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Speaker 1: Matt Harrison and Scott Fish. Hello, guys, Hey, it's got
Speaker 1: a little like our new theme music. Over the course
Speaker 1: of today, we're going to tell you the one thing
Speaker 1: you need to know from each team's preseason well zip
Speaker 1: through all thirty two teams, report back in all the
Speaker 1: training camp battles that we identified back in our first
Speaker 1: show of the preseason, we told you we were watching
Speaker 1: a bunch of these. Will tell you who won every
Speaker 1: one of those, and sometimes they don't even care, but
Speaker 1: we'll even tell you about those. We'll answer three tough questions.
Speaker 1: You get to play along, try to go three and
Speaker 1: oh with our panel of experts will present the outcome
Speaker 1: of our drafts when we use different drafting personas or
Speaker 1: strategies and um and I'm looking forward to that, like
Speaker 1: if you want, I'm not quite not like Uncle Rico
Speaker 1: or it's more like, if you want to have a
Speaker 1: quarterback heavy idea, if you want to have a receiver
Speaker 1: heavy idea, if you want to go high risk, if
Speaker 1: you want to go low risk. I was planning on
Speaker 1: doing the whole segment as Mr Mee seeks, but that'd
Speaker 1: be tough. We'll reveal our latest round of sleepers towards
Speaker 1: the end of the show, and we'll break down the
Speaker 1: Thursday Night game. Yep, we're already breaking down regular season
Speaker 1: games fantasy style because we've we've got one less than
Speaker 1: a week away. We've got the Thursday Night game. Uh,
Speaker 1: and then of course next weekend we'll do the full
Speaker 1: slate of all of the games when we get to
Speaker 1: next weekend's show. So, guys, let's start here the one
Speaker 1: thing you need to know about each team's preseason. I
Speaker 1: want the most important thing for each one of these teams, Matt.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna begin with you and the Panthers. Cam Newton
Speaker 1: sprained his left foot in the preseason game versus New England,
Speaker 1: and everybody got a little scared. And we're gonna talk
Speaker 1: a little bit about this later in the show. Ron
Speaker 1: Rivera says he's going to be totally ready to go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll just dive in deeper to Cam Newton a little
Speaker 1: bit later. Yeah. I mean he's picking it. He's picking
Speaker 1: up the the tag of being I think a little
Speaker 1: injury prone now, yea, bron Yes, Scott, give me the Raiders.
Speaker 1: Nothing really going on with the Raiders this office, no
Speaker 1: no storylines whatever, don't have anything to talk about their
Speaker 1: Uh Antonio Brown back at practice, off practice, not wearing
Speaker 1: his helmet, wearing his helmet, I think the main regular
Speaker 1: feet frozen feet. Yeah, he's probably gonna be good to go,
Speaker 1: but if, if you know, maybe it's too sunny in
Speaker 1: his uniform, his black uniform gets too hot. Maybe he'll
Speaker 1: leave again. Maybe maybe he'll get a blade of grass
Speaker 1: stuck in his new face mask. I don't know, So
Speaker 1: go get Tyrrell Williams just in case it's a handcuff situation. Now,
Speaker 1: Can I just not have the Antonio Brown part of
Speaker 1: that handcuff? Can I just not have Raiders on my team? Um,
Speaker 1: I'll only have this. I think the real loss here
Speaker 1: is that he moves to a new system, totally new offense,
Speaker 1: new quarterback, new scheme, and has had very little time
Speaker 1: to work with those guys, and it might be a
Speaker 1: receiver issue, but Derek Carr through career lows on deep passes.
Speaker 1: Last year passing, I know, I was like completion percentage.
Speaker 1: It's not good. Packers Green based starting wide receivers are
Speaker 1: Marquees Valdez Scantling usually playing on the outside. He's the
Speaker 1: speed guy, and Geronimo Allison usually in the slot. MBS
Speaker 1: has got the speed that Aaron Rodgers hasn't had since
Speaker 1: Jordy Nelson for sure, and I mean like you know
Speaker 1: pre Niece, you know, pre a c L Jordy Nelson,
Speaker 1: and maybe even before that, because Jordy was more like
Speaker 1: speed after the catch guy. This is more like just
Speaker 1: straight line vertical speed for the big arm with Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers from Mardez um um, sorry, Marquez Valdez scan you
Speaker 1: could just call him m VS. Yes, let's go to
Speaker 1: the Redskins. Matt case Keenum has been named the starter,
Speaker 1: but that doesn't even really matter that much because the
Speaker 1: biggest story there is Trent Williams. They're all pro left tackle.
Speaker 1: He just might not show up for Washington all season,
Speaker 1: and that's just a bad sign for the whole Washington offense.
Speaker 1: In general. I know Brian Johnson has said it a
Speaker 1: few times on this show. If there's one team you
Speaker 1: can just eliminate from your fantasy depth chart this year,
Speaker 1: it might be Washington. You might just want to get
Speaker 1: rid of all of them. Yeah, I think I got
Speaker 1: a contender for that. And that's the next team, The
Speaker 1: Buffalo Bills. The Buffalo Bills. The four running backs split
Speaker 1: all their carries evenly. Every one of them tend to
Speaker 1: twelve carries during the preseason. Singletary and Yelleding got most
Speaker 1: of the past game works, so maybe there's something there.
Speaker 1: Gore was the most effective. Just avoid all of that.
Speaker 1: And Robert Foster dressed the fourth preseason game playing second team.
Speaker 1: He's no longer even talk about Stay Jones playing with
Speaker 1: playing in the fourth. You guys are stepping out all
Speaker 1: of my my training camp matchups. Later, Texans Lamar Ler
Speaker 1: went on I r S. Most listeners know Duke Johnson
Speaker 1: is your news starting running back. The good news is
Speaker 1: Duke Johnson has never missed a game in his entire career.
Speaker 1: That's good. The bad news is he has averaged eight
Speaker 1: touches per game throughout his career. We have no reason
Speaker 1: to believe he can be a workhorse back or will
Speaker 1: even be asked to be will. I believe he's the
Speaker 1: all time rushing leader in the history of the University
Speaker 1: of Miami. That's that's a good sign. I think. I
Speaker 1: think there is a misconception that Duke Johnson is a
Speaker 1: tiny scat back. Let me remind use two hundred ten pounds.
Speaker 1: He's not a tiny guy. You know, he may be
Speaker 1: able to be an inside and runner. He might be
Speaker 1: able to withhold eighteen touches a game. He's never been
Speaker 1: asked to do. It doesn't mean he can't do it.
Speaker 1: But that's what you need to know. Rand Let's go
Speaker 1: to the We need a listener, by the way to
Speaker 1: make the I'm the Scatman song into I'm a scat
Speaker 1: back and send that into us so we can have
Speaker 1: that on the button bar. Well, we'll wait on that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the bucket my breath. Matt Jamis Winston looked pretty good
Speaker 1: in the Bruce Arians offense had good command of the offense.
Speaker 1: Problem is the offensive line might be the biggest concern.
Speaker 1: In the third preseason game, the most important preseason game,
Speaker 1: Winston was sacked five times against the Browns. That's not good.
Speaker 1: That's like an average of nine times per game. It's
Speaker 1: not It's not an average of nine times. We're just
Speaker 1: gonna say it is. Okay, it's in the ballpark of that.
Speaker 1: I suppose we're This is the one thing you need
Speaker 1: to know about every team's preseason. We are now on
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Browns. Yes, so they shipped off Duke Johnson,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned. So it's all it's all Nick Chubb
Speaker 1: all the time. Doncha. Hilliard has looked really good as
Speaker 1: the backup, over a hundred thirty yards on twenty six
Speaker 1: touches in the preseason. He's been my last pick of
Speaker 1: the draft. Guy. Man, he should be, and he should
Speaker 1: be despite the loss of Zeitler to New York in
Speaker 1: that trade. Uh, the offensive lines look good, so Indianapolis Colts.
Speaker 1: Obviously Jacoby Bursets the new starting quarterback. Don't assume he'll
Speaker 1: hold back the offense like he did back then. He
Speaker 1: was very young, just a set in your player playing
Speaker 1: behind a horrible offensive line that ultimately would go on
Speaker 1: to just pound nails into Andrew Lux's career. Coffin. Well,
Speaker 1: not only that he got there like a week and
Speaker 1: a day before his first startart right entactly, um sets
Speaker 1: look good in the preseason both last year and this
Speaker 1: year's preseason. He's surrounded by talent. I think he's good
Speaker 1: enough to keep. T Y Hilton is a reliable starter.
Speaker 1: And potentially Paris Campbell who's going undrafted many in many
Speaker 1: leagues because he didn't have a preseason and ultimately he
Speaker 1: might be okay too, and Ericy Brown as well. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Lions. What's the one thing we need
Speaker 1: to know? Um? Surprisingly, t J. Hockenson looked like the
Speaker 1: most impressive Lions offensive player coming out of camp average
Speaker 1: nine point eight yards after the catch during the preseason.
Speaker 1: Uh struggled a bit in the run blocking game. That's
Speaker 1: the one thing that might hold him back from snaps
Speaker 1: this season. But uh, there's a lot of positivity around
Speaker 1: a rookie tight end, which is pretty rare in the NFL.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the Jets. So the Jets,
Speaker 1: I've been talking about this on previous shows. I think
Speaker 1: they're going to be much more fast paced team, much
Speaker 1: more up tempo. When the starters are in. They've been
Speaker 1: using a lot of no huddle, a lot of quick plays.
Speaker 1: I think Gaye's uh lack of plays. His His low
Speaker 1: amount of plays per game in Miami was just effect.
Speaker 1: He had bad players and he was trying to slow
Speaker 1: down the game. I think it's gonna be a fast
Speaker 1: paced team. I think it's gonna have some bad players. Well,
Speaker 1: that is true. Um Jets have the hardest first half
Speaker 1: schedule against the past, and so as as optimistic as
Speaker 1: I am that that offense is going to be better,
Speaker 1: I'm investing in the second half of the season. The
Speaker 1: one thing you need to know about the Chiefs is
Speaker 1: there's a possible timeshare brewing in the backfield between incumbent
Speaker 1: starter Damian Williams and sixth round rookie Darwin Thompson, who's
Speaker 1: looked terrific and his shot all the way up to
Speaker 1: number two on the depth chart changed the tenor of
Speaker 1: the conversation there from really being all about Damian Williams
Speaker 1: to now potentially being a true time share. Williams is
Speaker 1: expected to be the starter, but we may see more
Speaker 1: time from Darwin Thompson. Then we thought Carlos Hyde, by
Speaker 1: the way um on the bubble and by the time
Speaker 1: you hear the show, depending on when you listen over
Speaker 1: the weekend, might already be cut. That's my my prediction
Speaker 1: for a notable name that could go down in flames.
Speaker 1: Let's go to our next team, and that is the
Speaker 1: Seahawks Matt uh Injuries. Injuries have plagued the Seahawks preseason.
Speaker 1: David Moore, who had high hopes as a wide receiver
Speaker 1: too as a shoulder injury, DK Metcalf and knee guard
Speaker 1: Mike Iupati as a foot injury. And there's a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of defensive players that are also injured, including Ezekiel Ansa,
Speaker 1: Sachem Griffin, and l J. Collier. It's it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a tough road to hoe for the Seahawks to start
Speaker 1: the year. Yeah, that's they didn't get the preseason they
Speaker 1: needed on a DK Metcalf. No, definitely not. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the Broncos. The one thing we need to know there,
Speaker 1: Ummanuel Sanders looks like he has some Adrian Peterson recovery
Speaker 1: ability even after thirty. For some reason, he flashed plays
Speaker 1: in game and not just not just video as of practice.
Speaker 1: In game, he actually looked good. I'm no longer concerned
Speaker 1: about drafting him. I've got him up at numbers twenty
Speaker 1: nine at the wide receiver position. That might be a
Speaker 1: little optimistic given the all the young talent they've got
Speaker 1: a receiver and that too, that's that's a bit of
Speaker 1: an issue. Maybe I'm a little optimistic on him. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Rams. Cooper Cup looks fully respeaking of recover.
Speaker 1: He's Cooper Cup fully recovered from his a c L
Speaker 1: injury of last November. You know, to me, it seems
Speaker 1: unlikely that that couple will immediately return to a full workload.
Speaker 1: But I think he's I think he's right in the mix,
Speaker 1: and you're in week one. I just don't think it
Speaker 1: should be like in every single play. Guy. They said
Speaker 1: a lot of his measurables are better than when he
Speaker 1: came into the league right now. Reminder, he was averaging
Speaker 1: a touchdown per game last year before his injury. Cooper Cup,
Speaker 1: let's go to the Eagles. What's the one thing we
Speaker 1: need to know, Matt. I mean, the biggest news out
Speaker 1: of Eagles camp might be the troll job of the
Speaker 1: zeke who billboards that they put up around town. But seriously,
Speaker 1: it's just a really crowded offense for the receiving targets.
Speaker 1: There's Art's el Sean d Jack's Agilard, j Jaw Goddard,
Speaker 1: Darren Sprowles, Corey Clement, Miles Sanders all have the ability
Speaker 1: to catch passes. It makes me kind of want Carson
Speaker 1: Wentz as the only option on that offense. Well, I
Speaker 1: don't know about only, but I've got him up to
Speaker 1: number six among quarterbacks. I think Carson Wentz is going
Speaker 1: off the board is roughly quarterback like sixteen, But I
Speaker 1: think that's exactly it. There's so many good targets for
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz. I don't have to guess who. I don't
Speaker 1: have to guess which receiver is gonna have the hot game.
Speaker 1: I'll just take the quarterback. Yeah, that's exactly what. Um.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Let's see the Dolphins. What's the one
Speaker 1: thing we need to know there? Scott, You're you're beautiful, lovely.
Speaker 1: Stu Beard may have gotten the start for Week one.
Speaker 1: He may start the season, but he is Stu Beard
Speaker 1: and Rosen out played him this preseason. They invested a
Speaker 1: second round picking him. Stu Bird is gonna start the season,
Speaker 1: but eventually it'll be Rosen and I'm not sure that's good.
Speaker 1: I know the exact week it's going to be, and
Speaker 1: I'll tell you in a later segment alright, good, the
Speaker 1: Vikings Dalvin Cook is sitting out of potential, potentially giant season.
Speaker 1: The offensive line is upgraded. The new zone stretch blocking
Speaker 1: scheme is a perfect fit for Dalvin Cook's running style.
Speaker 1: How so he only played in college in high skame.
Speaker 1: Other than that, right exactly, he looks as explosive as ever.
Speaker 1: You saw his eighty five yard touchdown sprint a little
Speaker 1: over a week ago. He's got a lead upside. If
Speaker 1: the Vikings offensive line improves and he handles the bulk
Speaker 1: of the work, he could easily be one of the
Speaker 1: top three or four or five running backs for fantasy play.
Speaker 1: He is my number four running back at the moment.
Speaker 1: Let's go to our next team, that is the Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: The one thing we need to know there, man, I mean,
Speaker 1: the biggest troll job of the season was Jerry Jones
Speaker 1: saying Zeke his own team. UM. Zeke's holdout is obviously
Speaker 1: the main storyline, but an interesting stat I saw online today.
Speaker 1: Uh DA's passerrating in games with Ezekiel Elliott point nine,
Speaker 1: Deck's passerrating in games without Zeke eighty point eight so
Speaker 1: it moves down a little bit. I know Brian loves
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard, but I'm a little bit nervous about the
Speaker 1: Cowboys as a whole, and this Zeke called out looks
Speaker 1: like it might last into mid October or later. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Patriots. A lot of moving parts for
Speaker 1: the Patriots right now, Scott. What's the one thing though
Speaker 1: people need to know? If it's just one thing, it's
Speaker 1: that Josh Gordon is now eligible to play Week one,
Speaker 1: and Tom Brady's yardage attempt is targeting any receiver Josh
Speaker 1: Gordon number one in his entire career including career Wow,
Speaker 1: no way, so downfield passing Josh Gordon. I love it.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Saints. Jared Cook looks like a
Speaker 1: potential steel at his current average draft position of the
Speaker 1: seventh round. Beat writers are describing Jared Cook as the
Speaker 1: go to receiver for Breeze and have noted his multiple
Speaker 1: big plays throughout camp. If you like that Jared Cook
Speaker 1: as a Raider catching one hop wobblers from Derek Carr,
Speaker 1: that's not a catch. You're gonna love him as a
Speaker 1: Saint catching spirals from Drew Brees. Let's go to the Giants.
Speaker 1: What's the one thing we need to know so we
Speaker 1: know it's not if it's when Daniel Jones takes over
Speaker 1: for Eli. Joe Ones went twenty nine for thirty four
Speaker 1: that's completions four hundred, sixteen yards and two touchdowns in
Speaker 1: the preseason. Now, the schedule is really tough through the
Speaker 1: first six weeks, including Week five against the Vikings. In
Speaker 1: Week six against New England, that's Eli's last start. That's
Speaker 1: against New England. He's gonna try to get one final
Speaker 1: troll job on the Patriots. And then week seven they
Speaker 1: play the Cardinals at home. That's a nice game. Then
Speaker 1: they get Detroit Dallas and an away game at home
Speaker 1: against the Jets. Those are four really nice games for
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones to get eased into. Then they got a
Speaker 1: bye week. They'll be able to adjust. That's when Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones will take over his week seven calling your shot,
Speaker 1: I like it. That's the one thing we need to
Speaker 1: know about the Titans. This one is tough. There's not
Speaker 1: really anything it's but the revamp line with the addition
Speaker 1: of Roger Staffold. I know Taylor of the one is
Speaker 1: going to be suspended a little bit here, but once
Speaker 1: he's back. That line has made Jeremy Mcnifmuckle's a former
Speaker 1: fifth round pick, couldn't even make the fifty three man
Speaker 1: roster for the Bucks his first year and it's been
Speaker 1: on five teams. Sense they made him look like a
Speaker 1: legitimate NFL running back in the preseason. So I like
Speaker 1: that for Derrick Henry and Dan Lewis, who's going so
Speaker 1: late he's now a value. Yeah, Dan Lewis is going
Speaker 1: on draft basically, and and he's yeah, he's still about
Speaker 1: he's a great value. Uh. For the Steelers, no real
Speaker 1: clarity on the job to backfill Antonio Brown's production. James
Speaker 1: Washington provided a few big plays this preseason, but almost
Speaker 1: entirely with backups. Dante Moncrief got the starting work, but
Speaker 1: and he looks like the starter, but he didn't even
Speaker 1: didn't show anything for that matter in his career, Doncte
Speaker 1: Moncrief hasn't shown anything. So I think it's still a
Speaker 1: murky situation for the Steelers and we don't have a
Speaker 1: lot of clarity there. Let's go to the Falcons and
Speaker 1: the one thing people need to know the young offensive
Speaker 1: line there, will it hold up first round pick Caleb
Speaker 1: McGarry had a cardiac ablation procedure and only played in
Speaker 1: one preseason game. Chris lind Stern was also a first rounder.
Speaker 1: Starting at right guard. Center Alex has been dinged up
Speaker 1: a bit. Let's see if this line holds up against
Speaker 1: the Vikings in Week one. Yeah, that's a that's a
Speaker 1: stout challenge right off the bat for them. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to the Bengals, Scott. Everyone knows A J.
Speaker 1: Green went down, so I'm not gonna go with that.
Speaker 1: The running game has looked actually really good, but Rodney
Speaker 1: Anderson just toys a C L again to row now,
Speaker 1: so it's all mixing and g O. There are really
Speaker 1: no backups, so you can draft them with confidence. Now.
Speaker 1: I see the offensive line really really worries me. They
Speaker 1: lost first round pick. It's it's it's as this preseason,
Speaker 1: but I would yeah, I'm, I'm you're more might be
Speaker 1: tanking for tou Fort and they might be. Yeah, things
Speaker 1: go badly. Forty nine ys have utter confusion at the
Speaker 1: wide receiver position. I wish I could tell you now
Speaker 1: there's all this clarity through training camp, but it's the
Speaker 1: opposite of that. Dante Pettis was great at the end
Speaker 1: of last year, but he's been the subject of Kyle
Speaker 1: Shanahan's ire, including making Pettis play the third with the
Speaker 1: third and fourth stringers. Last week, rookies Jalen Hurd and
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel looked promising and stretches. Now Hurt has got
Speaker 1: an injury. Right now from this Week one, Trent Taylor
Speaker 1: was going to be the starting slow receiver, but he's
Speaker 1: got a foot injury. He probably won't play in a
Speaker 1: Week one either. Marquis Goodwin remains, but they were trying
Speaker 1: to cycle him out of the starting rotation, but I
Speaker 1: think they got to put him in. It's still very,
Speaker 1: very muddy with the wide receiver well, and there's always
Speaker 1: George Kittle. All right, let's go to the Cardinals. Matt
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray didn't throw a touchdown pass all preseason and
Speaker 1: seemed to be under pressure a lot. His escapability will
Speaker 1: totally be in play a ton this season, as it
Speaker 1: looks like he'll be taking a majority of snaps from
Speaker 1: the shotgun, and maybe most of his snaps while trailing
Speaker 1: in a game and running for his absolute life. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to the Jaguars. The big news is Leonard
Speaker 1: Fournette is getting every single starter snap in in the
Speaker 1: preseason games, every third down, he's gained all the passing
Speaker 1: game work. If healthy, there is no limit to help
Speaker 1: productive he can be for fantasy this year healthy. I
Speaker 1: didn't pay attention to what actually happened on Thursday night,
Speaker 1: but the Jaguars were on pace to be the lowest
Speaker 1: score preseason offense in NFL history. I don't remember what
Speaker 1: they did on Thursday night, but they may have actually
Speaker 1: set that record. Uh. Let's go to the Ravens. Justice Hill,
Speaker 1: rookie running back, looks like the second best back on
Speaker 1: the roster and will likely get into the mix. Is
Speaker 1: a change of pace for mark Ingram. Mark Ingram has
Speaker 1: never been a guy who's been a workhorse throughout his career,
Speaker 1: so I think Justice Hill is going to get in
Speaker 1: the mix pretty regularly here um and his big play
Speaker 1: potential makes him dangerous. He's not he's not a big guy.
Speaker 1: He's not a big physical back, but he's got big playability,
Speaker 1: so he can turn even a handful of carries potentially
Speaker 1: into a solid fantasy day. Justice Hill for the Ravens.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Bears. What's the one thing people
Speaker 1: need to know. David Montgomery has looked like the best
Speaker 1: rookie running back in this year's crop. He has the
Speaker 1: ability to catch passes, something Jordan Howard really did not have,
Speaker 1: which makes the Bears less predictable. Fit. Frankly, when uh,
Speaker 1: because it was Howard on the field and it was
Speaker 1: a run play, and it was Treat Cohen on the
Speaker 1: field and it was a pass play. Now David Montgomery
Speaker 1: kind of flips that. So I think Montgomer ends up
Speaker 1: as a bell cow and Treat Cohen's just a change
Speaker 1: of pace guy this year. Totally agree. I got my
Speaker 1: coming up to number nine a running back position. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm all in. And our last team, Scott the Chargers.
Speaker 1: It's just more on Melvin Gordon. It's a it's a
Speaker 1: hunch now it's it's been reported that he may be
Speaker 1: back by week one, but it's going back and forth
Speaker 1: every day. There's nothing concrete, so I say you still
Speaker 1: got to use it decently. High pick on Austin Neckla.
Speaker 1: Well done, guys. That was all thirty two teams. We
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Speaker 1: is at Explosive Output. And the very first show of
Speaker 1: this season, almost a month ago, we identified every training
Speaker 1: camp battle worth tracking. Now, with the preseason behind us,
Speaker 1: let's identify the winner of every battle and the fantasy
Speaker 1: ramifications that come with it will begin with Scott and
Speaker 1: the Redskins quarterback situation. It was case Keenum versus Dwayne Haskins.
Speaker 1: Well case Keenum one that he's the name the starter
Speaker 1: for the for week one, which I love. For Trey Quinn,
Speaker 1: who is a slock ey uh you know how Keenum
Speaker 1: targeted targeted the slot over half the time over half
Speaker 1: his past attempts in Denver and in Minnesota where Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean he did have Adam Thielen and he did
Speaker 1: have Emmanuel Sanders. He should be the best Hamilton's came
Speaker 1: in still, so I like that for Quinn. Great. Quinn
Speaker 1: is a is a nifty last pick of your drafteper
Speaker 1: in PPR leagues. I could see him doing on this
Speaker 1: show a few weeks ago. He was six catches sixty
Speaker 1: yards kind of guy just your bye week. Can easily
Speaker 1: lead that team in receptions. I think he might be
Speaker 1: the favorite to lead the team in receptions. Chompson Tray Quinn.
Speaker 1: Wouldn't that be something? If it's Chris Thompson back from
Speaker 1: the dead, that would be great. The lowest drafted wide
Speaker 1: receiver one in league. Yeah, Tray quinnan if he is
Speaker 1: in fact one, there um Matt Let's go to the
Speaker 1: Ravens wide receiver position. It was Miles Boykin versus Marquise
Speaker 1: Brown versus Willie Snead. Gross Is it possible that there
Speaker 1: are no winners here? Because the official Ravens depth chart
Speaker 1: has Snead and Seth Roberts as the starters, with uh
Speaker 1: Marquise Brown, Michael Floyd, Chris Moore, and Boykin as the backups.
Speaker 1: Brown muff two punts in the final preseason game on
Speaker 1: Thursday and was not targeted at all and has been
Speaker 1: dealing with foot injuries all offseason. So I'm I'm cutting
Speaker 1: him out. He's not on my list anymore. Boykin looked
Speaker 1: like the best player maybe, but I still think it's
Speaker 1: probably a pretty good split between three or four receivers.
Speaker 1: I guess Boykin's the guy most interested in, followed by
Speaker 1: Snead and then maybe Michael Floyd. I feel like that
Speaker 1: depth chart was in order of NFL seniority, Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know that's that is not a true depth chart
Speaker 1: right there, and I'm not sure it's gonna make the
Speaker 1: team anyway. We'll find out Eagles running back situation. They
Speaker 1: drafted Miles Sam There's Day two pick then they also
Speaker 1: acquired Jordan Howard in the off season. How's the Sanders
Speaker 1: versus Howard split look there? And who do you think one?
Speaker 1: It is still split in fact that Darren Sprawls is
Speaker 1: coming into it. It's good. It's just gonna be a
Speaker 1: split Miles Sanders. I I will say, maybe it's just bias.
Speaker 1: I thought has looked the best. Uh No, that's not bias,
Speaker 1: that's just fact. Okay, he's looked the best. And I'm
Speaker 1: a noted Jordan Howard Hayter, so that doesn't help the situation.
Speaker 1: But I think by the end of the season, creamal
Speaker 1: rise at the top and he'll be a fifteen touch guy.
Speaker 1: Is Darren Sprawls the running back you want the most?
Speaker 1: Out of the Philly running backs? You probably can't write.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, just PPR like, I love Darren Sprawls.
Speaker 1: I'm the guy who thinks you should go to the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame. So I mean, there's no bigger Darren Sprawls. Uh.
Speaker 1: I don't know aficionado than me. But you're a sproseologist.
Speaker 1: I like it, um, But I don't think you're going
Speaker 1: to be drafting Darren Sprowls. And you know, I love
Speaker 1: what he does, and in fact that even brought him
Speaker 1: back is amazing after how little he's been able to
Speaker 1: produce the last couple of years. Let's go to Buffalo
Speaker 1: the running back situation. There, we were monitoring McCoy versus Gore,
Speaker 1: versus yelled and versus the rookie Singletarry. Is it possible
Speaker 1: that there are no winners here too? Uh? Somebody starting? Well?
Speaker 1: Are they in the third preseason game? Wait? Are they
Speaker 1: starting like Adrian Peterson started for the Saints that one
Speaker 1: year for two plays? And then so in the third
Speaker 1: preseason game, Shady McCoy and Gore completely split the load
Speaker 1: right down the middle. Uh, they alternated series. Uh both
Speaker 1: looked fine. I guess as rushers t J. Yeldon at
Speaker 1: three catches for fifty one yards in the third preseason game,
Speaker 1: he looked fine. Singletary looks like the future, but as
Speaker 1: a log jam in front of him. Uh, I was.
Speaker 1: I was looking at Bill's Twitter, and it's possible that
Speaker 1: Yelleden gets cut on Saturday just because they're looking at
Speaker 1: the last running back spot and Sonora's Perry is a
Speaker 1: really good special teams guy and yelled In doesn't play
Speaker 1: special teams. So unless they're going to keep a sixth
Speaker 1: running back in that backfield, including their fullback that they
Speaker 1: have yelled in, might be the guy getting cut, But
Speaker 1: it's possible that somebody else might get cut. Maybe McCoy
Speaker 1: gets cut. Maybe the guy who gets cut off this
Speaker 1: roster ends up in Houston. And yeah, that's right. Uh,
Speaker 1: if there was one Bills running back who, if everything
Speaker 1: goes just right, is the best guy to have, right
Speaker 1: his season goes just just right, I think it's probably
Speaker 1: still McCoy's. Probably still McCoy, isn't it. It's good because
Speaker 1: he's healthy, right, so he's been dinged up for two
Speaker 1: straight years. He if he comes back healthy and you
Speaker 1: can get some semblance of what Lashawn McCoy was, I
Speaker 1: think he would be the best out of this. But
Speaker 1: everything has to go just right, including Frank Gore suddenly retiring.
Speaker 1: Maybe I don't know. My kid will be watching Frank
Speaker 1: Gore in ten years, and that's not he'll be He'll
Speaker 1: be bouncing his kid on his knee, still watching Frank Gore.
Speaker 1: Seahawks running back situation Chris Carson versus Rashad Penny. This
Speaker 1: one wasn't even close, is that even a battle. No,
Speaker 1: in the minds of many, I heard, I heared a
Speaker 1: notable fantasy animals to him. Not gonna out on this show,
Speaker 1: many say on the radio, still using this. Well, the
Speaker 1: Seahawks used their draft equity on Rashad Penny, so they
Speaker 1: have to use them as a as a time share. No, no, no, Uh.
Speaker 1: Chris Carson easily won that hands down. And remember the
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks ran the ball fifty five percent of the
Speaker 1: time last year. In today's NFL, it was definitely a
Speaker 1: league high. Carson should easily return value at that fourth
Speaker 1: round ADP. Chris Carson is my number six running back,
Speaker 1: so fourth round ADP is absurd. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: the Bill's wide receivers. We just Matt We just shackling
Speaker 1: running games, thank you. And how about John Brown versus
Speaker 1: A Jones versus Robert Foster, None of the above. It's
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley. He's the winner. He's the best wide receiver
Speaker 1: that you want on the Bills. And uh, Cole Beasley
Speaker 1: is upset to he's playing with a chip on a
Speaker 1: shoulder because he's furious over his Madden writing. God, but
Speaker 1: he developed maybe the best chemistry with Josh Allen and
Speaker 1: Camp in preseason seven catches for seventy one yards in
Speaker 1: three games. Uh, Foster is the guy who flashed at
Speaker 1: the end of the year, but he's buried on that
Speaker 1: that depth chart. Maybe he's the fifth wide receiver. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's probably cold Beasley Redskins running back to Darius
Speaker 1: Guys versus Adrian Peterson just soon took an interesting turn
Speaker 1: at the end. It really did with with putting Geiss
Speaker 1: in for eleven touches his first game back. It was
Speaker 1: a very risky move by Washington. I feel like Washington
Speaker 1: generally pays it's safe with their athletes. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not like they've had multiple staff infections, bad surgeries that
Speaker 1: a current lawsuit. Rudge rush JRG three back too quickly,
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, but this one, it really does feel
Speaker 1: like a split. They paid Peterson a lot of money.
Speaker 1: They're gonna want to keep guys somewhat healthy. I think
Speaker 1: it's going to be a legitimate sp Alright, let's go
Speaker 1: to the charges running back situation. There, we were looking
Speaker 1: at Melvin Gordon's contract against Austin Ekeler and Justin Jackson.
Speaker 1: No new clarity there. Yeah, after Thursday's preseason game, GM
Speaker 1: Tom Talsco said that he prides himself on having solutions
Speaker 1: to problems, but he doesn't have a solution to the
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon problem. So it's still Austin Ekeler as the
Speaker 1: winner right now. All right, let's go to the Bucks
Speaker 1: running backs. Peyton Barber versus Ronald Jones. A lot of
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones apologists out there. No, no, No, one point
Speaker 1: six yards per carry Ronald Jones from last year. No thanks,
Speaker 1: it's Peyton Barber. He won this. But look out for
Speaker 1: Darya gun bow Wally uh. He he might steal some
Speaker 1: third down work. And there's beat reporters they're even talking
Speaker 1: about he might take some first and second down work.
Speaker 1: He's he's coming up out of nowhere. That's hope the best. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that good one. Dolphins running back situation, Kenyan Drake versus
Speaker 1: Calin Balage. Well, Drake missed two weeks of practice with
Speaker 1: a foot injury, but when he came back on Monday,
Speaker 1: he looked explosive and sharp in practice, and klin Blage
Speaker 1: had twelve carries for seventeen yards as a starter to
Speaker 1: catch us for negative two yards. He lost the job. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he did to Ken is a plotting, shiftless, boring,
Speaker 1: uncreative runner who will only give what his offensive line
Speaker 1: can give him. How do you really feel? And his
Speaker 1: offensive line won't get him in running the forty Niners
Speaker 1: running back situation, it was Coleman versus Breeda versus McKinnon. Well,
Speaker 1: McKinnon has a better chance of being on I R
Speaker 1: than starting they put him on IR Yep. Just Thursday.
Speaker 1: I think he's on i R. Okay Friday, Uh, Tevin
Speaker 1: Coleman and Matt Breda have been splitting. Breda has looked
Speaker 1: much better in the preseason. Breda will not go away.
Speaker 1: So I think this is a pretty decent split between
Speaker 1: these two. This year, Breed is more explosive and I
Speaker 1: like him better. Uh. Ryan Fitzpatrick versus Josh Rosen. As
Speaker 1: we're going back through a training camp battles from our
Speaker 1: first show of the of the year and now giving
Speaker 1: you the answers to all the battles that we were watching.
Speaker 1: Were now in Miami for the quarterback situation. Fitzpatrick v
Speaker 1: Rosen stupid does the winner and he gets to face
Speaker 1: four playoff teams in a row. Baltimore, New England Dallas
Speaker 1: and the Chargers. Then a bye week. Boy, then Josh
Speaker 1: Rosen starts in week six. That sounds like it, all right,
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Packers. Markis Velde's scantling versus Geronimo Allison. Uh,
Speaker 1: this one, I think that MVS has probably won it,
Speaker 1: but they both kind of win because the Packers use
Speaker 1: three wide receiver sets sixty five percent of the time,
Speaker 1: and if you only count passing plays, it's like top
Speaker 1: five in the league. So they're both gonna be on
Speaker 1: the field. Geronimo Elson is going to be your safe,
Speaker 1: big slot guy, and at this point of his career,
Speaker 1: he's not explosive anymore, so that's why he's being moved inside. Uh,
Speaker 1: MVS can play inside and outside. He's the explosive guy.
Speaker 1: He's the big play guy. Uh, he's the speed guy.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna call him the winner, although they both kind
Speaker 1: of win because they're gonna both give me on the field. Alright,
Speaker 1: Final one Patriots second receiver spot. It was originally nikkil
Speaker 1: Harry versus Mary Thomas versus Philip Dorsett is Maurice Harris
Speaker 1: and the winner is Josh Yes, Josh Gordon. We didn't
Speaker 1: see that one coming. Maybe the runner up is Jacoby Myers,
Speaker 1: by the way, who had twenty catches, two and fifty
Speaker 1: three yards and two touchdowns in the preseason. Now five
Speaker 1: deep at wide receiver. How about that? That is? That
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Speaker 1: grinder with three tough questions. Listeners you can play along
Speaker 1: see if you can go three and oh. Tough question
Speaker 1: number one, how much does the retirement of Andrew Luck
Speaker 1: hurt the value of the rest of the notable Colts players,
Speaker 1: particularly Marlon mack, t Y Hilton, Eric Ebron a lot,
Speaker 1: a little or not at all, Scott a little but
Speaker 1: not much. Uh. This is a different coaching staff from
Speaker 1: when U Brissette last played in two thousand seventeen. I
Speaker 1: trust Frank right. I actually kind of love Frank Reich honestly.
Speaker 1: I like the way it calls. Uh, it's a way
Speaker 1: better old line. There were a bottom ten old line,
Speaker 1: then their top five oh line. Now. Uh, Andrew Luck
Speaker 1: almost never got hit last last year, so we can
Speaker 1: expect Jacob be Prissette to have some time back there. Uh.
Speaker 1: They're just a better team and they have a lot
Speaker 1: more wet weapons. That line is gonna be still gonna
Speaker 1: be great, so Max should be okay. He may not
Speaker 1: get quite as many scoring opportunities. Brissette in college targeted
Speaker 1: tight ends twice over twice as much as the national average,
Speaker 1: and during the preseason over twice as much as the
Speaker 1: NFL average in the preseason, so he seems to like
Speaker 1: the tight ends. That might be good for the tight
Speaker 1: ends currently in Indie. Um losing a Hall of Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer caliber quarterback like Luck him, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a downgrade. So it's got you gotta say a little.
Speaker 1: I mean, Brissett's not gonna throw thirty nine touchdown passes
Speaker 1: like Andrew Luck did. But it's just a little. I
Speaker 1: think I think all those players are gonna do just fine.
Speaker 1: All right, Matt Um, I think Scott's nailed it. It's
Speaker 1: it's a little and Um. I I have some tight
Speaker 1: end love that I want to give here too, but
Speaker 1: I'm going to save it for a guy I have
Speaker 1: later in the show. You're marked as a sleeper, So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with a little and and say, did
Speaker 1: out of fish? You know what I should add? Frank
Speaker 1: Raik used the fed the tight ends a lot stop stop,
Speaker 1: so I said I had stuff for later. You keep talking.
Speaker 1: The The correct answer is, in fact a little. I
Speaker 1: tipped my hand on this earlier, and for many of
Speaker 1: the reasons Scott already raised. You're finding right now that
Speaker 1: all of these players have dropped roughly around or half
Speaker 1: around down in value. I think that's that's you know,
Speaker 1: I'm still interested in those guys can find value here,
Speaker 1: you can, Yeah, you can find some value here. Marlon
Speaker 1: Mack still with somebody was very excited about before, Still
Speaker 1: am I don't. I don't think he gets affected by
Speaker 1: this as much as everybody else either, So there's still
Speaker 1: a lot to like. And remember this is an elite,
Speaker 1: an elite offensive line that's gonna especially I think for
Speaker 1: Marlon Mack, just continue to open up polls like the
Speaker 1: otherwise would have. Anybody can do the handoff. Let's go
Speaker 1: to tough question number two. Cam Newton's foot injury has
Speaker 1: got a lot of fantasy owners rattled. Are you buying
Speaker 1: low or are you just glad you didn't draft him?
Speaker 1: Charge This was a tough one. How tough, Matt Well,
Speaker 1: My hypothalamus has been uh severely damaged. Yeah. I have
Speaker 1: lost uh my my sleep and wake cycle, the control
Speaker 1: of my appetite, my regulating of body temperature, and controlling
Speaker 1: how I produce and release hormones. It's a lot of
Speaker 1: explains why you're not wearing pants. You could be the
Speaker 1: hormones or the temperature one of the two. I'll let
Speaker 1: you decide. A lack of mobility sounds like it hurts Cam,
Speaker 1: but it's actually made the Panthers throw more. When Cam
Speaker 1: was dinged up in his first game back, he threw
Speaker 1: forty seven passes in that game. They kept him in
Speaker 1: the pocket, and they kept him throwing. Last year, when
Speaker 1: he injured his shoulder, he threw over forty pass attempts
Speaker 1: in weeks thirteen and fourteen after he injured the shoulder.
Speaker 1: It's a little reckless, actually, it's weird. It's worth noting
Speaker 1: that all of his productive stats last year happened in
Speaker 1: the first half of the season. When he was healthy.
Speaker 1: He had eleven straight games of two or more passing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Then he got hurt. But I'm not that worried. I
Speaker 1: think I think that means more dump offs and more
Speaker 1: short passes for Cam. So I'm on by low mode. Alright,
Speaker 1: you're buying Scott. Yeah, I just don't see that his
Speaker 1: prices dropped that much. His ADP really hasn't come off
Speaker 1: the ninth round. Maybe some owners of him and trades
Speaker 1: make are a little worried, but I would buy low
Speaker 1: as well. I'm not worried about it. He's already shed
Speaker 1: the walking boot. I know he hasn't practiced yet, but
Speaker 1: he's a gamer. He'll be He'll be ready to go
Speaker 1: for a week one. I do have concerns that maybe
Speaker 1: the rushing numbers won't be there early in the season,
Speaker 1: but I think they think later in the season he'll
Speaker 1: be fine. That offensive line is a big, big X
Speaker 1: factor that worries me. I think Cam's gonna that's a
Speaker 1: big lot of and that part concerns me a great deal.
Speaker 1: Cams not somebody who's got that innate clock in his
Speaker 1: head about when to get rid of the ball. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's savvy that way, and I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna absorb a lot of hits in this Still, his
Speaker 1: value so low in the ninth round, and I do
Speaker 1: like the emerging receivers that he's got, so I am
Speaker 1: buying low on him. But as most is playing one
Speaker 1: quarterback leagues, unfortunately we like QB flex. I'm backing him up.
Speaker 1: He might even be my backup in the ninth round,
Speaker 1: but I'm backing him up with with another viable quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: I do worry about that offensive line. Still correct answer,
Speaker 1: buying low tough question. Number three. By the way, if
Speaker 1: you're playing in one QB leagues, moved to super flax
Speaker 1: this year, or vote in your league to do it
Speaker 1: next year. But get that and get that going, get
Speaker 1: it going. It's you know, the premise is just really
Speaker 1: the simple there's about twenty good fantasy quarterbacks out there, twenty,
Speaker 1: so the position just has no value when you're starting
Speaker 1: ten and ten of them are starting, there's just no value.
Speaker 1: You can't in a one quarterback league. You can't trade
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan or Baker Mayfield or Aaron Rodgers for any
Speaker 1: thing of value. You go into a super flex league,
Speaker 1: the only one you could trade is Mahomes. That's the
Speaker 1: only one where people think that there's a level up
Speaker 1: in value. That's the only guy you could trade. That's lame.
Speaker 1: Four years in a row. Out of the four years,
Speaker 1: three years I didn't draft quarterback. I won the league
Speaker 1: twice in that In my homeland. Also, when Andrew Luck retired,
Speaker 1: people in one quarterback leagues just shrugged. Didn't really hurt
Speaker 1: whatever super flex leagues that hurt him. It's it's almost panic.
Speaker 1: You lose a Hall of Fame calibert quarterback that's throws
Speaker 1: three nine touchdowns in a one QB league. You're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I lost Andrew Luck in the Scott Fish Bowl and
Speaker 1: I'm panicking. Yeah, Yeah, that's super flex right there. Tough
Speaker 1: question number three this week on National Radio, Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: said that he won't run is often and he plans
Speaker 1: to throw thirty passes a game. Does your outlook for
Speaker 1: Jackson go up down or stay the same? Scott? It
Speaker 1: stays the same for me. I mean, we're talking about
Speaker 1: a guy who broke the NFL record keep you rush
Speaker 1: attempts in just seven games last year. Of course, he
Speaker 1: was going to lower that number. He wasn't gonna run
Speaker 1: quite as much per game at that pace. By the way,
Speaker 1: he would have on a sixteen page, he would have
Speaker 1: been the number three ye rusher in the NFL with
Speaker 1: how much he was running. He averaged twenty four past
Speaker 1: steps per game. So this is really only six more
Speaker 1: attempts per game if he's running a little less. I'm
Speaker 1: not worried because the Ravens, they they led the league
Speaker 1: in plays per game at seventy one plays per game.
Speaker 1: They have a lot of plays out there. He's still
Speaker 1: gonna runs. He's easily in my top ten and check
Speaker 1: this stat out for for Mr Lamar Jackson here charge Uh,
Speaker 1: nine running backs since nineteen seventy two have rushed for
Speaker 1: over seven hundred yards. Now, Lamar Jackson was just a
Speaker 1: few yards shy of that last year. I think that's
Speaker 1: forty three yards of game. Forty four yards game. You
Speaker 1: think he gets that, right? I can't answer them. I
Speaker 1: can't give you the answer. But yeah, okay, maybe nine
Speaker 1: quarterbacks have rushed for seven hundred plus yards in the season.
Speaker 1: Seven finished in the top five, eight finished in the
Speaker 1: top seven, and vic finished in two. It's basically a
Speaker 1: guaranteed top twelve finish if he gets seven rushing yards
Speaker 1: forty four game, it's happening. Matt ditto. Okay, he had
Speaker 1: so so many of my stats there, it's great. I
Speaker 1: will add that he averaged fourteen rushing attempts in his
Speaker 1: last seven games of the year last year. Uh, that
Speaker 1: number does have to go down. He he can't simply
Speaker 1: run that much. So if you're putting the ball in
Speaker 1: his hands to throw more, that's good for Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: because he's looked good in the preseason with the dink
Speaker 1: and dunk stuff. I don't think that they really wanted
Speaker 1: to open it up and show anything. And John Harbaugh
Speaker 1: says that this offense is about to revolutionize the NFL.
Speaker 1: That might be coach speak, but let's let's let's give
Speaker 1: it a ride and see what happens. You can say
Speaker 1: that you're gonna throw thirty passes a game in August. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when push comes to shove and you need first down
Speaker 1: and you need your quarterback to do what he does
Speaker 1: what he does, they're going to run the ball. That's
Speaker 1: all planning stuff. Greg Romans the offensive coordinator, running genius,
Speaker 1: and he's the most run oriented coordinator there probably is.
Speaker 1: So I don't believe that there they actually will throw
Speaker 1: thirty times per game. That sounds nice, but in reality
Speaker 1: it won't happen. My outlook for Jackson basically can't go
Speaker 1: up any higher. He's been in my top seven base
Speaker 1: all preseason. He's my number seven quarterback now the nine
Speaker 1: top seven yep. Uh So the correct answer your outlook
Speaker 1: for Jackson stays the same. By the way, my first
Speaker 1: line on here that I didn't say, I'll believe it
Speaker 1: when I see it. Yeah, exactly, that's that's exactly. That
Speaker 1: is exactly right. Guys, we got a couple of minutes
Speaker 1: left in in this segment. Let's talk about this. Give me.
Speaker 1: We've a couple of weeks ago, we did a segment
Speaker 1: we call the reach around, where it's one player you
Speaker 1: would reach around early to go get. I want the
Speaker 1: opposite of that. I want you to give me a
Speaker 1: player in the first few rounds that will do round
Speaker 1: one first that you would not take until at least
Speaker 1: around eight or beyond. So a player who's going at
Speaker 1: least one round two early. We'll call it the push around,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna sing Matchbox twenty while we do it.
Speaker 1: Are we starting in round one? We're starting in round one.
Speaker 1: I want the round one player, Matt, you can go first.
Speaker 1: I want the round one player you would not take
Speaker 1: in round one and wouldn't consider until round two. I'm
Speaker 1: simply not taking Ezekiel Elliott in drafts right now because
Speaker 1: I just don't think I'm gonna get him for six weeks. Okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna buy the Yeah, man, I have some stats
Speaker 1: on that, but I can't remember right now. So yeah,
Speaker 1: it's Elliott with me too. I'd rather have him in
Speaker 1: round two like all the first rounders that's Elliott. I'm
Speaker 1: going James Conner was going at the end of the
Speaker 1: first round. You never liked him, No, I liked him
Speaker 1: five verse half of last year, and now I think
Speaker 1: it's way more of a time share than people realize.
Speaker 1: And even though Connor look good in the preseason, I
Speaker 1: think we're gonna see a lot of Jalen Samuel's round.
Speaker 1: To give me a player who's going in the second
Speaker 1: round who you wouldn't touch until round three or beyond Matt,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say Joe Mixon, who's going in the middle
Speaker 1: of that round. I've got him later in a lot
Speaker 1: of a so far this year. But I just fear
Speaker 1: that that offense is just going to be so bad
Speaker 1: with a j Green hurt. Andy Dalton is not a
Speaker 1: very good quarterback. That line is kind of a mess.
Speaker 1: They're going to hand them the ball a lot, but
Speaker 1: I don't think it's going to be very successful. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna push him down to at least the third
Speaker 1: or fourth before I take him. Scott, it's Antonio Brown
Speaker 1: for me. That's just too early. I like every wide
Speaker 1: receiver in that round better. I like some of the
Speaker 1: wide receivers in the next round better. I even like
Speaker 1: a fourth round wide receiver two better than Antonio Brown,
Speaker 1: So it's easily him. Yeah, you took my one A
Speaker 1: and my one bin and Antonio Brown two guys. I'm
Speaker 1: nervous about, very nervous about, very quickly round three. Give
Speaker 1: me a player in round three that you're not going
Speaker 1: to take in round three you would not take in
Speaker 1: round three and one consider until round number four. I
Speaker 1: think that would have to be Josh Jacobs. I just
Speaker 1: don't believe in what the Raiders are doing as an offense.
Speaker 1: I think they're going to be a disaster. To offensive
Speaker 1: line is terrible. Yeah, good point. Yeah, I think that's
Speaker 1: where i'd go to Josh Jacobs. Marii Cooper, former Raider.
Speaker 1: I don't like a comedy add feet and wide receiver.
Speaker 1: No bueno. I'm I'm showing caution there. Give me Michael
Speaker 1: Gallop seven rounds later instead. That's my That is my
Speaker 1: angle coming up next. Let's answer uh oh, we just
Speaker 1: did that. Let's go through a draft using three different
Speaker 1: types of strategies, a safe draft, a bounce back draft,
Speaker 1: and a high risk draft. The one you prefer will
Speaker 1: tell you a lot about the strategy. You should employ
Speaker 1: for your own draft. Will go through the safe, bounce
Speaker 1: back and high risk, high reward drafts. After this, it's
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm Paul Georgian, co owner of fanball
Speaker 1: dot Com My Sidekicks Today, Matt Harrison, Scott Fish. Guys,
Speaker 1: I want to talk for a moment about a drafting
Speaker 1: persona or a drafting archetype, or a drafting philosophy, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna break down six of them in total, three now,
Speaker 1: beginning with a predominantly safe draft, boring draft. A boring draft.
Speaker 1: Safe safe sound a lot better, doesn't safe sound a
Speaker 1: lot People like, Yeah, let's get boring in here. And
Speaker 1: then we'll flip it over and do the risky draft,
Speaker 1: high risk, high reward draft, which I think tends to
Speaker 1: sound a lot sex here. Assume it's all gonna go well,
Speaker 1: but it doesn't always. And then we'll do a bounce
Speaker 1: back draft filled with players that are coming off of
Speaker 1: disappointing seasons or injury seasons or something whatever went wrong
Speaker 1: last year and now the opportunity to come back and
Speaker 1: be meaningful players. So then, as listeners, I think you
Speaker 1: want to listen just at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: listen to the lineup that was created taking one player
Speaker 1: from every round, and do you like this starting lineup?
Speaker 1: I've confined it to the starting lineups? Do you like
Speaker 1: this starting lineup? This appeals to you, then you should
Speaker 1: employ a safe draft, for example. So let's begin there,
Speaker 1: the safe draft, and that is Matt. No, it's Scott, Sorry, Scott,
Speaker 1: he's doing safety. The safety I did safe so many
Speaker 1: years in a row. I'm sick of it. I want
Speaker 1: to get risky. Do you want me a list of
Speaker 1: my seven starters? First? Do you just want me to
Speaker 1: go down the line cube, give me the quarterback. I
Speaker 1: don't need to get the rounds. Just give me the
Speaker 1: starting lineup. And how that sounds? You can? You can?
Speaker 1: You can tell us why you made each pick briefly,
Speaker 1: all right, my quarterback. I want to tell the rounds too,
Speaker 1: because it's important my quarterback. We did the first seven
Speaker 1: rounds of a DP. So my quarterback I drafted in
Speaker 1: round seven because that is the latest I was allowed
Speaker 1: to draft a quarterback in this scenario. And it took
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. Once that's not boring, Well, was awfully excited.
Speaker 1: That's who I took in the risky draft. Okay, what's
Speaker 1: boring about him? Okay, here are the options. Deshaun Watson
Speaker 1: in the fifth, Baker Mayfield in the seventh. About Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes in the second, that Matt Ryan in the seventh?
Speaker 1: What about Matt Ryan? As about it just safe? I
Speaker 1: mean that right down the middle, the fairways safe. I
Speaker 1: think Baker's a little more safe. But we're talking about
Speaker 1: guys with that are known commodities. Baker has been in
Speaker 1: the in the league one year. We know what Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan's all about. It's safe production alright, Alright, Matt Ryan, job,
Speaker 1: he forced me to. We're talking about a guy who
Speaker 1: has four thousand plus yards every year since two thousand eleven.
Speaker 1: In fact, the last time he missed a game, Avatar
Speaker 1: was in the theater. Wow. Seriously, yep, So Matt Ryan,
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, he just always plays fished that movie a
Speaker 1: pile of steaming dawnels. Oh god, so bad. I never
Speaker 1: saw it be glad. Okay, all right, so your quarterback
Speaker 1: is Matt Ryan. Yep, alright, my running back is going
Speaker 1: to stay on the same team. Apparently. Devata Freeman super boring.
Speaker 1: But even though he only played two games last year
Speaker 1: and missed most of the season. Before that, he'd only
Speaker 1: missed three total games in his first In the first
Speaker 1: four seasons, he had even more total yards and eight
Speaker 1: or more total touchdowns in each of those three years.
Speaker 1: In fact, the two before he missed were plus touchdowns
Speaker 1: and thirteen plus touchdowns plus yards and plus yards, sorry,
Speaker 1: and thirteen plus touchdowns in those two You are doing safe,
Speaker 1: boring draft strategy, all right, So that's one of your
Speaker 1: starting running backs. Yeah, so my other starting running back
Speaker 1: really my only choices in the round. I was going
Speaker 1: our Duke Johnson and James White. You want to tell
Speaker 1: me which one is more boring? There? Um, James, you
Speaker 1: know what you're getting with James White for sure, right right? James.
Speaker 1: James White was a top twelve running back in PPR
Speaker 1: last year. The New England team passes to the running
Speaker 1: back more than just about any team in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Uh safe pick there. Round one. I took Michael Thomas
Speaker 1: from my starting wide receiver. Super safe. Can't get more safe.
Speaker 1: At least four receptions in every game last year, thirteen
Speaker 1: games of six or more targets, double digit fantasy points
Speaker 1: in fourteen games, seventy five yards and or a touchdown
Speaker 1: in ten games. He's just safe. He's consuper Julian Edelman
Speaker 1: Round four, my otherwide receiver, super safe, super boring. I
Speaker 1: just could never pull the trigger on him, but I
Speaker 1: should because he's averaged over six receptions per game for
Speaker 1: five consecutive years he played. He played because you know,
Speaker 1: I think I don't think he's a risk. He had
Speaker 1: a torn a c L he miss here, so he's
Speaker 1: even the suspension year. He averaged six receptions per game
Speaker 1: that year, catches a lot of balls at least fifty
Speaker 1: yards are touchdown in eleven of the twelve games he
Speaker 1: played last year. Super consistent guy. Round two. I took
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey because when you're thinking, he's not a boring pick,
Speaker 1: but he's as safe and super possibly calm at that
Speaker 1: end position. And then from my flex position, I actually
Speaker 1: think Robby Anderson is really really silly and I you
Speaker 1: don't agree, Well, I just a historic he has not
Speaker 1: been safe. You're projecting safeness on to him. Last year
Speaker 1: he had at least five targets in all but two games,
Speaker 1: fourteen games of at least five targets. The targets catches
Speaker 1: that they have that would be the better question. I
Speaker 1: don't know, I worry. I worry. Five targets tarted into
Speaker 1: two catches. He scored three times in the final four
Speaker 1: games last year, average eighty four yards per game that stretch.
Speaker 1: He had at least seven targets in seven to last
Speaker 1: eight games last year. All right, well just that, all right,
Speaker 1: So there's your gift. Just zip through the whole the
Speaker 1: whole thing one more time, super fast. The safe draft
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan, DeVonta Freeman, James White, Michael Thomas, Julian Edelman,
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey, Robby Anderson. All right, if you like that,
Speaker 1: that is that you. If you like that roster, you
Speaker 1: can emulate a safe down the middle approach. Now, let's
Speaker 1: flip it over to Matt for the opposite side of this,
Speaker 1: The risky, high risk, high reward draft. These are all
Speaker 1: players with a lot of upside, potentially a lot of downside. Matt,
Speaker 1: who you? Who do? I want to go in order
Speaker 1: of how I drafted him, and then I'll summarize it
Speaker 1: at the end because I think it's gonna work really well.
Speaker 1: First round Ezekiel Elliott. Yeah, obviously that's high risk as yeah,
Speaker 1: might not play this season, might be the top running
Speaker 1: back on the board, and uh, we will probably find
Speaker 1: out whether or not he's playing, you know, in a
Speaker 1: few days. Uh. Second round Antonio Brown wide receiver, downgrade
Speaker 1: to Oakland. However, he could get a hundred and eighty
Speaker 1: targets from Derrek Carr this year. It's possible that they
Speaker 1: just target him over and over and over. Also, he's
Speaker 1: really good. He has really good um. Third round Leonard
Speaker 1: four Net, great player when not injured and missing team photos.
Speaker 1: But the risk here is he's maybe the only good
Speaker 1: offensive weapon on the Jaguars, and they could just load
Speaker 1: the boxes with nine guys and try to stop him. Uh.
Speaker 1: Fourth round running back Melvin Gordon also might not play
Speaker 1: this year, but he was a top eight a DP
Speaker 1: player just a few months ago, So there's the huge
Speaker 1: upside there. Uh. In the fifth round, tight end O J.
Speaker 1: Howard the Bruce Arians offense, Cameron Brad is kind of
Speaker 1: a tight end touchdown vulture for O. J. Howard. However,
Speaker 1: sky is the limit for this offense. This offense might
Speaker 1: be just trending hugely upward. In the sixth round, Josh
Speaker 1: Gordon at a wide receiver. He'll be my flex. He
Speaker 1: could be the top wide receiver in the Tom Brady offense.
Speaker 1: But he could smoke up one time and leave the
Speaker 1: NFL forever. He could be done. And as I mentioned before,
Speaker 1: my high risk quarterback is in the seventh round. That's
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. The upside is the top overall quarterback is.
Speaker 1: The downside is that offensive line took a couple of
Speaker 1: steps backwards of this offseason and there could be a
Speaker 1: sophomore slump. We might have just seen the heat from
Speaker 1: Freddie Kitchens last year. It just could go backwards. So
Speaker 1: my lineup is quarterback Baker Mayfield, running backs Zeke Leonard,
Speaker 1: four Nett, Melvin Gordon, uh Antonio Brown, and wide receiver
Speaker 1: Josh Gordon. Those are my two wide out and then
Speaker 1: O J. Howard as a tight end. You get the feeling,
Speaker 1: you know everything clicked with that team. Oh man, you'd
Speaker 1: absolutely crush you demolish every one of those guys you
Speaker 1: hit the side. But that is a lot to ask.
Speaker 1: Let's remember, by the way, with Zeke and Melvin Gordon,
Speaker 1: your real worst case scenario isn't missing a whole season.
Speaker 1: They will come back in Week ten because they have
Speaker 1: to get their year of service so they get so
Speaker 1: they can do another year towards free agency, so you're
Speaker 1: you know, there really isn't a scenario where they do
Speaker 1: not come back when they miss the whole season. That
Speaker 1: last less year that was a different said he wasn't
Speaker 1: under contract, so he didn't have that, he didn't have
Speaker 1: to do that. There are going to be some Zeke
Speaker 1: Gordon Elliott teams out there. I think they probably will,
Speaker 1: And you know, it's it's not it's not impossible strategy,
Speaker 1: it's just very, very risky. Now I could have taken
Speaker 1: to Gurley in the second round too. I've got the
Speaker 1: bounce back draft. So my drafting persona here is somebody
Speaker 1: that wants to cash in on a player who had
Speaker 1: an unusually bad year last year and it's got a
Speaker 1: lot more upside this year, whether it's a production or
Speaker 1: injury related or in things like that. Correct. Now, most
Speaker 1: fantasy players succumb to this this thing where they just
Speaker 1: can't stop replaying last year and really have a hard
Speaker 1: time visualizing a materially different season this year. So part
Speaker 1: of our exercise here is to sort of break you
Speaker 1: out of that mold and looking for ways in which
Speaker 1: these guys could be better this season. In the first
Speaker 1: round of my bounce back draft. I took David Johnson,
Speaker 1: coming off a disappointing season which he was the top
Speaker 1: three or four running back last year. It was disappointing.
Speaker 1: He was still and he wasn't top ten running back,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't the season everybody expected by by a
Speaker 1: long shot. The vast misuse by Mike McCoy who who
Speaker 1: just ran them up the middle over and over again,
Speaker 1: and he just you know, in you so so poorly.
Speaker 1: Now a totally different offense that seems dedicated with getting
Speaker 1: him the ball more often. I think there's gonna be
Speaker 1: a lot of plays where Kyler Murray Murray behind a
Speaker 1: bad offensive line, play breaks down, he's running for his life,
Speaker 1: and here's David Johnson in the flat, easy six yard past.
Speaker 1: David Johnson turns up field and goes like ninety two
Speaker 1: yards for touchdown. Yeah, easy problem. Yes, Round one David Johnson.
Speaker 1: Round two, Dalvin Cook on a bounce back here right
Speaker 1: one of my he's my currently my number four ranked
Speaker 1: running back. Vikings offense is being sculpted to him his image.
Speaker 1: So the only problem here is is he would have
Speaker 1: taken him over David Johnson. I would have taken over
Speaker 1: David Johnson, but the ADP says, I gotta go David
Speaker 1: Johnson first. I would have I like him better than
Speaker 1: David Johnson. Uh Dalvin Cook. He's the history of injury
Speaker 1: is well known here. But when healthy, absolutely explosive, he
Speaker 1: will not give up goal line carries anybody. This year,
Speaker 1: I believe that will be his job as well. Round
Speaker 1: three of my bounce back draft is also a running back,
Speaker 1: and it is Leonard Fournette. Matt took most of the
Speaker 1: Leonard Fournette steam for me. You know the soft tissue
Speaker 1: injuries you lived at last year, that's the downside. Matt
Speaker 1: identified the upside. He bounce back and risky kind of
Speaker 1: go hand in hand a little bit. Round number four
Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay for moreen Kenny Golladay, Let's go to the
Speaker 1: Scott Fish baby tron desk. What do you think? I
Speaker 1: think he's awesome. The bounce back is because last year
Speaker 1: was a down season in which that offense was really
Speaker 1: struggling and injured. Matthew Stafford. The running game wasn't clicking.
Speaker 1: The passing game he was hurt by the trade. No
Speaker 1: Golden Date, they had no Marvin Jones. And so defenses
Speaker 1: were just planning to stop stop Kenny Golladay, still Scott's
Speaker 1: youngest son's middle name is Golladay. It's really weird. His
Speaker 1: first name is Baby. In the fifth round, I took
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup coming off in my bounce back draft, coming
Speaker 1: off of the a c L injury suffered last November.
Speaker 1: He looked spry. I think he's ready to come back
Speaker 1: to the type of season that he was having, hopefully
Speaker 1: where he was on pace for one touchdown per game
Speaker 1: last year. Then in the sixth round, Hunter Henry. We
Speaker 1: haven't seen him in a year, so obviously prime for
Speaker 1: a bounce back at the tight end position, averaging happy
Speaker 1: touchdown per game like Hunter Henry, a former first round pick.
Speaker 1: Plenty of upside in a bounce back season for Hunter Henry.
Speaker 1: And then in the seventh round, as alluded to earlier,
Speaker 1: one of my favorite quarterbacks, Carson Wentz other injury plague season.
Speaker 1: After an injury plague season, a lot of people are
Speaker 1: too gun shy to pull the trigger on him. I'm not.
Speaker 1: I love him this season and think he set on
Speaker 1: a potentially m VP caliber season for Carson Wentz and
Speaker 1: he's my bounce back quarterback. So the lineup looks like
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz into David Johnson and Dalvin Cook and Leonard
Speaker 1: Fournett are running back. I think we're in a good spot.
Speaker 1: So my wide receivers are Kenny Golladay and Cooper Cup
Speaker 1: and my tight end is Hunter Henry. What do you
Speaker 1: think I'd like a little more depth at the wide
Speaker 1: receiver position. There, it's a it's a very draft. It
Speaker 1: is at you like that draft, alright? That's the bounce
Speaker 1: back draft, and that's as straight. If you like the listeners,
Speaker 1: if you like the sound of that, you can go
Speaker 1: employ the bounce back strategy with your draft and that
Speaker 1: would certainly be something that I ended up liking this.
Speaker 1: I like the sound of this team. But there's risks,
Speaker 1: by the way, with all these picks. Cooper Cup top
Speaker 1: five and red zone targets each of the last two
Speaker 1: years when and that's not changing because he converted him.
Speaker 1: You know, it wasn't just targets, it was touchdowns. There's
Speaker 1: three there, you go, three different draft day personas. But
Speaker 1: we're not done. We've got three more for you. We'll
Speaker 1: take a look at a quarterback heavy draft orientation. Maybe
Speaker 1: you're in a super flexily or whatever. I'll show you
Speaker 1: what a do the opposite draft looks like, and Matt
Speaker 1: will show you what happens when you stack players from
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Speaker 1: in moments. It is a pre season additional fantasy football weekly.
Speaker 1: I'm Paul charge in. We've got three more draft day
Speaker 1: personas to run by you, beginning with a quarterback heavy approach,
Speaker 1: Scott Fish. Let's see how these rosters end up looking
Speaker 1: when you prioritize quarterbacks in your draft and my prioritizing
Speaker 1: quarterbacks like a super flex league. Yes, ideally it is
Speaker 1: super flex league because that's the way people should play.
Speaker 1: Is super flex I like to put out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: lots of lots of articles have been written on this,
Speaker 1: but six point to four point passing touchdowns don't change
Speaker 1: your draft strategy. So drill down on that for a second,
Speaker 1: because most people do believe that if I'm in a
Speaker 1: six point passing league, I need to go a couple
Speaker 1: of rounds earlier on my draft, so or in my auctions,
Speaker 1: I gotta spend a few extra bucks on these guy
Speaker 1: so help people understand why they shouldn't change their strategy.
Speaker 1: Maybe a buck or two extra on the heavy touchdown scores,
Speaker 1: but generally you use it. You use that difference, that
Speaker 1: four to six difference in valuing one player towards another
Speaker 1: for a trade. For like if if two players are
Speaker 1: pretty evenly priced, sure look, or especially in start six
Speaker 1: situations in a six verses four use the player that
Speaker 1: you think might score more touchdowns. But the top twelve,
Speaker 1: if you take out my homes, because that was just
Speaker 1: such an anomaly year uh two through twelve last year
Speaker 1: had an average point per game difference of under one.
Speaker 1: The standard deviation is under one point point. Yeah, undervariously
Speaker 1: standard deviat that's nothing. I would not have guessed that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean some of them are like one point six five,
Speaker 1: one point seven five, But the standard deviation, like a
Speaker 1: average model out is under a point difference that can
Speaker 1: be made up by streaming. That can be made up.
Speaker 1: But I mean, it's a one quarterback league. You don't
Speaker 1: you don't need to draft the stud of studs you can.
Speaker 1: You can match up play it. So don't don't adjust
Speaker 1: your draft strategy too much at all for QB heaving
Speaker 1: for a six four point Alright, that's great data. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's really a minimal difference. But when comparing two players,
Speaker 1: you know, for trading for if they're evenly priced in
Speaker 1: a draft, start said, then you can look at it
Speaker 1: a little harder. But just draft strategy in general, no, don't. Alright,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to go super flex. And I grabbed
Speaker 1: some super flex ADP for this which is off this sheet,
Speaker 1: so a different sheet. Um, I'll do what Matt did.
Speaker 1: I like, I like that round one DeAndre Hopkins because
Speaker 1: I will take him in round one. Still don't need
Speaker 1: to take a quarterback, and I really like the round three,
Speaker 1: four five running backs this year, so like, I just
Speaker 1: don't feel like I need to. But in round two
Speaker 1: I had to take Dalvin Cook for so many of
Speaker 1: the things that charge that I also have him in
Speaker 1: my top five. I believe I have him four as well.
Speaker 1: Um yeah I do have before uh so Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: as well, DeAndre Hopkins. Dalvin Cook, DeAndre Hopkins obviously double
Speaker 1: digit touchdowns like three to the last four years. It's
Speaker 1: he's DeAndre Hopkins Dalvin Cook. Around two, round three, I
Speaker 1: had the choice between for NET and carry on. I
Speaker 1: believe that's where I'd go there because I like a
Speaker 1: couple of wide receivers later, so I went for NET.
Speaker 1: I believe that if things break right, he could be
Speaker 1: RB one, two, three. He has funny four NET and
Speaker 1: ended up on three of our different rosters. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: we kind of like him there. Around four, had to
Speaker 1: jump at Cam Newton. Alright, that's where now we're getting
Speaker 1: our quarterback in this quarterback heavy draft strategy. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: still like to preach weight on quarterback. But Cam Newton
Speaker 1: was sitting there, and I just we have seven right
Speaker 1: enough in a super flex right in this in this
Speaker 1: one I did. I. I really wanted Cam Newton. I
Speaker 1: really like him this year. I believe I am like
Speaker 1: six or something like that, sixth or seventh, seventh maybe. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I had him outside the top ten and I just
Speaker 1: keep moving him up. I don't know why. All right, Uh,
Speaker 1: round five, I took let me see here, I have
Speaker 1: to look at this for a second. D D. Westbrook, No,
Speaker 1: there it is round five. I did it again. I
Speaker 1: took Lamar Jackson, alright, quarterback quarterback, alright, I went quarterback quarterback.
Speaker 1: You got a rushing quarterback in a rushing quarterback, which
Speaker 1: is we talked about this last week. This is one
Speaker 1: of my favorite strategies and super Flex because odds are
Speaker 1: one of the two of them is going to rush
Speaker 1: you to a good game. Yeah. I love the super
Speaker 1: Flex running back running back strategy, running quarterback quarterbacks. Thank
Speaker 1: you so to recap right now, I have Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: and Cam Newton as my starting quarterbacks in the super
Speaker 1: Flex League. Then I have Hopkins and Dalvin Cook and
Speaker 1: four net alright, round six and seven. Round six, I
Speaker 1: went with Tyler Lockett, who I have is a round
Speaker 1: six a steel Yeah. In super Flex, I mean there's
Speaker 1: enough quarterbacks going down a little other options go down
Speaker 1: DK back, I've already hurt. I have Tyler. He was
Speaker 1: so efficient last year, so many touchdowns. I think he's
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson is great. I have Tyler locked in my
Speaker 1: top twenty and then Hunter Henry and round seven. All right,
Speaker 1: I think that's good. That's it is great value. We
Speaker 1: might we touched on Henry earlier. Um, all right, so
Speaker 1: that's here. If you like the sound of that quarterback
Speaker 1: heavy uh super flex roster. There's your there's one strategy
Speaker 1: for it, right there, Matt. Yes, I've asked you, challenge
Speaker 1: you to stack together hot offenses. These are multiple players
Speaker 1: from one team that's on on a good offense. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: tell us how this worked out and and explain why
Speaker 1: you can't just stack chiefs. So I went seven rounds
Speaker 1: deep and I was looking at first off I was
Speaker 1: trying to figure out what are the offenses that I
Speaker 1: want to get, and I tried wanted to try to
Speaker 1: get a stack of three and another stack of three
Speaker 1: into these teams together. So if these two offenses go
Speaker 1: off together, oh, I'm just in the money. Uh. You
Speaker 1: can't get the Chiefs in though, because Mahomes, Hill Kelsey,
Speaker 1: and Damian Willie all have round two ADP Right, you're
Speaker 1: not gonna get You can't stack cheap. So the best
Speaker 1: thing you could do is take one of them early
Speaker 1: in round one and then take a second one in
Speaker 1: round two and hope that one falls to round three.
Speaker 1: But I don't think it's gonna happen. Damian Williams might
Speaker 1: fall if you want to stack any Chiefs. The other
Speaker 1: team you can't really stack effectively. I mean you could,
Speaker 1: but you can't is the Saints because Kamara and Thomas
Speaker 1: are both going on top eight in ADP. You could
Speaker 1: get Breeze, Jared Cook and Latavious later, but it's not
Speaker 1: quite the same. So um, I actually have two options
Speaker 1: for you guys, and I'm gonna see which team that
Speaker 1: you guys like better. Option number one is a stack
Speaker 1: of three Falcons, three Browns and one ram Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: in the first, Nick Chubb his teammate in the second,
Speaker 1: Davante Freeman in the third, Brandon Cooks the lone Ram
Speaker 1: and the fourth Calvin Ridley in the fifth round. Second Falcon, Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry, another Brown in the sixth, and then Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan in the seventh. Or you could take Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: and go four Browns. Yeah you could. They have the
Speaker 1: same round there, the same round ap Okay, So you
Speaker 1: can't your tight end, That's what I got to know.
Speaker 1: I don't need one. We'll take We'll take Austin Hooper later, sure,
Speaker 1: like Austin Hooper or David and Joku way later. I'm
Speaker 1: not on the Joco bed. But okay, so you either
Speaker 1: have Matt Ryan or Baker Mayfield as your quarterback. You're
Speaker 1: running backs are Nick Chubb and Davante Freeman, and you've
Speaker 1: got wide receivers of Odell Brandon Cooks, Calvin Ridley, Jarvis Landry. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's kind of a fun team, right, It is a
Speaker 1: good team, all right. I would not mind coming out
Speaker 1: of a draft with that team, all right. I mean,
Speaker 1: obviously there's some downside if the Falcons have a fourteen
Speaker 1: point game, which they might in Week one against the
Speaker 1: Vikings and so to by the way, um you're in trouble,
Speaker 1: but predominantly that's not going to happen. So let me
Speaker 1: let me see if you like option two any better.
Speaker 1: This one on is three Packers, three Rams, and one Saint.
Speaker 1: And I did get a tight end in this one,
Speaker 1: thank you. All right. In the first round, I took
Speaker 1: Davante Adams, nice safe, awesome player. In the second round,
Speaker 1: we're getting risky. We're going Todd Gurley and hope that
Speaker 1: he stays healthy all year. Third round, Back to the Packers,
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones on my team. Fourth round, back to the Rams,
Speaker 1: Robert Woods. Fifth round, let's go another Ram Cooper Cup
Speaker 1: on that team six and offensive can support both the
Speaker 1: wide receivers. Sixth round, I got Adams, I got Jones.
Speaker 1: Why not get Aaron Rodgers in the sixth round. Let's
Speaker 1: go pick him up in the seventh round. My one
Speaker 1: Saints Jared Cook at tight end. So Aaron Rodgers is
Speaker 1: my quarterback. Running backs of Gurley and Jones, wide receivers
Speaker 1: of Adams, Woods and Cup and Jared Cook at tight end.
Speaker 1: That I vote for. I vote for your this, this packer,
Speaker 1: Ram Combo, and they all wear yellow. So as I'm
Speaker 1: watching all the games, yellow answer, just watch for yellow
Speaker 1: guys in the end zone exactly. I like, so you
Speaker 1: can you can build a couple of offensive stacks, and
Speaker 1: you can really shoot for the moon with these kind
Speaker 1: of things, and and you never know how it's gonna
Speaker 1: end up, but it's it's kind of a fun way
Speaker 1: to play. It is a fun way to play all right,
Speaker 1: less games to pay attention to, um, My drafting persona
Speaker 1: was that of somebody who's do the opposite. Have you
Speaker 1: ever done this before? Only only for like twelve years? Uh,
Speaker 1: except for the draft list that you and I did
Speaker 1: last weekend. Running back right, which I didn't intend to do,
Speaker 1: but that's just the way it worked out. You have
Speaker 1: to be flexible in this world. Do the opposite drafting
Speaker 1: is effectively a shoeing running backs early because they are
Speaker 1: the highest risk players and these are the most valuable
Speaker 1: picks that you have. So you want to flip the
Speaker 1: risk scale pyramid upside down. You want to have the
Speaker 1: most risk at the bottom of your draft and the
Speaker 1: safest players at the top. All right, so we want
Speaker 1: proven perform members at the top. And that's not running backs.
Speaker 1: Because running backs get hurt all the time. They're subject
Speaker 1: to problems. If the defense is bad, they get hurt.
Speaker 1: The quarterback is bad, they get hurt. There's so many
Speaker 1: things that can go wrong. One year you're great running back.
Speaker 1: The next year you just fall off the cliff and
Speaker 1: you're a good anymore. There's just so many things that
Speaker 1: go wrong. I feel like I already know what this
Speaker 1: team is going to look like. It's it's gonna be
Speaker 1: it's my kind of team. But team round one, you've
Speaker 1: got you have a choice of a lot of guys.
Speaker 1: How about Michael Thomas as Are says as are do
Speaker 1: the opposite style wide receiver in the first round. Second
Speaker 1: round Travis Kelsey. We want to have the best tight
Speaker 1: end in the game. We'll take Travis Kelsey. Third round
Speaker 1: Mike Evans and what should be a much improved offense.
Speaker 1: Mike Evans has been very good every year of his career.
Speaker 1: Fourth round, we start to first for the first time,
Speaker 1: turn our attention to the running back position. And part
Speaker 1: of the way to do the opposite works is after
Speaker 1: you've after you've locked in your players in the first
Speaker 1: three or four rounds that aren't running back. So we
Speaker 1: do a bunch of running backs in the middle rounds.
Speaker 1: Chris car Person criminally going in the fourth round when
Speaker 1: you should be going out. How did I know Chris
Speaker 1: Carson was going to show up by your D T
Speaker 1: O team, Philip Lindsay in the fifth round. One of
Speaker 1: my favorite fifth round values that you can get Royce
Speaker 1: Freeman to me not not a material factor. Miles Sanders
Speaker 1: in the sixth round, figuring he's gonna get ten to
Speaker 1: twelve touches a game that will be enough for me
Speaker 1: to flex him into a flex spot here as my
Speaker 1: third running back in the seventh round of my last pick,
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. There's my do the opposite strategy, which gives
Speaker 1: me Michael Thomas and Mike Evans at receiver, Travis Kelsey
Speaker 1: at tight end, Chris Carson, Philip Lindsay, Miles Sanders at
Speaker 1: running back, and Baker Mayfield is a quarterback kind of
Speaker 1: like my stack team better than the D T O
Speaker 1: team you can get Mike. To be honest, if you're
Speaker 1: an a draft in Mike Evans hits your third round,
Speaker 1: just auto pick that and don't don't have to think
Speaker 1: twice about that pick. I suppose h Yeah, So that's there,
Speaker 1: you go. Let's go to uh. I think it's time
Speaker 1: guys that we start thinking about the Thursday Night game already.
Speaker 1: I know, isn't that hard to believe? Our final topics
Speaker 1: are had. We're gonna break down the Thursday Night game
Speaker 1: fantasy style, which is a preview of what you're gonna
Speaker 1: get of every single game once we get into regular
Speaker 1: season mode and next week and our final Sleepers of
Speaker 1: the year. Related note, by the way, starting next Wednesday,
Speaker 1: you'll be able to get my Week one player rankings
Speaker 1: for free at fanball dot com if you want not
Speaker 1: the preseason drafting player rankings. If you want ranking specifically
Speaker 1: for Week one coming Wednesday. Fanball dot com. It is
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly with Paul Giarchia. It is Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: We are going to break down the Thursday night game
Speaker 1: Fantasy style. If you haven't heard the show before, you're
Speaker 1: gonna hear letter grades on every meaningful player and why
Speaker 1: we believe that letter grade to be correct. But first
Speaker 1: we do this. In the final segment of every show
Speaker 1: in the preseason, our hosts release our favorite sleepers. That's
Speaker 1: Matt Harrison, Scott Fish. Let's let's get to these this
Speaker 1: week's three players. Matt, who do you have? I alluded
Speaker 1: to it a little bit before. My sleeper is Jack Doyle.
Speaker 1: Jack Doyle, who's kind of going criminally underdrafted considering he
Speaker 1: was just gone last year. Um So. Jacoby Brissette started
Speaker 1: fifteen games. He played fourteen games with Jack Doyle. In
Speaker 1: those fourteen games, Doyle averaged seven and a half targets,
Speaker 1: and Jacoby Brissette targeted the tight end more than anybody
Speaker 1: in the league Seen. He caught almost six passes per game.
Speaker 1: He had the second most receptions among tight ends in SEEN.
Speaker 1: With Jacoby Brissett. You put all that together, six catches
Speaker 1: a game is good enough for ninety six passes a year,
Speaker 1: sixteen game season. Yeah, that would have been third last year,
Speaker 1: in the year where two guys broke the all time
Speaker 1: record for tight end receptions in the league. Now keep
Speaker 1: in mind you didn't have Eric Ebron there. That's a
Speaker 1: big difference. Now. Eric Ebron is kind of the the
Speaker 1: goal line vulture, if there's such a thing at the
Speaker 1: tight end position. Jack Doyle only had four touchdowns with
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissett, he might that's a fantasy vulture. Stared me
Speaker 1: a little bit. Vultures are freaky. Yeah. Um, so I
Speaker 1: like Doyle to be a big part of the possession
Speaker 1: game for the Colts this year, and I think he's
Speaker 1: being underdrafted. All right, Scott, who is your final sleeper
Speaker 1: of the year. I'm going with Justice Hill. He's moving
Speaker 1: up the ranks though right now. Yeah, people are on
Speaker 1: him now, yeah, yeah, Now he's going in the tenth
Speaker 1: and eleventh round. But the Ravens running X last year
Speaker 1: average thirty touches per game. Once Lamar Lamar Jackson, Lamar Miller,
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson took over. I mentioned earlier, the Ravens average
Speaker 1: seventy one place per game, which is the most in
Speaker 1: the NFL last year. That's enough to support two backs
Speaker 1: and even Lamar Jackson. Uh. They have said that he
Speaker 1: could be an every down guy if anything happened. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's got the size to be in every download.
Speaker 1: There are lots of small running backs that have been
Speaker 1: the guy. Uh. He's easily the best pass catcher on
Speaker 1: the team. He'll have a role. There's potential for him
Speaker 1: to be a super poor man's Kamara to Ingram once again,
Speaker 1: Now there could happen you Ingram's there? Justice Hill? All right,
Speaker 1: My final sleeper and the final one we will offer
Speaker 1: this preseason. Michael Gallop a player I have targeted in
Speaker 1: many leagues. They're countless examples of elite receivers who hit
Speaker 1: their stride in year two. Half of today's great receivers
Speaker 1: went from good too great in their sophomore year. Michael Thomas,
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill, do you do? Smith Schuster, Brandon Cooks, just
Speaker 1: to name a few. Last year, Michael Gallup's usage ramped
Speaker 1: up dramatically as the season went along. From Week seven forward,
Speaker 1: Gallup had five meaningful Fantasy games with at least fifty
Speaker 1: yards and or a score. The rest of the way
Speaker 1: and then in the playoff games. The two Dallas playoff games,
Speaker 1: he scored a touchdown in one and put up a
Speaker 1: hundred nineteen yards in the other. Michael Gallup, the Cowboys
Speaker 1: lost one hundred fifty four targets from last year one
Speaker 1: four and Jason went and Randall Cobb are not going
Speaker 1: to make up the difference of one. You know where
Speaker 1: they're going to Michael Gallop. Marie Cooper already nursing a
Speaker 1: foot injury. Well, it doesn't even count the Ezekiel Elliott
Speaker 1: targets that might not be there. Oh yeah, good point, right,
Speaker 1: although I think Tony Pollard can catch. Okay. Lastly, Gallop
Speaker 1: in fact, played a lot of wide receiver to in college.
Speaker 1: Gallup has looked great this preseason. I mean, he looks
Speaker 1: like he's made the year to jump at the eye test,
Speaker 1: he passes the test based on what we've seen this preseason.
Speaker 1: Roll it all together, Michael Gallup one of my favorite
Speaker 1: sleepers of the year. We've got a Thursday night game.
Speaker 1: You guys, what's already Thursday night game? It's gonna be
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. Wait, no, not the champs this year.
Speaker 1: It's the old hundred Years the NFL have the with
Speaker 1: the oldest rival rivalry in the NFL, Bay and Chicago.
Speaker 1: So let's break down the Packers side first, if you will,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna start with the with the running game
Speaker 1: here with Aaron Jones. Chicago was the NFL's best run
Speaker 1: defense last year, no matter how you look at it,
Speaker 1: and there's no reason to think they're not going to
Speaker 1: be great again this year. They ranked number one against
Speaker 1: the run. They were number one at home in yards
Speaker 1: allowed by a mile, giving up sixty four rushing guards
Speaker 1: per game at home. That's it. Jones had a career
Speaker 1: has a career average of just three point four yards
Speaker 1: per carry against Chicago. He has never caught a pass
Speaker 1: against the Bears. Ever, there's not much to like at
Speaker 1: all about Aaron Jones. I give him a wobbly C grade.
Speaker 1: I can't bench him because he's a good talent and
Speaker 1: a good offense. But it's a myrtle match. No, no,
Speaker 1: there's no plus or minus is in our grading system.
Speaker 1: He is a firm scene for Aaron Jones. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the passing game Aaron Rodgers, who gets a B grade.
Speaker 1: It is the first time in his career that Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers is going to try to implement a new offense.
Speaker 1: Think about that. As many years he's been in he's
Speaker 1: never had to learn a new offense. And here it
Speaker 1: comes in Week one against the best defense in the NFL.
Speaker 1: A tough time to try to do that. Chicago finished
Speaker 1: last year ranked number one, and points allowed seventh, and
Speaker 1: passing yards allowed ninth and passing touchdowns allowed. Rogers last
Speaker 1: two games in Chicago zero touchdowns, none, passing, none, rushing.
Speaker 1: Chicago did change out Adrian Amos for how Clinton Dix,
Speaker 1: but I don't think that materially changes this defense. One
Speaker 1: angle I do like for Aaron Rodgers, though, is Geronimo
Speaker 1: Allison as the slot receiver. Allison gets the only really
Speaker 1: strongly positive matchup on the table. Here. It's against journeyman
Speaker 1: slock corner buster screen, the busted screen door. He's been, uh,
Speaker 1: he's been a career long liability, and he's coming off
Speaker 1: his worst ever season resulting in his in his ejection
Speaker 1: from the Jets roster. And so now he's in Chicago
Speaker 1: and he's gonna be manning the manning the slot. So
Speaker 1: I like Geronimo Allison is a sneaky sleeper and I've
Speaker 1: given him a B grade. Davante Adams also with a
Speaker 1: B grade. He's the only packer with some history against
Speaker 1: the Bears in which you can feel good about. Adams
Speaker 1: has scored three in three of the past four games
Speaker 1: against the Bears. He's topped eighty eight yards in three
Speaker 1: straight games against the Bears. He's got a very intriguing matchup.
Speaker 1: He's gonna go up against his former teammate ha Ha
Speaker 1: Clinton Dix. Those guys ran against each other all the
Speaker 1: time in practice. I don't know who really gets the
Speaker 1: antich here, if it's Adams, if the familiarity is better
Speaker 1: for Adams, or it's better for Hacklington Dicks. But it
Speaker 1: is a fascinating matchup. Nonetheless, Davante Adams an elite receiver.
Speaker 1: He maintains a B grade. And lastly, Marquees Valdez scantlingk
Speaker 1: a C grade. A handful of speed receivers were able
Speaker 1: to beat the Bears last year, Albert Wilson, Tyler Lockett,
Speaker 1: DeShawn Jackson, Aldrick Robinson, but that was about it. Generally,
Speaker 1: speed guys didn't fare terribly well, but there were a
Speaker 1: few flashes where they were okay. That was one of them,
Speaker 1: he gets a C grade. Jimmy Graham firmly on the bench.
Speaker 1: No grade. Bench grade for Jimmy Graham combined for only
Speaker 1: forty yards in the two games last year, and the
Speaker 1: Bears didn't allow a single tight end touchdown in the
Speaker 1: second half of last year. So would you call that
Speaker 1: an F minus. No, because there's no minus is so
Speaker 1: you can't have an F minus. But he can be
Speaker 1: firmly on the bench. Let's go to the Chicago side
Speaker 1: of this. A grade for David Montgomery, I don't need
Speaker 1: to I don't need to see it first. I don't
Speaker 1: need to gott you have to prove anything to me.
Speaker 1: A grade for David Montgomery, don't need to prove it.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be a lot of fantasy. And I was like, well,
Speaker 1: I gotta see it first. You don't have to see
Speaker 1: this first. Start David Montgomery. In the two games last
Speaker 1: year between these teams, Jordan Howard touched the ball twenty times,
Speaker 1: and twenty times, I'll take twenty touches for David Montgomery.
Speaker 1: He's better than Howard by a lot. And if I
Speaker 1: get those same twenty touches touches, he's gonna be sitting
Speaker 1: on a fantastic game. The Packers improve their defense a
Speaker 1: lot of ways, but mostly with pass rushers. The Smiths.
Speaker 1: The two Smiths that they brought in Rashawn Gary who
Speaker 1: they drafted, all gall guys that are designed to be
Speaker 1: pass rushers. The Packers ranked twenty three against the run
Speaker 1: last year. That feels about where they're kind of come
Speaker 1: in this year as well. I love David Montgomery while
Speaker 1: we stay with the running back, so let's talk Tariko
Speaker 1: in here. He had a nice game in the Week
Speaker 1: fifteen meeting between these two teams. But I'm a little
Speaker 1: nervous here. The Packers upgraded their outside linebackers this miss
Speaker 1: that I just mentioned, and those guys have the speed
Speaker 1: to hang with Tarik Cohen and montgomery soft hands are
Speaker 1: a real threat to Cohen. I mean, Cohen didn't have
Speaker 1: to sweat any catches from Jordan Howard. Now he does.
Speaker 1: That worries me a little bit. And Plus, for all
Speaker 1: the problems the Packers had last year, they allowed the
Speaker 1: fifth fewest running back receptions last season. That all affects
Speaker 1: Tree Cohen, who I give a C grade to. Now
Speaker 1: let's go to the passing game. Mitch Drabinsky gets a
Speaker 1: C grade. Is that a sad trombone ski or a
Speaker 1: happy trombone? What do you think? There are a lot
Speaker 1: of small things that work in Drabinsky's favor. A second
Speaker 1: year in Matt Naggi's offense, which I like. There's that,
Speaker 1: There's Alan Robinson's fully healthy. I like that, Anthony Miller
Speaker 1: fully healthy. I like that David Montgomery's receiving skills I mentioned.
Speaker 1: I like all those things. The Packers, though, should get
Speaker 1: much better pass rush this year, and the addition of
Speaker 1: safety Adrian Amos helps solidify highly inconsistent secondary that allowed
Speaker 1: the six most touchdown passes last year. I'm moving Mitch
Speaker 1: Drobiski up to a B. I had him as a scene.
Speaker 1: It's happy trombone skiing. It's happy trombone ski for Mitch.
Speaker 1: He's gave. I moved him up to a B just now.
Speaker 1: Anthony Miller gets a C grade. He played hurt most
Speaker 1: of last year um and actually he's been nursing an
Speaker 1: injury in this preseason as well, but should be able
Speaker 1: to go here. I think he does have a chance
Speaker 1: to make a jump and working from the slot, he
Speaker 1: goes up against the Packers worst cornerback Traymont Williams. The
Speaker 1: path of least resistance to the passing game really does
Speaker 1: actually go through Anthony Miller. Not somebody can start every week,
Speaker 1: you can start him this week. I mentioned Allen Robinson
Speaker 1: back healthy. He had two quiet games against the Packers
Speaker 1: last year. Starting cornerback Kevin King is unlikely to play
Speaker 1: in this game because he's got a severe hamstring injury
Speaker 1: that's knocked him out of the whole preseason. I don't
Speaker 1: think he goes here. That means Robinson's going to see
Speaker 1: a fair amount of King's backup Tony Brown, who was
Speaker 1: bad last year as a rookie. I like Allen Robinson,
Speaker 1: he's got a solid B grade. And the last Bears
Speaker 1: player that I need to check in on, Trey Burton.
Speaker 1: Scored in the Week fifteen matchup, but other than that,
Speaker 1: Scory did very little in that game. And I think,
Speaker 1: like Cohen, you know, the Packers too improved outside linebackers.
Speaker 1: They've got the speed to hang with a tight end
Speaker 1: and I'm worried they're gonna pick them up some. So
Speaker 1: really just a C grade on on Trey Burton in
Speaker 1: this matchup. So there you go. Letter grades for every
Speaker 1: meaningful packer and and bear. If you like that, you're
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Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back through the sleepers we have given
Speaker 1: out over the last month and tell me if you
Speaker 1: still think they're viable sleeper candidates two ways. One are
Speaker 1: they still good? And then two has their draft position
Speaker 1: moves so much that you don't you worry now that
Speaker 1: they're not sleepers anymore? Okay that now these guys, are
Speaker 1: we still in there? Are we out on these guys?
Speaker 1: That's right? In or out? Jalen Samuel's was one of
Speaker 1: the first ones we gave, and that sounds like a
Speaker 1: charged sleep that it was a charge sleeper. Are you
Speaker 1: guys in or out on Jalen Samuel's as as a
Speaker 1: as still a sleeper. His price has even gone down
Speaker 1: since that has gone so I think he's still worth it.
Speaker 1: His price has gone down because James Connor is going
Speaker 1: to be the bell cow. You're not seeing it correctly.
Speaker 1: Charged Connor is going to be the guy there, all right,
Speaker 1: so you're out. I'm with matt On Connor being the guy.
Speaker 1: It's just Samuel's value is depressed at the point where
Speaker 1: even I would take a shot. Speaking of Samuel's, let's
Speaker 1: go to the singular Samuel, Curtis Samuel. I don't in
Speaker 1: or out on Curtis Samuel as a sleeper. When I
Speaker 1: saw this one done, I didn't agree with this even
Speaker 1: being allowed to be in this side because it was
Speaker 1: too good when yeah, when it was done, and and
Speaker 1: now even more so, he's not. He's like a sixth
Speaker 1: round pick now, So you're deeply on Curtis Samuel very much.
Speaker 1: I think he did go up quite a bit in
Speaker 1: a DP. He rocket it up where d J. Moore
Speaker 1: kind of stayed the same and was really looked at
Speaker 1: as the wide receiver one in that offense. I think
Speaker 1: it's closer to even right now. So ye, Samuel Park Yeah, okay? Uh.
Speaker 1: Dante Moncreef was given earlier as a sleeper. Are you
Speaker 1: in or out on that sleeper choice? From earlier earlier
Speaker 1: episodes of Fantasy Football Weekly? I think I'm out just
Speaker 1: because I'm not making that draft pick. I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna have a decent red zone like like he used
Speaker 1: to roll. Yeah, but I'm probably out. I guess I
Speaker 1: think he's mundane. Yeah, I think the draft just there's
Speaker 1: opportunity though for sure. The opportunity is that it's there's
Speaker 1: so many targets there, and I think that they're going
Speaker 1: to treat him just as well as they're gonna treat
Speaker 1: James Washington in that offense. I think Dante Moncrief sitting
Speaker 1: in a good year. I'm still in another chart special
Speaker 1: C J. Anderson. Are you in or out? On c J. Anderson?
Speaker 1: Let me make my case again, because he's so far
Speaker 1: off radars right now, offensive coordinator Darryl Bevel averaging thirty
Speaker 1: carries per game across his career. They're not all going
Speaker 1: to carry On Johnson. They're going to C J. Anderson,
Speaker 1: the cut Zac center. He's not a factor anymore. It's
Speaker 1: still surprises me that you like c. J. Anderson so much,
Speaker 1: being as you're the highest on carry On Johnson of
Speaker 1: anybody I've seen. I know I like him both, so
Speaker 1: I think they both get fed. Man. I think I
Speaker 1: think if c J. Anderson is really in play, I
Speaker 1: think it does bite into carry On quite a bit. So, um,
Speaker 1: I guess I like c J. Anderson because I'm not
Speaker 1: as much of a believer and carry on. All right,
Speaker 1: So you're in, yeah, and you're I'm out. I'll try
Speaker 1: to get him on waivers later. I just I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna waste that roster spot. And yet, all right, when
Speaker 1: any scores a week, one that'll be from for time.
Speaker 1: Darren Waller was given in an earlier show that's a
Speaker 1: Brian special. I think I think everybody's in on Darren Waller.
Speaker 1: I think Brian was first to that one before Hard Knocks,
Speaker 1: before before everybody and was first on that one. Okay, now, no, no,
Speaker 1: we're giving it to Brian. We're giving it to Brian Johnson.
Speaker 1: Are in? Wait, yeah, we're in. You're in the cut
Speaker 1: Wilson today too. So it's Darren Waller and rookie Foster
Speaker 1: Morrow or whatever. Littavius Murray was given as a sleeper
Speaker 1: earlier show episodes, remain in. Oh, I'm very in. You're
Speaker 1: in as well. I was never in on Murray because
Speaker 1: I just think he is a one dimensional, straight ahead
Speaker 1: runner who's not going to be able to replicate most
Speaker 1: of what mark Ingram did. I think he will replicate
Speaker 1: most of what mark Ingram did. And Peyton Barber given
Speaker 1: in an earlier Show by Me Church special on Daria
Speaker 1: gun Bow Wally, well you get him in the last
Speaker 1: round round? No. I I like the I like the
Speaker 1: Barber call. Most people again, replay last season, not edged
Speaker 1: in Barber's it wasn't a factor last season. Well, he's
Speaker 1: going to be like the lowest top running back drafted,
Speaker 1: right starting running back. He's probably going to be the
Speaker 1: last one draft now Lashawn McCoy might be the last
Speaker 1: one drafting. Whoever is Something's something in that ballpark Anyway,
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