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Speaker 1: Like go host today Scott Fish and Matt Harrison. Hello, guys,
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Speaker 1: not easy. You gotta you gotta defeat the black Knight.
Speaker 1: I thought I thought the first butler was kind of rude,
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Speaker 1: it's it was. It was great having you in my house.
Speaker 1: While I was gone, it was you know, everything got rummage.
Speaker 1: Have you found any of the pumpkin spice things we
Speaker 1: hit all over your house? I almost put a pumpkin
Speaker 1: spice like plug. I thought they're tough to find. That
Speaker 1: stuff is already out, you know, it's already hitting. The
Speaker 1: flavors like the cheerios and stuff that's out. But the
Speaker 1: set stuff, Yeah, let's stockpile for next year. You know,
Speaker 1: it's bad enough that the pumpkin spice it's in November,
Speaker 1: but now it's all crept all the way into Midsummer.
Speaker 1: It's ridiculous and very wrong. Might over the course of
Speaker 1: this show, we are going to and but we're back
Speaker 1: to our long form at I should mention that you
Speaker 1: know we've off season. We have really no time constraints
Speaker 1: because because we're not on air in our podcast is
Speaker 1: usually minutes something like that. Now we're into our two
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Speaker 1: that if you're listening to the podcast, so welcome to
Speaker 1: the longer version of Fantasy Football Weekly. Lots to get
Speaker 1: you over the course of the show, well detail the
Speaker 1: one thing you need to know about every team's off season.
Speaker 1: If you weren't following every team's transactions, will tell you
Speaker 1: the most important thing that you need to know from
Speaker 1: every team's off season. We will go through dynasty rookie
Speaker 1: drafts that are have been already happening. We're gonna go
Speaker 1: through the average draft position through the first two rounds
Speaker 1: of dynasty drafts and tell you if we if you
Speaker 1: guys are getting it right or you're getting it wrong
Speaker 1: by taking the players where you're taking them. Matt and
Speaker 1: I are in the middle of a dynasty draft right now.
Speaker 1: We'll answer three tough questions as we always do, will
Speaker 1: unveil our sleepers, and we'll talk about the training camp
Speaker 1: battles that we will be watching for the next month.
Speaker 1: All that, so, let's begin with the one thing you
Speaker 1: need to know about every team's off season, beginning with
Speaker 1: the somewhat arbitrarily with the Carolina Panthers. That is that's
Speaker 1: not not even alphabetical. You're just throwing it out there.
Speaker 1: It's funny. We've been using the same list for a
Speaker 1: couple of years and it's completely nonsense if you really care.
Speaker 1: It goes back to this. When I created the list
Speaker 1: the very first time, this was the order of the
Speaker 1: Week one preseason games when they were facing each other,
Speaker 1: and so I just went, yeah, we should do that
Speaker 1: it going by order of the week one preseason games.
Speaker 1: Sadly that Carolina Panthers the one thing you should know,
Speaker 1: uh now much you are, except for they traded a
Speaker 1: conditional late round picks and not much value there, uh
Speaker 1: for Baker Mayfield in an attempt to upgrade their quarterback position,
Speaker 1: and based on camp reports, it's everything's bad there at
Speaker 1: the corterating position. Well it's still early, right, Yes, I'm
Speaker 1: optimistic that Baker is going to be a pretty sizeable upgrade.
Speaker 1: I feel not that anybody needs to care about this,
Speaker 1: but while I was driving through states with legal betting,
Speaker 1: I put I put a lot of wagers on Carolina
Speaker 1: overs on winds the division, Yeah, wind totals. I think
Speaker 1: I think this is gonna be a sneaky good team. Matt,
Speaker 1: what's the one thing people should know about the Las
Speaker 1: Vegas Raiders. It appears that they may throw the ball
Speaker 1: more than ever this year, and it might be in
Speaker 1: catchup mode as the Raiders space the third toughest strength
Speaker 1: of schedule based on Vegas projected wind totals. So good
Speaker 1: thing they brought in Josh McDaniels as their new head
Speaker 1: coach and Davante Adams as a new wide receiver to
Speaker 1: an already good receiving corps for the Packers. Well, you
Speaker 1: mentioned Davante Adams. Think everybody probably know that. Less well
Speaker 1: known is that three of last year's key injuries remained
Speaker 1: very uncertain for the start of the Packers season. Green
Speaker 1: Bays best too. Offensive lineman David back Try and Elkin
Speaker 1: Jenkins are both rehabbing last year's a c L s
Speaker 1: and still aren't right. And it looks like tight end
Speaker 1: Robert Tounyan, who blew out his a c L in
Speaker 1: Week nine of last year, he looks even farther behind.
Speaker 1: He's on the publist right now and he's not getting
Speaker 1: any work. So, knowing that everybody knows about Davonte Adams,
Speaker 1: I want to highlight some of those key injuries, especially
Speaker 1: to the offensive line, that could affect the whole offense.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Washington. Yeah, so I'm gonna go over
Speaker 1: to the running back position. They drafted Brian Robinson, and
Speaker 1: they brought back j. D. McKissick, who went to Buffalo
Speaker 1: for half an hour and then came back to Washington.
Speaker 1: Uh saw Buffalo and was like go home, and it
Speaker 1: might be just as well Washington, DC's any better. The
Speaker 1: running back situation might be as bad as expected. When
Speaker 1: Brian Robinson was drafted. The Beat reporters that he's in
Speaker 1: line for the short yardage work, Mackistic for the pass
Speaker 1: catching role, and Gibson for the other stuff, with which
Speaker 1: is bad. I guess it's good for Mackissic and PPR
Speaker 1: and good for Brian Robinson. If you have a TV
Speaker 1: only league out there and lots of those still around,
Speaker 1: there aren't there they're all old. Back to that. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Buffalo Bills. What's the one thing people
Speaker 1: need to know about the Bills off season? Let's see
Speaker 1: if I can do this in exactly thirteen seconds. Thirteen seconds.
Speaker 1: What could happen in thirteen seconds? Well, you could lose
Speaker 1: the divisional playoff to the Chiefs. Ken Dorsey Goes gets
Speaker 1: promoted from quarterback coach to O C. They added Jamison
Speaker 1: Crowder to play the slot. James Cook should be a
Speaker 1: legit challenger to Devin Singletary in the backfield. But the
Speaker 1: the best thing I think is is they return four
Speaker 1: of their five offensive linemen, and this offense looks like
Speaker 1: it's just ready to wheel and deal. All right, That
Speaker 1: was thing several more than I've got the Houston Texans.
Speaker 1: The main thing you need to know. They're no changes
Speaker 1: in the passing game, but the running back depth charts
Speaker 1: are now really a wide open competition. David Johnson's out
Speaker 1: of the league. Houston brought in Marlon Mack, who's trying
Speaker 1: to come back from a torn achilles and twenties. It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter as I as I frequently say, and it
Speaker 1: will probably come up again over the course of the show.
Speaker 1: No running back has ever made a particularly successful recovery
Speaker 1: from achilles UH and achilles injury UH. And Marlon Mack
Speaker 1: was lousy last season, got cut by the Colts. Then
Speaker 1: there's Rex burkehead and Royce Freeman, a return from last year.
Speaker 1: Burke had had a couple of good games last year.
Speaker 1: That's it. Then the team drafted Damian Pierce at the
Speaker 1: top of the fourth round, and he's one of my
Speaker 1: favorite deep sleepers. Last week, Houston's head coach Lovey Smith
Speaker 1: said about Pierce, you see him working special teams, a
Speaker 1: little bit of return game, running in between tackles. He
Speaker 1: can make you miss when he gets into the open
Speaker 1: field and he can catch, that'll be a fast Those
Speaker 1: are all the things that running backs need to do.
Speaker 1: Those are many of the things that need to do,
Speaker 1: not necessarily special teams, and we love the other stuff.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Tampa Bay, Scott. What's the one thing
Speaker 1: people need to know about the off seas? First off,
Speaker 1: Austin Neckler started on special teams. Let's not downplay it.
Speaker 1: Adrian Peterson was on special he was a kick returner
Speaker 1: at one point over to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Leonard
Speaker 1: four Nett was had had weight issues. The coaches were
Speaker 1: unhappy in mini camp. Came to training camp down about
Speaker 1: fourteen more pounds, down to forty four, which is still
Speaker 1: a pretty big boy uh for Nett was forced into
Speaker 1: the pass catching role last year with Geo's injury. They
Speaker 1: resigned Geo, but they added a pass catching back with
Speaker 1: Shot White into the mix afterwards. I think Geo could
Speaker 1: be a camp cut um. So if if if a
Speaker 1: Shot can gain the trust of Brady, he might take
Speaker 1: that pass catching role from Lenny and maybe more something
Speaker 1: to monitor. Let's go to Cleveland, Matt, what is the
Speaker 1: one thing people know about Cleveland's offseason. There's a new
Speaker 1: quarterback in Cleveland. I'm not too fond of this guy,
Speaker 1: so I'm gonna call him QB Browns from Techmo Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: So QB Browns will serve some sort of suspension to
Speaker 1: start the year, but that won't necessarily change the fact
Speaker 1: that the Browns are one of the most successful rushing
Speaker 1: teams in the league. A league high seventeen percent of
Speaker 1: the Browns run plays last year went for twenty yards
Speaker 1: or more. One out of six plays went for twenty
Speaker 1: yards or more. It's Nick Chubb season, guys. It's always
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb season, isn't it. It seems like, let's go
Speaker 1: to the Colts. Your new quarterback is Matt Ryan and
Speaker 1: behind him, by the way, Nick Foles. So they've got
Speaker 1: maybe a little better depth than most teams have got them,
Speaker 1: you know, if they needed to go there. Ryan's coming
Speaker 1: off his worst fantasy season by a mile. But I
Speaker 1: think it's important to note that in the first half
Speaker 1: of the season through Week nine, Matt Ryan was QB
Speaker 1: twelve in Fantasy football. Then old receivers got hurt and
Speaker 1: he wasn't able to do anything. Just basically Calverley was
Speaker 1: going basically just trying to throw to his tight end.
Speaker 1: Ryan's starting receivers are kind of interesting. Michael Michael Pittman,
Speaker 1: rookie Alec Pierce, who's flashed in early training camp. And
Speaker 1: my guy Paris Campbell, who is going to try not
Speaker 1: to catch leprosy. He's a good in camp, so I
Speaker 1: know he looks good at the camp. Week one comes
Speaker 1: and it's the season off for Paris Campbell. Let's go
Speaker 1: to Detroit. What is the one thing you need to
Speaker 1: know about every team's off, and not every team to Detroit,
Speaker 1: at least Detroit's. Uh. They went and upgraded the weapons
Speaker 1: around Jared Goff this year. They went out and got
Speaker 1: DJ Chark in free agency. They drafted Jameson Williams, who
Speaker 1: might not be might not be ready to October or so.
Speaker 1: But that's gonna be a far far better, better situation
Speaker 1: than the rotation of Raymond and Reynolds and c Fist
Speaker 1: and all those others behind alman Ra. There will be
Speaker 1: a lot of mouths defeat over there in Uh. In Detroit,
Speaker 1: it won't be just you know, focused on a couple
Speaker 1: of pass catchers. Let's go to the Jets, Matt What
Speaker 1: is the one thing people need to know about New
Speaker 1: York's offseason? Um, they had a really good draft, maybe
Speaker 1: the best on paper draft in NFL history. Easy to
Speaker 1: do with three first rounders. They added Sauce Gardner and
Speaker 1: Jermaine Johnson to the defense. Both should be impact players.
Speaker 1: Also added Garrett Wilson to the wide receiver group at
Speaker 1: the tenth pick, Bruce Hall, who's regarded as the top
Speaker 1: runner in the draft in the early second, Jeremy Ruckert's
Speaker 1: the guy to file away as a tight end prospect,
Speaker 1: maybe at the bottom of your dynasty roster in the third,
Speaker 1: and also Zack Wilson and Stiffler's mom. Yea, how about that?
Speaker 1: Al right, go Zack Wilson for the Chiefs. You already
Speaker 1: know that Tyreek Hill up, so I'm not gonna mention that.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the running back situation instead. Clyde Edwards
Speaker 1: Hilaire is the starter, but much of the rest of
Speaker 1: that backfield's changed. Ronald Jones migrated from Tampa where they
Speaker 1: did not want him anymore, and I am not on
Speaker 1: board with Ronald Jones. Sophomore Derek Gore could be in
Speaker 1: the mix, but my people tell me that he is
Speaker 1: a cut candidate. We're gonna talk about this backfield a
Speaker 1: little later, and I'm really in three by the seventh
Speaker 1: round rookie Isaiah Paschko, and we'll hear more about him
Speaker 1: a little bit later in the show. Let's let's squeeze
Speaker 1: in one more team into this segment and the things
Speaker 1: the one thing we need to know about the Seahawks
Speaker 1: off seasons. Honestly, you could talk a lot about the
Speaker 1: quarterback or rain back position, but we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: those later in training camp battles. I'm just gonna stay
Speaker 1: for the dynasty league out the leaguers out there. Uh.
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf signed a big three year contract. He's going
Speaker 1: to be there for a while. So that that's what
Speaker 1: you need to know for your dynasty leagues, that he
Speaker 1: will be in Seattle for the foreseeable future. Yeah, for
Speaker 1: better worse. And then you know, if i were Dk Metcalf,
Speaker 1: I don't know if i'd made that call. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure that that's the that was necessarily the right long
Speaker 1: term move if you want to get a lot of
Speaker 1: winning in as that team does what I think was
Speaker 1: the correct thing. Maybe he just likes the weather and
Speaker 1: Mount Rainier and stuff. Seattle in the summer, gorgeous, absolutely
Speaker 1: gorgeous Seattle in the Winner. It's it's not not so.
Speaker 1: I mean, we're not you know, we really cast aspersions
Speaker 1: up here. But man, if you like cold rain, Seattle
Speaker 1: in the Winner is the place to be when we
Speaker 1: come back. We'll continue working through every team's offseason. And
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Speaker 1: one thing you need to know about every team's offseason.
Speaker 1: We're covering every team. We've already done almost exactly half.
Speaker 1: Now we're going through the second half of the team's
Speaker 1: beginning with the Denver Broncos. Matt thing people need to know. Well,
Speaker 1: I can't do one thing because there's lots of offseason news.
Speaker 1: The Broncos were sold to Walmart, they hired Nathaniel Hackett
Speaker 1: as their new coach, They traded for Russell Wilson, and
Speaker 1: part of their stadium caught on fire. That's four things. Yeah,
Speaker 1: so those are all really interesting things there. Their stadium,
Speaker 1: by the way, might not be ready for Week one. Seriously. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's parts of it that, like like the suites were
Speaker 1: all burned down and like that one remember remember seeing
Speaker 1: that If that was a long time ago, I'm shocked
Speaker 1: it's still not ready or may not be ready for
Speaker 1: the start of the season. Let's go to the Rams.
Speaker 1: Big offseason change at wide receiver Robert Wood signed a
Speaker 1: big money deal with Tennessee despite his A c L injury.
Speaker 1: I was shocked at how much money he got with
Speaker 1: an A c L. Then Odell Beckham was not resigned,
Speaker 1: probably because his a c L was in February, so
Speaker 1: you know it's still on a long timetable there. And
Speaker 1: then they brought in Allen Robinson, languishing throughout his career
Speaker 1: with terrible quarterbacking terrible offenses. He gets signed and early
Speaker 1: reports of training camp very positive for Alan Robinson. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Eagles. What is the one thing people
Speaker 1: need to know about Philadelphia's offseason? Yeah, so the Eagles
Speaker 1: traded for this A J. Brown guy from Tennessee, so
Speaker 1: he will be there this year to upgrade that offense. Uh,
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts. This is pretty this is actually fairly interesting.
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts worst area of the field to throw too
Speaker 1: in his first two seasons is the spot where A. J.
Speaker 1: Brown has been one of the best receivers in the
Speaker 1: NFL in the last two years. And where's that? So
Speaker 1: hopefully it's uh intermediate and to the left and center.
Speaker 1: But anyway, um, that may unlock both Hurts and that
Speaker 1: off It's a little bit if if that upgrades that
Speaker 1: one spot or the right J Brown never gets the ball,
Speaker 1: I could go and I have a I have a
Speaker 1: feeling in Jalen Hurts can actually throw the ball. He
Speaker 1: just didn't have receivers to Okay, let's go to Miami.
Speaker 1: What's the one thing people need to know about the
Speaker 1: Dolphins offseason? A few big time changes. Mike McDaniels comes
Speaker 1: over from San Francisco to be the new head coach.
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill comes in via trade from the Chiefs. Chase
Speaker 1: Edmonds looks to be a favorite to be the new
Speaker 1: running back. But the Dolphins. The biggest thing is they
Speaker 1: had like the worst offensive line in the league last year.
Speaker 1: They brought in tarn Armstead as big left tackle. That
Speaker 1: should help, but the rest of their offensive line is
Speaker 1: very suspects still to had like the shortest time in
Speaker 1: pocket before contact last year. I have a feeling that
Speaker 1: two is still gonna get rid of get rid of
Speaker 1: the ball really quick. This if only had somebody that
Speaker 1: could do some damage after a quick pass. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: wore a couple of them. Vikings offensive personnel is largely
Speaker 1: and change. So I'm going to talk about the coaching
Speaker 1: overhaul that SE's Kevin O'Connell try to duplicate his success
Speaker 1: as the Rams offensive coordinator as he helped guide l
Speaker 1: A to a championship six months ago. One of the
Speaker 1: key things to watch will be near the goal line.
Speaker 1: Last year, even with Dalvin Cook, the Vikings had the
Speaker 1: worst rushing conversion rate on any team on runs inside
Speaker 1: the five yard line, converting those into touchdowns. They only
Speaker 1: converted of all of their runs into touchdowns last year.
Speaker 1: That was a problem last year. So how can Kevin
Speaker 1: O'Connell change that. We'll get this. O'Connell's rams passed the
Speaker 1: ball the third most times from inside the five and
Speaker 1: scored the second most touchdowns on passing plays. I think
Speaker 1: I'm telling you touchdown totals could be very big again
Speaker 1: as they were the last On a per game basis,
Speaker 1: he leads the NFL in touchdown passes converted into touchdowns
Speaker 1: over the last two years. I'm glad you didn't say
Speaker 1: they were going to bring in two fullbacks to go
Speaker 1: Where do you see j ham a lot and key situations.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Dallas Cowboys. What's the one thing
Speaker 1: people need to know about their off season? So the
Speaker 1: Cowboys have recently stated, and and they say it every
Speaker 1: year and they keep doing it, they want Zeke not
Speaker 1: just to be the main feature of the running game,
Speaker 1: but also the offense and they're not. They're not giving
Speaker 1: way to Tony Pollard just yet. They will. Also, Jan
Speaker 1: Tilbert is lighting up camp like Michael Gallup still on pup,
Speaker 1: uh Cedric Wilson and Amari Cooper are gone to free
Speaker 1: agency and trade uh Man Tilbert could be a real
Speaker 1: let's go to New England? What if? What's the one
Speaker 1: thing people need to know about the Patriots off season?
Speaker 1: Matt Well? Last year, the Patriots offense was one of
Speaker 1: the more explosive ones in the league. Wait, what did
Speaker 1: I say that? Right? No, it does not sound right.
Speaker 1: It doesn't sound right, But the Pets were. They ranked
Speaker 1: fourth in the league with sixty eight runs of twenty
Speaker 1: plus yards runs. That now, that does not surprise me.
Speaker 1: Hold On mac Jones had more twenty plus yard passes
Speaker 1: than Josh Allen, Lamar Jackson, Justin Air, Bear, Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: and Russell Wilson. The Pats added Davante Parker to the mix,
Speaker 1: along with Jacobe Myers and Kendrick Bourne. It reminds me
Speaker 1: of the one year Jared Goff like was top five
Speaker 1: and they're like, they're not the sexiest names. It's not
Speaker 1: the sexiest offs, but these guys might be late round
Speaker 1: draft picks that you can grab and and get some
Speaker 1: good production out of. What's a sexy name. Uh, let's see,
Speaker 1: I'll work on now, all right? Uh Rodrigo von hockey Pants,
Speaker 1: Scott Fish. That doesn't work. I think you can't have
Speaker 1: like the K sound or like like just like boom boom,
Speaker 1: like just quick? Is there a K and Scott? Just
Speaker 1: the case that Kott? For the Saints, Jameis Winston is
Speaker 1: your quarterback for better or work. Last year he was
Speaker 1: basically awesome in two games and unremarkable and all the others.
Speaker 1: And last year the Saints they really they had him
Speaker 1: reel in his yolo passing stylings a bit. He was
Speaker 1: a yard shorter in average length of pass um when
Speaker 1: compared to his previous starting job in Tampa. Remember the
Speaker 1: year he went thirty and thirty three seasons ago. Unbelievable. Um,
Speaker 1: he's still it was technically yes, it was thirty three
Speaker 1: and like the old baseball that's why that's why we
Speaker 1: call it that. Yes, Um, he's still not one from
Speaker 1: his Week eight a c L last year. But Winston
Speaker 1: is participating in camp. It'll be fascinating to see. His
Speaker 1: main weapon is it does Michael Thomas make the recovery
Speaker 1: on the ankle that he's you know, he's still trying
Speaker 1: to work through the idea of Jamis Winston's old school
Speaker 1: yolo Balls to Crystal is super exciting, super exciting if
Speaker 1: it happens. I hope, so, I hope. You know, Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Giants. It's the one thing that people
Speaker 1: need to know. Si Quon Barkley is a percent and
Speaker 1: making plays in camp after a really what what is
Speaker 1: much more like a fluke ankle injury last year? You
Speaker 1: should not be sitting going looking at that ankle injury
Speaker 1: and thinking that's a tell tells. He played with it
Speaker 1: most of the year with all those sixty yard games.
Speaker 1: And Darius Tony has surprisingly been the darling of camp,
Speaker 1: like a player that we all kind of crapt on
Speaker 1: as a pick last year and this year he is
Speaker 1: He's been the darling of camp. You know. We saw
Speaker 1: flashes of him looking at elusive on the field, you know,
Speaker 1: but most of it did not translate onto the field
Speaker 1: at all last year. Let's go to the Titans. What's
Speaker 1: the one thing people need to know about their off season?
Speaker 1: Matt Last season, the Titans ran the ball the second
Speaker 1: most by percentage in the league, and that includes Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry missing half of the season. Now A J. Brown
Speaker 1: is gone, Julio Jones has gone. Derrick Henry's back, Ryan
Speaker 1: Tannehill's a sneaky runners back up. Malik willis also fleet
Speaker 1: of foot. I think this is going to be the
Speaker 1: most run heavy team in the league and maybe in
Speaker 1: like the last decade. I think you're gonna run so
Speaker 1: much this year. I'll go to the Steelers. You're starting
Speaker 1: quarterback is yeah, I don't know. Hello, and he's sad
Speaker 1: Trump bown Sky. Despite the fact they took Kenny Picken
Speaker 1: in the first round, he is getting virtually every first
Speaker 1: team reping in training camp so far. You know, it's
Speaker 1: possible that Chicago coach Mattneggie was horrible and that Trubisky
Speaker 1: just needed better coaching. Did you hear about the two
Speaker 1: yard line drill that Trubisky did the other day? No,
Speaker 1: tell me about it? From the two yard line Mitch
Speaker 1: Trubisky went oh for sixteen on passes in practice. How
Speaker 1: do you do that? They've set all three quarterbacks. It's
Speaker 1: been really really As you said, tru Whiskey is getting
Speaker 1: all the ones, but they all look bad. Um. The
Speaker 1: hope here is that new start, fresh place Trubisky, you know,
Speaker 1: and what from a pure, pure fantasy standpoint, maybe they
Speaker 1: run him a bunch. You know, he was never utilized
Speaker 1: that way in Chicagy. What Dud's got wheels? In our
Speaker 1: nine Times podcast chart that we did just a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, we highlighted that true Bisky's start and
Speaker 1: the Steelers start, it's a horrific start to the schedule.
Speaker 1: Schedule them. So it looks like six or seven games
Speaker 1: maybe for true Bisky if you're looking at the positive end.
Speaker 1: And then it's probably Kenny Picketts. The betting lines seem
Speaker 1: to think Kenny Pickett's going to get the starting role
Speaker 1: at some point. By the way, Uh, troub, what are
Speaker 1: the odds that we got a downgrade from last year's
Speaker 1: ben Like, it's it's possible and unfortunately it is possible.
Speaker 1: I you know, I hope that's not the case, but
Speaker 1: it might be. Let's go to Atlanta, Let's talk about
Speaker 1: the Falcons. What's the one thing people need to know
Speaker 1: about that off season? So? Uh, a lot of question
Speaker 1: marks there. They brought in Marcus Mariota, and Desmond Ritter.
Speaker 1: They drafted Philippe Franks, so they got a lot of
Speaker 1: running out of the quarterback position. Felipe Franks. That's a
Speaker 1: sexy but it's got a case sound you've already establed,
Speaker 1: and an actual case. But but I think the thing
Speaker 1: to note is, uh, Kyle Pits. There's been a lot
Speaker 1: of Beat reporters saying that there are a lot of
Speaker 1: questions with the Falcons, but Pits isn't one. He's been
Speaker 1: the best player in camp and it's not close. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that doesn't surprise me or anybody else. I don't think Matt.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Bengals. I know what I consider
Speaker 1: to be the most important thing from the off season.
Speaker 1: I wonder if you're gonna hit on it too. I
Speaker 1: bet it's the same thing. After coming close to the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, the Bengals identified and attacked their one weakness
Speaker 1: in the off season, and that was offensive line. They
Speaker 1: added three new starters, all with Pro Football Focus grades
Speaker 1: over seventy two to the line, as Ted Carris, Alex Cappa,
Speaker 1: and l Collins. Yeah. I'm just I love their off
Speaker 1: season that way. From a fantasy standpoint, I'm I'm investing
Speaker 1: in Bengals where I can they went and fixed their problem.
Speaker 1: There when a when a when a front office goes,
Speaker 1: we see the problem and we're gonna just absolutely fix
Speaker 1: it in one off season. Maybe you're just saying that
Speaker 1: because you're Vikings fan that never fixed their offensive. How
Speaker 1: do you know? The forty nine years have Trey Lances
Speaker 1: the team's undisputed starting quarterback barring the unforeseen. The unforeseen
Speaker 1: could include I guess him being so bad that they
Speaker 1: have no choice but to go back to Jimmy Garoppolo,
Speaker 1: but it does not learn that's going to be the case.
Speaker 1: The offense is expected to be run heavy, but that
Speaker 1: should extend it to Tray Lance as well as an
Speaker 1: extension of that running game. In his two starts last year,
Speaker 1: he ran the ball twenty four times. And if they're
Speaker 1: gonna keep doing that, it gives Trey Lance top five
Speaker 1: fantasy upside if they continue to do that, and especially
Speaker 1: if it turns out he can pass at all, big arm.
Speaker 1: We hope that's going to be the case for him.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Cardinals. Scott, what's the one thing
Speaker 1: people need to know about the Arizona opse. This is
Speaker 1: gonna seem like more than one. Kyler Murray for dinasty Leaguers.
Speaker 1: Signed a nice big contract extension, so he'll be there
Speaker 1: for a while. DeAndre Hopkins suspended for six games. Brought
Speaker 1: in Marquis Brown via trade, who was recently arrested for
Speaker 1: criminal speeding. I'm gonna guess that won't play into any
Speaker 1: suspension or anything um at this. By the way, do
Speaker 1: you see how fast he was going? No, but criminal
Speaker 1: being arrested for criminal speedings, you've got to be going fast.
Speaker 1: One hundred twenty five mile for Marquis Brown. Now, what's
Speaker 1: the fastest you have ever driven? I don't and we'll
Speaker 1: assume it's at least seven years ago statue of limitation.
Speaker 1: Oh no, it would. It would have been in the
Speaker 1: sixteen to twenty one range. I want to say I
Speaker 1: had tried to hit a hundred in my car, and
Speaker 1: I don't think I even did it. The car couldn't
Speaker 1: do it, or you couldn't do it. I'm gonna guess
Speaker 1: the car right back then? Yeah, absolutely, you know, unlike
Speaker 1: the Lamborghini you drive now, Yes, of course, Matt. What
Speaker 1: about you? Oh I hit triple digits in my two
Speaker 1: Chevette that only had that went up to seventy, so
Speaker 1: you don't know your estimating. Yeah, surprise, it didn't explode.
Speaker 1: My first couple of cars were like an eighty nine
Speaker 1: Super DL and like a four Tourist, so I was
Speaker 1: not getting to those numbers. Yeah. I had a hand
Speaker 1: me down Buick Regal for my parents going and you
Speaker 1: couldn't up and down Valley View or Pioneer Trail. That
Speaker 1: parts true. You'd you'd, you'd pressed when you had to
Speaker 1: go in the bureau reetle and you you pressed the
Speaker 1: pedal all the way down. It just gurgled and nothing.
Speaker 1: You're like in sixty Yeah, at some at some point, yes,
Speaker 1: then ford Escort baby manual five speed ford Escort. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's see where we've done. Well, Sorry, I thought you
Speaker 1: were done. I was just gonna say that the Cardinals
Speaker 1: coaching staff hopes rondel Moore will take over Christian Kirk's
Speaker 1: role and they're gonna plan to use them a decent
Speaker 1: amount in this offense. With the suspension, he might get
Speaker 1: out there a decent amount in early going. Yeah, we've
Speaker 1: mentioned this round show throughout the off season. But Ron
Speaker 1: del Moore's hilarious average catch distance one yard one yard
Speaker 1: average catch that they got. They you know, they will
Speaker 1: improve that and maybe he'll be a little more elusive
Speaker 1: when he's catching the ball two yards downfield. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the Jaguars. Lots of offseason action there. Yeah, Travis
Speaker 1: e t N returns from injury. So does James Robinson,
Speaker 1: also trying to come back from a late season torn achilles. Uh.
Speaker 1: He is practicing right now. By the way, they broke
Speaker 1: the wide receiver market though, with the signing of Christian Kirk,
Speaker 1: which really led to a whole bunch of weird dominoes
Speaker 1: falling across the league. And then Doug Peterson he brings
Speaker 1: some stability to the offense. We're gonna just chalk up
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence is terrible year to urban Meyer and hope
Speaker 1: that Doug Peterson brings it back to what should be
Speaker 1: a successful career. Let's hope. So. But I'll make the
Speaker 1: same point that I made in the show last year
Speaker 1: when we were talking about Trevor Lawrence and the terrible
Speaker 1: Urban Meyer year. Dude was just missing open receivers. And
Speaker 1: I watched almost every game sadly untouched, and he you know,
Speaker 1: he was in a clean pocket and he was just missing.
Speaker 1: So you know, I'm not ready to say it's an
Speaker 1: automatic do over, because can you say there might be
Speaker 1: a mental aspect to the QB game and like all
Speaker 1: the stuff going around, maybe that messed with him a little,
Speaker 1: you know, possibly made him that inaccurate. The Ravens that
Speaker 1: we mentioned Marcus Brown, he left and it replaced by nobody.
Speaker 1: But let me just give you an update on running
Speaker 1: backs J K. Dobbins and Gus Edwards rehabbing from a
Speaker 1: c l S that occurred within one week of each
Speaker 1: other last August, including by the way, as I'm driving
Speaker 1: home from my auction in which I both for J. K.
Speaker 1: Dobbins and Gus Edwards, Dobbins happened and then like three
Speaker 1: four days later than Edwards happened and I had both guys.
Speaker 1: That's how it works. I'm talking about you, poor guy.
Speaker 1: But that's right. I mean, sure they got the knee injuries,
Speaker 1: but what about me? Both are in the publist right now.
Speaker 1: Dobbins appears to be ahead of Edwards in his rehab though,
Speaker 1: even though it sounded like his was more serious than
Speaker 1: knee injury uh two weeks ago. Dot if he did
Speaker 1: so earlier, he might have had the surgery itself earlier.
Speaker 1: That's true. Uh, Dobbins took to social media a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago to try to refute eight Wheat by
Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport. Rappaport City wasn't that Dobbins would not be
Speaker 1: ready by week one? And then yeah, why didn't you
Speaker 1: ask me? I'm gonna be there week one. We'll find
Speaker 1: out final two teams. Let's go with the Chicago Bears, Scott,
Speaker 1: what's the one thing people? So Ellen Robinson left town,
Speaker 1: which we all expected. They brought in Byron Pringle and
Speaker 1: Vylis Jones. They drafted Nick Hill, Harry Ecuonemius. They really
Speaker 1: didn't replace him with anything. So it's gonna be all
Speaker 1: Darnell Mooney and Cole Comet for starter Justin Fields. Uh.
Speaker 1: Co Comet has been crazy good in camp, getting the
Speaker 1: majority of targets and catches, which is really good for
Speaker 1: a possible late round tight end throw. But the real
Speaker 1: news is they really love Khalil Herbert and there's a
Speaker 1: lot of talk about it being more of a split
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Speaker 1: two seasons ago, the Chargers spent first round picks on
Speaker 1: Rashaan Slater in Zion Johnson on the offensive line. They
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Speaker 1: the league two years ago to a top ten offensive
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Speaker 1: what your society's average draft position is. Every spot through
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Speaker 1: When we come back, Fantasy Football Weekly, Welcome back. It's
Speaker 1: year number twenty eight. Fantasy Football Weekly, our first episode,
Speaker 1: first full episode of the year. Of course, you can
Speaker 1: continue listening via podcast. We go all year round, fifty
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Speaker 1: I want to go through the average draft position for
Speaker 1: all of the rookies. So a lot of Dynasty and
Speaker 1: Empire League rookie drafts happening now or are happening soon.
Speaker 1: I want to go through the average draft position of
Speaker 1: the first two rounds. Talk about the players going there,
Speaker 1: and tell me if you think these players are going
Speaker 1: too high, too low, or if they're going in about
Speaker 1: the right spot. The Goldilocks situation. Yes, the Goldilocks situation.
Speaker 1: I like it. I like it. I don't like porridge,
Speaker 1: So do not porridge me in any fashion, no matter
Speaker 1: what that I was gonna Porridgeyeah, I know, whatever, whatever
Speaker 1: your interpretation of that verb is, don't do it next summer,
Speaker 1: replace all of charges food with the porridge while he's
Speaker 1: gone pumpkins spice and I'm not there. Let's begin at
Speaker 1: pick number one, which is Breefe Hall for the Jets
Speaker 1: running back. Yeah, high, too low? About right? I It's
Speaker 1: it's about right. He's the consensus number one rookie off
Speaker 1: the board. In my personal opinion, I like Ken Walker
Speaker 1: about the same. If I had a hundred rookie drafts,
Speaker 1: I'd probably go fifty fifty between Hall and Walker. Uh.
Speaker 1: The only reason is Michael Carter is there and people
Speaker 1: are just kind of dismissing Michael Carter. He was the
Speaker 1: best fantasy producer in elusiveness in Pro Football Focus is
Speaker 1: elusiveness grades last year. So he's gonna be He's gonna
Speaker 1: be a factor there. So I think Breeze Hall is
Speaker 1: just right. But I could see you taking Ken Walker above. Uh.
Speaker 1: The difference between the two for me is one of
Speaker 1: them walks into a starting job and one of them
Speaker 1: it is not right. Maybe probably mean Kenneth Walker. They've
Speaker 1: they've said, and the early training camp carries right now
Speaker 1: we're going to Rashad Penny. So I think that's a key, different,
Speaker 1: key difference between those two running backs. Anyway, until he
Speaker 1: has one of his eight knee injuries that take him out,
Speaker 1: that's good, very well, that could very well end up happening.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to pick number two. Your selections
Speaker 1: at pick number two of a rookie dynasty draft is
Speaker 1: Drake London of the Atlanta Falcons. Ye, it's it's fair.
Speaker 1: I I have him met three in my rookie rankings,
Speaker 1: but it's absolutely fair. I have him and Burkes, as
Speaker 1: you know, one A and one B. Really two A
Speaker 1: and two B is the wide receivers. I guess uh
Speaker 1: he just because he's he's gonna get a ton of
Speaker 1: volume right away. It's a great early landing spot. He's
Speaker 1: already making plays in camp. He just looks good. I
Speaker 1: had him as the top three wide receiver coming out.
Speaker 1: It's a good spot for him. I think it's appropriate,
Speaker 1: and I think he's he's got the most immediate the
Speaker 1: chance to be the most immediately impactful of the all
Speaker 1: the receivers. Between his talent landing spot, which the quarterback
Speaker 1: is a little better, I like, I think Drake London's
Speaker 1: the right skuy here. Let's go to pick number three.
Speaker 1: In Dynasty rookie drafts, the consensus is Kenneth Walker running
Speaker 1: back for Seattle. I would consider take I'm gonna go
Speaker 1: just a hair low. I think he should go a
Speaker 1: pick two. I haven't been picked number two because I
Speaker 1: think he's just potentially special running back behind a wobbly
Speaker 1: and often injured starter, and I think he could win.
Speaker 1: He could win the job as early as Week one. Potentially,
Speaker 1: Seattle's got the eighth most vacated carries one hundred sixty
Speaker 1: vacated carries from last year of the team's workload is gone.
Speaker 1: So even if he doesn't win the starting job outright,
Speaker 1: there should be enough other carries to go around to
Speaker 1: make Kenneth Walker startable early in the season. So for
Speaker 1: me this, I have Kenneth Walker far lower than you guys.
Speaker 1: And and this goes to me in Dynasty, I'm always
Speaker 1: grabbing wide receivers early, unless I'm about ready to make
Speaker 1: a run, in which case I grab a running back
Speaker 1: who I think is going to get meaningful snaps. And
Speaker 1: I'm not sure that's Kenner walking Kenneth Walker that early
Speaker 1: in the season. So I have a few of the
Speaker 1: wide receivers above him. But it's it's also fine. This
Speaker 1: This is a real good cluster at the top half.
Speaker 1: The consensus pick number four in Dynasty rookie drafts is
Speaker 1: Tennessee wide receiver Traylan Burks. Is this too high? Too lower?
Speaker 1: About right? Uh? Personally I have Traylon Burkes slightly above
Speaker 1: Drake London. He's looked really good in uh in Titans
Speaker 1: camp so far. Very physical. Uh, he's a big guy
Speaker 1: to six to a J. Brown by the way, was
Speaker 1: six one two, So similar style players. I mean, I
Speaker 1: understand Drake London is going ahead of Burke's in almost
Speaker 1: every instance, but Burks is probably going to have the
Speaker 1: better years simply based on the quality of the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill is a better quarterback than Marcus Mariota asked
Speaker 1: the Titans. Yeah, remember the Titans. As I mentioned before,
Speaker 1: Burks is my two, London's my three, So I'm in
Speaker 1: the same spots. Matt h consensus pick number five is
Speaker 1: Jets wide receiver Garrett Wilson. Is this too high? Too lower?
Speaker 1: About right? I have Garrett Wilson down a couple. I
Speaker 1: have him below Jamison Williams, who I think has the
Speaker 1: highest upside of the wide receivers in this class, and
Speaker 1: Christal Lave who I really I like right along with
Speaker 1: those other three guys, and I think he has decent
Speaker 1: Year one potential with Jamis Winston if if they start
Speaker 1: to throw a deep Garrett Wilson the part that worries
Speaker 1: me is Elijah Moore seems to be their clear cut one.
Speaker 1: And Corey Davis came into camp like ten plus pounds
Speaker 1: lighter and in insane shape, and he was a former
Speaker 1: first round pick that has produced it at various times.
Speaker 1: One year, he's had a lot of even even in
Speaker 1: the non full year good he had good games. He's
Speaker 1: had lots of flashes. And right now in the shape
Speaker 1: and now they added pass catching back Breece Hall. I mean,
Speaker 1: he does it all, but it's good pass catcher. I
Speaker 1: have Wilson a little lower than those two other guys
Speaker 1: who I think have better upside. The consensus Number six
Speaker 1: is Chris Lave, who we've referred to already a couple
Speaker 1: of times, including just a moment ago. He is he
Speaker 1: falls into the Saints landing spot, and we already referenced
Speaker 1: the deep ball prowess of Jamis Winston, who they reeled
Speaker 1: back the throwing last year in the seven games that
Speaker 1: he played in. However, we know that that arm has
Speaker 1: got the deep ball in it, and they just didn't
Speaker 1: have anybody that they felt comfortable throwing deep to last year.
Speaker 1: The hope here's three receivers. Yeah, there's Jarvis Landry there
Speaker 1: now and Michael Thomas right it's you know, Jarvis deal
Speaker 1: is catching the ball near the line of scrimmage. And
Speaker 1: we don't know if Michael Thomas is gonna be healthy,
Speaker 1: but even in his prime, Michael Thomas is not a
Speaker 1: downfield option, like he's the guy, So it feels like
Speaker 1: the opportunity to own the deep routes and there. I
Speaker 1: think this is an appropriate spot that the big worry
Speaker 1: is they don't have a long term solution at quarterback.
Speaker 1: Pick number seven overall consensus in dynasty rookie drafts, Jamis Williams,
Speaker 1: the Detroit wide receiver. Too high, too lower about right? Yeah,
Speaker 1: Jamison probably won't play until October at the absolute earliest,
Speaker 1: if all goes well in his recovery from January a
Speaker 1: c L surgery. So I guess I'll say, if your
Speaker 1: roster is ready in a dynasty league to be a
Speaker 1: contender right now, and you're looking for production this year,
Speaker 1: this is too high. And we're picking seventh in a
Speaker 1: rookie draft right now, so seemingly your roster's middle of
Speaker 1: the pack maybe ready to contend. If you're in roster
Speaker 1: rebuild mode, though, and you're on a two year plan,
Speaker 1: this is a great spot to draft him. I still
Speaker 1: think it's I'll take him at four. I think he's
Speaker 1: got the highest upside and I love seen like he is.
Speaker 1: It makes more sense store on a worse roster than
Speaker 1: it does to take him at seventh rom six together.
Speaker 1: I really love the same question. Attitude is his quarterback
Speaker 1: next year? That's true, but he's he's like in camp
Speaker 1: with the players throwing the football like he's involved. No, great,
Speaker 1: he's he's arm Yeah, come on he he could be
Speaker 1: sitting on the sidelines doing nothing, and he wants to
Speaker 1: be in there. The consensus pick number eight in Dynasty,
Speaker 1: Rookie drafts his Buffalo running back James Cook, brother of
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook. Too high, too low, or about right? This?
Speaker 1: This is absolutely about right. I have him right in
Speaker 1: this range after those wide receivers. I want James Cook.
Speaker 1: Uh the But this is a Buffalo team that went
Speaker 1: out and tried to get m Kissick and couldn't. They
Speaker 1: went out and tried to get Chase Edmonds and couldn't.
Speaker 1: They want to get a pass catching back in there.
Speaker 1: I know that in camp like Mosson Singletary, gain Wick
Speaker 1: Singletary ended the years, it's like a top three running back.
Speaker 1: Over the final few weeks he was, shockingly But they
Speaker 1: have consistently tried to figure out that position, and they
Speaker 1: seem to have wanted to bring in a pass catching
Speaker 1: back like like James Cook. I know he didn't. He
Speaker 1: only averaged like seven touches a game in college, but
Speaker 1: he could easily take over a really good role in high,
Speaker 1: high octane offense. I worried James Cook will never be ever.
Speaker 1: I don't like the first round a model attack who
Speaker 1: is never going to get fifteen touches a game. It's
Speaker 1: it's the touch count, that's the word. So I've got
Speaker 1: too high. I think this is too high for James Cook.
Speaker 1: The consensus pick number nine and Dynasty rookie drafts is
Speaker 1: sky More. I was just in Kansas City at training
Speaker 1: camp and watching that number twenty four. My peeps were
Speaker 1: telling me that sky More, when healthy, and he's been
Speaker 1: on and off dinged up with various things. When healthy,
Speaker 1: he has splashed big top, looked very very good. I've
Speaker 1: I've said this since the moment he got drafted. There's
Speaker 1: a very real chance that right now, right this minute,
Speaker 1: the best wide receiver and the Patrick's Mahomess led offense
Speaker 1: is sky More and that he is going to be
Speaker 1: the focal point of that passing offense at some point
Speaker 1: and maybe soon. So you're saying way too low. I'm
Speaker 1: saying this is too low. Just just for people listening,
Speaker 1: James Cook is my nine, sky More is my seven.
Speaker 1: In between, I have George and so I do have
Speaker 1: these guys a little higher than James Cook, but I'm
Speaker 1: fine with James Cook. At that point that I mentioned
Speaker 1: the consensus pick number ten in Dynasty, Rickie drafts Christian Watson,
Speaker 1: the Green Bay Packers early second round draft choice. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll talk a little bit more about this whole position
Speaker 1: in training camp battles later in the show. But being
Speaker 1: six elite speed and having Aaron Rodgers as your quarterback
Speaker 1: could just yield some absolute elite upside. But he is injured,
Speaker 1: he hasn't practiced yet in camp. But now we're late
Speaker 1: in the first round, and this is the type of
Speaker 1: player that you grab late in the first round that
Speaker 1: could just put your roster right over the top. I
Speaker 1: think it's a great spot. He could be their wide
Speaker 1: receiver one, or he could completely bust like he is
Speaker 1: such a physical beast. But he should have done more
Speaker 1: in college, honestly, at the level he played at for
Speaker 1: his size and speed, you would think, uh, Justin Jefferson
Speaker 1: was going in about this time. Let's try to get
Speaker 1: in the last couple of picks. John Dotson from Washington.
Speaker 1: Too high, too low a pick number eleven, It's almost
Speaker 1: exactly where I have him. I think he's gonna be
Speaker 1: a decent receiver for and has decent opportunity to start
Speaker 1: for Washington, and the final pick of the first round
Speaker 1: will do second round in a moment, George pickings Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: The athletic freak, the jumping, the problems we've already seen
Speaker 1: highlight head weren't for off the field and maturity. His
Speaker 1: talent level should have been up with that top group. Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. Questions a quarterback, Well, you know,
Speaker 1: we don't know that they've got to solve in Pittsburgh. Yet.
Speaker 1: I like the fact that he's got lots of opportunity
Speaker 1: to start. Week once is too low that Deonte Johnson
Speaker 1: could be on the trade block to you just resign?
Speaker 1: You just resigned, Like I don't, can't resign somebody you're
Speaker 1: gonna trade. Uh, we'll come back in a moment. Our
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Speaker 1: two Fantasy Football Weekly. It is episode one of season
Speaker 1: twenty eight. Thank you for joining us. I am Paul
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Speaker 1: we're going through a two rounds of a rookie Empire
Speaker 1: Dynasty League draft, and we already did round one. Last segment,
Speaker 1: let's go to round number two. You we're gonna tell
Speaker 1: you where the consensus has players going, and then whether
Speaker 1: or not the consensus is getting it right or wrong?
Speaker 1: Is it player too early too late or just about right.
Speaker 1: Let's go to uh, the first selection of round number two,
Speaker 1: pick thirteen overall, Rashad White, Tampa Bay, too early, too late,
Speaker 1: or just right? Did you know that Leonard four net
Speaker 1: has his own flavor of wings at Wingstop, which is
Speaker 1: a hot honey wing looks delightful, But that does not
Speaker 1: bode well for a guy who probably why he came
Speaker 1: into camp at three pounds not three hundred um. Four
Speaker 1: nets still going to have the job. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: steal four nets job right away. But everybody at bucks
Speaker 1: camp talks about Rashad White as he's really almost a veteran.
Speaker 1: He's mature, he's confident, he's he's been a sponge just
Speaker 1: like uh, learning from four net and four nets really
Speaker 1: taking him under his wings. So that's a good thing too. Uh.
Speaker 1: They're drawing a lot of comparisons to Chris Godwin, his
Speaker 1: approach that always bodes well for rookies. So I think
Speaker 1: Rashad White might be a touch too low. I think
Speaker 1: he's got an opportunity if anything goes wrong with four net.
Speaker 1: He's a lead back in an elite offense. And let's
Speaker 1: remember four NET had all those soft tissue injuries in Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: They haven't popped up in Tampa to his credit, and
Speaker 1: maybe Tampa's just got you know, better trainers whatever. Um,
Speaker 1: but man soft tissue injuries are they usually compound on
Speaker 1: each other. Guess how many has played in his five
Speaker 1: year career full seasons? Yeah? Any, yeah, exactly. He has
Speaker 1: had a fifteen gamer in there. But yeah, the last
Speaker 1: couple of years he's been mostly healthy to his credit.
Speaker 1: All Right, the second pick on average, the consensus second
Speaker 1: pick in dynasty rookie drafts in the second round, it's
Speaker 1: my guy, Damian Pierce. What do you think too high,
Speaker 1: too low? Or about right? So? Uh, I had Rashad
Speaker 1: White exactly at thirteen and Damian Pierce I have one
Speaker 1: spot lower because I have Christen Watson just above him,
Speaker 1: like I have Christian Watson really well, I have him
Speaker 1: at four. So it's about the right spot. Me. Honestly,
Speaker 1: I think he could easily take that backfield and any
Speaker 1: running back that can take that pack field take up
Speaker 1: backfield in his first year? Is it? Is it really
Speaker 1: decent second round pick for a dynasty league. Let me
Speaker 1: just talk about Damian Pierce for a while because and
Speaker 1: by the way he fell to me in the in
Speaker 1: the um dynast of Pizza, the Dynasty Draft that that
Speaker 1: Matt and I are in, I had picked sixteen in
Speaker 1: a sixteen team or just you can get a math
Speaker 1: on that, and Damian Pierce Scott to meet sixteen, and
Speaker 1: I couldn't have been happier about that. Um And maybe
Speaker 1: I'll be proven wrong, but a he reminds me, and
Speaker 1: I'm not I hesitate to compare any rookie to a
Speaker 1: Hall of Famer, but if everything just the traits okay,
Speaker 1: and the outside here hesitated, but you're going right forward.
Speaker 1: But it's Jerome bettis a big player with remarkable footwork,
Speaker 1: and you know, bettest for the big for a big guy.
Speaker 1: People just didn't get clean hits on him. We got
Speaker 1: a lot of that in Pierce. And the other thing
Speaker 1: about Pierce that's wild is they threw to him all
Speaker 1: the time in college. This big guy rumbling down seams
Speaker 1: and they're throwing twenty yards down fielding the scene to
Speaker 1: Damian Pierce. Yeah, I would say they through efficient passes.
Speaker 1: I think he caught like nineteen balls last healing. But
Speaker 1: they were good, they were Yeah, they were dumping down.
Speaker 1: These were designed downfield passes to Pierce. Now, he was
Speaker 1: never a workhorse player in college, but that doesn't mean
Speaker 1: that he can't get a lot more use here. And
Speaker 1: he's the only true goal line back on roster for
Speaker 1: Houston right now. If you gotta say who's gonna get
Speaker 1: a carry at the three yard line to score a touchdown,
Speaker 1: it's Pierce. He's the guy. If there's one player that's
Speaker 1: that could be way off radar as a double digit
Speaker 1: touchdown scorer, Damian Pierce was gonna be a Rex burkehead though,
Speaker 1: just to piss you off, that's the only reason that's
Speaker 1: what happened. It would be I think James Conner's last
Speaker 1: year is his. It would be a nice ceiling from
Speaker 1: amazing a bunch of touchdowns, not not a ton of
Speaker 1: pass catching, but him the third pick of the second
Speaker 1: round in rookie Dynasty drafts Isaiah Spiller. I believe that
Speaker 1: this is about right on Spiller, but you have to
Speaker 1: wait and be patient because obviously Austin Ekeler is going
Speaker 1: to get the majority of work. But what you're banking
Speaker 1: on with Spiller is that Eckler had almost one hundred
Speaker 1: more targets and touches opportunities last year they had any
Speaker 1: other year of his career, and the team may have
Speaker 1: sunk valuable draft capital into Spillers, specifically to take away
Speaker 1: some of the workload that Eckler got. Its been asking
Speaker 1: for them to to have a compliment, and when asked
Speaker 1: about that, if Spiller could be that guy, Eckler said
Speaker 1: something like he talks a lot in the film room,
Speaker 1: which I thought was funny. That's fantastic. With the fourth
Speaker 1: selection of the second round in Dynasty, rookie drafts Atlanta
Speaker 1: running back Tyler Algier. Is he going too high, too low,
Speaker 1: or about right? We're talking about a lot of runners
Speaker 1: that have a chance to take over a backfield, and
Speaker 1: I think Algier's got a great opportunity there too. Uh.
Speaker 1: He's the exact opposite kind of runner as current starter
Speaker 1: Cordarrel Patterson in Atlanta. He's young, he's big, he's bruising.
Speaker 1: I think Algier will continue to creep up a d
Speaker 1: P as August wears on. So right here at pick sixteen,
Speaker 1: I think he's actually going a little bit too late.
Speaker 1: I have him at seventeen. By the way, that a J.
Speaker 1: Dillon league I'm in Tyler. Algier is going to be
Speaker 1: in that league this year. So if I get any
Speaker 1: inside info lege so we can safely assume you're gonna
Speaker 1: manage to work in the league. You're a J. Dillon
Speaker 1: once every show the league. I've bed with a J.
Speaker 1: Dillon Tyler every week of the season. Large running backs
Speaker 1: in Scott Fish's league. All right, let's go to the
Speaker 1: next selection, the fifth overall pick in Dynasty Rookie Drafts.
Speaker 1: In the second round. Uh So, seventeenth overall, I should
Speaker 1: say Brian Robinson Washington. It's too high, too lower about right?
Speaker 1: I have him much lower. I think I have him
Speaker 1: in the early twenty's. I think he's more of a
Speaker 1: touchdown only league earlier, I think that backfield is gonna
Speaker 1: be too split up. He will get those touchdowns, but
Speaker 1: they're there are a lot fluke here and a lot
Speaker 1: harder to predict. That's he's definitely not a guy I'm
Speaker 1: grabbing in Dynasty drafts with the I think we're on
Speaker 1: six pick. The eighteenth overall selection in Dynasty Rookie Drafts,
Speaker 1: Alec Pierce from Indianapolis. Now we've already alluded to this
Speaker 1: earlier in the show. He's getting entirely run with the
Speaker 1: first team offense. He's got running very basically unopposed to
Speaker 1: be a starter opposite Michael Pittman. They'll have Paris Campbell
Speaker 1: running out of the slot. Alex Pierce is fast and
Speaker 1: it's speed for him. Also some good contestant catches. He
Speaker 1: was a second round pick who's gonna be an immediate starter.
Speaker 1: And Matt Ryan's got enough left out. Yeah, that's to eleven.
Speaker 1: That's a taco takes the whole thing. We had years
Speaker 1: ago in an early fan ball lore. This is about
Speaker 1: nine nine. I would guess um, we had a weight
Speaker 1: loss contest and most of us were relatively naive on
Speaker 1: how to win a weight lost contest. But one of
Speaker 1: our guys had broken the code. So before the way
Speaker 1: in he did nothing but drink water and not use
Speaker 1: the bathroom front or back for the like twenty four
Speaker 1: hours before that. And he comes in the morning of
Speaker 1: the way in, completely water logged, in total pain and discomfort.
Speaker 1: He can barely walk up to the scale, weighs himself
Speaker 1: and runs to the bathroom. He killed us. He lost
Speaker 1: like four pounds just there. That's a lot of water.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of water. A gallon of waters eight pounds.
Speaker 1: He had at least half a gallon in him. I know, anyway,
Speaker 1: picked number nineteen overall consensus? Where were we pick number
Speaker 1: nineteen in Rookie Dynasty draft? Jalen Toilbert from Dallas? Too high?
Speaker 1: Too lower? About right? He's a rookie that doesn't have
Speaker 1: to carry the water in in Dallas because he's the
Speaker 1: number too wide receiver. Thank you injuries all over the place.
Speaker 1: Tilbert looks like he's going to the wold. He's kept
Speaker 1: caring that water right there. I didn't know where in
Speaker 1: a pool though. Tilbert's going to have the chance to
Speaker 1: start opposite Ceedee Lamb right away in a pretty good offense,
Speaker 1: and so far he's impressed in camp. It's getting first
Speaker 1: team reps the whole time. There's a lot of wide
Speaker 1: receivers we've talked about that won't slide into nearly an
Speaker 1: every down roll like Tilbert will. So I think he's
Speaker 1: going a little bit too low here, Not a little
Speaker 1: bit for me. What did you say, nineteen? I haven't
Speaker 1: met twelve in my rankings, so I have a lot
Speaker 1: too low. Yeah, yeah, I think we all agree that
Speaker 1: the opportunity is so good for Jennie. It's not just
Speaker 1: it's yeah, it's not just opportunity. He's just he's good too.
Speaker 1: In a for a year, it will use the third rounder.
Speaker 1: I believe in a different year he probably would have
Speaker 1: been a second rounder. And you know it was a
Speaker 1: deep draft. There was. It's but it's so much a
Speaker 1: fantasy football and especially rookie receiver. It's about opportunity. He
Speaker 1: will hit the field as a starter, very probably one
Speaker 1: gallop still and pick overall in Rookie Dynasty drafts. David
Speaker 1: Bell from Cleveland, speaking of opportunity, it's talking about it's
Speaker 1: gonna be him trying to fight off Devin Duverni, Duverni
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. Um that this is, that's it.
Speaker 1: It's it's opportunity. He's a good receiver. It's opportunity. There
Speaker 1: I have him exactly. It looks like exactly in this
Speaker 1: spot or one a way. So I think it's about right.
Speaker 1: The first pick of the Rookie Dynasty Drafts by consensus
Speaker 1: is Zamir White from Las Vegas. This is a pick
Speaker 1: you're making for next year. I think it might be
Speaker 1: too low just because of the possible that Jacobs might leave.
Speaker 1: I don't running backs rarely get traded because they're they're
Speaker 1: not much of a commodity. You don't get no, I
Speaker 1: mean after the year, this last it's his last year.
Speaker 1: Corre Okay, now with you, I thought you meant in season.
Speaker 1: If you're I was going along with your next year,
Speaker 1: I think got it. If you're taking him is for
Speaker 1: next season because it is a painfully crowded backfield. Not
Speaker 1: only is there Josh Jacobs, but you've got Kenyan Drake.
Speaker 1: They brought in Brandon Bolden, they drafted Zamir White, and
Speaker 1: White doesn't to me, does not look at a mere duel.
Speaker 1: I'll throw him in there too, as as a passing
Speaker 1: down guy. And he you know, he's scored on the
Speaker 1: Thursday NET Hall of Fame game, not that that means
Speaker 1: a lot, but then again, just Jacob's got a bunch
Speaker 1: of got a bunch of shocking amount of work. I
Speaker 1: think five carries in that game. White doesn't look to
Speaker 1: me to have the build of a workhorse back ever,
Speaker 1: and that part worries me. But at least you're not
Speaker 1: paying a first round price like James Cook, who also
Speaker 1: to me, does not look like a workhorse back. So
Speaker 1: I've I think this is about the right spot for
Speaker 1: Zamir White, but you have to be willing to sit
Speaker 1: on him for a good year. I believe the twenty
Speaker 1: second selection, this would be pick number ten in the
Speaker 1: second round. Is Trey McBride our first tight end? He's
Speaker 1: an Arizona? Is that too high? Too lower about? Right? Man?
Speaker 1: I think it's too high. It's it was a bad
Speaker 1: tight end draft, and McBride was the best of them,
Speaker 1: but he joins a Cardinals team with just a log
Speaker 1: jam in front of him, both at tight end and
Speaker 1: overall in the receiving position. Zach Ertz and Max Williams
Speaker 1: sit in front of him on the depth chart for
Speaker 1: the tight end, and the Cardinals have four maybe five
Speaker 1: wide receivers that are going to be drafted in your
Speaker 1: fantasy league. McBride won't see the field very much. So
Speaker 1: if you've got a spot that you can hold onto
Speaker 1: him for a year, maybe two years, it's a really
Speaker 1: deep dynasty draft, then go ahead and draft him. But
Speaker 1: I just don't think he's going to get the opportunity. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that and that may be. That may be a significant
Speaker 1: issue him. It's to the timeline is too far out.
Speaker 1: From Yeah, it's always a slow timeline with tight ends
Speaker 1: are almost always this is going to be a very
Speaker 1: slow one, unfortunately. The second to last pick of the
Speaker 1: second round in our Dynasty Rookie Draft, by consensus, you
Speaker 1: guys are all selecting Wrandale Robinson from the Giants. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm I. I was a guy who was in on
Speaker 1: one day Robinson early. I like, I liked him. He's
Speaker 1: he's really small. That's a concern, like players at his
Speaker 1: height and weight generally don't hit in the NFL. I've
Speaker 1: kind of soured a little bit just because he's a
Speaker 1: slot receiver on the Giants offense with like fourteen slot
Speaker 1: receivers and and a whole mess there. That's not exactly
Speaker 1: the most high octane thing that like the Bills or
Speaker 1: the Cardinals or the Chiefs or whatever. So I I
Speaker 1: actually have pushed him down in the second round. I'd
Speaker 1: rather have guys like you know, uh, I guess like
Speaker 1: Gilanni Woods maybe or Romeo Dubs or even an interesting
Speaker 1: one is Kyle Phillips moving up, who is basically taking
Speaker 1: over the starting slot receiver job in Tennessee. I have
Speaker 1: one day on the second round now, but not too
Speaker 1: far down. Yeah, I just I worry there's just too
Speaker 1: many miles to feat in with the Giants. I haven't
Speaker 1: even mentioned a quarterback yet, no two rounds of a
Speaker 1: and rightfully so, in my opinion, I don't have any
Speaker 1: problem with that. Uh. Final guy will talk about the
Speaker 1: last player in the taken in the second round of
Speaker 1: Dynasty Empire drafts San Francisco rookie running back Tyrian Davis Price.
Speaker 1: He's tall, he's fast, he was productive at L s U,
Speaker 1: and Elijah Mitchell has is the clear starter there, but
Speaker 1: we saw Mitchell breakdown. They're gonna run the ball a
Speaker 1: ton and then Shanny is always weird about usage. Who
Speaker 1: goes in, who goes out? You get the feeling at
Speaker 1: some point Davis Price is going to hit the field
Speaker 1: as early as this year. He'll hit the field with
Speaker 1: Shanahan is kind of unlike his dad in the way
Speaker 1: that he does use a bell cow and he doesn't
Speaker 1: stick with a guy. It's it's gonna it's gonna take
Speaker 1: an injury to Elijah Mitchell for for Davis Price to
Speaker 1: really see the field. I think that's safe to say.
Speaker 1: And I think Tray Sermon is not going to be
Speaker 1: a factor in this but you're too maybe you know,
Speaker 1: maybe you also never knew. No, maybe it's maybe he
Speaker 1: uses a bell coll like Mitchell and stuff because of
Speaker 1: what he's had, like that Lanta he had DeVonta Freeman
Speaker 1: and uh losing the second running back he had not
Speaker 1: when Gurley was there. Done that, it's going back aways.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure you're thinking about, but that's okay. Where
Speaker 1: you go? Where? Where would you take in a super
Speaker 1: flex draft chart? Where would you take either of the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks and either you think like Molik Willis, can you
Speaker 1: pick it? Maybe Desmond Ritter? Where would you take those
Speaker 1: guys in a super flex draft? I think at that
Speaker 1: point you're talking early second round before I'm taking any
Speaker 1: of these guys because I think, honestly, I think they're
Speaker 1: all less than fifty chance there's at anyone, even though
Speaker 1: your favorite quarterback, less than chance of being a fantasy
Speaker 1: impact starter. What do you think? Yeah, I think Willis
Speaker 1: is the guy I kind of like the most, but
Speaker 1: I think he's got the toughest, you know, road to
Speaker 1: overcome with Danehill there, I think that's safe to say. Uhan,
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Speaker 1: It's Fantasy Football Weekly. When we come back, we will
Speaker 1: talk through three tough questions. It's the game that you
Speaker 1: get to play along. See if you can go three
Speaker 1: and oh with our panel of experts. Welcome back Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchi and co hosts are
Speaker 1: Matt Harrison and Scott Fish. My cheat sheet is available
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Speaker 1: we call three tough Questions. I will pepper my co host,
Speaker 1: with three tough questions. So it's not just a clever name, No,
Speaker 1: it's a it's a very literal name as a matter
Speaker 1: of fact, and they will try to answer the questions correctly.
Speaker 1: Beginning with tough question number one, which backup running back
Speaker 1: has the most upside if the starter goes down? So
Speaker 1: there's an upside question if the starter goes down. We
Speaker 1: begin with Scott Fit. So I need clarification on what
Speaker 1: you consider a backup running back? Is Melvin Gordon a
Speaker 1: backup running back? Romandre Stevenson a backup running back? Then
Speaker 1: it's Romandre Stevenson because in almost every week that Damien
Speaker 1: Harris was out, he was a top twelve running back. Uh,
Speaker 1: he gets a full compliment of the workload. He gets,
Speaker 1: you know, fifteen to twenty touches, and in camp he's
Speaker 1: getting a ton of the passing game work. Uh, pass
Speaker 1: catching work in camp so far. And James White might
Speaker 1: not be ready to start the season. That might be
Speaker 1: that he might have just taken over that role. So
Speaker 1: for me, it's Romandre Stephenson, uh Matt Which backup running
Speaker 1: back has the most upside if the starter goes down.
Speaker 1: When I read this question, my knee jerk reaction was
Speaker 1: Kareem But then I thought about it a little bit more.
Speaker 1: It's not Kareem Hunt. It's a J. Dillon. If Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones went down, a J. Dillon is like getting a
Speaker 1: huge boost and touches on a team with a good quarterback,
Speaker 1: a great offensive line, some suspect receivers. Dylan could be
Speaker 1: a top five back if Aaron Jones were to go down,
Speaker 1: it's gotta be a J. Dillon. I was between A J.
Speaker 1: Dill your two answers, between A J. Dillon and Remander
Speaker 1: Stevenson Dylan. The reason I went with Remondre Stevenson and
Speaker 1: the reason that's the right answer Dylan had the two
Speaker 1: games that Aaron Jones missed last year, and he had
Speaker 1: eleven touches and fourteen touches in those two games. He
Speaker 1: did not explode into twenty touch territory, which was what
Speaker 1: I would have expected and hoped. Meanwhile, for Remondre Stevenson,
Speaker 1: he started two games with Damien Harris out last year
Speaker 1: and he averaged eighteen touches. Uh. And Stevenson and Harris
Speaker 1: shared a whopping twenty two carries from inside the five
Speaker 1: yard line. That team ran the ball inside the five
Speaker 1: a lot, and the thought of Stevenson built like he
Speaker 1: is getting all those inside the five carries, not Dylan's
Speaker 1: built for touchdowns too. Don't get me wrong. I'm still
Speaker 1: taking a half here. You can You're We're mostly wrong,
Speaker 1: but you're not necessarily not entirely wrong. UM. As a team,
Speaker 1: New England was fifth and attempts from inside the five.
Speaker 1: And we know Ramondre Stevenson is really good too. Uh.
Speaker 1: He finished ninth in yards over expectation last year and
Speaker 1: third in rushing percentage over expectation for Ramandre Stevenson. Correct answer,
Speaker 1: Remandre Stevenson, tough question number two. Now these are tandem questions,
Speaker 1: as you'll be able to tell while the starter is healthy,
Speaker 1: which backup running back is most fantasy startable week to week.
Speaker 1: So now we're looking for backups. It's a different question.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about upside of the starter's gone. Now the
Speaker 1: starters playing. Who's the guy you feel best about starting with?
Speaker 1: Back up? Do you feel best about starting? We begin
Speaker 1: to this one with Matt Harrison. I think we named
Speaker 1: a lot of the candidates here. I think the correct
Speaker 1: answer might be a J Dillon again, but I didn't
Speaker 1: want to just explain a J Dillon twice in the
Speaker 1: three tough questions, so I thought another answer might be
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon. I know the Broncos camp had some soundbites
Speaker 1: this last week about how they think Javonte Williams could
Speaker 1: take like a seventy thirty split, But in that same
Speaker 1: article they were like, but Javonte hasn't looked like awesome
Speaker 1: in camp yet. The reports are the camp split. Yeah,
Speaker 1: despite the thought, that's not how it turned out. That's
Speaker 1: not how it turned out. Last year it was nearly
Speaker 1: fifty fifty. The Broncos had a chance to let Gordon
Speaker 1: go and let Javonte Williams take over this offense. His
Speaker 1: contract was up and they could have brought in a
Speaker 1: rookie at a cheaper price, but they went out and
Speaker 1: they signed Gordon back again. So I think it's a
Speaker 1: fifty fifty split. Gordon finished as a high end RB
Speaker 1: two last year statistically, and he's gonna be keep in
Speaker 1: a D two. I like Melvin Gordon a lot this year.
Speaker 1: All right, same same question, Scott. While the starter is healthy,
Speaker 1: which backup running back is the most fantasy startable week
Speaker 1: to week? So I kind of telegraphed this with my
Speaker 1: first question to you, Melvin Gordon backup is Romandre Stephenson.
Speaker 1: So for me, it is Melvin Gordon. A J. Dillon's
Speaker 1: really close because he had over seventy total of the
Speaker 1: yards like one, two, three, four or five seven, eight
Speaker 1: ten times last nine times last year, um, which is
Speaker 1: pretty damn good for a backup if you're throwing a
Speaker 1: few touchdowns in a few receptions. But Melvin Gordon was
Speaker 1: eminently startable in the flex fish position almost every week,
Speaker 1: and you felt fairly confident about it. And I think
Speaker 1: the split is still gonna remain. It's gonna have shift
Speaker 1: a little bit more to Javonte this year than last year,
Speaker 1: I think, But it's probably Melvin Gordon. Still. I almost
Speaker 1: went Kareem Hunt here, but I didn't quite wasn't able
Speaker 1: to quite thought about it. Um Hunt averages twelve and
Speaker 1: it's you know, depending you're scoring been twelve points overall
Speaker 1: is a non starter ESPN scoring. But and he gets
Speaker 1: he does catch somebody. He Hunt doesn't catch as much
Speaker 1: as I want him to, right, And I don't know
Speaker 1: why Kevin Stefanski doesn't use him more that way, and
Speaker 1: I wish he would. Um does. Stefanski does run the
Speaker 1: ball a lot. And the weird thing about Cream Hunt,
Speaker 1: of course, as we've seen, is when Chubb goes out
Speaker 1: with injury, Hunt's role doesn't really change, it doesn't really expand.
Speaker 1: But within the boundaries of the question, the correct answer
Speaker 1: is Melvin Gordon. I got both right. You're dead to
Speaker 1: your two for two and that's about one and a
Speaker 1: half out of two. Really, Gordon's output hasn't really changed
Speaker 1: in three years, including three years ago when he was
Speaker 1: a starter. He still gets a dependable amount of use
Speaker 1: every game. And by the way, the fact that you
Speaker 1: can get Melvin Gordon seventh round a DP okay I'll
Speaker 1: take that, you know it as opposed to a second round.
Speaker 1: For a guy getting about the same amount of work
Speaker 1: to do the opposite running, he is exactly to do
Speaker 1: the opposite running. He's the definition of it. Melvin Gordon tough.
Speaker 1: Question number three? Is it cool to milk the clock
Speaker 1: instead of making your picks? You're on the clock. Can
Speaker 1: I milk that thing out waiting in case like breaking
Speaker 1: player news happens, or maybe somebody makes me a dumb
Speaker 1: trade offer whatever. Specifically, drafts, you know, the clocks sixty seconds,
Speaker 1: we're not talking about that. I'm talking about the kind
Speaker 1: of drafts that are happening right now that are one
Speaker 1: hour picks, two hour picks, six hour picks, eight hour picks.
Speaker 1: Is it cool to milk the clock? Scott? This is
Speaker 1: not the question I prepared. I was wondering if Brian
Speaker 1: is here something on the fly. My personal feelings are
Speaker 1: most of the time, when commissioners set up a slow draft,
Speaker 1: they set it at six hours or eight hours or
Speaker 1: whatever to account for people who have lives, not in
Speaker 1: people who have work and can't get to it. But
Speaker 1: you're supposed to pick in a reasonable amount of time
Speaker 1: when you can get to it. Um. It's in my
Speaker 1: personal opinion, it's not for milking the clock and working
Speaker 1: making sure you know, some training camp news comes out
Speaker 1: or an injury doesn't happen while you're on the clock.
Speaker 1: I know a lot of people disagree with that. For me, no,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's not cool, but I let it happen.
Speaker 1: You know, like you have eight hours, that's rule, but
Speaker 1: not clue you're on. No, not it's it's not cool,
Speaker 1: but it's completely acceptable within the rules. Okay, Uh, Matt
Speaker 1: it are you cool with players fantasy players who milk
Speaker 1: clock instead of making their pick. If you've got eight hours,
Speaker 1: you get eight hours. I mean it's fine to do. Uh.
Speaker 1: If there's a clock, you get all of it. Do
Speaker 1: I do it? No, because personally I'm way too impatient
Speaker 1: as a person for that kind of stuff, And I
Speaker 1: really like the dopamine boost for making a draft pick.
Speaker 1: All that's good stuff right there, So go ahead and
Speaker 1: do it if you want, but generally I don't do it.
Speaker 1: It is deeply disrespectful to milk the clock purposely just
Speaker 1: to try to get to get an advantage on the
Speaker 1: rest of the league, and to sit on the clock
Speaker 1: for six or eight hours. When you know what that
Speaker 1: pick is gonna be, you're available, have some respect for
Speaker 1: the other eleven people in your league, and make your
Speaker 1: damn pick. Are you breaking a rule? No, but that's
Speaker 1: not the only that doesn't matter. You know, I can
Speaker 1: farmer hanking on the sidewalk. It's not illegal, but it's
Speaker 1: wrong and disrespect crop. I could crop. You can do it.
Speaker 1: They won't lock you up. It's within the boundaries of
Speaker 1: the law, but you shouldn't do it because it's disrespectful
Speaker 1: to it. That's how I feel. It's get your pick
Speaker 1: in that that timer is for people who have busy
Speaker 1: lives and work and stuff. When we come back, we're
Speaker 1: gonna go through the training camp battles. We will be watching,
Speaker 1: and we will unveil our first sleepers of the year.
Speaker 1: We've already hinted at some of these players. Will talk
Speaker 1: a little more deeply about them when we come back.
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Speaker 1: you've added because Christian McCaffrey is torpedoed. You know, you're
Speaker 1: looking at this roster going, my god, this is the
Speaker 1: best roster I've ever fielded, and I really don't want
Speaker 1: to get caught. It's the sweat and the anxiety and
Speaker 1: the Guillotine League is I'm like anything else. I brought
Speaker 1: six of my drafted players to the championship in one
Speaker 1: last year. That's amazing. That is amazing. Usually it's three
Speaker 1: of the guys you draft like you're still starting, or seven.
Speaker 1: You just want to work in that you made it
Speaker 1: to the champions If you're gonna if you're gonna bring
Speaker 1: j on the show and talk about beating me that,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring it. Second, it's weird that you're putting
Speaker 1: your thumbs behind your suspenders when you're doing that. In
Speaker 1: this segment, we're going to talk through the training camp
Speaker 1: battles that we're watching, and we're going to right now
Speaker 1: give out our first Sleepers of the year. First, let's
Speaker 1: define sleeper because there's always there's always an area of contention.
Speaker 1: For me, this is always about guys who are gonna
Speaker 1: dramatically out or have the potential to dramatically outperform their
Speaker 1: draft position, which I guess you know. This doesn't mean
Speaker 1: like a second rounder who's gonna be like a first rounder.
Speaker 1: To me, this means somebody at least like mid mid
Speaker 1: round that's going to perform like a top third or
Speaker 1: trying to stay in the double digit round because I
Speaker 1: think it's more fun. Yeah, I actually do too, But yeah,
Speaker 1: all right, so let's let's start with you, Matt, who
Speaker 1: is your first sleeper of the year. I alluded to
Speaker 1: him a little bit earlier in the show, and that's
Speaker 1: Isaiah Pacheco, running back Kansas City. Clyde Edwards Hilaire, he's
Speaker 1: just a guy, Ronald Jones, He's just a guy. Darryl
Speaker 1: Williams was Kansas City's best running back last year. And
Speaker 1: he's in Arizona. And by the way, they gave Pacheco
Speaker 1: number ten in Kansas City. That's Tyreek Hills number. They
Speaker 1: think that they just have the replacement number ten right there. Um.
Speaker 1: They're having him run with the first team offense, like
Speaker 1: Scott just said, and he's killing it. Um. Just the
Speaker 1: other day, I saw a wheel route out of the backfield.
Speaker 1: Mahomes dropped it in perfectly. Potchecko made a great catch.
Speaker 1: Right now, he's a last round of your draft kind
Speaker 1: of pick. If he gets no snaps, that's apparent right away,
Speaker 1: you can cut him, no big deal. But if he
Speaker 1: does flash just a little bit in that first week
Speaker 1: against Arizona, you might be looking at the absolute steal
Speaker 1: of your draft. He's got crazy upside of everything breaks
Speaker 1: just right for him. Seventh rounder Rutgers not known for
Speaker 1: producing any good football period, man, the fact that he
Speaker 1: was as productive as he was there was remarkable. And
Speaker 1: he has some by the way, I'm being told like
Speaker 1: a lot to make the team because he's also a
Speaker 1: special teams guy. He's gonna do returns and he's gonna
Speaker 1: be There's not there really isn't a scenario that anybody
Speaker 1: sees right now where seventh rown running back gets cut.
Speaker 1: Is Clyde Edwards Hilaire a lock to make the team?
Speaker 1: Yes he is, and he's getting the Let's be clear,
Speaker 1: alais getting virtually all of the first So this is
Speaker 1: a long shot, all right, Scott, who is your first
Speaker 1: sleeper player of the year. Yeah, I'm I'm gonna be
Speaker 1: in no man's land here because normally I'm I'm like
Speaker 1: the super deep guy on the on the show for
Speaker 1: for sleepers, and both of your guys are deeper than mine,
Speaker 1: is all right, And I'm normally the wide receiver guy
Speaker 1: like I'm on raw and like Deonta Johnson, and I've
Speaker 1: had svenders again spenders Chris Godwin one year UM I'm
Speaker 1: actually going with a running back here, and not as
Speaker 1: deep as you guys. I'm going back to a guy
Speaker 1: we've mentioned several times, Rashad White. If things break were
Speaker 1: right for him and Leonard four Nett is out of
Speaker 1: shape or gets the role taken, or he gets injured,
Speaker 1: which he does get injured almost every year. He's a
Speaker 1: pass catching back out of Arizona State. Uh Matt talked
Speaker 1: about the maturity. He's super excited to, you know, show
Speaker 1: that off on the field, making lots of great catches
Speaker 1: in camp um with Jeoe, you know, coming coming off
Speaker 1: of injury, resigned on a one year deal. Possible cut
Speaker 1: candidates Ronald Jones not there. He's got an a DP
Speaker 1: well into the double digits, and he could be a
Speaker 1: league winner if things hit Rashad White, Yes, enough speed
Speaker 1: and and three down potential to be if you know,
Speaker 1: if anything happens with four net, including bad play, they're
Speaker 1: gonna plug him in. He's got I agree he has
Speaker 1: league winning upside. I love him that way. My player
Speaker 1: is my rookie. We're all doing rookie running backs. My
Speaker 1: rookie running back is so deep that he wasn't even
Speaker 1: in our discussion of the rookies before. How deep is
Speaker 1: he by? Thank you for asking match game host Gene Rayburn. Yes,
Speaker 1: that's me, Yes that is I know that's where you
Speaker 1: were going with this. I am going with Jacksonville's rookie
Speaker 1: running back Snooper Connor. Hold on, I gotta do this, Snoop.
Speaker 1: We should really get some Can we get that cut
Speaker 1: for the bottom bar? No, it's not every never do
Speaker 1: that again. We can absolutely, we also cannot. We can't
Speaker 1: play any Snoop dogg. Let's just no, let's just bring
Speaker 1: that every time we want to talk about him. I
Speaker 1: can see if Colin mccockney is available. I think you should.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Snoop Connor because nobody knows anything about him.
Speaker 1: It's part of it's the landing spot Jacksonville. Now we
Speaker 1: know James Robinson's got the achilles. As we've already mentioned
Speaker 1: earlier in the show, no running back has ever successfully
Speaker 1: recovered from the achilles injury to be a meaningful player
Speaker 1: again and have a meaningful part of the career. We
Speaker 1: hope cam Akers is the first. We hope James Robinson
Speaker 1: is the first. But until proven otherwise, you can make
Speaker 1: an assumption that James Robinson with his late season achilles
Speaker 1: is not going to be a factor, and maybe not
Speaker 1: ever again, maybe not till the end of this year,
Speaker 1: not going to be a factor. Travis Etienne is going
Speaker 1: to get a plenty of work, but he was never
Speaker 1: really a workhorse in college and never a goal line back.
Speaker 1: And he's coming out with Liz Frank of his own
Speaker 1: and he they're gonna use him a lot as a
Speaker 1: pass catcher. So who's gonna get inside running, Who's gonna
Speaker 1: get goal line use? And that's not etiens gig, that's
Speaker 1: not what he's largely built for. Snoop Connor can be
Speaker 1: that way. He is a banger, He's an inside runner.
Speaker 1: He's the probable Week one goal line back for Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: Doug Peterson's always used a committee no way. I don't
Speaker 1: think there's any scenario where Etien is gonna be eight
Speaker 1: touches a game, even factoring in the receptions that I
Speaker 1: think Ettien is gonna get, I don't think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be that high. Peterson's always been a committee guy. Part
Speaker 1: of that committee is going to be fifth rounder Snoop Connor.
Speaker 1: I think there's a coin flips chance Snoop Connor leads
Speaker 1: the Jaguars in rushing touchdowns this year. Sure coin flip
Speaker 1: coin flips chance and he, by the way, so different
Speaker 1: than a dart throw. I feel like it's good we're
Speaker 1: all three giving running backs. I feel like there's a
Speaker 1: little bit of a changing in the guard happening where
Speaker 1: there's a lot of wide receivers out there, but the
Speaker 1: ones that when your league are are actually having those deep,
Speaker 1: those deeper running backs on your roster with the new
Speaker 1: seventeen game schedule and with all the injuries, having them
Speaker 1: on your roster and not having to fight for waivers
Speaker 1: for them, I think I think it's big in the
Speaker 1: later rounds of your draft. Now agreed, Alright, So I
Speaker 1: don't know. I don't have his ADP in front of me.
Speaker 1: I wish I did. I bet Snoop Connors ADP is
Speaker 1: in the two hundreds, like three thousand four. It could be.
Speaker 1: It could be, And I just I'm not hearing any
Speaker 1: talk about him, not your you know. I just I
Speaker 1: think there's a I think there's a great opportunity to there.
Speaker 1: You go, what round is is that? Like round? That's round.
Speaker 1: Let's go through the training camp battles a a f
Speaker 1: C NFC style training camp battles. Who would like to
Speaker 1: go first? We can go back and forth. I'll start
Speaker 1: with the NFC. How about that. Let's go with the
Speaker 1: Atlanta running back situation. Uh, Cordarrel Patterson, Tyler L. Gear
Speaker 1: and Damian Williams kind of mentioned this a little bit before,
Speaker 1: but I just wanted to remind everybody that Arthur Smith
Speaker 1: is the coach in Atlanta. He came from Tennessee where
Speaker 1: he had Marcus Mariota on his roster for a while,
Speaker 1: and when Marcus Mariotta was the quarterback, they deployed this
Speaker 1: really big, bruising back in their backfield. If they're going
Speaker 1: to do that again, that's al Gere. He's not as
Speaker 1: big as Derrick Henry, but he's certainly a downfield runner.
Speaker 1: And I think al Jeer's got a leading edge on
Speaker 1: maybe getting more of that share of the backfield than
Speaker 1: many mate think. We saw Cordaryl Patterson just get ground up,
Speaker 1: he got broken down, and they just they can't use
Speaker 1: him like and I just the opportunity so much fantasy football,
Speaker 1: it's opportunity is more important than talent, and the opportunity
Speaker 1: is certainly there for Tyler l gere Uh and that
Speaker 1: training camp battle will continue to watch. All right, Scott,
Speaker 1: what's next? Yeah, so mine, it's starting to feel less
Speaker 1: like a battle and more like it's just going to
Speaker 1: be a split. But I had the Denver Broncos with
Speaker 1: Gordon and Williams that we just talked about. Cecil Lammy
Speaker 1: and Benjamin Albright, who both covered the team, have very
Speaker 1: different views on it. Lammy thinks it's going to be
Speaker 1: that seventy thirty split. Benjamin Albright says it's more like
Speaker 1: I think that's where most of us in this room
Speaker 1: lean on it. We'll see through camp if if Javonte
Speaker 1: can really take hold of the reins. But if he can't,
Speaker 1: I would expect to split again. All right, Matt, what's
Speaker 1: the next training camp battle? Scott talked about it about
Speaker 1: it a little bit before. It's the Carolina quarterback situation,
Speaker 1: and I think you have a dark horse there, Chart
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield, Sam Donald and at correct maybe maybe he's
Speaker 1: you know, if you believe the reporters there, none of
Speaker 1: the none of the quarterbacks look great, but Correl has
Speaker 1: at least had a couple of a couple of eye
Speaker 1: popping moments. Yeah, I would be absolutely shocked if Sam
Speaker 1: Donald got a real shot at this job again, especially
Speaker 1: since the Panthers lead off the season with a revenge
Speaker 1: game against the Browns. So it'll be Baker's job in
Speaker 1: week one, no doubt. I think that's probably gonna be there.
Speaker 1: I think that's almost certainly going to be the case there.
Speaker 1: All right, Scott, what is the next training camp out?
Speaker 1: Let's go over to New England with Romandre Stephenson and
Speaker 1: Damien Harris. I'm only pointed this as a battle because
Speaker 1: Romandre Stephenson has been getting work with the runs, but
Speaker 1: not like that fake reports said where he was getting
Speaker 1: almost all the ones work. That was just a short
Speaker 1: video and and used to try to, you know, inflame
Speaker 1: the Stevenson lovers out there. It was later debunked. But
Speaker 1: he is getting worked with the ones, and he's getting
Speaker 1: work in the passing game. It's gonna be interesting to
Speaker 1: see that if that role continues to develop. Matt. The
Speaker 1: next training camp battle the Green Bay Packers wide receiver situation.
Speaker 1: I mean Allen Lazard looks fav Do you mean Canton
Speaker 1: bound Allen Lazard of Hall of Fame bound Ellen Lazard. Oh,
Speaker 1: do we think that the Packers are playing in the
Speaker 1: Hall of Fame game next year or something? And Roger said,
Speaker 1: he's going from one Hall of Famer to another? Is
Speaker 1: a receiver? Is he going to the big fantasy football
Speaker 1: expo out in Canton? That's it, That's why he's going there. Uh.
Speaker 1: Lazard looks favored to be the number one simply because
Speaker 1: he's been around. Uh. You probably give the nod at
Speaker 1: number two to Randall Cobb for the same reason. But
Speaker 1: he's pretty old and hasn't been very exciting for a
Speaker 1: few years. No surprise that Sammy Watkins is already dinged
Speaker 1: up but practicing in camp. We mentioned Christian Watson earlier.
Speaker 1: He hasn't practiced yet, but the hype has been all
Speaker 1: over Romeo Dubs in camp. Everyone says he's absolutely killing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and when Aaron Rodgers is glowing, it probably means he's
Speaker 1: on some ayahuasca. But Romeo Dubs he's a dark horse
Speaker 1: to be on the field a ton this year for
Speaker 1: the Packers. Alright, Scott, your next training camp battle, let's
Speaker 1: go over the Steelers. And I'm actually gonna talk about
Speaker 1: two different things. The obvious one is the QB battle
Speaker 1: where Trabinsky has been given every chance to be the starter,
Speaker 1: and like they will be the starter. Pickett has been
Speaker 1: bad enough in cap that's something he might even be
Speaker 1: There are the QB three to start the season. They're
Speaker 1: talking Rudolf but but we will see that through the
Speaker 1: training camp. But the interesting one is George Pickens taking
Speaker 1: on the wide receiver two roll and them talking and
Speaker 1: using Claypool more as a big slot receiver, which is
Speaker 1: a very interesting fantasy implication for both those players. And
Speaker 1: when Claypool came out, he was a tight end, wasn't
Speaker 1: he that they converted thought he was. It was not.
Speaker 1: But where Claypool has been valuable has been when yeah right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't like the idea of him moving into the slot.
Speaker 1: It's very it's very interesting taking high quality reps of
Speaker 1: him and I do all I need to know is
Speaker 1: if Travisky is starting, who's on the left side of
Speaker 1: the fields, because I don't want them on my facy
Speaker 1: team that too. He was terrible that way, because that's weird.
Speaker 1: That's there aren't that many quarterbacks that have that kind
Speaker 1: of efficiency. Uh, Matt, what's your next training camp battle?
Speaker 1: The Giants wide receiver position. Kenny Golladay is reportedly showing
Speaker 1: quote unquote signs of life at camp, and that's all
Speaker 1: we can say about Kenny Golladay at this point. Uh.
Speaker 1: We talked about Cadarius Tony a little bit. He's made
Speaker 1: some huge highlight catches and camp so far, which is
Speaker 1: encouraging after all the cloudiness surrounding him in the off
Speaker 1: season they had. He was rumored to be on the
Speaker 1: trade block around the draft. Uh Sterling Shepherd and Darius
Speaker 1: Slayton are trusty Vets. Shepherd probably has more of a
Speaker 1: chance to carve out a major role, but wan Dale
Speaker 1: Robinson is a guy to keep an eye on. Talked
Speaker 1: about him a little bit. But he's tiny. He's only
Speaker 1: five eight one either, but all reports it's impossible to
Speaker 1: cover him because you can't find him because he's so
Speaker 1: yeah at the sub atomic particle size. Like ant man,
Speaker 1: like ant like aunt very similar to aunt Man. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to our next training camp battle, Scott. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Buffalo Bills running back position. Devin Singletary
Speaker 1: ended the season as a top five fantasy back the
Speaker 1: last few weeks and even stretched into the playoffs. While
Speaker 1: Moss was Zack Moss was routinely a healthy scat scratch there.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned before, they went after mckissic and Edmonds.
Speaker 1: They brought in James Cook to be that pass catching role.
Speaker 1: This is gonna be interesting to see how this shakes out,
Speaker 1: especially with Moss realizing what happened last year, gotten the
Speaker 1: best shape of it, just cut down. He's been, he's been. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's camp. He's been working out like crazy, and they've
Speaker 1: even give him, giving him touches with the ones in
Speaker 1: camp because he's worked so hard at it. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be interesting if if Paul Charchi and can get back
Speaker 1: on the Zach Moss train. Yeah maybe I burned myself
Speaker 1: and my listeners on Zack Moss so hard that it
Speaker 1: would be tough to do it, and nobody believe me
Speaker 1: anymore now, you know, even if I did go to
Speaker 1: bat for him, even you know, if they drafted James Cook,
Speaker 1: just say, I told you that's gonna be Paris Campbell.
Speaker 1: You watch, That's gonna be Paris Campbell. Alright, alright, next
Speaker 1: training camp battle Matt Philadelphia's running back position, Miles Sanders,
Speaker 1: Kenny Gainwell, Boston Scott Truthfully, I don't think anyone wins
Speaker 1: this job. Actually, I think it's one of the messier
Speaker 1: backfields in the league. Last year, Sanders led the team
Speaker 1: and carries, didn't score a touchdown, and seated a lot
Speaker 1: of infrared zone looks to Boston Scott, Jordan Howard and Gainwell.
Speaker 1: But Howard's gone and the philosophy in this backfield is
Speaker 1: to get a lot of people involved. In the final
Speaker 1: nine times that the Eagles played last season, two different
Speaker 1: running backs carried the ball at least nine times in
Speaker 1: every one of those games. So it's a double nine
Speaker 1: timer there. Uh. I think that this backfield is really split,
Speaker 1: and people are drafting Miles Sanders pretty early, pretty early.
Speaker 1: I don't think that he carves out like this bell
Speaker 1: cow roll that everybody wants. Let me see if I
Speaker 1: can quick pull up the Sanders. A DP is pick
Speaker 1: seventy five running back. That's the seventh round, early seventh,
Speaker 1: late six, early seven. Scott. What's the next training camp
Speaker 1: battle for? Yeah, we do know to start Buston Scott
Speaker 1: against the Giants, who has like five or six tonsdowns against.
Speaker 1: The next train cap battle is the Chiefs wide receiver
Speaker 1: at one and two roles. It seems like Jiuju will
Speaker 1: be the wide receiver one. Seems like he's doing a
Speaker 1: lot more deep routes as well. But the wide receiver
Speaker 1: two is gonna be interesting. M vs. Marquez, Valdes Scantling
Speaker 1: got a thirty million do Art contract. They brought in
Speaker 1: sky Moore. Uh. I want to see who shakes out
Speaker 1: there because any of those roles could be viable if
Speaker 1: they split up Hills and the third receiver's targets. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs I believe have the most lost vacated targets
Speaker 1: in the NFL. In fact, impositive most vacated targets from
Speaker 1: last year, So there are a lot of Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: high quality passes to go around. Great job today, guys,
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