WEBVTT - Discount Starters 0:00:00.880 --> 0:00:04.600 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:06.720 --> 0:00:10.959 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly 0:00:11.039 --> 0:00:15.040 source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and 0:00:15.080 --> 0:00:17.759 whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. 0:00:18.239 --> 0:00:20.240 Now here's your host, Paul Chargian. 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:24.760 It's Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchian. Co host today, 0:00:24.880 --> 0:00:28.120 Brian Johnson. You had a week off, which is nice. 0:00:28.160 --> 0:00:28.720 I know. I hope you. 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:29.800 Enjoyed it all. 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:34.479 Deserved week off, you think. So. See it was I 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:36.720 listen to the show though I had to with Scott 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:38.800 on it was Yeah. Now now it is Scott fish 0:00:38.840 --> 0:00:39.320 Bowl Week. 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:42.720 Yeah, I made a co I made a huge blunder 0:00:42.880 --> 0:00:44.960 in my Scott Fishball team. And I'll just I'll mention 0:00:45.040 --> 0:00:49.080 it briefly. So, when you originally sent out invites, I 0:00:49.080 --> 0:00:51.080 had picked three and I'm like, you know, I'm just 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.599 gonna set my cue. So I've just you know, I'm 0:00:53.640 --> 0:00:55.840 set for three picks. But I hadn't even looked at 0:00:55.880 --> 0:00:57.720 the scoring system at that point. It was just right 0:00:57.720 --> 0:00:59.400 when the invitations went out, so I just, you know, 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:01.360 threw a couple of guys in it and then totally 0:01:01.400 --> 0:01:03.680 forgot I had done that. Then it turns out the 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:08.680 scoring system is basically it's heavily weighted towards rushing quarterbacks. 0:01:08.720 --> 0:01:12.000 Yeah, or running backs, but really in my first round, quarterbacks, 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:13.520 yes reigned supreme. 0:01:13.440 --> 0:01:17.000 And I had Justin Jefferson all queued up, and you 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:19.320 never bet three he went off the board. I got him, 0:01:19.600 --> 0:01:21.800 and it all happened so fast, I didn't even know. 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:24.360 I just the first two guys went right away, and 0:01:24.360 --> 0:01:27.039 then then I got auto drafted and I got Justin Jefferson. 0:01:27.120 --> 0:01:29.640 So that's the Scott Fish bull in a nutshell. You're 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:31.000 upset about getting Justin je. 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:37.280 Jefferson exactly, exactly. The theme for today's Fantasy Football Weekly 0:01:37.800 --> 0:01:42.119 is cheap starters. People won't like the term cheap. I don' 0:01:42.120 --> 0:01:45.800 want to ever be associated with anything cheap, right, affordable, affordable? 0:01:45.840 --> 0:01:49.680 How about value? Maybe value starters. You could also call 0:01:49.720 --> 0:01:52.680 these guys boring players. I think that's part of the 0:01:52.720 --> 0:01:56.160 issue here. Also known as guillotine league saviors, because these 0:01:56.160 --> 0:01:59.720 are all guys that are ideal guillotine guys, maybe overlooked 0:01:59.760 --> 0:02:03.480 star So these are all guys that are starting players 0:02:04.080 --> 0:02:06.880 on their team, their NFL team, and they have an 0:02:06.920 --> 0:02:12.160 ADP that's weirdly lower than other starters of similar ability. 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:15.760 So we're looking for cheap starters who can help round 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:16.880 out our fantasy team. 0:02:17.120 --> 0:02:20.120 As scholars say, it's helpful for your players to be 0:02:20.160 --> 0:02:22.800 on the field in order to score fantasy points. 0:02:23.160 --> 0:02:26.000 Yes, it does happen, helps a lot. Yes, that's going 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.480 to be a reoccurring theme here is going to be 0:02:29.240 --> 0:02:34.600 players that I have opportunity. Opportunity outweighs talent in fantasy 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:37.880 football way more important. These are opportunity players you want 0:02:37.880 --> 0:02:39.960 to go first by We're gonna do it. A quarterback, 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:43.080 a running back, a wide receiver, a tight end, and 0:02:43.120 --> 0:02:45.160 a flex flex. Just give me somebody else? 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.360 Can anybody you want, not not a super flex, but 0:02:47.400 --> 0:02:47.840 a flex. 0:02:47.919 --> 0:02:49.600 Yes, won't be a quarterback, all right, you want to 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:50.960 go quarterbacks, go first? 0:02:51.520 --> 0:02:54.799 Okay, A guy I just ragged on mercilessly last year 0:02:54.840 --> 0:02:58.840 as pretty much anyone in the industry or just casual players. 0:02:59.520 --> 0:03:04.079 Everyone like Russell Wilson, who last year was going inside 0:03:04.120 --> 0:03:07.720 the top ten quarterbacks easily. Everyone was excited about his 0:03:07.760 --> 0:03:11.360 move to Denver. Now after this a disaster season, He's 0:03:11.440 --> 0:03:16.280 quarterback eighteen in ADP of one hundred and thirty two. 0:03:16.720 --> 0:03:20.720 Which you know he finished his quarterback twenty five, so eighteen. 0:03:20.919 --> 0:03:23.440 People do feel there's some optimism there. 0:03:23.280 --> 0:03:27.200 But it was a disaster season all around. Nathaniel Hackett 0:03:27.400 --> 0:03:30.600 was fired before the season ended in weeks one through 0:03:30.639 --> 0:03:33.560 sixteen with Hackett as head coach, and I believe he 0:03:33.560 --> 0:03:35.320 was calling the plays. He's essentially the offense. Yeah, he 0:03:35.360 --> 0:03:38.760 went Nator too. Wilson had an eighteen percent play action 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.240 rate and was only outside of the pocket whether he 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.360 was rolling out or scrambling sixteen percent of the plays 0:03:44.560 --> 0:03:47.600 in week seventeen through eighteen when he had really big games. 0:03:47.680 --> 0:03:50.400 He did have good games down the way, like he could. 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:51.720 Have been a league winner if he started him in 0:03:51.760 --> 0:03:55.520 week seventeen thirty four percent play action rate, twenty four 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:57.160 percent of his plays outside of the pocket. So the 0:03:57.400 --> 0:04:00.520 offense got a lot more creative. Now is complete overhaul 0:04:00.840 --> 0:04:04.080 with Sean Payton coming in Hiss head coach, offensive minded 0:04:04.120 --> 0:04:08.560 Sean Payton, Tim Patrick back, healthy, Marvin Mims and intriguing 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:10.600 draft pick and wide receiver. 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.520 Of course, Jay Hammler might finally be healthy for a season. 0:04:13.520 --> 0:04:13.840 Who knows. 0:04:13.960 --> 0:04:16.760 Jerry Judy's in town. Of course, Courtland and Sutton still there. 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:19.800 Greg Dulcich showed some promise, So I don't know at 0:04:19.880 --> 0:04:23.880 QB eighteen, if I'm just gonna, you know, stockpile two 0:04:23.960 --> 0:04:26.440 or three quarterbacks, if I'm gonna sleep on quarterbacks weight 0:04:26.520 --> 0:04:29.039 on quarterbacks late in the draft. Wilson is definitely one 0:04:29.080 --> 0:04:31.040 of the guys that I think he's just going way 0:04:31.080 --> 0:04:31.839 too cheap right now. 0:04:32.520 --> 0:04:34.840 I should have picked a different quarterback in retrospect and 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.080 the guy picked because I think it's just too chalky. 0:04:37.279 --> 0:04:39.440 And people already know this, but maybe it's just because 0:04:39.480 --> 0:04:42.040 you and I keep talking about it. You kinda I 0:04:42.080 --> 0:04:44.400 feel like I gotta go Gino Smith here. 0:04:44.720 --> 0:04:47.480 No problems hammering this home because it's it picked. 0:04:47.279 --> 0:04:50.960 One hundred and fifteen quarterback, fifteen off the board. He 0:04:51.000 --> 0:04:52.680 finished his quarterback five last year. 0:04:52.760 --> 0:04:55.000 Yeah, total points. What the how? 0:04:55.000 --> 0:04:58.280 Why is he following ten spots when they added the 0:04:58.320 --> 0:05:01.560 best receiver in the rookie draft by the consensus of 0:05:01.640 --> 0:05:07.640 like everybody, and he's sliding ten quarterback positions. It's so 0:05:07.839 --> 0:05:13.960 absurd that Gino Smith is here. I mean, there's no 0:05:14.000 --> 0:05:15.200 case to be made. But here's the thing that really 0:05:15.200 --> 0:05:19.360 bothers me about Genoslide. Dude's legitimately good. This was no fluke. 0:05:19.560 --> 0:05:20.040 We got a. 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:25.440 Seventeen game sample of this and he looked completely legit. 0:05:26.120 --> 0:05:29.440 There wasn't like freak plays that propelled him to good 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:33.919 box scores. He didn't like have weird rushing touchdowns that 0:05:34.080 --> 0:05:38.440 like artificially augmented his total. Not nothing like that. Gino 0:05:38.600 --> 0:05:40.880 was just a really good passer and he did it 0:05:40.960 --> 0:05:45.360 for virtually every game last year. Sneaky rushing competence, by 0:05:45.360 --> 0:05:47.160 the way, twenty two rushing yards per game. That's two 0:05:47.200 --> 0:05:50.000 point two fantasy points for free, and he only had 0:05:50.000 --> 0:05:52.960 the one rushing touchdown last year. He could easily If 0:05:53.000 --> 0:05:54.919 you're rushing for twenty two rushing yards a game at 0:05:54.920 --> 0:05:57.240 the quarterback position, I think more often than not you're 0:05:57.240 --> 0:05:59.000 gonna have four or five rushing touchdowns at the end 0:05:59.000 --> 0:06:00.840 of the year. Those could become as well for sure 0:06:00.880 --> 0:06:02.960 for Gino Smith. But the guy that I sort of 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:05.200 wish I had picked as a little somebody, it's a 0:06:05.240 --> 0:06:09.599 little further off the radar as a cheap starter. 0:06:09.800 --> 0:06:14.400 This year's Gino Smith. Sam Darnold, No, not that far 0:06:14.440 --> 0:06:14.960 off radar. 0:06:15.720 --> 0:06:17.560 Matthew Stafford, Yeah, he was. 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:19.080 I almost used him as my guy. 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:21.039 Stafford I mean, you know, he was I think he 0:06:21.120 --> 0:06:24.000 was quarterback nine when he went down with his injury 0:06:24.080 --> 0:06:26.359 last year. And he gets Cooper cup back, and you know, 0:06:26.440 --> 0:06:29.839 Sean mcvaye there knows obviously totally how to utilize him. 0:06:29.920 --> 0:06:32.720 So yeah, I just that was the other guy was 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:35.360 gonna use, but I didn't ultimately do it with Gino Smith. 0:06:36.160 --> 0:06:37.279 You want to go running back next? 0:06:37.279 --> 0:06:37.479 Sure? 0:06:37.560 --> 0:06:41.120 Okay, who's your who is your cheap starting running back? 0:06:41.480 --> 0:06:45.240 Currently going off the board as running back twenty six 0:06:45.440 --> 0:06:49.559 seems a little too late for me in Richad White 0:06:50.320 --> 0:06:53.440 of the Bucks as most No. With Leonard Fournette gone, 0:06:53.640 --> 0:06:55.960 his only competition for touches as of right now are 0:06:56.040 --> 0:06:59.760 Chase Edmonds, who's a non factor, and an undrafted free 0:06:59.800 --> 0:07:01.680 age named Sean Tucker who I kind of like, but 0:07:01.680 --> 0:07:05.320 again he's an undrafted free agent. So Rashad White has 0:07:05.360 --> 0:07:09.480 a clear path to early down work and he's still 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:11.800 probably the best pass catcher on the team too. Yeah, 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.520 we might have a bell cow on our hands. Granted 0:07:14.560 --> 0:07:17.320 it's not going to be a great offense in Tampa Bay, 0:07:17.320 --> 0:07:20.280 but there is a new offensive coordinator, Dave Canals, I 0:07:20.320 --> 0:07:23.160 believe is how it's pronounced. Expected to place a lot 0:07:23.160 --> 0:07:26.560 more emphasis emphasis on the running game than former OC 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:30.080 Byron Leftwich did, and like I just said, a very 0:07:30.120 --> 0:07:33.000 able pass catcher. Though White is caught fifty passes last year, 0:07:33.000 --> 0:07:36.119 so he'll steal. Still see plenty of third down reps. Yeah, 0:07:36.160 --> 0:07:39.400 I mean RB twenty six for I don't care what 0:07:39.440 --> 0:07:41.119 team you're playing for, if you're going to be playing 0:07:41.160 --> 0:07:44.840 eighty ninety percent of the snaps right, probably not ninety, 0:07:44.920 --> 0:07:46.880 but at seventy five to eighty. 0:07:46.840 --> 0:07:49.840 Yeah, verus shot White probably, and because he can pass catch, 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:51.320 that'll keep up. They're going to be in third and 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:52.320 long a lot that would have. 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.640 Been losing a lot lot, right, But he can stay 0:07:54.680 --> 0:07:55.119 on the field. 0:07:55.120 --> 0:07:58.880 A running back who is losing for sure, My guy can't. Well, 0:07:58.920 --> 0:08:01.520 maybe he can. You're Rashad White going off the board 0:08:01.600 --> 0:08:03.440 is running back twenty six. I'm gonna give your running 0:08:03.480 --> 0:08:06.960 back twenty seven makes sense. James Connor, Yep, he was 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.720 definitely on my list. Everybody rightfully, very worried about the 0:08:10.760 --> 0:08:13.800 Arizona offense well, and their defense too. Honestly, the whole 0:08:13.800 --> 0:08:16.440 team I mean, Cardinals have are indisputably the NFL's worst 0:08:16.440 --> 0:08:18.680 overall roster as far as I'm concerned. I was doing 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:22.400 an exercise for radio here in Minneapolis and Kfan talking 0:08:22.400 --> 0:08:27.680 about the the best non quarterback on each team, who 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:29.320 is it? Even for the Cardinals. 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:34.240 It's like wah, but so yeah, it's it's it's it's 0:08:34.240 --> 0:08:40.120 gotta be Hollywood, right Mark, Maybe maybe clear cut and no, no, anyway, 0:08:41.480 --> 0:08:46.000 what the Cardinals do have is one of the few settled, 0:08:46.520 --> 0:08:49.240 workhorse led running back situations. 0:08:50.280 --> 0:08:53.400 James Connor, your new offensive coordinator is Drew Petsing. And 0:08:53.440 --> 0:08:55.680 you might say, well, we don't know what Drew Petsing 0:08:55.760 --> 0:08:58.760 is going to do, but I think we do. He 0:08:58.760 --> 0:09:02.400 he has. He has been an an assistant under run 0:09:02.440 --> 0:09:07.040 heavy coaches Kevin Stefanski will obviously utilized Nick Chubb Aton 0:09:07.679 --> 0:09:12.000 and the run heavy Mike Zimmer with Dalvin Cook, so 0:09:12.160 --> 0:09:15.160 everything in all of his spots stops before this have 0:09:15.320 --> 0:09:21.120 trained Drew Petsing into a run first orientation and heavy workload. 0:09:21.160 --> 0:09:24.360 Guys the top of the depth chart here for Arizona 0:09:24.520 --> 0:09:28.600 doesn't have anybody else who even deserves one carry. Corey 0:09:28.720 --> 0:09:32.760 Clements still in the league. Apparently Keyanta Ingram had his 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:35.600 opportunity to look at anything other than awful last year 0:09:35.600 --> 0:09:39.320 and didn't take it six round pick last season. So, yeah, 0:09:39.360 --> 0:09:41.080 the Cardinals are going to be losing by a lot 0:09:41.080 --> 0:09:43.080 in some second halfs of games, but you're still going 0:09:43.120 --> 0:09:45.640 to get fifteen ish touches. 0:09:45.280 --> 0:09:47.120 A game out of James Connor least. 0:09:47.400 --> 0:09:50.520 And you know, as we like to remind listeners, for 0:09:50.600 --> 0:09:54.200 all of Kyler Murray's mobility, Brian, he's never been a 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:57.280 goal line guy. You know who is James Connor. 0:09:57.840 --> 0:09:58.080 Yeah. 0:09:58.160 --> 0:10:00.160 So if you think you think Arizona's gonna get a 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:03.160 meager touchdown total, let's say, on the season, like twelve 0:10:03.280 --> 0:10:07.440 rushing touchdowns, I don't know, eight nine, go to James 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:10.559 Connor sitting on a nice season at running back twenty seven. 0:10:10.880 --> 0:10:13.920 Yeah he should be inside the top twenty four at least, 0:10:14.000 --> 0:10:15.400 but yeah, even higher. 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:18.959 Not a special talent, but the volume, Yeah, the volumes there, 0:10:19.000 --> 0:10:21.120 that's what we care about. Okay, let's go to the 0:10:21.120 --> 0:10:23.840 wide receiver position. Give me your cheap starter. 0:10:24.520 --> 0:10:27.440 There are obviously a lot more wide receivers in fantasy 0:10:27.480 --> 0:10:29.800 football than other positions, so there was a lot of 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.719 a lot of candidates here. So I kind of went 0:10:32.760 --> 0:10:35.199 with the guy and talked about a ton this offseason. 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:37.160 But I've always liked him a lot. I didn't love 0:10:37.200 --> 0:10:41.160 the landing spot in Las Vegas. But it's Jacoby Myers 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:43.680 who right now is like the ADP of one twenty 0:10:43.840 --> 0:10:48.640 three wide receiver fifty seven. It just seems that seems 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:51.240 way too late for me. Again, I really finished last 0:10:51.280 --> 0:10:54.400 year's like wide receiver twenty he did. Yeah, he only 0:10:54.440 --> 0:10:58.839 played in thirteen games. I remember we got injured early 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:02.040 on against the Viking on Thanksgiving Night. It was on 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:03.360 his way to a good game there. But he had 0:11:03.360 --> 0:11:06.400 a full season pace of eighty seven catches, one thousand 0:11:06.440 --> 0:11:10.720 plus yards, eight touchdowns, good size, six ' two, soft hands, 0:11:11.520 --> 0:11:14.520 caught nearly seventy percent of his targets. Last year he 0:11:14.640 --> 0:11:16.679 was graded he would have had a better quarterback there. 0:11:17.120 --> 0:11:17.800 Again, more than that. 0:11:18.200 --> 0:11:21.200 Yeah, the Patriots Jones was argued anybody the worst offense 0:11:21.280 --> 0:11:25.160 to be on for a wide receiver in the history 0:11:25.200 --> 0:11:27.920 of fantasy football, almost outside of two thousand and seven 0:11:28.200 --> 0:11:34.040 Randy Moss. But Myers was graded the seventh highest wide 0:11:34.040 --> 0:11:37.280 receiver by Pro Football Focus. He'll have an edge in 0:11:37.360 --> 0:11:40.640 Vegas two. He'll be familiar with their offensive scheme. Mick 0:11:40.760 --> 0:11:43.760 Lombardi served as the wide receiver coach in New England 0:11:43.800 --> 0:11:45.880 from twenty twenty through twenty twenty one. He is now 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:49.240 the offensive coordinator, like it in Las Vegas, and of 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:51.800 course DeVante Adams is the wide receiver one there, but 0:11:52.320 --> 0:11:55.760 he's gonna draw a ton of attention, double coverage. Who 0:11:55.880 --> 0:11:58.520 knows what's going on with Hunter Renfro for now? I 0:11:58.559 --> 0:12:01.199 guess it seems like he's staying in. Yeah, Buttill's be 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:03.800 running out of the slot per usual. They got a 0:12:03.960 --> 0:12:05.640 rookie tight end. Now he was gonna get most of 0:12:05.679 --> 0:12:08.920 the snaps. Michael Meyer and then Austin Hooper. They're no 0:12:09.080 --> 0:12:12.319 Darren Waller, at least Meyer isn't yet. So I think 0:12:12.679 --> 0:12:15.280 people are sleeping on Myers right now in PPR leagues. 0:12:15.280 --> 0:12:18.000 I think he could finish inside the top thirty. 0:12:19.120 --> 0:12:21.000 Yeah, I'm with you on that. That seems very reasonable. 0:12:21.080 --> 0:12:25.959 Jimmy Garoppolo does not excite fantasy owners, but Mac Joe. Yeah, 0:12:26.120 --> 0:12:27.840 but rather he's better. 0:12:27.720 --> 0:12:32.400 Than Mac Jones. Yeah, and he's a He's a quarterback 0:12:32.400 --> 0:12:36.440 that we kind of cater to Myers play. DeVante Adams 0:12:36.520 --> 0:12:37.280 not so much now. 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:39.920 Adams is one of my big avoid guys this year. 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:43.080 It's funny you gave wide receiver fifty seven. I'm giving 0:12:43.120 --> 0:12:45.960 wide receiver fifty eight. We didn't plan this, No, it's 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.120 how it's worked out for both running back and wide receiver. 0:12:48.800 --> 0:12:52.679 Houston wide receiver Nico Collins. This is a long time 0:12:52.800 --> 0:12:56.160 me and Scott Fish have been waiting for our opportunity 0:12:56.240 --> 0:12:58.640 and it's finally here. So he's entering his third year. 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:03.000 He is now the Texas undisputed number one wide receiver. 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:08.120 Nico Collins shown steady improvement over years one and two, 0:13:08.280 --> 0:13:09.920 and I get the feeling it's all going to come 0:13:09.960 --> 0:13:13.559 together right here. Late last year after remember when Brandon 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:16.880 Cooks got hurt and then he like basically refused to play. Yeah, 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:19.679 Collins had a chance before he got hurt. At the 0:13:19.720 --> 0:13:20.880 end of the year, he had a chance to be 0:13:21.240 --> 0:13:25.560 the Texans primary wide out in four games. In those 0:13:25.600 --> 0:13:31.400 four games, he averaged nine targets per game. Wait, wait 0:13:31.840 --> 0:13:35.640 nine times there it is five receptions. 0:13:35.800 --> 0:13:37.880 No off season for Principal Mooney. 0:13:38.040 --> 0:13:40.600 No, well, nine time. I think he's out of jail, 0:13:40.679 --> 0:13:44.880 which is pretty important. Five receptions, forty five yards and 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:47.920 half a touchdown per game. And that was with Davis 0:13:47.960 --> 0:13:50.240 Mills and Kyle Allen and Jeff Triskoll. Remember they were 0:13:50.280 --> 0:13:53.160 mixing and matching quarterbacks for a while then Nico Collins 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:55.760 was in the middle of that bit. To give you 0:13:55.840 --> 0:13:58.880 a sense of fantasy wise, what Collins did in those 0:13:59.000 --> 0:14:04.400 four games, he gave you the same fantasy output as t. 0:14:04.679 --> 0:14:09.920 Higgins on the season to put a name on nine targets, 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:12.480 five receptions, forty five yards and half a touchdown per game. 0:14:13.040 --> 0:14:15.719 So while it's super dangerous to extrapolate four games into 0:14:15.760 --> 0:14:19.000 seventeen games, you should know that it's fun. 0:14:19.080 --> 0:14:19.240 Though. 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:22.280 It is fun, isn't it. As the Texans go too 0:14:22.320 --> 0:14:24.320 wide out For those four games, he was on pace 0:14:24.400 --> 0:14:27.360 for one hundred and fifty three targets, eight hundred yards, 0:14:27.400 --> 0:14:29.280 and eight and a half touchdowns. Now they've changed coaching 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:31.800 staffs and blah blah blah and other things. But here's 0:14:31.840 --> 0:14:34.080 the important thing. Nico Collins gets better in his third year, 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.760 and CJ. Stroud's going to be a huge and potentially 0:14:36.840 --> 0:14:39.480 huge upgrade of quarterback even in his rookie year over 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:42.320 what Davis Mills and Kyle Allen and Jeffers Skulkuld bring 0:14:42.400 --> 0:14:47.240 to the table. Nico Collins cheap starter. Let's take a break. 0:14:47.600 --> 0:14:50.760 When we come back let's talk about our cheap tight 0:14:50.920 --> 0:14:55.080 ends and our cheap flex players when we come back. 0:14:55.160 --> 0:15:05.040 Get stay tuned, Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charging 0:15:05.040 --> 0:15:07.640 and Brian Johnson with you. We're going through our cheap starters. 0:15:07.720 --> 0:15:12.240 These are a team's unquestionable starting player, but his ADP, 0:15:12.440 --> 0:15:15.360 for whatever reason, is strangely low. And we think you're 0:15:15.360 --> 0:15:18.120 gonna get You're gonna get valuable reps and opportunities out 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:20.000 of these guys who've already given you quarterbacks, running back 0:15:20.000 --> 0:15:22.920 to wide receivers. Let's go to the always mercurial tight 0:15:23.040 --> 0:15:24.600 end position. Brian, who you got? 0:15:25.200 --> 0:15:28.560 I'm going. I feel like I shouldn't be going this deep, 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.000 but based on his ADP, it is deep because he's 0:15:31.040 --> 0:15:33.400 going off the board is tight end eighteen. No, we're 0:15:33.400 --> 0:15:34.440 not going Dan Arnold. 0:15:35.160 --> 0:15:36.560 That's the perfect smot for Dan Arnold. 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:40.000 I will be drafted in the scott Fish Bowl. He's 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:40.600 on the Eagles. 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:41.960 He's on the Eagles. Okay, got it. 0:15:42.240 --> 0:15:44.440 One one misstep by Dallas Goddard. 0:15:44.440 --> 0:15:47.520 That's it's easy. Yeah, dan Arnold season baby, but last 0:15:47.560 --> 0:15:50.200 year he was it was one misstep for Evan Ingram, right. 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:53.240 Yeah, and you know he would have done what Evan 0:15:53.400 --> 0:15:55.720 Ingram did. If they didn't sign Evan, it might have 0:15:55.760 --> 0:15:58.560 been better. Arnold hasn't just had his chance, but it 0:15:58.600 --> 0:16:02.400 will not none of the fourteen. But we're talking Gerald 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:02.960 Everett here. 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:06.520 Oh yeah, yeah, the fantasy experts are all over Gerald. 0:16:06.560 --> 0:16:10.560 Ever, it was just an underachieving offense overall for the 0:16:10.680 --> 0:16:13.680 Chargers last year, but Everett had career highs and targets, 0:16:13.760 --> 0:16:18.800 receptions and receiving yards if you forgot in the playoffs 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.480 sense of the Jaguars. The Chargers lost, but Everett went 0:16:21.520 --> 0:16:24.920 off six catches, one hundred and nine yards and a touchdown, 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:28.400 And I just think that's scratching. You know, the career highs. 0:16:28.440 --> 0:16:30.720 They weren't eye popping numbers, but it was his best 0:16:30.840 --> 0:16:32.960 year as a pro. But I think that's just scratching 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:34.960 the surface of what ever it can do in this 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:37.880 revamped offense that again underachieved last year. But now they 0:16:37.920 --> 0:16:40.680 have new offensive coordinator Kellen Moore, come over from the 0:16:40.720 --> 0:16:43.640 Cowboys who let him go because he was scoring too 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:50.800 fast whatever, but a prize acquisition for their coaching staff, 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:54.200 that offensive coordinator, and last year Everett didn't see a 0:16:54.280 --> 0:16:56.120 ton of volume. But I think we've seen an uptick 0:16:56.200 --> 0:16:59.520 in it. I know we all kind of like Donald Parham, 0:16:59.600 --> 0:17:00.440 but they do. 0:17:00.640 --> 0:17:02.640 But I can only wait so long for him to 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:04.479 stay healthy and put it all together, and maybe it's 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:05.280 just not gonna happen. 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.080 And then there's there's Trey McKitty too, But man, Everett 0:17:08.320 --> 0:17:11.200 really flashed at times last year. One of nine tight 0:17:11.320 --> 0:17:14.480 ends with three hundred plus yards after the catch. 0:17:14.640 --> 0:17:16.360 Yeah, he's really good that way. 0:17:16.440 --> 0:17:18.440 He was one of eight tight ends with at least 0:17:18.560 --> 0:17:21.520 one hundred yards after contact. So he's kind of a 0:17:21.600 --> 0:17:24.720 beast too. He's mobile, He's a beast. So I don't know. 0:17:24.800 --> 0:17:28.960 Tight End eighteen, if you know the cards fall in 0:17:29.000 --> 0:17:32.119 its favor, he could. I don't see. It's not too 0:17:32.160 --> 0:17:34.080 far fetched. He finishes as a top ten tight end 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:34.960 this year in that often. 0:17:35.040 --> 0:17:38.600 Ye, it's possible. So everyone think Justin Herbert's gonna bounce 0:17:38.680 --> 0:17:42.960 back healthy. Played last year on the broken sternum and 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:46.200 the shoulder injury that needed surgery after the season. Everybody 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:48.679 thinks Herbert's sitting out a much better year this year. 0:17:48.720 --> 0:17:50.000 I've been reaching everybody gets better. 0:17:50.040 --> 0:17:52.359 I've been reaching around on Everett many times, and if 0:17:52.400 --> 0:17:55.000 I'm doing the Chargers stack I've been reaching two rounds 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.680 just to ensure I get ever it makes sense heir 0:17:57.800 --> 0:18:01.360 with Herbert and Friends. Oh yeah, I love Effett right 0:18:01.400 --> 0:18:03.600 now and I hope I continue to love him throughout 0:18:03.600 --> 0:18:03.879 the year. 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:08.720 I'm going with the aforementioned Evan Ingram, who finished last 0:18:08.800 --> 0:18:11.480 year's tight End six going off the board at pick 0:18:11.520 --> 0:18:14.400 one hundred, and there aren't that many good tight ends 0:18:14.440 --> 0:18:16.160 to go around. Why are people waiting on a good 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:20.960 tight end? I assume that people think he's not gonna 0:18:21.000 --> 0:18:24.080 do tight End six again because Calvin Ridley's back, you know, 0:18:24.200 --> 0:18:27.080 and maybe that Ridley's going to siphon off some reception. 0:18:27.200 --> 0:18:29.639 Thing is the price tag on Ingram was what it 0:18:29.800 --> 0:18:33.840 is on Everett right now right last year? That much people, 0:18:34.080 --> 0:18:35.800 you know, they pump the brakes a little bit. That's 0:18:35.800 --> 0:18:36.760 probably a factor too. 0:18:37.240 --> 0:18:39.320 But even if Ridley's great, I'm just as you know, 0:18:39.359 --> 0:18:40.639 because you've been on the show for a long time 0:18:40.640 --> 0:18:42.359 and our listeners have been listening this long time. I 0:18:42.480 --> 0:18:44.720 just think, you know, rising tides raise all ships, and 0:18:44.760 --> 0:18:46.600 I think Ridley just makes the whole offense better, gives 0:18:46.640 --> 0:18:50.200 everybody more opportunities, including Ingram. Now he's under the franchise 0:18:50.280 --> 0:18:52.960 tag this year. He will not get the franchise tag 0:18:53.040 --> 0:18:56.040 again next year. And because you got to pay like 0:18:56.160 --> 0:18:58.000 a I don't know, like a fifty percent bump or 0:18:58.040 --> 0:19:01.080 something in year two. Right, So it's a contract year 0:19:01.119 --> 0:19:01.480 for Ingram. 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:04.840 We like that. No thread of Dan Arnold, right, I mean. 0:19:04.800 --> 0:19:07.119 The constant thread of Darnauto is not there anymore. They 0:19:07.240 --> 0:19:13.800 drafted Strange, Yeah, Brent Strange Range, right, But he's uh, 0:19:14.040 --> 0:19:16.280 but he is. He's viewed as a long term project. 0:19:16.480 --> 0:19:18.320 So not not it can to be a factor this 0:19:18.480 --> 0:19:21.560 year now, So Trevor Lawrence, now year two of competent coaching. 0:19:21.600 --> 0:19:23.440 We're gonna throw out the year one. This is effectively 0:19:23.480 --> 0:19:27.000 his sophomore year. Lawrence gets even better. Doug Peterson's gonna 0:19:27.000 --> 0:19:29.080 trust Trevor Lawrence to pass even more than he did 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:32.040 last year. They were the twelfth highest pass rate last year. 0:19:32.080 --> 0:19:33.520 They could be the They could be a top five 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:36.560 pass rate this year. Peterson's always loved his tight ends too. 0:19:36.840 --> 0:19:41.080 You know, he used Dallas Goddard with great results. He's 0:19:42.000 --> 0:19:44.000 I don't know, this is his new Dallas Goddard. It's 0:19:44.040 --> 0:19:46.160 Evan Ingram. And by the way, both of those guys 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:48.320 that looked up there how often they were standing in 0:19:48.400 --> 0:19:51.119 the slot to just see is the usage really the 0:19:51.160 --> 0:19:55.639 same under under Doug Peterson forty four percent for Goddard 0:19:55.680 --> 0:19:58.320