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Speaker 1: Everybody, it is a wild week of free agency trading,
Speaker 1: so many things to talk about. My co host today
Speaker 1: after a long layoff, Matt Harrison back, Hey buddy.
Speaker 3: Hey charch Last time we talked, it was right ahead
Speaker 3: of the Super Bowl, and now that we're talking again,
Speaker 3: it's the super Bowl of free agent movement and just
Speaker 3: a frenzy of action this week maybe maybe one of
Speaker 3: the busiest weeks in the NFL ever.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. There's a temptation to say it every
Speaker 1: every year, like, wow, there's so much, so many things happening. No,
Speaker 1: but this is, I swear this is different, way more big. Definitely, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it really does. We're gonna highlight twenty plus guys that
Speaker 1: have moved and we'll talk through all the new spots
Speaker 1: now because we're doing twenty this is not gonna be
Speaker 1: the deepest dive you're gonna get on every one of
Speaker 1: these guys. But Matt that my challenge to you with
Speaker 1: each guy is tell me if you think this person's
Speaker 1: situation represents an upgrade or a down grade from last year.
Speaker 3: All right, I can do that.
Speaker 1: I think we can do it. Let's start the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: We got five guys that I want to that I
Speaker 1: want to touch on that are all potential starters for
Speaker 1: this year, beginning with the big name, of course, Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins now in Atlanta obviously no Justin Jefferson, and I
Speaker 1: think on that basis alone, you could consider this a
Speaker 1: downgrade for Cousins. But it's not like he doesn't have
Speaker 1: to he doesn't have weapons. You get Drake London, Kyle Pitts,
Speaker 1: b John Robinson. Give me your thoughts on Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: and whether or not you feel this is an upgrade
Speaker 1: or downgrade versus last year.
Speaker 3: Well, I took a look at the way too early
Speaker 3: ADP's on Fantasy Pros right now, and Cousins was going
Speaker 3: number nineteen among quarterbacks. What wow, Okay, crazy.
Speaker 1: He hasn't finished that low in about six seven years.
Speaker 1: That's that's wild.
Speaker 3: Well. I so with this move, I think people are
Speaker 3: going to be all over this from a fantasy community aspect,
Speaker 3: because I think that everybody thinks that because it's Pits
Speaker 3: and London and Bijon Robinson, that because those guys were
Speaker 3: all top ten picks, automatically Cousins is in a better spot.
Speaker 3: So I think the fantasy community is gonna think he's
Speaker 3: in a better spot. I'm kind of with you. I
Speaker 3: think it's I think it's kind of a wash for
Speaker 3: a spot. But I expect him to rise in ADP
Speaker 3: to I think he's going to be about eleventh when
Speaker 3: it all is said and done in August. I think
Speaker 3: he'll leap the guys in front of him right now
Speaker 3: that I was like, he'll jump over all these guys.
Speaker 3: It was Rogers stat effort, golf to uh, Trevor Lawrence,
Speaker 3: Justin Fields and Kyler Murray. And I think he jumps
Speaker 3: all of those guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that's I think that's probably a fair
Speaker 1: assessment that ADP of nineteen had to be a lot
Speaker 1: of that's got to be pre draft. You know, we're
Speaker 1: pre trade, you know, baked in, but you didn't know
Speaker 1: where Kirk was going to end up, and you know,
Speaker 1: it could have been a much worse situation in Atlanta
Speaker 1: feels like an offense that's kind of ready to explode
Speaker 1: and take a next big step with with anything resembling
Speaker 1: competent quarterbacking because they haven't had it in so long,
Speaker 1: that's uh. And the weapons they've got, you know, London, Pitts,
Speaker 1: and Robinson are all top They were all drafted in
Speaker 1: the like lottery pick, first round.
Speaker 3: Right, top eight, all of them.
Speaker 1: Yeah, right, so you know, a great opportunity for Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins to walk in and do really no worse than
Speaker 1: he had been just no Jefferson. You know, he had
Speaker 1: Jefferson and Hockinson and Addison and those were some you know,
Speaker 1: great proven weapons. But it's easy to project London, Pitts
Speaker 1: and Robinson being roughly that good. All right, let's move
Speaker 1: over to Gardner Minshew going over to Las Vegas. As
Speaker 1: it stands at this moment, he would be your probable
Speaker 1: week one starter, but I think the Raiders likely make
Speaker 1: a move in the draft. What are your thoughts, And
Speaker 1: you know he does have some weapons there as well,
Speaker 1: and you know, you can make a case for you know,
Speaker 1: in terms of weaponry about the same as what he
Speaker 1: had in Indianapolis. Do you view this as an upgrade
Speaker 1: or a downgrade for Gardner Minshew.
Speaker 3: You know, I kind of look at this as as
Speaker 3: as a wash too, But if you have to put
Speaker 3: one on there, I think it's got to be an
Speaker 3: upgrade because I think he's got the opportunity to hold
Speaker 3: this job as long as he can. To me, the
Speaker 3: Raiders look like they're primed to take like the bow
Speaker 3: Knicks or Michael Pennix like in the second round and
Speaker 3: have them as like a project quarterback. It to me,
Speaker 3: it looks like it's Gardner Minshew to DeVante Adams all day,
Speaker 3: every day in Las Vegas, all year and and if
Speaker 3: he can hold the job, and you know, Minshew's been
Speaker 3: a solid quarterback. He led the Colts to almost a
Speaker 3: playoff birth last year, and he's to me, he's like
Speaker 3: the best possible like bridge guy you can get in
Speaker 3: the league right now.
Speaker 1: Not only DeVonta Adams but also Jacoby Myers, uh and
Speaker 1: Michael Mayer has the right to get better in your
Speaker 1: two right as a highly drafted rookie. So you know,
Speaker 1: there's you know, it's there is. I think the weaponry
Speaker 1: for Gardner Minshew is maybe even a little bit better here.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, Pittman was obviously very good downs
Speaker 1: had moments, but I feel like there's some really established
Speaker 1: good receiving talent for Gardner Minshew. Let's go to Sam Donald.
Speaker 1: Currently your your Vikings starting quarterback, and Vikings probably put
Speaker 1: a draft pick at quarterback. Don't know where that'll be.
Speaker 1: Pick eleven's kind of a no man's land for for
Speaker 1: quarterbacks right now where the Vikings select in the NFL draft.
Speaker 1: So Donald could be your starter for Week one and beyond,
Speaker 1: but this has still got the got some areas to
Speaker 1: change more interceptions and touchdowns throughout Sam Donald's career. Massive
Speaker 1: downgrade for Justin, Jefferson, Hockinson, and Addison now as they
Speaker 1: go from Kirk Cousins to Sam Donald at least for
Speaker 1: the moment. Or a rookie, you know, Bridge type rookie
Speaker 1: quarterback of some kind too is a possibility. What are
Speaker 1: your thoughts on Sam Donald personally? For Donald obviously a
Speaker 1: big upgrade going from a backup status to potential starter.
Speaker 3: Well, I think the Vikings made it clear this morning
Speaker 3: when they made the trade to get pick number twenty
Speaker 3: three from the Texans that they are looking to move up.
Speaker 3: They're gonna bundle eleven and twenty three and either move
Speaker 3: up to four or five or six and get their
Speaker 3: quarterback that they want. Maybe it's even three with New
Speaker 3: England and get one of the top three guys. So
Speaker 3: to me, I think, I think Donald is the safety
Speaker 3: valve and the backup, but it seems clear that Quasy
Speaker 3: is making moves to try to get their preferred quarterback
Speaker 3: in the future.
Speaker 1: I think if you had to fight, you had to
Speaker 1: ask me right now who the Week one starter is,
Speaker 1: I would still have to say Sam Donald and Ntil
Speaker 1: I see them actually able to execute that trade and
Speaker 1: land their guy, which is not necessarily going to be
Speaker 1: a given. Jacoby Brissett goes to New England, where he's
Speaker 1: at least for the moment the start her there but
Speaker 1: and should have been the starter at the end of
Speaker 1: last year after the shell shocked Sam Howell got beaten
Speaker 1: into submission over the course of a almost record setting
Speaker 1: level of sacks absorbed for him, Brissette seems unlikely to
Speaker 1: be the Week one starter. However, another scenario where picking
Speaker 1: at three New England likely goes with a quarterback.
Speaker 3: So do you remember that the Patriots traded Brissette back
Speaker 3: in the day. So do you do you remember who
Speaker 3: they traded him for? Not anymore, no first round pick,
Speaker 3: wide receiver Philip Dorset.
Speaker 1: Oh jesus wow. Wow.
Speaker 3: So they the Patriots essentially got Philip Dorset for free
Speaker 3: for a while.
Speaker 1: Really, well, that's a lateral move right there.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I mean with mac Jones on the move to Jacksonville,
Speaker 3: I think Brissett is kind of the guy that's locked
Speaker 3: in there. And to me it it the Patriots need
Speaker 3: a lot of things to to get better, and it
Speaker 3: seems like they could go, you know what, we want
Speaker 3: to take Marvin Harrison Junior at pick three, or you
Speaker 3: want to trade back and gather more picks. I think
Speaker 3: that there's a pretty real scenario that the Patriots go
Speaker 3: into this year and just go, we're gonna let Brissett
Speaker 3: be the quarterback this year, and we're gonna try to
Speaker 3: kind of rebuild this team with girod Mayo as the
Speaker 3: as the new coach and just kind of get that
Speaker 3: edge back before they try to go get the quarterback.
Speaker 3: So I think there's a real scenario that Brissett is
Speaker 3: the starter there.
Speaker 1: I disagree, but we'll we'll find out as it goes.
Speaker 1: And it's obviously an upgrade for Jacoby Brissett. You know,
Speaker 1: the receiving group is so bad. Yeah do you do?
Speaker 1: Smith Schuster and Ken Kendrick Bourne and that's a that's
Speaker 1: about it. And you know for Brissette, who's played competent
Speaker 1: ball by the way throughout you know, the latter you know,
Speaker 1: the last two or three years of his career when
Speaker 1: he has been asked to play. You know, but this
Speaker 1: is uh, this might be the worst offensive football potentially.
Speaker 3: I mean they just got Jalen Rager there in New England, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: he's got that going for him.
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson is your new starter in Pittsburgh and he
Speaker 1: will be the starter now after the Deontay Johnson trade.
Speaker 1: All he's got to throw to his George Pickens. Other
Speaker 1: than that, it's Des Fitzpatrick and Calvin Austin and maybe
Speaker 1: Pat Fryarmouth makes a step forward. Should be guard now.
Speaker 1: The Russ has never seemed to prioritize tight ends, has
Speaker 1: he I'm trying to leave, has any tight end just
Speaker 1: blossomed with Russell Wilson a quarterback.
Speaker 3: Jimmy Graham in the Seahawks day, didn't he go back?
Speaker 1: Didn't he kind of go backwards from where he was
Speaker 1: with the Saints.
Speaker 3: Yeah, probably, I think so. I mean, if you ask me,
Speaker 3: it's the biggest winner in free agency so far as
Speaker 3: George Pickens right he got a upgrade at quarterback and
Speaker 3: he his co wide receiver one got shipped out of town.
Speaker 3: It seems like two hundred targets are a lock for
Speaker 3: George Fons right now.
Speaker 1: So for Russell Wilson, is this an upgrade or a
Speaker 1: downgrade from where he was last year in Denver?
Speaker 3: You know, it's probably a down grade. Well, you know what,
Speaker 3: I think it's an upgrade. I think just a fresh
Speaker 3: scenario for him. It never was working in Denver, and
Speaker 3: the wide receivers were obviously overrated because we're going to
Speaker 3: talk about Jerry Judy getting moved in the not too
Speaker 3: distant future. But you know, I think with the running
Speaker 3: game and the way that the Steelers are just gonna
Speaker 3: play and play bully ball, I think it's probably a
Speaker 3: little bit of an upgrade for Russell Wilson. But he
Speaker 3: still won't be on many of my teams.
Speaker 1: I'm on downgrade, But just because Courtland Sutton is so
Speaker 1: good and way better than what George Pickens has shown
Speaker 1: himself to be. But I do like the idea that
Speaker 1: Wilson's gonna play with a on his shoulder in a
Speaker 1: way that he never has before. I mean, he's playing
Speaker 1: for the veteran minimum. He got ignominiously thrown aside by
Speaker 1: his old team. I'm really curious to see how how
Speaker 1: this ends up working, and if it works at all,
Speaker 1: I guess we'll we'll find out. Let's let's work in
Speaker 1: a quick break, Matt, Let's come back and talk running backs.
Speaker 1: Dus just I don't I can't remember so many big
Speaker 1: name running backs changing spots. We'll check in on Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry and all the rest when we come back. Welcome
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the the latest cheat sheet will be fresh up
Speaker 3: on the site later today Friday. So yeah, we're going
Speaker 3: to have the dynasty angles all covered for you. And
Speaker 3: I think I think I'm excited about making some dynasty
Speaker 3: trades right now. Yeah.
Speaker 1: It's always a good time. It's always a good opportunity,
Speaker 1: isn't it. Because everybody in this week this is like
Speaker 1: the buzziest week of the whole offseason until training camp starts,
Speaker 1: and so a lot of opportunity to sort of get
Speaker 1: ahead of the curve on some of the big players
Speaker 1: that have moved, like Derreck Henry. Let's talk about him
Speaker 1: as he goes to Baltimore. I think this is an
Speaker 1: upgrade for Derrick Henry because you get a better offensive line.
Speaker 1: This is the PFF's six best run blocking offensive line
Speaker 1: in Baltimore. He's got a potential thunder and lightning situation
Speaker 1: with Keaton Mitchell. But he's coming off the ACL in December.
Speaker 1: You know, his status very much up in the air.
Speaker 1: So this thing could be a Derek Henry could be
Speaker 1: your lead workhorse back at least for the beginning part
Speaker 1: of the season, and I'm really intriguing. I feel like
Speaker 1: this is one of the best possible landing spots for
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry.
Speaker 3: I do too. I think it's the biggest boom or
Speaker 3: bust play in fantasy for the twenty twenty fourth season too.
Speaker 3: So Henry was PFF's number five graded running back last year,
Speaker 3: and what everybody kind of thought was a down year,
Speaker 3: he did pretty well. But I will note over the
Speaker 3: last six seasons. He's averaging two hundred and ninety carries
Speaker 3: per year, and in twenty twenty one, the year that
Speaker 3: he got hurt and missed eight games, he was on
Speaker 3: pace for four hundred and thirty eight carries that year.
Speaker 3: He's got so much mileage. I know right now that
Speaker 3: that's the thing that just really worries me. For a
Speaker 3: thirty year old running back coming in on his eighth season,
Speaker 3: this will be his ninth season. Actually, yeah, I'm just
Speaker 3: a little nervous that it could be over real quick.
Speaker 2: It could.
Speaker 3: It could.
Speaker 1: I mean, he didn't look like the same guy this
Speaker 1: past year, and you know, we know the end is coming.
Speaker 1: It's just how close can we can we grind out
Speaker 1: one more good season of Derrick Henry? And I want
Speaker 1: to believe you can.
Speaker 3: This definitely isn't prime Derrick Henry. And I think people
Speaker 3: are going to draft him like it is prime Derrick Henry,
Speaker 3: and he's gonna be like the fifth or sixth running
Speaker 3: back off the board next year. But man, that that
Speaker 3: just seems scary to me.
Speaker 1: He could still be sitting at twelve fourteen touchdowns though,
Speaker 1: just you know, even if he's not great, you know,
Speaker 1: even if he's four yards per carry with a good
Speaker 1: offensive line, all the other threats that defenses have to
Speaker 1: account for, including of course Lamar Jackson, and knowing that
Speaker 1: they don't use Lamar Jackson at the stripe Derek Henry obviously,
Speaker 1: you know, build perfectly for goal line. Use one of
Speaker 1: the best players that way. Ever, man, he could still
Speaker 1: be sitting on double digit touchdowns.
Speaker 3: I agree. That's why it's going to be boom or bust.
Speaker 3: If he can stay healthy and stay on the field
Speaker 3: the whole year, with all the miles he's got on
Speaker 3: those legs, I think it could be he could be
Speaker 3: the number one running back in fantasy next year. Deandre's
Speaker 3: downside is he could he could be just destroyed.
Speaker 1: It could be, it could be completely spent. At this point,
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift gets a sizeable downgrade in my mind, going
Speaker 1: from the lead back in a powerful offense like the Eagles,
Speaker 1: now he goes to Chicago where he's in a muddy
Speaker 1: time share with Khalil Herbert and Roshawn Johnson. They're likely
Speaker 1: going to start over with a rookie quarterback who's going
Speaker 1: to learn on the job. This feels like a pretty
Speaker 1: sizable downgrade for DeAndre Swift to me, this is.
Speaker 3: I mean, we're gonna start getting into a lot of
Speaker 3: these running backs. A lot of these running backs were
Speaker 3: graded pretty poorly by Pro Football Focus last year. Surprisingly,
Speaker 3: DeAndre Swift twenty seventh graded running back behind guys like
Speaker 3: AJ Dillon and Tyler l Jeer and Cheuba Hubbard. He's
Speaker 3: behind those guys. So here's why I think that this
Speaker 3: could be an upgrade. Though he was just completely blocked
Speaker 3: from ever scoring touchdowns. That is true. He only had
Speaker 3: five rushing touchdowns last year. He had to break all
Speaker 3: those from deep. I think that the Bears are going
Speaker 3: to give Swift the opportunity to be a goal line back,
Speaker 3: something he wasn't in Detroit, something he wasn't in Philly.
Speaker 3: He's got an opportunity here that we've never seen him.
Speaker 1: Have Zack moscoes to Cincinnati and a fascinating move for
Speaker 1: Zack Moss. He'll have to battle Chase Brown, who had
Speaker 1: some moments where he looked really he looked really good
Speaker 1: and he had some big plays for Cincinnati. But with
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon gone to Houston, we'll talk about him in
Speaker 1: a second. I think this is a this is an upgrade. Opportunity.
Speaker 1: Zack Moss, who looked really good with Indy went in
Speaker 1: that first portion of the season before Jonathan Taylor came back,
Speaker 1: and head coach Zach Taylor usually has a workhorse back
Speaker 1: and he's not been a committee guy. I think Zach
Speaker 1: Mosks rolls in as the probable workhorse for week one.
Speaker 1: I see it as an upgrade. How do you see it?
Speaker 3: Well, yeah, that's kind of what I was wondering. This
Speaker 3: offense has featured one back, but basically since Joe Mixon
Speaker 3: got there, and is Chase Brown the chosen one or
Speaker 3: Zack Moss the chosen one? That'll be the interesting thing
Speaker 3: is we near Jill in August to see how they
Speaker 3: treat these guys in training camp, to see who's playing
Speaker 3: in preseason games and how they're playing, to hear all
Speaker 3: the coach speak coming out of camp. To me right now,
Speaker 3: it's buyer beware on Zach Moss, just because I don't
Speaker 3: know what I'm getting into. It could easily be Chase
Speaker 3: Brown's backfield.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Joe Mixon, who then goes to Houston.
Speaker 1: This was a baffling move for Houston. Hated their decision
Speaker 1: making on this to let Devin Singletary go and we'll
Speaker 1: talk more about him in a minute, and then give
Speaker 1: a three year contract to Joe Mixon who just looked
Speaker 1: washed up and ineffective last year. Plus Houston ranked twenty
Speaker 1: fifth and rushes per game and either heavily pass oriented.
Speaker 1: I can't. I don't see m And I love the Texans.
Speaker 1: They're like my second favorite team. I love what they've built,
Speaker 1: and there's so many things I love about what they're
Speaker 1: doing offensively defensively. But man, this is just such an uninspired,
Speaker 1: baffling move. I don't like it. But it's as for
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon personally, I think it might represent an actual
Speaker 1: upgrade over what he had in Cincinnati and how he
Speaker 1: looked in and that team last year. What do you
Speaker 1: think about Joe Mixon here?
Speaker 3: I think it might be a downgrade. And here's why.
Speaker 3: There was a great tweet out there by Scott and Barrett,
Speaker 3: And one of the things that Barrett cited in this
Speaker 3: tweet is Bobby Slowek has a Shanahan influenced zone running scheme,
Speaker 3: and both Damian Pierce and Joe Mixon, while playing in
Speaker 3: man gap concept runs, they were both over four yards
Speaker 3: per carry but both were at least twenty percent worse
Speaker 3: in zone concept runs in the last two years. Joe
Speaker 3: Mixon a three point three yards per carry, Damian Pierce
Speaker 3: the three point four yards per carry. So this just
Speaker 3: might be the wrong scheme for him. Maybe Joe Mixon
Speaker 3: is talented enough to overcome.
Speaker 1: It, but I don't think so.
Speaker 3: To me, Man, I just think that this might be
Speaker 3: an issue, and it could be a Pierce mix and
Speaker 3: split backfield. We could see Joe Mixon getting eleven twelve
Speaker 3: carries a game. That's it. And once you do that
Speaker 3: and we're having CJ. Stroud chuck the ball over the field,
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be. I think it's just gonna
Speaker 3: be almost like the old Houston Oilers, and it's gonna
Speaker 3: be four wide receivers. Let's chuck the ball, run.
Speaker 1: And shoot coming back. Let's go to Josh Jacobs as
Speaker 1: he moves to Green Bay in a bit of a
Speaker 1: surprise move. Overall, he gets a much better total offense
Speaker 1: with the Packers. The improbable signing re signing of AJ Dillon,
Speaker 1: which I did not see coming. I thought they were
Speaker 1: finally going to wash their hands of him. I don't
Speaker 1: think that impacts Josh Jacobs a lot. But Matt Lafleur
Speaker 1: has never used a workhorse back. He's always been a
Speaker 1: rotation guy. So Jacobs comes in off his worst season
Speaker 1: by a mile, but still pretty young. I think he's
Speaker 1: twenty six years old. Green Bay not a great run
Speaker 1: blocking offensive line, the ranked twenty third and run blocking
Speaker 1: by Pro Football Focus sixteenth and run block win rate,
Speaker 1: so kind of middle of the pack, lower middle of
Speaker 1: the pack. But maybe Jacobs, who's always been a workhorse,
Speaker 1: maybe he'll be a workhorse here too. What are your
Speaker 1: thoughts on Jacobs is this? I think I view this
Speaker 1: as an upgrade over his situation last year. Do you
Speaker 1: view it as an upgrade or a downgrade?
Speaker 3: Well, it's got to be an upgrade just because Las
Speaker 3: Vegas just botched the offense seemingly all year. Last year. However, Jacobs,
Speaker 3: who was in twenty twenty two the top top rushing
Speaker 3: running back in the league. He was the number thirty
Speaker 3: one Pro Football Focus graded running back last year, and
Speaker 3: by the way, the Packers just jetted the number six
Speaker 3: ranked running back, Aaron Jones. So it could be that
Speaker 3: Aaron Jones, even though he's three years older, he might
Speaker 3: have just been the better running back. And is Josh
Speaker 3: Jacobs just walking into an Aaron Jones role where it's
Speaker 3: like a sixty forty split with AJ Dillon. There seems
Speaker 3: like they know what they want him to do, they
Speaker 3: know what part of that offense they want him to be.
Speaker 3: So I just think that he's walking into a split
Speaker 3: backfield situation and he might not be as good as
Speaker 3: Aaron Jones.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Aaron Jones goes to Minnesota. Yeah, Now,
Speaker 1: I think what hurts Aaron Jones here is Kevin O'Connell
Speaker 1: just doesn't run much. He's ranked twenty eighth and thirtieth
Speaker 1: in rushing attempts the past two years. Jones will open
Speaker 1: up some passing opportunities, but Kevin O'Connell hasn't thrown the
Speaker 1: running backs in the past either, Dalvin Cook, who was
Speaker 1: a capable receiver two years ago just thirty nine receptions,
Speaker 1: and last year Alexander Madison, who's not as good to
Speaker 1: receiver just thirty catches. You know, Jones is better than
Speaker 1: any of those in both past protection and as a receiver,
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure that you know Kevin O'Connell hasn't
Speaker 1: shown a propensity to want to unlock that part of
Speaker 1: his running backs. I view this as a slight downgrade
Speaker 1: from last year for Aaron Jones.
Speaker 3: How do you see it? You know, I think it
Speaker 3: might be an upgrade because we've seen two years of
Speaker 3: Kevin O'Connell and he had Dalvin Cook, who obviously, I
Speaker 3: mean pun intended, was kind of cooked. Like the Vikings
Speaker 3: knew at the end of the year, the metrics all
Speaker 3: said it. He just wasn't himself anymore in his last
Speaker 3: year in Minnesota, and Alexander Madison was the epitome of
Speaker 3: just a guy. He was a warm body out there.
Speaker 3: Ty Chandler took over for him in the later part
Speaker 3: of the season, and Kevin O'Connell really hasn't had a
Speaker 3: good running back. If Aaron Jones shows anything, he might
Speaker 3: be the best running back that Kevin O'Connell's had as
Speaker 3: a head coach so far. And I think that having
Speaker 3: Justin Jefferson and Jordan Addison and t J. Hawkinson when
Speaker 3: he comes back, I think that'll help open up the
Speaker 3: field for Aaron Jones and I think that they might
Speaker 3: run a little bit more this year. And it's a
Speaker 3: one year deal for Jones in Minnesota, So they could
Speaker 3: just run him into the ground. They could just go,
Speaker 3: we're gonna give you two hundred and fifty carries this year.
Speaker 3: Have at it, bud Well.
Speaker 1: I think he'd break down on that many because he
Speaker 1: gets hurt every year. So that's that. I think that's
Speaker 1: the other part way. I don't think he can be
Speaker 1: a workhorse back because you know, the history suggests that
Speaker 1: that he'll end up getting hurt. The knees, the constant
Speaker 1: knee injuries. I want to touch briefly and Gus Edwards.
Speaker 1: As the Charges have roomade their entire offense, I mean,
Speaker 1: no longer Keenan Allen, Mike Williams and Austin Eckler. Oh god,
Speaker 1: I mean this is you know, it is such a
Speaker 1: different offense. Gus Edwards walks into a very possible starting role.
Speaker 1: He only has to beat out Isaiah Spiller to win
Speaker 1: the starting job. I think, I think the Chargers are
Speaker 1: primed to draft a running back, but in the moment,
Speaker 1: they haven't done that yet, and Gus Edwards is the
Speaker 1: presumed starter.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and don't you think that this is quite obvious,
Speaker 3: Like Jim Harbaugh is gonna draft Blake Koram In like
Speaker 3: the third round. It does feel.
Speaker 1: It does feel that way, doesn't it.
Speaker 3: Yes, But you know, I think Edwards is I mean,
Speaker 3: right now, he's the only guy getting touches on the
Speaker 3: Chargers offense. There's no wide receivers to compete with. He
Speaker 3: already beat Isaiah Spiller just by showing up. There's there's
Speaker 3: nothing else right now. And you know, you know, the
Speaker 3: Chargers are definitely gonna draft somebody in probably the second
Speaker 3: day or third day of the NFL Draft. But Gus
Speaker 3: Edwards surprisingly pretty decent twenty one last year on Pro Football,
Speaker 3: focuses rankings, so and he knows the staff well with it,
Speaker 3: with some Harbaugh remnants there in the I always want
Speaker 3: to call him the Clippers, LA see the Chargers. So
Speaker 3: let's go over to Austin James Harden. He's got Kawhi Leonard.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Austin Eckler. Since we just mentioned him,
Speaker 1: he now goes to Washington. This is I think a
Speaker 1: pretty sizable downgrade in total total offense and probable role
Speaker 1: he's I think he becomes the receiving back with Brian
Speaker 1: Robinson as the lead back. Although Robinson it's not good.
Speaker 1: So maybe Eckler gets a bigger role than I think.
Speaker 1: But the offensive line also in Washington bad mediocre at best.
Speaker 1: I think they're bad. Watching well, far too much Commanders
Speaker 1: football last year. I see Eckler as a as a
Speaker 1: change of pace pass catching guy, and you an ideal
Speaker 1: scenario could catch fifty passes in the season. But I
Speaker 1: just don't like the totality of that offense very much,
Speaker 1: and I'm worried about Eckler being more than just a
Speaker 1: flex level running back this year. You see this as
Speaker 1: the same downgrade I see it as.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I see it as a downgrade definitely for Eckler personally,
Speaker 3: but I think it might it might help him because
Speaker 3: he definitely was wearing down being the lead back in
Speaker 3: Los Angeles over the last few years. And this might
Speaker 3: look almost more like when Melvin Gordon was kind of
Speaker 3: the lead back for the Chargers and Eckler was the
Speaker 3: change of pace guy, and Eckler was, you know, still
Speaker 3: a quality player at that point and a flex level starter.
Speaker 3: So that's the hope. But there's a lot of moving
Speaker 3: pieces in Washington. There's a new head coach, Cliff Kingsbury
Speaker 3: is the new offensive coordinator. They're going to have a
Speaker 3: new quarterback at two, So a lot of different things
Speaker 3: are gonna fall here, and it's going to be very
Speaker 3: interesting to see how this all works out.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Devin Singletary, who migrates over to the Giants.
Speaker 1: I again don't understand what Houston did here. They were
Speaker 1: able to utilize Singletary, you know, once they basically locked
Speaker 1: in on Singletary after Thanksgiving last year, the high usage rate,
Speaker 1: and I thought he looked pretty good doing most of
Speaker 1: the things that they wanted him to do. But then
Speaker 1: he goes they let Singletary walk, he goes to the Giants,
Speaker 1: where everything's worse. I think this is a downgrade, right,
Speaker 1: Your quarterback is worse with the Giants, Your offensive line
Speaker 1: somehow worse than Houston, which is saying a lot wide receivers,
Speaker 1: just the whole offense worse. I just I don't love
Speaker 1: this move for anybody involved. I see it as a
Speaker 1: downgrade for Singletary.
Speaker 3: Do you feel differently, I mean, the whole offense is
Speaker 3: definitely a word, that's definitely a downgrade. But the opportunity here,
Speaker 3: I think the opportunity here is really interesting. With Saquon Gone,
Speaker 3: I think Devin Singletary pops into almost a Saquon like
Speaker 3: role in a Brian Daball offense. And by the way,
Speaker 3: those two know each other from Buffalo when they were
Speaker 3: back there together. If Dabele thought Singletary was just a
Speaker 3: lame player, he wouldn't have brought him in.
Speaker 1: So Yeah, but he didn't use him in Buffalo very
Speaker 1: much at all. He was just a rotational guy for
Speaker 1: day ball in Buffalo.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that's true. But I kind of like this.
Speaker 3: I think this one's sneaky unless the Giants draft a
Speaker 3: running back. I think Singletary, out of all of these guys,
Speaker 3: might have the ability to be kind of like the
Speaker 3: sneaky bell cow out of this bunch.
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley, obviously gone from the Giants, goes over to Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: hated rival and really a surprise move I think in
Speaker 1: the minds of Benny So he goes from extremely high
Speaker 1: utilization in New York where he was basically the whole
Speaker 1: offense when Daniel Jones went down to a probable time
Speaker 1: share back in Philly because that's what they always have.
Speaker 1: Last year, Philadelphia running backs combined for seventy five receptions.
Speaker 1: I like that Barkley could be sitting on a forty
Speaker 1: to fifty receiving yard year of reception year, and that
Speaker 1: part I like. But you know, we know that you
Speaker 1: have the downside of your quarterback housing your touchdowns anything
Speaker 1: up close. All the easy touchdowns get siphoned off to
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts. That's a downer. I think almost every part
Speaker 1: of this is down grade other than offensive line for
Speaker 1: Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 3: I don't know how you can think this is a downgrade.
Speaker 3: He went from a horrible Giants offensive line with no
Speaker 3: quarterback to a quarterback that is mobile and can move around.
Speaker 3: And really, who's he fighting with Kenneth Gainwell and Boston
Speaker 3: Scott for touches. They didn't bring in Saquon Barkley to
Speaker 3: give touches to Kenneth Gainwell. They brought him into carry
Speaker 3: the load here. I think he's gonna be a I
Speaker 3: think he's gonna be a bell cow here. But I
Speaker 3: have the same concern that you do. Will he get
Speaker 3: the carries inside the five? I think that that's the
Speaker 3: biggest issue. The tush push has been so good for
Speaker 3: the Eagles, and Jalen Hurts has scored so many touchdowns
Speaker 3: on the ground that I kind of wonder are they
Speaker 3: bringing in Barkley because they think they can take some
Speaker 3: hits off of Jalen Hurts, Will will the the tush
Speaker 3: push work without Jason kelcey? Uh? I think I think
Speaker 3: those are both both interesting things. So I think it's
Speaker 3: an upgrade for Barkley and I think that his stock
Speaker 3: is going to continue to rise throughout the offseason.
Speaker 1: Tony Pollard gets I think will agree on this one
Speaker 1: a downgrade as he goes to Tennessee where he's gonna
Speaker 1: have to battle Tai J. Spears for time. Spears look dynamic, fast.
Speaker 1: I like him better as a sophomore potentially for doing
Speaker 1: a lot of the nuanced work do you want your
Speaker 1: running back to do? And last year prove that poly
Speaker 1: can't be a workhorse. So now he's he's back in
Speaker 1: a back in the time share a little bit like
Speaker 1: he was with Zeke a couple of years ago, where
Speaker 1: Pollard was effective. But the totality of the Tennessee offense
Speaker 1: is a major bummer here, and I see, I think
Speaker 1: Spears is just playing better right now than Tony Bollard is.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think that there's no way that you can
Speaker 3: look at this and think that Pollard's going to get
Speaker 3: anything better than a fifty to fifty split here, right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: it just it just seems to me that they're going
Speaker 3: to try to have two guys, and they're gonna try
Speaker 3: to utilize them in different ways and try to keep
Speaker 3: them both fresh. So unfortunately, I think it's kind of
Speaker 3: a bummer for both Spears and Pollard because I think
Speaker 3: it makes it very difficult to feel confident in starting
Speaker 3: either one of them in fantasy games. I was.
Speaker 1: I acquired Spears in so many leagues last year, Dynasty
Speaker 1: and Empire leagues under the assumption that Henry was going
Speaker 1: to leave, which he did, and that Spears would have
Speaker 1: an opportunity to have a big role in this offense.
Speaker 1: Now I'm not so sure nervous about that. Let's take
Speaker 1: a break. When we come back wide receiver moves. We've
Speaker 1: got a handful of guys to talk through, including Marquise Brown,
Speaker 1: new Kansas City Chief. Let's talk through that and when
Speaker 1: we come back. All right, Matt, you're ready to roll
Speaker 1: up your sleeves and wide outs.
Speaker 3: Oh they're already rolled up. Let's go.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm wearing short sleeves. That's how rolled up mine are.
Speaker 1: I almost didn't want to spend you know, we got
Speaker 1: to pick and choose our battles here. Let's just spend
Speaker 1: a second on Darnell Mooney, who goes to from Chicago
Speaker 1: to Atlanta where he gets a big upgrading quarterback, you know,
Speaker 1: right from fields to cousins, from passing acumen. It's not close.
Speaker 1: But he also drops to fourth or fifth in the
Speaker 1: pecking order for balls thrown his way for targets, and
Speaker 1: that worries me about Darnell.
Speaker 3: Mooney well, and then they traded for ronde All Moore too,
Speaker 3: And I think those are two like completely perfect guys
Speaker 3: that defenses will have to account for, but fantasy players
Speaker 3: won't have to put on their rocks because they're they're
Speaker 3: never gonna get more than like three or four targets
Speaker 3: per game. They're just there to be decoy's draw the
Speaker 3: defenses away from Pitts in London. I think that it's
Speaker 3: a perfect landing spot for both, but not if you
Speaker 3: want to play them in fantasy.
Speaker 1: Downgrade we agree, And you know what are is Rondell
Speaker 1: Moore gonna have three good games this year? Yes, is
Speaker 1: Darnel Mooney gonna have three good games this year. Yes,
Speaker 1: good luck finding when those are gonna happen. And and
Speaker 1: why would you roster those guys all season waiting for
Speaker 1: those those three games?
Speaker 3: Yeah? At best, both of those guys are just best
Speaker 3: ball league flyers at the tail Indio draft.
Speaker 1: Well, stated Deontay Johnson goes to Carolina. I'll be interested
Speaker 1: with whether or not you think this is an upgrade.
Speaker 1: Similar skill set to Adam Thielen, but we'll certainly start
Speaker 1: along with Adam Thielen. Bryce Young Scott the potential to
Speaker 1: be better than any quarterback that Deontay Johnson has had
Speaker 1: since Ben Roethlisberger if he improves, and I think you will,
Speaker 1: you know, presumably better coaching and Bryce second year for
Speaker 1: Bryce Young, he'll get a little better. Do you think
Speaker 1: this is an upgrade or downgrade for Deontay Johnson?
Speaker 3: You know, I kind of think it's an upgrade. I
Speaker 3: think that Bryce Young has to be better than Kenny Pickett.
Speaker 3: The Panthers did invest into two guards for their offensive line,
Speaker 3: so that should give him a little bit more time.
Speaker 3: And with both Johnson and Feelin out there, and Bryce
Speaker 3: Young hasn't been a guy who's like been looking for
Speaker 3: that downfield threat. Right now, it looks like the Panthers
Speaker 3: are going to kind of dink and dunk their way
Speaker 3: down the field. It seems like each of these guys
Speaker 3: might be sitting on, you know, a hundred receptions this year,
Speaker 3: but they're all gonna be short. They're all gonna be
Speaker 3: within five yards of the line of scrimmage. And I
Speaker 3: think that that's the way Caroline is gonna play it
Speaker 3: and see if Deonta and Theelan can you know, use
Speaker 3: their skills to get past and to win some extra yardage.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Jerry Judy gets traded to Cleveland. This
Speaker 1: is not a surprise. There was talk of him being
Speaker 1: traded at the deadline last year and then he kind
Speaker 1: of got iced out of the offense and he was
Speaker 1: in the doghouse. Sean Payton's doghouse is a freaking mansion.
Speaker 1: It is epically large, and once you're in it, there's
Speaker 1: no there's no reversing your way out of as Sean
Speaker 1: Payton doghouse. Now, what's interesting about this landing spot in Cleveland?
Speaker 1: Matt Jerry Judy runs primarily from the slot, so does
Speaker 1: Elijah Moore. And while both of them can run outside,
Speaker 1: and they do run outside routes. You've always have felt
Speaker 1: like both of them have a natural position in the slot.
Speaker 1: Also in the into the consideration for Jerry Judy is
Speaker 1: he goes from Russell Wilson to Deshaun Watson. And I'm
Speaker 1: not sure if that's an upgrade or downgrade. It feels
Speaker 1: like roughly a lateral moved. I'm not a Deshaun Watson guy,
Speaker 1: even as a passer. So what are your thoughts here
Speaker 1: on Jerry Judy? Is this an upgrade or a downgrade
Speaker 1: as he goes to Cleveland?
Speaker 3: I mean it's from the doghouse to the dog pound? Right? Oh? Good?
Speaker 1: Well, yeah, very nicely done. Nicely.
Speaker 3: The Browns give up almost nothing to just kick the
Speaker 3: tires on Jerry Judy for a while. I mean the
Speaker 3: Browns have you know, Elijah Moore was a was a
Speaker 3: high draft pick, Marii Cooper was a high draft pick,
Speaker 3: and Jerry Judy was a high draft pick. And now
Speaker 3: they've acquired all three of these guys for you know,
Speaker 3: late round flyers. I kind of dig the way that
Speaker 3: they're just kind of checking out these guys and just
Speaker 3: trying to build an offense around in a cheap way,
Speaker 3: and they really have to with all the collateral they
Speaker 3: gave up to get to Shaun Watson. Problem is, I
Speaker 3: think that you kind of stated it is Deshaun Watson
Speaker 3: any good. I don't know. I don't know if he is.
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's an upgrade over Russell Wilson
Speaker 3: right now. In fact, if I a whole between the two,
Speaker 3: I'd probably probably take Russell Wilson right now.
Speaker 1: I can't say. I can't say that I blame you.
Speaker 1: I think the whole you know, obviously, Deshaun Watson was
Speaker 1: a good passer with Houston. I just think the whole,
Speaker 1: that whole two years just sort of broke him. And
Speaker 1: maybe he can come back from that psychologically, but I
Speaker 1: need to see it first. Speaking of broken players, Gabe
Speaker 1: Davis killing fantasy owners with a season that somehow last
Speaker 1: year was even more all or nothing than the previous ones.
Speaker 1: He'll fill in Jacksonville, he'll fill the void left by
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley, but I don't feel like he's that. Gabe
Speaker 1: Davis is any safer in Jacksonville then he was in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: He gets a downgraded quarterback, not that Trevor Lawrence is bad. Obviously,
Speaker 1: he's not bad, but he's not Josh Allen, who has
Speaker 1: one of the great long ball arms in the league.
Speaker 1: And that's Gabe Davis's deal. It's catching long bombs. So
Speaker 1: to me, this feels like a downgrade. Do you see
Speaker 1: the Gabe Davis moved to Jacksonville and he differently mat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think it's a downgrade too. I mean, he
Speaker 3: replaces Ridley, but really what happened is Christian Kirk just
Speaker 3: took his number one wide receiver role back in that offense,
Speaker 3: and I think I think it's Kirk's offense, and I
Speaker 3: think Gabe Davis is just gonna be Gabe Davis. He's
Speaker 3: gonna pop off every once in a while and have
Speaker 3: a good game, and he's probably not gonna be very startable.
Speaker 3: He's another best ballflyer me.
Speaker 1: Marquise Brown goes to Kansas City, where he might be
Speaker 1: the biggest gainer that we talk about out of this
Speaker 1: whole list. I think he brings speed back to the
Speaker 1: Chiefs wide receiver group. Always been a super streaky producer
Speaker 1: where you'd have a run of like three, three or
Speaker 1: four really good games and you're like, oh, it's starting
Speaker 1: to click for Marquis Brown, and then he'd go on
Speaker 1: like a half season long dry spell. Oh guy, killing
Speaker 1: fantasy owners. So the question matt Is can Andy Reid
Speaker 1: and Patrick Mahomes help Marquise Brown gain consistency? Upgrade or
Speaker 1: downgrade for Marquis Brown, gotta be an upgrade.
Speaker 3: It's one hundred percent in upgrade. Kansas City kind of
Speaker 3: just decided a while ago that they were going to
Speaker 3: try to gather up all the wide receivers in the league,
Speaker 3: and now they finally shed some of that dead weight
Speaker 3: with like Marquez Valdez scambling leaving and a few others.
Speaker 3: I think Marquis Brown is now like the solid wide
Speaker 3: receiver two there, and they might actually just be rolling
Speaker 3: out with two or three wide receivers instead of rotating
Speaker 3: six or seven into the game. So he signed there
Speaker 3: in a one year deal. It's definitely a prove it deal.
Speaker 3: He's had one hundred targets in each of his last
Speaker 3: four seasons. Give him a hundred Patrick Mahomes targets now
Speaker 3: and see what he does with them. Yeah, it's going
Speaker 3: to be I Yeah, I think that we're looking at
Speaker 3: eighty catches and at least a thousand yards for Marquise Brown,
Speaker 3: and he's got the ability to break six or seven touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So somebody in your league's going to draft him in
Speaker 1: the third round.
Speaker 3: Marquise Brown in the third round, yep.
Speaker 1: I think in every league you get twelve guys together,
Speaker 1: one of those twelve is going to be so tantalized
Speaker 1: by the upside of Marquise Brown catching balls from Patrick
Speaker 1: Mahomes that somebody's gonna take him that early.
Speaker 2: Man.
Speaker 3: I just think that there's so many good wide receivers
Speaker 3: right now that I mean, everybody knows that he's going
Speaker 3: to be the number two there, but I mean you're
Speaker 3: looking at him, you know, probably right around the twenty fourth,
Speaker 3: twenty fifth wide receiver off the board that should be
Speaker 3: right there, like Mike Evans, DK Metcalf, Tank Dell, DeVonta Smith,
Speaker 3: Amari Cooper, Drake London, like those guys are better than
Speaker 3: Marquis prot I.
Speaker 1: Think so too. I just I just think somebody's I
Speaker 1: think in every league somebody's going to be really fascinated
Speaker 1: by and we'll find out. Calvin Ridley goes to Tennessee
Speaker 1: in what I view as a downgrade and a bad contract.
Speaker 1: I hate this move by Tennessee. You got you don't
Speaker 1: have into solution at quarterback. You sign a guy who
Speaker 1: was highly inconsistent last year to four years ninety two million,
Speaker 1: fifty million guaranteed. He goes from Trevor Lawrence to Will
Speaker 1: Levis at least the time being for Calvin Ridley.
Speaker 3: Get this.
Speaker 1: I got a great Calvin Ridley stat for you. He
Speaker 1: finished as a top ten wide out six games last year.
Speaker 1: Man in the other eleven games he averaged wide receiver
Speaker 1: fifty five with an average line of three catches for
Speaker 1: thirty six yards and zero point one touchdowns. That was
Speaker 1: it was? You know did he brought zero consistency to
Speaker 1: the Jacksonville offense and now he goes to undisputably a
Speaker 1: worse passing offense in Tennessee. I see this as a downgrade,
Speaker 1: do you yeah?
Speaker 3: Absolutely? His Pro Football Focus grade he graded out similarly
Speaker 3: to Jacoby Myers, Elijah Moore's, Zey Flowers, Adam Felen. Those
Speaker 3: are the types of guys that you signed for like
Speaker 3: mid level contracts, and they just signed Calvin Ridley to
Speaker 3: premium money. And I think that that's just a big mistake.
Speaker 3: I don't think the Titans know what they're doing, and
Speaker 3: I think that they're going to be selecting a quarterback
Speaker 3: next year, very high in the NFL Draft.
Speaker 1: Well by next year, we could be in April. I
Speaker 1: mean they could be going quarterback. What are they their pick?
Speaker 3: The seven seven?
Speaker 1: Yeah, that could that could be a quarterback selection right there.
Speaker 1: Final guy to talk about Keenan Allen in a shocker
Speaker 1: that really disappointed me. I wanted Keenan Allen to end
Speaker 1: his career where he started it, Hall of Fame level career.
Speaker 1: I wanted him to start and finish his career with
Speaker 1: the Chargers. I'm disappointed that this happened to him, and
Speaker 1: I you know, I don't know if it's something that
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen wanted. Maybe he didn't want to be part
Speaker 1: of the Jim Harbaugh reboot, so maybe it's something that
Speaker 1: he wanted. But I just I love it when Hall
Speaker 1: of famers finished with their career where they started it.
Speaker 1: He goes to Chicago, where presumably he'll be matched with
Speaker 1: Caleb Williams, wh will learn on the job. And the
Speaker 1: great thing about Keenan Allen is he'll be exactly where
Speaker 1: you're supposed to be on the route and he'll catch
Speaker 1: everything that they throw to him. And for a young quarterback,
Speaker 1: that is a that is a luxury to have somebody
Speaker 1: like Keenan Allen. But from a pure fantasy standpoint, I
Speaker 1: view this as a as a down grade move from
Speaker 1: where he was as Justin Herbert's lead lead receiver last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I do too. He also turned thirty one in April,
Speaker 3: and he missed four games last year due to injury
Speaker 3: and seven the year before after pretty much having like
Speaker 3: a mostly injury free prior like eight or nine seasons.
Speaker 3: So I'm a little nervous that the age is catching
Speaker 3: up to him. But he's a just a route technician
Speaker 3: and his hands are as good as can be, So
Speaker 3: if he stays healthy, he's he's pretty much a lock
Speaker 3: for one hundred catches, don't you think.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if you told me he's gonna get well hundreds
Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah, if you told me I'm gonna get
Speaker 1: seventeen games, then yes, I think he'd probably get there.
Speaker 1: But that's just I just don't think Keenan Allen is
Speaker 1: a seventeen game a season guy anymore. And you know, Chicago,
Speaker 1: look Chicago's on Chicago looks like a very promising overall offense,
Speaker 1: but bringing in an aged veteran to me still it
Speaker 1: feels like a bit of an odd move for them.
Speaker 1: But again, he'll offer some value for Caleb Williams and
Speaker 1: that we love that part, all right, Matt, great job.
Speaker 1: We had a lot of fun talking through all these
Speaker 1: guys and it's just so much movement. Heads heads on
Speaker 1: a swivel, right, just like what is happening unbelievable every day.
Speaker 3: The rest of the day today. I mean, I know
Speaker 3: we're recording this, you know, Friday around lunchtime, and by
Speaker 3: the time that people hear this, there could be six
Speaker 3: more moves today, So yest we better hit the button
Speaker 3: and get this one out. But I did want to
Speaker 3: note charts, there were no real good tight end movers.
Speaker 3: But your boy John U Smith is Miami. How do
Speaker 3: you feel about John who in Miami?
Speaker 1: Well, it was the perfect landing spot for him. I mean,
Speaker 1: other than the fact that they've got other good receivers
Speaker 1: are gonna get most of the balls, but that is
Speaker 1: a I love. The athletic profile for John new Smith
Speaker 1: has always been off the charts, and they covet that
Speaker 1: in Miami. Man, do they love their their guys who
Speaker 1: are speed athletes, and that's what John who Smith is
Speaker 1: at the tight end position. So I'm really optimistic about
Speaker 1: John who Smith. You have a shock to learn.
Speaker 3: Where's John Who's gonna rank next year? Too? Is he
Speaker 3: gonna too?
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what I'm gonna John who Smith is
Speaker 1: my second tight end in a lot of leagues. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you that much. Absolutely, I have not refreshed my rankings,
Speaker 1: but I suspect he's gonna clock in and you have
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna have him around tight end fifteen sixteen.
Speaker 1: Where do you Where do you have him right now?
Speaker 3: Uh? Well, I don't have him in my redraft ranks yet.
Speaker 3: I just have him on on dynasty ranks. But okay,
Speaker 3: I think he's in the same range right now on
Speaker 3: the dynasty side. But I'm shocked that you're saying fifteen
Speaker 3: or sixteen and you're not eight right outside top ten there.
Speaker 3: And I think by by the time July and August comes,
Speaker 3: you will have him in the top ten. That is
Speaker 3: that way, that is very you're going to talk yourself into.
Speaker 1: It me talk myself into some guy who I love
Speaker 1: the athletic profile on. Yeah, I can't imagine that happening. Uh. Thanks,
Speaker 1: Thanks Matt, it's been a ton of fun. Next week,
Speaker 1: we're going to go back to Thorne Eystrom and break
Speaker 1: down the rookie running back class next week. So very
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