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Speaker 2: Hey, Rubio gave us some plugs. Yeah you're not using
Speaker 2: that's a good idea, yeah, he.
Speaker 1: He uh he is. In the If anybody knows anybody
Speaker 1: who's in the T shirt game that can come up
Speaker 1: with a silhouette T shirt of my beard and Pharaoh's hair,
Speaker 1: I think that would be because that's I think that's
Speaker 1: iconic in the in the high stakes fantasy football industry,
Speaker 1: as far as podcast go, your your cabbage on top
Speaker 1: and and my soup strainer, my beard on my face,
Speaker 1: it's it's iconic.
Speaker 2: You can't expect demand to walk around with a plaining
Speaker 2: beard book, that's true.
Speaker 1: I can't expect Derrick Henry to never slow down Faro.
Speaker 1: Apparently that's what the Ravens expect him to do as well,
Speaker 1: because they have signed him to a two year, thirty
Speaker 1: million dollar contract extension. Per Ian Rappaport from the NFL Network,
Speaker 1: he is the first running back over the age of
Speaker 1: thirty to make fifteen million a year. Last offseason, he
Speaker 1: signed a two year, sixteen million dollar deal, ran roughshot
Speaker 1: over the NFL and was unbelievable nineteen hundred plus rushing yard,
Speaker 1: sixteen touchdowns. It got him the Rays and this probably
Speaker 1: I don't want to say, you know, there are no
Speaker 1: guarantees in life, but I would say this is as
Speaker 1: close to a guarantee to give me ah that Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry is probably going to finish his career as a
Speaker 1: Baltimore role. Yes, that's all I'm going with there. Now
Speaker 1: in the Big Gorilla Tournament. Over the last week, we
Speaker 1: have seen Derrick Henry's ADP on Fantasy Mojo at Fantasy
Speaker 1: Mojo on ex fantasymojo dot com. Darren Armani, the godfather
Speaker 1: of the prosers of Joe's Challenge. Anytime we cite FFPC
Speaker 1: ADP data, it is from his website. Strongly encourage you
Speaker 1: to get a subscription of Fantasy Mojo if you play
Speaker 1: in the FFPC. Derreck Henry right behind Devon ah Chan
Speaker 1: and Christian McCaffrey. He's going right ahead of Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 1: and Bucky Irving running back seven at the two four, Farrell,
Speaker 1: When you look at this as a two year extension,
Speaker 1: does this give you the warm fuzzies enough to say, Hey,
Speaker 1: maybe he's not great in twenty twenty six, but if
Speaker 1: the Ravens are giving him a two year contract right now,
Speaker 1: he's sure his heck should be good in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five and you can feel good at taking him at
Speaker 1: the two four.
Speaker 2: He'll be good until he decides to hang up his
Speaker 2: helmet and his shoes. This player knows that there's two
Speaker 2: themes that we have, at least coming from me on
Speaker 2: the show. And I've seen the beard and the head
Speaker 2: shaking in simultaneous fashion.
Speaker 4: Is that.
Speaker 2: Derrick Henry is a must draft player for your fantasy
Speaker 2: football team.
Speaker 4: He is.
Speaker 2: And we've had commentary, especially from the pros, which you know,
Speaker 2: we love arguing with the pros come July, especially from
Speaker 2: the pros about he can't keep going. Well, yes he can.
Speaker 2: Me the main reason, the second theme that we've talked
Speaker 2: to about is what all players are doing in the
Speaker 2: league to lengthen their careers, and Derrick Henry is the
Speaker 2: foremost and the most well informed athlete about nutrition and
Speaker 2: training and what he needs to do, and he's been
Speaker 2: doing it for a long time. He's thirty one years old,
Speaker 2: five point nine yards of carry. Last year we talked
Speaker 2: about also the fact that he would go to Baltimore
Speaker 2: and play behind an offensive line that is one of
Speaker 2: the better ones in the league and against defenses that
Speaker 2: were challenged with the idea of Lamar Jackson being a
Speaker 2: running quarterback and you know, just they didn't use it often,
Speaker 2: but they have a three hundred and eleven pound fullback
Speaker 2: and they used it often enough and to run in
Speaker 2: front of Henry. I love everything about this and I
Speaker 2: don't understand. When I looked at the kffsc our first
Speaker 2: main event draft of the year, I do understand Jon Robinson.
Speaker 2: Jean Robinson put up some very good numbers last year
Speaker 2: and has a chance to catch sixty balls. Barkley, of course,
Speaker 2: Gibbs as an exciting player, but then it gets then
Speaker 2: the other players that went in front of him, Genty,
Speaker 2: who is yet to do anything in the NFL. That
Speaker 2: doesn't trouble me, but he's doing it for a team
Speaker 2: that's got a lot of holes to fill. A Chan McCaffrey.
Speaker 2: All those players drafted in front of Henry, Chuck Root,
Speaker 2: our good friend Chuck Root in the kffsc waited and
Speaker 2: at the two to eight he nabbed Henry and maybe
Speaker 2: is on his way to the championship. So I think,
Speaker 2: if you're playing fantasy football and you can get Henry
Speaker 2: on your roster, do it sooner rather than later. It's
Speaker 2: the best movie you can make.
Speaker 1: I think. The other thing to keep in mind too,
Speaker 1: the most significant thing that the Ravens did in the
Speaker 1: offseason as far as skill position players go, was adding
Speaker 1: DeAndre Hopkins at wide receiver. That's not a needle mover
Speaker 1: for me. And they did nothing in the draft to
Speaker 1: address any receivers, running backs, tight ends. So I'd like
Speaker 1: to think that the offense will be very, very similar
Speaker 1: to what it was last year. And I know he
Speaker 1: probably won't hit nineteen hundred rushing yards again, he doesn't
Speaker 1: have to. At the two zero four, he could definitely
Speaker 1: pay off for the first time. I maybe taking Derrick
Speaker 1: Henry in a lot of draft Farrell because I do
Speaker 1: like this ADP for him right now too. Speaking of
Speaker 1: AFC North bruising running backs, let's talk Caleb Johnson here.
Speaker 1: Mike Defamo, who covers Pittsburgh for The Athletic, called Caleb
Speaker 1: Johnson a quote schematic fit for the Steelers. Now that's
Speaker 1: not the interesting part about this. He was a third
Speaker 1: round pick. Last month. He was listed as a co
Speaker 1: starter on the depth chart alongside Jalen Warren. This is
Speaker 1: like old school meat and potatoes, Mike Tomlin. I mean,
Speaker 1: where you don't hand rookies anything, right. They got to
Speaker 1: work for it, even if they're the most talented player,
Speaker 1: they still got to work for He's already listed as
Speaker 1: co starter coach starter with Jalen Warren. And you think
Speaker 1: about Arthur Smith's offense. It's run first and they're going
Speaker 1: to use both these running backs. Only three college running
Speaker 1: backs last year had more zone rushes than Johnson, and
Speaker 1: according to de Fabo, his goals and offseason practices for
Speaker 1: Johnson is learn the playbook, earn the coaching staffs trust,
Speaker 1: hopefully becoming in every downback sooner rather than later. Now,
Speaker 1: pass blocking needs work. Jalen Warren one of the best
Speaker 1: pass blocking running backs in the NFL. Pharrell. But the
Speaker 1: lead to me here is is this is black and
Speaker 1: blue football where rookies have to earn their stripes. And
Speaker 1: already Caleb Johnson sitting on top of the draft, on
Speaker 1: top of the depth chart for the Steelers. And it's
Speaker 1: worth mentioning because Caleb Johnson's mojo right now six to
Speaker 1: oh eight as running back twenty five, not even being
Speaker 1: drafted as a top twenty four running back. This is
Speaker 1: juicy to me, not.
Speaker 2: Drafted like a co starter. But you know, Bulky, I mean,
Speaker 2: you know you're carrying the wood over here called co host.
Speaker 2: But you see who's doing all the work. You know it?
Speaker 2: It okay, Caleb Johnson.
Speaker 1: I love this.
Speaker 2: This is perfect. May what do they call it? The
Speaker 2: schematic fit. Yes, oh my word, you know. But okay,
Speaker 2: I believe when you draft a player like this, you
Speaker 2: you he would be he would fit everywhere else.
Speaker 5: If he's gonna fit here, we're not the schematic. Okay,
Speaker 5: that's maybe that's maybe I'm looking at that too difficult.
Speaker 5: Maybe yeah, I probably need to leave that alone. But
Speaker 5: what did we say, Bulky. We said that you know,
Speaker 5: you can get gent.
Speaker 2: Very very early in this draft for NFL teams, but
Speaker 2: there will be value throughout this draft at the running
Speaker 2: back position and this example of it. They will be
Speaker 2: very big things for this player. And yeah, he's going
Speaker 2: to carry the rock because all the reasons you said,
Speaker 2: there's no reason not to draft this player at value
Speaker 2: right now. And he'll be going higher. Let's see him
Speaker 2: in the season do some things too, but he'll he'll
Speaker 2: be going higher as we head towards Las Vegas and
Speaker 2: the Paris Hotel at the f FPC main event, he'll
Speaker 2: be going uh with with all the Pittsburgh Steeler fans
Speaker 2: that we have here in Kentucky, He's likely to be
Speaker 2: a higher draft pick here than perhaps even out there.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think there's a there's a curve right where
Speaker 1: these we start off, you know, hot and heavy in
Speaker 1: redraft because everybody's got rookie fever from Dynasty, and then
Speaker 1: it kind of slacks off again. But I think as
Speaker 1: we get closer, you know, especially with the Northern Kentucky
Speaker 1: and then obviously the Louisville event for kf F s C,
Speaker 1: that's when these guys will start building up steam again
Speaker 1: as potential league winners. Is Caleb Johnson the potential league winner.
Speaker 1: I'm not ready to put that moniker on him yet,
Speaker 1: but I certainly wouldn't rule that out at this point
Speaker 1: of the season.
Speaker 2: Don't draft him in front of Henry uh No, you
Speaker 2: know he.
Speaker 1: Wise words. This is why you come a lot.
Speaker 2: You're going to introduce our host our yes tonight, but
Speaker 2: you know, I got to tell you when you talk
Speaker 2: about schematic fit, when you prepare for the show with
Speaker 2: other guests, I tend to want to dig into some
Speaker 2: of the questions and I want to also say what
Speaker 2: I'm thinking, what do you think, and and have a
Speaker 2: give and take. But we've got a guy coming in
Speaker 2: tonight that I would be more like I would try
Speaker 2: to be a surgeon and try to dissect this brain
Speaker 2: of fantasy football that lives, eats, and loves fantasy football
Speaker 2: at such a level that is beyond even our most
Speaker 2: passionate players. And you're going to introduce him later, but
Speaker 2: I just maybe he'll talk about you know, I've talked
Speaker 2: a lot about Henry, and I just made some comments
Speaker 2: that were largely worthless about this player. But there will
Speaker 2: be more in depth conversation about every player. This guy
Speaker 2: pulls no punches, bulky, and he certainly is is and
Speaker 2: not shy to share his opinion.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's what's so great. And without further ado,
Speaker 1: I think we bring him on right now. I'm gonna
Speaker 1: bringing on right now.
Speaker 2: I think we need your patented introduction.
Speaker 1: Well here, here's here's how I'll set it up on
Speaker 1: the on the road of his high stakes lowdown. Last
Speaker 1: week I had Josh Siegel on, and there are there
Speaker 1: are a few players that I've had on these shows before.
Speaker 1: Some of them I can I'll take the time to
Speaker 1: count up how many league championships they've won in Dynasty,
Speaker 1: Big Gorilla, Main Event or whatever. Josh Siegel is not
Speaker 1: one of them because he's just won too many of them.
Speaker 1: And another player that falls into that category that I
Speaker 1: would never sit and count how many league championships this
Speaker 1: guy's won in the ffpcuh is tonight's guest. He's just
Speaker 1: won too many. I'm not gonna bother with it. I
Speaker 1: will introduce him as a guy who's won dozens and
Speaker 1: I said, maybe even hundreds. I don't know the exact
Speaker 1: number of.
Speaker 2: Auditor You don't.
Speaker 1: No, I'm not. I'm not an auditor. I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not a math guy. But I'll bring him on right
Speaker 1: now as the defending champion of the twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: f FPC Genesis League, a league that you saw the
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five edition on this program a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago, as Farrell and I covered it picked by pick,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna we're gonna delve into this guy's draft tonight.
Speaker 1: Please welcome back onto these airwaves. J T A J himself.
Speaker 1: It is mister John Terry John, What is up tonight?
Speaker 1: Thanks so much for hanging out.
Speaker 2: Look at that.
Speaker 4: Hey, how you guys doing Hey, k Hey Farrell.
Speaker 1: We're doing good, man, We're doing good. I want to
Speaker 1: because because I got long winded in that first segment,
Speaker 1: I want to pitch you a couple of the stories
Speaker 1: that that we were going to talk about here to
Speaker 1: kick things off, and I'll start in Detroit in the
Speaker 1: Motor City, Tim twenty men, who covers the Lions. John
Speaker 1: said that John Morton, who's the new OC for Detroit
Speaker 1: taking order for Ben Johnson, said it's going to quote
Speaker 1: be a breakout year for Jamison Williams. Morton said he
Speaker 1: was never around somebody as fast as william and then
Speaker 1: he corrected himself to say, well, maybe Jamiir Gibbs, because
Speaker 1: he's been around Jamior Gibbs so far this season as
Speaker 1: well James and Williams last year. I didn't even realize
Speaker 1: this just crept over the thousand yard level. Fifty eight catches,
Speaker 1: one thousand and one receiving yards, and seven touchdowns, and
Speaker 1: I think, and I don't know how much he affects
Speaker 1: a mon Ross Saint Brown. Quite frankly, I'm not drafting
Speaker 1: a Monross Saint Brown any differently based on this quote.
Speaker 1: But I think based on this dude being the OC, John,
Speaker 1: the fact that James and Williams is wide receiver thirty
Speaker 1: three right now at the six oh eight, he becomes
Speaker 1: more intriguing for me. How much stock are you putting
Speaker 1: into what James and Williams offensive coordinator is saying about it.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it's definitely a good sign. But I
Speaker 4: guess my question would be just how many passing yards
Speaker 4: and touchdowns is Detroit going to have? And if there's
Speaker 4: going to be a substantial increase in his production, where's
Speaker 4: it coming from? Because I mean, you got a Monross,
Speaker 4: Saint Brown, Laporta, and if all those guys are healthy,
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't. I mean, there's no way James
Speaker 4: and Williams is going to be like a hundred catch.
Speaker 2: Guy, like that's there, you go, there we go.
Speaker 4: But he could add some yards and touchdowns. But I
Speaker 4: think it depends.
Speaker 1: I like the player.
Speaker 4: I just don't. I'm not going to read too much
Speaker 4: into that early season comment from the OC. The only
Speaker 4: early season comments I usually pay attention to, or if
Speaker 4: they say something.
Speaker 2: Negatives and they don't do that often. But you know, guys,
Speaker 2: it might be an offensive coordinators idea of a grade
Speaker 2: increase of volume could be ten catches. His idea could
Speaker 2: be completely different from what we consider a huge increase
Speaker 2: in volume, because that might one catch every other game
Speaker 2: might mean a lot to him as he scripts his place.
Speaker 1: Yeah, John, what just the Detroit offense under John Morton,
Speaker 1: no Ben Johnson there in general? Do you find yourself
Speaker 1: I guess what's your level of concern? Because when you
Speaker 1: have a new it's still the same head coach, It's
Speaker 1: still a very similar offense, the personnel is very similar.
Speaker 1: But what do you think the Ben Johnson effect is
Speaker 1: going to be on the Lions offense with him not
Speaker 1: being there anymore.
Speaker 4: I don't think there's going to be a huge impact
Speaker 4: of him leaving, only because the system is there. Everybody
Speaker 4: knows it. I mean, they're not going to try to
Speaker 4: change something that's not broken. I mean, it'd be better
Speaker 4: if Johnson was still there, but it's not going to
Speaker 4: really impact how I view their players.
Speaker 2: He taught them the way, and he moves on and
Speaker 2: he leaves it behind.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a little bit of regret in one
Speaker 1: of my dynasty leagues where a Hemdon had over two
Speaker 1: players and at I think it was in the third
Speaker 1: round and the player that I didn't choose. I think
Speaker 1: I'm having whatever the opposite of buyers or morse is
Speaker 1: because I didn't buy him, so I can't ever morse,
Speaker 1: so non buyers remorse. I don't know said. Yusuf, who
Speaker 1: covers the Cowboys for The Athletic, said that by the
Speaker 1: end of the year, Jadeen Blue is going to be
Speaker 1: the Cowboys number one guy at running back, and this
Speaker 1: is the guy I passed up.
Speaker 2: John.
Speaker 1: He thinks Javonte Williams is going to be the leading
Speaker 1: guy early in the season, but he thinks Blue is
Speaker 1: gonna end up getting more carries and leading the team
Speaker 1: and rushing. We have seen this before, espent more so
Speaker 1: with rookie receivers than I think rookie running backs, but
Speaker 1: it has happened with running backs as well, where it
Speaker 1: takes him a while to get up to get used
Speaker 1: to the NFL, get used to the speed, get used
Speaker 1: to the competition, and obviously you know the grind, which
Speaker 1: which is going to be a little bit longer than
Speaker 1: what they're used to in college. When when you consider
Speaker 1: that the case for Jadeen Blue right now and the
Speaker 1: mojo on him is running back forty two at the
Speaker 1: ten eleven John, if Yusuf is right here in his prediction,
Speaker 1: then this is a massive bargain for Jaden Blue here.
Speaker 1: But I think the fact that he is falling to
Speaker 1: that ten to eleven turn makes me think that FFBC
Speaker 1: players are not necessarily buying INDI him, How do you
Speaker 1: feel about Blue and how his rookie season is going
Speaker 1: to go in big deep.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean I definitely took some shares of him
Speaker 4: in my Dynasty rookie drafts, But I think you just
Speaker 4: have to be careful when you really are valuing a
Speaker 4: player because everybody else on the team at the position
Speaker 4: kind of stinks, right, So I mean he could be
Speaker 4: I mean, how excited would you be to have like
Speaker 4: ric o'dowdell from last year because that's probably like best
Speaker 4: case scenario, right, And I mean he was pretty mediocre,
Speaker 4: So I don't know. I mean, he's the only one
Speaker 4: in that backfield that's got the potential. I don't see
Speaker 4: Javonte Williams having a big comeback, and I don't think that.
Speaker 4: I think everyone, I think Miles Sanders is over the hill,
Speaker 4: So it's potential. I mean, it's definitely worth drafting him
Speaker 4: where he's going.
Speaker 2: Now I've already lost my bet I had the under on.
Speaker 2: I don't know that, like half I thought.
Speaker 4: You, I don't. I don't know, I really do.
Speaker 2: You know that if you a lot of talk today
Speaker 2: as the schedule was announced. A lot of talk today
Speaker 2: about eighteen game season, and you know, players think the
Speaker 2: season has got too long for seventeen games. And you've
Speaker 2: got an injured running back at Denver that he's fought
Speaker 2: off a lot of injuries and now he's coming to Dallas.
Speaker 2: And you know, he's a grinder and he's tough and
Speaker 2: I like him. He's just not going to see this
Speaker 2: position to this young running back. And so I think
Speaker 2: it's an interesting article to make a statement that, you know,
Speaker 2: a player that's been a little injury prone could be
Speaker 2: worn down and Blue would be the Blue would be
Speaker 2: the at the end of the year. Yeah, that's not
Speaker 2: the hardest and farthest fetched thing to possibly say. But Bunky,
Speaker 2: can you work on it? Can you work on your
Speaker 2: your Will Farrell imitation of that's My Boy Blue and start,
Speaker 2: I just.
Speaker 1: I blow I blow up the everybody's microphone right now.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there we go. That is very good.
Speaker 1: I can't, I can't. I can't sing the Kansas song though,
Speaker 1: where he hits that high note when he's when he's
Speaker 1: singing dust in the Wind, that I cannot do that,
Speaker 1: I that I cannot do and by and and if
Speaker 1: I did that, Pharah, if I tried, there'd be dogs
Speaker 1: going crazy right now.
Speaker 2: You can do anything. You kidding me?
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, no, no, no. By the way, us Stephen Gorgalos,
Speaker 1: I'm Stephen. I'm probably to say, I know I probably
Speaker 1: miss pronouncing your name, but but he's our T shirt
Speaker 1: guy to get the T shirt thing going Farrell and
Speaker 1: he said Jayden Blue for Travon Henderson and Kentucky. I'm
Speaker 1: assuming Travon Henderson. No, I would not be doing that.
Speaker 2: I would.
Speaker 1: I think that is that that iron is not nearly
Speaker 1: hot enough for for for that to happen yet. So
Speaker 1: I want to I want to move on to your
Speaker 1: genesis draft here, John, you drafted this team the friday
Speaker 1: after the NFL Draft was completed. I have the the
Speaker 1: board up here, I think I do. Yeah, I have
Speaker 1: I have the I have the board up here. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna throw it up here so everybody can see it,
Speaker 1: just so we're all we're on the same page when
Speaker 1: I'm talking about these when I'm talking about these players.
Speaker 1: But you were picking from the uh, let's see the
Speaker 1: five spot here and obviously Bowers A. J. Brown Okay,
Speaker 1: number one and two, your number three pick is the
Speaker 1: one I want to ask about right now in Josh Jacobs. So,
Speaker 1: Green Bay obviously switched to a power running team last year.
Speaker 1: Whether that was due in part to the Jordan Love
Speaker 1: knee injury that he suffered in Week one, maybe, I
Speaker 1: don't know, but they already had Josh Jacobs before that.
Speaker 1: Two wide oats get drafted by the Packers in the
Speaker 1: first three rounds this year, and so much to the point,
Speaker 1: like Jaden Reid had to have a sit down with
Speaker 1: Brian Gudakunz to find out what his role is actually
Speaker 1: going to be on the team this year, the Packers
Speaker 1: have a super crowded wide receiver room. Are you worried
Speaker 1: that Green Bay could flip again and go back to
Speaker 1: more of a passing attack, not only with Dobbs and
Speaker 1: Reed and Wix, but now Matthew Golden and save Ian Williams.
Speaker 1: You took Josh Jacobs at the three h five in Genesis.
Speaker 1: Clearly this is not at least they've been concerned for you.
Speaker 4: Yeah, no, it's not really a concern at all. I mean,
Speaker 4: I know they spread the ball around a lot, but
Speaker 4: in my mind, Golden's got potential right first time they've
Speaker 4: taken a wide receiver in round one there, and he
Speaker 4: could be good. But everybody else that they have at
Speaker 4: wide receiver, I mean, they're what's their top end, They're
Speaker 4: they're not that talented of players. In my mind, I
Speaker 4: don't think Watson's gonna play a lot. I mean, he's
Speaker 4: probably gonna be hurt. Dobbs is pretty mediocre. Reid is good,
Speaker 4: but he's limited in what he can do. I just
Speaker 4: don't see any reason, with the success that Jacobs has
Speaker 4: had and had last year, why they would go away
Speaker 4: from that.
Speaker 1: I will say to your point too, John, the Packers.
Speaker 1: Yeah they drafted Golden, Yeah, they drafted Williams. But you
Speaker 1: know the other thing they did. They signed I always
Speaker 1: forget his name, Aaron Banks from San Francisco. The big,
Speaker 1: the big guard. He's gonna be the left guard. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be the guy that shifted Elton Jenkins the center.
Speaker 1: As long as Jenkins shows up, we'll see on that.
Speaker 1: But Banks is a huge guy. He's one of the
Speaker 1: biggest linemen that that the Packers have had under Bryan
Speaker 1: Gutakunst and Matt Lafleur. And then in the second round
Speaker 1: they take another guy who's so big. And Anthony Belton
Speaker 1: out of NC state, his nickname's Cadillac or Catillac. It's
Speaker 1: Escalate is his nickname. And uh and and so to me,
Speaker 1: that's like, if you need any more proof that the
Speaker 1: Packers are are still gonna not gonna be a power
Speaker 1: running team this year, that's exhibits A and B to me,
Speaker 1: They're still gonna want to pound the ball as much
Speaker 1: as they can. And and I can't remember who said that,
Speaker 1: somebody within the Packers organization said, come December, big doesn't
Speaker 1: get little. So so you know that, like when when
Speaker 1: the money's on the line and you're trying to win
Speaker 1: a million bucks in the big grill are the main event,
Speaker 1: you could put a lot of faith into Josh Jacobs here.
Speaker 2: I think Balky summed it up perfectly, John, don't you Yeah?
Speaker 2: I agree? I mean and that I love when you're
Speaker 2: when you're insider Packer informations sort of seeds to the
Speaker 2: top and it it permeates all our Green Bay conversation
Speaker 2: I have. I have one of the most ridiculous questions
Speaker 2: probably to ask you, but you know, uh, our friend
Speaker 2: Jazzmine Jade Chicks in earlier I spoke with her today
Speaker 2: and tod her that we had the most wonderful guests
Speaker 2: ever to come on the show, and John Terry, and
Speaker 2: she says, oh, I'll see him in Kentucky then, And
Speaker 2: I said, well, there don't guarantee you that. So I
Speaker 2: don't want to get too far deep into this. People
Speaker 2: have come up to me and said, when's John Terry
Speaker 2: get in here. This has happened for the last couple
Speaker 2: of years. And you know, no one has agency or
Speaker 2: permission to complain about the John Terry in Kentucky. But
Speaker 2: I will say he is not coming, and they will
Speaker 2: get a look of disgust on their face and they'll
Speaker 2: shake their head and they'll be still. They'll be sullen
Speaker 2: and sad for a moment, and you know, and I
Speaker 2: have to keep a good, strong, hard face in that
Speaker 2: kind of situation. And so, you know, we've got a
Speaker 2: lot of people down here there there, and I really
Speaker 2: think John, because of your record as a player, you know,
Speaker 2: I think they kind of think that they will get
Speaker 2: you down here for a year or two. They might
Speaker 2: be able to beat you because this is their home turn.
Speaker 2: And so you know, I think you need to invade
Speaker 2: in the South and prove to them that John Terry
Speaker 2: is a champion on any turf. So here comes my question.
Speaker 2: When you get to Kentucky where you must start three
Speaker 2: wide receivers. When you get to Kentucky, well, one of
Speaker 2: them be Ted McMillan. And if you are draft, you
Speaker 2: drafted even and like the fifth round of some draft
Speaker 2: or something. I'm curious about this. Did you forget who
Speaker 2: his quarterback was? That's my biggest question.
Speaker 4: No, And I mean I think that is the biggest
Speaker 4: question with him. I mean, Bryce Young was really solid
Speaker 4: at the end of last year. The question is is
Speaker 4: he going to keep that up and progress from there
Speaker 4: or is he going to revert to the quarterback we've
Speaker 4: seen him be in the past. And I'm willing to
Speaker 4: take a gamble on tet and I know that seems
Speaker 4: it might seem a little early. I think that's around
Speaker 4: his ADP, which is pretty aggressive right now. I was
Speaker 4: a little behind the ball at wide receiver, you know,
Speaker 4: starting with Bowers, and then I took an early QB
Speaker 4: and then I took Jacobs. So I mean, there were
Speaker 4: a lot of receivers that went right before him that
Speaker 4: I would have rather had. But I'm not afraid to
Speaker 4: draft Ted.
Speaker 2: Well, you don't live in fear. You don't live. Here's
Speaker 2: a question, who is Ted going to catch more passes
Speaker 2: than the quarterback gets sacked? Because quarterback got sacked sixty
Speaker 2: eight times last year. Bulkie's that correct number. I just
Speaker 2: pulled that out.
Speaker 1: Man. You might be pulling it out of thin air.
Speaker 1: But maybe you're right on that.
Speaker 2: Over and under on the receptions of sixty eight for.
Speaker 4: Ten oh over under sixty eight. That's a pretty good number.
Speaker 2: Sixty eight a good number.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, I guess I'll take the over. I
Speaker 4: could see him getting low seventies.
Speaker 2: Low seventies. You know, I'm going to tell you about
Speaker 2: something about your low seventies in the fifth around here,
Speaker 2: you could have bit.
Speaker 1: We have I have to have some production or a
Speaker 1: bell I ring every time we bring up. But we
Speaker 1: gotta do something like that. Oh god, sixty two sacks
Speaker 1: for Bryce Young in his rookie in his rookie year.
Speaker 1: Pharaoh last year only sacked twenty nine times.
Speaker 2: What's wrong with me? I can't read the stat lines anymore.
Speaker 1: That's okay. Numbers mean nothing, Yeah they do. So I
Speaker 1: want to bring up the draft board here once again,
Speaker 1: Oh there I go. So if we look at this
Speaker 1: John uh in the at the six o eight here
Speaker 1: you take Chrysal Lobby. This was the round after you
Speaker 1: to Tech Technic Millan. This is from the five spot
Speaker 1: for anybody's following along. The Saints are obviously a messi quarterback.
Speaker 1: It got more messy when Derek Carr decided to announce
Speaker 1: his retirement. Is this a buying opportunity for Chrystal Lobby
Speaker 1: drafters right now? Knowing that it can't get much worse
Speaker 1: at quarterback, whether it's going to be Tyler Shook, whether
Speaker 1: it's going to be Spencer Rattler Jake, what's his name?
Speaker 1: Ha ha, Yet it can't get much worse. So I
Speaker 1: would think that Olave's ADP is going to be affected
Speaker 1: by that. How much did you and I know you
Speaker 1: just explained your wide receiver situation in this draft as well,
Speaker 1: but how much did you like that pick? What do
Speaker 1: you think about Olave here going forward? Knowing that quarterback
Speaker 1: situation is no one on?
Speaker 4: Yeah, well it's not good. But I mean the the
Speaker 4: rookie that they drafted at QB has a lot of
Speaker 4: experience and I'd be shocked if he is as bad
Speaker 4: as Spencer Rattler and Derek Carr is not. I mean,
Speaker 4: he's not what he once was, so I still think
Speaker 4: Olave could put up some numbers. Plus, I think the
Speaker 4: Saints are going to be a bad team, so they're
Speaker 4: probably going to have to throw the ball pretty often.
Speaker 4: It's just a matter if a lobby keeps the concussions
Speaker 4: under control and doesn't miss time because of them. I
Speaker 4: think he's going to be a value at that spot.
Speaker 2: I think he's going to be more than a value. Guys,
Speaker 2: and John just I will quit the hardest seft sell immediately,
Speaker 2: but you know, it is important to to tell the
Speaker 2: listeners that the experience he received was in Louisville, in
Speaker 2: the same place you'll be having your experience here in August.
Speaker 2: But a lot of scouts, it's the scouting process and
Speaker 2: a lot of people that I really trust in football
Speaker 2: say one thing about Tyler. He can make all the passes,
Speaker 2: and wouldn't you love to have a rookie quarterback who
Speaker 2: can make all the passes. It's got a little experience,
Speaker 2: it's got a good head playing in a dome, targeting
Speaker 2: the number one receiver on that team, who then they
Speaker 2: don't really have the greatest tight end presence. So I
Speaker 2: see a lot and the running back getting maybe one
Speaker 2: hundred catches each, you know, almost as many as Pittman.
Speaker 2: So you know, so we're in a situation there where
Speaker 2: I love a lave for this team. So if you
Speaker 2: love him like I do, you probably don't. But if
Speaker 2: if you love him, would it would just be a
Speaker 2: player in dynasty to be trying to acquire the trade
Speaker 2: right now because this is and what would be a
Speaker 2: suitable what would be suitable about that?
Speaker 4: I haven't really looked into to bind him, but I mean,
Speaker 4: I guess it would depend what the price is. I mean,
Speaker 4: if he was if he was if he if he
Speaker 4: was you know, fairly fairly cheap, I buy him. He's
Speaker 4: just comes with extra risk in a dynasty perspective, just
Speaker 4: because of the concussions and because of the long term situation,
Speaker 4: a lot.
Speaker 2: Of long term situation in Chicago Bears backfield is is
Speaker 2: a real humorous commentary there, you know in yourself when
Speaker 2: you draft I was in some Dynasty drafts. I told Balky.
Speaker 2: I confessed to Balky last week that I just said,
Speaker 2: you know what he looks the part I'm going to
Speaker 2: just draft him. I didn't have time to do the research.
Speaker 2: I think when you took Rochon Johnson at the seventeen
Speaker 2: oh five after first drafting DeAndre Swift at the seven
Speaker 2: o five, I'm thinking that this is some of your
Speaker 2: choreographed genius. Or did you just look at Roshan Johnson
Speaker 2: and say, what the hell, I'll get a handcuff. How
Speaker 2: are you doing it?
Speaker 1: Well?
Speaker 4: I mean, I think in the Ben Johnson offense, I mean,
Speaker 4: you're gonna want the running backs, right if he has
Speaker 4: any type of success in pulling together what he did
Speaker 4: in Detroit, and I mean he made you know, very
Speaker 4: legitimate starters out of and Montgomery and supported two backs,
Speaker 4: and I mean I think he can do the same
Speaker 4: thing in Chicago. It's just the backs are less talented
Speaker 4: and there's more risk associated with it because still a
Speaker 4: possibility they could bring someone else in.
Speaker 2: So the answer is, yes, you knew that and you
Speaker 2: were looking for.
Speaker 4: Yeah. Well, I will say in my in my dynasty drafts,
Speaker 4: I also drafted a fair amount of their other rookie
Speaker 4: that they took late Kyle, Yeah, late late in drafts,
Speaker 4: just because I want that's a situation where I want
Speaker 4: the guy that's going to get a lot of the work.
Speaker 4: And I think those like the rounds that I took
Speaker 4: those guys in, it's worth the risk, right, You're you're
Speaker 4: not You're definitely not overpaying.
Speaker 2: I don't think it's worth it.
Speaker 1: I just like the idea of of you know, not
Speaker 1: that because of an young guy you didn't lock up
Speaker 1: the backfield, but I mean you got the two big
Speaker 1: pieces of a Ben Johnson offense. Now, is Ben Johnson
Speaker 1: going to be a really good head coach? Is it's
Speaker 1: going to blow up in their face?
Speaker 4: I don't know.
Speaker 1: But what's it going to cost for you to get
Speaker 1: the starting running back on this team a seventh ROWND
Speaker 1: pick and a seventeenth row pick. I think that's a
Speaker 1: bet worth making. In early May so I liked it.
Speaker 1: I thought it was I thought it was really good.
Speaker 1: And by the way, Farrell, I have added Choreographed Genius
Speaker 1: to my list of fantasy football team team. Yeah, one
Speaker 1: of them is going to be that. I don't know
Speaker 1: which one is going to happen this season. Let's keep
Speaker 1: on the Bears here, John Ben Johnson now coaching Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1: How bullish are you on Caleb Williams this year, I
Speaker 1: think I just think back, a lot of stuff went wrong,
Speaker 1: did not have the offensive line. Offensive line definitely improved
Speaker 1: this year. You add Luther Burden, you had Colston Lovelin,
Speaker 1: and now you had Ben Johnson. I think there's a
Speaker 1: lot to like about this situation. Do you see it
Speaker 1: the same way?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean, to be honest, like, what else could
Speaker 4: they have done for him in the offseason? I mean,
Speaker 4: is there any other moves that could make that offense
Speaker 4: potentially any better? I mean I don't think so. I
Speaker 4: think they improved everywhere that they needed to be. So
Speaker 4: I think that the real question in my mind is
Speaker 4: just whether Caleb Williams can speed up his processing. Like
Speaker 4: I know a lot of people, you know, gave him
Speaker 4: props last year for having so few interceptions, but it's
Speaker 4: only because he held the ball so long that he
Speaker 4: took a million sacks and wouldn't.
Speaker 2: There's a sixty eight sack guy.
Speaker 4: So so as long as he picks up the offense
Speaker 4: and he can go through his reads quickly, I mean,
Speaker 4: I think sky's the limit.
Speaker 1: Pharrell just looked it up. Caleb Williams last year was
Speaker 1: sacked exactly sixty eight.
Speaker 2: Times the number right, wrong? Yeah, that happened, you know, So, John,
Speaker 2: you're neutral on Caleb Williams.
Speaker 1: No, I mean I like.
Speaker 4: I like him at where he's getting drafted. I mean,
Speaker 4: it just comes with some risk, right, so he can't
Speaker 4: be like your only QB.
Speaker 2: Well, you know, in early October or even mid October,
Speaker 2: I guess they were four and two and they looked
Speaker 2: like they were going in the right direction, and then
Speaker 2: you know, queels fall off and everything went to hell.
Speaker 2: Deebo Samuel is no longer forty nine er, and I
Speaker 2: thought I would never see that Deebo Samuel playing in
Speaker 2: another uniform. But to me, that's a little more shocking
Speaker 2: than even Austin Eckler playing in a commander. Shoot, what
Speaker 2: is he going to have a year? That reminds us
Speaker 2: that of who Deebo Samuel is, you know, historically drafted
Speaker 2: in the third round and usually plays above his draft
Speaker 2: position in Fantasy ball. Tell us what's going to happen
Speaker 2: down the road from you?
Speaker 4: Yeah? I mean I like Deebo. The question is this
Speaker 4: whether again, whether age is catching up to him or not.
Speaker 4: I mean, it kind of looked like it might be
Speaker 4: last year, but if he if he can, you know,
Speaker 4: if he's got another year in him. He's just such
Speaker 4: a diverse player that you can use so many different
Speaker 4: ways around the line of scrimmage. And I think with
Speaker 4: you know, Jade and Daniels there, I mean, I think
Speaker 4: they have got a lot of a lot of potential
Speaker 4: for him to put up some some decent points, especially
Speaker 4: like I mean, you don't have to take him in
Speaker 4: the third round anymore. So I think where he's going,
Speaker 4: it's worth it's worth the risk. And yeah, I was
Speaker 4: shocked to see him get moved too. I mean, he
Speaker 4: and Kittle were like the seem to be the core
Speaker 4: of that Niners team. And so that makes me, you know,
Speaker 4: wonder a little bit like what what were the Niners
Speaker 4: saying that they were willing to let him go? But
Speaker 4: I mean, I'll take the gamble with whatever round I
Speaker 4: took him in. It might might have been the eighth round.
Speaker 1: Yeah, in this Cenisis draft, you ended up grabbing him,
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel it was the eighth round, they eight whatever
Speaker 1: it would be, eight to eight. And I think what's
Speaker 1: interesting about that is to kind of what you were
Speaker 1: saying already, John, this is not a third round player anymore,
Speaker 1: but he could return potentially. The ceiling is third round value,
Speaker 1: right Deebo Samuel, Wide receiver thirty eight. Even if you
Speaker 1: don't like Deebo Samuel, I think you have to start
Speaker 1: taking a long look at him when you get to
Speaker 1: that middle of the seventh round, when you get to
Speaker 1: b where John Terry was, the middle of the eighth round,
Speaker 1: and you know Calvin Ridley, Jordan Addison, Juwan Jennings, those
Speaker 1: are your options there. Deebo Samuel looks awfully, awfully shiny.
Speaker 1: We'll see what happens there. Now another receiver that was
Speaker 1: had already had his heyday and his best football is
Speaker 1: behind him, but we don't know if he has some
Speaker 1: good football and score. Now you have to go a
Speaker 1: little bit further down the draft board to see Cooper
Speaker 1: Cups thing after Deebo Samuel. The Cooper up is a
Speaker 1: going at the nine oh seven cup is the wide
Speaker 1: receiver forty five? Right now, this is Matthew Golden Brandon
Speaker 1: AYUK Territory. Do you think that FFPC players are letting
Speaker 1: him slip too far? In drafts? Oftentimes we see these,
Speaker 1: you know, one of these aging receivers kind of defy
Speaker 1: the odds and then come out of nowhere and you know,
Speaker 1: churn out a top twenty season and he's a wide
Speaker 1: receiver forty five right now, John.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think in the in Genesis, I think I
Speaker 4: took him at ten to eight. I think it's where
Speaker 4: I got him. And uh yeah, I mean I he's
Speaker 4: another guy that's worth the risk, right, I mean it
Speaker 4: could be that he's done, but if he is, then
Speaker 4: you know, you move on and you grab someone else.
Speaker 4: But he's got that high ceiling still, so he's worth
Speaker 4: the gamble.
Speaker 2: Guys. The Seattle Seahawks paid forty four million on a
Speaker 2: two year contract for this player. Yeah, I don't think
Speaker 2: he's done. I think I think we can follow that
Speaker 2: money and we can. You know, he had best physical
Speaker 2: before he got that deal, right, Yeah. I don't think
Speaker 2: we're doing.
Speaker 1: Just real quick about Cup Parrell. The other thing to
Speaker 1: keep in mind to your point, really is what did
Speaker 1: the Seahawks do outside of signing Cup. They traded DK
Speaker 1: Metcalf to the Seaboard. They let Tyler Lockett go, who's
Speaker 1: now with the Titans, and then in the draft. I
Speaker 1: know there's a lot of pundits out there that we're
Speaker 1: saying Seattle's gonna take a receiver in the first round
Speaker 1: or on Day two, especially with that extra second round
Speaker 1: pick they got from Pittsburgh. They didn't take a receiver
Speaker 1: until the fifth round, and then they took another one
Speaker 1: in the seventh. So to me, like, and I've been
Speaker 1: trying to tell myself a Tory Horton's story in Dynasty Drafts, right,
Speaker 1: that this guy's gonna take over that cup is dust
Speaker 1: and the twenty twenty six is gonna be the year
Speaker 1: Tory Horton. But at the same time, I think we
Speaker 1: have to understand what is John Schneider doing there. He
Speaker 1: is basing his team, or at least his wide receiver
Speaker 1: room around two guys Smith and Jagba and Cooper Cup
Speaker 1: and maybe we, as f FPCs as in Fantasy football
Speaker 1: drafters should be taking notice of that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, my only question about that is, like, you probably
Speaker 4: want to play both those guys in the slot, So
Speaker 4: I don't know exactly how that passing game is going
Speaker 4: to look. But again, I still think he's worked the risk.
Speaker 4: I mean, you got to take JSN and what like
Speaker 4: around early round three.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, you're right, John, three oh two, Right, now
Speaker 1: wide receiver thirteen for Smith and.
Speaker 2: Bunkie. Well where did where did Brooks go to school?
Speaker 1: Uh? Taj Brooks was that Texas?
Speaker 4: I want to say Texas Tech?
Speaker 1: It was Texas Tech. They are no stranger, those Red
Speaker 1: Raiders to not having great defenses but having high flying offenses.
Speaker 2: Yea, they Devin Neil and bshard Smith. Who your favorite
Speaker 2: of those guys? Who do you like the on those
Speaker 2: running backs? Because I have said it earlier tonight and
Speaker 2: I've been beating the drum for this, that Bucky Irving
Speaker 2: last year was no mistake and we're going to find
Speaker 2: multiple Brookie Irvings in this deep draft the fifth, sixth,
Speaker 2: seventh round, even earlier than that, but definitely in those
Speaker 2: rounds there's going to be some star power that really
Speaker 2: can make Fantasy football difference. Who do you like best?
Speaker 2: Or do you like all three of them? And you know,
Speaker 2: educate the listeners about them.
Speaker 4: I mean, if I if I had to pick one,
Speaker 4: even though he's going the latest, I would take Pash Brooks.
Speaker 4: He is the most well rounded of the backs, and
Speaker 4: I mean he the Bengals other than if something happens
Speaker 4: to Chase Brown, I think he's going to be the
Speaker 4: number two, and he one of the things that he
Speaker 4: had positive grades on coming out of school was his
Speaker 4: pass protection. So I mean, I think he could be
Speaker 4: a three down back. I mean I think last year.
Speaker 4: The interesting stat coming out for the college running backs
Speaker 4: last year is two running backs last year rushed for
Speaker 4: over one hundred yards in every game. Yes, one was
Speaker 4: Ashton genty and the other one was Brooks.
Speaker 1: Just comparing these three guys here, Devin Neil, I think
Speaker 1: his athletic profile has turned me off so much, and
Speaker 1: I know that he could be the guy in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six because Kendrick Miller has failed to stay on
Speaker 1: the field and you know, Alan Kamara, I don't know
Speaker 1: how much juice is left in the tank there. So
Speaker 1: Neil is more of like a twenty twenty six play
Speaker 1: hard to like him this year. And then Richard Smith,
Speaker 1: I mean, all these people are falling, all older them.
Speaker 1: For Brishard Smith, it's like there's still Pacheco there, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: they went out and signed up the guy from San Francisco, Elijah.
Speaker 1: Elijah Mitchell is there as well. So but Brooks, to
Speaker 1: your point, John, if if something were to happen to
Speaker 1: Chase Brown. They do have Zach Moss there. He's coming
Speaker 1: off a pretty serious injury. And I never really thought
Speaker 1: Chase Brown was gonna be able to be a bell Cown.
Speaker 1: Perhaps the Bengals maybe don't want him being a three
Speaker 1: down guy. They want somebody else rotating in. And I
Speaker 1: think Brooks is that that has a lot of possibilities
Speaker 1: for best ball and for redraft too. That's the type
Speaker 1: of guy you stash on your bench. And and if
Speaker 1: if Chase Brown misses like it might only be like
Speaker 1: a three or four week span, but all of a sudden,
Speaker 1: Brooks becomes flexible there. And I think that's what makes
Speaker 1: him attractive.
Speaker 4: Yeah. And I mean those other guys are worth taking,
Speaker 4: you know, just shots on late and you can drop
Speaker 4: them if they don't turn into anything. But I mean
Speaker 4: with Brooks, I mean Brooks versus Neil for instance, I mean,
Speaker 4: what's what's Neil's upside? I mean, would you rather have
Speaker 4: the back from the Bengals or the Saints?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I mean, and then my biggest problem with with Smith
Speaker 4: is that he's kind of the opposite in Brooks and
Speaker 4: that he's starting at zero in past protection and I mean,
Speaker 4: how what's it going to take for them to put
Speaker 4: him out there with Mahomes. You know, I don't know.
Speaker 4: I mean, he may get playing time, he may not.
Speaker 1: Email here, we're gonna keep it on the running back
Speaker 1: situation in the AFC North, but we'll go to Cleveland
Speaker 1: here rich In kerns Utah. John wants to know our
Speaker 1: FFPC drafters wrong to bury Jerome Ford right now. The
Speaker 1: Browns thank you for the email, rich In kerns Utah.
Speaker 1: We appreciate it. But you look at the Browns in
Speaker 1: the draft Quinn Shawn Judkins early in the second round,
Speaker 1: and then they double down and they take Dylan Samson
Speaker 1: out of Tennessee, and Jerome Ford's like, I'm still on
Speaker 1: this team right running back sixty seven is where FFPC
Speaker 1: players are taking him. In the Big Girl, he goes
Speaker 1: at the sixteen to oh nine. Clearly the most proven
Speaker 1: running back there right now is Ford, at least from
Speaker 1: a professional standpoint, John, probably another guy you're just taking
Speaker 1: a stab on late. Is the juice worth to squeeze?
Speaker 1: Is is it worth taking a guy like him? Knowing
Speaker 1: that this is a young man's game, and the Browns
Speaker 1: invested into two young men in rookies. This year that
Speaker 1: they think are a big part of their future.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean this is a hard one. I mean,
Speaker 4: he Ford coming in this year was one of my
Speaker 4: most own Dynasty running backs. And to say I was
Speaker 4: less than thrilled after the draft understatement. But I mean
Speaker 4: with bringing in both Judkins and Samson, I mean I
Speaker 4: think Ford's gonna play early. But yeah, I mean the
Speaker 4: writing's on the wall. I mean, regardless of whether we
Speaker 4: think he's a good player, Cleveland's coaching staff obviously disagrees,
Speaker 4: you know.
Speaker 1: And the other thing too, is and then the schedule
Speaker 1: came out tonight. The buys don't start till week five,
Speaker 1: and and so maybe you could use Ford in September,
Speaker 1: maybe early October. But then once you once you need
Speaker 1: to start plugging him in for bye week guys. That
Speaker 1: could be like Judkins take maybe he has the control
Speaker 1: of the backfield at that point. So what are we
Speaker 1: supposed to do?
Speaker 4: Yeah, it's hard to see his role because I mean,
Speaker 4: even if Judkins is like the early down guy, and
Speaker 4: then and then Samson comes in as the pass catching back,
Speaker 4: I mean, where exactly does Ford play?
Speaker 2: I mean I don't know. I have a question. Has
Speaker 2: Ford ever won you anything in fantasy.
Speaker 1: He has plugged in for me in certain weeks where
Speaker 1: I was happy I started him. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's ever won me a championship.
Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, the same for me. But again, like did
Speaker 4: we even draft for He was probably a way rewired
Speaker 4: guy that I picked up, So it's not like I
Speaker 4: invested a ton in him. But I mean, he passes
Speaker 4: the eye test. On the field, he looked like a
Speaker 4: decent play. I mean, he was definitely a hull of
Speaker 4: a lot better than Chubb last year.
Speaker 2: You know, it's just like one of your favorite players
Speaker 2: that passed test and scored forty five points in a
Speaker 2: week for me, that Claypool. You know, it's a big
Speaker 2: Claypool guy because the eye test and the fact that
Speaker 2: he won some things for me.
Speaker 1: You know, to add another email here for you. This
Speaker 1: is coming from Jay in Queens. He writes, Hya, John,
Speaker 1: does zach Ertz have one more good season in him?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Thank you Jay and Queens for the email.
Speaker 1: We appreciate it.
Speaker 4: Ertz.
Speaker 1: Right now, John in the FFPC big Gorilla. His ADP
Speaker 1: is sitting at Do I do I not see it here?
Speaker 2: Way down there?
Speaker 1: Maybe I didn't scroll down far enough. I know where
Speaker 1: they're taking zach Ertz right now, tight end twenty two
Speaker 1: at the twelve eleven.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I was gonna say somewhere on the thirteenth round.
Speaker 4: I mean I did a big gorilla a couple of
Speaker 4: nights ago and I lost out on tight end almost everywhere,
Speaker 4: and I took him on that team, I think in
Speaker 4: the thirteenth round, and I think he's I think he's
Speaker 4: got another year in him. I mean he's kind of
Speaker 4: like that guy that's like, I don't know, a Jason
Speaker 4: Witten or somebody like that. I mean he does at
Speaker 4: his age, he doesn't have to be a great athlete.
Speaker 4: He just has to run down the field, find open
Speaker 4: spot and turn around and catch the ball, right kind
Speaker 4: of what like what Travis? Yeah, you get a point
Speaker 4: in a half every time?
Speaker 2: Right? So I mean I think I think he's fantastically
Speaker 2: athletic and a quarterback that needs him. Oh how I
Speaker 2: wanted to interrupt when you said I did a big
Speaker 2: gorilla bus saying that's what she said, but I held
Speaker 2: it really did I there's.
Speaker 1: Done cap When you need him, he would be broiling
Speaker 1: on the floor right now.
Speaker 4: I did not want to.
Speaker 2: I didn't want to do that.
Speaker 1: You like ERT's at the twelve eleven John better than
Speaker 1: his real life teammate Ben Sinnat at seventeen twelve.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't. I don't see Sina playing a lot
Speaker 4: this year. I don't know.
Speaker 2: I mean, there's a cautionary trail of everyone that says
Speaker 2: the rookie is going to take the job away from you.
Speaker 2: Remember how they just just gave the job. Everyone in
Speaker 2: fantasy football is just giving the job.
Speaker 1: It's it's not unlike and like, I know you guys
Speaker 1: aren't baseball guys, but like when you play fantasy baseball,
Speaker 1: it's like how many times did did did do people
Speaker 1: pick up the closer in waiting off the waiverwhere all
Speaker 1: this guy's got the best stuff, he's, he's, he's, he
Speaker 1: misses bats, and and then the old crafty veteran who
Speaker 1: just seems to get it done. It just continues to
Speaker 1: be the closer. And all these guys that that everybody
Speaker 1: just assumes it was gonna be the guy never becomes
Speaker 1: the guy. The list is long for that, and the
Speaker 1: list is long for you know, rookies that just were
Speaker 1: expected to seize the job and they never did, or
Speaker 1: they haven't.
Speaker 2: Yet, John, what's bulky talking about?
Speaker 1: I know I shouldn't have brought that up. At least
Speaker 1: I didn't bring up a basketball or a hockey raper.
Speaker 2: Oh remember when I said it would be a slam dunk.
Speaker 2: I was hung my head in shame.
Speaker 1: Well pick your head up, Farrell, because we have to
Speaker 1: ask John the most important question.
Speaker 2: Of this is, and I don't last week's guest the
Speaker 2: gentleman that joined us last week, Balky from Arizona.
Speaker 1: Yes, Scott Priziki.
Speaker 2: Scott was on fire. You know, for a guy that
Speaker 2: doesn't have any vows in his name, he's a well
Speaker 2: rounded player and he he answered this question better than anybody.
Speaker 2: But I thought about it. I said, you know what,
Speaker 2: it's going to be a one week grain because this
Speaker 2: is the greatest question for John Terry. I want to
Speaker 2: know who you will not touch, the guy you were
Speaker 2: looking to avoid, and the guy you must have. But
Speaker 2: the reasons you don't like players are so well rooted
Speaker 2: in disgust of their actual being as a football player.
Speaker 2: So forward to looking at the guy that will not
Speaker 2: make your draft sheets. That's the one I want to
Speaker 2: hear first. Well, I'll take them in any order. You
Speaker 2: want to give him, but I am on the edge
Speaker 2: of must seats.
Speaker 4: Well, I mean the one that discussed me the most
Speaker 4: that I just won't touch at all. And I'll never
Speaker 4: have him on any of my drafts. There's no way
Speaker 4: you're going to get me the draft Brandon Ayuk this year,
Speaker 4: No way. I mean, he's good, he's coming that. No,
Speaker 4: I was not.
Speaker 1: But I'm curious to hear this.
Speaker 4: I mean, I know he's going in like the ninth round,
Speaker 4: but he's coming off a pretty bad injury. You know,
Speaker 4: maybe maybe he's going to come back middle of the year,
Speaker 4: best case scenario. And I think he's only had flashes
Speaker 4: of being a good player, don't I don't think he
Speaker 4: really even established himself before the injury as someone that
Speaker 4: was really good. I mean, he had he had his
Speaker 4: problem getting on the field in San Francisco, problems with
Speaker 4: the coaching staff, and then he flashed for a while.
Speaker 4: I just don't think he's that good.
Speaker 1: The other things too. And I brought this up and
Speaker 1: I promise it's the last baseball reference of the night,
Speaker 1: But I was listening to a fantasy baseball analyst talk
Speaker 1: about this a few years ago, and during drafting season,
Speaker 1: and I think this is something that I've done in
Speaker 1: all my fantasy leagues. I rarely draft players that are
Speaker 1: already hurt coming into the season, or maybe a better
Speaker 1: way to put it is not healthy coming into the season.
Speaker 1: Because I know my guys that I draft who are healthy,
Speaker 1: a lot of them are gonna get hurt. So why
Speaker 1: am I adding on these injured guys at the start
Speaker 1: of the season. It just makes it a lot more
Speaker 1: harder to manage.
Speaker 4: I agree, especially like FFPC. I mean it's a it's
Speaker 4: a shorter season.
Speaker 2: That's a good point. So we had we've had a
Speaker 2: doubleheader of baseball.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there you go. I love it.
Speaker 4: I love it.
Speaker 1: Know you know you're not on Auke john Is There
Speaker 1: is there somebody that that you're on maybe later on
Speaker 1: in the draft, a guy that you've really been targeting
Speaker 1: when we get to the double digit.
Speaker 4: Rounds, well by two, the two guys I like most
Speaker 4: versus ADP are early guys. I think the guys FFPC
Speaker 4: that are going later than they should are Trey McBride
Speaker 4: and Rashie Rice. Okay, those are those are both guys
Speaker 4: I want to have on as many teams seconds as
Speaker 4: I can. I know I know McBride's probably going around
Speaker 4: like end of the first round, but I think he
Speaker 4: should be going like sixth or seventh in the first round.
Speaker 4: I mean, if you look at his I mean, no
Speaker 4: one is questioning Bowers this year. I haven't seen anyone
Speaker 4: that's like down on Bowers at all. And I mean,
Speaker 4: if you like the touchdowns kind of come and go right,
Speaker 4: and if you add added three touchdowns to McBride last year,
Speaker 4: he's the same as Bowers and his situation hasn't really changed.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't think his QB is any worse
Speaker 4: than a Bower situation. I mean, he seems to be
Speaker 4: his favorite target. I just think he should be going
Speaker 4: about the same place that Bowers goes. And then Rice,
Speaker 4: I think people haven't caught up to the one that
Speaker 4: he is very likely not going to serve any kind
Speaker 4: of suspension this year, given the status of his legal case,
Speaker 4: and then or lack of legal case, I should say,
Speaker 4: and then I think on tape. I don't know about
Speaker 4: you guys, but when I watched Rice play when he
Speaker 4: was healthy and he was playing well with the Chiefs,
Speaker 4: and then when I watched Worthy last year, it's pretty
Speaker 4: clear to me on film that Rice is a better
Speaker 4: player than Worthy. I know they're different, and I think
Speaker 4: Rice will be the alpha in that offense. And if Kelsey,
Speaker 4: you know, he's another year older, he could slow down.
Speaker 4: And if they put Worthy more into the role that
Speaker 4: he should be playing in, I mean, I think Rice
Speaker 4: should be going late second round.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he's going right now, Rishie. Rice is three to
Speaker 1: eleven wide receiver seventeen. I will be the first to
Speaker 1: admit I was really impressed and I was wrong about
Speaker 1: Xavier Worthy last year. I thought he did some things,
Speaker 1: especially down the stretch, that I didn't think he was
Speaker 1: going to be capable of, especially as a rookie. But
Speaker 1: I think a lot of that was out of necessity
Speaker 1: because you had Kelsey slowing down, you had no Rice.
Speaker 1: Hopkins was basically dust, and they couldn't really get a
Speaker 1: whole lot going with the running game surprisingly too, so
Speaker 1: I think a lot of that stuff with Worthy, they
Speaker 1: just had to have somebody this year. To your point,
Speaker 1: I think he's going to be more that traditional field flipper.
Speaker 1: He's going to get his you know, as far as
Speaker 1: you know, stuff over the middle and underneath routes. But
Speaker 1: I think you're going to see a lot more Rashid Rice,
Speaker 1: and I think from from a fantasy standpoint, I think
Speaker 1: you want to have more Rice than Worthy this year
Speaker 1: for sure, So I'm with you on that as well.
Speaker 1: And I will see on the McBride tip and Parrell,
Speaker 1: I don't know how you feel about this. Wouldn't surprise
Speaker 1: me at all as we get deeper into drafting season
Speaker 1: that Bowers and McBride are going, like, you know, instead
Speaker 1: of Bowers being at the one oh five and McBride
Speaker 1: going at the one twelve, can see McBride up at
Speaker 1: the one o seven in the one o six. I'm
Speaker 1: almost positive we're going to see that in some of
Speaker 1: the varsitys and the high societies and the big paybacks
Speaker 1: out at Paris and in Las Vegas. Just if you
Speaker 1: put those guys next to each other and you look
Speaker 1: at the stats and you take the touchdowns away, you
Speaker 1: look at and like, why is this guy going you know,
Speaker 1: two thirds of a round later? He shouldn't be. And
Speaker 1: I think that's what's going to happen as we get closer.
Speaker 4: I think exactly, yeah, I think they're seiling higher too,
Speaker 4: because I mean we're talking about that touchdown differential. But
Speaker 4: I mean they both had upside to pick up because
Speaker 4: it was like the one guy had four touchdowns, the
Speaker 4: other guy had one. Yeah, and they still put up
Speaker 4: all those points because really, in the point and a
Speaker 4: half for FFPC, if you get tight ends that catch
Speaker 4: over a hundred balls, I mean that's worth a ton.
Speaker 2: Bulky, may I have a pop up question?
Speaker 1: Just real yes you can, just real quick, just real quick.
Speaker 1: Bowers had one more catch than McBride last year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Bowers had fifty begging pardon, forty eight more receiving yards
Speaker 1: and then technically he only had three more touchdowns because
Speaker 1: McBride did get that weird rushing touchdown in week fifteen
Speaker 1: or whatever it was. But but yeah, I mean they
Speaker 1: are there there. It's like the Spider Man meme where
Speaker 1: they're pointing at each other. That's kind of how it is.
Speaker 1: Farrell Elliott's pop up question and pop up question.
Speaker 2: And I could be wrong. Is I don't listen to
Speaker 2: as much content as as you do, John and Bulky
Speaker 2: as you produce. But I think the thing that I'm
Speaker 2: hearing the least about is most intriguing to me is
Speaker 2: our new h is our new receiver. Adams at the
Speaker 2: Los Angeles Rams, and I would really like to hear
Speaker 2: first of all, I would like your opinion, if I'm
Speaker 2: correct on that that it just doesn't seem to be
Speaker 2: a lot of commentary about it, and I just I'm
Speaker 2: curious what John sees from that.
Speaker 4: Yeah. No, I like Adams. I think he's gonna I
Speaker 4: think he's gonna play well with the Rams. I like Stafford,
Speaker 4: I like the offense, like mcvayh and I mean they've
Speaker 4: always had, you know, condensed targets, So I think it's
Speaker 4: gonna be him and Puka with Kyron running the ball.
Speaker 4: And I mean, we'll see if we get much of
Speaker 4: anything out of the tight end. I don't know, you know,
Speaker 4: I don't really see Ferguson coming out of the gate
Speaker 4: and being all that. Maybe towards the end of the year.
Speaker 4: But you know, Adams didn't show me anything last year
Speaker 4: for me to think that he's done. And he was
Speaker 4: also when I won the Genesis League last year, he
Speaker 4: was on my team and he pretty much carried me
Speaker 4: last couple of weeks of the playoffs. I really like
Speaker 4: Adams this year.
Speaker 2: There you go, And you know, I really like Tom Smith.
Speaker 2: It's just a real subtle hint there to you, John,
Speaker 2: just a public service announcement, especially for you. You know,
Speaker 2: our guys are counting down the days. John. That's all
Speaker 2: I'm saying.
Speaker 4: I will say I'm working on it as I have.
Speaker 4: I have a home league that I've been in since
Speaker 4: nineteen ninety one that always drafts that Saturday that you
Speaker 4: guys are in Louisville. It's like a fixed state on
Speaker 4: the calendar, and that's always the weekend.
Speaker 1: That we draft. But we have a.
Speaker 2: You to come in online. We'll get you.
Speaker 4: So I did convince Bip lab to come to Vegas.
Speaker 4: So he's going to be co owning some main events
Speaker 4: with me. So if he makes a trip down to
Speaker 4: Kentucky this year, there's a chance that I'll.
Speaker 2: He already he already owns a ticket.
Speaker 1: I will just real quick about the Davante Adams thing.
Speaker 1: Where he's going in drafts right now. I think you
Speaker 1: can make a case. I'm not saying I would do this,
Speaker 1: but I think you can make a case for him
Speaker 1: over McLaurin. I definitely think that there are people taking
Speaker 1: him again ahead of tyreek Hill.
Speaker 4: I would take him over both those guys.
Speaker 1: Okay, And then I would take him over Marvin Harrison.
Speaker 1: He's already going ahead of DJ Moore. I'd take him
Speaker 1: ahead of him and Mike Evans for sure. An xavier'
Speaker 1: Worthy obviously, I think the one guy he's going next
Speaker 1: to that I don't think I would take him over
Speaker 1: is the guy you were just talking about John in
Speaker 1: Rashid Rice. I think that I would take him over Adams.
Speaker 1: But Adams at the floural one right now, you know,
Speaker 1: real warm, toasty and cozy with him as my second
Speaker 1: or third receiver there for sure.
Speaker 2: And person drops about Stafford And that's a good point too, Bulk.
Speaker 1: Yeah, when you consider that Stafford is going to have
Speaker 1: Nakua and to me, a massive upgrade on Cooper Cup
Speaker 1: last year in Devonte Adams. And to your point, John
Speaker 1: it I think Ferguson Moore comes on at the end
Speaker 1: of the year. But yeah, I think Stafford going as
Speaker 1: late as he is. That's another steal. I just think
Speaker 1: you have to be careful with Stafford. I mean, Pooka
Speaker 1: has had these great years, Cups had these I mean,
Speaker 1: how many games are you pointing to where you said
Speaker 1: Stafford put up great stats. I mean it's such a
Speaker 1: dense targets there that like Puka gets fifteen catches.
Speaker 4: For one hundred and eighty yards and Stafford doesn't even
Speaker 4: get to three hundred yards.
Speaker 1: You know, I don't know there there is something to
Speaker 1: be said for that, however, I think that's baked into
Speaker 1: his ADPs being.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, yeah, I agree for where you're getting him. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So I would not say he is the panacea that
Speaker 1: you need for your fantasy football team, but I would say,
Speaker 1: like in a pinch, if you need. I mean, I
Speaker 1: think about some of my quarterback situations the last couple
Speaker 1: of years where I'm scrambling for like a warm body
Speaker 1: out the waiver wire. If I if I could look
Speaker 1: to Stafford on a bye week or injury, yeah, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna have limited expectations. But at the same time, the
Speaker 1: Coop and Adams, I feel a lot better about it.
Speaker 4: But yeah, he's just one of those guys that's a
Speaker 4: much better NFL quarterback.
Speaker 1: And fantasy for sure, absolutely, at least now back in
Speaker 1: the day on those bad Lions teams, and he was
Speaker 1: chucking the ball all over the Vanis and juicy scores
Speaker 1: back then for fantasy.
Speaker 2: Even about the j night they announcement schedule. Do you
Speaker 2: do you spend much time reviewing that schedule.
Speaker 4: At all? The only thing that I looked at and this,
Speaker 4: this kills me every year and this what is this
Speaker 4: maybe like fourth or fifth year now, But no, I
Speaker 4: mean I play a lot of half PC, right, and
Speaker 4: I play a lot of the main evsion big Gorilla.
Speaker 4: And I always like look at the playoff weeks and
Speaker 4: because like in order to make money, like it's great
Speaker 4: to try to win the million dollars, right, but you
Speaker 4: got to win your share of your individual leagues. So
Speaker 4: I immediately looked and I see that San Francisco, the Giants,
Speaker 4: the Pats, and the Panthers, all their players went down
Speaker 4: in value to me because you're not going to have
Speaker 4: any of them for the title game.
Speaker 1: And but and I will say this too, like Okay,
Speaker 1: it is the Panthers, it is the Patriots. It could
Speaker 1: have been worse, like it could have been like the
Speaker 1: Commanders or the Bills or the Lions or something like that.
Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it could have It could have been worse.
Speaker 2: But I mean it could have been six teams if
Speaker 2: you got a neighbors McCaffrey kittle.
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, it's not great it's not great to be perfect, as.
Speaker 4: You got to work around it. But it's just that,
Speaker 4: like you're drafting some of your teams before you have
Speaker 4: this information.
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I know like a lot of people will
Speaker 1: now are going to spend tonight John going back on
Speaker 1: all their basketball teams and see, like where the holes
Speaker 1: are for their bye weeks for like kickers and defense. Like,
Speaker 1: ah god, all three of my kickers have the same
Speaker 1: bye week. That's always fun to look back on as well.
Speaker 1: It is always fun to talk to you, my friend,
Speaker 1: John Terry, the twenty twenty four FFPC Genesis Champion, a
Speaker 1: guy who has won more Fantasy Football leagues than I
Speaker 1: think I've even entered as far as his FFPC leagues go.
Speaker 1: We will hopefully see you in Kentucky. We'll see you
Speaker 1: in Las Vegas at Paris, John, and keep up all
Speaker 1: that great choreographed genius that you have had going on
Speaker 1: during drafting season, my friend.
Speaker 4: All right, good talking to you, guys.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, you got it. That's John Terry, Ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four f FPC Genesis Champ. Will he defend
Speaker 1: his belt in twenty twenty five? That remains to be
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Speaker 2: We welcome everyone to come give it a shot.
Speaker 1: Ferrel, I will talk with you again, not this Friday,
Speaker 1: but next Friday. Man, thanks so much for hanging out
Speaker 1: with me in the middle of the week.
Speaker 2: You're welcome, Balki, and I'll say a brief so long
Speaker 2: that I'm gonna be I'm gonna miss two weeks of
Speaker 2: our upcoming shows, so I'll I'm gonna be awfully sad
Speaker 2: about that, miss you during the month of all right,
Speaker 2: and I'll be back in June.
Speaker 1: Okay, so the twenty third and the thirtieth you are off,
Speaker 1: but you will return after that.
Speaker 2: I can't. Yes, and it's just breaking my heart.
Speaker 1: Yes, I know. Well, we will will find some way
Speaker 1: to get through it. We will talk with you again
Speaker 1: in June. Have a great rest of the week, my friend.
Speaker 2: Thank you sir.
Speaker 1: That is Farrell Elliott, the definitive Commissioner of Fantasy Football.
Speaker 1: Tom wants to know Tom Smith right now in the chat?
Speaker 1: How many teams Week fourteen? By four? And once again
Speaker 1: nobody on Week thirteen buys. But there are four teams
Speaker 1: in Week fourteen, and I believe John said it was
Speaker 1: the Niners, the Patriots, the Panthers, and the Giants was
Speaker 1: the other one. So those will be the teams that
Speaker 1: are off on League Championship Week for the FFPC. Like
Speaker 1: I said, it could have been a lot worse. I
Speaker 1: want to thank John, Terry, Farrell Elliott, the FFPC, Rob Bryce,
Speaker 1: and of course each and every one of you. We
Speaker 1: will be back Friday, not this Friday, but the next Friday,
Speaker 1: which is the twenty third of May. Five time FFPC
Speaker 1: Dynasty champ Adam Tontas will join us. I know I
Speaker 1: said he was going to be on tonight. I screwed
Speaker 1: that up. Adam is going to join us on the
Speaker 1: twenty third, so that'll be a lot of fun. In
Speaker 1: case you missed last Thursday Nights Insider access show in
Speaker 1: the Better Sports Network, Dave Tterpoli and I covered the
Speaker 1: hard Way Big Gorilla Draft. We had player interviews featuring
Speaker 1: a bbag but Toba, Darren Armani, Theo Greminger, Bradley Staller.
Speaker 1: They all stop by to talk about their drafts as
Speaker 1: we covered it. We will be live once again tomorrow
Speaker 1: at seven o'clock Eastern Time until nine RODA wires. Alan
Speaker 1: Sislowski is gonna be my guest co host tomorrow evening.
Speaker 1: That's gonna be a lot of fun for sure. FFPC
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Speaker 1: drafting right now, I don't know why you're watching this.
Speaker 1: Make sure you're getting out there putting this to good use.
Speaker 1: Have some fun drafting. You never know when you could
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Speaker 3: This has been another episode of the Hot Stakes Fantasy
Speaker 3: Football Hour, presented by my FFPC dot com.
Speaker 1: It was broadcast live and was watched around the world.
Speaker 3: Bulky and Farrell will be back next week with more analysis,
Speaker 3: more interviews, add more advice from guests much smarter than
Speaker 3: they are.
Speaker 1: Thanks for watching, and we'll talk with you again next week. Yes,
Speaker 1: one other thing I did forget to mention, I'm not
Speaker 1: on it, but the FFPC live draft coverage will continue
Speaker 1: this coming Tuesday, I believe at nine pm Eastern time,
Speaker 1: Aiden Lacory Daveterpoli covering a live FFPC Big Gorilla Draft
Speaker 1: And if you want to sign up for that and
Speaker 1: see what those guys have to say live on YouTube
Speaker 1: in the FFPC socials, I do believe there are still
Speaker 1: spots available for that. I'm looking it up right now
Speaker 1: just to confirm, yes, live on YouTube. There's only one
Speaker 1: team in that draft and it's at eight pm Eastern
Speaker 1: time on Tuesday, So if you want to be live
Speaker 1: on YouTube, have everybody hear what they think of your draft.
Speaker 1: Sign up now at MYFFPC dot com. Thanks so much
Speaker 1: everybody for tuning in on a Wednesday show, and I
Speaker 1: will talk with you again tomorrow night with Alan Kislowski.
Speaker 2: Be good,