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Speaker 1: Now here's your host. Welcome to the first off season
Speaker 1: edition Fantasy Football Weekly for at least for this off season. Harrison,
Speaker 1: it's not our first half. I think we dubbed like
Speaker 1: the playoff edition as the first off season show for us.
Speaker 1: But speaking yes, yes, but then yes, the NFL off season,
Speaker 1: so lots to talk about as we already start. You know,
Speaker 1: in many ways, thinking about the upcoming free agency, the draft,
Speaker 1: a lot of stuff. I thought it'd be fun to
Speaker 1: go around the NFL and look at some of the
Speaker 1: free agents that have a pretty decent chance of leaving
Speaker 1: their team, and yet um, who could then fill in
Speaker 1: that spot, Who could walk into that spot that's already
Speaker 1: on that team if they don't replace the right exactly exactly. So,
Speaker 1: you know, for a lot of this stuff, it's TBD
Speaker 1: on how it's actually gonna pan out. But in many
Speaker 1: cases there's just some good opportunities. Here's the guy who's
Speaker 1: rising to the top of the depth chart for now.
Speaker 1: For now, Yeah, let's start at the quarterback position. Ben
Speaker 1: Roethlisberger is done or something. God yea the last few
Speaker 1: years it was it was not good. But the Steelers
Speaker 1: despite knowing this is coming, you've had, you've had eighteen
Speaker 1: years to prepare for this moment, and they're not ready.
Speaker 1: Mason Rudolph's the only person on is I guess, the
Speaker 1: closest thing on on on roster right now. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think they have Dwayne Haskins under contract to UM but
Speaker 1: it's gonna be messy. And I believe the Steelers pick
Speaker 1: twentieth in the draft right now, I would venture to
Speaker 1: guess that they are a real candidate if they see
Speaker 1: a quarterback that they actually do like in the draft
Speaker 1: that they'd move up. They've may be the most likely one.
Speaker 1: They're also I think one of the two or three
Speaker 1: most likely teams to make a trade for like a
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo or if Kirk Cousins Ull Wilson maybe maybe
Speaker 1: you know, if Russell Wilson, I think you I think
Speaker 1: he will be available. We'll find out. Um So Roethlisberger.
Speaker 1: That's because the rest of that team is ready to go.
Speaker 1: I don't think they want to start over in the
Speaker 1: draft if they don't have to. If if it turns
Speaker 1: out they can get a quarterback they think they can
Speaker 1: live with. Honestly, Jimmy Garoppolo is better than the versions
Speaker 1: we've seen of Ben Roethlisberger the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: And they got on the play you know, they're able
Speaker 1: to get to the playoffs. Had heard a hot rumor
Speaker 1: that Garoppolo maybe traded to the Buccaneers for the rights
Speaker 1: to Tom Brady. Let's use that there could be something
Speaker 1: to do that. It is absurd, but it's not. It's not.
Speaker 1: It'sout merit um. So let's sorry about Tom Brady. He's
Speaker 1: gone and that leaves obviously a roster that is otherwise
Speaker 1: very good. Yeah, so that might roster that's really in flux,
Speaker 1: as we'll kind of talk about as we continued down
Speaker 1: to the running back, in the wide receiver and the
Speaker 1: tight end position. Everybody's contract was up in Tampa this year.
Speaker 1: This is kind of an all in moment. I think
Speaker 1: that affected Brady's decision. Yeah, I think that they're they're
Speaker 1: probably in a little bit of a reload situation here.
Speaker 1: It could be that way. They got Kyle Trask, but
Speaker 1: you know, we saw nothing of him during the season.
Speaker 1: He was a round pick last year. We have no
Speaker 1: there's no reason to believe Kyle Trask is going to
Speaker 1: be ready to be the starter. Aaron Rodgers is expected to.
Speaker 1: He's under contract, you know, but he's there's a good
Speaker 1: chance he ends up leaving. That would put Jordan's Love
Speaker 1: in a position to become a starter. Yeah. I picked
Speaker 1: up Jordan's Love and a couple of Dynasty leagues and
Speaker 1: just kind of stashed him just in case. I mean,
Speaker 1: about halfway through the year when it was like, hey,
Speaker 1: Jordan's Love is available in a trade for next to nothing.
Speaker 1: You know, I might as well put him on there
Speaker 1: and see if it works. And if if the Packers
Speaker 1: offense continues to be you know, seventy effective under Jordan's
Speaker 1: Love as it was under Aaron Rodgers, I mean, that
Speaker 1: could be okay, unless, of course, the wide receiver position
Speaker 1: is the biggest problems. In a minute, um, a lot
Speaker 1: of people are gonna take the Jordan Love start that
Speaker 1: he had against the Chiefs and try to extrapolate that
Speaker 1: to a career or a full season career. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a lot to be gained from
Speaker 1: that one game, to be honest, Uh, it just it
Speaker 1: seems unlikely. Um So Rogers says, your your league m VP,
Speaker 1: He's gone. Jordan's love will likely step in there. Jamis
Speaker 1: Winston for the Saints is headed to free agency. I
Speaker 1: don't know. I guess Caseom Hill is your You know,
Speaker 1: the people signed him to too much money, so much much,
Speaker 1: a bad deal, and then Sean Payton left. You blame him,
Speaker 1: got off that sinking ship. God, Taysom Hill is not
Speaker 1: an NFL starting quarterback, is a headget player. He probably
Speaker 1: will be next, may have to be. They may just
Speaker 1: have to, you know, they might just go to grit
Speaker 1: their team. Given the salary cap situation. I believe there's
Speaker 1: seventy one million dollars over the caps um, they might
Speaker 1: just have to say, we we're gonna have to make
Speaker 1: do with Taysom Hill, and you know, just wherever that
Speaker 1: lands us, they should probably, you know, look, look to
Speaker 1: get rid of some of those veterans that they have
Speaker 1: on that roster, Cam Jordan, Michael Thomas, those kind of
Speaker 1: they should be jettising those guys off for for draft
Speaker 1: picks here and there. And just trying to rebuild it.
Speaker 1: We could do a whole show on Michael Thomas and
Speaker 1: how this thing went from so high to so low
Speaker 1: in the span of two seasons. Unbelievable. You know. I
Speaker 1: was thinking about that with wide receivers the other day
Speaker 1: on how some wide receivers they just poof are gone
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, Like the the guy this year
Speaker 1: that I didn't even include in this list, and he
Speaker 1: is a free agent, Allen Robinson, good receiver, good receiver, buss,
Speaker 1: but you can put him on the list. But Darnell
Speaker 1: Mooney already took over the number one wide receiver role there,
Speaker 1: I'm sure not in his I think he would tell
Speaker 1: you the Bears just epically misused him for his entire career,
Speaker 1: which is true. Okay, you can put let's talk Allen
Speaker 1: Robinson a little bit later. Teddy Bridgewater, uh leaves behind
Speaker 1: three thousand passing yards. His usual you know, like what
Speaker 1: it was an eighteen touchdowns is he's a touchdown a
Speaker 1: game guy. That's what he's always been. It's it's just,
Speaker 1: you know, that's what he is. And that's why teams
Speaker 1: always move on from Teddy Well and everybody earmarks the
Speaker 1: Broncos is the best situation for a quarterback to just
Speaker 1: kind of blump into I mean Rogers. There two great
Speaker 1: wide receivers. He's got a good running game. Uh, the
Speaker 1: defense seems set up to make a decent run. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The problem is is you're you're in a division with
Speaker 1: Patrick Mahomes and justin airball. See. I wonder if in
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers mind, that's not a factor. Oh, it's gotta be.
Speaker 1: You know. Do you want to go into that division
Speaker 1: and try to finish your last couple of years in
Speaker 1: Denver against Patrick Mahomes tough? You know, maybe he's too
Speaker 1: big of a coward for that. It's possible that's how
Speaker 1: he ends up in Tampa. Maybe, but it'll no way, Right,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers gonna go to the a f C. I
Speaker 1: don't think Packers would trade him in conference. Probably not.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the running backs. Melvin Gordon leaves behind
Speaker 1: roughly half the carries for the Broncos, one thousand yards
Speaker 1: and ten touchdowns. Can I just add those thousand yards
Speaker 1: and ten touchdowns at Javonte Williams automatically? Yes? Please, as
Speaker 1: somebody who has Javonte Williams everywhere, yes, please. Brian and
Speaker 1: I did a first round mock draft, as you may
Speaker 1: have heard a couple of weeks ago, and Javonte Williams
Speaker 1: went at the back end of the first round based
Speaker 1: on what we know right now, which is, you know,
Speaker 1: we don't know if he's going to be the lock
Speaker 1: starter or not. And you've mentioned a couple of times
Speaker 1: on this podcast that you you kind of expect Melvin
Speaker 1: Gordon to just resign in Denver, and and and you've
Speaker 1: said that too. I hope this doesn't happen, but I
Speaker 1: think it might happen, and nobody wants Melvin Gordon back
Speaker 1: in Denver, at least in the fantasy world. Melvin Gordon's
Speaker 1: probably listening to this because he does responding fantasy on Twitter.
Speaker 1: He does, he loves it. But yeah, sorry, Melvin Sony
Speaker 1: Michelle will be a free agent and that will leave
Speaker 1: Cam Akers to become the lock starter in all probability. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you'd hope so. And Darrell Henderson did enough this year
Speaker 1: to you know, probably forced that into a fifty fifty
Speaker 1: time share, which I think I think the Rams kind
Speaker 1: of want to do. Yeah, I think that's probably the
Speaker 1: although they had used Akers, you know, when a pre injury.
Speaker 1: They were they were using him as a workhorse back
Speaker 1: at the tail end of last year. Definitely, Leonard four
Speaker 1: Nett could end up leaving Tampa Bay and ended up
Speaker 1: being a pretty successful migration from him from Jacksonville to
Speaker 1: Tampa in his two seasons and had the great playoff
Speaker 1: run two years ago and then last year put up
Speaker 1: total yards and ten total touchdowns. Ronald Jones also gone,
Speaker 1: and they won't bring him back obviously. Probably not so
Speaker 1: unless you think Keyshawn Vaughn is a hidden talent that
Speaker 1: none of us have seen so far. But they got
Speaker 1: Jeo Bernard too. It's the ender contract um their team
Speaker 1: that's ripe to find a running back. Yeah, absolutely, they
Speaker 1: could be one that's, you know, looking for a running
Speaker 1: back kind of at the tail end of the second
Speaker 1: round in the draft where most running backs kind of
Speaker 1: start falling off. So I think that second or third
Speaker 1: round running back for Tampa is very likely. James Conner's
Speaker 1: headed to free agency and so is Chase Edmonds, So
Speaker 1: it's like nine total yard touchdowns between the two of
Speaker 1: That's a great point. Somebody's walking into a massive opportunity.
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, like that that could be whoever ends
Speaker 1: up signing. Let's let's just say, for instance, Leonard four
Speaker 1: Nette ends up going to Arizona, like Leonard Fournett, suddenly
Speaker 1: becomes for interesting if they don't have anybody else besides
Speaker 1: him and Eno Benjamin there, Needle Benjamin is no threat
Speaker 1: fantasy standpoint, rare shot. Penny finished the season on an
Speaker 1: epic run the number of big, big runs, and know
Speaker 1: I he looked way better than any previous time in
Speaker 1: his career and in conveniently heads to free agency. Not
Speaker 1: convenient for the Seahawks, but can be for everybody else.
Speaker 1: So left on roster is so Chris Carson might not
Speaker 1: ever play again. Now we're nervous about the neck injury
Speaker 1: for Alex Collins is there, but he's nothing, And so
Speaker 1: that leaves DJ Dallas, who's a guy that they drafted highly.
Speaker 1: Actually he played fairly okay in a couple of little spots,
Speaker 1: fairly fairly okay. Yeah, um, I don't know. Dj Dallas
Speaker 1: and a team that could be rebuilding, they could just go,
Speaker 1: you know what, we're just gonna roll with with Dj
Speaker 1: this year and he's gonna be our our bell cow.
Speaker 1: Seattle's a team that does bell Cow their runners. They
Speaker 1: do um, no team more probably invested in Rashad Penny
Speaker 1: than the team that up until Thanksgiving looked like they
Speaker 1: had utterly botched the first round pick they had put
Speaker 1: on Rashad Penny. So you know, I feel like emotionally
Speaker 1: the Seahawks would like to bring him back so it
Speaker 1: doesn't look so bad, which makes would make some sense. Right,
Speaker 1: we'll find out, But I don't think d J Dallas
Speaker 1: is not a league back in my mind. So all right,
Speaker 1: let's go to Atlanta. Cor Darrel Patterson had put up
Speaker 1: eleven hundred total yards eleven touchdowns, but petered out badly
Speaker 1: in December where I don't know if they just overused
Speaker 1: him or he never had that much mileage ever. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's kind of like, you know, how like when
Speaker 1: a rookie comes in and they say that you hit
Speaker 1: the rookie wall at about week thirteen, fourteen, something like that.
Speaker 1: This might have been the rookie wall for Cordrel Patterson
Speaker 1: in his tent here in the league where he just
Speaker 1: has never had that much of a workload before, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, he's just like they just didn't
Speaker 1: give him the ball they just you know, they stopped.
Speaker 1: And he had been He had been the Cinderella story
Speaker 1: of the fantasy season up until roughly Thanksgiving, and then
Speaker 1: he just petered out. It probably didn't help that Atlanta
Speaker 1: has Matt Ryan and no wide receivers and and all
Speaker 1: you really needed to do was stop Kyle Pitts. Actually
Speaker 1: became kind of easy, as he only scored one touchdown
Speaker 1: in the Continental United States this year, and it was
Speaker 1: in the Pro Bowl. He did catch plenty of passes
Speaker 1: and he had had good yards. Stopped Pitts, and you
Speaker 1: can stop Patterson. You stopped that offense. It was done.
Speaker 1: When we come back, let's talk through the free agent
Speaker 1: wide receivers and tight ends that will be finding new teams,
Speaker 1: what that leaves behind, and what this could mean for
Speaker 1: your fantasy team. When we returned to the second segment
Speaker 1: of Fantasy Football Weekly, Welcome back Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul
Speaker 1: Ciarchi and Matt Harrison with you. I've already talked through
Speaker 1: the quarterback and running back free agents. The wide receiver
Speaker 1: list is juicy, it's sure and and really probably the
Speaker 1: best wide receiver free agent class in well, well, I'm
Speaker 1: saying overall, the number one best wide receiver to hit
Speaker 1: the market, Davante Adams. He could be the best wide
Speaker 1: receiver to ever hit free agency. That's a great It's
Speaker 1: a great thought, and off top my head, I can't
Speaker 1: think of one better. I mean, Davanta Adams is, if
Speaker 1: not the best wide receiver in football, he's a top
Speaker 1: three right, And there only a couple of guys that
Speaker 1: are even that conversation. These guys will almost never get
Speaker 1: to free agency, but the Packers cap situation makes it
Speaker 1: almost impossible. And Adams isn't gonna want to resign in
Speaker 1: if he's gonna have a rebuilding quarterback. We don't think
Speaker 1: that's true. And I think that the Adams situation plays
Speaker 1: more into the Aaron Rodgers situation than I think people
Speaker 1: are giving a credit. Um, do you think if Adams leaves,
Speaker 1: Rodgers won't want to say? Yeah, I don't think. I
Speaker 1: don't think Rodgers is gonna want to stay without Davante Adams,
Speaker 1: and I don't think Adams is gonna want to go
Speaker 1: back there without Aaron Rodgers. I think both of them
Speaker 1: leave or both of them stay, And if both of
Speaker 1: them stay, the Packers have some cap gymnastics to get
Speaker 1: through They're gonna have to cut twenty or so players,
Speaker 1: it looked like, and it was. It was absolutely madness.
Speaker 1: When I saw a Packers capologist kind of go through
Speaker 1: what they needed to do to keep just to franchise him.
Speaker 1: They still couldn't franchise him. It was after cutting like
Speaker 1: twenty players and including like Zadarius Smith and some of
Speaker 1: the big players that they have. So Adams is likely
Speaker 1: to be out of Green Bay one way or another,
Speaker 1: which is unfortunate. Obviously, that takes one hundred twenty three
Speaker 1: catches and fifteen hundred yards off the team, which is insane.
Speaker 1: And by the way, MVS also a free agent, Marcos Valdez,
Speaker 1: Scantling and Equinamius st Brown all free agents. Alan Lazard
Speaker 1: is actually a restricted free agent as well. He'll stay,
Speaker 1: but he'll stay, and he's likely walking into the top role.
Speaker 1: Now is that with Aaron Rodgers? Because if all Lazard's
Speaker 1: in the top role with Aaron Rodgers, I'm interested. Zard's
Speaker 1: really interesting. And if he's not with Aaron Rodgers, he's
Speaker 1: got a a new quarterback who's little green, and he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna hit his top receiver early and often. Chris
Speaker 1: Godwin with the Buccaneers is primed, is ready to potentially
Speaker 1: leave the Buccaneers. No, Tom Brady. If Kyle Trask is
Speaker 1: the quarterback, he'll be further incentivized to leave. I don't
Speaker 1: think they have anybody on that team that's ready to
Speaker 1: step up. Brady hates Tyler Johnson, Yeah, refused. I mean
Speaker 1: when Tyler Johnson was playing constant snaps in the in
Speaker 1: the second part of the season, after Antonio Brown was
Speaker 1: gone and hurt and then gone, they still didn't never
Speaker 1: throw to Tyler Johnson hates him. Scotty Miller was a
Speaker 1: non factor. I think there's somebody else out there that
Speaker 1: will end up getting getting some reps, but I don't
Speaker 1: think it's anybody on the team. Might just be Mike
Speaker 1: Evans over and over and over again, and they can't
Speaker 1: or they can't put god or they won't put Godwin
Speaker 1: under the second franchise tag because he was franchise last
Speaker 1: year and the second one makes him just like outlandishly expensive.
Speaker 1: So Godwin's gone and he's gonna find a new place
Speaker 1: to play this coming year. Christian Kirk and A. J.
Speaker 1: Green are set to be free agents for Arizona. You
Speaker 1: um you know about Ron del Moore, and he had
Speaker 1: moments where he flashed, but just a handful of moments.
Speaker 1: He's a water bug, special talent. He destroyed the Vikings
Speaker 1: in Week two and then probably was never really reliable again.
Speaker 1: That guy that I've that I'm gonna talk about right
Speaker 1: now is already my favorite offseason sleeper for fantasy use
Speaker 1: going into next year. That's Antoine Wesley. Yeah, he was
Speaker 1: a touchdown hog kind of at the tail end of
Speaker 1: the year. Kyler found him a lot, and as we know,
Speaker 1: Arizona plays a lot of three and four wide receiver sets,
Speaker 1: probably more than just about anybody in the league, and
Speaker 1: Wesley really capitalized on that. With the DeAndre Hopkins injury,
Speaker 1: I don't think they'll bring greenback. Christian Kirk has a
Speaker 1: chance to come. He could come back um and he
Speaker 1: he usually plays the slot, so Wesley would probably we
Speaker 1: slot in as that other guy. Yeah, so I like
Speaker 1: I like him a little bit more than Ron Dale.
Speaker 1: He's tall, range, and you're right they liked throwing to
Speaker 1: him in the end zone. I think Antoin Wesley is
Speaker 1: a fascinating sleeper. Interesting on the did you see the
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray unfollowed all of the Cardinals accounts and stuff
Speaker 1: like that, and his Instagram. He took everything but two
Speaker 1: photos out of his Instagram account. I understand. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know why we should go back and and like
Speaker 1: Kyler Murray think this is it's going to get better
Speaker 1: for him. I mean, they gave him, they improved his
Speaker 1: offensive line, they gave him a an elite wide receiver
Speaker 1: to throw to. I don't why would what does Kyler
Speaker 1: Murray have to be upset about? I don't know. They
Speaker 1: brought in J. J. Watt, they brought in zach Ertz,
Speaker 1: they brought in A. J. Green, They brought in guys
Speaker 1: who could win DeAndre Hobbins exactly. I don't understand. I hope,
Speaker 1: I hope he's not a diva. Mike Williams coming off
Speaker 1: probably his best NFL season yards, nine touchdowns, but now
Speaker 1: he heads to free agency. What does that love with
Speaker 1: the Chargers. Don't you think Mike Williams would have wanted
Speaker 1: the season to end about Week eight and to go
Speaker 1: to free agency at that point because he he had
Speaker 1: he had he had those uhty six yards and nine touchdowns,
Speaker 1: and I think about of that production happened in the
Speaker 1: first eight weeks, at the first five weeks is so
Speaker 1: what I remember it as. Um. Josh Palmer, third round
Speaker 1: draft pick from last year, had flashed a few at
Speaker 1: a few moments over this year. Yeah, him and Jalen
Speaker 1: Guiten were almost mirror images of themselves in in like
Speaker 1: production on the field. I think both have a shot
Speaker 1: too to really shine next year, but they're probably both
Speaker 1: Guitan's coming way later in in early like best ball drafts.
Speaker 1: He's like about forty spots later. But Palmer is in
Speaker 1: a good spot too, and and and both really stand
Speaker 1: to just kind of step up in this offense with
Speaker 1: air bear, which is a good thing to have. Last week,
Speaker 1: in advance of the Super Bowl, Arthur Blank talked about
Speaker 1: Calvin Ridley and basically said, we don't know what's up,
Speaker 1: and you know, we we hope he stays, but we
Speaker 1: don't know if he wants to stay here. And it's
Speaker 1: really gonna be up to Calvin Ridley. He's gonna be
Speaker 1: on the fifth year of his rookie deal, um A,
Speaker 1: which is the year where you make money. This is right,
Speaker 1: This is like the money year for him. So you know,
Speaker 1: you know, if for whatever his reasons were for stepping
Speaker 1: away for the team, Um, they weren't financially motivated, because
Speaker 1: this only hurts him financially, And so nobody could ever
Speaker 1: accuse Calvin Ridley of having you know done, you missed
Speaker 1: the season for that reason. But if you're the Falcons
Speaker 1: and you're looking at going into a fifth year with
Speaker 1: Ridley and and in his fourth year he missed half
Speaker 1: the season for you know, his personal reasons whatever, they
Speaker 1: are not not judging there, but you gotta look at
Speaker 1: that asset and go, is it just time to trade
Speaker 1: Ridley get something for him at this point before we'd
Speaker 1: get nothing for him when he leaves after year five,
Speaker 1: which unless you franchise him or whatever. They've still got
Speaker 1: Matt Ryan with like three years left on a very
Speaker 1: expensive contract, and so they I don't think they're ready
Speaker 1: to totally rebuild, but really could be gone. Gauge could
Speaker 1: be gone. So you know, there's they got no one left. Really,
Speaker 1: they have nobody left, even Cordarrel Patterson, who might be
Speaker 1: a wide receiver and Bic circles Brian's Brian. I can
Speaker 1: hear him from way over there, Kyle Pitts receiver. Uh,
Speaker 1: let's go to Jamison Crowder and Braxton Barrios are both
Speaker 1: headed to free agency. Elijah Moore, who stepped up big
Speaker 1: time in the second half of the season, looks like
Speaker 1: he's gonna walk into a lot of reps for the Jets.
Speaker 1: Well and Crowder and Barrios both kind of split the
Speaker 1: slot and both kind of played opposite each other. When
Speaker 1: Crowder was hurt, Barrios stepped in. When Barrios was hurt,
Speaker 1: Crowder stepped in. But together nineties seven catches, almost nine
Speaker 1: yards and four touchdowns. That's a lot of work that
Speaker 1: that is going away from that offense and the Jets
Speaker 1: they have to top ten picks. Uh, There's there's a
Speaker 1: lot of decent wide receivers in this class. I think
Speaker 1: people kind of like this wide receiver class a little bit.
Speaker 1: So it would not surprise me if the Jets are
Speaker 1: in that wide receiver market and they bring another guy
Speaker 1: into more breakout he could he could absolutely be a stunner.
Speaker 1: Michael Gallup and Cedric Wilson. You know, the funny thing
Speaker 1: is you Gallop had the had the big injury early
Speaker 1: in the season, then he came on the field, played
Speaker 1: really really well, then he got hurt again, and when
Speaker 1: he wasn't on the field, it was Cedric Wilson on
Speaker 1: the field in his place, who was also playing well.
Speaker 1: And we all knew Gallop was hitting free agency. I don't,
Speaker 1: I don't. I think that we kind of missed that
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson was hitting free agency too, because I remember
Speaker 1: talking on on the Fantasy Football Weekly regular season shows about, oh,
Speaker 1: Cedric Wilson's gonna step into this huge role here. But
Speaker 1: he's a free agent too, but more much more signable,
Speaker 1: I think than Michael Gallup. Sign a bole. Keep an
Speaker 1: eye on Malik Turner, who actually flashed a few times
Speaker 1: this year. And with the Cowboys having so much money
Speaker 1: tied up in Amari Cooper and then they probably have
Speaker 1: to pay Ceedee Lamb very soon, I would I would
Speaker 1: venture a guest that they're not going to spend any
Speaker 1: more money on the wide receiver position and just kind
Speaker 1: of roll with a guy like Malik Turner who's got
Speaker 1: some electricity to him and he's just the third wide receiver,
Speaker 1: so let's roll with it makes sense. Let's go to
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham, free agent coming out of the Super Bowl.
Speaker 1: Um Van Jefferson was already a starter he's already a starter.
Speaker 1: We gotta remember that Robert Woods will come back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll be Woods. Woods. Woods will be there. Jefferson's probably
Speaker 1: still in his same spot. But what a fortuitous bounce
Speaker 1: for the Rams. By the way they go get Odell
Speaker 1: to think they're going to have Woods, Odell and Cup
Speaker 1: on the field, and then Woods got hurt that week,
Speaker 1: So um good good on them to have that depth.
Speaker 1: Allen Robinson is almost certainly of the Bears chance he
Speaker 1: was horribly misused by the Bears. I just think just
Speaker 1: she sheer receiving talent. At least going into last season.
Speaker 1: I used to say Allen Robinson is a top ten
Speaker 1: receiving talent who just never gets used properly by a
Speaker 1: terrible Bears offense. Um. Now, he last year was so
Speaker 1: down for Allen Robinson, I don't know that I can
Speaker 1: reasonably call him a top ten receiving talent anymore. But
Speaker 1: there's still clearly talent there, and he may find his
Speaker 1: way on a on a surprisingly affordable deal to some
Speaker 1: team that could really use him. Well. He made eighteen
Speaker 1: million dollars last year. That's a lot for the production
Speaker 1: you got out of it. For what you've got the
Speaker 1: Bears did not get good value on that last year.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I mean Robinson could end up. You'd think
Speaker 1: Robinson would be a guy who's like, I've made a
Speaker 1: lot of money. Now I'm gonna go play with Patrick Mahomes,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go now, I'm gonna go play with I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go play with Joe Burrow. I'm gonna Yeah. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you're him, that would make so much sense. Un
Speaker 1: let's take a break and we'll knock down a handful
Speaker 1: of tight ends. And there's actually there's a shocking number
Speaker 1: of tight ends that are headed to free agency. We'll
Speaker 1: talk about them and who could possibly step in for
Speaker 1: those tight ends when we come back to Fantasy Football Weekly,
Speaker 1: final segment Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Chargie and Matt Harrison
Speaker 1: with you. We're breaking down, as you already know, unless
Speaker 1: you for some reason, they're just jumping into the third segment,
Speaker 1: all the free agents, the key free agents, fantasy free
Speaker 1: agents that we care about. And we've already done quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: running backside receivers. Let's talk tight ends, beginning with Dalton Schultz,
Speaker 1: who's set for free agency. What do you think this means?
Speaker 1: For Blake Jarwin, who had signed that big deal two
Speaker 1: years ago then lost that season to a c L.
Speaker 1: Then last year had lost the starting job to Dalton
Speaker 1: Schultz well and and Jarwin ended up getting injured at
Speaker 1: the tail end of the season again and missed. So
Speaker 1: there's obviously some concern there that he's just not longevity. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there there there's that that health concern for Jarwin. But
Speaker 1: if if the Cowboys can't sign Schultz, Jarwin probably regains
Speaker 1: his role as the top tight end there and they
Speaker 1: can't afford to put another good tight end under contract.
Speaker 1: They're already paying Jarwin too much. Yeah, I don't know,
Speaker 1: I don't I don't know right off hand what Jarwin's
Speaker 1: outs are, the potential outs on the contract, but it
Speaker 1: would be it would be tough for them to sign
Speaker 1: Schultz and then not cut Jarwin. In some Tyler Conklind
Speaker 1: in Minnesota was ended up having a pretty good season
Speaker 1: after IRV Smith was lost, but he's headed to free
Speaker 1: agency and IERF Smith will be coming back from injury. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you'd think that with Kevin O'Connell coming in as
Speaker 1: the new head coach the Vikings, IRV Smith's going to
Speaker 1: be utilized some similarly to what Tyler higg Be and
Speaker 1: Gerald Everett in the past with the rams have been
Speaker 1: been utilized as and if Smith's and playmaker, we've we've
Speaker 1: seen it before. He's he's only showed it in little spurts.
Speaker 1: But um, I think a lot of people will be
Speaker 1: excited about IRV Smith next year coming into the year
Speaker 1: and he'll have some sleeper status to him that I
Speaker 1: think he's going to be the prototypical second tight end
Speaker 1: that you taketeenth round and if he happens to blow up, great,
Speaker 1: and if he doesn't, you're not in trouble because he's
Speaker 1: your second tight end. For if Smith, David and Joeku
Speaker 1: is going to be out and Harrison Bryant will be
Speaker 1: a I think we'll walk into the starting role. Well,
Speaker 1: Austin Hooper is still there, but there's a potential out
Speaker 1: on his contract where Cleveland could walk away from a
Speaker 1: ton of money on Hooper if they get rid of him,
Speaker 1: they should, which which all of a sudden, Harrison Bryant,
Speaker 1: who's fault. He is very athletic and and he vaults
Speaker 1: into the top spot and probably the maybe the second
Speaker 1: receiving option for Baker Mayfield after Jarvis Landry, I mean,
Speaker 1: Donovan People's Jones is there too, but there's not a
Speaker 1: lot of great receiving options on that team. So Harrison
Speaker 1: Bryant could stand to get a huge up tick, and
Speaker 1: Target really could. He's one of my favorite sleepers heading
Speaker 1: into this. Uh this next season. UM let's move over
Speaker 1: to Rob Gronkowski. I believe that he will end up
Speaker 1: leaving the Bucks because Brady's not there and there's so
Speaker 1: so much overhaul in this offense, and I don't think
Speaker 1: he's gonna want to walk into that. Uh. He may
Speaker 1: still play next year, but I don't think it's for Tampa. No,
Speaker 1: I don't think he plays for Tampa. Um. I I
Speaker 1: would probably lean towards retirement, like like a sixty forty
Speaker 1: kind of thing. But I have heard that he does
Speaker 1: want to play in a couple of different spots, and
Speaker 1: he even mentioned I believe to somebody that he'd like
Speaker 1: to play with Joe Burrow and with c j Uzoma
Speaker 1: hitting free agency, there's there's a little hole in that
Speaker 1: that area, and Drew Sample is gonna be the go to.
Speaker 1: Probably not but the Bengals, actually, I believe have like
Speaker 1: one of the better top five cap situations in the
Speaker 1: next year, so they could go get a guy like
Speaker 1: Gronk and whether or not the that situation is good
Speaker 1: for him, that would be really interesting. We should also
Speaker 1: mention O. J. Howard also a free agent, Cam Brake
Speaker 1: maybe the last tight end standing for loving some camp
Speaker 1: right that that dude caught so many touchdowns that one
Speaker 1: year to get eight year that was great, um eight words,
Speaker 1: great for break eight great break. Jared cook Is is
Speaker 1: headed to free agency. Donald parm was a guy that
Speaker 1: I was recommending people pick up. Yeah, premature speculations. Yeah,
Speaker 1: as as a guy to pick up for next year.
Speaker 1: He suffered that really bad injury and uh concussion. I
Speaker 1: think it was concussion or back, back or neck or something.
Speaker 1: Was completely knocked out. Yeah, so but I'm presuming that's
Speaker 1: going to be fine. Palm is a freaking beast. He's
Speaker 1: six ft eight. I mean, he's just power forward. You
Speaker 1: know the problem His parum is a free agent too.
Speaker 1: I don't think he is. He is. He sure took
Speaker 1: it off the off the list that spots. Okay, all right,
Speaker 1: I was under the impression he was the letter. Now
Speaker 1: who's the other tight end? I don't even not Steven
Speaker 1: Anderson problem with something like I thought for sure Parham
Speaker 1: was still look it up just to make sure, But yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe Donald. While you're doing that, I will I
Speaker 1: will segue for a minute to Arizona, where zach Ertz
Speaker 1: is going to be leaving. Um. Max Williams will look
Speaker 1: great for like four weeks and then got hurt, So
Speaker 1: I don't I'm not positive with his status. His status is,
Speaker 1: but the zach Ertz rental worked out for the Arizona
Speaker 1: in the sense that he was very productive, but did
Speaker 1: not work out because in the sense that they didn't
Speaker 1: even get a playoff win. Parum is an exclusive, right,
Speaker 1: I knew they're gonna keep Parum. They probably will. He's
Speaker 1: only twenty five years old. Yes, well, as long as
Speaker 1: he's healthy. Yeah, as long as he's recovered from that injury,
Speaker 1: I think that they will definitely keep him. Mike Kissecki
Speaker 1: frustrating season. You never knew when to start in games
Speaker 1: where he just disappear, and it's been this way his
Speaker 1: whole career. Games where he just totally disappears. But you
Speaker 1: you look at him when he does get the ball.
Speaker 1: The clear guys clearly talented but they just never they
Speaker 1: never went to him on a regular basis. We don't
Speaker 1: know what's missing from what do the coaches know and
Speaker 1: what does the team know about Mike Kiseki that we
Speaker 1: don't see on the field. Well, new uh coach in Miami,
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel, right, um, who knows a little something about
Speaker 1: getting the ball to a tight end? Exactly right? You what,
Speaker 1: what the the easy narrative will be is gizikis, you know,
Speaker 1: falling into the George Kittle role. Obviously, Giziki is a
Speaker 1: free agent here and and some things could change. You
Speaker 1: might see a few different people there, like maybe Zach
Speaker 1: Ertz signs that a free agent deal down there or
Speaker 1: something like that. But Gisiki is definitely an interesting guy
Speaker 1: wherever he lands, because there is enough talent and if
Speaker 1: you think, if you think that the talent is there,
Speaker 1: he just needs a good opportunity at that point. So uh,
Speaker 1: he's he's a guy. Definitely keep my eye on where
Speaker 1: he lands this year. It'll be a blast tracking all
Speaker 1: of this. I think the new league year when free
Speaker 1: agency starts is twelfth of March. Okay, so right in there,
Speaker 1: So we've got only only a month less than a
Speaker 1: month ago, A couple of weeks, yeah, and so the
Speaker 1: less than a month ago before free agency starts, and man,
Speaker 1: the NFL cycle, there's just there's no downtime. Combine, combine
Speaker 1: in early March, right into free agency, right into the draft.
Speaker 1: It's it's always something, and we'll be here with you
Speaker 1: every step of the way. Thanks for listening. Fantasy Football
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