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Speaker 1: seen four peacocks, but they're not nearest right now. We
Speaker 1: need the peacocks. We want to have the calling of
Speaker 1: the peacocks. And that's pretty good. Yeah, that really is
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Speaker 1: We have a lot to get to over the course
Speaker 1: of this show. It's gonna be a ton of fun.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about our week, uh, some of the things
Speaker 1: we've already learned from the preseason games. We have a
Speaker 1: new segment that we're going to do every year that
Speaker 1: we're here called the Peacock Off, and the pea cock
Speaker 1: Off is when we will give bold predictions about which
Speaker 1: we will hopefully be peacocking later in the season. We've
Speaker 1: got five hot questions. We'll talk about the wide receivers
Speaker 1: that have the toughest defensive matchups. Who are the guys
Speaker 1: that are facing a slew of great corner acts that
Speaker 1: you want to be aware of. We'll go through that
Speaker 1: as well. We'll talk about the rookies that you want
Speaker 1: to prepare for for your Dynasty drafts and Empire drafts.
Speaker 1: Who if you're gonna have a rookie at primarily a
Speaker 1: rookie draft, how all those rookies shaking out? And then
Speaker 1: we'll give our sleepers and we'll also talk to you
Speaker 1: guys will take questions from the audience throughout. How's that
Speaker 1: sound great? Are you excited to be here? Yes? And
Speaker 1: I think virtually everybody's drinking beer at ten in the morning.
Speaker 1: I'm excited that beer. Finally, and we would never drink
Speaker 1: beer on the air ever. Matt hi Hi tell us
Speaker 1: about Pittsburgh taking on Philadelphia and an interstate rivalries. Don't
Speaker 1: mind if I do um kind of a boring game.
Speaker 1: James Conner was the running back that started in this game. Obviously,
Speaker 1: levy on Bell's not there. He carried four times for yards.
Speaker 1: It's the only thing that that's notable about is if
Speaker 1: you're handcuffing Levy on Bell j James Conner appears to
Speaker 1: be the guy right now that you want to target.
Speaker 1: Juju had a seventy one yard touchdown pass on a
Speaker 1: broken play from Landry Jones. That was kind of cool.
Speaker 1: He went over the corner, snapped that it was and
Speaker 1: then Alice got her from Philly the new tight end,
Speaker 1: ripy tight end. He had a second quarter touchdown pass
Speaker 1: from Nate Sudfeld. It was a nice catch in the
Speaker 1: end zone two and I think that they're going to
Speaker 1: highlight him more than most rookie tight ends are usually highlighted.
Speaker 1: I think in really deep leagues you can draft Zachard's
Speaker 1: early what you'd have to do, and then if you've
Speaker 1: got roster spots, I think you could actually this could
Speaker 1: be the rare tight end handcuff. It could be. It
Speaker 1: could be that reminds me of a Forrest Gump Dallas
Speaker 1: from Philly text he was from Cleveland. Yeah lost me, Yeah,
Speaker 1: sorry anyone people. I think, like most people, when I
Speaker 1: think of Forrest Gump, I think, how did pulp fiction
Speaker 1: not win Best Picture or how did Shawshake not win
Speaker 1: Best Picture that year Forrest Gump? Really it was Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay took on Miami. Jameis Winson did not start this
Speaker 1: game because he's not gonna start the season. They started
Speaker 1: Stupard as their starting quarterback. Then Jamis came in against
Speaker 1: the second team and lit him up. Win eleven for
Speaker 1: thirteen of note. And I think this is really important. Uh,
Speaker 1: Peyton Barber got a goal line touchdown and he got
Speaker 1: a lot of work with the first team. And don't
Speaker 1: be surprised if this turns into a sneaky hand running
Speaker 1: back by committee with Peyton Barber and UH and Ronald Jones.
Speaker 1: Later in the game, Ronald Jones also got a goal
Speaker 1: line touchdown. And UM, right now, maybe, but don't pause.
Speaker 1: I think Peyton Barber is going to be a fly
Speaker 1: in the ointment in Tampa, mark my words. On the
Speaker 1: Miami side, UH, rookie running back Klin Blage, who many
Speaker 1: people think is a super sneaky sleeper, had a fumble
Speaker 1: after leaping over a defender. The leap was really good,
Speaker 1: but then he coughed it up and we never like
Speaker 1: to see that. They targeted him five times though as
Speaker 1: a running back and so Kaitlin Balaje and PPR league's rookie.
Speaker 1: He's tall. He's like the weird like six ft two
Speaker 1: running back that you never see in the NFL. Um
Speaker 1: He's somebody who could be a PPR contributor. At some point,
Speaker 1: we'll watch the fumbling Ryan Tannehill got his first start
Speaker 1: in six hundred six days of football. I'm still nobody's
Speaker 1: drafting him. Uh, Matt Cleveland took on the Giants. Do
Speaker 1: we want to do one of Brian's game? Let's let's
Speaker 1: talk about Washington team. And I thought you were out
Speaker 1: of all of these suff No, I got back in
Speaker 1: because all right, so I I don't have a beer,
Speaker 1: but everyone else pick up your beer and pour them
Speaker 1: out for Darius. Guys, that's what we're talking about here.
Speaker 1: Can they pour some out into their mouth? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: don't want to waste this, don't don't waste, don't waste
Speaker 1: the grain belt. But that's the main talking point. Everybody
Speaker 1: picked it up and took a sip. Well, they this
Speaker 1: troop just not out of encouragement to drink beer. They're
Speaker 1: at a brewery of town in the morning. This is
Speaker 1: our key demographic right here. But yeah, guys done for
Speaker 1: the year. It looked like he would be okay based
Speaker 1: on the thirty seven yard run in which he which
Speaker 1: he uh end up suffering the injury. Some people were
Speaker 1: even willing to draft him the next day in an
Speaker 1: MFL temple um. The worst part about it is, though,
Speaker 1: is we could have had our Jacques from the Morning
Speaker 1: show come on and talk about Darius a lot of
Speaker 1: times during our Fantasy Football Weekly show. I'm gonna miss that.
Speaker 1: So so right now it's Capri Bibbs or some j
Speaker 1: p Ryan. It'll be p Ryan unfortunately, or will it
Speaker 1: be Adrian Peterson or will it be to Marco Murray.
Speaker 1: So let's ask would you would you draft Adrian Peterson
Speaker 1: right now on the speculation that some team, maybe Washington
Speaker 1: is this is gonna happen again, right some team's gonna
Speaker 1: pick him up and put him in a position where
Speaker 1: he might get some carries. I'm out in the audience. No, nobody,
Speaker 1: it's anything to do with Adrian Peterson. You know, you
Speaker 1: guys used to be fans. You know what happened. Maybe
Speaker 1: the greatest Viking to ever plan Peterson Jersey. They're smart
Speaker 1: face players, they're disassociating their feelings, their sentimental feelings with
Speaker 1: Peterson because he's cooked and you should not be anymore. No,
Speaker 1: it really isn't all right now. Eveland at the Giant, Well,
Speaker 1: this one was kind of an exciting the battle between
Speaker 1: the number one overall pick in the number two overall pick,
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield and say Kwon Barkley. Hello, se Kwon, Welcome
Speaker 1: to the show. How about that first carry? Kwan thirty
Speaker 1: nine yards on his first play of the game. The
Speaker 1: notable part was Jonathan Stewart had as many touches in
Speaker 1: the first drive with the first team as sa Kwon did.
Speaker 1: They each had to It's like, no, don't, don't do
Speaker 1: this to me. I don't want Jonathan Stewart. Stewart's no good.
Speaker 1: And they know it. Yeah, they'll figure it out, right,
Speaker 1: they don't know it now, they'll know what. Uh. Tyrod
Speaker 1: Taylor started the game for Cleveland. He connected with Jarvis
Speaker 1: Landry down the sideline for a thirty two yard completion.
Speaker 1: Then Landry, of course, got a fifteen yard penalty for
Speaker 1: taunting right away. Uh, David and Joku, I know you
Speaker 1: were really excited about this church. He had two touchdowns,
Speaker 1: one from Tyrod and one from Baker Mayfield, and both
Speaker 1: of them were pretty nice plays, especially the Mayfield one. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then Baker Mayfield came in in the second quarter
Speaker 1: and he looked great. I thought. Uh. Played until the
Speaker 1: fourth through twenty times in the game, had two hundred
Speaker 1: twelve yards and two touchdowns. Was very mobile, was all
Speaker 1: over the field. Included a seven yard slant route pass
Speaker 1: to rookie Antonio Callaway that he turned into a fifty
Speaker 1: four yard touchdown. That's a name you might want to
Speaker 1: file away too. After Josh Gordon is now not there,
Speaker 1: Corey Coleman is now not there. Antonio Callaway might be
Speaker 1: a rookie that you just want to kind of well
Speaker 1: if you're looking to score some weed. YEA, now always
Speaker 1: your guys. His friend, it wasn't his friend conveniently left
Speaker 1: that part out of the story. Antonio Galloway, it's Josh
Speaker 1: Gordon's not there. Somebody's got a step up. That's true,
Speaker 1: Tonio Galloway. You know that Spider Man meme or they're
Speaker 1: pointing at each other. Yeah, just a said Antonio gall
Speaker 1: Callaway meets Josh Gordon. They're changing their name to the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Greens. Carolina took on Buffalo for Carolina, Cam Newton
Speaker 1: was sharp, went six of nine for eighty four yards,
Speaker 1: although it was all underneath dump off stuff and they
Speaker 1: didn't let him throw downfield at all. C J. Anderson
Speaker 1: and Christian McCaffrey both had goal line touchdowns, which was interesting.
Speaker 1: C J. Anderson remains one of my favorite deep deep
Speaker 1: sleeper guys. Uh, going off the board, you know what,
Speaker 1: I don't have the ADP in front of me, but
Speaker 1: I guess roughly round eleven. North says touches per game,
Speaker 1: you can say that all he wants. I think c J.
Speaker 1: Anderson is certainly going to get the majority of the
Speaker 1: goal line work. H. D J. Morris the rookie receiver
Speaker 1: that might be the best one to own this year. Here.
Speaker 1: It is just game one. He went four catches seventy
Speaker 1: five yards and looked good doing it. UH. D J.
Speaker 1: Moore feels like he might be the safest of the
Speaker 1: the rookie wide receivers on Buffalo side of the ball.
Speaker 1: All the quarterbacking was brutal and we got no real
Speaker 1: clarity here. A J. McCarron didn't do anything to lose
Speaker 1: the starter's job, and I think it's still his but
Speaker 1: he didn't look good either. Josh Allen, the rookie, the
Speaker 1: big iron kid from Wyoming, He's ever litely ste throwing
Speaker 1: like seventy yards downfield, and it's it looks simple. Now
Speaker 1: he's throwing into the second tier of the stadium. I've
Speaker 1: seen that to Virus. Jackson could do that as well. Right, Um,
Speaker 1: it's it. He just sprayed balls around the field. I
Speaker 1: He's got a long way to go and looks like
Speaker 1: every bit the project he's gonna be part of. He
Speaker 1: had a couple of good passes to I'm not taking
Speaker 1: it all away from him, but he's got some work
Speaker 1: to do. That Mountain Kelvin Kelvin Benjamin had a touchdown.
Speaker 1: He probably has the lowest average draft position of any
Speaker 1: number one wide receiver in the league, and people have
Speaker 1: totally forgot about him, forgotten about him. If they can
Speaker 1: get anything out of the quarterback position, he could be
Speaker 1: a a legitimate sleeper option. Let's go to Green Bay. Uh,
Speaker 1: nothing to talk about in this game other than Tim
Speaker 1: Boyle throwing two touchdowns for the Packers. Aaron Rodgers job
Speaker 1: clearly in jeopardy after this game. No, no, there's nothing
Speaker 1: to talk about here. Mariota two for three for two
Speaker 1: yards in a touchdown, and uh, screw the Packers right yeah,
Speaker 1: you know in your your crowd right there, playing to
Speaker 1: the audience, as we like to say. Matt New Orleans
Speaker 1: taking on Jacksonville. Not a ton in this game either,
Speaker 1: possible super Bowl matchup. Oh no, no, no no. Blake
Speaker 1: Bortles started, He played one serious, he looked good, had
Speaker 1: a five yard touchdown run. Uh. The Jags old line
Speaker 1: was missing two starters in that game, so it was
Speaker 1: good that Bortles stayed clean in his drive. Uh. Leonard
Speaker 1: Fournett had a couple of nice runs in the first drive,
Speaker 1: but that was really about it. No drew reason the game.
Speaker 1: On the Saints, we did see both Alvin Kamara and
Speaker 1: mark Ingram. Kamara only played the first drive. Ingram stayed
Speaker 1: in through the second quarter. Obviously, Ingram's out for the
Speaker 1: first four games of the season, so they're a little
Speaker 1: less worried about putting a little wear and tear on
Speaker 1: him right now, so well and frankly, punish him a little. Yeah,
Speaker 1: make him run in the preseason. Here, here's some third
Speaker 1: quarter preseason runs for you, mark Ingram. Uh. Cincinnati took
Speaker 1: on Chicago, Chicago, there was literally nothing to report. Starters
Speaker 1: played eight plays and they netted one yard. So there's
Speaker 1: nothing to talk about in the Chicago side. But the
Speaker 1: Cincinnati side, this is probably as a team. If I
Speaker 1: would take one team and just say, if there was
Speaker 1: one team that has the the best sleepers as a team,
Speaker 1: the ability to team jump team jump, Yes, yep up,
Speaker 1: it's Cincinnati. One of the worst offenses last year, vastly
Speaker 1: improved offensive line. They put a first round pick in
Speaker 1: Billy Price into their offensive line. They signed Corty Glenna
Speaker 1: to their offensive line, and it's uh, I think this
Speaker 1: offense gets a lot better. Joe Mixon had a had
Speaker 1: a really nice touchdown reception, including two broken tackles. Joe Mixon.
Speaker 1: She had fifteen pounds over the over the off season,
Speaker 1: and he looks terrific. What I say, don't want to
Speaker 1: spoon Joe Mixon kind of seems change of lifestyle. I
Speaker 1: just want him on my fantasy team. Okay, I will
Speaker 1: say Joe Mixon is currently my number eleven running back
Speaker 1: and trending upward on my cheat sheet and you can
Speaker 1: get it at fanball dot com for free. Right now, everybody,
Speaker 1: here's got my cheat sheet right, all right? Good, If
Speaker 1: anybody needs one, you can let us know. Well, we
Speaker 1: can make more copies. Um. Also we had Andy Dalton
Speaker 1: had um had a pick six that you'll see on
Speaker 1: the box score, but the receiver fell down. That's not
Speaker 1: his fault. He had two drives, he had two touchdowns
Speaker 1: and well three if the other way. But but John
Speaker 1: Ross fell down on the play, so it's not Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton's fault. Andy Dalton another guy that I like as
Speaker 1: a sleeper and a j Green I think is being
Speaker 1: is is too far down people's rankings. Currently my number
Speaker 1: seven wide receiver and trending up. We'll talk about him
Speaker 1: very soon. Alright, let's go to our next game. It's
Speaker 1: a quick one here, Houston at Kansas City. Not a
Speaker 1: ton to report here other than another quarterback in trouble.
Speaker 1: That's DeShawn Watson. Brandon we didn't too touchdown passes, so
Speaker 1: a wasted draft pick at this point. Notice kidding. Brandon
Speaker 1: Weeden still in the league, by the way. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: thought he was dead, but good for him. Jordan Aikins
Speaker 1: for Houston caught two touchdowns all right behind Ryan Griffin
Speaker 1: on the depth chart as their tight end, uh C
Speaker 1: j Fedorwitz no more retired, So that was the only
Speaker 1: guy who did anything. So keep your eye on Jordan's
Speaker 1: Aikins and I won't keep my eye on Jordan Aikins.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Let's go to uh Matt Ram's taking on
Speaker 1: the Ravens. Yeah, Joe Flacco started the game and solidified
Speaker 1: his place as a starter. You sound very excited about that.
Speaker 1: Are we all not rooting for Joe Flacco to fail? Yes,
Speaker 1: we all. We want Lamar Jackson running the ball down
Speaker 1: the field. So everybody's sad about Joe Flacco's wonder I've
Speaker 1: going seventy yards for a touchdown. Lamar Jackson did come
Speaker 1: in next before r G three had a chance to
Speaker 1: play with some of the ones. He led a five
Speaker 1: play seventy three yard drive and ran in a nine
Speaker 1: yard touchdown run. That was pretty cool. So I like
Speaker 1: seeing that. His touchdown run was absolutely awesome. By the
Speaker 1: way the pocket collapsed, he escaped, he broke two tackles
Speaker 1: on the play, it was It was super cool. Um
Speaker 1: Jackson played coming out a halftime as well, and then
Speaker 1: yielded to r G three at the tail end of
Speaker 1: the game and the Rams on their side. They didn't
Speaker 1: bring anyone to this game. John Kelly is Todd Gurley's backup.
Speaker 1: That's the only thing I know. Here's and John. Did
Speaker 1: you see any of John Kelly's runs? He looks good?
Speaker 1: He was. This is you know, if you're if you're
Speaker 1: gonna spend that number one pick on Todd Gurley first
Speaker 1: pick overall, John Kelly looks legitimate fourth round rookie. He
Speaker 1: looked thirteen carries seventy seven yards and he he looked
Speaker 1: pretty good. He had a forty yard run in there too,
Speaker 1: So yeah, well that's a guy most people don't have
Speaker 1: any awareness of whatsoever, but an excellent last pick you're
Speaker 1: draft if you have the first pick in your draft,
Speaker 1: definitely a Todd Curley handcuff. Did you take any more
Speaker 1: games or you got one more out already? We haven't
Speaker 1: talked about Captain Andrew Luck yet, who's returned to the battlefields. Yes, uh, yeah,
Speaker 1: Luck played his arm didn't fall off. Six for nine
Speaker 1: for sixty four yards. Uh. The Colts did lose Dion Kane,
Speaker 1: who was a rookie receiver people were excited about. Their
Speaker 1: depth is very thin at wide receiver. He's out for
Speaker 1: the year and then uh for Seattle real quick, Chris
Speaker 1: Carson four carries for twenty six yards, while Rashad Penny
Speaker 1: eight for sixteen gross and Carson started started. He looks
Speaker 1: like the guy. Yeah, Penny, you drafted him expecting Bill
Speaker 1: cow work. Uh, Bill, grab a shells you can need it. Um.
Speaker 1: I watched all of Andrew lux throws. They didn't let
Speaker 1: him throw. His longest throw was about eight yards, So
Speaker 1: I mean there's still being really dump off and underneath stuff,
Speaker 1: and so they're taking they're being cautious with him. Uh.
Speaker 1: Neither Marlon Mack or niheem Heinz did anything of of
Speaker 1: note in that game either. And Jordan Wilkins also in
Speaker 1: the Nicks theiff rookie running back to He didn't do much,
Speaker 1: but that's a three headed monster. Dallas took on San
Speaker 1: Francisco Michael Gallops or rookie receiver. They need receiving help.
Speaker 1: No Dez Bryant. Michael Gallup showed up with a touchdown
Speaker 1: on a go route. Dak Prescott just played one series.
Speaker 1: He went three for three and threw that touchdown to
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup on the San Francisco side. Jered McKinnon, you're familiar. Yeah,
Speaker 1: do you guys think he's a great runner that guy does. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm not. I'm not as uh, I'm not as inclined
Speaker 1: to think. So three carries negative four yards, that's not
Speaker 1: good for Jerreck in this game. I this I'm avoiding
Speaker 1: big too. There are people that have him. It's like
Speaker 1: their number twelve, number thirteen. Yeah, he's like a second
Speaker 1: or third round pick right now. And then basically just
Speaker 1: in the fact that he got paid and that he's
Speaker 1: going to and he's going to what should be a
Speaker 1: decent Sanwanso Go offense, but it's also an offense where
Speaker 1: we know Kyle Shanahan uses a rotation of running backs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: over his ADP last week. I've already we've covered this.
Speaker 1: Don't drab jerkm Ken. Although Matt Breida hurt his shoulder, Well,
Speaker 1: I gotta I gotta running back that I'd rather get
Speaker 1: instead of him. That's carry On Johnson, who was in
Speaker 1: the Detroit Oakland game. He looked really good by the way.
Speaker 1: Carry On carry On seven carries thirty four yards and
Speaker 1: then he had four catches for thirty three. Blunt started
Speaker 1: with the ones, but carry On was the guy who
Speaker 1: actually looked good in this game. And he's the rookie
Speaker 1: running back in Detroit. He's going to get the first
Speaker 1: shot over Blunt, Amir Abdulah, all those guys. I like
Speaker 1: him a lot. On the Oakland side, There's nothing to
Speaker 1: talk about. That's not true. Did you not see Marshawn
Speaker 1: Lynch just touchdown? Run Marshawn Lynch. There's nothing to talk about.
Speaker 1: Let's stop with this is one of my through this
Speaker 1: last year we did. How did it work out? Currently?
Speaker 1: My number sixteen running back? Yeah, well, look what happened
Speaker 1: to that coaching staff for ex using Marchhahn Lynch. Lynch
Speaker 1: was good last year. He had the eleventh highest rating
Speaker 1: by Pro Football Focus among all running backs last season,
Speaker 1: and the Raiders had given the ball nine times in
Speaker 1: the game. It was it was absurd. He will not
Speaker 1: have a usage problem with John Gruden. They had brought
Speaker 1: in Doug Martin to spell all the more reason to
Speaker 1: like Marshawn. Absolutely not the cops. On Marshawn Lynch's sixty
Speaker 1: yard touchdown, he outran the entire Lions defense with sheer
Speaker 1: speed that I'm telling you Lynch is in great shape.
Speaker 1: They're gonna use him right this time. Are you sure
Speaker 1: you weren't watching like a Madden replay or something. No.
Speaker 1: By the way it was called, the play was called
Speaker 1: back and penalty, so I should say, nevertheless, this is
Speaker 1: not take anything away from Lynch. Um. So they the
Speaker 1: Raiders cheated to get Marshawn Lynch a good play that
Speaker 1: didn't out. No, yes, uh, last ye, I'll mention about
Speaker 1: Carrie and Johnson. They threw to him five times, and
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be a sneaky PPR. Not nine times,
Speaker 1: but not top nine times. Uh, what's who's next? Think
Speaker 1: it's me Houston of Kansas City. Deshaun Watson had one
Speaker 1: pass for four yards. Uh, Lamar Miller, we should talk
Speaker 1: about Jordan Nakins Moore, Let's not do that. What do
Speaker 1: we have left? I think we're done? Are we done?
Speaker 1: All right? Good? Because we're overdue for a break when
Speaker 1: we come back. What do we have next? Hold on
Speaker 1: the peak Off. We're gonna talk about cock off receivers, right, No,
Speaker 1: we're doing the peacock Off next. Yeah, the peacock Off.
Speaker 1: Bold predictions from each of our host that later on
Speaker 1: in the season, we'll be peacocking about how we got
Speaker 1: this right, and it seemed absurd way back in the
Speaker 1: middle of getting ready here. Yeah, your plumages is all
Speaker 1: over the place. It is Fantasy Football Weekly, year number
Speaker 1: twenty four, Live from Newell, Minnesota at the Shells Brewery.
Speaker 1: Listinct of Fantasy Football Weekly on the fan. Welcome second
Speaker 1: woll Little Still Still Brewery. Are you on a breath?
Speaker 1: I am a little lot of breath and running around. Yeah,
Speaker 1: this is fantastic. ADP just rose like ten spots through
Speaker 1: the tables. Pretty impressive, wasn't it. The spin move and
Speaker 1: the lead was was the best part mid season for me.
Speaker 1: We've we've got so many more people this year than
Speaker 1: last year. We need to run more copies of the
Speaker 1: Chee Chee, so I was trying to get all that accomplished.
Speaker 1: And people are gonna come around and distribute more of those,
Speaker 1: which is great. So yes, let's talk now. The Shells
Speaker 1: Beer Garden is beautiful for a lot of reasons, not
Speaker 1: the least of which are the free roaming peacocks, of
Speaker 1: which remember last year we had the peacock on the
Speaker 1: roof right there, and the peacock was interrupting our show
Speaker 1: and it was great and we loved that we loved
Speaker 1: that this year, we the peacocks are somewhere We've seen them,
Speaker 1: but they haven't. They haven't. They are not integrated into
Speaker 1: our show yet. Took a selfie with one pre show.
Speaker 1: It was it was pretty nice. I think that's pretty
Speaker 1: weird to be honest about that. Yeah. Um, alright, so
Speaker 1: what I want to do is talk. This is the
Speaker 1: Peacock Off, a bold prediction segment. Things that most normal
Speaker 1: people would never think to be true. But you're gonna
Speaker 1: go out on a limb on and make your case
Speaker 1: and then hopefully later on in the season you'll be
Speaker 1: peacocking about how you got this correct. Brian, Let's start
Speaker 1: with you. Alright. Uh, so this doesn't matter if you're
Speaker 1: in a one quarterback or a super flex league. Um,
Speaker 1: you can basically wait very long a quarterback. Select from
Speaker 1: one of two guys who we're gonna finish inside the
Speaker 1: top twelve A quarterback who are going well outside the
Speaker 1: top twenty A quarterback, and that's Eli Manning and former
Speaker 1: Viking case Keenum now Roy Broncos. So you're saying, if
Speaker 1: I am in a one quarterback or if I'm in
Speaker 1: a flex or a two quarterback league, a two quarterback.
Speaker 1: If you're in one quarterback, wait till the later rounds.
Speaker 1: Grab one of these guys. Let's talk about on both.
Speaker 1: First off, Eli has the eighth easiest schedule and Keenum
Speaker 1: the ninth according to Fantasy pros um. Looking at him
Speaker 1: a little more individually, let's start with Eli. So right now,
Speaker 1: te Kwon Barkley is getting drafted around RB seven, Odell Beckham,
Speaker 1: wide receiver three, Evan Ingraham inside the top five. If
Speaker 1: that holds true. If in ninety nine times in NFL history,
Speaker 1: which teammates running back, white, receiver, tight end have finished
Speaker 1: inside the top twelve at their respective positions, and in
Speaker 1: those nine times that's happened, the average finished for a
Speaker 1: quarterback is QB six. So if you're believing in Barkley
Speaker 1: and Beckham and Ingram, how is Eli not gonna get
Speaker 1: it done as well? So I'm liking him in late rounds.
Speaker 1: And yes I'm a Giants fan, but I'm going to
Speaker 1: poop poo on a Giant later in the show. So
Speaker 1: bas I know, I think there's I think there's some
Speaker 1: validity to that. If you think Odell Beckham's the top
Speaker 1: three wide receiver and you think having ingered the top
Speaker 1: five tight end and you think se Kwon Barkley's canna
Speaker 1: catch fifty paths. Somebody's gotta somebody's gotta district Sterling Shepherd
Speaker 1: not to Chevy either. So I'm like in Eli and
Speaker 1: uh to keen them real quick. Now. In Denver, I
Speaker 1: loved Mary's Thomas and Manny Sanders. Keenham is a huge
Speaker 1: upgrade over Trevor Simeon, Paxton Lynch, whatever else they ran
Speaker 1: out there last year. More than six percent of Denver's
Speaker 1: touchdowns came via the past last year. I expect that
Speaker 1: re show to stay at least the same and the
Speaker 1: touchdown total to rise. I don't trust the running game
Speaker 1: at all. Uh, this is this team is gonna be
Speaker 1: on case with shoulders and uh the best part about
Speaker 1: it to revenge games this year against the Rams and
Speaker 1: the Texans. So that's eight touchdowns guaranteed. And then uh,
Speaker 1: great playoffs schedule to Week fourteen at San fran then
Speaker 1: Cleveland and at Oakland. That's gonna win you titles of
Speaker 1: during the playoffs. And got keen Um on your oster
Speaker 1: that give us your first peacock off. I'm really excited
Speaker 1: about this. A player that's near and dear to your heart.
Speaker 1: All right, Eric Ebron, gross, Yeah, I guess what he's
Speaker 1: gonna finish as a top ten tight end this year?
Speaker 1: He's not. Yes, he's currently going off the board his
Speaker 1: tight end number twenty two. Jeez, people are trying to
Speaker 1: eat here. But he's with Andrew Luck, your guy, h
Speaker 1: and Andrew and Andrew Lucks best healthy season, the Colts
Speaker 1: had the best team tight end fantasy statistics in the league.
Speaker 1: They were number one for the tight end position. That
Speaker 1: was with Duane Allen and Jack Doyle. That team was
Speaker 1: top five and receptions and yards and finished second in
Speaker 1: the league tight end touchdowns. Last season without Luck, Jack
Speaker 1: Doyle still finished as the ninth best fantasy tight end.
Speaker 1: What you may not have realized as Eric Ebron finished
Speaker 1: as the fourteenth best tight end last year on Alliance
Speaker 1: Wow and yeah they and they liked him so much
Speaker 1: the Hi Yeah, let him walk away. They know everything
Speaker 1: about Eric Ebron. They've seen every snap, every practice, and
Speaker 1: they said, you know what, Eric, feel free to leave
Speaker 1: Detroit and never come back. Well, guess what else. Frank
Speaker 1: Reich took over as the head coach of the Indianapolis
Speaker 1: Colts this year. He came from a tight end heavy system,
Speaker 1: the team tight end champion last year, the Philadelphia Eagles.
Speaker 1: Philadelphia had a hundred and ten receptions and fourteen touchdowns
Speaker 1: last year from their tight ends through to top it off,
Speaker 1: Indianapolis has the second easiest tight end schedule for the
Speaker 1: season according to Fantasy Pros. So, I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot of room to eat. T Y Hilton's the only
Speaker 1: wide receiver they got that you would take run head
Speaker 1: of Jack Doyle both can I can, I can wait,
Speaker 1: I can wait, watch Jack Doyle go, and then I
Speaker 1: can take really late. All right, how much you want
Speaker 1: to read into this, but uh, within the last get
Speaker 1: in the preseason game, Luck dropped back twelve times to
Speaker 1: pass this first two drives, Doyle ran eleven route and
Speaker 1: the Vron ran five. So that's twice as much work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we asked for bold they're they're they're keeping it under wraps.
Speaker 1: We asked for bold predictions, not clinically insane predictions. There's
Speaker 1: a narrow, narrow margin there. Uh. Patrick Mahomes is going
Speaker 1: to finish just the top ten quarterback. No, he's not.
Speaker 1: He is Virtually every rather ingredient in the recipe for
Speaker 1: success for a young quarterback is present in Patrick Mahomes. First,
Speaker 1: he's he was a first round talent. Chief's moved out
Speaker 1: to get him. Uh, this is a coaching staff with
Speaker 1: a lot of experience cultivating quarterbacks. Say what you want.
Speaker 1: With Andy Reid. He can't win in the playoffs, he
Speaker 1: can't get to the super Bowl or win the super Bowl.
Speaker 1: But what he can do is get good play out
Speaker 1: of his quarterbacks. He's done it, oh, all of the
Speaker 1: time throughout his lengthy career, both in Philadelphia and resurrecting
Speaker 1: Alex Smith's career. Also, Patrick Mahomes had the luxury of
Speaker 1: learning from the sidelines for one year. That's fantastic. I
Speaker 1: don't like throwing rookies out to the wolves if they're
Speaker 1: not ready and forcing them to learn on the job
Speaker 1: and develop bad habits and get skaish and everything else.
Speaker 1: I like that. Tons of receiving talent for Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: Kelsey Watkins, Hill, and he can throw to his running backs.
Speaker 1: Hunt is a great pass catching running back as well,
Speaker 1: So plenty of talent around him, and maybe most importantly,
Speaker 1: he's got the mobility to produce rushing production. He's I'm
Speaker 1: not saying he's Deshaun Watson, but he he is nimble,
Speaker 1: he can get downfield, and they're gonna let him run
Speaker 1: some Alex Smith ran a bunch. You know, this isn't
Speaker 1: a coaching staff. It's gonna force him to be a
Speaker 1: pocket passer. They're gonna utilize the speed he brings to
Speaker 1: the position in much the same way that they did
Speaker 1: last year with Alex Smith, when in every scoring system
Speaker 1: Alex Smith was the top six quarterback last year. Plus,
Speaker 1: unlike Alex Smith, you get a cannon for an arm.
Speaker 1: He's got a blonkers. He might have the the second, third,
Speaker 1: fourth strongest arm in the NFL. Patrick Mahomes will finish
Speaker 1: as a top ten quarterback. All right, let's go to
Speaker 1: your second peacock off. So Evan Engram is going to
Speaker 1: finish inside the top twenty among among wide receivers this season. Okay,
Speaker 1: not a wide receiver. Let's um to clarify. How's it
Speaker 1: gonna work. He's not even when it comes to your
Speaker 1: roster among wide receivers. He will be in the top
Speaker 1: twenty in terms of points. But yes, you play him
Speaker 1: at tight end. Stand that? Okay, your fantasy team. So
Speaker 1: he's a tight end. But if I were to take
Speaker 1: his fantasy points at the end of the year and
Speaker 1: look at those compared to the top twenty wide receivers,
Speaker 1: his fantasy points are being there. That's what you're saying, Yes,
Speaker 1: required that much, but yes it will because he's primarily Yes,
Speaker 1: wind up and we're getting this minute of my life
Speaker 1: back throughout throughout training camp. He's playing wide receiver. He
Speaker 1: will not be blocking, movie blocking and uh. In fifteen
Speaker 1: games last year, Evan Angram had sixty four catches, seven
Speaker 1: twenty two yards and six touchdowns. He'll need seventy five catches,
Speaker 1: nine yards and around nine touchdowns to finish inside the
Speaker 1: top twenty, he thinks. And he's gonna get there with
Speaker 1: Beckham in in the mix and Barkley of course healthy.
Speaker 1: Raham was the prime focus for defenses last year who
Speaker 1: have a lot of room to run, and he's going
Speaker 1: to play wide receiver this year. He's gonna play wide receiver. Yes,
Speaker 1: So he's gonna be lining up on the outside line
Speaker 1: of Derby's blaze, not blocking, and he is. He might
Speaker 1: have more fancy points in Odell Beckham this year. Whoa
Speaker 1: go there? That would have been That would have been
Speaker 1: i'd have been good right there. I'm gonna tell you
Speaker 1: not to draft Godell Beckham in the next segment. So
Speaker 1: I've got Evan Ingram is my number four tight end.
Speaker 1: He'll finish in the top three. He'll finish in the
Speaker 1: top three. I like it, all right. Obviously I'm not
Speaker 1: obviously I'm on board with seven ing You haven't. No
Speaker 1: one thinks he's gonna finish the head of arts, and
Speaker 1: I like it all right. That could have been your
Speaker 1: pea cock off right there, all right after, can you
Speaker 1: follow up your Eric Ebron something that makes an I
Speaker 1: owed a more sense it. This one hurts something actually
Speaker 1: actionable by our listening audience. Yeah, you said Patrick Mahomes.
Speaker 1: But I'd say the guy who just left Kansas City.
Speaker 1: That's Alex Smith. He's going to finish as a top
Speaker 1: ten quarterback, currently going off the board as quarterback twenty
Speaker 1: and if you're drafting on Yahoo for some reason, he's
Speaker 1: going off the board as quarterback twenty nine, which I
Speaker 1: don't get. Um. Yes, you know that I can run
Speaker 1: the ball anymore and wash that's true. So his weapons
Speaker 1: changed from hunt Hill Kelsey to Jamison Crowder, Paul Richardson
Speaker 1: Jordan Reed and Chris Thompson. That's certainly depressing, Um, but
Speaker 1: don't forget that he finished last season is the sixth
Speaker 1: ranked fantasy quarterback, and Jake Gruden, his new head coach,
Speaker 1: had Kirk Cousins over the last three years. Cousins finished
Speaker 1: as the worth, third and ninth best fantasy quarterback over
Speaker 1: the last three seasons. Washington faces the second easiest quarterback
Speaker 1: schedule according to Fantasy Pros, and the easiest wide receiver
Speaker 1: schedule in the league. While they're running backs that are
Speaker 1: terrible face the third hardest running back schedule in the league.
Speaker 1: They're going to pass all over the place, and Smith
Speaker 1: doesn't throw picks. He's thrown eight or fewer interceptions in
Speaker 1: each of the last seven seasons. He's also a sneaky
Speaker 1: good runner top two or fifty rushing yards in four
Speaker 1: of the last five seasons. He'll he'll add to that,
Speaker 1: they're they're just gonna throw constantly. I think there's something
Speaker 1: to that. I like this angle lot more than so.
Speaker 1: I can take my tinfoil hat off. Um. Last one,
Speaker 1: I'll make a quick stee We need to take a break.
Speaker 1: Already already alluded to Marshawn Lynch. I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: double his fantasy points from last year and even start
Speaker 1: fantasy points last year. So it's not even saying a lot,
Speaker 1: but he will double his fantasy points, so that will
Speaker 1: launch him into an excellent strata for your fantasy team.
Speaker 1: This isn't supposed to be funny predictions. Everybody's laughing out
Speaker 1: there right now. No, they're not there. They think, uh
Speaker 1: I alluded to this last segment. People think he was
Speaker 1: bad last year. He wasn't bad. He was just underused.
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus ranked him eleventh among all backs last year.
Speaker 1: The Raiders only gave him fourteen touches a game. It
Speaker 1: was ridiculous. He was one of the He's one of
Speaker 1: the NFL's few workhorse backs. There's nobody that's going to
Speaker 1: take meaningful reps away from him. Here's number one in
Speaker 1: past protection on the running backs in in the NFL.
Speaker 1: Last year, He'll be on the field for third down.
Speaker 1: And then there's this John Gruden loves to run the ball.
Speaker 1: I went back and ran the numbers on all of
Speaker 1: John Gruden's runs versus passes as an offensive coordinator or
Speaker 1: a head coach. He ran his he passed the ball
Speaker 1: on of his place, which sounds like a lot, but
Speaker 1: it really isn't. Last year, if you ran, if you
Speaker 1: passed the ball of the time, you were actually running
Speaker 1: the ball the ninth most times. So, applying what he
Speaker 1: has done his historically two last season's numbers on run pass,
Speaker 1: he would run the ball the ninth most times in
Speaker 1: the NFL if he does what he had done throughout
Speaker 1: his previous careers. So Mars Shawn Lynch my guy and
Speaker 1: running back number sixteen. All right, we'll take a break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, Brian, we'll tell you about three
Speaker 1: wide receivers that have brutally tough matchups with cornerbacks throughout
Speaker 1: the course of the season that may want to affect
Speaker 1: your rankings and the way you think about these players.
Speaker 1: All that, and Martin, we come back to New All,
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Speaker 1: Victory on Sundays comes from listening to these guys on Saturday.
Speaker 1: This is Fantasy Football Weekly on the Fan. Welcome back
Speaker 1: to Newall, Minnesota, the Shells of Brewery. Yeah, we've got
Speaker 1: I don't know, at least a hundred twenty people, maybe
Speaker 1: fantastic have so many fantasy football loving rubes just like me.
Speaker 1: Well better looking than me, but just like me in
Speaker 1: that one regard. You love fantasy football, and they hope
Speaker 1: they don't love Marshawn Lynch as much as you either.
Speaker 1: Now they really should. By the way, his ADP is ridiculous.
Speaker 1: We were talking about that in the audience a little bit.
Speaker 1: I think right now he's like running back thirty thirty
Speaker 1: two going off the board. It's ridiculous, workhorse back run
Speaker 1: for system and he's good. You know what your is? Right?
Speaker 1: Are you? Are you from the past. Marshawn Lynch is timeless, Frank.
Speaker 1: It's time Frank can do it. Marsa all right, Brian,
Speaker 1: this is your chance to step up, and I'll mention this.
Speaker 1: If it's not here, it's never happening. Uh. I've, I've,
Speaker 1: I've We've assigned you this job, I think in three
Speaker 1: straight years now to help unearth a a a series
Speaker 1: of receivers that are notable receivers that people are depending on.
Speaker 1: But I've got brutally tough schedules because most people don't
Speaker 1: get that granular with the schedule and start looking at
Speaker 1: cornerback matchups. But that's what I've asked you to do.
Speaker 1: It was a big job, and now we get the results.
Speaker 1: What do you got? Yeah, not just the corner matchups,
Speaker 1: but just some just you know, some other factors will
Speaker 1: come into play too. So I've been given the Giants
Speaker 1: a lot of love this show, Eli Ingram. I'm going
Speaker 1: to do the opposite with Odell Beckham here. Uh, right now,
Speaker 1: he's going twelve overall on average is wide receiver three.
Speaker 1: So if you're sitting on the clock and you're wanted
Speaker 1: to pick Beckham, uh cannot fault you. Uh. It's it's
Speaker 1: big name and uh, you know obviously and obviously he's
Speaker 1: really really good. So there's that. But there might be
Speaker 1: if you want to go wide receiver, there might be
Speaker 1: another guy you take over him. But let's look at
Speaker 1: why you would, uh maybe fade Beckham on draft day? Uh,
Speaker 1: starting Week one home versus Jacksonville, brutal roadblock. Right there,
Speaker 1: best secondary of the NFL, and his first came back
Speaker 1: off a c L. Jack's only about eight touchdowns of
Speaker 1: wide receivers last year. Awful matchup, could probably get it.
Speaker 1: He can get it done against anyone, but brutal matchup.
Speaker 1: On to Week two, at Dallas. Not that scary of
Speaker 1: a matchup Byron Jones and shadoube A wooz A not
Speaker 1: a formidable formatable corner duo by any means. But Beckham's
Speaker 1: catch totals in the last four game four games against
Speaker 1: Dallas four, four, four, and five just one touchdown on
Speaker 1: those four So for whatever reason, he's been struggling against
Speaker 1: the Cowboys when he's not making one handed UH circus
Speaker 1: catches UH. Week three at Houston, Jonathan Joseph used to
Speaker 1: be one of the most kind of in the twilight
Speaker 1: of his career. They do have Kevin Johnson, who's in
Speaker 1: a contract year right now, only played twelve games last year.
Speaker 1: Was are from a percent UH. Texans were shredded by
Speaker 1: wide receivers last year, allowed eighteen touchdowns to the position.
Speaker 1: They did address of the safety position with their top
Speaker 1: pick in the draft. This is a neutral matchup, borderline tough,
Speaker 1: don't hate it, but not a great one by any means.
Speaker 1: But the next week, Week four at home against New Orleans,
Speaker 1: probably the second best secondary in the NFL right now
Speaker 1: in my opinion, with Marshawn Lattimore and Ken Crawley at cornerback.
Speaker 1: Only allowed eleven touchdowns to wide receivers last season. That'd
Speaker 1: be the Saints. The Saints direct they allowed quite a
Speaker 1: few Stefan digs though, yeah maybe ah yeah, So here
Speaker 1: my boy album. Kamara was saying about the Vikings. They
Speaker 1: played each other this year, So who's uh after you?
Speaker 1: Do you have you have data for Odell beyond the Saints?
Speaker 1: I do Week five the Carolina This is probably his
Speaker 1: best matchup of the stretch. They were brutal against the
Speaker 1: past last year. They did spend second and third round
Speaker 1: picks on corners in the draft, but the secondaries have
Speaker 1: been a rebuild. So you gotta like beck him in
Speaker 1: that matchup? Uh, next or the next week? I don't
Speaker 1: like though, And that's Philly And you used to love
Speaker 1: your wide receivers going up against the Eagles last year.
Speaker 1: Not last year. Wide receivers only scored in eight of
Speaker 1: sixteen games against the Eagles, but over the previous it's
Speaker 1: amazed by the way. That's pretty amazing. Yes, and considering
Speaker 1: this and the two seasons prior, wide receivers scored at
Speaker 1: least once in twenty seven of thirty two games against
Speaker 1: Philly for forty two total touchdowns, but Jalen Mills and
Speaker 1: Ronald Darby have totally turned the tides for that secondary.
Speaker 1: Beckham did have nine catches for seventy nine yards and
Speaker 1: two touchdowns in Week three last year against Philly, but
Speaker 1: Ronald Darby did not play in that game. And uh,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be a bad matchup for a lot
Speaker 1: of wide receivers this season Philly on like past years.
Speaker 1: And then I'm gonna run through these real quick at
Speaker 1: Atlanta next week. Desmond Truefont, Robert Robert Alford Week eight
Speaker 1: home versus Washington. Do you believe Josh Norman returns to form.
Speaker 1: I kind of think he will. He was in a
Speaker 1: shutdown corner when he sit in form. That's a tough matchup,
Speaker 1: and then Week nins is by so and then those
Speaker 1: other factors Sequan Barkley, Evan Ingram balls to go around.
Speaker 1: So I love Beckham, obviously he can get it done
Speaker 1: against anyone one of the best wide receivers in the league.
Speaker 1: But I am going to take Keenan Allen over Odell
Speaker 1: Beckham on draft day. If I am resigned to drafting
Speaker 1: a wide receiver in the first round, I'm totally should
Speaker 1: be well so on your if I don't know that
Speaker 1: you publish a cheat sheet. If you publish a cheat cheet,
Speaker 1: you would actually have Keenan Allen ahead of Odell Beckham.
Speaker 1: Wide receiver three. Kanan Allen absolute monster when healthy, and
Speaker 1: he runs about half the snaps from the slot and
Speaker 1: that's not a bad thing because the inferior cornerbacks usually sometimes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't get all over the place. But um, I
Speaker 1: love his schedule week home a week one home versus
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Um, week do it buffalo? Who is this? Uh?
Speaker 1: This is Keenan all all right. So now we're shifting
Speaker 1: to a guy you do want to take. I'm draft
Speaker 1: think Keenan Allen ober Odell Beckham. Basically, if you're gonna
Speaker 1: take Odell Beckham, I'm telling you to take Keenan Allen. Um,
Speaker 1: for the sake of time, we might just want to
Speaker 1: focus on the guys that we don't want to Uh,
Speaker 1: we do not want to take. Sweet let me just momentarily,
Speaker 1: all right, let me just tell you this. Keenan Allen
Speaker 1: won't see Denver until mid November. The hardest matchup on
Speaker 1: his schedule in that secondaries. Nothing that wasn't passed. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's just got an amazing schedule. And I had a
Speaker 1: lot more good stuff to say. Maybe I'll put it
Speaker 1: on a Twitter. But well, for the people who are here,
Speaker 1: they can chat with you on the break. That good. Alright, alright,
Speaker 1: next guy. And this this pains me to say I'm
Speaker 1: not drafting Davanta Adams. Last year I professed my love
Speaker 1: for him wide receiver seven. I think we're right here,
Speaker 1: but man brutal stretch for him starting Week one, UH
Speaker 1: home versus Chicago. Uh. He didn't score on both meetings
Speaker 1: last year, but total just one hundred yards. Kyle Fuller,
Speaker 1: great corner, but then he got Minnesota. Obviously. Rhodes closed
Speaker 1: Trey Wayne's Week three at Washington Josh Norman. Week four, Buffalo,
Speaker 1: they allowed eight wide touchdowns to wide receivers. Last everybody
Speaker 1: ran on Buffalo cope be so you didn't even bother
Speaker 1: the pass. Week five at Detroit Darius Slay. They did
Speaker 1: not score against Detroit. Last year, Yon's only allowed nine
Speaker 1: wide receiver touchdowns and two wide receivers hit the hundred
Speaker 1: yard of watermark against them last year. Week six against
Speaker 1: San Francisco, that's a good matchup. Week seven by Week eight,
Speaker 1: the Rams, the Rams, you might want to bench all
Speaker 1: wide receivers against the Rams this year. With the action
Speaker 1: Marcus Peters keep to leeb that defense, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: an absolute night er. So that is a brutal matchup
Speaker 1: at New England is no good in Week nine for Adams.
Speaker 1: In Week ten home versus Miami, Xavian Howard is a
Speaker 1: corner you might have not heard of. Only two wide
Speaker 1: receivers the hundred yard marketains at Dolphins last season, and
Speaker 1: only one wide receiver touchdown over their final six games
Speaker 1: were allowed by the Dolphins. So I am all out
Speaker 1: on Davante Adams. And because of the acquisition of Jimmy
Speaker 1: Graham too, and Matt you've got some red zone stats
Speaker 1: for Jimmy Graham, I don't know off the top of
Speaker 1: your head, but yeah, the Packers last healthy season, uh
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers through a hundred and fifteen red zone pass
Speaker 1: attempts and completed third be three red zone touchdowns. Jimmy
Speaker 1: Graham was the leader in red zone targets, receptions and
Speaker 1: touchdowns last season. Okay, Yeah, that was that was Adams
Speaker 1: primary role based on anybody, everybody, all right? Yeah? And
Speaker 1: then uh so real quick and we talked about a J.
Speaker 1: Green quick. So if you're thinking Adams, I'm drafting AJ Green.
Speaker 1: There's only three trouble spots in his first ten weeks.
Speaker 1: Week five at Miami. We discussed them. He's got a
Speaker 1: body week nine and then week ten against New Orleans.
Speaker 1: But he's got nothing in terms of shut corners on
Speaker 1: his schedule. There's no Jalen Ramsey, there's no Xavier Rods,
Speaker 1: there's no Pat Peterson. And then in week fifteen and sixteen,
Speaker 1: he's got Oakland and Cleveland like AJ Green over Adams
Speaker 1: all day. All right, well done, we got any time?
Speaker 1: Not really? Okay? Can you don't draft Davis? Draft Emmanuel Sanders? Perfect? Alright?
Speaker 1: I was. I don't think I was gonna draft Corey
Speaker 1: Davis anyway. People are he's throwing wide receiver twenty eight.
Speaker 1: People are, that's too high it is to have. I
Speaker 1: guess that's just right. That was perfect. They got it
Speaker 1: just right, real quick. Miami, Houston, Jacksonville, Philly, Buffalo with
Speaker 1: the first five for Corey Davis. Brutal. When we come back,
Speaker 1: five hot questions, five hot questions, you get to play along.
Speaker 1: We'll see if anybody in our our audience here can
Speaker 1: go five and oh and if you can, Matt will
Speaker 1: buy you a grain belt or I got a couple
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Speaker 1: We could we have T shirts as well. You can't lie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's just today. This is really much more of a
Speaker 1: truth test to our audience. We'll see if you can
Speaker 1: go five and oh and our five hot questions when
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Speaker 1: you know, sometimes it just works out that way that
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Speaker 1: And if that means just all the schedules don't work
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Speaker 1: For a lot of us, it's the only time that
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Speaker 1: hot question number one. Andrew Lux started the first Precinct
Speaker 1: season game last Thursday and gives the appearance of being
Speaker 1: ready to start Week one. Two years ago he finished
Speaker 1: as the fourth best fantasy quarterback. Two years before that,
Speaker 1: he was the number one fantasy quarterback. Will he finished
Speaker 1: as a top five quarterback this year? Matt Um No,
Speaker 1: he won't. Um. I think that he's he's the ten
Speaker 1: of people here. Know. You had a constipated look on
Speaker 1: your face when you said that, Yeah, it was a
Speaker 1: long night last night. And what's the snell up here?
Speaker 1: A lot and a lot of cheese, apparently, um. Andrew
Speaker 1: Lux currently going off the boards the tenth quarterback, that
Speaker 1: number slowly rising. I think he hits value, but I
Speaker 1: don't think he pops into the top five. Um he
Speaker 1: played in only seven games in didn't play at all
Speaker 1: last year. And this is mostly because the quarterback competition
Speaker 1: is so tough right now. We in our peacock off,
Speaker 1: we just like cited four guys that we thought we're
Speaker 1: gonna be top ten quarterbacks. And also the top ten
Speaker 1: is actually about sixteen guys exactly. So if healthy Russell Wilson,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers almost certainly top five quarterbacks, then
Speaker 1: you mix in Drew Brees, Cam Newton, Deshaun Watson, Carson Wentz,
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins, and charges guy Jimmy Garoppolo. All those guys
Speaker 1: could be in the mix for a top five quarterback
Speaker 1: spot if we can guarantee a full sixteen games. I
Speaker 1: think he finishes top ten, but not top five. Brian
Speaker 1: Well Andrew Luck finishes the top five quarterback this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: not much to add. He does have the six easiest
Speaker 1: skit all according to Fantasy Pros for quarterbacks, but yeah,
Speaker 1: I just don't see him beating out one of Rogers, Wilson, Breze,
Speaker 1: Brady or Cam. Those are my top five in that order.
Speaker 1: Didn't even mention Shaun Watson. So no, yeah, sorry Luck, No, Uh,
Speaker 1: the answer is no, uh, he may not be allowed
Speaker 1: to run. And I think you guys didn't emphasize this enough. Um,
Speaker 1: his solid rushing numbers are really what powered him to
Speaker 1: that fourth overall finished, that first overall finished, and I
Speaker 1: don't I think with the shoulder they're gonna be really
Speaker 1: cautious with him. And then there's you know, there's just
Speaker 1: playing now more other elite mobile quarterbacks. Did you have
Speaker 1: to get pass to get into the top five like
Speaker 1: Cam Newton and Russell Wilson. He has to get by
Speaker 1: elite passing quarterbacks like Brady Breeze, Stafford Rivers, Wentz, all
Speaker 1: excellent passers. And then I look at the dearth of
Speaker 1: receiving talent on the team. How many people here can
Speaker 1: even name a wide receiver other than t Y Hilton
Speaker 1: on this team? Anybody go Ryan Grant, we got one, hooray,
Speaker 1: Jester Rogers, I got all right, So we got two guys.
Speaker 1: You can name anybody else? Like it's bad. Now I
Speaker 1: realized Eric Ebron is gonna have touchdowns that that'll propel
Speaker 1: Luck to a top five correct answer is no. Oh,
Speaker 1: how many people are still in? Yeah? How many people?
Speaker 1: How many people alive through one question? We have very
Speaker 1: honest crowd. We're already down to like twenty out of twenty. Alright.
Speaker 1: They thought your love for luck would would overcome everything. No,
Speaker 1: not here, We're brutally rational. I'm Fantasy Football Weekly. All right,
Speaker 1: let's move on question number two. It's the fourth round
Speaker 1: and the big three tight ends Gronk, Kelsey and Earth's
Speaker 1: are gone. Should you go for a tier two tight
Speaker 1: end now while you can or continue to ignore the
Speaker 1: position for quite a while? Brian I was shocked to
Speaker 1: see it over the last month. It seems like Jimmy
Speaker 1: Graham and Greg Olsen have a leap for Evan Ingram
Speaker 1: and a DP as tight end four and five, and
Speaker 1: Ingram's at six. Now, Um, of course you're surprised, giants, guy, Yeah,
Speaker 1: didn't I go over and finish this tight end three?
Speaker 1: So it's pretty obvious that I will take Evan Ingram
Speaker 1: happily in the fifth round. Uh. Mostly, yes, you're saying
Speaker 1: go for a tier two tight end now. But the problem,
Speaker 1: you know, is this question is wrong because Ingram is
Speaker 1: a Tier one tight end. So it doesn't really. Yes,
Speaker 1: I'm taking Evan Ingram all day long. All right, Matt,
Speaker 1: So I get to take a tight end in the
Speaker 1: next few rounds. What This is a pretty ambiguous question.
Speaker 1: It's a little end, big us what I was trying
Speaker 1: not to box you into. So so like by the
Speaker 1: eighth round, Okay, I'll take Kyle Rudolph. Alright, skull Vikings.
Speaker 1: See I played around, that's right. Uh, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of tight ends I really like in the late rounds.
Speaker 1: Last week. I mentioned Tyler Eiffert as my sleeper, but
Speaker 1: I want to draft Kyle Rudolph. Um, you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to probably reach round to do it in Minnesota because
Speaker 1: we we know what's up here in Minnesota. Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: said it was like throwing to a mattress. Yeah he did. Mattress. Yeah,
Speaker 1: like a king size mattress. He's such an easy target.
Speaker 1: Can a mattress catchy? Yeah? It'll just stick in. That's brilliant. Uh.
Speaker 1: What is Kyle Rudolph's sleep number? Like? Is it zero?
Speaker 1: It just sinks right, And I don't know. Uh. Cousins
Speaker 1: has always relied on his tight ends in the red zone.
Speaker 1: See Jordan Reed and Vernon Davis last year, and John D.
Speaker 1: Filippo came from the Eagles organization. I already mentioned the
Speaker 1: Eagles really like to focus on their tight ends last
Speaker 1: year a lot in the red zone as well. All
Speaker 1: signs point to Kyle Rudolph being a difference maker this year.
Speaker 1: He might even usurp one of those top three tight ends.
Speaker 1: In my mind, finishing the top three. The correct answer
Speaker 1: is ignore the position. And wait, here's why, Thank you good,
Speaker 1: we got a lot. I have a lot of support
Speaker 1: for this already. Here's why. The second year tight ends
Speaker 1: don't give you any more predictable production, don't give you
Speaker 1: enough predictable production. We don't know. We don't know what's
Speaker 1: going to happen with any of those guys. For sure.
Speaker 1: We can open dream, you know, but we don't have
Speaker 1: any We don't have any way to say that even
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram or Trey Burton or is Greg Olsen gonna
Speaker 1: stay healthy? Is Trey Burton suddenly gonna be a power
Speaker 1: for the Bears. Is Jimmy Graham gonna do anything other
Speaker 1: than catch to touch? This is the one thing we
Speaker 1: don't We don't know anything going into this. Here's what
Speaker 1: you do know if we if we look at last year,
Speaker 1: once you get last year's results, once you got to
Speaker 1: tight end five, you were already at half of the
Speaker 1: fantasy points on average of the top five. So once
Speaker 1: you've fallen off the cliff, you may as well just
Speaker 1: get value at other positions because you're already over the cliff.
Speaker 1: If you're not gonna get one of the elite guys
Speaker 1: we've got for late round guys, I would rather roll
Speaker 1: the dice on is this a year that Jordan Reeds
Speaker 1: stay us healthy? I'll try that, David and Joku, I'll
Speaker 1: try Tyler Raifords. I told you I love Bengals Ei.
Speaker 1: There are other guys that I will try. And even
Speaker 1: if that, if that means I'd rather use my fourth
Speaker 1: round pick, my fifth round pick on much more of
Speaker 1: a sure thing like I'd like, I'd rather go get
Speaker 1: a Mary Cooper as one example. Dan, try to roll
Speaker 1: the dice and and hope that Greg Olsen is gonna
Speaker 1: stay healthy this season, Evan Ingram is gonna outscore Martin.
Speaker 1: Let's see what we got left? What do we got?
Speaker 1: What do we got left here? Oh? Yeah, how many
Speaker 1: people are still alive? All right? One? Two? Three, five, six, seven, eight, nine, sixteen,
Speaker 1: about thirty people. Let's move on to hot question number three.
Speaker 1: Say Kwan Barkley is the obvious number one rookie runner.
Speaker 1: Darius Guys was the obvious I think pretty obvious number
Speaker 1: two runner. Not anymore. Who's now the number two rookie
Speaker 1: running back? This is gonna be tough. Let's go to
Speaker 1: Matt Well. Now it's down to Ronald Jones Jr. Rashad Penny,
Speaker 1: and Sony Michelle. In my mind, I think ron Jones
Speaker 1: has the clearest path to playing time, but that offense
Speaker 1: is in flux. I believe Dirk Cutter is the first
Speaker 1: coach to get fired this season, So things are things
Speaker 1: are gonna be bad in Tampa. I think there's a
Speaker 1: real chance you're write about all of that. Yeah, Rashad
Speaker 1: Penny was a first round pick, but he's getting beat
Speaker 1: out currently by Chris Carson and Camp. That offensive line
Speaker 1: is horrible. And get this, the Seahawks backfield was historically
Speaker 1: bad in the red zone last year. Inside the ten
Speaker 1: yard line, Seattle running backs head twenty carries for negative
Speaker 1: three yards last year. Do you know how hard it
Speaker 1: is to do that? That's impossible? Do you know you
Speaker 1: can fall forward forward nine yard human, absolutely, and if
Speaker 1: you stretched out, probably more than that. So the answer
Speaker 1: is it's Sony Michelle, it's Churches guy. That's going to
Speaker 1: be the answer here. I know the knee injury scary,
Speaker 1: but if he's exactly what Dion Lewis was last year,
Speaker 1: he's the top ten back. If he's better, which the
Speaker 1: Patriots had to believe to spend a first round pick
Speaker 1: at him, he's gonna be scary good. Brian, uh, even
Speaker 1: before the injuries to Michelle and guys, I wasn't super
Speaker 1: high on those guys. I'm not super high on any
Speaker 1: of these running backs outside of Barkley. So that's not
Speaker 1: the question. It's not the question, but the question hold
Speaker 1: on the question was when you sent it the number
Speaker 1: one rookie runner, you didn't say running back. So the
Speaker 1: number one runner outside of Jackson, Lamar Jackson, and you
Speaker 1: should go number two. And I don't care what your
Speaker 1: settings are. He's the next Michael Vick. But righty, and
Speaker 1: he doesn't dogs Lamar Jackson the number two rookie runner
Speaker 1: behind se Kwon Barkley put it on wax, all right,
Speaker 1: it's not the peacock off anymore the correct The correct
Speaker 1: answer is, in fact, Sony Michelle, h for all the
Speaker 1: reasons Matt gave you, but I will add this in addition,
Speaker 1: to be a first round talent on an extremely high
Speaker 1: functioning offense. And I know he's we're not going to
Speaker 1: see him for the preseason with the with the injury Scott,
Speaker 1: and that's just gonna pound down his his his average
Speaker 1: draft position, which I love. But here's a statue you
Speaker 1: probably don't know. New England has the most rushing attempts
Speaker 1: and rushing touchdowns inside the five yard line over the
Speaker 1: last five years. Belichick loves to use his runners, last
Speaker 1: five of them. Well, you know what, we don't. Letn't
Speaker 1: have five good ones right now and we can get
Speaker 1: production as we as they proved last year down the
Speaker 1: stretch second half of the season. Both Rex Burkehead and
Speaker 1: Diana Lewis were both viable weekly starters, and hey, two
Speaker 1: touchdowns in Week one was brilliant for a week. The
Speaker 1: correct answer, Sony Michelle, did anybody go? Is anybody three
Speaker 1: and O? Do I got anybody left? One? Two, three, four, five, six, seven?
Speaker 1: Even if you remain three and oh, let's go to
Speaker 1: the next question Devanny's hot question. Number four, Colts owner
Speaker 1: Jim Ursey says that Marlon Mack will have a fifteen
Speaker 1: hundred yards season. By how many hundreds of yards? Will
Speaker 1: he be wrong? Brian, I don't know if I can
Speaker 1: count that high man um. Last year, the Colts running
Speaker 1: backs combined for about eighteen nineteen hundred totally yards. Among
Speaker 1: we were Frank Go and Marlon Mack. I know that
Speaker 1: the Colts seriously address their O line in the draft.
Speaker 1: I got Quentin Nelson, made a couple of nice other acquisitions.
Speaker 1: My boy at the RB scout on Twitter is very
Speaker 1: excited about the Colts offensive line, but I'm not very
Speaker 1: excited about Marlon Mack. He's gonna be lucky to total
Speaker 1: a thousand yards this year. I think he's already hurt
Speaker 1: heard his hamstring in the preseason. I like Jordan Wilkins.
Speaker 1: This rookie nine Hines is the rookie everyone's talking about.
Speaker 1: But it's just gonna be a rotate a platoon basically there,
Speaker 1: and he's not gonna get a lot of third down work.
Speaker 1: I think Hines soaks that up. That seems to be
Speaker 1: the word. So how many number, how many hundreds? Will
Speaker 1: he be out? You said a thousand yards? Is that
Speaker 1: what you said? Six hundred yards off? Yards? Okay? I
Speaker 1: say he's off by ten hundred yards. Wow, okay, by
Speaker 1: a thousand a r um he had. He had five
Speaker 1: eight total yards last year. Yeah, I do part of
Speaker 1: my research here. Marlon Mack injured his left hamstring on
Speaker 1: Thursday night. That's the same injury I am recovering from
Speaker 1: right now, from Kickball's right. I don't know how many
Speaker 1: many times I've heard this story. The rounding third pulled
Speaker 1: up lame, still completed the home run. Well, listeners, you've
Speaker 1: pulled up lame during the show. I did so. I
Speaker 1: didn't even go to an online doctor to check out
Speaker 1: my diagnosis. I went to a real orthopedic doctor at Tria,
Speaker 1: and he told me the expectation for this injury is
Speaker 1: six weeks before you are a full go and chances
Speaker 1: of re injury or high. So that means Marlon Max
Speaker 1: probably not coming back to a week two or three.
Speaker 1: By that time, Niheim Hines has stolen his job. That
Speaker 1: means Mac is again a backup. Last year, he total
Speaker 1: five hundred yards in exactly fourteen games, which he'll do
Speaker 1: again this year, repeat of last year. He's ten hundred yards. Okay,
Speaker 1: so last had a hundred yards. So last year he
Speaker 1: had five hundred eight yards. And then if I take
Speaker 1: Frank Gore's numbers and I split it three ways between
Speaker 1: Mac and uh niheim high numbers, Frank left, Um, that's
Speaker 1: gonna add in approximately two hundred more yards. That gets
Speaker 1: some seven hundred and now that means Jim Rsay is
Speaker 1: off by eight hundreds of yards. No chance anybody's left right?
Speaker 1: Did anybody have eight? It's not fair, it's an it
Speaker 1: isn't counts. I got one guy, I got two guys
Speaker 1: that are left. We'll see if they can go five
Speaker 1: and oh with this questions. Hot question number five charges
Speaker 1: wide receiver Mike Williams says he'll have a big role
Speaker 1: in the red zone. You're buying it, Matt Yeah. Um,
Speaker 1: they lost Hunter Henry and Antonio Gates. That was of
Speaker 1: their red zone targets from last year and five of
Speaker 1: their fourteen red zone touchdowns. Tyrrell Williams only had one
Speaker 1: red zone target last year. Travis Benjamin only had two,
Speaker 1: but Mike Williams only played nine games and he had
Speaker 1: four red zone targets that was eight percent of his
Speaker 1: total targets was in the red zone. So if he's
Speaker 1: healthy this year, let's say he gets eighty total targets
Speaker 1: and that's kind of a meager amount for for a
Speaker 1: young wide receiver. That means he'll have fourteen red zone targets.
Speaker 1: If that percentage holds true, that's more than Henry or
Speaker 1: Gates had last season. So yeah, I think he's uh
Speaker 1: gonna have a decent role in the red zone there
Speaker 1: straight copied off me. Not much to add. But if
Speaker 1: they signed Gates, which why haven't they yet? Right? Why
Speaker 1: haven't they? That'll hurt it a little bit. Would If
Speaker 1: you Kates doesn't want to be in I think he's like, uh,
Speaker 1: you know what, wake, Wake not not. I'll sign in
Speaker 1: about three weeks when you break training camp. I'll show
Speaker 1: up the third or fourth preseason game and that'll be it.
Speaker 1: So I concur with answer is correct? Answer is yes
Speaker 1: for all the reasons you guys gave. I'll remind people
Speaker 1: Mike Williams the first round town six foot four, he
Speaker 1: is a he is built to be a a goal
Speaker 1: line end zone style uh target, and they will use
Speaker 1: him there sneaky sleeper. Correct answer yes, alright, guys, did
Speaker 1: you get it right? We have one winner? Come on,
Speaker 1: what's your name? By the way, Eric from Eric from
Speaker 1: New Walming. Either you're very good or you're a bald
Speaker 1: face lie or my friend wonderful. He's got a Percy
Speaker 1: Harvin uh jersey in which I've just taken the Harvard
Speaker 1: name off of. It's a little ambiguous now, Brad Johnson.
Speaker 1: It could be Brad Johnson, We're not sure. When we
Speaker 1: come back, we will look at the at a rookie draft.
Speaker 1: Rookie drafts only meaningfully last about two rounds. Will go
Speaker 1: through the average draft position to the top twenty four
Speaker 1: rookies and tell you whether or not each one of
Speaker 1: those guys is appropriately placed, or if you should go
Speaker 1: higher or lower. We'll start with say Kwon Barkley, and
Speaker 1: we'll work our way through twenty four other rookies. When
Speaker 1: we returned to Newall, Minnesota, The Shells Brewery for Fantasy
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Speaker 1: on the Fan. Welcome back to New Home, Minnesota, The
Speaker 1: Shells Brewery. We're out in the heartland. Yeah. Live at
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchy and Brian Johnson, Matt Harrison
Speaker 1: with you all kinds of fun stuff as we This
Speaker 1: is my first show. I want to thank Eric Nordquist
Speaker 1: for filling in last week for me, which was which
Speaker 1: was great. I mean it's performance not necessarily great, but
Speaker 1: it was nice. Yeah, it was it was Yeah. Um
Speaker 1: let's um, let's dive into a rookies. A lot of
Speaker 1: people playing dynasty leagues in Empire leagues, and their draft
Speaker 1: is effectively rookies and free agents. And we don't know
Speaker 1: what the free agents are in your league, but we
Speaker 1: know what the rookies are. Let's go through two rounds
Speaker 1: of of the average draft position of rookies and then
Speaker 1: I want you guys to tell me whether or not
Speaker 1: the do the people have it right? So the first
Speaker 1: the first rookie being taken a stake Kwon Barkley. Clearly
Speaker 1: they have it right. Everybody good with that? We're good there? Yes?
Speaker 1: All right? Thumb up two? I got something this, Yeah, giants,
Speaker 1: guys got a problem. One is too late? Did you
Speaker 1: be going earlier than one? Uh? He's not in a
Speaker 1: bubbles games against you know. I don't want to go
Speaker 1: into hyperbole here. And somebody brought this up on Twitter,
Speaker 1: and I was like, yeah, it does feel a little
Speaker 1: that way. Do you guys remember Adrian Peterson's first preseason
Speaker 1: game against the Jets? He was awesome, And I already
Speaker 1: in that preseason game, I'm looking at that going I
Speaker 1: I've already seen enough to know this guy is not
Speaker 1: normal and that this thing is going to be special.
Speaker 1: Kwon Barkley if he didn't look quite that good, and
Speaker 1: I'm not saying he's gonna be an Adrian Peterson Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame caliber career, but just what we saw there.
Speaker 1: Let me let me put something out there. Church. If
Speaker 1: Kan has a really, really nice couple of runs in
Speaker 1: Game two of the preseason and a couple of nice
Speaker 1: runs in Game three of the preseason and he sits
Speaker 1: out Game four as he will, does he sneak into
Speaker 1: the number one overall pick in a redraft league conversation, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think he'll be in. Not to Gurley. I don't
Speaker 1: think you'll ever get ahead of Girly, but I think
Speaker 1: he can get to number two. Do you think he should?
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think. I think it would
Speaker 1: be hard to get people to get moving past Gurly.
Speaker 1: I don't think I would be would you. I think
Speaker 1: it sounds fun. Darius right now, it's David Johnson is
Speaker 1: the one guy. He's threatening and standard. You know that
Speaker 1: offensive lines would be so bad and nervous. Number two
Speaker 1: is Darius Guys, that's dead. So now let me ask
Speaker 1: you this. So you're in a dynasty league, keeper league,
Speaker 1: you're Dyce Empire league. Now, where do you take Darius Guys?
Speaker 1: Knowing he's gonna miss this season, He'll almost certainly be
Speaker 1: at full speed by this time next year with a
Speaker 1: full year to recover. Where is the right spot for
Speaker 1: an enterprising team to take Darius Guys in their rookie
Speaker 1: raft and basically shelve them. You can probably throw him
Speaker 1: on an I R spot. Where do you where do
Speaker 1: you put him? So? I mentioned it last night when
Speaker 1: we were talking about this, and uh over a couple
Speaker 1: of grain belts, I think, yeah, ago a couple of
Speaker 1: blue Light specials. Um more than a couple. I think
Speaker 1: that guys doesn't get past the tail end of the
Speaker 1: first round where there's really good dynasty teams. So you
Speaker 1: have a roster that's already set, You have a roster
Speaker 1: that looks like it can contend again. Yeah, Now I'm
Speaker 1: gonna take guys and just sit on him for a year.
Speaker 1: And no, I don't really need this pick, but I'm
Speaker 1: not going to take a chancy wide receiver late the
Speaker 1: rookie draft, So I'll take guys and just sit on
Speaker 1: it and see if I got a good running back
Speaker 1: in year two. I think you're gonna have to get
Speaker 1: past the rookie running backs who can probably contribute this year,
Speaker 1: the Nick Jobs and the carry on John. I think
Speaker 1: those guys are gone before that. We'll come back and
Speaker 1: talk about take really quick, though. I mean, if you're
Speaker 1: drafting second, your team is probably not that good. I
Speaker 1: would still almost just take guys and sit on him
Speaker 1: because I still like him more than any of these
Speaker 1: other running backs are gonna help. No way I'm blowing
Speaker 1: my second pick in my rookie draft on a guy
Speaker 1: who can't help me get all This is better than Michelle.
Speaker 1: We don't even know for sure he's gonna be the
Speaker 1: starter next year. Only if you're punting this season as well.
Speaker 1: Can we move on the money for a let's go faster, Sony.
Speaker 1: Michelle is the number three rookie up. Obviously, Matt and
Speaker 1: I correctly deduced that this is correct, Go ahead, Brian,
Speaker 1: Uh just end. Yeah, I'll look at New England. I
Speaker 1: will look at Dean Lewis powering teams with a championship
Speaker 1: last year? Was he ranked in your preseason rankings last year?
Speaker 1: Who's that? It doesn't matter. It's not that people are
Speaker 1: founding the drum for Mike Gillis Lee as you are
Speaker 1: for Sony Michelle. I am and Jeremy hill Is to
Speaker 1: outscorche Sony Michelle is here. Love it when Brian goes
Speaker 1: full wrestling mode. I feel energy from the people. I
Speaker 1: feel like I got a beef jerky sitting next to you.
Speaker 1: Next number four rookie off the board, Rashad Penny. He's
Speaker 1: got a deal with Carson. As we mentioned before, what
Speaker 1: do you think? Is this too early? Or is this
Speaker 1: just right? That's the answer right there. Yeah, well what
Speaker 1: is it? Is it way too high? He's not even
Speaker 1: starters and you I don't know. I have I have
Speaker 1: fourth pick in our Empire draft and I will not
Speaker 1: be looking at I wouldn't take I wouldn't take him
Speaker 1: this night. So we all agree it's too early. Next stop,
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones. I think he's also in a sneaky timeshare
Speaker 1: situation with Peyton Barber potentially. I don't think he's not
Speaker 1: necessarily a pass catching back for Tampa either. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he's gonna have a field for third downs.
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones is going into the number five rookie player overall.
Speaker 1: He's Tampa's runner. What do you think? Not buying it?
Speaker 1: I think Peyton Barber is the real deal. At least
Speaker 1: the real deal is Rojoe is at least this season.
Speaker 1: And what a tough division too for running. Say Peyton
Speaker 1: Barber is the real deal? Oh my god? Uh, you
Speaker 1: got carries to what Jones is one? I got Jones
Speaker 1: over Penny? Yeah, and it's it's there's a slight edge there.
Speaker 1: I take him over Penny. But I actually this is
Speaker 1: about right Penny. I don't think he's a special talent,
Speaker 1: but he does have some opportunity next the six players.
Speaker 1: Royce Freeman, he's the presumed starter in Denver. But on
Speaker 1: PA Show yesterday, we're talking to a guy who food
Speaker 1: covers the Broncos. So that man, he's said, dude, shown nothing.
Speaker 1: He's the absolutely nondescript so far in O t as minicamps.
Speaker 1: And they think it's going to be a committee. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a committee between him and Dante. Is Number
Speaker 1: six too early for Royce Freeman? Absolutely? If I'm forced
Speaker 1: to take a Denver running back, I'm taking D'Angelo Henderson,
Speaker 1: who people have probably forgotten about in the last round
Speaker 1: of my draft, who they're still excited about in Denver,
Speaker 1: somewhat excited about. He didn't do much of anything last year,
Speaker 1: and he's so small I can put him right in
Speaker 1: my pocket. Number number seven rookie is wide receiver. D J.
Speaker 1: Moore is uh, this is Carolina's rookie and our first
Speaker 1: The first wide receiver is going off the board. I'm
Speaker 1: more interested in this too. It picks four or five
Speaker 1: than some of the running backs we've already mentioned. I
Speaker 1: am too. I think this is too Actually, if we're
Speaker 1: gonna say all these running backs are going too early,
Speaker 1: then I gotta say d J. Moore is going too late.
Speaker 1: He is flashed consistently in the off season. His first
Speaker 1: preseason game was fantastic. He will be a Week one
Speaker 1: starter for Caroline and on a team that needs wide
Speaker 1: receiver health. He's a first round talent. D J. Moore.
Speaker 1: I think he's going too late at number at pick
Speaker 1: number seven, Let's go to number eight, Nick Chubb. This
Speaker 1: is the Georgia part of the one to rushing attack
Speaker 1: to Georgia had with Sony Michelle. He was the thunder
Speaker 1: to the lightning that Michelle brought. He, though in Cleveland,
Speaker 1: is locked into a bit of a time share himself.
Speaker 1: What do you guys think about Nick Chubb here? I
Speaker 1: I like Chubb's future prospects, but this year, the Carlos
Speaker 1: Hide thing is a little pesky. I almost treat Chub
Speaker 1: like you would treat Darius Geiss. But he'll give you
Speaker 1: something this year where we hope Carlos Hide is gone
Speaker 1: by next season and Nick Chubb can take over the
Speaker 1: first and second down roll by himself with Duke is
Speaker 1: the third down guy. So I almost treated like a geist. Plus,
Speaker 1: here's the case I'm gonna make if Carlos Hide pretty
Speaker 1: good San Francisco to kept him. I don't think Carlos
Speaker 1: Hide is very good. And I think you say this
Speaker 1: for every free agent, like every free agent who leaves
Speaker 1: the team, they're no good anymore, well Eric any good anymore.
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. The forty nine is just spent stupid
Speaker 1: money on Jerick McKinnon and they easily could have given
Speaker 1: that same money to Carlos Hyde, but they don't think
Speaker 1: Carlos Hides worth that, so they didn't. We j McKinnon
Speaker 1: is because we let him walk. Yeah, well you know,
Speaker 1: Jered mckinnons no Talvin Cook. I'll tell you that much.
Speaker 1: And as it's gonna turn out, Carlos Hide is no
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb. I think Nick Chubb is gonna outperform this
Speaker 1: number eight overall draft position that he is in right
Speaker 1: now among rookies. Let's go next to Lions runner carry
Speaker 1: On Johnson. We've talked about him earlier, splashed a bit
Speaker 1: in the in the preseason. Do you think this is
Speaker 1: appropriate for him? I'll go to the carry On desk
Speaker 1: over here with Matt. I don't know, I'm not We
Speaker 1: took a little flak for not being excited about the
Speaker 1: Detroit backfield. He seems like the favorite, but I still
Speaker 1: think theo ritic certainly factors in on third downs for
Speaker 1: the most part. So but I think carry On will
Speaker 1: probably climb a little bit more so than Freeman and Chub.
Speaker 1: The geist news I see him taking the biggest leap.
Speaker 1: But the only worry here is that Matt Patricia, Patriots
Speaker 1: protege has five running backs in that backfield right now,
Speaker 1: with Blunt, Abdullah, Zack Zenter. He was he was the
Speaker 1: defensive coordinator for the Patriots. Yeah, yeah, but he he
Speaker 1: he read the offensive playbook and goes, oh, five running
Speaker 1: backs is a good thing. I'm a little nervous at that.
Speaker 1: But I think carry On is the most talented back.
Speaker 1: I think I think this is about the right spot
Speaker 1: for him. Uh. Number ten, Courtland Sutton wide receiver. What
Speaker 1: do you think about his prospects here to the Denver
Speaker 1: passing games? Johnson nothing this year, and I don't know
Speaker 1: why would he go this high. I'm blanking on the
Speaker 1: rookie receiver a few years ago in Denver. Everyone he's
Speaker 1: not even on roster anymore. Yeah, I'm Sutton. I like
Speaker 1: receivers that we might get to if you have enough time.
Speaker 1: Way down the list one, I don't like Sutton either.
Speaker 1: I think this is too early. The eleventh rookie going
Speaker 1: right now. It is cow Alvin Ridley from Atlanta. He's hoped,
Speaker 1: they hope they can just walk into the spot vacated
Speaker 1: by Taylor Gabriel and that he'll be a starter. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'm so excited about Taylor Gabriel. It's almost the best
Speaker 1: case scenario, right. I don't want any of that right
Speaker 1: at this point. Let's just when we're looking at these rookies.
Speaker 1: I play in mostly quarterback flex and or two QBU
Speaker 1: I want to draft some of these quarterbacks. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the next player. Number twelve is Lamar Jackson. What
Speaker 1: do you think of this? It's too late, right, the
Speaker 1: whole league passed on the best quarterback in this draft,
Speaker 1: and I hate how he's not the best quarter you
Speaker 1: will be uh well, when it comes to fantasy it
Speaker 1: might be. He's in the mix at four for me,
Speaker 1: at four in our Empire League, all right, So he's
Speaker 1: not because I'm because Brian's at three. So Brian's gonna
Speaker 1: take it any wontter He's got two. If he takes them,
Speaker 1: I'm going to beat his A. I love Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: We all agree that Jackson's going too late. At twelfth,
Speaker 1: thirteenth is Michael Gallup. This is the rookie wide receiver
Speaker 1: for the Cowboys who will slide in for Dez. Bryant
Speaker 1: had a touchdown last week in uh like yesterday in
Speaker 1: the Dallas game. Galloping on draft Day. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I still think Hearns is the guy there this year.
Speaker 1: I know it's why love does Hearns bring to the table.
Speaker 1: I don't know nothing. I'd rather call Breet Beasley than
Speaker 1: than Herds. That says plenty. Gallops got the opportunity to
Speaker 1: take over a job. This is the right spot for Gallop.
Speaker 1: He's probably the best. He might have the best chances
Speaker 1: in re draft leagues is here. Wide receivers with number
Speaker 1: fourteen rookie is Chicago slot receiver Anthony Miller had a
Speaker 1: nice had a really nice offseason. I'm going to gush
Speaker 1: about him later in the show hold for them, but
Speaker 1: needless to say, you think you should go sooner? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Next up Christian Kirk Atlanta wide receiver is rookie Arizona.
Speaker 1: Another other city that starts with a one of the
Speaker 1: other receivers who has a chance to uh contribute a season.
Speaker 1: So he should be on your radar and redraft leagues.
Speaker 1: All camp reports on him so far have been terrible.
Speaker 1: Though he's been he's been demoted to the second or
Speaker 1: third team, and they wanted him to slot opposite Larry Fitzgerald.
Speaker 1: But camp reports are bad. So I think this is
Speaker 1: too early on Kirk personally. Uh. Number sixteen tight end,
Speaker 1: Mike Asecki. There's our first time a tight end makes
Speaker 1: an appearance here. He certainly has an opportunity to get
Speaker 1: immediate playing time. Well, i've heard he's Well, you can't
Speaker 1: read too much into the depth chart in the preseason
Speaker 1: because especially is always flamm flam. But you know, rookie
Speaker 1: tight ends, they they struggle mightily in the NFL unless
Speaker 1: there Evan Ingram, unless their evant, Yeah, then it's all
Speaker 1: very very special. Miami's got a need for anybody to
Speaker 1: step up with a pulse in the receiving game. I
Speaker 1: think this is actually a potentially a little bit low,
Speaker 1: but we know that rookie tight ends almost never do anything.
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram was really a once a decade outlier as
Speaker 1: as a tight end that did anything in his first year. Uh,
Speaker 1: James Washington is a guy who can step in and
Speaker 1: be an immediate starter for a high functioning offense in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: And this is he'll step into the Martavis Bryant role.
Speaker 1: They had a rookie do this last year. He was
Speaker 1: really good. Now everybody's drafting him pretty high. There there's
Speaker 1: an opportunity here for him to be a good, popping
Speaker 1: off every once in a while week kind of player,
Speaker 1: a bye week filling is number seventeen player overall about
Speaker 1: right for James Washington. It might might tweak up a
Speaker 1: little bit. Is he a most handcuffed the rare most
Speaker 1: handcuff among wide receivers if you draft Antonio Brown obviously
Speaker 1: in the first round. I don't think Antonio Brown's handcuffable. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think I can find other help. I think I
Speaker 1: can find other help. Uh. Number eighteen, Niheem Hines is
Speaker 1: a guy that we've referenced a couple of times, and
Speaker 1: many people don't know him. He's a rookie running back
Speaker 1: for Indianapolis. A lot of people think, I think rightly
Speaker 1: so Marlon Mack is nothing special and that there's an
Speaker 1: opportunity for him to come in and meaningfully contribute. What
Speaker 1: do you guys think is number eighteen and okay? Spot
Speaker 1: for him? Yeah? I like that there, that's about right.
Speaker 1: In PPR leagues, he's gonna be a factor this year.
Speaker 1: He should see the bulk of their downwork for Indy.
Speaker 1: Number nineteen, another rookie we've referred to once more one
Speaker 1: other time. Klin Blage is this tall rookie running back
Speaker 1: for Miami, and Frank Gore is getting old, and we've
Speaker 1: got Kenyan Drake, who actually I like Kenny Drake and
Speaker 1: these people like Kenyan Drake quite a bit. Blage could
Speaker 1: be a past catching helper. I think Blage and Gore
Speaker 1: ruined Kenyan Drake this year. Wow. Really, Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: like Frank or can't ruin anybody. They don't. You don't
Speaker 1: bring to not to not give him two hundred carries,
Speaker 1: that's a problem. He's had two carries in like twelve
Speaker 1: straight years. And this is the year where this is
Speaker 1: just a veteran presence on the bench if you need him.
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake's far better there for his inventor ship abilities.
Speaker 1: Last guy that I want to last rookie I want
Speaker 1: to mention as we go through our top to top
Speaker 1: twenty rookie Josh Rosen quarterback behind Sam Bradford. Rosen's got
Speaker 1: a chance because Sam Bradford's knees are the question mark
Speaker 1: of all question marks, right. Bradford played great in the
Speaker 1: first week for the Vikings last year, and then his
Speaker 1: knees kicked up and he was just mysterious lay a
Speaker 1: full season before that. Yeah, but so we how how
Speaker 1: is how is he going to react from a health
Speaker 1: Samand I'd rather have Baker Mayfield or Sam Donald. And
Speaker 1: Arizona already lost their starting center for the year, which
Speaker 1: probably helps Rosen get playing time because Sama, he's gonna
Speaker 1: get hurt. That Donald the guy out of these that
Speaker 1: is going to start week one, Ye, Sam, Sam, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he might be. Yeah, I'm with you on that. I
Speaker 1: think Tyrod Taylor is gonna be able to hold down
Speaker 1: the fort in Cleveland, keep Baker Mayfield at bay at
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Speaker 1: You come up to the micup here and um and
Speaker 1: queue up for that. Brian, let's start with you. Who
Speaker 1: is your sleeper this week? I'm going Ben Watson at
Speaker 1: tight end? Who's back in New Orleans. Ben's going like
Speaker 1: outside of the top twenty tight ends in terms of ADP,
Speaker 1: which is absolutely nuts. Last year Watson was eight and
Speaker 1: catches among tight ends. With the Ravens who deploy like
Speaker 1: four tight ends on average, it seems like, yeah, uh,
Speaker 1: he's the only guy in New Orleans. And with New
Speaker 1: Orleans he was seven top seven in the tight end
Speaker 1: scoring among the tight ends obviously, so I'm loving Ben Watson,
Speaker 1: great late round value. Okay, h I alluded to this
Speaker 1: guy earlier. It's Anthony Miller of the Chicago Bears, currently
Speaker 1: going in the third teenth round of drafts. He's wide
Speaker 1: receiver fifty seven. Uh. He's a second round pick out
Speaker 1: of Memphis. Only had one target in the preseason game
Speaker 1: on Thursday. However, it was with the first team offense
Speaker 1: in the first series of the game from Trubisky. Uh.
Speaker 1: So many people are comparing him to Antonio Brown. Saw
Speaker 1: someone on Twitter say that Miller has bigger hands than
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham, Elite footwork, precise route running creates separation with
Speaker 1: these quick speed, great hands. Those are just some of
Speaker 1: the accolades that he's someone on Twitter. Really, am I
Speaker 1: supposed to believe someone was at online doctor? Someone on
Speaker 1: Twitter said that, well, I guess we'll bank on that
Speaker 1: it was a Chicago Bears beat writer. Sorry at real
Speaker 1: Donald Trump, there we go. If Matt Naggy's offense is legit,
Speaker 1: Anthony Miller's a sleeping giant currently going off the board
Speaker 1: at pick number two hundred ninety four. Is your super
Speaker 1: Bowl m v P. Nick Fools? Now, by the way,
Speaker 1: that's after guys named Bo Scarborough, Kiki Coute, Justin Jackson,
Speaker 1: Nick Venette, and a guy who currently is not on
Speaker 1: an NFL roster, Malcolm Mitchell, and you can get the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl m v P who could very well end
Speaker 1: up starting the season as the Eagles starting quarterback. There's
Speaker 1: a plausible scenario here where the the the Eagles just
Speaker 1: play it safe with Wentz and put him on the
Speaker 1: pup list and he wouldn't play for six weeks. There's
Speaker 1: another scenario whe where full just starts the season because
Speaker 1: went who they've already said he's not gonna play all preseason,
Speaker 1: they just start Folds to be safe, and Folds is
Speaker 1: great and they're winning games, and the timetable and wins
Speaker 1: gets pushed out is fold is gonna play sixteen games? No?
Speaker 1: But can he be an awesome, like top five level
Speaker 1: contributing quarterback for the first month of the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it could be. You know what Nick Foles is tell
Speaker 1: me the Guillotine League quarterback of choice. Yeah, that's a
Speaker 1: great point. He'd be great early on you. You would
Speaker 1: not get whacked and you're gonna find somebody else's quarterback
Speaker 1: on the waiver wire soon. Last thing on Nick Fole
Speaker 1: that heels first four games when I think that he's
Speaker 1: most likely to play Atlanta, Tampa, Indie, Tennessee rank against
Speaker 1: the past last year one all on the bottom third.
Speaker 1: Let's take some questions in our final moments here, what's
Speaker 1: your name? Where are you from? And what you got?
Speaker 1: Drew coming from St. Paul and he's got a baby
Speaker 1: and my eight month old ones to do the opposite
Speaker 1: in an Empire league and he running backs in the
Speaker 1: middle or late in the draft that he should target.
Speaker 1: Is this the initial year of your Empire league? All right?
Speaker 1: I love that. What do you guys got? So if
Speaker 1: you're not gonna take a running back till round four
Speaker 1: or five or six, who do you like to target
Speaker 1: in that spot in a startup? I think you could
Speaker 1: get Jordan Howard maybe still in the third round, and
Speaker 1: he's just he's going below Jett and Ckinnon in redraft leagues,
Speaker 1: which is criminal. I would target Jordan Howard just big time.
Speaker 1: If it's an Empire start up. Everybody takes the young
Speaker 1: running backs there, I think, So guess what you take
Speaker 1: the older running back? You you get all your young
Speaker 1: wide receivers in the first three rounds. You take all
Speaker 1: the older running backs, and and and you try to
Speaker 1: win this year, and you try to win next year,
Speaker 1: and you see, you see if you can just do
Speaker 1: it right away? Yeah, I have people do the Dynasty
Speaker 1: Leagues all the time. They failed to they failed to
Speaker 1: take older place. Marshall Lynch, I think is a fantastic
Speaker 1: in this spot. Yeah yeah, all right, what's your name? Greg?
Speaker 1: For new Home, I would like to start off by
Speaker 1: making emotion that we renamed the Max Williams Memorial Injury
Speaker 1: Report in Sam Bradford Memorial Injury Report. Um, my question
Speaker 1: was similar. We just finished up our first Empire League,
Speaker 1: so thank you. H So restarting with version two, who's
Speaker 1: a good under the radar quarterback to build around? All?
Speaker 1: I expect Lamar Jackson will already be gone. Okay, um,
Speaker 1: what do you guys got? So this is round? I
Speaker 1: know what Brian is gonna say right now. Mit, Dr Whisky.
Speaker 1: You want to make your case, No, everyone does in
Speaker 1: the office. I get you to stop talking about Miss
Speaker 1: r Whisky. Then we go on the air. I set
Speaker 1: you up for Mr. Whisky and you want no part
Speaker 1: of it. So I'm not gonna lie you tat Matt
Speaker 1: and that means he was gonna answer this question. So
Speaker 1: it's a rookie draft year two, or we're doing a
Speaker 1: completely new league. It's it's so it's the restarting an
Speaker 1: Empire league that somebody cashed out. Okay, I have an answer.
Speaker 1: And he's so steady, and he's top ten every year.
Speaker 1: And Matt Stafford is the safest pick in an Empire
Speaker 1: league that you can get, probably at quarterback fifteen, and
Speaker 1: he's still got a lot of That's a good one.
Speaker 1: I love Matt Stafford. No one talks about him. I
Speaker 1: took Patrick Mahomes was my what I made that bold
Speaker 1: prediction earlier. I love Patrick Mahomes and I build around him.
Speaker 1: What's your name? Where you from? My name is Isaac
Speaker 1: and I'm from Moorhead, Minnesota. What you got? Um? So
Speaker 1: I own the Shawn Watson in the eighth round and
Speaker 1: Cam Newton in the second round at like pick fifteen overall.
Speaker 1: So with having Watson and I'm starved for like wide
Speaker 1: receivers and running backs, would you keep Newton who's had
Speaker 1: a good value out of fifteen? With being it's a
Speaker 1: keepers league, the two quarterbacks one quarterball, Cam Newton, Watson,
Speaker 1: Keith Watson for sure. Uh, we're out of time. New all.
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