Speaker 1: Hello everybody, Welcome into the Fantasy Pros Football Podcast. I've
Speaker 1: Ryan Warmley, joined by Derek Brown and by Pat Fitts Morris. Guys,
Speaker 1: we're talking fantasy takeaways for the AFC South today. We'll
Speaker 1: start right at the top. Not the most impressive division
Speaker 1: in the in the NFL, they were led by Houston
Speaker 1: Texans ten and seven. They got the four seed in
Speaker 1: the playoffs. Fits, what was your fantasy takeaway for Houston?
Speaker 2: It was that CJ.
Speaker 3: Stroud was completely undermined by terrible offensive line play and
Speaker 3: will bounce back in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: So yeah, don't give up in CJ. Stroud.
Speaker 3: He burned a lot of people pretty badly. There were
Speaker 3: people drafting him as a top five quarterback this year
Speaker 3: because he was coming off such a good rookie season
Speaker 3: and the pass catching weapon rely looked spectacular. With Nicocollins,
Speaker 3: Tank Dell both guys fully healthy, and then Stefan Diggs
Speaker 3: added to the mix. People were really legitimately and justifiably
Speaker 3: excited about that. While those three receivers missed it combined
Speaker 3: seventeen games this season due to injury, but really the
Speaker 3: much bigger problem for Stroud was the play of the
Speaker 3: offensive line. The Texans gave up fifty four sacks, tied
Speaker 3: for the third most in the league, and they allowed
Speaker 3: pressure on twenty six point nine percent of CJ. Stroud's dropbacks.
Speaker 3: That was the highest pressure rate allowed in the NFL
Speaker 3: this year. I have no doubt that the Texans are
Speaker 3: going to prioritize offensive line in the offseason.
Speaker 2: They really have to.
Speaker 3: Their defense is good and it doesn't have many glaring holes.
Speaker 3: They can focus on that, and they have to protect
Speaker 3: their franchise quarterback. Stroud is still one of the most
Speaker 3: promising young passers in the leagues who do not give
Speaker 3: up on him based on his disappointing sophomore campaign.
Speaker 4: Where do you think you're going to have him ranked?
Speaker 3: Fits, I'm gonna have him ranked about QB twelve.
Speaker 4: Where is he ranked for you right now in Dynasty?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 3: Man, I think he's still He's still top ten. I
Speaker 3: want to say he's like QB nine or something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's a really interesting one, I think for Dynasty purposes,
Speaker 1: just because, like you know, you don't get that rushing floor.
Speaker 4: But also he's young. We've seen the ceiling.
Speaker 1: Like, I'm a believer in him as a player, and
Speaker 1: so there's like a comfort level of what you would
Speaker 1: think you would get from him for the next you know,
Speaker 1: twelve fifteen years in dynasty. I think he's an interesting
Speaker 1: conversation on that side of things.
Speaker 4: You know, Deebro.
Speaker 1: When you look at Stroud what he did this past season.
Speaker 1: In the pie chart of blame for the disappointment of
Speaker 1: the Texans offense, what percentage is Stroud? Because I don't
Speaker 1: think it's zero, even if it is more significantly offensive
Speaker 1: line than him.
Speaker 5: I think it's fifty to fifty. I think the offensive line,
Speaker 5: all right, I'll say I'll put it this way. I'm
Speaker 5: actually gonnap it up in three different directions. It's forty
Speaker 5: percent C. J. Stroud, It's forty percent the offensive line,
Speaker 5: and it's twenty percent the pass catchers. I think looking
Speaker 5: at how Stroud played throughout the season, it got progressively
Speaker 5: worse as the offensive line got worse. I think that
Speaker 5: there's also context and nuance that we need to understand
Speaker 5: with the offensive With the offensive pass catchers like Nico
Speaker 5: Collins missed a substantial amount of time. Losing your alpha
Speaker 5: wide receiver hurts. Tank Dell was not tanked. Dell for
Speaker 5: most of the season, and then when we got tanked,
Speaker 5: Dell being tanked del c J. Stroud was playing bad football,
Speaker 5: Stefan Diggs losing him halfway through the season hurt. So
Speaker 5: I think you add all of this stuff, and you
Speaker 5: compound the offensive line stuff on top of that, it
Speaker 5: made for a really challenging season, a very disappointing season.
Speaker 5: But I'm firmly in the camp of both y'all, like
Speaker 5: c J. Stroud is my QB ten in Dynasty. Still
Speaker 5: believer in the talent, still believer that he can right
Speaker 5: the ship, and that Houston could write the ship this offseason.
Speaker 1: Do do you guys know what kind of salary cap
Speaker 1: space they have? I haven't kind of dived into that
Speaker 1: for every single else look a yet I'm wondering if
Speaker 1: they're limited in their available space, if they are picking
Speaker 1: and choosing between adding a weapon versus adding, you know,
Speaker 1: to the offensive line, Like the offensive line is like
Speaker 1: such a glaring, you know, disaster that like they really
Speaker 1: do need to add there.
Speaker 4: But I mean I would like to see them.
Speaker 1: I mean, I know what Dell's gonna look like next year,
Speaker 1: Like obviously, like I don't really expect, you know, digs
Speaker 1: to be there. It's like Nico and not a whole
Speaker 1: lot to your point, de Bro, And I'm not sure
Speaker 1: how they address both that and the O line.
Speaker 5: Eighth fewest, eighth lowest amount of cap leftover? Now, can
Speaker 5: you get creative with the contracts? Can you change some
Speaker 5: of the cap hits for some of these players and
Speaker 5: stuff like that? I think you can. It just depends
Speaker 5: on where do you want to cut and things like that,
Speaker 5: Like you know, they've got some. I mean the big
Speaker 5: thing about this is their offensive line played terribly. They
Speaker 5: are super expensive, like we're talking about, but.
Speaker 4: Dave invested in it.
Speaker 5: Just yeah, I mean, what the problem is is the
Speaker 5: interior is the biggest problem. In the health is the
Speaker 5: biggest problem. Like between their two bookend tackles you're talking about,
Speaker 5: they take up fifty one million dollars in their cap
Speaker 5: next year. So if they can get guys that could
Speaker 5: be healthy and as well as play better, especially on
Speaker 5: the interior, that's where they need to fortify it and
Speaker 5: just hope for better health. Yeah, and and mean, I
Speaker 5: actually they're gonna have to add some guys probably in
Speaker 5: the draft as far as skill players because Johnson on
Speaker 5: a cheap contract, and.
Speaker 1: It's like you obviously like you're probably gonna get nothing
Speaker 1: from Tank Dell next year.
Speaker 4: Again, like I don't expect Digs.
Speaker 1: To be back, Like it is a real need at
Speaker 1: both spots, and there's only so much capital between salary
Speaker 1: cap space and draft capital that they have to go around. So,
Speaker 1: I mean, Fitz, do you have kind of like a
Speaker 1: preferred approach you'd like to see them take to you know,
Speaker 1: get CJ.
Speaker 4: Stroud back to his former glory.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're gonna have to sign like some maybe cheap,
Speaker 3: affordable veterans and free agency and the offensive line to
Speaker 3: patch up that interior, and that's mainly it.
Speaker 2: I mean they were getting like a gap to death
Speaker 2: at times this year.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'd like to see them maybe like sign
Speaker 3: a veteran guard and like kind of maybe take the
Speaker 3: Green Bay Packers approach and sort of wait out the
Speaker 3: early days of free agency and wait until the prices
Speaker 3: come down a little bit. And yeah, then they are
Speaker 3: going to have to maybe draft at least one offensive
Speaker 3: lineman and they are gonna have to draft a wide
Speaker 3: receiver because they're about a year away from having to
Speaker 3: drive the Brinks truck up to Nico Collins House and
Speaker 3: give him a massive contract extension, and so you know
Speaker 3: they kind of need something else there too, and they're
Speaker 3: gonna need someone on a cheap rookie contract, So look
Speaker 3: for them to probably take a receiver in the first
Speaker 3: two days of the draft.
Speaker 5: I mean, I'm looking at the contract structures for twenty
Speaker 5: twenty five, Like, the only guy I could see them
Speaker 5: maybe cutting and getting some salary cap or leaf because
Speaker 5: a lot of their guys like high cap hits high
Speaker 5: dead cap. If you got rid of anybody, Denico Autry
Speaker 5: is the only guy that I could see, like, you
Speaker 5: move on from him. You got about six million in
Speaker 5: wiggle room. But it's still like it's not like you've
Speaker 5: got a lot of blowd to contracts so you can
Speaker 5: reach They're gonna have to get creative and restructure and
Speaker 5: really hit in the draft.
Speaker 4: When did Nico signed what like a three year deal?
Speaker 5: Right?
Speaker 4: Was that? Did that start this year or was that
Speaker 4: starting next year?
Speaker 2: Well, would Nico still be on his rookie deal.
Speaker 4: He signed, didn't he?
Speaker 5: Heal? Yeah, he resigned an extension.
Speaker 2: Oh my bad, my bad.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he signed that earlier in the spring. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so he's got a couple of years.
Speaker 4: Not that it's cheap years, because you know, not a
Speaker 4: rookie deal.
Speaker 2: I totally forgot about the contract extension. So yeah, then.
Speaker 4: They're actually looks like you're kind of a steal, you know, for.
Speaker 3: Them, it does, but they are still going to draft
Speaker 3: some like I don't know if they bother hanging.
Speaker 1: How do think it changes your point I think you're
Speaker 1: I think you're still correct there, dee bro.
Speaker 4: Let's go to the Colts. They went eating nine this year.
Speaker 1: Obviously a really unique situation with the quarterback just in
Speaker 1: terms of, you know, some injury stuff getting benched, you know,
Speaker 1: for the backup was Joe Flacco.
Speaker 4: What was your takeaway from this season for the Colts.
Speaker 5: I could go on long rans about Shane Stikeen and
Speaker 5: Chris Ballard and Anthony Richards and all this type of stuff.
Speaker 5: I'm actually going to pivot away from that, and I
Speaker 5: want to highlight a bright spot for the Colts. There's
Speaker 5: not many that Josh Downs was the sophomore breakout candidate
Speaker 5: that I don't think we talked about enough in draft season.
Speaker 5: He had quietly a fantastic season. Like looking back, I
Speaker 5: looked back to some preseason ADP wide receiver sixty four
Speaker 5: on FFPC and ADP. We're talking about a guy that
Speaker 5: was wide receiver thirty two and fantasy points per game.
Speaker 5: You look at all of the efficiency metrics, and this
Speaker 5: guy was producing as a wide receiver too, like he
Speaker 5: was seventeenth in target share, twentieth in yards per route run,
Speaker 5: thirteenth in first downs per route run. So the quarterback
Speaker 5: play obviously moving forward is a big concern. But I
Speaker 5: think based off of talent, we need to be investing
Speaker 5: in Josh Downs in twenty twenty five. And I don't
Speaker 5: want it to get lost in the sauce of how
Speaker 5: good of a season he had in his second year
Speaker 5: and the correlation of yes, you still need to invest
Speaker 5: in second year really talented wide receivers.
Speaker 4: What do you think about this one fits?
Speaker 1: I just really struggle to go into next season saying
Speaker 1: I'm excited to invest in anybody in this passing game,
Speaker 1: even if I like the players, which I do like a.
Speaker 4: Number of these talents.
Speaker 1: I just feel like I'm getting close to the point
Speaker 1: where in terms of how he can support pass catches
Speaker 1: nine in terms of what he can do for fantasy,
Speaker 1: but in terms of how he can support his pass
Speaker 1: catchers for fantasy, I need to see it to believe it.
Speaker 4: For me, Anthony Richardson, Yeah, that's part of it.
Speaker 3: I mean, I like Anthony Richardson, but I like him
Speaker 3: mostly for his running ability. And you know, he's not
Speaker 3: going to become an above average NFL passer overnight and
Speaker 3: might never even get to average in his career. Like
Speaker 3: it's the rushing that floats his value in not only fantasy,
Speaker 3: but maybe in the real game too.
Speaker 2: Downs is good, like, he is very good.
Speaker 3: I'm just not that into the guys who fall into
Speaker 3: the tiny slot receiver archetype. And granted I think Josh
Speaker 3: Allen is sort of at the head of the class
Speaker 3: in that category, but I just think the ceiling is
Speaker 3: generally a little limited for those guys, Like I don't
Speaker 3: think Downs has twelve hundred yard ten touchdown potential, Like
Speaker 3: I just don't think he's that kind of a player.
Speaker 3: But then again, like you know, there are may be
Speaker 3: only twenty five or thirty guys in the league who
Speaker 3: do of that sort of potential, So like, I will
Speaker 3: probably draft Josh Downs in at least one league for
Speaker 3: fear of missing out, because I do think He's really good,
Speaker 3: but I'm probably not going to be heavily invested in
Speaker 3: Josh down sixt year.
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Speaker 1: for the Jacksonville Jaguars who at four and thirteen?
Speaker 5: We need to continue to invest in Roki wide receivers
Speaker 5: heavily every single year, and I know that we could
Speaker 5: point who instances and I want to be very clear
Speaker 5: about this. When we were talking about Brian Thomas Junior
Speaker 5: in the draft season. It was a congested passing attack
Speaker 5: and basically everybody else around him got injured. I don't
Speaker 5: want that to take away from his rookie season, but
Speaker 5: I do want to sit here and belabor the point
Speaker 5: of we need to invest in talented rookie wide receivers,
Speaker 5: even if they are in what appear to be congested
Speaker 5: wide receiver or target totem poles like Look, we have
Speaker 5: instances of this not working out. We talk about Roma
Speaker 5: Dunes that we can talk about Jackson spent and Jigba.
Speaker 5: We can also talk about Brian Thomas Junior, who is
Speaker 5: the wide receiver twelve and fantasy points per game weeks one, three, seventeen.
Speaker 5: We can also talk about previous years, Rashie Rice. We
Speaker 5: can also talk about lad McConkey this year. So looking
Speaker 5: at all of these wide receivers, I think my biggest
Speaker 5: takeaway every single year and going again rolling it back
Speaker 5: into twenty twenty five, is talented rookie wide receivers. Invest them.
Speaker 5: Invest in them because things happen. Injuries happened throughout the season,
Speaker 5: but the cream rise at the top. Talented players are
Speaker 5: in targets and they can carry you down the stretch
Speaker 5: to fantasy championships.
Speaker 1: When was the last year that we didn't have a
Speaker 1: real league winner who took off in November December who
Speaker 1: wasn't like that, There was no rookieide receiver that did
Speaker 1: that and go back every you know, like you said
Speaker 1: Rashi Rise, I'm not Saint Brown a few years ago.
Speaker 1: Like it is like clockwork that every year there is
Speaker 1: a receiver who absolutely explodes, who really elevates their usage,
Speaker 1: who elevates their game in the second half of the year.
Speaker 1: And I mean some of these guys are good all
Speaker 1: year long, right Like obviously like Lake Neighbors when he
Speaker 1: was healthy, was strong right off the bat. But like
Speaker 1: it is every year that you see rookie wide receivers
Speaker 1: take off in the second half. It is like one
Speaker 1: of the most universal like cheat codes of fantasy is
Speaker 1: just investing in these guys. And not all of them
Speaker 1: are going to hit, but if you invest in them
Speaker 1: pretty heavily, like one or.
Speaker 4: Two of them are, and they're going to be real
Speaker 4: difference makers.
Speaker 1: I wonder if do you think we'll get to a
Speaker 1: point where it feels like everybody there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people in the industry and who like kind of talk
Speaker 1: about this for a living, talk about rookie wide receivers,
Speaker 1: and yet in the drafts that I do that aren't
Speaker 1: industry leagues. In drafts that I do in any kind
Speaker 1: of home league or with friends, they still are. The
Speaker 1: ADP is not reflective of that. And maybe that has
Speaker 1: to do with the platform you play on. Maybe they
Speaker 1: has to do with a bunch of different things. But
Speaker 1: every year the ADP is artificially suppressed just because we
Speaker 1: haven't seen it before, and every year you get great
Speaker 1: return on investment, and seems like at least a few
Speaker 1: of those guys. Do you think we're going to see
Speaker 1: a point where rookie wide receivers do start creeping up
Speaker 1: in more casual drafts year in a year out because
Speaker 1: it's just been such a consistent thing.
Speaker 3: I think we will, but maybe not fully because I
Speaker 3: think the same thing happens with rookie running backs too,
Speaker 3: and I think rookie running backs have always been a
Speaker 3: pretty good value for fantasy and continue to be so.
Speaker 2: Like people are just scared of.
Speaker 3: The unknown, you know, they don't want to invest substantial
Speaker 3: fantasy drafts capital, and guys they have not seen do
Speaker 3: anything at the NFL level yet, And that's kind of
Speaker 3: the funniest things about Like, I've played fantasy football for
Speaker 3: a long time, where you know, I'm old. I was
Speaker 3: playing when like Hya Tittle was a he was I
Speaker 3: think my first fantasy quarterback, Hya Tittle. But no, that
Speaker 3: has been maybe the biggest piece of evolution I've seen
Speaker 3: in the fantasy game since I started playing. That, Like,
Speaker 3: rookie wide receivers used to be considered a sucker play
Speaker 3: for fantasy because they so rarely produced in year one,
Speaker 3: and that has changed dramatically, and like especially I think
Speaker 3: the last ten to eleven years, where these guys hit
Speaker 3: the ground running now and the people who have been
Speaker 3: slow to get on that bandwagon have missed out on
Speaker 3: some really good values. And Brian Thomas is a great example.
Speaker 3: Melik Neighbors. I mean, look at what Melik Neighbors did
Speaker 3: this year with a awful quarterback situation. And granted, like
Speaker 3: this was a super wide receiver class, and next year's
Speaker 3: class is going to be a little bit more muddled
Speaker 3: and not as many like A level prospects, but we
Speaker 3: know there are gonna be some guys who hit from
Speaker 3: next year's rookie class and we just have to dig
Speaker 3: and you know, pan for gold and figure out who
Speaker 3: those guys are going to be.
Speaker 5: Why tital In sixty three? Baby, he was a beast.
Speaker 5: It's a absolute beat.
Speaker 1: I think to your point on the running backs, two fits,
Speaker 1: like I think at the top you at least anecdotally
Speaker 1: like I feel like I do see the elite first
Speaker 1: round running backs go early. Like I can remember, like
Speaker 1: you know, several years ago, guy like Trent Richardson, like
Speaker 1: as a rookie was being drafted very highly, Clyde Edwards
Speaker 1: Delaier going in the first round. People oh, you know
Speaker 1: running back.
Speaker 4: For the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: Like you see it more with the running backs, a
Speaker 1: willingness for the high level guys that go good to
Speaker 1: Like I think Asha Genty, like if he goes to
Speaker 1: the right spot, will go in some first rounds. I
Speaker 1: dont think it'll be a consensus first round guy, but
Speaker 1: I think people out there who want to take him
Speaker 1: there like that just based on history and what I
Speaker 1: feel like I see from the leagues I play and
Speaker 1: at running back at receiver, it's it's more rare. Like
Speaker 1: a guy like Malik Nighbors was a top six pick,
Speaker 1: and he was still well like a fourth rounder this year,
Speaker 1: maybe late third round in a lot of places, Like
Speaker 1: at the top, I think there's a real difference between
Speaker 1: the guys that we view as elite receiver prospects and
Speaker 1: elite running back prospects in their first year draft ADP.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: True, I think people do get attracted to the first
Speaker 3: round running backs, but now they're always good running backs
Speaker 3: to be had on Day two and even Day three
Speaker 3: for sure. So I might not be above consensus on
Speaker 3: Ashton genty this year, but I will be above consensus
Speaker 3: on guys like Omarion Hampton and Trayvon Henderson this year,
Speaker 3: guys who are likely to be Day two draft picks.
Speaker 5: Yeah. I think it comes down to the situations that
Speaker 5: maybe aren't as clean, because I'm let's all be kind
Speaker 5: of rewind to does everybody remember how ticked off people
Speaker 5: were like in the first two to three weeks of
Speaker 5: Jumior Gibbs's rookie season two. But they're like, ah see,
Speaker 5: I burn a draft pick.
Speaker 4: He's not doing anything.
Speaker 5: In all this other kind of situations. So you know,
Speaker 5: I think being willing to invest in some of the
Speaker 5: unknown and make bets on talent. People need to be
Speaker 5: more willing to do that.
Speaker 1: Just quickly on Brian Thomas Junior, because he was kind
Speaker 1: of the impetus for this conversation, Deebro, Brian Thomsenior will
Speaker 1: be ranked wear for you overall, not amongst receivers, into
Speaker 1: the twenty five.
Speaker 5: I mean he's top twenty four. He's not gonna he's
Speaker 5: not gonna fall outside the Oh.
Speaker 4: I think I think that's too low. I think I
Speaker 4: think you're looking more like top fifteen, Like, I.
Speaker 5: Mean, that's that's likely. I mean, I'm just saying, like
Speaker 5: at the basement of that now, I mean, will he
Speaker 5: go top fifteen, will he go first round in a
Speaker 5: lot of different drafts. Yeah, I totally understand that. Am
Speaker 5: I gonna have him quite that high?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 5: We'll see.
Speaker 4: Fit's what about you.
Speaker 3: In leagues where you are only required to start two
Speaker 3: wide receivers, I'm gonna have him ranked probably in the
Speaker 3: late teens. In leagues where you have to start three receivers,
Speaker 3: I've got Brian Thomas ranked tenth.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Tennessee Titans three or fourteen. I
Speaker 1: want to spend less time on the Titans than any
Speaker 1: other team in this entire division takeaway series fits.
Speaker 4: What was your takeaway from the Titans this year?
Speaker 2: I can oblige your desire that end worm.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so the Titans were a fantasy sinkhole in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four and there's not.
Speaker 2: Much hope for a better result in twenty twenty five.
Speaker 3: They sort of luck their way into the number one
Speaker 3: pick in the draft with a messy Week eighteen.
Speaker 2: But were they really lucky? That is the question.
Speaker 3: Because the Titans are now going to feel compelled to
Speaker 3: take a quarterback. They have drawn the conclusion obviously that
Speaker 3: will Levis is not the future of the organization. The
Speaker 3: problem is that this is not an exciting quarterback class
Speaker 3: like the class of twenty twenty four was. There is
Speaker 3: no Jade and Daniels in this class. There is no
Speaker 3: Drake May in this class. There's not even a Caleb
Speaker 3: Williams or a Bo Nicks in this draft class. The
Speaker 3: top guys look like Shador Sanders and Cam and I
Speaker 3: don't think either one of those guys is ready for
Speaker 3: prime time. If the Titans draft one of those guys
Speaker 3: and throw them into the fire right away, it is
Speaker 3: going to be ugly. So look I'll never say never
Speaker 3: on good players. I might hate the situation, but at
Speaker 3: the right price, I am willing to draft good players
Speaker 3: if you give them to me at a big enough discount.
Speaker 3: But you would have to give me a pretty substantial
Speaker 3: discount next year for me to want a draft Tony
Speaker 3: Pollard or Calvin Ridley in fantasy.
Speaker 1: And those are the best names, right, Like there's not
Speaker 1: even any like maybe you like want to squitt in
Speaker 1: your eyes and make a case for Chigakonquo, Like I
Speaker 1: just like, I don't know where.
Speaker 5: We've done that before. We've done that before, We've already
Speaker 5: felt that pain. Let's not do it again.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean it's it's like, what round do you
Speaker 1: think the first Titan is going to go in next year?
Speaker 3: I mean, Pollard's probably gonna be like a third rounder.
Speaker 5: Yeah, I think he goes in the third or fourth,
Speaker 5: I think, really.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, It's it's, uh, do you have a preferred
Speaker 1: quarterback for them?
Speaker 4: Fits like between Sanders and Ward?
Speaker 3: Oh man, Like I've gone back and forth on Sanders
Speaker 3: and Ward, like both guys hold onto the ball way
Speaker 3: too long. I think that's like the biggest issue with
Speaker 3: both of them. But maybe I might actually like Sanders
Speaker 3: a little more because he kind of has the mobility to.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's hard to say. Man. I got
Speaker 2: to do more.
Speaker 3: I got to do a little more film watching on
Speaker 3: both guys, even though I did watch a fairly good
Speaker 3: amount of Colorado and Miami games this year. But I
Speaker 3: don't know, man, And I also need to hear what
Speaker 3: some other smart people say about it.
Speaker 5: So I think if I'm Tennessee, you've got the ninth
Speaker 5: most cap space, I think you go sign Sam Darnold,
Speaker 5: you make his his cap hit kind of low in
Speaker 5: this year next year, and then you go trade back
Speaker 5: from the number one pick and load up my trade
Speaker 5: down from number one to number two or number three,
Speaker 5: Let somebody come up for a quarterback, and then just
Speaker 5: take Travis Hunter.
Speaker 2: I like that.
Speaker 5: That's what I would do. But you know, whenever, I
Speaker 5: mean they got a GM opening, I'll throw my name
Speaker 5: in that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, man, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Just quickly, Debrod, was there any real takeaway that you
Speaker 1: might have had here and other than what fits had?
Speaker 4: I mean, there's really just not much.
Speaker 5: I mean, I think the only thing that stands out
Speaker 5: to me is Tony Pollard was a lot better this
Speaker 5: year than people want to give him credit for. He
Speaker 5: was absolutely fantastic based off of the situation around him,
Speaker 5: his tackle breaking metrics, bounce back, he was a workhorse
Speaker 5: in a lot of weeks of freaking bellco man. So
Speaker 5: I think Pollard as a player that I will be
Speaker 5: back in on for next year depending on it, based
Speaker 5: off of what he did. If we can get a
Speaker 5: better offensive situation somewhat around him, like if Darnold is
Speaker 5: there and they add another pass catcher in the off
Speaker 5: season and stuff like that, defense is better, I could
Speaker 5: see a big reason, like core Tony Pollard can outplay
Speaker 5: his ADP. But Ridley, no, do I want any other
Speaker 5: pass catchers? Am I going to do the chig dance again?
Speaker 5: Hell no?
Speaker 4: Yeah?
Speaker 1: Pollard through Week seventeen was RB twenty one on the
Speaker 1: season and a half VPR.
Speaker 4: That's like right around where I had I was.
Speaker 5: And that's like scoring no touchdowns too, dude, man, Like
Speaker 5: can he score like eight or nine touchdowns? Like had
Speaker 5: like a decent season, You're talking about a top fifteen back.
Speaker 1: I don't know how would say I'm going to be
Speaker 1: in going back to that well, but he was. He
Speaker 1: was definitely had a better season than he was being
Speaker 1: drafted at this year, and I was on board with that.
Speaker 1: I was happy to see that. All right, We'll get
Speaker 1: out of here on that again. We're doing all the
Speaker 1: kind of division takeaways here as there own episode, so
Speaker 1: please be sure whichever one's you've seen already, or if
Speaker 1: this is your first, go check out all the others
Speaker 1: for Debro and fits, I'm Ryan warmly thanks.
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