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Speaker 1: Tyler Knabillie K and a E B L E intent. Yeah,
Speaker 1: well it's not obvious. Yeah, it's not. And as somebody
Speaker 1: that has languished under charge and all these all these years,
Speaker 1: I get it. I've had some people hit me up
Speaker 1: on Twitter. So I'm glad it's actually transferring over to
Speaker 1: a little Yeah, all right, gaining some followers. I hope
Speaker 1: that's the case. Yeah. We've broken down four players, three
Speaker 1: players this week already. We'll hit our fourth now and
Speaker 1: one of them was a was a contribution from a
Speaker 1: listener David Montgomery earlier this week. What makes the kinds
Speaker 1: of players we want to break down? So if you're
Speaker 1: gonna send us a player, don't give us somebody who
Speaker 1: is coming off injury. So because then the conversation usually
Speaker 1: just turns into well, if he's healthy dot dot dot,
Speaker 1: you know, then this, and if he's not healthy then that.
Speaker 1: I'd rather do somebody else because I don't think the injury,
Speaker 1: the injury conversations of too many unknowns in may you
Speaker 1: know who knows late Sorry, April, it's not me yet, yeah, April.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's so those are the that's that's somebody
Speaker 1: that I'm not, you know, and I liked I like
Speaker 1: it also when there's some shifting sands around the players,
Speaker 1: like this guy, DeShawn Watson Today's focus. He was the
Speaker 1: QB twenty five last season in the average in the
Speaker 1: six games that he played at the end of the year.
Speaker 1: But you're not drafting him. He's going off the board
Speaker 1: as QB nine right now. Well, you are not drafting
Speaker 1: You're not drafting him for the player he was last year.
Speaker 1: You are drafting him for the player he was in Houston.
Speaker 1: And the player he was in Houston was pretty freaking good.
Speaker 1: It was. He was QB four in twenty eighteen, QB
Speaker 1: four in twenty nineteen, and the QB five in twenty twenty.
Speaker 1: Also worth mentioning, he was the most sack QB in
Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, sixth most in twenty nineteen, second most in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty. So he was doing this with not a
Speaker 1: lot of help on the offensive line especially, and I
Speaker 1: remember that last year he had it was him and
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks and that was nothing else. Yep. And they
Speaker 1: know last year he got sacked plenty last year to Cleveland.
Speaker 1: You know, we think of Cleveland is having just dominating
Speaker 1: offensive line. It's a better run blocking line than pass
Speaker 1: blocking line. They give up the They had the ninth
Speaker 1: worst sack percentage last year, and so there's no certainty
Speaker 1: that Deshaun Watson's not going to get sacked a lot.
Speaker 1: But I also think he runs himself into some sacks.
Speaker 1: And you see this with a lot of mobile quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: Justin Fields was the most sack quarterback last year by
Speaker 1: a mile. Yeah, I agree. I was looking at the
Speaker 1: breakdown he Jacoby Brissette had. I think he was sacked
Speaker 1: twenty times and he played two thirds of the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think Deshaun Watson was sacked twenty one times
Speaker 1: and he played six games. Yeah, that's right. And those
Speaker 1: six games are rough, and we I guess we expected
Speaker 1: them to be rough. But he had a zero touchdown game,
Speaker 1: and then a one, and then a one and then
Speaker 1: a zero, and then things took off in the final
Speaker 1: couple of couple of games where he looked a lot
Speaker 1: more comfortable in that offense. The question is does he
Speaker 1: ever get back to the player he was in twenty eighteen,
Speaker 1: nineteen and twenty. I think he's too good that he
Speaker 1: has to, because I don't think I don't think we
Speaker 1: can look at last season and be like, this is
Speaker 1: what he's going to be in Cleveland. He wasn't with
Speaker 1: the team for a majority of the season. He had
Speaker 1: to come back kind of pick up like where he
Speaker 1: left off in the preseason. There, it's probably a completely
Speaker 1: different team than they were in the preseason. That first
Speaker 1: prison's to start with Rougher, him and Jacksonville. I remember that.
Speaker 1: But I think we just we know what he's been.
Speaker 1: He's done it over a long period of time. It's
Speaker 1: not like he did it one year and all this
Speaker 1: stuff happened and now he's back in. He did this
Speaker 1: for a while. They paid the price because that's what
Speaker 1: he was worth, was a fully guaranteed contract. Everyone two
Speaker 1: or three first round pick, So he's I think he's
Speaker 1: that's what his price was worth. It. It's because he
Speaker 1: is so good on the field, and I think he's
Speaker 1: gonna have a situation around him where he could This
Speaker 1: probably is the best situation of his career in terms
Speaker 1: of an offense. He's gonna have Amari Cooper, Elijah Moore, Donovan,
Speaker 1: People's Jones. All those guys do different things. Even in
Speaker 1: David and Joe Target last year, you mentioned that the
Speaker 1: old line maybe has some troubles, but it's a lot
Speaker 1: better than what Houston's was when he was there. So
Speaker 1: I just I'm gonna bet on the situation. Stefanski's a
Speaker 1: pretty good play caller. I feel like he can kind
Speaker 1: of get the most out of de Shaun and at
Speaker 1: QB nine's a fine price for him, considering his ceiling
Speaker 1: is higher than that. So I mean, I don't have
Speaker 1: If we were now he was going off the board
Speaker 1: as QB four, QB five, I'd probably be out. But
Speaker 1: he's QB nine right now, So I feel like you're
Speaker 1: not even drafting him at his ceiling. Not his ceiling, sir, yes,
Speaker 1: but his ceiling is built largely and his rushing ability, um,
Speaker 1: you know, And and Deshaun wat and threw plenty of
Speaker 1: touchdowns in Houston. Didn't necessarily didn't really do that last year,
Speaker 1: but there's there's more passing upside. But what made him
Speaker 1: a special fantasy producer was the blend of the passing
Speaker 1: in the rushing. Give me his rushing totals. I think
Speaker 1: you've got the game log for Deshaun Watson in front
Speaker 1: of you. Give me his rushing totals in his six games,
Speaker 1: because I am curious to see what kind of how
Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski used him as a runner, because in my mind,
Speaker 1: I don't remember a lot of big runs coming from
Speaker 1: last year. Yeah, so last year used one of the
Speaker 1: attempts in the yards or so. We have seven first
Speaker 1: game against Houston, seven for twenty one, six for thirty three,
Speaker 1: six for twenty two, three for twenty four and a
Speaker 1: touchdown eight for thirty one and six for forty four.
Speaker 1: And I also have the number of his rushing in
Speaker 1: Houston over the four years. Yeah, he averaged almost thirty
Speaker 1: one rushing yards per game and four rushing touchdowns per season. Okay,
Speaker 1: those aren't gigantic numbers. Yeah, so that's kind of in
Speaker 1: line with what is around here. So it's it's it's promising,
Speaker 1: I would say, Okay, all right, I thought it was.
Speaker 1: I thought maybe I thought maybe his usage in Houston
Speaker 1: was a little bit higher. This is a scenario in
Speaker 1: Cleveland where there's still a lot of miles defeat and
Speaker 1: that's still going to be a run first offense. Nick
Speaker 1: Chubb is the identity of that offense, not to Shaun Watson,
Speaker 1: though maybe that changes. But my worry would be that
Speaker 1: Chemistefanski is who he is. He ran the ball in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: That was a Dalvin Cook led offense in Minnesota. He
Speaker 1: goes to Cleveland and it's a Nick Chubb led offense
Speaker 1: in Cleveland, and I just, you know, there's some part
Speaker 1: of me that just wonders if there's gonna be enough
Speaker 1: volume for Deshaun Watson to be the kind of passer
Speaker 1: that he was in Houston. That's the thing is he
Speaker 1: had to throw a lot, so he was getting all
Speaker 1: these yards and all these touchdowns. They were always behind
Speaker 1: in these games, so he had he had to throw,
Speaker 1: and he did a good job. But it was really
Speaker 1: good for Fancy's kind of like the fancy basketball ferens
Speaker 1: like Trey Young and the Hawks, like he's a great
Speaker 1: fantasy basketball player because the team's bad because all he
Speaker 1: has to do he's do whatever you want and puts
Speaker 1: up all these points. It's kind of like it kind
Speaker 1: of just feels like that's what Deshaun was in Houston.
Speaker 1: So I think it's a very interesting point. But I
Speaker 1: think maybe the counter would be maybe it will just
Speaker 1: be more efficient now is he could get a lot
Speaker 1: more touchdowns than he possibly couldn't in Houston. So Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson is QB nine right now, let's talk Dynasty Empire leagues.
Speaker 1: In Dynasty and Empire, do you like him more about
Speaker 1: the same or less? Are we talking super flex or
Speaker 1: It's well, I don't know that really necessarily matters, but
Speaker 1: you know we're not comparing it against other positions, Okay
Speaker 1: for sure? So okay, I mean regardless, QB nine, do
Speaker 1: you like him as the ninth best quarterback more or less?
Speaker 1: Are about there? In Dynasty? I do because I don't
Speaker 1: like the qbs below him, and I think he had
Speaker 1: a law of higher ceiling and those guys that are
Speaker 1: going right behind him. So I'm in on DeShawn on
Speaker 1: pretty much any format this year. Okay, all right, I
Speaker 1: would I'm I'm overall way more cautious on him and
Speaker 1: this offense than you are. I think, let's play the
Speaker 1: ADP game. Let's see who else. Let's talk about who
Speaker 1: else is going around quarterback nine. All right, Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: at QB eight right now, I gotta take the proven
Speaker 1: upside that Lamar Jackson's rushing gives you. Obviously lots of
Speaker 1: question marks about if whether or not where he's even playing,
Speaker 1: and if he's unhappy in Baltimore. That worries me. But
Speaker 1: I think right now i'd take I'd take Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. Loved what I saw down the stretch from
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, and then that playoff game was just so amazing,
Speaker 1: And it's got to be for his confidence. I mean,
Speaker 1: to know that you can come back from a four
Speaker 1: pick first half down thirty points or whatever they were
Speaker 1: to the Chargers, that's gotta being so much to him.
Speaker 1: I just I think it's hard not to like Trevor
Speaker 1: Lawrence what he does, and he's kind better wheels than
Speaker 1: people realize. I like those two quarterbacks over to Shaun
Speaker 1: right now. It's this next year that that worries me.
Speaker 1: So we got Dak at QB ten. What's Dak's highest
Speaker 1: fantasy finish. It can't be well. Back in his running
Speaker 1: days before he you know, got his ankle destroyed, he
Speaker 1: was probably a top six seven quarterback. So he's QB ten. Now,
Speaker 1: I'd still I'd take that. You would take that. I
Speaker 1: think I would take, But I'm just further down. Okay,
Speaker 1: I take to Sean and then to a QB eleven.
Speaker 1: He's that high. I can't for redrafting concussions, I can't
Speaker 1: do it. Okay, best ball, I'm more interested because I
Speaker 1: don't have to sweat what game he might get knocked
Speaker 1: out of. But in standard redraft, non best ball too
Speaker 1: worries me a lot. He saw he was doing that
Speaker 1: taekwon do training to help him fall. You see that
Speaker 1: he was learn how to take a fall. That's what
Speaker 1: he's doing. He's literally doing taekwon do training to learn
Speaker 1: how to better brace himself and when he falls. It's
Speaker 1: kind of it's kind of smart. I kind of like it,
Speaker 1: all right, Maybe I don't know. I'm all right. I
Speaker 1: like too, but like to Shawn more. Uh. Last one,
Speaker 1: Daniel Jones at QB twelve because he's got that rushing
Speaker 1: upside that you have the fourth most rushing yards last
Speaker 1: year exactly. Um, and in theory that passing game will
Speaker 1: be better next year, they got a draft to receive
Speaker 1: were right. I can't believe that these words are coming
Speaker 1: out of my mouth. I'd rather have Daniel Joe. Okay,
Speaker 1: that's just ludic. I can't do that. They'll draft a
Speaker 1: receiver under the assumption they're gonna draft multiple receivers probably. Um.
Speaker 1: Now I'm taking Daniel Jones. I've been I'm just I
Speaker 1: just I was so unimpressed with the Deshaun Watson we
Speaker 1: saw last year. He just looked like a guy and
Speaker 1: I had a hard time conjuring up the images of
Speaker 1: twenty nineteen and twenty twenty. I am gonna give him
Speaker 1: the benefit of the doubt. Last year, he six games yep,
Speaker 1: year away from the game, wasn't used to the cold weather.
Speaker 1: Yet you know he's accomlated to that out there. There
Speaker 1: were some games there's like there's games like wins or
Speaker 1: something like that against uh against I'm just saying I
Speaker 1: think his upside is higher than you do. Dak too
Speaker 1: and Daniel Jones. Yeah, you think it's an automatic he
Speaker 1: returns to form. I do not. I think that's and
Speaker 1: that's but that's his degree of disagree. Right, that's totally fine.
Speaker 1: QB nine. I don't think you're getting You're not getting
Speaker 1: a discount at QB nine because in every twelve team
Speaker 1: league there's two or three people who absolutely believe, just
Speaker 1: like you do, that Deshaun Watson's gonna return to form
Speaker 1: and if he does, QB nine's is a good deal
Speaker 1: and that's where they're taking him. All right. Last one,
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins or oh you're you're hurting n Watson. You
Speaker 1: are the Kirk Cousins guy on Twitter? Yeah, I am
Speaker 1: get so many there's just so much hate out there. Yes,
Speaker 1: I know some guy, some guy posted the top fifteen
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in the NFC. I saw that and kirk wasn't
Speaker 1: even listened in the top fifteen. Rock Purdy was ahead,
Speaker 1: and yeah, it's just come on, jeez, He's coming up
Speaker 1: a season with forty five hundred passing yards thirty touchdowns, Like, okay,
Speaker 1: so this season, who you're taking or kirk Um for
Speaker 1: fantasy purposes, I'm gonna take the guy throwing to Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson all right, Yeah, And t J. Hockinson, who we
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