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Speaker 2: Now here's your host, Paul Chargian.
Speaker 1: It's Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchian. Co host today,
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson. You had a week off, which is nice.
Speaker 3: I know. I hope you.
Speaker 1: Enjoyed it all.
Speaker 3: Deserved week off, you think. So. See it was I
Speaker 3: listen to the show though I had to with Scott
Speaker 3: on it was Yeah. Now now it is Scott fish
Speaker 3: Bowl Week.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I made a co I made a huge blunder
Speaker 1: in my Scott Fishball team. And I'll just I'll mention
Speaker 1: it briefly. So, when you originally sent out invites, I
Speaker 1: had picked three and I'm like, you know, I'm just
Speaker 1: gonna set my cue. So I've just you know, I'm
Speaker 1: set for three picks. But I hadn't even looked at
Speaker 1: the scoring system at that point. It was just right
Speaker 1: when the invitations went out, so I just, you know,
Speaker 1: threw a couple of guys in it and then totally
Speaker 1: forgot I had done that. Then it turns out the
Speaker 1: scoring system is basically it's heavily weighted towards rushing quarterbacks.
Speaker 3: Yeah, or running backs, but really in my first round, quarterbacks,
Speaker 3: yes reigned supreme.
Speaker 1: And I had Justin Jefferson all queued up, and you
Speaker 1: never bet three he went off the board. I got him,
Speaker 1: and it all happened so fast, I didn't even know.
Speaker 1: I just the first two guys went right away, and
Speaker 1: then then I got auto drafted and I got Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 3: So that's the Scott Fish bull in a nutshell. You're
Speaker 3: upset about getting Justin je.
Speaker 1: Jefferson exactly, exactly. The theme for today's Fantasy Football Weekly
Speaker 1: is cheap starters. People won't like the term cheap. I don'
Speaker 1: want to ever be associated with anything cheap, right, affordable, affordable?
Speaker 1: How about value? Maybe value starters. You could also call
Speaker 1: these guys boring players. I think that's part of the
Speaker 1: issue here. Also known as guillotine league saviors, because these
Speaker 1: are all guys that are ideal guillotine guys, maybe overlooked
Speaker 1: star So these are all guys that are starting players
Speaker 1: on their team, their NFL team, and they have an
Speaker 1: ADP that's weirdly lower than other starters of similar ability.
Speaker 1: So we're looking for cheap starters who can help round
Speaker 1: out our fantasy team.
Speaker 3: As scholars say, it's helpful for your players to be
Speaker 3: on the field in order to score fantasy points.
Speaker 1: Yes, it does happen, helps a lot. Yes, that's going
Speaker 1: to be a reoccurring theme here is going to be
Speaker 1: players that I have opportunity. Opportunity outweighs talent in fantasy
Speaker 1: football way more important. These are opportunity players you want
Speaker 1: to go first by We're gonna do it. A quarterback,
Speaker 1: a running back, a wide receiver, a tight end, and
Speaker 1: a flex flex. Just give me somebody else?
Speaker 3: Can anybody you want, not not a super flex, but
Speaker 3: a flex.
Speaker 1: Yes, won't be a quarterback, all right, you want to
Speaker 1: go quarterbacks, go first?
Speaker 3: Okay, A guy I just ragged on mercilessly last year
Speaker 3: as pretty much anyone in the industry or just casual players.
Speaker 3: Everyone like Russell Wilson, who last year was going inside
Speaker 3: the top ten quarterbacks easily. Everyone was excited about his
Speaker 3: move to Denver. Now after this a disaster season, He's
Speaker 3: quarterback eighteen in ADP of one hundred and thirty two.
Speaker 1: Which you know he finished his quarterback twenty five, so eighteen.
Speaker 1: People do feel there's some optimism there.
Speaker 3: But it was a disaster season all around. Nathaniel Hackett
Speaker 3: was fired before the season ended in weeks one through
Speaker 3: sixteen with Hackett as head coach, and I believe he
Speaker 3: was calling the plays. He's essentially the offense. Yeah, he
Speaker 3: went Nator too. Wilson had an eighteen percent play action
Speaker 3: rate and was only outside of the pocket whether he
Speaker 3: was rolling out or scrambling sixteen percent of the plays
Speaker 3: in week seventeen through eighteen when he had really big games.
Speaker 1: He did have good games down the way, like he could.
Speaker 3: Have been a league winner if he started him in
Speaker 3: week seventeen thirty four percent play action rate, twenty four
Speaker 3: percent of his plays outside of the pocket. So the
Speaker 3: offense got a lot more creative. Now is complete overhaul
Speaker 3: with Sean Payton coming in Hiss head coach, offensive minded
Speaker 3: Sean Payton, Tim Patrick back, healthy, Marvin Mims and intriguing
Speaker 3: draft pick and wide receiver.
Speaker 1: Of course, Jay Hammler might finally be healthy for a season.
Speaker 1: Who knows.
Speaker 3: Jerry Judy's in town. Of course, Courtland and Sutton still there.
Speaker 3: Greg Dulcich showed some promise, So I don't know at
Speaker 3: QB eighteen, if I'm just gonna, you know, stockpile two
Speaker 3: or three quarterbacks, if I'm gonna sleep on quarterbacks weight
Speaker 3: on quarterbacks late in the draft. Wilson is definitely one
Speaker 3: of the guys that I think he's just going way
Speaker 3: too cheap right now.
Speaker 1: I should have picked a different quarterback in retrospect and
Speaker 1: the guy picked because I think it's just too chalky.
Speaker 1: And people already know this, but maybe it's just because
Speaker 1: you and I keep talking about it. You kinda I
Speaker 1: feel like I gotta go Gino Smith here.
Speaker 3: No problems hammering this home because it's it picked.
Speaker 1: One hundred and fifteen quarterback, fifteen off the board. He
Speaker 1: finished his quarterback five last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, total points. What the how?
Speaker 1: Why is he following ten spots when they added the
Speaker 1: best receiver in the rookie draft by the consensus of
Speaker 1: like everybody, and he's sliding ten quarterback positions. It's so
Speaker 1: absurd that Gino Smith is here. I mean, there's no
Speaker 1: case to be made. But here's the thing that really
Speaker 1: bothers me about Genoslide. Dude's legitimately good. This was no fluke.
Speaker 3: We got a.
Speaker 1: Seventeen game sample of this and he looked completely legit.
Speaker 1: There wasn't like freak plays that propelled him to good
Speaker 1: box scores. He didn't like have weird rushing touchdowns that
Speaker 1: like artificially augmented his total. Not nothing like that. Gino
Speaker 1: was just a really good passer and he did it
Speaker 1: for virtually every game last year. Sneaky rushing competence, by
Speaker 1: the way, twenty two rushing yards per game. That's two
Speaker 1: point two fantasy points for free, and he only had
Speaker 1: the one rushing touchdown last year. He could easily If
Speaker 1: you're rushing for twenty two rushing yards a game at
Speaker 1: the quarterback position, I think more often than not you're
Speaker 1: gonna have four or five rushing touchdowns at the end
Speaker 1: of the year. Those could become as well for sure
Speaker 1: for Gino Smith. But the guy that I sort of
Speaker 1: wish I had picked as a little somebody, it's a
Speaker 1: little further off the radar as a cheap starter.
Speaker 3: This year's Gino Smith. Sam Darnold, No, not that far
Speaker 3: off radar.
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford, Yeah, he was.
Speaker 3: I almost used him as my guy.
Speaker 1: Stafford I mean, you know, he was I think he
Speaker 1: was quarterback nine when he went down with his injury
Speaker 1: last year. And he gets Cooper cup back, and you know,
Speaker 1: Sean mcvaye there knows obviously totally how to utilize him.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I just that was the other guy was
Speaker 1: gonna use, but I didn't ultimately do it with Gino Smith.
Speaker 1: You want to go running back next?
Speaker 3: Sure?
Speaker 1: Okay, who's your who is your cheap starting running back?
Speaker 3: Currently going off the board as running back twenty six
Speaker 3: seems a little too late for me in Richad White
Speaker 3: of the Bucks as most No. With Leonard Fournette gone,
Speaker 3: his only competition for touches as of right now are
Speaker 3: Chase Edmonds, who's a non factor, and an undrafted free
Speaker 3: age named Sean Tucker who I kind of like, but
Speaker 3: again he's an undrafted free agent. So Rashad White has
Speaker 3: a clear path to early down work and he's still
Speaker 3: probably the best pass catcher on the team too. Yeah,
Speaker 3: we might have a bell cow on our hands. Granted
Speaker 3: it's not going to be a great offense in Tampa Bay,
Speaker 3: but there is a new offensive coordinator, Dave Canals, I
Speaker 3: believe is how it's pronounced. Expected to place a lot
Speaker 3: more emphasis emphasis on the running game than former OC
Speaker 3: Byron Leftwich did, and like I just said, a very
Speaker 3: able pass catcher. Though White is caught fifty passes last year,
Speaker 3: so he'll steal. Still see plenty of third down reps. Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean RB twenty six for I don't care what
Speaker 3: team you're playing for, if you're going to be playing
Speaker 3: eighty ninety percent of the snaps right, probably not ninety,
Speaker 3: but at seventy five to eighty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, verus shot White probably, and because he can pass catch,
Speaker 1: that'll keep up. They're going to be in third and
Speaker 1: long a lot that would have.
Speaker 3: Been losing a lot lot, right, But he can stay
Speaker 3: on the field.
Speaker 1: A running back who is losing for sure, My guy can't. Well,
Speaker 1: maybe he can. You're Rashad White going off the board
Speaker 1: is running back twenty six. I'm gonna give your running
Speaker 1: back twenty seven makes sense. James Connor, Yep, he was
Speaker 1: definitely on my list. Everybody rightfully, very worried about the
Speaker 1: Arizona offense well, and their defense too. Honestly, the whole
Speaker 1: team I mean, Cardinals have are indisputably the NFL's worst
Speaker 1: overall roster as far as I'm concerned. I was doing
Speaker 1: an exercise for radio here in Minneapolis and Kfan talking
Speaker 1: about the the best non quarterback on each team, who
Speaker 1: is it? Even for the Cardinals.
Speaker 4: It's like wah, but so yeah, it's it's it's it's
Speaker 4: gotta be Hollywood, right Mark, Maybe maybe clear cut and no, no, anyway,
Speaker 4: what the Cardinals do have is one of the few settled,
Speaker 4: workhorse led running back situations.
Speaker 1: James Connor, your new offensive coordinator is Drew Petsing. And
Speaker 1: you might say, well, we don't know what Drew Petsing
Speaker 1: is going to do, but I think we do. He
Speaker 1: he has. He has been an an assistant under run
Speaker 1: heavy coaches Kevin Stefanski will obviously utilized Nick Chubb Aton
Speaker 1: and the run heavy Mike Zimmer with Dalvin Cook, so
Speaker 1: everything in all of his spots stops before this have
Speaker 1: trained Drew Petsing into a run first orientation and heavy workload.
Speaker 1: Guys the top of the depth chart here for Arizona
Speaker 1: doesn't have anybody else who even deserves one carry. Corey
Speaker 1: Clements still in the league. Apparently Keyanta Ingram had his
Speaker 1: opportunity to look at anything other than awful last year
Speaker 1: and didn't take it six round pick last season. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: the Cardinals are going to be losing by a lot
Speaker 1: in some second halfs of games, but you're still going
Speaker 1: to get fifteen ish touches.
Speaker 3: A game out of James Connor least.
Speaker 1: And you know, as we like to remind listeners, for
Speaker 1: all of Kyler Murray's mobility, Brian, he's never been a
Speaker 1: goal line guy. You know who is James Connor.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So if you think you think Arizona's gonna get a
Speaker 1: meager touchdown total, let's say, on the season, like twelve
Speaker 1: rushing touchdowns, I don't know, eight nine, go to James
Speaker 1: Connor sitting on a nice season at running back twenty seven.
Speaker 3: Yeah he should be inside the top twenty four at least,
Speaker 3: but yeah, even higher.
Speaker 1: Not a special talent, but the volume, Yeah, the volumes there,
Speaker 1: that's what we care about. Okay, let's go to the
Speaker 1: wide receiver position. Give me your cheap starter.
Speaker 3: There are obviously a lot more wide receivers in fantasy
Speaker 3: football than other positions, so there was a lot of
Speaker 3: a lot of candidates here. So I kind of went
Speaker 3: with the guy and talked about a ton this offseason.
Speaker 3: But I've always liked him a lot. I didn't love
Speaker 3: the landing spot in Las Vegas. But it's Jacoby Myers
Speaker 3: who right now is like the ADP of one twenty
Speaker 3: three wide receiver fifty seven. It just seems that seems
Speaker 3: way too late for me. Again, I really finished last
Speaker 3: year's like wide receiver twenty he did. Yeah, he only
Speaker 3: played in thirteen games. I remember we got injured early
Speaker 3: on against the Viking on Thanksgiving Night. It was on
Speaker 3: his way to a good game there. But he had
Speaker 3: a full season pace of eighty seven catches, one thousand
Speaker 3: plus yards, eight touchdowns, good size, six ' two, soft hands,
Speaker 3: caught nearly seventy percent of his targets. Last year he
Speaker 3: was graded he would have had a better quarterback there.
Speaker 1: Again, more than that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, the Patriots Jones was argued anybody the worst offense
Speaker 3: to be on for a wide receiver in the history
Speaker 3: of fantasy football, almost outside of two thousand and seven
Speaker 3: Randy Moss. But Myers was graded the seventh highest wide
Speaker 3: receiver by Pro Football Focus. He'll have an edge in
Speaker 3: Vegas two. He'll be familiar with their offensive scheme. Mick
Speaker 3: Lombardi served as the wide receiver coach in New England
Speaker 3: from twenty twenty through twenty twenty one. He is now
Speaker 3: the offensive coordinator, like it in Las Vegas, and of
Speaker 3: course DeVante Adams is the wide receiver one there, but
Speaker 3: he's gonna draw a ton of attention, double coverage. Who
Speaker 3: knows what's going on with Hunter Renfro for now? I
Speaker 3: guess it seems like he's staying in. Yeah, Buttill's be
Speaker 3: running out of the slot per usual. They got a
Speaker 3: rookie tight end. Now he was gonna get most of
Speaker 3: the snaps. Michael Meyer and then Austin Hooper. They're no
Speaker 3: Darren Waller, at least Meyer isn't yet. So I think
Speaker 3: people are sleeping on Myers right now in PPR leagues.
Speaker 3: I think he could finish inside the top thirty.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm with you on that. That seems very reasonable.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo does not excite fantasy owners, but Mac Joe. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but rather he's better.
Speaker 3: Than Mac Jones. Yeah, and he's a He's a quarterback
Speaker 3: that we kind of cater to Myers play. DeVante Adams
Speaker 3: not so much now.
Speaker 1: Adams is one of my big avoid guys this year.
Speaker 1: It's funny you gave wide receiver fifty seven. I'm giving
Speaker 1: wide receiver fifty eight. We didn't plan this, No, it's
Speaker 1: how it's worked out for both running back and wide receiver.
Speaker 1: Houston wide receiver Nico Collins. This is a long time
Speaker 1: me and Scott Fish have been waiting for our opportunity
Speaker 1: and it's finally here. So he's entering his third year.
Speaker 1: He is now the Texas undisputed number one wide receiver.
Speaker 1: Nico Collins shown steady improvement over years one and two,
Speaker 1: and I get the feeling it's all going to come
Speaker 1: together right here. Late last year after remember when Brandon
Speaker 1: Cooks got hurt and then he like basically refused to play. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Collins had a chance before he got hurt. At the
Speaker 1: end of the year, he had a chance to be
Speaker 1: the Texans primary wide out in four games. In those
Speaker 1: four games, he averaged nine targets per game. Wait, wait
Speaker 1: nine times there it is five receptions.
Speaker 3: No off season for Principal Mooney.
Speaker 1: No, well, nine time. I think he's out of jail,
Speaker 1: which is pretty important. Five receptions, forty five yards and
Speaker 1: half a touchdown per game. And that was with Davis
Speaker 1: Mills and Kyle Allen and Jeff Triskoll. Remember they were
Speaker 1: mixing and matching quarterbacks for a while then Nico Collins
Speaker 1: was in the middle of that bit. To give you
Speaker 1: a sense of fantasy wise, what Collins did in those
Speaker 1: four games, he gave you the same fantasy output as t.
Speaker 1: Higgins on the season to put a name on nine targets,
Speaker 1: five receptions, forty five yards and half a touchdown per game.
Speaker 1: So while it's super dangerous to extrapolate four games into
Speaker 1: seventeen games, you should know that it's fun.
Speaker 3: Though.
Speaker 1: It is fun, isn't it. As the Texans go too
Speaker 1: wide out For those four games, he was on pace
Speaker 1: for one hundred and fifty three targets, eight hundred yards,
Speaker 1: and eight and a half touchdowns. Now they've changed coaching
Speaker 1: staffs and blah blah blah and other things. But here's
Speaker 1: the important thing. Nico Collins gets better in his third year,
Speaker 1: and CJ. Stroud's going to be a huge and potentially
Speaker 1: huge upgrade of quarterback even in his rookie year over
Speaker 1: what Davis Mills and Kyle Allen and Jeffers Skulkuld bring
Speaker 1: to the table. Nico Collins cheap starter. Let's take a break.
Speaker 1: When we come back let's talk about our cheap tight
Speaker 1: ends and our cheap flex players when we come back.
Speaker 1: Get stay tuned, Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charging
Speaker 1: and Brian Johnson with you. We're going through our cheap starters.
Speaker 1: These are a team's unquestionable starting player, but his ADP,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, is strangely low. And we think you're
Speaker 1: gonna get You're gonna get valuable reps and opportunities out
Speaker 1: of these guys who've already given you quarterbacks, running back
Speaker 1: to wide receivers. Let's go to the always mercurial tight
Speaker 1: end position. Brian, who you got?
Speaker 3: I'm going. I feel like I shouldn't be going this deep,
Speaker 3: but based on his ADP, it is deep because he's
Speaker 3: going off the board is tight end eighteen. No, we're
Speaker 3: not going Dan Arnold.
Speaker 1: That's the perfect smot for Dan Arnold.
Speaker 3: I will be drafted in the scott Fish Bowl. He's
Speaker 3: on the Eagles.
Speaker 1: He's on the Eagles. Okay, got it.
Speaker 3: One one misstep by Dallas Goddard.
Speaker 1: That's it's easy. Yeah, dan Arnold season baby, but last
Speaker 1: year he was it was one misstep for Evan Ingram, right.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and you know he would have done what Evan
Speaker 3: Ingram did. If they didn't sign Evan, it might have
Speaker 3: been better. Arnold hasn't just had his chance, but it
Speaker 3: will not none of the fourteen. But we're talking Gerald
Speaker 3: Everett here.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah, the fantasy experts are all over Gerald.
Speaker 3: Ever, it was just an underachieving offense overall for the
Speaker 3: Chargers last year, but Everett had career highs and targets,
Speaker 3: receptions and receiving yards if you forgot in the playoffs
Speaker 3: sense of the Jaguars. The Chargers lost, but Everett went
Speaker 3: off six catches, one hundred and nine yards and a touchdown,
Speaker 3: And I just think that's scratching. You know, the career highs.
Speaker 3: They weren't eye popping numbers, but it was his best
Speaker 3: year as a pro. But I think that's just scratching
Speaker 3: the surface of what ever it can do in this
Speaker 3: revamped offense that again underachieved last year. But now they
Speaker 3: have new offensive coordinator Kellen Moore, come over from the
Speaker 3: Cowboys who let him go because he was scoring too
Speaker 3: fast whatever, but a prize acquisition for their coaching staff,
Speaker 3: that offensive coordinator, and last year Everett didn't see a
Speaker 3: ton of volume. But I think we've seen an uptick
Speaker 3: in it. I know we all kind of like Donald Parham,
Speaker 3: but they do.
Speaker 1: But I can only wait so long for him to
Speaker 1: stay healthy and put it all together, and maybe it's
Speaker 1: just not gonna happen.
Speaker 3: And then there's there's Trey McKitty too, But man, Everett
Speaker 3: really flashed at times last year. One of nine tight
Speaker 3: ends with three hundred plus yards after the catch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's really good that way.
Speaker 3: He was one of eight tight ends with at least
Speaker 3: one hundred yards after contact. So he's kind of a
Speaker 3: beast too. He's mobile, He's a beast. So I don't know.
Speaker 3: Tight End eighteen, if you know the cards fall in
Speaker 3: its favor, he could. I don't see. It's not too
Speaker 3: far fetched. He finishes as a top ten tight end
Speaker 3: this year in that often.
Speaker 1: Ye, it's possible. So everyone think Justin Herbert's gonna bounce
Speaker 1: back healthy. Played last year on the broken sternum and
Speaker 1: the shoulder injury that needed surgery after the season. Everybody
Speaker 1: thinks Herbert's sitting out a much better year this year.
Speaker 1: I've been reaching everybody gets better.
Speaker 3: I've been reaching around on Everett many times, and if
Speaker 3: I'm doing the Chargers stack I've been reaching two rounds
Speaker 3: just to ensure I get ever it makes sense heir
Speaker 3: with Herbert and Friends. Oh yeah, I love Effett right
Speaker 3: now and I hope I continue to love him throughout
Speaker 3: the year.
Speaker 1: I'm going with the aforementioned Evan Ingram, who finished last
Speaker 1: year's tight End six going off the board at pick
Speaker 1: one hundred, and there aren't that many good tight ends
Speaker 1: to go around. Why are people waiting on a good
Speaker 1: tight end? I assume that people think he's not gonna
Speaker 1: do tight End six again because Calvin Ridley's back, you know,
Speaker 1: and maybe that Ridley's going to siphon off some reception.
Speaker 3: Thing is the price tag on Ingram was what it
Speaker 3: is on Everett right now right last year? That much people,
Speaker 3: you know, they pump the brakes a little bit. That's
Speaker 3: probably a factor too.
Speaker 1: But even if Ridley's great, I'm just as you know,
Speaker 1: because you've been on the show for a long time
Speaker 1: and our listeners have been listening this long time. I
Speaker 1: just think, you know, rising tides raise all ships, and
Speaker 1: I think Ridley just makes the whole offense better, gives
Speaker 1: everybody more opportunities, including Ingram. Now he's under the franchise
Speaker 1: tag this year. He will not get the franchise tag
Speaker 1: again next year. And because you got to pay like
Speaker 1: a I don't know, like a fifty percent bump or
Speaker 1: something in year two. Right, So it's a contract year
Speaker 1: for Ingram.
Speaker 3: We like that. No thread of Dan Arnold, right, I mean.
Speaker 1: The constant thread of Darnauto is not there anymore. They
Speaker 1: drafted Strange, Yeah, Brent Strange Range, right, But he's uh,
Speaker 1: but he is. He's viewed as a long term project.
Speaker 1: So not not it can to be a factor this
Speaker 1: year now, So Trevor Lawrence, now year two of competent coaching.
Speaker 1: We're gonna throw out the year one. This is effectively
Speaker 1: his sophomore year. Lawrence gets even better. Doug Peterson's gonna
Speaker 1: trust Trevor Lawrence to pass even more than he did
Speaker 1: last year. They were the twelfth highest pass rate last year.
Speaker 1: They could be the They could be a top five
Speaker 1: pass rate this year. Peterson's always loved his tight ends too.
Speaker 1: You know, he used Dallas Goddard with great results. He's
Speaker 1: I don't know, this is his new Dallas Goddard. It's
Speaker 1: Evan Ingram. And by the way, both of those guys
Speaker 1: that looked up there how often they were standing in
Speaker 1: the slot to just see is the usage really the
Speaker 1: same under under Doug Peterson forty four percent for Goddard
Speaker 1: and Ingram standing in the slot as a receivers.
Speaker 3: Who was, of course Zach was in Philly with Peterson,
Speaker 3: but who was the one tight end who had the
Speaker 3: pretty good year with Eagles and then he got a
Speaker 3: big contract like with the Bears, and then it turned
Speaker 3: out to be nobody. Oh this is gonna bother me.
Speaker 3: This is recently, you know, this is the last four
Speaker 3: or five years. I know, you know what I'm thinking of.
Speaker 1: God, I don't remember, and I can't. It didn't happen.
Speaker 1: Last thing I'll mention about Ingram targeted one hundred and
Speaker 1: fourteen times last year. I mean that's you know, that's
Speaker 1: the kind of volume you want. It's hard to go
Speaker 1: wrong with the tight end who's seeing the ball one
Speaker 1: hundred and fourteen times come their way. That was fourth
Speaker 1: most among all tight ends. And if you're gonna get
Speaker 1: that kind of use in your Doug Peterson offense, evan
Speaker 1: Ingram very safe. And I think that's a cheap starter
Speaker 1: compared to where he's being drafted.
Speaker 3: And he got hot at the right time to last
Speaker 3: year he got hot towards the tail end of the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we always like that too, as an added bonus.
Speaker 1: It doesn't always mean it's gonna carry over, but I'd
Speaker 1: rather have somebody who rolls into the season coming off
Speaker 1: big game games in December. All right, let's go to
Speaker 1: your flex player. I told I set this up and
Speaker 1: just said, give me one other guy at any position
Speaker 1: that you think is a good cheap starter. Whould you pick?
Speaker 3: All right? I strayed from the running back. I did
Speaker 3: a lot of running backs today, so I went with
Speaker 3: a wide receiver who the delta between this guy and
Speaker 3: his You know, the next spester receiver on the team
Speaker 3: is his co starter or everyone to put it is
Speaker 3: one hundred and thirty plus fix geez, okay, it's Van Jefferson.
Speaker 3: And of course I'm talking about Cooper Cup his playing
Speaker 3: partner of a Van Jefferson going off the board. His
Speaker 3: wide receiver sixty two, one hundred and fortieth overall pick
Speaker 3: didn't play until Week eight. Last year started the season
Speaker 3: on the pup list or I already had a knee issue,
Speaker 3: but by the time he came in the Rams, Stafford
Speaker 3: was out and that Cup was hurt. And again Cooper
Speaker 3: Cup being hurt does not help Van Jefferson.
Speaker 1: Van jos on the.
Speaker 3: Field right to take a lot of the attention off
Speaker 3: of him. But Jefferson performed pretty well under the circumstances
Speaker 3: you know they had. They were starting Baker Mayfield, John Woolford,
Speaker 3: and he was essentially the wide receiver one. But he
Speaker 3: recorded at least sixty yards or scored a touchdown in
Speaker 3: more than half of his games played. I know you
Speaker 3: don't think much of Alan Robinson. I like a little more,
Speaker 3: but he's not in LA anymore. There's really not a
Speaker 3: ton of competition for targets at the wide receiver position.
Speaker 3: That's fire Cooper Cup of course, So I don't know.
Speaker 3: Van Jefferson has some big plays. I've been watching with
Speaker 3: Baker Mayfield, some long touchdowns. I mean, he he was
Speaker 3: the third round pick not long ago, so they put
Speaker 3: some you know, sunk some equity into him. So I
Speaker 3: think at this price tag, he's gonna be on the
Speaker 3: field for ninety the snaps and in a offense is
Speaker 3: gonna throw a lot one thing. So I don't mind
Speaker 3: kicking the tires on Van Jefferson. This league in the draft.
Speaker 1: All right, my flex cheap starter Washington.
Speaker 3: Sorry, Trey Burton was the Tray Burton nicely done, yeah,
Speaker 3: even under but when he left the Eagles, nobody career
Speaker 3: was like over.
Speaker 1: It was the Bears have a lot of historic sign
Speaker 1: like that. My flex cheap starter is Washington running back
Speaker 1: Brian Robinson going off the board at pick one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirteen. Now, I wasn't very impressed with Robinson's rookie year,
Speaker 1: but as we mentioned at the outset, opportunity way more
Speaker 1: important than talent when it comes to fantasy football production,
Speaker 1: and the opportunity is going to be there.
Speaker 3: And he was also coming off a gun shot.
Speaker 1: Coming off a gunshot wound, you know. And I'll give him,
Speaker 1: you know, he missed a bunch of training camp. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give him some maybe all I don't remember exactly
Speaker 1: when the gunshot happened in the middle of this. But
Speaker 1: last year, by the way, just to give you a
Speaker 1: sense of it, wasn't great. Twenty fourth ranked runner by
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus, just three point nine yards per carry.
Speaker 1: He was twenty eighth in yards over expectation and fifty
Speaker 1: first in yards after contact per carry. So it was
Speaker 1: not great last year. But here's the reasons for optimism
Speaker 1: on Brian Robinson. He's got room to improve, right, So
Speaker 1: the rookie year with the gunshot and everything else, now
Speaker 1: he's a sophomore. Most players get better in year number two,
Speaker 1: his first full training camp that he's gonna have. I
Speaker 1: like that part. New offensive coordinator Eric Benemy should be
Speaker 1: a huge upgrade and he could usher in a lot
Speaker 1: of improvement for Robinson. Better coaching, better play for Robinson,
Speaker 1: and almost certainly better schemes for Robinson than what they
Speaker 1: had last year coming from Eric Benemy. And there's a
Speaker 1: lot of talk of Antonio Gibson getting converted into a
Speaker 1: pure pass catching running back and that if that happens,
Speaker 1: now Robinson is good for volume and the goal line
Speaker 1: carries he was already getting. So I like that idea
Speaker 1: that if Eric b Enemy's gonna convert Antonio Gibson into
Speaker 1: his new version of Jeric McKinnon, then Robinson could be
Speaker 1: two hundred and seventy carries this year. I mean, he'd
Speaker 1: be like top easily top ten in total carries.
Speaker 3: He's got to avoid the landmine of a I know
Speaker 3: there's been whispers that the commanders could be one of
Speaker 3: the teams that like Fournett or Kareem Hunts goes to.
Speaker 1: I'm so I did, but that's every day. There's some
Speaker 1: new connection on those guys. But yeah, I mean if
Speaker 1: that would look if that happens, then all bets are off.
Speaker 1: I mean, this is all about volume. It's all about
Speaker 1: volume for Brian Robinson, and at two hundred and seventy carries,
Speaker 1: you kind of can't go wrong at pick one hundred
Speaker 1: and thirteen.
Speaker 3: Of your draft.
Speaker 1: No, I'll take that all day, every day. All right,
Speaker 1: there's a cheap starters, Brian, all right, sons of fun.
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