WEBVTT - Finding your 3rd Wide Receiver on the draft boards, Inside Injuries with Virginia Zakas, and more... 0:00:00.600 --> 0:00:03.680 Hey, thanks for downloading the podcast, and remember, if you 0:00:03.680 --> 0:00:07.160 want to listen live, download the I Heart Radio app, 0:00:07.280 --> 0:00:10.080 download the tune in app and just search for Fantasy 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:14.720 Sports Radio Network and you could listen to this program live. Also, 0:00:14.920 --> 0:00:17.400 if you want to watch the video of this podcast, 0:00:17.600 --> 0:00:21.000 check us out on YouTube, on Twitch, or on Periscope 0:00:21.160 --> 0:00:24.880 and type in you guests dude Fantasy Sports Network. You'll 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:28.200 find us there. Enjoy the show and thanks for listening. 0:00:30.240 --> 0:00:38.760 You're listening to the Fantasy Sports Radio Network. Fantasy Best 0:00:38.800 --> 0:00:52.560 Friends Forever, m Do to to Do Do Do Do 0:00:52.560 --> 0:01:00.360 Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do Do do yeo. Yes, 0:01:00.800 --> 0:01:05.800 the Fantasy best Friends Forever here on the Fantasy Sports 0:01:05.800 --> 0:01:10.040 and Radio Network alongside Barankie stand for I am Greg Sousman, 0:01:10.360 --> 0:01:14.320 fragg what's going on man now much Greggy Thursday, which 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:17.040 means we have appreciated football tonight, Very excited about that. 0:01:17.720 --> 0:01:22.560 But most importantly, Yes, how was the Kickball playoffs last night? 0:01:22.600 --> 0:01:26.640 Greg Philson? I know everyone's dying now. Uh we have 0:01:26.840 --> 0:01:31.240 moved on to the final four. And how many button 0:01:31.280 --> 0:01:33.640 singles did you have last night? Too? To there you go? 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:37.720 Two for two two classic Greggy? Yeah, man, it was 0:01:37.760 --> 0:01:39.840 good let up. We were down to nothing after the 0:01:39.880 --> 0:01:41.920 top of the first came in the bottom of first, 0:01:41.920 --> 0:01:45.520 beat out a bunt single, and then the next one. 0:01:45.640 --> 0:01:46.960 Everybody knew I was in a bunt and they had 0:01:46.959 --> 0:01:49.440 everybody playing in on the left side. Just popped it 0:01:49.520 --> 0:01:51.720 right down the first base side. Nobody was in a 0:01:51.800 --> 0:01:54.120 mile of it came around to score. Both times, the 0:01:54.240 --> 0:01:58.840 top um four in our lineup combined for eight runs 0:01:58.840 --> 0:02:01.160 scored in seven r V. I, well, that's pretty good. 0:02:00.960 --> 0:02:02.400 Would be nice if the Yankees would do that, and 0:02:02.400 --> 0:02:05.440 we want eight four. We move on now, semi final 0:02:05.440 --> 0:02:09.600 game Monday night. You have some wheels, don't you? Used 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:11.320 to be like a sprinter ish kind of guy. I 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:13.080 used to be there. I used to be fast, not 0:02:13.200 --> 0:02:15.600 like fast enough to strike me as a guy that 0:02:15.639 --> 0:02:18.520 would be fast and like short distances. I don't want 0:02:18.560 --> 0:02:21.079 to am. I think you're probably faster than me. Want 0:02:21.919 --> 0:02:23.560 do we have a race? You you're meeting up the stairs, 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:26.720 didn't you off the stairs? That's different. I don't know. 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.359 I used to be fast when I was younger and skinnier, 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:32.959 But I still have it in my head that I'm fast, 0:02:33.160 --> 0:02:38.080 like not fast, but like fast for an average guy. Right. 0:02:38.240 --> 0:02:40.200 So because of that, I still act like I am 0:02:40.280 --> 0:02:43.560 and I reach base Koki attitude gray, like I bunt 0:02:43.560 --> 0:02:45.400 and I reached first base. I'm like, I'm not slow. 0:02:46.600 --> 0:02:48.600 It gets the first with his bunt single And do 0:02:48.600 --> 0:02:50.040 you have like a little like salt and pepper thing 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.320 you do to the um, you know what? You probably 0:02:54.240 --> 0:02:57.919 that would be cool when when when when Jeff reaches basse, 0:02:58.120 --> 0:03:00.520 we we kind of just we of the claw a 0:03:00.520 --> 0:03:04.280 bunch didn't The Mets used to do that too, and 0:03:04.360 --> 0:03:08.840 the Rangers started it to be remember Alexandra, something that 0:03:09.520 --> 0:03:11.000 I could be making. I think it was all. I 0:03:11.000 --> 0:03:12.880 think it's a bunch of dominicking guys that started it. 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:14.639 It might have been from the World Baseball Classic and 0:03:14.680 --> 0:03:17.480 they just let out into the MLB um. But a 0:03:17.560 --> 0:03:20.280 bunch of guys are all going like this, and no, 0:03:20.400 --> 0:03:23.240 it's fun. I think we should set up a competition 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:27.480 similar to our beer reciprocation that if you want to 0:03:27.520 --> 0:03:29.840 come here and race Gregg's susmen, we could set that 0:03:29.919 --> 0:03:31.960 up then and we will record it down the street 0:03:32.000 --> 0:03:34.640 and we will just tweet it out. Not not a 0:03:34.680 --> 0:03:40.080 hallway hallway A bit I used to when on natural parties, 0:03:40.880 --> 0:03:42.640 we would race down the hallway like a hotel in 0:03:42.680 --> 0:03:45.120 a hotel because I don't even know, because we're all 0:03:45.200 --> 0:03:47.240 very competitive people and I don't know how it wind 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:49.080 up like me racing people. But I was always down 0:03:49.240 --> 0:03:51.440 because I I again, I think I had a little 0:03:51.560 --> 0:03:53.080 bit of speed. Of course I've gained some weight over 0:03:53.120 --> 0:03:55.880 the years. But we did eat los poils from Monald's 0:03:55.880 --> 0:03:59.600 the other day. Well it was funny because yesterday I 0:03:59.600 --> 0:04:01.400 showed up Kitball and one of the players in your 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:02.960 teams like, you look at skinny today. I was like, 0:04:03.080 --> 0:04:05.000 thank you, and then we went for wings and fries, 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.880 so you have to change that naturally. Well didn't somebody 0:04:08.880 --> 0:04:10.840 else say he looks skinny? What we were on two? Oh? Yeah, 0:04:11.040 --> 0:04:13.240 it was when let's put your motors now on Tuesday. 0:04:13.440 --> 0:04:15.280 You like your shirt right? It leots stee in the 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:21.120 shirt and then we ate fried chickens best to um. Yeah, 0:04:21.240 --> 0:04:23.960 it's crazy. It's crazy, um now to bring my lunch 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.000 and on needs salads every day anymore. But I feel 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:29.320 like and actually, since I stopped getting those salads which 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:32.320 are probably like have like weird chemicals in them to 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.280 keep to let us fresh every day, I feel like 0:04:34.279 --> 0:04:36.720 I have lost weight since I started. Stop eating those salads, 0:04:37.160 --> 0:04:40.200 not even for you. I've been preaching this for about 0:04:40.200 --> 0:04:42.520 two years now, and it only took us until now, 0:04:42.880 --> 0:04:46.360 what is it, August eighteen to realize that salad is 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:49.599 not good for you. Show not saying it's not good 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:51.400 for you. I'm saying the salads we were getting there 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.040 for whatever reason, it wasn't helping me. We're gonna talk 0:04:54.040 --> 0:04:57.800 about wide receivers today. We are, but before we do that, 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:00.480 I was having something like that. I just want to 0:05:00.520 --> 0:05:03.200 pump this out there because I need to fill this league. 0:05:03.360 --> 0:05:05.760 We're doing a beat Frank standf a league over at 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:11.320 play ff WC dot com at Best Ball Draft would 0:05:11.400 --> 0:05:13.280 be tonight at eight pm. If we could feel it, 0:05:13.320 --> 0:05:15.560 there's still about seven spots left. So for all of 0:05:15.600 --> 0:05:18.120 you listening watching out there who wanted to compete against me, 0:05:18.160 --> 0:05:20.320 I know a lot of people ask us about, you know, 0:05:20.440 --> 0:05:22.800 BFF leagues. Uh. I don't know that we're gonna have 0:05:22.839 --> 0:05:24.400 a season long league that we set up because we're 0:05:24.400 --> 0:05:26.480 already in a ton of leagues. But we do appreciate 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:29.839 all your support regardless. If you want to compete against me, 0:05:29.880 --> 0:05:31.080 this is the way to do it. And you don't 0:05:31.120 --> 0:05:33.800 have to set your lineup. It's best ball, so um, 0:05:33.839 --> 0:05:36.600 the best Ball scoring format automatically set your optimal line 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:38.880 up each week based on your highest score. So it's 0:05:38.920 --> 0:05:40.920 really just draft tonight and then kind of see who 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:42.240 wins at the end of the season. And it's only 0:05:42.279 --> 0:05:45.680 thirty five bucks is tonight night, eight pm, twelve teams, 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:50.920 twenty four rounds. I can't. I can't take myself away 0:05:50.960 --> 0:05:56.480 from the television for that long. We know that, Greg, Yeah, 0:05:56.520 --> 0:05:58.800 I don't know what I'm doing. I can't make that plan. 0:05:59.760 --> 0:06:02.960 I'm sorry. Isn't it isn't isn't king of gone for 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:07.480 the weekend? Yeah? I should have said it up for tomorrow. Probably. Well, well, 0:06:07.520 --> 0:06:13.440 if it doesn't feel tonight, I'll probably Okay. So I 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.360 thought you were a year like I stole the show 0:06:16.440 --> 0:06:18.000 from you. I did want it. Need to do it's 0:06:18.080 --> 0:06:21.800 yours again? Taking all right, we're going in the wide 0:06:21.800 --> 0:06:24.880 receiver three to thirty six. We ended the show yesterday, 0:06:25.200 --> 0:06:26.800 um with the last two guys in the rankings, and 0:06:26.800 --> 0:06:29.040 I had as I said, Um, I had the Detroit 0:06:29.120 --> 0:06:32.000 guys in there, both Golden Tee and Marvin Jones, had 0:06:32.040 --> 0:06:35.480 Alan Robinson in there Brandon Cooks as well and Jujuicemith 0:06:35.480 --> 0:06:37.760 Schuster made the cut to Marius Thomas didn't. He was 0:06:38.000 --> 0:06:41.039 twenty six for me and a friend of mine, a 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:42.680 friend of mine who listens to the show every day 0:06:42.680 --> 0:06:45.599 and we appreciate it. He texted me, He's like, dude, 0:06:45.640 --> 0:06:47.560 like I love listening to the show, but that you're 0:06:47.560 --> 0:06:49.440 out of your mind? What do you mean? And he 0:06:49.480 --> 0:06:51.760 goes this to Marius Thomas, hate has gone too far. 0:06:51.800 --> 0:06:55.440 And I explained my side of it that three years running, 0:06:55.680 --> 0:06:59.080 every statistical category has gone the wrong direction. Isn't catch 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:01.200 a hundred passes to see reason anymore? He's not getting 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.240 over and getting over a thousand yards last year and 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:06.359 the touchdowns or six or under each of the last 0:07:06.440 --> 0:07:10.280 three years, those are all negative signs to me. You 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:12.360 got the guys that we have over the Brandon Cooks 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:16.080 is the Alan Robinson's um. They are younger and I 0:07:16.080 --> 0:07:19.480 think improving His point was Alan Robinson playing in Chicago, 0:07:19.600 --> 0:07:21.160 like he goes, I don't want to crown Mitchell dr 0:07:21.200 --> 0:07:22.960 Whisky's coming off a torn a c L. He's had 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:26.480 one really good professional season. What was Marius Thomas's headlight? 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:30.280 Eight of them that was the Robinson point. Brandon Cooks 0:07:30.400 --> 0:07:32.400 had a good season in New England, but who knows 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:34.800 what he will fit like in l A. That's the 0:07:34.840 --> 0:07:36.840 Brandon Cooks point. And then when it comes into the 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:41.040 Marius Thomas side, it's hey, yeah, he's declined all three years. Fair, 0:07:41.640 --> 0:07:44.240 but he's also finished as a top twenty wide receiver 0:07:44.520 --> 0:07:46.640 in each of the last three years. He's also had 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.560 the worst quarterback play in the NFL over the last 0:07:50.600 --> 0:07:53.520 three years. What could you possibly expect from him? Now 0:07:53.560 --> 0:07:56.559 you're giving him a competent quarterback. This should all change. 0:07:56.600 --> 0:08:00.080 Everybody loves Adam Thieland and Stefon digs, but maybe they 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.320 were made by case Keenum not saying Kirk Cousins isn't 0:08:02.400 --> 0:08:05.120 very good, because I think he is. But you know, 0:08:05.440 --> 0:08:07.280 look what Adam Feeland did last year. Look what is 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:09.400 the fond Diggs last did last year? You're putting that 0:08:09.480 --> 0:08:13.440 quarterback with the Marus Thomas. He should be back to 0:08:13.480 --> 0:08:15.720 where he was, that is the top twenty wide receiver 0:08:15.800 --> 0:08:18.320 and he should be uh selected as one. He's not 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:21.120 saying the my friend who I went back and forth with, 0:08:21.240 --> 0:08:23.280 because I'm not saying he's a top twelve wide receiver 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:26.400 or necessarily even a top fifteen. But to say he's 0:08:26.440 --> 0:08:28.760 not at least the wide receiver to we're out of 0:08:28.760 --> 0:08:31.280 our minds. I told them, go listen. Frank's higher on 0:08:31.400 --> 0:08:33.680 DT than I am. I know there's some other experts 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:35.840 that are higher in DT than I am, um, but 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:38.000 that's kind of just how I feel. If DT is 0:08:38.040 --> 0:08:40.680 the highest rated wide receiver in my ward, I'm probably 0:08:40.720 --> 0:08:43.880 gonna go in a different direction. Frank, what do you 0:08:43.920 --> 0:08:46.520 like and what don't you like about Zamarius Thomas? So 0:08:46.600 --> 0:08:50.440 everything you said about him trending downwards um statistically is 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.520 absolutely true. That's happened three years in a row now, 0:08:53.559 --> 0:08:58.040 and we know he has dealt with injuries, hip, rowing injuries, hamstring, 0:08:58.080 --> 0:09:00.000 he dealt with a little bit last year. He's even 0:09:00.240 --> 0:09:02.800 missed a little bit of practice the past couple of days, 0:09:02.800 --> 0:09:05.600 but he has returned. So I understand for all those reasons. 0:09:05.760 --> 0:09:08.240 What I do like a lot about what they're doing 0:09:08.320 --> 0:09:10.600 with him, and I mentioned is very briefly yesterday is 0:09:10.920 --> 0:09:13.400 throughout training camp they've been running him in the slot. 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.080 So what that does is it allows Courtland Sutton to 0:09:16.080 --> 0:09:19.600 play his more natural position on the outside. Emmanuel Sanders 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.360 on the outside as well. But what did case Keenum 0:09:22.440 --> 0:09:25.079 Who did case Kenom target most last year? That was 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.920 Adam Feeling that was in the slot, and that's exactly 0:09:27.960 --> 0:09:30.640 where de Marius Thomas is now moving in this offense. 0:09:30.640 --> 0:09:32.520 And I kind of mentioned it. I tried to draw 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:36.160 parallels between him and Larry Fitzgerald. Once Fitzgerald, you know, 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:38.679 got to the later years of his career right now, 0:09:39.000 --> 0:09:40.760 he started playing the slot more and he was much 0:09:40.800 --> 0:09:43.160 more effective. And we've seen that with other wide receivers 0:09:43.200 --> 0:09:45.880 as well. Reggie Wayne became more of a possession receiver 0:09:46.080 --> 0:09:48.360 as well in the later stages of his career. So 0:09:48.400 --> 0:09:50.760 I think to Marius Thomas has kind of headed down 0:09:50.800 --> 0:09:52.920 that path. What I what I also like about him 0:09:52.960 --> 0:09:55.800 is at least a hundred and forty targets every single year, 0:09:55.840 --> 0:09:58.000 Like you can pencil him in for a hundred and forty. 0:09:58.040 --> 0:09:59.720 And I know some people are gonna say, oh, well, 0:10:00.040 --> 0:10:01.600 Land Sutton is gonna come in now, he's gonna take 0:10:01.640 --> 0:10:04.320 some targets away from him. If you look at last year, 0:10:04.520 --> 0:10:07.200 they had like a mishmash of like wide receiver three 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.360 four options who just stole targets. Then he Fowler fifty 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:15.520 six targets, Cody Latimer thirty targets, um Jordan Taylor twenty targets, 0:10:15.800 --> 0:10:18.600 Austin Trailer thirteen targets. So all these targets, you kind 0:10:18.640 --> 0:10:20.280 of add those up. Some of them are gonna go 0:10:20.320 --> 0:10:23.439 towards Sanders, but you could still get your I don't 0:10:23.440 --> 0:10:27.600 know anywhere from maybe seventy seventy five targets for Courtland Sutton. 0:10:27.760 --> 0:10:29.679 He's a rookie. He's going to fill that void of 0:10:29.720 --> 0:10:32.000 to Marus Thomas once he leaves this team. But I 0:10:32.000 --> 0:10:34.840 don't think that we're expecting a huge role for Courtland 0:10:34.840 --> 0:10:37.280 Sutton his first year. He'll he'll he'll have some big games, 0:10:37.440 --> 0:10:40.240 he'll be inconsistent, but this is still the Marius Thomas 0:10:40.280 --> 0:10:43.840 and Emmanuel Sanders. What I do agree with you is 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:47.800 I like the value that you're getting on Emmanuel Sanders 0:10:47.880 --> 0:10:50.199 right now that if you want a part of this 0:10:50.280 --> 0:10:54.120 Broncos passing game, why wouldn't you just wait two rounds 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:56.560 or three rounds and get Sanders in the sixth or 0:10:56.640 --> 0:10:59.280 seventh round, who really is at the peak of his 0:10:59.320 --> 0:11:03.079 career right now in terms of talent and health, instead 0:11:03.080 --> 0:11:05.240 of taking to Marius Thomas in the fourth round. So 0:11:05.679 --> 0:11:07.760 I understand what you're saying. But to me, to Marus 0:11:07.760 --> 0:11:10.720 Thomas is still he's very safe. He's in that golden 0:11:10.720 --> 0:11:13.120 tape mold. He's gonna have a hundred and thirty and 0:11:13.160 --> 0:11:15.640 forty targets. He's gonna I think he's gonna be back 0:11:15.640 --> 0:11:18.200 over a thousand yards this year. He led this team 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:20.400 in red zone targets a year ago, and now he 0:11:20.400 --> 0:11:23.160 gets the quarterback upgrade in Case Kingdom. So I think 0:11:23.200 --> 0:11:25.120 we could see a touchdown upstick as well. If he 0:11:25.160 --> 0:11:27.319 could do a thousand yards and six seven touchdowns, he's 0:11:27.360 --> 0:11:29.640 easily going to be a top twenty wide receiver once again. 0:11:29.720 --> 0:11:31.280 And I think he can get to those numbers great. 0:11:32.520 --> 0:11:34.640 I agree that certainly when it was Emmanuel Sanders, and 0:11:34.640 --> 0:11:36.880 I mentioned that before. I love the value that you're 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:40.320 getting with Sanders, and I understand the point of saying, hey, 0:11:40.360 --> 0:11:43.640 if you love Sanders so much for the reasons um 0:11:43.679 --> 0:11:46.560 that somebody else loves to Barrius Thomas, why don't you 0:11:46.640 --> 0:11:50.840 love DT? And I gave my reasons the decline ultimately, 0:11:50.840 --> 0:11:52.800 but maybe you're right, Frank. He moves to the slot 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:56.240 and he's a very he's very solid wide receiver too, 0:11:57.080 --> 0:11:59.040 and maybe Mi Mimusnomers. I don't want him as a 0:11:59.040 --> 0:12:00.600 wide receiver one, which I don't have to get him 0:12:00.640 --> 0:12:02.680 as I think Marius Thomas is like a fine wide 0:12:02.720 --> 0:12:04.400 receiver three. That's why I have a twenty six. Like 0:12:04.400 --> 0:12:07.080 if he's my third wide receiver, I feel very very 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:10.920 comfortable with that. But I look at the guys that 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.760 I have in front of him, Marvin Jones, Jarvis Landry, 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:15.640 Chris Hogan, Allen Robinson, Like all right, you want to 0:12:15.640 --> 0:12:18.960 make the argument against Allen Robinson. Okay, that that's fine. 0:12:19.040 --> 0:12:21.400 I don't think I could really fight it, but I 0:12:21.440 --> 0:12:23.240 think I'm looking at some of the upside of these guys, 0:12:23.360 --> 0:12:25.120 like really really excited about it, which is why I 0:12:25.160 --> 0:12:27.120 have to marri As Thomas after him. I think it's 0:12:27.120 --> 0:12:30.160 a roster construction pick two. Right, So, say you start 0:12:30.240 --> 0:12:32.880 running back running back in your drafts. We spoke about 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:35.440 that yesterday. Maybe you get a more volatile wide receiver 0:12:35.559 --> 0:12:37.240 as your wide receiver one. Say you end up with 0:12:37.280 --> 0:12:40.440 a Tyreek Hill or or on Marie Cooper as your 0:12:40.440 --> 0:12:42.320 wide receiver one. At the end of the third round, 0:12:42.559 --> 0:12:44.800 you come back in the fourth round, you kind of 0:12:44.840 --> 0:12:47.880 pair that volatility, that upside play with one of those 0:12:47.880 --> 0:12:51.000 wide receivers with the safety in my opinion of Damarius Thomas, 0:12:51.320 --> 0:12:53.320 and then that allows you, you know, you balance the 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.120 upside with the safety of DT and then in the 0:12:56.160 --> 0:12:57.839 fifth round you come back and then maybe take a 0:12:57.840 --> 0:13:00.199 shot on another upside play like a Corey Davis or 0:13:00.520 --> 0:13:02.920 you know, someone that we should we're gonna talk about 0:13:03.320 --> 0:13:05.200 is just ascending and it's like out of this world 0:13:05.320 --> 0:13:07.280 right now, Mark, He's goodwin if you want to take 0:13:07.320 --> 0:13:10.160 that shot too. So I think it's about roster construction. 0:13:10.440 --> 0:13:12.600 Maybe if you have a more stable wide receiver, one 0:13:12.640 --> 0:13:14.560 that you drafted in the first and second round, yep, 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:16.280 you don't take to Maryus Thomas because you don't seem 0:13:16.320 --> 0:13:18.000 much upside. Maybe you want to take more of a 0:13:18.000 --> 0:13:21.000 shot on a Josh Gordon or a or a Juju 0:13:21.080 --> 0:13:23.760 Smith Schuster who has more upside than him. I think 0:13:23.760 --> 0:13:26.640 it's about Ruster roster construction. But I do think where 0:13:26.679 --> 0:13:29.079 he's going his fair value in the fourth round. I 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:30.480 don't really have a problem if you wanted to take 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.600 him there, Okay, And that's the deal with da Marius 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:37.400 Thomas um. And we have the Marrius Thomas ranks exactly 0:13:37.400 --> 0:13:40.040 where Frankie, you do him in twenty Okays, you have 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:44.480 me your top Okay, exactly where you finished last year. Yeah, 0:13:44.720 --> 0:13:46.840 and where you and he's been inside the top twenty 0:13:46.920 --> 0:13:49.079 each of the last three years. Guys that were on 0:13:49.160 --> 0:13:52.679 that we didn't necessarily get to last yesterday. Brandon Cooks, 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:54.439 Brandon Cooks and Sammy Watkins. I want I want to 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:56.240 talk about them kind of back to back because Brandon 0:13:56.280 --> 0:13:59.920 Cooks is replacing Sandy Watkins in this Rams offense. He'saide. 0:13:59.920 --> 0:14:03.760 They bright new contract, and Watkins goes over and plays 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:07.880 with Kansas City. Let's start with Brandon Cooks. Cooks was 0:14:08.240 --> 0:14:11.520 New England's wide receiver one. He was, you know, Brandon 0:14:11.600 --> 0:14:15.480 Cooks more of a best ball player, but certainly streaky. Right. 0:14:15.600 --> 0:14:17.960 You have his good games in his back games. What 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:21.280 can you count on Brandon Cooks for I think that's 0:14:21.360 --> 0:14:23.760 very hard to figure out because I don't know what 0:14:23.760 --> 0:14:25.600 the target share is going to be for him. Look, 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.560 he's gonna have more targets than Sammy Watkins did last year. 0:14:28.600 --> 0:14:30.680 Sammy Watkins was in the eighty range for targets with 0:14:30.680 --> 0:14:33.000 the Rams. They went out, they made an investment in 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:34.840 this guy. They want him to be part of the offense. 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:37.880 They signed him to that extension as well. So clearly 0:14:37.960 --> 0:14:40.160 they have big plans for Brandon Cooks. And we know 0:14:40.240 --> 0:14:41.880 that Sean McVeigh can get the most out of his 0:14:41.960 --> 0:14:44.040 offensive weapons. But there are a lot of mounts to 0:14:44.040 --> 0:14:48.120 feed here, Greg, And I think maybe this helps Derek 0:14:48.160 --> 0:14:50.400 Goff more than anybody because I could see, you know, 0:14:50.600 --> 0:14:53.360 one week where it's Cooper Cup, one week it's Robert Woods. 0:14:53.480 --> 0:14:55.920 They take away from each other. But look, there's those guys, 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.400 there's Brandon Cooks. The tight ends are gonna be inconsistent, 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.480 but they're gonna be there. Todd Gurley is gonna get 0:15:01.520 --> 0:15:04.040 his targets as well. So if I had to pencil 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:07.480 Brandon Cooks in for something for for his targets, I 0:15:07.520 --> 0:15:09.360 would say between a hundred and a hundred and ten. 0:15:09.560 --> 0:15:11.680 And you know, he's moved down draft boards. He's more 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:13.600 like a fifth sixth round pick right now. But he 0:15:13.680 --> 0:15:17.760 also has a very very difficult schedule. I saw Jake 0:15:18.000 --> 0:15:20.560 tweeting about this, and I think it's like something like 0:15:20.600 --> 0:15:23.800 the top eight cornerbacks according to PFF he will face 0:15:23.800 --> 0:15:25.720 this year. And I think that he's going to be 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:27.520 the number one outside target, and I think he's gonna 0:15:27.520 --> 0:15:29.360 be shadowed by a lot of those guys. And if 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.680 that happens, maybe those are the games where we see 0:15:32.160 --> 0:15:35.520 Cooper Cup and Robert Woods really blow up. So because 0:15:35.600 --> 0:15:39.680 of the uncertainty in the target share, um the quarterback 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:41.520 really like he's not playing with Drew Brees, he's not 0:15:41.520 --> 0:15:43.280 playing with Tom Brady anymore, and the fact that he 0:15:43.360 --> 0:15:46.960 faces this tough schedule, I'm I'm fading Brandon Cooks. Even 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:48.520 if he makes it into the fifth, sixth round, there 0:15:48.520 --> 0:15:50.920 will always be another wide receiver there. Or I'll just 0:15:51.120 --> 0:15:53.920 convince myself to wait another round and then take someone 0:15:53.920 --> 0:15:56.960 else in the seventh round, whether it's an Emmanuel Sanders, 0:15:57.200 --> 0:16:00.600 a Robby Anderson, Jamison Crowder. I just think he's going on. 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:02.560 I'm just I'm never gonna want to take Brandon Cooks. 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:04.760 I feel that I feel that way about him, the 0:16:04.760 --> 0:16:06.800 way you feel about to Mary Thomas Craig. Yeah, and 0:16:06.840 --> 0:16:08.800 I and I get that, But I also look at 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:11.400 Brandon Cooks and everything you said is right right, Like 0:16:11.400 --> 0:16:14.760 every statue gave, every belief you have is right when 0:16:14.760 --> 0:16:16.960 it comes to Brandon Cooks. But I look at Brandon 0:16:17.000 --> 0:16:21.080 Cooks differently than I look at Damarius Thomas. Is probably 0:16:21.120 --> 0:16:23.680 because of the youth. Like you, you see Brandon Cooks, 0:16:23.720 --> 0:16:25.360 and you gotta remember the two. It's not even twenty 0:16:25.400 --> 0:16:28.240 five yet, he's got a twenty five years old he's 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:30.160 already been in the league for how many I mean 0:16:30.160 --> 0:16:33.960 how many years now five years essentially, so going to 0:16:34.040 --> 0:16:36.400 this team with a young offense, a young head coach, 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.360 and Sean McVeigh, I think that he will be able 0:16:39.360 --> 0:16:42.360 to maximize the talent of Brandon Cooks. Difference between Cooks 0:16:42.360 --> 0:16:45.600 and Watkins. Watkins got there literally right now in training camp, 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:48.520 and it's very hard to learn the detailed offensive got 0:16:48.520 --> 0:16:51.600 like Sean McVeigh that quickly. Now's Brandon Brandon Cooks, your 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:54.040 typical wide receiver one. No, he's not six ft, he's 0:16:54.040 --> 0:16:56.440 not two hundred pounds. He's not somebody that's going to 0:16:56.440 --> 0:16:59.000 be the Monster's red zone guy that Sammy Watkins is. 0:16:59.400 --> 0:17:02.040 But I think that Andy Cooks definitely can have this 0:17:02.120 --> 0:17:05.159 awesome amount of value because he's so so talented. With 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:11.600 that being said, he's a high, high, high upside wider three. Ideally, 0:17:11.800 --> 0:17:15.680 his ADP is picked now in fantasy fronts. That's very high. 0:17:15.760 --> 0:17:17.439 It's very high. That's the fourth front. I've seen him 0:17:17.440 --> 0:17:19.760 more than the fifth or sixth. I don't want to 0:17:19.760 --> 0:17:21.200 do it. Let's look about Sammy walking too, some of 0:17:21.240 --> 0:17:23.440 these other wide receiver threes when we come back. Fantasy 0:17:23.440 --> 0:17:30.520 best Friends Forever Fantasy Sports Radio Network from the NFL 0:17:30.560 --> 0:17:32.840 to the NBA. Daily Rodo dot Com is the place 0:17:32.880 --> 0:17:35.159 to win millions in daily Fantasy. You can get the 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:38.160 best DFS NFL coverage all season long for a price 0:17:38.200 --> 0:17:42.240 of one, or dominate the entire Daily Fantasy Sports realm 0:17:42.359 --> 0:17:45.440 with the Elite package at month. If you use the 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:47.840 promo code f n t s Y, you get ten 0:17:47.880 --> 0:17:50.720 percent off your Daily Rodo package. Go to Daily Rodo 0:17:50.800 --> 0:17:53.560 dot com, pick your NFL or Elite package, enter promo 0:17:53.640 --> 0:17:55.639 code f n t s Y, and you'll be on 0:17:55.680 --> 0:18:10.720 your way to becoming the next Daily Rhodo millionaire. Fantasy 0:18:10.840 --> 0:18:14.800 best Friends Forever Fantasy Sports Radio Network. That is Frank Stample. 0:18:14.920 --> 0:18:17.520 My name is Greg Sussman, and it is that time 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:19.080 of the week every Thursday. We'll go back to the 0:18:19.080 --> 0:18:22.680 wide receiver threes, including Sammy Walkings in a few moments, 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.480 but it is now time to welcome to her good 0:18:25.520 --> 0:18:30.640 friend from inside Injuries. It is Virginia Zakas. What's going on, Virginia? Yeh, 0:18:30.800 --> 0:18:34.600 good afternoon. How are you doing well? Staying very busy 0:18:34.600 --> 0:18:37.119 with all of these injuries? Yeah, a lot of injuries 0:18:37.160 --> 0:18:40.320 as training camp tends to wrap up a note a 0:18:40.400 --> 0:18:42.120 day or two left for teams as they get into 0:18:42.160 --> 0:18:45.520 their third preseason game. Now, the biggest injury, or the 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:47.960 strangest injury, or the one we know at least about, 0:18:48.280 --> 0:18:50.040 is when I asked you this morning and I said, 0:18:50.160 --> 0:18:52.760 Virginia an email this morning in regards to Travis Frederick, 0:18:52.840 --> 0:18:56.760 the center for Dallas that has a major autoimmune um 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:00.800 disorder of some sort, and the wharton last night was 0:19:00.800 --> 0:19:03.000 that he could miss multiple weeks. I read something he 0:19:03.000 --> 0:19:04.919 can miss the season. I don't know much about this 0:19:05.720 --> 0:19:08.320 at all, but certainly the Zack Martin banged up along 0:19:08.320 --> 0:19:12.040 the offensive line, Tyronne Smith having back issues permanently, this 0:19:12.240 --> 0:19:16.400 offensive line for Dallas is decimated right now. How serious 0:19:16.520 --> 0:19:21.840 is this disease or disorder for Travis Frederick? Yeah, this 0:19:21.920 --> 0:19:26.120 is potentially pretty serious. Um So he has Geyan Barre syndrome. 0:19:26.240 --> 0:19:29.520 It's a rare neurological nerve disorder, so it attacks the 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:33.080 peripheral nervous system. UM. It's going to affect his you know, 0:19:33.240 --> 0:19:37.879