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Speaker 1: Versed in FFPC Dynasty leagues, but FFPC redraft leagues as well.
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Speaker 1: into the show my co host for the evening, mister
Speaker 1: Adam tune Tis Adam. So good to have you a
Speaker 1: board tonight. Good evening, How are you.
Speaker 4: I'm great, It's great to be here.
Speaker 1: Eric, thank you, absolutely good to have you a board tonight.
Speaker 2: So much fun.
Speaker 1: And I know I know that you have been playing
Speaker 1: a lot of Dynasty stuff, especially the last couple of years.
Speaker 1: What is it about dynasty Fantasy football that just basically
Speaker 1: has you captured and captivated that you love it so much?
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm an addict in short, you know, I
Speaker 4: think it's I just like the idea of having a
Speaker 4: team over the long haul, getting to change it, getting
Speaker 4: to mix it up. It just it adds a level
Speaker 4: an element of ownership that you don't get in Redraft,
Speaker 4: and I like it.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of fun. And I think and you
Speaker 1: you've done Redraft stuff over the years too. And I've
Speaker 1: always said this on this show, and I've said it
Speaker 1: on all my shows, like I think playing Dynasty makes
Speaker 1: you a better Redraft player that they playing Redraft makes
Speaker 1: you a better Dynasty player too. I mean, it just
Speaker 1: it sharpens everything and it really lets you into to
Speaker 1: that you dialed in to know, Okay, this is what
Speaker 1: I should be doing here for this year, this is
Speaker 1: what I should be doing for future years.
Speaker 2: I don't know. That's how I've always felt about it.
Speaker 1: I played Redraft and Dynasty, and it's like it's it's
Speaker 1: sort of like, you know, my my starch and my
Speaker 1: entrede like I have to have both.
Speaker 2: I can't have one or the other.
Speaker 4: ATAM, I totally agree. Absolutely.
Speaker 1: Let's get into the interview tonight, because I want to
Speaker 1: let everybody know who you are and why you're on
Speaker 1: tonight before we get into the fantasy football portion. Tell
Speaker 1: the viewers, Tell the listeners, what you're doing for a
Speaker 1: living when you're not winning all these FFPC leagues.
Speaker 4: I'm an attorney. I don't want to tell anybody.
Speaker 2: Your secret's safe with me.
Speaker 4: I appreciate that.
Speaker 1: What kind of law do you practice or is that
Speaker 1: step like am I overstepping?
Speaker 4: Is that I'm a litigator, a civil litigator. Mostly defense work. Yeah,
Speaker 4: mostly defense work. But people hire me when they've been sued.
Speaker 4: They hire me when they're in their darkest hour, and
Speaker 4: I help them navigate those challenges.
Speaker 1: Much like picking up an orphan dynasty team, right, that
Speaker 1: would be it could be in its darkest hour and
Speaker 1: then you basically rescue it from the recesses of ambiguity,
Speaker 1: of of of of of you know, like the worst
Speaker 1: possible spot that these orphan teams could be in, you
Speaker 1: are rescuing them. So it makes it makes a lot
Speaker 1: of sense. How many years have you been doing this now, Adam?
Speaker 4: An attorney?
Speaker 2: Yeah?
Speaker 4: I think I will be twenty years in the fall.
Speaker 2: Good for you? Good for and what part of that?
Speaker 2: Where are you located?
Speaker 4: I live in West Michigan, the Great.
Speaker 2: Michigan, Oh my god, the Pride of Michigan. Tonight, Big
Speaker 2: Lions fan.
Speaker 4: Huge Lions fan, lifelong Lions fan.
Speaker 1: What do you make of just, well, well, we'll break
Speaker 1: it in right now. I don't know if we have
Speaker 1: any Lions stuff. Well we do with some Lion stuff
Speaker 1: on the rundown, but we'll get to the specifics on that.
Speaker 2: What do you make of the Lions schedule this year?
Speaker 1: Knowing that I have a I have a terrestrial radio show,
Speaker 1: a local radio show here in northeast Wisconsin, and one
Speaker 1: of my listeners to that is a diehard Lions fan
Speaker 1: and he's been telling me, and I can't really disagree
Speaker 1: with him, the Lions probably have the toughest schedule, not
Speaker 1: only in the NFC North but in the entire NFL.
Speaker 1: They had that first place schedule and obviously going up
Speaker 1: against the Bears, Vikings, and Packers twice a year, that's
Speaker 1: no easy task. What do you make of the Lines
Speaker 1: not only having the toughest schedule in the NFL but
Speaker 1: breaking in not one but two new coordinators this year
Speaker 1: under Dan Campbell? Is this like kind of like, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: they're good enough to navigate this or do you have
Speaker 1: a little bit of pause when you think about how
Speaker 1: good Detroit could be this year?
Speaker 2: Because this matters for fantasy too.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I wouldn't say that I have any pause. I mean,
Speaker 4: I'm actually really excited about the new coordinators. You know,
Speaker 4: they've been grooming Shepherd for a long time. I've read
Speaker 4: a lot of interviews that Campbell's given, and they were
Speaker 4: really intentional about selecting him and keeping him involved last season.
Speaker 4: And John Morton's been around. I mean, he was here.
Speaker 4: You know, there's that vignette from Hard Knocks a couple
Speaker 4: of years back where they were talking about what do
Speaker 4: we do with Craig Reynolds and Morton said, you don't
Speaker 4: cut him. He's everything we stand for, right. I mean,
Speaker 4: so these are familiar faces, and I assume it's going
Speaker 4: to be a little bit different, but I'm bullish.
Speaker 1: Do you Well, Okay, let's let's let's let's get into
Speaker 1: the actual fantasy aspect here. So Number one, I want
Speaker 1: to I want to kick things off with Derrick Henry King.
Speaker 1: Henry will Will open things up tonight, a guy that
Speaker 1: we talked about I think we talked about with him
Speaker 1: with Farrell last week because he signed that two year extension. Uh,
Speaker 1: in anytime you have a thirty plus year old running
Speaker 1: back sign anything extension. My Spidey sense perks up because
Speaker 1: I'm like, really, we're doing this okay. And then the
Speaker 1: other thing we have to look at here too, Adam
Speaker 1: is Derick Henry. If we look at the FFPC Big
Speaker 1: Gorilla ADP right now, which is courtesy Fantasymojo dot Com
Speaker 1: Darren Armani, who is my guest on the FFPC Insider
Speaker 1: Access on the Better Sports Network last night. Anytime we
Speaker 1: cite ADP on this show, it's courtesy of him. We
Speaker 1: can answer this question from a dynasty standpoint. We can
Speaker 1: also answer this question from a redraft standpoint. Dereck Henry
Speaker 1: is running back six dude two oh three right now
Speaker 1: in the FFPC Big Gorilla Tournament over the last seven days.
Speaker 1: I know you have some shares in dynasty of him.
Speaker 1: Can you tell me what type of season you think
Speaker 1: he's going to have this year and also what you're
Speaker 1: doing with those shares that you have him in FFPC
Speaker 1: dynasty leagues.
Speaker 4: I'm holding every share I've got of Derrick Henry and
Speaker 4: I will ride him until the wheels fall off. I
Speaker 4: think he's going to be just as good this year
Speaker 4: as he was last year. His role in the offense
Speaker 4: isn't going to change. I understand he's a year older,
Speaker 4: but he's a guy who hasn't shown any signs of
Speaker 4: dropping off. I mean, he had a run that was
Speaker 4: twenty one miles an hour last season, So I mean
Speaker 4: he is who he's always been and he's a great player.
Speaker 4: And the way I look at him, Eric is he
Speaker 4: is one of the proven three hundred point players in
Speaker 4: my lineup. To me, three hundred point players are the
Speaker 4: gold standard, whether they be receivers, running backs, tight ends.
Speaker 4: And so I'm holding and I'm just as bullish on
Speaker 4: him this year as I was last year in the
Speaker 4: year before.
Speaker 1: Talk about those three hundred point players, like when you
Speaker 1: are managing your dynasty rosters in the FFPC, it is
Speaker 1: every move you make, your your sort of your goal
Speaker 1: the end goal.
Speaker 2: I think about. Here's the way I'll explain this, Sam Presty,
Speaker 2: this is.
Speaker 1: I know this is NBA and a lot of people
Speaker 1: are tuning out right now when I start talking basketball,
Speaker 1: but say, I think it was Sam Presty for the
Speaker 1: Oklahoma City Thunder several years ago when he was the
Speaker 1: GM there.
Speaker 2: I don't think he's the GM there anymore, but he.
Speaker 1: Made all these trades. It might have been Darryl Mory
Speaker 1: actually in Houston. That's that's what I want to talk about.
Speaker 1: He made all these incremental trades where he got basically
Speaker 1: five percent better with every single trade. So it took
Speaker 1: a long while to get there, right, But if you
Speaker 1: do enough of these in FFPC dynasty, you can actually
Speaker 1: achieve What's what's the I think it's the red paper
Speaker 1: clip that was a big thing in the United Kingdom
Speaker 1: where this dude had a red paper clip and he
Speaker 1: ended up making like a series of like eight or
Speaker 1: nine trades and he turned it into like a house
Speaker 1: in London or something like that because he got incrementally
Speaker 1: a little bit better every single time. And I I
Speaker 1: think that's the question I'm kind of posing you to here.
Speaker 2: Is this the way you're handling your dynasty rosters. Are
Speaker 2: you just trying to like.
Speaker 1: Not win every deal, but just get a little bit
Speaker 1: better every single time so you know that whatever deal
Speaker 1: you're making is maybe not going to put you over
Speaker 1: the edge. But if you make a series of these
Speaker 1: and continually getting better, then all of a sudden you
Speaker 1: fall into these three hundred point scores.
Speaker 4: Like you said, yeah for sure, I mean There's two
Speaker 4: things I think about whenever I'm thinking about a dynasty trade.
Speaker 4: One is am I consolidating value? What's the value proposition
Speaker 4: of the deal. But I think, first and foremost, I
Speaker 4: look at my starting lineup the front line, and I think,
Speaker 4: am I any better? Does this trade make me better?
Speaker 4: You know? I mean depth is important. You always want
Speaker 4: to have depth on your roster. But as many three
Speaker 4: hundred point players as I can get I'm looking for.
Speaker 4: And when I enter a rookie draft and I look
Speaker 4: at folks, I mean, my number one consideration is I
Speaker 4: don't follow a lot of college football. I don't really
Speaker 4: have time. I never miss an NFL game, but I've
Speaker 4: got three kids, I've got a busy law practice, so
Speaker 4: I don't really tune into college football. But when I
Speaker 4: do my scouting after the season, I number one try
Speaker 4: to decide who are these players? What's their bundle of skills?
Speaker 4: And then I wait for landing spot and I say,
Speaker 4: is that spot going to unlock those skills? But I
Speaker 4: always sort them mentally into buckets. Are they a three
Speaker 4: hundred point player at their highest peak? Are they a
Speaker 4: two hundred and fifty point player? Are they a two
Speaker 4: hundred point player, you know, and I want as many
Speaker 4: three hundred point players as I can, and landing spot's
Speaker 4: a big part of.
Speaker 1: That, do you I mean, listen, you can never have
Speaker 1: enough three hundred point scores obviously in Dynasty. Do you
Speaker 1: feel like there's a sweet spot, like once I hit okay,
Speaker 1: once I have four, and now I'm happy and like,
Speaker 1: and now this team can compete. Now that I have two,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm in competition. Do you ever think
Speaker 1: about it in those terms?
Speaker 2: Excuse me?
Speaker 1: In those terms are Dynasty, where like, once you achieve
Speaker 1: a certain level as far as how many of them
Speaker 1: you have, you feel like, Okay, now I'm in competition
Speaker 1: mode rather than reload mode.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think so. I mean, to me, the magic
Speaker 4: numbers probably three. If I've got three people who are
Speaker 4: conceivably three hundred point players on my team, I feel comfortable.
Speaker 4: I want, you know, in a perfect world, your starting
Speaker 4: wide receivers and running backs or three hundred point players
Speaker 4: or two hundred and fifty plus. I mean, there's like
Speaker 4: the gray area. But yeah, I think that's right. I
Speaker 4: think you're muted.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right, I'm sorry, right, thank you so much.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the Steelers. This is not the last
Speaker 1: time we'll talk about the Steelers tonight. Yeah, George Pickens
Speaker 1: is now a Dallas cowboy, my friend.
Speaker 2: When when you look at.
Speaker 1: The the the opening for the second wide receiver, and
Speaker 1: I want to say second pass catcher because I think
Speaker 1: that's Pat Fyromo, but the second wide receiver in Pittsburgh
Speaker 1: right now. We can talk dynasteirre redraft here and answer
Speaker 1: these questions however you see fit. But Roman Wilson, Calvin Austin,
Speaker 1: those are the best possible options here for you in
Speaker 1: Pittsburgh right now for fantasy. I know there was talk
Speaker 1: about potentially the Steelers talking to the Saints about acquiring
Speaker 1: Chris Olave. I don't think those conversations went very far.
Speaker 1: But knowing that how it stands right now, and also
Speaker 1: knowing that they could bring in somebody, they still could
Speaker 1: trade for somebody.
Speaker 2: I don't know if that's going to happen.
Speaker 1: They could sign a guy like Keenan Allen that that's
Speaker 1: a possibility as well. But knowing for anybody who's drafting
Speaker 1: right now today, May twenty third, Roman Wilson, Calvin Austin,
Speaker 1: do you have a strong feeling here, of which is
Speaker 1: the correct Pittsburgh Steeler wide receiver to draft opposite DK Metcalf.
Speaker 4: I mean, it's a tough question because Austin's a veteran
Speaker 4: and I remember listening to a Steelers beat writer a
Speaker 4: couple of weeks ago while they still had pickens, and
Speaker 4: he said, Austin is unquestionably the number three pass catcher.
Speaker 4: The coaching staff trusts him, and he's a veteran. And
Speaker 4: Wilson missed just about every single minute of last season
Speaker 4: due to injury. That being said, I love Roman Wilson.
Speaker 4: I think he's an explosive player. I think he ran
Speaker 4: like a four to three nine. I think he plays
Speaker 4: faster than that. He's a slot receiver, but he can
Speaker 4: win vertically. He's a guy who I mean, And I'm
Speaker 4: not a Michigan guy. I'm a State grad. But I've
Speaker 4: watched some Roman Wilson in his college years and I
Speaker 4: think he's tough. And I would bet on Wilson if
Speaker 4: I had to. I've got shares.
Speaker 1: You've got shares exactly now. Since you're a State guy,
Speaker 1: I'll bring this up. I don't think it's on the rundown.
Speaker 1: What are your thoughts on Jaden Reid knowing that he
Speaker 1: kind of was the Packers the facto number one wide
Speaker 1: receiver after they drafted Sabian Williams and Matthew Golden this year,
Speaker 1: Jayden Reid had to sit down with the Packers GM
Speaker 1: Brian Gudukunz and Ghuda Kunz assured him that what they
Speaker 1: did in the draft does not affect his standing as
Speaker 1: the number one wide receiver on the team, which I
Speaker 1: think is interesting because the number one wide receiver on
Speaker 1: the Packers is a lot different than the number one
Speaker 1: wide receiver and a lot of other teams. What are
Speaker 1: your feelings about Jaden Reid in Dynasty and re draft
Speaker 1: right now? Knowing what the Packers did what they did
Speaker 1: in the NFL Draft.
Speaker 4: I like Jayden Reid a lot. I think he'll have
Speaker 4: a good year. I'm hoping he has a good year.
Speaker 4: You know, they ran a lot of pressman coverage the
Speaker 4: second half of last season against the Packers, and he's
Speaker 4: I don't want to call him a gadget guy, but
Speaker 4: he's at his best when you scheme him. Touches find
Speaker 4: ways to scheme him open, and so I think adding
Speaker 4: Golden's actually going to help him. I think Golden adds
Speaker 4: this vertical threat. I think Golden way of thinking about
Speaker 4: it to me, Eric is he should end up being
Speaker 4: what they wanted Christian Watson to be in their offense Watson.
Speaker 4: I love Watson too, but he just he can't stay healthy.
Speaker 4: So you know, Golden adds that vertical element. And I
Speaker 4: think hopefully they can scheme Jane Reid open a bunch
Speaker 4: and design stuff for him.
Speaker 1: And that's sort of what they did when he was
Speaker 1: crushing it, right, That's what they were doing, and then
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, they just went away from it the
Speaker 1: second half of twenty twenty four, which I still don't understand.
Speaker 1: And obviously with the Williams and Golden thing, maybe, from
Speaker 1: what you're telling me here tonight, Adam, maybe the Williams
Speaker 1: and Golden thing presents a buying opportunity for Jaden Reid
Speaker 1: in Dynasty, and maybe it lowers his ADP to a
Speaker 1: level that it shouldn't be right now, and we should
Speaker 1: be getting more Jayden Reid on our team rather than
Speaker 1: the opposite, which I think a lot of people are doing.
Speaker 4: Yeah, for better or worse, Eric, That's been my outlook.
Speaker 4: I mean, I'm kind of a Spartan Homer, But I'm
Speaker 4: using this as an opportunity to snap up Jade Reid
Speaker 4: wherever I can.
Speaker 1: I know it's not exciting to talk about the Saints
Speaker 1: offense because the Saints offense is very offensive from what
Speaker 1: we have thought.
Speaker 2: I saw something on X today.
Speaker 1: About or No was. A buddy of mine sent me
Speaker 1: a text that he got a post from X and
Speaker 1: it was the Saints got kicked out of the draft
Speaker 1: room at the NFL Draft and then the Yahoo app
Speaker 1: auto drafted Tyler Shook for them essentially, which I.
Speaker 2: Thought was humorous.
Speaker 1: And we don't I mean, he could be the starter,
Speaker 1: it could be Spencer Ratler, it could be Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: for all we know. Quite frankly, it's wild what's going
Speaker 1: on in New Orleans right now, and I don't want
Speaker 1: to And we'll talk about the Saints receivers. I think
Speaker 1: we'll talk about Saints receivers tonight, but I want to
Speaker 1: focus in on the running backs. Kendra Miller was a
Speaker 1: player that I think a lot of us were excited
Speaker 1: about when he got selected by the Saints in the draft,
Speaker 1: and yet Dennis Allen and the coaching staff really seemed
Speaker 1: to keep him in the doghouse there, they didn't like him. Now,
Speaker 1: who is reasy? Darren Reze, I think, was the guy
Speaker 1: who got elevated to the interim head coach after Dennis
Speaker 1: Allen got fired, and Reese said, Hey, there's nobody in
Speaker 1: my doghouse, and so then I'm okay, Well, let's see
Speaker 1: what happens with Kendra Miller. And it was just kind
Speaker 1: of like eh, and then they went out and they
Speaker 1: got Devin Neil in the draft this year.
Speaker 2: Devin Neil, a player.
Speaker 1: Who his statistical accomplishments at Kansas unquestioned, like, if you
Speaker 1: like stats, if you like what he did on the field,
Speaker 1: you gotta love Devin Neil. My concern with Neil is
Speaker 1: I don't know if he's athletic enough to be a
Speaker 1: difference maker to be the explosive type of running back
Speaker 1: that we want for fantasy and that the Saints are
Speaker 1: looking for there. But I can't ignore the fact that
Speaker 1: Alvin Kamara will turn I think fifty seven years old
Speaker 1: this year. Hey, I can't ignore the fact that Kendra
Speaker 1: Miller has done little to nothing to suggest that.
Speaker 2: He is going to be the backup in New Orleans
Speaker 2: right enter.
Speaker 1: Devin Neil, and I think it's intriguing here if you
Speaker 1: are drafting, either in dynasty rookie drafts or maybe have
Speaker 1: the opportunity to pick one of these guys up, or
Speaker 1: maybe you're looking for a zero RB guy late in
Speaker 1: your drafts, the injury away type guy is a Devon
Speaker 1: Neil for you, Adam or is it Kendra Miller?
Speaker 2: Where do you fall in on this conversation.
Speaker 4: It's Devin Neil without question. I love Devon Neil. I
Speaker 4: picked him up in just about every rookie draft where
Speaker 4: I could, and I grabbed him at the end of
Speaker 4: the second round if I thought that's what I needed
Speaker 4: to do to get him. I'm very bullish on him.
Speaker 4: He's a great player.
Speaker 1: Devin Neil is okay and okay, So I guess I
Speaker 1: should ask this. Is this more of a like, you
Speaker 1: love Neil or you just are not impressed with Kendra Miller.
Speaker 1: I guess it's probably a mixture, like you're not but
Speaker 1: but Neil you really love?
Speaker 4: Yeah, Yeah, I think Neil's going to be a great
Speaker 4: professional running back. I'm convinced he will be. It's not
Speaker 4: as much a criticism of Miller. I just don't think
Speaker 4: Miller's good enough to keep Neil off the field, you know,
Speaker 4: all the and I totally understand eric the excitement everybody
Speaker 4: had when Miller was drafted, because you look at Kamara
Speaker 4: and you say, look, he's getting along in the tooth, right,
Speaker 4: he had some injury issues. Now, his demise was grossly overstated.
Speaker 4: I'm thinking of that old Mark Twain quote, you know,
Speaker 4: like rumors of my death have been grossly overstated. Kamar
Speaker 4: is great. But for all the excitement we had about Miller,
Speaker 4: I have just as much excitement about Neil. And I
Speaker 4: feel like Neil's got the tape to back it up,
Speaker 4: whereas I didn't feel that way about Miller. We were
Speaker 4: projecting when it came to Kendrick Miller. He had a
Speaker 4: nice year, but Devin Neil had four great years and
Speaker 4: he was their entire offense. There's a clip on YouTube
Speaker 4: the Saints put up. It's like fifteen minutes of like
Speaker 4: silent highlights of Devon Neil. And he's one of these
Speaker 4: guys with exquisite vision. In my view, right, my humble opinion,
Speaker 4: his feet and his eyes are perfectly connected. So the
Speaker 4: plays block for four or five yards, he gets the
Speaker 4: four or five, and then it looks like somebody's got
Speaker 4: a beat on him, and he just squeezes away and
Speaker 4: right out of their grasp. Then he turns that into
Speaker 4: another cut. He squeezes away right out of their grasp,
Speaker 4: and one more and then he's caught from behind because
Speaker 4: he doesn't have long speed. But you look up and
Speaker 4: that's a fifteen or a twenty yard game. I mean,
Speaker 4: he reminds me a lot of Kyn Williams. I think
Speaker 4: they win the same way. And so if Devin Neil
Speaker 4: sees the field, it's going to be really hard to
Speaker 4: keep him one. That's right.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And listen, by the way, I'm totally buying in
Speaker 1: what you're selling here. I think this begs the question, though,
Speaker 1: long speed as far as running backs go, because you're
Speaker 1: an Accomplisheddynasty player, is that kind of overrated?
Speaker 2: Do you not necessarily care about that a whole lot?
Speaker 4: I like doubles just as much as I like home
Speaker 4: runs and guys who are going to pop off for ten, fifteen,
Speaker 4: twenty yards or doubles hitters. You put a couple of
Speaker 4: those runs together on every drive and you look up,
Speaker 4: you fall in the end zone. You got twenty points
Speaker 4: that week. Yea, you do that a couple of weeks
Speaker 4: in a row, and you're close to being a three
Speaker 4: hundred point player. I think it's easy to get caught
Speaker 4: up in forty times and athleticism. But if there's one
Speaker 4: position in sports where athleticism matters least, I think it's
Speaker 4: professional running back.
Speaker 1: I think the thing I've always said, and ah man,
Speaker 1: this is gonna burn me because I'm not going to
Speaker 1: remember the full thing, but I remember, like.
Speaker 2: I can't remember it, but there.
Speaker 1: Was a Dynasty analyst, Dynasty fantasy football analystis said this
Speaker 1: a few years ago, and it stuck with me, but
Speaker 1: clearly not all the way because I can't remember the
Speaker 1: whole thing. But he said, there is one particular aspect
Speaker 1: that was most important to each position in Dynasty Fantasy Football,
Speaker 1: and the most important aspect for success for running backs
Speaker 1: was not talent.
Speaker 2: It was not athletic ability, it was not any of those.
Speaker 1: It was opportunity. All you need is an opportunity. You
Speaker 1: don't have to be the fastest guy in the world.
Speaker 1: You don't have to make everybody miss, you don't have
Speaker 1: to be this athletic wunderkin that just sets the world
Speaker 1: world on fire, you get the opportunity. Ask Kyron Williams,
Speaker 1: you know, to the point that you just brought up,
Speaker 1: is he the most?
Speaker 2: Is he gonna?
Speaker 1: Is he a jaw dropping guy that you're like, Oh
Speaker 1: my god, we got to get.
Speaker 2: This guy, And no he's not.
Speaker 1: And that's okay because he wins with being just a
Speaker 1: good running back who got an opportunity, and maybe that's
Speaker 1: all Devin Neil needs as well. There's certainly a non
Speaker 1: zero chance that if he's given the opportunity this year,
Speaker 1: if Kamara breaks down, and even if it's only for
Speaker 1: like a three or four game window or a two
Speaker 1: or three game window, it'll be very interesting to see
Speaker 1: what Devin Neil can do. Granted, the offensive line is
Speaker 1: not great, the whole team is not great, the offense
Speaker 1: is not great. But we've seen what he could do
Speaker 1: when the chips are against him in Kansas, and maybe
Speaker 1: he'll do that in the pros as well. Let's move
Speaker 1: on here to Mike Evans. Oh my god, Mike Evans.
Speaker 1: So I want to say, like a week before the draft,
Speaker 1: Peter Schrager now of ESPN formerly a bit NFL, put
Speaker 1: out a mock draft and he had the Buccaneers taken
Speaker 1: like Matthew Golden or it it wasn't Agbuka, but it
Speaker 1: was another receiver, And I'm like, why would the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: take a receiver in the first round. They have Evans,
Speaker 1: they have Godwin. It looks like they found something at
Speaker 1: Jalen McMillan. I couldn't understand it. And then the Buccaneers
Speaker 1: went out and grabbed and Mecca Buka in the first
Speaker 1: round of the draft. By all accounts, this dude is
Speaker 1: super high as far as character goes, super high floor.
Speaker 1: This guy can can win in the slot. That's that's
Speaker 1: probably where his best fantasy output will come in the
Speaker 1: pros is playing in the slot. He can win on
Speaker 1: the outside as well. He does it all and now
Speaker 1: he is the first round pick for the Buccaneers. Chris
Speaker 1: Godwin is a guy that I love the last couple
Speaker 1: of years, especially last year, and he's coming off this
Speaker 1: nasty ankle injury, and yet the Buccaneers gave him a
Speaker 1: new contract. We know Jalen McMillan is there as well
Speaker 1: and and really came on at the end of the season.
Speaker 1: So this is a leading question counts. As you are
Speaker 1: well versed in this Mike Evans. What's your level of concern?
Speaker 1: Knowing everything that the picture I just painted about Godwin,
Speaker 1: about McMillan and at Buka. What do you think about
Speaker 1: Evans this season? Barely got over a thousand yards last year.
Speaker 1: I know he missed like three games or whatever. Are
Speaker 1: we overrating him? Are is he being overdrafted in the
Speaker 1: Big Gorilla?
Speaker 2: Right now?
Speaker 1: I can tell you, Adam that Mike Evans is going
Speaker 1: as wide receiver twenty two at the four h six.
Speaker 1: Certainly I could see him paying that off. But I
Speaker 1: think there's a non zero chance that he does not
Speaker 1: pay that off this year as well. I'll stop talking.
Speaker 1: Give me your thoughts on Mike Evans this year.
Speaker 4: I like Mike Evans, you know, I compare him a
Speaker 4: lot to Henry. I mean, until I see signs that
Speaker 4: he's not going to be who he's been, I treat
Speaker 4: him like he is who he is trying to think of.
Speaker 4: I mean, I don't view I don't view the Egbuka
Speaker 4: thing as a criticism on Evans. I mean I think
Speaker 4: that that was really more they don't want to rush
Speaker 4: Godwin back. I think I read somewhere their general manager said,
Speaker 4: you know, we took a best player available approach. We
Speaker 4: really like it. Buka Godwin's going to be a huge
Speaker 4: part of our offense still, but this way we don't
Speaker 4: have to rush him back. I think Mike Evans continues
Speaker 4: to be the number one target there. He's a guy
Speaker 4: that just demands the ball. He's tall, he's he's perpetually open,
Speaker 4: he makes highlight reel catches, he mosses guys ever, you know, whenever.
Speaker 4: I just he's one of these guys who was fun
Speaker 4: to watch. I don't see him going anywhere. That being said,
Speaker 4: I don't know that he's going to play after this season.
Speaker 4: So I like him more in Redraft than I do Dynasty.
Speaker 4: But with all these old guys on my roster, these
Speaker 4: proven players, I'm just going to ride them until the
Speaker 4: wheels fall off.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So that kind of leads me into this next point,
Speaker 1: and I think you kind of already answered it. I
Speaker 1: am of the same Dynasty thinking as you. I feel
Speaker 1: like if you try to sell on these guys late
Speaker 1: in their career, I think you often get burned by
Speaker 1: it because you're not going to get a lot for him,
Speaker 1: You're probably not going to get full value. And I
Speaker 1: always This is my hines Ward theorem, Right, hines Ward,
Speaker 1: I just kept on my roster and I just like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll throw them in wide receiver, three, wide receiver, four,
Speaker 1: bye weeks whatever. And yet this dude turned out great
Speaker 1: season after great season when everybody else left them for dead.
Speaker 1: And for me, I'm much more likely to just be like,
Speaker 1: I've been a bag holder on Travis Kelcey in a
Speaker 1: couple of my leagues in dynasty leagues last few seasons.
Speaker 1: Mike Evans I do own in a couple of my
Speaker 1: dynasty leagues as well, and I just feel like trying
Speaker 1: to sell these guys towards the end of their career,
Speaker 1: you're actually it's detrimental to your team because I think
Speaker 1: that the probability for these guys who you know, it's
Speaker 1: not like Evans had like a four hundred yard season
Speaker 1: last year, right, he still had a really good season.
Speaker 1: And so when they're not, I mean, maybe they're showing
Speaker 1: signs and you know, maybe they fall off the cliff.
Speaker 1: I just feel like, more often than not, if you
Speaker 1: trade these players towards the end of their careers, you
Speaker 1: end up regretting it. And that's not something I want
Speaker 1: to do, and it seems like that's the way you're
Speaker 1: playing it. Obviously, I don't want to lump all players
Speaker 1: into that bucket, but it seems like more often than not,
Speaker 1: you're playing it the same way.
Speaker 4: I mean, my concern with a guy like Evans or
Speaker 4: Henry is just that they're more likely to get injured
Speaker 4: as they get older. I mean, their level of play
Speaker 4: has been pretty consistent, but as you get old. I know,
Speaker 4: I'm forty seven, and I know what it's like to
Speaker 4: roll out of bed and have a kink in your
Speaker 4: neck just because your head was turned one way at night, right,
Speaker 4: So I get that. I'm just I look at them
Speaker 4: and I say, you know, next season, I might need
Speaker 4: to do something with that roster spot, but as long
Speaker 4: as they're there, I'm happy to have them.
Speaker 1: I am too, And and I'll like I always think
Speaker 1: about like with players like that, that's a problem for
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six meters, that's a problem for twenty twenty seven. Like,
Speaker 1: I'm just gonna live out and see what I can
Speaker 1: do with these guys on my team.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's get back to your lions.
Speaker 1: Here. There has been a ground swell of love, and
Speaker 1: we'll get to I think I got.
Speaker 2: Roma Dunze in here. Maybe I don't have Roman Dunzy.
Speaker 1: I thought I did. Yeah, I got I got Roma
Speaker 1: Dunesey in here somewhere. Maybe I don't.
Speaker 2: Damn it.
Speaker 1: Did I not put Rome Dunsay in the rundown? I
Speaker 1: wanted to talk. Well, we'll find a way to bring
Speaker 1: up Rome Oduonsay with you tonight. But let's talk about
Speaker 1: Jameison Williams here. Jamison Williams is a player that we
Speaker 1: have heard talked about in trade rumors. We have heard
Speaker 1: him talked about by Dan Campbell as this or not
Speaker 1: Campbell John Morton talking about this could be his best
Speaker 1: season ever? Right, Morton saying, I've never been around somebody
Speaker 1: this fast except for Jamier Gibbs, so he's been around,
Speaker 1: you know, two really fast players. Now that he's been
Speaker 1: the OC here for the Lions, Jamison Williams, what are
Speaker 1: his chances on having his best season ever this year?
Speaker 1: And I'll bring this up right now, which I did
Speaker 1: not realize until a couple of weeks ago at him,
Speaker 1: that James and Williams actually had over a thousand yards
Speaker 1: receiving last year, which I didn't blow my mind but
Speaker 1: I was really surprised to see that just over one thousand.
Speaker 1: I'll get thirteen hundred and anything like that was just
Speaker 1: over one thousand. But wide receiver twenty nine at the
Speaker 1: six oh four in Big Gorilla drafts. Right now, it's
Speaker 1: behind Hunt and Flowers, it's ahead of Pickens and Judy.
Speaker 1: What are the chances that Jamison Williams number one, has
Speaker 1: his best season ever and number two, and maybe more importantly,
Speaker 1: pays off that mid sixth round ADP.
Speaker 4: I think there's a really good chance he pays off
Speaker 4: that ADP. I mean, I think he's going to be
Speaker 4: better than he was last year. You know, he's effectively
Speaker 4: coming into his third season, which is an inflection point
Speaker 4: for a lot of receivers. It's technically his fourth, but
Speaker 4: he missed all of his first because of injury, and
Speaker 4: so I consider that basically a lost season. He's showed
Speaker 4: a lot of growth last year. In training camp, Campbell
Speaker 4: was saying things like, he's finally one of the guys. Right,
Speaker 4: His sound like weren't as critical. He's meshing with the system.
Speaker 4: He's one of the guys. He's a guy that blocks
Speaker 4: his ass off, He's a guy that plays to win,
Speaker 4: not for stats. Those are guys who do well on
Speaker 4: the Lions. I mean, he feels like a Lion to me.
Speaker 4: I don't think I don't expect him to be traded.
Speaker 4: There's a chance I guess that they don't. If he
Speaker 4: has another thousand yard season, maybe they don't have the
Speaker 4: money to resign him. And that was what the Isaac
Speaker 4: Taslaw draft, what the pick was about. But I mean,
Speaker 4: certainly this season, I love Jamo.
Speaker 1: What do you make of that Tuslath thing? Because they
Speaker 1: gave up essentially two extra third round picks. Yeah, they
Speaker 1: get this guy on their team. And Taslav is a
Speaker 1: guy that you know, you could see the raw ability, right,
Speaker 1: but it is raw. I mean it's not like he
Speaker 1: had all this great production last year at Arkansas. The
Speaker 1: pieces are there for him to be a quality NFL receiver,
Speaker 1: maybe a quality fantasy receiver as well, do you I
Speaker 1: mean it sounds like that is not playing a big
Speaker 1: role in how you feel about Jamison Williams though. The
Speaker 1: fact that they gave up all this capital to get
Speaker 1: up and get this guy that to me, Williams replacement.
Speaker 4: Yeah, he might be. I don't think he will be
Speaker 4: this year. I love Isaac look and in full disclosure,
Speaker 4: I'm a little biased. So he is from my neck
Speaker 4: of the woods, my current hometown, and I have a daughter,
Speaker 4: high school aged daughter that is a stud two sport
Speaker 4: athlete and she works out at the same sports performance
Speaker 4: facility Isaac did when he was in high school, and
Speaker 4: he comes back and trains when he's home from college.
Speaker 4: And you know, I didn't make the connection at first.
Speaker 4: It's a Dutch sounding last name, and I remember seeing
Speaker 4: it on the record board when I'd go to the
Speaker 4: gym to pick up my daughter, and I think it
Speaker 4: was Lance zir lyons Combine tracker. You know, I was
Speaker 4: scrolling down one day and I saw Isaac Taslott. I thought, God,
Speaker 4: that is not a common name, and I scrolled over
Speaker 4: clicked on it. He's from Hudsonville, Michigan, which is basically
Speaker 4: where I live. And so the next time I was
Speaker 4: in the gym, I found the head coach and I said,
Speaker 4: what can you tell me about Isaac? And this is
Speaker 4: a I mean, this facility is chalk full of exceptional
Speaker 4: high school and college level athletes looking to bring the
Speaker 4: best out of themselves without missing a beat, he said.
Speaker 4: He is one of the highest motor, highest character kids
Speaker 4: we've ever trained. I would bet on him, and that
Speaker 4: was before the Lions drafted him, So I was obviously
Speaker 4: juiced when we did. I mean, I understand we paid
Speaker 4: a lot, but you know, he's like a four four three.
Speaker 4: He's a foty inch vertical. You know. He started as
Speaker 4: a quarterback in high school in a wing t offense.
Speaker 4: He's very smart. He went to Hillsdale, where his dad
Speaker 4: had a bunch of football records. It's a small Division
Speaker 4: two school in Michigan. He went to Hillsdale, broke all
Speaker 4: his dad's records, entered the portal, went to Arkansas. He
Speaker 4: didn't get a lot of playing time, but he's also
Speaker 4: new to the position, so he feels like a lion
Speaker 4: to me. You know, I've seen interviews where Holmes said
Speaker 4: he went to the Senior Bowl, didn't know anything about him,
Speaker 4: saw him blocking his ass off and what he said,
Speaker 4: pestering the hell out of defensive backs, and he said,
Speaker 4: who is this kid? Get me his film? And he
Speaker 4: checked him out and said he was my favorite receiver
Speaker 4: in the draft. So I like Isaac. It's not soured
Speaker 4: me on jam Wood all, especially this year. But would
Speaker 4: I be surprised if Jamison Williams puts up a thousand
Speaker 4: yard season and we don't resign him and Isaac slatsun
Speaker 4: to his role. No, I wouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it makes perfect sense. You're constantly reloading. And I
Speaker 1: think that we have seen in the NFL a lot
Speaker 1: of smart gms will do this, where they will bet
Speaker 1: on the work ethic, they will bet on the talent, they.
Speaker 2: Will bet on the stuff that you can't coach up right.
Speaker 1: I think the Packers have done this for years at
Speaker 1: the edge rusher position right where they take these raw guys.
Speaker 1: Sometimes they turn out right, like Rashan Gary had all
Speaker 1: these intangibles that you simply it's God given talent, work
Speaker 1: ethic and athletic ability.
Speaker 2: And sometimes it works out.
Speaker 1: And then you look at Lucas van Ness with the Packers,
Speaker 1: who was like a top fifteen pick in the NFL draft,
Speaker 1: had all the talent in the world, all the athletic ability.
Speaker 1: They call him Hercules because of how he looks, but
Speaker 1: hasn't translated into NFL production.
Speaker 2: And could this happen with Teslav? I don't know.
Speaker 1: You know, he's raw, you know, He's got all these
Speaker 1: things that you just can't coach. So why not take
Speaker 1: a chance at him when everybody's trying to win at
Speaker 1: the margins in the NFL and quite frankly, we're trying
Speaker 1: to win at the margins and dynasty fantasy football as well.
Speaker 1: Might be worth a chance to take Tesla on your team.
Speaker 1: Dean Sanders apparently wanted him, according to Bill Hollywood, another
Speaker 1: Big Lions fan hanging out in the YouTube chat tonight.
Speaker 2: So there you go.
Speaker 1: All right, let's go to another rookie in Houston. I
Speaker 1: have had the opportunity to draft this guy a couple
Speaker 1: of times. I think I've done it once, but I
Speaker 1: think it was Redraft. I think it was a redraft
Speaker 1: fastball team. I don't think I've taken him in Dynasty,
Speaker 1: even though I had the opportunity, and I keep passing
Speaker 1: him up. And here's why, Jalen nol in Houston. There's
Speaker 1: a narrative out there that says, because Higgins and Collins
Speaker 1: are so complimentary that Noel, who is a different type
Speaker 1: of receiver stylistically, will get on the field more right
Speaker 1: because he compliments what Collins and Higgins do. I look
Speaker 1: at it from the standpoint Adam like, this guy is
Speaker 1: like the third target on this team right now, and
Speaker 1: maybe long term he's the fourth. I mean, we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens with Tank Dell. Maybe Tank Dell is just done.
Speaker 1: I don't know, but I really have a hard time.
Speaker 1: It's part of the reason. Who's the guy the Chiefs
Speaker 1: took the receiver this year in the draft Williams No No, No.
Speaker 2: Day three. He was.
Speaker 1: He was a guy that like I've had the opportunity
Speaker 1: to draft, and I'm like, I can't take this guy
Speaker 1: because the YouTube channel helped me out, because he's behind Worthy,
Speaker 1: he's behind Rashie Rice. I just I don't understand. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're Jalen Royals. Thank you, Adam Hahn. We have that
Speaker 1: right now. John Terry also trying at Jalen Royals like
Speaker 1: I've been, I haven't been taking this guy. And I'm
Speaker 1: kind of applying the same thing to Noel here because
Speaker 1: I understand that he should be on the field more.
Speaker 2: But man, Collins and Higgins are really good.
Speaker 1: Higgins was the first second round Pith to get a
Speaker 1: four fully guaranteed contract by the NFL.
Speaker 2: So to me, it's just like, why should I be
Speaker 2: in on Knowle. Are you in on Nole?
Speaker 1: Can you sell me on Jalen Knowle as a Dynasty prospect?
Speaker 4: Yes, I'm in on Nole. I feel the same way
Speaker 4: about him I do about Devin Neil. He was the
Speaker 4: guy who I targeted wherever I could grab him. I
Speaker 4: think he was the third best receiver out of his
Speaker 4: class to my untrained eye. He I think he's better
Speaker 4: than his teammates Higgins. I understand he's been comped to
Speaker 4: Oh gosh, I'm blanking on the name. It's late Christian Kirk.
Speaker 4: He's been comp to Kirk. They're very similar. And the
Speaker 4: other guy was comp t Nico Collins, and so it's
Speaker 4: kind of odd they reloaded with doppelgangers of their guys exactly.
Speaker 4: You know, Nole's fast, he's physical, he plays bigger than
Speaker 4: his size. You know, he's a guy. He's a guy
Speaker 4: that put up twenty five reps on the bench press
Speaker 4: at the combine. That's like offensive lineman numbers right, So
Speaker 4: he's sub for four twenty five reps. I thought he
Speaker 4: was a better player than Higgins. So it's one of
Speaker 4: these where I'm just betting on my gut, you know,
Speaker 4: like in my line of work. Following your gut is
Speaker 4: one of the most important things you can do. You
Speaker 4: can overthink things. As an attorney, you're trained to overthink things.
Speaker 4: But we have these intuitions and you have to learn
Speaker 4: to trust your intuition. My intuition is that Jalen Nole's
Speaker 4: going to be a great pro. It might take him
Speaker 4: a little while to see the field take. Dell might
Speaker 4: not come back, Higgins may disappoint. They may just decide
Speaker 4: that Noel can be more move outside as well as inside,
Speaker 4: and they just want him out there more often. But
Speaker 4: he's got I don't ever want to compare anybody to
Speaker 4: Saint Brown. There's only one Saint Brown, but he reminded
Speaker 4: me of Saint Brown when I watched his film.
Speaker 1: Jalen Nol did okay, absolutely absolutely So now I have
Speaker 1: to bring this up because I'm glad you brought up
Speaker 1: the intuition aspect of it. Maybe there's some crossover here
Speaker 1: from practicing law and playing Dynasty Fantasy Football.
Speaker 2: Maybe there's not.
Speaker 1: But sometimes I think when I have convictions about how
Speaker 1: I think a certain thing is going to turn out,
Speaker 1: my tendency and I fought against this for years. I'm
Speaker 1: getting better at it over the last ten or so.
Speaker 1: My tendency is just to live in my own echo chamber,
Speaker 1: and I will search out statistics, opinions, thoughts, reasons that
Speaker 1: just support what I think is the correct answer right,
Speaker 1: rather than open my mind to all the other possibilities right.
Speaker 1: As a lawyer, I'm sure that you battle with this too,
Speaker 1: where you think you know what the right play is,
Speaker 1: what the right answer is, what you know the right
Speaker 1: circumstance is, but you have to trust your gut to
Speaker 1: a certain point. Do you feel like that transfers over
Speaker 1: to a fantasy football where you actually you're trusting your gut.
Speaker 2: But at the same time, when you.
Speaker 1: Research it, it's not always easy to open your mind
Speaker 1: up to opposing viewpoints on that. I think that's what
Speaker 1: I don't want to say separates the men from the
Speaker 1: boys in Dynasty.
Speaker 2: But I think, God, that is such a tough thing
Speaker 2: to deal with.
Speaker 4: It's a tough line to straddle. I mean, you don't
Speaker 4: want to get caught up in take lock right, which
Speaker 4: is another way of thinking about it. But at the
Speaker 4: same time, if you've better, if you're a football fan
Speaker 4: and you've been playing Dynasty long enough, you will develop
Speaker 4: organically and intuition, and you shouldn't tune that out just
Speaker 4: because Matt Harmon or somebody who knows a lot about
Speaker 4: ball says otherwise. So the approach I take again, I
Speaker 4: don't watch a lot of college football. I will come
Speaker 4: to the scouting process late after the season's over. I'll
Speaker 4: pull a highlight video, I'll read a bunch, I'll listen
Speaker 4: to a bunch of people, Matt Harmon being one of them,
Speaker 4: the folks on bootleg Football, just the guys who know
Speaker 4: a lot about ball. I'll listen to what they say
Speaker 4: about prospects. I'll see what matches my untrained eye, and
Speaker 4: then I'll kind of let my intuition take it from there.
Speaker 4: And then I mean, obviously, landing spot plays a huge role.
Speaker 4: I think the Houston landing spot is a sneaky good
Speaker 4: one for Nole. I really do.
Speaker 1: I you know, And I should be sharing this because
Speaker 1: this throws my credibility right out the window. There have
Speaker 1: been so many times where I'm on the clock in
Speaker 1: like a Best Ball League or even KFFFC main event
Speaker 1: or whatever, where like I'm deciding on a player like
Speaker 1: oh should I draft them?
Speaker 4: Here?
Speaker 2: Should I not?
Speaker 1: And it's just whatever podcast I last listen to or
Speaker 1: whatever article I last read what they said about, Like, well,
Speaker 1: Jared Smolla said this about them, so I'm gonna take them.
Speaker 2: I like, it's so stupid and it's dumb, and I
Speaker 2: can't get out of my own head.
Speaker 1: And again I've gotten away from that a little bit,
Speaker 1: but still it's in my mind.
Speaker 4: Okay, I totally agree. I mean I think of it
Speaker 4: this way Eric, to some degree, rookie drafts, any draft,
Speaker 4: it's get your guy season. If you feel strongly about
Speaker 4: a guy. So I took him with the seventh pick
Speaker 4: and set of the tenth. I didn't capture value. Who cares.
Speaker 4: I got the guy I wanted. If I think this
Speaker 4: guy is going to be a two hundred and fifty
Speaker 4: point player or a three hundred point player, why the
Speaker 4: hell wouldn't I take him if he's available.
Speaker 1: I was listening to the Fantasy Points podcast with John
Speaker 1: Hanson and Brian Drake today actually, and they were talking
Speaker 1: about George went Stories, who played Norman Cheers just passed
Speaker 1: away Rip and Hanson was in a league with it
Speaker 1: was like a celebrity league. This is way back in
Speaker 1: the day, and he was co owners with George went
Speaker 1: on this team, and they were talking about, like, listen,
Speaker 1: we have to get the Bears defense here in this
Speaker 1: league because not only are they going to be good,
Speaker 1: but you are like the Bears super fan from Saturday
Speaker 1: Night Live, like you we have to have George Wentz
Speaker 1: say our you know, ninth overall pick George Wentz on
Speaker 1: hands and take dub Bears like it would have been great.
Speaker 1: I think it was Palaire Lostra, who uh a longtime
Speaker 1: serious x fantasy sports radio hosts, ended up taking the
Speaker 1: Bears in the seventh round that year, and the Bears
Speaker 1: scored like, I mean, their defense is unbelievable. This is
Speaker 1: I don't know how many years ago it was, but
Speaker 1: they scored like double digit touchdowns, and so Hanson said, like,
Speaker 1: this is one of the biggest regrets of my fantasy
Speaker 1: career is not taking the Bears defense to make sure
Speaker 1: I got him. So, if there is a player in
Speaker 1: dynasty redrafting, you don't want to get crazy with this,
Speaker 1: but if there's a player that you just gotta have,
Speaker 1: take them around, take them two rounds early just to
Speaker 1: make sure you have them on your team, which is
Speaker 1: kind of like what we're talking about.
Speaker 2: Here, sure, especially in Dynasty.
Speaker 1: Dude, Like like, I'll look at Dynasty ADP from my
Speaker 1: rookie drafts, but man, it's it's really hard for me
Speaker 1: to put a whole lot of stock into that because
Speaker 1: I overdraft guys in that all the time. We're all
Speaker 1: just going on research. We're going going on got we're
Speaker 1: going on what other people say because we've never seen
Speaker 1: these guys in an NFL field, So to me, like
Speaker 1: overdrafting them. It's like, well, who says that that's an overdraft?
Speaker 2: We don't know. Like redraft, it's a little bit different.
Speaker 1: But Dynasty, man, it is totally get your guys season
Speaker 1: there for sure. Travis Hunter is the new wide receiver
Speaker 1: for the Jacksonville Jaguars after they trade it up from
Speaker 1: five to get him, which is wild. When you think
Speaker 1: about all the different weaknesses that the Jaguars probably had
Speaker 1: coming into the draft, you would not have thought wide
Speaker 1: receiver was one of them. But Brian Thomas being the
Speaker 1: second best, maybe the best wide receiver in the twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four rookie class and then Jacksonville went ahead. Sigmun
Speaker 1: Bloom always talks about this in football, guys, make your
Speaker 1: strength even stronger, which is what the Jaguars did. Now
Speaker 1: they have Travis Hunter opposite Brian Thomas, which is great
Speaker 1: for the Jaguars. But is it great for Brian Thomas.
Speaker 1: Maybe it is, maybe it's not. What are your thoughts
Speaker 1: on how Hunter is going to affect Brian Thomas's stat
Speaker 1: line this season.
Speaker 4: I don't feel like it'll negatively affect BTJ. I love BTJ.
Speaker 4: I've got a bunch of shares. He was another guy
Speaker 4: I grabbed wherever I could, even if I had to
Speaker 4: spend what was considered an early pick to get him
Speaker 4: in last year's rookie drafts. But no, I just think
Speaker 4: adding they lost Evan Ingram, they don't have Christian Kirk.
Speaker 4: It's not like having two pass catchers necessarily means the
Speaker 4: guy who's the number one is going to suffer statistically.
Speaker 4: I think, if anything, it'll help. I mean, it could
Speaker 4: maybe lead to them getting opportunities where they can be
Speaker 4: more creative with Thomas. So no, I don't think it's
Speaker 4: a bad thing. I don't think it will negatively impact Thomas.
Speaker 4: And I think Thomas's presence should help Hunter too.
Speaker 1: What do you make of I took Dami Brown as
Speaker 1: a late. It was like a twenty fifth, twenty six
Speaker 1: round pick in a Best Ball that I was doing.
Speaker 1: He's been getting some favorable reviews. I mean, it's ota
Speaker 1: is whatever, who cares? But what do you make of
Speaker 1: Damie Brown there? Considering that if Hunter were to miss
Speaker 1: some time and if you playing you know, defensive snaps
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 2: I don't know his body is going to react to that.
Speaker 2: But if Brown were.
Speaker 1: To step in on that offense in place of Thomas,
Speaker 1: in place of Hunter as the number two option, I
Speaker 1: think that's kind of sneaky. It's it's sneaky exciting. What
Speaker 1: do you think about Dianmi Brown as a late round
Speaker 1: best ball pick? And I know, like listen, draft whoever
Speaker 1: you want that late it doesn't really matter. But what
Speaker 1: do you make of Diami Brown as as the number
Speaker 1: three receiver in Jacksonville this year?
Speaker 4: I don't hate it. I mean, I honestly, Eric I
Speaker 4: hadn't thought much about Brown, but I mean, why not?
Speaker 4: I mean it's it's look, it's just as probable a
Speaker 4: dart throw is taking anybody else in the late rounds,
Speaker 4: anybody who's got a conceivable path to target share, anybody
Speaker 4: who's a veteran player that showed they can have success
Speaker 4: on that level is worth taking a flyer on, especially
Speaker 4: if you think there's a chance they end up as
Speaker 4: the number two target. I don't know that Brown ends
Speaker 4: up as a number two target, but won't he doesn't.
Speaker 2: Yeah, No, here's the thing. I don't think he does.
Speaker 1: But I do think if there were any like again,
Speaker 1: it's it's just an injury away type thing where maybe
Speaker 1: he's the number two target for three weeks in November
Speaker 1: or two weeks in October, and and maybe that's all
Speaker 1: the difference to to.
Speaker 2: Spur you up.
Speaker 1: You know, your your your leaderboard, your scoreboard, or whatever
Speaker 1: you need to do. I think that's that's what I'm
Speaker 1: looking at, Like it gets to be a certain point
Speaker 1: in drafts, more more so with running backs than wide receivers.
Speaker 1: I'm just looking for windows, right, windows of opportunity, knowing,
Speaker 1: like these guys, who's the guy in Minnesota that they
Speaker 1: just traded from San Francisco Mas Jordan Mason? Thank you? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's a perfect guy. Like it's not like Aaron Jones
Speaker 1: has to tear an a c L for him to
Speaker 1: have value. Aaron Jones could like strain a Hammy and
Speaker 1: then I get three weeks of starting running back out
Speaker 1: of Jordan Mason. Yeah, I love that, you know. And
Speaker 1: that's the thing with Dianmi Brown too. It's just it's
Speaker 1: just windows at that point, not necessarily. I don't need
Speaker 1: to hit a home run. You said yourself, you like doubles.
Speaker 4: As much as good and Mason. Eric Mason another guy
Speaker 4: I love. I mean, he's shown that when you give
Speaker 4: him a heavy workload, he can handle it. And he's
Speaker 4: a different kind of running back than Jones. So I'm
Speaker 4: bullish on Mason.
Speaker 1: The other thing about Mason is, yeah, I know they
Speaker 1: didn't give up a lot of draft capital to get
Speaker 1: him from San Francisco, but then they sign him to
Speaker 1: that contract. And Aaron Jones has always dealt with a
Speaker 1: lot of soft tissue stuff in his time in Green Bay.
Speaker 1: He didn't deal with anything like that in Minnesota. Last
Speaker 1: year he.
Speaker 2: Had his.
Speaker 1: MO I think he had the most touches of any
Speaker 1: season as a pro in Minnesota last year. I am
Speaker 1: willing to bet that that was an outlier and that
Speaker 1: he is not going to be able to be able
Speaker 1: to take that volume and stay healthy, which is another
Speaker 1: reason I like Jordan Mason this year. Jordan Mason, by
Speaker 1: the way, in the FFPC Big Gorilla Tournament over the
Speaker 1: last seven days, running back thirty seven at the nine
Speaker 1: to ten turn.
Speaker 2: I'm definitely in on that.
Speaker 1: Okay, we have to get to these YouTube chat questions here.
Speaker 1: I'm trying to find a here out. Yeah, Cooley Gang
Speaker 1: said this early when we were talking about the Jags. Well,
Speaker 1: now he's not a Jag anymore. He's a Bronco. But
Speaker 1: do you think Evan Ingram is a sneaky good pick?
Speaker 1: Because I think him and Nix will be awesome. Evan
Speaker 1: Ingram is going as tight end eight at him right
Speaker 1: now at the seven oh two. He is essentially a
Speaker 1: full round behind Hockinson and Kelsey. He's going right at
Speaker 1: the same spot as John Osmith, and he's going about
Speaker 1: a half round ahead of Ndjoku and Mark Andrews. What
Speaker 1: do you think about Evan Ingram Ingram excuse me, being
Speaker 1: a sneaky good pick at the seven oh two.
Speaker 4: I love Evan Ingram And when they signed him, the
Speaker 4: talk was that he was going to be Sean Payton's joker,
Speaker 4: which is terrific. Right, everybody wants Peyton's joker. Look Evan
Speaker 4: Ingram is a guy who's explosive when you get him
Speaker 4: into space. He's a great pass catching tight end if
Speaker 4: you can get I mean, he's relatively inexpensive as well
Speaker 4: in drafts. So he's a guy who I feel good about,
Speaker 4: especially in Redraft in the short term. I've got Evan
Speaker 4: Ingram shares on my Dynasty teams, and I look at
Speaker 4: him the way I look at Henry. All Right, that's
Speaker 4: a twenty twenty six ish you a twenty twenty seven issue,
Speaker 4: But for twenty twenty five, I'm riding with him.
Speaker 1: So the other thing too, we got on the Jaguars
Speaker 1: here on the show. Pearson pumped this into the YouTube chat.
Speaker 1: Since we're on the Jags topic, the Beshell Tuton fumble
Speaker 1: on the first touch in camp has gained some traction
Speaker 1: now Beshelle Tuton and the FFPC Big Grill again. Over
Speaker 1: the last seven days, Mishelle Tuton is running back thirty
Speaker 1: three at the eight to eleven. I have seen some
Speaker 1: pundence rankings out there, and not a whole lot of
Speaker 1: them put him as a top thirty five running back
Speaker 1: for Redraft.
Speaker 2: I can tell myself a story.
Speaker 1: The story is getting more and more realistic as I
Speaker 1: go on that the Jaguars simply just the new coaching machine,
Speaker 1: does not like Travis Etn, that Tank Bigsby is sort
Speaker 1: of just a guy. And then they went invested not
Speaker 1: only in Michelle Tuton in this draft, but they also
Speaker 1: invested in Laquin Allen, who could be the future one
Speaker 1: two punch in Jacksonville, Liam Cohen or on that Liam Cohen,
Speaker 1: I think it was James Gladstone. James Gladstone the GM
Speaker 1: of Jacksonville. When he was being interviewed for the GM job,
Speaker 1: they said, well, who's a player that you would like
Speaker 1: to get on this team? And he said, well, I'd
Speaker 1: love to get a player like Michelle Touton, and then
Speaker 1: lo and behold what happens They end up drafting Mischelle Touton.
Speaker 1: I like this guy. I like him quite a bit,
Speaker 1: and I've heard a lot of people and I think
Speaker 1: I'm with these people. Keep fumbling Michelle, because I need
Speaker 1: your ADP to go down. I would like a lot
Speaker 1: of shares of Teuton. You're a Dynasty guy as well.
Speaker 1: How do you feel about Tuton and his future in Jacksonville.
Speaker 2: I'm very bullish on this play.
Speaker 4: I think they drafted him for a reason. He's got
Speaker 4: juice for days. I will tell you he's a guy
Speaker 4: who in my rookie drafts I avoided not because I
Speaker 4: don't like him, but just because I wasn't willing to
Speaker 4: pay the market rate for him. He's a guy who,
Speaker 4: to me, the most important characteristic is vision. Right, we
Speaker 4: talked about athleticism versus being a good runner of the football.
Speaker 4: I think he is an average runner of the football,
Speaker 4: but he's super duper explosive. He's not a guy who
Speaker 4: creates except for the fact he's very fast, and I
Speaker 4: contradict him with the guy like Chan eight. Chan was
Speaker 4: also very fast, but he was an incredible runner of
Speaker 4: the football. I mean, he's got incredible vision. He's a
Speaker 4: guy who you know he was small, but I forget
Speaker 4: one of his last games of his last season. I
Speaker 4: think he had like thirty five carries against LSU ran
Speaker 4: for two hundred yards. He was pounding it in between
Speaker 4: the tackles across the goal line. This is a guy
Speaker 4: who plays running back who happens to be really really fast.
Speaker 4: I don't know that I feel the same way about Tutin,
Speaker 4: even though their speeds the same. I don't dislike Tuton.
Speaker 4: I just wasn't going to pay what he was going
Speaker 4: for in drafts.
Speaker 1: So right now, if you're doing a redraft league and
Speaker 1: you see Touton going at the eight to nine turn
Speaker 1: in Cam Skataboo, Jalen Warren, Naji Harris, Tyrone, Tracy Territory,
Speaker 1: does that seem like a goodbye to you?
Speaker 4: In redraft? I would probably take all those guys over Toton.
Speaker 4: I would definitely take Najee Harris over Toton in redraft.
Speaker 4: In dynasty, I mean, I feel a little bit better
Speaker 4: about him, But Scataboo's a guy. He's really interesting to me.
Speaker 4: I think he's a great player. I think he's very underrated.
Speaker 4: He reminds me a lot of David Montgomery. I think
Speaker 4: the Giants took him so that he could be the
Speaker 4: early down guy. I love Tyrone Tracy, don't get me wrong.
Speaker 4: I'm not critical Tracy, but he is not built to
Speaker 4: carry the load Scataboo is, and so you know, I
Speaker 4: could see Scataboo getting close to two hundred touches this
Speaker 4: year and having a significant portion of the goal line equity.
Speaker 4: I'm interested in guys like that, particularly in the eighth
Speaker 4: and ninth round of a draft. Like, if you're going
Speaker 4: zero RB, I look for goal line equity, and yeah,
Speaker 4: typically I'll take the cheapest of a backfield duo if
Speaker 4: I'm doing zero RB, because often there's a huge market dispirit,
Speaker 4: like one guy's going in round four, one guy going
Speaker 4: in round ten, and you're like, eh, I like the
Speaker 4: guy in round ten at that price. But Skataboo's a
Speaker 4: guy who I mean, goal one equity is big. It's
Speaker 4: why I love Montgomery. I had a bunch of Gibbs
Speaker 4: shares this year and I offloaded them wherever I could
Speaker 4: because people saw jamired He's a great player. He's my
Speaker 4: son's favorite player. We have an autograph of Jamiir Gibbs
Speaker 4: at the house. He's great. But the point is, people
Speaker 4: remember the last couple games of the season when Montgomery
Speaker 4: wasn't there. They share a backfield. Gibbs is not going
Speaker 4: to be the bell cow. He's not built to be
Speaker 4: the bell cow. The Lions offense is successful because they
Speaker 4: have both of those guys. They're each super insurance policies
Speaker 4: on the other. But instead of taking Gibbs in the
Speaker 4: first round, I'll take Montgomery in the sixth or the seventh.
Speaker 1: Theo Greminger from Fantasy Points. He was talking about this
Speaker 1: more so in like February March. I don't know if
Speaker 1: he's I mean, I listened to a lot of his
Speaker 1: stuff and I haven't heard him, and maybe he still
Speaker 1: feels this way. I don't know, but he said that
Speaker 1: he thinks in the FFPC Big Gorilla and the main Event,
Speaker 1: we were going to see some Jamiir gives one oh
Speaker 1: one picks. Simply for the point that you're bringing up,
Speaker 1: everybody remembers how last season ended, and they don't necessarily
Speaker 1: remember that. Part of the reason Gibbs was putting up
Speaker 1: those video game numbers was because David Montgomery wasn't out
Speaker 1: there and he's not saying, hey, you need a tech
Speaker 1: take Gibbs at the one on one. He just thought, like,
Speaker 1: we're gonna see some Gibbs at the one O one.
Speaker 1: I don't know if we've seen it in the Big
Speaker 1: Gorilla over the last seven days. I'm gonna look that
Speaker 1: up right now.
Speaker 2: Jamiir Gibs. The highest he's gone has been the one
Speaker 2: o two.
Speaker 1: So he's got up to the one oh two average
Speaker 1: ADP of the one oh five. So there you go
Speaker 1: on that, just real quick, on the Scataboo Tracy thing.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna bring this up right now.
Speaker 2: S n Y H.
Speaker 1: Connor Hughes, who covers the Giants, said that, and again, this.
Speaker 2: Was, you know, a week and a half ago.
Speaker 1: It wouldn't be surprising if Scataboo wound up as the
Speaker 1: Giants' third down back. But yet, Adam, you see it
Speaker 1: a little bit differently. You think Skataboo could be the
Speaker 1: early down banger first and second down, and then Tracy
Speaker 1: is the guy who comes out on third down.
Speaker 4: I do, and he might know a heck of a
Speaker 4: lot more than me if he's covering the Giants. That's
Speaker 4: just my gut feeling. I mean, I think we're seeing
Speaker 4: a lot of teams trying to replicate the Sonic and
Speaker 4: Knuckles Montgomery and Gibbs. Right, We've got a guy with
Speaker 4: a lot of juice. We've got a guy who can
Speaker 4: shake and pound in between the tackles, and I see
Speaker 4: Scataboo and Tracy as being some version of that combo.
Speaker 4: And to me, Scataboo's going to be the early down guy.
Speaker 1: Just so I'm not putting words in your mouth, Scataboo
Speaker 1: is running back thirty one at the eight oh six
Speaker 1: tyrone Tracy running back thirty five at the nine h two.
Speaker 1: In a perfect world, your opinion in redraft, you're skipping
Speaker 1: Scataboo and you're taking Tracy.
Speaker 4: Probably, okay, all right, probably.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Adam Hans sayings as Scataboo as a future third
Speaker 1: down back, we'll see. I don't know, like I could
Speaker 1: go either way on this right now. But that's the thing, like,
Speaker 1: you know, and that's why these guys are going so
Speaker 1: close together and so late where they're both eighth and
Speaker 1: ninth round picks, Like we just don't know how the
Speaker 1: Giants are going to deploy. And oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: the Giants offense could stink this year. That's another thing
Speaker 1: we have to consider too. It's like, how much run
Speaker 1: are these guys going to get? If if it's just
Speaker 1: the Milik Neighbors show again in twenty twenty five, we
Speaker 1: are up against it. I want to get to a
Speaker 1: couple of emails and one final question here before we
Speaker 1: let you go tonight, Adam Clyde in Buffalo, Do I
Speaker 1: have this right?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 1: I do not. No, let's skip the emails. My apologies,
Speaker 1: just email is not it's not accurate.
Speaker 2: We got to skip it. Okay, sorry Clyde and Buffalo.
Speaker 1: Let's ask one final question of you answer this dynasty purposes,
Speaker 1: redraft purposes, however you want to handle it. If there's
Speaker 1: one player that you want to try to get on
Speaker 1: as many teams as possible this season, who is it realistically? Obviously,
Speaker 1: I'm sure you'd love to say Jon Robinson or Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 1: That just can't happen because you won't get the one
Speaker 1: on one or one oh two in every single draft.
Speaker 1: Or Jamar Chase is another one. So one player realistically
Speaker 1: that you want to get on all your teams this season,
Speaker 1: and then another player maybe you're trying to deal him
Speaker 1: off your dynasty leagues. Maybe it's a player that you
Speaker 1: just don't want to have anything to do with on
Speaker 1: your twenty twenty five squads.
Speaker 2: At him.
Speaker 4: I love Caleb Johnson. I'm getting him wherever I can.
Speaker 4: You know, he's a guy who was built for an
Speaker 4: outside zone scheme where he's going to get a lot
Speaker 4: of volume and he has a perfect landing spot. His
Speaker 4: forty yard dash wasn't great. His ten yard split wasn't great,
Speaker 4: but he's another guy who I'm told hit twenty one
Speaker 4: miles an hour during the forty yard dash. So he
Speaker 4: reminds me a lot of like a Derrick Henry. He
Speaker 4: needs some time to build up speed, but once he
Speaker 4: gets rolling, he gets rolling. He's going to inherit the
Speaker 4: Lion's Sheriff, not all of in my view, Najee Harris's touches.
Speaker 4: We know who Jalen Warren is. He's a great player,
Speaker 4: he's good to have on your roster, but he's not
Speaker 4: their bell cow. I think Johnson will be their bell cow.
Speaker 4: And he's a guy who I've got pegged is somewhere
Speaker 4: in between a two hundred and fifty and three in
Speaker 4: a point player. Maybe not this season, but fully realized,
Speaker 4: I think he will be.
Speaker 1: I think the other thing to understand about the Caleb
Speaker 1: Johnson thing is like, yeah, he was only a third
Speaker 1: round pick or whatever, but that's still Day two draft
Speaker 1: capital and Jalen Warren. I think we saw a report
Speaker 1: from one of the Steelers beat writers saying that they
Speaker 1: expect Warren to play out this contract in Pittsburgh this
Speaker 1: season and then he's off the Steelers next year. So
Speaker 1: Obviously they have much more invested in the Caleb Johnson.
Speaker 1: Why wouldn't you want to see what you have in
Speaker 1: this guy? And like, I think he gets a bad
Speaker 1: rap that he's not a pass catcher. Caleb Johnson could
Speaker 1: catch passes too.
Speaker 4: Sure, Sure, I think he's a good football player.
Speaker 1: Yeah, which is what you want, right David Hubbard former
Speaker 1: twenty sixteen FFPC main event is an easy game.
Speaker 2: Just draft good players. That's all you need to do,
Speaker 2: and then you'll win.
Speaker 1: A guy who's not a good player, a player that
Speaker 1: you want to stay away from this season?
Speaker 2: Who would that be at him?
Speaker 4: That's tough, And I'm not a hater. I mean there,
Speaker 4: I'm mostly agnostic when it comes to players. To me,
Speaker 4: it's about what I have to pay for them, right,
Speaker 4: I Mean, they're like any other They're like a car.
Speaker 4: I'll drive anything. The question is how much do I
Speaker 4: need to pay for it?
Speaker 2: Right.
Speaker 4: I'm not willing to pay Ferrari money for a Ford,
Speaker 4: But a car is a car and I need a
Speaker 4: ride to work. So there's nobody who I'm all the
Speaker 4: way out on. But I don't think a guy who's
Speaker 4: just going too expensive.
Speaker 2: Well, I always frame it like this too.
Speaker 1: Like when I get to like, I don't know, like
Speaker 1: round six, round seven or whatever, or even like the
Speaker 1: mid rounds like ten to eleven, there are certain players
Speaker 1: that just stick out to me like they are easy
Speaker 1: to eliminate for me as possibilities in those rounds.
Speaker 2: And so I think that's how we could frame the
Speaker 2: question too.
Speaker 1: It's it's like, you know, maybe you don't like, you
Speaker 1: don't hate these guys, you don't dislike these guys, but
Speaker 1: they never really come into the conversation of like, yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe let's take this guy here.
Speaker 4: I mean, maybe any Chiefs pass catcher besides Travis Kelcey.
Speaker 4: You know, I mean I'm not I'm not feeling like
Speaker 4: that's necessarily going to be the right play.
Speaker 1: See now now you bring this up, I think this
Speaker 1: is a good conversation to end on tonight. In regards
Speaker 1: to the Chiefs, Rashie Rice has finally moved up. Like
Speaker 1: it seemed like every single fantasy pundit out there has
Speaker 1: been saying screaming value for Rashie Rice. Well, now he's
Speaker 1: finally starting move up boards. He has moved up to
Speaker 1: wide receiver nineteen at the four h two. Xavier Worthy
Speaker 1: is going right behind him at the four h six.
Speaker 1: For you, it's an easy decision, like you're not paying
Speaker 1: early fourth round draft capital for either one of those
Speaker 1: receivers when quite frankly, we don't know if like, are
Speaker 1: they going to cannibalize each other? Is one going to
Speaker 1: be the standout somehow? And then you've got to deal
Speaker 1: with Travis Kelce there as well.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I view their wide receiver room a
Speaker 4: lot like I do the Packers. I mean, there's just
Speaker 4: a lot of unknowns, and I'm not going to pay
Speaker 4: fourth round value for an unknown. I'd probably take a
Speaker 4: tight end or a quarterback in that range, to be honest.
Speaker 1: Yeah, if we look at it right now, I'll figure
Speaker 1: out my mojo here and tell you who else is
Speaker 1: going there.
Speaker 2: But there are players.
Speaker 1: I mean, if you look in that Rice Worthy territory,
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Omari and Hampton is there. DJ Moore,
Speaker 1: Mike Evans, Jayden Daniels. Let's talk about Hampton here for
Speaker 1: a second. I know I keep saying like we're gonna
Speaker 1: end it, We're gonna not sorry this stuff.
Speaker 2: That always comes up.
Speaker 1: You liked Naji Harris quite a bit over Who's the
Speaker 1: running back we were talking about earlier, Bechelle Tooton, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: you liked him quite a bit there. Do you also
Speaker 1: like the value of Naji Harris compared to Amari and
Speaker 1: Hampton's value.
Speaker 4: I mean, I expect, I expect Harris to start the
Speaker 4: season as their belcow. I think once Hampton sees the field,
Speaker 4: he'll be tough to keep off the field, and I
Speaker 4: expect by the end of the season he will be
Speaker 4: a fifteen to twenty point player every game. I mean,
Speaker 4: that's Hampton for sure, for sure. But you know, so
Speaker 4: I view Harris the way I viewed Cuba Hubbard last year,
Speaker 4: and I didn't know that. God, I'm blinking on the
Speaker 4: kid's name from Texas who they drafted that hurt himself again.
Speaker 2: Oh Jonathan Brooks.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean the thought was Brooks is gonna come back,
Speaker 4: but you could get Hubbard really late. And I thought,
Speaker 4: all right, so I've got six weeks of a starting
Speaker 4: running back, right, You're talking about windows like I saw
Speaker 4: window there. I think the same thing for Harris. I'm
Speaker 4: willing to pay, you know, ninth tenth round value for
Speaker 4: a window of six, seven, maybe eight weeks of starting
Speaker 4: running back, especially if you're going zero RB. When I
Speaker 4: do zero RB, that's what I do. I mean, I
Speaker 4: window shop, literally, I look for those opportunities, and so
Speaker 4: I target guys who should start the season as the
Speaker 4: starting back.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny about that with the Chargers is
Speaker 1: Hampton is already running back fifteen at the four h
Speaker 1: three in the FFPC Big Gorilla Competition. Harris is running
Speaker 1: back thirty fourth to nine oh one. I don't really,
Speaker 1: I don't think history would say that those guys are
Speaker 1: going to get closer. History would say the younger guy
Speaker 1: will move up more, the veteran will fall more. Well,
Speaker 1: the veteran is already going what did I just say,
Speaker 1: like five rounds after the rookie. Like, as we get
Speaker 1: closer and closer to live drafts at Paris in Las
Speaker 1: Vegas for the FFPC live events, we're going to see
Speaker 1: Hampton go up a little bit, not a lot, but
Speaker 1: a little bit, we could see Harris fall even more.
Speaker 1: And Harris could be a double digit round pick. Can
Speaker 1: you imagine that? I just it's it's crazy. He might
Speaker 1: be a screaming value as well. When when during drafting
Speaker 1: season we'll have it all covered on the high stakes
Speaker 1: fantasy football or.
Speaker 2: My god, Adam, the hour just flew by.
Speaker 1: I feel like I've been talking this whole time, but
Speaker 1: I've learned a lot from you, a five time FFPC
Speaker 1: League champion, a guy that I know we'll have a
Speaker 1: lot more championships in store, not only in twenty twenty
Speaker 1: five but beyond. Congratulations all your success. Thank you so
Speaker 1: much for pinch hitting for Farrell tonight. You were awesome
Speaker 1: and I know that the YouTube chat was lit up
Speaker 1: so they definitely loved having you on as well. Be good,
Speaker 1: go Lions and and hopefully we'll talk down the road
Speaker 1: for sure. Great holiday, Thank you, Happy Memorial Day to
Speaker 1: you as well. That is Adam Tootists, ladies and gentlemen,
Speaker 1: five time FFPC League champion joining me in the high
Speaker 1: stakes Fantasy Football hover tonight. I want to thank I
Speaker 1: want to thank the FFPC, Rob Bryce, and of course
Speaker 1: each and every one of you for hanging out, watching, streaming, listening, downloading.
Speaker 1: We will be back next Friday at ten pm Eastern
Speaker 1: Time with another great guest. In case you missed Thursday
Speaker 1: night's Insider Access show on the Better Sports Network, we
Speaker 1: had Darren Armani from Fantasy Mojo on last night. He
Speaker 1: and I chopped out it for two hours. That was
Speaker 1: a blast as well. Learned a lot about Fantasy Mojo.
Speaker 1: In fact, the middle segment we had on the show
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Speaker 1: Rode Wire and Series XM Fantasy Sports Radio's Jim Coventry
Speaker 1: will guest co host with me on Thursday, So that's.
Speaker 2: Gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: The Big Gorilla Yes, the FFPC Bestball Tournament Yes, the
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Speaker 2: For Adam Tuntis, I have been Eric Balkman.
Speaker 1: This has been the high Stakes Fantasy Footballer on the
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football Players Championship YouTube channel. Your Weekend, Your Holiday
Speaker 1: Weekend officially starts now.
Speaker 3: This has been another episode of Stakes Fatasley Football Hour,
Speaker 3: presented by my FFPC dot com. It was broadcast live
Speaker 3: and was watched around the world. Balky and Farrell will
Speaker 3: be back next week with more analysis, more interviews, add
Speaker 3: more advice from guests much smarter than they are. Thanks
Speaker 3: for watching, and we'll talk with you again next week.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Programming note, I have to remind everybody Farrell will
Speaker 1: not be on the show next week either. He will
Speaker 1: rejoin me the first Friday in June as a co host.
Speaker 1: That is June sixth, he'll be back, so I'll have
Speaker 1: not only a guest this week, I'll have another guest
Speaker 1: co host next week as well, which is.
Speaker 2: Always a lot of fun, so check that out.
Speaker 1: Have a great weekend, be safe and enjoy your friends
Speaker 1: and family this holiday weekend. I'll talk with you again
Speaker 1: Thursday night on Insider Access and then of course the
Speaker 1: HSFF our next Friday.
Speaker 2: Thanks for watching, everybody, appreciate each and everyone