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Speaker 1: Radio Network alongside Frankie Stamford. I am greggsman, Fran. What's
Speaker 1: going on, man, There's a lot going on. Greg. First
Speaker 1: of all, after we signed off the show yesterday, my
Speaker 1: New York Jets created Teddy Bridgewater from the New Orleans
Speaker 1: Saints did for a third round pick. Yeah, so that's fun.
Speaker 1: It's a good time. And then, well, do you have
Speaker 1: any more thoughts? Not like I just thought, you know, well, no,
Speaker 1: they don't have second round picks next year. We know
Speaker 1: that because when they moved up to get Sam Donald.
Speaker 1: They obviously had to forfeit those you have to give
Speaker 1: something up to get something. Um. So you know, they
Speaker 1: got that additional third round pick, and I think that
Speaker 1: can help them in the chase for a pass rusher,
Speaker 1: which is what they're trying to do right now. They're
Speaker 1: talking about Dante Fowler, Shane Ray from the Denver Broncos,
Speaker 1: and then Khalil Mack the big sweepstakes for Khalil Mac.
Speaker 1: They're saying they want two first round picks. Maybe a
Speaker 1: first thing at the round pick gets it done. I
Speaker 1: don't know, we'll see what happens. Ultimately. I don't think
Speaker 1: he traded Listen. I think it's a great moved by
Speaker 1: the Jets. Ultimately, they don't need for Teddy Bridgewater. They
Speaker 1: signed them in a million dollars, They got a third
Speaker 1: round pick. That's great. I saw a lot of people
Speaker 1: are talking about, oh, the Browns traded seventeen million dollars
Speaker 1: for a second round pick, and yes, that that's true.
Speaker 1: But like they're both they're both could moves. They're they're
Speaker 1: both could moves. Like just because what the Jets did
Speaker 1: was shrewd and it was doesn't mean what the Browns
Speaker 1: did wasn't So it's a good job by Sashy Brown
Speaker 1: before you get fired. That's your last take Brown. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: it was on the show today. Um, Franks want to
Speaker 1: talk about tight ends all week have kind of like
Speaker 1: held them off until now, So talk about some tight
Speaker 1: ends inside injuries. Virginia Zakis is gonna join us twelve
Speaker 1: twenty pm Eastern Time. She will come in go over
Speaker 1: the latest injuries with us, and then next week when
Speaker 1: she's on the show next Thursday. I mean it's week
Speaker 1: one injuries, right, Like it's the stuff that are they
Speaker 1: playing this week, which is really really cool. Of course
Speaker 1: we're gonna take your calls throughout eight eight four three,
Speaker 1: uh six eight seven nine. Francis are stat of the
Speaker 1: day to day? Um, no, there is none, Okay, I
Speaker 1: love you knew there. I didn't. I just you know,
Speaker 1: I figured I stopped throw it out there. I mean,
Speaker 1: you were looking at a fantasy dada before he came out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was trying to find one, to be fair, just
Speaker 1: didn't have enough time. You were looking in a fantasy dadas.
Speaker 1: All right, maybe you gotta stid of the day, so
Speaker 1: I'll throw it out just in case he has it.
Speaker 1: He's probably asked me before the show. Um, yes, of course,
Speaker 1: I Arge gets paid before after we were on the
Speaker 1: air yesterday. So Lvian Bell is gonna get cut. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: that was the other thing that I wanted to talk
Speaker 1: about to that. Frank and Ventura read this clickbaid article
Speaker 1: that like, oh, James Connor looks amazing, They're gonna cut
Speaker 1: leavy On Bell and save all this money and screw
Speaker 1: him over. I'm like, what's wrong with you two, Franks.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we should talk about it, like
Speaker 1: what you brought into it. James Connor has looked amazing
Speaker 1: in the previous you bought into it. No, I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't think it's realistic, but it It just raises
Speaker 1: an interesting point because I read an article on The
Speaker 1: Athletic yesterday about Big Ben talking up James Conner and
Speaker 1: how he's going to have more of a role this season,
Speaker 1: especially early on, because they acknowledge the fact that because
Speaker 1: Levian Bell sat out all of the training camp last
Speaker 1: year in the preseason, that he got off to a
Speaker 1: slow start. They know that that's a very likely possibility
Speaker 1: coming in again. So no, they're not gonna cut Levian Bell.
Speaker 1: But can James Conner have more of a role early
Speaker 1: on in the season while Levian Bell gets his legs
Speaker 1: underneath him. I think that is a very distinct possibility. Great, okay, uh,
Speaker 1: you know it's funny. But what did he do last
Speaker 1: year in the first two weeks. Yeah, he got off
Speaker 1: to a very slow starts. Put up for you. He
Speaker 1: was not good because I owned him in a few leagues,
Speaker 1: but he did get off to a slow start and
Speaker 1: he didn't have his full touch workload either in those games.
Speaker 1: Because it's funny because when we remember bringing this up
Speaker 1: last year at this time, probably earlier, in the first
Speaker 1: game of the season at the Browns, ten rushes for
Speaker 1: thirty two yards, three receptions for fifteen forty seven total yards,
Speaker 1: and thirteen touches with no touchdown from Levian Bell. Two.
Speaker 1: Granted he was playing the Vikings. He did see the
Speaker 1: workload here. He had thirty one touches in this game,
Speaker 1: eight seven rushing yards on twenty seven attempts at three
Speaker 1: point two yards per carry, and he had four receptions
Speaker 1: for four yards. Yeah, he was playing the King. He
Speaker 1: did get a full workload, and then he didn't score
Speaker 1: a touchdown until Week three, and that's really kind of
Speaker 1: where he took off fifteen for sixty one rushing touchdown
Speaker 1: and then six receptions for thirty seven yards. So he
Speaker 1: could go off to a slow start this year. And
Speaker 1: they Big Ben especially acknowledged that James Connor has had
Speaker 1: such a good preseason it wouldn't surprise him if he
Speaker 1: gets touches early on in the season and week three,
Speaker 1: come week four, it's probably just Levian Bell's job. But
Speaker 1: I thought it was an interesting article just based on
Speaker 1: the relationship that the Steelers have with Levian Bell right now,
Speaker 1: right like, they clearly don't like each other. He could
Speaker 1: save money by cutting him, and they've proved that. I
Speaker 1: disagree with you. I don't think they don't like each other.
Speaker 1: Why not? What's can I mean, there's it's contracts, right Like,
Speaker 1: it doesn't mean that like lady on Bell has a
Speaker 1: problem with with Mike Tomlin or or the general manager
Speaker 1: like or even the owners. I mean, this is this
Speaker 1: is kind of like one of these Asian things. What
Speaker 1: do you mean they're paying him, They're paying a franchise tag.
Speaker 1: I understand that, but for everything that he's done for
Speaker 1: this franchise, Greg, he hasn't earned a long term contract
Speaker 1: in that position. I'm sorry you can't. There are there
Speaker 1: is not a long term contract to give. He also
Speaker 1: was suspended several times. Do we ignore that a top
Speaker 1: three running back when he's on the So they are paying,
Speaker 1: they are paying him sixteen million dollars, but they're not
Speaker 1: financial security. To come on, Greg, everything that he's done
Speaker 1: for the franchise, I think he's earned that. I'm sure
Speaker 1: they're willing to give him quite a bit of money,
Speaker 1: but he probably wants more. He deserves more. You don't
Speaker 1: even know what they're offering. He deserves its side here,
Speaker 1: I'm taking the players side here. I'm always on the
Speaker 1: player's side. No, you're not, because you're an executive. Now
Speaker 1: you're taking the side. It's not the GM front. That's
Speaker 1: not You could ask anybody here when they've come to
Speaker 1: me with a contract dispute, you're help included. And did
Speaker 1: I have your back? Yes? Okay, So why don't you
Speaker 1: have a Levy on Bell's back and Bill work for me?
Speaker 1: Would you pay Levy on Bell? Yeah? Sure. I think
Speaker 1: everybody should be paid. Everybody Shoet paid. So you're just
Speaker 1: playing devil's advocate. I just pretty much it's more fun.
Speaker 1: He's best McDonald held yet Man's McDonald. I haven't seen anything.
Speaker 1: I think he's on the list, and then add him
Speaker 1: to the list because I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure.
Speaker 1: I haven't heard anything about mass McDonald's. I think I
Speaker 1: added him on the list for reject him as my
Speaker 1: tighten three in like a Bestball League, HM injury I
Speaker 1: went on McDonald's injury changed alright, So the reason is
Speaker 1: that that that is very not recent eighteen days ago.
Speaker 1: That's not helpful. Sorry, So maybe that's why we're having
Speaker 1: in city of injuries on here. You guess, maybe Virginia
Speaker 1: help us out. Van's McDonald and he was a he
Speaker 1: was a sleeper tight end for a little while. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think, look, you'll never get it's super excited about
Speaker 1: the Steelers tight end situation. But Big Ben has always
Speaker 1: kind of leaned on the position. You know, Heath Miller,
Speaker 1: a little bit of Jesse James here and there last year.
Speaker 1: But I just think there's so many receiving weapons now
Speaker 1: that he's going to trust Antonio Brown, James Washington, Uh,
Speaker 1: Jujuice Smith Schuster, Levian Bell, catching the ball out of
Speaker 1: the backfield as well. Do you think it's crazy that
Speaker 1: we haven't spoken about Antonio Brown's injury enough throughout the preseason? Greg,
Speaker 1: So it is the first time in his career he
Speaker 1: will not see preseason action because of this quad injury.
Speaker 1: That doesn't bother me so much. Like I get it's
Speaker 1: a new offense Antonio Brown, Ben Roethlisbrogram and then, but
Speaker 1: we have not talked about this at no. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: we have not even together eight years now together, So
Speaker 1: I don't I don't really care. No, I'm not worried
Speaker 1: about the offense and learning a new offense. I'm not
Speaker 1: worried about that. When he's on the field, he's the
Speaker 1: best player. Ye will he be a hundred percent healthy?
Speaker 1: The guy hasn't played in I totally, I totally totally
Speaker 1: get that. Now he is back practicing. To be fair, UM,
Speaker 1: I think he could play in the fourth preseason game
Speaker 1: if he wanted to, but then obviously not going to
Speaker 1: risk that. UM. I I think he's fine. I think
Speaker 1: we're not talking about it because it isn't a big deal.
Speaker 1: Of course, last year, late last year, he heard himself, UM,
Speaker 1: before coming back from playoffs, like Antonio Brown has had
Speaker 1: a couple of injury notes, and should that be in
Speaker 1: the back of your mind. I think it's a fair question.
Speaker 1: But my answer to said a fair question, isn't it? Yeah,
Speaker 1: me too. I just started to bring it up. You know,
Speaker 1: some people might be worried. Do you look down at
Speaker 1: their roster they see the little injury, the little plus
Speaker 1: sign of s Antonio Brown. You'd rather not be there.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at like my roster right now. Did I
Speaker 1: tell you? I don't know? They tell you this that
Speaker 1: I joined a What are you gonna ask? I joined
Speaker 1: the fantasy college football league. I think you were reading
Speaker 1: your roster the other day on the air, off the air.
Speaker 1: I didn't. I didn't really know any of the players. Committedly,
Speaker 1: I don't watch a lot of college football. I didn't.
Speaker 1: I was Joey's on the air off there. It was
Speaker 1: off the air. It was off the air speaking of
Speaker 1: a little injury. So they do so they didn't know.
Speaker 1: They didn't know that I watched, that I participated in this. No,
Speaker 1: they probably don't care, though they might. Maybe I'm gonna
Speaker 1: fast college foot everybody. So if you need help me, man,
Speaker 1: my team is projective of the third least amount of
Speaker 1: points in the league. This week I named it. Can
Speaker 1: you digs that after Maryland great Stefan Diggs, one of
Speaker 1: my players is questionable. It looks like this week I
Speaker 1: am projected in this PPR league for a hundred and
Speaker 1: thirty one points. My opponent is protected for a hundred
Speaker 1: and forty eight. That was my team name one year
Speaker 1: when I went this is this is ridiculous. I don't
Speaker 1: agree with us. So, Greg, how do you feel about
Speaker 1: drafting Rob gron Cowsk in the third round? Um? Well,
Speaker 1: the question so, I think it's a roster conjunction question.
Speaker 1: As you answer most of my questions, I believe that
Speaker 1: it depends unwhere in the third round. If you're telling
Speaker 1: me we're getting him that three seven, I'm very interested
Speaker 1: because I think Groggy is the number one tight end still.
Speaker 1: I think last year he proved that he stayed healthy
Speaker 1: for the most part. I have no problem with it,
Speaker 1: Like it's great. I think when you get to a
Speaker 1: point where you take the best player on the board.
Speaker 1: Are we talking about this yesterday? Like all right, you're
Speaker 1: at that two three turn, and do I go with
Speaker 1: these running back or not past the wide receivers, right,
Speaker 1: you're more like three three essentially, I wish direction do
Speaker 1: I go in? And I think that maybe that's the
Speaker 1: point where I would say, well, maybe I look at
Speaker 1: Ronk and I think that's how we ended up with
Speaker 1: him in our draft all over the weekend, and you
Speaker 1: ended up with with him in the draft the night
Speaker 1: before that, because you look at the board and you're like,
Speaker 1: all right, I can go with these running backs, the
Speaker 1: Alex Collins and Derrick Henry so on and so forth.
Speaker 1: I can go with these wide receivers and Mary Cooper,
Speaker 1: Larry Fitzgerald, so on and so forth. Golden Team Oregon,
Speaker 1: je Rob Ronkowski, who's the best tight end in football?
Speaker 1: Who is that much better than everybody else? Who is
Speaker 1: a former first round draft pick in fantasy football? And
Speaker 1: I could pare him with a top five running back,
Speaker 1: a top ten receiver, and now you get the number
Speaker 1: ones hand. We did it for that exact reason. We
Speaker 1: had the number one overall wide receiver, we had a
Speaker 1: top twelve running back, maybe top thirteen, and then we
Speaker 1: grabbed the top. I don't think there's anything wrong with that.
Speaker 1: I like it. I think it is roster construction as well,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't take him in the second round for him,
Speaker 1: but for him falling into the third round of some drafts.
Speaker 1: Right now. I think it's interesting because in the beat
Speaker 1: Franks Stanfeld draft I did last Thursday, I had the
Speaker 1: second pick, I got Levian Bell and then I got
Speaker 1: a gift came back to me, A J. Green. And
Speaker 1: you know how I feel about A J. Green. I
Speaker 1: think he's the cut off. I think he's the last,
Speaker 1: you know, elite widers here that I feel really really
Speaker 1: comfortable about as my wide receiver one in the second round.
Speaker 1: So because I got Levian Bell and because I got
Speaker 1: A J. Green, I felt really really good about those
Speaker 1: two positions. Right there, at pick twenty six, the second
Speaker 1: pick of the third round, I thought that was the
Speaker 1: time to pull the trigger on ground and I pulled
Speaker 1: him up the board. I took him over t Y
Speaker 1: Hilton as well. Here's what I would say if A J.
Speaker 1: Green didn't make it to me and I had to
Speaker 1: take a wide receiver like Stefon Diggs or Mike Evans
Speaker 1: or t Y Hilton as my wide receiver one, I
Speaker 1: would have doubled down on wide receiver right if that
Speaker 1: makes sense, because I just feel little bit more comfortable
Speaker 1: with a J. Green as my wide receiver. One. Gave
Speaker 1: me that ability to take the risk the upside because
Speaker 1: we know we know what the risk is with Gronk,
Speaker 1: but he is a big, high risk, high reward player.
Speaker 1: I think having a J. Green and Leviyan Bell on
Speaker 1: my team already allowed me to take that risk on
Speaker 1: Gronk in the third round and you know, take potentially
Speaker 1: the best running back and football, the best tight end
Speaker 1: in football. Uh. And then similar to what we did
Speaker 1: on Saturday, Gronk felt to three seven. We felt strongly
Speaker 1: we've got Antonio Brown as our wide receiver. We were
Speaker 1: just talking about him arguably the best wide receiver in football.
Speaker 1: We took DeVonta Freeman in the second round and running
Speaker 1: back that you guys feel pretty strongly about. I don't
Speaker 1: feel as strongly, but he is a low nd RB
Speaker 1: one and that allowed us to go ahead because we
Speaker 1: have the running back, because we have the wide receiver,
Speaker 1: to take Gronk in the third round. That's what I
Speaker 1: wanted to talk about just today early on in the
Speaker 1: show is I feel like some people struggle with, you know,
Speaker 1: when should I take a tight end? And some of
Speaker 1: these guys have just seen them fall. Like in that
Speaker 1: same GST draft, Travis Kelsey felt a four nine the
Speaker 1: end of the fourth round at some point even Adam Ronas.
Speaker 1: Ronas was the one who took him. I was talking
Speaker 1: to him the other day on Scott Fantasy. He said,
Speaker 1: if you asked me before the draft, were the chances
Speaker 1: I take Travis Kelsey less than ten percent? It's really
Speaker 1: interesting because on the next day you took zact Earth
Speaker 1: in the fifth round. It was we have seen him
Speaker 1: drop into the fifth round with relative ease in recent
Speaker 1: days and weeks. And for me, it's funny because if
Speaker 1: I don't take Gronk, the only share I have Gronks
Speaker 1: in the league we shared together, I like, don't think
Speaker 1: about tight end until like the Kyle Rudolph to here, Like,
Speaker 1: it doesn't even cross my mind to take Travis Kelsey
Speaker 1: as it literally, I don't even think about it. And
Speaker 1: then you took I was like, that's why I was shocked.
Speaker 1: And Trey Burton was there and you need to take
Speaker 1: him because I had no idea because Earth shouldn't be
Speaker 1: there in the fifth in my opinion, I mean early
Speaker 1: on in August, you know, a month ago he was
Speaker 1: going to the third round. He was going in the
Speaker 1: third round with Travis Kelsey and Rob Gronkowski. Now some
Speaker 1: people are getting exact Art's in the fifth round of drafts.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, he's easily a top three tight end.
Speaker 1: I know Dallas Goddard has impressed throughout the preseason. I'm
Speaker 1: not worried about that. I will say this in a
Speaker 1: Best Ball draft, if you're still part of participating in
Speaker 1: those or in deeper leagues, if I draft Zacates, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna draft Dallas Goddard as well, because we have seen
Speaker 1: the Eagles are going to throw the ball to the
Speaker 1: tight end, and if zach Ertz misses any time, Dallas
Speaker 1: Goddard automatically steps in as a top twelve tight end.
Speaker 1: We saw it last year with Trey Burton. The same
Speaker 1: thing could be said this year or Dallas Goddard. I
Speaker 1: agree with you that if if I miss out on
Speaker 1: one of those top tight ends, whether it's Gronk in
Speaker 1: the third, Kelsey in the fourth now or zach Ertz
Speaker 1: in the fifth, I'm with you. I'm just waiting. I'm
Speaker 1: letting everyone else take to Evan ing Graham. The Greg
Speaker 1: Olsen's here Delaney Walker. I do like Jimmy Graham. At
Speaker 1: the right price, I probably wouldn't take him in the fifth.
Speaker 1: If he's there in the sixth, I would consider it well.
Speaker 1: In that In that Carton draft, we drafted Trey Burton.
Speaker 1: Is that eight whether you did you take Burton or
Speaker 1: Dlaney Walker took Burton, and then obviously we're at the turns.
Speaker 1: We waited to back and we were between Burton and
Speaker 1: Delaney Walker. We knew which on what it takes. We
Speaker 1: took Burton, and then two rounds later, Walker was still there,
Speaker 1: and I'm like, you know what I'm doing it. There's
Speaker 1: nobody else. I like, I don't remember what round was
Speaker 1: A looking up and both of them it's a bo
Speaker 1: tight end. Ye, honestly, I just thought it was the
Speaker 1: best value on the board. Like I didn't like any
Speaker 1: running back Spider series. I'm gonna tell you exactly what
Speaker 1: to tight ends strategy. You might as well draft three
Speaker 1: and go with the my card. I mean, let's relax
Speaker 1: with that. So we look here. So Delaney Walker, dude
Speaker 1: was eleven round it was we took we full point
Speaker 1: PPR league. You're gonna be able to flex de Laney Walker.
Speaker 1: Something I wound up taking Trey Burton in the eight
Speaker 1: literally is that the was Yeah, Trey Burton was with
Speaker 1: the last pick of the eighth rounds. We took U
Speaker 1: at eight nine and then at ten of eleven I
Speaker 1: took Lanney Walker. It was a long time. Like the
Speaker 1: other guys that were going. When I took to Laney Walker,
Speaker 1: you had taken You took Aaron Jones one pick later,
Speaker 1: he's like ash on Jeffrey there also surprised man and
Speaker 1: there's like ten round ten, ten eleven. Yeah, I don't
Speaker 1: white house on Jeffrey. We're in the tenth round. Nick Chub,
Speaker 1: James White, Austin Ekela Ecla. Nothing going on here. I
Speaker 1: thought the Lanny Walker was the highest player on my board. Interesting,
Speaker 1: right it is? Look at this team again. We'll day
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Speaker 1: Forever Frank Staffel alongside Greg Susman. Great song. As we mentioned,
Speaker 1: we will be joined by Virginia Zakas of Inside Injuries,
Speaker 1: Um of Greg Susman is taken care of other injuries,
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Speaker 1: joining us right now from Inside Injuries. They're good friend.
Speaker 1: Virginia Zakas, what's going on, Virginia? Hey, guys going very
Speaker 1: very well, have about yourself. Awesome, awesome. As we head
Speaker 1: into the final draft weekend of the season, really the
Speaker 1: last weekend of the summer, as we go to the
Speaker 1: Labor Day weekend, a whole lot of injuries we wanted
Speaker 1: to discuss with you, so fantasy owners and fantasy draft
Speaker 1: theres know exactly what they need to know when it
Speaker 1: comes to their drafts this weekend and early next week.
Speaker 1: We're the start of the player we focused on on
Speaker 1: yesterday's show, and that was Jerick McKinnon. I know we've
Speaker 1: spoken about him in the past. I've spoken about him
Speaker 1: with you and with Dr Ray, but Frank is concerned
Speaker 1: about McKinnon's long term viability. He's concerned that even week
Speaker 1: one he won't be ready to get a full workload.
Speaker 1: What do you think of Jerick McKinnon. So when he
Speaker 1: originally suffered that calf strain, we gave him a four
Speaker 1: week optimal recovery time UM. That means he should be
Speaker 1: able to return around week two. Now, there's still a
Speaker 1: chance he plays this week, but if he does, he
Speaker 1: won't be a hundred percent UM. He's still a very
Speaker 1: high injury risk. Calf strains are very tough injuries to
Speaker 1: recover from, and his health performance factors also still poor.
Speaker 1: UM Now it looks like it could go into that
Speaker 1: below average category pretty soon. But even still, I don't
Speaker 1: think you're going to get much out of him in
Speaker 1: the first few weeks of the season. Sucking Greg. That's frustrating. Yeah,
Speaker 1: told you what about his backup Matt Brita. He's looking
Speaker 1: a little bit better. Um M, and I was clean,
Speaker 1: so Max four weeks to get healthy again. He was
Speaker 1: doing conditioning drills earlier this week, so I think he's
Speaker 1: going to be ready to go week one. Likes pretty
Speaker 1: a lot better. Okay, I'll just tuck my tail between
Speaker 1: my legs. See see, you should just listen to me.
Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you about Doug Baldwin. We got
Speaker 1: some updates from him the other day, and normally players
Speaker 1: are not this blunt when they're talking about, you know,
Speaker 1: how they feel. But he said he's gonna be eight
Speaker 1: come week one and that this is this knee injury
Speaker 1: is something that he's going to deal with for the
Speaker 1: entirety of the season. How worried should we be about
Speaker 1: Doug Baldwin. It should probably be pretty concerned about him. Um.
Speaker 1: We've heard a few different phrases tossed around, but one
Speaker 1: of them is a maintenance issue. Um. More than likely
Speaker 1: he's dealing with some sort of a cartilage or meniscus
Speaker 1: hair and a lot of the time you can try
Speaker 1: to play through these injuries, but they do eventually get worse. Um,
Speaker 1: they might be ok for a little while, but then
Speaker 1: they flare up again. So he's an elevated injury risk.
Speaker 1: I would not be surprised if he stays that way
Speaker 1: all season. Um definitely could have some really good weeks,
Speaker 1: but I don't think he's going to be consistent, and
Speaker 1: I definitely don't think this will be the last we
Speaker 1: hear about problems with his knee. Yeah. So it's interesting
Speaker 1: because if it is a cartilage issue as you're as
Speaker 1: you're kind of surmising, and it is to require maintenance
Speaker 1: through the year. This is the problem with drafting Doug Baldin.
Speaker 1: We said yesterday that there's gonna be games he doesn't finish.
Speaker 1: There's gonna be times where he goes right up until
Speaker 1: game time and you don't know if he's going to play,
Speaker 1: gonna be able to make it. It's going to be sore.
Speaker 1: The more he plays, Um, the more action he can accomplish.
Speaker 1: He may not practice on a Wednesday all season long. Hell,
Speaker 1: I don't know the practice on Thursday all season long.
Speaker 1: There's a lot of risk involved in drafting Doug Balding
Speaker 1: right now. But if you draft Doug Baldwin, and it
Speaker 1: might sound crazy, but if you're in a deeper league
Speaker 1: and you have a lot of bench spots, do you
Speaker 1: try to roster another Seahawks wide receiver for the games
Speaker 1: he potentially misses. No, I don't think it's just Seahawks
Speaker 1: wide receiver that you can like essentially handcuff him with,
Speaker 1: like I don't want Tyler Locket and I'm not a
Speaker 1: lock of guy. We don't know that Brandon Marshall makes
Speaker 1: the team. Will find out this weekend. I think they've
Speaker 1: warmed up to a more throughout the preseason. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I could see somebody emerging from from Seattle, like it
Speaker 1: could be a Titan drawn brown as well drawn brown
Speaker 1: short could with the tight end there um that emerges.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think there's a lot of question
Speaker 1: marks when it comes to the Seattle Seahawks, and certainly
Speaker 1: the passing game there we're talking Virginia. Zak is from
Speaker 1: inside injuries speaking of its height end position position, Virginia,
Speaker 1: I'm going to stick in San Francisco, where I have
Speaker 1: asked you all my questions thus far. And in San
Speaker 1: Francisco you had George Kittle, who also had a shoulder injury.
Speaker 1: He talked about him over the last couple of weeks
Speaker 1: as well, but he returned to practice this week, and
Speaker 1: there are fantasy owners that are drafting him as a
Speaker 1: sleeper once again. Are you confident that George Kittle will
Speaker 1: be healthy come week one? Yeah, he actually just passed
Speaker 1: back into the low injury risk category that m R
Speaker 1: I was cleaned, so they're really isn't too much of
Speaker 1: the long term concern here. Um, you know, he's we
Speaker 1: said he'd be back within a few weeks, and he,
Speaker 1: like you said, returned to practice this week. His health
Speaker 1: performance factor is also peak right now, so I think
Speaker 1: we're pretty confident in George Kittle's ability to play and
Speaker 1: perform pretty well by week one. That's good to hear, Griggy,
Speaker 1: because he was actually dropping down traft boards. David and
Speaker 1: Joe pu now going ahead of him, Jack Doyle going
Speaker 1: ahead of him, and you know, he looked pretty good
Speaker 1: with Jimmy Garoppolo late in the season last year. So
Speaker 1: early on in the draft season when we were talking
Speaker 1: about the tight end position. George Kittle was a guy
Speaker 1: that we liked. So if he's he's ready for Week one,
Speaker 1: I'm pretty excited about that. Virginia, I want to ask
Speaker 1: you about another low end wide receiver, one high end
Speaker 1: wide receiver to going in that third round range. It's
Speaker 1: Adam Feeland. He left Tuesday's practice with a left leg
Speaker 1: injury and he was hobbling off the field. We didn't
Speaker 1: really get much before that except for the fact that
Speaker 1: they think he's going to be all right. What is
Speaker 1: the severity of Adam Feeland's leg injury. We're showing the
Speaker 1: Grade one injury right now. We don't know exactly what days.
Speaker 1: It sounds like it might have been his ankle UM.
Speaker 1: If that's the case, he needs around two to three
Speaker 1: weeks for it to fully heal. UM. At this point,
Speaker 1: I don't think his week one availability is in danger,
Speaker 1: but he is a high injury risk. His health performance
Speaker 1: factors below average, so this is definitely you know, any
Speaker 1: sort of a leg injury within a week or two
Speaker 1: of the season starting not a great sign UM could
Speaker 1: definitely affect him the first few weeks of this season. Um.
Speaker 1: The good news here, though, is it's not his back.
Speaker 1: That's what I was originally concerned about when I heard
Speaker 1: he left the field, because yet it's last year and
Speaker 1: in twenty fifteen with his back and back injuries tend
Speaker 1: to recur, so you know, not the worst news that
Speaker 1: it was his leg, but he made it off to
Speaker 1: a slip ster. Okay, So there you go with that
Speaker 1: with Adam feeling that the back injury was a thing,
Speaker 1: You're absolutely right, Virginia, both at the end of two
Speaker 1: years ago when we didn't really care, and then certainly
Speaker 1: last year where just like he wasn't the same in
Speaker 1: the last few weeks, it was all back related. The
Speaker 1: fact that that the minor knee injury, it doesn't seem
Speaker 1: to have much concern when it goes Adam feeling, which
Speaker 1: is a good thing. Now, I'm glad you didn't ask
Speaker 1: about advanced McDonald, Frank, because he's a former forty that's
Speaker 1: kind of my territory, so Vans McDonald. He's been bothered
Speaker 1: by injuries really the last few years, and people believed
Speaker 1: he was a potential sleeper coming into the year, and
Speaker 1: of course he immediately gets hurt. We haven't seen any
Speaker 1: reports on his health or his whereabouts or what's going
Speaker 1: on with him. We're hoping you'd be able to update us. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we're also having issues finding too much information on him.
Speaker 1: But right now we're showing a grade one injury optimal
Speaker 1: recovery time with just one to two weeks. Actually we
Speaker 1: are showing he should be okay by week one. Um.
Speaker 1: Right now he's right on the border of elevated and
Speaker 1: low risk at thirteen percent. But he is improving. So
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna be okay unless there's something major
Speaker 1: they're not telling us, like, you know, it was a
Speaker 1: more serious sprain or even a fracture, But I don't
Speaker 1: think that's the case here, Okay, So okay, yes, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's Vince McDonald, Greg Virginia. It seems like every week
Speaker 1: we have a new update on Andrew look rightfully, so,
Speaker 1: he's a very polarizing player given the injury. We know
Speaker 1: he returned to the field his first in game action
Speaker 1: this pre season for the first time since January one, seventeen,
Speaker 1: But now he's dealing with a minor minor foot injury.
Speaker 1: Is there a chance that he's compensating for the shoulder
Speaker 1: something related to his leg. Does it work that way?
Speaker 1: Does it not work that way, should be worried about
Speaker 1: the foot? What do you have on Andrew? Look, Um,
Speaker 1: it's possible it's related, but in this case I guess not. Um.
Speaker 1: Of course, he started the preseason and elevated injury risk.
Speaker 1: He's still elevated, UM, but we're showing his health performance
Speaker 1: factor actually should be peaked by week one. So again,
Speaker 1: unless this is something more serious than they're telling us,
Speaker 1: I don't think this foot injury is really going to
Speaker 1: affect performance. UM. But Andrew, look, you know he has
Speaker 1: hitten quite a few hits in the preseason, and if
Speaker 1: he keeps taking this many hits, you know, whether it's
Speaker 1: his shoulder or his foot again or another injury, it
Speaker 1: seems like we could be looking at another season where
Speaker 1: it's pretty banged up. Chat Virginia is from inside injuries.
Speaker 1: Just a couple more injuries, a couple of more players
Speaker 1: to talk about with you. I'm willing to go away
Speaker 1: from the forty nine by only and I'm going to
Speaker 1: go up to Green Bay because I have drafted Geronimo
Speaker 1: Allison everywhere on every team that I have, because I'm
Speaker 1: not confident Randall Cobb's ability to stay healthy. Should I
Speaker 1: be more company less confident. What's the deal with Randall Cob. So,
Speaker 1: Randall Cobb just hit his optimal recovery time, but we
Speaker 1: think he returned too soon from his ankle surgery. We
Speaker 1: originally showed a nine week optimal recovery time and he
Speaker 1: was back practice I think around five or six weeks
Speaker 1: into that, which kind of delays things. You know, he
Speaker 1: already we saw was in and out of practice earlier
Speaker 1: in August. UM. I definitely think that this ankle foot injury. UM,
Speaker 1: the story he's been dealing with this something that could
Speaker 1: continue to linger. Wouldn't be surprised if be missing some
Speaker 1: practices throughout the year. And as you mentioned, he's had
Speaker 1: a lot of other injuries in the past as well.
Speaker 1: Last year was bruised ribs. Before that, I was staring
Speaker 1: in his ankle. So he's still a very high injury
Speaker 1: risk right now despite hitting that optimal recovery time, and
Speaker 1: his health performance back or is below average, which tells
Speaker 1: me he's not going to be as quick as we
Speaker 1: expect him. Um, he's you know, he's not going to
Speaker 1: be close to at least early on in the year,
Speaker 1: and that's why his value is dropped for that exact reason,
Speaker 1: and it makes sense why we've heard reports that the
Speaker 1: Packers have shopped him. We thought about cutting him because
Speaker 1: if his performance isn't up to where it's been in
Speaker 1: years past, he comes with a hefty price tag for
Speaker 1: the Packers in terms of what they're paying him this season,
Speaker 1: So it makes sense that they would shop him and
Speaker 1: even discuss cutting him, especially the way that they've talked
Speaker 1: up Geronimo Allison in the off season. Virginia, I asked
Speaker 1: you about in Indianapolis cult my last time, and Andrew Luck,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you about another Indianapolis cult, and that
Speaker 1: is Marlon Mack who has been dealing with a hamstring
Speaker 1: injury throughout the preseason. We don't know that he's going
Speaker 1: to be ready for Week one. Personally, I like Jordan
Speaker 1: Wilkins more than him because of that. Honestly, the way
Speaker 1: that this offensive line has looked, we probably shouldn't like
Speaker 1: any of the Colts running backs. But what's going on
Speaker 1: with Marlon back? Is he ready for a Week one
Speaker 1: if he comes back to early? Does he re injure it?
Speaker 1: What's the lay is home all in there? Yeah? So
Speaker 1: his hamstring string comes with a five week often were
Speaker 1: recovery time which to stay turned around week two or three. UM,
Speaker 1: so we don't think he should play week one. It
Speaker 1: does sound like he's making progress, which is good, but
Speaker 1: he is still an elevated injury risk below average health
Speaker 1: performance factor, so he's definitely not ready to be a
Speaker 1: big contributor for the cults. UM. If he returns week one,
Speaker 1: I do think he's going to be at a concerning
Speaker 1: injury risk UM, and this is an easily aggregated injury,
Speaker 1: So I do think they should hold him out a
Speaker 1: few more weeks and then bring him back week two
Speaker 1: or three. Greg, I don't usually like to advocate things
Speaker 1: that the fantasy executive says, because you know, he's been
Speaker 1: talking smack about a lot of smack. You're talking a
Speaker 1: lot of smack. He also said he misses you, Virginia.
Speaker 1: But one thing that Corey does normally say is there
Speaker 1: a few teams that he just doesn't go to get
Speaker 1: his running back. And I think this is just the
Speaker 1: obvious one. Right Like the Colts, we've been trying to
Speaker 1: make Jordan Wilkins a thing, and I like Wilkins, and
Speaker 1: he's dropped down draft boards. But between Mac and Jordan
Speaker 1: Wilkins and him high and Christine Michael and the offensive
Speaker 1: line not looking great and really none of them looking
Speaker 1: good in the preseason. Should we just trust Corey on
Speaker 1: this one? Who just don't draft any Colts? Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know it's it's funny. I'm looking at my lad up
Speaker 1: um in flex and for some reason I own that
Speaker 1: backfield in Nahem Hines and Joey Wilkins. I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know why that seems bad Like you and George Kindle,
Speaker 1: though he's he's good, one of your one of your
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty niners. It's a Virginia team gets worse
Speaker 1: the more I look at it. So that's probably closed
Speaker 1: that table, the next one, onto the next one. Indeed,
Speaker 1: Virginia is a guess from Inside Injuries. We appreciate the
Speaker 1: time as always, and let's do it again next week
Speaker 1: where we'll have real football week. Why don't be right
Speaker 1: in front of us and I'm excited to talk to
Speaker 1: you guys. Then, thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: Also following Virginia on Twitter Apporginia's I guess of course
Speaker 1: inside injuries. At inside injuries, you do you you read
Speaker 1: through them all the time, Frankie. I've told people multiple
Speaker 1: times that I have their Twitter alerts on, so whenever
Speaker 1: Inside Injuries tweets something out, I get an alert to
Speaker 1: my phone and Frank Frank is more alerts than anyone
Speaker 1: I've ever seen. I also do have alerts turn on
Speaker 1: for every time a player hits a home run in
Speaker 1: the MLB, literally and the stolen base. We had Manny
Speaker 1: Morgo hit one yesterday and I said, why does Frank
Speaker 1: of a Manny Morgo alert set off? I could not
Speaker 1: understand it. Now I do, and it does make It
Speaker 1: doesn't make any more sense. Off can play Fantasy baseball
Speaker 1: to Greggy. So you know, if I see a guy
Speaker 1: hit three home runs in one game, go out try
Speaker 1: and pick him out. My wide receivers in flex pretty awesome,
Speaker 1: Fitzgerald in the fifth it was a non pp. This
Speaker 1: is the first draft I did. You were zigging when
Speaker 1: everyone else was. I was, so my wide receivers is all.
Speaker 1: That is all I want to tell you. And then
Speaker 1: read your running backs, Okay, Davante Adams, Larry Fitzgerald, t
Speaker 1: Y Hilton, Robert Woods, who are in Sutton, Alan Hearns.
Speaker 1: That's fun. That's good that's a great group. It's a
Speaker 1: really good group. All right. Now, running backs, the tight
Speaker 1: end is George Kittle. That's pretty good, right, who's back?
Speaker 1: Cam Newton? Oh, that's great? So preto teams so far,
Speaker 1: it's a great team. Do you like it? It's a
Speaker 1: great team. Um, running backs, Greg seems unnecessary. Are you
Speaker 1: gonna be starting Jordan Wilkins and ninety mines in week one?
Speaker 1: Not only two running backs? Okay, we'll have any running
Speaker 1: backs behind besides the Indianaples Colt Barley. Oh, that's a
Speaker 1: good one. That's a good one. We got one running
Speaker 1: back at least at Marshall Lynch. It's not bad. Oh
Speaker 1: you're all right, you're like, okay, you're good. The rest
Speaker 1: of my running backs are not good. Jordan Wilkins, Time Montgomery,
Speaker 1: Naim Heinz, and Frank Gore. Look, you're starting lineup will
Speaker 1: be fine every week. If you have I'm gonna drop
Speaker 1: like Nat, don't do that. We're actually the complete opposite.
Speaker 1: That's the draft where I started running back, running back,
Speaker 1: running back. I'm gonna wide receivers are a little questionable.
Speaker 1: We might be trade candidates, and I'm gonna put the
Speaker 1: waiver claiming right now, all right, I'm gonna drop is
Speaker 1: running back? Should I dropped min Jordan Wilkins, time Montgomery,
Speaker 1: Frank Gore, probably Hines in a standard league, I'm gonna
Speaker 1: catch me. He is going to catch passes, but I
Speaker 1: don't know what else his role will be on the
Speaker 1: I don't think he scores many touchdowns. This is a
Speaker 1: good question. I like the talking point because there are
Speaker 1: a few waivers that haven't opened yet. And how much
Speaker 1: do you spend on Adrian Peterson right now in FAB
Speaker 1: in a non PPR league where Jordan Wilkins is your
Speaker 1: RB three, I have been six. I was gonna say fift.
Speaker 1: You have had this number twenty six in your head.
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna I'm just gonna bid his jersey number
Speaker 1: on Adrian Peterson and just hope I get him. That's
Speaker 1: that's a quarter of your FAB gone for the season.
Speaker 1: Four of the season even starts. Well, that means you
Speaker 1: can help me longer than anybody else. Or he could
Speaker 1: be out of the league by week. He won't be. No,
Speaker 1: he probably won't. Right lower it. That's probably fair. That's
Speaker 1: that's a that's a better amount. I think fifteen to
Speaker 1: twenty is fair, especially if you need the running back
Speaker 1: help in a non PPR league. I think in a
Speaker 1: non PPR league he's a low n RB three fans
Speaker 1: off n RB food. He looked very spry in that
Speaker 1: first preseason game. I totally agree with that average over
Speaker 1: five yards carry in that game. Clearly don't trust Rob Kelly.
Speaker 1: They clearly don't trust Sam Pete Ryan, and I like
Speaker 1: the Washington offensive line. I've continued to pump them up.
Speaker 1: That's there's some guys here. There's guys out of here.
Speaker 1: Man in the waiver wire. No, they're looking at it.
Speaker 1: I'll have to check it out. I mean, don't do that. Well. Now,
Speaker 1: I know how much you're bidding on a p so
Speaker 1: I know how much I need to bid out bid
Speaker 1: you to get you want to want all you man,
Speaker 1: I have four very good running backs in that league,
Speaker 1: so I don't think I really need it. We could be,
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Speaker 1: Kaream Hunt, Karen Johnson. Yeah, I would like one of
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Speaker 1: trade right now now? Yeah, alright, I'll take Larry Fitzgerald.
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Speaker 1: It was um similar to like Randall Cobb, you know
Speaker 1: how like he he could possibly be getting cut and
Speaker 1: it could open up the door for like a Geronimo Al. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm just wondering, is there any of us situations like
Speaker 1: that that we could be watching as like UH teams
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Speaker 1: That could be real interesting to like the next man
Speaker 1: up type thing if somebody else would be getting caught.
Speaker 1: Is there somebody that we should be keeping an eye on?
Speaker 1: Or is it is it just like the Randall Cobb,
Speaker 1: Germont Geronimo Allison thing that we should just be worried about.
Speaker 1: So I think it's a great I think it's a great,
Speaker 1: great question, to be honest with you. We've spoken a
Speaker 1: lot about Toronimo Allison and a lot about Randall Cobb
Speaker 1: getting cut or being faded out in some way. And listen,
Speaker 1: Randall Cob all of a sudden could could burst on
Speaker 1: like people thought of a couple months ago. One situation
Speaker 1: that I actually thought of Frank that he in the
Speaker 1: mind immediately was actually in Oakland, right where like I've
Speaker 1: admittedly have been high on Jordy Nelson, and I think
Speaker 1: you could be the red Zone guy. What if it's
Speaker 1: Martavis Bryant. If you really like Martavis Bryant last year
Speaker 1: so much he was going like the fifth round and
Speaker 1: we're like, what are you doing? R Tavis Bryant has talent?
Speaker 1: Can he keep his head on straight? I don't know,
Speaker 1: or Javis Bryant comes to mind. If Jordy Nelson really
Speaker 1: is watched. Yeah, and another one I thought of as
Speaker 1: we mentioned Brandon Marshall earlier on in the show. Sure
Speaker 1: if he doesn't make the team or if he's us
Speaker 1: terrible drum, Tyler Lockett does take that step. Okay, I
Speaker 1: actually like the town of Tyler Lockett. I know he's
Speaker 1: been uh, he's been off injured in his career, but
Speaker 1: with Doug Baldwin banged up, Brandon Marshall is underperforming. I
Speaker 1: think he's a name to pay attended to um Sean Jackson.
Speaker 1: What if? What if the John Jackson's just But we're
Speaker 1: already seeing Chris Godwin starting to get pumped up draft boards.
Speaker 1: But you know, I think there's a chance that Chris
Speaker 1: Godwin starts on the outside and two wide receiver sets.
Speaker 1: I think he plays more than de Shawn Jackson UM.
Speaker 1: And then I think it's too late for a trade
Speaker 1: to take place. We heard a few whispers like two
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Speaker 1: other Mike Florio had the report. But if the Mary's
Speaker 1: Thomas were traded or something, obviously Courtland Sunton would automatically
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Speaker 1: I mean, some of the normal ones, but these late
Speaker 1: round guys, I thought Martavis Bryant, Um, I thought that's
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Speaker 1: coming guys, Andrew Luck, Kirk, Cousins and Celebra got what
Speaker 1: we got to take. So we talked about quarterbacks yesterday
Speaker 1: on the show. And initially I Andrew Luck was certainly
Speaker 1: the highest, quite easily for me, of Cousins and Rivers.
Speaker 1: Now he's definitely above Rivers for me. And then it's
Speaker 1: Luck and Cousins. And I know, Frank you with Cousins
Speaker 1: ahead of Luck yesterday. Yeah, I've dropped Andrew Luck down
Speaker 1: to QB eleven, just a little bit worried about everything
Speaker 1: that's going on, not attempting men he passes down the field,
Speaker 1: the foot injury as well, still trying to come back.
Speaker 1: I'm worried that this could really just be a shake
Speaker 1: off the rust year, or maybe at least the first
Speaker 1: half of the year. So I will take Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: of this group. I will say that I've I've worried
Speaker 1: a little bit about Kirk Cousins now too, with the
Speaker 1: injuries to the offensive line there. But I just think
Speaker 1: the weapons that he has will outweigh the deficiencies or
Speaker 1: the injuries that he has to the offensive line. You
Speaker 1: get rid of the ball quickly, let Stefon Diggs Adam
Speaker 1: Feeling do things after they catch, and then you still
Speaker 1: have that huge red zone weapon in Kyle Rough plus
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook to catch the ball out of the backfield too.
Speaker 1: I just think there's too many weapons there that even
Speaker 1: if the offensive line is not great, he can still
Speaker 1: overcome that. Plus Cousins has played with you know, decimated
Speaker 1: offensive lines in the past. Last year he finished as
Speaker 1: what a top eight QB once again, So I think
Speaker 1: I trust him the most out of that group with
Speaker 1: everything that's happened in the preseason. Great alright, continuing on
Speaker 1: the phone, eight four, three, six, seven nine, we're up
Speaker 1: to Derek Inan, California. It's up to j Hey, I'm chilling.
Speaker 1: What's up? Guys? Too much? Man? All right? Check us out.
Speaker 1: I've been hearing all this talk about Geronimo Alison and
Speaker 1: I've noticed that he's available on my labor Wires free
Speaker 1: agent and so I'm curious compare him compared to D D.
Speaker 1: Westbrooks or Mohammed Sanu. Would you swap any of those
Speaker 1: two out for him? So I would swap sanw with
Speaker 1: Geronomo al personally, Like, I know people really like Healing
Speaker 1: Cole in Jacksonville, and it looks like both these guys
Speaker 1: are number three wide receivers. But Ded has that talent
Speaker 1: and I want to give that a week. In all honesty, UM,
Speaker 1: I would swap out Allison for swcause theos doesn't have
Speaker 1: the upside Allison does. UM Any Green Bay offensive Randall
Speaker 1: Cobb isn't anything. So for me, I'd make the swap
Speaker 1: between Allison and Sanil. Yeah, I wouldn't mind dropping either
Speaker 1: one of these guys. But for the reasons you mentioned Greg,
Speaker 1: I would drop some new as well. He's a very
Speaker 1: steady veteran weekend and week out. He has a safe floor.
Speaker 1: But let's see what happens early on in the season
Speaker 1: with the Jags wide receivers. Maybe d D. Westbrook pops
Speaker 1: off as a team's wide receiver one. We just don't
Speaker 1: know how it's gonna play out. So I agree I
Speaker 1: would have dropped either one of them for Allison, but
Speaker 1: I'm leaning more so dropping soon. Let's go out to
Speaker 1: SYRAC Houston. Talk to Tea. What up? Tea? Hey man,
Speaker 1: what's going on? Thanks for helping us out. I'm a
Speaker 1: big fan of the show on the channel. We appreciate
Speaker 1: it very very much. We know it's a huge weekend
Speaker 1: for you, so we're trying to be huge. Sure it was.
Speaker 1: My work was the last week and I had a
Speaker 1: couple of drafts. Then I wanted to run a couple
Speaker 1: of my rosters by you guys this twelve PPR both
Speaker 1: teams I wanted to get a draft grade from me.
Speaker 1: I got qb uh Cousins, I got come out Gordon
Speaker 1: and run Back. I got Diggs and Allen Robinson. Although
Speaker 1: on hin that I probably would go with Tyreek Hill,
Speaker 1: but that's a different story. Instead of Diggs. I got
Speaker 1: my tight end as I first. I got Crabtree on
Speaker 1: flex and my uh my bench is Russell Wilson, Burkeheads,
Speaker 1: carry On, Johnson, Crowder, Ferns and troops for for my
Speaker 1: tight end backup? What do you guys think about that? Oh?
Speaker 1: And I have a handcuff on ekelor R. Alright, so
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara, Gordon, we're assuming this. So yeah, the running
Speaker 1: backs are amazing, Kirk Cousins. Even if you have Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't have drafted Russell Wilson or vice versa. If
Speaker 1: you drafted Wilson first, I wouldn't have taken Cousins. Um.
Speaker 1: I like Diggs as the wide receiver one when you
Speaker 1: have those running backs Allen Robinson, No, I think your
Speaker 1: wide receiver two it could be better. Obviously, Tyler eiffort Um,
Speaker 1: how long is he gonna stay healthy? Love the running backs, yeah,
Speaker 1: I love the running bags, don't love the tight end.
Speaker 1: I don't really know why you have two elite quarterbacks
Speaker 1: unless this is a super flex league. With that being said,
Speaker 1: I'll give it a B plus B yeah, Range, I
Speaker 1: just thinking the same thing. I just thinking about a
Speaker 1: B R B plus what about your other team? Yeah,
Speaker 1: it was just great value. So I couldn't passed on
Speaker 1: that one. It was a late round. So the second
Speaker 1: one is I got Andrew lock Kenyan, Drake, Lamar Miller,
Speaker 1: All Beckham Jr. Um, I got Davante Adams, Tyler Effort
Speaker 1: once again, Marvin Jones, Jamal Williams, and my flex. That's
Speaker 1: two flex uh and my my bench just Carlos Hide Thompson,
Speaker 1: Chris Thompson, Garson Mahomes, and Lockett. That's a C team
Speaker 1: to me. So it's Andrew Look, Kenyan, Drake, Lamar Miller,
Speaker 1: Lamar Miller, Odell Beckham. So you really do you went
Speaker 1: with the wide receivers. He took Odell Beckham and Davante Adams. Um,
Speaker 1: Marvin Jones is your flags running backs left and typically
Speaker 1: on my max and I really did not go to
Speaker 1: wide receivers, but the value was just way too good
Speaker 1: with and Davante Adams. I will say, I like the
Speaker 1: team you told me before more so than this, I'm
Speaker 1: a little bit worried about Andrew Luck. I probably would
Speaker 1: have started one wide receiver and one running back in
Speaker 1: the second round, so you can have a little bit
Speaker 1: more balanced. But given that you have Odell Beckham and
Speaker 1: Davante Adams, I don't mind Kenyan Drake and Lamar Miller
Speaker 1: being your running backs all that much. I'll give it
Speaker 1: a B minus. I like the other team a little
Speaker 1: bit more though. Yeah, like the I'm going to see
Speaker 1: absolutely man, let's go to Let's go to Goose in California?
Speaker 1: What of Goose? What's up, guys? What's happening? Man? Um?
Speaker 1: I'm leading towards keeping Doug Baldwin, but I've also been
Speaker 1: thinking about trade offering to trade him for h Jillian Edelman.
Speaker 1: What do you guys thinking about that? I'm I'm good
Speaker 1: at wide receiver. I'd rather keep Baldwin. That deal wants
Speaker 1: Edelman spent it for four games, didn't play all the
Speaker 1: last year. Give me the guy that I you know it,
Speaker 1: I'll be out there week one. I know what you're thinking.
Speaker 1: You said that you're stacked at wide receivers, so you
Speaker 1: probably just you want to take Julian Edelman stashing for
Speaker 1: those four weeks and you have them in week five
Speaker 1: as a potential you know, wide receiver two and PPR.
Speaker 1: But I'm with Greggy with this one. Even if you
Speaker 1: suffer injuries early on, you're gonna need that wide receiver depth.
Speaker 1: I'll keep Doug bollowing, and I know the risk is there,
Speaker 1: but I haven't ranked much higher than Julian Edelman. I
Speaker 1: totally totally agree. Let's hit up Darren in New Jersey.
Speaker 1: What up, Darren? Yeah? What's out? Guy? So? I have
Speaker 1: my draft already and I feel like my wide receivers
Speaker 1: I probably need to get some help on it. Um,
Speaker 1: So let me run down my draft real quickly with
Speaker 1: you guys. YEA cool? All right? So I had the
Speaker 1: first first pick twelve team PPR. I want Ezekiel Elliott
Speaker 1: came back around? Did Doug Bowling and Stepan Dicks? Uh?
Speaker 1: That pick? The Alex Collins and Royce Freeman and Marky's
Speaker 1: Goodwin cousins, Julian Edelman, uh, Kenny Golladay, Burton Read and
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones Like, I feel like I need to show
Speaker 1: up my wide receiver corps because of the news on Bowling.
Speaker 1: So you think I should drop a Golliday and pick up,
Speaker 1: like um, one of the Jags receivers or Michael Gallant.
Speaker 1: I would hold onto Kenny Golladay. I might drop someone
Speaker 1: else on your bench, because Golladay has some sneaky upside
Speaker 1: as well. But I would try to get Gallop on
Speaker 1: your team, or even Keel and Cole, who I like
Speaker 1: a lot from Jacksonville. I think there's a chance he
Speaker 1: could be their wide receiver one. But I think you
Speaker 1: turned out all right here. Obviously you took Zeke in
Speaker 1: the first round, and then to get digs In Baldwin
Speaker 1: as your wide receiver one and two, and then backed
Speaker 1: it up with Goodwin as your wide receiver three. I
Speaker 1: don't feel all that bad about that group, knowing that
Speaker 1: you have Zeke, you have Alex Collins, and you have
Speaker 1: Royce Freeman. When it comes down to it, maybe a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks into the season, you realize you need
Speaker 1: a wide receiver and maybe you try and trade Alex
Speaker 1: Collins or Roy's Freeman to shore up that wide receiver group.
Speaker 1: But I actually don't think it's a bad group. Based
Speaker 1: on the running backs that you have. It seems okay
Speaker 1: for me too. And with that, we're gonna sign off
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Speaker 1: three six eight seven nine. Tim Albright asked us inside
Speaker 1: the YouTube chat Frankie in the sixteen team PPR, would
Speaker 1: you give up Aaron Rodgers for Devonte Freeman and Manny
Speaker 1: Sanders sixteen team pp Always? Absolutely, It depends who your
Speaker 1: quarterback is up next week. You'll figure that out. Man.
Speaker 1: Even if you the replacement level quarterback you get in
Speaker 1: the sixteen team league, assuming you have one on your
Speaker 1: banch or, you pick one up to get a potential
Speaker 1: second and fifth round pick in Freeman and Emmanuel Sanders,
Speaker 1: I mean they're gonna go even higher in a sixteen
Speaker 1: team league. Mamnuel Sanders is probably a fourth round pick. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: I would do that trade as well as your Adrian
Speaker 1: asks us, would you want Geronimo Allison, who we spoken
Speaker 1: a lot about, or Cooper Cup I think this is
Speaker 1: Cooper Cup easily. Yeah. I like Geronimo Allison as a sleeper,
Speaker 1: but I don't want to pump them up too far now.
Speaker 1: I will say, if Randall Cobb is cut or traded,
Speaker 1: or something happens or injured, then I would rather own
Speaker 1: Geronimo Allison um over Cooper Cup. If something happens to Cob.
Speaker 1: I think Allison has top thirty upside, but the way
Speaker 1: that things are right now, I'd rather have Cooper Cup.
Speaker 1: He's ranked inside my top thirty six wide receivers, a
Speaker 1: solid wide receiver. Three. Yeah, I like Cooper Cup. Also,
Speaker 1: I don't own any shares and them I'd like to um,
Speaker 1: I'd like to. Maybe I will my last draft next
Speaker 1: week get a share Cooper Cup because that Robert Woods
Speaker 1: obviously in a lot of places. Maybe I should get
Speaker 1: a share Cooper Cup, get a shareff Kenyan Drake, I
Speaker 1: probably will Man, I probably will Rizzy. Choose two of
Speaker 1: these stuff from Don Mark. He's Goodwin, Kenny Steals, Alan Hearns,
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett, Sorry, Chris Godwin, Kenny Stills, Alan Hearns, Tyler Lockett.
Speaker 1: I will take Kenny Stills and Alan Herns. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: think Henny Stills a lock out of that, and it
Speaker 1: comes down to Herns, Lockett and Godwin. It's close to
Speaker 1: Godwin given their separate situations. I know Tampa's going to
Speaker 1: throw the ball more than Dallas, but Alan Hearns has
Speaker 1: a chance to be his team's wide receiver. One. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I I agree with you. Um this one comes from
Speaker 1: Greg would you can? Would you drop des Bryant yet
Speaker 1: de Pence? Who was available if any of the names
Speaker 1: people have been asking us about, Chris Godwin, Kilin cole
Speaker 1: Geronimo Allison. Yes, I would drop as Brian for any
Speaker 1: of those guys. All right, what if? Al Right? Greg's
Speaker 1: response here is, um, let's see the best available according
Speaker 1: to his league. There's no one there is, just like
Speaker 1: Adam Humphries. We're not dropping does Brian for Adam Humptin
Speaker 1: to Darrold Patterson, you look at our scout team. I've
Speaker 1: already put some players in it. That's it. We're done.
Speaker 1: The fantasy football frenzy is up next. I just picked
Speaker 1: up Philip Dorset and dropped this Bryant sucks for Frank
Speaker 1: for Frank Staffle. My name is Greg Sausman. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much for watching. Listen to fantasy BFS. We'll do
Speaker 1: it all again tomorrow, we hope.