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Speaker 1: Now from Guillotine Leagues dot Com. Here's your host, Paul.
Speaker 1: Welcome to the Damien Pierce Appreciation Show, I mean Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly, final preseason edition. I am Paul Giarchy and
Speaker 1: my co host today are Brian Johnson, Guillotine Leagues dot Com,
Speaker 1: Scott Fish. Hi, guys, what's going on? Great to this
Speaker 1: is we now know basically everything we're going to know
Speaker 1: going into Week one for our drafts. It's it's all
Speaker 1: been laid bare. And best part about it, healthiest preseason
Speaker 1: we've had ever. I've never been part of a preseason
Speaker 1: that's had one mid tier significant injury. Tim Patrick, that's it.
Speaker 1: I'd worry about Brian Robinson. Yeah, well, okay, I'd worry
Speaker 1: about you jinxing it, but I don't see how that
Speaker 1: could happen. I think we're I think we're finally safe
Speaker 1: to talk about it. I love that part of the
Speaker 1: how this offseason has gone. Someone is like slipping in
Speaker 1: the shower right now. The whole league just start the season.
Speaker 1: There's been a long off season, but it is. We're
Speaker 1: so close to the start of the season now that
Speaker 1: the last segment of the show, we will do our
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football weekly style breakdown of the Thursday night game
Speaker 1: letter grades for all the players, just the way we
Speaker 1: normally do our in season stuff. It's already here. I
Speaker 1: can't wait. We'll start the show by talking about the
Speaker 1: one thing that you need to know about each team's preseason.
Speaker 1: And when I say one thing, I'm guessing it's gonna
Speaker 1: be like two to five. Yeah. We'll talk about who
Speaker 1: won all the training camp battles that we talked about
Speaker 1: in our first preseason show as we were looking forward
Speaker 1: to training camp. We'll play three tough questions our favorite
Speaker 1: game on this show, which teammate is the better one
Speaker 1: to draft? We will give you a pair of teammates
Speaker 1: and say who would you draft at their A DP
Speaker 1: guy A or guy or teammate be well? And then
Speaker 1: this is the c y A segment of our preseason
Speaker 1: called I Might Be Wrong, where we confess the things A.
Speaker 1: How old am I? What is c Y? A? Cover
Speaker 1: your okay? Okay, yeah, right, art? Cover your art? Man?
Speaker 1: Wait a minute, can you can you not say our
Speaker 1: can we not say Art Park on this show? Okay, alright, alright,
Speaker 1: there we go. Let's do it. Cover your ardvark. Alright,
Speaker 1: let's go through each of the teams. Feel really old
Speaker 1: right now? Stuff abbreviating stuff. Let's go through the one
Speaker 1: thing you need to know about each team's preseason. We
Speaker 1: begin with Scott Fish and the Carolina Panthers. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: most recently they traded for laviska channel. Don't know what
Speaker 1: role he's going to be in that offense, but it's
Speaker 1: another weapon for the Baker mayfield that offense with Sam
Speaker 1: donald on officially put on I R now, all right, Brian,
Speaker 1: the Las Vegas Raiders. So Darren Waller wasn't practicing basically
Speaker 1: all preseason training camp, but he got his contract extension
Speaker 1: that wanted and he's on the coincidence I think not,
Speaker 1: but needless to say, I am very happy, and you
Speaker 1: guys are so say that he's most people are like
Speaker 1: so Waller should be on track to play in Week one.
Speaker 1: And it's also worth noting that the Raiders released offensive
Speaker 1: tackle Alex Leatherwood, who was the seventeenth offensive tackle. Alex
Speaker 1: Leatherwood on a team with one of the worst offensive
Speaker 1: line in the draft lest year ago. I mean he
Speaker 1: I forget the name of the award he won, like
Speaker 1: the best offensive lineman award in one went to Alabama,
Speaker 1: who just you know, turns out lead players at all level.
Speaker 1: So he's gone. I mean that JaMarcus. Nothing will top
Speaker 1: the JaMarcus Russell pick by the Raiders. But this might
Speaker 1: be the second worst pick in uh yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: if not league history, franchise history. JaMarcus r Also was
Speaker 1: a total disaster first pick overall in the draft. But
Speaker 1: at least they're getting out of Alex Leatherwood fast, right,
Speaker 1: I mean with JaMarcus, that thing lingered on for like
Speaker 1: three years before they and that was pre you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's when the contracts were huge for the one. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was right, it was, that's right. But he blew
Speaker 1: it all on purple drank. Remember that. Remember Vince Young
Speaker 1: blew it all on Friday's. He went to Friday's lot
Speaker 1: and just paid for everyone's meals at Fridays and he
Speaker 1: just loved t g came from a good place in
Speaker 1: his heart. But the Raiders offensive line is a concern
Speaker 1: when you're cutting the seventeenth the whole wick Who's supposed
Speaker 1: to feel a major void and he didn't, And uh
Speaker 1: so I'm a little concerned there, but still gonna be
Speaker 1: exciting offense. Yeah, as it made. As it turns out,
Speaker 1: it could be that your favorite TV commentators are not
Speaker 1: meant to be general managers. That's a possibility. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the Packers. I've been updating you on the Packers
Speaker 1: offensive line all preseason because this is a pretty big story.
Speaker 1: Elkin Jenkins and David botr is still not practicing with
Speaker 1: the team. They've been doing individual workouts for a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks, but that's it. And when asked if they'd
Speaker 1: be ready for Week one, head coach Matt Lafleur used
Speaker 1: the term hard to project and then said, I have
Speaker 1: no idea. So this offensive line continues to be in
Speaker 1: flux for the Packers. What's the one thing people need
Speaker 1: to know about the Washington commander Scott so Brian Robinson
Speaker 1: was shot in a carjacking last week. He was released
Speaker 1: from the hospital and was at the team facility the
Speaker 1: next day. They did put him on the n f
Speaker 1: n f I list, so he will miss the first
Speaker 1: four weeks, but it does sound like Robinson and Mkissic
Speaker 1: are going to share that role for a while. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Gibson and kiss Let's go to Brian and the Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills starting slot. Who should be the starting slot? Wide
Speaker 1: receiver Isaiah Mackenzie a little iffy for the opener next
Speaker 1: Thursday at the Rams within undisclosed injury, So if he
Speaker 1: were to miss that game, Jamison Crowder would certainly benefit.
Speaker 1: But I like a rookie wide receiver Khalil Shakier a
Speaker 1: little bit more. We'll talk about him a little later
Speaker 1: in the show, but I think Mackenzie should be good
Speaker 1: to go. I think a lot of these questionables were
Speaker 1: seeing are really probable. But h and we'll have all
Speaker 1: the Week one breakdowns next week on Fantasy Full more
Speaker 1: weekly as we go through all the matchups for the Texans.
Speaker 1: The biggest Fantasy story of the entire preseason is Damien Pierce.
Speaker 1: And look, I those of you that actually listened to
Speaker 1: the show going all the way back to the draft,
Speaker 1: you're way way ahead of the story. We loved him
Speaker 1: here all. We loved him before the draft. We loved
Speaker 1: the landing spot in the draft, we loved him coming
Speaker 1: into the preseason, and we loved him even more after
Speaker 1: we got to see him throughout the preseason games. That's
Speaker 1: a double peak double that that was like at least
Speaker 1: a double peaking. Now he hasn't actually done anything yet.
Speaker 1: He hasn't scored a fan oh no yet. So no,
Speaker 1: we we put Hall of Fame jackets on in the
Speaker 1: off season. That's what we do. We do. And but
Speaker 1: here's what I can say. What's confidence is if you
Speaker 1: had draft, if you had an early draft, and you
Speaker 1: based just on what you're hearing in the show, you
Speaker 1: got him many many rounds. Where he's going now, that
Speaker 1: part is great. Now, So where are you taking Damian
Speaker 1: Pierce right now? In my draft? I'm seeing him go
Speaker 1: roughly fourth round. So I saw him late third in
Speaker 1: the draft, and I was a little shocked by that, honestly,
Speaker 1: But I've seen him mostly in the fourth recently. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Bucks. What's the one thing you need
Speaker 1: to know about their off season? Mostly it's just the
Speaker 1: offensive line. They're they're missing a couple of starters, they
Speaker 1: lost a couple of starters from last year. They they
Speaker 1: have three injuries currently on on on that offensive line too,
Speaker 1: are going to be gone for the season. So that's
Speaker 1: that's gonna be a rough spot for them. Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1: Everybody is very nervous about the Bucks right now. I
Speaker 1: just got Mike Evans mid third round of a draft.
Speaker 1: I mean it just the bottoms fallen out of the Bucks.
Speaker 1: From a point Cleveland Browns Brian the Browns claimed a
Speaker 1: guy named Kellen Mond quarterback. Have heard of him off waivers? Yes,
Speaker 1: further cementing Jacoby percent as the starter. What is that
Speaker 1: eleven eleven games games? Kellen Mond Brown? Let's go to
Speaker 1: the Colts. Matt Ryan looked comfortable in his new offense,
Speaker 1: should be a steady fantasy performer, and could put Michael
Speaker 1: Pittman on a big season. I'm a believer. The other
Speaker 1: starting wide receivers that have emerged over the course of
Speaker 1: the preseason for the Colts Alex Pierce, rookie wide receiver,
Speaker 1: gonna start, and the still at this moment healthy Paris
Speaker 1: Campbell ready to roll into regular season action, healthy running
Speaker 1: from the slot. Paris Campbell. Alec Pierce is a nicely ber.
Speaker 1: He was nicely ber a couple of weeks ago. You
Speaker 1: guys are right, Detroit Lions Scott Reports are and have
Speaker 1: been really all off season, the Jameson Williams has been
Speaker 1: ahead of schedule. Those those surfaced again in the last week.
Speaker 1: Remember it was the torn a c l in the
Speaker 1: National Championship Game, so that was early February, So he's
Speaker 1: only about seven months out. But those reports that thought
Speaker 1: he might be back by late October could happen. So
Speaker 1: if you're in home leagues this weeks, grabbing him at
Speaker 1: the end of your draft, stationing him on I are
Speaker 1: is not a not a bad play for such an
Speaker 1: explosive guy. I'm kind of upset they haven't featured him
Speaker 1: in Hard Knocks at all. I know he's not, but
Speaker 1: his story is worth telling. The guy would have been
Speaker 1: the first wide receiver taken most likely if he didn't
Speaker 1: get injured. And I just think there's not a lot
Speaker 1: to tell past that, right, Yeah, except except for it,
Speaker 1: like he is on the field with like a lot
Speaker 1: of guys when they're injured, they they're off the field,
Speaker 1: maybe they're not even he's been on the field hanging
Speaker 1: out with the players, like walking around, etcetera. Like he's
Speaker 1: with them. He wants to be part of it. So
Speaker 1: we didn't get to see whatever his rookie hazing bit
Speaker 1: would be and maybe we've seen a lot of them right,
Speaker 1: but not his Jamison Williams, Brian when I when I
Speaker 1: think of the Jets preseason, and the one thing that
Speaker 1: I think is most is the big storyline here, Bruce
Speaker 1: Hall just not able to walk out of this preseason
Speaker 1: as the sure number one started rolling into the season. No,
Speaker 1: it sounds like Michael Carter. Michael Carter is the starter.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about those two a little later. When I
Speaker 1: think of the Jets, I think a west side story.
Speaker 1: I don't know you, I don't think the football team
Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of the reboot wasn't bad,
Speaker 1: but not as not as good as the original. I
Speaker 1: only saw the original because they showed it in high school.
Speaker 1: It was one of those substitute teachers. But and talking
Speaker 1: about the Jets of the football team, Zack Wilson not
Speaker 1: officially ruled out for Week one so he could make
Speaker 1: the start against the Ravens. But as you alluded to earlier,
Speaker 1: we'll discuss that in further detail next week. For the Chiefs,
Speaker 1: what you need to know about their preseason, we gained
Speaker 1: really very little clarity at wide receiver because all the
Speaker 1: presumed starters got hurt at some point. Juju got hurt,
Speaker 1: sky More got hurt, NBS got hurt. But it looks
Speaker 1: like they're all going to be playing. Clyde Edwards A layers,
Speaker 1: you're starting running back, but after that we don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, for what looks like Isaiah Pacheco
Speaker 1: might be the guy than Ronald Jones made made the
Speaker 1: team on a strong final preseason game. Jerick mckinnons a
Speaker 1: utility guy. I think the only safe play right now
Speaker 1: appears to be Clyde Edwards. Let's go to the Seahawks.
Speaker 1: Scott uh Ken Walker did have it at hernia surgery.
Speaker 1: He's feeling better, but it doesn't sound like he's likely
Speaker 1: for a week one, although Pete Carroll said he was
Speaker 1: throwing the ball around at practice, which that's that's that's
Speaker 1: something you want to hear about your running back. Uh.
Speaker 1: Maybe that's something about his rehab because normally p D.
Speaker 1: Sunshine says glowing things. Yeah, that's maybe. So he's saying
Speaker 1: it's a it's a quiet day. Yeah, yeah, that he's
Speaker 1: not going to be ready. Bryan, what's the one thing
Speaker 1: people need to know about the Broncos preseason. Uh, there's
Speaker 1: some hype around rookie tight end Greg Dulchich Bob, but
Speaker 1: he was placed on I R with hamstring issues, so
Speaker 1: he's gonna be out at least of four games. Meaning
Speaker 1: it's um, I gonna call him Albert. Oh, Scott, you'll
Speaker 1: correct me if I get this wrong. I was gonna
Speaker 1: try it at least, but you're really you are the
Speaker 1: pronounce on this show. It's Albert season. You can't really
Speaker 1: just get that on the button. We don't need it,
Speaker 1: you don't need I'll just stop here every week. Problem.
Speaker 1: I need the reps here for the next day for
Speaker 1: the Rams. The thing you need to know from their preseason.
Speaker 1: After missing most really almost really the entire preseason with
Speaker 1: unspecified injuries, Cam Akers Darryl Henderson returned to practice this Um,
Speaker 1: we'll keep an eye on backup runner Kyron Williams as well. Um,
Speaker 1: if you're skeptical about Acres and his recovery, and you're
Speaker 1: skeptical about Henderson just because he didn't really shine last
Speaker 1: a year when he had the chance, maybe Williams is
Speaker 1: a factor at some point this year. But UM, we
Speaker 1: didn't really gain a ton of clarity on on where
Speaker 1: Acres is. And we're really no clarity whatsoever Whereakers is
Speaker 1: in his return. Let's go to the Eagles Brian Scott
Speaker 1: Miles Sanders was practicing, back, practicing, finally, finally his backpracticing. Uh.
Speaker 1: And they claimed Trace Sermon off waivers, which is of
Speaker 1: note because forty Niners GM John Lynch said Sermon was
Speaker 1: one of their best players in cap before he caught.
Speaker 1: Don't listen to That's exactly what I put. Never believe,
Speaker 1: John Lynch. At this point, they also acquired in book
Speaker 1: from the Saints. The Saints traded Chauncey Gardner Johnson Chauncey
Speaker 1: Gardner Johnson punch Face in late draft pick swaps, and
Speaker 1: they also traded return man Jalen Reagor to the Vikings.
Speaker 1: A lot of moves for the Eagles in the last
Speaker 1: week here for sure. And I love the Chauncey Gardner
Speaker 1: Johnson pick up. Yes, yes, I call him punch Face
Speaker 1: because he makes wide receivers want him to want to
Speaker 1: punch him in the face. It's been multiple wide receivers
Speaker 1: from multiple teams now may be good for even his
Speaker 1: own team. If I recall once Miami Dolphins Brian uh
Speaker 1: Sony Walkman was released or cut, which makes me love
Speaker 1: Chase Edmunds even more. He's still going way too low
Speaker 1: in my opinion. And also there was some concern about
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle's availability for one, but he's been back at
Speaker 1: practice sands compression sleeve on legs, so he should be
Speaker 1: good to go. But again, well, we'll talk about that
Speaker 1: more next week when we break down all the matchups.
Speaker 1: The Viking starters did not play in the preseason. The
Speaker 1: backup running back running back spot is very unsettled. For
Speaker 1: the first time in a long time. The preseason's best
Speaker 1: runner was fifth round rookie Tie Chandler, followed by Kena
Speaker 1: wong Wu and Alexander Madison has been the subject of
Speaker 1: trade speculation, and it's not clear that he's going to
Speaker 1: get any more work than these other guys are. The
Speaker 1: public has not caught up to that Addison go as
Speaker 1: the Madison we had last That is a mistake. There
Speaker 1: is a lot of risk on assuming that Alexander Madison
Speaker 1: is going to get much of any work in any game,
Speaker 1: and that he would get the majority of carries even
Speaker 1: if something happened to Dalvin Cook Scott. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the Dallas Cowboys. What's the one thing they need to
Speaker 1: know about their preseason? Uh, yeah, we'll go back to
Speaker 1: the loss of Tyron Smith, who's gonna miss most of
Speaker 1: the season, But now they're only expecting him to miss
Speaker 1: maybe half the season or so. They're they're expecting him
Speaker 1: back sooner than we originally thought. Uh, first rounder Tyler
Speaker 1: Smith is going to take his place at left tackle,
Speaker 1: which is a place where you always want to Yeah. Great, perfect.
Speaker 1: So if you can't believe John Lynch, how much can
Speaker 1: you believe with Jerry Jones? Jerry Jones. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the Patriots. The Pats released rookie running back Kevin Harris,
Speaker 1: who they took in the sixth round, So they're gonna
Speaker 1: go with rookie running back Pierre Strong Junior, who they
Speaker 1: took in the fourth round. Is our RB three, but
Speaker 1: he's well behind Romandre Stevenson and Damien Harris, who will
Speaker 1: also break down a little more time. Montgomery got injured
Speaker 1: and that's going to open up the door for Romandri
Speaker 1: Stevenson too in these first few weeks to know what
Speaker 1: he can do as a pass catcher. I just refused
Speaker 1: to acknowledge time on Gummery's existence anymore. Even I'm tired
Speaker 1: of I saw be reported for New England. Say a
Speaker 1: New England b reporters say today he wouldn't be shocked
Speaker 1: if Stevenson leap frogs Harris and I'm like, welcome to
Speaker 1: what we've all been talking about for a month. Week
Speaker 1: last team, for this segment, the thing you need to
Speaker 1: know about the Saints with the loss of elite left
Speaker 1: tackle Tarrant I'm armstead. In the off season, the Saints
Speaker 1: put a first rounder into his replacement, Trevor Penning, but
Speaker 1: now he's out and definitely after getting foot surgery, and
Speaker 1: the Saints are down to James First at left tackle
Speaker 1: if he can play through his own foot injury. Michael
Speaker 1: Thomas has looked good when healthy, but he's on week
Speaker 1: two of a hamstring injury. We're gonna watch his status
Speaker 1: for Week one, which is currently unclear. So a lot
Speaker 1: of injury is used for the Saints coming off a
Speaker 1: season which they had a lot of injury issues. When
Speaker 1: we come back, we will continue to recap the one
Speaker 1: thing you need to know about every team's preseason and
Speaker 1: give you the resolution to some of the key training
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Speaker 1: Scott Let's go to the one thing we didn't need
Speaker 1: to know about the Giants preseason. Yeah, basically all of
Speaker 1: their wide receivers have been injured most of the preseason.
Speaker 1: Darius Tony is still dealing with the two injuries. Um
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepard just came back based coming back from Achilles.
Speaker 1: I'm going to go into my Week one matchups here
Speaker 1: and say one, Dale Robinson is probably your starting slot
Speaker 1: wide receiver week one against the Titans, team who was
Speaker 1: dead last against slot right receivers last year. So that
Speaker 1: your take on flat keep that in your in your
Speaker 1: noodle there or whatever. A right Titans. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: their new head coach of the Bills, by Table, he
Speaker 1: fed the slot just more than most teams to last year.
Speaker 1: That's your gone. It is decided, alright, You're you're already
Speaker 1: setting up that next week's show. Brian, What is the
Speaker 1: one thing people need to know about the Titans preseason? Um,
Speaker 1: it looks like almost every team in the NFL outside
Speaker 1: of Tennessee made a mistake passing on Malik Willis. I
Speaker 1: know it's preseason, but it certainly looks like his game
Speaker 1: is going to translate to the NFL. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: usur Ryan Tannehill just yet. But my question I'll post
Speaker 1: you guys real quick is Malik Willis. Of course, in
Speaker 1: dynasty league's people are drafting him statue, but in any
Speaker 1: kind of redraft super flex format, I'm not seeing him
Speaker 1: get are you. I'm in a keeper league only keep
Speaker 1: two took him in the last round. It's a two
Speaker 1: quarterback league, and the redraft I have not seen him
Speaker 1: get picked either. But he's looking like he's going to
Speaker 1: be something special. We might have to wait a little bit,
Speaker 1: of course, but uh that's the only the only real
Speaker 1: news at a Tennessee for the Steelers. Best story from
Speaker 1: the Steelers preseason was the eye popping catches made by
Speaker 1: rookie George Pickens, who looks very good. Sad Trombones, You're
Speaker 1: expected starter, hold on where I'm off my game right now?
Speaker 1: I don't know he's the starter. I feel like that
Speaker 1: should have been a happy shot. But well, yeah, for him,
Speaker 1: maybe not fantasy owners. Canny Pickett look good enough that
Speaker 1: the leash here probably pretty short. Mr Whisky, you know
Speaker 1: Week Willis would look pretty good in the Steelers. Kenny
Speaker 1: Picketts look pretty good in his Steelers uniform. I'll take
Speaker 1: Week Willis all Day. Let's go to the Falcons. Uh
Speaker 1: really not a lot here. I mean Anthony Ferler got cut,
Speaker 1: Quadrea Alston got cut. I don't know. I guess for
Speaker 1: the for the full preseason. Basically, it's that Drake London
Speaker 1: and Kyle Pitts look like they're going to be most
Speaker 1: of that offense, and they've both just made great plays
Speaker 1: in both camp and in preseason games. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the Bengals. Brian uh te Higgins currently questionable for Week one.
Speaker 1: He had offseason shoulder injury, but I think it's you know,
Speaker 1: they's been watching his workload throughout the preseason. You should
Speaker 1: be good to go, but just keep an eye on
Speaker 1: Mr TI Mr T. For the forty nine Ers, Jimmy
Speaker 1: Garoppolo resigned to a backup deal. More on Garoppolo later
Speaker 1: in the show, Andrey Lance Trey Sermon got cut. Went
Speaker 1: to the Eagles. The running back packing order looks like
Speaker 1: Elijah Mitchell into Jeff Wilson, probably into Tyrean Davis Price TDP.
Speaker 1: I think that's going to be the case there, So
Speaker 1: uh Mitchell going pretty late and Jeff Wilson going really
Speaker 1: late in drafts. For those that may be inclined to
Speaker 1: want to get on board with them. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the Cardinals next, Scott. You know ben you know, Benjamin,
Speaker 1: as we mentioned last week, did end up securing that
Speaker 1: RB two role that Chase Edmund's role from last year,
Speaker 1: so it might be fantasy viable. Also, they do expect
Speaker 1: zach Ertz and Rondale Moore, who have been dealing with injuries,
Speaker 1: back for Week one, but you might want to prepare
Speaker 1: other options anyway. Okay, that has That's been a shocking
Speaker 1: move for you know, Benjamin, and for his sake, I
Speaker 1: hope it holds that way. Jaguars, Brian, what's the one
Speaker 1: thing we need to know about their preseason? Well, Scott
Speaker 1: mentioned this when he was talking about the Panthers um.
Speaker 1: The Jags traded away La Chenult to uh Channel to Carolina,
Speaker 1: which probably does not bode well for terrorists marshall over Carolina.
Speaker 1: But Jaguars, I don't know. They're still kind of like
Speaker 1: James Robinson watch going on. But I think the biggest
Speaker 1: story for me is Travis Aten looks fully healthy. He
Speaker 1: does he running hard. I thought, you know what we
Speaker 1: saw of him, he looks like that injury that Liz
Speaker 1: Frank is totally in the Revere mirror. The fantasy has
Speaker 1: been almost an auto for me in the late third.
Speaker 1: Sure wants him to be the RB one or get
Speaker 1: the lion's share of the touches, so we'll just have
Speaker 1: to see what happens. But they cut the Commanders in
Speaker 1: week one. I'm loving basically every Jaguar the week one
Speaker 1: for the Ravens. Rookie tight end Isaiah likely splashed obvious
Speaker 1: talent and is expected to find his way into the
Speaker 1: field at some point this year if they effectively use
Speaker 1: him as a wide receiver. There's no competition really for
Speaker 1: him that stands in the way of him getting reps,
Speaker 1: and it's just a matter of when you think he's
Speaker 1: better than Devin Dover. I do, but it's likely. I
Speaker 1: think it is likely, and I don't think he's as
Speaker 1: deep of a stash as something I've been. I've been
Speaker 1: taking him in lenks just for that. J K. Dobbins
Speaker 1: insists his leg is fine. Uh and by the way,
Speaker 1: love him battling against what he believes are erroneous media
Speaker 1: reports on Twitter, which is great. Um. His status for
Speaker 1: Week one at this point unclear. Will know more about
Speaker 1: j K. Dobbins next week. UH. Journeyman Mike Davis Kenyan
Speaker 1: Drake likely to see action in the opener as well. Scott,
Speaker 1: your final UH preseason report comes from Chicago. Yeah, the
Speaker 1: Bears offensive line has really been the story of this
Speaker 1: team this this preseason. Every game they have looked absolutely
Speaker 1: terrible with Justin Fields getting hit constantly. The Bears went
Speaker 1: out and claimed Alex Leatherwood, who we mentioned earlier, former
Speaker 1: first round pick just last year, UH, to to to
Speaker 1: try to help that offensive line. And they're trying out uh,
Speaker 1: former pro bowler Collegio Summily. So Yeah, it's like gotta
Speaker 1: be early thirties by now four or something like that.
Speaker 1: But former ROA bowler. I believe he blew out a
Speaker 1: knee or maybe both knees back about three years ago. Maybe. Um.
Speaker 1: So at least they're trying. They realize their issue and
Speaker 1: they're trying to fix it somehow. Yeah, it's uh, it's
Speaker 1: gonna be a long road there. Johnson Fields played well
Speaker 1: in that final preseason game, and that's a glimmer of
Speaker 1: hope for them. That's connected on a touchdown to Cole comment.
Speaker 1: Let's hope that continued. Chargers Brian our last team is
Speaker 1: our last preseason. Report mentioned earlier that Sony Walkman Michelle
Speaker 1: was cut by the Dolphins. Well, he signed with the Chargers,
Speaker 1: which probably doesn't bode too well for Joshua Kelly and
Speaker 1: especially Isaiah Spiller. Sony Walkman is no threat to anybody.
Speaker 1: I don't know, no, God, No, I'm just worried about
Speaker 1: Isaiah Spiller. I thought he'd be a lock to be
Speaker 1: the backup running back. That's a legitimate observation is that
Speaker 1: he couldn't go win the number two, or at least
Speaker 1: he seemed like the obvious handcuff, not even handcuff, just
Speaker 1: an RB two with you know, he was going to
Speaker 1: contribute weekend, week out, and that's not looking like the
Speaker 1: case right now. I've had increasing confidence in Austin Ekeler
Speaker 1: getting maintaining the sizeable workload he had last year as
Speaker 1: this preseason has gone on, because it doesn't feel like
Speaker 1: anybody's really stepped up to take reps away from him.
Speaker 1: Michelle he is not very good, but oh he's great
Speaker 1: in past protection. So that's gonna put him on the field,
Speaker 1: which I just I just hate not talking about. But
Speaker 1: for for Isaiah Spiller's I'm just worried about Isaiah Spiller.
Speaker 1: I'm on this guy. I'm like, I'm bad, all right. Next,
Speaker 1: we in our first preseason show. Now, four full shows ago,
Speaker 1: we're in our fifth preseason show. Now we identified the
Speaker 1: training camp battles we were going to watch. Now, it's
Speaker 1: only fair that with training camps over, we go back,
Speaker 1: circle back. Tell you who won these battles. Brian, let's
Speaker 1: begin with you. What was the first training camp battle
Speaker 1: resolution you've got um, Well, these were mats, but they
Speaker 1: were he did get them right. I'll give him credit
Speaker 1: for that. And in terms of they were battles, but
Speaker 1: it was Atlanta's starting running back between Corderold Patterson, Tyler
Speaker 1: is it. I'm going to the It's not al geyer L.
Speaker 1: It's like the Lgars because from Casino. By the way,
Speaker 1: have you seen Casino yet? You admitted him? You got
Speaker 1: to watch Casino tonight. But anyway, that's a full night.
Speaker 1: That's not that's not a short movie. That was like
Speaker 1: a VHS double. It was double VHS tapes. If you've
Speaker 1: got sealed or VHS tapes that those are selling for
Speaker 1: hundreds of dollars. I've got a born born on the
Speaker 1: fourth of keeping in the raft, Keep it in the
Speaker 1: who did guest? And I don't know who the nut
Speaker 1: jobs are that one vhs, it'll be d d ds.
Speaker 1: It'll be DVDs soon too, So if you got the
Speaker 1: DVD sealed, hold onto him. Laser discs probably coming first.
Speaker 1: But anyway, Patterson's the start. The great by Buddy had one.
Speaker 1: It was it was the place to be every weekend.
Speaker 1: He basic instinct. He was easy to get to the movie. Anyway,
Speaker 1: Football Patterson is still technically the start of it. Tyler
Speaker 1: Alger looks very good, so he's gonna take some significant
Speaker 1: He will as well. But I just want to talk
Speaker 1: about Kyle Pitts and talk about the Falcons. But anyway,
Speaker 1: enough about that, Scott, your training camp battle resolution. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so the first one I went over last last time
Speaker 1: we went over this was Melvin Gordon versus Javonte Williams
Speaker 1: on the Broncos. I don't know that we got much
Speaker 1: clarity at all. Week think the clarity is it's still split. Yeah,
Speaker 1: at the time we were talking about one reports one
Speaker 1: is seventy. We did get some clarity that Gordon said,
Speaker 1: in fact that the Broncos want Javonte to be the guy,
Speaker 1: so I feel like he's going to get more opportunity.
Speaker 1: The split is gonna go his way. Is it worth
Speaker 1: the ADP difference? I don't know. We may talk about
Speaker 1: find out later in this show. I was trying to
Speaker 1: tease it. All right, Bryan, your next training camp battle resolution,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna skip over the starting Carolina quarterback because we
Speaker 1: all know what happened there, um and go to you.
Speaker 1: Green Bay's wide receiver one. It was between Alan Lazard,
Speaker 1: Sammy Watkins, rookie Christian Watson rookie uh Dubbs. Recently, Matt
Speaker 1: Lafour head coach Matt Lafour said this about his wide
Speaker 1: receivers quote, I don't think anybody's clear cut in front
Speaker 1: of the other guy. I think it's gonna be very much.
Speaker 1: The ball's gonna get spread around, and we're gonna try
Speaker 1: to feature different guys in different spots. Gross, So there's
Speaker 1: no resolution. Fantasy owners don't ever want to hear that
Speaker 1: that they're gonna go hot hand on any position, including
Speaker 1: wide receiver. But if you're near the stripe, you're throwing
Speaker 1: to the six ft five Alans. That's the thing I
Speaker 1: feel most confident about is the touchdowns coming for Alan
Speaker 1: Lazart scored eight touchdowns, with Davante Adams hogging most you know,
Speaker 1: mostly attention, and Romeo Dubbs of course, of course, has
Speaker 1: been the splashy name in camp. But I'm most intrigued
Speaker 1: by Watson, who was the wide receiver they drafted and
Speaker 1: he missed a lot of training camp with injury. His
Speaker 1: ADP has fallen off, so he's the guy. I've kind
Speaker 1: of been buying the dip on Scott your next training
Speaker 1: camp resolution over to New England Patriots, where I feel
Speaker 1: like we're in a similar spot as the Denver Broncos,
Speaker 1: where we're talking about Romandre Stephenson and Damien Harris. Since
Speaker 1: the beginning of camp, Romondre Stephenson has been working on
Speaker 1: pass catching pass blocking. It's been a lot of talk.
Speaker 1: James White retired, they got rid of j J. Taylor. Um,
Speaker 1: it really feels and time my comery is now injured,
Speaker 1: so it feels like that role, that pass catching role
Speaker 1: is gonna be Stevenson. And Beat reports that as frequently
Speaker 1: as the end of this week are stating that Stevenson
Speaker 1: could leap frog Harris, and I'm buying it. I believe it.
Speaker 1: I hope you're right. Although done nothing, has done nothing wrong.
Speaker 1: He's he has good back, scored fifteen touchdowns last year,
Speaker 1: and we're like on this show in the preseason last year.
Speaker 1: I like that. I like that we called exactly fifteen
Speaker 1: too exact, Scott, Sorry, Brian, No, we are Scott, Brian, Brian,
Speaker 1: your next trading camp resolution, uh Giants wide receiver one
Speaker 1: was gonna be Kenny Golladay, Tony, maybe Stirling Shepherd. It's
Speaker 1: certainly not gonna be Kenny Golladay, who was awful. That
Speaker 1: was like Dave Gettleman's one last just the parting, the
Speaker 1: parting contract to destroy his team right, absolute worst GM
Speaker 1: of all time, and that includes the aforementioned Jerry Jones.
Speaker 1: So it looks like it's gonna be Darius Tony as
Speaker 1: New York's top wide receiver. But he's already on the
Speaker 1: injury report for Week one with a leg injury. But
Speaker 1: I feel like that's more of a probable than questionable.
Speaker 1: But as Scott said, Wan Dale Robinson, very intriguing name
Speaker 1: out there that you should probably scooping up in the
Speaker 1: later rounds of your draft. Scott, talk to me about
Speaker 1: your next training camp. Yeah, this this one is pretty easy.
Speaker 1: Is the Pittsburgh Steelers QB position. We went in a
Speaker 1: little curious what's gonna happen between Robinsky in their first
Speaker 1: round pick Kenny get seems like Trabisky won the battle,
Speaker 1: but honestly, pick It started out rough, but the he
Speaker 1: ended the preseason looking good, making fine plays, making some drives.
Speaker 1: I I would be shocked if pick It does not
Speaker 1: get some run late in the season, Brian, your next
Speaker 1: training camp battle resolution Philly RB one, Miles Sanders, Kenneth
Speaker 1: Gainwell of Boston Scott. It looked like Miles Sanders was
Speaker 1: clinging to that role, but he's unlikely, unlikey to play
Speaker 1: in the opener against I think he's gonna is he
Speaker 1: gonna go with the hamstring injury. That's how it's shaping up.
Speaker 1: He was starting to practice. He is the starter, but
Speaker 1: by no means is he a bell cow at all.
Speaker 1: This seems like it's gonna be almost like a three
Speaker 1: man rotation Boston Scott for those that by the way,
Speaker 1: Boston Scott is a character I need on the show.
Speaker 1: You need to work on your bas you and Matt
Speaker 1: and everybody. No, Tessa, I can help you out with
Speaker 1: this would be so good, A better than Colin mccockney.
Speaker 1: I next to mccockney. I never want to see that
Speaker 1: guy again. But anyway, UM, I still like gainwell out
Speaker 1: of these three guys in my own depth chart, but
Speaker 1: I just say avoid I watch Jalen Hurts yea and
Speaker 1: the rushing touchdowns and rushing yards I want. I mean
Speaker 1: Scott training camp battle resolutions. Uh. The next one we
Speaker 1: went over and my side anyway was the Chief's wide
Speaker 1: receiver one and wide receiver two roles. And honestly, I
Speaker 1: feel like, at least from what I've read what I've
Speaker 1: seen that it's pretty much all indications are Juju is
Speaker 1: taking that wide receiver one and it's gonna be a
Speaker 1: mess behind him, a mess of you don't know what
Speaker 1: to do with fantasy. You don't. It's gonna be best
Speaker 1: ball type ceiling weeks at best, so do just Schuster
Speaker 1: is actually an interesting one for me because I feel
Speaker 1: like he could be a hundred plus target guy, Brian,
Speaker 1: let's go to your next training camp resolution. I'm going
Speaker 1: to do a two for here, two for one because
Speaker 1: they're both regarding the Seahawks. Gino Smith beat out Drew Lock.
Speaker 1: It's more like Drew Lock beat out himself and and
Speaker 1: then for the starting running back job was a shot
Speaker 1: Penny and Kenneth Walker. But Walker has missed most of
Speaker 1: the preseason with this herning issue, might not go in
Speaker 1: week one, so it looks like it's shot. Penny is
Speaker 1: a starting running back. We'll see how long he lasts.
Speaker 1: We we've mentioned him before. Travis Homer. Interesting, Travis Homer
Speaker 1: looked better than I'm telling you. He looked eye test.
Speaker 1: He looked better than any of the other Seattle running backs.
Speaker 1: It may not amount to anything, but he had some
Speaker 1: eye popping moments in the preseason, like in the past
Speaker 1: game and with Walker out, and he'll get some worth
Speaker 1: worth the spot in deeper, deeper weeks. Scott, let's do
Speaker 1: one last training camp battle right here. Okay, let's go
Speaker 1: over to the Bills the ruin back position. We were
Speaker 1: talking Singlitary Cooking. We kind of talked Moss. It sounds
Speaker 1: like Moss had the best offseason ever, putting a ton
Speaker 1: of work after mentally dealing with those healthy scratches last year. Uh,
Speaker 1: and he's been talked up by everyone in Buffalo media,
Speaker 1: so he's gonna he basically more than he basically just
Speaker 1: muddied that backfield more than we like. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: you're probably right, Brian. Your last training camp battle, the
Speaker 1: last one was for Ampa Bay's wide receiver three between
Speaker 1: Julio Jones and Russell Gauge. I wouldn't see say either
Speaker 1: has won this job because they're very different players, and
Speaker 1: it looks like Julio is going to they play very
Speaker 1: different roles out of the wide receiver spot. Julio looks
Speaker 1: like more of a tight end really kind of the
Speaker 1: role he'll play, and the tight end they do. They
Speaker 1: got multiple openings almost and Tampa runs three wide receiver
Speaker 1: sets a lot, so I think they're both going to
Speaker 1: see the field plenty. So let's just call that one
Speaker 1: a draw. They're they're both lead. Both certainly rosterable. There
Speaker 1: you have at the training camp at battle resolutions that
Speaker 1: you care about when we come back. Three tough questions
Speaker 1: for our panel of experts, including what to do with
Speaker 1: Trey Lance. Now we'll talk about that when we come back.
Speaker 1: It's Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back to the show. It's
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Jarchi and Scott Fish and Brian
Speaker 1: Johnson with you. This is a game we call three
Speaker 1: tough questions. Tough question number one. With the forty nine
Speaker 1: years decision to keep Jimmy Garoppolo, what is the appropriate
Speaker 1: level of concern for those drafting tray Lance? Is it none?
Speaker 1: Some or a bowl loosening level of existential dread? Scott? None,
Speaker 1: not even a little this. I don't even know that
Speaker 1: this question deserves the response. I'm actually disappointed that you
Speaker 1: put this as a question. I think we're wasting people's
Speaker 1: time here. They simply brought him in or bought time
Speaker 1: to trade him. They made the contract tradeable if Jimmy
Speaker 1: approves it, because he got the no trade cross clause.
Speaker 1: They but they brought the financial burden down so that
Speaker 1: they could trade him, and he's a good backup if
Speaker 1: they can't. That's all it is. It's nothing for tray Lance, Okay, Brian.
Speaker 1: With a forty niners decision to keep Jimmy Garoppolo, what
Speaker 1: is the appropriate level of concern for those drafting tray Lance?
Speaker 1: Scott and I usually agree for the most part in
Speaker 1: three tough questions, but I disagree in this one. I
Speaker 1: got I got some concern for Trey Lance because the
Speaker 1: Niners were one game away from the Super Bowl. Last year,
Speaker 1: they were almost they were in the NFC Championship Game
Speaker 1: with Jimmy Garoppolo's quarterback there like, and if that safety
Speaker 1: just would have caught the ball, they would have gone
Speaker 1: in a lot of what if. So, I mean, if
Speaker 1: the Niners start one in three, one in four, it's
Speaker 1: probably Trey Lances fault. I'm not saying it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: So but if if they get off to a slow start,
Speaker 1: they can't afford to let this window slam shut on them,
Speaker 1: and then they could make a switch at quarterback and
Speaker 1: just say Lance needs some more time. I don't think
Speaker 1: that's gonna happen, but so some I would say little
Speaker 1: if I could, But I gotta go with So there's
Speaker 1: got not three options. I was pretty good. It's not none.
Speaker 1: It's something from me. No, it's none. Like if Lance
Speaker 1: is so bad the team pivots to Garoppolo, he wasn't
Speaker 1: gonna help you anyway. If Lances gets mentally shaken by
Speaker 1: Garoppolo's presence, he wasn't gonna help you anyway. Um, And
Speaker 1: he's just the backup for a team that clearly doesn't
Speaker 1: want him to start anymore. There's a long runway for
Speaker 1: Trey Lance. They've invested a ton in him. Um the
Speaker 1: I can't trust it until I see it, crowd, and
Speaker 1: I know there's a bunch of you listening that are
Speaker 1: that way. They will never win fantasy football championships because
Speaker 1: they are always replaying last year. You're not that way.
Speaker 1: You are going to look ahead to one and Trey
Speaker 1: Lance had league winning upside, was a runner, deep ball passer,
Speaker 1: and he's surrounded by great game breaking talent. Tough question
Speaker 1: number two, You've slept the tight end position for twelve rounds.
Speaker 1: Who is the best dart throw tight end you should
Speaker 1: take at that point, Brian, forgive me, Dan Arnold not
Speaker 1: you are not the answer. I'm sorry to say. I
Speaker 1: still believe in you, and I love you with all
Speaker 1: my heart, but I'm going with the aforementioned Isaiah Likely,
Speaker 1: who you basically summed it up charge. He's probably the
Speaker 1: second best wide receiver. He is, I mean Andrews is equally.
Speaker 1: I mean it's gonna be Andrews and Likely as the
Speaker 1: other wide receiver options who are tight and eligible, I
Speaker 1: mean likely, you're getting like a Kyle Pitts Jr. Type guys.
Speaker 1: I mean, he looks like he has coming from Brian.
Speaker 1: That's I mean, he's a guy who's just gonna He's
Speaker 1: not gonna be an inline blocker. Looks like he's got
Speaker 1: the skill set to play wide receiver. Like you said,
Speaker 1: it's Devin DuVernay and James pro Schet. I'm not sold
Speaker 1: on either of those guys, so I'm going likely here
Speaker 1: Scott who is the tight end that we should dart
Speaker 1: throw after twelve rounds have already passed, So so my
Speaker 1: options are basically IRV Smith, Albert Oh, David Joeku, Tony
Speaker 1: in Fans, Higbie, Everett Hurst, Ingram, Likely, etcetera type of guys.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with David and U uh. He was
Speaker 1: only ran routes on fort nine percent of his plays
Speaker 1: last year and he's still average about eight fancy points
Speaker 1: per game when when he was going full. But he
Speaker 1: looks like he's on track for about eight uh snap
Speaker 1: per route participation, route participating participation. Thank you, uh my
Speaker 1: favorite stats on njoku. I saw I saw this. CBS
Speaker 1: guy tweeted this. His his um average stepth of target
Speaker 1: has gone up three streets seasons. His yards after the catch.
Speaker 1: Three stage seasons, he's everything's improving for him, and they
Speaker 1: just give him a huge contract. They got rid of
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper and his sixty one targets from last year.
Speaker 1: And we talked about on the show a couple of times,
Speaker 1: how if you combine the three Browns tight ends, you
Speaker 1: would have a really good tight end. I think Najoku's
Speaker 1: path is pretty good for a guy you're getting in
Speaker 1: und The correct answer for the tight end to take
Speaker 1: if you've slept that position for twelve rounds is David
Speaker 1: and Joco, you hit most of my bullet points already.
Speaker 1: Kevin Stefanski uses his tight ends a lot. Fourth highest
Speaker 1: tight end target rate last year came out of Kevin
Speaker 1: Stefanski and the Cleveland Browns. And here's the kick scored
Speaker 1: touchdowns his tight ends. Stefanski is targeted the tight end
Speaker 1: position more than any other position on plays that start
Speaker 1: from inside the five yard line. So some easy touchdowns coming,
Speaker 1: which you've already you just mentioned Scott for David and Joke,
Speaker 1: can I give you one more stet. Jacoby Brissett's last
Speaker 1: full season he played, he targeted tight ends a hundred
Speaker 1: and thirty five times in fifteen games. That means he
Speaker 1: was targeting tight tight ends nine times per game. You
Speaker 1: don't say, I don't say tough. Question number three, Well,
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray straighten out the hit or miss production we
Speaker 1: saw from Marquis Brown during Brown's tenure in Baltimore. Scott
Speaker 1: probably not those really high A dot Boomer bust guys
Speaker 1: generally don't even out production. I I tend to think
Speaker 1: he you saw it with DeAndre Hopkins last year. He
Speaker 1: had a couple two for twenty one to for fifty days.
Speaker 1: I can see that also for in his you know,
Speaker 1: first six or seven games. I can see that also
Speaker 1: for Marquis Brown, and when DeAndre Hopkins get back, it's
Speaker 1: only going to spread around more. I think you're looking
Speaker 1: at another boomer bus season here. All right, Brian did well.
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray straighten out the hit or missproduction we saw
Speaker 1: from Marquis Brown last year. For those who didn't know this,
Speaker 1: despite the fact they played together at Oklahoma, I'm still
Speaker 1: gonna say, no, um, who would which team do you
Speaker 1: think through the ball more than last year? The Ravens
Speaker 1: or the Cardinals? Cardinals wrong? It was Ravens who were
Speaker 1: ninth in past attempts with six and ten. The Cardinals
Speaker 1: were sixte I would have never got I assume the
Speaker 1: same thing, but I had to look it up and
Speaker 1: I was like, okay, and then I went a little
Speaker 1: further and Marquis Brown finished twenty nine among games we
Speaker 1: probably sn I'm sorry, among wide receivers and half PPR
Speaker 1: points per game last year with a target share north
Speaker 1: of that's a lot. Now he's going to a team
Speaker 1: that's gonna throw the ball less, and I think it's
Speaker 1: a lateral move at quarterback between Lamar Jackson and Ler Murray.
Speaker 1: And I think there's despite DeAndre Hopkins being suspended, I
Speaker 1: think there's more competition for targets. So I'm gonna say no,
Speaker 1: the correct answer is yes, Tyler Murray will help the
Speaker 1: hit or missproduction we've seen from Marcus Brown. First, just
Speaker 1: Hopkins alone free frees up seven targets a game. Now,
Speaker 1: granted it's not for the whole season, but that will
Speaker 1: give us a good running start um. And they also
Speaker 1: obviously lost Christian Kirk in the office. Randell Morris hurt
Speaker 1: right now, rand hurt for the moment anyway, And it's
Speaker 1: just a water bug anyway. I just I'm not. He's
Speaker 1: never gonna be a guy that's gonna soak up targets
Speaker 1: A J. Green, no threat, Antoine Wesley sneaky threat. But
Speaker 1: that's all week. George quiet Than never said. Last year
Speaker 1: under Kyler Murray, at least one of his wide receivers
Speaker 1: scored or crossed one hundred yards in nine of the
Speaker 1: first ten games. Oh no, he got Wesley got placed
Speaker 1: on injured reserve. That it was, Oh yeah, I got
Speaker 1: Iared he was, Yeah, he was. He was battling in
Speaker 1: in the preseason. That's too bad. He was one of
Speaker 1: my like my deepest darts. I knew it was something
Speaker 1: with him. Thank you for looking that up. Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: was able to get good production out of one of
Speaker 1: his at least one of his wide receivers up until
Speaker 1: everything sort of tank for him after Thanksgiving. The hope
Speaker 1: is that he can he he and by the way,
Speaker 1: if he and Cliff Kingsbury don't do better in December,
Speaker 1: they're gone. They got to straighten that out because if
Speaker 1: they are, they are one more bad December away from
Speaker 1: losing their job. All Kyler Murkin's got the big contract.
Speaker 1: I will consider your point for the first six weeks
Speaker 1: that he'll be more consistent after that when Hopkins is back.
Speaker 1: I don't think, you know what, I don't think. I
Speaker 1: don't think Hopkins got that much left in the tank.
Speaker 1: Conversion of him we saw last year was certainly not
Speaker 1: the dominating version that we had seen in his Houston days.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I'm optimistic on markis Brown. I've been
Speaker 1: a skeptic up until this point of the career. I
Speaker 1: want to think it's gonna come together here with great opportunity.
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Speaker 1: number two In Moments, our number two Fantasy Football weekly.
Speaker 1: Paul Charchi and Scott Fish and Brian Johnson with you.
Speaker 1: This segment devoted to teammates, which teammate is the better
Speaker 1: one to draft based on their ADP. Now, in most
Speaker 1: cases we know exactly who the better teammate is do
Speaker 1: who's going to score more Fantasy points? But when you
Speaker 1: apply to the draft capital you have to give up
Speaker 1: to get that guy, the whole equation changes. We'd all
Speaker 1: rather have. Wow, let's go. We can go right to
Speaker 1: the first. Let's do it. The Buffalo backfield. Devin Singletary
Speaker 1: going in round seven, James Cook going in round ten,
Speaker 1: or Zack Moss going in round twenty four. Scott, let's
Speaker 1: begin with you. Yeah, So, as an early early guy
Speaker 1: on Singletary and a guy who really likes the highlights
Speaker 1: of James Cook, I'm still going with Zack mosson round
Speaker 1: twenty four, just because I don't really want a part
Speaker 1: of this backfield right now, and if I have to
Speaker 1: take one, it's going to be the round twenty four
Speaker 1: guy who's been talked up all preseason. That makes sense, Brian,
Speaker 1: what do you think? Devin Singletary in the seventh, James
Speaker 1: Cook in the tenth, there's Zack Moss in round twenty four. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Scott and I are in pretty much full this offense
Speaker 1: is going to go through Josh Allen, whether it's his
Speaker 1: arm or his legs. So I'm just taking the cheapest
Speaker 1: guy here, and uh, it's Zack mosson he's broken our
Speaker 1: hearts in the past. Give him one more chance at
Speaker 1: this price. Meant by Singletary and Cook. Thing is I
Speaker 1: like those players and even I don't want so it's
Speaker 1: a fair point. Um, I totally agree with all the
Speaker 1: points you made. I'd take Zack moss out of that group,
Speaker 1: mostly just because I don't want to invest in the others.
Speaker 1: Let's go to New England. Which teammate would you rather draft?
Speaker 1: You have to draft one and only one, Romandre Stevenson
Speaker 1: now going round seven or Damien Harris going round ten,
Speaker 1: and that much, I'm gonna pay up for Romandre Stevenson
Speaker 1: in the seventh round over Harris. Um. I think he's
Speaker 1: a special player, will be a special player. Going back
Speaker 1: to his college days at Oklahoma, he was on his
Speaker 1: way to being one of the top backs in college football,
Speaker 1: got suspended for marijuana lame and then in he had
Speaker 1: to split time with Trey Sermon, who was also very lame.
Speaker 1: But even in splitting that time, Stevenson force an average
Speaker 1: point three six missed tackles per carry in according to
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus, that was the fifth best mark in
Speaker 1: college football. He had hundred nineteen touches and college lost.
Speaker 1: You areadag on just four of them. He's a He's
Speaker 1: the beast, and I think he's gonna He's already taken
Speaker 1: over the starting job, and I think he's We don't
Speaker 1: know that all we think that. I know Harris had
Speaker 1: his fifteen touchdowns last year, but I think Stevenson is
Speaker 1: the more skilled player and I would take him in
Speaker 1: the seventh round over Harris in the tenth. Alright, Scott,
Speaker 1: which New England running back? Would you take Remander Stevenson
Speaker 1: in the seventh or Damien Harris in the tenth. It
Speaker 1: feels like I've talked about Romandre Stevenson every single week
Speaker 1: on this is very clear for me. In fact, round seven,
Speaker 1: I've been taking him round six. I feel like I
Speaker 1: took him five twelve ones, like I'm I'm taking him
Speaker 1: that early just because he's got RB one like top
Speaker 1: twelve running back in him. If he does leave Pro
Speaker 1: Damian Harris, I'll take that all day. Damien Harris if
Speaker 1: he's going If he's dipped to the tenth. I'm buying
Speaker 1: that dip. Yeah, after the way, that's not how the
Speaker 1: game is, but I'm buying that dip if that's if
Speaker 1: that's where he's going. Now that's crazy. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the Jets, would you? Well, who are you taking? I'm
Speaker 1: on Stevenson as work, But this is mostly a game
Speaker 1: for you guys. I'm just I'm playing. I'm just playing
Speaker 1: the the role of of like game show host. Here
Speaker 1: Breese Hall in round four or Michael Carter. Again, these
Speaker 1: are teammates. You have to pick one. Jets running back
Speaker 1: to Breecee Hall in round four Michael Carter round eleven.
Speaker 1: I believe we're in Scott to go first for this one.
Speaker 1: Sure it's still Briest Hall, but man, that is quite
Speaker 1: a gap. And Michael Carter is the presumed starter at
Speaker 1: this point. I just really I know he hasn't, you know,
Speaker 1: flashed enough to step up, but he's had flashes, and
Speaker 1: I really feel like this is one of those Jonathan
Speaker 1: Taylor or Adrian Peter Peterson situations where Chester Taylor had
Speaker 1: the starting role but it took three or four weeks,
Speaker 1: or Marlon Mack had the starting role over John and
Speaker 1: took three or four weeks before they got going. But
Speaker 1: I feel the second half of this season is gonna
Speaker 1: be Bruce Hall. And I think Bruce Hall is going
Speaker 1: to be borderline, you know, definitely a top twenty four
Speaker 1: guy in that range. So I will take the round
Speaker 1: four Briest Hall. It's it's looking not too good right now,
Speaker 1: all right, Brian Breese Hall, Round four, Michael Carter, round eleven.
Speaker 1: I would shoot the moon for Bruese Hall, but I'm
Speaker 1: worried about that offensive line in New York, especially after
Speaker 1: they lost lest left tackle and guy backed in. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the cheaper Carter, who is the starter
Speaker 1: for now and could maintain that role throughout the season.
Speaker 1: According to Profo both Focus, Carter forced more miss tackles
Speaker 1: per touch than Javonte Williams last year, so he can play.
Speaker 1: And uh, if there's a seven round delta between the two,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the cheaper guy here. Yeah, I'm with you,
Speaker 1: cheaper guy. Let's go to Cincinnati. Jamaar Chase will cost
Speaker 1: you a first rounder teammate Tehiggens a third rounder or
Speaker 1: Tyler Boyd a long time Brian Johnson favorite round eleven.
Speaker 1: But this is a sticky one, Brian, which one would
Speaker 1: you choose at his average draft position? Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: a big boyd guy. Well before Tee Higgins Smart ticket
Speaker 1: store around, they kind of they kind of spoiled the
Speaker 1: ruin the party there. Uh so he's out of the
Speaker 1: equation for me. Boy that is, I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: Higgins in around three who outscored Jamar Chase in PPR
Speaker 1: last year from weeks fifteen or weeks five through sixteen,
Speaker 1: And Jamaar Chase had that monster week seventeen that won
Speaker 1: everyone in their league if they had him on Rosster,
Speaker 1: especially if he was paired with Joe Burrow. But if
Speaker 1: you replaced that monster Week seventeen just with his per
Speaker 1: game average, which is like fifteen PPR points per game,
Speaker 1: Chase finishes just barely inside the top ten among wide receivers.
Speaker 1: So his number is a little skewed by that monster
Speaker 1: week uh seventeen games. So I'm gonna take Higgins here. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not just that monster week. I think something like
Speaker 1: thirty three or thirty five percent of his uh Fantasy
Speaker 1: points came off of eight plays. Wow, that's amazing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it was a lot of but he gets those
Speaker 1: like that's part of his games. You can't really detract it.
Speaker 1: It's just an interesting thing. Uh. For me, I'm taking
Speaker 1: Tee Higgins at the two round discount, uh, because a
Speaker 1: lot of people do forget like he was better than
Speaker 1: Jamaar Chase seven out of the seventeen weeks from week
Speaker 1: eight to fourteen, he was the better receiver as Chase dipped,
Speaker 1: and Chase did have a couple of monster games that
Speaker 1: really really buoyed his fantasy production. Like, uh, but it's
Speaker 1: a two rounds like you can get someone really good
Speaker 1: in the in the first and get comparable production two
Speaker 1: rounds later, and people forget Higgins had the monsters. Higgins
Speaker 1: two touchdowns and post yards and Chase was opened on
Speaker 1: the last play. If Burrow had another second, Higgins was
Speaker 1: my wide receiver thirteen. I might move him to twelve.
Speaker 1: I'm he's in. He's right there for me, let's go
Speaker 1: to Pittsburgh. Teammates. Would you pay? Who would you Who
Speaker 1: would you draft? Deonta Johnson Round four, George Pickens Round nine,
Speaker 1: Chase Claypool round ten, Scott h It's George Pickens for me,
Speaker 1: I feel like I have him on every roster and
Speaker 1: I can't get enough of him. I need him on
Speaker 1: every roster. Uh, it's it's the five round discount. I'm
Speaker 1: not even sure Deonta Johnson is going to be the
Speaker 1: complete target hog that he was with and who I
Speaker 1: think in part I believe Ben's noodle arm forced him
Speaker 1: to throw it so short to Deonta Johnson all the time.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure he gets the same volume he gets. Uh.
Speaker 1: And and plus there's just a lot of other players
Speaker 1: I want in round four. In round nine, I'm getting
Speaker 1: a George Pickens that I feel like, could you know
Speaker 1: be a top thirty six receiver starting wide receiver on
Speaker 1: your fantasy team? All right, Brian, which Pittsburgh wide receiver
Speaker 1: would you rather have Deonte Johnson round four, George Pickens
Speaker 1: round nine, or Chase Claypool round ten? I love Pickens
Speaker 1: like like Fish does. But I'm still I'm still gonna
Speaker 1: go Deonta Johnson in round four. I know things have changed.
Speaker 1: He might not be the target hog that he was
Speaker 1: with Roethlisberger. By the way, last year, only Cooper Cup
Speaker 1: saw more targets than Deonta Johnson and Deonta Johnson only also,
Speaker 1: only twenty seven percent of his games resulted in the
Speaker 1: finish outside of the top thirty at wide receiver. I
Speaker 1: got this great info from your your cheat sheets. By
Speaker 1: the way, eatings dot Com. The only other wide receivers
Speaker 1: who did that finished outside of the top third in
Speaker 1: under three percent of their games, or Justin Jefferson, Cooper
Speaker 1: Cup and Deebo Samuel So Johnson, he just feels much
Speaker 1: safer than me. Pickens scold had that Randy Moss splash,
Speaker 1: But I don't know if it's gonna come in your one.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Dallas. Would you rather have
Speaker 1: Zeke in round three or Tony Pollard in round six?
Speaker 1: As we continue through our battling teammates Brian offensive line
Speaker 1: issues in Dallas, So of course you gotta we worry
Speaker 1: about Zeke a little bit. But I'm still gonna take
Speaker 1: Zeke in round three. I think that's still a good
Speaker 1: discount for a guy who was well on his way
Speaker 1: to being a top five running back last year before
Speaker 1: his season was kind of derailed in Week six with
Speaker 1: injuries that he played through the remainder of the season.
Speaker 1: He'sdaveraging over five yards per carry with it with a
Speaker 1: banged up offensive line then, so I'm still gonna go Zeke.
Speaker 1: I love Pollard though, Yeah, it's Zeke. He's still putting
Speaker 1: up top ten running back numbers time and time again,
Speaker 1: and people just don't like him anymore. Even though he
Speaker 1: played injured last year, that's in his production didn't even
Speaker 1: go down that much while injured. He's fully healthy this
Speaker 1: year and it's his final year probably with the Cowboys
Speaker 1: going to run him eighteen total touches from inside the
Speaker 1: five last year for Zeke, Pollard had one. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean that's just you know, if we want at the
Speaker 1: end of the day, we want touchdowns, Zeke's that guy.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Chicago as we look at the teammates
Speaker 1: that we would prefer to draft over another. We go
Speaker 1: to David Montgomery round five, Khalil Herbert coming in at
Speaker 1: round eleven, Scott, which one would you take? Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm taking Herbert basically because I don't really love either
Speaker 1: of them. Herbert's got head buzz about being more involved
Speaker 1: in splitting more. It's uh, David Montgomery has not been
Speaker 1: an efficient running back. It's all been volume for him,
Speaker 1: and I'm not sure he gets the same volume in
Speaker 1: that offensive line is terrible. I really don't want either,
Speaker 1: but if I have to, I guess I'll spend the eleven.
Speaker 1: You'll take the discount. Do you feel any differently, Brian?
Speaker 1: Can I take trust and Ebner in the last round?
Speaker 1: Considering Justin Fields is going to lead the Bears and
Speaker 1: rushing I predict this year, So yeah, I'll take the
Speaker 1: cheaper guy all day. All right, let's go to Green Bay.
Speaker 1: This one is really pretty which running back? Are you
Speaker 1: going to take Aaron Jones in round two or a
Speaker 1: J Dillon in round five? Brian, this feels like it'll
Speaker 1: be as close as you can get to a fifty
Speaker 1: fifty split between two very talented guys. So I'm going
Speaker 1: to take the cheaper guy in a J. Dillon, And
Speaker 1: mainly because if you gotta take Jones in the second round.
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara is sitting there and I'm all over Kamara
Speaker 1: and I'm taking him ten out of ten times over
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones. So we're about I'm gonna take later. It
Speaker 1: is part of the argument that was my thoughts too,
Speaker 1: is there They're like Aaron Jones, I feel like he
Speaker 1: could lead that team in receptions, he could be RB one,
Speaker 1: like I feel like that's in his range, but there's
Speaker 1: also a ton of really talented running backs in that
Speaker 1: same range that are going with him. I would rather
Speaker 1: take a j. Dillon, who I play in the league
Speaker 1: with later the fifth and take the disc outed he
Speaker 1: could be at RB one if Aaron Jones gets hurt.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Minnesota another I think another
Speaker 1: fairly tricky one. But we'll find out which teammate. Yeah
Speaker 1: we are in Minnesota, which teammate is the better one
Speaker 1: to draft Justin Jefferson round one, Adam Feeling. Round six.
Speaker 1: Probably should have added in kJ Osborne, but that's not
Speaker 1: Probably should have uh, Jefferson one feeling round six, Scott.
Speaker 1: So this one I still haven't recovered from saying Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson in round two versus Adam Feeling in round five
Speaker 1: last year at the Fair, and I got booed for it,
Speaker 1: um because I said Jefferson and everybody else thought it
Speaker 1: was a little bit better, a little bitter. We love
Speaker 1: the people to State Fair. Most of them are drunk.
Speaker 1: That is true. It is it is obviously ten in
Speaker 1: the morning. Was still when we do why not all
Speaker 1: of them, Okay at the airport and time for me,
Speaker 1: it's Adam Feeling. It's Adam Feeling now at this one,
Speaker 1: because justin Jefferson, you are spending a top three pick,
Speaker 1: Adam Feeling, You're getting in round six, sometimes round five,
Speaker 1: sometimes even round seven, and you're getting a guy who
Speaker 1: is I say very likely, I not even just likely,
Speaker 1: very likely to be a ten plus touchdown guy, which
Speaker 1: is crazy in that round. Yeah, I'm gonna see on that.
Speaker 1: Brian feel any differently I do. I gotta go Jefferson.
Speaker 1: Among the big three wide receivers, and that's Jefferson, Cup
Speaker 1: and Jamar Chase. I feel like Feeling poses the least
Speaker 1: threat to his counterpart. I'm more concerned with te Higgins
Speaker 1: obviously for Jamar Chase's sake, and in Allen Robinson with
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup. So if I'm gonna pay up for a
Speaker 1: one of the big wide receivers, it is justin Jefferson.
Speaker 1: Feelings kind of old. There's more risk built into Feeling
Speaker 1: for sure. With the injury history, there's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: All Right, We've got time for one last one. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Tampa Bay. Mike Evans Round three, Chris Godwin
Speaker 1: Round five. Brian, I'm going Godwin, who has finished wide
Speaker 1: receiver to wide receiver fifteen wide receiver seven in points
Speaker 1: per games, over the points per game over the last
Speaker 1: three seasons, and he seems like he's gonna be ready
Speaker 1: for Week one. They released Tyler Johnson, so I think
Speaker 1: Godwin's gonna be a ghost. I think the cheaper guy. Honestly,
Speaker 1: there's are both very good values for both. I started
Speaker 1: to lean Godwin, but I'm gonna go with Mike Evans,
Speaker 1: who's bent double digit touchdowns every single year. Top that's
Speaker 1: the touchdowns. I like touchdowns. Everybody who likes touchdowns, everybody
Speaker 1: absolutely absolutely. When we come back, I might be wrong
Speaker 1: about that. There's some stances that we take on this
Speaker 1: show that are pretty strong. We'll confess the things that
Speaker 1: are keeping us up at night about that. Maybe we're
Speaker 1: not right about It's a possibility. We'll find out what
Speaker 1: they are when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly.
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Speaker 1: the things that we might be wrong about. I was,
Speaker 1: I was not exactly right. Any good fantasy show has
Speaker 1: got you gotta take strong take some things. You gotta
Speaker 1: strong opinions. You have to predict what's going to happen.
Speaker 1: But then you lay awake at night you think, what
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong? What are the things keeping you guys
Speaker 1: awake at night? Brian, what might you be wrong about?
Speaker 1: I think of Kyle Pitts all night long, all day,
Speaker 1: Just Kyle Pitts on my mind all the time. By
Speaker 1: the way, Scott, where is that jock strap that you're
Speaker 1: choir from one of your many years, from your collection,
Speaker 1: your personal collection. No, no, he's saying. He's saying because
Speaker 1: I I played a league with Tyler Algier, that Algier,
Speaker 1: I should connect with Algier to get one from. Yes,
Speaker 1: So I might be wrong about Kyle Pitts being a
Speaker 1: league winner. And I've been advocating to reach around for
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts, grabbing him the second round. But even if
Speaker 1: drafting them the third round, you're drafting him to be
Speaker 1: a league winner as a tight end. And that would
Speaker 1: have been the case last year if not for the
Speaker 1: one touchdown um. He was one of three tight ends
Speaker 1: the top of thousand yards, Travis Kelsey and Mark Andrews
Speaker 1: the only other two. Pitts average more yards perception than
Speaker 1: Kelsey and Andrews did. That'd be right. Well, I know this,
Speaker 1: and that's why I've been banging the drum. But I
Speaker 1: could be wrong. I could be wrong because maybe they
Speaker 1: continue to misutilize him. The quarterback play might be worse.
Speaker 1: I'm not a fan of Matt Ryan, but Marcus Mariota's
Speaker 1: starting quarterback. You never know. Drake London I think helps
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts cause, but maybe he is the alpha receiver
Speaker 1: for the Falcons. So there are there is some concern
Speaker 1: that Kyle Pitts may not be the league winner that
Speaker 1: I'm telling him as. But I'm still I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: be wrong about this. But maybe okay, all right, Scott,
Speaker 1: what is keeping you awake? What do you what are
Speaker 1: you worried that you might be wrong about? So I'm
Speaker 1: way overweight on Alan Robinson. I've been in on him
Speaker 1: on almost every show I've done. I've thrown out there.
Speaker 1: The Robert Woods was wide receiver twelve before the injury,
Speaker 1: and O b J was wide receiver thirteen from the
Speaker 1: time he got there to the end of the season.
Speaker 1: But O b J had a few games that weren't
Speaker 1: that great. They just scored touchdowns, and Robert Woods had
Speaker 1: a couple, like a hundred and fifty yard game and
Speaker 1: like a touch Maybe it was a little, you know,
Speaker 1: a little more flukey than I like to believe. Van
Speaker 1: Jefferson will be coming back, And what if he takes
Speaker 1: a step up? What if O b J. H Allen
Speaker 1: Robinson is actually half washed at this point and the
Speaker 1: Bears to tell you he is. What if all those
Speaker 1: things are actually what was going on? And that the
Speaker 1: value the wide receiver too, I think I'm getting is
Speaker 1: more like a wide receiver for And there is concern
Speaker 1: with Matt Stafford's elbow. Yes, yeah, yeah, there's There's a
Speaker 1: lot of things that could actually be going wrong here
Speaker 1: and I'm choosing not to see them. One of the
Speaker 1: things that I'm laying awake at night worrying about, what
Speaker 1: if the Bears offense doesn't self destruct from the offensive
Speaker 1: line backwards, which is the rearly the thinking I think
Speaker 1: for all, Yeah, this offensive line is so bad commercially
Speaker 1: bears on any of my teams. But what if it
Speaker 1: turns out that maybe offensive line is not as important
Speaker 1: as we think it is. Maybe Justin Fields is just
Speaker 1: gonna scramble that much more and run that much more,
Speaker 1: and that he's going to be a very serviceable fantasy
Speaker 1: court About if Alex Leatherwood uh by them? What what
Speaker 1: if he turns into the Vikings Raiders Dan Carlson version, right, right,
Speaker 1: I mean what that maybe the Bears aren't gonna be
Speaker 1: you know, basically, I've got him pegged as the worst
Speaker 1: offense or one of the worst offense. What if I'm
Speaker 1: completely wrong that offensiveive line matters this much, Brian, what
Speaker 1: else is keeping you up nights? Well? I said, Uh,
Speaker 1: I peacocked off that se Kwan Barkley will finish his
Speaker 1: RB one. Let's just say I could be wrong that
Speaker 1: he finishes as a top five back at the very least. Uh,
Speaker 1: for the reasons. The reasons I think he could be
Speaker 1: RB one is he's two years removed from the major
Speaker 1: knee injury. The offensive line is much improved in New York.
Speaker 1: They have a new head coach, offensive mind of Brian Dable,
Speaker 1: former offensive according for the Bills. But what if Barkley,
Speaker 1: even though he's still young, what if he just we've
Speaker 1: seen the best room him and that was his in
Speaker 1: his rookie year and the Giant What if the Giants
Speaker 1: offense is continues to be inept. They're they're pretty weak
Speaker 1: at wide receiver, Barkley might see a ton of stack boxes.
Speaker 1: But uh, still very optimistic for sake Kwon Barkley. But
Speaker 1: I could be wrong about this, and it's gonna sting
Speaker 1: because I'm starting to take him in the late first
Speaker 1: round and even earlier if I've been earlier draft pick.
Speaker 1: I just think this ceiling is sky high. And once again,
Speaker 1: you're going back to you. Okay, you get if if
Speaker 1: I'm we're saying we might be wrong about things. So
Speaker 1: I have to say why I thought i'm or why
Speaker 1: I'm adicating for this. That's fair, Scott. What is keeping
Speaker 1: you awake at night? What might you be wrong to see?
Speaker 1: These things aren't give me awake at night? But what
Speaker 1: if I'm wrong? On Miles Sanders, He's been borderline undraftable
Speaker 1: for me. I have zero of him in any of
Speaker 1: my leagues. He hasn't involved much in the passing game.
Speaker 1: He's barely averaged to catches per game over the last
Speaker 1: two seasons. He doesn't get goal of line work. He's
Speaker 1: had six rush attempts inside the five last year out
Speaker 1: of forty three attempts from the team. Um. He even
Speaker 1: says don't draft him, but there he caught fifty balls
Speaker 1: his rookie year and he was super efficient catching the ball.
Speaker 1: What if he reclaims that role? He might be the
Speaker 1: RB one on an offense that I think is primed
Speaker 1: to take off. I think Jalen Hurts is gonna have
Speaker 1: a good year and take that offense off. And what
Speaker 1: if he's the RB one? What if he does become
Speaker 1: that goal line back like Eckler, who didn't get goal
Speaker 1: line snaps and then all of a sudden did. We
Speaker 1: might be looking at the RB one on a really
Speaker 1: good offense that I've just completely avoided because of what
Speaker 1: happened the last two years. Very fair, Very fair. I
Speaker 1: might be wrong about cam Akers. I've talked about it
Speaker 1: a million times on the show. Nobody's come back from
Speaker 1: running back, to come back from a torn achilles to
Speaker 1: have a productive career, um numerous at least one report
Speaker 1: that I've seen suggesting cam Akers had some kind of
Speaker 1: new fangled procedure that might have yield better results, and
Speaker 1: that new that new procedure is what let him come
Speaker 1: back as fast as he did for the playoff run
Speaker 1: last year. I hope I am wrong to mean this
Speaker 1: is the thing. I hope I'm wrong about. I hope
Speaker 1: cam Akers has a great career. But I've been I've
Speaker 1: been off of him. I've been drafting Darrell Henderson or
Speaker 1: just avoiding that whole backfield for all you know, for
Speaker 1: the this entire year. And cam Akers might be the first,
Speaker 1: maybe it's the first running back in the history of
Speaker 1: the NFL to be productive after the Achilles Brian, what
Speaker 1: might you be wrong about? I've been banging the drums
Speaker 1: since the spring saying Dallas Goddard is going going to
Speaker 1: join the tight End Elite this year. Um. I might
Speaker 1: be wrong about that though, but all all the metrics
Speaker 1: were there. I won't go into them. I've said a
Speaker 1: multiple times on this show, but he just didn't see
Speaker 1: the volume last season with Philly, um zach Ertz has
Speaker 1: gone now, so that helps his cause. But A J.
Speaker 1: Browns and Town Philadelphia also has an arguably the one
Speaker 1: of the best, the best defense or one of the
Speaker 1: best defenses in the NFL. Now, maybe they're not going
Speaker 1: to be involved in a ton of shootouts. They might
Speaker 1: be a more run heavy team, but yeah, Davante Smith
Speaker 1: A J. Brown are gonna soak up targets. Uh. You
Speaker 1: know they've got good running backs in Miles Sanders, Keneth Ganewell,
Speaker 1: and Baston Scott. So if Dallas Goddard doesn't see the volume,
Speaker 1: he won't join the tight end Elite. But I still
Speaker 1: think he will so, but I still could be wrong
Speaker 1: about that. Scott, what might you be wrong about? I'm
Speaker 1: going over to Adam Felan, and I hate to say
Speaker 1: this because I'm a Vikings fan and we have beat
Speaker 1: this drum but that best end zone conversion right in
Speaker 1: the NFL over the last two years, um those you know,
Speaker 1: ten touchdowns and eleven healthy fall games. He's gotten hurt
Speaker 1: a lot recently. He could he could just be in
Speaker 1: his thirties and starting to get hurt more. This Kevin
Speaker 1: O'Connell offense. They fed Cooper Cup in the end zone.
Speaker 1: We we don't know that Adam DeLand roll Theelan's role
Speaker 1: is going to stay the same in that area that
Speaker 1: it was in the Zimmer regime. It might be justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson in the Cooper Cup role taking those end zone targets.
Speaker 1: Like with Kevin O'Connell's offense. What if k j Osborne
Speaker 1: steps up more than we think? What if Cook lining
Speaker 1: up outside like he's doing takes more receptions than we
Speaker 1: think and more short stuff which Adam theland does. I
Speaker 1: could be wrong about Adam Felan, and uh it scares
Speaker 1: me because I got him everywhere. I don't think I
Speaker 1: am though. I don't think you are either well hopefully
Speaker 1: hopefully you're exactly wrong, or well you're right, uh and
Speaker 1: wrong about being wrong. I might be wrong about that
Speaker 1: Bucks offense. What if Tom Brady is just as magical
Speaker 1: and timeless as ever. What if all of the things
Speaker 1: that have gone wrong around Tom Brady this year, what
Speaker 1: if they don't matter? What if they just don't matter
Speaker 1: because it's Tom freaking Brady. When you know, and we've
Speaker 1: talked already on this show, all the discounted prices on
Speaker 1: all of these buccaneers. Everybody's worried, offensive lines and shambles.
Speaker 1: Chris Goodwin's trying to come back from an a c
Speaker 1: L lost grong, this you know, lost her head coach,
Speaker 1: so many things that have gone wrong. But what if
Speaker 1: it just doesn't matter because it's Tom Brady. Yep, he's
Speaker 1: looking a little frail. Since it's uh, Philip peaked, that
Speaker 1: makes it a burger too, would you you know? You
Speaker 1: might well, that's not part of the burger is really
Speaker 1: part of the t V eight experience. We've never determined
Speaker 1: where he went right. He never disclosed that. No, we
Speaker 1: don't know now, even though he came back looking like
Speaker 1: he had half of his face stuck that anything else, anybody,
Speaker 1: anything else? Leaving you guys awake? I got one more,
Speaker 1: I'll drop one more. Uh cool? Comet. I've been all
Speaker 1: over him off the drafting everywhere as my second tight end,
Speaker 1: and if I've punted it, I've taken him in the
Speaker 1: eighth or ninth. He had sixty receptions on ninety three
Speaker 1: targets and limited work fighting off Jimmy Graham and Jesse James.
Speaker 1: And if you think they didn't weren't taking much, they
Speaker 1: were combining for like forty five snaps a game the
Speaker 1: last few weeks, etcetera. Uh, both are gone now he's
Speaker 1: the third year tight end Allen Robinson has gone. Now.
Speaker 1: In fact, the Bears lost their second, third, and fourth
Speaker 1: or no, not their second. They lost three of their
Speaker 1: top five target getters. Um, I've been all over it.
Speaker 1: But what if the offense, like we've talked about with
Speaker 1: the Bears, and Matt talked about this as a bus
Speaker 1: candidate last week. What if it's just completely an emic?
Speaker 1: What if this offense he didn't score any touched owns
Speaker 1: last year because they didn't get him in the red
Speaker 1: zone enough. What if that's the offense. So I'm laying
Speaker 1: awake because the Bears offense might be better than I thought.
Speaker 1: You're laying away because the Bears offense might be worse,
Speaker 1: you thought, Yeah, exactly. That's also they passed it one
Speaker 1: of the lowest rates inside the inside the ten last year,
Speaker 1: and that's where tight ends make their hay. That is true.
Speaker 1: I think they may have been the run heaviest team,
Speaker 1: or if they were, it must be close to that.
Speaker 1: It was a two to one run pass ratio. It's
Speaker 1: not the five um last one I'll say. That's left
Speaker 1: made me wonder a little bit. And I've passed on
Speaker 1: Antonio Gibson like in my various leagues a hundred times.
Speaker 1: You know, what, what if he responds to all these challenges?
Speaker 1: Well he was the what if he is the player
Speaker 1: we hoped he would be at this time last year,
Speaker 1: and now Brian Robinson's out of the picture through no
Speaker 1: fault of his own, and he just houses the main
Speaker 1: running back job commanders all year. So they released Jared Patterson,
Speaker 1: they're clearly comfortable with they are with him and Gibson absolutely.
Speaker 1: When we come back Thursday night, preview Yeah Game, Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly Style and releasing our final sleepers of the preseason.
Speaker 1: Final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. Coming up next final
Speaker 1: segment of Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchi and Scott Fish
Speaker 1: and Brian Johnson with you. There's a brand new way
Speaker 1: to play Guillotine least called zombie Mode. The idea is
Speaker 1: for anybody who's been nervous about joining a guillotine league
Speaker 1: because you don't want to get chopped. You don't want
Speaker 1: to have a five week experience, I have your season
Speaker 1: and early instead of getting chopped, you joined the bombie
Speaker 1: horde that stays alive and continues to pester and ultimately
Speaker 1: try to kill off the human surviving teams and perhaps
Speaker 1: ultimately the end of the year, retain regain your humanity. Yeah,
Speaker 1: in a nutshell, if you get chopped and become a zombie,
Speaker 1: you lose your whole team, but you still maintain whatever
Speaker 1: fab you have le half half your fab, but you
Speaker 1: just got to build a whole new team. Yep. With
Speaker 1: you get the bit on players just like the humans do.
Speaker 1: And then you had ad a free agents via first come,
Speaker 1: first serve. But uh yeah, you can earn your way
Speaker 1: back into the human race. And every time the zombies
Speaker 1: take down a human, half of the FAB gets spread
Speaker 1: among all the zombies, and I think before long is
Speaker 1: obviously you have more FAB than the humans have got
Speaker 1: and so the zombies have some real pathways to getting
Speaker 1: back and getting strong, which we love. It's conceptually it's
Speaker 1: like they're eating brains of the humans, brains brains. Let's
Speaker 1: talk through our final set of sleepers for this preseason.
Speaker 1: We've already given out. This will be a four different
Speaker 1: sets of them. This will be our fifth Scott, you
Speaker 1: want to go first? Who is your final sleeper? Sure,
Speaker 1: I'm going. I'm going with one of those UH teammates,
Speaker 1: a DP guys where I wanted the lower guy and
Speaker 1: more and more every week I'm wanting the lower guy.
Speaker 1: It's Darrell Henderson going in the eleventh round. We're talking
Speaker 1: about a guy when healthy last year averaged five point
Speaker 1: seven yards per carry in fourteen point seven yards per reception.
Speaker 1: That's pretty darn good. That's actually really effective. In his
Speaker 1: nine games where he had ten or more touches, he
Speaker 1: scored eight times, averaging eighties seven total yards. That's pretty
Speaker 1: dang good for an eleventh rounder. If he can find
Speaker 1: his way to ten plus touches utinely this year, which
Speaker 1: I think he will, he's a pretty effective flex play.
Speaker 1: Especially in good matchups. You're getting in the double digit rounds, Brian,
Speaker 1: your final sleeper of the preseason, I'm going with Bill's
Speaker 1: rookie wide receiver Khalil Shakier, drafted in the fifth round
Speaker 1: out of Boise State at he was tagged with that
Speaker 1: kind of small school stigma maybe little little in the draft,
Speaker 1: and technically he's wide receiver five right now on the
Speaker 1: depth chart, but outside of Stephan Diggs, he's the only
Speaker 1: wide receiver I think we can play on the outside
Speaker 1: and in the slot. So if something were to happen
Speaker 1: to Digs or Gabe Davis, I think he slides right
Speaker 1: into the starting lineup there. And now I say, Mackenzie,
Speaker 1: we like, we like him on the show, but he's
Speaker 1: twenty seven years old and he's like five eight hundred
Speaker 1: and seventy pounds. I don't know if he's gonna last
Speaker 1: a whole season. He's only caught passes in his five
Speaker 1: year career. He's never been he's never been a full
Speaker 1: time starter. And Jamison Crowder is just a guy. That's
Speaker 1: a proven fact. So Shakira, if he gets it's a
Speaker 1: proven fact that he's a guy, that's that's about all
Speaker 1: he has going for. Because are you saying he openly
Speaker 1: identifies a male. I'm not going there, but I will
Speaker 1: tell you this. Kail Shaker leads all players in the preseason,
Speaker 1: all wide receivers. I know not all the big names
Speaker 1: are playing in the preseason, but he leads all wide
Speaker 1: receivers uh in catches of fifteen plus e ards. So
Speaker 1: he's he looks explosive and if given opportunity in that
Speaker 1: Bill's offense, he could uh be a difference maker. That's
Speaker 1: a deep sleeper. I like it. I am going with
Speaker 1: Minnesota wide receiver kJ Osborne. Now Osborne, it has been
Speaker 1: in the league now for two years. This will be
Speaker 1: his his third year. His first year, kJ Osborne did
Speaker 1: not see the field, not one play it as a
Speaker 1: rookie and rolls into his sophomore year, b C. Johnson
Speaker 1: is going to be the third receiver. But then b C.
Speaker 1: Johnson tears his A C L and suddenly kJ Osborne
Speaker 1: gets gets thrust into a meaningful role in the Vikings offense.
Speaker 1: Last year, what happens. He puts up the best season
Speaker 1: of any Vikings third receiver in the history of the club.
Speaker 1: Seven hundred yards and seven touchdowns for kJ Osborne. Yes
Speaker 1: and last see in effectively his rookie year. Uh. Last year,
Speaker 1: as I mentioned, was effectively his rookie eor So he's
Speaker 1: effectively kind of kJ osmarine into his sophomore year, second
Speaker 1: year as a starter. So he's got room to get better,
Speaker 1: maybe a lot better. And maybe the gap between kJ
Speaker 1: Osborne and Theelan Jefferson is less than we think it is.
Speaker 1: He might be a better receiver than we realize. I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, I almost went with Hassan Jones, but
Speaker 1: I feel like that would have been too deep. That
Speaker 1: is deep for most of our listening audience here, So
Speaker 1: you're not concerned about Jalen reader. No, I have not
Speaker 1: no return man. The Mike Zimmer's gone. It's Kevin O'Connell here.
Speaker 1: Now he's going to Kjosmoe will run out of the
Speaker 1: slot for Kevin O'Connell. The last receiver to run out
Speaker 1: of this for Kevin O'Connell was Cooper Cup. So triple
Speaker 1: crown obviously coming for kJ Osborne. Um. Okay, So seriously,
Speaker 1: you'll be the receiving option. But who's to say that
Speaker 1: Minnesota is gonna be a low volume passing offense anymore.
Speaker 1: The third receiver option or Kevin O'Connell might be very good.
Speaker 1: O'Connor knows how to scheme open players in the slot.
Speaker 1: kJ Osborne, nobody's really talking about him. Going right now,
Speaker 1: pick one hundred eighty off the board. I think that's
Speaker 1: a lot of value for k j Osborne. My final
Speaker 1: sleeper for this year this coming Thursday, is there a
Speaker 1: game NFL Action. Uh, It's finally here. We've been talking
Speaker 1: about it forever whole off season. We're finally going to
Speaker 1: have our first game now as regular listeners to Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly, No, once we get into the season, we
Speaker 1: break down every game fantasy style. We give letter grades
Speaker 1: A B, C or bench grade to all of the
Speaker 1: fantasy fantasy relevant players from the this year, for the
Speaker 1: first year in our your history, we are adding pluses.
Speaker 1: And now, the thing about this game, it's a Buffalo
Speaker 1: versus l A and it's in l A. Oh my god.
Speaker 1: These are arguably the two best defenses in the NFL.
Speaker 1: That's what this thing is. There's going to be a
Speaker 1: real chance that there's some frustrated people who feel like
Speaker 1: they drafted well and they invested into high profile players
Speaker 1: from two good offenses that end up getting very little
Speaker 1: in this first Thursday night game. So a's for the
Speaker 1: defenses and the kickers maybe the case. So these defenses
Speaker 1: ranked number one and number two in passing touchdowns allowed
Speaker 1: last year. I don't have an A grade on anybody
Speaker 1: in this game. Oh my lord. Yes, and Buffalo was
Speaker 1: without trade Devious White All Pro corner for correct good
Speaker 1: amount of the season and they were stifling and they're
Speaker 1: gonna be without him as well for this game. I
Speaker 1: of that. You're saying, bench Josh Allen, That's really not
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. He does come in with a B
Speaker 1: grade here. The Rams allow of the sixth fewest fantasy
Speaker 1: points at quarterbacks last year. Secondary got a little better
Speaker 1: with the return of Troy Hill. Cornerback Troy Hill. He
Speaker 1: was very good in l A last year. He man.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about him in a minute. The Rams
Speaker 1: allowed the second fewest passing touchdowns last year. No opposing
Speaker 1: quarterback all year against the Rams. Top two touchdowns that
Speaker 1: includes Tom Brady Aaron Rodgers guys are just two touchdowns.
Speaker 1: We did see mobile quarterbacks ding the Rams a little
Speaker 1: bit on the ground, including Kyler Murray and Tyler Huntley,
Speaker 1: who boast top both top fifty rushing yards against Los
Speaker 1: Angeles at the end of the season, and Josh Allen
Speaker 1: can always be effective on the ground, but an explosive
Speaker 1: game seems very unlikely against a very good Rams secondary.
Speaker 1: So just the B grade on Josh Allen. Hopefully he
Speaker 1: chips in with his legs. Let's go to his some
Speaker 1: of his receiving targets like Stephen Diggs Rams as mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: very good past defense. Jalen Ramsey, of course, is the
Speaker 1: signature player there. Ramsey shadows a lot and Diggs will
Speaker 1: likely get most of his attention when these seems met.
Speaker 1: Two years ago, Digs shook Ramsey by lining up in
Speaker 1: the slot for much of that game, and there he
Speaker 1: found success, and he posted four catches, fifty yards and
Speaker 1: a touchdown, primarily by running in the slot. Ramsey does
Speaker 1: not follow into the slot typically. Um Ramsey wasn't quite
Speaker 1: as good last year as he was the previous season,
Speaker 1: but he still only gave up average per game averages
Speaker 1: of twenty nine yards and zero point two touchdowns per game.
Speaker 1: So they may have to move Digs around a little
Speaker 1: bit to get him to shake Ramsey. And that's your
Speaker 1: upside play on Diggs. Your downside play is kind of
Speaker 1: what Ramsey usually gives up twenty nine yards and point
Speaker 1: two touchdowns, which would be obviously be a very down
Speaker 1: game for Diggs. Just to the B grade on Diggs.
Speaker 1: You'll start him and I would too. But keep your
Speaker 1: keep your expectations. Yes, thank you, thank you. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about Gabriel Damped even better. We're gonna tamp those expectations. Scott.
Speaker 1: You uh, it's got your big Gabriel Davis guy have
Speaker 1: been for a long time, finally got the big payoff
Speaker 1: in the playoffs. You'll remember perfect right. It's act playoff
Speaker 1: game against Kansas City. Two hundred yards and four touchdowns,
Speaker 1: one of the great playoff performances in the history of
Speaker 1: the NFL. Um If Ramsey is shadowing Digs, which we expect,
Speaker 1: that puts Davis on cornerback David Long. His Profo ball
Speaker 1: Focus grades were middling, but Long actually gave up fewer
Speaker 1: yards and touchdowns on a per game basis than than
Speaker 1: Ramsey did. Just twenty three yards per game and zero
Speaker 1: points zero eight touchdowns per game. You gave up just
Speaker 1: one passing touchdown all year, including the playoffs. David Long
Speaker 1: is is a challenging cornerback as well. I still I
Speaker 1: love Gabriel day of us with the momentum, whatever momentum
Speaker 1: is left from the playoffs, and I still very bullish
Speaker 1: on him for this year. But this is a tough matchup.
Speaker 1: I think there's momentum coming from confidence from Josh Allen
Speaker 1: because when he made Gabriel Davis made that touchdown catch
Speaker 1: in the preseason week too. I believe Josh Allen had
Speaker 1: a quote after the game something like, I threw it
Speaker 1: up because I know Davis is gonna be up there
Speaker 1: out there somewhere. That's pretty nice. Yeah, that is if
Speaker 1: I think Gave Davis is somewhere in the city. I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna throw it up to him. Put an optimistic
Speaker 1: B grade on Davis, but he's got C grade downside
Speaker 1: on him. But I feel like i'd be hard pressed
Speaker 1: to benjam here. I'm giving Dave, Gabriel, Gabriel Davis the
Speaker 1: B grade it. We hope that Isaiah McKenzie is going
Speaker 1: to be able to play. He's nursing an injury right now.
Speaker 1: You want to follow that he will play in the slot.
Speaker 1: He's gonna see Troy Hill. When I mentioned earlier Hill
Speaker 1: returns after basically a lost season in Cleveland last year
Speaker 1: with injury. Hill was very good in the slot for
Speaker 1: l A two years ago, where he was giving up
Speaker 1: just thirty or four yards per game and gave up
Speaker 1: just one touchdown all year while he was in l A.
Speaker 1: I have very something very important to share about Gabriel Davis.
Speaker 1: The Rams selected Van Jefferson over Gabriel Davis. Spike game games,
Speaker 1: all these spike games on the revenge Alright, Sorry, you
Speaker 1: have to have actually been on the team to be
Speaker 1: to qualify as revenge. When you're passed over in the draft,
Speaker 1: it's it's spike game. Um, mackenzie is a burner and
Speaker 1: Hill is decidedly not fast. Uh, and so there's a
Speaker 1: chance McKenzie slips past Hill for a big game. But
Speaker 1: without that, I worry about Hill shutting down mackenzie. I've
Speaker 1: got a C grade on McKenzie. You're going for a
Speaker 1: home run connection, assuming he's able to play in this game.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to the running backs. Devin Singletary,
Speaker 1: James Cook, Lesser extent, Zack Moss. Rams are good run defense.
Speaker 1: No back topped nine one yards against l A after
Speaker 1: Week four of last year and over those final four games,
Speaker 1: l A only gave up three point four yards per carry.
Speaker 1: That is nothing. They can get dinged a little bit
Speaker 1: through the air, and we saw big games from GEO
Speaker 1: Bernard DeAndre swift Leo for Neette James Conner through the
Speaker 1: air last year. Singletary is an okay receiver. We believe
Speaker 1: James Cook is a pretty good receiver, so maybe Cook
Speaker 1: could be a little bit better here. But I've just
Speaker 1: got C grades on Singletary and Cook, and I don't
Speaker 1: think they will both have C grades, but one or
Speaker 1: the other probably does okay here and the other one
Speaker 1: probably gets very little. And we're gonna leave Zack Moss
Speaker 1: on the bench and just see what happens with him
Speaker 1: a little bit. Also on the bench, tight end, Dawson
Speaker 1: Knox Rams are an above average but not dominating tight
Speaker 1: end defense. Last year, only one opposing tight end top
Speaker 1: sixties six yards all year against the Rams, and it
Speaker 1: was Mark andrews um new Ram. Bobby Wagner could be
Speaker 1: asked to cover knocks offen. Wagner only allowed one touchdown
Speaker 1: in his coverage the past two seasons, and Knox is
Speaker 1: a touchdown dependent tight end, So if Bobby Wagoner is
Speaker 1: going to pick up that assignment. I don't like Dawson
Speaker 1: Knox here because you need that touchdown. I don't think
Speaker 1: he gets it. Um strong safety Jordan Filler, we'll Fuller.
Speaker 1: We'll also get some tight end coverage responsibilities. And he
Speaker 1: didn't give up any touchdowns last year, so we're all
Speaker 1: that together and Dawson Knox is firmly on the bench.
Speaker 1: Do you guys think of being overly pessimistic about my
Speaker 1: Bills analysis here? No? No, I think I think it's
Speaker 1: fair given the tough matchups on defense, It's it's fair.
Speaker 1: I I feel like a lot of people are going
Speaker 1: to want to start a many like they're because they're
Speaker 1: they're gonna start because it's Week one of the fantasy
Speaker 1: season and they're year starters. So and a lot of
Speaker 1: people think Bills have the best offense in the NFL.
Speaker 1: It's like, yeah, like that, you're holding down the expectations.
Speaker 1: Though Cooper cup and Ellen Robinson get b grades, the
Speaker 1: Bills were last year's best overall past defense, allowing the
Speaker 1: fewest fantasy points to opposing receivers, and it was not close.
Speaker 1: They only allowed They ranked number one in touch sounds allowed.
Speaker 1: To receivers. Get this, they give up six touchdowns to
Speaker 1: wide receivers. Last year, they were number one in yards allowed,
Speaker 1: barely one hundred yards per game to impose opposing entire
Speaker 1: wide receiver groups. So imagine you know, Cooper Cupp and
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson will probably combined for more than a hundred,
Speaker 1: but still says a lot. Um. Robinson may have an
Speaker 1: advantage because Bill's cornerback tra Davious White not expected to
Speaker 1: play Brian as we were talking earlier. He's missed the
Speaker 1: entire preseason rehabbing his a c L from last year.
Speaker 1: Uh Dane Jackson and rookie Key here Elam will be
Speaker 1: trying to handle Robinson on the outside. Cooper Cup meanwhile,
Speaker 1: draws elite slot corner Tarron Johnson. He only allowed twenty
Speaker 1: six yards per game and gave up just two touchdowns
Speaker 1: in nineteen games last year. You gotta start cupping Robinson
Speaker 1: to keep your expectations in check. Um, Matthew Stafford, if
Speaker 1: I've got B grades on cupping Robinson, that puts a
Speaker 1: B grade on Stafford as well as their quarterback here.
Speaker 1: But again, very very tough past defense, and this could
Speaker 1: have some downside in it. That you don't expect. Um
Speaker 1: Van Jefferson maybe a spot starter desperation play because of
Speaker 1: inexperienced rookie Cutier Elham expected to start on the other
Speaker 1: side of as the starting quarterback for the Bills. Maybe
Speaker 1: Van Jefferson wins that battle once or twice. And the
Speaker 1: last part of the passing game, I'll mention Tyler Higbee.
Speaker 1: With the surprise release of Kendall Blanton, Higbee looking at
Speaker 1: a big workload. But this is another case. Buffalo is
Speaker 1: just great against tight ends here, allowing the second fewest
Speaker 1: points of the position last year and just one touchdown
Speaker 1: across the final eleven games of the year to tight ends.
Speaker 1: So Higbee is on the bench, and that leaves us
Speaker 1: with Cam Akers and Darryl Henderson, both backs returning from injuries.
Speaker 1: The Bills lost run stuffing tackle Harrison Phillips in the
Speaker 1: off season, and Buffalo's past defense is great, so I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna want to run the ball. But they
Speaker 1: also lost Andrew Wentworth off their offensive line. So Acres
Speaker 1: and Henderson in a time share here don't interest me
Speaker 1: a lot. I've just got C grades on both Acres
Speaker 1: first game the season back they share Maybe ten to
Speaker 1: twelve touches against a good run defense just feels like
Speaker 1: a twenty to seventeen outcome. It don't be depressed when
Speaker 1: you're Bills and Rams, don't football be back. One's gonna
Speaker 1: be depressed. I hope you're right about that. Thanks for
Speaker 1: listening to everybody. Next week when we come back to
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Speaker 1: premature speculation coming back. Everybody's excited for premature speculation. Absolutely,
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