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Speaker 2: How are you doing tonight?
Speaker 1: Doing excellent? I like, I don't know about you, Steph.
Speaker 1: Like I think the schedule release holds some cachet for
Speaker 1: obviously a lot of best ball people out there, so
Speaker 1: we can see who we're stacking in week seventeen. But
Speaker 1: for me, it's more of like an NFL fan event,
Speaker 1: like I get excited to see who my packers are
Speaker 1: playing when they're playing. Obviously Fantasy enters into it as well.
Speaker 1: You're a Cowboys fan, right, I mean, are you excited
Speaker 1: to see Cowboys are going to be this year?
Speaker 2: I am pretty excited. I mean I think that they
Speaker 2: did good, you know, fixing their defense, We got pickens.
Speaker 2: Seems like everything's like following, you know, all in line now,
Speaker 2: So I'm not sure what we're gonna do if Davonte
Speaker 2: Williams gets hurt, but you know, well we'll get there.
Speaker 2: We'll get there, but I'm definitely excited to see who we.
Speaker 1: Play the all my Dynasty shares of Jadeen Blue would
Speaker 1: would skyrock, although I I you know, honestly, if Williams
Speaker 1: were to get hurt, I mean, you're you're more plugged
Speaker 1: into that team than I am. Probably be sort of
Speaker 1: a committee approach, wouldn't it be if Williams were to
Speaker 1: go down.
Speaker 2: I mean, they really haven't like committed to anybody as
Speaker 2: the RB two necessarily, So yeah, I would. I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: I definitely am not sure it would be Blue because
Speaker 2: I mean, and he's definitely not a bell cow so
Speaker 2: I don't see how he would take over, you know,
Speaker 2: all the work. So definitely would see some other guys
Speaker 2: in there. I would hope they would bring somebody else
Speaker 2: in probably, but who knows.
Speaker 1: We uh, we will get into more cowboys stuff throughout
Speaker 1: the show tonight. I didn't want to get that out
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Speaker 1: on the program, it's gonna be kind of weird how
Speaker 1: we're going to do the show tonight. Now, first segment
Speaker 1: where Steph and I are gonna go around the NFL.
Speaker 1: There's some player stuff that we have to sort of
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Speaker 1: the middle for her this year. And then in the
Speaker 1: second segment, we'll be watching the schedule release, or at
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Speaker 1: that are standing out to us. There's one that I
Speaker 1: think we'll talk about the lead off the segment I
Speaker 1: think I got released yesterday, a pretty important Week seventeen
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Speaker 1: And then the final segment, we will go over Steph's
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Speaker 1: Stacey Prez, our mutual friend, puts this together every year
Speaker 1: FFPC hosts it, and I want to get your thoughts
Speaker 1: and just a few of the picks that you made,
Speaker 1: and that'll be the show tonight, and that'll carry you
Speaker 1: into hopefully an early start for your weekend. Unlike Steph
Speaker 1: and I, who are probably going to be working like
Speaker 1: dogs tomorrow, so it doesn't doesn't really matter for Uslet's
Speaker 1: get into it stuff. Devon ah Chan extended by the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins. It is four years, sixty eight million. I
Speaker 1: do believe in it was a Moniker that Bryce Hall
Speaker 1: had for just a couple of days, or maybe it
Speaker 1: was vice versa, but now I believe it's a Chan
Speaker 1: who is the third highest paid running back in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And what I think is interesting about this, Steph, is
Speaker 1: there are a couple of schools of thought on this,
Speaker 1: given that he is going as far as ADP goes
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Speaker 1: preseason and during the season. Devon e Chan's ADP two
Speaker 1: toh one right now, Steph, that's running back seven. So
Speaker 1: if you are of the opinion that this guy is
Speaker 1: an elite pass catcher, that his talent is going to
Speaker 1: supersede the lack of offensive weaponry in Miami, then you're
Speaker 1: probably willing to pay that turn one two turn price
Speaker 1: for a Chan right now. However, if you are believing
Speaker 1: that Jesus Christ himself could not put up a top
Speaker 1: fifteen running back season on this Miami offense. You're probably
Speaker 1: taking James Cook or Genty or Lamb or Jefferson there
Speaker 1: instead instead of a Chan. How do you fall in
Speaker 1: on this? Because we saw e Chan do it last year.
Speaker 1: But as hard as it is to believe, this Dolphins
Speaker 1: offense probably gonna be significantly worse than it was in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean I think obviously this has got to
Speaker 2: be pretty positive for how they view him. I mean,
Speaker 2: they're gonna use him as a weapon, and I think
Speaker 2: a lot of it is like he's had a ton
Speaker 2: of production and as you said, like last year he
Speaker 2: was the top receiver in terms of yards per care,
Speaker 2: yards per carry in yards after contact. A lot of
Speaker 2: people are not giving him some time the credit he deserves.
Speaker 2: He's created a lot of yards after that contact and
Speaker 2: created his own yards and things. So yeah, I do
Speaker 2: agree that obviously there is some implosion risk with the Dolphins,
Speaker 2: but I still want to target him. I mean he's
Speaker 2: likely to be pretty much they're one of their top receivers.
Speaker 2: I mean, in his three years he had about one
Speaker 2: hundred and seventy two receptions, five hundred and forty four carries.
Speaker 2: I mean, he's a stut. I mean they did pay
Speaker 2: him for a reason. They gave him a lot of
Speaker 2: guaranteed money as well. This is a big contract, huge
Speaker 2: contract for a running back. So I am definitely in
Speaker 2: on him this year. Also, I like sometimes when they
Speaker 2: have that mobile quarterback, it might open up some things.
Speaker 2: You know, they're not going to be able, They're going
Speaker 2: to have to account for that as well, and not
Speaker 2: just hopefully be able to stack the box. But we'll see,
Speaker 2: We'll see what happens.
Speaker 1: You bring up the mobile quarterback aspect, and historically I've
Speaker 1: kind of shied away from that, where like because I
Speaker 1: think sometimes mobile quarter rather than dump it off, we'll
Speaker 1: just take off and run, right. But Chan, I think
Speaker 1: is a little bit different because, I mean, they are
Speaker 1: so young at wide receiver on this team, they are
Speaker 1: so inexperienced, and you just rattled off how many one
Speaker 1: hundred and seventy plus catches he's had over the last
Speaker 1: couple of years. I almost think that the dump off
Speaker 1: thing is not really something we should concern the stars
Speaker 1: about at all. We should be looking at. They have
Speaker 1: to feature this guy both in the running and the
Speaker 1: passing game, because he's gonna make their offense go. If
Speaker 1: if ah Chan isn't crushing it on offense, Dolphins aren't
Speaker 1: putting up points. And I think a defense can only
Speaker 1: key on one guy so much before it does open
Speaker 1: up stuff for you know, stuff like you know Caleb
Speaker 1: Joseph and and Malik Washington and and you know dulsicch
Speaker 1: and all these other guys they have on the team.
Speaker 1: And then quite frankly, they could add I've been saying
Speaker 1: this for the last couple of months. They could add
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel, they could add Stefan Diggs, they could add
Speaker 1: you know, Keenan Allen or something, and all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: this offense isn't looking all that bad. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: think that's the way to look at it. Is the
Speaker 1: pass catching for a Chan might even go up this
Speaker 1: year then from what it was last year, and that's
Speaker 1: maybe he's worth the price at the one two turn.
Speaker 1: I did pass on him recently in favor of Amar
Speaker 1: and Hampton, and you have me rethinking that decision of stuff.
Speaker 1: I might want to have that draft pick back. Moving
Speaker 1: on to Molik Neighbors here. We talked about this on
Speaker 1: the heigh Stakes Fantasy Football Hour last night, But I
Speaker 1: want to get your thoughts on this. Dan Dugan, who
Speaker 1: covers the Giants for the Athletics, said that Neighbors had
Speaker 1: a cleanup procedure done on his knee a few weeks ago,
Speaker 1: and it was to remove some scar tissue that was
Speaker 1: causing stiffness in the knee. Now, according to Dugan, this
Speaker 1: does not affect his timeline back to the field at all.
Speaker 1: They're still hopeful that he's ready for Week one, although
Speaker 1: I think the Giants, if you asked him to be
Speaker 1: completely honest with us, they would probably tell you that
Speaker 1: they don't feel great about a specific date that he's
Speaker 1: going to be back. Yet they're still kind of figuring
Speaker 1: it out as well. This was week four when he
Speaker 1: tore his ACL last year, did not have surgery on
Speaker 1: it until about a month or so later. Now, he
Speaker 1: has been tumbling in drafts in the in the Big
Speaker 1: Gorilla Molik, Neighbors is now barely in the top ten
Speaker 1: for wide receivers. He's wide receiver nine right now, and
Speaker 1: he's becoming a pick at the two three turn after
Speaker 1: you know, being like sort of at that early second
Speaker 1: round pick. Maybe a month or so ago, so FFPC
Speaker 1: players are gradually wearing down on neighbors. How concerned are you,
Speaker 1: Steph knowing about this procedure now and knowing that the giants,
Speaker 1: you know again, I feel like are kind of a
Speaker 1: little bit in the dark of when they think he's
Speaker 1: gonna be out there. Obviously, everybody's hopeful that they're ready
Speaker 1: for week one, but you never know your level of
Speaker 1: concern and how you're handling neighbors in drafts right now,
Speaker 1: what you would tell people to do well.
Speaker 2: I mean, so I do have a little bit of
Speaker 2: knowledge on injuries. So first of all, it was not
Speaker 2: a clean ACL tear. It was ACL. There was some meniscus,
Speaker 2: and I believe it was LCL or I have to
Speaker 2: look up. I believe one of the other limits as
Speaker 2: well was involved. So yet, like you said, they didn't
Speaker 2: operate right away. There was a little bit of time,
Speaker 2: which is not unusual. So with the meniscus, it's like
Speaker 2: the time they're taking to come back into the rehab.
Speaker 2: A lot of times they are a little bit more
Speaker 2: conservative with like what they're doing in some of their processes.
Speaker 1: And.
Speaker 2: It seemed like he didn't have a lot of the
Speaker 2: range of motion they would want him to have, so
Speaker 2: the scartest can impede that. It can also impede some
Speaker 2: of the circulation, blood flow, healing, So adding that second
Speaker 2: surgery made sense. I don't think it will affect him,
Speaker 2: say in Dynasty like over in the outcome, but I
Speaker 2: would expect that it is, regardless of what they're saying,
Speaker 2: going to push the timeline back a little bit. I
Speaker 2: also think that if he plays what he is not
Speaker 2: going to be anywhere near one hundred percent, and you
Speaker 2: were not going to want to be drafting him where
Speaker 2: he goes Week one, I would think, honestly, I think
Speaker 2: it's could have been more likely than not that he
Speaker 2: is going to start on pup with the second procedure,
Speaker 2: would be my inkland. Uh, and he's probably not going
Speaker 2: to be close to one hundred percent until towards the
Speaker 2: end of the season. Yeah, and that's spulate now that now,
Speaker 2: I mean, how much are you still going to get?
Speaker 2: How much is his you know, seventy five eighty percent
Speaker 2: something like that. I mean, there's a lot of aspects
Speaker 2: that go into some of these guys when they're returning
Speaker 2: like to place like there's a lot of metal things
Speaker 2: of them trusting their knee, you know, especially when we're
Speaker 2: talking about these receivers that are running these routes, that
Speaker 2: are cutting, that are doing stuff. So I don't know,
Speaker 2: I feel a lot more comfortable probably in my dynasty
Speaker 2: outlook than necessarily be draft this year. If you can
Speaker 2: get him, you know, now, if you can build around
Speaker 2: it and make a team that, like invest Ball, that
Speaker 2: you think is strong enough that in those money weeks,
Speaker 2: you know, if you can get through to that Week
Speaker 2: sixty seventeen, then sure, you know, I mean, I definitely
Speaker 2: think it's worth the risk somewhat, but you definitely have
Speaker 2: to be very intentional with your builds, and I would
Speaker 2: try to get as much discount as possible.
Speaker 1: So you mentioned something that I think we should all understand,
Speaker 1: and I wholeheartedly believe this. Regardless of when he comes back,
Speaker 1: if it's week one, if it's week five, if it's
Speaker 1: week seven, I don't think he's going to be one
Speaker 1: hundred percent. You mentioned at the end of the season.
Speaker 1: Maybe I think that's when he'll be closest to one
Speaker 1: hundred percent, But I still don't think we're going to
Speaker 1: see capital letters Malik neighbors until twenty twenty seven. So
Speaker 1: understanding that, let's do a little would you rather right now?
Speaker 1: And this probably won't matter a whole lot stuff because
Speaker 1: you can easily get any of these guys instead of neighbors.
Speaker 1: Tell me, would you rather have Molik neighbor? This is redraft,
Speaker 1: not dynasty elike. Neighbors are George Pickens Pickenslik neighbor or
Speaker 1: Chris o'lave uh.
Speaker 2: That's getting tough. I think I think I might have
Speaker 2: to say.
Speaker 1: A lave I. By the way, I agree with you
Speaker 1: on both of these so far, Malik neighbors or Nico Collins,
Speaker 1: Nico Malik neighbors or a j Brown.
Speaker 2: Assuming he has traded to the patriots of.
Speaker 1: Taking a j Uh And then the next one Malik
Speaker 1: neighbors or Tete Roha McMillan.
Speaker 2: Can be tet.
Speaker 1: That's it's close.
Speaker 2: For that's a little tougher.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but God, and this is what I'm talking about,
Speaker 1: because you won't even have to make this decision because
Speaker 1: neighbors is going at the two three turn. Now we're
Speaker 1: at the three four turn, so these guys are all
Speaker 1: going around later. Milik neighbors are DeVonta Smith.
Speaker 2: Hmmm. I mean, let's see if AJ gets traded.
Speaker 1: Let's assume he's trade. Let's assume he straded.
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not gonna lie. I have been drafting
Speaker 2: neighbors ahead, but you know, with this news and you know,
Speaker 2: really diving in and thinking about it, I think I
Speaker 2: might want to vanta.
Speaker 1: Molik neighbors or Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 2: I think that's where I'm gonna do neighbors, That's right.
Speaker 2: I don't know, yeah, I mean I have me and
Speaker 2: I still have a little troumble with the Jets, and
Speaker 2: they added so many weapons, so it's like, I'm not
Speaker 2: quite sure overall how much they're going to be able
Speaker 2: to just concentrate the volume there.
Speaker 1: The Fantasy Football Garage chiming in on YouTube right now saying,
Speaker 1: it's going to take a while for this neighbor's news
Speaker 1: to be reflected in ADP, which which is correct. The
Speaker 1: neighbors stuff came out. I feel like it was a
Speaker 1: couple of days. This would have been no yesterday afternoon,
Speaker 1: so it's barely been twenty four hours. And Fantasy Football
Speaker 1: Garage agrees with you a lot on these would you
Speaker 1: rathers that you have been doing? I think we're falling
Speaker 1: in on the same line of thinking too, neighbors versus
Speaker 1: these guys. I drafted neighbors once so far this year,
Speaker 1: and I think I'm good until the price falls stuff.
Speaker 1: I don't think I need to be stretching and reaching
Speaker 1: for to get him on my rosters this year. Scott White,
Speaker 1: I always bring this up. I know it's fantasy baseball.
Speaker 1: Scott White, who covers fantasy baseball for CBS Sports, always says,
Speaker 1: and he's speaking in a baseball sense, but I think
Speaker 1: it applies in football. You know your players are going
Speaker 1: to get hurt over the season, Maybe don't draft the
Speaker 1: guys that are already hurt coming into the year to
Speaker 1: make it more of a quagmire for you to start
Speaker 1: off your season, which I think is wise. Pittsburgh, Okay,
Speaker 1: a couple of things to talk about here, will focus
Speaker 1: on Aaron Rodgers first. Now, there were reports last week's
Speaker 1: stuff that Rogers is going to be in Pittsburgh. He
Speaker 1: was going to meet with the brass. He's going to
Speaker 1: be talking about the future and sort of like the
Speaker 1: mutual expectations for each other. And Brooke Pryor, who covers
Speaker 1: these Steelers for ESPN dot Com, said that the meeting
Speaker 1: did not appear to come to fruition. She was at
Speaker 1: the facilities, she didn't see Rogers. She talked to other
Speaker 1: Steelers beat writers that were at the facilities. They said
Speaker 1: they didn't see Rogers either, and apparently the meeting maybe
Speaker 1: even never took place. May eighteenth is the next day.
Speaker 1: Prior said that we should be watching for when the
Speaker 1: Steelers begin OTAs Rogers did not join the Steelers until
Speaker 1: June fifth last year, so maybe you know this is
Speaker 1: going to be delayed another few weeks. I don't know.
Speaker 1: But for those of us who cannot wait that long
Speaker 1: that are drafting right now, Steph, how do we handle
Speaker 1: players like DK Metcalf, Pat Fryarmouth, Michael Pittman Junior, Jeremy Bernard,
Speaker 1: Jalen Warren Rico doubtll, I mean, like any of these
Speaker 1: Steelers guys. How do we handle them? Knowing that if
Speaker 1: it's not Rogers, it might be Will Howard, it might
Speaker 1: be Drew Allar. You know, like, I think this is
Speaker 1: as uninspiring as the Steelers offense historically has been these
Speaker 1: last couple of years. I feel like there is a sick,
Speaker 1: significant difference between Rogers, who's at the tail end of
Speaker 1: his career and then these younger guys who are very
Speaker 1: much unproven.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it's I've been drafting thus Bar under
Speaker 2: the assumption that Rogers was going to eventually end up there.
Speaker 2: I still want to believe that he's just going through
Speaker 2: whatever theatrics he's doing to maybe, you know, make sure
Speaker 2: that he is the center of attention when it happens
Speaker 2: and keep the drama rolling. And this is just part
Speaker 2: of his saga. But I mean to say that I'm
Speaker 2: not slightly concerned would be a lie. So I mean,
Speaker 2: I think in these type of situations, the best thing
Speaker 2: is to take the cheaper options, you know, play it cheaper,
Speaker 2: and then when we know the information, then you can
Speaker 2: maybe mix in some of those other guys. But I
Speaker 2: definitely am not going to want to pay at this
Speaker 2: moment the premium price tag. So I mean, I do
Speaker 2: like the running backs both quite a bit. You know,
Speaker 2: I do think they can have a decent role figure.
Speaker 2: If they're trailing, they might they might have to throw
Speaker 2: to them a little bit. You know, we saw what
Speaker 2: we go did with McCarthy you know, in Dallas here,
Speaker 2: and then you know Warren also, so again, you know,
Speaker 2: I don't take the cheaper option. Maybe it's Bernard. Do
Speaker 2: you want to play it through Pittman? I think, is
Speaker 2: you know, gonna be like the possession guy. Obviously they
Speaker 2: can rack up some numbers. Metcalf might be the one
Speaker 2: I'm a little more worried about. If you know, Rogers,
Speaker 2: he may not have that upside. So yeah, well was
Speaker 2: that to see? It definitely puts a little damper on
Speaker 2: the Steelers for me though. If he doesn't play, I
Speaker 2: mean a lot more questions. I mean, I'm sure we're
Speaker 2: gonna talk about in a minute. You know, Alara is
Speaker 2: pretty raw. So if he you know, ended up, I
Speaker 2: don't know, uh, if he is NFL ready or not.
Speaker 2: You know, this wasn't the best quarterback class.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's putting it mildly. Yeah, what's your opinion? I'm
Speaker 1: going I'll give you the ADPs here. Metcalf is an
Speaker 1: early eighth round pick at wide receiver thirty six. This
Speaker 1: is big gorilla ADP I'm doing for Reffin. Pittman is
Speaker 1: a late ninth round pick at wide receiver forty four.
Speaker 1: In your opinion, do you think that that is reflective
Speaker 1: of a move up in ADP? If Rogers does sign
Speaker 1: with the with the Steelers or do you think people
Speaker 1: are drafting those two players in the eighth and ninth
Speaker 1: round right now as if Rogers is coming back. I
Speaker 1: guess the question here, Steph, is how much of them?
Speaker 1: How much movement will there be in Metcalf and Pittman's
Speaker 1: ADP when we do get some sort of resolution on Rogers.
Speaker 2: I think, no matter how much we think people are
Speaker 2: already drafting with a certain assumption, they always double count things.
Speaker 2: I don't know why, but we see it constantly. So
Speaker 2: when we get the news, there probably will be some movement.
Speaker 2: I'm not sure how much. I don't know how excited
Speaker 2: people still are for those Steelers guys. And I mean,
Speaker 2: you figure, if they're moving up, someone else has to
Speaker 2: move down. So I mean, maybe, like, I don't think
Speaker 2: it's a ton you know. I think that maybe like
Speaker 2: Pittman could move closer to where DK's going, and then
Speaker 2: DK kind of move to the top of his tier.
Speaker 2: But I don't think we're going to see like an
Speaker 2: astronomical jump or anything, because I just don't you know,
Speaker 2: DK's not going to be like he's not a possession guy. Really,
Speaker 2: He's still gonna be more that explosive. So I think
Speaker 2: Pittman might get closer to DK would be the thing.
Speaker 2: If we get Rogers to me, that would happen and
Speaker 2: then But yeah, I just don't think that they're gonna
Speaker 2: like significantly right. So that's another reason I don't think
Speaker 2: like I'm dying to draft them right now. I'm okay
Speaker 2: for like waiting this one out a little bit on
Speaker 2: the information. I don't think they're the guys that are
Speaker 2: necessarily going to bury you. I think they're okay picks
Speaker 2: where they go. But I'm not like sitting there like, oh,
Speaker 2: I think that they're gonna be the guy you Absolutely,
Speaker 2: I would be very surprised.
Speaker 1: You know. And I'll bring this up to Metcalf had
Speaker 1: his second worst season for catches with only fifty nine.
Speaker 1: Last year. He had his worst career, our worst year
Speaker 1: receiving yardage wise with only eight hundred and fifty and
Speaker 1: his second worst touchdown year with only six touchdowns. You
Speaker 1: mentioned it, Pittman, or you to mention it. Well, I
Speaker 1: think you intimated it. But Joe King is saying right
Speaker 1: now on YouTube, feels like Pittman's game is more suited
Speaker 1: for Rogers than DK Metcalf's, of which I totally agree.
Speaker 1: You know, Metcalf's sort of like you know, all over
Speaker 1: the place when he runs his routes, when he makes
Speaker 1: his plays, and quite frankly, his size and athleticism allows
Speaker 1: him to do that. But for somebody who is not
Speaker 1: blessed with the athleticism of that metcalf is, that's Michael Pittman.
Speaker 1: And Rogers loves what we've learned about him over the
Speaker 1: course of his career. He loves knowing what receiver is
Speaker 1: going to be where and when, Like he knows that.
Speaker 1: That's why him and Devonte Adams were so good together
Speaker 1: because they knew exactly where the ball was going to
Speaker 1: be at any given time. They knew where, Rogers knew
Speaker 1: where Adams would be on the field at any given time.
Speaker 1: And I think Pittman is more of a tactician when
Speaker 1: it comes to that. So for me, I'll say this
Speaker 1: right now, I think I would rather have Michael Pittman
Speaker 1: as wide receiver forty four at the end of the
Speaker 1: ninth round than pay up for DK Metcalf in the
Speaker 1: early eighth which, by the way, and you mentioned this,
Speaker 1: what if Rogers doesn't come back you know, now you've
Speaker 1: soaked an early eighth round pick into a guy who
Speaker 1: might be catching passes from a rookie quarterback who is
Speaker 1: already coming off arguably his worst season as a pro,
Speaker 1: including his rookie year. And I think that's something that
Speaker 1: we need to understand and utilize caution when you are
Speaker 1: drafting DK Metcalf, Steph Miller, and I warned you May fourteenth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Never forget. Let's move on and talk
Speaker 1: about Drew Aller. This is interesting. So the aforementioned Brooke
Speaker 1: Pryor said, Mike McCarthy is uninstalling everything Drew Aller learned
Speaker 1: while he was playing quarterback at Penn State. Prior wrote
Speaker 1: this quote, they are re uploading their own methods and
Speaker 1: fundamental and mechanics. And uh that that McCarthy and the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks coach for the Steelers were very intentional with Aller
Speaker 1: in rookie mini camp. They're focusing on his footwork. They're
Speaker 1: focusing on basic throwing mechanics too, which is not something
Speaker 1: you probably should have to teach an NFL player, But
Speaker 1: here we are. Now I'm gonna say this too. McCarthy
Speaker 1: was hired as the head coach in Green Bay one
Speaker 1: because because he had good experience working with quarterbacks with
Speaker 1: the Saints and the Niners, and he was and he
Speaker 1: was hired to sort of like rain Brent farv In.
Speaker 1: And then at the same time, you know, Aaron Rodgers
Speaker 1: grew up to be the quarterback that he was a
Speaker 1: good portion of that was Mike McCarthy's tutelage, right, So
Speaker 1: now McCarthy gets a chance to teach Drew Aller the
Speaker 1: fundamental like and footwork is so important with quarterbacks, right,
Speaker 1: So that's what they're working on right now. And Aler,
Speaker 1: if we remember back like thirteen months ago, people were
Speaker 1: talking about him being the first overall pick of the draft.
Speaker 1: He decides to come back for Penn State. The Nittany
Speaker 1: Lions have an also awful season. Aler gets hurt, but
Speaker 1: you know, you look at the the the physical tools
Speaker 1: that he has and now he's gonna get proper coaching.
Speaker 1: I don't know how you feel about this in Dynasty
Speaker 1: Superflex League stuff, but if I and I know how
Speaker 1: bad the quarterback class is this year, but I think
Speaker 1: there might be something there with Aler. Now, probably not
Speaker 1: given his draft capital, but if there's one other guy
Speaker 1: that's gonna hit at quarterback in this draft besides Fernando Mendoza.
Speaker 1: Why not Aler? I don't think I think you mentioned
Speaker 1: this earlier. I don't think he's NFL ready to start
Speaker 1: Week one. At the end of the season, he might
Speaker 1: be be able to make some pretty decent starts for
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh if that's the way that they choose. Your thoughts
Speaker 1: on Drew Aller the NFL quarterback.
Speaker 2: Now, I mean, like you said, you know, he was hurt,
Speaker 2: so you know the twenty twenty five was kind of
Speaker 2: a wash. But in twenty twenty four, I mean he
Speaker 2: was pretty elite. I mean he had I think it
Speaker 2: was thirty three one hundred and twenty seven pass yards
Speaker 2: at about thirty touchdowns. So here's the thing his If you,
Speaker 2: I am not a quarterback scout, I don't try to
Speaker 2: pretend to be, but me either. If you watch any
Speaker 2: of it, I mean, I will admit, his footwork is atrocious.
Speaker 2: His mechanics are atrocious. Uh it's pretty it sticks out
Speaker 2: like a sore thumb. So I am very glad to
Speaker 2: hear that they are addressing some of these fundamentals. I
Speaker 2: do think that a lot of his stuff might be coachable,
Speaker 2: so I think that they might be able to fix
Speaker 2: some of his issues. I do think he is a
Speaker 2: big body guy. I think he is athletic, and there
Speaker 2: could be some upside there. I mean, he's got the
Speaker 2: arm strength, so he's got a lot of those things
Speaker 2: you can't teach. You know, you can't just make someone
Speaker 2: more athletic. You can't make someone you know, throw well
Speaker 2: or throw far. So if they can polish him, there
Speaker 2: is a world that maybe, like you say, he could,
Speaker 2: if given the opportunity, and shape him. Yeah, there's a
Speaker 2: chance in the role's there for the taking. I mean,
Speaker 2: even if it's not this year in Dynasty, like you say,
Speaker 2: like Rogers is probably playing one more year at most,
Speaker 2: so maybe then Rogers could even mentor and help shape
Speaker 2: as well. And you know, Rogers is a pretty great quarterback,
Speaker 2: regardless of you know, what we think of him personally
Speaker 2: and other things. So you know, even at this stage,
Speaker 2: he could be somebody that could definitely shape a quarterback
Speaker 2: into the future. So who knows.
Speaker 1: Yeah, al are two hundred and thirty pounds six foot
Speaker 1: five really a cannon of an arm. So the tools
Speaker 1: are there, it's just all about harnessing them. And certainly
Speaker 1: Dynasty Superflex owners should be taking note of that quarter
Speaker 1: about another quarterback, young quarterback that I want to talk
Speaker 1: about here, and this will allude into how I'm gonna
Speaker 1: ask you how you're handling Falcons and Best Ball drafts.
Speaker 1: Michael Pennix Junior is participating in the offseason program for
Speaker 1: the Falcons. He tore his ACL in Week eleven last year.
Speaker 1: And you know, when when you talk with Stefanski or
Speaker 1: the GM or any of these guys, they don't really
Speaker 1: have that. They're not pinning a timetable on him. They're
Speaker 1: not saying like, well, we hope he's you know, we
Speaker 1: plan on him doing this at this point or whatever.
Speaker 1: He is participating officially in phase two of the Falcons
Speaker 1: off season program. That is Mark Rimondi quoting a Falcons
Speaker 1: spokesperson for ESPN dot com. So he can participate in
Speaker 1: individual and group instruction and drills. But now No. Eleven
Speaker 1: on eleven's No. Seven on sevens twenty six years old, Steph.
Speaker 1: He has torn his ACL three times now over the
Speaker 1: course of his college and pro career. And they bring
Speaker 1: into a tongue of bai loa in Atlanta. The issue
Speaker 1: with the quarterback situation is if you want to get
Speaker 1: cheap bestball stacks, it's tough because you don't know exactly
Speaker 1: who the quarterback is gonna be for the money weeks.
Speaker 1: Is it gonna be Penix? Is it gonna be a
Speaker 1: tongue of Ila? Is it gonna matter? Throw out best
Speaker 1: ball stuff for a second. Let's just talk manage leagues.
Speaker 1: What do we do with Drake London? What do you
Speaker 1: do with Kyle Kyle Pitts, Zach Ryan Branch, I'm trying
Speaker 1: to think who the other guys that they have all
Speaker 1: of me. The's a chaias is down there as well.
Speaker 1: Johan Dotson, like, what do we do with these guys
Speaker 1: in drafts, especially London and Pits since they're the most expensive,
Speaker 1: not knowing who the quarterback is gonna be, and not
Speaker 1: knowing at what point of the season, you know, like
Speaker 1: they can flip flop back and forth, or injuries might happen.
Speaker 1: Pennix is coming off with significant injury. So your thoughts
Speaker 1: on how we handle London and Pits as well as
Speaker 1: just drafting Falcon stacks in bestball tournaments to try to
Speaker 1: make sure that we're not screwing up and we're giving
Speaker 1: ourselves a chance to win some big money.
Speaker 2: As far as the skill guys go, I mean, I'm
Speaker 2: still drafting them because we've seen they performed pretty well
Speaker 2: when you know under Pennix, you know, he he, they
Speaker 2: had some nice sweeks. I mean, we saw, you know
Speaker 2: what Pitts in London did, and I mean to as
Speaker 2: much problems as he has, like he's supported fantasy players
Speaker 2: before as well. So I think that no matter which
Speaker 2: one of them plays, there is a lot of really
Speaker 2: good skilled players there and it's a good offense, like
Speaker 2: they have a lot of talent there. So I'm still
Speaker 2: drafting those guys. It's not so much like this big
Speaker 2: question of somebody coming in that we've never seen play
Speaker 2: and don't know if they can support any kind of
Speaker 2: fantasy relevant players. Now, I will say I'd be a
Speaker 2: little bit more cautious drafting one of the quarterbacks at
Speaker 2: this time without that information because I don't know what
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't see again them rising to some
Speaker 2: astronomical level that's going to make them a draftable, So
Speaker 2: you know, even if you're taking them, you don't have
Speaker 2: I would prefer not to rely on that stat As
Speaker 2: the quarterback I mean, I think it's fine if you
Speaker 2: still take two of them on the same team and
Speaker 2: team correlation, like especially in things like Bestball, there's still
Speaker 2: you know, I expect the Falcons are still going to
Speaker 2: put up some offensive points, so I don't have a
Speaker 2: problem doing that guessing right now. I think that if
Speaker 2: Penix is healthy, they might give him a shot, but
Speaker 2: I don't know, like you say, he's had so many injuries.
Speaker 2: But again, acl for a quarterback is a totally different
Speaker 2: situation than other positions, you know, like running back and stuff,
Speaker 2: so wells have to see. I think they probably went
Speaker 2: Penix and two is going to be more like the
Speaker 2: in case of emergency type thing, but I'm not sure.
Speaker 1: We'll say. I think the best advice, and I am
Speaker 1: kind of with you on this is I'm not shying
Speaker 1: away from London, I'm not shying away from Pits, but
Speaker 1: those two quarterbacks, I'm not really looking to like get
Speaker 1: these weird backstacks you know in Best Ball drafts. If
Speaker 1: it happens, great, But I mean, at the same time,
Speaker 1: I think that you can spend those you know, your
Speaker 1: number two and your number three quarterbacks. I think you
Speaker 1: can get better players than that. Maybe you have to
Speaker 1: pay up a little bit more for him, but you
Speaker 1: don't want to take zeros, right, And there's a very
Speaker 1: real possibility that if you're drafting one of these guys
Speaker 1: at this point, from what we know, they could very
Speaker 1: well turn into a zero. The other thing to keep
Speaker 1: in mind here about this is the Falcons passing game
Speaker 1: is pretty concentrated. I mean, it's three guys. It's Robinson,
Speaker 1: it's London, and it's Pitts. Yeah, you know, Branch and
Speaker 1: some of those other guys I mentioned they're there, but
Speaker 1: I can't imagine them commanding targets or earning targets. You know,
Speaker 1: Branch would probably have some because I think he's kind
Speaker 1: of a gadget guy and you got to scheme him
Speaker 1: up a little bit. But I think when when you're
Speaker 1: talking about having this sort of nebulous situation with the
Speaker 1: Falcons quarterbacks, it does make it easier to draft London
Speaker 1: and Pitts knowing that even if it's not a great situation,
Speaker 1: the extra volume should help out and give you a
Speaker 1: little bit more of a comfort when when you're drafting
Speaker 1: those players. Another quarterback situation stuff, and we'll go to Arizona,
Speaker 1: other side of the country from Atlanta. Josh Weinfuss, who
Speaker 1: covers the Colts Cardinals Beg Your Pardon for ESPN, has
Speaker 1: reported that Jacoby Brissette was told by the Cardinals that
Speaker 1: he is their starter there. He is looking for a
Speaker 1: new contract. He is not doing, you know, the team
Speaker 1: workouts that they have going on right now for Arizona.
Speaker 1: He is gonna earn less than five million this year.
Speaker 1: And I always say, I'm gonna look this up stuff,
Speaker 1: and I always forget. I believe that is less than
Speaker 1: what Gardner Minshew is making for the Cardinals. Who is
Speaker 1: the backup there, so they probably should be paying him.
Speaker 1: I've been asking this ever since, you know, a all
Speaker 1: my guests, ever since the NFL Draft. It's fun to
Speaker 1: think about what Jacoby Brissett could do over the course
Speaker 1: of a full season with McBride and Harrison and Wilson,
Speaker 1: you know. But at the same time, it was special
Speaker 1: last year, it was historical. With it was historic, i
Speaker 1: should say, with how much they got down early and
Speaker 1: how much they had in the past. Like there is
Speaker 1: a regression coming, and the regression could also be coming
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position itself. Because the Cardinals invested a
Speaker 1: third round pick in the Carson Beck. You could be
Speaker 1: looking at McBride, Harrison, Wilson or whatever in September and
Speaker 1: October and thinking, Wow, what great picks I made here.
Speaker 1: These guys are doing great. But if the Cardinals fall
Speaker 1: out of the race and Beck starts making starts in
Speaker 1: November and December when it really matters, I don't know
Speaker 1: if we're gonna like those Cardinals picks as much as
Speaker 1: we did back in June, July, and August. Right, I
Speaker 1: want to get your thoughts on that. Would you be
Speaker 1: shying away from Cardinals because of this Carson Beck ppop
Speaker 1: this year?
Speaker 2: I have Cardinals are a team that I have been
Speaker 2: shying away from. I don't fully fade him, but they're
Speaker 2: definitely some like where I said, I'm drafting the Falcons
Speaker 2: and not it's worried. I'm much more concerned because even
Speaker 2: if Prissette, like you said, I think that I don't
Speaker 2: know if it was sustainable. I mean, there was a
Speaker 2: game script and he wasn't that guy in the past.
Speaker 2: I really think that it might have just been a
Speaker 2: flash and you know, kind of the perfect storm, you
Speaker 2: know situation. So McBride where he goes like that can
Speaker 2: kill your team, like those are if you're wrong about that,
Speaker 2: or even if he's just okay and then other people
Speaker 2: are better. I mean that that's just like it's over.
Speaker 2: That lineup is just pretty much dead. It's like those
Speaker 2: aren't mistakes you can really recover from. I mean, do
Speaker 2: I still want to believe in Mark, but it's scary.
Speaker 2: We haven't seen it. This are still not flashing now,
Speaker 2: you know, Michael Wilson. Maybe I do think Wilson might
Speaker 2: be better than what we thought originally, but I mean
Speaker 2: he's really expensive. If you look at the guys he's
Speaker 2: going around, like these are legitimate top receivers on their teams,
Speaker 2: and yeah, I just I mean, obviously I will say
Speaker 2: I'm still like going to be drafted like some like
Speaker 2: love and things. But yeah, some of the other especially
Speaker 2: the past catchers, I'm definitely lower on. I'm definitely a
Speaker 2: little concerned.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, how can you. I don't went back you, No, no, no.
Speaker 1: The thing with Beck is like it's so weird because
Speaker 1: if Arizona is bad again this year, I mean, Beck
Speaker 1: could be a backup again next year if they get
Speaker 1: one of these you know, top like a top five
Speaker 1: quarterback in the class, and there's a a ton of quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: How can you not be nervous about Marvin Harrison after
Speaker 1: what we've seen the first two years? How can you
Speaker 1: not be nervous quite frankly about Michael Wilson who blew
Speaker 1: up last year. But it was at the very end
Speaker 1: of the season, and it correlated with this wild, you know,
Speaker 1: gun slinging approach that the Cardinals had to take because
Speaker 1: their defense was so bad. This is his fourth year
Speaker 1: in the league. We don't often see like fourth year breakouts,
Speaker 1: especially ones that come at the end of the season.
Speaker 1: And oh, by the way, he barely eclipsed a thousand yards,
Speaker 1: so I think there could be a regression coming there.
Speaker 1: And then you mentioned the elephant in the room. Trey
Speaker 1: McBride is the guy that's most expensive. And to your point,
Speaker 1: if that, if he doesn't pay off first round draft capital, man,
Speaker 1: are you behind the eight ball already? So, man, I've
Speaker 1: been saying this. I'm out on McBride in the first
Speaker 1: round this year, probably out on him in the second round.
Speaker 1: I'll let somebody else take him. I'm getting the hev
Speaker 1: gbis from this Cardinals offense right now, and I'm with you.
Speaker 1: I'm not targeting them. Although I did just draft Jeremiah Love.
Speaker 1: I'm fine with that just because you know, they took
Speaker 1: him with a third overall pick. He's a blue ship talent.
Speaker 1: They're gonna want to use him. He is a talented
Speaker 1: pass catcher, should fit into what the Cardinals are doing
Speaker 1: this year. And you know, quite frankly, even if Carson
Speaker 1: Beck is making starts at the end of the season,
Speaker 1: probably be pretty easy for him to dump off to
Speaker 1: Love and just let him, you know, do his work. Okay,
Speaker 1: we go to Tampa. Pro Football Talk had this story.
Speaker 1: Zach Robinson, who's the new offensive coordinator staff for the
Speaker 1: Buccaneers this year, said that, and meccaguk is going to
Speaker 1: quote take huge, huge strides down the stretch. Last year,
Speaker 1: he did the opposite of whatever huge strides were. He
Speaker 1: shot out unbelievably out of the gates last year. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of people that thought they they had just
Speaker 1: had hit upon this great receiver in their rookie drafts.
Speaker 1: And then you know, once Mike Evans came back, Baker
Speaker 1: Mayfield was dealing with some injuries as well, which certainly
Speaker 1: probably hampered at Buka's production a little bit. It's somewhere
Speaker 1: in the middle. Right, He's not the receiver he was
Speaker 1: to start off the season. He's certainly not the receiver
Speaker 1: that he was at the end of the season. Now
Speaker 1: he gets Zach Robinson in there. And what's interesting about
Speaker 1: Robinson's stuff. He was the OC for Atlanta. What did
Speaker 1: Atlanta do? They had a lot of targets going to
Speaker 1: Drake London. And I think if we look at Tampa
Speaker 1: this year, McMillan, Hirst, Godwin, ag Buca. To me, if
Speaker 1: they have a number one receiver, it's at Buca. And
Speaker 1: he should be able to not only take strides from
Speaker 1: just the natural sophomore progression you get from NFL players,
Speaker 1: but he should be able to take strides because I
Speaker 1: think he's going to see the football a lot more
Speaker 1: this year.
Speaker 2: So I mean, there's a lot of interesting things to
Speaker 2: like unpack here. So the thing is like with Buka,
Speaker 2: now they're talking about he could play. He wanted to
Speaker 2: play the z ral, which to me is an amazing
Speaker 2: signal because that is what he should be playing. They
Speaker 2: started moving him to a lot of different roles last year.
Speaker 2: So we also on top of you know, there was
Speaker 2: the separation issues. Baker also threw a lot of balls
Speaker 2: that were not catchable the high un catchable target rate.
Speaker 2: He had an injury as well, uh a book a
Speaker 2: little bit, so he you know, there was a lot
Speaker 2: of things. He had a little bit of a hammy.
Speaker 2: And then now we got the other thing that kind
Speaker 2: of coupled with that is with them saying that they
Speaker 2: could use him in the zeviral where he could go
Speaker 2: maybe in and out a slot. They're going to move
Speaker 2: him around formation, They're going to use him where he
Speaker 2: really was great in college. And now they also on
Speaker 2: top of that, have drafted what they're calling a true
Speaker 2: X in Ted Hurst. He immediately tweeted following that up
Speaker 2: and that is really would be his perfect role. So
Speaker 2: it seems like they have the right idea for how
Speaker 2: to utilize these guys at their talent levels. Now, I
Speaker 2: will say Buka's pretty expensive in drafts, and before this
Speaker 2: news I was a little wary on him. I wouldn't
Speaker 2: say I was necessarily fading him, but there was a
Speaker 2: lot of guys I was willing to take over him
Speaker 2: because there was still a lot of mouths defeat. It
Speaker 2: felt like a little bit there in Tampa Bay and
Speaker 2: not knowing exactly how it's going to work out, but
Speaker 2: hearing this is making me want to be a little
Speaker 2: more bullish again. I want to believe I did like
Speaker 2: Abuka a lot coming out.
Speaker 1: So absolutely I did too, for sure. And ag Buka
Speaker 1: right now is wide receiver eighteen that glood I mentioned
Speaker 1: when we were talking about neighbors before. McMillan, Smith, Wilson
Speaker 1: Higgins are right ahead of Igbuka, roughly about a half
Speaker 1: round or so ahead of him, and then he is
Speaker 1: going about uh three or four picks ahead of Za Flowers,
Speaker 1: Lad mcconkeye, and then DJ Moore and Luther Bird. So
Speaker 1: that's kind of where wide receiver eighteen seems very fair there.
Speaker 1: I know some people say, well, he's not going to
Speaker 1: pay that off. I think you will, and I think
Speaker 1: you know, investing a mid fourth round pick, which is
Speaker 1: what it's going to cost you there, especially if you
Speaker 1: already loaded up and got a couple of running backs
Speaker 1: on your team at Buka as your number two there
Speaker 1: makes a lot of sense. Speaking of number two players,
Speaker 1: let's go to the number two tight end in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: Sam Warren, who covers the Las Vegas Raiders. For the
Speaker 1: Athletic wrote that he thinks Michael Michael Mayer is going
Speaker 1: to be more of a pass catching threat now that
Speaker 1: they have Clint Kubiak as their head coach. The Raiders
Speaker 1: don't have anybody on their roster who has ever hit
Speaker 1: seven hundred plus receiving yards in any NFL season. John
Speaker 1: spy Tech, who is the new GM who? Stephan I
Speaker 1: brag about this all the time. I played in a
Speaker 1: state high school football playoff game against John spy Tech.
Speaker 1: His team beat US forty eight to three. But him
Speaker 1: and Clint Kubiak have both said that they want to
Speaker 1: play bigger people out there, you know, which would probably
Speaker 1: mean more dual tight end sets. Right, Brock Bauers is
Speaker 1: obviously going to behead of him. Black Bowers is going
Speaker 1: to eat this year. Bowers is going to have an
Speaker 1: amazing season. But I have to wonder, given the lack
Speaker 1: of receiving options on this team, are we sleeping on
Speaker 1: Michael mayor a little bit, especially in tight end premium
Speaker 1: formats like the FFPC. Steph, right now, if you want
Speaker 1: to get Michael Mayer in your team, he's tight end
Speaker 1: forty two in the nineteenth round. I mean, I'd be
Speaker 1: hitting that like especially as my number three tight end
Speaker 1: at that point. I think he can function maybe even
Speaker 1: as a number two tight end, especially if you have
Speaker 1: you know, one of these elite guys like Loveland or
Speaker 1: Bauers or what have you. Especially maybe if you have Bowers,
Speaker 1: where Mayor can just step in. He's not that far
Speaker 1: removed for being a second round pick in the NFL.
Speaker 1: I want to get your thoughts on Mayor. Is the
Speaker 1: nineteenth round just right or is that too low for him?
Speaker 2: I mean, I think get tight end premium. It makes
Speaker 2: a lot of sense to take that risk. You know,
Speaker 2: I had not really been thinking about him as much,
Speaker 2: but you know, with this news and like you say,
Speaker 2: he was a second round pick. He was a decent
Speaker 2: pass catcher. You know, he's a pretty good blocker too.
Speaker 2: They did not do anything in the draft, which surprised me.
Speaker 2: I really thought that they would draft one of you know,
Speaker 2: Mendoza's teammates to go along with him there or maybe
Speaker 2: give him some weapons. So I would think that, yeah,
Speaker 2: seeing those two tight end sets makes a lot of sense.
Speaker 2: We know they're gonna be probably running the ball a
Speaker 2: lot too, so you know, out there for blocking all
Speaker 2: that all that good stuff. So I mean at that price,
Speaker 2: especially in these tight end premium formats that f FPC is.
Speaker 2: I definitely think that, like you say, it makes sense
Speaker 2: to mix in to some of these builds. I don't
Speaker 2: think you have to take him more than that. So
Speaker 2: I mean, I'm not going to go ahead and reach
Speaker 2: on him, but I mean it drives up pretty good.
Speaker 2: So I mean he definitely is somebody. I mean, if
Speaker 2: we're taking you know, Pittsburgh's second tight end, and we're
Speaker 2: taking all these other guys, it's like why not.
Speaker 1: I mean, I just look at it. But so if
Speaker 1: I I'll bring up the ADP right now of the
Speaker 1: other tight ends going, I mean, you're talking about Mike Gesicki,
Speaker 1: Michael Drigg, Eli Rarenan Kolbe, Parkinson, Mason Taylor, Evan Ingram.
Speaker 1: I mean all these guys are like eighteenth, you know
Speaker 1: the other rookies, Oscar Dell and jo Lee, Terrence Ferguson,
Speaker 1: you know all these other rams tight ends.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not gonna say. I always say Joe
Speaker 1: Del's and there a long time FFPC player. He always
Speaker 1: says there's no such thing as a bad pick. After
Speaker 1: the tenth round, and he's probably right. So if you want,
Speaker 1: if you want to fight for any of these guys,
Speaker 1: then go ahead. And I'm not speaking to you stuff.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about all the viewers or whatever. But if
Speaker 1: you want to take a shot on any of these guys,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna call you out on that. That's fine.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like Mayor should probably be a little
Speaker 1: bit higher than where he's going. I screwed up the rundown.
Speaker 1: I meant to do back to back Tampa stuff. So
Speaker 1: let's go back to Tampa and talk about the backfield here, Steph.
Speaker 1: The quote we got from Zach Robinson was that Kenneth
Speaker 1: Gainwell and Bucky Irvingham have similar skill sets, the quote,
Speaker 1: can they can kind of match each other in certain
Speaker 1: ways with what they can do in the past game.
Speaker 1: And then he talked about Gamewell's you know, professionalism and
Speaker 1: veteran leadership, you know, et cetera, et cetera. Uh and
Speaker 1: and this is a guy who, by the way, last year,
Speaker 1: three running backs caught more passing than Kenneth Gainwell, McCaffrey Gibbs,
Speaker 1: and John Robinson. That's it. And then game Well was
Speaker 1: fourth on that list. Irving was actually a pretty good
Speaker 1: pass catcher too for Tampa. And and you know, you
Speaker 1: hate to see a team add a player that excels
Speaker 1: in something you thought your existing guy already excelled in,
Speaker 1: and that's pass catching, because now he's probably gonna cannibalize
Speaker 1: Irving a little bit. We have talked about how Irving
Speaker 1: is not yet cleared from shoulder injury. We've talked about
Speaker 1: how there's maybe some other stuff going on with Bucky
Speaker 1: Irving too that that would make him not the wisest
Speaker 1: fantasy investment right now. But I will say that when
Speaker 1: it comes down to it, here are the ADPs on
Speaker 1: both of those players right now, Kenneth Gainwell and Bucky
Speaker 1: Irving Irving, and it's getting closer stuff. Irving running back
Speaker 1: nineteen at the four h six, Kenneth Gainwell running back
Speaker 1: thirty five at the eight oh seven. So about four
Speaker 1: rounds separate these two players in a vacuum. Would you
Speaker 1: rather have invested invested the mid fourth round pick into
Speaker 1: Irving or would you rather wait and take the mid
Speaker 1: eighth round pick and get gain Well on your squad.
Speaker 2: I mean, at this point, game was looking pretty nice
Speaker 2: I'm not gonna lie. Before he was signed, Like when
Speaker 2: he was the free agent, I was. I was drafting
Speaker 2: a lot of him because, like you say, he was
Speaker 2: he was really good last year. Like I was, you know,
Speaker 2: I laughed, picked him up on waivers. You know, had
Speaker 2: to you know, talk a lot of my fellow teammates
Speaker 2: into not dropping him right away. You know, Thank goodness
Speaker 2: they did hold on to him and see it through
Speaker 2: because you know, he exceeded a lot of expectations and
Speaker 2: like you say, he kind of does things a lot
Speaker 2: of coaches like like he's a hard worker. You know,
Speaker 2: he doesn't miss his assignment. See, you know, just kind
Speaker 2: of can do all the dirty, down and dirty stuff.
Speaker 2: And I mean, yeah, like you I was kind of
Speaker 2: like ooh when they drafted him, Like I was like, okay,
Speaker 2: that is a little concerning for Bucky. Like that one
Speaker 2: made me, you know, most of the guys, I was like, oh,
Speaker 2: who cares, you know, it's not a big deal. Just
Speaker 2: be a complimentary type le I was like, well, I
Speaker 2: don't know game. Well, I had some skills and now
Speaker 2: we're hearing yeah, with all the complications and we saw
Speaker 2: what hadn't kind of at the end of the season
Speaker 2: and seems like there might be again. I was talking
Speaker 2: about some mental things going on, you know sometimes with
Speaker 2: these guys get in their head. I don't know, you
Speaker 2: need a lot for a guy to pay off a
Speaker 2: fourth round price tech. I mean, you're asking for a
Speaker 2: lot and if it is like a one A, one
Speaker 2: B situation there and of course we still got Sean
Speaker 2: Tucker possibly you know, taking some rushing work as well
Speaker 2: back there, who knows. I'm rather again just go with
Speaker 2: the cheaper guy that we already know is talented and
Speaker 2: is getting talked up. And that's a beautiful spot to
Speaker 2: be able to take some of these guys if you,
Speaker 2: you know, to build onto like a zero ish RB
Speaker 2: type squad things, you know, it gives you, I think,
Speaker 2: a really nice bloard with that pass catching Irving mentionedside.
Speaker 1: Irving mentioned last year's Steph about how the mental hurdles
Speaker 1: he had to overcome when he's trying to overcome this injury,
Speaker 1: which is not easy to do. And now here he
Speaker 1: is again in May, still not cleared for contact from
Speaker 1: this injury that clearly has taken a toll on them
Speaker 1: both mentally and physically. Stein your gallos already chimed in
Speaker 1: retirement's going to eliminate the competition. I mean, I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that that we're going to see a Bucky Irving retirement,
Speaker 1: but at this point whatever, I mean, I don't know
Speaker 1: what's going through anybody's head, any of these players heads.
Speaker 1: Everybody deals with it with it differently. And you know,
Speaker 1: retire aside you mentioned it mid fourth round is a
Speaker 1: significant pick for your for your fantasy team, and you
Speaker 1: don't want a whiff on it. And there there is
Speaker 1: some whiff possibility with Irving here with Gainwell, you know,
Speaker 1: regardless of what happens to Irving this year, he's gonna
Speaker 1: have a role on this team. Uh, He's gonna have
Speaker 1: a role that that is going to maybe not give
Speaker 1: you the biggest spike week potential, but certainly give you
Speaker 1: a high floor each and every week with Gainwell, with
Speaker 1: maybe some spike week potential on that. I think I
Speaker 1: said that last night too. I'm repeating myself, which means
Speaker 1: we need to move on. David and Djoku no longer unemployed, Steph.
Speaker 1: He signs a deal with the Los Angeles Chargers. It's
Speaker 1: one year. I don't I think it's worth up to
Speaker 1: eight million, So there's some funny money on that. I
Speaker 1: don't think there's much guaranteed. Perhaps the biggest story in
Speaker 1: this Njoku signing is what it does for one of
Speaker 1: Rende Gadsden, a player that you know, quite frankly, it's
Speaker 1: been one one battle after another for him this offseason,
Speaker 1: dealing with you know, the rise of Trey Harris. They
Speaker 1: draft Brennan Thompson and the offensive linemen are coming back,
Speaker 1: which is probably good, right because that means Gadsden staying
Speaker 1: in block. He can be out there running routes. But
Speaker 1: you still and Quentin Johnston, I know Mike McDaniel was
Speaker 1: talking him up as well. And Djoku I don't think
Speaker 1: as a player I want to be in business with
Speaker 1: for fantasy purposes. The biggest story here is his impact
Speaker 1: on Gadsden. Does this effectively Newt Gadsden for you? Is
Speaker 1: this a player that you are are out on this
Speaker 1: year or do you still hold out hope that we're
Speaker 1: going to see something from Ronde Gadsden.
Speaker 2: The second I wasn't drafting a ton of Gaston just
Speaker 2: because his price was kind of expensive. In a lot
Speaker 2: of times it was just structurally not really always working
Speaker 2: for me. But let me tell you, I'm excited to
Speaker 2: see the dep now if there is one, because I
Speaker 2: will take the discount because I don't think, I mean,
Speaker 2: this is not a lot of money for a tight
Speaker 2: end at all. And I mean the Joku had a
Speaker 2: lot of injuries, and I do think he was a
Speaker 2: talented guy. But it seems like if he was able
Speaker 2: to have show something, wouldn't someone else have offered him
Speaker 2: a better deal, Like like, there's a lot there's a
Speaker 2: few places that need tight end, and if they're not
Speaker 2: willing to beat out this type of price for his services,
Speaker 2: that makes me think he might be closer to you know,
Speaker 2: to washed and it might be just a whole big
Speaker 2: kind of nothing burger, honestly. And I think if I
Speaker 2: get a discount on a rookie, you know, in an exciting,
Speaker 2: you know, offensive environment, I'm excited for the Charger. Like
Speaker 2: you say, you know they're going to be getting a
Speaker 2: lot of players back. I think, you know, this is
Speaker 2: going to be an exciting offense. It's going to be
Speaker 2: a fast offense. I mean literally and figuratively, you know.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I'm gonna go ahead and buy the dip
Speaker 2: on that.
Speaker 1: Danston is still tight end nine right now, so he
Speaker 1: is Oops, I got to sort this out again. So
Speaker 1: right now he is tight end nine in the FFPC
Speaker 1: Big Gorilla over the last week, Steph, I'm looking at him. Shoot,
Speaker 1: I screwed it up. I'm looking at Gadsden being drafted around.
Speaker 1: If I can finally pull this up. So he is
Speaker 1: going behind Pitt's Craft and Laporta. He is going ahead
Speaker 1: of George Kittle, Isaiah Likely, and Travis Kelcey. It's a
Speaker 1: mid seventh round on average. However, since this in Djoku signing,
Speaker 1: I think we've seen him fall a little bit. In fact,
Speaker 1: he's fallen all the way to the mid ninth in
Speaker 1: one FF see Big Gorilla draft, so we could see
Speaker 1: more of a discount coming. And I think that's what
Speaker 1: we need to look at, you know, is has it
Speaker 1: bottomed out yet? Are we getting are we getting rock
Speaker 1: bottom priced on Gadsta because and then at that point
Speaker 1: where you don't even have to draft him as a
Speaker 1: starting tight end, then I think that there's something there.
Speaker 1: Chargers are gonna be fun to watch, you know. That
Speaker 1: offensive line is healed. They they they are loaded for bear.
Speaker 1: And we look at a player like in Djoku, where
Speaker 1: this signing doesn't necessarily affect in Djoku all that much.
Speaker 1: But this is another weapon for Herbert. This is another
Speaker 1: guy who can block, who can catch, who's a former
Speaker 1: pro bowler at the position he comes in, and maybe
Speaker 1: Herbert is the guy that we should be talking about here.
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel said he wants to refine the footwork of
Speaker 1: Justin Herbert, work on his timing, work on his anticipation,
Speaker 1: which I don't know how much you can coach that.
Speaker 1: I always thought anticipation. Throwing with an anticipation is sort
Speaker 1: of like an either you got it or you don't.
Speaker 1: But maybe you can coach that. I don't know. So
Speaker 1: he was talking to Chris rim who covers the Chargers
Speaker 1: for ESPN, about the strengths and weaknesses of Justin Herbert,
Speaker 1: and it seems like he's making it his personal mission
Speaker 1: to get everything he can out of Herbert, and the
Speaker 1: Chargers are obliging by giving Herbert everything he needs. From
Speaker 1: an offensive standpoint, your all pro tackles are back. You're
Speaker 1: gonna have a mari and Hampton god willing for a
Speaker 1: full season. You know you have Trey Harris. There's a
Speaker 1: lot of people projecting a big season from Trey Harris,
Speaker 1: people smarter than me, and then obviously Johnston McCaffrey. The
Speaker 1: list goes on. You know, we mentioned the tight ends too.
Speaker 1: Herbert maybe is the guy that we should be excited
Speaker 1: about here, Steph. We look at the FFPC big gorilla
Speaker 1: info on him. We can see he is going at
Speaker 1: quarterback nine at the ten oh one. Certainly the ceiling
Speaker 1: is higher than that. It seems like a fair price
Speaker 1: for Herbert. But I don't know, man, I wouldn't be
Speaker 1: a verse about taking him over Jackson Dart. I would
Speaker 1: consider him over Caleb Williams. I think you can even
Speaker 1: make a case for him over Jalen Hurts, although I
Speaker 1: don't know if I go that far. I certainly understand
Speaker 1: the argument your thoughts on the step that Herbert is
Speaker 1: going to take forward this year under the tutelage of
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm with you. I do think he is a
Speaker 2: little underpriced, and I mean I've been saying it and
Speaker 2: then I haven't, unfortunately been following my own advice to
Speaker 2: the level I should be. Especially I do like your
Speaker 2: point about Dart. I think, especially now with the news
Speaker 2: on neighbors. It's hard to see that because his price
Speaker 2: was already a little bit hope hope him for me,
Speaker 2: like and now I would definitely think that, Yeah, Herbert,
Speaker 2: I mean it's nice that you don't have to always
Speaker 2: do that because he is so cheap. That's but I
Speaker 2: definitely think he somebody you should be prioritizing to take.
Speaker 2: I just think that offense is going to be explosive
Speaker 2: and put up a lot of points. Hopefully they're going
Speaker 2: to get him also with the footwork, you know, they're
Speaker 2: going to get him rushing a little bit, doing a
Speaker 2: lot of things. So like he's a big boy, he
Speaker 2: could take some hits, like and now he'll have those
Speaker 2: protection too. You know. He's tough. Yeah, he's very tough.
Speaker 2: So I'm excited to see I think he you know,
Speaker 2: we were excited about him at one time and then
Speaker 2: you know, one down season, you know, people forget, and
Speaker 2: I think we might see him finish, Like he could
Speaker 2: easily finish as a top five quarterback.
Speaker 1: The other thing that's nice about Herbert and bestball leagues too.
Speaker 1: You can get David and Joku, you can get Quinton Johnston,
Speaker 1: you can get Trey Harris, all going after her. So
Speaker 1: you add one of those guys onto your best ball team,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, that's looking not too shabby
Speaker 1: having Herbert dining. Or maybe you already had mcconkee, maybe
Speaker 1: already had Gadsden, and by the way, Gadsden, but you know,
Speaker 1: he's another player that could dip below Herbert to an
Speaker 1: ADPs might be able to stack those guys as well.
Speaker 1: Exciting times to be drafting Los Angeles Chargers. Exciting times
Speaker 1: for the Tennessee Titans. They didn't get their man, Jeremiah
Speaker 1: Love at four, but they did get their wide receiver
Speaker 1: in Carnell Tate. There he agrees to a four year,
Speaker 1: fifty one million dollar contract thirty three million in total,
Speaker 1: fully guaranteed. He's expected to be the number one receiver
Speaker 1: this year. Last year at Ohio State forty four catches,
Speaker 1: just under eight hundred yards and eight touchdowns three point
Speaker 1: five two yards per run, which you like to see.
Speaker 1: I have drafted him probably in more spots than I
Speaker 1: expected so far this season. Stuff. I do think Wandale
Speaker 1: Robinson probably limits his ceiling a little bit. I hope
Speaker 1: that he is more of a true number one rather
Speaker 1: than a guy that you know, is sort of like,
Speaker 1: you know, just not being a sacrificial X or anything
Speaker 1: like that. But I hope that Carnel Tate ends the
Speaker 1: season as the de facto number one rather than Wandale Robinson,
Speaker 1: you know, getting one hundred catches for sixty yards again
Speaker 1: where it's it's really impacting of Tate's performance. Your thoughts
Speaker 1: on Carnel Tate. I love to know what you think
Speaker 1: about him as a prospect and what you think about
Speaker 1: him now that we know he's going to be in
Speaker 1: Tennessee this year. Right now the adp on him. He
Speaker 1: is going as a fringe top thirty wide receiver and
Speaker 1: you can get him with a mid sixth round pick
Speaker 1: in the FFPC. Big Gorilla.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think a lot of it is just
Speaker 2: what you think of, you know, their offense in general.
Speaker 2: Like I do like tit a lot. Like I was
Speaker 2: excited to about Tate coming out. It was kind of
Speaker 2: between him and Tyson for me. You know, when we're
Speaker 2: talking about who the most talented guy was, Tate had.
Speaker 2: You know, he could separate really easy. I feel like
Speaker 2: he could fit into a lot of offensive schemes. The
Speaker 2: biggest thing is what do we think of camboard. How
Speaker 2: is that going to be, like, is he going to
Speaker 2: take a step ford. I'm hoping that getting him some
Speaker 2: of these offensive weapons, you know, we will see more.
Speaker 2: I do think they were hopefully was something there so,
Speaker 2: you know, scheming everything. I think they do have talent.
Speaker 2: I think we could see I think that, you know,
Speaker 2: the Titans could be a little bit sneaky again with you.
Speaker 2: I do hope that they don't just dump it off constantly,
Speaker 2: you know, and it's a PPR scamming you know, to
Speaker 2: Wandale constantly. But I do think that Tate offers a
Speaker 2: lot of that same stuff and a lot more upside too,
Speaker 2: because I mean we've seen him be able to track
Speaker 2: the ball, get deep and do things as well. So
Speaker 2: I don't think Wandale has that as much in his
Speaker 2: skill set. So hopefully, you know, Tate's got that upside
Speaker 2: and can keep him at bay. And they have also
Speaker 2: a couple of good still running backs you know that
Speaker 2: didn't take love, So I think the offense could hum
Speaker 2: together and it's pretty cheap for the possibility. Yeah, it's
Speaker 2: one that could be kind of sneaky fun.
Speaker 1: I think the the other thing too, and you think
Speaker 1: about how cam Ward ended last season where he was
Speaker 1: throwing two touchdowns like every single game, and that's a
Speaker 1: and that's without Carnell Tate. And I feel like this
Speaker 1: offense has an opportunity to grow together now that they
Speaker 1: have Tate, now that they have Robinson, you're still bringing
Speaker 1: Iam Manner and DK back. You have gunner Helm taking
Speaker 1: stuff forward. The biggest thing you really lost was China
Speaker 1: Kokwo and you have gunner Helm there too. And I
Speaker 1: think a capable running back Tony Poler to help out
Speaker 1: cam Ward as well. Last thing I want to bring
Speaker 1: up here in this segment before we start talking about
Speaker 1: the schedule release, Breese Hall inked a three year, forty
Speaker 1: five million dollar contract extension through twenty twenty eight with
Speaker 1: the New York Jets. I think this is more like
Speaker 1: a two year deal, or maybe I'm thinking an eight
Speaker 1: chance deal, but I think there's very little, if no
Speaker 1: guaranteed money in the last year of Breess Hall's contract.
Speaker 1: He's going to be a New York Jets Steph. The
Speaker 1: offense is much improved from where it was last year,
Speaker 1: where it was absolutely abysmal, and abysmo might even be
Speaker 1: an understatement for how bad it was, But you look
Speaker 1: at this this team this year, Gino Smith, I know
Speaker 1: Frank Reich's very excited about him. I remained skeptical, but
Speaker 1: he's probably an improvement over what they had in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty five. You think about what this team could be
Speaker 1: like in twenty twenty seven with a quote unquote real quarterback,
Speaker 1: a real young quarterback at least behind the helm. What
Speaker 1: do you imagine for Breess Hall for fantasy going forward?
Speaker 1: He ended last season as the running back fifteen in
Speaker 1: FFPC scoring. He's going off the board right now as
Speaker 1: running back fifteen at the three oh four. What are
Speaker 1: your shares like on haw? Is this a player that
Speaker 1: you're trying to get on your rosters this year?
Speaker 2: I do like Bristol. I mean I think the Jets again,
Speaker 2: they've done a lot to improve their offense, so they
Speaker 2: might be better than what we think. Like you said,
Speaker 2: it was the Yeah, the first two years he was
Speaker 2: given twenty nine mill guaranteed, I believe. So, yeah, it
Speaker 2: is kind of front loaded there, but I mean they
Speaker 2: hadn't chance to trade him at the trade deadline even
Speaker 2: last year they didn't do it, so they want him
Speaker 2: to be their guy. They don't have much behind him.
Speaker 2: They got Braylen Allen, who's coming off an injury and
Speaker 2: didn't do much his rookie year at all, and then
Speaker 2: they got Isaiah Davis, so it's like, obviously they want
Speaker 2: him again to be the focal point. We know that
Speaker 2: Brice has that explosion, We know that he is a
Speaker 2: good pass catcher. They have now improved some of their weapons.
Speaker 2: You know, they got Garrett Wilson, they drafted Omar Cooper,
Speaker 2: they got Kendricksdeck. Who knows what they're gonna do with
Speaker 2: Mason Taylor, but you know, they've got a lot of
Speaker 2: stuff there. So I think that that should open up
Speaker 2: some lanes for him. You know, like they definitely won't
Speaker 2: be able to just focus on Breese and I don't
Speaker 2: know about Gino. We'll see. I was a you know,
Speaker 2: a little disappointed with most of my brock Bower shares
Speaker 2: last year and things like that, but I think that
Speaker 2: dumping it off to Brees should not be that difficult.
Speaker 2: So hopefully, you know, we can see a good season
Speaker 2: and I am taking him. I've been a presolid believer
Speaker 2: for a long time, so I'm willing to go back
Speaker 2: to go back there because I think that he does
Speaker 2: have that type of upside that I mean, we've seen it,
Speaker 2: like he can take he can he can do it
Speaker 2: like it with the opportunity. I think, you know, he's
Speaker 2: somebody that can definitely uh hurt you if you're fading
Speaker 2: him in. He is the guy could be the guy
Speaker 2: you need.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well a lot to like about him, you know,
Speaker 1: not recovering from a torn acl has some decent weapons
Speaker 1: on the perimeter that you know, defenses won't just be
Speaker 1: able to load up the box hopefully. Yeah, I think
Speaker 1: running back fifteen seems about right. I should probably be
Speaker 1: in business with him a little bit more than I am.
Speaker 1: That early third round pick seems pretty enticing for me.
Speaker 1: Just to give the viewers a little bit of context
Speaker 1: on that. If we look at the other running backs
Speaker 1: going around him, he is right behind Derrick Henry and
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs, and then you have to wait until the
Speaker 1: end of the it's kind of a tier break, and
Speaker 1: then at the end of the third round you get
Speaker 1: your Kyron Williams, your Jamonte Williams or Travis hn those
Speaker 1: guys there. So Hall Yeah, I mean he's kind of
Speaker 1: the last guy on that tier going forward, and I
Speaker 1: think a player that you draft him, you'll probably be
Speaker 1: happy that you drafted him. Let's take a break, Steph,
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm so excited to see this as a matchup
Speaker 2: because those are two offenses that I am pretty heavily
Speaker 2: invested in. In general. I can't stop every year. I
Speaker 2: don't know why, I just I go back to the
Speaker 2: wall with Lamar. I've been drafting a lot of Lamar,
Speaker 2: a lot of Flowers. I mean they drafted some rookies
Speaker 2: as well that are going like super late. You can
Speaker 2: always tack on to your stacks. We saw what Derrick
Speaker 2: Henry did, you know with the four touchdown game last year,
Speaker 2: So you know, even if you know he gets hurt,
Speaker 2: who knows, there's some you know, cheap options of whatever
Speaker 2: you want to do. At backup, they did draft running
Speaker 2: back plate as well. Then Justice Hill's still sitting around.
Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know. Then we got Mark Andrews,
Speaker 2: who they finally paid and gave money to. I mean,
Speaker 2: these are just so much fun. And then obviously we
Speaker 2: got on the Bengals side, and I mean, even if
Speaker 2: Burrow goes down, what so we get Joe Flacco? I mean,
Speaker 2: come on, I'm I'm okay with that. You know, give
Speaker 2: the bar? Can you get the ball to Dumar Chase? Yes, okay?
Speaker 2: And then we got to Higgins. They didn't really do
Speaker 2: much upgrade. Maybe they're wide receiver three, but you know,
Speaker 2: Chase Brown should be a smash Again, they didn't upgrade
Speaker 2: their running back too tight end would be interesting. I
Speaker 2: wish that they had gotten a little bit more stuff there.
Speaker 2: But yeah, these offenses are just so much fun and
Speaker 2: I would be excited to be investing in this game
Speaker 2: for sure.
Speaker 1: The other Week seventeen games here we'll do. We'll get
Speaker 1: this one out of the way, because I don't think
Speaker 1: it's that enticing. It's an AFC Championship game rematch where
Speaker 1: we have the Broncos visiting New England, so the game
Speaker 1: not in Denver this time. But to me, that's two
Speaker 1: pretty talented defenses. I don't know how excited you would
Speaker 1: be for Broncos Patriots week seventeen. It probably probably kills
Speaker 1: some of my interests in best ball in you know,
Speaker 1: guys like Jalen Waddle, guys like Trevion Henderson there, Yeah, that.
Speaker 2: Would that would that one's yeah, that's a damper.
Speaker 1: It is a damper.
Speaker 2: It is because I do like like in general, I
Speaker 2: do like Waddle and then that like by himself, and
Speaker 2: I do like the Patriots. You know, still, Jerry Bon's
Speaker 2: always a tough, tough one, you know. I want to
Speaker 2: believe in the upside, so I do take some I
Speaker 2: was out earlier and then somehow talked to myself slightly
Speaker 2: back in. We'll see.
Speaker 1: This one, I think is a little bit more fun.
Speaker 1: Chiefs at Chargers and wee where we could have Mahomes
Speaker 1: and Herbert going at it and we just always we
Speaker 1: already talked about the stacking possibilities with the Chargers. A
Speaker 1: lot of stacking possibilities for Patrick Mahomes too, when when
Speaker 1: you look at is this this might be his lowest
Speaker 1: adp like of his career. I mean, obviously this rookie
Speaker 1: year where he didn't play it was it was super
Speaker 1: low then. But Patrick Mahomes' quarterback twelve in the eleventh
Speaker 1: round pretty easily. Could you get him and Rice him
Speaker 1: and Worthy him and Kelsey, I mean, any of the
Speaker 1: So I think that's interesting that Chiefs Chargers game, and
Speaker 1: that one will be in Los Angeles as well. Some
Speaker 1: Best Ball bro is gonna be paying attention to that one.
Speaker 2: Too, Yeah, I mean, and on that note, you know,
Speaker 2: Kelsey's been super cheap this year as well. I think
Speaker 2: he's one of the best picks you can have. I
Speaker 2: have an obscene him out of Kelsey this year on
Speaker 2: Bestball teams. I just think, I mean, he still was
Speaker 2: paid off like more than the price. I mean, I
Speaker 2: get that he's old, but come on, I'll know what
Speaker 2: we're doing here.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like people were kind of down on
Speaker 1: him last year, but if you if you take the
Speaker 1: name Travis Kelcey off his stat line you're looking at
Speaker 1: and you're like, yeah, that's actually not that's that's pretty fancy,
Speaker 1: you know. The this next one, I don't know how
Speaker 1: to feel about this. I think this is gonna be
Speaker 1: probably a pretty high scoring game. The Rams visit Tampa
Speaker 1: Bay in Week seventeen as well, so you have Stafford, Adams, Nakoula,
Speaker 1: Williams and Quorum and you know the tight ends obviously
Speaker 1: taking on those pass catchers we talked about with Tampa,
Speaker 1: and then obviously we'll see what they have in the
Speaker 1: backfield then. But that Rams Tampa won might be interesting.
Speaker 1: Maybe definitely not as interesting as Baltimore and Cincinnati because
Speaker 1: the quarterback cachet is a little bit lower, But Rams
Speaker 1: and Bucks should be fun too. In Week seventeen.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I mean those are offenses that are always
Speaker 2: i mean, the Bucks to usually push other people to
Speaker 2: pass more too than they have passed. I mean, I
Speaker 2: know that it's not always going to carry over every season,
Speaker 2: but yeah, those feel pretty fun. I mean, that's those
Speaker 2: are teams they can put up those points. Yeah, and
Speaker 2: I'd assume the weather's probably pretty decent too. Yeah, probably
Speaker 2: a warm weather place. So that's something else to consider
Speaker 2: I'm not expecting like a snow game there.
Speaker 1: No, definitely not. They We got a SOL game there.
Speaker 1: We got other problems to be worried about. Yeah, Washington
Speaker 1: and Jacksonville is kind of whatever. New Orleans and Atlanta
Speaker 1: in week seventeen, so you have this Tyler Shook supposedly
Speaker 1: high powered team with Etchian there now and Jordan Tyson
Speaker 1: who you mentioned earlier, were talking about Carnell Tate, I
Speaker 1: like Juwan Johnson against those Atlanta Falcons who were breaking down,
Speaker 1: and this is one of those games where you'd love,
Speaker 1: you know, tell me who the starting quarterback is for
Speaker 1: Atlanta in week seventeen and I'll know who I want
Speaker 1: to target on that team. You're not gonna know. But
Speaker 1: that Saints Falcons game, that could be another fun, high
Speaker 1: scoring one. We've been talking mostly AFC teams. That could
Speaker 1: be a fun NFC one in week seventeen stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, agreed. I mean, I think Kellen Moore is going
Speaker 2: to throw a ton on I'm they you know, now
Speaker 2: have somebody finally to go along with the lava, and yeah,
Speaker 2: I think it's going to be a really fine game
Speaker 2: as well. And they're always in a battle, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, the there's Colts at Browns. But what about this
Speaker 1: one your Dallas Cowboys in week seventeen, Steph hosting the
Speaker 1: Fighting Jackson Darts out of New York. The Giants come
Speaker 1: to Big d in week seventeen to again, and we
Speaker 1: talked about this with neighbors. We said, maybe at the
Speaker 1: end of the season, he'll be at the peak of
Speaker 1: his powers, or at least as close to the peak
Speaker 1: of his powers as he can be this first year
Speaker 1: coming off the ACL And now the Giants come down
Speaker 1: to take on the Cowboys in week seventeen. We could
Speaker 1: be looking at you know, thirty something to thirty something
Speaker 1: in that game.
Speaker 2: It could be a fun game. I will say the Giants,
Speaker 2: I'm curious how good their defense is. I mean, they've
Speaker 2: been having a lot of top picks, they took a
Speaker 2: lot of so I hope that doesn't put a damper
Speaker 2: on just their games in general, you know, because they
Speaker 2: might be better than my thought. Like they you know,
Speaker 2: they spent some top draft picks on defense, so they
Speaker 2: really have revamped it. And then if they're not pushing
Speaker 2: the other teams, if they don't have neighbors and don't
Speaker 2: have the big scores, I hope they're as fun as
Speaker 2: we expect. That's one that I still need to kind
Speaker 2: of think through, I think, but I definitely think that
Speaker 2: the Cowboys usually put up and don't slow down on
Speaker 2: when they're playing the Giants. They usually play them pretty well.
Speaker 2: So I'm excited. I'm excited about that one is the
Speaker 2: matchup right now, and hopefully Neighbors is back to full
Speaker 2: strength there and we can see a sent back and
Speaker 2: forth action.
Speaker 1: That we're getting into some blah ones here. Pittsburgh at Tennessee,
Speaker 1: Buffalo at Miami. I mean, that's there's not a ton
Speaker 1: of light there. The Vikings visit the Jets. Okay, Seattle
Speaker 1: goes to Carolina. Yeah, there could be something there, But
Speaker 1: by and large, I'm not excited about that. We have
Speaker 1: the tight End Bowl when Brock Bauers goes to Arizona
Speaker 1: to take on Trey McBride Raiders at Cardinals, and then
Speaker 1: we get it will be fun. We get this little
Speaker 1: jem the Ben Johnson Bowl. Detroit visit Chicago, so we'll
Speaker 1: get Lions at Bears in Week seventeen. Two offenses definitely,
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think you can call the Lions
Speaker 1: on the upswing anymore. They've they've been one of the
Speaker 1: best offenses in the NFL the last several years, versus
Speaker 1: the Bears, who have who have really come on this
Speaker 1: past season, the first under under Johnson. A lot of
Speaker 1: points there. These are stackable teams. Caleb Williams and Luther
Speaker 1: Byrd and Caleb Williams, Colston Lovelin, Jared Goff, James and Williams,
Speaker 1: Jared Goff, Sam Laporta, Jared Goff, Monross, Saint Brown. So
Speaker 1: that's another one. We talked about, that Baltimore Cincinnati game.
Speaker 1: And then you know, obviously the Rams and Buccaneers are
Speaker 1: probably in the same vein. But this Lions Bears game
Speaker 1: that's late for a four to twenty five start, that
Speaker 1: should be a good one as well, and one that
Speaker 1: is probably going to help the sides you know, thousands,
Speaker 1: maybe even millions of dollars in fantasy championships this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I definitely agree with that. I mean, also you
Speaker 2: get you know, Ben Johnson revenge game. I think they
Speaker 2: just play each other extra hard and go at it
Speaker 2: and pull out all the tricks. And I mean I
Speaker 2: think both of these offenses we know are going to
Speaker 2: be super fun for fantasy this year, and they got
Speaker 2: so many skilled players. I'm excited. Those are teams that
Speaker 2: I've already been, you know, investing in, So hopefully when
Speaker 2: I look through my portfolio, I can I fell into
Speaker 2: some of these matchups, so I'll have the fun later
Speaker 2: to see. I count Week seventeen correlation you managed to
Speaker 2: get when you're drafting early.
Speaker 1: The and yeah, it's sort of like it's sort of
Speaker 1: like you know, you're drafting these teams all over again
Speaker 1: because you know you're looking at him for the first
Speaker 1: time in a brand new light where you know who
Speaker 1: they're going to be playing and when they're going to
Speaker 1: be playing them. That is all of them except for
Speaker 1: the last two games from the from the Week seventeen schedule.
Speaker 1: The Sunday night game will be at the Big Denim
Speaker 1: as I call it, from Levi Stadium in Santa Clara.
Speaker 1: The Niners will host the Philadelphia Eagles. Certainly some high
Speaker 1: powered offenses going on. We'll be waiting all day, Steph
Speaker 1: for Sunday Night when Jalen Hurts, Saquon Barkley take on McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: take on brock Purty. Mike Evans will obviously be in
Speaker 1: that game as well as long as he's healthy. Eagles Niners.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a nice little prelude on Sunday night
Speaker 1: for the final game, which we'll get to in a second.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean, you know, Brock Purty one of
Speaker 1: the best quarterbacks in the league fantasy wise to end
Speaker 1: last season. And then you have brand new offensive coordinator
Speaker 1: and Sean mannon coming into its inject some life into
Speaker 1: this Eagles offense stackable. Yes for those some correlation there
Speaker 1: Eagles in San Francisco on Sunday night. I think the
Speaker 1: NFL is starting to understand how big fantasy is to
Speaker 1: help grow their game.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's an interesting one. I could see going both ways,
Speaker 2: because that one could be. Yeah, I think I like it.
Speaker 2: I mean I did take I like taking the forty
Speaker 2: nine ers. Yeah, I mean they score points, but you
Speaker 2: know they also both teams love to kick field goals.
Speaker 2: So who knows, Like we'll see.
Speaker 1: The game will and probably not on the greatest matchup
Speaker 1: that we could get, because there are some really good
Speaker 1: ones in Week seventeen, But the NFL has this slate
Speaker 1: in the final game of Week seventeen, Monday Night Football
Speaker 1: on January fourth, twenty twenty seven. C J. Stroud and
Speaker 1: the Houston Texans come up to the frozen tundra in
Speaker 1: Green Bay to take on Jordan Love and the Packers.
Speaker 1: And while there are things to like about these offenses,
Speaker 1: Nico Collins, David Montgomery, maybe Tank Dell will be meaningful
Speaker 1: at that point too. And then you get the Packers
Speaker 1: with Love and with Watson and Jacobs and Tucker Craft
Speaker 1: and all those guys. The problem is it's January and
Speaker 1: it's Green Bay. It's gonna be cold. I don't know
Speaker 1: how much scoring we'll see on that final Monday night game.
Speaker 2: Andie Houston's defense is so good. Yeah, I don't really
Speaker 2: want whoever's playing them, honestly, Like it just does not
Speaker 2: scream fantasy goodness. Like they're gonna put a damper on it.
Speaker 2: And I don't know. I mean, I'm from Texas. I'm
Speaker 2: gonna tell you it does not get that cold here,
Speaker 2: So I don't know how well they're gonna be able
Speaker 2: to play on offense. Like, Yeah, that's one that I
Speaker 2: probably would stay away from a little bit more that.
Speaker 1: That is your week seventeen schedule. They're rolling it out
Speaker 1: right now, they're breaking I mean the whole thing is out.
Speaker 1: You can go on. I'm on ESPN's website. They have
Speaker 1: the entire schedule out there right now I'm looking at
Speaker 1: It looks like the bye weeks are are starting Week five,
Speaker 1: which I think was what we had last year. We'll
Speaker 1: have buys week five through Week twelve and uh no
Speaker 1: buye everybody plays in week thirteen, and then week fourteen
Speaker 1: we'll have the Patriots, Giants, Niners, and Panthers on a
Speaker 1: bye the bipocalypse week stuff. It looks like we have
Speaker 1: just one of them this year, thank god. Week eight
Speaker 1: Raiders year well, yeah it was, yeah, it was. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're right last year, Yeah, Raiders, Seahawks, Cardinals, Lions, Rams, Jaguars.
Speaker 1: So we'll have six down by in week eight. But
Speaker 1: you know before that, Week six, two teams, Week seven
Speaker 1: just two teams. Week eleven just two teams as well.
Speaker 1: So I don't know, I feel like buys there are.
Speaker 1: It'd be nice if if if we could get them
Speaker 1: all out of the way prior to week thirteen. But
Speaker 1: we're gonna get these four teams on buy and week
Speaker 1: fourteen anyway. So there you have it. More on the
Speaker 1: schedule release in upcoming up episodes not only have f
Speaker 1: FPC insider access, but the high stakes Fantasy Football out
Speaker 1: of the road of his high stakes, lowdown and extra
Speaker 1: reps as well. If we can go back to Steph
Speaker 1: some of the stuff we didn't touch on in that
Speaker 1: first segment, I would like to get your thoughts on
Speaker 1: Jalen Naylor moving on to the Raiders. He's replaced by
Speaker 1: Juwan Jennings on Minnesota. So you have you're justin Jefferson,
Speaker 1: you have your Jordan Aison, and now you have your
Speaker 1: Juwan Jennings. A lot of jays on this team catching
Speaker 1: passes from Kyler Murray. Is Juwan Jennings going to be
Speaker 1: a fantasy factor as the number three receiver? Or do
Speaker 1: you think he actually hurts the production of Jordan Addison
Speaker 1: this year to the point where maybe you don't want
Speaker 1: to be on either one of those players in your
Speaker 1: fantasy leagues.
Speaker 2: It's a tough one. I've been thinking about this quite
Speaker 2: a bit myself. He is an upgrade to me obviously
Speaker 2: on Naylor. So they did okay, I mean Jennings is
Speaker 2: a legitimate player, like he's really good. We saw what
Speaker 2: he did on the forty nine ers. There's a lot
Speaker 2: of mouths defeat. Can Kyler get the ball to everyone?
Speaker 2: I do not know. It probably definitely does hurt some
Speaker 2: of them because it's going to be spread out. I
Speaker 2: feel like a lot I'm sure justin Jefferson will get him.
Speaker 2: But maybe the answer is just Kyler's gonna be pretty good, Like,
Speaker 2: I mean, he might score points, like it may be
Speaker 2: hard to figure out the right guy to stack him
Speaker 2: with outside of Jefferson, But I do think that Kyler
Speaker 2: in itself and if maybe he gets back to having
Speaker 2: a little more rushing production, he might be another one
Speaker 2: that's kind of sneaky enterprise. Like I mean, I definitely
Speaker 2: do believe in this offense, and you know they have
Speaker 2: a good coach and stuff, So I mean, I think
Speaker 2: it could be fun. I wouldn't go. I definitely would
Speaker 2: maybe see if you can get that little bit of
Speaker 2: discount on Addison. And honestly, how much has Jenning's risen
Speaker 2: because it doesn't seem like he's moved. So I think
Speaker 2: if you look at the guys he's going around out,
Speaker 2: a lot of them might be zeros. So I don't
Speaker 2: hate taking a shot still because you know, especially in basketball,
Speaker 2: he could have that week you know, anybody can have
Speaker 2: that week where they get you those multi touchdowns in
Speaker 2: the right time.
Speaker 1: Well didn't I mean, didn't he have a week last year?
Speaker 2: I mean what was what was the one there was
Speaker 2: the year before where he had like that fifty point game.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I thought, god, what, I'm looking it up right
Speaker 1: now because I remember seeing that. I'm like this, rubbing
Speaker 1: my eyes, like Juwan Jennings really this is yeah.
Speaker 2: I picked him up on waivers the week he and
Speaker 2: played him in La like when he that happened. So
Speaker 2: I was pretty happy about that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was unbelievable. It was.
Speaker 2: It was insane.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find the game. You said twenty twenty four, right,
Speaker 1: I think yeah, I think so twenty four. I'm looking
Speaker 1: it up right now. Yeah, my god, okay, okay. So
Speaker 1: he had this was Week three of twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: in a twenty seven to twenty four loss to the Rams.
Speaker 1: Eleven catches, one hundred and seventy five yards and three
Speaker 1: touchdowns on twelve targets, So he basically caught everything that
Speaker 1: was thrown to him too. Yeah, there's something there with
Speaker 1: Juwan Jennings. I want to wrap this up the Vikings
Speaker 1: conversation Kyler Murray wi beggar, pardon quarterback sixteen right now? Steph?
Speaker 1: Is that too low for him?
Speaker 2: I love Kyler, I've been taking him. Yeah, I think
Speaker 2: he's a value he is.
Speaker 1: Going right after It's Purty Stafford Knicks, then Murray then
Speaker 1: shook who is he shook his closing in on Kyler Murray.
Speaker 1: Then you have Goff and Mayfield after that. But yeah,
Speaker 1: Murray's legs that offense. With Kevin O'Connell as his head coach,
Speaker 1: there's a lot to like there. I think he is
Speaker 1: a little underpriced. Speaking of quarterback whisperers, Kevin Stefanski says,
Speaker 1: I don't think there is a limit to where Zecharie
Speaker 1: a Branch can line up on the field. Well, thank god,
Speaker 1: because they're going to have the line over the field
Speaker 1: in order for him to be creating. You know, I
Speaker 1: said throughout the whole pre draft process stuff, I was
Speaker 1: not a Zachariah Branch guy. Really, a lot of red
Speaker 1: flags in his profile. I do think he landed really
Speaker 1: really well in Atlanta, and and certainly there is a
Speaker 1: fairly clear path for him being the number two wide
Speaker 1: receiver in Atlanta this year. I wonder how valuable that
Speaker 1: is though, being the number two wide receiver on a
Speaker 1: team that already features but Jean Robinson, Drake London and
Speaker 1: Kyle Pitts. How much have you been drafting Zachariah Branch
Speaker 1: at all this year or even staying away?
Speaker 2: I have drafted him. I was not drafting him at
Speaker 2: first because I did not love him, but I have
Speaker 2: been drafting him now because there is a clear path.
Speaker 2: I mean, obviously he was a He's a really interesting
Speaker 2: guy because Georgia decided that they would just throw him screens,
Speaker 2: and I mean, is that his fault? I don't know.
Speaker 2: He's pretty good with the ball in its hands. He's
Speaker 2: got some yak ability, So you know, there is a
Speaker 2: shot that there's a lot more there that we just
Speaker 2: didn't see. I mean, they didn't do him any fade
Speaker 2: for the way they played and featured him, but he
Speaker 2: was drafted. They spent you know, some capital on him.
Speaker 2: I do think that he could be a pretty fun
Speaker 2: player there, and there is some room. I mean, I yeah,
Speaker 2: Pitts is the title. I mean, we're still are going
Speaker 2: to have at least two wide receiver sets, so you know,
Speaker 2: somebody else is gonna be out there, and I do
Speaker 2: think that he probably has some more versatile than what
Speaker 2: we've seen, and I do like that, you know, if
Speaker 2: he's good with the ball in his hands and they
Speaker 2: just want to get him the ball, hopefully they'll figure
Speaker 2: it out.
Speaker 1: The uh Zecharia Branch I will I will probably have
Speaker 1: him on a couple of teams. I still don't like
Speaker 1: him even despite this landing spot. But when you consider
Speaker 1: where he's going in drafts, I mean, it's not like
Speaker 1: you're there's not there's you know, it's not like you're
Speaker 1: giving up a whole lot by taking Branch. So there
Speaker 1: is something he said to that real quick on the Chiefs.
Speaker 1: This is kind of interesting, and I don't quite Frankly,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you felt about Xavier Worthy when
Speaker 1: he was coming into the NFL and then obviously kind
Speaker 1: of a mini loss season last year. We got some
Speaker 1: light shed on that by Andy Reid last week that
Speaker 1: he said the Chiefs were afraid to do certain things.
Speaker 1: End quote with Xavier Worthy after he had that shoulder
Speaker 1: injury when he got blasted by his own teammate Travis
Speaker 1: Kelce in Week one. It was a fully torn laborm
Speaker 1: and he didn't come back until Week four, never got
Speaker 1: higher than eighty five yards in any single game last season.
Speaker 1: The Chiefs were limiting his routes run last year, but
Speaker 1: now Andy Reid says he can run the full routree
Speaker 1: again because the shoulders heeled, the Laboram shield, whatever, He's
Speaker 1: good to go. Wide receiver thirty three for Xavier Worthy
Speaker 1: his rookie year in twenty twenty four, Wide receiver fifty
Speaker 1: nine this past year. You think he's going to be
Speaker 1: better than wide receiver thirty three this year? And a
Speaker 1: couple of things to consider Travis Kelcey obviously on the
Speaker 1: back nine of his career, the presence of Rashie Rice
Speaker 1: on the squad, and the addition of Kenneth Walker to
Speaker 1: the backfield stuff.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean Walker matters and stuff. But you know
Speaker 2: what they didn't do. They didn't draft another receiver. Great point,
Speaker 2: and I mean it's one of those you know, c
Speaker 2: the meame of. You know, as soon as I thought
Speaker 2: I was out, they got me. They're really me back in. Yeah,
Speaker 2: I mean this made sense. I want to believe. I mean,
Speaker 2: we know he's a big play threat, he's a fast guy.
Speaker 2: I mean, we know Mahomes can chuck that ball, like
Speaker 2: I'm willing to go right back to the wall here
Speaker 2: and what we thought last year. There's a lot of
Speaker 2: good reasons why it didn't work out, and I think
Speaker 2: it's a good chance that we see what we thought
Speaker 2: we would last year this year, and now we're getting
Speaker 2: a discount, so especially with those extra you know, because
Speaker 2: I do know he did have the shoulder, and that
Speaker 2: makes sense of why they wouldn't want to do that
Speaker 2: Bee Jim, and I think if they were concerned, they
Speaker 2: would have made another move in the draft, and they didn't.
Speaker 2: So because they had they were right in line. I mean,
Speaker 2: they had the picks to do it. They could have
Speaker 2: invested in a receiver if they felt the need and
Speaker 2: were worried about it. So obviously I think they have
Speaker 2: some faith there because you know, yeah they have Rashie,
Speaker 2: but like you say, they still have a lot of aging,
Speaker 2: you know, with Kelsey and things.
Speaker 1: If you look at if you look at the depth
Speaker 1: chart for the Chiefs right now at at wide receiver,
Speaker 1: Remember Mark, he's Brown not there anymore, He's he's now Philly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're looking at Taekwon Thornton, Jalen Royle's Jeff, Yeah, I
Speaker 1: did nothing. Jeff Caldway, I think was an undrafted free agent.
Speaker 1: I mean the wide receiver show is worthy and it's
Speaker 1: Rashie Rice this year. I mean, yeah, he did so.
Speaker 1: So I think, yeah, when and when you look at Worthy,
Speaker 1: what I say, you finished it? And wide receiver fifty
Speaker 1: nine last year, wide receiver thirty three the year before,
Speaker 1: he's wide receiver fifty two. Right now at the eleven
Speaker 1: oh six. I think that might be a buying opportunity
Speaker 1: for people to take advantage of that. To the Big Gorilla,
Speaker 1: I said, we get to more Cowboys stuff, Steph, and
Speaker 1: we're gonna do that right now. George Pickens, let's go
Speaker 1: to Big D and talk about him. He has officially
Speaker 1: signed his franchise tag. He's going to get paid twenty
Speaker 1: seven point three million dollars this year, fully guaranteed. What's
Speaker 1: the scuttle butt on what's going on with a long
Speaker 1: term deal there. I've heard differing things from from the
Speaker 1: Joneses there that they were going to work on it. No,
Speaker 1: they're not going to work on it. Pickens this year,
Speaker 1: you know, he's kind of a mercurial guy. And then
Speaker 1: you also consider that there's there's still a trade on
Speaker 1: the table or a trade possibility. You tell me what's
Speaker 1: going on with Pickens, and then most importantly, stuff tell
Speaker 1: the viewers what we should be doing with George Pickens
Speaker 1: f FPC big Grilla drafts. Knowing that he's wide receiver
Speaker 1: ten at the three or four.
Speaker 2: Right now, I have no idea. I wish I knew
Speaker 2: more about Dallas and what they're doing. I mean it
Speaker 2: feels to me like I do think he's gonna be
Speaker 2: on Dallas this year. I mean they're gonna play him
Speaker 2: because I feel like they would have again maybe drafted somebody,
Speaker 2: maybe not you know, given Lemon to the Eagles, you know,
Speaker 2: in their lap or something like, there would have been something.
Speaker 2: I mean, they didn't take any receivers until like super late.
Speaker 2: The drafted a couple guys and I think picked up
Speaker 2: some again on drafted free agents. So there's nothing there.
Speaker 2: I mean, you got Florinois at number three, but like
Speaker 2: oh now, I oh oh oh. Jalen Tolbert is gone,
Speaker 2: he went to Miami. I mean, so it's like there's
Speaker 2: not much back there. Uh, they're investing. I mean, there's
Speaker 2: pick it seems like he wants to be here. I
Speaker 2: don't know long term what they'll manage to do. You know,
Speaker 2: the cap is o beast. Hopefully I'd like to see
Speaker 2: them give him a long term deal. I think they
Speaker 2: make a great duo. I'm taking him, I'm drafting him.
Speaker 2: I think that him and Ceed could easily pay off
Speaker 2: and the Cowboys could just put up a lot of
Speaker 2: points this season. So I'm pretty excited. We'll see, We'll see.
Speaker 2: I think they would have done stuff during the draft
Speaker 2: and had that follow through to tuition fuition, and it
Speaker 2: feels like also like he's not going to hold out
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Speaker 1: Chasing at Steph Miller fifty seven. So you had participated
Speaker 1: and I believe you've done this before the Fantasy and
Speaker 1: Frames Women's Best Ball tournament that the FFPC hosted. Stacey
Speaker 1: Perez puts this together every single year. I jumped on
Speaker 1: the stream when you were drafting on March thirtieth. We
Speaker 1: chopped it up with Stacy. Had a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: You were drafting out of the ten spot in this
Speaker 1: Best Ball Slim draft. So you're looking at twenty rounds,
Speaker 1: no kickers, no defenses, And I do want to focus
Speaker 1: in on a few of your picks here. The first
Speaker 1: one we'll kick it off with was James Cook at
Speaker 1: the one ten. You go with Cook in the first round,
Speaker 1: And I know there was a lot of people for
Speaker 1: the last two years saying that regression was coming for
Speaker 1: James Cook, and it really hasn't. Should we just expect
Speaker 1: that this is who James Cook is, Like, he's going
Speaker 1: to put up numbers even though Josh Allen Vulture's touchdowns
Speaker 1: from him, even though he's not the most prolific pass catcher,
Speaker 1: led the league in rushing last year. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he leads the league in rushing again, but certainly
Speaker 1: a player that you thought was well worth the one
Speaker 1: ten here stuff.
Speaker 2: I mean, the Bills offense is putting up a lot
Speaker 2: of points. Like you say, he's been himbo, you know
Speaker 2: for a couple of years now. You keep everybody keeps
Speaker 2: saying you can't do it, and he's been doing it.
Speaker 2: Another team, I mean, yeah, they got DJ Moore, but
Speaker 2: they didn't draft anybody else. They definitely didn't draft another
Speaker 2: running back. Got the guys behind him, you know, have
Speaker 2: their roles, But yeah, I think that James Cook again
Speaker 2: could definitely be a big part of what they're doing.
Speaker 2: And Josh needs to throw the ball to somebody.
Speaker 1: You you in the third round, you go with Travis Etchien,
Speaker 1: and I think what's interesting about this Maybe you feel
Speaker 1: the same way. But knowing I mean, like knowing what
Speaker 1: we know about Kamara now and knowing that, yeah, he's
Speaker 1: probably gonna be on the team this year. He might
Speaker 1: steal some pass catching work on third down from Etchien.
Speaker 1: If you had to do it over again, would you
Speaker 1: have still taken Etchien? There you're looking at Trevian Henderson
Speaker 1: went after him, Skataboo, Bucky Irving, bres Hall, Javonte Williams.
Speaker 1: Would you have taken any of those players instead of
Speaker 1: Etchian or or do you still feel really confident in
Speaker 1: that pick right now?
Speaker 2: I think I still like Etchen over those guys right now.
Speaker 2: Even I mean, Kamara did not look very good and
Speaker 2: there's still some weirdness going on there. There's still a
Speaker 2: chance that he may not end up being on the roster.
Speaker 2: I believe there's still some undecided things. I think if
Speaker 2: he probably retires, if he's not because he said, you know, see,
Speaker 2: so we'll see and again there's something else. There's not
Speaker 2: a lot behind him, nothing's been proven, so I think
Speaker 2: he's going to see a good role. And I'm pretty
Speaker 2: excited for that offense in general. I think they can
Speaker 2: put up some points.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you know, that's the other thing to consider too.
Speaker 1: I mean, like, maybe if the Saints do take a
Speaker 1: step forward as an offense this year, and you mentioned
Speaker 1: that in the first hour of the show, how much
Speaker 1: klim Moore loves to pass and he runs so many
Speaker 1: plays like they play at a very fast pay maybe
Speaker 1: if they do take a step forward, they are out
Speaker 1: of the field longer. Then you know, camera can still
Speaker 1: be good and at end can still pay off that
Speaker 1: late round pick, you know for fantasy players this year.
Speaker 1: Just curious looking it up right now. If we look
Speaker 1: at the big Gorilla, which is not best ball by
Speaker 1: the way, this is managed leagues, is running back eighteen
Speaker 1: at the three ten, So like same spot that you
Speaker 1: grabbed him back in March, that's where he's going again.
Speaker 1: Here we go to another running back stuff on this roster,
Speaker 1: and I feel like I'm giving short tript to the
Speaker 1: Jacksonville running game on this show. And my other show
Speaker 1: is over the course of the last month or so,
Speaker 1: because I think this is one that's important to figure out.
Speaker 1: The Jaguars look like an off an up and coming offense.
Speaker 1: We know Travis Hunter now is probably gonna be playing
Speaker 1: at least some offense this year. Receiver room looks stacked
Speaker 1: with Thomas, with Washington, with Myers. You have Kate Otton
Speaker 1: on that team. Are not Brenton Strange on that team?
Speaker 1: I believe they drafted Tanner Coozio, who I really like
Speaker 1: as a pass catching tight end as well. And then
Speaker 1: obviously Sunshine himself. Ronnie James Bass, uh Ronnie Bass, not
Speaker 1: Ronnie James Bass, Ronnie Bass. Trevor Lawrence is the quarterback there.
Speaker 1: So you look at this offense here, well, what's missing,
Speaker 1: the nebulous situation in the backfield is probably what needs
Speaker 1: to be attacked. Achel Tuton is there, Leaquin Allen is
Speaker 1: probably need to catch enough passes just to come up
Speaker 1: the works a little bit more. And then Chris Rodriguez.
Speaker 1: I can't remember at what point Rodriguez signed. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he was on Jacksonville at that time, but
Speaker 1: I want to get your thoughts on the Teuton pick.
Speaker 1: When you look at this backfield going forward, how confident
Speaker 1: do you feel on Teuton getting you know, at least
Speaker 1: the majority of the workload, majority could be fifty one percent,
Speaker 1: but just kind of I want to know what you
Speaker 1: think about the volume that Tuton is going to get
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six with Jacksonville.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's going to pretty much be
Speaker 2: their guy. I think Rodriguez is going to have But
Speaker 2: I mean, come on, when we were looking at free
Speaker 2: agents of guys that could be signed and thinking of
Speaker 2: who we would be the most scared of as threats,
Speaker 2: nobody was saying Chris Rodriguez was going to be a
Speaker 2: guy they would all of a sudden be threatened by,
Speaker 2: and not like he was cut by the commanders before
Speaker 2: I think twice and then re signed. Like I mean, yeah,
Speaker 2: he had a role for them at some point, but
Speaker 2: that was just because I think they were just trying
Speaker 2: to find something. I mean, he was okay, but he's
Speaker 2: not a great talent. I mean, Tuton was an explosive athlete.
Speaker 2: They spent the draft capital on him. I mean they
Speaker 2: obviously they got rid of Etienne or however you say
Speaker 2: his new name. I mean they want to make him
Speaker 2: the center. I mean, they obviously cared to. They showed
Speaker 2: it again. He survived the draft. This was before the draft.
Speaker 2: That was the scariest thing is they were saying that
Speaker 2: they liked their backfield and they liked these guys, and
Speaker 2: then they showed that they did. So, I mean, it
Speaker 2: seems like they are wanting to take that step forward
Speaker 2: with him as you know, their main running back. And
Speaker 2: I think that even as time goes on, if they
Speaker 2: start with you know, see Rod with a little bit
Speaker 2: of a role that you know, he's gonna be the
Speaker 2: more talented, explosive guy, and he's gonna, you know, end
Speaker 2: up being definitely the lead back. Maybe it's very rare
Speaker 2: that we have, like anybody that's one hundred percent of
Speaker 2: the work or anything. So it's like you're always gonna
Speaker 2: have someone of a split. But I'm pretty confident that
Speaker 2: the Jags are gonna be a pretty fun offense. So
Speaker 2: I felt good about this pick. The only thing I'll
Speaker 2: say is I kind of wish looking back structurally, that
Speaker 2: maybe I had done like a tight end here or something.
Speaker 2: Uh there was I was, I was I remember this
Speaker 2: spot going between him and like Kyle Pitts, and I
Speaker 2: kind of think that maybe I should have switched it
Speaker 2: in my running backs. I might have been able to
Speaker 2: who knows, it would have changed the whole rest of
Speaker 2: the draft. But that was something afterwards that I kind
Speaker 2: of like mulled over with the tight end premium aspect,
Speaker 2: thinking of maybe maybe I could have been a little
Speaker 2: more patient.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean maybe, I mean you could have. I'm
Speaker 1: looking at the draft board right now, could have. I mean,
Speaker 1: you're looking at Okay, So let's say you take Pits
Speaker 1: there and then you replaced the Kittle pick, which we'll
Speaker 1: talk about in a second. You replaced Kittle in the
Speaker 1: eighth round, you could add Pollard Quorum Lgier, which would
Speaker 1: would was not Look it's not looking good now, you know,
Speaker 1: for Lgier in the eighth round, Dobbins Jendarian Price, which
Speaker 1: would have been a good pick. But we didn't know,
Speaker 1: you know, about where he was going to land in Seattle,
Speaker 1: So I don't know hindsight's twenty twenty. But this Kittle
Speaker 1: pick we have to talk about here because you were
Speaker 1: I believe, uh no, maybe you weren't, but it's close.
Speaker 1: The last team to take a tight end certainly this
Speaker 1: was your first tight end that you had drafted, and
Speaker 1: what its Scott Bared for Fantasy Points always says upside
Speaker 1: wins championships. Right, there is upside here with Kittle at
Speaker 1: the twelf tight end drafted here the latest he's gone
Speaker 1: probably you know, since he became George Kittle, you get
Speaker 1: him in the eighth round here as your number one
Speaker 1: tight end. How many I don't think he's gonna be
Speaker 1: ready week one. I know that there's there's some positivity
Speaker 1: saying that that that's gonna happen. When do you think
Speaker 1: he comes back? And and and I'll say, let me
Speaker 1: preface this by by saying, when we talked about neighbors,
Speaker 1: I think I think neighbors coming off in a cl
Speaker 1: with the type of explosive prerequisite that it takes to
Speaker 1: play his position, well, I think I'm more concerned about
Speaker 1: him coming off in a cl rather than George Kittle
Speaker 1: coming off a torn achilles or whatever it is, right,
Speaker 1: because I think Kittle, I don't want to say he
Speaker 1: can fake it more like you know, coming off this injury,
Speaker 1: but I do think he's crafty enough to still be
Speaker 1: fantasy relevant even if he's not at one hundred percent.
Speaker 1: I'm less concerned about his injury, especially with the draft
Speaker 1: capital too, when you talk about him versus neighbors. But
Speaker 1: how many games do you think Kittle plays this year
Speaker 1: and how close to one hundred percent do you think
Speaker 1: he will be in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's a really tough thing. It's like
Speaker 2: we've come a long way with Achilles injuries. Like Achilles,
Speaker 2: actually they're now they're coming back sooner than ACL's Usually
Speaker 2: the recovery timeline is sooner. So I mean, yeah, he
Speaker 2: may not be ready week one, hopefully, you know, within
Speaker 2: the first four weeks. I'd love to see him out
Speaker 2: there again. Yeah, it's a little bit different than a
Speaker 2: running back. I do think that Kittle is a guy
Speaker 2: that does have his head on straight and does know
Speaker 2: how to handle it and is not scared of anything,
Speaker 2: and I get to see him figuring it out. I
Speaker 2: don't know. He's an older guy though, so that's always
Speaker 2: a little bit of a concern. But again, this is
Speaker 2: just one of those things of how they use him
Speaker 2: in the offense. At that point in the draft, it's
Speaker 2: like you have to take those shots. It's like I
Speaker 2: obviously pushed the position, and it was like, you know what,
Speaker 2: this is one of those things. It's like, if it
Speaker 2: works out, it could definitely win it. And if not,
Speaker 2: then yeah, you know what, this was fun, but it
Speaker 2: might not be not might not be the thing. I
Speaker 2: don't know, like what percentage, because like he may never
Speaker 2: get back to one hundred percent because of his agent
Speaker 2: and stuff. So I mean we may never see him.
Speaker 2: It may only be like he might only maximumally be
Speaker 2: seventy five eighty percent of what he was, you know
Speaker 2: if that and that might be a high end.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's great. You know you also added uh and
Speaker 1: and will I don't I don't know. I don't think
Speaker 1: I know we will We'll get to Chiggo kon Quin
Speaker 1: a little bit. I said, oh, you could have had JK.
Speaker 1: Dobbins instead of A Kiddle. You got Dobbins anyway. You
Speaker 1: got Dobbins pick after uh George Kittle in this draft.
Speaker 1: And this was he I believe he was with Denver
Speaker 1: at the time. I think he was already signed. They
Speaker 1: gave him some decent money. I'm not necessarily concerned with
Speaker 1: Jonah Coleman from a redraft standpoint. This year, I think
Speaker 1: Dobbin's biggest enemy this year is not our Harvey. I
Speaker 1: think it's JK. Dobbins, And as long as he's out there,
Speaker 1: he should have a really good season for Denver. I
Speaker 1: just questioned how many games he plays, But certainly it's
Speaker 1: Steph in the ninth round. Who cares. You know, whatever
Speaker 1: you get from him, you're loving it as your number
Speaker 1: four running back on the squad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean definitely, as long as he's healthy, I
Speaker 2: think he's going to produce. It's just how long he
Speaker 2: stays healthy too. It's his sister.
Speaker 1: What do you make of Chiga Conco now in Washington,
Speaker 1: moves on from Tennessee and he's at a Washington team
Speaker 1: that you know, maybe they add Ayuk, maybe they don't.
Speaker 1: Maybe they add Keenan Allen or Steph Diggs or somebody
Speaker 1: like that. Maybe they don't. I don't know. But as
Speaker 1: it stands right now, it's Terry McLaurin, it's the rookie
Speaker 1: Antonio williams Uh, It's it's the quasi and maybe almost
Speaker 1: full on Buss Treylon Burks on this team. There is
Speaker 1: a huge opportunity for Conco. Here's somebody who was saying
Speaker 1: in the YouTube chat on this show, or maybe he's
Speaker 1: one other show like a month or so ago. You know,
Speaker 1: a conco still hasn't shown up in Tennessee. Why should
Speaker 1: we believe he shows out in Washington? Why should we
Speaker 1: believe he breaks out? And maybe he doesn't break up
Speaker 1: but stuff, Maybe he doesn't have to given the volume
Speaker 1: that he might see in Washington this year, he could
Speaker 1: be the number two option on this offense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't think he has to be like a
Speaker 2: huge breakout like you say, it's like they're gonna get
Speaker 2: in the ball. It's like he could just be a
Speaker 2: role player. They could use, you know, big tie that
Speaker 2: in the end zone. You know, he could just be
Speaker 2: that red zone threat. I mean we're getting you know here.
Speaker 2: It's just like there's nobody else he's competing with for
Speaker 2: that role. So they're going to and you know, I
Speaker 2: think also Washington should still be an upgrade. I mean,
Speaker 2: Jayden Daniels is going to be an upgrade for him.
Speaker 2: So like the whole scheme could just be better. And
Speaker 2: I think that he's somebody again where there's enough of
Speaker 2: a mystery box aspect to take that there could be
Speaker 2: a hitted upside there for where we're taking him in
Speaker 2: the draft, and those are the type of players take
Speaker 2: a swing on here. You can't win these tournaments by
Speaker 2: playing it safe.
Speaker 1: No, no, you have to take some chances. I'm looking
Speaker 1: at some of the other players you drafted, someone we
Speaker 1: talked about already, Kyler Murray, you drafted on this team,
Speaker 1: Xavier Worthy, you drafted on this team. And then a
Speaker 1: player I thought was a really good value for you,
Speaker 1: the fifty sixth wide receiver chosen in this draft. He
Speaker 1: doesn't go off the board until the early fourteenth round.
Speaker 1: You get Jayden Reid, which normally is a player I avoid.
Speaker 1: But now I look at what the Packers did in
Speaker 1: the offseason, or perhaps what they didn't do. They lost
Speaker 1: Romeo Dops, they traded don Tavian Wicks, They didn't draft
Speaker 1: any receivers in the draft. They didn't draft any skill
Speaker 1: position players in the draft. They didn't sign anybody significant.
Speaker 1: I know sky Moore is on the team, but I
Speaker 1: don't think he's striking fear into the hearts of any
Speaker 1: Jade Reid owners out there. This is a more concentrated
Speaker 1: Packers offense this year, passing game. So yeah, Craft and
Speaker 1: Watson are going to get theirs. But if Golden doesn't
Speaker 1: step up, and maybe even if he does, maybe Jayden
Speaker 1: Reed has a really nice bounce back. He doesn't play
Speaker 1: in two wide receiver sets, which I know hurts him,
Speaker 1: but it seems like he does. He still does a
Speaker 1: lot of damage despite the limited snaps and you get
Speaker 1: him in round fourteen stuff.
Speaker 2: Nice work, Yeah, because he's been one of the biggest risers,
Speaker 2: I mean out there, so people after the draft have
Speaker 2: been pretty doffy on him. So yeah, that definitely feels good.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny is Jerry Judy you draft in
Speaker 1: the seventeenth round. At the time you drafted Judy, the
Speaker 1: Browns did not have Casey Concepcion, they did not have
Speaker 1: Denzel Boston. And quite frankly, if we look at so
Speaker 1: now they add those players, right, adds those players, and
Speaker 1: now you look at Jerry Judy's ADP in the big
Speaker 1: gorilla wide receiver seventy one at the seventeen oh six
Speaker 1: hasn't moved anywhere, which that's crazy, which is wild to
Speaker 1: me because I think and I who was it, was
Speaker 1: it Monkin or somebody from Cleveland was saying like they
Speaker 1: want to get him back to where he can be
Speaker 1: the number one wide receiver on this team. It wasn't
Speaker 1: all that long ago that he had a big time
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four season where we're all falling all over
Speaker 1: ourselves the draft and the following year. Now we know
Speaker 1: the investment Cleveland made in the rookies here, but they
Speaker 1: are rookies. So there is something to be said for
Speaker 1: Jerry Judy as being the number one wide receiver that
Speaker 1: perhaps you got in the seventeenth round.
Speaker 2: I mean, I hope so. But I will tell you
Speaker 2: that if this was a post draft, I would not
Speaker 2: have taken you.
Speaker 1: Take Calvin Ridley too the round after that, and that's
Speaker 1: another player that yeah, they added Carnel Tait. But with
Speaker 1: this being best ball and Ridley is sort of a
Speaker 1: lost season last year, not because of under production, but
Speaker 1: he was hurt, you know. And now he comes back
Speaker 1: this year and they're saying all the right things. I think.
Speaker 1: And I know Steve Irgalos, who is in the YouTube
Speaker 1: chat earlier, he was taking Ridley quite a bit late
Speaker 1: in a lot of drafts. I don't know if he
Speaker 1: still is, but he definitely has his back his late
Speaker 1: round bags pack. At least for Calvin Ridley. This is
Speaker 1: another player too. We've seen him do it before, Steph.
Speaker 1: And you know, certainly there's a world of possibilities on
Speaker 1: this Tennessee team to see how they go and you know,
Speaker 1: changing roles and what have you. I don't know, I
Speaker 1: think you can do a lot worse than Calvin Ridley
Speaker 1: in the eighteenth round.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it felt like at the time some
Speaker 2: of these picks were also structural. I did take most
Speaker 2: of my receivers if you look at were kind of
Speaker 2: like really ceiling type guys.
Speaker 1: You know.
Speaker 2: I had Worthy, I had Jmo, I had Tea, So
Speaker 2: I was trying to build in a little bit of
Speaker 2: some floor even as much as I could late, I
Speaker 2: didn't need the big upside swings because I felt like
Speaker 2: I took a lot of those early, so a couple
Speaker 2: of them didn't really you know, pan out as much
Speaker 2: like you know, obviously them taking a receiver overall at
Speaker 2: four it was not what I expected when I drafted, really,
Speaker 2: But at the same time, he's probably still the ID
Speaker 2: receiver for three, you know, with him and Wandlle how
Speaker 2: do you But I don't know about the volume.
Speaker 1: Is well, the volume, the volume to me like it
Speaker 1: and for best ball. I mean, yeah, and I know,
Speaker 1: honestly this is like one of your floor guys or whatever,
Speaker 1: but eighteenth round, I mean, just like whatever you get
Speaker 1: from him at this point when you look at this team,
Speaker 1: when you looked at this team, I should say, on
Speaker 1: March thirtieth, when the draft is done, and now you
Speaker 1: look back on it here in mid mid May, how
Speaker 1: do you feel about the squad that you put together.
Speaker 2: I mean, I think it aged pretty well. Honestly, the
Speaker 2: biggest picks that we just talked about were those two
Speaker 2: that seemed to probably age to the worst. And they're
Speaker 2: not terrible. There's still a world like you say that, like, yeah,
Speaker 2: Judy could still be the wide receiver one. Bridley went
Speaker 2: from what the two to the three, So it's probably
Speaker 2: not anything else. And I got some value. I think
Speaker 2: I found a few guys are advisers. I did pick
Speaker 2: late the right rookie, I believe.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I took Bernard my last pick last year. He got
Speaker 2: he got the decent draft capital. He's one of the
Speaker 2: bigger risers, you know, because there was a lot of
Speaker 2: you know, rookies that turned out to be a big
Speaker 2: fat nothings. You know, that's one of the bests you take,
Speaker 2: so it felt fun to hit on that. The only
Speaker 2: one I'd say that naugy I took late. Uh. We
Speaker 2: obviously don't know where he's playing, if he's playing, so
Speaker 2: that one to be decided. But there's still some spots
Speaker 2: you never know. We still could see him get picked up,
Speaker 2: or an injury happened and a team picks him up
Speaker 2: once the season starts. You never know. There's not a
Speaker 2: lot of other running backs out there.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I don't. I look at the running backs
Speaker 1: that went after Harris, and I mean, like I probably
Speaker 1: would have taken Chris Brooks over him, but even Brooks
Speaker 1: that we don't even know if he's the backup in
Speaker 1: Green Bay, you know, so that I don't. I don't
Speaker 1: think I can make a good case like, oh, I
Speaker 1: would have rather had X running back over Naji Harris. Here,
Speaker 1: I think you you're drafting for upside. You clearly you
Speaker 1: had at that point that was your sixth running back.
Speaker 1: You have the the you had Cook, etch In, Touton,
Speaker 1: and Dobbins, which I think are strong as you're going
Speaker 1: to get for top four running backs in this format.
Speaker 1: And then you add Brian Robinson who has the contingent
Speaker 1: upside behind the Jon Robinson and then Harris too. If
Speaker 1: he lands somewhere, he might be the type of guy
Speaker 1: that somebody signs him after week one and then or
Speaker 1: or he falls into being an injury away type guy.
Speaker 1: You never know, baby Seattle, I don't know. This was
Speaker 1: a lot of fun. The two hours flew by Stephanie.
Speaker 1: This is this was great. Remind us again when we
Speaker 1: want to consume more Steph Miller content. I know you're
Speaker 1: grinding it out for legendary upside during the season. Tell
Speaker 1: us what it's going to be like for you until
Speaker 1: the season starts, and then once the NFL season begins,
Speaker 1: what you're going to be doing not only for legendary upside,
Speaker 1: but ship chasing as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah right now, I mean most of that stuff is
Speaker 2: going to probably be in season that is going to
Speaker 2: be kicked off because we're doing the reader athletes and
Speaker 2: stuff for the high stakes. But right now, well, I
Speaker 2: am drafting tons of bestball teams myself. So you will
Speaker 2: find me in the streets, grind in a way, and
Speaker 2: you know, hit me up on Twitter, find me in
Speaker 2: the streets. I'll be doing some FFPC drafts. I'm sure,
Speaker 2: I'll be mixing it up and trying to you know,
Speaker 2: win a million dollars like everybody.
Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that's the plan. That's that's planning. I always
Speaker 1: say at Steph Miller five to seven on the ex Steph,
Speaker 1: this was great. I'm so glad we got a chance
Speaker 1: to hook up and do this show again. We will
Speaker 1: definitely have you back again very soon. Enjoy drafting season
Speaker 1: and enjoy the NFL season. Enjoy the schedule release for
Speaker 1: what for what's left of it. It was a lot
Speaker 1: of fun hanging out with you tonight, and we will
Speaker 1: do this again sometime soon.
Speaker 2: Sounds good.
Speaker 1: Thanks Steph. That is Steph Miller. Stephanie Miller from Legendary
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Speaker 1: Stephanie for hopping aboard tonight. Remind you that both Best
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Speaker 1: make sure you're registering by then so you get two
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Speaker 1: I will say this, I mentioned last night we're gonna
Speaker 1: do some live draft coverage. I forgot about something in
Speaker 1: my schedule and I cannot do it. So next week
Speaker 1: on Wednesday, we will have a regular high stakes Fantasy
Speaker 1: for hour at ten pm Eastern. We will have regular
Speaker 1: FFPC insider access at seven o'clock. Brandon Murchison from roto
Speaker 1: Baller makes his return to the show, so we'll talk
Speaker 1: with him for two hours and then you'll get your
Speaker 1: extra reps Friday night at ten pm. So we're hoping
Speaker 1: to have live draft coverage. I can't swing it this year.
Speaker 1: My apologies on that, but we'll have a great week
Speaker 1: of shows anyway. Enjoy the rest of the schedule. Release everybody.
Speaker 1: Thanks to Stephanie Miller. For Stephanie Miller, I've been Eric Balkman.
Speaker 1: This is FFPC insider Access. We'll talk with you tomorrow
Speaker 1: night on extra reps, next week on the HSF Hour,
Speaker 1: and next week right here Thursday night, seven pm with
Speaker 1: myself Brandon Murchison from Rotoballer. Thanks for watching, everybody. Talk
Speaker 1: to you again soon