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Speaker 1: Football Weekly, another preseason edition. This is episode five, year
Speaker 1: number twenty six for Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul
Speaker 1: Giarchi and my coast today are Scott Fish and Matt Harrison. Hello, guys, Hey, hey,
Speaker 1: it's we're only we're less than two weeks away from
Speaker 1: the start of the season, and they're so little news
Speaker 1: without the preseason games and with limited access to practices
Speaker 1: walk throughs. Uh. It's it's it's just a different world.
Speaker 1: And I get the feeling we're gonna be so wrong
Speaker 1: on so many things in week one. You know, I
Speaker 1: think normally we've got a reasonably good read. On week
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Frisman Jackson everywhere. That's exactly right. And
Speaker 1: it maybe it's okay to be wrong. Who's the Cowboys read?
Speaker 1: I don't think that our listeners think it's okay for
Speaker 1: us to be wrong. Wrong. I meant they're wrong, not us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we won't be wrong about anything ever. On this show,
Speaker 1: we go through the news from around the league at
Speaker 1: the outset of all these preseason shows, and this is
Speaker 1: when we're trying to take little nuggets and gleaning little
Speaker 1: things from on site reporters and try to figure things
Speaker 1: out without the preseason games so we can normally use
Speaker 1: to get a better read on things. It is more challenging,
Speaker 1: but we're up to the task. Beginning with the Panthers,
Speaker 1: Matt The Panthers held an inter squad scrimmage that's hard
Speaker 1: to say inter squad scrimmage on Tuesday. The only touchdown
Speaker 1: in the game was a Bridgewater fade route into the
Speaker 1: end zone to slot receiver Christian McCaffrey. Yeah, alright, Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey lined up in the slot on that play. They're
Speaker 1: going to be lining him up everywhere on the field
Speaker 1: this year. One point zero one in every draft, it's
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey. It's uh, it's pretty universal right now. Smith,
Speaker 1: John H. Smith. I respect that do Gardner Minshew things
Speaker 1: taken off. There are people doing it skyrocket, But here's
Speaker 1: the thing. If you're doing it in a free league,
Speaker 1: don't bother tweeting me. It's gutless tweet me the picture,
Speaker 1: the photo of you of your draft room with you
Speaker 1: taking Gardner Minshew and your hundred dollar entry fee. There
Speaker 1: we go. Now we're talking. I think they're only giving
Speaker 1: away like two cases of beer for this too, So
Speaker 1: it's a sweepsticks still right now, they are giving a
Speaker 1: lifetime a year's supply away if you win your league
Speaker 1: with it, if you how many how many people? A
Speaker 1: lot of people are going to do that. You know
Speaker 1: they can't. They're gonna be thousands of people that do that.
Speaker 1: You could rig your free league to make sure you went.
Speaker 1: It's probably just one they probably probably, I'm sure they Anyway,
Speaker 1: let's go to the Las Vegas Raiders. Uh, Tyrrelle Williams
Speaker 1: torn labor. He's gonna try to play through it. But
Speaker 1: I've had one and it can't imagine trying to play
Speaker 1: through that and catch footballs, especially reaching up to grab football's.
Speaker 1: Um and Nelson l z Jones are supposedly in great
Speaker 1: shape and in football somehow. That's the real news is
Speaker 1: that they're still in football. Um, I think Tyroll Williams
Speaker 1: is undraftable, and I think, oh yeah, he's slid down
Speaker 1: to maybe the seventies or eighties in my rankings. Probably, Yeah, really,
Speaker 1: I wasted your time because all three. We can talk
Speaker 1: a little bit more about that Raiders wide receiver position later.
Speaker 1: The Packers album was already is surging with big catches
Speaker 1: and practice and is sewn away the number two receiving job.
Speaker 1: He's being vastly underdrafted right now. His average draft position
Speaker 1: is one seventy five. And you've got a for sure
Speaker 1: number two. Yeah, for sure number two. Aaron Rodgers has
Speaker 1: got some miles loft. Don him. It's it's it seems odd.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Washington football team at Ben Standig
Speaker 1: of the Athletics says that Bryce Love is not a
Speaker 1: lock to make the roster and has been running with
Speaker 1: the second and third team in practice. Man who is
Speaker 1: on the first team, I think I read that is
Speaker 1: he's not a lot to be active on game days
Speaker 1: if they only start three. But either way, Adrian Peterson
Speaker 1: is splitting reps with Antonio Gibson with the first team
Speaker 1: right now. Second team leader j D. Mcksucker, j D mcsucking,
Speaker 1: I will be stunned if he ends up being a
Speaker 1: material part of this offense. He's ahead of Bryce Love
Speaker 1: right now. Well, I've always there starter as the thirty
Speaker 1: six year old, so you might you might be Adrian
Speaker 1: Peterson's basically he's almost free in league. Nobody's taking him,
Speaker 1: and he's gonna be one of those guys where you
Speaker 1: draft him and suddenly you've got a flex player that
Speaker 1: you can start every week. He's gonna get seven touchdowns.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Let's go to Buffalo Scott
Speaker 1: Josh Allen hoping to run less often, which is something
Speaker 1: fantasy owners loved. He he's mostly especially after you ran
Speaker 1: for nine touchdowns last year nine times. There it is there,
Speaker 1: it is the colt head coach Frank Right, there's more
Speaker 1: singletary battling, a bunch of fumbling issues and uh, Zack, really,
Speaker 1: you don't say Church is okay? With that interruption? That's
Speaker 1: the lead story. Why would you not have Jack Moss
Speaker 1: news first alight standing rule for this show going forward
Speaker 1: if you have good Zack Moss News Smiths or John
Speaker 1: Smith News right to the top of the show, right
Speaker 1: to the open cold said coach. Frank Wright says that
Speaker 1: tight end will be a really really important dynamics. I
Speaker 1: wanted you to do your Frank Reich voice again. It
Speaker 1: sounded so really important dynamic for the team's offense. Yes,
Speaker 1: apparently he's marble mouse. Jack Doyle is you're likely starter.
Speaker 1: Trey Burton could play the Eric Ebron. Remember Burton Reich
Speaker 1: we're together in Philadelphia, so they have a little bit
Speaker 1: of shared history there. Let's go to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
Speaker 1: Chris Godwin returned from missing three straight practices earlier in
Speaker 1: the week, and if you're drafting a kicker, watch out
Speaker 1: for the Tampa situation. Right now. Elliott Fry and Matt
Speaker 1: Gay are locked in a battle. The winner will be
Speaker 1: part of a good offense and probably be a really
Speaker 1: good kicker. But you might not want to draft them yet.
Speaker 1: You might want to pick them up after it's decided. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay scored the fourth most points in the NFL
Speaker 1: last year. You know whoever ends up kicking for them,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's more about opportunity. It's a top
Speaker 1: five kicker no matter who wins. But we don't know
Speaker 1: who's gonna win. Let's go to the Cleveland Brown Scott
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb in concussion protocol, but it's a way un
Speaker 1: till the season, so he should be fine. He'll be fine.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs general manager Brett Veach says that Clyde Edwards
Speaker 1: a laire is quote on pace to have a big
Speaker 1: year to be our primary ball carrier. Hell yeah, baby,
Speaker 1: that's what I want to hear. Even at this time
Speaker 1: of year when everybody's lying, I don't care because that
Speaker 1: fits my personal theress and I want information bias. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: let's go to the Detroit Lions. Man. The running back
Speaker 1: situation is a little bit messy right now. DeAndre Swift
Speaker 1: was held out of practice Tuesday and Thursday, and the
Speaker 1: reasons were not disclosed. He did practice in a limited
Speaker 1: fashion on Wednesday, but carry on, Johnson's wearing a knee
Speaker 1: brace for confidence reasons, and even both Scarborough is limited
Speaker 1: to practice right now. It's a little dicey in that
Speaker 1: running back room. The New York Jets Scott, multiple Beat reporters,
Speaker 1: and Adam Gates have all said that Frank Gore is
Speaker 1: the best back in camp. But god, let's come to this,
Speaker 1: but watch out, watch out case traded for his boy,
Speaker 1: Kalin Blage. How about everybody's reporting the Dolphins are going
Speaker 1: to just drop Palin Blage and Adam Gates coast whoa whoa, whoa, whoa.
Speaker 1: I will give you draft picks my beer. What the
Speaker 1: war the Rams. Last week we talked about Josh Reynolds
Speaker 1: holding off Van Jefferson, but this is a fluid situation.
Speaker 1: This week now Van Jefferson is getting so much praise
Speaker 1: and getting run with the first team offense, and from
Speaker 1: time to time this could be a developing situation. And
Speaker 1: maybe for the time being, you can't draft either Van
Speaker 1: Jefferson or Josh Reynolds. But I still think start of
Speaker 1: the season Josh Reynolds. By the end of the season
Speaker 1: Van Jefferson. Let's go to the Seattle Seahawks. Matt Little
Speaker 1: running back news. Chris Carson returned to camp after resolving
Speaker 1: some personal matters. But Pete Carroll, Oh, let me do
Speaker 1: my Pete Carroll impression here. He said that, Hello, Gavna
Speaker 1: Carloside will be a big factor. What I thought that
Speaker 1: was dead on Scott The Denver Broncos Vick van Jo
Speaker 1: after a couple of weeks ago saying that Melvin Gordon
Speaker 1: would be the lead back of the committee. Now he says,
Speaker 1: not so shure. I'd like I think we're in a
Speaker 1: position where we don't have a starter. I think that's
Speaker 1: closer to correct, to be honest. Uh, let's so, what's next, Oh,
Speaker 1: it's me the Vikings. Ola b C. Johnson looks like
Speaker 1: you're opening day starter, opposite Adam Feeling. When asked about
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson's development, Kirk Cousins migrated the conversation over to
Speaker 1: Ola B. C. Johnson, who he described as having maybe
Speaker 1: the best training camp of anyone on the team. And
Speaker 1: now Justin Jefferson has been fine, but b. C. Johnson
Speaker 1: has been in the system for a year. It's a
Speaker 1: big advantage this season. I think your opening day, your
Speaker 1: opening day starter is going to be Ola B. C.
Speaker 1: Johnson at wide receiver for the Vikings. Philadelphia Eagles matt
Speaker 1: left tackle Andre Dillard suffered a torn biceps during Thursday's practice.
Speaker 1: He's out for the season. Luckily, they resigned former left
Speaker 1: tackle Jason Peters to play guard. He's gonna slot over
Speaker 1: to left tackle now, and Isaac see Malu becomes the
Speaker 1: new left card All right, and to the New England Patriots,
Speaker 1: Scott Nearly everyone involved watching the Patriots practices, says day
Speaker 1: Damian Harris is standing out like a Zach Moss type
Speaker 1: player at this, let's not get carried away zat Moss.
Speaker 1: But Davis, he's your He's gonna be your starter, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be the Andes Sony Michelle. Yeah, he's put
Speaker 1: in work with Michelle out. I'm glad to hear that.
Speaker 1: For the Steelers wide receiver, rookie wide receiver Chase Claypool
Speaker 1: looks fantastic, drawing rave reviews, which could be trouble for
Speaker 1: somebody when they've got all these other receivers that want
Speaker 1: to get fed the ball. If Claypool ends up making
Speaker 1: an impact and getting into some some first team wraps,
Speaker 1: who knows, somebody's gonna be the odd man out. And
Speaker 1: I've talked before I get I get a little bit
Speaker 1: worried about Maybe we'll talk more about that later. Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys Matt both starting tackles for the Cowboys are dealing
Speaker 1: with injury. Tyron Smith was limited on Thursday with a
Speaker 1: hamstring injury. L Collins has been sitting out after a
Speaker 1: hard crash beat Reporters expect both to be ready by
Speaker 1: Week one. Scott Tennessee Titans. This one's short Ryan Tannehill.
Speaker 1: The Derrick Henry has been working on his pass catching
Speaker 1: and Tannehill sleazy looks really good and really confident catching it. Now, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean if if Henry is gonna catch, if he adds, yeah,
Speaker 1: if he he catches fifty passes, he's she should be
Speaker 1: the first player taking in the draft. Probably forty is
Speaker 1: almost every wide receiver has heard Kendrick Borne is basically
Speaker 1: the last man standing there. Um. The team has turned
Speaker 1: to wash outs like Kevin White for depth, but the
Speaker 1: hope is closer to the first game of the season,
Speaker 1: they'll start getting some guys back. Kendrick Borne might be
Speaker 1: a sneaky pick up for you could do a Deebo
Speaker 1: Samuel super late because he's he's going got drafted at
Speaker 1: this stage because of people worried about the Liz Frank right,
Speaker 1: So you could do Deebo Samuel really late and then
Speaker 1: last pick your draft Kendrick Borne, and you've got a
Speaker 1: San Francisco starting wide receiver. They think Deebo is gonna
Speaker 1: be ready for week one now they're they say, sprinting
Speaker 1: hard and practice and there's lots of good signs on debot.
Speaker 1: I hope. So, but you know, these Liz Frank injuries,
Speaker 1: We've seen this thing go three surgeries deep. So it's
Speaker 1: just my wife's had one for two years. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it is. She doesn't play for the forty Niners right now.
Speaker 1: She's on the wide receiver death chart somewhere, somebody is Matt.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Giant. Rookie safety Xavier McKinney underwent
Speaker 1: surgery on a broken left foot, hopeful to return in
Speaker 1: late November, and see Kwon Barkley limped off the field
Speaker 1: on Monday, didn't finish practice, but has been back practicing
Speaker 1: later in the week. But he did get a little
Speaker 1: dinged up in practice. We'll hope he fin I assume
Speaker 1: he's fine. Cincinnati Bengal Scott Joe Mixon has been missing
Speaker 1: practice due to what Zach Taylor says. He thinks his migraines.
Speaker 1: That's interesting in a contract, how you not know? But yeah,
Speaker 1: that's exactly the point. He was threatening contract told out
Speaker 1: and he's missing practices. Uh a j Greenback and Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow is looking lights out in two minute drills. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow is going to be legit. I'm confident think
Speaker 1: he breaks seven. Baker may feel session record. I kind
Speaker 1: of want to bet the over. I think I kind
Speaker 1: of do too. I kind of do too, Ravens J K.
Speaker 1: Dobbins turning heads in almost every practice. He's expecting to
Speaker 1: have a significant early role. I don't think we're gonna
Speaker 1: have to wait for him to get a lot of
Speaker 1: a lot of run here. I think he presses mark
Speaker 1: ingram for time, um really fairly early in the season.
Speaker 1: Gus Edwards is going to be the odd man out
Speaker 1: of this deal, almost certainly at lint of Falcons, Matt, Oh,
Speaker 1: I want to try another impersonation of offensive coordinator Dirt Cutter.
Speaker 1: You're ready, yes, hi hole, this is Dirk Cutter. I
Speaker 1: want Todd Gurwey to get at least fifteen touches per
Speaker 1: game this year. Is that good? That was a Kermit
Speaker 1: the Frog. That was not No, that was totally Dirk Cutter.
Speaker 1: That was a Kermit the Frog. I'm pretty sure Dirk
Speaker 1: Cutter says hi ho every time he meets Yeah. Lakwan
Speaker 1: Treadwell also has a bad case of the drops, according
Speaker 1: to the Falcons website, So who does I'm sorry, Lakwan Treadwell. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think he's gonna make the roster. No, all
Speaker 1: that's so bold? Oh, No, Scott the Chargers. Mike Williams
Speaker 1: could miss the season open or with the shoulder spring
Speaker 1: and Josh Kelly has been looking really good, my sleeper
Speaker 1: from two weeks ago. Uh, they now think he has
Speaker 1: the edge for the number two jobs. I think that's
Speaker 1: going to be the case right now. Mike Williams is
Speaker 1: hard to draft at all at this stage. Um, and
Speaker 1: I realized he may he may even be ready for
Speaker 1: the opener, but he was already a touchdown dependent guy
Speaker 1: who's g gives you really hot. Average depth of targets
Speaker 1: like almost twenty tyrods is like nine. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: bad fit. Yeah, and we're nervous about that for sure.
Speaker 1: Let's our last. We have two teams left, and they're
Speaker 1: both Mats. The Cardinals. Kenyan Drake has been held out
Speaker 1: of practice with a foot injury and was seen in
Speaker 1: a walking boot earlier in the week. Oh, Chase Edmonds
Speaker 1: getting all of the first team loving right now? I
Speaker 1: think that's I think Chase is gonna get way more
Speaker 1: work than people. And then how about David Montgomery for
Speaker 1: the Bears who slipped while carrying the rock and practice.
Speaker 1: They're calling it a strained groin and saying he's expected
Speaker 1: to be out two to four weeks. That does give
Speaker 1: him an outside shot of being ready for opening Day. Also,
Speaker 1: Adam Hogue of NBC Sports that it looks like Nick
Speaker 1: Foles is pulling away from Mitch Rubinsky. Yeah. You know
Speaker 1: the thing with David Montgomery and this groin injury, if
Speaker 1: you bring him back, you know, groin injuries and running
Speaker 1: backs terrible combination and easily something that could end up
Speaker 1: being a ren aggravation to the injury if you're bringing
Speaker 1: back too soon. They have virtually no depth at the
Speaker 1: position because three cones not gonna you know, He's not
Speaker 1: gonna be Maybe it might be Cordell Patterson or Spencer Ware,
Speaker 1: remember Naggie and Spencer Ware, but his together, I know,
Speaker 1: you know what I'd rather where on my team. I
Speaker 1: think at this day, well they could Jackson Jacks want picks.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's maybe that's what they end up doing here.
Speaker 1: When we come back this weekend, tons of drafts and auctions.
Speaker 1: You will get advice from all of us for draft
Speaker 1: and auction day. This is a huge week for them.
Speaker 1: Coming up next Fantasy Football Weekly, Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: Paul church In, Scott Fish and Matt Harrison with you.
Speaker 1: This is a huge weekend for drafts, auctions all this week. Really,
Speaker 1: we've got only two weeks left to get in your
Speaker 1: draft and auction, so this is this is a biggie,
Speaker 1: probably the most popular week. So let's spend a little
Speaker 1: bit of time just giving draft day advice, whether it's
Speaker 1: a draft or an auction, the kind of advice that
Speaker 1: you want to do that people should hear as they're
Speaker 1: heading in to their drafts and they're trying to maximize
Speaker 1: it the most. You know, the two hours you're gonna
Speaker 1: spend in this draft. You gotta live with these decisions
Speaker 1: all year long. This is awfully important. Let's make sure
Speaker 1: to get it right. Scott. Let's begin with you. I
Speaker 1: know that you, like me, prefer the auction or the draft.
Speaker 1: You're gonna focus largely on auction related advice. I've got
Speaker 1: a smack, I got a little everything over. What do
Speaker 1: you want to talk about? First? I was upset you
Speaker 1: had that nineteen percent question last week on three tough questions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the question last week was is it a viable auction
Speaker 1: strategy to not spend more than nine percent of your
Speaker 1: budget on any one player this particular year? Did you
Speaker 1: know My first ever article when I entered this industry
Speaker 1: for full time was a full article on auction strategy,
Speaker 1: and my main talking point was never spend over fifteen percent?
Speaker 1: So have you lived by that? I? I have lived
Speaker 1: by that, except for in bank roll leagues because they're
Speaker 1: a little different, but you know, there are different types,
Speaker 1: but in all other ones, I've absolutely lived by it.
Speaker 1: Auctions are so fluid that I love the hard cap
Speaker 1: of a in a two dollar auction, when a player
Speaker 1: gets to thirty dollars, I'm just out. I'm out. And
Speaker 1: this year I wanted to focus on it this year,
Speaker 1: especially because it's so dang deep. But you don't have
Speaker 1: to spend over thirty on anyone. Let everyone waste their
Speaker 1: money and is my long hard standing rule. So that's
Speaker 1: tip one on and you know what, to me, I
Speaker 1: couldn't live with that every year, but this year in
Speaker 1: the deepest draft I've ever seen, Yeah, having money and
Speaker 1: at the one hour mark of your auction is a
Speaker 1: really good spot to be in. It's pretty nice to
Speaker 1: run the board late an auction, is it ever? It's empowering.
Speaker 1: It's like the best feeling when everybody's just scrambling and going, oh, please,
Speaker 1: don't take this guy for two exactly when you can
Speaker 1: control the board, it's a It is a lot of
Speaker 1: power you don't ever normally have. It's like if you
Speaker 1: were in a draft and you had every pick in
Speaker 1: the twelfth round of your draft. Yeah, well, to me,
Speaker 1: it doesn't feel like the twelveth round. It feels like
Speaker 1: the seventh round. One thing that that hard limit does
Speaker 1: and if you can stick to it, which you should,
Speaker 1: it keeps you from price price enforcing and gain stuck it. Uh.
Speaker 1: It also keeps you avoids tilting. You're not gonna tilting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so it's a good point. It calms you down in
Speaker 1: an and I've seen I've seen people tilt where they
Speaker 1: get in absolute and the next thing you know, you're
Speaker 1: way over here there. They're probably doing it with you,
Speaker 1: against you as they're looking at your cheat sheet and
Speaker 1: the action people knowing your strategy will bid thirty one
Speaker 1: just to fight price yard. I don't care this has
Speaker 1: happened to me because my cheat sheet is available for
Speaker 1: free com and so I'm in an auction. People are
Speaker 1: holding my sheet and looking at me and raising my
Speaker 1: bids because they've got my maximum in front of them.
Speaker 1: They know what they know exactly what I think. I
Speaker 1: blame Brian Oak. I think you should he said you've
Speaker 1: done it to me before. Uh Matt from Draft Advice,
Speaker 1: So I I kind of went all in on the
Speaker 1: drafts and I just wanted to kind of go over
Speaker 1: my Gainesville strategy again. The three five two that's the
Speaker 1: area code of Gainesville, Florida. That's where it gets the name.
Speaker 1: Chart likes to call it undo the option. And someone
Speaker 1: just tweeted us while we're talking about under the opposite,
Speaker 1: So I think that's catching off undo the opposite if
Speaker 1: there's ever a year to undo the opposite. This. So
Speaker 1: the strategy dictates that you take running backs with your
Speaker 1: first three picks, wide receivers with your next five, and
Speaker 1: then two more running backs in rounds nine and ten.
Speaker 1: That's the three five two um. So that means you
Speaker 1: leave the first ten rounds with zero quarterbacks, zero tight ends,
Speaker 1: five running backs, five wide receivers. And why would you
Speaker 1: do this? The depth of the players at certain positions
Speaker 1: is so weird this year. There's so many good deep quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: there's so many good deep tight ends, and the wide
Speaker 1: receivers and running backs in rounds four through eight. That's
Speaker 1: what it's all about for me and this so get this.
Speaker 1: Here are the running backs available in rounds four through eight.
Speaker 1: Chris Carson, who I like, David Johnson, Levy on Bell,
Speaker 1: Raheem mostart mark Ingram, James Conner, Devin Singletary, David Montgomery.
Speaker 1: There's lots of question marks there. But if you look
Speaker 1: at the wide receivers that go in rounds four through eight,
Speaker 1: and only eleven wide receivers are going in the first
Speaker 1: three rounds, It's A J. Brown, It's Cooper Cup, Allen Robinson,
Speaker 1: Adam Feeling, d J. Moore, Calvin Ridley, the list goes
Speaker 1: on and on. It's absolutely insane the value you can
Speaker 1: get in those middle rounds with wide receivers right now
Speaker 1: and come out with three stud wide receivers. And that's
Speaker 1: why I want to keep doing the Gainesville the three
Speaker 1: five tree to um. I think there's a lot of
Speaker 1: too too with this this this particular year. It's the
Speaker 1: way it works out, and we're really seeing running backs.
Speaker 1: Running backs are going hard and early, and if they're
Speaker 1: they're they're tapping out faster than wide receiver. Buy a lot.
Speaker 1: This particularly well and one more thing quarterback and tight
Speaker 1: end easy to you can get at tight end in
Speaker 1: round eleven Hayden Hurst, t J Hockenson, MIKESICKI, John U
Speaker 1: Smith Just stop at John. I got Gardner, Minshew and
Speaker 1: Joe Burrow in the fourth rounds of an IDP draft yesterday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well cut in half twelve team what quarterback like you
Speaker 1: said Roethlisberger, Minshew, Cam Newton, Joe Burrow, Tannehill, Cousins like
Speaker 1: you can get. There's good quarterbacks, um, and I guess
Speaker 1: my first bullet point on this discussion about what to do.
Speaker 1: Today's your draft day, your auction day. You're listening to
Speaker 1: the show getting prepped up. This is the year to
Speaker 1: just try something new. Maybe it's what Matt just described,
Speaker 1: maybe it's something else. This is the deepest draft I've
Speaker 1: ever been a part of. There are good players at
Speaker 1: almost every stage of the draft. There are no bad
Speaker 1: rounds in this one. You're going to find some of
Speaker 1: you can help you every spot of the draft, or
Speaker 1: almost at any price point that you want in the auction.
Speaker 1: So everything can work. And I just encourage you to
Speaker 1: be creative, try something new and different that you've always
Speaker 1: wanted to try because this is the best year I've
Speaker 1: ever seen to try something different. Chart is gonna try
Speaker 1: getting running backs in the first period. It's weird. It
Speaker 1: is something you've never tried before. Never do that, Uh, Scott,
Speaker 1: what have you got? Uh? Second auction tip here, Lalo
Speaker 1: and I think this is a great job, great one
Speaker 1: for this year. In it's the auction, don't even bid
Speaker 1: for the a couple of days or in a live
Speaker 1: auction first twenty or so players don't even bid. Or
Speaker 1: if you do bid and you don't want to reveal
Speaker 1: what you're doing, bid make bids that you know have
Speaker 1: no chance of winning. Just lay completely low all the
Speaker 1: excitement at the start of an auction. People are spending
Speaker 1: tons of money. Save it, okay, but don't be the
Speaker 1: guy that throws out stay Kwon Barkley one dollar. No,
Speaker 1: Scott will throw him out for well, yes, what you
Speaker 1: could do, because he's he's going to go for more
Speaker 1: than you know. I but I hate I hate the
Speaker 1: people to do that because it never go Now now,
Speaker 1: Sae Kwon Barkley, that should take thirty seconds to auction
Speaker 1: off is going to take a minute a half. You know,
Speaker 1: one person in an auction can fix that. When somebody
Speaker 1: does the Sa kwan for one, you just go yeah,
Speaker 1: but nobody does because everybody's like, I might get him
Speaker 1: for three. Yeah, that never works. Let's be adults, uh correct.
Speaker 1: Go get your guys. It's auction day, it's draft day.
Speaker 1: Decide on who who you walk out there a year,
Speaker 1: there are three or four guys that you really really
Speaker 1: want on your team. Just go get him, don't. I
Speaker 1: don't care. I don't care what the ADP says. You know,
Speaker 1: let's I'll take mad it is. That's actually one of
Speaker 1: my other bullet points. Austin Neckler is one of the
Speaker 1: guys you like, I think you should. He should be
Speaker 1: taken in the first round, ADP says the end of
Speaker 1: the second or the early third. Who cares, It's gonna
Speaker 1: break your heart if you don't get Austin Neckler. Just
Speaker 1: go take him. Who cares about ADP? Identify your guys
Speaker 1: and go get them. You know Scott's Hays don't spend
Speaker 1: more than in an auction. I feel like, well, I
Speaker 1: think that's a viable strategy and it's one you could
Speaker 1: come away with a good team with. For me, if
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes is a guy you want on your team,
Speaker 1: Go get him or whoever it is, Go get your guys.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine me the biggest thirty dollars on Kenny
Speaker 1: Golladay And I'm just like dying, man. I just I
Speaker 1: hate it when I leave auctions and I didn't get
Speaker 1: my guys. Go get your guys, especially in auctions. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the one time when you have a chance, you better, right, Scott,
Speaker 1: you're focusing on draft day auction decisions. Yes, My My
Speaker 1: next tip is attacked the middle. And it's not just
Speaker 1: attacked the middle of the auction, which you absolutely should do.
Speaker 1: Attack the middle of an auction, but also the middle
Speaker 1: of tears. Yes, when the first player of a tear
Speaker 1: hits the board, they start getting bit up, and generally
Speaker 1: someone is trying to get their guy in that tier,
Speaker 1: so they're paying more the last player of a tier.
Speaker 1: Super people get scared, they get super expensive. Attack the
Speaker 1: middle of the auction and attack the middle of tears.
Speaker 1: I think there's some truth to that. I've gone to
Speaker 1: do it. I've the worst auctions I've ever had have
Speaker 1: employed this strategy. And here's my tip to you what
Speaker 1: not to do. Don't go to an auction saying I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna find value. I'm just gonna find guys I
Speaker 1: think are under undervalued. The weird thing is value will
Speaker 1: come to you if you do the auction right. I
Speaker 1: think so do and you end up not getting your
Speaker 1: guys again, back to this, You don't get your guys
Speaker 1: when you're just waiting for value and fishing for value.
Speaker 1: The next thing you know, you've just got a bunch
Speaker 1: of players that nobody wanted. Zack Moss is up for
Speaker 1: bid right now in an auction, and Jonna Smith is
Speaker 1: coming up right after him. I don't I know JOHNA.
Speaker 1: Smith's gonna get thrown out next because I'm gonna nominate
Speaker 1: him right afterwards. Okay, are you really spending up on
Speaker 1: those kind of guys that will you break the rule
Speaker 1: to go get guys? You know I wouldn't, not Johnny Smith,
Speaker 1: But yeah I paid uh in a recent twenty man auction.
Speaker 1: I just paid fourteen for Zach for Zack Moss. You
Speaker 1: know it's a twenty team auction, but sure, yeah, I
Speaker 1: alluded to this earlier. Just have a fun team. I
Speaker 1: think there's to me. I love I love having Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes on my team and Lamar Jackson on my team,
Speaker 1: entire Hill on my team. Guys that are athletic specimens
Speaker 1: that when Patrick Mahomes goes back to pass and you
Speaker 1: see him with that big wind up and the blood
Speaker 1: starts pumping, anything could happen. You know, this thing, this
Speaker 1: ball could go sixties seventy yards in the air and
Speaker 1: cradle into the arms of Tyreek Hill. I love having
Speaker 1: players where any time they touched the ball, something magical
Speaker 1: could happen. Fun players make for a fun year, even
Speaker 1: if you don't win the whole thing. Scott, You've got
Speaker 1: more auction items. Sure, sure, this one's this one's a
Speaker 1: little short. I called it this one. I am the law.
Speaker 1: It's it's fun being Yeah, it's fun being judged dread.
Speaker 1: But just be careful not to get exiled to the
Speaker 1: cursed earth. You don't want to price and force someone.
Speaker 1: And if people don't know what price enforcing and no
Speaker 1: auctions is is you're bidding up a player you don't
Speaker 1: really want. You're just bidding them up to waste money
Speaker 1: to get money out of other people. Um My, My
Speaker 1: main point on that is, never make a bid that
Speaker 1: you are not okay winning that bid. It's hard. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's really it's gutsy. It's gutsy. If it's gonna crush
Speaker 1: you that you ended up with that bit just because
Speaker 1: you're bidding somebody up. Don't don't make that bit. We've
Speaker 1: all been in several auctions before. How many times have
Speaker 1: we been in an auction, made a bit of eighteen
Speaker 1: dollars a player and then just been absolutely relieved when
Speaker 1: somebody said nineteen, just like, oh thank god. Absolutely. Uh.
Speaker 1: If you're doing an online drafter auction and you're not
Speaker 1: familiar with the online drafter auction room, you know it's
Speaker 1: a new technology to you, it's a new website. Whatever,
Speaker 1: go early, get situated. Understand how everything works, how you
Speaker 1: make a selection, how you build a queue. Do a
Speaker 1: mock on that site. Yes, go do a mock draft
Speaker 1: on that site, so you learn the engine because you
Speaker 1: don't want technology to be an impediment. Well, you're on
Speaker 1: the clock and you're trying to figure out if I
Speaker 1: should raise an auction bid or your your pick is
Speaker 1: up in the draft and ESPN and Yahoo, which are
Speaker 1: probably the two most popular things. ESPN recently changed their
Speaker 1: auction room about a year ago. So if you haven't
Speaker 1: played in a little while, it's gonna be a little
Speaker 1: bit different. You can go do free mocks right on
Speaker 1: their site at any time time. Yeah. And by the way,
Speaker 1: the technology for those auction rooms, auctioning is hard. It's
Speaker 1: really hard that Yes, Be and Yahoo have done an
Speaker 1: amazing job with their auction rooms. They're really really good.
Speaker 1: They're both good. They just move things sometimes you don't
Speaker 1: know where they are. Got. Uh. Next tip for auctions, Uh,
Speaker 1: take notes. And I'm not talking about like in college
Speaker 1: taking tons of note. It's like that kind of thing
Speaker 1: I'm talking about. When you wit a player, take note.
Speaker 1: If someone was bidding hard against you, put a note
Speaker 1: by that player. This guy really wanted this player. Um.
Speaker 1: Same with if you see someone who gets obviously stuck
Speaker 1: with a player, you might be able to get him
Speaker 1: on the cheap. Just a couple of brief notes to
Speaker 1: take while you're while you're doing an auction, Can I
Speaker 1: give you I don't want to steal? Well if you
Speaker 1: if you I'm gonna, I've got an auction. Yeah, well
Speaker 1: I have one more, but you're not gonna. It won't hit.
Speaker 1: Every year I write down all of the auction values
Speaker 1: for every player. So when s Kwon Barkley goes for
Speaker 1: forty one. Write down forty one next his name. Then
Speaker 1: the next year I go back and I look so
Speaker 1: that I can see in this group of people. Here
Speaker 1: is how this this group tends to lean. You know,
Speaker 1: they run running backs heavy, and I know that the
Speaker 1: high end running backs are going to go for forty
Speaker 1: one because I've got years of I look back for years,
Speaker 1: I go years of data. Here's what this, this is
Speaker 1: what this up. It is good prep and so I
Speaker 1: can you really can get a feel for and I'm
Speaker 1: telling you it largely holds true year after year. People
Speaker 1: just are who they are. Wow. So it actually ended
Speaker 1: up kind of stealing my last note. And just if
Speaker 1: you're in a new auction league, every auction is super different.
Speaker 1: So looking at previous years and current auction values as
Speaker 1: a tool is okay, but be prepared for the auction
Speaker 1: to drastically change. Unless you're in the auction with the
Speaker 1: same group of people, which you know, then you might
Speaker 1: be able to get a pretty good read of the room.
Speaker 1: Last one, be mentally ready if you're in a draft
Speaker 1: to trade down. You know this is to Matt's point earlier,
Speaker 1: there's just so much depth and so much value. If
Speaker 1: you could turn your first round pick into a second
Speaker 1: and a third, make that deal. If you tune your
Speaker 1: second rounder to a third and fourth, make that deal.
Speaker 1: You know you can really accumulate picks. We talked about
Speaker 1: this in some detail a few shows ago. You really
Speaker 1: can accumulate a lot of picks and do yourself a
Speaker 1: favor in a deep draft by trading down. Most people
Speaker 1: don't do it. We'll never do it. This is a
Speaker 1: great opportunity for exactly that. Hey, if you want to
Speaker 1: be ready for your draft auction, maybe it's today, maybe
Speaker 1: it's this week. Get my g cheat for free Guillotine
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Speaker 1: Harrison with you. Back in moments. Welcome back to Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly. Fault Charchi and Scott Fish and Matt Harrison
Speaker 1: with you. This is a segment we like to call
Speaker 1: three tough questions. You can play along. I will pepper
Speaker 1: my co host, with three. So uncomfortable with this segment
Speaker 1: right now? Based on what happened the last time the
Speaker 1: three of us were at this table, you should be
Speaker 1: you went over three. If you recall and then you
Speaker 1: carried over your bad mojo to last week. And I
Speaker 1: just answered everything that Scott answered, And if you got
Speaker 1: him all right and I got him all wrong, that
Speaker 1: can happen. You can play along, see if you can
Speaker 1: go three and oh we begin with tough question number one.
Speaker 1: Does the plethora of injuries to wide receivers improve your
Speaker 1: projections for tight and George Kittle a lot, a little,
Speaker 1: or not at all? Scott, alright, so he was already
Speaker 1: my tight end one pretty much with a bullet. So
Speaker 1: I don't know how much more I can add to him.
Speaker 1: If you're asking if he will break his own single
Speaker 1: season receiving record of which is best of all time
Speaker 1: for tight ends at six. Already thought he had a
Speaker 1: shot at it. If you think he's gonna to break
Speaker 1: his career high and touchdowns of five, he had three
Speaker 1: called back last year, I think he was already going
Speaker 1: to do that, so honestly, not at all, because I
Speaker 1: already had him pegged for just a ridiculous year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna answer whatever, Scott. No, Deebo was seen
Speaker 1: sprinting hard, as I mentioned at Wednesday's practice. That's a
Speaker 1: good thing. It's still possible he's ready for week one.
Speaker 1: Hiuk is week to week with what's called a mild
Speaker 1: left hamstring strain, so he could be back by week one.
Speaker 1: The depth at the wide receiver position isn't flashy, but
Speaker 1: it's not horrible. Kendrick Borne showed flashes in the red
Speaker 1: zone last year. Dante Pettis looked like a professional wide
Speaker 1: receiver in the past, enough so where Chart gave me
Speaker 1: a first round pick for him. Uh Davon Austin, Kevin
Speaker 1: White I have a first round pedigree. I expect one
Speaker 1: of those to get cut. But rookie Joan Jennings was
Speaker 1: a guy that people generally liked going to the draft.
Speaker 1: He felt the seventh he's on the roster. To the
Speaker 1: point of it, all is is Htle is gonna eat.
Speaker 1: We're not worried about that. Having better weapons on the
Speaker 1: field will help allow him to avoid additional coverage. Though
Speaker 1: what's good for the offense is good for the offense.
Speaker 1: So my answer is not at all, not at all. Again,
Speaker 1: the question is does the plethor of injuries the wide
Speaker 1: receivers improve your projection for tight end George Kittle a lot,
Speaker 1: a little, or not at all. Any correct answer is
Speaker 1: not at all and you said, things that are good
Speaker 1: for the offense. Uh, for good for a player in
Speaker 1: the offense are good for the whole offense. Things that
Speaker 1: are bad for a player in the offense are bad
Speaker 1: for the whole offense. Kittle is not gonna get better
Speaker 1: because of this. He's he is a matchup nightmare. He's
Speaker 1: too big for dbs, he's too fast for linebackers. But
Speaker 1: without competent receivers, they you can put both linebacker and
Speaker 1: a dB get a double and triple. They can double him.
Speaker 1: Except for Jalen heard, most of these injuries are short term. Um,
Speaker 1: it's a long season. I just don't think at the
Speaker 1: end of the day that those injuries are going to
Speaker 1: change much of anything for George Kittle. Nicely done, you
Speaker 1: two tough question Number two. Ben Roethlisberger is going off
Speaker 1: the board as quarterback fifteen in round twelve. Is the
Speaker 1: public drafting him too late, too early or just right?
Speaker 1: Matt Oh, I got one right and I get to
Speaker 1: go first now? Yeah, back baby, Uh, you have honors,
Speaker 1: so to speak. In two thousand eighteen, the last season
Speaker 1: Big Ben played in, he was the second best fantasy
Speaker 1: quarterback in the league behind Patrick Mahomes. He had over
Speaker 1: yards that season thirty four touchdowns. It was more yardage
Speaker 1: than Mahomes. By the way, Now, he did have Antonio
Speaker 1: Brown that season, but the depth of Juju, Dionte Washington
Speaker 1: and Claypool plus Ebron Advance a tight end is pretty good.
Speaker 1: Fantasy owners are replaying last year, though, and he didn't
Speaker 1: really play last year if you might remember. Correct, they're
Speaker 1: saying he has zip on the ball and looks like
Speaker 1: his old self and practice. Plus I don't fully trust
Speaker 1: James Conner or the running backs to be monsters this year.
Speaker 1: So I think Roethlisberger has top five quarterback upside, and
Speaker 1: if you can get him in the twelfth, that means
Speaker 1: we're drafting him too late. Okay, Scott, Okay. So getting
Speaker 1: a quarterback like him in the twelfth is fine because
Speaker 1: I'm always against taking quarterbacks in the single digit usually,
Speaker 1: always usually against taking quarterbacks in the single digit rounds. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I think there's legit concern for his elbow and what
Speaker 1: a full sixteen games would look like on that elbow,
Speaker 1: and maybe it looks great great in practice right now.
Speaker 1: But obviously he has ten top ten upside, but he
Speaker 1: doesn't run either, and there's that risk there. By the way, Matt,
Speaker 1: you just said you think we're drafting him too late
Speaker 1: at QBFT yet my shock Fantasy Com cheat sheet here
Speaker 1: says Ben Roethlisberger QB. Well the order is correct. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: you need other people to draft other quarterbacks? Checks out,
Speaker 1: God Scott always trying to bust my behind. None of
Speaker 1: that in this room has. My answer is, it's just right.
Speaker 1: It's just right. It's fine. Roethlisberger is going too late.
Speaker 1: There's there's all this receiving talent around him. You've got
Speaker 1: four capable wide receivers, you have two capable tight ends,
Speaker 1: you have pass catching backs. He's got the excellent offensive line.
Speaker 1: Pro Football focuses number five ranked pass blocking offensive line
Speaker 1: from last year. I believe you calling Judith Schuster capable
Speaker 1: is your biggest compliment. It probably this year he's capable.
Speaker 1: And Matt alluded to this, Uh we forget one. He's
Speaker 1: one season removed from being Fantasy Football's third highest scoring quarterback.
Speaker 1: He could regress a ton and still be way outperformed
Speaker 1: different way I'll perform the twelfth round. So he is
Speaker 1: going too late. Tough question number three, Terry McLaurin and
Speaker 1: A J. Brown were both robbed of the Rookie of
Speaker 1: the Year award last season, which these second year receivers
Speaker 1: will post the bigger fantasy point improvement in year number two. Scott,
Speaker 1: Oh wow, what's going on here? He tricked me with
Speaker 1: that one? Yeah, I thought I had honors? What the heck? Man? Whatever?
Speaker 1: I don't know what I am going with F one.
Speaker 1: McLaren Uh, it's mostly due to their staffis. By the way,
Speaker 1: that's a way better nickname than Scary Terry. Scary Terry
Speaker 1: is a basketball player's nickname. Well, and he's also a
Speaker 1: morty name too, Like F one is way way cooler.
Speaker 1: How not just mclaude. I knew, I love, I love
Speaker 1: both these guys. But but really the truth is F
Speaker 1: one had a hundred less yards and and a touchdown
Speaker 1: less last year. He had nine nineteen yards and seven
Speaker 1: touchdowns and fifty eight receptions. I think I think he
Speaker 1: improves that by you know, a hundred two hundred yards
Speaker 1: a couple of extra touchdowns. A J. Brown already had
Speaker 1: over a thousand yards and eight touchdowns. I don't know
Speaker 1: how much how much more he's gonna jump up from
Speaker 1: that so the bigger improvement I'm going to with f one. Okay,
Speaker 1: I mean A J. Brown did all that but on
Speaker 1: only eight four targets and fifty two catches. So it's
Speaker 1: gotta be a J. Brown who can who can go
Speaker 1: through the roof. But much like they should have been
Speaker 1: co Rookies of the Year last year, it's possible that
Speaker 1: they could be the co most improved players this year.
Speaker 1: I like them both a lot um. They don't know.
Speaker 1: There's nothing we're not saying anything bad. You don't call
Speaker 1: him soft questions chart. So my answer is a J. Brown,
Speaker 1: And the reason is the offense. The quarterback is better
Speaker 1: in Tennessee. The running backs are better in Tennessee, the
Speaker 1: offensive line, the tight ends, probably the better second wide receiver.
Speaker 1: Everything about Tennessee's offense is significantly better than Washington's. So
Speaker 1: that's why a J. Brown's got a better shot of
Speaker 1: massive improvement. Yeah, you you took most of my talking points.
Speaker 1: It is a J. Brown, even though he starts from
Speaker 1: a higher position. As a baseline, McLaurin was roughly wide
Speaker 1: receiver twenty five depending on scoring system last year and J.
Speaker 1: Brown was roughly wide receiver eighteen. But you hit on
Speaker 1: so many of the key things. A J. Brown's got
Speaker 1: the advantage of stability of quarterback, stability of overall offense,
Speaker 1: the better running game to keep heat off, the better
Speaker 1: offensive line, and the better ownership situation, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: is a tangible intangible I mean, there really is a
Speaker 1: lot of chaos that has to be happening right now
Speaker 1: inside the Washington front office, and that stuff if it
Speaker 1: affects everybody, it really does. By the way, I was
Speaker 1: going to take A J. Brown, but mad and I
Speaker 1: didn't want to be the same la pedaling. No, it's uh.
Speaker 1: We saw we saw inconsistency last year from mclauren just
Speaker 1: because of not that not that his I think any
Speaker 1: part of it's his fault. It's just all these things
Speaker 1: that surround and that offense. It's going to be because
Speaker 1: he had a nine yard game, McLaren had an eleven
Speaker 1: yard game. Tia to thirty nine yard games. These are
Speaker 1: all scoreless games. Those are bad games that give you
Speaker 1: l's and in a guillotine league, those are bad games
Speaker 1: that get get your head chopped. Have to be really
Speaker 1: careful with with McClaren that way. And yes, A J.
Speaker 1: Brown starts from a higher point, so it's harder for
Speaker 1: him to make improvement. But he's got wide receiver one
Speaker 1: in him. He does a J Brown does, and he can't.
Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins can't power to be all the time. I
Speaker 1: don't think it might matter. The offensive lines bad. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I just think that offense just is not
Speaker 1: gonna be able to produce enough to make Terry McLaurin
Speaker 1: anywhere near wide receiver number one. You underestimate Alex Smith.
Speaker 1: We have a couple of bonus minutes. I'm gonna give
Speaker 1: you a bonus question. Christian McCaffrey is going off the
Speaker 1: board number one. Leagues, let's talk about whether or not
Speaker 1: it should be this overwhelming, because I don't think that's
Speaker 1: the case. There are a lot of things working against
Speaker 1: Christie McCaffrey this particular year. We have a whole new
Speaker 1: offense that he's got to that has to be acclimated to.
Speaker 1: We have an offensive line in Carolina. Well, we think
Speaker 1: he's gonna be good, but we don't know. We we
Speaker 1: have a whole new we have a whole We have
Speaker 1: an offensive line that is straight up garbage, that is
Speaker 1: a bad offensive line. We have a quarterback that is
Speaker 1: not going to threaten downfield at all. Now you can
Speaker 1: look at you know, Will Allen last year and go,
Speaker 1: you know what, what good was he either? But Teddy's
Speaker 1: not built that way. Um and just regression, I mean,
Speaker 1: just what he did last year was so off, so
Speaker 1: far outside of the ordinary, that it seems unlikely to
Speaker 1: happen again. And there are a lot more. There are
Speaker 1: a lot of weapons there. Ian Thomas is legit good.
Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson is there now, Yes, not to mention sel
Speaker 1: t J. Moore, right, So you know, there are a
Speaker 1: lot of other options there. We don't know for sure
Speaker 1: that this new coaching staff is going to treat Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey the same way the last one did, which really
Speaker 1: deferred to him on like everything. Fantasy football players did
Speaker 1: catch a touchdown from the practice, yes, and so I
Speaker 1: got some stuff on this. So Matt Rule. His offenses
Speaker 1: at Baylor ran the ball of the time. Joe Brady
Speaker 1: was one of the most past happy coordinators uh in
Speaker 1: the in the in college. Last year at l s
Speaker 1: u UM, the team average thirty eight passing attempts per
Speaker 1: gards lay a little bit, but the Panthers passed on
Speaker 1: six of plays last season that was the fourth highest
Speaker 1: in the league. And you have a quarterback who can't
Speaker 1: throw very far. So it's a team that passed a
Speaker 1: lot last year, an offensive coordinator who passed a ton
Speaker 1: the year before, and a head coach who has a
Speaker 1: running philosophy with a quarterback who can't throw the ball downfield.
Speaker 1: This all just leads to Christian McCaffrey. Dump offs to
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey. Handoffs to Christian McCaffrey. Maybe he's gonna break
Speaker 1: his own records. If you're if you're not going to
Speaker 1: take Christian McCaffrey at the first pick, who would you
Speaker 1: take Barley? It's getting closer to Derrick Henry For me,
Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards Hilaire, I want start running back from the
Speaker 1: best offensive football. I'm fine with any of those three. Yes,
Speaker 1: I think you know there's you know you can be
Speaker 1: brave out there and go some other way besides Christian McCaffrey,
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Speaker 1: It's Fantasy Football Weekly, episode number five, year number twenty six.
Speaker 1: I am Paul Charchi and my co hosts are Matt
Speaker 1: Harrison and Scott Fish our number two guys. We're going
Speaker 1: to talk about teammates at the same position and who
Speaker 1: you would rather have based on their draft position. So
Speaker 1: it's not just which guys better, which is usually pretty obvious.
Speaker 1: The trickier question is based on where they would go
Speaker 1: in a draft, which also kind of equates to an auction,
Speaker 1: how much you'd have to pay Who would you rather
Speaker 1: have in that scenario. We begin in the a f
Speaker 1: C with m Devin Singletary in round five or Zack
Speaker 1: mosson round ten. Yeah. So I've done two drafts in
Speaker 1: the last two days, and Zack Moss went ahead of Devins.
Speaker 1: Look at what we have done, So look at what
Speaker 1: this show is done to Zack Moss is stock. This
Speaker 1: is a weird question for me to. I think they're
Speaker 1: both like seventh round or round right in that range. Well,
Speaker 1: so when I looked, they were fifth and tenth. But
Speaker 1: I get that ADP says that I'm just saying the
Speaker 1: last two drafts. So, UM, it's clearly moster right. If
Speaker 1: Josh Allen is running less, so he's gonna get less
Speaker 1: of those nine yard touchdowns and there's more Gary's uh,
Speaker 1: and he's get in the passing game. It's Moss. We've
Speaker 1: gone over Moss a billion times. I don't need to
Speaker 1: keep now. You probably don't we you know we love
Speaker 1: him on this show. Well, at least I do. You
Speaker 1: guys might be just going along for the ride. I
Speaker 1: don't know Matt in Pittsburgh. The wide receivers Juju Smith
Speaker 1: Schuster in round three, Deonta Johnson round nine, or James
Speaker 1: Washington in round twenty, Well, Jujus price point is too
Speaker 1: early for me, especially since I'm not fully trusting him
Speaker 1: this season. You shouldn't pend. And if I'm doing the
Speaker 1: three five two, I'm not taking a wide receiver in
Speaker 1: round three. So it's between Deonta and James Washington from
Speaker 1: weeks nine through sixteen. Um, Johnson averaged or sorry, James
Speaker 1: Washington average six point to five targets, just over four
Speaker 1: catches and seventy two yards per game with three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good. Over those exact same eight games, Deonta
Speaker 1: Jhnson averaged only five point eight targets, three point seven
Speaker 1: five receptions, and only forty one yards per game with
Speaker 1: only two touchdowns over that span. But we're drafting Deonte
Speaker 1: Johnson eleven rounds ahead of James Washington, yes, earlier. It's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: I'm taking James Washington super late. Yeah, I think you
Speaker 1: might be right about that. Man. Most drafts aren't even
Speaker 1: twenty rounds long, Scott. Let's go to New England wide
Speaker 1: receiver Julian Edelman around seven or Nick Kiel Harry in
Speaker 1: round fifteen. So I put to kill Harry despite reports
Speaker 1: he's been fatigued and Edelman's in his face and stuff,
Speaker 1: because the end of this last week he started showing
Speaker 1: up and making play. So I think I think maybe
Speaker 1: he's gonna get there. He's the clear number two in
Speaker 1: that offense. He's a big body target for uh for
Speaker 1: Cam Newton, and UH, I don't know that Cam's gonna
Speaker 1: use Edelman the same way. Edelman is getting older. But
Speaker 1: the biggest thing for me is in that seventh round.
Speaker 1: And of course I was looking at recent drafts for me,
Speaker 1: uh zass, Zack Moss, Deonte Johnson, Will Fuller, Michael Gallup,
Speaker 1: j K Dobbins, all within like six seven picks on
Speaker 1: either side. I'm like, I want all those guys more
Speaker 1: than I want Element. So it's Niki Hill Harry almost
Speaker 1: by a process of elimination. Let's go to Baltimore matt
Speaker 1: running backs, mark Ingram and round six or JK Dobbins
Speaker 1: in round eight. So Baltimore averaged thirty seven rushing attempts
Speaker 1: per game last season and only twenty eight passing attempts.
Speaker 1: They were the most run heavy team in the league.
Speaker 1: It's worth noting that they only averaged twenty five rushing
Speaker 1: rushing attempts for running back last year part of that,
Speaker 1: and that was only good for the seventh most. Gus
Speaker 1: Edwards averaged eight carries per game. Yeah, he's out. Justice
Speaker 1: Hill averaged three and a half carries per game. He's
Speaker 1: really out. I feel like I just found eleven touches
Speaker 1: for JK Dobbins plus Ingram, Gus and Hill were not
Speaker 1: involved in the passing game at all. The three of
Speaker 1: them combined for two and a half catches per game.
Speaker 1: The Ravens had the third fewest running back receptions in
Speaker 1: the league last year, and that's because they didn't have JK. Dobbins,
Speaker 1: who can catch out of the backfield. And we saw
Speaker 1: the we saw the beautiful catch in the back of
Speaker 1: the end zone on Twitter earlier this week. So I
Speaker 1: think it's probably an even split on touches, with both
Speaker 1: guys getting around fourteen fifteen per game. That means I'm
Speaker 1: taking Dobbins two rounds later. Agree with all of them, Scott.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Cleveland where Odell Beckham is going in
Speaker 1: the third round, Jarvis Landry in the sixth. This is
Speaker 1: another process of elimination because I just like too many
Speaker 1: other players in the third round and people all people
Speaker 1: hate Jarvis Landry for no good reason. Well, you don't
Speaker 1: score touchdowns. That's a good reason. Well, you know, at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, more than anything else in
Speaker 1: fantasy football, I want touchdowns. Yeah, Well, he has touchdown
Speaker 1: ten touchdowns the last two years, and that's exactly how
Speaker 1: many Odell Beckham Junior has in the last two years
Speaker 1: as well. So there's that. So there's that. But we
Speaker 1: but we have we have a history that shows Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham can get double digit touched Jarvis Landry's five six
Speaker 1: touchdowns a year. Yeah, that is true. Back when David
Speaker 1: Johnson was really good, Odell Beckham Junior was really good too.
Speaker 1: I get that. But but but what I'm saying, Wow, but
Speaker 1: what I'm saying is very passive aggressive right there. Jarvis
Speaker 1: Lantry has eight plus catches every year, and he's got
Speaker 1: the most catches in the first six years of a
Speaker 1: career of all time. Is that true? That's true? You know,
Speaker 1: in fairness, who's ever, Who's ever? It's the most boring
Speaker 1: Who's ever? Said? Jarvis Landry sunk my draft? Nobody but
Speaker 1: O'Dell sunk a couple of you know, many people's draft.
Speaker 1: That's why in the third round there are tons of
Speaker 1: guys I love. In the sixth round. Sure, I'll take
Speaker 1: that safe wide receiver to wide receiver three for me.
Speaker 1: By the way, Michael Thomas is gonna obliterate that Jarvis
Speaker 1: Landry record. This is year six for Michael Thomas. So
Speaker 1: we're talking about teammates at the same position and which
Speaker 1: one we'd prefer to have based on where you have
Speaker 1: to draft them. We go to Indianapolis, matt where Jonathan
Speaker 1: Taylor is going in the fourth round, in Marlon Mack
Speaker 1: and the ninth. I just want to kind of answer
Speaker 1: this one with a look like, come on, come on,
Speaker 1: one of these guys has the potential to be the
Speaker 1: number one running back in football. You can get him
Speaker 1: in round four. Of that upside, we've seen enough of Mac.
Speaker 1: It's Jonathan Taylor. Yeah, this is the first time we
Speaker 1: haven't chosen the lowest available player when we've done this exercise.
Speaker 1: But it's because it's a round four guy that might
Speaker 1: end up being a top five running back. Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 1: is a special back. Marlon Mack isn't. And based on
Speaker 1: that alone is what I hear you say. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: I do believe Marlon Max is gonna be a thorn
Speaker 1: in the side, and he's gonna get more playing time
Speaker 1: than any of us want to want to a bunch too,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna we're gonna hate all of it, but
Speaker 1: Marlon max playing time is just a thorn in our side.
Speaker 1: Nobody's gonna want to start Marlon Mack on any rosters
Speaker 1: this year at all. Probably true. All right, Matt, let's
Speaker 1: go to Houston. Will Fuller is going around seven Brandon
Speaker 1: Cooks and round eight. I'll take this woman stuff. Sorry,
Speaker 1: by the way, I do like O b J. That
Speaker 1: was a joke with David Johnson. I have him is
Speaker 1: like apologize. You can hammer O b J. He's a
Speaker 1: big boy, you can take. Uh, this one is quite
Speaker 1: easily Will Follward for me, and it's it's actually not
Speaker 1: even close. I I can't touch cook Cook in the eighth.
Speaker 1: I don't think I can touch him in the tenth even. Honestly,
Speaker 1: there's just other players, uh for for me, Will Fuller
Speaker 1: with a full offseason, give me the guy with tons
Speaker 1: of chemistry with Watson without a fall offseason. I mean Cooks,
Speaker 1: Cooks doesn't have that. Um, this guy's uh the Cooks
Speaker 1: is you know, you're removed from four straight thousand yard
Speaker 1: gate seasons. But Fullers, the guy with all the chemistry,
Speaker 1: all the touchdowns, double digit fantasy points in two thirds
Speaker 1: of his games with Deshaun Watson, and Deshaun Watson is
Speaker 1: already singing his praises just really loud. So all right, Matt,
Speaker 1: let's go to Miami. Teammates Jordan Howard going in the
Speaker 1: eighth round or Matt Brita in the ninth. So I'm
Speaker 1: cheating and I have exactly two answers to this one.
Speaker 1: If it's a PPR league, you take Matt Brida. If
Speaker 1: it is less than a full PPR league, you take
Speaker 1: Jordan Howard. Reason Howard has only averaged one point two
Speaker 1: receptions per game over the last three years. Brita didn't
Speaker 1: average a ton more. But he's one of the fastest
Speaker 1: backs in the league and was sure handed when given
Speaker 1: the tunity in San Francisco. But I do think Howard
Speaker 1: will be the goal line back and we'll get most
Speaker 1: of the work near the stripes. So a non PPR
Speaker 1: I lead Howard. In PPR, I'm taking Breed. By the way,
Speaker 1: we were mentioned this two weeks ago when I did
Speaker 1: vacated targets vacated running. Matt Brida is got sneaky upside.
Speaker 1: He sure does zekey upside. The game is among teammates
Speaker 1: at the same position, same team, which one is better
Speaker 1: to draft based on a DP. We're doing the a
Speaker 1: f C right now. Denver Melvin Gordon in round four,
Speaker 1: Philip Lindsay and round eight. Okay, so this this is
Speaker 1: a pure cheapest option. If it's a split backfield and
Speaker 1: it sounds like it's gonna be fifty, you take the
Speaker 1: cheapest option. I know that Melvin Gordon is the better
Speaker 1: pass catching back, but he is Melvin Gordon has had
Speaker 1: three years over eight point five yards per catch, and
Speaker 1: I think, uh, Philip Lindsay's best is five point six.
Speaker 1: Even Royce Freeman out caught Philip Lindsay last year is
Speaker 1: just on film. It's it's a different game. Honestly, um
Speaker 1: two or thirty eight point pound. Royce Freeman was better
Speaker 1: in the air. Through the air, get his name right,
Speaker 1: it's Royce dropped the piano. Freeman. Royce dropped the piano.
Speaker 1: Freeman was better than Phil Lindsay in the past game
Speaker 1: last year. But honestly, with a split backfield, I want
Speaker 1: and I do think it's gonna be like forty some
Speaker 1: catches to thirty some catches, so it's it's negligible, But
Speaker 1: I want the cheaper option in round eight, which is
Speaker 1: Philip Lindsay. I've taken the cheaper option in all but
Speaker 1: two of these scenarios so far. Our final teammates at
Speaker 1: the same position Oakland wide receivers first round rookie Henry
Speaker 1: Ruggs round ten or third round rookie Brian Edwards round
Speaker 1: twenty two. I love those twenty two round drafts. By
Speaker 1: the way, By all accounts, Edwards is ahead of Rugs
Speaker 1: on the depth chart in Vegas right now, So why
Speaker 1: I take the guy twelve rounds later who's ahead on
Speaker 1: the depth chart? And Edwards is not the burner that
Speaker 1: the Davis family seems to love. That's what Rugs is,
Speaker 1: But he's the most complete wide receiver they have on roster,
Speaker 1: and the guy out of all their wide receivers, including
Speaker 1: Hunter Renfroe and Tyrelle Williams. Brian Edwards is the guide
Speaker 1: woman roster. When we come back, which teammates at the
Speaker 1: same position are the better one to draft in the NFC,
Speaker 1: including the very thorny Dallas wide receiver situation. Will break
Speaker 1: that down and a dozen other teammates at the same
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Speaker 1: some W in there. There's an H for sure. It's
Speaker 1: a silent age. Which teammates at the same position is
Speaker 1: the better one to draft? We just did the a
Speaker 1: f C. We broke down a f C teammates and
Speaker 1: it's got to be based on ADP. We're not just
Speaker 1: saying which guy's better, We're just saying, based on where
Speaker 1: you have to take them in a drafter in auction,
Speaker 1: who would you rather have? You know what I was
Speaker 1: thinking during the break. This just screams you are trade
Speaker 1: down as much as possible. It really does. You know.
Speaker 1: In the a f C we said trade down in six, seven, eight,
Speaker 1: eight of the ten scenarios had to trade down. This
Speaker 1: also screams, don't spend more than fifteen in an auction. Yes,
Speaker 1: it really does. Its validates almost everything we've been saying.
Speaker 1: Trade down in draft, you don't spend too much in auctions.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, let's another one of those right there, which
Speaker 1: to adalysis. Later in the segment proves our dalysis from earlier,
Speaker 1: which deemates at the same position are the is the
Speaker 1: better one to draft. We go to Dallas wide receivers
Speaker 1: a Marii Cooper going in the third round, Michael Gallup
Speaker 1: in the seventh, or Ceedee Lamb in the matt I
Speaker 1: like all of these guys a lot and a lot,
Speaker 1: but unless Cooper falls to the fourth I won't take
Speaker 1: him while doing the Gainesville. So it's down to Gallop
Speaker 1: and Lamb. And with every report out of camp that
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb is the most impressive thing that they've ever seen,
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna swing for the fences and take
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb because this lines up to me kind of
Speaker 1: like Randy Moss's rookie year he was passed on. He
Speaker 1: goes into a situation with two established really good wide receivers,
Speaker 1: get Chris Carter. Yeah, this looks like it could be
Speaker 1: just like Seedee Lamb just explodes this year. Do we
Speaker 1: see a three one hundred game where Zeke gets a
Speaker 1: hundred all three of those receivers and Jack gets three hundred.
Speaker 1: You know when that last happened. Vikings Lions, Scott Mitchell,
Speaker 1: Parriman Morton, and Man Cooper, Gallop Lamb. I think to
Speaker 1: meet Cooper is the least appealing out of those three.
Speaker 1: I would rather have Gallop in round seven, who scored
Speaker 1: about as many Fantasy points as Amari Cooper did last year,
Speaker 1: and more consistently, and much more consistently. You don't get
Speaker 1: the highs and the lows you get out of a
Speaker 1: Marie Cooper. He's the plays a player I never end
Speaker 1: up having. Let's go to the opposite. I take him everywhere.
Speaker 1: I reached the heck up for him in our guillotine.
Speaker 1: I reached for him for for Mary Cooper, No for
Speaker 1: Gallup with Gallup, Okay, yeah, he's perfect for guillotine format,
Speaker 1: no doubt, because of the consistency. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: giant Scott Sterling Shepherd Round ten, Darius Slayton, Round ten,
Speaker 1: Golden Tate. At the end of round ten, I'll call
Speaker 1: it round eleven. Which one do you want? So it's Slayton,
Speaker 1: and it's because like I don't. I know, he's not
Speaker 1: the most consistent of them. He's just got the most upside.
Speaker 1: He's he's the one that's that's splash year. He can
Speaker 1: have the bigger games. He scored more touchdowns in both
Speaker 1: of them last year. If I'm in round ten, it's
Speaker 1: my wider super four or five. I've already got my starters.
Speaker 1: I want the splashy upside guy. Yeah, I think that.
Speaker 1: And by the way, that's an over that's an overriding
Speaker 1: draft strategy that we should probably should have mentioned earlier
Speaker 1: in the draft strategy w C Baby. If side wins championship,
Speaker 1: upside wins, and later in your draft that it should
Speaker 1: be also should be swinging for the fences. Once you've
Speaker 1: got your established starters, you those you can three, but
Speaker 1: right throw the darts, uh and make him good. Matt.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Chicago running back David Montgomery and round
Speaker 1: five probably lower uh in more recent drafts, or Tree
Speaker 1: Cohen in round eight. The correct answer is avoid this
Speaker 1: backfield at all costs, or take Cordarrel Patterson in the
Speaker 1: last round, dear draft, Or if I have to choose
Speaker 1: between the two, how about Spencer Ware off the board.
Speaker 1: Free agent maybe, Uh, if I have to choose between
Speaker 1: the two, though, I'm still going to probably take David Montgomery.
Speaker 1: He's definitely going to be a little bit lower in
Speaker 1: a DP right now because if he's probably six or
Speaker 1: seventh round, Tree Cohen might have moved up around, so
Speaker 1: he's probably six or seven, and I think when all
Speaker 1: are healthy, David Montgomery is the guy who's going to
Speaker 1: get the goal line work. He had eight teen carries
Speaker 1: inside the five last year, and he's probably gonna be
Speaker 1: the guy who gets closer to twenty touches per game,
Speaker 1: and that's a guy can get maybe in the sixth
Speaker 1: or seventh right now, So that's okay. This is a
Speaker 1: great time to draft him if you were planning on
Speaker 1: if you even liked him a little, this is the
Speaker 1: time to draft. His value so low and it's possible
Speaker 1: that David Montgomery doesn't miss a game. It's also possibly
Speaker 1: as a setback on the groining. And we're talking about
Speaker 1: this in October, so you know, there's there's plenty of risk.
Speaker 1: And he certainly did not look like a special back
Speaker 1: last year, and there's nothing about what we heard in
Speaker 1: training camp suggested it looked any better. This year. I'm
Speaker 1: not saying he's special, no, I know neither. I'm saying
Speaker 1: the opportunity is there. The opportunity is the big thing, hey,
Speaker 1: and opportunities a single most important part of fantasy football
Speaker 1: at every position. Scott's go to Detroit, will stay in
Speaker 1: the NFC North running back DeAndre Swift in the fifth round,
Speaker 1: or carry on Johnson in the ninth. So DeAndre Swift
Speaker 1: is dinged up a little, but I'm gonna let carry on.
Speaker 1: Johnson asked to this answer this question when he was
Speaker 1: asked about how they're working together and what they're learning
Speaker 1: from each other. Carry on, Johnson said, I can't learn
Speaker 1: anything from Swift because the way Swift's knees bend and
Speaker 1: hips work, I can't do any of them. So ready
Speaker 1: he comes up. It does a little shaky dick through
Speaker 1: whatever thing. I can't do that. Just shaky dick, shaky
Speaker 1: dick whatever thing. I can't do that. So I just said,
Speaker 1: why aren't you doing this? And carry on? Johnson's voice,
Speaker 1: by the way, that's outstanding. I love that quote. I
Speaker 1: and I totally missed that, all right. I agree, Matts
Speaker 1: go to Green Bay Aaron Jones in the second round
Speaker 1: a j Dillon in the fourteenth round or Jamal Williams
Speaker 1: in the nineteen round. So I have a feeling this
Speaker 1: backfield is going to be pretty messy all season. And
Speaker 1: by messy, I think they just get They all get
Speaker 1: a lot of work. Um. So I'm going to take
Speaker 1: Packers backs only in best ball leagues. I'm not taking
Speaker 1: them in leagues where I have to start one of them.
Speaker 1: I'm only taking them in best ball leagues. And the
Speaker 1: guy had been taking in the last round of just
Speaker 1: about every bit best ball league recently is Jamal Williams.
Speaker 1: He had five receiving touchdowns last year and was easily
Speaker 1: the second best receiving option on the field outside of
Speaker 1: Davante Adams last season. And let's recount all of the
Speaker 1: guys the Packers brought into bolster that passing game. I
Speaker 1: don't have crickets on here. Here, here, take this. It's
Speaker 1: it's of cricket. Sounds just like one of those Green
Speaker 1: Bay crickets. Big there um and chart outline last week
Speaker 1: that Packers wide receivers don't get targets near the goal line.
Speaker 1: They had one inside the five last wild and it's
Speaker 1: because Jones got a lot of carries inside the five,
Speaker 1: Dylan's gonna take a lot of those this year, and
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams was getting a whole bunch of targets inside
Speaker 1: the five. So I think it's Jamal Williams really late.
Speaker 1: I don't want any part of Jamal Williams. Really. I
Speaker 1: don't want a part of any of these guys much.
Speaker 1: But I think if I had to pick, when I
Speaker 1: take a j Dillon and just hope that's only doing
Speaker 1: this in best Ball, Uh, Scott, let's go to Atlanta
Speaker 1: Julio Jones round two or Calvin Ridley and round four.
Speaker 1: I think there's one of the toughest ones to decipher
Speaker 1: my first line. I hate this question because I absolutely
Speaker 1: love both of them for this year. I I think
Speaker 1: if we see both of them average ten targets game,
Speaker 1: I would not be shocked out of the year. I think.
Speaker 1: I think there's tons of opportunities. So I'm giving it
Speaker 1: to Calvin Ridley for the two round discount, just so
Speaker 1: I can grab myself a running back or a stud
Speaker 1: tight end in that second round. I'll take Ridley in
Speaker 1: the fourth. I'm really surprised Lakwan Treadwell wasn't in that
Speaker 1: in round seven, Dwell Russell gage before him. Alright, Matt,
Speaker 1: let's let's go to another one that might be THORNI
Speaker 1: or than it sounds at first, Michael Thomas in round
Speaker 1: one or Emmanuel Sanders in round ten. I don't think
Speaker 1: this is Thorny at all. It's Michael Thomas because he's
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas. Manuel Sanders is nice, but he won't receive
Speaker 1: half of the Thomas target load. He's not a red
Speaker 1: zone guy like Thomas's. He's going to have a very
Speaker 1: fine fourth or fifth wide receiver slot on your roster
Speaker 1: kind of year. Sanders hasn't topped five touchdowns in a
Speaker 1: season since Peyton Manning was his quarterback. He has top
Speaker 1: to nine hundred yards in three years. He's missed eight
Speaker 1: games due to injury over the last three years. And
Speaker 1: as Scott said, round ten eleven, those those mid round
Speaker 1: guys you want the upside. I don't think Emmanuel Sanders
Speaker 1: carries the huge upside that Michael Thomas does. Obviously, wait
Speaker 1: ten more rounds. Take trick one Smith mind brawl done
Speaker 1: with so trying to roll the dice on after said, yeah,
Speaker 1: whore's predicting breakout season. I don't care. And I think
Speaker 1: two months ago Michael Thomas was from in my drafts anyway,
Speaker 1: or it was going like pick three, pick four, pick
Speaker 1: five now later. Now, yeah, it's all running backs in
Speaker 1: those seven picks. I saw a quote from an analyst
Speaker 1: the other day, and I wish I could remember who
Speaker 1: so I could credit him, But he said, I don't
Speaker 1: care if Michael Thomas is there with pick twenty four
Speaker 1: of the twelve of the second round. So the job
Speaker 1: take two running backs to start your There's a lot
Speaker 1: of people feel that way this year. It's go to
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay, Chris Godwin will cost you a second rounder,
Speaker 1: or Mike Evans with a third rounder. Scott uh this one,
Speaker 1: for me, it's Chris Godwin. I there's a love fest
Speaker 1: for me and Chris Godwin, but for me, Godwin is
Speaker 1: just a far better fit with Brady. Godwin plays all over,
Speaker 1: he plays the slow which Brady loves to throw too.
Speaker 1: He's better on the short yard and stuff. Uh and
Speaker 1: and reports recently are Brady and Evans are getting a
Speaker 1: little more chemistry, but they're they're just getting it now.
Speaker 1: It seems like I want the guy that we're in
Speaker 1: the area where he's used to throwing too. You know,
Speaker 1: we think of Mike Evans and he is a bit
Speaker 1: of a downfield receiver Jamis Winston for his many faults.
Speaker 1: You know, he had a cannon. The guy could throw downfield,
Speaker 1: and Brady just doesn't have that in the arm anymore.
Speaker 1: Like Evans was their lead pass receiver inside the infrared zone.
Speaker 1: So watch that there is that Matt's go to Arizona.
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake will cost you a second rounder Chase Edmonds
Speaker 1: a rounder. This might kind of surprise you. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take Kenyan Drake in round two. That does, because I've
Speaker 1: seen him going round one and a lot of drafts.
Speaker 1: But I'm also going to take Edmonds and reach around
Speaker 1: and take him in round thirteen because it's Kenyan walking
Speaker 1: boot Drake. Uh. He has all the attributes of a
Speaker 1: true fantasy stud. I'm still a tiny bit worried that
Speaker 1: it was fool's gold because he had thirty three percent
Speaker 1: of his Fantasy points in two games last year. So
Speaker 1: while I will invest in him in round two for
Speaker 1: the huge upside, I will also require that I get
Speaker 1: his very talented handcuff in Edmonds later in the draft.
Speaker 1: That's a cheating answer. Right there. Yeah, it is, let's
Speaker 1: pick one or the other. I did. I picked I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take Drake. Then I'm gonna have to reach her.
Speaker 1: Then the game is teammates at the same position, who's
Speaker 1: the better one to draft based on their average draft position.
Speaker 1: We go to San Francisco, where he mostarts, going in
Speaker 1: the sixth round, Tevin Coleman in the ninth Tevin Coleman
Speaker 1: could be going. Still, not taking him just not good
Speaker 1: doesn't mean he won't be fantasy viable in in that
Speaker 1: kind of run offense where they spread it around. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: but he's a guy that if he gets four yards
Speaker 1: and carry, you're like, heck, yes, this is amazing. This
Speaker 1: is the best Tevin covid. We're gonna get four yards
Speaker 1: for Gary uh No, it's moster. He's just too efficient.
Speaker 1: Five point six yards per uh for per attempt last year,
Speaker 1: twelve point nine yards per reception last year, which is
Speaker 1: just ridiculous. And that's no fluke. He was used seven
Speaker 1: eight nine yards per reception the year before that too.
Speaker 1: Um and the Beat reporters have been talking about how
Speaker 1: most of it is the clear back he's I think
Speaker 1: he was too, but they're they're going to use a rotation.
Speaker 1: They absolutely, but you made me choose. I did, so
Speaker 1: that's how and some people can make a choice on
Speaker 1: this show where he most by the way, when he
Speaker 1: most asked for the trade, who blinked the team? Teams
Speaker 1: don't generally blink in those situations at the state. When
Speaker 1: you get to that point, the team rarely blinks. He goes, Okay,
Speaker 1: we'll pay you. They paid him. That says plenty about
Speaker 1: the leverage that where he Mostard had final two teammates
Speaker 1: at the same position, Which is the better one to
Speaker 1: draft Dk Metcalf in the fifth round or Tyler Lockett
Speaker 1: in the fifth round at well. Dk averaged five and
Speaker 1: a half targets through the first eight games of the
Speaker 1: season last year, then seven targets over the final ten
Speaker 1: games including playoffs. Uh so he increased it by a
Speaker 1: target and a half. Locket averaged six point eight targets
Speaker 1: over the first date and seven point four over the
Speaker 1: final ten. He didn't really increase it that much at all.
Speaker 1: Those don't seem like a big difference, but increasing your
Speaker 1: workload by almost two targets per game as the quarterback
Speaker 1: and staff started trusting Dk Metcalf more and more leads
Speaker 1: me to believe that there's untapped upside for him. And
Speaker 1: I think we've seen Locketts upside and he's a really
Speaker 1: good solid wide receiver two on fantasy rosters. But Metcalf
Speaker 1: has the chance to vault into wide receiver one territory.
Speaker 1: Bettcalf has elite elite in him, right. I mean we've
Speaker 1: seen what Tyler Lockett can do, and it's good, it's
Speaker 1: not elite. DK Metcalf has the possibility of being a
Speaker 1: top five wide receiver and that body and I think
Speaker 1: that's why I would rather take the upside in Dk Metcalf.
Speaker 1: I'm with you on that one. Interestingly, we've gone almost
Speaker 1: all of the higher a DP guys in this segment.
Speaker 1: Our final one is in Los Angeles among ram wide receivers,
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup in the early fourth or Robert Woods in
Speaker 1: the late fourth round. Let's stick with the higher a
Speaker 1: DP guys. I'm going Cooper Cup. Uh he he like
Speaker 1: Woods can break plays Woods maybe the safe, consistent guy
Speaker 1: that doesn't get hurt. But and cups. Cups has missed
Speaker 1: time injuries, concussions. But if you told me that, and
Speaker 1: he's a red zone machine, Cooper Cup is just a
Speaker 1: machine with targets. And if you told me a round
Speaker 1: four wide receiver ended this season as the number one
Speaker 1: wide receiver in league and and made me bet on it,
Speaker 1: I bet Cooper Cup he has that in him. We
Speaker 1: talked about it last week. If there was one wide
Speaker 1: receiver outside of the top ten, who you think could
Speaker 1: finish number one overall? Cooper Cup was the guy I forgot.
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Speaker 1: some of the hottest topics around fantasy football, and release
Speaker 1: this week's Sleepers, the final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly
Speaker 1: bulcharching from duntin leagues dot Com. Scott Fish and Matt
Speaker 1: Harrison with you as well. This is our final segment.
Speaker 1: A game that we play most preseasons is called agree
Speaker 1: to Disagree. This is where each of us battles each
Speaker 1: other on a particular topic, and you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of times we end up in lockstep. We convince each
Speaker 1: other of some of our best takes. Matt has convinced
Speaker 1: me on the upside of Austin Neckler, as one example,
Speaker 1: over the course of this preseason, and I've nudged him
Speaker 1: up over the course of the preseason up my cheat
Speaker 1: sheet correspondingly. But there are other times that you're just
Speaker 1: wrong and I'm not coming to your side of the
Speaker 1: table on a particular take. So when that's the case, um,
Speaker 1: we agree to disagree. So we will have a battleground
Speaker 1: on different topics between each of us. We will begin
Speaker 1: with Scott versus Matt. The top it gives what is
Speaker 1: the topic, Jalen reagor alright, who is on the pro
Speaker 1: Reagor side. Oh you know, I am alright, Scott, Scott's
Speaker 1: pro every wide receiver. I'm Mr Positivity, alright, alright, Mr Sunshine,
Speaker 1: you go first raining FSG Humanitard alright, lived as it
Speaker 1: may be, Jalen Reagor, I haven't around wide receiver forty
Speaker 1: and you haven't met wide receiver fifty three, which is
Speaker 1: that's too high? Dear Lord? What there are a hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty eight vacated targets from that team? Alshan Jeffrey
Speaker 1: is people expect at this point him to land on
Speaker 1: the pup for the first six weeks of the season.
Speaker 1: I don't have faith into Sean Jackson anymore. I don't
Speaker 1: have faith in a A. F. S. Greg Ward is
Speaker 1: as good as you looked at the end of the season.
Speaker 1: Camp reports have been glowing on Reagor, who is lining
Speaker 1: up all over the place with the ones. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying he's gonna be a wide receiver one. I'm saying
Speaker 1: have him around wide receiver forty. He's a top end
Speaker 1: wide receiver four on your team. That's that's where I
Speaker 1: have him. Sure Arts and Goddard are are their top
Speaker 1: two options, but went through for four thousand yards last
Speaker 1: year with all the rest of their guys out, what
Speaker 1: what is Goddard and uh and it's gonna get a
Speaker 1: thousand each and Miles Standers six hundred and then there's
Speaker 1: nothing for anybody else. I think he's a wide receiver four.
Speaker 1: I have him at at around wide receiver forty. Alright,
Speaker 1: Matt agreed to disagree Jalen Reagor go. I will agree
Speaker 1: with Scott on one thing. I think Jalen Reagor will
Speaker 1: probably lead all Eagles wide receivers and catches, but he's
Speaker 1: going to end up fifth on the team in that
Speaker 1: category after Zach Ertz, Dallas Goddard, Miles Sanders, and Boston Scott.
Speaker 1: Wrong on Boston, Yes, you at Boston market is Boston Scott.
Speaker 1: Over the last seven weeks of the season and when
Speaker 1: the Eagles wide receivers were absolutely decimated by injury last year,
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz increased his passing attempts by a ton and
Speaker 1: Wentz his first nine games he threw forty attempts in
Speaker 1: a game only twice. In his final seven games, he
Speaker 1: topped forty passing attempts in every game. That's with no
Speaker 1: wide receivers around, so who did he throw? Wouldn't that
Speaker 1: mean he's gonna throw that many more balls to Jalen Reagor,
Speaker 1: who did he throw to? Zach ERT's average ten targets
Speaker 1: per game a necessity, Dallas Goddard averaged eight. Miles Sanders
Speaker 1: and Boston Scott each averaged five targets per game. Receivers
Speaker 1: were like Ward way better. What do tight end and
Speaker 1: running back pass routes have in common? High percentage, low
Speaker 1: depth of target, high efficiency. The wide receiver group during
Speaker 1: that time sounds like the kind of thing you do
Speaker 1: when you don't trust your wide receivers. Sounds like the
Speaker 1: kind of thing you do when you want your offense
Speaker 1: to function and you want to win games down the
Speaker 1: stretch to win the NFC East, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: they did. The wide receiver group only averaged fifteen targets
Speaker 1: per game. Eight receptions and a hundred and two is
Speaker 1: a group. If you spread that around, maybe Jalen Reagor's
Speaker 1: getting six targets a game, four catches sixty yards? Whoop
Speaker 1: de do Jalen now listeners at home? You get to
Speaker 1: decide who won. That's called agreed to disigree. You better
Speaker 1: put up a post gets to decide who the winner was.
Speaker 1: You just heard the Jalen Reagor battle. Here comes a
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson battle. Me and Matt I say, Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: is worth a first round pick. I should not even
Speaker 1: have to defend taking the highest scoring player in fantasy
Speaker 1: football last year in the first round. The next year,
Speaker 1: not only was the the highest scoring by ESPN scoring,
Speaker 1: he was a hundred points better than Christian McCaffrey. There's
Speaker 1: no doubt that he should go in the first round. Now.
Speaker 1: Needless to say, Lamar Jackson is a massive differentiator at
Speaker 1: his position, and that is the surest way to win
Speaker 1: the lead. Get positional differentiation. How much better was Jackson
Speaker 1: than Patrick Mahomes last year? He was a passing touchdown
Speaker 1: and a half per game better. How much better was
Speaker 1: he than the average starting quarterback quarterback six Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: Jackson was a touchdown and a half and fifty passing
Speaker 1: yards better. And if you were to slopt the quarterback
Speaker 1: position all the way to quarterback twelve, how much better
Speaker 1: was he than Tom Brady last year? That same touchdown
Speaker 1: and a half, that same fifty passing yards per game
Speaker 1: and throwing twenty rushing yards better than Tom Brady. You're
Speaker 1: getting Tom Brady plus a touchdown and a half fifty
Speaker 1: yards and touch rushing yards. We said it over and
Speaker 1: over again last year. Lamar Jackson's like having a starting
Speaker 1: running back and the starting quarterback. There's no plausible reason
Speaker 1: for him to regress. He should go in the first round.
Speaker 1: There's a plausible reason for him to regress. It's because
Speaker 1: it always happens. Do you know the last time we
Speaker 1: had a quarterback finish number one in back to back
Speaker 1: seasons Manning, No, I don't know. Dante Culpepper two thousand three,
Speaker 1: two thousand four. That was the last time we had
Speaker 1: a number one and Culpepper, while he was a running threat,
Speaker 1: it wasn't his running that propelled him that those years.
Speaker 1: He had forty seven hundred yards in one of those seasons,
Speaker 1: so his passing ability, especially with Randy Moss, really helped
Speaker 1: propel him throughout those seasons. Throughout this offseason, John Harbaugh
Speaker 1: has said that he wants to make their offense more balanced,
Speaker 1: and by balanced, I think that means taking hits off
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. Out of the one thousand thirty six plays
Speaker 1: the Ravens ran last season, six hundred six team were
Speaker 1: pass attempts. Lamar Jackson runs or sacks hundred and seventy
Speaker 1: six rushing attempts. For Jackson, he had more rushing attempts
Speaker 1: than Dak Prescott and Josh Allen combined. That's why I
Speaker 1: like it. That's not every rushing quarterback goes through this process.
Speaker 1: They had the year that is otherworldly. Then the coach
Speaker 1: says they need to be more balanced, and one of
Speaker 1: two things happened. They try to force him into being
Speaker 1: more of a pocket passer or he gets hurt. So
Speaker 1: there's a huge risk in taking Jackson earlier. I'll take
Speaker 1: Josh Allen in round six, who also had a hundred
Speaker 1: rushing attempts last year and, by the way, more touchdowns
Speaker 1: on the ground than Lamar Jackson. All Right, our final
Speaker 1: agree to disagree? You know what, I gotta stop us here, Yes,
Speaker 1: I gotta stop us here. I know we're doing a
Speaker 1: fun segment on agree to Disagree, but fun the listeners
Speaker 1: don't know about this. I just needed to apologize to
Speaker 1: you Charge and your family, and you matt and your
Speaker 1: family because when I found out that Matthew Stafford had
Speaker 1: gone to your house, Charge and kicked pepper and scraps
Speaker 1: and then went to Batt's house and kicked Hayley. What terrible.
Speaker 1: That's my daughter. That's even worse. That's worth it's Hattie.
Speaker 1: Hattie the dog is the daughter, and Hattie's a lot better.
Speaker 1: And Hattie is like four pounds when teen, Like, what
Speaker 1: are you doing? Your daughter's thirteen pounds thirteen years old?
Speaker 1: When I found out Matthew Stafford had done that to
Speaker 1: both of your dogs, and first, that's the only reason
Speaker 1: you have from rank solo, right, that's the only possible reason. Yes,
Speaker 1: I I like Matthew Stafford. And he was great to
Speaker 1: the first half of last year before the injury, right,
Speaker 1: he was on paces and forty touchdowns and he's been
Speaker 1: a four thousand yard touchdown or four thousand yard guy
Speaker 1: like every year of his career. And you gotta make
Speaker 1: QB sixteen. It's just a lot of good qbs. That's
Speaker 1: all a lot of great weapon. You know what I'm
Speaker 1: I am I'm nervous about. I'm worry not just last
Speaker 1: year's injury, just where he is in the ark of
Speaker 1: his career, with the injuries, the rumors of him retiring.
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's just It's just there's a lot
Speaker 1: of good guy. I like him. I like a lot
Speaker 1: of other quarterbacks. Coaching staff that's probably leading the odds
Speaker 1: for first coach fired. Maybe maybe you know it's it's
Speaker 1: he's still the Lions quarterback that worries me a little bit.
Speaker 1: And and actually, you know, I like staff Is Stafford
Speaker 1: been a drafted by a different team, he'd have Super
Speaker 1: Bowl rings. It's just that I can't trust the Lions yet.
Speaker 1: By the way, Kenny, if they Stufford and Kenny Golladay
Speaker 1: were exactly, Kenny Golladay would have fourches receiver. Dang. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Kenny Golladay is really good. And Marvin Jones is good too.
Speaker 1: He's got to stay healthy though. That's part of the deal,
Speaker 1: is we gotta get Marvin Jones to stay stay healthy,
Speaker 1: which is a big part of it. We wrap up
Speaker 1: every show with sleepers. We released three each show, we
Speaker 1: each release one. I've already given you just stone cold
Speaker 1: winners so far over the course of the Are you
Speaker 1: precocking over there? I am? As a matter of John
Speaker 1: ou Smith and Zack Moss and Paris Campbell and Baker Mayfield,
Speaker 1: all guys are all guys excellent excellent sleepers for your team.
Speaker 1: Let's begin with Matt You're sleeper this week. I've got
Speaker 1: Dare talked nicely, thank you. We talked about some inside
Speaker 1: the five numbers on the last week's show, and one
Speaker 1: of the things that piqued my interest was the Tampa
Speaker 1: situation last year inside the five, Tampa's rushing attempt totals
Speaker 1: went to Peyton Barber with ten gone, then a gon
Speaker 1: Bo with seven, then then Ronald Jones with four and
Speaker 1: a gun was the only running back to receive a
Speaker 1: target inside the five. He had to Peyton Barber is gone,
Speaker 1: Bruce Arians seemed to trust Dare more than Rojoe last year. Plus,
Speaker 1: let's talk about Ronald jones terrible pass blocking ratings from
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus last year and the fact that he's
Speaker 1: looked if he at best catching the ball in camp.
Speaker 1: If Tom Brady's blown up once by a missed assignment
Speaker 1: by Rojoe, he may never see the field again. And
Speaker 1: Dario Gunbala could be the Tampa version of James White,
Speaker 1: which is a pretty decent you know, flex play and
Speaker 1: every everyone turns into that. Ye alright, Scott, You're sleeper
Speaker 1: this week. Lavisca Chenult jr. Uh coaches, team writers, beat writers.
Speaker 1: They're all super impressed with him in camp. Gardnerman shoes
Speaker 1: calling him freak. Uh. If you've watched him, you know
Speaker 1: he's an absolute play maker, kind of kind of reminiscent
Speaker 1: of of Cordeo Patterson with the ball in his hands,
Speaker 1: just ridiculous with the ball in his hands. Um, he's
Speaker 1: already running as the number two in that offense. D D.
Speaker 1: Westbrook is hurt, keeling cole Is Rubert to be released.
Speaker 1: Who's the other guy? Chris Conley? Hey, he was, he
Speaker 1: was for three games, for three games. We we have
Speaker 1: a beat on Chris Connelly on this show. Yeah, but Leavisca,
Speaker 1: he go get yourself some of visa. He's going so late.
Speaker 1: He's the number two there. I'm with you if you
Speaker 1: like Gardner Minshew at all. You know, and the game
Speaker 1: scripts are just gonna be passing countily. Jacksonville could have
Speaker 1: the worst defense in the league, four nets, not getting
Speaker 1: seventy catches again or whatever. No, I think I'm with
Speaker 1: you on that. And it's weird to see these these
Speaker 1: rookie receivers are going so late this year. And we
Speaker 1: know that, you know, the last five six years, rookie
Speaker 1: receivers called some pop and just like nobody thinks that
Speaker 1: even we're gonna pop this year, which is bizarre. My sleeper,
Speaker 1: I want to play a game. See how many clues
Speaker 1: you need to figure this out? Now, you guys already know,
Speaker 1: because already told you it is. I forgot my sleepers.
Speaker 1: Average draft position, and I'm not kidding, is three hundred
Speaker 1: sixty six. That sounds that is round of these thirty
Speaker 1: one round leagues. It is. It is round thirty one
Speaker 1: for this guy. So we're talking deep sleeper. He's going
Speaker 1: off the board as wide receiver one hundred five. Now
Speaker 1: this sleeper is a starting wide receiver on one of
Speaker 1: the highest scoring offenses in the NFL. Oh, I got it.
Speaker 1: He was. He was a third round pick and so
Speaker 1: at wide receivers, so there was real equity put into him,
Speaker 1: and people obviously liked him out of college. Now do
Speaker 1: you have it yet, listeners, don't say it? Did you? Excellent?
Speaker 1: He's in his second year and in many times, second
Speaker 1: year is when it clicks for receivers. Years ago, it
Speaker 1: used to be three years, then over the past decade,
Speaker 1: really it's the second year for wide receivers is when
Speaker 1: it clicks. This is this player's second year. Do you
Speaker 1: know who I'm talking about? Lat Yet last year this
Speaker 1: mystery player lad his team in yards per reception, downfield
Speaker 1: threatn for this mystery player, you know who it is.
Speaker 1: His quarterback is one of the universally drafted top two
Speaker 1: in fantasy football, and yet nobody's drafting Miles boykine I
Speaker 1: love it. Miles Boykin, second year wide receiver, getting strong
Speaker 1: praise from offensive coordinator Greg Roman this week, saying that
Speaker 1: he sees a giant step coming for Boykin this year.
Speaker 1: The Ravens were the highest scoring offense in football last year,
Speaker 1: and he's a starting wide receiver with all this room
Speaker 1: to grow into the job. Miles Boykin one of my
Speaker 1: favorite deep deep sleepers. John O. Smith's made deep sleeper
Speaker 1: Zack Moss was, He's not anymore. This is super super
Speaker 1: off the radar, last pick of year draft Miles Boykin.
Speaker 1: By the way, uh uh twenty four four two? I know,
Speaker 1: no kidding, super fast, he's he was a six ft yes,
Speaker 1: four four two, that's freakish, freakish Scott. Before the show
Speaker 1: we were talking a little bit. We've got about a
Speaker 1: minute and a half. Is there a player that you're
Speaker 1: already worried that we're all wrong about the player that
Speaker 1: you think, you know what, this guy could be good,
Speaker 1: but you can't get yourself just quite change your rankings yet. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was, I was thinking about this earlier. I have
Speaker 1: Teddy Bridgewater ranked in the low twenties. Likes me maybe, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like that's right. But the more I think
Speaker 1: about it, He's got all these weapons. Ian Thomas is
Speaker 1: reportedly looking great. He's got, you know, replacing Greg Olsen.
Speaker 1: Thereel D J. Moore, J. Moore, Curtis Samuel, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Curtis Samuel, d J. Moore, Robby Anderson's now there on
Speaker 1: the outside, Christian McCaffrey, a lot of good dump off
Speaker 1: options for him. And that Carolina defense is not good.
Speaker 1: They're gonna be behind a lot. Uh. Teddy Bridgewater didn't
Speaker 1: have great yardage totals with New Orleans last year, but
Speaker 1: they were before that. Yeah, and they were aheading a
Speaker 1: lot of those games, and that those were like ten
Speaker 1: win Vikings teams too, um with good defenses. By the way, Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yeah exactly. I think you know, I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 1: I can't move them up my rankings, but I wouldn't
Speaker 1: be surprised if at the end of the year, I'm like,
Speaker 1: how did I not see this coming? All the weapons,
Speaker 1: bad defense? What's the real upside for Teddy Bridgewater? What
Speaker 1: you couldn't see what coming? I could see him. I
Speaker 1: could see him moving up into that QB twelve thirteen
Speaker 1: fourteen range with with two yards a game, a couple
Speaker 1: of touchdowns a game kind of guy that and and
Speaker 1: we started more weeks than we think we could. I
Speaker 1: think his upside to me feels like quarterback because manager
Speaker 1: absolutely he may not complete a pass of more than
Speaker 1: nine yards here. That's what I'm saying. I'm not moving
Speaker 1: my rankings at all. But if at the end of
Speaker 1: the season that's what it is, you know we're gonna
Speaker 1: we'll play this segment back and go well done. We
Speaker 1: knew enough to know we were wrong in in August,
Speaker 1: we didn't do anything about it. You might be right
Speaker 1: about that. They're gonna be behind a lot. He's gonna
Speaker 1: pass a lot. He just needs all his receivers to
Speaker 1: be special after the catch because he can't deliver downfield.
Speaker 1: They're kind of all good at that. That helps there's
Speaker 1: a little something there. Thanks for listening to Fantasy Football Weekly.
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