Speaker 1: You found Fantasy Football Weekly Micro a deep dive on
Speaker 1: one player in just five to ten minutes. Now, here's
Speaker 1: your host, Paul Georgie. Welcome to an experimental edition of
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly. We call Fantasy Football Weekly Micro. The
Speaker 1: idea is to give you one of these most week
Speaker 1: days in which we do a deep dive on a
Speaker 1: particular player. Could be anybody. You never know what you're
Speaker 1: gonna get, but you're gonna get one player from you know,
Speaker 1: five to ten minutes, and the idea is to tell
Speaker 1: you some things about that player that maybe you didn't
Speaker 1: know or didn't remember from last year. My co host
Speaker 1: for Fantasy Football Weekly Micro is Guillotine Leagues writer Tyler Kennabilely. Hi, Tyler, Hi,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. Yeah, good to have you here.
Speaker 1: I'm excited. This is your Fantasy Football Weekly premiere edition.
Speaker 1: What do you think? I'm excited, honestly, just to talk
Speaker 1: about some of these players. I mean, the amount of
Speaker 1: hours I consume of fantasy football, whether it be a
Speaker 1: YouTube via just my own interests, searching the Internet for
Speaker 1: some stat that no one cares about is it's something
Speaker 1: for sure. So I'm excited to actually talk to not
Speaker 1: just myself and my own thoughts about some of like
Speaker 1: the opinions I have on these players. That's great, and
Speaker 1: you've done great work on this. Our first the first
Speaker 1: guy we're going to talk about is Kyle Pitts, and
Speaker 1: I want to encourage listeners, your feedback counts on this.
Speaker 1: This is an experiment. We may or may not continue
Speaker 1: doing this. We don't know yet. Do you love it?
Speaker 1: What do you want out of it? At Paul Charchion
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Speaker 1: l E k n a e b l E Tyler
Speaker 1: Knnabilely on Twitter. Okay, let's talk Kyle Pitts, one of
Speaker 1: the most polarizing players in fantasy football, and within our
Speaker 1: own show, Brian, we're doing Kyle Pitts without Brian here,
Speaker 1: which feels weird. I think you're gonna be playing the
Speaker 1: role of Kyle Pitts apologist that is normally a Brian role,
Speaker 1: and I will continue to be the Kyle Pitts not
Speaker 1: a hater. So I'm not a hater and I want
Speaker 1: him to be great, but I've been skeptical all along,
Speaker 1: based mostly on his draft position. But let's let's start
Speaker 1: with Kyle Pitts, what do you how do you want
Speaker 1: to open the conversation. Well, first off, I just want
Speaker 1: to say I think me and Brian might have to
Speaker 1: go get drinks and just talk about Kyle Pitts for
Speaker 1: maybe like an hour. I'm worried about where that would
Speaker 1: end up. Yeah, But first off, I mean he's going
Speaker 1: right now adp tight end five, which is like fifth,
Speaker 1: six fifth or sixth round in best Ball. Last year
Speaker 1: he was the tight end twenty in average points per game,
Speaker 1: and a note I found was Jordan Aikens tighten nineteen
Speaker 1: Secually he was worse than Jordan and its points per
Speaker 1: game two, which is kind of hard to believe that
Speaker 1: he finished worse than points per game than Jordan Nakens.
Speaker 1: I don't remember ever going against Jordan Nakens last year
Speaker 1: in fantasy football in any of my league, nobody ever
Speaker 1: started Jordan Kins. No, yeah, but you started Kyle Pitts
Speaker 1: a lot, and if you're in a Guillotine league, not
Speaker 1: for very long. Yes. Yeah, your season ended early on
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts potentially, so we know that to this point
Speaker 1: he hasn't helped us very much. But we're forward facing here.
Speaker 1: What are you thinking about if you look ahead to
Speaker 1: this coming year, what can we learn. Well, the biggest
Speaker 1: thing with Coppits, I think that everybody knows he's just
Speaker 1: a talent that he can possess. I mean, he's a
Speaker 1: generational tight end talent. He had the second most receiving
Speaker 1: yards ever for a rookie tight end, behind only my Dicka.
Speaker 1: You're in a four four fourty day, which take that
Speaker 1: with a grain of salt. I guess at two hundred
Speaker 1: forty five pounds, but that's a ninety nine percentile speed score.
Speaker 1: That's insane for a tight end like he can run
Speaker 1: faster than some receivers, and the two hundred forty five pounds.
Speaker 1: You would like to think, like this year, that the
Speaker 1: past attempts will be up. If you're apologists like myself,
Speaker 1: you'd like to think that the past attempts will be
Speaker 1: up with a non Mariota quarterback. Atlanta was second in
Speaker 1: rushing attempts last year, and that's a big concern exactly,
Speaker 1: and then the second fewest past attempts at twenty four
Speaker 1: point two. So that that's the problem right now that
Speaker 1: Lagiah Coppits is what kind of offense is he going
Speaker 1: to be in? This year and will it change now.
Speaker 1: One of the things that may suggest it will change
Speaker 1: is when Desmond Ritter started the last four games, those
Speaker 1: attempts jumped up from twenty four point two to thirty
Speaker 1: passing attempts per game. And Ritter had two games with
Speaker 1: thirty or more passing attempts and four starts and mariotely
Speaker 1: had two of those games in thirteen starts. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: maybe Ritter's gonna maybe they're gonna unlock more passing with
Speaker 1: Ritter because because last year suggested that that would be
Speaker 1: the case. But it's still Arthur Smith. He's got the Titans,
Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel, you know, mindset running through his veins, and Tyler.
Speaker 1: I worry that he's just playing, gonna run the ball
Speaker 1: a lot no matter what, and that's just who he is.
Speaker 1: And maybe maybe that'll change some with the change at quarterback.
Speaker 1: Maybe Desmond Ritter will alter that. But it's not like
Speaker 1: Desmond Ritter looks like a phenomenal passer that you need
Speaker 1: to build an offense around. But I think he can
Speaker 1: be a better passer than Mariota. I'm a diehard Falcons fan.
Speaker 1: I followed this team all last year and it's think
Speaker 1: it's worth mentioning that when Matt Ryan was the quarterback
Speaker 1: the first year Arthur Smith was there, Yeah, there were
Speaker 1: nineteenth and passing attempts per game, which I mean, it's
Speaker 1: not like it's the top ten, but it's a lot
Speaker 1: better than thirty first. Yes, So that's one of the
Speaker 1: things that I was kind of gives me hope that
Speaker 1: I think Arthur Smith is truly believes that whatever is,
Speaker 1: whatever offense, whatever like personnel he has on the field,
Speaker 1: he's gonna get the best out of him. Whether that's
Speaker 1: passing the ball fifty times a game or running the
Speaker 1: ball fifty times a game, He's going to do that. Now,
Speaker 1: I think I will admit that he does like to
Speaker 1: run the ball. He likes the presence of a running game.
Speaker 1: He's not Mike Leach offense where they're gonna throw it
Speaker 1: eight times a game. So I'm not saying he's like that,
Speaker 1: but I do think he wants to establish the run
Speaker 1: for sure, and he definitely has an old line that
Speaker 1: that is going to do that. The old line was
Speaker 1: second and run. It's actually pretty good offensive line. Old
Speaker 1: line was second in PF run blocking, their eighth and
Speaker 1: pass blocking, so they have a good old line which
Speaker 1: is hopefully give riders from time. It's just whether or
Speaker 1: not that he that he just unlocks Kyle pits, which
Speaker 1: we haven't seen fully yet. I mean, I think he
Speaker 1: only has three touchdowns in his career in two seasons
Speaker 1: we've seen him. I think people forget that he caught
Speaker 1: a thousand yards in his first season because not listeners
Speaker 1: to this show won't. We will not have forgotten that
Speaker 1: because Brian Johnson will not let you forget Tyler. Now, Brian,
Speaker 1: if he were here, he would also be saying he's
Speaker 1: not a tight end. He's a wide receiver masquerading as
Speaker 1: a tight end. And I know you've got some data
Speaker 1: about where Kyle Pitts has lined up. Yeah, so over
Speaker 1: the past two seasons he is kind of pretty much
Speaker 1: like he has almost a third in all three positions.
Speaker 1: So in line he's played thirty four percent of his snaps,
Speaker 1: the slot has been thirty five percent, and then out
Speaker 1: wide he's lined up there twenty nine percent of the time.
Speaker 1: So that's a pretty good sample side of kind. He
Speaker 1: can play literally anywhere. And I think a big piece
Speaker 1: of that is going to be that John U Smith
Speaker 1: signing that they had, which is kind of underrated because
Speaker 1: I think what they might end up doing is john
Speaker 1: U Smith is going to play in line tight end.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be the one blocking. He's gonna be the
Speaker 1: one doing the stuff that nobody wants Kyle Pitts doing
Speaker 1: in the fantasy football community. Yes, Kyle Pitts, I think
Speaker 1: is just going to be the wide super one. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be in this lot. He's going to be out wide.
Speaker 1: He can just kind of line up anywhere that could be.
Speaker 1: And you know, you don't have to sell Johnny Smith
Speaker 1: on me in his ability to help the overall offense.
Speaker 1: I am. I am to Johnny Smith with Brian Johnson
Speaker 1: is and maybe you are to Kyle Pitts. I believe
Speaker 1: that one of the things that caught my eye about
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts that worries me. He had the worst catch
Speaker 1: percentage in the entire league last year. He only caught
Speaker 1: half of his targets. He was like forty nine point
Speaker 1: eight percent worst in the league. Now you're gonna be
Speaker 1: tempted to say, well, you look at his quarterbacking. He
Speaker 1: had Marcus Mariota, and he had Desmond Ritters, and okay,
Speaker 1: I get that. But according to next Gen Stats, Mariota's
Speaker 1: completion percentage above expectation was only negative one percent. Negative
Speaker 1: one percent isn't great, but that was also Tom Brady
Speaker 1: was negative one percent. Aaron Rodgers was negative one percent
Speaker 1: over expectation. So Mario, it's not like Mariota and Ritter
Speaker 1: were just sending ground balls his way all the time.
Speaker 1: You know, I need Kyle Pitts to not be the
Speaker 1: lowest catch percentage player in the league. One thing that
Speaker 1: because I was doing some digging on that too, because
Speaker 1: I saw you put that in there, and I was
Speaker 1: just curious my advanced my Crack research staff, and yes, yep,
Speaker 1: we found that Mariota had the third highest poor pass
Speaker 1: percentage in the league. The only two players that he
Speaker 1: trailed were Zach Wilson and Davis Mills. There was the
Speaker 1: only two players that were above him, and he also
Speaker 1: had the second lowest on target percentage, trailing only Zach Wilson. Wow,
Speaker 1: So I don't know. I just feel like he was
Speaker 1: catching uncatchable He was trying to catch uncatchable balls from
Speaker 1: Marioda specifically, and we didn't see him with Ridter obviously,
Speaker 1: so we don't know what that's gonna be. Like, talk
Speaker 1: to me about where Kyle Pitts is going in early
Speaker 1: drafts so far, and if ultimately you think that he
Speaker 1: is going in the appropriate place or if he should
Speaker 1: be going higher or lower. So right now he's going
Speaker 1: at tighten five again, fifth sixth round, which the little
Speaker 1: bit a little bit of a dip last season, which actually, like,
Speaker 1: considering the season he had last year, I'm surprised it's
Speaker 1: not a little bit far down me too. That's just
Speaker 1: how much people believe in Kyle Pitts. I guess the
Speaker 1: only tight ends well, and also how a few other
Speaker 1: tight ends there are, yeah, that you can count on
Speaker 1: right now. Yeah, I honestly I like this. I like
Speaker 1: it a lot. You're get him out at a better
Speaker 1: price than what you thought he was gonna be last season.
Speaker 1: I just kind of see, you're kind of just buying
Speaker 1: a dip a little bit with Kyle Pitts. I think
Speaker 1: that the offense is going to turn around. I mean,
Speaker 1: he is just too good. I don't think we've seen
Speaker 1: somebody who you know, the talents there and it just
Speaker 1: it just it just has to click at some point.
Speaker 1: If it doesn't click this year, I don't know if
Speaker 1: it's ever going to click. I think we said that
Speaker 1: last year a lot too, but I'm still holding out
Speaker 1: thirty year now. For receivers, it used to be years
Speaker 1: ago the third years when wide receivers would tend to blossom.
Speaker 1: That turned into year two, and now it's really turning
Speaker 1: almost into year one, like Decembers, when you're good receivers
Speaker 1: start to blossom. For tight ends, it's been it's been
Speaker 1: year three for a long time, and Kyle Pitts might
Speaker 1: walk into a great third season. I'm not taking him
Speaker 1: a tight end five. Where would you take him? I
Speaker 1: think he I believe I will. I haven't done my
Speaker 1: final rankings, well not final, I haven't done my early
Speaker 1: rankings yet. I think Kyle Pitts will be roughly tight
Speaker 1: end ten for me. So I'm not gonna I'm not
Speaker 1: gonna be close here. I'm gonna have Dalton Sheltz Hires
Speaker 1: to go to receiver. I don't even Knowho's throwing him
Speaker 1: the ball yet. Um, I'm gonna have Dalton schltz Hire.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have a bunch of I'm gonna have a
Speaker 1: bunch of guys that I trust more than Kyle Pitts
Speaker 1: in this offense. Thank Kyle Pits. Well, I guess we're
Speaker 1: just going to agree to disagree that, aren't we. You
Speaker 1: can have him, will you can have with Kyle Schilton.
Speaker 1: I'm going to have fun with Dalton Sheltz. He's the
Speaker 1: only receiver they've got on that team right now. You
Speaker 1: can catch a pass, all right? Thank you. First edition
Speaker 1: of Fantasy Football Weekly micro in the books. If you
Speaker 1: found this uh helpful or not, let me know at
Speaker 1: Paul Charchian, at Tyler Kennabali A n A E B
Speaker 1: L E on Twitter. We'll talk to you tomorrow. Everybody,
Speaker 1: Bye bye,