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Speaker 1: Now here's your host, Paul. Welcome to Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: I am Paul Chargey in My co host this week
Speaker 1: is Bryan Johnson. What's up. Good to talk to you again.
Speaker 1: And this week's we're playing a game. You know a
Speaker 1: lot of times you're just grinding up a bunch of
Speaker 1: news and you know, all the latest stuff, and here's
Speaker 1: what's happening to the draft of free agency. This is
Speaker 1: our would you rather game. We've done this from time
Speaker 1: to time over the course of the Fantasy Football Weekly
Speaker 1: regular season show. I'm gonna give you the average draft
Speaker 1: position of two teammates, and I want you to choose
Speaker 1: one or the other. Factoring in the average draft position,
Speaker 1: you know, it's obvious which guy you'd rather have if
Speaker 1: one of the other. But if you've got to pay
Speaker 1: the price for one, who would you rather have? Let's
Speaker 1: do it. We've got nine teammates to evaluate. The game
Speaker 1: never gets old, by the way, but it stands the
Speaker 1: test of time, and there's some good ones. Indeed it does.
Speaker 1: We begin in Buffalo. Would you and the running backs?
Speaker 1: Would you rather have Devin Singletary right now going off
Speaker 1: with an average draft position of the fourth round, or
Speaker 1: rookie running back Zack Moss with an average draft position
Speaker 1: of the round. Devin Singletary was very good at the
Speaker 1: end of last year. Zack Moss a bit of an unknown.
Speaker 1: What do you think? Yeah, that's quite the disparity in rounds,
Speaker 1: that are right. So I went right to your favorite
Speaker 1: spot charts inside the five yard line for this one.
Speaker 1: And uh, Devin Singletary a very exciting running back, but
Speaker 1: kind of more of a scatback, certainly not a power back.
Speaker 1: And us by his three carries inside the ten yard
Speaker 1: line last year. I know he said inside the five,
Speaker 1: but this is inside the ten obviously twice as far
Speaker 1: out is it? Five? Only ten carries or I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: only three carries inside the ten. Frank Gore had eighteen,
Speaker 1: Josh Allen had eleven. Yeah, Josh Allen nearly quadrupled these
Speaker 1: carries inside the ten yard line. So right there, Zack Moss,
Speaker 1: rookie at Utah been heralded as a five tool running back,
Speaker 1: meaning he can run through you, run around you, just
Speaker 1: run right by you, avoid you entirely. If you wants
Speaker 1: pass protect, pass block, He's gonna absorb all of these
Speaker 1: red zone carries that Frank Gore once occupied. So for me,
Speaker 1: it's with the bullet Zack Moss easily in round fifteen.
Speaker 1: I'm with you, it's Zack Moss. And I like Devin Singletary.
Speaker 1: He was a good player and in PPR league still
Speaker 1: have value. But Zack Moss is almost free in round fifteen.
Speaker 1: And you hit on a lot of the key points
Speaker 1: and you you got all my inside the five stuff.
Speaker 1: I was. I was surprised to learn David single Tory seven.
Speaker 1: Singletary scored one touchdown from inside the five last year.
Speaker 1: He's got to score from distance. And you know we've
Speaker 1: seen over the years the players who have to score
Speaker 1: from distance. They put up some years they have a
Speaker 1: three touchdown year. I mean, they just have clunkers where
Speaker 1: it just doesn't work out that they score from distance.
Speaker 1: The easy touchdowns that just that make a player transcended
Speaker 1: are the ones that come from inside the five. And
Speaker 1: Devin Singletary isn't going to get those. And you mentioned,
Speaker 1: you know, Zack Moss is a big bodied guy built
Speaker 1: for goal line, and they drafted him specifically to be
Speaker 1: that tough yards inside guy. He welcomes contact, he breaks tackles,
Speaker 1: He's a finisher. Utah's all time leading rusher and all
Speaker 1: time rushing touchdown leader, Zack Moss. He is the correct answer.
Speaker 1: I believe, we both believe Zack Moss. Two votes for Zack.
Speaker 1: He's been playing at higher elevation. That's Buffalo is at
Speaker 1: sea level. By the way, Buffalo or at least Lake Love.
Speaker 1: How exciting is Buffalo looking on paper like this is
Speaker 1: the first time the early nineties. Yeah, man, they got
Speaker 1: a fun looking team. But yeah, people are gonna start
Speaker 1: to get more sharp to this where I think Zach
Speaker 1: Moss could surpass Devin Singletary and a DP come late August.
Speaker 1: Maybe no chance Za here to make an eleven rounds
Speaker 1: now he pops off, and we're praying that there's preseason
Speaker 1: games for once. We're praying for preseason games, right, but
Speaker 1: what if he pops off anyway, that's a chance not happen,
Speaker 1: all right? The next would you Rather Teammate? Edition? Would
Speaker 1: you rather have? A Marie Cooper in round three or
Speaker 1: seed Lamb rookie wide receiver in round nine. Obviously these
Speaker 1: are Dallas wide receivers of Marie Cooper round three or
Speaker 1: Seedee Lamb at round nine. Can I say Michael Gallup, No,
Speaker 1: I know not right now, A MARII Cooper, it's a value.
Speaker 1: He's valid for this. But it's the same old story
Speaker 1: with a Mari Cooper. It's it. It really hasn't changed
Speaker 1: since the trade to the Cowboys from the Raiders, where
Speaker 1: he's been this roller coaster ride of emotion last year.
Speaker 1: Four games over a hundred yards for Cooper, four under
Speaker 1: twenty five yards, that he is not reliable in a
Speaker 1: in in a scenario where you have to choose your
Speaker 1: starters and if it's not best ball I did I found.
Speaker 1: I came to the same analysis Dallas and in justice.
Speaker 1: Dallas games are just thrown out at the Raiders games
Speaker 1: because a lot of people like r fort of his games.
Speaker 1: That was a lot. He had forty eight scoreless yards
Speaker 1: or less in of his Dallas games for Marie Cooper.
Speaker 1: Those are games that kill you. And that's just too
Speaker 1: high of a clunker ratio for a Marie Cooper to
Speaker 1: pay in the third round. Yeah, and then you bring
Speaker 1: in Ceedee Lamb, who we were in agreement a couple
Speaker 1: of months ago, the top wide receiver in this year's draft,
Speaker 1: and Michael Gallops already there. You got it up and coming,
Speaker 1: Blake Darwin uh And of course Zeke Tony Pollard is
Speaker 1: an astounding football player pass catcher. So I'm just taking
Speaker 1: the cheaper guy here. I'm not going Cooper. There's no
Speaker 1: chance I'd rather take Ceedee Lamb all day. Ce Lamb
Speaker 1: was my number one rookie wide receiver going into the draft,
Speaker 1: as you mentioned, absolutely electric after the catch, twenty six
Speaker 1: broken tackles last year, number two in the n c
Speaker 1: A among all wide receivers, forced a miss tackle on
Speaker 1: over of his catches. It's insane. The best receiver in
Speaker 1: Dallas never dropped. Seed Lamb never dropped a pass of
Speaker 1: twenty plus yards in his three seasons at Oklahoma either.
Speaker 1: And he was the best yard after after catch guy
Speaker 1: in this draft. So elusive, so electric after the catch,
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb by a mile. I still cannot believe Dallas
Speaker 1: got him. I cannot put we can either, Denver and Well,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say Oakland, Las Vegas passed for rugs
Speaker 1: and find players and they're probably gonna have good, nice careers.
Speaker 1: But I think Ceedee Lambs the best player in this draft. Definitely.
Speaker 1: All Right, Our third would you rather teammate ad a
Speaker 1: ship goes to Denver Melvin Gordon with his round three
Speaker 1: average draft position, or Philip Lindsay going off in round eight?
Speaker 1: Which would you rather have? This is probably one of
Speaker 1: the tougher ones we're gonna go through today. Um. For
Speaker 1: those who don't remember, Gordon held out with the charges
Speaker 1: last year for the first three four games I think four, um,
Speaker 1: But he ended up with the fifth most carries inside
Speaker 1: the five yard line with thirteen, and his fifteen yards
Speaker 1: inside the five was the third most on those thirteen carries.
Speaker 1: And uh, Gordon scored as many touchdowns inside the five
Speaker 1: as se Kwon Barkley, Nick Chubb and Levian Bell combined
Speaker 1: last season, missing the first quarter of the year. Now, now,
Speaker 1: Lindsay was no slouch inside the five either, eight carries
Speaker 1: for fourteen yards and five touchdowns. That is Exuberg averaging
Speaker 1: two yards for carry. We're gonna get some really horrible
Speaker 1: inside to five numbers a little later. Some other teams,
Speaker 1: But I mean Lindsay Lindsay and dreaming at the same
Speaker 1: number of carries inside the ten last year for Denver.
Speaker 1: Of course Freeman Roy Streaman that is is an afterthought now,
Speaker 1: but Lindsay had twice as many inside the five as Freeman.
Speaker 1: So really this work, who who's gonna get it is
Speaker 1: gonna be right down the middle. It seems I'm very
Speaker 1: much on the fence. So I'm just gonna shut up
Speaker 1: now and take the cheaper guy again and say, Philip Lindsay,
Speaker 1: We've both been on the cheaper guy in every one
Speaker 1: of these scenarios, and I'm taking Philip Lindsay here, but
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go for a little different direction than you did.
Speaker 1: Is Melvin Gordon even that good? Debatable? It is? Pro
Speaker 1: Football Focus ranked him eighty five in yards after contact
Speaker 1: eight five. I mean that's to take You're basically talking
Speaker 1: about not just second string running backs on thirty two teams.
Speaker 1: You're talking about the third string running the third best
Speaker 1: running backs and thirty two teams to get all the
Speaker 1: way to eighty fifth and yards after contact next to
Speaker 1: him at ranking eighty five, where guys like Frank Gore,
Speaker 1: when Dell Smallwood, David Montgomery, fullback Sea j Ham. These
Speaker 1: are the guys that have yards after contact equivalent to
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon. He's been three point nine yards per carry
Speaker 1: or less in every season, but one three point nine
Speaker 1: or less last year. Three point eight. Austin Ekeler, running
Speaker 1: behind the same exact line as Melvin Gordon, has averaged
Speaker 1: five and a half yards per carry, five point two
Speaker 1: yards per carry, and four point two yards per carry
Speaker 1: over the last three seasons. I mean it's you know,
Speaker 1: Austin Neckla has got all the same disadvantages of the
Speaker 1: same offense, same offensive line, and he's popping off in
Speaker 1: an extra yard and a half yard yard and a
Speaker 1: half per carry. So I don't know that Melvin Gordon
Speaker 1: honestly is even that good anymore. And I'll never forgive him,
Speaker 1: even though it's not entirely his fault. Of course, Melvin Gordon,
Speaker 1: that is, for not scoring a touchdown, one single touchdown
Speaker 1: in his rookie year. This is statistical ottity. And then
Speaker 1: of course the next year was like a season, and
Speaker 1: you know everybody got him at a cheap price. We'll
Speaker 1: take a break when we come back. Three more would
Speaker 1: you rathers? Including some high profile players on the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Fantasy Football Weekly, Paul Charge and Brian
Speaker 1: Johnson with you high profile players on the Cleveland Browns.
Speaker 1: Who would you rather have? This is our teammates edition
Speaker 1: of would you Rather Go? To Cleveland? It could go
Speaker 1: a couple of directions. In Cleveland, We're going to the
Speaker 1: wide receivers. Odell Beckham has got an average draft position
Speaker 1: of round three. Jarvis Landry has an average draft position
Speaker 1: of the end of round five. Who would you rather take?
Speaker 1: Factoring in the average draft position? Brian Johnson, where were
Speaker 1: we a year ago? Just how excited about this Cleveland
Speaker 1: Browns offense team? In general? Everybody, everybody wanted a piece
Speaker 1: of the Browns and it turned out there was one
Speaker 1: for two really good player to get and that was
Speaker 1: Nick Chubb or maybe Cream Hunt later. Yeah, but uh yeah,
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham clearly a Bust of the Year candidate last season.
Speaker 1: I'd probably give it to someone like Juju Smith Schuster
Speaker 1: over Beckham. Beckham still David Dust from last year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he had a good first half though, but uh, Juju
Speaker 1: throughout was just painful. But anyway back to Beckham and Landry,
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, Beckham, like you said, going mid round three
Speaker 1: right now, some leekus. He was going through it overall
Speaker 1: last year, so that's quite a discount on his side.
Speaker 1: But at this time last year I had Odell Beckham
Speaker 1: as my number one wide receiver. Over the course of
Speaker 1: the preseason, I had lowered him down to like number four.
Speaker 1: Still an epic with yeah, I'm he he scares me. Still,
Speaker 1: I think we've seen pique Odell Beckham. I know Eli
Speaker 1: Manning is not the ideal quarterback for a stud wide receiver,
Speaker 1: but back in those days, Beckham was the guy and
Speaker 1: that was it. And Beckham's not the guy here. And
Speaker 1: what scares me most about Beckham is last year sixty
Speaker 1: sorry I'm looking this up real quick, sixty three of
Speaker 1: his games he fell outside the top thirty wide receivers.
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham, Odell Beckham. Jarvis Landry, on the other hand,
Speaker 1: finished top five in PPR formats last year in the
Speaker 1: second half of the season after a slow start where
Speaker 1: they're probably just forest feeding Odell Beckham the ball soda.
Speaker 1: Long story short, it's uh Landry is a safer play.
Speaker 1: Beckham's a ceiling pick in the mid third, and there
Speaker 1: are guys like Kenny Golladay, and honestly, I would rather
Speaker 1: take Calvin Ridley two rounds ahead where he's going than
Speaker 1: over a guy like Odell Beckham. He just doesn't excite
Speaker 1: me like he used to. So I'm going discount again
Speaker 1: with Landry. I'm taking This is the first time we differ.
Speaker 1: I'm taking Odell Beckham. We know what Jarvis Landry is
Speaker 1: all about. If you want a wide receiver with four
Speaker 1: five touchdowns, Jarvis Landry is your man. That is your guy.
Speaker 1: You want eighty catches, one thousand yards and no touchdowns,
Speaker 1: that's your guy. He brings no upside to the table.
Speaker 1: Odell Beckham brings double digit touchdown upside sometimes something he's
Speaker 1: done three years he's had double digit touchdowns. And I
Speaker 1: really believe this is the year we thought we were
Speaker 1: going to get last year from the Browns offense. Kevin
Speaker 1: Stefanski is a proven good coach, not long track record,
Speaker 1: but he just got Kirk Cousins the best year of
Speaker 1: his career. He fed both two different wide receivers from Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Both Stephan Diggs and Adam Felan both got fed. Both
Speaker 1: of these guys can get fed here. I really do
Speaker 1: believe Beckham is going to rebound nicely. Here. You get
Speaker 1: him in round three when he was going off the
Speaker 1: board in round one and early round two last year.
Speaker 1: I can get him at double the number of picks
Speaker 1: his technical his average draft positions actually thirty to be
Speaker 1: more specific, he was going off the board at roughly
Speaker 1: fifteen or less last year. So I'm taking the discount
Speaker 1: that's built into Odell Beckham coming off a down but
Speaker 1: not terrible season. Um, by the way, he had a
Speaker 1: thousand year. Odell Beckham had a thousand yards last year.
Speaker 1: I mean it was not a total bust season for
Speaker 1: Odell Buckham as you positioned it. I don't believe I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna die on the Jarvis Landry Hill. I can.
Speaker 1: I can't contest it too much. Next we go to
Speaker 1: Green Bay and we're back to the running back position.
Speaker 1: Which of these teammates would you rather have Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: paying a second round price for him or A J.
Speaker 1: Dillon the rookie running back in round fifteen? So Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones speaking of a roller coaster ride, he certainly was
Speaker 1: one last year. Party mom looking up some numbers here.
Speaker 1: So Jones finished basically as the second running back in
Speaker 1: PPR formats Uh certainly was boosted up by some monster games.
Speaker 1: The one versus Dallas comes to mind. Four touchdowns, I
Speaker 1: think four touchdowns like two fifty combo yards something like that.
Speaker 1: But when when he when he hits the floor, he
Speaker 1: hits it hard. And last year he had thirty overt
Speaker 1: of his games fell outside the top thirty at his position.
Speaker 1: And for comparison's sake, you have you got guys like
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey, Dalvin Cook. They're under ten falling outside of
Speaker 1: the top thirty. Yeah, I mean even like Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: seven percent, Austin Ekeler of your games outside the top
Speaker 1: thirty is a lot that when you're paying Yeah, And
Speaker 1: I don't know what what what A J. Dillon's gonna
Speaker 1: do in his rookie year. I don't know what any
Speaker 1: rookies are gonna do this year, to be honest with you,
Speaker 1: with no mini camps, we don't have to get into
Speaker 1: that now. But I'm still not drafting Aaron Jones at
Speaker 1: this price tag. You couldn't pay me to take Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones because he certainly could win you your league if
Speaker 1: everything falls place for him, But odds always gonna lose
Speaker 1: it for you because it's he's two up and down
Speaker 1: for me for going in the first second round too risky.
Speaker 1: Last year, Jones saw a two to one ratio of
Speaker 1: carries over Jamal Williams, and so really, a J. Dillon
Speaker 1: he's gonna get some carries this year. They drafted him
Speaker 1: in the second round and the front office took all
Speaker 1: kinds of heat for the pick. They're gonna want to
Speaker 1: validate that pick by getting A J. Dillon at least
Speaker 1: some run this year. So let me ask you this, Brian.
Speaker 1: Does A J. Dillon's carries come out of Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: or Jamal Williams or can we not know? I don't
Speaker 1: think you can really know, but if I had to
Speaker 1: pick one, it seems like you would be Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: car not Jamal Williams. And it's like they're just gonna
Speaker 1: relegate Williams to this third third down rule because Williams
Speaker 1: is never in. You know, he was an average ball carrier, right,
Speaker 1: He's more of a receiving back pass protector. So it
Speaker 1: seems like the touches when it comes to rushes will
Speaker 1: come from Aaron Jones and not Williams. So yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: I'm a J Dillon over Jones all day, if I
Speaker 1: gotta pick one. Jones and Williams are free agents next year,
Speaker 1: and so you know, there could be that could factor
Speaker 1: into this in some in some way. You know, we've
Speaker 1: we talked a lot about the possibility of them of
Speaker 1: teams going to Marco Murray on a on a running
Speaker 1: back and grinding them up. Usually they don't, but some,
Speaker 1: you know, some may. And if that's the case, Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones could get a ton of run if they decide
Speaker 1: to do that, and then position A J. Dillon as
Speaker 1: an air apparent for the next season, and they could
Speaker 1: rest effectively rest a J. Dillon this year now also important,
Speaker 1: and you've spent a lot of time focusing on yards
Speaker 1: in it carries inside the five, which is awfully important.
Speaker 1: But you can't talk about a J. Dillon not talking
Speaker 1: about his size. He's two hundred fifty pounds, he's six
Speaker 1: ft tall. That guy can dominate the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: the catch though. Last year, Jones is super productive inside
Speaker 1: the five. He carried the ball seventeen times from inside
Speaker 1: the five he scored ten. That's a nice ratio. You're
Speaker 1: really you're looking for and somebody's spent a lot of
Speaker 1: time grinding up data from inside to five. You're looking
Speaker 1: for a fifty percent return on touchdowns and those carries.
Speaker 1: He turned seventeen carries into ten touchdowns. That's better than
Speaker 1: so Jones isn't bad there, But man, A J. Dillon's
Speaker 1: just built for that use. Um, I am with you,
Speaker 1: and I'm on A J. Dillon, But it's this one.
Speaker 1: To me. It was the toughest call on the board,
Speaker 1: and I went back and forth. At one point I
Speaker 1: had this as Aaron Jones, then I went to Dylon.
Speaker 1: But the only reason I went to Dylan's because he's
Speaker 1: so cheap. And round fifteen, I think Jamal Williams turns
Speaker 1: out to be a bit of a non factor this year,
Speaker 1: and I he's he's the third choice out of all
Speaker 1: of this. Let's go to our third would you rather teammate?
Speaker 1: Addition for this particular segment, We've got one segment more
Speaker 1: in the show. We go to the tight ends. There
Speaker 1: are many There are many tight ends tight end position
Speaker 1: battles to sort of talk about, would you rather have
Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski in round six or O. J. Howard in
Speaker 1: round eighteen, making effectively free last pick of your draft
Speaker 1: in typical sized leagues. I thought we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: my boys in Arizona and breakdown Dan Arnold and Max Williams.
Speaker 1: Maybe next week. Oh yeah, so yeah. Gronk making his return,
Speaker 1: reuniting with Tom Brady. Of course, um word has come
Speaker 1: out recently, Bruce Arians says Tampa Bay plants. He's a
Speaker 1: lot of twelve personnel. They're gonna both two wide receivers,
Speaker 1: suit tight ends, one running back. So let's not forget
Speaker 1: Cameron Bread by the way, either, because he's still on
Speaker 1: the team. And Cameron Brad was like a fifteen tight
Speaker 1: end last year, did better than O. J. Howard. But
Speaker 1: we're talking Howard and Gronk. Here. What it boils down
Speaker 1: to is where Gronk is going. There are you're banking
Speaker 1: on his ceiling. Basically, you're banking on fourteen fifteen games,
Speaker 1: and I just don't see him playing like a full season.
Speaker 1: I'd rather be taking guys like Cook, Austin Hooper, Mike
Speaker 1: Sicky in the in the in that mid range where
Speaker 1: Gronk is going, I would quote unquote play. It's safer
Speaker 1: with O. J. Howard, who was a massive disappointment last year,
Speaker 1: but he did have a stronger second half. Was the
Speaker 1: overall tight end first half of the season. The second
Speaker 1: half things started to look up. I do think he
Speaker 1: sees more work than break and I just don't see
Speaker 1: Gronk living up to his a DP where he's going.
Speaker 1: I think people are gonna be reaching for the past,
Speaker 1: so I gotta go as much as I don't really
Speaker 1: want Oja Howard, if I had to pick one, I'd
Speaker 1: take o J. Howard for Gronk. Tell me about some
Speaker 1: of the late round tight ends you do like this year? Yeah,
Speaker 1: this year. I'm not joking. I really do like Dan
Speaker 1: Arnold and that's super late. It is super late. Um,
Speaker 1: I could talk about this all day. I like, Uh,
Speaker 1: it depends on your league. He's creeping up and if
Speaker 1: you want to go super sleeper, I think um Trey
Speaker 1: Burton can rebound in Indie. Jack Doyle stayed healthy and
Speaker 1: what about Jack Doyle. Jack Doyle, well, I think he
Speaker 1: I wouldn't call him. He's probably going top fifteen. He's
Speaker 1: more of a you know, yeah, but it's the fifteen
Speaker 1: tight end of the board. He's going around right. Here's
Speaker 1: that's why I like Rob Gronkowski. Yes, I'm taking his upside.
Speaker 1: I'm taking the upside. But if I were to tell
Speaker 1: you right now and listeners right now, that Rob Gronkowski
Speaker 1: would finish this year with the most touchdowns, would you
Speaker 1: be surprised? Like from that's not possible. It's certainly feasible.
Speaker 1: It's certainly He's done it many times. Right, So he
Speaker 1: enters into the season with as healthy as he's been
Speaker 1: in years. He's knows his quarterback intimately, he's Rob Gonkrowski
Speaker 1: is only thirty one years old. Travis Kelsey is going
Speaker 1: to turn thirty one in this season. We don't think
Speaker 1: of Travis Kelsey is old, right, Gronkowski is not so
Speaker 1: old that he can't be still good. And yes, I agree,
Speaker 1: I agree that you're banking. You're banking a bit on
Speaker 1: the upside for Gronk. But if you believe that you
Speaker 1: can get a Jack Doyle in round twelve around thirteen
Speaker 1: and back that pick up with somebody that can still contribute,
Speaker 1: I like it. I'm taking Rob Gronkowski. I had a
Speaker 1: feeling you would say that I've been a Gronkowski apologist
Speaker 1: for years. Uh, sometimes to my own personal detriment. As
Speaker 1: it's turned out. Okay, we're gonna take one more break.
Speaker 1: When we come back, We've got our final three sets
Speaker 1: of Would You Rather Players? Teammates Edition. It's Fantasy Football Weekly.
Speaker 1: Welcome back to Fantasy Football Weekly. Paul Charchie and Brian
Speaker 1: Johnson with you. It's a teammates edition of Would You Rather?
Speaker 1: Will give you two players on the same team, same
Speaker 1: position in who would you rather have? Between them? If
Speaker 1: you have to pay the average draft position between these players.
Speaker 1: We go back to Buffalo. We already talked about the
Speaker 1: running backs. Now we go to the wide receivers. Stefon
Speaker 1: Diggs going off the board in round four, John Brown
Speaker 1: going off the board in round number nine. Who would
Speaker 1: you Rather Have? This is another tough one and going
Speaker 1: back to Buffalo, it's gonna be exciting offense. As we
Speaker 1: mentioned earlier, Let's let's just start with the quarterback for
Speaker 1: a second. Josh Allen, as we all know, dead last
Speaker 1: in completion percentage last season, less than fifty, which is
Speaker 1: not good. We knew that was going to be the
Speaker 1: case with him coming out of school. That's who he
Speaker 1: was in college too, Clearly a threat on the ground
Speaker 1: and uh, he's unique in that way. Uh So John
Speaker 1: Brown not a big guy, he's a burner, doesn't have
Speaker 1: a massive catch radius, and he's looking at his h
Speaker 1: We're talking about the outside the top thirty percentage. We've
Speaker 1: done this for other players. John Brown of his games
Speaker 1: last year, we're outside of the top thirty wide receiver position.
Speaker 1: He had some big games. He finished as a top
Speaker 1: twenty PPR wide receiver on the season. But again, that
Speaker 1: is a massive roller coaster ride. I trust Stephon Diggs
Speaker 1: with a chip on his shoulder. Mind you right, Who's
Speaker 1: sixty seven percent catch rate last season with the Vikings
Speaker 1: would have led all Buffalo receivers that had more than
Speaker 1: fifty targets in So I just a huge difference in quarterbacking.
Speaker 1: It is true, but his high catch rate, not every
Speaker 1: past was perfect from Chris. He's just a more complete
Speaker 1: receiver than John Brown. John Brown. And so here's the
Speaker 1: one where I and I actually have I think Diggs
Speaker 1: has his auction value is kind of depressed from when
Speaker 1: he's been on the Vikings, So I actually have a
Speaker 1: lot of digs exposure. So I'm going digs here. I think, uh,
Speaker 1: I think he's in for a big year and he
Speaker 1: can make up for the inaccuracy of Josh Allen at times.
Speaker 1: I'm going John Brown because of the differential in cost.
Speaker 1: Round four versus round nine is a big differential. Um,
Speaker 1: they have double, almost exactly double the ADP. The it's
Speaker 1: uh Stefan Diggs is going off the board at a
Speaker 1: DP of fifty six. John Brown's a hundred eight. I mean,
Speaker 1: that's that's a big differential. John Brown was a thousand
Speaker 1: yard receiver last year, six touchdowns. He's great. I should
Speaker 1: I failed to mention. I hope this isn't the case.
Speaker 1: But he did have you know, a ton of injury issues,
Speaker 1: mainly in his head right, a lot of concussions with Arizona,
Speaker 1: which didn't pop up last year. But that was somewhat
Speaker 1: that's fair certain in my I think I think that's
Speaker 1: fair too. Um. I think that there's an assumption that
Speaker 1: Diggs is gonna destroy John Brown's value, that dig is
Speaker 1: gonna show up and just siphon every ball off. But
Speaker 1: you know, one of the things that I've been saying
Speaker 1: for years, Brian, by and large, all all rising water lifts,
Speaker 1: all ships, and I think Diggs is just as likely
Speaker 1: to help John Brown as anything else. Much like we
Speaker 1: saw Theeling and Diggs get fed for years in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: I believe we're gonna see Brown and Diggs get fed
Speaker 1: here and that Diggs is gonna take number one coverage
Speaker 1: away from John Brown, double coverage away from John Brown,
Speaker 1: and I think he's gonna hit more of these deep
Speaker 1: balls than he did before. Digs also a good deep
Speaker 1: ball receiver, did it with Kirk all the time, So
Speaker 1: I think I think this this offense is remains a
Speaker 1: stretch offense that's gonna feed both guys. Uh, they're both
Speaker 1: I think gonna have big games and bad good games
Speaker 1: and bad games because the quarterbacking is is also very inconsistent.
Speaker 1: But one of them is round four and I'm taking
Speaker 1: John Brown and round nine. Yeah, and let's not forget
Speaker 1: Cole Beasley. Just like when we talked about the Dallas
Speaker 1: receivers and we didn't talk about Michael Galp, Cole Beasley
Speaker 1: finished as inside the top twenty in the second half
Speaker 1: of the season in PPR League last year. He will
Speaker 1: be a factor and probably a nuisance for Well either
Speaker 1: or John Brown or if you think Brown, you know,
Speaker 1: we know Brown's a speedster. We know Digs can can
Speaker 1: catch these long balls as they are running down field
Speaker 1: and pulling defenses with them. Here's Cole Beasley underneath. Could
Speaker 1: be sitting on a really nice PPR season. I can't
Speaker 1: wait to watch this Buffalo team. And we go back
Speaker 1: to Cleveland. We made passing reference to this earlier. Now
Speaker 1: we go to the running back position and another I
Speaker 1: think brutally tough decision. Nick Chubb is going off the
Speaker 1: board in the middle of round two, Kareem Hunt the
Speaker 1: end of round five. Which of these teammates would you
Speaker 1: rather take? Chubbing round two? Hunt in round five? Um? Again,
Speaker 1: I went back and forth on this too. This was
Speaker 1: a tough one. I like them both. Uh, And for
Speaker 1: those who forgot, Kareem Hunt missed the first eight games
Speaker 1: last year for suspension. But let's just go to Chub.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go back to, uh, your favorite spot inside
Speaker 1: the five charge And this was astonishing to me. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you've looked into this yet. I'm assuming
Speaker 1: you have, but uh, last year it Chubb had fifteen
Speaker 1: attempts inside the five, which is near the top right,
Speaker 1: for negative fourteen yards. Car And no that's not that's
Speaker 1: not one big eight yards. I don't know how that happened.
Speaker 1: And only two touchdowns on fifteen carries inside the five,
Speaker 1: like he can't get it done. And then you look
Speaker 1: at Hunt. They gave him one try in sid for
Speaker 1: three yards in a touchdown. Maybe try that fourteen more
Speaker 1: times and you know Hunt, Hunt outscored uh Chubb in
Speaker 1: the second half in PPR leagues. He didn't. He was
Speaker 1: never like a top twelve running back, but he was
Speaker 1: a very safe top twenty play. Chub is volatile and
Speaker 1: this is a clear I wouldn't say clear cup. I'm
Speaker 1: going the cheaper guy with Hunt because I think he
Speaker 1: still could be the best running back in the NFL.
Speaker 1: We all know his off the field issues have deterred
Speaker 1: his career, but not long ago he was the best
Speaker 1: running back in fantasy football. So I'm going on in
Speaker 1: heavier PPR leagues, Kareem Hunt outscored Nick Chubb upon his
Speaker 1: return last year. Hunt was just playing better once he
Speaker 1: came back, and Hunt ranked number three in Pro football
Speaker 1: focus is elusiveness rating last year, and despite playing only
Speaker 1: half of the season, Hunt broke the seventh most tackles
Speaker 1: after the catch among all runners. You pro rate that
Speaker 1: to a full season and Hunt would have been number
Speaker 1: one and tackles broken after the catch. He's a special player.
Speaker 1: The only concern is you hope he keeps his head
Speaker 1: on his shoulders. Really, that's that's it. He's heading into
Speaker 1: free agency. He has a monetary reason to keep his
Speaker 1: head on his shoulders. Now, Chub is no slout. You know,
Speaker 1: Chubb was number two and avoided tackles last year. For
Speaker 1: a big man like him, that's really impressive. I think
Speaker 1: this really, I think you hit this right on the head.
Speaker 1: Do you believe Nick Chubb will continue to get carries,
Speaker 1: get all the carries inside the five, and my data
Speaker 1: showed sixteen carries inside the five year showed fifteen um
Speaker 1: either way, he converted it into a trivial number of touchdowns.
Speaker 1: And if and if Chub is if that thing is
Speaker 1: gonna even itself out, this gets weighted in the favor
Speaker 1: of Kareem Hunt by a lot. If those touchdowns are
Speaker 1: gonna be if those carries inside the five are gonna
Speaker 1: be split between them, and it's reasonable to think they could.
Speaker 1: And that's why Kareem Hunt at the end of round five,
Speaker 1: to me feels like can better pick than Nick Chubb.
Speaker 1: In round two Now, if you told me you're in
Speaker 1: a league with without PPR, if you're in a standard
Speaker 1: scoring league, it's not a question. It's clearly Nick Chubb.
Speaker 1: But most of us get something for receptions. And now
Speaker 1: I'm on cream hunt. Also this again the DeMarco Murray thing.
Speaker 1: Kareem hunts on his way. He's awaited free agency, so
Speaker 1: they might throw a lot of extra usage to him,
Speaker 1: grind him up and let him go last one, and
Speaker 1: it's time for this. Yes, I have not been able
Speaker 1: to talk about Sad Trombone Ski for two months. There's
Speaker 1: been no reason. Well, I'm gonna give you your chance.
Speaker 1: Because I looked at this and I was like, come on,
Speaker 1: I'm going forward. I'm gonna let go. Do you want
Speaker 1: Do you want Sad trombone Ski or Nick Fools? Now
Speaker 1: they're both going off that round twenty four, So it's
Speaker 1: that's both round twenty four, which means they're undrafted in
Speaker 1: most leagues. Which would you rather have Nick Foles or
Speaker 1: Sad Trombollsky? What would Nick Foles play like? I feel
Speaker 1: like I got something like that. That's Doug Flutie, You're
Speaker 1: I believe right there. I'll wait, I'll wait for this
Speaker 1: and so I can stop laughing. Um, the end is
Speaker 1: the best part. By the way, So, how many quarterbacks
Speaker 1: are we starting in this league? Decisions, you gotta pick one,
Speaker 1: you have to roster one of the Foles has always
Speaker 1: kind of excelled as the guy that comes in right,
Speaker 1: like the Jeff Hostetler role I remember. So I think
Speaker 1: if I had to pick one, I'm gonna go with
Speaker 1: true Whiskey because I think the Bears they surely invested
Speaker 1: the draft capital way way too much in True Whisky.
Speaker 1: Just put him out there in the first three or
Speaker 1: four weeks see if he can hit that magical ceiling
Speaker 1: that someone saw that front office. We saw sort of
Speaker 1: glimmers of it in the past, but it's not gonna
Speaker 1: come to fruition. So I would just I take trub
Speaker 1: Whisky my last pick and pray I get it right now.
Speaker 1: Folds has demonstrated season long upside that Tribhisky can't touch.
Speaker 1: Trubisky mostly by his legs, has some game to game,
Speaker 1: like if your best ball and you don't have to
Speaker 1: try guests when that game is gonna come, that he's
Speaker 1: gonna run for thirty yards in a touchdown. Well, here's
Speaker 1: my angle, they're gonna move him to running back over
Speaker 1: David Montgomery. They could. Um, that's that's where true whisky
Speaker 1: can help you. But otherwise, over a season long, we've
Speaker 1: seen Nick Foles be fantasy relevant for long stretches of
Speaker 1: time with Philadelphia. So the presumption is that if, if
Speaker 1: this is a season long conversation, we would rather have
Speaker 1: Nick Foles. And yes, I'm sorry, I'll never forget it
Speaker 1: was fortunate enough to roster him in DFS A day
Speaker 1: the seven touchdown game for Nick Foles be Raiders. Yes, wow,
Speaker 1: but I'm pretty sure what did you That wasn't that
Speaker 1: wasn't the big pay day But okay, but yeah, that
Speaker 1: that I'll always remember that game. Yeah, I've been the
Speaker 1: seven touchdown game. Anyone could score seven touchdowns against the
Speaker 1: Raiders in those days. These days, we don't know. I
Speaker 1: think the Raiders are sitting on a nice season. I
Speaker 1: really do. Uh well, we'll well, we'll break down the
Speaker 1: Raiders in due course. Thanks for listening. You made it
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