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Speaker 1: Wow, wow, wom Hey there everybody. It is Wednesday, March two.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to the NFL Fantasy Football Podcast, where we are

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Speaker 1: also out of the quarterback market. It's mean your man

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Speaker 1: MG Marks Grant alongside Michael F. Floria. We got Randy

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Speaker 1: on the controls and man, you know, I really thought Floria,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna come and kind of like they'll have a

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Speaker 1: little bit to talk about, you know, we kind of

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Speaker 1: cleaning up free agency, maybe we move on and turn

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Speaker 1: our attention to the draft. But the NFL offseason just

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Speaker 1: refuses to go to sleep. It just will not. It

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Speaker 1: will not take a break. It's like every day I

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Speaker 1: wake up and I'm like, what's gonna happen today? That

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Speaker 1: steals the spotlight? Like they already stole much madness, They

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Speaker 1: stole the MLB lockout ending like just keep they just

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Speaker 1: the NFL will not let other sports have their moments.

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Speaker 1: I mean, just wait, just wait till like they do

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Speaker 1: something to like overshadow the NBA Finals. Will be like

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Speaker 1: a five team blockbuster trade in the middle of the

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Speaker 1: NBA Finals too, just like we're gonna snatch that away. Also,

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Speaker 1: um yeah, it's it's it's wild. I mean so let's

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Speaker 1: which might as well just get because we have a

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Speaker 1: lot to talk about. This last week was just a

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Speaker 1: bananas beefy show. This week, I don't think we'll be

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Speaker 1: quite as long, but we got a lot to go through.

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Speaker 1: So let's just dive in with the news that hit

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Speaker 1: literally moments before we were about to start recording this show,

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Speaker 1: and that is Tyreek Hill is now a Miami Dolphin. Um.

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Speaker 1: This escalated quickly quickly, right Like, I will say that

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Speaker 1: in my my morning timeline. I went to drop my

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Speaker 1: eight thirty in the morning Pacific time. That's when I

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Speaker 1: first saw the news that Tyreek Hill was being granted

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Speaker 1: permission to seek a trade. Literally an hour later, it

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Speaker 1: was done. Uh, the Dolphins get Tyreek Hill. In exchange,

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Speaker 1: they send five draft picks, a first and second round

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Speaker 1: in two as well as a fourth round in in

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Speaker 1: this year's draft, and then a fourth in a sixth

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Speaker 1: in the twenty three draft. On top of it, Miami

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Speaker 1: then goes and gives Tyreek Hill a four year extension

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Speaker 1: for a hundred and twenty million dollars, including seventy two

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Speaker 1: point two million guaranteed. So the Dvante Adams reign as

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Speaker 1: the highest paid wide receiver in the NFL lasted four

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Speaker 1: about a week. Uh, and now it is Tyreek Hill

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Speaker 1: that is sitting atop the wide receiver money throwne. So

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Speaker 1: congrats to him for that. Uh. But let's talk fantasy. Obviously, obviously,

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Speaker 1: the the big thing with Tyreek Hill going from Kansas

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Speaker 1: City to Miami, there was a major quarterback drop off, right, No,

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Speaker 1: no shade on toa He's not Patrick Mahomes. So with

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Speaker 1: this move, is ty he kills the late top ten

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Speaker 1: wide receiver in fantasy Top ten? Yes, but I think

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Speaker 1: it's more borderline like he's been top five basically since

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Speaker 1: he burst out on the scene with the Chiefs. And

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Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, you talk about a quarterback down grade,

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Speaker 1: no offense to tou Patrick Mahomes might be the best

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Speaker 1: quarterback in football. I think it's a very shortlist of

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Speaker 1: players you could put in the same tier as Patrick

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Speaker 1: Mahomes if any. So, while I'm thinking that it's a

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Speaker 1: quarterback down grade for him, I still really like the

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Speaker 1: fact that he's going to be in a Mike McDaniel

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Speaker 1: led offense. We saw what he did, uh with with

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Speaker 1: Deebill Samuel last year. I know Kyle Shanahan plays a

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Speaker 1: big role there as well, but I'm believing in Mike McDaniels,

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Speaker 1: so I think he'll do a lot to get plenty

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Speaker 1: of volume to Tyreek Hill. I think he'll continue to

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Speaker 1: use Hill in situations that Hill can just thrive in.

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Speaker 1: And and Hill is the best field stretcher, I would

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Speaker 1: say in the NFL. So this just helps, I would say,

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Speaker 1: lift the offensive Mihami as a whole. You add in

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Speaker 1: a piece like Tyreek Hill. Know, I know, you know

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Speaker 1: some people have immediately said and everybody has an immediate

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Speaker 1: reaction to this, and I know for some folks the

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Speaker 1: immediate reaction was, well, this is gonna hurt Jalen Waddle

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Speaker 1: and maybe, but I don't know that it it hurts

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Speaker 1: him significantly because they've got a coach there and Mike

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Speaker 1: McDaniel who I think can figure out how to make

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Speaker 1: it work with these two guys. We didn't necessarily see

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Speaker 1: Brandon Ayu was so inconsistent and wasn't you know, in

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Speaker 1: I think McDaniel can figure out how to make it

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Speaker 1: gonna say, Mike the Sicky is Travis Kelsey, but this

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Speaker 1: helps Mi the Sicky too, Right, this is gonna help him.

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Speaker 1: He's a guy who's already getting a lot of targets,

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Speaker 1: think it keeps Hill in the top ten. I don't

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Speaker 1: think he's the top you know, two or three receiver

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Speaker 1: But I think he's still very much a solid wide

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Speaker 1: We were already excited about Jaylen Waddle. This only helps

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Speaker 1: with that. I think Mike Gasicky was that guy that

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Speaker 1: wins in terms of the skill position guys Um to A.

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Speaker 1: The the immediate refrain was Ta no longer has any excuses, right, Like,

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Speaker 1: that's that's going to be his name this offseason. His

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Speaker 1: name is going to be too, does not have any

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Speaker 1: more excuses, talk about a tongue of boloa. That's gonna

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Speaker 1: be his full name. Now, um, are we are we

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Speaker 1: considering drafting him as a QB one or is he

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Speaker 1: still a QB two? He's still a QB two for me, Um,

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Speaker 1: But yeah, I think the Dolphins have done this perfectly.

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Speaker 1: Like you've put an insane amount of offensive talent now

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Speaker 1: the sneaky move that they made was they brought in

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Speaker 1: a reliable QB two who because two has missed a

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Speaker 1: his time, Teddy can slide right in and be a

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Speaker 1: a nice backup option. But he's not good enough where

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Speaker 1: everything they've done has been really smart. I still think

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Speaker 1: to ah, look, I was on two of last year

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Speaker 1: as a QB two with upside, and that's kind of

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Speaker 1: how I'm gonna view him this year. I think for

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Speaker 1: me he'll come in. Quarterback is deep, Like I think

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Speaker 1: there's a top fifteen that can all fit, like Derek Carr,

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Speaker 1: secondary tier of high upside guys who don't bring the

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Speaker 1: that jump. And the one thing I wanted to say,

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Speaker 1: I sadly have to lower Jalen Waddle because in my

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Speaker 1: have to drop him a little bit. He he won't

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Speaker 1: be my Wade receiver eight, but he's still be in

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Speaker 1: my top fifteen. And Mike Gasecki, I think is a

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Speaker 1: But look at what Tyreek Hill helped Travis Like, Travis

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Speaker 1: Kelsey went on this miraculous not miraculous, this amazing five

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Speaker 1: six year stretch after they acquired Tyreek Hill because Tyreek

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Speaker 1: Hill speed. And now you're gonna have Jalen Waddle on

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Speaker 1: the opposite and you have Cedric Wilson who has a

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Speaker 1: probably means some some more dump offs to to chase

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Speaker 1: It's really intriguing now, right and um we're gonna find

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Speaker 1: It turns out they didn't. That's why they traded for

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Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. Miami's in that same situation right where you've

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Speaker 1: of one on ones for Juju, some more downfield shots

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Speaker 1: he's the new wide receiver one there, and he's gonna

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Speaker 1: get more defensive attention. So I'm kind of stagnant with Juju,

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Speaker 1: Like I think he'll still be like a borderline top

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Speaker 1: twenty four wide receiver, will have some big games. I

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Speaker 1: think I'll have some dud games. But for me, I

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Speaker 1: think the biggest loser here is Travis Kelsey, Like you

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Speaker 1: lose that field stretcher that helped open up so much

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Speaker 1: underneath for him. Kelsey's already coming off of what is

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Speaker 1: a down year for Travis Kelsey. Uh he's gonna be

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Speaker 1: thirty three next year with you know, you lose that burner.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Nicole Hardman m vs. Who they're bringing in.

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Speaker 1: None of those guys are field stretchers like Tyreek Hill is.

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Speaker 1: They're not going to get the same amount of attention.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we saw firsthand in the playoffs Tyreek Hill's

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Speaker 1: effect because after Tyreek Hill had that long touchdown against

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Speaker 1: the Bills, they went in so much deep like prevent that.

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Speaker 1: That's how the Chiefs were able to get so much

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Speaker 1: on teams be fearing Tyreek Hill, and now you lose

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Speaker 1: that and you're gonna have to completely recreate this offense.

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Speaker 1: I know people are saying maybe they draft like a

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Speaker 1: Jamison Williams, that would be great for next year because

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Speaker 1: he's probably gonna missed after the year coming off this

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Speaker 1: It's like, even even when they still it looked like

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00:21:40,119 --> 00:21:42,560
Speaker 1: they were still gonna have Davante Adams, like, Okay, that's cool.

428
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Speaker 1: And I think we talked about this last week with

429
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Speaker 1: Randy a couple of weeks ago that like, Okay, there's

430
00:21:48,119 --> 00:21:51,840
Speaker 1: still since ostensibly the same team that keeps getting, you know,

431
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Speaker 1: into the playoffs and stubbing their toe. Now they're not

432
00:21:55,200 --> 00:21:59,440
Speaker 1: even that good. So I heard thing about like a

433
00:21:59,480 --> 00:22:02,080
Speaker 1: guy like Alan Lazard, who I saw getting some hype

434
00:22:02,119 --> 00:22:04,399
Speaker 1: on Twitter, is like he's one of those players that

435
00:22:04,520 --> 00:22:07,320
Speaker 1: in a limited sample size where he's the wide receiver

436
00:22:07,440 --> 00:22:10,280
Speaker 1: three on the field with Aaron Rodgers throwing him the ball, Yeah,

437
00:22:10,400 --> 00:22:12,800
Speaker 1: his per Router per target numbers are gonna look good.

438
00:22:12,880 --> 00:22:15,159
Speaker 1: But then when you when you take that and you

439
00:22:15,240 --> 00:22:17,240
Speaker 1: make him the top option and you're giving him a

440
00:22:17,320 --> 00:22:21,080
Speaker 1: hundred and twenty thirty targets something like that, and defenses

441
00:22:21,080 --> 00:22:23,639
Speaker 1: are now covering him like like we've seen a lot

442
00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:26,120
Speaker 1: of receivers who have thrived in like a limited role

443
00:22:26,600 --> 00:22:28,720
Speaker 1: and and fantasy Twitter makes the case that this guy

444
00:22:28,760 --> 00:22:30,480
Speaker 1: should get a larger role. We've seen a lot of

445
00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,399
Speaker 1: those players fail. I'm fine taking a shot on the

446
00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:36,200
Speaker 1: volume if Lizard's going as like a wide receiver three.

447
00:22:36,520 --> 00:22:38,440
Speaker 1: But if people start hyping him up and he goes

448
00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:41,040
Speaker 1: like more than that, I'm gonna be out and I'll

449
00:22:41,040 --> 00:22:43,160
Speaker 1: be okay being wrong if that ends up being the case.

450
00:22:43,480 --> 00:22:46,399
Speaker 1: But to me, it's a lot more risky than anything. Absolutely.

451
00:22:46,720 --> 00:22:48,760
Speaker 1: Um So, like, I just want to keep an eye

452
00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:52,040
Speaker 1: on what the Packers do this offseason because I mean,

453
00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:54,480
Speaker 1: now you've got two teams with two major holes to fill.

454
00:22:54,800 --> 00:22:57,240
Speaker 1: Uh you know, I know there's there's talk that wide

455
00:22:57,280 --> 00:22:59,680
Speaker 1: receivers are starting to become a little more interchangeable, But

456
00:22:59,680 --> 00:23:03,280
Speaker 1: I don't think you easily easily replace the Bonte Adams

457
00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,879
Speaker 1: or Tyreek Hill. You just don't. The real winners in

458
00:23:06,960 --> 00:23:09,360
Speaker 1: all of this, in my opinion, are the rookie water

459
00:23:09,400 --> 00:23:11,920
Speaker 1: receivers in the NFL draft, Because the teams now that

460
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:15,240
Speaker 1: are talking about needing receivers are the Chiefs, the Packers,

461
00:23:15,280 --> 00:23:18,360
Speaker 1: and the Bills. Tied today, you're gonna go and play

462
00:23:18,440 --> 00:23:20,960
Speaker 1: with a great court unless you go to Philly whoever

463
00:23:21,080 --> 00:23:24,639
Speaker 1: ends up in Philly. I'm sorry, are you out on

464
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:27,879
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts? No? I like Jalen Hurts as a player.

465
00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:30,400
Speaker 1: I just think they're that system. They run the ball

466
00:23:30,560 --> 00:23:32,920
Speaker 1: so much, and they already have Goddart and Smith that like,

467
00:23:33,000 --> 00:23:36,159
Speaker 1: whoever goes there is gonna get significantly less volume than

468
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:37,840
Speaker 1: if you win to one of those other teams. I

469
00:23:37,920 --> 00:23:39,280
Speaker 1: keep saying, they just need to go on and sign

470
00:23:39,359 --> 00:23:42,359
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry. You've done with it. I think it's a

471
00:23:42,400 --> 00:23:43,879
Speaker 1: good fit. I think I think they could use a

472
00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:46,480
Speaker 1: guy like Jarvis Landry. It doesn't necessarily make them super

473
00:23:46,560 --> 00:23:49,159
Speaker 1: high powered or exciting, but I think he works well. UH.

474
00:23:49,240 --> 00:23:51,520
Speaker 1: And what they want to do in that offense. UM.

475
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Speaker 1: The other I keep saying, the other big news. There's

476
00:23:54,680 --> 00:23:57,600
Speaker 1: so much big news. The other big blockbuster news that

477
00:23:57,680 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 1: happened last week. UH, Deshaun Watson is back. UH is

478
00:24:03,359 --> 00:24:05,119
Speaker 1: expected to be back on the field. I guess at

479
00:24:05,200 --> 00:24:07,880
Speaker 1: some point soon. He has been traded to the Cleveland

480
00:24:07,920 --> 00:24:11,800
Speaker 1: Browns in a deal that includes three first round picks. UH.

481
00:24:11,960 --> 00:24:15,119
Speaker 1: Look in the time since it's happened, and you can

482
00:24:15,200 --> 00:24:17,480
Speaker 1: go easily on the internet and find people who have

483
00:24:17,600 --> 00:24:21,600
Speaker 1: read or have written have said, UM have podcasted any

484
00:24:21,680 --> 00:24:25,360
Speaker 1: number of things about Deshaun Watson and what this means. Um,

485
00:24:25,840 --> 00:24:28,280
Speaker 1: I will simply say this, Deshaun Watson is getting the

486
00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:31,800
Speaker 1: largest guaranteed contract in the history of the NFL. Shaun

487
00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:35,479
Speaker 1: Watson also has twenty two civil suits pinning against him.

488
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:39,359
Speaker 1: Um those are just the facts. Uh. People will feel

489
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Speaker 1: how they feel about it. Uh. You know I have

490
00:24:42,000 --> 00:24:44,080
Speaker 1: sort of said that, I don't. I don't know how

491
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Speaker 1: the Browns or the NFL can kind of square this

492
00:24:47,359 --> 00:24:51,040
Speaker 1: without sort of looking hypocritical. But it is football. It

493
00:24:51,160 --> 00:24:55,280
Speaker 1: is what happens, especially when you were talented. Uh, until

494
00:24:55,280 --> 00:24:57,520
Speaker 1: we talk about fantasy because it's uncomfortable, but that's what

495
00:24:57,640 --> 00:25:01,000
Speaker 1: we do. Um. So, Deshaun watch back in the league,

496
00:25:01,720 --> 00:25:04,080
Speaker 1: assuming you know he's going to face a suspension. But

497
00:25:04,160 --> 00:25:06,640
Speaker 1: when he is back on the field, is he back

498
00:25:06,680 --> 00:25:11,560
Speaker 1: as the top five quarterback? Probably? Yeah? Um I I

499
00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:14,760
Speaker 1: don't so the big caveat hanging over him is is

500
00:25:14,840 --> 00:25:17,400
Speaker 1: he going to get suspended or not? So as of now,

501
00:25:17,680 --> 00:25:20,720
Speaker 1: I wouldn't rank him in the top five per se.

502
00:25:20,840 --> 00:25:23,159
Speaker 1: But if he come out, like if we knew there

503
00:25:23,280 --> 00:25:25,360
Speaker 1: was no suspension, yeah, he's back in the top five

504
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:28,800
Speaker 1: for me like he might be three. Like I would

505
00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:31,639
Speaker 1: still have him behind Josh Allen and Justin Herbert. But

506
00:25:31,720 --> 00:25:36,040
Speaker 1: I think after that, you you can have any discussion

507
00:25:36,119 --> 00:25:39,560
Speaker 1: of him verse Mahomes him, verse Kyler him, verse Braid

508
00:25:39,680 --> 00:25:42,520
Speaker 1: like and to meet Watson might come. I would imagine

509
00:25:42,520 --> 00:25:45,680
Speaker 1: Watson probably comes out on top now over all of

510
00:25:45,760 --> 00:25:49,480
Speaker 1: them because Mahomes just lost Tyreek Hill, Kyler's lost offensive

511
00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:53,360
Speaker 1: pieces this year. So I think so. And I took

512
00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,760
Speaker 1: heat on Twitter the other day because I said that

513
00:25:56,880 --> 00:25:59,320
Speaker 1: Josh Allen was better than Deshaun Watson and people were

514
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Speaker 1: not have be with me, and I was like, oh,

515
00:26:01,200 --> 00:26:02,880
Speaker 1: I didn't think that was much of a hot take,

516
00:26:03,280 --> 00:26:06,239
Speaker 1: but like for me, I was still putting him at

517
00:26:06,359 --> 00:26:09,200
Speaker 1: four at best. But now with this Tyreek killed trade,

518
00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:13,479
Speaker 1: I think he probably leaf frogs Mahomes. Yeah, I mean

519
00:26:13,520 --> 00:26:16,000
Speaker 1: he might with the yeah with one less weapon there,

520
00:26:16,280 --> 00:26:19,440
Speaker 1: uh and knowing that he goes to Cleveland, and I mean, look,

521
00:26:19,520 --> 00:26:23,720
Speaker 1: the last time, the last time we saw Deshaun Watson,

522
00:26:24,160 --> 00:26:27,399
Speaker 1: he ended up leading the league in passing yards. He

523
00:26:27,480 --> 00:26:31,200
Speaker 1: had three touchdowns that year, also ran for uh. I

524
00:26:31,359 --> 00:26:33,440
Speaker 1: was just rushing until the four hundred and forty four yards.

525
00:26:33,480 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 1: I mean so we know that he's got the rushing

526
00:26:35,080 --> 00:26:38,280
Speaker 1: upside as well. Um, you know, everything points to him

527
00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:41,280
Speaker 1: when he's there and playing that he is, you know,

528
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:45,280
Speaker 1: a guy with top five potential. UM, Amari Cooper. We

529
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Speaker 1: weren't really excited about him when Baker Mayfield like he

530
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:50,679
Speaker 1: was going to be the starting quarterback. Now that Baker,

531
00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:54,560
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on with Baker. Uh, we

532
00:26:54,680 --> 00:26:58,439
Speaker 1: can talk about that too, But uh, with DeShawn Watson

533
00:26:58,480 --> 00:27:00,920
Speaker 1: obviously looking to be the starting core or back long term,

534
00:27:01,760 --> 00:27:03,840
Speaker 1: are we talking about a Mari Cooper being a solid

535
00:27:03,880 --> 00:27:06,960
Speaker 1: wide receiver one now in this offense? Not for me,

536
00:27:07,520 --> 00:27:10,520
Speaker 1: and if I'm wrong, I'm wrong on that. But Amari

537
00:27:10,640 --> 00:27:14,679
Speaker 1: Cooper has never been He's one time in his career

538
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:17,520
Speaker 1: did he finish as a fantasy wide receiver one, and

539
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:21,280
Speaker 1: never has he finished higher than fifteen in Fantasy points

540
00:27:21,280 --> 00:27:24,560
Speaker 1: per game at the position. So I know, you could

541
00:27:24,600 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 1: make easily make the case that the Shaun Watson is

542
00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:30,520
Speaker 1: the best quarterback that he's ever played with, But Dak

543
00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:34,560
Speaker 1: Prescott is not bad like that, especially if you compare

544
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:38,159
Speaker 1: on deep balls over the last few seasons, like you

545
00:27:38,240 --> 00:27:42,120
Speaker 1: could make the argument that Dak was actually more efficient

546
00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,720
Speaker 1: and was better, and I know people made the case

547
00:27:44,760 --> 00:27:47,159
Speaker 1: when he had a better supporting cast. I get that

548
00:27:47,640 --> 00:27:50,879
Speaker 1: to me, though, there's gonna be more defensive attention now

549
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,040
Speaker 1: on a Marii Cooper because there's no Lamb, there's no Gallup,

550
00:27:54,080 --> 00:27:57,480
Speaker 1: there's no Shultz. But the biggest win for me for

551
00:27:57,640 --> 00:28:00,520
Speaker 1: Mari Cooper, it's not the Shawn bouts and it's the

552
00:28:00,560 --> 00:28:02,360
Speaker 1: fact that he's just gonna get more volume I think

553
00:28:02,440 --> 00:28:05,399
Speaker 1: in this offense because there is less target competition. I

554
00:28:05,720 --> 00:28:08,280
Speaker 1: still value him though as a high end wide receiver

555
00:28:08,440 --> 00:28:11,000
Speaker 1: to like, if if I could get him in the

556
00:28:11,160 --> 00:28:13,480
Speaker 1: second round or the third round to pair with another

557
00:28:13,520 --> 00:28:16,080
Speaker 1: wide receiver, I would feel great about that, But him

558
00:28:16,200 --> 00:28:18,639
Speaker 1: is my one. I'm still worried that he's just just

559
00:28:18,760 --> 00:28:21,479
Speaker 1: gonna be what he's always been, and that's weekly, very

560
00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:24,159
Speaker 1: inconsistent week by week. Yeah, I mean, I think I

561
00:28:24,200 --> 00:28:26,240
Speaker 1: think the biggest point for me is that there is

562
00:28:26,520 --> 00:28:29,600
Speaker 1: a huge upgrade in quarterback. I mean, you know that

563
00:28:29,880 --> 00:28:32,920
Speaker 1: as you mentioned that that's good, right, that that gets

564
00:28:32,960 --> 00:28:34,679
Speaker 1: the ball out. The Cowboys throw the ball a lot,

565
00:28:34,760 --> 00:28:37,600
Speaker 1: they throw it up pretty effectively. Um So I don't

566
00:28:37,640 --> 00:28:40,200
Speaker 1: I don't think you know in terms of the guys

567
00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:42,120
Speaker 1: around him, he gets to upgrade, and you're right, there's

568
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:45,120
Speaker 1: right now, there's not a lot around Amara to sort

569
00:28:45,160 --> 00:28:47,360
Speaker 1: of protect him. They don't have Jarvis Landry and you

570
00:28:47,400 --> 00:28:50,080
Speaker 1: know that is long gone. Um. I mean, I guess

571
00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:51,880
Speaker 1: if you believe in the power of David and Joku,

572
00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:56,760
Speaker 1: Um that I guess. But there is less help for

573
00:28:56,920 --> 00:28:59,760
Speaker 1: Marie Cooper there in Uh in Cleveland. I do love

574
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:02,440
Speaker 1: that Browns fans are now calling for Adele to come back,

575
00:29:02,600 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 1: and it's like, not even six months ago, you guys

576
00:29:05,000 --> 00:29:09,640
Speaker 1: ran him out of town. Uh fickle fans man, just

577
00:29:09,800 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: so fickle. Um, since we're here, what happens to Baker Mayfield.

578
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:17,360
Speaker 1: I mean he's he's running out of places to go.

579
00:29:17,680 --> 00:29:21,040
Speaker 1: Everybody like that the Game of Musical Chairs. Uh, there's

580
00:29:21,040 --> 00:29:23,680
Speaker 1: not a lot of seats left. And I thought it

581
00:29:23,760 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 1: was funny yesterday where you know, the Panthers were like, yeah,

582
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:29,479
Speaker 1: we don't love Baker Mayfield. He's like, I don't want

583
00:29:29,480 --> 00:29:32,040
Speaker 1: to go there. I'm like okay, Like the the phrase

584
00:29:32,480 --> 00:29:37,640
Speaker 1: mutual disinterest was used with the Panthers in Baker Mayfield.

585
00:29:38,040 --> 00:29:40,600
Speaker 1: So as at this moment he is still a Cleveland

586
00:29:40,640 --> 00:29:43,880
Speaker 1: Brown but it is apparent that neither side wants to

587
00:29:44,000 --> 00:29:47,200
Speaker 1: be in this marriage anymore, but I don't know how

588
00:29:47,280 --> 00:29:50,000
Speaker 1: they get out of it right now. To me, I

589
00:29:50,200 --> 00:29:53,880
Speaker 1: I think the Browns and unfortunately, I think the forty

590
00:29:53,960 --> 00:29:57,000
Speaker 1: Niners are big losers right now in this quarterback musical

591
00:29:57,080 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 1: chair because there's unless it's a prize third team. Maybe

592
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,360
Speaker 1: the Falcons aren't completely sold on Mariota or something like that,

593
00:30:04,920 --> 00:30:07,920
Speaker 1: but it seems like the Panthers and the Seahawks are

594
00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:10,400
Speaker 1: the only two teams left in need of a quarterback.

595
00:30:10,520 --> 00:30:12,840
Speaker 1: I don't think the Niners would trade Jimmy G within

596
00:30:12,920 --> 00:30:15,640
Speaker 1: the same division, So I tweeted yesterday I was like, Hey,

597
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,959
Speaker 1: let's just put Baker in Seattle, Jimmy G and Carolina

598
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:21,600
Speaker 1: and like we could move on with this NFL season

599
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:24,240
Speaker 1: because to me, that still feels like the most likely scenario.

600
00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:27,040
Speaker 1: But unless maybe a third team pops up, but there's

601
00:30:27,120 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 1: also could be someone like Garner Minshew, maybe that becomes

602
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:34,200
Speaker 1: available on the trade block. So it I'm still thinking

603
00:30:34,240 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 1: though that Baker ends up in Seattle. I don't think

604
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:39,440
Speaker 1: they're sold on Drew Lock. They still have a talent there.

605
00:30:39,520 --> 00:30:43,240
Speaker 1: Pete Carroll, it's too old to to enter a rebuild process.

606
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:44,840
Speaker 1: I think so, I think he'll try to go for

607
00:30:45,000 --> 00:30:47,920
Speaker 1: it without Russ And I don't think that that means

608
00:30:47,960 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 1: that are gonna go with it with Drew lock And

609
00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,120
Speaker 1: we've heard rumors that they like Malik Willis, but you

610
00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:54,640
Speaker 1: can put me in the camp of I don't think

611
00:30:54,680 --> 00:30:57,640
Speaker 1: Malik Willis makes it to pick nine anymore. So I'm

612
00:30:57,640 --> 00:31:00,760
Speaker 1: thinking Baker ends up maybe for like third or fourth

613
00:31:00,880 --> 00:31:03,760
Speaker 1: round pick, ends up in Seattle. Yeah, Seattle seems like

614
00:31:03,800 --> 00:31:07,440
Speaker 1: the only real option at this point. Um. And I'm

615
00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:09,240
Speaker 1: sort of with you on the Niners that I think

616
00:31:09,360 --> 00:31:12,880
Speaker 1: they sort of overplayed their hand with Garoppolo. He's thirty,

617
00:31:12,960 --> 00:31:15,320
Speaker 1: he's got a huge contract, he's coming off shoulder surgery.

618
00:31:15,680 --> 00:31:18,200
Speaker 1: It's really gonna be hard to get anything of value

619
00:31:18,320 --> 00:31:21,440
Speaker 1: for him. Um, maybe they do a swap. I've heard,

620
00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:23,440
Speaker 1: you know, suggestions that they just do a swap with

621
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:27,160
Speaker 1: Carolina straight up for Sam Donald. Uh. Can't say I

622
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,240
Speaker 1: love that. Um. You know, there's there's even talk that

623
00:31:30,360 --> 00:31:34,320
Speaker 1: maybe they just hold onto him and when the inevitable

624
00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:38,200
Speaker 1: quarterback injury happens, then you can find a trade partner, uh,

625
00:31:38,440 --> 00:31:41,000
Speaker 1: you know, to to go with that that will make

626
00:31:41,040 --> 00:31:43,720
Speaker 1: for something awkward gone because I don't want I don't

627
00:31:43,760 --> 00:31:46,440
Speaker 1: want a quarterback controversy. I want to say that that's

628
00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,120
Speaker 1: just gonna make it awkward. Right if we if we

629
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 1: get into training camp and Jimmy and Trey Lance are

630
00:31:51,960 --> 00:31:56,680
Speaker 1: both there and they're competing, it's gonna be really really awkward. Um.

631
00:31:56,880 --> 00:32:00,360
Speaker 1: Has has your friend continued sending the daily text? Uh?

632
00:32:00,480 --> 00:32:02,840
Speaker 1: It has been a little more inconsistent, but they do

633
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: pop up. They do pop up every once in a while. Yeah.

634
00:32:06,840 --> 00:32:08,520
Speaker 1: I can't don't even know how many days were. We're

635
00:32:08,520 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: probably like forty days now out from from Jimmy Garoppolo

636
00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,720
Speaker 1: throwing a soul crushing interception. Uh in the NFC Championship game. Yeah,

637
00:32:15,760 --> 00:32:19,560
Speaker 1: that's it's still happening. Um So the only thing and

638
00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:21,479
Speaker 1: you sort of mentioned this, and this was not planned,

639
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:23,120
Speaker 1: but I know now that that you brought it up,

640
00:32:24,480 --> 00:32:27,280
Speaker 1: the Malik Willis hype right that the hype train is

641
00:32:27,400 --> 00:32:29,400
Speaker 1: has left the station, you know. And I saw you

642
00:32:29,480 --> 00:32:31,480
Speaker 1: tweet about this, and I've seen this other places that

643
00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:37,880
Speaker 1: there's talk about the Lions taking him at number two. Um, okay,

644
00:32:38,840 --> 00:32:40,720
Speaker 1: and this isn't a dinner grade Molikue Willis. But let's

645
00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: let's let's not forget that it wasn't that long ago.

646
00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:48,760
Speaker 1: The consensus was that there weren't any real savior quarterbacks

647
00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,520
Speaker 1: in this draft, right, that there weren't any guys that

648
00:32:52,000 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 1: were worth necessarily, you know, trading the farm to move

649
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:56,880
Speaker 1: up and get There were no Trevor Lawrences, right, There

650
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,880
Speaker 1: were no uh, you know, no Trey Lances that people

651
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:02,680
Speaker 1: were super excited about in this draft. So I think

652
00:33:02,720 --> 00:33:05,200
Speaker 1: it's funny that now we're talking about Mallik Willis moving

653
00:33:05,280 --> 00:33:08,520
Speaker 1: up to number two potentially overall. Um, you know that

654
00:33:08,720 --> 00:33:12,320
Speaker 1: that being at nine is not gonna be enough. I

655
00:33:12,360 --> 00:33:14,479
Speaker 1: don't know, I don't I don't have a real question here.

656
00:33:14,480 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 1: It just feels like that that weird kind of draft

657
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,280
Speaker 1: season hype thing that always happens, and I think Blik

658
00:33:19,320 --> 00:33:21,920
Speaker 1: Willis right now is being the I guess, the the

659
00:33:22,040 --> 00:33:26,160
Speaker 1: recipient of that. Yeah. To me, the fact that there

660
00:33:26,400 --> 00:33:31,160
Speaker 1: is no clear cut number one quarterback makes Malik Willis

661
00:33:31,200 --> 00:33:34,400
Speaker 1: the number one quarterback in my opinion, because like Kenny

662
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: Pickett and those guys, like their ceiling is being like

663
00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:40,320
Speaker 1: an average NFL starter, where I think, like Malik willis

664
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:45,200
Speaker 1: is ceiling is being one of these like dynamic can

665
00:33:45,360 --> 00:33:47,800
Speaker 1: can like he has an absolute canon. We saw that

666
00:33:47,880 --> 00:33:50,440
Speaker 1: on display yesterday at his pro day. He can run

667
00:33:50,560 --> 00:33:53,480
Speaker 1: like Lamar Jackson or Jalen Hurts or Kyler Murray. So

668
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,560
Speaker 1: those are the quarterbacks, the Shawn Watson like that, Josh Allen,

669
00:33:57,560 --> 00:33:59,440
Speaker 1: you know, like they're they're taking over the NFL. You

670
00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:00,800
Speaker 1: have to be a would have run. You have to

671
00:34:00,840 --> 00:34:04,080
Speaker 1: have a really strong arm. The things about Malik Willis

672
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:05,920
Speaker 1: is he's a little bit more raw. He needs to

673
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:09,000
Speaker 1: work on his accuracy, he's throwing motion. But to me,

674
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:12,280
Speaker 1: I would rather take a shot on drafting that upside

675
00:34:12,320 --> 00:34:15,160
Speaker 1: and developing it then taking someone who I think like,

676
00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:17,160
Speaker 1: all right, maybe this guy could be like Mac Jones

677
00:34:17,239 --> 00:34:19,840
Speaker 1: for a few years or someone like that. And I

678
00:34:19,880 --> 00:34:24,160
Speaker 1: saw someone I forget who on Twitter said it's easier

679
00:34:24,280 --> 00:34:26,160
Speaker 1: to live with it if you take a shot of

680
00:34:26,200 --> 00:34:28,759
Speaker 1: Malik Willis and it doesn't work out. Then if you're

681
00:34:28,800 --> 00:34:31,120
Speaker 1: too scared and he ends up breaking out and it's

682
00:34:31,160 --> 00:34:34,200
Speaker 1: like the next All Star quarterbacks. So I signed up

683
00:34:34,200 --> 00:34:37,720
Speaker 1: for that thinking. And I said, if if there's smoke

684
00:34:37,800 --> 00:34:40,360
Speaker 1: about the lines taking him at two, if you're the

685
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,480
Speaker 1: Panthers or or the Falcons or Seahawks are one of

686
00:34:43,520 --> 00:34:46,360
Speaker 1: these teams that need a quarterback. Maybe you call the

687
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:48,600
Speaker 1: Jaguars and you say, hey, we want to jump the Lions.

688
00:34:48,880 --> 00:34:50,719
Speaker 1: You're the only path that we could do. So, so

689
00:34:50,800 --> 00:34:53,080
Speaker 1: the Jags might come away from this being the big winner.

690
00:34:53,480 --> 00:34:55,200
Speaker 1: Well I think Look, I think if you are, say

691
00:34:55,239 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 1: the Lions, right, and you're not giving up assets to

692
00:34:57,760 --> 00:34:59,680
Speaker 1: get a guy like Molik Willis, I think it definitely

693
00:34:59,719 --> 00:35:01,719
Speaker 1: makes a lot more since because you can move on

694
00:35:02,040 --> 00:35:04,439
Speaker 1: from him, Like let's let's go back not that long ago,

695
00:35:04,640 --> 00:35:08,640
Speaker 1: the the Cardinals took Josh rosen at with nine ten

696
00:35:08,800 --> 00:35:11,279
Speaker 1: something like that that didn't work out a year later,

697
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:13,879
Speaker 1: they would they get kind of Murray at number one

698
00:35:13,960 --> 00:35:15,520
Speaker 1: because they didn't have to give up a lot of assets.

699
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:17,719
Speaker 1: I think the forty Niners, for instance, are in a

700
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:21,560
Speaker 1: slightly different situation because they're a little more committed to

701
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:24,640
Speaker 1: making sure trade lance sort of works because they gave

702
00:35:24,719 --> 00:35:26,560
Speaker 1: up a lot to move up to get him. So

703
00:35:26,600 --> 00:35:28,200
Speaker 1: I think they're sort of there's sort of more pot

704
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,000
Speaker 1: committed to this withe not that they can't, you know,

705
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:32,440
Speaker 1: decide if in a year or two that it's not working,

706
00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,479
Speaker 1: they try to do something different, but they're a little

707
00:35:35,520 --> 00:35:37,560
Speaker 1: more tied up because they gave up assets to try

708
00:35:37,600 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 1: to get him, so and I'm interested to see how

709
00:35:39,520 --> 00:35:41,160
Speaker 1: this going. I think if you're the lines like you

710
00:35:41,200 --> 00:35:43,719
Speaker 1: could draft him and let him sit through at least

711
00:35:43,800 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 1: like part of the season behind and Jared Golf. If

712
00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:47,879
Speaker 1: you trade up and take the kid to like one

713
00:35:48,040 --> 00:35:50,200
Speaker 1: or two, you're you're probably gonna have to start him

714
00:35:50,280 --> 00:35:52,279
Speaker 1: right away. And I don't know if that's the best case.

715
00:35:52,320 --> 00:35:53,719
Speaker 1: I don't know if that's the one if that works

716
00:35:53,760 --> 00:35:56,560
Speaker 1: out for you. Um more quarterback news, because there's been

717
00:35:56,560 --> 00:35:59,000
Speaker 1: a lot of quarterback news. The Falcons trade Matt Ryan

718
00:35:59,080 --> 00:36:03,160
Speaker 1: to Indianapolis for a third round pick in twenty two. Uh.

719
00:36:03,280 --> 00:36:05,920
Speaker 1: The last couple of years, Ryan's been on the fringe

720
00:36:06,000 --> 00:36:09,320
Speaker 1: of QB one dumb right, He's been your quarterback thirteen, twelve,

721
00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:11,839
Speaker 1: eleven somewhere around there. It's been a few years since

722
00:36:12,360 --> 00:36:14,239
Speaker 1: he had his m v P type season where he

723
00:36:14,360 --> 00:36:17,520
Speaker 1: was the QB two overall and fantasy. Can he get

724
00:36:17,640 --> 00:36:19,960
Speaker 1: firmly back into that QB one tier. He's got a

725
00:36:20,000 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 1: good offensive line, he's got some decent young weapons, he's

726
00:36:23,080 --> 00:36:25,960
Speaker 1: got a really good running back. Are we looking more

727
00:36:26,000 --> 00:36:28,000
Speaker 1: as him maybe knocking on the door of the top ten.

728
00:36:28,719 --> 00:36:31,560
Speaker 1: Not for me. Part of it is just how deep

729
00:36:31,719 --> 00:36:33,799
Speaker 1: quarterback is. Like I don't even know if he would

730
00:36:33,960 --> 00:36:37,120
Speaker 1: make my top fifteen at this point, but I think

731
00:36:37,200 --> 00:36:41,640
Speaker 1: he is a strong quarterback to uh. I kind of

732
00:36:41,719 --> 00:36:44,120
Speaker 1: think he'll be similar to Carson Wentz was last year,

733
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:46,840
Speaker 1: Like he'll have some really strong game, he'll be consistent

734
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:49,000
Speaker 1: like that was the thing about Carson Wentz was like

735
00:36:49,080 --> 00:36:52,600
Speaker 1: he was never giving you plus fantasy points, but he

736
00:36:52,680 --> 00:36:55,600
Speaker 1: was giving you like eighteen to twenty two pretty much

737
00:36:55,640 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 1: every single week because he would throw for like two

738
00:36:58,320 --> 00:37:01,719
Speaker 1: fifty and two touchdowns And I could Derek Carr, I'm sorry,

739
00:37:01,719 --> 00:37:05,120
Speaker 1: I could see Matt Ryan having that exact type of production,

740
00:37:05,239 --> 00:37:07,080
Speaker 1: like where he's consistent each week, but he's more of

741
00:37:07,160 --> 00:37:10,400
Speaker 1: like a high end QB two than anything. Yeah, I mean,

742
00:37:10,440 --> 00:37:12,840
Speaker 1: I think that's probably fair. He's a good He's a

743
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:15,960
Speaker 1: really good streaming option at quarterback. Right. He's the guy

744
00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:18,920
Speaker 1: that I wouldn't mind having on my roster for injuries

745
00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,680
Speaker 1: for bye weeks. Um, I don't know that I feel

746
00:37:21,719 --> 00:37:23,759
Speaker 1: comfortable starting him every week. I think those days are

747
00:37:23,840 --> 00:37:26,120
Speaker 1: sort of gone, but you know, look, there's still moments

748
00:37:26,160 --> 00:37:29,560
Speaker 1: he still has ability. Right, He's not He's not completely washed.

749
00:37:29,880 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: This isn't the Ben Roethlisberger in you know, the last

750
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:36,200
Speaker 1: days of Pittsburgh sort of situation. Um, there's still something there.

751
00:37:36,560 --> 00:37:38,200
Speaker 1: What does this do for Michael Pittman? I mean, you

752
00:37:38,239 --> 00:37:40,480
Speaker 1: know I love Michael Pittman. I know you like Michael Pittman.

753
00:37:40,840 --> 00:37:43,960
Speaker 1: Uh does this Does this elevate Michael Pittman? I beg

754
00:37:44,000 --> 00:37:46,839
Speaker 1: in a percent? Does like? I'm thinking Michael Pittman top

755
00:37:46,920 --> 00:37:50,920
Speaker 1: fifteen wide receiver? Uh in my probably my ranks once

756
00:37:50,960 --> 00:37:53,359
Speaker 1: I sit down and actually do them all. But Matt

757
00:37:53,480 --> 00:37:56,000
Speaker 1: Ryan is, for lack of a better word, a better

758
00:37:56,080 --> 00:37:59,799
Speaker 1: quarterback than Carson Wentz. Like the numbers all indicate that. Uh.

759
00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:04,320
Speaker 1: What I especially like is Wentz through more to his

760
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:07,759
Speaker 1: tight ends than Matt Ryan did. Whereas Matt Ryan will

761
00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:10,680
Speaker 1: heavily target his wide receivers. And not only will he,

762
00:38:10,840 --> 00:38:13,160
Speaker 1: like Wentz, throws to the middle of the field a lot,

763
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:15,440
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan likes to throw to the outside parts of

764
00:38:15,480 --> 00:38:18,640
Speaker 1: the field. Uh. And that's that's where Michael Pittman lines up.

765
00:38:19,520 --> 00:38:23,680
Speaker 1: Of his routes last year were out wide. So and

766
00:38:23,960 --> 00:38:26,879
Speaker 1: Ryan has is a better deep ball thrower I would

767
00:38:26,920 --> 00:38:29,440
Speaker 1: say at this point as well. So I think this

768
00:38:29,560 --> 00:38:34,800
Speaker 1: could definitely elevate Michael Pittman. And I also think Jonathan

769
00:38:34,840 --> 00:38:37,040
Speaker 1: Taylor maybe could get some more dump offs here because

770
00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:41,680
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan is a statue. Wentz doesn't run scramble. There's

771
00:38:41,719 --> 00:38:44,080
Speaker 1: a difference, Like he will scramble and create some time

772
00:38:44,160 --> 00:38:46,359
Speaker 1: with his legs. Matt Ryan will not do that. Matt

773
00:38:46,440 --> 00:38:48,719
Speaker 1: Ryan's like Philip Rivers a couple of years ago. He's

774
00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:51,120
Speaker 1: gonna feel any pressure. He's gonna just find the closest

775
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,600
Speaker 1: guy and dump it off. Yeah. I mean, like I said,

776
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:57,680
Speaker 1: I I like those guys more with Matt Ryan and

777
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:00,440
Speaker 1: with Carson Wentz, just because with Wentz it was so consistent.

778
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:02,759
Speaker 1: You just never you just never really knew what's gonna

779
00:39:02,800 --> 00:39:06,160
Speaker 1: get from week to week. Um. So, well, we'll see

780
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:07,719
Speaker 1: what happens there. But I do like Michael Pittman a

781
00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:10,600
Speaker 1: little bit more. Uh. And you know, look, Jonathan Taylor

782
00:39:10,719 --> 00:39:13,560
Speaker 1: was probably the consensus number one back or number one

783
00:39:13,640 --> 00:39:17,359
Speaker 1: player in Fantasy UH drafts this year. If this, if

784
00:39:17,400 --> 00:39:19,560
Speaker 1: this elevates his potential to catch the ball more than

785
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:21,920
Speaker 1: I think, you just sort of lock him in as

786
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,879
Speaker 1: the one dot oh one at this point, Um last,

787
00:39:25,960 --> 00:39:28,560
Speaker 1: I guess INMI big piece of news the Falcons bringing

788
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:30,759
Speaker 1: Marcus Mariota, we sort of talked about that a little bit,

789
00:39:30,880 --> 00:39:33,360
Speaker 1: but he replaces Matt Ryan at least for the moment

790
00:39:33,880 --> 00:39:37,719
Speaker 1: at quarterback in Atlanta. Uh, you kind of hinted at this.

791
00:39:37,800 --> 00:39:39,520
Speaker 1: Do you think he'll be their starting quarterback in a

792
00:39:39,600 --> 00:39:44,360
Speaker 1: week one as of now? I do because it seems

793
00:39:44,400 --> 00:39:46,360
Speaker 1: like the market is kind of like, I don't expect

794
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:48,320
Speaker 1: them to trade for Baker, I don't expect them to

795
00:39:48,360 --> 00:39:51,120
Speaker 1: trade for Jimmy g And then even if they draft

796
00:39:51,160 --> 00:39:53,879
Speaker 1: a quarterback, it seems like a situation where they would

797
00:39:53,960 --> 00:39:56,799
Speaker 1: let Mariott to start and then eventually the rookie would

798
00:39:56,840 --> 00:39:59,719
Speaker 1: take over. Um. Probably wouldn't be that long of a wait,

799
00:39:59,840 --> 00:40:02,480
Speaker 1: I would imagine, but I think at the very least

800
00:40:02,560 --> 00:40:05,480
Speaker 1: he starts week one. And the only good news I

801
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,440
Speaker 1: have on this is that when he was with the Titans,

802
00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:12,760
Speaker 1: and specifically when he was with Arthur Smith, he targeted

803
00:40:12,800 --> 00:40:14,600
Speaker 1: his tight end a lot, and it was pointed out

804
00:40:14,640 --> 00:40:17,320
Speaker 1: to me that Delaney Walker was the best option on

805
00:40:17,520 --> 00:40:21,160
Speaker 1: that team, and I was like, cool, Kyle Pitts is

806
00:40:21,160 --> 00:40:24,480
Speaker 1: the best option by far. On that I actually saw

807
00:40:24,520 --> 00:40:28,440
Speaker 1: someone the other day made a graphic of the Falcons

808
00:40:28,520 --> 00:40:33,920
Speaker 1: like offensive weapons, and it was like Marcus Mariota, Kyle Pitts, uh,

809
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,239
Speaker 1: Cordero Patterson. And then at wide receiver, it was like

810
00:40:36,360 --> 00:40:38,960
Speaker 1: some dude another dude, and I was like, yep, that's

811
00:40:39,000 --> 00:40:43,120
Speaker 1: basically their wide receiver room. Uh. It kind of is

812
00:40:43,280 --> 00:40:44,879
Speaker 1: as you were saying that. I just thought of Robert

813
00:40:44,920 --> 00:40:47,239
Speaker 1: Downey Jr. From Tropic Thunder, like I'm the dude who's

814
00:40:47,239 --> 00:40:50,640
Speaker 1: playing the dude disguises another dude. Like that's that's kind

815
00:40:50,640 --> 00:40:53,439
Speaker 1: of the Falcons wide receiver room right now. Yeah, Kyle

816
00:40:53,480 --> 00:40:57,239
Speaker 1: Pitts is easily the best option there. Um, we're talking

817
00:40:57,239 --> 00:41:00,239
Speaker 1: about Cordial Patterson a little bit, but there's just not

818
00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:02,600
Speaker 1: a lot to be excited about with the with the

819
00:41:02,680 --> 00:41:05,239
Speaker 1: Falcon's offense, I did a TikTok about like I'm just

820
00:41:05,239 --> 00:41:07,480
Speaker 1: trying to figure out who's going to catch passes other

821
00:41:07,560 --> 00:41:11,800
Speaker 1: than Kyle Pitts there, and uh, I mean what a

822
00:41:11,880 --> 00:41:16,400
Speaker 1: Lama Day's akiyas Um. You know, I don't know. I

823
00:41:16,560 --> 00:41:18,600
Speaker 1: just I really don't know. This is an offense. And

824
00:41:18,719 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: not that long ago had Matt Ryan, Julio Jones and

825
00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:26,680
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley not that long ago, and now it's it's

826
00:41:26,719 --> 00:41:28,560
Speaker 1: gone from being a Who's who to a Who's that?

827
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:32,000
Speaker 1: So their first round pick, if it's not a receiver,

828
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:35,520
Speaker 1: I would be shocked. Yeah, I just don't know. I

829
00:41:35,600 --> 00:41:39,399
Speaker 1: have no idea. Man. All Right, Uh, this show looks

830
00:41:39,400 --> 00:41:41,040
Speaker 1: like it's gonna be as long as last week's show.

831
00:41:41,080 --> 00:41:43,120
Speaker 1: I hadn't planned on it, but you know, things happened

832
00:41:43,280 --> 00:41:45,920
Speaker 1: and news happened. So I'll take a break and come back.

833
00:41:45,960 --> 00:41:48,400
Speaker 1: We'll go through some more of these moves, maybe not

834
00:41:48,520 --> 00:41:52,120
Speaker 1: quite as high profile, but maybe definitely just as fantasy relevant.

835
00:41:52,360 --> 00:41:54,440
Speaker 1: I'll do that after the break on the NFL Fantasy

836
00:41:54,480 --> 00:41:59,360
Speaker 1: Football Show. Alright, so some more things that have happened

837
00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:02,320
Speaker 1: in the last week. I am scrolling Twitter as we

838
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,760
Speaker 1: do this. Unfortunately, no other big news has broken since

839
00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:08,160
Speaker 1: we have started this show, So let's just keep our

840
00:42:08,200 --> 00:42:11,440
Speaker 1: fingers crossed it that it stays that way. But the

841
00:42:11,560 --> 00:42:15,319
Speaker 1: Bucks are bringing back Lombardi Lenney three years, twenty one

842
00:42:15,440 --> 00:42:19,799
Speaker 1: million dollars for Leonard four net uh Letard Fournett last

843
00:42:19,880 --> 00:42:24,000
Speaker 1: year was the RB six at the end of the season.

844
00:42:24,680 --> 00:42:28,799
Speaker 1: Really good year for him. At the moment, Ronald Jones

845
00:42:28,880 --> 00:42:31,839
Speaker 1: is a free agent not expected to come back. I mean, look,

846
00:42:31,880 --> 00:42:35,120
Speaker 1: I know what, Keyshawn Vaughan is still there. Uh, he

847
00:42:35,239 --> 00:42:37,439
Speaker 1: never really showed that he was going to break into

848
00:42:37,480 --> 00:42:41,800
Speaker 1: the lineup on a regular basis. Um. I mean, is

849
00:42:41,840 --> 00:42:43,840
Speaker 1: it crazy to say that Leonard Fournet could be a

850
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:47,520
Speaker 1: top five, maybe even a top three running back? Wild

851
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:50,160
Speaker 1: I don't think it's crazy. I'm not gonna have him

852
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:54,240
Speaker 1: ranked as one. He will. Like I was working yesterday

853
00:42:54,280 --> 00:42:56,960
Speaker 1: on my redo of my top twelve. Like for me,

854
00:42:57,120 --> 00:43:00,319
Speaker 1: the top guys are still J. T. Eckler. I still

855
00:43:00,320 --> 00:43:03,480
Speaker 1: believe in Christian McCaffrey. I have Derrick Henry then, like

856
00:43:03,680 --> 00:43:09,080
Speaker 1: mixing Naji Harris, I think after that six, like for Nett,

857
00:43:09,320 --> 00:43:11,920
Speaker 1: deserves to be in the conversation, like for Net, Dalvin

858
00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,880
Speaker 1: Cook and and some of those other deeper options. I

859
00:43:15,000 --> 00:43:17,919
Speaker 1: think he's very much so in that range, especially there's

860
00:43:17,960 --> 00:43:20,880
Speaker 1: not a lot of competition there for touches like Keyshawn Vaughney,

861
00:43:20,880 --> 00:43:23,520
Speaker 1: I think is their only other back. Tom Brady loves

862
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:25,000
Speaker 1: to throw to the running backs. We know that they're

863
00:43:25,000 --> 00:43:27,439
Speaker 1: gonna run Leonard for Nette a lot near the goal line,

864
00:43:27,520 --> 00:43:30,400
Speaker 1: So I don't think it's crazy. Like again, I wouldn't

865
00:43:30,480 --> 00:43:32,800
Speaker 1: draft him as the top three or top five, but

866
00:43:33,080 --> 00:43:35,040
Speaker 1: definitely as an RB one. I think he's very much

867
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:36,920
Speaker 1: so in play. I mean, I guess that's the thing, right,

868
00:43:36,920 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 1: because you're not going to draft him that, Like he's

869
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:41,880
Speaker 1: not gonna go anywhere near the first round. Um, but

870
00:43:42,440 --> 00:43:45,480
Speaker 1: the way that offense works, I mean, Tom Brady is back, Um,

871
00:43:45,760 --> 00:43:49,279
Speaker 1: there's no real competition for for opportunities there. He's gonna

872
00:43:49,320 --> 00:43:51,920
Speaker 1: catch the football, he's gonna get some goal line opportunities.

873
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:55,600
Speaker 1: Like he has the potential to have that kind of season.

874
00:43:55,640 --> 00:43:57,520
Speaker 1: And I mean I'm looking like, look guys that I

875
00:43:57,560 --> 00:43:59,719
Speaker 1: think will finish ahead of him, Jonathan Taylor for sure,

876
00:44:00,080 --> 00:44:03,040
Speaker 1: Austin Ekeler, right, I mean a healthy Derrick Henry probably

877
00:44:03,120 --> 00:44:05,640
Speaker 1: finishes maybe ahead of him. So maybe he's not top three,

878
00:44:05,760 --> 00:44:09,840
Speaker 1: but I mean beyond that, what he is, he's in

879
00:44:09,920 --> 00:44:13,120
Speaker 1: the same neighborhood potentially as a Joe Mixon. We'll see

880
00:44:13,160 --> 00:44:15,160
Speaker 1: what happened with Christian McCaffrey. I guess he kind of

881
00:44:15,239 --> 00:44:17,800
Speaker 1: he slots in that top three, top three or four somewhere.

882
00:44:17,880 --> 00:44:21,760
Speaker 1: To um, Leonard Fournet is a top five back. Finishing

883
00:44:21,840 --> 00:44:25,879
Speaker 1: is a top five back, just doesn't seem ridiculous. He's

884
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:29,360
Speaker 1: not gonna get drafted anywhere near that top five ranking.

885
00:44:29,440 --> 00:44:31,960
Speaker 1: He could end up being just a huge, huge value

886
00:44:32,000 --> 00:44:36,239
Speaker 1: for somebody, Um, which is what I know. Jacksonville. Look,

887
00:44:36,239 --> 00:44:38,319
Speaker 1: I know they feel like they've found something with James

888
00:44:38,440 --> 00:44:40,560
Speaker 1: Robinson and they hope that Travi C team could be something.

889
00:44:40,640 --> 00:44:41,800
Speaker 1: But do you think they look back and they're like,

890
00:44:42,360 --> 00:44:45,120
Speaker 1: we had this dude, Like we we we had Leonard

891
00:44:45,160 --> 00:44:47,520
Speaker 1: Fournette in our building and it didn't work out. Like,

892
00:44:47,760 --> 00:44:49,080
Speaker 1: I just wonder if they kind of look back and

893
00:44:49,160 --> 00:44:51,200
Speaker 1: just shake their heads and what might have been with him.

894
00:44:52,160 --> 00:44:54,320
Speaker 1: I think Tom Brady deserves a lot of credit. Like,

895
00:44:54,440 --> 00:44:56,719
Speaker 1: I don't know if Leonard Fournette is what he is

896
00:44:56,960 --> 00:44:59,840
Speaker 1: without the bucks, you know, and I was gonna do

897
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:03,160
Speaker 1: you think we could if Chris Godwin is hurt or

898
00:45:03,239 --> 00:45:05,160
Speaker 1: limited to start the year because he had that late

899
00:45:05,200 --> 00:45:07,400
Speaker 1: season a c L injury, do you think we just

900
00:45:07,440 --> 00:45:09,880
Speaker 1: see more like Leonard four Nette to kind of make

901
00:45:10,000 --> 00:45:11,920
Speaker 1: up for it? I think so. I think just a

902
00:45:12,000 --> 00:45:14,080
Speaker 1: lot of short passes to learn Fournett, get him out

903
00:45:14,080 --> 00:45:17,840
Speaker 1: in space, let him do his thing. Um, Yeah, I

904
00:45:17,920 --> 00:45:20,239
Speaker 1: think that really it. Well, there's Russell Gauge too. I

905
00:45:20,239 --> 00:45:22,279
Speaker 1: guess we can't forget that being there, so so he

906
00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:24,200
Speaker 1: gets a lot of work there, But that feels like forever.

907
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:26,080
Speaker 1: Ago does feel like forever. I mean, I was like

908
00:45:26,239 --> 00:45:28,120
Speaker 1: day one was than a free agency. It was like

909
00:45:28,160 --> 00:45:31,080
Speaker 1: the first day, which which you know, what has been

910
00:45:31,560 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: literally it's been a week, but it feels like it's

911
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:37,160
Speaker 1: been like a month how long ago it was. Nicolet

912
00:45:37,320 --> 00:45:41,000
Speaker 1: was very impressed that Tom Brady personally called Russell Gauge

913
00:45:41,040 --> 00:45:45,040
Speaker 1: and convinced him to uh to sign there. Yeah, Tom

914
00:45:45,080 --> 00:45:47,600
Speaker 1: Brady deserves a lot of credit, I mean, looking to

915
00:45:47,680 --> 00:45:49,359
Speaker 1: the point that Russell Gates thought it was a prank call,

916
00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:51,680
Speaker 1: which I guess, like I get it, like if somebody

917
00:45:51,760 --> 00:45:53,160
Speaker 1: called my phone was like, hey this is Tom Brady,

918
00:45:53,239 --> 00:45:56,520
Speaker 1: like yeah, sure, um, what do you want? He's also

919
00:45:56,640 --> 00:46:00,200
Speaker 1: Gauge and he was like uh uh yeah exactly. So,

920
00:46:00,680 --> 00:46:04,600
Speaker 1: uh shout out to top Praady for that. Um. Robert

921
00:46:04,680 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 1: Woods is no longer a ram. He was traded to

922
00:46:08,239 --> 00:46:12,080
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans for a sixth rounder in three. In fact,

923
00:46:12,280 --> 00:46:14,719
Speaker 1: I believe he is having his press conference if if

924
00:46:14,800 --> 00:46:16,800
Speaker 1: my timeline is to be believed, he is having his

925
00:46:16,880 --> 00:46:22,239
Speaker 1: press conference as we speak. Um, I know that you

926
00:46:22,320 --> 00:46:24,440
Speaker 1: know people immediately saw this, they were sort of down

927
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:27,239
Speaker 1: on Robert Woods. I don't know. I feel like he

928
00:46:27,480 --> 00:46:31,320
Speaker 1: keeps maybe not the exact same value, but similar value.

929
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:33,239
Speaker 1: And I like the idea of him and A J.

930
00:46:33,400 --> 00:46:36,160
Speaker 1: Brown together, And I'm just wondering, can he be the

931
00:46:36,239 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: guy for this offense that Julio Jones just couldn't be

932
00:46:38,800 --> 00:46:42,640
Speaker 1: because Julio couldn't stay healthy. I think he can be

933
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:46,759
Speaker 1: that guy in real life. I don't love his fantasy

934
00:46:46,920 --> 00:46:50,520
Speaker 1: outlook in this situation. And it's just because look, when

935
00:46:50,920 --> 00:46:53,440
Speaker 1: the Titans offense is built around the run game, like

936
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:57,080
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry is who Derrick Henry is, and then A J.

937
00:46:57,239 --> 00:47:00,960
Speaker 1: Brown is going to get so much volume. Like last year,

938
00:47:01,040 --> 00:47:04,120
Speaker 1: in the games where they were both healthy, both receivers

939
00:47:04,200 --> 00:47:06,759
Speaker 1: Julio and A J. Brown, Julio average five and a

940
00:47:06,800 --> 00:47:09,480
Speaker 1: half targets per game, and in the games where all

941
00:47:09,600 --> 00:47:11,880
Speaker 1: three of them were healthy, including Derrick Henry, that was

942
00:47:11,920 --> 00:47:14,680
Speaker 1: five point eight targets per game for for Julio. So

943
00:47:15,440 --> 00:47:17,920
Speaker 1: an aging Bobby Trees coming off of the A C L.

944
00:47:18,400 --> 00:47:21,400
Speaker 1: I don't expect him to see like a lot more

945
00:47:21,520 --> 00:47:24,920
Speaker 1: volume than Julio saw so for fantasy, I'm probably out.

946
00:47:25,000 --> 00:47:27,239
Speaker 1: But I think for real life he can be a

947
00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:30,800
Speaker 1: really dynamic player for for this team, especially because I

948
00:47:30,880 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: think sneakily what he can do in the run game

949
00:47:34,239 --> 00:47:37,000
Speaker 1: adds a lot to to that Titans offense because you're

950
00:47:37,000 --> 00:47:38,959
Speaker 1: already gonna be worried about them running up the middle,

951
00:47:38,960 --> 00:47:41,160
Speaker 1: and now you can incorporate more jet sweeps and stuff

952
00:47:41,160 --> 00:47:43,680
Speaker 1: into the to this offense. I think it helps the

953
00:47:43,800 --> 00:47:46,600
Speaker 1: real life offense, but I don't love it for fantasy. Yeah,

954
00:47:46,600 --> 00:47:48,160
Speaker 1: I don't know. Maybe I'm maybe I'm just you know,

955
00:47:48,239 --> 00:47:50,439
Speaker 1: got my cargoing gold goggles on and I'm still sort

956
00:47:50,480 --> 00:47:53,120
Speaker 1: of blinded by I still think, like, I love the

957
00:47:53,160 --> 00:47:54,800
Speaker 1: fact that I think the draft price is gonna be

958
00:47:54,920 --> 00:47:56,560
Speaker 1: nice because I think a lot of people sort of

959
00:47:56,560 --> 00:47:59,239
Speaker 1: feel that way. So that's gonna depress the a DP

960
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:01,680
Speaker 1: a little bit. So up totally down with that. Um,

961
00:48:01,960 --> 00:48:03,520
Speaker 1: I still think he can be good. I still think

962
00:48:03,560 --> 00:48:05,560
Speaker 1: there's something there, and I think I think he's definitely

963
00:48:05,600 --> 00:48:09,360
Speaker 1: a nice compliment to A J. Brown. Um did that

964
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:12,839
Speaker 1: trade make you make you a van stand again? Uh?

965
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:16,839
Speaker 1: Kind of? But like I guess I have to wait

966
00:48:16,880 --> 00:48:18,839
Speaker 1: and see if the RAMS decides are gonna bring back

967
00:48:18,880 --> 00:48:21,600
Speaker 1: O b J, although that was probably gonna be available

968
00:48:21,760 --> 00:48:26,839
Speaker 1: until late in the season. Anyway, Um, you know they're

969
00:48:26,840 --> 00:48:30,719
Speaker 1: still cup They're still They're still Robinson. Um. I want

970
00:48:30,760 --> 00:48:32,200
Speaker 1: to be a van stand in my heart. I just

971
00:48:32,239 --> 00:48:33,759
Speaker 1: need to see what else the Rams are gonna do

972
00:48:34,239 --> 00:48:36,840
Speaker 1: in this offseason before I get in fully nicknamed L

973
00:48:36,920 --> 00:48:40,640
Speaker 1: A Rob, I'm here for me. Oh, I haven't heard that,

974
00:48:40,719 --> 00:48:43,600
Speaker 1: but I like it totally. Like yesterday and I was

975
00:48:43,680 --> 00:48:46,360
Speaker 1: like that, that's it. Yes, he's already better than his

976
00:48:46,440 --> 00:48:49,960
Speaker 1: tenure in Chicago. L A Rob. I'm down. I'm totally

977
00:48:50,040 --> 00:48:52,239
Speaker 1: down for that. I remember once, after after one of

978
00:48:52,320 --> 00:48:55,600
Speaker 1: his really frustrating years in in Jacksonville with Blake Portles,

979
00:48:55,640 --> 00:48:58,120
Speaker 1: I saw him, Uh this actually was during the Super

980
00:48:58,200 --> 00:49:01,040
Speaker 1: Bowl in San Francisco. I saw him getting a slice

981
00:49:01,640 --> 00:49:04,960
Speaker 1: at Blondie's Pizza in San Francisco. I got, you know,

982
00:49:05,040 --> 00:49:06,759
Speaker 1: slice of Pepperoni de soda, and I wanted to go

983
00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:08,440
Speaker 1: talk to him just say I feel bad that your

984
00:49:08,480 --> 00:49:10,239
Speaker 1: situation in Jacksonville is not great. But I'm like, you

985
00:49:10,239 --> 00:49:11,840
Speaker 1: know what, I'm just let the study this pizza. Butnna

986
00:49:11,880 --> 00:49:14,279
Speaker 1: let him live. Let me just pizza. I'm not gonna

987
00:49:14,320 --> 00:49:19,879
Speaker 1: bother him, but uh yeah I probably did. Um. So there,

988
00:49:20,640 --> 00:49:23,880
Speaker 1: Uh we started talking about Juju with the chiefs. Um.

989
00:49:24,800 --> 00:49:27,480
Speaker 1: It was a different situation, a situation a couple of

990
00:49:27,480 --> 00:49:28,840
Speaker 1: hours ago when it looked like he was gonna be

991
00:49:28,880 --> 00:49:31,680
Speaker 1: playing with Tyreek Hill. Uh, now he's sort of carrying

992
00:49:31,719 --> 00:49:34,400
Speaker 1: in this offense. Um, I don't know. I think we

993
00:49:34,680 --> 00:49:37,360
Speaker 1: kind of spoke on that a little bit. Any I

994
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:39,719
Speaker 1: was gonna saying, you know, projects him fro about nine yards,

995
00:49:39,760 --> 00:49:41,520
Speaker 1: but that was before. I mean, does he does he

996
00:49:41,640 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: get back to a thousand yards if they don't replace

997
00:49:44,080 --> 00:49:47,520
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill in that offense? Probably a volume alone, I

998
00:49:47,560 --> 00:49:53,480
Speaker 1: would imagine. Um. But yeah, like losing Tyreek, he's gonna

999
00:49:53,520 --> 00:49:55,160
Speaker 1: get more volume, but he's now going to get more

1000
00:49:55,200 --> 00:49:58,439
Speaker 1: defensive attention and less room to run after the catch.

1001
00:49:58,600 --> 00:50:03,040
Speaker 1: So it's to me kind of a break even point. Yeah, yeah,

1002
00:50:03,040 --> 00:50:06,680
Speaker 1: I think that's that's probably about right. Um. A few

1003
00:50:07,360 --> 00:50:10,120
Speaker 1: kind of lesser moves around the league. The Bills a

1004
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:13,040
Speaker 1: great terms with Jamison Crowder. I was really kind of

1005
00:50:13,080 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 1: hoping that maybe Isaiah Mackenzie was going to become a thing.

1006
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:18,640
Speaker 1: Is that is that dream dead for the moment. This

1007
00:50:18,800 --> 00:50:21,040
Speaker 1: takes a lot of a lot of shine off of it.

1008
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:23,680
Speaker 1: I still think, like if you asked me, I would

1009
00:50:23,760 --> 00:50:25,799
Speaker 1: argue that Mackenzie is a better player. He at least

1010
00:50:25,880 --> 00:50:29,440
Speaker 1: brings more dynamic to the offense. He's really fast, um,

1011
00:50:30,239 --> 00:50:32,440
Speaker 1: so I think he could earn more playing time. The

1012
00:50:32,480 --> 00:50:35,520
Speaker 1: Bills ran a lot of three and four wide receiver

1013
00:50:35,640 --> 00:50:37,560
Speaker 1: sets last year. It's them in the Cardinals who run

1014
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 1: that many for wide receiver sets. So it's not completely dead,

1015
00:50:41,600 --> 00:50:45,879
Speaker 1: but I would say it's it's hurting, it's on life support. Maybe. Yeah,

1016
00:50:46,400 --> 00:50:48,319
Speaker 1: I thought I thought it was gonna happen after they

1017
00:50:48,400 --> 00:50:50,680
Speaker 1: like go cold Beasley uh and then they bring in

1018
00:50:50,760 --> 00:50:53,360
Speaker 1: Jamison Crowder, which you know, sort of seems like a

1019
00:50:53,440 --> 00:50:56,600
Speaker 1: one to one replacement for Cole Beasley essentially for what

1020
00:50:56,719 --> 00:51:00,520
Speaker 1: they're doing. Um for Shot Penny going back the Seattle

1021
00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:03,200
Speaker 1: on a one year deal. I've seen a lot of

1022
00:51:03,239 --> 00:51:06,320
Speaker 1: excitement about Rashade Penny based on the way he finished

1023
00:51:06,400 --> 00:51:09,640
Speaker 1: last season, and it was insane his finish to UH

1024
00:51:09,760 --> 00:51:12,640
Speaker 1: to last year. It was kind of the performance that

1025
00:51:12,880 --> 00:51:15,400
Speaker 1: the Seahawks has been hoping for when they drafted him.

1026
00:51:15,440 --> 00:51:17,839
Speaker 1: I mean, this is a speedster out of San Diego State,

1027
00:51:18,520 --> 00:51:21,560
Speaker 1: never could stay healthy never could stay on the field consistently.

1028
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:26,040
Speaker 1: But let's go back from Week fourteen through the end

1029
00:51:26,160 --> 00:51:28,239
Speaker 1: of the year, he ran for six hundred seventy one

1030
00:51:28,320 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 1: yards on He's had six touchdowns. It was just a

1031
00:51:31,800 --> 00:51:35,600
Speaker 1: phenomenal end of the year. Real or mirage though for

1032
00:51:35,840 --> 00:51:39,320
Speaker 1: Rashade Penny. With that, I think it's real, And I

1033
00:51:39,600 --> 00:51:42,960
Speaker 1: was hesitant to say that, um, but then I was

1034
00:51:43,000 --> 00:51:44,960
Speaker 1: looking more into it, and like you pick a stat

1035
00:51:45,560 --> 00:51:48,319
Speaker 1: doesn't matter, any rushing stat in those final six weeks,

1036
00:51:48,400 --> 00:51:51,279
Speaker 1: he led the NFL in it and by far, so

1037
00:51:52,400 --> 00:51:55,800
Speaker 1: I think it's really my only concern. Well, injury is obviously,

1038
00:51:55,880 --> 00:51:57,560
Speaker 1: like I'm not going to rank him as an RB one,

1039
00:51:57,600 --> 00:51:59,640
Speaker 1: but I think he has that upside. But they're the

1040
00:51:59,719 --> 00:52:02,200
Speaker 1: injury re concerned is very very real because it took

1041
00:52:02,280 --> 00:52:04,480
Speaker 1: three and a half years to see him get on

1042
00:52:04,560 --> 00:52:08,120
Speaker 1: the field is consistently. I also, I'm wondering what's going

1043
00:52:08,160 --> 00:52:10,920
Speaker 1: to happen with Chris Carson, Like as of right now,

1044
00:52:11,040 --> 00:52:12,959
Speaker 1: if I had a guess, I would I would guess

1045
00:52:13,000 --> 00:52:16,120
Speaker 1: that he is cut. Um. I think he's got a

1046
00:52:16,440 --> 00:52:20,640
Speaker 1: post June first out on his contract. But if he's there,

1047
00:52:20,680 --> 00:52:22,880
Speaker 1: and Pete Carroll seems to love Chris Carson, then I

1048
00:52:23,120 --> 00:52:25,319
Speaker 1: think we have to consider that, and that obviously hurts

1049
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:28,799
Speaker 1: ra Sean Penny's value. Yeah. I mean here's the thing though,

1050
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:31,440
Speaker 1: with Drew Lock at quarterback, does Pete Carroll want to

1051
00:52:31,640 --> 00:52:35,200
Speaker 1: establish the run more, which means maybe both those guys

1052
00:52:35,520 --> 00:52:39,520
Speaker 1: vocal guys get some some work. Um, yeah, they do

1053
00:52:39,719 --> 00:52:43,600
Speaker 1: have a potential out uh this year on on Chris Carson.

1054
00:52:43,680 --> 00:52:45,319
Speaker 1: So I don't know if they take that decides they're

1055
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:48,600
Speaker 1: gonna finally turn things over to Rashon Penny. Um. You know,

1056
00:52:48,760 --> 00:52:51,840
Speaker 1: obviously the look, I mean his last two games he

1057
00:52:51,960 --> 00:52:54,440
Speaker 1: ran for one seventy and one ninety. That is not

1058
00:52:54,840 --> 00:52:58,640
Speaker 1: necessarily sustainable over the course of a full season. Um,

1059
00:52:58,880 --> 00:53:01,120
Speaker 1: but if he stays healthy and he gets the job,

1060
00:53:02,000 --> 00:53:04,120
Speaker 1: maybe he does kind of become that new Chris Carson,

1061
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:06,040
Speaker 1: that guy Chris Carson, that guy that we we sort

1062
00:53:06,080 --> 00:53:09,000
Speaker 1: of overlooked and we're like draft him as a running

1063
00:53:09,040 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 1: back to and then he gives you like some decent,

1064
00:53:11,360 --> 00:53:14,759
Speaker 1: you know, borderline running back one numbers. Maybe that could

1065
00:53:14,760 --> 00:53:17,720
Speaker 1: be uh, Carson and Penny to me or the pointing

1066
00:53:17,760 --> 00:53:20,560
Speaker 1: spider Man gift, Like they're they really very talented, but

1067
00:53:20,680 --> 00:53:22,720
Speaker 1: they just cannot stay on the field, They can't stay healthy,

1068
00:53:22,920 --> 00:53:25,000
Speaker 1: right exactly. I think that's that's a that's a really

1069
00:53:25,040 --> 00:53:28,960
Speaker 1: good description of him. Um. Cordell Patterson back in Atlanta.

1070
00:53:29,280 --> 00:53:34,000
Speaker 1: I don't think that's surprises literally anybody there. Um. I

1071
00:53:34,120 --> 00:53:35,960
Speaker 1: just sort of believe that last year was kind of

1072
00:53:35,960 --> 00:53:38,480
Speaker 1: an anomaly that he couldn't repeat what he did last

1073
00:53:38,560 --> 00:53:42,719
Speaker 1: year because it was so amazing. But then the Falcons,

1074
00:53:42,800 --> 00:53:45,399
Speaker 1: you know, Calvin Ridley is kind of suspective he was gone,

1075
00:53:45,440 --> 00:53:47,040
Speaker 1: but now we know for sure he's not going to

1076
00:53:47,120 --> 00:53:51,080
Speaker 1: play next year, Matt Ryan is gone. Just looking around

1077
00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:54,440
Speaker 1: what's there in Atlanta. Maybe he repeats at least on

1078
00:53:54,600 --> 00:53:57,320
Speaker 1: volume alone. Maybe maybe he kind of comes close to

1079
00:53:57,400 --> 00:53:59,520
Speaker 1: what he did last year, just because who else is

1080
00:53:59,560 --> 00:54:03,160
Speaker 1: gonna get the ball there? Yeah. What I didn't like

1081
00:54:03,360 --> 00:54:05,680
Speaker 1: is down the stretch last year, they stopped using him

1082
00:54:05,719 --> 00:54:07,520
Speaker 1: as a receiver as much and used to more as

1083
00:54:07,520 --> 00:54:09,719
Speaker 1: a traditional running back, and I think it kind of

1084
00:54:09,760 --> 00:54:11,840
Speaker 1: wore him down as he like he got less and

1085
00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:15,200
Speaker 1: less efficient as the year went on. I'm hoping to

1086
00:54:15,280 --> 00:54:17,560
Speaker 1: see more what I was hoping for for Patterson, and

1087
00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:19,480
Speaker 1: I still think it's a path is open for it.

1088
00:54:20,120 --> 00:54:22,880
Speaker 1: Bringing a running back like Ronald Jones or someone like

1089
00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:26,480
Speaker 1: that who can split carries with Patterson, can take the

1090
00:54:26,600 --> 00:54:29,360
Speaker 1: beating on those short carries, and can also handle the

1091
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:31,680
Speaker 1: ball when you want to put Patterson out wide. To me,

1092
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:35,080
Speaker 1: I think that would be the best case scenario for Paterson. Look,

1093
00:54:35,600 --> 00:54:37,640
Speaker 1: he was an RB one for a lot of last year.

1094
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:40,160
Speaker 1: I I don't think he's anywhere close to an RB one,

1095
00:54:40,520 --> 00:54:43,120
Speaker 1: but he could be a solid RB two reflex option

1096
00:54:43,160 --> 00:54:45,440
Speaker 1: I think for sure in this offense. Yeah, I think

1097
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:47,320
Speaker 1: I think that's probably the best the best way to describe.

1098
00:54:47,320 --> 00:54:50,600
Speaker 1: I mean last year was, um, it just came out

1099
00:54:50,640 --> 00:54:53,160
Speaker 1: of the blue. You know, nobody expected that to happen.

1100
00:54:53,200 --> 00:54:55,160
Speaker 1: I mean we we all went into the season thinking

1101
00:54:55,280 --> 00:54:58,040
Speaker 1: Mike Davis was going to be the lead back and

1102
00:54:58,320 --> 00:55:00,680
Speaker 1: Cordero was kind of the guy that the number two

1103
00:55:00,719 --> 00:55:03,560
Speaker 1: guys they got to fill in, maybe be the gadget player,

1104
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:05,960
Speaker 1: and then it's switched by the end of the year.

1105
00:55:06,000 --> 00:55:07,399
Speaker 1: So I think he'll start the year as a starter,

1106
00:55:07,480 --> 00:55:10,560
Speaker 1: but I just don't think he can be as productive

1107
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:14,000
Speaker 1: as he was Slash year just feels nearly impossible. Um.

1108
00:55:14,640 --> 00:55:17,560
Speaker 1: Last one, Chargers signed Gerald Everett two years, twelve million

1109
00:55:17,640 --> 00:55:22,040
Speaker 1: dollars um. I feel like the Chargers like they don't

1110
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:25,040
Speaker 1: they let's put a lot of effort into tight end,

1111
00:55:25,040 --> 00:55:27,080
Speaker 1: but they end up seeming to get like talented players.

1112
00:55:27,080 --> 00:55:28,480
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, like the last couple of years,

1113
00:55:28,520 --> 00:55:31,359
Speaker 1: it's been Jared Cook, I mean, Hunter Henry never quite

1114
00:55:31,440 --> 00:55:33,480
Speaker 1: panned out the way they wanted to. So really, since

1115
00:55:33,520 --> 00:55:35,600
Speaker 1: Antonio Gates, they've kind of been looking to fill that.

1116
00:55:36,560 --> 00:55:39,160
Speaker 1: I don't think Gerald Effort is that guy necessarily, but

1117
00:55:39,280 --> 00:55:41,359
Speaker 1: I guess he's, you know, he's kind of a nice

1118
00:55:41,600 --> 00:55:43,320
Speaker 1: streaming option. I guess he is the best way to

1119
00:55:43,360 --> 00:55:45,520
Speaker 1: describe him. At this point, you could say that I'm

1120
00:55:45,800 --> 00:55:48,120
Speaker 1: not able to quit Gerald Everett because I was in

1121
00:55:48,200 --> 00:55:52,440
Speaker 1: on him last year with the rams UM. I like

1122
00:55:52,600 --> 00:55:55,399
Speaker 1: this signing. I think it's a sneaky, sneaky sign because

1123
00:55:55,400 --> 00:55:57,680
Speaker 1: I'm very high on the Chargers and if you can't

1124
00:55:57,680 --> 00:56:02,160
Speaker 1: tell from the rest of the UM to me, when

1125
00:56:02,200 --> 00:56:04,880
Speaker 1: he signed, I said, he enters that tight end too,

1126
00:56:05,040 --> 00:56:06,360
Speaker 1: Like he's not a tight end one for me, but

1127
00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:08,640
Speaker 1: he enters that tight end too with upside group, like

1128
00:56:08,719 --> 00:56:11,719
Speaker 1: Albert oh is in that group. I would put Evan

1129
00:56:11,840 --> 00:56:14,120
Speaker 1: Ingram in that group. There's a long list of like

1130
00:56:14,239 --> 00:56:16,160
Speaker 1: tight end two is that I didn't have the upside

1131
00:56:16,200 --> 00:56:19,160
Speaker 1: to make that jump, maybe not consistently every week, but

1132
00:56:19,320 --> 00:56:21,319
Speaker 1: to have some nice weeks and you could stream them.

1133
00:56:21,480 --> 00:56:23,920
Speaker 1: I think Gerald Everard slides right in. Yeah, I think

1134
00:56:23,960 --> 00:56:26,920
Speaker 1: that's that's about right. I think that's fair. Um, you know,

1135
00:56:27,000 --> 00:56:28,839
Speaker 1: he's not gonna get drafted, but he'll be out there

1136
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:31,040
Speaker 1: on the waiver wire probably when you need him at

1137
00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:34,719
Speaker 1: some point. So all right, I think that's it. I

1138
00:56:34,760 --> 00:56:38,960
Speaker 1: think I think we covered pretty much everything. Um, there's

1139
00:56:38,960 --> 00:56:41,759
Speaker 1: still some some decent names out there. We talked about

1140
00:56:41,760 --> 00:56:43,600
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys last week, and be A Baker,

1141
00:56:43,760 --> 00:56:48,920
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo, Melvin Gordon, Rojoe Wide. Receivers have still some

1142
00:56:49,040 --> 00:56:53,280
Speaker 1: very interesting names between O'Dell, Julio Jones, Jarvis Landry, called Beasley.

1143
00:56:54,120 --> 00:56:56,400
Speaker 1: Will Fuller's technically still out there as a free agent.

1144
00:56:56,480 --> 00:56:59,080
Speaker 1: I know there was talk. Yeah, I mean I think

1145
00:56:59,080 --> 00:57:00,640
Speaker 1: that was the talk. Right. He go to Cleveland, he

1146
00:57:00,680 --> 00:57:03,000
Speaker 1: reunites with Shawn Watson, and we just start of done.

1147
00:57:03,719 --> 00:57:06,719
Speaker 1: Put Julio in India, in Indianapolis with the colts Man.

1148
00:57:06,840 --> 00:57:08,759
Speaker 1: That's what I want to see, getting back together with

1149
00:57:08,800 --> 00:57:10,839
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan. We're just if we're gonna have reunions, let's

1150
00:57:10,880 --> 00:57:12,600
Speaker 1: just do it all up like that and get him

1151
00:57:12,600 --> 00:57:15,680
Speaker 1: in United When Matt Ryan let him teach Michael Pittman

1152
00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:17,680
Speaker 1: Junior and that would have to be the second time

1153
00:57:17,720 --> 00:57:19,520
Speaker 1: in a row, Michael Pittman Jr. Was like, no, I'm

1154
00:57:19,560 --> 00:57:23,760
Speaker 1: holding on to number eleven. Carson Wentz last year, although

1155
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:25,520
Speaker 1: he was when he give up for Julio, Julio was

1156
00:57:25,520 --> 00:57:28,120
Speaker 1: at least more, way more accomplished than Carson. Wentz was

1157
00:57:28,160 --> 00:57:30,200
Speaker 1: like I start to get like, all right, Carson Wentz,

1158
00:57:30,240 --> 00:57:32,360
Speaker 1: I'm not giving it. But Julio Jone was like, maybe

1159
00:57:32,480 --> 00:57:35,560
Speaker 1: we work something out. The only thing like Julio is

1160
00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:38,400
Speaker 1: probably like a year or two away from retired. Like

1161
00:57:38,520 --> 00:57:40,320
Speaker 1: Whence when they traded for him, you thought he was

1162
00:57:40,400 --> 00:57:43,400
Speaker 1: there for a while, it was not established at all.

1163
00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:47,040
Speaker 1: And he was still like no, I'm good. Yeah, that

1164
00:57:47,200 --> 00:57:50,240
Speaker 1: was funny. I had a Mikesman tweet me that they

1165
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:54,280
Speaker 1: have bought a Luck Rivers and Wins jersey and they're

1166
00:57:54,280 --> 00:57:59,560
Speaker 1: going to buy Matt Ryan James. Stop just stop, just stop.

1167
00:58:00,120 --> 00:58:02,680
Speaker 1: Imagine getting all those jerseys and every year just having

1168
00:58:02,720 --> 00:58:04,200
Speaker 1: to get a new one, just getting a new one.

1169
00:58:04,400 --> 00:58:08,840
Speaker 1: Just stop. Wow, all right. Uh, you didn't mention MBS though.

1170
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:11,040
Speaker 1: He's uh, he's talking to the Chiefs. So we'll see

1171
00:58:11,040 --> 00:58:14,040
Speaker 1: if maybe he lands in Kansas City. Definitely not a

1172
00:58:14,240 --> 00:58:16,800
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill replacement, but you know, at least a feeling

1173
00:58:16,840 --> 00:58:19,720
Speaker 1: stretcher potentially by him for fantasy if he goes there,

1174
00:58:19,840 --> 00:58:22,600
Speaker 1: unless he gets you know, these albumazard hype treatment or

1175
00:58:22,640 --> 00:58:25,400
Speaker 1: something like that. But he will, he will. He will

1176
00:58:25,400 --> 00:58:28,160
Speaker 1: be the downfield threat and a Patrick Mahomes led offense.

1177
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:31,400
Speaker 1: He will get the album Lazard hype treatment. It's just

1178
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:34,880
Speaker 1: gonna happen. Um, a couple of tight ends gronks still

1179
00:58:34,880 --> 00:58:36,560
Speaker 1: out there. Whether or not he comes back to play

1180
00:58:36,560 --> 00:58:38,440
Speaker 1: at all, we still don't even know that. And then

1181
00:58:38,640 --> 00:58:41,720
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper is still a free agent. So those are

1182
00:58:41,800 --> 00:58:43,640
Speaker 1: some of the big names that are still out there.

1183
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:48,080
Speaker 1: I'm almost remember what free agency basically like contained itself

1184
00:58:48,160 --> 00:58:51,080
Speaker 1: to like a couple of days and then died down.

1185
00:58:51,640 --> 00:58:54,560
Speaker 1: That's gone. Now. I expected by like last Thursday, all

1186
00:58:54,600 --> 00:58:57,640
Speaker 1: of these players to be signed, and and then every

1187
00:58:57,760 --> 00:59:00,600
Speaker 1: time a big name player gets traded, you're like, wow,

1188
00:59:00,720 --> 00:59:02,600
Speaker 1: well that's probably the biggest tray and then it just

1189
00:59:04,280 --> 00:59:07,400
Speaker 1: I would have bet my life savings that Tyreeki would

1190
00:59:07,400 --> 00:59:09,840
Speaker 1: be a Chief this year as of last night, as

1191
00:59:09,880 --> 00:59:11,440
Speaker 1: of when I woke up this morning, I would have

1192
00:59:11,520 --> 00:59:15,560
Speaker 1: bet that. And he's a dolphin. Now, I mean just wait,

1193
00:59:15,640 --> 00:59:17,280
Speaker 1: just wait until the middle of the NBA Finals and

1194
00:59:17,320 --> 00:59:19,720
Speaker 1: then the Bucks trade Tom Brady to the Niners for

1195
00:59:19,800 --> 00:59:23,200
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo. Like, that's what's gonna happens, is all of us?

1196
00:59:23,240 --> 00:59:25,080
Speaker 1: He tweeted today. He was like, what the hell the

1197
00:59:25,160 --> 00:59:28,000
Speaker 1: hell is going on? Seriously, that is exactly That was

1198
00:59:28,120 --> 00:59:30,560
Speaker 1: kind of the the basic best way to sum up

1199
00:59:30,560 --> 00:59:34,480
Speaker 1: what's happened for the last week. So all right, I'm

1200
00:59:34,560 --> 00:59:37,800
Speaker 1: I'm out of breath now. By the way, um, we

1201
00:59:37,960 --> 00:59:41,240
Speaker 1: do have a TV show coming up later this week

1202
00:59:41,320 --> 00:59:45,000
Speaker 1: on Thursday, with today's Wednesday, so Tomorrow Thursday, it'll be

1203
00:59:45,520 --> 00:59:50,040
Speaker 1: the NFL Fantasy Live Free Agency Fallout. Uh so, full disclosure,

1204
00:59:50,040 --> 00:59:52,160
Speaker 1: I gotta go through some homework to kind of prep

1205
00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:54,720
Speaker 1: for that shows who as we are done here, Um,

1206
00:59:55,240 --> 00:59:57,760
Speaker 1: hopefully nothing big happens between now and the time we

1207
00:59:57,840 --> 00:59:59,520
Speaker 1: take that show, because that's gonna blow up. That's not

1208
00:59:59,600 --> 01:00:02,280
Speaker 1: my no, no, it's not my problem. I don't have

1209
01:00:02,320 --> 01:00:03,800
Speaker 1: to do the rundown. I just sit there and talk,

1210
01:00:03,880 --> 01:00:06,000
Speaker 1: So I guess for the year. For the sake of

1211
01:00:06,080 --> 01:00:08,440
Speaker 1: Todd Mossburg and the rest of our production staff, hopefully

1212
01:00:08,480 --> 01:00:11,640
Speaker 1: nothing big happens between now and then. So there you go.

1213
01:00:11,760 --> 01:00:13,920
Speaker 1: That'll do it for this position of the NFL Fantasy

1214
01:00:13,920 --> 01:00:16,520
Speaker 1: Football Podcast. Stay happy, safe and healthy, do good and

1215
01:00:16,640 --> 01:00:18,840
Speaker 1: live well. Pray that nothing big happened in the next

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Speaker 1: twenty four hours, and we will talk to you next week.

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