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

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Speaker 1: along with the guys from fanball dot com, here's the

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Speaker 1: host for Fantasy Football Weekly. It is finally Fantasy football season.

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. It is year twenty five,

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Speaker 1: a quarter century of Shenanigan's bad takes, dubious opinions, and

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Speaker 1: do of my longtime co hosts have been there for

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Speaker 1: many of those twenty five years. Brian Johnson and Christian Peterson. Hello, guys,

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Speaker 1: good to be here. Church. What's up Church? Let's do

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Speaker 1: this thing. Let's do it. If you're new to the show,

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Speaker 1: we really hit our stride in the regular season when

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Speaker 1: we break down all the NFL matchups fantasy style and

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Speaker 1: now in August. It's all about helping you dominate your draft,

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Speaker 1: best pastime, Fantasy football. Today, we will get you up

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Speaker 1: to speed on all the notable offseason moves, will highlight

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Speaker 1: our Dynasty and Empire rookie rankings as well. Guys, I

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Speaker 1: want to start with some some newer news, and that's

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Speaker 1: reports out of Dallas, including coming directly from Jerry Jones,

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Speaker 1: that the Ezekiel Elliott holdout could extend into the regular season.

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Speaker 1: At this stage, it's still early. But what is your

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Speaker 1: who are drafting now. The level of panic was high

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Speaker 1: Jerry Jones has realized you don't need a league leading

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Speaker 1: There there no Zeke Elliott, but uh, Tony Pollard, rookie

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Speaker 1: in total plays. The Raiders ranked sixteenth and pass attempts

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Speaker 1: and twenty four in plays last year, and of course

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Speaker 1: a pretty sizeable downgrade and quarterback play from Ben Roethlisberger

428
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Speaker 1: to Derek Carr. But Antonio Brown is Antonio Brown sixth

429
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Speaker 1: straight hundred hundred catch seasons, scored double digit touchdowns and

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Speaker 1: four of the last six years, so certainly is still

431
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Speaker 1: a very fantasy relevant player, although the general public doesn't

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Speaker 1: think he's gonna be able to repeat last year's numbers.

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Speaker 1: He finished as the number three wide receiver in most

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Speaker 1: scoring systems last year. Right now, according to the average

435
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Speaker 1: draft position, he's the seventh wide receiver off the board,

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Speaker 1: which that feels about right for me. We know he's

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Speaker 1: still an elite talent and an elite player, but the

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Speaker 1: downgrade in situation makes sense to me. Did you see

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Speaker 1: the pictures of his feet? No, thankfully, don't look at

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Speaker 1: on Twitter. He'll drop you in his people drop him

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Speaker 1: in your rankings considerably if you see his feet. It's hard.

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Speaker 1: I'm I'm moving him down to wide receiver twelve. Alright,

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Speaker 1: he was already out wide receiver. And by the way,

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Speaker 1: never look at a wide receiver's hands either. They've all

445
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Speaker 1: been mutilated from catching balls for all, for all those

446
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Speaker 1: years and stuff. It's always nasty. Don't look at don't

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Speaker 1: look at any of the digits on any wide receiver.

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Speaker 1: That's the lesson learned here. Let's go to our third

449
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Speaker 1: wide receiver with a new home. Who we got the

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Speaker 1: Shawan Jackson sort of a new home, more of a

451
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Speaker 1: homecoming st in a sense, returns to Philadelphia to join

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Speaker 1: another prolific offense. That really has no true standouts outside

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Speaker 1: of zach Ertz. But Jackson is a still a great

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Speaker 1: deep threat um and which makes him a great best

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Speaker 1: ball play because it's hard to peg when he's gonna

456
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Speaker 1: have these monster games, and when he does, if he's

457
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Speaker 1: in your best ball lineup on your best ball team,

458
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Speaker 1: he'll be putting your lineup. His nineteen yard average depth

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Speaker 1: of target last year led all receivers with at least

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Speaker 1: seventy targets and on catchable balls. According to you Sports

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Speaker 1: Info Solutions, d Jacks led the league in PPR points

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Speaker 1: per target and Jameis Winston was incredibly inaccurate last year.

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Speaker 1: Carson Wentz is an upgrade over Winston, so Jackson will

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Speaker 1: be a viable wide receiver three and even standard formats.

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Speaker 1: But he's great and best ball this year al right, Next,

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Speaker 1: particularly best ball you don't have to guess when those

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Speaker 1: long passes are going to connect in it. It's been

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Speaker 1: a long time since he's had quality quarterbacking didn't have

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Speaker 1: it for chunks of his time in Washington either, So

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Speaker 1: it'll be fun to see what d Jacks can do

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Speaker 1: their Christian Who do we got next? Yeah, let's go

472
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Speaker 1: to Devon Funcius, who moves over to the Colts from

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Speaker 1: the Panthers. At this time last year, everybody was looking

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Speaker 1: at Funchius as a potential kind of breakout player after

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Speaker 1: he had over eight hundred yards and eight touchdowns the

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Speaker 1: year before. That did not come to fruition under fifty catches,

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Speaker 1: less than six hundred yards and just four touchdowns in eighteen,

478
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Speaker 1: So kind of gets gets a chance to start all

479
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Speaker 1: over again here in a prolific passing offense catching passes

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Speaker 1: from Ander Luck. But there are a lot of mouths

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Speaker 1: to feed in India. Of course, he'll be behind t

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Speaker 1: Y Hilton and the wide receiver packing order. Indianapolis also

483
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Speaker 1: has a couple of very good tight ends and an

484
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Speaker 1: intriguing rookie and wide receiver pair s Campbell. So honestly,

485
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Speaker 1: no guarantee that Funcious is any more than the fourth

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Speaker 1: or fifth option in this passing game. So not a

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Speaker 1: lot to love here for Funcious couldn't be less interested that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, you could give me twenty eight rounds before

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Speaker 1: I'm going to consider having Funchs for my fantasy team.

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Speaker 1: All right, who do we have left? So? John Brown

491
00:24:23,720 --> 00:24:26,560
Speaker 1: probably makes the most lateral move catching passes from Lamar

492
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Speaker 1: Jackson and now we'll be catching passes from Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: and Buffalo Um And for a guy who only runs vertically,

494
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Speaker 1: by the way, but smokey Smoky Brown has shown flashes

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Speaker 1: of brilliance in his career with Arizona and Baltimore at times,

496
00:24:41,640 --> 00:24:44,000
Speaker 1: but injuries have always plagued him. But he's healthy now

497
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Speaker 1: and reports at a campus he's the most impressive player

498
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Speaker 1: by far. But again, the equality of the targets he'll

499
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Speaker 1: be fighting for with his A Jones and Robert Foster

500
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Speaker 1: might not be all that great coming from Josh Allen,

501
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Speaker 1: but this is a wide receiver battle. We might talk

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Speaker 1: about it a little later in the show. So I

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Speaker 1: will concede to Christian. Now, yeah, let's go to Dante Moncrief,

504
00:25:01,840 --> 00:25:06,719
Speaker 1: who is the presumed replacement for Antonio Brown in Pittsburgh.

505
00:25:06,720 --> 00:25:09,720
Speaker 1: Came over on a two year, nine million dollar contract,

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Speaker 1: has been running as the number two guy opposite Juju

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Speaker 1: Smith Schuster early on in training camp, so it looks

508
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Speaker 1: like he's going to be the guy. Moncrief a guy

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00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:22,000
Speaker 1: again who has burned fantasy owners basically throughout his career.

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Speaker 1: Everybody has seemed to think he has all kinds of

511
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Speaker 1: upside and we just haven't seen it, so I don't know.

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Speaker 1: Do we think he can do it? Now? In Pittsburgh?

513
00:25:30,480 --> 00:25:33,560
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown leaves behind a hundred and sixty eight targets

514
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Speaker 1: from last year, so somebody's going to have to pick

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Speaker 1: those up in Pittsburgh and not a ton of not

516
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Speaker 1: a ton of competition their second year guy James Washington

517
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Speaker 1: and a rookie a rookie to deal with there too,

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Speaker 1: So uh, this will be interesting to watch in in

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Speaker 1: training camp, which we'll discuss a little bit later as well. Alright,

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Speaker 1: any wide receivers left before he moved to tight end?

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Speaker 1: Real quick? I'll mentioned Tyrolle will Williams on Oakland now

522
00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:01,880
Speaker 1: previously with the Chargers. He is a beast at six four,

523
00:26:02,119 --> 00:26:05,080
Speaker 1: mostly underwhelmed with the Chargers, he was fighting for targets

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Speaker 1: in a very crowded offense. The offense in Oakland and

525
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Speaker 1: not his crowded. So Williams is the number two standing

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Speaker 1: alongside Antonio Brown, so should seen improvement of numbers for him.

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Speaker 1: Al Right, do we have any who are the tight

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Speaker 1: ends that have moved that we actually care about? I

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Speaker 1: got I got one guy in mind, alright, Good, maybe's

530
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Speaker 1: hear what you got. Maybe this is it. Jared Cook

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Speaker 1: to the Saints from Oakland's coming off coming off a

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Speaker 1: career year last year. In fact, career has and catches,

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Speaker 1: yards and touchdowns, almost seventy catches, almost nine yards and

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Speaker 1: six touchdowns, So very good season for Jared Cook signs

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Speaker 1: on for two years with the Saints for fifteen million dollars. Now,

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Speaker 1: the Saints, they really haven't had a relevant fantasy tight

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Speaker 1: ends since Jimmy Graham left in which is kind of

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00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 1: interesting to me. The Saints just sort of they kind

539
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Speaker 1: of just sort of change their offense depending on what

540
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Speaker 1: kind of skill set they have with their past catchers.

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Speaker 1: It'll be interesting to see here if they actually focus

542
00:27:02,960 --> 00:27:04,760
Speaker 1: back on the tight end again now that they have

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Speaker 1: a quality player like Jared Cook. I'll mention this one.

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Speaker 1: Jesse James leaves Pittsburgh, and I don't care that he

545
00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:14,600
Speaker 1: went to Detroit, but I care a lot that Vance

546
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Speaker 1: McDonald has an opportunity to get the lion's share of

547
00:27:19,160 --> 00:27:21,960
Speaker 1: the tight end targets now without sharing them in Pittsburgh,

548
00:27:22,000 --> 00:27:25,879
Speaker 1: and that makes him an intriguing possibility as well. Guys,

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Speaker 1: Let's let's take a break and when we come back,

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Speaker 1: let's talk through the f C and NFC training camp

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Speaker 1: battles and talk about the positional battles that fantasy players

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Speaker 1: need to know about when we return. Thanks again for listening.

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Speaker 1: It is Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchi and

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Speaker 1: my co host Brian Johnson and Christian Peterson. We just

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Speaker 1: broke down all the offseason moves by position. Let's look

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Speaker 1: at the training camp battles that are out there and

557
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Speaker 1: the ones that fantasy players need to pay attention to.

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Speaker 1: And by the way, I'll note this, four weeks from now,

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Speaker 1: when we're doing our last preseason show of Fantasy Football Weekly,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna come back to these exact same training camp

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Speaker 1: battles and tell you who won each one of these.

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Speaker 1: So we'll have resolution, or we believe we will come

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Speaker 1: early September and we'll go to we'll talk through these

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Speaker 1: same training camp battles. Then let's begin on the a

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Speaker 1: f C side. And Christian Peterson, what's our first training

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Speaker 1: camp battle. Yeah, let's start with the Baltimore Ravens wide receivers. Really,

567
00:28:20,280 --> 00:28:22,280
Speaker 1: all of them are kind of up for grabs here.

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00:28:22,320 --> 00:28:24,880
Speaker 1: They lost their last two wide or their top two

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Speaker 1: wide outs from last year, and John Brown and Michael

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00:28:27,119 --> 00:28:31,200
Speaker 1: Crabtree didn't replace them with much other than rookies they

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Speaker 1: did take. They did take a couple of rookies within

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Speaker 1: the first three rounds. The first one was Marquise Brown,

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Speaker 1: five seventy pound speedster, who unfortunately is just getting back

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Speaker 1: on the field now. He missed a lot of the

575
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Speaker 1: offseason program recovering from a from a foot injury, so

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Speaker 1: it'll be interesting to see what he does in training camp.

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Speaker 1: The other guy, Myles Boykin, is generating a ton of

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00:28:52,400 --> 00:28:55,920
Speaker 1: hype right now. He's a six four twenty pound physical

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Speaker 1: specimen ran a four four at the combine, and Baltimore

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Speaker 1: Beat writers have labeled him one of the most impressive

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Speaker 1: players in Ravens camp in the early going. So right now,

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00:29:05,760 --> 00:29:07,960
Speaker 1: Boykin might have the inside track as kind of the

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Speaker 1: number one wide receiver, but with only Willie Snead and

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Speaker 1: a bunch of other cast off veterans to battle these

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Speaker 1: guys out, I think both of these rookies are going

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Speaker 1: to see significant playing time in Baltimore, but we'll see

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Speaker 1: by the end of training camp. Yeah, we need Markey's

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Speaker 1: Brown to get through that foot injury, get on the

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00:29:24,040 --> 00:29:26,760
Speaker 1: field and prove that he's ready to go for Week one.

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Speaker 1: Right now, he's It's hard to draft either guy. We

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Speaker 1: could also it would also help if we saw Lamar

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Speaker 1: Jackson throw a little bit better. Let's go to the

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Speaker 1: NFC side, Brian, give us your next training camp battle. Well,

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Speaker 1: we discussed this earlier, but we'll touch on it again

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00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:42,880
Speaker 1: real quick. The Eagles backfield situation, which primarily comes down

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Speaker 1: to Miles Sanders versus Jordan Howard. Everyone expects Sanders to

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Speaker 1: eventually lead that team in touches. But the one thing

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Speaker 1: all through out there that we didn't talk about earlier

599
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Speaker 1: is I've heard reports at a camp that Sanders might

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Speaker 1: be a little more behind than people wanted to be

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Speaker 1: because he did miss O t a s so it

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Speaker 1: could be a slower start for him than people are expecting.

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Speaker 1: And even and the real question is, though our significant

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Speaker 1: touches in Philadelphia significant fantasy football because of the platoons

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Speaker 1: Doug Peterson always runs out there. The last running backs

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Speaker 1: it saw Bell cow usage in Philly with a Shawn

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Speaker 1: McCoy and before that, Brian Westbrook. But those are Andy

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Speaker 1: Reid's guys. He's long gone, so really, see how this

609
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Speaker 1: placed through in camp. Sanders looks like a special player.

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Speaker 1: But how soon he gets that opportunity? Only time will

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Speaker 1: till All right, let's go to the a f S

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Speaker 1: back to the FC side, Christian, Yeah, I'm gonna go

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Speaker 1: to Buffalo here where we have a mess at the

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Speaker 1: running back position. We have the incumbent Lashawan McCoy, the

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Speaker 1: undead corpse of Lashawn McCoy versus the undead corpse of

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Speaker 1: Frank Gore, versus third down back t J Yeldon versus

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Speaker 1: rookie Devon Singletary. This is an absolute mess right now.

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Speaker 1: Of course, McCoy comes in seemingly as the incumbent, coming

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Speaker 1: off the worst season of his career three point two

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Speaker 1: yards per carry last year. Frank Gore is now thirty

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Speaker 1: six years old. Uh, seeming Lee won't go away. And

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Speaker 1: then you've got Devin Singletary, who's got to be the

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Speaker 1: most intriguing guy here. He's a rookie pick, just one

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Speaker 1: pick after David Montgomery and the third round of the

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Speaker 1: NFL draft. He right now is being picked in the

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Speaker 1: thirteenth round of fantasy drafts, compared to David Montgomery of

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Speaker 1: the Bears, who's a fifth rounder. So if single Terry,

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Speaker 1: who's he's He has been taking a few reps with

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Speaker 1: the number one offense in the preseason here, So if

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Speaker 1: he shows out well in preseason games, I think there's

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Speaker 1: a there's a sneaky little sleeper here if he can

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Speaker 1: somehow battle past all of these veterans. But we'll find out.

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Speaker 1: The Christian I think Singletary the worry is um not

634
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Speaker 1: built to be a goal line guy, not built to

635
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Speaker 1: be an every down guy. He's probably a situational player. Um,

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Speaker 1: But man, he's he's slippery, he's elusive, he's fast, and

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00:31:54,040 --> 00:31:56,480
Speaker 1: you know, I think I think that there's a spot

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Speaker 1: for him also be fascinating. There's a chance that l

639
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Speaker 1: Shawn McCoy gets caught and it ends up there ends

640
00:32:01,800 --> 00:32:03,800
Speaker 1: up being you know, they just don't carry all those

641
00:32:03,840 --> 00:32:06,320
Speaker 1: running backs and he might be the odd man out

642
00:32:06,400 --> 00:32:09,400
Speaker 1: of this, which is possible, and frankly, I think from

643
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,920
Speaker 1: a fantasy standpoint, the Clay, the clarity would would be welcome.

644
00:32:13,600 --> 00:32:16,200
Speaker 1: All right, let's let's go to our next NFC training

645
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:19,080
Speaker 1: camp battle. Brian, Alright, charge, calling this a battle might

646
00:32:19,120 --> 00:32:20,960
Speaker 1: trigger you a little bit because you have very strong

647
00:32:21,000 --> 00:32:23,280
Speaker 1: feelings for one of these guys. But I'm still gonna

648
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:25,680
Speaker 1: say there's a battle between Chris Carson and Rashad Penny

649
00:32:25,720 --> 00:32:28,959
Speaker 1: in the Seahawks backfield. But it's really not a battle.

650
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:31,920
Speaker 1: The battle is how many touches will Penny steal from

651
00:32:32,000 --> 00:32:34,680
Speaker 1: Chris Carson, who by all accounts was a top ten

652
00:32:34,720 --> 00:32:38,840
Speaker 1: fantasy back last year went healthy. Um. As for Penny,

653
00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:41,080
Speaker 1: the only reason Seattle really will put him on the field,

654
00:32:41,080 --> 00:32:44,080
Speaker 1: as they invested first round draft capital in him last year,

655
00:32:44,440 --> 00:32:47,400
Speaker 1: really didn't didn't get a shot to prove himself. Um,

656
00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,200
Speaker 1: he did look good when healthy. That was very sparingly

657
00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:53,520
Speaker 1: last year for Penny. Uh. Carson should lead this team

658
00:32:53,520 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: in touches to start the season, but Penny could close

659
00:32:56,120 --> 00:32:59,040
Speaker 1: the gap. I know you probably feel differently about that.

660
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:00,720
Speaker 1: You care to weigh in on the charge because you

661
00:33:00,760 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 1: are probably higher? Yeah? I do, because yeah, I have.

662
00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:07,080
Speaker 1: I have Chris Carson higher than almost everybody just because

663
00:33:07,280 --> 00:33:10,480
Speaker 1: the eye test. He I thought Carson looked really good

664
00:33:10,560 --> 00:33:13,680
Speaker 1: last year. And I've got to miss my sixteenth running

665
00:33:13,680 --> 00:33:16,480
Speaker 1: back overall. Um. And frankly, if we were just on,

666
00:33:16,640 --> 00:33:18,560
Speaker 1: if there wasn't a first round pick in Rishonde Penny

667
00:33:18,760 --> 00:33:22,680
Speaker 1: even higher. Um, And we do see situations where rookie

668
00:33:22,800 --> 00:33:25,840
Speaker 1: running backs look a lot better in your two Tampa

669
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:28,600
Speaker 1: Bay's you know, telling us that story about Ronald Jones.

670
00:33:28,880 --> 00:33:32,400
Speaker 1: In Denver, they're telling us that story about about uh Freeman,

671
00:33:32,520 --> 00:33:35,880
Speaker 1: Royce Freeman, and so you know, maybe Penny is a

672
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:38,800
Speaker 1: much better back in year two, because that does happen

673
00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,560
Speaker 1: sometimes with running backs. But I know that my eyes

674
00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:45,400
Speaker 1: tell me that Chris Carson is a good runner, and

675
00:33:45,880 --> 00:33:47,760
Speaker 1: he's got the confidence of that coaching staff, and I

676
00:33:47,800 --> 00:33:49,320
Speaker 1: think he's going to get the majority of the work.

677
00:33:49,360 --> 00:33:51,480
Speaker 1: Let's go to the FC side. What's our next training

678
00:33:51,480 --> 00:33:53,640
Speaker 1: camp battle, Christian, Yeah, I'm gonna stick in Buffalo this

679
00:33:53,680 --> 00:33:56,120
Speaker 1: time for the wide receivers, where we've got John Brown,

680
00:33:56,360 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 1: Za Jones, and Robert Foster all sort of scrabbling this

681
00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:02,160
Speaker 1: see who who was sends to the top of the

682
00:34:02,160 --> 00:34:04,120
Speaker 1: pecking order there. Of course, Brown we talked about a

683
00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:06,200
Speaker 1: little bit. Came over on a twenty seven million dollar

684
00:34:06,280 --> 00:34:08,640
Speaker 1: contract for three years, so I think he's he's going

685
00:34:08,680 --> 00:34:13,920
Speaker 1: to be your guy. Shocking shocking money for a guy.

686
00:34:14,040 --> 00:34:16,680
Speaker 1: And then Zay Jones lead the bills and catches yards

687
00:34:16,680 --> 00:34:19,399
Speaker 1: and touchdowns last year. Not that that was really saying much.

688
00:34:19,680 --> 00:34:22,040
Speaker 1: I think the most intriguing guy here really is Foster,

689
00:34:22,400 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: who came on late last year. He had three touchdowns

690
00:34:25,320 --> 00:34:27,600
Speaker 1: and three games of at least ninety four yards in

691
00:34:27,640 --> 00:34:31,600
Speaker 1: the final six games of last season, but now has

692
00:34:31,600 --> 00:34:34,799
Speaker 1: seemingly probably because of the acquisition of Brown, he's been

693
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:38,360
Speaker 1: running with the two's uh in camp. But uh, you know,

694
00:34:38,440 --> 00:34:41,319
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens here, and again, there may not

695
00:34:41,400 --> 00:34:43,320
Speaker 1: be a ton of upside here, but Foster is the

696
00:34:43,320 --> 00:34:45,840
Speaker 1: guy that seemed to show some rapport with Josh Allen

697
00:34:45,880 --> 00:34:47,640
Speaker 1: towards the end of last year, so maybe he'll be

698
00:34:47,719 --> 00:34:49,799
Speaker 1: able to jump up in the preseason and get a

699
00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,960
Speaker 1: starting job. I agree with all that. Let's go to

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00:34:52,960 --> 00:34:57,320
Speaker 1: the NFC Brian Uh. Staying with the running backs in Washington,

701
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,719
Speaker 1: we have Darius Gice versus Adrian Peters and uh, this

702
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:04,399
Speaker 1: is really guys versus his quads. Those things look very

703
00:35:04,440 --> 00:35:07,680
Speaker 1: overflated and looked like they could explode in any second. Um.

704
00:35:08,440 --> 00:35:11,799
Speaker 1: I mean, he did tweak him in July, so he's

705
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:15,480
Speaker 1: he's already he's already got caused for concern with those things. Um,

706
00:35:15,520 --> 00:35:17,760
Speaker 1: but easy to remove from a c L surgery. Guys

707
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:20,040
Speaker 1: that is Washington would love to see him stay healthy

708
00:35:20,400 --> 00:35:23,640
Speaker 1: and win this job that Peterson refuses to go away.

709
00:35:23,719 --> 00:35:25,680
Speaker 1: Last year approved he had plenty of gas left in

710
00:35:25,719 --> 00:35:28,840
Speaker 1: the tank. Uh he finished top fifteen among running backs

711
00:35:29,160 --> 00:35:32,479
Speaker 1: in miss tackles and yards after contact. But really, this

712
00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,319
Speaker 1: might not be a great job to win for either

713
00:35:34,360 --> 00:35:37,120
Speaker 1: of these guys you mentioned earlier. Chart Trent Williams, all

714
00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,800
Speaker 1: pro left tackle might sit out the season, is willing

715
00:35:39,840 --> 00:35:41,920
Speaker 1: to sit out the season. That would just drop this

716
00:35:42,000 --> 00:35:45,040
Speaker 1: line down significantly. If I'm picking a running back from

717
00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:48,120
Speaker 1: Washington in a in a PPR league, it's actually Chris

718
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:50,439
Speaker 1: Thompson who is going to steal all the passing work

719
00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: from both of these guys and comes that you know,

720
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:55,920
Speaker 1: last round discount and draft. So that's the winner of

721
00:35:55,960 --> 00:35:58,240
Speaker 1: this battle in my mind is Chris Thompson between guys

722
00:35:58,239 --> 00:36:00,560
Speaker 1: and Adrian Peterson used to take a may and if

723
00:36:00,560 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 1: you go elsewhere altogether, I'm not taking a leap. So yeah,

724
00:36:05,239 --> 00:36:09,040
Speaker 1: there you go. Makes sense. Let's let's go back to Christian.

725
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:10,800
Speaker 1: Who do you get what's an next training camp battle

726
00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:12,799
Speaker 1: the a C. Well, this one's a little interesting, I

727
00:36:12,800 --> 00:36:14,920
Speaker 1: guess technically right now you would say this is the

728
00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:19,200
Speaker 1: backup running back job for the Chargers. However, depending on

729
00:36:19,239 --> 00:36:22,000
Speaker 1: what happens with Melvin Gordon, the winner of this job

730
00:36:22,080 --> 00:36:27,400
Speaker 1: could be extremely fantasy relevant. It's Austin Ekeler against Justin Jackson. Ekeler,

731
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:30,279
Speaker 1: I think is clearly the guy here. He should be.

732
00:36:30,360 --> 00:36:33,120
Speaker 1: At least, he's averaged five and over five point two

733
00:36:33,200 --> 00:36:35,800
Speaker 1: yards per carrying his two year career. Last year he

734
00:36:35,840 --> 00:36:39,360
Speaker 1: had nine how about that, Austin five yards per gary

735
00:36:39,480 --> 00:36:42,040
Speaker 1: and last year had nine and fifty combined rushing and

736
00:36:42,040 --> 00:36:45,800
Speaker 1: receiving yards and six touchdowns playing behind Melvin Gordon. So

737
00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:47,719
Speaker 1: imagine what he could do if Melvin Gordon was out

738
00:36:47,719 --> 00:36:50,279
Speaker 1: of the picture. But there is talk that Ekeler isn't

739
00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:52,840
Speaker 1: isn't well suited to be the every down back, so

740
00:36:53,000 --> 00:36:56,040
Speaker 1: Justin Jackson will probably be involved in some way. But

741
00:36:56,080 --> 00:36:59,359
Speaker 1: again we'll see how this shakes out during training camp. Yeah,

742
00:36:59,400 --> 00:37:01,440
Speaker 1: I I agree with that sentiment. I don't think Keler

743
00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:04,560
Speaker 1: is built to be a workhorse style back, and I

744
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,239
Speaker 1: think he's his best his best usage is in that

745
00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,080
Speaker 1: you know, ten to fifteen touches per game range where

746
00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:12,480
Speaker 1: he can still be uber effective like he has been,

747
00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,560
Speaker 1: and he was. He was a guy that you could

748
00:37:14,600 --> 00:37:17,399
Speaker 1: you could start as a flex starter last year, and

749
00:37:17,440 --> 00:37:20,080
Speaker 1: you're right. If the things go belly up on on

750
00:37:20,160 --> 00:37:22,840
Speaker 1: the hold out with Melvin Gordon, that's that whole situation.

751
00:37:22,840 --> 00:37:25,240
Speaker 1: It's very interesting. Let's go back to the NFC, Brian,

752
00:37:25,719 --> 00:37:27,879
Speaker 1: I was gonna bring up the San Francisco running backs again,

753
00:37:27,920 --> 00:37:30,800
Speaker 1: but we went into those guys in pretty good detailed

754
00:37:30,800 --> 00:37:32,840
Speaker 1: earlier in the show. So let's talk about the Bucks backs,

755
00:37:32,920 --> 00:37:35,719
Speaker 1: Peyton Barber versus Ronald Jones, who was in his second year.

756
00:37:36,239 --> 00:37:39,480
Speaker 1: Barber was the lead back last year, but he was

757
00:37:39,600 --> 00:37:41,640
Speaker 1: probably one of the worst running backs in the league.

758
00:37:41,640 --> 00:37:43,640
Speaker 1: If you look at the numbers, he averaged just three

759
00:37:43,920 --> 00:37:46,759
Speaker 1: point nine yards per touch last season. That was good

760
00:37:46,840 --> 00:37:51,040
Speaker 1: enough for fifty first amongst sixty qualified running backs. Jones

761
00:37:51,080 --> 00:37:53,719
Speaker 1: was drafted thirty eight overall by Tampa Bay last year,

762
00:37:53,760 --> 00:37:55,960
Speaker 1: but barely saw the field whether he was injured or not.

763
00:37:56,000 --> 00:37:58,080
Speaker 1: There was some healthy scratches thrown in for Jones, so

764
00:37:58,160 --> 00:38:01,040
Speaker 1: he just clearly wasn't ready to play last year. Early

765
00:38:01,280 --> 00:38:03,880
Speaker 1: reports at the camp he's looking more ready to play,

766
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:06,880
Speaker 1: has put on some um, some weight, has bolt up

767
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:09,880
Speaker 1: a little bit. But again, just like Washington, this is

768
00:38:09,880 --> 00:38:11,600
Speaker 1: a job I don't know if you want to win.

769
00:38:11,880 --> 00:38:14,200
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay figures to be very past heavy this year

770
00:38:14,239 --> 00:38:16,920
Speaker 1: with lots of negative game strip game scripture. It's running

771
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:20,240
Speaker 1: backs that returning four or five starters on their offensive line,

772
00:38:20,480 --> 00:38:23,600
Speaker 1: which was bottom five last year. So this is another

773
00:38:23,680 --> 00:38:26,480
Speaker 1: you know, it'll play itself out in camp. Well, probably

774
00:38:26,520 --> 00:38:28,440
Speaker 1: see Barber as the lead back come Week one, but

775
00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:30,600
Speaker 1: Jones will probably close that delta as the season goes

776
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:34,719
Speaker 1: on as well. I am going to die on the

777
00:38:34,760 --> 00:38:37,600
Speaker 1: baton Barber Hill. This is a guy that I think,

778
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:42,800
Speaker 1: when I know and I'll leave me, I'll be alone

779
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:46,760
Speaker 1: on that hill. Um. Just watching him play, I really

780
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:49,680
Speaker 1: think he ran hard behind an offensive line that gave

781
00:38:49,760 --> 00:38:53,239
Speaker 1: him no help whatsoever, and I don't think he left

782
00:38:53,280 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 1: many yards on the field. And I think this is

783
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,239
Speaker 1: why they didn't invest a single draft pick into the

784
00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,400
Speaker 1: running back position in the off season. I think the

785
00:38:59,440 --> 00:39:01,680
Speaker 1: coaching staff from back and they looked at the tape

786
00:39:01,680 --> 00:39:04,160
Speaker 1: and they were happy with what Peyton Barber did in

787
00:39:04,200 --> 00:39:06,480
Speaker 1: the situations they put him in. And I think with

788
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:10,640
Speaker 1: a much more dynamic offense now, Peyton Barber is one

789
00:39:10,680 --> 00:39:15,040
Speaker 1: of my favorite guys to significantly outperform last year. I

790
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,239
Speaker 1: don't think until Ronald Jones shows me he can play,

791
00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:19,320
Speaker 1: I don't think he's a factor, and I like Peyton Barber.

792
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:21,360
Speaker 1: Let's move on, Christian. What's our next a f C

793
00:39:21,520 --> 00:39:25,120
Speaker 1: training camp battle. Let's go to Miami. At the running

794
00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:29,240
Speaker 1: back position. We've got Kenyan Drake versus Kalen Blage. Blage

795
00:39:29,320 --> 00:39:31,800
Speaker 1: is the fourth round pick from last year, really couldn't

796
00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:33,319
Speaker 1: even get on the field for most of the year

797
00:39:33,400 --> 00:39:35,359
Speaker 1: until late in the season, and then wasn't very good

798
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:39,080
Speaker 1: after he did, and then sort of inexplicably open training

799
00:39:39,120 --> 00:39:41,759
Speaker 1: camp this year running with the number one's ahead of

800
00:39:41,840 --> 00:39:44,279
Speaker 1: Kenyan Drake, who a lot of people saw as a

801
00:39:44,280 --> 00:39:47,520
Speaker 1: guy that might ascend, you know, into the RB one

802
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:52,400
Speaker 1: RB two potential area for fantasy this year. But now

803
00:39:52,560 --> 00:39:55,719
Speaker 1: it seems pretty clear that nobody who none of none

804
00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:58,640
Speaker 1: of the various regimes that go in and out of

805
00:39:58,640 --> 00:40:02,359
Speaker 1: Miami are are letting themselves trust Kenyan Drake. He's never

806
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:06,200
Speaker 1: had more than seventy five touches in his three NFL seasons,

807
00:40:06,239 --> 00:40:08,680
Speaker 1: so it kind of makes sense that Bellage is going

808
00:40:08,719 --> 00:40:11,439
Speaker 1: to be heavily involved here. Of course, Drake can still

809
00:40:11,480 --> 00:40:13,960
Speaker 1: get it done even with only a dred and seventy

810
00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: five touches. He was a top fifteen fantasy running back

811
00:40:16,920 --> 00:40:19,919
Speaker 1: in points per reception formats last year, so he's gonna

812
00:40:19,960 --> 00:40:22,480
Speaker 1: get it done through the air regardless. But it will

813
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:25,000
Speaker 1: be interesting to see how they deploy Bollage here in

814
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,400
Speaker 1: the preseason games. Yeah, I just don't think Blage is

815
00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:31,040
Speaker 1: a great runner. Will prove it's wrong again. A second

816
00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:32,960
Speaker 1: year guy, maybe, you know, maybe he comes in and

817
00:40:32,960 --> 00:40:34,920
Speaker 1: looks like a materially better runner than the version that

818
00:40:34,960 --> 00:40:38,000
Speaker 1: we saw as a rookie. All right, back to the NFC, Brian, Alright,

819
00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:40,120
Speaker 1: I have one more and finally got some wide receivers

820
00:40:40,120 --> 00:40:42,440
Speaker 1: to talk about here. Well, we'll call this the Packers

821
00:40:42,520 --> 00:40:46,000
Speaker 1: number two wide receiver battle between marquees Valho Scantling and

822
00:40:46,040 --> 00:40:49,080
Speaker 1: Jeronimo Allison, even though it's not really a battle. Uh

823
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:52,040
Speaker 1: Valdez Scandling technically is the number two receivers will be

824
00:40:52,040 --> 00:40:55,000
Speaker 1: starting on the outside with Davante Adams, but Jnalm Allison

825
00:40:55,200 --> 00:40:57,919
Speaker 1: will be on the field equal amounts essentially from the slot.

826
00:40:57,960 --> 00:41:00,680
Speaker 1: It's really who's gonna outperform the other um. In eight

827
00:41:00,719 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 1: games with Rogers last year, Geroni will Allison average well

828
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,560
Speaker 1: over ten PPR points per game. He was a very

829
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:10,600
Speaker 1: consistent producer. H mvs wasn't as consistent, but he's a

830
00:41:10,640 --> 00:41:14,480
Speaker 1: freak athlete six four sub four four speed will certainly

831
00:41:14,520 --> 00:41:18,240
Speaker 1: strike on a plenty of deep balls from Rogers. Um

832
00:41:18,280 --> 00:41:21,360
Speaker 1: Alison will be the more consistent producer about this Scandling

833
00:41:21,400 --> 00:41:22,680
Speaker 1: is the guy I would rather have in best Ball

834
00:41:22,719 --> 00:41:25,239
Speaker 1: because of that big play potential. Um. They're really both

835
00:41:25,280 --> 00:41:27,319
Speaker 1: gonna be winners though, as long as Rogers stays healthy,

836
00:41:27,320 --> 00:41:29,279
Speaker 1: because Davonte Adams is gonna more in a lot of

837
00:41:29,280 --> 00:41:31,479
Speaker 1: attention and these guys are gonna run free in single

838
00:41:31,520 --> 00:41:34,960
Speaker 1: coverage all year. So both I am targeting heavily in

839
00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:37,600
Speaker 1: all drafts, not just one or the other. I love

840
00:41:37,600 --> 00:41:41,359
Speaker 1: and Jimmy Graham not really a factor to take Nike

841
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:43,680
Speaker 1: balls away from those wide receivers either. Let's go to

842
00:41:43,719 --> 00:41:47,280
Speaker 1: the a f C. Christian. Yeah, my my final battle

843
00:41:47,320 --> 00:41:49,319
Speaker 1: to watch here is also a wide receiver. This is

844
00:41:49,320 --> 00:41:53,280
Speaker 1: in New England. Really it's rookie to Kiel Harry versus

845
00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:58,000
Speaker 1: his own expectations or everybody else's expectations of him. Uh,

846
00:41:58,040 --> 00:42:01,480
Speaker 1: there is nobody else about outside. So Julian Edelman we

847
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:03,520
Speaker 1: know is the number one wide receiver. But at number

848
00:42:03,520 --> 00:42:06,120
Speaker 1: two there's Tomarius Thomas, who will probably open on the

849
00:42:06,120 --> 00:42:09,600
Speaker 1: pup list recovering from an Achilles injury, Philip Dorset who

850
00:42:09,640 --> 00:42:12,759
Speaker 1: was just a boring veteran, Maurice Harris, who is an

851
00:42:12,800 --> 00:42:16,480
Speaker 1: even more boring, even more veteran than Philip Dorset. So

852
00:42:17,239 --> 00:42:20,200
Speaker 1: really this comes down to, you know, what are we

853
00:42:20,239 --> 00:42:23,120
Speaker 1: going to see from Nikil Harry, who everybody loves in

854
00:42:23,200 --> 00:42:27,160
Speaker 1: terms of his production in college, his athletic profile. You know,

855
00:42:27,239 --> 00:42:29,320
Speaker 1: this guy has all the traits to become a stud

856
00:42:29,400 --> 00:42:31,520
Speaker 1: but in New England, and you never know what's going

857
00:42:31,560 --> 00:42:33,640
Speaker 1: to happen if he if he comes up with a

858
00:42:33,640 --> 00:42:35,440
Speaker 1: case of the drop seas if he can't pick up

859
00:42:35,440 --> 00:42:38,120
Speaker 1: the offense right away, he could find himself in the doghouse.

860
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:41,640
Speaker 1: So this one I'm gonna be watching really closely. You're saying,

861
00:42:41,719 --> 00:42:45,160
Speaker 1: you're suggesting that Bill Belichick has a dog, holds grudges

862
00:42:45,200 --> 00:42:49,799
Speaker 1: and has a doghouse, and no, not him. So that

863
00:42:49,960 --> 00:42:51,919
Speaker 1: is that is certainly the danger. And by the way,

864
00:42:51,960 --> 00:42:55,919
Speaker 1: I mean, there have been numerous drops in training camp

865
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:58,160
Speaker 1: so far. It's still early and we got a month ago.

866
00:42:58,719 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: But if you think the check is gonna be cool

867
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:04,600
Speaker 1: with drop balls. Oh man, no chance have you seen

868
00:43:04,640 --> 00:43:07,799
Speaker 1: Belichick's dot dog yacht before? It's very impressive. Not only

869
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:12,120
Speaker 1: a house, he has a dog mansion, dog, mansion dog.

870
00:43:12,640 --> 00:43:15,600
Speaker 1: Let's release the hounds in the the NFC side again, Brian,

871
00:43:15,600 --> 00:43:17,640
Speaker 1: who else? What other training gamp battles do we have?

872
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:21,640
Speaker 1: I'm tapped out on battles. Charge, I'm all battled out. Okay, alright, good,

873
00:43:21,680 --> 00:43:24,239
Speaker 1: you're battled out? And Christian, do you have any left? Now?

874
00:43:24,320 --> 00:43:27,200
Speaker 1: We touched on the Dante moncrief in Pittsburgh as well,

875
00:43:27,560 --> 00:43:30,879
Speaker 1: theoretically battling it out with with James Washington and then

876
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:33,880
Speaker 1: third round rookie Deante Johnson, but I think mon Creffe

877
00:43:33,880 --> 00:43:36,120
Speaker 1: probably has that one wrapped up. Thankfully I didn't have

878
00:43:36,160 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 1: to go and be Giants number one wide receiver battle

879
00:43:38,800 --> 00:43:41,799
Speaker 1: between probably like Kelvin Benjamin and whoever is some other

880
00:43:41,800 --> 00:43:44,799
Speaker 1: bum they would have signed because Sterling Shepherd supposedly will

881
00:43:44,840 --> 00:43:47,279
Speaker 1: be ready for the season, so he is their number

882
00:43:47,320 --> 00:43:51,440
Speaker 1: one wide receive absolutely. Uh. At moments from now, we

883
00:43:51,520 --> 00:43:56,120
Speaker 1: will break down the Dynasty Empire rookie drafts. What does

884
00:43:56,200 --> 00:43:57,920
Speaker 1: the order we think you should take these guys in?

885
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:01,120
Speaker 1: Will answer three tough questions. You can play along as well,

886
00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,600
Speaker 1: and it's some of the gameplay variations that can make

887
00:44:04,640 --> 00:44:07,520
Speaker 1: your league's more fun. What it's a guillotine league, what's

888
00:44:07,520 --> 00:44:10,680
Speaker 1: an Empire league? What's super flex? We'll answer those kinds

889
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:25,879
Speaker 1: of questions and more. It is Fantasy Football Weekly. Thanks

890
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:28,320
Speaker 1: for listening to Fantasy Football Weekly. This is a segment

891
00:44:28,360 --> 00:44:32,160
Speaker 1: we like to call three Tough Questions. We dive into

892
00:44:32,280 --> 00:44:35,239
Speaker 1: some of the toughest questions from around the NFL. I

893
00:44:35,400 --> 00:44:38,439
Speaker 1: asked my panel of experts this week, Christian Peterson, Brian

894
00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:42,560
Speaker 1: Johnson three tough questions. You play along see if you

895
00:44:42,600 --> 00:44:47,239
Speaker 1: can get all three correct you. Sometimes Christian and Brian

896
00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:49,920
Speaker 1: go three, you know, but more often than not they don't.

897
00:44:50,080 --> 00:44:52,480
Speaker 1: So we find out we always get the answers right,

898
00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,200
Speaker 1: but sometimes we don't go three. And oh yeah, I

899
00:44:55,360 --> 00:44:57,080
Speaker 1: like how you call this experts, but then you make

900
00:44:57,160 --> 00:45:01,960
Speaker 1: us feel quite the opposite answer the question. All right,

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00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:08,960
Speaker 1: let's begin with tough question number one. With Antonio Brown

902
00:45:09,040 --> 00:45:12,560
Speaker 1: departed to Oakland, Juju Smith Schuster becomes the go to

903
00:45:12,719 --> 00:45:19,080
Speaker 1: receiver in Pittsburgh, will Juju post more less or about

904
00:45:19,120 --> 00:45:22,919
Speaker 1: the same fantasy numbers as Antonio Brown did last year?

905
00:45:23,280 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 1: We'll begin with Christian Well. Last year, Juju basically was

906
00:45:29,840 --> 00:45:33,279
Speaker 1: better than Antonio Brown in all but a couple of categories.

907
00:45:33,360 --> 00:45:35,680
Speaker 1: In all but one category, really, he had seven more

908
00:45:35,719 --> 00:45:39,360
Speaker 1: catches on a hundred and thirty more yards. Touchdowns is

909
00:45:39,400 --> 00:45:42,239
Speaker 1: where he trailed. Antonio Brown s accord sort of a

910
00:45:42,280 --> 00:45:46,280
Speaker 1: flukey high touchdown total of fifteen and just seven for Juju.

911
00:45:46,440 --> 00:45:48,759
Speaker 1: So you know, we're looking at a guy who is

912
00:45:48,800 --> 00:45:51,799
Speaker 1: basically already guaranteed not maybe not guaranteed, but he's got

913
00:45:51,840 --> 00:45:54,800
Speaker 1: a very good chance of matching or exceeding Antonio Brown's

914
00:45:54,840 --> 00:45:57,759
Speaker 1: totals in catches and yards. And so for me, it

915
00:45:57,800 --> 00:46:01,200
Speaker 1: really just comes down to the touchdowns, and fifteen is

916
00:46:01,520 --> 00:46:05,360
Speaker 1: an incredible amount of touchdowns, the most since Dez Bryant

917
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:10,440
Speaker 1: had sixteen and Brown, again he was he was heavily

918
00:46:10,480 --> 00:46:12,799
Speaker 1: targeted in the red zone. He was second in the

919
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:15,839
Speaker 1: NFL with twenty nine targets and Juju had twenty four

920
00:46:15,880 --> 00:46:18,640
Speaker 1: and Flucally just didn't get just didn't get as many touchdowns.

921
00:46:18,680 --> 00:46:20,920
Speaker 1: So I don't know, this is a long way of

922
00:46:20,960 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 1: saying that I think Juju will will perform just as

923
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:26,120
Speaker 1: well as he did last year, but because of the

924
00:46:26,200 --> 00:46:29,120
Speaker 1: inability to match the fifteen touchdown, so'll fall just short

925
00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:34,240
Speaker 1: of Antonio Brown's numbers last year. So you're saying less

926
00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:36,839
Speaker 1: more or less are about the same. You're saying less, Yes,

927
00:46:38,239 --> 00:46:41,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go less to Jujuu finish finished with less

928
00:46:41,680 --> 00:46:43,880
Speaker 1: points than Brown did last year. I'll just add so

929
00:46:43,960 --> 00:46:47,560
Speaker 1: Brown had roughly thirty forty points more than Juju last season,

930
00:46:47,560 --> 00:46:52,239
Speaker 1: and standard PPR leagues, uh whopping two targets vacated by

931
00:46:52,239 --> 00:46:55,920
Speaker 1: Brown's trade or on yet trade to Oakland. But you know,

932
00:46:56,160 --> 00:46:58,480
Speaker 1: so you would think Jujus will absorb a ton of

933
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 1: those targets and you can make up those thirty points.

934
00:47:00,920 --> 00:47:03,719
Speaker 1: But there's just not much more production, much more room

935
00:47:03,800 --> 00:47:06,680
Speaker 1: for more production from Juju is already very heavily involved

936
00:47:06,680 --> 00:47:08,760
Speaker 1: in the offense, and now he's gonna warrant more attention

937
00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:12,000
Speaker 1: with Antonio Brown gone. So I just see the majority

938
00:47:12,040 --> 00:47:15,160
Speaker 1: of these targets vacated by Brown going too. Donte Moncrief,

939
00:47:15,200 --> 00:47:18,279
Speaker 1: James Washington, Vance McDonald, maybe even Jalen Samuel is getting

940
00:47:18,360 --> 00:47:20,720
Speaker 1: used in the passing game more so for that reason,

941
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:24,359
Speaker 1: um Juju will finish just slightly under Brown's total from

942
00:47:24,440 --> 00:47:28,560
Speaker 1: last year. But I see a better year for Juju personally, alright,

943
00:47:28,560 --> 00:47:32,160
Speaker 1: But so Brown leaves behind one hundred four targets and

944
00:47:32,200 --> 00:47:34,560
Speaker 1: the Steelers just don't have a lot of the talent

945
00:47:34,600 --> 00:47:36,320
Speaker 1: to souk up all those one D four targets. You

946
00:47:36,360 --> 00:47:39,360
Speaker 1: mentioned Moncrief and you mentioned uh, I think James Washington,

947
00:47:39,440 --> 00:47:42,279
Speaker 1: and you mentioned Jalen Samuel's. Those are all guys that

948
00:47:42,360 --> 00:47:45,080
Speaker 1: I think are going to chip in some there um

949
00:47:45,120 --> 00:47:47,120
Speaker 1: and you guys hit I think on the most sailing

950
00:47:47,239 --> 00:47:50,439
Speaker 1: part of this. Juju was targeted one D sixty six

951
00:47:50,520 --> 00:47:53,360
Speaker 1: times last year, so I don't think he can possibly

952
00:47:53,400 --> 00:47:56,000
Speaker 1: get targeted anymore than that when the league leaders were

953
00:47:56,000 --> 00:47:58,600
Speaker 1: only at four more targets in the entire NFL than

954
00:47:58,600 --> 00:48:00,600
Speaker 1: what Juju had last year. So I don't think he

955
00:48:00,600 --> 00:48:04,720
Speaker 1: can get above where Antonio Brown was, but he can

956
00:48:05,520 --> 00:48:09,160
Speaker 1: roughly equal it because we've already seen him turn all

957
00:48:09,239 --> 00:48:11,520
Speaker 1: of these targets into a lot of yards and a

958
00:48:11,560 --> 00:48:14,719
Speaker 1: lot of receptions, and all he has to do is

959
00:48:14,960 --> 00:48:17,440
Speaker 1: ratchet up that you actually had more yards and more

960
00:48:17,480 --> 00:48:20,239
Speaker 1: receptions than Antonio Brown was. Ratch up the touchhowns you

961
00:48:20,239 --> 00:48:22,040
Speaker 1: either get all the way to fifteen to get to

962
00:48:22,080 --> 00:48:26,160
Speaker 1: the same level of fantasy points that Antonio Brown had

963
00:48:26,480 --> 00:48:30,360
Speaker 1: the correct answer. Juju Smith Schuster will have about the

964
00:48:30,440 --> 00:48:35,200
Speaker 1: same Fantasy points as Antonio Brown did last year. Let's

965
00:48:35,200 --> 00:48:43,200
Speaker 1: go question number two. Two sophomore receivers Caroline Is DJ

966
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:46,040
Speaker 1: Moore in San Francisco's Dante Pettis head into this season

967
00:48:46,080 --> 00:48:51,120
Speaker 1: as the top receivers for their respective teams. Who is

968
00:48:51,160 --> 00:48:54,640
Speaker 1: more likely to take a bigger jump in year two?

969
00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:57,680
Speaker 1: Is it d J Moore or is it Dante Pettis.

970
00:48:57,800 --> 00:49:00,759
Speaker 1: We begin with Brian Johnson. I love both of these

971
00:49:00,760 --> 00:49:03,319
Speaker 1: guys going into their second year. Um neither had a

972
00:49:03,360 --> 00:49:08,719
Speaker 1: full season sample size last year. Um More roughly half

973
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:11,640
Speaker 1: years were at the work and Pettis is half of

974
00:49:11,680 --> 00:49:14,319
Speaker 1: that half. UM So I like more sample size more

975
00:49:14,440 --> 00:49:18,200
Speaker 1: and uh talking to more Among wide receivers with at

976
00:49:18,280 --> 00:49:21,879
Speaker 1: least fifty targets, I'm sorry, fifty catches um more led

977
00:49:21,920 --> 00:49:24,279
Speaker 1: them all in yards after the catch on a per

978
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:27,000
Speaker 1: reception basis. And if you've been watching All or Nothing, UM,

979
00:49:27,040 --> 00:49:30,359
Speaker 1: you know the Amazon show, it's chronicling the panthers. They

980
00:49:30,480 --> 00:49:32,479
Speaker 1: highlight More a lot, and he is tough to bring down.

981
00:49:32,480 --> 00:49:35,160
Speaker 1: He bounces off people, he breats, tackles left and right. Uh.

982
00:49:35,160 --> 00:49:37,439
Speaker 1: He looks great. He's also just one of seventeen wide

983
00:49:37,440 --> 00:49:41,439
Speaker 1: receivers all time to post six d plus receiving yards

984
00:49:41,440 --> 00:49:43,600
Speaker 1: in a single season. At twenty one years old. He

985
00:49:43,719 --> 00:49:46,000
Speaker 1: joins a list that includes names like Randy Moss and

986
00:49:46,040 --> 00:49:50,280
Speaker 1: Marie Cooper, Mike Evans, Keenan Allen, Juju Smith Schuster, DeAndre Hopkins,

987
00:49:50,320 --> 00:49:52,480
Speaker 1: and Josh Gordon. He has an elite talent and at

988
00:49:52,520 --> 00:49:54,200
Speaker 1: the end of the day, he is likely to beat

989
00:49:54,200 --> 00:49:56,879
Speaker 1: the top receiving option for his team, where Pettis will

990
00:49:57,280 --> 00:49:59,160
Speaker 1: you know, play second fiddle to George Kittle in the

991
00:49:59,200 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 1: receiving game. For that reason, I'm going d J. Moore

992
00:50:01,600 --> 00:50:05,520
Speaker 1: has the bigger jump this season. All right, Christian, what

993
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:08,200
Speaker 1: do you got? Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna agree with

994
00:50:08,239 --> 00:50:10,480
Speaker 1: Brian on this one. I think it's d J. Moore

995
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:12,920
Speaker 1: for a couple of reasons. One is, you know, we

996
00:50:12,960 --> 00:50:15,319
Speaker 1: know what d J. Moore has got at quarterback. It's

997
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:19,120
Speaker 1: Cam Newton who doesn't put up elite level passing yards

998
00:50:19,160 --> 00:50:23,040
Speaker 1: he's thrown for. He's thrown for more than yards and

999
00:50:23,080 --> 00:50:26,040
Speaker 1: tossed more than twenty four touchdowns just once in the

1000
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:30,120
Speaker 1: last six years. But by comparison, Jimmy Garoppolo in San

1001
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:33,600
Speaker 1: Francisco has thrown for two thousand and sixty eight yards

1002
00:50:33,640 --> 00:50:36,760
Speaker 1: and just seventeen touchdowns in his entire five year career,

1003
00:50:37,280 --> 00:50:40,520
Speaker 1: So we just don't know yet. We think Garoppolo is

1004
00:50:40,560 --> 00:50:42,080
Speaker 1: going to be pretty good, and we've seen him be

1005
00:50:42,160 --> 00:50:45,560
Speaker 1: pretty good in small spurts, but we just don't know yet.

1006
00:50:45,840 --> 00:50:49,280
Speaker 1: And then secondly this it worries me that the forty

1007
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:52,839
Speaker 1: Niners spent the early portion of their draft loading up

1008
00:50:53,160 --> 00:50:55,799
Speaker 1: on rookie wide receivers. They drafted a guy in the

1009
00:50:55,840 --> 00:50:59,160
Speaker 1: second round, Deebo Samuel, they drafted another wide receiver in

1010
00:50:59,160 --> 00:51:02,280
Speaker 1: the third round j heard. It feels like that feels

1011
00:51:02,320 --> 00:51:05,600
Speaker 1: like not the actions of a team that believes they've

1012
00:51:05,640 --> 00:51:09,200
Speaker 1: found their number one wide receiver in Dante Pettis. So

1013
00:51:09,600 --> 00:51:12,960
Speaker 1: there's just enough nagging doubt in my mind here on Pettis,

1014
00:51:13,000 --> 00:51:14,600
Speaker 1: though I like what he did in the second half

1015
00:51:14,600 --> 00:51:17,399
Speaker 1: of last year that I'm gonna go with more on

1016
00:51:17,440 --> 00:51:23,400
Speaker 1: this question. The correct answer is, Dante Pettis I had

1017
00:51:23,440 --> 00:51:25,959
Speaker 1: a terrific six games stretch at the end of last

1018
00:51:26,040 --> 00:51:28,799
Speaker 1: year where he averaged sixty one yards and almost a

1019
00:51:28,840 --> 00:51:32,000
Speaker 1: touchdown per game. During that six game stretch. At the

1020
00:51:32,040 --> 00:51:35,320
Speaker 1: end of last year, he was Tyler Lockett in productivity

1021
00:51:35,440 --> 00:51:38,240
Speaker 1: and that type of lack. It was wide receiver fifteen

1022
00:51:38,920 --> 00:51:41,640
Speaker 1: last season, and he did that. Pettis did that with

1023
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:46,600
Speaker 1: Nick Mullins throwing him the ball. Nick Mullins, undrafted quarterback,

1024
00:51:46,920 --> 00:51:51,480
Speaker 1: third string quarterback. More meanwhile, started ten games. Funny, you

1025
00:51:51,480 --> 00:51:54,439
Speaker 1: guys didn't mention his touchdown total. Remember his touchdown total

1026
00:51:54,440 --> 00:51:58,879
Speaker 1: from last year. One he had He had one as

1027
00:51:58,920 --> 00:52:01,279
Speaker 1: a starter in a fluke, a fluke one At the

1028
00:52:01,320 --> 00:52:02,799
Speaker 1: beginning of the year when he wasn't a start, he

1029
00:52:02,800 --> 00:52:05,480
Speaker 1: was getting almost no time. In the ten games he started,

1030
00:52:05,520 --> 00:52:08,600
Speaker 1: he scored one time. Now, if you can divide one

1031
00:52:08,640 --> 00:52:11,759
Speaker 1: by ten, that tells you he was he scored. He

1032
00:52:11,840 --> 00:52:15,120
Speaker 1: was good for zero point one touchdowns per game. Zero

1033
00:52:15,200 --> 00:52:17,520
Speaker 1: point one. That's it. I want a guy who can

1034
00:52:17,560 --> 00:52:21,359
Speaker 1: find the end zone. That is Dante Pettis. And if

1035
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:23,719
Speaker 1: it comes down to Cam Newton and Jimmy Garoppolo, if

1036
00:52:23,760 --> 00:52:27,040
Speaker 1: this is a rushing competition at quarterback, it's no question

1037
00:52:27,040 --> 00:52:30,799
Speaker 1: I would take Cam Newton as a passer. Give me Garoppolo,

1038
00:52:30,880 --> 00:52:33,759
Speaker 1: who's got a higher completion percentage for his career, more

1039
00:52:33,840 --> 00:52:36,440
Speaker 1: passing yards per game over his career and more passing

1040
00:52:36,440 --> 00:52:41,240
Speaker 1: touchdowns per game over his career. Dante pettis the correct answer.

1041
00:52:41,600 --> 00:52:45,640
Speaker 1: Let's move to our next question, tough question number three.

1042
00:52:47,200 --> 00:52:51,720
Speaker 1: Last year, there were only about five bona fide start

1043
00:52:51,760 --> 00:52:56,320
Speaker 1: worthy tight ends in all of fantasy football. How many

1044
00:52:56,640 --> 00:53:01,040
Speaker 1: this year are you projecting to have? How many starter worthy,

1045
00:53:01,160 --> 00:53:04,800
Speaker 1: bona fide starter worthy tight ends do you project this season?

1046
00:53:05,160 --> 00:53:08,839
Speaker 1: We begin with Christian Peterson. It doesn't look a whole

1047
00:53:08,840 --> 00:53:11,640
Speaker 1: lot better for me. Uh. For this year, I've got

1048
00:53:12,200 --> 00:53:14,799
Speaker 1: the obvious top three our Travis Kelsey, Zach Ertz, and

1049
00:53:14,840 --> 00:53:17,600
Speaker 1: George Kittle in in some order. Kelsey is certainly number one,

1050
00:53:17,640 --> 00:53:20,799
Speaker 1: the other two in some order. Uh. And then I've

1051
00:53:20,840 --> 00:53:23,320
Speaker 1: got next on my list, Evan Ingram and O. J.

1052
00:53:23,480 --> 00:53:26,560
Speaker 1: Howard at four and five. Both of those guys, had

1053
00:53:26,600 --> 00:53:29,480
Speaker 1: they managed to stay healthy last year, would have been

1054
00:53:29,520 --> 00:53:32,680
Speaker 1: in the mix as as every week fantasy starters. I

1055
00:53:32,680 --> 00:53:36,080
Speaker 1: think they had both established themselves as that before their injuries.

1056
00:53:36,600 --> 00:53:39,120
Speaker 1: And now we know Ingram is is uh, you know,

1057
00:53:39,200 --> 00:53:41,960
Speaker 1: one of the best pass catchers in New York. O J.

1058
00:53:42,120 --> 00:53:45,000
Speaker 1: Howard showed last year. Again, I think before the injury

1059
00:53:45,000 --> 00:53:46,880
Speaker 1: that he is going to be relevant every week, and

1060
00:53:46,880 --> 00:53:49,000
Speaker 1: then you get down to a bunch of question marks.

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00:53:49,120 --> 00:53:51,640
Speaker 1: Eric Ebron last year had a ton of touchdowns and

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00:53:51,680 --> 00:53:54,200
Speaker 1: he was one of those weekly starters. He referred to charge.

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00:53:54,280 --> 00:53:56,719
Speaker 1: But now Jack Doyle is back in the fold, and

1064
00:53:56,719 --> 00:53:58,480
Speaker 1: Doyle is a good player, So who knows what's going

1065
00:53:58,520 --> 00:54:01,280
Speaker 1: to happen with EBRN and out. There's just all sorts

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00:54:01,320 --> 00:54:04,960
Speaker 1: of question marks. Next up, in no particular order. You've

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00:54:04,960 --> 00:54:07,839
Speaker 1: got Hunter, Henry, You've got Trey Burton, Vance McDonald who

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00:54:07,960 --> 00:54:10,480
Speaker 1: referred to earlier in the show, Jared Cook, who we

1069
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:13,680
Speaker 1: talked about earlier in the show, David Njoku. There there's

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00:54:13,719 --> 00:54:17,000
Speaker 1: seven or eight or nine or ten names now to

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00:54:17,120 --> 00:54:20,000
Speaker 1: me that come into the mix at tight end, number

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00:54:20,080 --> 00:54:25,120
Speaker 1: six and beyond. And because I can't identify, even necessarily

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00:54:25,239 --> 00:54:28,640
Speaker 1: with much confidence, who number six is for me, I

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00:54:28,680 --> 00:54:31,120
Speaker 1: don't think there are I don't think any of those

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00:54:31,120 --> 00:54:33,600
Speaker 1: guys are relevant. So I'm gonna go with five. Alright,

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00:54:33,640 --> 00:54:38,400
Speaker 1: So five, you're five, okay, all right, Brian, I'll go

1077
00:54:38,520 --> 00:54:43,840
Speaker 1: six outside of the big three, Kelsey Kittle, Ingram, Henry,

1078
00:54:44,040 --> 00:54:47,080
Speaker 1: O J. Howard, those are the six I trust, Vance,

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00:54:47,239 --> 00:54:52,080
Speaker 1: Jared Cook, They're right there. Um, I'll include those guys

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00:54:52,120 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 1: at eight. But I'm drawing the line right for Eric Ebron,

1081
00:54:54,760 --> 00:54:57,960
Speaker 1: who certainly would regress on his fourteen touchdowns last year

1082
00:54:58,040 --> 00:55:01,200
Speaker 1: fourteen fifteen touchdowns with Jack Doyle back in the mix.

1083
00:55:01,719 --> 00:55:04,080
Speaker 1: And basically the point I'm trying to make here is

1084
00:55:04,120 --> 00:55:07,000
Speaker 1: if you miss out on Cook, don't don't go for

1085
00:55:07,040 --> 00:55:09,200
Speaker 1: the Hooper is the in joke. Wus the Routolphs, the

1086
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:12,120
Speaker 1: Jimmy Grahams, the Jordan Reeds. I would just wait on

1087
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:15,080
Speaker 1: tight end till the very end of the there's not

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00:55:15,120 --> 00:55:17,279
Speaker 1: the quiet. Well, we have to stop pontificating. That's not

1089
00:55:17,320 --> 00:55:20,680
Speaker 1: the question I'm trying to many star worthy tight ends

1090
00:55:20,719 --> 00:55:23,799
Speaker 1: are think Okay, well, I think this is a trick question.

1091
00:55:23,840 --> 00:55:25,600
Speaker 1: It's it's how many teams are in your league. Because

1092
00:55:25,600 --> 00:55:27,360
Speaker 1: as bad as tight ends are, none one, we're scoring

1093
00:55:27,360 --> 00:55:34,359
Speaker 1: the negative points. I'd rather take a sight. I'll go six.

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00:55:34,360 --> 00:55:36,759
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw Henry in the mix on top of

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00:55:37,440 --> 00:55:41,200
Speaker 1: list in hopes that he stays healthy. Yeah, the correct

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00:55:41,239 --> 00:55:43,640
Speaker 1: answer is ten. You guys are misreading the tea leaves

1097
00:55:43,680 --> 00:55:47,240
Speaker 1: on this entirely. Uh, this is there are ten guys

1098
00:55:47,280 --> 00:55:50,200
Speaker 1: I'm ready to go to war with. Let's let's go here.

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00:55:50,239 --> 00:55:53,359
Speaker 1: My number four tight end is Hunter Henry, who had

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00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:56,480
Speaker 1: the phenomenally impressive rookie season. First he was a first

1101
00:55:56,560 --> 00:55:59,920
Speaker 1: round draft pick miss last year, already rolling to rave reviews.

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00:56:00,040 --> 00:56:02,720
Speaker 1: This year, he will perform as a bona fide starter.

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00:56:03,160 --> 00:56:05,960
Speaker 1: Vance McDonald, who we have a referenced a couple of times.

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00:56:06,360 --> 00:56:10,080
Speaker 1: If you combined Jesse James's numbers from last year and

1105
00:56:10,160 --> 00:56:14,160
Speaker 1: Jesse James is in Detroit with Vance McDonald's last year,

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00:56:14,600 --> 00:56:17,040
Speaker 1: you end up at tight end four. This is he

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00:56:17,080 --> 00:56:20,120
Speaker 1: put together. That's an eighty catch, one thousand yards, six

1108
00:56:20,160 --> 00:56:24,359
Speaker 1: touchdown season. That's absolutely starter worthy. And Vince McDonald has

1109
00:56:24,440 --> 00:56:27,920
Speaker 1: no competition on that that depth chart. So Vance McDonald

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00:56:28,080 --> 00:56:30,680
Speaker 1: clearly a top ten guy. Jared Cook was last year's

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00:56:30,719 --> 00:56:33,719
Speaker 1: tight end four, and he goes from Derek Carr to

1112
00:56:34,160 --> 00:56:37,520
Speaker 1: Drew Breese throwing him the ball. He's certainly in the mix.

1113
00:56:37,719 --> 00:56:40,040
Speaker 1: You already mentioned Evan Ingram, you mentioned O. J. Howard,

1114
00:56:40,200 --> 00:56:42,960
Speaker 1: we mentioned Eric Ebron's last year's tight end three or

1115
00:56:43,000 --> 00:56:45,480
Speaker 1: maybe tight end four depending on the scoring system. He's

1116
00:56:45,520 --> 00:56:47,759
Speaker 1: in this mix. And then there's Mark Andrews, who you

1117
00:56:47,760 --> 00:56:49,840
Speaker 1: guys didn't mention and I think is sitting on a

1118
00:56:49,880 --> 00:56:53,920
Speaker 1: massive second season, put up five hundred fifty two yards

1119
00:56:54,000 --> 00:56:57,560
Speaker 1: last year. That's one of the five highest marks for

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00:56:57,640 --> 00:57:01,520
Speaker 1: any rookie tight end in the last twin years. Mark

1121
00:57:01,640 --> 00:57:05,279
Speaker 1: Andrews at five fifty two yards, and with all of

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00:57:05,320 --> 00:57:07,440
Speaker 1: the questions they've got with the receivers there, I think

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00:57:07,440 --> 00:57:09,840
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews is going to be a safe play as well.

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00:57:10,239 --> 00:57:13,440
Speaker 1: This it is not Panic time on tight ends. Last year,

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00:57:13,440 --> 00:57:15,480
Speaker 1: at this time, this show was telling you panic a

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00:57:15,600 --> 00:57:17,920
Speaker 1: tight end, draft him early, go get one of the

1127
00:57:17,920 --> 00:57:23,320
Speaker 1: good guys. I'm telling you ten deep this season. Thank you,

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00:57:23,360 --> 00:57:26,400
Speaker 1: guys want to combined to one three on everything. Congratulations.

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00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 1: Hopefully the listeners did a better job than you guys

1130
00:57:29,480 --> 00:57:32,600
Speaker 1: did I got, in fact, by default, I think they

1131
00:57:32,640 --> 00:57:35,400
Speaker 1: had to have. There's almost no way around it. Question

1132
00:57:35,600 --> 00:57:38,480
Speaker 1: question two was a clear setup from the world's foremost

1133
00:57:38,560 --> 00:57:42,040
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo apologists. We should have seen through that. That's

1134
00:57:42,080 --> 00:57:44,439
Speaker 1: a good point. That is a that is a good point.

1135
00:57:44,520 --> 00:57:48,640
Speaker 1: I have several tasteful nudes of Jimmy Garofolo uh in

1136
00:57:48,760 --> 00:57:54,000
Speaker 1: poster form in my room. What can we say? It's

1137
00:57:54,000 --> 00:57:56,200
Speaker 1: the prett season, It's the Hall of Fame Game Weekend

1138
00:57:57,040 --> 00:57:59,760
Speaker 1: Matt Matt shab is still in the NFL. That's the

1139
00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:03,000
Speaker 1: believable thing. That guy's drawn up paycheck, he match up,

1140
00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:05,040
Speaker 1: is gonna finish his career as one of the like

1141
00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:10,800
Speaker 1: fifteen highest paid quarterbacks of all time, which is unfathomable.

1142
00:58:10,800 --> 00:58:12,680
Speaker 1: Because he keeps milk in his career. You would think

1143
00:58:12,720 --> 00:58:14,000
Speaker 1: at some point he would just be like, you know,

1144
00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:15,800
Speaker 1: and I'm done. I don't even, I don't even. I'm

1145
00:58:15,840 --> 00:58:18,160
Speaker 1: just bored holding the clipboard. You think he'd be done,

1146
00:58:18,200 --> 00:58:20,800
Speaker 1: but it hasn't worked that way to this point. When

1147
00:58:20,840 --> 00:58:22,960
Speaker 1: we come back, we're gonna talk about some of the

1148
00:58:23,000 --> 00:58:26,160
Speaker 1: game play variations that you will want to run in

1149
00:58:26,200 --> 00:58:28,160
Speaker 1: your league. What's a guillotine league, what's the best ball,

1150
00:58:28,200 --> 00:58:31,440
Speaker 1: what's an Empire league, what's super flex? We will go

1151
00:58:31,520 --> 00:58:34,320
Speaker 1: through all of that moments from now. Thanks for listening

1152
00:58:34,360 --> 00:58:36,840
Speaker 1: to Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charching, my co

1153
00:58:36,920 --> 00:58:41,320
Speaker 1: host Christian Peterson and Brian Johnson. You know, mants have

1154
00:58:41,320 --> 00:58:43,160
Speaker 1: been playing fantasy football for a long time. We've most

1155
00:58:43,160 --> 00:58:45,080
Speaker 1: have been playing the same way with the same rules,

1156
00:58:45,080 --> 00:58:47,080
Speaker 1: and some people are still playing in touchdown only leagues.

1157
00:58:47,120 --> 00:58:50,480
Speaker 1: I love god, it's I don't even understand that. However,

1158
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:53,720
Speaker 1: there are so many new and cool ways to play

1159
00:58:53,800 --> 00:58:57,040
Speaker 1: fantasy football. You take all these millions of passionate players

1160
00:58:57,080 --> 00:59:01,120
Speaker 1: and they've dreamed up fascinating new ways to play. I

1161
00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:03,560
Speaker 1: think the most exciting new way to play is the

1162
00:59:03,600 --> 00:59:07,280
Speaker 1: guillotine league. Guys, um, let me, let me give you

1163
00:59:07,360 --> 00:59:09,520
Speaker 1: the opportunity to talk about a Christian tell people what

1164
00:59:09,560 --> 00:59:13,880
Speaker 1: a guillotine league is. So, a guillotine league is a

1165
00:59:14,000 --> 00:59:17,600
Speaker 1: league in which every week of the season, the lowest

1166
00:59:17,720 --> 00:59:22,960
Speaker 1: scoring team for that week gets chopped unceremoniously dumped from

1167
00:59:23,000 --> 00:59:26,640
Speaker 1: the league and they're all of the players from that

1168
00:59:26,760 --> 00:59:30,919
Speaker 1: roster get released into the free agent pool, so they're

1169
00:59:31,000 --> 00:59:33,880
Speaker 1: they're available for all of the other teams in the league,

1170
00:59:34,480 --> 00:59:38,200
Speaker 1: uh to bid on in the in the free agency Uh,

1171
00:59:38,240 --> 00:59:41,320
Speaker 1: in the free agency process, which starts at seventeen teams

1172
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:44,720
Speaker 1: waiver wire, Yeah teams. Yeah. The idea as you start

1173
00:59:44,720 --> 00:59:48,040
Speaker 1: with seventeen teams and each week of the season, UH,

1174
00:59:48,080 --> 00:59:50,360
Speaker 1: somebody somebody has chopped, so you end up at the

1175
00:59:50,480 --> 00:59:53,000
Speaker 1: end of the year with with a champion, and it's

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00:59:53,000 --> 00:59:55,080
Speaker 1: not head to head, it's total points, so you're just

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00:59:55,120 --> 00:59:59,200
Speaker 1: playing against everyone essentially. Yeah, that's right. So you're a

1178
00:59:59,280 --> 01:00:02,200
Speaker 1: week yeah, and so you're playing every single week. You're

1179
01:00:02,240 --> 01:00:05,760
Speaker 1: not necessarily playing to win. You're just playing not to lose,

1180
01:00:06,240 --> 01:00:09,400
Speaker 1: like if you're last, Like if you're running from a bear,

1181
01:00:09,480 --> 01:00:11,280
Speaker 1: you don't have to be the fastest person. You just

1182
01:00:11,320 --> 01:00:18,080
Speaker 1: can't be the slowest. Great analogy like that. That's exactly right.

1183
01:00:18,680 --> 01:00:22,040
Speaker 1: Um At seventeen teams, low scoring team gets shopped eats week.

1184
01:00:22,040 --> 01:00:23,880
Speaker 1: You get down to week sixteen, there's two teams left,

1185
01:00:24,000 --> 01:00:26,520
Speaker 1: and the winner takes all. I like, winner takes all

1186
01:00:26,560 --> 01:00:28,320
Speaker 1: whatever whatever your pot is. And by the way, these

1187
01:00:28,320 --> 01:00:32,160
Speaker 1: pots get big with seventeen teams. You know, you know

1188
01:00:32,200 --> 01:00:33,760
Speaker 1: I don't. I think if I do the math correctly,

1189
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:35,680
Speaker 1: if you each paid a hundred dollars, that'd be one thousand,

1190
01:00:35,720 --> 01:00:37,720
Speaker 1: seven hundred dollars and you could give it all to

1191
01:00:37,800 --> 01:00:39,560
Speaker 1: the winner. If you want to go with the extreme

1192
01:00:39,840 --> 01:00:42,880
Speaker 1: head chopping scenario and there's only one survivor, you could

1193
01:00:42,880 --> 01:00:46,120
Speaker 1: have a seventeen hundred dollar pay day that way, what

1194
01:00:46,120 --> 01:00:48,240
Speaker 1: do you think? I'm just gonna say, you're down to

1195
01:00:48,520 --> 01:00:51,400
Speaker 1: picking your two running backs in week sixteen seventeen. He's like,

1196
01:00:51,560 --> 01:00:57,880
Speaker 1: I gotta pick two between se Kwon Barkley Christian McCaffrey, Alvin. Yes, yeah,

1197
01:00:57,920 --> 01:01:00,680
Speaker 1: we all played guilloteam leagues last year, and the waiver

1198
01:01:00,800 --> 01:01:05,560
Speaker 1: wires are crazy because every week a whole team's drafted

1199
01:01:05,600 --> 01:01:08,920
Speaker 1: just hit the waiver wire, and by mid season that

1200
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:12,080
Speaker 1: team is always beyond beyond where they were when they drafted.

1201
01:01:12,120 --> 01:01:14,080
Speaker 1: They've made a bunch of key pickups and then they

1202
01:01:14,120 --> 01:01:17,160
Speaker 1: got cut. So all of these amazing players end up

1203
01:01:17,240 --> 01:01:19,640
Speaker 1: hitting the waiver wire. So in the span of one week,

1204
01:01:19,920 --> 01:01:22,280
Speaker 1: you might have se Kwon Barkley hit the waiver wire

1205
01:01:22,360 --> 01:01:27,160
Speaker 1: along with Antonio Brown and Patrick Mahomes and Jared Cook

1206
01:01:27,400 --> 01:01:30,040
Speaker 1: and you know, just a whole roster of great players

1207
01:01:30,320 --> 01:01:33,280
Speaker 1: and then everybody bids on them. And it's fascinating how

1208
01:01:33,320 --> 01:01:36,320
Speaker 1: the Guillotine League works. Um, what are what do you

1209
01:01:36,360 --> 01:01:39,520
Speaker 1: guys feel are a couple of winning strategies for Guillotine

1210
01:01:39,600 --> 01:01:42,640
Speaker 1: League players. Well, that's just the thing. This is only

1211
01:01:42,680 --> 01:01:46,120
Speaker 1: the second season of existence, so it's very much everygreen

1212
01:01:46,480 --> 01:01:48,960
Speaker 1: when it comes to strategy. People who need to invent

1213
01:01:49,080 --> 01:01:52,280
Speaker 1: what strategies work for KI team leagues this year. Personally,

1214
01:01:52,280 --> 01:01:56,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna treat um the draft or startup auction. However

1215
01:01:56,480 --> 01:02:00,320
Speaker 1: you you construct your guillotine teams in your league. Gonna

1216
01:02:00,360 --> 01:02:02,760
Speaker 1: take a very hard look at the first one or

1217
01:02:02,840 --> 01:02:06,120
Speaker 1: two weeks at the season and doc players for bad

1218
01:02:06,160 --> 01:02:09,800
Speaker 1: matchups uh in those weeks who you would normally draft

1219
01:02:10,440 --> 01:02:13,600
Speaker 1: higher in standard season leagues, because yes, the odds are

1220
01:02:13,840 --> 01:02:16,600
Speaker 1: you're one of seventeen teams. Uh, you'll be one of

1221
01:02:16,760 --> 01:02:18,520
Speaker 1: you but one in seventeen chance to be the first

1222
01:02:18,560 --> 01:02:22,280
Speaker 1: team knocked out. But those chances go up incredulously when

1223
01:02:22,880 --> 01:02:25,600
Speaker 1: your your first round pick. What's the bed in week one?

1224
01:02:25,760 --> 01:02:28,439
Speaker 1: Because there are so many teams, uh, And if you

1225
01:02:28,520 --> 01:02:31,200
Speaker 1: your studs don't perform, you're very likely to be one cut.

1226
01:02:31,240 --> 01:02:32,800
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna take a very hard look at the

1227
01:02:32,840 --> 01:02:37,720
Speaker 1: early season schedule and adjust my rankings accordingly. Yeah, I

1228
01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:40,360
Speaker 1: I agree with that. I think you want to be

1229
01:02:40,360 --> 01:02:43,320
Speaker 1: be wary of extremely difficult matchups in the early going.

1230
01:02:43,360 --> 01:02:44,920
Speaker 1: I think one of the other things you should do

1231
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:48,920
Speaker 1: is try to target more reliable players, you know, a

1232
01:02:48,960 --> 01:02:52,040
Speaker 1: boomer bust player like with like like a Tyreek Hill.

1233
01:02:52,720 --> 01:02:54,840
Speaker 1: You know, over the course of the season in a

1234
01:02:54,920 --> 01:02:57,760
Speaker 1: in a season long league, you can afford, you know,

1235
01:02:57,920 --> 01:03:00,280
Speaker 1: to to ride out those waves where he has huge

1236
01:03:00,320 --> 01:03:02,240
Speaker 1: games and then he and then he might do not

1237
01:03:02,360 --> 01:03:04,880
Speaker 1: much of anything in other games, but in a guillotine

1238
01:03:04,920 --> 01:03:09,240
Speaker 1: format in that down week, you know you might be done. Uh.

1239
01:03:09,280 --> 01:03:11,520
Speaker 1: And so you know, Tyreek Hill or sort of deep

1240
01:03:11,560 --> 01:03:13,800
Speaker 1: threat wide receivers are an example of that, and maybe

1241
01:03:14,040 --> 01:03:17,120
Speaker 1: maybe even sort of like pass catching running backs running

1242
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:20,400
Speaker 1: backs that depend more on that, which it's just it's

1243
01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:23,560
Speaker 1: just more difficult to sort of predict how game flow

1244
01:03:23,680 --> 01:03:27,400
Speaker 1: is going to go for past receiving running backs. So again, yeah,

1245
01:03:27,440 --> 01:03:30,440
Speaker 1: just just sort of trying to target more more reliable players,

1246
01:03:30,480 --> 01:03:32,480
Speaker 1: because again, it doesn't matter if you're the highest scoring

1247
01:03:32,560 --> 01:03:34,520
Speaker 1: team in the league. You just can't be the lowest scoring.

1248
01:03:36,880 --> 01:03:39,120
Speaker 1: The only quible I have with the advice you're giving is,

1249
01:03:39,320 --> 01:03:41,320
Speaker 1: I don't know that I'm going to contort my draft

1250
01:03:41,360 --> 01:03:44,560
Speaker 1: around the guys with the tough early schedules, because just

1251
01:03:44,640 --> 01:03:47,360
Speaker 1: odds are with seventeen teams, you're not going to be

1252
01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:50,080
Speaker 1: the one who gets cut. You got a chance of

1253
01:03:50,120 --> 01:03:53,640
Speaker 1: surviving week one no matter what, right unless you're really

1254
01:03:53,640 --> 01:03:57,360
Speaker 1: really bad in your draft, and week two, with sixteen teams,

1255
01:03:57,360 --> 01:04:01,440
Speaker 1: you got chance or making the cut. More likely than not,

1256
01:04:01,480 --> 01:04:03,520
Speaker 1: you're gonna make the cut anyway. And I'm really not

1257
01:04:03,600 --> 01:04:06,320
Speaker 1: sweating it in my Guillotine leagues unless you know there

1258
01:04:06,320 --> 01:04:08,320
Speaker 1: are guys like A. J. Green, who I don't think

1259
01:04:08,320 --> 01:04:10,080
Speaker 1: it's gonna play for a couple of weeks in the

1260
01:04:10,080 --> 01:04:12,320
Speaker 1: beginning of the season. That's a guy. That's a guy

1261
01:04:12,360 --> 01:04:15,480
Speaker 1: that does change things. Kareem Hunt hard to even draft

1262
01:04:15,560 --> 01:04:23,320
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt in this format, and so Zeke. Those guys

1263
01:04:23,360 --> 01:04:25,560
Speaker 1: are more dangerous because they might not come in, they

1264
01:04:25,600 --> 01:04:27,520
Speaker 1: might they might miss a few weeks into the season.

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Speaker 1: Those guys are more dangerous too in the guillotine format.

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Speaker 1: If you want more information on Guillotine leagues or maybe

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Speaker 1: even on joining one, you don't know six and other people,

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Speaker 1: or even if you do, I'll go to Guillotine leagues

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Speaker 1: dot com. Guys talk about the best Ball format and

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Speaker 1: how that works. Brian Um, I know you spent a

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Speaker 1: lot of time talking best Ball. Tell people how best

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Speaker 1: Ball drafts work. Uh. They're longer, bigger drafts than you're

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Speaker 1: used to because you need to draft a lot of depth.

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Speaker 1: So Um, like standard Fantasy. Every week, you'll have a roster,

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Speaker 1: that starting roster that prizes of a quarterback, two running backs,

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Speaker 1: three wide receivers, a tight end, flex spot in a defense.

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Speaker 1: But unlike standard fantasy, you don't pick who you're starting

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Speaker 1: every week. The results pick who starts. So once all

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Speaker 1: the games conclude each week, your highest scoring player or

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Speaker 1: players that can slot into the applicable spots, uh, comprise

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Speaker 1: you're starting lineup. So your best ball team, your best

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Speaker 1: balls are put forward. So it's a really fun fun

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Speaker 1: way to play. You know, people start drafting best Ball

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Speaker 1: teams literally the day after the Super Bowl, even before

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Speaker 1: the actual NFL draft. Uh. There's some risk there, but

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Speaker 1: there's a lot of reward as well. It's a lot

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Speaker 1: of fun. And we talked about guys that are better

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Speaker 1: for best Ball, like the Shawn Jackson's of the world,

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Speaker 1: where it's hard to peg when you should start them

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Speaker 1: when you're the one that has to insert them in

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Speaker 1: the lineup yourself. But when they're automatically put in when

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Speaker 1: they have those spike games, Uh, it's much more rewarding

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Speaker 1: experience owning players like that and far less frustrating. So

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Speaker 1: best Ball a lot of fun. I love playing it

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01:05:59,280 --> 01:06:02,480
Speaker 1: very much. Are very much almost the almost the opposite

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Speaker 1: of the guilloteam leagues where you want reliable players. In

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Speaker 1: best Ball, you can have these home run hitters like

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Speaker 1: the DeShawn Jackson's and the Eric Ebrons who scores touchdowns

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Speaker 1: that is great and then doesn't score touched on he's terrible.

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Speaker 1: Those those guys end up working out those high risk,

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01:06:16,760 --> 01:06:20,360
Speaker 1: high reward game in game out guys are better best

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Speaker 1: ball options and more viable for sure, and charge you

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Speaker 1: don't have to guess when they're when they're gonna go off. Sorry,

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Speaker 1: I I didn't mention that. And there's no inseason management.

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Speaker 1: You're you're not adding dropping players, you're not trading your

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Speaker 1: your draft, and you're done. So it's a fun way

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Speaker 1: to get stay stay on top of the ADPs of

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Speaker 1: players as the summer progress. Is a good way to

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Speaker 1: stay on top of things is participating investment, and that

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Speaker 1: is that's the beauty of best ball. If you love

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Speaker 1: the draft, there's a real thing on best balls. If

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Speaker 1: you love to draft, but you don't want to manage

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01:06:47,360 --> 01:06:50,360
Speaker 1: a dozen teams, you can draft a dozen best ball teams.

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Speaker 1: You don't have to manage any of them. And that's

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Speaker 1: the beauty of it. For draft junkies like me, I

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Speaker 1: love the draft. I can't manage twelve teams. I can

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Speaker 1: have twelve best ball teams. Let's go to Empire leagues. Christian,

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Speaker 1: tell people what the Empire league is. Yeah, So an

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Speaker 1: Empire league is a sort of a spin off for

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Speaker 1: a derivation of a of a dynasty league. And if

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Speaker 1: people don't know what a dynasty league is, that is

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Speaker 1: a league in which in year one you have a

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Speaker 1: regular draft or auction like you would in any other

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Speaker 1: fantasy league, but at the end of that season, going

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Speaker 1: into the next year, you keep all of the players

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Speaker 1: that are on your roster, and then the subsequent year

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01:07:27,600 --> 01:07:30,360
Speaker 1: you're drafting really just for rookies, you know, and a

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Speaker 1: new NFL rookies that are coming into the league. So

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Speaker 1: it's a format that allows you to draft players in

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Speaker 1: year one and really hold them for the rest of

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01:07:39,800 --> 01:07:42,680
Speaker 1: their careers if you really want to. And it creates

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Speaker 1: a whole different dynamic because there's a lot of offseason activity.

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01:07:45,560 --> 01:07:48,600
Speaker 1: The only way to really improve your teams is by

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01:07:48,640 --> 01:07:51,040
Speaker 1: is by making traits um So it's it's sort of

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01:07:51,080 --> 01:07:55,720
Speaker 1: a way of of actively playing fantasy football year round,

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01:07:55,920 --> 01:07:58,120
Speaker 1: which which is appealing to a lot of people. So

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01:07:58,400 --> 01:08:02,600
Speaker 1: that's what a dynasty format is, and the Empire spinoff

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01:08:02,760 --> 01:08:06,720
Speaker 1: of that is really just has to do with um

1339
01:08:06,840 --> 01:08:10,120
Speaker 1: essentially the prize pool. So it's it's a way of

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01:08:10,280 --> 01:08:13,080
Speaker 1: increasing the prize pools year after year. So what happens

1341
01:08:13,120 --> 01:08:15,800
Speaker 1: is everybody might pay a hundred dollar entry fee every

1342
01:08:15,800 --> 01:08:18,519
Speaker 1: single year in a typical dynasty league, all of that

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01:08:18,600 --> 01:08:21,120
Speaker 1: money goes back out after that year. In an empire league,

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01:08:21,160 --> 01:08:23,679
Speaker 1: half of it stays in a pot, a rolling pot

1345
01:08:23,760 --> 01:08:26,680
Speaker 1: that rolls over from year to year until one of

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01:08:26,720 --> 01:08:30,559
Speaker 1: the teams wins the league back to back and that

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01:08:30,600 --> 01:08:33,800
Speaker 1: team then at that point takes down the entire empire pots.

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01:08:33,840 --> 01:08:36,919
Speaker 1: So it's kind of a way of of almost increasing

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01:08:36,920 --> 01:08:40,360
Speaker 1: the stakes in your fantasy football league by creating this

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01:08:40,439 --> 01:08:44,719
Speaker 1: long rolling pot that that potentially turns into a bigger

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01:08:44,760 --> 01:08:47,200
Speaker 1: payout down the road. And then also it's a way

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Speaker 1: of keeping the league fresh because after that, after the

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01:08:50,800 --> 01:08:53,799
Speaker 1: person wins back to back the league, the league folds,

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01:08:53,800 --> 01:08:55,920
Speaker 1: the league is over, and you can certainly start up

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01:08:55,920 --> 01:08:58,000
Speaker 1: a new one the next year. But yeah, it's it's

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01:08:58,000 --> 01:09:00,600
Speaker 1: a way it puts it puts an endpoint on a

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01:09:00,680 --> 01:09:02,679
Speaker 1: dynasty league because one of the things that can tend

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Speaker 1: to happen in a dynasty league is they get a

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01:09:04,320 --> 01:09:09,120
Speaker 1: little stale, potentially they just end because people lose interest.

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Speaker 1: And people don't lose interest when there's an Empire Pot

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01:09:11,520 --> 01:09:14,400
Speaker 1: in play, right, If you're you're rolling up, when you're

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01:09:14,479 --> 01:09:18,599
Speaker 1: rolling forward five thousand dollar Empire Pot, nobody's leaving, that's

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Speaker 1: for sure. And I love the fact that there's a

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Speaker 1: defined end to an Empire League. When somebody wins back

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Speaker 1: to back years, they cash out that year's money, they

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Speaker 1: cash out the Empire Pot, and they are the champion,

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01:09:33,080 --> 01:09:36,880
Speaker 1: not just last year's champion or the current champion. They

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01:09:37,000 --> 01:09:40,040
Speaker 1: are the champion of the Empire League and it disbands.

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Speaker 1: And I love that about the Empire League format. Alright,

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Speaker 1: last gameplay variation. I want to throw to you guys,

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Speaker 1: super flex. I think this is all but mandatory in

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Speaker 1: any reasonably sized league. Brian, tell people what's super flex is. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Everyone's familiar, familiar with the flex spot, which is usually

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01:10:01,760 --> 01:10:04,880
Speaker 1: comprised of a running back, wide receiver, a tight end. Uh.

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Speaker 1: Super flex, Uh, you can still play all those same positions,

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01:10:08,160 --> 01:10:10,720
Speaker 1: but the kickers, you can play a quarterback. And like

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Speaker 1: you said, uh, it is basically mandatory at this point

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01:10:14,280 --> 01:10:16,400
Speaker 1: because in this day and age it's a passing league.

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Speaker 1: There are at least fifteen sixteen seventeen guys that have

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01:10:21,280 --> 01:10:23,960
Speaker 1: top ten quarterback potential this year. And when you're only

1381
01:10:24,320 --> 01:10:27,639
Speaker 1: when you only have to start one, they lose all value.

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01:10:27,680 --> 01:10:31,880
Speaker 1: They almost become worthless unless they're Patrick Mahomes like Cam

1383
01:10:31,880 --> 01:10:34,720
Speaker 1: Newton is virtually worthless in a one quarterback league. So

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Speaker 1: super flex it just makes quarterbacks way more value. It

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01:10:37,960 --> 01:10:41,479
Speaker 1: just opens the floodgates for trading, uh, way way more,

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01:10:41,560 --> 01:10:43,519
Speaker 1: which is a way better thing, way better experience for

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01:10:43,560 --> 01:10:45,639
Speaker 1: everyone in the league. And uh again, and then there's

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01:10:45,680 --> 01:10:48,479
Speaker 1: also two quarterback mandatory. But super flex is uh the

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01:10:48,560 --> 01:10:51,800
Speaker 1: nice step up from one quarterback and uh, we can't

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Speaker 1: recommend it enough. I will not play in a one

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Speaker 1: quarterback league unless it's best ball. That's the only place

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01:10:57,240 --> 01:10:59,200
Speaker 1: you really find a one quarterback league or something super

1393
01:10:59,280 --> 01:11:01,880
Speaker 1: high stakes. But any home league should be super flex

1394
01:11:01,920 --> 01:11:05,080
Speaker 1: at this point, way more fun. Yep, it really should,

1395
01:11:05,120 --> 01:11:08,360
Speaker 1: because the quarterbacks are worthless, uh and they're in the

1396
01:11:08,479 --> 01:11:11,559
Speaker 1: almost indistinguishable from one another unless you can get to

1397
01:11:11,600 --> 01:11:14,160
Speaker 1: that super flex level where people can start to and

1398
01:11:14,200 --> 01:11:16,800
Speaker 1: now you're going. Now, now those second tier quarterbacks and

1399
01:11:16,840 --> 01:11:19,040
Speaker 1: third tier quarterbacks have got so much more value. We

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Speaker 1: love super flex for sure, How does, um, how does

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Speaker 1: it change drafting quarterbacks? In your mind? If if Patrick

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01:11:25,720 --> 01:11:28,479
Speaker 1: Mahomes has got a let's not use Mahomes, let's use

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01:11:28,560 --> 01:11:32,320
Speaker 1: a let's use a mortal quarterback. As as as as

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01:11:32,320 --> 01:11:36,840
Speaker 1: our option here, Let's say, um, Drew Brees is going

1405
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Speaker 1: in the ninth round. What does how does it change

1406
01:11:40,040 --> 01:11:41,800
Speaker 1: in a in a one quarterback leave? If he's going

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01:11:41,840 --> 01:11:44,800
Speaker 1: the ninth round? When would you take Drew Brees in

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Speaker 1: a super flex league? Yeah? I mean it depends a

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01:11:48,720 --> 01:11:51,600
Speaker 1: little bit on your on your scoring system, Um, and

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Speaker 1: I will know that you should be in a super

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01:11:53,200 --> 01:11:55,200
Speaker 1: flex league unless you really just want it to be

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Speaker 1: a full two quarterback league. You need to be careful

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Speaker 1: with your scoring system to make it so that every

1414
01:12:00,080 --> 01:12:02,559
Speaker 1: week it's it is a It is a difficult decision

1415
01:12:02,720 --> 01:12:05,960
Speaker 1: on whether you should just start two quarterbacks automatically or

1416
01:12:06,000 --> 01:12:07,599
Speaker 1: whether you might be able to play a wide receiver

1417
01:12:07,680 --> 01:12:11,320
Speaker 1: at that spot. But generally speaking, the quarterbacks I think

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01:12:11,479 --> 01:12:14,800
Speaker 1: they just consistently score more points. You know, they may

1419
01:12:15,080 --> 01:12:17,000
Speaker 1: if you've done your scoring system right. They may not

1420
01:12:17,120 --> 01:12:20,160
Speaker 1: necessarily have any more upside than a wide receiver, but

1421
01:12:20,439 --> 01:12:23,160
Speaker 1: their floor is is a little bit higher and so

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01:12:23,479 --> 01:12:26,479
Speaker 1: I think that brings that brings quarterbacks up for sure.

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01:12:26,520 --> 01:12:28,840
Speaker 1: If if you're normally drafting Drew Brees, if he's if

1424
01:12:28,840 --> 01:12:31,639
Speaker 1: he's a ninth round a DP in a regular one

1425
01:12:31,720 --> 01:12:34,280
Speaker 1: quarterback league, I think absolutely you gotta you gotta jump

1426
01:12:34,360 --> 01:12:36,679
Speaker 1: on him earlier. It might you might have to pick

1427
01:12:36,800 --> 01:12:40,120
Speaker 1: him three or four rounds earlier. Yeah, and you'll still notice,

1428
01:12:40,200 --> 01:12:41,920
Speaker 1: you know what, a couple of quarterbacks go in a

1429
01:12:41,960 --> 01:12:43,879
Speaker 1: super flex league, then all of a sudden, a quarterback

1430
01:12:43,960 --> 01:12:47,599
Speaker 1: run occurs, and it's fun to start those runs, sit

1431
01:12:47,680 --> 01:12:49,280
Speaker 1: them out. I don't know. It just adds a ton

1432
01:12:49,320 --> 01:12:53,080
Speaker 1: of complexity, good complexity to any fantasy league, and you'll

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Speaker 1: see I mean, I don't think. I don't think Patrick

1434
01:12:55,040 --> 01:12:57,479
Speaker 1: Mahomes was necessarily a bad example charts because I think

1435
01:12:57,520 --> 01:12:59,960
Speaker 1: in a super flex league you might see Patrick mah

1436
01:13:00,280 --> 01:13:02,880
Speaker 1: go in the top five picks. You again, depending on

1437
01:13:02,920 --> 01:13:07,439
Speaker 1: the on the scoring system. But yeah, for those listeners

1438
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Speaker 1: that are in our local market in the Greater Minnesota

1439
01:13:11,720 --> 01:13:15,960
Speaker 1: Minneapolis area, a reminder, the Fantasy Football Training camp is

1440
01:13:15,960 --> 01:13:19,080
Speaker 1: coming August sevent to Canterbury Park. It is totally free.

1441
01:13:19,560 --> 01:13:24,360
Speaker 1: You'll want to arrive local time ten o'clock for Fantasy

1442
01:13:24,400 --> 01:13:27,679
Speaker 1: Football Weekly. You get to hear the on air portion

1443
01:13:27,720 --> 01:13:29,439
Speaker 1: of the show from tender noon, and then we do

1444
01:13:29,479 --> 01:13:33,920
Speaker 1: the off air deep dive, data driven stats, slides, presentations,

1445
01:13:33,960 --> 01:13:37,240
Speaker 1: power points, all that stuff for ninety minutes. After that,

1446
01:13:37,320 --> 01:13:39,040
Speaker 1: it's totally free. It's a Canterbury Park. It is the

1447
01:13:39,080 --> 01:13:42,080
Speaker 1: Fantasy football training camp. Moments from now, we will talk

1448
01:13:42,120 --> 01:13:45,519
Speaker 1: about Dynasty and Empire leaguers. What does that rookie draft

1449
01:13:45,600 --> 01:13:50,240
Speaker 1: look like. We'll tell you our top twenty uh Dynasty

1450
01:13:50,680 --> 01:13:54,479
Speaker 1: Empire rookies who were drafting in what order and why.

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01:13:54,479 --> 01:13:57,200
Speaker 1: When we come back, we close out every one of

1452
01:13:57,200 --> 01:14:00,840
Speaker 1: our preseason podcast on Fantasy Football Weekly by releasing one

1453
01:14:01,120 --> 01:14:03,559
Speaker 1: sleeper from each of the host You're gonna get three

1454
01:14:03,560 --> 01:14:07,080
Speaker 1: sleepers for your draft or your auction at the end

1455
01:14:07,080 --> 01:14:10,599
Speaker 1: of this At the end of this show, first our

1456
01:14:10,680 --> 01:14:13,040
Speaker 1: Dynasty and Empire rookie drafts. If you're in a Dynasty

1457
01:14:13,080 --> 01:14:15,759
Speaker 1: league or an Empire league, it's primarily populated by rookies.

1458
01:14:16,080 --> 01:14:19,160
Speaker 1: Here's the order we recommend that you take them in.

1459
01:14:19,800 --> 01:14:23,360
Speaker 1: There's some debate, not generally a ton of debate, but

1460
01:14:23,439 --> 01:14:25,240
Speaker 1: some debate on some of these guys will talk through

1461
01:14:25,280 --> 01:14:26,680
Speaker 1: sort of the highs and lows for each one of

1462
01:14:26,680 --> 01:14:28,599
Speaker 1: these guys. I think the first guy that we're gonna

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Speaker 1: take is David Montgomery, the rookie from Chicago. Josh Jacobs

1464
01:14:32,600 --> 01:14:36,680
Speaker 1: was drafted first, but Montgomery comes here because quality of offense,

1465
01:14:37,040 --> 01:14:39,880
Speaker 1: to me is a big differentiator. Christian, what are your

1466
01:14:39,880 --> 01:14:44,080
Speaker 1: thoughts and David Montgomery number one overall? Yeah, I mean

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01:14:44,200 --> 01:14:45,960
Speaker 1: I agree with you. I think you could. You could

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01:14:45,960 --> 01:14:49,040
Speaker 1: probably quibble between the top two of Montgomery and Jacobs.

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01:14:49,080 --> 01:14:51,320
Speaker 1: Those seem like kind of the consensus top two backs

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01:14:51,600 --> 01:14:54,200
Speaker 1: UH this year. And I don't disagree that Montgomery has

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01:14:54,240 --> 01:14:56,680
Speaker 1: landed in a better spot with a better offense. He

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01:14:56,880 --> 01:14:59,559
Speaker 1: has a little bit more competition in the backfield with

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01:14:59,560 --> 01:15:03,879
Speaker 1: Tarik Owen there as well. And I think Jacobs maybe

1474
01:15:04,040 --> 01:15:05,840
Speaker 1: is set up to be more of a three down

1475
01:15:05,920 --> 01:15:10,800
Speaker 1: guy earlier on than what Montgomery will be. But again,

1476
01:15:10,880 --> 01:15:14,000
Speaker 1: I can't I can't quibble too much with your supposition

1477
01:15:14,120 --> 01:15:17,400
Speaker 1: that Montgomery is just in a more explosive offense. Mitchell

1478
01:15:17,439 --> 01:15:20,479
Speaker 1: Drabinsky looks like he's about to take another step forward

1479
01:15:20,880 --> 01:15:23,120
Speaker 1: UH this year. They have very good wide receivers, they

1480
01:15:23,120 --> 01:15:26,080
Speaker 1: have to Cohen open things up. They've got an elite

1481
01:15:26,160 --> 01:15:28,800
Speaker 1: level defense, that should put the game script in the

1482
01:15:28,920 --> 01:15:31,360
Speaker 1: in their favor. In most games, they might be running

1483
01:15:31,400 --> 01:15:33,200
Speaker 1: out the clock in the in the second half, and

1484
01:15:33,240 --> 01:15:36,040
Speaker 1: that's when David Montgomery comes in. So I don't mind

1485
01:15:36,040 --> 01:15:40,320
Speaker 1: Montgomery at number one overall. Yeah, he'll get the touchdowns

1486
01:15:40,320 --> 01:15:42,360
Speaker 1: and that still counts for a lot in fantasy football.

1487
01:15:42,439 --> 01:15:45,000
Speaker 1: Let's go to number two, Josh Jacobs. Is we just

1488
01:15:45,040 --> 01:15:47,760
Speaker 1: mentioned he falls in. He falls in with Oakland, that

1489
01:15:47,840 --> 01:15:50,640
Speaker 1: was obviously a pretty dysfunctional offense last year. What are

1490
01:15:50,640 --> 01:15:53,920
Speaker 1: your feelings on Josh Jacobs at number two, Brian, that's

1491
01:15:53,920 --> 01:15:56,280
Speaker 1: just it. That's the rub, right, it's Oakland. But no,

1492
01:15:56,920 --> 01:15:59,200
Speaker 1: if if this was a redraft league in that you're

1493
01:15:59,200 --> 01:16:01,120
Speaker 1: just playing for this one season, I would take Jacob's

1494
01:16:01,320 --> 01:16:04,559
Speaker 1: over Montgomery because Jacobs will probably see more touches walking

1495
01:16:04,560 --> 01:16:06,760
Speaker 1: into the starter's role. But this, as you said, this

1496
01:16:06,800 --> 01:16:10,400
Speaker 1: is Dynasty Empire. I like David Montgomery's long term outlooks,

1497
01:16:10,400 --> 01:16:13,679
Speaker 1: and you know, I can't really back up a gut feeling,

1498
01:16:13,720 --> 01:16:17,320
Speaker 1: but something about Josh Jacob's just screams Trent richardson two

1499
01:16:17,360 --> 01:16:19,519
Speaker 1: point oh to me as well. So if I had

1500
01:16:19,520 --> 01:16:23,200
Speaker 1: the first big I would lean Montgomery long term Jacobs

1501
01:16:23,200 --> 01:16:26,920
Speaker 1: probably the better back this year in terms of opportunity,

1502
01:16:27,000 --> 01:16:30,640
Speaker 1: but again with Oakland, you never know what's going to

1503
01:16:30,720 --> 01:16:34,040
Speaker 1: happen with those Raiders. They seem to overdraft offensive players.

1504
01:16:34,120 --> 01:16:37,599
Speaker 1: Jacobs might be the next one out. We'll see, all right.

1505
01:16:37,640 --> 01:16:40,439
Speaker 1: And because we are looking long term our number three guys,

1506
01:16:40,560 --> 01:16:45,000
Speaker 1: Darryl Henderson for the Rams, because can anybody who's listening

1507
01:16:45,000 --> 01:16:46,640
Speaker 1: tell me that Todd Gurley is going to be on

1508
01:16:46,680 --> 01:16:49,599
Speaker 1: the team or in the NFL two or three years

1509
01:16:49,600 --> 01:16:55,120
Speaker 1: from now? No chronically arthritic need? Yeah right, I mean

1510
01:16:55,160 --> 01:16:57,240
Speaker 1: you know they might amputate. He might have a peg

1511
01:16:57,360 --> 01:17:00,759
Speaker 1: leg by this time in two years. Who knows. Darryl

1512
01:17:00,800 --> 01:17:03,680
Speaker 1: Henderson at some point becomes to go to back for

1513
01:17:03,800 --> 01:17:07,200
Speaker 1: the Rams. And that's why in my mind for Dynasty

1514
01:17:07,200 --> 01:17:09,680
Speaker 1: and Empire, he goes all the way up to number three.

1515
01:17:09,720 --> 01:17:12,920
Speaker 1: Christian Yeah, I mean, you're right. This this is sort

1516
01:17:12,960 --> 01:17:17,360
Speaker 1: of the the extraordinarily high upside play to take Henderson

1517
01:17:17,400 --> 01:17:19,800
Speaker 1: at at third here, and it is because of Girly.

1518
01:17:19,880 --> 01:17:22,360
Speaker 1: I mean, Girle might not even make it through this

1519
01:17:22,400 --> 01:17:25,360
Speaker 1: season for all we know. They also resigned Malcolm Brown

1520
01:17:25,479 --> 01:17:27,799
Speaker 1: for a decent chunk of money, and then they drafted

1521
01:17:27,840 --> 01:17:31,120
Speaker 1: Henderson early in the draft, So clearly the Rams aren't

1522
01:17:31,160 --> 01:17:34,680
Speaker 1: comfortable with Todd, Gurley and Henderson. Everybody loves right he's

1523
01:17:34,680 --> 01:17:38,160
Speaker 1: got He's got an explosive, you know, sort of athletic profile.

1524
01:17:38,560 --> 01:17:41,320
Speaker 1: I've seen comparisons to Alvin Kamara in the way that

1525
01:17:41,360 --> 01:17:44,600
Speaker 1: he plays. So if he is is indeed getting a

1526
01:17:44,600 --> 01:17:47,639
Speaker 1: lot of touches early on this year, he'll be valuable

1527
01:17:47,640 --> 01:17:50,360
Speaker 1: as soon as this year. But even if not, you know,

1528
01:17:50,520 --> 01:17:53,080
Speaker 1: Girly may not last more than another year or two,

1529
01:17:53,160 --> 01:17:57,120
Speaker 1: and long term, there's no better offense to be in

1530
01:17:57,120 --> 01:17:59,840
Speaker 1: in terms of being a bell cow in that Rams

1531
01:17:59,840 --> 01:18:01,800
Speaker 1: off fence. So I agree here it's it's kind of

1532
01:18:01,800 --> 01:18:03,880
Speaker 1: a swing for the fences kind of pick, and it's

1533
01:18:03,920 --> 01:18:07,040
Speaker 1: it's probably more of a year two or three and

1534
01:18:07,160 --> 01:18:09,760
Speaker 1: beyond kind of upside play than it is this year.

1535
01:18:10,520 --> 01:18:12,559
Speaker 1: But I like it. I like the high risk, high

1536
01:18:12,600 --> 01:18:15,760
Speaker 1: reward here. All right, guys are gonna have to zip

1537
01:18:15,800 --> 01:18:18,400
Speaker 1: through some of the remaining players on our list. Kyler

1538
01:18:18,479 --> 01:18:21,840
Speaker 1: Murray comes in at number four, high upside quarterback with

1539
01:18:21,920 --> 01:18:25,840
Speaker 1: a big arm and crazy mobility. And we don't know

1540
01:18:25,880 --> 01:18:27,960
Speaker 1: a lot about the coachy staff in Arizona, but there's

1541
01:18:27,960 --> 01:18:30,880
Speaker 1: a lot of reason for optimism, Brian, Yeah, this was

1542
01:18:30,920 --> 01:18:33,639
Speaker 1: a super flex league. You're taking Kyler Murray first overall,

1543
01:18:33,680 --> 01:18:35,560
Speaker 1: even if you don't need a quarterback. But this is

1544
01:18:35,600 --> 01:18:38,680
Speaker 1: a one quarterback scenario, so I can, I can, we

1545
01:18:38,680 --> 01:18:41,519
Speaker 1: can justify this ranking. But you just said it all there.

1546
01:18:41,840 --> 01:18:46,759
Speaker 1: It sounds like the upside is limitless despite the fact

1547
01:18:46,800 --> 01:18:50,200
Speaker 1: that he doesn't stand very tall. So there's a lot

1548
01:18:50,240 --> 01:18:54,320
Speaker 1: of upside that regard that people say, don't worry about

1549
01:18:54,320 --> 01:18:57,519
Speaker 1: the height of Murray. Uh, don't worry about it. That's so,

1550
01:18:57,960 --> 01:19:00,400
Speaker 1: let's not worry about it. But this is a again, like,

1551
01:19:00,680 --> 01:19:03,000
Speaker 1: I cannot wait to watch this kid play to see

1552
01:19:03,040 --> 01:19:04,479
Speaker 1: if you can live up to the hype. And I

1553
01:19:04,520 --> 01:19:08,000
Speaker 1: noticed it's just yesterday. I've already marked my calendar Week two,

1554
01:19:08,200 --> 01:19:13,280
Speaker 1: Arizona at Baltimore, Marie versus Lamar Jackson. I got marked

1555
01:19:13,280 --> 01:19:17,000
Speaker 1: on my calendar. I can't wait. Two hundred rushing yards

1556
01:19:17,000 --> 01:19:20,160
Speaker 1: among the quarterbacks, Miles Sanders clocks in at number five

1557
01:19:20,200 --> 01:19:23,559
Speaker 1: in Philadelphia under the supposition that he crowded backfield gets

1558
01:19:23,560 --> 01:19:25,960
Speaker 1: at least somewhat left crowded with time, But maybe that

1559
01:19:26,040 --> 01:19:28,840
Speaker 1: isn't even accurate. What do you think, Christian Yeah, I

1560
01:19:28,840 --> 01:19:31,080
Speaker 1: don't mind Sanders here, and in fact I like him

1561
01:19:31,160 --> 01:19:33,040
Speaker 1: quite a bit, even in redraft leagues this year. I

1562
01:19:33,040 --> 01:19:35,240
Speaker 1: think it's it's it's a matter of of when and

1563
01:19:35,320 --> 01:19:37,680
Speaker 1: not if he takes over the Lion's share of that

1564
01:19:37,720 --> 01:19:40,960
Speaker 1: backfield from from Jordan Howard. So I really like Sanders

1565
01:19:41,000 --> 01:19:44,160
Speaker 1: upside the problem. The problem, of course is this idea

1566
01:19:44,240 --> 01:19:46,720
Speaker 1: that the Eagles will forever be in some sort of

1567
01:19:46,760 --> 01:19:49,880
Speaker 1: committee approach to their backfield. So that's the risk with Sanders.

1568
01:19:49,920 --> 01:19:52,559
Speaker 1: But I would also argue that in their committees of

1569
01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:55,200
Speaker 1: the recent past they haven't had a player of sanders

1570
01:19:55,840 --> 01:19:58,320
Speaker 1: ability either, So once he gets in there and starts

1571
01:19:58,320 --> 01:20:00,960
Speaker 1: doing his thing, I think he' and even that committee

1572
01:20:01,000 --> 01:20:04,240
Speaker 1: approach might might be a thing of the past. The

1573
01:20:04,280 --> 01:20:06,280
Speaker 1: first wide receiver off the board is at number six.

1574
01:20:06,280 --> 01:20:10,600
Speaker 1: It's Paris Campbell for the Indianapolis Colts. First, in no

1575
01:20:10,720 --> 01:20:13,000
Speaker 1: small part because Andrew luck Is can be really good

1576
01:20:13,040 --> 01:20:15,000
Speaker 1: for three and four and five and six years from now,

1577
01:20:15,040 --> 01:20:17,320
Speaker 1: and so Paris Campbell should should be in a situation

1578
01:20:17,360 --> 01:20:20,880
Speaker 1: where he's got great quarterbacking throughout much of his career. Brian,

1579
01:20:20,920 --> 01:20:24,160
Speaker 1: your thoughts, Yeah, that's the reason he comes in higher

1580
01:20:24,160 --> 01:20:26,760
Speaker 1: than Harry. Uh, he just not. No one knows how

1581
01:20:26,760 --> 01:20:29,160
Speaker 1: long Tom Brady's gonna play. Andrew Luck should be the

1582
01:20:29,200 --> 01:20:32,439
Speaker 1: Colts quarterback for the very foreseeable future. And uh, you know,

1583
01:20:32,840 --> 01:20:36,360
Speaker 1: t Y Hilton is an elite talent, but Devin Funcious,

1584
01:20:36,479 --> 01:20:39,799
Speaker 1: the other receiver competing for targets, is the complete opposite

1585
01:20:39,840 --> 01:20:43,919
Speaker 1: of that. Uh, basically not talented at all. So yeah, Campbell,

1586
01:20:44,280 --> 01:20:46,320
Speaker 1: the hype seems to be growing every day. He did

1587
01:20:47,240 --> 01:20:49,439
Speaker 1: tweak his hamstring the other day, but that's no cause

1588
01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:52,200
Speaker 1: for long term concerns. So Campbell looks like he's gonna

1589
01:20:52,200 --> 01:20:55,000
Speaker 1: have a long, rutful career. And uh, I can't. I

1590
01:20:55,000 --> 01:20:58,920
Speaker 1: can get on board with taking him over and kill Harry. Alright, guys,

1591
01:20:58,920 --> 01:21:01,360
Speaker 1: we're gonna have to zip through the final guys. T J.

1592
01:21:01,479 --> 01:21:05,720
Speaker 1: Hockenson is the tight end for Detroit. Typically Titans don't

1593
01:21:05,760 --> 01:21:08,280
Speaker 1: do very much in there, uh in their rookie years,

1594
01:21:08,360 --> 01:21:10,679
Speaker 1: but ultimately long term, and that's our goal here. He's

1595
01:21:10,680 --> 01:21:13,720
Speaker 1: in a nice position with Detroit Christian. Yeah, this is

1596
01:21:13,760 --> 01:21:15,240
Speaker 1: another one where you're gonna have to just kind of

1597
01:21:15,280 --> 01:21:16,920
Speaker 1: swallow hard and know that you're not going to get

1598
01:21:17,000 --> 01:21:19,559
Speaker 1: much out of Hockinson in year one but if you're

1599
01:21:19,600 --> 01:21:22,080
Speaker 1: talking about Gronk two point oh here, you know, that's

1600
01:21:22,120 --> 01:21:24,439
Speaker 1: the kind of upside that we've that that we've heard about,

1601
01:21:24,439 --> 01:21:27,599
Speaker 1: at least from Hockinson. So, uh, seven overall is a

1602
01:21:27,600 --> 01:21:30,040
Speaker 1: little aggressive and you're gonna have to wait for it,

1603
01:21:30,080 --> 01:21:33,599
Speaker 1: but but the upside could pay off. All right, Let's

1604
01:21:33,640 --> 01:21:38,160
Speaker 1: go to the previously mentioned nikkil Harry, who, while Tom

1605
01:21:38,200 --> 01:21:40,680
Speaker 1: Brady is there, is probably the best receiver out of

1606
01:21:40,720 --> 01:21:43,640
Speaker 1: this class after Brady Leaves. Who knows he comes in

1607
01:21:43,680 --> 01:21:46,160
Speaker 1: at number eight, Brian, Yeah, he'll likely be the top

1608
01:21:46,240 --> 01:21:49,240
Speaker 1: rookie wide receiver producer this season. But let's just throw

1609
01:21:49,280 --> 01:21:51,080
Speaker 1: this out there. There is still a glimmer of hope

1610
01:21:51,080 --> 01:21:53,559
Speaker 1: for Josh Gordon to come back this season, and if

1611
01:21:53,560 --> 01:21:57,040
Speaker 1: Gordon comes back, that will really kill Harry's value um

1612
01:21:57,080 --> 01:21:59,800
Speaker 1: this season and next season, you know. And Tom Tom

1613
01:21:59,800 --> 01:22:02,240
Speaker 1: Brady he supposed last two years and then the outlook

1614
01:22:02,320 --> 01:22:05,360
Speaker 1: gets grim post breedy. So I'm getting a little worried

1615
01:22:05,400 --> 01:22:07,400
Speaker 1: about Harry, but I think he clocks in right right

1616
01:22:07,400 --> 01:22:11,880
Speaker 1: around eight. Alright. Devin Singletary is the running back for

1617
01:22:11,960 --> 01:22:15,439
Speaker 1: Buffalo that comes in at number nine. Christian, Yeah, we

1618
01:22:15,439 --> 01:22:18,080
Speaker 1: talked about him a little bit earlier in the show.

1619
01:22:18,320 --> 01:22:20,519
Speaker 1: And you know, he was picked one pick again in

1620
01:22:20,520 --> 01:22:22,960
Speaker 1: the NFL draft, behind David Montgomery, who's up at the

1621
01:22:22,960 --> 01:22:25,559
Speaker 1: top of this list. So there's certainly is some talent there.

1622
01:22:25,880 --> 01:22:29,719
Speaker 1: There's nothing but a bunch of old, downtrodden veterans in

1623
01:22:29,720 --> 01:22:32,200
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. So he could make an impact as soon

1624
01:22:32,240 --> 01:22:35,559
Speaker 1: as this year. Yeah, and next year. No way, Frank

1625
01:22:35,600 --> 01:22:37,680
Speaker 1: Gore is playing next year. No way, he can't say.

1626
01:22:37,680 --> 01:22:39,360
Speaker 1: I know we've been saying that for a decade, but

1627
01:22:39,520 --> 01:22:42,040
Speaker 1: no way is Frank Gore in the mix next year.

1628
01:22:42,640 --> 01:22:45,320
Speaker 1: Another tight end comes here at number eleven. Noah fanse

1629
01:22:45,680 --> 01:22:48,839
Speaker 1: for Denver comes in at number eleven. Again, don't expect

1630
01:22:48,840 --> 01:22:51,519
Speaker 1: a lot this year. They got quarterbacking issues. As long

1631
01:22:51,560 --> 01:22:53,880
Speaker 1: as Joe Flacco is there after that, I think he's

1632
01:22:53,920 --> 01:22:57,160
Speaker 1: got a role coming in at number twelve. Damien Harris

1633
01:22:57,880 --> 01:23:00,400
Speaker 1: Brian joins it very what is crew you a very

1634
01:23:00,400 --> 01:23:05,080
Speaker 1: crowded backfield with the Patriots. But there's some thought here

1635
01:23:05,120 --> 01:23:08,559
Speaker 1: that maybe he distinguishes himself in some fashion. Well, if

1636
01:23:08,600 --> 01:23:10,400
Speaker 1: he does that, he's gonna have to outshine a guy

1637
01:23:10,439 --> 01:23:13,120
Speaker 1: who you know, we were talking about like this last year.

1638
01:23:13,200 --> 01:23:15,320
Speaker 1: That was Sony Michelle who they They invested first round

1639
01:23:15,360 --> 01:23:18,760
Speaker 1: draft capital, and so New England backfield has been very

1640
01:23:19,000 --> 01:23:22,160
Speaker 1: modeled for many, many years. This is the long the

1641
01:23:22,320 --> 01:23:25,040
Speaker 1: long play. Though Rex Burkhead is not gonna last forever.

1642
01:23:25,160 --> 01:23:29,200
Speaker 1: James White is clearly a past catching specialist. UM. I

1643
01:23:29,200 --> 01:23:31,120
Speaker 1: don't know. I can't tell you if Harris is gonna

1644
01:23:31,120 --> 01:23:35,679
Speaker 1: out go out at any time. Who knows. But usually

1645
01:23:35,720 --> 01:23:37,960
Speaker 1: the long term prospects with these running backs for New

1646
01:23:37,960 --> 01:23:40,400
Speaker 1: England don't work out like the Lawrence Moroneys of the world.

1647
01:23:40,479 --> 01:23:44,760
Speaker 1: But we'll find out. Alright. Three rookie running backs come

1648
01:23:44,800 --> 01:23:48,120
Speaker 1: into thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, Benny Snell, rych Weell Armstead, and

1649
01:23:48,160 --> 01:23:51,479
Speaker 1: then Justice Hill for Baltimore. Christian, you touched on him

1650
01:23:51,479 --> 01:23:53,200
Speaker 1: a little bit earlier. You want to loop back on

1651
01:23:53,320 --> 01:23:56,000
Speaker 1: Justice Hill and what he could do in Baltimore. Yeah,

1652
01:23:56,120 --> 01:23:58,720
Speaker 1: I I honestly like hell better the best out of

1653
01:23:58,760 --> 01:24:01,679
Speaker 1: this out of this tree. He's just an explosive guy.

1654
01:24:01,760 --> 01:24:04,240
Speaker 1: He can he can play the pass catching role um,

1655
01:24:04,320 --> 01:24:07,200
Speaker 1: so I think he carves out a role um pretty quickly.

1656
01:24:07,200 --> 01:24:10,240
Speaker 1: In Baltimore. We talked about mark Ingram potentially being able

1657
01:24:10,280 --> 01:24:12,519
Speaker 1: to catch passes. We've seen that he can do that.

1658
01:24:13,040 --> 01:24:15,320
Speaker 1: But at the same time, Ingram seems to function better

1659
01:24:15,760 --> 01:24:18,120
Speaker 1: when he's the when he's the guy moving the chains

1660
01:24:18,160 --> 01:24:19,920
Speaker 1: on first and second Town, and he has a guy

1661
01:24:19,960 --> 01:24:22,519
Speaker 1: like Alvin Kamara to come in and catch the passes

1662
01:24:22,560 --> 01:24:24,960
Speaker 1: and be the explosive guy. And I'm not saying Justice

1663
01:24:25,040 --> 01:24:27,720
Speaker 1: Hill is Alvin Kamara, but they could they have a

1664
01:24:27,800 --> 01:24:30,639
Speaker 1: chance to sort of reprise that kind of thing here

1665
01:24:30,640 --> 01:24:35,559
Speaker 1: in Baltimore. Andy Isabella comes in at sixteen, seventeen, Miles

1666
01:24:35,560 --> 01:24:38,360
Speaker 1: Boykin and eighteen is A J. Brown for Tennessee, and

1667
01:24:38,400 --> 01:24:40,320
Speaker 1: because of injury, we haven't been able to see anything

1668
01:24:40,479 --> 01:24:43,360
Speaker 1: from him yet. Brian, your thoughts on A J. Brown's

1669
01:24:43,360 --> 01:24:46,720
Speaker 1: potential impact for Tennessee. Yeah, he was hurt on like

1670
01:24:46,840 --> 01:24:49,360
Speaker 1: one of the first first first place of training camps.

1671
01:24:49,360 --> 01:24:51,960
Speaker 1: We're waiting to see what he can actually do. It's

1672
01:24:52,040 --> 01:24:54,000
Speaker 1: it's really not a matter of A J. Brown's talent,

1673
01:24:54,040 --> 01:24:57,120
Speaker 1: it's a matter of his quarterbacks talent. We're not so

1674
01:24:57,160 --> 01:24:59,759
Speaker 1: sure that Marcus Mariotta is going to be on Tennessee's

1675
01:24:59,840 --> 01:25:02,320
Speaker 1: raw for next year. Uh. Hean winstoner in the last

1676
01:25:02,400 --> 01:25:06,120
Speaker 1: years of the contract rookie contracts, So if they let

1677
01:25:06,160 --> 01:25:08,000
Speaker 1: Mariota walk, I mean There's a lot of a lot

1678
01:25:08,040 --> 01:25:10,639
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks coming in this upcoming draft class, but um,

1679
01:25:11,200 --> 01:25:14,120
Speaker 1: I think on paper and on tape A J. Brown

1680
01:25:14,160 --> 01:25:16,280
Speaker 1: looks like he has all the makings to be a

1681
01:25:16,280 --> 01:25:19,040
Speaker 1: at least a wide receiver to UH in the future

1682
01:25:19,360 --> 01:25:22,000
Speaker 1: from a fantasy football perspective, But um, we gotta see

1683
01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:25,080
Speaker 1: how these quarterback situation shapes out in Tennessee over the

1684
01:25:25,080 --> 01:25:27,200
Speaker 1: next year or two until we can really get a tree.

1685
01:25:27,479 --> 01:25:31,120
Speaker 1: Nineteen is Irv Smith the tight end for Minnesota. Is

1686
01:25:31,160 --> 01:25:33,600
Speaker 1: expected to be learning on the job this year but

1687
01:25:33,640 --> 01:25:36,479
Speaker 1: could pay off at some point with Kyle Rudolph coming

1688
01:25:36,479 --> 01:25:38,800
Speaker 1: near the end of his career and Number twenty Deebo

1689
01:25:38,880 --> 01:25:42,759
Speaker 1: Samuel the slot the new Percy Harvin in the NFL,

1690
01:25:42,840 --> 01:25:46,280
Speaker 1: perhaps for the Niners hope. So anyway, um, and we'll

1691
01:25:46,280 --> 01:25:48,599
Speaker 1: probably play out of the slot for the Niners this

1692
01:25:48,760 --> 01:25:51,640
Speaker 1: coming season. Guys would like to wrap the show with sleepers,

1693
01:25:51,840 --> 01:25:54,720
Speaker 1: and I want to uh. I want to start off

1694
01:25:54,760 --> 01:25:58,200
Speaker 1: with my preferred sleeper for this show, and that is

1695
01:25:58,280 --> 01:26:01,000
Speaker 1: Jalen Samuel, who I think a chance to be the

1696
01:26:01,080 --> 01:26:06,680
Speaker 1: highest scoring Steelers running back this year. Yes, what's a

1697
01:26:06,720 --> 01:26:10,400
Speaker 1: bold statement when James Conner is there, But Jalen Samuel's

1698
01:26:10,400 --> 01:26:11,960
Speaker 1: got a number of things going for him. Number one,

1699
01:26:12,600 --> 01:26:15,160
Speaker 1: all of the running backs for the Steelers have already

1700
01:26:15,200 --> 01:26:16,599
Speaker 1: said it's going to be a time share this year.

1701
01:26:16,640 --> 01:26:18,439
Speaker 1: There's not going to be one guy who's going to

1702
01:26:18,479 --> 01:26:20,719
Speaker 1: get the ball all the time. Samuel's the most gifted

1703
01:26:20,720 --> 01:26:23,200
Speaker 1: past catcher that they've got. They've got all of the

1704
01:26:23,240 --> 01:26:26,519
Speaker 1: missing targets from Antonio Brown leaving and Jesse James leaving.

1705
01:26:27,000 --> 01:26:29,479
Speaker 1: That's going to open up some opportunities for Samuel to

1706
01:26:29,560 --> 01:26:33,800
Speaker 1: catch more passes and as a tight end. In college,

1707
01:26:34,240 --> 01:26:38,719
Speaker 1: his position coach was the Steelers current running back coach,

1708
01:26:39,280 --> 01:26:42,000
Speaker 1: and so there's a coaching opportunity that you know, they

1709
01:26:42,000 --> 01:26:44,280
Speaker 1: obviously know how to use him. They've got a history there.

1710
01:26:44,560 --> 01:26:47,960
Speaker 1: So I think Jaylen Samuel has has a real opportunity

1711
01:26:48,320 --> 01:26:51,360
Speaker 1: to actually and by the way, I'll mention this outperformed

1712
01:26:51,400 --> 01:26:56,200
Speaker 1: statistically James Conner in UH in yards per carry and

1713
01:26:56,360 --> 01:27:00,000
Speaker 1: uh touchdowns per carry last year, and so I they're

1714
01:27:00,040 --> 01:27:02,360
Speaker 1: things about James Jalen Samuel that made me think he

1715
01:27:02,400 --> 01:27:05,000
Speaker 1: could be very very good. Let's go to Brian Johnson,

1716
01:27:05,040 --> 01:27:07,960
Speaker 1: who's your sleeper for this week of no relation. I've

1717
01:27:08,000 --> 01:27:11,840
Speaker 1: got Curtis Samuel, Carolina's wide receiver, currently their number two

1718
01:27:11,880 --> 01:27:14,360
Speaker 1: wide receiver, but he could prove to be their number

1719
01:27:14,360 --> 01:27:16,040
Speaker 1: one come at the end of the year. UM. Last

1720
01:27:16,120 --> 01:27:19,200
Speaker 1: year was Samuel's second pro season. UH didn't become a

1721
01:27:19,200 --> 01:27:21,560
Speaker 1: regular starter until Week eight and then he missed the

1722
01:27:21,640 --> 01:27:24,160
Speaker 1: last three games due to injury. But he looked really

1723
01:27:24,160 --> 01:27:27,040
Speaker 1: good when given the opportunity UM, including running the ball.

1724
01:27:27,040 --> 01:27:29,360
Speaker 1: He had two rushing touchdowns last year. UM, but he's

1725
01:27:29,360 --> 01:27:31,880
Speaker 1: no gimmick player. Samuels has all the makings of a

1726
01:27:31,880 --> 01:27:34,439
Speaker 1: potential number one and to see that look no further

1727
01:27:34,479 --> 01:27:37,240
Speaker 1: than his red zone usage last year, which was limited

1728
01:27:37,280 --> 01:27:39,040
Speaker 1: due to his sample size. Keep that in mind, but

1729
01:27:39,360 --> 01:27:42,400
Speaker 1: Samuel had more touchdowns in the red zone than George Kittle,

1730
01:27:42,640 --> 01:27:46,400
Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry, Corey Davis, Allen Robinson, and Jimmy Graham. Three

1731
01:27:46,400 --> 01:27:49,640
Speaker 1: of Samuel's four red zone receptions went for touchdowns, so

1732
01:27:49,680 --> 01:27:52,519
Speaker 1: he was very UH proficient and an effective And while

1733
01:27:52,520 --> 01:27:55,679
Speaker 1: four red zone receptions doesn't seem like a lot, only

1734
01:27:55,800 --> 01:27:59,400
Speaker 1: fifteen wide receivers had ten plus red zone receptions last year,

1735
01:27:59,560 --> 01:28:02,400
Speaker 1: and a full campaign from Samuel would easily vault him

1736
01:28:02,400 --> 01:28:04,960
Speaker 1: into that territory. So UM I love dj More. We

1737
01:28:04,960 --> 01:28:07,479
Speaker 1: talked about him earlier, but Samuel could be the same player,

1738
01:28:07,800 --> 01:28:10,000
Speaker 1: if not better than More, and you're getting him several

1739
01:28:10,120 --> 01:28:13,800
Speaker 1: rounds later in drafts. Right now, All right, Christian, You've

1740
01:28:13,800 --> 01:28:16,519
Speaker 1: got thirty seconds for your final sleeper. I can do

1741
01:28:16,560 --> 01:28:18,720
Speaker 1: that because I've already talked about him several times. It's

1742
01:28:18,760 --> 01:28:21,400
Speaker 1: Dante Moncrief of the Steelers. It's really all just about

1743
01:28:21,439 --> 01:28:25,000
Speaker 1: opportunity here. Antonio Brown leaves behind hundred and sixty eight targets.

1744
01:28:25,320 --> 01:28:28,479
Speaker 1: Moncrief is running as the number two opposite Juju Smith Schuster.

1745
01:28:28,560 --> 01:28:31,920
Speaker 1: They clearly don't trust James Washington, last year's second rounder.

1746
01:28:32,439 --> 01:28:34,960
Speaker 1: Uh So, I don't love Moncrief because he's failed to

1747
01:28:34,960 --> 01:28:37,320
Speaker 1: live up to expectations. But it's all about opportunity, and

1748
01:28:37,360 --> 01:28:41,479
Speaker 1: the opportunity will certainly be there no matter how you

1749
01:28:41,520 --> 01:28:44,800
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1750
01:28:44,880 --> 01:28:47,880
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1751
01:28:48,080 --> 01:28:51,320
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1752
01:28:51,400 --> 01:28:54,320
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1753
01:28:54,320 --> 01:28:57,519
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1754
01:28:57,560 --> 01:28:59,920
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1755
01:29:00,080 --> 01:29:03,320
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1756
01:29:03,320 --> 01:29:06,320
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1757
01:29:06,400 --> 01:29:06,799
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