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Speaker 1: here's your host, Paul. Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I
Speaker 1: am Paul charchy In. My co host this week is
Speaker 1: Matt Harrison. Hello, Matt, hey church. Do you know who
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Speaker 1: got a bunch of stuff to get to now, because
Speaker 1: our last several shows. Last four shows were all about
Speaker 1: breaking down all the teams in the NFL from a
Speaker 1: fantasy standpoint, and then we had our COVID show. This
Speaker 1: is our first time to catch up on news from
Speaker 1: around the league. So I want to really orient today's
Speaker 1: discussion around some of the bigger topics of the past
Speaker 1: month or so. And um, just sit on a few
Speaker 1: of these things, and then um and also at the end,
Speaker 1: this isn't necessarily new news, but I've been fascinated but
Speaker 1: the by the idea of a starting backfield of Clyde
Speaker 1: Edwards Hilaire and Damian Williams, and you just you start
Speaker 1: those two chief running backs every week, but they're by
Speaker 1: week You're you're fascinated by idea. I am, So we'll
Speaker 1: we'll we'll look into the viability of that strategy a
Speaker 1: little later in the show. Let's start here with more
Speaker 1: recent news. Derrick Henry signs a four year extension and
Speaker 1: by the way, brilliant on his part. When you look
Speaker 1: at all of the players that are coming into free
Speaker 1: agency next year, Alvin Kamarin, Dalvin Cook, and it's of
Speaker 1: course they all on deals done too, they do. But
Speaker 1: Henry was smart enough to get. There's a good deal.
Speaker 1: It's not bad deal. He took twenty five million and
Speaker 1: guaranteed money fifty million dollar upside if he plays through
Speaker 1: the whole contract, and he doesn't have to sweat being
Speaker 1: one of a dozen meaningful running back free agents. And
Speaker 1: I'm not kidding, there's a dozen guys coming. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: the nice part is it's also a team friendly contract
Speaker 1: really because there is a potential out in two with
Speaker 1: the dead cap of only six million for those final
Speaker 1: two seasons of the deal. So it it's if if
Speaker 1: his knee explodes in the next year or two, the
Speaker 1: Titans can get out of it scott free. And if
Speaker 1: if Derrick Henry performs, he's going to get paid some
Speaker 1: decent money where he at fifteen million each for those
Speaker 1: last two years. So I think it's a good deal
Speaker 1: for everyone around right there. You know, there's some people
Speaker 1: who feel like, well, they could have paid Jack conkle
Speaker 1: in their star tackle or Derrick Henry. I don't that's
Speaker 1: you know, in this world, tackles are a lot more
Speaker 1: valuable than running backs. Derrick Henry is pretty special. But man,
Speaker 1: I don't know that that's the choice I would have
Speaker 1: made for the Titans. But it's let's talk about Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry's fantasy value. Let's start with redraft. How do you
Speaker 1: feel does this and does this signing in any way
Speaker 1: change this year's No, because I think everybody in redraft
Speaker 1: leagues they knew Derrick Henry wasn't making any noise. There
Speaker 1: was no holdout speculation on him. Everybody knew that he
Speaker 1: was going to run into this year as as the
Speaker 1: lead back there. So I don't think it changes anything
Speaker 1: at all from a redraft person. Now, you spent a
Speaker 1: lot of your time on Dynasty and Empire League related matters.
Speaker 1: You've got the best cheat sheet in existence for Dynasty
Speaker 1: and Empire players of trade values and all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 1: So let's look a lot more long term and let's
Speaker 1: talk about this Henry deal. For those people that own
Speaker 1: Henry or maybe are interested investing in Henry, how do
Speaker 1: you feel like this changes his his value for Dynasty
Speaker 1: and Empire League owners. For Derrick Henry, I mean I'm
Speaker 1: gonna bump him up a little bit. Um. I currently
Speaker 1: have him as tied for running back eight with a
Speaker 1: few guys who are on a little bit longer contracts
Speaker 1: and are a little bit younger Josh Jacobs and Miles Sanders.
Speaker 1: So he's right in that neighborhood, but I'll probably bump
Speaker 1: him up above them, and he's going to be in
Speaker 1: the right between Joe Mixon and Alvin Kamara. You know,
Speaker 1: the fact that he just doesn't catch passes to me
Speaker 1: just caps his upside. He can never be the top
Speaker 1: running back, of the top two or top three, because
Speaker 1: those guys just he's the Adrian Peterson. Yeah he is.
Speaker 1: I mean he really is. And and he he runs
Speaker 1: with violence. He runs with Vim and Vigor. Yes, they
Speaker 1: always go together, don't they. Nobody runs with Vim without
Speaker 1: also running with Vigor. I think with Vigor without Vim, though,
Speaker 1: I think you can have Viggers got it way better
Speaker 1: you're not attached to vim um. I saw this stat
Speaker 1: that blew me away regarding Derrick Henry. Once Ryan Tannehill
Speaker 1: took over last year, the Titans averaged seven and a
Speaker 1: half yards per play, most in the His line was
Speaker 1: the last twenty years of the NFL, going back to
Speaker 1: two thousand. That's unbelievable. And they started handing off to
Speaker 1: Terry Henry, and Henry is obviously a huge part of that,
Speaker 1: right you know, when you're running back is getting you
Speaker 1: chunk yardage of five and eight and twenty yards and carry,
Speaker 1: it certainly helps. So brief aside on that, who is
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator that essentially ruined his value for the
Speaker 1: first two three years of his career. Not Mike mclarkey.
Speaker 1: That was Uh, he's currently a head coach right in
Speaker 1: the Packers, Matt La Matt Lafleur. Yeah, I think that
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones is kind of in the market for the
Speaker 1: same aggression this year. But other people would say, look
Speaker 1: at Aaron Jones had last year in r Matt la floor.
Speaker 1: But Matt, Aaron Jones is one of my my biggest
Speaker 1: fades this fantasy season. I really worry about what A J.
Speaker 1: Dillon is going to do to him, especially near the stripes.
Speaker 1: So much of the fantasy value that Aaron Jones had
Speaker 1: was because they used him a lot near the stripe.
Speaker 1: If those go away his and he's just now he's
Speaker 1: in and now he's in a three person time share. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and Jamal Williams wasn't the guy they were handing off
Speaker 1: in the five too, So it was all Aaron Jones was.
Speaker 1: A J. Dillon is two hundred fifty pounds. He's as
Speaker 1: big as Derrick Henry. Yes, he's Derrick Henry. It's it's
Speaker 1: bonkers what he's gonna be like. So, uh, I think
Speaker 1: for me Derrick Henry also, I love him in this offense.
Speaker 1: I like the way they want to use him here. Um,
Speaker 1: and it's it's a proven commodity. If Derrick Henry had
Speaker 1: hit free agency next year, he could have ended up
Speaker 1: anywhere and maybe, you know, maybe into a time himeshare role.
Speaker 1: Who knows. Here he remains one of the few locked
Speaker 1: in workhorse backs for the remainder of his contract. In
Speaker 1: all probability, it's pretty nice consistency, that's for sure. It
Speaker 1: definitely is. All right, So we're high on on Derrick Henry.
Speaker 1: I want to touch on this as well before we
Speaker 1: jump into uh some other matters. Dak Prescott is has
Speaker 1: let the uh the deadline to sign a guess he
Speaker 1: could always sign a new deal, but um, he's let
Speaker 1: the deadline pass. He's gonna pay the play this year
Speaker 1: as a as a under the franchise tag and will
Speaker 1: probably enter next year. People assume enter next year as
Speaker 1: a free agent, and the team could refranchise him again.
Speaker 1: At that point, So he's heading down the Kirk Cousins path.
Speaker 1: Do you think is there any real scenario here where
Speaker 1: Dak ends up missing, doesn't play. Is there a scenario
Speaker 1: here where he just this season he just goes stop,
Speaker 1: mom out. Well, I'm gonna hold out until I get
Speaker 1: my You know, he turned out a hundred million dollar deal.
Speaker 1: He turned on a hundred and seventy five million dollar deal.
Speaker 1: I saw that was worth a hundred and ten and
Speaker 1: guaranteed me on a five year deal. Now he is
Speaker 1: on the franchise tag and I don't know how this works.
Speaker 1: But according to spot track, yeah, um who, I think
Speaker 1: most of my contract information from his cap hit of
Speaker 1: thirty one point four million this year under the franchise
Speaker 1: tag makes him the highest paid player in the NFL
Speaker 1: this year. But according to them, so if he's if
Speaker 1: he's not going to play this year as the highest
Speaker 1: paid player in the NFL, what is he doing? Yeah,
Speaker 1: when push comes to show, the players want their game checks,
Speaker 1: and at that level of game checks, when you're making
Speaker 1: two million dollars a game, sure, yeah, you're gonna show
Speaker 1: up for those games. Don't think you will? I think
Speaker 1: you will too. Now I also saw this that was
Speaker 1: interesting about Dak. If they have to refranchise him next year,
Speaker 1: the thirty one and a half a million only goes
Speaker 1: only goes to thirty eight million. Year after that it
Speaker 1: explodes to like fifty million or something. Um. So it
Speaker 1: could be that they he gets the franchise take twice
Speaker 1: just like Kirk did. It could be, could be, We'll
Speaker 1: see it's Dak remains my quarterback number three. Is a
Speaker 1: your quarterback three or four? I think I have him
Speaker 1: at three or four one of the two. I'm probably
Speaker 1: more on the three bandwagon. I'm pretty on the on
Speaker 1: the Dack thing. Seed. I love Ceedee Lamb and once
Speaker 1: they picked Seed. Once Ceedee Lamb was on that team,
Speaker 1: Like that's at these three. Yeah, Dak and c d
Speaker 1: are on my Scott Fish Bowl roster. I'm pretty pleased
Speaker 1: about that. I bet you are. I'm jealous of that.
Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, let's take a quick break, Matt.
Speaker 1: When we come back, I want to talk about Cam Newton.
Speaker 1: I'm contending no fantasy quarterback has a bigger variance impossible
Speaker 1: outcomes than Cam Newton. Will touch on him. When we
Speaker 1: returned to Fantasy Football Weekly, Welcome back to Fantasy Football Weekly,
Speaker 1: Paul Charchi and Matt Harrison with you. Cam Newton replaces
Speaker 1: Tom Brady obviously in New England. I believe, as I
Speaker 1: said going into the break, no play, no quarterback has
Speaker 1: more variance impossible outcome than Cam Newton. He could lose
Speaker 1: the job outright, We're not We don't know for sure
Speaker 1: before the season starts. It costs the team nothink him.
Speaker 1: They literally, I don't think they would. He's an ideal
Speaker 1: backup and he's cheap, but he may not even be
Speaker 1: the starter. There's a slim but non zero chance that
Speaker 1: he gets beaten out by him. Man, it's I don't
Speaker 1: know where he is as a passer, but what we
Speaker 1: do know is he's only four seasons removed from being
Speaker 1: the best fantasy player in the league. Um. When he's
Speaker 1: a running quarterback, he's awfully good. So what what are
Speaker 1: your thoughts in Cam Newton? You with me on the
Speaker 1: upside and downside that he can that he can bring,
Speaker 1: and what's your strategy if any, on selecting it. So
Speaker 1: I'm I'm with you on on the on the variants,
Speaker 1: and but Bill Belichick obviously saw something that he likes
Speaker 1: that and I got a few stats to dig into
Speaker 1: this might might help us make this decision. As you mentioned,
Speaker 1: was his huge year. Um, He's never hit four thousand
Speaker 1: and passing yards in a season though. Yeah, it's kind
Speaker 1: of surprising for a quarterback of his MP stature. He
Speaker 1: was an m v P one year, never once and
Speaker 1: and a lot of guys hit four thousand yards every year.
Speaker 1: Jake Cutler was a four thousand. It's it's pretty easy
Speaker 1: mark to hit. He's had only one season of more
Speaker 1: than twenty four touchdown passes UM. That was again when
Speaker 1: he threw thirty five and last year, by the way,
Speaker 1: fourteen quarterbacks through touchdown passes or more. It's not that high.
Speaker 1: It's not that high marks. It's easy. Now I'm gonna
Speaker 1: I'm gonna jump in because I have a stat that
Speaker 1: is right into the same wheelhouse that you're in. If
Speaker 1: I looked at his past three full seasons for Cam Newton,
Speaker 1: his average game two hundred thirty one passing yards and
Speaker 1: one point four passing touchdowns. That is exactly Andy Dalton.
Speaker 1: So when you draft Cam Newton's arm, you are getting
Speaker 1: Andy Dalton's arm. Yeah. Um, I guess the the interesting
Speaker 1: thing that I think that Belichick saw was his teen season,
Speaker 1: the last season he was mostly healthy. Um, that was
Speaker 1: an outlier in one category specifically for Cam, and that
Speaker 1: was completion percentage. He almost completed sixty eight percent of
Speaker 1: his balls. That right, that's a really good number. He
Speaker 1: never topped more than sixty one and a half the
Speaker 1: rest of his career, so he really rocketed up the
Speaker 1: completion percentage. That coincided with Christian McCaffrey grabbing a hundred
Speaker 1: and seven passes. Does this make you think a little
Speaker 1: bit about James White? He's absolutely becomes very serviceable. I
Speaker 1: think James White becomes really really interesting in these leagues.
Speaker 1: But really, you're buying Camp for his rushing ability. Yes
Speaker 1: you are. How comfortable are you in investing in a
Speaker 1: thirty one year old running back? Chart? Um? Most running backs,
Speaker 1: I'm not comfortable old. How about when they're coming off
Speaker 1: a sgnificant injury well through and yep, that's that is
Speaker 1: absolutely fair. Cam did record four eight rushing yards and
Speaker 1: four rushing tds age twenty nine season. Let's say the
Speaker 1: Pats can magically get seventy of that. Yeah. Uh, that's
Speaker 1: three sixty six yards and three scores. That's about what
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson had last year, and people do pay for
Speaker 1: the Russell Wilson. But Russell Wilson's got way more passing upside,
Speaker 1: way more passing. So I think the long and short
Speaker 1: of this is, I think Cam just finishes as the
Speaker 1: middle of the pack quarterback. He's got, He's got the
Speaker 1: upside variants, he's got the downside variants. He's gonna finish
Speaker 1: his quarterback seventeen on the year, and I think everybody's
Speaker 1: almost exactly ranked right now, go back sixteen here, let
Speaker 1: me give you another scenario where Cam can hit the upside.
Speaker 1: Your Belichick, You've watched what Baltimore has done with Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson running in with abandoned, and you know that Cam
Speaker 1: can still run. It's just the last several seasons teams
Speaker 1: he's and hurt, and the teams of consciously Panthers constantly
Speaker 1: chose not to have him run as much. Do I
Speaker 1: want to keep him healthy? But does Belichick have a
Speaker 1: motivation to keep him healthy the same way. It's not
Speaker 1: a one year deal that cost him nothing, so Belichick
Speaker 1: might just figure I'm gonna run him for sixteen games
Speaker 1: and if he makes it and it helps us win, fine,
Speaker 1: and if it doesn't, who cares. I'll do it doesn't
Speaker 1: cost me anything, and I'll go to Jared' Stidham. It
Speaker 1: could go that way. Belichick might just figure I'll run
Speaker 1: him and just see how long it lasts and maybe
Speaker 1: all the way to the super Bowl. I don't know.
Speaker 1: There's I think there is there is I think upside
Speaker 1: for that. Um, your worst case scenario we've already documented.
Speaker 1: He could get benched Andy Dalton, who you know we
Speaker 1: said he's and he's Andy Dalton is a phassor Andy
Speaker 1: don't got bench last year? And keep in mind Camp
Speaker 1: has been a sub five quarterback in six of his
Speaker 1: nine seasons. Subid Belichick may not stand for that. Wins.
Speaker 1: Just talk about wins. That's right. So, um, here's where
Speaker 1: here's the drafting strategy for me. I love Cams my
Speaker 1: second quarterback. Yeah, oh, because you get you get all
Speaker 1: the upside and none of the risk. So I'm willing
Speaker 1: to take Cam around before a DP if I've already
Speaker 1: got a quarterback. Okay, And so regardless of where I
Speaker 1: took that first quarterback, although if I took Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, I'm probably not gonna waste what would have
Speaker 1: to be ultimately about a ninth or tenth round pick
Speaker 1: to go get Cam. But you know, if I if
Speaker 1: I let that quarterback position slide and I'm taking my
Speaker 1: you know, my number ten rand quarterback and round seven,
Speaker 1: I'd come back in round nine for Cam. Now, I
Speaker 1: think it'll be interesting to see where his ADP kind
Speaker 1: of falls as we get into mid delay at August,
Speaker 1: because there are a lot of Patriots fans that might
Speaker 1: bump up his value. They see that he's with Belichick
Speaker 1: and Josh McDaniels over there, and and we're really gonna
Speaker 1: bump up this value. Does does he sneak into like
Speaker 1: the top twelve is ADP quarterbacks? You might? I think
Speaker 1: he might by the by the end of this. So
Speaker 1: I don't think you're going to get him as a
Speaker 1: second quarterback in a lot of cases. And if you're
Speaker 1: not getting him as a second quarterback, I'm probably letting
Speaker 1: him pass fantasy. If it's any indication right now in
Speaker 1: late July seasons, getting close the drafts I'm in, nobody
Speaker 1: wants the other Patriots. It's like they're still in the
Speaker 1: Precam mindset. We just got done with the scott Fish Bowl.
Speaker 1: Jay I got James White in the eighth round of
Speaker 1: the scott Fish Bowl. Eighth round, A guy who's been
Speaker 1: a top twenty handcuffs Sony Michelle. Didn't you god know? Nikkil?
Speaker 1: Harry is um, I'm I'm doing this upcome Nikkill. Harry
Speaker 1: went somewhere in the neighborhood of round fifteen. Julian Edelman
Speaker 1: went somewhere in the neighborhood of round eight nine. It
Speaker 1: seems like people haven't figured out even if you even
Speaker 1: if you acknowledge the cam's there and he's a massive
Speaker 1: improvement over Jared Stidham. I don't hear anybody taken. I don't.
Speaker 1: I just it doesn't. It doesn't seem like the ADP
Speaker 1: has moved accordingly for the rest of the Patriots. No,
Speaker 1: and I think the ADP for for the Patriots has
Speaker 1: just remained low. And I mean when we started the draft,
Speaker 1: we weren't quite on the Cam bandwagon yet. So right,
Speaker 1: all right, final segment for this podcast, Paul Charging and
Speaker 1: Matt Harrison with you. I am fascinated by a starting
Speaker 1: backfield of Clyde Edwards, A Laire and Damian Williams. Let's
Speaker 1: start with this. So obviously you're getting the two chiefs
Speaker 1: running back. So we think you give me all the
Speaker 1: positives here because I'm gonna come with the Okay, I'm
Speaker 1: fascinated by it. Here's here's why. First I got we
Speaker 1: think the timeshare is gonna be somewhere sixty one way
Speaker 1: or the other. Okay, does that seem fair? It seems
Speaker 1: fairish sixty, you know, and I I think it'll insert
Speaker 1: Darwin Thompson like, hey, we're not fall for that again.
Speaker 1: Remember excited we were for Darwin Thompson in the preseason.
Speaker 1: Dwayne Washington's like, what's going on right? Um, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be sixty? You don't, you don't. The part of the
Speaker 1: beauty of this is I don't need to know who's
Speaker 1: gonna be sixty and who's gonna be forty because I
Speaker 1: got both guys and together they're gonna get close to
Speaker 1: one of the work. The other guys should not be
Speaker 1: any kind of significant factor here. So here's let's start
Speaker 1: with this. And the most important thing is what is
Speaker 1: it gonna cost you to get Clyde Edwards Hilaire and
Speaker 1: Damian Williams. It's gonna cost you a third round pick
Speaker 1: for Clyde, it's gonna cost you an eighth round pick
Speaker 1: for Damian Williams, who, by the way, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: the starter on week one. Okay, I mean you know,
Speaker 1: for all the things that are that are working against
Speaker 1: rookies here in this offseason and this preseason, I think
Speaker 1: there's a nine chance Damian Williams is gets the majority
Speaker 1: of the work in the beginning of the season. Eighth
Speaker 1: round pick. So I'm I'm gonna start both guys as
Speaker 1: my starters. So that means now available to me matt
Speaker 1: is my first round pick, my second round pick, my fourth,
Speaker 1: my fifth, my six, and my seventh to not be
Speaker 1: running backs. Those picks can be other stuff. That means
Speaker 1: of other stuff I love. Who doesn't love other stuff?
Speaker 1: That's the next Oreo. They should make other stuff. They
Speaker 1: could anything. No, they got every variation of Oreo possible,
Speaker 1: but not other stuff. But the big question mark on
Speaker 1: the package, that's right, that's it's the sawdust they swept
Speaker 1: from under the factory floor. Um So now my first
Speaker 1: round pick I can go. I can go wide receivers,
Speaker 1: I can go tight ends. I've got all this these
Speaker 1: other picks. I could even go other running backs. If
Speaker 1: I wanted to, with the intention of still starting Clyde Edwards,
Speaker 1: Hiller and Damian Williams, I could still work in another
Speaker 1: running back or two. Now in how would it work
Speaker 1: if if I'm if I'm really bundling the two the
Speaker 1: one A and the one B running backs from the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: what am I getting? Well, this is the best offense
Speaker 1: in football in two seasons under Patrick Mahomes. These are
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes starts. The Chiefs average day staggering thirty three
Speaker 1: points per game. Keep in mind the NFL average over
Speaker 1: the as two years is twenty one, so basically getting
Speaker 1: two extra touchdowns into your scoring. In rushing touchdowns scored,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs were third last year their fourth year before,
Speaker 1: so you're getting You're getting top tier production from the
Speaker 1: running backs in terms of touchdowns. In the Homes era,
Speaker 1: running backs are averaging over one and a half touchdowns
Speaker 1: per game over one and a half, So that means
Speaker 1: in a typical week, I'm getting a touchdown out of
Speaker 1: one and in the next week, I'm getting a touchdown
Speaker 1: out of each one, or I'm getting two combined touchdowns.
Speaker 1: That's pretty good production out of my third and eighth
Speaker 1: round pick a running back. Now, both Clyde Edwards Hilaire
Speaker 1: and Williams are elite level pass catchers. And I'll remind
Speaker 1: listeners two years ago Kareem Hunt, in the eleven games
Speaker 1: that he played before he went dumbass, he caught he
Speaker 1: caught seven touchdowns, caught seven. So if I had those
Speaker 1: seven in with the one and a half touchdowns per
Speaker 1: game that we were getting before of rushing touchdowns, these
Speaker 1: two running backs are going to average two touchdowns a
Speaker 1: game between them. Fatsy elite running back production right now? Yes,
Speaker 1: it is. If you have one running back position you're
Speaker 1: using in your starting lineup. To do it, you gotta
Speaker 1: use two though. You have to use both of your
Speaker 1: running back starting slots on these guys, and that means
Speaker 1: I don't get to have a second running back in play.
Speaker 1: That's the thing. But or you're taking these two guys,
Speaker 1: you're combining them together. They're fantastic running back, right Yeah, Well,
Speaker 1: but you gotta take two touchdowns. You gotta take those
Speaker 1: two guys and put them into two starting spots where
Speaker 1: if I get a bell cow back in the first
Speaker 1: two rounds or the first three rounds, I slot him
Speaker 1: into one of my running back spots, and then I
Speaker 1: still have an extra running back spot where I can
Speaker 1: start and get gravy from anybody else. So here you
Speaker 1: want the negatives, bring it on, although I want to
Speaker 1: I'd like to respond to that too. Okay, go for it. Okay,
Speaker 1: So you're you're suggesting Dalvin Cook, for example, is my
Speaker 1: first round pick? The beauty of my system is with
Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards, Laer and Damian Williams. Is I just drafted
Speaker 1: Michael Thomas or Davante Adams? You know, you know I've
Speaker 1: got I've got Michael Thomas on my team, don't you do?
Speaker 1: Get to use your draft picks for other things, But
Speaker 1: when it comes down to your starting lineup, you're taking
Speaker 1: a roster spot out of your starting lineup. By starting
Speaker 1: two Chiefs running backs, I'm contending to get their they're
Speaker 1: both effectively RB one's combined. Ahead, Let's bring it on.
Speaker 1: Bring some more perfect right? Okay? Good? How many times
Speaker 1: in the last four years have two running backs from
Speaker 1: the same team finished in the top twenty four? And
Speaker 1: now it's time for a guessing game chart. Here we go.
Speaker 1: In two thousand nineteen, we had one pair of running
Speaker 1: backs finish in the top twenty four, because you want
Speaker 1: two top twenty four running backs. They're both starting running
Speaker 1: back worthy for last year. If if I can just
Speaker 1: use the second half of the season, I know both
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt and Nick Chubb were top twenty four while
Speaker 1: they were while once Kareem Monk got off suspension. Okay,
Speaker 1: but I'm sure that's the answer to this. You're asking
Speaker 1: me for a full season, all right, I don't Melvin
Speaker 1: Gordon ast Neckler, that is correct? Ding ding? Do we
Speaker 1: have a ding ding on there? There? We get the duck.
Speaker 1: Uh Eckler finished seventh, Gordon finished In two thousand eighteen,
Speaker 1: there was one pair of running backs who both finished
Speaker 1: in the top twenty four. You're not gonna get it, no,
Speaker 1: all right, tell me the Chicago Bears duo of Tariko
Speaker 1: and at number seventeen and Jordan Howard. In two thousand
Speaker 1: seventeen we had three sets. That was the most successful
Speaker 1: year by far of the last four. Okay, can you
Speaker 1: guess any of those well history now years you can
Speaker 1: get and you can get a couple of these. Um
Speaker 1: uh NFC South, NFC South Okay? Oh? Was it Freeman
Speaker 1: and uh it was it Freeman and Coleman? Coleman was
Speaker 1: one of Okay, Freeman finished twelfth, Coleman, Alvin Kamara and
Speaker 1: Market finished four and six. How did they? Yeah, Okay,
Speaker 1: you surprised they didn't hit that two years ago. That
Speaker 1: Freeman camera weren't in two years ago? Okay. And then
Speaker 1: and then shocking the Vikings the duo of Littavius Murray
Speaker 1: and Jerick McKinnon four now, okay now, and and then
Speaker 1: in one pair again it was the Falcons again. I
Speaker 1: would say, all right, list to the teams, just the
Speaker 1: teams that you just said for all these pairs of
Speaker 1: running your backs that finished in the top twenty four,
Speaker 1: the Chargers and the Bears, and the Saints and Atlanta,
Speaker 1: the Vikings, do I think the Chiefs are a lot
Speaker 1: better than all those. The Chiefs are awesome. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of Chiefs. There's a lot of touchdowns. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of touchdowns go around. In four years with thirty
Speaker 1: two teams in the league, that's a hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: eight chances for running back due to finish in the
Speaker 1: top seven times. It has done six times, success rate
Speaker 1: of four point six pc. I just think the chiefs
Speaker 1: are special enough that they can do that. They they're
Speaker 1: definitely special enough that they can That doesn't mean that
Speaker 1: you should do what you're thinking about doing. Don't you
Speaker 1: just want to get one to run away with this
Speaker 1: job and feel confident that's the other and one of
Speaker 1: them running away with the job. I don't mind having
Speaker 1: both on my team. It's gonna be really difficult for
Speaker 1: me to go into a draft and going, I'm getting
Speaker 1: these two. Let's play this out. Okay. So let's say,
Speaker 1: either through injury or incompetence, one of them breaks away
Speaker 1: from the other one and this thing turns into an
Speaker 1: eight instead of you can't really start the other one.
Speaker 1: Can I find a running back? Is it impossible to
Speaker 1: get a running back? Am I gonna? You know, if
Speaker 1: I'm gonna If I'm gonna execute this plan as I
Speaker 1: mentioned before, You're gonna have a first and fourth, first
Speaker 1: and second and fourth, fifth, six and seventh round picks.
Speaker 1: One of those might be another running back. And then
Speaker 1: after that, after the eighth round, I'm gonna, you know,
Speaker 1: throw a bunch of picks at running back again. Can't
Speaker 1: I be seeing that in the waiver wire? Can't I
Speaker 1: find me going back. I don't mind the handcuff of
Speaker 1: the Chiefs backs. What I do mind is the forethought
Speaker 1: of going into your draft going I'm getting these two
Speaker 1: Chiefs backs that I'm sluffing the rest of the position
Speaker 1: and not thinking about it and starting these two and
Speaker 1: going everywhere else with it with all my other picks.
Speaker 1: I want some safety. I want a little bit of
Speaker 1: insurance to back this up. What if Mahomes goes down?
Speaker 1: What if that what if that offense goes upside down?
Speaker 1: If Mahomes goes down and he did go down for
Speaker 1: a couple of games last year, That's something that's pretty
Speaker 1: nerve racking to me because I have two guys that
Speaker 1: are tied to two positions on my team, him and
Speaker 1: if another guy who's completely separate goes belly up, it
Speaker 1: might torpedo all of my value. I think I could
Speaker 1: say that about almost every right back, that they're all
Speaker 1: in trouble when their quarterbacks down. But I guess you
Speaker 1: double you double the risk, and I'll give you this.
Speaker 1: You didn't bring this up. What if Covid sweeps through
Speaker 1: the Chiefs lock. I was going to mention that that's
Speaker 1: a Williams and Clyde stay in separate running back rooms
Speaker 1: throughout the air. Probably not PLEXI glass them apart. You
Speaker 1: know that to me is to me, that's as big
Speaker 1: a risk as anything of the Edwards A layer Williams strategy.
Speaker 1: Is that right, there could be trouble. I hope not.
Speaker 1: I want to execute this. By the way, I think
Speaker 1: way x easier to execute this plan in a draft
Speaker 1: than an auction. Here's why. In an auction, when you
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna throw out Clyde Edwards a laire pretty or leaks,
Speaker 1: it's gonna you know, I think he's gonna be a
Speaker 1: hot pick and people are gonna want to throw them out,
Speaker 1: So you go get when you, Matt, go get Clyde
Speaker 1: Edwards a layer. And then I hear you bidding on
Speaker 1: Damien Williams. Why you see through this strata of g
Speaker 1: in a second, if you're gonna if you're gonna go
Speaker 1: in with that strategy, you need to get Damian Williams first.
Speaker 1: I think you do need to get him first. And
Speaker 1: people might still bid you up on Clyde Edwards a
Speaker 1: layer at that point, but you could back out and
Speaker 1: it doesn't cost you that much. How about this charge? Um,
Speaker 1: I know guillotine leagues are a whole another beast because
Speaker 1: they're seventeen team drafts. Would you feel comfortable You'd have
Speaker 1: to probably draft Clyde in the second round and it
Speaker 1: would probably increase Damien Williams to like the sixth maybe
Speaker 1: probably because it's seventeen teams. Yes, Clyde is going to
Speaker 1: go on the side. Would you feel comfortable using this
Speaker 1: strategy and a guillotine league? Less comfortable because it is
Speaker 1: because it's a sixty forty. There's gonna be a lot
Speaker 1: of games where one of them has two touchdowns in
Speaker 1: a hundred and twenty total yards and the other one
Speaker 1: has forty total yards, and in totality, I'm willing to
Speaker 1: take that. But if I've only got one guy or
Speaker 1: the other, I'm in deep trouble if it's not his week,
Speaker 1: and I don't know, I'm nervous about that. It seems
Speaker 1: like you're looking for safety and guillotine area, and what's
Speaker 1: what's more safe than to have the combination of these
Speaker 1: two running backs. It is that that's a pretty safe way. Actually,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, maybe you're right because between them,
Speaker 1: how many duds are they going to post? You're probably
Speaker 1: not getting many done. Maybe we're onto something with the
Speaker 1: handcuffing backfields, but you've got to be a Chiefs level
Speaker 1: offense to pull it off. Thirty three points per game
Speaker 1: under Patrick Mahomes. I don't know if there's another running
Speaker 1: back duo out there that you could that could be
Speaker 1: this interesting. Now, probably not. They're probably maybe Dobbins and Ingram,
Speaker 1: but yeah, maybe although the quarterback worries me, you know,
Speaker 1: to touchdowns, yeah, you know, and Patrick Mahomes will you know,
Speaker 1: he'll steal five over the season or four, But um,
Speaker 1: these guys between them could end up scoring eight touchdowns
Speaker 1: and I you know, between them, I wouldn't be surprised
Speaker 1: if one has a ten eleven twelve touchdown season and
Speaker 1: one has a twelve fourteen, sixteen touchdown season. Well, I
Speaker 1: would be super interested to see what somebody's draft to
Speaker 1: look like if they drafted these in a guillotine league.
Speaker 1: So probably go over to guillotine leagues dot com. Good idea, Uh,
Speaker 1: take a couple of Chiefs yeah and for running backs,
Speaker 1: and then show me what the rest of your roster
Speaker 1: looks like, because I'd be fascinated to see it. Tweeted
Speaker 1: at me. If you can execute it that is at
Speaker 1: explosive output is where we would tweet you and at
Speaker 1: Paul Charchie, it's where we would tweet me. Um. So yeah,
Speaker 1: all there's it's a fascinating turn and we'll we'll spend
Speaker 1: more time I think looking at this particular draft strategy
Speaker 1: as the preseason unwindes. Let's hope we have a regular preseason.
Speaker 1: The two games is great. I just want to just
Speaker 1: give me a month of you know, all the preseason stuff,
Speaker 1: the training camps and everything else. Yeah, is that okay? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know, in some ways we're better off not having
Speaker 1: those first couple of games where we get bad intel
Speaker 1: in those first games Darwin time. Everybody just wants this
Speaker 1: all to go back to normal. We just want to
Speaker 1: have a football season where you can sit on the
Speaker 1: couch with your family and watch some football games and
Speaker 1: cheer on the numbers on Sunday night and Monday night,
Speaker 1: and I just want that back. Phenomenal great job, thanks Matt,
Speaker 1: Thank you. By the way. Reminder, for those that are
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