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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio.

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Speaker 1: Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from my Heart Radio,

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Speaker 1: your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation,

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Speaker 1: and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show.

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Speaker 1: Now here's your host. It's another edition of Fantasy Football Weekly.

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Speaker 1: I'm Paul charch In. My co host today Brian Johnson.

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Speaker 1: Welcome back. We did talk a little bit last last

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Speaker 1: episode about Stella. Our condolences. It's hard to lose a dog,

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Speaker 1: sure is. So anyone out there listening with a dog,

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Speaker 1: give it an extra pet for me. How about a

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Speaker 1: pat can I have a pet or a pat can.

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Speaker 1: I do both that pat treat walk. You know what

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Speaker 1: you're signing up when you buy the puppy. But it

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Speaker 1: doesn't make it hurt any less. When the time comes,

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Speaker 1: I don't want to get too into wicks. I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: get an emotional she had. She lived a long life,

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Speaker 1: thirteen and a half years. Uh. It really is arthritis

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Speaker 1: I mean, we did, you know, multi vitamin stuff like that.

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Speaker 1: But she balled hard too. I should have got a

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Speaker 1: calm down a little bit you know, the brain is

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Speaker 1: always thinking they're a puppy. But so it was tough,

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Speaker 1: but I appreciate the sentiment, and a lot of people

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Speaker 1: on Twitter too, very kind with the absolutely kind words.

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Speaker 1: So yeah, we're diving into the NFC North today. We've

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Speaker 1: broken down many of the divisions, not quite all of them,

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Speaker 1: and then the next three shows are dedicated to the draft.

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Speaker 1: We please have the Draft. I'm so ready for this draft,

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Speaker 1: Like it's been even more of an avalanche of just

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Speaker 1: like rookie takes that everyone's this guy is calmed to

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Speaker 1: this guy, and I'm so tired. That's every year, I

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Speaker 1: know it is, but this year is just even more

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Speaker 1: annoying than than years. I feel like, yeah, I'm ready

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Speaker 1: for the draft, are you? Um? It's there's lots to

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Speaker 1: talk about. We're going next week we'll hit on some

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Speaker 1: of our favorite players from this coming draft. A week

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Speaker 1: after that, we'll be recording on the Friday right after

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Speaker 1: the first round, so we'll talk about the first round

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Speaker 1: rookies and where they landed, and and the week after

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Speaker 1: that will do the rest of the draft for rounds

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Speaker 1: two through seven. I think people need to prepare themselves

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Speaker 1: that last year we were spoiled from a fantasy football perspective,

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Speaker 1: there were so many relevant fantasy players going in the

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Speaker 1: first especially round one this year. Well, yeah, probably running

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Speaker 1: back quarterbacks aren't there. There there's a chance that no

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Speaker 1: And you know, the quarterbacks don't look like their immediate

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Speaker 1: the receivers are going to be deep and um, well

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Speaker 1: the running backs. There are good running backs in this draft.

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Speaker 1: I think we have more good running backs in this draft.

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Speaker 1: We just don't have, you know, like that high first rounder.

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Speaker 1: You know, we don't have the se Kwan Barkley in

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Speaker 1: his rookie year or even a Naga Harris. And from

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Speaker 1: about workies next week. Let's look at the NFC North

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Speaker 1: and and the idea here. Like the other shows, we're

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Speaker 1: each one of the notable fantasy players and a reminder

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Speaker 1: for what they did and the one thing you really

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Speaker 1: need to remember for each one of these guys. Let's

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Speaker 1: start with the Chicago Bears, which to me is the

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Speaker 1: least interesting offense in this entire division, including the Lions. Yes,

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Speaker 1: speaking of teams that are going to draft a wide

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Speaker 1: Defensive coordinator for the Cults. So not too exciting from

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Speaker 1: Darnell Mooney as of right now. The wide receiver one

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Speaker 1: least this this season. So Darnell Mooney, I think we'll

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Speaker 1: to me. I think they have the draft Washington can't

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Speaker 1: that whole story. But so Byron Pringle you couldn't, then

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Speaker 1: a fantasy perspective. But Cole Commit should not be. Despite

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Speaker 1: his zero touchdowns last season. This is tight end Cole Committ,

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Speaker 1: I've been waiting to see flashes of something special from

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Speaker 1: don't know. I think there's there's some sneaky cool commitment.

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Speaker 1: of just been slipping. You know. I'm I've been a

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Speaker 1: You're more opten mistic about fields as a passer than

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Speaker 1: Charging Brian Johnson with you. Green Bay Packers offense is

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Speaker 1: I begin. I assume we're going to begin with Aaron Rodgers,

426
00:22:59,600 --> 00:23:02,359
Speaker 1: will skate him out of the way, but stock his

427
00:23:02,400 --> 00:23:06,560
Speaker 1: stock clearly falling after the Davante Adams trade U uh

428
00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:08,800
Speaker 1: in best fall right now. He's going around quarterback Elevin.

429
00:23:08,840 --> 00:23:11,960
Speaker 1: So you're seeing Matt Stafford, Tom Brady, those kind of

430
00:23:12,000 --> 00:23:14,840
Speaker 1: guys going well before Aaron Rodgers right now. And that's

431
00:23:14,840 --> 00:23:16,800
Speaker 1: because I mean, we're not gonna dive into Aaron Rodgers.

432
00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,399
Speaker 1: He's still an elite quarterback. He's great, but yeah, clearly

433
00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:21,920
Speaker 1: a downgrade without Davante Adams, and they're not going to

434
00:23:22,040 --> 00:23:25,639
Speaker 1: replace him, certainly, not with uh newly acquired Sammy Watkins,

435
00:23:26,160 --> 00:23:28,360
Speaker 1: um who really doesn't have an a DP right now.

436
00:23:28,400 --> 00:23:30,199
Speaker 1: That will that will likely change. I will say this,

437
00:23:30,359 --> 00:23:32,840
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw Watkins in my Week one DFS lineup

438
00:23:32,920 --> 00:23:36,480
Speaker 1: right now. That is usually how it goes for him.

439
00:23:36,480 --> 00:23:38,480
Speaker 1: I've been forgetting a good game and been forget he

440
00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,880
Speaker 1: exists after that, UM, nothing more than a late round

441
00:23:41,920 --> 00:23:44,040
Speaker 1: best ball flyer. He could prove me wrong, but I

442
00:23:44,040 --> 00:23:47,920
Speaker 1: don't know. He's a good blocking wide receiver. That's about it.

443
00:23:48,400 --> 00:23:52,000
Speaker 1: So many teams have needed Sammy Watkins to step up

444
00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:55,080
Speaker 1: and he never does it. Yeah, so that's it for

445
00:23:55,119 --> 00:23:58,920
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins the UM. We'll talk about two other receivers.

446
00:23:58,920 --> 00:24:01,320
Speaker 1: Of course, we'll talk Allen Zard, who right as of

447
00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:04,360
Speaker 1: right now is the wide receiver one for the Packers.

448
00:24:04,400 --> 00:24:05,960
Speaker 1: Can you guess? I want to get so many touchdowns

449
00:24:06,000 --> 00:24:08,040
Speaker 1: he caught last year, I think it's going to be

450
00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:12,000
Speaker 1: more than people think. Seven eight, which that's pretty good,

451
00:24:12,119 --> 00:24:14,399
Speaker 1: pretty good. Uh, but it's not pretty good. He's Uh

452
00:24:14,440 --> 00:24:17,760
Speaker 1: he owns the third highest drop percentage among wide receivers

453
00:24:17,760 --> 00:24:20,639
Speaker 1: over the last three years. Uh. So, as you said,

454
00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:23,880
Speaker 1: green Day, certainly, Well, we feel like we've been saying

455
00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:25,760
Speaker 1: this for years. They're gonna be drafting wide receivers, but

456
00:24:25,800 --> 00:24:28,879
Speaker 1: they better this year. They better be and not another

457
00:24:28,960 --> 00:24:31,959
Speaker 1: quarterback the run out of town if they walk out

458
00:24:32,000 --> 00:24:34,800
Speaker 1: of this draft without a meaningful selection at the wide

459
00:24:34,840 --> 00:24:40,000
Speaker 1: receiver position and clinging to being meaningful. Randall Cobb he

460
00:24:40,080 --> 00:24:43,040
Speaker 1: had his moments last year. Scored twice in two games,

461
00:24:43,359 --> 00:24:45,720
Speaker 1: but that accounted for eight of his touchdowns. He basically

462
00:24:45,760 --> 00:24:48,600
Speaker 1: had three good games. So no, Randall Cobb pretty much

463
00:24:48,640 --> 00:24:52,280
Speaker 1: dead to us from a fantasy perspective. Someone who's looking

464
00:24:52,320 --> 00:24:55,119
Speaker 1: to be resurrected from a fantasy perspective is tight end

465
00:24:55,200 --> 00:25:00,320
Speaker 1: Robert Touny In. Uh. The eleven touchdowns sure feels like

466
00:25:00,359 --> 00:25:03,320
Speaker 1: a long time ago. Uh for Tony In. A lot

467
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:05,680
Speaker 1: of people are buying back into the hype, and it's

468
00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:10,720
Speaker 1: basically because of the depleted receiver corps. Um. I'm more

469
00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,320
Speaker 1: on the skeptical side with with Tonyon though coming off

470
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:18,840
Speaker 1: the major a c L injury, Josiah Deguara was decent. Uh.

471
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,879
Speaker 1: Once Tony went down. Deguarra was a third round draft

472
00:25:21,880 --> 00:25:24,560
Speaker 1: pick two, so they have sunk some draft capital into

473
00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:27,520
Speaker 1: him Tony and went undrafted in seventeen by the way,

474
00:25:27,560 --> 00:25:31,080
Speaker 1: just saying, but uh, right around tight end seventeen. So

475
00:25:31,320 --> 00:25:33,440
Speaker 1: you're not risking too much right now with Tony there

476
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,320
Speaker 1: there is the upside there. Um, Aaron Rodgers doesn't have

477
00:25:36,359 --> 00:25:38,240
Speaker 1: a lot of people to throw too, and you assume

478
00:25:38,359 --> 00:25:42,080
Speaker 1: Rodgers is gonna throw for at least thirty thirty five

479
00:25:42,080 --> 00:25:46,600
Speaker 1: touchdowns and it's pretty much the top target, especially in

480
00:25:46,600 --> 00:25:49,919
Speaker 1: the red zone right now. So I'm still kind of

481
00:25:49,960 --> 00:25:52,400
Speaker 1: glass half empty on Tony and but we shall see there.

482
00:25:52,440 --> 00:25:54,240
Speaker 1: But he should be ready for the start of the

483
00:25:54,280 --> 00:25:56,840
Speaker 1: regular season, they're saying coming off the blown A C.

484
00:25:57,040 --> 00:25:59,800
Speaker 1: L um. And lastly, we gotta talk running backs of

485
00:26:00,119 --> 00:26:03,360
Speaker 1: was Aaron Jones and A J. Dillon as a team?

486
00:26:03,640 --> 00:26:06,680
Speaker 1: Green Bays running backs rushed for just ten touchdowns last year.

487
00:26:06,680 --> 00:26:10,119
Speaker 1: That was the bottom bottom third of the league. Jones

488
00:26:10,160 --> 00:26:13,080
Speaker 1: only had four of them. Uh. The Packers were tied

489
00:26:13,119 --> 00:26:16,240
Speaker 1: for the league leading running back receiving touchdowns with eight.

490
00:26:17,200 --> 00:26:19,119
Speaker 1: Jones had six of those. Gonna say it had to

491
00:26:19,119 --> 00:26:21,040
Speaker 1: be almost salt Jones. So he's kind of almost like

492
00:26:22,280 --> 00:26:24,840
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt right now, it feels like but running back

493
00:26:24,920 --> 00:26:28,520
Speaker 1: thirteen Uh is current a DP not getting drafted like that.

494
00:26:28,560 --> 00:26:32,240
Speaker 1: And yes, you'd assume all the receiving work went to Jones,

495
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:37,800
Speaker 1: but A J. Dillon thirty four catches yards, two receiving touchdowns,

496
00:26:37,800 --> 00:26:40,760
Speaker 1: Like wh he steals some receiving work. As you can

497
00:26:40,840 --> 00:26:44,520
Speaker 1: just imagine, he had more rushing yards and rushing touchdowns

498
00:26:44,760 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 1: than Aaron Jones. So Aaron Jones RB thirteen right now,

499
00:26:49,320 --> 00:26:53,199
Speaker 1: a J. Dillon RB. This is a situation and you

500
00:26:53,320 --> 00:26:56,040
Speaker 1: certainly are not going to be drafting Aaron Jones and

501
00:26:56,160 --> 00:27:00,480
Speaker 1: like cancuffing him to A J. Dillon because that's two

502
00:27:00,520 --> 00:27:03,479
Speaker 1: of your top six picks right there. So if I

503
00:27:03,480 --> 00:27:05,440
Speaker 1: gotta pick one, I'm gonna go with A J. Dillon

504
00:27:05,480 --> 00:27:07,680
Speaker 1: at the at the discount because I think you're paying.

505
00:27:07,680 --> 00:27:10,080
Speaker 1: I think it's a discount on Jones, who last year

506
00:27:10,080 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: went off the board at one running back five. Last

507
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:14,960
Speaker 1: year you said he's going off the board at thirteen.

508
00:27:15,400 --> 00:27:19,640
Speaker 1: This year. Offensive line was in disarray with injury all

509
00:27:19,840 --> 00:27:23,840
Speaker 1: last year. Everybody comes back healthy, right box trs back

510
00:27:23,960 --> 00:27:26,720
Speaker 1: Jenkins is back. This offensive line is gonna be good.

511
00:27:26,960 --> 00:27:29,679
Speaker 1: They don't have adequate receivers and the young kids that

512
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:32,320
Speaker 1: they are going to draft are gonna take time to

513
00:27:32,359 --> 00:27:36,200
Speaker 1: get better. This is gonna be a run first offense

514
00:27:36,359 --> 00:27:40,480
Speaker 1: for a lot of early next season. And I'm getting

515
00:27:40,520 --> 00:27:43,720
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get a last year's first rounder and Aaron

516
00:27:43,800 --> 00:27:47,800
Speaker 1: Jones in the third or fourth round. Third round running

517
00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:50,840
Speaker 1: back thirteen will be roughly the third round I'm interested

518
00:27:50,880 --> 00:27:55,119
Speaker 1: in buying at that price. He's really good. Also, he's

519
00:27:55,240 --> 00:28:00,800
Speaker 1: really good. I think he. Uh. I don't want to

520
00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:04,520
Speaker 1: jump to Calvin Ridley, who knows suspended for gambling. But Aaron.

521
00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:06,840
Speaker 1: You know, after that happened with Ridley, like all these

522
00:28:06,840 --> 00:28:10,800
Speaker 1: clips came out where people like we're basically insinuating that

523
00:28:10,840 --> 00:28:12,919
Speaker 1: he was shaving points because he like ran backwards a

524
00:28:12,920 --> 00:28:15,200
Speaker 1: little bit. Yeah, I remember that. Do you remember that

525
00:28:15,240 --> 00:28:19,119
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones playing the playoffs the long pass? I don't know,

526
00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:21,439
Speaker 1: late in the game, third or fourth quarter, he reeled

527
00:28:21,440 --> 00:28:24,080
Speaker 1: off like a seventy yard reception. He could have been

528
00:28:24,119 --> 00:28:26,800
Speaker 1: gone if he just went more to that, he like

529
00:28:27,000 --> 00:28:31,680
Speaker 1: kind of stopped and cut to the inside. Yeah. When

530
00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:33,760
Speaker 1: just when I saw that Ridley stuff, I was like, Aaron,

531
00:28:33,880 --> 00:28:36,159
Speaker 1: if anyone's gonna be pointing fingers, that's someone who was

532
00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:38,920
Speaker 1: potentially cheating. Was Aaron Jones just because of that play,

533
00:28:39,280 --> 00:28:41,120
Speaker 1: Just because of that play, they cost him the game

534
00:28:41,280 --> 00:28:43,880
Speaker 1: or a chance to win that game. Legally, we are

535
00:28:43,920 --> 00:28:47,200
Speaker 1: not making any accusations of cheating for Aaron Jones. Let's

536
00:28:47,200 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 1: be clear about that. I'm sure, I'm sure as a

537
00:28:50,360 --> 00:28:53,160
Speaker 1: lawyer will be contacted. Probably, Yes, Let's go to the

538
00:28:53,160 --> 00:28:58,400
Speaker 1: Minnesota Vikings former Rams offensive coordinator, Kevin O'Connell takes over.

539
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:01,080
Speaker 1: He's got experience with Kirk since from their time together

540
00:29:01,120 --> 00:29:05,440
Speaker 1: in Washington. Highly personable, very smart. I had the opportunity

541
00:29:05,480 --> 00:29:08,600
Speaker 1: to interview him once. Incredibly handsome too. I know that

542
00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:11,600
Speaker 1: that's all handsome and the women are very excited people

543
00:29:11,840 --> 00:29:16,440
Speaker 1: in positions to to know. Tell me that he blew

544
00:29:16,560 --> 00:29:21,280
Speaker 1: away all the other coaching candidates that they interviewed with

545
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:27,040
Speaker 1: his understanding of offensive principles and even of the Vikings players,

546
00:29:27,080 --> 00:29:29,760
Speaker 1: which he had gotten clearly up to speed on, and

547
00:29:30,360 --> 00:29:35,040
Speaker 1: O'Connell's belief that he can immediately take the Vikings offense

548
00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,479
Speaker 1: to the next level. There was no there. O'Connell did

549
00:29:38,480 --> 00:29:41,680
Speaker 1: not equivocate whatsoever about rebuilding or anything else. He wanted

550
00:29:41,680 --> 00:29:45,000
Speaker 1: to take this existing offense and make it great. Any

551
00:29:45,040 --> 00:29:49,200
Speaker 1: concerned that he technically wasn't calling the plays in l A,

552
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:52,680
Speaker 1: you know, not necessarily did. He did call plays in Washington,

553
00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:54,440
Speaker 1: and it is a skill that you have that takes

554
00:29:54,480 --> 00:29:56,920
Speaker 1: some time to get to get better at. So but

555
00:29:56,960 --> 00:29:58,880
Speaker 1: he does have some experience there. I wish you were

556
00:29:58,920 --> 00:30:00,600
Speaker 1: a play caller, but that does I mean he can't

557
00:30:00,600 --> 00:30:02,920
Speaker 1: do it, and you know, we'll find out, and you

558
00:30:02,920 --> 00:30:05,720
Speaker 1: know he's learning from one of the really masterful play

559
00:30:05,720 --> 00:30:08,360
Speaker 1: callers of all times, so in Sean McVeigh. So I

560
00:30:08,760 --> 00:30:11,520
Speaker 1: think O'Connor will be okay. There we'll find out. Let's

561
00:30:11,520 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: talk Kirk Cousins. He's the top ten quarterback nobody ever

562
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:16,880
Speaker 1: wants to draft. He's the quarterback you settle for, and

563
00:30:16,920 --> 00:30:19,360
Speaker 1: then he just puts up top ten numbers. He finished

564
00:30:19,360 --> 00:30:23,400
Speaker 1: his quarterback nine last year, quarterback ten the year before that,

565
00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:28,320
Speaker 1: throwing thirty five and thirty three touchdowns. That two year

566
00:30:28,440 --> 00:30:34,240
Speaker 1: spike of productivity for Cousins coincides with Justin Jefferson. Yeah,

567
00:30:34,280 --> 00:30:36,760
Speaker 1: we'll talk about in just a minute. Minnesota has made

568
00:30:36,840 --> 00:30:39,240
Speaker 1: very few changes on offense, but they did plug one

569
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,360
Speaker 1: hole at right guard for Jesse Davis. Every places, Holy udo.

570
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:46,120
Speaker 1: The Vikings past protection has been ranked in the bottom

571
00:30:46,200 --> 00:30:49,600
Speaker 1: six by Pro Football Focus every year. Kirk Cousins has

572
00:30:49,600 --> 00:30:52,960
Speaker 1: been here hoping the Vikings as a Viking fan, hoping

573
00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:56,560
Speaker 1: the Vikings end up shoring up their past protection in

574
00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:59,440
Speaker 1: the draft. Um and least sie I'll mention with Mike

575
00:30:59,520 --> 00:31:03,200
Speaker 1: Zimmers run heavy approach now gone, you know, Cousins should

576
00:31:03,200 --> 00:31:05,400
Speaker 1: see quite a few more attempts. You know, I could

577
00:31:05,400 --> 00:31:10,280
Speaker 1: see ten percent more attempts, more attempts, and that could

578
00:31:10,360 --> 00:31:14,840
Speaker 1: unlock you know, QB six Upside and Kirk Cousins. Potentially

579
00:31:14,960 --> 00:31:17,720
Speaker 1: things go right and you're gonna get to all these guys.

580
00:31:17,720 --> 00:31:22,520
Speaker 1: But I mean, he's never had a healthy Jefferson feeling

581
00:31:23,520 --> 00:31:25,360
Speaker 1: kJ oswe who was healthy, but he was a rookie

582
00:31:25,440 --> 00:31:28,720
Speaker 1: last year. Smith and Dalvin Cook's always been like, get

583
00:31:28,760 --> 00:31:32,160
Speaker 1: all those guys on the field for pretty dangerous offense.

584
00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,800
Speaker 1: But everybody's when everybody's healthy. You know who has never

585
00:31:34,840 --> 00:31:37,920
Speaker 1: missed a game in two years. Justin Jefferson wide receiver

586
00:31:38,080 --> 00:31:42,000
Speaker 1: five last year, played the full season, finished second in

587
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:46,280
Speaker 1: receiving yards, and even with Adam Field absorbing all his

588
00:31:46,320 --> 00:31:48,360
Speaker 1: touchdowns we'll talk more about that in a minute, Jefferson

589
00:31:48,360 --> 00:31:51,040
Speaker 1: found his way to ten touchdowns of his own in

590
00:31:51,080 --> 00:31:57,400
Speaker 1: the first two years. Justin Jefferson has three thousand receiving

591
00:31:57,480 --> 00:32:02,080
Speaker 1: yards in his rookie and off more years. There is

592
00:32:02,080 --> 00:32:05,560
Speaker 1: no downside with Jefferson. He is a you know's going

593
00:32:05,560 --> 00:32:07,200
Speaker 1: off the board in the second round right now. I

594
00:32:07,240 --> 00:32:09,760
Speaker 1: think you just make that pick with the confidence to

595
00:32:09,800 --> 00:32:11,960
Speaker 1: know you've got your wide receiver one for the rest

596
00:32:12,000 --> 00:32:13,240
Speaker 1: of the year and you can plug him in and

597
00:32:13,280 --> 00:32:16,160
Speaker 1: play him. Yeah, it's it's it's no apparent downside whatsoever

598
00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,680
Speaker 1: from Justin Jefferson. It's cup and then he People are

599
00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,560
Speaker 1: assigning between Jamar Chase and jeff Justin Jefferson basically, and

600
00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:25,160
Speaker 1: I would take Jefferson and I have in personally. Jefferson

601
00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: gives you the game by game consistency. Chase gives you

602
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:33,400
Speaker 1: the blow up game prospects might depend on if you're

603
00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: in Best Baller, if you're in a standard league. Let's

604
00:32:36,040 --> 00:32:40,680
Speaker 1: talk Feeling. He played twelve healthy games last year. You

605
00:32:40,680 --> 00:32:43,000
Speaker 1: know what he his wide receiver rank was through those

606
00:32:43,040 --> 00:32:48,680
Speaker 1: first twelve weeks, Top ten, keep going, top eight, keep

607
00:32:48,720 --> 00:32:53,160
Speaker 1: going six four ide receiver for a while. When Adam

608
00:32:53,200 --> 00:32:55,960
Speaker 1: Feel went down, he was I knew you wouldn't and

609
00:32:56,000 --> 00:33:01,160
Speaker 1: nobody does. Uh. He he got ten touchdowns those twelve games.

610
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:06,240
Speaker 1: He um get this. Over the last two years, from

611
00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:11,280
Speaker 1: inside the ten yard line, Adam Theeland has been targeted

612
00:33:11,600 --> 00:33:17,640
Speaker 1: twenty one times. He's caught nineteen of the twenty one

613
00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:22,040
Speaker 1: passes for sixteen touchdowns. This is just inside the ten

614
00:33:22,120 --> 00:33:27,560
Speaker 1: yard line. Feeling is the league's most efficient goal line receiver.

615
00:33:28,280 --> 00:33:30,560
Speaker 1: The only one who's comparable and I'm going to guess

616
00:33:30,560 --> 00:33:33,960
Speaker 1: he's slightly inferior in this regard is Davante Adams. Adams

617
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:36,800
Speaker 1: has more volume and Parpecauseland missed this, you know, the

618
00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:39,560
Speaker 1: final third of the season last year. Um, but not

619
00:33:39,680 --> 00:33:43,400
Speaker 1: the efficiency. I mean Theeland catches everything that's thrown to

620
00:33:43,520 --> 00:33:48,120
Speaker 1: him inside the ten yard line. Unbelievably productive for the

621
00:33:48,160 --> 00:33:50,760
Speaker 1: other receiver for the Vikings to talk about is Irv

622
00:33:50,800 --> 00:33:53,600
Speaker 1: Smith tight end flashed at the end of the twenty

623
00:33:53,760 --> 00:33:57,320
Speaker 1: twenty season. Brian and he rolled into last year with

624
00:33:57,320 --> 00:33:59,000
Speaker 1: a lot of hope and a lot of optimism, but

625
00:33:59,000 --> 00:34:01,240
Speaker 1: then he missed the whole year with meniscus knee injury,

626
00:34:01,360 --> 00:34:04,920
Speaker 1: and um, now he enters his fourth year. But he's

627
00:34:04,920 --> 00:34:07,360
Speaker 1: still only twenty three years old, and going into his

628
00:34:07,480 --> 00:34:10,440
Speaker 1: fourth season, they're gonna be rookies hitting the field that

629
00:34:10,480 --> 00:34:13,759
Speaker 1: are twenty three years old. And there's the expectation now

630
00:34:13,800 --> 00:34:17,359
Speaker 1: with Tyler Conklin gone, that er Smith will take over

631
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:20,440
Speaker 1: as the team's full time starter. There's no competition for

632
00:34:20,480 --> 00:34:23,759
Speaker 1: the job. This is er Smith's job right now. Some

633
00:34:23,840 --> 00:34:26,200
Speaker 1: talk here in Minnesota the Kyle Rudolph could come back

634
00:34:26,239 --> 00:34:29,440
Speaker 1: at some point um, but it would probably be as

635
00:34:29,440 --> 00:34:31,799
Speaker 1: a backup and maybe a goal line role, but that

636
00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:35,160
Speaker 1: would probably be it the Vikings um with the Vikings

637
00:34:35,160 --> 00:34:39,040
Speaker 1: really only having Jefferson and Theland to throw to kg

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Speaker 1: Osborne a little bit. You know, er Smith could get

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Speaker 1: a significant number targets. He could be sitting on a

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Speaker 1: sixty seventy targets season. Back to Theland, you would be

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Speaker 1: you would be six year stomach. I guess to put

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Speaker 1: it that way, knowing where he's getting drafted right now,

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Speaker 1: major major discount twenty five, it might be a little high.

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Speaker 1: Other than that, mid to late twenties, even early thirties.

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Speaker 1: Like I mentioned, Darnielle Mooney was our wide receiver thirty two.

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Speaker 1: I think I'm seeing Mooney going before Theeld. Well, that's ridiculous.

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Speaker 1: I know, jeez, I've been pouncing Dalvin Cook. You know

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Speaker 1: exactly what you're gonna get from Dalvin Cook. At this point.

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Speaker 1: He is a lock RB one, incredibly dependable except for

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Speaker 1: the games he misses completely, but regardless of his status

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Speaker 1: going into the game, if he's hobbled, if he's questionable,

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Speaker 1: he just produces and when he suits up or when

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Speaker 1: he's suited up. I mean they just they run him,

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Speaker 1: saw him. Do you think that changes? Now? It's possible

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Speaker 1: that you know that Kevin O'Connell will not maybe use

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Speaker 1: him the same way or not as much. I think

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Speaker 1: O'Connell's twist on the offense probably means a slight decrease

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Speaker 1: in total carries for Cook, but considering how banged up,

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Speaker 1: because you know, maybe he's healthier and more efficient on

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Speaker 1: a few fewer carries, that's possible. I don't believe Alexander

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Speaker 1: Madison's role really changes. You know, he's a guy that

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Speaker 1: he's just a handcuff. You you never start him otherwise,

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Speaker 1: and I don't. Madison just doesn't pop off the tape

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Speaker 1: the way that Dalvin Cook does. Cook it when healthy,

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Speaker 1: is a very special runner. Madison really is not. So

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Speaker 1: you know what you're getting in Dalvin Cook currently going

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Speaker 1: into first round in most fantasy drafts roughly RB seven.

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Speaker 1: Talk a little gambling. This might be the most wide

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Speaker 1: open division in the NFL when it comes to who

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Speaker 1: is the favorite, you know, like who could win it? Yeah?

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Speaker 1: His favorite? But I don't get right. I mean, you know,

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Speaker 1: defense got in part gutted and loss of several key

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Speaker 1: players in defense, several on offense. It's just Aaron Rodgers

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Speaker 1: and the and the perception that the rest of the

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Speaker 1: division is weak. Um, but that's replaying a lot of

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Speaker 1: last year, where I think the Vikings looked worse than

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Speaker 1: they probably really are and probably get better. I already

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Speaker 1: told you I think the Lions could double their win total,

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Speaker 1: so you know then I don't I don't care for

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Speaker 1: the Bears, but yeah, there's uh, this could be a

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Speaker 1: little bit more wide open, a little tighter race than

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Speaker 1: people think. Thanks for listening Fasty Football Weekly. We appreciate

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Speaker 1: you getting to the end of it as always. UM,

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Speaker 1: thank you for all of the chocolate chip cookies from

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Speaker 1: a few weeks ago, everybody that was That was a

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Speaker 1: lot of fun for the faithful that got to the end.

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Speaker 1: We'll turn our attention to rookies beginning next week. We'll

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Speaker 1: talk about some of our favorite players. Two weeks until

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Speaker 1: the draft, right and two weeks two weeks from now,

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Speaker 1: we'll be talking about the first round in the books.

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Speaker 1: It's a big stretch for me. I do the Thursday

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Speaker 1: night live draft party US Bank Stadium for the Vikings.

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Speaker 1: Then I have the Friday morning radio show and then

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Speaker 1: we come in here and we talk talk about talk

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Speaker 1: about the draft as well. I'll be worse and parched,

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Speaker 1: but remind me, it's it's just round one on Thursday, right,

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Speaker 1: and then two and three Friday. Yeah. Remember the olden

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Speaker 1: days when the time started probably noon, but yeah, and

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Speaker 1: then it was just run. Yeah, that's kind of is that.

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Speaker 1: I do too, because it was the weekend. Man, I

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Speaker 1: just hit the couch and never moved for the whole weekend.

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Speaker 1: It's great. That was great. They I'd like to go

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Speaker 1: back to that. I understand why they parcel it out.

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Speaker 1: It's more attention, It draws it all longer and everything.

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Speaker 1: But they want to be in primetime. That's a huge

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Speaker 1: part of it as well. It's a in fact, it's

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Speaker 1: a massive part of it as being on primetime Thursday

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Speaker 1: night Friday night rather than weekend TV programming, which frankly

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Speaker 1: they just can't charge as much for. That's all. It's all,

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Speaker 1: but it all comes back to the money. Thanks everybody,

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