Speaker 1: Wow, what's up everybody?
Speaker 2: Welcome to another edition of The Fantasy Chee Chet. I'm
Speaker 2: Marcus Grant with Michael F. Florio Lakwan Jones. Is I
Speaker 2: believe in an airport. He might be sitting at LAX
Speaker 2: right now, if I'm not mistaken, He's on his way
Speaker 2: to Tampa. We're gonna talk a lot of stuff here.
Speaker 2: Let's let's let's kind of dive into to some of
Speaker 2: these things here. First off, George Kittle, I don't know
Speaker 2: if you saw this, says that he lost almost thirty
Speaker 2: pounds after off season core surgery. He didn't have a
Speaker 2: chance to lift, he couldn't really work out because he
Speaker 2: was still sort of recovering.
Speaker 3: He says he's working to try and gain that weight back.
Speaker 2: I always like to jokingly text or a tweet about
Speaker 2: your hashtag BSh B s Ohl best shape of his life.
Speaker 2: Losing thirty pounds does not feel like best shape of
Speaker 2: his life, though, Like that seems sort of concerning, right,
Speaker 2: He's in the.
Speaker 4: Worst shape of his life. That's what it sounds like
Speaker 4: to me. Oh, I mean, gaining weight is very especially
Speaker 4: like muscle and stuff like. Look, he's a world class
Speaker 4: athlete with world class trainers, so he'll be okay in
Speaker 4: the long run, but like to put on thirty pounds
Speaker 4: by September while doing training camp and all the cardio
Speaker 4: that they're gonna be doing in the blazing heat. It's
Speaker 4: remarkable to me that like football players can keep their
Speaker 4: physique because like one thing that stood out for me
Speaker 4: when I watched the last Dance was like they were like, yeah,
Speaker 4: Michael Jordan does so much cardio, he can't put on muscle,
Speaker 4: and it's like, because they must be eating and lifting
Speaker 4: like absolute madmen. But I am concerned about this because George.
Speaker 4: What makes George Kittles so great is his physicality, that
Speaker 4: he's hard to tackle, that he's he the yak he
Speaker 4: puts up in everything. So if he's not himself in
Speaker 4: that regard that Plus, he's also coming off his best
Speaker 4: year in the last four years, so I wouldn't be
Speaker 4: surprised if he naturally regressed a little bit. I don't
Speaker 4: know about you, Marcus, Like I know he goes in
Speaker 4: that middle tight end tier with like Dalton Kincaid, Kyle Pitts.
Speaker 4: I don't find myself really drafting George Kittle much at all.
Speaker 2: I have drafted him a couple of times. I don't
Speaker 2: know if this is going to back me off of
Speaker 2: that a little bit. And I feel like he is
Speaker 2: sort of he sort of straddles that borderline of the
Speaker 2: back end of like the if you want to call
Speaker 2: him elite or certainly the higher tier tight ends, right Like,
Speaker 2: he's kind of at that cutoff in part mostly because
Speaker 2: of what the forty nine ers ask him to do.
Speaker 3: It's not about I think his skill set.
Speaker 2: I think if you line up his skill set with
Speaker 2: all the other top level tight ends, he is still
Speaker 2: on par with those guys. But and I say, this
Speaker 2: is somebody who watches the forty nine ers a lot
Speaker 2: that sometimes they just will use it as the facto
Speaker 2: sixth linemen, right, Like, he's such a big part of
Speaker 2: the run game that you know, sometimes they will just
Speaker 2: keep him in to block a lot, so he may
Speaker 2: not run as many routes as we want in Fantasy.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 2: So it just, uh, it's it's a little bit for
Speaker 2: not frustrating, but it's it's concerning. I think is the
Speaker 2: best the best way to sort of sort of describe it. Yeah, no, Maggie,
Speaker 2: he said, he's he's lost almost thirty pounds. I think
Speaker 2: he's gonna try. I don't think he's gonna gain all
Speaker 2: thirty back. I don't, I don't. I don't know if
Speaker 2: it's healthy to try to get thirty like that quickly,
Speaker 2: you know, but he's definitely gonna try and put some
Speaker 2: of that back on, you know, try to gain that
Speaker 2: strength back. I think most importantly for him is just
Speaker 2: trying to get the uh the strength back a little
Speaker 2: bit for for him.
Speaker 3: Uh yeah.
Speaker 2: I think mister Scamps makes a good point. I think
Speaker 2: it's interesting when when NFL players retire. I think the
Speaker 2: the offensive linemen tend to slim down and like the
Speaker 2: guys who are smaller, like your skill position guys tend
Speaker 2: to like kind of bulka. I'm not bolka, but like
Speaker 2: you know, like they don't have to work out as much.
Speaker 2: So it's like, yeah, man, you're just gonna put on
Speaker 2: some pounds.
Speaker 3: Say different.
Speaker 4: If I had to be in the best shape of
Speaker 4: my life for ten years and be super disciplined, the
Speaker 4: moment I retired, I'd be like, I'm eating whatever I
Speaker 4: want and I do not care.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, one hundred percent, Like I'm just gonna like
Speaker 2: let it go. Or speaking of tight ends a little
Speaker 2: bit here, This one from Jimbo. What's brock Bauer's ceiling?
Speaker 2: Your thoughts on brock Bauers this year.
Speaker 4: I think his ceiling is something like a low end
Speaker 4: tight end one. Like right now I'm looking at my rankings,
Speaker 4: I have him at thirteen, just behind Hockinson, Dallas Goddard, Ferguson,
Speaker 4: in Djoku, Evan Ingram. If he outscored some of it,
Speaker 4: like if he outscored Dallas Goddard, I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 4: at all if but I don't foresee him coming in
Speaker 4: and doing anything like what Sam Laporta did last year.
Speaker 4: Or maybe he could have like a Dalton kin K
Speaker 4: type rookie year where he has a stretch where it's
Speaker 4: he's really useful for fantasy, but overall more of like
Speaker 4: a low end tight end one.
Speaker 3: I like his talent a lot.
Speaker 4: I know you do as well, Marcus. I just I
Speaker 4: don't love the quarterback play necessarily, and I think the
Speaker 4: Raiders are going to try to be like a ground
Speaker 4: and pound team like that. That's what they want their
Speaker 4: identity to be if it's up to them. So plus,
Speaker 4: Davante Adams is going to get a thirty percent target share,
Speaker 4: Jacoby Myers is going to get twenty percent right there,
Speaker 4: that's half the target's accounting for.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean, that's my big concern is that there's so
Speaker 2: many places to go with the football, right, You've got
Speaker 2: to feed Devonte Adams, You've got to get Jacoby Myers involved.
Speaker 2: Can Gardner Minshew support this many pass catchers in the offense? Look,
Speaker 2: I liked Michael Mayer coming out of Notre Dame. I
Speaker 2: thought he was going to be a big part of
Speaker 2: the Raider offense. I thought it was starting to happen
Speaker 2: later on in the season. Now all of a sudden,
Speaker 2: he's got to compete for snaps and targets with a
Speaker 2: guy who is was a monster in terms of his
Speaker 2: offensive potential, his offensive production at the University of Georgia.
Speaker 3: I just think that puts a cap on his ceiling.
Speaker 2: And I think to your point, though, I think I
Speaker 2: think he could be a low into one. But I
Speaker 2: think that's more about the fact that after a certain point,
Speaker 2: being a low and tight end one is sort of
Speaker 2: it's a roll of the dice, right, Like you just
Speaker 2: there are any number of guys who can sort of
Speaker 2: slot in there. I mean, I think we were all
Speaker 2: sort of disappointed by the landing spot for Bowers because
Speaker 2: we were hoping that he would go to a place
Speaker 2: where he could, uh, you know, thrive. I mean, Sam
Speaker 2: Laporta was the best of everything, right, a talented player
Speaker 2: who also landed in a spot where there was no
Speaker 2: real competition for opportunity.
Speaker 3: That's not the case at all, uh for the Raiders.
Speaker 4: For me, the earliest I think I would take him
Speaker 4: is tight End eleven because I wanted to see if
Speaker 4: you I think we all agree like Kincaid, Pitt's Kittle,
Speaker 4: they're all firmly ahead of him. But would you take
Speaker 4: him over any of Evan, Ingram, David and Joku Jake Ferguson.
Speaker 3: I don't know that I would.
Speaker 2: Ingram's the one I might think about, just because I
Speaker 2: think I think what we saw from Ingram last year
Speaker 2: was sort of a product of circumstances. You had a
Speaker 2: lot of guys who were hurt, but the A dot
Speaker 2: was really really low for him, And so if people
Speaker 2: stay healthy and he has that similar AID dot, like,
Speaker 2: I think the production goes way down. I'm still sort
Speaker 2: of in on in Djoku, and I'm still sort of
Speaker 2: believing in Ferguson.
Speaker 3: But yeah, I don't know. I just maybe I'm still
Speaker 3: in my feelings a little bit.
Speaker 4: No, because for me, I would take all of those
Speaker 4: guys over Bowers. And that's why eleven would be the
Speaker 4: early because like, yeah, Ferguson, I'm like, Okay, he's playing
Speaker 4: with dak Is potentially his number two target. Like that's
Speaker 4: a way better situation. Bowers is the better talent. I'm
Speaker 4: not denying that, but quarterback play matters so much.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, you're You're absolutely right. A rat say Minshew
Speaker 2: kept Pittman fantasy relevant. I have a feeling he can
Speaker 2: keep Myers and Adam Adams relevant too.
Speaker 3: I think you can keep one, maybe two of those
Speaker 3: guys relevant.
Speaker 2: But asking him, but now, if you have to go
Speaker 2: down the ladder to you know, a Bowers, a Myers
Speaker 2: or a Michael Meyer whoever may or who.
Speaker 3: I don't, I don't. I don't really know about that
Speaker 3: necessarily at all.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: Another one from ailiar Rod, Jermaine Burton or Roman Wilson.
Speaker 2: I think I know who you like in this one,
Speaker 2: but I'm gonna ask you anyway.
Speaker 4: I do think Roman Wilson is a little bit of
Speaker 4: a sleeper because I tend to trust Mike Tomlin and
Speaker 4: the Steelers when they invest in a wide receiver, and
Speaker 4: he could be the number two wide receiver probably number
Speaker 4: three target. But yeah, give me Jermaine Burton because I
Speaker 4: think the upside. I think he's the better prospect. I
Speaker 4: think the upside is far higher. I think Joe Burrow
Speaker 4: is a much better quarterback. And Tee Higgins miss five
Speaker 4: games last year, Jamar chasemss five games the year before that.
Speaker 4: If something like that was to happen, I think Burton
Speaker 4: is gonna greatly exceed his ADP regardless. But if one
Speaker 4: of those guys misses time, we're talking about him being
Speaker 4: a wide receiver three with more upside.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, I think I'm definitely more on the
Speaker 2: Burton side of things, mostly because, uh the camp reports.
Speaker 2: Not that not that anything bad has been said about Wilson,
Speaker 2: but more like when I hear things like the Steelers
Speaker 2: are still looking for a number two receiver, that the
Speaker 2: Steelers are still looking for wide receiver, that that you know,
Speaker 2: when Brandon Ayuk's name, you know, shows up in trade rumors,
Speaker 2: like the Steelers are like the first ones in line
Speaker 2: potentially to make a deal for him. That to me
Speaker 2: sort of says that maybe they're not all in on
Speaker 2: on Roman Wilson just yet.
Speaker 3: That's that's my only real concern about Wilson. Uh. You
Speaker 3: know right now, have you seen the Ravens new alternate helmet? Uh?
Speaker 4: Only because you posted it in in this uh in
Speaker 4: the cheat sheet doc. But I I don't know how
Speaker 4: to feel about it. It It looks really cool to me,
Speaker 4: but I'm like, it looks also like a Pokemon card.
Speaker 2: My first thought was like, I mean, for me watching
Speaker 2: like college football, like East Carolina, like, it just felt
Speaker 2: like the East Carolina Pirates or something like.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I felt like when I saw it posted that the
Speaker 2: reaction was sort of mixed.
Speaker 3: Some people are like, this is fire. I love it.
Speaker 2: Some people are like, hmm, pass, And I think I'm
Speaker 2: closer to pass than fire.
Speaker 4: It gives me like X Like if if one of
Speaker 4: the teams in like like the XFL was wearing this,
Speaker 4: I'd be like, yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 2: Right right, That's yeah, I'm not I don't know if
Speaker 2: I'm totally in on this this new Raven's helmet.
Speaker 3: If you guys haven't seen it, it's all purple like they.
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: There's a kind of an alternate logo and alternate Ravens
Speaker 2: logo on it.
Speaker 3: It just I don't know. I'm not really feeling it
Speaker 3: right now. I'm I don't know. Go look it up.
Speaker 2: You know, you guys can put in the chat if
Speaker 2: you've seen it, let me know what you guys think.
Speaker 2: I'm not really I'm not really big on it. This
Speaker 2: one from I am him. Have you ever played in
Speaker 2: a sixteen man league and what advice would you give
Speaker 2: in drafting a team PPR redraft. Ah, My first thing
Speaker 2: is one, make sure you get a I think I
Speaker 2: think you got to get a running back early, just
Speaker 2: because I feel like that. No, never freeze that. I
Speaker 2: think you get a wide receiver early. I think they're
Speaker 2: gonna go quick in a sixteen person league. Make sure
Speaker 2: you get yourself an elite wide receiver in the first
Speaker 2: two rounds because people go wide receiver heavy and I
Speaker 2: think I think they're gonna go away.
Speaker 3: Really really quickly. I don't know if you have any
Speaker 3: any other advice there for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have played in sixteen person league. I will
Speaker 4: say they're not that much fun.
Speaker 3: People.
Speaker 4: People are always like it takes more skill in a
Speaker 4: really deep league, and I counter that with the team
Speaker 4: that has the least amount of injuries almost always wins
Speaker 4: because you can't replace guys when they get hurt because
Speaker 4: the waiver wires still thin. But because of that, my
Speaker 4: advice is to take less chances. Like I know, I'm
Speaker 4: the guy that's always like grab an upside guy and
Speaker 4: that is how I played twelve team leagues. But in
Speaker 4: sixteen team leagues sometimes guys who are just more consistent
Speaker 4: and played to the back of their card are a
Speaker 4: better option than taking a gamble early because again, the
Speaker 4: waiver wire is going to be in It's not like
Speaker 4: you can replace people easily.
Speaker 2: Yeah, no, I think that. I think that's fair. Do
Speaker 2: we like Naje or Warren Moore say, which you one
Speaker 2: about Arthur Smith? Arthur Smith, which he was sort of
Speaker 2: evil last year Arthur's but he made running a highlight
Speaker 2: in Atlanta? Are you are you team Nase or team
Speaker 2: Jalen Warren.
Speaker 4: I'm team Jalen Warren because I know I just said, oh,
Speaker 4: don't take as much risk, but yeah, I'm gonna go
Speaker 4: with the upside there and Jalen Warren I believe is
Speaker 4: the better pass catcher. He's more explosive. He definitely has
Speaker 4: more bursts and make more big playability. Naji Harris is
Speaker 4: more of the steady floor guy, like he's gonna get
Speaker 4: a consistent workload every week. He'll probably get the goal
Speaker 4: on work most weeks, but those those big weeks that
Speaker 4: could kind of change things that Jalen Warren is that guy.
Speaker 4: Although I wouldn't be surprised at all of Marcus and
Speaker 4: you could tell me if you think I'm wrong, but
Speaker 4: if this backfield operates pretty similarly to.
Speaker 3: How it did last season, I think it kind of will.
Speaker 2: I am definitely more Jalen Warren than naj Harris because
Speaker 2: I think he's more I'm also not one of those
Speaker 2: people who's like, hey man, he was really great. He
Speaker 2: should get more touches. Like I think he really works
Speaker 2: in the role that he had last year. Now, if
Speaker 2: something happens to Najee Harris, then he gets more opportunity,
Speaker 2: and I think that's a good thing. But I think
Speaker 2: his value is staying in that same role but remaining
Speaker 2: as explosive and productive as he did last year. I
Speaker 2: don't I don't want this to be a Tony Pollard
Speaker 2: situation right where he was like, yeah, he was really great,
Speaker 2: and then he gets a whole lot more touches and
Speaker 2: then it's just not cool.
Speaker 3: It's not great at all for him. Let's see that's what.
Speaker 2: Oh the chief super Bowl ring they had a typo
Speaker 2: on it, so here it is. It's first off, it's
Speaker 2: their third ring in five years, so nobody's really feeling
Speaker 2: bad about the Kansas City Chiefs. But it lists all
Speaker 2: the teams they beat in the playoffs, and it has
Speaker 2: the Dolphins listed as a seventh seed when they were
Speaker 2: really a.
Speaker 3: Sixth seed in the playoffs.
Speaker 2: Travis Kelsey says the ring error makes it more exclusive,
Speaker 2: which at first done. At first, I was kind of like, yeah,
Speaker 2: he's sort of right, and then I'm like, wait a minute,
Speaker 2: it's already an exclusive Super Bowl ring.
Speaker 3: They're not just like handing these out on the street.
Speaker 3: What are you doing?
Speaker 4: My thing is like, okay, you got their seed wrong,
Speaker 4: but it was round one, so you guys know what
Speaker 4: seeds you are? Like you knew, I know. They're they're
Speaker 4: so used to being a top two seed every year
Speaker 4: and getting the number one seed every year. Blah blah blah.
Speaker 4: You guys were with a three seed.
Speaker 2: Like, come on, that's not like some Bill's frustration right there,
Speaker 2: like just a little but it didn't like when I
Speaker 2: read the thing about it makes it more exclusive. Are
Speaker 2: you old enough to remember the infamous Billy Ripkin baseball
Speaker 2: card that became a collector's item?
Speaker 3: No so so.
Speaker 2: Bill Ripkin the brother of Cal Ripkin and an okay
Speaker 2: major league career, definitely not as good as his brother's,
Speaker 2: but he had a baseball card where it's him holding
Speaker 2: a bat and on the bottom of the bat was written, uh,
Speaker 2: an explosive F face you know, F dot dot dot
Speaker 2: face was written on the handle of the path.
Speaker 4: I'm looking at it right now.
Speaker 2: And like a few of those like slipped through and
Speaker 2: made it out into circulation. It got caught they you know,
Speaker 2: I think they made a new one where they just
Speaker 2: blurted out and you couldn't see it. But if you
Speaker 2: have one of the original ones, it's worth a little
Speaker 2: bit extra because it's somehow slipped through all the through
Speaker 2: all the editors a little bit and made it made
Speaker 2: it out into the world. That's kind of what I thought,
Speaker 2: Like that is a collector's item, Like that is something
Speaker 2: that's exclusive because like you know, it was a major
Speaker 2: mistake that somehow got through.
Speaker 4: I love like when the little the car companies will
Speaker 4: like print like a name wrong or something like that.
Speaker 4: You would think and everyone would be like, why would
Speaker 4: I want this? It's wrong, But in actuality it just
Speaker 4: everyone wants it, and its value goes through the roof.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, no, it definitely.
Speaker 2: It blows up the value of it because it is
Speaker 2: you realize that it's a mistake and like you know, hey, man,
Speaker 2: like this is this is poticially some that could be
Speaker 2: be worthwhile here. That will do it for another edition
Speaker 2: of the Fantasy cheat Sheet of thanks a Susie has
Speaker 2: always for putting this together. And uh LaQuan be safe man,
Speaker 2: I hopefully hope Florida. Did you give him some spots
Speaker 2: to eat in Tampa? I know that's where he's going
Speaker 2: to be for the next couple.
Speaker 4: I realized that he's probably too far from the places
Speaker 4: that I know because my parents live like a little
Speaker 4: bit outside of Tampa. So if you're in the city,
Speaker 4: you probably don't want to drive thirty minutes for food.
Speaker 2: So that's fair. Yeah, that's absolutely fair. That'll do it
Speaker 2: for this edition of the fantasy cheat Sheet. Appreciate you
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