Speaker 1: Welcome in everybody to Fantasy Pros. This is the Tuesday
Speaker 1: live stream. It is me Joey p joe Pisapia with
Speaker 1: me as always my co host who has a structured
Speaker 1: settlement bud he needs cash. Now it's de Bro Derek Brown,
Speaker 1: the King of Bros. And here we are taking your
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Speaker 1: the YouTube channel. More to come, But we got a
Speaker 1: lot of news that is breaking right now. In fact,
Speaker 1: some of it a little prophetic. If you watched yesterday's
Speaker 1: program on the Waiver Wires show, a few things have
Speaker 1: come true that were predictions here. First, let's start with
Speaker 1: the Deontay Johnson trade the Baltimore Ravens. We were trying
Speaker 1: to find who's left in terms of trade market, like
Speaker 1: we said it, you know, the Adam's already gone, Cooper's
Speaker 1: already gone, DeAndre Hopkins already gone. Now Deontay Johnson's gone
Speaker 1: to the Ravens. So let's talk about the fallout from
Speaker 1: that d because this is I think a really good
Speaker 1: move for the Ravens, a good move for the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 1: I bet the under on their three and a half
Speaker 1: win total just this morning, because if you look at
Speaker 1: the rest of the schedule, it is ugly. Let's talk
Speaker 1: about this because there's definitely winners and losers, and we
Speaker 1: have to understand too, it's gonna take a little bit
Speaker 1: of time probably for him to get acclimated to this offense,
Speaker 1: so it might not be an immediate thing, right, So
Speaker 1: it's gonna take a couple of weeks. So, Derek, what
Speaker 1: does the Deontay Johnson trade mean to this Ravens offense?
Speaker 1: And more importantly, what does it mean to Zay Flowers
Speaker 1: and Rashad Bateman.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think Rashad Bateman stays in the role
Speaker 2: that he's been in the entire time. I think the
Speaker 2: biggest change that I think is coming from Baltimore is
Speaker 2: more eleven personnel, so less twelve personnel. So I think
Speaker 2: the one of the fallouts here that I think a
Speaker 2: lot of people are immediately gonna go to Deontay. What
Speaker 2: happens to him probably a volatile wide receiver three, much
Speaker 2: like Amari Cooper. Until he's fully ingrained in this offense,
Speaker 2: Zay Flowers probably goes from being a wide receiver two
Speaker 2: to a wide receiver three, maybe a low end two
Speaker 2: on a weekly basis until Deonta is in grain and
Speaker 2: then he falls back into wide receiver three territory. But
Speaker 2: the big guy that I want to talk about here,
Speaker 2: Joey is is really Mark Andrews. If you're gonna run
Speaker 2: a lot more eleven personnel, the Raven's got to say, okay,
Speaker 2: unless they split the snaps for the tight ends straight
Speaker 2: down the middle, you're picking and choosing. Okay, well, you're
Speaker 2: playing one tight end these eleven personnel, three wide sets.
Speaker 2: Who's that gonna be? And I think it's gonna be
Speaker 2: clearly Mark Andrews because Isaiah likely has done pretty much
Speaker 2: next to nothing since week one, so I think low
Speaker 2: ki Andrews and maybe his snapshare and route share rising
Speaker 2: is one of the key ways that I think people
Speaker 2: should go out maybe try to trade for Mark Andrews,
Speaker 2: especially if people look at this as more of a
Speaker 2: ding against Andrews. But any of the thoughts on the
Speaker 2: Ravens for I know, we want to kick this over
Speaker 2: to the Carolina cydril fast.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Look from the all the Carolina side matters, To
Speaker 1: be honest with you, it does. It does. Yeah, because
Speaker 1: with the prolific Brice Young playing quarterback or maybe Andy
Speaker 1: Dalton for another couple of weeks. But look, here's what
Speaker 1: it means to me, Zay Flowers. I think it's a
Speaker 1: little bit of a hit here for sure. I think
Speaker 1: Rashan Bateman becomes a ghost like I think that's it.
Speaker 1: I think that drop was in corrigible in that moment,
Speaker 1: in that big individual game, and the Ravens are just
Speaker 1: not having it. The Ravens recognize that they are a
Speaker 1: team right now that is fighting for first place with
Speaker 1: a Pittsburgh Steeler team that is very confident and playing
Speaker 1: good football and exceeding a lot of expectations. And this
Speaker 1: is going to be the best chance the Ravens have
Speaker 1: to win a Super Bowl that they've had in the
Speaker 1: last five years. This is the team with Derreck Henry.
Speaker 1: You put your chips all in there. I would like
Speaker 1: to see them maybe pick up some help on the
Speaker 1: defensive side too. We'll see if they continue to make
Speaker 1: some move but especially in the secondary, maybe they can
Speaker 1: pick up somebody there. But overall, again you give it
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. I think it's a lateral move
Speaker 1: for his fantasy value, just a tad because of the
Speaker 1: style of offense. And the game scripts they might be in.
Speaker 1: So I don't think it's like this huge win. If
Speaker 1: you can get somebody to overpay on Deontey Johnson, you
Speaker 1: do it. That's cool. Let's go other than that. I
Speaker 1: think we just kind of, you know, tread water with that.
Speaker 1: All right. On the flip side, what do you think
Speaker 1: of the situation with now looking over at the Carolina
Speaker 1: Panthers opening up some more target share, however uninspiring that
Speaker 1: might be.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's definitely we're gonna see big
Speaker 2: bumps in target volume for Jalen Cocher and Xavier Leget
Speaker 2: And depending on your league size and stuff, both of
Speaker 2: these guys could be out on the waiver wire and
Speaker 2: they need to be picked up. I mean, is Bryce
Speaker 2: Young tossing passes to you on a weekly basis inspiring? No,
Speaker 2: But if it's Andy Dalton, this offense bounces back to
Speaker 2: a certain extent with Andy Dalton under center, then yes,
Speaker 2: it's more inspiring. And I think, like, especially in deeper
Speaker 2: league formats, Coker is a guy that should be rostered.
Speaker 2: He's popping off, he's having good games and stuff, and
Speaker 2: I think he's gonna continue to send in this offense
Speaker 2: and leget I mean, come on, Joey, what do we
Speaker 2: think Like he probably sees a floor of what seven
Speaker 2: targets on a weekly basis, maybe gets into the double
Speaker 2: digits moving forward. It definitely plays that. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 2: look a little bit, but I'm not saying exactly, but
Speaker 2: volumes volume, dude, volume is volume.
Speaker 1: But in this offense, I mean it's just bad. Like
Speaker 1: I mean, if you've got Carolina Panthers left, I mean,
Speaker 1: you're you're gonna have a bad time. Also having a
Speaker 1: bad time Stefan dis Biggs managers because he's gonna be
Speaker 1: out for the season. So here we go. I passed
Speaker 1: on every I don't have any big shares personally because
Speaker 1: I didn't like the ADP. It was way too close
Speaker 1: to Nico Collins for me, and I was an Ico guy.
Speaker 1: But here we are. So Nico's not gonna be ready
Speaker 1: this week. We'll see about next week. In the meantime,
Speaker 1: it's tanked ol and I kind of brought up John
Speaker 1: Metchi yesterday and I know Pat kind of, you know,
Speaker 1: laughed it off. But they've got a Thursday night football
Speaker 1: game and Mechi played in Alabama. Mechi is a good
Speaker 1: possession wide receiver and a guy that I think can
Speaker 1: help you in the short term if you really need,
Speaker 1: you know, a little PPR assistance. What are you looking
Speaker 1: for here in this Again, it's a short term fix
Speaker 1: for this Texans wide receiver group for maybe a week,
Speaker 1: maybe two, Yeah, I think.
Speaker 2: And there's rumblings out there that Houston wants to make
Speaker 2: a move for a wide receiver. And it's kind of
Speaker 2: like when you go first pass, because I'm I've got
Speaker 2: the teams and as you were talking right now, I'm
Speaker 2: rolling through the teams and I'm like, who the heck
Speaker 2: can they trade for? Like, who's even out there that
Speaker 2: like the only name that I can come up with
Speaker 2: that maybe is a trade target for Houston. Maybe Jacoby Myers,
Speaker 2: Like who outside of him? Who would Houston beginning that's
Speaker 2: gonna help them in the short term. So like, yeah,
Speaker 2: Metchi could play some snaps. I think who you're probably
Speaker 2: gonna see step up and play more snaps than I
Speaker 2: already wrote up this game for the primer for the
Speaker 2: week as probably Xavier Hutchinson had a sixty one percent
Speaker 2: route chare, but he's not earning targets. I think the
Speaker 2: bigger thing is what we're looking at for the stretch run.
Speaker 2: And there is rumblings out there that Nico Collins could
Speaker 2: be back. I mean Nico Collins rest of the season,
Speaker 2: assuming he's healthy. Like, what is he like top three
Speaker 2: wide receivers this week? I mean, but when he comes
Speaker 2: back Joey, So that's okay, would say this week though.
Speaker 1: He's already a wide receiver. It's top ten wide receiver.
Speaker 2: Anyway, No, but like which is what I was five,
Speaker 2: top three possibly rest of season tree, but but definitely
Speaker 2: top top man. He's gonna get a thirty percent a
Speaker 2: wide receiver.
Speaker 1: On I know, a wide receiver on a two and
Speaker 1: sixteen that maybe you know could be available. Why don't
Speaker 1: you call it the Jets? If DeVante Adams isn't busy,
Speaker 1: if he wants to go to the Houston, one more
Speaker 1: thing to get to and then we're gonna get to
Speaker 1: your questions here on the live stream, because we know
Speaker 1: we're here to get your questions answered. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: that in a second. But another big piece of news,
Speaker 1: Anthony Richardson is not the starter at least this week.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be Joe Flacco. And I'm not surprised This
Speaker 1: is the business of football. So I know everyone hates
Speaker 1: it and all the dynasty nerves out there crying into
Speaker 1: their you know, sleeper app right now, But I don't care,
Speaker 1: Like this is what you do to try to stay
Speaker 1: relevant and win some football games, because I think you're
Speaker 1: looking at the AFC and looking at the landscape. So
Speaker 1: the teams you thought were going to be in that mix,
Speaker 1: you know, they might not be, you know, And and
Speaker 1: Houston continues to have these injuries right before them. So, yeah,
Speaker 1: did you make the investment in Richardson? Is he still
Speaker 1: your long term plan? I think so. But for the
Speaker 1: next three or four weeks, for the next month of football,
Speaker 1: you gott to see if you can get some wins.
Speaker 1: And I gotta say, from a fantasy perspective, at least
Speaker 1: in a redraft, I'm excited about this. I'm excited for
Speaker 1: all my Michael Pittman cheers to have life again and
Speaker 1: this offense overall to start moving the football because Joe
Speaker 1: Flacco won games and I hate to break it to you,
Speaker 1: Richardson looks terrible and also unfortunately, Richardson looks defeated, and
Speaker 1: that is something you cannot have. That combination is bad.
Speaker 1: So I know we disagree on this, which is gonna
Speaker 1: be fun. So I want to hear your point of view.
Speaker 1: Tell everybody what you think about this move the cults
Speaker 1: have made.
Speaker 2: I think this is Jim Orsay oft has Jim Rsay
Speaker 2: written all over it, and I think this is a
Speaker 2: terrible move for a franchise for now and in for
Speaker 2: the future. Like I understand that Joe Flacco has looked better,
Speaker 2: I'm not telling anybody that Anthony Richardson has looked amazing.
Speaker 2: But what did you think about this as a franchise
Speaker 2: when you drafted the kid. You knew he didn't have
Speaker 2: a lot of starts, you knew that he needed to play.
Speaker 2: You knew he was raw coming in, and you knew
Speaker 2: it was going to take time and there were going
Speaker 2: to be a lot of bumps along the way. And
Speaker 2: if that's not what all the coaching staff and Jim
Speaker 2: Mersay were expecting when they were lying to themselves. So
Speaker 2: making this move, this is to me, this is the
Speaker 2: playbook of how you mid to me. This is the
Speaker 2: playbook of how you crush a young quarterback's confidence, like
Speaker 2: benching him when arguably like, look, I know he's got
Speaker 2: a lot of bad film this this year. I get that.
Speaker 2: You go back and you look at last week's film.
Speaker 2: His wide receivers did him no like service last year.
Speaker 2: I mean last week they dropped a lot of catchuble balls.
Speaker 2: They had bad game in their own right. I'm not
Speaker 2: saying that Richardson's played good, but to me, this is
Speaker 2: how you capsize a young quarterback. Take away his conference himself.
Speaker 1: He was crushed already on the sideline. He was crush
Speaker 1: at the press conference already. All this is is to see,
Speaker 1: this is business, This is impersonal right now. And if
Speaker 1: you and it's bad, you can't handle this. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you can't handle this, then you wink it not
Speaker 1: for long. It's Scott Bogwin likes said, that's an NFL
Speaker 1: stands for right. You're not gonna last in this league.
Speaker 1: This is a business decision, and you know what, I
Speaker 1: think it's a good one. And you and I we're
Speaker 1: in a lot of things. I completely disagree on this
Speaker 1: terrible NFC East is a home on AFC East is
Speaker 1: a wasteland six and two bills me, somebody else stinks.
Speaker 1: Hold on, I'm getting there. So everybody thought that. Everybody
Speaker 1: thought the Jets, and everybody thought the Dolphins were going
Speaker 1: to be in the playoffs. They playoff teams. Okay, the
Speaker 1: Chiefs are seven and l fine, the Broncos are five
Speaker 1: to three. Are you that worse of a team than
Speaker 1: the Broncos? Maybe? Offensively? No, you can outscore the Broncos.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at the Chargers again there four and three.
Speaker 1: If you're the Colt, you're sitting at four and four
Speaker 1: and you're looking at the AFC North and the Bengals
Speaker 1: have a worse record than you and sort of the Browns.
Speaker 1: You are very much in this thing. You are very
Speaker 1: much in the playoff mix, and if you play well
Speaker 1: for the next four weeks, you are going to be
Speaker 1: in that wildcard conversation because the AFC is underwhelmed this year.
Speaker 1: I totally get this. I understand it.
Speaker 2: And that doesn't know what for you in the next
Speaker 2: two years though, like Joe Flacco, does what for you
Speaker 2: next year? The year after that?
Speaker 1: Like, so what didn't you get a wildcard? So what?
Speaker 1: That's exactly what you have a You have a head
Speaker 1: coach here who went to the playoffs in his first
Speaker 1: year last year with Gardner Minshew's quarterback, and you know what,
Speaker 1: you went back to Richardson this year, and maybe Richardson
Speaker 1: isn't is just raw tools and he's just a glorified
Speaker 1: version of Trey Lance at the end of the day.
Speaker 1: And I know nobody wants to hear that. No, maybe
Speaker 1: he is. Maybe he is. That'll do it for us,
Speaker 1: But the story of the game goes on for Derek Brown.
Speaker 1: I'm Joey p. We'll see you next time. Kids, Happy
Speaker 1: hunting on the waiver wire.
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Speaker 1: Joe Flacco is going to take the Cults to the
Speaker 1: playoffs and they'll second. And Shane he made the playoffs
Speaker 1: with Minshew and Flaco.
Speaker 2: Welcome to Darnold or Twining yourr's time in Indy. I'm sorry,
Speaker 2: Colts fans,