WEBVTT - Everything you need to know about the NFC East 0:00:00.920 --> 0:00:04.640 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:10.120 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio, 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:14.800 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:18.520 and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. Now, 0:00:18.560 --> 0:00:23.680 here's your host. Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm Paul 0:00:23.760 --> 0:00:27.840 charchy in. My co host is Brian Johnson. Welcome back. 0:00:28.600 --> 0:00:30.800 Finally you can say welcome back to me. Yeah, I 0:00:30.800 --> 0:00:35.880 mean normally you're here again. Yeah, that's usually the case. 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:39.080 Scott Fish filled in admirably for you, and it wasn't 0:00:39.080 --> 0:00:41.120 even a filling. I mean, you know you were available. 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:42.800 We just wanted you know, he's a cost in the show. 0:00:42.840 --> 0:00:44.760 He gets to come back. You choose the film. I'm 0:00:44.800 --> 0:00:48.280 sure he did. Alright, he did, great, he did. Um, 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:51.040 we're gonna break down the NFC East and it we'll 0:00:51.040 --> 0:00:54.800 talk through our how we see these offenses functioning for 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:57.640 this season. We've been doing this now, I think six 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:01.800 straight weeks where we've broken down different different divisions and uh, 0:01:01.880 --> 0:01:04.080 the NFCUS because it gives us a chance to talk 0:01:04.080 --> 0:01:09.680 about some shaky quarterbacking on the whole. But some football teams, 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:12.680 football teams, we're gonna talk about some and I will 0:01:12.680 --> 0:01:16.080 be breaking down football team. Because it's Stu Beird, I'm 0:01:16.080 --> 0:01:20.400 gonna take the Stupird option. So I've got Washington, You've 0:01:20.400 --> 0:01:22.680 got the Giants. Before we jump into the Giants, let 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:24.640 me just remind people I gave you Stu Beird though 0:01:24.680 --> 0:01:26.880 we were discussing, we were prepping for the show, and 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:29.080 the first thing I said was you get Stu Beird. 0:01:29.080 --> 0:01:33.600 Of course, thank you. We appreciate your yes. Um, and 0:01:33.840 --> 0:01:35.800 you got stuck with the team you love to hate, 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:42.600 the Giants. So yeah, the division champions Giants, I forgot 0:01:42.600 --> 0:01:46.399 about that. I wait, no, Washington's the division channel. They 0:01:46.400 --> 0:01:49.160 didn't matter. They both made the playoffs though, right, No, 0:01:49.320 --> 0:01:52.440 that's right. 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We're 0:03:24.639 --> 0:03:27.080 not recapping last year. We're looking forward for how we 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:29.799 think this offense is going to look. And let's jump 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:33.480 into the Giants. Giants. Uh, last year offense not good 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:36.640 thirty feet and uh thirty one in yards per game 0:03:36.800 --> 0:03:40.440 and points per game. Um. Joe Judge makes his return 0:03:40.480 --> 0:03:42.680 as head coach his second year. He brings along UH 0:03:43.080 --> 0:03:47.440 he's had Jason Garrett into offensive mastermind. Jason Garrett uh 0:03:47.520 --> 0:03:50.839 still the offensive coordinator for the g Men. Uh. Let's 0:03:50.840 --> 0:03:53.640 start with se Kwan Barkley obviously got to start with Barkley. UH. 0:03:53.760 --> 0:03:55.760 The big name of course on the team. Running back 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:59.880 five really player five overall as of right now, it's 0:04:00.000 --> 0:04:02.520 either like you, unless it's a super flex league and 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:05.520 one quarterback leagues, you're taking a a top five running 0:04:05.560 --> 0:04:08.680 back or Travis Kelsey, which, by the way, it's Travis Kels. 0:04:09.080 --> 0:04:15.040 Well now his mom says it's Kelsey, so his mom 0:04:15.040 --> 0:04:17.800 would know, so so this thing is still very ambiguous. 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.760 We had the bit because my fantasy league would pronounce 0:04:20.760 --> 0:04:22.520 it Travis Kels and we used to make fun of that. 0:04:23.880 --> 0:04:27.159 The shouty guy was the best bits. Yeah, We're like, 0:04:27.200 --> 0:04:29.120 they're so wrong. It's funny, but no, it might be right. 0:04:29.160 --> 0:04:31.800 But anyway, UH, if you're not taking Barkley, UH, you 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:33.760 might be taking Kelsey outside of one of the other 0:04:33.760 --> 0:04:36.480 big backs. But Barkley injured Week one of last year. 0:04:36.480 --> 0:04:40.159 As everyone remembers, UH last season, people are expecting a 0:04:40.240 --> 0:04:44.239 full on bounce back. They're banking on it. At ADP five, 0:04:44.360 --> 0:04:48.160 we'll talk about him. It's a little more this segment. UH. 0:04:48.160 --> 0:04:51.080 And if for handcuffed reasons you're interested. Davante Booker is 0:04:51.120 --> 0:04:54.200 the top backup running back, and they also have Corey 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:56.279 Clement who came over from the Eagles, and our rookie 0:04:56.279 --> 0:04:58.960 Gary bright Well. But whoever the running back is for 0:04:59.000 --> 0:05:02.400 the Giants, the a running behind arguably the worst offensive 0:05:02.400 --> 0:05:05.600 line in the NFL. In Pro Football Focus his mind 0:05:05.920 --> 0:05:09.200 that ranked thirty seconds going into this season. UH. And 0:05:09.320 --> 0:05:11.320 this despite the fact that they have put money and 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:14.760 draft picks towards that line. They have tried, but the 0:05:14.760 --> 0:05:17.800 players that they've invested in have not worked out. UH. 0:05:18.520 --> 0:05:22.039 They invested a fourth, fourth overall pick in Andrew Thomas 0:05:22.120 --> 0:05:25.440 last year, UH flopped at left tackle. UH. Nate Solder, 0:05:25.800 --> 0:05:28.360 who was the starting left tackle last year, will probably 0:05:28.400 --> 0:05:30.360 move to right tackle. List here does make his return. 0:05:30.520 --> 0:05:33.000 He opted out in so that that will help. That 0:05:33.120 --> 0:05:35.880 does help a lot. But uh, outside of that, Um, 0:05:35.920 --> 0:05:38.279 they have a converted guard playing center. This will be 0:05:38.320 --> 0:05:40.800 a second year playing center, and the other two guard 0:05:40.880 --> 0:05:44.160 spots right now wide open for competition. The line is 0:05:44.200 --> 0:05:47.360 even defined right now, so very worrisome there for the 0:05:47.440 --> 0:05:50.279 running game and not only the passing game. Daniel Jones 0:05:50.520 --> 0:05:54.599 currently quarterback one, pretty much free in terms of a 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:58.960 starting quarterback. If you wants too high, you mean he 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:01.960 should be going later. You're going later than that. I 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:03.960 mean there are guys after him, like Carson Wentz, I'd 0:06:04.040 --> 0:06:06.120 rather roll the dice on, and many you know, many others. 0:06:07.600 --> 0:06:10.880 We'll talk about him soon. Ryan Fitzpatrick going after uh, 0:06:11.040 --> 0:06:13.560 Daniel Jones. I would take fits nine out of ten 0:06:13.600 --> 0:06:16.640 times over Jones and probably Deshaun Watson. The one other 0:06:16.680 --> 0:06:20.080 time was also going after Daniel Jones. Worth the lotto 0:06:20.160 --> 0:06:24.360 play moral stands aside. Um, Jones does have a shiny 0:06:24.400 --> 0:06:27.080 new toy in wide receiver Kenny Golladay, who is the 0:06:27.160 --> 0:06:29.239 leader of that pack. Now he's going off the board 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:33.360 as wide receiver wide receiver twenty seven right now, which 0:06:33.839 --> 0:06:37.080 seems about right Uh, he's definitely the wide receiver you 0:06:37.120 --> 0:06:40.880 want out of this corpse. Uh corps of corps corpse 0:06:40.960 --> 0:06:45.120 might be a more pronounced that. It's actually a deep 0:06:45.160 --> 0:06:48.440 set of receiver Sterling Shepherd. The problem, I think because 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:52.680 it's too many Sterling Shepherd, Darius Layton. You can get them. Well, 0:06:52.839 --> 0:06:55.080 then if you're drafted Darius Tony, a rookie that some 0:06:55.080 --> 0:06:57.960 people are excited about from a redraft. Respect don't like 0:06:58.040 --> 0:07:01.000 this landing spot. He's he's dead to me there um, 0:07:01.080 --> 0:07:03.560 But yeah, giants wide receivers do not did not produce 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.440 last year. Granted Golliday wasn't there, but they were bottom 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:09.279 made and catches bottom four and yards and touchdowns at 0:07:09.320 --> 0:07:12.360 the position. I'm just kind of out on this whole 0:07:12.560 --> 0:07:16.760 whole pass game at the wide receiver, even Holiday, who 0:07:16.840 --> 0:07:20.720 in theory should immediately become the alpha. We see a 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:23.640 lot of times even very good receivers first year on 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:26.920 new teams struggle. I just and there's just too many 0:07:26.960 --> 0:07:32.240 balls to go around, including Barkley, Evan Ingram, Sterling Shepherd, Tony. 0:07:32.280 --> 0:07:34.800 It's just you know, slat and there's just so many 0:07:34.800 --> 0:07:37.560 guys that need to get fed. I worry about Golliday 0:07:37.680 --> 0:07:40.960 getting appropriate usage here. I'm with you, and the Giants 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:43.200 actually have a very good defense, you know, so I 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:45.200 don't I don't know if they're gonna be giving up 0:07:45.200 --> 0:07:46.800 a ton of points, so I don't know how active. 0:07:47.120 --> 0:07:48.920 If they're really wanting to win games, I mean they are, 0:07:48.960 --> 0:07:50.600 but I don't know how many they're gonna win. It's 0:07:50.640 --> 0:07:53.960 gonna be more good defense, ball control with Barkley, that's 0:07:53.960 --> 0:07:57.280 gonna be the recipe for success. And you just mentioned 0:07:57.280 --> 0:07:59.280 Evan Ingram. Let's talk about him and I might as 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:02.000 well throw in the He is my highest upside player 0:08:02.120 --> 0:08:06.000 for the Giants right now. He has underachieved so far 0:08:06.440 --> 0:08:10.000 in his career, to say the least, just thirteen touchdowns 0:08:10.040 --> 0:08:14.119 across four seasons. Of course, he plays all sixteen games 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:16.640 last year for the first time in his career, scores 0:08:16.720 --> 0:08:21.240 one touchdown God, the only tight end touchdown for the Giants. 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.960 But man, the Giants do utilize their tight ends a lot. 0:08:24.000 --> 0:08:27.040 They're they've been top eleven and catches for three straight years, 0:08:27.320 --> 0:08:30.520 usually a focal point of the offense. But Kyle Rodolf, 0:08:30.680 --> 0:08:35.440 is there a really good red zone end zone target? 0:08:35.840 --> 0:08:38.840 And I worry that this could be another one to 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:42.160 three touchdown season for Evan Ingram. But right now it 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:46.000 tight end fourteen. I mean he's gone like tight end 0:08:46.880 --> 0:08:49.800 six five, like his a DP and now the bottom 0:08:49.840 --> 0:08:52.640 has fallen out finally maybe he puts it all together. 0:08:52.720 --> 0:08:56.200 Still a freakish athlete, he's showing flashes of brilliance. Of 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.200 course he's had some some bad drops. But at tight 0:08:58.280 --> 0:09:00.680 end fourteen right now, if you're missing out on the 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:03.400 Big three or four, however you want a group of 0:09:03.400 --> 0:09:07.920 those guys. There's top six seven potential here for Ingram. 0:09:07.920 --> 0:09:09.520 If you can put it all together in a tight 0:09:09.640 --> 0:09:12.440 end fourteen, that's a virtually free uh, if you're looking 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.400 at your starting tight end and to the riskiest player, 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:21.520 it's pretty obvious. And he's a top five pick if 0:09:21.800 --> 0:09:24.000 he gets hurt like he did last year, year done 0:09:24.040 --> 0:09:26.160 before and the year before, and of course everyone is 0:09:26.200 --> 0:09:29.199 at risk of injury, but uh, obvious a little concerned. 0:09:29.200 --> 0:09:31.480 They don't like fully unleashed him out of the gate either. 0:09:31.559 --> 0:09:34.160 When the season starts, you know, like people are thinking 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:39.559 thirty touches, I'm thinking more seven team twenty worlcome back 0:09:39.559 --> 0:09:41.600 a little bit. I know he's a freak of nature. 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:44.560 He's still very young, very much in the prime of 0:09:44.600 --> 0:09:48.959 his career. But I don't know top five pick, it's 0:09:49.040 --> 0:09:51.480 it's too risky for me. He's not he's not locked 0:09:52.240 --> 0:09:55.200 or produced. E've been taking DeVante Booker late in a 0:09:55.200 --> 0:09:57.760 lot of drafts, even if you don't have Barkley right 0:09:57.800 --> 0:09:59.680 not right now. I don't have Barkley at any I 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:01.840 don't have any shares of Barkley and across any of 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:03.920 my draft. So I would almost argue, if you have 0:10:04.000 --> 0:10:07.480 Barkley not to take Booker. Booker will be serviceable. But 0:10:07.600 --> 0:10:10.880 if Barkley goes down, you're pretty much done. But if 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:12.880 you don't know in Barkley and you get the starting 0:10:13.480 --> 0:10:18.640 the Giants, but uh that's but uh yeah, that's all. 0:10:18.679 --> 0:10:20.360 That's all we have to say for the Giants, other 0:10:20.440 --> 0:10:23.440 than I hope Gettleman Dave Gettleman finally gets fired after 0:10:23.480 --> 0:10:26.560 this season. I think it will happen. I hope. So 0:10:28.559 --> 0:10:32.960 for Washington football team, they get competent quarterbacking for the 0:10:33.000 --> 0:10:35.200 first time in years, and this team is said to 0:10:35.200 --> 0:10:37.720 improve significantly over last year. Brian, you're gonna hear a 0:10:37.720 --> 0:10:42.080 lot of optimism. This team finished twenty fifth points last year. 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:44.960 Twenty yards. I think they're going to be closer to 0:10:44.960 --> 0:10:49.000 top twelve top fourteen in both of those categories. So 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:52.640 let's start with Ryan Fitzpatrick, your new starter, although we'll 0:10:52.640 --> 0:10:55.480 mention uh Taylor Heineke looked pretty darn good at the 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.640 end of last year. But Fitzpatrick goes in as the starter, 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.600 and he played well last year, and his benching for 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:04.440 to a Toungo violoa should not be viewed as a 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:09.200 reflection of Fitzpatrick's play. And you know, I'm gonna give 0:11:09.200 --> 0:11:11.560 you some numbers here that really I think will will 0:11:11.600 --> 0:11:14.440 help demonstrate why he's going to be very valuable here, 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:19.199 and especially compared to recent Washington quarterbacks. You know, Fitzpatrick 0:11:19.280 --> 0:11:22.760 impressed the ball upfield. He finished eleventh in completed air 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:26.360 yards last year, in eighth in yards per attempt. And 0:11:26.400 --> 0:11:29.840 this despite last year he had the second shortest time 0:11:29.880 --> 0:11:33.600 to throw and he still finished eighth and yards pert tempt. 0:11:33.960 --> 0:11:36.600 I mean that guy hung tough in the pocket and 0:11:36.640 --> 0:11:41.319 delivered downfield. Last year. He ranked number one in aggressiveness, 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:44.960 which is next next. Jen stats is calculation for a 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:48.000 pastor's willingness to throw into tight coverage. I like that 0:11:48.080 --> 0:11:50.640 about him. He's always been this way. He'll take the 0:11:50.679 --> 0:11:53.920 periodic pick if it means that he can get the 0:11:53.960 --> 0:11:58.760 ball towards his best receivers. Fitzpatrick led the league in 0:11:58.960 --> 0:12:03.760 on target a percentage in balls thrown twenty yards or 0:12:03.800 --> 0:12:07.520 longer last year. He was good last year, and they 0:12:07.559 --> 0:12:10.560 mentioned him anyway, the Dolphins would have made the playoffs. 0:12:10.559 --> 0:12:12.760 I'm convinced that they kept him there for sure. All 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.680 we needed was one more win his He had six 0:12:15.840 --> 0:12:18.840 his sixty five completion percentage. People think that he's a 0:12:18.960 --> 0:12:22.439 very errand thrower, but he completed six of his passes. 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:26.920 Aaron Rodgers completed sixty six, so I really think that's 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:30.680 not accurate either. He was next gent Stats seventh ranked 0:12:30.720 --> 0:12:36.680 quarterback in completions above expectation. So you're all that together anything, 0:12:39.360 --> 0:12:41.360 And I've got more on him later. So let's go 0:12:41.400 --> 0:12:43.520 to Let's go to his receiving targets, beginning with Terry 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:47.839 mcterry McLaurin sitting on a breakout season. He's already really 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.720 good despite the terrible quarterbacking they've had. Um, how bad 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:55.960 was it last year? Mclauren was seventy five in catchable 0:12:56.080 --> 0:13:00.559 target rate. Last year seventy five among why receivers and 0:13:00.600 --> 0:13:04.280 catchable targets. Now with Fitzpatrick, he's going to see way 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:10.440 more downfield opportunities. Fitzpatrick's a dot has been the top three, sorry, 0:13:10.480 --> 0:13:13.320 top ten for three straight years, so we're gonna see 0:13:13.360 --> 0:13:17.360 McLaurin work downfield much more. I love that opportunity for him. Um. 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:21.880 Fitzpatrick's number one wide receiver, so his top wide receiver. 0:13:22.640 --> 0:13:27.680 His averaged one hundred forty two targets per season when 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:30.000 Fitzpatrick has started ten or more games, which he has 0:13:30.040 --> 0:13:33.040 projected to do. Here, if we put Terry McLaren on 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:36.040 one forty two targets, he will be a top ten 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:42.080 wide receiver this year easily. McLaren played a whopping eight 0:13:42.360 --> 0:13:46.480 per cent of the team's plays last year, so obviously 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:50.320 I love mclauren. Curtis Samuel gets reunited with Ron Rivera 0:13:50.320 --> 0:13:52.599 and Scott Turner, who know him very well from Carolina. 0:13:52.880 --> 0:13:55.800 He'll presumably read that jack of all trades guy that 0:13:55.880 --> 0:13:58.600 he has been for Carolina. UM, but now with the 0:13:58.640 --> 0:14:02.560 best quarterbacking of his career, and he's reunited with Terry McLaurin, 0:14:02.600 --> 0:14:07.120 who they went. Isn't that fun? Um? You know, so 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:09.079 you know it's gonna be the same we did to 0:14:09.160 --> 0:14:11.679 we do. Just say that Fitzpatrick loves to feed his 0:14:11.760 --> 0:14:13.440 number one and that's going to continue to be the 0:14:13.440 --> 0:14:18.079 case here. Um, but Samuel figures to be the number 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.640 two receiver in this offense, and they're gonna run him 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:22.280 some and do some other stuff with him. I think 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:25.480 you'll get a lot of high and low stuff. Let 0:14:25.520 --> 0:14:30.200 me note this. He ran predominantly from the slot last year, 0:14:31.040 --> 0:14:36.240 but under Scott Turner in Carolina Curtis Samuel lined up 0:14:36.280 --> 0:14:38.840 outside much more often. And I think he's going to 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:42.800 be an outside receiver for this team because Adam Humphries 0:14:42.880 --> 0:14:45.280 is going to man the slot and he'll likely be 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:48.280 on the field more than people realize because people in 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.400 their minds still think Samuel, like last year, is gonna 0:14:50.400 --> 0:14:51.760 be predominantly slot. I don't think he is. I think 0:14:51.800 --> 0:14:55.800 he's gonna go outside much more so. Um. He Humphries 0:14:55.880 --> 0:14:58.280 got cut from the Titans. He was two years into 0:14:58.320 --> 0:15:00.920 a four year deal, and that's you that was worrisome 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.480 that they didn't decide to keep him, and he had 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:08.440 the concussions last year. But um, you could play him 0:15:08.480 --> 0:15:11.880 in a PPR situation only and sort of pick your spots. 0:15:11.920 --> 0:15:14.320 He played with Fitzpatrick and Tampa for what it's worth, 0:15:14.600 --> 0:15:16.600 But I don't think Humphries is anything more than the 0:15:16.760 --> 0:15:19.560 last last pick of your draft kind of guy, or 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:21.600 some of you pick up off the waiver wire. Rookie 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:24.240 Diemi Brown is there. He's a speedcer with deep speed, 0:15:24.280 --> 0:15:26.360 and we do have a deep armed quarterback here, so 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:28.280 he might be somebody who could you could throw a 0:15:28.360 --> 0:15:31.400 dart at from time to time. But there's also Campsen's 0:15:31.560 --> 0:15:36.560 and Antonio Golden Gandy and Kelvin Harmon, and there's other guys. 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:41.600 Stevens sim City. I like that it is sim City 0:15:41.600 --> 0:15:44.160 with two Sims on the team. Uh. Tight end Logan 0:15:44.200 --> 0:15:47.840 Thomas is fascinating. So he had the improbable path as 0:15:47.880 --> 0:15:51.680 a college quarterback turned tight end turned journeyman, bouncing around 0:15:51.680 --> 0:15:54.160 from team to team to team, and then last year 0:15:54.160 --> 0:15:57.040 he's on the field for Washington's plays. And he was 0:15:57.560 --> 0:16:00.560 a pro drafted as a pro quarterback. But Cardinals, that's 0:16:00.600 --> 0:16:02.960 like the fourth quarterback. He wasn't like signed as a 0:16:02.960 --> 0:16:04.680 free Asian or anything like that. He was drafted to 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:07.920 play quarterback. Didn't work out and do his credit. I mean, 0:16:07.960 --> 0:16:10.800 he's managed to stay in the league and Lions gave 0:16:10.880 --> 0:16:12.480 up on him, and then now he's turned into a 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:14.840 very good tight end. Over the final eleven games of 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.240 last year, he finished with per game averages of five catches, 0:16:18.280 --> 0:16:20.480 fifty one yards and half a touchdown per game. That's 0:16:20.560 --> 0:16:23.960 pretty solid, lead the team in red zone targets. There's 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:28.560 downside here though, because again Fitzpatrick feeds his number one 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:32.360 Curtis Samuel's now there, Adam Humphries now there. They dat 0:16:32.480 --> 0:16:35.840 drafted Diamie Brown. I think there's some downside on Logan Thomas. 0:16:35.840 --> 0:16:37.600 I don't think he's gonna get quite as much usage, 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.920 quite as many balls, but he's he's still I still 0:16:40.960 --> 0:16:44.040 probably make sense about where he's going in most fantasy drafts. 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:47.080 As currently as tight ends eight off the board. Yeah, 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:50.640 he's you know, it's the big three. And then he 0:16:50.760 --> 0:16:57.720 got Hockinson, got Art and uh Kyle Pitts and then 0:16:57.720 --> 0:17:00.200 it gets scared to that. Then it's then it starts 0:17:00.200 --> 0:17:03.400 with Logan Thomas, and I don't like him being the guy. 0:17:04.400 --> 0:17:06.639 I'm kind of avoiding that situation. But as good as 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:08.120 he was last year, if you told me I get 0:17:08.119 --> 0:17:10.439 five catches fifty have a touchdoff from him that I'm 0:17:10.440 --> 0:17:12.480 definitely in, which is what he did in the second 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:14.760 half last year. Let's go to the running back position. 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:19.199 Everybody's high in Antonio Gibson at this point, including me 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:22.000 his abilities. I think we're overlooked by many last year. 0:17:22.040 --> 0:17:24.200 But I think given the off season of reflection, people 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:25.840 have gone back and looked at his body of work 0:17:25.920 --> 0:17:28.879 last year and realized Antonio Gibson was really good. He 0:17:28.960 --> 0:17:33.080 was Pro Football Focus his sixth ranked running back last year. 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:37.840 Derrick Henry led the NFL and miss tackles. Antonio Gibson 0:17:38.240 --> 0:17:44.760 tied him in miss tackles per carry. That's pretty impressive, 0:17:45.280 --> 0:17:50.000 Pretty impressive, the team repeatedly said last as repeatedly said 0:17:50.000 --> 0:17:51.800 in the offseason, They're gonna throw to him more, as 0:17:51.800 --> 0:17:54.320 you probably remember at Tuni with Gibson's converted wide out 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:57.720 and so that makes sense. I think he will. I 0:17:57.760 --> 0:17:59.760 think that will end up happening, and that will end 0:17:59.800 --> 0:18:02.000 up dink J. D. McKissick, whose only real value to 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:05.400 fantasy fans is fantasy players, is as a PPR back. 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:10.080 I read a report today, uh from NBC Sports Edge 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.520 whatever Rhodo World's called now about how he's put on 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:15.520 muscle though, put on some weight kiss and now that 0:18:15.560 --> 0:18:18.359 he's gonna take the job from Antonio Gibson. But have 0:18:18.480 --> 0:18:22.040 given the opportunity, he might be more than he could 0:18:22.080 --> 0:18:24.600 be the full on bell cow backup for Gibsons. That 0:18:24.600 --> 0:18:28.560 could make sense. Uh, here's the real problem for Antonio Gibson. 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:33.040 His pass blocking is awful. ProFootball Focus ranked him sixty 0:18:33.119 --> 0:18:36.240 one at the position. There are only three qualified runners 0:18:36.240 --> 0:18:39.440 who ranked lower than Antonio Gibson, and he we need 0:18:39.520 --> 0:18:41.040 him to be on the field and third down if 0:18:41.040 --> 0:18:42.879 we want to see the past catching get better and 0:18:42.920 --> 0:18:45.200 then the receiving numbers go up. So he's got to 0:18:45.240 --> 0:18:48.760 get better than that riskiest player. His current ADPs loan 0:18:48.880 --> 0:18:51.919 Logan Thomas, who as I mentioned earlier, he's going off 0:18:51.960 --> 0:18:54.240 the board and round seven. Last year there were only 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:56.679 three viable targets on the whole team. This year there 0:18:56.760 --> 0:19:00.240 might be six, so I think his numbers are could 0:19:00.280 --> 0:19:02.800 potentially go down. The player with the most upside, we're 0:19:02.840 --> 0:19:09.280 back to Ryan Fitzpatrick, quarterback twenty six right now. Had 0:19:09.320 --> 0:19:12.920 Fitzpatrick been allowed to play the full season in Miami, 0:19:13.400 --> 0:19:16.560 he was on track for four thousand one d passing yards, 0:19:17.480 --> 0:19:21.439 twenty seven and a half touchdowns, thirty three thirty rushing 0:19:21.480 --> 0:19:26.800 yards and five rushing touchdowns. His closest comparable quarterback Justin Herbert. 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:32.760 Justin Herbert's ADPs quarterback six. Ryan Fitzpatrick, who put up 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:34.760 again was on a per game basis. Is putting the 0:19:34.840 --> 0:19:39.120 same numbers as Justin herbert Is ADP is six too cheap. 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:42.840 Too cheap. Hopefully you will not be too cheap to 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:45.320 consider the sponsors that you were about to hear. As 0:19:45.359 --> 0:19:47.720 we take a break, we come back, we'll talk about 0:19:48.040 --> 0:19:52.000 the Philadelphia e goals eight, an offense in a great 0:19:52.040 --> 0:19:54.200 deal of transition. We'll tell you how we feel about 0:19:54.240 --> 0:19:59.159 them in moments. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Giargie 0:19:59.200 --> 0:20:02.360 and Brian Johnson. We you, let's talk about the Eagles. 0:20:03.560 --> 0:20:08.879 There may be no more player with upside and downside 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:14.240 then Jalen Hurts. If he can be a good enough 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:18.080 passer to hold that job all year and continue running 0:20:18.080 --> 0:20:21.960 like he did last year, he has top five fantasy 0:20:22.040 --> 0:20:25.240 quarterback in him. But if his passing stays at the 0:20:25.320 --> 0:20:27.479 level it was last year, Brian, I can't tell you 0:20:27.560 --> 0:20:30.520 he even finishes the season as the start. Yeah, well, uh, 0:20:30.640 --> 0:20:33.840 we'll certainly talk about the upside and downside of Jalen 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:35.479 Hurts a little more. But like you mentioned, a lot 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:37.760 of change going on in Philly. A new head coach, 0:20:37.840 --> 0:20:41.280 Nick Sirianni, the former offensive coordinator for the Colts. They 0:20:41.359 --> 0:20:44.679 also have a new offensive coordinator, Shane Stiken, who is 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:47.719 the former O C for the Chargers. So a lot 0:20:47.800 --> 0:20:50.719 of changes on the sidelines for Philly. Um, we're not 0:20:50.800 --> 0:20:52.640 good in terms of yards per game in points per 0:20:52.640 --> 0:20:57.000 game last year respectively. That was a lot of Carson 0:20:57.040 --> 0:21:00.280 Wentzlough and not Jalen Hurts of course. Uh. Well, and 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:04.160 again that offensive line just amated by injury, and we'll 0:21:04.160 --> 0:21:06.480 talk about the line a little more as well. Uh, 0:21:06.600 --> 0:21:09.919 Philly did rank top eight in past play percentage passed 0:21:09.920 --> 0:21:14.840 the ball over of the time, very past friendly offense. UM. 0:21:14.960 --> 0:21:17.119 For Jalen Hurt's sake and his past catchers, hopefully that 0:21:17.160 --> 0:21:18.960 remains the same. But I let's talk about the running, 0:21:19.160 --> 0:21:22.520 the running game and Miles Sanders, who's had a somewhat tortuous, 0:21:22.920 --> 0:21:29.200 tortuous tortuous in the league, especially from a fantasy perspective. 0:21:29.840 --> 0:21:33.919 Big weeks down weeks just very inconsistent, even when it 0:21:33.920 --> 0:21:37.000 just comes from his usage and touches per game. Just 0:21:37.160 --> 0:21:42.120 six h rushing touchdowns last year's zero receiving touchdowns right now, 0:21:42.280 --> 0:21:45.560 going off the board as RB eighteen, just after the 0:21:45.600 --> 0:21:49.480 DeAndre Swifts and j K. Dobbins of the world. But 0:21:49.720 --> 0:21:51.440 I don't know if I like that spot for Sanders 0:21:51.440 --> 0:21:54.880 and Redraft. I like guys like Chris Carson David Montgomery 0:21:54.960 --> 0:21:58.600 who are going after Sanders. Uh, just from the safety 0:21:58.680 --> 0:22:01.240 Here's why I kind of like Sanders. Everybody's so down 0:22:01.280 --> 0:22:04.680 on him. A DP is really depressed, and that offensive line, 0:22:04.760 --> 0:22:08.639 when healthy is actually quite good. So I'm kind of 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:11.880