Speaker 1: Here to break that down and help us with the
Speaker 1: fantasy implications of week one is our good friend Joe Dolan,
Speaker 1: Fantasy points dot Com. Joe, Welcome back to the show, Bud.
Speaker 2: Hey guys, it's good to be with you. You mentioned
Speaker 2: that you don't want to throw your voice out talking
Speaker 2: about football. Well, I have some bad news I already have.
Speaker 2: Oh no, I don't know what. I don't know if
Speaker 2: the allergies or whatever, but very inopportune time for me
Speaker 2: to throw my voice out, although my wife is loving
Speaker 2: it because I'm trying to talk. I'm trying to talk
Speaker 2: very lightly to preserve my voice, and it's made me
Speaker 2: realize how loud I am. Yeah, in other walks of life.
Speaker 2: So maybe maybe this will give me a little bit
Speaker 2: of perspective heading into the football team.
Speaker 1: You sound great, and we'll keep it brief here so
Speaker 1: you can preserve those golden pipes for all the content
Speaker 1: you do there at Fantasy points dot Com. I just
Speaker 1: want to get your take real quick on what we're
Speaker 1: looking at tonight. I mean, this is a fascinating matchup.
Speaker 1: We saw what happened last year where the Chiefs look
Speaker 1: they did not like the world on fire. Offensively, in
Speaker 1: that title game, but they were efficient enough. And what
Speaker 1: Spanks does on defense is so underrated. Let's handicap this
Speaker 1: game a little bit, not only just from a general perspective,
Speaker 1: but some of the fantasy implications of this kickoff game
Speaker 1: tonight between the Chiefs and Ravens.
Speaker 2: Joe, Yeah, So, I mean the thing about Kansas City is,
Speaker 2: up until the playoffs last year, they didn't really have
Speaker 2: their offense operating at a full clip. You know, Travis
Speaker 2: Kelcey got hurt before the opener and that unfortunately led
Speaker 2: them to kind of playing from behind the sticks a
Speaker 2: little bit, and the receivers were terrible. And you know,
Speaker 2: Andy Reid, dating back to his time with Philadelphia, has
Speaker 2: always almost had a little bit of a blind spot
Speaker 2: for the wide receiver position. You know, it took three
Speaker 2: straight NFC Championship losses to the for the Eagles to
Speaker 2: go out and get themselves a true number one receiver
Speaker 2: in which they got with Tarall Owens. And the difference
Speaker 2: between Andy Reid and Kansas City, and he did have
Speaker 2: Tyree Kelt for the first Super Bowl. I'm not trying
Speaker 2: to say that Hill wasn't there, but the difference with
Speaker 2: Andy Reid and Kansas City and Andy Reid in Philadelphia
Speaker 2: is Donavan McNabb was merely great. Patrick Mahomes is next
Speaker 2: is potentially the greatest who's ever played, So there is
Speaker 2: a difference there. And Kansas City, though, is realizing Travis
Speaker 2: Kelce's a year older. I don't think he's going to
Speaker 2: be a full time player in the way that we've
Speaker 2: seen Travis Kelce be in the past. I think they're
Speaker 2: going to play him in smart situations. I said, I
Speaker 2: don't think he's going to be a part time player.
Speaker 2: I think he's going to be a smart time player.
Speaker 2: I think they're going to use him effectively on obvious
Speaker 2: passive situations red zone, give him a couple of running
Speaker 2: game snaps off here and there to keep him fresh.
Speaker 2: But they bring in Xavier Worthy of the rookie they
Speaker 2: signed Hollywood Brown. Hollywood Brown's not going to play in
Speaker 2: this game. He's hurt. But they improve across the board,
Speaker 2: and now it looks like where she Rice isn't going
Speaker 2: to be suspended. People were drafting him all off season
Speaker 2: as if his being suspended was inevitability. That hasn't been
Speaker 2: the case, so I actually expect Kansas City to rebound offensively,
Speaker 2: and the player I'm looking to make the biggest impact
Speaker 2: in this game is Rushie Rice.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's interesting because Rice heads off the field
Speaker 1: issues and the league's going to let him play this
Speaker 1: thing out. So that's obviously big for Kansas City tomorrow night,
Speaker 1: a team that you know well, the Eagles is on
Speaker 1: the road right now, we're hearing that one of these teams,
Speaker 1: I guess the Packers has like a two and a
Speaker 1: half hour commute from the hotel. It's a bit messy
Speaker 1: right now down there, but the game will go on.
Speaker 1: We presume it'll be the Packers, a team that really
Speaker 1: made a great playoff run last year down the stretch,
Speaker 1: and the Eagles, who made some additions in the offseason
Speaker 1: that I think are pretty interesting. But they lose Kelsey
Speaker 1: at center. What's your handicap on this game?
Speaker 2: This is going to be a really, really fascinating watch
Speaker 2: because the Eagles are completely rebuilt offensively obviously with Kelsey,
Speaker 2: but not just without Kelsey, but also structurally. Kellen Morris
Speaker 2: the branding offensive coordinator. Here, they bring in sat Kwon Barkley,
Speaker 2: and the one thing I want to see from Eagles
Speaker 2: see here's the problem with what the Eagles did last year.
Speaker 2: The Eagles looked at their team and said, Noah, we
Speaker 2: have elite talent. That talent's just going to win.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and.
Speaker 2: That I don't know why you'd make it hard on
Speaker 2: your quarterback just because he has great receivers. The Eagles
Speaker 2: had no answers for Blitz, they had no motion. They
Speaker 2: they were stale, so teams knew what they were going
Speaker 2: to do. And you know, we actually saw it in
Speaker 2: Philadelphia number of years ago where Kansas where Chip Kelly
Speaker 2: was there, and Chip Kelly said, steam beats talent, and
Speaker 2: to an extent it does they need to help the
Speaker 2: talent that you have. You know, the Eagles went hard
Speaker 2: the other way. Well they last year's Eagles were talent
Speaker 2: beat scheme. And there is very clearly a balance to
Speaker 2: be struck. And I think the Eagles think Kellen Moore
Speaker 2: is going to strike that with more motion, more usage
Speaker 2: of say Quon Barkley, things like that. On the foot side,
Speaker 2: Green Bay was hot at the end of last year.
Speaker 2: Jordan Love played great down the stretch. But the question
Speaker 2: is which of their receivers is actually going to be
Speaker 2: the most productive fantasy player. And we don't know the
Speaker 2: answer to that, and I'm really excited to see their
Speaker 2: wide receiver rotation. I would really like to see Christian
Speaker 2: Watson take a step forward.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a really fascinating team. They're so young and
Speaker 1: it's almost like a farm system that's coming up together.
Speaker 1: It's a rare approach right now with the Packers, and
Speaker 1: good on them to get another quarterback that appears to
Speaker 1: be poised to be heading places, as their prior to
Speaker 1: quarterbacks were quite good in their own right. Joe Dolan
Speaker 1: Fantasy Points dot Com is our guest here. So Brandon Ayuk,
Speaker 1: that saga's over. Thank god. I was tired of talking
Speaker 1: about Brandon Ayuk. And that leaves one team of note
Speaker 1: in this studio, Trey Falco's Steelers, and an interesting spot because
Speaker 1: they thought, at least the fans did, that they were
Speaker 1: going to land Ayuk. See that did not happen. What's
Speaker 1: your outlook on Pittsburgh this year? As we hear now
Speaker 1: that Russell Wilson is limited in practice with a calf injury.
Speaker 2: I don't want to put too fine a point on this,
Speaker 2: but their fives are horrendous with Pittsburgh. But Mike Tomlin
Speaker 2: always seems to steer that ship straight, and that is
Speaker 2: the one thing that's keeping me from diving over born here. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I think the offensive line should be a little better,
Speaker 2: but of course, one of the best offensive linemen last year,
Speaker 2: Isaac Saamalo, he's gonna miss some time with an injury.
Speaker 2: And I do think they'll run the ball very well
Speaker 2: with Najee Harrison Jalen Warren, but Warren's dinged up. I
Speaker 2: think Russell Wilson is completely toast, and I don't think
Speaker 2: I don't think Justin Fields has ever even bred, let
Speaker 2: alone toast. So it's going to be it's going to
Speaker 2: be a very difficult year under center, and they have
Speaker 2: to hide that talent.
Speaker 1: Your voices is your voice is not in great shape,
Speaker 1: but the Zingers are better than ever. Joe Dolan, Fantasy
Speaker 1: Points dot Com. Hey, uh, walk us through this because
Speaker 1: I I don't want your voice to be gone for
Speaker 1: this weekend. So let's wrap this thing up and let
Speaker 1: us know what the new the grading metric is for
Speaker 1: Fantasy Points. Help us understand. Give us a little taste
Speaker 1: of that new score, my friend.
Speaker 2: Okay, so I'm not gonna say are very cheeky.
Speaker 1: Acronym there, they'll figure it out, but it's.
Speaker 2: Called average separation score. You can figure out the acronym
Speaker 2: for yourself. And it's a new way of grading when
Speaker 2: and how a wide receiver wins their route. We have
Speaker 2: two years of data, which is an extremely small sample size.
Speaker 2: Uh so I want to I want to point that
Speaker 2: out that the two years of data have been very
Speaker 2: encouraging in terms of predicting breakouts, predicting which receivers are
Speaker 2: going to take a step forward during the season. And
Speaker 2: you can get it at Fantasy Points Data. It is
Speaker 2: called average separation score. If you follow us on Twitter
Speaker 2: at Fantasy pts, you can see all of the marketing
Speaker 2: that we've been doing for We are really excited about
Speaker 2: this stat the old.
Speaker 1: Ass that way.
Speaker 2: Can I just throw one plug out there, please? Yes?
Speaker 2: One of the number two receiver and basically number one
Speaker 2: overall in average separation score over the last two seasons.
Speaker 2: It's a brand new Carolina pants job.
Speaker 1: I knew it, but you talk about s last year
Speaker 1: it was pure ass on the field. I'm glad we
Speaker 1: got the good time this year In terms of separate.
Speaker 2: Carolina had nobody who could separate all year. Nobody tell
Speaker 2: that the big gift of him.
Speaker 1: Joe, you're the best man. Heal that voice and we'll
Speaker 1: talk to you soon, my friend. Thanks for making time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm my wife out getting halls for me right now,
Speaker 2: so I appreciate it all. The the cough drops out
Speaker 2: the steakhouse.
Speaker 1: There you go. Well that's that's good to Joe. Be
Speaker 1: good man. Good to hear your voice.
Speaker 2: All right, guys, take it.
Speaker 1: Be good Joe Dolan