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Speaker 1: I am Paul Charchy and my co host today Matt Harrison. Hello. Man,
Speaker 1: we've kept Brian away for two weeks. I know it's
Speaker 1: hard to do that. It's hard to do, but we've
Speaker 1: managed to pull it off. Amazing. Yeah. I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's good or bad listeners, but less Brian the normal.
Speaker 1: He's got the coolest voice out of all of us,
Speaker 1: out of all four of us. I mean that, you know,
Speaker 1: the deep baritone, and he's got some great analysis to
Speaker 1: go with it. So great might be a little okay,
Speaker 1: so some slightly above average analysis. Let's go with that.
Speaker 1: Let's go with that. So last week, Scott and I
Speaker 1: get done recording the podcast, uploading the podcast, and just
Speaker 1: as it's hitting everybody and Scott's long gone from my house,
Speaker 1: then the all the all the dominoes fall and we
Speaker 1: have massive news, including um, the Deshaun Watson trade, gets
Speaker 1: fine text like did you guys get the Watson thing
Speaker 1: in because it was happening like right when you were
Speaker 1: so the whole thing got blown up. You know, it's
Speaker 1: the off season. Times time is not of It's like
Speaker 1: every day counts quite as much. And we're recording this
Speaker 1: on a Friday in the off season. And Watson was
Speaker 1: introduced today to the Cleveland media. So it all comes
Speaker 1: back around right now. I listened to the press conference.
Speaker 1: Cleveland media would Adam pretty hard. Yeah I was. I
Speaker 1: was glad you got you haven't have to have accountability
Speaker 1: in these situations, and you know, clearly he had done.
Speaker 1: He had he had been coached up on what to
Speaker 1: say because he had kept hitting the same talking points
Speaker 1: over and over again. But Cleveland media was pretty aggressive
Speaker 1: with him, which I thought was appropriate card questions in
Speaker 1: this situation. Yeah, why not? Well, and he signed a
Speaker 1: big five year contract and uh so he's gonna be
Speaker 1: there for a while, presumably, well they're gonna pay him
Speaker 1: for a while, no matter what. It's all guaranteed two
Speaker 1: hundred thirty million dollars. Think about it this way. Deshaun
Speaker 1: Watson was on the Texans and they traded away all
Speaker 1: their first round picks for Laramie tunsl And now he
Speaker 1: goes to the Browns and they traded away all their
Speaker 1: first round picks for Shaun Watson. He's on this team
Speaker 1: that's never gonna have a first round pick like his
Speaker 1: entire career. So this is gonna be pretty interesting to
Speaker 1: see how this pans out. There was an epic trade
Speaker 1: in hockey twenty five is years ago involving Peter Forsberg,
Speaker 1: Um and Um the key player went to the Flyers,
Speaker 1: and it involved like eight players and a bunch of
Speaker 1: draft picks, and somebody at one point figured out all
Speaker 1: the butterfly effect of that, and years and years later
Speaker 1: and it ended up being like thousand players that ended
Speaker 1: up impacted by this one trade years later, probably something
Speaker 1: similar to the Vikings and herschel Walker back in but
Speaker 1: it was way more far reaching, I think. But yes, Weld,
Speaker 1: I don't not to see if I can quit google it.
Speaker 1: Peter Forsberg, Well, while you're googling that, I mean, I
Speaker 1: guess I'll note that Amari Cooper probably gets a little
Speaker 1: bit of an upgrade here. Um. He also is seeing
Speaker 1: a hundred vacated targets from the Browns from Landry and
Speaker 1: Beckham and Austin Hooper last year. So uh, being the
Speaker 1: top target in the Deshaun Watson led offense has been
Speaker 1: a good thing to be for the past few years.
Speaker 1: So uh, Amari Cooper is going to bump up a
Speaker 1: few spots in a DP, especially if Cleveland doesn't replace
Speaker 1: some of that talent, and maybe the second round of
Speaker 1: the draft or throughout free agency. I mean it's David
Speaker 1: and Joku, and it's Harrison Bryant and Kareem Hunt and
Speaker 1: tight ends running backs and Amari Cooper and Donovan People's Jones,
Speaker 1: who's kind of sneaky. Well, we thought he was last year,
Speaker 1: and he clearly could not step up and assume the
Speaker 1: rule of a I don't even say go to receiver. Sure,
Speaker 1: I don't even alpha receiver. Domind People's Jones couldn't even
Speaker 1: be a beta receiver. The leading Browns receiver had five
Speaker 1: hundred seventy four yards. And now is that a Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield problem. Well, a little bit of culpability, but I
Speaker 1: don't think a lot. I don't think as much as
Speaker 1: as you might. I mean, it's interesting because the other
Speaker 1: domino to fall here is Baker Mayfield right. Um, the
Speaker 1: Browns still are holding onto him, trying to trade him
Speaker 1: right now, but he's on his fifth year of the contract,
Speaker 1: so it's it's kind of a higher price and he's
Speaker 1: probably looking for an extension right now. So he's trying
Speaker 1: to find a team that will take him, and everybody
Speaker 1: kind of lined up their quarterback now it's really Carolina
Speaker 1: who there's not interest in Carolina from what I hear Seattle,
Speaker 1: maybe that's about it. There's there's not many other teams
Speaker 1: that are really looking for a quarterback of his caliber
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, there'sh for Mayfield. If you're in dynas,
Speaker 1: do you hold or do you sell on Mayfield right now?
Speaker 1: You'd obviously be selling it like maybe the all time
Speaker 1: low right now. So if if you got a deep
Speaker 1: enough roster and you can hold him, I think you
Speaker 1: just hold Baker Mayfield, see what happens and maybe at
Speaker 1: the advent of him getting traded to somebody, Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: when the value peaks a little bit and then you
Speaker 1: start moving him. I think there's I think there's a
Speaker 1: decent chance we haven't heard the last of meaningful play
Speaker 1: from Baker Mayfield, one way or another. Some quarterback needy
Speaker 1: team is going to give him a chance. Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: has some talent. He played last year hurt constantly. Armon Harness,
Speaker 1: I don't think we've quite heard the end of Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield right now. Yeah, I agree. I think I think
Speaker 1: he ends up. He ends up some place doing something
Speaker 1: that ultimately ultimately ends up helping him. By the way,
Speaker 1: Eric Lindross because the Eric Linder Drows trade that was
Speaker 1: twenty six years ago, alright, um ended up forever changing
Speaker 1: a couple of different a couple of different teams, the
Speaker 1: Flyers and the Nordics, where the teams involved became the
Speaker 1: Avalanche became the Avalanche, and then they went out. The
Speaker 1: Avalanche with all the equity they got from the Flyers
Speaker 1: ended up winning the Stanley Cup with guys like Peter
Speaker 1: Forsberg and Ron Hextall and Mike Greeky and Steve du
Speaker 1: Shane and a bunch of others. Patrick Waugh he that
Speaker 1: Patrick Ole was on that team, not part of the trade,
Speaker 1: but he was. He was on the team back then. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was all Those are great teams. Okay, continuing about
Speaker 1: where were you this week when the Tyreek Hill news
Speaker 1: just started coming down? Because it seemed like it was
Speaker 1: out of nowhere, just a surprise. Yeah. And part of
Speaker 1: the part of the fun of the whole Tyreek thing
Speaker 1: is from the time that the press started reporting that
Speaker 1: Tyreek could be traded to the time he was traded
Speaker 1: was about forty five minutes. Yeah, and it was like
Speaker 1: just it felt like a whirlwind for us, although I
Speaker 1: think it had been apparently had been in the works
Speaker 1: for a while. Kudos to the Chiefs Matt for real
Speaker 1: knowing they and looking ahead to next year, weren't going
Speaker 1: to be able to keep Uh, they weren't gonna be
Speaker 1: able to keep Tyree Hill. He'd been playing unhappy this year,
Speaker 1: and you could get a first rounder for him this
Speaker 1: year and next year you'd have no leverage when he
Speaker 1: was a free agent. Subsolutely, they made the right call
Speaker 1: on moving him, and now they have picked sorry and
Speaker 1: thirty in the draft. One of those is going to
Speaker 1: be a receiver who will cost cost literally one tenth
Speaker 1: as much money as Tyreek Hill. He'll be eight years
Speaker 1: younger than Tyree Hill, and while he is very unlikely
Speaker 1: to be as good as Tyree Hill, but maybe you
Speaker 1: get of Tyreek Hill at one tenth the cost yeah,
Speaker 1: and so this is all kind of like your NHL
Speaker 1: trade you just talked about this. This these are tentacles
Speaker 1: of the Trey Lance trade last year because this is
Speaker 1: San Francisco's pick. So Miami flipped that pick that they
Speaker 1: got from San fran to move up to get Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddle and to trade to San Francisco go to get
Speaker 1: Tyreek Ki or to Kansas City to get Tyreek Hill.
Speaker 1: And they still got San Franz round three this year
Speaker 1: and round one next year. So they added Hill and
Speaker 1: Waddle by moving down nine spots in the draft. It
Speaker 1: isn't moving down always the best thing to do always, Man,
Speaker 1: If when you move up and pay, because it costs
Speaker 1: so much to move us, just even incrementally in the
Speaker 1: top half of the first round, you better hit it,
Speaker 1: tore me. Trey Lance has got to hit for the Niners.
Speaker 1: If he doesn't hit, it hurts, man. Is it hurt? Yeah? Um,
Speaker 1: kudos to Miami. This is back to the Eric Lindrows trade.
Speaker 1: I mean, the the Laramie Munsel. Laramie Tunsel. You know
Speaker 1: it's gonna be in the at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: It'll be like a hundred players who end up affected
Speaker 1: by this trade. When everything is said and done, I
Speaker 1: bet indirectly or directly. Um, So Mike McDaniel now gets
Speaker 1: a really overhauled Miami team, broad in one of the
Speaker 1: best offensive lineman available as well. Yeah, Tarren Armstead signed
Speaker 1: in Miami. And so I did a little did a
Speaker 1: little dig in about Tah because I think you and
Speaker 1: I probably agree that he's the guy who gets the
Speaker 1: biggest bump in fantasy value out of this whole trade. No,
Speaker 1: Miami was actually eighth and passing attempts last year, which
Speaker 1: surprised the heck out of me at thirty six point
Speaker 1: to per game. But in parts say the running game
Speaker 1: is so bad, Well, it must have been all short passes,
Speaker 1: because they were eighteenth and passing yards and twenty four
Speaker 1: and passing td s. So that's I mean, most you
Speaker 1: know that's been the knock on toa has been the
Speaker 1: downfield passing. I think he's fine in that fifteen to
Speaker 1: twenty yard range, but when you extend past that too,
Speaker 1: seems very shaking. So, although I don't have any scientific
Speaker 1: evidence in front of me to that, with Mike McDaniel
Speaker 1: coming in, do you think he brings a lot of
Speaker 1: that San Francisco mentality with him because San Francisco had
Speaker 1: the second fewest passing attempts per game last season, but
Speaker 1: the twelve most yards much more efficient. And and it
Speaker 1: might still be that maybe they just loaded this offense
Speaker 1: up with Jalen Waddle who's got blazing speed, and Tyreek
Speaker 1: Hill who's got blazing speed, and it's short dumps and
Speaker 1: and it's handoffs like Deebo Samuel style to these wide
Speaker 1: receivers and they're just gonna get the ball in these
Speaker 1: guys hands ten to twelve times a game and say
Speaker 1: make something with it. On Thursday, Tyreek Hill said he's
Speaker 1: excited to be the Deebo Samuel and a Mike McDaniel offense. Great,
Speaker 1: I'm on board. And if that means they're running Tyreek more, okay,
Speaker 1: more power to you. Right, absolutely, I'll take that. It
Speaker 1: is worth noting that from week six on, Jalen Waddle
Speaker 1: average nine and a half targets per game. That's a
Speaker 1: lot seven catches and seventy one yards in that span.
Speaker 1: Um I can he maintain almost ten targets per game
Speaker 1: with Tyreek Hill in the offense, don't think. I think
Speaker 1: that's the part that goes down, but he'll in theory,
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill is gonna pull all much more and better
Speaker 1: coverage to Hill that Wattle could do just as much
Speaker 1: or more on fewer targets. Yeah, and and there's still
Speaker 1: a lot of mouths defeat in this offense too, because
Speaker 1: Mike Gasicki came back on the franchise. Tag Uh DeVante
Speaker 1: Parker and Albert Wilson are still there right now. They
Speaker 1: signed Trent Sherfield from San Francisco. I know, by the way,
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson, who we wanted to get the Michael Gallop
Speaker 1: role in Dallas. Cedric Wilson signed there, and he's like
Speaker 1: Cedric Man. Cedrick Wilson is better than Albert Wilson. And
Speaker 1: I think they moved Avanta Parker. Maybe it, but it
Speaker 1: still leaves him as the third wide receiver and probably
Speaker 1: the fourth receiving option in the packing order, and that
Speaker 1: kind of kills all of his fantasy value that might
Speaker 1: have been there. Hopefully Parker gets traded to a different
Speaker 1: situation where it can do a little better. How about
Speaker 1: how about Tyreek Hill saying that basically just acknowledging outright
Speaker 1: that the Jets were only there as a bargaining chip
Speaker 1: and to push up the price on the contract. I
Speaker 1: heard that one on Thursday. Hill said I was never
Speaker 1: going to New York. I was always all about Miami. Well,
Speaker 1: and it's interesting that both Hill and Davante Adams picked
Speaker 1: to go to states with no state income tax, funny
Speaker 1: and warm weather destinations instead of the cold Midwest and
Speaker 1: to either go home or play with their college buddies.
Speaker 1: I mean, these guys, they know what they're doing. They're
Speaker 1: getting a lot of money, and they're going to go
Speaker 1: to a spot where they feel happy and ready to,
Speaker 1: you know, raise their families. There. They left Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame quarterbacking and better chances of winning, which is odd.
Speaker 1: You know, that's that would be the part that you know,
Speaker 1: it makes you wonder about the commitment to winning, you know.
Speaker 1: And you know, for Hill, it was a commitment to
Speaker 1: money as much as anything else. For Adams, you know,
Speaker 1: we speculated about this last week. Maybe he just wanted
Speaker 1: he was tired of being in the circus with Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: Now do you downgrade Patrick Mahomes or Travis Kelsey off
Speaker 1: of this news a little bit? Yeah, Well not Kelsey necessarily,
Speaker 1: but you know, from Homes you're going from Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: to Juju Smith Schuster. I mean, Hill unlocked so many
Speaker 1: huge plays, you know, the fifties, sixties, seventy yard catch
Speaker 1: and run completions. Juju just can't do that. Almost nobody can.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean Mahomes takes Mahomes takes a hit
Speaker 1: here Kelsey. I think it's more of a push for Kelsey.
Speaker 1: You know, in theory he's he's more of a focal
Speaker 1: point of the passing game. But you know, Hill opened
Speaker 1: up the middle of the field in the way that
Speaker 1: you know, very few other receivers. There's probably a little
Speaker 1: more bracket coverage on Kelsey this year. That's that's that's
Speaker 1: not a good thing for anybody. I think it probably
Speaker 1: makes him fall out of the first round in my
Speaker 1: opinion by the time we get to July. Unless Kansas
Speaker 1: City really hits a home run with a with a
Speaker 1: spark Lee wide receiver at the late first round of
Speaker 1: the draft, don one of those two picks is going
Speaker 1: to be wide receiver. Maybe both that you know, we've
Speaker 1: seen the other reason and by you know, they lost
Speaker 1: Byron Pringle, they lost Um Robinson's gone as well. Mikole
Speaker 1: Hardman has been there, but I think we've seen enough
Speaker 1: to know that he's just a spot guy. Mark Marques
Speaker 1: Velda Scantling somehow got thirty million dollars despite never catching
Speaker 1: forty passes in a season, a staggering lead. There's Marques Veldez.
Speaker 1: Scantling is any better with Patrick Mahomes than under Aaron Rodgers.
Speaker 1: They're all they're only well, they're both great deep ball
Speaker 1: pass but you know only that he's the only he's
Speaker 1: literally the only player faster than Tyreek Hill in the
Speaker 1: NFL the last the last season, on just foot speed.
Speaker 1: Over the last year, the only player who ran faster
Speaker 1: than Tyreek Hill was Marques Velda Scantling. But that's all
Speaker 1: he can do, and he can only run basically straight
Speaker 1: and fast. I can't believe the Raiders didn't sign him.
Speaker 1: That is, it's a great trait right there. I mean,
Speaker 1: Hill and Pringle leave behind two d nineteen targets. That's
Speaker 1: about thirteen per game for Kansas City. So um. Obviously
Speaker 1: a huge upgrade for Juju from the quarterback perspective. So
Speaker 1: maybe we haven't unlocked all of Juju because he's been
Speaker 1: playing with you know, the shell of Ben Roethlisberger for
Speaker 1: the last few years, and people are remembering how Juju
Speaker 1: missed the tail end of the season last year, But
Speaker 1: do remember that he did come back for the playoff
Speaker 1: game for Pittsburgh and he played in seventy of the snaps,
Speaker 1: So it's not like this is a lingering injury situation.
Speaker 1: Juju is gonna be healthy and ready to go for
Speaker 1: the season. I think he'll be one of the most
Speaker 1: divisive players in drafts next August. There are people that
Speaker 1: are going to absolutely believe the Juju sitting on a
Speaker 1: hundred and thirty Patrick Mahomes targets and has wide receiver
Speaker 1: one upside. Yeah, the range of outcomes for Juju is
Speaker 1: a first rounder that you get in the fifth, sixth round.
Speaker 1: I don't think it'll I don't see. I don't think
Speaker 1: he'll go that lead. He won't go that lay. I
Speaker 1: think there's just you put twelve guys together and there's
Speaker 1: gonna be two or three that really think Juju sitting
Speaker 1: out a big year, you're probably and they're gonna I think,
Speaker 1: I bet you do levels out at third round ADP
Speaker 1: but could could return first round value, could return tenth
Speaker 1: round value, and every option in between. I totally agree.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Tampa Bay. We already talked Tom Brady
Speaker 1: coming back. They get Leonard four Nett back and Leonard
Speaker 1: four Nett. Frankly, it has been was a fantasy superstar
Speaker 1: in many ways last year, particularly in PPR leagues. What
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on for NET coming back Ronald Jones gone?
Speaker 1: Not that he was even a factor, because he wasn't
Speaker 1: a total non factor. Um, what do you what do
Speaker 1: you think about him and what to expect from him?
Speaker 1: Is it any different than what we saw last year?
Speaker 1: I mean, Jones wasn't a factor in the fact that
Speaker 1: he didn't put up stats to for Net's abilities especially,
Speaker 1: but he did take snaps from four NET and there
Speaker 1: something to be said about that having Leonard four NET
Speaker 1: just have a slightly larger slice of the snap count. Um.
Speaker 1: Right now, I looked up his current a DP on NFFC.
Speaker 1: They're doing some early season drafts over there. He's coming
Speaker 1: in at number sixty four overall, which is yep. Um,
Speaker 1: So that's a that's a seventh round or sixth round
Speaker 1: pick in twelve Yeah, in a twelve team, or it's
Speaker 1: a sixth round pick. But let's do the opposite territory
Speaker 1: high pick of number fifty one. That's kind of the
Speaker 1: beginning of the fifth round. So we're talking about a
Speaker 1: guy who had seventy receptions last year. I mean in PPR,
Speaker 1: you know that's a that's a serious helper. When you
Speaker 1: get seventy receptions forwarded fifty receiving yards. You know, here's
Speaker 1: ten free points every week. That's a you know, absolutely
Speaker 1: for that. And right now for the moment pre draft,
Speaker 1: no real competition on roster exactly. And I've seen some
Speaker 1: some fantasy analysts on Twitter moving him up their cheat sheets.
Speaker 1: I saw one guy put him as his number three
Speaker 1: running back right now. Now that's bold and maybe a
Speaker 1: little crazy, but hey, I mean that outcome it's not
Speaker 1: impossible of Leonard Fournett to finish as the top five
Speaker 1: running back. Yeah, it's not likely. It's not likely, but
Speaker 1: it's not impossible. But a top ten running back, yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean I'd feel pretty good about that. Could he
Speaker 1: could do that? Fifth six round AP seems low to me?
Speaker 1: Um right now? They also signed Chris Godwin Um. Even
Speaker 1: though he's coming off a later season a c L,
Speaker 1: I don't know that he's gonna be ready for the
Speaker 1: stuff and sprained m c L. I'm only to be
Speaker 1: ready for the start of the season, and I generally
Speaker 1: avoid guys like that. Yeah, it's it's it's always tough,
Speaker 1: and some of those a c L guys they do
Speaker 1: come back, but they don't come back at fully, at
Speaker 1: like full strength. Um, if it's a season long league,
Speaker 1: it's probably one I'd probably be avoiding Chris Godwin. I
Speaker 1: mean drafting in March right now, I'd be avoiding him.
Speaker 1: But if we see a lot of reports in camp
Speaker 1: that Godwin looks as good as ever and and and
Speaker 1: maybe it makes a couple of preseason catches, I think
Speaker 1: the hype will be right back for Chris Godwin I'm avoiding.
Speaker 1: I don't like slow start players. I want to come
Speaker 1: out of the gates three and one through four weeks
Speaker 1: and have have the ability to move my players, have
Speaker 1: the players are performing well, and if I want to
Speaker 1: trade those, if I want to tweak my lineup, I
Speaker 1: don't want to be sitting there with Chris Godwin on
Speaker 1: a hobbled knee, whether he is playing or not playing,
Speaker 1: and risk starting one in three instead of three and one.
Speaker 1: And now I'm gonna position of weakness, and I've got
Speaker 1: to make moves and I've got to try to, you know,
Speaker 1: get my team back on track. Maybe in a Guillotine league.
Speaker 1: Have already been cut, you know that's I'm not I
Speaker 1: don't like these kind of players, and God bless them
Speaker 1: for getting three years sixty million dollars off in a
Speaker 1: c L. But Chris Godwin is not going to be
Speaker 1: on my rosters this year. I respect that. Let's take
Speaker 1: a break. Sure we come back. Let's talk about Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan going to one of the few places where he's
Speaker 1: got some real continuing fantasy viability, and let's talk about
Speaker 1: the brand new Cole when we come back. Welcome back
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Charchian, Matt Harrison, with you, Matt,
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan. It was a weird week for Matt Ryan.
Speaker 1: The Falcons told him we're gonna go make a play
Speaker 1: for Deshaun Watson. He was very gracious about it, said,
Speaker 1: allow me to push back the date of my signing bonus,
Speaker 1: so you don't have to play it. Pay it because
Speaker 1: you know you may trade me or whatever. Stand up guy.
Speaker 1: And so then they don't get Deshaun Watson and they
Speaker 1: still move Matt Ryan to the Colts, a team that's
Speaker 1: in a win now mode for the tail end Matt
Speaker 1: Ryan's career. I thought it was. I thought they Ryan
Speaker 1: handled it all very well and honestly for the Falcons,
Speaker 1: other than you know, maybe trying to get to Shaun Watson,
Speaker 1: which you could argue, you know, they should not have done.
Speaker 1: I thought it was they must have handled it pretty well.
Speaker 1: By the way, how savvy are the Colts. They trade
Speaker 1: away Carson Wentz for a second round pick swap, so
Speaker 1: they moved up seven places in the second round and
Speaker 1: two round threes, and then they trade one of those
Speaker 1: round threes for Matt Ryan. They moved up seven picks
Speaker 1: in the draft and got a round three and maybe
Speaker 1: got a better quarterback. And they got out of Wentz
Speaker 1: his contract. They got all the Ryan's contract in the
Speaker 1: Ryan's contract. It's a lot um, you know. I don't
Speaker 1: dislike what we talked about it last week. I don't
Speaker 1: dislike Wentz as much as most people do, and we
Speaker 1: talked about Wentz movie last week. But I like Ryan
Speaker 1: here because he's going to do what Wentz couldn't do,
Speaker 1: which is not making a lot of mistakes. He's a
Speaker 1: proven veteran. The leadership qualities are undeniable. Um, and he's
Speaker 1: got some pretty good targets to work with. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: we're only three years removed from Matt Ryan almost hitting
Speaker 1: a five thousand yard thirty five touchdown season, so uh,
Speaker 1: it's really not that long ago. Ryan is slightly more
Speaker 1: accurate than Carson Wentz to which is actually a little
Speaker 1: bit more than slightly more. That's that those percentage points
Speaker 1: are pretty big in the NFL H only a small
Speaker 1: amount for average depth of target four point four to
Speaker 1: four point two. So I don't think that this changes
Speaker 1: things much for Michael Pittman. Maybe it bumps them up
Speaker 1: a little. If they can get a weapon in the
Speaker 1: draft to pair with Pittman, they kind of need to. UM.
Speaker 1: And then having Jonathan Taylor in the backfield is always scary,
Speaker 1: and you know, teams have to respect Jonathan Taylor's abilities
Speaker 1: for sure. Obviously, a better offensive line for Matt Ryan
Speaker 1: kind of skies the limit for him here. He could
Speaker 1: he could like be like comeback player of the Year
Speaker 1: in Indie this year, maybe, especially because the Colts defensively
Speaker 1: can win on defense, you can win with running the ball.
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan doesn't need to throw five thousand yards and
Speaker 1: you and Frankly probably can't give him the receivers you have.
Speaker 1: T Y Hilton's probably done. Paris Campbell never healthy. I
Speaker 1: love him, but never healthy, and mo Ali Cox might
Speaker 1: be the second best receiver on the team. They need
Speaker 1: receiver help still, and I think that may come in
Speaker 1: the draft for Indianapolis and that might help Matt Ryan eventually.
Speaker 1: Here yeah, if not, you're looking at Ashton Dulan and
Speaker 1: Kiki Cutie. Yikes. While we're talking about Atlanta, let's go
Speaker 1: to court Darryl Patterson, who resigns and patterson season was
Speaker 1: fascinating Matt through the first half of the year. He
Speaker 1: was the best story in fantasy football period, end of discussion.
Speaker 1: He was the best story. It was. He was a
Speaker 1: He was a top ten fantasy running back when none
Speaker 1: of us, nobody had any inkling anything like that was
Speaker 1: going to happen, and some leagues still had him listed
Speaker 1: as wide receiver. The tweet of the week was when
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan was traded way and Corderol Patterson tweeted that
Speaker 1: video of the kid who was gonna steal Cam Newton's
Speaker 1: spot warming up his arm and Corderrel Patterson's like, I'm
Speaker 1: getting ready, guys, don't worry about it. Corderyl is a
Speaker 1: great dude. Yeah, he's he's awesome. Had a handful of
Speaker 1: interactions with him when he was with the Vikings. He's,
Speaker 1: you know, of of all the players you you don't
Speaker 1: want to like just like hang out with and have
Speaker 1: a few drinks, have a conversation, whatever, he'd be one
Speaker 1: of the top guys. Absolutely awesome guy. And and he
Speaker 1: gets Marcus Mariota um As as his quarterback this year,
Speaker 1: probably a bridge quarterback. Atlanta is definitely in play. I
Speaker 1: think they pick at number eight. They're definitely in play,
Speaker 1: especially if Malik Willis were to fall. I think that
Speaker 1: that might be a landing spot for him, and agreed
Speaker 1: they could have him, you know, learn a year under
Speaker 1: Mariota um But yeah, so eight and nine. I don't
Speaker 1: think Malik Willis gets past eight and nine. I don't
Speaker 1: think he gets past two. Honest and detroited to was
Speaker 1: the first place he could. He has a real chance
Speaker 1: of going gets either destroyed at two or somebody's trading
Speaker 1: up to two to get him. Yeah, that's it's so
Speaker 1: early for him. Yeah, you know, Malik Wills would not
Speaker 1: have been one of the top five quarterbacks taken last year,
Speaker 1: and it goes highest two this year because you know,
Speaker 1: it's all about what class you're in. I think the
Speaker 1: Vegas odds have him at number two right now. Wow, yeah,
Speaker 1: I know, I don't know that I would go there,
Speaker 1: but yeah, but Maria, Now, let's remember, Mario just got
Speaker 1: real running ability that the Tennessee never really even tried
Speaker 1: to unlock. It's a different NFL now, Matt. You know,
Speaker 1: this is an NFL that has shown what Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: and Josh Allen can do when you just throw out
Speaker 1: the idea that we're only going to use our quarterback
Speaker 1: to scramble, that we're going to use designed runs and
Speaker 1: a lot of them. And these are teams that have
Speaker 1: been highly successful well. And when Mariota was in Tennessee,
Speaker 1: it was on the back of Derrick Henry on everything.
Speaker 1: It was just like, We're going to pound the rock
Speaker 1: with Henry over and over and over again. And it
Speaker 1: didn't alt ever running back. So it's although, but we
Speaker 1: didn't get to the second half of Corderill season, which
Speaker 1: was disaster. Everybody kind of figured it out along the
Speaker 1: way The nice part about Atlanta as it sits right
Speaker 1: now is there's two, maybe three guys for fantasy that
Speaker 1: you'd even consider, and that's it. There's there's nobody else there.
Speaker 1: It's Kyle Pitts, It's Cordarrell Patterson, and it's probably Mariota.
Speaker 1: Those are probably the only guys that you would even
Speaker 1: consider putting on your roster right now. They don't have
Speaker 1: a running back to speak of, they have no other
Speaker 1: wide receivers there. Calvin Ridley has gone for the year,
Speaker 1: so I don't I don't quite know exactly what what
Speaker 1: else you would do with Atlanta, So that makes it
Speaker 1: kind of simple from a fantasy perspective. I think Kyle
Speaker 1: Pitts gets hurt out of all of this. You know,
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan was not great in these last couple of years,
Speaker 1: but more accomplished. Pastor's steadier pastor than Marcus Mario likely
Speaker 1: will be UM. But still that you know right now,
Speaker 1: most of that offense goes through Kyle Pitts. From what
Speaker 1: we can tell, ye Allen Robinson's signed with the Rams,
Speaker 1: this is UM. He effectively takes the place, at least
Speaker 1: for the moment of of Odell Beckham Um and with
Speaker 1: Robert Wood's gone, and now you know there's in theory,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of targets for Allen Robinson and the
Speaker 1: first competent quarterback he's ever experienced. Yeah. Absolutely, Now Odell
Speaker 1: he's a he had the knee injury, and he's a
Speaker 1: free agent after the Super Bowl, so he's probably not
Speaker 1: going to sign with anybody until at least training camp,
Speaker 1: that would be the earliest, and it might might linger
Speaker 1: on into the season. So Woods and Beckham like split
Speaker 1: last year almost completely evenly because Woods got hurt, like
Speaker 1: the day after Beckham was traded for Um. They combined
Speaker 1: for a hundred and seventeen targets last year. That's about
Speaker 1: where we're gonna probably put the Allen Robinson projections at
Speaker 1: is one seventeen and every year that he's had over
Speaker 1: a hundred targets in his year, he's been a really
Speaker 1: great fantasy UH player. He only had sixty six targets
Speaker 1: last year. What mel practice was that in Chicago? Justin Field?
Speaker 1: You know how much of that's on Robinson, We don't know,
Speaker 1: but most you presumably it was a very young green
Speaker 1: Justin Fields, but Justin Fields managed to find Darnell Mooney, Yeah,
Speaker 1: plenty of times. So absolutely I think that this helps
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup in a way. Um, I mean probably, it's
Speaker 1: it's probably close to a wash. Cooper Cup was so
Speaker 1: awesome last year. It's it's not gonna help him too much.
Speaker 1: But it hurts Van Jefferson, who was a dynasty stash
Speaker 1: for me, just on the idea that Robert Woods might
Speaker 1: not be ready, Odell Beckham might not be ready Van Jefferson,
Speaker 1: I thought, hey, you might pop into a number two
Speaker 1: role here, but that that didn't seem to work out, No,
Speaker 1: it did not. Matthew Stafford got the extension. He'll be
Speaker 1: the Rams quarterback for four more years. More years. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it was a three year extension to give
Speaker 1: him four more. He'll be at the bitter end of
Speaker 1: his career four years from now. I mean it's gonna
Speaker 1: be that's gonna be ringing every last pass out of
Speaker 1: that arm. Yeah, he's gonna maybe look a little Peyton Manning.
Speaker 1: He might, he might. I hope it doesn't come to that.
Speaker 1: Let's hope not. Robert Woods, we mentioned traded to the Titans,
Speaker 1: so they've got a J. Brown and as awesome as
Speaker 1: he is, he's hurt a lot. Here comes Robert Woods.
Speaker 1: He's coming off. Was it a c L something like that?
Speaker 1: If it was a c L, I'll tell I'll look
Speaker 1: look at up. Woods effectively takes the Julio Jones role.
Speaker 1: And Julio Jones was, you know, a little dinged up
Speaker 1: himself throughout his career, more than a little and and
Speaker 1: and Robert Woods is coming in in the same breath.
Speaker 1: It's it's hard for me to feel better about Robert Woods,
Speaker 1: who's about the same age as Julio, just thirty nine.
Speaker 1: But what's up until this is thirty nine years old?
Speaker 1: Is he is? How does that even make sense? Well,
Speaker 1: you remember all those years of Buffalo where he did nothing?
Speaker 1: Oh my god, he's that always used him. He's thirty
Speaker 1: nine years old. That's crazy, is it? It was an
Speaker 1: a c L. And you know, for he was he's
Speaker 1: kind of a low mileage guy because they just didn't Buffalo.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it's like, sorry, he wasn't born
Speaker 1: in the eighties in the NFL. I don't know why
Speaker 1: I said. That was ridiculous. Um never top six touchdowns.
Speaker 1: But we did see him, we did see him in
Speaker 1: in years past. He had yards season and eleven yards
Speaker 1: season with the Rams, and they ran him a lot,
Speaker 1: you know, the in the seasons prior to last year's
Speaker 1: nineteen runs, seventeen runs, twenty four runs, and it'll be
Speaker 1: fascinating to see. And he chalked in some touchdowns that
Speaker 1: way Too'll it'll be interesting to see if the Titans
Speaker 1: do the same thing. Yeah, I just feel like he's
Speaker 1: like a wide receiver five kind of a guy. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna get drafted above that from his past
Speaker 1: track record. But it just feels like Tennessee's offense has
Speaker 1: been so simple. It's been Henry, it's been Brown, it's
Speaker 1: been Henry, it's been Brown, and they don't have room
Speaker 1: for you know, those other guys. So another receiver coming
Speaker 1: off a c L. Now, his his was earlier than
Speaker 1: um we we're talking about before it was coming off
Speaker 1: the a c L. It was Odell Beckham. Well even
Speaker 1: before that, we were talking about Chris Chris god right. Now,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't take Godwin. He was like he had a
Speaker 1: very late season one. But yeah, these are guys I'm
Speaker 1: I'm mostly mostly avoiding my drafts, all right. Let's uh.
Speaker 1: And by the way, I think Woods I think woods
Speaker 1: you see wide receiver five, I think it'll be more
Speaker 1: like four. But either way, you know, we both would
Speaker 1: be hesitant to make him. That's somebody you have to
Speaker 1: rely on. D J. Moore signed an extension with possibly
Speaker 1: the worst team that he could possibly be with from
Speaker 1: a fantasy standpoint, Carolina. Yeah, you gotta figure that they
Speaker 1: have to do something at the quarterback position. I believe
Speaker 1: they're at six in the draft and Malik Willis Kenny Pickett,
Speaker 1: it's probably one of those two guys that's going to
Speaker 1: be drafted there. If not, if they like one a
Speaker 1: lot more, I think that they might trade up with
Speaker 1: Detroit at two because that wouldn't be too much capital
Speaker 1: to trade up for, so you wouldn't think so. But
Speaker 1: to go from six to two will probably cost you,
Speaker 1: you know, cost you six. It will cost you next
Speaker 1: year's first and next year's first minimum, ye minimum. So
Speaker 1: either either you're two or your next year's first, one
Speaker 1: of those. So I think so too. All right, let's
Speaker 1: go to d J. Well, we were we were on
Speaker 1: d J. Moore by the way. Um, there were thoughts
Speaker 1: that that might be a landing spot for Baker Mayfield Carolina,
Speaker 1: but Apparently that's not going to happen. It sounds like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it doesn't look like Baker is interested in going to Carolina,
Speaker 1: and Carolina is not interested in Baker. So I think
Speaker 1: that's clear. That's notably. Your new signing quarterback for the
Speaker 1: Saints is Jamis Winston is your old starting quarterback. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I thought you know, Winston was a very hit and
Speaker 1: miss fantasy quarterback last year, with some good games and
Speaker 1: some terrible ones and then he uh, then he got
Speaker 1: injured in his season ended. What are your thoughts on
Speaker 1: on Winston? He does, at least in Eerie, get some
Speaker 1: receiving help back, but it still doesn't feel like a
Speaker 1: great situation for him. Winston had what let's see, he
Speaker 1: had he had fourteen touchdowns last year. Yeah, but nine
Speaker 1: were in two nine were against Green Bay and Washington, Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: in two games. Everything else, everything else was pretty much
Speaker 1: a disaster for him. Um. Now it sounds like Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas there made return to Saints. Who knows they're all
Speaker 1: the bad blood. I think what's happened is they've realized
Speaker 1: nobody else is gonna pay and there's no there was
Speaker 1: no equity. The Saints had no no ability to move him.
Speaker 1: Nobody wanted Michael Thomas um after two smissing the better
Speaker 1: really all of the last two seasons, nobody, you know.
Speaker 1: So they I think they're like, we're gonna you know,
Speaker 1: we're gonna pay him, We're gonna play him, and we
Speaker 1: need him and hope that he comes back at what
Speaker 1: he was before the last two years. Yeah, that he's
Speaker 1: going to be a super interesting guy to talk about
Speaker 1: come August once we see him on the field. A
Speaker 1: little bit bad match. The feeling last year going into
Speaker 1: last year was that he was a bad match for
Speaker 1: Jamis Winston because Winston's one redeeming value was his deep ball,
Speaker 1: you know, the deep passes, and and Michael Thomas has
Speaker 1: never shown the ability to be somebody who gets separation downfield.
Speaker 1: It felt like a bad match last year. We never
Speaker 1: got to see a play out on the field, and
Speaker 1: it feels like a bad year batch this year. Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: I do like that the Saints have seemingly given up
Speaker 1: on the notion that Taysom Hill is a starting quarterback. Well,
Speaker 1: and Sean Payton's gun too, So I think that that
Speaker 1: was a Sean Payton play right there. It probably is, uh,
Speaker 1: Alvin Camara to me, if you I think it's about
Speaker 1: the same as last year, Yeah, there's there's no difference there.
Speaker 1: He's just the focal point of that offense. Right, Losing
Speaker 1: tarn Armstrong is not a trivial No, and and and
Speaker 1: Camara is a guy who's still going to go in
Speaker 1: the first round. And he's a guy that I'll probably
Speaker 1: avoid this year because I think I want to get
Speaker 1: out a year early on Camara than the year too late.
Speaker 1: Alvin Camery, you know his age thirty nine? Alright, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: amazing uh career for the year old. He's twenty six.
Speaker 1: He's played in five seasons so far. Um, I don't
Speaker 1: think he's reached the end of the road. But this
Speaker 1: is the beginning of the end of the road for
Speaker 1: most running backs, it is for most this is about
Speaker 1: the end of it. But last year his yards per carry,
Speaker 1: which is not always the best stat but yards per
Speaker 1: carry three point seven. Yeah, they had no passing game
Speaker 1: to speak. They didn't end. But his receiving numbers are
Speaker 1: way down too. For after an entire career of having
Speaker 1: between eighty one and eighty three receptions in four straight seasons.
Speaker 1: At forty seven receptions. The defense is new. The quarterback
Speaker 1: in the passing game was so wrong and so bad.
Speaker 1: Defense is new. You take stop out, you take away
Speaker 1: Alvin Camara. Nobody make and beat you with whatever else? Yes,
Speaker 1: with you know Marcuez, Uh, Mark Halloway, Halloway exactly, exactly.
Speaker 1: All right. Let's one final note. Jets, No sorry, Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: Jamison Crowder moves from the Jets to Buffalo. Duke Johnson,
Speaker 1: who finished the season with a couple of nice games
Speaker 1: last season for Miami, goes to Buffalo as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: effectively replacing j. D. Mckissic in Buffalo, and was like, Nah,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back and everybody hates that. Uh, and
Speaker 1: then uh, Cole Beasley has gone. Jameson Crowder will be
Speaker 1: your starting slot receiver as it stands right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of wide receivers in this depth chart
Speaker 1: to Stephan Diggs, Gabriel Davis who had the huge game
Speaker 1: in the playoffs, Emmanuel Sanders is still there, and Isaiah
Speaker 1: mackenzie was a guy that they re upped this offseason. Two.
Speaker 1: Diggs had some cryptic tweets a day or two ago.
Speaker 1: He said, it's it's it's never person, it's just business.
Speaker 1: That's that's Stefan saying I need more money, I need
Speaker 1: more money, or trade me. Well, that's what the Vikings
Speaker 1: got stuck with. Well, And and we've seen Adams moved
Speaker 1: from the Hall of Fame caliber quarterback away, We've seen
Speaker 1: Hill moved from Hall of Fame caliber quarterback away. Could
Speaker 1: we see Digs just force his way out maybe, and
Speaker 1: you know, try to put himself in a spot where
Speaker 1: maybe he ends up in Florida somewhere Jacksonville or Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay or something like that, a place where maybe they
Speaker 1: have a little bit of money that Jacksonville certainly would
Speaker 1: have would have had the money to spend if they
Speaker 1: wanted to. But you imagine Jacksonville trading, you know, pick
Speaker 1: number one for Stefon Diggs. Straight up, No, I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't think I don't. I don't think that. I
Speaker 1: don't think he would command that right now, you gotta
Speaker 1: take you gotta take dig salary. And you know, and
Speaker 1: they just committed eighty million dollars to Christian Kirk. Last thing,
Speaker 1: let's talk Duke Johnson for just a minute at as
Speaker 1: in a real rarity for the NFL, it almost never happens.
Speaker 1: We saw Devin Singletary in year three finally put it
Speaker 1: all together when he had done nothing. Yeah, he couldn't
Speaker 1: have looked more ordinary for every other part of his
Speaker 1: career and then comes screaming down to the second half
Speaker 1: of the year last year and ends up with a
Speaker 1: really nice season. They bring in and Zack Moss just
Speaker 1: totally phased out of that offense um. And so now
Speaker 1: the presumption is that Duke Johnson will have every opportunity
Speaker 1: to at least be the backup running back behind Singletary. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you think that he'd be involved in the passing game
Speaker 1: a lot too. But I mean, if you look at
Speaker 1: down the stretch for the Bills, uh, Devin Singletary had
Speaker 1: one game in week fifteen with twenty two carries, a
Speaker 1: game in week seven team with twenty three carries, but
Speaker 1: then it was twelve ten eight seven seven. That's just
Speaker 1: how the Bills put. Bills are just they put that
Speaker 1: ball in Josh Allen's hand, and they're gonna make plays
Speaker 1: with Josh Allen, whether it's with his arm or his feet,
Speaker 1: and that's how that offense works. So with Duke Johnson there,
Speaker 1: maybe just because of the passing game aspect and the
Speaker 1: last Um. I think that that's what makes him kind
Speaker 1: of interesting. He's going to be like a late round,
Speaker 1: best ball kind of guy that I think that you
Speaker 1: could slot in in the eighteenth round and feel pretty
Speaker 1: good about it. Yeah. I like him in that format
Speaker 1: more than than most others. Um. Yeah, Duke Johnson's a
Speaker 1: We've always wanted him, or at least I've always wanted
Speaker 1: him to be more of a pass catching back than
Speaker 1: he's ultimately ended up being. But I you know, maybe
Speaker 1: this is a team that will unlock a little bit
Speaker 1: of that. Although Singletary can catch two so they don't
Speaker 1: even need to use if they don't want. By the way,
Speaker 1: Duke Johnson thirty nine years old, Really yeah, that looks good.
Speaker 1: I mean this, ty, this is a strange, strange year
Speaker 1: for those wide, all these fantasy players who are born
Speaker 1: in five four. It's really weird, very big year. I
Speaker 1: don't know. Um, all right, We've we've had a lot
Speaker 1: of fun. Thank you for listening, everybody. If you want
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Speaker 1: week will also be a will also be more of
Speaker 1: free agency, and it'll be won't be as big as
Speaker 1: moves as these, And then we're gonna start working on April,
Speaker 1: start working on all our draft stuff, getting all prepped
Speaker 1: up for the draft, favorite players, landing spots, who we
Speaker 1: want to see go where. To me, this is like
Speaker 1: the least exciting draft from a fantasy standpoint that I've seen.
Speaker 1: But maybe like doing all the research will really hypen it.
Speaker 1: And I'll do a little bit of that. Um, you
Speaker 1: know it's I think it's because the running back positions
Speaker 1: generally down own this year and there's probably not a
Speaker 1: running first round running back quarterback positions down uh no
Speaker 1: tight end of the first round, and so it's a
Speaker 1: good receiver draft. But that's that's from a fantasy standpoint,
Speaker 1: that's it. Ye, So you know, but you know it,
Speaker 1: it always turns out that there are great players to
Speaker 1: be had. We'll find them. We will try to unearth
Speaker 1: the great job today, Matt, appreciate it. Thank you, thanks
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