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Speaker 1: and this is Matt Harrison along with Brian Johnson. Fantasy
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Speaker 1: out today under the weather. So Matt and Brian filling
Speaker 1: in on the weekly Fantasy Football Weekly show, and we're
Speaker 1: going to talk free agency all over today, the guys
Speaker 1: at all of the positions that may land on a
Speaker 1: different team this year. But we have to start with
Speaker 1: the big trade. And because we're recording this on Saturday,
Speaker 1: we got to see this trade that went down Friday
Speaker 1: afternoon and the Bears trade out of pick number one
Speaker 1: overall to the Carolina Panthers. The Bears receive pick nine,
Speaker 1: pick sixty one DJ Moore, which might be the most
Speaker 1: interesting trade piece so far. Twenty four first and a
Speaker 1: twenty five second Brian instant reaction, instant reaction, definite upgrade
Speaker 1: for Jeffson Fields. Of course, it finally has a competent
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Definite upgrade for DJ Moore too, right, it
Speaker 1: almost feels like a lateral movement. I don't know. It's
Speaker 1: not a bad thing, but um, people knock Justin Fields
Speaker 1: as a pastor. I think he's a good pastor. He's
Speaker 1: never had good weapons, he's never had a DJ more before.
Speaker 1: But true, I'm not bumping. He doesn't change a whole
Speaker 1: lot for me. I don't think it gets worse. It's
Speaker 1: not a worse situation for a more. Yeah, it certainly
Speaker 1: helps fuels more than it helps more. I think Taras
Speaker 1: Marshall now is certainly very interesting on the Carolina side. Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely no one left there. Well, specifically, since they don't
Speaker 1: have a first or a second, they're not taking a
Speaker 1: wide receiver in the second round unless they're making some
Speaker 1: crazy moves here. Unlikely. Um, yeah, they're not with the
Speaker 1: first overall pick either you know Reiver. Well, maybe we'll
Speaker 1: talk about some wide receivers later in the show that
Speaker 1: Carolina can pick up. So Taras Marshall bumped up and
Speaker 1: I believe it Shy Smith who's getting some run last year.
Speaker 1: Those are your two starting wide receivers for the Panthers,
Speaker 1: who also don't have a running back and I've never
Speaker 1: had a tight end. It's kind of a full rebuild
Speaker 1: except for Dan Arnold for a couple of weeks, but
Speaker 1: they traded him. That was stupid. But um, big win
Speaker 1: for Chicago in reality football. But it was noted at
Speaker 1: at Indie at the combine that Frank Reich said that
Speaker 1: Bryce Young was a little short for the position and
Speaker 1: his liking. But so I'm interested to see if if
Speaker 1: the Panthers do go in on Bryce Young at number
Speaker 1: one overall, or if they've got CJ. Stroud penciled in there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's certainly going to be a quarterback if you're if
Speaker 1: you're a gambling man, and then we both are. I've
Speaker 1: already got my money on Will Levis. I do too.
Speaker 1: I will Levis number one overall. Pick U bet in
Speaker 1: Vegas right now at MGM what odds did you get
Speaker 1: on it? I think it was like plus eighteen hundred
Speaker 1: or something I got. I got thirty to one. And yeah,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a quarterback. I'm not sold on any
Speaker 1: of these guys. Yeah, I feel like the Panthers are
Speaker 1: gonna go with the high upside options and that's Richardson
Speaker 1: and Levis. Yeah, so I'm I'm I'm not saying Levis
Speaker 1: is the best, but I'm like with those at those
Speaker 1: odds all day that I'll take my chance. It feels
Speaker 1: like a twenty five percent chance to me, it's just
Speaker 1: gonna be one of those guys. And if you're gonna
Speaker 1: give you thirty to one on one of them, I'm
Speaker 1: taking it. That's true. All right. So let's talk about
Speaker 1: some of the free agent guys, and uh, you know
Speaker 1: the guy that is probably the most interesting player who's
Speaker 1: not technically a free agent but kind of a free agent.
Speaker 1: That's Lamar Jackson, who's on the non exclusive franchise tag.
Speaker 1: There's been a lot of reports out there that say
Speaker 1: the Falcons are out, the Dolphins are out, and the
Speaker 1: Dolphins actually said that they're going to pick up two
Speaker 1: as fifty year option. But There's there's a lot of
Speaker 1: steam out there that says a lot of these teams
Speaker 1: are out on paying two first round picks and then
Speaker 1: paying Lamar Jackson. I it kind of feels a little collusiony,
Speaker 1: like the Colin Kaepernick thing, Like nobody wants to give
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson guaranteed money for some reason. Yeah, he just
Speaker 1: wants more than Deshaun Watson got. I don't believe what
Speaker 1: anyone's saying about anything in a situation. It's strange. I've
Speaker 1: seen a lot of steam on the Colts maybe being
Speaker 1: the team that goes after Lamar Jackson. The Lions are
Speaker 1: getting thrown out there. Raiders would be an interesting spot.
Speaker 1: I don't know why the Jets aren't throwing their hat
Speaker 1: in the ring. I think I think the Jets and
Speaker 1: the and Rogers, the Jets and the Packers have a
Speaker 1: deal in place. They're waiting on Rodgers. Yeah, but still
Speaker 1: I would still be kicking the tires. Long story. I
Speaker 1: think he's gonna end up somewhere else, just even of
Speaker 1: course the Ravens can match any offer. Yeah, Jackson's heart
Speaker 1: is not going to be in that with that organization anywhere.
Speaker 1: It's true he didn't show up to the playoff game.
Speaker 1: He yeah, I think he's he's checked checked the box
Speaker 1: and he's done there. So he can't have more rushing
Speaker 1: value outside of Baltimore. It seems because Greg Roman, the
Speaker 1: former offensive coordinator, created some running place for him. The
Speaker 1: good news is almost anywhere he goes, he'll have more
Speaker 1: more targets, better targets than Baltimore because they just do
Speaker 1: not incentivize that as a team. I was going to
Speaker 1: say the Ravens have the worst wide receiver room until
Speaker 1: the Panthers just traded away anymore. But yeah, basically anywhere
Speaker 1: else he goes. I mean, Mark Andrews is nice, nice
Speaker 1: tight end. We like likely and Rashad Bateman can play,
Speaker 1: but he's not hasn't proven to stay healthy. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's I like his prospects almost anywhere else
Speaker 1: over Baltimore. Interesting that Carol Anna just didn't pull the
Speaker 1: trigger on Lamar Jackson trading two first round picks. They
Speaker 1: could have kept Dj Moore traded the two first get
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson. That would have been an interesting play too.
Speaker 1: So Todd Munkin is the new OC in Baltimore. His
Speaker 1: resume isn't super inspiring. He was the Browns offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: in twenty nineteen. The team finished twenty second points twenty
Speaker 1: second yards. Before that, he was Dirt Cutters o C
Speaker 1: in Tampa with Jamis Winston. That was kind of a
Speaker 1: mixed bag of results there. I believe that was the
Speaker 1: thirty interception season for Winston. So yeah, let's get Lamar
Speaker 1: out of there. Yeah, long story short, let's get him
Speaker 1: out of there. Huh. Let's talk about Danny Dimes though, Brian, Well,
Speaker 1: he's obviously staying in New York, so nothing's really going
Speaker 1: to change that. A whole lot we can get into
Speaker 1: if we think that contract is a good idea or not.
Speaker 1: That doesn't really matter in fantasy football. The one thing
Speaker 1: that stands out, one thing that resonated to me was
Speaker 1: next year. It's just one year, small sampler or every whatever,
Speaker 1: but he's gonna have a bigger hit against the Giants
Speaker 1: cap Daniel Daniel Jones than Patrick Mahomes is going to
Speaker 1: have the Chiefs. Totally makes sense. So but you know, Dannydimes,
Speaker 1: he he uh, you know, exceeded expectations last year, so
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens this year. The Giants are probably
Speaker 1: gonna add a wide receiver or two. You would think
Speaker 1: they got Arkley still, but uh yeah, yeah, they have
Speaker 1: to add a wide receiver, but some weapons. You know,
Speaker 1: he got paid off of that Vikings game, and the
Speaker 1: Giants are not going to be playing the Vikings every week.
Speaker 1: That's true, So I think people are you know, the
Speaker 1: recency bias. I wonder if he's sending a thank you
Speaker 1: card to the Vikings defensive staff. Done yead dontel getting
Speaker 1: the card in the mail, Donne Hill, send Danny Diames
Speaker 1: your venmo. Jimmy Garoppolo is a free agent. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of reason to doubt whether Jimmy Garoppolo can succeed
Speaker 1: outside of Kyle Shanahan's offense. He really never has had
Speaker 1: a chance much out of Kyle Shanahan's offense, but he
Speaker 1: was a middling fantasy producer. When when surrounded by really
Speaker 1: some Hall of Fame level talent and Deebo and George Kittle,
Speaker 1: his value pretty much goes down wherever he goes because
Speaker 1: he's unlikely to be an offense in an offense anywhere
Speaker 1: as near as good as San Francisco's. I think that
Speaker 1: goes without saying one of the best offensive lines in
Speaker 1: the league, he's a backup, or he's going to be
Speaker 1: a guy that maybe starts the first four weeks in
Speaker 1: front of Bryce Young or CJ. Stroud and or Will Levice.
Speaker 1: From the Jimmy Garoppolo camp, he wants to be a
Speaker 1: starter in the league. And I mean there's gonna be
Speaker 1: some starting jobs open. There's still about half of the
Speaker 1: league doesn't have a solid foundation of where they have
Speaker 1: as a quarterback right now. So I think Garoppolo probably
Speaker 1: will get a chance to start at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the season. We just don't know where. Probably an NFC team.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of NFC teams game. He's not landing
Speaker 1: on an offense quite like the forty nine end of
Speaker 1: the end of the story there, So yeah, not too
Speaker 1: thrilled about wherever he ends up. All right, let's move
Speaker 1: on to the running back position, where Josh Jacobs gets
Speaker 1: the franchise tag and sae Quon Barkley also got the
Speaker 1: franchise tag and interesting to me, Brian, does it seem
Speaker 1: like that might be the future of the running back position,
Speaker 1: Especially if you draft a running back in the first round,
Speaker 1: you you pay them their fifth year option, and then
Speaker 1: you franchise tag him one year, so you get them
Speaker 1: for the six years and then you let them ride
Speaker 1: off into the sunset, maybe maybe four years and then
Speaker 1: the franchise year. But that kind of seems like a
Speaker 1: good way to play the running back position. If you're
Speaker 1: drafting a running back in the first or second round,
Speaker 1: just just let them let them go after doing a
Speaker 1: franchise tag year. Yeah. If I was with Giants um
Speaker 1: and for whatever reason, Bijon Robinson old all the way
Speaker 1: down there and you know you got I think he
Speaker 1: probably will go there in the twenties, it's very possible.
Speaker 1: You know, you draft him, you got your brand new Barkley,
Speaker 1: you still have old Barkley. You try to make a
Speaker 1: run this year, you know things don't look good, You
Speaker 1: trade Barkley to a contender, and then you got Bijan
Speaker 1: because they're not gonna be paying Barkeley next year. No so,
Speaker 1: And the Jacobs thing is weird. We expect we said
Speaker 1: last year, ride Josh shake. The Raiders are gonna ride
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs into the ground DeMarco Murray style, Marco Murray style,
Speaker 1: which they did and they'll probably do it again. But
Speaker 1: now the Giants are gonna do that with Barkley. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I'm kind of you know, bar people are drafting
Speaker 1: right now and literally they're drafting Bijan over Barkeley, which
Speaker 1: is nuts because Barkley's gonna get twenty five carries a game,
Speaker 1: Joan's probably gonna get Like you have to be bullish
Speaker 1: on both Jacobs and Barkley playing a tag like this. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and redrafted leagues without a doubt. Now in Dynasty, they're
Speaker 1: getting old, sadly Barkley's but twenty seven almost Yeah, time
Speaker 1: flies a name that's getting old, but he's really not
Speaker 1: that old. David Montgomery, what do you think of his
Speaker 1: prospects in the free agent market? Brand, Yeah, it turns
Speaker 1: twenty six in June, so he's right tail end of
Speaker 1: his prime. But since his rookie year ficks the tail
Speaker 1: end of his prime. Running backs, it's a tough life, man,
Speaker 1: it's a tough life. They live. They really just churned
Speaker 1: and burned. But m Monte's yards per carry since his
Speaker 1: rookie year three point seven, four point three, three point
Speaker 1: eight four point oh not very good at all, But
Speaker 1: yards per carry doesn't tell the whole story. Montgomery was
Speaker 1: top fifteen and avoided tackle rates in three of his
Speaker 1: four seasons behind a mostly below average offensive line in Chicago.
Speaker 1: And you know he was splitting time with Kuil Herbert,
Speaker 1: of course, who kind of looked better. It's a long
Speaker 1: story short and Justin Fields an amazing Russian quarterback. I
Speaker 1: think I think It's prospects are better wherever he ends up.
Speaker 1: And I think Carolina certainly in the mix for running back.
Speaker 1: Denver would be because whereas Javonte Williams might not be
Speaker 1: ready for the season at all. Yeah, so I think
Speaker 1: wherever Montgomery ends up, he'll be given a chance to
Speaker 1: produce a little more. They head in Chicago recently. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders is a free agent coming off a really
Speaker 1: good year in Philly, but the Eagles really never made
Speaker 1: him the focal point of the rushing attack. It was
Speaker 1: because of the scheme, maybe because Jalen Hurts is frankly awesome,
Speaker 1: especially near the stripe, or because Sanders just can't be
Speaker 1: a three down bell cow. Pro Football Focus grade at
Speaker 1: Sanders as the bottom ranked running back as a receiver.
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry watches Sanders film and then laughs at Miles
Speaker 1: Sanders hands. It's true. It's true, Derrick Henry he's always
Speaker 1: laughing at others. Also, PF grade Sanders as the thirty
Speaker 1: eighth ranked pass blocker. That's not very good for a
Speaker 1: guy who's a starting running back. Will another team use
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders more or differently? I'm not really sure. It's
Speaker 1: it seems like he's just kind of a guy. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a Jag. Maybe he's a Jacksonville Jaguars back up.
Speaker 1: Good news his next team won't have a quarterback stealing
Speaker 1: double digit rushing touchdowns. I think there's a decent chance
Speaker 1: he just resigns in Philly too. Speaking of a Jag
Speaker 1: or an ex Jag, Leonard Fournette, yeahs twenty turned to
Speaker 1: twenty eight in January, so he's an old man. Now.
Speaker 1: How long ago he was twenty seventeen, the fourth overall pick.
Speaker 1: Yeah by my Jaguars, big big whoopsie there. But um,
Speaker 1: I'm not I don't really want to hear about Leonard
Speaker 1: Fournett anymore. He's he's gonna be a backup wherever he ends.
Speaker 1: He's not a starter. Don't you think it's kind of
Speaker 1: the way of Lashawn McCoy, Leveon Bell, Melvin Gordon, where
Speaker 1: he's just like kind of a forgotten asset at this
Speaker 1: point pretty much. And then granted Tampa Bay did not
Speaker 1: have a great offensive line, but Fournette dead last in
Speaker 1: his free agent class running backs in yards after contact,
Speaker 1: so you can't always blame that on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: In most cases you can, So I'm not really there's
Speaker 1: other free agent running backs more excited about seeing where
Speaker 1: they end up than Leonard four ninth. Well, maybe Devin
Speaker 1: Singletary is one of those guys. He's probably out in
Speaker 1: Buffalo as James Cook likely inherits his job in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: Did you hear the thing that James Cook's middle name
Speaker 1: is Dalvin? Yeah? I heard that, and Dalvin Cook's middle
Speaker 1: name is James. Some serious brotherly love. Devin Singletary is
Speaker 1: one of the best pass blockers in free agency. He's
Speaker 1: got pretty low mileage on him too, never topping two
Speaker 1: hundred and fourteen carries in a season, but he's never
Speaker 1: been a bell cow, probably because he's he's little. He's
Speaker 1: five to seven decent receiver, but not a natural receiver
Speaker 1: like a James White. He's probably a rotational back just
Speaker 1: as he was with another team. But it would be
Speaker 1: interesting to see a guy like Devin singletary. He seems
Speaker 1: like an like a Kansas City Chiefs kind of a guy. Oh,
Speaker 1: I'll because so gross, Like yeah, like like doesn't it
Speaker 1: seem like that kind of player would just sign with
Speaker 1: the Chiefs on like a mid budget deal and split
Speaker 1: the backfield with Pacheco. Yeah, and they probably just want
Speaker 1: the inside info on Buffalo more than anything obviously. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 1: How about Damian Harris, Brian Damian Harris Charts loves Damien Harris.
Speaker 1: We should. He spent way too much of the season
Speaker 1: on the injured list, well, the last three years here
Speaker 1: as games played, starving the most recent eleven, fifteen, and ten,
Speaker 1: so he's only sort of played one full season, so
Speaker 1: he's not the most durable back out there. When healthy,
Speaker 1: he was effective average four point seven yards for carry,
Speaker 1: but I feel like that was more being a Patriot
Speaker 1: because they love to run, because they just run and
Speaker 1: over there four Romandre really popped off, and then of
Speaker 1: course Romandre looked like the better back even when both
Speaker 1: were healthy. So I need to see. I'm not like,
Speaker 1: it's not like Wherebert Damian Harris ends up. I'm in
Speaker 1: he's that talented back. I mean, he's a good running back.
Speaker 1: Don't get me wrong, but he needs to find a
Speaker 1: nice soft place to land for me to Yeah, absolutely
Speaker 1: be interested on draft day. Jamal Williams was the NFL's
Speaker 1: leading touchdown scorer last year. That blows my mind. Seventeen touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He's headed to free agency. He's kind of getting up there.
Speaker 1: He's a finisher. He's the tenth most yards after contact
Speaker 1: last year, but that number drops the thirty eighth in
Speaker 1: average yards after contact, which is bizarre. He's not a
Speaker 1: dynamic runner. Finished forty eighth in breakaway runs per carry.
Speaker 1: Although he saw a lot of stacked boxes in short yardage,
Speaker 1: he doesn't catch. Best case scenario, he probably just stays
Speaker 1: in Detroit because we know how he'll be used there.
Speaker 1: Second best scenario, he joins another skilled backfield with a
Speaker 1: split where he's the short yardage specialist. Maybe maybe a
Speaker 1: place like Buffalo, maybe a place like Kansas City, something
Speaker 1: like that. Another former Kansas City Chiefs running at Kareem Hunt.
Speaker 1: He wanted to be traded from the Browns mid season,
Speaker 1: but he didn't. What happened, Brian, Yeah, I don't know, huh.
Speaker 1: What happened to Kareem Hunt in general? Remember he was
Speaker 1: his rookie year, he was awesome. He looked like Jamal
Speaker 1: Charles with two I remember it was the first game
Speaker 1: of the season, like the Thursday in the open, and
Speaker 1: he had like the four touchdowns and I think I
Speaker 1: think it was against the Patriots. But Hunts turns to
Speaker 1: twenty eight in August. That's old again. But he should
Speaker 1: have a lot of tread left on the tires. Outside
Speaker 1: of that his rookie year, he hasn't carried two hundred
Speaker 1: top two hundred carries in any other season. He's always
Speaker 1: just kind of been the change of pace back. So
Speaker 1: I would love for him just to get a shot
Speaker 1: like in Carolina, um maybe in Denver if John Te
Speaker 1: Williams is the miss an extended amount of time, just
Speaker 1: to be the guy again because I don't remember exactly,
Speaker 1: he at least to be the one a kind of
Speaker 1: because when he was with the Chiefs his rookie year,
Speaker 1: he looked like he was going to be a Hall
Speaker 1: of Fame running back and then he derailed his career
Speaker 1: essentially in his life for a little while, got back
Speaker 1: on track a little bit, got another or got a
Speaker 1: second chance with the Browns, but he's never you know,
Speaker 1: he's always been the you know, the Robin to Nick
Speaker 1: Chubbs Batman. So I'm very so like this whole exercise
Speaker 1: is good for anyone doing Best Ball drafts right now,
Speaker 1: or startup dynace leagues, or even if you're looking to
Speaker 1: make a trade in your dynasty league, because right now,
Speaker 1: all these free pending free agents there, they come into discount, yeah,
Speaker 1: and they're not gonna get They're not gonna really lose
Speaker 1: any value because they've already discounted so much. Because everyone's
Speaker 1: kind of like hesitant because they don't know where they're
Speaker 1: gonna play, but they land in the right spot, like
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt ends up in Carolinas, they're starting running back.
Speaker 1: Granted it's not gonna be a great offense, his ADP
Speaker 1: as a stands of right now will jump up three
Speaker 1: rounds roughly something like that. Yeah, and what if he
Speaker 1: ends up in New Orleans or something like that, and
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara is looking at a long suspension that So
Speaker 1: he's the guy I've been targeting in Bestball right now.
Speaker 1: It's hoping. I think he's got the talent that he's
Speaker 1: the running back a most except free agent running back,
Speaker 1: I'm most excited to see where he lands. Last running
Speaker 1: back we'll mention is Jerick McKinnon, And I guess I
Speaker 1: have to get this one out for Jerick McKinnon because yeah,
Speaker 1: I called that one a little bit and probably found
Speaker 1: his stride in year seven. Weeks one through twelve, he
Speaker 1: was RB fifty and from week thirteen forward he was
Speaker 1: RB two, making him maybe one of the least likely
Speaker 1: league winners in Memory's probably like wide receiver like twenty
Speaker 1: two because he was really yeah, more so the receiving
Speaker 1: than than the rushing. He was doing the age receiving
Speaker 1: touchdowns in the final six weeks. So yeah, Jeric McKinnon,
Speaker 1: I mean talking about long in the tooth. I mean
Speaker 1: his teeth got to be like, you know, sabertooth tiger
Speaker 1: tusks or any something like that. You gotta think that
Speaker 1: McKinnon's best option is to just stay in Kansas City
Speaker 1: as long as he can. Yeah, I don't see like, yeah,
Speaker 1: anyone who's leaving, We're gonna talk about a few Chiefs
Speaker 1: wide receivers, Like anyone leaving Kansas City, He's not like, oh,
Speaker 1: this is gonna be better off, yeah in other place.
Speaker 1: All right, let's take a quick break and when we
Speaker 1: come back, we'll talk about the wide receivers and tight
Speaker 1: ends that might make a difference in uh, you know,
Speaker 1: the next the next couple of rounds of your best
Speaker 1: ball drafts, your dynasty drafts, anything like that coming up next,
Speaker 1: and we're back to Fantasy Football Weekly Matt Harrison along
Speaker 1: with Brian Johnson. This week, Mat Hi good and true.
Speaker 1: We went on a break. When we take a break,
Speaker 1: we literally take a break from each other and then
Speaker 1: we come back. And that's true. I haven't seen you
Speaker 1: since what December something like that. Yeah, good to see you.
Speaker 1: It's it's it's been a while. How how how how
Speaker 1: are the how's the new puppy? Hanul? Yeah? I saw
Speaker 1: that you tweeted a picture of her and Christopher walking.
Speaker 1: They look very similar. Someone pointed that out to me.
Speaker 1: I didn't realize it. In first I was like nah.
Speaker 1: Then the more I looked at it, I was like, wow,
Speaker 1: you were like this a certain light like when it's
Speaker 1: really bright, like it really brings out or walking like eyes.
Speaker 1: All right, let's talk about some of the wide receivers
Speaker 1: out there. And um, I'm trying to find the tweet.
Speaker 1: But Ian Hartitz, who's kind of a friend of the program.
Speaker 1: He tweeted out something about some of the last decade
Speaker 1: of free agent wide receivers and how they almost never
Speaker 1: work out. Like the best one has been Christian Kirk
Speaker 1: and that was that was the best one by far.
Speaker 1: It certainly wasn't Kenny Galladay in recent memory, or Mark
Speaker 1: has Valdez scantling Alan Robinson. But I still love you,
Speaker 1: Alan Robinson. I'm not giving up on you. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's been a disaster. But Juju Smith Schuster hits free
Speaker 1: agency for a second straight year. What do you think, Juju,
Speaker 1: who's gonna do? Do we alluded to this before the break?
Speaker 1: I don't care, or jujus, I don't I don't even
Speaker 1: care if Juju stays on the Chiefs. To be honest
Speaker 1: with you, only two games over one hundred yards with
Speaker 1: Kansas City. Technically he was only two games over ninety
Speaker 1: yards because he had like eighty eight and eighty nine.
Speaker 1: But I don't like me in that much of a sticklers,
Speaker 1: But like, you've never even top ninety yards, but only
Speaker 1: two games over one hundred yards? Only three touchdowns of
Speaker 1: Kansas City last year, including the playoffs. Clyde Edwards Hilaire
Speaker 1: had three receiving touchdowns in just ten games, like Juju
Speaker 1: had the twice as many games. He had twenty games.
Speaker 1: He had his chance, he didn't. He didn't come. You know,
Speaker 1: in Kansas City, they'll probably bring in if he even
Speaker 1: if he stays. I don't, I don't, things will be
Speaker 1: worse off if he goes somewhere else. Obviously there's you
Speaker 1: can't imagine that they'd signed him to big money, right,
Speaker 1: he would probably take a pay cut to stay. He's
Speaker 1: certainly not going to go to the Eagles, who get
Speaker 1: jumped as soon as he goes off the plane. Who
Speaker 1: they kind of need a slot receiver too. That would
Speaker 1: be something else they if he just went to the
Speaker 1: NFC East, what about the Giants? Thankfully, I don't care anymore.
Speaker 1: But again I don't, I don't. Juju is not on
Speaker 1: my radar whatsoever for the rest of my life, all right.
Speaker 1: Jacoby Myers was a quietly consistent flex level producer as
Speaker 1: a as a Patriots wide receiver, which is impressive. From
Speaker 1: Week five forward, he averaged four catches for fifty yards
Speaker 1: and about half a touchdown per game. That's roughly twelve
Speaker 1: PPR points. That's enough to be a flex starter in
Speaker 1: most cases. Tried to find some advanced stats about Jacoby
Speaker 1: Myers to be particularly good at anything. Nothing. He's just
Speaker 1: kind of a dude. Five years, he's never topped nine
Speaker 1: hundred yards or six touchdowns. He had that long open
Speaker 1: of his career where he had never scored. I think
Speaker 1: he went like twenty some games without scoring a touchdown
Speaker 1: to start his career. Jacoby Myers a just an average guy.
Speaker 1: That's what it looks like. Looks like on paper for sure,
Speaker 1: but New England worst placed in the world to be
Speaker 1: a wide receiver basically, unless you were Randy Moss in
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven. Outside of that, there's been no
Speaker 1: success at the wide receiver position for the Patriots, and
Speaker 1: I test Jacoby can make play. I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: where he If he gets put in the right spot,
Speaker 1: I think he could be surprising people and if he
Speaker 1: stays healthy. Interesting spot. After the Vikings dropped, Adam feeling
Speaker 1: maybe maybe Minnesota for Jacoby Myers is kind of a
Speaker 1: sneaky landing spot, kind of on a prove it deal
Speaker 1: kind of thing. He's not along justin Jefferson. He's not
Speaker 1: a solely a slot guy either he can line up outside.
Speaker 1: Should be an interesting spot and the guy are about
Speaker 1: to talk about here. I think can end up in
Speaker 1: Minnesota as well. Jaywicky Wicky Shark, Yeah, or he would
Speaker 1: be a good fit for DJ Turns twenty seven in September.
Speaker 1: So he's still got plenty of gas left in the tank.
Speaker 1: I'm like Adam Feeling, who I decided to laugh granted,
Speaker 1: not knocking Feeling whatsoever. Paul Famer, Yeah, certainly will be
Speaker 1: on the Vikings Ring of Honor. Whoever first reported it.
Speaker 1: I think it was a Tom Pella sero, but it
Speaker 1: just in his tweet. He's like, still with plenty of
Speaker 1: gas left in the tank. Theland was looking to content
Speaker 1: you signed the contender and you're like, plenty of gas
Speaker 1: in the tank. Did you watch football last year? Yeah?
Speaker 1: If he wasn't getting it done with Justin Jefferson getting
Speaker 1: triple covered and dealing anyway and t J. Hockinson drawing
Speaker 1: a lot of coverage for the second half the year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Theland's thirty three, So so I guess out of the way,
Speaker 1: how about I don't think anything's better. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: be better off anywhere else. If you didn't get it
Speaker 1: done in Minnesota last year. So DJ charcol though, I
Speaker 1: think I like his prospects if he can stay healthy.
Speaker 1: The problem is he's played just fifteen games over the
Speaker 1: last two seasons, with the Lions last year and then
Speaker 1: with Jacksonville the year before. He was drafted sixty first
Speaker 1: overall by the Jags in twenty eighteen, so it was
Speaker 1: somewhat of a blue chip prospect. He broke out in
Speaker 1: his second year with a thousand plus yards and eight touchdowns,
Speaker 1: but since then he's struggled with injury as total just
Speaker 1: ten touchdowns in the three seasons since. But again, if
Speaker 1: he can stay healthy and lands in the right spot
Speaker 1: like he signed with the Minnesota and he's opposite Justin Jefferson, yeah,
Speaker 1: who's still going to see double coverage every game? Well,
Speaker 1: I think Shark is very intriguing. So he's a guy
Speaker 1: I've been scooping up and just hoping he gets uh,
Speaker 1: you know, lands in a good spot, starting gig nice offense,
Speaker 1: and wherever he lands, it's probably the best quarterback of
Speaker 1: his career for sure. I mean, Goff was decent, but
Speaker 1: he didn't even play. He only played like nine ten
Speaker 1: games last year. But hey, nine times nine waiting to
Speaker 1: use that button. Yeah, all right, Alan Lazard, he's a packer, well,
Speaker 1: at least he will was a packer with Davante Adams gone.
Speaker 1: Last season, everything was in place for Alan Lazard's breakout
Speaker 1: year and he went backwards. He's a clear second wide
Speaker 1: receiver at best, maybe a third option, and that was
Speaker 1: on an Aaron Rodgers offense. And he's probably not going
Speaker 1: to sign in a spot where he's going to get
Speaker 1: a better quarterback seventh worst cushion, fifteenth worst separation per
Speaker 1: Next Gen Stats. We've seen him score touchdowns, He's had
Speaker 1: fourteen over the last two years. Maybe that's like the
Speaker 1: hope is that he finds a landing spot where he
Speaker 1: can just be like a short yardage threat. You know.
Speaker 1: Like that's another one where you're just like, if you're
Speaker 1: a big Alan Wizard fan, you hope he ends up
Speaker 1: in Kansas City, or you hope he ends up in Buffalo,
Speaker 1: or you hope he ends up, you know, as justin
Speaker 1: Herbert's third wide receiver. Yeah, I'm not not too thrilled
Speaker 1: about wherever Alan Lazard ends up. And uh, definitely not.
Speaker 1: I don't even want to get into this next guy,
Speaker 1: but google for a second, Kole Hardman another chief. I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't. I'm not gonna say dislike, but I'm just
Speaker 1: I'm about excited. It's about Kole Hardman ends up as
Speaker 1: am about Juju Smith cheer. All I want to do
Speaker 1: is just go back and see what Kansas City could
Speaker 1: have done. Instead of drafting Hardman in the second round
Speaker 1: fifty sixth overall in twenty seventeen, you could have had
Speaker 1: wide receivers in the same range like uk Metcalf, oh God,
Speaker 1: Deonte Johnson, Terry McLaurin all could have been Kansas City chiefs.
Speaker 1: So but again, anyone leaving Kansas City, you're not gonna
Speaker 1: be like, oh, they're gonna do better here. Nope. And
Speaker 1: then especially not Hardman. We didn't get done in Kansas
Speaker 1: City ever. So I would contend, even in kind of
Speaker 1: a shaky wide receiver draft class, that it's probably better
Speaker 1: taking a rookie wide receiver than any of these guys
Speaker 1: that we've mentioned in drafts this year. If, especially if
Speaker 1: you're doing early best ball drafts, you can wait five
Speaker 1: or six rounds and take a rookie wide receiver over
Speaker 1: Juju or Jacoby Meyers. Yeah, this is the least exciting
Speaker 1: free agent class I can remember. So and the last
Speaker 1: one we're going to talk about is Paris Campbell, a
Speaker 1: chart favorite nor. Last year, his fourth season, Campbell finally
Speaker 1: played a full year with okay results six hundred yards,
Speaker 1: three scores. In fairness, the Colts were just bad. They
Speaker 1: were diseased, and it was catching passes from the undead
Speaker 1: corpse of Matt Ryan, first time starter Sam Ellinger Ellinger sorry,
Speaker 1: and journeyman Nick Foles. What a trio of quarterbacks right there.
Speaker 1: Back to the combine, he was an athletic freak though,
Speaker 1: top ninety percent guy just about everything. His ideal landing
Speaker 1: spot is a team that needs a starting slot wide
Speaker 1: receiver like New England, Baltimore, Cleveland, tons of other teams. Uh,
Speaker 1: several options for him, but he's a slot guy, and
Speaker 1: like the prototypical slot guy that is maybe four five
Speaker 1: catches a game, and you hope he breaks one. But
Speaker 1: but that's that's the high end. That's the upside for
Speaker 1: Paris Campbell is a five catch game in my opinion. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's enough Paris Campbell talk for me. Okay, let's move
Speaker 1: on to the tight end position. Dalt Schultz as a
Speaker 1: free agent, and it would be surprising to me if
Speaker 1: he left Dallas. But what do you think? I don't
Speaker 1: know if they're gonna be able to afford to pay him,
Speaker 1: so I'm pretty much envisioning he's gone. I've been scooping
Speaker 1: up Jake Ferguson everywhere I can in the last round,
Speaker 1: anticipating that Dalton Schultz leaves. Washington would certainly be an interesting,
Speaker 1: interesting landing spot for Schultz. Um turns twenty seven in July,
Speaker 1: still pretty young, tight end standards. His first two seasons,
Speaker 1: he's really spent most of them is a backup, so
Speaker 1: not a lot of wear and tear on Schultz. But man,
Speaker 1: Dallas was such a tight end friendly offense and has
Speaker 1: been for like, yeah, twenty years. It seems like yeah,
Speaker 1: So I don't know. It's not like he was really
Speaker 1: compete Jake Ferguson and I was named Peyton Hender shoot shock,
Speaker 1: they were. They were stealing some snaps. But um, wherever
Speaker 1: Schultz ends up, he's likely going to be the main guy.
Speaker 1: But I really want to see where it is. But
Speaker 1: I don't think it can get any better than Dallas
Speaker 1: for him. No, it seems like that was a good
Speaker 1: landing spot for him, and the spot it may be
Speaker 1: better than the talent, so he might get paid like
Speaker 1: a super talented tight end, but I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: he fits that mold. He wasn't a full one system
Speaker 1: tight end, but a partial, partial system tight end. Mike
Speaker 1: Gasicki obviously wasn't a system tight end in Miami, at
Speaker 1: least not the new system. He's got high draft pedigree though,
Speaker 1: and really, you know, the perfect designed body to play
Speaker 1: tight end, but it's just never come together for Mike Gasicki.
Speaker 1: He limps into free agency off his worst season since
Speaker 1: his rookie year. He always started one game last year
Speaker 1: for the Miami What does that mean, Like he wasn't
Speaker 1: on the field for the first snap or something that.
Speaker 1: But because he's not a he's never been a prototypical
Speaker 1: tight end in that he doesn't block. Yeah, and you
Speaker 1: don't want that in fantasy football though, so that's a
Speaker 1: good thing in my mind, But he was just never
Speaker 1: a good fit in Miami. He was more of a
Speaker 1: wide receiver and they had much better wide receivers on
Speaker 1: my Ye, Tyrie Kill and Jalen Waddle. But um, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: if you weren't done with Kiki. But he's another guy
Speaker 1: who I've been grabbing him late in drafts because if
Speaker 1: he you know, I'm not calling him Travis Kelsey, but
Speaker 1: he's like Travis Kelsey light light, Like he could be
Speaker 1: light light. He could be, you know, essentially a wide
Speaker 1: receiver that you can put in your tight end position
Speaker 1: in fantasy football. He's kind of that kind of like
Speaker 1: he doesn't block, he's always lined up in the slot
Speaker 1: or outside, and if he's a gets sent to a
Speaker 1: high functioning offense. I'm intrigued by Asiki. Based on his
Speaker 1: price tag, he's like barely inside the top two hundred
Speaker 1: players right now, so an interesting landing spot. We've talked
Speaker 1: about this a little bit because of the trade, but
Speaker 1: how about Carolina That that would be a kind of
Speaker 1: a cool landing spot for him because he'd probably be
Speaker 1: the top receiving option immediately in Carolina. I like that,
Speaker 1: And you could get him at a pretty sizable discount
Speaker 1: over some of the free agent wide receivers because his
Speaker 1: tight ends go for less than wide receivers. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: with that. I like that idea. Hayden Hurst is the
Speaker 1: last guy on the list. And Brian I know that
Speaker 1: he's near and dirty your heart. Yeah. Hayden Hurst most
Speaker 1: famous for getting drafted by the Ravens with the twenty
Speaker 1: fifth overall pick in twenty eighteen, seven picks before Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: sixty one picks before the Ravens selected Mark Andrews in
Speaker 1: the fourth round, and the Hurst was also picked before
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard and Mike Asiki. So I guess never forget that.
Speaker 1: That's just the weirdest draft in the world. How went before? Yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely Jackson and then Mark Andrews rounds later, But anyways,
Speaker 1: turns thirty in August. I'm pretty much out on Hurst
Speaker 1: and re draft and Diansty Obviously zero spike weeks in
Speaker 1: the regular season with the Bengals last year, Ye was
Speaker 1: so much you'd get a little bit more out of
Speaker 1: him from from that standpoint. His best game was six
Speaker 1: catches fifty three yards and a touchdown. He only which
Speaker 1: is a good game, but he's the only good game.
Speaker 1: He only scored one other touchdown the rest of the
Speaker 1: season and never topped sixty yards at all. Like he
Speaker 1: just you can't get a better situation than then walking
Speaker 1: into that one too. And of course you're competing for
Speaker 1: targets in the Bengal who he was with te Higgins
Speaker 1: and Jamar Chase. But I don't know. Hurst doesn't have
Speaker 1: like the skill set to go somewhere and just be
Speaker 1: an impact player. I don't know. I'm it didn't work out.
Speaker 1: I was really in on him last year when he
Speaker 1: shot the Bengals. Was expecting something but got nothing. So
Speaker 1: kind of dead to me now, sorry, Hayden. Dan Arnold
Speaker 1: a free agent, by the way, No, unfortunately not, he's
Speaker 1: still under contract locked in if yeah, he's one more
Speaker 1: year with Jacksonville, and I'm gonna get emotional. I'm I
Speaker 1: got nothing against Evan Engram, and I'm not gonna say
Speaker 1: Dan Arnold is a better player than Evan Ingram, but
Speaker 1: comparable skill sets. Arnold would have put up great numbers
Speaker 1: if Evan Ingram was not on the Jaguars last year.
Speaker 1: And they just tagged Ingram in Jacksonville, so he'll be
Speaker 1: there again. But I'm very excited for the team overall.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I don't know. Dan Arnold's don't have to
Speaker 1: wait one more year or he'll need injury. But uh,
Speaker 1: and on the Dan Arnold note, we wrap up the
Speaker 1: show usually how it goes. You can follow Brian on
Speaker 1: Twitter at BTXJ. You can follow me on Twitter at
Speaker 1: Explosive Output, can follow Dan Arnold, who follows me on Twitter.
Speaker 1: That's true. I don't know who's handled though, off the
Speaker 1: top of my head at Dan Arnold. Yeah, just just
Speaker 1: look at my top eight ad isn't that my space is?
Speaker 1: They're probably people out there, like the twenty year olds, like,
Speaker 1: what the hell is he talking about? Top eight? You
Speaker 1: know my space? If Elon threw in a top eight,
Speaker 1: I'll on my Space onto Twitter? Would that be an improvement? Rule?
Speaker 1: And then the profile you remember, you get your own song,
Speaker 1: you get on your page. Yeah, my Space was peak
Speaker 1: peak for about but that's then then the whole world
Speaker 1: went to hell. Absolutely all right. Well, well, uh, we're
Speaker 1: gonna hope that Charch is feeling better and ready to
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