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Speaker 1: You found Fantasy Football Weekly Micro, a deep dive on

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Speaker 1: one player in just five to ten minutes. Now here's

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Speaker 1: your host, Paul. It's Fantasy Football Weekly Micro. Addition, it

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Speaker 1: is an experiment with me and geteen leagues Dot Com

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Speaker 1: writer Tyler Kenney Billy. It's a deep dive on one

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Speaker 1: player five to ten minutes. Who do you want to

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Speaker 1: talk about today, Tyler? Entire little Mike Evans, polarizing player. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I like it, and I've got very strong feelings on

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Speaker 1: this and we'll see if they match up with with

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Speaker 1: your observations. So, um, let's start here. Let's do a

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Speaker 1: let's do a deeper dive on his season last year

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Speaker 1: and what will have been his last season with Tom Brady. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: so he finishes with the wide receiver seventeen last season,

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Speaker 1: wideceiver fourteen and average points per game. But he would

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Speaker 1: he didn't like he did, but he did not because

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Speaker 1: if you remember Week seventeen, ten catch two seven yards,

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Speaker 1: three touchdown, nuclear explosion, right, the Fantasy League winner that game,

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Speaker 1: consolation championship. Yeah, well, it depends, you know, it depends

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Speaker 1: on if you're playing, You're you're hopefully you're not playing

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Speaker 1: your Week eighteen you're not playing your championship in week eighteen,

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Speaker 1: we hope not anyway. Ten catches, two hundred and sevent

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Speaker 1: yards and three touchdowns. That's certainly. That certainly skews it.

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Speaker 1: How about before that though, So before that game, he

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Speaker 1: was the wide receiver thirty six thirty six and average

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Speaker 1: points per game and he finishes the dciver fourteen. That's

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Speaker 1: eighteen yeah, one in geez in one game. That is crazy.

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Speaker 1: That is crazy, And it tells you a little bit

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Speaker 1: about why you have to be wary of the points,

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Speaker 1: the average, the average Fantasy production per game when you

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Speaker 1: trended across the whole season. I think, for me, and

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Speaker 1: maybe it's because of my Guillotine League leanings, I want

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Speaker 1: steady performers every week. And that's the opposite of Mike Evans.

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Speaker 1: Oh for sure. Man, did he have some dude games.

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Speaker 1: Yeah he was. There's just the offensive was not the

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Speaker 1: same Lester. He was going pretty high in drafts. Oh

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Speaker 1: it was him, and he was going way above Chris Godwin.

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Speaker 1: I think Chris Godwin, I don't think you finished. Godwin

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Speaker 1: And I mean, there's all this talk of Julio Jones,

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Speaker 1: an NFC championship game again, and it was just gonna

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Speaker 1: not that. It was not that by any means. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: and I thought the offensive line worries turned out to

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Speaker 1: and that and certainly affected the passing game, infected the

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Speaker 1: offense um. All right, well let's talk about this. What

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Speaker 1: kind of player do we have in Mike Evans. Well,

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Speaker 1: I was looking at some of this stuff. I was

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Speaker 1: looking at reception, perception. Matt Harman does a great job

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Speaker 1: great job. He looked at. He breaks down a route trees,

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Speaker 1: kind of how we talked about with Jamison Williams earlier.

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Speaker 1: And during his first two seasons with Tom Brady, he

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Speaker 1: ran go balls on eighteen point five percent of his

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Speaker 1: routes in twenty twenty twenty one percent in twenty twenty one.

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Speaker 1: In twenty twenty two, that went all the way up

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Speaker 1: You would think they'd want to do more quick passes,

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Speaker 1: and I just send him down the field. I mean,

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Speaker 1: he's not gonna have time to hit the ball right,

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Speaker 1: So that I thought that was very interesting. He also

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Speaker 1: Matt Harmon also wrote in that article he also struggled

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Speaker 1: on digs and out routes more than he had in

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Speaker 1: the past, which could be indicator of declining and he

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Speaker 1: needs to be thirty this season. I'm worried if you

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Speaker 1: ask me whether or not Mike Evans has got one

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Speaker 1: more big season left in him. Nope, Yeah, I'm with

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Speaker 1: you on this one. I don't I've never really been

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Speaker 1: because I value receptions and target share a lot. And

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Speaker 1: it felt like even when Tom Brady was there, it

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Speaker 1: that part of Mike evans career. I'm just worried now

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Speaker 1: And I look at the identically built Brandon Marshall, and

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Speaker 1: At that point he couldn't separate anymore and his productivity

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Speaker 1: not speed, But you have to be able to get

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Speaker 1: some separation. My worry on Evans is that he's already

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Speaker 1: here at age thirty. He's right where Brandon Marshall was.

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Speaker 1: And I don't trust the quarterbacks that they have in

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Speaker 1: in Tampa Bay. Sorry, copy, Yes, I'm totally with you

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Speaker 1: on the quarterback thing. I dug into the numbers. These

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Speaker 1: are Baker Mayfield's wide receiver and there finishes all average

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Speaker 1: points per game twenty nineteen. Jarvis Lanzi twenty two OBJ

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Speaker 1: Don and People's Jones wide receiver seventy eight terrible twenty

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Speaker 1: twenty two. DJ Moore wide deceiver fifty three. Over the

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Speaker 1: first five weeks that Mayfield was the starter, right, atrocious. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: those are of terrible numbers, and it suggests that Baker

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Speaker 1: Mayfield can't power a wide receiver to a meaningful play. Now, granted,

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Speaker 1: Mike Evans is way better than all of these players

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Speaker 1: better than Jarvis Landry, so he's better. He is better.

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Speaker 1: But I would say that it feels like Baker Mayfield

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Speaker 1: Jarvis Landry WI sever twenty two, it isn't that bad.

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Speaker 1: the over the field, middle of the guy, the slot guy,

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Speaker 1: the short routes kind of the stuff that Jarvis Landry

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Speaker 1: to do that. I struggle, and I worry that Baker

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Speaker 1: is where Mike Evans really excels at. Last year on

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Speaker 1: deep passes, Baker Mayfield graded out by Pro Football Focus

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Speaker 1: again on deep passes thirty second. Now I have reason

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Speaker 1: to believe there are thirty two teams in the NFL

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Speaker 1: tyler that would make him last way do the math

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Speaker 1: real quicks out a nice um. So there's there's reason

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Speaker 1: to doubt that Baker Mayfield can power Mike Evans to

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Speaker 1: a resurgent ear, which worries me as well. Let's talk

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Speaker 1: ADP and some of the players going around Mike. By

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Speaker 1: the way, obviously in Dynasty, for me, I'm out. I'm

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Speaker 1: out of Mike Evans. Trade him now, I'm out of

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Speaker 1: been already and you read draft, I'm done. Where's he going?

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Speaker 1: Average draft position right now? Right now, he's the wide

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Speaker 1: receiver thirty five. Oh, it's pretty low law he's ever been,

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Speaker 1: including his rookie year, for sure. So the discount is

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Speaker 1: already built into that draft position, which makes us a

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Speaker 1: much more interesting conversation. Exactly, there's some of the players

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Speaker 1: around him, which is very interesting. Okay, I'll read him

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Speaker 1: off all right, we'll start with go for it. Let's

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Speaker 1: go Brandon, I Yuke. Who would you rather have? I'd

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Speaker 1: rather have a part of the Niners' offense, honestly, I'm

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Speaker 1: with you, Okay, Somna, I'd rather buy Yuke, all right.

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Speaker 1: Hollywood Brown, oh man, that's trick here, because you got

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Speaker 1: the Kyler thing, and I know that Brown did nothing

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Speaker 1: Hopkins now Hopkins on Hopkins, Hopkins might be gone, so

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna I think I'd go Hollywood Brown right now,

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Speaker 1: under the presumption that that passing offense needs to largely

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Speaker 1: go through him. I also think Hollywood Brown is just

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Speaker 1: a better player right now than like Evans, So Hollywood

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Speaker 1: Brown Tyler Lockett, who is just vastly disrespected as I'd

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Speaker 1: rather Locke it. I mean, lock It. Lock It's good

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Speaker 1: every year. Granted it's those explosive games like in for guillotine.

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Speaker 1: Locket's always super dangerous, although he was much better last

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Speaker 1: year with Gino Smith Locke. Locke's close. All right, George Pickens,

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Speaker 1: I'd go Evans pick I would do on this. Pick

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Speaker 1: I'm a little lower on Pis. Yeah, I wanted to

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Speaker 1: see him way more consistency than I said. If you've

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Speaker 1: got points for pancakes, I would pick Pickens, but I

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Speaker 1: the last one very interesting. Chris Godwin, who's going wide

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Speaker 1: you rather have on the buck? Well? Okay, so we

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Speaker 1: saw Baker Mayfield get Jarvis Landry up to wide receiver

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Speaker 1: twenty two, right, and Landry is a slot over the

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Speaker 1: middle style receiver, shorter patterns, just like Chris Godwin. I

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Speaker 1: think Baker Mayfield's just his style of play is better

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Speaker 1: suited for Chris Godwin than it is Mike Evans. So yeah,

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Speaker 1: I think i'd go Chris Godwin and just take my

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna get out of Chris Godwin every week. I'm

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Speaker 1: with you on that one, I think, especially. I mean,

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Speaker 1: season especially. But yeah, I'm I'm in on Chris Godwin.

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Speaker 1: I think a little more than I thought I was

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