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Okay, 0:01:28.319 --> 0:01:30.520 it's not a song that you would drink some whiskey 0:01:30.520 --> 0:01:33.680 around the fire listening to. E Y. I'm we took 0:01:33.720 --> 0:01:35.800 that one out of the rotation. I think, well as 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:37.479 long as as long as it was in the rotation 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:39.960 at one point, you know, the start I was trying 0:01:39.959 --> 0:01:43.720 to I was trying to be kind m hm, damn 0:01:43.720 --> 0:01:47.760 it all right, well man, alright, anyway, on the show today, 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:50.160 really uh fun show because we have a lot of 0:01:50.200 --> 0:01:52.920 different things were kind of putting our hands into today, 0:01:52.920 --> 0:01:55.320 which is cool. Frank and Iri and Eric are gonna 0:01:55.320 --> 0:01:57.400 try to get to the bottom of the Melvin Gordon 0:01:57.480 --> 0:01:59.480 heat because I don't I don't, I don't get it. Um, 0:01:59.520 --> 0:02:01.120 any of you will change as we get closer to 0:02:01.120 --> 0:02:03.480 actual draft days or the majority of draft days. But 0:02:03.760 --> 0:02:05.360 there's something going on, and I'm talking to a bunch 0:02:05.400 --> 0:02:07.160 of people about this, So the three of us gonna 0:02:07.160 --> 0:02:10.880 try to figure that out. Um. We're also going to 0:02:10.919 --> 0:02:12.960 talk about some of the PPR running backs because we 0:02:13.080 --> 0:02:16.079 mentioned tore coing a lot with Eric Chris Thompson, I'm 0:02:16.120 --> 0:02:18.400 all over. There's a bunch of other guys that people 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:20.399 are talking about theo Rick of course too. But where 0:02:20.400 --> 0:02:22.840 should you draft these guys? We spoke yesterday how I 0:02:22.919 --> 0:02:26.000 really liked Chris Thompson or two days ago Chris Thompson 0:02:26.040 --> 0:02:28.760 five rounds later or four hours later than Christi McCaffrey. 0:02:28.919 --> 0:02:30.680 But where are the other guys going? So we wanted 0:02:30.680 --> 0:02:32.920 to get into that as well. I have a strategy 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:35.560 conversation I really want to ask Frank and Eric about. 0:02:35.600 --> 0:02:36.960 They don't know what it is, so they're gonna give 0:02:37.000 --> 0:02:39.919 us their honest and objective thoughts, and of course we're 0:02:39.919 --> 0:02:43.200 gonna start of today's fact away Frank. Yeah, So it 0:02:43.240 --> 0:02:44.919 has to do with somebody who is in the news 0:02:45.000 --> 0:02:46.480 and part of the reason why I think a lot 0:02:46.480 --> 0:02:48.760 of people were very excited about him coming into the 0:02:48.840 --> 0:02:51.360 draft season, and that's has to do with Doug Baldwin. 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.640 Last year, Russell Wilson had seventy three attempts in the 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:59.480 red zone. Forty two of those red zone targets are gone. 0:03:00.120 --> 0:03:03.760 Is if the eight percent of his red zone attempts 0:03:03.919 --> 0:03:07.040 that includes Jimmy Graham who had twenty six, Paul Richardson 0:03:07.040 --> 0:03:10.280 who had eleven, Luke Wilson who had five, fifty eight 0:03:10.280 --> 0:03:13.160 percent of the Seahawks red zones targets are gone from 0:03:13.200 --> 0:03:14.840 last season to this season. That's part of the reason 0:03:14.840 --> 0:03:17.799 why we were all very excited about Doug Baldwin. Now 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:20.200 we kind of have to, I think, to flake that 0:03:20.240 --> 0:03:22.399 a little bit with this knee injury news. Of course, 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.359 the latest news is he hurt his knee, and from 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:28.320 every beat reporter, from Pete Carroll, it's not a day 0:03:28.320 --> 0:03:29.960 to day thing. He's gonna be out for a couple 0:03:30.000 --> 0:03:33.120 of weeks. And when it comes to knee soreness, if 0:03:33.160 --> 0:03:36.120 the soreness doesn't and E y, you can certainly speak 0:03:36.160 --> 0:03:38.680 more to this, um, given you're much more sore than 0:03:38.720 --> 0:03:41.640 we are. UM, but given these stories, if it doesn't 0:03:41.680 --> 0:03:44.480 I guess go down, the swelling doesn't go down, ultimately 0:03:44.520 --> 0:03:46.040 you're gonna have to have some sort of surgery, whether 0:03:46.080 --> 0:03:52.240 it's art arthur scot excuse me, arthroscopic or even more severe. 0:03:52.280 --> 0:03:55.800 How concerned should we be about this Doug Baldwin injury. 0:03:55.960 --> 0:03:57.400 I mean, I guess you gotta wait and to find 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:00.360 out what it is. A knees or tricky, uh, especially 0:04:00.400 --> 0:04:03.160 for a wide receiver, I mean, anyone playing football knees tricky. 0:04:03.360 --> 0:04:06.200 You know, he relies on that with his speed, his 0:04:06.320 --> 0:04:09.400 starting and stopping, his cutting in and out of routes 0:04:09.440 --> 0:04:11.560 and stuff like that. So I mean it's something that 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:15.200 you know, maybe the most important joint a receiver has 0:04:15.320 --> 0:04:19.320 is his knee joint and it being hurt. Um. I'm 0:04:19.360 --> 0:04:21.239 not so scared of him missing a couple of weeks. 0:04:21.279 --> 0:04:24.080 I don't think Baldwin needed to play in the preseason. 0:04:24.520 --> 0:04:26.560 I don't. I mean, he knows the playbook. Kim and 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:30.159 Russell have an obvious connection. If he misses the entire preseason, 0:04:30.200 --> 0:04:32.640 I'm not scared of him. I still have him pretty high. 0:04:32.640 --> 0:04:36.919 But I'm you know, like this is making me cautious. 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:40.400 I guess cautious. Okay, So Frank, let me kind of 0:04:40.400 --> 0:04:43.280 follow up Whateveric was saying. He knows the playbook. New 0:04:43.320 --> 0:04:46.240 offensive coordinator though, and we said all of last year 0:04:46.600 --> 0:04:49.000 we're going to note when there's new offensive coordinators and 0:04:49.040 --> 0:04:51.440 just not expect the same thing. We repeated the mantra 0:04:51.600 --> 0:04:53.920 over and over and over again, helping of a deal. 0:04:53.920 --> 0:04:56.400 It is is it for you that Dug Ballin's out 0:04:56.440 --> 0:05:00.360 for the next three weeks or so? Listen, He's right, obviously, 0:05:00.400 --> 0:05:03.839 bald and Russell Wilson could do anything together. Just mind control. 0:05:04.279 --> 0:05:08.039 How serious is this for you? I'm worried and I 0:05:08.080 --> 0:05:11.800 tweeted about that yesterday. Drink. Any time a player misses 0:05:11.880 --> 0:05:14.560 time in training camp doesn't have the ability to get 0:05:14.640 --> 0:05:17.520 up to snuff physically, let alone, you know, not only 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.599 learning the offense from Brian Schottenheimer what we expect to 0:05:20.640 --> 0:05:23.320 be honestly a very boring offense. What's going to make 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:25.400 it exciting is the fact that Russell Wilson is part 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:29.320 of it. But Bryan Schottenheimer and interesting offense are two 0:05:29.600 --> 0:05:32.680 terms that we've never really put together. So it sucks 0:05:32.720 --> 0:05:33.880 a little bit that he's not going to be in 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:37.360 there learning it. And I feel like any time players 0:05:37.400 --> 0:05:39.800 miss training camp, it's kind of like they start the 0:05:39.880 --> 0:05:42.320 actual regular season a little bit gimpie. Maybe they get 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:45.040 off the slow starts. Maybe you know what dr Ay 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:47.800 tells us about guys coming back off injuries, maybe they 0:05:47.800 --> 0:05:49.760 start to compensate a little bit more. Right, so you're 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:51.680 compensating for one knee, You're putting a little bit more 0:05:51.720 --> 0:05:54.480 pressure on one leg. That could lead to even more injuries. 0:05:54.640 --> 0:05:57.760 Eis absolutely right about like needing your knee as a 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.040 wide receiver is probably the most important part of your 0:06:01.120 --> 0:06:04.240 leg at the position, I mean being able to cut, 0:06:04.279 --> 0:06:06.840 being able to jump and you know, catch these contested 0:06:06.880 --> 0:06:09.440 passes and stuff. So I was very, very excited about 0:06:09.480 --> 0:06:12.240 Doug Baldwin. Um, I didn't think that he would get 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.280 back to the fourteen touchdowns that he had three years ago, 0:06:14.320 --> 0:06:15.800 but I felt there was a chance for him to 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:18.239 come close to that. I think, you know, double digit 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:20.880 touchdowns could have been within reach, especially with all those 0:06:20.920 --> 0:06:23.640 red zone targets now available, not just red zone targets, 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:26.080 all around targets. I mean, you know, Jimmy Graham had 0:06:26.160 --> 0:06:29.160 ninety eight overall targets last season. Paul Richardson had eighty targets. 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:31.640 So there were a lot of targets up for grads 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:34.160 this year with Doug Baldwin, and I think we all 0:06:34.240 --> 0:06:36.880 kind of expect now that the Seahawks defense is not 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:38.839 gonna be as good as it has been in years past, 0:06:39.240 --> 0:06:42.640 so they're gonna be in more shootouts. The forty niners 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:44.760 have a good offense, the Rams have a good offense. 0:06:44.880 --> 0:06:47.080 There's gonna be higher scoring games in the NFC West 0:06:47.080 --> 0:06:49.880 that we're not really used to seeing. So I was 0:06:50.040 --> 0:06:53.120 very very excited about Doug Baldwin. I've tempered expectations a 0:06:53.120 --> 0:06:54.600 little bit. I'm not gonna drop him too far in 0:06:54.640 --> 0:06:56.760 the rankings. Might move t Y Hilton ahead of him, 0:06:56.960 --> 0:06:59.479 but he's still going to be in that top twelve range. 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:01.640 For me, it does worry me, and it honestly it 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:05.200 does suck because he was a guy was targeting, so Eric, 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:07.280 I want to throw it to you. How forward does 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:08.640 he fall? I know you said gonna be a little 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:11.480 bit conservative. I was also targeting Doug Baldwin. And maybe 0:07:11.480 --> 0:07:13.720 there's a discount here, right like, maybe he falls far enough. 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.200 There's a legitimate discount in the draft for him, given 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.920 the connection with Russell Wilson, you feel comfortable taking him? Where? 0:07:18.920 --> 0:07:20.840 Where do you? Where is that spot right now? I 0:07:20.880 --> 0:07:23.760 know you're you're need even research. Where are you taking 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:27.720 Doug Balding right now? I think I have my wide 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:31.880 receiver fourteen. I'm not moving him at all at this point. 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.000 I mean, you know, we got to find out what 0:07:34.000 --> 0:07:36.920 it is. You know, is a c L, is an 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:41.040 mc L? Is it bruising and swelling? You know? And 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:42.960 and and each injury is different. You know, some guys 0:07:43.040 --> 0:07:45.120 bounced back quicker, like give me not. You know, I'm 0:07:45.160 --> 0:07:49.080 a person that has has always healed quickly. Um I've 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:52.760 I'm always been a person that can still perform when 0:07:52.800 --> 0:07:55.200 I'm banged up, or when I'm sore, or even when 0:07:55.240 --> 0:07:58.360 I'm hurt. So you know, we don't know. I mean, 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:01.160 I'm bald. Was the guy that you see is pre reliable. 0:08:01.240 --> 0:08:03.440 He might be one of the most reliable wide receivers 0:08:03.440 --> 0:08:07.240 in the last five years. And uh, yeah, I'm not 0:08:07.280 --> 0:08:09.360 moving him. I'm not doing anything yet. You know, I 0:08:09.360 --> 0:08:10.800 know there's not a lot of stuff coming out of 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:13.240 training camp is just getting going, and every time something happens, 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.480 everyone wants to hit the panic button. But just just 0:08:15.960 --> 0:08:19.160 take a breath and relax. And if you've already drafted 0:08:19.200 --> 0:08:22.440 him and he's on your team, then maybe take two breaths. 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:24.760 But you know it's uh, let's just wait and find 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:26.360 out and see what happens. Do you know the wise 0:08:26.360 --> 0:08:30.720 words relax? Yeah, And what Uy said about him being 0:08:30.720 --> 0:08:36.199 a reliable receiver to last season, he's finished between wide 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:39.120 receiver eight and wide receiver thirteen. So he's been incredibly 0:08:39.160 --> 0:08:42.360 consistent and he's never exceeded a hundred and twenty five targets. 0:08:42.640 --> 0:08:45.400 To me, I thought that he was going to be 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:47.960 on pace to shattered that this season, and given health, 0:08:48.160 --> 0:08:50.760 I could have seen him in the one and fifty 0:08:50.760 --> 0:08:53.120 plus range this year. Even everything I said about the 0:08:53.120 --> 0:08:56.040 Seahawks defense and how I think they're gonna be in 0:08:56.120 --> 0:08:58.280 more shootouts this season. You know the phone lines before 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.960 we continue, gentlemen, eight four, four, four, three seven nine, 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:04.800 let's hit up Shan in New York. What's Sean? Hey? Guys, 0:09:04.800 --> 0:09:08.360 how are you doing? Great? Man? All right? I got 0:09:08.360 --> 0:09:09.880 two questions, if you guys can get to a real 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.400 quick both about the NFC West. I asked this question before, 0:09:13.640 --> 0:09:16.920 but I never got a solid answer. Why would Wilson 0:09:17.080 --> 0:09:20.240 so high as he's the third or fourth highest rated 0:09:20.320 --> 0:09:24.680 quarterback there if he doesn't have Paul Richardson or Jimmy 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.200 Graham like last year and he's had a terrible offensive wine. 0:09:28.000 --> 0:09:30.760 All right, let's let's start there. Frank I, I'm gonna 0:09:30.760 --> 0:09:33.040 throw it to you. The offensive line improved, no doubt. 0:09:33.120 --> 0:09:35.400 D J. Flucker a good run blocker. Uh. They traded 0:09:35.440 --> 0:09:38.640 for Dwayne Brown last season. He's their left tackle. So 0:09:39.480 --> 0:09:41.720 what about the other weapons that are gone? You named 0:09:41.800 --> 0:09:44.160 him all a few moments ago Jimmy Graham, Doug Ballin's hurt, 0:09:44.160 --> 0:09:48.240 Paul Richardson's gone, Tyler Locket's always hurt. Why is Russell 0:09:48.240 --> 0:09:51.160 Wilson rank so highly? Yeah, I have him ranked as 0:09:51.200 --> 0:09:53.240 my QB two right now, and I think part of 0:09:53.240 --> 0:09:55.760 it is the rushing floor that he gives you every 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:58.679 single season. For me, at least four hundred eighty nine 0:09:58.800 --> 0:10:01.800 rushing yards in five of the six seasons he's played it. 0:10:01.800 --> 0:10:05.880 And not only that, he's include improved his passing attempts 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:08.480 two seasons in a row now. And given everything I 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:10.920 just said, their defense is not gonna be great. I mean, 0:10:10.920 --> 0:10:13.000 Earl Thomas one South. This is not the legion and 0:10:13.080 --> 0:10:15.560 boom of boom defense that we've seen in years past. 0:10:16.080 --> 0:10:18.559 Russell Wilson finished as QB two last year in points 0:10:18.559 --> 0:10:21.560 per game, and that was before he lost even more 0:10:21.679 --> 0:10:24.040 pieces to this defense. So I think they're gonna be trailing. 0:10:24.200 --> 0:10:26.000 I think they're gonna have to put even more on 0:10:26.080 --> 0:10:29.200 Russell Wilson. As much as they want to run the football, 0:10:29.280 --> 0:10:31.880 they might be more effective at doing that from just 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:33.760 one running back this year, or Shad Penny I think 0:10:33.840 --> 0:10:36.840 will be that workhorse running back. But they're still going 0:10:36.880 --> 0:10:38.280 to have to put up points, and I think that's 0:10:38.280 --> 0:10:41.520 gonna fall on the back and the legs of Russell Wilson. 0:10:41.520 --> 0:10:44.520 I'm not really worried about the weapons. To me, the 0:10:44.559 --> 0:10:47.200 best quarterbacks make the weapons around them look even better, 0:10:47.240 --> 0:10:49.520 and I think Russell Wilson is already in that category. 0:10:49.760 --> 0:10:54.000 Challenge a second question, But all right, and now sticking 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:55.800 at the end of the quest, you know the Niners 0:10:55.840 --> 0:10:59.200 got a pretty good offense. Is Jimmy Garoppolo a top 0:10:59.240 --> 0:11:02.440 ten quarterback this year? You think with Carson and McKinnon 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:05.120 as a pass catcher at the backfield, that one to 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:09.040 use Jimmy g rank for you a top ten quarterback? No, 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:11.240 I mean, I think that's I mean, I think it's 0:11:11.240 --> 0:11:13.840 insane people that are taking him that high crazy. I 0:11:13.840 --> 0:11:17.240 mean it's a five game sample. And the big thing 0:11:17.280 --> 0:11:19.160 is this is when he comes in, he's been a 0:11:19.160 --> 0:11:21.719 backup quarterback his whole life. There is no tape on him. 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:24.560 He didn't play, he's never played. So we had five 0:11:24.600 --> 0:11:26.720 games where there was no tape on him. He came 0:11:26.760 --> 0:11:28.640 in and like, look, I mean, he did look good 0:11:29.080 --> 0:11:31.840 and he looked like he had a good command of 0:11:31.840 --> 0:11:33.800 the offense. Even though just coming in and learning it 0:11:33.920 --> 0:11:37.320 right away. McKinnon is obviously an improvement. You know, I 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.160 think Kittle has a big jump forward. Our song is 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:43.280 super reliable. Uh, Marky's good one, I think is gonna 0:11:43.320 --> 0:11:45.280 have a big year or you know, or a good 0:11:45.360 --> 0:11:48.240 year for for Marky's good one. But people that are 0:11:48.320 --> 0:11:50.480 driving him that higher, they're crazy. And everyone's saying, oh, well, 0:11:50.480 --> 0:11:53.400 ser frances is gonna have a good offense. That is 0:11:53.840 --> 0:11:57.240 that is death. That is. No one knows who's gonna 0:11:57.240 --> 0:11:59.319 be a good offense. No one knows who's going to 0:11:59.400 --> 0:12:01.840 be a good d ends and trying to predict it 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:05.439 is insane, even harder on the defensive side. So just 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:09.079 just do it by skill and right now. Jimmy g 0:12:09.280 --> 0:12:10.959 is a good quarterback, but I mean driving him in 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:14.120 the top ten to me is absolute insanity. All right, 0:12:14.120 --> 0:12:16.360 So there you go, Jimmy G not at outside quarterback 0:12:16.400 --> 0:12:19.120 according to Eric Young, Frank you a great I have 0:12:19.240 --> 0:12:21.520 him just outside my top time with him at twelve, 0:12:21.600 --> 0:12:24.400 But I will say I'll take him over guys like 0:12:24.440 --> 0:12:28.440 Matthew Stafford, Philip Rivers, Matt Ryan, guys that we've seen 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.240 do it before. I think they're just yes. While they 0:12:31.280 --> 0:12:34.160 have a higher floor. I just don't think Stafford Rivers 0:12:34.360 --> 0:12:36.839 have the ceiling. I'll take the unknown of Jimmy g 0:12:37.040 --> 0:12:38.959 over those guys, but he's not outside of my top ten. 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:40.280 Right now, I have met wealth of the world. All 0:12:40.360 --> 0:12:42.160 right there, you'll continue on the phone lines and talk 0:12:42.240 --> 0:12:47.920 to Stephen in Massachusetts. What's going on, Steve? Uh? My 0:12:48.040 --> 0:12:51.160 question is about so I don't know if you guys noticed, uh, 0:12:51.400 --> 0:12:56.120 Joss Stackson he got injured. And I know that you guys, 0:12:56.480 --> 0:12:58.160 especially on the show, like you guys are big on 0:12:58.320 --> 0:13:00.400 Jamison crowd or so I'm just wondering and if I 0:13:00.440 --> 0:13:03.439 can't like, because you know, drafts are usually about like 0:13:03.440 --> 0:13:06.080 a month away. If I can't get Jamison Crowder, is 0:13:06.080 --> 0:13:08.560 there somebody else that I should be looking into as 0:13:08.559 --> 0:13:10.720 far as like the passing game? Or is it just 0:13:10.760 --> 0:13:13.240 strictly Jamison Crowder. So, I think it's a great question. 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:14.920 I think it leads into exactly what we wanted to 0:13:14.960 --> 0:13:19.079 talk about here, Steve um And and that's Chris Thompson. Right. 0:13:19.520 --> 0:13:21.600 So Jamison Crowder is the number one guy. I think 0:13:21.600 --> 0:13:23.320 he fits really really well with Alex Smith. I know 0:13:23.360 --> 0:13:24.559 you I was high on HM last year. I think 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:27.960 everybody was high on Jameson Crowder last year, and Josh 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:31.240 Dockson is to me, frank much like DeVante Parker and 0:13:31.320 --> 0:13:33.320 much like for Sean Parriman. And they all stink, everyone 0:13:33.360 --> 0:13:35.600 of them. You don't have they Parker less, but they all, 0:13:36.120 --> 0:13:38.920 they all are not consistent enough to use. And I 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.440 was a Josh Dockson guy all of last year. He's 0:13:41.440 --> 0:13:44.120 are so the most logical player you'd go to replace him, 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.080 as Paul Richardson. But Paul Richardson, from every thing that 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:49.760 you have read coming out of Washington, he's really struggled. 0:13:49.840 --> 0:13:52.360 He's really struggled. And this offense with a new quarterback 0:13:52.559 --> 0:13:55.559 in Alex Smith is not meant for people in my opinion, 0:13:55.679 --> 0:13:59.000 like like Josh Dockson and like Paul Richardson, It's meant 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:02.240 for Jamison crowd Jordan read if he's healthy, and then 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:06.880 Chris Thompson. But Chris Thompson is a more interesting case 0:14:06.920 --> 0:14:10.319 that unfortunately I want to even realize because I think 0:14:10.320 --> 0:14:12.679 he's uber talented. The dude knows how to catch a 0:14:12.720 --> 0:14:14.960 pass and just go. He's a heck of a pass 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:18.160 blocker and he's awesome by all senses of the word. 0:14:18.679 --> 0:14:21.320 The problem is he's never been healthy back in college 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.120 and in his first few years in the NFL, he 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:25.640 has not been able to remain healthy, missing the second 0:14:25.680 --> 0:14:28.600 half of last year. Now he's come back and you 0:14:28.680 --> 0:14:31.760 read a report coming out of practice saying he looks great, 0:14:31.920 --> 0:14:36.560 he looks really really awesome. But then he says, listen, 0:14:36.560 --> 0:14:42.320 I'm not close to and j Gruden says, yeah, I'm 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:45.720 I'm working my way. I'm working my way back on him. 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.080 But he looks good, and then the report goes, well, 0:14:48.080 --> 0:14:50.600 he looks amazing. The next report is he's not going 0:14:50.640 --> 0:14:55.880 to be a hundred percent until November. What does all 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.160 of this mean, Eric, when it comes to Chris Thompson, 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.120 w it means like every year you gotta worry about 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:05.000 him getting hurt. He's a small guy, uh, you know, 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.840 and being a running back, a guy that's either going 0:15:07.880 --> 0:15:10.880 out and taking a tackle or or sitting in and 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:15.600 and having you know, six ft linebackers run into him. 0:15:15.640 --> 0:15:18.240 I mean you're gonna get hurt. I mean he, like 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:20.760 you said to your point, is he gets hurt. I 0:15:20.760 --> 0:15:24.040 mean he's never been able to stay healthy. Uh. Last 0:15:24.120 --> 0:15:26.440 year I think they needed to rely on him more. 0:15:26.560 --> 0:15:28.360 P Rhyme was the guy that I was super high on. 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:31.280 He let him down and they ended up playing Chris Thompson. 0:15:31.320 --> 0:15:33.600 They were running them between the tackles and stuff. If 0:15:33.680 --> 0:15:36.080 Darius Guys is who I think he's going to be 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:38.200 and who who most people think he's going to be, 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.080 then Chris Thompson is good. But him not saying he's 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:44.000 not going to be a healthy until November, he's kind 0:15:44.000 --> 0:15:48.200 of terrifying. Yeah, he's I get it. I completely get it. 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.000 And a lot of people that are like you that 0:15:50.200 --> 0:15:52.920 feel the same way about Darius Guys. And that was 0:15:53.000 --> 0:15:56.320 the conversation when it came to Chris Thompson in that 0:15:57.040 --> 0:15:59.480 if Guys is this pass catcher and this good pass blocker, 0:15:59.560 --> 0:16:02.040 what is Thompson's role? How scared are you by the 0:16:02.040 --> 0:16:05.440 reports that you have read and the news on Guys, Frankie, 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:08.680 I am very worried about that. Specifically, something that he 0:16:08.760 --> 0:16:12.960 said is he was talking about he's gonna be worried 0:16:13.000 --> 0:16:16.160 to get tackled by bigger players, like any time that's 0:16:16.160 --> 0:16:18.160 already in the back of your mind as a running back. 0:16:18.200 --> 0:16:20.600 I mean, I mentioned it. This guy is only five eight, 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:24.480 he's below two pounds. Yes, He's incredibly explosive. He scored 0:16:24.480 --> 0:16:26.720 a tough a ton of touchdowns. Last year. He was 0:16:26.800 --> 0:16:30.120 number one among running backs in yards per touch, so 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:32.480 we know how explosive he can be. But anytime you 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.640 already have that mindset there that I have to worry 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:38.000 about being tackled in the NFL, and you have to 0:16:38.040 --> 0:16:40.840 worry about, you know, making these jukes as a running back, 0:16:40.880 --> 0:16:42.760 you're worried about you know, Oh, am I gonna am 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:44.600 I gonna sprain this ligament in my knee? Am I 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:47.880 gonna worried about having a broken leg? That worries me 0:16:47.920 --> 0:16:49.600 a lot, man, especially when you look at a guy 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.120 like him, his ADP. He's in the seventh eighth round. 0:16:52.480 --> 0:16:54.760 So it's not like, al right, some of these not 0:16:54.800 --> 0:16:56.640 it's not nothing. It's not one of these other PPR 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.120 backs that we're taken in the twelve thirte whatever. It 0:16:59.200 --> 0:17:01.560 might be some guys that we think have upside. You 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:03.920 have to give some drift capital to get Chris Thompson. 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.199 I'm pretty worried about this. We're gonna get more into 0:17:07.240 --> 0:17:09.680 that draft capital with the PTR running macks. A little 0:17:09.680 --> 0:17:12.440 bit later on we come back. I want to dive 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:15.280 into Nolan Gordon because something is up here. I don't 0:17:15.280 --> 0:17:16.680 know what it is. Maybe e Y as the answer, 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:20.159 Maybe Frankie does. I certainly don't mean Gordon. Next. Fantasy 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:27.240 Best Friends Forever. Did you know that you can listen 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.719 to this show live on the award winning Fancy Sports 0:17:29.760 --> 0:17:32.680 Radio Network. 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In a 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:43.040 name that we we've thrown around recently has been Melvin Gordon. 0:18:43.200 --> 0:18:45.000 The way the thing about Melvin Gordon and the most 0:18:45.280 --> 0:18:48.440 common reaction that I get, I'm out on that guy. 0:18:48.920 --> 0:18:50.560 Oh why you? I don't know. You know, there's just 0:18:50.560 --> 0:18:53.159 a bunch of other guys I like better, like okay. 0:18:53.640 --> 0:18:55.920 And then I talked to somebody in my snake league 0:18:56.240 --> 0:18:58.640 who I'm most likely going to pick one pick ahead 0:18:58.680 --> 0:19:01.200 of him, and we're kind of talking. I have no 0:19:01.240 --> 0:19:04.000 reason why I don't care. Who do you like? My honestly, 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:07.359 if if Melvin Gordon is there, and depending on who's 0:19:07.359 --> 0:19:10.320 not there, like I would strongly consider Melvin Gordon, and 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:12.439 I don't like him. I'd rather have Dalvin Cook or 0:19:12.520 --> 0:19:17.240 Leonard Fournette. And I'm trying to figure out why. Like 0:19:17.320 --> 0:19:18.919 Dalvin Cook coming off the A c L. I know 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:21.639 that he's on everybody's hype train this year. I get it. 0:19:22.359 --> 0:19:26.840 Leonard Fournette. The entire Jacksonville offense runs around this guy. 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.480