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Speaker 1: our guest last week. This week special guest co host.
Speaker 1: Please welcome in, ladies and gentlemen, mister Scott Thomas. Scott,
Speaker 1: good evening, Welcome. How are you doing, dude.
Speaker 3: I'm doing great, great, glad to be here and thanks
Speaker 3: for having me.
Speaker 1: It's fun. Now, what hat are you wearing tonight? What
Speaker 1: is that that Bengals? Okay, so are you a Bengals guy?
Speaker 1: I didn't realize this.
Speaker 3: I'm a Bengals guy. I was spend most of my
Speaker 3: life as a Cowboy fan. About five years ago, when
Speaker 3: the Bengals drafted Burrow, I had enough of the front
Speaker 3: office in Dallas. I couldn't take their decisions anymore, and
Speaker 3: I transitioned over to the Bengals and big, big Joe Burrow.
Speaker 1: Fan the Bengals. Do I have this? I'm just going
Speaker 1: through my show rundown here. Do I have any Bengals
Speaker 1: on here? I do. We're gonna get to the to
Speaker 1: the Bengals, but I'm glad I have a Bengals fan
Speaker 1: on to talk to you about Joe Burrow, T Higgins,
Speaker 1: and so much more of everything going on at Cincinnati tonight.
Speaker 1: We will get to that. We have so much more
Speaker 1: to get to as far as the Arizona running back situation.
Speaker 1: We'll talk about the Bucks offense without Liam Cohen. But
Speaker 1: I want to kick things off with the listeners and
Speaker 1: the viewers getting to know you a little bit better, Scott,
Speaker 1: as long as we're kicking things off. When you're not
Speaker 1: winning these FFPC leagues, what are you doing for a living?
Speaker 3: Well, For over thirty years, I was worked for a
Speaker 3: conveyor and automation company and I was an application engineer,
Speaker 3: did concept layouts for production facilities along with proposals that
Speaker 3: outline scope and pricing. Last year, my wife and I
Speaker 3: sat down and talked a bit and decided I would
Speaker 3: retire in May, and so I retired in May of
Speaker 3: last year so that we could move down closer to
Speaker 3: family and spend more time with my son and granddaughter.
Speaker 3: And we did that, and so, yeah, I have more
Speaker 3: time for fantasy football now, which.
Speaker 1: Is always a good thing. Right, Well, congratulations on the retirement,
Speaker 1: And obviously I think like and we've had retired guests
Speaker 1: on before, and it always that's one of the biggest
Speaker 1: things that they allude to, is like, well, I can
Speaker 1: grind waivers more, I can draft more, And certainly it
Speaker 1: sounds like that's exactly what you're doing. Is fantasy football
Speaker 1: has become a bigger part of your life since May
Speaker 1: of twenty twenty four, right Scott, Yeah, I would say so,
Speaker 1: have fantastic stuff. Let's get into it. I always love
Speaker 1: having you guys on this time of year because the
Speaker 1: people who are drafting while the previous NFL season is
Speaker 1: still going on, these are the people that really have
Speaker 1: a passion for the sport. You've been drafting in the
Speaker 1: Never Too Early Tournament, not only this year, but prior
Speaker 1: to this year as well. What is it about this
Speaker 1: Never Too Early tournament that has you coming back? What
Speaker 1: makes it so fun for you?
Speaker 3: I mean I could talk an hour on this one question.
Speaker 3: For whatever reason, the Never Too Early Best Tournament, I
Speaker 3: have great success with that, a lot better than the
Speaker 3: other tournaments that I've tried, a lot better than some
Speaker 3: of the other leagues. Last year I had a seventy
Speaker 3: two percent advance rate.
Speaker 1: Wow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and the early Best Ball compared to like eighteen
Speaker 3: percent in the late Best Ball. It was that way
Speaker 3: two years ago as well. I'm not sure why, but
Speaker 3: I think there's a couple factors with it. I mean,
Speaker 3: obviously with the early best Ball when you're looking at that,
Speaker 3: there's a lot of unknowns. You have not had any
Speaker 3: free agency, you have not had any NFL draft. There's
Speaker 3: so many things that can change in a heartbeat where
Speaker 3: When you get into May and June, things are a
Speaker 3: little more settled, and everybody kind of has a guide map.
Speaker 3: You know, they all know the same thing. The information
Speaker 3: is out there, everybody's got the same information. The ADP
Speaker 3: kind of gets locked in and you can must tell
Speaker 3: who's going next in the draft. It's not that way
Speaker 3: in January, February and March. It's all over the place
Speaker 3: and it's it's anybody's guess. And I was fortunate enough,
Speaker 3: like last year, to project a lot of different things correctly.
Speaker 3: I loaded up on Bock Bowers in the sixth round.
Speaker 3: It worked out great for me. I loaded up on the.
Speaker 1: Hold on, hold on, Scott. I'm going to stop you
Speaker 1: right there, because this is gonna this is good stuff.
Speaker 1: I want to take this piece by piece. Let's start
Speaker 1: with brock Powers. You loaded up on him. What was
Speaker 1: it that tipped the scales for you to not only say, hey,
Speaker 1: I want to make sure I get a few shares
Speaker 1: of brock Powers, but you want to get a lot
Speaker 1: of shares of Bowers? What was it last year that
Speaker 1: that sort of turned you onto him?
Speaker 3: I watched them all through Georgia and I thought he
Speaker 3: was an incredible tight end. I liked Mark Andrews coming
Speaker 3: out of Oklahoma years ago, and it was something about
Speaker 3: the way Mark Andrews played the game, and Brock Bowers
Speaker 3: reminded me of Andrews. He was receiver. Skills were off
Speaker 3: the charts, almost like he wasn't a tight end, like
Speaker 3: he was a receiver, and so I was very impressed
Speaker 3: with him. I was scared to take tight ends too
Speaker 3: early first and second round a lot of times it
Speaker 3: doesn't pan out, and he was sitting there going like
Speaker 3: late fifth or early sixth whatever, and so it was
Speaker 3: the perfect spot. It was seemed like I was either
Speaker 3: taken Kittle or I was taking Bowers in almost every draft. Fortunately,
Speaker 3: I got a lot of Bowers and he far exceeded
Speaker 3: my expectations. So I did that.
Speaker 1: So that was the BOT and totally makes sense with
Speaker 1: Bowers because I'm trying to think about how we could
Speaker 1: exploit this for the twenty twenty five season as well.
Speaker 1: What else did you hit on besides Bowers last year
Speaker 1: in this never too early tournament?
Speaker 3: Lad McConkie, another Georgia player. I was taking him in
Speaker 3: round fifteen early in the drafts, and I was taking
Speaker 3: them at one point I had one hundred percent ownership.
Speaker 3: It was it was like I was grabbing him in
Speaker 3: every draft, and when I looked at the analysis on
Speaker 3: the receivers, a lot of people had him at like
Speaker 3: receiver ten or eleven. I had him at five. So
Speaker 3: there was a huge discrepancy on Lad McConkie for me
Speaker 3: and where he was getting drafted. Bucky Irvin was the
Speaker 3: other one again. Round fifteen, round sixteen, I was scooping
Speaker 3: up Bucky Irving. So it was it was a really
Speaker 3: good year as far as it's kind of like you're
Speaker 3: looking for fantasy gold there with the rookies taking them late,
Speaker 3: and I think I think taking them late is a
Speaker 3: key element of that. You're looking for guys that are
Speaker 3: kind of being ignored on it drafts that can excel.
Speaker 3: I was kind of terrified about Bucky Irving when he
Speaker 3: ran his forty times in the combine because I thought, well,
Speaker 3: I just wasted all those picks, and then I backed
Speaker 3: off of them in the late best Ball, which I
Speaker 3: probably shouldn't have done, Okay, but I backed off of
Speaker 3: them because at that time, but by that time I
Speaker 3: had fifty percent ownership and early best ball Bucky Irving,
Speaker 3: so it did pay out last year with the rookies,
Speaker 3: and so I think it's I think one of the
Speaker 3: things that happens too in early best ball that that
Speaker 3: that helps some players and hurts others is sometimes the
Speaker 3: rookie fever takes over. Okay, and rookie fever is it's
Speaker 3: a real thing. You're preparing for the drafts, the NFL
Speaker 3: Draft is coming up, free agency is coming up, and
Speaker 3: you see all these names up there, and all of
Speaker 3: a sudden they're on third round, fourth round, fifth round. Okay,
Speaker 3: And I've seen guys take three four rookies in a
Speaker 3: row in drafts. And the only thing I'll say about
Speaker 3: that is most of these guys are not gonna hit
Speaker 3: in September and October. They might hit in November, they
Speaker 3: might hit in December. But you know what happens. If
Speaker 3: you have four or five guys that don't do anything
Speaker 3: for you in September and October, you out You're done.
Speaker 3: I mean, the race is over. And I saw that
Speaker 3: last year with a lot of guys that loaded up
Speaker 3: on rookies. They're sitting at ninth or tenth late October
Speaker 3: and they're not catching the other guys that are one
Speaker 3: hundred and fifty two hundred points ahead of them. So
Speaker 3: it's Rookies can be great. They're fun to draft, they're
Speaker 3: fun to watch in the NFL Draft to see where
Speaker 3: they go, but they can also undermine your entire team.
Speaker 3: You have to use a balance where you take maybe
Speaker 3: a couple here or there and don't take them all
Speaker 3: like in the first eight rounds. I mean, be careful
Speaker 3: because if you take them in the first eight rounds,
Speaker 3: you need to be right.
Speaker 1: You had mentioned after Bowers. The second player you mentioned
Speaker 1: was Lad McConkie, both Georgia guys. Do you follow Georgia
Speaker 1: or the SEC and college football? I guess uh. With
Speaker 1: the never too early players, I think kind of watching
Speaker 1: or being abreast of college football is going to give
Speaker 1: you an advantage because you kind of know the rookies
Speaker 1: coming in. But the first two guys you mentioned are Georgia.
Speaker 1: Can you talk a little bit about why was it
Speaker 1: just coincidence that both of these are bulldogs? Both of
Speaker 1: them are in the SEC? Do you follow that conference
Speaker 1: more than others?
Speaker 3: No, not really. I watched some college football. I try
Speaker 3: to watch it when I can, and obviously, you know,
Speaker 3: you go to the big games that are going on.
Speaker 3: I just seem to watch a lot of Georgia that year,
Speaker 3: and I saw lot of games, and what I saw
Speaker 3: on Ladi McConkie was Julian Edelman. I saw a guy
Speaker 3: that was quick, He ran sharp routes, he knew how
Speaker 3: to get open, and he had good hands. Now, he
Speaker 3: did have some you know, some injury issues in college.
Speaker 3: You know, we're here and there. He missed time and
Speaker 3: that was a concern. But I saw a guy like
Speaker 3: Gettleman that can be consistently good in the NFL. And
Speaker 3: I mean Lad McConkie just he just blew up last year.
Speaker 3: I mean he got to the I thought that would
Speaker 3: be a two year process to get to where he
Speaker 3: was last year, but he took off and then he
Speaker 3: landed in a spot that really didn't have any receivers,
Speaker 3: which and a good quarterback, right, I mean, how can
Speaker 3: he couldn't get it any better? So I think it
Speaker 3: worked out. You know, there was the fear that Harbaugh
Speaker 3: would run the ball into the ground, you know, and
Speaker 3: he wouldn't pass it at all, But obviously that didn't happen.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I was I was very happy. It was
Speaker 3: amazing that all those guys hit like that. And there
Speaker 3: was one other guy that was my most own player
Speaker 3: in early best ball, Tucker Craft, and I took him
Speaker 3: taking the nineteenth or twentieth round, and Tucker Craft turned
Speaker 3: out to be pretty good actually, but I really liked him.
Speaker 3: So I know some of these guys were talking about
Speaker 3: then and all that, But yeah, these are guys that
Speaker 3: I was after last year, may not own as much
Speaker 3: this year. They're much more expensive.
Speaker 1: That's true, That is very true. There is so much
Speaker 1: to unpack here. I want to get I definitely want
Speaker 1: to get back to the Tucker Craft conversation. I want
Speaker 1: to go out to the YouTube chat right now. Michael
Speaker 1: Conzell has a question for you here, Scott, do you
Speaker 1: think Bauers will have a sophomore slump?
Speaker 3: Now?
Speaker 1: Sophomore slump is an interesting way of putting it. I
Speaker 1: call it maybe perhaps regression to the met because we
Speaker 1: have no pres of what Bowers did as a rookie
Speaker 1: as a tight end last year. We've never seen it
Speaker 1: done before. Quite frankly, we haven't really seen a receiver
Speaker 1: do that in his rookie year before. So when we
Speaker 1: talk about a sophomore slump, Bowers could still return value
Speaker 1: as the top tight end. He could still return value
Speaker 1: as a first round pick and still slump this year. Right,
Speaker 1: So what do you project as far as what you're
Speaker 1: seeing from him next year? We'll talk about the Raiders
Speaker 1: in a little bit. New head coach, new offensive coordinator,
Speaker 1: probably a new quarterback this year. How are you looking
Speaker 1: at Bowers this year as compared to last year? Is
Speaker 1: he too pricey for you? Are you looking for a
Speaker 1: better value at tight end? Because Bowers you have to
Speaker 1: pay the iron price right now? He is super expensive.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he was a little more expensive than what I anticipated.
Speaker 3: I expected the one two turn, and I mean I'm
Speaker 3: seeing him go with the second pick, the third pick
Speaker 3: in almost every draft. So he is pricier than what
Speaker 3: I expected. I think it's risk taking him there a
Speaker 3: little bit. It depends what the Raiders do, Okay, I
Speaker 3: mean I would expect them to bring in a receiver,
Speaker 3: whether if you buy free agency. There's not a lot
Speaker 3: out there in free agency, and to me, the rookie
Speaker 3: class of receivers is not that great this year. So
Speaker 3: I don't know where they're going to get that receiver
Speaker 3: that they bring in. But if they say they just
Speaker 3: signed a t. Higgins. Yes, that would drastically impact Bowers. Okay.
Speaker 3: The other thing is if they drafted like an Ashtan Genty.
Speaker 3: I've heard rumors of him going all over the place,
Speaker 3: but let's just say we brought him in the running
Speaker 3: game would become a much larger focus of the you know,
Speaker 3: of the Raiders offense. So, but I think Bowers is
Speaker 3: going to be solid next year. I mean, I don't
Speaker 3: think he may drop off some, but I don't think
Speaker 3: it would be like a laporta drop off. I don't
Speaker 3: think think it would be that substantial.
Speaker 1: Would you be willing to take him as a top
Speaker 1: three or four pick in the never too early tournament
Speaker 1: right now? Or is that too rich for you?
Speaker 3: I could take a small percentage of him. I don't
Speaker 3: think that would load up on him, but I would
Speaker 3: like to have a couple of teams with them on.
Speaker 1: Let me ask you this regarding Brock Bowers. Michael Kinzell
Speaker 1: also posts on YouTube this year the Warren Kids Tyler
Speaker 1: Warren from Penn State looks like this year is Bowers Now?
Speaker 1: On the surface, I would say yes, But a few
Speaker 1: things to point out here. Number one, Brock Bowers literally,
Speaker 1: you know the word or the term general generational talent
Speaker 1: gets thrown around way too much. He literally is a
Speaker 1: generational talent. Tyler Warren, I'm not convinced to that. Number one.
Speaker 1: He's older than what brock Bowers was, and I should
Speaker 1: I say number one. I think that is the biggest
Speaker 1: concern I have about Warren because I've seen him do
Speaker 1: this for years at Penn State, and the last couple
Speaker 1: of years I'm kind of wondering, Okay, is he doing
Speaker 1: this because he's going up against eighteen and nineteen year
Speaker 1: old defenders and he's just you know, being a man
Speaker 1: amongst boys. I don't know. That's my concern with Tyler
Speaker 1: Warren coming in, However, can't deny what he's been able
Speaker 1: to do at the collegiate level. I am semi excited
Speaker 1: to see what Tyler Warren does. How do you feel
Speaker 1: about his rookie season, obviously not knowing landing spot yet, Scott.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think with I think with Warren. You know,
Speaker 3: we got a little spoiled in the last two years
Speaker 3: because we were always trained at tight ends. You don't
Speaker 3: draft them as rookies, you know, they take a couple
Speaker 3: of years to develop in the NFL. Don't draft rookie
Speaker 3: tight ends, and then Laporta comes along, and then Bowers
Speaker 3: comes along, and so I think right now the tendency
Speaker 3: is to try to find that next guy in line
Speaker 3: that's going to blow up. You know. I'm under the
Speaker 3: opinion right now is that I wouldn't feel comfortable with
Speaker 3: him as my starting tight end. Okay, in on a
Speaker 3: fantasy So if I could get him as my second
Speaker 3: tight end, I would absolutely do it. Okay, but I
Speaker 3: don't feel quite comfortable with him as my starter, and
Speaker 3: he's being drafted as a starter, so I would say
Speaker 3: that I'm probably fading him.
Speaker 1: Tyler Warren, I'm looking up the never too early best
Speaker 1: ball Attorney ADP right now. Shout out to Fantasy Mojo
Speaker 1: fantasymojo dot com. If you are playing in the FFPC,
Speaker 1: highly recommend you get a subscription of Fantasy Mojo. It
Speaker 1: is infinitely helpful. Darren ARMANI the guy who's in charge
Speaker 1: of that, also as the godfather of the process at
Speaker 1: Joe's Challenge that we broadcast live here on the High
Speaker 1: Stakes Fantasy Football Hour every late July early August. Tyler
Speaker 1: Warren two year point scott tight end twelve right now
Speaker 1: at the eighth six. This is not dynasty, this is
Speaker 1: re draft or he's going as tight end twelve. He's
Speaker 1: going ahead of the likes of Dalton Kin, Kaid, Tucker Craft,
Speaker 1: and Dallas Goddard, going right behind Dawson Actually me not
Speaker 1: Dawston Knox. He's going right behind Travis kelcey and Evan Ingram.
Speaker 1: Right now, let's get back to the Ladd McConkie conversation.
Speaker 1: You were talking about how you were so heavy on
Speaker 1: him last year, and I think a big part of
Speaker 1: why you were so heavy on him was because nobody
Speaker 1: else was drafting him like you look at I'm gonna
Speaker 1: fast forward to the end of drafting season. In the
Speaker 1: FFPC main event last year, right before the NFL season started,
Speaker 1: Lad mccakee, on average was going at the eight to
Speaker 1: eleven wide receiver forty six. Now, you actually got him
Speaker 1: cheaper in the Never Too Early Tournament than that, but
Speaker 1: to prove my point, he still was going low and
Speaker 1: in early September. Now fast forward a year in the
Speaker 1: Never Too Early Tournament, you are looking at mcconkeye right
Speaker 1: now as a wide receiver. I just had it. I'm sorry,
Speaker 1: Wide receiver eleven wide receiver eleven at the three to
Speaker 1: oho one. How comfortable are you taking a player like him?
Speaker 3: Who?
Speaker 1: And I'll just kind of give you my own personal
Speaker 1: thoughts here when I ask you this. I'm a little
Speaker 1: nervous that recency bias is playing in the heads of
Speaker 1: FFPC players, knowing how strong he finished the season, and
Speaker 1: that's fresh in our minds. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: understanding Jim Harbaugh still wants to run the football, He's
Speaker 1: still going to put a focus on the offensive line.
Speaker 1: And I wonder if McConkie, if we're drafting him more
Speaker 1: in a ceiling right now, which usually does not prove
Speaker 1: very fruitful in these never two early tournaments. Scott, I'll
Speaker 1: throw it to you. Your thoughts on lad McConkie at
Speaker 1: that two three turn.
Speaker 3: I understand it, but I don't like it. I do
Speaker 3: feel he's being drafted at a ceiling Okay, top twelve
Speaker 3: wide receiver. He's not an alpha receiver, Okay, not somebody
Speaker 3: that I would put in that neighbor's mold, Okay. And
Speaker 3: so I get a little bit nervous because let's just
Speaker 3: say the Chargers brought back Keenan Allen. Okay, for example,
Speaker 3: as a free agent. All right, that would have a
Speaker 3: significant impact on McConkie. There's so many moves that could
Speaker 3: have a significant impact. Offensive skill players were not good
Speaker 3: last year. I mean, it was Herbert to McConkie all
Speaker 3: day long, right, and I feel like there's a regression
Speaker 3: in place. Okay, So the two three turn is rich.
Speaker 3: I did think though before the drafts began, that he
Speaker 3: would be like a mid third rounder. Okay, so it's
Speaker 3: not way earlier, but I've seen him going ninth pick
Speaker 3: of the second round, and to me, that's just too early.
Speaker 3: I've probably never taken him in the second round. And
Speaker 3: I like him. I like him a lot. Okay. But again,
Speaker 3: if you can look at, if you project out, what's
Speaker 3: more than likely going to happen this year, Okay, I
Speaker 3: think most of it bodes for somewhat of a regression
Speaker 3: for McConkie.
Speaker 1: Lad McConkie right now is going just behind Drake London,
Speaker 1: but he is going ahead of Tyreek Hill, Garrett Wilson,
Speaker 1: Jackson Smith and Jagba and T Higgins right now. I
Speaker 1: am with you, I'm probably staying away at that price.
Speaker 1: I'm a little bit nervous that we get in through
Speaker 1: September and we're kind of wondering, well, where are these
Speaker 1: stats for McConkey. You know that we're used to seeing
Speaker 1: at the end of that last season, and I don't
Speaker 1: know if we're going to see him at least in
Speaker 1: the early part of next season. Bucky Irving, I want
Speaker 1: to touch on him real quick because you mentioned him earlier.
Speaker 1: You drafted him a bunch in the never two early tournament.
Speaker 1: Then you see his forty knowing he's not a big guy,
Speaker 1: so you would imagine he would run really well at
Speaker 1: the combine. That didn't happen, and you weren't alone. There
Speaker 1: was a lot of people fading him after that. And
Speaker 1: yet what did we see here in this season? The
Speaker 1: last half made the last two thirds of the season,
Speaker 1: he really took control of the backfield, and again because
Speaker 1: of perhaps recency bias definitely playing a role into it.
Speaker 1: He is going very high in drafts this year. In fact,
Speaker 1: in the number too early tournament for the FFPC running
Speaker 1: back ten at the two to ZHO nine, just behind
Speaker 1: Genti Jacobs and Breist Hall. He's going ahead of Jonathan
Speaker 1: Taylor and Kyron Williams. When you look at how good
Speaker 1: Irving was last year. Are you still working to get
Speaker 1: him in the mid to late second round or again,
Speaker 1: are we looking at maybe a guy that's going a
Speaker 1: little bit too high for what his performance is going
Speaker 1: to be in twenty five.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Again, just like with Ladd, I think he's going
Speaker 3: a little bit too early. I have him as my
Speaker 3: thirteenth running back, and I'm looking at third round for
Speaker 3: Bucky Irving, but I see him consistently go mid second.
Speaker 3: The Trio are running backs there as is my biggest concern,
Speaker 3: and the fact that Liam Cohen is going also bothers
Speaker 3: me a little bit. I think they'll be okay because
Speaker 3: you know, they promoted from within, and so I think
Speaker 3: even with Liam Cohen going, most of it will we'll
Speaker 3: stay in there. But you know, he was a brilliant
Speaker 3: coach and there's always some kind of fallback from that.
Speaker 3: And then you look at the three running backs that
Speaker 3: got Rashad White and then you got Sean Tucker. Okay,
Speaker 3: the funny thing is two years ago, I think it
Speaker 3: was twenty twenty three drafts. Sean Tucker was my highest
Speaker 3: drafted rookie running back that didn't work out so well.
Speaker 3: But I really liked him coming out of Syracuse, and
Speaker 3: when I watched he had medical conditions and he didn't.
Speaker 3: He wasn't in the combine and it was a real mess.
Speaker 3: When I watched him last year with Tampa, he looked good.
Speaker 3: I mean, he looked really good. And right now, the
Speaker 3: only thing separating Sean Tucker from big impact is opportunity.
Speaker 3: That's it. I mean, he's behind two other backs technically
Speaker 3: right now, but they were trying to get him in
Speaker 3: the game and so and Rashad White was very involved
Speaker 3: in the passing game. Okay, he wasn't running them all
Speaker 3: much as well, but he really was involved in the
Speaker 3: passing game. And so I don't know if that totally
Speaker 3: goes away. I think I still see a bit of
Speaker 3: a three headed monster here, and because of that, I
Speaker 3: feel like taking Bucky Irving before the mid third is
Speaker 3: probably too quick.
Speaker 1: He's an easy He's an easy fade at that point, right.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you are of the belief, and I
Speaker 1: don't necessarily think you're wrong that if Rashad White and
Speaker 1: Sean Tucker are going to be playing into this backfield,
Speaker 1: why would you take Irving over a guy who controls
Speaker 1: the entire backfield in Indianapolis like Jonathan Taylor, or a
Speaker 1: guy in Los Angeles who controls the entire backfield in
Speaker 1: Kyen Williams. Quite frankly, he could make the same case
Speaker 1: for James Cook and potentially Chase Brown. All those players
Speaker 1: are going behind Irving. And at that point, Scott, I'm
Speaker 1: with you, there's no reason to be drafting a guy
Speaker 1: if again, if you believe that's the way the backfield
Speaker 1: shakes out, there's no reason for you to be taking
Speaker 1: him over those other guys this year. Now, while we
Speaker 1: go ahead.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I mean Uckie Irving's not a you know,
Speaker 3: he's sort of a slight built guy. Okay, he's not
Speaker 3: a big running back or anything like that. He's very
Speaker 3: elusive and it was the reason I drafted him a
Speaker 3: lot last years. I saw his tackles broken percentage was incredible,
Speaker 3: and uh and I guess that that's something I learned too,
Speaker 3: is that they don't have to run a fast forty
Speaker 3: time in the combine because Kyron Williams didn't do it either,
Speaker 3: and he had a great he had a he was
Speaker 3: a smaller guy that had a great tackle break percentage.
Speaker 3: So some of these things are different. But when you
Speaker 3: watch Bucky on Oregon Game Film, he was incredible. I mean,
Speaker 3: he had that burst, that speed, that cutting ability, and
Speaker 3: he showed it last year. I like him. There's a
Speaker 3: chance that they could feature him and just say, you
Speaker 3: know what, the other two guys are pure backups. I
Speaker 3: just don't think they will, Okay. I think they're going
Speaker 3: to try to preserve Bucky's health and his speed and
Speaker 3: energy by not wearing him down. And I think you're
Speaker 3: still going to see a mix of Rashad White and
Speaker 3: Sean Tucker. And for that reason, I think second rounds
Speaker 3: too high.
Speaker 1: You know, while we've been talking about Bucky Irving and
Speaker 1: Lad McConkie, there's been an interesting conversation going on in
Speaker 1: the YouTube chat right now about Tucker Kraft, Michael Kinzell
Speaker 1: posting that to Kobe Parkinson, not Tucker Craft in the
Speaker 1: nineteenth round, and that was a loss, and then we
Speaker 1: got tanked the Chai guy. That's why I went Kraft
Speaker 1: over Musgrave last year. Kraft was the last round, picking
Speaker 1: now Musgrave is in the last round this year, and
Speaker 1: that brings me to my point here. Tucker Craft is
Speaker 1: going again a player that you hit if you hit
Speaker 1: on last year, and you want to get him this year,
Speaker 1: you have to pay him more expensive price. Right now,
Speaker 1: Tucker Kraft is the thirteenth tight end off the board,
Speaker 1: right behind Tyler Warren. He's going at that eight to
Speaker 1: nine turn. How likely are you to still be investing
Speaker 1: in Craft again this year at that price, Scott.
Speaker 3: I absolutely will. I have him as my eleventh tight end. Okay, So,
Speaker 3: unlike the other guys we were just talking about, I
Speaker 3: think Craft is actually being a little bit undervalued. He's
Speaker 3: one of my breakout breakout candidates this year. I feel
Speaker 3: like he's on the verge of being very good. And
Speaker 3: I'm not that thrilled with a lot of the tight
Speaker 3: ends that are above them. They all have like red flags.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I like Tucker Craft a lot. My biggest
Speaker 3: concern there is Green Bay went to a run oriented
Speaker 3: offense last year with Jacobs. They ran the ball heavy.
Speaker 3: I'm not an Ostrodamus or anything like that, but I
Speaker 3: just have a feeling that's not going to happen this year. Okay.
Speaker 3: I think it's gonna be a little more past friendly,
Speaker 3: and I I don't want to put anything bad on
Speaker 3: a player, but I just don't know that Jacob's repeats
Speaker 3: what he did last year.
Speaker 1: Well, okay, so a few things regarding that. Number one,
Speaker 1: I think you're spot on. Okay, I think green Bay
Speaker 1: can still try to want to run the ball this year.
Speaker 1: But I think as good as Jacob was, it's just
Speaker 1: natural for that there to be some sort of regression.
Speaker 1: I think he was punching above his weight last season.
Speaker 1: Now to your point about Craft and liking him this
Speaker 1: year at the tight end position, you don't have to
Speaker 1: really look much further than what else Green Bay has
Speaker 1: going on in their receiving corps. You have Christian Watson,
Speaker 1: who people are probably getting sick of me saying this,
Speaker 1: but I don't believe he plays at all in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. I think he sits out the entire season,
Speaker 1: So he's off the radar. Romeo Dobbs had a really
Speaker 1: bad concussion against the Eagles in the playoffs, wearing the
Speaker 1: Guardian cap. This was his second concussion already this season,
Speaker 1: and if you watched him go off the field, you
Speaker 1: have to wonder about his future too. That leaves Jaden
Speaker 1: Reid and Dantavian Wicks and not much else. Luke Musgrave
Speaker 1: is an athlete he's I think he's almost inarguably more
Speaker 1: athletic than Tucker Craft. However, Kraft is the better football player.
Speaker 1: He's one percent the better two way tight end, which
Speaker 1: means he's going to be on the field more. I
Speaker 1: think you could see as good as Kraft was last year, Scott,
Speaker 1: you could see Jordan Love leaning on him more this year,
Speaker 1: and the Packers featuring him more in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: Which makes me think that that tight end thirteen, tight
Speaker 1: end fourteen area he could still pay off on that
Speaker 1: again this season.
Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, I believe so. I mean Tucker Craft. I mean,
Speaker 3: like I said, some of the guys above him. You
Speaker 3: don't know what happens with Ingram. He could be cut,
Speaker 3: he could be moved. Kelsey does he retire, Andrews does
Speaker 3: he regress?
Speaker 1: I mean Joko and Djoko might have a new quarterback.
Speaker 1: John new Smith. Was he an aberration last year? I
Speaker 1: mean the list goes on and on for sure.
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly so there. I mean, would it shocked me
Speaker 3: if Tucker Craft was a top five tight end? It
Speaker 3: would not right.
Speaker 1: I'm totally with you on that. I don't think you
Speaker 1: will be, but it would not shock me at all.
Speaker 1: If he ends up. He was a top five tight
Speaker 1: end for a good portion of this season too. This season,
Speaker 1: let's stay in the division and talk about the Bears
Speaker 1: running back situation. I don't know, and I don't think
Speaker 1: I have anything on the Rundown tonight specifically about Ben
Speaker 1: Johnson taking over in Chicago. I think we've talked about
Speaker 1: that on these shows enough over the last couple of weeks.
Speaker 1: But just in general, DeAndre Swift, I think nobody really
Speaker 1: has been has been chatting about and what his role
Speaker 1: is going to be on this offense. There's a possibility
Speaker 1: Chicago draft somebody, they could sign somebody in free agency,
Speaker 1: but as of right now, Swift is the main guy
Speaker 1: in that backfield over Roshan Johnson. What do you think
Speaker 1: the Ben Johnson effect is going to be on Swift?
Speaker 1: How involved are you in DeAndre Swift so far this season?
Speaker 1: And before he answered that, I'll just tell you right now,
Speaker 1: running back thirty five at the nine to ten this
Speaker 1: is signific get lower than where he was going last year.
Speaker 3: Yes, Swift is, He's a tricky one. He's been that
Speaker 3: way since he was a rookie. It seems like ultra
Speaker 3: talented running back and something gets in his way every year,
Speaker 3: and it's different every year. When he was with the Eagles,
Speaker 3: I thought he was just gonna blow up. Then the
Speaker 3: Eagles decided they're not going to use him very much.
Speaker 3: But he did have a couple of games where he
Speaker 3: was amazing. But here's the thing with Swift. Okay, he
Speaker 3: played on the Bears last year, who had one of
Speaker 3: the most atrocious offensive lines and bad offense. Okay, and
Speaker 3: he somehow managed to be running back twenty okay, which
Speaker 3: I think is amazing to do. Thoutand the Bears with
Speaker 3: that line, all right, he ended up being running back
Speaker 3: twenty okay. And the thing of it is is, now
Speaker 3: Ben Johnson comes over, you gotta believe that the Bears
Speaker 3: offense is going to be better this year than it
Speaker 3: was last year. And everybody I've talked to feels the
Speaker 3: same way that that's going to make improvements. Now. That
Speaker 3: would tell me he upgrades that offensive talent, he upgrades
Speaker 3: that offensive line, and Swift could be better than last year.
Speaker 3: And like you said, he's going at running back thirty five.
Speaker 3: If he was twenty last year, what if he moves
Speaker 3: up to seventeen or something. It's really good value. I
Speaker 3: have one question that I don't have an answer to
Speaker 3: is Ben Johnson was in Detroit and Swift was traded
Speaker 3: to the Eagles. I know they drafted Gibbs, but they
Speaker 3: signed Montgomery in the offseason, way before they drafted Gibbs,
Speaker 3: so there was signs there that they weren't happy with
Speaker 3: the running back situation. Okay, that's what I was reading.
Speaker 3: And if Ben's Johnson was the guy that wanted Swift gone,
Speaker 3: I don't know what that means for this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's a great point. You know,
Speaker 1: we were talking about I can't remember who. I was
Speaker 1: having this conversation with one of my shows over the
Speaker 1: last couple weeks, and he said, yeah, maybe maybe this
Speaker 1: is why Johnson took the job to reunite with with
Speaker 1: DeAndre Swift. Kind of tongue in cheek, But you bring
Speaker 1: up the opposite point, like, hey, this is a guy
Speaker 1: that you know was with the Lions when they parted
Speaker 1: ways with Swift. Maybe he doesn't get a whole lot
Speaker 1: of usage.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think that's a fair point. I think it's worth
Speaker 1: bringing up too. In fact, there's a non zero chance
Speaker 1: that the Bears invest in maybe Ashton genty at nine.
Speaker 1: They could invest in a running back in the second round.
Speaker 1: This is a running back rich draft. And to that point,
Speaker 1: Corey Walters is chiming in on YouTube right now. Any
Speaker 1: chance Traveon Henderson could be drafted as the second running
Speaker 1: back in the NFL draft, Well, Corey, not only do
Speaker 1: I think there's a chance. I think there's a fairly
Speaker 1: good chance. In the never too early tournament right now,
Speaker 1: he's being drafted as running back three amongst rookies, right
Speaker 1: behind Omari and Hampton, and quite frankly, he's running back
Speaker 1: twenty four, Hampton's running back twenty two. He's right up there.
Speaker 1: I don't know, Scott, if you have any strong feelings
Speaker 1: on Trevion Henderson. I just remember being excited about drafting
Speaker 1: this guy in Dynasty Leagues last year, and then he
Speaker 1: decided to go back to school, and now we get
Speaker 1: him finally in the draft this year. I'm kind of
Speaker 1: excited to see what he's going to do in the pros.
Speaker 1: I like Trevion Henderson quite a bit. How do you
Speaker 1: feel about him?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I think he could smoke the combine and he
Speaker 3: would elevate to the number two right away. So I
Speaker 3: do think that there's a chance for him to do that.
Speaker 3: He has the speed, the breakaway speed, and he showcases
Speaker 3: that at the combine. That's something some of the other
Speaker 3: guys don't have, and I think that could move him
Speaker 3: up behind Genty.
Speaker 1: I think that what's interesting about Henderson is he could
Speaker 1: creep in to the back end of that first round.
Speaker 1: I think there's a non zero chance about that. You know,
Speaker 1: there's stuff we're going to hear about, you know, whispers
Speaker 1: and rumors about this guy being a lock for the
Speaker 1: end of the first round, or he's gonna slip to
Speaker 1: the second. But if he does slip to the second,
Speaker 1: there are teams that would look at drafting running back there.
Speaker 1: You think about the Bears, who I already mentioned, the
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Raiders who are looking for a running back
Speaker 1: as well. Maybe they take Treveon Henderson in the second round.
Speaker 1: And speaking of the Raiders, they have an opening at
Speaker 1: wide receiver one on their team. I don't think they
Speaker 1: want to go into the season with Jacoby Myers as
Speaker 1: their number one target at receiver. I think they could
Speaker 1: do that given that they have Brock Bowers, but I
Speaker 1: like to think that they add a little punch there,
Speaker 1: but maybe they don't. And I think this is one
Speaker 1: of the questions we have to answer as never too early.
Speaker 1: Best ball drafters here, Scott, When you look at Jacoby
Speaker 1: Myers and knowing he's probably not the answer as the
Speaker 1: number one receiver but definitely could be the de facto
Speaker 1: number one receiver there this year wide receiver forty three
Speaker 1: at the eight oho nine right now, how do you
Speaker 1: handle him properly? Knowing that the wheels could still be
Speaker 1: in motion with Pete Carroll, Tom Brady and Chip Kelly
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas.
Speaker 3: I say, with Jacoby Myers, bring anybody in that you won.
Speaker 3: It's not going to change Jacoby Myers one bit. I say,
Speaker 3: Jacoby Myers is bulletproof. Okay, I'll give you examples here.
Speaker 3: And my son says, why do you draft this guy
Speaker 3: so much? And for years I've been drafting him and
Speaker 3: drafting him. Okay. So he played in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 3: he played with Davonte Adams. Deavante Adams had one hundred
Speaker 3: and forty one targets. Okay, So he wasn't the one
Speaker 3: guy there, but you know what he produced. Last year
Speaker 3: he played with Brock Bauers one hundred and fifty three targets.
Speaker 3: Jacoby Myers still produced. And you want to look at
Speaker 3: his quarterbacks. For the last four years, he had to
Speaker 3: beat up Old Cam Newton, Brian Hoyer, Mac Jones, Bailly
Speaker 3: Zappa and Guapoo, Aiden O'Connell, Garden Minshew and Desmond Ritter.
Speaker 3: Are you kidding me? All right? These are like the
Speaker 3: worst quarterbacks that you could list. But you know what,
Speaker 3: the last four years, Jacoby Meyer finished twenty eighth, thirty first,
Speaker 3: thirty second, and twenty ninth in fantasy receivers.
Speaker 1: Always out performing his adp.
Speaker 3: Ahlways right around thirty. So he is He's a number
Speaker 3: three receiver in fantasy. That's what he is. And if
Speaker 3: you bring somebody in, I still think he's a number
Speaker 3: three receiver.
Speaker 1: He is going behind Luther Burden, Jalen McMillan, Khalil Shakir,
Speaker 1: Jayden Reid. Right now, smack dab in the I shouldn't
Speaker 1: say smack dab towards the end of the eighth round
Speaker 1: wide receiver forty three. Right now, I think I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I think you proved your point and it makes perfect sense.
Speaker 1: Jacoby Myers. Whether it's a best ball, whether it's a
Speaker 1: managed league. Getting Jacoby Myers in the late eighth is
Speaker 1: probably going to payoff for you again this season. I'll
Speaker 1: tell you about a big payoff in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: Your son, who was on this show last week, Brad
Speaker 1: Thomas winning the FFPC Never Too Early Superflex Bestball Tournament
Speaker 1: last year. How close were you following that? Were you're
Speaker 1: keeping tabs on it? Were you're communicating with him towards
Speaker 1: the end of this as he was trying to secure
Speaker 1: that five figure grand prize.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he had told me, I think after Week sixteen
Speaker 3: that he had two teams in Week seventeen and he
Speaker 3: had two that made it. I was blown away by that. Okay,
Speaker 3: I got two teams. I can't get one to week sixteen,
Speaker 3: and so I said, you know, and I said, that's incredible.
Speaker 3: So you know, I thought he's going to do well
Speaker 3: because two teams, he's going to get two prizes. You know,
Speaker 3: I wasn't thinking about him winning it. I really wasn't
Speaker 3: at that time. And then he called me, I think
Speaker 3: the week seventeen it was Sunday afternoon between early and
Speaker 3: the late games, and he said, I'm in first place.
Speaker 3: And I said, you're kidding me and know I'm in
Speaker 3: first place. And we talked then a little bit about
Speaker 3: what he needed to happen in order to win it,
Speaker 3: like who was behind him, who they had, who he had.
Speaker 3: That's when he really started to look at it and
Speaker 3: get into it, and so I followed it from that
Speaker 3: point on with the remaining games. You know, I rooted
Speaker 3: for him and I was hoping that his guys did well,
Speaker 3: and they did. But what got him there? I think
Speaker 3: it was Baker Mayfield, I don't know, was in an
Speaker 3: early game or something, had like five touchdown passes and
Speaker 3: it got him in the first place. So and then
Speaker 3: he hung on and he stayed there and he maintained it.
Speaker 3: So it was really a last week thing that I
Speaker 3: was following, but it was pretty exciting.
Speaker 1: The I remember when he came on last week and
Speaker 1: we were talking about like sort of like his march
Speaker 1: and when he started paying attention. And if I remember correctly,
Speaker 1: I do believe the Buccaneers played an early game that
Speaker 1: day at home against Carolina, and I think he said
Speaker 1: after he saw the Buck Mayfield blow up for five touchdowns,
Speaker 1: I think his quote was like, oh, that's good. And
Speaker 1: then at that point, he's like, Okay, now I gotta
Speaker 1: take the club, because I don't think he was like
Speaker 1: totally into, like really following at hardcore, but when he
Speaker 1: saw that five touchdown game from Mayfield, he's like, now
Speaker 1: I almost I have to look at this to see
Speaker 1: where I'm at. And congrats to him first place and
Speaker 1: sixth place in the Super Flex Never too Early Best
Speaker 1: Ball Tournament last year, which was awesome for him. Fantastic stuff.
Speaker 1: And Scott, maybe it'll be your turn this year. You
Speaker 1: never know how these things. Maybe let's go to some
Speaker 1: emails for you personally. Here they came in from some viewers.
Speaker 1: Will in Boca Raton, Florida High Scott, how much different
Speaker 1: will the Cowboys offense be next year from what it
Speaker 1: was this past season? Thank you, Will in Boca Raton, Florida. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and this is interesting because you have a new head
Speaker 1: coach there, but it was the offensive coordinator last year
Speaker 1: and Brian Schottenheimer taking things over. You still have Dak Prescott,
Speaker 1: but he was hurt the majority of last season. So
Speaker 1: while the players and the stakeholders in this Cowboys team
Speaker 1: seemed to be the same, we didn't see a ton
Speaker 1: of them last year, or maybe not at the forefront
Speaker 1: of the game. Where they're going to have much more
Speaker 1: of an impact on the twenty twenty five season is
Speaker 1: what they did in twenty twenty four. How different is
Speaker 1: it going to be? Knowing that we don't know who
Speaker 1: their second receiver is and we really don't know who
Speaker 1: they're starting running back is going to be.
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a lot of questions with that offense. I
Speaker 3: expected to be much better than last year. I think
Speaker 3: the offense. If you look at Dak Prescott, he's had
Speaker 3: great years in every odd year and bad years in
Speaker 3: every even year he had. I think it was an
Speaker 3: injury in twenty one, I believe it was or No. Twenty.
Speaker 3: I think it was twenty he got injured, Okay, that
Speaker 3: bad injury against the Giants and it was early in
Speaker 3: the season. And then I think in twenty one he
Speaker 3: came back with like massive numbers, and of course he
Speaker 3: got hurt last year. But if you look at his
Speaker 3: career stats, it's like up and down and up and down. Okay,
Speaker 3: even in odd years. I think Prescott can be a
Speaker 3: top ten quarterback this year. And I think he was
Speaker 3: going at eighteen or something, so he's very undervalued in
Speaker 3: my opinion. Now we got to see who their running
Speaker 3: back is and who their second receiver is. But I
Speaker 3: do believe they'll address both of those positions. But I expect,
Speaker 3: you know, a healthy CD lamdback. I expect Dak Prescott
Speaker 3: back and Ferguson and I think that you know you're
Speaker 3: fining the draft Cowboys for fantasy. I think that offense
Speaker 3: will get clicking again, and I think Schottenneimer has something
Speaker 3: to prove, so I expect I expect good results from
Speaker 3: fantasy points about the season. But I will say for
Speaker 3: the Cowboys, yes, I think the offense will get going again.
Speaker 1: I think the continuity aspect cannot be underrated. Like you
Speaker 1: have to understand that Prescott's still working with the same
Speaker 1: guy in Schottenneimer. He's still throwing a CD LAMB. Jake
Speaker 1: Ferguson is going to be back. I think that's another
Speaker 1: guy that's being underdrafted this year as well. One more
Speaker 1: email here, Billy in Chicago. What's the likelihood that Joe
Speaker 1: Mixon repeats what he did in twenty twenty four? Thanks man,
Speaker 1: That is Billy in Chicago. Thank you for the email.
Speaker 1: Scott mean you look at Mixon this year. He is
Speaker 1: going off the board in the Never two Early Best
Speaker 1: Ball Tournament as running back fifteen at the four oh seven,
Speaker 1: right now, right behind Chase Brown and James Cook, right
Speaker 1: ahead of Chuba Hubbard, Camara and Kenneth Walker. What's the
Speaker 1: likelihood he comes back and repeats what he did this
Speaker 1: past season?
Speaker 3: You mean, be really good for part of the year
Speaker 3: and in totally fadede.
Speaker 1: Yes, given you those spike weeks. But maybe I guess
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say that. We don't know when his spike
Speaker 1: weeks are going to be. They could very well be
Speaker 1: at the end of this season. But knowing like what
Speaker 1: he did in and at least limited action this year
Speaker 1: when his spike weeks were, is that what we should
Speaker 1: forecast again this season? Or is it not going to
Speaker 1: be as good?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean they had offensive line problems obviously, and
Speaker 3: I mean that impacted CJ. Stroud too. He looked great,
Speaker 3: like in September, like it looked like this guy was
Speaker 3: going to be a top five running back. He won't
Speaker 3: be on any of my teams this year. I'm not
Speaker 3: a Joe Mixing guy. I feel like he teases you,
Speaker 3: he shows you some greatness, but he will let you
Speaker 3: down more often than not. And that's what I see
Speaker 3: in it. I saw that at the end when he
Speaker 3: was with Cincinnati, he was doing the same thing. So
Speaker 3: he's been doing that for quite a few years. Like
Speaker 3: Joe Mixon, has never really put together that full season
Speaker 3: where he was dominant, you know, in recent years, So
Speaker 3: I don't expect him to do it this coming year either.
Speaker 3: So he's kind of a fade for me.
Speaker 1: And you're talking about too, a guy who has his
Speaker 1: best football behind him too, so I think that kind
Speaker 1: of makes him easier to face a little bit. It's
Speaker 1: not like this is Bijon Robinson or Breeze Hall would
Speaker 1: be a good example, where Breece Hall was super inconsistent
Speaker 1: last year, but his best football probably in front of him,
Speaker 1: right So mix and I'm with you. I think he's
Speaker 1: an easy fan for me at this point. That is
Speaker 1: it for emails for now. We may get a chance, No,
Speaker 1: we're running out of time. We might get a couple
Speaker 1: more emails here, but knowing that you are a Bengals guy,
Speaker 1: I want to get your take on the Cincinnati offseason
Speaker 1: right now because there's a lot of stakeholders in this
Speaker 1: Bengals offense, that we need to figure out what we're
Speaker 1: doing with the drafts this year. Speaking on Breakfast Ball
Speaker 1: this past week, Joe Burrow says he is willing to
Speaker 1: restructure his contract if it does indeed help retain the
Speaker 1: core skill position players for the Bengals, Jamar Chase t Higgins.
Speaker 1: Think about Trey Hendrickson on the defensive side, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if Mike Gaiki plays into this. Maybe he does,
Speaker 1: maybe he doesn't. Higgins and Gasiki are hitting free agency
Speaker 1: this year. But obviously we already heard who's who's the
Speaker 1: de facto GM in Cincinnati, Scott with Tobin? Is that
Speaker 1: his name? Am I am I screwing that up?
Speaker 3: I might be screwing that up. I don't know.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna get it right now because he
Speaker 1: was just Duke Tobin, right, Duke Tobin. I think that director,
Speaker 1: I'll player personnel Okay, okay. So so basically he's not
Speaker 1: officially the GM, but he makes it. He's making a
Speaker 1: lot of the decisions. He spoke to the media earlier
Speaker 1: this week. Not only did he say it like it
Speaker 1: was a very ringing the opposite of a ringing endorsement
Speaker 1: for Jermaine doesn't sound like this guy's going to be anything.
Speaker 1: But he also said the priority is Jamar Chase. And
Speaker 1: if the priority is Jamar Chase, it means that Higgins
Speaker 1: is secondary at best, right, and Trey Hendrickson and Yasiki
Speaker 1: and all these guys. Chase wins the Triple Crown last year.
Speaker 1: I'm not here to say, hey, should you take him
Speaker 1: in the first round or at the first overall pick? Yeah, totally,
Speaker 1: it makes perfect sense if you want to take him there.
Speaker 1: But how do we handle t Higgins knowing that there
Speaker 1: is a non zero chance he might not be in Cincinnati?
Speaker 1: And quite frankly, if Higgins is not in Cincinnati, how
Speaker 1: much does that affect Joe Burrow? A player that I
Speaker 1: think people are excited about, but knowing that he does
Speaker 1: not offer the running capability that some of the other
Speaker 1: guys going around him, like Josh Allen, like Lamar Jackson,
Speaker 1: like Jaden Daniels do And when you don't have that
Speaker 1: and then you take away one of his top receivers,
Speaker 1: I think we have to start talking about are we
Speaker 1: taking Burrow too high? So right now in your draft, Scott,
Speaker 1: how are you handling Higgins. How are you handling and
Speaker 1: looking into that, Thomas crystal Ball. What happens with these
Speaker 1: Bengals in this offseason?
Speaker 3: Well, like I said, I know they I know they
Speaker 3: really want to keep T. Higgins, but he wants he
Speaker 3: wants top dollar. I don't think he's given a hometown discount,
Speaker 3: So I think that's an issue. I highly don't believe
Speaker 3: they re signed Josekee because they just can't do it.
Speaker 3: And Joseki wants to get paid. Okay, he has been
Speaker 3: clear about that that he's taken minimal contracts for years.
Speaker 3: He says, now he finally had a good year in Cincinnati.
Speaker 3: He wants to get paid for it finally. So I
Speaker 3: think he's going to cost a little more. They're going
Speaker 3: to fight to keep T Higgins, okay, because they really
Speaker 3: do want them. Inevitably, I still see him leaving. I
Speaker 3: think somebody's just gonna pay more. That's just the way
Speaker 3: the NFL typically works. Okay, and some he's going to
Speaker 3: pay up for T. Higgins. And you said, how would
Speaker 3: affect Joe Burrow? It definitely will affect Joe Burrow. Okay.
Speaker 3: They lost Tyler Boyd years ago. Have they really replaced
Speaker 3: that when they had Chase and Higgins and Boyd, they
Speaker 3: had a perfect trio of compliment players. And they lost
Speaker 3: Boyd and you felt that a little bit, you know,
Speaker 3: in the past years without him in the middle there,
Speaker 3: it wasn't quite as effective, all right. And now they
Speaker 3: lose Higgins. That's another big piece that's out of it.
Speaker 3: But I think if they lose Higgins, they will replace
Speaker 3: him with somebody. They're going to find a receiver that
Speaker 3: they bring in. And I'm not talking about a rookie.
Speaker 3: I'm talking about a veteran. But they'll go out and
Speaker 3: they'll bring somebody in to replace Higgins. They're not going
Speaker 3: to go from chasing Higgins to just Chase and Burton. Okay,
Speaker 3: that's not gonna happening. They'll bring somebody in, that's I mean,
Speaker 3: I mean, I don't know, you know, if it's a
Speaker 3: Stefan Diggs or it's an Amari Cooper, who knows. But
Speaker 3: they'll bring somebody in to try to fill that role
Speaker 3: somehow if they do lose Higgins.
Speaker 1: So your advice to f FPC players would be, if
Speaker 1: you do believe Higgins is gone, Burton and Yoshavas would
Speaker 1: would not be smart investments.
Speaker 3: Yoshavas is kind of because I think he's going to
Speaker 3: play in the slot more, okay, and you know he
Speaker 3: was pretty effective in the slot. I've been drafting a
Speaker 3: lot of him late, okay, because he's pretty much free.
Speaker 3: I am not taking Burton at all, because I don't
Speaker 3: even know if Burton will be on the roster. He's
Speaker 3: kind of buried himself a little bit in Cincinnati. So
Speaker 3: but Yoshi, you can grab him late. And he's a
Speaker 3: great dart throw, Okay. I think he's at the very
Speaker 3: least that's gonna get you, you know, a couple of
Speaker 3: good games a year and get you some points every
Speaker 3: week off the bench. But and T Higgins, I don't
Speaker 3: know what will happen with him. I have not been
Speaker 3: drafting him because he's going very high and you don't
Speaker 3: even know who his quarterback is. Yep, I mean you
Speaker 3: don't know where he's going. He's had Joe Burrow all right,
Speaker 3: and I mean you don't get much better than that, right,
Speaker 3: that's made him really good. Now, let's say he goes
Speaker 3: somewhere like poor Jacobe Myers and he ends up with like,
Speaker 3: you know, Aiden O'Connell as his quarterback. You know, it's
Speaker 3: like t Higgins ain't putting up the numbers anymore. So
Speaker 3: without knowing where he's gone, I like to take free
Speaker 3: agent guys that are going a little bit later in
Speaker 3: the draft. He's gone very early, so I think it's
Speaker 3: a huge risk with Higgins, you know.
Speaker 1: To your point, I'm just looking at the ADP right
Speaker 1: now for the never too early turn, and I think
Speaker 1: I said this at the top of the show. Higgins
Speaker 1: is wide receiver fifteen at the three to ZHO five.
Speaker 1: So if you want Higgins, you got to invest a
Speaker 1: mid third round pick. And I'll also supplement that info
Speaker 1: with this. He is the first receiver on average drafted.
Speaker 1: I shouldn't say that he is the first teammate of
Speaker 1: a receiver that's being drafted before him. In the number
Speaker 1: two early tournament. He's so Chase obviously is the number
Speaker 1: one receiver overall, and then Higgins is wide receiver fifteen.
Speaker 1: You have to look down to DeVonta Smith at wide
Speaker 1: receiver twenty four, DK Metcalf at wide receiver twenty five,
Speaker 1: Jalen Waddell wide receiver twenty six to find a teammate
Speaker 1: like a second receiver off the same team being drafted
Speaker 1: Higgins is super high, and to me that suggests that
Speaker 1: people are a either believing Burrow's gonna win the MVP
Speaker 1: next year and put up astronomical numbers. B there is
Speaker 1: more of a level playing field where Higgins regresses to
Speaker 1: the mean and a positive way, Chase comes down in
Speaker 1: a negative way and they get closer to the middle
Speaker 1: or see number three whatever I was saying. He's on
Speaker 1: a different team as the number one receiver. But to
Speaker 1: your point, we don't know who that quarterback is, and
Speaker 1: quarterback matters quite a bit. I am not to keep
Speaker 1: agreeing with you tonight, but I am also fading him
Speaker 1: at that three zero five spot. I think I can
Speaker 1: do better and find somebody else, maybe not a receiver there,
Speaker 1: but somebody else at a different position one hundred percent
Speaker 1: of board. With that, I cannot believe how fast the
Speaker 1: hour is flown by. We are out of time, but
Speaker 1: I do want to ask you one final question, Scott,
Speaker 1: Super Sunday, Eagles chasing a Chiefs chasing history. Eagles trying
Speaker 1: to disrupt the Chiefs from winning three consecutive Super Bowl
Speaker 1: is something we've never seen in our lifetime. Give me
Speaker 1: a final score how's this game gonna go.
Speaker 3: This is the hardest Super Bowl to predict that I've
Speaker 3: ever seen. I've gone back and forth on this between
Speaker 3: these two two teams, and they both have great defenses.
Speaker 3: They've got excellent teams. I think Philly's got one of
Speaker 3: the best rosters in the NFL. I mean, they've done
Speaker 3: such a good job of putting this roster together. But
Speaker 3: they do have a lot of rookies and young players
Speaker 3: on it. Okay, it's still a fairly young team. The
Speaker 3: Chiefs are a team that I watched a lot as
Speaker 3: well this year, and there were so many games I
Speaker 3: thought they should have lost and they pulled them out somehow,
Speaker 3: just magic at the end. They find a way, and
Speaker 3: they're so experienced with all their AFC games and their
Speaker 3: Super Bowl. I'm just gonna say right now, I think
Speaker 3: the Chiefs three pat I think they get it done.
Speaker 3: It's going to be by a whisker, you know, And
Speaker 3: it might take them scoring over thirty points for like
Speaker 3: the first time. Maybe like you know, it's like maybe
Speaker 3: thirty one twenty three, something like that, thirty one twenty seven.
Speaker 3: I think it's I think it's gonna come down to
Speaker 3: whether the Chiefs can stop Barkley, and you know, I
Speaker 3: believe that they'll scheme that defense okay, to try to
Speaker 3: take Barkley away and make Hurts beat them. And it's
Speaker 3: not that Hurts can't beat them, but I think that
Speaker 3: it reduces the Eagles chances at that point. So I
Speaker 3: think it's gonna be a great super Bowl, but I
Speaker 3: would not want to put money on it. Let's put
Speaker 3: it that way. It's a coin flip as to who
Speaker 3: wins this one.
Speaker 1: I'm seeing that the same way as you. And if
Speaker 1: the Chiefs are they're not going to take away Barkley,
Speaker 1: but if they do slow them down, I think that
Speaker 1: presents a lot of problems for the Eagles where Jalen
Speaker 1: Hurts would have to go out and win the game.
Speaker 1: I was listening to the Fantasy Points podcast with John
Speaker 1: Hanson and Brian Drake the other day. I didn't even
Speaker 1: realize that Hurts didn't throw to the middle of the
Speaker 1: field at all against Washington, and he's going to have
Speaker 1: to do that. Steve Spagnolo is a super intelligent defensive coordinator.
Speaker 1: He's going to be able to exploit that. And if
Speaker 1: you take Barkley away where you keep him under eighty
Speaker 1: even seventy yards something like that. I don't know if
Speaker 1: the Eagles can win. I'm with you, I'm taking the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: I'm saying twenty five twenty two. Kind of a weird score,
Speaker 1: but oftentimes these things end in weird scores, and I
Speaker 1: think the Chiefs complete the three pet In any event,
Speaker 1: I'll be watching it that day after I draft in
Speaker 1: the KFFFC. You have been drafting a ton in the FFPC, Scott.
Speaker 1: You already have five titles to your name in the FFPC,
Speaker 1: and maybe this is the year you cash the big one.
Speaker 1: Certainly having your son take down the number two early
Speaker 1: Super Flex Bestball Tournament last year is motivation enough where
Speaker 1: you are chasing that, which is great. Certainly great stuff
Speaker 1: from you tonight, a lot of fantastic insight that I
Speaker 1: know I'll be applying to my drafts. I wish you
Speaker 1: nothing but the best of luck going forward in all
Speaker 1: of your FFPC drafts, and for sure enjoy the super
Speaker 1: Bowl on Sunday.
Speaker 3: Thanks.
Speaker 1: Thank you so much for hanging out with me tonight.
Speaker 3: All right, thank you very much.
Speaker 1: That is Scott Thomas, absolutely, thank you. Be good. We'll
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