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Speaker 1: here's your host, Paul. Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm
Speaker 1: Paul charchy In. My co host is Brian Johnson as
Speaker 1: usual and Brian Big Friday, Big Friday, Lots of movement Friday,
Speaker 1: the huge trade between the San Francisco forty Niners and
Speaker 1: the Miami Dolphins, and madness. Some might call it. I
Speaker 1: like it. It's the NFL version of March Madness. We're
Speaker 1: going to talk about all the ramifications of that trade
Speaker 1: and then many of the other free agent moves that
Speaker 1: we deemed worthy. Now, last week we did two positions.
Speaker 1: We did quarterbacks and wide receives. This week we're going
Speaker 1: to do the free agent moves among running backs and
Speaker 1: tight ends. But we'll also fill in the blanks about
Speaker 1: new things that happened with last week's topic the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: and primarily wide receivers. So lots to get to. Let's
Speaker 1: start with the crazy trade on Friday, though the Niners
Speaker 1: give up a this to move up from twelve to
Speaker 1: three nine spots, they give up a first round pick
Speaker 1: this year, first round pick, next year, first round pick
Speaker 1: the next year after that, this year's third round pick.
Speaker 1: That's a ton of capital. That's as I can't imagine
Speaker 1: them giving any more to you just you just you
Speaker 1: can't give more than that to make this kind of move.
Speaker 1: And so let's talk about to follow. Let's start with
Speaker 1: the forty Niner side of this. What do you think
Speaker 1: this means for forty Niners and the especially the young
Speaker 1: receiver group that they've got there. Well, they've got a
Speaker 1: quarterback in mind obviously, right Francis, they must like at
Speaker 1: least three quarterbacks in this draft. You could never make
Speaker 1: that tray and yeah, and it's not gonna be Trevor Lawrence,
Speaker 1: know and so it's really now it's Zack Wilson and
Speaker 1: Justin Fields, right, Zach don't. So it's all ability is
Speaker 1: very important for Kyle Shanahan. I mean, he loves to
Speaker 1: have those extended plays with the rolling quarterback. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: they don't know who it's gonna be. It's almost like
Speaker 1: they'll they're ready to quote unquote settle for someone at three, right,
Speaker 1: whether it's one of you, I don't think the view
Speaker 1: it that way. You can't give three first round picks
Speaker 1: if you're settling at quarterball was for lack of better terms,
Speaker 1: But they don't know the quarterbacks are gonna be available
Speaker 1: at three, but they have. They must like three quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: They must feel like any of those. So I don't know.
Speaker 1: I don't think. I don't think it's to me. I
Speaker 1: don't I don't. Well, we'll see. I don't know that
Speaker 1: it's I don't know that Wilson's in this. We'll see
Speaker 1: for this year. I don't think it bodes extremely well
Speaker 1: for the receivers for the forty niners, not like Jimmy
Speaker 1: Garoppolo is the starter. Makes me that much more excited.
Speaker 1: But I don't know. It's a big move, but it
Speaker 1: almost feels like a move for the future, not a
Speaker 1: not a win now move, because they're certainly mortgaging their
Speaker 1: their future beyond this year. Yeah, I I do agree
Speaker 1: with that. But if they especially if they keep Garoppolo
Speaker 1: like they say, they're going to keep Garoppolo now. Right,
Speaker 1: So with thein moments of trade going down, all of
Speaker 1: a sudden, Adam Schefter and uh Ian Rappaport and Albert Breer.
Speaker 1: They're all reporting the same thing, which is I'm hearing
Speaker 1: the Niners are gonna hold Jimmy Garoppolo. Now. If that's
Speaker 1: the case, that tells me the Niners are still in
Speaker 1: like wind wind now mode and they're gonna go to
Speaker 1: World two quarterbacks in case one of them does not
Speaker 1: work out, They've got another guy. If this rookie isn't
Speaker 1: ready to make a super Bowl run this year, they'll
Speaker 1: have Jimmy Garopolo brought the super Bowl two years ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: from from a fantasy perspective, it's essentially a lateral move
Speaker 1: for George Kittle, rand Now, Yuk Tebo Samuel. Because Jimmy
Speaker 1: g likely to start the season. Then whatever rookie they draft,
Speaker 1: we assume he comes in at quarter point midpoint of
Speaker 1: the season. It won't be a downgrade from Jimmy Garopolo,
Speaker 1: probably maybe a slate upgrade. So it doesn't really move
Speaker 1: the needle for me. When it comes to the forty,
Speaker 1: Niners will be nine receivers basically, so I think what
Speaker 1: the Niners may be doing here, Brian, they just gave
Speaker 1: up three first round picks to get out of starting
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo, So clearly Garoppolo is not in their long
Speaker 1: term plans. I think they're going to be patient and
Speaker 1: wait and find out which quarterback blows out is a
Speaker 1: c L and training camp and then moved moved Jimmy
Speaker 1: Garoppolo for as much equity as they can get. People.
Speaker 1: It's not quite the herschel Walker trade, but man, they
Speaker 1: gave up a lot to move nine spots and not
Speaker 1: even the Ricky Williams trade, which is below the herschel
Speaker 1: Walker trade. But man, it's in that convo, it's in
Speaker 1: the ballpark. They better nail this sick. It does feel
Speaker 1: like it now From a dynasty standpoint, I love this
Speaker 1: for the young receiving group of the forty Niners, for
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel and George Kittle and Brandon Ayuk. This is
Speaker 1: to me, this is all, this is all great news.
Speaker 1: And whoever they end up drafting the forty Niners, that
Speaker 1: is the the QB two in uh your dynasty rookie
Speaker 1: drafts moving forward? I mean, Trevor Lawrence is gonna be
Speaker 1: the first one. But now this guy, because of the
Speaker 1: tools around whoever and whoever the Jets take, why not
Speaker 1: QB one. I get Kyle, I get a Kyle Shanahan
Speaker 1: coached team, um, which is very important. I get all
Speaker 1: of those great young receivers with him. Whoever goes here
Speaker 1: might be dynasty quarterback number one this year. You might.
Speaker 1: You might be right, but not like this year. But
Speaker 1: we'll turn into the QB one from this class within
Speaker 1: a year or two years. It's talented, right, but he
Speaker 1: drops into arguably the worst position out of any of
Speaker 1: the first four quarterbacks that are going to be drafted.
Speaker 1: By the way, I think, for the first time in
Speaker 1: NFL history, we're gonna have quarterbacks go with the first
Speaker 1: four picks. That's what I was about to ask. Has
Speaker 1: there been There hasn't been. The top three have gone
Speaker 1: quarterback before. Certainly tops to yeah, certainly top two many
Speaker 1: times U. Yeah, And I'm sure three has to. But
Speaker 1: but four has never happened before. Okay, let's talk about
Speaker 1: this from the Miami side. The the Laramie Tunsil trade
Speaker 1: just continues to be unbelievable for them. They've now turned
Speaker 1: Laramie Tunsil into four first round picks, which we've heard
Speaker 1: above average tackle and the main catalyst, of course, going
Speaker 1: back to that draft day was unbelievable, unbelievable. So Miami
Speaker 1: clearly gonna stick with two that's come out of this
Speaker 1: even after Miami. So Miami went to pick twelve, and
Speaker 1: then they went up to pick six later on Friday,
Speaker 1: um with their trade for Philadelphia. Philadelphia gave up an
Speaker 1: extra first round pick to move six spots. And the
Speaker 1: weird thing is they're not even a position to take
Speaker 1: a quarterback from here. They moved up six spots to
Speaker 1: get like a tackle. I don't know that's gonna be.
Speaker 1: That was another one. Just Miami crushed at the front office,
Speaker 1: just crushing. I love their offseason moves Will Fuller and others,
Speaker 1: and now now this so a great, great opportunity for them. Now,
Speaker 1: the teams that get screwed out of this this deal
Speaker 1: on Friday, the Panthers and the Broncos. These were teams
Speaker 1: picking eight and nine, and both teams heavily repeatedly rumored
Speaker 1: to be looking to make a quarterback up grade. Bryan,
Speaker 1: Now they're dead because now these quarterbacks are gonna go.
Speaker 1: They're gonna, like I said, I think they go one, two, three,
Speaker 1: four in quarterbacks. And when none of those four are
Speaker 1: gonna hit pick eight, and it's became that much harder
Speaker 1: to try to trade up for one. It's the the
Speaker 1: Mac the Max scrap that they're gonna be vying for
Speaker 1: Mac Jones. I think they're now then, and I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think anyone wants to be talking themselves into
Speaker 1: Mac Jones. But I see I don't. I don't love him. No,
Speaker 1: I think I don't. I don't know that the small
Speaker 1: pocket of people there are there are there are Chris
Speaker 1: Simms loves him. There are people who do so if
Speaker 1: you're the Panthers of the Broncos now, and by the way,
Speaker 1: we let's be clear, the Jets are not moving the Jet.
Speaker 1: The fact that the Jets didn't take this deal because
Speaker 1: you know, the Niners called the Jets and offered the
Speaker 1: same thing to the Jets and the Jets said no.
Speaker 1: So you know they're taking a quarterback. So um, this
Speaker 1: means the Jets staying quarterback. So we know the top
Speaker 1: three going quarterbacks Panthers and Broncos would have to try
Speaker 1: to maybe move up to Atlanta at pick four is
Speaker 1: about the only thing they can do if they want
Speaker 1: to try to get a quarterback. Otherwise, you could try
Speaker 1: to fear the panthers of the Broncos. You could trade
Speaker 1: for a quarterback who is sixteen pending sexual assault lawsuits
Speaker 1: against him. You could rate for Jimmy Garoppolo um a
Speaker 1: quarterback who was so unwanted that the Niners spent three
Speaker 1: first round picks to avoid him. Or you could do
Speaker 1: the mac Jones as you mentioned. You could trade up
Speaker 1: with Atlanta, Cincinnati maybe, or you just start the guys.
Speaker 1: You've got Carolina and Denver should make a play for
Speaker 1: Gardner Minshew. In my opinion, he would come in and
Speaker 1: push both Bridgewater Andrew Lock on the Denver side. And
Speaker 1: you can get Minshew for a song now because they're
Speaker 1: all in on Trevor Lawrence of course in Jacksonville. So yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure. Okay, let's talk about some of the some
Speaker 1: of the other big moose that happened from the wide
Speaker 1: receiver position since our last podcast, Brian, and then we'll
Speaker 1: go to running backs and we will go to tight ends.
Speaker 1: Uh in totality for this free agency period. So we
Speaker 1: begin with Kenny Golladay going to the Giants. This is
Speaker 1: your former team, the Giants, they have now loaded with
Speaker 1: offensive talent. Are around Daniel Jones did really other than
Speaker 1: the offensive line, although in credib and fairness they put
Speaker 1: a lot of They've really tried to show up for
Speaker 1: that line. It just hasn't worked. Um they've given They're
Speaker 1: gonna give Daniel Jones every opportunity to succeed this year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm more excited for Daniel Jones. I am Kenny Golladay.
Speaker 1: There's still there's competition for Galladay when it comes to targets.
Speaker 1: Sterling Shepard still a factor, of course. I mean Golladay
Speaker 1: is the best wide receiver on the team. Will get
Speaker 1: me wrong by law Evan Ingram. We think he sticks
Speaker 1: around and then a healthy say Kwan Barkley is gonna
Speaker 1: command touches via the ground and the past. So I
Speaker 1: still like Golliday. I think people might get a little
Speaker 1: too over excited about him, bump him into the you know,
Speaker 1: wide receiver twenty range. He was about wide receiver late
Speaker 1: twenties before the news And this doesn't really change a
Speaker 1: whole lot for me, but it makes the whole offense
Speaker 1: better and it boosts Daniel Jones is stock for sure,
Speaker 1: it does. Jones is the winner here. Holliday is probably
Speaker 1: the loser because he goes down, He goes down in
Speaker 1: the quarterback quality that's throwing him, goes down a full
Speaker 1: step from Matthew Stafford to Daniel Jones embarrass If he
Speaker 1: stayed into Troit, he would add, that was what happened.
Speaker 1: That's right, that's right. So, um, Daniel Jones becomes to
Speaker 1: me a very intriguing young player. And you know, as
Speaker 1: a reminder that he played arguably the hardest schedule against
Speaker 1: the past last year. Um, he he does make some
Speaker 1: really good and really bad throws and you just you know,
Speaker 1: part of that I just chalk up to him just
Speaker 1: style a play and also just him learning on the job.
Speaker 1: This becomes a mak or break year for Daniel Jones.
Speaker 1: And unlike the Jets who had a similarly you know,
Speaker 1: young quarterback couple of years in the league shrouded with
Speaker 1: no talent, and the Jets really don't know what they
Speaker 1: have in Sam Donald. The the Giants are gonna find
Speaker 1: out everything they need to know about Daniel Jones this
Speaker 1: year and have a have an answer one way or another,
Speaker 1: barring major injury to his weapons they have. Daniel Jones
Speaker 1: doesn't get it done this year, then hopefully Getleman realizes
Speaker 1: it's time to move on. But I'll for himself move
Speaker 1: himself on. But yeah, ide both be hitchhiking on the
Speaker 1: parkway or the turn play together. Uh, t Y Hilton
Speaker 1: stays in Indianapolis. He turned down the Ravens for the
Speaker 1: opportunity to stay with the team he's been a part
Speaker 1: of for ten years. And no one wants to be
Speaker 1: wide receiver in Baltimore. Baltimore's tried to team Johnson can
Speaker 1: run because schusterdal I'll take less money and stay with
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlisberger's arm. Yeah, t Y Hilton, this is the
Speaker 1: last It was a one year deal. He's at that age.
Speaker 1: He should have went for the money. But I know
Speaker 1: we're just talking fantasy here, but it doesn't move the needle.
Speaker 1: He's on the decline. And you know, there's an obviously
Speaker 1: quarterback change in indeed, from Rivers to Wentz, which is
Speaker 1: kind of a lateral move. There's probably more upside. Where
Speaker 1: is more upside with Wentz. The arm is so much
Speaker 1: better than what Rivers had at the end of his career.
Speaker 1: But uh this the overall quarterbacking my not be that
Speaker 1: great for wins. The jury is still out on that,
Speaker 1: but Yeah, Hilton still where he is. He's a a
Speaker 1: wide receives he's a bench player in redrafts and uh,
Speaker 1: you know Dart in best Ball, but nothing too exciting.
Speaker 1: Staying in Indie, the Lions picked up what might be
Speaker 1: their wide receiver one in Brishad Perriman. Yeah, it might
Speaker 1: be the best receiver on roster. Well, and then Tyrell
Speaker 1: Williams we talked about last week. That's like the gross
Speaker 1: that's like the most highly contested battle for the least
Speaker 1: exciting wide receiver one in the NFL. Tyrelle Williams, I
Speaker 1: think Paman, if you can find the right spots, I
Speaker 1: actually think he's gonna be good. And here's why the
Speaker 1: Lions are gonna be losing a ton and assuming Pairman
Speaker 1: can stay healthy, there's gonna be a lot of just
Speaker 1: bombs away trying to catch up from behind, a lot
Speaker 1: of passing from golf and a lot of these games.
Speaker 1: Is the Lions are obviously in a major rebuild, So
Speaker 1: I think Pairman is gonna be one of those guys
Speaker 1: you can just you can plug in from time to time.
Speaker 1: He'll be a super fun DFS guy and always has been.
Speaker 1: You can hit those big games of Harriman, you get
Speaker 1: paid big bank. Yeah, we're looking at a hundred plus
Speaker 1: targets easily from Perriman. So he's fantasy viable for sure.
Speaker 1: Last last receiver I want to mention that signed since
Speaker 1: our last show, DeShawn Jackson. He'll play for two games
Speaker 1: for the Rams and then get hurt. Speaking of intriguing
Speaker 1: DFS plays, that's all. He's the best ball guy you want,
Speaker 1: you want to stash on your bench. But if he
Speaker 1: stays healthy, he'll make some noises year. I'm sure when
Speaker 1: Antonio Brown won the Super Bowl he was like, yes,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get this big pay day, and you know
Speaker 1: teams are gonna be clamoring for me. I I was
Speaker 1: a a significant cog to a Super Bowl team, Crickets
Speaker 1: for Antonio Brown, including his old team that has brought
Speaker 1: back basically the entire team except Antonio Brown had the
Speaker 1: franchise tag on Chris Godwin did not help Brown's prospects
Speaker 1: for the If that didn't happen, then it was probably
Speaker 1: a foregone conclusion he'd resigned with Tampa Bay. But you
Speaker 1: know they like Scottie Miller, young guy, so at they're
Speaker 1: they're they're pretty heavy at receivers so and a couple
Speaker 1: of weeks ago, we mentioned Brown seems like the only
Speaker 1: Blakely landing place at this point in his career and
Speaker 1: his mindset. What Brown is, what landing place or not
Speaker 1: re landing place in Tampa Bay, in Tampa's he needs
Speaker 1: to stay with Tom Brady, does need to stay with
Speaker 1: Tom Brady anybody else. I think that's part of the
Speaker 1: concern is if you're any other team who has even
Speaker 1: passing into Santonio Brown, you gotta ask yourself, which am
Speaker 1: I gonna sure he was? He was fine while he
Speaker 1: was living in god Brady's house, Baltimore. No one wants
Speaker 1: to play wide receiver Baltimore. About double revenge games with
Speaker 1: the Steelers. Against the Steelers, I should say, let's go
Speaker 1: is a double revenge or single revenge? We'll double in
Speaker 1: that he gets the get the get Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm with you on that. We'll take a break when
Speaker 1: we come back. Let's go through the free agent running
Speaker 1: backs Chris Carson, Kenyan, Drake James White, Philip Lindsay uh
Speaker 1: and many others notable running backs. Leonard four Nette talked
Speaker 1: about the Bucks bringing back the gang. Leonard four Nett
Speaker 1: and him staying with Tampa. We'll talk about the fantasy
Speaker 1: implications of the running backs when we come back to
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Weekly. Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Giargian
Speaker 1: and Brian Johnson with you. Let's recap the salient free
Speaker 1: agent running back moves from this off season, beginning with
Speaker 1: Chris Carson, who resigns with Seattle. To me, this was
Speaker 1: the best possible outcome for Chris Carson, and especially with
Speaker 1: Carlos Hide gone. Now the only thing that and they
Speaker 1: is a team that's traditionally used a workhorse, it'll beat
Speaker 1: Chris Carson. I I feel like he's vastly underappreciated, and
Speaker 1: I don't see Rashad Penny as a threat. How do
Speaker 1: you see this? Yeah, I'm with you. This is the
Speaker 1: best case scenario for Carson staying in Seattle. Touched on
Speaker 1: this a couple of weeks ago. The most rushing yards
Speaker 1: since eighteens of the last three years regular season games
Speaker 1: only Derrick Henry number one, Ezekiel Elliott number two, Dalvin
Speaker 1: Cook number three, Chris Carson. Report So people, listeners, no
Speaker 1: listener would have thought that, and that the line is
Speaker 1: essentially been garbage his whole tenure thrown down the gauntlet
Speaker 1: on this right, and if the front office is going
Speaker 1: to keep him, they need to protect him. But there
Speaker 1: there there. Maybe we're a couple landing places that would
Speaker 1: been a little more enticing for Carson, but staying in
Speaker 1: Seattle is just fine, and he's undervalued right now. He's
Speaker 1: a guy everyone should be targeting in Dynasty, redraft all
Speaker 1: of it. I'm with you, um. One of the other
Speaker 1: landing places that could have worked out for Chris Carson
Speaker 1: was Atlanta, and instead they signed Mike Davis on a
Speaker 1: very cheap deal, and we saw Davis look awfully good
Speaker 1: and he walks into a three down starting role in Atlanta.
Speaker 1: He kind of reminds me. I feel like I'll be
Speaker 1: reminded of the Michael the Burner Turner days kind of.
Speaker 1: They kind of see my comparable players. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: love the move a lot. Falcon is always a potent offense.
Speaker 1: Like you said, he's likely walking into a Bell roll.
Speaker 1: Todd Gurley long gone, not like he was much of
Speaker 1: a factor. And speaking of double revenge games, he gets
Speaker 1: Carolina twice a year now that he's the Falcons. And
Speaker 1: then I did extended to research because Davis has been around.
Speaker 1: He gets San Francisco this year too. Oh yeah, he's
Speaker 1: he started there. I think, well they drafted him and yeah,
Speaker 1: but he had a little bit marred injury history. But
Speaker 1: sadly no Bears or Seahawks on the schedule because he
Speaker 1: could have had the quintuple revenge game because he's all
Speaker 1: been in the NFC. So I like to move from
Speaker 1: Mike Davis and I like to move for Atlanta. Like
Speaker 1: you said, got him on the cheap, and that's a
Speaker 1: three down starter that nobody's really gonna be thinking about.
Speaker 1: And he's gonna be an RB two this he's top
Speaker 1: twenty four range right now, easily for Kenyan. Drake goes
Speaker 1: to the Raiders for two years. He will back up
Speaker 1: the oft injured Josh Jacobs and they're talking about having
Speaker 1: him play a little wide out as well, which whatever.
Speaker 1: I don't care about that, but um that we've seen
Speaker 1: the backups behind Josh Jacobs, have you know been plug
Speaker 1: and play guys, and you know Jacobs does get hurt
Speaker 1: a lot. Yeah, Drake pretty much the one the key
Speaker 1: handcuffs going into the season. If you invest in Josh
Speaker 1: Jacobs and yeah, like you said they want to use
Speaker 1: him at wide receiver. I'm not saying you can't catch
Speaker 1: the ball. He's proven he can over the course of
Speaker 1: his career. Short career, but top fifteen receiving yards once
Speaker 1: last year with zero touchdown. So yeah, let's Kenyan Drake
Speaker 1: wide receiver. Okay. James James White resigns with the Patriots.
Speaker 1: His usage basically fell in half of Tom Brady out.
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not very interested in this move now,
Speaker 1: and if DA best bet um, we'll see what they
Speaker 1: do at quarterback. Patriots aren't done at the quarterback position.
Speaker 1: I don't believe, and that that could change our evaluation
Speaker 1: of James White. Philip Lindsay goes to the Texans a
Speaker 1: one year, three half million dollar deal. I think this
Speaker 1: is the worst possible landing spot for Philip Lindsay. He's
Speaker 1: gonna have to battle David Johnson and mark Ingram and
Speaker 1: I just think it's it's just too many miles to
Speaker 1: see the grossest backfield, terrible offense with we don't even
Speaker 1: know the starting quarterback. Is gonna be a bad offensive line,
Speaker 1: and there's nothing to like here. Yeah, three years ago,
Speaker 1: these these guys are top twenty four running backs on
Speaker 1: draft day now, all on the same team, and I
Speaker 1: don't want to touch any of them. Damian Williams signs
Speaker 1: one year deal with the Bears, and you'll remember the
Speaker 1: Damien Williams knows Matt Nage's offense from Kansas City and
Speaker 1: he was with Bill Laser when he was with the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: if you go back to previous spot. So a schematic
Speaker 1: fit here for Damien Williams and he backs up David Montgomery.
Speaker 1: And you know, while Montgomery clearly looked better last year,
Speaker 1: you know, I still think there's a plenty of room
Speaker 1: for Damien Williams to have a role in this offense.
Speaker 1: Three Cohen will come back though, and muddy the words
Speaker 1: as well. Yeah, you basically touched on it. All bad
Speaker 1: news from Montgomery. Basically, Williams will soak up some touches
Speaker 1: in a three Cohen who played what to three games
Speaker 1: last year. But we're getting hurt clearly that the alpha
Speaker 1: receiving back on that team. So yeah, Montgomery is gonna
Speaker 1: go way too high this year. That's gonna be I'm
Speaker 1: it's March. I'm planting my flag in don't follow the
Speaker 1: adp on David Montgomery. It was justified before this move
Speaker 1: really because he did, like you said, you look great
Speaker 1: second half of the year last year. It's a little strong.
Speaker 1: Great for David Montgomery or for a Bear. No knock
Speaker 1: on Allen Robinson, Ellen Robinson, you agreed to well Bears runners.
Speaker 1: I hear Peyton was good. Yeah. Uh. Jamal Williams signs
Speaker 1: in Detroit for two years. Uh. The market was really
Speaker 1: pretty soft for Jamal Williams. But he gets out of
Speaker 1: Green Bay and that it ends up that we have
Speaker 1: the resigning. Well, let's maybe we should go back to
Speaker 1: the resigning. So Aaron Jones resigns in Green Bay, Jamal
Speaker 1: Williams goes to Detroit. For Aaron Jones, it's a pretty
Speaker 1: good it's a pretty good outcome. He was already a
Speaker 1: top five fantasy running back and now Jamal Williams out
Speaker 1: of the mix. I'm just envisioning someone with Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: and DeAndre Swift on their Dynasty roster and they're like, yes,
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams Green Bay, he's gonna sath My, DeAndre Swift
Speaker 1: shares and and Adrian Peterson cockroach unwilling to die. So yeah, again,
Speaker 1: sort of bad news for Swift, but I think Williams
Speaker 1: had more standalone value in Green Bay probably than he
Speaker 1: will in Detroit. But yeah, he handcuff at best best
Speaker 1: Marlon max Stang in Indianapolis, he goes into a muddy backfield.
Speaker 1: I don't think we're gonna be drafting him at all.
Speaker 1: Um other notables, quasi notables. Uh, Mike Boone goes to
Speaker 1: the Broncos, where he will be the number two running
Speaker 1: back there, or at least as things currently stand. I
Speaker 1: think the Broncos are candidates to get a running back
Speaker 1: in the draft. Um. I like Mike Boon. I've been
Speaker 1: a Mike Boon apologist here in Minnesota for a long time.
Speaker 1: I think he's requisitive RB two on a team, second
Speaker 1: running back. You know, get that with the Broncos and
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon, we've seen the best of Melvin Gordon for sure,
Speaker 1: throughout his greer He's probably still the better running back.
Speaker 1: But yeah, Mike Boone is a guy you want to
Speaker 1: keep your eye on, not just as a handcuff. He's
Speaker 1: a back, a standalone backup i'd be looking at on
Speaker 1: draft day. I don't want to talk about these backups
Speaker 1: that got that have new homes. But Tevin Coleman to
Speaker 1: the Jets, Carlos High to Jacksonville, Malcolm Brown to Miami,
Speaker 1: DeVante Booker to the Giants. These are all backups that need,
Speaker 1: you know, need a break or something to happen before
Speaker 1: any fantasy impact at all. Leonard for Nett stays with
Speaker 1: the Bucks. What do you think that? So he had
Speaker 1: the big he had the big playoff run, he was
Speaker 1: instrumental to their getting them to the super Bowl, and
Speaker 1: then um, he uh, I think he thought there'd be
Speaker 1: a big market for him and it never really came together,
Speaker 1: and he's he languished on the free agency market for
Speaker 1: the better part of a week and a half and
Speaker 1: then finally he had to just resign with the box.
Speaker 1: You know what I think is what I should have
Speaker 1: thought more last year, especially playing daily, is just pretend
Speaker 1: the Buck's backfield doesn't on no part of it any
Speaker 1: format Fantasy football. Now it's bad. Yeah, unfortunately, all right,
Speaker 1: we'll take a break when we come back. The tight ends,
Speaker 1: and it was a it was a lot of movement
Speaker 1: on tight end. I'm excited about one. I know you are.
Speaker 1: I'm excited about one too. We'll talk about the free
Speaker 1: agent tight end moves from this offseason. When we come
Speaker 1: back to Fantasy Football Weekly, welcome back Paul Charchian and
Speaker 1: Brian Johnson with you. The free agent tight ends conversation
Speaker 1: begins with the Patriots because they got the number one
Speaker 1: and the number two best tight ends. And I I've
Speaker 1: said it a million times, I'll continue to say it.
Speaker 1: Best head coach ever, Bill Belichick, worst GM ever, Bill Belichick.
Speaker 1: I don't understand. I think I can understand signing one
Speaker 1: of these two. And I know you can play two
Speaker 1: tight ends a lot. And I know about Aaron Hernandez
Speaker 1: and Gronk playing together, don't care. That was with Tom
Speaker 1: Brady and this was a and when they were at
Speaker 1: their their height, they had Randy Moss and West Welker,
Speaker 1: and you know that was a luxury d F two tenants.
Speaker 1: This is a team that had no good wide receivers
Speaker 1: and instead of signing their second tight end, they could
Speaker 1: had Kenny Golladay. You know it's time close. We you
Speaker 1: know the they paid Nelson Aglar and Kendrick Borne no
Speaker 1: big money, the big to sign Juju and Will Fuller
Speaker 1: like head scratch, just baffling moves. So John and Johnno
Speaker 1: gets four years from the Patriots, and and when when
Speaker 1: he was the first guy to sign, they signed him
Speaker 1: right out of the gate with a probably the flashiest
Speaker 1: day one signing to eight tight end easily right there,
Speaker 1: right then, at that in that moment, he was he
Speaker 1: was back right back into the top ten, even with
Speaker 1: Cam Newton throwing him the ball. You're like this. They
Speaker 1: obviously love him, they paid him so much. And then
Speaker 1: one or two days later the Patriots signed Hunter Henry
Speaker 1: for three years and a similar deal like million bucks.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable and that that I think it all but ruins
Speaker 1: the fantasy value of both guys not in team tight
Speaker 1: end leagues. Yeah, tight end, this is the best scenario
Speaker 1: there is. I just don't know that you're ever gonna
Speaker 1: be able to guess which guy is gonna score, even
Speaker 1: when you've got a primo tight end matchup. How am
Speaker 1: I supposed to know if it's a johnno Smith game
Speaker 1: over a Hunter Henry game. Yeah? Uh, tough to call
Speaker 1: from a daily prospective week to week. And when it
Speaker 1: comes to redrafts and even dynasty startups at this point,
Speaker 1: I just not touching it. Now. They're gonna stab each
Speaker 1: other's value so distantly really really unfortunate for both of
Speaker 1: those guys. And now if somehow they get themselves the
Speaker 1: Patriots get themselves back to a meaningful quarterback. Brian Um.
Speaker 1: I don't know the trade for Jimmy Garoppolo or Sam
Speaker 1: Donald maybe even you know, if they have some semblance
Speaker 1: of passing prowess in the you know, then maybe I'll reconsider.
Speaker 1: But I'm I'm very very nervous right now for Hunter
Speaker 1: Henry and John new Smith. All right, let's go to
Speaker 1: uh Rob Gronkrowski. He resigned with the Bucks for one year.
Speaker 1: We saw a lot of his work had sapped up
Speaker 1: by Cameron brad Um and then, you know, trying to
Speaker 1: figure that out every week was almost impossible for fantasy
Speaker 1: owners as well. Hey, Gron finished tight end eight nine
Speaker 1: on a total points basis, but points per game. He
Speaker 1: he was kind of brutal, had some really gasp played
Speaker 1: most of the season. That's why he was able to
Speaker 1: finish top ten among tight ends. But he's he's a
Speaker 1: backup when it comes to fantasy. That's bottom one. Speaking
Speaker 1: of backups for fantasy, Jared Cook, who has got who
Speaker 1: the Saints had zero interest in retaining, goes to the
Speaker 1: Chargers to fill in for Hunter Henry. Yeah, and really
Speaker 1: Donald Parham. The Parham I don't know pronouncing the other
Speaker 1: one correctly, but the former XFL star is a lot
Speaker 1: more exciting Jared J. I think it's from a from
Speaker 1: a long term perspective. Maybe cook Out performs Parham this year,
Speaker 1: but Donald Parham is really the guy to keep your
Speaker 1: eye on it tight end for the Chargers. Anthony Firkster
Speaker 1: resigns with the Titans for one year Without John hu
Speaker 1: Smith there, Ferkester becomes actually very interesting in this offense,
Speaker 1: and we've seen him perform well when John who was
Speaker 1: playing hobbled in the for the you know, the last
Speaker 1: second half of the season last year. First it was
Speaker 1: actually you know, a guy you could you could throw
Speaker 1: a dart ad from time to time. Now with Jonas
Speaker 1: Smith gone, he'd been and Corey and Corey Davis gone.
Speaker 1: I mean, think of all the targets that are gone
Speaker 1: out of out of the Tennessee receiving group. Anthony Firster
Speaker 1: is going to be a popular sleeper. Yeah, he showed
Speaker 1: he could play last year. He had a couple of
Speaker 1: really big games like yeah, like yards in a touchdown,
Speaker 1: has some big chunk yardage games. So yeah, there was
Speaker 1: a looking good and really Josh Reynolds the only ad
Speaker 1: for Tennessee at wide receivers, not not much one. So
Speaker 1: Adam Humphrey's gone as well. That's another vacated target. And
Speaker 1: keep in mind the new offensive coordinator for Tennessee is
Speaker 1: Todd Downing. Who was the tight end coach? You like?
Speaker 1: I think those things can matter. It's just you know,
Speaker 1: when you were the position coach, you know everything there
Speaker 1: was to know about that player and who can really
Speaker 1: be helpful for you? So I think that might ultimately
Speaker 1: help Anthony Ferchster, he's going to be one of my
Speaker 1: It's again it's March, but he's one of my favorite
Speaker 1: early sleepers. Anthony Kster. We'll save the best for last year. Ready,
Speaker 1: speaking of favorites, go ahead, Dan Arnold to the Panthers,
Speaker 1: and I didn't appreciate how uh, well, it's not Rhodo
Speaker 1: wire anymore. What are the artists ABC Sports Billy or
Speaker 1: something like that. They broke the news to me saying
Speaker 1: Panthers take flyer on receiving tight end Dan Arnold two years,
Speaker 1: six million, four point five million of that six was
Speaker 1: guaranteed that doesn't sound like a flyer to me, that
Speaker 1: sounds like guy. And you know who's not the guy
Speaker 1: is Ian Thomas. Ian Thomas, by the way, top ten
Speaker 1: and snaps as a receiver among tight ends last year. God,
Speaker 1: he didn't produce like that at all. Then that was
Speaker 1: the same amount of snaps at you know, split out
Speaker 1: his receiver as t J. Hockenson. He was more than
Speaker 1: Mark Andrews, more than Robert Tonyan, more than anything. Twenty receptions.
Speaker 1: You and Thomas had one touchdown. Now inside Dan Arnold playmaking.
Speaker 1: Dan Arnold reunited with I don't know if it's the
Speaker 1: O C or the tight ends coach off the top
Speaker 1: of my head, but from his days with New Orleans,
Speaker 1: so you know they lured him in to Carolina and
Speaker 1: mentioned it last week or a week or two ago. Arnold,
Speaker 1: only you saw forty five targets last year. Uh. To
Speaker 1: put that into perspective, guys like Hunter, Henry Noah Fan,
Speaker 1: Dalton Schultz, Mike Kisiki or Hebrons saw roughly ninety targets.
Speaker 1: And if you doubled Arnold's production on the forty five
Speaker 1: targets at ninety, he would have finished with over sixty
Speaker 1: catches yards and eight touchdowns. That's like top five, top
Speaker 1: six tight end territory. Sure if I double his production.
Speaker 1: Look at he's not an offensive with Arizona, well, not
Speaker 1: as production, just as targets. I mean, it's not apples
Speaker 1: to apples. But Dan Arnold stock way up in my mind. Okay,
Speaker 1: he is draftable as a backup tight end right now
Speaker 1: with tight end one upside in that being a top
Speaker 1: twelve tight end. A couple other notes that aren't necessarily
Speaker 1: related to running backs or tight ends. The Niners they
Speaker 1: kept their the highest graded tackle from last year by
Speaker 1: Pro Football Focus, Trent Williams, and then they added center
Speaker 1: Alex mac who played for Shanahan in Atlanta, and maxim
Speaker 1: older player and I was thirty five years old, but
Speaker 1: still this. I love the fact that that offensive line,
Speaker 1: which can be very good, stays intact for the forty Niners.
Speaker 1: And on the other side of the coin, the Raiders
Speaker 1: jennison four of their starters from last year, Rodney Hudson,
Speaker 1: Gabe Jackson, Richie Incognito, and Trent Brown roll gone. That
Speaker 1: is a lot of change on an offensive line, and
Speaker 1: you know, we know that when you bring all these
Speaker 1: new bodies together. It takes like half a year to
Speaker 1: get the cohesion on that offensive line, and I think
Speaker 1: that think that line is gonna be a wreck. I'm
Speaker 1: with you, and one more team I think we should
Speaker 1: make mention of again is the Giants from a non
Speaker 1: fantasy perspective, but it's gonna have implications as them signing
Speaker 1: cornerback a Dory Jackson, which might give them the best
Speaker 1: cornerback duo now with Brad Berry on the other side,
Speaker 1: and that defense is not a shutdown cornerback. He's not
Speaker 1: a shutdown shadow cornerback, but he's reunited with Logan Ryan
Speaker 1: from when he was good with the Titans. I'm saying
Speaker 1: the Giants defense you want to you want to fade
Speaker 1: on a certainly from a deli perspective, just looking at
Speaker 1: NFC East teams like the Giants are no dormat anymore,
Speaker 1: even though they're I'm not gonna get into Dave Petleman.
Speaker 1: I'm done. Last thing I'll mention about the Packers. They
Speaker 1: lost their center Corey Lins Like he was a great player,
Speaker 1: and that is a that's a sizeable loss. Chargers pick
Speaker 1: him up. I love to see the Chargers working their
Speaker 1: offensive line and I think they're gonna hit it in
Speaker 1: the draft as well, because they've got a great quarterback
Speaker 1: that they need to protect, and they've had offensive line
Speaker 1: woes for twenty damn years and I want to see
Speaker 1: them get better. So the Packers will be without him.
Speaker 1: And Aaron Rodgers was the least pressured quarterback last year.
Speaker 1: This could put a ding in that um Packers did
Speaker 1: put did get Robert tany in on a second round tender,
Speaker 1: and he's unlikely to leave the team. And I'm glad
Speaker 1: to see tany and stay there because of what the
Speaker 1: success he had. What is the big wide receiver signing
Speaker 1: for the Packers. I kind of expected what the heck? Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and I realized they hadn't They didn't have
Speaker 1: money to burn. Blaga was super expensive last year. You know,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers is extremely expensive. Antonio Brown or Samue Watkins's
Speaker 1: freaking sucks. Uh. De goes back to Green Bay's bounce.
Speaker 1: That's right, That's right, Thanks Brian, great job, Thank you
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