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Speaker 2: Other Wise, basketball game the other night there was a
Speaker 2: superlative ever and I don't remember the teams. We were
Speaker 2: in a night spot. Somebody asked me what did I
Speaker 2: think of that player? And he just you know, he
Speaker 2: was in the mid twenties with points, rebounds single Handley
Speaker 2: took his team to victory. A good looking player, about
Speaker 2: six foot six, a good two hundred and twenty five pounds.
Speaker 2: I said, that's a hell of a waste of a
Speaker 2: defensive end. But man, you know, we was just football people.
Speaker 1: We are football people. That's that's how we think about everything.
Speaker 1: You know, Deebo Samuel probably could have been a pretty
Speaker 1: good small forward, but he chose football and his former
Speaker 1: team has chose to trade him to the Washington Commanders.
Speaker 1: We phoned up from Adam Schefter. I believe this was
Speaker 1: today that the Commanders have reworked Deebo Samuel's contract. He
Speaker 1: is guaranteed seventeen million dollars and additional three million dollars
Speaker 1: can be earned in incentives. Now, the Commanders took on
Speaker 1: only took on non guaranteed money from Samuel's contract when
Speaker 1: they got it from the Niners, so they didn't have
Speaker 1: to give him anything. Yet they decided to guarantee him
Speaker 1: seventeen million dollars. They weren't going to cut him obviously,
Speaker 1: so you could say this was low risk. We don't
Speaker 1: know about void years, the venerable void years that are
Speaker 1: always added to contracts, certain contracts, which could spread out
Speaker 1: this cap hit as well. The Commanders had more than
Speaker 1: twenty million dollars in cap space before this restructure. What
Speaker 1: does this mean for Deebo Samuel's usage. We briefly touched
Speaker 1: on him last week, Pharrell, he is going at Wide
Speaker 1: Receiver thirty eight at the eight to h two. It's
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Speaker 1: play in the FFPC Wide Receiver thirty eight. On the surface, Pharah,
Speaker 1: seems pretty palatable. This is a team that went out
Speaker 1: and got Samuel. They went out and paid Samuel to
Speaker 1: a certain degree. But still I think about and I
Speaker 1: can't remember who said it. I think he was on
Speaker 1: this show last week. Somebody said that Deebo Samuel has
Speaker 1: running back where on him and he is not a
Speaker 1: young man. As far as wide receivers go anymore. So
Speaker 1: while I'm excited to see what Washington's doing here and
Speaker 1: I'm excited how low he's going in FFPC, never too
Speaker 1: early tournaments. Right now, I still understand the age and
Speaker 1: the wear and tear on Deebo Samuel, which has me
Speaker 1: a little cautious. I think, by and large I'm shying
Speaker 1: away from Samuel. Is that the right play?
Speaker 2: I don't think so. If you can get him thirty eight,
Speaker 2: you know, mister HARMANI whose numbers are are true, you
Speaker 2: can get him thirty eight or later, you're you should
Speaker 2: be in a business with this player. We also talked
Speaker 2: about and I remember that comment because we talked about
Speaker 2: the fact that both receivers McLaurin the same over the
Speaker 2: same age, and that's when our guests stated, you know,
Speaker 2: he's got running back where on. But last year was
Speaker 2: just a very very bad year. And as for Deebo Samuel,
Speaker 2: and it was for it was in a year where
Speaker 2: we all watched it. Forty nine ers, everybody watches it.
Speaker 2: You can't you can't hide a bad year when you
Speaker 2: play for the forty nine ers, So everybody saw it.
Speaker 2: And that's a recency bias which is this is a
Speaker 2: player and a team that believe any now, Balky, nobody
Speaker 2: gave him any millions of dollars a contract, because I
Speaker 2: remind you, sir, those numbers and those salaries are earned
Speaker 2: through negotiation. However, you're exactly right. Would would the Commanders
Speaker 2: have been able to pay this money? Would they have
Speaker 2: chosen to pay this money without these significant increase in
Speaker 2: salary cap space that all the teams are enjoying this year?
Speaker 2: I don't know. So you can't give it a traditional
Speaker 2: Well they went out, and you know you can follow
Speaker 2: the money. Well, this year they all had a big bonus.
Speaker 2: They all had extra money because of extra revenue coming
Speaker 2: into the league. Look to answer your question, I think
Speaker 2: I'll just go back to the very first sentence. This
Speaker 2: is a premium ballplayer that you can get at a
Speaker 2: price that puts him in the neighborhood of some guys
Speaker 2: who've yet to do anything like he's done. And you
Speaker 2: can't believe that he's over with with going to this
Speaker 2: team with this quarterback and the purpose of which they're
Speaker 2: playing in that division.
Speaker 1: I think the other thing to keep in mind too,
Speaker 1: and maybe this is just me personally, I'm kind of
Speaker 1: excited to see what Cliff Kingsbury can do with a
Speaker 1: guy like Samuel, who is kind of a unicorn is
Speaker 1: not the right term because that gets tossed around way
Speaker 1: too much, but he is. He is a out of
Speaker 1: the ordinary wide receiver. He's an out of the ordinary player,
Speaker 1: and Cliff Kingsbury every time he's in O C he
Speaker 1: seems to make a lot of exquisite It's on the
Speaker 1: tip of my Tongue's on tip of my tongue. What's
Speaker 1: the what's the what's Pharaoh? What's the what's the salad
Speaker 1: you get at the steakhouses with the mozzarella, the tomato,
Speaker 1: and the and you get the the vinaigrette on top
Speaker 1: of caprizy caprize salad. He turns a lot of ketchup
Speaker 1: packets into caprize salad. That's what I'm looking Forbury.
Speaker 2: So yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: So so that's so. That's my take on that. For
Speaker 1: anybody who wants to eliminate Samuel from their draft board,
Speaker 1: you do so at your own peril. Now, speaking of
Speaker 1: eliminated players off your draft board, I'm struggling with this one.
Speaker 1: Maybe you can talk me off the ledgend. Maybe it'll
Speaker 1: change Mary Kay Cabot, who covers the Browns for Cleveland
Speaker 1: dot Com, has reported that the Browns and Carson Wentz
Speaker 1: quote definitely have mutual interest if the Browns don't sign
Speaker 1: Russell Wilson. Now, apparently if they want Russell Wilson, they
Speaker 1: can have him as it stands right now, obviously Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: New York. I think I read today that Russell Wilson
Speaker 1: really had a good meeting with the Giants, and Aaron
Speaker 1: Rodgers is still out there. We can talk about him
Speaker 1: at some point in the show tonight too. I don't
Speaker 1: know what's gonna happen there, but the fact that Wentz
Speaker 1: is being mentioned in this piece, I don't know if
Speaker 1: this is agent driven. Maybe it is, but Week eighteen
Speaker 1: was the only start that Wentz made last year for
Speaker 1: the AFC Champion of Kansas City Chiefs ninety eight yards
Speaker 1: and that was it. This is not giving me the
Speaker 1: warm fuzzies about drafting guys like Jerry Judy acting that
Speaker 1: guys like David and Joku. I think about what the
Speaker 1: Browns could be if they have a capable quarterback there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel pretty good about those guys. But right now, fairly,
Speaker 1: if if if it's Carson Wentz. And I'm not saying
Speaker 1: it's likely, but the fact that this is even out
Speaker 1: there David and Joko is tight end nine, Jerry Judy
Speaker 1: as wide receiver thirty five, it's it's tough to get
Speaker 1: on board. Am I reading too much into this? Dude?
Speaker 2: Yeah, you're reading too much in this? And Mary, I
Speaker 2: think Mary kay Gavit's got a crush on Carson Wentz.
Speaker 2: He's always it appears she's always throwing him out there.
Speaker 2: I mean, evens gone to sleep on this, Mobaukey. We've
Speaker 2: lost half our listening audience. He's still here, you know,
Speaker 2: I mean, geez and And that's the correct response to
Speaker 2: anything ab al with Carson Wentz and fantasy football. But
Speaker 2: now you bring up an entering point. You said, Russell
Speaker 2: Wilson had a very good meeting with the New York Giants.
Speaker 2: Russell Wilson has got a lot of game. He's got
Speaker 2: a briefcase full of game. You remember when he came
Speaker 2: out of college out of Wisconsin. Yes, and you know
Speaker 2: there was not a general manager that did not want
Speaker 2: to go to war with Russell Wilson because he can
Speaker 2: sell himself in the office better than any football player
Speaker 2: that I have ever heard of. So he's going to
Speaker 2: have a great meeting with whoever he comes in. And
Speaker 2: I think Russell Wilson might have, you know, at this
Speaker 2: late career stage, and you know, he might have had
Speaker 2: a bit of an epiphany last year and he might
Speaker 2: be a different individual who's grown a lot and is
Speaker 2: willing to take something on his shoulders and run with it.
Speaker 2: Both those teams are going to play better with Russell
Speaker 2: Wilson in the coming year than they did this previous year.
Speaker 2: And so from a fantasy standpoint, I'm not I'm not
Speaker 2: going to aggressively say Russell Wilson's here, I'm going to
Speaker 2: go draft that player, but I'm also going to look
Speaker 2: more deeply wherever he lands to give those players a
Speaker 2: benefit of the doubt. Perhaps. Is that fair? Well?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean yeah, I mean that that's the question.
Speaker 1: Is it fair to do that? Because if I find
Speaker 1: out here, here's the thing, if Russell Wilson gets signed
Speaker 1: by the Browns, you know, he's gonna be the starter
Speaker 1: and we'll see what the Browns do as far as
Speaker 1: you know, the draft goes. But you know, Wilson at
Speaker 1: least start the twenty twenty five season as the starter,
Speaker 1: and then and then at that point, Yeah, I'm fine
Speaker 1: with Jerry Judy. I'm fine with Joku, but Ferrell, I'm
Speaker 1: fine with him at current prices, I guess I don't.
Speaker 1: I don't know if in Djoku's price goes up, I
Speaker 1: don't think that's a quarterback, Okay, Jerry Judy's I think
Speaker 1: might though, given the tear that he was on last year,
Speaker 1: and he's being drafted behind thirty four other receivers right now,
Speaker 1: I could see him sneaking into the top you know,
Speaker 1: twenty maybe top twenty five is aggressive, but definitely moving
Speaker 1: up between twenty five and thirty.
Speaker 2: You also said something in that soliloquy about the quarterbacks
Speaker 2: that represented the truest fact that I have ever heard
Speaker 2: uttered on this program is you don't know what's happening
Speaker 2: with Aaron Rodgers. Yeah, you don't know, Bulky. That means
Speaker 2: no one knows it.
Speaker 1: No one knows. I'm gonna tell you this right now,
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers doesn't even know he you know, I I
Speaker 1: it was one of those things where, like you know,
Speaker 1: working in terrestrial radio here in northeast Wisconsin, when Rogers
Speaker 1: got traded to the Jets. We thought we were done
Speaker 1: talking about him, we're not, because he's still the center
Speaker 1: of every like fantasy football, like, because there are so
Speaker 1: many dominoes that have to fall yet and it depends
Speaker 1: upon and we got the first one finding out that
Speaker 1: Minnesota is gonna be good at this point, which I
Speaker 1: think was the Rusinior follower report. They're good with not
Speaker 1: having him on their roster at this point. Maybe signs
Speaker 1: elsewhere or he tires whatever, but seems like they're gonna
Speaker 1: be good to go with McCarthy, which obviously limits Rogers
Speaker 1: and these other jobs that are out there, Farrell, they're
Speaker 1: not as enticing as that Vikings one one.
Speaker 2: And if you want to talk, if you want to
Speaker 2: feel what people know about Rogers, get the Roy Carson
Speaker 2: on the phone, ask him what he thinks. And they were,
Speaker 2: you know, well, we might have to appeal to get
Speaker 2: back on the air. But yeah, strong feelings in the
Speaker 2: Packer Nation, Wisconsin area about Rogers.
Speaker 1: I I, you know, speaking of I on my weekly
Speaker 1: or my daily radio show. I have a guy who
Speaker 1: were interrestaurant radio A great word, you know, terrestrial radio.
Speaker 1: I shout out Howard Stern. He's the one who came
Speaker 1: up with it. As far as I know, we have
Speaker 1: a guy on who lives in northeast Wisconsin now, but
Speaker 1: most of his adult life he lived in the Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: area and he was a huge Steelers fan, So we
Speaker 1: talk a lot of Steelers football. He still thinks Russell
Speaker 1: Wilson is going to be the starter there in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: This company one he does now. He's about fifty sixty confident,
Speaker 1: he said.
Speaker 2: But last year's magazine, he also in his news sources.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he also said that he would not be surprised
Speaker 1: that the Steelers say fit and we're going with Mason
Speaker 1: Rudolph as our starter in week one. Now, I just
Speaker 1: want to run this by you, Pharah. Mason Rudolph, if
Speaker 1: he is the starter in week one for Pittsburgh, that
Speaker 1: means he is throwing the ball to George Pickens, a
Speaker 1: guy they invested the second round pick in, and he
Speaker 1: is throwing the ball to DK metcalf, a guy they
Speaker 1: gave up a second round pick four, as well as
Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty million dollars. This, I mean, nothing
Speaker 1: shocks me in this league anymore. This would be pretty
Speaker 1: close to shocking me. The fact that he not saying
Speaker 1: he's in touch, like he's just a fan, right, He's
Speaker 1: not in touch with you know, the team or anything
Speaker 1: like that. But Mason Rudolph signed a two year, eight
Speaker 1: million dollar contract. He started thirteen games for the Steelers
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, and granted he got the ball
Speaker 1: to Pickens and he did go eight four and one,
Speaker 1: but a lot of that was the running game of defense.
Speaker 1: Twenty eight touchdowns twenty pick in twenty nine games with
Speaker 1: the Steelers. Drop back success rate last year he was
Speaker 1: thirteenth out of forty qualifiers in the NFL. I guess
Speaker 1: I would be really surprised if Mason Rudolph was the
Speaker 1: starting quarterback for the Steelers Week one. So maybe this
Speaker 1: is just because we don't have a ton of stuff
Speaker 1: that's changing as we speak right now, but I felt
Speaker 1: like we should bring this up. George Pickens wide receiver
Speaker 1: thirty four right now in FFPC, Never too early Best
Speaker 1: Ball Tournament. DK Metcalf wide receiver twenty five in the FFPC,
Speaker 1: Never too early Best Ball Tournament. If Mason Rudolf's a quarterback,
Speaker 1: I don't want to touch those guys at that point.
Speaker 1: Talk me off the ledge here, tell me that those
Speaker 1: guys are going to pay off at that Metcalf at
Speaker 1: twenty five and Pickins at third.
Speaker 2: I think you're going to start looking at those players
Speaker 2: and you're going to buy them on the down market
Speaker 2: until we see Mason Rudolph play. Hey, let me ask
Speaker 2: you something. What was justin field record last year before
Speaker 2: he got replaced in the lineup. I know it was good.
Speaker 2: I know he was.
Speaker 1: He was undefeated for a while.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And so it does not surprise me any move
Speaker 2: that they make there. And you know, Mason Rudolph will
Speaker 2: buckle that chin strap. You know from experience, I know
Speaker 2: he'll tighten up that chin strap and he'll get out
Speaker 2: there and play man. And I you know, he's a
Speaker 2: gritty quarterback. Sometimes I just say, well, you know, maybe
Speaker 2: he's a thirty six hundred yard passing quarterback. Maybe maybe
Speaker 2: he could get up to four thousand dollars. Where you've
Speaker 2: got a problem is you've got Metcalf and Pickens and
Speaker 2: only one ball flying off the hands of Mason Rudolph.
Speaker 2: You've also got a tight end there. You know it's and.
Speaker 1: And I'll also say this too, I think a running
Speaker 1: back that will have Day two draft capital as well.
Speaker 1: That's probably gonna have some pass catching chops.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so you look at a lot of things and
Speaker 2: just a look, that's something I'm going to run from.
Speaker 2: But that's where if you believe in those players, now
Speaker 2: you've got nothing better. You'll have nothing but better news forthcoming.
Speaker 1: Cousins feels like a good fit, says Joe King. We
Speaker 1: will see Farrell look exactly. Yeah, what what are the
Speaker 1: chances in your opinion that Cousins starts the year in Atlanta?
Speaker 2: I don't know. I really I have no opinion and
Speaker 2: I have no feel for that situation. Interesting, I just
Speaker 2: really don't that team. It's full of surprises that they
Speaker 2: and I you know, you recognize what they did in
Speaker 2: the draft to you know, when the general manager, when
Speaker 2: the general manager can surprise the owner in the first round,
Speaker 2: and you're truly watching a real life depiction of the
Speaker 2: movie Draft Day. So it's uh, you know, there's high
Speaker 2: drama there. And I would rather be an observer than
Speaker 2: a prognosticator.
Speaker 1: I think you're right, and I think that's what we
Speaker 1: need because like Cousins really is not affecting us our
Speaker 1: fantasy right now. As far as drafting players, well, that
Speaker 1: that's that's literally, that's one of the few things we
Speaker 1: can do where we can say, well, we'll wait and see.
Speaker 2: All the guys in Atlanta will do worse than they
Speaker 2: should have. Really, well, this is what happens every year.
Speaker 2: You got no one of the drafts Falcons players is
Speaker 2: happy with the production. Yeah, that's true, all right about that.
Speaker 2: You're not happy with the tidy end. The running back
Speaker 2: could have done more? Uh, Drake London is is you know,
Speaker 2: he's he's got numbers worse than Pittman, even though people
Speaker 2: love him. You know. So just the beat goes on, the.
Speaker 1: Beat goes on. Let's talk about more on the quarterback
Speaker 1: beat here. Cam Apparently if he does go with the
Speaker 1: Titan to the Titans with the first pick of the draft,
Speaker 1: Jeremy Fowler says they'd be pretty comfortable with that. The
Speaker 1: team's interviews with cam Ward have gone well, and apparently
Speaker 1: at the moment this thing, these things could change, Followers
Speaker 1: saying there's momentum for the Titans to now stick with
Speaker 1: that number one pick and not trade it for you know,
Speaker 1: a treasure trove of picks or whatever. Apparently Ward has
Speaker 1: done a good job of explaining the mistakes he made
Speaker 1: in college on the football field at Miami and the
Speaker 1: erratic play. Well, I should say the sometimes erratic play
Speaker 1: of cam Ward is fixable according to Tennessee, which is
Speaker 1: good now. Jeremy Fowler reported on ESPN last month that
Speaker 1: Shader Sanders was the best fit for the Titans offense,
Speaker 1: which would make it seem like, hey, Tennessee can trade
Speaker 1: down Sti'll get their guy. Now it seems like they
Speaker 1: are more inclined to get cam Ward. The question that
Speaker 1: we have to answer, Ferrell is not necessarily what are
Speaker 1: we doing with cam Ward? What are we doing with Sanders?
Speaker 1: It's what are we doing with these Titans pass catchers?
Speaker 1: Not knowing who the quarterback is going to be, but
Speaker 1: knowing it could be a pretty enticing guy, including the
Speaker 1: number one overall pick. If we look at Tennessee Calvin
Speaker 1: Ridley wide receiver forty one, Chicka Conco has actually fallen
Speaker 1: tight end twenty seven. Right now, your thoughts on the
Speaker 1: normally moribund Tennessee passing offense. Are they going underdrafted now
Speaker 1: with this cam warden and should we be trying to
Speaker 1: mix in some of these people on our best ball teams?
Speaker 2: No, I'm running. I'm running from this team. My favorite
Speaker 2: receiver in Tennessee. They shipped him out to the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 2: I you will for best ball. You can look at
Speaker 2: these players and take your pot shots. I don't want
Speaker 2: to try to figure out on a week to week
Speaker 2: basis how to play these players. And for that reason,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna move on. And it's uh, I I don't.
Speaker 2: I don't think we're ever going to get the production
Speaker 2: out of the tight end we want. And uh yeah, Ridley,
Speaker 2: uh really sure can flash some skill set. You know,
Speaker 2: a lot of a lot of problems that they had
Speaker 2: last year has to be blamed on a quarterback. He
Speaker 2: changed quarterback coaches ill effect. And uh, I just it's
Speaker 2: it's a tough thing, man. I just I don't. So
Speaker 2: this is the second team I'm running from, thankfully, it's
Speaker 2: a big league bulky thankfully.
Speaker 1: So yeah, exactly. So no Browns for you, No Titans
Speaker 1: for you either, not at this point.
Speaker 2: No, Well have the running back?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, okay, Well he was talking Pollard or Spears Pollard,
Speaker 1: all right, the bill signing of a wide receiver, which
Speaker 1: I don't. I I don't quite Frankly, I don't think
Speaker 1: we talked about this at all last week, so let's
Speaker 1: talk about it today. Three years, thirty six million dollars
Speaker 1: is given to Joshua Palmer, negotiated by Joshua Palmer and
Speaker 1: his team with the Buffalo Bills, and he moves from
Speaker 1: Los Angeles to Orchard Park catching passes from josh Allen
Speaker 1: eighteen million in guaranteed money. Mac Collins has left the Bills,
Speaker 1: so Palmer obviously would be the guy that would step
Speaker 1: in there. The cleat bill will go up for Buffalo
Speaker 1: this year as well, since mac Collins was always barefoot.
Speaker 1: Second most snaps on the outside of any Bills receiver
Speaker 1: last season did Hollins have and playing on a one
Speaker 1: year deal. Palmer two years ago seventy two catches, sevenund
Speaker 1: and sixty nine yards and three touchdowns. Twenty twenty three
Speaker 1: was not good because of a knee injury. But Palmer
Speaker 1: last year fifteen games active, and now he gets Joe
Speaker 1: Brady as his OC and he gets josh Allen as
Speaker 1: his QB. I look right now at the never too
Speaker 1: early best ball adp wide receiver seventy eight in the
Speaker 1: eighteenth round. I mean, look, I get it that Buffalo
Speaker 1: is not exactly the treasure trove of passing Nirvana, but
Speaker 1: wide receiver seventy eight for Josh Palmer. You better believe
Speaker 1: I'm taking advantage of that, just to see what happens.
Speaker 1: In your opinion, what is going to happen with Palmer
Speaker 1: this year in Buffalo.
Speaker 2: You're gonna get that seventy two, seven hundred and maybe
Speaker 2: a couple more touchdowns, and you're going to be happy
Speaker 2: about it, and you're going to say, and that's better
Speaker 2: than an eighteenth round draft pick. And you know Shakir
Speaker 2: and the tight end, here are the targets. The quarterback
Speaker 2: is getting better at getting the ball out of his
Speaker 2: hand and making early decisions. Palmer, I'm always been a
Speaker 2: big fan, but again he seems to he leaves the
Speaker 2: Chargers where there was a variety of options for a
Speaker 2: quarterback that knows how to play the position, and now
Speaker 2: he goes to another team in the same suity situation
Speaker 2: where that can actually beat you with his feet and
Speaker 2: as a tremendous player at tight end. So for fantasy purposes,
Speaker 2: I don't ever think that will that Josh Palmer will
Speaker 2: get much higher than the eleventh and twelfth roun I'm
Speaker 2: a man. He's a bargain now. And you know, if
Speaker 2: I had been drafting as early this year as I
Speaker 2: was last year, and before Palmer even had a team,
Speaker 2: I would have been drafted because I know somebody was
Speaker 2: going to reward him. I hope his best football is
Speaker 2: in front of him. I used to think his best
Speaker 2: football I used to know it in my heart was
Speaker 2: in front of him. I don't know now, but eighteenth round.
Speaker 2: Is that's a good enough for as Yeah? Totally. Now.
Speaker 2: I'll tell you what.
Speaker 1: There's going to be an opportunity for a lot of
Speaker 1: players to do side between Joshua Palmer and the new
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers wide receiver Nicole Hardman. At that point,
Speaker 1: it's a one year deal for the Packers. According to
Speaker 1: Jeremy Fowler, six years Hardman has been in the league.
Speaker 1: Do you remember back when he was drafted in the
Speaker 1: second round by the Chiefs after there was the scuttle
Speaker 1: but that Tyreek Hill may never play in the NFL again.
Speaker 1: It happened right before the NFL draft. He has mostly
Speaker 1: been a return guy. He has been a specialist as
Speaker 1: far as wide receiver goes. Went to the Jets for
Speaker 1: five games in twenty twenty three traded back to the
Speaker 1: to the Chiefs after five games. I am of the
Speaker 1: belief that and I know there's plenty of Packers fans
Speaker 1: that are disappointed with this Hardman signing, but I would
Speaker 1: just reassure them to tell them that I believe he
Speaker 1: was traded or he was signed as being a punt returner,
Speaker 1: potentially a kick returner, and to add depth to that
Speaker 1: receiver room. This is not a big investment. This is
Speaker 1: not a huge financial capital dedication for the Packers here
Speaker 1: in Hardman. I was talking today with Peter Bikowski, who
Speaker 1: covers the Packers for Lockdown Packers and the Leap Great
Speaker 1: newsletter the Leap Dot Football if you're a Packers fan,
Speaker 1: and he was of the opinion that Hardman's biggest benefit
Speaker 1: is going to be how he makes guys like Jayden Reid,
Speaker 1: Christian Watson when he's on the field, Dantavian Wicks, and
Speaker 1: Romeo Dobs better because he does the dirty work. He
Speaker 1: compared McCole Hardman's role on the Packers in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five to what Tyler Irvins was in twenty twenty three,
Speaker 1: running these Jets sweeps, doing these these sort of like
Speaker 1: Gadgety plays and making everybody understand that when you play
Speaker 1: the Packers offense, you have to account for all eleven
Speaker 1: guys on the field. You want to take Hardman late,
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna fault you. That's fine. I have no
Speaker 1: interest in this guy for fantasy purposes, Pharrell, I see
Speaker 1: nothing here that makes me believe, Yeah, Hardman's worth it
Speaker 1: even in a best ball league for those Spike Weeks.
Speaker 1: I just don't see many Spike Weeks or Hardman in
Speaker 1: Green Bay.
Speaker 2: Best well player, I don't see it either. But he
Speaker 2: is well the good term. He's just a professional football player,
Speaker 2: and that adds value to a team with the youthful core.
Speaker 2: A young quarterback is trying to improve. So I agree
Speaker 2: with your friend's assessment of it. But there is the
Speaker 2: potential when you have Hardiman on your depth chart and
Speaker 2: you got guys banged up, you put Hardman on the field,
Speaker 2: there's a chance that you don't fall off. So let's
Speaker 2: let's let's take a look at our quarterback, mister Love,
Speaker 2: and let's say if you've got this quarterback, this's a
Speaker 2: good addition for Love, you know, because he's looking it
Speaker 2: seems like week to week and within the game settings
Speaker 2: many times he loses his core of which receivers. It
Speaker 2: does lose all of them, of course, but loses the
Speaker 2: way that they might have prepped for the game that
Speaker 2: week because a lot of his guys are leaving the
Speaker 2: games with injuries. Is that fair?
Speaker 1: I would say it's fair. I again, I don't have
Speaker 1: like a super strong like take on that aspect of it,
Speaker 1: but yeah, you definitely could be right, Parah, we don't.
Speaker 1: We have not talked a ton of rookies on this show,
Speaker 1: but I do want to bring this up regarding Ted
Speaker 1: McMillan because of all the rookies we've discussed, majority that
Speaker 1: have been running backs, we have not talked a lot
Speaker 1: about TETAROA McMillan out of Arizona. He was in the
Speaker 1: news yesterday excuse me Monday, because he ran a four
Speaker 1: four eight forty at his pro day. This is a
Speaker 1: guy that I have seen mocked by a lot of
Speaker 1: pundits out there in the top ten, although recently I've
Speaker 1: seen him slip to you know, post fifteen, post twenty.
Speaker 1: In the first round. He's six four two twenty. A
Speaker 1: lot of comparisons to Drake London He's not going to
Speaker 1: be a guy that takes the top off the defense,
Speaker 1: but four four eight is fine for his size. What
Speaker 1: are your thoughts on McMillan, not only as a player
Speaker 1: in this league, but what he can offer essentially whoever
Speaker 1: whatever team drafts him in the first round. We think
Speaker 1: what he offers them his rookie year as well.
Speaker 2: I think he immediately moves into a potential number one
Speaker 2: receiver and I don't think you draft him if you've
Speaker 2: got us true number one. And I think you'll like
Speaker 2: all rookies. And we say this all the time, but
Speaker 2: we could depending on the team, we could definitely definitely
Speaker 2: mean it here. He's going to play better in the
Speaker 2: second half of the season, which is the thing that
Speaker 2: I love to watch is it gets me ready for
Speaker 2: the next year. If you're playing strong in the second
Speaker 2: half of the season, you've got something going with your people,
Speaker 2: your quarterback, your coach. You can't wait to get back
Speaker 2: on the football field. I think this guy's a very
Speaker 2: very successful first year. You cannot coach the size that
Speaker 2: he has in four four eight at that size, especially
Speaker 2: if he plays faster than he with his time speed.
Speaker 2: I think he does. And you know, two mens, just
Speaker 2: everything that you would want in a receiver. So now
Speaker 2: let's match him up with someone that can deliver him
Speaker 2: the ball in a catchuple space. We got something going.
Speaker 1: Michael Kinsell is hoping that he goes to New England
Speaker 1: with Drake May delivering him the ball and we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens there. But I'd like that.
Speaker 2: Drake May is a junior Josh Allen, though. I would
Speaker 2: like to see him go to a Justin Herbert. I'd
Speaker 2: like to see him, you know, I'd like to see
Speaker 2: him go to I'd like to see him go to
Speaker 2: a traditional quarterback that goes through the reeds. First of all,
Speaker 2: if he goes to New England, there's so much there's
Speaker 2: a variety of wide receivers in that room there that
Speaker 2: will be fighting for time. I want him to go
Speaker 2: somewhere he's surrounded by good players and step on the
Speaker 2: field much like Worthy did oft Kansas City. You know,
Speaker 2: the reason the Worthy speed that he was able to
Speaker 2: beat people with speed is that the defenders has so
Speaker 2: many things to worry about out when they're playing Kansas
Speaker 2: City and Mahomes. So it's uh, I'd like to see
Speaker 2: this kid go to a very good team.
Speaker 1: What about what about what about the Texas teams? What
Speaker 1: if he went to Houston with that pe good spot.
Speaker 2: Uh, here's the quarterback needs a The quarterback needs a
Speaker 2: break like that. So, yes, that would make that would
Speaker 2: make sense to me. They would draft him for the
Speaker 2: purpose of saving their quarterbacks career because they don't want
Speaker 2: another year.
Speaker 1: Like that last year. And then what about playing opposite
Speaker 1: Ceedee Lamb in Dallas.
Speaker 2: Well, it's a dream scenario for everyone, especially Dak.
Speaker 1: So and Jerry Jones for sure. Yeah, let's let's let's
Speaker 1: do this. Let's let's talk about the big, big news
Speaker 1: out of Cincinnati.
Speaker 2: This.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, four years, one hundred and sixty one million
Speaker 1: dollars to Jamar Chase. He is now the highest paid
Speaker 1: non quarterback in NFL history. This, according to Jordan Schultz
Speaker 1: from Fox Sports, one hundred and twelve million dollars in
Speaker 1: guaranteed money. God must be nice. He is now under
Speaker 1: contract with Cincinnati the twenty twenty nine season. But the
Speaker 1: Bengals weren't done. They signed T Higgins to a four
Speaker 1: year deal as well. So they will have Higgins, they
Speaker 1: will have Chase, and they'll have some guy named Joe
Speaker 1: Burrow throwing the football to him. One hundred and twenty
Speaker 1: seven catches, seventeen hundred yard seventeen touchdowns for Chase last year.
Speaker 1: He just feral turned twenty five years old less than
Speaker 1: three weeks ago, and certainly he'll love Chase. You love Higgins,
Speaker 1: he love Burrow. This was a as Michael Scott from
Speaker 1: the Office would say, a win win win scenario. What's
Speaker 1: not to like about the Bengals offense? Like, I think
Speaker 1: the biggest thing that worries me here in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five is Chase Brown, just because I don't know what
Speaker 1: the Bengals are gonna do in the draft. Now, I
Speaker 1: know they brought back p Ryn, which maybe that makes
Speaker 1: it seem like, okay, Cincinnati's gonna hit up defense on
Speaker 1: day one, in day two, maybe they take a running
Speaker 1: back on day three, and it's not a huge hit
Speaker 1: to Chase Brown. But of god, this is a juggernaut here.
Speaker 1: You don't watch the show to say, hey, should I
Speaker 1: take Chase at the one oh one? Yeah, if you
Speaker 1: want to do that, more power to you. I probably
Speaker 1: do the same thing. But now Higgins Pharaoh, if we
Speaker 1: look at him, there is no nebulous situation going on
Speaker 1: with him anymore. He's going to be in Cincinnati. He
Speaker 1: is wide receiver fifteen at the three oh seven right now,
Speaker 1: How do you feel about Higgins ADP at the moment?
Speaker 1: Because I don't think it's going anywhere. I think he's
Speaker 1: going to be solidified there.
Speaker 2: Draft him aggressively and as often as you can stack
Speaker 2: him up and go for a bingo bonanza. You said
Speaker 2: it right, Bucky. When when it's funny, how you can
Speaker 2: challenge our channel I'm Michael Scott quote and be so
Speaker 2: on because what I want to take a moment to congratulate.
Speaker 2: And we're not the closest of friends or acquaintances, but
Speaker 2: a longtime agent in the business. Uh. He first worked
Speaker 2: for an agency before hanging out his own shingle as
Speaker 2: Rocky Arsenal. And what you might have what makes your
Speaker 2: win win win great is because there's three people involved
Speaker 2: in this. They're all intertwined. Rocky represents Jamar Chase, and
Speaker 2: he also represents t Higgins, and he his total independent
Speaker 2: agent is total players in the league, four players that
Speaker 2: he represents. And he does a great job obviously and
Speaker 2: probably kicking and screaming. Where the Cincinnati Bengals as he
Speaker 2: pulled them into modern day football, and they got the
Speaker 2: guarantees and the numbers that that these two players deserve,
Speaker 2: and they are. They are grateful for Rocky, and you know,
Speaker 2: I think the whole agent community should be grateful for
Speaker 2: the job that he has done. And I know the
Speaker 2: Bengal fans are because it's it's I imagine that the combine.
Speaker 2: If you had asked him, can you get both these
Speaker 2: players signed? The answer is no. But that changed after
Speaker 2: the combine, the structure of it, and that's why free
Speaker 2: agency can last long. To get these things worked out,
Speaker 2: the Bengals now must find some affordable defensive players that
Speaker 2: step up. They must rely on their scouting to fill
Speaker 2: in holes college scouting. But you know, this team doubled
Speaker 2: down on two the finest receivers in the game. They're
Speaker 2: going to throw them the ball. You should aggressively try
Speaker 2: to get both these players on your team and then
Speaker 2: get Burrow on your team to say I've done a job.
Speaker 1: I think the Bengals fans are probably clamoring for Rocky
Speaker 1: Arsenal to now represent Trey Hendrickson to get the Bengals
Speaker 1: a deal with him as well. Will he pull off
Speaker 1: the triple crown. I don't know if that would be likely,
Speaker 1: but I know that's what a lot of Cincinnati fans.
Speaker 2: Cincinnati been good, Rocky. Yeah.
Speaker 1: The Minnesota Vikings, we're good to Aaron Jones. Last year,
Speaker 1: they were good to him again this year. They've extended
Speaker 1: him two more years. But you know what else they did,
Speaker 1: Farrell this week They hooked up with their conference rivals
Speaker 1: San Francisco forty nine ers to acquire Jordan Mason, the
Speaker 1: running back who is now going to be the one
Speaker 1: B maybe definitely the two at worst the one be
Speaker 1: according to Adam Schefter for the for the backfield for Vikings,
Speaker 1: Minnesota gets Jordan Mason and the number one eighty seven
Speaker 1: pick in this year's draft. The Niners get picked one
Speaker 1: sixty and a six rounder next year. After they get him,
Speaker 1: they sign him to a two year deal seven million
Speaker 1: guaranteed a max value of twelve million dollars. Now he
Speaker 1: is going to be twenty six at the start and
Speaker 1: next season. Obviously that the tread. There's plenty of tread
Speaker 1: on the tires there with Mason, and you think about
Speaker 1: how good he was when McCaffrey was hurt. He was
Speaker 1: playing all three downs, and he gets seven hundred and
Speaker 1: eighty nine rushing aards and three touchdowns eleven catches for
Speaker 1: ninety one yards in twelve games this past season. The
Speaker 1: thing that we have to look at here, I think,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about the Niners in a second. The
Speaker 1: thing we have to look at here, at least initially,
Speaker 1: is are we drafting Aaron Jones too high? Is Aaron
Speaker 1: Jones now suddenly a guy that we need to let
Speaker 1: somebody else take knowing that he was being he is
Speaker 1: now being drafted as running back twenty seven at the
Speaker 1: seven oh three, that is Caleb Johnson Tony Pollard territory.
Speaker 1: I think that's the first question we have to answer.
Speaker 1: How much does Jordan Mason, in your opinion, eat into
Speaker 1: Aaron Jones's touches? Knowing Aaron Jones' age and knowing that
Speaker 1: he was used pretty hard last year by the Vikings.
Speaker 2: I think what we're going to deal with is what
Speaker 2: we experienced with the guys from Pittsburgh last year. Didn't
Speaker 2: we start with them basically going side by side early, yeah,
Speaker 2: and then one of them separated and went higher, which
Speaker 2: it might have been waring if I remember correctly, but
Speaker 2: you probably remember more than I do, so Jones stays
Speaker 2: where he is. The message here to me is we're
Speaker 2: gonna run the football in Minnesota, and we're gonna we're
Speaker 2: gonna establish that run. We're gonna try to.
Speaker 1: Go that way with it.
Speaker 2: I I that's that's what I take away from this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that, And I'm just looking up right now.
Speaker 1: It was Naji Harris who actually moved up a little
Speaker 1: bit past Jalen Warren last year. It ended up being
Speaker 1: it wasn't it wasn't a ton It looks like trying
Speaker 1: to find it here. Naja Harris went off and in
Speaker 1: the mid seventh round last year, and then Dalen Warren
Speaker 1: ended up settling into the end of the eighth, so
Speaker 1: about a round and a half difference.
Speaker 2: And you know our Tennessee running backs didn't they kind
Speaker 2: of do that last year as well.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yeah, Pollard ended up as a as an early
Speaker 1: eighth round pick, and then Spears ended up as an
Speaker 1: early ninth round pick.
Speaker 2: This is drafting reality. But I think the listeners Bulky
Speaker 2: should on this March mad this Wednesday should link into
Speaker 2: listening and following your advice when it comes to young
Speaker 2: rookie running backs, because you were beyond correct about Bucky
Speaker 2: Urban last year. And the people came on the show
Speaker 2: and few of them joined you in your excitement. Some
Speaker 2: of them, you know, begrudgingly did a little bit more
Speaker 2: than you know, give you a little shoulder shake. But
Speaker 2: all in all, you were you were the leader in
Speaker 2: this player. You identified a player that would quickly become
Speaker 2: the next Jamar Gibbs and have that look to him
Speaker 2: on the field, and you know, that's what we want.
Speaker 2: And everybody knows that Ashton Genty is a great running back,
Speaker 2: but you know, whoever else you talk about as being
Speaker 2: a young running back, the fantasy listeners should should pay attention.
Speaker 1: I think, well, number one, I was not as effusive
Speaker 1: in my praise of Irving as some of our guests were.
Speaker 1: In fact, some of our guests I think turned me
Speaker 1: on to him a little bit, saying like, hey, you
Speaker 1: should be drafting more of this guy, And well, yeah,
Speaker 1: but at the end of the season, I wish I
Speaker 1: would add more, and I had a decent amount, but
Speaker 1: I wish I would add more. I think the other
Speaker 1: thing that's important, and I'll get to the niners in
Speaker 1: a second. This does not necessarily preclude the Vikings from
Speaker 1: taking a running back in a very deep running back draft. However,
Speaker 1: the Vikings backfield, to me, is one of the more
Speaker 1: quote unquote solidified ones. There's a zillion that are not
Speaker 1: solidified right now, and I think San Francisco is one
Speaker 1: of them. Where you now, there's going to be a
Speaker 1: lot of people we're drafting right now that will invest
Speaker 1: in Isaac Grendo thinking he's going to be the number two.
Speaker 1: I think the Niners are probably going to be investing
Speaker 1: in a running back that could be the air apparent
Speaker 1: to McCaffrey, or at least be the number two running
Speaker 1: back this year over Isaac Grendo, who is no stranger
Speaker 1: to the trainer's table. So my thought here with the Niners, yeah,
Speaker 1: it's McCaffrey, But then after that, I think the number
Speaker 1: two guys just not on their roster yet.
Speaker 2: Can we take a quick look at Grinda's numbers last year? Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 2: you know, because one of the things that impressed me
Speaker 2: about this player that I saw in the pro game
Speaker 2: that I did not see here at University of Louisville
Speaker 2: might have been a product of the play calling, might
Speaker 2: have been a product of the offensive line here in college.
Speaker 2: But I really loved his cutback ability and when he
Speaker 2: got to the edge, he had another gear. And I
Speaker 2: think that forty nine ers scouted him very appropriately and
Speaker 2: have a player there. That's why they could let Mason go.
Speaker 2: They've got him under a rookie contract. And so I
Speaker 2: don't disagree with you that they could go with the
Speaker 2: draft with another running back, But I think you might
Speaker 2: be sliding Grinda a little bit.
Speaker 1: Lorendo was a guy who transferred to the University of
Speaker 1: Louisville after playing behind now New York Jets running back
Speaker 1: Braylan Allen for the University of Wisconsin Badgers.
Speaker 2: Everybody wants to come to Kentucky well esentially.
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's true. I make the pilgrimage every year. Girndo
Speaker 1: fifteen carries seventy eight yards and two touchdowns, including two
Speaker 1: catches for fifty yards in a game against the Bears
Speaker 1: this past year. He also had eighty five yards rushing
Speaker 1: and a touchdown four catches in the Cowboys game in
Speaker 1: late October, ninety nine yards rushing against the Seahawks in
Speaker 1: mid October. Those were the standout games failed the top
Speaker 1: sixty yards in every other game obviously was playing behind McCaffrey,
Speaker 1: playing behind Mason for a good chunk of these. He
Speaker 1: ends the season with four hundred and twenty yards. He
Speaker 1: catches fifteen balls for one hundred and fifty yards, gets
Speaker 1: into the end zone four times in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 2: I you know that's enough for me. I'm sorry, Okay.
Speaker 1: The Seahawks were sold on a new receiver named Cooper Cup.
Speaker 1: Cupp has signed with the Seahawks three years, forty five
Speaker 1: million dollars. According to Adam Schefter, this happened basically right
Speaker 1: before we went on the air last Friday, but we
Speaker 1: didn't get a chance to talk about it again. This
Speaker 1: comes out to being fifteen million a year. He grew
Speaker 1: up in Yakima, Washington. Did Cup attended Eastern Washington University.
Speaker 1: Cup wanted to stay on the West coast. He gets
Speaker 1: his wish as he stays or he goes to Seattle
Speaker 1: to play with Jackson Smith and Jig, but now both
Speaker 1: these players play in the slot a lot. Grub Ryan
Speaker 1: Grubb is no longer the coordinator for Mike McDonald's team
Speaker 1: in Seattle, as McDonald reportedly reportedly believe there was too
Speaker 1: much passing going on in that Seahawks offense last year.
Speaker 1: Now Metcalf has gone, which opens the door for Cup.
Speaker 1: Tyler Lockett has been released. That's gonna increase some target
Speaker 1: target a decent amount of targets for the number two
Speaker 1: receiver in that offense. Last year, for Cup in twelve games,
Speaker 1: sixty seven catches, seven hundred and ten yards and six touchdowns,
Speaker 1: which to me passes the test of like, Okay, you
Speaker 1: look good enough in twelve games playing behind pouquin Akua,
Speaker 1: So I would think that you could continue that going
Speaker 1: in Seattle. However, Farrell, Matthew Stafford is out, Sam Darnold
Speaker 1: is in, and Smith and Jigba is on a similar
Speaker 1: trajectory as Pukinnakua right now. And Cupp, as far as
Speaker 1: the eye test goes, last season, he even looked great,
Speaker 1: and he looked old, and he looked I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say the W word, but he definitely looked like he
Speaker 1: had had his fill of NFL football playing at a
Speaker 1: premier level. Not sure how to think about Cup this year.
Speaker 1: Not sure how to think about the Seahawks offense now
Speaker 1: that Cup has joined the fray next to Jackson, Smith
Speaker 1: and Jigba. Right now, I'm trying to find my ADP
Speaker 1: on Cooper Cup right now, wide receiver forty six at
Speaker 1: the nine to twelve most of those drafts taking place
Speaker 1: after the signing. Is that a good way to spend
Speaker 1: a ninth round pick this year on Cooper Cup.
Speaker 2: He'll be a fifth round draft pick by the time
Speaker 2: we make it to pair to Las Vegas.
Speaker 1: Unbelievable And and so this is not just you saying
Speaker 1: I believe in Cooper Cup. This is you saying the
Speaker 1: FFPC players, Oh yeah, they're all gonna believe in Cooper Cup.
Speaker 2: And see you a late career change of scenery going
Speaker 2: home is always a boost. You mean the contract. Look,
Speaker 2: let's go back now to a concept of following the money.
Speaker 2: You know, they have intention for this guy, you know,
Speaker 2: and I think the Rams in their situation are dealing
Speaker 2: with two alien receivers. So they said, let's get rid
Speaker 2: of the oldest one and let's bring in a guy
Speaker 2: that the scored that averages over seventeen Fantasy points a
Speaker 2: game for his entire career. Other So that's what's happening
Speaker 2: down there. So Cooper cut, Cooper Cup becomes expendable, you know,
Speaker 2: he's always sort of been on a prove it situation,
Speaker 2: so he'll go up there to Seattle and prove it.
Speaker 2: And when he proved it at Los Angeles the first time,
Speaker 2: the guys that had rostered him, they won championships in
Speaker 2: fantasy football, and they've got an opportunity to do it again.
Speaker 2: I just got to get busy and get drafting. I've
Speaker 2: had a full schedule and they're giving players like Cooper
Speaker 2: cup Away in the ninth round. Maybe you know, start
Speaker 2: signing up for that gorilla. Everyone that that would.
Speaker 1: Be a smart idea. What does this do for Jackson
Speaker 1: Smith and Jigbas Your belief in him as wide receiver
Speaker 1: twelve at the three oh two rate, now as high
Speaker 1: as you are un cupped, does that mean you should
Speaker 1: be looking elsewhere than JSN at the two three turn.
Speaker 2: We're gonna move him down because they're safely picks at
Speaker 2: three to two. There's another wrong with the player. But
Speaker 2: now you don't want to spend the guy who's going
Speaker 2: in front. Who's the two receivers in front? Who's the
Speaker 2: two receivers behind of.
Speaker 1: In Jig Smith and Jigba?
Speaker 3: Right?
Speaker 2: Yeah, Now with Darren Harmany, the fantasy Mojo, which I
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Speaker 1: Aj Brown, Drake London, Lad McConkey. Those are the three
Speaker 1: receivers that are going immediately in front of Smith and
Speaker 1: Jigba as high as the two O seven, and then
Speaker 1: right after Smith, the Jigba goes Tyreek Hill, and then
Speaker 1: you're seeing Garrett Wilson T Higgins right after that. So
Speaker 1: that's Smith and Jigmas in the middle of those six guys.
Speaker 2: I want Wilson and Higgins before, I want not necessarily,
Speaker 2: do you agree with me?
Speaker 1: Well, I don't. I mean, I don't know. Like the
Speaker 1: thing that that scares me about Wilson is everywhere Fields
Speaker 1: has been, whether it was Chicago or Pittsburgh and now
Speaker 1: New York, it seems like the running game has been
Speaker 1: a pretty big deal. And and I worry about Wilson
Speaker 1: not getting the volume that Smith and Jigba would get
Speaker 1: this year now, and that that's not a I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm fine with Higgins over Smith and Jigbo, but but
Speaker 1: I don't know about Wilson. Wilson. Wilson scares me a
Speaker 1: little bit.
Speaker 2: If we're going to draft receivers early that have to
Speaker 2: get ten targets a game to be successful, then we
Speaker 2: probably shouldn't be drafted those receiving We probably should double
Speaker 2: down at tight end because they're going to get the targets. Hey,
Speaker 2: how many targets? Uh? How many targets you think uh
Speaker 2: Bowers will get from Gino Smith a game? Well, okay,
Speaker 2: Kevin Insano might know who Bowers.
Speaker 1: Is, but now he does. Now he does, Now he does.
Speaker 2: He's getting a lot of mileage out of that.
Speaker 1: By the way, Captain and Santa. Yeah, the Bowers thing
Speaker 1: that Remember he.
Speaker 2: Barely knew who McConkie was and I never heard of ours,
Speaker 2: Rock Bowers.
Speaker 1: Do you want to take you guess it? How many
Speaker 1: tar because he saw last year, Pharrell. Uh, let's go
Speaker 1: one sixty. It's an excellent excellent guests one forty five
Speaker 1: is the better prices, right, guest one fifty three and
Speaker 1: he caught one hundred and twelve of them last year.
Speaker 1: Now he gets Geno Smith. I don't you know, it'll
Speaker 1: be interesting to see what they do at running back
Speaker 1: and receiver in the draft.
Speaker 2: So I already got the running back situation taking care
Speaker 2: of They do not. They absolutely they didn't acquire moster no,
Speaker 2: must start most Yeah, I'm living in three years ago, bulky,
Speaker 2: but I've always enjoying that acquisition.
Speaker 1: Mostard will probably have like two or three really good games.
Speaker 2: You know, how old is Moster now?
Speaker 1: Thirty two? I want to say Ferrari.
Speaker 2: He still goes fast. You know, it's just but he's.
Speaker 1: Always in the shop, just like a Ferrari.
Speaker 2: Yeah there, yeah, Hey, the training staff with the Raiders
Speaker 2: will win out. And you know, bulkeyah, everybody's a little
Speaker 2: looser in Las Vegas. Who we are, right, Raheem?
Speaker 1: Moster turns thirty three in a couple of weeks.
Speaker 2: You know, it is to me. I want to talk
Speaker 2: about when he was with the Niners and what they
Speaker 2: did to the Packers, why he.
Speaker 1: Didn't know it was awful And the worst part about
Speaker 1: it was Farrell is. I had most Are on some
Speaker 1: teams that year, but the season was done. It was
Speaker 1: the playoffs and Moster it's running rough shot and I
Speaker 1: have him, but I don't have him on any you know,
Speaker 1: like my my fantasy year is done. I don't have
Speaker 1: him any playoff squads. So it was a double gut
Speaker 1: punch seeing him and Kaepernick just go crazy. Okay, let's
Speaker 1: do let's do this. Where was I going here with?
Speaker 2: Oh?
Speaker 1: I had an email, I had an email I wanted
Speaker 1: to read that went Yes, it went part and parcel
Speaker 1: with our Seattle Seahawks conversation which uh dynasty Dustin hanging
Speaker 1: out watching us to night on YouTube, Lad mcconkeye, Jackson
Speaker 1: Smith and Jigba. Those are his wide receiver one and
Speaker 1: wide receiver two in his current Big Gorilla draft that's
Speaker 1: going on right now. Sam Donald is the subject of
Speaker 1: Scott in Escondido's California's email. Is Donald in for a
Speaker 1: rude awakening in Seattle? Thanks so much? That is Scott
Speaker 1: in Escondido, California. I think I can't remember if I
Speaker 1: was bringing this up with you last last week, Farah.
Speaker 1: But he moves on from Justin Jefferson, TJ. Hockinson, Jordan
Speaker 1: Addison to Jackson Smith and Jigba, Marcz Valdez, Scantling, Cooper
Speaker 1: Cup that it is different and if Seattle really does
Speaker 1: not want to throw as much as they did last year,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lot of Kenneth Walker, It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a lot of Zach Charbonnay. Yeah, I don't know
Speaker 1: if I'm on board with Sam Donald coming in with
Speaker 1: eighty percent of what he did last year in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: I have my doubts.
Speaker 2: I have my doubts. Two book I really did. That's
Speaker 2: that's another The dovetails into Jackson Smith and Jig So.
Speaker 2: I don't know what the number is with quarterbacks that
Speaker 2: were going to be happy with fantasy football, but I
Speaker 2: think we better start identifying the number that says one
Speaker 2: receiver will do well and the tight end might do well,
Speaker 2: but the other receiver will fail the.
Speaker 1: Other, you know.
Speaker 2: And that's why I'm so high on those Bengals. They
Speaker 2: don't necessarily have a tight end you know that's going
Speaker 2: to run away with anything. And we know those two
Speaker 2: receivers aren't going to fail, and we know that quarterback
Speaker 2: will probably be at four thousand yards by game twelve,
Speaker 2: So you know, why handcuff yourself with a quarterback that
Speaker 2: is not going to be able to reach those numbers?
Speaker 2: And you know, now you can begin to think about
Speaker 2: Baker Mayfield reaching those Yeah, totally. We talk about a
Speaker 2: lot of quarterbacks on the show, but there's really only
Speaker 2: twelve that matter, and so why are you going to
Speaker 2: get one that's got a uphill fight and an unproven situation.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think the only way you would is if
Speaker 1: you're playing in best Ball and you you want to
Speaker 1: grab a third one. Other than that, Darnold is just
Speaker 1: not a player. I want to be interested in weal.
Speaker 2: My head's already in September. Man, I'm already, You're already,
Speaker 2: and I'm talking to Chris. I'm getting ready to sit down.
Speaker 2: Guys are bringing me their drink tickets.
Speaker 1: Farrel last email I have today for this show is
Speaker 1: Paul and Pittsburgh Deer, Balky and Farrell. Is the tush
Speaker 1: push really going to get banned? Does this mean even
Speaker 1: more great things for sakuon Barkley. That is Paul and Pittsburgh.
Speaker 1: So number one, we found out today that the Packers
Speaker 1: have formally proposed a rule change that would ban the
Speaker 1: tush push. No surprise, they were the ones that didn't
Speaker 1: want to see this happen. The Packers, who, by the way,
Speaker 1: until the playoffs, had a lot of success stopping the
Speaker 1: tush push. In fact, I think they were one of
Speaker 1: the most successful teams in the NFL stopping it up
Speaker 1: until their playoff matchup against the Eagles this past year.
Speaker 1: I don't think this is in any danger of being passed.
Speaker 1: And even if it was, Jalen Hurts is still going
Speaker 1: to get his quarterbacks. Yes, and Saquon Barkley with the
Speaker 1: tush push last year, had an MVP esque season. So
Speaker 1: this will not change the way I think about Hurts
Speaker 1: or the way I think about Barkley here going forward.
Speaker 1: If I want to be down on Barkley, there's other
Speaker 1: reasons to be down on Barkley this year. His ADP,
Speaker 1: his age, his usage. I don't even know if I'm
Speaker 1: down like on any of those things, but I think
Speaker 1: those would be better reasons to be down at Barkley
Speaker 1: than worried about a tush push hurting.
Speaker 2: His Oh you say the same thing about Moster. Fine, you.
Speaker 4: Know the Raiders are going to take a running back
Speaker 4: like they could get genty Farrelly, or they'll take Henderson
Speaker 4: or something in round two and then Mostar it is
Speaker 4: just like thrilled the get gent.
Speaker 1: That'd be excited. Only what's six weeks away? A little
Speaker 1: bit less than six weeks away, and we'll find out
Speaker 1: who they take with the man.
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