WEBVTT - The Drew Bennett Debate! 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:03.920 Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly, a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:06.040 --> 0:00:10.280 Time now for Fantasy Football Weekly from iHeartRadio, your weekly 0:00:10.360 --> 0:00:14.319 source for the nation's best fantasy football advice, speculation, and 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:17.759 whatever stupid stuff they decided to drop into the show. Now, 0:00:17.800 --> 0:00:19.520 here's your host, Paul Jarchian. 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:26.880 Welcome to a February edition of Fantasy Football Weekly. 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:28.960 Or is it December? 0:00:32.360 --> 0:00:35.279 Old time warp happening right here? That is the hum 0:00:35.600 --> 0:00:37.720 of Brian Johnson, my co host today. 0:00:37.760 --> 0:00:39.360 Hey buddy, what up? 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:39.720 George? 0:00:40.400 --> 0:00:41.239 Great to talk to you. 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:45.880 You're officially in Auason. It's last December, but we're gonna 0:00:46.000 --> 0:00:47.560 discuss December. 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:52.239 By the way, I mean, can we just please hang on? 0:00:52.479 --> 0:00:57.200 Can we please becock a little bit? Last week's show, 0:00:57.280 --> 0:00:59.960 we pretty much nailed the Super Bowl. 0:01:02.280 --> 0:01:05.560 I would say you did me not so much. My 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:08.960 juju props are looking great. A catch on each of 0:01:09.000 --> 0:01:11.160 the first two drives. Yeah, just give me one more 0:01:11.280 --> 0:01:13.120 and it's gravy nothing. 0:01:13.400 --> 0:01:15.679 Well, he hit the over depending on where you bet him. 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.199 I you know, when it was thirteen and a half 0:01:18.240 --> 0:01:20.360 as I saw him, he finished at sixteen yards. 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:23.720 Yeah, he hit that over. But I was louder in him. 0:01:23.760 --> 0:01:27.720 I was getting greedy, but no, you you spiked the 0:01:27.720 --> 0:01:31.480 the Eagles ault line of whether it was minus thirteen 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:34.000 and a half fourteen, there was a room to spare 0:01:34.560 --> 0:01:36.840 props to you. I should I almost bet it, but 0:01:36.880 --> 0:01:40.040 I was like, Nah, Mahomes as much as I respect 0:01:40.120 --> 0:01:44.160 Charge Mahomes man, Yeah, I lost to Mahomes, which is understanding. 0:01:44.240 --> 0:01:47.680 Hindsight is twenty twenty, right, But I mean we on 0:01:47.720 --> 0:01:49.840 the show, We're like, there's no edge here for. 0:01:49.800 --> 0:01:53.720 The cheeps, right, there's no edge on the field. Find 0:01:53.760 --> 0:01:54.360 your edge. 0:01:54.400 --> 0:01:57.160 There wasn't one. Yeah, absolutely, yeah. 0:01:57.160 --> 0:01:59.400 I saw someone saying, no, did anyone predict this? And 0:01:59.480 --> 0:02:02.920 I'm like, Charge, did Charge predicted this? This blowout? So 0:02:03.680 --> 0:02:05.200 good on you, Good on you. Charge. 0:02:06.040 --> 0:02:08.040 Kind of take that peacock to the bank right there. 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:09.480 You deserve it. 0:02:10.200 --> 0:02:12.760 Today, we're gonna highlight this is the first of a 0:02:12.760 --> 0:02:17.919 two parter. We're gonna highlight guys whose fantasy productions spiked 0:02:17.960 --> 0:02:22.639 in December and then answer whether or not that December 0:02:22.680 --> 0:02:26.720 production is a trend or a mirage. Now, in some 0:02:26.840 --> 0:02:29.640 cases it's young guys and it just took them most 0:02:29.720 --> 0:02:31.560 of the season before they really. 0:02:31.320 --> 0:02:32.720 Came on strong at the end of the year. 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.720 Other guys, it's just veterans who for whatever reason just 0:02:36.760 --> 0:02:39.520 didn't show up in September, October, November, and then did 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:44.680 well down the stretch. I'm using December here, but you know, 0:02:44.720 --> 0:02:46.400 we know there was also like a week eighteen was 0:02:46.440 --> 0:02:48.880 in January. If you need to go back, you know, 0:02:48.919 --> 0:02:50.520 into the final month of November. 0:02:50.160 --> 0:02:50.519 That's okay. 0:02:50.600 --> 0:02:53.480 Do We're just we're really we're focusing on end of 0:02:53.600 --> 0:02:57.000 season producers and whether or not it is a trend 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:57.800 or a mirage. 0:02:58.639 --> 0:03:01.480 Now now, feel free to steal this for the for 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:04.280 the show notes that you might put on iHeart, but 0:03:05.200 --> 0:03:07.920 I've named this this what we're doing. This is the 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:10.520 UH and for the for the the young ones out there, 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:12.880 they might not get this reference, but will educate you 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:16.400 real quick. I've I've dubbed what we're doing the Drew 0:03:16.800 --> 0:03:22.480 the Drew Bennett exercise or the the Drew Bennett drill. 0:03:22.560 --> 0:03:24.320 How's that that's more alliterative? Right? 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:24.760 All right? 0:03:24.840 --> 0:03:27.920 So for those don't remember, Drew Bennett wide receiver for 0:03:28.000 --> 0:03:33.440 the Tennessee Titans in two thousand and four, starting in December, 0:03:34.360 --> 0:03:37.160 pretty much quiet all year. I'm just gonna read Drew 0:03:37.160 --> 0:03:40.760 Bennett's stat lines and four Billy Voleck by. 0:03:40.640 --> 0:03:43.760 The way, Yeah, quarterback back Billy Bennett. 0:03:44.160 --> 0:03:46.760 And this was like, this was Aaron McNair, Steve McNair's 0:03:46.920 --> 0:03:50.160 he must have been hurt. But I'm just gonna read 0:03:50.200 --> 0:03:52.840 this off quick. One hundred and twenty four yards, three touchdowns, 0:03:52.880 --> 0:03:55.840 two thirty three and three, one sixty and two. This 0:03:55.920 --> 0:04:00.240 is all like insane prime December production. And I'm not 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:03.560 gonna go into this was a mirage. Drew Bennett was 0:04:03.600 --> 0:04:09.440 a mirage, that's right, yes, into future seasons, but this 0:04:09.520 --> 0:04:12.480 is what we're doing. Basically, we're gonna no one had 0:04:12.480 --> 0:04:16.480 a Drew Bennett type December but close. But uh, this 0:04:16.520 --> 0:04:18.360 is the Drew Bennett drill. I'm dubbing at that. 0:04:18.960 --> 0:04:20.719 I like it, all right, Well we'll name the show 0:04:20.720 --> 0:04:21.560 the Drew Bennett Drill. 0:04:21.760 --> 0:04:25.279 And I think broadly, the fantasy community spends the off 0:04:25.279 --> 0:04:28.640 season putting a lot of weight on December performances, a 0:04:28.839 --> 0:04:29.720 lot of weight. 0:04:29.960 --> 0:04:32.680 And probably remember it's fresh in our mind. 0:04:32.760 --> 0:04:33.320 Yeah that's right. 0:04:33.360 --> 0:04:35.640 Well, absolutely, it's the most recent data points we have. 0:04:35.800 --> 0:04:37.719 And then we've got a whole six month off season 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.040 to talk about our most recent data points. So I 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:44.400 think it's I think it's fair to break down these players. 0:04:44.880 --> 0:04:47.880 Before I do that, I'm going to bring you into 0:04:47.880 --> 0:04:51.680 the intrigue and drama that has happened in my fantasy 0:04:51.720 --> 0:04:52.479 basketball league. 0:04:52.560 --> 0:04:53.920 It is nothing to do with basketball. 0:04:54.760 --> 0:04:56.960 What whatball basketball? 0:04:57.040 --> 0:04:58.280 I know fantasy basketball. 0:04:58.839 --> 0:05:00.839 I used to play fantasy bas well. It's been quite 0:05:00.920 --> 0:05:05.440 quite some time. But yeah, tell me what's going on. 0:05:05.640 --> 0:05:07.799 I've got Luka Doncic. 0:05:07.960 --> 0:05:10.520 No, I've got a team that's in third place. It's 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:15.119 a good team out of fourteen, and I'm deep at center. 0:05:15.800 --> 0:05:19.640 I got an offer to trade nas Reed for. 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:21.839 I know of him, you know of him? Yep, for 0:05:21.920 --> 0:05:22.600 Devin Booker. 0:05:22.880 --> 0:05:24.960 Now, most people would say Devin Booker is like an 0:05:24.960 --> 0:05:27.560 A minus player and nas Reid is like a B player, 0:05:28.520 --> 0:05:31.680 maybe a B plus player depending on thinkings. Break his 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:35.960 his way, And so we accepted the trade offer. The 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:43.440 commissioner vetoed it, oh no, unilatterally vetoted it himself. And 0:05:43.640 --> 0:05:47.479 then and he's in first place, by the way, And 0:05:47.520 --> 0:05:48.560 I won't say his name. 0:05:49.279 --> 0:05:53.839 Thout to say, do him on the show. What's his address? Right? 0:05:54.520 --> 0:05:56.800 And he is a longtime friend, you know, I've known 0:05:56.880 --> 0:06:01.960 him for thirty years. And uh, I was extremely mad 0:06:02.960 --> 0:06:08.440 and so then the way this has worked is after 0:06:08.560 --> 0:06:10.720 I badgered him some and threatened to just quit the 0:06:10.760 --> 0:06:15.640 league right there, right then and there, he said, Well, 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:20.839 after making a big deal about vetoing it, he said, well, okay, 0:06:20.839 --> 0:06:23.120 why don't you offer it to him again? And now 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:25.679 if he still accepts it, then I'll let it go through, 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.640 to which I said, why would I need to do 0:06:29.760 --> 0:06:34.880 that when we already agreed on a deal and he 0:06:34.920 --> 0:06:37.520 has not pushed through the trade yet. 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:38.720 So. 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:46.080 Veto's man vetos and friendships. I'm I'm still angry about this, 0:06:47.279 --> 0:06:51.200 and who gives any one person the ability to decide 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:57.000 something like that? And obviously there's no chicanery, there's no 0:06:57.080 --> 0:06:59.680 funny stuff right, There's no money going under the table, 0:06:59.760 --> 0:07:02.400 nothing like that. This is just one guy who felt 0:07:02.440 --> 0:07:04.200 like the trade was not as even as he wanted 0:07:04.240 --> 0:07:06.800 it to be, and he he he nuked it. 0:07:08.320 --> 0:07:11.040 Yeah, that's even though, Like I'm not too in the 0:07:11.080 --> 0:07:13.440 know in basketball anymore, but I don't have any booker. 0:07:13.480 --> 0:07:16.400 It was probably like the number one, number two shooting 0:07:16.440 --> 0:07:21.280 guard preseason, right, and nas Reid fantasy wise was but 0:07:21.360 --> 0:07:25.920 I'm sure Nass spiked since Julius doesn't matter. That's awful. 0:07:25.960 --> 0:07:26.720 I'm sorry to hear that. 0:07:26.720 --> 0:07:27.520 That's yeah. 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:30.120 Yeah, the details I don't think matter, No. 0:07:30.280 --> 0:07:36.480 It doesn't. My opinion, no matter the sport. Veto's veto, 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:38.200 the veto. That's what we need to do. 0:07:38.400 --> 0:07:42.000 Veto, the veto. Get it out of your leagues, everybody. 0:07:42.720 --> 0:07:46.280 And I'm serious that when I when I was talking like, okay, 0:07:46.360 --> 0:07:49.880 do I need to quit now? It turned into a 0:07:49.880 --> 0:07:53.160 friendship check at that point, and I'm still not sure 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:54.440 that I'm going to continue in the league. 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:55.720 Better. 0:07:55.920 --> 0:08:00.880 Okay, point being I have veto in your league. 0:08:01.680 --> 0:08:06.240 I hope he's listening. It's Matt, isn't it. No, It's okay. 0:08:06.560 --> 0:08:10.160 Today we're going to we're gonna break down these December players, 0:08:10.200 --> 0:08:12.440 but we're gonna we're gonna break this into two parts. 0:08:12.640 --> 0:08:15.640 We're gonna do quarterbacks and running backs today. The next 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:19.680 week we're gonna wide receivers and tight ends. But secretly 0:08:19.880 --> 0:08:23.960 we're taping them both today because next Friday is Whiskey weekend. 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:28.400 Yeah yeah, so if there was some big thing that 0:08:28.480 --> 0:08:31.200 happened next week, then we would not know about that. 0:08:31.560 --> 0:08:33.239 All right, let's jump in with the quarterbacks. 0:08:33.679 --> 0:08:36.600 Do you want to start with justin air Bear do 0:08:36.640 --> 0:08:37.840 I have an air bear sounder? 0:08:38.880 --> 0:08:43.439 Speaking of speaking of Matt Well, it's his famous moniker. No, 0:08:43.720 --> 0:08:45.160 there's a lot of a lot of animals. 0:08:45.240 --> 0:08:47.520 Yeah, a lot of animals. That's a close I end 0:08:47.559 --> 0:08:49.800 get as a duck, which is a. 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:53.600 Oh it was duck? What was duck? Hodges or the quarterback? 0:08:53.640 --> 0:08:55.120 Is that why we have the fight? 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:58.960 You might still be from that? Yes, good heavens. 0:08:59.320 --> 0:09:04.280 Justin that's in the UFL or something at this point. Yeah, 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:09.040 Justin Herbert. Let's talk about him December. To remember, he 0:09:09.160 --> 0:09:13.679 was a top ten quarterback Fantasy wise, multiple passing touchdowns 0:09:14.240 --> 0:09:17.319 in each of his last four games. He also cleared 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:20.440 two hundred and eighty passing yards in three of those 0:09:20.480 --> 0:09:24.320 four games. So there was elite production from Herbert. And 0:09:24.400 --> 0:09:27.120 for those who again we were saying, that's what's fresh 0:09:27.120 --> 0:09:30.160 in our mind, but for those who had forgotten, the 0:09:30.240 --> 0:09:34.920 start for Justin Herbert was fat, brutal. In nine of 0:09:34.960 --> 0:09:39.079 his first thirteen games, he had zero or one passing touchdown. 0:09:39.800 --> 0:09:42.280 His passing yards in his first four games were one 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:46.000 hundred and forty four, one hundred and thirty, one hundred 0:09:46.040 --> 0:09:48.760 and twenty five in one seventy nine. I mean we 0:09:48.760 --> 0:09:51.200 were just dropping him outright at that. He's like, this 0:09:51.240 --> 0:09:54.720 guy is worthless and it comes to fantasy football, and 0:09:54.760 --> 0:09:57.880 it's because Jim Harbaugh, you know, his first year head coach, 0:09:58.000 --> 0:10:01.160 not first year in the NFL, but long track record 0:10:01.240 --> 0:10:04.080 college NFL. He loves to run the rock and that's 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.280 what he came in and he did to start the season. 0:10:07.080 --> 0:10:11.599 But the Chargers, you know, they swerved from that in December. 0:10:11.640 --> 0:10:16.080 But can you trust that as a trend for the 0:10:16.160 --> 0:10:20.080 team as a whole or a mirage. I'm leaning mirage 0:10:20.120 --> 0:10:23.160 here for Herbert, who, by the way, right now people 0:10:23.200 --> 0:10:26.840 are drafting already bestball teams. He's going off the board 0:10:26.880 --> 0:10:30.480 as QB fourteen, and like every year, a quarterback is 0:10:30.600 --> 0:10:36.079 very deep. So I am I'm calling his December a mirage, 0:10:36.360 --> 0:10:38.960 especially when it comes to drafting him as a top 0:10:39.040 --> 0:10:43.920 fourteen quarterback. I think the identity of the Chargers is 0:10:43.960 --> 0:10:46.720 still going to be to run the ball. 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:49.040 Got to run better than they did last year, Brian. 0:10:49.600 --> 0:10:52.400 They do, but their line is I think they're going 0:10:52.480 --> 0:10:56.680 to bolster that offensive line even more. Spent top five 0:10:56.720 --> 0:10:59.480 pick on Joe Ault last year. I know as much 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:03.840 as I will say this about Herbert sneaky ground production too. 0:11:03.920 --> 0:11:08.040 In December, yeah, and on the season as a whole, 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.360 he was just one of eight quarterbacks with more than 0:11:11.440 --> 0:11:14.959 twenty passing touchdowns and more than three hundred rushing yards. 0:11:15.120 --> 0:11:18.559 So I kind of cherry picked that stat a little bit. 0:11:18.559 --> 0:11:21.600 But he's sneaky mobile. But I just feel that the 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:25.680 philosophy is still gonna be running the ball. So I'm 0:11:25.720 --> 0:11:28.360 just this is a mirage for me. I don't see 0:11:28.360 --> 0:11:32.120 the two eighty three hundred yards multiple passing touchdowns on 0:11:31.720 --> 0:11:35.440 a consistent basis for Herbert. He's got that ability, but 0:11:35.520 --> 0:11:37.760 I just don't think that's the identity of the Chargers. 0:11:37.800 --> 0:11:38.600 So I'm going mirage. 0:11:38.800 --> 0:11:39.079 Okay. 0:11:39.520 --> 0:11:42.160 You know, I think the reason I was leaning trend, 0:11:42.640 --> 0:11:44.640 although you've made a really good case and I'm rethinking 0:11:44.640 --> 0:11:48.040 it now, it's just that all those young receivers getting 0:11:48.120 --> 0:11:54.319 a year older, right, Lad McConkie looks very, very promising. 0:11:55.240 --> 0:11:57.800 We start talking about him and the wide receiver and. 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:01.880 Quinton Johnson as well, about both and those guys, and 0:12:01.920 --> 0:12:04.240 you know, I think if you're going to give those 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:08.000 guys trend grades for their December and then then I 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:09.840 think you have to give Herbert the trend, but we'll 0:12:09.840 --> 0:12:15.480 get to that next week. My quarterback Bryce Young Bryce Young. 0:12:15.520 --> 0:12:22.439 In December, Brian was quarterback six six Bryce Young. Now, 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.720 part of it was dramatically improved passing in December nine 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:31.960 touchdowns against just three interceptions, which is great. Multiple touchdowns 0:12:32.160 --> 0:12:35.160 in the final four games of his season, that was 0:12:35.200 --> 0:12:39.520 good news. Nobody cares and remembers a Week eighteen, but 0:12:40.600 --> 0:12:44.800 Bryce Young was the highest scoring quarterback in Week eighteen 0:12:45.240 --> 0:12:48.520 across the board. That was a game in which Carolina 0:12:48.559 --> 0:12:50.960 scored forty four points against a Falcons team that was 0:12:51.000 --> 0:12:54.480 playing to win. They needed that. They needed that game 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:58.400 to get into the playoffs the and Bryce Young showed 0:12:58.480 --> 0:13:01.480 up and beat them and scored a bunch of Fantasy 0:13:01.480 --> 0:13:02.120 points doing it. 0:13:02.240 --> 0:13:05.800 Now, I remember that game well because I had the 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.040 Falcons and two survivor pools, and of course what was 0:13:09.080 --> 0:13:12.000 the last week cost me a couple grand. 0:13:11.960 --> 0:13:19.319 Oh you didn't split them and go one Carolina one Atlanta, Well, 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:20.559 I had. 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:25.840 I was in multiple, but the Falcons were the best 0:13:25.840 --> 0:13:28.720 bet that week, even though I was skeptical about it. 0:13:28.720 --> 0:13:31.559 Of course for good I mean atlant at home, I'm 0:13:31.600 --> 0:13:34.640 steering us away. But anyway, I remember that game and yeah, 0:13:34.679 --> 0:13:35.880 Bryce Young looked great. 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:41.040 Bryce ye great, he looked great. The bad news he 0:13:41.120 --> 0:13:44.280 had four rushing touchdowns in the final five weeks, which 0:13:44.320 --> 0:13:47.200 helped elevate that QB six status that I was talking 0:13:47.240 --> 0:13:49.560 about in December, and he's just you know, he doesn't 0:13:49.600 --> 0:13:51.640 have the mobility for you to be counting out a 0:13:51.640 --> 0:13:55.040 lot of rushing touchdowns from Bryce Young on passing alone. 0:13:55.320 --> 0:13:58.079 If we take those rushing touchdowns out, his QB six 0:13:58.200 --> 0:14:01.720 probably would drop to like QB twelve, QB fifteen, something 0:14:01.760 --> 0:14:05.839 like that. But trender mirage for Bryce Young, Brian, this 0:14:05.920 --> 0:14:09.520 is a trend. First, Dave Canalis is awesome. I think 0:14:09.559 --> 0:14:13.040 we now know that he is. He's a quarterback whisperer 0:14:13.360 --> 0:14:15.120 is he is somebody who's going to get the best 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:17.040 out of the talents of his quarterbacks around him. I 0:14:17.080 --> 0:14:23.360 love that Carolina almost certainly better improve their offensive line. 0:14:23.440 --> 0:14:27.960 Their offensive line is garbage. Gotta get better in the offseason. 0:14:28.000 --> 0:14:30.880 I think that will happen. Wide receiver, could you some 0:14:30.960 --> 0:14:33.680 help and hopefully that'll happen too. You know, they've put 0:14:33.720 --> 0:14:36.640 a lot of draft capital into the wide receiver position, 0:14:36.760 --> 0:14:38.080 so it might not be as much help as I 0:14:38.120 --> 0:14:40.720 want because They've already spent a bunch of money and picks. 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:44.360 Remember Terras Marshall was a second round pick three years ago, 0:14:44.800 --> 0:14:48.480 Jonathan Mingo second round pick two years ago. They've gotten 0:14:48.720 --> 0:14:51.360 nothing out of those guys, and obviously Mingo's gone for 0:14:51.400 --> 0:14:52.520 a fourth rounder. 0:14:52.360 --> 0:14:53.400 Thanks to the Cowboys. 0:14:54.640 --> 0:14:56.720 Xavier Lagett had a few big moments last year, but 0:14:56.760 --> 0:15:00.560 not enough really to feel great about him. But I'd 0:15:00.640 --> 0:15:02.440 like to think he can get better in year two. 0:15:02.960 --> 0:15:05.240 And then Jalen Coker splashed at the end of the year. 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:09.040 Thorn special, Yeah, so we're gonna keep an eye on him. 0:15:09.080 --> 0:15:12.040 Adam Thielen looked great. We'll talk more about Adam Feeling 0:15:12.240 --> 0:15:15.760 next week, as well as somebody that came alive in December. 0:15:16.120 --> 0:15:18.800 So I'm on trend on Bryce Young. 0:15:18.840 --> 0:15:19.960 What do you thank you with me on this? 0:15:20.680 --> 0:15:20.880 Yeah? 0:15:20.920 --> 0:15:21.320 I am men. 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:25.000 He's going super late, and I mean he's going well 0:15:25.040 --> 0:15:28.440 past Justin Herbert, who's QB fourteen. I mean Bryce Young 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.880 is like in the low twenties when you're baking in price. 0:15:32.120 --> 0:15:35.760 I'm taking Young over Herbert all day long. And the 0:15:35.800 --> 0:15:39.640 Panthers not a lock. They's somewhat said at wide receiver. 0:15:39.720 --> 0:15:42.760 The three guys you mentioned, But there's one slam dunk 0:15:42.800 --> 0:15:47.600 receiver in this draft class, Teed McMillan from Arizona, And 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:50.520 it's looking like it's either gonna be the Raiders at 0:15:50.560 --> 0:15:53.520 six and then the Panthers are there at eight. Kind 0:15:53.520 --> 0:15:56.280 of those look like the two teams that might scoop 0:15:56.320 --> 0:15:59.360 him up if they somehow, If Carolina gets tet that 0:15:59.600 --> 0:16:03.040 shoots Bryce Young stock, yeah, big time. 0:16:03.160 --> 0:16:04.520 That's very possible, right. 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:08.000 Multiple rounds, right from where he's getting drafted right now. 0:16:08.040 --> 0:16:11.000 So yeah, I think a lot to like about Bryce Young. 0:16:11.040 --> 0:16:13.800 I think they're on the up and up in all 0:16:13.880 --> 0:16:15.080 all aspects in Carolina. 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:16.480 All right, let's go to the running backs. 0:16:16.520 --> 0:16:19.840 I've got three, you've got two, so maybe I will 0:16:20.240 --> 0:16:23.960 I will go first here Rico Dowdell. In December, he 0:16:24.000 --> 0:16:27.840 was running back twenty four in ESPN scoring. Prior to that, 0:16:28.240 --> 0:16:32.400 his prior months were in the forties. But where I'm 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:34.800 a little lukewarm on him here. By the metrics, Dowdell 0:16:34.840 --> 0:16:37.720 didn't turn into a much better runner down the stretch. 0:16:37.840 --> 0:16:41.200 He just got a lot more carries down the stretch. 0:16:41.760 --> 0:16:45.200 So it wasn't that he was getting he was better. 0:16:45.320 --> 0:16:48.359 He just had a lot more volume because Dak Prescott 0:16:48.360 --> 0:16:51.560 went down, and you know, Jerry Jones tried running the ball, 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:55.560 Mike McCarthy tried running the ball. In weeks one through eleven, 0:16:55.800 --> 0:16:58.520 Rico Dowdell had ten carries per game, and then weeks 0:16:58.560 --> 0:17:01.320 twelve forward he averaged twenty carries a game. And if 0:17:01.360 --> 0:17:03.880 you double the number of times a player is going 0:17:03.920 --> 0:17:05.919 to touch the ball, you're going to see a spike 0:17:06.280 --> 0:17:13.119 in fantasy points scored. Also with Dowdle only two touchdowns. 0:17:12.480 --> 0:17:13.560 Scored all year. 0:17:14.240 --> 0:17:16.720 So trand or mirage on Rico Dowdell. 0:17:16.840 --> 0:17:18.400 I am on mirage. 0:17:19.119 --> 0:17:22.160 The Cowboys are very likely to draft a runner, perhaps 0:17:22.160 --> 0:17:27.200 his earliest pick twelve of the draft. And while Dowdell 0:17:27.200 --> 0:17:28.919 had a few nice runs, and I don't want to 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:31.760 make him sound totally ordinary because there were there were 0:17:31.800 --> 0:17:33.720 a few runs that he had during the season, I'm. 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:34.920 Like, that look pretty good. 0:17:36.280 --> 0:17:39.600 He still feels like a change of pace guy. He 0:17:39.640 --> 0:17:42.480 doesn't feel like a lead back to me, even though 0:17:42.480 --> 0:17:45.120 they were using him as a lead back. And also, 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:48.200 Rico Dawdle doesn't catch, and that limits his upside as well, 0:17:48.280 --> 0:17:51.000 and and his and his floor obviously it gets affected 0:17:51.040 --> 0:17:53.919 as well. So I'm on mirage on Rico Dowdell. 0:17:53.920 --> 0:17:57.320 What do you think, Yeah, I'm kind of with you. 0:17:57.640 --> 0:17:59.439 He did look good, but it was it was kind 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:02.359 of volume. They didn't have much many options to go to. 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:05.520 Ezekiel Elliott clearly cooked. We won't see much of him 0:18:05.720 --> 0:18:08.560 in Dallas. But like guys like Rigo and a couple 0:18:08.640 --> 0:18:11.280 more we'll talk about in the coming minutes here who 0:18:11.280 --> 0:18:13.679 are kind of lumped in that running back forty fifty 0:18:13.800 --> 0:18:17.640 range and early ADP very nervous about all of them 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:21.560 because apparently this is like the deepest running back class 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:25.040 in the draft almost like ever. And of course you 0:18:25.160 --> 0:18:29.760 and four will get into that, yeah, very soon. But yeah, 0:18:30.280 --> 0:18:33.480 it feels like a mirage for Dowdell because Dallas will 0:18:34.400 --> 0:18:36.760 whether it's through the draft or free agency, they're gonna 0:18:37.000 --> 0:18:38.679 they could be one of the ones to take Ashton 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:44.639 Genie who that would just make doubtle borderline worthless. So 0:18:45.560 --> 0:18:48.480 you have to you have to factor in those mitigated 0:18:48.560 --> 0:18:51.720 risks whatever. So I'm with you, a mirage on Rico. Sadly, 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:54.320 even though he did come on, he was not a 0:18:54.400 --> 0:18:56.520 league winner, but a big time helper. 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:58.000 That's yeah, yeah for sure. 0:18:58.480 --> 0:19:00.720 Uh, Okay, let's go to more running back and then 0:19:00.720 --> 0:19:05.359 we'll take a break. Taja Spears with that nice December. 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:10.920 Bill Parsley on the ongoing nagging injuries that Tony Pollard suffered. 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:15.760 Yeah, I mean league winner. I mean Spears is the 0:19:15.840 --> 0:19:18.760 closest thing to a league winner amongst all running backs. 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:23.639 Very unconventional path to get managers there, though. So in 0:19:23.680 --> 0:19:26.560 week fifteen it really started for Dowbtle, which is kind 0:19:26.560 --> 0:19:28.760 of like you know, the first week for most fantasy playoffs. 0:19:29.520 --> 0:19:32.720 Four carries for five yards. You but he scored a 0:19:32.800 --> 0:19:36.280 rushing touchdown. But he added six catches for eighty seven 0:19:36.359 --> 0:19:41.120 yards touchdown that game too, so that's like RB one production. 0:19:41.320 --> 0:19:45.600 Then in week sixteen, ten carries for twenty seven yards, 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:49.080 discussing two point seven yards for carry, but two rushing touchdowns. 0:19:49.720 --> 0:19:52.320 Then he added three catches for thirty nine yards. That's 0:19:53.119 --> 0:19:55.240 another touchdown basically in fantasy scoring. 0:19:55.359 --> 0:19:55.639 Yep. 0:19:56.400 --> 0:19:59.480 Pollard played those two games two weeks fifteen and sixteen. 0:19:59.520 --> 0:20:00.960 He was banged up, like you said, but he was 0:20:01.000 --> 0:20:04.440 still taking fifty percent of the snaps. And in week seventeen, 0:20:04.600 --> 0:20:08.400 Pollard sits out and it's all I'm sorry, it's all 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:12.240 Spears against Jacksonville and he has a kind of a 0:20:12.280 --> 0:20:15.159 dud game. Twenty carries for ninety five yards, three catches 0:20:15.160 --> 0:20:18.160 for eight yards, like his worst. But long story short, 0:20:18.200 --> 0:20:21.440 I mean, when you're talking four carries five yards and 0:20:21.480 --> 0:20:25.120 a touchdown, ten carries twenty seven yards, two touchdowns, you're 0:20:25.160 --> 0:20:30.200 catching it's it's a total mirage sadly for Spears, who 0:20:31.800 --> 0:20:34.480 you know, we were questioning him a couple of years ago. 0:20:34.560 --> 0:20:36.600 He came in as a rookie because he kind of 0:20:36.640 --> 0:20:39.800 has like no knees left right, like playing on no knees. 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:41.879 But like, this guy is not gonna last. He's still going, 0:20:42.359 --> 0:20:44.720 and I hope it keeps going. But there's lots of 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:49.320 concerns with his lack of knees still and Pollard still 0:20:49.359 --> 0:20:51.600 in the mix. Who knows who's gonna be the quarterback 0:20:51.600 --> 0:20:54.600 for the Titans, how that offense is gonna look. And 0:20:55.000 --> 0:20:57.320 he's not a belcow, So mirage for the thing. 0:20:57.640 --> 0:21:00.280 That's the thing on Spears. I think he's forever angel 0:21:00.320 --> 0:21:00.800 pace guy. 0:21:01.080 --> 0:21:03.400 Yeah, that's it. Be thankful for what you got for him. 0:21:03.960 --> 0:21:09.440 In December in twenty twenty four, because hey, another Tennessee 0:21:09.440 --> 0:21:11.400 Titan had to make the list and the Drew Bennett drill. 0:21:11.480 --> 0:21:12.480 Right, that's a great point. 0:21:12.520 --> 0:21:15.240 I think we might have one more in the next 0:21:15.240 --> 0:21:18.080 show too. Right, we're not done with Titans, but's badly 0:21:18.320 --> 0:21:21.760 mirage for Spears and again another team, so many rookie 0:21:21.840 --> 0:21:25.160 running backs. Worried about his job stability for sure, whether 0:21:25.200 --> 0:21:27.080 it be the starter of the backup ringing the third 0:21:27.080 --> 0:21:28.879 stringer with so many running backs coming in. 0:21:28.920 --> 0:21:31.720 So we'll take a break back in just a couple 0:21:31.800 --> 0:21:35.159