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Speaker 1: It's Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchie, and my
Speaker 1: co host, as has been the case for most of
Speaker 1: these off season episodes, Brian Johnson.
Speaker 3: Hey, Hey charch Happy fourth of July.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I love the fourth of July weekend.
Speaker 3: Do you really?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I do.
Speaker 3: I had a sense we're just talking off air about it.
Speaker 1: And yeah, Minnesota is a very unique case. And I
Speaker 1: don't want to bore people too much Minnesota centric stuff,
Speaker 1: but in Minnesota, like half the population owns a cabin
Speaker 1: in the north half of Minnesota.
Speaker 3: Or they know La so they know someone who.
Speaker 1: Or knows somebody right, So much of the Twin Cities
Speaker 1: just empties to the north. And I love being in
Speaker 1: town where there's no traffic. The restaurants are aren't crowded,
Speaker 1: the movie theaters aren't crowded. Everything I want to do
Speaker 1: is got less people in it.
Speaker 3: We are in lockstep there. Love Yeah, that part is fantasic,
Speaker 3: going up North Way too much riff raff. I just
Speaker 3: hate fireworks. I'm not like, not like the big organized ones.
Speaker 3: You want to go sit in traffic and walk out
Speaker 3: to the field of the brit Fine.
Speaker 1: You're not interested in the in the fire cracker, the
Speaker 1: Roman candle.
Speaker 3: The people across the border for those who don't know,
Speaker 3: in Wisconsin you can buy the real deal. Well, yeah,
Speaker 3: I hate the good stuff, especially people that are lighting
Speaker 3: them off at two am.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you can give out the thoughtful about that stuff.
Speaker 1: But what if people it's ten o'clock on the fourth
Speaker 1: of July, game on? I mean, that's that's your problem.
Speaker 1: Not there so that time they breaking the law.
Speaker 3: Oh they're not, aren't they.
Speaker 1: No? I guess a lot of fireworks when you do it, those.
Speaker 3: Things are like weapons of mass destruction.
Speaker 1: And bring it on, baby. I love that stuff. I
Speaker 1: love it now.
Speaker 3: I'll tell you I don't not wait until the fifth
Speaker 3: of July.
Speaker 1: Here's what I don't like about fireworks. And it's the
Speaker 1: only thing for me is I am one of those
Speaker 1: people that mosquitoes love me. They've got my scent, I've
Speaker 1: got the blood type they love and So if you're
Speaker 1: outside watching some big fireworks thing, the mosquitoes find me first,
Speaker 1: and I can't you know, in the twenty minutes it
Speaker 1: takes to get through the whole fireworks display regimen, I've
Speaker 1: got like forty mosquito bites. And I'm not kidding. I
Speaker 1: mean just it's like every few seconds, I'm getting a bite.
Speaker 3: I love the people that take pictures or videos of
Speaker 3: the fireworks, like you're ever gonna go back and look
Speaker 3: at that.
Speaker 1: It just doesn't work.
Speaker 3: Check out the picture of this firework. You really have
Speaker 3: to be there.
Speaker 1: But it's like concerts. It's like the people who filmed
Speaker 1: the concerts. It doesn't work that way.
Speaker 3: Just enjoy the moment with your eyeballs.
Speaker 1: Exactly because it's not going to translate and it won't
Speaker 1: mean it's like one tenth is good. Later, all right,
Speaker 1: let's speak of Minnesota. Yeah, hey, let's break down the
Speaker 1: off seasons and the forecasting for the NFC North and
Speaker 1: the AFC North.
Speaker 3: We're gonna close it out, right, Yeah, So we've.
Speaker 1: Already done all the other divisions and this is our
Speaker 1: these are our last divisions to do the norths which
Speaker 1: also I think that you know the key part of this,
Speaker 1: in addition is getting up to speed on some of
Speaker 1: the kiopsis moves, is really identifying the players that are
Speaker 1: getting drafted wrong right now based on current ADP. And
Speaker 1: let's uh, why don't we start in I don't know, Uh,
Speaker 1: I want to do Green Bay. Uh sure, I think
Speaker 1: that that is you, that is me? Yeah, how about Detroit?
Speaker 3: Yeah, we can go to Detroit.
Speaker 1: To Detroit. They're they're the favored by a mile. They're
Speaker 1: the Vegas favorite to win.
Speaker 3: The NFC North but wide open in my opinion. But yes,
Speaker 3: Detroit are the favorites. Those are the times we are
Speaker 3: living in. It's kind of crazy. The Lions also one
Speaker 3: of the teams with the most turnover on offense this offseason.
Speaker 3: Major moves in their backfield. Jamal Williams last year is
Speaker 3: leading munch down leader. Yeah, Russier gone in New Orleans now.
Speaker 3: DeAndre Swift trade to the Eagles, So in comes David
Speaker 3: Montgomery to likely assume the Jamal Williams role, and they
Speaker 3: drafted rookie Jamier Gibbs with the thirteenth overall pick for
Speaker 3: major draft capital sunk into Gibbs, who's expected to play
Speaker 3: this hybrid running back receiver role. I will see how
Speaker 3: that pans out, but it's really going to be a
Speaker 3: Montgomery with the early down work. It looks like in
Speaker 3: Gibbs he'll play most downs, but certainly the third down
Speaker 3: specialist you would think coming out of the backfield at
Speaker 3: wide receiver. DJ Shark left via free agency. Back home
Speaker 3: comes Marvin Jones to the Lions fo year old Marvin Jones.
Speaker 3: Jamison Williams not really an off season move, but he
Speaker 3: made a move with his finger on his phone in
Speaker 3: the facility where he made a bet.
Speaker 1: Yep, And it wasn't even in the facility. I think
Speaker 1: it was in away game hotel. It's where he plays
Speaker 1: the bet. And now he's out six.
Speaker 3: But that's considered, you know, like yeah off, you know,
Speaker 3: that's like a traveling team. But anyway, he'll miss the
Speaker 3: first six games. We'll talk about the wide receiver situation
Speaker 3: a little more in a minute or two. Lions also
Speaker 3: drafted tight end Sam Laporta out of Iowa in the
Speaker 3: second round. He's expected to either starting tight end going
Speaker 3: into the season, and Hendon Hooker drafted to back up. Well,
Speaker 3: I don't know if he's not gonna be the initial
Speaker 3: backup for Jared Goff, but he's he's an intriguing diynasty
Speaker 3: Stats twenty twenty four definitely not this year. We won't
Speaker 3: expect much from Hooker. Will the offense be better or
Speaker 3: worse than last year? It was top top five offense
Speaker 3: last year. I'm gonna say about the same. But Jami
Speaker 3: or Gibbs is a huge update potentially with the Jamison
Speaker 3: Williams suspension. Granted, he'll missed a lot of last year,
Speaker 3: but he came on strong at the end of the year.
Speaker 3: You know you need eight catches THEA. But he'll miss
Speaker 3: the first six games. But it's not gonna get any worse.
Speaker 3: We'll put it that way. It's gonna I'll go with better,
Speaker 3: but it's not going to get worse, even though there's
Speaker 3: a lot of changes on that offense. To me, the
Speaker 3: most underdrafted player right now is David Montgomery. I agreed
Speaker 3: at running back twenty six eighty fourth overall. I mean,
Speaker 3: Jamal Williams seventeen touchdowns last year, and it's not like
Speaker 3: Montgomery's automatically slated for seventeen touchdowns.
Speaker 1: He won't get seventeen, but he's gonna he could get
Speaker 1: double digit. But even if he gets roughly half that,
Speaker 1: so you put him on nine, that's a touchdown every
Speaker 1: other game. And then for Montgomery.
Speaker 3: Running back twenty six, I'll take that all day. And
Speaker 3: Jamior Gibbs the most overdrafted to me at running back fourteen,
Speaker 3: going forty first overall, you're getting, you know, a fifty
Speaker 3: percent discount on Montgomery, who I suspect is going to
Speaker 3: score more touchdowns total, more yards.
Speaker 1: I don't well about the yard I don't agree with
Speaker 1: you on the yards at all, but I'm with you
Speaker 1: on the touchdowns and Gibb. What worries me about Gibbs
Speaker 1: is there's a real path for Gibbs to have like
Speaker 1: a five touchdown season like DeAndre Swift right where he's
Speaker 1: not gonna get goal line work. He needs to score
Speaker 1: from distance, which he'll do a few times. You know,
Speaker 1: he'll he's gonna Gibbs is going to be a guy
Speaker 1: that's gonna roll up. It'll have a couple of long
Speaker 1: runs or whatever, but he's gonna roll up what five
Speaker 1: ish catches a game for forty yards. So he's gonna
Speaker 1: get you like nine fantasy points right there on full
Speaker 1: PPR for sure, for sure.
Speaker 3: PPR Dings standard big ding right much. I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I just don't think the touchdowns are going to be
Speaker 1: there for Gibbs to get all the way up to
Speaker 1: be running back fourteen. But I do think that's in
Speaker 1: a full PPR. Running Back fourteen to me isn't far
Speaker 1: off of where he should be.
Speaker 3: No, not in full PPR. No.
Speaker 1: Now let's go to the Vikings off season moves that matter.
Speaker 1: For the Vikings. They released Adam Thelen replaced him with
Speaker 1: first round pick Jordan Addison. Theeling by many metrics, took
Speaker 1: a big step backwards last year, including his cushion rate,
Speaker 1: his separation rate, yards after catching me, just a lot
Speaker 1: of things that really suggested Thelon was at the end
Speaker 1: of a very good career. And then, of course they
Speaker 1: released Dalvin Cook outright, and they replaced him with nobody knew,
Speaker 1: but did resign Alexander Madison to a two year deal.
Speaker 1: We'll talk more about him in a few minutes. This
Speaker 1: offense will trend similar to last year, when the Vikings
Speaker 1: finished eighth in points, sixth in yards. Dalvin Cook wasn't
Speaker 1: great anymore last year, but the overall running back depth
Speaker 1: chart takes a step back clearly Without Dalvin Cook, the
Speaker 1: passing game is going to miss the sure hands of feeling,
Speaker 1: but they gained the big play threat of a young
Speaker 1: Jordan Addison, which is very exciting. Kirk Cousins will be
Speaker 1: thirty five this season. Maybe this is the season where
Speaker 1: he starts to show his age, but we didn't see
Speaker 1: really any signs of that last year. He looked very
Speaker 1: much last year like the quarterback he had been for
Speaker 1: the past several years, and so Kirk still seems like
Speaker 1: a very safe, bankable guy. So I think this team
Speaker 1: trends about the same as last year.
Speaker 3: Cousins isn't a guy that I'm concerned about age now.
Speaker 1: It doesn't feel like it doesn't like.
Speaker 3: When we get into the his late thirties, he feels
Speaker 3: like a guy w's gonna play itu ttill he's forty, Like, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I don't know, because he's not a mobile quarterback, so
Speaker 3: we're not really relying on his yeah athleticism that he's
Speaker 3: been very reliable in his career so far.
Speaker 1: So the most overdrafted player I think is Alexander Madison,
Speaker 1: going off the board at running back nineteen sixty first overall,
Speaker 1: and he certainly enters training camp atop the depth chart
Speaker 1: at the running back position. But this is way more
Speaker 1: of an open battle than people realize. Alexander Madison is
Speaker 1: a lackluster runner by many different metrics. He is as
Speaker 1: they say, he's a jag. He is just a guy.
Speaker 1: He's got subpar vision, He's not very good laterally, he's
Speaker 1: a mediocre receiver. The burst is not particularly notable. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of things about his game that I find
Speaker 1: to be very, very average, and I see Madison as
Speaker 1: the most likely Week one starter. But if he doesn't
Speaker 1: really produce, I think Kevin O'Connell's going to start working
Speaker 1: in some of the depth chart guys like ty Chandler
Speaker 1: and maybe Dwayne McBride who they took late in the draft.
Speaker 3: So I think a lot of teams are going to
Speaker 3: me mixing in three running backs in the Vikings are
Speaker 3: certainly one of them. Yeah, people are just assuming Madison's
Speaker 3: is going to get the old person.
Speaker 1: That he's just gonna take Dalvin Cook's touches.
Speaker 3: I'll believe it when I see it. Maybe I'm not
Speaker 3: thinking that either.
Speaker 1: The most underdrafted player related to Madison, ty Chandler, you
Speaker 1: can get him basically free He's going off the board
Speaker 1: at pick two oh one. He's splashed last year in
Speaker 1: the preseason, but couldn't get on the field ahead of
Speaker 1: Cook in Madison. But Cook's gone and now ty Chandler's
Speaker 1: the sophomore and has the potential to get a lot better.
Speaker 1: He's the best pass catcher among Viking running backs, and
Speaker 1: he is a big play home run hitter. Going off
Speaker 1: the board at running back sixty one right now. So
Speaker 1: you got a lot of opportunity with ty Chandler as
Speaker 1: a last pick of your draft dart throw, and he
Speaker 1: might just turn out to inherit that job from Alexander
Speaker 1: Madison at some point, maybe early in the season.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I've been drafting a lot of ty Chandler.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Chicago Bears.
Speaker 3: Brian the Bear's a lot of moves in the office.
Speaker 3: He's in, not a ton of exciting moves. The most
Speaker 3: exciting move was they traded the first overall pick to
Speaker 3: the Panthers for a package including DJ Moore, who's arguably
Speaker 3: the best wide receiver in Bears history already.
Speaker 1: Wow, that's a great question, actually.
Speaker 3: Except Bernard Barry in that one year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Brandon, what's his Bran Mash had a couple of.
Speaker 3: Good years, but that really hasn't been a ton to
Speaker 3: talk about the wide receiver position, So yeah, DJ Moore
Speaker 3: will definitely bolster that pass attack. The Bears also signed
Speaker 3: former panther Dante Forman, he was in part of that
Speaker 3: that trade, to a one year deal. We mentioned David
Speaker 3: Montgomery gone from Chicago, so he will compete for touches
Speaker 3: with Khalil Herbert who's already in town. And the Bears
Speaker 3: also drafted running back Roshawn Johnson out of Texas in
Speaker 3: the fourth round. A guy we like you a lot we know,
Speaker 3: or a good buddy. Thor loves him. Johnson backed up
Speaker 3: Bjon Robinson at Texas, and if he wasn't Bijon backup,
Speaker 3: you know, played somewhere else, he might have gone a
Speaker 3: lot higher in the draft.
Speaker 1: So yeah, you know, I've watched a bunch of Rochan
Speaker 1: Johnson in preparation for the draft, and I walked away
Speaker 1: a lot less impressed than Thor is. But Thor watches
Speaker 1: a lot more college football than I do, and so
Speaker 1: I'm willing to kind of give Thor the benefit of
Speaker 1: the doubt here. He thinks Rochan is just gonna bury Khalil,
Speaker 1: but I'm an and foreman and for form if he's
Speaker 1: not even this conversation. So but I'm just I don't
Speaker 1: know if I feel as confident about that.
Speaker 3: Well, whoever ends up well for all the running backs involved.
Speaker 3: Another notable not move but draft pick. The Bears got
Speaker 3: the tenth overall pick among many other picks for trading
Speaker 3: the first overall pick, and they took offensive tackle Darnell
Speaker 3: Wright with that pick. So yeah, that's great for their
Speaker 3: line and I guess it's worth mentioning tight end Robert
Speaker 3: Tunyan also acquired via free agency, but Cole committed the
Speaker 3: offense should be better this year with the addition of
Speaker 3: DJ Moore the offensive or needs name is slipping my mind.
Speaker 3: It's his second year, it's basically everyone's second year, and
Speaker 3: the coach staff going in more weapons, better o line,
Speaker 3: so the offense should be better under justin fields the
Speaker 3: most underdrafted player by ADP. I was tempted to go
Speaker 3: with the cheapest running back, who is Forehiman. You think
Speaker 3: he's dust I do, I don't know I brought the reason, but.
Speaker 1: They also drafted Roshan Johnson for a reason.
Speaker 3: I'm out on this entire backfield. Now, I was, I
Speaker 3: was on the Rochan train. I was taking my chances there.
Speaker 3: But of course he's not the clear cut starter, doesn't
Speaker 3: have a clear cut path. He's gonna compete with Herbert
Speaker 3: and for him a little bit in my mind, and
Speaker 3: Justin Fields is gonna take some high quality touches or
Speaker 3: carries in that offense too. So I'm out on this backfield.
Speaker 3: So I'm gonna go wide receiver for the most underdrafted player.
Speaker 3: And no it's not Chase Claypool, who they're not happy with,
Speaker 3: shockingly awful trade by the way, yeah, or the last
Speaker 3: pick in the first same thing. Yeah, awful trade. But
Speaker 3: it's Daryl Mooney and it's more of a best ball
Speaker 3: angle here. But right now, at wide receiver fifty eight,
Speaker 3: one hundred and twenty sixth overall, he was getting drafted
Speaker 3: inside the top twenty four wide receivers last year, people
Speaker 3: expecting a lot of things, but the he had he
Speaker 3: got injured almost like halfway through the year. It was
Speaker 3: just a bad year for him. But the addition to
Speaker 3: DJ Moore should help him rising tide with almost.
Speaker 1: He's not a number one and he was getting number
Speaker 1: one coverage last year. Now Moody's gonna get number two coverage.
Speaker 1: He'll run out of the slot a lot more often.
Speaker 1: I think there's there's reason to think Mooney could be
Speaker 1: a a periodic, you know, right, matchup contributor.
Speaker 3: He'll love, He'll love his spike weeks and yeah, he'll
Speaker 3: be a matchup based for sure. He'll be a take
Speaker 3: a chance on any player this season without a doubt,
Speaker 3: and the most overdrafted player. It's tough. I'm just gonna
Speaker 3: go with Dj Moore wide receiver twenty six. I just
Speaker 3: looking in that range overalls. Let me pull it up
Speaker 3: real quick.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna guess, like Mike Evans is in that ballpark.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think other guys that might be, you know,
Speaker 1: in that range.
Speaker 3: Yeah, Christian Kirk is going after him. Brandon Nayuk were
Speaker 3: high on him, Chris Godwin. These are all guys I'd
Speaker 3: rather have, Jackson Smith and Jigbityle Lockett. Yes, I'd rather
Speaker 3: have all of them over DJ Morris. He's my, excuse me,
Speaker 3: most overdrafted bear and.
Speaker 1: He's gonna be He's gonna be okay. Yeah, and Justin
Speaker 1: Hurst Fine throws a nice deep ball, and he's gonna
Speaker 1: have some big downfield plays justin he made justin fields,
Speaker 1: but he may not be as consistent as wide receiver
Speaker 1: twenty six would suggest. Let's move over to Green Bay.
Speaker 1: That's our last NFC North team. The offseason moves that
Speaker 1: matter really aren't very many, other than obviously you know
Speaker 1: that Aaron Rodgers left and he took Randall Cobb, Alan Lazard,
Speaker 1: and Robert Tunyan are all gone to He took Cobb
Speaker 1: and the Lizard with him. The entire passing game has
Speaker 1: been really revised here, including new starters at quarterback Jordan Love,
Speaker 1: wide receiver Jaden Reed taken in the second round that
Speaker 1: was earlier than people expected. And then they drafted the
Speaker 1: two tight ends, and this is a bit of an
Speaker 1: issue for fantasy owners to try to work their way
Speaker 1: through Luke Musgraven round two and then we've assumed that
Speaker 1: would be it than round three Tucker Craft, and really
Speaker 1: both guys are capable pass catchers, and it makes this
Speaker 1: thing super thorny for fantasy owners.
Speaker 3: E'rely reminiscent of when the Ravens took Cayden Hurst in
Speaker 3: the first round and then Mark and I like Craft
Speaker 3: a little more than than must grade. I know you
Speaker 3: might get into that later.
Speaker 1: I do like Craft, and I'm not gonna get into that.
Speaker 3: He's the more like he's the pass catcher, like he
Speaker 3: doesn't block. So that's what we love, the fantasy football
Speaker 3: must graves like the more well rounded. Right, So yep?
Speaker 1: Is this gonna often? Is this offense gonna be worse
Speaker 1: or better than last year? I really struggled with this.
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna be a little better, even even
Speaker 1: with the downgrade presumed downgrade from Aaron Rodgers to Jordan Love.
Speaker 1: But Aaron Rodgers wasn't playing that well.
Speaker 3: I love the Packers this year. I know this is
Speaker 3: gonna anger our Minnesota base but this isn't This is
Speaker 3: not reality football.
Speaker 1: Just they're all so cheap they are.
Speaker 3: And I just I think Love is going to shock
Speaker 3: a lot of people. I don't know.
Speaker 1: And see, Yeah, we've talked about this before. I watched
Speaker 1: Jordan Love's one full game from two seasons ago, and
Speaker 1: he was awful. But there were a lot of things
Speaker 1: working against him in that he didn't know he was
Speaker 1: going to start until Friday, wasn't taking first team reps.
Speaker 1: You know, there were lots of things that went wrong
Speaker 1: with that game. I think Love's going to be okay,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk more about parts of this, you know,
Speaker 1: parts of this offense here in a minute or two.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the most overdrafted player. And I really
Speaker 1: struggled with this. I think mostly all the packers that
Speaker 1: can be had cheaply right now. So I just went
Speaker 1: with basically the first wider, the first player being taken,
Speaker 1: and that's Christian Watson.
Speaker 3: Well, well, I guess he is good before Aaron Jones,
Speaker 3: which is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he is. He's going at wide receiver nineteen, pick
Speaker 1: thirty eight, and I'm intrigued by his upside, right, So
Speaker 1: the problem for me is not Christian Watson, it's the ADP.
Speaker 1: There's no discount being built into his ADP, despite the
Speaker 1: fact that he's got the change of quarterback and so
Speaker 1: much of his production coming on so few plays. Does
Speaker 1: let me ask you this, Brian, does any player in
Speaker 1: all of Fantasy football this year have more upside and
Speaker 1: downside than Christian Watson?
Speaker 3: Probably? But he's in He's in the top five.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, we're extrapolating forty one catches from
Speaker 1: last year. His rookiear forty one in which he managed
Speaker 1: to score nine times. And it's gotta be there's nine
Speaker 1: nine times, there's nine time?
Speaker 3: Hey another movie?
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, you know so, uh yeah it was. It
Speaker 1: was seven catches and two rushing touchdowns. I believe.
Speaker 3: So he don't forget. Yeah, I know you remember Week
Speaker 3: one against the very first offense that's off to eighty
Speaker 3: yard touchdown. That's right, that was right in the red basket.
Speaker 1: That's right.
Speaker 3: You know nine.
Speaker 1: You know, his nine scores came in a four game stretch.
Speaker 1: I mean we're extrapolating, like for you for wide receiver
Speaker 1: nineteen to make sense for Christian Watson. You're really taking
Speaker 1: that four game stretch and going, well, I'm going to
Speaker 1: bank on something like that happening for a lot of
Speaker 1: this season. And I don't know if that's I don't
Speaker 1: know if that's fair to say. Jordan Love might suck.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe he gets better as a sophomore, or
Speaker 1: maybe he doesn't. He did not. Christian Watson does not
Speaker 1: look like a route running technician, Brian. He just doesn't.
Speaker 3: To me.
Speaker 1: He looks like a guy who just runs fast and
Speaker 1: gets open sometimes. And you know that, can you know
Speaker 1: that can do things in the NFL, but it doesn't
Speaker 1: do it regularly and by the and then factor in
Speaker 1: the injury stuff from his rookie as well, so.
Speaker 3: He got his you know, his bell rung a couple
Speaker 3: of times, pretty good miss games with concussions issues are.
Speaker 1: Right, So Christian Watson, if you want to bank, if
Speaker 1: you want to risk Christian Watson, totally cool with that.
Speaker 1: Just know you're not getting him a discount. And then
Speaker 1: the underdrafted player, you got a couple of good options.
Speaker 1: Jaden Reid is go off the board, is wide receiver
Speaker 1: seventy one, so you can get him very very late,
Speaker 1: and he was a second or Romeo Dobbs didn't do
Speaker 1: very much last year, but he's been the darling of
Speaker 1: OTAs in mini camps. You could bank on him having
Speaker 1: a better sophomore season, which is very possible. So you know,
Speaker 1: one of either one of those guys. Dobbs cost a
Speaker 1: little bit more, but not much. So those are the
Speaker 1: guys that I think makes sense as underdrafted players. I
Speaker 1: don't think there's a lot of receiving production that there's
Speaker 1: a lot of receiving production up for grabs in this offense.
Speaker 1: And both Reid and Dobbs are possible guys for that.
Speaker 1: Let's take a quick break, Brian. When we come back,
Speaker 1: let's turn our attention to the AFC North and find
Speaker 1: out what we like about those teams. Hang on tight, everybody,
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Speaker 3: How about we start with the Bengals. Do what Yeah,
Speaker 3: the favorites, Yeah, they are the favorites. Off off season
Speaker 3: moves that matter. Long time backup running back Sama J.
Speaker 3: P Ryan signed with Denver and the only notable notable
Speaker 3: addition to the backfield so far was drafting Chase Brown
Speaker 3: out of Illinois in the fifth round. We'll talk about
Speaker 3: that a little more in a minute or two. Tight
Speaker 3: End Hayden Hurst left for Carolina. He was replaced by
Speaker 3: IRV Smith on a one year proved deal. If Irv
Speaker 3: can I stay healthy, yeah, I know. And really people
Speaker 3: get exit like tight ends just they don't really need
Speaker 3: it in uh Cincinnati, they got enough wide receivers there
Speaker 3: to I don't know. Tight ends haven't done anything in
Speaker 3: Cincinnati since Tyler Eifert and that was many, many years ago,
Speaker 3: and that was only for like a year or two.
Speaker 3: But not too excited about IRV Smith. But you can
Speaker 3: get him on the cheap if you willing, if you're
Speaker 3: willing to go there. At lastly, the Bengals added to
Speaker 3: that wide receiver room. I dis mentioned drafting Charlie Jones
Speaker 3: and andre Io sevus Io. I don't know iOS I
Speaker 3: v a Io Savas. He's a little intriguing. They're both
Speaker 3: intriguing dynasty stashes. Andre out of Princeton, I believe six ' four,
Speaker 3: like two twenties. He's an intriguing prospect. But you know
Speaker 3: he's playing at Princeton, so he was right. The competition
Speaker 3: wasn't great, But again those are just late round dynasty stashes.
Speaker 3: Will the offense be better or worse than last year?
Speaker 3: Gotta go with better. Jamar Chase missed significant called significant
Speaker 3: time five six games last year, he says healthy. I
Speaker 3: know there's Joe Mixon, is I think as we speak
Speaker 3: having some legal proceedings going on with his We won't
Speaker 3: get into this.
Speaker 1: I mean, that's the storyline of Joe Mixon to me,
Speaker 1: is like, unless there was an undisclosed injury of real
Speaker 1: significance to Joe Mixon, dude doesn't have it anymore. You know,
Speaker 1: the end for running backs comes fast. Why they didn't
Speaker 1: do more to backfill his position to me is mysterious,
Speaker 1: and maybe they have more confidence in him and they
Speaker 1: know why he didn't look good. But just the eye
Speaker 1: test line to your Brian, Joe Mixon looked plotting.
Speaker 3: As of right now, he is the starter. He's not
Speaker 3: my most Well, we'll get to my most overdrafted player
Speaker 3: in manteal sort of my most underdrafted player. This is
Speaker 3: hard because you know you're not gonna say Jamar Chase
Speaker 3: is underdrafted, or you can't.
Speaker 1: Because he's like third off the board.
Speaker 3: They all seem to be going in the right spot.
Speaker 3: But I'm on with Joe Burrow. I mean, he's not
Speaker 3: going late, but he's going to his quarterback five forty
Speaker 3: fifth overall, significantly later than the big three Josh Allen,
Speaker 3: Patrick Mahomes, Jalen Hurts, and Lamar Jackson. But he shouldn't
Speaker 3: been going three rounds later than the big three, in
Speaker 3: a round later than l Jackson. He was one of
Speaker 3: three quarterbacks with at least six games with three plus
Speaker 3: passing touchdowns last season. He was on his way to
Speaker 3: the seventh game YEA. In that Bengals game, they opened
Speaker 3: it with a touchdown to T Higgins, which had taken
Speaker 3: off the board, as did the whole game, so he
Speaker 3: lost a game there. Do you remember how man rushing
Speaker 3: touchdowns burrowhead last year? I won't take a guess, three, five, fourth,
Speaker 3: Most of them quarterbacks. They don't want him to run,
Speaker 3: that's all. He got hurt a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3: But he can. Yeah, and I just think his instinct
Speaker 3: takes over for him and he takes off if he.
Speaker 1: Feels another year off that acl He's still young, so
Speaker 1: he's gonna have a little bit of mobility.
Speaker 3: They're not gonna like bootleg him from the Novalve, but
Speaker 3: if needed, he's he can do it. He's mobile, that's
Speaker 3: for sure. So I went with Joe Burrow and my
Speaker 3: most overdrafted player. I wasn't gonna go mixing RB fifteen.
Speaker 3: I don't know he's he's not in his prime. I
Speaker 3: agree with you there. I don't know if he's fully cooked,
Speaker 3: but he appears like he's gonna be the starting running back,
Speaker 3: So I'm okay with where he's at right now.
Speaker 1: Joe Mixon could get to RB fifteen. I think Brian
Speaker 1: just by being the starting running back for the Cincinnati Banks.
Speaker 3: Right and if he he might rekindle some of his
Speaker 3: good years. Who knows well, but he's not. He's not
Speaker 3: overdrafted in my mind where he's going right now. So
Speaker 3: I went with Chase Brown. I mean, he's going late
Speaker 3: RB fifty nine, pick one two, But I don't know
Speaker 3: the Bengals as of right now, we still haven't had
Speaker 3: any of these big free agent running backs. Final it's weird.
Speaker 1: Zeke still out there, Koreans still out there, Alvin Coarnett,
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook. Farnett's never playing again.
Speaker 3: I don't you think so. Nope, done. I don't know.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants them.
Speaker 3: Everybody's in pretty good shape, but everyone wants But I
Speaker 3: don't know. I just don't bite into Chase Brown being
Speaker 3: the number two or just being the guy. If something
Speaker 3: would happen to mix and someone's coming to town, and
Speaker 3: so I'm just not that you're the one hundred and
Speaker 3: ninety second overall pick. It's not the end of the
Speaker 3: world you take Chase Brown. But I just I think
Speaker 3: there's something better, a better player you can draft with
Speaker 3: that spot.
Speaker 1: Let's go to the Cleveland Browns. The offseason moves that matter.
Speaker 1: They added wide receiver Elijah Moore, who was on the
Speaker 1: outs with the Jets, and they had Jets and invested
Speaker 1: in other players at wide receiver. He likely starts as
Speaker 1: the slot receiver, and they also added rookie receiver Cedric
Speaker 1: Tillman in the third round they lost. That was the
Speaker 1: only ads of note really.
Speaker 3: Quickly on Eliza or who I It was one of
Speaker 3: the best touchdown celebrations ever and he got flagged for
Speaker 3: it in college when he did the dog you know,
Speaker 3: he like lifted up his leg.
Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3: But he can do that now because he's he'll be
Speaker 3: like in the dog pound, so he shouldn't get flagged
Speaker 3: like that beeing like a dog.
Speaker 1: So just recognizing the fan base exactly. They lost quarterback
Speaker 1: Jacoby Brissett, they lost running back Kareem Hunt, running back
Speaker 1: Deerness Johnson, and replaced those runners with nobody. Jerome Ford
Speaker 1: is your backup to Nick Chubb and Chubb without Dearness Johnson,
Speaker 1: without Kareem Hunt, Chubb could be sitting on a career
Speaker 1: high in total touches for any one season that he's
Speaker 1: had so far.
Speaker 3: Ford will work in. Ford has gone pre draft his
Speaker 3: ADP free.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Now he's running back fifty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's going like he's cracking. He's pushing the top
Speaker 3: one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 1: Well, he's going after the word right now, one sixty
Speaker 1: as a matter of fact. And he's my most underdrafted player.
Speaker 1: So it'll get right to that. Right now, you get
Speaker 1: the undisputed backup to Nick Chubb. When you draft Jerome Ford,
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb typically gets dinged up for you know, at
Speaker 1: least a few games, and he probably gets mixed in
Speaker 1: in a Kareem Hunt like role this year. Now, Jerome
Speaker 1: Ford only had eight rushes last year as a rookie.
Speaker 1: He was the team's primary kick returner, so he got
Speaker 1: some action there. So I went and looked at more
Speaker 1: of what Jerome Ford did.
Speaker 3: In college Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: Right Cincinnati, that's exactly right where he set the all
Speaker 1: time Cincinnati record with nineteen touchdowns in his senior year. Now,
Speaker 1: he'd started his college career at Alabama, couldn't get on
Speaker 1: the field, which is understandable there, so goes to Cincinnati
Speaker 1: and all he does is lead the acc and rushing,
Speaker 1: so you know, the kids got a little something and
Speaker 1: he can catch a bit. He had twenty one receptions
Speaker 1: as a senior and you don't handle kick return duties
Speaker 1: unless you've got some hands. So Jerome Ford, I think
Speaker 1: walks into that. Kareem Hunt roll and Kareem Hunt over
Speaker 1: the last few years is generally taken off the board.
Speaker 1: It like running back thirty five awards, running back fifty.
Speaker 3: Yeah. I loved Ford. I was drafting him a lot
Speaker 3: prior to the NFL Draft last year, looking at his
Speaker 3: skill set in college, and it was just a brutal
Speaker 3: landing spot last year in Cleveland. Yes, he was just
Speaker 3: buried behind three other guys. But now, yeah, I'm there's
Speaker 3: no other without a question, the most underd drafted player.
Speaker 3: Still know he's surging. It's still he's still too cheap.
Speaker 1: Jerome Ford, but just running style, compact runner. He's a
Speaker 1: little shorter, with what I found to be a very
Speaker 1: gritty running style and really good footwork. The footwork is
Speaker 1: the stuff that I really liked watching him at Cincinnati.
Speaker 1: This offense probably gets a little better because of the
Speaker 1: presumed improvement of Deshaun Watson, even though Watson was in
Speaker 1: every category of statistical downgrade from Jacoby Brissette, who was
Speaker 1: better for the first half of those games. I think
Speaker 1: it was week eleven or twelve where I was twelve
Speaker 1: where Deshaun Watson took over, and the Browns continue to
Speaker 1: have arguably the best offensive line in the league. So
Speaker 1: you know that is all great.
Speaker 3: That's all.
Speaker 1: I'll note this Browns have the easiest schedule in the NFL,
Speaker 1: so that will help. Based on last year's win percentage,
Speaker 1: the most overdrafted player to me Deshaun Watson going off
Speaker 1: the board at quarterback nine eighty second. Overall, there's just
Speaker 1: not enough value baked into his ADP to offset the
Speaker 1: lackluster six games he played last year and his whole
Speaker 1: year away from the game in twenty twenty one. And sure,
Speaker 1: I get it. He was a top five fantasy quarterback
Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen, and twenty twenty. Man, that
Speaker 1: feels like a long time ago, Brian, Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: a long time ago. So here is Deshaun Watson in
Speaker 1: year seven of his NFL career, seven, mind you, And
Speaker 1: what if after seven years he's lost some of his
Speaker 1: rushing prowess. Because the way that Deshaun Watson was getting
Speaker 1: into the top five in twenty eighteen, twenty nineteen to
Speaker 1: twenty twenty was because of his running if he's not
Speaker 1: a dual threat quarterback, if you're just relying on his
Speaker 1: arm in those years twenty eighteen to twenty, in twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen to twenty twenty two, so you know a twenty
Speaker 1: eighteen to twenty twenty in those years he passed for
Speaker 1: twenty six touchdowns, twenty six touchdowns and thirty three touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Those are David Carr numbers. So ask yourself for this
Speaker 1: in year seven, are you sure Deshaun Watson is a
Speaker 1: mobile quarterback who's gonna get designed rushing plays from Kevin
Speaker 1: Stefanski who has no history of doing that. Now, granted
Speaker 1: doesn't have hasn't had that kind of quarterback, but do
Speaker 1: you know he's gonna get the rushing designed rushing usage
Speaker 1: that makes Deshaun Watson the ninth best quarterback in Fantasy football?
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's uh, that price is too steep. I'd gladly wait. Basically,
Speaker 3: you can wait two rounds and get a Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 3: Daniel Jones, Gino Smith. Yep, take them two rounds later.
Speaker 3: All day long, we'll be tailor to Deshaun Watson.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Baltimore.
Speaker 3: The more all right off season moves that matter, Todd,
Speaker 3: don't call me Art. Monkin replaces Greg Roman as offensive coordinator,
Speaker 3: which is huge because Roman was run heavy. Todd Munkin's
Speaker 3: an air raid disciple type guy, so we can expect
Speaker 3: a lot more passing in Baltimore or something that we
Speaker 3: basically never seen since they moved from Cleveland. The teams
Speaker 3: like they've always been a very run heavy team, so
Speaker 3: should be exciting to see what newly acquired wide receiver
Speaker 3: Odell Beckham Junior can do. Signed a one year deal,
Speaker 3: A massive one year deal, by the way, like fifteen
Speaker 3: million dollars. A lot of money sunk into OBJ. We'll
Speaker 3: see how much getter he has left in the tank.
Speaker 3: And they also signed Nelson Aguilar. I'll make a quick
Speaker 3: mention of that, but he's easily fought off it on
Speaker 3: the depth chart. Baltimore also drafted wide receivers A Flowers
Speaker 3: with the twenty second overall pick. He figures to work
Speaker 3: out at the slot for the most part, with Beckham
Speaker 3: and Rashad Bateman working the outside. Will the offense be better
Speaker 3: or worse than Land last year? Gotta go with better. JK.
Speaker 3: Dobbins will be two years removed from major knee injury.
Speaker 3: We'll talk about him a little more in a second.
Speaker 3: And again, Todd, Todd Mounkin should just you know, it
Speaker 3: should be more diverse offense, more passing. Uh So for
Speaker 3: fantasy purposes, we're gonna go with better. Yep.
Speaker 1: So the projection that question, I think that in my
Speaker 1: mind is all right. So is Lamar Jackson going to
Speaker 1: get as many rushes? You know, because that was a
Speaker 1: staple of Great Romans offense, And credit Great Roman for
Speaker 1: unlocking that by making all these designed running plays for
Speaker 1: his quarterback when nobody was doing that. But I don't
Speaker 1: I'm worried that Jackson's going to take a step back
Speaker 1: in the in terms of the designed running place.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm with you there, probably won't be in as
Speaker 3: many designed running plays, but he'll still get his unbroken plays.
Speaker 3: But yeah, he's gotten he's gotten hurt in the past
Speaker 3: couple of years, and uh now.
Speaker 1: They got a massive financial investment that they need to
Speaker 1: keep healthy.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm with you there. But again, if he
Speaker 3: makes up for it with him extra ten passing touchdowns
Speaker 3: will take that over losing a couple hundred rushing yards
Speaker 3: and a couple of rushing touchdowns. My most underdrafted player.
Speaker 3: We've talked about him a lot. JK. Dobbins running back
Speaker 3: eighteen fifty seventh overall just just seems way too late.
Speaker 3: We were talking about Jamior Gibbs earlier going off the
Speaker 3: board a running back fourteen. I prefer Dobbins all day
Speaker 3: over Gibbs this year in any format, even even full PPR.
Speaker 3: So you gotta love Dobbins prospects two years removed from
Speaker 3: the ACL or MCL. I can't recall which cl it was,
Speaker 3: but he looked good towards the end of last year,
Speaker 3: even though they weren't giving him the ball enough really,
Speaker 3: and he was upset about that. So hopefully that squeaky
Speaker 3: wheel carries over into this season and well his.
Speaker 1: New squeaky wheels. JK. Dobbins wants to get paid, Like, dude,
Speaker 1: you haven't done anything in two years. You've got hurt
Speaker 1: and then you played hurt and you've not done anything.
Speaker 1: Shut up and go play on the last year of
Speaker 1: your deal.
Speaker 3: Well, hopefully you'll prove it. I think he will that. Yeah,
Speaker 3: well it's tough for any going back to get paid
Speaker 3: these days, right, but it is. I'm I'm essentially all
Speaker 3: in on Dobbin's at this price I've I've been drafted
Speaker 3: with Tona just seems like too much of a value
Speaker 3: right now.
Speaker 1: And I think and by the way, I always I
Speaker 1: always throw Gus Edwards, inject Gus Edwards into these conversations
Speaker 1: whenever I can. Also coming off the year off of
Speaker 1: a c L he's free.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's free, and.
Speaker 1: You can you know, and I still think he's there's
Speaker 1: there's something there.
Speaker 3: He's underdrafted. Really, almost everyone is underdrafted on Baltimore. I
Speaker 3: don't really have an overdrafted player. I guess you kind
Speaker 3: of talked me into Lamar Jackson because I was just
Speaker 3: saying Joe Burrow was going underdrafted. He's going after Jackson.
Speaker 3: But I still love Lamar, But yeah, the design running
Speaker 3: probably does come down. I wanted to go with Odell Beckham,
Speaker 3: but he's not going like in the third, fourth round.
Speaker 1: He's people are being rational on where they're taking back up.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and all the wide receivers or the other two
Speaker 3: Bateman and Zay Flowers before round nine, so they're they're
Speaker 3: at the value you're not gonna argue against where Mark
Speaker 3: Andrews is getting drafted. Isaiah Isaya likely was an underdrafted
Speaker 3: candidate too. He's going way too late if something were
Speaker 3: to happen to Andrews. I mean, he's gonna play wide
Speaker 3: receiver too, even man now.
Speaker 1: But the problem is they Zay Flowers is going to
Speaker 1: is going to work out of the slot a lot,
Speaker 1: and that's where I wanted Isaiah likely to be a
Speaker 1: stand up slot.
Speaker 3: But uh, he's certainly not overdrafted. So again, really, no
Speaker 3: one is getting overdrafted for Baltimore. So I'll go with
Speaker 3: the most expensive guy, and that's Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: It is, although I think Mark Andrews could be going
Speaker 1: ahead him in some leagues. He isn't guillotine leagues.
Speaker 3: Yeah, in one quarter battle the guillotine leagues, is.
Speaker 1: He Yeah, well yeah, Andrews X is going the second
Speaker 1: round of guillotine leagues because people have figured out you
Speaker 1: have to have a tight ended well Andrews is going
Speaker 1: before Jackson.
Speaker 3: And that's one quarterback league. Step two, non guillotine.
Speaker 1: Let's go to Pittsburgh. The offseason moves that matter are
Speaker 1: basically none because they did virtually nothing, and adding Alan
Speaker 1: Robinson does not count. Heay does not count. Dude is
Speaker 1: so done.
Speaker 3: I'm not.
Speaker 1: I will say they put a first rounder in the
Speaker 1: offensive line, which is awesome, Broderick Jones. And they also
Speaker 1: added longtime Eagles guard I excuse me, Isaac Sayumalo, So
Speaker 1: that was a very nice gain for them. So I
Speaker 1: like what their offensive line, which we've we've dumped on
Speaker 1: the Steers offensive line for like three years now, it
Speaker 1: looks like it's finally been addressed to the point where
Speaker 1: it's not this massive, glaring negative. So I think the
Speaker 1: offense will almost certainly get better because they ranked twenty
Speaker 1: thirteen yards and twenty sixth and points last year, so
Speaker 1: I feel like they had almost nowhere to go but up.
Speaker 1: And Kenny Pickett total wild card here. I did not
Speaker 1: like almost anything I saw from last year. How do
Speaker 1: you get seven passing touchdowns in fourteen games in this
Speaker 1: in this version of the NFL that is leather helmet
Speaker 1: style production from Kenny Pickett. You figure, though he'll regress
Speaker 1: the mean and touchdowns and some touchdowns that come along.
Speaker 1: And but I also didn't like his his yards per
Speaker 1: attempt second shortest in the league. That's not good. We
Speaker 1: need downfield passing. The most underdrafted player by ADP George Pickens.
Speaker 1: I'm really intrigued here, Brian wide receiver forty seventy fifth
Speaker 1: off the board. Who's the who is the most talented
Speaker 1: receiver on this team? Is it clearly Deontay Johnson going
Speaker 1: at wide receiver thirty one? I don't think so. George
Speaker 1: Pickens in You're two. He had eight hundred yards as
Speaker 1: a rookie, and Deontay Johnson just is not a wide
Speaker 1: receiver one. He is not a He is not built
Speaker 1: to be the focal point of a passing game. This
Speaker 1: team wants and needs George Pickens to be that guy.
Speaker 1: His twenty six percent air yard share was huge because
Speaker 1: there's no other downfield threats on this team. When they
Speaker 1: want to go downfield, they gotta go to Pickens. He
Speaker 1: had those incredible highlight catches you saw last year. I
Speaker 1: mean that's not fluky stuff. Pickens has crazy catch radius
Speaker 1: and hands. He's already one of the best contested receivers
Speaker 1: in the league. Also an elite run blocker, which does
Speaker 1: not equal fantasy points, but it does keep you on
Speaker 1: the field.
Speaker 3: And for those who don't know, Pickens was a rookie
Speaker 3: last year, could have been the first rookie or first
Speaker 3: wide receiver taken in last year's draft, but he got
Speaker 3: hurt in like spring ball at Georgia, and he came
Speaker 3: back for like the National championship game. So he essentially
Speaker 3: missed his whole senior year. But he'll be fully healthy
Speaker 3: going into this year.
Speaker 1: So let me ask you this, ask you this, and
Speaker 1: so Kenny Pickett had seven passing touchdowns last year. Let's
Speaker 1: say Kenny Pickett gets twenty, which is still awful by
Speaker 1: the NFL standards. Well, let's just say he gets twenty touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Deontae Johnson at zero last year. How many of those
Speaker 1: twenty go to go to George Pickens?
Speaker 3: At least a third of them?
Speaker 1: I mean this, he's sitting on eight ten touchdowns almost automatically.
Speaker 3: Eight or ten, but six or seven I think'll take
Speaker 3: that with a thousand yards, I think.
Speaker 1: So the most overdrafted player by you know, and you
Speaker 1: can tell by the way I'm talking about it, Deontay Johnson,
Speaker 1: And I know that he's coming off of zero touchdowns
Speaker 1: seasons here like where was this last year? But it's
Speaker 1: he's just not the dude. And of course he's gonna
Speaker 1: not score zero touchdowns this year. But everybody there's all
Speaker 1: the fantasy experts Brian are going one hundred and forty
Speaker 1: four targets and zero touchdowns. Man, when he has one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty four targets next year, you know that
Speaker 1: numbers could be eight touchdowns. He's gonna regress to the mean. Well,
Speaker 1: guess what he ain' getting a hundred forty four targets
Speaker 1: this year?
Speaker 3: Probably not.
Speaker 1: Deontay Johnson is not the number one receiver in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: It's George Pickens. Deontay Johnson is the short These short
Speaker 1: passes don't equal fantasy points. I see his targets here
Speaker 1: dropping massively. Johnson reminds me of Jarvis Landry, an annual
Speaker 1: fantasy disappointment because of his painfully low air yards. And
Speaker 1: Johnson was sixtieth in a dot among wide receivers, fifty
Speaker 1: third in yards per route run. He just doesn't get
Speaker 1: the ball down field. And that's what you need out
Speaker 1: of your fantasy wide receivers. Deandrey Johnson's dead to us.
Speaker 3: Alan Robinson not dead to me. And when I say
Speaker 3: that he's a last round start throw these days, but
Speaker 3: he was getting open last year. Matthew Stafford was not
Speaker 3: throwing to him. For whatever reason, play.
Speaker 1: Had Cooper Cup, he got hurt, two got hurt, hibout
Speaker 1: the same time.
Speaker 3: So Alan Robinson not dust yet, sadly, can you pick
Speaker 3: it might be the best quarterback he's played with because
Speaker 3: he didn't really get to play with Matt Stafford a
Speaker 3: whole lot last year. Staff was hurt.
Speaker 1: Just but here's the thing. The Rams need another receiver
Speaker 1: and they let they let him walk. They got him
Speaker 1: out of his contract so he could go elsewhere. They
Speaker 1: should have they would have kept him because after Cooper Cup,
Speaker 1: that depth chart falls apart in Los Angeles.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they're also you know, they're like quiet rebuilding, like
Speaker 3: quiet quitting, quiet rebuilding. My mind, I don't know that's
Speaker 3: they need to get rid of Al Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I say the Vikings are doing a unspoken rebuild,
Speaker 1: which I believe they are right now. Thanks for listening, everybody.
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