WEBVTT - Super Bowl Predictions + Final Fantasy Exit Interviews 0:00:00.560 --> 0:00:14.080 Wow, Why everybody, It's Thursday, February sixth, twenty twenty five. 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:16.800 Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast. We just want 0:00:16.800 --> 0:00:18.760 to kick this thing off already. It's me and your man, 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:21.480 MG Marcus Grant, joined by Michael F. Florio and Lakwan 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:26.560 Jones LQ. You are going to New Orleans looking forward to. 0:00:27.280 --> 0:00:29.040 I'm looking forward to the food, to be honest, soon 0:00:29.080 --> 0:00:32.360 as I touchdown, I am getting the food in my body. 0:00:33.520 --> 0:00:34.640 Are you a seafood person. 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:39.520 No, I'm alertic to some seafood. I think it's solsh shellfish. 0:00:39.800 --> 0:00:43.080 Okay, I did not know this about you. I am 0:00:43.200 --> 0:00:44.680 anti seafood all the way. 0:00:45.280 --> 0:00:47.840 Oh, let's go. But you also don't like turkey either, 0:00:47.920 --> 0:00:49.400 So no, I like turkey. 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:50.560 I just think it's overrated. 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:52.519 You don't like turkey? 0:00:52.760 --> 0:00:53.880 Turkey is Derek Jeter. 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:57.560 There you go. Kareean Falcone is very upset with you 0:00:57.640 --> 0:00:58.000 right now. 0:00:58.120 --> 0:01:00.680 Yeah, I know, I know. I Look. I love Kareem. 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:03.760 She's awesome. She does amazing work for us. She's just 0:01:03.800 --> 0:01:07.679 a really cool person. My Derek Jeter take sort of 0:01:07.720 --> 0:01:12.480 rankled her the other day. So sorry, Look, I'll just 0:01:12.800 --> 0:01:16.040 on Jeter. The diving catch into the stands. He catches 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:18.520 it in fair territory. That's all I'm going to say. 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:21.600 I'm still better about him making that flip and getting 0:01:21.640 --> 0:01:27.560 jokes slide Jeremy Giombi slide anyway, I'm just going to 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:30.240 pretend I know what that means. We got our last 0:01:30.760 --> 0:01:34.560 rounds of exit interviews coming up on today's show, Picks 0:01:34.920 --> 0:01:36.959 twenty nine through thirty two. 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:37.440 Pain. 0:01:38.040 --> 0:01:40.119 Hey man, we did my team like two weeks ago, 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.880 so I don't really want to hear it. We will 0:01:42.880 --> 0:01:45.199 have a Super Bowl preview as well as we wrap 0:01:45.240 --> 0:01:46.760 up the show and gets you ready for super Bowl 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:51.160 fifty nine coming up this weekend. I have really a 0:01:51.200 --> 0:01:53.000 lot of headlines. I don't know how much interest you 0:01:53.080 --> 0:01:55.960 guys have. The Josh Jacobs saying that he would love 0:01:56.080 --> 0:01:59.440 to reunite with Davante Adams in Green Bay. We talked 0:01:59.440 --> 0:02:01.720 about the Pack and whether or not they need a 0:02:01.800 --> 0:02:06.880 number one receiver, I mean, Florio Devonte Adams in Green Bay? 0:02:07.040 --> 0:02:09.720 Is he would that make him back to being I 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:11.200 don't want to say a first round pick, but what 0:02:11.320 --> 0:02:14.800 could he be a mid second round pick in Green Bay? Possibly? 0:02:15.560 --> 0:02:19.160 I think other people could convince themselves to draft him 0:02:19.160 --> 0:02:21.600 there I will not be that person. I was fading 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:23.960 him last year as a second round pick, and it 0:02:24.000 --> 0:02:27.040 was partly because of who his quarterbacks were, but it's 0:02:27.120 --> 0:02:30.959 also because he was thirty one going on thirty two. 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:32.680 By the end of the next season, he'll be thirty 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:35.640 three years old, and we already saw some decline in 0:02:35.680 --> 0:02:38.680 his metrics. So my rule of thumb is, when you 0:02:38.760 --> 0:02:41.560 have an agent player and you start to see slow, 0:02:41.760 --> 0:02:45.040 like little signs of decline, to just avoid it. Because 0:02:45.600 --> 0:02:48.160 we talk about it a lot like decline comes very 0:02:48.280 --> 0:02:51.560 very slowly and then all at once. So like, I 0:02:51.760 --> 0:02:56.000 don't want to draft someone this early if part of 0:02:56.040 --> 0:02:59.200 their range of outcome could be just not living up 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:02.880 anywhere close to expectations and bottoming out. But it would 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:06.240 be hilarious, Like the NFL is a reality show. The 0:03:06.280 --> 0:03:09.040 writers are just being like, let's get Adams back to 0:03:09.080 --> 0:03:11.680 Green Bay where he said he didn't have an elite quarterback, 0:03:11.720 --> 0:03:14.720 and now he chooses Jordan Love over Aaron Rodgers, Like 0:03:14.760 --> 0:03:16.320 that would that would just be hilarious? 0:03:16.840 --> 0:03:21.000 Actually want amazing? That would be pretty good of that happened. Yeah, 0:03:21.040 --> 0:03:23.480 I mean, look, everything is is you know, times of 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:27.079 Flat Circle. Everything's reboots and sequels and that sort of thing, 0:03:27.200 --> 0:03:27.639 So you. 0:03:27.560 --> 0:03:29.799 Know, why not does Green Bay even want him back? 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:30.040 Though? 0:03:30.080 --> 0:03:32.119 You know, like that's kind of weird that he would 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:35.440 say that. That is a good point because he kind 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:37.280 of left and just was like all right, I'm out 0:03:37.320 --> 0:03:39.200 to better things. That's kind of how it felt, and 0:03:39.240 --> 0:03:41.480 like I wouldn't want him back either, you know, like 0:03:41.520 --> 0:03:43.840 to be honest, like you got guys like Dadan Reed, 0:03:43.880 --> 0:03:46.160 you got Christian Watson you're hoping comes back from recovery. 0:03:46.200 --> 0:03:48.720 Like these young guys are developing well, and like if 0:03:48.760 --> 0:03:51.160 I can comparison to break the parallel on soccer, like 0:03:51.200 --> 0:03:54.839 when Christiano Ronaldo returned back to Manchester United, it might 0:03:54.840 --> 0:03:57.520 have delayed or kind of messed up. You know, Marcus 0:03:57.600 --> 0:04:00.000 Rastus's development being that he was a young player and 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:02.120 now look where he's at now. Is that Ashton Villa 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.800 right now? So you bring in the guy that gave 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.440 the pop and gave the excitement, then it's like you're 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.000 hurting the development of the young guys that you're actually 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:11.200 getting some flow with. 0:04:11.680 --> 0:04:13.760 That's that's exactly what I was going to say. That's 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:16.600 that's one hundred percent and it's not I was going 0:04:16.640 --> 0:04:19.480 to say, that's not at all what I was going 0:04:19.520 --> 0:04:26.279 to say. Soccer turns in analysis. I enjoy the sport, 0:04:26.360 --> 0:04:28.720 and I know, like I knew all the names involved 0:04:28.760 --> 0:04:31.560 and everything I was not did, but I also know 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:33.640 you do this to to try and tweak me. Well 0:04:33.920 --> 0:04:38.479 that's why you say that too. So long as you know, dude, 0:04:38.480 --> 0:04:41.680 I peep your game. Contrary to the shack meme, I'm 0:04:41.800 --> 0:04:45.839 very familiar with your games. So that's what that is. 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:48.960 All right, that's anyway, that's enough of that we'll see. 0:04:49.000 --> 0:04:50.400 I mean, right now, this is just this kind of 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.799 idle chatter. It's Josh Jacobs sort of hining out loud 0:04:53.880 --> 0:04:57.000 to reunite with a former teammates maybe help his current team. 0:04:57.640 --> 0:04:59.200 I think that's about as far as that may go 0:04:59.520 --> 0:05:02.279 when it comes to Devonte Adams reuniting with the Green 0:05:02.320 --> 0:05:06.000 Bay Packers. All right, into our exit interviews our final 0:05:06.120 --> 0:05:09.400 four teams. Now, I will preface this by saying picks 0:05:09.440 --> 0:05:12.559 thirty one and thirty two are not officially set yet. 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.560 So we did these sort of buy records in the 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:18.120 regular season, and that's how we came up with what 0:05:18.200 --> 0:05:21.640 they are. So we'll start with the Washington Commanders at 0:05:21.640 --> 0:05:24.479 pick number twenty nine. They had a phenomenal twelve and 0:05:24.560 --> 0:05:27.360 five season, got all the way to the NFC Championship games, 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:31.600 certainly ahead of everyone's expectations. I would probably guess even 0:05:31.760 --> 0:05:34.440 ahead of the expectations of people within that building there 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:38.839 in Washington. And when you talk about what went right, easy, easy, easy, 0:05:38.880 --> 0:05:42.719 easy answer is Jaden Daniels over thirty five hundred passing yards, 0:05:42.720 --> 0:05:47.479 twenty five passing touchdowns, nine interceptions, nearly nine hundred rushing yards, 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:51.240 six rushing touchdowns. He was the QB six. Terry McLaurin 0:05:51.240 --> 0:05:54.480 another great season as well, over one thousand yards, thirteen 0:05:54.680 --> 0:05:57.040 receiving touchdowns. I don't think I realized he had thirteen 0:05:57.560 --> 0:06:02.279 touchdowns this year. He finished as receiver seven this season, 0:06:03.080 --> 0:06:07.640 so Florio as the number one. Jade and Daniels stand 0:06:07.839 --> 0:06:13.200 on this show. Any fears and you you tweeted about 0:06:13.200 --> 0:06:16.880 this and I sort of responded any fears that he 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:18.880 pulls a CJ. Stroud in year two. 0:06:20.320 --> 0:06:23.000 I'm trying to remember what the tweet was that I sent. 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:24.160 I tweet a lot, so. 0:06:24.320 --> 0:06:26.040 It was it was basically something to the effective of 0:06:26.080 --> 0:06:28.800 how like Jayden Daniels looks like, you know, a mid 0:06:28.839 --> 0:06:32.120 career vet or something to that effect, and I responded with, 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:33.640 we said the same thing about C. 0:06:34.000 --> 0:06:38.839 Stroud last year, So I one hundred percent agree the difference, 0:06:38.880 --> 0:06:43.039 there's two differences. For me is one, I just think 0:06:43.360 --> 0:06:45.880 Jade and Daniels played better even than CJ. Stroud did 0:06:45.920 --> 0:06:49.160 last year, even if CJ. Stroud had these superior passing stats. 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:54.000 But for me, I think what happened, what really made 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:56.240 me feel good about Jaden Daniels is there was that 0:06:56.279 --> 0:06:59.000 stretch in the middle of the year where you could 0:06:59.000 --> 0:07:01.000 pull into a number of different things. He was dealing 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.000 with the rib injury, which I think was the number 0:07:03.040 --> 0:07:07.240 one factor, but you started to hear rumblings of like, oh, 0:07:07.279 --> 0:07:09.880 our defense is kind of figuring out how to make 0:07:09.960 --> 0:07:13.120 Jaden Daniels uncomfortable and take away what he does best. 0:07:13.160 --> 0:07:16.040 And you started to hear stuff like has he hit 0:07:16.040 --> 0:07:19.400 the rookie wall and has he taken Cliff Kingsbury offense 0:07:19.440 --> 0:07:22.400 as far as it could go? And then he got 0:07:22.440 --> 0:07:26.600 healthy and looked even better and played even better and 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:29.520 in the playoffs, like not just what he was doing 0:07:29.560 --> 0:07:31.640 with his legs and all the stats and everything that 0:07:31.680 --> 0:07:34.160 he has. I think it's arguably the greatest rookie season 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:36.920 of all time. But the way he was able to 0:07:36.960 --> 0:07:40.600 go through his progressions and like just read a defense 0:07:40.640 --> 0:07:44.440 and not feel like the moment was too big. And 0:07:44.480 --> 0:07:46.960 this is going up against top defenses in the playoffs, 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:50.560 like he he just looked even better and better and better. 0:07:50.560 --> 0:07:54.360 He looked unstoppable against the Lions. So I have no concerns. 0:07:54.600 --> 0:07:56.680 I've gone as far as saying that, not only for 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.920 fantasy do I think Jayden is a top five quarterback. 0:08:00.160 --> 0:08:02.640 I think for real life, like clearly there's the Big four, 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.680 but after him that I'm taking jad and Daniels right 0:08:05.720 --> 0:08:10.160 now over anyone. So no, I don't have those concerns 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.280 because the Commanders have a bunch of cat they have 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:16.200 their draft picks, like their supporting cast should be even 0:08:16.240 --> 0:08:19.000 better in year two for Jaden than it was in 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:21.280 year one. And I know we could say that for CJ. Stroud, 0:08:21.720 --> 0:08:24.120 but like we talked about on the last episode, I 0:08:24.160 --> 0:08:26.800 think Stroud was more like efficiency luck. I don't think 0:08:26.840 --> 0:08:28.320 that was the case for Jade and Daniels. 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:30.320 I mean, where are you with this, Laku? I mean, 0:08:30.440 --> 0:08:32.680 is is Jayden Daniels a top five quarterback for you 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:33.640 next year? In fantasy. 0:08:34.200 --> 0:08:36.840 Uh yeah, And I think what makes the difference between 0:08:36.880 --> 0:08:39.400 him and CJ Stroud When I was on this same 0:08:39.480 --> 0:08:42.280 podcast in the same room saying that CJ shrowd via 0:08:42.320 --> 0:08:45.200 top five lock this year, clearly that was wrong. But 0:08:45.440 --> 0:08:47.280 the difference here is that this dude almost had a 0:08:47.320 --> 0:08:49.719 thousand yards rushing, So the rushing upside is going to 0:08:49.800 --> 0:08:52.600 stay there. They're turnovers. I'm not worried about him getting 0:08:52.640 --> 0:08:55.960 that sophomore slump because coming out of college, his tendency 0:08:56.040 --> 0:08:59.000 is his meant like, his whole type of ordeal was 0:08:59.040 --> 0:09:01.240 that he's accurate and doesn't turn the ball over, and 0:09:01.280 --> 0:09:03.200 I think that's one of the things that he will 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:06.240 carry throughout his career. So mostly looking at, you know, 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:08.680 the his mechanics and everything that he brings to the table, 0:09:08.960 --> 0:09:11.719 He's obviously going to be a top five quarterback. And 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:14.720 you know, this season with everything staying the same around him, 0:09:14.880 --> 0:09:17.520 with many with many people speculating that they do bring 0:09:17.559 --> 0:09:20.480 in a wide receiver too, that can possibly help Terry McLaurin, 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:22.320 because I think that's one of the things that you know, 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:24.600 that will elevate his game to an even higher ceiling. 0:09:25.200 --> 0:09:27.920 I mean, we're not We're not in on Diommy Brown necessarily. 0:09:27.920 --> 0:09:29.679 I mean, you had a couple of good postseason games, 0:09:29.760 --> 0:09:30.640 but I like. 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:33.520 The Brown twins, like the Noah Brown and Diami Brown. 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.000 Like I like them guys. But it's like if I 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:37.680 can go out there and get a T. Higgins, like 0:09:37.800 --> 0:09:40.120 come on, let's let's let's go wild and balled out, 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:42.120 Like let's get Miles Garrett on the defense, and let's 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:42.960 get T Higgins. 0:09:43.080 --> 0:09:44.240 Let's go to the super Bowl. 0:09:44.280 --> 0:09:46.880 Like I'm a huge Jayden of Dans fan now, but 0:09:47.000 --> 0:09:49.720 just basically just being wild every single game. You know 0:09:49.800 --> 0:09:52.200 that he's been doing, I mean for him to get 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:54.079 to the playoffs as far as he did as a rookie. 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:58.080 Like it's the freaking Commanders guys like Kingsbury he usually 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:00.079 falls off at the end of the season, which you 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:02.160 know if I've seen that closely being in Ranstrand with 0:10:02.240 --> 0:10:04.600 him as the Cardinals head coach. But it's just like 0:10:04.960 --> 0:10:07.640 the former is there, Like you don't have that, you know, 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:11.200 animosity between the quarterback and coach anymore. Like it's like 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:14.280 JD's locked in, he's ready to go. He's there early 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:16.360 in the morning working out and looking at that film 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:19.280 like He's doing all the things that Kyler wasn't doing. 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:21.880 Not to make the comparison, but that's a big deal. 0:10:22.400 --> 0:10:24.960 He's what we wanted Kyler Murray to be all those 0:10:25.040 --> 0:10:25.960 exactly Arizona. 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:30.120 Yeah, yeah, Kyler's in a ceiling right, Like we've seen 0:10:30.160 --> 0:10:31.920 the best of Kyler at this point. 0:10:32.640 --> 0:10:33.960 Yeah, I would say that. 0:10:34.600 --> 0:10:37.000 I would say that, and I think Jayden Daniel still 0:10:37.000 --> 0:10:39.400 has room to grow, which is going to be really interesting, 0:10:39.960 --> 0:10:43.280 really curious to watch life really interesting in the NFC 0:10:43.320 --> 0:10:46.880 East for the foreseeable future. With the Eagles, the Eagles 0:10:46.880 --> 0:10:48.960 are still going to be good regardless of whatever happens 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:53.040 this weekend. The Cowboys are who knows the new commanders? 0:10:53.040 --> 0:10:53.960 Maybe let's go. 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:56.440 Well, who knows well? Who knows what the Cowboys are doing? 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.400 And the Giants are wandering in the wilderness for a 0:10:59.440 --> 0:11:02.400 little while too, So you know, this looks like a 0:11:02.400 --> 0:11:05.080 two team division at least for the next couple of years. 0:11:05.400 --> 0:11:08.640 Over in the NFC East, I'm I was looking at 0:11:08.640 --> 0:11:10.640 what went wrong. It was hard to pinpoint anything that 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:14.640 went actually wrong. Look, the range of outcomes for Austin 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:18.760 Eckler included him not being particularly great. He was at 0:11:18.840 --> 0:11:20.000 best this year. 0:11:20.240 --> 0:11:21.400 We could say that went wrong. 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:22.920 Yeah, I guess. 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:24.880 I mean I was big on Austin Eckler, but I 0:11:24.880 --> 0:11:27.280 also knew that there was a distinct possibility that it 0:11:27.320 --> 0:11:29.400 wouldn't hit right, Like I was aware of that. 0:11:29.800 --> 0:11:32.719 Brian fifty Robinson had something to say about that. 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:34.520 I was going to ask you, because you, I know, 0:11:34.559 --> 0:11:37.840 are a big Brian Robinson gue, I mean, did he 0:11:38.080 --> 0:11:40.439 live up to your expectations this year? How do you 0:11:40.480 --> 0:11:42.640 look at him for twenty twenty five? 0:11:43.400 --> 0:11:45.800 No, man, I gotta be honest, and like, you do 0:11:46.000 --> 0:11:48.000 love that his usage in the red zones there, like 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.120 you love the touchdowns that he was able to get there. 0:11:50.160 --> 0:11:52.679 But his you know, his usage in the passing game 0:11:52.800 --> 0:11:54.960 just dropped because of Austin Eckler. And it wasn't like 0:11:55.000 --> 0:11:58.000 Austin Eckler was completely better in that department. It's just 0:11:58.000 --> 0:12:00.480 that he just wasn't running the routes, getting the targets, 0:12:00.520 --> 0:12:04.079 getting the reception. So it's like that capped his fantasy potential. 0:12:04.120 --> 0:12:06.800 So it's like with them two eating off each other's plates. 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:08.680 It's like one of those things where he just tossed 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:11.719 up like, eh, I guess you know, because you had 0:12:11.760 --> 0:12:13.319 the outside of dicking that he was going to be 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:15.800 an RB two, and then most weeks you were looking 0:12:15.800 --> 0:12:18.720 at like this guy has the shoulder injury, ankle injury, god, 0:12:18.840 --> 0:12:21.760 hamstring ankle, Like, dude, put him in a body bag, 0:12:21.840 --> 0:12:23.079 Like what is going on? 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.760 Like Brian Robinson eleven point four fantasy points per game, 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:30.400 Austin Eckler eleven points per game, so like it's less 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:32.920 than half a point apart. And the annoying thing was 0:12:32.960 --> 0:12:35.600 it was like Lakwan said on the ground, all right, 0:12:35.720 --> 0:12:38.079 that work is going to Brian Robinson. In the air, 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.280 that work is going to Austin Eckler. And I think 0:12:41.320 --> 0:12:43.640 that is one area where they can improve, is like 0:12:43.880 --> 0:12:46.600 being a little less predictable with your backfield usage. 0:12:47.280 --> 0:12:51.640 Yeah, well, I'm curting confuse. So Eckler's contract actually runs 0:12:51.640 --> 0:12:53.800 through the end of next season. They could get out 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:57.280 of it for I think a fairly minimal dead cap hit. 0:12:57.800 --> 0:13:00.000 You know, So do they do they bring him back, 0:13:00.280 --> 0:13:01.960 they run it back with the same backfield, do they 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:03.640 try and do something else? I think that's going to 0:13:03.679 --> 0:13:06.200 be something to kind of watch with this team in 0:13:06.240 --> 0:13:08.720 the offseason. I think when they look at the draft. 0:13:08.800 --> 0:13:12.040 You mentioned Lakwana getting some help for Terry McLaurin. I 0:13:12.040 --> 0:13:15.280 think another wide receiver is going to be really important 0:13:15.280 --> 0:13:17.240 for them. So we'll see if they decide to make 0:13:17.240 --> 0:13:18.760 that move as well, or if they do it in 0:13:18.760 --> 0:13:20.840 free agency. You mentioned t Higgins. I mean maybe they 0:13:20.840 --> 0:13:22.600 go out and chase somebody like that, or if they 0:13:22.920 --> 0:13:25.360 do it in the draft. But either way they need 0:13:25.559 --> 0:13:31.240 something more consistent as their wide receiver too. Then you know, 0:13:31.360 --> 0:13:33.880 to go along, I should say with with Terry McLaurin 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:38.120 there in Washington, you pick number thirty goes to the 0:13:38.120 --> 0:13:41.480 Buffalo Bills thirteen and for this season, another trip to 0:13:41.480 --> 0:13:46.040 the AFC Championship Game. Another heavy side there for Michael 0:13:46.120 --> 0:13:48.360 f Florio when he thinks about it. 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:52.520 Please don't trade to pick Man, don't don't do that. 0:13:52.520 --> 0:13:54.160 Don't don't help the chief shout again. 0:13:55.240 --> 0:13:59.120 To trade it. Don't trade it to the team in Cleveland. 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:02.400 Man again, I see which I see where you're going 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:02.720 with this. 0:14:03.080 --> 0:14:05.280 Crea talent, that's what this team needs. 0:14:05.720 --> 0:14:08.840 I see where you're going with this. What went right? Certainly, 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.360 Josh Allen, he had again he's very much in the 0:14:11.360 --> 0:14:15.319 conversation for the MVP award. Over thirty seven hundred passing 0:14:15.400 --> 0:14:18.760 yards over five hundred rushing yards. He had twenty eight 0:14:18.760 --> 0:14:21.760 passing touchdowns. He had twelve rushing touchdowns. He also had 0:14:21.760 --> 0:14:24.960 a receiving touchdown. This year, I finished as the QB 0:14:25.160 --> 0:14:30.520 two James Cook over one thousand rushing yards, sixteen rushing touchdowns. 0:14:30.520 --> 0:14:32.040 That was another number that jumped out at me. I 0:14:32.040 --> 0:14:35.080 don't think I realized he had that many touchdowns this year, 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.720 a couple of receiving touchdowns. He was the RB eight 0:14:38.320 --> 0:14:41.960 and the Khalil Shakir very much a pleasant surprise this season. 0:14:42.280 --> 0:14:43.440 I know when you look at you say, well he 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:46.840 was wide receiver thirty seven, Well yeah, but nobody expected 0:14:46.840 --> 0:14:49.640 anything out of Khalil Shakir and seventy six catches, eight 0:14:49.760 --> 0:14:52.840 hundred and twenty one yards, four touchdowns. The fact that 0:14:52.880 --> 0:14:56.000 he was a viable flex option for a lot of 0:14:56.120 --> 0:15:01.200 rosters pretty consistently during the year. Again, we all thought 0:15:01.320 --> 0:15:03.400 maybe this was going to be, you know, it's gonna 0:15:03.400 --> 0:15:05.680 be Dalton kin Kid's year. Who are they gonna use 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.080 it wide receiver now without Stefan Thigs. I mean, there 0:15:08.080 --> 0:15:11.320 were so many questions. I don't know that anybody thought 0:15:11.400 --> 0:15:13.440 Khalil Shakiir was going to be the answer. 0:15:13.360 --> 0:15:16.240 Hello, I really love Shakir in the off season. 0:15:16.960 --> 0:15:18.000 Yeah, what were we talking about? 0:15:18.040 --> 0:15:19.960 You got two of the biggest Shakir fans right here? 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:24.040 All right, So Shakiir right, not Shakira, right, We're talking 0:15:24.040 --> 0:15:25.120 about Khaleil Sir. 0:15:25.240 --> 0:15:25.400 Right. 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.280 That's that hips don't lie man, or that's what we're 0:15:28.280 --> 0:15:32.080 talking about. All right, So I sit corrected. I maybe 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:34.280 I just didn't. I thought he'd be a nice piece. 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:37.360 I didn't think he would be as good as he was, 0:15:37.520 --> 0:15:40.480 but I thought he would be He would easily out 0:15:40.520 --> 0:15:42.080 live his adp all right. 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:44.760 I do want to ask you though, because obviously you 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.520 watched the Bills closer than anybody here. James Cook had 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:51.360 a very very good season. Is this the ceiling or 0:15:51.400 --> 0:15:53.320 is there more we can expect from James Cook? 0:15:54.120 --> 0:15:56.440 I think, touchdown wise, this is the ceiling, and this 0:15:56.520 --> 0:15:59.480 might be a career year. He scored sixteen rushing like 0:15:59.520 --> 0:16:02.880 you said, he tied the franchise record, I believe for 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:07.560 rushing touchdowns like I'm not banking on that again, but yes, 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:10.440 I certainly think there's more room for growth for James Cook. 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:13.240 Because he had to play in Week eighteen when all 0:16:13.280 --> 0:16:15.160 of the starters were out for him to get a 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:18.680 thousand rushing yards, but then you see the long burst 0:16:18.840 --> 0:16:20.760 runs that he has and stuff, so I certainly think 0:16:20.760 --> 0:16:25.680 there's more big plays there. Ty Johnson is what they 0:16:25.760 --> 0:16:28.520 do with him is a big indicator for James Cook 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:32.400 because two years ago Cook got a lot of passing 0:16:32.440 --> 0:16:35.200 down opportunities, but he had a lot of drops. And 0:16:35.240 --> 0:16:37.200 then this year they were just like, we're going all 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:40.000 Ty Johnson in two minute drills, third downs like obvious 0:16:40.040 --> 0:16:43.800 passing situations. And Josh Allen on record multiple times has 0:16:43.840 --> 0:16:45.840 been like Ty Johnson is the best third down back 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:48.360 in the NFL. So they really love him and that's 0:16:48.400 --> 0:16:51.240 why he took so much opportunity away. But he's a 0:16:51.280 --> 0:16:53.240 free agent, and if they let him walk and they 0:16:53.360 --> 0:16:56.040 say Cook took the next stride and earns more work, 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:59.400 especially because I believe they are going to extend James 0:16:59.440 --> 0:17:02.400 Cook this off season. If that's the case and he 0:17:02.440 --> 0:17:06.240 starts getting more targets, then yeah, then he could reach 0:17:06.400 --> 0:17:08.320 top five, like elite level Fantasy. 0:17:08.359 --> 0:17:12.560 I believe, Wow, were you comfortable taking him next year? 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:13.000 A Lukwan? 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:14.600 James Cook? 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:16.119 He's one of those guys I would love to have 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:17.840 in my RB two. I don't think I would be 0:17:17.880 --> 0:17:20.840 drafting him as my RB one, but like Florio said, 0:17:20.920 --> 0:17:23.320 if the touchdown department, if he could find the middle 0:17:23.320 --> 0:17:25.720 between ten and sixteen, I'm good with him as my 0:17:25.840 --> 0:17:28.320 RB two. I was off of him this season because 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:32.080 I wasn't too sure what to expect from him, because honestly, 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:34.360 I haven't been watching James Cook as much as I've 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.280 been watching the other guys that are behind him. Like 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:38.840 I already know about Ty Johnson being the thorn in 0:17:38.840 --> 0:17:40.320 somebody's back because he did it when he was with 0:17:40.359 --> 0:17:42.520 the Jets with Michael Carter, Like that's just kind of 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:44.480 his role. So that might have been you know, my 0:17:44.600 --> 0:17:47.679 PTSD kicking in of like, oh no, Ty Johnson's in 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:49.760 the building, bro, Like what's going on? Like he had 0:17:49.800 --> 0:17:52.720 a freaking receiving touchdown, which was amazing, by the way, 0:17:52.720 --> 0:17:54.360 in the back of that end zone from Josh Allen. 0:17:54.440 --> 0:17:56.399 I don't know I always saw him, but that's what 0:17:56.480 --> 0:17:59.520 he brings to the table, the unpredictableness in the receiving game. 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:01.560 So that was just, you know, my price. 0:18:01.680 --> 0:18:03.720 But going into next season, I would love to get 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:05.400 him as my RB too, you know, if I could 0:18:05.400 --> 0:18:06.119 lock that up. 0:18:06.520 --> 0:18:08.560 I think he might go as in the first round. 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:14.480 Really, wow, this is a no first round running back podcast. 0:18:14.480 --> 0:18:16.479 Will I don't know if you understood I. 0:18:16.480 --> 0:18:17.960 I would not take him. 0:18:18.320 --> 0:18:20.280 Well, no, no, no, no, no, no no, don't put this 0:18:20.400 --> 0:18:22.480 on the whole pot like that's a you thing. 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:27.639 We're in the first Are we taking Skon in the first? 0:18:28.040 --> 0:18:30.480 I mean, I'm not taking Sequon in. 0:18:30.480 --> 0:18:33.800 The first that's one. Also Bijon, he looks Jon. I'll 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:36.640 say I'll take Bijon in the first. No, Ben Jonson's 0:18:36.640 --> 0:18:38.760 show Jamier give sits at that one ten through to 0:18:38.840 --> 0:18:41.359 one to twelve spot, which I'm okay with but still 0:18:41.400 --> 0:18:42.119 not comfortable with. 0:18:42.280 --> 0:18:44.760 But there's that. I mean, I could make a case 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:49.119 late first for maybe Devon ah chan O. 0:18:49.680 --> 0:18:51.560 Yeah, I keep forgetting about him for some reason. 0:18:51.800 --> 0:18:54.560 Make a late first round case maybe for Kyron Williams. 0:18:55.280 --> 0:18:56.600