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Speaker 2: Our number two of the drive here of course, on
Speaker 2: location at Saint Vincent College. It's all part of our
Speaker 2: ongoing training camp coverage. Wesshuoler and Matt Williamson with you
Speaker 2: until six o'clock. Campus is quiet right now, of course,
Speaker 2: as these earlier practices for the Steelers have have led
Speaker 2: to some quieter evenings around these parts. I do assume
Speaker 2: the team will have another walk through, Matt, but I
Speaker 2: bet I will bet you as it's starting to kind
Speaker 2: of lightly rain here right now on campus. I bet
Speaker 2: you they probably go over inside to that, to that
Speaker 2: new facility again, Oh, I bet you they. Matt was
Speaker 2: all disappointed about that yesterday. But I think you're right.
Speaker 3: You can't think it's the cleats on concrete thing.
Speaker 2: You can't, I mean, because that would be let's play
Speaker 2: it out here. It's about two hundreds.
Speaker 3: I mean, it's a short walk.
Speaker 2: It's a short walk, but it's it would probably it
Speaker 2: would probably be about four hundred yards on concrete.
Speaker 3: Because if you're taking some of the best athletes in
Speaker 3: the world, no, they're twenty five years old.
Speaker 2: Listen, I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 2: You are really wearing you are really taking the mantle
Speaker 2: of Tounche and wolf back in my day here very.
Speaker 3: Well, they were a little bit.
Speaker 2: But I did give the cleats on the concrete for
Speaker 2: four hundred yards is probably not the smartest way to
Speaker 2: take care of your equipment. So I would assume could
Speaker 2: slip and yeah, no doubt, no doubt. I would assume
Speaker 2: with U. Again, it's not like it's pouring here right now,
Speaker 2: but there is a little of light rain coming down
Speaker 2: and a good opportunity for them to get some work
Speaker 2: in on these fields too. With now there won't be
Speaker 2: a practice here on campus again until Monday, so they
Speaker 2: have got some got some time.
Speaker 3: To really much on the first field today.
Speaker 2: No, they did it fields.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's a secret. I think they did
Speaker 3: it for individual stuff.
Speaker 2: But right, yeah, yes, and uh and the fields still
Speaker 2: look relatively really pretty good, but they've obviously also started
Speaker 2: to accrue some spots where they need some TLC, some
Speaker 2: tender love and care.
Speaker 3: The middle of the first field is a little banged
Speaker 3: between the hashes.
Speaker 2: Yes, between the hashes of the first field is a
Speaker 2: little banged up kind of the sidelines here where everybody stands,
Speaker 2: all the fans and the media. So the next forty
Speaker 2: eight hours or so, a little bit of rain, a
Speaker 2: little bit of a downtime for the fields here in
Speaker 2: front of us, I'm sure would go a long way.
Speaker 3: But you're right, though, I mean, we're we're in the
Speaker 3: second half now of training camp, I mean of Latrobe
Speaker 3: training camp. I know most you know, there's always one
Speaker 3: of those things. I think it's a wonderful point.
Speaker 2: Training that what Matt is a reference, And you've made
Speaker 2: that reference a couple of times this game. Yeah, every time,
Speaker 2: every time we would get to this portion uh in
Speaker 2: the summer, and I go motes, we only have four
Speaker 2: practices left in training camp.
Speaker 3: Almost over.
Speaker 2: He'd be like, wait a second, No, it's not. He'd
Speaker 2: be like, there's only four practices left there at college.
Speaker 3: He's like, but we.
Speaker 2: Still have training camp. It's over for you guys, for
Speaker 2: the public, but it's not over for us. So we
Speaker 2: get back to the facility. The show goes on, but.
Speaker 3: We are halfway through the Saint Vincent portion of training
Speaker 3: camp and this is probably the best I can remember
Speaker 3: the fields being for the third quarter.
Speaker 2: Oh great, Yeah, I absolutely agree with you. They've done
Speaker 2: a very good job. They've been pretty fortunate, like we
Speaker 2: like we talked about in the first hour from a
Speaker 2: weather standpoint two. But yeah, quiet campus tonight tomorrow.
Speaker 3: The grass question for you or along those lines hit me.
Speaker 3: Everybody I think is familiar that, even though they're not
Speaker 3: looking at like we are. The Saint Vincent hedges across there.
Speaker 3: You know the shrubbery, all right, the hedge You may
Speaker 3: how often is that and be groomed? That's a great question.
Speaker 2: I would bet you twice.
Speaker 3: I've never seen anybody touch it twice a year. Really,
Speaker 3: I was gonna say like at least once a month.
Speaker 3: Is it like triming your beard?
Speaker 2: You're you're asking a thirty five year old baby, this
Speaker 2: is the.
Speaker 3: Most I've ever had in my face, which is nothing.
Speaker 3: I've never even like going a day, you know, and
Speaker 3: I don't even know by grow beard.
Speaker 2: It's funny, actually is you might be the only person
Speaker 2: with less facial hair than this.
Speaker 3: I might have more. I think, never would know.
Speaker 2: I would kind of equate it to like how often
Speaker 2: do you trim the bushes and stuff at your house?
Speaker 2: Like twice a year, like once the beginning of the summer,
Speaker 2: once at the end of the summer.
Speaker 3: But they need to look better than that. I mean,
Speaker 3: I'm sure they do it right before training camp definitely,
Speaker 3: you know, because it's on like Katieka and WTA. I mean,
Speaker 3: like you see pictures.
Speaker 2: I bet you they probably do it in April, you know,
Speaker 2: like coming out of the wintertime, and then maybe again
Speaker 2: in July for camp.
Speaker 3: I'm thinking maybe before like opening day of Saint Vincent's season. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and then maybe not again until April. Christmas and stuff.
Speaker 3: You don't need to sure, sure, BET's a couple of
Speaker 3: times a year, And now I think about it, You're
Speaker 3: probably right. It's a I was that bridging thing? Is
Speaker 3: it every week? Is it every month? Is somebody just
Speaker 3: going there and trim, trim trim. It is really cool.
Speaker 3: It is cool.
Speaker 2: It's all for those who haven't been out here and
Speaker 2: don't know what we're talking about. On the far side
Speaker 2: of the third field, there is Saint Vincent spelled out
Speaker 2: in big shrubbery, big bushes, and it is like immaculately
Speaker 2: landscaped every year that we're out here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's super cool. It's kind of iconic as well.
Speaker 3: Side note, because I make this mistake all the time.
Speaker 3: There is not an end. There's not a S on
Speaker 3: the end of the name of this college. That's a
Speaker 3: big that's a big yinser thing to do. I know,
Speaker 3: I do, I do it. I go to Saint Vincent's,
Speaker 3: go to Saint Vincent's right that every Maxie haunt a
Speaker 3: chores Jennings Dunkers.
Speaker 2: Ben Roethlisberger's. So I think that's a Pennsylvania thing too,
Speaker 2: because my my in laws from the other side of
Speaker 2: the state do that as well.
Speaker 3: Really, Okay, how about this someone on Twitter who claims
Speaker 3: to be an English teacher. A couple of years ago
Speaker 3: wrote me and said, anyways is not a word. There's
Speaker 3: no S on the end. It's just anyway. Anyway. You're like,
Speaker 3: I'm going anyways, anyways, what are you saying? Everyone says that.
Speaker 3: I'm like, this person could be lying to me. According
Speaker 3: according to my quick Websters dictionary, there's not a word anyways.
Speaker 2: According to my quick Google AI search, here, anyways is
Speaker 2: an informal only spoken style variation of the word anyway.
Speaker 3: We just throw an s on for fun? Is that national? Like?
Speaker 3: I feel like everyone does that anyways? Yeah, yeah, that's
Speaker 3: not just a Pittsburgh okay.
Speaker 2: But I think the throwing an s on the end
Speaker 2: of everything, there's something there. And I'm sure they do
Speaker 2: it in other parts of the world too, but it's
Speaker 2: all over all over Pennsylvania.
Speaker 3: There's times I say it on the air. I'm like,
Speaker 3: that's not a word, but no one's gonna know. I'm
Speaker 3: gonna get away with it every time.
Speaker 2: Now, I'm not what I was in Philadelphia working for
Speaker 2: the Eagles. It was when the Eagles acquired Aushon Jeffrey
Speaker 2: from from the Bears a lot, and like that whole
Speaker 2: week at the radio station, everyone was like Jeffries, and
Speaker 2: I was like Jeffrey al Sean Jeffries, Jeffrey and Jeffrey
Speaker 2: al Sean Jeffries Jeffrey.
Speaker 3: If you notice, I never talk about the former UH
Speaker 3: Dolphins head coach now Chargers offensive coordinator Mike McDaniel or
Speaker 3: the Patriots offensive coordinator because one of them as an
Speaker 3: S and one doesn't.
Speaker 2: There's like McDaniel and Mike McDaniels.
Speaker 3: So I just say, Oh, the Patriots OC, he's a
Speaker 3: really good guy. I used to do that with Mike
Speaker 3: McDonald too.
Speaker 2: I'd call Mike McDonald's like he was the Golden like
Speaker 2: he was the Golden Donald. Yeah, he's a super Bowl
Speaker 2: winning coach and I'm acting like he's the Golden Arches.
Speaker 3: Yeah. They're really good their job, and I'm not sure
Speaker 3: who's who. I also avoid Jim and John Harbob. I
Speaker 3: know you have a trick for that one too, Jimmy Johns. Yeah,
Speaker 3: the Jimmy john trick.
Speaker 2: Well that worked a lot better when well, I guess no,
Speaker 2: it works again now still good because Jim's on the
Speaker 2: West coast, John's on the East coast. Jimmy Johns just
Speaker 2: like the UH.
Speaker 3: Probably like why because it goes left to right after
Speaker 3: looking at the United States. The one on the left
Speaker 3: is Gym correct, one on the right is John.
Speaker 2: That's how I always remembered it. And then and then
Speaker 2: Jimmy Johns, which of course is the you know, the
Speaker 2: the Hogy chain, the sandwich Hogytsburgh.
Speaker 3: You gotta have, you gotta have to you know, would
Speaker 3: be really good.
Speaker 2: A couple of hogies, a couple of meatball hogies here
Speaker 2: on the grounds of Saint Vincent's.
Speaker 3: Anyways, we got that out of the way. Anyways, I
Speaker 3: just said, oh no, you did it. I do it
Speaker 3: all the time, you son of a gun. Matt.
Speaker 2: We uh have gotten another thing other than our poor
Speaker 2: grammar and just overall lack of decord.
Speaker 3: We're to get so many tweets like, Matt, you say
Speaker 3: this wrong, you say that wrong. Yeah, you put on
Speaker 3: this Josh McDaniels, Josh McDaniels.
Speaker 2: Matt loves his co host Wes Ulers. Uh. We've gotten
Speaker 2: a ton of tweets in the last couple of weeks
Speaker 2: too about fantasy football. When's the fantasy football segments coming back?
Speaker 2: When is Matt going to do his top ten lists?
Speaker 2: All that stuff? So we have started to do a
Speaker 2: little more, especially with the bonus three hours the show
Speaker 2: these couple of weeks fantasy football conversation and they're with that, Matt.
Speaker 2: You know, the a lot of the fantasy football lists,
Speaker 2: the positional lists, all that'suff, breakout candidates, all that stuff
Speaker 2: is starting to be released.
Speaker 3: Absolutely.
Speaker 2: The ones that always catch my eye though, and I
Speaker 2: want to discuss with you here is like the do.
Speaker 3: Not draft lists. Yeah, like or just do not draft.
Speaker 3: He's going in the second round, don't take him to
Speaker 3: the fourth correct?
Speaker 2: Correct?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: So do you know Eric Carabell from ESPN.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we actually overlapped. And I've probably told this story,
Speaker 3: but there was three or four years ESPN. I think
Speaker 3: they still do it. They have a fantasy summit every year,
Speaker 3: and I was. And if you would go to ESPN
Speaker 3: dot com and you you know, like you're you're doing
Speaker 3: a draft and it comes up in the queue. These
Speaker 3: are our running back ranks. That's all. We fought over
Speaker 3: for like three days at the ESPN s gives exactly
Speaker 3: exactly and the way they did. Then there were eleven
Speaker 3: people who got a vote and we would battle with
Speaker 3: all number yeah, yeah, And I was one of the
Speaker 3: eleven for like three or four years with like Matthew Berry,
Speaker 3: Eric Carrabell was one, Mike Clay. I love these kinds,
Speaker 3: you know, Christopher Harris, who's moved on a lot of No,
Speaker 3: he didn't do fantasy at all. Okay, him and McShay
Speaker 3: were just draft stuff. So I got tied in with
Speaker 3: a lot of fantasy stuff and you'd have battles. It
Speaker 3: was kind of like a drafter, like, how could you
Speaker 3: like this guy that much? Like that? The story it
Speaker 3: always sticks with me was Eric Ebron, who formerly of
Speaker 3: this parish. Is like it was like the eighth pick
Speaker 3: in the draft by the Lions. He was the Kyle Pitts,
Speaker 3: he was the brock Bowers. This guy is gonna be unbelievable.
Speaker 3: But back then you didn't.
Speaker 2: Those rookie tight ends were just like that b was
Speaker 2: an albatross.
Speaker 3: There's people up there like, show me a rookie tight
Speaker 3: end that's ever done anything. Well, this guy is different,
Speaker 3: you know, So that some people were like Adam to
Speaker 3: the third tight end some people have was like the
Speaker 3: thirteenth tight end that year. So that was one that
Speaker 3: sucked with me.
Speaker 2: That's pretty funny. Yeah, do you remember how he did
Speaker 2: his rookie season, I.
Speaker 3: Think poorly, like for fantasy reasons, like you didn't you
Speaker 3: weren't happy with where you putting.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he had a great career, twenty five receptions for
Speaker 2: two hundred and forty eight yards and one Touchdown's.
Speaker 3: Not happy about where You're not happy about that? So
Speaker 3: he was a do not draft guy.
Speaker 2: He was a do not draft guy. And so some
Speaker 2: of these are like, don't draft them because just stay away.
Speaker 2: They're in for a down year. Some are more so.
Speaker 3: I mean, everybody is a price.
Speaker 2: Exactly right, don't draft them as high as as their
Speaker 2: price tag might indicate. Let's start with quarterbacks, and the
Speaker 2: first one on the list here is one of those guys.
Speaker 2: It's Josh Allen that yes, he deserves.
Speaker 3: To be the first quarterbacks off the.
Speaker 2: Board in every draft, but people are starting to take
Speaker 2: them in the first round. People are starting to take
Speaker 2: them early in the second round. And sorry, Josh, it
Speaker 2: isn't you, it's just me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, basically, that's a great way of putting it, because
Speaker 3: he won't be somebody I draft because first off, I
Speaker 3: always I've said this before. My buddy Sab who you know,
Speaker 3: isn't bowed into fantasy football. He'll be the first to
Speaker 3: tell you he's got a real life and he's in
Speaker 3: our league. But he doesn't monitor certainly like I do
Speaker 3: or most people in the league. I'm like, sad, take
Speaker 3: Josh Allen because you can just set it forget it.
Speaker 3: You'll be in every game Josh and then go from there.
Speaker 3: And he always does. And he's the safest and the
Speaker 3: best quarterback in NFL history. But this year in particular,
Speaker 3: there's so many other options you could get eight ten
Speaker 3: rounds later. I'm just not buying the top dog at
Speaker 3: that position this year. I'm just not gonna do it.
Speaker 3: That's that's I's a logic, right yep. Nothing against It's me,
Speaker 3: not you.
Speaker 2: Drake May is also on this list. Had an outstanding
Speaker 2: year last year. Didn't face a top ten defense during
Speaker 2: the regular season last year. Faces a bunch of them
Speaker 2: this year.
Speaker 3: But he gets AJ Brown and Dobbs.
Speaker 2: He does get AJ Brown. He said that he said
Speaker 2: that I'm fading Drake May this year, probably just for
Speaker 2: this season, but that he's another one that's gonna get
Speaker 2: drafted way too high.
Speaker 3: But he's a perfect example in two regards. I won
Speaker 3: that league. I was just talking about last year, largely
Speaker 3: in part for taking Drake may in like the eleventh
Speaker 3: or twelfth round boom, you know, like you can. I'm
Speaker 3: really good at that too. I mean you can find
Speaker 3: those quarterbacks to do it. For the quarterback absolutely, But
Speaker 3: now if he's costing me a third or fourth rounder,
Speaker 3: I'm gonna look for the next straight mate, not this
Speaker 3: trake man. You know what I mean?
Speaker 2: Correct, both those Washington Commandos commanders. Jayden Daniel is up next.
Speaker 3: Some concerns put the s on the end. I went
Speaker 3: the opposite way. What am I doing? Daniels a little
Speaker 3: Chase Daniel and Jayden Daniels.
Speaker 2: Some some like, yes, he's got a men's tool, amens
Speaker 2: immense tools, but there might be some statistical ceiling this
Speaker 2: year with a lack of great weapons around him, and
Speaker 2: his injury risk is still concerning.
Speaker 3: Not that it's a huge needle mover, but adding digs
Speaker 3: made me feel a little better, a little bit better. Yeah.
Speaker 3: I don't know if this was written before or after that.
Speaker 3: At least I thought they had some of the worst
Speaker 3: weapons in the league. Now it's simply well below average
Speaker 3: as opposed to garbage but young quarterbacks that are asked
Speaker 3: to do so much, especially with a strong injury history
Speaker 3: going back to LSU, and he's going like one of
Speaker 3: the top five quarterbacks you can have them.
Speaker 2: Jordan Love up next, doesn't run, doesn't run, it rarely
Speaker 2: throws more than thirty times per game. Likes him as
Speaker 2: a quarterback, just not for fantasy football purposes.
Speaker 3: So a real sneaky move when you really get into
Speaker 3: fantasy is trying to figure out what teams run a
Speaker 3: lot of plays, like the Saints run a ton of
Speaker 3: plays that that head coach offensive coordinator alt Kellen Moore
Speaker 3: has done that everywhere Shuck runs, So Shuck might be
Speaker 3: my this year. Drake May. You don't have to love him.
Speaker 3: He just added a good running back, a first round
Speaker 3: wide receiver. But they run a ton of plays and
Speaker 3: he runs, So that's what you're looking for that. I mean,
Speaker 3: we're not playing NFL football here. We're trying to build
Speaker 3: the most points. And that's a Green Bay thing. They
Speaker 3: play slow, you know, they're methodical, they' tech the defense
Speaker 3: a little bit. It wasn't run. It doesn't run as
Speaker 3: much as you think. Really good player. I think he's
Speaker 3: a top ten quarterback, but it's probably my fourteenth quarterback
Speaker 3: in fantasy and he'll be gone by that and.
Speaker 2: Then the last two on this list for quarterbacks Matt
Speaker 2: Bernana Mendoza.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you don't know, you know, well, when.
Speaker 2: You're gonna see him and Daniel Jones, you know, not
Speaker 2: gonna They're not gonna have him run like they did
Speaker 2: in the past, coming Robby, coming off of that Achilles injury,
Speaker 2: and uh, and just that he doesn't have quite the
Speaker 2: same level of weapons, namely one Michael Pittman Junior that
Speaker 2: he had last season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but he's not expensive either in the fantasy world.
Speaker 3: A lot that's baked in for where he's going. I
Speaker 3: only hesitate on that one because if by chance you
Speaker 3: get the first half of the season, Daniel Jones, hellow
Speaker 3: kicked your drafts a lot of times a thousand, you know,
Speaker 3: because they're putting up a ton of points. He's running
Speaker 3: a fair amount. He's not lamar. But I also hesitate
Speaker 3: because just what I've been hearing late the Beat reports
Speaker 3: out of Indy are you never know, it was hard
Speaker 3: to be get. He looks great again. With all respect
Speaker 3: all our Beat reporter buddies and Dale and people that
Speaker 3: did it so well. I always have a hard time
Speaker 3: just totally buying in on that. I'm just gonna trust
Speaker 3: all the guys in Indy. You have to write something
Speaker 3: every day about Daniel Jones. But all the reports have
Speaker 3: been really good. Interesting. I'm sure he won't play in
Speaker 3: the preseason, that I confirm it, you know what I mean,
Speaker 3: But like, he might be my quarterback two. And if
Speaker 3: he hits great, you know, no one's gonna have him
Speaker 3: as one, you mean, quarterback two on your team, not
Speaker 3: on your big board. If I if I waited and
Speaker 3: took him and Lawrence or something, you know what.
Speaker 2: I mean, he'll be He's he'll be a real interesting
Speaker 2: one to keep an eye on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, because he produces for fantasy even with the Giants,
Speaker 3: because he ran the Giants, because he wore five hundred
Speaker 3: yards on the ground, a couple of touchdowns.
Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, yeah, No, he's always been underrated in that
Speaker 2: in that realm. Certainly, Matt, I want to continue with
Speaker 2: some of these running backs and wide receivers.
Speaker 3: Too, as we'll do.
Speaker 2: Uh, we'll do a little bonus fantasy football focus. Keep
Speaker 2: it going. When we return. The rain falling light here
Speaker 2: very lightly, the sun is out. I wonder if there's
Speaker 2: maybe a rainbow somewhere on campus right now, Matt Williamson,
Speaker 2: maybe I'll take a look at that. During the break,
Speaker 2: we're gonna continue some fantasy football conversation. We'll also at
Speaker 2: the top of the five o'clock hour, as we always do,
Speaker 2: we'll hit your tweets, So keep those rolling in if
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Speaker 2: The weather not making up its mind out here today, Matt.
Speaker 3: Pretty odd.
Speaker 2: It was lightly rating when we went to break and
Speaker 2: then for those few minutes it started pouring down for
Speaker 2: a couple minutes here, and then now it's back to
Speaker 2: kind of a light drizzle here on the campus of
Speaker 2: Saint Vincent, not Vincent's couch.
Speaker 3: And as you mentioned, the sun is out, but can't
Speaker 3: quite find a rainbow. You know, there's some clouds, but
Speaker 3: they're mostly clear, you know. I mean, it's nice out
Speaker 3: it is.
Speaker 2: It is, just with a albeit a little bit of
Speaker 2: rain going on here. I was gonna say, if we
Speaker 2: could get a rainbow over the basilica in the Saint
Speaker 2: Vincent shrubbery over there, that would be a heck of
Speaker 2: a picture.
Speaker 3: Right early a church right over the church. You said
Speaker 3: that church is incredible by it. I've never walked in there.
Speaker 2: In credible. I would recommend that you do at some point.
Speaker 2: It's it's I think it's it's like one of those
Speaker 2: things where it's the classic church in the sense of
Speaker 2: it's open from like dawn to dusk, open all day
Speaker 2: like that church mean, or like campus in general, like.
Speaker 3: Churches in general. I think I think some frequent churches.
Speaker 2: Very I think they are, Matt. But that's that like
Speaker 2: that was the old you know, like Catholic style Basilica,
Speaker 2: Like the church was open all the time. Yeah, it
Speaker 2: could come in, you could say your prayers all that stuff.
Speaker 2: It's the same there. I don't know if it's open overnight,
Speaker 2: but it opens at like the crack of dawn in
Speaker 2: the morning and it's open all day. Now you have
Speaker 2: to be careful because in the sense of old school Basilica,
Speaker 2: there's no air conditioning in that thing, so this time
Speaker 2: of year it can get a little toasty. But I
Speaker 2: a lot of times there's people in there, like playing
Speaker 2: organ in the candles, and it's just picture all the
Speaker 2: classic out now it's coming down. Might even be able
Speaker 2: to hear it in the background a little bit. It's
Speaker 2: really pretty in there, Matt. They've always got some type
Speaker 2: of music playing. There's always some can lit I think.
Speaker 3: In there, and uh, you know, you know, you know
Speaker 3: this pictures incredible. The architecture in.
Speaker 2: There, you know, the stained glass windows and all that stuff.
Speaker 2: When we used to when you and I, you know,
Speaker 2: before we upgraded and moved into the Penthouse hotel across
Speaker 2: the street. We uh, we used to stay here on
Speaker 2: campus obviously for many years. And I used to always
Speaker 2: kind of like when i'd wake up in the morning,
Speaker 2: I'd go for a walk around campus. That was one
Speaker 2: of my dork things that I did here, not even necessarily,
Speaker 2: and yeah, I like the element of taking a walk
Speaker 2: and getting myself going.
Speaker 3: In the modom.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was more so just because there was
Speaker 2: so much cool stuff to see here on a college campus, more.
Speaker 3: Of it and take the same path everywhere, you know.
Speaker 2: I had a for a couple of summers, I had
Speaker 2: a fun tradition where I'd go to the cafeteria over
Speaker 2: there and get a coffee and then I'd just walk,
Speaker 2: you know, a few yards down to the basilica and
Speaker 2: I'd sit in like the back row for like ten minutes,
Speaker 2: sit my coffee, wake up a little bit, listen to
Speaker 2: some organ music, and then I, you know, as soon
Speaker 2: as I drank my first Joe of the day, i'd
Speaker 2: you know, throw the cup away and go walk around
Speaker 2: campus and then come back and shower and you know,
Speaker 2: something good for the start today. It was very good
Speaker 2: for the soul. I'd like to think it saved.
Speaker 3: My soul there at some point. WHOA, it's really I
Speaker 3: was gonna say, people really might be.
Speaker 2: Let's tack the third headset here and stick it out
Speaker 2: and we'll use it like We'll use it like a
Speaker 2: crowd mic here with all the rain coming down on
Speaker 2: the bleachers in front of us, Matt little Fantasy football
Speaker 2: focus maybe hour here or at least a couple of segments,
Speaker 2: but I want to continue discussing some of these names
Speaker 2: with you. The do not Draft List by one of
Speaker 2: map's former colleagues, Eric Carabell of.
Speaker 3: Es Yeah all time.
Speaker 2: Uh if hey, if he was doing if he was
Speaker 2: doing a fantasy football summit stuff back with you back then,
Speaker 2: he really he really is a he really is one
Speaker 2: of the ogs of this fantasy football world that we
Speaker 2: all live in. Now, let's talk some running backs on
Speaker 2: his do not draft list. Number one is Christian McCaffrey.
Speaker 3: There's real split, too.
Speaker 2: Many, too many touches, too many injuries. Running Backs are mortal,
Speaker 2: and he, you know, is.
Speaker 3: Also the best running back in fantasy history. He is
Speaker 3: and he's had no competition for touches. The receivers are
Speaker 3: kind of a mess. There's no backups. You're just keeping
Speaker 3: your fingers crossed. And he doesn't go down the plays
Speaker 3: at least fifteen games, right, But he's gonna cost you
Speaker 3: a first round pick somewhere in the middle of the
Speaker 3: first He could be the third running back off the
Speaker 3: board behind Gibbs and Robinson. When he's out there, he's incredible.
Speaker 3: But history is not kind to guys the year after
Speaker 3: the workload he had. And the little known fact is
Speaker 3: his yards for Carrie really went down last year and
Speaker 3: some of it's blocking some of us. He's just not
Speaker 3: as explosive. But his value is catching the ball, yes,
Speaker 3: you know, and that really doesn't go away. I mean
Speaker 3: the yards for carry stuff is great for our conversations
Speaker 3: with the Steelers, but in the world of fantasy football,
Speaker 3: I don't really care, you know. I mean, that's that's yeah,
Speaker 3: you need to go.
Speaker 2: You need to compile the stats and score points.
Speaker 3: Yeah, getting the end zone catch balls, and there's no
Speaker 3: one better in history at it than him. So I
Speaker 3: get it's just a risky move and you're gonna I
Speaker 3: commend your Stones if you do it. But I can
Speaker 3: see why.
Speaker 2: Up next is Kenneth Walker never finished better than fifteenth
Speaker 2: at running back in Fantasy during his first four seasons.
Speaker 3: And you know, injury history.
Speaker 2: Injury history there saying, hey, if you can get him
Speaker 2: in the third round, fourth round, maybe that's when you
Speaker 2: start thinking about him.
Speaker 3: But no higher than that. Okay, so doesn't have a
Speaker 3: great history catching the ball, but going back to Michigan State,
Speaker 3: he was good at it, and this past year for
Speaker 3: Seattle he was good at it. Does Kansas City see
Speaker 3: it that way? Who's to say, but they gave him
Speaker 3: a lot of money and they're gonna give him the ball.
Speaker 3: Doesn't also have a lot of competition. Their receivers are
Speaker 3: really poor in my opinion, outside of Racey Rice and
Speaker 3: mahomes Is coming back from an injury, so I think
Speaker 3: they told us we want to run the ball more
Speaker 3: with a really good back. But he does have an
Speaker 3: injury history most of his career. He split with Sharbonnet,
Speaker 3: So does he handle eighty five percent of the touches
Speaker 3: as well as he used to? Had a good conversation
Speaker 3: with this just yesterday on a different podcast though, But
Speaker 3: going back Andy Reid's history. Lately, the Chiefs have not
Speaker 3: had a bell cow back because and my contention was
Speaker 3: because none of them were good enough to be a
Speaker 3: bell cow bat. Sure, Pachecko's not lev Bell, you know
Speaker 3: what I mean. Like, but if you go back to
Speaker 3: Andy Reid's history, this is really going back though Westbrook,
Speaker 3: Lashawn McCoy, Jamal Charles Young, Kareem Hunt. He jumps on
Speaker 3: their back and rides y. Yes he does, and even
Speaker 3: if they're not huge, So I kind of fight him
Speaker 3: on this one.
Speaker 2: Up next is Kyron Williams of the La Rams because
Speaker 2: no longer, you know, just be careful about assuming him
Speaker 2: as a as a high quality RB two option with
Speaker 2: the emergence of Blake Korum.
Speaker 3: One hundred percent agree. I've never owned Kien Williams in
Speaker 3: any fantasy format, not that I hate him. I just
Speaker 3: think he's a little bit of an overrated talent, and
Speaker 3: my scouting heart will always kind of lean towards talent.
Speaker 3: I mean, situation has been great for him, but Korum's
Speaker 3: coming on strong. I don't think Williams is locked in
Speaker 3: as the clear number one as people think he's a
Speaker 3: little smaller, so he probably won't be from me yet again.
Speaker 2: Bucky Irving up just regressed a little bit, has some
Speaker 2: injury concerns.
Speaker 3: And he has massive injury concerns.
Speaker 2: And the Bucks signed, of course formerly of this parish. Yep,
Speaker 2: Kenneth gain Wells. No, sorry, Kenneth game Well.
Speaker 3: And game Well is going to be the receiver. So
Speaker 3: that takes a ton of targets off Irving's possibility that
Speaker 3: kills him. I'm almost should I'm almost certain that he
Speaker 3: had a bad shoulder injury. Shoulder. Yes, Shoulders for backs
Speaker 3: are terrible. I mean, maybe he's one hundred percent fine,
Speaker 3: but if it's lingering at all, just think of how
Speaker 3: many times you'd lower your shoulder and get smacked the shoulder.
Speaker 3: And I know that your shoulder pads on, but that's
Speaker 3: Shoulders for backs to me are stay aways. And I
Speaker 3: don't think he's a great talent either. His rookie year,
Speaker 3: rookie year.
Speaker 2: Was great and then it's hasn't had And I don't.
Speaker 3: Think that's great football player.
Speaker 2: Yes, uh, Travion Henderson of the Patriots is next, but
Speaker 2: he has to split time, you know, the logic being
Speaker 2: has to split time with Ramandre Stevenson. Yeah, and that
Speaker 2: you know, similar to what we were talking about with
Speaker 2: Drake May, like the Patriots face a lot tougher defenses
Speaker 2: this year than they.
Speaker 3: Did last year. Yeah, I agree with this one too
Speaker 3: watching the tape. Henderson is still very much learning how
Speaker 3: to become an NFL back. Some of these super talented dudes,
Speaker 3: and you played Ohio State and not that his world's
Speaker 3: been easy, but it's a nice path and he's got
Speaker 3: good blockers. You can bounce things. You're often the best
Speaker 3: athlete on the field. He needs to when the b
Speaker 3: gap opens up for three yards, he needs to hit
Speaker 3: it and get five. You know, Soun's really coming out.
Speaker 3: It feels like there should definitely.
Speaker 2: Be a round.
Speaker 3: Where's the gold? And he's a home run hitter, so
Speaker 3: those highlights look awesome. But Ramondre Stevenson is the guy
Speaker 3: that coaches trust and Henderson was non coming out of
Speaker 3: Ohio State. This guy's an unbelievable pass blocker. He was
Speaker 3: terrible as a pass blocker as a rookie. That's brutal,
Speaker 3: you know.
Speaker 2: I mean, that doesn't get you on the field as
Speaker 2: right as you'd like.
Speaker 3: So that he's not as coach friendly as you think.
Speaker 3: I mean, running backs is a lot about coaches trust,
Speaker 3: and there's a couple of ways to lose coaches trust.
Speaker 3: Fumble a lot, which Stevenson actually used to do and
Speaker 3: doesn't anymore, be bad in protection, and not take what's given.
Speaker 3: We've blocked this thing for four, get me five, you know,
Speaker 3: make it second and five, and he two of those
Speaker 3: three boxes. He's not real good at yet.
Speaker 2: Up next to New Orleans Saints newest acquisition, Travis a
Speaker 2: Chan junior, coming off his best season, but be wary
Speaker 2: of volume concerns. You know, Alvin Kamara is one of
Speaker 2: the top pass receiving running backs ever. He caught sixty
Speaker 2: eight passes in fourteen games. A Chan not as productive at.
Speaker 3: The goal line that's at.
Speaker 2: And is not catch it, you know, according to projections,
Speaker 2: will not catch six touchdowns again like he did last season.
Speaker 2: His first three seasons in the league, he only had
Speaker 2: one touchdown reception and then had six last year.
Speaker 3: A little bit of an underrated or overrated receiver. Also
Speaker 3: not great in protection, so a lot of his touchdowns
Speaker 3: over the years have come from distance, which is hard
Speaker 3: to count on. I would only counter it with the
Speaker 3: Saints run a ton of plays, as we mentioned, improving
Speaker 3: offense and they gave him money, you know, so they
Speaker 3: like him, they know better than we do.
Speaker 2: And as you mentioned, they're gonna run a lot of plays,
Speaker 2: run a lot of plays and hopefully score a lot
Speaker 2: of points. Yeah yeah, that's how do you balance that one?
Speaker 2: I think that's another just depends where you end up
Speaker 2: drafting him type conversation. And then last on the running
Speaker 2: back list, Matt is the Tennessee Titans Tony Pollard. He
Speaker 2: has had four straight, you know, four consecutive thousand yard
Speaker 2: rush seasons, but he's neither terribly efficient nor much of
Speaker 2: a pass catcher. And you know, maybe maybe he's a
Speaker 2: viable flex option, but preferring to aim higher.
Speaker 3: I get it. Tajy Spears seems like he's kind of
Speaker 3: washing out a little bit. They drafted Singleton in the
Speaker 3: fourth round. I think, who's talented, but he's got a
Speaker 3: ways to go. So I do think Paulard's gonna get
Speaker 3: a lot of touches early in the season. How well
Speaker 3: he holds up as questionable. And this is real speculation,
Speaker 3: but I think he's one of the most obvious trade
Speaker 3: deadline guys out there. What if he ends up on Buffalo,
Speaker 3: if Cook gets hurt, or something like that. You know
Speaker 3: what I mean, Like it's out a trade, Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 3: You know, so Josh Jacobs gets suspended or whatever and
Speaker 3: he ends up there, you know, like say he might
Speaker 3: there might be a spark at some point during the
Speaker 3: season where you're like, oh, it's value just went up
Speaker 3: a lot.
Speaker 2: And that's what makes uh, that's what makes this conversation
Speaker 2: so much fun. Yeah, yeah, it's uh, these guys are
Speaker 2: kind of like stocks, you know. Oh, absolutely, They're kind
Speaker 2: of like football trading cards.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I just learned earlier today that Matt Williamson is a
Speaker 2: guru in the uh in the card collectibles department. We
Speaker 2: had a fun forty five minute conversation over lunch.
Speaker 3: A little bit, a little bit, little something down on
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Speaker 2: If you are someone who make sure to say this
Speaker 2: every year, Matt and I'm sure we'll say it again tomorrow.
Speaker 2: If you're someone who's coming out for practice tomorrow, yeah,
Speaker 2: do not come to campus and nobody except for Matt
Speaker 2: and I, nobody will are you here at that time?
Speaker 3: Somebody always does though, Like we've done shows and people
Speaker 3: be like with their palms in the air, like where's
Speaker 3: everybody et?
Speaker 2: And it's funny too, you know, Matt and I obviously
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Speaker 2: You can really see a vast majority of campus from
Speaker 2: where you and I sit, and a lot of times,
Speaker 2: like you'll see people like ride up and then you'll
Speaker 2: see the security guards is like stop them, and then
Speaker 2: they'll flip a You turn and turn back around and
Speaker 2: it's like, Nope, this is not where you want to be.
Speaker 2: Do not come to Saint Vincent College tomorrow.
Speaker 3: And I know you've had these conversations that watering holes
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Speaker 3: and I'm always hoping, like, I hope they didn't come before.
Speaker 3: I hope they were like twenty minutes down the road.
Speaker 3: You know.
Speaker 2: I was thinking that today, And I know, you know
Speaker 2: that every practice there's people that drive from hours and
Speaker 2: hours away, and so I'm sure there were some people
Speaker 2: that drove hours yesterday or this morning and hoping to
Speaker 2: see practice today.
Speaker 3: And hey, people probably got screwed a little bit.
Speaker 2: Getting that, and hey, that's part of the game. Unfortunately,
Speaker 2: it's just the way it is when you have outdoor
Speaker 2: training camp. But I do at the same time, as
Speaker 2: much as that is part of the part of the process,
Speaker 2: I do feel bad for the people that, you know,
Speaker 2: make this a summer event. But hopefully plenty of you
Speaker 2: are able, you know, those who were planning on attending
Speaker 2: today's practice. Hopefully you were trying to kind of make
Speaker 2: a weekend out of it, and can still.
Speaker 3: If you came from real far, you probably at least can, yes, yes,
Speaker 3: tomort night or whatever.
Speaker 2: See your Steelers tomorrow night. But do not do not
Speaker 2: try to come to the campus of Saint Vincent College
Speaker 2: because there'll be no one here in the security guards.
Speaker 2: We'll ask you politely to please turn around and go elsewhere,
Speaker 2: not till Monday, Right, yep, Monday will be the next
Speaker 2: time we're back here on campus for a practice, because tomorrow,
Speaker 2: of course at Latro Memorial for a little Saturday night lights, Matt,
Speaker 2: few more names on this fantasy football do that draft
Speaker 2: list that I want to run past you the next
Speaker 2: Rashi Rice leading off the wide receiver list.
Speaker 3: He's really good for fantasy because he's like the only
Speaker 3: guy they trust to move the change, but he's not dynamic,
Speaker 3: really bad against man coverage and off off the field stuff. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean, just what if he does something dumb the
Speaker 3: day after you draft him.
Speaker 2: You know, as you mentioned, he was doing rehab from
Speaker 2: prison this.
Speaker 3: Year, right, knee from prison, come.
Speaker 2: Back from from that off season knee surgery. I don't
Speaker 2: think jail is the place that you want to be
Speaker 2: rehabiting an injury.
Speaker 3: Is an NFL player.
Speaker 2: Next up on the list, Matt, And you've kind of
Speaker 2: been all over this really dating back to the end
Speaker 2: of the regular season.
Speaker 3: A Brown, Yeah, he scares the heck on him. He's
Speaker 3: going really high. I just think he's just a declining
Speaker 3: move es.
Speaker 2: Yeah again that if you can get him, if you
Speaker 2: could get him at the right spot, there can be
Speaker 2: value there. But do not draft him in the top
Speaker 2: ten of fantasy wide receivers.
Speaker 3: No, I would. People are gonna look at him like, oh,
Speaker 3: he's back to being the guy two years ago for fantasy.
Speaker 3: I think those days have sailed. I hope I'm wrong.
Speaker 2: Next on the wide receiver list here is Marvin Harrison Junior.
Speaker 3: Oh. I kind of might fight him on.
Speaker 2: This might blossom one of these seasons, but you got
Speaker 2: to stop blaming the organization or his quarterbacks for his
Speaker 2: ordinary numbers. It's time for him to show a little
Speaker 2: bit more.
Speaker 3: That's fair, especially considering he's a transcendent prospect and his
Speaker 3: dad's a Hall of Famer, And you know he was
Speaker 3: the fourth overall pick, right, I mean, top five guy.
Speaker 3: But who's the stud receiver at Ohio State now? Right now?
Speaker 3: It's Jeremiah Smith. Yeah, he was Jeremiah Smith before Jeremiah Smith.
Speaker 3: Wait till you see this guy. You think Ohio State's
Speaker 3: had great receivers, wait till this Harrison dude comes, and
Speaker 3: it'll never be that. I mean, I don't think he's
Speaker 3: ever going to be better than jsn is now or
Speaker 3: you know, maybe even a Lave or Wilson. But he's
Speaker 3: still a talented player, I mean no doubt about that.
Speaker 3: And I think they've used it. That's why I'm going
Speaker 3: to blame the coaching staff is they've lined him up
Speaker 3: like he's George Pickens outside the numbers. Just go win
Speaker 3: one on one and be big. And I've stolen this
Speaker 3: from Matt Harmon, but I one hundred percent believe it
Speaker 3: because the way he's described it turned the light on
Speaker 3: to me. He's much more ceedee lamb slot, get him
Speaker 3: the ball, quick break a tackle. He's not as fast
Speaker 3: as you think. He's not Randy Moss, you know, just
Speaker 3: because dad's Marvin Harrison. So I hope this new staff
Speaker 3: uses him in a more proper manner.
Speaker 2: Big year for him, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3: He could be a guy that gets to move to
Speaker 3: the trade deadline too. If they're terrible they don't want
Speaker 3: to invest in them.
Speaker 2: That would be a very interesting what the return for
Speaker 2: him would be. Because he's still so young, there's still
Speaker 2: so much potential there. But he has not been the
Speaker 2: prospect that people thought he was coming out of Ohio State. Certainly,
Speaker 2: next Matt is just all of the Jacksonville Jaguars wide
Speaker 2: receivers because because who is week to week, it's going
Speaker 2: to be so hard to predict who's the.
Speaker 3: Guy, and because it hunters a Travis Hunter is a
Speaker 3: corner first, but I bet he still runs ten or
Speaker 3: fifteen routes a game and they want him given the ball.
Speaker 3: Jakobe Myers they traded for and he kind of put
Speaker 3: the puzzle complete, but that was with Hunter out of
Speaker 3: the mix, and then Thomas could be the outside guy
Speaker 3: and Parker Washington's come on strong, and then they draft
Speaker 3: the tight end with their first pick. So they're probably
Speaker 3: not gonna have three receivers on the field as much
Speaker 3: as they used to. You can have them. It's like
Speaker 3: the Packers have always been like, yes, one, too many
Speaker 3: mouths to feed.
Speaker 2: Here, Yes and so and again. From a winning football
Speaker 2: games perspective, right, that's great. Yeah, But for a fantasy
Speaker 2: football conversation, that's not what you're looking at. Draft Lawrence right, drafted, Yes,
Speaker 2: draft Lawrence, and then the last one, Matt is just
Speaker 2: a basic caution of be careful where you're drafting rookie
Speaker 2: wide receivers, because if you look at the twenty twenty
Speaker 2: five class, right, Travis Hunter, Teed McMillan, a Mecca Abuka,
Speaker 2: Matthew Golden, Jaden Higgins, Luther Burden, the third, Trey Harris,
Speaker 2: jack Becked all top sixty draft picks.
Speaker 3: Two of them finished in the.
Speaker 2: Top fifty of wide receivers last year for Fantasy Football,
Speaker 2: and Buka fell off.
Speaker 3: That's it.
Speaker 2: So he's saying, I like Tate, I like you know,
Speaker 2: Tyson and Concepcion and these guys, but they're just be
Speaker 2: careful because they are all likely to get over drafted.
Speaker 3: And I thought last year's receiver class at this stage
Speaker 3: of the calendar year is better than this year's receiver class.
Speaker 3: You know, like I like Tate, I like Tyson, But
Speaker 3: they don't think they're Jamar Chase. You know, they looking
Speaker 3: at ADPs the other day, I was a little shocked
Speaker 3: how high both those guys go, Like, oh, maybe somebody
Speaker 3: else can have them.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it is funny. It's a it's a good
Speaker 2: point that like does seem like rookie wide receivers there's
Speaker 2: always you know, they haven't failed yet. Yeah, so it's
Speaker 2: it's just all sunshine and rainbows, and they're gonna hit
Speaker 2: and they're gonna have great success, and they're gonna fit
Speaker 2: into the offense seamlessly and all those different things.
Speaker 3: Like this is gonna break people's hearts. But if Jeremy
Speaker 3: Bernard has forty catches for six hundred yards this year,
Speaker 3: that's a pretty darn good rookie season for a second
Speaker 3: round pick. And it's terrible for fantasy. It's that doesn't
Speaker 3: get you anywhere for fantasy.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a very good example to draw.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, he's second round pick. He's one of
Speaker 3: the top receivers drafted.
Speaker 2: But I'd probably take forty catches in six hundred yards
Speaker 2: from him right Nowte'll probably be good solid.
Speaker 3: Probably what three or four touchdown Yeah, yeah, play thirty
Speaker 3: three or thirty eight percent of the snaps or something
Speaker 3: like that. I'm like, Okay, that's a successful year.
Speaker 2: Then to round out this exerc there's two tight ends listed.
Speaker 2: The first is Dallas Goddard.
Speaker 3: Oh, I kind of disagree on that.
Speaker 2: He did say, hey, he caught eleven of the team's
Speaker 2: twenty six touchdown throws last year, which he won't catch,
Speaker 2: but he but he caught twelve the prior four seasons combined,
Speaker 2: and last year was kind of his benchmark fantasy football season.
Speaker 3: Well, that team doesn't throw touchdown passes. It's either Barkley
Speaker 3: or Hurts runs it in.
Speaker 2: And yes, that's basically that the offense has a lot
Speaker 2: of a lot of back and forth in the past
Speaker 2: game and that last year was probably the best fantasy
Speaker 2: football season he'll ever have.
Speaker 3: That's probably true. And he's up in age and he's
Speaker 3: even flirted with retirement at this stage of his career.
Speaker 3: But and maybe this isn't enough to go off of
Speaker 3: his numbers when aj Brown is not in the lineup
Speaker 3: are tremendous. So take that for what you want. Take
Speaker 3: that for what you want.
Speaker 2: I know you and I have said this many times,
Speaker 2: but the Eagles this season, particularly on that offensive side
Speaker 2: of the football, are going to be a fascinating follow
Speaker 2: to keep an eye on.
Speaker 3: One.
Speaker 2: Matt two closed down this hour into round out this
Speaker 2: exercise is Kyle Pitts Senior.
Speaker 3: Hmmm, maybe the quarterback stuff is terrible.
Speaker 2: Questions about the quarterback position and just that seemingly pits
Speaker 2: you know, still being that number four draft pick a
Speaker 2: few years ago. Yeah, it's still kind of consistently, not
Speaker 2: that there's not value there, but he's one of those
Speaker 2: guys that's consistently overdrafted.
Speaker 3: Maybe I'm always pretty confident when I draft the tight
Speaker 3: end that has a chance to be the number two
Speaker 3: target earner on his team, and he's what he does,
Speaker 3: and he definitely does after Drake, maybe Djon Catch has more,
Speaker 3: but they're short stuff. I mean, he'll probably be in
Speaker 3: the top three in terms of targets on the Falcons.
Speaker 3: It's not terrible. He wouldn't be top of my list.
Speaker 2: He's basically that like a lot of lists have him
Speaker 2: in the top five. Yeah, he's like, that's a little
Speaker 2: little too rich, little too overvalued for that's fair.
Speaker 3: I'm taking like Craft and Warren and Loveland.
Speaker 2: Over him, and then obviously McBride, right, you're the top
Speaker 2: dogs pourers, Matt two hours of the books. If you
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