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Speaker 1: your host, Paul Chargian. It's a Thursday edition of Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly Micro Edition. I am Paul Charchi, and my
Speaker 1: co host today is Guillotine League's dot com writer Tyler Cannabily.
Speaker 1: All right, we've done Christian Watson, we did Damian Pierce.
Speaker 1: We did Miles Sanders yesterday, right, Miles Sanders, Yes? Who
Speaker 1: do we have lined up today?
Speaker 2: We got White of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the new
Speaker 2: and improved.
Speaker 1: So I don't think so either. The Bucks could be
Speaker 1: a five win operation this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they want Drake May, they want Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1: I don't blame him. I wouldn't do Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: you know they if if it would not make it
Speaker 1: wouldn't It wouldn't be the worst idea to tank.
Speaker 2: It's not even they don't they even have like a
Speaker 2: terrible roster either. It's just for some reason, like they
Speaker 2: got a lot of big name guys that you know,
Speaker 2: like they like, look at Carolina, they don't have anyone
Speaker 2: that you know really right on Tampa Bay. They got
Speaker 2: Mike Evans, Godwin. Yeah, worfs on the old line, so
Speaker 2: they got some pieces where I think a good quarterback
Speaker 2: could go there and do okay. But we're not talking
Speaker 2: about We're not talking about KAYB Williams and how he's
Speaker 2: gonna transform the Buccaneers franchise around. We're talking about Rashad White,
Speaker 2: who Finis says the RB thirty four. Last year he
Speaker 2: was the RB forty six in an average points per
Speaker 2: game and he's currently going as the RB twenty five five.
Speaker 1: People are people they step up, Yeah, expecting the expecting
Speaker 1: him to hold the role as the go to back
Speaker 1: for Tampa. If they're taking him at RB twenty.
Speaker 2: Five, Yeah, you obviously hope that he has a better
Speaker 2: role than he did last year, at least because he
Speaker 2: started off the season behind Fournette, didn't get much playing time.
Speaker 2: But then kind of Week ten onwards is I remember
Speaker 2: the first game where he kind of broke out was
Speaker 2: that game in London against the Seahawks. I think he
Speaker 2: had he had like ten carries for one hundred yards,
Speaker 2: not ten carries, like twenty carries for one hundred yard.
Speaker 2: But he any of that monster stiff arm I remember,
Speaker 2: So that was a big thing.
Speaker 1: That was awesome.
Speaker 2: Got another two times shout out Kyle Brand Angry run edition.
Speaker 2: But so he had That's kind of where he kind
Speaker 2: of started to take some of the work away from Fournette.
Speaker 2: Because from week ten to seventeen, White had eighty seven carries,
Speaker 2: thirty three targets, thirty catches, and then Leonard Fournette had
Speaker 2: sixty eight carries, thirty three targets, thirty catches.
Speaker 1: Yeah, so White started to, you know, Fournette, I think,
Speaker 1: wore down. To me, it looked like this was less
Speaker 1: about White earning the extra carries and more than Fournette
Speaker 1: was just freaking cooked. And I know Fournette was playing
Speaker 1: a little hobble too. And now he's total, he's a
Speaker 1: totally he's a free agent right now, still not on
Speaker 1: a roster Fournette. So you know, most people, I think
Speaker 1: would look at that and say, yeah, it does look
Speaker 1: like Fournette's done, and he probably is. So to me,
Speaker 1: White did not dazzle me with his play. But we
Speaker 1: care about opportunity, and right now, there's a lot of
Speaker 1: opportunity in in Tampa Bay, even with Baker Mayfield.
Speaker 2: A lot of opportunities. He only he should have a
Speaker 2: lot more opportunity this year is I think that's what
Speaker 2: everyone's hoping on. He only had three touchdowns last year,
Speaker 2: and two of those were receiving, so only one rushing touchdown,
Speaker 2: which is that number has to go up. It might
Speaker 2: even be two, but it's gonna go up.
Speaker 1: It's gonna go up for.
Speaker 2: Yes, and Tampa Bay was also last in rushing attempts
Speaker 2: per game. That you would hope that number goes up.
Speaker 2: We talked about the bad teams running the ball in
Speaker 2: the last episodes.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yep, and Baker Mayfield's not slinging the ball forty.
Speaker 2: Times exactly exactly. And then at the moment there's no
Speaker 2: competition the running back room. I'm not scared of Keishawan
Speaker 2: vaugh In the run in Tampa.
Speaker 1: So this is a team that could go running back
Speaker 1: over Shure.
Speaker 2: I also think I saw something they had like the
Speaker 2: third or fourth most running back visits to the team.
Speaker 1: Oh interesting, yeah, season visits?
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, so maybe I mean we can't visits don't really.
Speaker 2: I think visits are overplayed a lot, a little bit
Speaker 2: too much nowadays, but it is worth I think they
Speaker 2: are probably a good candidate draft running back. So but
Speaker 2: I think as long as it's not Vijon Junior Gibbs
Speaker 2: or Charbonnet or even I put Dobyn Cook on there too,
Speaker 2: just because we don't know, but it seems like you know,
Speaker 2: but we don't know, as that's the rest of us.
Speaker 2: But as long as it's not one of those four,
Speaker 2: I'm not too worried about who they bring in because
Speaker 2: I'd really like Rashad White the player. If there is
Speaker 2: a highlight tape on YouTube, Rashad White at Arizona State
Speaker 2: is the best highlight tape I've seen in my life.
Speaker 2: Now I know it's highlights, but it's it just has
Speaker 2: me in so in on rashadway because his ability to
Speaker 2: make guys miss. He has a great size, profile, great speed,
Speaker 2: he has power, He seems like he has it all.
Speaker 2: He just needs to get the ball in space and
Speaker 2: be used kind of in that like Tony Pollard type
Speaker 2: of way where he's getting the high leverage touches, the
Speaker 2: valuable touches that we talk so much about as a
Speaker 2: fantasy community. And I really like the player, and I
Speaker 2: think if we can kind of see him in that
Speaker 2: sort of role, that's where he's going to be at
Speaker 2: his best.
Speaker 1: The Buccaneers offensive line will be better this year.
Speaker 2: Yes, that's another thing healthier.
Speaker 1: They hopefully will draft into their offensive line as well,
Speaker 1: get some improvement there, so that's could help as well.
Speaker 1: We just hope that there's enough balance from the passing game.
Speaker 1: And you know, currently Baker Mayfield, I know, they're absolutely
Speaker 1: a candidate to draft Will Levis later in this you know,
Speaker 1: somebody you know, perhaps Hendon Hooker or somebody else at
Speaker 1: this point, but presumed Baker as the starter, and even
Speaker 1: if it is one of those rookies, it still feels
Speaker 1: like an offense that could really be helped by running often.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you you touched on earlier. Baker's not throwing the time,
Speaker 2: throwing the ball forty times a game. I mean, he
Speaker 2: was a game manager in Cleveland. That was when he's
Speaker 2: at his best when they have a good running game
Speaker 2: with Nick jobb For sure, Cam Bakers really came out
Speaker 2: at the end of last year when Baker was the quarterback,
Speaker 2: So that's kind of maybe some correlation there. And then
Speaker 2: also I don't want to say his name, Dan Kney
Speaker 2: maybe as he's he's the new OC in Tampa Bay.
Speaker 2: He's been in Seattle since twenty ten with Pete Carroll,
Speaker 2: so he definitely comes from that heavy.
Speaker 1: Running breaks Sean Lynch years.
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, we've always seen these Seattle running backs, whether
Speaker 2: it's Lynch, even Chris Carson, or or even last year
Speaker 2: with Kenneth Walker. It seems like there's a Seattle running
Speaker 2: back or even Rashad Penny too. We always see it with
Speaker 2: these Seattle running backs. They've been good. I feel like
Speaker 2: every there's been at least one top twenty four. The
Speaker 2: fil't committee.
Speaker 1: You know, Pete Carroll's running backs, he gets his guy
Speaker 1: and that guy's twenty carries and you know, they don't
Speaker 1: dork around with committees. Yeah, and that would be great
Speaker 1: for Rashad White as well if that happens here.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that would be If Rashad White goes in the
Speaker 2: opening day as the clear RB one, I would be
Speaker 2: way comfortable drafting him way above this. But I think
Speaker 2: the assumption is that there's gonna be somebody else that
Speaker 2: comes in here. We just kind of don't know his
Speaker 2: role yet. But if he is, I've always been saying
Speaker 2: I've been very heavy on skeptical of the opportunity, like
Speaker 2: if somebody else get to come in, But yeah, if
Speaker 2: he's the guy there.
Speaker 1: I love Rashod White this year, right, I think they're
Speaker 1: gonna draft a running back. I know that we don't
Speaker 1: know that for sure. Let's talk about the players going
Speaker 1: around Rashad White right now.
Speaker 2: All right, First one, we have cam Akers that RB
Speaker 2: twenty four, great end of the season last year in
Speaker 2: Los Angeles.
Speaker 1: Yes, I think I would lean cam Akers because I
Speaker 1: trust Sean McVay and his offense more than I trust
Speaker 1: Dave Canalees.
Speaker 2: Fair, very fair, fine, I can to arget that on that.
Speaker 2: Tyler L's year RB twenty six.
Speaker 1: See, I'm pretty high on L's year. I know there's
Speaker 1: a lot of Elsier skepticism out there and people think
Speaker 1: he's being overdrafted. But Falcons have a good offensive line
Speaker 1: and a run for his philosophy, and so I'm interested
Speaker 1: in their lead back. And yeah, they give the ball
Speaker 1: to many other guys, but I'm still buying and I
Speaker 1: liked I thought all was year got better as the
Speaker 1: season one on.
Speaker 2: Falcons are also odds on favorite to draft Bijeon this
Speaker 2: year too, So that would change every that was will
Speaker 2: go twenty six to RB forty five?
Speaker 1: Fast, Yes, if that would put that would be the
Speaker 1: end of Tyler else year.
Speaker 2: All Right, your favorite guy, Joe Mixon RB twenty eight.
Speaker 1: Cooked not interested at all.
Speaker 2: Where do we think he's probably getting caught? I would
Speaker 2: assume maybe maybe not, Maybe he does. But if he does,
Speaker 2: where's he going to go?
Speaker 1: Joe Wickson?
Speaker 2: Yeah, well, I don't know.
Speaker 1: I mean, they're so many running backs, the glutt there's
Speaker 1: you know, there are so many running backs. We just
Speaker 1: mentioned Leonard Fournette available right now, and you've got this
Speaker 1: the deepest running back draft in my lifetime.
Speaker 2: Mm hm.
Speaker 1: I mean we're breaking down guys that are gonna be
Speaker 1: like the ninth and tenth running back off the board,
Speaker 1: Douce Vaughan, and they're like, Wow, this guy's really good.
Speaker 1: Get a huge impact somewhere.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So it's it's a terrible year to be an older,
Speaker 1: dying running back. And Cincinnati, I think is a is
Speaker 1: gonna I think Cincinnati is gonna go running back in
Speaker 1: the first two or three rounds and we're gonna see
Speaker 1: a you know, a Jamior Gibbs Land on that offense
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be sick. Yeah, that's what I think
Speaker 1: is gonna happen. And Joe Mixon's done.
Speaker 2: I agree with you. Whoever Cincinnati drafts, I think if
Speaker 2: it's for sure they draft are running back, they have
Speaker 2: to because this is their window now and they want
Speaker 2: offensive playmakers and that defense is good enough to worry
Speaker 2: about that. It maybe round one or round three, but
Speaker 2: running back in second round is.
Speaker 1: Very much in play. Yes, I think it is all right.
Speaker 2: Javonte Williams at RB twenty nine, I think a top
Speaker 2: two round guy last year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And given that we don't know the status of
Speaker 1: Javonte Williams ACL and the reports that he could be
Speaker 1: out till mid season, can't I can't take him and
Speaker 1: I can't count on it even at running back twenty nine.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna go Rashad?
Speaker 2: Why. Yeah, his ACL seems a little bit different than
Speaker 2: all the other ones because he tore like his ACL
Speaker 2: MCL and whatever CL Sure, I don't remember, but they
Speaker 2: said it was like a very very bad ACL in TV.
Speaker 2: So it could be, which is tragic because we saw
Speaker 2: that the rookie year. Jamaish Williams good electric.
Speaker 1: Yeah. What do you think in Dynasty for Rashad? Why
Speaker 1: is there is this a buy now opportunity? Are you?
Speaker 1: Are you holding. I feel like there's a lot of
Speaker 1: shifting sands here, and you know, who's their quarterback next year,
Speaker 1: who's their quarterback in Week eight? You know, I don't know,
Speaker 1: there's so many there's so many things that are changing
Speaker 1: in the Bucks that feel like a team that's ready
Speaker 1: to retool.
Speaker 2: Yeah, if you're like a put it on black all
Speaker 2: type of like Dynasty player, this could be like a
Speaker 2: move that absolutely smashes it. But if everything hits perfectly,
Speaker 2: if for Shod White's the guy and this offense gets
Speaker 2: good and you can get him for like a late
Speaker 2: mid second round pick, yeah, that's a great investment on
Speaker 2: your part. But if they bring in, if they draft
Speaker 2: a Jamior Gibbs or like a Charbonnet or somebody like that,
Speaker 2: and the offense isn't as good, then you're walking home
Speaker 2: from Vegas with nothing in your pockets? Have it?
Speaker 1: If you put it on black, aren't you actually risk averse?
Speaker 1: I mean that's a really really it's almost a fifty
Speaker 1: to fifty payout right, So unless the roulette wheel hits
Speaker 1: green or red, right, I mean you know that's you know,
Speaker 1: like if you put it all on seventeen, that's high risk.
Speaker 2: Rrect.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you put it all on black, isn't that
Speaker 1: a relatively low risk bet?
Speaker 2: I I would say so yes, But and I think
Speaker 2: that's kind of the situation we have right now. It
Speaker 2: is fifty to fifty. But like I said, there's it's
Speaker 2: both sides of the coin. It's either high risk, I reward.
Speaker 1: I knew a girl took a bunch of money to Vegas,
Speaker 1: and she her theory was, you bet black. You put
Speaker 1: you take your bankroll and you put like twenty percent
Speaker 1: of it on black. If it hits, you just made
Speaker 1: twenty percent. If anything else hits, you then double it.
Speaker 1: So then you're gonna turn your So now you're now
Speaker 1: you got forty percent that's out. So and you keep
Speaker 1: doubling it. You keep doubling it because you'll get your
Speaker 1: money back and then some right, So you just double
Speaker 1: double double until you until this thing, until it hits
Speaker 1: and you know one of the odds that it's gonna go,
Speaker 1: it's gonna go red red red green, red red, and
Speaker 1: then you know probably not gonna do that like eight times.
Speaker 1: So you keep doing your doubling technique and eventually you'll
Speaker 1: you'll blackle it and you'll double your money. Now, if
Speaker 1: it were that simple, everybody be doing it, so it
Speaker 1: must not work. But she claimed it worked for her.
Speaker 2: I would say the the roulette tables are very it's
Speaker 2: a very dangerous place. I went to North Carolina with
Speaker 2: a couple buddies. Three guys put two hundred dollars on red.
Speaker 2: Hit red, red, it hit black black.
Speaker 1: That's a short day.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they called their bossing, hey can pick up some
Speaker 2: more hours this week because it's good. I got bills
Speaker 2: of the pay and I just lost all my money
Speaker 2: playing roulette. I just read.
Speaker 1: I read a fascinating story about a guy who was
Speaker 1: able to find roulette wheels across the world that were
Speaker 1: just like slightly out of balance, and when he identified
Speaker 1: when he would identified these wheels, he would be able
Speaker 1: to turn what a game that is a pretty hefty
Speaker 1: house advantage into one that was a hefty advantage to
Speaker 1: his side by just by just having like a one
Speaker 1: percent degree of arc in the leveling of the roulette wheel.
Speaker 1: He could figure out based on based on the the
Speaker 1: way that is it a croupier or whatever that spins
Speaker 1: the ball. So he would never bet before the spin.
Speaker 1: He would always bet after the So you know, they
Speaker 1: spin for a while, the thing spins for a while,
Speaker 1: spins for a while. The ball does right, it spin, spin, spins,
Speaker 1: and while it's spinning, you can keep betting. So he
Speaker 1: would be watching it very very closely, and that on
Speaker 1: some spins he'd be throwing ten thousand dollars on the
Speaker 1: bet that says it's gonna the ball's gonna land on
Speaker 1: this third of the wheel. And he could hit it
Speaker 1: so often that he was he was hitting these casinos
Speaker 1: for a quarter million dollars a run, and nobody does that,
Speaker 1: and roulette, nobody. It's such a bad odds game. And
Speaker 1: so the the all these casinos start getting hit one
Speaker 1: after another, and pretty soon the guy's getting thrown out
Speaker 1: of all these casinos. He's got to show up in costume,
Speaker 1: and they eventually and they could never figure out how
Speaker 1: he did it. And the best theory they've been able
Speaker 1: to get is this one that the the alignment of
Speaker 1: the tables was just slightly off. They tried to they
Speaker 1: tried to arrest him, but he wasn't doing anything criminal.
Speaker 1: You know, the house was just inadvertently giving him an advantage.
Speaker 2: You are about to lose a lot of people a
Speaker 2: lot of money. They're gonna go to casinos. Now, why
Speaker 2: I'm watching a wheel get the level. So I think
Speaker 2: the best way to end this episode would be for gambling.
Speaker 2: Help call one hundred Tennessee.
Speaker 1: All right, thanks for listening everybody. Tomorrow is the full
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Speaker 1: Have a great weekend, everybody. Talk to you soon.
Speaker 2: Bye bye.