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Speaker 1: It's the first big draft weekend of Fantasy football twenty
Speaker 1: twenty three, and we are here to help. I am
Speaker 1: Paul Chargy. In my cost today are Brian Johnson and
Speaker 1: Scott Fish. Scott, I barely even know what you look like.
Speaker 3: I know I wasn't fired as most people thought. Thor
Speaker 3: did not replace me. I'm still here.
Speaker 4: It's touching, gum. I'll be honest.
Speaker 5: Okay, you might, Okay, I don't want to bank on
Speaker 5: that quite Yeah.
Speaker 3: Maybe I spoke too soon.
Speaker 4: You might.
Speaker 1: You might want to be careful with that. So much
Speaker 1: great stuff to get to today. We're gonna go through
Speaker 1: all the things we're learning and training camp all thirty
Speaker 1: two teams like we do at the start of every
Speaker 1: of all of our preseason shows. We're gonna describe the
Speaker 1: toughest decision you need to make in every round one
Speaker 1: through ten. When this this guy comes up, you're on
Speaker 1: the clock. This is the tough decision. Thumbs up, thumbs down.
Speaker 1: We'll go through three tough questions like we always do.
Speaker 1: Scott will take us through vacated targets. What are the
Speaker 1: teams that have a big opening for targets players who
Speaker 1: left their team from last year. Brian will talks to
Speaker 1: us about running back touches that are vacated. So these
Speaker 1: are opportunities that are up for grab for somebody new,
Speaker 1: love it.
Speaker 5: Or some bodies Oh.
Speaker 1: Oh, all right, tip tipping your hand a little bit.
Speaker 1: Offensive lines, the best and worst. We care only about
Speaker 1: the best and the worst. The rest are in the middle.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the ones you gotta be careful about
Speaker 1: and the ones that you want to be sure to
Speaker 1: help help your favorite players.
Speaker 4: And then we'll give out our sleepers. So lots to
Speaker 4: get to.
Speaker 3: I love your analysis, best, worst and middle.
Speaker 4: The other thirty twenty two teams just in the middle.
Speaker 3: Yep, there it is.
Speaker 4: That's right, all right.
Speaker 1: So let's let's break down what we've learned and train
Speaker 1: camps in preseason action from each of the team. Scott,
Speaker 1: We're going to begin with you and the Arizona Cardinals.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I guess the most recent news this week, the
Speaker 3: Arizona Cardinals acquired Josh Dobbs, who people are now speculating
Speaker 3: might be then might have a chance to start over
Speaker 3: Cole McCoy to start the season. That's the big no,
Speaker 3: big news. Dobson McCoy basically become last round super flex
Speaker 3: draft picks. Dobson McCoy. That sounds like a whiskey bar.
Speaker 4: Sounds like a law firm.
Speaker 3: Oh that too, that too. I think with all the
Speaker 3: trades the Cardinals have made there on their way to
Speaker 3: Caleb Williams next year.
Speaker 4: That I'll sign point that way.
Speaker 1: Although that Houston pick is going to be worth as
Speaker 1: much as people think, I'm telling you he's going to be. Okay, Brian,
Speaker 1: what do we learn from the Atlanta Falcons training camp
Speaker 1: in preseason?
Speaker 6: Falcons played the Steelers on Thursday night. They were shut out,
Speaker 6: but none of their starters played. But that means Bjon
Speaker 6: Robinson should have played in that game because he still
Speaker 6: listed number three at running back on their depth chart.
Speaker 6: He's not their third running back. But again, would you
Speaker 6: have any great okay, very nice addition to the Jean Robinson.
Speaker 6: He's going to be the starter, but again, be a
Speaker 6: little wary. I don't know Arthur Smith. He's a pain
Speaker 6: in the ass when it comes to fantasy football.
Speaker 3: So ifill can make a fantasy potential fantasy star not.
Speaker 6: Perform, it's it is so again, Bijon is going top
Speaker 6: three among running backs.
Speaker 5: We live up to that ADP. Only time will tell.
Speaker 1: In Baltimore, this roster is filled with injured guys on
Speaker 1: the men who we don't have really any data on.
Speaker 1: So it's frustrating, but that's the scenario we've got. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to largely draft on faith.
Speaker 4: With JK.
Speaker 1: Dobbins, Rashad Bateman, and Obj. None are expected to get
Speaker 1: any preseason in game action at all. Dobbin says he's
Speaker 1: in great shape. He said that last preseason. Rashad Bateman
Speaker 1: says he's ninety nine percent recovered, so he's he left
Speaker 1: the door open just a little bit. I'm saying there's
Speaker 1: a chance, uh and OBG OBJ seems to be rending
Speaker 1: towards the start of the season. But probably to me
Speaker 1: that OBJ were this far into training camp and OBJ
Speaker 1: is still getting like two days of rest off.
Speaker 3: He's had eighteen months of rest Offish.
Speaker 1: I'm nervous about I don't like. I don't like guys
Speaker 1: rolling into the seven and needing rest at this stage.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 3: What'll we learned running back room stuff? The Bills believe
Speaker 3: James Cook can be a bellcow. They also signed Tyd
Speaker 3: Johnson this week to replace Nahim Heines's role of one
Speaker 3: point two touches per game. Damian Harris returned to practice
Speaker 3: for some limited work. We're not sure when he's gonna
Speaker 3: be ready yet.
Speaker 4: All right, Carolina, what have we learned there?
Speaker 6: DJ Shark dealing with a hamstring injury right now. Sadly,
Speaker 6: the song remains the same with Chark hasn't played a
Speaker 6: full season in his career, just fifteen games played over
Speaker 6: the last two years for DJ Shark. So it looks
Speaker 6: like your guy, Adam Thielin is the wide receiver to
Speaker 6: roster right now based on ADP. Jonathan Mingo certainly in
Speaker 6: the mix, of course, but DJ Shark looking a little
Speaker 6: iffy for Week one.
Speaker 1: Mingo's had some really good and really bad plays at
Speaker 1: various times. Well, we'll see how that pans out. But
Speaker 1: I feel like Thieland's being dramatically underdrafted, like six.
Speaker 3: Lot of available targets there a lot.
Speaker 1: Right, Well, maybe we'll talk more about the show in Chicago.
Speaker 1: Hard to draft Chase Claypool, but he is the starting
Speaker 1: receiver and an emerging offense here. He's been down with
Speaker 1: the hamstring injury since August ninth, but they say he's
Speaker 1: going to be ready for the start of the season.
Speaker 1: Who might not be though key offensive lineman Tevin Jenkins
Speaker 1: has a leg injury. His availability for the starter is
Speaker 1: not clear. And last thing I'll mention about Chicago. Based
Speaker 1: on preseason action, the Bears backfield looks like a true committee.
Speaker 4: Khalil Herbert probably is the is the start, but it
Speaker 4: may not matter.
Speaker 1: Johnson's had some sizzling moments, but it's unclear how big
Speaker 1: his role is going to be early in the season.
Speaker 3: They've both had some really good moments. They both ranked
Speaker 3: highly on the Scoot Index.
Speaker 4: For me, so oh, very big on the Scoot Index.
Speaker 4: Very scoot end.
Speaker 1: Yes, if there's nothing I like to index more than scoots.
Speaker 4: Cincinnati, what have we learned?
Speaker 3: Sounds like Chris Evans will take the backup role, but
Speaker 3: also the pass game work, lightning the load a little
Speaker 3: bit for Joe Mixon, who was not found not guilty
Speaker 3: this last week of aggravated menaicine. We'll see if that
Speaker 3: brings any kind of suspension. Sometimes even not guilty verdicts
Speaker 3: bring that with the NFL.
Speaker 1: And you still got a pending legal case over the
Speaker 1: shooting of a neighbor boy, so that's.
Speaker 4: Still out there.
Speaker 1: Ye Ah, it's never quite easy with Joe mixing Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 4: What have we learned?
Speaker 6: Brian Jerome Ford could be ready for Week one. He
Speaker 6: suffered a hamstring injury a couple of weeks ago. He
Speaker 6: was an intriguing backup option for Nick Chubb, of course,
Speaker 6: but Cleveland didn't bring in any any you know, backa
Speaker 6: or a running back help while Ford was out. His
Speaker 6: ADP Jerome Ford's that is, has dropped more than two
Speaker 6: rounds over the last two weeks. I think one of
Speaker 6: the the must handcuffs if you draft Nick Chubb, but
Speaker 6: also an enticing just stash play. He's gonna have a
Speaker 6: role in this offense when healthy, even if Chubb. If
Speaker 6: Chubb is healthy, so just keep here on your own Ford,
Speaker 6: He's coming at a great discount right now. I'm certainly
Speaker 6: scooping scooping up some shares.
Speaker 4: Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Dak Prescott said that tight end Jake Ferguson will become
Speaker 1: quote a big time player in this league. I'm in
Speaker 1: Ferguson is a top the depth chart ahead of rookie
Speaker 1: Luke Schoonmacher and Dalton Schultz. Was you know, was the starter.
Speaker 1: Obviously he's gone. Ferguson could walk into at least Scheltzian production,
Speaker 1: and so there is a lot of upside for a
Speaker 1: guy going off the.
Speaker 4: Board very late.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about that one later too.
Speaker 1: That sounds like a spot for some vacated targets Denver Broncos.
Speaker 4: What have we learned?
Speaker 3: Uh? Two pass game notes. Jerry Judy expected to miss
Speaker 3: several weeks after I drafted him twice this week. I mean,
Speaker 3: my bad.
Speaker 5: You should have know.
Speaker 3: I may have cursed him. Actually that's probably how it works.
Speaker 6: You should have been bleeding the clock if you're drafting him.
Speaker 3: If jig a couple of times last week, So like,
Speaker 3: maybe maybe I'm just guilty of.
Speaker 5: This not draft Damian Pierce.
Speaker 3: I will try not to. It's a hamstring injury for
Speaker 3: him and those ken Linger. They already lost Hammler and
Speaker 3: Tim Patrick, so it'll be a lot of Tim Sutton,
Speaker 3: and this week Sean Payton mentioned that Great Dulcic will
Speaker 3: play the joker role, moving all over the formation to
Speaker 3: exploit mismatches, which I found a little interesting interesting comment there.
Speaker 1: You know, we get this stuff every preseason. I know
Speaker 1: some player they're like, oh, we're gonna over the field,
Speaker 1: and what that most usually means is like two plays
Speaker 1: or you.
Speaker 3: Know, or Dulsage's case, he'll move to all the spots
Speaker 3: of the wide receivers who can't play in Week one,
Speaker 3: maybe to tack onto Oh I'm with you, I'm not.
Speaker 3: I'm not in on Dulcie. I'm just reporting what was said.
Speaker 6: I understand tack onto that door real quick, Mark Quez
Speaker 6: Callaway a deep dart throw. Keep your eye on what
Speaker 6: former saint Yeah, Sean Payton, Beckham.
Speaker 5: Is just a straight vertical speed.
Speaker 4: Give me some three catches to Detroit Lyons.
Speaker 6: What do we learn, Brian, i'man Rossaint Brown returned to
Speaker 6: practice on Wednesday. Suffered a scare last week with an
Speaker 6: ankle injury. We know you love some God Scott, most
Speaker 6: of us too. He's in line for a great.
Speaker 4: My number five wide receiver. Do you have him even
Speaker 4: higher than that?
Speaker 3: I don't know. I'd have to check, all right.
Speaker 5: If he wasn't stopped at the one yard line.
Speaker 3: To do because I've been to I took him in
Speaker 3: the first round last week in the league.
Speaker 1: I've taken him first round of Gullantine leagues. But those
Speaker 1: are eighteen, those are eighteen.
Speaker 3: You know, he took them one to eleven.
Speaker 4: Wow, I like it.
Speaker 6: You mentioned it last week. He got stopped at the
Speaker 6: one yard line like five or six times last year.
Speaker 6: If that didn't happen, he would He's probably wide receiver three.
Speaker 6: But and quickly though, no one's talking about what other
Speaker 6: wide receiver to draft. People are still drafting Jamison Williams,
Speaker 6: who's going to miss the first six games by week
Speaker 6: week nine, So you get two games in the first
Speaker 6: nine weeks from James and Williams. People need to start
Speaker 6: talking about Josh Reynolds. In my mind, Marvin Jones going
Speaker 6: ahead of Reynolds with Jones's dust, Josh Reynolds should be
Speaker 6: getting drafted in the later rounds right now.
Speaker 1: Yeah, this could be a top five, top seven scoring
Speaker 1: offense and their number two receivers going undrafted.
Speaker 3: I think you're wrong about Jamison Williams. He averages forty
Speaker 3: one yards per catch. It he scores on every.
Speaker 5: Play against the Vikings.
Speaker 4: Yes, he scores in every parlay play or.
Speaker 5: Sorry, I had to do it.
Speaker 1: Jamison Broom, Green Bay Packers. Romeo Dobbs looks like the
Speaker 1: best receiver in Green Bay. He's had the strongest OTA's
Speaker 1: training camp preseason games. He scored in the first preseason game,
Speaker 1: then in the second preseason game put up forty two
Speaker 1: yards on a reception. His ADP Romeo Dobbs way down
Speaker 1: at wide receiver sixty one going off the board in
Speaker 1: round fifteen.
Speaker 6: If only he was as fast as Luke Musgrave though,
Speaker 6: yef only and if.
Speaker 1: It comes down to that, you know, we did the
Speaker 1: teammates game last week. Christian Watson's ADP is round five,
Speaker 1: Wide receiver twenty four. Give me Dobbs at wide receiver
Speaker 1: sixty one in round few fifteen. Absolutely he's I think
Speaker 1: he's a better all around receiver, doesn't have the same upside.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Houston Texans, Scott, what have we learned?
Speaker 3: CJ. Stroud is being listed as the starter, but no
Speaker 3: definitive announcement yet. But I think we can all pretty
Speaker 3: much assume that's going to happen. Damian Pierce played one
Speaker 3: hundred percent of the first team's fourteen offensive snaps in
Speaker 3: the last preseason game, netting one point five fantasy points.
Speaker 3: I'm just joking because charge is here. It's didn't get
Speaker 3: didn't get much on those. But I love that he's
Speaker 3: playing every single snap and he looks to be a
Speaker 3: a bell horse or a workcou or whatever you want
Speaker 3: to call it.
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 5: I think I think.
Speaker 1: I think my horse is gone, no, or my cow
Speaker 1: is gone. We had the cow bell, but it didn't
Speaker 1: We had a broken cow bell.
Speaker 5: Yeah, all of State Fair.
Speaker 3: Do we still have one in the room. We used
Speaker 3: to have one in the room.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we used to have the cow bell. Somebody sent
Speaker 1: us which was awesome. We had a Fantasy Football weekly
Speaker 1: cow bell because we had a listener who made cow bells.
Speaker 4: That was awesome. Indianapolis Colts, Brian, what have we learned?
Speaker 6: A new twist in the Jonathan Taylor saga. He's been
Speaker 6: a granted permission to seek a trade. So I don't
Speaker 6: think the Colts are actually trying to trade him. They're
Speaker 6: just saying, go ahead and try it. Try and find
Speaker 6: someone who wants to trade for you in are ridiculous
Speaker 6: first round pick demands his dead No, they will not
Speaker 6: get that. His deadline is supposedly Tuesday to get a
Speaker 6: deal done.
Speaker 3: I don't know. Is this the new way teams are operating.
Speaker 3: They did that with Lamar Jackson. They're like, it's all
Speaker 3: they sign him. And then they did that with Austin Eckler. Okay,
Speaker 3: go find a trade, and they did and they resign him.
Speaker 1: Is I think what happens is Jonathan Taylor's people go
Speaker 1: to the Colts, they say trade us, and the Colts
Speaker 1: come back two days later they go, nobody wants you,
Speaker 1: and they go, ha, we think plenty of people want him.
Speaker 1: Let us go for work out of trade. And so
Speaker 1: then they call thirty one teams and try to find
Speaker 1: a landing spot for Jonathan Taylor. And I think that's
Speaker 1: I think that's what's happened here.
Speaker 5: Now.
Speaker 1: The reason I think Taylor's got a better chance of
Speaker 1: moving than most players here is these suicides do not
Speaker 1: like each other. It's emotional. The team does not want
Speaker 1: Jonathan Taylor. Jonathan Taylor does not want to be on
Speaker 1: that team, and that provides a motivation to get him
Speaker 1: out of Indy.
Speaker 4: That is that you don't normally get.
Speaker 1: Say when Austin Neckler is looking for more money, and
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, you know, I'll go wherever I
Speaker 1: have to go to get more money.
Speaker 4: They like Austin, I'll go. He's a good dude.
Speaker 3: Dolphins, anybody, Dolphins, Jacksonville, Jaguars.
Speaker 4: Let's go there, Not the Dolphins.
Speaker 3: No, I'm just saying, Dolphins, Taylor to the Dolphins. They've
Speaker 3: been interest interested.
Speaker 1: I don't want that in a rookie draft field with
Speaker 1: the lead tight end prospects. Jaguars tight end Brenton Strange
Speaker 1: as the highest rookie PFF grade of the preseason. Nobody
Speaker 1: even totally off Radars now he's just a deep dynasty
Speaker 1: stash because they re signed Evan Ingram to a fat
Speaker 1: new deal.
Speaker 5: But you never know, and.
Speaker 4: You know, stranger things have happened.
Speaker 1: So and then with more with the Jaguars later we
Speaker 1: might talk about a certain running back little later.
Speaker 4: Oh boy, let's get a couple more teams in.
Speaker 3: How can we go a show without you talking about
Speaker 3: a Jaguars running back? Though it's a specific.
Speaker 4: One and it is it is, It is not going
Speaker 4: to happen. I don't think Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 3: Scott Isaiah Piccheco finally practicing in fall after offseason torn
Speaker 3: labraham and broken hand surgeries. Hey, we're like twins. I've
Speaker 3: torn my labor and broken my hand, and like Tonya
Speaker 3: Chief Tony Pollard broke his peebela last year, I've broken
Speaker 3: I'm basically an NFL running back. So many similarities. It's
Speaker 3: on caddy anyway. Pacheco may finally play in the third
Speaker 3: preseason game to get some game action reps, but you
Speaker 3: should feel a little better about drafting him now.
Speaker 7: Las Vegas Raiders Brian so Josh Jacobs has not officially
Speaker 7: signed his franchise tag yet, but no, they expect him to,
Speaker 7: but something worth keeping an eye on.
Speaker 6: And also, Aiden O'Connell, rookie quarterback, might take Jimmy G's
Speaker 6: job at but Super Flex League's great last round pick
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Speaker 4: Would you rather have Aidan O'Connell or d t R.
Speaker 4: They're both backups now, they're both backups. Now dt Robson has.
Speaker 5: Got down to run. That's that's his nickname. Dt R.
Speaker 4: I like that.
Speaker 1: I like that when we come back, will continue to
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Speaker 5: Let's go back to the.
Speaker 4: Things we've learned in training camp in preseason games. The
Speaker 4: Los Angeles Rams. I think I think we're up next
Speaker 4: to Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: Sure, I'll do the rams and you can. You can
Speaker 3: figure it out over there. Cooper Cup resumed practice this
Speaker 3: week and said if there was a game today, he
Speaker 3: could play, which which tracks with what a lot of
Speaker 3: the doctors have said about his injury. It's looking like
Speaker 3: it's also looking like Kyron Williams may not just take
Speaker 3: over the RB two role. He could take over the
Speaker 3: pass game work as Yeah, Iron Williams Brian Sleeper from
Speaker 3: last week.
Speaker 6: I've bookmarked your comments from last week in my head. Jeffrey,
Speaker 6: I'm coming for you.
Speaker 4: He looked mundane last year. That is a stone cold fact.
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Chargers the battle to back of Boston Eckler
Speaker 1: appears to be tilting towards Isaiah Spiller, who's looked better
Speaker 1: in game action, and Quentin Johnson has looked very sharp
Speaker 1: both in practice and game action. He's shaping up to
Speaker 1: be the team's third receivers.
Speaker 5: Early as Week one, you might have skipped over me.
Speaker 4: Okay, it's just I started with the wrong team, Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 5: Well, we talked about it earlier, is all it's all about.
Speaker 6: They are apparently the front runner to trade for Jonathan
Speaker 6: Taylor right now, which would certainly muck up the Dolphins
Speaker 6: backfield and likely that the Colts backfield, because you would
Speaker 6: have to imagine that one or two running backs would
Speaker 6: be shipped over back to the Colts if Taylor were
Speaker 6: to be traded to the Dolphins. So we'll have to
Speaker 6: see what happens there, all.
Speaker 1: Right, Minnesota Vikings. When he's not dinged up, Jordan Addison
Speaker 1: continues to impress. He's making acrobatic catches, he's beating coverage,
Speaker 1: he's winning contested catches. He looks like a lot to
Speaker 1: start Week one in the role that Adam thee and
Speaker 1: left behind, and he's gonna face single coverage all season.
Speaker 1: He could be sitting on a very big year, and
Speaker 1: he could also be sitting on Adam Feelin's goal to
Speaker 1: go routes. Feeling an elite pass catcher in the end
Speaker 1: zone in short yardage that those routes could go to Addison.
Speaker 4: TJ.
Speaker 1: Hockinson's been dealing with an ear infection in a back issue.
Speaker 1: He's on track to start the opener, though.
Speaker 3: Minnesota lost eighteen goal to go attempt past attempts.
Speaker 4: Wow, that's mostly feeling.
Speaker 3: Yep, that's some opportunity.
Speaker 1: Seventh round rookie Dwayne McBride is getting drafted in some leagues.
Speaker 1: He may not have a roster to get to this point.
Speaker 4: So notice on that. Let's go to the New England Patriots.
Speaker 3: Not much here, I think the only notable thing is
Speaker 3: Mike Oseki has returned to practice for those very large
Speaker 3: or deep leagues that are drafted. Patriots tight ends apparently.
Speaker 3: I'm assuming you touched on the Ezekiel Elliott stuff last week, so.
Speaker 4: We did, alright, move We'll move on New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 4: What have we learned, Brian?
Speaker 5: You're excited about this charge? Rashid Shaheeda, Yeah, yea.
Speaker 6: On Wednesday he was dealing with a growing injury somewhat
Speaker 6: limited return, but hopefully he's good to go week one.
Speaker 6: But Michael Thomas continues to look pretty good in camp.
Speaker 6: So there are some intriguing weapons in New Orleans aside
Speaker 6: from Alvin Kamara until Week four, but Michael Thomas would nice,
Speaker 6: would be nice to see him return to somewhat of
Speaker 6: his his prime.
Speaker 1: New York Giants Darren Waller has looked very natural in
Speaker 1: this offense. He's the best receiver on the team tight
Speaker 1: end three, or he's my tight end three.
Speaker 3: There we go.
Speaker 1: Historically it has been very productive inside the five yard line.
Speaker 1: Since twenty twenty, Darren Wallace turned eleven targets into seven touchdowns.
Speaker 1: That is a high conversion rate.
Speaker 4: We love that.
Speaker 1: Now they gonna mention Isaiah Hodgins. This is a Brian
Speaker 1: Johnson early tout from this offseason. He's a lock to
Speaker 1: start on the outside where he's gonna avoid that logjam
Speaker 1: of slot receivers like Paris Campbell and Wendel Robinson and
Speaker 1: Cole Easley and Jamison Crowder. So there's that and Hodgen.
Speaker 1: He has looked very polished in preseason action, so love him.
Speaker 1: I think he's a He's a really intriguing sleeper. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the New York.
Speaker 3: Jets wide receiver room stuff. Corey Davis retired opening up
Speaker 3: the death depth chart A tiny crack, like a very little,
Speaker 3: itty bitty crack for a few targets there. Alan Lazard
Speaker 3: expected to be ready for Week one after his ac
Speaker 3: joint spray in a few weeks ago, and b writers
Speaker 3: are claiming Randall Copp could play a big role in
Speaker 3: the offense after a good daytime nap hitting the buffetian
Speaker 3: I played with his grand kids. Still, if I come
Speaker 3: on out there, have a.
Speaker 1: Dinner at four o'clock. Yeah, old country buffet. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: probably Randall.
Speaker 5: Cox still has the dreamiest eyes in the NFL, though.
Speaker 3: He was ten years younger than you. Why making these jokes?
Speaker 4: Philadelphia Eagles? What have we learned? Brian?
Speaker 6: The Eagles played the Colts on Thursday night. No one
Speaker 6: of notes suited up for Philly except for Dan Arnold.
Speaker 6: That's a note caught two passes for ten yards, also
Speaker 6: a beautiful block near the They got Trey Sermon into
Speaker 6: the end zone.
Speaker 5: All but the should have cementing his spot on the roster.
Speaker 6: But in all seriousness, if you're drafting Dallas Goddard, which
Speaker 6: is I'm all for that. Yep, there's no need to
Speaker 6: draft another tight end really okay, because you're gonna ride
Speaker 6: Goddard up until their week ten by. But if something
Speaker 6: were to happen that Dallas Goddard, Dan Arnold is going
Speaker 6: to be you laugh. Now, he's going to be a
Speaker 6: viable option in that Eagles offense.
Speaker 3: You've been right so many times. Why would we doubt you.
Speaker 3: Let's let's conservatively say there are five thousand fantasy football
Speaker 3: podcasts and and shows out there. We talk about Dad
Speaker 3: Arnold more than all of that.
Speaker 4: That we are number by your Dan Arnold leader.
Speaker 5: I'm unulittling anybody.
Speaker 4: It's gonna be Mark Andrews and Isaiah like Liams.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's.
Speaker 5: That's a sheep, Dan Arnold, is it is. It's a sheep.
Speaker 5: It's gonna it's gonna comebody locking.
Speaker 4: Up that handcuff.
Speaker 3: All right?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 1: They are Steelers. The first team offense. They've concluded their preseason.
Speaker 1: The first team offense. Look five drives, five touchdowns, Kenny
Speaker 1: Pickett looks notably more comfortable and poised in the pocket.
Speaker 1: Alan Robinson and this was something Brian talked about I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe a month ago, he's locked in as
Speaker 1: the starter. Now, look, it was bad last year and
Speaker 1: they needed him, and I'm not very optimistic, but you know,
Speaker 1: you're in deep enough leagues where you're just trying to
Speaker 1: find starters. At wide receiver, Alan Robinson's gonna be one
Speaker 1: of It's gonna be one of the starters. Let's go
Speaker 1: to San Francisco.
Speaker 3: Set their QB depth chart as QB one, Perty, QB two, Donald,
Speaker 3: QB three Trey Lance, to the surprise of literally nobody
Speaker 3: who knows ball, the forty nine ers may explore options
Speaker 3: for Trey Lance, so he might see another team. We'll see.
Speaker 5: Well, his name is quite literally three.
Speaker 6: Right, Trey Trey writing was on the wall all along.
Speaker 4: Seattle Seahawks. What have we learned?
Speaker 3: Brian?
Speaker 6: Unfortunately, Jackson Smith and Jigba broke his wrist last week
Speaker 6: in preseason action, underwent surgery earlier this week out and
Speaker 6: estimated three to four four weeks. That's sort of a
Speaker 6: ballpark timetable undraftable in guillotine leagues. The Seahawks have a
Speaker 6: round week five, by so I doubt we see JSN
Speaker 6: until week six. In my personal non medical opinion, but
Speaker 6: a risky pick in guillotine leagues for sure. But his
Speaker 6: adp as has slid, But I think it makes sense
Speaker 6: that they hold him out through that Week five by
Speaker 6: so I think it's we're looking at a two month
Speaker 6: absence for the highest touted rookie wide receiver right now
Speaker 6: in Tampa Bay.
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield named the starter, and he's got a pretty
Speaker 1: soft set of matchups early in the season. Week one
Speaker 1: against Minnesota's rebuilt pass defense, and there's four of his
Speaker 1: first six starts for Baker Mayfield and the Tampa Bay
Speaker 1: Buccaneers strongly positive matchups. So you know, I could see
Speaker 1: him in super flex or he might be our take
Speaker 1: a chance on me quarterback from time to time in
Speaker 1: that first six weeks of games for Baker Mayfield. But
Speaker 1: I also want to mention this bad news on the
Speaker 1: hoped return for Tampa Bay center Ryan Jensen. You remember
Speaker 1: last year he suffered an ACL, an MCL and a
Speaker 1: PCL and then decided not to have surgery because he's
Speaker 1: thirty two years old and he was contemplating retirement. He's
Speaker 1: and he's trying to come back after no surgery, and
Speaker 1: it doesn't look like it's gonna happen. They he's not
Speaker 1: able to fly, so they can't travel.
Speaker 5: With him right now.
Speaker 1: So you know, an already bad offensive line could get
Speaker 1: a lot worse if Ryan Jensen's not able to go
Speaker 1: this year, and that could be the case. In Tampa,
Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans, Scott.
Speaker 3: Trey Ann Burks now injured, may not be ready for
Speaker 3: Week one, and Kyle Phillips also down and may miss
Speaker 3: several weeks into the season, giving giving way to DeAndre
Speaker 3: Hopkins and Chicka Konku maybe possibly feasting early in the
Speaker 3: next in the first few weeks of the season.
Speaker 4: Chick needs to hold the balls that are thrown to him.
Speaker 4: That would be helpful.
Speaker 3: Yes, I have Taj Spears also looking good, likely the
Speaker 3: backup and for sure downfield passed routes, a lot of
Speaker 3: them in camp.
Speaker 4: Spears is fascinating, isn't he?
Speaker 3: Gosh Oh Vikings Joint practices man, he looked good.
Speaker 4: Washington Commander's our final.
Speaker 6: Stop wide receiver Terry McLaurin, now uncertain for Week one
Speaker 6: after suffering a turf toe injury in the Monday night
Speaker 6: game against the Ravens, a game the Commanders were treating
Speaker 6: like the Super Bowl. I'm just like screaming at my TV.
Speaker 4: They played their starters.
Speaker 6: They played their starters, and they played him too hard,
Speaker 6: like Sam Howell, like trying to run in a touchdown
Speaker 6: standing upright, almost got killed.
Speaker 4: Why denigrating Sam Howe.
Speaker 5: I'm not denigrating him. I'm saying, put him in bubble wrap.
Speaker 6: They've lost McLaurin for the short term, so I know
Speaker 6: it's an offense. We're all excited about but Terry McClure
Speaker 6: and looking very dicey for week one.
Speaker 5: Diami Brown. We all know that. We all know that.
Speaker 3: But I took him over Terry McLaurin this week.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's our angle.
Speaker 3: I rank him there.
Speaker 6: I'm not saying Brown over Dotson Dotson, of course, but
Speaker 6: Brown now in the mix.
Speaker 5: Mclaurin's dinged up come back.
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Speaker 4: Here's an idea for your league.
Speaker 1: Take your regular old standard fantasy league, take all the
Speaker 1: same people. Run a shadow guillotine league. Same people see
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Speaker 1: Now we're talking riff Raft would be very big into that.
Speaker 1: Not totally clear which one that is he would, Yes,
Speaker 1: I think he'd be totally into that. Toughest decision every round.
Speaker 1: I want to go through each round of the draft. Well,
Speaker 1: depends on how long your draft is, and talk about
Speaker 1: the hardest decision and tell me which way you're going
Speaker 1: in each round. Now, depending on where you pick in
Speaker 1: each round, you may or may not have each of
Speaker 1: these faces, each of these dilemmas where you pick. But
Speaker 1: based on today's average draft position, these are all players
Speaker 1: that are going in these rounds. We begin in round one.
Speaker 1: Do you trust Cooper Cupp to return to form?
Speaker 4: We begin with Scott Yes.
Speaker 3: Healthwise, Many injury specialists like Stefani Bell and many others
Speaker 3: have said he'll be fined, is it fine? And is
Speaker 3: on track? He himself said this week he could play
Speaker 3: right now if it called upon it. I think he'll
Speaker 3: be just fine. He was second last year in fantasy
Speaker 3: points per game, behind only Justin Jefferson, and that was
Speaker 3: a fairly bad offense last year. So I feel fine
Speaker 3: about taking him in the first. I have other options.
Speaker 3: I rank him like sixth, so like I have other
Speaker 3: options I'd rather have, but I'd be fine with.
Speaker 4: This one of the healthful on Ross Saint Brown.
Speaker 3: It is okay. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the way I said is can you trust Cooper Cup?
Speaker 4: You say yes, I can trust Ryan. Round one. Can
Speaker 4: I trust Cooper Cup to return to form?
Speaker 5: I can't fully trust him. I know I'm not.
Speaker 6: The ankle injury that cut his season short last year
Speaker 6: not a concern. He suffered a hamstring injury a couple
Speaker 6: of weeks ago in camp, obviously not related to the ankle.
Speaker 6: But Cup just turned thirty years old. That's getting a
Speaker 6: little old. And if we're talking returning to form of
Speaker 6: Triple Crown form in twenty twenty one when he led
Speaker 6: the league and catches yards and touchdowns receiving, of course,
Speaker 6: I'm not so sure. I'm not saying he can't, but
Speaker 6: one hundred percent guarantee not for me and guys like
Speaker 6: I'm on Ross, Ain't Brown, Ceedee Lamb, Garrett Wilson. I'm
Speaker 6: a little more comfortable drafting them over Cooper Cup right
Speaker 6: now in a vacuum.
Speaker 1: Part of the reason I trust Cooper Cup is the
Speaker 1: entire offense is built around him. It's really good and
Speaker 1: Sean McVay has proven repeatedly that he can do that.
Speaker 1: He can scheme an offense to get Cooper Cup open,
Speaker 1: and he's there. He's their offense. You know, it comes,
Speaker 1: it moves entirely through Cooper Cup. And because he's such
Speaker 1: an important part of that. If you take the health
Speaker 1: off the table and it looks like he's gonna be okay.
Speaker 4: I gotta trust Cooper Cup. Let's go to round two.
Speaker 1: Does Dereck Henry have one last good year left in him?
Speaker 4: Brian?
Speaker 5: I have to say, quite the thing there. I don't
Speaker 5: know where that came.
Speaker 3: I wonder if that's mine. It might have been, says
Speaker 3: mine is muted, So that was weird.
Speaker 5: I was all right, Robbie Fes, thank you.
Speaker 6: I want him to, but I have to say he
Speaker 6: doesn't because he was my love the player hate the
Speaker 6: adp running back from last week, twenty nine years old
Speaker 6: and two hundred something days. I forget what it was,
Speaker 6: but it's seven more days from what I.
Speaker 5: Said last week. Tajy Spears.
Speaker 6: We all, most of us saw his electric touchdown run
Speaker 6: against the Vikings last week, arguably the best backup running
Speaker 6: back Tennessee has had since Derek Henry has been their
Speaker 6: starter and the Titans. This isn't Henry's fault. These thirty
Speaker 6: second ranked offensive line by Pro Football Focus right now.
Speaker 6: It's not like the glory days from a few years ago.
Speaker 6: So I'm gonna I want him to have one good
Speaker 6: year left in him, but I'm going to play it
Speaker 6: as if he doesn't. You gotta fear the cliff at
Speaker 6: his age and with that poor offensive line and just
Speaker 6: an overall dull offense, that's scaring me. So I'm gonna say, no,
Speaker 6: he doesn't. But I hope I'm wrong.
Speaker 5: Scott.
Speaker 4: Does Dereck Henry have one good year left in him?
Speaker 4: Second round?
Speaker 3: So good? Probably great? I don't think so. So second
Speaker 3: round I just can't. I cannot pull that trigger with
Speaker 3: the other options that are out there. Brian basically stated
Speaker 3: several of the things that I was going to stay.
Speaker 3: You know, Tajy Spears taking the downfield running routes, all
Speaker 3: that pass game work he got last year. That was
Speaker 3: a one year in his career anomaly that Taji Spears
Speaker 3: is going to take away from him. The offensive line
Speaker 3: was mentioned. Good year, maybe not a great year. Not
Speaker 3: a second round running back here.
Speaker 1: He'll continue to get goal line work and that that
Speaker 1: counts for something.
Speaker 3: And he led the league in twenty plus yard rushes
Speaker 3: and stah.
Speaker 1: I mean, it's it, but there were too many times
Speaker 1: last year when I was watching Derrick Henry saying to
Speaker 1: myself that ain't the same guy that I had seen
Speaker 1: in the years before.
Speaker 3: That ain't him.
Speaker 4: That is not him.
Speaker 1: I don't know who that guy is, but that's okay.
Speaker 1: It's Derek Henry. There's nobody else spilt like Derek.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was going to say, he looks very unique.
Speaker 3: That's impressive.
Speaker 1: I'd rather get out one year too early than one
Speaker 1: year too late, because by getting out one year too early,
Speaker 1: I can just go take Ceede Lamb instead.
Speaker 4: Right round three.
Speaker 1: How much will Zeke impact Remandre Stevenson Scott.
Speaker 3: It's not none, but it's also not a bowel loosening
Speaker 3: sense of exp level. BAC's essential dread. It's some he's
Speaker 3: a better pass blocker, he's a better goal line in
Speaker 3: short yardage back at least the last two years. The
Speaker 3: numbers bear that out. He's like top five. I don't
Speaker 3: think he's the better pass catcher anymore. Maybe in the past,
Speaker 3: but not recently. He hasn't been as efficient the last
Speaker 3: couple of years. But it's in the skill set I
Speaker 3: think Stevenson's. It's not like he's taking those roles either,
Speaker 3: because Stevenson is no slouch in those areas. It's not
Speaker 3: like you know, Brian Robinson to mckissic last year type
Speaker 3: situation where one is a clear role. Stevenson can do
Speaker 3: those things. Zeke is just gonna take some of it.
Speaker 3: I will say, I don't think Zeke takes as much
Speaker 3: as Harris did last year. So maybe it is none,
Speaker 3: maybe it is none. I'm gonna go back to none
Speaker 3: because I think Zeke takes a little less than Harris
Speaker 3: did last year.
Speaker 1: All right, let's uh, Brian round three. How much does
Speaker 1: Zeke impact Ramandre Stevenson third round ADP.
Speaker 6: Well, there is an impact because before signing Zeke, Remandre
Speaker 6: was a late second round pick.
Speaker 5: Now he's mid to late third. So the impact is there.
Speaker 6: I'm buying that dip, so I'm essentially with Scott where
Speaker 6: I'm not too worried about Zeke. He will factor in
Speaker 6: at the goal line a little bit, but not so
Speaker 6: much in the past game.
Speaker 3: So yeah, the impact is on what we thought of
Speaker 3: Stevenson three weeks ago, right, three weeks ago, I'm not
Speaker 3: compared to call.
Speaker 4: In on Stevens. I think Adam was like running back six.
Speaker 6: I mean I was, I was, all, yeah, so minimal,
Speaker 6: minimal impact for me, though, I still think Remandre has
Speaker 6: top five running back potential even with Zeke in town.
Speaker 1: Now, allow me to elucidate the goal line impact here.
Speaker 1: Ramandre Stevenson has not been very good at the goal.
Speaker 1: One career numbers about thirty five percent converting carries inside
Speaker 1: the five into touchdowns. Last year, just two of twelve
Speaker 1: attempts inside the five turned into touchdowns for Stevenson. Meanwhile,
Speaker 1: Zeke obviously awesome forty six career touchdowns from inside the five.
Speaker 3: Top five in the NFL, and conversion rate in short
Speaker 3: yardage and goal line situations over the last two years.
Speaker 1: You know, Zeke has always been good there. He'll be
Speaker 1: good there now, and that what worries me about Stevenson.
Speaker 1: Is he's sitting on another six touchdown season.
Speaker 4: That would you know? That would pull that would pull the.
Speaker 1: Overall productivity down quite round four. If I take Justin
Speaker 1: Fields a round four, am I getting the same upside
Speaker 1: as Jalen Hurts and Josh Allen, But two rounds later, Brian.
Speaker 6: Rushing wise, yes, Fields might have the highest upside of
Speaker 6: the of those three, but passing wise, so overall, I
Speaker 6: don't know. Granted, Fields had no one to throw to
Speaker 6: last year. They've got Dj Moore now that helps things.
Speaker 6: But Fields was under three thousand passing yards last year.
Speaker 6: Allen and Hurts guaranteed four thousand yards if healthy, at
Speaker 6: least bare minimum, and I don't think we see that
Speaker 6: from Fields. As a passer, I expect his numbers to
Speaker 6: go up. So not the same upside. It's close, but
Speaker 6: you're gonna You're gonna have more upside with Hurts and
Speaker 6: Allen overall rushing and passing Scott.
Speaker 1: If I'm taking Fields in round four, am I getting
Speaker 1: the same upside as Jalen Hurts and Josh Allen have,
Speaker 1: But I'm doing it two rounds later.
Speaker 3: I like the phrasing this because the downside is remarkably right.
Speaker 3: It's very different downside as far the upside, just based
Speaker 3: on last year, justin Fields would have to add one
Speaker 3: thousand plus passing yards and eight to ten more passing
Speaker 3: touchdowns just to get to their level last year. And
Speaker 3: last year wasn't even Josh Allen's best year, so his
Speaker 3: upside's even more than last year. And Jalen Hurts, I
Speaker 3: think he's got more upside than he had last year
Speaker 3: because twenty two passing touchdowns with more weapons. I think
Speaker 3: he can actually do better this year. I don't think
Speaker 3: it's the same upside, but it might be closer than
Speaker 3: some people think. I guess my answer is no, it's
Speaker 3: not the same upside. It doesn't quite reach there.
Speaker 4: It's not quite the same.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but it's not that far off pa upside exactly
Speaker 1: that far off. If we get roughly the same output
Speaker 1: from Hurts and Allen that we had last year, let's
Speaker 1: go to round five. The last of the elite tight
Speaker 1: ends fall into round five. That's Kittle, Goddard, Waller all
Speaker 1: going off the board Round five, Scott and I love
Speaker 1: WALLERP Do I need to grab one here? Do I
Speaker 1: have to take one of them, one of the three.
Speaker 1: If I don't have a tight end yet and it's
Speaker 1: round five, those guys are here, do I have to
Speaker 1: take one?
Speaker 4: Scott?
Speaker 3: I love the phrasing this question because I answered something
Speaker 3: similar earlier this week on another show, and I said,
Speaker 3: virtually this exact quote. In round five, Waller is an
Speaker 3: auto smash. I absolutely take my tight end three right
Speaker 3: there in Waller because I feel like there's a slight
Speaker 3: drop off and then there's a huge drop off of
Speaker 3: other guys. I just you know, I'm gonna have to
Speaker 3: piece something together. I want. I want Waller and his
Speaker 3: his upside.
Speaker 1: There, Brian, it's round five, the last of the elite
Speaker 1: tight ends are falling in here?
Speaker 4: Do you have to grab one?
Speaker 3: Here?
Speaker 5: I love Darren Waller too.
Speaker 6: By the way, lest you forget twenty nineteen, one of
Speaker 6: my sleepers unknown Darren Waller. I said, go out and
Speaker 6: draft Darren Waller in the last round. That's ultimate peacock there.
Speaker 3: I actually play in a league with Darren Waller.
Speaker 4: So oh, there you go.
Speaker 5: What who do you not play in a league?
Speaker 3: Those guys charge that.
Speaker 5: I finally, now now back to your question, do you
Speaker 5: need to grab one?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 5: It'd be nice to grab one. I don't think you
Speaker 5: need to grab one.
Speaker 6: Just because I love Gerald Everett so much and he's
Speaker 6: got top eight potential so you can get him much later.
Speaker 6: And there are some other intriguing options later on chick
Speaker 6: Okonkwo before mentioned. I think he's got a ton of upside.
Speaker 6: Juwan Johnson. I don't think he's getting enough love in
Speaker 6: New Orleans. So it depends on that the ebbs and
Speaker 6: flow of every draft. It'd be nice to get one
Speaker 6: of those guys, especially Waller. But to me, I don't
Speaker 6: think you need to grab one. And I know you're
Speaker 6: gonna disagree with me charge, but it's okay, not the
Speaker 6: fint time.
Speaker 4: Let's just say it's Week eight. I'm playing against Brian.
Speaker 1: I've got Darren Waller, He's sloughed the tight end position
Speaker 1: to Gerald Everett.
Speaker 4: It's Sunday morning.
Speaker 1: I'm rolling out of bed with a bounce in my
Speaker 1: step because I've got the second highest scoring tight end
Speaker 1: in fantasy football. Meanwhile, Brian's sphincter tightening on Sunday morning,
Speaker 1: because is this the typical game we're gonna get out
Speaker 1: of Gerald Everett that we've gotten most of his career
Speaker 1: is this is gonna be one of those two catch
Speaker 1: eighteen yard games that Gerald Everett loves to give you,
Speaker 1: and it certainly could be. They all he is is
Speaker 1: the fifth receiving option on his team. He's going to
Speaker 1: have down games. You don't want to have to roll
Speaker 1: into every Sunday wondering about whether or not your tight
Speaker 1: end Cole Kamet, Gerald Everett, Juan Johnson, whoever is sitting
Speaker 1: on a one catch game.
Speaker 6: Well, if you're basing this scenario off last year, Darren
Speaker 6: Waller is inactive in week eight, So there's that round six.
Speaker 1: Deshaun Watson is going in this round. If I take him,
Speaker 1: Should I immediately be drug tested?
Speaker 6: Brian absolutely, like all tests, not just drug test. This
Speaker 6: is one of the worst full mental capacity. This is
Speaker 6: one of the worst the worst picks you can make.
Speaker 6: Watson is going off the board at QB nine at
Speaker 6: this point, and this is after the top two tiers
Speaker 6: are gone, which ends at Trevor Lawrence has picked sixty three.
Speaker 6: Watson is going to pick eighty six. But you don't
Speaker 6: want to be the taking the first guy in this
Speaker 6: third tier where you can get Anthony Richardson around later
Speaker 6: Zak Prescott, Daniel Jones, Kirk Cousins coming off the board
Speaker 6: cheaper than Deshaun Watson, who you don't know what we're
Speaker 6: getting with Deshaun Watson anymore. You're not getting the twenty
Speaker 6: nineteen version of him with the Texans.
Speaker 5: No, just don't do it.
Speaker 1: It's round six, Scott, Deshaun Watson's going off the board
Speaker 1: this round. If I take him, should I be drug tested?
Speaker 3: You're taking the guy who averaged one hundred and eighty
Speaker 3: three yards in one touchdown per game last year? Like no, yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean wouldn't. I wouldn't drug test you. But also
Speaker 3: he's not even a single digit round pick for me.
Speaker 3: I don't understand his adp at all. I understand that
Speaker 3: he's you know, the offense is supposed to be more
Speaker 3: opened up for him this year, and he's been given
Speaker 3: the keys to the Kingdom and whatnot, but absolutely not.
Speaker 3: I don't know that he's the top five potential guy
Speaker 3: that he used to be in Houston.
Speaker 4: I do, and the answer is no.
Speaker 3: Okay.
Speaker 1: Also, if if I'm going to be drug tested, no,
Speaker 1: you can't hold the cup.
Speaker 3: Round seven? Wasn't asking that?
Speaker 5: Are we sure?
Speaker 1: David mcntgomery's gonna take all those Jamal Williams goal line carries.
Speaker 3: Scott No, I mean, like all of them thirty eight
Speaker 3: carries on goal to go plays last year. Like if
Speaker 3: he got that would be amazing. Now, if the question was,
Speaker 3: you know, is he gonna get half of them and
Speaker 3: convert a third of them for seven touchdowns? I'm okay
Speaker 3: with that. But no, he's not gonna get thirty eight
Speaker 3: carries on goal to go plays?
Speaker 1: All right, Brian, it's round seven. Are we sure David
Speaker 1: Montgomery's gonna get all of those Jamal Williams goal line carries.
Speaker 6: He's not gonna get as many carries as Williams did
Speaker 6: like Scott. No, the question is all of them he's going, Well,
Speaker 6: how it's worried he is going to get all of
Speaker 6: them for the Lions.
Speaker 5: It's not gonna be.
Speaker 6: Jamiir Gibs and I gotta I gotta steal some stats
Speaker 6: from Jamie Calandro like Twitter. Yeah, Jamie's a good guy.
Speaker 6: Jamiir Gibbs negative point five to five rush yards over
Speaker 6: expectation in college is the worst of any top twenty
Speaker 6: five running back prospect over the last three years.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 6: By the way, he subbed two hundred pounds, so he's
Speaker 6: not built for goal line work. He has a stuff
Speaker 6: rate over twenty five percent, which is not good at all.
Speaker 6: It's gonna be Montgomery at the goal line. Not hating
Speaker 6: on Gibbs too much. He's gonna be a fine player,
Speaker 6: intriguing PPR prospect, going to be utilized all over the field.
Speaker 6: But Montgomery's gonna be the guy at the goal line.
Speaker 3: Gibbs does rate highly on the scoot index, but not
Speaker 3: on the stuff rate. Apparently, Brian's right.
Speaker 1: There's nobody else to take a goal line carry that's
Speaker 1: just built for it. Craig Reynolds, isn't Jermar Jefferson, Benny Snell,
Speaker 1: no chance.
Speaker 5: Benny Snell's on the Lions.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 5: I don't even know who.
Speaker 4: Knew he was on the Lions.
Speaker 1: He is, so yeah, this is it's gonna be David
Speaker 1: Montgomery's work. And because they were successful running inside the
Speaker 1: five with that great offensive line at Detroit, I think
Speaker 1: they keep doing it here. Let's go to round eight, Brian,
Speaker 1: if I take Tua Tungo via Loa is my number
Speaker 1: one quarterback round eight? How quickly do I need to
Speaker 1: back up that pick with another quarterback.
Speaker 5: Not quick at all.
Speaker 6: You wait and you wait, and I don't even know
Speaker 6: if you back him up, because if you're drafting Tua,
Speaker 6: you're shooting for the moon, right arguably the top wide
Speaker 6: receiver duo in the NFL and Tyreek Hill and Jalen Waddle.
Speaker 6: If something were to happen to Tua, if he gets
Speaker 6: his bell wrong once, it's bad news.
Speaker 5: It's probably over.
Speaker 6: You go and grab Mike White off the waiver wire,
Speaker 6: or at the very least, you're waiting till the last round.
Speaker 6: If you're drafting Tua, you're all in. So you wait.
Speaker 6: You don't draft a backup, and you just hope he
Speaker 6: stays healthy.
Speaker 1: All right, Scott, if I take two in round eight
Speaker 1: as my number one quarterback, how quickly should I make
Speaker 1: a backup quarterback pick?
Speaker 3: Not quickly at all, based especially based on how drafts
Speaker 3: are going. But I have to give credit to my guy,
Speaker 3: Shane Hallam, who had a kind of a thought what
Speaker 3: he thought was a hot take, and I'm like, that
Speaker 3: seems like a decent take. He spent this a lot
Speaker 3: of this off site in offseason practicing how to get
Speaker 3: hit and how to avoid concussions, and he might be
Speaker 3: more aware of that than other quarterbacks, so I'm not
Speaker 3: sure we need to worry that much. But mostly it's
Speaker 3: the kind of thing where you can wait several rounds
Speaker 3: and get safe guys like GoF or cousins, or wait,
Speaker 3: really you know, much later and get a guy like
Speaker 3: Sam Howe, who I love, and have that be your backup.
Speaker 3: You don't have to turn around right away and get
Speaker 3: a backup.
Speaker 4: You said sign.
Speaker 5: All you have to do is say Sam and I'm in.
Speaker 3: We're yeah. We are at Washington Show this year between
Speaker 3: Howell and Dotson. I know we have a draft together,
Speaker 3: and it's really annoying that we like a lot of
Speaker 3: the same thing.
Speaker 1: Now, it's going to be a problem coming up in
Speaker 1: two days. Two days, that's not good. When we come
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Speaker 5: Tough question Number one.
Speaker 1: The preseason is the last time to change league rules.
Speaker 1: Which league rules are so bad they are deal breakers
Speaker 1: for you?
Speaker 4: We begin with Scott.
Speaker 3: You know, I'm the kind of guy who's created and
Speaker 3: played in some of the crazy rules, craziest rules you
Speaker 3: can imagine out there. I'm usually good with whatever, but
Speaker 3: there are a few I generally don't like, and usually
Speaker 3: it's the ones that constrain team's flexibility and ability to
Speaker 3: manage their own rosters. I feel like we're only supposed
Speaker 3: to give one for this, and if I'm gonna only
Speaker 3: give one, it's positional limits. I absolutely hate them. Like
Speaker 3: you can only have two quarterbacks on your team, you
Speaker 3: can only have four running backs on your team. I
Speaker 3: hate that stuff. I get it in a thirty two
Speaker 3: teamer where each team should only have one quarterback, but
Speaker 3: in a normal ten or twelve team league, positional limits
Speaker 3: just irk the crap out of me.
Speaker 1: Brian preseeds isn't The preseason is the last chance for
Speaker 1: leagues to change home modify their rules. What league rules
Speaker 1: are so bad they are deal breakers for you?
Speaker 5: Uh?
Speaker 6: The main one is vetoing trades. Whether it's a weak vote,
Speaker 6: or commissioner does it. It never works out well, and
Speaker 6: it's usually it's total bs. If there's collusion involved, then
Speaker 6: someone will step in the commission overrule it.
Speaker 5: So that that's why, by the way.
Speaker 4: It never happens.
Speaker 1: You know, for every league that is that's got this
Speaker 1: horrifying trade veto rule, how many of them actually have
Speaker 1: a legitimate collusion situation where somebody's like.
Speaker 3: Oh, let's heck make it. Especially in friends leagues, it
Speaker 3: never happens. Oh and by the way, off balance trades
Speaker 3: ruin the integrity. That doesn't happen either, unless it's right
Speaker 3: before the playoffs or something. But that really doesn't happen either.
Speaker 6: And this isn't really a rule. But you're not You're
Speaker 6: not allowed to complain about a slow draft. You should
Speaker 6: not be texting, tweeting, emailing people that are on the clock.
Speaker 6: Just deal with it, you say, sign up for a
Speaker 6: slow draft. Quit whining, you big babies. Sorry I had
Speaker 6: to put it out there.
Speaker 4: You're wrong. The trade veto is an absolute deal breaker.
Speaker 1: You know, there's you cannot be in a league everyone
Speaker 1: should vetos because everybody is just there to try to
Speaker 1: value perfectly balance balance. A trade between mutually agreed parties
Speaker 1: is a done deal.
Speaker 3: We have our own values, and the most of the
Speaker 3: reasons people want to veto something is because it's not
Speaker 3: good for their team.
Speaker 4: That's right.
Speaker 1: Second rule that you are absolute deal breakers. Any waiver
Speaker 1: claim system that is in blind bidding, I'm not doing.
Speaker 1: I'm not rewarding the worst team. They're not going first, whatever, whatever,
Speaker 1: anything else than blind bidding. It's the only fair way
Speaker 1: and the only strategic way to award free agents is
Speaker 1: blind bidding. I'm not playing any I'm not playing any
Speaker 1: reverse waiver worse the first any of that stuff ever.
Speaker 3: Again, even rolling waivers really favors the better teams because
Speaker 3: they can sit and wait until their waiver. They don't
Speaker 3: need to pick up players, and they can wait till
Speaker 3: they have the first pick and then pounced on.
Speaker 1: That's right, exactly, exactly, it's all desire. Any other system
Speaker 1: only makes it better for the teams that are already good. Yep,
Speaker 1: there's another one I'm tempted on. I'm close super flex.
Speaker 1: I mean, if I'm in a twelve team league, ten
Speaker 1: team league, twelve team league, super flex, I'm to the
Speaker 1: point where I don't think I ever want to be
Speaker 1: in another one quarterback league.
Speaker 3: I've talked about this on shows. My son he has
Speaker 3: this home league draft this weekend as well. Ten kids.
Speaker 3: They've all played in several leagues. My son's played for
Speaker 3: three years. None of them have played in a one
Speaker 3: quarterback league. It's to the point where I'm like, is
Speaker 3: that the six point touchdown leagues that we used to
Speaker 3: like for them in thirty years that they're gonna be like, oh,
Speaker 3: I remember the days of one quarterback? Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think there is gonna be possible.
Speaker 5: Tough question Number two, Who will lead the Buffalo Bills
Speaker 5: in rushing touchdowns?
Speaker 6: Brian all Right, here's a breakdown of the Bills rushing
Speaker 6: touchdown leaders last year. Josh Allen had seven, Devin Singletary five,
Speaker 6: James Cook two, Isaiah McKenzie wide receiver one. We know
Speaker 6: it won't be McKenzie or Singletary, they're no longer with
Speaker 6: the team. Buffalo signed Damien Harris to essentially replace Devin Singletary.
Speaker 6: But even if you gave James Cook the five rushing
Speaker 6: touchdowns from Singletary that ties Allen was seven, you have
Speaker 6: to imagine Harris is gonna factor in at the goal
Speaker 6: line at some point, So it's gonna be Allen, especially
Speaker 6: because the tush push is going to take over the league.
Speaker 6: It's a copycat league. We saw the Eagles do it
Speaker 6: a ton last year. Josh Allen certainly built for the
Speaker 6: toush push. So I'm gonna go with Josh Allen again,
Speaker 6: even they don't want to beat him up at the
Speaker 6: goal line.
Speaker 5: He's their best option.
Speaker 1: All right, Scott who will lead the Buffalo Bills and
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns this year?
Speaker 3: So much like Brian I went down the same road.
Speaker 3: Josh Allen had six to nine every year of his career,
Speaker 3: eight nine to eight in his first three years, then
Speaker 3: six and seven after he signed his big contract. They
Speaker 3: seem to run it a little less with him at
Speaker 3: the goal line. Damian I would say Damien Harris. Harris,
Speaker 3: but I'm not sure how many games he's going to play.
Speaker 3: He's only played more than ten games once in his career,
Speaker 3: only had more than three touchdowns once in his career.
Speaker 3: A dark horse is the oldest running back in the NFL,
Speaker 3: Latavius Murray, who had six touchdowns last year. James Cook
Speaker 3: had two touchdowns rushing last year on very limited work,
Speaker 3: but it feels like there might be just enough split
Speaker 3: to keep Josh Allen at six seven eight touchdowns and
Speaker 3: be the slight leader in that clubhouse.
Speaker 1: Josh Allen the past two years has scored eight times
Speaker 1: on twenty carries inside the five. It's not a great
Speaker 1: conversion rate, somewhere around forty percent, right. The previous two
Speaker 1: years he had scored four more touchdowns on four fewer attempts,
Speaker 1: So his effectiveness as a rusher at the stripe is
Speaker 1: going down.
Speaker 4: But I also noted.
Speaker 1: The Eagles tousch push that worked so well for Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts last year. Teams are going to do that, and
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts, you know, is built, and Josh Allen had
Speaker 1: that similar big body build.
Speaker 3: Like he couldn't get on the marching zone on that
Speaker 3: Vikings game.
Speaker 4: Oh thank god he could on that game.
Speaker 3: But I.
Speaker 1: Really want to say Damien Harris, who's been great here,
Speaker 1: twenty three career rushes inside the five scored twelve times.
Speaker 1: It's a fifty two percent conversion rate. That's excellent for Harris,
Speaker 1: and I think the Bills may very well want to
Speaker 1: start dialing back some.
Speaker 3: Of those two have already started.
Speaker 4: Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the tush push is going to give
Speaker 1: the edge to Josh Allen, but Damien Harris is going
Speaker 1: to be close. I think this could be like, you
Speaker 1: know nine, Josh Allen eight, Damien Harris, It's going to
Speaker 1: be close in there.
Speaker 3: I think Allen's the safest bet, but a couple of
Speaker 3: them wouldn't surprise me.
Speaker 5: Tough question number three.
Speaker 1: Should leagues among friends have a loser punishment?
Speaker 3: Scott Okay, So I posed this to my home league
Speaker 3: this last week in an email and have not had
Speaker 3: a response yet from that. I think a super light
Speaker 3: one is fun but cool, fun and cool. I would
Speaker 3: like to have something like that. But this honestly really
Speaker 3: depends on your league. I don't think it's a should
Speaker 3: there shouldn't they. I think it's completely league dependent. If
Speaker 3: your league is really cool with it, great, it's fun,
Speaker 3: it can be, it can be fun. The super hardcore
Speaker 3: ones I'm really not in on. But if that's your league,
Speaker 3: that's your league. So I'm not gonna say yes, you should.
Speaker 3: I'm not gonna say no, you shouldn't. I'd say it's
Speaker 3: league dependent. I really don't have a straight up yes,
Speaker 3: you absolutely should answer for this.
Speaker 1: It was not opposed as a yes no answer. Kay,
Speaker 1: So that's okay, all right, Brian. Should leagues among friends
Speaker 1: have a loser punishment?
Speaker 6: Yeah, absolutely, if everyone everyone agrees to it, and it
Speaker 6: mitigates some problems in both redraft and like dynasty formats
Speaker 6: and redraft, you're always gonna have a couple teams that
Speaker 6: just totally fall off stop paying attention, and that messes
Speaker 6: with the competitive.
Speaker 5: Balance of the whole league.
Speaker 6: If you have a punishment for last place, that'll keep
Speaker 6: those owners engaged. And in dynasty leagues you always have
Speaker 6: a couple of teams that are just tanking purposefully to
Speaker 6: get better draft picks, so the next year at least,
Speaker 6: that won't mess with the competitive balance either. If you
Speaker 6: have a loser punishment, So as long as everyone agrees
Speaker 6: to it, everyone gets a kick out of seeing them
Speaker 6: on Twitter and whatnot.
Speaker 3: So yeah, sure, I'm excited to hear Charge's answer on this.
Speaker 1: Well, one thing that you're hitting on that's really important.
Speaker 1: We like things that keep people engaged. Yes, so that
Speaker 1: your bad teams are still fighting to take you know,
Speaker 1: have wins at the end of the year. So fundamentally
Speaker 1: I like that, But you have to fit the personality.
Speaker 4: Of your league.
Speaker 1: If you're in a family league, you can't have Aunt
Speaker 1: Susan streaking home depot.
Speaker 5: That's you know that's not going to turn out for it.
Speaker 3: Well, but can you make on Susan eat a dozen
Speaker 3: blazon wings at the draft next year?
Speaker 4: Maybe you can. Depends on our ibs.
Speaker 5: If you're in a league.
Speaker 1: Of smack talking, booze fuel degenerates by all means, whip
Speaker 1: them out, Susan, I mean, and.
Speaker 4: I think it really just depends on your league entirely.
Speaker 1: So it Scott, you got the correct answer. It depends
Speaker 1: on your league. But I'm fundamentally down with anything that
Speaker 1: helps encourage people to to stay active with a bad
Speaker 1: team at the end of the year.
Speaker 6: I had an idea for the local Minnesota audience for
Speaker 6: a last place punishment. You have to go tailgate for
Speaker 6: a Vikings game in December. But the Vikings are not
Speaker 6: playing in Minnesota, they're on the road, so you're just
Speaker 6: going tailgating an empty parking lot all by yourself. Got
Speaker 6: to fire up the grill, see if you can get
Speaker 6: anyone to join you.
Speaker 1: We've talked a lot about Washington commanders looking forward to
Speaker 1: day that they're not the commanders, by the way, that'll
Speaker 1: be fantastic. Well, we haven't talked about it all. It's
Speaker 1: all passing game, it's all our guy, Sam Howell, what
Speaker 1: about the running game. Does Bijeon Robinson have the ability
Speaker 1: to get materially better than he was last year?
Speaker 3: You mean Robinson?
Speaker 6: Sorry, don't make that mistake in the first round the
Speaker 6: other way?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no kidding, no kidding, only only one letter. Brian
Speaker 1: Robinson get better then last year?
Speaker 3: Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely. Like you know how I feel
Speaker 3: about the Washington offense. I'm kind of in on their
Speaker 3: players for fantasy, but in twelve games last year, I
Speaker 3: mean not let's not start there. But Gibson is sliding
Speaker 3: in the Michissic role. Mckissic's gone. I think it's gonna
Speaker 3: be a two WAT split instead of a three WAT split.
Speaker 3: Robinson's had the Robinson will have the whole offseason this year,
Speaker 3: doesn't have to deal with a gunshot wound. You have
Speaker 3: to imagine he's gonna beat two rushing touchdowns, which is
Speaker 3: what he had last year. Material better. Yeah, he'll be
Speaker 3: better than his RB thirty three or whatever last year.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you got to be excited about new offensive coordinator
Speaker 6: Eric Bienemy for that offense as a whole, and Robinson
Speaker 6: Scots had only twelve games, he only had nine catches
Speaker 6: in those twelve games. He had four catches I believe
Speaker 6: in the last preseason games, so we nearly matched or
Speaker 6: about half of his total last year. He should be
Speaker 6: more involved in the past game. And again this offense
Speaker 6: as a whole should be improved more so than last year.
Speaker 6: So out yeah, he'll be material materially better this season.
Speaker 1: Going back to our toughest decisions in every round, we
Speaker 1: want to talk of, just briefly, what if you round
Speaker 1: ten need a quarterback, Yes, you don't have any. Would
Speaker 1: you rather have Gino Smith or Anthony Richardson. You're taking
Speaker 1: the shirt thing, you're taking the upside.
Speaker 3: Anthony Richardson, he's my QB nine because guys like Hurts
Speaker 3: and Jackson in recent years kind of broke the league scoring.
Speaker 3: If they hit, I will take him over some of
Speaker 3: those safe guys that come right after him, the Gino Smith's,
Speaker 3: the Goffs, the Rogers, the Dacks. I can back Richardson
Speaker 3: up with one of those right after if I want to. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I want the game.
Speaker 1: Breaker, all right, you want the game you're playing for
Speaker 1: the upside. Yeah, I can know a lot of standard leagues.
Speaker 1: That does make sense. You got to be the best
Speaker 1: out of twelve teams. You need some things to.
Speaker 4: Break your way. Anthony Richardson could be that guy.
Speaker 5: Stay tuned.
Speaker 1: We come back to Fantasy Football Weekly. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: some of the vacated targets and running back touches on teams.
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Speaker 3: Can I come on next week?
Speaker 5: Please?
Speaker 4: That would be great.
Speaker 3: Want to do it that?
Speaker 1: Let's do it all right, let's do it, let's talk
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Speaker 3: Right off the show for that's it, sorry, Brian.
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Speaker 3: Little musical chairs. Were taking by job here, I'll take
Speaker 3: Bryant's job there.
Speaker 4: Let's talk about vacated targets.
Speaker 1: This is it's really rare, identifying opportunities on teams where
Speaker 1: they've lost pass catchers.
Speaker 4: Scott and some.
Speaker 1: New players could step into those vacated targets.
Speaker 3: Yep. Absolutely. I'm not going to go most to least
Speaker 3: like we've done in the past. I'm going to touch
Speaker 3: on a few that interest me a little bit more
Speaker 3: that sometimes there's ones that are just too obvious what's
Speaker 3: going to happen. But the first one I'm going to
Speaker 3: start with is at the top. Actually it's the Houston Texas.
Speaker 3: They lost over three thousand air yards, three hundred and
Speaker 3: seventy five targets, sixty four percent of their targets inside
Speaker 3: the ten. What's there now, there's Nico Collins and Tank Dell,
Speaker 3: which are getting all the hype right now. Robert Woods
Speaker 3: and John Metchi are there. It's awesome to see John
Speaker 3: Metchi come back. I don't know that I believe in
Speaker 3: Robert Woods after watching the last year and a half
Speaker 3: of him. But there's also a touch of Dalton Schultz,
Speaker 3: which which could be interesting, uh the amount of tight
Speaker 3: end targets that were also lost there. But I think
Speaker 3: it's mostly Nico Collins and Tank Dell. Tank Dell who
Speaker 3: has been noted to have quite a rapport with c. J.
Speaker 3: Stroud in preseason, and Nico Collins, mostly because Charge and
Speaker 3: I are trying to will this to happen.
Speaker 1: Really after three you many times, if you and I
Speaker 1: named Nico Collins has sort of our take a chance.
Speaker 3: Or sleepers or whatever. Absolutely, this time, this time, this time,
Speaker 3: we didn't meet it those other times. This is the
Speaker 3: time we meet it. Especially with how he turned out
Speaker 3: the end the last season.
Speaker 4: Does Robert Woods do anything for you?
Speaker 1: I had a last pick of my draft opportunity on
Speaker 1: Robert Woods.
Speaker 4: I did it too, and I needed I needed a receiver.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I actually kind of regret it now, But I
Speaker 3: mean there's opportunity. There's an opportunity. That's that's what that's
Speaker 3: the key for it. So last round, Yeah, I get it.
Speaker 5: I get it.
Speaker 3: Uh, there are probably some other guys now that I'm
Speaker 3: a little more in on than him, but yeah, I
Speaker 3: get it. The Green Bay Packers also, it's kind of
Speaker 3: obvious they lost Lazard and Cobb and others in the
Speaker 3: Aaron Rodgers gang. They lost Robert Tunyan, which leaves it
Speaker 3: wide open for Lookie rookie Luke Muskrave. The peck lost
Speaker 3: seventy four tight end targets. He's really probably the only
Speaker 3: guy there for that. There's also a decent amount of
Speaker 3: buzz for taking up those two hundred and fifty plus
Speaker 3: targets that were lost For Jayden Reed, he seems like
Speaker 3: he's locked down that slot guy roll over in Green Bay.
Speaker 3: Jordan Love obviously seems to love Romeo Dobbs, so he's
Speaker 3: probably gonna take up a decent amount. But late in
Speaker 3: year drafts Luke Musgrave is going to take up almost
Speaker 3: all that tight end target work, it seems like. But
Speaker 3: it's a really late, late laid pick if you really
Speaker 3: sloughed the position.
Speaker 1: Talked about Romeo Dubs Early Dobbs earlier in the show,
Speaker 1: and we're big.
Speaker 4: For're especially where he's getting drafted. It's all wrong.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this really goes from last week, but the show
Speaker 3: last week. But I'm with you. I'd take Dobbs at
Speaker 3: his ADP way over Watson in his though I do
Speaker 3: you know, I think Watson gonna be good over to
Speaker 3: the Cowboys mostly want to mention this because they lost
Speaker 3: basically all their tight end targets, and you mentioned it earlier.
Speaker 3: I was gonna go I thought about making him my
Speaker 3: sleeper the week. I really really liked taking Jake Ferguson
Speaker 3: right at the end of my drafts because we've seen
Speaker 3: some Dawson. Dawson, are some Schultz his Schultz Dalton Dalton, Yeah,
Speaker 3: Dalton Schultz have those five six, seven catch games. He
Speaker 3: could be there, you know, tight end one. It looks
Speaker 3: like he's got the edge on that roll in. If
Speaker 3: he gets eighty to one hundred targets, which is what
Speaker 3: they lost, that's that's good for a guy that goes
Speaker 3: last round of your draft.
Speaker 4: Yeah, at that point, it does make sense.
Speaker 5: There's a lot of d tight ends.
Speaker 6: There's two Dalton's a Dawson Darrens.
Speaker 5: It's like a law firm out there.
Speaker 6: And and if he loves the Dallas, Dallas.
Speaker 5: Dan.
Speaker 3: Let's just keep listening things that start with D for
Speaker 3: the next hour. Tight end specifically, but okay, all right,
Speaker 3: all right, same with the Lions for their tight ends.
Speaker 3: They lost a ton of targets at the running back
Speaker 3: and tight end position. We kind of know where the
Speaker 3: running back ones are going to go. That's probably Gibbs
Speaker 3: at the tight end position. We're looking at Iowa tight end. You, alum,
Speaker 3: Sam Laporta soaking up possibly most of that missing eighty
Speaker 3: two targets. And this is this is a team that
Speaker 3: actually utilizes their tight end. Even after TJ. Hawkinson left
Speaker 3: last week. Last year, uh brock Wright scored four touchdowns.
Speaker 3: They give their tight end some work. And if Sam
Speaker 3: Laporta takes up those targets and that especially that red
Speaker 3: zone touchdown work, he's not a bad guy to look
Speaker 3: at as your tight end two or tight end one.
Speaker 3: If you really messed up who which I've done it.
Speaker 5: I took.
Speaker 1: I had the option to take any tight end of
Speaker 1: my in a dynasty in a dynasty draft, and I
Speaker 1: decided on I think he's just I think he's got more.
Speaker 3: He's got more opportunity. It's it's like the Addison in
Speaker 3: Jigba situation, where in Jigba is probably the more talented,
Speaker 3: but Addison's got a little more opportunity. It's probably the
Speaker 3: same situation.
Speaker 4: Might very well. Yeah, any other Ke targets.
Speaker 3: I can go to the Titans where they lost ninety
Speaker 3: seven wide receiver targets and seventy six tight end targets
Speaker 3: ten hills back, so that might even increase those numbers
Speaker 3: a little bit. Hopkins should take basically all of the
Speaker 3: ninety seven and I would imagine but with the injuries
Speaker 3: to Burk's and Phillips chick A konk Wu, who had
Speaker 3: I believe thirty six targets last year and they lost
Speaker 3: seventy six tight end targets, he could be sitting on
Speaker 3: eighty to one hundred targets himself right there, which is
Speaker 3: a decent spot for chig.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I don't know what to think of him because the
Speaker 1: were flashes really looks really good and then he's dropping
Speaker 1: passes and he looks like a wrong spot.
Speaker 4: And I don't know about Chike yet.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see. But let's move over to the Panthers
Speaker 3: real quick, lost half their targets, sixty two percent of
Speaker 3: their air yards and DJ Hark dealing with a hammy injury.
Speaker 3: All really speaks well to Adam Thielen, who you mentioned.
Speaker 3: I believe last week as a guy that he has
Speaker 3: become the main target there in camp and there's over
Speaker 3: two hundred plus targets available, so he might walk in
Speaker 3: two hundred. No, nobody had one hundred and seven last year.
Speaker 3: And if you tell me he walks into one hundred
Speaker 3: and seven of those two hundred this year could be,
Speaker 3: wouldn't shock me at all. Wouldn't shock me at all
Speaker 3: for him to be the goal line guy too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, yeah, Adam Zeelnd justin Jefferson's not on that
Speaker 1: roster to soak up one hundred and forty targets, So
Speaker 1: you know there's a feeling could easily go.
Speaker 4: Past the hundred.
Speaker 3: Absolutely yeah.
Speaker 4: He had last year.
Speaker 3: Absolutely yeah. And on Feeling's old team, the Vikings, they
Speaker 3: lost two hundred targets, one hundred and seven or Thelans.
Speaker 3: If you combine Thelon and Osborne's targets, that's one hundred
Speaker 3: and ninety seven for Addison and Osborne to share this year.
Speaker 4: kJ Osbourne is still there.
Speaker 3: Yeah, That's why I said, if you add Osborne's targets
Speaker 3: to Thelans that were lost. That's one hundred and ninety
Speaker 3: seven for Addison and Osborne to share.
Speaker 4: I get you, Okay, gotcha.
Speaker 3: It's not a bad spot where you could you could
Speaker 3: take Addison and back them up with Osborne at the
Speaker 3: very end of your draft to kind of head your bet.
Speaker 3: But you're likely thinking Addison's going to win that role
Speaker 3: and take one hundred plus targets out of that offense.
Speaker 1: All right, Brian, Let's go over to running back to
Speaker 1: good job, Scott running back? Touch up this vacated running
Speaker 1: back touches, So touches, we're talking about.
Speaker 5: A catch, catch, and a carry and combined.
Speaker 1: Yep, not targets are not factored into that. So this
Speaker 1: is touching the ball.
Speaker 4: All right. Let's see where are the vac Where are
Speaker 4: the vacated spots.
Speaker 6: Yeah, we're gonna have a couple of crossover teams that
Speaker 6: have totally overhauled their offenses, and we're gonna start with
Speaker 6: the Lions who had a ton of vacated targets. They
Speaker 6: got a ton of vacated touches. Four hundred and twenty
Speaker 6: one vacated running back touches. That's eighty three percent of
Speaker 6: their touches from last year ninety I'm sorry, ninety seven
Speaker 6: percent of their touches from inside the five are vacated.
Speaker 6: Most of those went to Jamal Williams, who we talked
Speaker 6: about before. He's now at the Saints. DeAndre Swift now
Speaker 6: with the Eagles. To replace those two, Detroit signed David
Speaker 6: Montgomery and they drafted Jamir Gibbs with the thirteenth overall pick.
Speaker 6: Sunk a ton of draft capital into him. Again, we
Speaker 6: touched on this subject earlier. Right now, Gibbs going way
Speaker 6: earlier than Montgomery and drafts. Gibbs is RB ten versus
Speaker 6: RB twenty five from David Montgomery. We all believe Montgomery's
Speaker 6: going to get the goal line work, the early down work.
Speaker 6: And Montgomery's a good receiving back too. He was top
Speaker 6: ten in both yards per catch and yards per route
Speaker 6: run among running backs last year with the Bears. And again,
Speaker 6: you have to assume he gets the goal line work.
Speaker 6: So I don't get why Montgomery's going so much later
Speaker 6: than Gibbs. We talked about this in the teammates he
Speaker 6: would rather draft last week too. It's Montgomery for me
Speaker 6: all the way Gibbs will factor in, but you have
Speaker 6: to love Montgomery's supposed role in this Lion's offense going
Speaker 6: into this season. The next team we're going to talk about,
Speaker 6: Scott mentioned them too, totally overhauled their whole offense is
Speaker 6: the Carolina Panthers. Yeah, three hundred and twenty six vacated
Speaker 6: running back touches. That sixty eight percent of their touches
Speaker 6: from last year, Seventy nine percent of their touches from
Speaker 6: inside the five are vacated.
Speaker 4: And Chuba Horvard I don't even know if he counts.
Speaker 3: He's still there, but he's still there.
Speaker 6: So we have to factor in Christian McCaffrey from last year.
Speaker 6: He didn't finish the season as a Panther, he was
Speaker 6: traded to the forty nine Ers, but he counts in
Speaker 6: this convo. YEP, Dante Foreman accounted for a lot of
Speaker 6: those touches.
Speaker 5: He's gone.
Speaker 6: So Carolina has signed Miles Sanders to fill that void.
Speaker 6: He's been dealing with a hamstring injury in camp, but
Speaker 6: should be good to go for Week one. But Sanders
Speaker 6: has somewhat of a checkered past regarding injuries. He did
Speaker 6: play seventeen games with the Eagles last year, but just
Speaker 6: twelve games played in each of the two seasons prior
Speaker 6: for Philly.
Speaker 5: And as you mentioned, Cuba.
Speaker 6: Hubbard is there, and if something were to happen to Sanders,
Speaker 6: he is going to be their bell cow basically. So
Speaker 6: if I'm forced to pick one, I'm going Cuba way
Speaker 6: late because Sanders right now with RB twenty one is
Speaker 6: way too rich for my bloody.
Speaker 4: He's not rich enough for my blood.
Speaker 6: Oh yeah, we'll disagree there, but either way, there's a
Speaker 6: ton of vacated touches for running back, So Sanders into Chubbard.
Speaker 4: Yeah, but if he doesn't get Hubbard get hurt.
Speaker 5: If he doesn't get hurt, mile.
Speaker 4: Sanders is sitting on all of those carries he is.
Speaker 6: I mean, he's not gon get one hundred percent of
Speaker 6: the touches, but Hubbard will factor. But yeah, if Sanders
Speaker 6: stays healthy, he will pay off for that RB twenty
Speaker 6: one value right now, so I can cannot argue that.
Speaker 6: And speaking of Sanders, his former team, the Eagles two
Speaker 6: hundred and seventy nine vacated touches. That's sixty seven percent
Speaker 6: of their touches vacated from last year, but just thirty
Speaker 6: percent of their touches from inside the five because it
Speaker 6: was all Jalen Hurts and the Toush push. All those
Speaker 6: touches basically went to Miles Sanders, who we just talked about.
Speaker 6: We know he's in Carolina now. Philly made two notable
Speaker 6: additions to their backfield and signing Rashad Penny from Seattle
Speaker 6: formerly from Seattle, and trading for DeAndre Swift. But Kenneth
Speaker 6: Gainwell still in town and right now they're calling him
Speaker 6: the starter.
Speaker 4: The quote und vote doesn't mean much featured.
Speaker 6: Back, and he's the cheapest when it comes to adp
Speaker 6: People were worried that Penny could get cut. He did
Speaker 6: not play in Thursday night's preseason game. That bodes well
Speaker 6: for him, so he should make the team. But uh,
Speaker 6: this is a scenario where I'm taking the cheapest guy
Speaker 6: if you must.
Speaker 5: But it's almost a backfield to avoid Rashad Penny.
Speaker 4: I think it is a backfield to a point.
Speaker 1: Rashad Penny had a play last weekend's preseason game where
Speaker 1: he broke through the line and then just needed to
Speaker 1: like hit the Jets, and he couldn't. He was lumbering,
Speaker 1: dropped the piano, Rashot Penny.
Speaker 5: He was running in mud. He was running in mud.
Speaker 1: I'm nervous about Rashad Penny and he's my least favorite
Speaker 1: at adp out of this whole group, and I've punished
Speaker 1: him on my cheat sheet. What's the next team vacated
Speaker 1: running back touches?
Speaker 6: I certainly expect you to weigh in on this one.
Speaker 6: Chart to the Minnesota Vikings three hundred and three vacated touches,
Speaker 6: seventy four percent of the running back touches vacated from
Speaker 6: last year, sixty percent of the touches from inside the
Speaker 6: five yard line. Of course those were all Dalvin Cooks.
Speaker 6: He's a jet now, so will all these touches go
Speaker 6: to Alexander Madison. That's what people are expecting. But ty
Speaker 6: Chandler is in the mix.
Speaker 1: Is in the mix, I think more of a way
Speaker 1: than that people realize, especially nationally, they don't understand the
Speaker 1: ty Chandler looks, like he said, is the third down
Speaker 1: back right now, and he's just got some zip, some burst,
Speaker 1: some elusiveness that Alexander Madison doesn't have.
Speaker 4: And I think this thing.
Speaker 1: I think as the season wears on, we're going to
Speaker 1: see more and more Ty Chandler does, the coaches get
Speaker 1: more and more comfortable with him and his responsibilities as
Speaker 1: a young player. So I don't, uh, that's that's how
Speaker 1: I see this thing shaken out.
Speaker 6: In miss It's another take the cheapest guy scenario. Pretty
Speaker 6: much get Ty Chandler in a much greater discount than
Speaker 6: Alexander Madison.
Speaker 4: Undrafted in some leagues altogether, which I think is a mistake.
Speaker 6: Speaking of undrafted running back, I love in Tampa Bay
Speaker 6: who has who have two hundred and seventy two vacated touches,
Speaker 6: Fifty eight percent of their running back touches vacated from
Speaker 6: last year, seventy seven percent vacated from inside the five.
Speaker 6: Those are all basically Leonard four nets is Sean Tucker,
Speaker 6: who will talk about a little more people.
Speaker 5: He's flying under a.
Speaker 6: Lot of radars, getting a little little steam right now.
Speaker 6: But Rachad White entering a second season, he's the presumed starter.
Speaker 6: Not so sure that's going to be the case. Maybe
Speaker 6: in week one, that's going to last the whole season.
Speaker 6: We'll talk a little bit more about Sean Tucker, but
Speaker 6: not worried about Chase Edmonds or Ronald Jones for the bucks.
Speaker 5: Now it's either Tucker or White.
Speaker 4: But well, Ronald Jones is back on the bucks.
Speaker 5: I believe so.
Speaker 4: I don't think it so, and I somewhere else does.
Speaker 6: Even if he is, it doesn't matter, it does You're right,
Speaker 6: it does not matter what Chase Edmonds is. But Chase
Speaker 6: Edmonds dead to me, broke my heart into a million
Speaker 6: pieces last year, totally non factor.
Speaker 5: And we have time for one more team should Robbie, No,
Speaker 5: we should.
Speaker 1: Robbie's telling me we should break. So we're gonna take
Speaker 1: a break when we come back. Offensive lines the five
Speaker 1: best that you need to know. These are guys that
Speaker 1: you know the.
Speaker 5: Offensive line matters.
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams doesn't score seventeen touchdowns last year. I he's
Speaker 1: not running behind one of the great offensive lines. The
Speaker 1: five worst who's got to do it all on their own.
Speaker 1: We'll tell you the worst and best offensive lines and
Speaker 1: release this week's sleeper when we come back to the
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Speaker 4: Yes, go to offensive lines.
Speaker 1: Okay, Scott starts with the five best offensive lines in
Speaker 1: the NFL, and it's very important because the touchdowns just
Speaker 1: come easier if if your line is great, your quarterbacks
Speaker 1: got more time in the podcast.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, So it's never gonna be perfect with offensive
Speaker 3: line play. They're a little tough to predict the times,
Speaker 3: but they do matter. Great players can sometimes overcome one,
Speaker 3: overcome them. Sometimes great O lines have split touches that
Speaker 3: you know you have to deal with. But overall, hot
Speaker 3: take it's better to have a good offensive line, super
Speaker 3: hot take right. Last year, the top six PFF ranked
Speaker 3: offensive lines going into the season had seven running backs
Speaker 3: on those six teams rank in the top twenty or higher.
Speaker 3: Like finishes a RB twenty or higher, those six O
Speaker 3: lines actually had five top twelve backs. It's so much easier,
Speaker 3: like you have pretty good chance of hitting. Even with
Speaker 3: teams sharing touches, It's hard to leave out the six
Speaker 3: ranked Cowboys who actually had two backs in the top twenty.
Speaker 3: From that top that top range, even the seventh and
Speaker 3: eighth eighth ranked teams had each had a top fifteen
Speaker 3: ranked quarterback. So like, if you're a top O line,
Speaker 3: top eight or so O line, you're gonna have you're
Speaker 3: gonna have a good players. So what I did is
Speaker 3: I grabbed a few opinions from you know, PFF, FTN, PFN,
Speaker 3: Sharp Football, you know, Fantasy Pro, like a bunch of
Speaker 3: different sites. I aggregated it to see like, okay, this
Speaker 3: is pretty universally what we think are going to be
Speaker 3: going to be a top team and the.
Speaker 4: Top you got a lot of subscriptions.
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, So the I looked to a lot of places.
Speaker 3: What I found is the top eight offensive line ranks
Speaker 3: were very consistent, like mixed around, but the top eight
Speaker 3: were pretty consistent throughout. Let's let's hit through them. Let's
Speaker 3: let's see where they are. Number one almost universally the
Speaker 3: Philly Yes, the Eagles absolutely. Unfortunately, their fantasy rusher doesn't
Speaker 3: play courter of it or play running back. But despite
Speaker 3: having Sanders had it having a decent year time split,
Speaker 3: they still had some good running back production. They did
Speaker 3: have a running back in the top twenty. Even with
Speaker 3: their top run their top score from the rushing perspective
Speaker 3: in the goal line being a quarterback.
Speaker 5: Especially when they play goal giants.
Speaker 3: They yeah, Boston Scott next up the Lions number two
Speaker 3: pretty consistently. And who do they have now doing their
Speaker 3: goal line work? David Montgomery. There's a little reason to
Speaker 3: love Gibbs too. But David Montgomery and Gibbs, if you
Speaker 3: got a top all line like that, that might be
Speaker 3: the Pollard and Elliott from last year, where you're seeing
Speaker 3: two of them hit the top twenty. The Browns rank
Speaker 3: third if you average aggregated out average it out. Hunt
Speaker 3: is now gone pretty much. Time for wheels up for Chubb.
Speaker 3: I think, yeah, that rhymes. I like it, wheels up
Speaker 3: for Chubb.
Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a lot of great players on that line, right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know he's old now, but you've got Bittonio Wyatt, Teller,
Speaker 1: Jack Conklin. I mean this has been a good offensive
Speaker 1: line for a long time.
Speaker 6: Yeah, I said, Chubb is on my RB one right now.
Speaker 6: We talked about Jason Jerome Ford earlier. He's dropped like
Speaker 6: a rock since his hamsteing injury, but it should be
Speaker 6: good to go Week one, A guy you definitely want
Speaker 6: to keep your eye on with it, draft chub or not.
Speaker 3: So coming in. Next on the list is the Baltimore Ravens,
Speaker 3: where you have JK. Dobbins, who's you know, coming off injury.
Speaker 3: There's contract talks, there's Harbaugh making interesting comments about those
Speaker 3: contract tops. But if he is the main guy there,
Speaker 3: he's got a top a line to potentially, you know,
Speaker 3: finish top twelve, top twenty or top twelve whatever. Next
Speaker 3: in line, this this one is going to be clear
Speaker 3: as day. The Atlanta Falcons, who had a bottom six
Speaker 3: offensive line going into last year. However, two of their players,
Speaker 3: a draft pick from two years ago into draft pick
Speaker 3: from last year, really break out. His stars on that
Speaker 3: offensive line.
Speaker 4: Caleb McGary.
Speaker 3: I think Caleb McGary and Chris Linstrom really really broke
Speaker 3: out last year to propel them into now what is
Speaker 3: considered a top offensive line. And you have Bjeon Robinson
Speaker 3: the spot. Yeah, end of story. You're not finding a
Speaker 3: sleeper there to break in, but it should give you
Speaker 3: more excitement about drafting him in the first round, knowing
Speaker 3: that he's got a pretty defensive, pretty good offensive line
Speaker 3: in front of him.
Speaker 5: Charge.
Speaker 6: What's your over under for rushing touchdowns for John new
Speaker 6: Smith this season?
Speaker 5: Point five? Yeah, we'll take you thus about right. Yeah,
Speaker 5: I bet he'll work one in.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Really, a lot of tight ends you should point
Speaker 3: five is a good line. It's a good line. Next
Speaker 3: on the list the Chiefs kind of interesting split a
Speaker 3: lot of their backfield last year. There were injuries last year.
Speaker 3: Their top bit top back last year finished as RB
Speaker 3: thirty four as Pacheco. Who should be the lead dog
Speaker 3: this year? Can you get enough workload? He's got the
Speaker 3: offensive line. Can you get the workload? Though? Next in
Speaker 3: line the Packers. Same story yearly. However, Dylan's efficiency really
Speaker 3: tailed off last year in comparison to previous years. Aaron
Speaker 3: Jones still the guy. I don't know if we're gonna
Speaker 3: see two. I think I think it might just be
Speaker 3: Aaron Jones this year. I'm a little out on Dylan
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, Dylan does get all the goal line where
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones had three carries for zero touchdowns inside the
Speaker 1: five last.
Speaker 3: Year back to Johns, they get the same mone off
Speaker 3: back to John Smith.
Speaker 6: Why yes, real quick, you better smash that point five
Speaker 6: over going back to twenty nineteen, rushing touchdown.
Speaker 5: Totals one two to one.
Speaker 4: So if you find that line, oh, the house is
Speaker 4: a bad line all.
Speaker 5: Day on that point five take the over.
Speaker 1: Good luck finding that line, by the way, the John
Speaker 1: hu Smith rushing touchdown line, it's gonna be tricky to
Speaker 1: track down, all right, Brian.
Speaker 3: No, is there another one? No, there's another one. But
Speaker 3: we're gonna stay with me for the worst.
Speaker 4: Oh, I'm sorry, I thought no.
Speaker 5: Scott volunteered to do this, and I actually stole.
Speaker 3: It from him. I didn't want him to talk about
Speaker 3: the worst ones. But I do have one more. It's
Speaker 3: Dallas Cowboys. They're the last of that top eight. It's
Speaker 3: very clear Tony Pollard's everybody loves him. He's gonna be
Speaker 3: the guy. But is there enough room for Deuce Vaughan
Speaker 3: for two backs to make the top twenty for back
Speaker 3: to back years? The Dallas Cowboys.
Speaker 5: I don't know.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna go No. I don't think I was just
Speaker 4: built for that.
Speaker 5: I don't.
Speaker 6: I don't think so either, And By the way, Ronald
Speaker 6: Jones is on the Cowboys, not the Bucks, which I
Speaker 6: said earlier.
Speaker 5: He started his career with the Bucks.
Speaker 6: Talking Jones, but no one cares about Ronald Jones anyway,
Speaker 6: Sorry Ronald, nothing personal.
Speaker 3: Oh boy, we got a quick eye. Was wrong on there.
Speaker 3: So go let's go in going to the the worst
Speaker 3: offensive lines, the worst ranked ones by that same by
Speaker 3: that same aggregate I put together going back a few years,
Speaker 3: I tracked what do you need to do to be
Speaker 3: a stud running back or a good fantasy producing running
Speaker 3: back but have a terrible offensive line. It's tough, and
Speaker 3: there was a very clear trend that started to emerge
Speaker 3: as I looked through it. I'm going to name a
Speaker 3: few of the players and see if see, if you can,
Speaker 3: you can see the trend. So we have we had
Speaker 3: Naji Harris a couple of years ago with the Steelers.
Speaker 3: We had Derrick Henry Sae Kwon Barkley with the Giants.
Speaker 3: We had Josh Jacobs last year. Really, you need to
Speaker 3: be an absolute stud or get a crawd too. Yes, yes,
Speaker 3: so if you want to overcome a battle line, it
Speaker 3: like almost everyone in the last three years, is like volume, volume,
Speaker 3: volume or just a stud quarterback or stud running back.
Speaker 3: All right, So do these teams who are currently do
Speaker 3: they have that? Do they have that? That's what I
Speaker 3: want you to ask yourself when you listen to these teams.
Speaker 3: Tennessee Titans, do they have that? They are consistently ranked.
Speaker 1: One of the two theory, Yes, but we all think
Speaker 1: Tajy Sharp's can have a bigger role.
Speaker 7: But mostly yes, Spears, sorry Spears, And we were worried
Speaker 7: that he has no like a cl or MCLs.
Speaker 5: But that means he can't.
Speaker 4: Tear them right, G point Yeah, great points.
Speaker 5: So I'm over that that worry.
Speaker 3: Los Angeles Rams. Do you feel cam Akers? Is the
Speaker 3: volume or the I don't know. They's certainly not a
Speaker 3: Hall of Famer, you know the end of last year
Speaker 3: he was pretty dang good, it was. But does he
Speaker 3: get the I don't know that he gets the volume.
Speaker 3: I don't think it's there. Okay, Washington Commanders, I think
Speaker 3: it's too much of a split, and neither of them
Speaker 3: fit that category, correct. Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I don't so either.
Speaker 3: Now you could see the volume if Rashad White was
Speaker 3: gonna steal that job and be everything. But Sean Tucker
Speaker 3: has come on and split first team reps. I don't
Speaker 3: know that they have that or the offensive opportunities anymore.
Speaker 4: I don't either.
Speaker 3: Last one New York Giants. I think they might.
Speaker 4: They've got they've got to go.
Speaker 3: I think I think they have the one.
Speaker 4: He's pretty good.
Speaker 3: But if you're if you're looking at offensive lines going
Speaker 3: into the season, if you're looking at some of those
Speaker 3: bad ones they really need to overcome. It's it's got
Speaker 3: to be a stud. It's got to be volume. And
Speaker 3: I think that Derrick Henry and Saquon Barkley are the
Speaker 3: only two that fit that bell.
Speaker 6: And Barkley's got Daniel Jones whose mobility helps him tremendously,
Speaker 6: and you know, keeping the defense honest, Let's go.
Speaker 1: To our sleepers. Let's unveil our sleepers. Great great work
Speaker 1: on that, Scott, thank you very much the effort into that.
Speaker 5: Thanks.
Speaker 4: What's the worst offensive lines? Uh? We begin with Brian
Speaker 4: who is your sleeper of the week.
Speaker 6: Well, I alluded to him earlier, and even though it
Speaker 6: is O line is not going to be good, I
Speaker 6: agree with that, But when if you're taking him in
Speaker 6: the last round of your draft. I love Sean Tucker,
Speaker 6: rookie running back for Tampa Bay. Prior to the NFL Draft,
Speaker 6: most draft knicks had Tucker pegged as a top ten
Speaker 6: running back going in the draft, but he didn't. He
Speaker 6: didn't test at the Combine or his pro day because
Speaker 6: of a heart condition. But that seems to be in
Speaker 6: the rear view mirror.
Speaker 5: So if he.
Speaker 6: Didn't have that and he did test at the Combine
Speaker 6: and in his pro day, he certainly would have been drafted.
Speaker 6: He went to Syracuse in twenty twenty one. He was
Speaker 6: a beast, ran for fifteen hundred plus yards and twelve touchdowns.
Speaker 6: More than a thousand yards came after contact, which is
Speaker 6: just like mind boggling to me for Tucker. And then
Speaker 6: in twenty twenty two he took a slight step back
Speaker 6: as a rusher. This was his junior, by the way,
Speaker 6: and he declared early, so in dynasty league he's a
Speaker 6: young guy. But in twenty twenty two he became way
Speaker 6: more involved in the pass game. He tied Jamiir Gibbs
Speaker 6: for the most targets among running backs in the twenty
Speaker 6: twenty three draft class.
Speaker 5: So he has that belcow.
Speaker 6: Potential and really, right now, you just look Rachad White
Speaker 6: as his only competition for the starting role, and Tucker
Speaker 6: has been taking He's been splitting reps with the first
Speaker 6: team offense this week, so he could take that job.
Speaker 6: And the Bucks are not going to be good, no,
Speaker 6: so they're gonna want to see what they have in Tucker.
Speaker 6: He's gonna get a good amount of run probably starting
Speaker 6: in week one, and he could outright just steal that
Speaker 6: job from White, who doesn't have a secure hold on it.
Speaker 1: I have to make it official, even though I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go like four straight shows talking about Tank Bigsby.
Speaker 5: Don't care.
Speaker 1: Wait, you haven't used him as a sleep Oh. I
Speaker 1: have not officially designated him as my sleeper. Yet We're
Speaker 1: going to Tank Bigsby.
Speaker 4: I'm sorry to.
Speaker 1: Repeat myself, but we have new listeners all the time.
Speaker 1: Travis Etn not a goal line back. He converted just
Speaker 1: three touchdowns from inside the five three carries inside the
Speaker 1: five last year into touchdowns despite being the workhorse.
Speaker 5: All year long.
Speaker 1: Also, Etn averages two catches for eighteen yards last year.
Speaker 1: Tank is better built for goal line use. He's better
Speaker 1: built for receptions and touchdowns. Receptions receiving yards are better
Speaker 1: fantasy point accumulators than rushing yards are.
Speaker 5: That's what we're here for.
Speaker 1: Tank Bigsby will score more points than Travis Etn this year.
Speaker 1: Laying it down right now, Tank Bigsby Baby.
Speaker 4: All right, Scott your sleeper of the week.
Speaker 3: So what I originally wanted to do was something we've
Speaker 3: done before, where it's it's a guy that's you know,
Speaker 3: high enough at ADP that he's probably not a sleeper.
Speaker 3: He's definitely people talk about him in Johann Dotson because
Speaker 3: I absolutely love him for this year. He's not your
Speaker 3: typical sleeper because people know about him. I'm actually taking
Speaker 3: him above Terry McLaurin, and I was doing so before
Speaker 3: the foot injury. Yeah, before the toe injury. But I
Speaker 3: can't go that route. I gotta go deeper. Everybody knows
Speaker 3: about Johan Dotson. I'm gonna go all the way down
Speaker 3: to wide receiver seventy one. Tank Dell we talked about.
Speaker 1: Earlier is why this tank it's a double tank s
Speaker 1: it's a tank, double tank attack, double tank splitz creag
Speaker 1: on Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 5: Oh boy, the tank bank has grown.
Speaker 3: Wide Receiver seventy one feels ridiculous for me, for a
Speaker 3: person for a wide receiver that might be the wide
Speaker 3: receiver one or wide receiver two on their NFL team. Uh,
Speaker 3: he's his seventeenth round ADP is ridiculous for a player
Speaker 3: who's been touted all up, making great players, all live,
Speaker 3: all off season, and supposedly the favorite target of CJ. Stroud.
Speaker 3: They have so many vacated targets it feels like he's
Speaker 3: gonna walk into seventy eighty ninety one hundred and ten
Speaker 3: targets with barely even trying.
Speaker 4: All right, tank and tank, Tank and tank.
Speaker 1: We talked earlier in the show about loser punishments. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you about the two my two favorite loser
Speaker 1: punishments I've.
Speaker 3: Ever heard of. Okay, number one.
Speaker 1: Yes, it's a group in Washington, Yes, where the winner
Speaker 1: gets to send the loser to the location of his
Speaker 1: or her choice. Okay, on Super Bowl Sunday in the
Speaker 1: Continent US. So the loser has been sent to Devil's
Speaker 1: Tower in the middle Wyoming. Okay, on on Super Bowl Day,
Speaker 1: they've been sent to International Falls, Minnesota, the northernmost point
Speaker 1: in the continental US.
Speaker 4: And it would happen to be like negative fourteen that day.
Speaker 4: I would like that you would like that.
Speaker 1: It's that's that is a great loser punishment and you
Speaker 1: got to pay your own freight.
Speaker 3: By the way, that sucks.
Speaker 4: The other one.
Speaker 1: You have to go to open mic night as the
Speaker 1: loser and cold read jokes written by the rest.
Speaker 5: Of the league.
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Speaker 5: You know, say.
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Speaker 1: open mic.
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