and it sounds like they're going
Speaker 3: to send him back to run most of his routes
Speaker 3: from the slots.
Speaker 1: Yes, I'm a big fan of that.
Speaker 3: Where he wasn't running last year, and I think it's
Speaker 3: going to be a pretty big uptick for Chris Godwin.
Speaker 1: This totally agree he's going to be a He's going
Speaker 1: to return to being uber safe catching all those passes,
Speaker 1: intermediate passes over the middle of the field. He's going
Speaker 1: to be a guillotine darling and you're gonna get him.
Speaker 3: He's super boring and you can get him just on
Speaker 3: the cheap.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 4: Brian, this was a tough one to find something to
Speaker 4: talk about with this team, so I went with, well,
Speaker 4: it's more of a question I'm going to post to you, guys.
Speaker 4: Do you remember Jamal Williams the NFL's leading touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Score just too one year removed from being the NFL's
Speaker 1: leading touchdown score.
Speaker 4: Of course, that was with Detroit. So people were expecting
Speaker 4: some success last year for Williams. He saw none. But uh,
Speaker 4: maybe this year will be a rebound here for Williams.
Speaker 4: There's some trouble in the running back room for the Saints.
Speaker 4: Alvin Kamara is clearly on the downcline. Kendre Miller cannot
Speaker 4: stay healthy, he's dealing with a hamstring issue. Coach calling
Speaker 4: him out. So Jamal Williams dart throw? Where's that Darrows
Speaker 4: down there? God, that's a big dart.
Speaker 1: That's a big dart right there. That hurt Falcons. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the one thing to know, Kirk Cousins is your starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: Some people doubted his ability to return from his torn achilles,
Speaker 1: but all the reports from camp indicate you wouldn't know
Speaker 1: if you didn't know. He looks to be planting perfectly
Speaker 1: well on it. His throwing motion seems to be completely unchanged.
Speaker 1: And remember, Cousins was the NFL passing leader when he
Speaker 1: tore his achilles at the halfway point of last season.
Speaker 1: He was on pace for a five thousand yard passing
Speaker 1: season and forty touchdowns. That would have put him as
Speaker 1: the league MVP or certainly in that conversation last year.
Speaker 1: New offensive coordinator is Zach Robinson a wild card here,
Speaker 1: but there's optim that Cousins will unlock the draft equity
Speaker 1: that this team had poured into Drake London and Kyle
Speaker 1: Pitts as lottery picks of their drafts. I think that's
Speaker 1: going to be the case here. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: Caroline Panthers s Matt.
Speaker 3: Dave Kanalis is the new coach. He's credited as reviving
Speaker 3: the Bucks offense last season, and he's really trying to
Speaker 3: put weapons around Bryce Young. They're trying to see if
Speaker 3: they have something here with Bryce Young. They got Deontay
Speaker 3: Johnson as the top wide receiver. They drafted wide receiver
Speaker 3: Xavier or Lagette with the last pick of the first round,
Speaker 3: and running back Jonathan Brooks in the mid second. So
Speaker 3: they're really trying to put some weapons around Bryce Young
Speaker 3: to see what they have.
Speaker 1: There's some signs that Brooks may come back sooner than
Speaker 1: we thought. You know, he had the November ACL so
Speaker 1: I was like, yeah, man, I don't it might not
Speaker 1: be till Halloween or something. But there's talk that we
Speaker 1: might see him on the field sooner than later, and
Speaker 1: that would be that'd be great for Jonathan Brooks. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the San Francisco forty nine ers, Brian and
Speaker 1: to watch.
Speaker 4: Ooh, well, I mean Brandon, Watch well, Brandon Ayuk get traded.
Speaker 4: That's what we're watching in San fran right now or
Speaker 4: San Jose, wherever they play. If Ayuk does get moved,
Speaker 4: that improves the stock of Ricky Parsol, who is a rookie.
Speaker 4: But I'm more excited about Juwan Jennings, who is always
Speaker 4: on the field. He's a great blocker and he actually
Speaker 4: is a pretty good wide receiver. As well. So we'll
Speaker 4: see what happens with Ayuk. But if he moves, that's
Speaker 4: gonna there's gonna be some butterfly effects across the league. Well,
Speaker 4: guess across two teams.
Speaker 1: My worry is any team that can afford to sign
Speaker 1: Brandon Ayuk at this stage of the season is a
Speaker 1: bad team, and they because they have the cap, They've
Speaker 1: got caproom. Bad teams have caprooms and good players every
Speaker 1: big contracts.
Speaker 3: Do you want to know who has the most cap
Speaker 3: room in the NFL.
Speaker 1: This year, it's it's the forty nine ers.
Speaker 3: It's San Francisco forty.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think it is the forty nine ers, but
Speaker 1: I think they're also stash and cash for brock perties
Speaker 1: eventual resigning. We'll see.
Speaker 4: You know who else has a lot of cap room?
Speaker 4: Peyton Manning.
Speaker 3: Oh, Hayton man.
Speaker 4: He's head, got you sorry.
Speaker 1: The Rams muddied up the fantasy prospects of Kyrone Williams
Speaker 1: by drafting Michigan runner Blake Koram in the third round.
Speaker 1: Korm is a do everything, jack of all trades back
Speaker 1: who could really eat into williams playing time much more
Speaker 1: significantly than last year's guys. Is like Royce Freeman and
Speaker 1: Zach Evans, who are just total non factors. Korm has
Speaker 1: earned strong praise in the preseason from Sean McVay, and
Speaker 1: his past catching and past blocking abilities have been on
Speaker 1: display in training camp. So what's going to be fascinating
Speaker 1: here is, you know, Williams got so much work last
Speaker 1: year because nobody was any good to give the ball to. Blake.
Speaker 1: Korm looks like a massive upgrade. So the question is,
Speaker 1: is Kyron Williams gonna still get the big workload that
Speaker 1: helped him be one of the big fantasy success stories
Speaker 1: of last year.
Speaker 4: Would you like to hear my take on this.
Speaker 1: Is it's gonna be a little jaded.
Speaker 4: I think I'm no longer cold at least tho it's
Speaker 4: been freezing up here in Minnesota.
Speaker 3: But oh yeah, Seattle Seahawks matt lots of the same players,
Speaker 3: but a completely new coaching staff. New head coach Mike
Speaker 3: McDonald brings his funky yamob their style to the defensive
Speaker 3: side of the ball, while Ryan Grubb moves from the
Speaker 3: OC at the University of Washington down the road to
Speaker 3: the pros to take the same position with the Seahawks.
Speaker 3: Grubs offense led Division one last year with three hundred
Speaker 3: and sixty nine passing yards per game and.
Speaker 1: Six hundred and thirty nine.
Speaker 3: No, three hundred and sixty nine.
Speaker 1: Okay, thank your.
Speaker 3: Number dyslexic over there, maybe I guess I am, yes,
Speaker 3: all right. And they also featured one belcow running back
Speaker 3: in Washington who had two hundred more rushing attempts than
Speaker 3: the next guy. So I think that bodes well for
Speaker 3: everybody in the Seahawks offense except Zach Sharboney.
Speaker 1: I can't. I'm with you on that. Yeah, although sharbon Ey,
Speaker 1: you know in your two has the right to get better,
Speaker 1: but I still can't muster a lot of enthusiasm. Yeah,
Speaker 1: all right. By the way, what is why mobiya?
Speaker 3: Where was that?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: It's a it was a Michael McDonald, oldest singer of.
Speaker 1: I Got You, Thank thank you?
Speaker 5: All right.
Speaker 1: Last team Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 4: Well, this time last year we were virtually drafting no
Speaker 4: Cardinals in fantasy. Kyler Murray was hurt, but now we're
Speaker 4: looking at Marvin Harrison junior wide receiver nine going late
Speaker 4: first early second round, Trey McBride tight end three, Kyler
Speaker 4: Murray quarterback seven, high expectations for this Cardinals offense. I'm
Speaker 4: just excited to watch it.
Speaker 1: And a reminder is we brought up a lot of
Speaker 1: times in the offseason podcast. In December of last year
Speaker 1: Cardinals were averaging twenty five points per game on offense.
Speaker 1: Massive uptick that you know, you know, across the full
Speaker 1: season that would have ranked them like, I don't know,
Speaker 1: team six or something. We saw real improvement at the
Speaker 1: end of last season for the Cardinals. And now you
Speaker 1: get the talent influx of a guy like Marvin Harrison
Speaker 1: Junior and maybe down the road Trey Benson, and that's
Speaker 1: it becomes an exciting offense in Arizzona. When we come back,
Speaker 1: get ready for a lot of this. Yes, the peak
Speaker 1: cock Off. Yeah, we're gonna give you six bold predictions.
Speaker 1: See if you can follow along with these and if
Speaker 1: you agree, you're gonna find some great values here. When
Speaker 1: we return to Fantasy Football League, it is time for
Speaker 1: the peacock off. We're gonna give you two, four, six, six, Yes,
Speaker 1: six different bold predictions that hope at this time next
Speaker 1: year we will look back and peacock off about our
Speaker 1: great predictions. Now, we went back over the break and
Speaker 1: we looked up our predictions in this segment. Last year,
Speaker 1: let's just say we could they could do a little better.
Speaker 1: We have room, we have room to improve.
Speaker 3: We went six or we went five and one.
Speaker 1: I didn't technically, I did not hit with Sam Howell
Speaker 1: finished as a top ten fantasy quarterback. Yeah, I love
Speaker 1: the Sam howelake.
Speaker 4: Matt said, that's a draw.
Speaker 1: That's enough if it depends a lot on whether or
Speaker 1: not your league subtracts points for sacks absorbed and interceptions thrown,
Speaker 1: in which case Sam Howell is a disaster. But just
Speaker 1: on sheer yardage.
Speaker 4: I think he led the league in hospital balls too.
Speaker 1: I think you might have. You might have man Eric
Speaker 1: the Enemy put him in a bad spot. Eric Enemy
Speaker 1: is not even in the league. All right, let's move on, Matt.
Speaker 1: You want to start, give us your first of two
Speaker 1: peacock off.
Speaker 3: Well, last year my peacock off was Garrett Wilson was
Speaker 3: going to finish the year as the top wide receiver
Speaker 3: in the league, and then Aaron Rodgers tour his achilles
Speaker 3: four snaps into the season. You can put an asterisk
Speaker 3: on that, So I'm recycling that take without Rogers. Last year,
Speaker 3: Wilson was fourth in the league in targets, but his
Speaker 3: targets were so putrid from Zach Wilson, Tim Boyle, and
Speaker 3: Trevor Simeon that he could only manage ninety five catches,
Speaker 3: just over one thousand yards and only three scores. So
Speaker 3: you'd think that his targets remain the same and the
Speaker 3: quality of those passes are going to be better. I
Speaker 3: think he'll be in a good spot. The average wide
Speaker 3: receiver who's had at least one hundred and fifty targets
Speaker 3: over the last two years, Hennis has finished with one
Speaker 3: hundred and twelve receptions, almost fifteen hundred yards and scored
Speaker 3: nine times.
Speaker 1: You don't say nine times times.
Speaker 3: If you make it one hundred and sixty targets, it's
Speaker 3: close to sixteen hundred yards and almost ten scores. Rogers
Speaker 3: top wide receivers have had great touchdown totals. In twenty
Speaker 3: twenty two, Christian Watson had seven receiving scores, all came
Speaker 3: week ten or later. DeVante Adams had five years of
Speaker 3: double digit touchdowns in six years of being a full
Speaker 3: starter in Green Bay. So sixteen hundred yards and double
Speaker 3: digit touchdowns are almost a lock for Garrett Wilson and
Speaker 3: He's going off at wide receiver seven right now. He's
Speaker 3: such a good receiver, He's such a good receiver good
Speaker 3: He's got as good of a chance to be wide
Speaker 3: receiver one as anybody else.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say as anybody else, but I would by talent,
Speaker 1: he could absolutely be wide receiver one. Let's go to Brian,
Speaker 1: your first of two peacock offs.
Speaker 4: Speaking of really good wide receivers who have been dealing
Speaker 4: with putrid targets, I don't think anyone can top what
Speaker 4: Terry McLaurin has dealt with. Terry, poor Terry McLaurin, but
Speaker 4: I got him finishing as a top ten wide receiver
Speaker 4: this year. Currently going off the board is wide receiver
Speaker 4: thirty one.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: Over the last four seasons, McLaurin is one of only
Speaker 4: six wide receivers to top one thousand yards in each
Speaker 4: of those seasons, and also in each of those Terry
Speaker 4: was in the bottom third of catchable target rate. Now
Speaker 4: that will change this year with Jaden Daniels and hopefully
Speaker 4: past friendly offensive coordinator Cliff Kingsbury who I brought up earlier.
Speaker 4: Daniels was the only FBS quarterback last year with ten
Speaker 4: plus air yards per attempt and a catchable throw rate
Speaker 4: of at least eighty percent. In Kingsbury's offense ranked first
Speaker 4: the neutral pace and no huddle rate over his four
Speaker 4: years in Arizona as head coach. So I'm very excited
Speaker 4: about this offense and Terry McLaurin is clearly the top
Speaker 4: receiver top ten season in coming.
Speaker 1: My first of two Peacock offs. Ramandre Stevenson, Guys, you know,
Speaker 1: if you've listened to the show for three years, you
Speaker 1: know how I feel about him. I love him. He's
Speaker 1: going to finish as a top ten fantasy runner currently
Speaker 1: going off the board at RB twenty, so I think
Speaker 1: he's going to effectively double his ADP. His new offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator is Alex van Pelt. Matt alluded to this earlier.
Speaker 1: Here's what we know about his about Van Pelt from
Speaker 1: his time in Cleveland. Now, granted, Stefanski's got his fingerprints
Speaker 1: all over the Cleveland offense, but Vampell it's been side
Speaker 1: by side with him, so we can draw some comparisons. Hopefully.
Speaker 1: The Browns have ranked in run play percentage in the
Speaker 1: four years with Alex van Pelt there, fourth, sixth, and
Speaker 1: eighth in run play percentage, and then last year Nick
Speaker 1: Chubb got hurt and they dropped to seventeenth. Zeke's gone.
Speaker 1: He gets replaced by Antonio Gibson, who brings basically nothing
Speaker 1: to the table except pass catching. And while Stevenson did
Speaker 1: fall off last year in productivity and a lot of
Speaker 1: other things, look at the passing offense that they had
Speaker 1: in New England. Defenses didn't have to play to stop Bailey,
Speaker 1: Zappi and Mac Jones. They played just a bottle Uppermandree
Speaker 1: Stevenson and go win your game and go home. Plus
Speaker 1: they were falling behind by these big deficits. Presumably now
Speaker 1: with competent quarterbacking Jacoby Brissett to start the season, maybe
Speaker 1: into Drake may later, the offense will be better, Stevenson
Speaker 1: will get better, and no Ezekiel Elliott to take touchdown
Speaker 1: runs away from Stevenson. I believe he is sitting on
Speaker 1: a top ten fantasy season. All right, Matt, let's go
Speaker 1: to your second of two peacock off charge.
Speaker 3: I tried to acquire Zamir White from you this week
Speaker 3: before I did the peacock off. It didn't work. In
Speaker 3: the four games after Josh Jacobs got hurt last year,
Speaker 3: and Zamir White started, he averaged twenty one rushing attempts
Speaker 3: per game. By the way, in the five games where
Speaker 3: Josh Jacobs started with Antonio Pierce as the head coach,
Speaker 3: he averaged twenty rushing attempts per game.
Speaker 1: Yep, we love volume matt Well.
Speaker 3: So my peacock off is Zamir White finishes with the
Speaker 3: most rushing attempts and rushing yards in the league this year.
Speaker 1: That's bold. I like it.
Speaker 3: Twenty rushing attempts per game. Seems in play that would
Speaker 3: be three hundred and forty rushing attempts. But let's be
Speaker 3: reasonable and says he only gets three hundred carries. Okay.
Speaker 3: Since twenty twenty, there have been seven players with three
Speaker 3: hundred plus carries. All but one of them have had
Speaker 3: more than fifteen hundred rushing yards. The player who had
Speaker 3: the most rushing attempts in the league last year, that
Speaker 3: was Derrick Henry, and he only had two eighty or
Speaker 3: about sixteen per game. The player who had the most
Speaker 3: rushing yards last year was Christian McCaffrey at fourteen fifty nine,
Speaker 3: and he's already gonna miss like half the preseason with
Speaker 3: a calf injury. There's one player who has a shot
Speaker 3: to have three hundred carries this year, and I think
Speaker 3: it's a mere White.
Speaker 1: You know how I feel about do the opposite, right,
Speaker 1: So I'm taking non running backs for several rounds if
Speaker 1: I could, just if I can pick my perfect draft,
Speaker 1: it's round five, Romandre Stevenson, who I just talked about,
Speaker 1: Round six, Zamir White. That's to me, they are I
Speaker 1: love these bell cow backs.
Speaker 3: So it's not gonna happen at all for you this year.
Speaker 3: Because you said it on that.
Speaker 1: I've said it on the air, so it probably won't
Speaker 1: go that way. Brian, you're second of two peacock COFs.
Speaker 4: This peacock off is probably the cousin of your pea
Speaker 4: cock peacock off from last year. I got Will Levis
Speaker 4: finishing as a top ten quarterback with the Titans, who
Speaker 4: hired Brian Callahan as head coach. Callahan was the Bengals
Speaker 4: offensive coordinator over the last five years, where the Bengals
Speaker 4: ranked top five and pass rate during his tenure. The
Speaker 4: Titans also brought in Calvin Ridley, who you talked about earlier.
Speaker 3: Church.
Speaker 4: They also brought in Tyler Boyd. They have DeAndre Hopkins,
Speaker 4: who is hurt and a little old, but he's not
Speaker 4: a dead cat yet in my opinion. And Levis is
Speaker 4: a freak athlete, got a cannon arm, very mobile dealing.
Speaker 4: Dealt with a toe injury last year that's fully healed.
Speaker 4: I'm essentially all in on Will Levis as QB twenty
Speaker 4: four in drafts right now. I'm buying in.
Speaker 1: My final peacock off Austin Eckler bounce back coming to
Speaker 1: RB one form in PPR League, specifically currently going off
Speaker 1: the board at RB thirty two. Had the high ankle
Speaker 1: spring last year. He was never right. Now he goes
Speaker 1: to Washington, doesn't have to be a workhorse, but he
Speaker 1: is going to catch a ton, catch a ton of passes,
Speaker 1: you know, the dump off stuff from the rookie he
Speaker 1: was looking for the safety valve elite receiver, one of
Speaker 1: the best receiving backs of the last decade. And Brian
Speaker 1: Robinson's zero threat to catch any passes there. And Cliff
Speaker 1: Kingsbury loves to throw to runners. He didn't have any
Speaker 1: runners two throw two in Arizona, and he did it anyway,
Speaker 1: averaging right around one hundred running back targets per year.
Speaker 1: Now he's got Austin Eckler. Big PPR season coming for
Speaker 1: Austin Eckler this season when we come back, our number
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Speaker 1: players who we who we like? We like the player, Yeah,
Speaker 1: so these are guys that you know. We don't have
Speaker 1: a problem with the player, we have a problem with
Speaker 1: where they're being drafted. So we have we have love
Speaker 1: in our hearts, but we have hate in our drafts.
Speaker 1: Love the player, hate the ADP. I want to begin
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position. Give me a player you like,
Speaker 1: but you're not going to draft because of where he's going.
Speaker 3: I got Josh Allen here. He's the first quarterback off
Speaker 3: the board in most drafts. But how can you be
Speaker 3: the first quarterback off the board when he has no weapons.
Speaker 3: He topped four thousand passing yards and every year he
Speaker 3: had Stephan Diggs, but he doesn't have digs. Are they
Speaker 3: going to ask him to run more? Maybe he had
Speaker 3: fifteen rushing touchdowns last year, more than his previous two
Speaker 3: years combined, but his rushing attempts were down, his rushing
Speaker 3: yards were down. And I think people believe that James
Speaker 3: Cook is good and we'll score more than two touchdowns
Speaker 3: on the ground this year. Yes, I do so. The
Speaker 3: ADP for Josh Allen is completely reliant on him not
Speaker 3: losing a step in the passing game and keeping up
Speaker 3: four thousand yards. Yeah, and also scoring ten to fifteen
Speaker 3: rushing touchdowns. Again, I just don't see it happening, and
Speaker 3: I'll pass on Josh Allen at that ADP.
Speaker 1: I've got Hurts is my number one for all the
Speaker 1: reasons you just said. I think that's a great take. Brian,
Speaker 1: love the player, hate the ADP. Who's your quarterback?
Speaker 4: Gotta love CJ. Stroud, but I hate the ADP of
Speaker 4: QB six going off the board. Near the end of
Speaker 4: the sixth round, Stroud smashed his rookie year. We all
Speaker 4: saw it. Texans brought in Stefan Diggs to team up
Speaker 4: with Nico Collins in a healthy tank Dell, those are
Speaker 4: some serious weapons, but Stroud just doesn't offer much rushing upside.
Speaker 4: The Texans have a pretty good defense, borderline very good.
Speaker 4: Don't see a lot of shootouts there, and they're gonna
Speaker 4: want to establish the The price just too high on
Speaker 4: Stroud and quarterback is so deep, like it has been
Speaker 4: most years, I'm not taking Stroud in the sixth round.
Speaker 1: Well, I have much of the same story to tell
Speaker 1: with Joe Burrow. You know who doesn't like Joe Burrow
Speaker 1: super Bowl quarterback? He's great, but you know he is
Speaker 1: coming off a hand injury that we don't know for
Speaker 1: sure if this is going to affect the velocity of
Speaker 1: his throws or anything else. Probably won't, but even if
Speaker 1: it doesn't, just a bigger story. And it's much the
Speaker 1: same thing with Stroud. All the quarterbacks going ahead of
Speaker 1: Burrow and Stroud have got rushing upside that Burrow has
Speaker 1: none of. And if I just want an immobile, competent passer,
Speaker 1: I can get Kirk Cousins like eight rounds later or
Speaker 1: Jared Goff eight rounds later, so I just I can't
Speaker 1: sink pick ADP pick sixty two into Joe Burrow. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the running back position. Give me a player
Speaker 1: you love but hate the ADP.
Speaker 3: I've got Bijon Robinson here. Last year, the Falcons led
Speaker 3: the league in running back touches with get this, five
Speaker 3: hundred and thirty eight running back touches. Last year, Wow
Speaker 3: touched totals were two seventy two for Bijon, two oh
Speaker 3: four for Tyler Aljier. But that was Arthur Smith, and
Speaker 3: that was Desmond Ritter, and this year we have Zach
Speaker 3: Robinson and Kirk Cousins. No one wants to hear it
Speaker 3: when Falcon Zo c Zach Robinson said that Algier's gonna
Speaker 3: have a big role in this offense and they're gonna
Speaker 3: lean on him. Robinson comes from the Rams and the
Speaker 3: McVeigh camp, and while Kyron had Belcow usage last year,
Speaker 3: he was the only healthy body in town. Other than that,
Speaker 3: the Rams really haven't employed a Bellcow runner since they
Speaker 3: murdered Todd Gurley's career. More passing, less running a quality
Speaker 3: second running back. How does this equate to Bijon going
Speaker 3: off the board at number seven overall, and I've seen
Speaker 3: him go as high as number two in some drafts.
Speaker 3: I'd rather have Brysse holl or Jonathan Taylor, who I
Speaker 3: think get all the work in their respective offenses. So
Speaker 3: I'm not going to take Bijon there.
Speaker 1: Timp of the hat to you for taking some highly
Speaker 1: drafted players for this second.
Speaker 3: I mean, these are guys we love, but we don't
Speaker 3: plan to draft them there.
Speaker 1: Right, You've hit the assignment perfect, Okay, Brian, love the player,
Speaker 1: hate the adpre running back.
Speaker 4: Another highly drafter or of going very early running back,
Speaker 4: drafted very early running back Jamior Gibbs RB four going
Speaker 4: at the one two turn. I just can't pay that
Speaker 4: price for a guy who's in a timeshare where he'll
Speaker 4: need to score from between the twenties. David Montgomery is
Speaker 4: the goal line back in his Troy problem. That is
Speaker 4: not going to change. I mean, I am drafting Jamiir
Speaker 4: Gibbs and best Ball for the Spike Week potential, but
Speaker 4: in he's gonna be a headache in standard leagues and
Speaker 4: he scares me to death in Guillotine League.
Speaker 1: I'm not touching there.
Speaker 4: Like, I don't know if I want to bid on
Speaker 4: Jamior Gibbs unless something happens with David Montgomery. So I
Speaker 4: love you, Jamiro Gibbs. You're very talented, but not until
Speaker 4: you are a bellcow will I be drafting you that soon.
Speaker 1: Earlier in the show, Brian you said Derek Henry is
Speaker 1: twenty touchdown upside. Maybe he does, but he's the epitome
Speaker 1: of a touchdown dependent player currently going off the board
Speaker 1: in the second round RB ten. Over the past two seasons,
Speaker 1: Henry's played thirty three games and he scored a nineteen
Speaker 1: of them, which is great, but that leaves fourteen other games,
Speaker 1: which is a lot of other games, almost half. And
Speaker 1: in those games, he averages fifty five rushing yards, sixteen
Speaker 1: receiving yards, endo touchdowns. That's nine Fantasy PPR points per
Speaker 1: Game's that'll get you cut in guillotine. That's gonna hurt
Speaker 1: you in a regular format. And while he gets a
Speaker 1: massive upgrade and offensive line that will help him, there's
Speaker 1: still reason for concern that all those two thousand carries
Speaker 1: that Derreck Henry has will catch up to him, and
Speaker 1: maybe it all comes together this year. Love the player.
Speaker 1: He's fringe Hall of Famer right now, fringe. This season
Speaker 1: could catapult him over the top and into into Canton.
Speaker 1: We'll find out. But harb ten in the second rounds
Speaker 1: just too early for me on a touchdown dependent player.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the wide receiver position, Matt, give me
Speaker 1: a player you love but hate the ADP.
Speaker 3: I got Chris o'lave. And this is mostly because of
Speaker 3: Derek Carr.
Speaker 5: Here.
Speaker 3: Olave is going in the mid second round wide receiver thirteen.
Speaker 3: The last two years his two years as a pro,
Speaker 3: he's finished as wide receiver seventeen in PPR. That was
Speaker 3: last year, wide receiver twenty four and twenty twenty two.
Speaker 3: What has substance substantially changed for the better in New
Speaker 3: Orleans to rank him up to thirteen or think that
Speaker 3: he's got any ceiling higher than this. Yes, he's a
Speaker 3: Pro Football Focus Darling. All the underlying numbers, they're superb.
Speaker 3: There's not a lot of competition for targets. But Derek
Speaker 3: Carr averaged five point seven air yards on completions last year.
Speaker 3: That's in the neighborhood of Justin Fields Gardner, Minshew, Josh
Speaker 3: Dobbs's who's throwing that deep? And Chris Olave's A dot
Speaker 3: was fourteen point three these numbers just don't jive, so
Speaker 3: it seems easy to crack the code on the Saints offense.
Speaker 3: Just double a lave, especially when he gets deeper than
Speaker 3: ten yards and Carr's going to check down the ball.
Speaker 1: Brian, give me a player you love but hate the ADP.
Speaker 4: I'm going to bend the rules a little bit and
Speaker 4: give you a two for in DJ Moore and Keenan
Speaker 4: Allen of the Chicago Bears. More going in the third round.
Speaker 4: That's way too rich for my blood. You can get
Speaker 4: Keenan a little later in the fifth. But those who
Speaker 4: are obviously going to eat into each other's target share
Speaker 4: now enter Romodunza into the mix. Also a rookie quarterback
Speaker 4: in kal of Williams. I'm taking the cheapest wide receiver
Speaker 4: the three of these, and that's Rome. So I'm out
Speaker 4: on more and I'm out on more and Keenan Allen.
Speaker 4: And I don't know how useful this stat is for
Speaker 4: Romo Dunsay, but it's so insane I'm gonna read it
Speaker 4: real quick. Romo Dunesay ran nine hundred and ninety nine
Speaker 4: routes at Washington over the past two years in college. Jeez,
Speaker 4: Jamison Williams has run nine hundred and fifty three routes
Speaker 4: across his time at Alabama and the Lions over the
Speaker 4: last five years. So if dounsay's in great shape, it's
Speaker 4: check and he knows all the routes.
Speaker 1: There you go, he's outstanding. I'm gonna go with Jalen Waddle,
Speaker 1: love the player. Don't like the ADP is wide receiver
Speaker 1: nineteen off the board that's picked thirty six. So we're
Speaker 1: at the what the very end of the third route.
Speaker 1: Very good player, he's stuck by the Hall of Famer
Speaker 1: who demands tons of looks Tyreek Hill the last two
Speaker 1: years one hundred and seventy one and one hundred and
Speaker 1: seventy targets and that just is not enough volume for Wattle.
Speaker 1: And because of that, not only does he have low
Speaker 1: output games with low floors, but also caps a ceiling.
Speaker 1: You know, we think of Wattle is a big play guy,
Speaker 1: but he only last year he only had really two
Speaker 1: spike weeks all season, and then adding this and you know,
Speaker 1: maybe it doesn't hold up. Miami's end of season stretch.
Speaker 1: Final three Fantasy games Jets, Niners, Browns defenses all top
Speaker 1: five defenses. I can't take Jalen Wattle at the end
Speaker 1: of the third round.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, let's wrap.
Speaker 1: It up with the tight end position. Give me a
Speaker 1: tight end you love but hate the ADP.
Speaker 3: I got the tight end who led the league in
Speaker 3: with one hundred and forty three targets and one hundred
Speaker 3: and fourteen receptions last year. That's Evan Angram by far
Speaker 3: and away the best tight end the league in both categories. However,
Speaker 3: four touchdowns last year, that was al Bundy style. That
Speaker 3: was tied with Jimmy Graham, who I forgot was in
Speaker 3: the league last year. Kate Otton, Donald Parhum, Logan Thomas.
Speaker 3: One of Ingram's touchdowns was in Week eighteen, so it
Speaker 3: didn't count for your fantasy team anyway. He's a notorious
Speaker 3: slow starter in his last four years. The earliest date
Speaker 3: on the calendar in which he scored a touchdown October thirtieth. Okay,
Speaker 3: he's going out.
Speaker 1: I'd like to think that he can break that.
Speaker 3: He does not know how to score in September or October.
Speaker 4: He's not.
Speaker 3: It's crazy. He's going off in the sixth round. There's
Speaker 3: just a lot of guys I like better in that range,
Speaker 3: and those guys also score touchdowns.
Speaker 1: You and I are different on this one. Seeh I
Speaker 1: just think with all that usage, the touchdowns are going
Speaker 1: to come for Evan Ingram. We'll find Mabe Brian give
Speaker 1: me a tight end you love, but hate the ADP.
Speaker 4: I gotta go back to Detroit. And you gotta love
Speaker 4: Sam Laporter, how could you not? But I hate the
Speaker 4: ADP of tight end one going at the end of
Speaker 4: the third. He's legit, he's great. But the Lions they're
Speaker 4: just so loaded. So there's so much competition for targets.
Speaker 4: So I mean tight End one, I mean I can get.
Speaker 4: I can get Travis kelz Mark Andrews Trade McBride a
Speaker 4: little later than Sam Laporter. There's not that much of
Speaker 4: a falloff I would predict. So I'm fading Sammy ballgame
Speaker 4: big time, unfortunately.
Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey ADP twenty nine tight End two. Look, everybody
Speaker 1: wants to be on the Taylor train, I guess except me.
Speaker 1: I'd just I'd rather get out a year too early
Speaker 1: than a year too late on a thirty four year
Speaker 1: old tight end. And we saw the signs of the
Speaker 1: slowdown last year from Week eleven forward to the end
Speaker 1: of the regular season, do you guys remember how many
Speaker 1: touchdowns Travis Kelcey scored.
Speaker 3: It was pretty low. He was saving himself for the
Speaker 3: offseason or the postseason.
Speaker 1: Zero yeah, zero, And he did score in the postseason.
Speaker 1: And look, by the way, all last year, you know
Speaker 1: how many times he topped one hundred yards two. I
Speaker 1: just you know, I think there were signs last year,
Speaker 1: just the eye test, there were signs last year of
Speaker 1: Travis Kelcey slowing down. It's a year later, and the
Speaker 1: pitch position's got so much depth, and brid just alluded
Speaker 1: to this. You know, you've got all that big rookie
Speaker 1: class from last year at tight end. You've got Brock
Speaker 1: Bauers this year, who's going to be who could be
Speaker 1: great in his rookie year. You've got the expected bounce
Speaker 1: back of Kyle Pitts. So you know, we've got a
Speaker 1: lot of opportunities to get other players. I don't necessarily
Speaker 1: feel like we need to go hope that Travis Kelsey
Speaker 1: has got one more year left in him, not at
Speaker 1: tight end two, not at ADP twenty nine.
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Speaker 4: just for you Dynasty leaguers. Empire leaguers out there. Jared Wiley,
Speaker 4: rookie tight end for the Chiefs. They say he's Kelsey Lake.
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Speaker 1: In probably probably this is the best of the six hundred.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this one easily.
Speaker 1: Yes. This next segment blacklist players. Yeah, so unlike the
Speaker 1: last segment where it was players who we like, but
Speaker 1: we're just not drafting them because of their their they're
Speaker 1: draft positions just too high. These are players we don't
Speaker 1: even care where they're drafted. Basically, you'd have they'd have
Speaker 1: to fall really really hard before we'd even consider these players.
Speaker 3: So it's like hate the player, hate the ADP, hate
Speaker 3: the player.
Speaker 1: Hate the ADP. Let's do a couple of them each, Matt.
Speaker 1: Let's start with you.
Speaker 3: I got Saquon Barkley here. I think the Giants knew
Speaker 3: what they were getting out of of qualified backs. Last year,
Speaker 3: Barkley ranked thirty four in elusiveness. In two hundred forty
Speaker 3: seven rushing attempts, he only forced thirty one miss tackles.
Speaker 3: To put that into perspective, James Connor had two hundred
Speaker 3: eight rushing attempts, so forty fewer, and he forced sixty
Speaker 3: miss tackles thirty more.
Speaker 1: And Saquon remember Saquon is rookie. Yeah, he was the
Speaker 1: closest thing to Barry Sanders We've seen since Barry Sanders.
Speaker 1: He was shattering defender's ankles. That's all gone from Barkley's
Speaker 1: game now sapped away by the high ankle sprains in
Speaker 1: the ACL. It's sad that that was that was taken
Speaker 1: from him.
Speaker 3: He averaged three point nine yards per carry last year.
Speaker 3: That was twenty sixth best amongst qualified runners, tied with
Speaker 3: the highly sought after Alexander Madison. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 3: he's going to an Eagles team whose lead back last year,
Speaker 3: DeAndre Swift, averaged zero point eight rushing attempts per game
Speaker 3: inside the five and had only five rushing scores because
Speaker 3: of the toush push.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the tush push is a huge factor.
Speaker 3: I'm not I'm not drafted.
Speaker 1: It's fifteen touchdowns.
Speaker 3: I'm not drafting Barkley at all.
Speaker 1: Well and certainly not his ADP, which is now he's
Speaker 1: snuck into the first round. Yeah for Sae Kwon Barkley. Brian,
Speaker 1: give me your first of two blacklist players.
Speaker 4: I did it again. It is the preseason. Hey, I
Speaker 4: flew in from Charlotte. Give me a rat shausted. Yes,
Speaker 4: I am all out on James Cook in the fifth round.
Speaker 4: The Bills had twenty two rushing touchdowns last year. Who
Speaker 4: wants to guess how many James Cook had got too?
Speaker 4: Is not paying attention? All right, Well I used that.
Speaker 3: I used that.
Speaker 4: Those are old notes from on the Old Show. So
Speaker 4: oh well, thanks Matt.
Speaker 1: Anyway, are you recycling content right now?
Speaker 4: No, I this was an offseason second that I'm just reusing.
Speaker 4: This is a very you are. This is a very
Speaker 4: rough segment for me. We might we might want to
Speaker 4: start over. But anyway, Josh Allen and Robbie's boy rookie
Speaker 4: Ray Davis are going to run for more touchdowns than
Speaker 4: James Cook, who I am not drafting. Number one on
Speaker 4: my black list of players.
Speaker 1: Thor does not like Ray Davis I do. This is
Speaker 1: one of the few times though I disagree with Thor's assessment.
Speaker 1: I like Ray Davis Monster Kansas City rookie receivers. Xavier
Speaker 1: Worthy is on my black list going off the board
Speaker 1: at wide receiver thirty eight. Track stars almost never convert
Speaker 1: to reliable NFL wide receivers. I give you John Ross,
Speaker 1: I give you Marquise Goodwin, JJ Nelson, Darius Hayward, bust
Speaker 1: all guys that were track stars turned wide receivers who
Speaker 1: could not make it in the NFL. Now will Xavier
Speaker 1: Worthies crazy speed net him some big games? Yes, he'll
Speaker 1: have some giant receptions. Although we should note Patrick Mahomes'
Speaker 1: depth of throw has gone down every single season of
Speaker 1: his career. He's not throwing bombs like you used to.
Speaker 1: Worthy is a raw rookie version of Hollywood Brown. And
Speaker 1: who's already on roster Hollywood Brown, who's you know?
Speaker 5: Now?
Speaker 1: Three four years into his career? Five this will be
Speaker 1: his fifth year into his career. He's already worked out
Speaker 1: the cakes. Hollywood Brown's with just a better version of
Speaker 1: Xavier Worthy. Now Brown is only on a one year deal.
Speaker 1: He'll be gone in a year. And maybe next year
Speaker 1: I'll be a lot more interested in Xavier Worthy. But
Speaker 1: you're not gonna know when the when he's going to
Speaker 1: be on the field enough and against which defenses? And
Speaker 1: will he corral a deep ball either? Too many variables.
Speaker 3: He's fourth in the pecking order at best.
Speaker 1: At best, I'm out on Xavier Worthy wide receiver thirty eight.
Speaker 1: That's wrong, All right, man, Let's go to your second
Speaker 1: of two blacklist players.
Speaker 3: Christian Watson is going off in the sixth round right now.
Speaker 3: It picks sixty eight and now. Mostly, I just wanted
Speaker 3: to use this as a platform to say I don't
Speaker 3: want Packer wide receivers, even though in every draft I've
Speaker 3: completed so far this year, I've walked away with Jordan Love.
Speaker 3: But drafting Watson in the sixth when you could get
Speaker 3: like Romeo Dubs in the ninth, they're Dantavian and the tenth,
Speaker 3: it's just ludicrous, especially when you consider he averaged five
Speaker 3: point eight targets, three catches, and forty seven yards per
Speaker 3: game last year. The Packers have four wide receivers who
Speaker 3: are pretty close in skill. If you need to take one,
Speaker 3: take one of the later two and not the guy
Speaker 3: in the sixth round.
Speaker 1: M hmm, all right, I'm listening to that. I'm listening
Speaker 1: to that. Brian, your blacklist player. And by the way,
Speaker 1: we have three each, right, not too we have three.
Speaker 1: We'll get to We'll get to all three. Brian.
Speaker 4: Hey, Siri, turn on Mike. I'm going back to Buffalo.
Speaker 4: We're picking on the Bills. I am. I am not
Speaker 4: drafting Keon Coleman, who, it is absurd is getting drafted
Speaker 4: ahead of Curtis Samuel and Khalila Shakirir Coleman extremely raw
Speaker 4: rookie the Bills. When they switched to Joe Brady as
Speaker 4: their offensive coordinator last year, their passing play percentage plummeted.
Speaker 4: Just don't draft Keon Coleman. This is I can't believe
Speaker 4: that he's getting the highest drafted. He's going first among
Speaker 4: Bills wide receivers. I'm like speechless right now.
Speaker 1: Well, just because there's no other wide receiver you would
Speaker 1: want to take for fantasy purpose.
Speaker 4: I like Samuel and shake care at cost I do personally.
Speaker 1: Sometimes a player just isn't good and even if there's
Speaker 1: some opportunity I talked earlier, I like Austin Eckler, and
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna have an RB one season as
Speaker 1: a PPR back. The guy who I don't like is
Speaker 1: his running mate, Brian Robinson. We've seen two years of
Speaker 1: Brian Robinson. He's just not that good PFF rankings as
Speaker 1: RB thirty one last year and RB twenty four the
Speaker 1: year before that. He actually got worse last year for
Speaker 1: a bigger back. Brian Robinson doesn't break tackles. He ranked
Speaker 1: fifty first and twenty second in yards after contact per
Speaker 1: carry the last two years. And then, of course you
Speaker 1: know he's not gonna catch Austin Eckler's gonna siphon off
Speaker 1: all the receptions there. Washington's offensive line isn't terrible, but
Speaker 1: it's not good enough to open up the big lanes
Speaker 1: that Brian Robinson needs because he does He's not shifty,
Speaker 1: he doesn't it moves. He's just a straight ahead guy.
Speaker 1: He doesn't bring in anything of the table. I'm not
Speaker 1: taking Brian Robinson.
Speaker 3: He love Eckler and you hate Robinson. I think those
Speaker 3: two things worked together.
Speaker 1: All right, Let's go to your third and final Blacklist player, Matt.
Speaker 3: I've got Joe Mixon because when I was looking up
Speaker 3: the stats for Saquon Barkley, Joe Mixon was right by
Speaker 3: him in almost every category. Similarly to Barkley, Mixon had
Speaker 3: a few more rushing attempts last year on a better
Speaker 3: offense than Barkley, by the way, but turned in pretty
Speaker 3: similarly terrible numbers ranked thirty first, and elusiveness on PFF
Speaker 3: just behind those elusive fellows like AJ Dillon and Javonte Williams.
Speaker 3: Thirty one misstackles force tied for twenty sixth in the league.
Speaker 3: Forced a mistackle only twelve percent of his runs. Compare
Speaker 3: that to the guy who just replaced him in Cincy,
Speaker 3: Zach Moss. He forced a misstackle on twenty percent of
Speaker 3: his carries last year. He arrives in a pass first
Speaker 3: Houston team that threw fifty seven percent of the time
Speaker 3: last year and just added Stefan Diggs the eight running
Speaker 3: backs going after Mixon and adp I mean you can
Speaker 3: look him up on your own. IM not going to
Speaker 3: list him here. I'd rather have all of them.
Speaker 1: All of them. Look I'm I'm I am so with
Speaker 1: you on this. The catch with mixing is I can't
Speaker 1: say this because I've lost all credibility on anything. Damian
Speaker 1: Pierce related, but Damian Pierce would be the only other
Speaker 1: guy to get a carry there. That's on roster right now.
Speaker 3: I just signed Cam Akers, right, Cam on his second
Speaker 3: achilles and his second achilles.
Speaker 1: Nobody comes back from one achilles. He did well? Bear
Speaker 1: did he? I don't know in the league, but I
Speaker 1: don't know all right, Brian, you're third of three blacklist players.
Speaker 4: This is more of a love the player, hate the ADP.
Speaker 4: But I'm not drafting TJ. Hockinson at all this year.
Speaker 4: It's just because of the knee injury shredded it late
Speaker 4: last year.
Speaker 5: Who is that?
Speaker 4: Who is the Lions player that did it?
Speaker 1: I forget hay Harry's whoever was he blew up someone
Speaker 1: else's knee last year and he's the one who got
Speaker 1: in a fight with neighbors in the guys a d
Speaker 1: bag again.
Speaker 4: Anyway, I'm just out on Hokinson. I know there's encouraging
Speaker 4: reports that's gonna be h Kirby Joseph, that this is
Speaker 4: Kirby Joseph. Clean up your plate, Kirby. It's despicable. Anyway,
Speaker 4: I'm out on Howkinson. They're saying you might come back
Speaker 4: in the first half. I'm just not buying it. And
Speaker 4: if he does come back, he's not gonna be the
Speaker 4: Hawkinson you want. There's tight ends going after him that
Speaker 4: I'm very high on, Noah Fant, Kate Otten, I like
Speaker 4: Tyler Konklin this year, the afore mentioned John who Smith.
Speaker 4: I'm just even if he comes back, I'm not going
Speaker 4: Hawkinson at tight end sixteen. I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 4: be ready.
Speaker 1: All right. Our final blacklist player Miami running back devon
Speaker 1: Ah Chan running back ten right now, running back ten,
Speaker 1: obviously highlight machine, and when he has those big, big gains,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be sitting there going, man. I wish I
Speaker 1: had Devon a Chan on my team. And the issue
Speaker 1: isn't that he's not good. The issue is that he's
Speaker 1: in the most confounding committee backfield in the league. So
Speaker 1: you've got the health issues, right, he's five foot nine,
Speaker 1: he's only one hundred and eighty eight pounds. His durability
Speaker 1: is a huge question mark. And then when you're just
Speaker 1: when you're in a committee as deep as the Miami's
Speaker 1: committee is, it's just some games are gonna be a
Speaker 1: moistered game. Some games it's gonna be rookie Jalen Wright,
Speaker 1: and some days it's gonna be Devon a Chan and
Speaker 1: they're never gonna give a Chan a heavy workload. They
Speaker 1: never will because they know we can't take it. So
Speaker 1: he's gonna be sitting in like this seven eight, nine touch,
Speaker 1: maybe ten to eleven touch gets on a range.
Speaker 3: Obviously, a guy you want to draft is the tenth
Speaker 3: running back off the board, tenth right.
Speaker 1: Exactly, It's not even an ADP thing. I just don't
Speaker 1: think I'm gonna come out of any of my drafts with
Speaker 1: Devon a Chan because he's got you'd have to drop
Speaker 1: so much farther than he would have to. Yes, I'll
Speaker 1: regret at some plays when he has explosive runs, but
Speaker 1: I just think it'll talent totality. Too many dud games
Speaker 1: coming for him. When we come back, it's our final segment.
Speaker 1: Three Tough Questions, plus will unveil our favorite sleepers. Final
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Speaker 1: call three tough Questions. We oftentimes begin.
Speaker 5: With us question number one, what is the one rule
Speaker 5: change every league should institute at this time of year?
Speaker 1: Right, So, if you're gonna make rule changes, you need
Speaker 1: to do it now in advance of the season. You
Speaker 1: can't just be like, hey, week six, let's change our
Speaker 1: scoring system. Whatever. Give me the one rule change every
Speaker 1: league should be considering adopting right now. Let's begin with Matt.
Speaker 3: I think we do this question every year the first show.
Speaker 1: Yes we do.
Speaker 3: We always talk about super flex or getting ready to tide,
Speaker 3: vetos are converting to an auction. I'll I think people
Speaker 3: have heard those before. Here's my suggestion. Come up with
Speaker 3: a really clever way to determine your draft order in
Speaker 3: your league. The internet is littered with people like running
Speaker 3: a forty or doing an obstacle course. I saw one
Speaker 3: where everyone drinks a shot glass full of beer every
Speaker 3: minute on the minute, and the last guy standing gets
Speaker 3: gets the first pick.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a power hour.
Speaker 3: We called it the Century Club. In college, we were
Speaker 3: for one hundred minutes. But that's a.
Speaker 4: Dumb college like a mad idea.
Speaker 1: It is one shots of beer.
Speaker 3: It's it's really hard.
Speaker 1: But do you go to the bathroom in the middle
Speaker 1: of that?
Speaker 3: But you got you got like fifty nine seconds every
Speaker 3: like seventeen year old in history.
Speaker 4: That's easy.
Speaker 5: Absolutely.
Speaker 4: So we don't condone underage drinking.
Speaker 3: We don't. But but if you're going to do that at
Speaker 3: your draft party, the guy who gets the first pick
Speaker 3: is the guy who's the most drunk, obviously right away.
Speaker 3: So uh but anyway, my point is, make your draft
Speaker 3: party a big thing. Make it memorable. If it's the
Speaker 3: one time of year you see these people in your league.
Speaker 3: Blow it out of the water. Make it fun. Rent
Speaker 3: some stuff like, make a big barbecue out it, make
Speaker 3: it the whole day, have a good time with it.
Speaker 1: Our co host Scott Fish rents a mobile bar yeah, wheels,
Speaker 1: you know, wheels it into his driveway.
Speaker 4: Yeah, here's his address.
Speaker 1: Whoever, just swing by everybody, Yeah, no problem. Okay, So
Speaker 1: yours is Draft day. Make your Draft day memory.
Speaker 3: Make your draft day huge?
Speaker 1: All right, Brian, what is the one rule change every
Speaker 1: league should institute at this time of year?
Speaker 4: Ditch the kicker and team defense and throw in some IDPs.
Speaker 4: I know, now, I know, there are some people that
Speaker 4: love kickers, and I'm not talking to that small group
Speaker 4: of whack jobs. I'm talking to the people who go
Speaker 4: through the motions. They set up their league and they
Speaker 4: have kickers and defense because it's like the default settings
Speaker 4: on sites right except enleagues dot com. It's the best site.
Speaker 4: But people think IDP is daunting. It is not. Just
Speaker 4: do one defensive lineman, one linebacker, one defensive back. For
Speaker 4: the linebackers and defensive backs look for tackles, defensive linemen
Speaker 4: look for sacks. It's just I promise you it's fun.
Speaker 4: You're watching defense more, you have more skin in the game.
Speaker 4: Just give it a shot. Three IDP. It'll change your life.
Speaker 1: And what is a absolute baffler to me, More than half
Speaker 1: of league's are still not using blind bidding for their
Speaker 1: free agent. It's absurd. They're doing reverse order of standings,
Speaker 1: they're doing waiver priority.
Speaker 3: That's also another one that's just the default setting in
Speaker 3: most systems.
Speaker 1: The only fair way to distribute, to distribute free agents,
Speaker 1: and by far the most interesting by a mile, is
Speaker 1: blind bidding. This is the only way to play. This
Speaker 1: is the one rule change your every single league should have.
Speaker 1: There is no scenario where leage should do anything else, Like,
Speaker 1: we love auctioning, and we think auctions are are really
Speaker 1: really fun, and we highly encourage people to do auctions.
Speaker 1: Probably should talk auctions more on the show. But some
Speaker 1: leagues are just too casual for that. Some need to
Speaker 1: be online, some need to do it over the course
Speaker 1: of three weeks whatever. So now everybody can do it. Everybody,
Speaker 1: every single league can do free agent blind bidding.
Speaker 3: Can you imagine a guillotine league with reverse order of standing?
Speaker 3: It would be so dumb, so.
Speaker 1: Dumb, absolutely terrible. Okay, I'm gonna wedge in Tough question
Speaker 1: one point five.
Speaker 5: Tough question number one.
Speaker 1: Point five, What is the rule change to remove from
Speaker 1: your league?
Speaker 3: What's a rule change doing we're making you're taking out,
Speaker 3: taking out.
Speaker 1: If you're doing this, you're doing it wrong.
Speaker 3: I mean we kind of talked about them. League veto,
Speaker 3: the trade veto trade veto is so dumb. Get rid
Speaker 3: of it.
Speaker 1: You have to get rid of it.
Speaker 4: That's the one oh one dumb rules.
Speaker 1: It's it is. That's I will never play in a
Speaker 1: league that has trade beveto. Yeah, can't do it, makes sense.
Speaker 1: All right, let's move on.
Speaker 5: Tough Question number two.
Speaker 1: With all the uncertainty around Brandon Ayuk's status in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: are you buying the dip now? He's currently wide receiver fifteen?
Speaker 1: Right now, Brian, we start with you. You're buying the
Speaker 1: dip on Brandon Ayuk.
Speaker 4: I'm a degenerate best ball player. I've been drafting since January.
Speaker 4: My eyes bleed on the regular and I've seen au
Speaker 4: go from the early second Now he's dropped all the
Speaker 4: way to the end of the third round in some draft.
Speaker 4: So you just have to buy that dip. I don't
Speaker 4: care where he ends up and if he stays with
Speaker 4: the forty nine ers yacht see great right, Oh yes,
Speaker 4: I don't care where he goes. We've seen the talent.
Speaker 4: It's their Vikings do it.
Speaker 1: Vikings have the seventh most cap next year, but they
Speaker 1: got Jordan Addison on a rookie.
Speaker 3: Now I'd rather I don't think paid a lot of
Speaker 3: money for their other wider right they're already deep in
Speaker 3: with Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't think that's gonna happen.
Speaker 3: Matt.
Speaker 1: With all the insuranty around brandon i status in San Francisco,
Speaker 1: are you buying the dip.
Speaker 3: The Rumors are that the Patriots offered him thirty two
Speaker 3: million per year, but he didn't like Drake May and
Speaker 3: so the vibe wasn't right there. So now the Patriots
Speaker 3: are out on him. The other teams somewhat involved are Pittsburgh, Cleveland,
Speaker 3: Washington could be involved. To are any of those situations
Speaker 3: better than his role in San fran Not a chance.
Speaker 3: Do you know what team has the most available cap space,
Speaker 3: It's the Niners. They offered him twenty six million. I
Speaker 3: heard he wants twenty eight to stay in San Francisco.
Speaker 3: I think they're gonna figure out a way. I think
Speaker 3: he's gonna end up playing in San Francisco this year.
Speaker 3: So if you're an Ayuk fan, definitely by the dip.
Speaker 3: The correct answer is buy the dip, baby.
Speaker 1: The probability is he stays in San Francisco either on
Speaker 1: a new contract or he just plays out this year
Speaker 1: because he doesn't have leverage. He's got no leverage. So
Speaker 1: I'm with you, I'm buying the dip. This is a
Speaker 1: player who finished his wide receiver nine last year. I
Speaker 1: can get him at wide receiver fifteen right now. On
Speaker 1: the probability that you know this uncertainty is a perfect
Speaker 1: It's like the stock market. You buy an uncertain times
Speaker 1: to you got to buy low sell high. To buy low,
Speaker 1: you have to buy an uncertainty. We're doing that with
Speaker 1: Brandon Ayuk and you just raise a great point when
Speaker 1: you talked about the places he could go. They're mostly
Speaker 1: bad teams with cap space. But I don't think he's
Speaker 1: going to end up on those teams.
Speaker 3: It's this questionable quarterbacking all around on the other spots too.
Speaker 1: So by the way, these are reports that he didn't
Speaker 1: go to to the Patriots because Brandon and I didn't
Speaker 1: like the quarterback. He wants to get paid him thirty
Speaker 1: two million reportedly here. It's his first big contract. That's
Speaker 1: second contract is where you make all the guaranteed money
Speaker 1: and everything right. He wants to get paid. This is
Speaker 1: the contract to which you get paid. It's your third
Speaker 1: or fourth contract where you start getting choosy about who
Speaker 1: you're playing with and what your your legacy is going
Speaker 1: to be and everything else.
Speaker 5: Not This one a tough question. Number three.
Speaker 1: In a bizarre coincidence, the first two players taken in
Speaker 1: this year's NFL draft, Caleb Williams Daydan Daniels are situated
Speaker 1: exactly next to each other in ADP. They're going off
Speaker 1: the board to pick one oh five and one oh six,
Speaker 1: which one will score more Fantasy Points this year? Matt,
Speaker 1: we are back to you gonna be Caleb Williams or
Speaker 1: Jayden Daniels.
Speaker 3: There are two very different quarterbacks in very different situations.
Speaker 3: Caleb definitely has the better weapons around him. Jury's out
Speaker 3: on whether the coaching staff in Chicago is the right
Speaker 3: one to lead his development, though. Jaden much more of
Speaker 3: a runner, kind of like Kyler Murray, and he's got
Speaker 3: Kyler's old coach running the offense there in Cliff Kingsbury.
Speaker 3: So I like the coaching matchup better, But the weapons
Speaker 3: are a full couple of steps down from what Chicago has.
Speaker 3: So if Jaden's gonna score more points, I think he
Speaker 3: has to do it with the running game, and I'm
Speaker 3: not sure his tall, lanky frame could hold up to
Speaker 3: that kind of punishment over a seventeen game season. I'll
Speaker 3: take the weapons and the presumed safer pick and Caleb.
Speaker 1: Okay, Brian, we've mentioned Caleb Williams, Jaden mcdan, not McDaniels,
Speaker 1: Jade and Daniels going off the board exactly next to
Speaker 1: each other, and ADP picks one of five and one
Speaker 1: oh six. Who's going to score more Fantasy points.
Speaker 4: I've kind of banged the drums for Jaden Daniels a
Speaker 4: couple times already during the show, so that's going to
Speaker 4: be my answer. And it's all about the rushing upside really,
Speaker 4: but you know, people say he's a great rusher, which
Speaker 4: is true, and they think his passing is so much
Speaker 4: or you know, behind his rushing, it's really not. He's
Speaker 4: a really good passer too, so he is a complete quarterback.
Speaker 4: I'm just worried that he can get killed out there
Speaker 4: because he is kind of fearless when he's running the
Speaker 4: ball or he was in college, and he has a
Speaker 4: highly highlight reel of taking hits that would end lives
Speaker 4: for most people. So yes, get down, Jaden, slide. Learn
Speaker 4: to slide, Please learn to slide.
Speaker 1: The correct answer is Caleb Williams, and really Matt took
Speaker 1: all of my talking points, unfortunately, And it's not that
Speaker 1: I'm I don't like Jade and Daniels. I do, but
Speaker 1: the injury, the difference in weapons is just so high,
Speaker 1: and Caleb Williams as I alluded to earlier in the
Speaker 1: show way better runner than people ever seem to talk about.
Speaker 1: He's not on that tier of Jackson. He's not on
Speaker 1: that tier of runner, but he's in the next.
Speaker 3: Tier, like the Sam Donald tier, right, Brian, just.
Speaker 1: About Arnold's got better wheels than people know he does.
Speaker 4: Sam Donald could have played college basketball.
Speaker 1: You could have well, I could have two. There is that.
Speaker 4: No, this is true. Wikipedia said it, and it's got it,
Speaker 4: then it absolutely has to be. See what you're a
Speaker 4: Wikipedia p.
Speaker 1: Let's let's go to our sleepers, Matt. Let's begin with you.
Speaker 1: These are that we do this one every preseason show.
Speaker 1: We talk about one sleeper, will never repeat a sleeper twice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: these are all guys that we believe will dramatically outperform
Speaker 1: the round in which they are being selected. Now, so
Speaker 1: you know, it could be a guy who's going off
Speaker 1: in the fourteenth round. Do you think is going to
Speaker 1: be like an eighth rounder, or could even be somebody
Speaker 1: who's going off in the fifth round you think is
Speaker 1: gonna be a first round?
Speaker 3: Sure, give me your sleep I've got Joshua Palmer of
Speaker 3: the Los Angeles Chargers going off the board at pick
Speaker 3: ninety nine right now, that's in the ninth round. That's
Speaker 3: a full three rounds after his teammate, rookie Lad McConkey.
Speaker 3: The Chargers unsurprisingly lead the league in vacated targets three
Speaker 3: hundred and ninety five vacated targets. Dang, that's sixty four
Speaker 3: percent of the Chargers targets from last year. Keenan Allen,
Speaker 3: Mike Williams, Austin Eckler, Jalen Geiton all gone. There's only
Speaker 3: one guy left in Los Angeles that has caught more
Speaker 3: than forty passes out from Justin air Bear in his career.
Speaker 3: That's Josh Palmer. Last year, Palmer dealt with an injury
Speaker 3: on and off for almost the entire year, But in
Speaker 3: twenty twenty two, Palmer was targeted one hundred and seven
Speaker 3: times by the air Bear. He caught seventy two passes
Speaker 3: for seven hundred and sixty nine yards and three scores.
Speaker 3: And let's say he gets in the range of one
Speaker 3: ten to one thirty. Yeah, players who finished with that
Speaker 3: many targets last year averaged seventy five catches, one thousand
Speaker 3: and forty two yards and five touchdowns. That's almost exactly
Speaker 3: what Amari Cooper did last year.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 3: And Amari Cooper is going off in the fourth round
Speaker 3: right now, So you could get a ninth round player
Speaker 3: who's very probable to return fourth round value. He's not
Speaker 3: an exciting guy, but he might return some pretty good
Speaker 3: value for you as your wide receiver.
Speaker 1: You're gonna score more Fantasy points this year. Josh Palmer
Speaker 1: or Lad McConkie.
Speaker 3: It's probably Josh Palmer.
Speaker 1: It might be. We get so infatuated with the rookies.
Speaker 1: We want them to be good instantly, and in some
Speaker 1: cases they.
Speaker 3: Are Coaches trust veterans.
Speaker 1: Well, true, although it's a whole new coaching stat Yeah. Right,
Speaker 1: And I think that's a pretty big variable on this
Speaker 1: shear makes it a lot more uncertain, Brian, let's go
Speaker 1: to your sleeper real quick.
Speaker 4: I think it's fair to throw DJ Shark into that
Speaker 4: and make it a three way match.
Speaker 1: M charks.
Speaker 4: He's not the favorite, but he could very well, we're.
Speaker 1: Gonna be he's gonna he could. He could mess things
Speaker 1: up a little bit.
Speaker 4: All right, Well, my sleeper shouldn't have any problem out
Speaker 4: performing his ADP, hopefully because he's really not getting drafted
Speaker 4: by many people. But it's running back Rasheen Ali, who
Speaker 4: most probably haven't heard of, but he's a rookie. Fabulous,
Speaker 4: he fabulous he Aladdin good movie under let's get that
Speaker 4: on the Yeah. But have you played Aladdin? The Genesis game?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah?
Speaker 4: The underrated video games really good for the sake of Genesis.
Speaker 1: Well, you know, the problem for it was not that
Speaker 1: it wasn't a good game, but everybody got so used
Speaker 1: to all the t all the movies and TV shows
Speaker 1: turned video games were almost universally awful, and so people
Speaker 1: just went a Laddin. Whatever, it's for kids, it's a
Speaker 1: you know, it's a conversion from a movie. I'm out.
Speaker 5: It was great.
Speaker 4: Good game, probably still is. But anyway, back to Rashine
Speaker 4: Ali selected in the fifth round out of Marshall by
Speaker 4: the Ravens. He likely would have been selected sooner if
Speaker 4: not for tearing his bicyp at the Senior Bowl, so
Speaker 4: he missed that game. He didn't test at the Combine,
Speaker 4: so we slid in thet as a result. But the
Speaker 4: bicep is healed. He is full on, full go in
Speaker 4: training camp right now, still behind Justice Hill, but I
Speaker 4: think he has a chance to beat him out for
Speaker 4: the backup job. Behind Dereck Henry Rasheen a Lee led
Speaker 4: FBS last year with seven plays of fifty plus yards.
Speaker 4: He has three down pretent, three down potential, great initial
Speaker 4: speed with the second burst, good power in the gaps.
Speaker 4: He can catch, he can pass protect, and if something
Speaker 4: happens to Dereck Henry rasheen Alie sleeper will come alive
Speaker 4: for you.
Speaker 1: I like it. There's a real chance that something does
Speaker 1: happen to Derrick Henry at age thirty, and yeah, that
Speaker 1: would be really interesting.
Speaker 4: And they want to keep Henry fresh too for the playoffs.
Speaker 4: They have Super Bowl aspirations of course in Baltimore, So
Speaker 4: I don't think Henry's not going to play all the snaps,
Speaker 4: that's for sure.
Speaker 1: My sleeper is the great nephew of Hank Aaron. How
Speaker 1: about that.
Speaker 3: That's cool and.
Speaker 1: Most listeners should not have any reason to know who
Speaker 1: I'm talking about yet. Chargers rookie running back Kamani Videll.
Speaker 1: I like this kid a lot, and he is a
Speaker 1: thor nicetroom favorite. He's he started the whole ball rolling
Speaker 1: for me on him. He at college, he went to Troy,
Speaker 1: destroyed the record book at Troy, which you know Granted
Speaker 1: it's not a thick record book at Troy, but Kamani
Speaker 1: Videl killed it there.
Speaker 3: You were the record holder at Troy. I have actually
Speaker 3: you were until that's shattering my records.
Speaker 1: Chargers have got a running backs dream coaching tandem of
Speaker 1: Jim Harbaugh and offensive coordinator Greg Roman. It's all running
Speaker 1: all the time ahead of Vidal. Of course, are Gus
Speaker 1: Edwards and JK Dobbins.
Speaker 3: A dream scenario of injury? It really is.
Speaker 1: And I've loved both players pre acls, since their acls
Speaker 1: and their extended recoveries, they just don't look like the
Speaker 1: same guys. And it's sad, but that's just a fact.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: Normally, what keeps rookie running backs from getting time playing time? Guys?
Speaker 1: What stops rookie running backs from getting on the fields?
Speaker 1: Pro pass protection? Bang, you nailed it. Guess who's the
Speaker 1: best rookie runner in this draft class in pass protecting? Yes,
Speaker 1: Kamani Videll and by the way, Gus Edwards and JK.
Speaker 1: Dobbins in pass blocking ranked thirty second and forty ninth
Speaker 1: by Pro Football Focus. The best pass blocking running back
Speaker 1: on the Chargers could very well turn out to be
Speaker 1: Kimani Videll. He's compact, he's stout. He is a workhorse
Speaker 1: runner with shifty moves and amazing balance, a little bit
Speaker 1: of burst. He's not like high end speed guy. He's shorter,
Speaker 1: he's thicker.
Speaker 3: He's a little teapot, short and stout.
Speaker 1: Ye yes, yes, As a matter of fact, Kimani Videll
Speaker 1: my sleeper. All right, let me throw this topic out
Speaker 1: to you. We've got a couple of spare minutes at
Speaker 1: the end of the show. A few weeks ago and
Speaker 1: for much of the offseason, Matt and I did an
Speaker 1: offseason show not too long ago, maybe a month ago,
Speaker 1: we talked about undo the opposite because we're sloughing running
Speaker 1: backs so much.
Speaker 5: Yep.
Speaker 1: But what's happened in the recent weeks running backs moving
Speaker 1: way way up. Three weeks ago, the first round only
Speaker 1: had three running backs in it by average ADP. Today
Speaker 1: six running backs in the first round by average draft
Speaker 1: position six. So and by the way through two rounds,
Speaker 1: it's almost dead even between wide receivers and running backs.
Speaker 1: So running backs have moved back. People can't stop themselves.
Speaker 1: They're moving back to the running back position.
Speaker 3: More casuals are drafting now, and they tend to go
Speaker 3: running back because they have for years.
Speaker 1: Yeah, are you running to consider.
Speaker 5: This tough, tough question number four.
Speaker 1: Are you riding the running back wave and taking running
Speaker 1: backs early or are you continuing to do the opposite
Speaker 1: like you know I.
Speaker 3: Would Brian, you want to take that one first?
Speaker 4: It all depends, But in the first round it's really
Speaker 4: just Greese Hall for me. If I don't have a
Speaker 4: numb one pick, I'll take McCaffrey still, even though he's
Speaker 4: got the angle thing.
Speaker 3: But so I don't know.
Speaker 1: Yes, you're taking running back, all right, you're taking running
Speaker 1: backs early.
Speaker 4: Running back.
Speaker 3: I think in the first round it's McCaffrey Hall or
Speaker 3: Jonathan Taylor for me, and I would not take any
Speaker 3: other ones in the first round, mostly because I think
Speaker 3: those guys are bell cows in their offense, and there's
Speaker 3: just so few bell cows anymore that I think it
Speaker 3: is worth it to have one or two of them.
Speaker 1: The running back failure zone is end of first round.
Speaker 3: Mm hm.
Speaker 1: Those guys that are at the very front are usually
Speaker 1: proven workhorse guys. The guys at the back of the
Speaker 1: first round early second round have generally got question marks
Speaker 1: and the that's the key failure zone right there. Obviously,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna keep doing the opposite. Thank you for listening
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