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Speaker 1: preseason edition, Show number three, Show number three, Show number three.
Speaker 1: There it is. Get got it out of the way,
Speaker 1: Got got it out of the way. Here's the thing.
Speaker 1: Nobody would have known that you made it happen. I
Speaker 1: was not I was not going to say anything. Brian
Speaker 1: three bus that is Scott Fish, Brian Johnson. Uh, guys,
Speaker 1: we're getting into the We're getting into the heart of things.
Speaker 1: Most of us are in a bunch of drafts that
Speaker 1: are happening right now. People are getting all psyched for
Speaker 1: the drafts and they're coming shortly. We have preseason action.
Speaker 1: There's so much to talk about. Over the course of
Speaker 1: the show, we're gonna bring you up to speed on
Speaker 1: the important things from all thirty two teams from around
Speaker 1: the league that have happened in the last week since
Speaker 1: our last show. We're gonna talk about what to do
Speaker 1: with this year's stink hole to hate that name, I
Speaker 1: still can we think of something else? You come up
Speaker 1: with a better name, we'll use it all right, And
Speaker 1: that is this year, what is the spot you don't
Speaker 1: want to be in? Where's the spot where all the
Speaker 1: sure thing talent runs dry and you could go any
Speaker 1: direction after that? We'll we'll talk about where that is
Speaker 1: and what we think you should do with that pick.
Speaker 1: I will say the spot is fitting for the name
Speaker 1: stinkhole this year. The little that the baby, a little
Speaker 1: two on the notes, maybe a little two on the notes. Uh.
Speaker 1: And and without doubt, the most popular single topic that
Speaker 1: we do every preseason, the reach around. Yes, this is
Speaker 1: where we give you a player for him every round
Speaker 1: of the draft that we would reach a round early
Speaker 1: to select the reach around coming up later in this show.
Speaker 1: The innuendos are a plenty today, they really are. It's
Speaker 1: all it's all over the place. Let's start. Let's go
Speaker 1: through our thirty two teams. So let's talk about what's
Speaker 1: happening around the league, beginning Scott with the Carolina Panthers.
Speaker 1: Yeah not not, no whole lot to report here over
Speaker 1: the last week or so, but really, just that Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield still has the inside check on that starting job.
Speaker 1: Looks like it's going to be his as as expected.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's any any big surprises there, uh, Bryant.
Speaker 1: Let's go over to the Las Vegas Raiders. In Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: DeMarcus Robinson was cut this week and he was projected
Speaker 1: to be the wide receiver three UH. As of right now,
Speaker 1: the front runners are now Mac Hollins, Keelan Cole Tyrann Johnson,
Speaker 1: and UH sleeper Indica sleeper Dylan Stoner. Uh. These are
Speaker 1: some names just to keep in mind for deeper leagues
Speaker 1: or if you're gonna complete your Raiders stack in best Ball.
Speaker 1: But demark Robinson was supposed to be a starting wide
Speaker 1: receiver and you made it sounds all those are defensive
Speaker 1: backs that brings up. Only Patrick Mahomes could make to
Speaker 1: Marcus Robinson viable or get quasi viable or even noteworthy. Well,
Speaker 1: he's certainly not viable now. In Green Bay, Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: says it's possible that both Aaron Jones and A J.
Speaker 1: Dillon could catch fifty plus passes season, and with the
Speaker 1: team's dearth of talent at wide receiver and tight end,
Speaker 1: it is possible. It is possible it would move A. J.
Speaker 1: Dillon into a safe flex role with RB one upside
Speaker 1: if anything happened to Jones for sure, um I will
Speaker 1: note that as a side note here, Robert Tonyan and
Speaker 1: Elkin Jenkins returned to non contact practices. They're trying to
Speaker 1: rehab from a c l S from last year, so
Speaker 1: they're they're getting a little bit closer and hopefully a
Speaker 1: week one availability for them. But this a J Dillon, Uh, this,
Speaker 1: you know, skips further, the skips further life. D aj
Speaker 1: Dillon is somebody you can draft and actually start. Let's
Speaker 1: go to the Washington Commanders. Scott. Yes, a bunch of
Speaker 1: a bunch of news on where which team that which team?
Speaker 1: You know, first string, third string, second string, that players
Speaker 1: are playing with Gibson practicing with a punt team and
Speaker 1: special teams, and third string offense, Sam Howell getting first
Speaker 1: string reps over Carson Wentz at the end of the week.
Speaker 1: It feels like watching they're trying to send a lot
Speaker 1: of messages, don't you think, or it's a whole lot
Speaker 1: of riverboat rod and smoke screening. But yes, but the
Speaker 1: drumbeat for Brian Robinson game worked with the first team
Speaker 1: continues to grow. Yeah, I think at this point it's
Speaker 1: draft Antonio Gibson at your own peril, Buffalo Bills Brian
Speaker 1: The only player worth talking about, how to Bill's camp,
Speaker 1: remains to be Zach Moss, who is shining like a
Speaker 1: shooting star. Says he feels healthy, unlike last season when
Speaker 1: he was dealing with the after effects of ankle surgery
Speaker 1: he had he had following the season. Really, this backfield
Speaker 1: has become a mess now in Buffalo. It kind of
Speaker 1: was before, but with singletary, James Cook, who they drafted
Speaker 1: in the second round, and Zack Moss looks to be
Speaker 1: a factor or will be a factor this season. So
Speaker 1: it's kind of a backfield on fading. But there's really
Speaker 1: not a ton of news out of there. But Zack
Speaker 1: Moss not a dead cat yet. I'm not that I'm
Speaker 1: not into James Cook. I'm I'm really nervous about him.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing him going in dynasty raps very early. You
Speaker 1: don't like a guy that got seven point three touches
Speaker 1: per game in college, That's well, okay to that point.
Speaker 1: I will go to the Texans, where another underutilized college back,
Speaker 1: Damian Pierce, continues to look great getting forced team reps.
Speaker 1: He looks so good, and I'm sorry to have brought
Speaker 1: up his name now and I believe five straight Fantasy
Speaker 1: Football weeklies, but Damian Pierce just it continues to look great.
Speaker 1: And then in the preseason game last week, averaging ten
Speaker 1: yards per carry, five carries, forty nine yards. Yeah, extrapolate
Speaker 1: that that's a good season. Would be very good season
Speaker 1: underutilized in UH in college, but hopefully will not be
Speaker 1: the case in Houston. Let's go to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Scott, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it's more continued good news on Chris Godwin
Speaker 1: that he's he's practicing with the full team now, went
Speaker 1: from seven seven on sevens and now prexing with the elevens.
Speaker 1: It's looking more and more likely that he might actually
Speaker 1: be ready for the start of the season. The only
Speaker 1: concern is they're they're a potential super Bowl team. Maybe
Speaker 1: they don't rush him back, but he's looking like he
Speaker 1: could be a value in that sixth rounder. So where
Speaker 1: he's going now? So let's talk about the team now
Speaker 1: saying they don't know when Tom Brady is going to
Speaker 1: come back, or they won't commit to a date. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they don't know when he'll be done filming the mass singer.
Speaker 1: So that's the theory. I was gonna say, can Godwin
Speaker 1: play quarterback? Because he might need to. I'm I'm we're
Speaker 1: seeing Bucks slide, all Bucks sliding in fantasy he drafts.
Speaker 1: Let let me give you another one from train cramp. There.
Speaker 1: Ji Bernard injured his ankle, so that just he was
Speaker 1: already a cut candidate. That's not gonna help. So are
Speaker 1: you buying on the dip for these Buccaneers? You know,
Speaker 1: in probability, tom Brady is going to come back. Improbability,
Speaker 1: tom Brady is going to be a good quarterback. So
Speaker 1: are you buying on the dip? Mike Evans slide? You
Speaker 1: know every all Bucket years, So are you buying on
Speaker 1: the dip on the receivers? Yes, I'm still buying Evans.
Speaker 1: I'm buying Godwin slide. I'm even I'm even like in
Speaker 1: Julio Jones really late. I like I like Russell Gauge
Speaker 1: the most personally because he's become the cheapest. Both of
Speaker 1: them are really really late. Yeah, I'll do it. Brian
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns if it was no, no, no, nothing to
Speaker 1: talk about the Cleveland Deshaun Watson suspended eleven games first
Speaker 1: eligible to return in week thirteen at Houston. Oh what
Speaker 1: a coincidence. I we'll talk more about that later. What
Speaker 1: we'll talk about now is what do the Browns do
Speaker 1: at quarterback in the meantime and gonna stay with Jacoby Brissette.
Speaker 1: Did they signed Jimmy Garoppolo? I think would be a
Speaker 1: big mistake because what's he gonna do for you? He's
Speaker 1: like a lateral move from Brissette. So yeah, it's an
Speaker 1: expensive and an expensive move not worth it. So it
Speaker 1: looks like guess the Jacoby Brissette show. For the majority
Speaker 1: of the season. For the Indianapolis Colt's Alert Dynasty and
Speaker 1: Empire Leaguers, rookie tight end Gelanni Woods has looked very good,
Speaker 1: especially as a receiver less so as a blocker. You
Speaker 1: kind of knew that was coming. You need to follow
Speaker 1: this guy. He is six foot seven, two hundred fifty
Speaker 1: pounds and he ran a four three nine dash at
Speaker 1: the combine. He is an athletic freak and he has
Speaker 1: now caught a touchdown in his first game. He's improved
Speaker 1: his training camps performances which started pretty rocky. Man, if
Speaker 1: they can, if they can mold Gilanni Woods into the
Speaker 1: player that he could become. I mean, if he was,
Speaker 1: there were the parallel And I'm not saying he's this guy.
Speaker 1: This guy's going to Hall of Fame. He's not Antonio Gates.
Speaker 1: But that's the kind of upside that you get in
Speaker 1: Gilanni Woods. If everything works out perfectly. Did he play basketball?
Speaker 1: He did? I bet he did very good. Exactly, Let's
Speaker 1: go to Detroit, Scott. Yeah. Over on the Detroit Lions.
Speaker 1: DJ Shark has been impressing. They're expecting good things from him.
Speaker 1: But I I like, I like the fact DeAndre Swift
Speaker 1: came outside. He wants to go for a thousand resting
Speaker 1: yards and thousand receiving yards, which works every time. I mean,
Speaker 1: David Johnson, Andre Ellington, C J. Spiller, Oh, everybody who
Speaker 1: says that they do it, that's it's a lock. Now.
Speaker 1: I remember clearly when Adrian Peterson said he wanted to
Speaker 1: run for three thousand yards and he did it. Oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the hunter. The failure rate on that is actually,
Speaker 1: let's go to the New York Jets. Brian Well, it
Speaker 1: sure looked like Zach Wilson blew out his knee in
Speaker 1: last week's preseason game, but he had a minor procedure
Speaker 1: this week. He he won't be ready for Week one,
Speaker 1: but he should only miss a game or two. So
Speaker 1: Joe Flacco will be your Week one harder against the
Speaker 1: Baltimore Ravens, which is now revenge game we're looking at
Speaker 1: in Week one with Russell Wilson against the Seahawks. That's
Speaker 1: not really a revenge game though. But then Baker Mayfield
Speaker 1: hosting the Browns. They said he's looked on fire in camp,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, throw some gatorade on him, because it's
Speaker 1: not good to be on fire. Yeah, there's no way
Speaker 1: he's deposited. The only way he was on fire. Garrett Wilson,
Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing, basically said he threw a better ball in
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson, So good luck getting some targets when Zach
Speaker 1: Wilson comes back. Garrett Wilson, he kind of ruined that
Speaker 1: Wilson to Wilson connection. We should mention uh McKay Beckton
Speaker 1: out for the year, big big loss for that offensive.
Speaker 1: We did mention that last week. That's that's a lingering
Speaker 1: problem for the Jets for sure. In Kansas City, Let's
Speaker 1: stop talking about Isaiah Pacheco for just a few minutes. Here.
Speaker 1: Lots of Tamault with the Cheaps wide receivers over the
Speaker 1: past week. Juju Smith Schuster injured his knee. He's gonna
Speaker 1: miss a week or two. Nicole Hardman had a groin injury.
Speaker 1: His timetable is pretty short. Uh. Sky More has turned
Speaker 1: head to heads in practice, but played merrily with the
Speaker 1: second team in the first preseason game, for whatever that
Speaker 1: may mean. And Mark has Valdes Scantling started with the
Speaker 1: first team in the first preseason game and nobody's drafting
Speaker 1: MVS at all, and he might be the best value
Speaker 1: chief that you can draft as potentially a week at
Speaker 1: least an early season starter, especially if sky Moore is
Speaker 1: not quite ready to go yet. So something to consider
Speaker 1: for MVS. Let's go to the Seattle Seahawks. Scott Sure
Speaker 1: a couple of injuries and illnesses here. Drew Lock has COVID,
Speaker 1: which he's going to miss the next preseason game, which
Speaker 1: is bad news if he wants to unsee Gino Smith
Speaker 1: missed the Thursday night game. I thought Gino actually looked
Speaker 1: pretty has actually looked pretty goods Yeah. Uh. Ken Walker
Speaker 1: also a hernia issue that was originally called minor but
Speaker 1: now is having surgery. Hope is for week one, but honestly,
Speaker 1: Pete Pets Sunshine, like they always they're always is overly optimistic,
Speaker 1: and the fact that they thought it was a minor
Speaker 1: injury initially tells me maybe he's not going to be
Speaker 1: ready for the start of the season. People are gonna
Speaker 1: laugh at this, but don't. Travis Homer has looked very good,
Speaker 1: good last year, very good in the two preseason games,
Speaker 1: including a jaw dropping play on Thursday Night. That's Travis
Speaker 1: Homer may muck up the works here more than people realize.
Speaker 1: Rashad Penny is coming off a groin injury as well,
Speaker 1: So like the optimism around ken Walker, I take I'd
Speaker 1: take that with like a giant, dear lick sized brick
Speaker 1: of salt instead of a grain of salt. I don't
Speaker 1: think he's gonna be ready. I'm avoiding all of the backfie,
Speaker 1: the whole backfield. I think. I think Travis Homer is
Speaker 1: like a sixteenth round pick and I can see that.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Denver Broncos. In a recent press conference,
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon was quoted as saying they want Vante to
Speaker 1: be the guy speaking of Javonte Williams, of course, But
Speaker 1: the moral of this story is Janti Williams won't be
Speaker 1: the guy. He will be the six pcent guy. It's
Speaker 1: still going you be a split backfield in Denver for
Speaker 1: the most part. So I don't read into that quote
Speaker 1: too much from Melvin Gordon. He's not going anywhere and
Speaker 1: he's gonna be. Melvin Gordon does not get to decide
Speaker 1: these things, um, but it is you know, we want,
Speaker 1: we want all the positive reinforcement we can possibly get.
Speaker 1: That Javonte Williams might be the seventy percent guy. Does
Speaker 1: anything changes if you can get like, let's reafform that
Speaker 1: as confirmation bias. It really is confirmation bias for sure. Uh.
Speaker 1: Next up, Rams, Both Cam Akers and Darryl Henderson are
Speaker 1: resting soft tissue injuries and they're missing time. Their timetables
Speaker 1: a return are unclear since the team is not divulge
Speaker 1: any information about the injuries whatsoever. But you want to
Speaker 1: keep an eye on Akers and Henderson, So right now
Speaker 1: running with the first team or Kiren Williams and Jake Funk,
Speaker 1: those are your first team starters right now for the Rams.
Speaker 1: You know, Williams. Just don't don't forget a J. Rose.
Speaker 1: A J. Rose running with the second and third team.
Speaker 1: It's uh, there's another backfield I'm not touching. Maybe they're
Speaker 1: gonna if I got some Jersey's line around somewhere. When
Speaker 1: we come back, we'll go through the remainder of the
Speaker 1: thirty two teams as we give you training camp news.
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Speaker 1: uh Ezekiel Elliott, Keenan Allen, Aaron Rodgers, you could. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: your superstar team. Just don't finish last. Okay, let's get
Speaker 1: back to our reports from training camps preseasons from around
Speaker 1: the league. I believe we left off on Scott and
Speaker 1: you were on the Philadelphia Eagles. Sure, just a couple
Speaker 1: of injuries to be aware of, but I don't think
Speaker 1: they're gonna affect week one. Mile Sanders dealing with a
Speaker 1: hamstring issue that they're being cautious with, Tavonta Smith missing
Speaker 1: some practices with a growing issue, Boston Scott dealing with
Speaker 1: a concussion once again, I don't think any of them
Speaker 1: are gonna drift into Week one for you though. Alright,
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, Bryant Um, no major news at a Dolphins
Speaker 1: camp recently, but I've made an observation. So Tyreek Hill
Speaker 1: is a consensus top ten wide receiver, right, yeah, roughly ten,
Speaker 1: right on that edge, Jalen Waddle top twenty wide receiver.
Speaker 1: So why is to hovering around quarterback seventeen eighteen that
Speaker 1: that doesn't add up today? Bridgewater from two years ago,
Speaker 1: you guys discussed, Yeah, go from there. Well, I mean
Speaker 1: you can. You can make that case for Kirk Cousins, right,
Speaker 1: justin Jefferson going off the board at one or two
Speaker 1: at wide receiver and Adam Finland's going off the board
Speaker 1: at like eighteen. And the only other team that has
Speaker 1: two wide wide receivers in that top twenty is the Banks.
Speaker 1: But Burrow is So just think about that on draft
Speaker 1: day out there everyone, there's value to be had at
Speaker 1: quarterback later in your draft. In Minnesota, Alexander Madison has
Speaker 1: lost the automatic handcuff assumption. That is gone. And if
Speaker 1: you don't realize that that's gone now, then it's at
Speaker 1: your own your own peril. He was outplayed in the
Speaker 1: preseason game by both can Ai Wang Woo and rookie
Speaker 1: fifth rounder Thy Chandler. And you really need to watch
Speaker 1: that kid. You know. Madison played the first two series
Speaker 1: and you know, presumably granted against better competition, but he
Speaker 1: got dramatically outplayed in the first preseason game by wog
Speaker 1: Woo and Chandler, who both jumped off the screen, especially
Speaker 1: Chandler who looked incredibly fast and elusive. This tie Chandler
Speaker 1: kid looks pretty legit. He was at North Carolina last year,
Speaker 1: so he followed the footsteps of Javonte Williams, Michael Carter
Speaker 1: and that I'm telling you that kid looks It's only
Speaker 1: one preseason game, nobody's having a bust of Canton, but
Speaker 1: he looks really promising and he Both of those players
Speaker 1: are a threat to Alexander Madison. You know, the rumors
Speaker 1: going back to Madison, he was in the finally of
Speaker 1: his rookie deal. We had already heard a lot of
Speaker 1: rumors in Minnesota that he would not get re upped,
Speaker 1: that that whole timeline could be accelerating right now. He
Speaker 1: could be on the roster bubble right and they're not
Speaker 1: gonna ki four running backs. They're not gonna they probably
Speaker 1: don't keep four, and he doesn't special. I think they
Speaker 1: may try to trade Alexander Madison, which ultimately, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe finds himself in a better spot than he
Speaker 1: is right now. But don't automatically if you're looking for
Speaker 1: that handcuffed, don't automatically handcuffed Madison. In fact, if your
Speaker 1: draft cook, I would I would not take any handcuff
Speaker 1: right now. By the way, I like that, you've used
Speaker 1: the word peril twice in this show. Now we are
Speaker 1: imperiling our listeners with such great information. Dallas Cowboys, Scott,
Speaker 1: the Cowboys claimed to be completely good with their wide
Speaker 1: receivers despite Gallop, you know, still hurting. He is practicing
Speaker 1: some out but he may still start the season on pup.
Speaker 1: Uh James Washington now two to three months. Doesn't seem
Speaker 1: like they want to add anyone, any veterans anything. They
Speaker 1: think they're good to go. I think you're probably right. Uh.
Speaker 1: Total targets, Scott, just quick to it. Total targets for
Speaker 1: let's start with Ceedee Lamp one hundred and thirty one. Okay,
Speaker 1: total targets for Dalton Schultz hundred twelve. I think that's
Speaker 1: a lot. I think you're way light on Lamb. That's
Speaker 1: what I think too. That's why they play the game though.
Speaker 1: We'll see doing the Patriots Brian chart your pants are
Speaker 1: about to come flying off because we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: your boy, Johnny Smith. According to Patriots beat writer Evan Lazar,
Speaker 1: the Pats are going to put Smith in as many
Speaker 1: situations as they can to feature his skills as a
Speaker 1: ball carrier. They're feeding him the ball in these practices.
Speaker 1: So are you back in on? Well, okay, technically I
Speaker 1: was never off John Hu Smith, but I had to
Speaker 1: be quiet because the team was under utilizing his many divers.
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz had a hundred and four targets last year
Speaker 1: and Cooper's gone hundred and twelve. Isn't that ridiculous? No,
Speaker 1: we think you're light. Oh no, we think you're Light's
Speaker 1: gonna say, yeah, No, I have him in the same
Speaker 1: range as last Yeah, I think he goes Okay, he
Speaker 1: goes up from last year. Okay, yeah, I had him
Speaker 1: up just a little so John Wu I mean, he
Speaker 1: brings a ridiculous skill set to the field and they
Speaker 1: never utilized it last year. And we've heard all these
Speaker 1: reports like from training camp, we're gonna use Johnny Smith's more.
Speaker 1: They're paying him a ton of money. At this point,
Speaker 1: I think everybody just needs to see it before we
Speaker 1: can believe it. I'm with you. Uh. He virtually goes
Speaker 1: undrafted in every draft I've done, but he might be
Speaker 1: worth a last round pick. Well, we'll find out. Steelers.
Speaker 1: Arguably the biggest story the entire preseason is the emergence
Speaker 1: of rookie receiver George Pickens making head turning catches in
Speaker 1: mini camp, training camp, priest season games. He's um, He's
Speaker 1: looked great, and he's getting extra run. With Deante Johnson
Speaker 1: and Chase Claypool dealing with some minor injuries here, this
Speaker 1: is very likely. I think he's he's one of the
Speaker 1: three starting receivers at the start of the season. I
Speaker 1: don't think he's. I think he's a week one, full
Speaker 1: rotation guy. Once again, Chase Claypool was dead on way
Speaker 1: it was said he was one of the top three
Speaker 1: wide receivers. He didn't mean the NFL. He met on
Speaker 1: his team, the third wide receiver on that team. He
Speaker 1: is the third wide receiver on that team. Yes, I
Speaker 1: believe that's correct. Let's go to the New York Giants, Scott.
Speaker 1: The Giants keep talking up a huge Barkley workload, which
Speaker 1: is interesting and really of note considering he becomes an
Speaker 1: unrestricted free agent after the year. Maybe we're looking at
Speaker 1: a DeMarco Murray type situation for this final year with
Speaker 1: the Giants. Wouldn't that be nice? You know, people can
Speaker 1: will remember from what about now six seven years ago,
Speaker 1: where the where the Dallas Cowboys just ground up DeMarco
Speaker 1: Murray in the last year of his rookie deal, let
Speaker 1: him go in free agency after that and he was
Speaker 1: never the same back could be the same thing. I've
Speaker 1: been taking Barkley in the first round. Now. One of
Speaker 1: my peacock offs was he'll be RB one. So one
Speaker 1: of the many reasons. Yeah, I think they give him
Speaker 1: easily fifty opportunity. Alright, we're happy, We're happy Barkley on
Speaker 1: this show. All Right, let's go to the Tennessee Titans. Brian,
Speaker 1: all Right. Last week with Tennessee it was Traylon Brooks bad.
Speaker 1: This week it's Traylon Brooks good again. I guess he's
Speaker 1: been making some nice plays and joint practices with the Bucks.
Speaker 1: Is ADP has fallen recently? Maybe a good opportunity to
Speaker 1: buy the dip on Traylon Brooks. Everyone was out on
Speaker 1: him last week, but people slowly getting backing on him.
Speaker 1: Keep an eye on rookie Kyle Phillips. Yeah, I mean
Speaker 1: he's been he's been running. He's been running with the ones,
Speaker 1: and not just that, I mean watching his plays. He
Speaker 1: is dusting people. Yea. His route running is good, It's
Speaker 1: really good. And Kyle Phillips, the pathway to playing time
Speaker 1: is there, right um. Traylon Burk's has been slow to
Speaker 1: start the season. Nick Westbrook at is not exactly a
Speaker 1: show stopper, and Robert Woods is trying to come back
Speaker 1: from an a c L. So Kyle Phillips where Scott,
Speaker 1: You're more plugged into dynasty leagues than I am. You know,
Speaker 1: Kyle Phillips was easily fourth round pick, like in fourth
Speaker 1: round dart throw, in a lot of dynasty leagues. I
Speaker 1: just see it moving up. I'm with you on that,
Speaker 1: basically what we've seen so far. Al right back to me.
Speaker 1: Next team up is the forty Niners for those looking
Speaker 1: long term, speaking of like fourth round rookies in a
Speaker 1: dynasty league. Niners rookie wide receiver Danny Gray, it's look
Speaker 1: great in practice. Vikings coaches used the term uncoverable in
Speaker 1: joint practices. This week. He caught a bomb from Trey
Speaker 1: Lance in last week's preseason game, and another one down
Speaker 1: the right sideline against the Minnesota in the joint practices
Speaker 1: this week. He's a third rounder from s m U
Speaker 1: Danny Gray. And since you probably don't know very much
Speaker 1: about Danny Gray, here's a little bit. Here's a blackground background. Right.
Speaker 1: He's he's very fast, he's a playmaker, he tracks the ball,
Speaker 1: instinctive runner after the catch, and known for his big,
Speaker 1: big plays in college. He needs polish, he needs ball skills,
Speaker 1: and starting his career behind Deebo and I, he'll learned
Speaker 1: from the bench, and maybe he learns that polishing those
Speaker 1: ball skills and he might be somebody that um that
Speaker 1: starts demanding a certain amount of playing time at some point,
Speaker 1: and if anything were to happen to a starter, I
Speaker 1: might find his way in. It's it's got to be
Speaker 1: that it feels like just there's not enough targets to
Speaker 1: go around there in a Trey Lance led offense with
Speaker 1: that many weapons already. That's why I think it is
Speaker 1: a name to keep in Danny Gray. It's you know, I,
Speaker 1: like I said, fourth round Dynasty League kind of level.
Speaker 1: Danny Gray. The Atlanta Falcon Scott Drake London's knee injury
Speaker 1: not considered serious. Both Mariota, Mariotta and Ritter have looked good,
Speaker 1: but given what the team might do this year, I
Speaker 1: would expect Ritter, who does look pro ready, to get
Speaker 1: some shots later in the season, but mostly Uh. Tyler
Speaker 1: l Gear, who I play in a fantasy league with
Speaker 1: you love dropping those in. I think it's funny for
Speaker 1: the listeners. I don't know, maybe it's not. Um. He
Speaker 1: drafted himself as his RB two in that league inside
Speaker 1: Info right there. I don't get that anywhere else, Yes,
Speaker 1: So I'd keep it eye on that situation. He's got
Speaker 1: big faith in himself to be a fantasy producer. Sincinnati
Speaker 1: Bengals Brian Joe Burrow has resumed practicing following his appen
Speaker 1: Deck to Me. Came back a little sooner than expected,
Speaker 1: but we all expected him ready for Week one, but
Speaker 1: he is good to go. Bengals fans are happy, as
Speaker 1: are his fantasy managers. In New Orleans, Jameis Winston's dealing
Speaker 1: with a foot injury on top of his recovery from
Speaker 1: last year's a c L, which is not an ideal
Speaker 1: way to get reacclimated to your offense. Uh, Michael Thomas
Speaker 1: is on track to start Week one, so that's some
Speaker 1: good news there. Adam Schefter tweeted this week that Alvin
Speaker 1: Kamara may not miss any time following his Super Bowl altercation.
Speaker 1: Not this here anyway, and that's another guy by the
Speaker 1: dep He's falling into the late second round, early third
Speaker 1: round for Alvin Kamara. Okay, I'm I'm in. I mean,
Speaker 1: if there weren't for this suspension issue, he'd be going
Speaker 1: what top of the second round? Yeah, yeah, probably probably
Speaker 1: so yeah, second round. I got a more before right now.
Speaker 1: Okay overall overall, Wow, he's not I'm assuming I'm under
Speaker 1: the assumption he's not gonna miss any games unless he
Speaker 1: gets injured. But yeah, that's where I'm at. Yeah. Arizona Cardinals,
Speaker 1: Scott by the way, on the Lgar thing, I just
Speaker 1: feel like he's close to the situation and he knows
Speaker 1: the player really well. That's all it is. Uh, you
Speaker 1: get me a Kyle Pitts game Warne Jockstrap, you guys close.
Speaker 1: I will shoot that in the comments trade off. That's right. Also,
Speaker 1: I would appreciate that. Okay, Arizona Cardinals, not much here,
Speaker 1: Zach Ertz has been out with a cafe injury for
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks now, and he's still sitting. But
Speaker 1: he's expected to be fine, and they want to make
Speaker 1: Rondel Moore a big part of that offense, which is
Speaker 1: I still find interesting. He'll be he'll be fine for
Speaker 1: the six weeks, and I'm skeptic. I am too. I
Speaker 1: am too. Once Hopkins gets back, I don't feel like
Speaker 1: there's gonna be enough for him. Do players wear jockstraps anymore?
Speaker 1: I mean, isn't this like from left over from I
Speaker 1: will ask where's a jockstrap? Right? Well? Definitely not cups?
Speaker 1: If you even wanted to buy one, where would you go?
Speaker 1: Can you get one at Shields? I mean, where did
Speaker 1: it go for a jockstrap these days? I don't even know.
Speaker 1: I don't. I've never seen one for sale my entire life.
Speaker 1: Dick Sporting Goods, Maybe I don't. I don't know. You
Speaker 1: would think. Jacksonville Jaguars, no one expected James Robinson to
Speaker 1: be ready by week one coming off the Achilles here,
Speaker 1: but he's been ramping up his activity in practice and
Speaker 1: now coach head coach Doug Peterson expects him to be
Speaker 1: ready for a week one. So pump the brakes a
Speaker 1: little bit on Travis E. T N and even Snoop
Speaker 1: Connor because if Robinson comes back, he's going to be involved.
Speaker 1: I not gonna dominate the touches, but just another backfield
Speaker 1: that could just be a mess this season. Um, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take the other side of that. I'm sure
Speaker 1: you can come. You can be healthy enough to play.
Speaker 1: That doesn't mean you're effective, and that is what gets
Speaker 1: players coming off the achilles. You know, Marlon Mack as
Speaker 1: a recent example. It's you know, it's just just because
Speaker 1: you can play, doesn't mean you're very good off the Achilles.
Speaker 1: I don't trust James Robinson. Nothing to do with him.
Speaker 1: I have zero percent ownership across all my leagues over here,
Speaker 1: all right, Baltimore. J K. Dobbins came off the publist
Speaker 1: trending in the right direction to start the season, but
Speaker 1: he's still only doing individual non contact drills at this time.
Speaker 1: Dobbins is not going to play in any preseason games,
Speaker 1: and John Harbaugh has refused to say if he will
Speaker 1: or will not be ready for Week one, and maybe
Speaker 1: he still doesn't know at this stage if he will
Speaker 1: or not be ready for week one. Um, so drafters
Speaker 1: are gonna have to take a certain leap of faith
Speaker 1: on Dobbins that will be ready for you know, close
Speaker 1: or close to ready at the beginning of the year,
Speaker 1: Tyler Batty in your later rounds. Maybe well, that and
Speaker 1: that could be your handcuff right there, it doesn't appear
Speaker 1: to be. It looks like Gus Edwards is far enough
Speaker 1: behind that he's not the handcuff that you want to
Speaker 1: have at this time. I mean his his injury and
Speaker 1: injury was like a week later and surgery was later too.
Speaker 1: So let's go to the Chicago Bears, your final team, Scott.
Speaker 1: The Bears whole line has looked absolutely read full so
Speaker 1: bad in the first two games against the Chiefs and
Speaker 1: the Seahawks. Uh, let's hope Fields can get out of
Speaker 1: the pocket and grab some rushing yards if you're gonna
Speaker 1: start him. Um. Interesting fact, the Daniel Hunter and Zadarius
Speaker 1: Smith's sack totals went sack total overs for Vegas went
Speaker 1: up to each after No, I'm just kidding, but it
Speaker 1: feels like it could have. That line has like detrocious.
Speaker 1: Be aware, seriously, all offensive players a little bit. Should
Speaker 1: people draft bears at their own peril. Oh boy, oh boy, yes,
Speaker 1: I think I think that's the case. The blinds look
Speaker 1: horrible like mine, you know, like historically bad. So far. Alright,
Speaker 1: final team for you and the final team for this
Speaker 1: segment is the Sandy Goo sorry, Los Angeles Chargers. Another
Speaker 1: slow uh news camp, if you want to put it
Speaker 1: that way. But I found this funny. Keenan Allen, when
Speaker 1: asked about Justin Herbert, said, you see him, he stays
Speaker 1: like an hour and a half after practice, just throwing balls.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. Then Keenan Allen laughs, and when asked why
Speaker 1: he laughed, Alan said, with a smile, Philip never stayed
Speaker 1: after practice to throw the ball, all right, Uh, Isaiah's philler.
Speaker 1: Really the stuff I've seen has looked pretty nondescript to
Speaker 1: this point, and he's not running with the second team.
Speaker 1: I'm a little I've got it. I'm just I'm I've
Speaker 1: got a little bit of concern there. Just just keep,
Speaker 1: you know, just keep watching that developing situation. Who is
Speaker 1: who is is it? Larry Roundtree? Jon's gone right, Joshua
Speaker 1: Joshua josh slash Joshua Kelly is your is? How it's looking? Right?
Speaker 1: Now is the number two? Uh what? Speaking of number two,
Speaker 1: what to do with the worst pick in the first round?
Speaker 1: Tell you what that's going to be in just a moment.
Speaker 1: Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchi and Brian Johnson
Speaker 1: and Scott Fish with you. Every year, the draft has
Speaker 1: got this one spot in it where all the shut
Speaker 1: thing guys that everybody wants are gone, and then you're
Speaker 1: the next one up. We call that the Scott hates
Speaker 1: that you got. Until you come up with a better name,
Speaker 1: we're gonna call it the stink Come on, listeners, you
Speaker 1: got one right, all right? Yeah? Give it to us
Speaker 1: about the rock slot. That's really not better. I don't
Speaker 1: know that that is any better. In fact, so the
Speaker 1: question us year now Traditionally, having we've had this segment
Speaker 1: on the show for years and years. Traditionally it's sitting
Speaker 1: somewhere at like pick five, pick six, pick eight. This year,
Speaker 1: the stinkhole is picked two because there is an obvious
Speaker 1: pick at one in most league formats. We're gonna talk.
Speaker 1: We're gonna talk through different formats in a minute, Jonathan Taylor,
Speaker 1: and after that you can make a case for about
Speaker 1: six or seven different players and the player you would
Speaker 1: have picked it two may very well be available at
Speaker 1: pick six or pick seven or pick eight. So there's
Speaker 1: a ton of variation that comes in beginning immediately start
Speaker 1: a draft at pick number two. Let's talk about what
Speaker 1: to do if you've got picked two in a variety
Speaker 1: of different formats. I want to start a most common format,
Speaker 1: which is point per reception. So let's talk that through first.
Speaker 1: Then we'll talk about non PPR, and then we'll talk
Speaker 1: about super flex Some people may not even know what's
Speaker 1: super flexes. Will explain that too, But so in a
Speaker 1: p PR draft, point per reception Scott Fish, Yep, what
Speaker 1: are you doing at pick number two? Yeah, I'm still
Speaker 1: a super injury agnostic guy. My lean is to go
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, just because even if he took away like
Speaker 1: all his touchdowns from twenty nineteen, he still scored more
Speaker 1: points than Jonathan Taylor did last year. Um, when he's
Speaker 1: fully healthy. Uh, he's a complete stud. However, I'm going
Speaker 1: to go a slightly different route. I'm going to Austin Ekeler.
Speaker 1: The guy scored twenty touchdowns last year. He stayed me
Speaker 1: mostly healthy. Um, and as we've just mentioned, no one
Speaker 1: is really stepping up to take that role. He wants
Speaker 1: someone to take that RB two role from him, and
Speaker 1: nobody is. And what we have as a team that's
Speaker 1: going to be in a lot of shootouts in that
Speaker 1: division and they're playing on turf endomes a lot this season.
Speaker 1: I think Austin. I think Austin Ekeler is the guy
Speaker 1: I wanted number two. I worry a little bit about
Speaker 1: last year being the big breakout of touches and usage
Speaker 1: and if that continues in year two. But the big
Speaker 1: problem is goal line. He had never gotten goal line
Speaker 1: carries in his career basically unless year he exploded with them.
Speaker 1: So that helps Brian. It's pick number two. Jonathan Taylor's gone,
Speaker 1: what are you doing? I'm gonna go McCaffrey. I have
Speaker 1: the same concerns as everyone will Lea stay healthy. Nobody knows,
Speaker 1: but you can say that about any player really. I
Speaker 1: know he's had like the soft tissue issues, but going
Speaker 1: on the assumption he stays healthy. Uh. No one compares
Speaker 1: to Christian McCaffrey's a combined rusher and pass catcher. Over
Speaker 1: his last one healthy games, he has finished as a
Speaker 1: top two running back and nearly half of them. A
Speaker 1: top ridiculous, top six back in nearly nine um since
Speaker 1: he has averaged eight point one targets per game. If
Speaker 1: you put that over a single season, that's the best
Speaker 1: mark of any running back since Matt Forte. So he's
Speaker 1: past catching floor, is incredibly safe, gives him massive upside.
Speaker 1: A pretty good old line in Carolina. I know that
Speaker 1: there's it's not it's a at offense. It's it's bad, mediocre,
Speaker 1: it's fine. I'm still going McAffrey. I do not put
Speaker 1: risk into my the top of my draft. I put
Speaker 1: my risk into the middle and bottom parts of my draft,
Speaker 1: not the top. I want sure things. And that's why
Speaker 1: with pick number two Jonathan Taylor off the board, I'm
Speaker 1: taking Justin Jefferson, the safest pick in this draft. He
Speaker 1: is the all time leading receiver through the first two
Speaker 1: years of his career. He is verifiably awesome. We don't
Speaker 1: even have to talk about how good he is. And
Speaker 1: his quarterback never misses a game and has a thirty
Speaker 1: one game touchdown streak, longest in the NFL. The Vikings
Speaker 1: stone age offense is getting a breath of fresh air
Speaker 1: with Kevin O'Connell who may very well do for Justin
Speaker 1: Jefferson what he did for Cooper Cup last year and
Speaker 1: beyond what he did for Cup. And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a better season than Cooper Cup at
Speaker 1: last week, cause it's almost impossible. But you know, Cup
Speaker 1: plays almost entirely from the slot. Jefferson can play from
Speaker 1: all over the field. He's gonna Kevin O'Connell can scheme
Speaker 1: him from the entire field. I love Justin Jefferson and
Speaker 1: I believe he is the right pick at the second
Speaker 1: selection overall. Yeah, I changed my answer. If not only that,
Speaker 1: but I thought to myself, I've done about four drafts
Speaker 1: in last two weeks, and twice I had four real,
Speaker 1: real drafts, and twice had the number two, and I
Speaker 1: did take just I'm thinking of myself. I talked myself
Speaker 1: into Eckler, and I'm like, but that's not what I did.
Speaker 1: So we'll go with your actions, not your words. Right,
Speaker 1: If we say all the time with NFL teams don't
Speaker 1: believe what they say, believe what they do, I think
Speaker 1: it's a bit of homerism that came in play, all right,
Speaker 1: So now let's do the same exercise. But in a
Speaker 1: non PPR league, so no points per reception, which tills
Speaker 1: the field towards touchdowns scoring running backs mostly so but that,
Speaker 1: but do you say whoever you want? All right, Scott
Speaker 1: in a non PPR league, what are you doing at
Speaker 1: pick two overall? And again it's Jonathan Taylor is going.
Speaker 1: So I really really was. I was thinking, you know,
Speaker 1: we're probably gonna see double digit touchdowns out of mcaffree.
Speaker 1: We're probably gonna see it again. Najie Harris is his
Speaker 1: touchdowns were low last year, but he got a lot
Speaker 1: of total yards and he's gonnaet three hundred plus touches.
Speaker 1: I still shifted back to Derrick Henry. I don't care.
Speaker 1: They're gonna they're gonna work him. Tell the reels fall
Speaker 1: off him. He even came back from that ankle injury,
Speaker 1: which is a little flukey, and he came back from
Speaker 1: it and still, you know, put up a tony yards,
Speaker 1: a decent amount of yards. I'm going back to Derrick Henry.
Speaker 1: I'm going back to the well. Can I tell you
Speaker 1: the hesitation I've got on Henry right now? I've hesitation
Speaker 1: on everyone past one. I actually have a hesitation on
Speaker 1: John than a little bit sometimes. Tennessee's got the twenty
Speaker 1: seventh ranked offensive line by profoo Ball Focus for this season.
Speaker 1: You know, we remember that the heyday when this offensive
Speaker 1: line was awesome and it was opening up these massive
Speaker 1: holes for Derrick Henry to rumble through. And when he
Speaker 1: gets that head of speed, he's so good. But what
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry can't do is run laterally, and he can't
Speaker 1: make his own holes like some runners can, you know,
Speaker 1: find their own yards. He can't. And I worry this
Speaker 1: offensive line is just not going to deliver the lanes
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry needs, and they're gonna get pushed around and
Speaker 1: people are gonna bounce Derrick Henry out laterally. And that's
Speaker 1: not where That's not where his speed is. I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's my worry on Derrick Henry has still get so
Speaker 1: many touches. He will get a lot of touches just that.
Speaker 1: And that's actually what Derrick Henry has been a ton
Speaker 1: of touch, has a bunch, don't do a lot, but
Speaker 1: then he breaks them. Brian, it's picked number two and
Speaker 1: a non PPR league, no points per reception. Who are
Speaker 1: you taking now? I wanted to use this as my
Speaker 1: answer for the PPR league. But I didn't want to
Speaker 1: use the same guy twice. That's not That's so it's
Speaker 1: at kwant Barkley, who last week I predicted will finish
Speaker 1: as the RB one this year, which he did in
Speaker 1: his rookie year. So I'm basically saying he's even returned
Speaker 1: to his form in his rookie year in eighteen. He's
Speaker 1: still very young, turned twenty five years old in February
Speaker 1: out two years. Removed from the torny a c L
Speaker 1: he suffered in Week one, by the way, so well
Speaker 1: removed from that. Um, he's not injury prone that people
Speaker 1: A lot of people say he is. The ankle injury
Speaker 1: suffered last year was very flukey, stepped on a teammates
Speaker 1: foot while he was running down field. Uh. He has
Speaker 1: no setbacks with the knee so far in camp. He
Speaker 1: looks great in shape. I know where everyone does, but
Speaker 1: Barkley especially does. The Giants invested heavily in their old
Speaker 1: line in the draft. They have a new head coach,
Speaker 1: former offensive coordinator from the Bills, Brian Dable, and as
Speaker 1: Scott mentioned in the previous segment or one of the
Speaker 1: previous segments, Barkley is in his final year of his contract,
Speaker 1: and there's no guarantee he gets resigned, and the Giants
Speaker 1: might give him that DeMarco Murray treatment, run him into
Speaker 1: the ground and then move on afterwards. So I see
Speaker 1: a big year for se Kwon Barkley, So I would
Speaker 1: take him second in a non PPR league. Alright for me,
Speaker 1: non PPR, which, by the way, not the same as
Speaker 1: t D. Only people hear that you say non PPR
Speaker 1: and like, I'm gonna give an unpopular answer. But again
Speaker 1: this shows where I just my philosophy. We're splitting hairs
Speaker 1: with so many of these things. Um, my philosophy tends
Speaker 1: towards safety in these early rounds. I like Joe Mixon
Speaker 1: at pick two in a non PPR league. You know,
Speaker 1: he doesn't catch the ball like Austin Ekeler and Naji
Speaker 1: Harris or Christian McCaffrey or Sae Kwon Barkley. Um, he
Speaker 1: doesn't have the injury history that Christian McCaffrey has and
Speaker 1: Derrick Henry. He's been mostly healthy each of the last
Speaker 1: two years. And Mixon's got a lot of really nice advantages.
Speaker 1: Defenses have to defend the and that's the other thing
Speaker 1: they added. Alex Carris, Alex Cappa, sorry, Ted Carriss, Alex Cappa, L. L.
Speaker 1: Collins Profo Ball Focus ranks, the Cincinnati offensive line is
Speaker 1: the eighth best for the upcoming season. And get this.
Speaker 1: In the I believe it was fifteen games that Joe
Speaker 1: Mixon played last year. He got every single running back
Speaker 1: carry inside the five yard line, all of them. And
Speaker 1: there was only one running back carry the entire rest
Speaker 1: of the year, including the games he missed. So you
Speaker 1: get all of those touchdowns that we you know, this
Speaker 1: is a we're looking for touchdowns primarily out of pickto
Speaker 1: in an on PPR league. Okay, last, what to do
Speaker 1: with pick number two if you are in a super
Speaker 1: flex Now, so the way super flex works, and we
Speaker 1: love super flex around here. We think this is the
Speaker 1: preferred way to play if you're in a ten or
Speaker 1: twelve team league, um, and maybe even a fourteen team league.
Speaker 1: You can flex a quarterback a second quarterback in super
Speaker 1: flex and puts a big priority on the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: And in this scenario, Josh Allen has gone first overall,
Speaker 1: not Jonathan Taylor. Now who you take in Scott, it's
Speaker 1: justin Herbert given given his division and the amount of
Speaker 1: dome slash canopy games because so far as a canopy,
Speaker 1: but they're they're you know, protected from the weather. I
Speaker 1: feel the Chargers are not just primed to be in
Speaker 1: several shootouts, but the offense is loaded her it has
Speaker 1: you know, Alum Williams, Palmer's coming on Eckler out of
Speaker 1: the backfield. Even Everett and Parham are very athletically freakish
Speaker 1: tight ends. Yeah, exactly exactly, So Um. With thirteen games
Speaker 1: on turf and domes, I'm like, that's a lot of
Speaker 1: potential shootout for for the Chargers, all right. So justin
Speaker 1: Herbert in a Super FLEXI pick two, Brian, You've got
Speaker 1: the second pick. Josh Allen's gone. Who are you taking?
Speaker 1: It's got to be a quarterback obviously in my mind
Speaker 1: of mobile ones. So everyone's saying, oh, Lamar Jackson wrong,
Speaker 1: I'm going Jalen Hurts second overall in a Super Flex league.
Speaker 1: Rushing floor makes him so incredibly safe, gives him massive upside.
Speaker 1: You gotta love the trade for a j Brown outside
Speaker 1: of Davante Smith last year, who was a rookie. These
Speaker 1: or his wide receivers Jalen reagor, greg Ward Quez Watkins
Speaker 1: Travis Fulgum, John Hyower, j j Arthago Whiteside, and Deante Burnett,
Speaker 1: who combined to drop eight touchdown passes for Jalen Hurts, who,
Speaker 1: by the way, according to Fantasy Pros, has the third ediest,
Speaker 1: third easiest strength of schedule for quarterback, arguably the top
Speaker 1: offensive line in the game. He's gonna have a monster here.
Speaker 1: I think he has a better year than Lamar Jackson
Speaker 1: did in all Right, Um, if I in a super
Speaker 1: flex and Josh Allen is gone and I've got picked two,
Speaker 1: I'm going to Jonathan Taylor. And here's why. Positional differentiator.
Speaker 1: He's way way ahead of anybody else at his position.
Speaker 1: And when I look even through super flex drafts on
Speaker 1: my way back at pick number two, I'm looking at
Speaker 1: Derek Carr, Kirk Cousins. Maybe Russell Wilson falls and can
Speaker 1: go Jonathan Taylor, Russell Wilson, Jonathan Taylor, Kirk Cousins. I'm
Speaker 1: cool with that. I'm I'm ready to go. I've got
Speaker 1: a massive positional differentiator, um as opposed to going say
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert or Mahomes or Borough or whoever you might
Speaker 1: have taken and pick number two with the running back
Speaker 1: that's left there. That's that's how I would go it.
Speaker 1: That's just me. That is you guys are when we
Speaker 1: come back, three Tough Questions, I will pepper my co host,
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Speaker 1: Com and Scott Fish of the Scott Fish Bowl, among
Speaker 1: other things. And this show Fantasy Football Weekly, there's a
Speaker 1: game we call three Tough Questions. I will pepper my
Speaker 1: co host, with the previously mentioned three tough questions. Tough
Speaker 1: question number one. We now know that Deshaun Watson can
Speaker 1: return as early as week thirteen. Is he a top
Speaker 1: twenty fantasy quarterback in redraft leagues? Scott No, uh, he
Speaker 1: finished multiple times as a top six quarterback, like on
Speaker 1: the season when he when he was playing fall seasons, etcetera.
Speaker 1: But you're you're missing out on twelve weeks of your
Speaker 1: fourteen week fantasy season. And when when he comes back,
Speaker 1: he gets you know, a top top five D, bottom
Speaker 1: D five D and then three middle of the pack
Speaker 1: but rising defenses. Um, I just don't see it. You're
Speaker 1: you're missing out almost the entire season. And the Best
Speaker 1: Ball data bros, like the people doing data work on
Speaker 1: Best Ball, say he is undraftable because that and though
Speaker 1: in that type of style you get his best weeks.
Speaker 1: You don't even have to worry about when to start
Speaker 1: him with the defenses. You get his best weeks. And
Speaker 1: they even they say he's undraftable in one quarterback leagues,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't put him in my top twenty at this point,
Speaker 1: all right, Brian, Is Deshaun Watson a top twenty fantasy
Speaker 1: quarterback in redraft leagues? Yeah? I'm with Scott. And that's
Speaker 1: a big, big note for me um and for those
Speaker 1: who don't aware. While he's suspended, he's not practicing with
Speaker 1: the team, he's sitting at home, he's practicing on his
Speaker 1: own so when he comes back, he's going to be
Speaker 1: I think, and I could be wrong with somebody correct me.
Speaker 1: I believe now they've updated the suspension rules that you
Speaker 1: can come back like halfway through your suspension. Yeah, there's
Speaker 1: there's there's a there's a little gap. Yeah. And I
Speaker 1: think the thinking was, and it's actually pretty sound, is
Speaker 1: you know, these kids get in trouble when they're away
Speaker 1: from the team, so they you suspend them and they're
Speaker 1: you're away from the team, and the safest best place
Speaker 1: for them to not get into trouble again is when
Speaker 1: they're with the team. So I think that's why they've
Speaker 1: they've changed the rules. But that may not change my
Speaker 1: mistake there. It's not changing my answer. And Scott mentioned
Speaker 1: he's got a couple of decent matchups. He's the week
Speaker 1: thirteen one against the Texans looks good on paper. Then
Speaker 1: in week seventeen he has the Commanders, another good matchup.
Speaker 1: But in between those from weeks fourteen, fifteen, and sixteen
Speaker 1: a's Cincinnati, Baltimore and New Orleans. Those are all like
Speaker 1: bottom five past defenses that you want to face as
Speaker 1: an opposing quarterback. So bottom five that I want to face,
Speaker 1: you want to face. I do not want fantasy projections, nonant,
Speaker 1: don't want to don't want to face them. Okay, alright,
Speaker 1: good secondaries should be is DeShawn Watson the top twenty
Speaker 1: fantasy quarterback and redraft leagues? Absolutely not? You are you've
Speaker 1: you you guys gave the right answer, but I think
Speaker 1: not the same rationale that I've got. How good is
Speaker 1: he going to be two years removed from play? I
Speaker 1: know how long is it going to take him to
Speaker 1: knock that rustoff? And and what about this? By the way,
Speaker 1: this Brown's roster outside of the quarterback position is really
Speaker 1: really good, and the defense is very good. They've got
Speaker 1: stars all over this defense. They've got stars on the offense,
Speaker 1: Marie Cooper, Nick Chubb maybe or maybe not, Kareem Hunt,
Speaker 1: one of the great offensive lines in football. What if
Speaker 1: they roll into Week thirteen and they're like, you know,
Speaker 1: they're they're nine win team. You know what if they're
Speaker 1: nine and three, are they gonna automatically upset the apple cart?
Speaker 1: I've never an automatic What if Jacobe Prisette just isn't
Speaker 1: losing games for a team that's winning other ways? Do
Speaker 1: they automatically try to work into Shaun Watson. Maybe not,
Speaker 1: and nobody's talking about that possibility, but I think that
Speaker 1: I think there's a chance that that ends up being
Speaker 1: the case. Tough question number two, What is the appropriate
Speaker 1: level of concern over Matthew Stafford's elbow injury? None? Some?
Speaker 1: Or a bowl loosening level of eggsistential dread. We're overdue
Speaker 1: for one of those, Brian. Uh, there's no way the
Speaker 1: answer can be none here, But I'm not. I'm not
Speaker 1: poving my pants over Stafford's elbow just yet. It's just
Speaker 1: some for me. He hasn't been shut down in preseason.
Speaker 1: He's been throwing uh a lot in scrimmages this week.
Speaker 1: He's looked good. The Rams will monitor his work with
Speaker 1: throughout throughout the season and the pain, but there's certainly
Speaker 1: some concern. You don't want a kind of a rare
Speaker 1: injury for a quarterback to be happening to your quarterback,
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford. Okay, Scott is the appropriate What is the
Speaker 1: appropriate level of concern for Matthew Stafford's elbow injury? None? Some?
Speaker 1: Or blowed? Okay, So for those who don't know this,
Speaker 1: at the elbow injuries started around Week ten or so,
Speaker 1: last year. He played through it week eleven on last year,
Speaker 1: and he averaged two eight yards and two point four
Speaker 1: touchdowns per game with this injury. Um, however, his interceptions
Speaker 1: and fumbles he had, he had twelve picks and six
Speaker 1: fumbles in that stretch compared to one just one fumble
Speaker 1: and only uh looks like four picks before that, so
Speaker 1: barely holding out of the ball became an issue for him.
Speaker 1: But uh, as far as just outside of that, it
Speaker 1: is a little bit concerning that it's still an issue now.
Speaker 1: They they've been cautious and easy with him. I think
Speaker 1: he's just going to have to play through it. But
Speaker 1: so it's just some because he's got more turnovers with it,
Speaker 1: it's a full year, he's getting older and he's still
Speaker 1: dealing with it. But I'm not just because he played
Speaker 1: so well with it last year. It can't be blowed.
Speaker 1: So it's some. It's the correct answer for the appropriate
Speaker 1: level of concern over Matthew Stafford's elbow injury is some.
Speaker 1: I don't like rolling into a season with last year's
Speaker 1: injury still and is it going to get better in
Speaker 1: October November when we're games into this season. Here is
Speaker 1: the more concerning part of that. He shut it down
Speaker 1: himself for like months on end after the season, until
Speaker 1: you know, otis and stuff came up. He shut him
Speaker 1: down self. It's still not good. It's still not good.
Speaker 1: So many times and players choose a non surgical route
Speaker 1: for these things, it doesn't end up fixing the problem.
Speaker 1: And if he's going to have a reduced practice load
Speaker 1: to mitigate this elbow injury, well, I mean at some
Speaker 1: point practice counselor why are we doing it? I mean
Speaker 1: it can't help to not have practice. So there is
Speaker 1: some level of concern here for the Matthew Stafford elbow injury.
Speaker 1: That is crazy though. Six turnovers before the injury and
Speaker 1: eight after the injury. Yeah, if you come playoffs, I suppose.
Speaker 1: Tough question number three, what's the appropriate level of concern
Speaker 1: for Antonio Gibson None? Some or a bowel loosening level
Speaker 1: of existential dread? Scott, I am convinced you put this
Speaker 1: one in just so we would have a blowed player finally,
Speaker 1: our first blowed of the year, because this this is
Speaker 1: full out bobble loosening level of extended dread. In fact,
Speaker 1: I made a trade this week with the Gibson owner
Speaker 1: just because he was so you know, bobble Lucien, I
Speaker 1: guess so you brought on Gibson, you took him. I
Speaker 1: traded a running back to him because he was so
Speaker 1: afraid of Gibson. Alright, which y'all should do out there,
Speaker 1: because the drumbeat for Brian Robinson has become really hard
Speaker 1: to ignore. And we know what mckissic is in this offense.
Speaker 1: He takes all the passing work, and they went out
Speaker 1: and stole him back from Buffalo when he was gonna
Speaker 1: go to Buffalo because they must have told him we
Speaker 1: got a role for you in this offense to bring
Speaker 1: him back. Um. We we've mentioned how he's Gibson. Antonio
Speaker 1: Gibson is practicing with a punt team and special teams
Speaker 1: and third stringers. I feel like he's still going to
Speaker 1: have a role in this offense, but he is not
Speaker 1: going to be the ten plus touchdown guy we've seen
Speaker 1: for two years with a ton of touches. Brian, what
Speaker 1: is the appropriate level of concern Fantonio Gibson, Are you
Speaker 1: in full blown blowed? This is the most blowed I've
Speaker 1: ever in my entire life. Antonio Gibson you gotta be
Speaker 1: big time. He's been fumbling all preseason in practice. In
Speaker 1: the first preseason game, he led running backs and lost fumbles.
Speaker 1: Last year in the regular season, as Scott said, he's
Speaker 1: running with the reserves. He's returning kicks. I heard he
Speaker 1: might even be parking cars a training camp. Yeah. I
Speaker 1: haven't seen an ADP like this tumble over a month
Speaker 1: over month in the long long time. He's gone from
Speaker 1: like a third round pick. Now he's going. I've seen
Speaker 1: him go to the ninth rounds. I've been seen him
Speaker 1: six and seventh, this last later recently because people everyone's
Speaker 1: blowed wheret what did you mount? Blowed more? I mean
Speaker 1: the the Washington blowed you meant? I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of there's a lot of national parks
Speaker 1: and you know monuments that we can go with here. Right,
Speaker 1: you're a video game guy who remember load Runner, load
Speaker 1: Runner Runner? How do you know the load Runner? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I was born. I wish I was I wish I
Speaker 1: didn't know what load runs. Trust We'll just throw all
Speaker 1: these players and blowed Canyon. But the answer is blowed.
Speaker 1: About Antonio Gibson's appropriate level of concern, he did not
Speaker 1: get better as expected. Last year, we all, you know,
Speaker 1: we we had a really nice rookie season. We thought
Speaker 1: he'd expand on that last season. Didn't happen. He was
Speaker 1: already yielding receptions to j D McKissick. Now it looks
Speaker 1: like he's going to yield at least goal lines to
Speaker 1: Brian Robinson and maybe more. And then there's the big clincher.
Speaker 1: And this's what you really have to look for. It's
Speaker 1: the fumbling. The six lost fumbles last year. Lost a
Speaker 1: fumble in the preseason game, the first preseason game. Listen,
Speaker 1: the fumbling will put him on the bench. That's you
Speaker 1: have to keep an eye out for more fumbling in
Speaker 1: even practices in the preseason games, because that could be
Speaker 1: the thing that pounds Nay into Antonio Gibson's proverbial coffin.
Speaker 1: And none of us mentioned this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: bad team, especially offensively. I mean, we were talking about
Speaker 1: Sam Howell might serve cars. This is the starting quarterback.
Speaker 1: It's it's not gonna be a very run friend, is
Speaker 1: this gonna be? Is watching going to be the team
Speaker 1: that scores the fewest points in the NFL? One of
Speaker 1: They'll be right there, am I not go. Yes, I
Speaker 1: mean I think it's the Bears. It's the Bears in
Speaker 1: the command this one. Yeah, it's not gonna be the
Speaker 1: Texans because we love the Texans on Davis like the
Speaker 1: Falcons too. Loves a little strong on the fact I
Speaker 1: didn't say love, he might have said, I like the
Speaker 1: When we come back, it's time for the favorite segment
Speaker 1: that we do all preseason. It's the Reach Around. Ten
Speaker 1: rounds of players we would reach a full round ahead
Speaker 1: to get. Who is the player in the second round
Speaker 1: we would take in the first round, the player in
Speaker 1: the tenth round we played take the ninth round. Stay
Speaker 1: tuned for the Reach Around when we returned Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchy and Scott Fish,
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson with you. This is a segment we call
Speaker 1: the reach Around. We're gonna give you ten rounds of
Speaker 1: players that we would reach a round early to select.
Speaker 1: For example, coming up first is players who on average
Speaker 1: go in the second round, but we would select in
Speaker 1: the first round. So these are all players we would
Speaker 1: select one round early. It's the second round. Who would
Speaker 1: you would second round or would you take in the
Speaker 1: first round? Scott, Yeah, I'm going with ste Kwon Barkley,
Speaker 1: and but by the time this, by the time you
Speaker 1: listen to this, or if you're listening to right now,
Speaker 1: he might already be in the first round at this point.
Speaker 1: Up he is moving up. I'm still seeing him in
Speaker 1: the second round though, end of the second. All the
Speaker 1: drafts that did are beginning of the second All the
Speaker 1: drafts I did this week. His ankle injury last year
Speaker 1: a little flukey, as we've mentioned, had him in the
Speaker 1: sixty yards per week range. But he's going to get
Speaker 1: all the volume in the world being fullthy, fully healthy
Speaker 1: and in his final year of his contract. We've talked
Speaker 1: about Barkley is your first reach around player, Brian, I
Speaker 1: presume you have the same guy. For the sake of
Speaker 1: the show, I went to him. But I'm certainly on
Speaker 1: board with Barkley in the first I've mentioned this earlier.
Speaker 1: I'm also on board with taking Alvin Kamara in the
Speaker 1: first round. Now, it's not definitive that he's not going
Speaker 1: to miss any time this season, but it sure looks
Speaker 1: like he won't face any sort of suspension until possibly
Speaker 1: next year. Very slim chances that happens this year, and
Speaker 1: Kamara just an absolute beast since his rookie year in
Speaker 1: seen has the most total total touchdowns in the NFL
Speaker 1: and he's fully healthy. H he could easily lead the
Speaker 1: league in total touchdowns this season. So I said it
Speaker 1: before RB four for me right now, So that's a
Speaker 1: first round pick, my reach round player that it's from
Speaker 1: the second round I would take in the first round
Speaker 1: I have in several drafts. Dallas wide receiver C D
Speaker 1: Lamb Marii Cooper has gone, Michael Gallops recovering from an
Speaker 1: a c L Jalen Tolbert's a rookie, James Washington's out
Speaker 1: for two months of the fractured foot. There's basically nobody
Speaker 1: left to catch a pass outside of him and Dalton Sheltz.
Speaker 1: Lamb can lead the league in targets. We alluded to
Speaker 1: this earlier in the show. Well, Brian and I think
Speaker 1: he could get a hundred sixty targets. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: it's giant numbers, quality passer and Dak Prescott, who I
Speaker 1: think it's even better this year. You know, you're removed
Speaker 1: from the ankle injury, and also this ceedee Lamb is
Speaker 1: really good. At some point that counts for a lot too.
Speaker 1: I want my first rounder to be a really good player.
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb counts there couldn't help, but didn't. But you
Speaker 1: didn't mention seem for Hoko. I did not as a
Speaker 1: matter of fact, and I'm not going to Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: let's let's now go to the third round. Which third
Speaker 1: rounder would you take in the second rounder? And to
Speaker 1: mix up the order a little bit, let's start with Brian.
Speaker 1: It's my boy Kyle Pitts, who last week Matt said
Speaker 1: he hated he loved the player, but hated the third round.
Speaker 1: A DP on Kyle Pitts, he as statement I've ever
Speaker 1: heard in my entire life. Second, I apologize to anyone
Speaker 1: who listened to that because it was just beyond words.
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna move on. I'm taking Kyle Pits in
Speaker 1: the second round, and I'll be happy to do so.
Speaker 1: One of three tight ends the top one thousand yards
Speaker 1: last season. By the way, he's a tight end, but
Speaker 1: he plays wide receiver. He is an elite wide receiver
Speaker 1: who is eligible at tight end in absolute cheap code.
Speaker 1: Travis Kelsey Mark Andrews the only the two tight ends
Speaker 1: the top a thousand yards Pitts average more than fifteen
Speaker 1: yards per reception last year. That was more two yards
Speaker 1: more than both Kelsey and andrews Uh. He had thirty
Speaker 1: three contested catches last year, first among all tight ends.
Speaker 1: Virtually unstoppable if you use him correctly, which he was
Speaker 1: not used correctly last year. Saw pissport targets from Matt Ryan.
Speaker 1: That's the only reason he had one touchdown. It was
Speaker 1: totally flukey. I don't want to hear about the one
Speaker 1: touchdown anymore. That does not matter. Sure it does. I'm
Speaker 1: not talking. I'm not drafting. Drafting this year and last year.
Speaker 1: He still paid off at his ADP. By the way,
Speaker 1: even if you reach around on him and Delaney, Walker
Speaker 1: had great success with Marcus Mariotta when Mariotta was starting
Speaker 1: for the Tennessee Titans in six leaned on his tight
Speaker 1: end slash wide receiver hybrid, which Kyle Pitts is. Kyle
Speaker 1: Pitts in the second round. I'm fine with it, all right, Scott.
Speaker 1: I'm going to it's your third round player you would
Speaker 1: take in the second round. I am going with Travis E.
Speaker 1: T n running back for the Jacksonville Jaguars. I'm chalking
Speaker 1: up last year's offense to Irvin Meyer, and I'm walking
Speaker 1: away from it, not at Honestly, it has to be better.
Speaker 1: I watched every game we've talked about on this show,
Speaker 1: me and you charged. We watched a lot. Lawrence was
Speaker 1: not accurate. But I gotta convince myself that that was
Speaker 1: bad preparation due to a bad coaching staff. All that
Speaker 1: stuff was in his head. Um this year, he's got
Speaker 1: his safety valve from college back in Etn who has
Speaker 1: looked mostly great in camp Um Travis at N I
Speaker 1: think has tough ten running back in his range of
Speaker 1: outcomes in PPR. That that's not the only time we're
Speaker 1: gonna drag urban Meyer. That's gonna be recurrent theme I
Speaker 1: think for a while here. My reach round player in
Speaker 1: the third round that I would take in the second
Speaker 1: round is Indianapolis wide receiver Michael Pittman. There are many
Speaker 1: workhorse wide receivers, but this is one of them. Pittman's
Speaker 1: competition for targets are Paris Campbell, rookie Alec Pierce, and
Speaker 1: tight end mo Ali Cox. The Colts didn't make a
Speaker 1: move at wide receiver and free agency because they believe
Speaker 1: they've got their future star wide receiver Michael Pittman. Defenses
Speaker 1: have to respect the run. That's gonna open up some
Speaker 1: downfield opportunities for Pittman. And Pittman post an eleven yards
Speaker 1: season under Carson Wentz, Matt Iron prevents represents significant upside
Speaker 1: for Michael Pittman. And as a reminder, by the way
Speaker 1: and Pittman, Pittman was on pace for phenomenal year last
Speaker 1: year until Wentz caught up with him. Through Week nine
Speaker 1: of last year. Here was Michael Pittman's average game eight targets,
Speaker 1: six catches, seventy three yards, and point six touchdowns per game.
Speaker 1: He would have finished as a top twelve wide receiver
Speaker 1: had that continued without before he got winced into the
Speaker 1: ground into the second half of last year. Michael Pittman, alright,
Speaker 1: let's go to round number four, Scott, who is the
Speaker 1: fourth rounder you had taken the third rounder of the
Speaker 1: reach round. Yeah, this is gonna be Allen Robinson. I've
Speaker 1: talked about this on the other show. I feel like
Speaker 1: we've gone over this a lot. Robert Woods was wide
Speaker 1: receiver thirteen went healthy. O b j was wide receiver
Speaker 1: twelve when he got there. Through the end of the season,
Speaker 1: I feel like Robinson just didn't want to play in Chicago.
Speaker 1: It sounds like he's renewed. He's looking good. I want
Speaker 1: the I want the wide receiver too in that offense,
Speaker 1: and Alan Robinson going in the fourth with top twelve
Speaker 1: or you know, upside to be the twelfth wide receiver,
Speaker 1: the thirteenth wide receiver like those guys were. Man, I'm
Speaker 1: taking that all the eight at that point. All right, Brian,
Speaker 1: who is your fourth round receiver you would take in
Speaker 1: the third round. Yeah, I love a rob but I'll
Speaker 1: give a different answer, and I'm gonna go Ezekiel elliott
Speaker 1: Um who people have forgotten this. He looked very good
Speaker 1: early on last year. In Week one, it was a
Speaker 1: rough outing. He finished his RB forty five, but he
Speaker 1: was facing the Bucks, who had the best grand defense
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Then in Week two through Week six
Speaker 1: he was RB seven, RB one, RB six, RB seven,
Speaker 1: and RB fifteen. In week six when he when he
Speaker 1: got hurt and he played through these injuries lingering knee
Speaker 1: and ankle issues. Uh, he's still averaging five point one
Speaker 1: yards per carry. And it went beyond Zeke to the
Speaker 1: old line had a ton of issues, whether it was
Speaker 1: suspension or injury. Those should all be short up right
Speaker 1: now and offseason reports have been positive for Zeke, and
Speaker 1: again that are positive for everybody. But uh, I think
Speaker 1: Zeke does bounce back big time and I think we'll
Speaker 1: see him. We'll see Tony Pollard on the field a
Speaker 1: ton but as Eke will be active in the passing
Speaker 1: game as well. With their their lack of ask catching
Speaker 1: options in Dallas, so I'd reach for Zeke. Third, my
Speaker 1: reach around player in the fourth that I would take
Speaker 1: in the third is Pittsburgh wide receiver Deonte Johnson. All
Speaker 1: about consistency, uh, And he had the NFL second most
Speaker 1: targets last year, ten per game. And even if that
Speaker 1: drops some, George Pickens looks really good waiting with that
Speaker 1: drops some, He's still sitting on a big, big usage
Speaker 1: season in ESPN scoring. Johnson had no games under ten
Speaker 1: Fantasy points last year. None. Can I make an argument
Speaker 1: that doesn't get thrown out a lot there? Yeah? Please?
Speaker 1: Maybe his a dot and he did so much short
Speaker 1: stuff is because Ben couldn't throw it that far. Maybe
Speaker 1: that goes up. Yeah, that could be given the same
Speaker 1: volume with with a larger a dote. Oh boy, we'd
Speaker 1: like to see a little more downfield passing. Um. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the Steelers quarterback situation is not great, but Sad Trombone
Speaker 1: Sky can in fact throw the ball a few more
Speaker 1: than what we were getting out of the undead court.
Speaker 1: Happy Trump, because we're happy right now about the prospects
Speaker 1: of Deonte Johnson. All right, let's go to the fifth round.
Speaker 1: Who is the fifth rounder you would take in the
Speaker 1: fourth round of our reach around, Brian. I like Houston's
Speaker 1: Brandon Cooks here, who had more top twenty four wide
Speaker 1: receiver finishes last year than Jamar Chase and t Higgins,
Speaker 1: not combined, but as standalone players. UH. Cook's finished fourth
Speaker 1: teenth among wide receivers and targets per game at eight
Speaker 1: point four and that was with Torod Taylor and rookie
Speaker 1: Davis Mills. And we loved Davis Mills here to think
Speaker 1: he takes a big leap in his second year. And
Speaker 1: speaking of games with Davis Mills, Cooke's only played in
Speaker 1: nine full games with Mills last year, but he averaged
Speaker 1: sixteen plus PPR points per game in those UH nine games,
Speaker 1: and that had made him wide receiver twelve across the
Speaker 1: full season. So I think there's a lot of safety
Speaker 1: with Brandon Cooks. He offers a lot of upside too,
Speaker 1: and what should be a much improved offense. Davis Mills
Speaker 1: believer right here, I'm one me too. Yep, yeah, we
Speaker 1: got three in this from three General Mills believers, matching
Speaker 1: tattoos after the show. Wait, you didn't get we were
Speaker 1: going to do that? Lest running out of space on
Speaker 1: my back. I get a lot of back tattoos, but
Speaker 1: I can find some room for David All tramps stamp
Speaker 1: for you everything in that area. All right, let's Scott,
Speaker 1: what is your who is your fifth round player? And
Speaker 1: you would take in the fourth round? You know, this
Speaker 1: one had a couple of guys I liked and talking
Speaker 1: with you in the break like I gotta go back
Speaker 1: to my boy. I gotta go back to my boy Brown.
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I just have to. I love that guy.
Speaker 1: I know that his big his big breakout came with
Speaker 1: you know, Swift and Hockinson injured at points. But just
Speaker 1: last year he was one of my sleepers in the
Speaker 1: preseason because he would stay go early practice. He'd come
Speaker 1: late to stay late to practice, catching hundreds of balls
Speaker 1: from the drug machine. Two is ridiculously focused. I think
Speaker 1: that that that outbreak became what happened because of the
Speaker 1: natural progression of his rookie year and the trust and
Speaker 1: golf he Golf has set that he is his guy.
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna do it again this year. I
Speaker 1: want him on my team again. At this time last year,
Speaker 1: j K Dobbins was going in the second round of drafts. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he really shut up. He was coming off of a
Speaker 1: six yard per carry rookie season in which he shared
Speaker 1: time with Mark Ingram and Gus Edwards and still finished
Speaker 1: as a top fifteen fantasy running back in the second
Speaker 1: half of his rookie year. And as a quick reminder
Speaker 1: on j K dobbins rookie year, the final game of
Speaker 1: his rookie season, which is also, by the way, his
Speaker 1: most recent game. Hundred sixty yards and two touchdowns for
Speaker 1: j K Dobbins now prior to his uh like, like
Speaker 1: I mentioned before, prior to the injury last year, second
Speaker 1: round draft equity RB ten um. Since Greg Roman took
Speaker 1: over as Baltimore's offensive coordinator, Baltimore ranks number one in
Speaker 1: rushing plays and yes, Lamar Jackson accounts for some of that,
Speaker 1: but this is still a deeply run heavy team. Dobbins's
Speaker 1: trending towards being available in week one, but you figure,
Speaker 1: you know, we're not talking about a guillotine league where
Speaker 1: I got a sweat getting knocked out of the league
Speaker 1: in week one, and for most regular most regular leagues, Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe it takes him. Maybe he's eight touches in week one,
Speaker 1: maybe he's twelve touches in week two, maybe he's fourteen
Speaker 1: touches in week three. And now I got J K.
Speaker 1: Dobbins at full speed for the rest of you. Sure,
Speaker 1: all right, let's do one more round then we'll we'll
Speaker 1: take our fur I'll take a break from our reach around.
Speaker 1: Who is the round six player you would take? In
Speaker 1: round number five? Scott? I hate doing this, but I
Speaker 1: just wanted to talk about him, and actually Brian stole
Speaker 1: the thunder. I was going to talk about him earlier.
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts. I hate taking quarterbacks necessarily. I love getting
Speaker 1: guys like Cousins and car and stuff in the double
Speaker 1: digit rounds. But Jalen Hurts has every possible shot at
Speaker 1: being the overall number one quarterback this year. His rushing
Speaker 1: already makes him a top QB in twenty career fall games,
Speaker 1: he's finished as a top twelve quarterbacks seventeen times. That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1: That's what. Now he adds a J. Brown, he gets
Speaker 1: DeVonta Smith on a second year. Now that he knows
Speaker 1: the off he's got one of the better old one
Speaker 1: of the best off top probably a top five old
Speaker 1: line in the NFL. And my stat said the second
Speaker 1: easiest schedule against quarterbacks. Your second you're said, thirties a
Speaker 1: top three easiest schedule against quarterbacks. He could easily be
Speaker 1: QB one And you're getting him in the fifth or
Speaker 1: sixth round, fifth round for the reach round for the
Speaker 1: gambling crowd, great bet for m v P. I loved
Speaker 1: hearing you drop that earlier, and I'm like, oh man,
Speaker 1: that's what I was going to talk about. Yeah, all right, Brian,
Speaker 1: who is your sixth round or you would take in
Speaker 1: the fifth round? I should just kick this to you
Speaker 1: when I say Adam Feeling because this is right up
Speaker 1: your alley. But I would reach for Adam Feeling in
Speaker 1: the fifth Yes, he's thirty two, that's pretty old and
Speaker 1: football terms, but he's healthy now. He should have enough
Speaker 1: gas in the tank for at least one more season.
Speaker 1: At an elite level. Long story short, twenty four touchdowns
Speaker 1: over his last twenty eight games. If he's playing, he's
Speaker 1: likely going to score and those touchdowns game and Mike
Speaker 1: Zimmer's archaic run first scheme. Now he's in this past
Speaker 1: happy past first offense under Kevin O'Connell. So i'd reach
Speaker 1: for adamland. I'm with you on Adam Feeland. I think
Speaker 1: he's the right pick here. Feeland has doesn't touchdown sitting
Speaker 1: in him if he plays the full season. I think
Speaker 1: he does play the full season this year. Well, I
Speaker 1: hope he plays a full season. You can't know. No
Speaker 1: player has a higher conversion rate into touchdowns on passes
Speaker 1: that started inside the ten yard line plays that started
Speaker 1: inside the ten yard line over the last two years
Speaker 1: than Adam Feeling Kirk Cousins trust him implicitly with these
Speaker 1: money throws into the end zone. Cousins, by the way,
Speaker 1: sneaky player too. But Adam thelan is a fantastic reach around.
Speaker 1: We reach around in round six to round five. When
Speaker 1: we come back, we'll give you the rest of our
Speaker 1: reach around players. Fantasy Football Weekly, m final segment Fantasy
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Speaker 1: We are going through the second half of our reach around.
Speaker 1: This is where we identify a player that we would pay,
Speaker 1: we'd take around before they normally go. I believe we
Speaker 1: left off on I think Brian goes first, but I
Speaker 1: could be wrong. Let's go with Brian alright, it was
Speaker 1: round seven, who would you take in around seven players
Speaker 1: you had taken round six? Um, I'm going with another Jaguar.
Speaker 1: Scott had one earlier, and no it's not Dan Arnold Donald,
Speaker 1: it's Christian Kirk though. Um. Last season, Jacksonville wide receivers
Speaker 1: as as a unit, we're top twelve and catches in
Speaker 1: the league. And that was with a rookie quarterback, UH,
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence, who was getting coached by the aforementioned biggest
Speaker 1: nim rod in NFL history, Urban Meyer. So things are
Speaker 1: only looking up for Jacksonville. And Kirk is the queer
Speaker 1: cut wide receiver one there. They paid him that kind
Speaker 1: of money. They're in a with the ball in his
Speaker 1: hands as much as possible. Um, I'll gladly take the
Speaker 1: team's top target at this stage of the draft, even
Speaker 1: if I'm reaching around at Christian Kirk. Okay, Christian kirk
Speaker 1: Um Scott your round seven, reach around into round six. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm going with Ellena's Ard Rodgers. Aaron Rodgers wide receiver
Speaker 1: for the Green Bay Packers. Aaron Rodgers has anointed him
Speaker 1: the wide receiver one on the team. Uh. Future Hall
Speaker 1: of famer is what I hear has. The Rodgers has
Speaker 1: a real history of trusting the guys he's played with
Speaker 1: for years, and he's got a couple of new incomers
Speaker 1: and rookies that'll be playing in that starting lineup. He's
Speaker 1: gonna trust Ellena's ard more than people think and less.
Speaker 1: Art has look good in the spots that he's had
Speaker 1: as a part time starter. Uh full complimented targets. I
Speaker 1: like him here. I also uplay Alanis Art. And let
Speaker 1: me pose this. If Aaron Rodgers is gonna throw thirty
Speaker 1: thirty two thirty four touchdowns, which seems probable for Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers given his track record, regardless of who he's had
Speaker 1: over the course of his career, this would be These
Speaker 1: are low word, These are for sure lower numbers for him.
Speaker 1: How does Almos are not hit eight? I was just
Speaker 1: gonna say, it's not even possible to sounds is almost
Speaker 1: an eight minimum for Liza? It is, It's an eight
Speaker 1: minimum for almost Art. And here you can go get
Speaker 1: him in the We would take him sixth round, one
Speaker 1: round ahead of his normal draft spot. All right, let's
Speaker 1: go to round eight. Who would you take? What eighth round?
Speaker 1: Or would you take in the seventh round? Back to Scott?
Speaker 1: Oh wow, switching up the order? Yeah, little back and forth.
Speaker 1: I know it's fun. This one is very clear for
Speaker 1: me because I'm taking him in the fifth and sixth
Speaker 1: round because I don't care Ramandre Stevenson. The Patriots constantly
Speaker 1: run the ball near the stripe and they're run blocking
Speaker 1: his top notch with twenty eight runs last year of
Speaker 1: fifteen plus yards. He's every bit the bruiser Harris is.
Speaker 1: But now he's getting lots of like he's basically taking
Speaker 1: on the James White pass catching role in camp, and
Speaker 1: everybody is saying, everybody there says his pass blocking is improved.
Speaker 1: I think that's kind an overrated thing because running backs
Speaker 1: past block like percent at the time at most, but
Speaker 1: those factors everything, every drum bread is good for Stevenson
Speaker 1: going forward forward and one injury and he's RB one
Speaker 1: a RB one Brian, who is the eighth round? Are
Speaker 1: you take in the seventh round? I think it's worth
Speaker 1: reaching a round on Dallas Goddard here. I only saw
Speaker 1: seventies six targets in one, but Zach Eartz was on
Speaker 1: Philly for half the season. Goddard was banged up, played
Speaker 1: injured and missed a couple of games. I think there's
Speaker 1: a major uptick in volume for Goddard in a in
Speaker 1: an offense. We've spoke very highly of in Philadelphia right now,
Speaker 1: and all the metrics are there for a breakout for Goddard.
Speaker 1: Last year, he averaged two point two targets per I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: two point two points per target in PPR League's second
Speaker 1: in yards per reception among tight ends at fifteen yards,
Speaker 1: first in yards per route run let all tight ends,
Speaker 1: and completed air yards per target. Love Dallas Goddard this year.
Speaker 1: I also have Remondre Stevenson as my reach around player
Speaker 1: from round eight to round seven. You know, the one
Speaker 1: thing you didn't in Scott you covered most of the
Speaker 1: bases here. There's a lot of rumors that Damien Harris
Speaker 1: could be traded off the team entirely. Now. Moving running
Speaker 1: backs isn't easy because most teams don't value them very highly.
Speaker 1: You don't get much return. So I don't know that
Speaker 1: that's going to happen. But if this team is willing
Speaker 1: to trade Damien Harris, maybe Romandri Stevenson already is the
Speaker 1: number one running back there and they just haven't made
Speaker 1: you know, Bill Belichickson, We're gonna tell you until you
Speaker 1: know you find out on Week one there's a chance
Speaker 1: that that's already happened and it's just not reflected on
Speaker 1: the unofficial depth chart. We now go to round nine.
Speaker 1: Who is the Round nine player you would take in
Speaker 1: Round eight? Brian, I'm reading for Robert Woods here. I
Speaker 1: know he's coming off the knee injury, but he looks
Speaker 1: great in camp. From what I've seen, he looks fully
Speaker 1: healthy to me, and I am an internet doctor just
Speaker 1: like the rest of us on Twitter and whatnot. But
Speaker 1: uh clear chemistry with Ryan Tannehill. We've already mentioned Treylon
Speaker 1: Brookes struggling big time, So who's his prime competitor for targets?
Speaker 1: The other rookie Kyle Phillips. H Woods was getting drafted
Speaker 1: before Cooper Cup last year. I know he was on
Speaker 1: the Rams and a lot has changed since then. He's
Speaker 1: now on the Titans, a different quarterback, but uh Woods
Speaker 1: one of the best route runners in the game still,
Speaker 1: and I think he's the clear cut top target for
Speaker 1: the Titans, and I think he'll be ready to go
Speaker 1: week one. He said he's watching the game tape already
Speaker 1: for his matchup against the Giants. Could turn out to
Speaker 1: be a great value, just like his old teammate Cooper
Speaker 1: Couple was last year. All right, Scott, who is the
Speaker 1: round nine player you had taken Round eight? I would
Speaker 1: like to take Damian Pierce running back for the Houston Texas.
Speaker 1: But I will I will yield. Yeah, yeah, Well, we've
Speaker 1: already talked about Damian Pierce once in this show, which
Speaker 1: actually to be at this late stage of the show,
Speaker 1: and have only mentioned Damien Pierce one other time. It
Speaker 1: really is a measure of my personal Really, hearkens back
Speaker 1: to the Zach Moss here you shot about at because
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be way more right about well if you
Speaker 1: want to go back to the Monty ball here, but
Speaker 1: remember just the thing I was piercing, Well, good, I'm
Speaker 1: glad to have I'm glad to have you on team Pierce.
Speaker 1: No chance that Pierce's ADP stays as low as he
Speaker 1: has now moved to right, And that's what you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to You're gonna have to move wave and beyond
Speaker 1: round eight, I think at this point, because he's surging
Speaker 1: up draft boards, Damian Pierce, you're starting running back, getting
Speaker 1: first team reps on an improving Houston offense that is
Speaker 1: going to, at a bare minimum give him goal line looks.
Speaker 1: But I think he's gonna get a lot more than that.
Speaker 1: And what people don't realize about beers he can catch.
Speaker 1: This kid's probably sitting on thirty forty receptions that it's
Speaker 1: gonna chip in and give him, gonna negate some of
Speaker 1: some of the bad Houston Texans games that I think
Speaker 1: he's I think he's going to ultimately be very safe.
Speaker 1: And I'm going to work Damien Pierce as right now
Speaker 1: a flex style running back, but I'm starting to talk
Speaker 1: myself into making him like an RB two that I
Speaker 1: can feel comfortable taking. Uh, starting most weeks. Let's go
Speaker 1: to round number ten. Who are you taking? What round
Speaker 1: ten player are you taking that you could take in
Speaker 1: round nine? I think Round Scott for this one. Sure.
Speaker 1: I was a little surprised to see Kirk Cousins on
Speaker 1: this list as a possible option because I try to
Speaker 1: get him everywhere. I My bold call earlier in this
Speaker 1: offseason was that he would have a top five quarterback season.
Speaker 1: He's routinely around ten, but he's going five instead. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna give you someone else, all right that you kind
Speaker 1: of just gave us Kirk Cousins. Okay, I'll give you
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins and I was gonna say Jalen Tilburt. We've
Speaker 1: talked about how there's a lot of injuries and stuff
Speaker 1: going on with the Dallas Cowboys jail in your Ceedee
Speaker 1: Lamb talk about him getting a ton of work. Jalen
Speaker 1: Tilbert is a beast, a big, strong, fast beast that
Speaker 1: also has looked good in camp, and he's probably going
Speaker 1: to be the de factor number two to start the season.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure he's going to relinquish it, all right, Brian,
Speaker 1: who is the tenth rounder you're taking and not round nine? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I got I got Tilbert two, And it's really all
Speaker 1: about opportunity. He looks like the clear cut wide receiver too.
Speaker 1: Of course, Ceedee Lamb is the top wide receiver Dallas Goddard.
Speaker 1: I'm not Dallas Gotter Dalton Schultz gonna command a lot
Speaker 1: of targets in that offense. But Tolbert looks really good.
Speaker 1: He's very well polished, and he's kind of got that
Speaker 1: small school stigma out of South Alabama. Um. I think
Speaker 1: that's why he kind of fell. He didn't fall far
Speaker 1: in the draft. He was a third round pick by Dallas,
Speaker 1: went before guys like David Bell, Danny Gray we were
Speaker 1: talking about, but it's really about opportunity. I think you'll
Speaker 1: see a hundred targets if you stays healthy. I love
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins in in round Uh, this would be round
Speaker 1: nine for some reasons. You already touched down. If we
Speaker 1: think he's got two top twenty wide receivers and maybe
Speaker 1: the number one wide receiver. UM, I don't see how
Speaker 1: what's not to like about having Kirk Cousins with you know,
Speaker 1: Plus you know it feels like high thirties for a
Speaker 1: touch of He was thirty three last year in a
Speaker 1: stone age offense. You feel like Kirk Cousins could be
Speaker 1: closer to forty touchdowns this year. But let me mention
Speaker 1: one of the another guy, since we're apparently we're mentioning
Speaker 1: too in that we're how about Hurtz? Right, you've slept
Speaker 1: that tight end position. Zach Ertz to me by a DPS,
Speaker 1: this is the last safe, reliable tight end you can get.
Speaker 1: Last year, from the point of his trade to Arizona forward,
Speaker 1: he was tight end five five and here we are
Speaker 1: round nine. I can go get a reliable tight end
Speaker 1: in round nine. That's a gift because everybody after this
Speaker 1: has got major question marks. Let's move to round eleven
Speaker 1: of our reach around. Who's the eleventh rounder you would
Speaker 1: take in the tenth round? Brian, You know I love
Speaker 1: tight end talk. So if I missed out on Kyle
Speaker 1: Pitts in the second round, if I get sniped there
Speaker 1: Dallas Goddard in the seventh, everybody said, but I like
Speaker 1: Cole Commet a lot. We don't. We don't like the
Speaker 1: Bears a ton overall as a team. But I think
Speaker 1: he should be the top or the second target behind
Speaker 1: Darnell Mooney in that offense. Zero touchdowns for Commit last year,
Speaker 1: that doesn't matter to me. Like I said, like one
Speaker 1: touchdown for Kyle Pitts, I do not care about last year.
Speaker 1: You get him at a better value. Get him at
Speaker 1: a better value. Last year he was still one of
Speaker 1: only nine tight ends with at least sixty catches and
Speaker 1: end six hundred yards. The corpse of Jimmy Graham was
Speaker 1: stealing opportunities from Commit last year as well. Graham he gone,
Speaker 1: So I like cool Commit at this point. I think
Speaker 1: he has top ten tight end potential potential. Excuse me, Scott,
Speaker 1: who is the eleventh round player you would take in
Speaker 1: the tenth round of our reach around. I love comment
Speaker 1: that's a great pick um. This one feels very chalkish actually.
Speaker 1: In George pickens uh I mentioned a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: ago he's getting reps on the outside with Clay Pool
Speaker 1: playing big slot. We saw his touchdown from the outside
Speaker 1: in in the preseason game. He's just making highlight catch
Speaker 1: after highlight catch, which he did before his injury in
Speaker 1: college as well. Um, even though he's going right right
Speaker 1: at the right at the start of the double digit rounds,
Speaker 1: I think he's got every opportunity to be an eight
Speaker 1: hundred plus six to touch down six to ten touch
Speaker 1: on guy. In fact, eight hundred and six feels like
Speaker 1: his floor to me as a starting wide receiver in
Speaker 1: that offense. Um. The only reason he dropped is because
Speaker 1: off the few old into issues, maturity concerns, previous injury.
Speaker 1: Otherwise he should be right up there with all the
Speaker 1: other stud rookie wide receivers in this class. My eleventh
Speaker 1: round player I would take in the tenth round is
Speaker 1: Chargers wide receiver Josh Palmer, and he was my sleeper
Speaker 1: last week in our episode. But I just I have
Speaker 1: I feel compelled to talk about him. Again. Not everybody
Speaker 1: was listening last week, although you should, and we encourage
Speaker 1: you to go back to the podcast and and re listen.
Speaker 1: Josh Palmer getting first team reps in all all off
Speaker 1: season and now into training camp. Um. He is clearly
Speaker 1: outpaced any contenders for the Chargers third receiver job, which
Speaker 1: will put him on the field a lot. As a
Speaker 1: rookie last year, Josh Palmer was pretty quiet until December
Speaker 1: and then he exploded. The snap count effectively tripled and
Speaker 1: all of his output effectively tripled. Now is a sophomore,
Speaker 1: Josh Palmer is gonna be better. He's gonna get regular
Speaker 1: playing time, and he's got a great quarterback throwing to
Speaker 1: him in a high powered offense. I love Jo Palmer
Speaker 1: as one of my favorite sleepers overall, and he's a
Speaker 1: player I would take in the tenth round instead of
Speaker 1: the eleventh round. All right, let's move to our Sleepers
Speaker 1: of the week. We always do that final segment of
Speaker 1: every show. Brian, I'm gonna begin with you for your
Speaker 1: sleeper for this week. I like uh Indies Alec Pierce
Speaker 1: rookie wide receiver. U looks to be the wide receiver
Speaker 1: too as of right now alongside Michael Pittman. Paris Campbell
Speaker 1: a threat to uh take that role, but Paris Campbell
Speaker 1: has had a little trouble staying on the field throughout
Speaker 1: his career and rave reviews coming from Pierce out of camp.
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan loves him and he's a beast too, six
Speaker 1: three huge wingspan forty plus inch vertical. And uh, it's
Speaker 1: not like he's been shredding second string third string cornerbacks
Speaker 1: in practice. He's been beating on the regular Stefan Gilmour,
Speaker 1: who's an All Pro cornerback. I mean, there's a ton
Speaker 1: of potential here for Alec Pierce and what should be
Speaker 1: a improved offense. He's gonna see single coverage all day
Speaker 1: every day and uh yeah, he's gonna set a run
Speaker 1: And I like Alic just thinking about the Colts have
Speaker 1: a type man between Moli Cox and Gelanni Woods and
Speaker 1: Alec Pierce. Michael Pittman like that there are stretched together
Speaker 1: could go the whole football field. Almost a lot of
Speaker 1: wigs span. I just drafted Alec Pierce in a in
Speaker 1: a Dynasty League second round and um Empire League, and
Speaker 1: I I went back and just watched through his college
Speaker 1: tape again and just make you know, get really comfortable
Speaker 1: with Alec Pierce. Man. That's a pretty compelling tape. Let
Speaker 1: me tell you contested catches running from the slot, running outside,
Speaker 1: good good vision and angles after the catch, big bodied guy,
Speaker 1: Alec Pierce very very tempting. Um. I don't know how
Speaker 1: long it's gonna take him to emerge. But here's what
Speaker 1: I do know is as much as we love Michael
Speaker 1: Pittman and to talk about him being a workhorse wide receiver,
Speaker 1: he can't catch every pass and the most I think,
Speaker 1: the second most likely target to end up with any
Speaker 1: with passes his pro Paris Campbell. Oh, I love how
Speaker 1: I feel about Paris. Can I know that's why in there?
Speaker 1: All right? Uh? Scott? Who is your sleeper this week? So?
Speaker 1: I wanted to go with George Pickens, but I feel
Speaker 1: like we've talked about him in a bunch and people
Speaker 1: are starting to catch on, starting to I think he's
Speaker 1: biggest stories of the office. Yes, And so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go way way deeper back to my deeper roots, in
Speaker 1: deeper deeper leagues. Dynasty League's last pick of your draft,
Speaker 1: I'm going with Jalen Warren five ft eight two fifteen
Speaker 1: pound kind of bowling polish, but he can't catch you.
Speaker 1: Had twenty five catches in his senior in his UH
Speaker 1: junior season was his final season college. He has completely supplanted.
Speaker 1: According to multiple reports, Benny Snell and Anthony McFarland as
Speaker 1: the primary backup behind Naji Harris, who does take everything,
Speaker 1: so he's probably not gonna get you like any kind
Speaker 1: of flex play. But if Nagi goes down, here's here's
Speaker 1: the other. Yes, Brian, you want to say, Okay, so
Speaker 1: I was I was gonna say, nag you know, never
Speaker 1: came off the field, and I'm sorry if you're gonna
Speaker 1: say this, but they want him to not be on
Speaker 1: the field this much this year, so the backup running
Speaker 1: back guaranteed to get touches that. You're probably gonna say that,
Speaker 1: and I'm sorry, no, no, no, I actually wasn't gonna
Speaker 1: bring that up. But the last thing I was going
Speaker 1: to mention is not only is he supplanted and made
Speaker 1: the second he got worked with the ones this last week,
Speaker 1: that's how much they're starting to believe in there. Wow,
Speaker 1: that says a lot. So if you want that last
Speaker 1: rosters handcuff, there you go Jlen Warren. Um, My sleeper
Speaker 1: this week is Buffalo wide receiver Isaiah McKenzie. It's not
Speaker 1: I haven't made it official, but Mackenzie's won the slot
Speaker 1: receiving for the Bills. It's it's over, and that means
Speaker 1: that they haven't notarized it, but right exactly, they don't have.
Speaker 1: They don't officially sealed yet. Um. He's always been a
Speaker 1: special team's nightmare for opposing teams and now he's going
Speaker 1: to get his first crack at regular offensive usage. And
Speaker 1: we saw a glimpse of special Outputaiah mackenzie very last year.
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley missed Week sixteen of last year. That was
Speaker 1: the one game Beasley missed. Mackenzie took sixties seven snaps,
Speaker 1: eleven catches a hundred twenty five yards in a score.
Speaker 1: And despite all the drama around Cole Beasley last year,
Speaker 1: I say, Mackenzie, you know he or brother Colbsy was
Speaker 1: a spot starter with double digit fantasy points in half
Speaker 1: his games. And I think Isaiah McKenzie's got way more
Speaker 1: upside than Cole Beasley did, so I think he can
Speaker 1: be a spot starter for your fantasy team. Too. Freakish
Speaker 1: speed in athleticism. I think Mackenzie could be sitting on
Speaker 1: a very nice year. The player I almost mentioned here
Speaker 1: Baltimore tight end Isaiah like me like here the week
Speaker 1: I talked to him. But I'm keeping I'm telling keep
Speaker 1: liking this guy. He's gonna be a wide receiver in
Speaker 1: name only. They're gonna get some receiver roofs uh. Please
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