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Speaker 1: today Matt Harrison and Brian Johnson. Hello, guys. What's going on? Guys?
Speaker 1: It's uh, We've got We've got prettseason games, action happening.
Speaker 1: We're starting to learn stuff and that's part of the
Speaker 1: excitement of the preseason. Fantasy football means more to us
Speaker 1: than it does to most people. I think the preseason
Speaker 1: hype just build more and more every year. It's it's
Speaker 1: truly incredible. It is I I think it's I think
Speaker 1: it's great too. You know there are people preseason. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not said, it's condensed now and we went from
Speaker 1: four games the games mean more. I think that part
Speaker 1: is fantastic. Got rid of the terrible fourth game. All
Speaker 1: that we will give you updates from every team over
Speaker 1: the last week or so, notable, actionable tidbits from every team,
Speaker 1: all thirty two teams that's coming up momentarily will analyze
Speaker 1: the best and worst offensive lines. That helps you figure
Speaker 1: out which players you gotta be worried about, which you
Speaker 1: feel a little better about. We'll do the Peacock Off,
Speaker 1: bold predictions from each of our hosts that may allow
Speaker 1: you to do this. There it goes. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: where the the peacocks a little slow today. Briefly there there,
Speaker 1: We just let him out of the cage. Here we go,
Speaker 1: here we go. It's still the preseason for the peacock too. Well,
Speaker 1: in preseason, he's the precock right now. I like that.
Speaker 1: The uh Well to go through our three tough questions
Speaker 1: like we normally do every episode, and players we love
Speaker 1: but we're not willing to pay their average draft position.
Speaker 1: Players love the player hate the ADP. So lots of
Speaker 1: great stuff coming up over the course of the show.
Speaker 1: Let's begin with a tour through each of the teams
Speaker 1: in the highlights of the last week or so, beginning
Speaker 1: with the Carolina Panthers and Matt Harrison. Uh No one
Speaker 1: is taking charge in the quarterback battle in camp. Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield still the favorite. The Panthers had to come out
Speaker 1: this week and say publicly that they were not shopping
Speaker 1: Sam Donald but all four, including Matt Corrall and p
Speaker 1: J Walker, are likely to get reps in Saturday night's
Speaker 1: preseason opener. All right, let's go to the Raiders. Darren
Speaker 1: Waller remains held out of training camp with a hamstring
Speaker 1: injury that's not deemed to be serious, but I'm viewing
Speaker 1: this news as kind of serious. Uh. I want Waller
Speaker 1: out there practicing, So you might be sliding a little
Speaker 1: bit in draft, but I'm I'm gonna remain optimistic and
Speaker 1: he'll be just fine for week one. Sending good vibes
Speaker 1: out there to Darren Waller and his hammy. Yeah, we've
Speaker 1: still got a month before the start of the season,
Speaker 1: so there's a plenty of time for an injury like
Speaker 1: that to to get healthy. And as a veteran, HiT's
Speaker 1: probably okay that he's missing some training camp here, So
Speaker 1: we're not gonna panic yet. And at later in the
Speaker 1: show we will talk about who are and are not
Speaker 1: reliable fantasy tight ends the Packers. Last week we talked
Speaker 1: about Romeo dobbs Son, so I'm not gonna blavor the
Speaker 1: point that he's probably having the best camp of any
Speaker 1: of the receivers they've got. Romeo dubs or Romeo Dubbs
Speaker 1: Son uh uh. Christian Watson still up practicing because of
Speaker 1: the offseason knee surgery. We've been monitoring the status of
Speaker 1: the two best players on their offensive line as well,
Speaker 1: and we talked about that last week. Elkin Jenkins and
Speaker 1: David back Try both are still in the publist, although
Speaker 1: Brian Guda, Kunts general manager, indicated this week that both
Speaker 1: are progressing well. Jenkins appears to be a little ahead
Speaker 1: of bok tr but still no indication whether or not
Speaker 1: those guys are gonna be ready for the start season.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Washington Commanders. The Commanders, Brian Robinson
Speaker 1: is getting more work with the first team offense, and
Speaker 1: this just leads me to believe that this is gonna
Speaker 1: be a true committee approach with Antonio Gibson, j D mckissic,
Speaker 1: and Robinson each getting a fair share of work. It's
Speaker 1: going to be a backfield that I think everyone's gonna
Speaker 1: want to avoid this year. You can get Antonio Gibson cheap.
Speaker 1: He's getting cheaper every day, only getting cheaper. I'll just
Speaker 1: go to Buffalo Brian, a guy we've didn't advocate to
Speaker 1: avoid him, but then he turned out you shouldn't be
Speaker 1: avoiding him, but maybe we shouldn't avoid him again. And
Speaker 1: that's Zack Moss listed as the backup running back on
Speaker 1: Buffalo's depth chart ahead of James Cook and a lot
Speaker 1: of good stuff coming out of Buffalo camp about Zack Moss.
Speaker 1: If Top Box ends up being great this year, that's
Speaker 1: how it goes. I banged the drum form for two years.
Speaker 1: I will be mad. I have feeling you might be
Speaker 1: mad because I think the reclamation project is in full
Speaker 1: effect right now for Zack Moss. Yeah, is gonna say
Speaker 1: you'd be eating the crow. We do have a crow
Speaker 1: sound effect. Good job which is there, and there's also
Speaker 1: chomping in there. M Yeah, there is very nice. So yeah,
Speaker 1: not a lot coming out of Buffalo right now for
Speaker 1: talking about Zach Moss. But that was the most notable
Speaker 1: thing with the Texans. Despite Damian Pierce getting plenty of
Speaker 1: first team reps, Texans first official depth chart has Rex
Speaker 1: Burkhead and Marlon mack Is the starters. We're gonna talk
Speaker 1: a little bit more about that situation later in the show.
Speaker 1: Davis Mills earning accolades were being more comfortable in the
Speaker 1: pocket and he has been working specifically on the weaknesses
Speaker 1: that he demonstrated last year. Let's go to a Tampa
Speaker 1: There's there's some shocking news out of Tampa Bay. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of our listeners probably already know. Yeah, Tom Brady left
Speaker 1: camp and he said he's gonna be gone for at
Speaker 1: least ten days. And according to Pro Football Talk, the
Speaker 1: Bucks knew that this was going to happen at the
Speaker 1: beginning of the training camp. I don't buy it. I
Speaker 1: don't buy it either. That then they kept it a secret.
Speaker 1: Why and they want to put that out there that
Speaker 1: Brady is gonna miss a little time during camp. It's
Speaker 1: not gonna be a big deal. We're just getting ahead
Speaker 1: of it now. Could have managed the story a lot.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, people are speculating, Oh, it's not a non
Speaker 1: zero chance that Tom Brady retires before the season starts.
Speaker 1: I agree with that that it's non zero. Of course,
Speaker 1: I picked him first in my Scott Fish Bowl league,
Speaker 1: and that's how it usually goes for me. I think
Speaker 1: that I do agree there's a chance that it works
Speaker 1: out this way for Brady retired before and it is
Speaker 1: you wonder about what it does is his heart fully
Speaker 1: in this It has to be you can't play football. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's not. It's not retiring. Retiring would be I believe
Speaker 1: how many reads. Let's go to the Cleveland Browns, Brian
Speaker 1: Cleveland Brown's Kareem Hunt wants out. He wants to be
Speaker 1: traded as of now, still a Brown. And my angle
Speaker 1: on this is if Hunt is to be traded, people
Speaker 1: might immediately jumped to the conclusion that Nick Chubbs is
Speaker 1: going to be this of the touches Bell Coal, But
Speaker 1: I don't think that's gonna be the case. It does
Speaker 1: gonna slide in. Derris Johnson was it's still going to
Speaker 1: be a platoon in my mind, and the in rookie
Speaker 1: Jerome Ford. A lot of good stuff coming out of
Speaker 1: camp about Jerome Ford. So there's still gonna It's not
Speaker 1: gonna be all Nick Chubb if Cream ends up getting dealt,
Speaker 1: So don't get too excited if that happens. In Colts
Speaker 1: mini camps, Frank Reich had said that he draft Niheeme
Speaker 1: Hines onto his fantasy team. Remember remember that from a
Speaker 1: couple of months ago. Now reports in camp suggests that
Speaker 1: hines role as a pass catcher will expand significantly. In
Speaker 1: ESPN reporter estimated sixty plus receptions coming for Niheem Hines,
Speaker 1: which if he's going to be in that range, that
Speaker 1: puts him into weekly flex conversations. And what does it
Speaker 1: do to Jonathan Taylor, Well, Taylor wasn't catching a bunch anyway,
Speaker 1: so for me, it doesn't change Taylor's equation a lot um.
Speaker 1: Marlon Mack is now gone, so you know, whatever, you know,
Speaker 1: whatever Marlon Mack was tipening off may very well go
Speaker 1: to Himes as well. And I'll note that second round
Speaker 1: rookie wide receiver like Pierce running with the first team
Speaker 1: offense along with Paris Campbell, Michael Pittman, and Pierce by
Speaker 1: all accounts, has had kind of a typical rookie and
Speaker 1: consistent camp. But he's holding off Austin Doulin. Right now,
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Hard Knocks team this year at
Speaker 1: the Detroit line, I feel like everyone knows what's happening
Speaker 1: in their camp, but from Beat reporters, it seems like
Speaker 1: DJ Chark is having a really good camp. He's probably
Speaker 1: third of the Lions wide receivers that will be drafted
Speaker 1: this year. But with Jamison Williams set to miss some
Speaker 1: time early in the year, Chark will have an opportunity
Speaker 1: to make a mark early Chark, Mark Chark, Mark. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Jets, Brian, if we must. The Jets
Speaker 1: not a ton to report here. They did lose starting
Speaker 1: left tackle McKay Baton. I mean not when it comes
Speaker 1: to skilled position players or fantasy players, but that will
Speaker 1: certainly have an effect on Zack Wilson, Breece Hall, the
Speaker 1: entire offense. Breese all, by the way, like Damian Pierce
Speaker 1: and James Cook and probably every rookie running back was
Speaker 1: it as third running back who you can't read too
Speaker 1: much in tonight's unofficial depth charts, But uh yeah, losing
Speaker 1: McKay Beckton, who was a first round pick in I
Speaker 1: believe eleventh overall, that's not good for the offense overall,
Speaker 1: so dings them a little bit across the board. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Chiefs. The biggest story in training camp,
Speaker 1: and honestly one of the biggest stories in fantasy football
Speaker 1: right now, is the emergence of rookie running back Isaiah Pacheco,
Speaker 1: who we've mentioned many times on this show. Seventh rounders
Speaker 1: look fantastic both in special teams and it just as
Speaker 1: a running back. He is sharing first team reps with
Speaker 1: Clyde Edwards Laire already well, he's the only rookie running
Speaker 1: back like it was was the first time, a practically
Speaker 1: hope for Breese all and all the other bigger names.
Speaker 1: My sleeper last week looks pretty good right now? Does.
Speaker 1: Andy Reid is noted how hard Pasheco runs. We've seen
Speaker 1: him excelling in past protection as well and training camp,
Speaker 1: and we've also seen coaches talk about limiting Clyde Edwards
Speaker 1: Alaire's work load this year to keep him healthier. Man,
Speaker 1: the stars are lined up for this kid. The other
Speaker 1: runners McKinnon, Gore, and Jones are getting entirely second and
Speaker 1: third team raps, and there's an increasing chance day by
Speaker 1: day that your Week one starter could be a combination
Speaker 1: package of Clyde Edwards, Hilaire and I say a Pacheco.
Speaker 1: His a DP has jumped about sixty seventies spots in
Speaker 1: a week. Last week, I bet, I bet, let's go
Speaker 1: to the Seattle Seahawks. Rashad Penny was clearly leading the
Speaker 1: way and snaps with the first team in training camp.
Speaker 1: But now guess what, He's got a groin injury, just
Speaker 1: like Rashad Penny does probably will not play in Saturday's
Speaker 1: preseason game in Pittsburgh, but this could be a big
Speaker 1: opportunity for Ken Walker to kind of show what he's got.
Speaker 1: And the Denver Broncos will be our final team of
Speaker 1: this segment. Oh my bad, Sorry, I thought we were
Speaker 1: going to break Denver Broncos Melvin Gordon his foot. He's
Speaker 1: been sitting out last few days with the foot injury,
Speaker 1: but that's deemed to not be serious. And like the Browns,
Speaker 1: if something were to happen to Gordon, I don't think
Speaker 1: it's of the touches for Javonte Williams either. I still
Speaker 1: think it's a split backfield there and Mike Boone would
Speaker 1: be the next guy in line if something would happen
Speaker 1: in Gordon. But it sounds like Gordon will be okay,
Speaker 1: So uh, nothing major to fred about there with MG three.
Speaker 1: You know, last week we talked about Gordon is maybe
Speaker 1: the safest backup running back you can draft, the most
Speaker 1: reliable backup running back you can draft. He's only getting
Speaker 1: cheaper by the day. It'll probably be fine for Week one.
Speaker 1: Somebody who certainly want to consider when we come back,
Speaker 1: we'll continue our tour through the thirty two NFL teams.
Speaker 1: Give you updates from every team's training camp on Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul
Speaker 1: Charchy and Guillotine Leagues dot Com, Matt Harrison's Shocked Fantasy
Speaker 1: and Brian Johnson Guillotine Leagues dot Com. We he ran
Speaker 1: through about half of the NFL teams in the first segment.
Speaker 1: Now we're segment number two. We'll go through the remaining teams.
Speaker 1: The things that have happened since in the weeks since
Speaker 1: our last show, and we left off guys on the rams.
Speaker 1: Reason for trepidation about Matthew Stafford's bulky I love the
Speaker 1: word bulky, bulky. I may work it in a few
Speaker 1: times in this show, like Balky from Perfect Strangers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he was great, one of my favorites. Yeah. Did you
Speaker 1: know he had a bulky elbow? Oh yeah, bulky belky
Speaker 1: albo elbow. For Stafford continuing to experience discomfort going back
Speaker 1: to last season. And that's why I'm worried is if
Speaker 1: this is a one injury that he's still got paying
Speaker 1: in now, is it gonna be better or worse in October?
Speaker 1: Ready for Tommy John surgery. Let's let's hope that is
Speaker 1: that is not going to be the case. I'll also
Speaker 1: know Darryl Henderson getting a lot of first team reps,
Speaker 1: and it looks like the Rams are gonna try to
Speaker 1: be cautious with cam Akers here. It's it's possible that
Speaker 1: we're gonna see it. Uh, some kind of a time
Speaker 1: share that goes into the season as well. Between those two,
Speaker 1: I bet Stafford has consulted good friend Clayton Kershaw, who
Speaker 1: had Tommy John surgery. Didn't he at some point? I
Speaker 1: don't know if he did. Maybe he's good. You don't
Speaker 1: want to talk about baseball now, Let's go to something
Speaker 1: we know about. That'd be the Philadelphia Eagles. Man. Yeah,
Speaker 1: if you check Twitter, the A. J. Brown versus James
Speaker 1: Bradberry battles have been really cool to watch. But the
Speaker 1: big news Jason Kelsey recently had a minor elbow surgery.
Speaker 1: He's hopeful that he's ready for week one. They said
Speaker 1: he might miss a week or two though. Yeah, obviously
Speaker 1: one of the best linemen in league. That would be
Speaker 1: a loss if he can't he's not ready for the
Speaker 1: start of the season. Let's go to Miami Brian. Uh yeah,
Speaker 1: if you're on Twitter and looking at Dolphins Twitter specifically,
Speaker 1: all signs point to them having the greatest offense ever.
Speaker 1: But basically the hype is out of control down in Miami.
Speaker 1: But the player all highlight. Here's Chase Edmonds, who now
Speaker 1: looks like the clear cut RB one for the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: and he's going outside the top twenty four running backs
Speaker 1: right now based on most ADPs. So I think that's
Speaker 1: a draft day steel right now. Um, he looks like
Speaker 1: he's gonna be the starter in a very proficient offense.
Speaker 1: It's Mike McDaniel gonna do in Miami what he ultimately
Speaker 1: did in San Francisco, which is, you know, I got
Speaker 1: a lot of running backs, but I'm gonna have a
Speaker 1: workhorse back. And if you can find that workhorse back,
Speaker 1: they're all going at a heavy discount. Well, Edmonds is
Speaker 1: the one who getting paid like a workhorse back, so
Speaker 1: all my all my bets are on him right now.
Speaker 1: In Minnesota, Kirk Cousins has COVID. He had COVID last
Speaker 1: year and missed his only start as a Viking due
Speaker 1: to COVID, so this is a second time around. Presumably
Speaker 1: this is the lightweight version and that he will be
Speaker 1: probably in a week and I think week one is
Speaker 1: in no doubt here, and maybe it's all the better
Speaker 1: that he gets it all the way now and it's
Speaker 1: share even more immunity for for the regular season. Irv
Speaker 1: Smith had surgery on his thumb last week tight end.
Speaker 1: He is targeting a return also around Week one. Lots
Speaker 1: of praise for Kevin O'Connell's offense from nearly all members
Speaker 1: of the Vikings offense, and right now it seems like
Speaker 1: a fresh, new and exciting offense for the Minnesota Vikings.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Dallas Cowboys. Man Travon Diggs quit
Speaker 1: social media, probably because of all the camp video of
Speaker 1: him getting roasted by Ceedee Lamb and Jalen Tilbert. Obviously
Speaker 1: had a lot of interceptions last year, but he's not
Speaker 1: a great cover corner at all, so I love the
Speaker 1: most yards in the NFL's coverage last year. So he's
Speaker 1: sick of everybody bagging on him, so he quit. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Patriots. Bryan running back James White retired
Speaker 1: earlier in the week, um, so he's obviously not playing
Speaker 1: this year. Damien Harris all the sudden rumored to be
Speaker 1: on the trading block or they might trade him. So
Speaker 1: as a result, Ramandre Stevenson has jumped Harris in ADP
Speaker 1: and just surging up draft boards right now. Yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: not totally sure where you know these rumors have come from,
Speaker 1: but the Vegas odds to lead the NFL and rushing touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Romandre Stevenson was fifty two one a week ago and
Speaker 1: now we're sitting it like tender one. So there is there.
Speaker 1: There are a lot of people and as we've we've
Speaker 1: often mentioned, we talked a lot about what happens inside
Speaker 1: the five yard line on the show, the infrared zone
Speaker 1: as he likes to call it. No team has run
Speaker 1: more had more running plays inside the five over the
Speaker 1: last seven years than New England Patriots. And if Harris
Speaker 1: is to be traded, um obviously Stevenson huge jumping, massive,
Speaker 1: massive jump off. But Pierre Strong Junior the name to
Speaker 1: keep in mind, rookie running back drafted in the fourth
Speaker 1: round by the Patriots, kind of more of a pass
Speaker 1: catching specialist. He probably will play that James White role,
Speaker 1: even though or Monder Stevenson is a very able pass catcher. Two.
Speaker 1: But yeah, stock On Stevenson just soaring right now. Let
Speaker 1: me mention a couple of things about James White. That
Speaker 1: had three time Super Bowl champion, only player with the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl walk off touchdown in NFL history, and that
Speaker 1: was the seventeen comeback against the Falcons in which he
Speaker 1: was targeted sixteen times and caught fourteen passes for one
Speaker 1: ten yards for James White. And get this, eight seasons
Speaker 1: he touched the ball eight hundred times, no fumbles. That's
Speaker 1: how you get into Bill Belichick's good grace, isn't it
Speaker 1: right there? It was a hell of a run for
Speaker 1: James White. And congratulations on a great career. Only thirty
Speaker 1: years old, which is it's old for running back the stick,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's young. But yeah, he's walking away. That's
Speaker 1: for the Saints. Michael Thomas's ankle rehabits on track, he's practicing,
Speaker 1: he's looked great, a lot of positive reports out of
Speaker 1: training camp. It appears likely that he will be ready
Speaker 1: to start Week one. His adp also moving up quickly.
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamari's court date has been moved back to October,
Speaker 1: so it's possible the NFL will defer judgment on a
Speaker 1: possible suspension until after that court date. Maybe, but the
Speaker 1: NFL is not beholden to that. They don't need to
Speaker 1: do that, but it's possible that they could. We're gonna
Speaker 1: talk a little bit more about there to buy Alvin
Speaker 1: Camaro later in this show. Let's go to the New
Speaker 1: York Giants. Man Kenny Golladay is the talk of camp
Speaker 1: for all the wrong adjectives slow, stiff, bad body language,
Speaker 1: zero separation. Some speculated him as a possible cut candidate,
Speaker 1: but they can't cut him for two years because of
Speaker 1: the cap liabilities. But if any team came knocking in
Speaker 1: the trade market, they could have him for nothing. Seventh
Speaker 1: round pick gentleman, seventy million dollars for Kenny Golladay just
Speaker 1: to two off seasons ago. Well, wait, one off season ago.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Tennessee Titans. Nothing but bad things
Speaker 1: being said about eighteenth overall pick wide receiver Traylon Burks,
Speaker 1: who has been not running with the ones. Meanwhile, rookie
Speaker 1: wide receiver Kyle Phillips, who was drafted in the fifth
Speaker 1: round has been running with the ones. And uh more,
Speaker 1: more bad things to say about Burks. On Thursday Night
Speaker 1: against the Patriots, the Titans rested their their normal starters
Speaker 1: Robert Woods and n w Y, but Burks played. Brooks
Speaker 1: also came into the game after Dez Fitzpatrick, Racy McMath
Speaker 1: and the aforementioned Kyle Phillips and just one target on
Speaker 1: thirties thirty snaps for Berks on Thursday night. So stock
Speaker 1: falling right now for Trays, at least in re draft.
Speaker 1: Right now, he's not looking like an immediate impact player.
Speaker 1: And if we're gonna talk about Thursday night, we got
Speaker 1: to talk about Malik Willis. I watched every one of
Speaker 1: his every one of his snaps. The first few throws
Speaker 1: were terrible, and it was all the bad things you've
Speaker 1: ever seen about him. But when he got comfortable, he
Speaker 1: made some He made some eye popping plays with his legs,
Speaker 1: but also had some really nice passes mixed in there.
Speaker 1: And you you saw a player and look, it's only
Speaker 1: the first preseason game his entire career, and nobody's carving
Speaker 1: a bust in Canton here. And I walked in the
Speaker 1: door having seen the highlights from the game, and I
Speaker 1: was like, Oh, I'm gonna really watch all of this
Speaker 1: to make sure I'm not just looking at the highlights.
Speaker 1: He looked pretty poised, pretty comfortable, and delivered a lot
Speaker 1: of nice passes. Yeah, he's been falling too far in
Speaker 1: dynasty leagues, especially super flexed leagues. He's definitely a project still,
Speaker 1: so I'm not thinking of an immediate even if something
Speaker 1: happens to Tannehill, But yeah, he should be bumped up
Speaker 1: dynasty draft boards based off Thursday night, I agreed for
Speaker 1: the Steelers what rookie wide receiver George Pickens was listed
Speaker 1: as a starter on the team's first step chart, although again,
Speaker 1: you don't know, we don't know what that really means.
Speaker 1: That Mike Tomlin has gone out to discredit the depth
Speaker 1: that depth chart as well. Sad trombon Sky, It's uh no,
Speaker 1: that's happy. That's happy. That's the happy Trombone right there,
Speaker 1: trending towards the starting job. Well, he is happy about that,
Speaker 1: that's right. Mason Rudolph has looked okay, but it's Mason Rudolph.
Speaker 1: They know that he's not the solution. Kenny Picket appears
Speaker 1: destined to learn from the bench for a while at least,
Speaker 1: and learned from the best hold on. Let's go to
Speaker 1: the Atlanta Falcons. Matt Cordarol Patterson is getting almost all
Speaker 1: the looks with the top offense. Tyler l Gear and
Speaker 1: Damian Williams are far behind. Both probably just go line
Speaker 1: only options. Also, Kyle Pitts has almost exclusively played wide
Speaker 1: receiver all camp, slot and wide outside. You don't say
Speaker 1: Cincinnati Bengals Brian Uh no timetable for Joe Burrows return
Speaker 1: from an appendex to me, but not too concerned about that.
Speaker 1: I'm sure he will be ready to go come week. One.
Speaker 1: The biggest news from Bengals camp is Lyle Collins, one
Speaker 1: of the three newly acquired elite offensive lineman, has been
Speaker 1: cleared to return to practice. So yeah, you gotta love
Speaker 1: what since he has done this offseason bolstering that offensive line.
Speaker 1: But I might be out on Joe Burrow based on
Speaker 1: his cost in drafts right now. We'll talk about that
Speaker 1: a little later, but that Bengals line is gonna be
Speaker 1: much much improved. Forty Niners. Brandon Ayou getting a lot
Speaker 1: of praise from coaches and teammates, which is the exact
Speaker 1: opposite of what he was getting at this time last year,
Speaker 1: and he had the very slow start to the season.
Speaker 1: Um players and coaches going out of our way to
Speaker 1: praise the player now in his third preseason, looks like
Speaker 1: he's gonna be ready for a fast start to the season.
Speaker 1: But how much passing will we see from Trey Lance?
Speaker 1: By all accounts, Trey lances preseason so far and training
Speaker 1: camp has been inconsistent, especially as a passer. Will the
Speaker 1: forty nineers limit the passing of Trey Lance? That is
Speaker 1: certainly gonna be something we'll be watching closely. Matt. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Arizona Cardinals. Darryl Williams came over from
Speaker 1: Kansas City and he's been pretty much absent in training camp.
Speaker 1: Not a bright spot at all. You know, Benjamin looks
Speaker 1: like the clear number two, and he wasn't very good
Speaker 1: in action last year. I think James Conner could be
Speaker 1: an absolute bell cow this year. Ravens. Oh, now, that's
Speaker 1: hang on. We're not to the Ravens yet. That's me, Brian.
Speaker 1: I wasn't forgetting you Jaguars, please. I love Dan Arnold.
Speaker 1: That's that's about it. It's not not a ton of
Speaker 1: news out of Jaguars camp. James Robinson has been practicing
Speaker 1: with the team, but only in individual drills, not team drills.
Speaker 1: So I don't like his chances to be ready for
Speaker 1: week one. Travisy d n the clear cut starter, but
Speaker 1: your guy charge, Snoop Connor, looks me in the line
Speaker 1: for some early season work, a great late round option,
Speaker 1: and I think he pegged that last week. It was
Speaker 1: my sleeper of the week last week, Snoop Connor. Now
Speaker 1: let's go to the Ravens in Thursday night's game. Tyler
Speaker 1: Huntley very sharp. In my mind, Tyler Huntley is the
Speaker 1: only backup quarterback worth drafting, and even then it's in
Speaker 1: bigger leagues because he gives you rushing passing upside. We
Speaker 1: saw him in an extended months so or so of
Speaker 1: starts last year and which he looked pretty darn good.
Speaker 1: And he was on fire on Thursday. The rare handcuff quarterback,
Speaker 1: the rare handcuff quarterback. And if it comes down to
Speaker 1: taking Baker Mayfield or Tyler Huntley, why draft Baker Mayfield?
Speaker 1: You know you can get Tyler Hunley where if you know,
Speaker 1: because in theory, you shouldn't need to start Baker at
Speaker 1: any point in time. Tyler Huntley, if we're anything to
Speaker 1: happen in Baltimore and he's starting games, you know you've
Speaker 1: got a potential top ten quarterback because of the rushing
Speaker 1: passing combo that he brings. Yeah, the Ravens have a
Speaker 1: buy in Week ten, and odds are you're not gonna
Speaker 1: bench Lamar Jackson unless he's hurt. So but even if
Speaker 1: you don't draft Lamar even yeah, I'm with you, Huntley
Speaker 1: is drafted even without Lamar. But if you do draft Lamar,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't the backup. I'm drafting his Tyler Huntley and
Speaker 1: then Baker Mayfield and then I'll worry about it in
Speaker 1: Week ten if you know you can your backup quarterback.
Speaker 1: Totally agree. Last thing I want to mention about the Ravens.
Speaker 1: They've got this rookie tight end who's obviously Mark Andrews
Speaker 1: is a elite and this guy is not probably going
Speaker 1: to be a factor this year, but for those in
Speaker 1: Dynasty and Empire leagues keep track of tight end Isaiah Likely.
Speaker 1: He was getting rave reviews in camp and I was like, yeah, whatever,
Speaker 1: he's behind Mark Andrews. Then on Thursday night, guy made
Speaker 1: a couple of great place. They gave him a bubble
Speaker 1: screen to the right and he made it. He made
Speaker 1: a defender who was about two yards away from him
Speaker 1: completely with his whole body and then charge forward. Then
Speaker 1: he made a nice downfield, contested catch on the left
Speaker 1: side of the field. Just you know it's Mark Andrews
Speaker 1: that he's stuck behind. He's a tight end. You know,
Speaker 1: we're not gonna have to remember Isaiah likely for very long,
Speaker 1: but just you know, in deep leagues where you can
Speaker 1: develop guys, let's keep tracking them a little bit. Two
Speaker 1: teams left. Chicago Bears Matt All Pro linebacker ro Kwan
Speaker 1: Smith requested a trade, and Khalil Herbert a k A.
Speaker 1: The ground Bear, has been very impressive in camp. The
Speaker 1: Bears may use him even more this year to spell
Speaker 1: David Montgomery completely miss my my, I totally forgotten, I
Speaker 1: forget about that. I'm glad. We gotta find ways to
Speaker 1: work Snoop Connor into our conversations more. You've you've figured
Speaker 1: it out already, yes, and our final team is going
Speaker 1: to be the San Diego Sorry. Los Angeles Chargers Brian
Speaker 1: Mitchell Palooza. What a great party of that was. That's
Speaker 1: remember that clip is from Yeah, not school, might have
Speaker 1: been old school anyway. Chargers real quick wide receiver Joshua
Speaker 1: Palmer making a splash and baby, a lot of people
Speaker 1: are pegging him for a breakout season, clearly the wide
Speaker 1: receiver three for the charges that if something would have
Speaker 1: happened to Mike Williams or Keenan Allen. We'll talk about
Speaker 1: him later. His name, It's not the last time you're
Speaker 1: gonna hear his name on this show. Thank you for listening.
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly. Plenty more to get to, including next
Speaker 1: segment where we will talk through the peak cock off.
Speaker 1: Two bold predictions from each of our hosts. When we
Speaker 1: returned to Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back. It is segment
Speaker 1: number three. Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchi and Guillotine Leagues
Speaker 1: dot Com, Matt Harrison and Brian Johnson with me as well.
Speaker 1: If you want to follow us, I'm at Paul Charchion,
Speaker 1: Matt Harrison is at Explosive Output, and Brian Johnson is
Speaker 1: at b t x J. Yeah. I wanted to mention
Speaker 1: when the show first started, it's a it's an honor
Speaker 1: to be back. This is my eighth season with a
Speaker 1: couple of years before. I'm at ten man not bad.
Speaker 1: That is a lot of so if we combine all
Speaker 1: of our years together, like fifty six years on the show.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of time, man. I think I gotta
Speaker 1: be creeping up on like Habermeyer and bow Mitchell for
Speaker 1: like most the most years you're as a co host.
Speaker 1: So absolutely true. This is a segment we like to
Speaker 1: call the pe cock Off. Two bold predictions for this
Speaker 1: season from each of our hosts that are hopefully grounded
Speaker 1: in some actual legitimate optimism that these are kind of
Speaker 1: come true. Um, that's uh. We call it the peacock Off.
Speaker 1: We should have gone back and listen and figured out
Speaker 1: how we did on our peacock offs last year. But
Speaker 1: somebody will tweet us, somebody wants to that would be great.
Speaker 1: I remember one of mine. I said, Kyle Pitts will
Speaker 1: score more touchdowns Calvin Ridley and they ended up tying
Speaker 1: with one. And you say, you say, will Ridley miss
Speaker 1: half the season? Which yes, but I think it really
Speaker 1: plays that actually would have come true. You could have
Speaker 1: helped Kyle bits score two more, you would. It would
Speaker 1: have been a better like peacock off to say Kyle
Speaker 1: Pitts will score more touchdowns in England than he will
Speaker 1: in the United States. We really got it there, that
Speaker 1: that would have been fantastic. All right, Matt, Matt, let's
Speaker 1: start with you. What is your first pe cock off?
Speaker 1: Kenneth Walker, the third, finishes the year as a top
Speaker 1: and running back. Oh I like it uh. Last year,
Speaker 1: a Seattle running back finished with fifteen or more PPR
Speaker 1: Fantasy points in ten of seventeen games, and the games
Speaker 1: in which they didn't hit that mark, they had third
Speaker 1: stringers Alex Collins and DJ Dallas as the feature backs.
Speaker 1: Chris Carson and Rashad Penny were the ones who did
Speaker 1: that most of the time last year. Now Carson has retired,
Speaker 1: Penny already sitting out with a groin injury, and since
Speaker 1: eighteen he's had a knee strain, a hamstring strain, a
Speaker 1: torn a c l another knee strain, a calf strain,
Speaker 1: and another hamstring strain. He's not very durable. Walker has
Speaker 1: been really good when given the opportunity in camp. They
Speaker 1: say his work in the passing game is much better
Speaker 1: than they anticipated, and fifteen PPR points per game seems
Speaker 1: very manageable for a running back. Running Backs number seven
Speaker 1: through fourteen last year all finished with about fifteen PPR
Speaker 1: points per game. Last year that was Zeke Antonio Gibson,
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones, Cordarol Patterson, David Montgomery. Kenneth Walker is going
Speaker 1: to finish right in there if he gets the full workload.
Speaker 1: Their top ten running back, all right. It aided by
Speaker 1: the recent groin injury to Rishad Penny. But you know what,
Speaker 1: this is part of the course for him. He doesn't
Speaker 1: get the benefit of the doubt on injuries. You're you're
Speaker 1: getting Walker in the seventh or eighth round right now too.
Speaker 1: I like all of that. Brian, who what is your
Speaker 1: pea cock off? Your first of two pea cock offs?
Speaker 1: My first peacock off is se Kwon Barkley will be Now,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say a top three, but I'm going
Speaker 1: to say the top running back in PPR this season
Speaker 1: cover one. So I'm basically predicting he returns to his
Speaker 1: rookie year form ineen, when he was the number one
Speaker 1: overall running back in PPR. And why can't he get there?
Speaker 1: He's still very young. Of course, his career suffered a
Speaker 1: major setback in twenty when he blew out his a
Speaker 1: c L. It affected him last year. Running Backs generally
Speaker 1: take two years to return from such an injury, and
Speaker 1: uh speaking, of injuries. Some people calling him injury Perne
Speaker 1: because he also heard his ankle last year. That was
Speaker 1: a very flukey injury. He stepped on a teammate's ankle
Speaker 1: while gaining like twenty yards on a nice explosive run.
Speaker 1: But he looks great in camp right now. The Giants
Speaker 1: invested heavily in their offensive line in the off season.
Speaker 1: They also have a new head coach, offensive minded. Brian
Speaker 1: Dable was the former o C from the Bills. So
Speaker 1: se Kawan Barkley a guy who in middle March April
Speaker 1: going mid to late third round and creep to wait second,
Speaker 1: and now it's creeped to early second. He's gonna be
Speaker 1: a first round pick in a couple of weeks. If
Speaker 1: not there already. I mean, I love se Kwon Barkley.
Speaker 1: Where you're still a great value late in the side
Speaker 1: or early in the second round. Right now. My first
Speaker 1: of two Pete cock offs tray A Lance both finishes
Speaker 1: a top five Fantasy order back this year. This one,
Speaker 1: I think you're crazy. Just this one, just this one
Speaker 1: was this one. Uh, here's how it's gonna happen. He's
Speaker 1: going to rush a lot. This is a rush first offense.
Speaker 1: And he's going to do plenty of running. In his
Speaker 1: two starts last season, he ran twenty four times for
Speaker 1: one hundred twenty yards. I have reason to believe that
Speaker 1: is a sixty yard per game average. In the average
Speaker 1: five yards per carry, that would put him on pace
Speaker 1: for a thousand yard rushing season out of a quarterback
Speaker 1: trade Lance. Now let's just let's let's assume he's not
Speaker 1: gonna drop thirty passing touchdowns, because now we'd be talking
Speaker 1: about him being QB one. Instead, let's assume Tray Lance
Speaker 1: is going to be more like a twenty two touchdown passer,
Speaker 1: a limit a modest passer, consistent with most quarterbacks first year. Well,
Speaker 1: the beauty of it is all he has to do
Speaker 1: is get the hands the paul in the hands of
Speaker 1: his playmakers. He's got so many playmakers who will make
Speaker 1: up for the differential in talent that he may have
Speaker 1: as a first year passer. George Kettle, Brandon I, Deebo Samuel,
Speaker 1: all players who can do special things after the catch.
Speaker 1: I don't need him to be Joe Montana. I just
Speaker 1: need to be a guy who'll get the ball in
Speaker 1: the hands of his players, and Trey Lance will end
Speaker 1: up with solid passing numbers and possibly fantastic rushing numbers
Speaker 1: and will finish is a top five quarterback. Matt your
Speaker 1: second of two Pete cock offs. Adam Theland is a
Speaker 1: wide receiver one UH. Theland is currently going off the
Speaker 1: board at number seventy three, first pick in the seventh round.
Speaker 1: A DP wide receiver number thirty one off the board.
Speaker 1: And all he's done for you in the last twenty
Speaker 1: eight games that he's played to score twenty four touchdowns,
Speaker 1: just almost a touchdown per game. And that was in
Speaker 1: the run, first run, second run, early and off in
Speaker 1: Mike Zimmer offense. And now he's got new head coach
Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell, a former quarterback, former Rams offensive coordinator. He's
Speaker 1: ready to pass the ball, especially near the stripe. When
Speaker 1: he was at the Rams last year, Kevin O'Connell's offense
Speaker 1: through the ball inside the ten yard line the second
Speaker 1: most in the league. Cooper Cup, who lines up similarly
Speaker 1: to Theelan on the field, led the league in inside
Speaker 1: the ten targets. Now the question for Theland has always health.
Speaker 1: Can he stay in the field for seventeen games? If
Speaker 1: he can, double digit touchdowns are lock because he did
Speaker 1: that in each of the last two seasons. The only
Speaker 1: there was only seven other wide receivers to hit the
Speaker 1: ten touchdown mark last year, and from a ppg's perspective,
Speaker 1: points per game, feeling was pretty much even with Tee Higgins,
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle, Mike Williams. All of those guys are getting
Speaker 1: drafted as wide receiver ones. Why not Adam feeling? I
Speaker 1: like it? See I like yours. You don't like mine?
Speaker 1: I know because mine makes more sense. There's that Brian
Speaker 1: your second two Pea cock offs. Philadelphia's Dallas Goddard will
Speaker 1: finish as a top four tight end. I can't say
Speaker 1: top three because he's not gonna to beat out Kelsey
Speaker 1: Andrews and my boy Kyle Pitts. But he's gonna finish
Speaker 1: his number four. Uh. Last year he finished his tight
Speaker 1: end eight, which doesn't sound that far off from top four,
Speaker 1: but when it comes to points scored, it was a lot,
Speaker 1: trust me, between top four and top eight, But a
Speaker 1: lot of things weren't going Goddard's way last year. Of course,
Speaker 1: zach Ertz was on. The Eagles were about half of
Speaker 1: the season, soaking up half of the tight end targets.
Speaker 1: Goddard was also often dinged up. UH missed two games
Speaker 1: entirely due to injury, and as a result he only
Speaker 1: saw seventy six targets. But if he can get bumped
Speaker 1: up to that one hundred plus target range, which I
Speaker 1: think happens, all the metrics are there for a breakout
Speaker 1: year for Goddard if he can get that volume. He
Speaker 1: averaged two point two points per target in PPR leagues.
Speaker 1: That's an excellent numbers per target for Goddard. He also
Speaker 1: was second in yards per reception among tight ends at
Speaker 1: fourteen point nine yards. He was first in yards per
Speaker 1: rout run among tight ends, and you let all tight
Speaker 1: ends and completed air yards per target at six point four.
Speaker 1: And now with a J. Brown UH in Philly at
Speaker 1: wide receiver along with Davonte Smith, they're gonna take up
Speaker 1: a lot of attention from opposing defenses. And of course
Speaker 1: no zaccurates anymore Dallas Goddard going around tight end seven eight,
Speaker 1: maybe nine. But I think he's got that top four
Speaker 1: potential this year. I agree with that too. I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I don't even it doesn't even sound that bold when
Speaker 1: you frame it up that way. Mission accomplished our final
Speaker 1: peacock off. I posed to you my Fantasy Football weekly
Speaker 1: co host. Is Royce Freeman a particularly good running back.
Speaker 1: No Is Dari Goomba Wally a particularly good running back.
Speaker 1: No Is Marlon Mack particularly good running back? Maybe at
Speaker 1: one time is Rex Burke head particularly good running back?
Speaker 1: He wasn't. Week seventeen. I used him as my take
Speaker 1: on player and it hit for some guy you insssisted
Speaker 1: on Venmos. That's awesome to be clear, all of that together,
Speaker 1: that's the competition. We should put our Venmo hands hipping
Speaker 1: Twitter at bt x J eight one. I won't be
Speaker 1: opposed to it. Those are the players Damian Pierce has
Speaker 1: for competition for carries in Houston. He's already running with
Speaker 1: the first team often in practice. Damian Pierce Houston Texans. Now.
Speaker 1: I know everybody's like it's the Texans. I don't want
Speaker 1: any part of the Texans. Hey, that was last year,
Speaker 1: overhauled coaching staff, improved offensive line, put a first rounder
Speaker 1: into the offensive line. I'll remind you of that. And
Speaker 1: Damian Pierce are pretty is a pretty uniquely gifted back.
Speaker 1: He is a big body back who can easily be
Speaker 1: built for goal line use. He runs inside very well
Speaker 1: and surprisingly soft hands. In college, they threw to him
Speaker 1: downfield frequently. I've talked about him last week too. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna keep talking about Damien Pierce until I'm proven wrong.
Speaker 1: Great opportunity for a player who, at a minimum should
Speaker 1: get goal line use. And to make official my prediction here,
Speaker 1: as in my peacock off, I predict Damien Pierce will
Speaker 1: finish as an RB two this year, which puts him
Speaker 1: as the top twenty four running back. I'm totally with
Speaker 1: you on this one. Char Wow, Alright, it's not all
Speaker 1: just not all personal. Alright, good Matt. We promised to
Speaker 1: talk about the best and worst offensive lines. Tell me,
Speaker 1: let's know what the best. Yeah, let's start with the best.
Speaker 1: So I took a look at the top and bottom
Speaker 1: five offensive lines from both Pro Football Focus and Football Guys.
Speaker 1: I mashed them together. I came up with a couple
Speaker 1: of teams that you might want to bump up and
Speaker 1: down a few spots on your cheat sheet. There were
Speaker 1: three teams that were in the top five in both lists.
Speaker 1: Number one overall on both was Philadelphia. That's Jalen Hurts
Speaker 1: A J. Brown. Devanta Smith, Dallas Goddard, Miles Sanders, Kenny
Speaker 1: Gainwell um and talked a little bit about Dallas Goddard.
Speaker 1: He might be the guy who is maybe in the
Speaker 1: best position here. He's a tight end who doesn't have
Speaker 1: to stay in and block. He's got the best offensive
Speaker 1: line in the league. He can go, he can go
Speaker 1: out there. Add that to your Dallas Goddard absolutely there,
Speaker 1: and with zach Ertz fully out of the picture, Goddard
Speaker 1: could be looking at a huge volume year. Uh. The
Speaker 1: next team, This one was a little bit of a surprise,
Speaker 1: the Detroit Lions. Lions, you said, DeAndre Swift, T. J. Hockenson, Hman,
Speaker 1: ros St Brown, d J. Chark, Jamison Williams and Jared Goff.
Speaker 1: Hockinson the same way should be free to catch passes
Speaker 1: for the same reason Goddard is and Jared Goff might
Speaker 1: be operating behind the best offensive line he's ever had.
Speaker 1: In most single quarterback fantasy leagues, he's not even being drafted.
Speaker 1: But look at the weapons around him, and look at
Speaker 1: the line, and if Goff can't get it done this year,
Speaker 1: well he's He's a backup for the remainder of his career.
Speaker 1: This is probably this is it for Jared Off. He's
Speaker 1: got to perform this year. That doesn't necessarily mean he will,
Speaker 1: but you're right. You make a great case that behind
Speaker 1: that offensive line, with the weapons around him, golf is
Speaker 1: gonna be startable from time to time. If you can
Speaker 1: pick the right spots, that could make a lot of sense.
Speaker 1: And if you slough quarterback completely or you're just looking
Speaker 1: for your backup, he's gonna be a take a chance
Speaker 1: on me quarterback several times this year. And if you've
Speaker 1: been watching Hard Knocks, there is a vibe in Detroit
Speaker 1: right now. I've bought him. I think most people who
Speaker 1: have been watching the Hard Knocks believe that there's gonna
Speaker 1: be a big jump for the Lions this year. I'll
Speaker 1: finish up with the one more offensive line that is
Speaker 1: really great, and that's the Cleveland Browns, uh Nick Chubb,
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt, Jacoby Brissette, Slash QB. Brown's, Amari Cooper and
Speaker 1: David and Joku. I mean, Chubb's the guy. If Hunt
Speaker 1: has traded before the season begins, I think Brian said
Speaker 1: Dearnest Johnson probably hops into that Hunt role. But if QB.
Speaker 1: Brown's is cleared to play, it's the best old line
Speaker 1: that he's ever had. You never had one like that,
Speaker 1: and he was in And if it's Jacoby Brissett, I mean, well,
Speaker 1: he spent all those years in India with a great
Speaker 1: offensive line, so we know exactly what we're getting. Also,
Speaker 1: David and Joku is the last tight end in a
Speaker 1: DP that I think I draft, and it gets scary
Speaker 1: after that, but in Joku for the same reason, probably
Speaker 1: won't have to stay in and block too much. I
Speaker 1: will mention that the other teams that were mentioned as
Speaker 1: top five teams but didn't make both lists Tampa Bay,
Speaker 1: who just lost their starting center Ryan Jensen, probably for
Speaker 1: the year. Green Bay both of their starting tackles David
Speaker 1: Baktier and Elgton Jenkins are dealing with some injuries from
Speaker 1: last year, which we've mentioned a few times. Kansas City,
Speaker 1: the interior line is awesome, but Orlando Brown and Lucas
Speaker 1: niang our average at best tackles. And then New Orleans
Speaker 1: who came in at number four on Football Guys rankings
Speaker 1: but number twenty one on Pro Football Focuses rankings. They
Speaker 1: lost Tarrant Armstead, which is a hug. Well, I know,
Speaker 1: but I'm not sure who to believe here, but these
Speaker 1: are pro football focuses rankings of this year's offensive line,
Speaker 1: like this year's version. So I do know that their
Speaker 1: new tackle, Trevor Penning, likes to get in fights. He
Speaker 1: was kicked out of training camp for getting in fights
Speaker 1: with his own players too much. But yeah, New Orleans
Speaker 1: is definitely an interesting one with Kamara, Jamis Winston and
Speaker 1: all those receivers. So, uh, we can maybe talk the
Speaker 1: bottom defensive or offensive lines a little bit later in
Speaker 1: the show. We'll have to do those a little bit later.
Speaker 1: I do value I put I put a premium on
Speaker 1: players behind a great offensive line. And why I believe
Speaker 1: the Bengals can be one of the safer offenses is
Speaker 1: because of that a blend of good players in it,
Speaker 1: which should be a very good offensive line. And I,
Speaker 1: you know, I value safety. That's always, you know, always
Speaker 1: one of the sure things that we want to try
Speaker 1: to get to without a doubt. And you know, we'll
Speaker 1: talk about the bad offensive lines. It affects my rankings
Speaker 1: as well. You know, we've we've seen lots of players
Speaker 1: who struggle when you have to make up your own yards.
Speaker 1: And a little teaser on the bad offensive lines. A
Speaker 1: lot of them are ones you'd expect, but there's one
Speaker 1: offensive line that everybody's drafting lots of players from this team,
Speaker 1: and I'm a little afraid of them, now, are you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: All right, So well, we'll keep our we'll keep our
Speaker 1: eyes out for that three Tough questions when we come back.
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Speaker 1: will pepper my co host, with three tough questions, beginning
Speaker 1: with and play along. By the way, Tough Question number one,
Speaker 1: it's picked twenty in your draft, So it's picked twenty
Speaker 1: where at the end of the second round of most drafts.
Speaker 1: Alvin Camarre is available. That's his ADP pick twenty. We
Speaker 1: don't know the status of his possible suspension. Are you
Speaker 1: pulling the trigger at pick twenty, Matt? So, I looked
Speaker 1: up the ADP and I saw that Camara was sitting there,
Speaker 1: and then I looked to the guy after him as
Speaker 1: sa Kwan Barkley, And we just got done listening to
Speaker 1: Brian's he's gonna be running back one Overall Kwon Barkley
Speaker 1: is there, I'm taking him. If Aaron Jones is there,
Speaker 1: I'm taking him. If Mark Andrews is there, I'm taking him.
Speaker 1: Point is, there's too many good players at the end
Speaker 1: of the second for me to spend it on a
Speaker 1: guy with a looming four to six game suspension. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna take Alvin Camara there, all right, Brian,
Speaker 1: Alvin Kmart's picked twenty, he's on the board. Are you
Speaker 1: taking him? Yes, I am, and I'm taking him even
Speaker 1: sooner than that. The only running back. If I'm going
Speaker 1: running back early second round, if se Kwon Barclay isn't there,
Speaker 1: I'm taking Alvin Kamara. Overall the other guys that Matt
Speaker 1: just mentioned I'm I'm just going into this. His earliest
Speaker 1: court date is gonna be October. I just don't think
Speaker 1: this doesn't get settled outside of the lines off the field,
Speaker 1: whether it's charges a settlement until the season is over.
Speaker 1: I think he plays the whole year, and he's worth
Speaker 1: the risk at at pick twenty and even earlier to
Speaker 1: me where yeah, I would take him there. And uh again,
Speaker 1: I think I think he plays the full year and
Speaker 1: he's one of those guys that can be a true
Speaker 1: bell cow. There's only a handful at running back, and
Speaker 1: if Kamara is not suspended and healthy, which is the
Speaker 1: case as of right now, uh, he's gonna be the
Speaker 1: bell cow and what should be a very good offense
Speaker 1: behind a a pretty good offensive line, which which we
Speaker 1: discussed in the last segments. So yes, the answer is yes.
Speaker 1: For me, like you, I don't believe the suspension. He
Speaker 1: may be zero games, but it feels like one game,
Speaker 1: two games. He punched a guy, which compared to a
Speaker 1: serial sexual predator potentially getting six games. You know, it
Speaker 1: feels like nothing. So if my it to me, my
Speaker 1: guess is we're going to be in the zero one
Speaker 1: to missed games for Alvin Kamara for this year. And
Speaker 1: this is how you win leagues by getting elite players
Speaker 1: that have something that is causing the the or dark
Speaker 1: cloud that yes, and the tepid, the frightened, easily frightened
Speaker 1: to stay away from them. If you can get a
Speaker 1: deal on an elite, proven fantasy player, I think you'd
Speaker 1: take it. Now, imagine this. If he does get the zero,
Speaker 1: the one or the two games suspension, he's gonna rock
Speaker 1: it like you know, eight ten spots. He's gonna move
Speaker 1: from the back of the second round of the first
Speaker 1: of the second round you're getting You're getting a steel
Speaker 1: end of second round. The correct dance here is yes,
Speaker 1: we are pulling the trigger. Tough question number two, how
Speaker 1: many reliable tight ends are there this year? Now, Brian,
Speaker 1: before that, before you answer, you know, listeners might be saying, well,
Speaker 1: what does reliable means? Here's the reliable means in my
Speaker 1: mind to frame up this question a little bit further,
Speaker 1: You're not You're going into the weekend feeling pretty confident
Speaker 1: you're gonna get a good result from your tight end,
Speaker 1: which for the most of the last like four years,
Speaker 1: most of us don't walk into our weekend feeling like
Speaker 1: it's gonna go that way. So when I say reliable,
Speaker 1: you have a you have a reasonable reason to believe
Speaker 1: you're gonna get good productivity out of your tight end
Speaker 1: this week. Now, I was just pumping up Dallas got
Speaker 1: got her in the last segment. But he's not on
Speaker 1: my list of I think he can get to this
Speaker 1: list of short list of reliable tight ends. He has
Speaker 1: that potential, he's not on it right now. But for me,
Speaker 1: right now, it's only four and it's Travis Kelsey, Mark Andrews,
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts, and Darren Waller. Those are the tight ends
Speaker 1: who are basedly wide receivers, meaning they take seventy eight
Speaker 1: even of their snaps either from the slot or outside.
Speaker 1: They're not relied on for blocking really, it's just they
Speaker 1: are past catching tight ends who are the ones you
Speaker 1: basically would never bench regardless of matchup. There are other
Speaker 1: tight ends, and some people might be saying, where was
Speaker 1: George Kittle on this list? And we'll talk about him
Speaker 1: a little later in the show. Why don't have him
Speaker 1: on this list? But for me for reliable tight ends,
Speaker 1: and I got other guys with the potential. But going
Speaker 1: into the season right now, I just got the four. Okay, Matt,
Speaker 1: how many reliable tight ends are there this year? You
Speaker 1: never give us like what you're reliable means, and then
Speaker 1: you spring it to us on the show. So I
Speaker 1: was looking at it. Do you judge reliability has no
Speaker 1: questions surrounding them at all? Because if that's the case,
Speaker 1: there's none because Kelsey lost Tyreek, Kittle as injury history
Speaker 1: with Andrey Lance Pitts has no line in Marcus Mariota,
Speaker 1: Andrews lost Hollywood. So my my four that I had
Speaker 1: similar to Bryan's Kelsey, Pitts, Andrews, and I have Kittle
Speaker 1: over Waller because I just don't trust Waller's injury history
Speaker 1: right now. Um, But none of these players has a
Speaker 1: perfect road here, but they're all just individually talented enough
Speaker 1: to overcome these obstacles for me. So I'll say four.
Speaker 1: All right, so you guys have four? Correct answer is
Speaker 1: seven reliable tight ends this year? Uh. In addition to
Speaker 1: the four we've already talked about, Dallas Goddard is in
Speaker 1: for me for the reasons Brian elucidating earlier in this show,
Speaker 1: you certainly convinced me zach Ertz should be in. He
Speaker 1: finished since his trade forward. He was tight end five
Speaker 1: last year. He was a reliable player, and nobody included
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz. Eighty receptions last year, eight hundred yards and
Speaker 1: eight touchdowns. Those are very good tight end numbers and
Speaker 1: they should only go up with the dearth receiving talent.
Speaker 1: Which one did you not have between Waller and Kittle?
Speaker 1: Then Wallers out, Waller's out and Kittles in. And I
Speaker 1: know Kittle Scott does have his own history of surgery,
Speaker 1: but when when healthy, he is absolutely reliable. Producer questions,
Speaker 1: they all they have every player. You can find a
Speaker 1: question mark on every player. Reliable means I put him
Speaker 1: in my lineup and I don't have night sweats going
Speaker 1: into the weekend. Those are the seven tight ends that
Speaker 1: won't keep you awake nights. Tough question Number three. If
Speaker 1: this season were to play out nine times, Oh, it's
Speaker 1: the nine times game. It is the nine time game.
Speaker 1: It's back. If this season were to play out nine times,
Speaker 1: how many times would Gabriel Davis outscore Stefan Diggs Matt
Speaker 1: So In limited regular season action as the third or
Speaker 1: fourth wide receiver in Buffalo, Davis has seven and six
Speaker 1: touchdowns in his two seasons, and that's just regular season.
Speaker 1: He had five in the playoffs last year. So that's
Speaker 1: eighteen touchdowns total in two years as the third or
Speaker 1: fourth option at best. Diggs has never been known as
Speaker 1: a huge end zone guy, but his two years in
Speaker 1: Buffalo he's been very solid. Eight and ten touchdowns. That's
Speaker 1: really good. But he's not gonna suddenly put up like
Speaker 1: sixteen touchdowns in a season. So I think that this
Speaker 1: is pretty close. Uh, they both average about nine touchdowns
Speaker 1: per year. I think Davis would take four of the nine.
Speaker 1: It's pretty close, but I will give Digs the slight edge.
Speaker 1: He'll get five of the nine. Davis we'll get four.
Speaker 1: All right, Brian, if they were to play out this season,
Speaker 1: how many times with Gabriel Davis outscores Stefon Diggs. So
Speaker 1: the last time we saw Gabe Davis in the Digital
Speaker 1: Round against Chiefs, I remember that game. He had eight
Speaker 1: catches for two d one yards and four touchdowns. Now,
Speaker 1: of course we must extrapolate this over a seventeen game.
Speaker 1: Now he's so we're looking at and this is scientific fact.
Speaker 1: Here one and thirty six catches for three thousand, four
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy yards and touchdowns just one shy of
Speaker 1: sixty nine for Gabriel Davis. And if he reaches those numbers,
Speaker 1: but you could, I'm gonna guess he outscores stef On
Speaker 1: Diggs nine out of nine. Of course, I'm kidding here, Um,
Speaker 1: I basically agree with Matt. I think Davis is on
Speaker 1: the op and up. But Diggs is still the queer
Speaker 1: wide receiver, one who opposing defenses can't afford to just
Speaker 1: roll all the coverage onto Stephen Diggs either. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go a little less than Matt and say Davis
Speaker 1: would outscore Diggs three of the nine times. If you
Speaker 1: played it out nine times, the correct answer is exactly
Speaker 1: three times. Gabriel Davis is has the potential to get
Speaker 1: the touchdown productivity that we haven't seen from Stefon Diggs.
Speaker 1: Diggs still a special player, obviously, and we trust him
Speaker 1: a lot more for receptions and yards, but never been
Speaker 1: somebody with the high touchdown upside that's for Gabriel Davis
Speaker 1: can eat into it. Current. A key differential is sixty
Speaker 1: picks between the two five rounds, exactly sixty picks. That
Speaker 1: gives a I think if I would ask, would you
Speaker 1: rather pay a DP twelve or a d P seventy five.
Speaker 1: I think we'd all take Gabriel Davis at seventy five, right,
Speaker 1: I think so it sounds that does make sense. All right, Matt,
Speaker 1: let's go back to your Let's go back to your
Speaker 1: off your offensive line analysis from last segment. Last segment,
Speaker 1: you highlighted the best offensive lines. Now let's go for
Speaker 1: the ones that people should show some caution on. Now
Speaker 1: let's go for the jugular, the consensus bottom five offensive lines.
Speaker 1: We're gonna start with Seattle, uh my guy, Ken Walker,
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett, Rashad Penny, no offense, Geno Smith
Speaker 1: or Drew lock Let's give two backup quarterbacks of bottom
Speaker 1: five offensive line and see what happens. Let's give a
Speaker 1: running back who gets injured every three games of bottom
Speaker 1: five offensive line and see what happens. How much of
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf and Tyler Lockett's production was tied to Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson's ability to just keep up play a live Yeah,
Speaker 1: a lot that. I'm very scared of Dk Metcalf this year.
Speaker 1: I'm completely off of Tyler Lockett. He won't be on
Speaker 1: any of my teams. Well, I'm gonna jump in for
Speaker 1: the second because we talked about this in our off
Speaker 1: season Fantasy Football Weekly, for whatever it's worth. And the
Speaker 1: Geno Smith starts last year, he played three full games,
Speaker 1: yet about half of another game d Cat. It was
Speaker 1: all all dk Metcalf. He was a top ten wide
Speaker 1: receiver in three of those four weeks. That is, until
Speaker 1: Drew Lock becomes the quarterback at some point that they're
Speaker 1: they're gonna go back and forth. It's gonna be strange.
Speaker 1: I don't see. I don't think Drew Locks is good
Speaker 1: enough to look. I don't think Geno Smith is great,
Speaker 1: but I don't think Drew Lock is good enough to
Speaker 1: even take it. Could be Uh, second team that was
Speaker 1: on the consensus bottom five offensive lines. That's the Chicago Bears. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's David Montgomery, Justin Fields, Darnell Mooney, and Cole Commet.
Speaker 1: The Bears are just in full tank mode. And it's
Speaker 1: weird because they spent a ton of draft capital to
Speaker 1: draft Justin Fields and then they're going to serve him
Speaker 1: to the Wolves for like two to three years. It's
Speaker 1: just bizarre him. The good news is the four guys
Speaker 1: that I mentioned likely are their only fantasy producers. So
Speaker 1: there's very little guesswork and what you have to do
Speaker 1: a little nervous that Cole Commet might not be able
Speaker 1: to get out in coverage enough because he's back blocking
Speaker 1: a little bit. Uh. The offensive line that maybe scares
Speaker 1: me the most out of all the teams this year
Speaker 1: consensus bottom five offensive line the Las Vegas Raiders UH
Speaker 1: Derek Carr, Davante Adams, Hunter Renfro, Darren Waller, Jock Jacobs
Speaker 1: or Zamir White. The Raiders have had. The Raiders did
Speaker 1: have a very good offensive line. They blew it up,
Speaker 1: and they blew it up. They shipped away almost all
Speaker 1: of it in the last year and a half. They
Speaker 1: had one first rounder, Alex Leatherwood, playing guard. Last year,
Speaker 1: he was the second lowest graded guard by Pro Football Focus.
Speaker 1: So what do you do? You shift him to right tackle.
Speaker 1: Let's just have him learn a new position and you know,
Speaker 1: tackle mape might be a little bit more important. Does
Speaker 1: this possibly hurt Darren Waller the most out of everybody?
Speaker 1: They might have to a keep him into block or
Speaker 1: be maybe he's just not on the field and Foster
Speaker 1: morose into block. Davante Adams has never played on a
Speaker 1: team with an offensive line this bad. Ever, I'm really
Speaker 1: nervous about the Raiders. So um, and then the other
Speaker 1: teams that were receiving votes. There's four more that Uh,
Speaker 1: we're on one list, but not the other. The Pittsburgh Steelers.
Speaker 1: They haven't fixed that line in years, so will either
Speaker 1: be Sad Trombone Ski or rookie Kenny Pickett trying to
Speaker 1: run for their lives. Atlanta they're another team in rebuild.
Speaker 1: Their quarterbacks are a little bit more mobile than some
Speaker 1: others we've time about the base, so they might be
Speaker 1: oddly equipped for this weakness, but they're gonna be running
Speaker 1: for their lives. Uh. The New York Giant. It's football
Speaker 1: guys had them ranked as their worst offensive line. Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus had them at twenty, so kind of in
Speaker 1: the middle. Andrew Thomas and Evan Neil at least appear
Speaker 1: to be their tackles of the future, and if both
Speaker 1: are fine, I think they're gonna be okay. Well wait,
Speaker 1: I I just just moments ago I heard the take
Speaker 1: Kawon Barkley's be the highest scoring running back and they
Speaker 1: got two good tackles. Hey, this is somebody else's ranking
Speaker 1: about the Giants being the worst, I think that there
Speaker 1: they might be in there. I'm not saying that they're
Speaker 1: the worst or the best or anything like that. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm just a bunch of those like fifteen catch games
Speaker 1: at Barkley had that's what we need. Uh. And then
Speaker 1: Jacksonville they gained Brandon Schurf, but they lost their best
Speaker 1: lineman in Brandon Linder to retirement. Trevor Lawrence might be
Speaker 1: skittish again this year, and so a little nervous about
Speaker 1: the Jaguars. Still, I like that the Giants added Evan
Speaker 1: Neil that could help they you know, it's not like
Speaker 1: they haven't tried. No, they put draft picks, they put fevers,
Speaker 1: and they've tried it just to this point has not
Speaker 1: worked out very well. All Right, when we come back,
Speaker 1: plenty more to get to over the course of the show,
Speaker 1: including we love the player, but we hate the average
Speaker 1: draft position. Players we love but players were not willing
Speaker 1: to pay for find out who they are. When we
Speaker 1: come back to Fantasy Football Weekly, Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: Paul Charchie and Guillotine leagues dot Com. Brian Johnson Guillotine
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Speaker 1: You're number eight for this particular Oh. This segment is
Speaker 1: called love the player, hate the average draft position. We're
Speaker 1: gonna give you a player at every position that week.
Speaker 1: We love the guy, we'd happily take him on a roster,
Speaker 1: but where they're being drafted is just too high. We
Speaker 1: begin at the quarterback position, Matt who is your first
Speaker 1: Love the player, hate the ADP? I have Lamar Jackson here,
Speaker 1: and um, I hate the ADP because as the fourth
Speaker 1: quarterback off the board at the fourth fifth round turn,
Speaker 1: there's still too many good running backs and wide receivers here. Uh.
Speaker 1: Jackson was more dinged up last year than ever. Had
Speaker 1: a back injury in Week four, had an ankle sprain
Speaker 1: in Week fourteen that knocked him out for the rest
Speaker 1: of the season. He only had two multiple passing touchdown
Speaker 1: games last year. Uh. He only topped two hundred seventy
Speaker 1: yards three times in thirteen games. He lost his best
Speaker 1: wide receiver in Hollywood Brown, and they replaced him with nothing.
Speaker 1: And he's in a contract year and he's his own agent.
Speaker 1: And if he had an agent, an agent might tell you, hey,
Speaker 1: protect yourself, make sure you're going You're gonna be healthy
Speaker 1: going into free agency. He's got to tell himself that.
Speaker 1: And will he listen to himself? Will he protect his body?
Speaker 1: Will the injuries creep back up? There's too many questions
Speaker 1: for the fourth quarterback off the board makes sense. Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: we talked about if you're gonna take him Tyler Tyler Huntley.
Speaker 1: I like that play up. Tyler Hontley is the way
Speaker 1: to go. Okay, Brian, your love the player, hate the
Speaker 1: ADP quarterback. I alluded to this earlier. I love Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow in reality football, but I hate his ADP and
Speaker 1: fantasy football. This year, it's right around A seventy five,
Speaker 1: which is early seventh round, and he's going off the
Speaker 1: board around quarterback eight. And it has nothing to do
Speaker 1: with the appendex To me, I'm sure he's gonna be
Speaker 1: fine Week one. I love what the Bengals did by
Speaker 1: bolstering their offensive line a lot. I'm just not taking
Speaker 1: a non mobile quarterback. And I say non mobile. He's athletic,
Speaker 1: but they don't design runs for Joe Burrow. They don't
Speaker 1: want him blowing out his knee again in the early
Speaker 1: seventh round. And he's got two great receivers, I know,
Speaker 1: but the position is just way too deep for me.
Speaker 1: Give me Derek Carr or Kirk Cousins and round many
Speaker 1: later rounds. Then where Burrows going. They are comparable enough
Speaker 1: for me and for what it's worth, and it's worth
Speaker 1: something to me. The Bengals had the easiest strength of
Speaker 1: schedule for quarterbacks last season, going into this year, they
Speaker 1: have the toughest strength of schedule for quarterbacks, and it's
Speaker 1: especially brutal in the second half of the season for Burrow.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna dive too deep into the schedule. But
Speaker 1: so if if you do draft Burrow and he gets
Speaker 1: off to a hot start, might be a guy you
Speaker 1: want to sell high on in the early months of
Speaker 1: the season. But I just Burrow is going too early
Speaker 1: for me. I'll wait on the quarterback rather than taking him. Well,
Speaker 1: if you don't like Burrow, it pick what did you say?
Speaker 1: Seventy five? You're for all the same reasons you're not
Speaker 1: gonna like Justin Herbert at thirty seven. Justin who of
Speaker 1: course one of my justinair quarterback three pick thirty seven,
Speaker 1: I'd take exactly. It's a lot of the same with
Speaker 1: Herbert now Herbert doesn't run a little. He's three touchdowns
Speaker 1: a year, three rushing yards a year, you know, so
Speaker 1: it's not like he's totally immobile, but he's certainly not
Speaker 1: a rushing quarterback. And I just can't pay that kind
Speaker 1: of premium price pick thirty seven for a non rushing quarterback,
Speaker 1: and it picked thirty seven. Look at the other players
Speaker 1: that are sitting there. If I want a tight end,
Speaker 1: if I want a difference maker a tight end, I
Speaker 1: can take George Kittle. If I want a massive PPR receiver,
Speaker 1: I can take Deonte Johnson. If I want to have
Speaker 1: a young, potentially uber talented wide receiver, I could take
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddle pick thirty seven. All guys that are gonna
Speaker 1: be there. I can't put a pick thirty seven against
Speaker 1: a quarterback who can't get me rushing yards and rushing
Speaker 1: touchdowns and passing productivity. Let's go to the running back position.
Speaker 1: Matt who is a player you love of but won't
Speaker 1: draft because of his average draft position. I don't hate
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, despite what Twitter thinks right now, but I
Speaker 1: won't draft him at pick number two or at pick
Speaker 1: number one, which a lot of people are saying, yeah,
Speaker 1: draft CMC at pick number one. He's missed twenty three
Speaker 1: games with injury in the last two seasons. He's only
Speaker 1: played ten. Those injuries are September right high ankle sprain,
Speaker 1: November a c joint sprain in his shoulder, December thigh strain,
Speaker 1: September one hamstring strain, November twenty one, left high ankle sprain.
Speaker 1: He's sprained both ankles. Those are recurring injuries. By the way,
Speaker 1: ankles uh in seven games last year, and he played
Speaker 1: seven last year. He only scored twice two touchdowns total.
Speaker 1: Hasn't had a one yard rushing day since Week ten
Speaker 1: of two thousand nineteen. That was two years, nine months,
Speaker 1: and two days ago. The folks that sports injury predictor
Speaker 1: gave him an eight four percent chance of injury where
Speaker 1: he misses at least two quarters this year. I mean,
Speaker 1: the upside is massive. He could be the best fantasy
Speaker 1: player in the league of healthy. But the risk is
Speaker 1: what kills you. Just ask anyone who's drafted, oh, Christian
Speaker 1: McCaffrey in the last two years. Yeah, or the guillotine
Speaker 1: league bid on Christian mccaffy got him, you get cut.
Speaker 1: He's back to free agency, somebody else bids him, they
Speaker 1: get you. Guys have to have the stats about how
Speaker 1: many times Christian McCaffrey was picked up in fab bless
Speaker 1: the old Yeah it was uh yeah, we we did.
Speaker 1: We actually looked at this well the last two years
Speaker 1: we always talked about the most chopped players and McCaffrey
Speaker 1: was like on the list every week, every week, essentially
Speaker 1: every absolutely. We encourage you to check out the Chop podcast.
Speaker 1: By the ways, great, it is great. Thank you very much.
Speaker 1: We we couldn't we agree more. We agree with that
Speaker 1: a lot. We agree more ourselves more all the time.
Speaker 1: Who is Brian You're running back that you love but
Speaker 1: will not draft as of his average draft position. Love
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb, but hate the ADP at twenty six, which
Speaker 1: is an early third round pick at RB fourteen. Now
Speaker 1: that's not really super expensive, but it still feels like
Speaker 1: a trap to me. As a player. Again, he's about
Speaker 1: as elite as they come, but his surrounding circumstances are
Speaker 1: less than ideal. He does have the good offensive line,
Speaker 1: but lots of questions at questions at quarterback right now,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna dive into that too much, but I
Speaker 1: feel like it's gonna be Jacoby Brissette for the majority
Speaker 1: of the season, or maybe Jimmy Garoppolo, which isn't a
Speaker 1: huge upgrade over Brissette in my mind. Um, even if
Speaker 1: Kareem Hunt is traded, Chubb will still be mired in
Speaker 1: a platoon with either with either Deernest Johnson and or
Speaker 1: rookie Jerome Ford. And if NT is traded, it's not like, again,
Speaker 1: he's going to be in the platoon. Chubb is and
Speaker 1: he's just not utilized in the passing game. Just thirty
Speaker 1: six catches over the last two seasons for Chubb. So
Speaker 1: guys I like in that range a little more than Chubb, Um,
Speaker 1: Ezekiel Elliott, James Conner, they just feel like they're in
Speaker 1: line for the more guaranteed touches and Nick Chubb is
Speaker 1: just he's in that time sharing man, I'm taking Chub
Speaker 1: in the third round all day long. I highlighted it
Speaker 1: last week, Brian, you weren't here, but seventeen percent of
Speaker 1: Cleveland's runs last year went for twenty plus yards. One
Speaker 1: in six of their runs went twenty yards or more.
Speaker 1: How many were a lot? Yeah, Well, Chug missed like
Speaker 1: four games and dearness. Johnson looked very good in his
Speaker 1: that apparently Kareem Hunt wants to get out of the ways. Yeah,
Speaker 1: let me out of here, all right. The running back
Speaker 1: I love but hate the average draft position is Javonte
Speaker 1: Williams at pick twenty. Yeah, I mean that's you know,
Speaker 1: that's awfully early. Um, you're paying a workhorse price for
Speaker 1: a time share back. That's the problem with pick twenty.
Speaker 1: At pick twenty, I want somebody. If I'm taking a
Speaker 1: running back and pick twenty, it's got to be it's
Speaker 1: got Alvin Camaro also right in that pick twenty range.
Speaker 1: I want somebody who is a workhorse back. And we
Speaker 1: know Javonte Williams is going to seed half of his
Speaker 1: carries to Melvin Gordon. We talked about it in detail
Speaker 1: last week about Melvin Gordon. Now, sure, if he goes
Speaker 1: down to a freake dirigible accident, william is gonna be great.
Speaker 1: But until that happens, and we think unless Mike Boon
Speaker 1: shows up, um yeah, at that point, I'm going with
Speaker 1: work course back, Sae Kwon Barkley, Zeke, James Conner, somebody
Speaker 1: else that's a dirigible accidents in the Rocky Mountains very dangerous.
Speaker 1: That Pike's peakill sneak right up on you. Yeah, it's sharp.
Speaker 1: By the way, went to Pike's Peak. Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 1: About six weeks ago, drove up to the top. What
Speaker 1: I did not expect. Even though it takes you a
Speaker 1: half hour minutes to drive to the top. You get
Speaker 1: out of the car and you're woozy. Oh yeah, you're like,
Speaker 1: whoa the elevations something. Yeah, that's I did not expectet chart.
Speaker 1: I know, but I didn't think I'd walk out of
Speaker 1: my car and like, have have my knees ready to buckle.
Speaker 1: If you get hurt in the Rockies, you might want
Speaker 1: to be worth going at Red Rocks to see if
Speaker 1: Jesus is there, like you might be able to help
Speaker 1: you out any given show their number people who think
Speaker 1: they're Jesus in the crowd. Let's continue on with players
Speaker 1: we love but hate their average draft position, and let's
Speaker 1: go to the wide receiver position. Matt I got Davante Adams,
Speaker 1: who's going off the board at pick number eleven in
Speaker 1: the first round right now, and this is just a
Speaker 1: huge unknown. There's a switch from Aaron Rodgers to Derek Carr.
Speaker 1: There's a switch from a good offensive line to a
Speaker 1: bad one, to switch from a great running game in
Speaker 1: Green Bay to a suspect one at best in Vegas. Also,
Speaker 1: Hunter Renfro is good enough and probably one of the
Speaker 1: better wide receiver he's ever played. Beside, he demands target share,
Speaker 1: so does Darren Waller when he's healthy. Well, just Josh
Speaker 1: McDaniels call enough pass plays for Adams. Also, Adams turns
Speaker 1: thirty in December. Although he does have a birthday game
Speaker 1: Brian against the Steelers on Christmas Eve, per potential birthday,
Speaker 1: He's got one this year. Uh, he's dealt with injuries
Speaker 1: in each of the last three years. And why not
Speaker 1: take Travis Kelsey, Stefon Diggs, Ceedee Lamb. Those players are
Speaker 1: much more bankable at the end of the first All right, Brian,
Speaker 1: who is the wide receiver you love but will not
Speaker 1: pay his ADP. Love Deebo Samuel, but hate the ADP
Speaker 1: of seven team, which is an early to mid second
Speaker 1: round pick. He's going off the board at wide receivers
Speaker 1: seven now. Debo was certainly a cheap code player last year.
Speaker 1: Like Cooper Cup and Hunter Renfrow, we helped win a
Speaker 1: lot of leagues but I'm not paying that premium price
Speaker 1: tag on deebo uh this preseason. It's just way too
Speaker 1: expensive for me. I don't know if his rushing is sustainable.
Speaker 1: Eight of his fourteen touchdowns came on the ground. Last year.
Speaker 1: He had six receiving touchdowns and eight rushing touchdowns. But okay,
Speaker 1: but the eight rushing touchdowns does feel heavy, but the
Speaker 1: six receiving touchdowns feels light. I could see those two
Speaker 1: swinging evenly the other direction and correcting to still the
Speaker 1: same total. We'll see, I mean, and I like Trey
Speaker 1: Lance not as much as you. But verdicts still out
Speaker 1: on Trey Lance. There's a change at quarterback for San Francisco.
Speaker 1: Debo also got paid this offseason a lot. Yeah. Will
Speaker 1: the motivation be there still, t b D. We'll find
Speaker 1: out coaching staff be motivated to give him all those
Speaker 1: extra touches after they paid him so much. Brandon Aiyuk
Speaker 1: was basically bad last year, but people are back on
Speaker 1: the Ayuk train, and I don't know, and George Kittles
Speaker 1: in the mix. We're gonna talk about him in a second, actually,
Speaker 1: but Devot is way too expensive as an early to
Speaker 1: mid second round pick for me by the way. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we get plenty of things wrong in this show, but
Speaker 1: last preseason, at least some of us on this show,
Speaker 1: we're talking up Deebo Samuel. Uh. My wide receiver I
Speaker 1: love as a receiver but will not draft is Terry
Speaker 1: McLaurin or no, no, no, oh no, going off the
Speaker 1: board at pick forty six. Overall, that's too high for me. Now.
Speaker 1: Granted we've only ever seen him with middling too bad quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: but that's what he's got right now as well. McLaurin
Speaker 1: just hasn't proven to have the juice for upside. Potentially
Speaker 1: does not have the explosive games in him, and even
Speaker 1: the middling games aren't that high. Just not enough upside
Speaker 1: it pick forty six. I I'm looking for a wide
Speaker 1: receiver at pick forty six that can end up being
Speaker 1: a lockwide receiver one most weeks, and I don't think
Speaker 1: that's Terry McLaurin. The quarterback and he's got Let's go
Speaker 1: to the tight end position. Who is the tight end
Speaker 1: that you love but will not pay for the average
Speaker 1: draft position? Matt Brian, can you take your headphones off
Speaker 1: and shut your mic down for a little bit about
Speaker 1: that's Kyle Pitts. Uh. He's going in the early third,
Speaker 1: which means that if you truly want Pits, he probably
Speaker 1: gotta take him in the second. Uh. He's never scored
Speaker 1: an NFL touchdown in the United States of America. His
Speaker 1: only touchdown was in foggy London Town last year. We've
Speaker 1: highlighted that the Falcons have one of the worst offensive
Speaker 1: lines in the league. They're starting a backup quarterback in
Speaker 1: Mario to Or a third round rookie and Desmond Ritter.
Speaker 1: That's a significant downgrade from Matt Ryan. Pitts will mostly
Speaker 1: play wide receiver this year, and the good thing is
Speaker 1: is you probably get wide receiver production out of your
Speaker 1: tight end. That's good. But basically he was the only
Speaker 1: target in town last year, and Drake London is another
Speaker 1: viable option this year. Well, that's good for an offense.
Speaker 1: If I want a part of the Atlanta passing game,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Drake London in the seventh round and
Speaker 1: not Kyle Pitts in the second. And now Drake London
Speaker 1: at tight ends. I don't want any part of the
Speaker 1: Atlanta passing game this year. And now for a rebuttal
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson, Oh say is how often do we say,
Speaker 1: don't focus so much on last year? Right? True? Yeah,
Speaker 1: do not. They're not going to replay last year. Touchdowns
Speaker 1: are flukey and he had over a thousand yards and
Speaker 1: just crazy for that, I Matt, But I still like you.
Speaker 1: That's okay. I'll talk about my guy right now. Like
Speaker 1: your toller. You already up your hand on who your
Speaker 1: guy is. But yeah, it's George Kittle. Uh going off
Speaker 1: fifty third overall? That's uh what late fifth round pick?
Speaker 1: Tight end five? I mean, how do you not love
Speaker 1: George Kittle in the real world? Arguably the best overall
Speaker 1: tight end in the NFL. But that's a problem in
Speaker 1: fantasy football. I don't want my tight end being good overall.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's gonna be used as a blocker. Kittle
Speaker 1: isn't using my lot as a blocker. In fact, more
Speaker 1: than eighty percent of Kittles snaps were taken in line
Speaker 1: last year. And yes, he runs routes on some of
Speaker 1: those scenes. But he he has big games, but he
Speaker 1: has those massive dud games. He's just not consistent enough
Speaker 1: for me to be taken as tight end five in
Speaker 1: the late fifth round. Um, I'd rather take Dallas got
Speaker 1: her a couple of rounds later. Who I talked about
Speaker 1: earlier in the show. And Uh, you said you were
Speaker 1: worried about Darren Waller's injury history. Sure I am a
Speaker 1: little bit too. But George Kittle has not played a
Speaker 1: full season since eighteen, so he's no iron man either,
Speaker 1: and that's because he's such a violent football there. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's if us a pass catching specialist, I'd pay that price.
Speaker 1: But uh, I'm at on Kittle at tight end five.
Speaker 1: Kittles the single most dangerous tight end after the catch,
Speaker 1: He's you know, he's probably the most dangerous tight end
Speaker 1: you can draft. The range of outcomes with him is
Speaker 1: is as high and low as any of them. That's fair.
Speaker 1: There is danger there. My tight end that player I
Speaker 1: love but will not draft is Darren Waller. We've already
Speaker 1: referred to him a couple of times. We're picking on Brian.
Speaker 1: We really are all Brian's guys here. Uh, he's gone
Speaker 1: off the board. His tight end five it picked forty
Speaker 1: seven overall, just the one really good season for Darren
Speaker 1: Waller and one okay season. Significant increasing competition for targets
Speaker 1: now that Hunter Renfroze broken out. Davante Adams has been added.
Speaker 1: Matt already talked about this is being a terrible offensive line.
Speaker 1: He maybe have asked to stay back and block more
Speaker 1: often because of that, and I could get tight ends
Speaker 1: I like almost as much as Waller like Dalton Schultz
Speaker 1: and Hockinson and Arts and got her twenty thirty or
Speaker 1: forty picks later. So I'm not I'm I'm out on
Speaker 1: Darren Waller. That is it for me. So there you go.
Speaker 1: A total of what was that? Twelve players that we
Speaker 1: love but we'll not draft. It's a lot of players. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Final segment of Fantasy Football Weekly coming up next, will
Speaker 1: release this week's sleepers and discuss some of your most
Speaker 1: important best ball in Guillotine League strategies. Stay tuned. Final
Speaker 1: segment Fantasy Football Weekly Paul Charchie and Brian Johnson Matt
Speaker 1: Harrison with you in our final segment. Each week we
Speaker 1: release our sleeper of the week, a score around the table,
Speaker 1: beginning with Brian Johnson. Who is your sleeper this week?
Speaker 1: I've got Texans, and we love the Texans on this show.
Speaker 1: I think I'm all right on the text. I like
Speaker 1: it h very contraria Texans wide receiver Nico Collins, who
Speaker 1: I have dubbed Nico Suave going into this season. Uh.
Speaker 1: Collins was a rookie last year, a drafted seven overall
Speaker 1: that was in the third round out of Michigan by Houston.
Speaker 1: He has great size six ft four two and fifteen pounds.
Speaker 1: Started last year on injured reserve but was activated in October.
Speaker 1: He wasn't an immediate starter, but he became one and
Speaker 1: started eight games for Houston, and over his final five
Speaker 1: games when Davis Mills was back as the starter, Collins
Speaker 1: started to pick it up. He averaged eight point five
Speaker 1: PPR points per game with nearly a target share, so
Speaker 1: he really started to come on towards the end of
Speaker 1: the season and go into this year, he is the
Speaker 1: unquestioned starter opposite of Brandon Cooks. Dallas did draft John
Speaker 1: Metchi in the third round, but he will miss the
Speaker 1: entire season after getting diagnosed with leukemia, and Uh, Brandon
Speaker 1: Cooks is to draw, you know, the primary tension of
Speaker 1: the opposing defenses. I think that I like Davis Mills.
Speaker 1: I believe in Davids Mills. I know you do too,
Speaker 1: and I think the running game is gonna be improved
Speaker 1: behind Damian Pierce, and I think Nico Collins could surpass
Speaker 1: a thousand yards and get you six seven touchdowns potentially.
Speaker 1: Matt who is your sleeper? This week we talked about
Speaker 1: how there were seven or eight tight ends that you
Speaker 1: could feel maybe comfortable about this year. That means there's
Speaker 1: four or five teams that are just grasping at straws
Speaker 1: for tight end this year. So I got Hayden Hurst,
Speaker 1: who I think is gonna be all right, and and
Speaker 1: the tight end wasteland. Uh, he's completed four seasons in
Speaker 1: the NFL. Is first two or with the Ravens. Mark
Speaker 1: Andrews beat him out for the top tight end spot,
Speaker 1: but Andrews is great. The next year he was sent
Speaker 1: to Atlanta. He was the top tight end option there.
Speaker 1: Hurst finished as the number twelve tight end that season,
Speaker 1: played a full year, just put up solid numbers all around.
Speaker 1: Then Kyle Pitts showed up and the Falcons line really
Speaker 1: sucked last year, and Hearst was tasked with staying to
Speaker 1: staying in line to key Matt Ryan up right now
Speaker 1: he's in Cincinnati spot where c. J Uzoma just vacated.
Speaker 1: But Uzoma was tasked with staying in on that line
Speaker 1: last year and the Bengals improved their offensive line quite
Speaker 1: a bit. Uh, there's a ton of good targets flanking
Speaker 1: the outside. The middle of the field is gonna be
Speaker 1: just wide open for Hurst to exploit and in the
Speaker 1: waste land. I think you're gonna kind of like a
Speaker 1: guy like Hayden Hurst a lot. I think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be a frequent take a chance on the tied end.
Speaker 1: I like it. It's a nice angle. My favorite Hayden Hurst. Factoy.
Speaker 1: It is just in. He was drafted by the Ravens
Speaker 1: first round, first round overall. Then Baltimore takes Mark Andrews
Speaker 1: a third round in the same drest and we all
Speaker 1: know how that turn. And they drafted him above Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson too because Jackson was the end of the first round.
Speaker 1: And yeah, so they might obviously they liked Hayden first.
Speaker 1: They drafted him, never thinking that Mark Andrews would fall
Speaker 1: as much as he did. And I think that they
Speaker 1: eventually he falls to the third round and they're like, whall,
Speaker 1: you know, we got a second round grade on this guy.
Speaker 1: We're just gonna take him because we should. He's the
Speaker 1: best player available. And you mentioned Isaiah. Likely they don't
Speaker 1: need a tight end, but he probably fell enough him.
Speaker 1: They keep finding tight ends in Baltimore. To Dennis Pitta
Speaker 1: back in the day, I mean, they just keep churning
Speaker 1: out tight ends there. My sleeper this week is Chargers
Speaker 1: wide receiver Josh Palmer. Josh Palmer, who everything clicked December
Speaker 1: twelve forward, so the five games from December twelve forward
Speaker 1: versus before then. His snaps per game before December twelve
Speaker 1: or eighteen that jumped up to forty eight per game,
Speaker 1: roughly triple. His targets went from two per game to
Speaker 1: six per game, and now he's was a reminder Josh
Speaker 1: problem was a rookie last year. He's heading into a
Speaker 1: sophomore year. His yards per game went from fourteen to
Speaker 1: thirty seven, roughly tripling. His touchdowns before and after December
Speaker 1: twelve went from one before December twelve to three in
Speaker 1: the five games after December twelve exactly triple, and his
Speaker 1: Fantasy points per game went from two PPR points to
Speaker 1: seven Fantasy points per game, roughly triple. Palmer is getting
Speaker 1: first team reps in O T A S, in mini
Speaker 1: camp and now in training camp, and he's clearly outpaced
Speaker 1: any contenders for the third receiving job. Yep, it's obviously
Speaker 1: Mike Williams and Keenyan Allin are one, A, one B there.
Speaker 1: But getting the third receiving option for a team with
Speaker 1: an unsettled tight end is not a bad way to
Speaker 1: go in Justin Herbert. You know, we all think Justin
Speaker 1: Herbert City on a really nice season, had one last year,
Speaker 1: having the lock third receiver in his sophomore year, it
Speaker 1: feels like a great spot to be. You can get
Speaker 1: Josh Palmer right now in the fifteen round of your draft.
Speaker 1: That is my sleeper this week. All right, guys, let's
Speaker 1: talk strategies for some of the unique ways to play,
Speaker 1: beginning Guillotine League near and dear to my heart of course, Brian,
Speaker 1: you want to start the discussion on draft strategies for
Speaker 1: guilloteen leagues. Yeah, guillote leagues standard leagues are eighteen team leagues,
Speaker 1: so you gotta be very careful with your your selection
Speaker 1: so you can get eliminated in week one. And really
Speaker 1: the main thing you need to focus on is US
Speaker 1: draft for safety. That pretty much means don't draft a
Speaker 1: guy like Christian McCaffrey, who we mentioned ends up on
Speaker 1: the way for wire every week basically, or has over
Speaker 1: the last two years. You want to draft for safety,
Speaker 1: not for upside. You just don't want to come in
Speaker 1: last place. You're not last your first basically, just not
Speaker 1: last week. Don't get alive. And but that doing that,
Speaker 1: you draft for safety, you don't draft for upside. And
Speaker 1: I don't want to take up this whole segment myself.
Speaker 1: But a couple of other things you don't want to
Speaker 1: do is you don't want to stack players from the
Speaker 1: same team or the same bye week. You want to
Speaker 1: spread that out. And a great tie breaker if you're
Speaker 1: torn between two players is take the guy with the
Speaker 1: later bye week so you don't have to worry about
Speaker 1: bending him earlier on the season. So I'm in two
Speaker 1: Guillotine League drafts right now. I have a Guillotine League
Speaker 1: cheat sheet, by the way over Shock Fantasy. I call
Speaker 1: it the cheating death sheet. Yeah yeah, heads will roll. UM.
Speaker 1: I try to plan my seasons in two different segments.
Speaker 1: Weeks one through five is season number one, Week six
Speaker 1: on is season number two. UM in weeks start in
Speaker 1: week six. In weeks one through five, I just need
Speaker 1: to survive and not finished. Last. So I'm looking for
Speaker 1: great matchups in the first couple of weeks, hopefully avoiding
Speaker 1: some of the stinker matchups. I'm also looking for guys
Speaker 1: who I think you're going to get the heaviest volume
Speaker 1: in the first few weeks. Volumes a huge part of
Speaker 1: consistency that you want to have any GAIA team, And
Speaker 1: so one of the things that I kind of do
Speaker 1: when I make my cheat sheet as I look at
Speaker 1: every team in the NFL, and I say, who is
Speaker 1: going to get touches in Dallas? And I answer Zeke,
Speaker 1: So Zeke is a great pick. Who is going to
Speaker 1: get touches in Arizona. I think it's gonna be James Conner.
Speaker 1: So he's a great pick. So you look at the
Speaker 1: guys who are going to get the most touches, the
Speaker 1: knee jerk reaction. Who's gonna get the most touches? That's
Speaker 1: huge because I'm hoping that I don't have to use
Speaker 1: my fab in the first five weeks. I don't want
Speaker 1: to use any of my fab if possible, in the
Speaker 1: first five weeks. But after that, once we hit week six,
Speaker 1: my roster is gonna start changing on a weekly basis.
Speaker 1: It is so I don't care about the schedule as much.
Speaker 1: I look one to two weeks ahead because it's going
Speaker 1: to change so much. Um. I had a couple of
Speaker 1: bullet points, and you guys can tell me because you guys,
Speaker 1: you guys are guillotine leagues. I'm not guillotine leagues. But
Speaker 1: these are the things I came up with. I never
Speaker 1: carry a second quarterback unless we're down to like the
Speaker 1: last four or five teams agreed I downplay. It's if
Speaker 1: there's one draft strategy I've got is I don't pay
Speaker 1: for quarterbacks in a guillotine league. That's like a last
Speaker 1: round pick. And I only do it if I'm trying
Speaker 1: to block someone else on the quarterback thing in those
Speaker 1: last four to five weeks. If Patrick Mahomes is there
Speaker 1: and I got Josh Allen, yeah I'll take Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: so nobody else can have them. That's kind of how
Speaker 1: I play. I try to bleed the tight end market
Speaker 1: as quickly as possible in the draft because there's so
Speaker 1: few of them. And if you're in an eight teen
Speaker 1: team league and you've got two of the eight tight
Speaker 1: ends that are good, that means huge. That means eleven, twelve,
Speaker 1: teams are playing a really bad tight end that they
Speaker 1: have to play. That is a great point. And think
Speaker 1: of the difference between having one of the five or
Speaker 1: six we said there were seven reliable tight ends versus
Speaker 1: having the most reliable tight end. You're going to war
Speaker 1: with eighteen. Guy off the board is currently David and Joco.
Speaker 1: So you're going to with David and Joco hoping to
Speaker 1: not get cut when David and Joco could easily put
Speaker 1: up a zero catch game. And that's exactly where you
Speaker 1: could be headed. Massive differential at tight end. Um, how
Speaker 1: about this one. I think you only need two wide receivers.
Speaker 1: You get two good wide receivers, and I think that's it.
Speaker 1: If you look for high target players, high the high ceiling,
Speaker 1: low floor plays like Tyler Lockett will never make your lineup.
Speaker 1: I try to get play. I try to get two
Speaker 1: really good wide receivers, and then I try to fill
Speaker 1: up my bench with running backs. Wow, for those that
Speaker 1: don't know, you only only have to start to mandatory
Speaker 1: wide receivers and two running backs. Then there's two X
Speaker 1: spots along with quarterback tea. So if I can get
Speaker 1: a tight end as a good flex because I got
Speaker 1: two good tight ends, and I have three running backs
Speaker 1: playing in any given week. I'm feeling really good, and
Speaker 1: I don't think I need the extra wide receivers, especially
Speaker 1: ones that just aren't as safe. I'll mention one of
Speaker 1: the Guillotine League draft tip. There's almost no rookie who's
Speaker 1: so safe that you can plan for that guy to
Speaker 1: start the first not in season, not in the first
Speaker 1: couple of its. Justin Jefferson, who leads the NFL all
Speaker 1: time in yards gained in the first two years of
Speaker 1: a career, he didn't start for the first month of
Speaker 1: his career. He couldn't beat out he was b C.
Speaker 1: Johnson was starting in place of him. It takes time
Speaker 1: for almost all rookies, even ones as good as Justin Jefferson.
Speaker 1: And you don't want to be the guy who's counting
Speaker 1: on those rookies in your Guillotine League. Let those players go.
Speaker 1: I got one more thing Brian said. Brian said that
Speaker 1: you don't like to start two guys from the same team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: how do you guys feel about starting a tandem backfield?
Speaker 1: For instance, if you have Aaron Jones and a J. Dillon.
Speaker 1: I think both of those guys get enough touches in
Speaker 1: a game where you feel pretty strongly about using Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones as you're running back and using A J. Dillon
Speaker 1: as your flex or. In my case, I have a
Speaker 1: I have a league where I just drafted both of
Speaker 1: the Patriots running backs. There's just a few backfields and
Speaker 1: I'll be comfortable doing that that's one of them. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean again, early weeks, you just need eight to
Speaker 1: ten points per player, and you can get that out
Speaker 1: of Aaron Jones and yeah AJ Dillon. But that's why
Speaker 1: I'm looking for the touches I'm looking. I'm looking for
Speaker 1: those touches overall. If I can get a guy who
Speaker 1: I know is going to get twelve to fifteen touches,
Speaker 1: now I'm pretty solid about that, get them getting in
Speaker 1: my line up, particularly earlier in the seat, when there's
Speaker 1: eighteen teams in the league, A J. Dillon is a starter.
Speaker 1: And by week six the strategy all changes. It does,
Speaker 1: it does change. By week six to six teams have
Speaker 1: been knocked out. Now we're in a twelve team league
Speaker 1: and you know now you've you've already added you know
Speaker 1: who knows James Honor to your team. You know your
Speaker 1: roster is all different six weeks in. It's part of
Speaker 1: the beauty of the Guillotine League. You can play at
Speaker 1: Guillotine leagues dot com. I Chee Cheet is available for
Speaker 1: free there, as well Leagues dot Com. Lots of different
Speaker 1: ways to play super Chop high Stakes, the Zombie mode
Speaker 1: of variation, and your traditional Guillotine League supposed for private
Speaker 1: leagues with friends exactly like it's traditional, like it's been
Speaker 1: around for ever, exactly exactly. Hey, three whole seasons of
Speaker 1: Guillotine Leagues. Brian Matt, great job today. Thank you. If
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