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Speaker 1: and gentlemen, a ton of people chiming in right I
Speaker 1: will kick things off right now with James Hicks, my
Speaker 1: buddy from Team Porky's and KFFS. Good evening, Ferrell Bulkey,
Speaker 1: and Oinker. The weekend starts now. Oinker is very excited
Speaker 1: for the weekend and he is hanging out with us
Speaker 1: tonight as well. James also wants to know what do
Speaker 1: we make of Jacory cross Merritt. Is he Jacory Krossky
Speaker 1: Merret the law firm, or is he built the ambulance
Speaker 1: chasing lawyer we see on Billboard's and annoying TV ads
Speaker 1: Roster Clogger or hold Yeah, this is an interesting conversation.
Speaker 1: And I brought this up with god who, as I taught,
Speaker 1: I think it was Jack Miller from Established the Run
Speaker 1: on FFPC Insider Access last night, and I said, and
Speaker 1: he agreed with me. I said, the proper way to
Speaker 1: handle this is you go with rostering every single one
Speaker 1: of the Commander's running backs from Krosskey Merritt to Jeremy
Speaker 1: McNichols to Chris Rodriguez. But as it stands, right now,
Speaker 1: you start, none of them agree or disagree, and Jack
Speaker 1: said he agreed, And I think that's the way to
Speaker 1: do it. You want to make sure that you have
Speaker 1: these players on your roster, but you have to wait
Speaker 1: till these things kind of sort themselves out. Right now,
Speaker 1: these things are not sorted out. Krossky Merrit to me,
Speaker 1: is not startable on a non bye week unless you
Speaker 1: got hit with big time injuries. He's al that should
Speaker 1: be on your bench. Same thing with Rodriguez, same thing
Speaker 1: with Jeremy McNichols. I think that's the way we have
Speaker 1: to look at it at this point right now. So
Speaker 1: hopefully that helps you out. James, Tom Smith, Happy Friday,
Speaker 1: Bulky and Farrell. Let's get these oinkers oinking yet they
Speaker 1: already are oinking as well. And then John Terry, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna bring this up right now because I'm gonna bring
Speaker 1: in Farrell Elliott. In a second, I'm gonna bring in
Speaker 1: my trustee, John Terry Las Vegas Raiders chain right now
Speaker 1: that he gave to me as a gift in honor
Speaker 1: of Farrell Elliott. Anytime we talk about the Vegas Raiders,
Speaker 1: and quite frankly, since John is hanging out with us tonight,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring this on as well. John gave me
Speaker 1: this gift because we're at Paris Casino in Las Vegas
Speaker 1: for the FFPC live events this year, and I don't
Speaker 1: know if John has seen me wear this yet. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna wear it on the stream right now. This is
Speaker 1: the Parisian beret, the French beret in you know, channeling,
Speaker 1: channeling the Griswold family in national lampoons, Las Vegas, European vacation.
Speaker 1: I have the bulky beret right now that I'm wearing
Speaker 1: as we answer his question, and I'll bring in our
Speaker 1: Las Vegas Raiders expert. He is the defenditive Commissioner of
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football. Please welcome into the program, mister J. Farrell.
Speaker 1: Elliott Farrell, welcome in tonight. So good to have you on.
Speaker 1: I'm in full gear. I got the Paris MFPC bereon
Speaker 1: courtesy of John Terry. I got the Raiders chain on
Speaker 1: courtesy of John Terry. And he's asking us right now
Speaker 1: what we project for Trey Tucker the rest of the season.
Speaker 1: Good evening to you, sir, and what do you think
Speaker 1: about Tucker?
Speaker 4: What do I think about Tucker? I think it was
Speaker 4: a year, maybe a year and a half too early, Balky.
Speaker 4: We were beating the drums for him twenty twenty four.
Speaker 4: He's a wonderful basketball player. It will be very, very
Speaker 4: frustrating to figure out when you should start Trey Tucker
Speaker 4: and those that started him last weekend the tip of
Speaker 4: my cap, and in the variety of teams that we
Speaker 4: have in the FFPC and in the six hundred and
Speaker 4: eighty four teams we have in Kentucky, I want someone
Speaker 4: to step up and say they started last week. But
Speaker 4: to that point, Trey Tucker has always been a deep threat.
Speaker 4: He's got a quarterback that can unselected games get him
Speaker 4: the ball, and he's going to be in a situation
Speaker 4: where the Raiders are going to be trailing quite often
Speaker 4: and there'll be balls flying around. The running back's going
Speaker 4: to get his, the tight end's going to get his,
Speaker 4: Myers is going to get his. But as long as
Speaker 4: Trey Tucker can beat the secondary and beat him deep
Speaker 4: and Geno can get him the ball, you could have
Speaker 4: some plus games. But you know what you said earlier
Speaker 4: about bie week situations, for Crosskey Merritt. There is your
Speaker 4: Trey Tucker situation as well.
Speaker 1: I think I'll bring this up in regards to Trey Tucker,
Speaker 1: Dante Thornton was a darling of a lot of people
Speaker 1: during the drafting season, and he has failed to show
Speaker 1: out thus far, and quite frankly, he's a rookie. He
Speaker 1: shouldn't be showing out this far. You have Jack Besh
Speaker 1: and Jacoby Myers, who I think are a duplication of skills.
Speaker 1: You have Brock Bowers who's hobbled right now, who is
Speaker 1: the guy that's on the field, a ton who is
Speaker 1: the best field stretcher on that team. Not only is
Speaker 1: this guy a lidlifter Farrell, but I think Trey Tucker
Speaker 1: has a role on this team just in normal passing situations.
Speaker 1: And I think that that's something we couldn't say about
Speaker 1: Tucker in years past, and we could say it about
Speaker 1: him this year. I went heavy on him in a
Speaker 1: few Kentucky leagues, a few Private Dynasty leagues. I definitely
Speaker 1: needed him in a couple of private Dynasty leagues as well.
Speaker 1: So we'll see what happens there with Trey Tucker. Adam
Speaker 1: Han joining us tonight apparently Philadelphia Eagles pass catchers are
Speaker 1: fantasy relevant when a team gets to build a double
Speaker 1: digit lead on them. But how many teams can do that?
Speaker 1: And I think this is interesting to bring up Pharrel.
Speaker 1: We're very excited to see. At least I was excited
Speaker 1: to see what Aj Brown could do for me this
Speaker 1: past week. But it took the getting down nineteen to
Speaker 1: the Rams. And DeVonta Smith, ye know, he was involved,
Speaker 1: but not heavily involved. And Adam brings up a good point.
Speaker 1: If this is what it takes for the Eagles pass
Speaker 1: offense to be alive, how many teams are going to
Speaker 1: get up three touchdowns on Philly this season. I don't
Speaker 1: see it.
Speaker 4: No, that passing game is exactly what it's going to
Speaker 4: be last year, and there's one guy that runs it.
Speaker 4: It's Aj Brown. Smith contributes to Goddard when he's healthy.
Speaker 4: That's what it looks like. And as long as Barkley
Speaker 4: is a approaching the five yards of average carry and
Speaker 4: as long as the tush bush is legal in the league,
Speaker 4: that's what you get when you get involved with DeVonta Smith.
Speaker 4: And that's why, as Balkie, I know you have an
Speaker 4: intravenous drip to Darren RMANI and all of his information,
Speaker 4: and that is why you could tell us that DeVante
Speaker 4: Smith never moved much further? Was it a sixth round
Speaker 4: draft pick? And I want to roll back if anyone
Speaker 4: in Jack Beck's camp is listening to the aspect that
Speaker 4: you said he had interchangeable skills with Jacobe Myers. You
Speaker 4: just made Christmas for him in September. How sweet it
Speaker 4: is that that could be. Speaking of Christmas and gift giving, Balky,
Speaker 4: right now, I have you at two gifts from John Terry.
Speaker 4: The commission down here in Kentucky. We have zero gifts
Speaker 4: from John Terry and zero guests from John Terry. But
Speaker 4: I love the John Terry. You know, John Terry showed
Speaker 4: up in Kentucky for his first trip this year and
Speaker 4: was an absolute perfect gentleman. Perhaps we can attribute that
Speaker 4: to his being with his running buddy, Bip Lab, but
Speaker 4: he was a pleasure to have and I can't wait
Speaker 4: till he returns.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Bip lad Mendel John Terry both top ten and
Speaker 1: the kffsc Man event heading into week four, which is
Speaker 1: awesome for sure that we're seeing that so far this
Speaker 1: season and as John said, too bad Week three doesn't
Speaker 1: pay out. Yeah, it's a long way to go, and
Speaker 1: for those of us who are chasing Terry and Mandel,
Speaker 1: we are very excited that it is a long way
Speaker 1: to go, so we have the chance to catch them
Speaker 1: for sure. Permar ninety nine, Pharrell, our good buddy. I
Speaker 1: have Luther Burden and Tory Horton as stashes. Do I
Speaker 1: drop one of them to pick up Jalen Cocher? I
Speaker 1: don't think so. What say you? And I'm gonna tell
Speaker 1: you right now, I'd love to have Luther Burden on
Speaker 1: my team. I love to have Tory Horton on my team.
Speaker 1: Quite frankly, I do have Jalen Coker on a few
Speaker 1: of my teams. If it comes down to it, we're
Speaker 1: the only way I can acquire Cocher on one of
Speaker 1: my teams is dropping Horton or dropping Burden. I draw
Speaker 1: the line there. I'm with Permar on this. I would
Speaker 1: rather have Burden. I'd rather have Horton than Jalen Coker
Speaker 1: at the back end of my roster. Right now, Fero, he's.
Speaker 4: Asking for advice and you gave him some very solid.
Speaker 1: And I want to bring up before we get in.
Speaker 1: Our guest Stephen Lafountain is coming up right now, the
Speaker 1: fourth place team in the FFPC, Big Gorilla, heading into
Speaker 1: this week of play. I want to bring up some
Speaker 1: stuff that came up in the last few hours here, Farrell,
Speaker 1: just to kind of get your take on it going
Speaker 1: forward as the final or the Friday. Injury reports came
Speaker 1: out for a lot of teams today. Bashell Tooton was
Speaker 1: removed from the injury report. He's going to play in
Speaker 1: Week four against the forty nine ers. I'm of the
Speaker 1: opinion that you keep tooting on your roster, not willing
Speaker 1: to play him this week even as a flex. Is
Speaker 1: that how you fall in on this as well.
Speaker 4: You can't find many running backs on the waiver wire, Bulky.
Speaker 4: If you've got one that any kind of promise, hang
Speaker 4: on to you.
Speaker 1: Tom Smith wants to know as we continue our Raiders conversation,
Speaker 1: he wants to know if Ashton Genty is gonna get
Speaker 1: rolling versus the Bears this week. I know that a
Speaker 1: lot of rookies struggle early on in the season. We
Speaker 1: have seen a lot of rookies, and more so wide receivers,
Speaker 1: but it's happening with running backs. Farrel pick it up
Speaker 1: at the end the back end of seasons, the second
Speaker 1: half of seasons. I don't think we're going to have
Speaker 1: to wait too long for gent I do think he
Speaker 1: has a nice game this week. I'm looking at fifteen
Speaker 1: plus Fantasy points, maybe even twenty, So I'm betting big
Speaker 1: on Genty this week. How do you think he's going
Speaker 1: to fare against that Bears defense.
Speaker 4: I think he'll do well, and I think if he
Speaker 4: can quit being contacted behind the line of scrimmage, he
Speaker 4: may just have a chance. Watch that defensive at first,
Speaker 4: any opposition that you're playing against this weekend or moving forward,
Speaker 4: there's little he can do. If he's being touched in
Speaker 4: the backfield a minute he gets the ball. That compromises
Speaker 4: every running back skill set. But these people that are
Speaker 4: talking about Genty being a bust must not be watching
Speaker 4: the same games.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there's plenty of people. I can't remember who said
Speaker 1: this this week. I think it was like Graham Barfield.
Speaker 1: There's somebody from Fantasy Points was saying, or maybe as
Speaker 1: Adam Harstad from Football Guy said that if you look
Speaker 1: at the history of draft capital metrics and kie running
Speaker 1: backs off to slow starts like Ashton Genty was and
Speaker 1: the people that are getting compared to Trent Richardson more
Speaker 1: often than not they end up the opposite of Trent.
Speaker 1: I am still very much team Genty, still very much
Speaker 1: a team o'murray and Hampton as well Woward. With these
Speaker 1: rookie running backs, Ricky Pearsall questionable the play against the
Speaker 1: Jaguars this week as we stick with San Francisco. He
Speaker 1: did not practice Wednesday, got in a limited practice yesterday,
Speaker 1: limited practice on Friday. Juwan Jennings got a limited practice
Speaker 1: in today, and I think that if he is able
Speaker 1: to go against the Jaguars, that hurts Pearsall a little bit.
Speaker 1: But Farrell, I am breaking ties in favor of Ricky
Speaker 1: pearsall this week, and I'm breaking ties against Juwan Jennings
Speaker 1: as far as starting lineups goes that the way you
Speaker 1: see it as well.
Speaker 4: I do, And I would add that health is a
Speaker 4: question here, quarterback might be a question here. But one
Speaker 4: of the things that I think everyone in fantasy football
Speaker 4: needs to look at is the power of the Jacksonville
Speaker 4: Jags defense. They are They're ball howking corners that are
Speaker 4: not afraid to get physical, and they're the type that
Speaker 4: could frustrate a player like Pearson, So you add that
Speaker 4: into the mix, and it might be good to look
Speaker 4: somewhere else. You know, you've got a full roster of
Speaker 4: twenty players. Chances are you drafted a lot of good players.
Speaker 4: You probably didn't draft them as high with the draft
Speaker 4: capital that you had to spend on Pierso and Jennies,
Speaker 4: but you've still got good receivers that you can mix in.
Speaker 1: Permar ninety nine also says, by the way, he is
Speaker 1: rolling with Matthew Golden over Jamison william this week in
Speaker 1: his second flex, he feels great about it. And I
Speaker 1: will say this to Permar. I think he was alluding
Speaker 1: to what happened on the FFPC Inside or Access show
Speaker 1: last night, and I said I would still rather play
Speaker 1: Jamison Williams over Matthew Golden. And while I do stand
Speaker 1: by that, I think I'd rather play Williams than Golden
Speaker 1: this week, I will say that I'm much more bullish
Speaker 1: on Golden than I was over the last four eight hours. Obviously,
Speaker 1: we know that Jayden Reid is not going to play,
Speaker 1: we know Tucker Craft is still banged up, and we
Speaker 1: know that Dallas secondary cannot cover Deep. So while I'll
Speaker 1: still say Jamison Williams over Golden this week, it's much
Speaker 1: closer off for me right now. And I don't think
Speaker 1: it's a bad start to play Golden over Jamison Williams Farrell.
Speaker 1: If it comes down to Golden and Whiskey Bill, who
Speaker 1: are you playing in Week four?
Speaker 4: It's not even a decision. You're playing Whiskey Bill. Detroit
Speaker 4: rolls back into their home stadium. This is a player
Speaker 4: that's paid his dues, that deserves to start Golden. Maybe
Speaker 4: a good player. Balky. You say that the Dallas Cowboys
Speaker 4: cannot defend deep, Well they haven't yet, but they practiced
Speaker 4: all week. Let's see what happened.
Speaker 1: Yes, we will see what happened. Mean like, if this
Speaker 1: was the panacea that they needed, was a full week
Speaker 1: of practice heading into this Packers game, then listen.
Speaker 4: That they showed up and watched some film right exactly.
Speaker 1: Racy wants to know as far as quarterbacks go for
Speaker 1: Racy this week, Geno Smith or the Raiders. Who who
Speaker 1: is taking on the Chicago Bears or Jared Goff who's
Speaker 1: at home against the Cleveland Browns. A defense that really
Speaker 1: stemied the Packers offense last week. Who you got this week?
Speaker 1: Pharrell Smith or Golf?
Speaker 4: We always played Jared Golf at home, That's who. That's
Speaker 4: why we drafted Gino Smith. It's hard to pick Gino
Speaker 4: roulette of which game that he's going to play, and
Speaker 4: you would expect him to bring this one together and
Speaker 4: you would expect him to get mid twenties points. But
Speaker 4: I'm just going to look at Jared Golf in an
Speaker 4: offense that I can really respect, to the player that
Speaker 4: knows how to play in that in that field, in
Speaker 4: that home stadium, and you add in the variety of
Speaker 4: talent that is around golf, and that's hard to beat.
Speaker 4: So let's go with Golf.
Speaker 1: I'm actually gonna roll with Smith. I got burned on
Speaker 1: him last week. I know he's at home this week
Speaker 1: and he plays really well at home, but man, the
Speaker 1: way that Gino Smith is launching the ball down the field,
Speaker 1: I'm just salivating for the big plays.
Speaker 4: And sometimes, Balky, I think that the quantity and quality
Speaker 4: of bourbon that you you consumed at the KFFSC has
Speaker 4: washed all logic from your tongue. But I will not
Speaker 4: abuse you on Gino Smith. God bless you go.
Speaker 1: Too, God bless you my friend a couple more before
Speaker 1: we get to steal a fountain. The fourth place team
Speaker 1: owner in the FFPC Big Gorilla, Steve Irgallos Fantasy Sopranos,
Speaker 1: Brian Thomas Jr. Is destroying me. Yes, he is not
Speaker 1: helping anybody with you know who has him on his
Speaker 1: team right now, parall I'm playing the long game. I'm
Speaker 1: not panicking. I understand that this is a player that
Speaker 1: has really led us down in the first two weeks.
Speaker 1: I still think that based on what I saw last year,
Speaker 1: really tough for me to see him just fall off
Speaker 1: the face of the earth. This year, I'm still playing him,
Speaker 1: maybe with a little bit less confidence than I had
Speaker 1: in weeks one or two, but I'm still playing them
Speaker 1: and I still have a faith that he is going
Speaker 1: to perform and get close to his draft capital this year.
Speaker 4: You should there is variants in this young player's game.
Speaker 4: Jacksonville is a team that I looked away from in
Speaker 4: the draft, and you know too. So far I was
Speaker 4: correct because of the production of Thomas and the production
Speaker 4: at the tight end, a position has not been there,
Speaker 4: but Travis at the end has been a fine producer
Speaker 4: in the backfield. These games have heaving flows to the
Speaker 4: Thomas will get his So far no good, but we
Speaker 4: could say that about a number of players drafted in
Speaker 4: that area. You can't before we get to October. You
Speaker 4: can't give up on your draft strategy. You guys are
Speaker 4: very very good drafters. You have reasons you made those picks.
Speaker 4: You thought about them all summer long, and you put
Speaker 4: them into motion both online and live at the FFPC.
Speaker 4: You must understand that you were right. Then you've been
Speaker 4: proven wrong early. But he's given you great advice.
Speaker 1: We'll try to give some great advice to Tom Smith here.
Speaker 1: He's got a choice between Brock Perty or Justin Fields.
Speaker 1: Party practice today, he is a full goal against the
Speaker 1: Jaguars on Sunday at home. Justin Field's coming back off
Speaker 1: that concussion. He's going to go, but he goes down
Speaker 1: to Miami on the road, but it is the Dolphins.
Speaker 1: I'm rolling with Purty here, Perrell. I understand that Fields
Speaker 1: maybe has the higher upside, but I think Perty is
Speaker 1: the stronger start for me for Tom Smith here, what
Speaker 1: say you?
Speaker 4: If you ever believe in Fields, this is probably the
Speaker 4: week to play him. However, Tom, if you're talking about
Speaker 4: your teams, both of them that are in the top
Speaker 4: ten in the KFFSC. You don't need a hero performance
Speaker 4: from your quarterback in purty. We'll give you exactly what
Speaker 4: you need to fill in with the rest of your roster.
Speaker 4: Depends what your roster needs. If you're off to an
Speaker 4: zero and three star and you're down in the second
Speaker 4: half of your division, run fields out there and try
Speaker 4: to get that plus ten over party that you really
Speaker 4: don't need.
Speaker 1: We uh, we do need this for uh for our
Speaker 1: show tonight, our guest, ladies. Gentleman named multi time winner
Speaker 1: in the f FPC over the course of the main
Speaker 1: event and our midstakes contest. And speaking of our midstakes contest,
Speaker 1: he currently sits in fourth place overall in the f
Speaker 1: FPC Big Girl heading into week four. He's got a
Speaker 1: heck of a team and he's gonna join us tonight
Speaker 1: to talk about that squad, his other teams, and so
Speaker 1: much more going on in the FFPC. Please welcome in,
Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, mister Steve love Fountain. Steve, welcome aboard tonight,
Speaker 1: Happy Friday night. Thanks for hanging out with us.
Speaker 4: Oh no, Steve, you're muted. May be on mute.
Speaker 1: You may be on and hold and hold on. I
Speaker 1: think I might have the problem. So I'm gonna test
Speaker 1: something here, Farrell. I'm gonna take off my French beat
Speaker 1: and see if that somehow unlocks the audio for one
Speaker 1: Steve la Fountain.
Speaker 4: Steve, No, he's out there.
Speaker 1: Oh he can't. Now he can't. Might not be able
Speaker 1: to hear it as well. This is a problem. This
Speaker 1: is a problem. He can hear us, but we cannot
Speaker 1: hear him.
Speaker 4: You got mute, got on mute.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna try to try something here. I just I
Speaker 1: tried muting and unmuting him. We'll see it might be
Speaker 1: might be on the settings there for because he can
Speaker 1: hear us, which is good. We want to hear that.
Speaker 1: But most importantly, we want to hear from the dude
Speaker 1: who is this close to the top of the top
Speaker 1: of the mountaintop in the f f PC contest. Steve.
Speaker 1: We got you know? No, still unmute. I'm sorry, Steve,
Speaker 1: this is a problem. Hold on, Let's let's try to
Speaker 1: figure this out. I'm gonna I'm gonna private message Steve
Speaker 1: here and see if we can figure this out.
Speaker 4: To make maybe if Steve would go to his telephone
Speaker 4: and come in that one that that's a that's a
Speaker 4: that's a.
Speaker 1: That.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Yeah, try your phone, Try your phone and and see
Speaker 1: if that happens, Steve. See if that works, Steve, and
Speaker 1: you'll be able to get on video on your phone too.
Speaker 1: You can use that same link that I sent you
Speaker 1: and you should be able to log on with your
Speaker 1: phone there and uh and that may that may help
Speaker 1: us out. Pharaoh. By the way, this gives us a
Speaker 1: good opportunity. Right now. Do you have the questions for Steve,
Speaker 1: because I'm seeing something weird with the rundown tonight. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I've got the questions for you. Okay, so this is
Speaker 1: this is on. No, No, I have them, I have them.
Speaker 1: I'm just looking at my show sheet tonight. Oh my
Speaker 1: show sheet looks jacked up. And that's normally what I said.
Speaker 4: I'm good to go, buddy. I've got the engines on
Speaker 4: the seven forty seven rumbling. I want to take off
Speaker 4: down that that don that runway and let let's get
Speaker 4: flying here.
Speaker 1: Okay, hold, there we go.
Speaker 2: There is all right.
Speaker 4: I'm gonna turn one of them. Most got it.
Speaker 1: He's got it. He's way ahead of it, Pharaoh.
Speaker 4: Steve.
Speaker 1: Good evening, and welcome to you. Once again, technology falls
Speaker 1: in the face of great f f PC high stakes players,
Speaker 1: as Steve Lafountain has defeated it. Tonight, good Friday evening
Speaker 1: to you. How you doing tonight, man.
Speaker 2: I'm doing real good man. How about you? Guys?
Speaker 1: We're doing good. Not as good as you on the
Speaker 1: cusp of a no. I mean, granted, there's a long
Speaker 1: season to go, but seeing your name up at the
Speaker 1: top of the leaderboard for a million dollar grand prize, dude,
Speaker 1: that's gotta be awesome.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's it's a strong feeling. You know. I've been
Speaker 2: doing fancy football since back in the days where it
Speaker 2: was in a newspaper, you know, me and a bunch
Speaker 2: of guys that get it wrong back in early two thousands,
Speaker 2: like even late nineties. But you know, you get a
Speaker 2: little better each year you do this. And I'm sure
Speaker 2: you can see by the amount of leagues I do that. Uh.
Speaker 2: I enter quite a bit of them, mainly because I
Speaker 2: win a lot of them. Uh So, you know, it's
Speaker 2: a nice source of income on the side.
Speaker 4: Dain is your last name French? By derivation, it is French.
Speaker 2: It is pronounced the fountain, but it is French.
Speaker 4: Well that put that back on I got.
Speaker 1: In honor of Steve Tonight.
Speaker 2: Here.
Speaker 1: See when you are not having a French surname in
Speaker 1: winning all these FFPC leagues over the course of your
Speaker 1: career dating back to the to the nineties and the
Speaker 1: eighties when you started playing with the newspapers. What are
Speaker 1: you doing for a living right now? To supplant or
Speaker 1: supplement I should say.
Speaker 2: So, I've been in restaurants my whole life. I've been
Speaker 2: in an exec chef for the last twenty three years.
Speaker 4: Wow.
Speaker 2: I've been literally in restaurants as I was fourteen, So
Speaker 2: I'm heading into my thirty third year of running restaurants,
Speaker 2: been in management pretty much since I was seventeen, and
Speaker 2: you know that's just pretty much what brings everything home
Speaker 2: for the family.
Speaker 1: Can we promote any of the restaurants you're affiliated with tonight?
Speaker 2: Uh? Yeah, I mean I actually run a private country
Speaker 2: club in Huntington Beach called the Huntington Club break in
Speaker 2: currently right now. But you know I used to work
Speaker 2: with some main name places like Mastros back in the day,
Speaker 2: and you know I was there for like six days
Speaker 2: and you know, you just just like Fantasy football. Every
Speaker 2: year you do it, you get a little better.
Speaker 1: Right, exactly exactly? Do you have a specialty as far
Speaker 1: as something maybe you like to eat or something that
Speaker 1: you think you're really good at cooking for other people?
Speaker 2: You know, still at a core, you know, I came
Speaker 2: from a pretty you know, poor family. Growing up. There
Speaker 2: wasn't a lot of money. My mom made a lot
Speaker 2: of stews and pastas, and you know, I still eat
Speaker 2: that way. That's my taste still to this day. I
Speaker 2: can cook everything I've done any cuisine. I definitely specialize
Speaker 2: in steakhouses and sushi. Those are definitely my top ends
Speaker 2: in Asian cuisine. But my tend s is for myself
Speaker 2: or not what I would cook for guests, you know,
Speaker 2: because it's for me. It's pretty simple.
Speaker 1: Oh perfect, I love it. I love it. Fantasy football
Speaker 1: portion in the interview starts now, Farrell go ahead with
Speaker 1: I was taking a trip to Buffalo.
Speaker 4: It's been pretty simple to head to Buffalo. Just give
Speaker 4: us some give us some chicken, leans and a little
Speaker 4: bit of James Cook. Now, I you know you don't.
Speaker 4: My first thing, my first thoughts when we got to
Speaker 4: this question was to say, well, James Cook has been wonderful.
Speaker 4: Twenty carries each game, since the Baltimore game. And in
Speaker 4: Baltimore when he didn't run the ball that well, he
Speaker 4: caught passes to back to back one hundred yard games
Speaker 4: versus the Jets in Miami. But Steve I thought, well,
Speaker 4: you know, you don't get to play the Jets in
Speaker 4: Miami every week. And I looked at his schedule. He's
Speaker 4: got the Saints coming, New England, the Falcons, and the Panthers.
Speaker 4: Did you know this schedule when you drafted James Cook?
Speaker 4: And how fantastic it must be and it's got to
Speaker 4: stay that way, don't you think?
Speaker 2: You know? I do look at a lot of the
Speaker 2: schedules a lot of players. I come up with a
Speaker 2: list of a couple people every year that I avoid
Speaker 2: because I'm like, I love them, but I do not
Speaker 2: love their matchups. I mean, and the worst part is
Speaker 2: you're in the championship and you're playing the three best
Speaker 2: defense at the end of the year. It kind of
Speaker 2: sucks and not look at that in advance. But James Cook,
Speaker 2: you know, I think it's more of an evolution with him.
Speaker 2: Let's first off, talk about good jeans. I mean, Dalvin
Speaker 2: Cook's his brother and he comes in and in my opinion.
Speaker 2: He runs better and he's got a sturdier build. You know,
Speaker 2: Dalvin Cook always had that lower waistline and kind of
Speaker 2: looks like he could tip him over. But you know,
Speaker 2: James Cooks runs hard. I think that it's been a
Speaker 2: three years in evolution on him. Of you know, he
Speaker 2: showed up at the end of two years ago and
Speaker 2: then last year had a great season, and I think
Speaker 2: now they're getting to the point like, hey, we got
Speaker 2: to let shosh Allen, you know, live. We need him
Speaker 2: to survive the next few years. He can't be taking
Speaker 2: all the runs. And then when you lose Stefan Diggs.
Speaker 2: Kind of they're playing ego lists wide receiver now, so
Speaker 2: you know, they're not really looking to call anyone's name.
Speaker 2: I think they're just constantly looking to get themselves at
Speaker 2: three and one, three and two, you know, third down
Speaker 2: and one, third down to two and why not run
Speaker 2: it with him one or two times? See what he
Speaker 2: can get you. And he's got big play breakability for
Speaker 2: a sixty years all the time.
Speaker 4: Well twenty plus carries back to back weeks. We probably
Speaker 4: won't see that all year, but you know, two hundred
Speaker 4: is the most that he had last year. But I
Speaker 4: love this player's situation moving forward. And you know, especially
Speaker 4: with all the injuries and lack of performance for other
Speaker 4: running back, James Cooks looks like a very wise choice. Congratulations.
Speaker 1: You know, I always thought you could. You brought up
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook and and I'm a Florida State fan, and
Speaker 1: I always remember James Cook. He decommitted from Florida State
Speaker 1: and and and it always left the bad taste in
Speaker 1: my mouth. But as I was scouting this guy for
Speaker 1: Dynasty stuff, and when he was a rookie, I was
Speaker 1: kind of like, God, this guy looks like Dalvin Cook
Speaker 1: was fast, like football fast, not combine fast, because football
Speaker 1: fast like James Cook is so speedy. And I'll be
Speaker 1: honest with you, I thought that was his main calling card.
Speaker 1: But he has shown me a well rounded game.
Speaker 4: Yeah, mister Newkark brings up something very important. He says
Speaker 4: it having the MVP as your quarterback, it helps. But
Speaker 4: he also the various motion that's going on and what
Speaker 4: those linebackers are doing for the opposition. All that movement
Speaker 4: back and forth has got to make it beautiful for
Speaker 4: a running back because there's guys moving around on defense
Speaker 4: and looking at a lot of different things when they
Speaker 4: played this team as well as that MVP quarterback and
Speaker 4: tucked the ball to take off. So yeah, it's a
Speaker 4: good situation. I think fantasy players were too much concerned
Speaker 4: about James Cook's contractual status. Yeah, through the early months
Speaker 4: or through the late months of.
Speaker 2: I think the biggest upside I saw last year they
Speaker 2: really sold me on him this year was how many
Speaker 2: times they actually started giving him doing in the red
Speaker 2: zone and stopped running Josh Allen this much. Yeah, so
Speaker 2: when I saw that, I'm like, you know, you knew
Speaker 2: he was going to get the sixty eighty yards. The
Speaker 2: question was inside the fight it was Josh Allen. So
Speaker 2: you know, he doesn't get any TDS, but he started
Speaker 2: getting some TVs last year. In fact, I think he
Speaker 2: was number two or something right like, he was pretty
Speaker 2: high in TDS. So, you know, I just looked at
Speaker 2: the up side of Hey, you know, plus cold weather
Speaker 2: ball at the end of the year. You know, I'm
Speaker 2: from Ohio. I grew up in that stuff. It's uh,
Speaker 2: you know, I'm in California now, but I grew up
Speaker 2: in Ohio. You know, you keep the ball in the
Speaker 2: safest hands when it's cold outside, and that's gonna be
Speaker 2: Josh Allen's and Cook and the end of the year.
Speaker 2: So figure it's got some end of year aspects to
Speaker 2: it too, you know.
Speaker 1: And the other thing too that I think, I mean,
Speaker 1: I wouldn't say it was one thing that prevented me
Speaker 1: from drafting a lot of James Cook, but another thing
Speaker 1: was the fact that he just wasn't on the field
Speaker 1: on third downs. Hi Johnson's He's once again mitigated that
Speaker 1: like this, this is a situation where he's he's it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if he's on the field for third down.
Speaker 1: He's producing and that's all we care about.
Speaker 4: Five catches in the first game versus Baltimore, which was great.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I want to shift things not too far from Buffalo,
Speaker 1: but let's go further, a little bit further west here
Speaker 1: Steve to Detroit. I heard a lot of pundits over
Speaker 1: the course of the summer, and I perhaps bought into
Speaker 1: this a little bit as well, that the John Morton
Speaker 1: offense in Detroit was going to feature lot more downfield stuff.
Speaker 1: In fact, we're going to see the big time breakout
Speaker 1: season that we'd been waiting for from first former first
Speaker 1: round pick Jameson Williams for Detroit and that amana Saint
Speaker 1: Brown was going to take a step back. Also working
Speaker 1: against Saint Brown was this off season knee cleanup surgery
Speaker 1: that he had as well. And to me, it was like, God,
Speaker 1: do I really want to pay first or second round
Speaker 1: draft capital for Saint Brown or do I want to
Speaker 1: pay you know, sixth round or seventh round for Whiskey
Speaker 1: Bill and getting Jameson Williams on my team. And I
Speaker 1: definitely ended up with more Williams than Saint Brown. You
Speaker 1: did the opposite. You have much more Saint Brown than Williams,
Speaker 1: and it's been paying off for you so far, especially
Speaker 1: on your fourth place Big Gorilla team. Can you tell
Speaker 1: us a little bit about why you were not willing
Speaker 1: to necessarily buy into hype on Jameson Williams and you
Speaker 1: still were a believer in Saint Brown in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: a decision that's been proving very fruit fruitful for you
Speaker 1: so far.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, honestly, there is I'm gonna give a
Speaker 2: little bit of my trade secret away here on drafting,
Speaker 2: but I do a majority of my drafts well before
Speaker 2: preseason even starts, and I know it's a risk But
Speaker 2: the reason I do that is because I feel like
Speaker 2: the intel I have, by the time it gets to
Speaker 2: after preseason, everyone else is caught up to what I
Speaker 2: already kind of know going in the season by my gut.
Speaker 2: So I got him at even more of a discount
Speaker 2: than you'd imagine. I was getting him mid to late
Speaker 2: second round in a lot of leaks. So I'm a
Speaker 2: big person on analogies. I use them all day long
Speaker 2: to inspire my crews in my restaurants. But why in
Speaker 2: the world would I go pay a lot of money
Speaker 2: for a high end Corvette when I can go get
Speaker 2: a little bit slightly used Ferrari, you know what I mean?
Speaker 2: So like James Sen's the Corvette that he's gonna get you,
Speaker 2: He's go look pretty, he's gonna have those big, flashy games.
Speaker 2: But man, you know, Saint Brown has got amazing hands,
Speaker 2: great route running, He's always open, he catches almost everything
Speaker 2: thrown his way. He gets TD passes, they run him
Speaker 2: out of the backfield. I mean, you talk about a Ferrari,
Speaker 2: He touches the ball all the time. And let's I
Speaker 2: think people overreact on this. That was not Ben Johnson's team.
Speaker 2: That was Dan Campbell's team. Dan Campbell helped make Ben Johnson.
Speaker 2: That's pretty evident when you look at Chicago first three
Speaker 2: games and then Denver was a little not Denver Detroit
Speaker 2: was a little sleepy after week one, but they quickly
Speaker 2: woke up, didn't they, you know, and not a whole
Speaker 2: lot has changed really. That offense looked pretty good versus
Speaker 2: Foot Baltimore this past week. Right. You know, I have
Speaker 2: nothing against Wilton Williams. Is just if I'm gonna sit
Speaker 2: there and buy Williams in the fourth to sixth round
Speaker 2: or I'm gonna get I'm ran Saint Brown in late
Speaker 2: one or early two. Man, I'm gonna take the guy
Speaker 2: that I know is gonna get the passes. And Jamison
Speaker 2: missed so much time. I mean, you want to talk
Speaker 2: about injuries, Jamison Williams missed way more time than Saint
Speaker 2: Brown has.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and you look at this situation. The beauty, the
Speaker 4: beautiful thing about it is you're not You're not limited
Speaker 4: to only one decort player.
Speaker 1: So yeah, that's that's another good point to bring up
Speaker 1: as well. Guys. I want to bring up a question
Speaker 1: from the chat before where we move forward here, and
Speaker 1: and it's from Corey Walters hanging out watching us on
Speaker 1: YouTube tonight and he wants to know. And I'm gonna
Speaker 1: throw this to you first, Steve, as far as getting
Speaker 1: your thoughts on this, what is going on with Sam
Speaker 1: Laporta right now? So if you look at Laporta's stats
Speaker 1: over the course of the first three weeks of the season,
Speaker 1: and I think we have to throw on the let's
Speaker 1: add some context on this, Like Detroit went absolutely crazy
Speaker 1: against Chicago and then against Baltimore. They put up a
Speaker 1: lot of numbers. So it's not like they're, you know,
Speaker 1: just scuffling along. They're doing numbers here. Obviously Week one
Speaker 1: was kind of the outlier against the Packers only scoring
Speaker 1: thirteen points, but fifty two against the Bears, I mean,
Speaker 1: thirty eight against the Ravens. This is an offense that's
Speaker 1: doing numbers. And if you look at Sam Laporta so
Speaker 1: far this season, thirteen catches over three games, He's got
Speaker 1: one hundred and thirty eight yards over three games, no touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Not the end of the world here, Steve, but can
Speaker 1: you give some hope for Laporta laporta owners going forward
Speaker 1: and what you think has been his biggest problem going forward?
Speaker 1: In the first three weeks of the season.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean that one's just kind of I think
Speaker 2: it's just bad timing. I think people living a little
Speaker 2: bit in the past of his rookie year. You know,
Speaker 2: let's let's look at it, and rookie year, there was
Speaker 2: no Jamar Gibbs. They didn't have Montgomery or he had
Speaker 2: just came in, Jamison Williams was still out. It was
Speaker 2: just Omran Saint Brown and Dan Campbell had just gotten there.
Speaker 2: They were starting to figure things out. They weren't really.
Speaker 2: I think it's more of a product of who do
Speaker 2: you want them to get the ball? Do you want
Speaker 2: Jamier Gibbs, do you want Saint Brown or do you
Speaker 2: want Williams? Or do you want to check it down
Speaker 2: to a tight end for five yards? I mean, you've
Speaker 2: got big play capability in Montgomery and all those guys.
Speaker 2: There's no need for him down in the red zone
Speaker 2: because they can run. Like, why do you want to
Speaker 2: check out for a five yard pass when you can
Speaker 2: run it for five yards with one of two great options?
Speaker 2: You don't You don't have to check it down to
Speaker 2: Laport's in my opinion anymore. And then you know the
Speaker 2: stuff we never know. Maybe the guy's just not the
Speaker 2: same as have his knee blown out, you know, I mean,
Speaker 2: maybe he just maybe they don't want to put him
Speaker 2: those positions. Maybe they're still being cautious. Maybe they want
Speaker 2: to turn him into game script like the way Kelsey
Speaker 2: is used in the end zone. Eventually later in the season.
Speaker 2: They don't watch to other hands early. I'm not saying
Speaker 2: he has no value, but you know you're gonna pay
Speaker 2: a high price to get him in the earlier rounds
Speaker 2: when you get someone in the twelfth and fourteenth round
Speaker 2: for the same value, in my opinion.
Speaker 4: And you're dealing with a quarterback that goes through his
Speaker 4: progressions and then does not, as you say, does not
Speaker 4: check down. He's he's looking for that fourth and fifth option.
Speaker 2: Yeah, he wants that big play. And let's be honest,
Speaker 2: if you had to choose, are you gonna throw it
Speaker 2: to Laporta four yards down the field in coverage, or
Speaker 2: you're gonna throw it to Gibbs in the backfield with
Speaker 2: one man in coverage on him. I'm going to Gibbs
Speaker 2: because I'm pretty sure Gibbs gona probably break that.
Speaker 4: But I think at the end of the day, We're
Speaker 4: going to see Laporte a pay just about what he
Speaker 4: should pay, or give us just what he should give
Speaker 4: us for his draft capital, but not beyond that. Yeah,
Speaker 4: don't there's another side, and here's another tight end. I
Speaker 4: got to talk to you about draft Captain, and it's
Speaker 4: it's just this matchup with Baltimore and Kansas City this
Speaker 4: weekend is difficult for me to realize that one of
Speaker 4: these teams is going to walk out of this one
Speaker 4: in three And I still these are my one and
Speaker 4: two teams from the AFC to play in to play
Speaker 4: in the Super Bowl, And I still love watching these teams.
Speaker 4: But I like what.
Speaker 1: I like what.
Speaker 4: Lays in front of them, especially with Baltimore in this division.
Speaker 4: But let's look at Kansas City with the tight end situation,
Speaker 4: and that's Travis Kelcey. The team came alive a little
Speaker 4: bit in the second half of their last game against
Speaker 4: the Giants, and we all saw when Kelsey had a
Speaker 4: good game and was ready to score a touchdown, how
Speaker 4: the ball bounced off of him and became an interception.
Speaker 4: Do you think what we're seeing with Kelsey is in
Speaker 4: dick of what's going to be forthcoming, or do you
Speaker 4: think we're gonna get production that comes back into historical
Speaker 4: numbers for him, which would add up to ninety or
Speaker 4: one hundred catches.
Speaker 2: Now, you know. I look, I've loved Travis Kelsey. I
Speaker 2: love everything about him. He's an Ohio boy, just like me.
Speaker 2: He he plays hard, does everything hard. But you know
Speaker 2: he's been in the career, his career. You know, he's
Speaker 2: he's focused on getting married. He's it's the end of
Speaker 2: the road. They've already won multiple super Bowls, They've done everything.
Speaker 2: I'm not saying the love luster is there, but you
Speaker 2: know that he's gonna be gone in the net year
Speaker 2: or two. Mahomes is gonna keep going another five ten years.
Speaker 2: That team needs to figure out how to play without him,
Speaker 2: and I think that right now they're trying to figure
Speaker 2: that out a little bit. I think he's gonna still
Speaker 2: have some key games. I think when it comes to
Speaker 2: the playoffs, sports can always have those games where he
Speaker 2: just goes off. They will come intermitting. But I think
Speaker 2: that's where you're relying on him for eight to ten
Speaker 2: catch for eighty five yards and one or two touchdowns
Speaker 2: are over, you know, And it sucks because I think
Speaker 2: he has it, but I think there's mentally something going on,
Speaker 2: whether they'll admit it or not. But I mean that
Speaker 2: first pass around to him where on this last game
Speaker 2: where he like Mahomes literally missed him. They are not
Speaker 2: in sync the way they used to be. You know,
Speaker 2: they had a couple of connections in that game, but man,
Speaker 2: like that was eye opening. He I mean, he was
Speaker 2: five yards off where he was supposed to be. One
Speaker 2: of them was either Mahomes or Kelsey. But something's not
Speaker 2: just jiving the way it was. And maybe it's because
Speaker 2: the teams told Kelsey things we don't know, like, hey,
Speaker 2: you're not gonna see as much play. We need to
Speaker 2: see what this team looks like for two thousand and
Speaker 2: six and seven, twenty twenty six, and twenty seven. You know,
Speaker 2: I wouldn't be surprised if this is Kelsey's last season.
Speaker 1: The other aspect that we had to bring up, like
Speaker 1: Corey Walters brings us up on YouTube right now with
Speaker 1: Noah Gray. Is he the next great tight end in
Speaker 1: Kansas City or you think they're gonna look elsewhere for
Speaker 1: the second half of Mahomes' career.
Speaker 2: There, Steve, what I saw in the last game, It
Speaker 2: looks to me like they're trying to see if he's
Speaker 2: got it, you know, like because the routes that Kelsey
Speaker 2: normally got they were going to Gray, you know, and
Speaker 2: it was kind of that rollout role. I mean, whenever
Speaker 2: you have that roll out to the right and then
Speaker 2: did you see the split image of the exact route
Speaker 2: running that Kelsey does, that one where he steps in
Speaker 2: and he steps out and he's kind of open and
Speaker 2: he has five yards of roll to his left. Did
Speaker 2: you notice Gray on like the next series did the
Speaker 2: exact same play route. Yeah, I mean I don't. I
Speaker 2: don't find that as coincidental. I think that's can you
Speaker 2: do what Kelsey does? So I think they're trying to
Speaker 2: see if he is, and if he can't, then yeah,
Speaker 2: they might be in the market for one, or they
Speaker 2: might just go into the field of bio one and
Speaker 2: draft one like everyone else seems to do.
Speaker 4: There's things I liked about Kelsey's foot moving and route
Speaker 4: running that I did see in the end of that
Speaker 4: Giants game. It's like he came alive. There's a whole
Speaker 4: lot of players that seem to be ghost walking and
Speaker 4: the Kansas City Chiefs right now, But I agree with you.
Speaker 4: It's you know, since we've got tras Kelsey this season,
Speaker 4: we're very glad we got him because he's a pleasure
Speaker 4: to watch play football. I don't think no great a
Speaker 4: step into those shoes, and I don't think many Tidians can.
Speaker 1: It'll it'll be tough. But the other thing too, is
Speaker 1: you won't have the pressure of Gray, won't have the
Speaker 1: pressure of having to be the guy. If you know
Speaker 1: Thornton keeps playing the way he does, and you know
Speaker 1: Rashie Rice comes back and Xavier Worthy keeps showing out
Speaker 1: like great can just kind of like be who he
Speaker 1: is and and that'll be plenty in that Kansas City offense.
Speaker 1: I want to focus it in on week four for
Speaker 1: this next question here. Steve and Mike Evans not expected
Speaker 1: to play this week for Tampa. Chris Godwin officially listed
Speaker 1: as questionable on the final injury report for the Bucks
Speaker 1: this week. If we look back to last year in
Speaker 1: those games that Evans and Godwin missed when they didn't
Speaker 1: have a mecha agbuka uh. And I'll admit that right away,
Speaker 1: Kate Oughton was really, really good. You think this is
Speaker 1: a Kate Otton week against Philly.
Speaker 2: You know, I would love to say yes, but you know,
Speaker 2: sometimes you got admit when you draft some things wrong.
Speaker 2: And I drafted him in a lot of leagues as
Speaker 2: a late pick, so did I before the season before
Speaker 2: McMillan's injury. I had Jaylen McMillan in a lot of
Speaker 2: leagues too. I think he's gonna see some volume, definitely
Speaker 2: because there's injury. But you know, they were already starting
Speaker 2: to get Tesz Johnson, which I think people forget how
Speaker 2: amazing he was in Oregon. And on top of that,
Speaker 2: you still got Sterling Shepherd, who is a veteran knows
Speaker 2: how to get open in the slot. I don't think
Speaker 2: it's going to turn into a Katatten game. I think
Speaker 2: what you might see is full throttle. What Canamiko umbucca?
Speaker 2: Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 3: Like?
Speaker 2: Can the guy get fifteen catches for two hundred and
Speaker 2: twenty yards and two touchdowns? I think we might find
Speaker 2: out this week, you know. I think they're gonna just
Speaker 2: go at him. I think the kayd Otten will definitely
Speaker 2: see an uptick in some passes from what we've seen
Speaker 2: in the last few weeks. But man, I was expecting
Speaker 2: a lot more production after him in the first three weeks.
Speaker 2: But true transparency, I've already started dropping a few leagues
Speaker 2: because I just don't see it turning around. Because if
Speaker 2: he wasn't getting it early in the league, with God
Speaker 2: went out and and Buka being a rookie, I don't
Speaker 2: see how if Evans returns and God wins healthy and
Speaker 2: he got in Buka, I don't see where he sees
Speaker 2: any more than four or five targets a game.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: But to your point, yeah, anything could happen this week.
Speaker 2: He could have a blowout, but I'm not going to
Speaker 2: risk it on When I got people like Jake Ferguson
Speaker 2: in my tight end spot that I could put in there,
Speaker 2: you know, it was in a much better position.
Speaker 4: I I agree with you with that Buka becomes the
Speaker 4: new Pookah. I love that. I think they could be.
Speaker 1: What it happens, Yeah, well, that we could combine him
Speaker 1: and he'd be Pooka at Buka.
Speaker 4: Yeah right, fifteen targets that would be Pooka. Like about
Speaker 4: the talk to me about the Rams backfield coorm ate
Speaker 4: into a little bit of Card Williams activities this past week.
Speaker 4: I like Williams and he is He's one of the
Speaker 4: backs I'm counting, you know on this year, is kor
Speaker 4: gonna continue to eat away of his opportunities?
Speaker 2: You know, if you look at the snaps and the attempts,
Speaker 2: they are upticking each week one to five to eight.
Speaker 4: You know.
Speaker 2: Korm' is a strong back man. He's a Michigan product.
Speaker 2: Ego lists he shared the ball in the backfield then
Speaker 2: I think with Mullings when he was there, so I
Speaker 2: think of the two people he's okay with sharing the ball,
Speaker 2: Kyen Williams is still their belcal though. I mean, even
Speaker 2: though he's getting an uptick he had eighteen, seventeen and twenty.
Speaker 2: I think the biggest thing in fantasy value is the
Speaker 2: passes are still going to Kyrie, They're not going to Korm.
Speaker 2: I think that my worry of a shift is fantasy
Speaker 2: of Koram. Would if I started seeing passes going to Koram,
Speaker 2: I'd start worrying more about that time share factor. But
Speaker 2: right now, Kyrie's still got the passing backfield option, So
Speaker 2: if I see him lose some of that, then I
Speaker 2: would start saying, yeah, Korm's starting to work his way
Speaker 2: into the touch field.
Speaker 1: I have to ask in regards to the Raiders situation,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to make this into a Raiders
Speaker 1: show as much as Pharaoh would love that. Oh, I
Speaker 1: know you have Jacoby Myers. Do you have him on
Speaker 1: your fourth place team right now?
Speaker 2: Steve?
Speaker 1: I don't know if you do. I know you got
Speaker 1: him on a bunch of teams.
Speaker 2: You know, I probably do because he was always there
Speaker 2: in that seven eight round where I was like, man, like,
Speaker 2: this could be a number one receiver in the late rounds.
Speaker 2: And I like Gino, and I think Gino does Geno
Speaker 2: things sometimes, you know, but for the most part, he
Speaker 2: can complete it to a lead receiver. But I'd have
Speaker 2: to use my phone to pull it up. But I
Speaker 2: can't do it right now.
Speaker 1: Don't worry about it, because you can answer this question
Speaker 1: without pulling it up. Trey Tucker put up forty plus
Speaker 1: points last week, as we all expected, so in regards
Speaker 1: to what we saw from a breakout of Talker, I'm
Speaker 1: of the belief that he has a significant week to
Speaker 1: week role on this team. How much do you think
Speaker 1: what he did in week three carries over? And I'll
Speaker 1: just put this out there right now. I think a
Speaker 1: Trey Tucker's best game of the year was this past week.
Speaker 1: I don't think he does anything better than that, but
Speaker 1: I do think he has these good games. How much
Speaker 1: do you think his role eats into the pro production
Speaker 1: of Jacoby Myers on this squad right now?
Speaker 2: I don't think it's gonna hurt it that much, honestly,
Speaker 2: and true transparency. The way that the line is blocking
Speaker 2: for genty, they just might be going more passing. You
Speaker 2: know that's not on genty right now. Genty's look good
Speaker 2: in some moments when he does get the ball, but
Speaker 2: to your point earlier, he's getting hit behind the line
Speaker 2: a lot. But I mean, I think it's more of
Speaker 2: sometimes like people forget about game plans. Brock Bauers is hurt,
Speaker 2: they're not trying to hit him. I'm gonna say easily
Speaker 2: that I think Trey Tucker had nine targets on this game.
Speaker 2: Probably four of those targets he got were because Bowers
Speaker 2: wasn't getting them because they were trying to keep him safe.
Speaker 2: So I think he got four more targets and he
Speaker 2: probably ever will get. I mean, and Bower's got hurt
Speaker 2: in that second game, so he kind of got some
Speaker 2: more at the end of that game too. I think
Speaker 2: he's still is safe six to seven target. I think
Speaker 2: he might get you five receptions if he pops one
Speaker 2: off for a long distance, maybe eighty yards. But I
Speaker 2: still think your touchdown options in the red zone for
Speaker 2: the most part are gonna be in order. Jint if
Speaker 2: they can get the running going. Bowers obviously, and Jacobean.
Speaker 2: I mean, are you gonna take a five eight guy
Speaker 2: or you gotta take Jacoby bones Jacoby Myers in one
Speaker 2: on one? I mean, I'm taking the bigger guy one
Speaker 2: on one in the red zone. So I think the
Speaker 2: big play capability for Trey Harris just worked Trey. Sorry, Trey,
Speaker 2: Tucker worked out this week. He just had a good week.
Speaker 2: You know. I don't think it meets into it too much.
Speaker 4: Raiders in the red Zone. What a beautiful thought, sunny day, Steve.
Speaker 4: I feel very very strongly about what I'm gonna ask you,
Speaker 4: and I'm not going to share my opinion because I
Speaker 4: want to hear yours and then I'll talk about And
Speaker 4: it's a theme that I've beaten on the table about
Speaker 4: in this show, and so I think anyone that as
Speaker 4: foolish enough to pay attention to what I have to
Speaker 4: say already knows how I'm gonna answer this, But Zay
Speaker 4: Flowers when he came into the league and still today,
Speaker 4: I think he's one of the most exciting players in
Speaker 4: the league. I love the player. I love the guy.
Speaker 4: I once said he's the most who was the rookie
Speaker 4: the most reminded me of Tyreek Hill and that we've
Speaker 4: had since he's coming to the league, he's still the
Speaker 4: rookie that reminds me, or still the newest player in
Speaker 4: the league that reminds me of Tyreek Hill. What we
Speaker 4: saw in weeks one and two, it's fantastic. What we
Speaker 4: saw in week three, it's a disappointment. What do you
Speaker 4: see for Zay Flowers when moving forward?
Speaker 2: You know, I still think he's gonna be a top producer.
Speaker 2: I don't. I think that the last game was the fluke.
Speaker 2: I think weeks one and two is what you're really
Speaker 2: gonna see. Let's be honest. Mark Andrews hasn't done squat
Speaker 2: in two years, and then he had the best game
Speaker 2: I've seen him having forever. That sounds more like gamescript
Speaker 2: to me. Like Detroit, you know, wasn't looking out for him,
Speaker 2: and they knew they weren't going to be looked for him.
Speaker 2: So they went to them all day long, and you
Speaker 2: never know, it could have been game script on Detroit
Speaker 2: side that they were gonna take aways a and Baltimore
Speaker 2: was like, I'm not going to force it to him,
Speaker 2: you know, So they went away from him that game.
Speaker 2: I mean, I mean, I don't even think he had
Speaker 2: what one or two targets in the first half period, Like,
Speaker 2: I mean, it wasn't it wasn't even like they were
Speaker 2: looking his way. That just seems to me more of
Speaker 2: like game script. I don't I don't think there's anything
Speaker 2: to worry about. Zay too electric, you know, And honestly,
Speaker 2: I love Henry. Look, man, King Henry is the great,
Speaker 2: but man, he has fumbled in two crucial areas back
Speaker 2: to back. I wouldn't be surprised if they start taking
Speaker 2: a couple carries away and throw a little more for
Speaker 2: a couple of weeks, just some punishment, you know. Or
Speaker 2: then again, they could just beat him the rock trying
Speaker 2: to get him out of his head. You could go
Speaker 2: either way.
Speaker 4: But you know, he's been a victim of guys coming
Speaker 4: in and getting perfect punches on those balls, which is
Speaker 4: highly unusual. And I don't know if any way that
Speaker 4: he could change carrying that ball. But it's been some
Speaker 4: perfect defensive plays against him. But let me, okay, let
Speaker 4: me get back to Flowers. Give me some numbers. When
Speaker 4: you say productivity, he's going to be there. What are
Speaker 4: his numbers catches and touchdowns this year? His first thing
Speaker 4: that pops in your mind.
Speaker 2: I'd say anywhere between eighty five ninety five receptions, eleven
Speaker 2: hundred yards, ten twelve touchdowns.
Speaker 4: Okay, I've had him at seventy five to eighty and
Speaker 4: maybe six touchdowns, looking more like he did last year.
Speaker 4: And when you roll back to last year week three
Speaker 4: three for twenty, week four two for twenty one, Week
Speaker 4: seven one for eleven, Week eleven two for thirty nine.
Speaker 4: Is the inconsistency in the variance of this player. I
Speaker 4: think plays into the hands of quarterback who can extend
Speaker 4: the play and give opportunities for many, many receivers to
Speaker 4: get open downfield. What you just said about Tucker and Myers,
Speaker 4: one of the things that you see there is the
Speaker 4: big body to Andrews. You see Bateman who, despite some
Speaker 4: of his other skills set Bateman does a great job
Speaker 4: settling both in the middle of the field and on
Speaker 4: the sidelines he gets a solid target and he stays
Speaker 4: there for Lamar. I just, I just this is this
Speaker 4: is a player that I really love that I think
Speaker 4: is overdrafted every year. And Bulky, I don't know if
Speaker 4: you can get that Darren Rmanni drip and tell us
Speaker 4: where he ended up going. But you know, he was
Speaker 4: so far out of my price point and I never
Speaker 4: could draft him this year, and I'm kind of glad
Speaker 4: that I don't have to make the decisions to put
Speaker 4: him in a line up.
Speaker 1: I will I will get that information for you shortly here, Phrol,
Speaker 1: but I do want to well, I look that up.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask an email from Kevin and Adrian Michigan
Speaker 1: who he miled in to ask you a question, Steve,
Speaker 1: and he wants to know whether Jalen Waddle is a
Speaker 1: strong start this week against the Jets. And I appreciate
Speaker 1: the email.
Speaker 4: Kevin.
Speaker 1: You look at Waddle, who I thought was gonna be
Speaker 1: a huge part of the game plan on Thursday night,
Speaker 1: and he really wasn't. He got that touchdown laid against
Speaker 1: the Bills. This is a game where it should not
Speaker 1: be as lopsided. You would think that the ground game
Speaker 1: would be more involved your thoughts on Waddle. I mean, obviously, Steve,
Speaker 1: I know what kind of depends on what the rest
Speaker 1: of your team looks like. Yeah, in a vacuum, Jalen
Speaker 1: Waddle as a second flex or maybe even a first
Speaker 1: flex in an FFPC league. How'd you feel about that?
Speaker 2: I mean, I wouldn't hate it, but I wouldn't be
Speaker 2: optimistic about it. I mean, look, things are definitely going
Speaker 2: south in Miami. I mean, and I let's just say
Speaker 2: it for what it is. I like McDaniels, but seems
Speaker 2: to right now look like he's a one trick pony
Speaker 2: that he came in with a bunch of quick, tricky
Speaker 2: plays with a lot of speed. The rest of the
Speaker 2: league caught up to him the last two years, and
Speaker 2: he hasn't figured out how to adjust. So teams come
Speaker 2: with specific packages for that speed. I will say, the
Speaker 2: one person I think the benefits when they have those
Speaker 2: packages is Waddle. Because you're planning for Tyreek, you're planning
Speaker 2: for a chain Waddle. To me, I feel better about
Speaker 2: starting him when everyone else is a little nicked up,
Speaker 2: you know what I mean? Like there's a question mark
Speaker 2: on hill, there's a question mark on a chain. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I want to start me some Wattle because I feel
Speaker 2: like he's gonna get the ball. But man, right now,
Speaker 2: I'm really glad that I did not draft many Miami
Speaker 2: players because I the only one I was I wanted
Speaker 2: was honestly a chain. And I think I had Hill
Speaker 2: in like one or two leagues just because of where
Speaker 2: I got him. But man, I mean that offense just
Speaker 2: looks dysfunctional right now. It looked a little better this
Speaker 2: past week, but I'm not loving that situation. Period. If
Speaker 2: I can put him on my bench and I got
Speaker 2: someone better to start than I am, I'm hoping in
Speaker 2: that league I Draftednia's from the Bears rather than him,
Speaker 2: and I am putting him in that flex rather than
Speaker 2: you know, Wattle.
Speaker 1: One one final email for you here tonight and Steve.
Speaker 1: It comes from Larry in Bensonville, Illinois. What's your level
Speaker 1: of concern Steve on the Texans pass catchers given their
Speaker 1: poor offensive line so far this season? That is Larry
Speaker 1: in Bensonville, Illinois. Thank you Larry for that email. And
Speaker 1: I'll expand this a little bit, Steve, and we can
Speaker 1: include Nick Chubb and we can include what he marks
Speaker 1: that offensive line. We knew that they're losing larry My
Speaker 1: Tunsul to the Commanders in the offseason, and it's been
Speaker 1: bad so far. But I don't know, like I feel
Speaker 1: like when we drafted these Texans based on knowing the
Speaker 1: offensive line was not going to be great, and certainly
Speaker 1: it has not been great so far. It's been bad,
Speaker 1: And I don't know if that really affects what I
Speaker 1: think about these players, because quite frankly, I haven't changed
Speaker 1: my opinion on many of these guys because I believe
Speaker 1: this was gonna be the situation we'd find ourselves in.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't figure it out. I mean, true transparency.
Speaker 2: I didn't have a good feeling about that offense, so
Speaker 2: I didn't grab them in any league. The only player
Speaker 2: grab was chubbed super super late because Mixing had the
Speaker 2: flag on him. They have the injury and look, Nick
Speaker 2: Chubb before he got his knee blown out was a stud.
Speaker 2: But man, I mean, you talk about the digression of
Speaker 2: Stroud the last two years, he has not looked the same.
Speaker 2: I mean, Nico Collins is almost valueless. If it wasn't
Speaker 2: for that long pass at the end of the game
Speaker 2: in the last one I mean, he's not getting anything.
Speaker 2: I don't. I don't think it has any factor to
Speaker 2: do with Tank Delbian out at all. I don't think
Speaker 2: it's because they don't have the speed option. I feel
Speaker 2: like the play calling is just dismal right now, like
Speaker 2: they can't figure it out. I don't know why they
Speaker 2: can't figure it out, but I I mean i'd stay
Speaker 2: away from I do. I do a lot of like
Speaker 2: FanDuel and DraftKings. I haven't started a Texan guy yet,
Speaker 2: you know, not once, and that is because there's no
Speaker 2: way I'm gonna put money on them, so, you know, transparency,
Speaker 2: I stay away from him. It sucks too, because there's
Speaker 2: a lot of talent there. I mean, let's be honest.
Speaker 2: Nico Collins is straight great, you know, I mean product
Speaker 2: out of Michigan, great hands. When Tank Gell was going,
Speaker 2: you know, Stroud out of Ohio State, they all look
Speaker 2: like all the perfect makings that first year, right, but man,
Speaker 2: they didn't look too great last year and they look
Speaker 2: even worse this year. So who knows? Was it the
Speaker 2: first year Stroud just was figguring the league out so
Speaker 2: quick and they've adjusted. I don't know, but I would
Speaker 2: definitely be afraid to play him anyone in the Texans.
Speaker 4: Well, I think you might have leaned into a little
Speaker 4: bit to what I wanted to ask you about, because
Speaker 4: you know, I made the gutsy move of announcing that
Speaker 4: everyone should should bench Pittman in week two, my favorite
Speaker 4: wide receiver, and I'd said he would put up twelve.
Speaker 4: He put up eight. Then last week he got back
Speaker 4: to twenty. Bulkyd you see how I got that in
Speaker 4: there smooth? But in this in this week four, you
Speaker 4: talked about a couple guys. See if you can give
Speaker 4: us one more that should be set on the pines,
Speaker 4: a guy that typically would be played based on draft capital,
Speaker 4: and then give us a guy, give us this week's
Speaker 4: Trey Tucker. Give us a guy that should get an
Speaker 4: opportunity to play and be put in rosters. I've been
Speaker 4: working with my lineup, so I think I have a
Speaker 4: couple that would not be the Chalky pick. So give
Speaker 4: us one that's the not chalky pick, and it make
Speaker 4: you look really smart.
Speaker 2: Well, definitely, the guy I wouldn't start is Jamar Chase.
Speaker 2: I mean that offense looks awful without Burrows, and that
Speaker 2: hurts me because I drafted burrows in half my leagues,
Speaker 2: and luckily I had a good backup in a lot
Speaker 2: of them. But I mean, you want to talk about
Speaker 2: dysfunctional last week, I don't see it getting any better
Speaker 2: playing in Denver, you know what I mean. I just
Speaker 2: jamar Chase. He may get six or seven receptions, he
Speaker 2: might be for thirteen yards, Like, just don't see. So
Speaker 2: I would definitely not. I know it's crazy to bench
Speaker 2: your number one starter, your number one pick, but I'm
Speaker 2: not starting Chase if I don't have to either. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but the guy that I like, you know you kind
Speaker 2: of already mentioned them a little bit earlier. From what
Speaker 2: I saw in that game, I think Casey is starting
Speaker 2: to try to figure out who else they got. And
Speaker 2: I think on those two plays back to back with uh,
Speaker 2: you know Tae with Taekwan Thornton, man like that was
Speaker 2: electric on those two plays, to the point where he
Speaker 2: didn't catch the one, They're like, let's do it again,
Speaker 2: and then he brings it down. You know, I mean
Speaker 2: they might throw this ball up deep to him four
Speaker 2: or five times. It's going to be everyone else has
Speaker 2: been able to throw all over Baltimore, why not case
Speaker 2: And I think they're gonna see what they can get
Speaker 2: away with it.
Speaker 1: This is one final question, Steve. I know I said
Speaker 1: we're done, but I want to throw this out there
Speaker 1: because it's getting some discussion in the chat right now
Speaker 1: on YouTube Racy Xavier Worthy this week, who is at
Speaker 1: home against the Ravens or Jordan Addison, who is making
Speaker 1: his season debut across the pond in Ireland Sunday morning
Speaker 1: against the Steelers. Who would you rather play between those two?
Speaker 2: Addison's completely healthy right.
Speaker 1: As far as we know, he's not on the injury
Speaker 1: re board at all.
Speaker 2: They're playing pits. They're playing the Steelers.
Speaker 1: Right in Dublin.
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, that one A man. I feel like I
Speaker 2: feel like they're figuring things out. I think it was
Speaker 2: way too early to crown McCarthy. In my personal opinion,
Speaker 2: I think they were stupid. They should have kept Arnold.
Speaker 2: They really should have. They should have kept him and
Speaker 2: let McCarthy grow underneath him. He already missed a year
Speaker 2: for injury. Again. I love McCarthy. He's a great Michigan product.
Speaker 2: He's a great kid, but he needs some time to learn.
Speaker 2: I see him more of like an Aaron Rodgers needs
Speaker 2: two three years kind of see how it is and
Speaker 2: he's gonna pick it up be really good. That said Wentz,
Speaker 2: I feel like he's probably already picked that offense up.
Speaker 2: We have yet to see a big game out of Jefferson,
Speaker 2: and I feel like it's coming and this might be
Speaker 2: the that Jefferson blows up for eleven receptions, one hundred
Speaker 2: and twenty five yards and a TV or two. That
Speaker 2: being said, I don't think Addison just goes ripping. But
Speaker 2: on the other side, everybody looked better than Worthy in
Speaker 2: my opinion, in the last case game. You know, they're
Speaker 2: throwing it to Juju Smith, they're throwing it to Kelsey,
Speaker 2: They're throwing it to Gray, they're throwing it to Tyreek Thorton.
Speaker 2: I mean, it looks to me like they've already given
Speaker 2: You know, Xavier Worthy is shot in the first week
Speaker 2: or two and he didn't really capitalize because of the injury.
Speaker 2: He was out right. You know, they were going with
Speaker 2: Hollywood Brown. A shoulder surgery. I've had three of them.
Speaker 2: I've had three shoulder surgeries in my life. Separated shoulder
Speaker 2: is not a small thing when you jam or anything
Speaker 2: like that, or it hurts. I don't think they're going
Speaker 2: to be passing to them, He'll be more probably a decoy.
Speaker 2: So I'd say, despite liking Jefferson to have a big game,
Speaker 2: I like Jordan Edison.
Speaker 1: Normally, I would say Worthy in this sense. And the
Speaker 1: reason I'm not going to is not only is perm
Speaker 1: our points, so not only is Worthy going to be
Speaker 1: playing or expected to be playing with a harness on
Speaker 1: Sunday afternoon. There was reporting earlier this week that he
Speaker 1: was expected to play but be a decoy, and I
Speaker 1: haven't seen reporting done since then on that. But I
Speaker 1: haven't seen anything to refute that either, Whereas I think
Speaker 1: Addison could come in and make some waves right away.
Speaker 1: So it's close. I mean, I think both of these
Speaker 1: guys are flexible this week, Ferrell, I lean towards Addison
Speaker 1: as well. Do you make it a triple score on
Speaker 1: this Overworthy.
Speaker 4: I'm not going to fight the genius that I'm here with,
Speaker 4: and I agree with you, and I happened to like
Speaker 4: Carson Wins, so they've installed him in Las Vegas as
Speaker 4: a thirty thirty or thirty one pass attempts. If he
Speaker 4: throws the ball that much, there's gonna be plenty for Addison.
Speaker 1: We may have lost. Steve, I'm not sure what happened there,
Speaker 1: and I doe with this.
Speaker 4: He was contracted until eleventh am.
Speaker 1: And and he's like, look, I'm out, which could be
Speaker 1: the case. If he pops back in, we'll definitely bring
Speaker 1: him on. But in the interest of uh, we're already
Speaker 1: over time here for well, yeah, he might have Irish
Speaker 1: goodbye in honor of the Dublin game as well. That's
Speaker 1: a non zero chance of that, Farrell. Kf FFC dot
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Speaker 1: week four quadruple header on Sunday with Steelers Vikings kicking
Speaker 1: it off. Then you get the one o'clock window, the
Speaker 1: four o'clock window, and of course, Sunday night football with
Speaker 1: the Parsons Bowl in Dallas, Texas with the Packers and Cowboys.
Speaker 1: Very excited for that. Thanks so much for watching, streaming, listing.
Speaker 1: Everybody be good and we will talk with you again
Speaker 1: next Friday.