WEBVTT - Restore the Roar 0:00:00.440 --> 0:00:04.160 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:06.240 --> 0:00:09.600 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from my Heart Radio, 0:00:09.880 --> 0:00:14.280 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, 0:00:14.440 --> 0:00:17.280 and whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. 0:00:17.760 --> 0:00:24.480 Now here's your host. It's another edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:28.160 I'm Paul charch In. My co host today Brian Johnson. 0:00:28.240 --> 0:00:31.920 Welcome back. We did talk a little bit last last 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:35.920 episode about Stella. Our condolences. It's hard to lose a dog, 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:39.840 sure is. So anyone out there listening with a dog, 0:00:40.640 --> 0:00:43.120 give it an extra pet for me. How about a 0:00:43.120 --> 0:00:45.000 pat can I have a pet or a pat can. 0:00:45.000 --> 0:00:48.519 I do both that pat treat walk. You know what 0:00:48.560 --> 0:00:50.960 you're signing up when you buy the puppy. But it 0:00:51.000 --> 0:00:53.040 doesn't make it hurt any less. When the time comes, 0:00:53.080 --> 0:00:54.760 I don't want to get too into wicks. I'm gonna 0:00:54.760 --> 0:00:57.320 get an emotional she had. She lived a long life, 0:00:57.440 --> 0:01:00.880 thirteen and a half years. Uh. It really is arthritis 0:01:00.920 --> 0:01:04.440 that did her in. So get ahead of that game. So, 0:01:04.680 --> 0:01:08.120 I mean, we did, you know, multi vitamin stuff like that. 0:01:08.200 --> 0:01:11.400 But she balled hard too. I should have got a 0:01:11.400 --> 0:01:14.440 calm down a little bit you know, the brain is 0:01:14.440 --> 0:01:16.640 always thinking they're a puppy. But so it was tough, 0:01:16.680 --> 0:01:19.679 but I appreciate the sentiment, and a lot of people 0:01:19.720 --> 0:01:23.680 on Twitter too, very kind with the absolutely kind words. 0:01:23.720 --> 0:01:28.160 So yeah, we're diving into the NFC North today. We've 0:01:28.160 --> 0:01:30.679 broken down many of the divisions, not quite all of them, 0:01:30.720 --> 0:01:33.560 and then the next three shows are dedicated to the draft. 0:01:34.040 --> 0:01:36.479 We please have the Draft. I'm so ready for this draft, 0:01:37.080 --> 0:01:39.560 Like it's been even more of an avalanche of just 0:01:39.640 --> 0:01:43.880 like rookie takes that everyone's this guy is calmed to 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:46.200 this guy, and I'm so tired. That's every year, I 0:01:46.200 --> 0:01:47.840 know it is, but this year is just even more 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:50.640 annoying than than years. I feel like, yeah, I'm ready 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:53.480 for the draft, are you? Um? It's there's lots to 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:55.560 talk about. We're going next week we'll hit on some 0:01:55.640 --> 0:01:59.240 of our favorite players from this coming draft. A week 0:01:59.280 --> 0:02:02.720 after that, we'll be recording on the Friday right after 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:04.640 the first round, so we'll talk about the first round 0:02:04.720 --> 0:02:07.120 rookies and where they landed, and and the week after 0:02:07.120 --> 0:02:08.880 that will do the rest of the draft for rounds 0:02:08.880 --> 0:02:11.480 two through seven. I think people need to prepare themselves 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:14.880 that last year we were spoiled from a fantasy football perspective, 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:18.680 there were so many relevant fantasy players going in the 0:02:18.720 --> 0:02:24.280 first especially round one this year. Well, yeah, probably running 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:29.160 back quarterbacks aren't there. There there's a chance that no 0:02:29.280 --> 0:02:32.280 quarterback goes for the first like eight picks of this draft. 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:34.480 And you know, the quarterbacks don't look like their immediate 0:02:34.480 --> 0:02:39.320 fantasy No, no tight end, no tight end. And but 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:43.119 the receivers are going to be deep and um, well 0:02:43.280 --> 0:02:45.760 the running backs. There are good running backs in this draft. 0:02:45.840 --> 0:02:49.040 I think we have more good running backs in this draft. 0:02:49.080 --> 0:02:52.760 We just don't have, you know, like that high first rounder. 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:54.920 You know, we don't have the se Kwan Barkley in 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:57.000 his rookie year or even a Naga Harris. And from 0:02:57.160 --> 0:02:59.960 receiver stand no, no Jamar Chase definitely not a jam 0:03:00.000 --> 0:03:05.799 aren't chasing this draft. I don't think, probably not hopefully 0:03:06.040 --> 0:03:07.720 might have been Williams if he did. We're coming off 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:10.359 on a c L so, but we'll talk. We'll talk 0:03:10.360 --> 0:03:12.839 about workies next week. Let's look at the NFC North 0:03:12.880 --> 0:03:15.280 and and the idea here. Like the other shows, we're 0:03:15.280 --> 0:03:18.280 going to talk a little bit about we'll hit on 0:03:18.320 --> 0:03:23.520 each one of the notable fantasy players and a reminder 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:25.360 for what they did and the one thing you really 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:27.359 need to remember for each one of these guys. Let's 0:03:27.360 --> 0:03:30.960 start with the Chicago Bears, which to me is the 0:03:31.080 --> 0:03:35.200 least interesting offense in this entire division, including the Lions. Yes, 0:03:35.280 --> 0:03:37.520 speaking of teams that are going to draft a wide 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.760 receiver or to the Bears of people, and we'll talk 0:03:39.760 --> 0:03:41.960 about that position in a minute. A new head coach 0:03:42.000 --> 0:03:43.680 for the Bears to get that out of the wake, 0:03:43.760 --> 0:03:47.240 like no more Matt Naggy finally and he was a 0:03:47.280 --> 0:03:50.360 dead man walk in all the eight seventeen plus a 0:03:50.360 --> 0:03:55.640 bye week. Yeah, Matt. Ever flus is it fluce or flush? 0:03:55.840 --> 0:03:58.880 Defensive coordinator for the Cults. So not too exciting from 0:03:58.880 --> 0:04:00.720 an offensive prospect to there, But they will have a 0:04:00.760 --> 0:04:04.400 new offensive coordinator to Luke gets saying he will run 0:04:04.440 --> 0:04:08.560 a Shanahan style offense with a heavy emphasis on play action. 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:11.800 So let's be quarterback friendly. So I'm liking the prospects 0:04:11.800 --> 0:04:15.560 for Justin Fields going into his sophomore year. Only appeared 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:18.880 in twelve games last year, but only started in ten, 0:04:19.440 --> 0:04:23.320 still finished fifth in rushing yards among quarterbacks. Didn't get 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:24.680 to see a lot of him by the way, they 0:04:24.680 --> 0:04:27.880 didn't even unlock the rushing They let him rush for 0:04:27.960 --> 0:04:29.960 you know, until like I don't know, Thanksgiving. He was 0:04:30.040 --> 0:04:32.400 the guy barely ever ran I think, and when he did, 0:04:32.400 --> 0:04:34.240 he was really just running for his life behind that 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:37.640 awful offensive line, which we'll talk about two in a moment. 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:39.920 But we didn't get to see a ton from him 0:04:39.920 --> 0:04:43.520 in the passing game, only top thirty pass attempts three times. 0:04:44.040 --> 0:04:46.520 But when he did throw the ball, he could throw 0:04:46.560 --> 0:04:48.600 the long ball. It seamed he was accurate. I think 0:04:48.600 --> 0:04:52.159 he has all the tools uh to be successful reality 0:04:52.200 --> 0:04:55.400 and fantasy quarterback and right now a quarterback seventeen and 0:04:55.520 --> 0:04:58.800 Redraft best ball formats. That's a screaming value for a 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:03.400 guy that has running outside, running upside and um his weapons. 0:05:04.160 --> 0:05:06.320 I think they should have held onto Allen Robinson. He 0:05:06.400 --> 0:05:08.600 has gone, as we all know, on the Rams now, 0:05:08.640 --> 0:05:12.520 so Darnell Mooney. No way Robinson was even going to stay, 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:17.600 no chance, there's nothing the change and head coach. I mean, 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:19.479 he was dinged up last year. It wasn't like that 0:05:19.680 --> 0:05:22.839 he was played a full season. And anyway, he's gone. 0:05:22.920 --> 0:05:26.320 Darnell Mooney as of right now. The wide receiver one 0:05:26.400 --> 0:05:29.320 for the Bears last season. He was one of sixteen 0:05:29.520 --> 0:05:32.320 wide receivers with more than eighty catches and one thousand 0:05:32.400 --> 0:05:35.520 yards put up some pretty impressive numbers. With Andy, Andy 0:05:35.600 --> 0:05:39.720 Dalton and UH rookie Justin Fields, Mooney has forced twenty 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:43.800 seven four UH. Mooney has twenty seven forced miss tackles 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:46.880 on receptions since entering the league in twenty that's tied 0:05:46.920 --> 0:05:49.520 for seventh among wide receivers in that span. So he's 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:51.800 a playmaker. And uh, right now he's going off the 0:05:51.800 --> 0:05:54.120 board at wide receiver thirty two, which is way too 0:05:54.200 --> 0:05:56.720 late in my opinion. I mean, even if they go 0:05:56.800 --> 0:05:58.880 after a big name wide wide receiver, which I think 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:01.159 they will, he's still gonna be the top option at 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:04.840 least this this season. So Darnell Mooney, I think we'll 0:06:04.839 --> 0:06:08.200 see him climbing. Uh. His a DP will be climbing 0:06:08.240 --> 0:06:09.760 as we get deeper into the summer. But right now 0:06:09.760 --> 0:06:11.800 he's going way too late in my opinion. And and 0:06:11.880 --> 0:06:14.039 now for the rest of the wide receivers, as I 0:06:14.080 --> 0:06:17.279 said multiple times, they're even Draft one or two, possibly 0:06:17.320 --> 0:06:20.039 make a trade Terry mcclorin makes a lot of sense 0:06:20.080 --> 0:06:22.440 to me. I think they have the draft Washington can't 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:26.280 afford to lose him. Well, Washington can't afford a lot 0:06:26.320 --> 0:06:29.000 of things. Ver we will, we will get into into 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:33.000 that whole story. But so Byron Pringle you couldn't, then 0:06:33.680 --> 0:06:37.400 I'm gonna let's stumb all that name you Quinn I 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:41.200 always started off wrong. Equanimius st Brown, the other two 0:06:41.240 --> 0:06:43.520 wide receivers that we're just not gonna talk about on 0:06:43.560 --> 0:06:46.080 the pot. I like, I like Pringle in Kansas City, 0:06:46.080 --> 0:06:48.280 but I he's not going to carry an offense by 0:06:48.279 --> 0:06:50.520 any means. No. Yeah, he was much more interesting as 0:06:50.640 --> 0:06:53.160 a chief. So he's pretty much dead to us from 0:06:53.160 --> 0:06:56.360 a fantasy perspective. But Cole Commit should not be. Despite 0:06:56.400 --> 0:06:59.760 his zero touchdowns last season. This is tight end Cole Committ, 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:03.600 of course. Uh. Commit was one of nine touchdown nine 0:07:03.640 --> 0:07:06.480 tight ends with at least sixty catches and six hundred 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.960 yards put up great numbers in those regards, and of 0:07:09.000 --> 0:07:12.960 course the corpse of Jimmy Graham was stealing opportunities. Uh. 0:07:13.080 --> 0:07:15.920 Fourteen catches, one one hundred and sixty seven yards, three 0:07:15.920 --> 0:07:18.600 touchdowns for Graham. Uh, he should not be getting those 0:07:18.680 --> 0:07:22.720 numbers this year. He gone so Uh it's amazing Commit 0:07:22.760 --> 0:07:26.400 didn't score, given that the Chicago through the UH the 0:07:26.440 --> 0:07:28.200 ball to their tight ends over forty percent at the 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:30.840 time in the red zone, his red zone target share 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:34.320 was um going off the board is tight end fifteen 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:36.880 right now. I think there's definitely top ten potential here. 0:07:37.840 --> 0:07:41.920 Don't know, I'm a fan. UM. I think he's there's 0:07:41.920 --> 0:07:44.880 gonna be positive touchdown regression, just like with dile pits. 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:47.480 You know there is. I mean, he'll score more than zero. 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:50.160 You're right about that, But I know I have just 0:07:50.280 --> 0:07:53.640 I've been waiting to see flashes of something special from 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:57.760 Cole commit and I just I haven't seen it yet, 0:07:57.800 --> 0:08:00.360 nothing that really validates the draft position. And he was 0:08:00.400 --> 0:08:03.679 taken into this point. Now, that is a position that's 0:08:03.720 --> 0:08:07.480 always slow to develop. And the year three year threes, 0:08:07.600 --> 0:08:10.200 you know that that's year three is commonly a breakout 0:08:10.240 --> 0:08:12.360 season for tight ends. But I think that's already baked 0:08:12.360 --> 0:08:16.080 into his fifteen a DP at tight end because he 0:08:16.080 --> 0:08:19.200 hasn't performed anywhere near fifteen. He hasn't performed hear thirty 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:22.440 to this point. So I think that's already baked into, 0:08:22.600 --> 0:08:25.560 baked into his average draft position. Brian feeling like a 0:08:26.520 --> 0:08:29.280 It's like this season's Dawson knocks something like that. I 0:08:29.280 --> 0:08:33.280 don't know. I think there's there's some sneaky cool commitment. 0:08:33.640 --> 0:08:34.960 We got to see what they do in the draft, 0:08:34.960 --> 0:08:37.080 of course, because they will be adding to that wide 0:08:37.120 --> 0:08:40.640 receiver group. Started the running backs, Yeah, David Montgomery closed 0:08:41.360 --> 0:08:44.400 one very strong for rushing touchdowns. Over his last six games. 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:47.000 He caught at least five passes in four of those 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.280 six games, so I looked like a true bell cow 0:08:49.400 --> 0:08:51.640 there On the season as a whole, the only average 0:08:51.679 --> 0:08:53.600 three point eight yards per carry. But again, that old 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:57.120 line was very bad. Um where is the Bears are 0:08:57.120 --> 0:09:00.240 willing to spend uh three? They have three pitch since 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:03.360 at the top seventy one they might go offensive line, 0:09:03.360 --> 0:09:06.680 offensive line, offensive line there Uh they're saying that's a possibility. 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:09.120 I'm sure they'll take at least one wide receiver. And 0:09:09.200 --> 0:09:11.480 the defense is old too. They need to address a 0:09:11.800 --> 0:09:16.360 variety of spots on defense too, So David Montgomery, he's 0:09:16.360 --> 0:09:18.960 going in best Paul right now. RB twenty one seems 0:09:19.040 --> 0:09:21.840 a little late. Khalil Herbert is somewhat of a concern. 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:24.560 He looked good when given the opportunity. He's going at 0:09:24.640 --> 0:09:27.880 RB forty seven, And that's kind of a I don't want. 0:09:27.880 --> 0:09:29.680 I don't want both of those guys. They're too close. 0:09:29.679 --> 0:09:35.839 I wouldn't handcuff them. Yeah no, yeah, back, he's kind 0:09:35.840 --> 0:09:38.480 of just been slipping. You know. I'm I've been a 0:09:38.520 --> 0:09:41.079 bit of a degenerate this year. I've been drafted since 0:09:41.160 --> 0:09:44.400 January and he's gone from like RB fifteen into the 0:09:44.440 --> 0:09:47.160 early twenties as people are certainly like the rookies a 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.840 little more. But uh yeah, I'm buying Montgomery at that price, 0:09:49.960 --> 0:09:53.160 especially how he closed um only looked great and if 0:09:53.160 --> 0:09:56.400 they improved that offensive line justin fields and year two, 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:59.360 I think there's a some sneaky upside in this offense. 0:09:59.400 --> 0:10:01.680 You're more opten mistic about fields as a passer than 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:04.600 I am. I do agree with that he can throw 0:10:04.640 --> 0:10:07.319 a nice deep ball. It's the rest of his game 0:10:07.360 --> 0:10:09.560 that I'm not crazy about. As a passer. I saw 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:12.880 slow decision making. I saw a lot of inaccuracy. I'm 0:10:13.160 --> 0:10:17.400 nervous about his overall passing skills. But you said that 0:10:17.440 --> 0:10:21.360 about other guys to you write Lamar Jackson in the past. Yeah, well, 0:10:21.400 --> 0:10:23.800 and you know, Lamar has also been an inconsistent passer. 0:10:23.960 --> 0:10:26.520 But if You're running is good enough, then it doesn't 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:30.240 even necessarily matter that much. Taking the rookie, rookie and 0:10:30.240 --> 0:10:33.680 sophomore quarterbacks, just from a fantasy perspective, who would you 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:37.120 want out of all those guys? I mean, so Trevor Lawrence, 0:10:37.559 --> 0:10:42.280 Zack Wilson, Justin Fields, Back Jones, Zack Jones, or any 0:10:42.320 --> 0:10:45.360 of the rookies this year. I think it's Fields for me. 0:10:46.000 --> 0:10:48.800 For the rushing. It might be, it might be Davis 0:10:48.800 --> 0:10:52.520 Mills might end a promoch, how dare I who knows 0:10:52.840 --> 0:10:55.520 it's possible. We're big Davis Mills guys. You know who 0:10:55.520 --> 0:10:58.839 I'm I'm a big fan of is Dan Campbell and 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:01.079 the Lions. Lions of I think I think if you 0:11:01.080 --> 0:11:02.599 asked me right now to just pick the team that 0:11:02.640 --> 0:11:05.200 I think we most improved for win total, I think 0:11:05.200 --> 0:11:08.640 it's Alliance and they're on hard knocks. Can't wait for that. 0:11:09.600 --> 0:11:11.800 You know, here's the thing about Campbell and Alliance. They 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:16.400 played hard virtually every game, even with so many things 0:11:16.480 --> 0:11:19.840 wrong last year, all of the injuries, the long, long, 0:11:19.880 --> 0:11:22.679 long time it took to get that first win, it was, 0:11:22.760 --> 0:11:24.360 you know, and then they got the tie, and you know, 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:27.120 then eventually they got the win, and it was a 0:11:27.200 --> 0:11:29.320 brutal season, but they played hard all the time, and 0:11:29.440 --> 0:11:34.280 they won games down the stretch, playing with off the 0:11:34.440 --> 0:11:39.160 street cornerbacks and wide receivers. And if that's you know, 0:11:39.160 --> 0:11:43.160 if they're gonna play that hard with a team that's 0:11:43.160 --> 0:11:44.959 got all the draft picks that the Lions have got 0:11:45.000 --> 0:11:48.720 coming in and they get a healthy offense, I'm interested 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.600 in the Lions, you know, you know, perhaps getting into 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:55.520 the seven eight win territory range, which is to me 0:11:55.679 --> 0:11:58.040 very possible. I'm with you, all right, let's talk about 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:00.600 this offense, beginning with Jared Goff when you're removed by 0:12:00.600 --> 0:12:02.480 the way, So last year was bad year for him, clearly. 0:12:03.280 --> 0:12:06.559 The year before that he was quarterback fourteen. Now, granted 0:12:06.600 --> 0:12:08.600 he's on the Rams and Cooper Cup to throw too 0:12:08.720 --> 0:12:12.599 and Robert Hoods, but really everything went wrong. He was 0:12:12.720 --> 0:12:15.080 hurt last year. All his receivers were hurt. He had 0:12:15.120 --> 0:12:18.280 to learn a new system. And you probably don't remember this, 0:12:18.679 --> 0:12:23.320 but it all started to click for Jared Goff after Thanksgiving, 0:12:24.200 --> 0:12:26.200 despite all the receivers that were down at the end 0:12:26.240 --> 0:12:29.840 of the year. In his final five games, he threw 0:12:29.840 --> 0:12:34.520 eleven touchdowns against two picks. Jared Goff. That's two touchdowns 0:12:34.520 --> 0:12:38.680 a game, multiple touchdowns and four of those five games, 0:12:38.720 --> 0:12:41.880 final five games of the year for Jared Goff, I 0:12:41.960 --> 0:12:45.120 was impressed. Like a top twelve quarterback. Then in the third, 0:12:45.200 --> 0:12:47.480 last third of the season, he probably was a top 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.080 twelve last third of the season. Not many weapons at 0:12:50.080 --> 0:12:54.400 his disposal, No, um, his weapons begin with I'm on 0:12:54.720 --> 0:12:57.160 i'm on ross st Brown. Everybody else got hurt, and 0:12:57.200 --> 0:12:59.439 then st. Brown became the focal point of the passing 0:12:59.480 --> 0:13:02.760 game and he delivered the goods. He was a beast. 0:13:03.640 --> 0:13:06.880 His per game averages for I'm on ros St Brown 0:13:06.960 --> 0:13:09.640 over the final six starts and again those were those 0:13:09.679 --> 0:13:15.000 were Those are Jared Goff games, not Tim Boil games. Uh. 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:19.839 Eleven targets, eleven targets per game, eight and a half receptions, 0:13:20.240 --> 0:13:24.200 nine three yards and just under a full touchdown per game. 0:13:25.480 --> 0:13:30.480 That was Jamaar Chase's season that I'm on Brown had 0:13:30.640 --> 0:13:33.760 in the final six games of last year. Yeah, I 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:36.520 mean it was Cooper Cup, Deebo Samuel and I'm on 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:39.679 ros St Brown carrying people of the fantasy change in 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.320 order right and most in the same level you could, 0:13:42.480 --> 0:13:44.360 you know, and people were picking up I'm on Ross 0:13:44.360 --> 0:13:47.240 st Brown in late October early November because he had 0:13:47.280 --> 0:13:50.280 done nothing, didn't score. He didn't score it all until 0:13:50.360 --> 0:13:53.760 I think about week thirteen was his first touchdown. Now, 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:57.000 the catch for all of this is, well, they didn't 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:59.000 else to throw too, so that's what the e on 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:02.000 the eleven targets per game. But let's not take away 0:14:02.000 --> 0:14:05.280 from the fact that st Brown made good on the 0:14:05.280 --> 0:14:07.800 eleven targets a game. He was catching eight and a 0:14:07.840 --> 0:14:10.640 half per game, so it's if he needed to carry 0:14:10.679 --> 0:14:15.120 the load, he could. Detractors will say, great, but here 0:14:15.120 --> 0:14:17.719 comes t J. Hockenson backup injury. Here comes d J. 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:20.600 Chark who they brought in, and you know how much 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:25.080 does Aman Rob st Brown's target load go down? And 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:28.800 DeAndre Swift Sure, although he played he on and off 0:14:28.840 --> 0:14:31.520 throughout last year too, but yes, and he'll siphon off 0:14:31.600 --> 0:14:34.200 some receptions as well. All Right, so let's talk about 0:14:34.200 --> 0:14:36.960 the other receivers. D J. Chark just alluded to only 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:39.120 played three games last year. He broke his ankle in 0:14:39.160 --> 0:14:40.880 the third game, but he's scored in two out of 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:44.440 those three games, and hopefully that broken ankle did not 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.480 take any of his deep speed away. Because that's what's 0:14:47.480 --> 0:14:50.400 always made DJ Chart special with his ability to get 0:14:50.440 --> 0:14:54.040 some separation downfield get the long ball. But what worries 0:14:54.120 --> 0:14:56.760 me here is that Deared Goff isn't exactly slinking deep 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:00.920 lasers down the field, and that's where Chark's best big 0:15:00.960 --> 0:15:03.440 plays come from. So I think that feels like a 0:15:03.480 --> 0:15:05.520 bit of a mismatch, and I think DJ Chart is 0:15:05.560 --> 0:15:07.640 just going to be a spot starter this year. Yeah. 0:15:07.680 --> 0:15:10.080 You can argue though that Golf is the best quarterback 0:15:10.200 --> 0:15:14.720 that I mean, Trevor Lawrence was not good, but that 0:15:14.800 --> 0:15:18.360 was only three games last year even though, But yeah, yeah, 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:20.920 that's a fair point. Um. The only I know the 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:23.800 receivers are really worth worth mentioning Josh Reynolds. Let's go 0:15:23.840 --> 0:15:26.120 to t J. Hockenson, who I think is gonna be 0:15:26.200 --> 0:15:32.520 a fascinating decision for fantasy owners. Painfully quiet year last 0:15:32.560 --> 0:15:35.600 year for Hockinson, although I'll mentioned he didn't bookend his 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.320 shortened season with two with touchdowns in the two first 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:40.680 games and touchdowns in the two last games, and they 0:15:40.720 --> 0:15:43.520 didn't score at l all in between those two games. 0:15:43.520 --> 0:15:45.680 He saw plenty of targets, but he just never got 0:15:45.680 --> 0:15:47.680 in sync with Golf. You know, you look at these 0:15:47.680 --> 0:15:52.160 box scores and it's like ten targets, two catches thirty 0:15:52.240 --> 0:15:56.920 yards and he had to literal not literal, but he 0:15:56.920 --> 0:15:58.640 had two goose eggs that are recalled to which is 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:02.520 zero point games, which unacceptable. The Lions picked up his 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:05.680 fifth year option. He'll make full recovery from the thumb 0:16:05.760 --> 0:16:09.280 injury that sidelined him after Week thirteen last year. And 0:16:09.360 --> 0:16:13.440 this uh, he's he's heading headings. We know the talent 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:17.160 for t J. Hockenson former first rounders, extremely high. He 0:16:17.240 --> 0:16:19.960 can get separation, the big body, he can break tackles, 0:16:20.000 --> 0:16:23.760 he can do special things. It just should have materialized 0:16:23.840 --> 0:16:27.600 more last year. If I'm on Brown, Emma on Ross, 0:16:27.800 --> 0:16:29.240 Brown could have been you know, it was such a 0:16:29.240 --> 0:16:31.720 big focal and focal point of this offense. You know, 0:16:31.760 --> 0:16:34.520 t J. Hockenson should have done more with those opportunities, 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:36.640 should have been more in sync. And it's not all 0:16:36.680 --> 0:16:39.520 on Hockinson. The quarterback play was not good enough. But 0:16:40.160 --> 0:16:43.280 from just a sheer talent standpoint, t J. Hockenson should 0:16:43.280 --> 0:16:46.480 be a top five tight end, should be. But for me, 0:16:46.680 --> 0:16:49.800 I mean he's he's getting drafted tight end more like 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.000 six seven full fade from me right now. People seem 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:55.400 to only think of the good when it comes to t. J. 0:16:55.520 --> 0:16:57.800 Hockson for some reason. And there are a lot of detractors, 0:16:57.840 --> 0:17:01.400 and and I'd rather grabbed Alice Goddard in that ranger. 0:17:01.760 --> 0:17:06.600 Wait on, my guy could commit several rounds later that 0:17:06.640 --> 0:17:08.119 there's a lot of a lot of balls to be 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:10.520 shared in Detroit. So I think people are getting a 0:17:10.480 --> 0:17:15.200 little jumpy with Hockinson. For DeAndre Swift offensive coordinator Anthony Lynn, 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:20.400 it's it's clear he is not going to let DeAndre 0:17:20.520 --> 0:17:24.320 Swift be a workhorse back period end a story, just 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:27.000 like he did with Austin Ekeler. Austin Neckley was by 0:17:27.040 --> 0:17:32.840 far the best charger running back, Anthony Lynn never used 0:17:32.960 --> 0:17:36.480 him like a workhorse. Same deal with Swift, clearly the 0:17:36.520 --> 0:17:40.600 best back in the backfield. Yet every box score it's 0:17:40.640 --> 0:17:47.159 a twelve carry game fourteen nine, twelve ten. That's just 0:17:47.320 --> 0:17:50.800 that's who Anthony Lynn is. He only lets Swift run 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:55.040 the ball more than fourteen times once all last year. 0:17:55.800 --> 0:17:58.800 The other troubling thing is that Lynn pulled way back 0:17:58.840 --> 0:18:02.000 on Swift's receive evening role at the halfway point of 0:18:02.040 --> 0:18:05.320 the year and granted Swift was injured for much of 0:18:05.359 --> 0:18:07.719 November and December on and off. But listen to this. 0:18:07.960 --> 0:18:11.679 His receiving numbers in weeks one through seven for DeAndre Swift. 0:18:11.720 --> 0:18:18.200 His average game receiving six catches fifty six yards. There's 0:18:18.240 --> 0:18:21.800 twelve fantasy points right there. That makes up for the 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:25.200 five or six or seven carries, extra carries you want, 0:18:25.320 --> 0:18:27.919 right So that was fine. But then after that his 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:35.199 average game three catches, ten yards, four fantasy points. No 0:18:35.359 --> 0:18:39.199 touchdowns after week seven either through the air for DeAndre Swift, 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:43.520 And it's is it because Anthony Lynn saw something in 0:18:43.600 --> 0:18:46.600 Swift's receiving that he didn't like. And again, there was 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:49.000 nobody else to throw two in this offense down the stretch, 0:18:49.000 --> 0:18:52.600 and they still didn't go to Swift. So that's gonna 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:54.359 be one of the things that I think is gonna 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:58.080 make Swift very polarizing in fantasy drafts. Do you believe 0:18:58.160 --> 0:18:59.959 the receiving is gonna come back? Because of the receiving 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:03.520 comes back, Swift is a top ten fantasy running backs 0:19:04.000 --> 0:19:06.600 without those receiving numbers. He's a guy who average four 0:19:06.920 --> 0:19:10.040 four point one yards per carry and rarely put up 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:13.520 the kind of rushing numbers requisite of an RB one 0:19:13.680 --> 0:19:16.600 or in some cases even RB two. Clearly you're gonna 0:19:16.640 --> 0:19:21.440 ding Swift from playing standard non PPR to full PPR. 0:19:21.520 --> 0:19:24.160 But I think you still you significantly ding him even 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:28.000 in half point PPR to full PPR. I mean I'm 0:19:28.000 --> 0:19:32.840 talking like dropping him from like RB fifteen ish RB twenty, 0:19:32.920 --> 0:19:35.240 Like I'd rather have David Montgomery all day long over 0:19:35.320 --> 0:19:37.680 DeAndre Swift and half point PPR. I think a lot 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:39.720 of people would share that sentiment. That's not how what's 0:19:39.760 --> 0:19:42.560 going right now? Believe it a lot yeah people, or 0:19:42.920 --> 0:19:45.240 I wanted to ask you real quickly when we're talking 0:19:45.240 --> 0:19:50.920 about GoF some people mocking, uh leek willis most to 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:53.320 the Lions at number two, do you think they take it? 0:19:53.560 --> 0:19:55.240 I don't think it's happening. I don't even really I 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:57.920 think they're gonna ride or die with golf, at least 0:19:57.920 --> 0:20:00.200 for this year. I think I think the Lions are, 0:20:00.600 --> 0:20:02.080 and I think a lot of teams are doing this. 0:20:02.080 --> 0:20:04.520 This is just my personal and I'll probably be wrong 0:20:04.560 --> 0:20:07.760 about this. Is probably the biggest contrarian take of of 0:20:07.840 --> 0:20:10.320 this draft is I don't think any quarterback is gonna 0:20:10.320 --> 0:20:13.320 go before eighteen. I think most of these teams No. 0:20:13.720 --> 0:20:17.520 Two things. One, no quarterback deserves to go higher than eighteen. 0:20:18.119 --> 0:20:22.480 And next year's draft class, baby, I mean, it's just 0:20:22.600 --> 0:20:26.040 so many good quarterbacks coming that a lot of teams 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:29.080 that don't figure that figure to be drafting in the 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:31.680 top ten next year as well. And the Lions might 0:20:31.680 --> 0:20:34.600 be thinking this way, um, we'll just they'll they'll wait 0:20:34.600 --> 0:20:37.399 for next season. They'll get by with Jared Goff and 0:20:37.440 --> 0:20:39.080 I think they waited. I think they end up waiting 0:20:39.240 --> 0:20:42.320 one season on quarterback. If they do take a quarterback, 0:20:42.720 --> 0:20:44.639 I think it's gonna be at the end of the 0:20:44.640 --> 0:20:46.400 first or beginning of the second. They got those two 0:20:46.440 --> 0:20:50.480 picks in the first thirty for thirty four of the draft, 0:20:50.560 --> 0:20:55.000 like Sam Howell Carson strong type, No, I think somebody. 0:20:55.040 --> 0:20:57.720 I think you're gonna see better quarterbacks than that available 0:20:57.760 --> 0:20:59.560 at the end of the first round, beginning of the second, 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:02.800 because don't think anybody's going before a team. So I think, 0:21:02.840 --> 0:21:04.320 you know, I think you're gonna have I think there's 0:21:04.320 --> 0:21:07.840 gonna be there's going to be better quarterbacks available, including 0:21:07.880 --> 0:21:12.439 potentially Lee Willis could be there at the end of 0:21:12.480 --> 0:21:15.560 the first round. It's possible that is quite the contralt 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:19.439 I just can't see yuck. I can see the Lions passing, 0:21:19.440 --> 0:21:23.720