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Speaker 1: here's your host, Paul Charchi. Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: I am Paul Charchy and my co host today is
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson. Hey Brian, what's up charch Long time no see, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it has been a little while since you've been on
Speaker 1: the show. I think we had a couple of fishes.
Speaker 1: I think we had a mad in there. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: breaking down like actual football games, I believe. Yeah, pulling
Speaker 1: for the Jaguars to win team close to Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Ball back that last show you mean, yeah, yeah, the
Speaker 1: show I was a while ago that it was like
Speaker 1: a long time ago. It was. You're also a long
Speaker 1: time ago Chop podcast. Yea for the Guilloteam League, So
Speaker 1: we should we should fire up one of those maybe
Speaker 1: next week, talk about some of the things that are
Speaker 1: are lessons learned. Um, it will be a drafting season
Speaker 1: pretty soon. I mean it already is, really, but for
Speaker 1: Guilloteen leagues, specifically. Yes, Yeah, for some people, they're already
Speaker 1: getting their best ball teams going for next year. Oh
Speaker 1: you're talking to one. Yeah, I know, I know. I
Speaker 1: mean I love that about you. That's fantastic. It is
Speaker 1: fascinating just to watch the ebbs and flows of ADPs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's got to be radically changing now. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: I've seen it already. Some players. I mean, I could
Speaker 1: talk for over an hour right now to just give
Speaker 1: me one name. Where is Bejean Robinson's going to be
Speaker 1: the first player taking a rookie and Dynasty drafts. No,
Speaker 1: he's he's going. Where is he going in you know, redraft?
Speaker 1: Anywhere from tenth to like so late first to mid second,
Speaker 1: not getting past or pick fifteen sixteen. That's about as
Speaker 1: late as your seat him go. And obviously we don't
Speaker 1: even know where he's playing as it right now, but
Speaker 1: he's he's RB four basically. I don't know that I
Speaker 1: was on any shows with you in which we've talked
Speaker 1: about this, but I've talked about it a couple of
Speaker 1: times throughout January and into February. I think there's a
Speaker 1: decent chance he ends up in Cincinnati or Kansas City
Speaker 1: and becomes just a dynaball, just a block buzz because
Speaker 1: I think seams are so hesitant to draft or running back,
Speaker 1: understandably so for reasons. Everybody that's listening to this understands
Speaker 1: in the first round that he could easily fall to
Speaker 1: the bottom of the first round and then one of
Speaker 1: these elite off he just walks into an elite offense
Speaker 1: at the bottom of the first round. An intriguing option
Speaker 1: I've heard and it makes sense is the Giants they
Speaker 1: just reboot s Quon Barkley. Basically, Barkley, pay Barkley. They're
Speaker 1: probably not gonna pay Barkley now what he wants, which
Speaker 1: sadly is him a lot when it comes to running.
Speaker 1: Bit but you're you're a little kid growing about there,
Speaker 1: great football player. Don't play running back, be a punter,
Speaker 1: play cornerback like any the other skilled position than running
Speaker 1: back if you want to get paid, because you gotta
Speaker 1: work hard for that money. Man, it's the second contract.
Speaker 1: Here's the and you understand the team's position. How many
Speaker 1: running backs get a second contract and the team's glad
Speaker 1: they did it, and you know, almost never. It just
Speaker 1: goes to show how bad that pick was for the Giants.
Speaker 1: Back then there were no position to spend the fourth
Speaker 1: overall pick well on a running back. Now, he was
Speaker 1: like the last thing. That's like the last piece you
Speaker 1: go for, right almost in fantasy football and reality football
Speaker 1: is you go big at running back once you got
Speaker 1: everything else in place, all right, But in fairness, Barkley
Speaker 1: won Rookie of the Year, and he was his rookie year.
Speaker 1: He was awesome, he was so good, and then just
Speaker 1: the injuries derailed him. And now you know, you just
Speaker 1: you feel like you can't the Giants can't give him
Speaker 1: a second running back. But yeah, but I mean now
Speaker 1: when there they've sort of have a team in place,
Speaker 1: they can't afford to pay him essentially, so but again, bijon, Yeah,
Speaker 1: the hype is real already. But yeah, if he lands
Speaker 1: on one of those soft places, like you said, soft
Speaker 1: as in good like yeah, Kansas City piece Miami, am well,
Speaker 1: Miami lost their first round pick, so not Otherwise that
Speaker 1: would have been an ideal spot for him. We've been
Speaker 1: twenty three, could be a Minnesota Viking perhaps, and maybe
Speaker 1: that'd be a pretty good landing spot for him too, really,
Speaker 1: but yeah, it's ever since Barkley he's the flashiest rookie
Speaker 1: we've seen going into since Barkley. I totally agree. We're
Speaker 1: going to talk about rushing in this podcast, but we're
Speaker 1: talking about quarterback rushing. Yeah, as has become apparent for
Speaker 1: those that are a little slower on the pick up here,
Speaker 1: rushing quarterbacks are a freaking cheat code. When you can
Speaker 1: get a quarterback who can run and pass, it unlocks
Speaker 1: some crazy upside and an extremely safe floor in any
Speaker 1: given week. Because if you've got a quarterback who can
Speaker 1: run and pass, odds are one or the other is
Speaker 1: going to come through for you in any given game,
Speaker 1: if not both. So what I've wanted, what I wanted
Speaker 1: to do today, Ryan is drilled down on the necessity
Speaker 1: to draft a rushing quarterback, a mobile quarterback. Is it imperative?
Speaker 1: Do you need to, as we like to say on
Speaker 1: this show, reach around to take a mobile quarterback and
Speaker 1: make sure you get your guy. And we've ground up
Speaker 1: a bunch of data and they aren't. They are in
Speaker 1: demand right now. We were talking ADP and we'll get
Speaker 1: there again, but yeah, they want to talk to you
Speaker 1: about that. I think we'll get pickamp on this. Finally,
Speaker 1: very bullish on the mobile quarter quarterbacks, Yes, I bet
Speaker 1: they are so. And we'll talk about this from the
Speaker 1: standpoint of one quarterback, two quarterback in super Flex, especially
Speaker 1: at the end. I want to talk to you. I
Speaker 1: want to cover those different formats. Although it becomes pretty
Speaker 1: apparent like two quarterback, everybody's running to get a quarterback. Anyway,
Speaker 1: one quarterback you have a lot more options. But we'll
Speaker 1: talk about that in a second. First, I want to
Speaker 1: break down who is what we're going to call it,
Speaker 1: a very mobile quarterback, who is an occasionally mobile quarterback,
Speaker 1: and then who's an immobile quarterback. So let's start here
Speaker 1: the very mobile quarterbacks. These are guys who average over
Speaker 1: forty rushing yards per game. Okay, and the data set
Speaker 1: for this has been I used the last two years
Speaker 1: for all of my data, and I always love equating
Speaker 1: forty rushing yards. When it comes from a quarterback, it's
Speaker 1: an extra passing touch it is right, it's a it's
Speaker 1: a free passing touchdown in every in every every game.
Speaker 1: Justin Fields last year was over forty Josh Allen both
Speaker 1: of the last two years, Daniel Jones last year in
Speaker 1: a competent offense, and Jalen Hurts both years. Those are
Speaker 1: your fields, Alan Jones hurts, those are your very mobile quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: And I think it's safe to say Lamar Jackson would
Speaker 1: have been on that list if healthy. Yeah, he kind
Speaker 1: of up the last few years, so we should lump
Speaker 1: him into that category, I would think, and Trey Lance
Speaker 1: people were envisioning him. Right, we'll hold off. So I'm
Speaker 1: glad you brought this up. So let me say that
Speaker 1: all the data you're going to hear, I took out
Speaker 1: anybody who didn't start at least eight games in a
Speaker 1: season because Brian I just I was trying to weed
Speaker 1: out backups, bad starters, because I didn't want them polluting
Speaker 1: the data. I didn't want to pollute the data with
Speaker 1: a bunch of guys who were like two start quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: three start quarterbacks, four start quarterbacks. And really the only
Speaker 1: guy who kind of got who got sort of nuked
Speaker 1: out of all of this was Lamar Jackson. But still
Speaker 1: I think that, you know, there's so many other quarterbacks
Speaker 1: you were to talk about. I don't think this really
Speaker 1: disrupts the data a lot. Now, you're occasionally mobile quarterbacks
Speaker 1: are quarterbacks who run for on average twenty to forty
Speaker 1: rushing yards per game. They are Kyler Murray Justin Fields
Speaker 1: last year, Marcus Mariota this year, Daniel Jones last year,
Speaker 1: and Patrick Mahomes both of the last two years, and
Speaker 1: then Geno Smith last year quietly chipping in over twenty
Speaker 1: rushing yards per game. And then everybody else is categorized
Speaker 1: as an am mobile quarterback less than twenty rushing yards
Speaker 1: per game, and we'll talk about how many points you
Speaker 1: got for these guys. Want one guy and he wouldn't
Speaker 1: meet your criteria because he didn't play enough games. But
Speaker 1: going into this season, I think DeShawn Watson falls into that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I didn't realize he would have. He would have if
Speaker 1: you extrapolated his six games from the last year whatever,
Speaker 1: he would have finished with over five hundred rushing yards,
Speaker 1: which would have put him six among quarterbacks and rushing
Speaker 1: yards behind Daniel Jones on a per game basis. I'm
Speaker 1: guessing this sort of thrown him into the occasional mobile,
Speaker 1: but he didn't have to my eyes. Do you remember
Speaker 1: great runs from Deshaun Watson this year? Now, he never
Speaker 1: quite even in his career, like he doesn't have the
Speaker 1: like you remember, Like going back to Michael Vick, like
Speaker 1: that over time run against the Vikings where they like
Speaker 1: oh God, and Lamar Jackson like you, Yeah, Watson, he's
Speaker 1: never he's not that type of runner, but he's he's
Speaker 1: so must mobile. Yeah, well for sure you can make
Speaker 1: things happen if he needs to. All right, so let's
Speaker 1: start here, just the core essence. How many fantasy points
Speaker 1: per game? Did very mobile quarterbacks have? Occasionally mobile quarterbacks
Speaker 1: and immobile quarterbacks, So let's just start right there. Immobile
Speaker 1: quarterbacks averaged And obviously every scoring system is a little
Speaker 1: bit different here, so you just use these as comparisons
Speaker 1: and you can you can apply your own scoring system
Speaker 1: to this. Immobile quarterbacks average fifteen fantasy points per game.
Speaker 1: Occasionally mobile quarterbacks again, these are people in the twenty
Speaker 1: to forty yard range. That number jumped up to eighteen
Speaker 1: fantasy points per game with Patrick Mahomes. If you take
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes out of that, it drops, it go only
Speaker 1: goes to sixteen. The very mobile quarterbacks Brian jump up
Speaker 1: to twenty one fantasy point points per game. That is
Speaker 1: almost a fifty percent boost over the immobile quarterback. Regardless
Speaker 1: of how many actual points your scoring system has and
Speaker 1: the nuances of yours. The difference between a mobile and
Speaker 1: very mobile quarterbacks is almost fifty percent. That's pretty serious change. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's to me. That's where you start really changing your priorities.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find a rushing quarterback when you're drafting, Um,
Speaker 1: I want to hit you with this. Do rushing quarterbacks
Speaker 1: miss more games? Do these mobile quarterbacks get hit more
Speaker 1: often and miss more games? Off the top of your head,
Speaker 1: most people would say yes, because they're running around in
Speaker 1: the tackles. Yeah, but is that the case? Before I
Speaker 1: looked at the data on the injuries and missed games
Speaker 1: for mobile quarterbacks, I was of the belief that the
Speaker 1: most dangerous place for a quarterback was in the pocket,
Speaker 1: that you get the blindside hit. You know your stationary
Speaker 1: and here comes some three hundred pound guy running full
Speaker 1: steam into your back. That kind of stuff. Sunday did
Speaker 1: grind up the data, and as a reminder, here I'm
Speaker 1: comparing starting quarterbacks, but starting quarterbacks or removed the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: we played less than eight games in a season, and
Speaker 1: I did remove a couple of that that pulled out
Speaker 1: a couple of legit guys. You mentioned m Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: but also like Matthew Stafford last year, Sam Howell, Malik Wills,
Speaker 1: I didn' Jeff Risk called Cooper Rush. I didn't want
Speaker 1: them concluding the data here. So here's where it comes in.
Speaker 1: Immobile quarterbacks averaged fourteen starts per season. Occasionally, mobile quarterbacks
Speaker 1: averaged fourteen starts per season. So now if we go
Speaker 1: to that group of very mobile quarterbacks fields Alan Jones hurts,
Speaker 1: they averaged more games fifteen per season over the last
Speaker 1: two years, at least for the at least for the
Speaker 1: this data set of the last two years, these mobile
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are loop missing any more games then the mobile
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and playing more games. It was either his most
Speaker 1: recent ankle injury or knee injury, or he hurt his
Speaker 1: ankle one of the two times, if not both of
Speaker 1: the last two times. Lamar Jackson's been hurt and missed
Speaker 1: significant time several weeks. He's been hurting the pocket and
Speaker 1: people will musically jumped like running quarterback. He's like, yeah, well,
Speaker 1: too bad. He was standing in the pocket when he
Speaker 1: hurt his ankle this time. It's not always when they're
Speaker 1: on the run. Great point, Josh Allen. When he got
Speaker 1: hurt it was his elbow I don't remember the play.
Speaker 1: Oh he was in the pocket armed top back and
Speaker 1: he's following through and then yeah, yeah, progress got impeded
Speaker 1: throwing the ball anybody, ye, yep, and you know, and
Speaker 1: that really it took the wheels off of Josh Allen
Speaker 1: for about three or four games that elbow injury. They
Speaker 1: didn't run him very much and that you know, that
Speaker 1: subdued his numbers a little bit last year. But still
Speaker 1: Allan obviously an elite mobile quarterback. Want to I want
Speaker 1: to take a quick break when we come back, Brian,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about at what point in the
Speaker 1: draft do you need to take a mobile quarterback? Where
Speaker 1: are they going in ADP? And are you paying that ADP?
Speaker 1: You paying more for that for that quarterback? Are you
Speaker 1: gonna You're gonna let somebody else take that mobile quarterback?
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Speaker 1: We are talking about mobile rushing quarterbacks. Do you need
Speaker 1: to prioritize getting a rushing quarterback? Michael Vick really changed
Speaker 1: the landscape modern day with some gigantic games that started
Speaker 1: to give people a hint of what a dual threat
Speaker 1: quarterback could be. But that was like twenty twelve years ago,
Speaker 1: twenty years ago when he was drafted. Yeah, back, you
Speaker 1: have to go all the way back to when he
Speaker 1: was drafted, for sure, and Dante Culpepper that little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: No one ran like vic Lamar Jackson is the only
Speaker 1: comparable guy in the last twenty thirty years. Ailin Hurts
Speaker 1: and Jon Fields are into that. I'd take that back. Yeah, um,
Speaker 1: but I think we were all very slow to realize
Speaker 1: that those guys were breaking scoring systems wide open, and
Speaker 1: you know it, and it's only becoming more obvious now.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna look this up now. I think he topped
Speaker 1: twenty passing touchdowns one time in his career. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was I think was that Eagles season two, And it
Speaker 1: was like later on in his career. You may be
Speaker 1: right about that. And I remember mostly getting this wrong
Speaker 1: because he had spent like three years in jail, and
Speaker 1: his first year back, I'm like, can you really spend
Speaker 1: three years in jail and just walk down too a
Speaker 1: football field and be great? I turned out he was
Speaker 1: pretty good, and uh so he was drafted to No. One. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: twenty two years ago. But yeah, twenty touchdowns and oh
Speaker 1: six was his career high and then he went to
Speaker 1: prison and then oh nine he came back and in
Speaker 1: uh twenty ten is when he had twenty one passing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So he said twenty or more passing touchdowns twice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in his career passing to me, I like five in
Speaker 1: one game that Eagle that Monday night. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: like was it against Washington? Yeah, I was in Washington.
Speaker 1: I remember I lived out there at the time. I
Speaker 1: almost went to that game, but I was like, I
Speaker 1: hate both of these teams, but I wish I had
Speaker 1: seen that in person. That had been cool. But anyway,
Speaker 1: now that box score remains one of the highest scoring
Speaker 1: single performances in fantasy football history. And he did a
Speaker 1: lot of it in the first half too. I remember
Speaker 1: I think like fourth maybe in the first quarter, he
Speaker 1: had like two bombs into de Shawn Jackson, then like
Speaker 1: a rushing touchdown, and like the first quarter, you know,
Speaker 1: like wouldn't surprise me. That was I want to say.
Speaker 1: He had over one hundred rushing yards, two rushing touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and like three passing touchdowns in that game. Hold on,
Speaker 1: I think I can pull if you can find that,
Speaker 1: that'd be fun to take. That'd be fun to hear
Speaker 1: about that game again for the young guns out there,
Speaker 1: they don't remember that. We'll remember that game from what year?
Speaker 1: Do we think that? It was twenty ten? Sadly, but
Speaker 1: that was a long time ago, twenty ten. I remember
Speaker 1: commiserating with Matthew Barry during that game because he's a
Speaker 1: big Washington fan. Yeah. And Monday Night Football November fifteenth,
Speaker 1: the Eagles beat Washington fifty nine twenty eight. Let's see
Speaker 1: Michael vic head three thirty three and four passing and
Speaker 1: then eighty yards rushing in two rushing touchdowns and touchdown performance.
Speaker 1: They took their foot off the gas mid third quarter
Speaker 1: in that game too. Well, I'm sure they put a
Speaker 1: fifty nine point so they must have at some point.
Speaker 1: Who was the backup quarterback that came in after Michael Ing, Oh,
Speaker 1: good old Kevin Cobb. Kevin, you know what, he only
Speaker 1: took it. H He didn't have a pass attempt Vic
Speaker 1: most of the game, okay, cobbed one rush attempt negative,
Speaker 1: so he kneeled the ball field. That would say okay
Speaker 1: with the days anyway, So we've established that these very
Speaker 1: mobile quarterbacks are worth almost a fifty percent boost and
Speaker 1: fantasy points over the immobile quarterback. So let's talk ADP.
Speaker 1: What kind of ADP are we looking at for guys
Speaker 1: like Fields and Josh Allen and Daniel Jones and Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 1: Well in super flex and two quarterback, nothing really changes
Speaker 1: quarterbacks going high demand. You'll see the top ten go
Speaker 1: in the first two rounds. Really, and if there's any
Speaker 1: there's barely any room for them to move up in
Speaker 1: two quarterback formats, right if any little wiggle room there
Speaker 1: is is gone. But you're gonna see in any order,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be Fields, sorry, not Fields, but Hurts, Alan
Speaker 1: Mahomes go in that order, and then even Burrow he's
Speaker 1: not as he's not falling into this category. But yeah,
Speaker 1: quarterbacks premium in super flex two quarterback, no shocker there.
Speaker 1: But in one quarterback I've seen a huge shift from
Speaker 1: last year where Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts, and Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: somewhat mobile. He's really mobile in the sense that he
Speaker 1: gives you those e white mobile numbers. Yeah, yeah, he
Speaker 1: really scrambles what he needs to, but he can throw
Speaker 1: an eighty yard bomb behind his back that counts as
Speaker 1: like an eighty yard rushing touch. Now, to right. But
Speaker 1: those guys are going early first. They're not going anywhere
Speaker 1: past the mid second, which is easily a round and
Speaker 1: a half earlier than last year. Justin fields right now,
Speaker 1: his current best ball ADP an underdog is thirty six,
Speaker 1: which is the end of round three. That's where you seek.
Speaker 1: That's where you'd see quarterback one going last year. If
Speaker 1: that early, really they're really going like mid third, early fourth,
Speaker 1: you would see people going it was really more like
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, Patrick Mahomes, Josh Allen last year. But in
Speaker 1: best ball, isn't it even more important to get the
Speaker 1: crazy upside that these rushing quarterbacks can give you the standard?
Speaker 1: So I'm surprised that I'm surprised they're even going that long.
Speaker 1: To me to buy on justin fields end of the
Speaker 1: third round, Oh yeah, definitely, and uh yeah fields, and
Speaker 1: then Lamar Jackson is going after fields. I mean Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: he has a repeat of his twenty nineteen season. Well,
Speaker 1: how many? How many years are we going to say that? Though?
Speaker 1: I know, I mean now we've been saying that for
Speaker 1: three years waiting for him to happen. I'll get a
Speaker 1: little bit more excited about l Jackson if they say
Speaker 1: they land DeAndre Hopkins somehow, or they it'd be better
Speaker 1: if he goes somewhere else, potentially Lamar Jackson. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: actually sounds like he probably will. I don't know what
Speaker 1: he's not in the Giants conversation, or you got to
Speaker 1: afford him, and you've got to decide the Ravens, who
Speaker 1: know everything there is to know about Lamar Jackson, if
Speaker 1: they decide to pass on paying him, what does that
Speaker 1: say to the rest of the league. Does the rest
Speaker 1: of the league go, well, you know, if they're not
Speaker 1: going to pay him, why are we going to step up?
Speaker 1: Or is it just there's so many teams that are
Speaker 1: desperate at quarterback that somebody will for sure what it is.
Speaker 1: Kyler is Kyler Marie and DeShawn Watson deals have just
Speaker 1: blown up quarterback market. That makes Daniel Jones almost borderline
Speaker 1: worth forty five million dollars. It's not happy, it's a
Speaker 1: little too much, but sadly he's like a thirty five
Speaker 1: million dollars guy. Based on what Daniel Watson and Daniel
Speaker 1: Jones touchdowns passing touchdowns the last three years fifteen, ten
Speaker 1: and eleven. He's like and he's forty million dollars quarterback.
Speaker 1: He's like Michael Vicks. Well he's not even not even
Speaker 1: not it's yet's absurd, but that it might be that way, Well,
Speaker 1: we'll see what it really has happened. When Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 1: I think he's in the last year of his contract.
Speaker 1: This year's who had the money he's gonna get he commands,
Speaker 1: It's gonna get a lot. But the long story short
Speaker 1: in one quarterback leagues, I want to say, the jig
Speaker 1: is up, the cat is out of the bag, whatever.
Speaker 1: The price is way up on the Jalen Hurts and
Speaker 1: the Josh Allens of the world, just because they are.
Speaker 1: Those two guys put up and justin fields even they
Speaker 1: put up top twelve running back numbers and that doesn't
Speaker 1: even factor in their passing. So yeah, all right there,
Speaker 1: and there's still room for these guys to go up.
Speaker 1: Like you said, you're kind of shocked that Hurts and
Speaker 1: Alan were going. I could I wouldn't be shocked. We
Speaker 1: get deeper into the summer spring summer, we see them
Speaker 1: going in the mid first and maybe even first overall.
Speaker 1: So all right, we'll let's all right, well, let we
Speaker 1: discussed in detail. Justin Fields, talk to me about Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: Let's go to him next. Where is Josh Allen going
Speaker 1: right now? Right now? He's quarterback one ADP of sixteen
Speaker 1: point six, so he is, you know, first the third
Speaker 1: of the second round. He's an early second round pick
Speaker 1: right now, early second round pick. And Mahomes and Hurts
Speaker 1: are right behind him. It's like whoever you prefer there
Speaker 1: and and we can talk best ball centric. It kind
Speaker 1: of almost depends if you compare a Digs or a
Speaker 1: Kelsey or a AJ Brown who you take in the
Speaker 1: first round in whatever course. But those three guys, they're
Speaker 1: going ahead of RB five six right now. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: that was never the case. It used to be, no,
Speaker 1: not in one quarterback. I think finally people have gotten
Speaker 1: around to being a lot more open to not spending
Speaker 1: those early picks on running backs, which is taken twenty years.
Speaker 1: But it's great to see. I think it's great to
Speaker 1: see those guys going where they are, and I think
Speaker 1: you can make case for them to all go higher
Speaker 1: than they are. The key with these rushing quarterbacks Fields,
Speaker 1: Alan Jones, Daniel Jones, who I'm putting into this conversation
Speaker 1: at least for a minute, and Jalen hurts. It's the
Speaker 1: designed runs. It's not that they can scramble, it's that
Speaker 1: they have offenses that give them eight nine, ten, twelve
Speaker 1: rushing attempts in a game. Totally changes the landscape. You know,
Speaker 1: there used to be times when you could go with
Speaker 1: you could go with a just a scrambling quarterback who
Speaker 1: would periodically, you know, get out of the pocket and
Speaker 1: run fifteen yards down field. And but these guys are
Speaker 1: getting designed runs that are breaking defenses and giving you
Speaker 1: opportunities for big gains and rushing touchdowns. And that's just
Speaker 1: a it's a key differential. And the butter fly effect
Speaker 1: on the Allen's Mahomes hurtzes. And then even justin fields
Speaker 1: going in the third round is creating a panic almost
Speaker 1: in the draft in draft rooms at the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: There are now fourteen quarterbacks going inside the top one
Speaker 1: hundred picks. And that's that's you know, yeah, that's factoring
Speaker 1: in Justin Herbert, who's not a mob like think about
Speaker 1: last year we were saying wait until after round ten
Speaker 1: to even think about taking your first quarterback, and now
Speaker 1: there are fourteen quarterbacks going inside the top one because
Speaker 1: people are reaching on the early on these elite quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: and people are panicking to uh yeah, it's it's times
Speaker 1: have changed, just like that, the quarterback position. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: I think you're right, Um, if you do take the
Speaker 1: mobile quarterback early, do you feel like that changes in
Speaker 1: your mind in any way when you take that quarterbacks back,
Speaker 1: when you take it back up your second quarterback. You know,
Speaker 1: if I go quarterback in the second round, I go
Speaker 1: get Josh Allen early, second round? Is it? What's your
Speaker 1: thinking on? And I need to take my next quarterback.
Speaker 1: In most cases, you know, you pay up for quar
Speaker 1: an elite quarterback and elite mobile quarterback. You're waiting to
Speaker 1: take your backup quarterback because you've invested so much in
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. If that quarterback goes belly up, odds
Speaker 1: are your team goes with it. Right. It's not like
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson is gonna save your team if you lose
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts. I know Zach Wilson it's not going to
Speaker 1: be a starting quarterback. But it also depends, you know,
Speaker 1: if if you're a backup quarterback, a quarterback slides too
Speaker 1: far in the draft and already have Jalen Hurts will
Speaker 1: be like, screw it, I'll take this quarterback. He's too
Speaker 1: cheap right here. But essentially, the more you pay a quarterback,
Speaker 1: the more you pay up, the longer you wait for
Speaker 1: your backup. Yeah, there are some intriguing mobile quarterbacks that
Speaker 1: should be cheap. Will levis the rookie. He's a very
Speaker 1: mobile quarterback that you could get late. We mentioned Trey Lance.
Speaker 1: It seems like he knows what is situation. But he's
Speaker 1: actually one of those top or those quarterbacks going to
Speaker 1: top one. He's like people are, yeah, you know with
Speaker 1: brock Purty putting out, you know, his elbow still hasn't ready,
Speaker 1: he still hasn't had the surgery that we all thought
Speaker 1: he would have had by now. If this thing could
Speaker 1: really drag out where brock Purdy's not ready for the
Speaker 1: start of next year and Trey Lance gets first crack
Speaker 1: at winning that job, he becomes pretty intriguing as a
Speaker 1: as a flyer Light and Jordan Love He's got some mobility.
Speaker 1: I'm just intrigued with him overall because it sure seems
Speaker 1: like Roger Richardson does. We'll find his land. Richardson doesn't
Speaker 1: seem like the I think Levis feels like the quarterback
Speaker 1: that would get Richardson seems like the quarterback they whoever
Speaker 1: drafts him he just has to be on the bench
Speaker 1: for but he certainly has uh you know, he's got
Speaker 1: some mobility that has people talking, all right, So give
Speaker 1: me a simple yes no. In a one quarterback league, Brian,
Speaker 1: for you personally and the drafts you're already doing best
Speaker 1: ball drafts, are you prioritizing a rushing quarterback in one
Speaker 1: quarterback leagues? I am, I'm right now. I'm not reaching
Speaker 1: in the first half of the first round, which were
Speaker 1: I think we could see these quarterbacks move up to
Speaker 1: but right now I will. You can call it prioritize
Speaker 1: getting one. If I have a late first round pick,
Speaker 1: I'll take one in the second early second round. Okay,
Speaker 1: And it's really right now, I'm only really talking best ball.
Speaker 1: But if I'm grabbing Stefan Diggs or A J. Brown,
Speaker 1: or if Travis Kelcey manages to slip in the five
Speaker 1: six seven range, I'll gladly pair one of those ais
Speaker 1: with Mahomes, who I know is not super mobile, but
Speaker 1: he's mobile enough. But it's really the hurts in the
Speaker 1: Allen's Well, I've just found you know, you looked in
Speaker 1: the playoffs in all my leagues or teams I had
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts justin Fields, Josh Allen, those are the teams
Speaker 1: that were competing in the fantasy playoffs last year. They
Speaker 1: were for the most part. And Jalen Hurts he got
Speaker 1: hurt at the wrong time. If you remember lying on
Speaker 1: Jalen hurds and that was me. But uh yeah, but
Speaker 1: that's just that was just bad luck. I think, um,
Speaker 1: super flex, are you prioritizing rushing quarterbacks? Yeah, me too.
Speaker 1: Think about this. Could you come out of the first
Speaker 1: two rounds you're picking end of the first round in
Speaker 1: super flex, Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts, I don't think so.
Speaker 1: You don't think you can pull it off. You think
Speaker 1: those guys will be mean, that's like those are that
Speaker 1: maybe one two right there in super flex? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're probably right. It's all they're they're gonna go. I
Speaker 1: think you see Justin Fields go at the end of
Speaker 1: the first round at letist in a super flex draft.
Speaker 1: You're probably right. Two quarterback leagues, now everybody's you know,
Speaker 1: now the you know, eight of the first ten are
Speaker 1: going to be quarterbacks for sure. Um do you prioritize
Speaker 1: it there? You're like, well, at this point there's no
Speaker 1: value to be had and I'm gonna just I'm gonna
Speaker 1: slough it. Now. You gotta reach for you got it?
Speaker 1: Especially in two mandatory quarter back leagues, Yeah, you gotta. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Those are the ones where you see Daniel Jones going
Speaker 1: in the second round before you know a team he's
Speaker 1: going to be on, which tells you that you're you
Speaker 1: might be playing a system that's a little broken. But
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones that those rushing numbers were that you know
Speaker 1: it made him a viable fantasy starter this year. I
Speaker 1: will say though I've I've kind of been advocating pairing
Speaker 1: Josh Allen's Jalen Hurts with their top wide receiver. I
Speaker 1: don't go out of my way to do that though,
Speaker 1: as much with like the statuesque quarterbacks, those are the
Speaker 1: ones that really lock in on their number one guy.
Speaker 1: The mobile quarterbacks that are kind of they'll find whoever's open. Really,
Speaker 1: so it's not a you call that running a quarterback
Speaker 1: naked like I'll go naked Jalen Hurts meaning you're not
Speaker 1: don't pair him with any of your and you could
Speaker 1: easily get away doing that too. I'm more susceptible best ball.
Speaker 1: You're looking for all these big upside connections. I think
Speaker 1: in a standard league it's maybe more advisable to not
Speaker 1: have that connection, and the league it's critical to not
Speaker 1: have that connection absolutely. So you know, I think you
Speaker 1: have to know your know your format a little bit.
Speaker 1: All right, tons of fun. Yeah, hey, next week, let's
Speaker 1: we're going to dive into rookies. Next week, the combines
Speaker 1: coming around, we'll talk about start getting up to speed
Speaker 1: on the rookies. We really care about who's going to
Speaker 1: make an impact um and start. You know, let's really
Speaker 1: start our deep diving rookies other than Bijean Robinson. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're he won't even mention him. He's a little rare.
Speaker 1: He's like he's the one oh one in a super
Speaker 1: flex startup. Most most years it's a quarterback. Last year
Speaker 1: it wasn't a quarterback, but yeah, the right landing spot.
Speaker 1: Robinson's got first overall pick upside. If you remember back
Speaker 1: to Zeke's rookie year, I had him number one on
Speaker 1: my cheat sheet and he finished close to number one.
Speaker 1: Se Quons year I had him add or close to
Speaker 1: number one. You know, if Robinson finds it fine, you know,
Speaker 1: falls into the right spot. Like I think Joe Mixon
Speaker 1: looked totally cooked. If the Bengals do end up moving
Speaker 1: on him, on Bijean Robinson and and that's it, can't
Speaker 1: argue it. Think about the Bengals with adding him in,
Speaker 1: oh Man, that would be so enticing. Same with the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: you know, that's the Chiefs though. You almost worry about
Speaker 1: how many touchdowns Patrick Mahomes leaves behind, because the Chiefs
Speaker 1: with Patrick Molomes have never been able to get consistent
Speaker 1: touchdown production or even yardage production out of a running
Speaker 1: back since Patrick Mahomes has been there. Yeah, he wasn't.
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt was. Sam was the year before him? Right?
Speaker 1: Was that Alex Smith? That was an Alex Smith year? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Mahomes until weeks they had a meaningless week seventeen Holmes
Speaker 1: played in and then that was it. Yeah, and then
Speaker 1: obviously everything took off. Uh, thanks Bran, Yeah, sounds of fun.
Speaker 1: Appreciate you listening, everybody. We'll be back next week. Fantasy
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