WEBVTT - The Peacock-Off 0:00:01.160 --> 0:00:04.880 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of I Heart Radio. 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:10.639 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from I Heart Radio, 0:00:11.119 --> 0:00:14.880 your weekly source for the nation's best fantasy speculation and 0:00:15.000 --> 0:00:24.480 advice now dot Com. Here's your host. Welcome to Fantasy 0:00:24.520 --> 0:00:26.880 Football Weekly. I am Paul Giarchie and my co host 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:29.880 is Brian Johnson. Today we will be joined a little 0:00:29.960 --> 0:00:33.040 later by Matt Harrison. We begin, as we do with 0:00:33.200 --> 0:00:36.200 most of our preseason shows, with some news from around 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:39.080 the league. Training camp is getting started now. This year, 0:00:39.240 --> 0:00:41.440 not only do we not have the preseason games, but 0:00:41.440 --> 0:00:45.879 we also have very little, if any media access to 0:00:46.440 --> 0:00:49.640 the training camps, so we don't have a lot of 0:00:49.640 --> 0:00:52.560 eyes on players. It's really we're really gonna be working 0:00:52.600 --> 0:00:55.640 with a lot less information than we've had before. But 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:57.920 that's not to say there isn't some news from around 0:00:57.960 --> 0:01:00.480 the league, and UM and Brian, I want to just 0:01:00.720 --> 0:01:02.920 bounce back and forth between some of the teams that 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.600 we we know we want to talk about, and let's 0:01:05.640 --> 0:01:09.360 begin with the Oakland Raiders. What have you got? Derek 0:01:09.440 --> 0:01:11.800 Carr wants respect? Do you want to give it to him? 0:01:11.800 --> 0:01:14.000 Because I don't. I do. I think he's a bounced 0:01:14.000 --> 0:01:16.080 I think he's a bounce back candidate with improvements and 0:01:16.319 --> 0:01:19.520 the receivers and he's basically free. He's got about ten 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:23.479 wide receivers now to work done right, but he seems motivated. 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:25.240 He can throw the ball behind his back. I saw 0:01:25.240 --> 0:01:27.280 a pretty impressive video, but no, not a ton coming 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:29.800 out of Oakland. Other than that, I've note Henry Ruggs 0:01:29.800 --> 0:01:31.600 is going to play out of the slot, which I 0:01:31.640 --> 0:01:34.720 think is not good news from a fantasy standpoint. He 0:01:34.760 --> 0:01:37.119 only ran seventeen percent of his plays from the slot 0:01:37.319 --> 0:01:40.800 last year, and Hunter Renfroe is still there and he's 0:01:40.800 --> 0:01:43.679 a good slot receiver, and so I that to me, 0:01:43.880 --> 0:01:47.360 this was news that i've that made me drop Ruggs 0:01:48.280 --> 0:01:51.560 a good tages Mots in my preseason ranking. Move Waller 0:01:51.600 --> 0:01:53.920 to the outside receivers spot right. They got, they got, 0:01:54.720 --> 0:01:57.800 they got session. Well it paid off kind of. I 0:01:57.840 --> 0:02:00.320 got more tight end ob session to talk about later. Ackers. 0:02:00.360 --> 0:02:02.720 Devin Funch is opted out, leaving the number two receiver 0:02:02.840 --> 0:02:06.560 jobs seemingly to Alan Lazard. The undrafted free agent got 0:02:06.600 --> 0:02:09.400 pushed into action last year with injuries and ineptitude to 0:02:09.480 --> 0:02:12.280 the rest of the team's receivers. Lazard started three games 0:02:12.360 --> 0:02:14.440 last year. You may or may not remember, but was 0:02:14.560 --> 0:02:18.920 mostly nondescript. He topped seventy yards one time last year, 0:02:18.960 --> 0:02:20.840 but has the opportunity to start here. It's still in 0:02:20.880 --> 0:02:24.280 Aaron Rodgers led offense. So you know, theoretically the Packers 0:02:24.280 --> 0:02:26.840 and Aaron Lazard will get better this year. Let's go 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:31.839 to the Buffalo Bills. Trade Davious White, cornerback almost opted out, 0:02:32.040 --> 0:02:34.200 but he didn't. He did not, and that's only important 0:02:34.280 --> 0:02:37.480 because now he's going to blank a wide receiver one 0:02:37.600 --> 0:02:39.840 every week. If you don't know Trdavious White, you'll get 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:41.440 to know him when the season starts, because you do 0:02:41.520 --> 0:02:43.920 not want your wide receiver going up against Trdavious White. 0:02:43.960 --> 0:02:46.680 But he will play. Did not opt out. The Texans. 0:02:46.680 --> 0:02:49.800 Bill O'Brien says that will Fuller is fully recovered from 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:52.840 his sports hernia surgery and quote looks as good as 0:02:52.840 --> 0:02:56.400 he's ever looked. With DeAndre Hopkins out, Fuller might be 0:02:56.440 --> 0:03:00.160 the biggest boom or bust wide receiver out there. He's 0:03:00.200 --> 0:03:02.760 got great quarterbacking and if you told me he could 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:06.720 play sixteen games, Brian if if will Fuller play sixteen 0:03:06.760 --> 0:03:10.720 games with DeShawn Watson is a quarterback how high could 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:14.920 he finish among receivers? Will Fuller play sixteen games? How 0:03:14.919 --> 0:03:16.520 many monkeys are gonna fly out of my butt? But 0:03:16.639 --> 0:03:20.040 if he does that, he's a top fifteen wide recepeci 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:23.000 exactly what I was thinking, Top fifteen widely. Biggest boom 0:03:23.040 --> 0:03:25.960 and bus receiver out there I believe is Will Fuller. 0:03:26.240 --> 0:03:29.720 Let's go to the Cleveland Browns. The only news I got. 0:03:29.800 --> 0:03:32.280 I guess it's kind of big news. No starters as 0:03:32.280 --> 0:03:36.440 far as I know, but four offensive linemen opted out. 0:03:37.000 --> 0:03:39.880 That's not good. Three guards in the tackle, so we'll see. 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:42.200 Hopefully don't have any injuries up front, so they're gonna 0:03:42.200 --> 0:03:46.840 be in trouble. The Colts offensive coordinators Nick Sirianni said 0:03:46.840 --> 0:03:51.080 that the passing offense runs through t Y Hilton. He said, quote, 0:03:51.120 --> 0:03:54.240 I expect to see a twenty eighteen version of t 0:03:54.400 --> 0:03:57.720 Y Hilton if he stays healthy. There's no doubt that's 0:03:57.920 --> 0:04:01.080 what we will see. He's still the main piece of 0:04:01.120 --> 0:04:04.680 this offense. Those are strong words about t Y Hilton, 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:07.440 guy nobody's interested in right now because he's coming up 0:04:07.480 --> 0:04:09.400 that bad year last year with Jakobe ber said and 0:04:09.400 --> 0:04:12.600 the injuries and everything way under the radar, I think, 0:04:12.640 --> 0:04:14.520 and going far too low. He's my number wide receive, 0:04:14.600 --> 0:04:16.960 my wide receiver number twenty. Yeah, I choose for that 0:04:17.040 --> 0:04:19.560 ceiling any day he's healthy. I like it too, And 0:04:19.560 --> 0:04:22.560 and the best quarterbacking he will have had since Andrew Luck. Obviously, 0:04:23.080 --> 0:04:25.800 let's go to the New York Jets lost their two 0:04:25.800 --> 0:04:29.200 best defensive players in Jamal Adams safety via trade and C. J. 0:04:29.360 --> 0:04:31.960 Mosley opted out. So that doesn't means for fantasy purposes, 0:04:32.240 --> 0:04:36.039 more point chasing garbage time for that Jets offense. It's 0:04:36.040 --> 0:04:38.280 get a lot of Sam Donald garbage time. And there's 0:04:38.520 --> 0:04:41.640 some some some steam around Levian Bills. He's motivated in shape, 0:04:41.680 --> 0:04:44.920 they say going around RB eighteen could be value there, 0:04:44.920 --> 0:04:46.720 but could be a bust. Well we shall see now 0:04:46.720 --> 0:04:48.840 who I don't have a strong stance on Levian Bill. 0:04:48.920 --> 0:04:51.920 I have stopped paying any attention to the preseason quote 0:04:51.960 --> 0:04:54.720 in the best shape life stuff right, That stuff never 0:04:54.800 --> 0:04:57.320 seems to really pan out. The Chiefs, as you already know, 0:04:57.600 --> 0:05:00.280 lost Damien Williams to opt out. But did you catch 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:06.560 this little bit? They're starting right guard Lauren DuVernay. Tardiff 0:05:07.080 --> 0:05:10.280 opted out as well. He's a doctor, that's right. He is. 0:05:10.720 --> 0:05:13.920 You may know him as doctor duven A Tardiff. He 0:05:14.040 --> 0:05:17.040 spent the offseason working in a long term care facility 0:05:17.120 --> 0:05:20.760 in Montreal. He's a Canadian. The teams signed journeyman Collectio Smile, 0:05:20.880 --> 0:05:23.520 who's going to start at right guard. Presumable likely started 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:25.320 right guard in his place, but assembly is on his 0:05:25.440 --> 0:05:27.920 fourth team overall, in his third team in three years, 0:05:27.960 --> 0:05:30.440 and has been a total bus since his gigantic free 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:33.680 agent signing with with the Raiders about four or five 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:36.400 years ago. So of note, they're a bit of a 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:40.400 probable downgrade to that offensive line without him. Let's go 0:05:40.560 --> 0:05:43.560 to the Denver Broncos. Uh, nothing really out of Denver. 0:05:44.000 --> 0:05:46.080 Just a trendy team with a lot of new toys 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.640 that people are excited to see. Okay, let's go to 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:50.479 the Rams. And we touched on this a little bit 0:05:50.560 --> 0:05:52.920 last week, but just want to reiterate this. Sean McVeigh 0:05:52.920 --> 0:05:54.400 says that they're going to use a running back by 0:05:54.400 --> 0:05:57.760 committee modeled after San Francisco's hot hand approach that they 0:05:57.839 --> 0:06:01.880 used last year. Um the quote. The quote from McVeigh 0:06:02.000 --> 0:06:04.360 is will go with the hot hand or whoever really 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:08.240 expresses himself as deserving the carries. We've got four backs 0:06:08.320 --> 0:06:11.239 that we feel are all NFL legitimate starting caliber backs, 0:06:11.520 --> 0:06:13.400 and we're not feeling like you've got a force carries 0:06:13.520 --> 0:06:18.320 or touches to any of the four. That's horrible news 0:06:18.839 --> 0:06:22.359 for fantasy owners and enough to to make me feel 0:06:22.440 --> 0:06:25.920 like I'm just not gonna dabble in any of the 0:06:26.040 --> 0:06:29.880 rams back. I am somewhat changes away from that situation. 0:06:30.080 --> 0:06:33.080 Let's go to the Dolphins. Um doesn't affect Vante Parker 0:06:33.200 --> 0:06:36.360 or Preston Williams, but Alan Hearns and Albert Wilson have 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.279 opted out, and that does targets well, it opens up 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:41.640 We're talking to them and like a sicky and someone 0:06:41.800 --> 0:06:44.600 named Isaiah Ford. He might may have not heard that name, 0:06:44.640 --> 0:06:46.839 but might talk about him a little later in the show. 0:06:46.960 --> 0:06:49.200 We'll look forward to that. The Vikings. Dalvin Cook did 0:06:49.279 --> 0:06:51.480 report he had threatened to hold hold out, but he 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:54.360 is there. Running backs have no leverage in this NFL. 0:06:54.480 --> 0:06:56.800 And Justin Jefferson went on and off the COVID list, 0:06:56.880 --> 0:07:01.160 but he is back. Let's go to the Patriots. Uh. Patriots, 0:07:01.360 --> 0:07:03.800 Cam Newton posed for a picture with his wide receivers. 0:07:03.920 --> 0:07:06.839 They were all dressed kind of crazy, especially Julian Edelman. 0:07:07.360 --> 0:07:10.440 One stood out, and that's because he was taller than 0:07:10.640 --> 0:07:13.680 Cam Newton's shoulder level, and that is in kill. Harry 0:07:13.760 --> 0:07:16.640 another guy we're gonna talk about more, but no. Newton 0:07:16.640 --> 0:07:18.840 and his receivers are Jellen. But I'm excited about Harry. 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.760 Will get to him a little bit. In Pittsburgh, the Steelers, 0:07:21.800 --> 0:07:24.200 Ben Roethlisberger says that his elbow feels good and that 0:07:24.360 --> 0:07:27.000 he'll be on a pitch count during training camp. But 0:07:27.040 --> 0:07:29.360 good news to see him throwing, feeling good and not 0:07:29.520 --> 0:07:34.440 having any remaining problems from the elbow, although none were expected. 0:07:35.400 --> 0:07:38.960 Let's go to the Titans. Uh, nothing for Tennessee other 0:07:39.040 --> 0:07:41.520 than the first training camp without Delaney Walker in a 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:44.520 long time. That just means it's John new Smith season, 0:07:44.760 --> 0:07:48.920 right Church, Don't don't steal my thunder for later. Okay, 0:07:49.200 --> 0:07:52.119 thank you, Let's go to the years. The wide receiver 0:07:52.240 --> 0:07:55.600 situation very model was Deebo Samuel out for training camp 0:07:55.680 --> 0:07:58.520 and likely into the season. Travis Benjamin then opted out 0:07:58.560 --> 0:08:03.280 for the season. First round pick Brandon Ayuk almost certainly starts, 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:07.120 with either Jalen Hrder Kendrick Bourne as the other options 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:10.960 to start for the forty Niners. Let's go to the Bengals. Brian, 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:13.400 I know we just said let's not read too much 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:16.160 into the he looks great tweets and videos. But A J. 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:19.160 Green looks great right now with him in burrow and 0:08:19.240 --> 0:08:23.640 right round wide receiver twenty eight going off the board. Uh, 0:08:23.760 --> 0:08:25.600 that's a little too low. He is a league winner 0:08:25.680 --> 0:08:27.600 if he stays safe, and I'm hoping for that. Yeah, 0:08:27.720 --> 0:08:31.040 he's another really boom or bust guy that could end 0:08:31.080 --> 0:08:32.760 up being a winner for Bill the Core with t 0:08:33.000 --> 0:08:36.959 Y Hilton, A J. Green. Here we go. I like that. 0:08:37.040 --> 0:08:39.520 And they're all cheap. If you sloft wide receiver, this 0:08:39.640 --> 0:08:42.960 might be the angle, all right. The Ravens Marquis Brown 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:45.480 gained twenty three pounds in the off season and is 0:08:45.520 --> 0:08:49.680 now playing at one pounds. I don't like this news. 0:08:50.480 --> 0:08:53.840 I don't. I don't want my my small, speedy receiver 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:56.760 to get way down by twenty three pounds. A muscle, 0:08:57.280 --> 0:08:59.600 even if it's a muscle, it's still muscle. You gotta 0:08:59.640 --> 0:09:02.560 over ound. I don't like it. Speed guys don't need 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:05.000 the bulk eye to me. I find that worrisome. Let's 0:09:05.000 --> 0:09:08.880 go to the Jaguars. Uh, their paper thin defense just 0:09:09.080 --> 0:09:13.240 lost three more players too opting out, So more garbage 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:15.959 time coming for the Jacksonville Jaguars, but going to be 0:09:16.040 --> 0:09:18.760 a very fantasy friendly team. As we've discussed many times 0:09:18.800 --> 0:09:21.839 on this show. Yes, it's shockingly fantasy friends one. We 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:25.120 believe Washington and the defense really primed to be the 0:09:25.120 --> 0:09:27.079 worst defense in the NFL. In the past, you you 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:30.400 would fade Jacksonville games because you're afraid of the defense 0:09:30.440 --> 0:09:34.360 of the offense. Now it's the complete opposite. It's it's 0:09:34.400 --> 0:09:36.920 it's open season in Washington. One of the great stories 0:09:36.960 --> 0:09:39.520 of the offseason. Alex Smith cleared to play. He is 0:09:39.679 --> 0:09:44.320 practicing and reportedly impressing many in the Washington camp. That's 0:09:44.480 --> 0:09:47.400 you know, you could only hope that this has almost 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:49.960 a miracle finish and ending to it where Alex Smith 0:09:50.040 --> 0:09:52.840 is back starting again for the Washington football team would 0:09:52.840 --> 0:09:55.520 be fantastic news. Your final team is the Chargers. Brian 0:09:56.040 --> 0:09:58.040 Chargers were one of three teams did not have any 0:09:58.120 --> 0:10:00.280 players opt out, and I think that's because as they're 0:10:00.320 --> 0:10:02.599 on hard knocks and they want some camera time. But 0:10:04.240 --> 0:10:06.760 but of course are not a new quarterback and Tyrod 0:10:06.800 --> 0:10:10.319 Taylor will probably be unseated by rookie Justin Herbert. So 0:10:11.040 --> 0:10:14.320 that's about different. Alright. Last item of preseason news here, 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:17.760 the Seahawks put where Shot Penny on the pup list. 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.560 He's recovering from a c L surgery, and it looks 0:10:20.640 --> 0:10:22.360 like this is he's not going to be a factor 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:26.800 anytime soon. I don't believe that he has any chance 0:10:27.080 --> 0:10:32.280 of performing, barring injuries to Carlos Hyde Chris Carson and 0:10:32.480 --> 0:10:34.679 him returning maybe a mid season. I don't think he 0:10:34.720 --> 0:10:36.559 belongs to being drafted it all at this point. So 0:10:37.160 --> 0:10:39.800 Shot Penny not really on our radar. All Right, we're 0:10:39.800 --> 0:10:41.880 gonna take a break. When we come back, we will 0:10:42.120 --> 0:10:45.120 be joined by other co host Matt Harrison, and we 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:49.640 will talk about our Bold Prediction section we like to 0:10:49.720 --> 0:10:53.040 call the pea Cock Off. In the pea cock Off, 0:10:53.440 --> 0:10:55.880 we are going to give you some bold predictions that 0:10:56.000 --> 0:10:59.480 you can peacock about. When they come right, you can 0:10:59.520 --> 0:11:02.080 pretend they're your own. I was gonna do the peacock sound, 0:11:02.120 --> 0:11:05.360 but Matt is way better. We'll we'll bring in the 0:11:05.440 --> 0:11:08.920 We'll bring in the official Peacock of Actually, hold on, wait, 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:15.160 here's it's been a while. Official Peacock Fantasy Football Weekly 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:43.240 girl back in moments. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly with you. 0:11:43.480 --> 0:11:47.240 We are getting into the preseason training camps. Finally here 0:11:48.240 --> 0:11:52.320 my co host of Brian Johnson and Matt Harrison joining us. Now, guys, 0:11:52.360 --> 0:11:54.520 there's a segment we call the peacock Off. We do 0:11:54.640 --> 0:11:58.240 it every year where we make two bold predictions. We 0:11:58.440 --> 0:12:01.319 peacock If we get them, we forget they ever happened. 0:12:02.200 --> 0:12:05.439 Nicely done, I know I'm doing. Um, we forget it 0:12:05.480 --> 0:12:07.240 ever happened if it doesn't. But we encourage you to 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:11.800 just steal our our peacock offs for yourself and that 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.880 way you can do your own peacocking when they come. Now, 0:12:15.080 --> 0:12:17.679 the premise of this is he's got to be bold predictions. 0:12:18.120 --> 0:12:20.760 I don't want any Wramsey Pamsy. I want things that 0:12:20.920 --> 0:12:23.880 everybody's gonna go, what are you even talking about? You're crazy? 0:12:24.360 --> 0:12:27.599 So that's the Yeah, we don't know. We do not 0:12:27.800 --> 0:12:30.800 Wramsey nor do we Pamsy on this show. Uh, Matt 0:12:30.840 --> 0:12:34.800 will begin with you your first of two peacock offs. 0:12:35.000 --> 0:12:39.079 Austin Ekeler finishes as the top running back in the league, 0:12:39.520 --> 0:12:44.080 not two, not three, number one. He is ripped. Guy, 0:12:44.160 --> 0:12:46.360 Is it just because of the photos that went around 0:12:46.520 --> 0:12:48.920 social media of him with him shirtless, YEP. I just 0:12:49.040 --> 0:12:50.920 looked at that and I was like, that's the guy 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:52.920 right there. Well, you want to make more of a 0:12:53.000 --> 0:12:56.240 case or is that enough? Sure? Two thousand, seven hundred 0:12:56.320 --> 0:13:00.000 seventy four yards. That's how many rushing and receiving yards 0:13:00.200 --> 0:13:03.439 were totalled by the Chargers backfield last season. That was 0:13:03.480 --> 0:13:06.480 a top five yardage total as a group. Twenty two 0:13:06.600 --> 0:13:09.600 total touchdowns. That's how many times Chargers running backs reached 0:13:09.600 --> 0:13:11.839 the end zone last year, second best in the league. 0:13:12.440 --> 0:13:15.040 The Chargers led the league in running back receptions with 0:13:15.080 --> 0:13:17.000 a hundred and forty eight and led the league in 0:13:17.080 --> 0:13:20.840 receiving yards with hundred fifty seven. And we talked about 0:13:20.920 --> 0:13:24.280 vacated targets for wide receivers. How about just vacated touches 0:13:24.360 --> 0:13:28.000 for running backs. Because Melvin Gordon leaves vacating two hundred 0:13:28.120 --> 0:13:32.000 four running back touches, which is with about seventeen per game. 0:13:32.640 --> 0:13:36.160 Austin Ekeler average twenty touches per game without Gordon last year. 0:13:36.280 --> 0:13:38.120 He can't go up a lot from that. Well, he 0:13:38.240 --> 0:13:43.280 averaged twenty without Gordon, he averaged twelve with Gordon, So 0:13:43.400 --> 0:13:45.719 it went down, So let's take that. Twelve will give 0:13:45.760 --> 0:13:48.120 him half of Gordon seventeen. That gives him about back 0:13:48.160 --> 0:13:51.040 to twenty. So there's only ten backs in the league 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:55.160 that did that last year, twenty touches per game. What's more, 0:13:55.360 --> 0:13:58.400 Eckler lad all qualified running backs in yards per touch 0:13:58.520 --> 0:14:01.559 at six point nine. He had seven yards every time 0:14:01.559 --> 0:14:05.280 he touched the ball. Christian McCaffrey had five point nine. 0:14:05.320 --> 0:14:09.400 So let's just give him a McCaffrey like workload. McCaffrey 0:14:09.480 --> 0:14:11.800 had four hundred three touches last year. We're gonna just 0:14:11.960 --> 0:14:17.080 give Eckler three fifty. It's about it's about twenty a game. 0:14:17.120 --> 0:14:19.120 It's about a hundred more than he had last year. 0:14:19.680 --> 0:14:21.840 If you use that, if you use his pace from 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:25.760 last year, Eckler would total two thousand, four hundred fifteen 0:14:25.920 --> 0:14:30.160 total yards this year and seventeen touchdowns last year. Christian 0:14:30.240 --> 0:14:35.440 McCaffrey two total yards and nineteen touchdowns. He's right there. 0:14:35.920 --> 0:14:38.560 He's right there, and they got a journeyman backup quarterback 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:41.360 and a rookie likely splitting time under center. They're gonna 0:14:41.400 --> 0:14:43.240 go safe. They're going to dump it to Austin Ekeler 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:45.560 all the time. I like it that you you know what, 0:14:45.760 --> 0:14:48.960 You've kind of convinced me that was That's very very 0:14:49.120 --> 0:14:52.880 well done, Brian, your first of two pea cock offs. 0:14:53.560 --> 0:14:57.200 I'm saying, and kill Harry, second year wide receiver for 0:14:57.280 --> 0:15:01.360 the New England Patriots, outscores every key wide receiver this year. 0:15:01.560 --> 0:15:03.520 Is this because of a COVID angle? You just think 0:15:05.840 --> 0:15:08.400 a little bit of both. Let's just talk about Harry, 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:11.840 the thirty second overall pick in last year's draft, right 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:15.160 now going off the board as wide receiver fifty six 0:15:15.520 --> 0:15:18.320 in the mid twelfth round. Rookie wide receivers going ahead 0:15:18.320 --> 0:15:22.239 of Harry, r Ceedee Lamb, Henry Ruggs, Jerry Judy, Justin Jefferson, 0:15:22.320 --> 0:15:25.840 and Jalen Reagor. But like I said, Harry will outscore 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:30.120 them all. Why here's why last season was lost to injury. 0:15:30.160 --> 0:15:32.240 Only twenty three targets for Harry, who people are calling 0:15:32.320 --> 0:15:35.040 washed up and old. He turns twenty three in December. 0:15:35.680 --> 0:15:42.400 Nobody's calling you. Who's calling He's getting a lot of hate, 0:15:42.440 --> 0:15:44.680 get a lot of hate. Wow, that is true. But 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:47.920 nobody's called him washed at not well, He's been called 0:15:47.960 --> 0:15:49.680 a bust by some people. I'm not gonna say who. 0:15:49.760 --> 0:15:53.360 But anyway, six three to forty could have played basketball 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:55.680 at Arizona State if you really wanted to. He will 0:15:55.680 --> 0:15:58.000 be the prime target for Cam Newton in the end zone. 0:15:58.040 --> 0:15:59.480 I don't know who else they're going to throw too. 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:01.520 It's not to be Julian Edelman. It's not gonna be 0:16:01.560 --> 0:16:05.080 Mohammed Sanu. It's not gonna be demere Bird, Jakobe Myers 0:16:05.200 --> 0:16:10.120 or Gunner old Zouski. All those guys are they when 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.760 are talking to Cam, they're talking to him pronounced that right? 0:16:13.800 --> 0:16:15.680 And kill Harry looks at Cam Newton in the eyes. 0:16:15.880 --> 0:16:19.280 He's a man tight end. Matt Lacosse unlike Julian Edelman, 0:16:19.320 --> 0:16:21.840 I'm like Julian Edman. No, yeah, I'm not gonna go 0:16:23.440 --> 0:16:27.280 They suddenly androgynus Julian Edelman. Matt Lacosse has opted out 0:16:27.520 --> 0:16:30.280 starting tight end. That leaves two tight ends, two rookie 0:16:30.320 --> 0:16:33.600 tight ends for the Patriots, and uh, I forget their names, 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:37.120 Oh Devin and Dalton Keene. And look at the red 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:40.880 zone competition for the rookies. I'm yeah, there really isn't much. 0:16:41.680 --> 0:16:46.400 Isn't much? Ceedee, Lamb's got Cooper Gallup Blake Jarrowin Jerry 0:16:46.520 --> 0:16:50.600 Judy's he's got Courtland Sutton, Noah Fant. There's nothing there 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:52.960 for in kill Harry and he he is a baller. 0:16:53.040 --> 0:16:57.360 And if Cam Newton can make Kelvin Benjamin fantasy relevant 0:16:57.480 --> 0:17:00.880 briefly three years and he said he was the best 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:05.600 wide receiver. I remember that for all three weeks at 0:17:05.640 --> 0:17:08.720 the beginning of that season he was so Look, there's 0:17:08.760 --> 0:17:10.520 not a lot of tape. I'm just telling you and 0:17:10.720 --> 0:17:13.120 kill Harry. I don't have enough shares of n Kill Harry, 0:17:13.240 --> 0:17:16.359 go get him over any rookie White. Sounds like for 0:17:16.480 --> 0:17:18.800 those of you not in studio, fingers were pointed in 0:17:18.880 --> 0:17:22.640 this segment, I'm getting you gotta do a peacock off. 0:17:23.280 --> 0:17:29.520 All right, I'm done. I was loving the pointing fingers. 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:33.639 I love you guys, my peacock offs. Currently wide receiver 0:17:33.760 --> 0:17:39.160 eleven Judu Smith Schuster will finish third on his own 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:47.400 team in Fantasy points among Steelers wide receivers. So doing 0:17:47.440 --> 0:17:50.720 the big fade on Juju. The last time Juju was great, 0:17:50.920 --> 0:17:57.200 Antonio Brown was on the field with him. Juju Smith third, Nope, no, 0:17:58.119 --> 0:18:01.280 almost almost keep working. You got you've got about I've 0:18:01.280 --> 0:18:04.159 got about sixty seconds and notes here, you've got sixty seconds, 0:18:04.200 --> 0:18:07.320 come up with something about it. Juju was wide receiver 0:18:08.080 --> 0:18:12.680 sixty five last year, and everybody's very fast to just 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.200 blame it on his quarterbacking. But he was the third 0:18:15.240 --> 0:18:17.720 receiver in his own team in Fantasy point production last year, 0:18:17.920 --> 0:18:24.960 Juju Smith sho, I think, but really, is it just 0:18:25.080 --> 0:18:29.520 that simple that Mason Rudolph and Duck Hodges? Wait? Wait, 0:18:30.359 --> 0:18:36.000 how about Juju Smith shoes? Is it really that simple 0:18:36.119 --> 0:18:39.720 that Rudolph and Hodges are just that bad? Because Deanti 0:18:39.800 --> 0:18:42.959 Johnson seemed to do okay, even James Washington outscored him. 0:18:43.400 --> 0:18:47.560 So I feel like that people are too fasciges dismiss it. Now, 0:18:48.160 --> 0:18:51.200 Jude is a free agent next year. And if he 0:18:51.680 --> 0:18:55.440 was in the team's plans and they felt like we're 0:18:55.480 --> 0:18:58.440 bringing him back, do they put the first pick in 0:18:58.520 --> 0:19:03.760 the Steelers draft at his position? Chase Claypool. No, they 0:19:03.800 --> 0:19:06.679 wouldn't do it if they thought Juju was great. They 0:19:06.800 --> 0:19:08.560 know that we're gonna do whatever it takes to keep him, 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:10.880 and they wouldn't feel like they needed the receiver depth. 0:19:11.040 --> 0:19:13.080 And speaking of muscle, that you don't like the speedy 0:19:13.119 --> 0:19:15.680 guys adding he both up big time too in the 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.240 off season. UM, I think there's a very real scenario 0:19:18.280 --> 0:19:22.480 where Smith Schuster slumps to the fourth priority in this 0:19:22.600 --> 0:19:26.240 passing game behind Johnson, Washington, Claypool, maybe even Eric Ebron's 0:19:26.280 --> 0:19:29.040 in there, and this team starts looking forward. And let's 0:19:29.080 --> 0:19:33.400 remember Steelers have a long history of letting product, good 0:19:33.440 --> 0:19:37.120 productive receivers walk. They don't mind doing it, and they'll 0:19:37.160 --> 0:19:40.960 keep bringing up new guys Judy Smith Schuster. We'll finish 0:19:41.040 --> 0:19:44.160 third or worse scoring among the Steelers wide receivers. Matt 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:49.479 your second peacock off. Uh, the ancient Tom Brady at 0:19:49.560 --> 0:19:54.000 age fifty two, finishes as the top three quarterback this year. 0:19:55.160 --> 0:19:58.359 Here's why. Last season, Jamis Winston had a great statistical 0:19:58.520 --> 0:20:02.440 year except for one category interceptions. He threw thirty picks 0:20:02.520 --> 0:20:05.960 in Tampa. So how long did it take Tom Brady 0:20:06.040 --> 0:20:08.560 to throw thirty picks? Well, you got to add his 0:20:08.680 --> 0:20:12.800 two thousand nineteen season, his two thousand eighteen season, his 0:20:12.920 --> 0:20:17.520 two thousand seventeen season, his two thousand sixteen season, and 0:20:17.840 --> 0:20:20.600 the last interception he threw in twenty fifteen to equal 0:20:20.720 --> 0:20:24.840 thirty interceptions for Tom Brady. Now you might think, sure, 0:20:24.920 --> 0:20:27.399 he's like seventy one years old, That is what I 0:20:27.480 --> 0:20:29.720 was just thinking. But he's topped four thousand yards and 0:20:29.840 --> 0:20:33.320 eight of his last nine seasons, and he's never ever 0:20:33.840 --> 0:20:36.720 had weapons like this. Moss and Welker that was good 0:20:36.800 --> 0:20:41.359 in two thousand seven, but Mike Evans and Chris Godwin 0:20:41.440 --> 0:20:43.680 are better than the combination of Moss and Welker. And 0:20:43.760 --> 0:20:45.720 he's got rob Gronkowski, who he did not have in 0:20:45.760 --> 0:20:49.560 two thousand seven. Yeah, Kowski was just Robbie gronkows little 0:20:49.640 --> 0:20:51.960 Robbie Gronkowski. He's also got O. J. Howard and my 0:20:52.040 --> 0:20:55.359 guy Cameron Bread that's significantly better than Ben Watson and 0:20:55.480 --> 0:20:58.280 Kyle Brady from two thousand seven. And I don't even 0:20:58.320 --> 0:21:00.400 say that the questionable running backs of a good shot 0:21:00.440 --> 0:21:05.359 of beating out Kevin Falk. So Brady's only danger here 0:21:05.400 --> 0:21:07.640 is that his arm gets a little too tired. Because 0:21:07.680 --> 0:21:11.119 Bruce Arians throws over six hundred past attempts for Winston 0:21:11.200 --> 0:21:15.080 last year, five seven passing attempts for Arians offense in 0:21:15.160 --> 0:21:18.520 two thousand seventeen, with Carson Palmer, Drew Stanton and Blame 0:21:18.640 --> 0:21:22.159 Gabbert over six hundred passing attempts in sixteen. You get it. 0:21:22.240 --> 0:21:24.840 He likes to throw. And you think, oh, Brady can't 0:21:24.880 --> 0:21:27.040 throw that much. He's four years old. He threw six 0:21:27.280 --> 0:21:31.280 d thirteen times last year. So this is gonna be 0:21:31.359 --> 0:21:33.399 an offense that throws all the time. He's got the 0:21:33.440 --> 0:21:36.800 best weapons he's ever seen. There's a little bit of 0:21:36.840 --> 0:21:39.760 a revenge narrative here too. I can do it without Belichick. 0:21:40.240 --> 0:21:42.639 Tom Brady's gonna put up some huge numbers this year. 0:21:42.800 --> 0:21:45.879 All right, Brian, your second of two pea cock offs. 0:21:46.320 --> 0:21:48.680 Now I'm banging this drum for months. But now that 0:21:48.720 --> 0:21:50.760 we're back to the long format, more people need to 0:21:50.880 --> 0:21:53.400 hear that Dan Arnold will be a top twelve tight 0:21:53.560 --> 0:21:55.639 end of this season. And that is Dan Arnold of 0:21:55.720 --> 0:21:59.320 the St. St. Louis Arizona Cardinals. Those are the Cardinals. 0:21:59.560 --> 0:22:01.720 He could the star field for St. Louis, the St. 0:22:01.840 --> 0:22:03.560 Louis Cardinals too, if you really wanted to. Dan is 0:22:03.640 --> 0:22:06.560 that much of the man. But Dan Arnold undrafted in 0:22:07.040 --> 0:22:09.240 seventeen by the New Orleans Saints as a wide receiver 0:22:09.600 --> 0:22:13.679 six six pounds, very similar to Darren Waller, a guy 0:22:13.760 --> 0:22:15.959 who I was touting last summer. That turned out all right, 0:22:16.080 --> 0:22:17.520 you know what I'm gonna throw a cherry on top. 0:22:17.840 --> 0:22:20.520 Dan Arnold outscores Darren Waller this year as well while 0:22:20.560 --> 0:22:24.119