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Speaker 1: Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly

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Speaker 1: source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and advice.

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Speaker 2: What's up, everyone, and welcome back to another offseason edition

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Speaker 2: of Fantasy Football Weekly with your host John mcgaze at

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Speaker 2: John mcgaze on Twitter. Hit us up with any questions,

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Speaker 2: my friend and yours, mister Jake Trowbridge running backs or

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Speaker 2: all the talk right now? Jake, it's because of that

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Speaker 2: right kind of perceived week draft class. We're now seeing

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Speaker 2: the impacts of that on drafting rooms. What's hold on

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Speaker 2: to You? Ready for a jam packed RB episode?

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Speaker 3: Oh, I'm ready, I'm ready.

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Speaker 1: The question is are the listeners ready to get all

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Speaker 1: the all goods on these you know? I was I

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Speaker 1: don't know what the title of this thing's gonna be

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Speaker 1: when it comes out, John, But when I was referring

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Speaker 1: to these, you know, murky backfields, initially I was calling

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Speaker 1: them muddy backfields, and I decided I'm gonna stop doing

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Speaker 1: that because it sounds too much like a euphemism that

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Speaker 3: Muddy backfield.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to be that guy. So messy backfields

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Speaker 1: let's let's maybe go with that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, maybe be careful typing that one into Google. You

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Speaker 2: never know in front of people, you never know it's

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Speaker 2: gonna come up. Maybe not safe for work. All right,

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Speaker 2: So the discussion topic today is write those you know,

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Speaker 2: vague backfields right where it's kind of a gray area

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Speaker 2: and chaos being a ladder, Fantasy football being a game

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Speaker 2: of attrition. League are gonna be one and lost on

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Speaker 2: how you play these right, whether it's at the draft

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Speaker 2: table or in season. I think having a good idea

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Speaker 2: these murky backfields what it's like. So we have half

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Speaker 2: a dozen of them. I want to thank you for

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Speaker 2: putting them together. I do agree with the teams. We'll

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Speaker 2: get through them. First up is Washington. I'm gonna just

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Speaker 2: none of them or anything in between. So we start

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Speaker 2: with the Commanders. You know, they were number one in

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Speaker 2: Jayden Daniels. It was also a little bit of Mariota

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Speaker 2: room is constituted. They bring in Rashad White ADP one

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Speaker 2: to eleven from Tampa. He had two top ten weeks,

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Speaker 2: He was a little bit better than I thought. Then

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Speaker 2: we have JCM, everyone's favorite seventh rounder from last year,

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Speaker 2: very close. He had two top ten weeks, one top

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Speaker 2: yak Ypa, especially given the amount of eight men boxes

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Speaker 2: nowadays you have to pick one hundred. What do you

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Speaker 2: think about the commander's backfield, Jake.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, John, I think that's gonna be a recurring theme

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Speaker 3: Probably is.

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Speaker 1: You know, with all of these we're going to talk about,

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Speaker 1: It's not a big commitment. You know, if it doesn't

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Speaker 1: So we're just looking for guys that can hit, and

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Speaker 1: I suppose David Blow, though we don't know what his

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Speaker 2: I think I'm into Rashad White. I think maybe a

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Speaker 2: He got powered ADP seventy six. He had one top

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Speaker 2: Pollard is a much better player in both assets of

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Speaker 2: I'm just like so out on Tennessee until I see it.

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Speaker 2: People are excited about Ward. He could take a step forward.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm getting more interested in the Titans actually,

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Speaker 1: You know, he has a good history of utilizing his

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Speaker 1: that's why I'm into Tony Pollard, thinking that based on

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Speaker 1: Nicholas Singleton. You know, he broke his foot before the

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Speaker 3: I'm not gonna lie. I'm kind of enticed by it. John.

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Speaker 1: I The issue is how long will Tony Pollard keep

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Speaker 1: just showing him away and I'm waiting on Nicholas Singleton

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the audio only people couldn't see, you know, luckily

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Speaker 2: for them my face and cheshire Cat's smile, because I

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Speaker 2: was a huge proponent of Tony Pollard last year. But

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Speaker 2: remember those total stats could be a little bit misleading.

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Speaker 2: By the time he was delivering. It was a little

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Speaker 2: it on Pollard. I went down the Bucky Irving road

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Speaker 2: You can't really keep fulling behind in fantasy football. Maybe

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Speaker 2: I wasn't proactive enough, but I did fall for it.

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Speaker 2: But it was funny with Pollard, who just I mean

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Speaker 2: ten for twenty two, then eleven for twenty. I made

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Speaker 2: and then like who would have funk it? You know,

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Speaker 2: he just went absolutely crazy. So he's also n plus one.

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Speaker 2: We talked about those lower body inches removed from Matt

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Speaker 2: I think I am buying it again because of the price.

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Speaker 2: lowercase L on Tait And it's just like you mentioned,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, John, I think they're more expensive than the rest

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Speaker 2: you make a well, you make a lot of great points,

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Speaker 2: One hundred percent agreed that that's mostly gone the way

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Speaker 2: of the Dodo Jake. We're looking for two running back right.

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Speaker 2: That was the real point that I took from that

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Speaker 1: Just onto the fire here real quick, John, because I'm

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Speaker 3: So many times by the end of this offseason.

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Speaker 1: The Steelers also have i would say, arguably the easiest

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Speaker 3: Successful, then I think this is the one to go with.

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Speaker 1: Don And both have three down potential, so I think

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Speaker 2: Wow, another awesome point. You had me scrambling to my

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Speaker 2: I have ignored it too often in redraft, where you

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Speaker 2: it's the Patriots, now a team that people are really

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Speaker 2: two had a backfield. They were sixth in rush yarts

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Speaker 2: look at the goal to go carries. Henderson had sixteen

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Speaker 2: you know it's I just wrote the word frustrating in

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Speaker 3: Yeah, John, I don't.

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Speaker 1: I don't know why didn't Henderson's ADP drop like at

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Speaker 2: they said when the chips are down, Henderson is the guy.

431
00:21:32,160 --> 00:21:37,480
Speaker 2: He's just And it might be and Henderson drifters, might

432
00:21:37,520 --> 00:21:39,760
Speaker 2: get lucky. Maybe Stevenson, you know, hits the lottery and

433
00:21:39,760 --> 00:21:42,480
Speaker 2: goes into that mindful this retreat I'm always talking about. Maybe,

434
00:21:42,520 --> 00:21:44,600
Speaker 2: and then there's a case that Trevion could legit be

435
00:21:44,880 --> 00:21:47,880
Speaker 2: the RB one or among at least the top five

436
00:21:47,960 --> 00:21:51,840
Speaker 2: running backs. But until then, I think you're overpaying. And Stevenson,

437
00:21:51,880 --> 00:21:55,879
Speaker 2: to me at least is the most obvious smash zero

438
00:21:56,000 --> 00:21:59,840
Speaker 2: RP pick ever, right because generally when I go zero RB,

439
00:22:00,119 --> 00:22:03,720
Speaker 2: I'm asking myself, Jay, are there any points in Week one?

440
00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,560
Speaker 2: Are there anything? Because where I've made the mistake is

441
00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:09,119
Speaker 2: having the pendulum swing too far leave myself out in

442
00:22:09,160 --> 00:22:11,800
Speaker 2: the cold in the early weeks. Right, So would you

443
00:22:11,880 --> 00:22:16,560
Speaker 2: buy that like Rashad White and Ramandre Stevenson are going

444
00:22:16,600 --> 00:22:18,359
Speaker 2: to score points week one? Yes or no?

445
00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:21,960
Speaker 1: I say yes, and I say definitively yes, and so

446
00:22:22,119 --> 00:22:24,200
Speaker 1: I think yeah, redraft and by the way, and I

447
00:22:24,240 --> 00:22:27,560
Speaker 1: will say even dynasty value for Trey Van Henderson way

448
00:22:27,600 --> 00:22:30,600
Speaker 1: too inflated. That's another one that took zero hit based

449
00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,520
Speaker 1: off of a performance last year. And I don't get

450
00:22:32,560 --> 00:22:33,640
Speaker 1: it in either format.

451
00:22:34,359 --> 00:22:38,679
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't. Sometimes this is really interesting when we

452
00:22:38,720 --> 00:22:41,800
Speaker 2: talk about market machinations and going against the trend and

453
00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:44,520
Speaker 2: wisdom of the crowd, sometimes you have to be willing

454
00:22:44,600 --> 00:22:46,399
Speaker 2: to say, like no, and you know, again, we're not

455
00:22:46,400 --> 00:22:48,720
Speaker 2: taking a player in the three hundred snowes I've heard of.

456
00:22:48,760 --> 00:22:53,040
Speaker 2: We're talking about an accomplished like back with success on

457
00:22:53,080 --> 00:22:56,359
Speaker 2: a winning team that's healthy and leading the way. I

458
00:22:56,359 --> 00:22:58,200
Speaker 2: don't know, it's weird. I asked her if they could

459
00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:00,320
Speaker 2: both score week one. I should have asked, can lead

460
00:23:00,640 --> 00:23:02,520
Speaker 2: the running back room in Fantasy points Week one? And

461
00:23:02,560 --> 00:23:05,919
Speaker 2: again the answer Jeffs. Next team up, Carolina Panthers. Okay,

462
00:23:05,920 --> 00:23:08,680
Speaker 2: so they were top twelve in rush rate, but bottom

463
00:23:08,720 --> 00:23:12,520
Speaker 2: ten in explosive rush rate. They're also thirtieth in rushing touchdowns.

464
00:23:12,880 --> 00:23:16,080
Speaker 2: You got Twoba Harbard his back ADP seventy three. He

465
00:23:16,119 --> 00:23:18,520
Speaker 2: had three top ten weeks, not a single top five week.

466
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:21,200
Speaker 2: There's a question about ceiling here. We know what happened

467
00:23:21,200 --> 00:23:24,800
Speaker 2: when he got replaced by Rico Dawdel. I have not

468
00:23:24,920 --> 00:23:28,840
Speaker 2: been drafting Harvard at all. His ADP is now converging

469
00:23:28,880 --> 00:23:31,680
Speaker 2: with backup Jonathan Brooks. I haven't listed at one five,

470
00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:34,480
Speaker 2: but I've been in these draft room, Jake. They're getting

471
00:23:34,520 --> 00:23:38,399
Speaker 2: closer to about the low nineties. They're both they're going

472
00:23:38,400 --> 00:23:40,520
Speaker 2: next to each other in the low nineties. So ADP,

473
00:23:41,280 --> 00:23:42,960
Speaker 2: let me get closer to the season. We'll be using

474
00:23:43,000 --> 00:23:46,960
Speaker 2: tighter windows for larger samples. But John Brooks, I mean,

475
00:23:47,040 --> 00:23:51,000
Speaker 2: he had a really great twenty twenty three, but last

476
00:23:51,000 --> 00:23:54,520
Speaker 2: I checked, it's twenty twenty six. We haven't seen much

477
00:23:54,560 --> 00:23:57,440
Speaker 2: from him. They are over the moon about this guy. Though.

478
00:23:57,480 --> 00:24:00,359
Speaker 2: There was not a single report out of that teams

479
00:24:00,359 --> 00:24:02,879
Speaker 2: camp that does not include Brooks and how he looks

480
00:24:03,000 --> 00:24:05,760
Speaker 2: like he could be everything. So again, to me, if

481
00:24:05,760 --> 00:24:08,760
Speaker 2: you're playing for two types of ceiling in zero RB

482
00:24:09,680 --> 00:24:13,720
Speaker 2: Stevenson and White being that more vanilla lower higher floor,

483
00:24:13,760 --> 00:24:16,360
Speaker 2: lower ceiling Brooks. If this works out right, he could

484
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:18,639
Speaker 2: be the RB one by week three, maybe sooner if

485
00:24:18,680 --> 00:24:21,320
Speaker 2: he outperforms him. In camp. We saw the Panthers be

486
00:24:21,359 --> 00:24:23,480
Speaker 2: willing to go away from Hubbard. So what do you

487
00:24:23,480 --> 00:24:26,720
Speaker 2: think about the Brooks room. You started nudging me into Brooks,

488
00:24:26,720 --> 00:24:28,960
Speaker 2: and the more I've looked, the more I've liked. Again,

489
00:24:29,040 --> 00:24:32,000
Speaker 2: the price is getting high. So I saw you nodding,

490
00:24:32,359 --> 00:24:35,360
Speaker 2: where's the cutoff for Brooks? Make sure you include that, please.

491
00:24:35,560 --> 00:24:39,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, the cutoff if Brooks starts going, you know, into

492
00:24:39,320 --> 00:24:42,080
Speaker 1: this dead zone running back area, which to me starts

493
00:24:42,080 --> 00:24:45,440
Speaker 1: at around round six round seven, when he starts creeping

494
00:24:45,520 --> 00:24:47,360
Speaker 1: up at around six in round seven, as we get

495
00:24:47,400 --> 00:24:50,359
Speaker 1: more and more positive reports, I'm assuming that'll happen. I

496
00:24:50,359 --> 00:24:52,840
Speaker 1: don't know for sure. Then I'm gonna be out just

497
00:24:52,840 --> 00:24:55,440
Speaker 1: because we're still talking about a guy who's had two

498
00:24:55,680 --> 00:24:59,119
Speaker 1: ACL tears, you know, in the last two years to

499
00:24:59,160 --> 00:25:02,320
Speaker 1: the same AC, and I know he's gotten some distance

500
00:25:02,320 --> 00:25:04,720
Speaker 1: from the injury, and I'm excited to see what his

501
00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:07,880
Speaker 1: upside can look like but it's store up to bank

502
00:25:07,960 --> 00:25:10,440
Speaker 1: on something like that right now. But I do want

503
00:25:10,440 --> 00:25:12,680
Speaker 1: to try to follow the money on this, John, because

504
00:25:12,680 --> 00:25:15,960
Speaker 1: that's in these dicey backfields where you're just trying to

505
00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,240
Speaker 1: figure out who could be the real lead back. I

506
00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 1: was working my way through this, and so the Panthers

507
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:25,440
Speaker 1: signed Toba Hubbard to a four year extension thirty three million,

508
00:25:26,000 --> 00:25:29,520
Speaker 1: a few months only after spending their second round pick

509
00:25:29,720 --> 00:25:33,360
Speaker 1: on Brooks, and Brooks was coming into the season injured.

510
00:25:33,520 --> 00:25:36,520
Speaker 1: Obviously he was still recovering from that first ACL injury,

511
00:25:36,840 --> 00:25:39,360
Speaker 1: but Hubbard gave him a ton of or Hubbard got

512
00:25:39,359 --> 00:25:42,320
Speaker 1: a ton of money before Brooks tore the ACL a

513
00:25:42,400 --> 00:25:45,600
Speaker 1: second time, so they were already The Panther is being like,

514
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,320
Speaker 1: we want Hubbard to be our guy, but I don't

515
00:25:48,359 --> 00:25:51,879
Speaker 1: know that it matters anymore, John, because a year prior

516
00:25:51,920 --> 00:25:53,720
Speaker 1: to that, they gave Miles Sanders.

517
00:25:54,000 --> 00:25:56,440
Speaker 3: Remember that guy. They gave Miles Sanders.

518
00:25:56,200 --> 00:25:59,440
Speaker 1: Almost an equivalent contract, And then we're just like, no,

519
00:25:59,720 --> 00:26:00,480
Speaker 1: it's through this guy.

520
00:26:00,480 --> 00:26:01,040
Speaker 3: We're moving on.

521
00:26:01,160 --> 00:26:05,320
Speaker 1: He says he's terrible. We're turning the backfield over to Hubbard.

522
00:26:05,400 --> 00:26:08,040
Speaker 1: So if Brooks is really as good as they're saying,

523
00:26:08,800 --> 00:26:11,000
Speaker 1: and they spent that second round pick on him, he

524
00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,919
Speaker 1: could absolutely leap frog Hubbard. And he does have a

525
00:26:14,000 --> 00:26:18,159
Speaker 1: higher ceiling, a much lower floor, but a way higher ceiling.

526
00:26:18,240 --> 00:26:20,640
Speaker 1: Like you said, So, I'm kind of willing to absorb

527
00:26:20,680 --> 00:26:21,280
Speaker 1: the risk here.

528
00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:25,240
Speaker 2: Yep, one hundred percent love it, especially in redraft where

529
00:26:25,720 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 2: the floor is zero. Okay, snip snip, ceil aer pal.

530
00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,840
Speaker 2: You know, thanks for playing where again best ball, and

531
00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:35,040
Speaker 2: these year long commitments. It's a little harder to pay

532
00:26:35,040 --> 00:26:38,719
Speaker 2: the premium without at least the information that we want. Now,

533
00:26:38,840 --> 00:26:41,120
Speaker 2: keep in mind that I'm kind of setting you up here, Jay.

534
00:26:41,800 --> 00:26:43,320
Speaker 2: If you had the guess of the one hundred and

535
00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 2: thirty four rush attempts that Chew Bahabber had in twenty

536
00:26:46,520 --> 00:26:49,439
Speaker 2: twenty five, do you know exactly how many went from

537
00:26:49,440 --> 00:26:50,600
Speaker 2: more than twenty yards?

538
00:26:51,280 --> 00:26:53,600
Speaker 3: Ooh, more than twenty It's.

539
00:26:54,040 --> 00:26:56,720
Speaker 2: How many twenty yard rushing a Bobber had in twenty

540
00:26:56,760 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 2: twenty five.

541
00:26:57,359 --> 00:26:59,320
Speaker 3: I'll give him one just to be nice.

542
00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:02,800
Speaker 2: Yeah, the zero. And you know there's a lack of

543
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:06,200
Speaker 2: explosivity here, right, there's a lack of explosivity. In fact,

544
00:27:06,359 --> 00:27:09,560
Speaker 2: he only didn't stay away from the goose egg and

545
00:27:09,680 --> 00:27:13,399
Speaker 2: explosive rush rate. I think explosive rush rate might be thirteen,

546
00:27:14,040 --> 00:27:17,720
Speaker 2: so he had won between thirteen and twenty. But that's it.

547
00:27:17,800 --> 00:27:21,639
Speaker 2: So he's gonna like writs that three yards and a

548
00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:25,000
Speaker 2: cloud of dust thing because the success rate is actually

549
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:28,600
Speaker 2: pretty good, right, forty eight percent success rate. You're gonna

550
00:27:28,600 --> 00:27:31,720
Speaker 2: take that and maybe the most impressive number. And this

551
00:27:31,760 --> 00:27:33,800
Speaker 2: is why they like him so much. Jake, is I

552
00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:38,399
Speaker 2: like to account for negative or zero? I guess like not,

553
00:27:38,520 --> 00:27:41,639
Speaker 2: so let's call it non positive. A tenth rate records

554
00:27:41,640 --> 00:27:43,919
Speaker 2: of zero is not great either. Some people just do losses,

555
00:27:43,920 --> 00:27:46,240
Speaker 2: but I don't think that's good either. And his was

556
00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,960
Speaker 2: down at just twelve percent. That is fantastic. There are

557
00:27:50,040 --> 00:27:54,159
Speaker 2: running backs that operate full workloads up and around or

558
00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:58,080
Speaker 2: above twenty, which is the truth. So he doesn't get

559
00:27:58,119 --> 00:28:01,040
Speaker 2: stopped for nothing, but he's not gonna get you everything.

560
00:28:01,160 --> 00:28:04,000
Speaker 2: And I think the more we kind of talk through

561
00:28:04,000 --> 00:28:09,600
Speaker 2: this analytically, you see why he's gotten replaced without being removed.

562
00:28:09,600 --> 00:28:12,520
Speaker 2: Does that make sense? Right? He got replaced, There areb

563
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:15,520
Speaker 2: one kind of got replaced, but he didn't get removed

564
00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,640
Speaker 2: because his role is still extremely valuable. He's not gonna

565
00:28:18,680 --> 00:28:20,200
Speaker 2: give it up. He's not gonna put on the floor.

566
00:28:20,320 --> 00:28:22,560
Speaker 2: He's not gonna burn you. He's not gonna do happy

567
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:24,879
Speaker 2: feet in the backfield and lose your six yards. He

568
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,960
Speaker 2: doesn't do that. And those are like sacks, which we

569
00:28:28,040 --> 00:28:31,840
Speaker 2: all know kill drive. So I'd like Hubbard as a

570
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:35,160
Speaker 2: real football player. I think I'm off him completely now

571
00:28:35,160 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 2: as a fantasy asset. Right, he kind of had that chance,

572
00:28:38,240 --> 00:28:40,720
Speaker 2: didn't run away with it. Man, This has been really

573
00:28:40,720 --> 00:28:43,400
Speaker 2: good episode. When I have quick notes, I keep myself

574
00:28:43,400 --> 00:28:46,240
Speaker 2: from tangenting too much. Last, but not least, of course,

575
00:28:46,280 --> 00:28:50,200
Speaker 2: Denver Broncos high expectations, bottom twelve rush rate, but also

576
00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:53,400
Speaker 2: bottom twelve in EPA per attempt. They were thirty first

577
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,440
Speaker 2: in yards after contact per rush. Not great. You've got RJ.

578
00:28:57,560 --> 00:29:01,040
Speaker 2: Harvey to choose from. ADP eighty seven, also very late

579
00:29:01,240 --> 00:29:04,920
Speaker 2: for an RB one depending he had three top ten weeks,

580
00:29:04,960 --> 00:29:07,160
Speaker 2: two top five, so there is some ceiling because of

581
00:29:07,200 --> 00:29:11,960
Speaker 2: the rushing floor. JK. Dobbins ADP. One hundred, no top ten. Again,

582
00:29:11,960 --> 00:29:14,880
Speaker 2: it's all kind of rushing impact. This when I put

583
00:29:14,920 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 2: that phrase I mentioned before thunder and lightening, because this

584
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:20,880
Speaker 2: really is the closest we have to it. Dobbins is

585
00:29:21,000 --> 00:29:24,800
Speaker 2: all the important ground yards and if they're down, he's

586
00:29:24,880 --> 00:29:27,400
Speaker 2: kind of out and they go right to Harvey. So

587
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:30,800
Speaker 2: you have like weekly floors where you can get games

588
00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:36,080
Speaker 2: scripted out. They both seem startworthy on a per week basis,

589
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,280
Speaker 2: though the Broncos have been known to go to RB three,

590
00:29:38,400 --> 00:29:42,640
Speaker 2: four and five sometimes. I've been finding myself kind of

591
00:29:42,640 --> 00:29:47,000
Speaker 2: out though Harvey's been one of the foilers Jake, and

592
00:29:47,320 --> 00:29:50,160
Speaker 2: when I've seen him in the triple digit ADP, I've

593
00:29:50,160 --> 00:29:53,040
Speaker 2: seen him at pick one hundred, then I'm jumping on board.

594
00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,240
Speaker 2: Dobbin's not so much because I like my running backs

595
00:29:55,240 --> 00:29:57,640
Speaker 2: to catch. What do you think about the Broncos tailbacks?

596
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:01,080
Speaker 1: Yeah, Harvey had the kind of season fall that I

597
00:30:01,160 --> 00:30:04,400
Speaker 1: expected from Trayvon Henderson last year, even though Harvey ended

598
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:07,120
Speaker 1: on a much better note. Granted that was because JK.

599
00:30:07,160 --> 00:30:10,160
Speaker 1: Dobbins got injured and Harvey came in and he looked solid.

600
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:13,520
Speaker 1: But I'll be honest, John, I hate this backfield. I

601
00:30:13,600 --> 00:30:17,760
Speaker 1: hate it with a burning, white hot passion because here's

602
00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:18,160
Speaker 1: the thing.

603
00:30:18,520 --> 00:30:19,600
Speaker 3: I know that JK.

604
00:30:19,680 --> 00:30:22,480
Speaker 1: Dobbins is going to lead this backfield and touches until

605
00:30:22,480 --> 00:30:24,760
Speaker 1: he gets hurt. But I don't know when that's gonna be,

606
00:30:25,120 --> 00:30:27,760
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure that I even care because, as

607
00:30:27,800 --> 00:30:31,640
Speaker 1: you said, Dobbins doesn't catch passes. Last year, ten games

608
00:30:31,680 --> 00:30:34,920
Speaker 1: he had eleven catches. He had more games with negative

609
00:30:34,920 --> 00:30:38,040
Speaker 1: receiving yards than games with double digit receiving yards.

610
00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:38,960
Speaker 3: So you're just.

611
00:30:38,920 --> 00:30:42,480
Speaker 1: Banking on touchdowns with him and Jonah Coleman. The rookie

612
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:45,800
Speaker 1: comes in, who I've started to grow to like a lot,

613
00:30:46,000 --> 00:30:49,640
Speaker 1: especially in Dynasty. He's a legitimate three down running back,

614
00:30:49,840 --> 00:30:52,840
Speaker 1: so I think he's more competition for Dobbins straight up

615
00:30:53,040 --> 00:30:57,840
Speaker 1: than Harvey or Julia McLoughlin were last year. So I

616
00:30:57,880 --> 00:31:00,600
Speaker 1: think the bull case for any of these eyes and

617
00:31:00,640 --> 00:31:03,680
Speaker 1: it's picked your your poison. But the ball case is

618
00:31:03,720 --> 00:31:06,560
Speaker 1: the Broncos take a step forward as a scoring offense.

619
00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:09,520
Speaker 1: You know, they bring in Jalen Waddle, bow Knicks just

620
00:31:09,560 --> 00:31:10,560
Speaker 1: continues to improve.

621
00:31:10,720 --> 00:31:11,800
Speaker 3: All that's great.

622
00:31:12,040 --> 00:31:14,360
Speaker 1: We expect them to throw less because they threw a

623
00:31:14,400 --> 00:31:17,840
Speaker 1: ton last year, six hundred plus passes from bow Knicks.

624
00:31:18,360 --> 00:31:20,880
Speaker 1: You know bo Nix's late season ankle injury. Maybe he

625
00:31:20,920 --> 00:31:22,920
Speaker 1: doesn't take off and run himself so much and he

626
00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:25,560
Speaker 1: gives that to the actual running backs on the field.

627
00:31:26,080 --> 00:31:26,880
Speaker 3: But I don't know.

628
00:31:27,240 --> 00:31:30,400
Speaker 1: It just feels like even when Dobbins was healthy last year,

629
00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:32,600
Speaker 1: he was the RB twenty four in points per game.

630
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:35,480
Speaker 1: That's fine, that's where you're drafting him. I'm not saying

631
00:31:35,480 --> 00:31:38,000
Speaker 1: there's anything wrong with that, but I don't know that

632
00:31:38,040 --> 00:31:40,240
Speaker 1: we're getting ten games, John. What if we get five

633
00:31:40,320 --> 00:31:43,920
Speaker 1: games of JK Dobbins as sort of this fringe RB two.

634
00:31:44,800 --> 00:31:45,280
Speaker 3: I don't know.

635
00:31:45,320 --> 00:31:47,200
Speaker 1: I kind of just don't even want to deal with it.

636
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:51,000
Speaker 1: I don't think Harvey did anything to usurp Dobbins this year,

637
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:54,560
Speaker 1: so I'm not banking on him. And yeah, Jonah Coleman

638
00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:56,920
Speaker 1: is somebody I'll probably just look at for a midseason

639
00:31:57,000 --> 00:31:59,240
Speaker 1: waiver pickup, assuming that JK.

640
00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:00,000
Speaker 3: Dobbins gets hurt.

641
00:32:00,960 --> 00:32:02,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you. Coleman passes a lot of the

642
00:32:03,000 --> 00:32:07,120
Speaker 2: sniff tests usage and abilities and both sides of the game.

643
00:32:07,200 --> 00:32:10,760
Speaker 2: But it's always gonna be difficult because you know, last

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Speaker 2: year we saw it. You mentioned Julia McLaughlin, right, he

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Speaker 2: had at least four carries in eight of their last

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Speaker 2: nine games. Those are touches we want. And that as

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Speaker 2: if like that wasn't bad enough, you know, Tyler Batty

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Speaker 2: made at least one grab in more games than not,

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Speaker 2: and it doesn't sound like a lot, but when a

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Speaker 2: split backfield is sacrificing seven, eight, nine RB touches, that's

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Speaker 2: a bunch of snaps and it just hurts everybody across

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Speaker 2: the board. I guess I'm still taking Harvey as like

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Speaker 2: a flex pick, but I'm with you. I'd say you

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Speaker 2: talked me off and I was already kind of heading

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Speaker 2: towards the ledge. I'm gonna stick with my If Harvey

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Speaker 2: post one hundred, then press yes button. But other than that,

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Speaker 2: I'm really out. Like you mentioned, not only the Broncos

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Speaker 2: really creative with usage. They brought in pieces which is

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Speaker 2: going to shake up that etches ketch a gun Jake.

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Speaker 2: That was really awesome and we got through all six teams.

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Speaker 2: Like you said, you believed in us, and you were right.

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Speaker 2: So from John mcgay's and mister Jake Shrobridge, thank you

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Speaker 2: everybody for listening to Fantasy Football Weekly. Hit us up

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Speaker 2: on social media if you have any questions, and everyone

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