WEBVTT - Greasy belly flops 0:00:01.400 --> 0:00:05.120 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeart Radio. 0:00:07.240 --> 0:00:11.479 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly 0:00:11.560 --> 0:00:15.560 source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and 0:00:15.600 --> 0:00:18.959 whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. Now, 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:20.160 here's your host, Paul. 0:00:22.000 --> 0:00:24.840 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Chargian co 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:28.280 host today. After kind of a fair amount of time off. 0:00:28.320 --> 0:00:29.680 Scott Fish welcome back. 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:32.760 Yes, yes, but it's pretty normal this time. Last year, 0:00:32.800 --> 0:00:35.920 between February and June and July, I only did one show. 0:00:36.159 --> 0:00:38.120 That's not four and a half month. 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:39.640 But that's not it's not gonna be. 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:40.960 This is my second show. 0:00:43.360 --> 0:00:44.839 All right, good we want you back. 0:00:44.920 --> 0:00:46.720 Yes, we miss you and I'm excited to be in 0:00:46.720 --> 0:00:49.159 your house again. I wore my swimsuit. I see that 0:00:49.280 --> 0:00:51.360 pool is under construction, but I can swim at. 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:55.400 The boat we're adding in the Olympic lanes under the pool. 0:00:55.640 --> 0:01:05.320 It was traded for Paris's my my hair stylist. They're 0:01:05.319 --> 0:01:10.640 not barbers anymore. Okay, my hair stylist decided you wanted 0:01:10.640 --> 0:01:13.360 to get a pool put in your yard. They sold 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:16.760 their boat and then started collecting money. Do you know 0:01:16.880 --> 0:01:19.839 much a pool a just a regular backyard pool costs 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:21.320 to put in. 0:01:22.000 --> 0:01:24.240 I don't even have the slightest clues. Somody going to 0:01:24.240 --> 0:01:28.080 take a complete guess at twenty eight thousand dollars. 0:01:27.640 --> 0:01:30.520 Add about one hundred thousand dollars to that. 0:01:31.080 --> 0:01:33.240 What yes, Oh my gosh. 0:01:33.240 --> 0:01:36.200 So they sell their boat and they save money and 0:01:36.240 --> 0:01:39.520 they scrimp and they put together over one hundred thousand 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:43.760 dollars to get just a standard suburban backyard pool put in. 0:01:43.959 --> 0:01:50.040 That's hand off the money to pool guy and he 0:01:50.120 --> 0:01:54.960 goes a wall. He never did anything, kept the money 0:01:55.880 --> 0:01:58.880 and took off for Kentucky. What and he did it 0:01:58.920 --> 0:02:03.600 to like ten fifteen people in the twin cities. They're 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:07.880 just out over one hundred thousand dollars. There's nothing they 0:02:07.880 --> 0:02:08.280 can do. 0:02:08.200 --> 0:02:11.040 There's no recourse at all. Nope, that's the. 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:15.120 Police are not interested, you know. It's he's filed bankruptcy 0:02:15.200 --> 0:02:17.400 to try to protect himself, but they don't. But he 0:02:17.520 --> 0:02:21.079 was sitting on all this cash. Nobody cares, nobody's following up, 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:22.320 and they're never gonna get paid. 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.760 That's I can't even imagine. I can't even imagine. 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:29.000 I know I can't either. One hundred thousand dollars just gone. 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:34.080 Man, Oh that's street. Tell the story, dig your own pool, 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.120 get a shovel shot Aston and Sino Man did it 0:02:38.320 --> 0:02:41.320 so anyone could do it. And he did that in summer, 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:43.280 so I mean a school year. 0:02:43.320 --> 0:02:44.480 I'm not a big pool guy. 0:02:44.600 --> 0:02:45.480 No, I'm not either. 0:02:45.639 --> 0:02:48.600 It's just I don't know. I'm just not my thing. 0:02:48.639 --> 0:02:50.160 I get in the water with them. I'm not a 0:02:50.200 --> 0:02:53.120 hot tub guy though. That feels like no, I'm not. 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:54.399 Is it because of the germs? 0:02:54.760 --> 0:02:58.000 Uh? You know, like if it's over chlorinated and stuff 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:00.560 and cleaned regularly and stuff, then sure it's fine. 0:03:00.560 --> 0:03:02.600 But what if it's just your hot tub for you 0:03:02.680 --> 0:03:04.920 and your family. You're already sharing germs. 0:03:05.720 --> 0:03:09.360 Maybe I guess I like saunas. Yeah, I don't know. 0:03:09.400 --> 0:03:12.600 On the hot tub, I remember, you know, yeah, let's 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:14.560 we can move on. But yeah, I'm not a huge 0:03:14.600 --> 0:03:17.040 hot tub guy. It's it's okay in a hotel. Hotel, 0:03:17.400 --> 0:03:18.640 I need something to do in the pool. 0:03:18.840 --> 0:03:23.120 I guess the pool when I'll swim a little out wide. 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:26.040 I just I need to gamify the pool experience that 0:03:26.080 --> 0:03:27.760 I say, water polo, two. 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:30.160 Young boys footballs and stuff. 0:03:30.240 --> 0:03:32.120 Yeah right, they have throw I gotta throw football. I 0:03:32.160 --> 0:03:33.560 gotta gamify the pool experience. 0:03:34.200 --> 0:03:34.600 Uh. 0:03:34.639 --> 0:03:36.160 For those of you who listened to last week's show, 0:03:36.200 --> 0:03:38.560 you know that what we're what we're doing here is 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:44.600 breaking down breaking A lot of people were plus fifteen seconds, Ye, 0:03:44.600 --> 0:03:46.840 plus fifteen seconds. When is this thing going to get interesting? 0:03:46.880 --> 0:03:47.960 Plus fifteen seconds? 0:03:48.240 --> 0:03:48.360 Uh. 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:52.520 We're breaking down all the teams in each of the conferences. 0:03:52.800 --> 0:03:56.120 Last week we did the NFC and AFC East. This 0:03:56.200 --> 0:03:59.360 week we're doing the South. We're heading south. We're heading south, 0:03:59.400 --> 0:04:02.920 the AFC South, the NFC South. We're highlighting the off 0:04:02.920 --> 0:04:06.120 season moves. The rosters have stabilized, now, yeah, pretty much. 0:04:06.160 --> 0:04:08.000 You know they were like ninety nine percent. You know 0:04:08.000 --> 0:04:10.200 these are the rosters these teams are gonna have. So 0:04:10.360 --> 0:04:13.760 we look at what the roster looks like, highlight the 0:04:13.840 --> 0:04:15.600 key differences from last year, and just. 0:04:15.520 --> 0:04:17.279 Give some overall thoughts on each of the teams. Ye, 0:04:17.480 --> 0:04:21.279 at least the fantasy football you know, relevant relevant to one. Yes, 0:04:21.440 --> 0:04:23.200 to have stabilized. I like that you took all the 0:04:23.240 --> 0:04:27.560 good teams too, did I? I was joking I have 0:04:27.680 --> 0:04:30.360 Carolina on my I feel like I don't mean good, 0:04:30.400 --> 0:04:31.479 I mean fun teams, but. 0:04:31.680 --> 0:04:34.279 Teams I may have may not. I did pick my 0:04:34.520 --> 0:04:36.840 now Houston. I went on a way again because I'm 0:04:36.839 --> 0:04:39.200 a big Texans. Guys, this is my team. I think 0:04:39.240 --> 0:04:40.960 they're going to win the Super Bowl or at least 0:04:41.000 --> 0:04:41.800 go to the Super Bowl. 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:42.320 I like it. 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.599 So I did purposely give myself the Texans. The others 0:04:45.600 --> 0:04:48.320 are mostly just start throws. Okay, all right, let's start 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:50.600 with Tennessee. I'll let you go first. Let's let's a 0:04:50.640 --> 0:04:52.839 lot of changes for Tennessee. 0:04:53.120 --> 0:04:58.440 Yes, yes, coaching changes, ground and running game. Derrick Henry gone, 0:04:58.480 --> 0:05:02.400 Mike Vrabel gone. They bring in Brian Callahan, who uh 0:05:02.839 --> 0:05:06.599 was OC of the Bengals for five years, but similar 0:05:06.640 --> 0:05:10.560 to Kevin O'Connell with the Rams, he didn't call the play. 0:05:10.680 --> 0:05:13.160 Zach Taylor called the plays for the Bengals, so we'll 0:05:13.279 --> 0:05:15.760 we'll see what happens there. Brought in his old high 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:18.600 school friend Nick Colts from the Jags. They went to 0:05:18.680 --> 0:05:21.360 high school together. Nick Colets actually remember that was like 0:05:21.400 --> 0:05:25.719 a coordinator for Brian Callahan's dad Nebraska and stuff, so 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:29.200 long history there. But he was the pass game coordinator 0:05:29.240 --> 0:05:31.800 for the Jags. They were ninth in passing. The Jags 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:35.360 were last year, so I expect a whole lot more 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:42.320 passon if you're bringing those two Rabel and Derrick Hedrick. Uh, 0:05:42.320 --> 0:05:46.479 basically we're gonna have uh Will Levis. They're they're gonna 0:05:46.520 --> 0:05:51.080 have to try to groom him, try to develop him. 0:05:51.120 --> 0:05:53.840 This I'm telling I'm telling you they made a mistake. 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.080 But he threw four touchdowns in that first game. 0:05:56.120 --> 0:06:00.440 They drafted JJ McCarthy. Yeah, I yet had that four 0:06:00.480 --> 0:06:03.040 touchdown game that first game, four touchdowns. You know where 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:04.880 I'm going with this. Yes, the rest of the year 0:06:05.600 --> 0:06:10.159 four touchdowns. Wow, that's Will Levis was awful. He had 0:06:10.200 --> 0:06:13.799 the lowest completion rate of any starter last year. He's 0:06:13.920 --> 0:06:18.080 I'm I don't understand why teams croll out these guys. 0:06:18.240 --> 0:06:19.920 You know, I realized he was a high second round 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:22.080 pick last year, right, right, and so you've got some 0:06:22.160 --> 0:06:24.919 equity built into it. But can't you look at the 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:28.440 tape and just go, look, we can't count on Will Levis. 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:29.120 Let's make it. 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:31.640 Let's go get another guy and find out what happens. 0:06:31.680 --> 0:06:34.240 Yeah, I don't. I don't get keep drafting until you 0:06:34.320 --> 0:06:37.400 hit it. That's Malik Willis two years ago. Draft Levis 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:40.160 the next year. He didn't seem like it just keep 0:06:40.279 --> 0:06:44.360 drafting quarterbacks. Yes, they brought in Mason Rudolph to sit 0:06:44.440 --> 0:06:48.320 behind him. I don't know. It's not a good quarterback 0:06:48.320 --> 0:06:50.360 in situation, but they're doing all they can on the 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:52.920 with the other weapons to try to give him some help. 0:06:52.960 --> 0:06:55.680 They brought in Tony Pollard. They have Taja Spears. 0:06:55.880 --> 0:06:56.080 Yeh. 0:06:56.240 --> 0:06:59.840 Both just incredible pass catchers. They combined for well over 0:07:00.000 --> 0:07:03.360 one hundred catches last year on separate teams. Obviously, yes, 0:07:03.880 --> 0:07:07.400 but Spears was actually a little more efficient than Tony Pollard. 0:07:07.440 --> 0:07:09.880 If you watched Tony Pollard last year, that would surprise 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.840 you at all. But they're both very versatile, and they 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.280 can take those dump offs from Will Levis maybe add 0:07:15.480 --> 0:07:19.960 up that completion percentage. They have DeAndre Hopkins. They paid 0:07:20.080 --> 0:07:23.120 Calvin Ridley to come in too much. I thought, really, 0:07:23.440 --> 0:07:27.360 you don't think that. You don't think he should be 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:33.120 the tenth highest rate with the third most guaranteed. 0:07:33.240 --> 0:07:35.080 Buddy, I knew it was bad. 0:07:35.120 --> 0:07:37.880 I know it is that bad for forty seven million 0:07:37.880 --> 0:07:39.640 guaranteed for a man. 0:07:39.720 --> 0:07:40.720 God bless his agent. 0:07:41.040 --> 0:07:43.440 Yeah, yeah, yeah, And they brought in Tyler Boyd, which 0:07:43.440 --> 0:07:47.480 I think is also another good signing there. So yeah, 0:07:47.640 --> 0:07:50.320 I add those. Now Treylon Burks doesn't have to start, 0:07:50.520 --> 0:07:54.520 but yeah, he's you know, as a fourth option, he's okay. 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:59.240 They got Chicka Kwank Konker still, I see. I like 0:07:59.320 --> 0:08:03.160 Chicka Kwank, but he does he does things that aren't 0:08:03.240 --> 0:08:05.480 great on the football field at times, but sometimes he 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:07.520 can really hit that scene and look really good. So 0:08:08.080 --> 0:08:11.000 maybe he's just got to grow. I don't think he's 0:08:11.040 --> 0:08:14.400 a huge fantasy asset, probably a deeper guy. But they 0:08:14.480 --> 0:08:17.240 got weapons around Levis. But as you know with fantasy, 0:08:17.280 --> 0:08:19.720 a lot of times it depends on your quarterback. And 0:08:19.760 --> 0:08:22.400 he's how much can he support? Can he support all 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:24.720 those weapons or does it just help the past game 0:08:24.760 --> 0:08:25.160 a little? 0:08:26.680 --> 0:08:28.880 Look, We'll Levis has the opportunity to get better. Of 0:08:28.920 --> 0:08:33.120 course in year two. I just didn't see the traits 0:08:33.160 --> 0:08:35.000 that I wanted to in year one to make me 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:36.760 feel confident about it. So I don't want to make 0:08:36.800 --> 0:08:39.319 it sound like I'm writing it writing off his career. 0:08:39.720 --> 0:08:41.880 I'm just not very optimistic. 0:08:42.080 --> 0:08:44.880 Yeah, yeah, it could be. It could be, And we 0:08:44.920 --> 0:08:48.840 don't know how well Brian Callahan and Nickolets can develop 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:52.920 a quarterback. Yeah, we don't really know the level they've been. 0:08:53.400 --> 0:08:57.200 You know Brian with Burrow or you know Nicholets last 0:08:57.240 --> 0:08:59.840 year with Lawrence, etcetera. We really don't know. We'll see. 0:09:00.280 --> 0:09:02.800 So I asked this for each for each of the teams. 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:06.200 Does the passing game for the Texans Titans get better 0:09:06.320 --> 0:09:07.440 or worse this year? 0:09:07.880 --> 0:09:09.800 I think it has to get better just based on 0:09:10.280 --> 0:09:14.000 who they have and more volume if that makes sense. 0:09:13.920 --> 0:09:15.880 Like great, I don't. Yeah, you know, when you're not 0:09:15.880 --> 0:09:17.720 the most run heavy team in the league. Yeah, it'll 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:21.080 it'll probably help. And then running game, yeah, better or worse. 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:26.120 It's probably worse. But fantasy wise, there's gonna be a 0:09:26.160 --> 0:09:29.680 lot of pass catching that'll help, So that that'll help. 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:32.080 I think it's going to be fantasy points. It might 0:09:32.120 --> 0:09:34.400 be similar, but it might be split between two people 0:09:34.480 --> 0:09:37.520 and it might come from pass catching instead of Derrick 0:09:37.600 --> 0:09:39.640 Henry for one hundred and fifty yards and three scores. 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.800 At this time last year, Tony Pollard was beginning of 0:09:43.840 --> 0:09:49.640 the second round selection. Yeah, now in Tennessee, which runner 0:09:49.679 --> 0:09:53.120 would you draft first? Taj Spears Tony Pollard? 0:09:54.240 --> 0:09:56.800 Oh first. It is tough because I feel like they're 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.360 really going to give it give, really going to give 0:09:59.360 --> 0:10:01.800 Pollard as much is he can. They really really want 0:10:01.840 --> 0:10:04.280 to get him involved, but I like, this is your 0:10:04.320 --> 0:10:06.680 classic who do you want it? Their ADP at the 0:10:06.679 --> 0:10:09.960 States the question where all of us they're gonna say, 0:10:09.960 --> 0:10:14.640 Taj Spears if he's the lower guy, but you're posing hey. 0:10:14.880 --> 0:10:18.040 At the same price, at the same price, they're both available, 0:10:18.080 --> 0:10:20.960 and you've decided you're drafting a Tennessee running back. 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:23.040 Here here's the thing. I think I'm going Spears, And 0:10:23.080 --> 0:10:25.520 here's why. Not only is he more efficient, and I 0:10:25.559 --> 0:10:28.240 think he's got more juice. We saw him in training 0:10:28.240 --> 0:10:31.240 camp against the Vikings, and we saw him last year 0:10:32.080 --> 0:10:35.280 enough to see that he's he's got some some speed 0:10:35.320 --> 0:10:39.959 to him. He's got that. I'm I'm losing track of 0:10:40.000 --> 0:10:43.440 the word here, but I think I'd rather have him 0:10:43.480 --> 0:10:46.480 because where I'm going to be drafting these guys is 0:10:46.520 --> 0:10:49.959 probably my RB three or four and that point I 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:52.360 got my one and two. I want the upside guy. 0:10:52.600 --> 0:10:54.679 Yeah, Spears feels like the upside guy. 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:55.160 Yeah. 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:58.280 I think his you know, just the skill set. He's 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:03.960 got some electric moves. Yes, honey, Pollard, I no one 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.679 play should affect me as much as this one play 0:11:06.720 --> 0:11:10.800 from Tony Pollard last year. Cowways have the ball at 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:14.160 the two or three yard line of their opponent. They 0:11:14.160 --> 0:11:19.280 hand the ball off to Tony Pollard. He's going off 0:11:19.520 --> 0:11:25.240 left tackle and he's got the entire way from the 0:11:25.320 --> 0:11:29.200 left tackle to the to the cone, no defenders. And 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:31.640 at the point of the handoff, I'm saying, I'm thinking 0:11:31.640 --> 0:11:36.560 to myself, obvious touchdown. And he erased that touchdown. He took, 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:40.440 he went, he he he didn't go far enough outside. 0:11:40.520 --> 0:11:43.880 He ran into a defender. And I'm like, ninety nine 0:11:43.920 --> 0:11:45.880 times out of one hundred, the running back get paid 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:48.320 gets paid on that play, and he managed to erase 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:50.080 a touchdown. I can't get. 0:11:50.120 --> 0:11:52.920 Weird how he was the opposite guy I know two 0:11:53.040 --> 0:11:54.199 years before. I know. 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:55.800 It's such a fickle game. 0:11:56.080 --> 0:11:56.320 I know. 0:11:56.760 --> 0:11:59.760 Yeah, let's go to the Houston Texans. I love the Texans, 0:12:00.160 --> 0:12:03.080 all right. So the passing game gets a big change 0:12:03.080 --> 0:12:08.319 with perpetual ingrade Stefan Diggs arriving in Houston. He expands 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:11.240 the receiver room in a way that might not be 0:12:11.720 --> 0:12:15.280 as fantasy friendly as we would like because Nico Collins 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:19.319 are there, Tank Dell is there, Dalton Schultz comes back, 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:22.240 you know, as we all know, and this worries me 0:12:22.280 --> 0:12:25.080 a little bit. If Diggs he ain't getting the ball enough, 0:12:25.840 --> 0:12:30.440 everybody has to suffer, right, If Diggs ain't happy, nobody's happy. 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.480 It's not that a player of Diggs's level came into 0:12:33.480 --> 0:12:36.440 the situation. It's Diggs coming into this situation. 0:12:37.320 --> 0:12:39.600 All the personality and the baggage and everything. 0:12:39.679 --> 0:12:40.280 Yeah, we've seen. 0:12:41.200 --> 0:12:46.679 Now Collins and Diggs both have ADPs inside the top thirty. 0:12:46.800 --> 0:12:50.360 They're separated by just five picks. So I'll ask you 0:12:50.480 --> 0:12:53.640 similar question. Would you rather have Collins or would you 0:12:53.720 --> 0:12:54.840 rather of Digs Collins? 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:57.760 That's not even I don't even think that's close to me. 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:00.120 I think Collins is the star in the making. But 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:01.640 we've we've been on the Collins train for. 0:13:01.640 --> 0:13:03.640 Years, you and I have. But when we looked like 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:07.400 morons two years ago, we kept talking about Colins. So Collins, 0:13:07.480 --> 0:13:09.880 here's the separator. I'm gonna give you some data on 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:14.600 Collins and Diggs. Collins on deep balls passes of twenty 0:13:14.720 --> 0:13:19.040 or more yards last year, Get this, he caught eleven 0:13:19.200 --> 0:13:22.280 of twelve passes on deep balls. 0:13:22.800 --> 0:13:24.319 It doesn't even feel surprising, But. 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:25.040 Isn't that amazing? 0:13:25.320 --> 0:13:25.960 Still amazing? 0:13:26.160 --> 0:13:29.880 Now, let's go to Diggs. Diggs got thrown to sixteen 0:13:30.080 --> 0:13:33.800 times on deep passes from Josh Allen last year. You 0:13:34.080 --> 0:13:36.280 want to guess how many catches he had on those 0:13:36.320 --> 0:13:37.040 deep balls. 0:13:37.120 --> 0:13:39.760 I'm gonna it feels like it's bad, just the way 0:13:39.760 --> 0:13:42.480 your team. I'm gonna go with seven. 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:47.200 Four, three interceptions and no touchdown. 0:13:47.320 --> 0:13:49.160 That's like twenty five percent of my math. 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:52.960 That is correct, well done. Here's at the end of 0:13:52.960 --> 0:13:56.760 the day. I want my receivers to get downfield passes right, 0:13:56.800 --> 0:14:00.480 I want big plays. I want that, and Nico Collins 0:14:00.480 --> 0:14:03.719 can deliver it. Stefan Diggs doesn't do that. 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:07.920 Can you Can you make the argument that because Nico Ken, 0:14:07.920 --> 0:14:11.079 and because we know Dell Ken as well, that Digg 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:14.559 zill run really free in the middle. Maybe in short 0:14:15.040 --> 0:14:17.440 but again, we've talked about this all the way back 0:14:17.440 --> 0:14:19.440 to the days of Juju Smith Schuster with that you 0:14:19.480 --> 0:14:22.120 need volume in touchdowns. You do and if you don't 0:14:22.160 --> 0:14:23.520 do it though it's not fantasy. 0:14:24.760 --> 0:14:27.520 You mentioned Tank Dell. He returns from last year's broken 0:14:27.600 --> 0:14:32.840 leg and last month's nightclub shooting. 'tis but a scratch. 0:14:32.880 --> 0:14:37.240 I understand she's a flesh wound, but still wow, not 0:14:37.400 --> 0:14:41.600 great sign he is he is participating in limited fashion 0:14:41.760 --> 0:14:46.120 in in off season workouts. Other receivers on the team 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:48.400 like Robert Woods and Noah Brown and John Matchi are 0:14:48.440 --> 0:14:50.920 basically plaster to the bench here. I mentioned Dalton Schultz 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:52.600 signed a new three year deal in the off season. 0:14:53.000 --> 0:14:57.000 He was a highly inconsistent producer last year, and I 0:14:57.040 --> 0:14:59.920 think that continues here and bring in Diggs doesn't add more. 0:15:00.480 --> 0:15:03.120 I think to Dalton Schultz repertoire here, so I think 0:15:03.360 --> 0:15:05.600 he's a spot starter. And then of course c J. 0:15:05.680 --> 0:15:08.320 Stroud coming off very likely the best rookie season of 0:15:08.320 --> 0:15:12.160 any quarterback in NFL history, numerous record set started his 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:14.920 career with one hundred and ninety one passes without an 0:15:14.960 --> 0:15:17.160 interception I remember, which is staggering. 0:15:17.440 --> 0:15:18.280 That's incredible. 0:15:18.400 --> 0:15:22.359 He posted finished the season posting a touchdown to interception 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:26.920 ratio of twenty three to five. His average distance of 0:15:27.000 --> 0:15:29.920 throw was eight and a half yards, the longest of 0:15:29.920 --> 0:15:32.800 any rookie since they started tracking the stat and his 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:36.520 deep passing was fantastic, completing fifty nine percent of his 0:15:36.600 --> 0:15:39.480 deep balls that was second best in the entire league, 0:15:39.480 --> 0:15:41.760 not him on rookies the whole league. He had the 0:15:41.800 --> 0:15:47.560 second best deep pass completion percentage eight touchdowns on deep passes, 0:15:47.760 --> 0:15:50.280 no interceptions. Unbelievable. 0:15:50.400 --> 0:15:55.680 It is CJ Stroud, Yes on CJ Stroud, just how 0:15:55.720 --> 0:15:59.120 well he understands and knows the game. Have you watched 0:15:59.200 --> 0:16:02.320 any of the clips of him and Michael Parsons going 0:16:02.360 --> 0:16:07.160 through plays talking about the game. That guy tends Apparently 0:16:07.720 --> 0:16:10.480 c J. Stowd talks about the game like on a 0:16:10.480 --> 0:16:14.440 Peyton Manning level. It's unbelievable how well he understands the 0:16:14.960 --> 0:16:16.880 They would go back and forth. Mike could be like, 0:16:17.080 --> 0:16:18.960 well if you did that, I'm gonna do this, and 0:16:19.000 --> 0:16:21.200 CJ's well, then I would do this, and I'm like, wow, 0:16:21.440 --> 0:16:24.680 this is and there. It's just incredible to watch how 0:16:24.760 --> 0:16:31.520 smart these two are with the offensive defense. And they're 0:16:31.560 --> 0:16:32.560 still good too. 0:16:32.720 --> 0:16:34.920 You know, it's still it's a physical game, but it's 0:16:34.920 --> 0:16:37.760 also a cerebral game. Yeah, and depending on your position 0:16:37.880 --> 0:16:41.400 especially so. Does the passing game get better for the 0:16:41.400 --> 0:16:42.720 Texans this year? And I think it does. 0:16:42.800 --> 0:16:43.400 I think c J. 0:16:43.480 --> 0:16:46.200 Stroud matures to another level. He only had he had 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:48.880 twenty three touchdowns last year, that number he could have 0:16:49.520 --> 0:16:51.360 thirty three. I mean he could easily be for good 0:16:51.400 --> 0:16:53.640 for ten more touchdowns this year and then you get 0:16:53.680 --> 0:16:55.800 Tank del back on the full season. You know, I 0:16:55.840 --> 0:16:58.680 just think this and add ad Indgs, so it gets better. 0:16:58.920 --> 0:17:02.480 Let's go to the Houston running game. The Texans inexplicably 0:17:02.640 --> 0:17:07.280 swapped the lightly used Devin singletary for the aged Joe Mixon, 0:17:07.800 --> 0:17:12.760 who's going to start the season with eighteen hundred career touches. 0:17:12.920 --> 0:17:13.360 That's a lot. 0:17:13.480 --> 0:17:16.840 It's a lot of work. He has not topped four 0:17:16.920 --> 0:17:20.359 point one yards per carry Joe Mixon in five years, 0:17:20.560 --> 0:17:22.960 and four point one per carry is not a lot. 0:17:22.920 --> 0:17:26.439 And a lot of people will not a lot of people, 0:17:26.600 --> 0:17:28.520 one person at least, but I know other people have 0:17:28.600 --> 0:17:32.000 mentioned it. Zach Taylor ran him up the middle into 0:17:32.119 --> 0:17:37.240 defenders so much that I wonder if that hurts, like 0:17:37.520 --> 0:17:41.680 his yards per carrying things like that. But also that's 0:17:41.760 --> 0:17:45.920 really painful touches. Those are touches that are really wear 0:17:46.000 --> 0:17:46.280 you down. 0:17:47.160 --> 0:17:50.239 So last year Mixon dropped or drooped, depending on how 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:52.640 you want to look at it, down to running back 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:56.680 thirty five by Pro Football Focus. His elusiveness dropped to 0:17:56.760 --> 0:18:01.440 running back fifty, and his yards after contract contact to 0:18:01.520 --> 0:18:05.480 drop to fifty one. You know, everything on mixing looks 0:18:05.600 --> 0:18:05.960 like a. 0:18:05.960 --> 0:18:07.960 Guy into for me who is washed. 0:18:08.240 --> 0:18:12.000 Yeah, and so let's go to the backup. Well, okay, 0:18:13.280 --> 0:18:16.840 I can't be trusted to talk about Damian Piers. So 0:18:17.200 --> 0:18:19.240 I'm gonna let you take it away from here. Are 0:18:19.240 --> 0:18:22.800 you are? Damian Pierce returns as the backup. I you 0:18:22.840 --> 0:18:26.000 know I've ruined all my credibility and matters around Damian Peers. 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:26.760 I don't think you have. 0:18:27.040 --> 0:18:28.639 But I think, what do you think? 0:18:29.000 --> 0:18:32.040 I think one thing we did see at the end 0:18:32.480 --> 0:18:34.280 not last year, but the end of the year before 0:18:34.520 --> 0:18:37.560 and might have should have been a foreshadow to the 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:39.560 to the following year. Although he was hurt a lot, 0:18:40.320 --> 0:18:43.720 he consistently runs into people instead of trying to run 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:47.560 around people, which caused that injury. But also, you know, 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:50.400 if they tackle him and he isn't breaking those tackles, 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:52.600 his numbers go way down. And I think we saw 0:18:52.640 --> 0:18:54.280 a lot of that last year as well. We should 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:56.520 have seen it at the end of the previous year too. 0:18:57.480 --> 0:18:58.840 They got to coach that out of it. 0:18:59.040 --> 0:19:02.560 Yeah, it feels CoA it does. It feels it feels coachable. 0:19:02.560 --> 0:19:05.360 Maybe he just he's used to you know in previous 0:19:05.560 --> 0:19:07.960 you know, high school, college. It's being able to just 0:19:08.040 --> 0:19:10.560 run through people and he was able to right away 0:19:10.560 --> 0:19:13.800 in his career. But yeah, that's my problem with Pierce 0:19:13.880 --> 0:19:17.560 is he needs he needs to fix that. 0:19:17.920 --> 0:19:20.560 I'll note this, Pierce finished with Pro Football Focus is 0:19:20.720 --> 0:19:24.720 second best pass blocking grade among all on the field, 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:27.320 So that'll help. Right now, if you don't like Pierce, 0:19:27.440 --> 0:19:30.920 if you're with me, that mix's washed. And you don't 0:19:30.960 --> 0:19:33.960 like Pierce, your only other option is Jawar Johnson, a 0:19:34.000 --> 0:19:36.720 twenty five year old Louisville long shot, likely too small 0:19:36.760 --> 0:19:38.880 to me in every down back, but maybe he gets 0:19:38.880 --> 0:19:40.280 into the rotation if he shines. 0:19:40.480 --> 0:19:43.119 I I wouldn't be shocked if this this year is 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:45.959 a similar split to last year's was with Singletary, but 0:19:46.040 --> 0:19:48.679 Pierce maybe takes more of the load later in the season. 0:19:48.880 --> 0:19:51.840 Maybe, I mean, you know, maybe Mixon is just so 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:54.359 cooked they have to go to Pierce more. But I 0:19:54.680 --> 0:19:56.840 you know, right now, I'm just as much as much 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:59.040 as I'm trying to get every part of the Texans offense, 0:19:59.119 --> 0:20:00.120 I don't think I'm gonna. 0:20:00.359 --> 0:20:03.439 It Also would shock me if if Mixon has an 0:20:03.480 --> 0:20:06.480 Alexander Madison from last year type of year where he just. 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:10.239 Told the spot and he's not good, that could very 0:20:10.280 --> 0:20:13.159 well be the pay in the case right now, Mixon 0:20:13.280 --> 0:20:16.600 going off the board at running back fifteen pick. 0:20:16.440 --> 0:20:21.040 Fifty feels high. Feels I think that is classic. You 0:20:21.119 --> 0:20:23.560