WEBVTT 1 00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:56.200 Welcome into Fantasy Football Night in America. This is f 2 00:00:56.200 --> 00:01:00.320 FPC Insider Access on the Better Sports Network. My name 3 00:01:00.359 --> 00:01:02.560 is Eric Balkman. You know me from the High Stakes 4 00:01:02.840 --> 00:01:05.439 Fantasy Football Hour. The road of is high Stakes, low down, 5 00:01:05.480 --> 00:01:08.760 and of course the Fantasy Football Players Championship. You can 6 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:12.159 connect with me on x at Eric Balkman as well. 7 00:01:12.239 --> 00:01:14.920 High Hello and welcome. It is going to be a 8 00:01:14.959 --> 00:01:18.280 fun one tonight. It is late August. Two weeks from today, 9 00:01:18.519 --> 00:01:22.239 the NFL season will begin with the Cowboys and Eagles 10 00:01:22.319 --> 00:01:26.640 kicking it off live from Philadelphia. Cannot wait. 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And 55 00:03:33.479 --> 00:03:35.520 if I could bring you some bit of news here tonight, 56 00:03:35.919 --> 00:03:38.800 the six hour drafts be it in the Big Gorilla, 57 00:03:39.080 --> 00:03:42.159 the Best Ball Tournament, the main event, the super Flex 58 00:03:42.199 --> 00:03:45.479 Bestball Tournament, or Dynasty leagues. We are anticipating the last 59 00:03:45.560 --> 00:03:48.599 day we're offering those six hour drafts will be tomorrow. 60 00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:50.159 That's going to be it, and then we're going to 61 00:03:50.199 --> 00:03:52.599 switch to two hours or live drafts. So if you 62 00:03:52.879 --> 00:03:55.879 like the six hours six hour per pick, register your 63 00:03:55.879 --> 00:03:59.759 teams now at myffpc dot com. Shout out to our producers. 64 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:02.919 Show on Angle filling in for Matt Deutsch tonight, I 65 00:04:02.960 --> 00:04:05.159 will bring in my guest co host here shortly. But 66 00:04:05.240 --> 00:04:07.719 before we get to that, Before I bring him on, 67 00:04:07.759 --> 00:04:10.439 I do want to talk about what's going on around 68 00:04:10.479 --> 00:04:12.199 in the NFL. I think we have a game tonight. 69 00:04:12.400 --> 00:04:16.120 I want to say it's the Steelers and Panthers. Yeah, 70 00:04:16.160 --> 00:04:19.639 that's gonna kick off any minute here, I think. So 71 00:04:19.680 --> 00:04:23.639 we'll be following that action and we'll also have Patriots 72 00:04:23.680 --> 00:04:26.759 Giants at the top of the hour as well. For 73 00:04:26.839 --> 00:04:28.920 those of you who are looking to follow along with 74 00:04:28.959 --> 00:04:32.560 what's happening on in the NFL, you can check that 75 00:04:32.600 --> 00:04:35.920 out now. Okay, let's get into what's going on around 76 00:04:36.000 --> 00:04:41.879 the NFL. The We'll start off in northeast Wisconsin here 77 00:04:42.000 --> 00:04:44.759 where I'm at, talking about the Green Bay Packers. Matt 78 00:04:44.839 --> 00:04:49.279 Lafleur talked to the media today talking about Romeo. The 79 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:52.560 Romeo Dobs trade rumors that are out there and Lafleur said, 80 00:04:52.639 --> 00:04:56.439 that's not gonna happen. Lafleur went on to say that 81 00:04:58.120 --> 00:05:01.120 Dobbs is out there competing. He's done every thing that 82 00:05:01.319 --> 00:05:03.399 he needs to or that the Packers need to see 83 00:05:03.399 --> 00:05:06.639 from him. Remember last year, Dobbs was suspended for a game, 84 00:05:07.600 --> 00:05:10.480 and we got the feeling that it was because he 85 00:05:10.519 --> 00:05:12.560 was upset with his role or upset that he wasn't 86 00:05:13.199 --> 00:05:15.040 you know, getting the ball and off or what have you. 87 00:05:15.600 --> 00:05:18.199 After that one game suspension, came back, caught two touchdowns 88 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:21.279 and seemed to me that all of his you know, 89 00:05:21.279 --> 00:05:23.879 the guys that congratulated in the end zone first were 90 00:05:23.879 --> 00:05:26.800 his fellow wide receivers. So it sounds like this is 91 00:05:26.879 --> 00:05:28.720 this is a nothing burger and he's not going to 92 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:31.360 be moved. I think if you connect the dots, it's 93 00:05:31.399 --> 00:05:33.519 pretty easy to see that there are certain teams around 94 00:05:33.560 --> 00:05:36.399 the NFL that need receivers, and there are certain teams 95 00:05:36.439 --> 00:05:39.600 that are pretty rich with wide receivers, the Packers being 96 00:05:39.600 --> 00:05:41.439 one of them. It's part of the reason I have 97 00:05:41.560 --> 00:05:46.279 been staying away for from Green Bay receivers this year, 98 00:05:46.399 --> 00:05:50.959 including Tuckerkraft. And I'll explain why the Packers offense last 99 00:05:51.040 --> 00:05:55.560 year shifted to a much more robust running game, right, 100 00:05:55.600 --> 00:05:57.199 a power ground game. I think a lot of that 101 00:05:57.279 --> 00:06:00.519 had to do with Jordan Love in his knee injury. 102 00:06:00.800 --> 00:06:02.600 There wasn't a whole lot of fantasy goodness for wide 103 00:06:02.639 --> 00:06:04.680 receivers on a week to week basis. Yeah, Best Ball 104 00:06:04.720 --> 00:06:06.839 you probably made it work with Jayden Reid, but that 105 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:08.839 only lasted the first two thirds of the season, and 106 00:06:08.839 --> 00:06:10.959 then he had that shoulder injury kind of got shut 107 00:06:11.000 --> 00:06:14.439 down without being shut down after that, where the Packers 108 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:17.600 just never really used him. Obviously, Christian Watson is a 109 00:06:17.680 --> 00:06:19.720 huge threat when he's out on the field, and teams 110 00:06:19.720 --> 00:06:23.399 have to respect that. The fantasy production was just not there. 111 00:06:24.439 --> 00:06:26.199 And then you think about don Tavian Wicks had the 112 00:06:26.199 --> 00:06:27.959 opportunity to make a lot of big plays and get 113 00:06:27.959 --> 00:06:30.920 some spike weeks for Best Ball leagues, but he dropped 114 00:06:30.959 --> 00:06:33.759 a lot of passes last year too, which was really frustrating. 115 00:06:34.199 --> 00:06:36.480 You get Matthew Golden this year, you get Savian Williams, 116 00:06:36.519 --> 00:06:38.279 but all these other guys are back. Watson is probably 117 00:06:38.279 --> 00:06:41.199 going to be back at some point this season, and 118 00:06:41.920 --> 00:06:45.240 so now you have a situation where you have all 119 00:06:45.319 --> 00:06:47.879 this talent. The Packers are probably going to be passing 120 00:06:47.920 --> 00:06:49.560 a little bit more than they were last year, but 121 00:06:49.600 --> 00:06:51.319 maybe not all the way because they found something in 122 00:06:51.399 --> 00:06:53.959 Josh Jacobs. When you look at where you have to 123 00:06:54.040 --> 00:06:57.560 take some of these Green Bay packers, pass catchers and drafts. 124 00:06:57.839 --> 00:07:03.279 And I'll go with Fantasy Mojo's website. Darren ARMANI the 125 00:07:03.279 --> 00:07:07.560 godfather of the FFPC pros versus Joe's competition, a guy 126 00:07:07.639 --> 00:07:10.920 that anytime we cite ADP we are using his website 127 00:07:10.959 --> 00:07:14.199 fantasymojo dot com. Connect with them on x at Fantasy Mojo, 128 00:07:14.240 --> 00:07:16.120 and there's a ton of other tools on that when 129 00:07:16.120 --> 00:07:20.360 it comes to blind bidding for waivers at the stack counter, everything, 130 00:07:21.720 --> 00:07:25.360 stack tracker, everything like that is available at a fantasymojo 131 00:07:25.399 --> 00:07:27.519 dot com. And what I want to cite here is 132 00:07:27.560 --> 00:07:31.079 these packers ADP values for Big Gorilla drafts. Right, so 133 00:07:31.120 --> 00:07:33.519 you have Matthew Golden the first one off the board, 134 00:07:33.759 --> 00:07:36.040 wide receiver thirty nine at the seven O eight. Jayden 135 00:07:36.120 --> 00:07:38.560 Reig goes quite a bit behind him. Obviously he was 136 00:07:38.560 --> 00:07:41.040 in a walking boot until recently. He's going at the 137 00:07:41.120 --> 00:07:43.720 nine to eleven right now, by reading that, right, yeah, 138 00:07:43.800 --> 00:07:46.319 nine to eleven. Romeo Dobbs a sixteenth round pick, Christian 139 00:07:46.319 --> 00:07:50.800 Watson eighteenth, Dantavian Wis eighteenth. The value is fine for 140 00:07:50.959 --> 00:07:54.480 Watson and Wix there, but when are you going to 141 00:07:54.560 --> 00:07:56.519 know when it's a Watson week? When are you going 142 00:07:56.560 --> 00:07:58.959 to know when it's a Wix week. I'm fine with 143 00:07:59.000 --> 00:08:01.759 taking the chance on Matthew Golden, but now his price 144 00:08:01.800 --> 00:08:04.879 because of his big preseason and training camp, he's ascended 145 00:08:04.920 --> 00:08:06.720 to a mid seventh round pick. I don't know if 146 00:08:06.759 --> 00:08:09.120 I want to mess around with that, concidering that that 147 00:08:09.240 --> 00:08:11.279 is a valuable pick and I can get other receivers 148 00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:14.399 around him where I know what the role is on 149 00:08:14.439 --> 00:08:17.319 that team. Jayden Reid too is I think you could 150 00:08:17.439 --> 00:08:19.199 you could make the same case with him as well, 151 00:08:19.240 --> 00:08:21.800 so and Tuckercraft. That could be completely wrong about mate. 152 00:08:21.800 --> 00:08:24.360 If he's the top five tight end this year, that 153 00:08:24.360 --> 00:08:27.360 that should not surprise me, and it probably will. But 154 00:08:27.560 --> 00:08:30.959 for me and talking about the Packers, this is what 155 00:08:31.000 --> 00:08:34.320 it's all about. It's it's fine for best Ball not 156 00:08:34.399 --> 00:08:36.399 mess around with these guys and manage leagues. I was 157 00:08:36.480 --> 00:08:39.480 messing around with Matthew Golden briefly, but his ADP is 158 00:08:39.960 --> 00:08:42.080 getting a little too out of control for me. Now 159 00:08:42.120 --> 00:08:43.840 in the seventh round. In fact, he went as high 160 00:08:44.159 --> 00:08:47.240 as the early sixth in an f FPC Big Gorilla 161 00:08:47.320 --> 00:08:50.879 Draft yesterday. So that's something that we're following here with 162 00:08:50.919 --> 00:08:54.039 these packers. And if you've got a good handle on it, 163 00:08:54.080 --> 00:08:56.720 go with God. But I sure cannot figure it out 164 00:08:56.799 --> 00:08:59.519 and I don't plan on trying to figure that out 165 00:08:59.720 --> 00:09:04.639 going forward. Here, let's talk about Spencer Ratler. He is 166 00:09:04.679 --> 00:09:08.080 going to start the final preseason game of the season 167 00:09:08.120 --> 00:09:11.919 here for the Saints against the Broncos. The quarterbacks for 168 00:09:12.120 --> 00:09:17.000 New Orleans have had their moments against backups. Once they 169 00:09:17.120 --> 00:09:20.480 get to the starters is starting defenses. I don't think 170 00:09:20.519 --> 00:09:23.159 it's going to be all that great. Rattler actually started 171 00:09:23.200 --> 00:09:27.200 the second half last week, and I would imagine this 172 00:09:27.320 --> 00:09:30.679 might mean that Rattler is going to be the starter 173 00:09:30.759 --> 00:09:32.360 week one. Although I don't want to read too much 174 00:09:32.360 --> 00:09:34.720 into it. I think this is the take home with this. 175 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:41.399 You don't want to be interested in Saints' quarterbacks in 176 00:09:41.600 --> 00:09:46.080 chuck In and Rattler this year, Well you should be 177 00:09:46.080 --> 00:09:50.200 interested in what I'm interested in. Juwan Johnson, Chris Olave, 178 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:54.639 Rashid Shaheed I'm talking about and Alvin Kamara, I'm talking 179 00:09:54.679 --> 00:09:57.120 about taking all those guys, not on all the same team, 180 00:09:57.159 --> 00:09:59.840 but definitely at their prices in drafts. The New Orleans 181 00:09:59.879 --> 00:10:02.919 A offense last year was about as bad as one 182 00:10:02.919 --> 00:10:06.279 could imagine, and you know, I don't know how much 183 00:10:06.279 --> 00:10:08.759 worse it's gonna be this year, but you're gonna have 184 00:10:08.799 --> 00:10:11.039 Chris o'lave to start off this season. I still think 185 00:10:11.080 --> 00:10:15.399 Alvin Kamara there's something there. In regards to Rashid Shahed. 186 00:10:15.519 --> 00:10:17.320 This is a player that I just drafted him again 187 00:10:17.960 --> 00:10:21.440 in a KFFSC draft today. I just can't get enough 188 00:10:21.519 --> 00:10:24.559 of this guy, and he's going super late in drafts. 189 00:10:24.600 --> 00:10:27.639 If you look at the mojo on Rashid Shaheed right now, 190 00:10:27.879 --> 00:10:30.000 a player who has been working in the slot in 191 00:10:30.039 --> 00:10:32.039 training camp and in games as well, which is only 192 00:10:32.039 --> 00:10:35.159 going to add to his target volume this year. Shihed 193 00:10:35.240 --> 00:10:38.000 is wide receiver fifty four at the eleven oh seven 194 00:10:38.519 --> 00:10:40.960 and and Chris o'lave, Yeah, he's a he's a mid 195 00:10:41.000 --> 00:10:43.559 seventh round pick. But I think that the thing to 196 00:10:43.639 --> 00:10:47.120 understand with the Saints is both of these guys, Olave 197 00:10:47.240 --> 00:10:49.879 and Shaheed are gonna do numbers this year. I'm big 198 00:10:49.919 --> 00:10:53.559 fans of of Olave, and Shiheed, and Kamara is another 199 00:10:53.639 --> 00:10:56.360 running back too that I'm drafting as my number two 200 00:10:56.879 --> 00:10:58.759 in a lot of drafts. I think if you go 201 00:10:58.919 --> 00:11:00.879 robust running back, you might be able to get him 202 00:11:01.039 --> 00:11:03.320 as your third running back, although that might be getting 203 00:11:03.360 --> 00:11:08.279 a little bit aggressive dependent upon how your draft is going. Look, 204 00:11:08.399 --> 00:11:11.440 New Orleans gonna be passing a lot. They might be 205 00:11:11.480 --> 00:11:14.919 involved in some shootouts in that division with Tampa, Atlanta 206 00:11:15.240 --> 00:11:19.720 and Carolina. You don't necessarily, you know, like talent is 207 00:11:19.759 --> 00:11:23.320 not everything, and elite offenses are not everything. You know, 208 00:11:23.360 --> 00:11:25.799 Sometimes you just put up stats because you're forced to 209 00:11:25.799 --> 00:11:27.840 put up stats, and that could be the case with 210 00:11:27.960 --> 00:11:30.600 New Orleans this year. O Lovey's got talent. Sheheed's got talent. 211 00:11:30.679 --> 00:11:32.080 A lot of people were telling you to take where 212 00:11:32.120 --> 00:11:35.360 she Shiheed last year. I wasn't one of them, but 213 00:11:35.399 --> 00:11:38.039 I definitely am this year. I was on the Roda 214 00:11:38.039 --> 00:11:41.879 Wire Fantasy Football Draft marathon with Jim Coventry earlier this 215 00:11:41.919 --> 00:11:44.799 week and we were all assigned a team. Well, we 216 00:11:44.840 --> 00:11:46.600 got to pick a team, and I picked the Saints 217 00:11:47.440 --> 00:11:49.399 just because I saw some value there that I think 218 00:11:49.480 --> 00:11:52.039 was being underappreciated by FFPC drafters, And I think you 219 00:11:52.080 --> 00:11:53.759 need to take a closer look. When you're on the 220 00:11:53.840 --> 00:11:55.399 clock in the mid seventh, when you're on the clock 221 00:11:55.399 --> 00:11:57.360 in the midle eleventh, quite frankly, when you're on the 222 00:11:57.399 --> 00:12:00.960 clock in the in the early fourth Camara O Lave Shahid. 223 00:12:01.000 --> 00:12:03.639 These are guys Juan Johnson late too at the nineteen 224 00:12:03.679 --> 00:12:08.480 oh four in FFPC Big Gorilla drafts. It's crazy and 225 00:12:08.519 --> 00:12:11.600 you can get him as your third tight end, So 226 00:12:11.679 --> 00:12:14.360 I love that. I'm a big fan of that as well. 227 00:12:15.559 --> 00:12:18.360 Some Chargers news here and I want to lead things off. 228 00:12:18.399 --> 00:12:22.320 This will be my Omari and Hampton story. Daniel Popper, 229 00:12:22.320 --> 00:12:27.080 who covers the Los Angeles Chargers, cited Jim Harbaugh not 230 00:12:28.000 --> 00:12:31.519 talking about Naji Harris whether he's going to begin the 231 00:12:31.519 --> 00:12:34.960 regular season on the NFI list or not. He was 232 00:12:35.039 --> 00:12:40.399 asked about specifically by the media, and I don't know 233 00:12:40.440 --> 00:12:42.600 if it's Daniel Popper himself who asked it, but he 234 00:12:42.679 --> 00:12:45.120 was asked about, Hey, are you gonna put Naji Harris 235 00:12:45.159 --> 00:12:49.120 on the NFI list, and Harbass said, quote, when Naji 236 00:12:49.200 --> 00:12:52.360 is ready to play, Naji will be ready to play. 237 00:12:53.440 --> 00:12:56.879 And then speculation about whether he's going on this list 238 00:12:57.000 --> 00:13:00.879 or not beyond today goes over the eagle limit of 239 00:13:00.919 --> 00:13:04.919 what ifs. God bless Jim Harbaugh, a master wordsmith. Here, 240 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:09.200 here's the takeaway the tld R and this isn't good 241 00:13:09.200 --> 00:13:11.919 for Harris and you shouldn't feel great about drafting Naji 242 00:13:11.960 --> 00:13:15.320 Harris right now. You know the thing is with with 243 00:13:15.480 --> 00:13:18.840 this Chargers running back situation. To me, it's all about 244 00:13:18.840 --> 00:13:25.279 Omari and Hampton. If I'll say this, when you were 245 00:13:25.360 --> 00:13:28.000 drafting Omari and Hampton after the NFL Draft, you knew 246 00:13:28.120 --> 00:13:31.399 he was going to be sharing the backfield with Naji Harris. 247 00:13:31.440 --> 00:13:35.480 Right Jim Harbo has already said that he's going to 248 00:13:35.519 --> 00:13:38.240 be sharing the backfield with somebody. He was always going 249 00:13:38.320 --> 00:13:42.720 to be in a rotation. That rotation is going to 250 00:13:42.759 --> 00:13:47.720 be Omarion Hampton, Kamani Vidal, Raheem Sanders. None of these 251 00:13:47.720 --> 00:13:50.360 guys should scare you off of Omari and Hampton, who 252 00:13:50.360 --> 00:13:53.840 could be in for a big baller year. I understand 253 00:13:53.879 --> 00:13:56.759 the Rashaan Slater injury that was not great. In fact, 254 00:13:56.759 --> 00:13:59.279 there's there's some people that are saying that this is 255 00:13:59.440 --> 00:14:02.399 really going to destroy the offensive line in the Chargers 256 00:14:02.440 --> 00:14:04.759 offense in general. I'm not one of those people. I'm 257 00:14:04.799 --> 00:14:08.440 still team Omari and Hampton. He has ascended right now 258 00:14:08.519 --> 00:14:12.960 in drafts in FFPC Big Gorilla drafts. Over the last 259 00:14:12.960 --> 00:14:15.960 two days. You're looking at Naji Harris's running back fifty four, 260 00:14:16.000 --> 00:14:19.279 excuse me, Marion Hampton running back thirteen at the three 261 00:14:19.399 --> 00:14:23.559 h four. John Dagel from established the run in his 262 00:14:23.840 --> 00:14:27.039 pros Versus Joe's draft after the news came out about 263 00:14:27.080 --> 00:14:30.080 Harris where you know, he couldn't open his eye. He 264 00:14:30.240 --> 00:14:33.600 was wearing a weighted vest and walking around. John Dagiel 265 00:14:33.639 --> 00:14:35.240 and his pros Versus Joe draft took him at the 266 00:14:35.320 --> 00:14:36.799 end of the second round, like at the two ten, 267 00:14:37.679 --> 00:14:39.519 and we thought that was crazy. And now it's just 268 00:14:39.559 --> 00:14:42.799 like he was just being aggressive because it could be 269 00:14:43.159 --> 00:14:45.679 wheels up for Hampton this year, with or without Slater. 270 00:14:45.960 --> 00:14:48.600 He's gonna get volume, he's gonna do numbers, He's going 271 00:14:48.639 --> 00:14:52.080 to catch passes, he's gonna do it all. Naji Harris 272 00:14:52.159 --> 00:14:54.320 to me, I mean, I don't know how late he'd 273 00:14:54.320 --> 00:14:56.039 have to go for me to consider him. At this point. 274 00:14:56.080 --> 00:14:58.519 In fact, I'm kind of regretting drafting him after the 275 00:14:58.519 --> 00:15:00.639 fireworks incident. I think it was gonna be as bad 276 00:15:01.320 --> 00:15:03.639 he has fallen to the thirteenth round, and I still 277 00:15:03.720 --> 00:15:07.080 don't know if he's worth taking in the thirteenth round. 278 00:15:07.120 --> 00:15:10.919 This could be something that dogs them all year. So 279 00:15:11.159 --> 00:15:14.600 this is this is something that we will be following 280 00:15:14.720 --> 00:15:19.399 over the next two weeks. But FFPC Drafters are certainly 281 00:15:19.480 --> 00:15:22.759 not pushing him up boards right now, and I don't 282 00:15:22.759 --> 00:15:24.039 know what the ceiling is. I don't know what the 283 00:15:24.120 --> 00:15:26.279 upside is of taking him in the thirteenth round either. 284 00:15:26.759 --> 00:15:29.159 There's some contingent upside I guess if Hanton were to 285 00:15:29.200 --> 00:15:31.320 go down. But Harris is still probably gonna be sharing 286 00:15:31.320 --> 00:15:33.480 the backfield with these other guys and rotating him in 287 00:15:35.840 --> 00:15:38.240 sticking with the Chargers here, let's talk about the receivers. 288 00:15:38.679 --> 00:15:42.320 Trey Harris Quentin Johnston are both in the news. Trey 289 00:15:42.360 --> 00:15:45.399 Harris is not going to be playing tonight. He left 290 00:15:45.480 --> 00:15:49.159 yesterday's practice early due to tightness. Jim Harbad did not 291 00:15:49.320 --> 00:15:53.559 speak to this much. Here's why I don't think it 292 00:15:53.559 --> 00:15:58.159 necessarily matters, because of the signing of Keenan Allen, because 293 00:15:58.200 --> 00:16:01.080 of the big time play of ca Andre Lambert Smith. 294 00:16:01.879 --> 00:16:05.720 I think that you have to start looking at Trey 295 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:08.600 Harris as just kind of having a lost year in 296 00:16:08.600 --> 00:16:11.720 twenty twenty five, he's been out played by a rookie 297 00:16:11.759 --> 00:16:14.080 that was drafted after him. The Chargers went out and 298 00:16:14.120 --> 00:16:16.720 got their old familiar slot guy in Keenan Allen, who's 299 00:16:16.759 --> 00:16:18.759 actually been playing on the outside now for the Chargers. 300 00:16:19.240 --> 00:16:22.159 So Trey Harris is fine for Dynasty. I drafted him 301 00:16:22.159 --> 00:16:23.799 a couple of spots. I'm not cutting. I'm gonna keep 302 00:16:23.840 --> 00:16:27.559 him there obviously, but for redraft purposes, I think he 303 00:16:27.720 --> 00:16:29.679 just let him go. I don't I don't really see 304 00:16:29.679 --> 00:16:32.759 the upside here with Trey Harris. Not to mention Quentin Johnston, 305 00:16:33.039 --> 00:16:36.879 who we were worried about this this injury that he had. 306 00:16:37.080 --> 00:16:41.399 He had a neck injury. I believe it was late 307 00:16:41.480 --> 00:16:43.240 last week. I don't think it was early this week, 308 00:16:44.399 --> 00:16:47.279 and he came back to practice. Quentin Johnston, as much 309 00:16:47.320 --> 00:16:50.399 as he's been kind of a punchline over the course 310 00:16:50.440 --> 00:16:52.320 of his rookie year in the NFL, he took some 311 00:16:52.360 --> 00:16:54.879 strides last year and he's been showing out in camp 312 00:16:54.960 --> 00:16:57.519 this year. We just kind of always assumed that these 313 00:16:57.559 --> 00:17:00.159 first round receivers are ready to go, but there were 314 00:17:00.159 --> 00:17:02.759 people out there telling you, and I quite frankly was 315 00:17:02.799 --> 00:17:04.559 probably one of them. Maybe not as loud as some 316 00:17:04.599 --> 00:17:07.200 other people that it might be, you know, Quentin Johnston 317 00:17:07.279 --> 00:17:10.799 might need some extra seasoning to try to get going 318 00:17:11.119 --> 00:17:18.039 here in in the NFL. And it did not surprise 319 00:17:18.079 --> 00:17:21.000 me at all that he let us down his rookie year. 320 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:22.759 It also didn't surprise me at all that he took 321 00:17:22.799 --> 00:17:25.039 a step forward. This is sort of like the path 322 00:17:25.079 --> 00:17:27.000 of a lot of rookie receivers, whether you're drafted in 323 00:17:27.079 --> 00:17:29.559 the first round or not. So Quentin Johnston, I'm actually 324 00:17:29.640 --> 00:17:31.640 in on a little bit this year. I think when 325 00:17:31.680 --> 00:17:33.720 you look at the values of these players, as far 326 00:17:33.720 --> 00:17:36.519 as the receivers go, Trey Harris, I'm not taking him 327 00:17:36.519 --> 00:17:39.720 in the fourteenth Quentin Johnston in the eighteenth. I could 328 00:17:39.720 --> 00:17:41.920 see a path there in a managed league where he 329 00:17:42.000 --> 00:17:45.720 might make some Sensekeandre Lambert Smith, Okay, maybe still because 330 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:47.880 he's the rookie, he's the unknown. It's an eighteenth round pick, 331 00:17:48.240 --> 00:17:50.519 you know whatever. I guess I can get on board 332 00:17:50.519 --> 00:17:52.799 with that, But definitely in on Keenan Allen. He's still 333 00:17:52.799 --> 00:17:55.079 a double digit round player. He's probably gonna catch eighty 334 00:17:55.079 --> 00:17:57.599 balls this year for you know, seven hundred some yards 335 00:17:57.599 --> 00:18:00.279 and half dozen touchdowns, and there's value in that in 336 00:18:00.359 --> 00:18:02.839 manage leagues, and obviously Lad McConkie is a guy that 337 00:18:02.880 --> 00:18:05.039 I never really dropped in in my rankings at all. 338 00:18:05.079 --> 00:18:09.559 He's a guy that was going in the late second 339 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:14.240 round for the most part and then after allan I 340 00:18:14.240 --> 00:18:16.279 mean he slipped a little bit over the last two days. 341 00:18:16.279 --> 00:18:19.759 In the Big Guerrilla Tournament. Mcconki has gone as late 342 00:18:19.799 --> 00:18:21.559 as the three oh seven, but he's also gone as 343 00:18:21.599 --> 00:18:23.079 high as the two o six, So that's like a 344 00:18:23.119 --> 00:18:25.119 full round there where he's kind of going all over 345 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:28.000 the place there. But he's a guy I don't doubt 346 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:30.039 this season. He's a player that I definitely want to 347 00:18:30.079 --> 00:18:34.400 be in business with going forward. Death taxes and t 348 00:18:34.599 --> 00:18:37.960 Higgins injuries right, well, we had another one earlier this afternoon. 349 00:18:38.440 --> 00:18:44.079 T Higgins resumed practice today after he had his left 350 00:18:44.119 --> 00:18:48.599 ankle examined by Bengals trainers. Now it looks like he's 351 00:18:48.640 --> 00:18:52.079 gonna be fine, and I would think that there's you know, 352 00:18:52.119 --> 00:18:53.960 the fact that he resumed practicing, I would think that 353 00:18:53.960 --> 00:18:57.240 there's nothing here. But if you look at what T 354 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:00.200 Higgins has undergone, what he suffered through the core of 355 00:19:00.240 --> 00:19:03.839 his career, his lower body is not exactly made of 356 00:19:05.279 --> 00:19:10.200 iron right. He's had some problems there, Higgins. But here's 357 00:19:10.240 --> 00:19:12.880 the thing. This is what you're doing when you're getting 358 00:19:12.920 --> 00:19:15.640 into business with T. Higgins when you want to draft him, 359 00:19:15.680 --> 00:19:18.200 and right now he is going as wide receiver thirteen 360 00:19:18.519 --> 00:19:20.400 at the three oh six. If you want to take 361 00:19:20.480 --> 00:19:23.279 him as a high end wide receiver two, low end 362 00:19:23.319 --> 00:19:26.200 wide receiver one, you have to understand that with this 363 00:19:26.319 --> 00:19:29.599 elite offense, with this bad defense, with all the numbers, 364 00:19:29.640 --> 00:19:32.279 the yards, the scores that Cincinnati is going to put 365 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:35.240 up this year, you have to understand at the same time, 366 00:19:35.559 --> 00:19:37.119 there is a bit of an injury risk, and you 367 00:19:37.200 --> 00:19:40.480 have to be prepared for that. Now, if you know 368 00:19:40.799 --> 00:19:42.960 before the week starts that he's hurt and you can 369 00:19:43.000 --> 00:19:45.279 put somebody in, hey great. The thing I always worry 370 00:19:45.319 --> 00:19:48.599 about with drafting these guys, starting them when they're healthy, 371 00:19:48.839 --> 00:19:50.480 and then they get dinged up in the first quarter 372 00:19:50.559 --> 00:19:52.279 or the first half and you end up getting very 373 00:19:52.279 --> 00:19:56.400 little from them that game. I don't draft scared when 374 00:19:56.400 --> 00:19:59.400 I'm thinking about drafting T. Higgins. I understand the injury 375 00:19:59.440 --> 00:20:02.680 aspect of but it doesn't play that much in my mind. 376 00:20:02.759 --> 00:20:05.079 If I'm trying to win a big national tournament like 377 00:20:05.119 --> 00:20:07.799 if you're trying to win the FFPC Main Event or 378 00:20:07.839 --> 00:20:10.480 the FFPC Big Gorilla. I don't think you have. You 379 00:20:10.480 --> 00:20:12.519 should be drafting with that fear in your head with 380 00:20:12.559 --> 00:20:16.039 T Higgins. Recognize the upside, Recognize what he can do 381 00:20:16.079 --> 00:20:18.160 when he's right. I can't remember who said this. It 382 00:20:18.200 --> 00:20:20.160 was referring to Christian McCaffrey. I want to say it 383 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:22.160 was Ben Gretch. I think I've referenced this on the 384 00:20:22.160 --> 00:20:28.079 show before, Ben Gretch from from Stealing Signals. Sometimes we 385 00:20:28.200 --> 00:20:31.920 ask ourselves the question about drafting these guys high, and 386 00:20:32.079 --> 00:20:34.599 I think he was referencing McCaffrey, Well, what happens if 387 00:20:34.640 --> 00:20:36.680 he gets hurt? You know? Then what does my team 388 00:20:36.720 --> 00:20:39.160 look like? What happens if this guy goes down? Then? 389 00:20:39.160 --> 00:20:40.759 How am I going to cobble together a line up? 390 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:43.519 What happens if this guy can't play for me? How 391 00:20:43.559 --> 00:20:45.400 am I going to win games and put up points? 392 00:20:45.960 --> 00:20:48.319 And Ben said, well, maybe the question we should be 393 00:20:48.319 --> 00:20:52.799 asking ourselves what happens if he doesn't get hurt, What 394 00:20:52.960 --> 00:20:56.119 happens if he stays healthy? What happens if we get 395 00:20:56.400 --> 00:20:58.519 seventeen games from T Higgins? What happens if we get 396 00:20:58.559 --> 00:21:01.519 seventeen games from Christian McCaffrey. You know, it's these types 397 00:21:01.559 --> 00:21:04.359 of things, and we got that answer with Saquon Barkley 398 00:21:04.400 --> 00:21:07.279 last year with the Eagles, Right, but I'm worried. You know, 399 00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:10.880 he's he's had some lower body stuff and over the 400 00:21:10.920 --> 00:21:13.920 course of his career he's missignificant time. Well, he stayed 401 00:21:13.960 --> 00:21:17.920 healthy for seventeen games, put up two thousand yards. I 402 00:21:17.960 --> 00:21:20.400 had a legit shot at winning the MVP in any 403 00:21:20.440 --> 00:21:22.319 other year except for the years that josh Annaen and 404 00:21:22.359 --> 00:21:26.519 Lamar Jackson had. So the question was answered last year. 405 00:21:26.519 --> 00:21:29.720 What happens if Saquon Barkley doesn't get hurt, You're probably 406 00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:32.160 winning a lot of fantasy leagues. This is a guy 407 00:21:32.160 --> 00:21:34.319 that was going in the early second round and finished 408 00:21:34.359 --> 00:21:37.400 as the best running back in football. Something to keep 409 00:21:37.400 --> 00:21:39.279 in mind. I think sometimes we often think about the 410 00:21:39.319 --> 00:21:42.640 bad so much and we don't necessarily think about the positive. 411 00:21:42.640 --> 00:21:46.400 We don't necessarily think about the good. All Right, I 412 00:21:46.480 --> 00:21:49.440 want to move on here and go to Southern California. 413 00:21:51.359 --> 00:21:53.200 We may or may not touch on this later on 414 00:21:53.279 --> 00:21:54.880 in the show. I don't think we will, actually, so 415 00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:57.319 this is good that we could break this down now. 416 00:21:58.440 --> 00:22:03.079 Matt Stafford is practicing in full this week. This according 417 00:22:03.440 --> 00:22:06.640 to his head coach Sean McVay. Remember, he had that 418 00:22:06.759 --> 00:22:11.039 back injury that prevented him from starting training camp, was 419 00:22:11.119 --> 00:22:15.160 unhealthy or not healthy enough to play, and McVeigh said 420 00:22:15.160 --> 00:22:19.319 he feels quote unquote good about his current participation level, 421 00:22:19.599 --> 00:22:24.599 and obviously you want him to not suffer any setbacks, 422 00:22:24.960 --> 00:22:29.359 not needing the extra days off. And the reason I 423 00:22:29.400 --> 00:22:32.880 bring this up is not necessarily, hey, should I be 424 00:22:32.960 --> 00:22:35.119 drafting Matthew Stafford this year? The reason I bring it 425 00:22:35.200 --> 00:22:39.000 up is what it does to Kien Williams and then 426 00:22:39.000 --> 00:22:43.599 specifically DeVante Adams and Pukin Nakua. I have been with 427 00:22:43.680 --> 00:22:47.200 the acceptance of just drafting DeVante Adams in one draft 428 00:22:47.240 --> 00:22:50.079 about three days ago, two or three days ago, I 429 00:22:50.119 --> 00:22:53.000 can't remember. I haven't really drafted a whole lot. I 430 00:22:53.000 --> 00:22:54.640 think I have Nicola in one draft so far. I 431 00:22:54.640 --> 00:22:59.039 don't think I have Karen Williams anywhere. Matthew Stafford is 432 00:22:59.119 --> 00:23:04.480 never then the guy that is the fantasy beneficiary of 433 00:23:04.519 --> 00:23:07.400 having two great targets. He had Cooper Cup and Pokin 434 00:23:07.440 --> 00:23:09.720 Akula for the last couple of years, and those guys 435 00:23:09.720 --> 00:23:12.839 were great when they were out there, but at the 436 00:23:12.880 --> 00:23:16.839 same time, Matthew Stafford wasn't putting up big numbers. So 437 00:23:16.920 --> 00:23:19.400 this isn't a question of Matthew Stafford. This for me 438 00:23:19.519 --> 00:23:24.200 is a question of the likelihood that Stafford is out 439 00:23:24.240 --> 00:23:28.359 there for fourteen fifteen sixteen games this season throwing in 440 00:23:28.440 --> 00:23:35.440 Nikouah and Adams. The thing that you have to understand 441 00:23:36.000 --> 00:23:39.039 is Jimmy Garoppolo is the backup, and the backup plan 442 00:23:39.440 --> 00:23:42.240 to Jimmy Garoppolo may or may not be a trade 443 00:23:42.240 --> 00:23:44.519 with the Atlanta Falcons to get Kirk Cousins on board. 444 00:23:45.480 --> 00:23:48.119 Those are two not great plans. Now, I think Garoppolo 445 00:23:48.240 --> 00:23:51.960 is gonna be okay enough to keep DeVante Adams and 446 00:23:52.000 --> 00:23:56.359 Pokinakula from losing you weeks in fantasy. But at the 447 00:23:56.359 --> 00:23:58.640 same time, I don't know if he's going to be 448 00:23:59.079 --> 00:24:01.200 able to get the best out of these guys so 449 00:24:01.240 --> 00:24:03.599 that they're helping you win. And they need to help 450 00:24:03.640 --> 00:24:06.480 you win and not just help you not lose. Because 451 00:24:06.559 --> 00:24:08.880 Niku was the first round pick, you know, DeVonta Adams 452 00:24:08.880 --> 00:24:11.440 the third round pick. These guys need to be difference 453 00:24:11.519 --> 00:24:15.079 makers for you. That's the Stafford side of it. Who 454 00:24:15.119 --> 00:24:17.359 by the way, and I'll bring this up too. They 455 00:24:17.400 --> 00:24:19.480 have the big RV or whatever it was called. I 456 00:24:19.480 --> 00:24:22.839 don't remember the name of it, but the thing that 457 00:24:24.200 --> 00:24:28.920 he was going into for treatment. I guess this is 458 00:24:28.960 --> 00:24:33.519 something that the RAMS pay for for their players to 459 00:24:33.599 --> 00:24:35.519 go in. There's some red light therapy, there's all these 460 00:24:35.559 --> 00:24:37.240 different things, and like I said, that's a big I 461 00:24:37.240 --> 00:24:39.200 can't remember what it was called, but it's like this big, 462 00:24:39.240 --> 00:24:44.079 giant tube, this big RV trailer sized thing. And Stafford 463 00:24:44.160 --> 00:24:45.720 used it, but so did a lot of the other 464 00:24:46.400 --> 00:24:48.359 Los Angeles Rams, and it wasn't I don't even think 465 00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:49.920 he got his back worked on in there. It just 466 00:24:49.920 --> 00:24:52.119 got some other stuff like that. So I think that 467 00:24:52.200 --> 00:24:54.200 was a little bit overblown. But dude is thirty seven 468 00:24:54.279 --> 00:24:57.480 years old. Stafford is not being taken down in practice 469 00:24:57.559 --> 00:25:00.599 right now. He is not being hit in practice, and 470 00:25:00.880 --> 00:25:03.599 he's practicing every day this week, which is great. So 471 00:25:04.599 --> 00:25:07.440 what happens when he takes that first big sack of 472 00:25:07.480 --> 00:25:09.359 the season, How does he get up from that? What 473 00:25:09.480 --> 00:25:12.799 happens when he's got to bounce back from you know, 474 00:25:12.839 --> 00:25:15.519 a Monday night game and then playing on Sunday the 475 00:25:15.559 --> 00:25:18.359 following week, or what happens if he if he's if 476 00:25:18.359 --> 00:25:20.400 he plays on Sunday and he's got to go on Thursday. 477 00:25:20.599 --> 00:25:23.759 You know, the wear and tear of the body of 478 00:25:23.759 --> 00:25:25.960 Matthew Stafford or the course of fifteen years in this 479 00:25:26.079 --> 00:25:29.079 league is significant, and it could get even more significant 480 00:25:29.119 --> 00:25:32.240 this year. And like I said, it's Garoppolo and maybe 481 00:25:32.359 --> 00:25:34.759 Stetson Bennett or kir Cousins. I don't know, but it's 482 00:25:34.799 --> 00:25:36.759 not great solution. And then you look at the wide 483 00:25:36.799 --> 00:25:41.559 receivers themselves. Pukakua a guy who we love watching. We 484 00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:44.680 are a huge fan. We are huge fans of watching 485 00:25:44.680 --> 00:25:48.920 Pukainakua play football. He's fantastic. He goes, He's just always 486 00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:51.960 going all out every single play, no plays off. Here's 487 00:25:51.960 --> 00:25:54.319 the problem with that. Human body isn't meant to do that. 488 00:25:54.480 --> 00:25:57.720 From the wide receiver position, guy needs to take care 489 00:25:57.720 --> 00:26:00.319 of his body and he does not. He does not 490 00:26:00.480 --> 00:26:03.359 care about what happens to his body, doesn't land right. 491 00:26:03.720 --> 00:26:06.400 He's always going the extra mile and that has cost 492 00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:08.599 him games before. It's probably gonna cost him games again 493 00:26:08.680 --> 00:26:11.599 this year. So I worry. I love the reckless abandon 494 00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:15.119 from a selfish fans standpoint, I don't like it from 495 00:26:15.160 --> 00:26:17.799 a selfish fantasy standpoint because I don't know if that's 496 00:26:17.799 --> 00:26:21.839 what you want for your fantasy players. DeVante Adams too, 497 00:26:23.279 --> 00:26:25.759 he's probably gonna be okay. I feel better about his 498 00:26:25.880 --> 00:26:28.720 draft capital and investing in him. I like the investment 499 00:26:28.759 --> 00:26:31.319 of Devonte Adams at cost better than I like the 500 00:26:31.359 --> 00:26:37.400 investment of Pukaakua at cost. I'm a big fan of Adams. 501 00:26:37.400 --> 00:26:39.480 Over the course of his career. What he's been able 502 00:26:39.519 --> 00:26:40.880 to do as a Hall of Famer, a future Hall 503 00:26:40.880 --> 00:26:43.960 of Famer, He's fantastic. But he is getting up there 504 00:26:43.960 --> 00:26:46.200 in age, and I think if if you look at 505 00:26:46.240 --> 00:26:48.200 certain metrics, you have to kind of pick and choose. 506 00:26:48.519 --> 00:26:50.559 But there were certain things that we saw last year. 507 00:26:50.799 --> 00:26:52.599 Maybe he is slowing down a little bit and he's 508 00:26:52.599 --> 00:26:55.359 not a spring chicken anymore. So that's the other thing 509 00:26:55.519 --> 00:26:57.720 I think. I recognize the upside with the Rams, and 510 00:26:57.720 --> 00:27:00.599 you don't want to draft scare So if you are 511 00:27:00.640 --> 00:27:02.880 a believer in those guys, hey, you get the bulky 512 00:27:02.920 --> 00:27:06.079 stamp of approval on that. For me and my teams, 513 00:27:06.680 --> 00:27:08.640 I'm probably gonna go a different direction on a lot 514 00:27:08.680 --> 00:27:11.440 of those guys as it stands right now. For where 515 00:27:11.440 --> 00:27:14.160 these guys are going in drafts right now, Puka Nakua 516 00:27:14.839 --> 00:27:18.519 wide receiver seven at the two oh three. I mean, 517 00:27:18.920 --> 00:27:22.759 give me Brian Thomas there instead of Nakuah there, Drake 518 00:27:22.839 --> 00:27:25.319 London goes after him. Drake London can lead the league 519 00:27:25.400 --> 00:27:28.359 in targets this year. I'd rather have him than Nikua. 520 00:27:28.440 --> 00:27:30.359 Then you get into the aj Brown lad Mconche and 521 00:27:30.400 --> 00:27:32.279 then it's it's a little bit dicey then, but these 522 00:27:32.319 --> 00:27:36.000 guys are going a full round after Nikoua. And by 523 00:27:36.039 --> 00:27:37.599 the way, if you don't like Nikoua, it's not like 524 00:27:37.640 --> 00:27:40.079 you have to take a wide receiver there. Derrick Henry 525 00:27:40.119 --> 00:27:43.119 is going after him. Devon Chan, depend upon how you 526 00:27:43.160 --> 00:27:45.200 feel about him, he's going after him, Chase Brown, Bucky here, 527 00:27:45.240 --> 00:27:48.880 Mcjonathan Taylor. The list goes on. There's plenty of people 528 00:27:49.079 --> 00:27:52.240 that will tell you that all those guys are better 529 00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:54.960 choices than Nikoua, and I might be one of them 530 00:27:55.200 --> 00:27:58.200 for the Rams right now in general. And then oh, 531 00:27:58.599 --> 00:28:01.720 getting back to Devonte Adams right now, he's wide receiver eighteen. 532 00:28:01.799 --> 00:28:03.640 I think you can make a strong case that Tetero 533 00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:07.000 McMillan's a better choice than him. Xavier Worthy, Courtland Sutton, 534 00:28:07.480 --> 00:28:09.519 I think I'd rather have all Well, let me think 535 00:28:09.559 --> 00:28:12.000 about this. I'd rather have McMillan than him, for sure, 536 00:28:12.000 --> 00:28:15.720 I'd rather have I think i'd rather have Marvin Harris. Yea, 537 00:28:15.720 --> 00:28:18.559 I'd rather have Marvin Harrison than I'm xavier' worthy. I'd 538 00:28:18.599 --> 00:28:20.559 rather have than him. And then it gets a little bit. 539 00:28:21.319 --> 00:28:23.240 I'd probably split it down the middle between Adams and 540 00:28:23.279 --> 00:28:25.799 Courtland Sutton. That's that's just a feel thing for me 541 00:28:26.119 --> 00:28:29.079 at that point. Some things, I might take Sutton. Some leagues, 542 00:28:29.160 --> 00:28:31.000 I might take Adams, but all those guys are going 543 00:28:31.039 --> 00:28:34.759 after him in ADP right now, so something to be monitoring. 544 00:28:36.440 --> 00:28:43.720 Bryce Hall is also going after Davante Adams, but I 545 00:28:43.720 --> 00:28:45.400 think I'd rather have Adams there. We might may or 546 00:28:45.440 --> 00:28:48.000 may not get into the Jets running game later on 547 00:28:48.079 --> 00:28:53.079 in the show. Let's talk about let's see what do 548 00:28:53.079 --> 00:28:54.920 I want to go to next? Here? I think I 549 00:28:55.000 --> 00:28:59.039 will go to Travis Hunter because this is a of 550 00:28:59.079 --> 00:29:02.359 all the players that I have drafted so far this year, 551 00:29:02.359 --> 00:29:07.640 and I'm in probably i don't know, maybe fifteen, ten 552 00:29:07.640 --> 00:29:10.799 to fifteen Best ball Leagues and twenty to twenty five 553 00:29:10.839 --> 00:29:12.960 Managed league somewhere around there. As it stands right now, 554 00:29:14.599 --> 00:29:16.880 I think that I'm more of a managed league Best 555 00:29:16.880 --> 00:29:19.799 Ball's fun, but I like to be able to mold 556 00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:22.319 my clay, so to speak, throughout the season. So I'm 557 00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:24.880 definitely in more managed leagues. Travis Hunter's on a lot 558 00:29:24.920 --> 00:29:30.200 of them, and I'm not panicking yet, and I don't 559 00:29:30.200 --> 00:29:33.240 think anybody should be panicking. But Travis Hunter did not 560 00:29:33.319 --> 00:29:36.200 practice today. He's got an upper body injury. Don't know 561 00:29:36.200 --> 00:29:39.640 what that means, and he's not going to be playing 562 00:29:40.960 --> 00:29:45.559 in Not only he missed the joint practice today with 563 00:29:45.680 --> 00:29:47.480 the Dolphins, and he's not gonna be playing in the 564 00:29:47.480 --> 00:29:52.680 Saturday game against Miami as well. Apparently Liam Cohen considered 565 00:29:52.839 --> 00:29:57.680 allowing Hunter to play today this is Thursday, but he 566 00:29:57.759 --> 00:30:01.559 wanted to avoid any chance of rea aggravation of the injury, 567 00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:07.480 so no setbacks have been reported. If it was a 568 00:30:07.519 --> 00:30:10.799 game today, Cohen said that a Hunter probably would have played. 569 00:30:11.160 --> 00:30:14.480 None of the starters are actually playing for the Jaguars 570 00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:17.839 against the Dolphins, so that's good. It doesn't make me 571 00:30:17.880 --> 00:30:21.119 feel great, But at the same time, part of the 572 00:30:21.160 --> 00:30:25.079 reason I love drafting Travis Hunter so much this season 573 00:30:25.720 --> 00:30:28.799 is he's a unicorn. He is a true unknown. We 574 00:30:28.839 --> 00:30:31.920 talk about drafting unknowns as far as rookies go, Like 575 00:30:31.960 --> 00:30:34.279 We just don't know how they're going to perform at 576 00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:37.279 the NFL level. Justin Jefferson was far from the first 577 00:30:37.400 --> 00:30:40.519 wide receiver drafted the year he's picked in the NFL 578 00:30:40.839 --> 00:30:42.799 and then went on to have an absolute baller season 579 00:30:42.839 --> 00:30:45.200 and he's on the Hall of Fame trajectory right now. 580 00:30:45.559 --> 00:30:47.960 So we just don't know. And then you know, John 581 00:30:48.079 --> 00:30:52.960 Ross a former top ten pick, Corey Davis, a former 582 00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:54.680 top five pick. We thought those guys are going to 583 00:30:54.720 --> 00:30:57.759 be great, they weren't in the pros. So you just 584 00:30:57.839 --> 00:31:01.359 never know. And yeah, when you draft players like this, 585 00:31:01.960 --> 00:31:04.400 some of them are gonna bust. But sometimes you have 586 00:31:04.440 --> 00:31:07.559 to live dangerously. And I don't think there's a whole 587 00:31:07.640 --> 00:31:10.519 lot of danger and Hunter, I think this guy is 588 00:31:10.559 --> 00:31:13.160 a freak. I think what he was able to do 589 00:31:13.200 --> 00:31:16.440 at the collegiate level blew my mind and a lot 590 00:31:16.440 --> 00:31:20.400 of other people's minds. It was absolutely crazy town banana 591 00:31:20.440 --> 00:31:23.200 pants that this guy was playing, you know, nearly every 592 00:31:23.279 --> 00:31:28.440 single snap offense and defense for an FBS program. It 593 00:31:28.519 --> 00:31:31.720 was just crazy. Wins the Fred Blitnikoff Trophy for the 594 00:31:31.720 --> 00:31:35.119 best wide receiver, wins the Heisman Trophy for the best player, 595 00:31:35.279 --> 00:31:37.920 and now he's wide receiver thirty one at the six 596 00:31:38.039 --> 00:31:41.200 oh five. I get that Brian Thomas is going to 597 00:31:41.240 --> 00:31:44.359 command a lot of targets, but Jaguar's paid a lot 598 00:31:44.359 --> 00:31:47.759 of draft capital to move up to select Hunter. And 599 00:31:48.279 --> 00:31:50.880 you know we're talking about I think Liam Cohen said 600 00:31:50.880 --> 00:31:53.200 that eighty percent of his practices we're going to be 601 00:31:53.240 --> 00:31:55.400 spent on offense. I don't know if that means eighty 602 00:31:55.400 --> 00:31:57.839 percent of the snaps he's gonna play. That'd be a 603 00:31:57.960 --> 00:32:01.079 really high rate, especially if he's playing defense. So I'd 604 00:32:01.119 --> 00:32:03.640 definitely be down on that or down for that, I 605 00:32:03.640 --> 00:32:06.839 should say. The thing with Hunter is though, like I 606 00:32:06.880 --> 00:32:09.960 don't know what this guy is capable of and not 607 00:32:10.079 --> 00:32:13.119 in equal parts, but that scares me, and it also 608 00:32:13.200 --> 00:32:15.720 excites me of having this guy in my team as 609 00:32:15.720 --> 00:32:18.000 my third wide receiver or if I go heavy wide 610 00:32:18.039 --> 00:32:22.440 receiver early on hav him like my fourth wide receiver. 611 00:32:22.640 --> 00:32:25.359 Travis Hunter is your four. There's a non zero chance 612 00:32:25.400 --> 00:32:27.039 that this guy is a top fifteen guy this year. 613 00:32:27.200 --> 00:32:29.400 And I know you have to be bullish on Liam Cohen, 614 00:32:29.440 --> 00:32:31.359 you have to be bullish on Trevor Lawrence, and that 615 00:32:31.400 --> 00:32:34.480 hasn't really worked out in the past. Being bullish on 616 00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:38.319 Trevor Lawrence. But at the same time, you have to 617 00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:40.359 recognize the upside, and there's a ton of it with 618 00:32:40.400 --> 00:32:43.480 Travis Hunter as long as he stays in the mid 619 00:32:43.559 --> 00:32:46.640 sixth round FFPC Drafters. I think he's a player that 620 00:32:46.640 --> 00:32:50.079 you need to seriously look at. Who you know, who's 621 00:32:50.079 --> 00:32:53.359 more exciting there, Travis Hunter or Jerry Judy. Travis Hunter 622 00:32:53.480 --> 00:32:56.640 is a Flowers Travis Hunter or Rashie Rice who could 623 00:32:56.680 --> 00:32:59.200 be facing a you know, a suspension of you know, 624 00:32:59.440 --> 00:33:03.240 nearly half the season. It's Travis Hunter for me. Now 625 00:33:03.279 --> 00:33:05.200 you want to get into a Mecca Agbuka, You want 626 00:33:05.200 --> 00:33:08.119 to get into Ricky Pearsall. Okay, I get why there's 627 00:33:08.200 --> 00:33:11.880 excitement there, and maybe you'd rather have Pearsall, who's probably 628 00:33:11.880 --> 00:33:15.599 going to go into the season as the unquestioned number 629 00:33:15.599 --> 00:33:17.799 one wide receiver for the San Francisco forty nine ers. 630 00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:19.759 I get why you'd take Piersoll over a Hunter. I 631 00:33:19.799 --> 00:33:22.440 get why you take Aggbuca for Tampa. You know, coming 632 00:33:22.480 --> 00:33:25.079 off the season that Tampa did last year, and now 633 00:33:25.279 --> 00:33:29.160 you know the running out of warm bodies in Central 634 00:33:29.160 --> 00:33:32.559 Florida right now, So ag Buka could be the featured 635 00:33:32.559 --> 00:33:35.200 guy on a lot of passing routes. We've heard nothing 636 00:33:35.240 --> 00:33:38.079 but good things about Agbuka so far this season, so 637 00:33:38.119 --> 00:33:40.480 I think that's so far this preseason, so I think 638 00:33:40.519 --> 00:33:42.039 that that's a fine pick if you want to take 639 00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:44.240 him over Hunter. I still would rather have a Hunter 640 00:33:44.559 --> 00:33:47.119 over Agbuka, but I will admit that it is getting 641 00:33:47.119 --> 00:33:52.319 closer to me taking pulling the trigger with Agbuka over 642 00:33:53.720 --> 00:33:57.240 Travis Hunter Junior. Right, Yeah, Aguka over Travis Hunter. Okay. 643 00:33:59.880 --> 00:34:03.400 The scare for Lamar Jackson seems to be just that, 644 00:34:03.519 --> 00:34:06.880 a scare and nothing else. He had X rays on 645 00:34:06.960 --> 00:34:12.000 his foot that came back earlier this afternoon. Lamar Jackson's 646 00:34:12.000 --> 00:34:15.159 foot has no damage. According to those x rays. The 647 00:34:15.159 --> 00:34:17.639 foot after being stepped on in practice yesterday, is a 648 00:34:17.639 --> 00:34:21.519 little sore, but he's fine. He didn't practice today and 649 00:34:21.559 --> 00:34:23.320 it sounds like he's gonna be fine. So anybody who 650 00:34:23.400 --> 00:34:26.920 was worried about Lamar Jackson or Josh Allen, if you 651 00:34:27.000 --> 00:34:29.239 were saying, oh, you know, I don't know about Jackson's foot, 652 00:34:29.239 --> 00:34:32.079 I'm gonnake Josh Allen instead. That's fine if you still 653 00:34:32.079 --> 00:34:33.960 want to do that, But I think it's to me 654 00:34:34.119 --> 00:34:38.400 this I hesitate to use the word nothing Burger. But 655 00:34:38.480 --> 00:34:40.400 I do think ultimately this is just a blip on 656 00:34:40.440 --> 00:34:44.440 the radar the leagues I have Lamar Jackson in I 657 00:34:44.480 --> 00:34:47.320 feel good leagues that I have not drafted yet. I'd 658 00:34:47.320 --> 00:34:49.519 feel fine taking him as the first quarterback off the board. 659 00:34:50.440 --> 00:34:54.039 Isaiah Bond. This is interesting. So Mary Kay Cabot from 660 00:34:54.039 --> 00:34:56.920 the Cleveland Playing Dealer, I think she's still with the CPD. 661 00:34:57.000 --> 00:34:59.400 I could be wrong about that, is reporting that Isaiah 662 00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:02.320 Bond is going to be playing in the third preseason 663 00:35:02.440 --> 00:35:06.760 game against the Los Angeles Rams. He has practiced three 664 00:35:06.800 --> 00:35:10.480 times and already we're finding out that this dude is 665 00:35:10.480 --> 00:35:13.599 playing in a real life NFL preseason game for Cleveland. 666 00:35:15.960 --> 00:35:20.199 I can't believe he is anywhere close to mastering the offense. 667 00:35:20.280 --> 00:35:22.960 I can't believe there's any kind of chemistry going on 668 00:35:23.239 --> 00:35:27.039 with Isaiah Bond and presumed Week one starter Joe Flacco. Well, 669 00:35:27.039 --> 00:35:28.599 not presumed, it was announced that he's going to be 670 00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:34.119 the starter for Week one. I'm not going to get 671 00:35:34.159 --> 00:35:40.119 down with Isaiah Bond in redraft leagues dynasty. Okay, see 672 00:35:40.159 --> 00:35:42.719 what can happen. But this is a guy who's going 673 00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:44.639 to be coming off on a slow start, not only 674 00:35:44.719 --> 00:35:47.159 because he's a rookie, but because he missed all this time, 675 00:35:47.519 --> 00:35:50.360 so I think you can look elsewhere and focus in 676 00:35:50.400 --> 00:35:53.639 on Jerry Judy and Harold Fannin and David and Joku 677 00:35:53.760 --> 00:35:58.400 Cedric Tillman, for God's sake, over Isaiah Bond. I would 678 00:35:58.440 --> 00:36:00.719 rather have Bond than Deontay Johnson for what it's worth. 679 00:36:00.719 --> 00:36:04.320 But that's the whole mystery box thing that I would 680 00:36:04.360 --> 00:36:06.079 tell you that you need to be paying attention to 681 00:36:06.800 --> 00:36:10.079 Deontay Johnson is I wouldn't say probably not making the team, 682 00:36:10.119 --> 00:36:12.159 but it's like a fifty to fifty shot at this point. 683 00:36:14.000 --> 00:36:16.840 Dan Quinn. We'll get into more commander's talk later on, 684 00:36:16.880 --> 00:36:19.039 but I do want to mention this, John conn reporting 685 00:36:19.039 --> 00:36:22.000 this that as the commander said, Coach dan Quinn says, 686 00:36:22.000 --> 00:36:25.239 he quote sees the ascension taking place with Jalen Lane. 687 00:36:25.280 --> 00:36:27.039 I know there are a lot of pundents out there 688 00:36:27.280 --> 00:36:30.559 that were on Jalen Lane after the NFL Draft when 689 00:36:30.559 --> 00:36:35.679 he landed excuse me, with the Commanders. He was a 690 00:36:35.679 --> 00:36:38.719 fourth round pick this year, Day three, early day three pick, 691 00:36:39.159 --> 00:36:42.679 and apparently he is responding very well to the coaching. 692 00:36:42.800 --> 00:36:45.800 He's getting there and at some point could be the 693 00:36:45.840 --> 00:36:49.239 number three receiver or maybe higher. If Terry McLaurin doesn't 694 00:36:49.280 --> 00:36:53.320 get into camp at this point, you gotta stash him 695 00:36:53.320 --> 00:36:55.360 in dynasty just to see what happens. You want to 696 00:36:55.400 --> 00:36:57.760 take him at the in Best Ball Drafts, a twenty 697 00:36:57.800 --> 00:36:59.639 eight round Best Ball Drafts. I can get down with that. 698 00:37:00.079 --> 00:37:04.719 I still think he's a borderline redraft pick right now. 699 00:37:04.960 --> 00:37:08.039 Noah Brown right now is hurt or actually I shouldn't 700 00:37:08.039 --> 00:37:10.880 say hurt. He's close to returning. We don't know exactly 701 00:37:10.960 --> 00:37:13.280 what's going on with him, but we will find out 702 00:37:13.320 --> 00:37:17.480 here shortly. Here's another thing that I think is important 703 00:37:17.519 --> 00:37:23.159 to understand. Dana Rassini brought this up for the athletic 704 00:37:24.360 --> 00:37:26.880 We have cutdown day coming up. In the NFL, We're 705 00:37:26.880 --> 00:37:29.880 honestly going to be paying very close attention to what 706 00:37:29.960 --> 00:37:32.400 players make the team and what players don't make the team. 707 00:37:32.599 --> 00:37:35.199 Maybe not so much at receiver and tight end and quarterback, 708 00:37:35.800 --> 00:37:38.880 but definitely at running back because this is where things 709 00:37:38.920 --> 00:37:42.800 can change quite a bit. With one signing. The Saints, 710 00:37:43.079 --> 00:37:46.360 the Browns and the Chiefs are among the teams making 711 00:37:46.440 --> 00:37:50.760 calls trying to acquire rushers. The Browns, we don't know 712 00:37:50.760 --> 00:37:54.960 what's going on with Quinn Shawn Jenkins, He's no higher 713 00:37:55.000 --> 00:37:56.760 than a tenth round pick for me, so I'm probably 714 00:37:56.760 --> 00:37:58.800 not going to get him in a lot of spots. 715 00:37:58.840 --> 00:38:01.320 I just don't know what is going to happen with him. 716 00:38:01.559 --> 00:38:03.440 Maybe doesn't sign a deal at all, and him and 717 00:38:03.480 --> 00:38:06.159 the Browns can't come to any kind of agreement. I 718 00:38:06.199 --> 00:38:09.119 think that you have to understand that he's a rookie 719 00:38:09.440 --> 00:38:11.480 and it was always going to be It was never 720 00:38:11.519 --> 00:38:14.440 going to be a fast learning curve with him either. 721 00:38:14.960 --> 00:38:21.079 So when you have a situation with Quinchun Judkins coming 722 00:38:21.079 --> 00:38:23.280 into a backfield that already has dron Ford, that already 723 00:38:23.280 --> 00:38:27.840 has Dylan Simpson, Dylan Samson, excuse me, this is not 724 00:38:27.960 --> 00:38:29.840 ideal for him to all of a sudden take the 725 00:38:29.880 --> 00:38:33.079 reins after he missed all this time and become a 726 00:38:33.079 --> 00:38:34.880 low end running back too. So I think I'm out 727 00:38:34.920 --> 00:38:37.519 on him. Russini is saying that the Saints, the Browns, 728 00:38:37.519 --> 00:38:39.559 and the Chiefs are among the teams trying to acquire 729 00:38:39.840 --> 00:38:44.280 running backs. Here. The Chiefs have Pachecko, the Saints have Kamara, 730 00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:47.679 but really nothing behind them. I know the Chiefs have 731 00:38:47.719 --> 00:38:50.199 a ton of bodies behind Pachecko, but I don't know 732 00:38:50.199 --> 00:38:52.599 if any of those guys are a dude. Maybe Brichard Smith, 733 00:38:52.679 --> 00:38:57.559 maybe not Devin Neil. To me is it was more 734 00:38:58.320 --> 00:39:00.559 I don't think he's all that athletically town and maybe 735 00:39:00.559 --> 00:39:02.360 he's a good football player. He missed two weeks of 736 00:39:02.440 --> 00:39:05.719 camp as well, and he's fighting for the backup role 737 00:39:05.760 --> 00:39:08.239 with Kendra Miller. Here's what I want you to understand, 738 00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:11.880 and this goes for any of you drafting Jamonte Williams, 739 00:39:11.960 --> 00:39:16.000 drafting Jayden Blue, drafting Miles Sanders in Dallas, and there's 740 00:39:16.039 --> 00:39:17.920 some other running back situations that we could make mention 741 00:39:18.039 --> 00:39:24.199 of this. Just because a player makes a team doesn't 742 00:39:24.239 --> 00:39:29.320 necessarily mean that his standing on the depth chart is safe. 743 00:39:29.360 --> 00:39:34.960 After cutdown day, Brian Robinson, in my estimation, probably not 744 00:39:35.000 --> 00:39:37.360 gonna be on the Commanders for Week one of the season. 745 00:39:38.239 --> 00:39:40.199 And I think that might be a safe bet right now. 746 00:39:40.599 --> 00:39:43.599 And if that is the case, where's he gonna go? 747 00:39:44.599 --> 00:39:47.360 Is he gonna go to Kansas City to disrupt things 748 00:39:47.519 --> 00:39:50.639 with Pacheco, with Brishard Smith, Elijah Mitchell, all those other 749 00:39:50.719 --> 00:39:54.800 guys there. Is he gonna go to New Orleans to 750 00:39:55.719 --> 00:39:58.920 maybe be a between the tackles banger to go with 751 00:39:59.039 --> 00:40:04.440 Alvin Kamara being sort of a very experienced and very 752 00:40:04.559 --> 00:40:07.480 you know, a rich Man satellite back. It's possibility as 753 00:40:07.480 --> 00:40:12.159 well the Cowboys, you know, all of a sudden, that 754 00:40:12.199 --> 00:40:15.280 makes at least two of those guys not draftable, right 755 00:40:15.360 --> 00:40:17.760 if Brian Robinson goes to Dallas. So I think we 756 00:40:17.800 --> 00:40:20.559 have to understand you draft in the moment you draft 757 00:40:20.559 --> 00:40:24.320 for today, understanding that you have to have caveats with 758 00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:26.599 a lot of these running backs. If you wait, you 759 00:40:26.639 --> 00:40:29.719 go zero RB. Hey, that's cool, but you better go 760 00:40:29.880 --> 00:40:32.599 heavy on these players in the middle of draft because 761 00:40:32.639 --> 00:40:37.440 their value, their role is a lot more volatile than 762 00:40:37.480 --> 00:40:39.159 somebody you'd see in the first three rounds. You don't 763 00:40:39.159 --> 00:40:42.119 need to watch the show for me to understand that point. 764 00:40:42.119 --> 00:40:44.280 You already know that point. I'm just bringing it up 765 00:40:44.320 --> 00:40:46.920 once again here that these backfields are still going to 766 00:40:46.960 --> 00:40:50.320 be fluid even after the preseason ends, even after cutdown 767 00:40:50.400 --> 00:40:52.920 day comes. So something to keep in mind as well. 768 00:40:53.320 --> 00:40:54.920 We did and I'll go back to Tampa here. I 769 00:40:54.920 --> 00:40:58.880 know I was talking about Aguca earlier. We got some 770 00:40:58.920 --> 00:41:03.320 pretty good news in my opinion from Greg Alman, who 771 00:41:03.320 --> 00:41:06.440 covers the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Todd Bowles told the media 772 00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:10.079 today that Tristan Worse, despite his knee injury, he's going 773 00:41:10.159 --> 00:41:14.440 to open the season on the fifty three man roster. Now, 774 00:41:14.840 --> 00:41:17.280 that doesn't necessarily similar to what they're saying about Chris 775 00:41:17.280 --> 00:41:20.360 Godwin too, doesn't necessarily mean they're playing in September. In fact, 776 00:41:20.440 --> 00:41:24.039 I think it's a virtual guarantee that while Worf's and 777 00:41:24.079 --> 00:41:25.719 Godwin are going to be on the fifty three man, 778 00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:27.360 I don't think that they're going to play week one. 779 00:41:27.480 --> 00:41:29.840 I think Godwin is still not going to play until October. 780 00:41:30.639 --> 00:41:33.480 But they're leaving these guys on the roster so they 781 00:41:33.480 --> 00:41:36.400 can practice with the team if they are ready. And 782 00:41:37.719 --> 00:41:41.199 is week four unrealistic, I don't think so. Week three 783 00:41:41.559 --> 00:41:46.239 maybe unrealistic. The Tristan Worf's thing, I think is so 784 00:41:46.360 --> 00:41:48.960 important because and Evan Silva has been driving this thing 785 00:41:49.000 --> 00:41:55.280 home all off season ever since Worf's got that knee injury. 786 00:41:55.480 --> 00:42:01.800 You don't have a super talented swing tackle on Tampa 787 00:42:02.199 --> 00:42:06.599 to come in, so Baker Manfield has just as much 788 00:42:06.599 --> 00:42:08.960 time as he did last year to find Evans and 789 00:42:09.000 --> 00:42:13.360 Godwin down the field. Kaye Otten too, you have like 790 00:42:13.480 --> 00:42:17.599 probably below level replacement or replacement level at best tackle 791 00:42:18.039 --> 00:42:20.719 coming in there, and that can really change your offense. 792 00:42:20.719 --> 00:42:23.239 We already thought, or at least I did, thought, that 793 00:42:23.239 --> 00:42:26.719 there's gonna be some significant regression coming for the Buccaneers 794 00:42:26.719 --> 00:42:28.519 offense this year, and I'm not backing off that I 795 00:42:28.559 --> 00:42:31.400 think it will happen. But the earlier they can get 796 00:42:31.440 --> 00:42:35.159 Worfs in there, the better. And as soon as he 797 00:42:35.239 --> 00:42:38.000 comes in and makes his appearance, I'm gonna feel much 798 00:42:38.039 --> 00:42:41.480 more warm and fuzzy about that entire Buccaneers offense, Bucky 799 00:42:41.480 --> 00:42:44.840 Irving included, than when he was not in there. Wurfs 800 00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:51.559 makes a big difference in that Tampa offensive line. Let's 801 00:42:51.599 --> 00:42:55.679 go to Houston. Djb Enemy, who covers the Texans for ESPN, 802 00:42:56.199 --> 00:43:01.679 has reported that rookie Jaden Higgins, first second round NFL 803 00:43:01.760 --> 00:43:03.559 draft pick I believe in league history to get a 804 00:43:03.599 --> 00:43:08.199 fully guaranteed deal, is rotating with Xavier Hutchinson on the 805 00:43:08.280 --> 00:43:12.159 outside when the Texans go to three wide receiver sets. 806 00:43:12.840 --> 00:43:15.599 So for any of you who thought that, hey, this 807 00:43:15.679 --> 00:43:21.880 is gonna be great, this is a tailor made situation 808 00:43:22.119 --> 00:43:26.400 for Jade Higgins to be the wide receiver opposite Nico Collins, 809 00:43:27.280 --> 00:43:29.320 I think I'm gonna have to borrow a line from 810 00:43:29.360 --> 00:43:33.760 Steve Harvey and say slower role player on that Higgins 811 00:43:34.320 --> 00:43:36.960 was the starter on the depth chart for a good 812 00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:38.320 portion of training camp. I don't know if it was 813 00:43:38.360 --> 00:43:42.159 all a training camp, but apparently Xavier Hutchinson has made 814 00:43:42.280 --> 00:43:46.079 enough plays and done enough that he is gonna be 815 00:43:46.079 --> 00:43:49.639 forcing a time tare at least early on in the season. Listen, 816 00:43:50.280 --> 00:43:53.559 Hutchinson is no threat to Higgins long term, at least 817 00:43:53.559 --> 00:43:56.480 I don't think so in Houston, so I think more 818 00:43:56.480 --> 00:43:59.000 often than not, you're gonna see Higgins out there. However, 819 00:43:59.440 --> 00:44:03.920 it's to understand that we can't just take for granted 820 00:44:04.039 --> 00:44:05.760 that Higgins is going to be out there a bunch. 821 00:44:07.800 --> 00:44:10.840 The guy I think that I'm more intrigued with over 822 00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:13.320 the last two weeks in drafts in Houston than I 823 00:44:13.480 --> 00:44:17.360 was earlier. It's probably Christian Kirk, a guy who is 824 00:44:17.400 --> 00:44:19.559 going to be cut by the Jaguars till the Texans 825 00:44:19.880 --> 00:44:22.719 reached out with a seventh round pick to acquire his services, 826 00:44:22.719 --> 00:44:24.679 and he'll probably be playing in the slot. I think 827 00:44:24.719 --> 00:44:26.639 Collins and Kirk are going to catch a boatload of 828 00:44:26.679 --> 00:44:28.840 passes this year. I know Collins is and Kirk probably 829 00:44:28.880 --> 00:44:31.880 will too. I think Higgins and Jalen Nole they're going 830 00:44:31.920 --> 00:44:34.199 to be worked in, and obviously Xavier Hutchinson as well. 831 00:44:35.239 --> 00:44:38.199 This is a situation where it's rookie receivers non first 832 00:44:38.280 --> 00:44:41.760 round rookie receivers, and it takes a little bit, and 833 00:44:41.840 --> 00:44:44.920 I think we're seeing that right now as we get 834 00:44:44.920 --> 00:44:46.760 closer and closer to the season. Two weeks away from 835 00:44:46.760 --> 00:44:48.960 the season, you can't count on Higgins as a wide 836 00:44:48.960 --> 00:44:53.679 receiver for right now, and certainly if I'm drafting him, 837 00:44:54.280 --> 00:44:56.760 I would be prepared not to start him at all 838 00:44:57.039 --> 00:44:59.039 until the bye weeks start coming in and then I'm 839 00:44:59.039 --> 00:45:03.239 forced to play play Higgins. So that's the situation in 840 00:45:03.280 --> 00:45:08.159 Houston right now. Again, I'm really bullish on Christian Kirk, 841 00:45:09.239 --> 00:45:13.239 and now, you know, letting Jayden Higgins slip down my 842 00:45:13.320 --> 00:45:15.960 board a little bit. I'll tell you right now as 843 00:45:16.000 --> 00:45:19.639 far as their ADP, according to Fantasy Mojo, Jayde Higgins 844 00:45:19.679 --> 00:45:21.679 has dropped to wide receiver fifty one. He is at 845 00:45:21.679 --> 00:45:23.840 the ten to eleven turn right now. And guess who's 846 00:45:23.840 --> 00:45:26.719 at wide receiver fifty three just beyond that ten eleven 847 00:45:26.760 --> 00:45:29.800 turn one, Christian Kirk. I do expect with this news 848 00:45:29.800 --> 00:45:32.840 coming out earlier this afternoon in Big Gorilla Drafts today. 849 00:45:33.400 --> 00:45:35.679 Big Gorilla Draft's main event drafts going on in the 850 00:45:35.719 --> 00:45:38.320 FFPC over the weekend. I do expect those guys to 851 00:45:38.320 --> 00:45:40.880 flip and Kirk will soon be going ahead of Jayden 852 00:45:41.000 --> 00:45:45.039 Higgins going forward. Speaking of wide receivers, let's go to Minnesota. 853 00:45:45.119 --> 00:45:48.440 Kevin Seaffert, who covers I believe the NFC North for 854 00:45:48.800 --> 00:45:51.920 ESPN dot Com former Vikings report. I don't think he 855 00:45:51.960 --> 00:45:54.119 covers just the Vikings. I think he covers the whole division. 856 00:45:54.280 --> 00:45:57.519 Don't quote me on that. Jordan Addison and rookie out 857 00:45:57.559 --> 00:46:01.519 of Maryland ty Felton are going to no issues going 858 00:46:01.559 --> 00:46:07.239 forward after they both had arm injuries in practice yesterday. 859 00:46:07.519 --> 00:46:08.800 It could have been an arm injury, it could have 860 00:46:08.800 --> 00:46:12.159 been a hand injury. Seefert didn't know nobody when they 861 00:46:12.239 --> 00:46:15.760 left practice. They never came back to it. The Vikings 862 00:46:17.159 --> 00:46:20.280 avoid a significant injury, it appears with Jordan Addison, but 863 00:46:20.320 --> 00:46:23.639 remember he's still missing the first three games of the season. 864 00:46:24.039 --> 00:46:28.679 Jalen Naylor is currently week to week with a hand injury, 865 00:46:29.000 --> 00:46:31.039 and certainly it felt and the more he can get 866 00:46:31.039 --> 00:46:32.559 out there, the better off he's going to be. When 867 00:46:32.559 --> 00:46:38.599 it comes to getting fantasy value early on in the 868 00:46:38.639 --> 00:46:42.800 season when Addison is out, justin Jefferson is going to 869 00:46:42.880 --> 00:46:45.039 get a ton of targets over the first three weeks, 870 00:46:45.039 --> 00:46:47.440 and then Addison will come in. Here's why I'm not 871 00:46:47.480 --> 00:46:49.400 fading Addison, and I think that you've heard this from 872 00:46:49.440 --> 00:46:51.960 a lot of people. That makes perfect sense. He's wide 873 00:46:51.960 --> 00:46:53.760 receiver forty two at the eight oh six. Now he 874 00:46:53.800 --> 00:46:57.400 has slipped a little bit since the suspension, but at 875 00:46:57.400 --> 00:47:01.880 the same time, thought where he was going in drafts. 876 00:47:02.360 --> 00:47:05.079 People were just presuming that he was going to be suspended. 877 00:47:05.360 --> 00:47:08.679 Jordan Adison is not the forty second best receiver you 878 00:47:08.719 --> 00:47:11.360 want to have this year. He should be going higher 879 00:47:11.360 --> 00:47:13.840 than that. He should be going higher than guys like 880 00:47:14.480 --> 00:47:17.440 Deebo Samuel much rather of Addison over Samuel. You can 881 00:47:17.480 --> 00:47:20.119 make the case that Addison is a better acquisition than 882 00:47:20.199 --> 00:47:24.519 Jacoby Myers, and some of these other running backs are 883 00:47:24.559 --> 00:47:25.920 going ahead of them. I know there's a lot of 884 00:47:26.000 --> 00:47:28.400 Jordan Mason love out there, but I think you can 885 00:47:28.440 --> 00:47:30.159 make the case that Adison's better. Now we're getting the 886 00:47:30.280 --> 00:47:33.800 team construction of who's better for your team. Certain cases 887 00:47:33.840 --> 00:47:37.239 of the Addison, certain cases it would be Mason, But 888 00:47:37.320 --> 00:47:40.239 Jordan Addison, I think Scott Barrett from Fantasy Points pointed 889 00:47:40.280 --> 00:47:45.280 out that he is like something ungodly over his first 890 00:47:45.280 --> 00:47:47.519 two seasons in the league or three secondt remember how 891 00:47:47.519 --> 00:47:50.559 any seasons he's played now, but he's like top twelve 892 00:47:50.679 --> 00:47:54.320 in those three seasons in end zone targets, not red 893 00:47:54.400 --> 00:47:57.280 zone targets, end zone targets. This guy has a nose 894 00:47:57.320 --> 00:47:59.960 for the end zone and he's scoring. It's not like 895 00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:02.159 he's dropping these passes and they're landing and complete. He's 896 00:48:02.159 --> 00:48:05.320 scoring a bunch. I know touchdowns are usually not a 897 00:48:05.360 --> 00:48:08.679 sticky stat but we've got three years of sample with 898 00:48:08.800 --> 00:48:12.599 Jordan Addison and it certainly seems that he is finding 899 00:48:12.679 --> 00:48:15.239 himself open in the end zone and his quarterbacks are 900 00:48:15.280 --> 00:48:17.840 taking advantage of it. So I'm in on Jordan Adison. 901 00:48:17.840 --> 00:48:21.719 I continue to be in on him even with the suspension. 902 00:48:22.320 --> 00:48:25.559 The first three weeks of the year are probably the 903 00:48:26.039 --> 00:48:30.360 easiest weeks to find replacements on your bench for injured 904 00:48:30.360 --> 00:48:32.840 guys or suspended guys. Right, I mean, nobody's on by 905 00:48:33.239 --> 00:48:35.440 everybody is coming into the season. I shouldn't say everybody. 906 00:48:35.480 --> 00:48:37.639 Most people are coming into the season healthy, So you 907 00:48:37.639 --> 00:48:43.039 shouldn't have to worry about anything like that, I think, 908 00:48:43.280 --> 00:48:46.239 And this goes back to the whole JJ McCarthy thing, like, 909 00:48:46.280 --> 00:48:49.039 if you're a believer in McCarthy, then yeah, you're going 910 00:48:49.119 --> 00:48:51.280 to be in on Jefferson, You're gonna be in on Hockinson, 911 00:48:51.280 --> 00:48:55.760 You're gonna be in Addison Mason, Aaron Jones, all these guys. 912 00:48:55.800 --> 00:49:01.320 And I am a believer in JJ McCarthy. I think 913 00:49:01.360 --> 00:49:03.760 this guy is going to have several top twelve weeks 914 00:49:03.760 --> 00:49:07.199 this year. I've been drafting him, probably not enough. It 915 00:49:07.360 --> 00:49:13.840 was weird because back in March, April and then May, 916 00:49:14.000 --> 00:49:16.320 I guess when we didn't know what was going on 917 00:49:16.360 --> 00:49:18.679 with Aaron Rodgers, and we didn't know if he I 918 00:49:18.679 --> 00:49:20.719 think he wanted to go to Minnesota, but I don't 919 00:49:20.719 --> 00:49:22.559 think Minnesota wanted him, but we didn't know that as 920 00:49:22.599 --> 00:49:25.039 fantasy drafters like we still had it allowed for the 921 00:49:25.039 --> 00:49:28.039 possibility that Rogers could still be going there. So McCarthy 922 00:49:28.119 --> 00:49:31.519 was like quarterback twenty nine, quarterback thirty thirty one, sometimes 923 00:49:31.599 --> 00:49:34.119 not even a top thirty two quarterback in Best Ball drafts, right, 924 00:49:34.480 --> 00:49:37.559 and then he slowly made his way up. And then 925 00:49:37.559 --> 00:49:40.320 when Rogers went to the Steelers. He really solidified himself 926 00:49:40.320 --> 00:49:43.039 and there's a lot of excitement going on with JJ McCarthy. 927 00:49:43.320 --> 00:49:46.440 He went up to you know, quarterback thirteen, quarterback fourteen, 928 00:49:46.480 --> 00:49:48.639 which I think was too high. Now he settled in 929 00:49:48.639 --> 00:49:51.119 as like quarterback seventeen, quarterback eighteen. That's a good price 930 00:49:51.679 --> 00:49:54.320 for McCarthy there, and I'd gladly pay that for sure. 931 00:49:55.000 --> 00:50:00.119 We talked about Pearce all earlier joining him on that. 932 00:50:00.119 --> 00:50:06.519 That Sanmancisco forty nine Ers receiver room. Sky Moore has 933 00:50:06.599 --> 00:50:08.800 been traded from the Kansas City Chiefs to the San 934 00:50:08.800 --> 00:50:12.280 Francisco forty nine Ers. Sixth and seventh round picks in 935 00:50:12.320 --> 00:50:15.960 twenty twenty seven are swapped. Remember between the Niners in Chiefs, 936 00:50:15.960 --> 00:50:18.519 excuse me, he was a second round pick in twenty 937 00:50:18.559 --> 00:50:22.039 twenty two and never really developed in Kansas City. Forty 938 00:50:22.039 --> 00:50:24.079 three catches four or ninety four yards and a touchdown 939 00:50:24.079 --> 00:50:27.000 over his first two seasons. He had three targets last season, 940 00:50:27.360 --> 00:50:30.079 did not capture a catch on any of them. He 941 00:50:30.159 --> 00:50:34.079 is a returner. In this past week he almost returned 942 00:50:34.079 --> 00:50:36.440 to punt for a touchdown, and the forty nine Ers 943 00:50:36.440 --> 00:50:39.440 are really beat up at receiver as well. You know, 944 00:50:39.480 --> 00:50:42.480 with Juwan Jennings Calf, Yea Brandon and I you coming 945 00:50:42.519 --> 00:50:46.320 off the ACL You're looking at DeMarcus Robinson being suspended. 946 00:50:46.400 --> 00:50:48.159 Jacob Cowing I think was hurt, but I think he's 947 00:50:48.199 --> 00:50:52.360 back now. And you never know with DJ Moore for me, 948 00:50:52.440 --> 00:50:55.239 best ball, but he's not He's not going to be 949 00:50:55.280 --> 00:50:59.920 a redraft player for me at all. Let's go to 950 00:51:00.079 --> 00:51:03.079 our nation's capital here. I've avoided it as long as 951 00:51:03.119 --> 00:51:08.320 we could. We cannot avoid it anymore. Terry McLaurin reportedly, 952 00:51:09.239 --> 00:51:13.679 according to the athletics Nikki Javala, he asked for more 953 00:51:13.679 --> 00:51:17.079 money than Dk Metcalf got with Pittsburgh. As a reminder, 954 00:51:17.199 --> 00:51:19.920 Metcalf four years, one hundred and thirty two million on 955 00:51:20.039 --> 00:51:24.320 the extension, but he's younger than McLaurin, and the Steelers 956 00:51:24.559 --> 00:51:27.119 actually gave up a second round pick for the right 957 00:51:27.239 --> 00:51:32.119 to sign Metcalf to that deal. The contract that I 958 00:51:32.159 --> 00:51:35.320 think the Commanders are trying to shift the focus to 959 00:51:35.760 --> 00:51:39.480 for Terry McLaurin and his management team is Courtland Sutton's 960 00:51:39.559 --> 00:51:43.199 four years ninety two million. That is thirty three million 961 00:51:43.199 --> 00:51:45.679 for Metcalf per year. That is twenty three million for 962 00:51:45.840 --> 00:51:50.000 Sutton per year now I would imagine that McLaurin is 963 00:51:50.599 --> 00:51:54.880 he understands that he's going to be getting something between 964 00:51:54.920 --> 00:51:57.199 these two, and I think the Commanders understand that as well. 965 00:51:57.559 --> 00:51:59.360 But he wants more of the Metcalf side. I'm sure 966 00:51:59.360 --> 00:52:02.519 the Commanders want Pam Moore the Sutton side. This has 967 00:52:02.639 --> 00:52:07.079 dragged on quite a while. And I know that he's healthy, 968 00:52:07.559 --> 00:52:12.840 and I know that he has one of the most 969 00:52:12.920 --> 00:52:15.480 talented quarterbacks in the NFL throwing to him. I know 970 00:52:15.559 --> 00:52:19.840 he goes back to a team that went to the 971 00:52:19.960 --> 00:52:28.039 NFC Championship Game last year, but this is a guy 972 00:52:28.840 --> 00:52:32.400 throw all the contract stuff out. I just imagine that 973 00:52:32.400 --> 00:52:36.039 there's gonna be negative regression coming for him anyway this season. 974 00:52:36.119 --> 00:52:38.960 With all the touchdowns he caught last year, the touchdown 975 00:52:39.079 --> 00:52:42.159 rate was obscenely high. And it's not like this guy is, 976 00:52:42.199 --> 00:52:43.800 you know, twenty four to twenty five years old coming 977 00:52:43.800 --> 00:52:47.559 into his prime. He's thirty years old. This is a 978 00:52:47.599 --> 00:52:50.679 guy you could make the argument his best football might 979 00:52:50.679 --> 00:52:55.119 be behind him now he does. When he comes back, 980 00:52:55.119 --> 00:52:59.000 he will join a team that features Deebo, Samuel Jalen Lane, 981 00:52:59.480 --> 00:53:04.719 Noah Brown, zach Ertz, Austin Eckler, Cory Krossky Merrick. These 982 00:53:04.719 --> 00:53:07.719 are the other pass catchers. So yeah, I get it 983 00:53:07.800 --> 00:53:11.599 that he's stepping into a good situation, but man, the age, 984 00:53:12.280 --> 00:53:15.639 the touchdown regression, and the fact that he's missed basically 985 00:53:15.719 --> 00:53:19.400 all of camp, these are all reasons not to draft 986 00:53:19.480 --> 00:53:22.039 Terry McLaurin, who has fallen and drafts to wide receiver 987 00:53:22.119 --> 00:53:25.280 twenty four at the five oh three. Some of the 988 00:53:25.280 --> 00:53:28.360 wide receivers going after him that I'd rather have. George 989 00:53:28.360 --> 00:53:32.480 Pickens I'd rather have than Terry McLaurin, Calvin Ridley I'd 990 00:53:32.559 --> 00:53:36.920 rather have than Terry McLaurin, Jamison Williams I'd rather have 991 00:53:37.039 --> 00:53:40.800 over Terry McLaurin, the Vonta Smith I'd rather have over McLaurin. 992 00:53:41.119 --> 00:53:44.599 And quite frankly, this may sound crazy, maybe it's not crazy. 993 00:53:44.719 --> 00:53:47.199 Maybe you agree. I think I'd rather have Eg Buka 994 00:53:47.840 --> 00:53:50.360 over Terry McLaurin the way it's going right now, you 995 00:53:50.360 --> 00:53:53.280 get into that agg Buka, Travis Hunter, Jalen Waddle, Ricky 996 00:53:53.280 --> 00:53:56.079 piersall area, I think you really have to look long 997 00:53:56.119 --> 00:53:59.639 and hard before you push the click button on Terry McLaurin. 998 00:53:59.679 --> 00:54:04.880 This year. There these red flags have been around for 999 00:54:04.880 --> 00:54:07.679 a while and he's only added more red flags throughout 1000 00:54:07.719 --> 00:54:11.000 the season. So I'm definitely down on F one and 1001 00:54:11.079 --> 00:54:17.079 I'm letting somebody else draft McLaurin this year. Buka I mentioned, 1002 00:54:18.000 --> 00:54:19.559 I'll just bring this up briefly because I kind of 1003 00:54:19.559 --> 00:54:21.679 talked about it already Rick Stroud for the Tampa Bay Times, 1004 00:54:21.880 --> 00:54:24.440 so that Jalen McMillan was gonna go on injured reserve. 1005 00:54:24.559 --> 00:54:27.400 He could be out past the Week nine by for 1006 00:54:27.519 --> 00:54:34.559 Tampa this year. And consider this. The comment from Todd 1007 00:54:34.639 --> 00:54:39.039 Bowles regarding Jalen McMillan was, and I'm paraphrasing a little bit, 1008 00:54:39.039 --> 00:54:41.840 but I'm getting the gist of it. Bulls did not 1009 00:54:41.880 --> 00:54:45.440 think it was career threatening. This is a neck injury. 1010 00:54:45.719 --> 00:54:50.000 It's dangerous. I just read a fantastic story on ESPN 1011 00:54:50.039 --> 00:54:52.760 dot com today about two high school players fifty years 1012 00:54:52.800 --> 00:54:57.280 apart who ended up dying from neck injuries that they 1013 00:54:57.320 --> 00:55:01.480 suffered on the football field. It was credibly It's making 1014 00:55:01.519 --> 00:55:05.559 me rethink letting my Sun flight football. Quite frankly, neck 1015 00:55:05.599 --> 00:55:08.360 injuries and football are nothing to mess around with. So 1016 00:55:08.480 --> 00:55:11.079 Jalen McMillan, you're not drafting him anywhere. You're not drafted 1017 00:55:11.119 --> 00:55:14.440 him in basketball you're not drafted him in redraft. Chris Godwin. 1018 00:55:14.960 --> 00:55:17.119 Maybe he's back by week four, but I wonder what 1019 00:55:17.320 --> 00:55:20.679 version of Chris Godwin we're going to see. And Mecca Aguka. 1020 00:55:20.800 --> 00:55:23.320 I you know, if it wasn't for Krosskey Merit, there 1021 00:55:23.320 --> 00:55:27.760 would be no bigger, stronger, faster hype train for any 1022 00:55:27.840 --> 00:55:32.239 rookie this season than a Mecca Agbuka. We heard from 1023 00:55:32.280 --> 00:55:36.559 the get go that this guy was polished. This is 1024 00:55:36.559 --> 00:55:39.000 before he got drafted by Tampa. This guy was polished. 1025 00:55:39.239 --> 00:55:41.719 He was NFL ready. He is the all time leading 1026 00:55:41.760 --> 00:55:46.519 receiver in Ohio state history. Think about that. So he 1027 00:55:46.599 --> 00:55:50.519 goes to Tampa, who you know, we don't know how 1028 00:55:50.639 --> 00:55:52.360 much longer Mike Evans is going to be there. Mike 1029 00:55:52.360 --> 00:55:54.360 Evans almost alluding to like maybe this is going to 1030 00:55:54.400 --> 00:55:56.920 be his last year. Chris Godwin, we don't know if 1031 00:55:56.920 --> 00:55:59.199 he's ever going to be the same after that devastating 1032 00:55:59.239 --> 00:56:02.039 ankle injury that in a Week seven last year and 1033 00:56:02.159 --> 00:56:04.400 he had to have another surgery on it this s offseason. 1034 00:56:04.440 --> 00:56:08.320 He's still not practicing. This wheels up for eg Buka. 1035 00:56:08.400 --> 00:56:11.360 Baker Mayfield opened a press conference about a month or 1036 00:56:11.360 --> 00:56:15.639 so ago, unprompted just started talking about how great it's 1037 00:56:15.639 --> 00:56:17.920 been having a mechag Buka, how awesome he is, what 1038 00:56:17.960 --> 00:56:20.400 a great pro is going to be. Nobody asked him, 1039 00:56:21.079 --> 00:56:24.440 just started talking about him. And when that's the you know, 1040 00:56:24.679 --> 00:56:26.880 this is stuff we have to be paying attention to. 1041 00:56:27.800 --> 00:56:32.400 Eg Buka. And I can't remember who said this. I 1042 00:56:32.440 --> 00:56:33.920 don't think it was a beat writer. It could have 1043 00:56:33.960 --> 00:56:36.559 been somebody else, but somebody said somebody And I'm not 1044 00:56:36.639 --> 00:56:39.880 just spitballing here. This is somebody of reference. I listened 1045 00:56:39.920 --> 00:56:41.639 to too many podcasts, I read too much stuff, so 1046 00:56:41.679 --> 00:56:45.039 I can't cite everything readily. But we could be seeing 1047 00:56:45.239 --> 00:56:47.360 Justin Jefferson season from meg Buka this year, and I 1048 00:56:47.440 --> 00:56:51.119 don't know if we'll see that. We probably won't, but 1049 00:56:51.960 --> 00:56:54.599 it's wheels up, man, and the price is getting higher. 1050 00:56:55.199 --> 00:56:57.519 You want to draft Agbuka. By the end of this weekend, 1051 00:56:57.559 --> 00:56:59.159 he's probably gonna be going in the late fifth round 1052 00:56:59.159 --> 00:57:02.039 as opposed to early sixth round where he's going right now. 1053 00:57:02.480 --> 00:57:07.039 So that's the latest on Tampa. Here's one that I 1054 00:57:07.079 --> 00:57:10.239 haven't quite frankly made up my mind about yet, and 1055 00:57:10.599 --> 00:57:14.679 it's important because this guy could be the number one 1056 00:57:14.719 --> 00:57:17.400 overall running back this year, or he could be a 1057 00:57:17.480 --> 00:57:20.119 massive bust, and it's Devon a chance. I had no 1058 00:57:20.199 --> 00:57:25.280 problem taking this guy in the late first, early second round, 1059 00:57:25.960 --> 00:57:29.679 and I have a little pause in clicking that button now. 1060 00:57:30.559 --> 00:57:34.480 Yesterday morning, Adam Levitan posted this from Established to Run. 1061 00:57:34.679 --> 00:57:37.440 Mike McDaniel, the head coach for Miami, said that ah 1062 00:57:37.480 --> 00:57:43.760 Chan's absence from practice was preventative. He is not supposed 1063 00:57:43.840 --> 00:57:45.559 or he's expected not to practice. Haven't looked at the 1064 00:57:45.599 --> 00:57:48.679 practice reports today, but he was not expected to practice 1065 00:57:48.679 --> 00:57:53.119 the rest of the week. And this is a player 1066 00:57:53.639 --> 00:57:56.599 that is going to be handled with kid gloves up 1067 00:57:56.719 --> 00:58:01.559 until the start of the NFL season Week one, which 1068 00:58:01.559 --> 00:58:04.199 is coming up in a couple of weeks against the Colts. 1069 00:58:05.559 --> 00:58:08.360 McDaniel said, quote, calves are the ones that you have 1070 00:58:08.440 --> 00:58:13.440 to be super proactive, especially with explosive players, he said, 1071 00:58:13.679 --> 00:58:17.199 end quote. He said that NFL traders have given him 1072 00:58:17.239 --> 00:58:20.559 and told him horror stories of players coming back too 1073 00:58:20.639 --> 00:58:24.639 soon from calf injuries and then either reaggravating the injury 1074 00:58:25.079 --> 00:58:28.519 or blowing out their achilles. Both would be awful, absolutely off. 1075 00:58:28.559 --> 00:58:30.400 Can you imagine Devon h I don't want to say 1076 00:58:30.400 --> 00:58:32.920 it because that would be horrible for fantasy be horrible 1077 00:58:32.920 --> 00:58:37.840 for a champ. Now, Jalen Wright has been less than 1078 00:58:38.360 --> 00:58:41.480 underwhelming so far, like thirteen carries or sixteen yards or 1079 00:58:41.480 --> 00:58:44.920 something like that. In preseason, it's been terrible. Ali Gordon 1080 00:58:44.960 --> 00:58:47.360 has actually looked pretty good, But I think Ali Gordon 1081 00:58:47.440 --> 00:58:51.199 is obviously a limited guy when it comes to athleticism 1082 00:58:51.400 --> 00:58:55.920 and certainly not the prototypical Mike McDaniel back. The other 1083 00:58:55.960 --> 00:58:59.199 thing that we have to consider here is you don't 1084 00:58:59.239 --> 00:59:04.000 have to be a a casual even a casual football 1085 00:59:04.039 --> 00:59:06.360 fan to see what's going on in Miami is to 1086 00:59:06.360 --> 00:59:10.599 create like the Tyreek kill stuff. He could be washed, 1087 00:59:11.360 --> 00:59:13.639 he could be showing he's already is showing signs of 1088 00:59:13.679 --> 00:59:15.880 decline and it doesn't sound like him into a tongue 1089 00:59:15.880 --> 00:59:20.119 of by loa are on the same page the Miami 1090 00:59:20.199 --> 00:59:22.880 I mean, they could just be a train wreck before 1091 00:59:22.920 --> 00:59:26.079 October or even early October. And if that's the case, 1092 00:59:26.079 --> 00:59:28.079 do you really want the running back on that team 1093 00:59:28.400 --> 00:59:31.559 when he's dealing with a calf? Is the path to 1094 00:59:31.599 --> 00:59:34.480 winning a million bucks going to go through Miami and 1095 00:59:34.519 --> 00:59:37.440 devon a chan This is what we have to talk about. 1096 00:59:37.559 --> 00:59:40.039 Because there was a non zero chance that he would 1097 00:59:40.079 --> 00:59:43.719 catch a hundred balls this year dependent upon you know 1098 00:59:43.760 --> 00:59:45.840 how the Miami what version of the Miami offense. We're 1099 00:59:45.840 --> 00:59:48.239 going to see what we saw last year when they 1100 00:59:48.239 --> 00:59:51.960 wanted to keep tongue by loa upright, was an offense 1101 00:59:52.079 --> 00:59:56.679 that centered on targets to jan new Smith and targets 1102 00:59:56.679 --> 01:00:00.119 to Devon a Chan and they crushed it. So the 1103 01:00:00.519 --> 01:00:03.840 thing is with a Chan, you have to place your bet. 1104 01:00:04.679 --> 01:00:07.039 Are you still placing your bet in the early second 1105 01:00:07.159 --> 01:00:09.719 round with Devon ah Chan? That's where he's going right now. 1106 01:00:09.840 --> 01:00:12.840 Over the last two days in the FFPC, Big Gorilla 1107 01:00:12.880 --> 01:00:15.360 two oh five slipped a little bit, still gone as 1108 01:00:15.400 --> 01:00:16.960 high as the one to twelve, so some people are 1109 01:00:16.960 --> 01:00:19.679 still taking him as a first round pick. He has 1110 01:00:19.760 --> 01:00:24.760 slipped behind Ashton genty. He's now behind Derrick Henry as well, 1111 01:00:24.800 --> 01:00:28.400 and quite frankly, it would not surprise me at all 1112 01:00:28.639 --> 01:00:33.320 when we look at this Big Gorilla data from Fantasy 1113 01:00:33.320 --> 01:00:35.960 Mojo on Monday would not surprise me at all. If 1114 01:00:36.039 --> 01:00:39.079 Devon ah Chan goes from running back seven to running 1115 01:00:39.079 --> 01:00:42.119 back ten, with Chase Brown, Bucky Irving and Jonathan Taylor 1116 01:00:42.119 --> 01:00:44.360 moving ahead of I think you can make a case 1117 01:00:45.119 --> 01:00:46.840 there are gonna be certain people out there that would 1118 01:00:46.880 --> 01:00:50.840 rather have the quote unquote safety of Josh Jacobs rather 1119 01:00:50.960 --> 01:00:54.920 than the volatility of Devon ah Chien. Do we have 1120 01:00:55.000 --> 01:00:57.760 the same concerns about the Packers offense putting up points 1121 01:00:57.760 --> 01:01:00.920 and moving the ball that we do in Miami? Probably not. Now. 1122 01:01:00.960 --> 01:01:02.840 I think I'd rather have a Chan than Jacobs, But 1123 01:01:02.880 --> 01:01:06.320 the point remains that it depends a type of fantasy 1124 01:01:06.320 --> 01:01:08.559 player you are. But a Chan is not trending in 1125 01:01:08.599 --> 01:01:12.000 the right direction now, and I think I think I 1126 01:01:12.000 --> 01:01:14.199 will probably let some other people take him rather than 1127 01:01:14.199 --> 01:01:18.960 me grabbing him going forward. Let's get back to it. 1128 01:01:19.360 --> 01:01:25.320 We've avoided Jacoory Crosskey Merritt for so long. We're an 1129 01:01:25.320 --> 01:01:27.559 hour into the show, we haven't I mean I mentioned 1130 01:01:27.599 --> 01:01:32.760 him a little bit, but not a ton. Commanders running 1131 01:01:32.800 --> 01:01:36.519 back Brian Robinson is not expected to play for the 1132 01:01:36.519 --> 01:01:41.480 Commanders in twenty twenty five. This according to one Ian 1133 01:01:41.679 --> 01:01:46.639 wrap up port. Okay, we already saw on Monday night 1134 01:01:46.679 --> 01:01:49.960 against the Bengals that it was a mutual decision to 1135 01:01:50.079 --> 01:01:57.840 hold him out to I don't know, maintain what trade 1136 01:01:57.920 --> 01:02:04.320 value he has. Ian rap said that the Commanders might 1137 01:02:04.360 --> 01:02:08.079 even take on salary to trade and trade him. So 1138 01:02:08.119 --> 01:02:11.039 you can get a draft pick in return. He's twenty 1139 01:02:11.079 --> 01:02:15.960 six years old. He hit escalators in his contract over 1140 01:02:15.960 --> 01:02:19.480 the last few years, to the point where Washington likes 1141 01:02:19.480 --> 01:02:23.320 their cheaper options behind him rather than keeping Robinson on 1142 01:02:23.400 --> 01:02:27.159 his team. He's gonna be entering his fourth year in 1143 01:02:27.239 --> 01:02:32.360 the NFL and the Commanders are shopping him around. I 1144 01:02:32.559 --> 01:02:38.239 don't expect the Commanders to trade Ryan Robinson. I don't 1145 01:02:38.280 --> 01:02:41.000 think that happens. I could be wrong. Jerry Jones is 1146 01:02:41.000 --> 01:02:43.400 capable of anything, or I don't know. I don't know 1147 01:02:43.400 --> 01:02:47.119 what he's capable of, quite frankly, but when it comes 1148 01:02:47.199 --> 01:02:51.800 to Robinson, he could really muck things up in Dallas, 1149 01:02:51.920 --> 01:02:54.760 Kansas City, New Orleans. We mentioned this earlier, Cleveland, quite frankly. 1150 01:02:55.920 --> 01:03:00.679 Houston maybe maybe not. I don't know, but this Jakoori, 1151 01:03:00.760 --> 01:03:04.239 Krossky Merrit, I think this is This is what people 1152 01:03:04.239 --> 01:03:08.079 everybody's and their mother is talking about right now. Krosskey 1153 01:03:08.119 --> 01:03:11.480 Merritt is a seventh round pick who barely played last 1154 01:03:11.519 --> 01:03:16.280 year because of some NCAA A not violations, but he 1155 01:03:16.800 --> 01:03:21.719 and the ncaa A had differing views of how eligible 1156 01:03:21.760 --> 01:03:26.400 he should have been for college football last year. There 1157 01:03:26.440 --> 01:03:30.320 has been nothing but glowing reports on him all training camp. Uh. 1158 01:03:30.360 --> 01:03:33.960 He has done nothing but impress in every single Washington 1159 01:03:34.039 --> 01:03:37.840 preseason game and as a result, has moved up in 1160 01:03:37.960 --> 01:03:42.039 drafts to the eight oh seven in f FPC big 1161 01:03:42.039 --> 01:03:46.360 Gerrilla drafts, eight oh seven is where Krosskey Merritt has 1162 01:03:46.360 --> 01:03:52.079 ascended to. That is that puts him ahead on ADP, 1163 01:03:52.880 --> 01:03:56.599 ahead of Zach Charboney. He's moved ahead of JK. Dobbins. 1164 01:03:56.840 --> 01:03:59.599 He is now being drafted higher than traves Etn. He 1165 01:03:59.639 --> 01:04:02.840 has moved the head of Joe Mixon, Cam Skataboo, Braylen, Allen, 1166 01:04:02.960 --> 01:04:06.960 Jaden Blue, all these players Krossky Merritt is going in 1167 01:04:07.000 --> 01:04:10.199 front of. I was commissioning an FFPC Big Gorilla draft 1168 01:04:10.239 --> 01:04:15.039 a couple of nights ago, and Krossky Merritt went at 1169 01:04:15.039 --> 01:04:17.960 the three to eleven. Now, granted the guy who made 1170 01:04:17.960 --> 01:04:23.199 that pick it was an auto pick, and he asked 1171 01:04:23.199 --> 01:04:25.320 me to stop the draft. So I thought, you know 1172 01:04:25.360 --> 01:04:29.079 that something went haywire with his internet or something, and 1173 01:04:29.159 --> 01:04:31.920 finally said, you know what, my dogs were attacking the 1174 01:04:31.920 --> 01:04:35.000 mail man. I had to get out there. I was 1175 01:04:35.039 --> 01:04:37.480 going to take Krosskey Merritt anyway, I just end up 1176 01:04:37.480 --> 01:04:39.639 grabbing him a little bit earlier. Let's let's keep rolling. 1177 01:04:39.880 --> 01:04:41.880 I said, okay, we kept rolling. So he went at 1178 01:04:41.880 --> 01:04:44.239 the three eleven. And you say, Balky, that's crazy. Well, 1179 01:04:44.239 --> 01:04:47.039 bear in mind later on that same day, Krossky Merritt 1180 01:04:47.239 --> 01:04:50.119 went in the fourth round of a big gorilla And 1181 01:04:51.280 --> 01:04:52.920 I want to play Devil's advocate because I think a 1182 01:04:52.920 --> 01:04:54.639 lot of people. You're looking at me, you're listening to me, 1183 01:04:54.679 --> 01:04:58.079 and you're saying this is crazy. Who would take krossky 1184 01:04:58.119 --> 01:05:02.239 Merrit that high? Allow me to tell you that Austin 1185 01:05:02.280 --> 01:05:06.199 Eckler is not a young running back. Chris Rodriguez has 1186 01:05:06.239 --> 01:05:11.119 had multiple times to get this a significant chunk of 1187 01:05:11.280 --> 01:05:15.679 this of this commander's backfield, and he hasn't taken advantage. 1188 01:05:17.760 --> 01:05:20.599 Krossky Merritt is the unknown, He's the mystery box, and 1189 01:05:20.639 --> 01:05:25.719 he steps into a situation that is wide open for opportunity, 1190 01:05:26.119 --> 01:05:30.559 ripe for opportunity, with a team that was one game 1191 01:05:30.599 --> 01:05:32.480 away from the Super Bowl last year, and no obviously 1192 01:05:32.480 --> 01:05:36.000 he has Super Bowl aspirations this year. An offense led 1193 01:05:36.239 --> 01:05:39.280 by an MVP candidate, the reigning Rookie of the Year 1194 01:05:39.840 --> 01:05:44.400 who looks to be an absolute stud in years to come. 1195 01:05:44.440 --> 01:05:46.920 It's only been one year, but Jade Daniels has looked 1196 01:05:46.920 --> 01:05:51.840 the part. Isn't there something to be said if krossky 1197 01:05:51.880 --> 01:05:55.199 Merritt does turn in not necessarily to the Bellcow, but 1198 01:05:55.239 --> 01:05:57.559 the one A or even the one B in this offense? 1199 01:05:58.079 --> 01:06:00.719 Is he not explosive enough? Is he not talented enough? 1200 01:06:00.760 --> 01:06:03.920 Is he not athletic enough for at least to intrigue 1201 01:06:04.000 --> 01:06:07.079 us that, Hey, maybe this guy could be the definition 1202 01:06:07.119 --> 01:06:10.239 of a league winner this year. That's the argument I'm 1203 01:06:10.239 --> 01:06:12.679 gonna make for krossky Merrit. It's not an argument I 1204 01:06:12.719 --> 01:06:16.480 subscribe to. And I certainly understand people when they say 1205 01:06:16.599 --> 01:06:18.239 that they love them, they want them on their team 1206 01:06:18.280 --> 01:06:22.639 this year, so I will avoid him. I'd rather have 1207 01:06:22.639 --> 01:06:27.079 all those guys I mentioned Dobbin's etn Charbone not Mixing. 1208 01:06:27.159 --> 01:06:29.400 I think I'd rather have krossky Merrit than Mixing. Mixing 1209 01:06:29.519 --> 01:06:31.320 is just do not draft for me at this point. 1210 01:06:31.639 --> 01:06:34.239 But I'd rather have all those other guys than krossky 1211 01:06:34.239 --> 01:06:38.239 Merrit at this point. And listen all the advice that 1212 01:06:38.280 --> 01:06:39.880 we talk about on this on this show, all my 1213 01:06:39.920 --> 01:06:42.679 shows every week, it all comes down to what type 1214 01:06:42.679 --> 01:06:45.639 of fantasy player you are. Some people love taking big 1215 01:06:45.719 --> 01:06:48.360 risks because they love hitting those home runs. Some people 1216 01:06:48.440 --> 01:06:50.719 like swinging for doubles or singles and just cobbling a 1217 01:06:50.760 --> 01:06:53.719 team together. For that, you do need some mixture, and 1218 01:06:53.960 --> 01:06:56.039 you can't just have all doubles. You can't have all 1219 01:06:56.119 --> 01:06:59.960 home runs and strikeouts. You gotta have a nice bounce 1220 01:07:00.199 --> 01:07:03.079 of high floor and high ceiling players. This guy definitely 1221 01:07:03.159 --> 01:07:06.239 is a high ceiling player. I think he's not likely 1222 01:07:06.280 --> 01:07:08.880 to hit that ceiling, but I understand the reasoning on 1223 01:07:08.920 --> 01:07:11.679 why people think that he might and why he's worth 1224 01:07:12.119 --> 01:07:14.800 a pick in the mid eighth round, and quite funkly 1225 01:07:14.920 --> 01:07:19.039 that could go up as the weekend and drafting season 1226 01:07:19.079 --> 01:07:24.280 goes on, of which we only have two weeks left. 1227 01:07:24.719 --> 01:07:27.320 I want to go back down to Houston and this 1228 01:07:27.679 --> 01:07:29.880 will you guys are like this because I actually just 1229 01:07:29.599 --> 01:07:33.000 just drafted this player. I was talked into him, and 1230 01:07:33.039 --> 01:07:35.920 you guys can be the judge of whether this was 1231 01:07:36.599 --> 01:07:40.559 the right call or not. Houston Chronicles Jonathan m Alexander 1232 01:07:41.039 --> 01:07:44.159 covers the Texans for the publication, said that Nick Chubb 1233 01:07:45.239 --> 01:07:47.519 is going to likely work as the lead back for 1234 01:07:47.599 --> 01:07:53.159 the Texans if if Joe Mixon misses any time in 1235 01:07:53.239 --> 01:07:59.440 twenty twenty five. Okay, here's the thing. When it comes 1236 01:07:59.440 --> 01:08:05.400 to Nick Chub, you have a player that is completely washed. 1237 01:08:05.599 --> 01:08:08.880 In my opinion, I don't see now. He looked good 1238 01:08:08.920 --> 01:08:11.119 in this last preseason game. It was probably against backups, 1239 01:08:11.480 --> 01:08:13.880 but early reports on Nick Chubb they were talking about 1240 01:08:13.880 --> 01:08:16.319 his you know, the coaches were talking about his wisdom 1241 01:08:16.640 --> 01:08:18.880 and everything he's been through. That's not what I want 1242 01:08:18.880 --> 01:08:20.880 to hear when I'm talking about a running back in 1243 01:08:21.159 --> 01:08:24.359 the NFL. I think young, explosive guys that are gonna, 1244 01:08:24.439 --> 01:08:27.279 you know, get chunk yardich Chubb at this point in 1245 01:08:27.319 --> 01:08:30.319 his career, and you know you loved what you saw originally, 1246 01:08:30.399 --> 01:08:34.319 he is not that guy anymore. Alexander said in this 1247 01:08:34.439 --> 01:08:40.119 report for The Chronicle, the Texans signed Chubb specifically because 1248 01:08:40.159 --> 01:08:43.840 they fear Joe Mixon was gonna miss time with this 1249 01:08:43.960 --> 01:08:47.359 foot slash ankle slash. We don't know exactly injury that 1250 01:08:47.399 --> 01:08:51.560 he suffered this offseason. Now there's a non zero chance 1251 01:08:51.600 --> 01:08:53.800 Mixon misses the whole year. I think we all recognize that. 1252 01:08:53.840 --> 01:08:55.399 I don't think that's a good chance. I don't think 1253 01:08:55.399 --> 01:08:58.119 he misses the whole year, but he could be on 1254 01:08:58.159 --> 01:09:00.199 the pup list to start the season. I think that's 1255 01:09:00.319 --> 01:09:02.720 a lot more likely. That probably is likely to happen, 1256 01:09:03.760 --> 01:09:06.000 and mixing be out the first four weeks, and Chubb 1257 01:09:06.000 --> 01:09:09.359 would be the RB one on the Texans for those 1258 01:09:09.399 --> 01:09:13.239 four games. He is twenty nine years old. Five carries 1259 01:09:13.279 --> 01:09:16.600 twenty five yards against the Panthers' backups last week. Woody 1260 01:09:16.680 --> 01:09:19.199 Marks actually had seven carries or forty yards in that game. 1261 01:09:19.319 --> 01:09:21.960 I like Woody Marks a lot better. He's the pass 1262 01:09:22.000 --> 01:09:25.479 catching back, caught a ton of passes in college, and 1263 01:09:25.600 --> 01:09:28.479 Chubb would obviously either be the one A or the 1264 01:09:28.520 --> 01:09:31.640 complete one. Because we have to recognize Damian Pierce, while 1265 01:09:31.680 --> 01:09:36.680 not great the last couple of years, the offensive scheme 1266 01:09:36.760 --> 01:09:39.000 that's been installed, the run blocking scheme that's been installed 1267 01:09:39.000 --> 01:09:41.800 this year, is the one he thrived in his rookie year. 1268 01:09:42.119 --> 01:09:44.479 So I think we have to recognize that. So I 1269 01:09:44.600 --> 01:09:47.880 co owned this KFFSC main event team, and my buddy Jim, 1270 01:09:48.000 --> 01:09:50.039 who I co own it with, he talked me in 1271 01:09:50.039 --> 01:09:52.239 the Chubb He said, I just can't quit him. He 1272 01:09:52.399 --> 01:09:54.720 was our fourth or fifth running back. So I said, 1273 01:09:54.760 --> 01:09:57.000 the hell with it, let's go with it. We'll see 1274 01:09:57.039 --> 01:10:00.199 what happens. I don't envision this being a great pick. 1275 01:10:00.279 --> 01:10:03.680 For us, but it could work out. Chubb is not 1276 01:10:04.279 --> 01:10:10.039 He's been ravaged by injuries he has. He's not a 1277 01:10:10.079 --> 01:10:12.720 young man anymore, and the offensive line that he is 1278 01:10:12.800 --> 01:10:17.279 running behind in Houston is significantly worse now that Laramie 1279 01:10:17.279 --> 01:10:19.600 Tunzel and some other changes that were made on that 1280 01:10:19.640 --> 01:10:21.960 Texans offensive line is not there anymore, or are not 1281 01:10:22.000 --> 01:10:27.520 there anymore. You have to understand that these are all 1282 01:10:28.279 --> 01:10:30.399 One of these things is fine, like you can deal 1283 01:10:30.439 --> 01:10:33.560 with it, but all of them together. We probably should 1284 01:10:33.600 --> 01:10:35.439 have gone elsewhere other than Chubb, But I'm trying to 1285 01:10:35.439 --> 01:10:37.640 be a good co manager, and we ended up going 1286 01:10:37.680 --> 01:10:40.199 with Chubb there and we'll see what happens. But going forward, 1287 01:10:40.199 --> 01:10:42.279 I think you can do a lot better than Nick 1288 01:10:42.359 --> 01:10:45.720 Chubb in your FFPC drafts. Not that I'm trying to 1289 01:10:45.760 --> 01:10:48.000 trash Gym. He's one way more than I ever have. 1290 01:10:48.319 --> 01:10:50.439 So this will probably end up working out. But Nick 1291 01:10:50.520 --> 01:10:53.840 Chubb is going in the area of Tyler Aljeer, who 1292 01:10:53.880 --> 01:10:56.920 I'd rather have right now, I guess I'd rather have 1293 01:10:57.319 --> 01:11:01.640 him than Naji Harris, who's going right behind right behind him. 1294 01:11:02.800 --> 01:11:05.159 I'd rather wait and take will Shipley. I'd rather wait 1295 01:11:05.199 --> 01:11:08.560 and take Woody Marx Ray Davis is going just ahead 1296 01:11:08.560 --> 01:11:10.760 of him, and that's probably gonna continue. So I'd rather 1297 01:11:10.760 --> 01:11:14.079 have Davis Girndo's back. I'd rather have Girendo there as well. 1298 01:11:15.119 --> 01:11:18.079 And then you know, Rashad White is interesting, Jerome Ford 1299 01:11:18.159 --> 01:11:20.560 is interesting. Their coin flips when it comes to Chubb. 1300 01:11:20.840 --> 01:11:26.039 But these are thirteenth round picks in the FFPC, so 1301 01:11:26.119 --> 01:11:30.399 I think that you look at your options there and 1302 01:11:30.399 --> 01:11:32.279 maybe you go elsewhere other than a run back, because 1303 01:11:32.279 --> 01:11:33.800 there's not a lot of them that I like there 1304 01:11:34.079 --> 01:11:37.680 as well. Speaking of running backs, let's go back to 1305 01:11:37.760 --> 01:11:42.600 Los Angeles and talk about the Los Angeles Rams in 1306 01:11:42.640 --> 01:11:44.760 their backfield, which is a fun one to talk about. 1307 01:11:46.119 --> 01:11:51.840 The Rams took Blake Korhum in Day two last year. 1308 01:11:52.319 --> 01:11:56.880 They took Jarquiz Hunter on Day three this year, and 1309 01:11:56.920 --> 01:12:00.680 there could be more opportunities for Jarqui Hunter, according to 1310 01:12:00.800 --> 01:12:04.439 Rams offensive coordinator Mike Lafleur. In fact, the quote from 1311 01:12:04.479 --> 01:12:07.720 him was, the more opportunities Hunter gets, the better it's 1312 01:12:07.760 --> 01:12:09.600 going to be. He's twenty two years old, fourth round 1313 01:12:09.640 --> 01:12:13.880 pick this year, talented pass catcher, and the Rams coaching 1314 01:12:13.920 --> 01:12:17.680 staff the drumbeat has been constantly praising this guy throughout camp. 1315 01:12:18.239 --> 01:12:20.319 Not great news for Blake Korum. I don't think this 1316 01:12:20.359 --> 01:12:23.439 is a threat to Kyen Williams, because you know McVeagh, 1317 01:12:23.479 --> 01:12:26.319 he's going to use his guy and he's gonna run 1318 01:12:26.399 --> 01:12:29.319 him hard. So I still think that this doesn't affect 1319 01:12:29.359 --> 01:12:32.000 Kien Williams at all. But I definitely think if you 1320 01:12:32.039 --> 01:12:34.720 are looking for the guy behind the guy, who do 1321 01:12:34.760 --> 01:12:37.520 you take Quorum versus Hunter? Right now, I think we're 1322 01:12:37.520 --> 01:12:40.720 getting kind of an answer, an answer that many people 1323 01:12:40.800 --> 01:12:43.960 forecasted when the Rams took Hunter Blake Korm running back 1324 01:12:44.000 --> 01:12:47.000 sixty four at the fifteen oh seventh. Right now, Dark 1325 01:12:47.039 --> 01:12:49.720 Wes Hunter is going as running back seventy one at 1326 01:12:49.760 --> 01:12:52.479 the seventeen oh two. I think that's gonna flip at 1327 01:12:52.520 --> 01:12:54.119 some Maybe I'm wrong on this, but I think that's 1328 01:12:54.159 --> 01:13:01.000 gonna flip, and we'll see what happens with that RAMS back. Honestly, 1329 01:13:01.079 --> 01:13:04.279 what's probably gonna happen is Kyen Williams stays healthy all 1330 01:13:04.279 --> 01:13:07.680 season again, he puts up efficient enough numbers, and Matthew 1331 01:13:07.680 --> 01:13:10.239 Stafford stays healthy, and Karen Williams finishes as like running 1332 01:13:10.239 --> 01:13:13.720 back eight a running back seven, and Quorum and Hunter 1333 01:13:13.840 --> 01:13:16.760 rarely get into the game. However, we have to allow 1334 01:13:16.800 --> 01:13:21.560 for all possibility abilities when we're talking about high stakes 1335 01:13:21.560 --> 01:13:24.920 fantasy football drafts, and there is a possibility here that 1336 01:13:25.359 --> 01:13:27.880 Karen Williams were to go down, and maybe it's a 1337 01:13:27.880 --> 01:13:30.840 time share between the two, but my guess is McVeigh 1338 01:13:30.840 --> 01:13:32.840 does not want a time share. That he is going 1339 01:13:32.920 --> 01:13:35.079 to roll with one guy or the other and he's 1340 01:13:35.119 --> 01:13:36.880 going to play. Let these guys play it out on 1341 01:13:36.880 --> 01:13:39.439 the field, and whoever steps forward and makes more plays 1342 01:13:39.560 --> 01:13:41.720 is going to be that guy. And at this point, 1343 01:13:41.800 --> 01:13:43.760 I believe the guy who's going to make more plays 1344 01:13:43.840 --> 01:13:47.640 is probably dark Jarkis Hunter. So there you go. That's 1345 01:13:47.800 --> 01:13:52.279 that's my thoughts on the Rams and their running back situation. 1346 01:13:52.640 --> 01:13:55.760 I'd rather wait two more rounds and take Hunter than 1347 01:13:55.840 --> 01:13:58.800 take Blake Korum in the fifteenth. And that's if I 1348 01:13:58.880 --> 01:14:02.479 don't have kyon one. If I have Kien Williams, I'm 1349 01:14:02.479 --> 01:14:04.680 not taking either one of these guys, you know, playing 1350 01:14:05.119 --> 01:14:08.119 I play in the kff C main event national contest, 1351 01:14:08.159 --> 01:14:11.399 like I'm trying to beat hundreds thousands of other players. 1352 01:14:11.960 --> 01:14:16.039 So for me, unless I'm in a closed twelve team league, 1353 01:14:16.039 --> 01:14:18.760 I'm not going to try to stack backfields. I'm not 1354 01:14:18.800 --> 01:14:21.600 going to try to stat stack as they call it, 1355 01:14:22.119 --> 01:14:24.239 and make sure I lock up the Rams backfields. It's 1356 01:14:24.239 --> 01:14:26.399 not worth it for me. I want to increase my 1357 01:14:26.479 --> 01:14:28.880 variance as much as possible, maybe to my own detriment, 1358 01:14:29.840 --> 01:14:32.640 but that's how I feel about that Ram situation. The 1359 01:14:32.760 --> 01:14:36.319 Kansas City Chiefs, we tease this before when we were 1360 01:14:36.359 --> 01:14:45.399 talking about possible landing spots for the Brian Robinson. You know, ultimately, 1361 01:14:45.439 --> 01:14:47.399 if he's gonna get cut, where's he gonna go. We'll 1362 01:14:47.439 --> 01:14:50.760 mentioned Kansas City as a team that Diana Russini is 1363 01:14:50.760 --> 01:14:54.319 reporting that they're looking to upgrade their running backs or 1364 01:14:54.319 --> 01:14:59.000 at least add a running back. The Athletic has a 1365 01:14:59.039 --> 01:15:02.760 reporter for the Chiefs, Jesse Newle, covers the Chiefs for 1366 01:15:02.800 --> 01:15:08.039 that publication, and Jesse Newle believes that Burchard Smith might 1367 01:15:08.079 --> 01:15:10.880 actually get some first team action in the preseason finale 1368 01:15:10.960 --> 01:15:15.560 for the Chiefs this weekend. Newell actually described Smith as 1369 01:15:15.600 --> 01:15:19.359 a gadget type role for Kansas City, which would showcase 1370 01:15:19.399 --> 01:15:22.800 him both as a runner and as a receiver. And 1371 01:15:22.880 --> 01:15:27.720 it sounds like that the roster spot, if it comes 1372 01:15:27.760 --> 01:15:31.760 down to it, between Brichard Smith and Elijah Mitchell's probably 1373 01:15:31.800 --> 01:15:34.520 gonna go to Brichard Smith. Elijah Mitchell is not signed 1374 01:15:34.800 --> 01:15:38.479 for any kind of big money at all, so that's 1375 01:15:38.479 --> 01:15:40.600 something that we will be watching going forward. I like 1376 01:15:40.640 --> 01:15:43.840 Burchhard Smith late. We shall see what happens with the 1377 01:15:43.920 --> 01:15:46.800 Kansas City running back situation. I want to bring on 1378 01:15:46.880 --> 01:15:49.800 tonight's co host. Ladies and gentlemen, you know him, you 1379 01:15:50.000 --> 01:15:52.800 love him. You read all of his work at Rotoballer 1380 01:15:52.840 --> 01:15:56.359 dot com. You connect with him on x at f 1381 01:15:56.560 --> 01:16:00.279 F Underscore Stallion, please welcome into the program the incomple 1382 01:16:00.720 --> 01:16:05.079 Dave and Trusca. Dave, welcome aboard. Man. Appreciate you having 1383 01:16:05.119 --> 01:16:07.239 me on. Eric. Sorry for the delay. 1384 01:16:07.319 --> 01:16:09.439 I think we had something go down with my docking 1385 01:16:09.520 --> 01:16:11.720 station here, but I think we got to figure it out. 1386 01:16:11.800 --> 01:16:16.359 But I'm thrilled to finally be here and honored you 1387 01:16:16.399 --> 01:16:19.399 would have me on and excite it to get the 1388 01:16:19.399 --> 01:16:22.039 co host for a little bit alongside the man who, 1389 01:16:22.800 --> 01:16:27.439 in my opinion, hands down, has the best beard in 1390 01:16:27.640 --> 01:16:29.000 fantasy football industry. 1391 01:16:29.439 --> 01:16:33.319 Yeah, it's not bad. It's not bad. It's it's a little. Now, listen, 1392 01:16:33.359 --> 01:16:34.079 it's pretty good. 1393 01:16:34.119 --> 01:16:37.399 When you when you first reached out, my first thought was, 1394 01:16:38.560 --> 01:16:39.199 I'm gonna. 1395 01:16:38.960 --> 01:16:43.760 Have to shave before I go on here. Yeah, I listen. 1396 01:16:43.800 --> 01:16:45.479 There's been plenty of people that have told me that 1397 01:16:45.560 --> 01:16:47.279 I need to shave before I go on and do 1398 01:16:47.319 --> 01:16:50.359 the show. I haven't yet. At some point it's gonna happen. 1399 01:16:51.079 --> 01:16:53.520 Roping it. Thank you, thank you. I appreciate that's that's 1400 01:16:53.520 --> 01:16:55.920 another popular opinion. A lot of people wanted. I've had 1401 01:16:55.960 --> 01:16:59.319 people at FFPC drafts. I think Adam Hahn has said 1402 01:17:00.720 --> 01:17:03.359 or he has named some of his teams save Bulky's beard, 1403 01:17:03.800 --> 01:17:05.920 and so there's plenty of people that don't want to 1404 01:17:05.960 --> 01:17:09.800 see it going away. Damn, I'm gonna I'm gonna throw 1405 01:17:09.840 --> 01:17:12.600 this one to you right away from the from the 1406 01:17:12.640 --> 01:17:15.119 fire frying pan into the fire. Let's talk about the 1407 01:17:15.119 --> 01:17:19.239 Indianapolis Colts big news this week. Jordan Schultz, I believe, 1408 01:17:19.319 --> 01:17:21.439 was the first to report it. The Colts have named 1409 01:17:21.439 --> 01:17:25.079 a starting quarterback and it is not Anthony Richardson. It's 1410 01:17:25.119 --> 01:17:29.239 going to be Daniel Jones. Apparently this competition was very close, 1411 01:17:29.359 --> 01:17:32.640 and Shane Steiken said, not only is Daniel Jones going 1412 01:17:32.720 --> 01:17:34.560 to be the guy for week one, he's the guy 1413 01:17:34.560 --> 01:17:36.600 for the season. He wants to give him a long leak. 1414 01:17:36.680 --> 01:17:38.800 He does not want to, you know, make all these changes, 1415 01:17:38.880 --> 01:17:41.079 you know, back and forth with your quarterback or with 1416 01:17:41.119 --> 01:17:45.039 his quarterback all season long. So I think for best ball, 1417 01:17:45.319 --> 01:17:47.920 we obviously know if you're drafting a Colts quarterback Lake, 1418 01:17:48.119 --> 01:17:50.960 it's now Daniel Jones, It's not Anthony Richardson. The question 1419 01:17:51.079 --> 01:17:54.800 for you is what this does for guys like Michael Pittman, 1420 01:17:54.880 --> 01:17:58.079 Tyler Warren, Josh Downs. I think initially, I know, I 1421 01:17:58.159 --> 01:18:00.520 was pretty excited that it was ended up being Jones. 1422 01:18:00.800 --> 01:18:03.039 I really think that this is this is best for 1423 01:18:03.159 --> 01:18:05.319 fantasy because it's gonna make those guys a lot more 1424 01:18:05.399 --> 01:18:08.479 valuable than they would have been if Anthony Richardson was 1425 01:18:08.479 --> 01:18:09.079 a quarterback. 1426 01:18:10.000 --> 01:18:13.720 Yeah, I think for our purposes for fantasy football, I 1427 01:18:13.760 --> 01:18:17.840 think it's definitely an improvement compared to the disaster that 1428 01:18:17.920 --> 01:18:20.960 was Anthony richards in the last two years. I don't 1429 01:18:20.960 --> 01:18:25.479 really know how it's gonna affect Michael Pittman. I think 1430 01:18:25.520 --> 01:18:29.119 the bigger beneficiaries are going to be both Josh Downs 1431 01:18:29.159 --> 01:18:33.640 and Tyler Warren. Wan Daryl Robinson was really effective last year, 1432 01:18:33.680 --> 01:18:38.479 particularly in PPR leagues with Daniel Jones, and I think 1433 01:18:39.800 --> 01:18:43.600 both Warren and Downs kind of had that undernase skill 1434 01:18:43.680 --> 01:18:45.720 set that I think is going to fit really well 1435 01:18:45.760 --> 01:18:49.560 and could really one of those two I think is 1436 01:18:49.600 --> 01:18:52.720 really going to become like a cheat code in PPR leagues. 1437 01:18:53.479 --> 01:18:55.680 I was kind of initially like you when I heard 1438 01:18:55.680 --> 01:18:58.079 the news with Daniel Jones, and I felt like it was, 1439 01:18:58.199 --> 01:19:02.439 you know, full real up for Josh Downs. Now I'm 1440 01:19:02.520 --> 01:19:04.720 kind of starting to wonder just seeing sort of the 1441 01:19:04.840 --> 01:19:07.760 usage in the preseason and plus downs hamstring injury. We 1442 01:19:07.800 --> 01:19:10.159 don't know, you know the severity of that yet and 1443 01:19:10.199 --> 01:19:12.239 if it's going to keep him out, But I'm kind 1444 01:19:12.239 --> 01:19:14.600 of wondering now if Tyler Warren is actually going to 1445 01:19:14.640 --> 01:19:17.800 be the guy who really is the one who benefits 1446 01:19:17.840 --> 01:19:21.439 from that. I still like Downs, but I'm kind of 1447 01:19:22.560 --> 01:19:24.640 starting to waiver my views on that and wonder and 1448 01:19:24.720 --> 01:19:27.399 if Tyler Warren might be actually the way to play 1449 01:19:27.399 --> 01:19:28.199 this passing game. 1450 01:19:29.000 --> 01:19:32.079 He is the way to play this passing game for me, 1451 01:19:32.199 --> 01:19:36.039 I've been I don't know, man, I probably drafted Tyler 1452 01:19:36.039 --> 01:19:39.479 Warren in a bunch of leagues. The last time I 1453 01:19:39.520 --> 01:19:41.199 drafted him was probably like two or three weeks ago, 1454 01:19:41.239 --> 01:19:43.319 because I feel like I just had too much of 1455 01:19:43.399 --> 01:19:45.439 him or other people were drafting him higher than I 1456 01:19:45.479 --> 01:19:47.119 was willing to take them, but I got a bunch 1457 01:19:47.159 --> 01:19:50.359 of them, and I think going forward here with Warren, 1458 01:19:50.439 --> 01:19:53.039 this is only I mean, if you watch that Colts 1459 01:19:53.079 --> 01:19:55.760 Packers game last week, he was heavily involved when the 1460 01:19:55.760 --> 01:19:57.880 Colts starters were out there, so I would imagine that's 1461 01:19:57.880 --> 01:20:00.439 going to be the case again. He has been drafted 1462 01:20:00.520 --> 01:20:03.159 right now in f FPC leagues the big Gorilla as 1463 01:20:03.199 --> 01:20:06.359 tight end eight at the seven ZH two. I don't 1464 01:20:06.359 --> 01:20:08.880 know if he gets much higher than that, but certainly 1465 01:20:08.960 --> 01:20:11.439 is possible once you know it. Will see what he 1466 01:20:11.479 --> 01:20:13.399 does this weekend, if he plays at all. But I 1467 01:20:13.439 --> 01:20:16.520 think that last memory we have of Tyler Warren as 1468 01:20:16.560 --> 01:20:19.399 it stands right now, is a really good one. And 1469 01:20:19.640 --> 01:20:22.319 those last memories tend to drive up ADP as we 1470 01:20:22.319 --> 01:20:24.399 get closer and closer to the start of the season, which, 1471 01:20:24.479 --> 01:20:27.279 as I've said several times, tonight only two weeks away. 1472 01:20:28.159 --> 01:20:30.560 I want to talk about the Saints. I touched on 1473 01:20:30.600 --> 01:20:33.079 this earlier. I want to get your thoughts. Kellen Moore 1474 01:20:33.159 --> 01:20:35.560 said Tyler Shuk and Spencer Ratler are going to play 1475 01:20:35.560 --> 01:20:37.760 in the preseason finale. He also said Ratler is going 1476 01:20:37.800 --> 01:20:42.399 to start that game as well, I remained bullish on 1477 01:20:42.520 --> 01:20:45.520 Chris o'labbe. I remained bullish on Rashid Shaheed and Alvin 1478 01:20:45.600 --> 01:20:49.079 Kamara Juwan Johnson late in FFPC tight end premium leagues 1479 01:20:49.119 --> 01:20:53.720 as well. My reasoning is this, Kamara did numbers last 1480 01:20:53.800 --> 01:20:56.880 year and the offense was terrible. This year, they get 1481 01:20:56.880 --> 01:21:00.000 Olabb back, hopefully for the whole season. They get Shaheed back, 1482 01:21:00.039 --> 01:21:02.000 who's coming off an the injury, who's been getting work 1483 01:21:02.000 --> 01:21:04.279 in the slot. They're going to have him back hopefully 1484 01:21:04.319 --> 01:21:06.640 for the whole season. So I just think that this 1485 01:21:06.720 --> 01:21:11.279 offense is significantly better and in a lot of spots 1486 01:21:11.760 --> 01:21:14.279 and the same in others. I don't think it got worse. 1487 01:21:14.600 --> 01:21:18.359 So why would we expect bad things from the Saints 1488 01:21:18.359 --> 01:21:20.520 offense when we should have gotten a ton of bad 1489 01:21:20.520 --> 01:21:22.239 things last year? We really didn't from the guys who 1490 01:21:22.279 --> 01:21:24.800 were on the field. I think Kamara Elave or Shahid 1491 01:21:25.279 --> 01:21:28.439 Johnson they're getting underdrafted in the FFPC right now, and 1492 01:21:28.479 --> 01:21:29.840 I'm definitely bullish on their ADP. 1493 01:21:31.640 --> 01:21:34.039 Yeah, I would probably say I'm on the other side 1494 01:21:34.079 --> 01:21:39.199 of that, and I feel like while the offense may 1495 01:21:39.239 --> 01:21:42.199 not set may not necessarily be worse, I think we 1496 01:21:42.279 --> 01:21:45.920 do have a pretty big, in my opinion, downgrade in 1497 01:21:45.960 --> 01:21:48.520 the offensive coordinator and play call they're going from Clint 1498 01:21:48.560 --> 01:21:52.680 Kubiak to Kellen Moore. I am also not a huge 1499 01:21:52.720 --> 01:21:56.560 Spencer rattler or a Tylers Schug fan. I would probably 1500 01:21:56.600 --> 01:21:59.000 say the guy who if you're gonna want to play 1501 01:22:00.159 --> 01:22:03.079 passing game and take a shot there, Kamara. 1502 01:22:02.840 --> 01:22:03.640 Is not a bad bet. 1503 01:22:03.720 --> 01:22:05.880 I'm sure he's going to be involved in as a 1504 01:22:05.920 --> 01:22:10.279 receiver as well. Excuse me once again, Chris Olave would 1505 01:22:10.279 --> 01:22:13.720 probably be the guy that I would take a shot 1506 01:22:13.760 --> 01:22:16.359 on here and been planning to do that in my 1507 01:22:16.439 --> 01:22:19.720 drafts coming up here, you know, is a good dip 1508 01:22:19.760 --> 01:22:21.479 on it. He's going to be the clear Number one 1509 01:22:22.479 --> 01:22:25.880 should see a ton of volume. I'm just not entirely 1510 01:22:26.079 --> 01:22:32.399 certain that Kelvin Moore is going to be an improvement 1511 01:22:32.760 --> 01:22:35.279 for these guys, and I'm not exactly sure what we're 1512 01:22:35.279 --> 01:22:37.840 going to get from the offense as well. I just 1513 01:22:37.880 --> 01:22:40.319 feel like this is a team that is going to 1514 01:22:40.359 --> 01:22:45.319 be really, really bad this year and is probably going 1515 01:22:45.399 --> 01:22:46.920 to be in a position where they're looking for a 1516 01:22:46.920 --> 01:22:49.600 new quarterback in twenty twenty six, and that might actually 1517 01:22:49.600 --> 01:22:51.960 be the time when it's best to get in on 1518 01:22:52.000 --> 01:22:54.800 this offense with the Lave Shaheed all those other pieces. 1519 01:22:55.119 --> 01:22:58.039 Once they actually get a legitimate franchise quarterback in there, 1520 01:22:58.039 --> 01:22:59.720 the pair with more and you can kind of get 1521 01:22:59.760 --> 01:23:01.520 his vision on offense and all that. 1522 01:23:02.119 --> 01:23:05.319 Yeah, I'm definitely with you on on the Saints next 1523 01:23:05.359 --> 01:23:08.560 year needing a quarterback because they still don't have one. 1524 01:23:08.560 --> 01:23:12.079 I don't think Shuck is the answer. And the thing 1525 01:23:12.239 --> 01:23:15.560 is with with with the Saints. You can be bad 1526 01:23:15.760 --> 01:23:17.720 and still put up fantasy numbers, which is what I 1527 01:23:17.760 --> 01:23:20.720 think those guys will do this year. But I do 1528 01:23:20.800 --> 01:23:22.399 I am with you. I think they're going to be 1529 01:23:22.439 --> 01:23:24.000 so bad that they're going to be in prime position 1530 01:23:24.039 --> 01:23:26.319 to have a pick at the top of the draft 1531 01:23:26.359 --> 01:23:28.880 where they can have any number one of some pretty 1532 01:23:28.880 --> 01:23:31.600 good quarterbacks in next year's choose them up. 1533 01:23:32.159 --> 01:23:36.439 Drew Aller, we'll see. We'll see about Arch Manninger right. 1534 01:23:38.359 --> 01:23:43.119 Coordinator. Yea, the NFL is right. The script is writing itself. 1535 01:23:44.880 --> 01:23:47.119 Art Smeyer. 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It's a more pass catcher that 1564 01:25:01.319 --> 01:25:04.119 he perhaps like, perhaps likes, And let's get his thoughts 1565 01:25:04.319 --> 01:25:07.399 on the Minnesota offense as well. He's Dave Vintresca from Rodoballer. 1566 01:25:07.439 --> 01:25:10.800 I'm Eric Balkman. You're watching MFPC Insider Access live here 1567 01:25:10.880 --> 01:25:11.960 on the Better Sports Network. 1568 01:25:12.239 --> 01:25:16.079 What's up, guys, Andrew Cooper here Fantasy Alarm, and boy 1569 01:25:16.640 --> 01:25:17.920 do I have great news for you. 1570 01:25:18.439 --> 01:25:19.479 It's that time of year. 1571 01:25:19.680 --> 01:25:24.600 The FFPC main event is open, the Flagship Contest, in 1572 01:25:24.680 --> 01:25:28.640 my opinion, the biggest number one contest in all fantasy football. 1573 01:25:29.079 --> 01:25:31.159 It's not just about the prizes. 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We got 1603 01:27:22.199 --> 01:27:25.640 let's see two more live main events going on tonight 1604 01:27:25.680 --> 01:27:28.920 that are still need some spot or need some fillers. 1605 01:27:28.960 --> 01:27:30.560 I do believe I'm gonna bring it up right now. 1606 01:27:30.560 --> 01:27:32.039 Just so I'm not talking out of my rear, ed, 1607 01:27:32.560 --> 01:27:34.079 I want to make sure that I'm giving you guys 1608 01:27:34.319 --> 01:27:36.760 good information on this show, not about fantas, not necessarily 1609 01:27:36.800 --> 01:27:39.600 just about fantasy players, but about the drafts at the 1610 01:27:39.640 --> 01:27:42.199 f f PC. Yeah, we do have the eleven thirty 1611 01:27:42.239 --> 01:27:45.680 Eastern main event live draft already half full, so I'm 1612 01:27:45.720 --> 01:27:47.960 sure that's gonna fill. Make sure you're popping in as 1613 01:27:48.000 --> 01:27:50.359 soon as you can on that and draft for a 1614 01:27:50.399 --> 01:27:53.279 million bucks tonight. What a way to spend a Thursday evening. 1615 01:27:53.720 --> 01:27:56.520 Dave VN Tresca joining me from Rotoballer dot com. You 1616 01:27:56.520 --> 01:27:59.119 follow him on the ex at f F Underscore Stallion. 1617 01:27:59.359 --> 01:28:02.560 You have really the f F Stallion moniker to a 1618 01:28:02.600 --> 01:28:04.439 new level. How did you come up with this? Dave? 1619 01:28:05.800 --> 01:28:07.720 I don't know, man, you know it really just started 1620 01:28:08.439 --> 01:28:11.119 my home league since I was, oh my god, like 1621 01:28:11.119 --> 01:28:14.319 twelve years old. My team's always been just Italian Stallions. 1622 01:28:14.399 --> 01:28:18.239 And when I decided to get into this crazy industry 1623 01:28:18.279 --> 01:28:21.520 we've all decided to join, it just felt like a 1624 01:28:21.600 --> 01:28:26.840 natural carried it over. Yeah, yeah, exactly, Yeah, yeah. 1625 01:28:26.199 --> 01:28:28.800 Well I love it. It's it's It's definitely been working out 1626 01:28:28.800 --> 01:28:30.640 for you for sure. You can check out as a reminder, 1627 01:28:30.720 --> 01:28:33.680 Dave's work at Rodoballer dot com as well. In fact, 1628 01:28:34.680 --> 01:28:36.920 this is where I found out, uh, some of the 1629 01:28:36.920 --> 01:28:38.720 players that you like and maybe not like so much 1630 01:28:38.760 --> 01:28:41.039 this year, I think I think these well, well I'll 1631 01:28:41.079 --> 01:28:42.800 just ask you about these guys. You let me know 1632 01:28:42.800 --> 01:28:46.720 how you're We talked about Tampa earlier in the show, 1633 01:28:46.760 --> 01:28:50.319 and I was just talking about how much praise I 1634 01:28:50.359 --> 01:28:53.159 had for a Mecca Buca. But what about the backfield. 1635 01:28:53.159 --> 01:28:55.279 Tristan Wurks, we found out, is not going to be 1636 01:28:55.279 --> 01:28:57.000 on the pup. He's not going to open up on 1637 01:28:57.039 --> 01:29:00.279 ir He is going to be available at the top 1638 01:29:00.279 --> 01:29:01.960 of this at the start of the season, maybe not 1639 01:29:02.000 --> 01:29:04.720 the first few games, but hopefully by week four, week five. 1640 01:29:05.119 --> 01:29:06.880 What does that do for a guy like Bucky Irving, 1641 01:29:06.920 --> 01:29:11.479 a player who is ready to move ahead of Devon 1642 01:29:11.600 --> 01:29:15.159 A Chan in adp as. He's very close right now 1643 01:29:15.199 --> 01:29:17.359 he is at the two eight eight. Chan is now 1644 01:29:17.359 --> 01:29:19.239 at the two to five, So it's definitely closing in 1645 01:29:19.479 --> 01:29:22.560 Bucky Irving running back nine. Is this guy a target 1646 01:29:22.600 --> 01:29:24.840 for you at the two toh wight and FFPC drafts 1647 01:29:24.880 --> 01:29:25.119 right now? 1648 01:29:25.199 --> 01:29:29.359 Dave absolutely is. And I think, you know, first off, 1649 01:29:29.960 --> 01:29:33.960 supreme talented player. And what I thought was most impressive 1650 01:29:33.960 --> 01:29:37.159 about what he did last year finishing his PPR over 1651 01:29:37.399 --> 01:29:40.880 the overall PPR be thirteen. He did so despite not 1652 01:29:40.960 --> 01:29:43.640 being a full time player last year, Like he only 1653 01:29:43.680 --> 01:29:46.960 played sixty percent of the offensive snaps in just two 1654 01:29:47.039 --> 01:29:51.600 games last year. I fully expect that to change this year. 1655 01:29:52.199 --> 01:29:56.520 Lew Todd Bowles had no problem making Rashad White the 1656 01:29:56.640 --> 01:29:59.680 full blown belcal back two years ago. You know, now 1657 01:29:59.720 --> 01:30:01.720 that he's got a year under his belt, I fully 1658 01:30:01.760 --> 01:30:05.560 expect Bucky Irving to completely take over that role. It's 1659 01:30:05.600 --> 01:30:08.279 a good thing Tristan Wurf's is not going. It doesn't 1660 01:30:08.319 --> 01:30:10.159 look like it's going to be an extended absence to 1661 01:30:10.199 --> 01:30:15.159 begin the year. Because the Buccaneer assume the Buccaneers rushing 1662 01:30:15.159 --> 01:30:17.960 game actually has according to Sharp Football, they have the 1663 01:30:18.000 --> 01:30:22.800 third easiest projected rushing schedule this year. And you throw 1664 01:30:22.840 --> 01:30:25.199 a healthy Tristan Wurfs in, you know, I think that's 1665 01:30:25.239 --> 01:30:28.640 going to be a great thing for Bucky Irving could 1666 01:30:28.680 --> 01:30:32.800 easily finish as an RB one. Now we might see 1667 01:30:32.880 --> 01:30:36.079 a dip in efficiency this year, you know, maybe in 1668 01:30:36.119 --> 01:30:37.840 those first couple of games and the Wurfs is out, 1669 01:30:37.880 --> 01:30:40.199 but also with no Liam Cohen in the mix. But 1670 01:30:40.319 --> 01:30:45.319 I believe that we'll see an increase in volume and 1671 01:30:45.399 --> 01:30:48.479 that should be able offset like any dip in efficiency 1672 01:30:48.479 --> 01:30:50.239 we might get. And he's also still going to be 1673 01:30:50.319 --> 01:30:52.119 involved in the passing game, you know, I know you 1674 01:30:52.199 --> 01:30:54.079 still have a shot White there, but he's still dealing 1675 01:30:54.079 --> 01:30:56.439 with the hamstring injury. I mean, who knows Sean Tucker 1676 01:30:56.520 --> 01:30:58.600 might end up passing him him on the depth chart. 1677 01:30:58.720 --> 01:31:03.359 Tucker doesn't really profile as a receiving back. So I 1678 01:31:03.640 --> 01:31:06.800 fully expect Bucky Irving to you know, lock down that 1679 01:31:07.119 --> 01:31:10.640 passing downs role as well. Great target as an RB 1680 01:31:10.760 --> 01:31:13.000 one if you go wide receiver in round one, or 1681 01:31:13.119 --> 01:31:15.439 even as your RB two if you decide to, you know, 1682 01:31:15.560 --> 01:31:17.319 go with an RB RB start. 1683 01:31:17.680 --> 01:31:19.720 Bucky Irving was a guy I hadn't really been drafting. 1684 01:31:19.760 --> 01:31:22.239 I just I picked him in a Best Ball draft 1685 01:31:23.000 --> 01:31:24.880 a couple of weeks ago, and I felt good as 1686 01:31:24.880 --> 01:31:26.720 my leader. I bet it did. I bet it did. 1687 01:31:27.359 --> 01:31:29.560 It's just like the way that the team came came 1688 01:31:29.560 --> 01:31:31.760 together around him. I just I felt really good about 1689 01:31:31.840 --> 01:31:34.760 him being my lead running back. The lead running back 1690 01:31:34.760 --> 01:31:37.760 in Seattle is Kenneth Walker, a player I was on earlier, 1691 01:31:38.520 --> 01:31:43.800 and now I'm starting to have fading. You going some charbona? Yeah, 1692 01:31:44.199 --> 01:31:47.239 the charbon a taste good. And part of the reason 1693 01:31:47.279 --> 01:31:50.760 why is Brady Henderson, who covers the Seahawks or ESPN, 1694 01:31:51.159 --> 01:31:53.000 has reported that sharbon A is going to have a 1695 01:31:53.039 --> 01:31:56.199 significant role in the backfield this season. He's been looking 1696 01:31:56.319 --> 01:31:59.279 really good. Clint Kubiak has been gushing about him. Who's 1697 01:31:59.279 --> 01:32:03.359 the new See there. Kenneth Walker has missed significant time 1698 01:32:03.680 --> 01:32:06.960 with a foot issue, and listen, Kenneth Walker is no 1699 01:32:07.000 --> 01:32:09.880 stranger to the trainer's room. Charbon A has not missed 1700 01:32:09.920 --> 01:32:13.840 any time in rushed for forty five yards on five 1701 01:32:13.880 --> 01:32:18.479 carries against the Chiefs last week. Walker. The best availability 1702 01:32:18.560 --> 01:32:21.119 or the best ability in the NFL is availability, and 1703 01:32:21.159 --> 01:32:25.960 he's having issues with that right now. I here's the thing, 1704 01:32:26.000 --> 01:32:28.039 and I'll couch it like this. You tell me what 1705 01:32:28.159 --> 01:32:32.279 you think. But when you compare the ADPs for these players, 1706 01:32:32.399 --> 01:32:35.159 I have had a significant shift and how I feel 1707 01:32:35.159 --> 01:32:38.039 about the Seattle Seahawks backfield right now. Kenneth Walker is 1708 01:32:38.079 --> 01:32:40.640 running back sixteen. You have to draft him at the 1709 01:32:40.640 --> 01:32:43.520 three to nine to get him. Zach Charboney running back 1710 01:32:43.560 --> 01:32:47.159 thirty two, eight oh seven, So he is going five 1711 01:32:47.279 --> 01:32:50.960 rounds and sometimes I think with the guy going earlier, yeah, 1712 01:32:51.000 --> 01:32:53.199 maybe he's still going to be the guy who puts 1713 01:32:53.279 --> 01:32:56.239 up more numbers. But is the juice worth the squeeze 1714 01:32:56.279 --> 01:32:58.279 in the third round for Kenneth Walker. 1715 01:32:58.000 --> 01:33:00.239 For you right now, Dave, I still think think it 1716 01:33:00.279 --> 01:33:03.640 is because I still feel like if he hits the 1717 01:33:03.640 --> 01:33:05.800 ground running, you know, it be s healthy and that's 1718 01:33:05.800 --> 01:33:07.960 the big if that's the gamble with ken Walker, you 1719 01:33:07.960 --> 01:33:10.640 know like that that's the play that he's going to 1720 01:33:10.680 --> 01:33:14.119 be healthy. And I still believe like he is a 1721 01:33:14.239 --> 01:33:17.720 superior back than Zach Charbonay. You know, Zach Charbonet is 1722 01:33:17.720 --> 01:33:20.039 a really good player. I love them at UCLA. I 1723 01:33:20.079 --> 01:33:22.840 have a decent amount of him in Dynasty. I was 1724 01:33:23.199 --> 01:33:26.600 crushed when he landed in Seattle, but he doesn't. I 1725 01:33:26.640 --> 01:33:30.479 don't think he has the same upside that ken Walker does. 1726 01:33:30.520 --> 01:33:33.600 But the home run hitting ability, the big plays like 1727 01:33:33.760 --> 01:33:36.000 that is the type of stuff that if we get 1728 01:33:36.079 --> 01:33:38.800 him in an ideal scenario like the Klink Kubi X scheme, 1729 01:33:39.319 --> 01:33:42.279 like behind an improved offensive line, with you know, them 1730 01:33:42.319 --> 01:33:44.960 drafting Gray's Abel in round one of the draft this 1731 01:33:44.960 --> 01:33:48.359 past year, if everything aligns like this is a guy 1732 01:33:48.439 --> 01:33:51.800 that we could be drafting around one about that PC 1733 01:33:51.960 --> 01:33:54.199 drafts next year. And that's often the key, you know, 1734 01:33:54.279 --> 01:33:55.840 that's what you're trying to find when you're trying to 1735 01:33:55.880 --> 01:33:57.720 win a million. We're trying to win a million dollars, right, 1736 01:33:57.800 --> 01:34:02.000 these are the plays you want to make. I think, 1737 01:34:02.520 --> 01:34:07.760 you know, at this point, I did read that report 1738 01:34:07.840 --> 01:34:11.640 last night, and you know, my takeaway from that was 1739 01:34:12.880 --> 01:34:16.439 I thought Mike McDonald's quote stood out when he said, 1740 01:34:16.439 --> 01:34:18.760 at some point, you know, you know, we've been living 1741 01:34:18.880 --> 01:34:20.479 in ken Walker. We were a planned for him, but 1742 01:34:20.520 --> 01:34:22.159 at some point he's got to be he's got to 1743 01:34:22.159 --> 01:34:23.600 be here and he's got to get on the field. 1744 01:34:23.960 --> 01:34:26.199 Now he has practiced three straight days, which I think 1745 01:34:26.239 --> 01:34:26.840 is a good thing. 1746 01:34:27.279 --> 01:34:27.640 He's got. 1747 01:34:27.680 --> 01:34:30.359 He's gotten in the joint practice with the Green Bay Packers. 1748 01:34:30.960 --> 01:34:33.720 I kind of read My takeaway from that story was 1749 01:34:33.760 --> 01:34:38.319 more of a like, hey, like a direct I guess 1750 01:34:38.359 --> 01:34:40.720 he was directly speaking to the Ken Walker as sort 1751 01:34:40.760 --> 01:34:43.079 of like, hey, you know, we love you, we want 1752 01:34:43.079 --> 01:34:44.960 to make you a guy, but we also have this 1753 01:34:45.560 --> 01:34:49.000 other running back behind you who's pretty good, who you know, 1754 01:34:49.039 --> 01:34:51.000 if you can't find a way to get on the field, 1755 01:34:51.800 --> 01:34:54.760 you know, we've got this guy ready to take the rings. 1756 01:34:55.640 --> 01:34:58.760 So that was kind of my read on that. 1757 01:34:58.880 --> 01:35:00.840 And you know, if it's a split, then I think 1758 01:35:00.840 --> 01:35:03.840 to your point, then I think Charbonnay, there's really no 1759 01:35:03.920 --> 01:35:05.760 debate at that point, and Sharbonnay is going to be 1760 01:35:05.760 --> 01:35:08.359 the way you want to play this. I just you know, 1761 01:35:09.560 --> 01:35:12.760 they have, you know, McDaniels or m McDaniel. McDonald's been 1762 01:35:12.960 --> 01:35:15.720 you know, been quoted saying that they have intentionally been 1763 01:35:15.760 --> 01:35:19.199 limiting Walker's reps, you know, to keep him fresh for 1764 01:35:19.239 --> 01:35:20.159 the regular season. 1765 01:35:20.760 --> 01:35:21.159 And so. 1766 01:35:22.600 --> 01:35:24.920 At this point, I'm still willing to play that. And 1767 01:35:25.560 --> 01:35:28.600 you know, at the three oh nine, you know, if 1768 01:35:28.640 --> 01:35:32.199 we're just talking traditional redraft leagues too, like that's not 1769 01:35:32.239 --> 01:35:33.960 going to kill your team if you whiff on that. 1770 01:35:34.359 --> 01:35:36.199 You know, what I mean, Like, it's not like you 1771 01:35:36.279 --> 01:35:38.560 got Christian McCaffrey going in the one oh eight, one 1772 01:35:38.560 --> 01:35:41.720 o nine, where that's that's literally either you know, you 1773 01:35:41.760 --> 01:35:44.000 win your league or you strike out and you're done. 1774 01:35:44.319 --> 01:35:46.560 Ken Walker at the three oh nine, like, yeah, all right, 1775 01:35:46.600 --> 01:35:49.920 you missed on a third round pick. It's gonna sting, 1776 01:35:49.960 --> 01:35:52.720 but it's not gonna end your season. So I I 1777 01:35:52.720 --> 01:35:55.279 I still think there's upside there, even you know, with 1778 01:35:55.680 --> 01:35:57.199 that report coming out last. 1779 01:35:57.000 --> 01:36:00.720 Night, I I have to bring up JK. Dobbins here, 1780 01:36:00.800 --> 01:36:04.039 and this is an interesting story. So so Harvey in 1781 01:36:04.079 --> 01:36:07.560 the in the first preseason game seven carries twenty five yards. 1782 01:36:07.560 --> 01:36:09.319 They beat the Niners thirty to ten. He also got 1783 01:36:09.319 --> 01:36:12.359 to catch for four yards. He was listed on the 1784 01:36:12.399 --> 01:36:15.239 first preseason depth chart for the Broncos by Sean Payton 1785 01:36:15.239 --> 01:36:19.560 as running back five was Harvey. Harvey opened with the 1786 01:36:19.600 --> 01:36:22.520 starter's got every rush attempt while he's with the first team. 1787 01:36:22.800 --> 01:36:25.199 Then we later phoned out on Twitter and I think 1788 01:36:25.199 --> 01:36:28.199 it was Ben Albright had posted this on X sorry 1789 01:36:29.079 --> 01:36:32.520 that it was. The plan was to start Dobbins, but 1790 01:36:32.560 --> 01:36:35.920 he couldn't find his helmet and as a result, Harvey 1791 01:36:36.000 --> 01:36:38.520 was the guy in there. He pulled a Chris Comer 1792 01:36:38.600 --> 01:36:42.199 from Friday Night Lights his helmet and then Booby Miles 1793 01:36:42.239 --> 01:36:44.119 goes in thank God to end up the same way 1794 01:36:44.159 --> 01:36:48.680 for R. J. Harvey. But the thing is with Dobbins, 1795 01:36:48.840 --> 01:36:51.079 and I'm gonna do this the same way. We're talking 1796 01:36:51.079 --> 01:36:53.199 about the Seahawks running backs and then'll give you the 1797 01:36:53.479 --> 01:36:57.479 ADPs for both these players. Right now. RJ. Harvey running 1798 01:36:57.479 --> 01:37:00.119 back twenty at the five h two. JK. Dobbs is 1799 01:37:00.159 --> 01:37:02.720 running back thirty three at the eight twelve. That's almost 1800 01:37:02.760 --> 01:37:06.680 four rounds difference here. Which one of these Broncos running 1801 01:37:06.680 --> 01:37:11.319 backs do you preferred? Dave and tell me why it's JK. Dobbins. Well, 1802 01:37:11.720 --> 01:37:14.119 I like him both. You know, I want to get 1803 01:37:14.119 --> 01:37:15.119 shares of both. You know. 1804 01:37:17.119 --> 01:37:19.039 The thing that I just want to touch on first. 1805 01:37:19.039 --> 01:37:22.720 I know Harvey's getting a lot of love, But the 1806 01:37:22.800 --> 01:37:26.399 thing I just would say, you know, he's not going 1807 01:37:26.479 --> 01:37:28.119 to be a bellcal back in this offense. 1808 01:37:28.199 --> 01:37:29.319 Neither is JK. Dobbins. 1809 01:37:29.359 --> 01:37:31.479 Right, That's just not what Sean Payton does. You go 1810 01:37:31.560 --> 01:37:35.399 back through his entire history with the Saints, even with Denver, like, 1811 01:37:35.560 --> 01:37:38.880 there's always multiple guys, so there's always multiple ways to 1812 01:37:38.920 --> 01:37:40.199 play this backfield. 1813 01:37:40.279 --> 01:37:42.000 You know, I think R. J. 1814 01:37:42.199 --> 01:37:46.560 Harvey probably if you were if you can have an 1815 01:37:46.600 --> 01:37:49.600 Alvin Kamara like twenty seventeen rookie season and you know, 1816 01:37:50.039 --> 01:37:53.159 average over six yard six yards of carry, be heavily 1817 01:37:53.159 --> 01:37:55.119 involved as a receiver, could he finish as a top 1818 01:37:55.159 --> 01:37:55.680 five back. 1819 01:37:55.760 --> 01:37:56.039 Sure? 1820 01:37:56.680 --> 01:37:59.479 I would probably put that in like the one percent 1821 01:38:00.520 --> 01:38:06.119 range of outcomes at the ceiling. Dobbins is just you know, 1822 01:38:06.840 --> 01:38:09.199 I've always been a big JK. Dobbins fan. You know, 1823 01:38:09.239 --> 01:38:11.119 I had a lot of them in Dynasty. Was crushed 1824 01:38:11.119 --> 01:38:13.119 when he towards Achilles a couple of years ago, and 1825 01:38:13.159 --> 01:38:17.159 then suddenly he came back to life last year. I 1826 01:38:17.279 --> 01:38:21.760 feel like he's probably gonna be the receiving back in 1827 01:38:21.800 --> 01:38:24.640 this offense. He's the better pass protector, so he's gonna 1828 01:38:24.680 --> 01:38:29.880 get a ton of targets in this offense. He's running 1829 01:38:29.880 --> 01:38:32.439 behind one of the best offensive lines in the league. 1830 01:38:33.079 --> 01:38:35.880 You know, I just feel like both of these guys 1831 01:38:35.920 --> 01:38:40.479 are going to be similar ish production. That Harvey hits 1832 01:38:40.520 --> 01:38:43.199 the ground running, you know, and we do see like 1833 01:38:43.239 --> 01:38:48.840 a massive rush, you know, big time spike and efficiency 1834 01:38:48.880 --> 01:38:50.840 from him, then he's gonna be the preferred play. But 1835 01:38:51.359 --> 01:38:53.119 I don't think Dobbyins is a bad way to play 1836 01:38:53.119 --> 01:38:54.880 it either. I think he's gonna have the edge on 1837 01:38:54.960 --> 01:38:59.199 passing downs at least to start the year. And you know, 1838 01:38:59.239 --> 01:39:01.239 maybe he's gonna be the better goal line back too. 1839 01:39:01.399 --> 01:39:03.920 I was reading something all next I don't remember who 1840 01:39:04.840 --> 01:39:10.760 uh had had had posted this, so I'm gonna get 1841 01:39:10.800 --> 01:39:14.960 that wrong. But Sean Payton and their offensive coordinator Joel 1842 01:39:14.960 --> 01:39:18.319 Lombardi were both quoted as saying he still has a 1843 01:39:18.359 --> 01:39:21.840 tendency to bounce runs too much to the outside and 1844 01:39:21.960 --> 01:39:24.880 right and it's not taking which you know that was 1845 01:39:24.880 --> 01:39:27.119 something that kept Reggie Bush off the field all these 1846 01:39:27.199 --> 01:39:30.880 years in Sean Payton's offense too, so you know that's 1847 01:39:30.920 --> 01:39:33.039 going to be something that could potentially come back and 1848 01:39:33.039 --> 01:39:33.840 bite him as well. 1849 01:39:33.880 --> 01:39:37.720 And you know, I like both. I don't know what 1850 01:39:37.760 --> 01:39:39.800 i'd say. I have a preference. I want to make 1851 01:39:39.800 --> 01:39:42.600 sure I get exposure that both across my leagues. But yeah, 1852 01:39:42.640 --> 01:39:46.079 I'm fully on board to get Dobbins. Lombardi, I remember 1853 01:39:46.159 --> 01:39:48.119 that that quote he was talking about. He's like, yeah, 1854 01:39:48.119 --> 01:39:50.039 he still has a tendency to bounce it outside, but 1855 01:39:50.079 --> 01:39:52.319 he still usually beats the guy to the court, Yeah, right, 1856 01:39:53.560 --> 01:39:58.840 which is awesome. Like the Jacksonville backfield. Do you have 1857 01:39:58.880 --> 01:40:01.680 a preference here? I think we could throw Laquinn Allen 1858 01:40:01.720 --> 01:40:03.800 out unless you're drafting a twenty eight round best of all, 1859 01:40:03.840 --> 01:40:07.159 I think, but but definitely not lea Quinn Allen. Okay, 1860 01:40:07.199 --> 01:40:11.199 But when it's Biggs, b Etn, and Baselle Tuton, I 1861 01:40:11.239 --> 01:40:13.439 don't know. I feel like there's there's value in all 1862 01:40:13.479 --> 01:40:15.119 three of these guys. Are you leaning one way or 1863 01:40:15.159 --> 01:40:15.439 the other? 1864 01:40:16.479 --> 01:40:18.600 I think the way I'm leaning is really just anything 1865 01:40:18.680 --> 01:40:24.760 but Travis Etn. And that is mainly because he's the 1866 01:40:24.800 --> 01:40:26.840 most expensive one of the three, which when you get 1867 01:40:26.880 --> 01:40:28.680 one of these, you know scenarios, you don't know who 1868 01:40:28.680 --> 01:40:30.359 it's going to be. I think the better play I 1869 01:40:30.359 --> 01:40:32.319 think most people would degree is is go get the 1870 01:40:32.359 --> 01:40:37.039 guys to the cheaper I'd definitely taken some shots on 1871 01:40:37.079 --> 01:40:39.359 Biggs bms taking some shots on Tuton as well. We'll 1872 01:40:39.359 --> 01:40:41.000 talk about Bigsby right now. 1873 01:40:41.600 --> 01:40:41.800 Uh. 1874 01:40:41.960 --> 01:40:45.279 You know Etn's big problem the last two years, really 1875 01:40:45.319 --> 01:40:47.319 since his first year, he hasn't been a very good rusher. 1876 01:40:47.600 --> 01:40:49.880 He's been extremely in the fit. Even during that that 1877 01:40:50.079 --> 01:40:53.079 RB three finished two years ago, still averaged under four 1878 01:40:53.159 --> 01:40:57.000 yards to carry you know, and Bigsby was actually Jacksonville's 1879 01:40:57.039 --> 01:40:59.880 best back last year, and he finished higher than ETN 1880 01:41:00.079 --> 01:41:02.199 in a ton of metrics. Like I have it right 1881 01:41:02.239 --> 01:41:05.600 here on my notes. Bigsby finished higher than ETN in 1882 01:41:05.720 --> 01:41:09.760 next just next gen stats, rush yards over expected PFF, 1883 01:41:09.880 --> 01:41:14.479 rushing grade pff E, lucive breathing yards after contact per attempt, 1884 01:41:14.520 --> 01:41:17.880 and fantasy points data Suite's explosive run weight run rates. 1885 01:41:17.920 --> 01:41:22.640 So if we're just talking between ETN and Bigsby, Bigsby 1886 01:41:22.720 --> 01:41:23.439 is a better play. 1887 01:41:23.520 --> 01:41:23.760 Now. 1888 01:41:24.239 --> 01:41:27.319 I the thing we don't know though, you know, we're 1889 01:41:27.319 --> 01:41:30.600 all trying to draw parallels between what Liam Cohen did 1890 01:41:30.640 --> 01:41:33.600 in Tampa Bay and what he's going to do here. Truthfully, 1891 01:41:33.600 --> 01:41:36.000 we really have no idea. You know, Tank Bigsby could 1892 01:41:36.039 --> 01:41:39.279 be you know, Bucky or Ving, ETN could be Rashad White, 1893 01:41:39.399 --> 01:41:42.159 bay Shall, Teuton could be Sean Tucker. But there's also 1894 01:41:42.199 --> 01:41:45.600 a scenario where, you know, any one of these three 1895 01:41:45.640 --> 01:41:48.359 guys just takes the job and runs with it. I 1896 01:41:48.399 --> 01:41:50.479 am making sure I get some big schel Tuton. I 1897 01:41:50.560 --> 01:41:53.680 loved him in Virginia Tech. I think, you know, homeworking threat. 1898 01:41:53.720 --> 01:41:56.880 He does a lot of fun things. I don't really 1899 01:41:57.159 --> 01:41:58.399 you know, even though I said that out on the 1900 01:41:58.399 --> 01:42:00.760 e TN, I'm not going to fight anybody who you know, 1901 01:42:00.880 --> 01:42:03.600 says that's the way to play this backfield. They're all 1902 01:42:03.640 --> 01:42:07.279 so cheap. But I think you just when you go 1903 01:42:07.359 --> 01:42:09.800 into your drafts, man, you got to make sure you 1904 01:42:09.800 --> 01:42:12.079 get a piece of this backfield, because we saw a 1905 01:42:12.159 --> 01:42:15.439 Cohen can do in Tampa Bay and figuring out this 1906 01:42:15.479 --> 01:42:17.359 backfield could be the key to winning your league or 1907 01:42:17.399 --> 01:42:20.439 even could you know, winning a million dollars in the FFPCI. 1908 01:42:21.119 --> 01:42:25.199 The thing that is important to realize here, it's like 1909 01:42:25.239 --> 01:42:28.880 two rounds. ETM is going two rounds ahead of both 1910 01:42:28.920 --> 01:42:32.399 Gigsby and Bachelle Tooton right now. So to your point, 1911 01:42:32.439 --> 01:42:35.119 Gret went in deut grab the cheaper guy watching us 1912 01:42:35.119 --> 01:42:37.880 tonight on Twitch Potato Juice Triple o one. Would you 1913 01:42:37.960 --> 01:42:41.439 trade Ced Lamb and David Montgomery for Bjon Robinson and 1914 01:42:41.479 --> 01:42:45.279 Courtland Sutton. Now, obviously this question requires nuance kind of 1915 01:42:45.399 --> 01:42:47.960 you know, it depends upon what your team settings are, 1916 01:42:48.159 --> 01:42:50.760 what type of league this is, whether you need a 1917 01:42:50.800 --> 01:42:53.680 running back. But if I'm answering this in a vacuum, Dave, 1918 01:42:53.960 --> 01:42:57.319 I would rather have the beajon Robinson Courtland Sutton side 1919 01:42:57.560 --> 01:42:59.399 than the CD LAMB David Montgomery side. 1920 01:42:59.720 --> 01:43:02.800 Yeah, I mean you get a young running back entering 1921 01:43:02.840 --> 01:43:06.319 his prime, Like I think Robinson's probably gonna end up 1922 01:43:06.319 --> 01:43:08.439 finishing as the RB one this year. Atlanta has another 1923 01:43:08.439 --> 01:43:09.359 easy rush schedule. 1924 01:43:09.399 --> 01:43:10.319 I love that. 1925 01:43:10.439 --> 01:43:13.720 You know, you can get probably five six good years 1926 01:43:13.720 --> 01:43:17.359 of Bijon and you know, pick up n Okay wide 1927 01:43:17.359 --> 01:43:21.079 receiver too, if it's in PPR leagues. Yeah, I would 1928 01:43:21.159 --> 01:43:22.119 take that side as well. 1929 01:43:22.800 --> 01:43:25.079 The next team or player I want to talk about 1930 01:43:25.079 --> 01:43:27.439 is Trad Benson. I drafted him in a bunch of 1931 01:43:27.520 --> 01:43:30.079 dynasty leagues last year. Did not see much return of 1932 01:43:30.119 --> 01:43:32.920 my investment, But will that be different this year? Dave, 1933 01:43:33.000 --> 01:43:35.880 Is Trey Benson a target for you on the Arizona 1934 01:43:35.880 --> 01:43:38.439 Cardinals in twenty twenty five? I think he is. 1935 01:43:38.560 --> 01:43:40.920 I think he's a great like bench dashed kind of 1936 01:43:40.960 --> 01:43:43.960 running back, and like, look, let's not let's not pull 1937 01:43:44.000 --> 01:43:47.159 punches yere. Benson stunk last year. You know, I thought 1938 01:43:47.199 --> 01:43:48.399 he I thought. 1939 01:43:48.159 --> 01:43:51.560 He looked hesitant and indecisive as a rusher. You know. 1940 01:43:51.800 --> 01:43:55.279 But the thing that I think we all kind of 1941 01:43:55.359 --> 01:43:59.239 forget sometimes when we're playing fantasy football, it's, you know, 1942 01:43:59.479 --> 01:44:02.039 what I think think about the player doesn't matter. What 1943 01:44:02.159 --> 01:44:06.000 you think doesn't matter. What does matter is what the 1944 01:44:06.039 --> 01:44:10.760 team and what the coaching staff thinks. And through Arizona's 1945 01:44:11.079 --> 01:44:14.920 own actions this year, we're in action. It shows that 1946 01:44:14.960 --> 01:44:16.840 they still have a lot of faith in Trey Benson. 1947 01:44:16.960 --> 01:44:20.600 Like in what was supposedly a loaded running back class 1948 01:44:20.720 --> 01:44:23.479 this year, right Arizona had the chance to say, you 1949 01:44:23.479 --> 01:44:26.800 know what, Trey Benson wasted that third round pick last year, 1950 01:44:27.079 --> 01:44:30.199 Let's find someone else from this draft class. Well, they 1951 01:44:30.199 --> 01:44:33.279 didn't add anybody of note, and so that's what's the 1952 01:44:33.319 --> 01:44:35.640 only other running back I leave behind him is Michael Carter. 1953 01:44:36.399 --> 01:44:39.079 And so you know that does speak volumes to their 1954 01:44:39.319 --> 01:44:43.600 confidence and their feelings on Benson. You know, there's been 1955 01:44:43.760 --> 01:44:46.439 some sort of there's been some mixed messages out on 1956 01:44:46.600 --> 01:44:49.199 next like the coach speacondex. You know that we have 1957 01:44:49.319 --> 01:44:51.760 quotes from John you know, Jonathan Gannon, the head coach, 1958 01:44:51.800 --> 01:44:54.359 and Drew Pets and the offensive coordinated kind of indicating 1959 01:44:54.399 --> 01:44:57.000 that James Connor is still going to be the bell cow. 1960 01:44:57.119 --> 01:45:02.000 But we also have quotes from Connor himself, Kyler Murray saying, yeah, 1961 01:45:02.039 --> 01:45:06.640 Trey Benson is going to be more involved. Probably my 1962 01:45:06.680 --> 01:45:08.640 stance on Benson this year is probably more of a 1963 01:45:08.680 --> 01:45:11.520 fade of James Connor than it is like a ringing 1964 01:45:11.640 --> 01:45:16.159 endorsement of Benson. You know, Connor, he's been one of 1965 01:45:16.199 --> 01:45:19.279 the most undervalued players the last two years, but he's 1966 01:45:19.279 --> 01:45:22.039 now thirty years old, and you know, this is that 1967 01:45:22.159 --> 01:45:27.199 point for running backs where production can unexpectedly fall off 1968 01:45:27.239 --> 01:45:30.479 a cliff, like any time, Like Melvin Gordon a couple 1969 01:45:30.479 --> 01:45:32.920 of years ago with the Broncos. He you know, still 1970 01:45:32.960 --> 01:45:36.600 split with Javonte Williams and I forget the season, but 1971 01:45:36.720 --> 01:45:39.439 he was great, and then he once goes into year 1972 01:45:39.479 --> 01:45:41.600 two and he just completely knows dives and he wasn't 1973 01:45:41.640 --> 01:45:45.560 the same player, you know. So I think there's a 1974 01:45:45.600 --> 01:45:51.840 possibility Benson could have some standalone value and if Connor 1975 01:45:51.880 --> 01:45:54.560 starts to decline or he gets injured, which he's had 1976 01:45:54.600 --> 01:45:56.720 some struggles with injuries as well, you know, you could 1977 01:45:56.800 --> 01:45:59.159 have a plug and play like Borderline RB one. 1978 01:46:00.439 --> 01:46:02.680 Trey Benson is a guy I'm looking forward to bigger 1979 01:46:02.720 --> 01:46:05.800 things this year, and hopefully bigger things for my Dynasty 1980 01:46:05.840 --> 01:46:07.880 teams that I have him on. If you want to 1981 01:46:07.880 --> 01:46:11.479 play Dynasty in the FFPC, pick one, up today. Dynasty 1982 01:46:11.520 --> 01:46:13.800 startups going on right now. Entry fees ranging from one 1983 01:46:13.840 --> 01:46:16.279 hundred dollars, although we have to five thousand dollars two 1984 01:46:16.279 --> 01:46:18.800 thousand plus leagues over the course of fifteen years and 1985 01:46:18.920 --> 01:46:21.359 no leagues have ever folded. That's at n y f 1986 01:46:21.359 --> 01:46:24.600 FPC dot com. My f FPC dot com is where 1987 01:46:24.600 --> 01:46:26.720 to go for that. We'll step out take our final break. 1988 01:46:26.720 --> 01:46:29.399 When we come back, We're gonna put one Dave van 1989 01:46:29.399 --> 01:46:32.279 Tresca from Rodaballer on the clock. Would he rather draft 1990 01:46:32.359 --> 01:46:34.760 Jacoby Myers or Chris Olbvey. Would he d rather draft 1991 01:46:34.760 --> 01:46:37.239 Baker Mayfield or Boon? Next David and Joker or Tyler Warren. 1992 01:46:37.439 --> 01:46:40.119 These questions and more will be answered. 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Actually, I take that back. No, 2004 01:48:33.199 --> 01:48:35.680 DJ Moore is no longer a Panther. DK Metcalf is 2005 01:48:35.680 --> 01:48:37.880 a Steeler, but the Steelers and Panthers playing right now 2006 01:48:38.359 --> 01:48:39.840 to go, I don't know. All of a sudden, it 2007 01:48:39.920 --> 01:48:41.600 was twenty twenty two to me all over again. That's 2008 01:48:41.600 --> 01:48:44.560 all right, It all blends together, it does after a while. Yeah, Now, 2009 01:48:44.680 --> 01:48:46.560 if you are in a redraft league, who would you 2010 01:48:46.680 --> 01:48:49.159 rather draft this year? Dave? Is it? Is it DK 2011 01:48:49.319 --> 01:48:51.960 Metcalf or did you rather draft DJ Moore in Chicago? 2012 01:48:53.279 --> 01:48:55.640 So I would rather go DK Metcalf, And that might 2013 01:48:55.840 --> 01:48:58.840 that might be surprising for some people. I just well, 2014 01:48:58.880 --> 01:49:00.760 first of all, we know that CAS's gonna be the 2015 01:49:00.840 --> 01:49:02.079 number one target hands down. 2016 01:49:02.119 --> 01:49:04.119 There. There's really no competition. 2017 01:49:06.119 --> 01:49:09.520 Yeah, Arthur Smith's offense, the run ratio, run pad not great, 2018 01:49:09.640 --> 01:49:11.920 But how much of that's gonna be Arthur Smith and 2019 01:49:11.960 --> 01:49:13.920 how much of it's going to be Aaron Rodgers? You know, 2020 01:49:14.279 --> 01:49:17.800 Aaron Rodgers, even though he declined last year, you know, 2021 01:49:17.920 --> 01:49:20.359 DeVante Adams and Garrett Rolson, they were still very playable 2022 01:49:20.399 --> 01:49:23.239 for fantasy leagues. So he's still you know, he has 2023 01:49:23.279 --> 01:49:25.000 that tendency to lock go on the one guy in 2024 01:49:25.079 --> 01:49:28.319 his offenses he always has, and Pittsburgh doesn't really have 2025 01:49:28.439 --> 01:49:31.880 anybody else. Dj Moore could totally end up being the 2026 01:49:31.960 --> 01:49:35.279 number one target in Chicago this year. I just don't 2027 01:49:35.319 --> 01:49:38.000 think we really know, you know, what that offense is 2028 01:49:38.039 --> 01:49:40.000 going to look like yet. Plus there's a ton of 2029 01:49:40.840 --> 01:49:43.840 target competition. You know, Romo Dune say, he's been standing out. 2030 01:49:44.199 --> 01:49:46.720 You know, he could emerge as the one They drafted 2031 01:49:46.800 --> 01:49:51.439 Colston Lovelin, you know, tenth overall. They also have Luther 2032 01:49:51.520 --> 01:49:54.479 burn the third and you know Greg Olsen last week, 2033 01:49:54.600 --> 01:49:57.239 don't know if you call it that on the Bears broadcast, 2034 01:49:57.520 --> 01:50:00.680 they had Ryan Poles in the boots for a little bit. 2035 01:50:00.800 --> 01:50:02.880 Poles stepped out and Greg Olsen kind of let the 2036 01:50:02.920 --> 01:50:08.159 cat out in the bag when he said, Poles thinks 2037 01:50:08.399 --> 01:50:11.680 that burden can end up being better than, you know, 2038 01:50:12.079 --> 01:50:15.800 than more er doing by seasons end. So there's just 2039 01:50:15.880 --> 01:50:19.159 a lot of uncertainty for me with the I think 2040 01:50:19.199 --> 01:50:21.279 the Bears offense is going to be better. I just 2041 01:50:21.359 --> 01:50:24.760 don't quite know that Moore is going to be the beneficiary. 2042 01:50:24.960 --> 01:50:28.920 So you know, I'll take the guy who maybe lesser offense, 2043 01:50:29.000 --> 01:50:31.119 but you know he could we could see one hundred 2044 01:50:31.119 --> 01:50:32.840 and sixty targets if everything goes right. 2045 01:50:33.840 --> 01:50:38.279 If I shift the question to New Orleans versus Las Vegas, 2046 01:50:38.520 --> 01:50:40.359 would you rather draft? And by the way, all these 2047 01:50:40.880 --> 01:50:42.960 players that I'm talking about are all basically going back 2048 01:50:43.000 --> 01:50:45.319 to back in FFPC drafts. Right now, if you're on 2049 01:50:45.399 --> 01:50:48.039 the clock and you're you're taking a receiver, Dave, are 2050 01:50:48.039 --> 01:50:49.600 you going to take Jacoby Myers or are you going 2051 01:50:49.640 --> 01:50:51.399 to take Chris Olavey. I know you talked a little 2052 01:50:51.439 --> 01:50:52.720 bit about a lobby earlier. 2053 01:50:52.600 --> 01:50:54.920 So yeah, I know I kind of trash New Orleans offense, 2054 01:50:55.000 --> 01:50:58.760 But in this in this scenario, yeah, I'd rather take 2055 01:50:58.880 --> 01:51:02.479 the the the stab at Olive. I like Yakobe Myers, 2056 01:51:02.600 --> 01:51:07.159 super underrated player. He is Las Vegas is wide receiver one, 2057 01:51:07.359 --> 01:51:09.640 but he's not gonna be the top target right that 2058 01:51:09.800 --> 01:51:11.359 that that's gonna be Brock Bowers. 2059 01:51:13.079 --> 01:51:15.880 Does he see more targets than Ashton genty this year? Myers? 2060 01:51:16.399 --> 01:51:20.880 Mmm mmm, I think there's award where he doesn't You know, 2061 01:51:21.039 --> 01:51:25.520 I think gent could wind up being the second leading receiver. Yeah, 2062 01:51:25.640 --> 01:51:28.239 the second target target owner there. That's an interesting. 2063 01:51:28.640 --> 01:51:31.680 Jacoby Myers could be the rare WR one, but PC 2064 01:51:32.000 --> 01:51:38.800 three right on that team, right right? Yeah? Yeah, but yeah, 2065 01:51:39.000 --> 01:51:39.199 you know. 2066 01:51:39.359 --> 01:51:42.359 A lave, it's it could be nasty, but you said 2067 01:51:42.359 --> 01:51:44.880 earlier they're gonna stink, but you know there's still potential 2068 01:51:44.960 --> 01:51:47.880 for on the targets and you know, like we had 2069 01:51:48.239 --> 01:51:51.079 the Jacksonville Jaigua wires. Oh my gosh, there's ten years 2070 01:51:51.079 --> 01:51:53.640 ago now, that famous Blake Bordles here. Plenty of garbage 2071 01:51:53.680 --> 01:51:54.159 time points. 2072 01:51:54.399 --> 01:51:56.640 You know. The other thing I always bring it back 2073 01:51:56.640 --> 01:51:58.840 to his fantasy football is supposed to be fun. Chryst 2074 01:51:58.840 --> 01:52:00.960 Olave to me, is a lot more fun to draft 2075 01:52:01.079 --> 01:52:04.079 than Jacoby myersd. So that's that's the other reason I 2076 01:52:04.119 --> 01:52:05.600 would agree with you and say a lot of there. 2077 01:52:06.239 --> 01:52:09.520 I want to skip two quarterbacks, Baker Mayfield or Bone Knicks. 2078 01:52:09.600 --> 01:52:11.439 Quite frankly, I've gone back and forth on this one. 2079 01:52:11.479 --> 01:52:14.239 I don't have any see it's it's bonnets for me, 2080 01:52:14.359 --> 01:52:17.560 and it's it's it's not really close. I just feel 2081 01:52:17.600 --> 01:52:22.039 like like Baker Mayfield way better quarterback than a lot 2082 01:52:22.079 --> 01:52:24.800 of people including myself, gave him credit for Like, you 2083 01:52:24.840 --> 01:52:26.960 don't throw forty one touchdowns by accident and have a 2084 01:52:27.039 --> 01:52:29.159 seven point two percent you know that, just that, just 2085 01:52:29.279 --> 01:52:32.319 you're a good quarterback of that, right right. The problem 2086 01:52:32.439 --> 01:52:38.119 is Mayfield's probably the single biggest regression candidate out there 2087 01:52:38.199 --> 01:52:40.600 this year, like set career highs across the board, career 2088 01:52:40.680 --> 01:52:44.359 highs passing yards, touchdowns, touchdown rate, He even set a 2089 01:52:44.439 --> 01:52:48.399 career high in rushing yards. Like he is going the 2090 01:52:48.479 --> 01:52:52.520 regressor's career means in all of these areas. And even 2091 01:52:52.600 --> 01:52:55.199 if he drops, you know, that touchdown rate comes back 2092 01:52:55.239 --> 01:52:57.600 closer to his career mark of five percent. Like that, 2093 01:52:57.800 --> 01:53:02.000 that's going to make a significant debt Nicks. You know, 2094 01:53:02.159 --> 01:53:04.199 it's an interesting one because I do think there's a 2095 01:53:04.319 --> 01:53:08.560 world where we actually saw bow Knick's peak last year. 2096 01:53:09.159 --> 01:53:12.640 But I feel like he's gonna be safer in that. 2097 01:53:12.920 --> 01:53:13.760 You know, he's still. 2098 01:53:13.600 --> 01:53:14.319 Gonna run a lot. 2099 01:53:15.079 --> 01:53:19.760 He's got, in my opinion right now, the better offensive 2100 01:53:19.800 --> 01:53:22.079 play caller. We don't know what Josh Grizzer is going 2101 01:53:22.159 --> 01:53:23.680 to be. You know, just because he was in the 2102 01:53:23.720 --> 01:53:26.439 same system, that doesn't that doesn't necessarily mean it's going 2103 01:53:26.479 --> 01:53:28.239 to be better. You know, we saw that a couple 2104 01:53:28.279 --> 01:53:31.439 of years ago with the Eagles when Shane Stiking got 2105 01:53:31.479 --> 01:53:33.760 hired by the Colts and I think it was Brian 2106 01:53:33.840 --> 01:53:38.279 Johnson took over and the offense was a mess. So plus, 2107 01:53:38.720 --> 01:53:41.319 you know, there is a scenario where bow Knicks takes 2108 01:53:41.399 --> 01:53:44.239 a significant year or two leap in the system and 2109 01:53:45.880 --> 01:53:50.000 you know, makes a major statistic statistical improvement there. He 2110 01:53:50.159 --> 01:53:52.359 just he just kind of feels like the safer pick 2111 01:53:52.439 --> 01:53:52.680 for me. 2112 01:53:54.279 --> 01:53:56.840 I think. And we're running out of time here, but 2113 01:53:56.840 --> 01:53:58.640 I want to get to a really fun one, and 2114 01:53:58.760 --> 01:54:02.239 this is a first round one. If you are dead 2115 01:54:02.319 --> 01:54:04.199 set on taking one of these running backs in the 2116 01:54:04.239 --> 01:54:06.560 first round, or maybe the better question to ask you, Dave. 2117 01:54:07.279 --> 01:54:10.439 Let's say one of your buddies is drafting and he says, 2118 01:54:10.479 --> 01:54:12.760 you're gonna co own this team with me, but we 2119 01:54:12.920 --> 01:54:15.720 have to take either Saquon Barkley or Christian McCaffrey in 2120 01:54:15.760 --> 01:54:18.560 the first round. What's the advice you're giving him? Which one? 2121 01:54:18.640 --> 01:54:20.279 Is it going to be Barkley or McCaffrey. 2122 01:54:20.479 --> 01:54:22.960 It's gonna be McCaffrey. And I don't even hesitate to 2123 01:54:23.000 --> 01:54:26.119 say that, And the main thing is, like Barkley All 2124 01:54:26.159 --> 01:54:28.000 World rushing season last year. You go look at the 2125 01:54:28.039 --> 01:54:31.399 stats from any two thousand yard rusher, you know they're 2126 01:54:31.439 --> 01:54:36.600 rushing production all significantly declines the following year. For Barkley, 2127 01:54:37.039 --> 01:54:39.119 what's his role going to be going to be as 2128 01:54:39.199 --> 01:54:42.279 a receiver. He wasn't heavily involved as a pass catcher 2129 01:54:42.399 --> 01:54:45.399 last year. McCaffrey like that, he's locked in for that 2130 01:54:45.600 --> 01:54:49.000 role even if even if his rushing totals go down, 2131 01:54:49.119 --> 01:54:52.319 like he's gonna be, maybe there's their second target arder, 2132 01:54:52.439 --> 01:54:55.600 Like you know, San Francisco wide receivers are dropped on 2133 01:54:55.680 --> 01:54:57.760 left and right. It's looking like it's going to be Kittle, 2134 01:54:58.399 --> 01:55:03.359 Pearsall and Caffrey for sure. And you know that work 2135 01:55:03.399 --> 01:55:06.800 as a receiver is what for me makes that a 2136 01:55:06.840 --> 01:55:09.159 pretty easy call. Plus, if he still is getting the 2137 01:55:09.199 --> 01:55:11.560 work as a rusher, you know, we know, we know what. 2138 01:55:11.560 --> 01:55:13.239 He's capable of. He can put up one of those 2139 01:55:13.319 --> 01:55:16.960 All World seasons. Yeah, Joe King already chiming in on 2140 01:55:17.039 --> 01:55:19.800 YouTube CMC is the last man standing already in that 2141 01:55:19.960 --> 01:55:22.199 San frans guy. Although Girndo did come back now, so 2142 01:55:22.279 --> 01:55:25.760 we do have Grendo, which is which is good. Let's 2143 01:55:25.760 --> 01:55:28.039 talk about another running back situation. These guys are going 2144 01:55:28.119 --> 01:55:30.439 back to back right now, and both of them have 2145 01:55:30.560 --> 01:55:32.800 been steamed up the board a little bit. Jordan Mason 2146 01:55:32.880 --> 01:55:36.039 now in Minnesota or Jalen Warren in Pittsburgh. 2147 01:55:37.439 --> 01:55:41.720 I'm going Mason, and you know, Kevin O'Connell has been 2148 01:55:41.760 --> 01:55:45.159 gushing about this guy since they acquired him in the offseason. 2149 01:55:46.039 --> 01:55:49.640 You know, it's going to be a better offense. I 2150 01:55:49.800 --> 01:55:52.680 feel like, better offensive line. He might even be the 2151 01:55:52.720 --> 01:55:55.279 goal line back. You know, Aaron Jones. I know they 2152 01:55:55.319 --> 01:55:58.119 gave him an extension this offseason, but all the metrics 2153 01:55:58.199 --> 01:56:00.479 for him, they point to a player and client. So 2154 01:56:00.720 --> 01:56:03.800 there is a scenario where Jordan Mason take completely takes 2155 01:56:03.840 --> 01:56:07.720 over this backfield by mid season. Jalen Warren look nice player. 2156 01:56:07.760 --> 01:56:10.319 I think he's going to be another great option in PPR, 2157 01:56:10.600 --> 01:56:12.840 you know, in PPR leagues as a flex maybe an 2158 01:56:12.920 --> 01:56:16.079 RB two. My thing with Jalen Warren, though, you know 2159 01:56:16.640 --> 01:56:20.039 he sat behind Najie Harris for three years and that 2160 01:56:20.239 --> 01:56:23.479 could never beat him out. You know, we all know 2161 01:56:23.600 --> 01:56:26.520 what Najee Harris is at this point for whatever, and look, 2162 01:56:26.680 --> 01:56:30.319 jayn Warren's clearly looked like a superior rusher for whatever reason, 2163 01:56:30.760 --> 01:56:35.359 that coaching staff didn't seem to think he was good enough, 2164 01:56:35.560 --> 01:56:38.479 better than better enough th Naj Harris to give him 2165 01:56:38.479 --> 01:56:41.079 the RB one role. Now, they brought him back this 2166 01:56:41.239 --> 01:56:45.159 year as a restricted agents as a restricted free agent, 2167 01:56:45.199 --> 01:56:47.119 and they signed him to a restricted free agent tender 2168 01:56:47.199 --> 01:56:51.000 for five point three million dollars. It's not not exactly 2169 01:56:51.119 --> 01:56:54.520 a ringing endorsement. And so I know Kayleb Johnson is 2170 01:56:54.560 --> 01:56:57.560 having some issues and pass protection everything. I'm a big 2171 01:56:57.640 --> 01:57:00.680 Kayleb Johnson fan. You know, I'm not as concerned about 2172 01:57:00.720 --> 01:57:04.000 the lack of athleticism as others. And so the thing 2173 01:57:04.079 --> 01:57:06.359 I just get caught up on with Warren, I just 2174 01:57:07.800 --> 01:57:11.960 I'm just not quite sure that. I'm not quite sure 2175 01:57:12.000 --> 01:57:14.319 why we think he is going to suddenly take over 2176 01:57:14.399 --> 01:57:16.479 this backfield when he couldn't be down Nachie Harris for 2177 01:57:16.560 --> 01:57:17.439 three years now. 2178 01:57:17.520 --> 01:57:20.239 It's a good point, it's good good thinking there in 2179 01:57:20.359 --> 01:57:22.279 regards to Jalen Warren. I think as much as I've 2180 01:57:22.359 --> 01:57:24.159 drafted Jalen Warren, I think I might be with you 2181 01:57:24.239 --> 01:57:26.680 on Mason here. Final one for the night. We'll go 2182 01:57:26.760 --> 01:57:29.319 back to the wide receiver room. De Mario Douglas in 2183 01:57:29.399 --> 01:57:33.199 New England or Joshua Palmer in Buffalo. This is another 2184 01:57:33.279 --> 01:57:36.359 fun one, an underrated one, and quite frankly, not a 2185 01:57:36.399 --> 01:57:39.800 lot of chatter going on beach No versus Palmer. 2186 01:57:40.199 --> 01:57:42.640 Yeah, because I have shares of both both players across 2187 01:57:42.720 --> 01:57:45.960 my dynasty leagues. But it's it's Pop Douglas, and the 2188 01:57:46.079 --> 01:57:49.439 big thing is I think Douglas. You know, again, we 2189 01:57:49.520 --> 01:57:51.159 don't know what's going to happen in New England as 2190 01:57:51.199 --> 01:57:53.720 far as he's gonna be the wide receiver one. Douglas 2191 01:57:53.800 --> 01:57:58.000 is wrong with Rave reviews. The thing with Palmer, I 2192 01:57:58.079 --> 01:58:00.239 think he's a good player, but I think he could 2193 01:58:00.239 --> 01:58:03.680 just be more of a rotational player. I expect, you know, 2194 01:58:03.800 --> 01:58:06.119 Joe Brady's still the play caller, and I just still 2195 01:58:06.199 --> 01:58:08.800 expect them to kind of go with that spread the 2196 01:58:08.840 --> 01:58:11.079 ball around approach. I don't know that we're ever going 2197 01:58:11.159 --> 01:58:14.319 to see it, you know, someone truly emerges as the 2198 01:58:14.399 --> 01:58:17.520 wide receiver one there. I still think Palmer could be 2199 01:58:17.560 --> 01:58:19.520 a great like deep league flex or like in some 2200 01:58:19.640 --> 01:58:21.880 of these dynasty leagues where you know it's a start 2201 01:58:21.920 --> 01:58:24.520 twelve and start thirteen things like that. Palmer could be 2202 01:58:24.560 --> 01:58:27.279 a great flex play. But if you're forcing me to 2203 01:58:27.359 --> 01:58:29.319 choose one. It's got to be Douglass just because I 2204 01:58:29.359 --> 01:58:31.239 think he's the guy that has the best chance to 2205 01:58:31.359 --> 01:58:34.359 emerge as his team's wide receiver. 2206 01:58:34.479 --> 01:58:37.600 One. Yeah, I think like for me, I'm down on 2207 01:58:37.640 --> 01:58:40.479 Shakir because of that high ankle spring. So yeah, I 2208 01:58:40.640 --> 01:58:42.840 have shares of both of these players. Like you, I 2209 01:58:42.920 --> 01:58:44.920 think it's Joshua Palmer for me as the way I 2210 01:58:44.960 --> 01:58:46.840 would leave. Okay, of what Dave you ask me tomorrow, 2211 01:58:47.079 --> 01:58:50.520 I might switch my mind to right between these guys. 2212 01:58:50.760 --> 01:58:53.119 Always fun to put the guests on the clock tonight 2213 01:58:53.640 --> 01:58:55.640 and Dave with with that, we're going to wrap up 2214 01:58:55.680 --> 01:58:58.520 the show. 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