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Speaker 1: the NFL. The We'll start off in northeast Wisconsin here
Speaker 1: where I'm at, talking about the Green Bay Packers. Matt
Speaker 1: Lafleur talked to the media today talking about Romeo. The
Speaker 1: Romeo Dobs trade rumors that are out there and Lafleur said,
Speaker 1: that's not gonna happen. Lafleur went on to say that
Speaker 1: Dobbs is out there competing. He's done every thing that
Speaker 1: he needs to or that the Packers need to see
Speaker 1: from him. Remember last year, Dobbs was suspended for a game,
Speaker 1: and we got the feeling that it was because he
Speaker 1: was upset with his role or upset that he wasn't
Speaker 1: you know, getting the ball and off or what have you.
Speaker 1: After that one game suspension, came back, caught two touchdowns
Speaker 1: and seemed to me that all of his you know,
Speaker 1: the guys that congratulated in the end zone first were
Speaker 1: his fellow wide receivers. So it sounds like this is
Speaker 1: this is a nothing burger and he's not going to
Speaker 1: be moved. I think if you connect the dots, it's
Speaker 1: pretty easy to see that there are certain teams around
Speaker 1: the NFL that need receivers, and there are certain teams
Speaker 1: that are pretty rich with wide receivers, the Packers being
Speaker 1: one of them. It's part of the reason I have
Speaker 1: been staying away for from Green Bay receivers this year,
Speaker 1: including Tuckerkraft. And I'll explain why the Packers offense last
Speaker 1: year shifted to a much more robust running game, right,
Speaker 1: a power ground game. I think a lot of that
Speaker 1: had to do with Jordan Love in his knee injury.
Speaker 1: There wasn't a whole lot of fantasy goodness for wide
Speaker 1: receivers on a week to week basis. Yeah, Best Ball
Speaker 1: you probably made it work with Jayden Reid, but that
Speaker 1: only lasted the first two thirds of the season, and
Speaker 1: then he had that shoulder injury kind of got shut
Speaker 1: down without being shut down after that, where the Packers
Speaker 1: just never really used him. Obviously, Christian Watson is a
Speaker 1: huge threat when he's out on the field, and teams
Speaker 1: have to respect that. The fantasy production was just not there.
Speaker 1: And then you think about don Tavian Wicks had the
Speaker 1: opportunity to make a lot of big plays and get
Speaker 1: some spike weeks for Best Ball leagues, but he dropped
Speaker 1: a lot of passes last year too, which was really frustrating.
Speaker 1: You get Matthew Golden this year, you get Savian Williams,
Speaker 1: but all these other guys are back. Watson is probably
Speaker 1: going to be back at some point this season, and
Speaker 1: so now you have a situation where you have all
Speaker 1: this talent. The Packers are probably going to be passing
Speaker 1: a little bit more than they were last year, but
Speaker 1: maybe not all the way because they found something in
Speaker 1: Josh Jacobs. When you look at where you have to
Speaker 1: take some of these Green Bay packers, pass catchers and drafts.
Speaker 1: And I'll go with Fantasy Mojo's website. Darren ARMANI the
Speaker 1: godfather of the FFPC pros versus Joe's competition, a guy
Speaker 1: that anytime we cite ADP we are using his website
Speaker 1: fantasymojo dot com. Connect with them on x at Fantasy Mojo,
Speaker 1: and there's a ton of other tools on that when
Speaker 1: it comes to blind bidding for waivers at the stack counter, everything,
Speaker 1: stack tracker, everything like that is available at a fantasymojo
Speaker 1: dot com. And what I want to cite here is
Speaker 1: these packers ADP values for Big Gorilla drafts. Right, so
Speaker 1: you have Matthew Golden the first one off the board,
Speaker 1: wide receiver thirty nine at the seven O eight. Jayden
Speaker 1: Reig goes quite a bit behind him. Obviously he was
Speaker 1: in a walking boot until recently. He's going at the
Speaker 1: nine to eleven right now, by reading that, right, yeah,
Speaker 1: nine to eleven. Romeo Dobbs a sixteenth round pick, Christian
Speaker 1: Watson eighteenth, Dantavian Wis eighteenth. The value is fine for
Speaker 1: Watson and Wix there, but when are you going to
Speaker 1: know when it's a Watson week? When are you going
Speaker 1: to know when it's a Wix week. I'm fine with
Speaker 1: taking the chance on Matthew Golden, but now his price
Speaker 1: because of his big preseason and training camp, he's ascended
Speaker 1: to a mid seventh round pick. I don't know if
Speaker 1: I want to mess around with that, concidering that that
Speaker 1: is a valuable pick and I can get other receivers
Speaker 1: around him where I know what the role is on
Speaker 1: that team. Jayden Reid too is I think you could
Speaker 1: you could make the same case with him as well,
Speaker 1: so and Tuckercraft. That could be completely wrong about mate.
Speaker 1: If he's the top five tight end this year, that
Speaker 1: that should not surprise me, and it probably will. But
Speaker 1: for me and talking about the Packers, this is what
Speaker 1: it's all about. It's it's fine for best Ball not
Speaker 1: mess around with these guys and manage leagues. I was
Speaker 1: messing around with Matthew Golden briefly, but his ADP is
Speaker 1: getting a little too out of control for me. Now
Speaker 1: in the seventh round. In fact, he went as high
Speaker 1: as the early sixth in an f FPC Big Gorilla
Speaker 1: Draft yesterday. So that's something that we're following here with
Speaker 1: these packers. And if you've got a good handle on it,
Speaker 1: go with God. But I sure cannot figure it out
Speaker 1: and I don't plan on trying to figure that out
Speaker 1: going forward. Here, let's talk about Spencer Ratler. He is
Speaker 1: going to start the final preseason game of the season
Speaker 1: here for the Saints against the Broncos. The quarterbacks for
Speaker 1: New Orleans have had their moments against backups. Once they
Speaker 1: get to the starters is starting defenses. I don't think
Speaker 1: it's going to be all that great. Rattler actually started
Speaker 1: the second half last week, and I would imagine this
Speaker 1: might mean that Rattler is going to be the starter
Speaker 1: week one. Although I don't want to read too much
Speaker 1: into it. I think this is the take home with this.
Speaker 1: You don't want to be interested in Saints' quarterbacks in
Speaker 1: chuck In and Rattler this year, Well you should be
Speaker 1: interested in what I'm interested in. Juwan Johnson, Chris Olave,
Speaker 1: Rashid Shaheed I'm talking about and Alvin Kamara, I'm talking
Speaker 1: about taking all those guys, not on all the same team,
Speaker 1: but definitely at their prices in drafts. The New Orleans
Speaker 1: A offense last year was about as bad as one
Speaker 1: could imagine, and you know, I don't know how much
Speaker 1: worse it's gonna be this year, but you're gonna have
Speaker 1: Chris o'lave to start off this season. I still think
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara there's something there. In regards to Rashid Shahed.
Speaker 1: This is a player that I just drafted him again
Speaker 1: in a KFFSC draft today. I just can't get enough
Speaker 1: of this guy, and he's going super late in drafts.
Speaker 1: If you look at the mojo on Rashid Shaheed right now,
Speaker 1: a player who has been working in the slot in
Speaker 1: training camp and in games as well, which is only
Speaker 1: going to add to his target volume this year. Shihed
Speaker 1: is wide receiver fifty four at the eleven oh seven
Speaker 1: and and Chris o'lave, Yeah, he's a he's a mid
Speaker 1: seventh round pick. But I think that the thing to
Speaker 1: understand with the Saints is both of these guys, Olave
Speaker 1: and Shaheed are gonna do numbers this year. I'm big
Speaker 1: fans of of Olave, and Shiheed, and Kamara is another
Speaker 1: running back too that I'm drafting as my number two
Speaker 1: in a lot of drafts. I think if you go
Speaker 1: robust running back, you might be able to get him
Speaker 1: as your third running back, although that might be getting
Speaker 1: a little bit aggressive dependent upon how your draft is going. Look,
Speaker 1: New Orleans gonna be passing a lot. They might be
Speaker 1: involved in some shootouts in that division with Tampa, Atlanta
Speaker 1: and Carolina. You don't necessarily, you know, like talent is
Speaker 1: not everything, and elite offenses are not everything. You know,
Speaker 1: Sometimes you just put up stats because you're forced to
Speaker 1: put up stats, and that could be the case with
Speaker 1: New Orleans this year. O Lovey's got talent. Sheheed's got talent.
Speaker 1: A lot of people were telling you to take where
Speaker 1: she Shiheed last year. I wasn't one of them, but
Speaker 1: I definitely am this year. I was on the Roda
Speaker 1: Wire Fantasy Football Draft marathon with Jim Coventry earlier this
Speaker 1: week and we were all assigned a team. Well, we
Speaker 1: got to pick a team, and I picked the Saints
Speaker 1: just because I saw some value there that I think
Speaker 1: was being underappreciated by FFPC drafters, And I think you
Speaker 1: need to take a closer look. When you're on the
Speaker 1: clock in the mid seventh, when you're on the clock
Speaker 1: in the midle eleventh, quite frankly, when you're on the
Speaker 1: clock in the in the early fourth Camara O Lave Shahid.
Speaker 1: These are guys Juan Johnson late too at the nineteen
Speaker 1: oh four in FFPC Big Gorilla drafts. It's crazy and
Speaker 1: you can get him as your third tight end, So
Speaker 1: I love that. I'm a big fan of that as well.
Speaker 1: Some Chargers news here and I want to lead things off.
Speaker 1: This will be my Omari and Hampton story. Daniel Popper,
Speaker 1: who covers the Los Angeles Chargers, cited Jim Harbaugh not
Speaker 1: talking about Naji Harris whether he's going to begin the
Speaker 1: regular season on the NFI list or not. He was
Speaker 1: asked about specifically by the media, and I don't know
Speaker 1: if it's Daniel Popper himself who asked it, but he
Speaker 1: was asked about, Hey, are you gonna put Naji Harris
Speaker 1: on the NFI list, and Harbass said, quote, when Naji
Speaker 1: is ready to play, Naji will be ready to play.
Speaker 1: And then speculation about whether he's going on this list
Speaker 1: or not beyond today goes over the eagle limit of
Speaker 1: what ifs. God bless Jim Harbaugh, a master wordsmith. Here,
Speaker 1: here's the takeaway the tld R and this isn't good
Speaker 1: for Harris and you shouldn't feel great about drafting Naji
Speaker 1: Harris right now. You know the thing is with with
Speaker 1: this Chargers running back situation. To me, it's all about
Speaker 1: Omari and Hampton. If I'll say this, when you were
Speaker 1: drafting Omari and Hampton after the NFL Draft, you knew
Speaker 1: he was going to be sharing the backfield with Naji Harris.
Speaker 1: Right Jim Harbo has already said that he's going to
Speaker 1: be sharing the backfield with somebody. He was always going
Speaker 1: to be in a rotation. That rotation is going to
Speaker 1: be Omarion Hampton, Kamani Vidal, Raheem Sanders. None of these
Speaker 1: guys should scare you off of Omari and Hampton, who
Speaker 1: could be in for a big baller year. I understand
Speaker 1: the Rashaan Slater injury that was not great. In fact,
Speaker 1: there's there's some people that are saying that this is
Speaker 1: really going to destroy the offensive line in the Chargers
Speaker 1: offense in general. I'm not one of those people. I'm
Speaker 1: still team Omari and Hampton. He has ascended right now
Speaker 1: in drafts in FFPC Big Gorilla drafts. Over the last
Speaker 1: two days. You're looking at Naji Harris's running back fifty four,
Speaker 1: excuse me, Marion Hampton running back thirteen at the three
Speaker 1: h four. John Dagel from established the run in his
Speaker 1: pros Versus Joe's draft after the news came out about
Speaker 1: Harris where you know, he couldn't open his eye. He
Speaker 1: was wearing a weighted vest and walking around. John Dagiel
Speaker 1: and his pros Versus Joe draft took him at the
Speaker 1: end of the second round, like at the two ten,
Speaker 1: and we thought that was crazy. And now it's just
Speaker 1: like he was just being aggressive because it could be
Speaker 1: wheels up for Hampton this year, with or without Slater.
Speaker 1: He's gonna get volume, he's gonna do numbers, He's going
Speaker 1: to catch passes, he's gonna do it all. Naji Harris
Speaker 1: to me, I mean, I don't know how late he'd
Speaker 1: have to go for me to consider him. At this point.
Speaker 1: In fact, I'm kind of regretting drafting him after the
Speaker 1: fireworks incident. I think it was gonna be as bad
Speaker 1: he has fallen to the thirteenth round, and I still
Speaker 1: don't know if he's worth taking in the thirteenth round.
Speaker 1: This could be something that dogs them all year. So
Speaker 1: this is this is something that we will be following
Speaker 1: over the next two weeks. But FFPC Drafters are certainly
Speaker 1: not pushing him up boards right now, and I don't
Speaker 1: know what the ceiling is. I don't know what the
Speaker 1: upside is of taking him in the thirteenth round either.
Speaker 1: There's some contingent upside I guess if Hanton were to
Speaker 1: go down. But Harris is still probably gonna be sharing
Speaker 1: the backfield with these other guys and rotating him in
Speaker 1: sticking with the Chargers here, let's talk about the receivers.
Speaker 1: Trey Harris Quentin Johnston are both in the news. Trey
Speaker 1: Harris is not going to be playing tonight. He left
Speaker 1: yesterday's practice early due to tightness. Jim Harbad did not
Speaker 1: speak to this much. Here's why I don't think it
Speaker 1: necessarily matters, because of the signing of Keenan Allen, because
Speaker 1: of the big time play of ca Andre Lambert Smith.
Speaker 1: I think that you have to start looking at Trey
Speaker 1: Harris as just kind of having a lost year in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, he's been out played by a rookie
Speaker 1: that was drafted after him. The Chargers went out and
Speaker 1: got their old familiar slot guy in Keenan Allen, who's
Speaker 1: actually been playing on the outside now for the Chargers.
Speaker 1: So Trey Harris is fine for Dynasty. I drafted him
Speaker 1: a couple of spots. I'm not cutting. I'm gonna keep
Speaker 1: him there obviously, but for redraft purposes, I think he
Speaker 1: just let him go. I don't I don't really see
Speaker 1: the upside here with Trey Harris. Not to mention Quentin Johnston,
Speaker 1: who we were worried about this this injury that he had.
Speaker 1: He had a neck injury. I believe it was late
Speaker 1: last week. I don't think it was early this week,
Speaker 1: and he came back to practice. Quentin Johnston, as much
Speaker 1: as he's been kind of a punchline over the course
Speaker 1: of his rookie year in the NFL, he took some
Speaker 1: strides last year and he's been showing out in camp
Speaker 1: this year. We just kind of always assumed that these
Speaker 1: first round receivers are ready to go, but there were
Speaker 1: people out there telling you, and I quite frankly was
Speaker 1: probably one of them. Maybe not as loud as some
Speaker 1: other people that it might be, you know, Quentin Johnston
Speaker 1: might need some extra seasoning to try to get going
Speaker 1: here in in the NFL. And it did not surprise
Speaker 1: me at all that he let us down his rookie year.
Speaker 1: It also didn't surprise me at all that he took
Speaker 1: a step forward. This is sort of like the path
Speaker 1: of a lot of rookie receivers, whether you're drafted in
Speaker 1: the first round or not. So Quentin Johnston, I'm actually
Speaker 1: in on a little bit this year. I think when
Speaker 1: you look at the values of these players, as far
Speaker 1: as the receivers go, Trey Harris, I'm not taking him
Speaker 1: in the fourteenth Quentin Johnston in the eighteenth. I could
Speaker 1: see a path there in a managed league where he
Speaker 1: might make some Sensekeandre Lambert Smith, Okay, maybe still because
Speaker 1: he's the rookie, he's the unknown. It's an eighteenth round pick,
Speaker 1: you know whatever. I guess I can get on board
Speaker 1: with that, But definitely in on Keenan Allen. He's still
Speaker 1: a double digit round player. He's probably gonna catch eighty
Speaker 1: balls this year for you know, seven hundred some yards
Speaker 1: and half dozen touchdowns, and there's value in that in
Speaker 1: manage leagues, and obviously Lad McConkie is a guy that
Speaker 1: I never really dropped in in my rankings at all.
Speaker 1: He's a guy that was going in the late second
Speaker 1: round for the most part and then after allan I
Speaker 1: mean he slipped a little bit over the last two days.
Speaker 1: In the Big Guerrilla Tournament. Mcconki has gone as late
Speaker 1: as the three oh seven, but he's also gone as
Speaker 1: high as the two o six, So that's like a
Speaker 1: full round there where he's kind of going all over
Speaker 1: the place there. But he's a guy I don't doubt
Speaker 1: this season. He's a player that I definitely want to
Speaker 1: be in business with going forward. Death taxes and t
Speaker 1: Higgins injuries right, well, we had another one earlier this afternoon.
Speaker 1: T Higgins resumed practice today after he had his left
Speaker 1: ankle examined by Bengals trainers. Now it looks like he's
Speaker 1: gonna be fine, and I would think that there's you know,
Speaker 1: the fact that he resumed practicing, I would think that
Speaker 1: there's nothing here. But if you look at what T
Speaker 1: Higgins has undergone, what he suffered through the core of
Speaker 1: his career, his lower body is not exactly made of
Speaker 1: iron right. He's had some problems there, Higgins. But here's
Speaker 1: the thing. This is what you're doing when you're getting
Speaker 1: into business with T. Higgins when you want to draft him,
Speaker 1: and right now he is going as wide receiver thirteen
Speaker 1: at the three oh six. If you want to take
Speaker 1: him as a high end wide receiver two, low end
Speaker 1: wide receiver one, you have to understand that with this
Speaker 1: elite offense, with this bad defense, with all the numbers,
Speaker 1: the yards, the scores that Cincinnati is going to put
Speaker 1: up this year, you have to understand at the same time,
Speaker 1: there is a bit of an injury risk, and you
Speaker 1: have to be prepared for that. Now, if you know
Speaker 1: before the week starts that he's hurt and you can
Speaker 1: put somebody in, hey great. The thing I always worry
Speaker 1: about with drafting these guys, starting them when they're healthy,
Speaker 1: and then they get dinged up in the first quarter
Speaker 1: or the first half and you end up getting very
Speaker 1: little from them that game. I don't draft scared when
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about drafting T. Higgins. I understand the injury
Speaker 1: aspect of but it doesn't play that much in my mind.
Speaker 1: If I'm trying to win a big national tournament like
Speaker 1: if you're trying to win the FFPC Main Event or
Speaker 1: the FFPC Big Gorilla. I don't think you have. You
Speaker 1: should be drafting with that fear in your head with
Speaker 1: T Higgins. Recognize the upside, Recognize what he can do
Speaker 1: when he's right. I can't remember who said this. It
Speaker 1: was referring to Christian McCaffrey. I want to say it
Speaker 1: was Ben Gretch. I think I've referenced this on the
Speaker 1: show before, Ben Gretch from from Stealing Signals. Sometimes we
Speaker 1: ask ourselves the question about drafting these guys high, and
Speaker 1: I think he was referencing McCaffrey, Well, what happens if
Speaker 1: he gets hurt? You know? Then what does my team
Speaker 1: look like? What happens if this guy goes down? Then?
Speaker 1: How am I going to cobble together a line up?
Speaker 1: What happens if this guy can't play for me? How
Speaker 1: am I going to win games and put up points?
Speaker 1: And Ben said, well, maybe the question we should be
Speaker 1: asking ourselves what happens if he doesn't get hurt, What
Speaker 1: happens if he stays healthy? What happens if we get
Speaker 1: seventeen games from T Higgins? What happens if we get
Speaker 1: seventeen games from Christian McCaffrey. You know, it's these types
Speaker 1: of things, and we got that answer with Saquon Barkley
Speaker 1: last year with the Eagles, Right, but I'm worried. You know,
Speaker 1: he's he's had some lower body stuff and over the
Speaker 1: course of his career he's missignificant time. Well, he stayed
Speaker 1: healthy for seventeen games, put up two thousand yards. I
Speaker 1: had a legit shot at winning the MVP in any
Speaker 1: other year except for the years that josh Annaen and
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson had. So the question was answered last year.
Speaker 1: What happens if Saquon Barkley doesn't get hurt, You're probably
Speaker 1: winning a lot of fantasy leagues. This is a guy
Speaker 1: that was going in the early second round and finished
Speaker 1: as the best running back in football. Something to keep
Speaker 1: in mind. I think sometimes we often think about the
Speaker 1: bad so much and we don't necessarily think about the positive.
Speaker 1: We don't necessarily think about the good. All Right, I
Speaker 1: want to move on here and go to Southern California.
Speaker 1: We may or may not touch on this later on
Speaker 1: in the show. I don't think we will, actually, so
Speaker 1: this is good that we could break this down now.
Speaker 1: Matt Stafford is practicing in full this week. This according
Speaker 1: to his head coach Sean McVay. Remember, he had that
Speaker 1: back injury that prevented him from starting training camp, was
Speaker 1: unhealthy or not healthy enough to play, and McVeigh said
Speaker 1: he feels quote unquote good about his current participation level,
Speaker 1: and obviously you want him to not suffer any setbacks,
Speaker 1: not needing the extra days off. And the reason I
Speaker 1: bring this up is not necessarily, hey, should I be
Speaker 1: drafting Matthew Stafford this year? The reason I bring it
Speaker 1: up is what it does to Kien Williams and then
Speaker 1: specifically DeVante Adams and Pukin Nakua. I have been with
Speaker 1: the acceptance of just drafting DeVante Adams in one draft
Speaker 1: about three days ago, two or three days ago, I
Speaker 1: can't remember. I haven't really drafted a whole lot. I
Speaker 1: think I have Nicola in one draft so far. I
Speaker 1: don't think I have Karen Williams anywhere. Matthew Stafford is
Speaker 1: never then the guy that is the fantasy beneficiary of
Speaker 1: having two great targets. He had Cooper Cup and Pokin
Speaker 1: Akula for the last couple of years, and those guys
Speaker 1: were great when they were out there, but at the
Speaker 1: same time, Matthew Stafford wasn't putting up big numbers. So
Speaker 1: this isn't a question of Matthew Stafford. This for me
Speaker 1: is a question of the likelihood that Stafford is out
Speaker 1: there for fourteen fifteen sixteen games this season throwing in
Speaker 1: Nikouah and Adams. The thing that you have to understand
Speaker 1: is Jimmy Garoppolo is the backup, and the backup plan
Speaker 1: to Jimmy Garoppolo may or may not be a trade
Speaker 1: with the Atlanta Falcons to get Kirk Cousins on board.
Speaker 1: Those are two not great plans. Now, I think Garoppolo
Speaker 1: is gonna be okay enough to keep DeVante Adams and
Speaker 1: Pokinakula from losing you weeks in fantasy. But at the
Speaker 1: same time, I don't know if he's going to be
Speaker 1: able to get the best out of these guys so
Speaker 1: that they're helping you win. And they need to help
Speaker 1: you win and not just help you not lose. Because
Speaker 1: Niku was the first round pick, you know, DeVonta Adams
Speaker 1: the third round pick. These guys need to be difference
Speaker 1: makers for you. That's the Stafford side of it. Who
Speaker 1: by the way, and I'll bring this up too. They
Speaker 1: have the big RV or whatever it was called. I
Speaker 1: don't remember the name of it, but the thing that
Speaker 1: he was going into for treatment. I guess this is
Speaker 1: something that the RAMS pay for for their players to
Speaker 1: go in. There's some red light therapy, there's all these
Speaker 1: different things, and like I said, that's a big I
Speaker 1: can't remember what it was called, but it's like this big,
Speaker 1: giant tube, this big RV trailer sized thing. And Stafford
Speaker 1: used it, but so did a lot of the other
Speaker 1: Los Angeles Rams, and it wasn't I don't even think
Speaker 1: he got his back worked on in there. It just
Speaker 1: got some other stuff like that. So I think that
Speaker 1: was a little bit overblown. But dude is thirty seven
Speaker 1: years old. Stafford is not being taken down in practice
Speaker 1: right now. He is not being hit in practice, and
Speaker 1: he's practicing every day this week, which is great. So
Speaker 1: what happens when he takes that first big sack of
Speaker 1: the season, How does he get up from that? What
Speaker 1: happens when he's got to bounce back from you know,
Speaker 1: a Monday night game and then playing on Sunday the
Speaker 1: following week, or what happens if he if he's if
Speaker 1: he plays on Sunday and he's got to go on Thursday.
Speaker 1: You know, the wear and tear of the body of
Speaker 1: Matthew Stafford or the course of fifteen years in this
Speaker 1: league is significant, and it could get even more significant
Speaker 1: this year. And like I said, it's Garoppolo and maybe
Speaker 1: Stetson Bennett or kir Cousins. I don't know, but it's
Speaker 1: not great solution. And then you look at the wide
Speaker 1: receivers themselves. Pukakua a guy who we love watching. We
Speaker 1: are a huge fan. We are huge fans of watching
Speaker 1: Pukainakua play football. He's fantastic. He goes, He's just always
Speaker 1: going all out every single play, no plays off. Here's
Speaker 1: the problem with that. Human body isn't meant to do that.
Speaker 1: From the wide receiver position, guy needs to take care
Speaker 1: of his body and he does not. He does not
Speaker 1: care about what happens to his body, doesn't land right.
Speaker 1: He's always going the extra mile and that has cost
Speaker 1: him games before. It's probably gonna cost him games again
Speaker 1: this year. So I worry. I love the reckless abandon
Speaker 1: from a selfish fans standpoint, I don't like it from
Speaker 1: a selfish fantasy standpoint because I don't know if that's
Speaker 1: what you want for your fantasy players. DeVante Adams too,
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna be okay. I feel better about his
Speaker 1: draft capital and investing in him. I like the investment
Speaker 1: of Devonte Adams at cost better than I like the
Speaker 1: investment of Pukaakua at cost. I'm a big fan of Adams.
Speaker 1: Over the course of his career. What he's been able
Speaker 1: to do as a Hall of Famer, a future Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer, He's fantastic. But he is getting up there
Speaker 1: in age, and I think if if you look at
Speaker 1: certain metrics, you have to kind of pick and choose.
Speaker 1: But there were certain things that we saw last year.
Speaker 1: Maybe he is slowing down a little bit and he's
Speaker 1: not a spring chicken anymore. So that's the other thing
Speaker 1: I think. I recognize the upside with the Rams, and
Speaker 1: you don't want to draft scare So if you are
Speaker 1: a believer in those guys, hey, you get the bulky
Speaker 1: stamp of approval on that. For me and my teams,
Speaker 1: I'm probably gonna go a different direction on a lot
Speaker 1: of those guys as it stands right now. For where
Speaker 1: these guys are going in drafts right now, Puka Nakua
Speaker 1: wide receiver seven at the two oh three. I mean,
Speaker 1: give me Brian Thomas there instead of Nakuah there, Drake
Speaker 1: London goes after him. Drake London can lead the league
Speaker 1: in targets this year. I'd rather have him than Nikua.
Speaker 1: Then you get into the aj Brown lad Mconche and
Speaker 1: then it's it's a little bit dicey then, but these
Speaker 1: guys are going a full round after Nikoua. And by
Speaker 1: the way, if you don't like Nikoua, it's not like
Speaker 1: you have to take a wide receiver there. Derrick Henry
Speaker 1: is going after him. Devon Chan, depend upon how you
Speaker 1: feel about him, he's going after him, Chase Brown, Bucky here,
Speaker 1: Mcjonathan Taylor. The list goes on. There's plenty of people
Speaker 1: that will tell you that all those guys are better
Speaker 1: choices than Nikoua, and I might be one of them
Speaker 1: for the Rams right now in general. And then oh,
Speaker 1: getting back to Devonte Adams right now, he's wide receiver eighteen.
Speaker 1: I think you can make a strong case that Tetero
Speaker 1: McMillan's a better choice than him. Xavier Worthy, Courtland Sutton,
Speaker 1: I think I'd rather have all Well, let me think
Speaker 1: about this. I'd rather have McMillan than him, for sure,
Speaker 1: I'd rather have I think i'd rather have Marvin Harris. Yea,
Speaker 1: I'd rather have Marvin Harrison than I'm xavier' worthy. I'd
Speaker 1: rather have than him. And then it gets a little bit.
Speaker 1: I'd probably split it down the middle between Adams and
Speaker 1: Courtland Sutton. That's that's just a feel thing for me
Speaker 1: at that point. Some things, I might take Sutton. Some leagues,
Speaker 1: I might take Adams, but all those guys are going
Speaker 1: after him in ADP right now, so something to be monitoring.
Speaker 1: Bryce Hall is also going after Davante Adams, but I
Speaker 1: think I'd rather have Adams there. We might may or
Speaker 1: may not get into the Jets running game later on
Speaker 1: in the show. Let's talk about let's see what do
Speaker 1: I want to go to next? Here? I think I
Speaker 1: will go to Travis Hunter because this is a of
Speaker 1: all the players that I have drafted so far this year,
Speaker 1: and I'm in probably i don't know, maybe fifteen, ten
Speaker 1: to fifteen Best ball Leagues and twenty to twenty five
Speaker 1: Managed league somewhere around there. As it stands right now,
Speaker 1: I think that I'm more of a managed league Best
Speaker 1: Ball's fun, but I like to be able to mold
Speaker 1: my clay, so to speak, throughout the season. So I'm
Speaker 1: definitely in more managed leagues. Travis Hunter's on a lot
Speaker 1: of them, and I'm not panicking yet, and I don't
Speaker 1: think anybody should be panicking. But Travis Hunter did not
Speaker 1: practice today. He's got an upper body injury. Don't know
Speaker 1: what that means, and he's not going to be playing
Speaker 1: in Not only he missed the joint practice today with
Speaker 1: the Dolphins, and he's not gonna be playing in the
Speaker 1: Saturday game against Miami as well. Apparently Liam Cohen considered
Speaker 1: allowing Hunter to play today this is Thursday, but he
Speaker 1: wanted to avoid any chance of rea aggravation of the injury,
Speaker 1: so no setbacks have been reported. If it was a
Speaker 1: game today, Cohen said that a Hunter probably would have played.
Speaker 1: None of the starters are actually playing for the Jaguars
Speaker 1: against the Dolphins, so that's good. It doesn't make me
Speaker 1: feel great, But at the same time, part of the
Speaker 1: reason I love drafting Travis Hunter so much this season
Speaker 1: is he's a unicorn. He is a true unknown. We
Speaker 1: talk about drafting unknowns as far as rookies go, Like
Speaker 1: We just don't know how they're going to perform at
Speaker 1: the NFL level. Justin Jefferson was far from the first
Speaker 1: wide receiver drafted the year he's picked in the NFL
Speaker 1: and then went on to have an absolute baller season
Speaker 1: and he's on the Hall of Fame trajectory right now.
Speaker 1: So we just don't know. And then you know, John
Speaker 1: Ross a former top ten pick, Corey Davis, a former
Speaker 1: top five pick. We thought those guys are going to
Speaker 1: be great, they weren't in the pros. So you just
Speaker 1: never know. And yeah, when you draft players like this,
Speaker 1: some of them are gonna bust. But sometimes you have
Speaker 1: to live dangerously. And I don't think there's a whole
Speaker 1: lot of danger and Hunter, I think this guy is
Speaker 1: a freak. I think what he was able to do
Speaker 1: at the collegiate level blew my mind and a lot
Speaker 1: of other people's minds. It was absolutely crazy town banana
Speaker 1: pants that this guy was playing, you know, nearly every
Speaker 1: single snap offense and defense for an FBS program. It
Speaker 1: was just crazy. Wins the Fred Blitnikoff Trophy for the
Speaker 1: best wide receiver, wins the Heisman Trophy for the best player,
Speaker 1: and now he's wide receiver thirty one at the six
Speaker 1: oh five. I get that Brian Thomas is going to
Speaker 1: command a lot of targets, but Jaguar's paid a lot
Speaker 1: of draft capital to move up to select Hunter. And
Speaker 1: you know we're talking about I think Liam Cohen said
Speaker 1: that eighty percent of his practices we're going to be
Speaker 1: spent on offense. I don't know if that means eighty
Speaker 1: percent of the snaps he's gonna play. That'd be a
Speaker 1: really high rate, especially if he's playing defense. So I'd
Speaker 1: definitely be down on that or down for that, I
Speaker 1: should say. The thing with Hunter is though, like I
Speaker 1: don't know what this guy is capable of and not
Speaker 1: in equal parts, but that scares me, and it also
Speaker 1: excites me of having this guy in my team as
Speaker 1: my third wide receiver or if I go heavy wide
Speaker 1: receiver early on hav him like my fourth wide receiver.
Speaker 1: Travis Hunter is your four. There's a non zero chance
Speaker 1: that this guy is a top fifteen guy this year.
Speaker 1: And I know you have to be bullish on Liam Cohen,
Speaker 1: you have to be bullish on Trevor Lawrence, and that
Speaker 1: hasn't really worked out in the past. Being bullish on
Speaker 1: Trevor Lawrence. But at the same time, you have to
Speaker 1: recognize the upside, and there's a ton of it with
Speaker 1: Travis Hunter as long as he stays in the mid
Speaker 1: sixth round FFPC Drafters. I think he's a player that
Speaker 1: you need to seriously look at. Who you know, who's
Speaker 1: more exciting there, Travis Hunter or Jerry Judy. Travis Hunter
Speaker 1: is a Flowers Travis Hunter or Rashie Rice who could
Speaker 1: be facing a you know, a suspension of you know,
Speaker 1: nearly half the season. It's Travis Hunter for me. Now
Speaker 1: you want to get into a Mecca Agbuka, You want
Speaker 1: to get into Ricky Pearsall. Okay, I get why there's
Speaker 1: excitement there, and maybe you'd rather have Pearsall, who's probably
Speaker 1: going to go into the season as the unquestioned number
Speaker 1: one wide receiver for the San Francisco forty nine ers.
Speaker 1: I get why you'd take Piersoll over a Hunter. I
Speaker 1: get why you take Aggbuca for Tampa. You know, coming
Speaker 1: off the season that Tampa did last year, and now
Speaker 1: you know the running out of warm bodies in Central
Speaker 1: Florida right now, So ag Buka could be the featured
Speaker 1: guy on a lot of passing routes. We've heard nothing
Speaker 1: but good things about Agbuka so far this season, so
Speaker 1: I think that's so far this preseason, so I think
Speaker 1: that that's a fine pick if you want to take
Speaker 1: him over Hunter. I still would rather have a Hunter
Speaker 1: over Agbuka, but I will admit that it is getting
Speaker 1: closer to me taking pulling the trigger with Agbuka over
Speaker 1: Travis Hunter Junior. Right, Yeah, Aguka over Travis Hunter. Okay.
Speaker 1: The scare for Lamar Jackson seems to be just that,
Speaker 1: a scare and nothing else. He had X rays on
Speaker 1: his foot that came back earlier this afternoon. Lamar Jackson's
Speaker 1: foot has no damage. According to those x rays. The
Speaker 1: foot after being stepped on in practice yesterday, is a
Speaker 1: little sore, but he's fine. He didn't practice today and
Speaker 1: it sounds like he's gonna be fine. So anybody who
Speaker 1: was worried about Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen, if you
Speaker 1: were saying, oh, you know, I don't know about Jackson's foot,
Speaker 1: I'm gonnake Josh Allen instead. That's fine if you still
Speaker 1: want to do that, But I think it's to me
Speaker 1: this I hesitate to use the word nothing Burger. But
Speaker 1: I do think ultimately this is just a blip on
Speaker 1: the radar the leagues I have Lamar Jackson in I
Speaker 1: feel good leagues that I have not drafted yet. I'd
Speaker 1: feel fine taking him as the first quarterback off the board.
Speaker 1: Isaiah Bond. This is interesting. So Mary Kay Cabot from
Speaker 1: the Cleveland Playing Dealer, I think she's still with the CPD.
Speaker 1: I could be wrong about that, is reporting that Isaiah
Speaker 1: Bond is going to be playing in the third preseason
Speaker 1: game against the Los Angeles Rams. He has practiced three
Speaker 1: times and already we're finding out that this dude is
Speaker 1: playing in a real life NFL preseason game for Cleveland.
Speaker 1: I can't believe he is anywhere close to mastering the offense.
Speaker 1: I can't believe there's any kind of chemistry going on
Speaker 1: with Isaiah Bond and presumed Week one starter Joe Flacco. Well,
Speaker 1: not presumed, it was announced that he's going to be
Speaker 1: the starter for Week one. I'm not going to get
Speaker 1: down with Isaiah Bond in redraft leagues dynasty. Okay, see
Speaker 1: what can happen. But this is a guy who's going
Speaker 1: to be coming off on a slow start, not only
Speaker 1: because he's a rookie, but because he missed all this time,
Speaker 1: so I think you can look elsewhere and focus in
Speaker 1: on Jerry Judy and Harold Fannin and David and Joku
Speaker 1: Cedric Tillman, for God's sake, over Isaiah Bond. I would
Speaker 1: rather have Bond than Deontay Johnson for what it's worth.
Speaker 1: But that's the whole mystery box thing that I would
Speaker 1: tell you that you need to be paying attention to
Speaker 1: Deontay Johnson is I wouldn't say probably not making the team,
Speaker 1: but it's like a fifty to fifty shot at this point.
Speaker 1: Dan Quinn. We'll get into more commander's talk later on,
Speaker 1: but I do want to mention this, John conn reporting
Speaker 1: this that as the commander said, Coach dan Quinn says,
Speaker 1: he quote sees the ascension taking place with Jalen Lane.
Speaker 1: I know there are a lot of pundents out there
Speaker 1: that were on Jalen Lane after the NFL Draft when
Speaker 1: he landed excuse me, with the Commanders. He was a
Speaker 1: fourth round pick this year, Day three, early day three pick,
Speaker 1: and apparently he is responding very well to the coaching.
Speaker 1: He's getting there and at some point could be the
Speaker 1: number three receiver or maybe higher. If Terry McLaurin doesn't
Speaker 1: get into camp at this point, you gotta stash him
Speaker 1: in dynasty just to see what happens. You want to
Speaker 1: take him at the in Best Ball Drafts, a twenty
Speaker 1: eight round Best Ball Drafts. I can get down with that.
Speaker 1: I still think he's a borderline redraft pick right now.
Speaker 1: Noah Brown right now is hurt or actually I shouldn't
Speaker 1: say hurt. He's close to returning. We don't know exactly
Speaker 1: what's going on with him, but we will find out
Speaker 1: here shortly. Here's another thing that I think is important
Speaker 1: to understand. Dana Rassini brought this up for the athletic
Speaker 1: We have cutdown day coming up. In the NFL, We're
Speaker 1: honestly going to be paying very close attention to what
Speaker 1: players make the team and what players don't make the team.
Speaker 1: Maybe not so much at receiver and tight end and quarterback,
Speaker 1: but definitely at running back because this is where things
Speaker 1: can change quite a bit. With one signing. The Saints,
Speaker 1: the Browns and the Chiefs are among the teams making
Speaker 1: calls trying to acquire rushers. The Browns, we don't know
Speaker 1: what's going on with Quinn Shawn Jenkins, He's no higher
Speaker 1: than a tenth round pick for me, so I'm probably
Speaker 1: not going to get him in a lot of spots.
Speaker 1: I just don't know what is going to happen with him.
Speaker 1: Maybe doesn't sign a deal at all, and him and
Speaker 1: the Browns can't come to any kind of agreement. I
Speaker 1: think that you have to understand that he's a rookie
Speaker 1: and it was always going to be It was never
Speaker 1: going to be a fast learning curve with him either.
Speaker 1: So when you have a situation with Quinchun Judkins coming
Speaker 1: into a backfield that already has dron Ford, that already
Speaker 1: has Dylan Simpson, Dylan Samson, excuse me, this is not
Speaker 1: ideal for him to all of a sudden take the
Speaker 1: reins after he missed all this time and become a
Speaker 1: low end running back too. So I think I'm out
Speaker 1: on him. Russini is saying that the Saints, the Browns,
Speaker 1: and the Chiefs are among the teams trying to acquire
Speaker 1: running backs. Here. The Chiefs have Pachecko, the Saints have Kamara,
Speaker 1: but really nothing behind them. I know the Chiefs have
Speaker 1: a ton of bodies behind Pachecko, but I don't know
Speaker 1: if any of those guys are a dude. Maybe Brichard Smith,
Speaker 1: maybe not Devin Neil. To me is it was more
Speaker 1: I don't think he's all that athletically town and maybe
Speaker 1: he's a good football player. He missed two weeks of
Speaker 1: camp as well, and he's fighting for the backup role
Speaker 1: with Kendra Miller. Here's what I want you to understand,
Speaker 1: and this goes for any of you drafting Jamonte Williams,
Speaker 1: drafting Jayden Blue, drafting Miles Sanders in Dallas, and there's
Speaker 1: some other running back situations that we could make mention
Speaker 1: of this. Just because a player makes a team doesn't
Speaker 1: necessarily mean that his standing on the depth chart is safe.
Speaker 1: After cutdown day, Brian Robinson, in my estimation, probably not
Speaker 1: gonna be on the Commanders for Week one of the season.
Speaker 1: And I think that might be a safe bet right now.
Speaker 1: And if that is the case, where's he gonna go?
Speaker 1: Is he gonna go to Kansas City to disrupt things
Speaker 1: with Pacheco, with Brishard Smith, Elijah Mitchell, all those other
Speaker 1: guys there. Is he gonna go to New Orleans to
Speaker 1: maybe be a between the tackles banger to go with
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara being sort of a very experienced and very
Speaker 1: you know, a rich Man satellite back. It's possibility as
Speaker 1: well the Cowboys, you know, all of a sudden, that
Speaker 1: makes at least two of those guys not draftable, right
Speaker 1: if Brian Robinson goes to Dallas. So I think we
Speaker 1: have to understand you draft in the moment you draft
Speaker 1: for today, understanding that you have to have caveats with
Speaker 1: a lot of these running backs. If you wait, you
Speaker 1: go zero RB. Hey, that's cool, but you better go
Speaker 1: heavy on these players in the middle of draft because
Speaker 1: their value, their role is a lot more volatile than
Speaker 1: somebody you'd see in the first three rounds. You don't
Speaker 1: need to watch the show for me to understand that point.
Speaker 1: You already know that point. I'm just bringing it up
Speaker 1: once again here that these backfields are still going to
Speaker 1: be fluid even after the preseason ends, even after cutdown
Speaker 1: day comes. So something to keep in mind as well.
Speaker 1: We did and I'll go back to Tampa here. I
Speaker 1: know I was talking about Aguca earlier. We got some
Speaker 1: pretty good news in my opinion from Greg Alman, who
Speaker 1: covers the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Todd Bowles told the media
Speaker 1: today that Tristan Worse, despite his knee injury, he's going
Speaker 1: to open the season on the fifty three man roster. Now,
Speaker 1: that doesn't necessarily similar to what they're saying about Chris
Speaker 1: Godwin too, doesn't necessarily mean they're playing in September. In fact,
Speaker 1: I think it's a virtual guarantee that while Worf's and
Speaker 1: Godwin are going to be on the fifty three man,
Speaker 1: I don't think that they're going to play week one.
Speaker 1: I think Godwin is still not going to play until October.
Speaker 1: But they're leaving these guys on the roster so they
Speaker 1: can practice with the team if they are ready. And
Speaker 1: is week four unrealistic, I don't think so. Week three
Speaker 1: maybe unrealistic. The Tristan Worf's thing, I think is so
Speaker 1: important because and Evan Silva has been driving this thing
Speaker 1: home all off season ever since Worf's got that knee injury.
Speaker 1: You don't have a super talented swing tackle on Tampa
Speaker 1: to come in, so Baker Manfield has just as much
Speaker 1: time as he did last year to find Evans and
Speaker 1: Godwin down the field. Kaye Otten too, you have like
Speaker 1: probably below level replacement or replacement level at best tackle
Speaker 1: coming in there, and that can really change your offense.
Speaker 1: We already thought, or at least I did, thought, that
Speaker 1: there's gonna be some significant regression coming for the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: offense this year, and I'm not backing off that I
Speaker 1: think it will happen. But the earlier they can get
Speaker 1: Worfs in there, the better. And as soon as he
Speaker 1: comes in and makes his appearance, I'm gonna feel much
Speaker 1: more warm and fuzzy about that entire Buccaneers offense, Bucky
Speaker 1: Irving included, than when he was not in there. Wurfs
Speaker 1: makes a big difference in that Tampa offensive line. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Houston. Djb Enemy, who covers the Texans for ESPN,
Speaker 1: has reported that rookie Jaden Higgins, first second round NFL
Speaker 1: draft pick I believe in league history to get a
Speaker 1: fully guaranteed deal, is rotating with Xavier Hutchinson on the
Speaker 1: outside when the Texans go to three wide receiver sets.
Speaker 1: So for any of you who thought that, hey, this
Speaker 1: is gonna be great, this is a tailor made situation
Speaker 1: for Jade Higgins to be the wide receiver opposite Nico Collins,
Speaker 1: I think I'm gonna have to borrow a line from
Speaker 1: Steve Harvey and say slower role player on that Higgins
Speaker 1: was the starter on the depth chart for a good
Speaker 1: portion of training camp. I don't know if it was
Speaker 1: all a training camp, but apparently Xavier Hutchinson has made
Speaker 1: enough plays and done enough that he is gonna be
Speaker 1: forcing a time tare at least early on in the season. Listen,
Speaker 1: Hutchinson is no threat to Higgins long term, at least
Speaker 1: I don't think so in Houston, so I think more
Speaker 1: often than not, you're gonna see Higgins out there. However,
Speaker 1: it's to understand that we can't just take for granted
Speaker 1: that Higgins is going to be out there a bunch.
Speaker 1: The guy I think that I'm more intrigued with over
Speaker 1: the last two weeks in drafts in Houston than I
Speaker 1: was earlier. It's probably Christian Kirk, a guy who is
Speaker 1: going to be cut by the Jaguars till the Texans
Speaker 1: reached out with a seventh round pick to acquire his services,
Speaker 1: and he'll probably be playing in the slot. I think
Speaker 1: Collins and Kirk are going to catch a boatload of
Speaker 1: passes this year. I know Collins is and Kirk probably
Speaker 1: will too. I think Higgins and Jalen Nole they're going
Speaker 1: to be worked in, and obviously Xavier Hutchinson as well.
Speaker 1: This is a situation where it's rookie receivers non first
Speaker 1: round rookie receivers, and it takes a little bit, and
Speaker 1: I think we're seeing that right now as we get
Speaker 1: closer and closer to the season. Two weeks away from
Speaker 1: the season, you can't count on Higgins as a wide
Speaker 1: receiver for right now, and certainly if I'm drafting him,
Speaker 1: I would be prepared not to start him at all
Speaker 1: until the bye weeks start coming in and then I'm
Speaker 1: forced to play play Higgins. So that's the situation in
Speaker 1: Houston right now. Again, I'm really bullish on Christian Kirk,
Speaker 1: and now, you know, letting Jayden Higgins slip down my
Speaker 1: board a little bit. I'll tell you right now as
Speaker 1: far as their ADP, according to Fantasy Mojo, Jayde Higgins
Speaker 1: has dropped to wide receiver fifty one. He is at
Speaker 1: the ten to eleven turn right now. And guess who's
Speaker 1: at wide receiver fifty three just beyond that ten eleven
Speaker 1: turn one, Christian Kirk. I do expect with this news
Speaker 1: coming out earlier this afternoon in Big Gorilla Drafts today.
Speaker 1: Big Gorilla Draft's main event drafts going on in the
Speaker 1: FFPC over the weekend. I do expect those guys to
Speaker 1: flip and Kirk will soon be going ahead of Jayden
Speaker 1: Higgins going forward. Speaking of wide receivers, let's go to Minnesota.
Speaker 1: Kevin Seaffert, who covers I believe the NFC North for
Speaker 1: ESPN dot Com former Vikings report. I don't think he
Speaker 1: covers just the Vikings. I think he covers the whole division.
Speaker 1: Don't quote me on that. Jordan Addison and rookie out
Speaker 1: of Maryland ty Felton are going to no issues going
Speaker 1: forward after they both had arm injuries in practice yesterday.
Speaker 1: It could have been an arm injury, it could have
Speaker 1: been a hand injury. Seefert didn't know nobody when they
Speaker 1: left practice. They never came back to it. The Vikings
Speaker 1: avoid a significant injury, it appears with Jordan Addison, but
Speaker 1: remember he's still missing the first three games of the season.
Speaker 1: Jalen Naylor is currently week to week with a hand injury,
Speaker 1: and certainly it felt and the more he can get
Speaker 1: out there, the better off he's going to be. When
Speaker 1: it comes to getting fantasy value early on in the
Speaker 1: season when Addison is out, justin Jefferson is going to
Speaker 1: get a ton of targets over the first three weeks,
Speaker 1: and then Addison will come in. Here's why I'm not
Speaker 1: fading Addison, and I think that you've heard this from
Speaker 1: a lot of people. That makes perfect sense. He's wide
Speaker 1: receiver forty two at the eight oh six. Now he
Speaker 1: has slipped a little bit since the suspension, but at
Speaker 1: the same time, thought where he was going in drafts.
Speaker 1: People were just presuming that he was going to be suspended.
Speaker 1: Jordan Adison is not the forty second best receiver you
Speaker 1: want to have this year. He should be going higher
Speaker 1: than that. He should be going higher than guys like
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuel much rather of Addison over Samuel. You can
Speaker 1: make the case that Addison is a better acquisition than
Speaker 1: Jacoby Myers, and some of these other running backs are
Speaker 1: going ahead of them. I know there's a lot of
Speaker 1: Jordan Mason love out there, but I think you can
Speaker 1: make the case that Adison's better. Now we're getting the
Speaker 1: team construction of who's better for your team. Certain cases
Speaker 1: of the Addison, certain cases it would be Mason, But
Speaker 1: Jordan Addison, I think Scott Barrett from Fantasy Points pointed
Speaker 1: out that he is like something ungodly over his first
Speaker 1: two seasons in the league or three secondt remember how
Speaker 1: any seasons he's played now, but he's like top twelve
Speaker 1: in those three seasons in end zone targets, not red
Speaker 1: zone targets, end zone targets. This guy has a nose
Speaker 1: for the end zone and he's scoring. It's not like
Speaker 1: he's dropping these passes and they're landing and complete. He's
Speaker 1: scoring a bunch. I know touchdowns are usually not a
Speaker 1: sticky stat but we've got three years of sample with
Speaker 1: Jordan Addison and it certainly seems that he is finding
Speaker 1: himself open in the end zone and his quarterbacks are
Speaker 1: taking advantage of it. So I'm in on Jordan Adison.
Speaker 1: I continue to be in on him even with the suspension.
Speaker 1: The first three weeks of the year are probably the
Speaker 1: easiest weeks to find replacements on your bench for injured
Speaker 1: guys or suspended guys. Right, I mean, nobody's on by
Speaker 1: everybody is coming into the season. I shouldn't say everybody.
Speaker 1: Most people are coming into the season healthy, So you
Speaker 1: shouldn't have to worry about anything like that, I think,
Speaker 1: And this goes back to the whole JJ McCarthy thing, like,
Speaker 1: if you're a believer in McCarthy, then yeah, you're going
Speaker 1: to be in on Jefferson, You're gonna be in on Hockinson,
Speaker 1: You're gonna be in Addison Mason, Aaron Jones, all these guys.
Speaker 1: And I am a believer in JJ McCarthy. I think
Speaker 1: this guy is going to have several top twelve weeks
Speaker 1: this year. I've been drafting him, probably not enough. It
Speaker 1: was weird because back in March, April and then May,
Speaker 1: I guess when we didn't know what was going on
Speaker 1: with Aaron Rodgers, and we didn't know if he I
Speaker 1: think he wanted to go to Minnesota, but I don't
Speaker 1: think Minnesota wanted him, but we didn't know that as
Speaker 1: fantasy drafters like we still had it allowed for the
Speaker 1: possibility that Rogers could still be going there. So McCarthy
Speaker 1: was like quarterback twenty nine, quarterback thirty thirty one, sometimes
Speaker 1: not even a top thirty two quarterback in Best Ball drafts, right,
Speaker 1: and then he slowly made his way up. And then
Speaker 1: when Rogers went to the Steelers. He really solidified himself
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of excitement going on with JJ McCarthy.
Speaker 1: He went up to you know, quarterback thirteen, quarterback fourteen,
Speaker 1: which I think was too high. Now he settled in
Speaker 1: as like quarterback seventeen, quarterback eighteen. That's a good price
Speaker 1: for McCarthy there, and I'd gladly pay that for sure.
Speaker 1: We talked about Pearce all earlier joining him on that.
Speaker 1: That Sanmancisco forty nine Ers receiver room. Sky Moore has
Speaker 1: been traded from the Kansas City Chiefs to the San
Speaker 1: Francisco forty nine Ers. Sixth and seventh round picks in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty seven are swapped. Remember between the Niners in Chiefs,
Speaker 1: excuse me, he was a second round pick in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty two and never really developed in Kansas City. Forty
Speaker 1: three catches four or ninety four yards and a touchdown
Speaker 1: over his first two seasons. He had three targets last season,
Speaker 1: did not capture a catch on any of them. He
Speaker 1: is a returner. In this past week he almost returned
Speaker 1: to punt for a touchdown, and the forty nine Ers
Speaker 1: are really beat up at receiver as well. You know,
Speaker 1: with Juwan Jennings Calf, Yea Brandon and I you coming
Speaker 1: off the ACL You're looking at DeMarcus Robinson being suspended.
Speaker 1: Jacob Cowing I think was hurt, but I think he's
Speaker 1: back now. And you never know with DJ Moore for me,
Speaker 1: best ball, but he's not He's not going to be
Speaker 1: a redraft player for me at all. Let's go to
Speaker 1: our nation's capital here. I've avoided it as long as
Speaker 1: we could. We cannot avoid it anymore. Terry McLaurin reportedly,
Speaker 1: according to the athletics Nikki Javala, he asked for more
Speaker 1: money than Dk Metcalf got with Pittsburgh. As a reminder,
Speaker 1: Metcalf four years, one hundred and thirty two million on
Speaker 1: the extension, but he's younger than McLaurin, and the Steelers
Speaker 1: actually gave up a second round pick for the right
Speaker 1: to sign Metcalf to that deal. The contract that I
Speaker 1: think the Commanders are trying to shift the focus to
Speaker 1: for Terry McLaurin and his management team is Courtland Sutton's
Speaker 1: four years ninety two million. That is thirty three million
Speaker 1: for Metcalf per year. That is twenty three million for
Speaker 1: Sutton per year now I would imagine that McLaurin is
Speaker 1: he understands that he's going to be getting something between
Speaker 1: these two, and I think the Commanders understand that as well.
Speaker 1: But he wants more of the Metcalf side. I'm sure
Speaker 1: the Commanders want Pam Moore the Sutton side. This has
Speaker 1: dragged on quite a while. And I know that he's healthy,
Speaker 1: and I know that he has one of the most
Speaker 1: talented quarterbacks in the NFL throwing to him. I know
Speaker 1: he goes back to a team that went to the
Speaker 1: NFC Championship Game last year, but this is a guy
Speaker 1: throw all the contract stuff out. I just imagine that
Speaker 1: there's gonna be negative regression coming for him anyway this season.
Speaker 1: With all the touchdowns he caught last year, the touchdown
Speaker 1: rate was obscenely high. And it's not like this guy is,
Speaker 1: you know, twenty four to twenty five years old coming
Speaker 1: into his prime. He's thirty years old. This is a
Speaker 1: guy you could make the argument his best football might
Speaker 1: be behind him now he does. When he comes back,
Speaker 1: he will join a team that features Deebo, Samuel Jalen Lane,
Speaker 1: Noah Brown, zach Ertz, Austin Eckler, Cory Krossky Merrick. These
Speaker 1: are the other pass catchers. So yeah, I get it
Speaker 1: that he's stepping into a good situation, but man, the age,
Speaker 1: the touchdown regression, and the fact that he's missed basically
Speaker 1: all of camp, these are all reasons not to draft
Speaker 1: Terry McLaurin, who has fallen and drafts to wide receiver
Speaker 1: twenty four at the five oh three. Some of the
Speaker 1: wide receivers going after him that I'd rather have. George
Speaker 1: Pickens I'd rather have than Terry McLaurin, Calvin Ridley I'd
Speaker 1: rather have than Terry McLaurin, Jamison Williams I'd rather have
Speaker 1: over Terry McLaurin, the Vonta Smith I'd rather have over McLaurin.
Speaker 1: And quite frankly, this may sound crazy, maybe it's not crazy.
Speaker 1: Maybe you agree. I think I'd rather have Eg Buka
Speaker 1: over Terry McLaurin the way it's going right now, you
Speaker 1: get into that agg Buka, Travis Hunter, Jalen Waddle, Ricky
Speaker 1: piersall area, I think you really have to look long
Speaker 1: and hard before you push the click button on Terry McLaurin.
Speaker 1: This year. There these red flags have been around for
Speaker 1: a while and he's only added more red flags throughout
Speaker 1: the season. So I'm definitely down on F one and
Speaker 1: I'm letting somebody else draft McLaurin this year. Buka I mentioned,
Speaker 1: I'll just bring this up briefly because I kind of
Speaker 1: talked about it already Rick Stroud for the Tampa Bay Times,
Speaker 1: so that Jalen McMillan was gonna go on injured reserve.
Speaker 1: He could be out past the Week nine by for
Speaker 1: Tampa this year. And consider this. The comment from Todd
Speaker 1: Bowles regarding Jalen McMillan was, and I'm paraphrasing a little bit,
Speaker 1: but I'm getting the gist of it. Bulls did not
Speaker 1: think it was career threatening. This is a neck injury.
Speaker 1: It's dangerous. I just read a fantastic story on ESPN
Speaker 1: dot com today about two high school players fifty years
Speaker 1: apart who ended up dying from neck injuries that they
Speaker 1: suffered on the football field. It was credibly It's making
Speaker 1: me rethink letting my Sun flight football. Quite frankly, neck
Speaker 1: injuries and football are nothing to mess around with. So
Speaker 1: Jalen McMillan, you're not drafting him anywhere. You're not drafted
Speaker 1: him in basketball you're not drafted him in redraft. Chris Godwin.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's back by week four, but I wonder what
Speaker 1: version of Chris Godwin we're going to see. And Mecca Aguka.
Speaker 1: I you know, if it wasn't for Krosskey Merit, there
Speaker 1: would be no bigger, stronger, faster hype train for any
Speaker 1: rookie this season than a Mecca Agbuka. We heard from
Speaker 1: the get go that this guy was polished. This is
Speaker 1: before he got drafted by Tampa. This guy was polished.
Speaker 1: He was NFL ready. He is the all time leading
Speaker 1: receiver in Ohio state history. Think about that. So he
Speaker 1: goes to Tampa, who you know, we don't know how
Speaker 1: much longer Mike Evans is going to be there. Mike
Speaker 1: Evans almost alluding to like maybe this is going to
Speaker 1: be his last year. Chris Godwin, we don't know if
Speaker 1: he's ever going to be the same after that devastating
Speaker 1: ankle injury that in a Week seven last year and
Speaker 1: he had to have another surgery on it this s offseason.
Speaker 1: He's still not practicing. This wheels up for eg Buka.
Speaker 1: Baker Mayfield opened a press conference about a month or
Speaker 1: so ago, unprompted just started talking about how great it's
Speaker 1: been having a mechag Buka, how awesome he is, what
Speaker 1: a great pro is going to be. Nobody asked him,
Speaker 1: just started talking about him. And when that's the you know,
Speaker 1: this is stuff we have to be paying attention to.
Speaker 1: Eg Buka. And I can't remember who said this. I
Speaker 1: don't think it was a beat writer. It could have
Speaker 1: been somebody else, but somebody said somebody And I'm not
Speaker 1: just spitballing here. This is somebody of reference. I listened
Speaker 1: to too many podcasts, I read too much stuff, so
Speaker 1: I can't cite everything readily. But we could be seeing
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson season from meg Buka this year, and I
Speaker 1: don't know if we'll see that. We probably won't, but
Speaker 1: it's wheels up, man, and the price is getting higher.
Speaker 1: You want to draft Agbuka. By the end of this weekend,
Speaker 1: he's probably gonna be going in the late fifth round
Speaker 1: as opposed to early sixth round where he's going right now.
Speaker 1: So that's the latest on Tampa. Here's one that I
Speaker 1: haven't quite frankly made up my mind about yet, and
Speaker 1: it's important because this guy could be the number one
Speaker 1: overall running back this year, or he could be a
Speaker 1: massive bust, and it's Devon a chance. I had no
Speaker 1: problem taking this guy in the late first, early second round,
Speaker 1: and I have a little pause in clicking that button now.
Speaker 1: Yesterday morning, Adam Levitan posted this from Established to Run.
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel, the head coach for Miami, said that ah
Speaker 1: Chan's absence from practice was preventative. He is not supposed
Speaker 1: or he's expected not to practice. Haven't looked at the
Speaker 1: practice reports today, but he was not expected to practice
Speaker 1: the rest of the week. And this is a player
Speaker 1: that is going to be handled with kid gloves up
Speaker 1: until the start of the NFL season Week one, which
Speaker 1: is coming up in a couple of weeks against the Colts.
Speaker 1: McDaniel said, quote, calves are the ones that you have
Speaker 1: to be super proactive, especially with explosive players, he said,
Speaker 1: end quote. He said that NFL traders have given him
Speaker 1: and told him horror stories of players coming back too
Speaker 1: soon from calf injuries and then either reaggravating the injury
Speaker 1: or blowing out their achilles. Both would be awful, absolutely off.
Speaker 1: Can you imagine Devon h I don't want to say
Speaker 1: it because that would be horrible for fantasy be horrible
Speaker 1: for a champ. Now, Jalen Wright has been less than
Speaker 1: underwhelming so far, like thirteen carries or sixteen yards or
Speaker 1: something like that. In preseason, it's been terrible. Ali Gordon
Speaker 1: has actually looked pretty good, But I think Ali Gordon
Speaker 1: is obviously a limited guy when it comes to athleticism
Speaker 1: and certainly not the prototypical Mike McDaniel back. The other
Speaker 1: thing that we have to consider here is you don't
Speaker 1: have to be a a casual even a casual football
Speaker 1: fan to see what's going on in Miami is to
Speaker 1: create like the Tyreek kill stuff. He could be washed,
Speaker 1: he could be showing he's already is showing signs of
Speaker 1: decline and it doesn't sound like him into a tongue
Speaker 1: of by loa are on the same page the Miami
Speaker 1: I mean, they could just be a train wreck before
Speaker 1: October or even early October. And if that's the case,
Speaker 1: do you really want the running back on that team
Speaker 1: when he's dealing with a calf? Is the path to
Speaker 1: winning a million bucks going to go through Miami and
Speaker 1: devon a chan This is what we have to talk about.
Speaker 1: Because there was a non zero chance that he would
Speaker 1: catch a hundred balls this year dependent upon you know
Speaker 1: how the Miami what version of the Miami offense. We're
Speaker 1: going to see what we saw last year when they
Speaker 1: wanted to keep tongue by loa upright, was an offense
Speaker 1: that centered on targets to jan new Smith and targets
Speaker 1: to Devon a Chan and they crushed it. So the
Speaker 1: thing is with a Chan, you have to place your bet.
Speaker 1: Are you still placing your bet in the early second
Speaker 1: round with Devon ah Chan? That's where he's going right now.
Speaker 1: Over the last two days in the FFPC, Big Gorilla
Speaker 1: two oh five slipped a little bit, still gone as
Speaker 1: high as the one to twelve, so some people are
Speaker 1: still taking him as a first round pick. He has
Speaker 1: slipped behind Ashton genty. He's now behind Derrick Henry as well,
Speaker 1: and quite frankly, it would not surprise me at all
Speaker 1: when we look at this Big Gorilla data from Fantasy
Speaker 1: Mojo on Monday would not surprise me at all. If
Speaker 1: Devon ah Chan goes from running back seven to running
Speaker 1: back ten, with Chase Brown, Bucky Irving and Jonathan Taylor
Speaker 1: moving ahead of I think you can make a case
Speaker 1: there are gonna be certain people out there that would
Speaker 1: rather have the quote unquote safety of Josh Jacobs rather
Speaker 1: than the volatility of Devon ah Chien. Do we have
Speaker 1: the same concerns about the Packers offense putting up points
Speaker 1: and moving the ball that we do in Miami? Probably not. Now.
Speaker 1: I think I'd rather have a Chan than Jacobs, But
Speaker 1: the point remains that it depends a type of fantasy
Speaker 1: player you are. But a Chan is not trending in
Speaker 1: the right direction now, and I think I think I
Speaker 1: will probably let some other people take him rather than
Speaker 1: me grabbing him going forward. Let's get back to it.
Speaker 1: We've avoided Jacoory Crosskey Merritt for so long. We're an
Speaker 1: hour into the show, we haven't I mean I mentioned
Speaker 1: him a little bit, but not a ton. Commanders running
Speaker 1: back Brian Robinson is not expected to play for the
Speaker 1: Commanders in twenty twenty five. This according to one Ian
Speaker 1: wrap up port. Okay, we already saw on Monday night
Speaker 1: against the Bengals that it was a mutual decision to
Speaker 1: hold him out to I don't know, maintain what trade
Speaker 1: value he has. Ian rap said that the Commanders might
Speaker 1: even take on salary to trade and trade him. So
Speaker 1: you can get a draft pick in return. He's twenty
Speaker 1: six years old. He hit escalators in his contract over
Speaker 1: the last few years, to the point where Washington likes
Speaker 1: their cheaper options behind him rather than keeping Robinson on
Speaker 1: his team. He's gonna be entering his fourth year in
Speaker 1: the NFL and the Commanders are shopping him around. I
Speaker 1: don't expect the Commanders to trade Ryan Robinson. I don't
Speaker 1: think that happens. I could be wrong. Jerry Jones is
Speaker 1: capable of anything, or I don't know. I don't know
Speaker 1: what he's capable of, quite frankly, but when it comes
Speaker 1: to Robinson, he could really muck things up in Dallas,
Speaker 1: Kansas City, New Orleans. We mentioned this earlier, Cleveland, quite frankly.
Speaker 1: Houston maybe maybe not. I don't know, but this Jakoori,
Speaker 1: Krossky Merrit, I think this is This is what people
Speaker 1: everybody's and their mother is talking about right now. Krosskey
Speaker 1: Merritt is a seventh round pick who barely played last
Speaker 1: year because of some NCAA A not violations, but he
Speaker 1: and the ncaa A had differing views of how eligible
Speaker 1: he should have been for college football last year. There
Speaker 1: has been nothing but glowing reports on him all training camp. Uh.
Speaker 1: He has done nothing but impress in every single Washington
Speaker 1: preseason game and as a result, has moved up in
Speaker 1: drafts to the eight oh seven in f FPC big
Speaker 1: Gerrilla drafts, eight oh seven is where Krosskey Merritt has
Speaker 1: ascended to. That is that puts him ahead on ADP,
Speaker 1: ahead of Zach Charboney. He's moved ahead of JK. Dobbins.
Speaker 1: He is now being drafted higher than traves Etn. He
Speaker 1: has moved the head of Joe Mixon, Cam Skataboo, Braylen, Allen,
Speaker 1: Jaden Blue, all these players Krossky Merritt is going in
Speaker 1: front of. I was commissioning an FFPC Big Gorilla draft
Speaker 1: a couple of nights ago, and Krossky Merritt went at
Speaker 1: the three to eleven. Now, granted the guy who made
Speaker 1: that pick it was an auto pick, and he asked
Speaker 1: me to stop the draft. So I thought, you know
Speaker 1: that something went haywire with his internet or something, and
Speaker 1: finally said, you know what, my dogs were attacking the
Speaker 1: mail man. I had to get out there. I was
Speaker 1: going to take Krosskey Merritt anyway, I just end up
Speaker 1: grabbing him a little bit earlier. Let's let's keep rolling.
Speaker 1: I said, okay, we kept rolling. So he went at
Speaker 1: the three eleven. And you say, Balky, that's crazy. Well,
Speaker 1: bear in mind later on that same day, Krossky Merritt
Speaker 1: went in the fourth round of a big gorilla And
Speaker 1: I want to play Devil's advocate because I think a
Speaker 1: lot of people. You're looking at me, you're listening to me,
Speaker 1: and you're saying this is crazy. Who would take krossky
Speaker 1: Merrit that high? Allow me to tell you that Austin
Speaker 1: Eckler is not a young running back. Chris Rodriguez has
Speaker 1: had multiple times to get this a significant chunk of
Speaker 1: this of this commander's backfield, and he hasn't taken advantage.
Speaker 1: Krossky Merritt is the unknown, He's the mystery box, and
Speaker 1: he steps into a situation that is wide open for opportunity,
Speaker 1: ripe for opportunity, with a team that was one game
Speaker 1: away from the Super Bowl last year, and no obviously
Speaker 1: he has Super Bowl aspirations this year. An offense led
Speaker 1: by an MVP candidate, the reigning Rookie of the Year
Speaker 1: who looks to be an absolute stud in years to come.
Speaker 1: It's only been one year, but Jade Daniels has looked
Speaker 1: the part. Isn't there something to be said if krossky
Speaker 1: Merritt does turn in not necessarily to the Bellcow, but
Speaker 1: the one A or even the one B in this offense?
Speaker 1: Is he not explosive enough? Is he not talented enough?
Speaker 1: Is he not athletic enough for at least to intrigue
Speaker 1: us that, Hey, maybe this guy could be the definition
Speaker 1: of a league winner this year. That's the argument I'm
Speaker 1: gonna make for krossky Merrit. It's not an argument I
Speaker 1: subscribe to. And I certainly understand people when they say
Speaker 1: that they love them, they want them on their team
Speaker 1: this year, so I will avoid him. I'd rather have
Speaker 1: all those guys I mentioned Dobbin's etn Charbone not Mixing.
Speaker 1: I think I'd rather have krossky Merrit than Mixing. Mixing
Speaker 1: is just do not draft for me at this point.
Speaker 1: But I'd rather have all those other guys than krossky
Speaker 1: Merrit at this point. And listen all the advice that
Speaker 1: we talk about on this on this show, all my
Speaker 1: shows every week, it all comes down to what type
Speaker 1: of fantasy player you are. Some people love taking big
Speaker 1: risks because they love hitting those home runs. Some people
Speaker 1: like swinging for doubles or singles and just cobbling a
Speaker 1: team together. For that, you do need some mixture, and
Speaker 1: you can't just have all doubles. You can't have all
Speaker 1: home runs and strikeouts. You gotta have a nice bounce
Speaker 1: of high floor and high ceiling players. This guy definitely
Speaker 1: is a high ceiling player. I think he's not likely
Speaker 1: to hit that ceiling, but I understand the reasoning on
Speaker 1: why people think that he might and why he's worth
Speaker 1: a pick in the mid eighth round, and quite funkly
Speaker 1: that could go up as the weekend and drafting season
Speaker 1: goes on, of which we only have two weeks left.
Speaker 1: I want to go back down to Houston and this
Speaker 1: will you guys are like this because I actually just
Speaker 1: just drafted this player. I was talked into him, and
Speaker 1: you guys can be the judge of whether this was
Speaker 1: the right call or not. Houston Chronicles Jonathan m Alexander
Speaker 1: covers the Texans for the publication, said that Nick Chubb
Speaker 1: is going to likely work as the lead back for
Speaker 1: the Texans if if Joe Mixon misses any time in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. Okay, here's the thing. When it comes
Speaker 1: to Nick Chub, you have a player that is completely washed.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, I don't see now. He looked good
Speaker 1: in this last preseason game. It was probably against backups,
Speaker 1: but early reports on Nick Chubb they were talking about
Speaker 1: his you know, the coaches were talking about his wisdom
Speaker 1: and everything he's been through. That's not what I want
Speaker 1: to hear when I'm talking about a running back in
Speaker 1: the NFL. I think young, explosive guys that are gonna,
Speaker 1: you know, get chunk yardich Chubb at this point in
Speaker 1: his career, and you know you loved what you saw originally,
Speaker 1: he is not that guy anymore. Alexander said in this
Speaker 1: report for The Chronicle, the Texans signed Chubb specifically because
Speaker 1: they fear Joe Mixon was gonna miss time with this
Speaker 1: foot slash ankle slash. We don't know exactly injury that
Speaker 1: he suffered this offseason. Now there's a non zero chance
Speaker 1: Mixon misses the whole year. I think we all recognize that.
Speaker 1: I don't think that's a good chance. I don't think
Speaker 1: he misses the whole year, but he could be on
Speaker 1: the pup list to start the season. I think that's
Speaker 1: a lot more likely. That probably is likely to happen,
Speaker 1: and mixing be out the first four weeks, and Chubb
Speaker 1: would be the RB one on the Texans for those
Speaker 1: four games. He is twenty nine years old. Five carries
Speaker 1: twenty five yards against the Panthers' backups last week. Woody
Speaker 1: Marks actually had seven carries or forty yards in that game.
Speaker 1: I like Woody Marks a lot better. He's the pass
Speaker 1: catching back, caught a ton of passes in college, and
Speaker 1: Chubb would obviously either be the one A or the
Speaker 1: complete one. Because we have to recognize Damian Pierce, while
Speaker 1: not great the last couple of years, the offensive scheme
Speaker 1: that's been installed, the run blocking scheme that's been installed
Speaker 1: this year, is the one he thrived in his rookie year.
Speaker 1: So I think we have to recognize that. So I
Speaker 1: co owned this KFFSC main event team, and my buddy Jim,
Speaker 1: who I co own it with, he talked me in
Speaker 1: the Chubb He said, I just can't quit him. He
Speaker 1: was our fourth or fifth running back. So I said,
Speaker 1: the hell with it, let's go with it. We'll see
Speaker 1: what happens. I don't envision this being a great pick.
Speaker 1: For us, but it could work out. Chubb is not
Speaker 1: He's been ravaged by injuries he has. He's not a
Speaker 1: young man anymore, and the offensive line that he is
Speaker 1: running behind in Houston is significantly worse now that Laramie
Speaker 1: Tunzel and some other changes that were made on that
Speaker 1: Texans offensive line is not there anymore, or are not
Speaker 1: there anymore. You have to understand that these are all
Speaker 1: One of these things is fine, like you can deal
Speaker 1: with it, but all of them together. We probably should
Speaker 1: have gone elsewhere other than Chubb, But I'm trying to
Speaker 1: be a good co manager, and we ended up going
Speaker 1: with Chubb there and we'll see what happens. But going forward,
Speaker 1: I think you can do a lot better than Nick
Speaker 1: Chubb in your FFPC drafts. Not that I'm trying to
Speaker 1: trash Gym. He's one way more than I ever have.
Speaker 1: So this will probably end up working out. But Nick
Speaker 1: Chubb is going in the area of Tyler Aljeer, who
Speaker 1: I'd rather have right now, I guess I'd rather have
Speaker 1: him than Naji Harris, who's going right behind right behind him.
Speaker 1: I'd rather wait and take will Shipley. I'd rather wait
Speaker 1: and take Woody Marx Ray Davis is going just ahead
Speaker 1: of him, and that's probably gonna continue. So I'd rather
Speaker 1: have Davis Girndo's back. I'd rather have Girendo there as well.
Speaker 1: And then you know, Rashad White is interesting, Jerome Ford
Speaker 1: is interesting. Their coin flips when it comes to Chubb.
Speaker 1: But these are thirteenth round picks in the FFPC, so
Speaker 1: I think that you look at your options there and
Speaker 1: maybe you go elsewhere other than a run back, because
Speaker 1: there's not a lot of them that I like there
Speaker 1: as well. Speaking of running backs, let's go back to
Speaker 1: Los Angeles and talk about the Los Angeles Rams in
Speaker 1: their backfield, which is a fun one to talk about.
Speaker 1: The Rams took Blake Korhum in Day two last year.
Speaker 1: They took Jarquiz Hunter on Day three this year, and
Speaker 1: there could be more opportunities for Jarqui Hunter, according to
Speaker 1: Rams offensive coordinator Mike Lafleur. In fact, the quote from
Speaker 1: him was, the more opportunities Hunter gets, the better it's
Speaker 1: going to be. He's twenty two years old, fourth round
Speaker 1: pick this year, talented pass catcher, and the Rams coaching
Speaker 1: staff the drumbeat has been constantly praising this guy throughout camp.
Speaker 1: Not great news for Blake Korum. I don't think this
Speaker 1: is a threat to Kyen Williams, because you know McVeagh,
Speaker 1: he's going to use his guy and he's gonna run
Speaker 1: him hard. So I still think that this doesn't affect
Speaker 1: Kien Williams at all. But I definitely think if you
Speaker 1: are looking for the guy behind the guy, who do
Speaker 1: you take Quorum versus Hunter? Right now, I think we're
Speaker 1: getting kind of an answer, an answer that many people
Speaker 1: forecasted when the Rams took Hunter Blake Korm running back
Speaker 1: sixty four at the fifteen oh seventh. Right now, Dark
Speaker 1: Wes Hunter is going as running back seventy one at
Speaker 1: the seventeen oh two. I think that's gonna flip at
Speaker 1: some Maybe I'm wrong on this, but I think that's
Speaker 1: gonna flip, and we'll see what happens with that RAMS back. Honestly,
Speaker 1: what's probably gonna happen is Kyen Williams stays healthy all
Speaker 1: season again, he puts up efficient enough numbers, and Matthew
Speaker 1: Stafford stays healthy, and Karen Williams finishes as like running
Speaker 1: back eight a running back seven, and Quorum and Hunter
Speaker 1: rarely get into the game. However, we have to allow
Speaker 1: for all possibility abilities when we're talking about high stakes
Speaker 1: fantasy football drafts, and there is a possibility here that
Speaker 1: Karen Williams were to go down, and maybe it's a
Speaker 1: time share between the two, but my guess is McVeigh
Speaker 1: does not want a time share. That he is going
Speaker 1: to roll with one guy or the other and he's
Speaker 1: going to play. Let these guys play it out on
Speaker 1: the field, and whoever steps forward and makes more plays
Speaker 1: is going to be that guy. And at this point,
Speaker 1: I believe the guy who's going to make more plays
Speaker 1: is probably dark Jarkis Hunter. So there you go. That's
Speaker 1: that's my thoughts on the Rams and their running back situation.
Speaker 1: I'd rather wait two more rounds and take Hunter than
Speaker 1: take Blake Korum in the fifteenth. And that's if I
Speaker 1: don't have kyon one. If I have Kien Williams, I'm
Speaker 1: not taking either one of these guys, you know, playing
Speaker 1: I play in the kff C main event national contest,
Speaker 1: like I'm trying to beat hundreds thousands of other players.
Speaker 1: So for me, unless I'm in a closed twelve team league,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to try to stack backfields. I'm not
Speaker 1: going to try to stat stack as they call it,
Speaker 1: and make sure I lock up the Rams backfields. It's
Speaker 1: not worth it for me. I want to increase my
Speaker 1: variance as much as possible, maybe to my own detriment,
Speaker 1: but that's how I feel about that Ram situation. The
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs, we tease this before when we were
Speaker 1: talking about possible landing spots for the Brian Robinson. You know, ultimately,
Speaker 1: if he's gonna get cut, where's he gonna go. We'll
Speaker 1: mentioned Kansas City as a team that Diana Russini is
Speaker 1: reporting that they're looking to upgrade their running backs or
Speaker 1: at least add a running back. The Athletic has a
Speaker 1: reporter for the Chiefs, Jesse Newle, covers the Chiefs for
Speaker 1: that publication, and Jesse Newle believes that Burchard Smith might
Speaker 1: actually get some first team action in the preseason finale
Speaker 1: for the Chiefs this weekend. Newell actually described Smith as
Speaker 1: a gadget type role for Kansas City, which would showcase
Speaker 1: him both as a runner and as a receiver. And
Speaker 1: it sounds like that the roster spot, if it comes
Speaker 1: down to it, between Brichard Smith and Elijah Mitchell's probably
Speaker 1: gonna go to Brichard Smith. Elijah Mitchell is not signed
Speaker 1: for any kind of big money at all, so that's
Speaker 1: something that we will be watching going forward. I like
Speaker 1: Burchhard Smith late. We shall see what happens with the
Speaker 1: Kansas City running back situation. I want to bring on
Speaker 1: tonight's co host. Ladies and gentlemen, you know him, you
Speaker 1: love him. You read all of his work at Rotoballer
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Speaker 1: F Underscore Stallion, please welcome into the program the incomple
Speaker 1: Dave and Trusca. Dave, welcome aboard. Man. Appreciate you having
Speaker 1: me on. Eric. Sorry for the delay.
Speaker 2: I think we had something go down with my docking
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Speaker 2: But I'm thrilled to finally be here and honored you
Speaker 2: would have me on and excite it to get the
Speaker 2: co host for a little bit alongside the man who,
Speaker 2: in my opinion, hands down, has the best beard in
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's not bad. It's not bad. It's it's a little. Now, listen,
Speaker 1: it's pretty good.
Speaker 2: When you when you first reached out, my first thought was,
Speaker 2: I'm gonna.
Speaker 1: Have to shave before I go on here. Yeah, I listen.
Speaker 1: There's been plenty of people that have told me that
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Speaker 1: the show. I haven't yet. At some point it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1: Roping it. Thank you, thank you. I appreciate that's that's
Speaker 1: another popular opinion. A lot of people wanted. I've had
Speaker 1: people at FFPC drafts. I think Adam Hahn has said
Speaker 1: or he has named some of his teams save Bulky's beard,
Speaker 1: and so there's plenty of people that don't want to
Speaker 1: see it going away. Damn, I'm gonna I'm gonna throw
Speaker 1: this one to you right away from the from the
Speaker 1: fire frying pan into the fire. Let's talk about the
Speaker 1: Indianapolis Colts big news this week. Jordan Schultz, I believe,
Speaker 1: was the first to report it. The Colts have named
Speaker 1: a starting quarterback and it is not Anthony Richardson. It's
Speaker 1: going to be Daniel Jones. Apparently this competition was very close,
Speaker 1: and Shane Steiken said, not only is Daniel Jones going
Speaker 1: to be the guy for week one, he's the guy
Speaker 1: for the season. He wants to give him a long leak.
Speaker 1: He does not want to, you know, make all these changes,
Speaker 1: you know, back and forth with your quarterback or with
Speaker 1: his quarterback all season long. So I think for best ball,
Speaker 1: we obviously know if you're drafting a Colts quarterback Lake,
Speaker 1: it's now Daniel Jones, It's not Anthony Richardson. The question
Speaker 1: for you is what this does for guys like Michael Pittman,
Speaker 1: Tyler Warren, Josh Downs. I think initially, I know, I
Speaker 1: was pretty excited that it was ended up being Jones.
Speaker 1: I really think that this is this is best for
Speaker 1: fantasy because it's gonna make those guys a lot more
Speaker 1: valuable than they would have been if Anthony Richardson was
Speaker 1: a quarterback.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think for our purposes for fantasy football, I
Speaker 2: think it's definitely an improvement compared to the disaster that
Speaker 2: was Anthony richards in the last two years. I don't
Speaker 2: really know how it's gonna affect Michael Pittman. I think
Speaker 2: the bigger beneficiaries are going to be both Josh Downs
Speaker 2: and Tyler Warren. Wan Daryl Robinson was really effective last year,
Speaker 2: particularly in PPR leagues with Daniel Jones, and I think
Speaker 2: both Warren and Downs kind of had that undernase skill
Speaker 2: set that I think is going to fit really well
Speaker 2: and could really one of those two I think is
Speaker 2: really going to become like a cheat code in PPR leagues.
Speaker 2: I was kind of initially like you when I heard
Speaker 2: the news with Daniel Jones, and I felt like it was,
Speaker 2: you know, full real up for Josh Downs. Now I'm
Speaker 2: kind of starting to wonder just seeing sort of the
Speaker 2: usage in the preseason and plus downs hamstring injury. We
Speaker 2: don't know, you know the severity of that yet and
Speaker 2: if it's going to keep him out, But I'm kind
Speaker 2: of wondering now if Tyler Warren is actually going to
Speaker 2: be the guy who really is the one who benefits
Speaker 2: from that. I still like Downs, but I'm kind of
Speaker 2: starting to waiver my views on that and wonder and
Speaker 2: if Tyler Warren might be actually the way to play
Speaker 2: this passing game.
Speaker 1: He is the way to play this passing game for me,
Speaker 1: I've been I don't know, man, I probably drafted Tyler
Speaker 1: Warren in a bunch of leagues. The last time I
Speaker 1: drafted him was probably like two or three weeks ago,
Speaker 1: because I feel like I just had too much of
Speaker 1: him or other people were drafting him higher than I
Speaker 1: was willing to take them, but I got a bunch
Speaker 1: of them, and I think going forward here with Warren,
Speaker 1: this is only I mean, if you watch that Colts
Speaker 1: Packers game last week, he was heavily involved when the
Speaker 1: Colts starters were out there, so I would imagine that's
Speaker 1: going to be the case again. He has been drafted
Speaker 1: right now in f FPC leagues the big Gorilla as
Speaker 1: tight end eight at the seven ZH two. I don't
Speaker 1: know if he gets much higher than that, but certainly
Speaker 1: is possible once you know it. Will see what he
Speaker 1: does this weekend, if he plays at all. But I
Speaker 1: think that last memory we have of Tyler Warren as
Speaker 1: it stands right now, is a really good one. And
Speaker 1: those last memories tend to drive up ADP as we
Speaker 1: get closer and closer to the start of the season, which,
Speaker 1: as I've said several times, tonight only two weeks away.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the Saints. I touched on
Speaker 1: this earlier. I want to get your thoughts. Kellen Moore
Speaker 1: said Tyler Shuk and Spencer Ratler are going to play
Speaker 1: in the preseason finale. He also said Ratler is going
Speaker 1: to start that game as well, I remained bullish on
Speaker 1: Chris o'labbe. I remained bullish on Rashid Shaheed and Alvin
Speaker 1: Kamara Juwan Johnson late in FFPC tight end premium leagues
Speaker 1: as well. My reasoning is this, Kamara did numbers last
Speaker 1: year and the offense was terrible. This year, they get
Speaker 1: Olabb back, hopefully for the whole season. They get Shaheed back,
Speaker 1: who's coming off an the injury, who's been getting work
Speaker 1: in the slot. They're going to have him back hopefully
Speaker 1: for the whole season. So I just think that this
Speaker 1: offense is significantly better and in a lot of spots
Speaker 1: and the same in others. I don't think it got worse.
Speaker 1: So why would we expect bad things from the Saints
Speaker 1: offense when we should have gotten a ton of bad
Speaker 1: things last year? We really didn't from the guys who
Speaker 1: were on the field. I think Kamara Elave or Shahid
Speaker 1: Johnson they're getting underdrafted in the FFPC right now, and
Speaker 1: I'm definitely bullish on their ADP.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I would probably say I'm on the other side
Speaker 2: of that, and I feel like while the offense may
Speaker 2: not set may not necessarily be worse, I think we
Speaker 2: do have a pretty big, in my opinion, downgrade in
Speaker 2: the offensive coordinator and play call they're going from Clint
Speaker 2: Kubiak to Kellen Moore. I am also not a huge
Speaker 2: Spencer rattler or a Tylers Schug fan. I would probably
Speaker 2: say the guy who if you're gonna want to play
Speaker 2: passing game and take a shot there, Kamara.
Speaker 1: Is not a bad bet.
Speaker 2: I'm sure he's going to be involved in as a
Speaker 2: receiver as well. Excuse me once again, Chris Olave would
Speaker 2: probably be the guy that I would take a shot
Speaker 2: on here and been planning to do that in my
Speaker 2: drafts coming up here, you know, is a good dip
Speaker 2: on it. He's going to be the clear Number one
Speaker 2: should see a ton of volume. I'm just not entirely
Speaker 2: certain that Kelvin Moore is going to be an improvement
Speaker 2: for these guys, and I'm not exactly sure what we're
Speaker 2: going to get from the offense as well. I just
Speaker 2: feel like this is a team that is going to
Speaker 2: be really, really bad this year and is probably going
Speaker 2: to be in a position where they're looking for a
Speaker 2: new quarterback in twenty twenty six, and that might actually
Speaker 2: be the time when it's best to get in on
Speaker 2: this offense with the Lave Shaheed all those other pieces.
Speaker 2: Once they actually get a legitimate franchise quarterback in there,
Speaker 2: the pair with more and you can kind of get
Speaker 2: his vision on offense and all that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm definitely with you on on the Saints next
Speaker 1: year needing a quarterback because they still don't have one.
Speaker 1: I don't think Shuck is the answer. And the thing
Speaker 1: is with with with the Saints. You can be bad
Speaker 1: and still put up fantasy numbers, which is what I
Speaker 1: think those guys will do this year. But I do
Speaker 1: I am with you. I think they're going to be
Speaker 1: so bad that they're going to be in prime position
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Speaker 1: Dave VN Tresca joining me from Rotoballer dot com. You
Speaker 1: follow him on the ex at f F Underscore Stallion.
Speaker 1: You have really the f F Stallion moniker to a
Speaker 1: new level. How did you come up with this? Dave?
Speaker 2: I don't know, man, you know it really just started
Speaker 2: my home league since I was, oh my god, like
Speaker 2: twelve years old. My team's always been just Italian Stallions.
Speaker 2: And when I decided to get into this crazy industry
Speaker 2: we've all decided to join, it just felt like a
Speaker 2: natural carried it over. Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: Well I love it. It's it's It's definitely been working out
Speaker 1: for you for sure. You can check out as a reminder,
Speaker 1: Dave's work at Rodoballer dot com as well. In fact,
Speaker 1: this is where I found out, uh, some of the
Speaker 1: players that you like and maybe not like so much
Speaker 1: this year, I think I think these well, well I'll
Speaker 1: just ask you about these guys. You let me know
Speaker 1: how you're We talked about Tampa earlier in the show,
Speaker 1: and I was just talking about how much praise I
Speaker 1: had for a Mecca Buca. But what about the backfield.
Speaker 1: Tristan Wurks, we found out, is not going to be
Speaker 1: on the pup. He's not going to open up on
Speaker 1: ir He is going to be available at the top
Speaker 1: of this at the start of the season, maybe not
Speaker 1: the first few games, but hopefully by week four, week five.
Speaker 1: What does that do for a guy like Bucky Irving,
Speaker 1: a player who is ready to move ahead of Devon
Speaker 1: A Chan in adp as. He's very close right now
Speaker 1: he is at the two eight eight. Chan is now
Speaker 1: at the two to five, So it's definitely closing in
Speaker 1: Bucky Irving running back nine. Is this guy a target
Speaker 1: for you at the two toh wight and FFPC drafts
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 2: Dave absolutely is. And I think, you know, first off,
Speaker 2: supreme talented player. And what I thought was most impressive
Speaker 2: about what he did last year finishing his PPR over
Speaker 2: the overall PPR be thirteen. He did so despite not
Speaker 2: being a full time player last year, Like he only
Speaker 2: played sixty percent of the offensive snaps in just two
Speaker 2: games last year. I fully expect that to change this year.
Speaker 2: Lew Todd Bowles had no problem making Rashad White the
Speaker 2: full blown belcal back two years ago. You know, now
Speaker 2: that he's got a year under his belt, I fully
Speaker 2: expect Bucky Irving to completely take over that role. It's
Speaker 2: a good thing Tristan Wurf's is not going. It doesn't
Speaker 2: look like it's going to be an extended absence to
Speaker 2: begin the year. Because the Buccaneer assume the Buccaneers rushing
Speaker 2: game actually has according to Sharp Football, they have the
Speaker 2: third easiest projected rushing schedule this year. And you throw
Speaker 2: a healthy Tristan Wurfs in, you know, I think that's
Speaker 2: going to be a great thing for Bucky Irving could
Speaker 2: easily finish as an RB one. Now we might see
Speaker 2: a dip in efficiency this year, you know, maybe in
Speaker 2: those first couple of games and the Wurfs is out,
Speaker 2: but also with no Liam Cohen in the mix. But
Speaker 2: I believe that we'll see an increase in volume and
Speaker 2: that should be able offset like any dip in efficiency
Speaker 2: we might get. And he's also still going to be
Speaker 2: involved in the passing game, you know, I know you
Speaker 2: still have a shot White there, but he's still dealing
Speaker 2: with the hamstring injury. I mean, who knows Sean Tucker
Speaker 2: might end up passing him him on the depth chart.
Speaker 2: Tucker doesn't really profile as a receiving back. So I
Speaker 2: fully expect Bucky Irving to you know, lock down that
Speaker 2: passing downs role as well. Great target as an RB
Speaker 2: one if you go wide receiver in round one, or
Speaker 2: even as your RB two if you decide to, you know,
Speaker 2: go with an RB RB start.
Speaker 1: Bucky Irving was a guy I hadn't really been drafting.
Speaker 1: I just I picked him in a Best Ball draft
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago, and I felt good as
Speaker 1: my leader. I bet it did. I bet it did.
Speaker 1: It's just like the way that the team came came
Speaker 1: together around him. I just I felt really good about
Speaker 1: him being my lead running back. The lead running back
Speaker 1: in Seattle is Kenneth Walker, a player I was on earlier,
Speaker 1: and now I'm starting to have fading. You going some charbona? Yeah,
Speaker 1: the charbon a taste good. And part of the reason
Speaker 1: why is Brady Henderson, who covers the Seahawks or ESPN,
Speaker 1: has reported that sharbon A is going to have a
Speaker 1: significant role in the backfield this season. He's been looking
Speaker 1: really good. Clint Kubiak has been gushing about him. Who's
Speaker 1: the new See there. Kenneth Walker has missed significant time
Speaker 1: with a foot issue, and listen, Kenneth Walker is no
Speaker 1: stranger to the trainer's room. Charbon A has not missed
Speaker 1: any time in rushed for forty five yards on five
Speaker 1: carries against the Chiefs last week. Walker. The best availability
Speaker 1: or the best ability in the NFL is availability, and
Speaker 1: he's having issues with that right now. I here's the thing,
Speaker 1: and I'll couch it like this. You tell me what
Speaker 1: you think. But when you compare the ADPs for these players,
Speaker 1: I have had a significant shift and how I feel
Speaker 1: about the Seattle Seahawks backfield right now. Kenneth Walker is
Speaker 1: running back sixteen. You have to draft him at the
Speaker 1: three to nine to get him. Zach Charboney running back
Speaker 1: thirty two, eight oh seven, So he is going five
Speaker 1: rounds and sometimes I think with the guy going earlier, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe he's still going to be the guy who puts
Speaker 1: up more numbers. But is the juice worth the squeeze
Speaker 1: in the third round for Kenneth Walker.
Speaker 2: For you right now, Dave, I still think think it
Speaker 2: is because I still feel like if he hits the
Speaker 2: ground running, you know, it be s healthy and that's
Speaker 2: the big if that's the gamble with ken Walker, you
Speaker 2: know like that that's the play that he's going to
Speaker 2: be healthy. And I still believe like he is a
Speaker 2: superior back than Zach Charbonay. You know, Zach Charbonet is
Speaker 2: a really good player. I love them at UCLA. I
Speaker 2: have a decent amount of him in Dynasty. I was
Speaker 2: crushed when he landed in Seattle, but he doesn't. I
Speaker 2: don't think he has the same upside that ken Walker does.
Speaker 2: But the home run hitting ability, the big plays like
Speaker 2: that is the type of stuff that if we get
Speaker 2: him in an ideal scenario like the Klink Kubi X scheme,
Speaker 2: like behind an improved offensive line, with you know, them
Speaker 2: drafting Gray's Abel in round one of the draft this
Speaker 2: past year, if everything aligns like this is a guy
Speaker 2: that we could be drafting around one about that PC
Speaker 2: drafts next year. And that's often the key, you know,
Speaker 2: that's what you're trying to find when you're trying to
Speaker 2: win a million. We're trying to win a million dollars, right,
Speaker 2: these are the plays you want to make. I think,
Speaker 2: you know, at this point, I did read that report
Speaker 2: last night, and you know, my takeaway from that was
Speaker 2: I thought Mike McDonald's quote stood out when he said,
Speaker 2: at some point, you know, you know, we've been living
Speaker 2: in ken Walker. We were a planned for him, but
Speaker 2: at some point he's got to be he's got to
Speaker 2: be here and he's got to get on the field.
Speaker 2: Now he has practiced three straight days, which I think
Speaker 2: is a good thing.
Speaker 1: He's got.
Speaker 2: He's gotten in the joint practice with the Green Bay Packers.
Speaker 2: I kind of read My takeaway from that story was
Speaker 2: more of a like, hey, like a direct I guess
Speaker 2: he was directly speaking to the Ken Walker as sort
Speaker 2: of like, hey, you know, we love you, we want
Speaker 2: to make you a guy, but we also have this
Speaker 2: other running back behind you who's pretty good, who you know,
Speaker 2: if you can't find a way to get on the field,
Speaker 2: you know, we've got this guy ready to take the rings.
Speaker 1: So that was kind of my read on that.
Speaker 2: And you know, if it's a split, then I think
Speaker 2: to your point, then I think Charbonnay, there's really no
Speaker 2: debate at that point, and Sharbonnay is going to be
Speaker 2: the way you want to play this. I just you know,
Speaker 2: they have, you know, McDaniels or m McDaniel. McDonald's been
Speaker 2: you know, been quoted saying that they have intentionally been
Speaker 2: limiting Walker's reps, you know, to keep him fresh for
Speaker 2: the regular season.
Speaker 1: And so.
Speaker 2: At this point, I'm still willing to play that. And
Speaker 2: you know, at the three oh nine, you know, if
Speaker 2: we're just talking traditional redraft leagues too, like that's not
Speaker 2: going to kill your team if you whiff on that.
Speaker 2: You know, what I mean, Like, it's not like you
Speaker 2: got Christian McCaffrey going in the one oh eight, one
Speaker 2: o nine, where that's that's literally either you know, you
Speaker 2: win your league or you strike out and you're done.
Speaker 2: Ken Walker at the three oh nine, like, yeah, all right,
Speaker 2: you missed on a third round pick. It's gonna sting,
Speaker 2: but it's not gonna end your season. So I I
Speaker 2: I still think there's upside there, even you know, with
Speaker 2: that report coming out last.
Speaker 1: Night, I I have to bring up JK. Dobbins here,
Speaker 1: and this is an interesting story. So so Harvey in
Speaker 1: the in the first preseason game seven carries twenty five yards.
Speaker 1: They beat the Niners thirty to ten. He also got
Speaker 1: to catch for four yards. He was listed on the
Speaker 1: first preseason depth chart for the Broncos by Sean Payton
Speaker 1: as running back five was Harvey. Harvey opened with the
Speaker 1: starter's got every rush attempt while he's with the first team.
Speaker 1: Then we later phoned out on Twitter and I think
Speaker 1: it was Ben Albright had posted this on X sorry
Speaker 1: that it was. The plan was to start Dobbins, but
Speaker 1: he couldn't find his helmet and as a result, Harvey
Speaker 1: was the guy in there. He pulled a Chris Comer
Speaker 1: from Friday Night Lights his helmet and then Booby Miles
Speaker 1: goes in thank God to end up the same way
Speaker 1: for R. J. Harvey. But the thing is with Dobbins,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna do this the same way. We're talking
Speaker 1: about the Seahawks running backs and then'll give you the
Speaker 1: ADPs for both these players. Right now. RJ. Harvey running
Speaker 1: back twenty at the five h two. JK. Dobbs is
Speaker 1: running back thirty three at the eight twelve. That's almost
Speaker 1: four rounds difference here. Which one of these Broncos running
Speaker 1: backs do you preferred? Dave and tell me why it's JK. Dobbins. Well,
Speaker 1: I like him both. You know, I want to get
Speaker 1: shares of both. You know.
Speaker 2: The thing that I just want to touch on first.
Speaker 2: I know Harvey's getting a lot of love, But the
Speaker 2: thing I just would say, you know, he's not going
Speaker 2: to be a bellcal back in this offense.
Speaker 1: Neither is JK. Dobbins.
Speaker 2: Right, That's just not what Sean Payton does. You go
Speaker 2: back through his entire history with the Saints, even with Denver, like,
Speaker 2: there's always multiple guys, so there's always multiple ways to
Speaker 2: play this backfield.
Speaker 1: You know, I think R. J.
Speaker 2: Harvey probably if you were if you can have an
Speaker 2: Alvin Kamara like twenty seventeen rookie season and you know,
Speaker 2: average over six yard six yards of carry, be heavily
Speaker 2: involved as a receiver, could he finish as a top
Speaker 2: five back.
Speaker 1: Sure?
Speaker 2: I would probably put that in like the one percent
Speaker 2: range of outcomes at the ceiling. Dobbins is just you know,
Speaker 2: I've always been a big JK. Dobbins fan. You know,
Speaker 2: I had a lot of them in Dynasty. Was crushed
Speaker 2: when he towards Achilles a couple of years ago, and
Speaker 2: then suddenly he came back to life last year. I
Speaker 2: feel like he's probably gonna be the receiving back in
Speaker 2: this offense. He's the better pass protector, so he's gonna
Speaker 2: get a ton of targets in this offense. He's running
Speaker 2: behind one of the best offensive lines in the league.
Speaker 2: You know, I just feel like both of these guys
Speaker 2: are going to be similar ish production. That Harvey hits
Speaker 2: the ground running, you know, and we do see like
Speaker 2: a massive rush, you know, big time spike and efficiency
Speaker 2: from him, then he's gonna be the preferred play. But
Speaker 2: I don't think Dobbyins is a bad way to play
Speaker 2: it either. I think he's gonna have the edge on
Speaker 2: passing downs at least to start the year. And you know,
Speaker 2: maybe he's gonna be the better goal line back too.
Speaker 2: I was reading something all next I don't remember who
Speaker 2: uh had had had posted this, so I'm gonna get
Speaker 2: that wrong. But Sean Payton and their offensive coordinator Joel
Speaker 2: Lombardi were both quoted as saying he still has a
Speaker 2: tendency to bounce runs too much to the outside and
Speaker 2: right and it's not taking which you know that was
Speaker 2: something that kept Reggie Bush off the field all these
Speaker 2: years in Sean Payton's offense too, so you know that's
Speaker 2: going to be something that could potentially come back and
Speaker 2: bite him as well.
Speaker 1: And you know, I like both. I don't know what
Speaker 1: i'd say. I have a preference. I want to make
Speaker 1: sure I get exposure that both across my leagues. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm fully on board to get Dobbins. Lombardi, I remember
Speaker 1: that that quote he was talking about. He's like, yeah,
Speaker 1: he still has a tendency to bounce it outside, but
Speaker 1: he still usually beats the guy to the court, Yeah, right,
Speaker 1: which is awesome. Like the Jacksonville backfield. Do you have
Speaker 1: a preference here? I think we could throw Laquinn Allen
Speaker 1: out unless you're drafting a twenty eight round best of all,
Speaker 1: I think, but but definitely not lea Quinn Allen. Okay,
Speaker 1: But when it's Biggs, b Etn, and Baselle Tuton, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I feel like there's there's value in all
Speaker 1: three of these guys. Are you leaning one way or
Speaker 1: the other?
Speaker 2: I think the way I'm leaning is really just anything
Speaker 2: but Travis Etn. And that is mainly because he's the
Speaker 2: most expensive one of the three, which when you get
Speaker 2: one of these, you know scenarios, you don't know who
Speaker 2: it's going to be. I think the better play I
Speaker 2: think most people would degree is is go get the
Speaker 2: guys to the cheaper I'd definitely taken some shots on
Speaker 2: Biggs bms taking some shots on Tuton as well. We'll
Speaker 2: talk about Bigsby right now.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 2: You know Etn's big problem the last two years, really
Speaker 2: since his first year, he hasn't been a very good rusher.
Speaker 2: He's been extremely in the fit. Even during that that
Speaker 2: RB three finished two years ago, still averaged under four
Speaker 2: yards to carry you know, and Bigsby was actually Jacksonville's
Speaker 2: best back last year, and he finished higher than ETN
Speaker 2: in a ton of metrics. Like I have it right
Speaker 2: here on my notes. Bigsby finished higher than ETN in
Speaker 2: next just next gen stats, rush yards over expected PFF,
Speaker 2: rushing grade pff E, lucive breathing yards after contact per attempt,
Speaker 2: and fantasy points data Suite's explosive run weight run rates.
Speaker 2: So if we're just talking between ETN and Bigsby, Bigsby
Speaker 2: is a better play.
Speaker 1: Now.
Speaker 2: I the thing we don't know though, you know, we're
Speaker 2: all trying to draw parallels between what Liam Cohen did
Speaker 2: in Tampa Bay and what he's going to do here. Truthfully,
Speaker 2: we really have no idea. You know, Tank Bigsby could
Speaker 2: be you know, Bucky or Ving, ETN could be Rashad White,
Speaker 2: bay Shall, Teuton could be Sean Tucker. But there's also
Speaker 2: a scenario where, you know, any one of these three
Speaker 2: guys just takes the job and runs with it. I
Speaker 2: am making sure I get some big schel Tuton. I
Speaker 2: loved him in Virginia Tech. I think, you know, homeworking threat.
Speaker 2: He does a lot of fun things. I don't really
Speaker 2: you know, even though I said that out on the
Speaker 2: e TN, I'm not going to fight anybody who you know,
Speaker 2: says that's the way to play this backfield. They're all
Speaker 2: so cheap. But I think you just when you go
Speaker 2: into your drafts, man, you got to make sure you
Speaker 2: get a piece of this backfield, because we saw a
Speaker 2: Cohen can do in Tampa Bay and figuring out this
Speaker 2: backfield could be the key to winning your league or
Speaker 2: even could you know, winning a million dollars in the FFPCI.
Speaker 1: The thing that is important to realize here, it's like
Speaker 1: two rounds. ETM is going two rounds ahead of both
Speaker 1: Gigsby and Bachelle Tooton right now. So to your point,
Speaker 1: Gret went in deut grab the cheaper guy watching us
Speaker 1: tonight on Twitch Potato Juice Triple o one. Would you
Speaker 1: trade Ced Lamb and David Montgomery for Bjon Robinson and
Speaker 1: Courtland Sutton. Now, obviously this question requires nuance kind of
Speaker 1: you know, it depends upon what your team settings are,
Speaker 1: what type of league this is, whether you need a
Speaker 1: running back. But if I'm answering this in a vacuum, Dave,
Speaker 1: I would rather have the beajon Robinson Courtland Sutton side
Speaker 1: than the CD LAMB David Montgomery side.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean you get a young running back entering
Speaker 2: his prime, Like I think Robinson's probably gonna end up
Speaker 2: finishing as the RB one this year. Atlanta has another
Speaker 2: easy rush schedule.
Speaker 1: I love that.
Speaker 2: You know, you can get probably five six good years
Speaker 2: of Bijon and you know, pick up n Okay wide
Speaker 2: receiver too, if it's in PPR leagues. Yeah, I would
Speaker 2: take that side as well.
Speaker 1: The next team or player I want to talk about
Speaker 1: is Trad Benson. I drafted him in a bunch of
Speaker 1: dynasty leagues last year. Did not see much return of
Speaker 1: my investment, But will that be different this year? Dave,
Speaker 1: Is Trey Benson a target for you on the Arizona
Speaker 1: Cardinals in twenty twenty five? I think he is.
Speaker 2: I think he's a great like bench dashed kind of
Speaker 2: running back, and like, look, let's not let's not pull
Speaker 2: punches yere. Benson stunk last year. You know, I thought
Speaker 2: he I thought.
Speaker 1: He looked hesitant and indecisive as a rusher. You know.
Speaker 2: But the thing that I think we all kind of
Speaker 2: forget sometimes when we're playing fantasy football, it's, you know,
Speaker 2: what I think think about the player doesn't matter. What
Speaker 2: you think doesn't matter. What does matter is what the
Speaker 2: team and what the coaching staff thinks. And through Arizona's
Speaker 2: own actions this year, we're in action. It shows that
Speaker 2: they still have a lot of faith in Trey Benson.
Speaker 2: Like in what was supposedly a loaded running back class
Speaker 2: this year, right Arizona had the chance to say, you
Speaker 2: know what, Trey Benson wasted that third round pick last year,
Speaker 2: Let's find someone else from this draft class. Well, they
Speaker 2: didn't add anybody of note, and so that's what's the
Speaker 2: only other running back I leave behind him is Michael Carter.
Speaker 2: And so you know that does speak volumes to their
Speaker 2: confidence and their feelings on Benson. You know, there's been
Speaker 2: some sort of there's been some mixed messages out on
Speaker 2: next like the coach speacondex. You know that we have
Speaker 2: quotes from John you know, Jonathan Gannon, the head coach,
Speaker 2: and Drew Pets and the offensive coordinated kind of indicating
Speaker 2: that James Connor is still going to be the bell cow.
Speaker 2: But we also have quotes from Connor himself, Kyler Murray saying, yeah,
Speaker 2: Trey Benson is going to be more involved. Probably my
Speaker 2: stance on Benson this year is probably more of a
Speaker 2: fade of James Connor than it is like a ringing
Speaker 2: endorsement of Benson. You know, Connor, he's been one of
Speaker 2: the most undervalued players the last two years, but he's
Speaker 2: now thirty years old, and you know, this is that
Speaker 2: point for running backs where production can unexpectedly fall off
Speaker 2: a cliff, like any time, Like Melvin Gordon a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago with the Broncos. He you know, still
Speaker 2: split with Javonte Williams and I forget the season, but
Speaker 2: he was great, and then he once goes into year
Speaker 2: two and he just completely knows dives and he wasn't
Speaker 2: the same player, you know. So I think there's a
Speaker 2: possibility Benson could have some standalone value and if Connor
Speaker 2: starts to decline or he gets injured, which he's had
Speaker 2: some struggles with injuries as well, you know, you could
Speaker 2: have a plug and play like Borderline RB one.
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Speaker 1: of the teams in action tonight. Actually, I take that back. No,
Speaker 1: DJ Moore is no longer a Panther. DK Metcalf is
Speaker 1: a Steeler, but the Steelers and Panthers playing right now
Speaker 1: to go, I don't know. All of a sudden, it
Speaker 1: was twenty twenty two to me all over again. That's
Speaker 1: all right, It all blends together, it does after a while. Yeah, Now,
Speaker 1: if you are in a redraft league, who would you
Speaker 1: rather draft this year? Dave? Is it? Is it DK
Speaker 1: Metcalf or did you rather draft DJ Moore in Chicago?
Speaker 2: So I would rather go DK Metcalf, And that might
Speaker 2: that might be surprising for some people. I just well,
Speaker 2: first of all, we know that CAS's gonna be the
Speaker 2: number one target hands down.
Speaker 1: There. There's really no competition.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Arthur Smith's offense, the run ratio, run pad not great,
Speaker 2: But how much of that's gonna be Arthur Smith and
Speaker 2: how much of it's going to be Aaron Rodgers? You know,
Speaker 2: Aaron Rodgers, even though he declined last year, you know,
Speaker 2: DeVante Adams and Garrett Rolson, they were still very playable
Speaker 2: for fantasy leagues. So he's still you know, he has
Speaker 2: that tendency to lock go on the one guy in
Speaker 2: his offenses he always has, and Pittsburgh doesn't really have
Speaker 2: anybody else. Dj Moore could totally end up being the
Speaker 2: number one target in Chicago this year. I just don't
Speaker 2: think we really know, you know, what that offense is
Speaker 2: going to look like yet. Plus there's a ton of
Speaker 2: target competition. You know, Romo Dune say, he's been standing out.
Speaker 2: You know, he could emerge as the one They drafted
Speaker 2: Colston Lovelin, you know, tenth overall. They also have Luther
Speaker 2: burn the third and you know Greg Olsen last week,
Speaker 2: don't know if you call it that on the Bears broadcast,
Speaker 2: they had Ryan Poles in the boots for a little bit.
Speaker 2: Poles stepped out and Greg Olsen kind of let the
Speaker 2: cat out in the bag when he said, Poles thinks
Speaker 2: that burden can end up being better than, you know,
Speaker 2: than more er doing by seasons end. So there's just
Speaker 2: a lot of uncertainty for me with the I think
Speaker 2: the Bears offense is going to be better. I just
Speaker 2: don't quite know that Moore is going to be the beneficiary.
Speaker 2: So you know, I'll take the guy who maybe lesser offense,
Speaker 2: but you know he could we could see one hundred
Speaker 2: and sixty targets if everything goes right.
Speaker 1: If I shift the question to New Orleans versus Las Vegas,
Speaker 1: would you rather draft? And by the way, all these
Speaker 1: players that I'm talking about are all basically going back
Speaker 1: to back in FFPC drafts. Right now, if you're on
Speaker 1: the clock and you're you're taking a receiver, Dave, are
Speaker 1: you going to take Jacoby Myers or are you going
Speaker 1: to take Chris Olavey. I know you talked a little
Speaker 1: bit about a lobby earlier.
Speaker 2: So yeah, I know I kind of trash New Orleans offense,
Speaker 2: But in this in this scenario, yeah, I'd rather take
Speaker 2: the the the stab at Olive. I like Yakobe Myers,
Speaker 2: super underrated player. He is Las Vegas is wide receiver one,
Speaker 2: but he's not gonna be the top target right that
Speaker 2: that that's gonna be Brock Bowers.
Speaker 1: Does he see more targets than Ashton genty this year? Myers?
Speaker 2: Mmm mmm, I think there's award where he doesn't You know,
Speaker 2: I think gent could wind up being the second leading receiver. Yeah,
Speaker 2: the second target target owner there. That's an interesting.
Speaker 1: Jacoby Myers could be the rare WR one, but PC
Speaker 1: three right on that team, right right? Yeah? Yeah, but yeah,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: A lave, it's it could be nasty, but you said
Speaker 2: earlier they're gonna stink, but you know there's still potential
Speaker 2: for on the targets and you know, like we had
Speaker 2: the Jacksonville Jaigua wires. Oh my gosh, there's ten years
Speaker 2: ago now, that famous Blake Bordles here. Plenty of garbage
Speaker 2: time points.
Speaker 1: You know. The other thing I always bring it back
Speaker 1: to his fantasy football is supposed to be fun. Chryst
Speaker 1: Olave to me, is a lot more fun to draft
Speaker 1: than Jacoby myersd. So that's that's the other reason I
Speaker 1: would agree with you and say a lot of there.
Speaker 1: I want to skip two quarterbacks, Baker Mayfield or Bone Knicks.
Speaker 1: Quite frankly, I've gone back and forth on this one.
Speaker 2: I don't have any see it's it's bonnets for me,
Speaker 2: and it's it's it's not really close. I just feel
Speaker 2: like like Baker Mayfield way better quarterback than a lot
Speaker 2: of people including myself, gave him credit for Like, you
Speaker 2: don't throw forty one touchdowns by accident and have a
Speaker 2: seven point two percent you know that, just that, just
Speaker 2: you're a good quarterback of that, right right. The problem
Speaker 2: is Mayfield's probably the single biggest regression candidate out there
Speaker 2: this year, like set career highs across the board, career
Speaker 2: highs passing yards, touchdowns, touchdown rate, He even set a
Speaker 2: career high in rushing yards. Like he is going the
Speaker 2: regressor's career means in all of these areas. And even
Speaker 2: if he drops, you know, that touchdown rate comes back
Speaker 2: closer to his career mark of five percent. Like that,
Speaker 2: that's going to make a significant debt Nicks. You know,
Speaker 2: it's an interesting one because I do think there's a
Speaker 2: world where we actually saw bow Knick's peak last year.
Speaker 2: But I feel like he's gonna be safer in that.
Speaker 2: You know, he's still.
Speaker 1: Gonna run a lot.
Speaker 2: He's got, in my opinion right now, the better offensive
Speaker 2: play caller. We don't know what Josh Grizzer is going
Speaker 2: to be. You know, just because he was in the
Speaker 2: same system, that doesn't that doesn't necessarily mean it's going
Speaker 2: to be better. You know, we saw that a couple
Speaker 2: of years ago with the Eagles when Shane Stiking got
Speaker 2: hired by the Colts and I think it was Brian
Speaker 2: Johnson took over and the offense was a mess. So plus,
Speaker 2: you know, there is a scenario where bow Knicks takes
Speaker 2: a significant year or two leap in the system and
Speaker 2: you know, makes a major statistic statistical improvement there. He
Speaker 2: just he just kind of feels like the safer pick
Speaker 2: for me.
Speaker 1: I think. And we're running out of time here, but
Speaker 1: I want to get to a really fun one, and
Speaker 1: this is a first round one. If you are dead
Speaker 1: set on taking one of these running backs in the
Speaker 1: first round, or maybe the better question to ask you, Dave.
Speaker 1: Let's say one of your buddies is drafting and he says,
Speaker 1: you're gonna co own this team with me, but we
Speaker 1: have to take either Saquon Barkley or Christian McCaffrey in
Speaker 1: the first round. What's the advice you're giving him? Which one?
Speaker 1: Is it going to be Barkley or McCaffrey.
Speaker 2: It's gonna be McCaffrey. And I don't even hesitate to
Speaker 2: say that, And the main thing is, like Barkley All
Speaker 2: World rushing season last year. You go look at the
Speaker 2: stats from any two thousand yard rusher, you know they're
Speaker 2: rushing production all significantly declines the following year. For Barkley,
Speaker 2: what's his role going to be going to be as
Speaker 2: a receiver. He wasn't heavily involved as a pass catcher
Speaker 2: last year. McCaffrey like that, he's locked in for that
Speaker 2: role even if even if his rushing totals go down,
Speaker 2: like he's gonna be, maybe there's their second target arder,
Speaker 2: Like you know, San Francisco wide receivers are dropped on
Speaker 2: left and right. It's looking like it's going to be Kittle,
Speaker 2: Pearsall and Caffrey for sure. And you know that work
Speaker 2: as a receiver is what for me makes that a
Speaker 2: pretty easy call. Plus, if he still is getting the
Speaker 2: work as a rusher, you know, we know, we know what.
Speaker 1: He's capable of. He can put up one of those
Speaker 1: All World seasons. Yeah, Joe King already chiming in on
Speaker 1: YouTube CMC is the last man standing already in that
Speaker 1: San frans guy. Although Girndo did come back now, so
Speaker 1: we do have Grendo, which is which is good. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about another running back situation. These guys are going
Speaker 1: back to back right now, and both of them have
Speaker 1: been steamed up the board a little bit. Jordan Mason
Speaker 1: now in Minnesota or Jalen Warren in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 2: I'm going Mason, and you know, Kevin O'Connell has been
Speaker 2: gushing about this guy since they acquired him in the offseason.
Speaker 2: You know, it's going to be a better offense. I
Speaker 2: feel like, better offensive line. He might even be the
Speaker 2: goal line back. You know, Aaron Jones. I know they
Speaker 2: gave him an extension this offseason, but all the metrics
Speaker 2: for him, they point to a player and client. So
Speaker 2: there is a scenario where Jordan Mason take completely takes
Speaker 2: over this backfield by mid season. Jalen Warren look nice player.
Speaker 2: I think he's going to be another great option in PPR,
Speaker 2: you know, in PPR leagues as a flex maybe an
Speaker 2: RB two. My thing with Jalen Warren, though, you know
Speaker 2: he sat behind Najie Harris for three years and that
Speaker 2: could never beat him out. You know, we all know
Speaker 2: what Najee Harris is at this point for whatever, and look,
Speaker 2: jayn Warren's clearly looked like a superior rusher for whatever reason,
Speaker 2: that coaching staff didn't seem to think he was good enough,
Speaker 2: better than better enough th Naj Harris to give him
Speaker 2: the RB one role. Now, they brought him back this
Speaker 2: year as a restricted agents as a restricted free agent,
Speaker 2: and they signed him to a restricted free agent tender
Speaker 2: for five point three million dollars. It's not not exactly
Speaker 2: a ringing endorsement. And so I know Kayleb Johnson is
Speaker 2: having some issues and pass protection everything. I'm a big
Speaker 2: Kayleb Johnson fan. You know, I'm not as concerned about
Speaker 2: the lack of athleticism as others. And so the thing
Speaker 2: I just get caught up on with Warren, I just
Speaker 2: I'm just not quite sure that. I'm not quite sure
Speaker 2: why we think he is going to suddenly take over
Speaker 2: this backfield when he couldn't be down Nachie Harris for
Speaker 2: three years now.
Speaker 1: It's a good point, it's good good thinking there in
Speaker 1: regards to Jalen Warren. I think as much as I've
Speaker 1: drafted Jalen Warren, I think I might be with you
Speaker 1: on Mason here. Final one for the night. We'll go
Speaker 1: back to the wide receiver room. De Mario Douglas in
Speaker 1: New England or Joshua Palmer in Buffalo. This is another
Speaker 1: fun one, an underrated one, and quite frankly, not a
Speaker 1: lot of chatter going on beach No versus Palmer.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because I have shares of both both players across
Speaker 2: my dynasty leagues. But it's it's Pop Douglas, and the
Speaker 2: big thing is I think Douglas. You know, again, we
Speaker 2: don't know what's going to happen in New England as
Speaker 2: far as he's gonna be the wide receiver one. Douglas
Speaker 2: is wrong with Rave reviews. The thing with Palmer, I
Speaker 2: think he's a good player, but I think he could
Speaker 2: just be more of a rotational player. I expect, you know,
Speaker 2: Joe Brady's still the play caller, and I just still
Speaker 2: expect them to kind of go with that spread the
Speaker 2: ball around approach. I don't know that we're ever going
Speaker 2: to see it, you know, someone truly emerges as the
Speaker 2: wide receiver one there. I still think Palmer could be
Speaker 2: a great like deep league flex or like in some
Speaker 2: of these dynasty leagues where you know it's a start
Speaker 2: twelve and start thirteen things like that. Palmer could be
Speaker 2: a great flex play. But if you're forcing me to
Speaker 2: choose one. It's got to be Douglass just because I
Speaker 2: think he's the guy that has the best chance to
Speaker 2: emerge as his team's wide receiver.
Speaker 1: One. Yeah, I think like for me, I'm down on
Speaker 1: Shakir because of that high ankle spring. So yeah, I
Speaker 1: have shares of both of these players. Like you, I
Speaker 1: think it's Joshua Palmer for me as the way I
Speaker 1: would leave. Okay, of what Dave you ask me tomorrow,
Speaker 1: I might switch my mind to right between these guys.
Speaker 1: Always fun to put the guests on the clock tonight
Speaker 1: and Dave with with that, we're going to wrap up
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