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Speaker 1: Football Weekly, our final preseason show. In fact, it's so
Speaker 1: final that at the end of the show we are
Speaker 1: going to give you our style of fantasy football preview
Speaker 1: for the Thursday game Kansas City against Houston. Doesn't even
Speaker 1: seem real. Charge it doesn't seem real. We're down to
Speaker 1: a matter of days and hours before the season starts.
Speaker 1: That is the voice of Matt Harrison, longest offseason slash
Speaker 1: ever ever exactly. That is the voice of Brian Johnson,
Speaker 1: my co host today. Welcome to the show. The tons
Speaker 1: of great stuff to get to as we near the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season. We're going to highlight the training
Speaker 1: camp battle resolutions that we highlight at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the year. We went through all the NFL teams and said,
Speaker 1: here's the training camp battles we're watching. Now we're gonna
Speaker 1: tell you who one of them all. We'll do that.
Speaker 1: We will go through three cuffed tough questions as we
Speaker 1: always do. We'll tell you the one thing you need
Speaker 1: to know about every team based on the entire preseason.
Speaker 1: If there was one thing that you needed to know
Speaker 1: from all thirty two teams, here's the one thing you
Speaker 1: needed to take away from the preseason. Perfect for those
Speaker 1: of you that haven't been following closely and now you
Speaker 1: want a quick catch up on what's happened with each
Speaker 1: of the teams, we'll do that as well. Identify guys
Speaker 1: that we think you should trade for in October, not now,
Speaker 1: guys that were worried about now, but we think by
Speaker 1: the time October rolls around some players you'll want to
Speaker 1: identify put on your radar now. Will will break down
Speaker 1: the Thursday night game and release our final sleepers of
Speaker 1: the year. In other words, guys don't want to draft
Speaker 1: this weekend ye and trade for them. It's very actionable
Speaker 1: in that way. Do not not gonna want to draft
Speaker 1: these guys based on their ADP correct. As we start
Speaker 1: every show, we go through and highlight some of the
Speaker 1: keen news items from the past week that fantasy players
Speaker 1: care about and has established last week. We lead every
Speaker 1: show with any available good news about Zach Moss Okay
Speaker 1: and that's how I want to start. The Buffalo is
Speaker 1: not even my team. I don't care. The most important
Speaker 1: thing is uh, fumbling could cost Devin Singletary the I
Speaker 1: think that role has already been costed. But uh, and
Speaker 1: yeah already. Zack moss expect expected to be heavily involved
Speaker 1: in the in the past game. He's a five tool back,
Speaker 1: runs through you, around you, around the tree like there
Speaker 1: is legit bell cow potential out of the gates, Zach Mossy.
Speaker 1: It's just a matter of when, Aby Zac Moss Let's
Speaker 1: let's go to some of the other teams from around
Speaker 1: the league, including the Panthers. Matt pretty quiet in Carolina,
Speaker 1: although Ian Thomas is day to day with a toe injury,
Speaker 1: and that could be an issue if you planned on
Speaker 1: starting him Week one against the Raiders. But I don't
Speaker 1: think a lot of people are planning on starting Ian
Speaker 1: Thomas and he's going to be your bye week filling guy.
Speaker 1: I think, Brian, let's go to the Raiders. Uh. Tyrell
Speaker 1: Williams placed on injured reserve with a torn labor and
Speaker 1: he's done for the year. But they still have about
Speaker 1: seven or eight wide receivers on roster. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: them the Raiders more later. Ye off the Packers. Green
Speaker 1: Bay media expects Robert Tonyan to open the season as
Speaker 1: the team's starting tight end. He's a former wide receiver
Speaker 1: with lots of room to grow, but I think he's
Speaker 1: way off the fantasy radar until he proves himself to
Speaker 1: be a meaningful part of this offense. It's been a
Speaker 1: long time since we've had a Green Bay Packer tight
Speaker 1: end as a material fantasy producer, not Aaron Rodgers career, right,
Speaker 1: like we gotta go, like to bark Chimurra, it's been
Speaker 1: It's been along the Brett fire vera for sure, I think.
Speaker 1: So let's go to the Washington football team at Uh.
Speaker 1: They happened to release this running back this morning. His
Speaker 1: name was Adrian Peterson. Uh. We'll dig into that positional
Speaker 1: battle in a few minutes. Though it sounds good, Uh,
Speaker 1: Brian the Cleveland Browns for Shard Higgins looks locked into
Speaker 1: the number three role at wide receiver for Cleveland. Cleveland
Speaker 1: now has a cornerback, Greedy Williams, nursing a shoulder injury.
Speaker 1: They already lost second round pick Grant Delpit, who's a
Speaker 1: safety for the season, but they acquired, excuse me, from Jacksonville.
Speaker 1: I don't know how Jacksonville has players left to trade,
Speaker 1: uh safety Ronnie Harrison, but that that secondary is a
Speaker 1: little dinged up for Cleveland makes that's interesting from a
Speaker 1: fantasy perspective. There it's gonna be some Cleveland shootouts come.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk more about the Browns as well, and
Speaker 1: funny things. I'm gonna highlight a few players on Jacksonville
Speaker 1: who are still going to be traded. I think later
Speaker 1: in the show they might go Dolphins on this season.
Speaker 1: They are for sure. The Texans are next. Houston media
Speaker 1: gushing over tight and Jordan Aikin's calling him quote the
Speaker 1: most improved veteran. He'll need to overcome Darren Fells, who
Speaker 1: the team liked enough to resign in the off season.
Speaker 1: Aikin's believed to be the better receiver, but Fells had
Speaker 1: seven touchdowns last year, all from the red zone. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Tampa Bay, Matt Well. There are also a
Speaker 1: few running back moves this week, but Brian's going to
Speaker 1: talk about that next segment. Also, we have a kicker winner,
Speaker 1: we do. Ryan suck Up won the kicking job in
Speaker 1: Tampa and should likely be treated as a top five
Speaker 1: kicker for all of you in kicker leagues, yes, of
Speaker 1: which there's dwindling numbers and kicker leagues, but the Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay kicker is a primo spot to be about how
Speaker 1: many times you swing the leg, not how good a
Speaker 1: kicker you actually are. Let's go to Brian and the
Speaker 1: New York Jets UH Jets second round UH pick. Wide
Speaker 1: receiver Denzel Mims, with a hamstring injury, finally returned to
Speaker 1: practice on Wednesday. It was the first time he had
Speaker 1: practiced in training. Camp started. But he's really not going
Speaker 1: to be too relevant in redraft leagues, No, not for
Speaker 1: a while anyo. It's an unfortunate start to his career
Speaker 1: for the coal It's one of my favorite sleepers. Paris
Speaker 1: Campbell returned to practice from his concussion. He'll be in
Speaker 1: the starting lineup Week one against the Jaguars, and I
Speaker 1: will tell you right now he is going to be
Speaker 1: my premature speculation player in next week's show. Okay, Paris Campbell,
Speaker 1: as he is going to be facing off against the
Speaker 1: Jaguars defense. Let's go to the Detroit Lions. Mann DeAndre
Speaker 1: Swift still limited and practiced with a leg injury, has
Speaker 1: not practiced in full for over a week. That has
Speaker 1: to put his Week one status in a little bit
Speaker 1: of doubt. It does, unfortunately, Um and many of us
Speaker 1: optimistic that he's going to quickly become the starter there,
Speaker 1: but probably not in Week one. Don't know what it
Speaker 1: is about Detroit running backs and injuries. Holy cow, Broncos
Speaker 1: Brian another rookie wide receiver with intriguing long term potential.
Speaker 1: kJ Hamler could potentially start the year on injured reserve
Speaker 1: as well for Denver So a slight bump for Jerry
Speaker 1: Judy in Courtland Sutton. You know, guys, I was gonna
Speaker 1: mention this later in the show, and we haven't really
Speaker 1: talked about injured reserve this year, but the NFL changed
Speaker 1: all the rules on injured reserve. You only have to
Speaker 1: be on I R for three weeks and they have
Speaker 1: unlimited spots coming back this year. So I are way
Speaker 1: different than than years past, and you can treat it
Speaker 1: as such, especially if you have I OUR designations in
Speaker 1: your league. It's a great point. In many leagues there there,
Speaker 1: the rule is once a player goes on I R,
Speaker 1: he doesn't come off I ARE because the player doesn't
Speaker 1: come off I are, but they we need to be
Speaker 1: able to account for that in every fantasy league. Great
Speaker 1: point Vikings starting left tackle Riley Reef took a pay
Speaker 1: cut and we'll stay with the team. This is fantasy
Speaker 1: relevant because at one point we thought it was gonna leave,
Speaker 1: and it would have shuffled the deck on that offensive
Speaker 1: line in a variety of horrifying ways. And so I
Speaker 1: think this can have a variety of horrifying Well, yeah,
Speaker 1: you're starting right tackle was really good? Was gonna have
Speaker 1: to go to left tackle? We had never played before,
Speaker 1: and potentially a guy who's never played right tackle and
Speaker 1: had to start there, it would have been bad. So
Speaker 1: I think this helps salvage some normalcy for Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: and the rest of that offense. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: Seattle Seahawks. Matt Josh Gordon signed with Seattle again. Now
Speaker 1: he has not been cleared to play by the NFL.
Speaker 1: Are we sure he makes the team? By the way,
Speaker 1: Metcalfine Lockett are clearly ahead of him on the depth chart,
Speaker 1: but also David Moore, Philip Dorset, and the recently signed
Speaker 1: Paul Richardson, who's an old Seattle favorite, are all there.
Speaker 1: And Gordon scored one touchdown through eleven games last year.
Speaker 1: Don't take Josh Gordon, Guys, don't take him. The people
Speaker 1: still I keep thinking the people that are reliving are
Speaker 1: now so old that they're dying, and it wouldn't be
Speaker 1: drafting him anymore, and remembering the good old days of
Speaker 1: that one good year that he had. Man give it
Speaker 1: up on that guy Bryant. Let's go to the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Let's have a pity party for Miami really quick. They
Speaker 1: managed to trade klin Blage to the Jets for more
Speaker 1: than a sandwich, and he fails the physical and is
Speaker 1: reverted back to Miami. I'm pretty sure his key card
Speaker 1: didn't work upon his return. But about how the Dolphins
Speaker 1: Right now. For the Saints, Alvin Cameric continues to practice
Speaker 1: as the team works on a new deal for him.
Speaker 1: It sounds like something will probably get done here. Uh
Speaker 1: and Camara says he's not planning to hold out anyway.
Speaker 1: But more importantly, guys, and nobody's talking about this, Why
Speaker 1: did Alvin Camara have to get a cortisone shot a
Speaker 1: few days ago? Well, what's happened in this long offseason? Right?
Speaker 1: So you miss it? You know last year you play
Speaker 1: through all of these injuries and not love him for
Speaker 1: playing through the injuries. Has this has a very disappointing season.
Speaker 1: He rolls in Now it's eight months later, coming off
Speaker 1: of training camp with no contact, and he's already getting
Speaker 1: cortizone shots. Why sounds Todd Gurley. I don't like this.
Speaker 1: I'm telling Camara concerned. I'm more concerned about that than
Speaker 1: I am about the contract. Yeah, something something that bears monitoring.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Philadelphia Eagles. Matt Briefly, Miles Sanders
Speaker 1: supposedly on track for week one. That's a good thing.
Speaker 1: Let's hope it holds that one. Brian Patriots. Big news.
Speaker 1: Damien Harris, who was looking to take the lead rollback
Speaker 1: for New England UH could miss the first couple of
Speaker 1: weeks with with a hand injury, had surgery on his
Speaker 1: pinky fingers. So again that backfield is now we're looking
Speaker 1: at Sony Michelle, Rex burkhead my boy, Lamar Miller. But
Speaker 1: that's that's big news for Damien Harris. He's not gonna
Speaker 1: play the first week, probably not the second week either.
Speaker 1: Somehow you are under the delusion Lamar Miller is not
Speaker 1: gonna be cut. That's the that's the impressive part of that.
Speaker 1: I think, well, he's no Adrian Peterson Steelers. I've got
Speaker 1: three nuggets from local reporters. First, Benny Snell locked in
Speaker 1: is the number two running back. We'll talk more about
Speaker 1: him later in the show. Number two. After a moribun
Speaker 1: training camp, Juju Smith Schuster finally popped in practice this
Speaker 1: week on Monday. It was the first time he looked
Speaker 1: anywhere near his his form from and number three. Eric
Speaker 1: Ebron has been impressing. He's been out running linebackers and
Speaker 1: safety is getting open, and it looks like Eric Ebron
Speaker 1: is going to be a factor in this offense. Ibronic Tron,
Speaker 1: I'm so surprised that you're talking about Eric Ebron in
Speaker 1: positive ways. Let's go to the Cowboys. Mattmark Cooper has
Speaker 1: been either a limited or non participant in practice for
Speaker 1: four straight days. Mysterious that is. We'll watch if that
Speaker 1: gives Ceedee Lamb some extra reps. Are all for it.
Speaker 1: I don't wish energy, I don't want I don't want
Speaker 1: wish injury on anybody, but a Mark Cooper is not
Speaker 1: on any of your teams. Cede Lamb is that's exactly right, Brian.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Tennessee Titans. Really nothing for Tennessee.
Speaker 1: But I failed to mention that Patriots did cut Mohammed sannws.
Speaker 1: So if you're in the league where you get mega
Speaker 1: bonus points for wide receivers throwing touchdown passes, that's very,
Speaker 1: very wide receiver touchdown pass. All right. Moving on the
Speaker 1: forty nine tons of injuries to update Deebo. Samuel it's
Speaker 1: got a chance of playing in Week one with his
Speaker 1: foot injury. It appears he's trending positively, although you always
Speaker 1: have to be careful with foot injuries for wide receivers.
Speaker 1: It's never safe. And Brandon Iok, recovering from a hamstring injury,
Speaker 1: also trending towards availability for Week one, but both could
Speaker 1: be on a pitch count here. We don't know for
Speaker 1: sure what the status of either of those guys is
Speaker 1: quite yet. Yeah, those are your two starters if healthy,
Speaker 1: Samuel and ayuk Um. Of note, though Jordan Reed and
Speaker 1: his eight concussions now in San Francisco and lots of
Speaker 1: talk that he would play a role if Samuel or
Speaker 1: Ayu couldn't go, they would stand him up in the
Speaker 1: slot and they would actually stand him up. He's lying
Speaker 1: down a lever and police system. The Giants. Matt Golden
Speaker 1: day to day with a hamstring strain. It's notable that
Speaker 1: he usually plays through minor injuries, but keep an eye
Speaker 1: on his Week one status. All right, Brian Bengals A J.
Speaker 1: Green limited in practice this week. It's already started. You
Speaker 1: know the people that I hope, the people that took
Speaker 1: a chance on A J. Green get rewarded. It's not
Speaker 1: me in any league, but it's me. I hope it's
Speaker 1: you guys. Yeah, I hope it ends up working out
Speaker 1: for the Ravens. Head coach John Harbaugh confirmed what Beat
Speaker 1: writers have been saying for weeks. Rookie running back j K.
Speaker 1: Dobbins will play a major role in the offense. His
Speaker 1: skill set has been eye popping in training camp and
Speaker 1: to get some confirmation from John Harbaugh like we did
Speaker 1: this week, very promising, Matt. Let's go to the Falcons.
Speaker 1: Brian Hill has solidified the backup role to Todd Gurley.
Speaker 1: He's probably one of the top handcuffs to own this season.
Speaker 1: There's not a lot, but I think Brian Hill and
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley are one of them, Thank you, Right, Brian,
Speaker 1: the Jaguars, um they released Leonard four Nette. I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if you heard about that or not. Thanks, and
Speaker 1: we'll talk more about the remaining backfield in Jacksonville a
Speaker 1: little later. Let's go to the Cardinals. Matt Cardinals, sounds
Speaker 1: like they are being cautious with both Kenyan Drake and
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins. Both are very near a return to full practice,
Speaker 1: and I expect both the suit up in week one, alright,
Speaker 1: And Brian, the Chargers, Mike Williams should be ready to
Speaker 1: play in Week one with his shoulder injury, according to
Speaker 1: UM offensive coordinator Shane Staken, and the Chargers also placed
Speaker 1: safety Derwin James, one of the best safeties in football,
Speaker 1: on I R this time ending. Yeah, this is he's
Speaker 1: done done so, which is a boon for the offense
Speaker 1: though there do you mean give it up more points
Speaker 1: in l a uh, this is not technically news from
Speaker 1: Green Bay, but let me mention this. I think I've
Speaker 1: got a new brilliant nickname for A J. Dillon. You
Speaker 1: guys remember the Nigerian Nightmare. Christian A J. Dillon built
Speaker 1: like Christian Nikoya, the Siberian Nightmare. He's gotta breakback Green Bay.
Speaker 1: It's perfect Russian, the Siberian. I love it. You know,
Speaker 1: the padded neck roll. Yeah, he has got to break Oh,
Speaker 1: I got to bring that would be beautiful. That would
Speaker 1: be beautiful. He's gotta wear number thirty five as well,
Speaker 1: obviously now would help. Um, you know what else will
Speaker 1: be beautiful and we'll be beautiful. Training camp Battle Resolutions
Speaker 1: will tell you who won every meaningful training camp battle
Speaker 1: across the NFL when we return to Fantasy Football Weekly,
Speaker 1: bom B Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchy and
Speaker 1: Matt Harrison and Brian Johnson with you. The training camp
Speaker 1: battles that we highlighted in the very first preseason show
Speaker 1: back in early August. Now they've all come to fruition.
Speaker 1: We will tell you who has won each of the
Speaker 1: key battles that we talked about back then. Here we
Speaker 1: are five six weeks later. We begin with the Buffalo
Speaker 1: Bills running back situation. Would we begin with that? Why
Speaker 1: of all of them? Why that would you ask? Maybe
Speaker 1: it's alphabetical, it might be um so it's Devin Singletary,
Speaker 1: and it's Zack Moss and the question marks that surround
Speaker 1: Singletary are ball security, which Brian mentioned he fumbled twice
Speaker 1: in contact scrimmages had some fumbling issues in the past.
Speaker 1: Um Also, his ability to pick up the blitz has
Speaker 1: been called into question, plus his size and durability. None
Speaker 1: of those. None of those seemed to be in question
Speaker 1: with Zach Moss right now, who seems to have the
Speaker 1: goal line job back locked up in between the twenties,
Speaker 1: I think Singletary is still the guy for the most
Speaker 1: part right now, so this isn't over. I think from
Speaker 1: what I've read from the Buffalo Bills beat reporters, Singletary
Speaker 1: still won the first shot at the starting gig. But
Speaker 1: in fantasy, I'm taking Zack Moss because he's gonna get
Speaker 1: the goal line work, and I'm taking him above Devin
Speaker 1: Singletary right now. So from a fantasy perspective, I think
Speaker 1: Moss won it, and I think he will continue to
Speaker 1: win it as the season goes on. Throw in the
Speaker 1: damn towel, it's over. I think he's gonna be a
Speaker 1: big part of that offense. Now, he'll be a part
Speaker 1: of the offense, but I believe by mid October your
Speaker 1: your primary lead back will be Zack Moss Singletary will
Speaker 1: be a change of pace. Guy. I really hope that's
Speaker 1: the case, but it just feels like it's going to
Speaker 1: be a sixty forty split all year, and we're gonna
Speaker 1: be we're gonna be uncomfortable with the way and and
Speaker 1: you're gonna be saying in mid October, why aren't you
Speaker 1: get exact boss the ball more? It could be, but
Speaker 1: if he's getting the goal line carries and I won't
Speaker 1: need to say that. All right, let's go to the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay running back situation, Brian, which we were watching
Speaker 1: for different guys back when we first started talking about
Speaker 1: this in August. Yeah, this is just as we left
Speaker 1: it in early August. But it was Ronald Jones, Russ
Speaker 1: Keyshawn Vaughan and and then Shady McCoy was just signed
Speaker 1: out of nowhere back in those days. But now obviously
Speaker 1: Leonard four Nett is in to and uh but Bruce
Speaker 1: Arians going to bat for Ronald Jones. It's his job
Speaker 1: somehow acquiring Oh, I know, Andre Ellington was the guy,
Speaker 1: and there's been so many guys, but Bruce Ellen or
Speaker 1: Bruce Arians is the classic Rick Roll coach. He's all
Speaker 1: Now we're gonna give you up over and over on
Speaker 1: his running backs. But dare Ogunbowally cut on Friday? By
Speaker 1: the way, New Orleans Saints signed him right now for
Speaker 1: various reasons. I would say it would be a great
Speaker 1: place for og. But right now we're looking at up
Speaker 1: now Leonard Purnette, Ronald Jones, and Keyshawn Vaughn and Lashawn McCoy,
Speaker 1: who was supposedly give me the past catching back in
Speaker 1: the mix now that Ogunbawally is gone, But right now
Speaker 1: it's Ronald Jones. But this is we gotta see what
Speaker 1: have how his place out. That's all. Like I I
Speaker 1: wish I had more answers. Don't you just want to
Speaker 1: see Jones start. Will will be the Week one starter.
Speaker 1: He will have the first chance to cement the job.
Speaker 1: Whether he's actually better than Leonard four Nette is up
Speaker 1: for debate, and you know, I think both guys are
Speaker 1: just fair. Once that resonates with me with Keyshawn Vaughan,
Speaker 1: who we you know he was going in the first
Speaker 1: round of rookie drafts. But I remember seeing uh Vanderbilt
Speaker 1: is where he played college football. The worst run blocking
Speaker 1: line according to Football Profitable Provoball Focus and UH he
Speaker 1: had over a thousand yards and under two hundred carries,
Speaker 1: which is almost unfathomable behind an awful line. So I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see who Tom Brady thinks is the
Speaker 1: starting running back. That's what I want to know, whoever
Speaker 1: doesn't get him killed, because both for Net and Ronald
Speaker 1: Jones are terrible in past protection. So you know that
Speaker 1: might be an X factor here to watch as well.
Speaker 1: And we'll talk a little bit more about that situation
Speaker 1: a little later in the show. Cincinnati, Let's go to
Speaker 1: the wide receiver jobs there because it is a deep
Speaker 1: deep bench. Yeah, Audent Tee Higgins, John Ross kind of
Speaker 1: all up for the wide receiver three job there, and
Speaker 1: Brian mentioned A J. Green is already injured and dealing
Speaker 1: with stuff, so this could be the wide receiver to position.
Speaker 1: So T Higgins also dealing with a hamstring injury for
Speaker 1: a few weeks. John Ross is not in camp due
Speaker 1: to some personal stuff and according to Bengals beat reporter
Speaker 1: J Morrison, Mike Thomas, Yes that Mike Thomas, other Toms,
Speaker 1: the one from the Los Angeles Rams for the last
Speaker 1: four years. He's the guy leading the depth chart over
Speaker 1: Audentate what so I don't know. You want to know
Speaker 1: why where did head coach Zach Taylor come from? He
Speaker 1: came from Los Angeles and the Rams. So Mike Thomas
Speaker 1: right now leading the depth chart there. But you know
Speaker 1: what after Tyler Boyden, AJ Green, I'm avoiding it all.
Speaker 1: I think you're right about that. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: what remains of the Washington running back situation? Brian Oh,
Speaker 1: the same situation as in early August. Right, Darius guys? Right,
Speaker 1: how do you get all of these various guys? We
Speaker 1: will never mention him ever again after this on the show.
Speaker 1: He's clearly removed himself from consideration for this job. Adrian
Speaker 1: Peterson no longer on the team, although he could come back.
Speaker 1: This is a could be like a savvy. It would
Speaker 1: be rare that Washington team does something savvy out of
Speaker 1: their front office. But they can somehow save money by
Speaker 1: cutting Peter. How they they've cut Peterson and they can
Speaker 1: still bring him back. But we'll see what happens. But
Speaker 1: it's looking like Antonio Gibson is the guy. I think no,
Speaker 1: I think he is the guy. If you don't know
Speaker 1: about Antonio Gibson out in Memphis, he is basically a
Speaker 1: hybrid player. He was. He used primarily at wide receiver.
Speaker 1: I had thirty eight receptions for seven thirty five yards
Speaker 1: and eight touchdowns. Then mid season they moved him to
Speaker 1: running back. Had thirty three carries for three sixty nine
Speaker 1: yards and four touchdowns. He's also a hell of a
Speaker 1: kick returner, average twenty yards. He's a little tall for
Speaker 1: running back, you know, six ft six um here's and
Speaker 1: this is a key difference between him and other of
Speaker 1: these sort of jack knife do it all guys like
Speaker 1: Cordelle Patterson is an example. This guy's big, he's physical,
Speaker 1: He's six ft who twenty. That's a key difference and
Speaker 1: why I think he could make the transition to running back.
Speaker 1: It's I think he's going to have the stamina and
Speaker 1: durability to do it and do it's electric and Tonio
Speaker 1: Gibson is bonkers in space. He's gonna be taking hits
Speaker 1: like he's never taken before. Though in the NFL, that's
Speaker 1: every that's every rookie that is it is. But he's
Speaker 1: just not built like your stereotypical running back. But we'll
Speaker 1: see how he does. Of course, Barber is built like
Speaker 1: a running back, and that's why I like him. By
Speaker 1: by week two of the NFL season, he'll have more
Speaker 1: carries in the NFL than he will in his entire
Speaker 1: college career. That's a bit of a concern that ever,
Speaker 1: he's never been asked to be a work horse. I
Speaker 1: have to mention sorry, Bryce Love really quick also in
Speaker 1: consideration for some carries. Fourth round rookie of Stanford last
Speaker 1: year and Peyton Barber still hanging around. It sounds Peyton
Speaker 1: Barber is running with the ones when Gibson's not based
Speaker 1: on eight like ad pe If I'm drafting right now,
Speaker 1: Peyton Barber's I'm just gonna take in the last round.
Speaker 1: He could be the goal. Very boring, very boring, but
Speaker 1: probably the most reliable hight. Let's go to the Denver
Speaker 1: Broncos in the running back situation. Yeah, Melvin Gordon, Philip Lindsay.
Speaker 1: It's considering that most thought that this would be like
Speaker 1: a seventy thirty split in Gordon's direction as soon as
Speaker 1: they signed him. Now it seems like head coach Vic
Speaker 1: Fangio is backing off of that, talking about no starting
Speaker 1: running back and a complete time share. So I guess
Speaker 1: that means the winner is Philip Lindsay but all of
Speaker 1: us are really losers in this situation. Uh Worth, noting
Speaker 1: that Royce Freeman took most of Gordon's snaps in camp
Speaker 1: as Gordon was dealing with an injury to his ribs.
Speaker 1: So Royce uh put down the piano. Freeman dropped the
Speaker 1: drop the piano Freeman to him. He's still in play
Speaker 1: too in that running back committee. Um, there is a
Speaker 1: There is a a media note hit on Friday suggesting
Speaker 1: that the team is actively trying to find a suitor
Speaker 1: for Royce Freeman before they cut him. That is a
Speaker 1: that is a very very real possible they could trade
Speaker 1: him for a piano like that. There were definitely some
Speaker 1: piano's worth more. Yeah, you gont find a Steinway. He's
Speaker 1: got like a nice grand piano and the and the
Speaker 1: lobby at Mile High. Let's go to the Detroit running
Speaker 1: back situation. It's gonna be carry On Johnson as your starter.
Speaker 1: In week one. DeAndre Swift suffer day leg injury leg
Speaker 1: injury last week. He's been getting eased back into practice
Speaker 1: this week. He will use carry On at some point,
Speaker 1: but we're looking at his seventy thirty split in the
Speaker 1: first couple of weeks. I think between carry On and DeAndre,
Speaker 1: But well, who's on the seventy side? Carry On because
Speaker 1: too much time? But h well, we think that will
Speaker 1: probably flip flop round week three or four. All right,
Speaker 1: let's go to Indianapolis. Both the running backs and the
Speaker 1: wide receivers had position battles. So I have an actual
Speaker 1: source on this. I talked to Colts beat reporter Jim
Speaker 1: Iello from the Indie Start earlier this week. He was
Speaker 1: a long time part time writer of mine. Yeah, leak
Speaker 1: safe post and stuff. Um, he's in my fantasy baseball league,
Speaker 1: so that's that's a that's a good in there. The
Speaker 1: Colts coaching staff still loves Marlon Mack, according to Jim,
Speaker 1: and he's going to get a lot more work than
Speaker 1: people think. So in this case, I think there's only
Speaker 1: losers in this situation. While I do think Taylor shines
Speaker 1: and eventually grows into a lead dog role for the
Speaker 1: beginning of the year, it sounds like Marlon Mack will
Speaker 1: probably be on the heavy side of the sixty split,
Speaker 1: and that's not what anybody wants to hear. And then
Speaker 1: on the wide receiver side, uh, it sounds like Paris
Speaker 1: Campbell has really been a huge bright spot in camp
Speaker 1: for the Colts, while Michael Pittman has really struggled with
Speaker 1: drops uh, and it feels like second year Campbell has
Speaker 1: completely beat out Pittman UH for the second wide receiver
Speaker 1: on the field. I'm precocking Paris Campbell. Now. Remember the
Speaker 1: Colts love to play a lot of twelve personnel, one
Speaker 1: running back and two tight ends, so they're not gonna
Speaker 1: have three wide receivers on the field very often. So
Speaker 1: it's Hilton and Campbell. I think for most of the year,
Speaker 1: Campbell will play the slot and outside as well. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Rams and the running back situation. Any
Speaker 1: clarity there, Brian. It's quite the opposite of the Detroit
Speaker 1: situation where the second year guy and Darryl Henderson has
Speaker 1: been missing time with the hamstring injury. So cam Akers
Speaker 1: looks like he'll be the lead back going into week one.
Speaker 1: But Malcolm Butler is just gonna Brown. I'm sorry, Malcolm
Speaker 1: Brown canna be there to vulture touchdowns from both of
Speaker 1: these guys big time. But cam Akers looks like a
Speaker 1: lead back as a rookie going into week one. Although
Speaker 1: they said they're gonna use hot hand and that I
Speaker 1: think could be very frustrating. We'll see Malcolm Brown is
Speaker 1: going to be everybody's least favorite player in the year.
Speaker 1: You might be right about that. Jacksonville, let's go to
Speaker 1: the wide receiver situation other than DJ CHARKI yeah, the
Speaker 1: Jags have been super impressed with their two rookies, uh
Speaker 1: Leavisca Chennault and fifth rounder Colin Johnson who's six ft six.
Speaker 1: So this means the trade happy Jacksonville Jaguars are in
Speaker 1: the market to move Keelan Cole and d D. Westbrook.
Speaker 1: In all likelihood, it's possible that they'll cut one or
Speaker 1: both of them to keep things thrifty in Jacksonville. I
Speaker 1: think Laviska Senalt is the wide receiver too on this
Speaker 1: team this year, and I bet they move on from
Speaker 1: Keelan Cole or d. D. Westbrook to any team that
Speaker 1: needs any kind of wide receiver at all. Brian, back
Speaker 1: to the Rams, what are you talking about with the
Speaker 1: Rams five receivers Josh Reynolds and Van. It was gonna
Speaker 1: be Josh Reynolds all preseason or all off season before
Speaker 1: the draft. At Van Jefferson has looked great in camp
Speaker 1: and he's the guy you want to own if you're looking,
Speaker 1: if you are wanting to own the third wide receiver
Speaker 1: for the Rams, it's Van Jefferson right now. And hey,
Speaker 1: look they've they've they've been able to pay three wide receivers.
Speaker 1: I mean fantasy money, that's true. We've got we've gotten
Speaker 1: production on three receivers in the past. We'll talk a
Speaker 1: little bit more about Van Jefferson later in the show. Actually,
Speaker 1: and let's go to the Chargers and the quarterback situation there.
Speaker 1: This doesn't take long. Tyrod Taylor has been the starter
Speaker 1: for months. According to the athletics Daniel Popper, just Herbert
Speaker 1: has been the primary quarterback working with the second team.
Speaker 1: But they're also saying that Easton Stick has a outside
Speaker 1: shot at number two QB. And you have to say
Speaker 1: his name very slowly, and I said it way too
Speaker 1: fast there. Um, I it's hard to read too much
Speaker 1: into hard knocks. I from the little stuff that I've
Speaker 1: seen of Herbert, and Herbert's had a lot of camera time.
Speaker 1: I don't like what I saw, but I'm you're only seeing,
Speaker 1: you know, a tiny, tiny fraction of all of his
Speaker 1: throws and everything else. Uh, And it's still super early
Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to glean too much into that, Brian.
Speaker 1: The last one for you San Francisco's running back situation,
Speaker 1: it's for most, it's been a roller coaster ride for him.
Speaker 1: He was the guy, and then he wanted out, then
Speaker 1: they paid him and he's the guy again. But it's
Speaker 1: really because they're so dinged at wide receiver in San Francisco.
Speaker 1: They got Tevin Coleman and Jerick McKinnon running like wide
Speaker 1: receiver routes right now. But but most of it looked great.
Speaker 1: Uh over the last six games last year, I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: he finished top twenty and all of them, and four
Speaker 1: of those six games were inside the top tenant running back.
Speaker 1: So he will be the guy. But Hannah Hannigan's man,
Speaker 1: you never can rule those out. But we just gotta
Speaker 1: see how this plays out in sand Fan. But it
Speaker 1: should be Bastard getting most. I think so. I think
Speaker 1: so too. I just I worry about Coleman, especially near
Speaker 1: the stripe, which bugs me and I shouldn't have to
Speaker 1: worry about that, But I think Coleman is going to
Speaker 1: get paid near the stripe. Let's go to Miami, where
Speaker 1: there's a lot of moving parts. Who's one of the
Speaker 1: various battles there, so to uh is healthy enough that
Speaker 1: the Dolphins have been shopping their other backup, Josh Rosen.
Speaker 1: But stew Beard will start the season. Yeah, we need
Speaker 1: a stew Beard sounder or something like that. What is
Speaker 1: it this time? It's a beard sound It sounds like
Speaker 1: a peacock, That's what it sounds like. Well, that's a
Speaker 1: pretod stupid. That is a pretty good stupid, isn't it?
Speaker 1: Right there? Um? They said, the offense looks clearly smoother
Speaker 1: under Fitzpatrick, but look for two around week nine, when
Speaker 1: the Dolphins face Arizona, then the Jets, then a By,
Speaker 1: then the Jets again, and then Cincinnati in a five
Speaker 1: week span might be the way to get them up
Speaker 1: and running. For the running X situation between Matt Brita
Speaker 1: and Jordan Howard, it looks like a completely split backfield
Speaker 1: between these two, But the camp standout has been Miles Gaskin,
Speaker 1: who the staff is very excited about their both his
Speaker 1: running ability and has improved pass blocking skills. So if
Speaker 1: either Howard or Brita gets hurt, I don't think that
Speaker 1: they take over a lead dog role. I think Miles
Speaker 1: Gaskin slides into that spot and then chart. Finally, I'll
Speaker 1: go into my Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver battle here, and
Speaker 1: it was for wide receiver to between Deonte Johnson, James Washington,
Speaker 1: and Chase Claypool. Um. The knock on Deonte Johnson is
Speaker 1: he was injured for almost all of camp despite being
Speaker 1: a second year player. He's got the same experience with
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger as Chase Claypool, and he's getting drafted the
Speaker 1: highest of all the three, but he's not the one
Speaker 1: I want. James Washington has had the camp that's been
Speaker 1: the most solid according to the athletic UH Mike Cabboli
Speaker 1: over there said that he added a full route tree
Speaker 1: to his arsenal, which is very impressive. And Claypool has
Speaker 1: been kind of up and down throughout the camp. Great
Speaker 1: one day, dropped a few passes the next. So James Washington,
Speaker 1: I believe is the wide receiver too. You want there.
Speaker 1: She might be the wide receiver. But here's where we're
Speaker 1: going to agree. I think maybe not, because nobody's out
Speaker 1: on a bigger limb on this than me. I think
Speaker 1: Jujuice Smith Schuster is the odd man out very quickly.
Speaker 1: It wasn't in battle a few weeks ago. But Jacksonville
Speaker 1: running back. Now, who do you want charge? Rye hill Armstead,
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Speaker 1: let's begin with tough question number one. Will New Tampa
Speaker 1: running back Leonard four Nett have over or under nine
Speaker 1: and a half touchdowns? Brian, So his total touchdowns uh,
Speaker 1: starting as a rookie, have gone from ten to six
Speaker 1: to three, and that's rushing and receiving. Only two of
Speaker 1: those nineteen total touchdowns were receiving, and of course neither
Speaker 1: of them came last year when he had seventy six catches.
Speaker 1: Oddly enough, yes, and of course he's also a Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay buccaneer. Now he's not on the Jacksonville Jaguars. An
Speaker 1: interesting tidbit, four Net is the highest drafted running back
Speaker 1: fourth overall that Brady will have ever played with. Uh
Speaker 1: Fred Taylor the previously highest drafting back ninth overall. I
Speaker 1: didn't remember the two year two years stint the Patriots
Speaker 1: the latter end of his career, of course, but nine
Speaker 1: and half touchdowns is a lot for a guy that
Speaker 1: has scored nineteen total touchdowns, even though it will be
Speaker 1: in a prolific offense. But he's going into the year
Speaker 1: as the backup, presumably, So I'm going under nine and
Speaker 1: a half touchdowns, Okay, I'm also going under. The Bucks
Speaker 1: Backs totaled fifteen touchdowns last year, fourteen of those which
Speaker 1: were on the ground. That was actually seventh most in
Speaker 1: the league. Of that, Ronald Jones had six rushing scores,
Speaker 1: Peyton Barber had six rushing scores. In the single receiving
Speaker 1: score Daly had the other two. Barbara and Bally are
Speaker 1: both obviously gone, so is pass happy Jamis Winston. But
Speaker 1: Ronald Jones was four for four on his carries inside
Speaker 1: the five on scoring, So I would say that if
Speaker 1: you were gonna bet the over, you would have to
Speaker 1: bet that Leonard four net takes over for Ronald Jones
Speaker 1: inside the five. I don't think that that's going to
Speaker 1: happen since he was very successful there last year. So
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with the under nine and a half.
Speaker 1: And Matt, you took most of my talking points here,
Speaker 1: although let's note this and there's so there is reason
Speaker 1: to think that there's going to be a lot of
Speaker 1: touch downs to be had here. Tom Brady's Patriot teams
Speaker 1: lad the NFL and rushes inside the five. The past
Speaker 1: five years, no team had more than Tom Brady's offense
Speaker 1: in New England. And so don't think that Brady automatically
Speaker 1: means there's a bunch of passing from inside five. He
Speaker 1: spent more time handing off than he did passing. He
Speaker 1: was four for twenty last year on passing from which
Speaker 1: is crazy crazy. So I do think they're going to
Speaker 1: give the ball plenty of times the running backs and
Speaker 1: enough times where Leonard Fournett's going to be close to
Speaker 1: that nine and a half, But does he actually go
Speaker 1: over it? The things working against him is I don't
Speaker 1: think he's a materially better back than Ronald Jones. He's
Speaker 1: about the same. He's not a better pass blocker, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: so I can't say he's gonna be on the field
Speaker 1: for pass blocking reasons. And then there's the history of
Speaker 1: soft tissue injuries that just always scares me to Leonard
Speaker 1: four net. So you put all that together, I don't
Speaker 1: think he's quite going to get to the nine and
Speaker 1: a half, but he clearly If Ronald Jones bobs out
Speaker 1: of this competition early, he'll make easily tough Question number two.
Speaker 1: Last year, Ravens tight end Mark Andrews led the team
Speaker 1: in every meaningful receiving category targets, receptions, yards, and touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Will he have a clean sweep again this year? Matt, No,
Speaker 1: he won't have a clean sweep, but he'll get most
Speaker 1: of them. Uh, Andrews only managed eight hundred fifty two
Speaker 1: receiving yards, and I say only, but that's still pretty
Speaker 1: good for a tight end in most seasons. The problem
Speaker 1: is is I don't see him increasing on that market.
Speaker 1: Ton and I really like Hollywood Brown to take a
Speaker 1: major step forward after spending most of last year nursing
Speaker 1: some nagging injuries. And here's a couple of stats on Brown.
Speaker 1: He sat out weeks sixth through eight, came back in
Speaker 1: week nine. From week nine through weeks seventeen, he only
Speaker 1: averaged three and a half targets, two point seven catches,
Speaker 1: and twenty eight yards per game. But in weeks one
Speaker 1: through five he averaged seven point eight targets, four receptions
Speaker 1: in sixty five yards per game, and of course he
Speaker 1: rested and then had hundred and twenty six yards in
Speaker 1: the playoff game. So even if Brown only averages sixty
Speaker 1: five yards per game, he's well over a thousand yards
Speaker 1: at that point. And I think that's enough to beat
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews in one of those categories. Yeah, Matt mentioned
Speaker 1: Brown was hurt a lot last year. Only played in
Speaker 1: fourteen regular season games. He saw four or fewer targets,
Speaker 1: and half of those fourteen games seventy one total targets
Speaker 1: for Brown had forty six catches Andrews had sixty four targets,
Speaker 1: so basically equal targets. Brown is having more catches. And
Speaker 1: if Brown is healthy and he is right now, he's
Speaker 1: gonna see a hundred and undred and thirty targets this year,
Speaker 1: so it would. But if he's healthy and ready to
Speaker 1: go in his second year, I think it could happen.
Speaker 1: So no, Andrews will not clean sweep the receiving category.
Speaker 1: I hold my guy, Myles Boykin and outdoing Mark Andrews,
Speaker 1: so I can. I always feel like we we cling
Speaker 1: onto guys in the preseason that our wide receiver two's
Speaker 1: and they never pant I feel like they never pan out.
Speaker 1: I don't speak for yourself. I think I would like
Speaker 1: to believe plenty of mine, plenty of mine. I can't
Speaker 1: go on right now. However, and who didn't pan out either, Uh,
Speaker 1: you're right that Brown does is very likely to catch
Speaker 1: up somewhere. He he was only eighteen receptions behind last year,
Speaker 1: he was only two hundred sixty eight yards behind last year,
Speaker 1: and he did have all the injuries last year. Um.
Speaker 1: I think Andrews still wins the touchdown battle absolutely, you know.
Speaker 1: I think that's the one you feel most safe about.
Speaker 1: Here's where your X factor comes in for Mark Andrews.
Speaker 1: You know, with hayden Hurst leaving, he leaves behind forty
Speaker 1: targets three hundred fifty yards if they don't go to
Speaker 1: Nick Boyle and those all go to Andrews, Andrew's going
Speaker 1: to do it again. But I don't think it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: I think Nick Boyle is gonna end up getting most
Speaker 1: of those hayden Hurst yards and they gotta they gotta
Speaker 1: spread that around those those vacated targets to wide receivers
Speaker 1: to and J K. Dobbins. Yeah, well that's yeah, he's
Speaker 1: a very good pass catching back as well, and Devin
Speaker 1: de Verne has looked good the rookie wide receiver too.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get a little bit of run here to
Speaker 1: tough question number three. Much of Josh Allen's fantasy production
Speaker 1: has come through his running. Through two years, he's averaging
Speaker 1: roughly five hundred fifty rushing yards and eight and a
Speaker 1: half rushing touchdowns This year, will he be over or
Speaker 1: under his career averages? Brian so In twenty eighteen, Josh
Speaker 1: Allen had six hundred thirty one yards on eighty nine carries.
Speaker 1: Lead back Shady McCoy had five fourteen on a hundred
Speaker 1: and sixty one attempts, nearly twice as many as Josh Allen.
Speaker 1: Za Jones was the leading wide receiver for Buffalo last year,
Speaker 1: Kelvin Benjamin was catching passes from Buffalo. Just an awful,
Speaker 1: awful state for the Bills in twenty eighteen. Josh Allen
Speaker 1: had to do virtually everything for them to try and
Speaker 1: win games and got a little better. Not really so
Speaker 1: much in the backfield with Frank Or and Devin Singletary,
Speaker 1: who combined for four rushing touchdowns. That's it. Josh Allen
Speaker 1: had even more carries in hundred and nine carries for
Speaker 1: less yards five and ten. But they really relied on
Speaker 1: him in the red zone. Ah, he had nine rushing
Speaker 1: touch town nine times, voice as many as Frank Gore,
Speaker 1: Devon Singletary, John Cole I'm sorry, John Brown and Cole
Speaker 1: Beasley were huge upgrades in the passing game. So this
Speaker 1: year it's Zach Moss time. That's it. He's going to
Speaker 1: pick up a lot of slack that Josh Allen. Uh.
Speaker 1: I won't say he's leaving it in the red zone,
Speaker 1: but he doesn't need to be relied on as much
Speaker 1: in the red zone. And Stefon Diggs is now in
Speaker 1: town too to add add him to John Brown and
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley, and they're just not gonna need Josh Allen,
Speaker 1: who run as much as he has has in the past.
Speaker 1: So I'm going under the career averages for Josh Matt
Speaker 1: Brian literally read all my every single one of them,
Speaker 1: all right, So you're also on under. The correct answer
Speaker 1: is under. The scrambling is gonna drop this year. The
Speaker 1: yardage is gonna drop. Second year. It's the second year
Speaker 1: for Buffalo's massive offensive line transformation that started last year.
Speaker 1: I think those guys, that whole group as a unit
Speaker 1: gets better, better receivers which you mentioned, more confidence in
Speaker 1: the pocket. I'm reminded a little bit of a young
Speaker 1: Donovan McNabb. Now you guys are too young to remember
Speaker 1: Donovan McNabb, like the same age I used to pick
Speaker 1: up with Donovan McNabb at lifetime. I swear Donovan mcna
Speaker 1: first came into the league was a rushing quarterback who
Speaker 1: had a nice arm, and he throws some make some
Speaker 1: big plays, and he was running around a lot. Then
Speaker 1: he suffering the injury, and he turned into a very
Speaker 1: very good Hall of Fame caliber uh pocket passer, and
Speaker 1: I think till he got to Minnesota at that point
Speaker 1: he was completely cooked. Josh Allen, I think is going
Speaker 1: to transform into a much more of a pocket passer
Speaker 1: who will only have to run when he needs to
Speaker 1: and hopefully not so often. He got five rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: from inside the five last year. Who's going to take
Speaker 1: those five rushing touchdowns from inside the five this year?
Speaker 1: Devin Singleton, Yeah, that's exactly right. That is the It's
Speaker 1: Zach Boss for the love, it is Zack Moss just
Speaker 1: the vulture. Now, yes, he well, he's more than the vulture.
Speaker 1: He's a vulture plus a pea cock all in one.
Speaker 1: You're pretty cocking again, had a little, we starve a
Speaker 1: lot of burden. You remember where McNabb went to college
Speaker 1: off the top of your head, Syracuse. Okay, you know
Speaker 1: he played on the basketball team. I did not remember
Speaker 1: that on the basketball at least the last two Bryan
Speaker 1: just wants to talk about playing basketball for the rest
Speaker 1: of the segment. That's right. Totally dunked on McNabb. It
Speaker 1: was great. No, he dunked on He wasn't duncan though.
Speaker 1: At that point we have time for an unscripted bonus question,
Speaker 1: question number four. What we have a sounder for this? Yes,
Speaker 1: we do, in case we ever have bonus time, which
Speaker 1: we got right now. Last year, Aaron Rodgers finished outside
Speaker 1: the top seventeen among quarterbacks in eleven of sixteen weeks.
Speaker 1: Got that. So he was outside of the top seventeen
Speaker 1: quarterbacks in eleven of sixteen weeks last year. Does Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers finish better or worse than that this year? I'll
Speaker 1: say better. And here's why he's upset that they drafted
Speaker 1: Jordan's Love and he's going to start changing those plays
Speaker 1: at the line all the time. They're gonna be like, all, right,
Speaker 1: hand the ball off to Aaron Jones or a J.
Speaker 1: Dillon inside the five, and he's gonna be like, Nope,
Speaker 1: you're changing that play. He's gonna throw way more touchdowns
Speaker 1: than last year. I think. I think it's the demise
Speaker 1: of Aaron Rodgers has been greatly exaggerated. And Davanta Adams
Speaker 1: missed about six or seven games last year and it
Speaker 1: was kind of dinged up for the majority of the season.
Speaker 1: If he's fully healthy, Rodgers, will I finish much better
Speaker 1: than that. I'm not as confident that as you guys are.
Speaker 1: Here's a J. Dillon built for goal line use. I
Speaker 1: think that inside the five, those easy touchdowns are are
Speaker 1: going to come on the ground again. Through the backs.
Speaker 1: They've got more than through the arm. I don't think
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers cares about that. I think he's mad. I
Speaker 1: think they pissed him off. No, he's he's mad. That
Speaker 1: might not matter. I'm not so sure. Only one good capable,
Speaker 1: But if a bench him, you know what, if Jordy
Speaker 1: love It had a better preseason, you can talk about that.
Speaker 1: But he's been brutal by all accounts, so that's probably
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Speaker 1: The segment one thing that you should know about every
Speaker 1: team based on the whole preseason. If there's one critical
Speaker 1: thing to know about every single team, what are those things?
Speaker 1: And we begin with Matt Harrison and the Carolina papist
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey average twenty five point two touches per game
Speaker 1: last season, and when asked about that, both head coach
Speaker 1: Matt Rule and offensive coordinator Joe Brady have said that
Speaker 1: that's an appropriate number of touches for him to expect
Speaker 1: this season. So over the last three years, by the way,
Speaker 1: he trails only Michael Thomas and DeAndre Hopkins in total receptions.
Speaker 1: That's crazy, crazy, he's gonna That's why he's won one. Brian,
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Las Vegas Raiders. The Raiders are
Speaker 1: gonna have two rookie wide receivers started on the boundaries
Speaker 1: this year and Brian Edwards and Henry Ruggs, with Hunter
Speaker 1: Renfro in the slot and Henry Ruggs the first wide
Speaker 1: receiver taking overall in the draft. But Brian Edwards is
Speaker 1: the guy you want really from an outside receiver perspective.
Speaker 1: But I would go Hunter Renfro if I'm wanting a
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Raiders wide receiver based on ADP, I don't
Speaker 1: know he's You get Brian Edwards way late and he's
Speaker 1: the best out of this growth is I'm worried about
Speaker 1: these rookies. And then but uh Nelson Aguilar is getting
Speaker 1: a Jones looks good too. They're saying, I think I'm
Speaker 1: gonna pass on the Raiders wide receivers. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: more about the Rotors gifts in game later on we'll
Speaker 1: go to the Packers. The one thing you need to
Speaker 1: know about the Packers Alan Lazard has won the the
Speaker 1: wide receiver two job uncontested, currently going off the board
Speaker 1: as wide receiver sixty two pick one. The Packers, No,
Speaker 1: they have to diversify their passing offense, and I think
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to force the ball to Lizard some
Speaker 1: if only to establish there's some kind of throat on
Speaker 1: the field other than Davante Adams. What's the one thing
Speaker 1: people need to know about the Washington football team? At
Speaker 1: guys has gone, Adrian is gone. Antonio Gibson is your
Speaker 1: likely starter in Washington, and Ron Rivera seems to absolutely
Speaker 1: love the guy and has compared him to c MC
Speaker 1: as a threat in the passing game. Also, Washington is
Speaker 1: going to pass a lot. Scott Turners four games as
Speaker 1: Carolina's offensive coordinator last year, he passed sixty six point
Speaker 1: three percent of the time. That is a lot. What
Speaker 1: is the one thing we need to know in Buffalobrien Well,
Speaker 1: for years it was hard to find a thing to
Speaker 1: know about Buffalo when it came to fantasy football coming
Speaker 1: out of training camp. But not this year. It's watch
Speaker 1: out for the Bills. This offense is loaded, primarily Zack
Speaker 1: moss Man. He's he's he's been the biggest mover this offseason,
Speaker 1: especially when it comes to rookies. When we started talking
Speaker 1: about Zack Moss which goes from our podcast before we
Speaker 1: were over the air back in June two. Now he's
Speaker 1: moved from the round to the fifth round. It's been
Speaker 1: you know, it's been a remarkable change. Yeah, late second,
Speaker 1: early third and rookie drafts Now he's mid until late first.
Speaker 1: But I'm excited to watch the Buffalo Bills for the
Speaker 1: first time in a long time, and a lot of
Speaker 1: people should be too. The one thing you need to
Speaker 1: know about the Houston Texans. Many reports from both reporters
Speaker 1: and coaching saying that Will Fuller looks great, uh in
Speaker 1: the best shape of his career, ready to pick up
Speaker 1: the load from DeAndre Hopkins. Hopkins leaves behind one fifty
Speaker 1: targets and Fuller appears to be the primary beneficiary of that.
Speaker 1: We will talk about their Thursday match up with Kansas
Speaker 1: City in detail a little later in this show. Matt,
Speaker 1: what's the one thing we need to know about the
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I think it's that they're all in
Speaker 1: Brady Gronk for Net Evans, Godwin, Vaughan, McCoy, Rojoe, O j. Bread,
Speaker 1: all our names. That I only needed a name, one name,
Speaker 1: and you know who they are. Um So, in that case,
Speaker 1: when the offense is so deeply, when the offense is
Speaker 1: so deep, take the quarterback because you're gonna get points
Speaker 1: at free time that that offense scores and you can
Speaker 1: you can avoid some of the pitfalls of not getting
Speaker 1: the right guy on the right date. So Tom Brady
Speaker 1: is the guy that I want the most out of
Speaker 1: the Bucks offense. All right, Brian, let's uh, what's the
Speaker 1: one thing we need to know about the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 1: It's time for redemption tour. That's pretty much it. Remember
Speaker 1: the lofty expectations last year for the offense. Everybody wanted Brown's.
Speaker 1: Tampa Bay is the this year's Browns, Right, those expectations
Speaker 1: are still reasonable. They weren't last year, but they're coming
Speaker 1: at a great discount this year across the board outside
Speaker 1: of Nick Chubb really, which is is justified based on
Speaker 1: Cream Hunt being there. But you can get your Browns
Speaker 1: way cheaper than last year, and they could, uh, they
Speaker 1: could put up some massive We're talking point Orgies weekend
Speaker 1: weak out. We're talking and we'll talk more about the
Speaker 1: Browns and some specific players later in this show. The
Speaker 1: one thing you need to know about the Indianapolis Colts
Speaker 1: Paris Campbell, Michael Pittman. We've already talked about them some,
Speaker 1: but I think the biggest stories here where was Paris
Speaker 1: Campbell's bounced back into prominence and a guy that will
Speaker 1: be a starter were the slot work outside brings size
Speaker 1: and speed to the position. What's the one thing people
Speaker 1: need to know about the Detroit Lions. Matt Kenny Golladay
Speaker 1: is in a contract year, The Lions defense is below average,
Speaker 1: and Matthew Stafford is back and healthy, and the running
Speaker 1: backs are already injured. So Golladay has a great chance
Speaker 1: to be a top five wide receiver at the end
Speaker 1: of the year. Remember, he averaged eighty yards in almost
Speaker 1: a touchdown per game last year in games with Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford Brian, what's the one thing to know from the
Speaker 1: Jets this preseason? Now I'm paraphrasing here, but Adam Gaye
Speaker 1: says Levon Bell looks like But I don't think that's exactly. Basically,
Speaker 1: there are two Jets you want to draft in fantasy
Speaker 1: leagues or acquire via auction. It's Jameson Crowder and Chris Herndon.
Speaker 1: That's it. Disregard the rest. That's what you need to
Speaker 1: know about. I don't even want them that much. For
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs, the one thing you need to
Speaker 1: know from their preseason, and I think the biggest story
Speaker 1: is Clyde Edwards Hlaire becoming the start and Darryl Williams
Speaker 1: as the probable change of pace back. And that's that's
Speaker 1: been the biggest story. I have Clyde Edwards layer as
Speaker 1: my number three charge. What about Peterson? Adrian Peterson to
Speaker 1: the Chiefs? How does that sound to you? I don't
Speaker 1: think it's happening. No, you you mentioned, I think you
Speaker 1: mentioned on Twitter which team has the best shot of
Speaker 1: going sixteen? And oh and did the Chiefs just run away?
Speaker 1: Which Chiefs ran away with it? But I think the
Speaker 1: right answer Baltimore. But the Chiefs ran away with it,
Speaker 1: and I can understand why they will. They will score them.
Speaker 1: They will score the most points in the league. Probably
Speaker 1: they didn't last year. You know who did, Baltimore. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Seattle Seahawks. What's the one thing that
Speaker 1: everybody needs to know from the preseason for Seattle? Um
Speaker 1: Seattle's defense is really good and we haven't talked about that.
Speaker 1: They added Quandre Digs, Jamal Adams, and Quentin Dunbar. So
Speaker 1: I think I'm looking at Chris Carson to absolutely crush
Speaker 1: this year as the Seahawks will play tough defense and
Speaker 1: run the ball. Before his injury, Carson had twenty or
Speaker 1: more carries in eight of his last ten games. It's
Speaker 1: a good sign. I don't know why nobody likes Chris Carson. Don't.
Speaker 1: It's like, well, I guess, I guess I gotta take
Speaker 1: Chris Carson. I think he's gonna absolutely dominate. I think
Speaker 1: he's gonna put up RB one numbers and you can
Speaker 1: get him in the third round and all like I
Speaker 1: got Chris Carson, so like last year, so many places, Brian,
Speaker 1: what's the one thing people need to know about the
Speaker 1: Denver Broncos preseason basically the most split backfield in football
Speaker 1: right now. Matt kind of broke it down earlier, but
Speaker 1: the one thing to know going into this draft weekend
Speaker 1: is if you're going to draft a Denver running back,
Speaker 1: just take Philip Lindsay many rounds later than Milton. That's
Speaker 1: pretty much all I can come up with for Denver.
Speaker 1: All right. For the Rams, we've already touched on this.
Speaker 1: The most important thing that has materialized rookie Van Jefferson
Speaker 1: blowing everybody away over the past two weeks and could
Speaker 1: easily end up as the team's starting slot receivers quickly
Speaker 1: as week one. Now what you may not know about
Speaker 1: Van Jefferson, He's the son of longtime receiver Sean Jefferson,
Speaker 1: and the dad's tutoring made him mentally ready for the NFL.
Speaker 1: The one thing you need to know about the phil
Speaker 1: Adelphia Eagles, Matt. No one can stay healthy. Miles Sanders,
Speaker 1: Jalen reagor, Carson Wentzer all on the injury report for
Speaker 1: week one, Alshon Jefferies on the pup on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: Tackle Andre Dillard is on i R for the year,
Speaker 1: so is Brandon Brooks, who plays guard Lane Johnson, has
Speaker 1: been hurt for a few weeks and questionable for Week one.
Speaker 1: It's the deal with the devil they made to win
Speaker 1: super Bowl fifty two. It's all coming to a head
Speaker 1: right now. This has been the most injured team for
Speaker 1: like three straight years now, yeah, since Super Bowl fifty two.
Speaker 1: All right, um, what's the one thing people need to
Speaker 1: know about the Miami Dolphins? Bryant A lot of buzzy
Speaker 1: players coming out of Dolphins camp. DeVante Parker, Preston Williams
Speaker 1: might get sicky, but be warned. A brutal, brutal start
Speaker 1: from Miami. Out of the gates. They get New England
Speaker 1: and Buffalo in the first two weeks. That means Stephon
Speaker 1: Gilmour and Tredavious what will be shadowing DeVante Parker the
Speaker 1: Jaguars in week three. That's a that's a soft one.
Speaker 1: But then Seahawks and then the forty Niners in the
Speaker 1: following weeks. That is just an awful, awful start for
Speaker 1: worst team in the NFL. How did this happen to them?
Speaker 1: But is that the vision they're in? Poor Miami. I
Speaker 1: don't think they're the worst team in the NFL, No,
Speaker 1: not anymore, but they're there. The Jaguars are are motoring
Speaker 1: toward that motor. The Vikings. The one thing you need
Speaker 1: to know about Minnesota Vikings. The starting wide receiver opposite
Speaker 1: Adam Feeling is expected to be b C. Johnson, not
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson. Not that Justin Jefferson has done anything wrong,
Speaker 1: and he's looked very good, but b C. Johnson. Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins described when as having maybe the most improved camp
Speaker 1: event of any player. Um BC's knowledge of the system
Speaker 1: gets him a head start going into the season and
Speaker 1: it's his job to lose as we go into Week one.
Speaker 1: What's the one thing that people need to know about
Speaker 1: the Cowboys? Matt Despite the coaching change, Kellen Moore is
Speaker 1: still the play caller in Dallas, so there is consistency
Speaker 1: with Doc and his offensive coordinator, and outside of the
Speaker 1: Rams in Week one, Dallas has a very favorable pass
Speaker 1: schedule to start the year. So loading up on Cowboys
Speaker 1: in your draft is not a bad idea at all,
Speaker 1: because Prescott has a pretty good chance of leading the NFC,
Speaker 1: but maybe even the NFL in passing yards this year.
Speaker 1: Great weapons for sure. Brian what's the one thing people
Speaker 1: don't need to know about the Patriots offseason? Of all preseason?
Speaker 1: Who knows what you need to know? In New England?
Speaker 1: Who is the lead backing to be now that Damien
Speaker 1: Harris is hurt? Is Cam Newton going to be good again?
Speaker 1: There's nothing definitive coming out of Patriots camp. And I
Speaker 1: can tell you right now, yeah, Like, all right, we'll
Speaker 1: go to the Saints. I look, what can I tell you? Like,
Speaker 1: I don't know what I'm doing? Is the starting quarterback?
Speaker 1: You need to know? That's pretty much it. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: we'll see what happens. The thing you need to know
Speaker 1: about the New Orleans Saints has mentioned earlier in the show,
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamari's contract situation and the courtisone shot. I think
Speaker 1: those are the biggest storylines there and what has otherwise
Speaker 1: been a quiet offseason for them. Matt, what's the one
Speaker 1: thing people need to know about the Giants? I hope
Speaker 1: I'm not stepping on Brian Johnson's touchdown call from a
Speaker 1: later segment here, but trade for the Giants players a
Speaker 1: week five? People will be freaking out about se Quan
Speaker 1: and Danny Dimes after they're starting. Uh, schedule of Pittsburgh, Chicago,
Speaker 1: San fran the Rams, and Dallas in the first five weeks.
Speaker 1: But their offense is going to get going. I'm a
Speaker 1: believer in their offense and it'll get going in weeks
Speaker 1: six and beyond. What's the one thing to know from
Speaker 1: the Tennessee Titans, Ryan Tannehill said, Derrick Henry is catching
Speaker 1: the ball more confidently in training campus year. And if
Speaker 1: he Derrick Henry that is, can see some adequate target
Speaker 1: totals for once in his career target totals of fifteen, seventeen, eighteen,
Speaker 1: and twenty four that is nothing. Just give us fifty
Speaker 1: Mike Vrabel and he's pushing Christian McCaffrey for RB one.
Speaker 1: If he can get more involved in the passing game,
Speaker 1: that's just over one more target per game. It's not
Speaker 1: a lot. It's not the one thing you need to
Speaker 1: know from Steelers preseason. Ben Roethlisberger looks like his old self,
Speaker 1: well not his old self, and that he's thirty eight
Speaker 1: years old, not that old self. He just looks like
Speaker 1: his old self before the elbow injury, which is a
Speaker 1: good sign. Strength and velocity seems to be there. Um
Speaker 1: the impressive camp of Chase Claypool suggests a big bend
Speaker 1: will have four capable wide receivers to throw to this year.
Speaker 1: What's the one thing people need to know about the
Speaker 1: Falcons preseason? My belief is they will be the same
Speaker 1: offense as they were last year. Julio and Calvin Ridley
Speaker 1: will continue to put up big numbers. Hayden Hurst seems
Speaker 1: prime to replicate Austin Hooper, and Todd Gurley seems just
Speaker 1: as injury prone and questionable as Davante Freeman was last year.
Speaker 1: And defensively, they're still mediocre and they should be playing
Speaker 1: catch up for most of the year. Brian, what's the
Speaker 1: one thing people need to know? Based on the preseason
Speaker 1: for the Bengals? We already mentioned Joe Mixing was extended.
Speaker 1: A J. Green already dinged up in training camp. The
Speaker 1: one thing you need to know is it's Joe Burrow time. Baby.
Speaker 1: He's bringing very much excitement to that offense despite the A. J.
Speaker 1: Green injury, and uh, there's there's hope in Cincinnati for
Speaker 1: the first time in a long time. Brian, aren't you
Speaker 1: excited about? I Am your Cincinnati Bengals. The one thing
Speaker 1: to know about the forty nine ers, massive number of
Speaker 1: injuries to receivers. Jalen Hurd on, I are Tavon, Tavon
Speaker 1: in Austin on, I r J J. Nelson on, I
Speaker 1: are Deebo Samuel the foot injury that may or may
Speaker 1: not be ready by Week one. Brandon Ayuk with a
Speaker 1: hamstring injury that has cost him a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: of practice for a rookie that really needed it. And
Speaker 1: Kendrick Borne is the only fully healthy Quas Eyes. He
Speaker 1: wasn't even a starter, you know, just somebody that's a
Speaker 1: veteran on the team. He was a good red zone
Speaker 1: target last year. It's about all he wants. But he
Speaker 1: may be your starter week one. And and uh, that
Speaker 1: might be a sneaky Week one play for although I can't.
Speaker 1: I really hope nobody needs a sneaky Week one play
Speaker 1: in Week one. Maybe DFS, Maybe maybe DFS. Let's go
Speaker 1: to the Cardinals, Matt, what's the one thing you need
Speaker 1: to know based on the preseason in Arizona? Kyler Murray
Speaker 1: is the player you want from the Cardinals on your roster.
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins is a great addition, but he's been injured
Speaker 1: for a lot of camp and has very little acclamation
Speaker 1: time in this offense, but he joins Christian Kirk, Larry Fitzgerald,
Speaker 1: Andy Isabella, Dan Arnold and uh and some solid pass
Speaker 1: catching backs. I probably won't get any Cardinals at their
Speaker 1: current a DP, except I might reach for Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Jacksonville Jaguars. What's the one thing
Speaker 1: we need to know there? They released Leonard four Nette.
Speaker 1: Of course, that backfield up in the air with divine
Speaker 1: zigbo right Hill Armstead. Chris Thompson will be the past
Speaker 1: catching back. But it's really it's just gonna be ride
Speaker 1: or die with Gardner Minshew. Baby jackson is gonna be
Speaker 1: throwing the ball of the time. Can I take a
Speaker 1: die on on that? He's just gonna chuck the ball
Speaker 1: so much it is, there's gonna be a lot of
Speaker 1: volume there. So I would say ignore the running game
Speaker 1: in Jacksonville and focus on Gardner Minshew J. Chark. That's
Speaker 1: about it. What over under would you put on Gardner
Speaker 1: Minshew pass attempts this year? Well, he clear six fifty,
Speaker 1: because that's a really really high number. He might average
Speaker 1: thirty five a game. I mean, it's it's gonna be
Speaker 1: a big it's gonna be a big number, no doubt.
Speaker 1: They'll be behind constantly. The one thing you need to
Speaker 1: know from Ravens camp a big step forward from both
Speaker 1: of last year's rookies, Markus Brown and Miles boy Can
Speaker 1: in camp Um. We talked about them a little bit
Speaker 1: last segments. I'm not gonna spend a lot of time
Speaker 1: on them, but both have improved and look like they
Speaker 1: are both draftable, although nobody's drafting Miles boy Can. Accept me.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Chicago Bears, Matt your final team.
Speaker 1: What is the most notable thing to come out of
Speaker 1: this preseason? Allen Robinson is going to catch about a
Speaker 1: million passes this year because the rest of that offense
Speaker 1: looks like a complete disaster. The quarterback situation is still
Speaker 1: not settled. They haven't settled in their Week one starter yet.
Speaker 1: David Montgomery is injured and he wasn't really the best
Speaker 1: player in the league when he was healthy. Anthony Miller
Speaker 1: is kind of a nice piece and emerging a little bit.
Speaker 1: But this is all about Allen Robinson setting personal bests
Speaker 1: in every mark as he enters a contract here. That
Speaker 1: was a that was a lot of things, not just
Speaker 1: one thing. But know the two quarterbacks. It's not like
Speaker 1: they've both been so good that Chicago can't figure out
Speaker 1: who they could possibly bench. It's been the opposite. Unfortunately,
Speaker 1: neither quarterback has stepped up. I can't imagine why they
Speaker 1: didn't get in the Cam Newton bandwagon. There our final
Speaker 1: I'm maybe they're playing for draft picks. I don't know
Speaker 1: they're going maybe the secretly going for Trevor Lawrence. Our
Speaker 1: five team is the Los Angeles Chargers. Brian, what's the
Speaker 1: one thing to know from their preseason? Austin Ekeler is
Speaker 1: going to eat right matt yum rb one potential still
Speaker 1: going too late in most drafts, in the late or
Speaker 1: early second lad first, But it's all about Austin Ekela
Speaker 1: in that offense going into this season. If you would
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Speaker 1: back guys to trade for and or pick up in October,
Speaker 1: which also means there are guys you don't want to
Speaker 1: have right now, We'll tell you why and who you
Speaker 1: settle a calendar reminder for October? Is this super premature
Speaker 1: premature speculation? That's that's right, the most premature possible speculations.
Speaker 1: When we come back to Fantasy Football Week, Welcome back
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Bultiarchie and my co host
Speaker 1: are Matt Harrison and Brian Johnson and Guillotine Leads dot
Speaker 1: com and Chuck Fantasy dot Com. The segment is devoted
Speaker 1: to guys that were not as interested in right now,
Speaker 1: but we think that there's a real trade for and
Speaker 1: or pick up opportunity in October. So we're planning ahead
Speaker 1: a little bit. I literally used my calendar program on
Speaker 1: my computer with reminders. I did this last year with
Speaker 1: with Jets, where their schedule was brutal out of the gate,
Speaker 1: and so I had a reminder from November, Hey, take
Speaker 1: another look at Jets. They had the really, really tough
Speaker 1: schedule early on. There we've identified, Brian, I have identified
Speaker 1: a player at every position that we think are going
Speaker 1: to be trade or pick up candidates in October. Brian,
Speaker 1: let's start at the quarterback position. Matt did mow my
Speaker 1: lawn a little bit. But that's okay. I can expand
Speaker 1: on this, and it's Daniel Jones who is going off
Speaker 1: the board as a top twelve quarterback right now. People
Speaker 1: are are entrusting him to be a starter going into
Speaker 1: Week one, but starting in Week one, Daniel Jones is
Speaker 1: not startable. And it starts with Pittsburgh, who allowed six
Speaker 1: passing touchdowns across the first two games of last season.
Speaker 1: Then they acquired Minka Fitzpatrick and they allowed seventeen passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns over the next fifteen weeks. I'm sorry, fourteen weeks.
Speaker 1: That's not a lot, just over one per game. Brutal
Speaker 1: match up there. Then at Chicago seventeen touchdown passes allowed
Speaker 1: all season, towards the bottom of the list of touchdown
Speaker 1: passes allowed. San Francisco Week three allowed twenty three touchdown passes,
Speaker 1: not a lot. No other quarterback through more than two
Speaker 1: touchdown passes other than Drew Brees he had five touchdowns
Speaker 1: once against the forty nine. Is only four quarterbacks top
Speaker 1: two forty passing yards against San Francisco, So we're over
Speaker 1: three on Daniel Jones out of the gate. And then
Speaker 1: the Rams in Week four allowed twenty three passing touchdowns
Speaker 1: last year, but after Jalen Ramsey was acquired UH and
Speaker 1: started playing for them in Week seven, they allowed zero
Speaker 1: or one passing touchdowns and seven of the remaining ten games.
Speaker 1: And then, as Mass said, Dallas in Week five only
Speaker 1: allowed two forty passing yards at one point two passing
Speaker 1: touchdowns per game last year. That's five bad matchups out
Speaker 1: of the game for Daniel Jones. I think the Dallas
Speaker 1: secondary takes a big step back this year, but it's
Speaker 1: still it's very tough. Daniel Jones is in October target
Speaker 1: and we'll like him a lot more then, but can
Speaker 1: the good parts of October. Week six, they get Washington
Speaker 1: team allowed the third most passing touchdowns last season. Giants
Speaker 1: also get Washington team in week nine, so weeks six
Speaker 1: and nine they get Washington and then in between Philly
Speaker 1: in Week seven and Tampa Bay in Week eight allowed
Speaker 1: the third most yards and thirty passing touchdowns to quarterbacks
Speaker 1: last year, and Danny Dimes had his coming out party
Speaker 1: against the Bucks last year. Two passing touchdowns to rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: So brutal start, But the schedule gets softer and that
Speaker 1: team will jail as time goes on despite their awful GM.
Speaker 1: Dave Gettlman, Okay, I'm Johnder. That's fine. Uh. The quarterback
Speaker 1: that I believe you'll want to trade for in October
Speaker 1: and you don't want now is a Derek Carr. You
Speaker 1: actually wanted to trade for him. You'll just pick him
Speaker 1: up because they'll be dropped now. The Raiders have got
Speaker 1: a tough Releaseason schedule, but Week one is very favorable.
Speaker 1: They've got Carolina. I think he could get something done
Speaker 1: against Carolina, but then it gives brutal is. Maybe it's
Speaker 1: the worst schedule of of any team over the next
Speaker 1: few weeks. Saints, Patriots, Bills, Chiefs bye week, so we're
Speaker 1: just gonna skip those first five games altogether. Then after
Speaker 1: that is after not quite better. Well after that, I
Speaker 1: think he gets if he's even on a roster. I
Speaker 1: think he gets dropped on the bye week, and then
Speaker 1: Derek Carr comes back and schedule gets much easier for
Speaker 1: the rest of the way. I think, maybe you disagree,
Speaker 1: but then I think cars starting receivers who are both rookies,
Speaker 1: Henry Ruggs, Bryan Edwards, they'll have six weeks of the
Speaker 1: NFL under their belt. So those guys start, you know,
Speaker 1: acclimating to the NFL Derek Cark back schedule gets easier.
Speaker 1: I'm a lot more interested in them. I take car
Speaker 1: in November, when the schedule actually gets really, really easy.
Speaker 1: We go to the running back position. Brian, who is
Speaker 1: your running back? Your targeting in October? But not September.
Speaker 1: We're staying in Las Vegas? Why not? And Josh Jacobs
Speaker 1: is the answer here. Now this starts very meaty for
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs against Carolina and Week one, who allowed twenty
Speaker 1: seven rushing touchdowns two running backs last year. It's a
Speaker 1: great Week one matchup, eighteen was the next highest rushing
Speaker 1: touchdown total allowed to running backs. But after that it
Speaker 1: is an absolutely brutal stretch for Josh Jacobs starting in
Speaker 1: Week two with New Orleans only allowed seven rushing touchdowns
Speaker 1: running backs last year. New England in Week three one
Speaker 1: rushing touchdown allowed to running backs last year, then Buffalo
Speaker 1: the following week only nine rushing touchdowns allowed. At Kansas
Speaker 1: City in Week five, only ten rushing touchdowns allowed to
Speaker 1: running backs by the Chiefs. And that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: flipped game script for Linda. They're gonna be passing the
Speaker 1: ball heavily, and then Tampa Bay in Week six only
Speaker 1: allowed eight rushing touchdowns are running backs. The only team
Speaker 1: to allow fewer than a thousand rushing yards to running
Speaker 1: backs all year were the Buccaneers. So outside of that
Speaker 1: Week one matchup for Jacobs against Carolina is five brutal games,
Speaker 1: and by then the owner of Joss Jacobs is gonna
Speaker 1: be fed up and looking to deal, just in time
Speaker 1: to face the Cleveland Browns, who allowed more than rushing
Speaker 1: games hundred sorry hundred ten rushing yards per game to
Speaker 1: running backs last year and fourteen rushing touchdowns that was
Speaker 1: fourth most. Then they get the Chargers allowed also allowed
Speaker 1: fourteen rushing touchdowns running backs last year, just lost Derwin
Speaker 1: James for the year as well, the l A Chargers
Speaker 1: and then the Broncos, who weren't as generous to running
Speaker 1: backs last year, but Josh Jacob scored twice against them
Speaker 1: in Week one, so the schedule softens up big time
Speaker 1: for Josh Jacobs, so don't draft him, but trade for
Speaker 1: him in October. The running back I want to trade
Speaker 1: four in October but don't want in September is Philip Lindsay. Hey,
Speaker 1: I love Philip Lindsay anyway. I mean, you know, I'm
Speaker 1: looking for excuses, but here's a pretty good one. The
Speaker 1: brutal early season schedule. Titans, Steelers, Bucks, Jets, Patriots. It's
Speaker 1: a disaster through five weeks. Now you're the Broncos. You
Speaker 1: just signed shiny new free agent Melvin Gordon. I think
Speaker 1: they'll try to use him copiously in those five weeks,
Speaker 1: and I don't think he's gonna fare very welc those
Speaker 1: are great defenses. And also, I'm not even sure Melvin
Speaker 1: Gordon's all that good. He was Pro Football Focuses forty
Speaker 1: one ranked running back last year, well below Philip Lindsay.
Speaker 1: Vic Fangio may come to a realization by October that
Speaker 1: Lindsay's just better and start ramping up usage. And as
Speaker 1: we discussed earlier in the show, we think the usage
Speaker 1: isn't gonna be out far off anyway, Lindsay is an
Speaker 1: excellent goal line back. People think that Melvin Gordon is
Speaker 1: the for sure goal line back. You're wrong. Philip Lindsay
Speaker 1: over his career eight for eight on carries inside the
Speaker 1: five converted to touchdowns. So I think you're all that together.
Speaker 1: The easier schedule and everything else. And I like Philip
Speaker 1: Lindsay as my October target to go to the wide
Speaker 1: receiver position. Brian who is a guy that you don't
Speaker 1: like in September but you do like in October. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna lump them together if that's okay. And that's Julio
Speaker 1: Jones and Calvin Ridley of the Atlanta Falcons. The the
Speaker 1: past catcher you want a draft now is Hayden Hurst
Speaker 1: the tight end. Atlanta gets Seattle and Dallas out of
Speaker 1: the gate. They are two of the three teams that
Speaker 1: allowed a thousand plus yards to tight ends last year. Now,
Speaker 1: Seattle and Dallas have been an awful matchup for wide
Speaker 1: receivers in recent years. And keep in mind Seattle acquired
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams from the New York Jets might be the
Speaker 1: best free safety and all the football. So Seattle only
Speaker 1: allowed twelve wide receiver touchdowns all year last year, not
Speaker 1: a lot. Dallas allowed thirteen. They get them in Week two,
Speaker 1: Then in Week three they get Chicago, who allowed only
Speaker 1: nine wide receiver touchdowns, and then the Packers in Week
Speaker 1: four only allowed eleven wide receiver touchdowns. This is the
Speaker 1: bottom of the barrel in terms of touchdowns allowed to
Speaker 1: wide receivers in the first four weeks for Julio Jones
Speaker 1: and Calvin Ridley. But then starting in week five, they
Speaker 1: get Carolina, who allowed the fifth most yards two wide
Speaker 1: receivers last year, the Vikings. Then in week six, Okay,
Speaker 1: but we're talking about hating hursts the tight end. No, No,
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley and Julio Jones. I'm saying the guy you
Speaker 1: wanted to draft now is hating the receivers first, is
Speaker 1: the guy you want to start Ridley and Julie. So
Speaker 1: starting in week five, it gets better for Julio and
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley with Carolina and then Minnesota eighteen wide receiver
Speaker 1: touchdowns allowed last year, lost all their cornerbacks. Essentially week seven,
Speaker 1: they get the Lions twenty wide receiver touchdowns allowed last
Speaker 1: year by Detroit who also lost Darius Slay. And then
Speaker 1: they get Carolina again, who I just mentioned. So four
Speaker 1: veryous soft games starting in Week five for the Atlanta Whiteouts.
Speaker 1: Don't draft them trade for him. I also have a
Speaker 1: pair of Whiteouts Brown's wide receivers, Jarvis Landry and Odell Beckham.
Speaker 1: We've talked earlier how we think the Browns are the
Speaker 1: Browns of this year are going to be the Browns
Speaker 1: everybody thought they were getting last year. They have a
Speaker 1: tricky early season schedule and then it becomes one of
Speaker 1: the easiest the rest of the year. From October four ward.
Speaker 1: Is only one game that will give you pause with
Speaker 1: Landry and Beckham, and that is a trip to Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: The other Steelers matchup is week seventeen, so we don't
Speaker 1: have to worry about that one at all. Can I
Speaker 1: give you a bonus one? Please? Will Fuller Houston starts
Speaker 1: with Kansas City, Baltimore. Pittsburgh, Minnesota is a little bit
Speaker 1: easier in Jacksonville is a little bit easier, but those
Speaker 1: first three weeks and they will be the first three
Speaker 1: weeks of September. By the way, October one, go get
Speaker 1: Will Fuller because I think he's about to go off
Speaker 1: in a major way at that time. All right, and Brian,
Speaker 1: let's go to the tight end position. I got Miami's
Speaker 1: Mike Gisicki, who has moved into the top twelve tight
Speaker 1: ends drafted. He starts at New England, who allowed four catches,
Speaker 1: forty three yards and zero point three eight touchdowns per
Speaker 1: game to tight ends last year. Only one tight end
Speaker 1: top seventy yards against New England that was zach Ertz.
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey couldn't even do it. He had the second
Speaker 1: most yards against the Patriots was sixty six. Then he
Speaker 1: gets Buffalo in week two. He totaled eight catches for
Speaker 1: fifty nine yards in the two games against Buffalo last year,
Speaker 1: Mike Giski. That is, Buffalo allowed less catches, yards and
Speaker 1: touchdowns per game to tight ends than the Patriots did.
Speaker 1: And then Jacksonville in Week three, tight end was the
Speaker 1: one position they could defend. Last year they allowed the
Speaker 1: fifth few as catches the tight ends, so on paper,
Speaker 1: not a great matchup for Gisicki UH in Week three
Speaker 1: either against Jacksonville. But then starting in week four, he
Speaker 1: gets Seattle, who I mentioned earlier one of the three
Speaker 1: teams will allow one thousand plus yards at tight ends. UH.
Speaker 1: San Francisco in Week five. I don't like that as much,
Speaker 1: but maybe George Kittle will give him some good advice
Speaker 1: after the game, so that's a that's a plus. But
Speaker 1: then back to the good stuff in week six with Denver,
Speaker 1: who allowed the fourth fourth most yards to tight ends. UH.
Speaker 1: Then the Charges, which is a neutral matchup than the Rams,
Speaker 1: who allowed the ninth most yards tight ends. And then
Speaker 1: wait for it, we cap it off with the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals from Mike Gasicki. So you definitely want to trade
Speaker 1: for him in October. Don't draft him in September though,
Speaker 1: all right, the guys that I want to trade for
Speaker 1: in October and don't on September the Cardinals tight end.
Speaker 1: Cardinals have the fifth toughest Timber schedule for tight ends.
Speaker 1: Who's that? But then relaxes to the second easiest schedule
Speaker 1: for tight ends in October and it's middle to pack
Speaker 1: in November. But who even is the Cardinals tight end
Speaker 1: at Max Williams? I think? Is that? Who you want?
Speaker 1: Is that the guy Dan Arnold? Buy, go, go, Just
Speaker 1: tell everybody about Dan Arnold again one more time. Dan
Speaker 1: Arnold is the second coming of Darren Waller basically, and
Speaker 1: this is the last time you're gonna hear it. Converted
Speaker 1: wide receiver out of Wisconsin Platteville, drafted, I'm sorry, undrafted,
Speaker 1: signed by the Saints, but he was on the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals last year. Didn't get any real run until the
Speaker 1: last uh three or four games of this season. But
Speaker 1: you extrapolate his numbers and they are I popping, you know.
Speaker 1: And chart went against Dan Arnold here, Brian, you easily
Speaker 1: could have gone against John Hu Smith, who starts the
Speaker 1: season with four top twelve tight end defenses in the
Speaker 1: first five weeks in Denver, Minnesota, Pittsburgh, and Buffalo in
Speaker 1: the first five weeks. John Nu Smith is a guy
Speaker 1: that you might not want to draft stop that, but
Speaker 1: you might want to go get him. He's gonna have
Speaker 1: some inconsistent games in that stretch and everybody on Twitter
Speaker 1: is gonna be all on me at Paul, how do
Speaker 1: you like Johnny Smith? Now? You loser? You know? And
Speaker 1: then watch he is gonna he is going to take
Speaker 1: off after that? Do they call you a loser? Worse
Speaker 1: than that? It's Twitter absolutely. When we come back the
Speaker 1: Thursday night game, we are just days away from the season,
Speaker 1: we're gonna break it down fantasy style with letter grades
Speaker 1: and every player just like we normally do, and our
Speaker 1: final set of sleepers for this preseason find out who
Speaker 1: they are as well. Many of us still drafting. It's
Speaker 1: an opportunity to get some of these final sleeper players
Speaker 1: onto your roster. Will tell you who they are. When
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Speaker 1: We've got a game on Thursday, guys, hit charts. I
Speaker 1: wanted to mention we have a trade offer between you
Speaker 1: and I in one of our Empire leagues right now,
Speaker 1: and I was about to accept this, and I wanted
Speaker 1: to see what Brian said before I hit accept. I
Speaker 1: don't remember what it is anymore. He gives me t
Speaker 1: Y Hilton. You want me to be the meddler. You'd
Speaker 1: be the meddler because you're in the league too. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give him johnnu Smith in a second round pick.
Speaker 1: After all of a sudden, I get Hilton, he gets
Speaker 1: John in a second what do you think. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't John Suit. I have Travis Kelsey. This is just
Speaker 1: because I love John Smith, that's all. So Only no
Speaker 1: normal person would even offer this trade. Only the the
Speaker 1: head cheerleader of the John Smith fan club would offer
Speaker 1: this trade. He's convincing me to make this trade. Well,
Speaker 1: just stupid trade for me. I'm not even start John Smith.
Speaker 1: I've got Travis Kelsey. Alright, I'm hitting Smith might be
Speaker 1: your best wide receiver on that. You know, there's something
Speaker 1: trade accepted. Thursday night, we've got a We've got a
Speaker 1: actual and NFL football game. Ye are all fans in
Speaker 1: Kansas City to some order capacity if I would say
Speaker 1: something something, Uh, this is gonna be Houston's third trip
Speaker 1: to Kansas City in the past twelve games there twice
Speaker 1: last year and now here they are going back to
Speaker 1: Kansas City again. And they held up well both times.
Speaker 1: Uh well for a while. In that playoff game, they
Speaker 1: were up twenty four nothing and then it all disintegrated fast.
Speaker 1: But they won the other one, didn't They um the
Speaker 1: regular season? Believe they did that. You can take You're
Speaker 1: not positive about that, you know. And it's funny because
Speaker 1: I looked at that game blog a plenty of times.
Speaker 1: We did research on this, but it's fantasy. Do I
Speaker 1: care who won the game? No, I cared about all
Speaker 1: the players did. Let's start with the Houston side of
Speaker 1: the ball. Deshaun Watson. In the prior to games from
Speaker 1: last year, we threw a whopping forty two and fifty
Speaker 1: two times, which helped him average three hundred thirty passing yards.
Speaker 1: He also ran in three touchdowns. The Chiefs have struggled
Speaker 1: against rushing quarterbacks for a while. They allowed the second most,
Speaker 1: second most, and fifth most quarterback rushing touchdowns over the
Speaker 1: past three years. But even if he doesn't rush for
Speaker 1: a touchdown, Um, you know, the arm could beat an
Speaker 1: improved Chief secondary. But I don't think it necessarily in
Speaker 1: a big way that this was a good secondary last year.
Speaker 1: Of the last nine games of last year, including the playoffs,
Speaker 1: the Chiefs aw just one passing touchdown per game. Really
Speaker 1: hope he gets the rushing touchdown. Yeah, they did win.
Speaker 1: In a week six, Houston went into Kansas City and one,
Speaker 1: thank you very much, Mahomes was hurt. I believe in
Speaker 1: that a B grade. No Mahomes played that game, great hurt.
Speaker 1: The next game be great for Deshaun Watson, be great
Speaker 1: for his receivers, Will Fuller and Brandon Cooks. Uh, the
Speaker 1: Chiefs are gonna be without marijuana enthusiast. By the way,
Speaker 1: that's what he calls himself. We all got to be
Speaker 1: enthused about something. The suspended cornerback leaves Kansas City very
Speaker 1: thin at left corner, so thin that defensive coordinators Eavespagnola
Speaker 1: says that he might need to use a hot hand
Speaker 1: approach at cornerback. When it was the last time you
Speaker 1: heard that, I never heard that. Um starter Chip Various
Speaker 1: Ward is very good, but he plays the right side
Speaker 1: of the field exclusively, so it'll be pretty easy to
Speaker 1: avoid him whenever they want to. Fuller and Cooks are
Speaker 1: going to see plenty of work with DeAndre Hopkins leaving
Speaker 1: a hundred fifty targets behind. Fuller scored in just one
Speaker 1: game last year. I had forgotten that just one game
Speaker 1: with a touchdown last year for Fuller. Cooks is currently
Speaker 1: non concussed, so you can start him while you can.
Speaker 1: Both players have an opportunity just because of the lack
Speaker 1: of depth at the cornerback position. A B grade for
Speaker 1: both of those guys, staying um with the passing game.
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb is on the bench because running out of
Speaker 1: the slot, he draws Tyronne Matthew, so he is dead
Speaker 1: to us. Matthews awesome in coverage. Let's go to the
Speaker 1: running backs. David Johnson gets a B grade. Last year,
Speaker 1: Kansas City ranked twenty five and rushing yards per game,
Speaker 1: two in rushing touchdowns allowed, and that front seven is
Speaker 1: basically unchanged. This team is really built to pressure quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: not stop the run. Last year, Bill O'Brien stubbornly gave
Speaker 1: Carlos Hyde sixteen touches per game despite his woeful results
Speaker 1: in Johnson should get sixteen in this game, which should
Speaker 1: be enough to get him near one hundred yards in
Speaker 1: a possible touchdown. If there's a goal line opportunity, David
Speaker 1: Johnson should get it. I just can't wait to see.
Speaker 1: Are we gonna get fat, lazy David Johnson? The trim
Speaker 1: smelt David Johnson. He was the top five running back
Speaker 1: for the first five weeks last season. We'll find out
Speaker 1: B grade Duke Johnson startable grade C grade. Jeeves allowed
Speaker 1: the most running back receiving yards last year and the
Speaker 1: fourth most receptions. That's a lot of why I like him.
Speaker 1: Duke touched the ball just six and seven times in
Speaker 1: the two meetings last year with Kansas City, but he
Speaker 1: did score in one of those. So you're not gonna
Speaker 1: get necessarily a lot of output, but hopefully the the
Speaker 1: work that he gets will end up with something substantial.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Kansas City side easy eg aids
Speaker 1: for Patrick Mahomes, Tyree Kill, Travis Kelsey. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to spend a lot of time on those guys. They
Speaker 1: will probably rank it number one or close to number
Speaker 1: one on my Week one rankings at their respective positions
Speaker 1: in the two meetings last year, Mahomes through eight touchdowns,
Speaker 1: Kelsey hammer Houston in the playoff game for ten catches
Speaker 1: hundred thirty or four yards and three touchdowns, and Houston
Speaker 1: secondary last year was brutal, ranking twenty nine and yards
Speaker 1: allowed twenty nine and touchdowns allowed. And Bill O'Brien g M.
Speaker 1: Bill O'Brien brought back the entire the entire secondary, baffling
Speaker 1: that he did not address that secondary in the off
Speaker 1: Are you saying Bill O'Brien makes a few baffling moves
Speaker 1: as the GM here and they're breaking news Fantasy Football
Speaker 1: Weekly learned opener restaurant called the baffle House. I'm so
Speaker 1: sorry you said, let's go all right, let's go to
Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards at even a Dad and that was legendary. Remember,
Speaker 1: Andy Reid gave this is what I want you to
Speaker 1: go back in the time machine to twenty seventeen Week one.
Speaker 1: We have a time machine, sounder, You're right, we do.
Speaker 1: Let's go just like that. Welcome to two thousand seventeen
Speaker 1: Week one. So much better. But little did we know
Speaker 1: how great was? It's Week one. The Chiefs are traveling
Speaker 1: to the Patriots. They are big underdogs. Andy Reid unleash
Speaker 1: is rookie running back Kareem Hunt in his first ever game,
Speaker 1: golden sombrero twenty one touches for Kareem Hunt in that game.
Speaker 1: Week one, Andy Reid, it will not hesitate to use
Speaker 1: his rookie running back right off the bat like Hunt. Cream. Sorry,
Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards. Hilaire is in every down back and I
Speaker 1: expect a healthy workload here. Houston was a bad rush
Speaker 1: defense last year, ranking twenty yards per cary, and they
Speaker 1: could be worse this year. Houston is without last year's
Speaker 1: run stuffing nose tackle DJ Reader, and they tried to
Speaker 1: sign another run stuffing tackle, Timmy Journe again, but he
Speaker 1: couldn't pass the physical. Now they have to start rookie
Speaker 1: Russ Blacklock at defensive tackle, making his first start. What's more,
Speaker 1: last year, Houston allowed the second most running back receptions,
Speaker 1: the second most receiving yards, and the most running back
Speaker 1: receiving touchdowns in the league. It's all coming up perfectly
Speaker 1: for Clyde's Edwards, a layer, a terrific pass catcher. And
Speaker 1: by the way, again in the time Machine two thousand seventeen,
Speaker 1: three months, first game, five receptions for receiving yards. Give me,
Speaker 1: give me a projected stat line for Clyde just just
Speaker 1: in this game, one thousand total yard? How many touchdowns?
Speaker 1: Two azing? He's an A grade, Clyde Edwards a lawyer.
Speaker 1: I think I'll use him in DFS. You might want
Speaker 1: to Let's go to the Let's go to the receivers.
Speaker 1: We haven't talked about me Cole Hardman and Sammy Watkins.
Speaker 1: Who gets C grades here is really just kind of
Speaker 1: a dart throw. Neither did anything in last year's two matchups.
Speaker 1: But the secondary for the taxes is so bad that
Speaker 1: I think either one of them viable dart throw, especially
Speaker 1: maybe in DFS uh Watkins works the slot a lot
Speaker 1: where we'll see a very vern burnable Vernon Hargreaves. I
Speaker 1: called him vernable. How about burning Hargreaves. That's even better,
Speaker 1: Vernon hard Graves, that's fantastic vern degree. No. Hard Greaves
Speaker 1: allowed forty eight yards and half a touchdown in his
Speaker 1: coverage with Houston last year. We all expect Hardman to
Speaker 1: have an expanded role in twenty and it could start
Speaker 1: right here in the opener. I think we all think
Speaker 1: Nicole Hardman will get more activity than he did last year.
Speaker 1: If Sammy Watkins somehow has a big Week one game,
Speaker 1: oh no, especially after Tyreek Hill gets hurt straight immediately. Yes,
Speaker 1: we all got burned on that last year. UM. In
Speaker 1: our final moments of the show, here, let's go to
Speaker 1: our final set of Sleepers. We've given out five shows
Speaker 1: of Sleepers, fifteen different players. Our final set begins here
Speaker 1: with Matt h I have Trey Burton, and Trey Burton
Speaker 1: is injured right now and the Colts are likely to
Speaker 1: put him on I R. But why am I advocating
Speaker 1: for him as I are you advocating for Guy because weeks.
Speaker 1: As I mentioned before, I R is different this year.
Speaker 1: You only need to spend three weeks on I R,
Speaker 1: and teams can bring back unlimited players from I R
Speaker 1: if your league allows I our spots. And this is
Speaker 1: specifically for leagues that do allow I our spots. Don't
Speaker 1: pick up Trey Burton if you're just in a normal league.
Speaker 1: Pick him up if they allow I our spots. Because
Speaker 1: Philip rivers favorite target in camp when healthy was Trey Burton,
Speaker 1: and it wasn't that close. According to a handful of
Speaker 1: cold speat reporters, Philip Rivers has made a ton of
Speaker 1: viable Fantasy tight end one options Antonio Gates and Hunter
Speaker 1: Henry just in the last few years, and Frank Reich's
Speaker 1: offense uses two tight ends more than most. Plus Burton
Speaker 1: was a big part of his Super Bowl winning offense
Speaker 1: in Philly a few years ago. Jack Doyle is also
Speaker 1: dinged up. He's missed a ton of time over the
Speaker 1: last few years, and the coaching staff us Burton is
Speaker 1: more of the Eric Ebron of this offense. And remember
Speaker 1: we're only a year removed from Eric Ebron having thirteen
Speaker 1: touchdowns for the Cold's offense. So I think if Trey
Speaker 1: Burton's in that role and he comes back healthy, he
Speaker 1: could be a sneaky guy that you could slot in
Speaker 1: as they take a chance on me kind of tight
Speaker 1: end And he definitely will be a premature speculation in
Speaker 1: about week three. All right, Brian, who is your final
Speaker 1: sleeper for the preseason? Now? If you get sniped on
Speaker 1: Dan Arnold? Is your tight end to you? Don't you
Speaker 1: don't want to pivot to Trey Burton? What you want
Speaker 1: to pivot to? C Juma? Yeah, he's doing always been
Speaker 1: in Tyler Ibert's Crippled Shadow, Shadow of the Body and
Speaker 1: the Cane. But Ipert's gone. C j Uzoma is the
Speaker 1: guy now at tight end for since the Daddie. And
Speaker 1: if you haven't noticed, they have a new quarterback, I
Speaker 1: mean and no one more number one overall picked Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow going to massively improve that offense. The Bengals had
Speaker 1: the second easiest schedule for tight ends when it comes
Speaker 1: to strength of schedule for fantasy football, and as Matt
Speaker 1: talked about earlier in the show, outside of Tyler Boyd,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of question marks at wide receiver. A J.
Speaker 1: Green is hurt. They're not even sure who's starting between
Speaker 1: other Mike Thomas always hurt. C j Uzoma could be
Speaker 1: the red zone target for the Bengals going into this season.
Speaker 1: These are deep, deep plays right here at the tight
Speaker 1: end position. I'm going with Benny Snell. He's the running
Speaker 1: back for the Pittsburgh Steelers and arguably the wobbili is
Speaker 1: starting running back in the NFL's James Conner. His injuries
Speaker 1: are well documented and common knowledge. You know about that.
Speaker 1: He's repeatedly proven that he can't be a workhorse back
Speaker 1: without breaking down. Last year, Pittsburgh only gave him more
Speaker 1: than fourteen carries two times, and in both of those
Speaker 1: games he got hurt. When he finally came back at
Speaker 1: the end of the season, Connor was only getting five,
Speaker 1: eight and six carries in the final three games of
Speaker 1: the season. That's it. Benny Snell locked in. Is the
Speaker 1: number two running back for a good offense, and he
Speaker 1: started two games last year. Benny Snell did eight yards
Speaker 1: and ninety one yards for Benny Snell. I think he
Speaker 1: is going far, far too late, and he could end
Speaker 1: up emerging as the starting running back either due to
Speaker 1: injury to James Connor, or because Benny Snell just better
Speaker 1: than James Conner. That could be the case. Thanks for listening, everybody.
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