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Speaker 1: the money? Happy to be here on a Tuesday. Lots
Speaker 1: of talk about involving the waiver wire as always slobber knocker.
Speaker 1: Last night man bears in Washington. I watched I heard
Speaker 1: you really enjoyed that. I watched negative I'm on the
Speaker 1: night football last night. Oh well, you know what, you
Speaker 1: missed the hell of a game, buddy, and I maybe
Speaker 1: while I was having him on running on a very
Speaker 1: little sleep fly then from the West Coast. But Uh,
Speaker 1: it's a beautiful Fantasy Tuesday. And uh, what are you here?
Speaker 1: We're having guys, great call by Frank. Uh last week
Speaker 1: on Frank Gore. Um, so yeah, we're all doing well.
Speaker 1: And uh, another day on this planet, another day talking
Speaker 1: fantasy football. Great to be alive. Absolutely, I was actually
Speaker 1: trying to see be able to see e Y on
Speaker 1: TV last night. I didn't. Yeah, well, there's always next week.
Speaker 1: There's always next week, guys, always next week. We'll try
Speaker 1: our campaign for e Y begins now. But rather it's
Speaker 1: it began a long time. Keep pushing, We're Gonnah. But um,
Speaker 1: that search was more entertaining than the football game that
Speaker 1: he plays last night. Do you have anything, Frank? What
Speaker 1: did we learn last night about these two teams out
Speaker 1: Washington and math Chicago. I think we learned well, we
Speaker 1: probably already knew this, but we it was confirmed that
Speaker 1: Jay Gruden is a dead man walking right now. I
Speaker 1: don't know how much longer he is going to be
Speaker 1: the head coach of Washington's. Do you think he deserves
Speaker 1: get fired? Well, look, he's been there for what six
Speaker 1: seven years? He's made one playoff appearance, he has no
Speaker 1: playoff wins. I mean at some point, it's got to
Speaker 1: be on somebody, right, I mean to me, you you
Speaker 1: look at their team right now, or like the quarterback
Speaker 1: right now is case Keendom. His best offensive lineman is
Speaker 1: refusing to go, is refusing to report because they don't
Speaker 1: like how the way injuries have been handled. Their defense
Speaker 1: has been a massive salary cap is always in hell?
Speaker 1: What is it? What has Jake Gruden done wrong? Well
Speaker 1: then you know that's a question that management has to
Speaker 1: answer as well. But when you think about it, they
Speaker 1: had one of they had a top pick in Robert
Speaker 1: grow from the third obviously that didn't work out. They
Speaker 1: had Kirk Cousins who ended up, you know, going elsewhere.
Speaker 1: And and you know, the jury is still out on
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins if we're being honest, but he's getting paid
Speaker 1: a ton of money. So you know, they've had some
Speaker 1: talented quarterback play. And now they just used a first
Speaker 1: round pick on Dwayne Haskins. And I think, you know
Speaker 1: that's really the takeaway that it's I think sooner rather
Speaker 1: than later, we're going to see Dwayne Haskins quarter act
Speaker 1: for this team. And I think the longer they let
Speaker 1: case keenum start at quarterback. The bigger the mistake that
Speaker 1: they're making, because I don't really see any reason why
Speaker 1: unless he just completely is not ready. For Dwayne Haskins
Speaker 1: not to be starting in Week four going up against
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones and the New York Giants. I understand it's
Speaker 1: a divisional game, but it's on the road against a
Speaker 1: terrible defense. Look at what the Giants just did a
Speaker 1: week ago. They started Daniel Jones on the road against
Speaker 1: a what we thought was an improving defense. Turned out
Speaker 1: that there's still a terrible defense. You put Dwayne Haskins
Speaker 1: out there against the Giants, he should be able to
Speaker 1: perform well against that defense. You get his confidence up.
Speaker 1: Unless he just really does not know what's going on,
Speaker 1: I would have had him ready to go for this week.
Speaker 1: Heading it's week four. What do you think about Jay
Speaker 1: Grunen's job being on the line, and why haven't the
Speaker 1: Washington Redskins turned towards Dwayne Haskins yet. I feel like
Speaker 1: that's coming. I feel like, uh, the coach there felt that,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe Keson was case. Keenum was a more
Speaker 1: reliable option and a guy that could run the offensive
Speaker 1: maybe a little more reliably. I think coaches are just
Speaker 1: going to lean that way, their program to think that
Speaker 1: way with veterans. UM football is changing. It's changing every year,
Speaker 1: and and more and more rookies are coming in and
Speaker 1: they're more and more prepared and more and more ready
Speaker 1: to jump straight in and play. Uh. We'll see. With
Speaker 1: Dwayne Haskins, we don't know. What I'll say is Terry
Speaker 1: McLaurin looks like he is the real deal. UM. And
Speaker 1: this is a team that has terrible, terrible injury like now,
Speaker 1: whether that has to do something with their training staff
Speaker 1: or whatever it is, I don't see how that can
Speaker 1: even be a thing. But I don't know. We know
Speaker 1: that the ownership there is a mess that's been a
Speaker 1: mess for years. Uh. Guy in the roster that played
Speaker 1: uh NFL football was telling me a really interesting story
Speaker 1: last night and how Dan Snyder would charge money to
Speaker 1: come to open practices and when you do that, it
Speaker 1: allows everyone, even the other teams coordinators and scouts to
Speaker 1: go so they would know all of Washington's plays and audibles.
Speaker 1: And I mean, as a player on the team, has
Speaker 1: just gotta be deathly frustrating. A multibillionaire owner is benching
Speaker 1: pennies and charging ten dollars to get into practices and
Speaker 1: giving away of all the team's play calls. You're at
Speaker 1: a disadvantage to begin before the game even starts. So
Speaker 1: it's gotta be a frustrating place to play. Um, we've
Speaker 1: heard this a bunch before in the past. Washington's a mess, Haskins.
Speaker 1: It's going to be the quarterback him McLaurin. I mean,
Speaker 1: we already know that they have chemistry, they play together,
Speaker 1: so so that will continue. Um, Guys going down is
Speaker 1: a big loss. I think. I think Guys was going
Speaker 1: to be the answer there, but he just can't seem
Speaker 1: to stay healthy in the NFL. So it's a lots
Speaker 1: of terrible luck for the Washington football team, you know,
Speaker 1: I think it's really I think it's really interesting Frankie
Speaker 1: hearing about there's a minse of what the by the
Speaker 1: Washington football team and their their owner and their front
Speaker 1: office and all that good stuff. But I think what
Speaker 1: is the most interesting is that if you guys both
Speaker 1: believe Jay Gruen's job is truly on the line here,
Speaker 1: He's gonna do ever it takes to win, right, the
Speaker 1: only way you survive is win. That's why he's Keendom starting,
Speaker 1: you're looking for an answer. He believes clearly, much like
Speaker 1: Pat Shermer believed clearly that the quarterback they're gonna start
Speaker 1: give him the best chance to win. For Shermer, it
Speaker 1: was Daniel Jones Washington. He believes the case and I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's necessarily correct or not. I mean,
Speaker 1: watching that game last night, it was five turnovers for
Speaker 1: case keenum him trying to reach over on a first down.
Speaker 1: That is something you do on the goal line. If
Speaker 1: you're a veteran quarterback, you're supposed to know that that
Speaker 1: is not how you gain a first down, and you
Speaker 1: put yourself in a bad position to turn the ball
Speaker 1: over there. So I disagree. I don't think that he
Speaker 1: is the best quarterback for them to win games right now,
Speaker 1: especially when he's doing plays like that, and you know,
Speaker 1: the whole other side of the thing, like Mittel, Robinski
Speaker 1: is a bad quarterback. David Montgomery's usage is very frustrating
Speaker 1: as well. And Taylor Gabriel had himself a nice little night.
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Speaker 1: into the waiver wire. Guys, you don't need help, including us. Fred.
Speaker 1: We're own three in the g S t le two
Speaker 1: and one in the Pit League, which is nice. I
Speaker 1: guess it's nice. It's something we're trying. What do you think?
Speaker 1: And of course the team that we loved own three,
Speaker 1: the team they were like, oh my god, this is
Speaker 1: terrible two one. That's the way fantasy works, right, that's
Speaker 1: why you play. It's amazing. I walked out of a
Speaker 1: draft and I had an amazing team and three quick
Speaker 1: side note, I played Taylor Gabriel in a Dynasty league
Speaker 1: last night, so I may as had a record for
Speaker 1: all time points scored ever in that League's awesome. It's crazy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there were some big time scores this week too. We
Speaker 1: talked about that. Yes, not by us, if if you
Speaker 1: had you know, Keenan Allen, Mike Evans, Austin Hooper, Russell Wilson.
Speaker 1: There was some really really big time scores in week three.
Speaker 1: I uh, what does it matter that? One of my
Speaker 1: friends texted me saying you may have the best oh
Speaker 1: three team I've ever seen? I said, no, oh, it doesn't.
Speaker 1: Well do points scored matter in your league? Oh? Well
Speaker 1: then I'm sorry. Wait, so what did it? Just? Top
Speaker 1: six records make the playoffs? Right? I would have the
Speaker 1: have the seventh most points in the league. So this
Speaker 1: is the first year that my home league has adapted
Speaker 1: top five records and then most points scored gets the
Speaker 1: six playoffs on it. So we'll see how it works out.
Speaker 1: Hopefully that will be me, because I'm also in three
Speaker 1: of my home league Greg, which means we've got work
Speaker 1: to do. On the waiver wire. I have the third
Speaker 1: most points against, so things are not going too good.
Speaker 1: We're gonna turn it around right now, Right now, let's dome,
Speaker 1: let's start. I don't even start a quarterback. Start wherever
Speaker 1: you want running back quarterback me. Either way, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be New York Giants. We are starting with the New
Speaker 1: York Giants. But I want to where I actually want
Speaker 1: to start is Week four is upon us, which means
Speaker 1: the bye weeks are officially on us. How does this
Speaker 1: affect you? Well, if you have Lady on Bell, you
Speaker 1: gotta fill a running back spot for me in multiple leagues.
Speaker 1: I'm a Jimmy G owner, and I've lost Jimmy G
Speaker 1: this week in Super Flex. I told you I have
Speaker 1: a couple of options on the bench. Kyle Allen can
Speaker 1: still in there. He's an option on the waiver wire,
Speaker 1: Danny Danny Dimes an option on the waiver wire. If
Speaker 1: you have lost Jimmy G. Where are you headed, Danny Dimes?
Speaker 1: Kyle Alan, how much are you spending? What are you
Speaker 1: thinking Frank, Yeah, I like Daniel Jones. Obviously, look what
Speaker 1: he did this past week, first time starting, leading the
Speaker 1: New York Giants to a victory. Let's put him in
Speaker 1: the Hall of Fame. But seriously, look at the stats.
Speaker 1: I mean twenty three or thirty six three thirty three,
Speaker 1: thirty six passing years, nine point three yards per tempt,
Speaker 1: two passing touchdowns in additional twenty eight rushing yards two
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns as well. And we've seen this before when
Speaker 1: it comes to quarterbacks for fantasy, even if you aren't
Speaker 1: the most talented passer, if you can and make plays
Speaker 1: with your legs, you're going to have value for fantasy football.
Speaker 1: That was the case with Lamar Jackson entering this season.
Speaker 1: Not saying that Daniel Jones is Lamar Jackson, but they
Speaker 1: clearly have plays set up for him where he runs
Speaker 1: the read option. We saw it on the first rushing
Speaker 1: touchdown that he had against the Bucks. So he can
Speaker 1: make those plays. He can make short to intermediate throws.
Speaker 1: I don't think he has the biggest arm that you know,
Speaker 1: he's not gonna make all these throws down the field.
Speaker 1: And to be honest, the Giants don't really have a
Speaker 1: downfield threat, but what they do have is players that
Speaker 1: can make plays after the catch in Evan and Graham,
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepherd and Golden Tate coming back soon for the
Speaker 1: New York Giants. So I really love the matchup heading
Speaker 1: into Week four against Washington. We just saw Mitchell Trobinsky
Speaker 1: throw for three touchdowns. The ghastly Mitchell Trobinsky throw for
Speaker 1: three touchdowns against his defense. Their secondaries washed up. I
Speaker 1: like Daniel Jones a lot. I said this yesterday. I'm
Speaker 1: sticking by it. If I were able to pick up
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones and start him over Baker Mayfield. Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: is facing Baltimore in Baltimore and week four, that is
Speaker 1: a move that I would actually make. Why who would
Speaker 1: you rather start this week? Daniel Jones? Or's a Kobie Brissette?
Speaker 1: Oh jeezus. Prassette has really impressed me this year. This
Speaker 1: is a guy that I thought was going to be
Speaker 1: a massive step back from Andrew Luck. Uh. I do
Speaker 1: think he is a step back from Andrew Luck, but
Speaker 1: I don't think it's as big as we thought it
Speaker 1: was going to be. This is a guy that that can,
Speaker 1: can you know, move the pocket with his legs, can
Speaker 1: can get out of the pocket, get on the move
Speaker 1: a little bit, uh, tall quarterback and see over the
Speaker 1: line easily. Uh decent arm has been pretty accurate this year. Uh.
Speaker 1: He looks like a good quarterback. And and for me,
Speaker 1: the number one thing for him is Frank Reich's play calling.
Speaker 1: This is a guy that just knows how to call plays,
Speaker 1: knows how to put his players in a good position,
Speaker 1: and they're loaded with weapons, loaded with with offensive weapons.
Speaker 1: So Prisset is probably where I would go there just
Speaker 1: because I trust him more. I would go with Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones personally, but I do like Brissette as well. Look
Speaker 1: at what he's done so far this year, seventy one
Speaker 1: seven percent complete in percentage. That is exactly what I
Speaker 1: was talking about when Frank Reich is putting Jacoby Brissette
Speaker 1: in the position to succeed. Now, I will say this,
Speaker 1: Greg t Y Hilton left in Week three with that
Speaker 1: quad injury, left at halftime. So if Jacoby doesn't have
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton, that's obviously, you know, a notch off
Speaker 1: of his value because then he's throwing a guy's like
Speaker 1: Zach Pascal the tight ends and Paris Campbell and Dion
Speaker 1: Kane and those are fine players, but they're not to
Speaker 1: the same level of t Y Hilton. So if he
Speaker 1: were without t Y Hilton, obviously you like Jacoby Brict
Speaker 1: a little bit less. But the matchup is good, going
Speaker 1: up against the Oakland Raiders. They're allowing something like two
Speaker 1: undred and eighty six passing yards per games so far.
Speaker 1: Jerry Goff also my waiver wire. Now that's crazy. He's
Speaker 1: at home against Tampa Bay. I mean I would rank
Speaker 1: him the highest of all the quarterbacks far we've talked
Speaker 1: about so far by far bid on Jerry Goff. That's
Speaker 1: a one quarterback league, so I'm not going to spend
Speaker 1: too much money on him. That's what I'm doing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so someone might be watching to throw it out there,
Speaker 1: but if he's available in a one quarterback league, I
Speaker 1: like him more than Daniel Jones, more than Jacobe Rissett.
Speaker 1: And if you're in a deeper league, I don't hate
Speaker 1: case Keenum, assuming he's starting against the New York As
Speaker 1: I said yesterday the show. Late last week, I picked
Speaker 1: up case Keenum for the Stories Giants. If I don't
Speaker 1: get Daniel Jones, I don't get Jared Goff. It'll get
Speaker 1: Jacoby said, it's not the worst thing. I mean, the
Speaker 1: Giants defense might legitimately be the worst of the NFL.
Speaker 1: We just saw Jamis Winston light them up for three
Speaker 1: dred and eighty yards and three touchdowns. This was, you know,
Speaker 1: the game manager Jamis Winston. He referred to himself as
Speaker 1: that after his week to win against the Carolina Panthers,
Speaker 1: goes out there has a monster game against the Giants.
Speaker 1: Let's not forget Week one. This Giants defense allows over
Speaker 1: four hundred yards and four passing touchdowns against Dak Prescott.
Speaker 1: This secondary is just in shambles right now. It was
Speaker 1: completely ridiculous that they they continued to leave Gennara Jenkins
Speaker 1: out there on an island by himself against Mike Evans. So,
Speaker 1: you know, heading into this week, Terry McLaurin, Paul Richardson,
Speaker 1: I think those guys are gonna be in really good
Speaker 1: spots once. Let's tell you what case. Keenum last night
Speaker 1: had five turnovers himself, still put up almost twelve points
Speaker 1: in my in my league takes some of those. I mean,
Speaker 1: he threw for over three yards, he had multiple touchdown passes.
Speaker 1: They every game as far as they can right now. Correct,
Speaker 1: it's you know, the offensive line is not good, especially
Speaker 1: without Trent Williams being there. I mean they're using Eric
Speaker 1: Flowers for God's sake. That's all you need to know
Speaker 1: about Washington right now. They can't run the football and
Speaker 1: when they fall behind, they start throwing it to Chris Thompson,
Speaker 1: which ultimately leads to more fantasy points for case Keenom.
Speaker 1: So I know that the mindset is gonna be well,
Speaker 1: look at what we just watched in prime time. Case
Speaker 1: Keenom looks terrible. He's gonna look a lot better against
Speaker 1: this Giants defense. I guarantee use that. Let's move on
Speaker 1: from the quarterback position and move on to the running
Speaker 1: back position. Guys, and it's not a big week for
Speaker 1: waiver wire running backs. But the number one name probably
Speaker 1: on the list, he's Wayne Goldman. E y. I watched
Speaker 1: a lot of this Giants game, of course over the weekend,
Speaker 1: and way Goldman looks very, very bad. And I understand
Speaker 1: they were selling out to stop shake On Barkley, but
Speaker 1: they didn't need to sell stop Wayne Goldman because he
Speaker 1: couldn't get anywhere. This office now belongs to Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1: I don't know what kind of role to expect from Golman.
Speaker 1: I don't even know Goldman is going to get You
Speaker 1: might have carries that you're even were starting running back.
Speaker 1: I'm not breaking the bank for Goldman. What do you think? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not breaking the bank either, But there are I
Speaker 1: have a couple of teams where I have to say
Speaker 1: Kwan Berkeley and and I'm gonna go after him. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna go after him big time. I'm not gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, spend the rest of my fab because I
Speaker 1: don't think Barkley is going to be out for the
Speaker 1: rest of the season or anything like that. I think
Speaker 1: he's going to miss at least six games, probably closer
Speaker 1: to eight. And when he comes back, I mean, it's
Speaker 1: a high ankles praying and a pretty serious one. He's
Speaker 1: not going to be a hundred percent right away. Uh,
Speaker 1: so you're you're going to have to make plans. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you ever say Kwan Barkley, this is a massive
Speaker 1: blow to your fantasy team already Week three, you know
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough. It's gonna be tough because your
Speaker 1: number one pick is now gone for a significan significant
Speaker 1: amount of time and the raalities. If you're playing in
Speaker 1: a twelve fourteen team league and that's the only league's
Speaker 1: I plan, there's nobody available. Wayne Goldman is out there,
Speaker 1: but like Greg, like Greg said, like, what is he
Speaker 1: really going to do? Uh? He is not, say Kwan Barkley.
Speaker 1: I don't expect him to produce like that, but he
Speaker 1: will be the starting running back there. I believe Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones changes the conversation on the New York Giants them
Speaker 1: getting golden tape back soon. Everon Ingram looks really good,
Speaker 1: Shepherd looks really good, Daniel Jones looks like a real threat. Uh,
Speaker 1: and at least uh, the Giants are getting competent quarterback play.
Speaker 1: So all of that is going to help Wayne Goldman.
Speaker 1: But do not think that he's going to produce like
Speaker 1: Kwan Barkley. He's just not going to. Yeah, it's not
Speaker 1: even close. He's not going to perform anything like se
Speaker 1: Kwon Barkley. And ultimately, I said this yesterday, this is
Speaker 1: why you handcuff at least for your early round running backs,
Speaker 1: your first and second round running backs. But if you didn't,
Speaker 1: and you're a sa Kwon Barkley owner, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to spend a decent amount of your FAB to get
Speaker 1: Wayne Goldman, So we'll talk about how much FAB we're
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Speaker 1: were turning Greig, how badly do you even want the man?
Speaker 1: I think is what else do you have? Like? My
Speaker 1: dad was a Barkley owner in our league. His backups
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Speaker 1: on the b f FS. He's e y, He's Frank Greg.
Speaker 1: We're hanging out trying to go over the waiver wire.
Speaker 1: I'm not nearly as high on Wayne Goldman as so
Speaker 1: many other people are. But where's the Giants fan? I
Speaker 1: don't know. Yeah, so you've obviously seen a lot of them. Look,
Speaker 1: it's not about it's not about talent here, but it
Speaker 1: is about opportunity. And you know, in a in a
Speaker 1: situation where you were a Sa Kwon Barkley owner and
Speaker 1: you lost him, and even if you have a fine
Speaker 1: RB two, like most people don't have a ton of
Speaker 1: running back depth. Like I just mentioned, my dad was
Speaker 1: a Sae Kwon Barkley owner and he has Latavius Murray
Speaker 1: and Peyton Barber as RB three and RB four. It's
Speaker 1: not great, but you can argue that Wayne Goldman for
Speaker 1: the next four to eight we the next month or
Speaker 1: two is going to be better than those running backs
Speaker 1: because at least, and I believe this, regardless of who
Speaker 1: they bring in, at least he already knows the offense.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna get around fifteen touches the game,
Speaker 1: maybe even more than that in games where they're leading.
Speaker 1: Not sure how often that's going to happen. Their offensive
Speaker 1: line that's played better this year according to Football Outsiders,
Speaker 1: their eighth best in run blocking. And he caught the
Speaker 1: ball while he was at Clemsony. It's sixty six catches
Speaker 1: in a three year career at Clemson, so he can
Speaker 1: catch the ball, which is a nice checkdown option for
Speaker 1: a rookie quarterback. So I'm thinking, if you were a
Speaker 1: Sae Kwon Barkley owner and you really need him, I'm
Speaker 1: throwing fifteen of my budget on Wayne Gallman. And I
Speaker 1: know that you don't feel the same way, but I'm
Speaker 1: just looking at opportunity here. I think Gallman is probably
Speaker 1: gonna be in the conversation as a high end RB three,
Speaker 1: high end flex option for most of the weeks at
Speaker 1: Sae Kwon Barkley's out. We're going under that number. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going around what Frank said, and and I agree
Speaker 1: what he's saying, is it's just about opportunity, Like with
Speaker 1: his dad. If you have Murray and Barber, I mean,
Speaker 1: like those guys are already playing and we already know
Speaker 1: what they are, that they're nothing. Barbara had the one
Speaker 1: game where he scored a touchdown and was kind of used.
Speaker 1: But I feel like Ronald Jones is starting to edge
Speaker 1: him out. I think it's apparent to everyone except for
Speaker 1: apparently the coaching staff of Tampa Bay, that Ronald Jones
Speaker 1: is the running back there. Uh. And Ottavius Murray is
Speaker 1: a massive, massive disappointment. Uh. Look at Kamara is a
Speaker 1: great player that I never expected his touches to go
Speaker 1: down when Ottavius Murray came in, But I thought Lettavias
Speaker 1: Murray at least would be the goal line guy. If
Speaker 1: nothing else. He's proven to be. I think statistically in
Speaker 1: the last five years he's the best goal line back
Speaker 1: in the NFL and he's done nothing, absolutely nothing. He's
Speaker 1: a guy that I had in tons of best ball
Speaker 1: leagues and he's given me no value at all. So
Speaker 1: if you got those two guys and sake one was
Speaker 1: your starter, you better get Goldman or you're going to
Speaker 1: be in trouble. Sadly, the two leagues that I'm in
Speaker 1: where I lost Barkley is it's uh waiver wire priorities.
Speaker 1: So I don't even very unlikely that I'll even get
Speaker 1: him unless someone that's hiring me don't. They don't bother
Speaker 1: to put in a claim. Look, he's not going to
Speaker 1: change my team. He's not gonna win me a championship,
Speaker 1: but I think he'll get volume in at this point
Speaker 1: in a twelve or four team team league, Like what else?
Speaker 1: What else are you gonna spend your money on? You
Speaker 1: need to win the games now. You can't be thinking
Speaker 1: in five weeks. You gotta win the games now, So
Speaker 1: go get goldman of winning games. Now. That brings me
Speaker 1: to Kansas City, where we don't know the status quite
Speaker 1: yet of Lashaw McCoy and and up Damian Williams. Have
Speaker 1: you guys heard anything about either of them. I haven't
Speaker 1: heard anything definitive. Usually we get stuff on Wednesdays, like
Speaker 1: the first official day of practice or whatever. But yeah, look,
Speaker 1: Lesaw McCoy reinjuring that ankle. It can't be a good thing. Uh.
Speaker 1: And Damian Williams, you know he's dealing with an injury
Speaker 1: of his own. Even if these guys suit up heading
Speaker 1: into week four, I don't think that they're going to
Speaker 1: be so regardless, I think that you should have interest
Speaker 1: in Darryl Williams. So we saw it was crazy because
Speaker 1: right before kickoff we saw the report, but the ESPN
Speaker 1: B reporter that said, hey, Shaw McCoy is not gonna start,
Speaker 1: and he'll be the third running back of a three
Speaker 1: man rotation. None of that was true. And and everybody
Speaker 1: benched Lashawn McCoy, and he was two touchdowns on your bench.
Speaker 1: He was the lead, including me, including me. He was
Speaker 1: the lead back all day long until he reinjured that
Speaker 1: ankle in the fourth quarter. Now how significantly did he
Speaker 1: reinjure it, we don't know. At that point, Daryl Williams
Speaker 1: took over. If Lashawn McCoy is out, and if Damie
Speaker 1: Williams remains out, and I have no reason to believe
Speaker 1: he won't, Dary Williams is going to be much more
Speaker 1: interesting to me, at least for this week, then, Wayne Goldman.
Speaker 1: That's fair to say. If you just need a short
Speaker 1: term fix, if you need a fill in for Levian
Speaker 1: Bell or something, or a Matt Brita raheemostered something like that,
Speaker 1: then sure I can get behind that. Look. I just
Speaker 1: wanted as much exposure to the Chief's offense as I
Speaker 1: could possibly get. And who's to say that if Darryl
Speaker 1: Williams performs well, that he doesn't also work himself into
Speaker 1: this running back by committee. So we saw last week
Speaker 1: he played thirty seven snaps, would actually actually lead all
Speaker 1: Chiefs running backs against the good Ravens defense. He ran
Speaker 1: nine times for sixty two yards at six point nine
Speaker 1: yards per carry, called all five of his targets for
Speaker 1: an additional forty seven receiving yards. And in Week four
Speaker 1: they're going up against the Detroit Lions, who have allowed
Speaker 1: the six most fantasy points of running backs so far
Speaker 1: this year. They've allowed a touchdown to a running back
Speaker 1: in each of the first three weeks. There is a
Speaker 1: downside because honestly, the Chiefs don't need to use their
Speaker 1: running backs. They could just throw the ball thirty five
Speaker 1: to forty times and put up twenty eight to thirty
Speaker 1: five points on basically any team that they want to,
Speaker 1: and you know they'll be perfectly fine like that. Their
Speaker 1: offense will not miss a beat. But on the off
Speaker 1: chance that they get down to a goal line carry
Speaker 1: la Shawn McCoy and Damian Williams are not good to go.
Speaker 1: Daryll Williams is the next man up, So you know,
Speaker 1: if I'm bidding on him this week, I'm probably looking
Speaker 1: at eight if you really want to be aggressive to
Speaker 1: a twelve percent. But even then, how how many weeks
Speaker 1: are you gonna get Darryll Williams as a potential starter
Speaker 1: on your team? I think seems the right amount. I
Speaker 1: want to ask you just about the fat percentage when
Speaker 1: it comes to Goldman Gregg. If you're a Barkley owner,
Speaker 1: how much would you spen end? And if you were
Speaker 1: not a Barclay owner but can still use running back help,
Speaker 1: how much would you spend there as well? Or is
Speaker 1: it the same number? It's probably the same number because
Speaker 1: it's not a long term fix. We know that he's
Speaker 1: third on the depth chart. It back a month or
Speaker 1: two of a high end flex running back. That's that's
Speaker 1: something I know. So what are you thinking for? I
Speaker 1: want to spend like half of what you said for
Speaker 1: Wayne Gollman. Okay, so like eight ten. I want to
Speaker 1: spend half of what you said for Daryl Williams. This
Speaker 1: week probably something like that. So it seems like I
Speaker 1: was a little bit more on the aggressive set. I
Speaker 1: just want exposure to the Chiefs offense. I get it,
Speaker 1: and that's why I spent when I did into Marcus
Speaker 1: Robinson last week. It worked out absolutely. Um other running
Speaker 1: backs and want we want to the wide receivers here
Speaker 1: and then I know that to the red you'll do
Speaker 1: it a little bit, a little, a little bit later. Um,
Speaker 1: Rex perke head. You know, James White is probably gonna
Speaker 1: be back, but Rex Perkett has a role in this offense.
Speaker 1: E y, And it was Modica that was on it
Speaker 1: last Year's like, hey he could pass, he could run,
Speaker 1: and what makes him so valuable at this offense is
Speaker 1: you don't know what's coming in the backfield. When he's
Speaker 1: out there. He has serious to himself. I think Rex
Speaker 1: Broke is a very nice add this week. It's not
Speaker 1: gonna cost you all that much. This is I mean,
Speaker 1: I've said it probably twenty times since we started doing
Speaker 1: these shows. This year is this is what New England is.
Speaker 1: And everyone was so sure about Sony. Michelle and I
Speaker 1: kept saying one year in a Bill Belichick producing in
Speaker 1: a Bill Belichick offense. Is a ringing back, doesn't make
Speaker 1: for sure he's going to do it. Look at Sony
Speaker 1: Michelle's was barely even used. Reds. Burkehead was on the
Speaker 1: field more, Uh Bolden was on the field more had
Speaker 1: more steps than Sony Michelle. So it's going to be
Speaker 1: the madness. I'm not going after Birkehead eater. I told
Speaker 1: you guys how I feel about this. I don't want
Speaker 1: the headache of owning any of those guys because it's
Speaker 1: a dark throw to whatever they're going to do that week.
Speaker 1: If they're even going to use the running backs, maybe
Speaker 1: Tom Brady comes out and throws the ball two hundred times.
Speaker 1: So I mean, there's no way to know, and I
Speaker 1: don't want any part of it. Fantasy is already a
Speaker 1: massive guessing game, and that is just guessing on a guest.
Speaker 1: So I'm not interested in any of them. Much like
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs, Greg, I just want exposure to
Speaker 1: this New England Patriots offense. You know they're clicking on
Speaker 1: all cylinders right now. I agree that it's going to
Speaker 1: be a headache, but if I were a Sony Michelle
Speaker 1: owner or a James White owner, I would also want
Speaker 1: to own Rex Burkehead, just on the off chance that
Speaker 1: if one of those players gets hurt. We just saw
Speaker 1: it in a game where James White was out, Rex
Speaker 1: Burkehead was extremely valuable and if anything were to happen
Speaker 1: to Sony Michelle, this is kind of the mindset that
Speaker 1: we had when it came to Damian Harris. Damian Harris
Speaker 1: is not the guys. Something were to happen to Sony Michelle,
Speaker 1: that would go to Rex Burkhead. And just a little
Speaker 1: aside on Sony Michelle, he is not right this year.
Speaker 1: I don't care what anyone says. He has seen eight
Speaker 1: plus defenders in the box two percent of the time
Speaker 1: this season. That is the lowest percentage of all running
Speaker 1: backs in the NFL. He is averaging two point four
Speaker 1: yards per carry this season. Rex Burkehead is up over
Speaker 1: four yards per carry, and like Greg mentioned, he can
Speaker 1: both run the ball effectively between the tackles and catch
Speaker 1: the ball out of the backfield. So I don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on with Tony Michelle, but I don't think
Speaker 1: he's right. I agree Sony Michelle does not. He seems
Speaker 1: to be running the glasses for the most part, and
Speaker 1: that's not as long as one of the years twelve
Speaker 1: yards and look at the defenses. He's face like he's
Speaker 1: had a good opportunity and I'm the guy, and I'm
Speaker 1: the guy, and you were the Tony Michelle guys. So look,
Speaker 1: especially if you own one of those running backs, I
Speaker 1: would want to own Rex Burkhead. But even in a
Speaker 1: deeper league, you know, five or six bench spots if
Speaker 1: you're playing a fourteen team or like Rex Burkheads should
Speaker 1: be owned in leagues like that. The other running back,
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if you're gonna get to him, Greg,
Speaker 1: but I think you should be in this mix, maybe
Speaker 1: even higher. I think you can argue he should be
Speaker 1: the guy. Is Ronald Jones. Oh, Ronald Jones. Fine, Ronald Jones.
Speaker 1: Three Road Joe shout out to the closer, Chris Venture.
Speaker 1: But this is now two out of three games where
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones has outperformed Peyton Barber. Like Ey said earlier
Speaker 1: in the show, I don't know what else he has
Speaker 1: to do. Like Bruce Arians, you either have to get
Speaker 1: your ice checked, you have to get new glasses. I
Speaker 1: understand you've got some thick frames on that skull of yours,
Speaker 1: But Ronald Jones is much more explosive than Peyton Barber
Speaker 1: and it's not close. And actually I think I looked
Speaker 1: at this from this past week Greg and week three,
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones actually had four red zone carries to only
Speaker 1: two for Peyton Barber, So maybe we're getting closer to
Speaker 1: him kind of handling over that starting mantel to Ronald Jones.
Speaker 1: We could be, and now is the time to get
Speaker 1: in on it before becomes official and everybody else shows.
Speaker 1: But it also wouldn't surprise me one bit if Hay
Speaker 1: Harbor five carries this week and Peyton Barber has twenty,
Speaker 1: So just keep that in mind. It's a maddening situation.
Speaker 1: But if we're just talking about a long term situation
Speaker 1: for a running back, Ronald Jones, more so than any
Speaker 1: other running back we've talked about so far today, has
Speaker 1: more long term value as in taking over the starting
Speaker 1: running back job for his respective one. More running back
Speaker 1: note here before we hit the break, last running back
Speaker 1: you had on our list for today, Frank Is Jeff
Speaker 1: Wilson Jr. Now Tevin Coleman is now expected to return
Speaker 1: after the bybe We kind of figuring this out after
Speaker 1: you had the walking boot last week. You know, hey
Speaker 1: has this week off, and Kyle shot was asked yesterday
Speaker 1: about Tevin Coleman returning and how to fit four running backs,
Speaker 1: and he's like, oh, it's a good problem to have.
Speaker 1: Not for us, it's not. It's not a great pallem
Speaker 1: to have. It's very very frustrating. It is very frustrating.
Speaker 1: And it's not often we tell you to pick up
Speaker 1: a running back who is currently on a buy and
Speaker 1: the fourth guy, but especially in a non PPR standard
Speaker 1: league where where the touchdown counts for so much. Even
Speaker 1: when Tevin Coleman is back, I still think Jeff Wilson
Speaker 1: is going to be the goal line back for the
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty Niners. This is an offense that has
Speaker 1: performed well so far. Probably could be even better. But
Speaker 1: I trust Kyle Shanahan just in terms of him putting
Speaker 1: players in the right position to succeed, hitting the most
Speaker 1: out of his offense. He did that last year. They
Speaker 1: were you know, sixteenth and total offense with backup, second
Speaker 1: and third strain quarterbacks. Jeff Wilson in Week three had
Speaker 1: eight and it's not a type of eight red zone
Speaker 1: carries in Week three that is just a massive amount,
Speaker 1: so when they get down near the goal line, Jeff
Speaker 1: Wilson is going to be the one that's in the game.
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Speaker 1: know we only have about fifteen minutes ago in the program.
Speaker 1: You're number one wide receiver pick up this week. Frank
Speaker 1: is whom it is? Philip Door said, if he's available.
Speaker 1: I understand a lot of people went out and grabbed
Speaker 1: him after the news came out. David second by seconds
Speaker 1: that's exactly right, because admittedly we were probably doodling a
Speaker 1: little bit too much, but we should have ended up
Speaker 1: with Philip Door said, he was added in a lot
Speaker 1: of leagues once Antonio Brown was cut by the New
Speaker 1: England Patriots. But it's very clear he has a rapport
Speaker 1: a connection with Tom Brady and that means a lot
Speaker 1: because we're talking about the goat Tom F M Brady
Speaker 1: t FB and if you're on his good side, he's
Speaker 1: gonna throw you the ball. And like I said when
Speaker 1: it came to Rex Burkhead, I want as much exposure
Speaker 1: to this Patriots offense as I can possibly get. So
Speaker 1: Philip Door set led the Patriots wide receivers and snaps
Speaker 1: played this past week. He scored another touchdown. Julian Edelman
Speaker 1: is dealing with a chess injury. Josh Gordon was elevated
Speaker 1: to basically Antonio Brown's role, but now Philip Dorset steps
Speaker 1: in his and Josh Gordon's role, which makes him a
Speaker 1: low end wide receiver three on a weekly basis. So
Speaker 1: for me, Greg there's a lot of interesting name on
Speaker 1: the wide on the waiver wider when it comes to
Speaker 1: wide receiver. But Philip dor said is number one for me,
Speaker 1: assuming that Mark has Valveo Scantling isn't available. I really
Speaker 1: like him this week against the Philadelphia Eagles and v S.
Speaker 1: I guess he beat up Philadelphia secondary No. Ronald Darby
Speaker 1: on Thursday night. There's a lot to love. Ani also
Speaker 1: has to get right game, but there could. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about that a little bit more tomorrow. We'll have our
Speaker 1: by cell hold. But Davante Adams, like we said about
Speaker 1: Mike Evans last week, one of the most obvious by
Speaker 1: Locane that it's right now, absolutely e y for you.
Speaker 1: How much are you spending on MVS? How much are
Speaker 1: you spending on Philip Doors set love MVS? I'm all
Speaker 1: over him. I think that the Packers offense will just
Speaker 1: get better and better. A lot of people are complaining
Speaker 1: about Aaron Rodgers came out and they looked unbelievable. Well like, look,
Speaker 1: they're three and oh and they're trying to win football games.
Speaker 1: They don't care about your fantasy stats. He wants to
Speaker 1: win another Super Bowl. They got up, they ran the ball,
Speaker 1: both backs were heavily involved, and they didn't need to
Speaker 1: throw it. They they had a lead for the entire game.
Speaker 1: That that's what happens in football sometimes. But even the
Speaker 1: play to MVS was a broken play. Uh, it was
Speaker 1: an offside and Aaron Rodgers just said, okay, well I'll
Speaker 1: just throw it up. And he got it. And he's
Speaker 1: super fast and tall and he's gonna catch I think
Speaker 1: a ton of touchdowns. Uh like him, like Dorset too,
Speaker 1: But MBS is that's the guy. I mean, if he's
Speaker 1: not owned, you better go off for him. Yeah. Much
Speaker 1: like we've said about doors set, you know MVS, it's
Speaker 1: clear that Aaron Rodgers has trusted him, like you I
Speaker 1: just mentioned on that play where it was off side,
Speaker 1: he says, all right, I'm just gonna throw it up.
Speaker 1: The person he threw it up to was MVS. It
Speaker 1: wasn't Davante Adams. So they have a connection already. MVS
Speaker 1: is on the field much more than Geronimo Allison. So
Speaker 1: when it came to MVS versus Allison, a lot of
Speaker 1: people didn't know which side to be on. Throughout draft season.
Speaker 1: I think universally we kind of all came around on
Speaker 1: MVS on this show at least, and it's clear that
Speaker 1: when they're running two wide receiver sets, MVS is the
Speaker 1: one that's out there, not Geronimo Allison, and he's making
Speaker 1: the most of his opportunity so far. Great. Absolutely. Now
Speaker 1: moving on from there, you get the Deante Johnson, who
Speaker 1: with the Steelers, he did start, he didn see looks
Speaker 1: maybe he has a connection with the Rudolph. It's not
Speaker 1: all that exciting at Pittsburgh and Frank we were just
Speaker 1: talking about how that kind of blew our season, big
Speaker 1: bad and getting all right. But Yanda Johnson snaps, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he did play a season high in snaps. He played
Speaker 1: forty three snapped, which was actually still behind James Washington.
Speaker 1: So if everyone's, you know, rushing to pick up Deonta
Speaker 1: Johnson because he scored the touchdown, I still do like
Speaker 1: James Washington, So pay attention if he gets dropped in
Speaker 1: any of your leagues. If there's one thing that Mason
Speaker 1: Rudolph does well, it's throw the deep ball. We saw
Speaker 1: it in week two when he threw that long past
Speaker 1: too to do Smith Schuster, and then in week three
Speaker 1: he throws the thirty nine yard touchdown to Deonta Johnson.
Speaker 1: But I do like Johnson. The thing when it comes
Speaker 1: to him is I think there's gonna be some inconsistency
Speaker 1: will probably get some spike games out of him. Um,
Speaker 1: but ultimately Juju Smith Schuster is still gonna be the
Speaker 1: number one target. They're gonna work in. James Washington, James
Speaker 1: Conner hopefully this is a get right week for him
Speaker 1: going up against the Cincinnati Bengals. Shout out to Big
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Speaker 1: but just an update when it comes to Vance McDonald.
Speaker 1: He was spotted in a sling, so if he's not
Speaker 1: ready to go, that means there's gonna be more targets
Speaker 1: to go around for Juju, for Deonce Johnson, and for
Speaker 1: James Washington as well. The update speaking of injuries regards
Speaker 1: to take Kuon Barkley Chris Morten's reports that he underwent test.
Speaker 1: He was examined Monday by Dr Martin O'Malley, the team's
Speaker 1: consultant with angle specialist at the Hospital Special Surgery. He's
Speaker 1: going for a second opinion, but noted foot specialist Dr
Speaker 1: Robert Anderson in North Carolina tomorrow. Mr Anderson, that doesn't
Speaker 1: sound good, doesn't sound great, so you want to up
Speaker 1: your bid on Wayne Gallman, Gregg not really and the
Speaker 1: same like this is a high angle sprain. It didn't
Speaker 1: look good when it happened. As soon as he came
Speaker 1: out in a walking boot with the crutches, you knew
Speaker 1: something bad was gonna happen. Here could move Now if
Speaker 1: let's say there's still a chance this is in the
Speaker 1: realm of possibilities, where at the end of this or
Speaker 1: you know, whenever they're kind of deeming him ready to
Speaker 1: come back four to eight week time span, he's still
Speaker 1: not good to go, or he reinjures himself. And if
Speaker 1: that's the case, then you have you know, a high
Speaker 1: D flux or low and RB two and Wayne Goldman
Speaker 1: for the rest of the season. So again, that's why
Speaker 1: I'm just being a little bit more aggressive on him.
Speaker 1: If you really need him, I'm going over when it
Speaker 1: comes to Wayne Goldman, let me see you why making
Speaker 1: his notes on the side. How much would you put
Speaker 1: on Dante Johnson here, Eric, I'm not going much. This
Speaker 1: is the was the fourth guy. Okay, gott a touchdown? Uh,
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh's a mess. I think it's probably it's not gonna
Speaker 1: get much better than it is. Um, I feel like
Speaker 1: it's something that I was saying a lot in the
Speaker 1: off season is is Connor and juju Look, they're good athletes,
Speaker 1: but they're not game changing athletes. And that's what Levian
Speaker 1: Bell and Antonio Brown are that you just can't step
Speaker 1: into a role like that and expect to have the
Speaker 1: same kind of production if you're not that kind of
Speaker 1: freak athlete. I think Jujuice mr Is a good receiver.
Speaker 1: I don't think he's a great receiver. And I think, uh,
Speaker 1: there's another another one of my off season calls. It's
Speaker 1: looking pretty good so far me personally, Greg, if I'm
Speaker 1: just ranking them, I'm gonna go MVS Philip door Set
Speaker 1: and then Deontay Johnson and I'm probably going twelve to
Speaker 1: on MVS if he's available. Philip door Set six to
Speaker 1: eight percent, and then Deontay Johnson maybe like three or
Speaker 1: four percent of my budget. Last team, I want to
Speaker 1: get to with the wider severs and Preston Williams, guy,
Speaker 1: I want to I want to get pass Preston Williams.
Speaker 1: I wanted to mention Devontay Parker e y, it's one
Speaker 1: step forward, three steps back for Devontay Parker Man. What's
Speaker 1: going on with your guy. I mean he catches the
Speaker 1: one hand to pass, but then you know he's dropping passes. Still,
Speaker 1: the opportunity is there for Devontay Parker right now, and
Speaker 1: he just doesn't want to take a grasp on it.
Speaker 1: Ey Uh. I think the big glaring point is is
Speaker 1: we all have to remember that he plays on the Dolphins. Um,
Speaker 1: the reality is that there's not going to be a
Speaker 1: lot of uh fantasy goodness coming out of that that team.
Speaker 1: Uh it could be this could be a record setting team,
Speaker 1: and I mean in the worst possible way. They may
Speaker 1: finish last in every category known to man. Uh. It's
Speaker 1: scary and it is bad football. It is not fun
Speaker 1: to watch. You got a feel for Josh Rosen. Uh
Speaker 1: like this guy. He goes from one of the worst
Speaker 1: team offensively offensive uh ever in the Arizona Cardinals last
Speaker 1: year to maybe even worse than Arizona was last year
Speaker 1: on the Dolphins this year. They traded away all their
Speaker 1: good players. Um, somehow, Kenyan Drake still isn't being used
Speaker 1: or played. Davante Parker is uh has all the tools,
Speaker 1: but still doesn't seem to be able to put it together.
Speaker 1: So the whole thing is it's just a mess. The
Speaker 1: Dolphins are an absolute disaster. Yeah, just deeper wide receiver targets.
Speaker 1: I like Preston Williams, he had the twelve targets this week.
Speaker 1: If you were a t Y Hilton owner, just pay
Speaker 1: attention to that situation. But again in deeper formats Zach Pascal,
Speaker 1: Paris Campbell, and Dion Kane as well. Greg. Well, that's
Speaker 1: what I wanted to get into before we go to
Speaker 1: the tight end, was that Colt's wide receiving groups. You
Speaker 1: Hy Hilton is not declaring himself out yet. He'll say, hey,
Speaker 1: if I play, I'll play. I can't play, I won't play,
Speaker 1: and see why. As we've seen in the past, like
Speaker 1: has been known to aggravate an injury. We saw it
Speaker 1: with the quad scoring the touchdown in the first half
Speaker 1: this past week. The problem is none of these cold
Speaker 1: second wide receiver stepped out. We know Devin Funches out
Speaker 1: for the year. We know t Y Hilton he's banged up.
Speaker 1: The other guys like your BA Zach Pascal's like your
Speaker 1: Paris Campbell, nobody Gean Cane as well. None of these
Speaker 1: guys have really stepped up to be like, oh this
Speaker 1: is the guy I assume the guy really probably is
Speaker 1: the tight ends and Jack Doyle, mo Alei Cox, and
Speaker 1: obviously Eric Ebron. They're gonna rely on Marlon Mack a
Speaker 1: lot against the Raiders. I don't know which one to
Speaker 1: tell you to grab. Yeah, I would agree with that.
Speaker 1: It's probably the tight ends would be the biggest beneficiaries
Speaker 1: of t Y Hilton being out if he were to
Speaker 1: be out this past week. Outside of t Y Hilton,
Speaker 1: the guy had ten targets in the first half in
Speaker 1: this game. They had eight other players that were between
Speaker 1: two and four targets, So there's no go to guy.
Speaker 1: They're spreading the ball around. You know, I would want
Speaker 1: it to be Deon I think he's talented. I think
Speaker 1: he has an interesting physical profile as well. Paris Campbell.
Speaker 1: They just used a pretty high draft pick on him
Speaker 1: as well that he's been playing the slot receiver. But
Speaker 1: then Zach Pascal, the one that you know, we really
Speaker 1: don't have any interesting was the one who went out
Speaker 1: and had fifty three yards in a touchdown. So it's
Speaker 1: kind of all over the place. You know. If I
Speaker 1: was just ranking it based on talent, I would probably
Speaker 1: put Deon Kane and Paris Campbell ahead of Zach Pascal,
Speaker 1: but Pascal is the one who just scored a touchdown.
Speaker 1: Craig it was young, came play six percent of the
Speaker 1: snaps on Sunday, followed by Parris Campbell at forty five percent,
Speaker 1: Zach Pascal acent and don't forget about old Chester Rogers
Speaker 1: at fort ye Like, why is Chester Rogers playing twenty
Speaker 1: seven snaps? Can't we just get more of Paris Campbell
Speaker 1: and Dion Kane. I don't know. I understand that they're
Speaker 1: young wide receivers, but they're probably also better dynamic players.
Speaker 1: Like Chester Rodgers has been around for a while, he
Speaker 1: hasn't really been able to do much with his opportunity.
Speaker 1: All right, Finally, let's get to the tight end position
Speaker 1: where we told you last week about the boy Will
Speaker 1: Disley who told us about for years. Now, that's a man.
Speaker 1: He's not a boy, he's a man. Will This facing
Speaker 1: off against the worst defense against tight ends in the
Speaker 1: entire league this week, you gotta love Will dis Lee.
Speaker 1: The Arizona Cardinals have allowed five receiving touchdowns to tight
Speaker 1: ends in their first three games. Greg Alsen just had
Speaker 1: two touchdowns last week in Week three. In Week one,
Speaker 1: Hockinson over a hundred yards in a touchdown in week
Speaker 1: to Mark Andrews over a hundred yards in a touchdown
Speaker 1: against the Arizona Cardinals. Will This Lee is going to
Speaker 1: eat the Arizona Cardinals alive in Week four? He's still
Speaker 1: just in Yahoo League's Greg Well this Lee no doubt
Speaker 1: or this week for me and the final Titan. I
Speaker 1: want to bring up here it's your boy Dawson Knocks
Speaker 1: want Who's Dawson knocks? Dawson Knox is the starting tight
Speaker 1: end for Buffalo Bills, and uh, he looked good. He
Speaker 1: I mean, he didn't get a ton of work and
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't think he will. But I mean,
Speaker 1: look at tight end, just go ahead and accept it.
Speaker 1: There's two or three guys that you're going to start
Speaker 1: every week. You know that it's a dart throw and
Speaker 1: I think Will Disley is becoming one of those guys
Speaker 1: you're going to play every week. Him and Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: have a real chemistry. Um. You saw it at the
Speaker 1: start of last year. It was a rookie, but all
Speaker 1: of a sudden, it was like, who the hell is
Speaker 1: Will Disley? Everyone's saying and no one knew who he was.
Speaker 1: Everyone thought it was going to be uh Everett or
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think of the other tight end there. Anyways,
Speaker 1: everyone thought it was going to be him and ended
Speaker 1: up not being him and being Will Disley. He's looked great.
Speaker 1: Who was it? Nick Vanette? Nick Finette, that's the other guy.
Speaker 1: So everyone thought it was gonna be him and it wasn't.
Speaker 1: Will Desley has earned his time. Um, he's great and
Speaker 1: a guy I can confidently say I own in nine
Speaker 1: of my bestball leagues, So that is looking like a
Speaker 1: pretty good decision. Yeah, I definitely have some interest in
Speaker 1: Dawson Knox. Greg three for sixties seven and a touchdown
Speaker 1: on four targets. They also gave him a rushing attempt
Speaker 1: he ran for nine yards, so they're trying to find
Speaker 1: ways to get Dawson Knox involved. His physical profile really
Speaker 1: good coming out of college. Uh he was eighty five
Speaker 1: percentile in both the forty yard dash and in speed score,
Speaker 1: so really really athletic. You saw him at forty nine
Speaker 1: yard catching run basically took the souls of two Cincinnati
Speaker 1: Bengals defenders, just completely destroyed those two guys. You know
Speaker 1: they have families Dawson Knox. Let's keep that in mind.
Speaker 1: The New England Patriots are tough against tight ends, but
Speaker 1: if the Bills are going to compete in that Week
Speaker 1: four matchup, they're gonna need everybody, all hands on deck
Speaker 1: to get involved. So I do like Dawson Knox, especially
Speaker 1: if you're playing keeper of dynasty. Make sure he's owned.
Speaker 1: If you're looking for her streaming defense, where can we look, Frankie.
Speaker 1: I like the Indianapolis Colts hosting the Oakland Raiders in
Speaker 1: Week four, and it's not often you see two defenses
Speaker 1: that are going up against each other, but I think
Speaker 1: that we can see some turnovers from both the Steelers
Speaker 1: and the Cincinnati Bengals. They play on Monday Night Football
Speaker 1: next week, So if you miss out on the Colts,
Speaker 1: I like those two as well. He's there, a young
Speaker 1: he is Frank Stample. All three of us will be
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Speaker 1: you missed on the VFPS. Jake Gruden is a dead
Speaker 1: man walking right now. I don't know how much longer
Speaker 1: he is going to be the head coach of Washington's.
Speaker 1: Do you think he deserves get fired? Well, look, he's
Speaker 1: been there for what six seven years, he's made one
Speaker 1: playoff appearance. He has no playoff I mean, at some
Speaker 1: point it's got to be on somebody, right, I mean
Speaker 1: to me, you you look at their team right now,
Speaker 1: or like the quarterback right now is case Kingdom of
Speaker 1: his best offensive lineman is refusing to go, is refusing
Speaker 1: to report because they don't like how the way injuries
Speaker 1: have been handled. Their defense has been a mass like
Speaker 1: salary calve is always in hell? What is it? What
Speaker 1: has Jake Gruten done wrong? They had a top pick
Speaker 1: in Robert Grod from the third obviously that didn't work out.
Speaker 1: They had Kirk Cousins who ended up, you know, going elsewhere.
Speaker 1: And you know, the jury is still out on Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins if we're being honest, but he's getting paid a
Speaker 1: ton of money. So you know, they've had some talented
Speaker 1: quarterback play and now they just used a first round
Speaker 1: pick on Dwayne Haskins. And I think, you know that's
Speaker 1: really the takeaway that it's I think sooner rather than later,
Speaker 1: we're going to see Dayne Haskins quarterback for this team.
Speaker 1: And I think the longer they let case Keenum start
Speaker 1: at quarterback, the bigger the mistake that they're making, because
Speaker 1: I don't really see any reason why unless he just
Speaker 1: completely is not ready. For Dwayne Haskins not to be
Speaker 1: starting in Week four, going up against Daniel Jones and
Speaker 1: the New York Giants. I understand it's a divisional game,
Speaker 1: but it's on the road against a terrible defense. Look
Speaker 1: at what the Giants just did a week ago. They
Speaker 1: started Daniel Jones on the road against a what we
Speaker 1: thought was an improving defense. Turned out that there's still
Speaker 1: a terrible defense. You put Dwayne Haskins out there against
Speaker 1: the Giants, he should be able to perform well against
Speaker 1: that defense. You get his confidence up. Unless he just
Speaker 1: really does not know what's going on. I would have
Speaker 1: had him ready to go for this week. Heading it's
Speaker 1: week four. What do you think about Jay Grunden's job
Speaker 1: being on the line, and why haven't the Washington Redskins
Speaker 1: turned towards Dayne Haskins yet. I feel like that's coming.
Speaker 1: I feel like, uh, the coach there felt that, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe Keson was okay. Keenan was a more reliable option.
Speaker 1: H a guy that could run the offensive maybe a
Speaker 1: little more reliably. I think coaches are just going to
Speaker 1: lean that way. Their programmed to think that way with veterans.
Speaker 1: UM football is changing, is changing every year, and more
Speaker 1: and more rookies are coming in and they're more and
Speaker 1: more prepared and more and more ready to jump straight
Speaker 1: in and play. Uh we'll see. With Dwayne Haskins, we
Speaker 1: don't know. What I'll say is Terry McLaurin looks like
Speaker 1: he is the real deal. UM. And this is a
Speaker 1: team that has terrible, terrible injury like now, whether that
Speaker 1: has to do something with their training staff or whatever
Speaker 1: it is, I don't see how that can even be
Speaker 1: a thing. But I don't know. We know that the
Speaker 1: ownership there is a mess. It's been a mess for years.
Speaker 1: Guy in the roster that played uh NFL football was
Speaker 1: telling a really interesting story last night and how Dan
Speaker 1: Snyder would charge money to come to open practices and
Speaker 1: when you do that, it allows everyone, even the other
Speaker 1: teams coordinators and scouts to go so they would know
Speaker 1: all of Washington's plays and audibles. And I mean, as
Speaker 1: a player on the team, has just gotta be definitely frustrating.
Speaker 1: Multi billionaire owner is pinching pennies and charging ten dollars
Speaker 1: to get into practices and giving away of all the
Speaker 1: team's play calls. You're at a disadvantage to begin before
Speaker 1: the game even starts