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Speaker 1: Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchian. It
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Speaker 1: what's going on. Good to have you back. Sorry for
Speaker 1: the extended absence that was me taking out a jumping
Speaker 1: out of town while the getting's good. May is the
Speaker 1: quietest month in the NFL calendar? Yeah, quietly?
Speaker 3: Is it? July? Is it like that? Isn't there like
Speaker 3: a week in July where there's nothing going on?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I mean right before training camp there's never any
Speaker 1: moves and all that stuff too, But right after the
Speaker 1: drafts really quiet too. So anyway, so appreciate the listeners
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Speaker 1: weren't there, But we're back. Today's player is Geno Smith. Yes,
Speaker 1: this is the deep dive on one player, Geno Smith.
Speaker 1: Why did why did you pick Gino Smith because.
Speaker 3: We wrote him off and he didn't right back. Well,
Speaker 3: he was a big winner from the draft though, just
Speaker 3: considering kind of who they drafted. I mean, they draft
Speaker 3: Jas in the first round, we got Zach Scharbade in
Speaker 3: the second round. Just good for the offense. Not good
Speaker 3: for Kenneth Walker, but good for the offense overall. Yeah,
Speaker 3: he was QB five last year and the QB nine
Speaker 3: average points per game and he's currently going off the
Speaker 3: board as QB sixteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is which is a little bit baffling. And
Speaker 1: I confess that when we when we prepped up for
Speaker 1: this and I really started looking more into Geno Smith,
Speaker 1: and then I went back to my player rankings, which
Speaker 1: are coming at Guillotine leagues dot Com very shortly, and
Speaker 1: I had him at QB fourteen. I'm like, you know what,
Speaker 1: I can't do that, I can't stand by that. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have to move him. I'm gonna have to move
Speaker 1: Geno Smith to uposition. That's more befitting what he did
Speaker 1: in seventeen games last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, do you know how many stats he
Speaker 3: finished top five? And this is all these stats are
Speaker 3: credit of billion musical from a man versus machine player profiler.
Speaker 3: These are not my stats at an allog PISA up.
Speaker 3: But okay, so many stats. So true completion percentage number.
Speaker 1: Four, what is true completion, catchable passes, their version of catchable.
Speaker 3: Passes, deep ball completion percentage number five, pressure completion number five,
Speaker 3: play action completion percentage number three, clean pocket completion percentage
Speaker 3: number three, QBR number six, completion percentage versus man number three,
Speaker 3: and carries he was number eight. I not think Gino
Speaker 3: ran many times last year. It was number eight, and
Speaker 3: carries among quarterbacks last year.
Speaker 1: Right now, you only had the one rushing touchdown, which
Speaker 1: I think makes us not think of him as a
Speaker 1: rushing quarterback. But he was sneaking in. It feels like,
Speaker 1: well I looked it up, twenty two rushing yards per game. Hey,
Speaker 1: that's two point two points. We'll take that. I wouldn't
Speaker 1: lose games by two point two points like every week, Yeah,
Speaker 1: for sure, So you know I'll take that. So all
Speaker 1: those things, true completion, pressure, completion percentage, QBR do those
Speaker 1: things equal fantasy success? That's my question? Or is this
Speaker 1: like a Kirk Cousins style conversation where you can be
Speaker 1: a good quarterback, but not necessarily an electric fantasy producer.
Speaker 3: For Geno Smith, I think it's closer to the latter,
Speaker 3: because I think those stats give you consistency. They give
Speaker 3: you a good amount of points each week, but they're
Speaker 3: not going to give you those boom weeks where I
Speaker 3: don't think it's in the cards for Gino to finish
Speaker 3: as like the QB three or the QB four, even
Speaker 3: though he finished as the QBE five last year. It
Speaker 3: just I don't know what. Maybe he just threw more.
Speaker 3: He threw a lot of touchdowns last year. I think
Speaker 3: he was he threw.
Speaker 1: Well, he threw. He threw touchdowns in fifteen of seventeen games,
Speaker 1: which was a huge factor, which we you know, we
Speaker 1: love that part and we love the consistency. He scored
Speaker 1: multiple touchdowns in twelve of seventeen games and he played
Speaker 1: seventeen games. Really, Gino Smith was a perfect Gullotine League quarterback,
Speaker 1: oh for sure. I mean just every week, just giving
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Speaker 1: every week starter?
Speaker 3: I think he is for sure. I don't think you
Speaker 3: can if he even just he gives you ninety percent
Speaker 3: of what he gave you last season, and now he
Speaker 3: gets another weapon in here with Jackson Smith and Jigba,
Speaker 3: who is the first receiver drafted off the board, I
Speaker 3: mean everyone's kind of wide receiver, one of the class.
Speaker 3: I don't see how you can't start him every week
Speaker 3: unless you go a quarterback earlier and then, like I mean,
Speaker 3: especially in super FLYX, he's a perfect a high end
Speaker 3: QB two honestly, like I'll pair Geno with I think
Speaker 3: we talked about with Kirk Cousins. But if you pair
Speaker 3: Geno with a guy like Justin Fields or Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 3: somebody who might have a lower floor but at very
Speaker 3: high ceiling, Gino gives you that consistency at kind of
Speaker 3: that QB two position. And something else that that was
Speaker 3: interesting was the whole narrow live in Seattle when Russell
Speaker 3: Wilson was there was let Russ Cook let rust through
Speaker 3: the ball. Yeah, Pete Carroll did not let Russ throw
Speaker 3: the ball as much as I think Seahawks fans wanted
Speaker 3: him to. So, Russell Wilson played ten years in Seattle.
Speaker 3: He never threw the ball more than five hundred and
Speaker 3: fifty eight times in a season. G you know, threw
Speaker 3: the balls five hundred and seventy two times last year.
Speaker 1: Twenty twenty more passes than Russell Wilson had any game.
Speaker 1: And you know, obviously Russell Wilson brought that team to
Speaker 1: two Super Bowls.
Speaker 3: Granted, this probably the game the new Week seventeen where
Speaker 3: there's not like another week, but still it's it's it's
Speaker 3: incredible that Gino Smith did what he did last year,
Speaker 3: and like he was going undrafted in the league last year,
Speaker 3: you could pick it. You picked this guy up two week.
Speaker 1: Three and commonly ranked as the thirty two ranked quarterback.
Speaker 3: He was done in my few all seas.
Speaker 1: I'd love to say that I got that one right,
Speaker 1: but I didn't.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't think I can't. I can't remember a
Speaker 3: single person last year he was like, you know what,
Speaker 3: you should take Geno Smith, because I.
Speaker 1: Will say I will say this for ourselves here in
Speaker 1: this show numerous times last summer, including when we did
Speaker 1: we did a full Seahawks breakdown in the middle of
Speaker 1: summer last year. We looked at the three Ish games
Speaker 1: that Gino Smith started when we were like, you know,
Speaker 1: he averaged more points than Russell Wilson did. He was
Speaker 1: not bad. I mean, he looked good in those games,
Speaker 1: and we said that, but then we promptly ranked him like,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: Thirtieth exactly because he had so many chances earlier in
Speaker 3: his career with the Jets, and I think I forget
Speaker 3: where he was at like the Ravens. I can't remember
Speaker 3: where he was after he got drafted by the Jets.
Speaker 3: But still, I mean, the weapons that he has in
Speaker 3: this offense, the old Lion was like gonna was a
Speaker 3: potential question. Last year. They drafted like two guys that
Speaker 3: were like solid starters for them, Charles Cross and the
Speaker 3: other right Tack. I forget his name, but I remember
Speaker 3: he did just being really solid. And like, where's the
Speaker 3: like the problem in this offense, like tight end Noah
Speaker 3: Fan maybe like that's the worst position group in this offense.
Speaker 3: I don't know. I just think this offense is going
Speaker 3: to be really good and having Gino is going to
Speaker 3: be a part to that.
Speaker 1: The addition of Jackson Smith and Jig but certainly helps.
Speaker 1: It gives you one more solid target and potentially an
Speaker 1: explosive one of that. But the other thing it does
Speaker 1: is if anything happens to DK Metcalf, Tyler Lockett, you
Speaker 1: know they missed half a season. This offense doesn't have
Speaker 1: to skip a beat. That's the I love. I love
Speaker 1: the redundancy that Jackson Smith and Jigbab brings to this
Speaker 1: offense and what it provides for Geno Smith just another
Speaker 1: just another way that you can roll into your season
Speaker 1: going Geno Smith's my guy. I'm not taking a quarterback
Speaker 1: till round eight and Gino Smith's my guy, and I'm
Speaker 1: just gonna roll with him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I like it. I like it too.
Speaker 1: Let's look at some of the other players that are
Speaker 1: going at his approximate ADP.
Speaker 3: I love playing the ADP game with quarterbacks, especially because
Speaker 3: it's I feel like it's just easier and like quarterbacks
Speaker 3: are so talked about, so everyone has an opinion on
Speaker 3: certain quarterbacks. But this is this is we haven't talked
Speaker 3: about this since this happened. Anthony Richardson is the QB
Speaker 3: ten right now.
Speaker 1: So you know the tricky part in Richardson, of course,
Speaker 1: is he could start zero games this year. None.
Speaker 3: I don't think that's gonna happen. Everything you're seeing I
Speaker 3: feel like is he's gonna start. He's already splitting first
Speaker 3: team reps.
Speaker 1: It's a good sign. But it's but Ojay's don't mean much.
Speaker 1: It's a good sign. Richardson of course is gonna bring
Speaker 1: freaky upside. I think I think I would I think
Speaker 1: I would go Richardson.
Speaker 3: Okay Dak Prescott QB eleven.
Speaker 1: Man. The way Ja Dak's season ended was such a
Speaker 1: bad taste in everybody's mouth. Some bad interceptions, but he
Speaker 1: was still a solid fantasy producer still. And know Ezekiel Elliott,
Speaker 1: which is interesting. So you know Zeke has been the
Speaker 1: guy who's pounded in all those touchdowns from inside the five.
Speaker 1: Pollard's not quite that guy. And so if Pollard doesn't
Speaker 1: take those as is Dak gonna throw five more touchdowns
Speaker 1: from inside the five yard line?
Speaker 3: That's nice. That's a good point. I never I didn't
Speaker 3: even think about it. Might do that because they don't
Speaker 3: have that big, bruising back really on the roster.
Speaker 1: Right, you know, Zeke was so good at making, you know,
Speaker 1: turning those carries into touchdowns. So I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: go Prescott here as well. So I think I'm gonna
Speaker 1: stick with Prescott.
Speaker 3: At QB eleven, I think I'm gonna go Gino just
Speaker 3: because I think the total offense is still better than
Speaker 3: the Cowboys. So I'm gonna go Gino. But to QB
Speaker 3: Denmer twelve, Let's say, I know you injury things are
Speaker 3: concern Do you see how big he looked at in
Speaker 3: OTAs By the way, big body's.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take Gino Smith for the safety to who
Speaker 1: knows I might get one game out of to us,
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm not taking two anywhere near his adp.
Speaker 1: All right, we'll take Gino Smith.
Speaker 3: There, all right? Kirk cousins QB thirteen.
Speaker 1: Well, I got kirkhead of all these guys, so you
Speaker 1: know this is not a news flash of many of
Speaker 1: our listeners. I think Kirk sitting on a very Gino
Speaker 1: Smith like season, and I made the comparison earlier. All
Speaker 1: Kirk does is produce really solid numbers every week.
Speaker 3: So can I ask, why do you think Kirk will
Speaker 3: be better than Geno, Like specifically, I.
Speaker 1: Think the totality the offense is going to be better.
Speaker 1: And then I like the Jordan Addison addition because I
Speaker 1: think he will be better. You'll get more out of
Speaker 1: him than the Vikings got out of feeling last year.
Speaker 3: Yeah, gotcha. I think they could lead the league of
Speaker 3: past attempts as well.
Speaker 1: They could. That team is not interested, man, I'm not
Speaker 1: interested in running the ball.
Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, I think I take Geno just because
Speaker 3: I just I don't know, Like we said, he was
Speaker 3: QB five last year in the situation, seemingly got better
Speaker 3: and now you might even some be in for some
Speaker 3: touchdown regression, but who knows. I'll just I'm just I'm
Speaker 3: just so high on Geno right now. I don't see
Speaker 3: me ever coming down Daniel Jones QB fourteen.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'll take Tino for the for the safety.
Speaker 3: Right.
Speaker 1: Could be because if Daniel Jones doesn't run, he gives
Speaker 1: you very little, Right, fifteen touchdowns last year is as
Speaker 1: the quarterback go through a season with fifteen.
Speaker 3: He's out better weapons than the off season, seemingly right, Yeah,
Speaker 3: I mean.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and Waller's get it looks like yeah, I think
Speaker 1: it slept on see, I don't like it.
Speaker 3: You don't like why? It's funny like he wanted the
Speaker 3: Blinten Cough of war last year. No one.
Speaker 1: Although I don't think that's a very good measure of
Speaker 1: It's not of NFL success. The Lietant Coff winners.
Speaker 3: I do feel like the most recent ones have been good.
Speaker 1: Though, Google, will you Google, You've got your compute up
Speaker 1: front of you. Let's take a look at the Bolittant
Speaker 1: Cough winners and see if I'm right or wrong. It
Speaker 1: feels like that there have been a lot of guys
Speaker 1: been very good at college. It's a little bit like
Speaker 1: the heisman is has almost no bearing on on your
Speaker 1: future success.
Speaker 3: All right, here we go, Yes twenty twenty two, High
Speaker 3: twenty twenty one. Jordan Addison, Okay, we'll find out.
Speaker 1: DeVante Smith, DeVonta Smith. Looks like that's gonna pan out fine.
Speaker 1: Jamar Chase, Jamar Chase has worked out real well.
Speaker 3: Jerry Judy good. And then James Washington Okay, and then
Speaker 3: his next stretch was tough. Dede Westbrook Okay, Corey Coleman,
Speaker 3: Amari Cooper, and then we'll we'll do Brandon Cooks. And
Speaker 3: then the next to our Marquis Lee, Justin Blackman, Justin Blackman.
Speaker 1: So it's like it that's about a fifty percent ratio.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I would like to see like the the
Speaker 3: Blinton cough were also first round picks, you know what
Speaker 3: I mean? Yeah, I feel like that'd be a better
Speaker 3: kind of indicator of success.
Speaker 1: Well, most of these guys were high round picks. Yeah, exactly,
Speaker 1: almost all of them are James.
Speaker 3: I think James Washington was a round two big, wasn't he.
Speaker 1: Yah, I think he was a round two and Cory
Speaker 1: Colman and he's still in the league. But that doesn't
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we'll see this year.
Speaker 1: I don't know Houston.
Speaker 3: Well, he was on Dallas. Was that a one year deal?
Speaker 3: I remember him last Washing.
Speaker 1: Now I think I think he's Houston this year.
Speaker 3: Okay, all right, last QB we have, would just have Aaron.
Speaker 1: Rodgers, Gino Smith.
Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, I'm with it.
Speaker 1: You know, I need to I need to know for
Speaker 1: sure Aaron Aaron's got anything left in the arm, because
Speaker 1: I don't like what I saw last year for sure.
Speaker 1: But he could have DeAndre Hopkins throw too. But by
Speaker 1: the time people are listening to this, maybe DeAndre Hopkins
Speaker 1: is a Jet that would help a lot.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you see, like posted a Jets logo or something
Speaker 3: on a story.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's about It might mean nothing. It probably
Speaker 1: doesn't mean he's just maybe, you know, maybe he's just
Speaker 1: trying to work up some you know, work up a
Speaker 1: little bit of frenzy about who he is.
Speaker 3: Because he posted an Instagram story of him watching the
Speaker 3: Patriots Super Bowl and NFL Network that they were just
Speaker 3: like re running or something like that. Yeah, the Patriots.
Speaker 1: He's got the most receptions for any player under thirty
Speaker 1: history of the league.
Speaker 3: He's unbelievable, the history of the league.
Speaker 1: And he was just he missed half of last year. Yeah, unbelievable. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's it's I don't think he's washed.
Speaker 3: I don't think I don't think he is either. He
Speaker 3: looked good last year when he played, thought I thought
Speaker 3: it looked good. He wants the people some leaks he
Speaker 3: was he was really good, like in that later part
Speaker 3: of the season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, DeAndre Hopkins has got you know, that's right now,
Speaker 1: and he's only gonna help himself. Whatever landing spot he
Speaker 1: has is better than the Colt McCoy led Cardinals. He
Speaker 1: was gonna have for at least a good chunk of
Speaker 1: this year. That Cardinals team is bad, so yeah, wherever
Speaker 1: he goes, it's gonna be. I don't know what. I
Speaker 1: don't know what DeAndre Hopkins ADP is.
Speaker 3: It's right now, it's about like wide receiver. I think
Speaker 3: he's going like right after. He's in like that Amari Cooper, Deebo,
Speaker 3: Samuel Tier right now if I remember correctly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, see, I love both those guys a lot. They're
Speaker 1: both both of those guys inside my top like eleven
Speaker 1: or twelve.
Speaker 3: So I'm really high in those guys.
Speaker 1: And I was last year too, in the year before.
Speaker 1: But anyway, all right, thank you for listening to this
Speaker 1: edition of Fantasy Football Weekly Micro. We'll have another deep
Speaker 1: dive on a notable player tomorrow as well. Stay tuned
Speaker 1: for that. Thanks everybody,