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Speaker 5: You're not kidding, and uh yeah, you're you're You're not
Speaker 5: You're not kidding. Hey, voluntary minicamp start today after well
Speaker 5: the tuesday after this Easter weekend, and I'm I'm looking
Speaker 5: forward to it. UFL football is this week and while
Speaker 5: we don't have uh, we don't have many players that
Speaker 5: will graduate from that and have fantasy relevance uh in
Speaker 5: this upcoming and we do hear a name or two
Speaker 5: on occasion that the drafters have invested draft picks in
Speaker 5: that are no longer in the league but earning their
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Speaker 5: of the year, Bulky. It's always wonderful to see you.
Speaker 1: You look so handsome.
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Speaker 1: I uh yeah, I'm excited drafting with the KFFFC right
Speaker 1: now in the sweet sixteen the main event, and of
Speaker 1: course the draft masters going on there right now can't
Speaker 1: get enough of it. And I think, you know, one
Speaker 1: of the things. Very very rarely, and I mentioned this before,
Speaker 1: very rarely do we get a chance to lead off
Speaker 1: the show with breaking news. But we do have a
Speaker 1: little bit of breaking news this evening, and it comes
Speaker 1: to us from southern California. Adam Schefter reporting that pokin
Speaker 1: Akua has checked into a quote luxury treatment center. Levi mccatherine,
Speaker 1: who is pokin Akua's attorney, spoke with the California Post
Speaker 1: or at least issued a statement to the California Post
Speaker 1: that he is Nicoua is now in rehab in Malibu.
Speaker 1: Now we were talking about Nikua. We may have been
Speaker 1: talking about him last week about this civil suit that
Speaker 1: alleged that he bid a woman and used some anti
Speaker 1: Semitic language on New Year's Eve, But Nkua is now
Speaker 1: in rehab. Sean mcvay's wade in He says he's hopeful
Speaker 1: Nikoua is going to grow from this and be a
Speaker 1: RAM for a very long time. This clinic that he's in,
Speaker 1: I think is known for helping people with drug and
Speaker 1: alcohol abuse problems. Really bad for him, bed timing for
Speaker 1: him because he's going to be coming up on a
Speaker 1: contract extension soon and obviously this is probably going to
Speaker 1: factor into it. Number one. We both wish Pookin a
Speaker 1: Coupa the best and hopefully he comes out a lot better,
Speaker 1: you know, because of this, But this is a fantasy
Speaker 1: football podcast and I have to bring up the fantasy
Speaker 1: spin on this Pharaoh. There's sort of been a big
Speaker 1: three amongst the rookie receivers this year. I think there's
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Speaker 1: the Number two Early Best Ball Tournament. Over the course
Speaker 1: of the last on nearly two dozen drafts, Chase NICOUA
Speaker 1: and Jigba one O three, one oh four to one
Speaker 1: oh five. Does this news drop Nicula out of that
Speaker 1: tier for you? How significant is this for people drafting
Speaker 1: in that front half of the first round. Do they
Speaker 1: want to stay away from Nicola? Or do you still
Speaker 1: want to be in business with him? Pharaoh, Well, let's
Speaker 1: take away and see him. This is quite disturbing. The
Speaker 1: I didn't particularly you know, sometimes sometimes the social lives
Speaker 1: of players that can become a target, you know, But
Speaker 1: this seems there's something that play here. I never like
Speaker 1: it when you're attorney as your spokesperson.
Speaker 2: I never liked that.
Speaker 5: So let's just play this one by here in our
Speaker 5: sweet sixteen Besketball Championship in the KFFC, a drafter chose
Speaker 5: him with the number one position, is best one way?
Speaker 4: Yeah, and and and I get it.
Speaker 1: And if you if this is not enough to shy,
Speaker 1: you know, get you to shy away from Niku. I'm
Speaker 1: totally on board. I think wait and see is probably
Speaker 1: the best approach, Pharaoh.
Speaker 5: But yes, and if you're a Dynasty player, send that
Speaker 5: Puka Naku owner a fifth round draft pick secret exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think in in reed draft leagues like the
Speaker 1: Never Too Early Tournament, if he is sitting out there
Speaker 1: at the one oh five, I certainly would not have
Speaker 1: a problem bumping McCaffrey down below for him, Trey McBride,
Speaker 1: I would have no problem taking Nakua over him. So
Speaker 1: I think you could still make a case for Nikua here.
Speaker 1: As far as the reporting that's been done on this,
Speaker 1: it sounds like OTA's are still a possibility.
Speaker 5: Uh.
Speaker 1: And if that's the case, then and I think he's
Speaker 1: at The other reporting stated that he's been there for
Speaker 1: a while. This isn't a new thing that he just
Speaker 1: got there. So yeah, wishing nothing but the best for
Speaker 1: Nikua for those of your drafting right now, who who
Speaker 1: really wanted, you know, us to take a stand on it.
Speaker 1: I'm not bumping him down a whole lot right now,
Speaker 1: if at all, I think I'd rather take Chase ahead
Speaker 1: of him. Still a question. I mean, I guess it'll
Speaker 1: probably takes Smith and Jig but ahead of him right now.
Speaker 1: But it's close.
Speaker 5: Yeah, And the problem is that that there, How long
Speaker 5: do you wait? You know, I don't think it takes
Speaker 5: a lot of courage to take Nakua.
Speaker 1: So you know, if you've got if you're.
Speaker 5: Drafting towards the end of the first round, chances are
Speaker 5: if you get a chance adding you'll go in and
Speaker 5: thank you.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I im end of the first round slam dunk
Speaker 1: for me, no question. I want to get into this.
Speaker 1: Jalen Hurts story. Speaking of other things that weren't great
Speaker 1: for the player that were in the news, Jeremy Foller
Speaker 1: from ESPN and Tim McManus, who I believe is the
Speaker 1: Eagles beat reporter for ESPN, quoted more than one more
Speaker 1: than a couple more than a few sources that were
Speaker 1: critical of Jalen Hurts. After this twenty twenty five season,
Speaker 1: he was sixteenth out of forty qualifying quarterbacks in EPA
Speaker 1: per dropback, twenty sixth in dropback success rate. That was
Speaker 1: just ahead of Bryce Young and just behind Jacoby Brissett.
Speaker 1: One source told the ESPN quote, poor body language, not
Speaker 1: always bought in, not the most coachable, and the players notice,
Speaker 1: though there is plenty of blame aim to spread. Heurtz
Speaker 1: has had a hand in the offense being becoming calcified.
Speaker 1: And it goes on to say that he's pushed back
Speaker 1: on changes to the scheme. He's been changing plays a
Speaker 1: lot at the line of scrimmage. They get a new
Speaker 1: offensive coordinator this year for seemingly like the fourth or
Speaker 1: fifth year in a row. I don't know what it's
Speaker 1: man Yeah, exactly, Yeah. Sean Manyon, who was the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: coach for Green Bay last year is now in the
Speaker 1: new OC for Philadelphia, and Jeffrey Lurie was actually talking
Speaker 1: about this, I think, either yesterday or today, about these
Speaker 1: big changes that were going to be happening in the
Speaker 1: Philadelphia offense. Our good buddy Brian Drake from Fantasy Points
Speaker 1: was talking about this a couple months ago in February
Speaker 1: where he said, you're going to see significant changes on
Speaker 1: this offense, and now we're hearing it from Luri and
Speaker 1: Sirianni and sewn Manyon. So I think the question here
Speaker 1: is with Jalen Hurts, this doesn't paint him in the
Speaker 1: right picture. But Pharrell, this is how good fantasy players
Speaker 1: play it. They react properly to it. What's the oper
Speaker 1: reaction for Jalen Hurts on this story? Is this something
Speaker 1: that we bump him down? He's quarterback seven right now,
Speaker 1: going in the early seventh round of the Never Too
Speaker 1: Early Tournament. Do we bump him down and move guys
Speaker 1: like Herbert Dart maybe even Lawrence ahead of him? Or
Speaker 1: is this somebody that we're buying the dip that we're
Speaker 1: still taking a cost. Certainly you don't have to overdraft
Speaker 1: him at this point. There are some people that are
Speaker 1: going to be turned off by this story. What's the
Speaker 1: proper way to handle Jalen Hurts right now? And how
Speaker 1: much stock are you putting into what these sources that
Speaker 1: follower and mcmahonus had. How much stock are you putting
Speaker 1: into what they're saying about him and how it affects
Speaker 1: him in fantasy this year?
Speaker 5: Let's buy him at the dip and take advantage of that.
Speaker 5: It's an odd it's an odd time for this story
Speaker 5: to break, especially on the positive heels of signing the
Speaker 5: thirty three year old offensive coordinator. They interviewed multiple guys
Speaker 5: for the job. You know, it's like they're looking for
Speaker 5: the right kind of guy and it You know, if
Speaker 5: you didn't watch the Eagles play a lot of games
Speaker 5: and only watch red Zone, you saw Philadelphia doing their thing.
Speaker 5: You just didn't see as much of it. But when
Speaker 5: you watch the games, there were some problems, especially problems
Speaker 5: with Aj Brown, the wide receiver.
Speaker 1: You don't know where that kind of kind of thing start.
Speaker 5: My father had one of his token sayings was can't
Speaker 5: stand prosperity, And these guys last year could not stand prosperity.
Speaker 5: The coaching, you can understand why the offensive coordinator got
Speaker 5: fired last year or moved on, because there's a situation
Speaker 5: where just the one thing that I love a play
Speaker 5: action pass if they ran very little of that. If
Speaker 5: you've got a running back like Barkley in the backfield,
Speaker 5: I play action all the time. They don't send players
Speaker 5: in motion much in the offense. So I think the
Speaker 5: whole offense is going to look new. Obviously they have.
Speaker 5: They looked to find someone that they thought could link
Speaker 5: up and work with this quarterback and all the other
Speaker 5: players on this offense. But look at if you can't
Speaker 5: coach Jalen Hurts, you should get the hell out of
Speaker 5: the business. That's really what you should do. This guy
Speaker 5: is in Super Bowl MVP, one of the best players
Speaker 5: in the league. He wins games at the rate of
Speaker 5: like three to one something like that. He's you know, you,
Speaker 5: you've got to find a way. This is bump in
Speaker 5: the early part or the middle part of his career.
Speaker 5: I guess we should say, you've got to find a
Speaker 5: way to bring that together. That's why you get hired
Speaker 5: to be at a job like this. If you're a
Speaker 5: coach and you've got in the coaching world, they've all
Speaker 5: got the shield on the resume. Then they've got to
Speaker 5: earn that and the players got to step up and say,
Speaker 5: you know, everything that went down last year is going
Speaker 5: to change. Yeah. I from fantasy football perspective, if we
Speaker 5: saw the worst from him last year, it didn't necessarily
Speaker 5: kill you. And I think you've got a good chance
Speaker 5: to win with Hurts this year. And there's plenty of
Speaker 5: quarterback quarterbacks available that you compare with him to make
Speaker 5: this work. We're not looking at the schedule, so we
Speaker 5: don't know how to put that aspect together of it.
Speaker 5: But I like the I like the division he's in.
Speaker 2: I could go on and on.
Speaker 5: Don't Don't you like the idea of Jalen Hurts playing
Speaker 5: the Giants, the Commanders, and the Cowboys for six games?
Speaker 1: I do. And I like the idea of him slipping
Speaker 1: in drafts now as a result. Definitely on staying away
Speaker 1: from I've never been the biggest fan of Nick Siriani,
Speaker 1: and there's not a whole lot of people I don't
Speaker 1: care for, but he's never He's always rubbed me the
Speaker 1: wrong way. But in his defense, I will say that
Speaker 1: when you have all this adversity like he's been facing
Speaker 1: with this offense last year. I think back a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago and replaced both offensive and defensive coordinators,
Speaker 1: end up winning a Super Bowl, and now you get
Speaker 1: the A. J. Brown stuff and the Jalen Hurt stuff.
Speaker 1: I do think that Sirianni is kind of built for adversity,
Speaker 1: and I think he's built for for for you know,
Speaker 1: when when somebody takes a bite out of him, he
Speaker 1: takes a bigger bite back. And teams tech usually take
Speaker 1: on Sigmund Boom says this for football guys all the time.
Speaker 1: Teams take on the personality of their quarterback and their
Speaker 1: head coach. And I think at the Eagles, the more
Speaker 1: they take on the personality of Sirianni, the more they're
Speaker 1: they're they're gonna have the attitude of laying waste to
Speaker 1: not only their opponents, but everybody who called them out
Speaker 1: and said that, you know, this is not a good situation.
Speaker 1: It's not it's not going well in Philadelphia right now.
Speaker 1: I think we're gonna see a nice little bounce back
Speaker 1: from Philly this year.
Speaker 5: That I like your perspective on that, because when you
Speaker 5: if they were able to get that US against the
Speaker 5: world mentality and come together that way, you know, I
Speaker 5: had to I had to look up calcification. I found
Speaker 5: that to be a very interesting application of a medical
Speaker 5: term to the stoic and hardened and dense Jalen hurts,
Speaker 5: and I don't think he's any of those things.
Speaker 1: So, you know, Farrell, the next thing I want to
Speaker 1: bring up, and we're you're probably sick of talking about
Speaker 1: Dalton Kincaid now, But every single time I think if
Speaker 1: we've fleshed out everything there is, then there's another report
Speaker 1: that comes out about Kincaid. Joe Brady was speaking to
Speaker 1: the media and he said that Kincaid is probably going
Speaker 1: to be managed throughout the twenty twenty six season. I
Speaker 1: want to make everybody ware that this is April first,
Speaker 1: and they're already talking about managing this dude's knee through
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty sixth season. Yeah, in twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: he tore his PCL and Kinkaid decided not to have
Speaker 1: that ligament surgically repaired. Quote from Brady, There's a lot
Speaker 1: of things that he's pushing through that you guys might
Speaker 1: not see, and I think some of it's just learning
Speaker 1: how to play with certain elements of some movements that
Speaker 1: might not feel great and he's had to push through that.
Speaker 1: Kin Kayah, I beg your pardon. Brandon bean Is the
Speaker 1: GM and Brady both talked about managing the practice time
Speaker 1: for Kin Kid this year to make sure he's as
Speaker 1: fresh as possible for games and he's not having to
Speaker 1: tolerate any more pain than he needs to. But Ferrell,
Speaker 1: I don't feel great drafting a player where I mean,
Speaker 1: this has got to break a record for like knee management,
Speaker 1: like planning that they're already talking about doing this, and
Speaker 1: already in April. There's a long time before the season.
Speaker 1: I mean the season. The NFL season is not going
Speaker 1: to start for another five months, and so for this
Speaker 1: to come out in April, I have serious misgivings. And
Speaker 1: it stinks because I know there's a lot of smart
Speaker 1: people out there expecting a breakout from Dalton Kinkaid this year,
Speaker 1: and maybe his knee is more likely to break than
Speaker 1: his fantasy game breaking out. Dalton Kinkaid going as tight
Speaker 1: end eleven right now, behind Getztan and Ferguson, ahead of
Speaker 1: Kittle and Kelsey. I don't know, man, I just I
Speaker 1: feel like I'm a lot more bearish having this. Maybe
Speaker 1: I'm putting too much stock into this report, but this
Speaker 1: does not give me the warm fuzzies at all about King.
Speaker 5: It was not this player was not for me even
Speaker 5: before this report. We've talked about it before Bulky. Let's
Speaker 5: just go back to what we talk about the Eagles.
Speaker 5: That's a full culture situation now here with Kink, we've
Speaker 5: talked about the training staff being the real superstars of
Speaker 5: the unsung heroes of the NFL. Sometimes they get these
Speaker 5: guys ready to play it. I think that's what they
Speaker 5: mean by management and veteran like this is not going
Speaker 5: to practice quite as much. We see that with Kittle
Speaker 5: out out in San Francisco as well, and then other players.
Speaker 5: They just don't make a whole lot of noise about it.
Speaker 5: But I there's the tight end is very special and
Speaker 5: very important to the FFPC. There's a many tools in
Speaker 5: Buffalo to move the ball. The Kink is a talented
Speaker 5: tight end, but I see other guys that are not
Speaker 5: only talented, but leaned on more effectively and more necessarily
Speaker 5: by there are offenses. So I think we need to
Speaker 5: we need to just hope that mister Kinka does well
Speaker 5: and those tight ends drafted around him and slightly after
Speaker 5: him would be who I is targeting. Now, if he
Speaker 5: follows five or six spots, it begins another conversation.
Speaker 1: If he slips, I mean you're talking about like if Kittle, Kelsey,
Speaker 1: Sadik Goddard likely if they all move ahead of them,
Speaker 1: then yeah, it becomes a value.
Speaker 5: If he gets if he gets down there with Dalton
Speaker 5: Schultz and who's the top five pass catcher pass catching
Speaker 5: titiend from last year. But if he gets down there
Speaker 5: with Dalton Schultz and some of the things like that,
Speaker 5: then it's you know, that's where I've always seen him. Anyway,
Speaker 5: before this news, based.
Speaker 1: On what we just said about Kincaid, you can probably
Speaker 1: understand that the HSFF our hosts not going to have
Speaker 1: a whole lot of Dalton Kinkaid. No, as it stands
Speaker 1: right now. Anyway, let's talk to a gentleman right now
Speaker 1: who has had a lot of success in the FC,
Speaker 1: especially in twenty twenty five. We'll bring in our guests,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. He is an eleven time FFPC Dynasty
Speaker 1: League Champ, and nine of those titles came this past
Speaker 1: season alone. He's here tonight to talk about some of
Speaker 1: the players that he has on those teams. What cutdown
Speaker 1: was like for him getting his rosters down to sixteen players.
Speaker 1: He's also going to wax poetic on Kyron Williams, Terry McLaurin,
Speaker 1: and so much more. Please welcome in onto the program,
Speaker 1: mister Steve ESO, Steve, Welcome in, Happy Wednesday evening.
Speaker 2: How's it going tonight, sir, good evening, gentlemen. Thanks for
Speaker 2: having me be a pleasure to chat some fantasy with you. Guys.
Speaker 1: We are excited to have you for sure before we'll
Speaker 1: get the non fantasy stuff out of the way. When
Speaker 1: you are not crushing all these FFPC Dynasty League Steve,
Speaker 1: what are you doing for a living?
Speaker 2: I'm a buyer for TJX Companies, which owns tj Max
Speaker 2: and Marshalls. I've been there for twenty eight years, so
Speaker 2: I've been negotiating different deals for my company for a
Speaker 2: long time and enjoy taking that over to the fantasy
Speaker 2: world twenty eight years. Did you start in the back
Speaker 2: room when you were twelve years old right out of college?
Speaker 2: Right out of college twenty.
Speaker 1: Eight years What was your first position right out of college.
Speaker 2: It's called an allocation analyst, analyzing merchandise sales and inventory
Speaker 2: kind of stuff.
Speaker 5: Another numbers, got ball, keep bringing it into what the
Speaker 5: people want. This is a perfect, perfect training for fantasy
Speaker 5: football player. Did you know you're being trained to play
Speaker 5: fantasy football when you not only had your education and
Speaker 5: then chose your job.
Speaker 2: You know, I've been playing fantasy since the nineties, and
Speaker 2: before that was collecting baseball cards in the eighties and
Speaker 2: the junk wax era, wasting my money on that, but
Speaker 2: always analyzing my Beckett price on the baseball cards, and
Speaker 2: that kind of transitions right into my job and right
Speaker 2: into the fantasy stuff later on after the card collecting
Speaker 2: was kind of over.
Speaker 1: It's so it's so funny Steve that you bring that up,
Speaker 1: because I'm forty six, and I grew up like you know,
Speaker 1: late eighties, early nineties, like in the heyday when baseball
Speaker 1: cards were basically no longer what they were worth. You know,
Speaker 1: that's the largest part of my collection, which I still have.
Speaker 1: I'm still hoping at some point they regained some value.
Speaker 2: But maybe another twenty years will hit it bit.
Speaker 1: Twenty years exactly. But it's so funny because I was
Speaker 1: doing the same thing back then. But you know, when
Speaker 1: I stopped really. Card collecting was when I got into
Speaker 1: fantasy sports, fantasy football, fantasy baseball. It's kind of a
Speaker 1: more of a natural transition than I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people think. But I was kind of done with
Speaker 1: card collecting once I started playing fantasy football.
Speaker 2: For sure, exactly. I just find, you know, I've been
Speaker 2: playing fantasy since the nineties, and just a couple of
Speaker 2: years ago found my FFPC. Always had the idea of
Speaker 2: my head I'd love to play Dynasty, but really never
Speaker 2: had the group to put together of twelve people that
Speaker 2: you could count on. And finally somehow came across my
Speaker 2: FFPC kind of poking around on the Internet and going, oh,
Speaker 2: they're guaranteed they're gonna fill these every year, no matter what.
Speaker 2: And I got one of my friends Mark involved in
Speaker 2: it as well, and we own a few teams together
Speaker 2: and certainly grew my team base by quite a few.
Speaker 2: Start off with a few orphans and started drafting some
Speaker 2: and purchased some other ones and kind of put together
Speaker 2: a nice roster of teams and really enjoying it.
Speaker 5: I don't think it's so transactional, Steve.
Speaker 1: I don't believe you purchased them. You adopted them.
Speaker 5: That's right kind of individual. There's somebody calling me that's
Speaker 5: the kind of individual you are. Let me ask you, Steve.
Speaker 5: We've been talking tight ends, and the the player that
Speaker 5: seems to be gaining universal good wishes and great vibes
Speaker 5: from would be Gadston with the Chargers. And I love
Speaker 5: this player in college. I think he's a I think
Speaker 5: he's a wide receiver masquerading in his tight end. That's
Speaker 5: a whole nother story. Since you are the expert buyer,
Speaker 5: are you buying high on Gason this year?
Speaker 2: I would say I think he might be my highest
Speaker 2: own player strictly from the first sign of life. After
Speaker 2: he'd been dropped by most teams last year, I made
Speaker 2: an aggressive bid on him across all my leagues and
Speaker 2: waivers and ended up with him on more than half
Speaker 2: my teams. I'm very hopeful for his future having that
Speaker 2: kind of investment in him. I think with him it
Speaker 2: is gonna come down to the amount of snaps he gets.
Speaker 2: Is he playing that Dalton k K fifty sixty percent
Speaker 2: or is he gonna break through to a seventy eighty
Speaker 2: percent kind of snap rate? Is he gonna soak up
Speaker 2: some of those Keenan Allen targets, you're gonna play a
Speaker 2: little bit more in the slot. I have a lot
Speaker 2: of faith in McDaniel to really put a nice offense
Speaker 2: together there. I'm not sure where it's gonna go. I'm
Speaker 2: hopeful it goes Gadson's way and he ends up playing
Speaker 2: a lot of slot targets outside of the tight end
Speaker 2: that gets him on the field a little bit more.
Speaker 2: But I think I'm kind of taking a wait and see.
Speaker 2: I already own him in so many leagues, not somebody.
Speaker 2: I'm going out and trying to get him at value
Speaker 2: right now, but I'm holding hoping it works out in
Speaker 2: a positive way.
Speaker 5: Steve and Balkee, have we determined the Keenan Allen is
Speaker 5: not going back to the Chargers.
Speaker 1: We he's unsigned and there's a zero chance that he
Speaker 1: could go back there. Maybe it's higher than a non
Speaker 1: zero chance, but a lot of the stuff I've read
Speaker 1: from people covering the team, they don't seem very bullish
Speaker 1: on a return of Allen to the Chargers. That's the
Speaker 1: way I see it. So the other thing, by the way,
Speaker 1: I should shout Outdopy Smalls in the YouTube chat right now,
Speaker 1: Stevie wants to know, since you've been playing fantasy football
Speaker 1: in the nineties ballpark, do you do you can you
Speaker 1: even wrangle in a number of how much?
Speaker 5: I have a question before our guess answers that do
Speaker 5: see if you are with a tax collection service, either
Speaker 5: state or federal, you have to put that in the message.
Speaker 1: Now you have to identify yourself, like when the drug
Speaker 1: dealer asks like, hey, are you a copy?
Speaker 2: Go ahead at your own risks there sty I have
Speaker 2: no clue or or I hitting all time. I'm actually
Speaker 2: in some leagues with said doopy smiles or one of
Speaker 2: the guys I share some leagues with, and we competed
Speaker 2: some leagues. I've had some successes, some some big wins
Speaker 2: on DraftKings over the years. Uh for for some large
Speaker 2: sums and had some years where I was down some
Speaker 2: large sums and uh not sure where we're all. Uh,
Speaker 2: I have to go back and check all the W
Speaker 2: two is from.
Speaker 5: I think you've already I think you've already fulfilled your
Speaker 5: responsibility in that regard. Deucy's just baiting you a brag
Speaker 5: a bet.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, that's what.
Speaker 4: I think. Back to.
Speaker 1: One of my one of my other fantasy football shows
Speaker 1: I do. My co host was telling me that Juan,
Speaker 1: this is before last season, Uh, Steve, Juwan Johnson was
Speaker 1: going to be in for a big year. And you know,
Speaker 1: this is a dude who's never top six hundred receiving yards,
Speaker 1: guy who's had fifty catches in the season once. I
Speaker 1: didn't really buy into it. And then yet when I
Speaker 1: connect the dots together, I remember that he did sign
Speaker 1: a contract extension before the twenty twenty five season, and
Speaker 1: lo and behold, Johnson had a career of the year
Speaker 1: last year, seventy seven catches, eight hundred and eighty nine yards,
Speaker 1: gets into the end zone three times. Knowing that he
Speaker 1: had a career year, knowing that New Orleans has the
Speaker 1: eighth overall pick in the draft, a pick that they
Speaker 1: could very well use on one of the big three
Speaker 1: wide receivers, how nervous should you be? How proactive should
Speaker 1: you be, especially in a tight end premium league like
Speaker 1: the FFPC. How proactive should you be about trading Juwan Johnson? Now?
Speaker 1: Knowing that there's a lot of things lining up that
Speaker 1: could cause his twenty twenty sixth season to not be
Speaker 1: nearly as good as his twenty twenty five campaign, or
Speaker 1: perhaps Akab's razer would dictate here, you just can't get
Speaker 1: much for him anyway. What's the proper way for FFPC
Speaker 1: dynasty owners to be treating Juwan Johnson right now?
Speaker 2: I think he's an undervalued as for what you can
Speaker 2: get him for. You know, I actually picked him up
Speaker 2: in a few leagues recently for you know, a later
Speaker 2: third round pick to pick up to improve the last
Speaker 2: s bottom of my bench. He was a guy I
Speaker 2: was high on three or four years ago and it
Speaker 2: never really panned out. He never played enough snaps for
Speaker 2: to pan out, and a fantasy wise was always kind
Speaker 2: of splitting with a Foster Moreau and a Taysom Hill.
Speaker 2: So for the value, I guess I'm kind of high
Speaker 2: on him. That he's got the same coaching staff, he's
Speaker 2: gone to more of the eighty percent of the snaps
Speaker 2: eighty percent of the routes run, which I don't really
Speaker 2: see that changing next year unless they were at a
Speaker 2: high end tight end. They didn't really address that position
Speaker 2: in free agency. Taysom Hill has now kind of gone away,
Speaker 2: So as long as he's playing that eighty percent of
Speaker 2: this eighty percent of the routes run, I think he
Speaker 2: can give you that seventy plus catch range, might even
Speaker 2: have a little more touchdown upside than he's had the
Speaker 2: previous few years. Here's I think he's been in the
Speaker 2: four or five touchdown range. I wouldn't be surprised if
Speaker 2: he got seven or eight with an improved Saints offense
Speaker 2: and he's available for a third round pick. That you're
Speaker 2: really is a dart throw. You don't know what you're
Speaker 2: going to get, and you could have Johnson on your
Speaker 2: bench that if you're in a pinch on a bye
Speaker 2: week or with injuries, can even give you twelve points
Speaker 2: out of the flex in this kind of format and
Speaker 2: a tight end premium.
Speaker 5: That third round pick. I love the I love the
Speaker 5: way the I love the way the Dynasty players talk
Speaker 5: about the draft ball. Well, okay, I agree with that.
Speaker 5: You know, improving offense and we want you to throw
Speaker 5: in there the improving quarterback because he is He definitely
Speaker 5: is Shuck definitely is an improving quarterback. The situation with
Speaker 5: the l A Rams backfield. I've drafted Williams, I've drafted
Speaker 5: Blake Rum. I'm very happy to have both players where
Speaker 5: they're going in the draft. Naturally, I prefer Williams. When
Speaker 5: it works out right, I'd like to get him Bulky.
Speaker 5: I wouldn't mind if you would tell us where Darren
Speaker 5: is posting some numbers on Williams, because I think he's
Speaker 5: that much of a bargain wherever he goes. And you know,
Speaker 5: Coram had a great end of the season last year,
Speaker 5: but the Rams rushed the ball four hundred and sixty
Speaker 5: five times a year. Steve, don't you think there's room
Speaker 5: enough for both of them in this backfield?
Speaker 2: I think there is. I think Kyron his values falling
Speaker 2: off quite a bit for what his trade value is
Speaker 2: in Dynasty from what it was a year ago, coming
Speaker 2: off the big workhorse type seasons. I think the one
Speaker 2: thing that could change in Spike his value is there
Speaker 2: were so many of the short touchdowns that would have
Speaker 2: gone to Kyron went to Davante last year. They made
Speaker 2: that push for Stafford to be MVP. If a little
Speaker 2: bit of that fell back towards the rushing attack and
Speaker 2: his touchdowns kind of pop back up, I think he
Speaker 2: could be a value right now for where people are
Speaker 2: valuing him, knowing that he's not going to be the
Speaker 2: workhorse ninety carry guy, but still I think he's still
Speaker 2: going to be in that high end RB two. Solid
Speaker 2: guy to have on your roster. That's going to be
Speaker 2: a great point score.
Speaker 5: For you as a fledgling Dynasty player such as I am.
Speaker 5: What should I offer for Williams?
Speaker 1: What are they going to buy?
Speaker 5: What kind of draft pick can I give away for Williams?
Speaker 2: If you can get a pick anywhere from the eight
Speaker 2: to twelve range, I think it's a great pick in
Speaker 2: a draft for the back end of the first round.
Speaker 5: There's really no I want to acquire Williams.
Speaker 2: So you want to acquire Williams.
Speaker 5: So what are you going to give up?
Speaker 2: If you had the one ten, I would offer the
Speaker 2: one ten if you had a lower level running back.
Speaker 2: You know, Oh, another guy we might talk about r J. Harvey,
Speaker 2: who I think might be a little undervalued and come down.
Speaker 2: But maybe it's r J. Harvey in a late second,
Speaker 2: early third to upgrade to Kyron that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: Guys, might this might surprise you, maybe already know this.
Speaker 1: Kyn Williams is exactly one day short of being three
Speaker 1: months older than Blake korm I'll repeat that in a
Speaker 1: different term. Basically, Kyraen Williams is three months older than
Speaker 1: Blake Korm, which I think is surprising because we think
Speaker 1: Williams has been around for a while. He's got to
Speaker 1: be much older. He's really not college ball. Kien Williams
Speaker 1: went to the University of Notre Dame.
Speaker 5: So see he's been on television thrip, Yes.
Speaker 1: That's that is true, one hundred percent. Korum went to Michigan,
Speaker 1: so he's been on television forever.
Speaker 5: Not really the.
Speaker 1: Numbers you asked for Pharaoh Kien Williams running back sixteen
Speaker 1: at the three to oh seven, Blake Korum running back
Speaker 1: thirty seven at the nine to ten in the Never
Speaker 1: too Early Best Ball Tournament. Still about six rounds separating
Speaker 1: these guys and about twenty running back slots.
Speaker 2: So there you go again.
Speaker 1: The question is how many carries.
Speaker 5: Will separate these guys.
Speaker 1: Oh, now that's it. And I said, now you're onto something.
Speaker 1: Now you're onto something. And if we look at the
Speaker 1: RAMS stats from last year, and you kind of alluded
Speaker 1: to this Farah, the big finish that Korum had, But
Speaker 1: if you look at in totality, you had Kyen Williams
Speaker 1: of two hundred and fifty nine carries, Blake Korm with
Speaker 1: one hundred and forty five, so Karen Williams kind of
Speaker 1: doubled them up as far as it goes there, Williams
Speaker 1: had thirty six catches. Blake Korm only eight catches last
Speaker 1: year as well, So I mean there is a significant
Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, we know Korm finished strong, but we
Speaker 1: do know that Williams is still buttering the bread of
Speaker 1: the Rams backfield, so to speak.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 1: Now, a guy who maybe is a little bit light
Speaker 1: on the butter as far as buttering the bread in
Speaker 1: the Broncos backfield is RJ. Harvey. I brought this up
Speaker 1: before too, Steve. I was a little surprised to see
Speaker 1: the numbers on the JK. Dobbins deal. Did not think
Speaker 1: that they'd be paying him that much. And I've also heard,
Speaker 1: and I don't know who's reporting this out of Denver,
Speaker 1: but somebody reputable. Don't be surprised that Denver takes a
Speaker 1: running back that's going to have a significant role in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six in the NFL draft. How different you know,
Speaker 1: all these things summing up this question, how different do
Speaker 1: you think RJ. Harvey's role is going to be in
Speaker 1: the Broncos backfield in twenty twenty six compared to what
Speaker 1: it was his rookie season last year.
Speaker 2: I think Denver the one thing they learned is he's
Speaker 2: not great running the ball between the tackles. I think
Speaker 2: it's some of the worst numbers in the league as
Speaker 2: far as his yards per carry when he's attempting you know,
Speaker 2: inside runs. I mean, Peyton has still had some good
Speaker 2: things to say about Harvey having a better season next year.
Speaker 2: I think they need to lean into the things he
Speaker 2: does well that there's a reason why they needed to
Speaker 2: bring back Dobbins. Harvey can't run up the middle. I
Speaker 2: think they need to use more as a pats catcher
Speaker 2: on these outside runs. You saw how explosive he is.
Speaker 2: He scored double digit touchdowns, but he's not a guy
Speaker 2: that you're gonna hand the ball off twenty times a
Speaker 2: game and he's gonna run it up the middle. They
Speaker 2: got to find creative ways to get him the ball.
Speaker 2: So I could see them drafted another running back because
Speaker 2: if Dobbins does go down, Harvey is not that up
Speaker 2: the middle guy. He's not gonna be your fifteen to
Speaker 2: twenty carry guy. So if they can get him creative
Speaker 2: ways where he's catching four or five passes a game
Speaker 2: and getting the ball in the situations that he can
Speaker 2: really take advantage of. I think he can have as
Speaker 2: good or better of a season as last year. I
Speaker 2: don't think he's gonna make the leap into RB one territory,
Speaker 2: but could be an RB two if he's used correctly.
Speaker 2: But he's not going to be that twenty carry fifth.
Speaker 2: He's not going to be that up the middle guy.
Speaker 2: So I can see them taking another running back in
Speaker 2: case Dobbins goes down, which always does happen.
Speaker 1: Right, Yes, there's a non zero chance that how much
Speaker 1: higher than a non zero chance that Dobbins is gonna
Speaker 1: miss time? I think. I think the hope for our J.
Speaker 1: Harvey dynasty owners is whoever they add in the draft
Speaker 1: is a guy that eats more into dobbins workload rather
Speaker 1: than Harvey's workload. And we do know you mentioned it
Speaker 1: Steve in space catching the ball. He's a player that
Speaker 1: can be a difference maker out there, and you certainly
Speaker 1: don't want to take those opportunities away as it stands
Speaker 1: right now, as far as his is never too early
Speaker 1: we switched to redraft. Here is never too early. FFPC
Speaker 1: Tournament value ADP on that excuse me, RJ. Harvey is
Speaker 1: sitting at let's see running back twenty six at the
Speaker 1: six ZHO three, that's Touton and Hubbard territory. Definitely think
Speaker 1: I can get on board with that price for sure
Speaker 1: as my third running back or perhaps even my second
Speaker 1: if I go zero RB, it would make a lot
Speaker 1: of sense. So yeah, I'm bullish on Harvey, but understanding
Speaker 1: the limitations. It's all about expectations and if you make
Speaker 1: those expectations too high, probably going to be disappointed with Harvey.
Speaker 1: But if you don't and you expect them to be,
Speaker 1: you know, top twenty five, top thirty, I don't think
Speaker 1: you're going to be disappointed on that.
Speaker 5: With all our online drafting that we've been doing, guys,
Speaker 5: you know, I think if some of these drafts were live,
Speaker 5: you would hear someone grown in draft RJ. Harvey, because
Speaker 5: there's just no other if they spent their draft capital
Speaker 5: on receivers and other positions that there's by the time
Speaker 5: you get to the fifth round is a little bit
Speaker 5: bear for guys that you can truly count on as
Speaker 5: being the go to guy. And I really I'm I'm
Speaker 5: probably a bigger fan than Harvey and most drafters. I'm
Speaker 5: a bigger fan of Terry McLaurin than a lot of
Speaker 5: drafters too. I'm curious, let's go back to this dynasty thing,
Speaker 5: because I think the listeners and I definitely am learning
Speaker 5: a few things about trading. I acquired in a dynasty
Speaker 5: draft Parker Washington for a second round pick. You might
Speaker 5: think I over paid for him, but I needed receivers.
Speaker 5: Let me ask you, I would love to acquire McLaurin.
Speaker 5: What's it gonna take.
Speaker 2: Draft capital. It's probably a high second or a one
Speaker 2: twelve kind of one twelve two one two two is
Speaker 2: my guests. I like trying to package somebody and given
Speaker 2: a lesser pick to upgrade to a McLaurin, I have
Speaker 2: him as an undervalued asset. I think last year there's
Speaker 2: a multitude of things, the holdout leading into the season,
Speaker 2: He gets into the season and it isn't quite ready,
Speaker 2: and then by the time he's ramping up and ready
Speaker 2: to perform at a top level, Jaden Daniels goes down
Speaker 2: just you know, for the whole franchise that kind of
Speaker 2: snowballed on him last year and nothing really worked out
Speaker 2: the way they were expecting. I think all those things
Speaker 2: could kind of flip the other way this year, and
Speaker 2: you'll have a full training camp and they've got a
Speaker 2: pretty good offensive line. He's gonna be their number one target.
Speaker 2: There's no reason he's not going to see ten targets
Speaker 2: a game on that team right now. He's clearly the
Speaker 2: number one option by a long shot of what they
Speaker 2: have on the team right now. So I think he's
Speaker 2: a great buy for if you're a team that's contending
Speaker 2: and you have that late first, early second, that's a
Speaker 2: great guy to go after to help you try to
Speaker 2: win the championship this year like that.
Speaker 1: He'll turn thirty one in September. Obviously, the soft tissue
Speaker 1: stuff becomes more prevalent as you get into your thirties. However,
Speaker 1: I think I'm enjoying the painting. I'm enjoying the way
Speaker 1: that you're using the brushstrokes on McLaurin here, Steve, because
Speaker 1: I think there's a lot to like. Probably no Deebo
Speaker 1: Samuel in this offense, zach Ertz is probably gonna be
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even know if he's on the roster,
Speaker 1: but I know he's gonna miss a lot of time
Speaker 1: given that injury that he had last year. He's never
Speaker 1: Daniels has never been able to develop a rapport with
Speaker 1: Ben Sinnett and anybody they bring in Brandon Aiyuk or
Speaker 1: Juwan Jennings or any of these guys, and it sounds
Speaker 1: like Jennings is unlikely or even a rookie. It takes
Speaker 1: time to build up chemistry, build up trust. Well, McLaurin
Speaker 1: already has that with Daniels, So you could be seeing
Speaker 1: a great opportunity to buy him right now. McLaurin goes
Speaker 1: off eighty plus catches, eleven twelve hundred yards, maybe eight
Speaker 1: or nine touchdowns this year as Jaden Daniels gets back
Speaker 1: to twenty twenty four Jade and Daniels, and then you
Speaker 1: could move him after this season for maybe something much
Speaker 1: more substantial than you paid for him. So I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I think mclaurin's in for a nice little bounce back here, boy,
Speaker 1: Scott Hoyt.
Speaker 5: Through is a big old softball that you guys could
Speaker 5: smash over the wall. It'll still be going.
Speaker 1: Well, here's the thing, Scott Hoyt popping and we love
Speaker 1: Scott former guests of this show. If they draft that
Speaker 1: the Commanders do draft Jeremiah Love. Does that hurt or
Speaker 1: help Terry McLaurin, Steve, I'll let you answer, but I'll
Speaker 1: just preface it by saying, I always think a rise
Speaker 1: and tide raises all ships, and that's certainly gonna help
Speaker 1: McLaurin if Love is on the team.
Speaker 2: I don't think it would really move him up or
Speaker 2: down much for me either way, I think it makes
Speaker 2: their total offense that more potent if there's got to
Speaker 2: be more guys in the box to stop Jeremiah Love.
Speaker 2: If anything, maybe that frees up some more one on
Speaker 2: one coverage for Karry McLaurin. So I wouldn't I wouldn't
Speaker 2: look at it as a negative.
Speaker 5: For sure, very positive situation. Whoever, whoever lands this player,
Speaker 5: the other players on the team become, yes, become very
Speaker 5: very much more interesting to me. Bunkie, you know, maybe, uh,
Speaker 5: maybe Friday night we can talk that over with Bill Hollywood. Yeah,
Speaker 5: he'll have some ideas on who's going to get this player.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I was sold that it was going to
Speaker 1: be the Titans.
Speaker 5: And now then you been on Titans forever with this point, and.
Speaker 1: And Schefter was saying lately like, well, now I'm not
Speaker 1: sure if it's the Titans, and now he's like saying
Speaker 1: that maybe it's not gonna be the Giants and maybe
Speaker 1: the Commanders is where we start looking for love here.
Speaker 1: Sorry to all the Rashad White owners out there, if
Speaker 1: if it does happen to be Small's believing that they
Speaker 1: that he will not make it to seven and and
Speaker 1: also saying, you know or no commanders can move up
Speaker 1: if they're nervous about you know, the Giants or somebody
Speaker 1: taking them there. Shifting over from the love discussion to
Speaker 1: the Brian Thomas discussion. Who not a lot of people
Speaker 1: love in fantasy last year? Steve, can you make a
Speaker 1: solid bounce back case for BTJ? Maybe not getting to
Speaker 1: where he was his rookie year, but definitely being better
Speaker 1: than he was in his previous campaign for the Jags.
Speaker 2: I was a huge Brian Thomas fan going into his
Speaker 2: rookie season that was my first year in my FFBC
Speaker 2: and took him in a lot of the rookie drafts,
Speaker 2: so still own him in quite a few leagues. Disappointing season, clearly.
Speaker 2: I think the case to be made is he did
Speaker 2: have an injury last year, maybe more than one injury,
Speaker 2: but I know one of the ones he had was
Speaker 2: a risk problem. He had a ton of drops, was
Speaker 2: having trouble hanging under the ball. Never got it. Going
Speaker 2: with Trevor Lawrence, I think the case to be made
Speaker 2: is we've seen him do it. We've seen what kind
Speaker 2: of player he can be if he is fully healthy.
Speaker 2: You know, can he make a leap closer back to
Speaker 2: what his rookie season is to feral point at cost?
Speaker 2: I think I like Parker Washington more as a as
Speaker 2: a dynasty player right now. He's one of those guys
Speaker 2: I'm looking at in that you can get this guy
Speaker 2: sometimes you can get him for a third round pick.
Speaker 2: And I just have a lot more faith after having
Speaker 2: watched him last year, particularly in the playoff game. He
Speaker 2: wasn't a high draft pick, but he's only twenty three
Speaker 2: years old, and he's really done it when he's out
Speaker 2: there and they've given him the opportunity. I think he's
Speaker 2: proved it to them. I think eventually might not be
Speaker 2: the best. The worst thing if Brian Thomas were moved
Speaker 2: to another team, I'm going, how great would he be
Speaker 2: on the Patriots with Drake May throwing deep balls to
Speaker 2: him and I have a feeling it's going to get
Speaker 2: spread three ways in Jacksonville with the Jacoby Myers and
Speaker 2: Brian Thomas and Parker Washington, and they're probably being drafted
Speaker 2: very far apart. I'm not sure they're that far apart
Speaker 2: in the stats that I'm expecting from them. I still
Speaker 2: think long term, Brian Thomas Junior can be a top
Speaker 2: level number one riders. I'm not sure if we're going
Speaker 2: to see it next year in Jacksonville. We may see
Speaker 2: it again sometime in his career. I'm not convinced it's
Speaker 2: next year. I think it'll be better than last year,
Speaker 2: but probably not as good as its rookie season.
Speaker 5: So he a noted Dynasty player just said I made
Speaker 5: a good move with Parker Washington, and the only thing
Speaker 5: that gives me pause is that it is April Fool's Day,
Speaker 5: and I'm not so sure if I you know, if
Speaker 5: I heard it right. And then again, I want to
Speaker 5: keep talking about it because it's two ten pick, and
Speaker 5: that means I had a team to finish as close
Speaker 5: enough to the top to earn the two ten pick.
Speaker 5: So you know, I gladly, I gladly gave it a
Speaker 5: I would not give uh. We have seven rounds of
Speaker 5: drafting in our dynasty drafts. Correct, I would I would
Speaker 5: trade Baker Mayfield for an eighth.
Speaker 1: Round dynasty pick.
Speaker 2: I have.
Speaker 5: It just doesn't work for me. Now, I've had him
Speaker 5: on teams before. Usually when I do, he rewards me
Speaker 5: with a single digit effort when I do have to
Speaker 5: start it, and you guys think I'm fooling around, but
Speaker 5: absolutely not.
Speaker 1: He has always made a fool out of me. He could.
Speaker 5: He starts on a beautiful sunny day in Cleveland, but
Speaker 5: oh wait a minute, just the winds bowing ninety miles
Speaker 5: an hour and he gets six Fantasy points. I now
Speaker 5: he doesn't have Evans. So sell me any way you
Speaker 5: can on how Baker Mayfield is going to help you
Speaker 5: in any format the fantasy football this year.
Speaker 2: Okay, here's my sales pitch. I think after a month
Speaker 2: of the season last year he was in MVP talks.
Speaker 2: He had a great first month coming off a great
Speaker 2: previous season. He didn't have his wide receivers healthy in
Speaker 2: that first month. That was when Iguca was going crazy
Speaker 2: and it wasn't a lot of Evans or Godwin. Then
Speaker 2: he had this injury or I think it was in
Speaker 2: left shoulder ac joints. Train He didn't miss any time
Speaker 2: with that. He kept playing through it, and he's getting
Speaker 2: the cortizone shots or whatever they were giving him to
Speaker 2: be able to play on game day. After that, his
Speaker 2: play kind of just fell off for the rest of
Speaker 2: the season. Whether that was some offensive line issues the injury,
Speaker 2: I don't think it had a lot to do with
Speaker 2: Mike Evans. He was performing without Mike Evans. I'm really
Speaker 2: high on a guy, Jalen McMillan. I think that's a
Speaker 2: guy that was really popping his rookie season. He was
Speaker 2: scoring a touchdown every game the end of that year,
Speaker 2: then had the brutal neck injury lastlast year, came back
Speaker 2: in the year, played a few games, kind of looked
Speaker 2: like the guy I've seen the previous year. Tall getting open,
Speaker 2: big time red zone threat like Buka is a great.
Speaker 1: UH.
Speaker 2: It was a great pick for them. I think he's
Speaker 2: a future star in the league. And and Godwin, I
Speaker 2: think is another undervalued asset that UH. I think they
Speaker 2: still have three great receivers there and if Baker's right,
Speaker 2: they can perform. If the offensive line is holding up,
Speaker 2: I think he can still have a great season. I
Speaker 2: wouldn't count on it, but as a guy that's a
Speaker 2: number two QB or you have him in a super flex, uh,
Speaker 2: I still think he's a solid option to have a
Speaker 2: better season than he did last year, and hopefully a
Speaker 2: little bit more and then.
Speaker 5: And I agree that just because of his receivers, I
Speaker 5: agree with you. I like them all, I like I
Speaker 5: like the players down there. You didn't mention the te in.
Speaker 5: I think he can sometimes be one of the most
Speaker 5: overlooked players in all the fantasy football.
Speaker 1: You know, for sure, there's a lot of times when
Speaker 1: when when Evans would miss and ought and would step up.
Speaker 1: And obviously, with with Evans vacating the Buccaneers for the
Speaker 1: entirety of the twenty twenty sixth season's going to ask
Speaker 1: some opportunities. I'm with you on McMillan too, Steve. I've
Speaker 1: heard a lot of people, smart people like you talk
Speaker 1: up Jalen McMillan this season. And obviously we know that
Speaker 1: Agbuka did it over the course of at least of
Speaker 1: a third of a season, and Godwin's done it before
Speaker 1: as well, So there's still a lot to like about
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield. Scott Hoyt saying he's the Buccaneers offense scares
Speaker 1: him a little bit. I get it, you know there
Speaker 1: there is a little bit of trepidation there. But I
Speaker 1: do think given the price and given what people are
Speaker 1: asking for for Mayfield, probably pretty palatable to acquire him
Speaker 1: in trades. Right now, Let's let's go to some emails
Speaker 1: here that came in for you, Steve, and the first
Speaker 1: one comes from Don in Davis, California. He writes, Hey,
Speaker 1: Steve is Aaron Rodgers actually gonna be sneaky good with
Speaker 1: DK Metcalf and Michael Pittman this year. Thanks so much man.
Speaker 1: That is done in Davis, California. Pharrell, you can recuse
Speaker 1: yourself from this question because you know anybody is sneaky
Speaker 1: good with Michael Pittman. But I have to ask you, Steve,
Speaker 1: Pittman and Metcalf this year, how big of an upgrade
Speaker 1: does Rogers get from a Dynasty superflex standpoint.
Speaker 2: I mean that receiving Core in Pittsburgh last year was
Speaker 2: just atrocious out. I'm not even a huge Dk Metcalf guy.
Speaker 2: I'm probably more of a Pittman guy than I am
Speaker 2: a Metcalf guy. But you know, Roman Wilson, you know,
Speaker 2: he really I think their number two receiver got three
Speaker 2: or four hundred yards outside of Metcalf, so it's really
Speaker 2: a nothing position for them last year. So I think
Speaker 2: Pittman is a huge upgrade I think. I mean, I
Speaker 2: don't think we're gonna see vintage Rogers, but I could
Speaker 2: see slightly better fantasy performed, and then he had last year,
Speaker 2: which it which is sneaky good. I don't think he's
Speaker 2: a guy in a one quarterback league that's in any conversation,
Speaker 2: but in super Flex, every everybody that's starting is in
Speaker 2: the conversation, and he's a guy you can.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: There was a league I was in with the Doopye
Speaker 2: Smalls Gentleman where it was a my ff PC Best
Speaker 2: Ball Format dynasty, and uh it was the Triflex Superflex
Speaker 2: format where quarterbacks are important, and uh we we made
Speaker 2: it into contention with Mahomes and uh Daniel Jones and
Speaker 2: lost both of them to injury, and we're able to
Speaker 2: trade a third rounder for Rogers and a third rounder
Speaker 2: for Kirk Cousins and held on for a It was
Speaker 2: a five hundred dollars league, so we held on for
Speaker 2: first for a dollar Prize and it was and where
Speaker 2: I'm like laughing at the last week of the season
Speaker 2: as we're up like like thirty points and I'm like, well,
Speaker 2: thank thank God for these forty year old quarterbacks, and
Speaker 2: we'd be out of it because we lost both of
Speaker 2: our starting quarterbacks and we're able to trade for two
Speaker 2: forty year old guys that got us through and we cashed.
Speaker 5: Shocked. You didn't get Flacco, we got flo There.
Speaker 2: You go, There you go?
Speaker 5: Is you know, is his cousin's really forty? He's getting
Speaker 5: their close. Yeah, that's good.
Speaker 1: Where are you from?
Speaker 2: I grew up in Vermont and I have been living
Speaker 2: in the Boston area for the past twenty eight Yearss's.
Speaker 1: Thirty seven years old, right seven. You will turn thirty eight,
Speaker 1: I believe in August. And this is the type of
Speaker 1: thing that I love putting on the show, Steve, because
Speaker 1: you tell the story of you winning a five hundred
Speaker 1: dollars dynasty league in the FFPC super Flex I mean
Speaker 1: Triflex obviously, but where he started two quarterbacks and you
Speaker 1: win it with Kirk Cousins, Aaron Rodgers, Chef's kiss. Everybody
Speaker 1: wants to play on the FFPC when you know they
Speaker 1: you could win with that, So congratulations to you and
Speaker 1: DUBI on that one. That's a tremendous The final email
Speaker 1: I have for you is from Mark by you Florida.
Speaker 1: What's up, Steve? How big of a leap forward is
Speaker 1: Matthew Golden going to take with no Romeo Dobbs in
Speaker 1: the picture? Mark? We appreciate the email. I'm gonna bring
Speaker 1: this up right now and and I don't want this
Speaker 1: to change the way you answer this question, Steve. But
Speaker 1: when we were talking about Brian Thomas Junior before, Rich
Speaker 1: Simony had an article in ESPN or for ESPN this week. Simony,
Speaker 1: who covers the Jets, said that there's there's whispers out
Speaker 1: there or in UH, I don't know what you'd call
Speaker 1: it a possibility that the well not a possibility that
Speaker 1: the Jets are looking for a receiver. And if they
Speaker 1: go the trade route, Contavian Wicks from Green Bay is
Speaker 1: one of them. Brian Thomas Junior and Jacksonville is one
Speaker 1: of them. Obviously Wis is gonna cost a lot less
Speaker 1: UH than than than Thomas. And we can look at
Speaker 1: this question through the frame of if Wicks actually gets
Speaker 1: moved this I think not only says a whole lot
Speaker 1: about Christian Watson, tucker Craft, Jade reed, it says a
Speaker 1: significant about about Matthew Golden as well. So if Wis
Speaker 1: gets traded, if he doesn't get traded, let's talk about
Speaker 1: Matthew Golden in his sophomore season in the Green and Gold.
Speaker 2: You know, it's interesting, I think Green Bay. I look
Speaker 2: at Golden and I see what he does, and he
Speaker 2: does a lot of what Christian Watson does, so I
Speaker 2: really question how that's gonna work out. Watson really appeared
Speaker 2: to be their number one last year. I do see
Speaker 2: Golden stepping up this year and becoming their number two
Speaker 2: option on the outside. I could see him break out
Speaker 2: if if Watson were to go down, which has happened
Speaker 2: quite frequently over the years. The the negative I I
Speaker 2: see on Golden is most of his targets are way
Speaker 2: down the field. He's not getting any of those easy,
Speaker 2: short underneath targets. So I look at that kind of
Speaker 2: format where I'm in the Dynasty Best Ball kind of format,
Speaker 2: and I kind of like him there more than I
Speaker 2: would like him where I have to choose the week
Speaker 2: he's gonna blow up. I think he's gonna have some
Speaker 2: weeks where where you're gonna go, oh, he got four
Speaker 2: catches for one hundred and twenty yards and a touchdown,
Speaker 2: and like it's great. And then the next week you
Speaker 2: put him in your lineup and he gets two catches
Speaker 2: for thirty five yards and you're you're disappointed, and then
Speaker 2: he's out of your lineup and then blows up again.
Speaker 2: And kind of a Jamison Williams kind of player for
Speaker 2: the way he was kind of working out for a
Speaker 2: couple of years where he's gonna have those spike games
Speaker 2: and then he's gonna have some real low number games.
Speaker 2: So in a best ball kind of format, I like
Speaker 2: him more than where I have to decide like, oh,
Speaker 2: he's one of my top three receivers. I'm not sure
Speaker 2: I'll make the right decision on that. He's a guy
Speaker 2: who've been selling more than buying. If I can move
Speaker 2: up in the draft, if I can use him to
Speaker 2: I think there's a league I'm trying to move to
Speaker 2: from you know, one ten to one four by throwing
Speaker 2: in golden that kind of thing to get into the
Speaker 2: top three receivers in this draft and just getting a
Speaker 2: better pick.
Speaker 5: That's kind of some good stuff. That's some that's some
Speaker 5: good stuff right there, Bucky. I hope we were. Everyone
Speaker 5: was taking notes. I certainly was there last year with that.
Speaker 5: Matthew Golden. I don't think, especially during the pros versus jokes,
Speaker 5: I don't think we had a player that was so
Speaker 5: pumped up full of hope eum than there was this player.
Speaker 5: I mean, it was just man. And when we got
Speaker 5: to when we got live to Las Vegas, Yeah, he
Speaker 5: was a player that just had to.
Speaker 2: Be target you know.
Speaker 1: I think part of the reason for that is twofold
Speaker 1: number one, the forty he ran at the combine that
Speaker 1: bumped him up now.
Speaker 2: And the other thing.
Speaker 1: I mean, obviously, draft capital is king when it comes
Speaker 1: to dynasty research and how well these guys turn out
Speaker 1: on the pros. But when you have a team like
Speaker 1: Green Bay who seems to be allergic to drafting wide
Speaker 1: receivers in the first round plus decades and now they're
Speaker 1: investing into the speed merchant Matthew Golden, I mean that
Speaker 1: does raise eyebrows of dynasty players, beast ball players, redraft players.
Speaker 1: I think we had all those things combined. You were
Speaker 1: looking at it from the standpoint of like, yeah, maybe
Speaker 1: Golden is like, I'm a Packers guy, and I didn't
Speaker 1: like to pick at all. I was, but at a
Speaker 1: certain point you have so many people telling you like, no,
Speaker 1: I mean, connect the dots here this, and then I
Speaker 1: started to believe like, Okay, maybe Golden's actually gonna be
Speaker 1: pretty good. Training camp stuff was great, and then the
Speaker 1: season happened. It just wasn't all that great. I will
Speaker 1: say about Matt Lafleur and Brian Gudokuns talking about Golden
Speaker 1: after the season. Coming into this season, they're still very
Speaker 1: high on him, understanding that in the way the Green
Speaker 1: Bay Packers run their offense, it just doesn't automatically click
Speaker 1: for these young receivers right away. So I remain hopeful
Speaker 1: about Golden, but if he has another season this year
Speaker 1: where he underwhelms, certainly will not be the most shocking
Speaker 1: piece of fantasy information I leave from the twenty twenty
Speaker 1: sixth season farah. One more piece of information we need
Speaker 1: to get from mister Zo tonight is something you're about
Speaker 1: to ask him.
Speaker 5: Very much, so you know, when you begin to talk
Speaker 5: about Aaron Rodgers, it makes me think one thing, Steve,
Speaker 5: if Aaron Rodgers should have bet when Pittman was acquired
Speaker 5: by the Steelers and immediately wherever he was in the world,
Speaker 5: called a press conference and announced that he would be
Speaker 5: resting with the Steelers. So, you know, he's the one
Speaker 5: player that I might not just want to be involved with.
Speaker 5: I want to know from the Dynasty standpoint, and it's
Speaker 5: just the guys that you should stay away from, a
Speaker 5: guy that you will not have on your team, and
Speaker 5: guys that you are seeking to try to find a
Speaker 5: way either to acquire or get in position to draft,
Speaker 5: and some of the theories and strategies you have about
Speaker 5: doing it. Because I think that you have your finger
Speaker 5: on the pulse of all things Dynasty football, and you've
Speaker 5: been one of the most interesting Dynasty guests that we've
Speaker 5: ever had the history of this program. I will award
Speaker 5: you a bulky for that. The words that we give
Speaker 5: out at the end of the year. And you know
Speaker 5: and and you and know Deopsy Smalls. When you make
Speaker 5: a road trip down to Kentucky to play down here,
Speaker 5: you're gonna have to earn it and redraft. We don't
Speaker 5: have that much Dynasty, but you be sure you bring
Speaker 5: Doopsy with you because you guys are obviously going to
Speaker 5: argue the whole way downs everything you say. So, who's
Speaker 5: the guy that Doopsy's gonna love but you're gonna hate,
Speaker 5: And who's the guy that you want on that roster?
Speaker 2: The guy I won't touch? And that this goes back
Speaker 2: from when he was a rookie and uh, Xavier Worthy.
Speaker 2: I just I didn't like the tape coming out of college.
Speaker 2: I didn't think he was a great route runner. I
Speaker 2: didn't think he had great hands. I thought it was
Speaker 2: all the forty times and manufactured behind the line of
Speaker 2: scrimmage kind of touches. So that was that was when.
Speaker 2: Uh uh when I when I when we did some
Speaker 2: drafts together, me and Dup last year, we I drew
Speaker 2: a line in the sand. I'm like, we're not touching Worthy.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: There was one draft he was like, but he's the
Speaker 2: best value on the board, and I was like, I'm
Speaker 2: not you. You do your own draft with him. I'm
Speaker 2: not touching this guy. That was like my my no,
Speaker 2: uh no draft guy. I just don't believe in him.
Speaker 2: I like Rice. As far as guys that I'm looking
Speaker 2: to acquire, I did name one of them earlier, McMillan.
Speaker 2: I think he's a great target on Tampa Bay, and
Speaker 2: then there's there's a category of guys. I just want
Speaker 2: to mention that guys that haven't signed. The value uh
Speaker 2: the Jake. You know, the last two years, JK. Dobbins
Speaker 2: at this time of year had little to no value
Speaker 2: in a startup dynasty. It was like sixteenth round you
Speaker 2: could get JK. Dobbins, And then as soon as he
Speaker 2: signs in Denver, it's like, Okay, now he's worth a
Speaker 2: tenth round pick. And I'm like, we knew he was
Speaker 2: gonna sign. I knew he was. And I feel the
Speaker 2: same way about a Juwan Jennings right now, a Deebo Samuel.
Speaker 1: That roll on it.
Speaker 5: I want you to tell me, Well maybe maybe Bulky
Speaker 5: could better tell me, but I want you to tell
Speaker 5: me what round they're going in today and what round
Speaker 5: they're going to go in after they get signed. And
Speaker 5: when I really, who's your favorite? Why is it is
Speaker 5: Tyreek Hill your favorite?
Speaker 2: He's not my favorite, but he's on that list. I've seen,
Speaker 2: you know, leading up to the cutdown date yesterday, and
Speaker 2: I saw Tyreek Hill go for like a six point
Speaker 2: four and I'm like, what A like if you've got
Speaker 2: an open roster spot, I'm like, what a great you know,
Speaker 2: if he's your sixteenth guy and you have to spend
Speaker 2: a sixth round pick on him, I'm like, that's not bad.
Speaker 2: Just for the twenty percent chance that he's somewhere near
Speaker 2: the Tyreek Hill of the past. I think it's an
Speaker 2: amazing value. You're not gonna get anything with that six
Speaker 2: point four in a rookie draft.
Speaker 5: What about redraft?
Speaker 2: Yes, a guy like Juwan Jennings, I assume, and I
Speaker 2: haven't done any startups yet this year. That'll happen after
Speaker 2: the draft. But I'm assuming, based upon what you know,
Speaker 2: being able to acquire him for in some leagues, that
Speaker 2: he's like a fourteenth or fifteenth round pick, and and
Speaker 2: he'll sign somewhere and it'll probably be a decent landing spot,
Speaker 2: and immediately he'll be like a tenth round pick. It'll
Speaker 2: be a three or four round jump. That That was
Speaker 2: what I've seen with Dobbins the last two years. So
Speaker 2: when there's these guys that you know they're gonna be somewhere,
Speaker 2: it may not happen before the rookie draft, but you
Speaker 2: kind of just like, those are some of the best
Speaker 2: values we you know, I've seen it for a couple
Speaker 2: of years if you have a guy that's gonna sign later.
Speaker 2: Jennings was, you know, scheduled to get something like in
Speaker 2: the fifteen million a year range. So uh, he didn't
Speaker 2: get that, But that doesn't mean he's not that kind
Speaker 2: of level of player. He may have to accept a
Speaker 2: little bit less than that, but I think he'll probably
Speaker 2: end up in a good role on a one year,
Speaker 2: proven deal and h he could be a guy that's
Speaker 2: a thousand year guy for you that is available for
Speaker 2: a third round kind of value of a rookie pick.
Speaker 5: What kind of jumped is Keenan Allen like?
Speaker 2: I think Keenan's done. I think he's going to retire.
Speaker 2: I really I don't think he's I think he's probably
Speaker 2: at the end. I think Deebo's got something left. I
Speaker 2: think Tyreek Hill maybe have something left. And any of
Speaker 2: these guys that aren't signed, as soon as they sign
Speaker 2: with a team that there's an immediate val how you
Speaker 2: jump so you can get a great deal. There's some
Speaker 2: owners that are willing to sell these guys because they're
Speaker 2: not on a team and there's uncertainty, and that just
Speaker 2: creates a buying opportunity for better than value, a better
Speaker 2: value than you should.
Speaker 5: Be able to get them for in we're going to
Speaker 5: bet a bourbon on like Keenan Allen.
Speaker 1: By the way, well just real quick about Keenan Allen.
Speaker 1: He strikes me like he has not completed his He
Speaker 1: still has to undergo the Philip Rivers portion of his career.
Speaker 1: What I mean by that is he is not going
Speaker 1: to be signed after the NFL Draft and then inevitably
Speaker 1: somebody will get hurt this season. And because Keenan Allen
Speaker 1: is a wide receiver chameleon where he just finds soft
Speaker 1: spots in the zone, get open, has those soft hands
Speaker 1: catch it and fall down. You can look at Keenan
Speaker 1: Allen at being like this type of guy that has
Speaker 1: these five for seventy games, or five for fifty games,
Speaker 1: or four for sixty games or whatever for somebody falling
Speaker 1: into the end zone a couple of times. I still
Speaker 1: think he's got a couple of seasons of that left
Speaker 1: in him. But I don't think anybody signs him before
Speaker 1: the start of the season.
Speaker 5: I don't think. I don't think anybody saw him catching
Speaker 5: eighty one balls last year.
Speaker 1: No, that is true, and I'll say this too parareh,
Speaker 1: like he could be one of those guys that you know,
Speaker 1: maybe he has like a couple of seasons like this,
Speaker 1: And then in twenty thirty two, just like this random announcement,
Speaker 1: we get Keenan Allen's decided to retire from the NFL, Like, oh,
Speaker 1: he's still around, like we didn't even but he's got
Speaker 1: he's got to have those seasons first where where it's
Speaker 1: just these partial things where he fills in and he
Speaker 1: does numbers. So a guy who's doing numbers in the
Speaker 1: FFPC is one Steve Azo who joined us tonight. What
Speaker 1: a treat, so much fun to have you on. Congratulations
Speaker 1: on all your success in the FFPC, not only this
Speaker 1: past year, but good luck to you going forward as well.
Speaker 5: Steve.
Speaker 1: You made it through cutdown day just fine. And now
Speaker 1: we have the draft starting three weeks from tomorrow. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a lot of fun. It was a lot
Speaker 1: of fun talking with you tonight. Don't be a stranger.
Speaker 1: Let's do this again sometime and enjoy the rest of
Speaker 1: your week.
Speaker 5: Sir.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, thanks for having me on. Guys, I appreciate it,
Speaker 2: and I appreciate my FFPC.
Speaker 1: Oh, thank you, We appreciate that Steve kind words as
Speaker 1: he shouts out the FFPC before we get let him
Speaker 1: go enjoy the rest of his Wednesday. Good stuff from him.
Speaker 1: A lot to learn about how he's treating certain players
Speaker 1: as far as trades go, how he's valuing these players
Speaker 1: for dynasty purposes. And I think that really helps us
Speaker 1: out going forward as Farrell, you and I get ready
Speaker 1: for the NFL Draft, You and I getting ready for
Speaker 1: rookie drafts coming up after the NFL Draft in our
Speaker 1: dynasty leagues. Certainly wise words from the man from Massachusetts tonight,
Speaker 1: and the whole structure of his industry relates to what
Speaker 1: he does. The problem is made when.
Speaker 5: He buys the product, now would they sell the product?
Speaker 5: And the jobs are made by the products that he
Speaker 5: that he buys and positions within this an interesting guy.
Speaker 5: He's learned a lot since day one when he walked
Speaker 5: off that college campus into this job. You can see
Speaker 5: how he flexes it into fantasy football. It's pretty cool.
Speaker 1: Certainly, the stresses of negotiation in his everyday job, you
Speaker 1: would think he wouldn't want to do that when he
Speaker 1: gets home to manage his dynasty rosters and negotiate trades.
Speaker 1: There it just makes him that much better at it.
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Speaker 5: It breaks my heart, Bulky. I'll miss you terrible, but
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Speaker 1: We will reconvene in two weeks, my friend. Thank you
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Speaker 5: Thank you.
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