WEBVTT - Fantasy Football Weekly 2019 Week 1 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:05.920 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from my Heart Radio, 0:00:06.320 --> 0:00:10.920 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and advice. Now, 0:00:11.080 --> 0:00:14.160 along with the guys from fanball dot com, here's the 0:00:14.200 --> 0:00:23.480 host for Fantasy Football Weekly. It is finally Fantasy football season. 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:28.360 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. It is year twenty five, 0:00:28.720 --> 0:00:34.440 a quarter century of Shenanigan's bad takes, dubious opinions, and 0:00:34.720 --> 0:00:37.760 a whole lot of ointment. I am Paul CHURCHI and 0:00:37.960 --> 0:00:39.800 do of my longtime co hosts have been there for 0:00:39.840 --> 0:00:43.920 many of those twenty five years. Brian Johnson and Christian Peterson. Hello, guys, 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:46.760 good to be here. Church. What's up Church? Let's do 0:00:46.800 --> 0:00:50.320 this thing. Let's do it. If you're new to the show, 0:00:50.440 --> 0:00:52.879 we really hit our stride in the regular season when 0:00:52.920 --> 0:00:55.960 we break down all the NFL matchups fantasy style and 0:00:56.040 --> 0:00:59.440 now in August. It's all about helping you dominate your draft, 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:01.880 your a shin, and really just adding fund the world's 0:01:01.960 --> 0:01:05.600 best pastime, Fantasy football. Today, we will get you up 0:01:05.600 --> 0:01:08.800 to speed on all the notable offseason moves, will highlight 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:11.600 the training camp battles you need to follow, will answer 0:01:11.640 --> 0:01:13.920 some of the toughest questions out there and roll through 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:19.160 our Dynasty and Empire rookie rankings as well. Guys, I 0:01:19.160 --> 0:01:22.640 want to start with some some newer news, and that's 0:01:22.680 --> 0:01:26.160 reports out of Dallas, including coming directly from Jerry Jones, 0:01:26.200 --> 0:01:30.240 that the Ezekiel Elliott holdout could extend into the regular season. 0:01:30.800 --> 0:01:34.000 At this stage, it's still early. But what is your 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:36.119 level of panic and what are you recommending for people 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:39.960 who are drafting now. The level of panic was high 0:01:40.040 --> 0:01:43.080 a week ago. It's even higher now, especially now that 0:01:43.160 --> 0:01:46.040 Jerry Jones has realized you don't need a league leading 0:01:46.080 --> 0:01:47.960 rusher to win the Super Bowl, or so he says, 0:01:48.000 --> 0:01:49.800 even though the last time the Cowboys won the Super 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:52.760 Bowl they had a leading US but leading Roser and 0:01:52.800 --> 0:01:56.480 Emtt Smith. Yes, they have some able bodies there in Dallas. 0:01:56.480 --> 0:02:00.000 There there no Zeke Elliott, but uh, Tony Pollard, rookie 0:02:00.000 --> 0:02:01.920 they drafted in the fourth round out of Memphis, has 0:02:02.080 --> 0:02:04.800 three three down potential. And you know, in this day 0:02:04.800 --> 0:02:06.440 and age, it's a passing league more so than a 0:02:06.520 --> 0:02:09.480 running league. And uh they say this holdout could last months, 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:11.880 and I believe it. Yeah, if you're if you're drafting 0:02:11.960 --> 0:02:13.720 right now in a Best Ball league or something, I 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:16.359 don't know how you take Zeke in the top five. 0:02:16.480 --> 0:02:18.520 You know, his his ADP is a top three, top 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.760 four overall kind of guy. And with with this news, 0:02:22.160 --> 0:02:24.640 I just it doesn't sound good. I don't I don't 0:02:24.639 --> 0:02:27.080 know when I would take him, Brian, I don't know 0:02:27.080 --> 0:02:28.400 if you have any thoughts on that. Would you take 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:30.640 him like late first at this point? Would that be 0:02:30.720 --> 0:02:33.080 worth the risk? Yeah, at this point he might be 0:02:33.280 --> 0:02:36.200 falling behind the Joe Mixons and Dalvin pres of the 0:02:36.240 --> 0:02:39.000 world that are much more secure in their their job 0:02:39.080 --> 0:02:41.320 at this point. So yeah, this is uh, there's a 0:02:41.560 --> 0:02:44.120 major cause for concern here for Zeke owners and uh 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:50.240 clearly behind Kamara, McCaffrey, Barkley for me and yeah, I've 0:02:50.240 --> 0:02:52.880 got I'm I will take the contrary position that says 0:02:52.919 --> 0:02:57.079 it's too early to panic here. The season is still 0:02:57.160 --> 0:03:00.160 over a month away. That's a lot of time, a 0:03:00.160 --> 0:03:02.680 lot of pressure on both sides of this, And there's 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:04.880 a temptation to say, well, look at Levan Bell. If 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.960 Levian Bell did it, anybody can do it. Let's remember 0:03:08.000 --> 0:03:11.280 this levy On Bell wasn't under contract Zeke is. That's 0:03:11.280 --> 0:03:14.640 a big difference. That's forty dollars a day and fines. Um, 0:03:14.639 --> 0:03:17.080 it's a year of old service lost. He's got a 0:03:17.120 --> 0:03:21.160 lot more to lose here. And I'm not ready to 0:03:21.200 --> 0:03:24.359 say yet that the Levy on Bell example, is going 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:27.040 to be what happens most of the time. So I've 0:03:27.160 --> 0:03:29.120 moved Zeke down to number four in my teach sheet, 0:03:29.160 --> 0:03:31.799 but I'm not moving him down into that next year 0:03:31.919 --> 0:03:34.200 running backs yet. It I just feel like there's too 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:37.720 many things that can happen, and and that really Zeke 0:03:37.760 --> 0:03:39.880 doesn't have all the same kind of leverage the Levy 0:03:39.920 --> 0:03:42.160 on Bell does. What I find out, how this one 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:44.800 goes down. What about Melvin Gordon? Are you worried about 0:03:44.840 --> 0:03:49.440 him yet? Um? In some ways, I'm more worried about 0:03:49.440 --> 0:03:53.600 Melvin Gordon to to be honest, Um, the situation there 0:03:53.680 --> 0:03:55.160 is a is a little bit different than that. I 0:03:55.160 --> 0:03:57.920 think they've got more capable and regular backups that have 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:01.640 proven themselves able to power at all that offense. Um. 0:04:01.720 --> 0:04:05.200 But Gordon's situation is what worries me is he said 0:04:05.240 --> 0:04:07.240 no to a ten million to flat, no to at 0:04:07.240 --> 0:04:11.480 ten to twelve million dollar offer per year. That's great 0:04:11.600 --> 0:04:14.920 running back money. And if that's not enough, I'm I'm 0:04:15.000 --> 0:04:17.400 nervous about what will be enough. Now. The hope is 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:19.599 that ten to twelve means that they're already closer than 0:04:19.640 --> 0:04:22.720 we know, but there doesn't seem to be anything coming there. 0:04:23.160 --> 0:04:26.480 And um, and I've moved Gordon down pretty precipitously right now. 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:29.239 He's running back eleven on my on my cheat sheets. 0:04:29.240 --> 0:04:32.440 So I've I've got I've got a fair amount of 0:04:31.839 --> 0:04:37.119 of of consternation over over Melvin Gordon, but still thinking 0:04:37.240 --> 0:04:39.560 in the long run, both guys a week one, I 0:04:39.600 --> 0:04:42.600 do expect both guys will be suiting up for their teams. 0:04:43.200 --> 0:04:46.000 That's not stopping people who own both running backs from 0:04:46.040 --> 0:04:48.400 hitting the bottle heavily tonight, because this is some bad 0:04:48.400 --> 0:04:54.320 news for those who correct. Yeah, I'm gonna I'm in 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:57.239 an Empire League where I've got I've got two running 0:04:57.279 --> 0:04:59.160 backs on my roster and one of them is Zeke 0:04:59.240 --> 0:05:01.640 and I'm Sweaton right now, I'll tell you that much. 0:05:01.800 --> 0:05:04.360 Just hope that it turns out this way. Let's move. 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:06.799 This is our first show of this season. Let's recap 0:05:06.880 --> 0:05:10.960 some of the key offseason moves from last off season. 0:05:11.000 --> 0:05:13.640 For anybody who's snoozing in the off season that you 0:05:13.640 --> 0:05:16.599 know you're not following every single move and a grandular level. 0:05:16.720 --> 0:05:18.840 And now here it is regular season and you want 0:05:18.839 --> 0:05:21.520 to get up to speed on all the notable changes 0:05:21.560 --> 0:05:24.040 that have happened, the key guys that have got a 0:05:24.080 --> 0:05:27.679 new home. Let's attack this on a per position basis, 0:05:27.720 --> 0:05:31.120 starting at the quarterback position. Guys. All right, well, we're 0:05:31.160 --> 0:05:33.680 actually lucky that the Zeke news broke. Otherwise we'd be 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.520 kicking the show off with news of well sort of news. 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:41.320 But we'll be talking Nick Foles football season. He's he's 0:05:41.800 --> 0:05:44.600 the following act. So but Nick Foles has gone from 0:05:44.600 --> 0:05:48.599 Philly to Jacksonville. Uh, really only viable in super flex 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:50.600 or two quarterback leagues. You're not going to be drafting 0:05:50.680 --> 0:05:53.520 Nick Boles and standard one quarterback leagues. A f C 0:05:53.680 --> 0:05:57.400 South teams Houston, Indian Tennessee combined to allow less than 0:05:57.400 --> 0:05:59.240 one and a half passing touchdowns for the game. That's 0:05:59.279 --> 0:06:01.880 the bulk of the sched for the Jaguars. Biggest set 0:06:02.400 --> 0:06:05.880 folds um season total for touchdowns at nineteen and a half, 0:06:06.000 --> 0:06:09.760 that's just gross. If that's your under, that's brutal. So 0:06:09.839 --> 0:06:13.080 that's that's about enough for Nick Foles. Whose else? We 0:06:13.160 --> 0:06:17.120 got CB you know he's going to be You watch, 0:06:17.240 --> 0:06:19.159 Nick Foles is going to be one of those waiver 0:06:19.240 --> 0:06:22.080 wire bye week quarterbacks that's never on a roster till 0:06:22.080 --> 0:06:23.840 the bye weeks roll around, and then somebody's got to 0:06:23.839 --> 0:06:26.360 replace their starter, and you know that'll be I think 0:06:26.360 --> 0:06:28.600 that'll be it for Nick Foles. Yeah, hopefully our next 0:06:28.640 --> 0:06:30.960 guy will just flat out never be on rosters. This 0:06:31.000 --> 0:06:34.640 is Joe Flacco now of the Broncos. Man. We thought 0:06:34.680 --> 0:06:37.039 we were finally done with Joe Flacco last year in 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:38.960 Week eleven when he gave up his starting job to 0:06:39.080 --> 0:06:43.120 Lamar Jackson. But now, somehow, some way still has a 0:06:43.120 --> 0:06:45.000 starting job. It looks like he's gonna be a starter 0:06:45.080 --> 0:06:47.640 in Week one in Denver. Feels like he's just keeping 0:06:47.640 --> 0:06:50.240 a seat warm for rookie Drew Lock. But Lock did 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:52.520 not look very good in the Hall of Fame game 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:55.440 last night, and he's behind Kevin Hogan on the depth chart, 0:06:55.560 --> 0:06:58.320 So it could be more Joe Flacco this year for 0:06:58.320 --> 0:07:01.400 the Broncos than anybody really wants to see. But really 0:07:01.440 --> 0:07:04.320 nothing to see here from a fantasy perspective, Flacco has 0:07:04.400 --> 0:07:07.279 never finished higher than the QB twelve From a fantasy 0:07:07.320 --> 0:07:10.520 perspective in his career, and that was many, many years ago. 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:12.960 In the recent past, it's more like, you know, QB 0:07:13.120 --> 0:07:16.120 twenty six, just nothing to see here, even even in 0:07:16.160 --> 0:07:19.560 two quarterback or flex leagues. Well, let's keep up with 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:23.400 these days of of Joe Flacco, like launching those long 0:07:23.800 --> 0:07:27.480 touchdown passes. Man, those were a long time ago, weren't they. 0:07:27.680 --> 0:07:29.800 It's you know, he's you know, there's no I don't 0:07:29.800 --> 0:07:32.040 think there's a there's a lot to like their Unfortunately, 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.400 go ahead, Brian, Well, I was just gonna say, we're 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.600 gonna stick with the theme of fantasy or relevance unfortunately 0:07:37.720 --> 0:07:40.080 for a fantasy show and talk about Ryan Patrick and 0:07:40.160 --> 0:07:44.920 Josh Rosen, the dynamic duo of quarterbacks. Well, I know, okay, Well, 0:07:45.880 --> 0:07:48.080 I shouldn't have done that in the first show. I've 0:07:47.520 --> 0:07:51.440 ad be smirched ste Beard. I apologize. Charges Yes, you 0:07:51.480 --> 0:07:57.800 have fantasy relevant Okay, Well, you know, look, I'm a 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:01.960 I'm a Fitzpatrick apologist. Great, and especially from a fantasy standpoint, 0:08:02.200 --> 0:08:05.040 because I don't I don't care about the four interception games. 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:08.360 I love the four touchdown games that he just slings 0:08:08.400 --> 0:08:11.960 the ball unconscious downfield, doesn't care what happens. I love 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.200 that kind of aggression. And you look at remember how 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:17.040 good he was to those first four games of last year. 0:08:17.520 --> 0:08:20.960 He was Fantasy Football's highest scoring quarterback through three weeks. 0:08:21.040 --> 0:08:23.200 He can get it done from time to time and 0:08:23.280 --> 0:08:26.040 maybe even in Miami. Yeah, those games are really easy 0:08:26.040 --> 0:08:28.560 to pay, those four touchdown games. Or Fitzpatrick, well, there's 0:08:28.560 --> 0:08:31.560 no there's no Mike Evans and Chris Godwin to Sean 0:08:31.680 --> 0:08:34.000 Jackson who was on Tampa Bay last year. On Miami, 0:08:34.600 --> 0:08:37.920 the receiving core far inferior to that of Tampa Bay. 0:08:37.920 --> 0:08:41.439 But Fitzpatrick should get the start, uh come week one. 0:08:41.520 --> 0:08:42.920 But you'd like to think or they would like to 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:44.840 see Josh Rose and take over there. But again, this 0:08:44.880 --> 0:08:48.680 is really a super flex two quarterback conversation or cheap 0:08:48.760 --> 0:08:51.160 DFS play option. Come week one, we'll talk some more 0:08:51.200 --> 0:08:56.800 Stu Beard than last quarterback. Let's glaze over this one 0:08:56.840 --> 0:09:00.160 as quickly as we possibly can. Case Keenum moves the 0:09:00.160 --> 0:09:03.480 Broncos to the Redskins this year, where he to just 0:09:03.559 --> 0:09:06.560 like Joe Flacco who's now in Denver, is holding them, 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:09.160 just holding the seat warm until a rookie quarterback can 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:12.160 take over. Dwayne Haskins actually maybe in the running to 0:09:12.200 --> 0:09:14.120 take over as soon as Week one, but right now 0:09:14.200 --> 0:09:16.600 Keenum is number one on the on that depth chart. 0:09:16.640 --> 0:09:19.040 But again, nothing to see here from a fantasy perspective. 0:09:19.320 --> 0:09:21.640 It's a bad offense. There's nobody to throw to Paul 0:09:21.760 --> 0:09:24.880 Richardson as their protected projected number one wide receiver. You've 0:09:24.920 --> 0:09:29.120 got Josh Josh Dockson, Trey Quinn. Just nothing to see 0:09:29.160 --> 0:09:31.800 here for the Redskins in general and certainly for Keenum. 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:35.000 I'm I'm more anticipating seeing what Dwayne Haskins can do 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:38.160 if and when he takes over that starting job. And 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.240 it doesn't help that Trent Williams, They're all star left tackle, 0:09:41.440 --> 0:09:43.559 is threatening to hold out into the season as well, 0:09:43.600 --> 0:09:47.160 and that's uh, that would be a massive loss if 0:09:47.200 --> 0:09:49.360 they're not able to come to terms with him, and 0:09:49.840 --> 0:09:52.000 he may he may be fed up with this organization 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.960 in a way that Kirk Cousins was. It's very possible. 0:09:55.080 --> 0:09:57.480 So let me ask you, guys that Washington, if I 0:09:57.600 --> 0:10:00.760 were to give you Washington or miam for the lowest 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:07.160 scoring offense in the NFL, which would you take? Man? 0:10:08.800 --> 0:10:12.240 Can we take both and neither none of the above? 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:14.600 I always said, if you're going to remove one team 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:16.800 from fantasy football this season and no one would miss 0:10:16.840 --> 0:10:23.120 a player, it would be Washington. Washington Hair Ever Miami. Yeah, 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:26.320 it's it. If it's not those two, I don't you know, 0:10:26.440 --> 0:10:28.839 it's somebody that's going to suffer like a quarterback injury. 0:10:28.840 --> 0:10:30.720 I mean it's I think it's those two teams in 0:10:30.720 --> 0:10:33.360 a runaway. Let's go to the running back position. Who's 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.320 got a new face in a new place. All right, 0:10:35.360 --> 0:10:37.240 we got some big names here. Finally we'll start with 0:10:37.320 --> 0:10:40.200 Levan Bell. Uh, everyone knows is what the Jets. Now 0:10:40.320 --> 0:10:45.200 Bell last played football some five and fifty days ago. Uh, personally, 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:49.480 that makes me very nervous. Um kind of puts uh now, 0:10:49.640 --> 0:10:52.120 Zeke's in this nervous territory with me and Levian Bell. 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:54.800 Actually where I'm liking Joe Mixing and Dalvin Cook over 0:10:54.840 --> 0:10:57.760 guys like this personally. Um, the Jets were top twelve 0:10:57.800 --> 0:11:01.319 in rush attempts last season, but Bob three in receptions. Um, 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:03.280 you know Bell has made his hey catching the ball 0:11:03.320 --> 0:11:06.400 throughout his career. Those numbers should go up in that offense. 0:11:06.480 --> 0:11:09.840 Sam Donald's second year, it's just the extended absence makes 0:11:09.880 --> 0:11:12.440 me nervous, and really only time will tell if Levan 0:11:12.480 --> 0:11:15.280 Bell will recapture, you know, the glory days of old, 0:11:15.320 --> 0:11:18.040 which had become old nearly two years ago. So time 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:21.000 will tell, you shall see. Yeah, he says he's good 0:11:21.000 --> 0:11:24.880 for five hundred, five hundred touches this year, and you know, 0:11:24.920 --> 0:11:27.040 when that Jet's offense, they probably wouldn't mind doing that, 0:11:27.120 --> 0:11:29.280 and and the opportunity counts for a lot. But you know, 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:33.319 he's not also not running behind a Steelers level offensive line, 0:11:33.520 --> 0:11:36.640 and he doesn't have Ben Roethlisberger to and Antonio Brown 0:11:37.000 --> 0:11:40.920 and Juju Smith Schuster to distract defenses either. So it 0:11:41.000 --> 0:11:43.160 doesn't seem like we're going to get nearly as the 0:11:43.280 --> 0:11:45.600 level of productivity that we had when he was in Pittsburgh, 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.319 although his adp is is trending to the first round, 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.280 so you know, we'll have to we'll we'll see. There 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:52.880 are people that that definitely are backing the old Levy 0:11:52.960 --> 0:11:54.719 on Bell now that he's in New Yea. He used 0:11:54.720 --> 0:11:56.920 to have it at the running back position. Bell has 0:11:56.960 --> 0:12:00.440 gone to Twitter to publicly lobby for fantasy owners to 0:12:00.760 --> 0:12:04.880 take him apologize for last year, and by the way, 0:12:04.920 --> 0:12:08.080 Bell has nothing to apologize for he told everybody he 0:12:08.120 --> 0:12:09.800 was going to hold out. You know, he was like, 0:12:09.880 --> 0:12:11.960 you know this thing, you know, he never he was. 0:12:12.080 --> 0:12:13.760 He was the guy who was playing the hardball card 0:12:13.880 --> 0:12:16.880 from from the beginning, and fantasy units just didn't want 0:12:16.920 --> 0:12:18.920 to believe it could happen. I heard he ran the 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:22.800 conditioning test twice too. He's just trying too hard at 0:12:22.800 --> 0:12:24.880 this point, the proof that he's ready, he's a little 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:27.559 nervous overcompensating. All right, Let's move to the next guy 0:12:27.600 --> 0:12:29.480 in the list. It's Mark Ingram, who moves from New 0:12:29.559 --> 0:12:32.280 Orleans to Baltimore, where he will be a bell cow 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:35.360 for the first time in many years maybe in his career. 0:12:35.360 --> 0:12:37.319 Of course, in New Orleans he had to split time 0:12:37.559 --> 0:12:41.600 with Alvin Kamara, specifically in the receiving game. But Ingram 0:12:41.640 --> 0:12:43.880 has shown in the past that he can catch the ball, 0:12:44.440 --> 0:12:47.840 and again, there is just almost no competition whatsoever in 0:12:47.840 --> 0:12:51.480 this Baltimore backfeard. There's there's Gus Edwards, who kind of 0:12:51.480 --> 0:12:54.120 flamed out last year when given an opportunity. There's Kenneth 0:12:54.160 --> 0:12:56.920 Dixon who hasn't done anything in the three or four 0:12:57.360 --> 0:12:59.160 years that he's been in the league. There is a 0:12:59.200 --> 0:13:02.000 rookie Justice Hill, who I think has some upside and 0:13:02.000 --> 0:13:05.079 could potentially could be a pass catcher. But this is 0:13:05.120 --> 0:13:07.680 a good opportunity for mark Ingram, and he's a he's 0:13:07.760 --> 0:13:09.960 a pretty a pretty nice value play right now in 0:13:10.040 --> 0:13:13.600 terms of average draft position. Just the twenty one running 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.439 back taken forty two overall, So you can get a 0:13:16.480 --> 0:13:18.160 guy in the fourth round who looks to be a 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:21.120 bell cow. Uh. You know, he's being taken just ahead 0:13:21.120 --> 0:13:25.319 of guys like Philip Lindsay Sony Michelle, Kenyan, Drake uh 0:13:25.360 --> 0:13:28.400 and behind Josh Jacobs and and and carry on Johnson. 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:30.600 So uh, many of those guys have a lot more 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.400 question marks than Ingram does in terms of his role 0:13:33.800 --> 0:13:35.640 in Baltimore. So I kind of like Ingram as a 0:13:35.640 --> 0:13:37.560 as a little bit of a value play if you 0:13:37.679 --> 0:13:41.400 if you skip running back in the first couple of rounds. Yeah, 0:13:41.400 --> 0:13:43.400 I agree with everything you just said. I think the's 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:44.800 I think he's gonna be on all those guys that 0:13:44.840 --> 0:13:49.520 you begrudgingly taken the fifth round and then lo and behold, 0:13:49.880 --> 0:13:51.280 it's a guy that you're happy to have in your 0:13:51.280 --> 0:13:54.160 lineup every week. Let's go to our next, our next 0:13:54.360 --> 0:13:57.079 running back with a new face new place. Well, old face. 0:13:57.200 --> 0:13:58.680 I mean, you don't really change your face when you 0:13:58.760 --> 0:14:01.800 change cities. Well still petifically, he's still pretty young, though. 0:14:01.960 --> 0:14:05.760 I think he's the only about there's room for facial change. Okay, 0:14:05.960 --> 0:14:08.520 and that's Tevin Coleman. We was speaking of another guy, 0:14:08.880 --> 0:14:11.360 A great target if you're gonna avoid running back in 0:14:11.400 --> 0:14:14.000 the first several rounds. Some might call that doing the 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:17.840 opposite right Church, but Coleman a great Uh do the 0:14:17.840 --> 0:14:20.880 opposite back? Reunites with Kyle Shanahan, who was his offensive 0:14:20.920 --> 0:14:23.480 coordinator in the Falcons in San Francisco. Now his where 0:14:23.520 --> 0:14:26.080 Coleman is playing sort of a crowded backfield there with 0:14:26.160 --> 0:14:29.600 Matt Brada and Jack McKinnon. But McKinnon already hurt, uh, 0:14:29.720 --> 0:14:32.560 in danger of getting cut. And we all remember Breeda 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:36.480 was banged up every week last year. So McKinnon is 0:14:36.520 --> 0:14:38.760 the odds on favorite to be the lead back. And uh, 0:14:38.840 --> 0:14:41.920 you know, Shanahan went out and got him for that reason. 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.760 And remember when McKinnon before we got hurt last year, 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:46.840 he was going in like the third fourth round of 0:14:46.920 --> 0:14:50.560 drafts because everyone was so excited using the Shanahan offense. Uh, 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:52.280 Coleman is not getting that kind of love, and you 0:14:52.280 --> 0:14:54.160 should be. He's going in the fifth, sixth round. So 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:57.440 Coleman getting undervalued on draft day in my opinion, and 0:14:57.480 --> 0:15:00.120 he has true bell cow potential. If McKinnon and to 0:15:00.160 --> 0:15:02.480 go down, you're looking at a easily a top seven 0:15:02.480 --> 0:15:06.000 eight running back if this offense goes off. Here's why 0:15:06.000 --> 0:15:08.040 I can't agree with you, and it's because Matt Breed 0:15:08.160 --> 0:15:11.320 is good. Matt Breed is really good. Um when he 0:15:11.480 --> 0:15:14.960 you know, I think when healthy, he runs harder than 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.240 anything I've ever seen from Tevin Coleman. And I think 0:15:17.280 --> 0:15:19.560 at the end of the day, the best running back 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:23.160 they've got is Breeda, not Coleman. And yeah, I'm I 0:15:23.200 --> 0:15:25.320 worried that he's constantly hurt, of course I am, um, 0:15:25.360 --> 0:15:27.240 and I don't count on him to to stay upright 0:15:27.280 --> 0:15:30.120 for the whole season, but I'm I'm nervous that when 0:15:30.920 --> 0:15:34.200 ultimately they need and they want to win in San Francisco, 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:36.240 they're gonna play their best back, and I think that's 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:39.520 gonna be Matt Breedall find out training camp battle to 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:43.320 watch what else we got it running back? Let's go 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:45.480 to Jordan Howard, picked up by the Eagles from the 0:15:45.480 --> 0:15:47.680 Bears in exchange for a sixth round pick during the 0:15:47.720 --> 0:15:50.600 off season. Now, this is a this is a case 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:54.360 study for the foolishness of Twitter during training camp. If 0:15:54.400 --> 0:15:56.920 you go to Twitter right now and search for Jordan 0:15:57.000 --> 0:15:59.760 Howard and Miles Sanders, you will find half of the 0:16:00.040 --> 0:16:02.640 full on each side of this debate. Half of the 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:05.280 people are saying, Jordan Howard's taking all the all the 0:16:05.320 --> 0:16:07.320 looks with the number one offense, He's gonna you know, 0:16:07.360 --> 0:16:10.120 he's gonna get eighteen to twenty touches. People are, people 0:16:10.120 --> 0:16:12.200 are really sleeping on Jordan Howard, and the other half 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.200 are saying Miles Sanders is easily the best running back 0:16:15.200 --> 0:16:18.560 in Eagles camp, and blah blah blah. So it's it's 0:16:18.560 --> 0:16:20.840 hard to kind of it's hard to kind of cut through, 0:16:21.320 --> 0:16:23.720 uh some of that bs. But you know, I think 0:16:24.600 --> 0:16:27.680 Howard is certainly going to be involved. Sanders is certainly 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.360 going to be involved. My worry is that Sanders is 0:16:30.400 --> 0:16:33.880 capable of taking a lot of the handoffs, which back 0:16:33.920 --> 0:16:37.320 in Chicago, when Jordan Howard was sharing touches with Tarik Cohen, 0:16:37.640 --> 0:16:40.880 Cohen was much more of just taking the receptions. Uh 0:16:40.920 --> 0:16:43.680 So Howard got two seventy touches. Last year, he was 0:16:43.720 --> 0:16:46.480 the he was a top twenty running back. But I 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:49.680 think there's more downside this year than there has been 0:16:49.680 --> 0:16:52.080 in the past, just because Sanders is a guy that 0:16:52.200 --> 0:16:54.560 can do it all. He is capable of doing it all. 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:57.880 So I just think Jordan Howard's UH floor is much 0:16:57.960 --> 0:16:59.960 lower this year than it has been in past years. 0:17:00.120 --> 0:17:03.520 They're both being selected in the same round. I believe 0:17:03.600 --> 0:17:07.960 they're in the seventh round right now, according to a DP. Yeah, 0:17:08.000 --> 0:17:10.359 Miles Sanders and Jordan Howard both in the seventh round. 0:17:11.080 --> 0:17:13.840 I would take Sanders personally, just because I'm all about 0:17:13.920 --> 0:17:16.080 playing for the upside, even if it takes five or 0:17:16.080 --> 0:17:19.760 six weeks. Yeah, what we what we do know is 0:17:19.800 --> 0:17:22.080 Doug Peterson has tipped his hand repeatedly on on how 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:24.240 he likes his running backs, and that's in a rotation. 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:26.680 So I I think we know what Doug Peterson is 0:17:26.680 --> 0:17:28.720 all about in its rotational runners, and I think that's 0:17:28.720 --> 0:17:31.119 what we're gonna get again. Guys, any any other running 0:17:31.119 --> 0:17:34.920 backs left? Yeah? One more worth noting Latavius Murray now 0:17:34.960 --> 0:17:38.359 with the Saints. Mark Ingram just left for Baltimore. As 0:17:38.400 --> 0:17:41.560 CP mentioned earlier, vacated a hundred and sixty touches from 0:17:41.600 --> 0:17:43.760 last year. But don't forget Ingram is four games because 0:17:43.760 --> 0:17:46.600 of suspension. Prior to last year, Ingram average well over 0:17:46.640 --> 0:17:49.639 two hundred touches for the Saints and Murray two hundred 0:17:49.680 --> 0:17:52.480 touches easily in sight for him. Saints running backs were 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:55.080 third in rush attempts and fifth in receptions last year. 0:17:55.320 --> 0:17:57.520 Kamara is certainly the lead back right now, but Murray 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:00.439 will see his fair care of fair share of carries, 0:18:00.520 --> 0:18:02.720 especially near the goal line. One would think um probably 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.760 the most important handcuff in fantasy football. Who could uh 0:18:05.920 --> 0:18:09.640 Philip le spot in some weeks as well too. Yeah, 0:18:09.680 --> 0:18:11.840 and the only other guy on my on my list 0:18:11.880 --> 0:18:14.440 that I think is is somewhat relevant here is u 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.200 is Kareem Hunt, who of course went from the Chiefs 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:19.159 to the Browns. We know that he's sitting out the 0:18:19.160 --> 0:18:22.640 first eight games of the season with with that suspension, 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:25.480 but it's gonna be really fascinating to see how the 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:27.920 Browns use him once he once he returns in Week A. 0:18:28.000 --> 0:18:31.840 They of course have Nick Chubb, who everybody loves and 0:18:31.640 --> 0:18:34.120 and I agree after after what he did last year 0:18:34.119 --> 0:18:37.679 as a rookie, but I mean Hunt, Hunt is one 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:39.760 of the best running backs in the NFL. So when 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:44.000 he comes back in Week nine, the Browns are absolutely 0:18:44.080 --> 0:18:46.440 going to use him. So it's gonna be fascinating to 0:18:46.440 --> 0:18:48.840 see what happens here. As a fantasy owner in a 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:52.680 you know, just a typical redraft, uh season long league, 0:18:52.720 --> 0:18:55.000 I don't know that you can afford to sit on 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:57.720 Kareem Hunt for eight weeks. You might be out of 0:18:57.720 --> 0:19:01.399 the running by then. But in dynasty leagues, he certainly 0:19:01.440 --> 0:19:04.119 is a little bit, uh actually a lot more intriguing 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:08.000 in a dynasty format for me, you know, I'll uh. 0:19:08.160 --> 0:19:10.040 The part I like about Kareem Hunt is this, even 0:19:10.040 --> 0:19:11.600 if you do, even if you get to a point 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:13.040 where you can't afford to sit on him and your 0:19:13.040 --> 0:19:16.040 team's losing, you can trade him to a contender and 0:19:16.119 --> 0:19:20.240 basically tell this, tell this contending team, I am going 0:19:20.280 --> 0:19:23.000 to give you, arguably, you know, the one of the 0:19:23.040 --> 0:19:26.479 five best running backs in fantasy football, and I think 0:19:26.520 --> 0:19:28.960 that's gonna be pretty compelling. He'll always be tradeable. I 0:19:29.000 --> 0:19:31.440 think Cremut will always be tradeable, So you know, if 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:34.399 you absolutely have to drop him at some point and 0:19:34.440 --> 0:19:36.359 just you need that roster spot, or you have to 0:19:36.400 --> 0:19:37.879 make a trade and you just can't afford to have 0:19:37.880 --> 0:19:39.920 a nonstarter. I think you're gonna be able to get 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:41.679 something for Cream Hunt, and that's why I'm drafting him 0:19:41.680 --> 0:19:43.640 in a lot of leagues, and I'm taking him around 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:47.480 earlier than many others. Guys will take a break. When 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:49.960 we come back, we're going to talk about the wide 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:53.360