Speaker 1: Hi, Hello, and welcome into a special Monday edition of
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Speaker 1: name is Eric Balkman, your host for the evening. You
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Speaker 1: co host, Ladies and Gentlemen. He's been on this show before.
Speaker 1: He is a stall wart when it comes to Dynasty
Speaker 1: Fantasy Football. You know him from the Dynasty League Football
Speaker 1: dot com website as well as the Dynasty League Football podcast.
Speaker 1: He is a senior writer over at DLF and he
Speaker 1: is an actual zoo keeper in southern California and one
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Speaker 1: welcome in my good buddy and at Matt Price FF
Speaker 1: on the X Ladies and Gentlemen, Matt Price, Matt Happy
Speaker 1: NFL Draft Week to you, sir, how are you.
Speaker 3: Doing doing great man? Really excited for it. A couple
Speaker 3: of writers and I get together every year for the draft.
Speaker 3: This will be our seventh year doing it, I think,
Speaker 3: So get together, you know, watch the draft, gamble on
Speaker 3: as much things as we can gamble on. Just a
Speaker 3: complete like nice getaway from real life, a little escape
Speaker 3: there for next week. So yeah, really looking forward to
Speaker 3: it and excited to be here. Eric, thanks for having
Speaker 3: me on.
Speaker 1: Absolutely always a pleasure and utime we can welcome you on.
Speaker 1: When you say you get together, is this a rotating
Speaker 1: location or do you guys always congregate in the same spot?
Speaker 1: How does this work?
Speaker 3: Yeah, for a while, we were just picking a different
Speaker 3: city every year. This is the first time we're going
Speaker 3: back to a repeat city. We're going to Kansas City
Speaker 3: this year. We have one person that lives there in
Speaker 3: that area, and then it's kind of central for all
Speaker 3: the other guys. I have to get on a plane
Speaker 3: on the only one, but that's all right. They get
Speaker 3: to drive, we have to don't have to pay for
Speaker 3: a rental car, all that kind of stuff. So yeah,
Speaker 3: we'll probably go to new cities again. But we really
Speaker 3: kind of realize that we're really there for the draft
Speaker 3: and to hang out and you know, all the stuff
Speaker 3: in the city that is super cool that we probably
Speaker 3: should go out and see. We weren't really doing so
Speaker 3: just kind of pick the central location this year. We'll
Speaker 3: see what happened next year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: Did you guys, Do you guys ever go to the
Speaker 1: actual city where the draft is or is it never ended.
Speaker 2: Up that way?
Speaker 3: We actually avoid that city, Okay, we're not. None of
Speaker 3: us are like big crowd kind of people, Like I
Speaker 3: think it would be fun maybe to go one year,
Speaker 3: but yeah, not generally we try to avoid that area
Speaker 3: just to stay away from all of the craziness and
Speaker 3: prefer to watch it on TV.
Speaker 1: So, so, Matt, when when like, I want to lead off
Speaker 1: the show by giving you an opportunity to talk about
Speaker 1: everything you're working on for DLF and everything you do
Speaker 1: for DLF. But when you guys get together in whatever
Speaker 1: city you're getting together and to watch the draft, do
Speaker 1: you and Ryan and Dan do you throw together a
Speaker 1: podcast throughout the weekend like the Dirt Draft weekend or
Speaker 1: how did how are you sort of like staggering your
Speaker 1: your DLF podcast releases yeah.
Speaker 3: We uh, we used to do that the first few years,
Speaker 3: but the last few we've decided we just want to
Speaker 3: enjoy the weekend we can together, you know, absorb everything,
Speaker 3: marinate on what we've seen, and then we we usually
Speaker 3: end up leaving on Sunday morning, and by that by
Speaker 3: Sunday night, we're working on the podcast for that week.
Speaker 3: So I would expect that to be out Sunday night. Yeah,
Speaker 3: And when we did, we did a rookie report every
Speaker 3: week leading up to this. We covered like forty eight
Speaker 3: rookies something like that this season. So we start pretty
Speaker 3: much right up for the Super Bowl with the rookie
Speaker 3: talk and prospecting and go all the way up to
Speaker 3: the most recent show, which was just just yesterday. In fact,
Speaker 3: you know, I.
Speaker 1: Hear the term Christmas thrown out when.
Speaker 2: It comes to me. Do you, as a Dynasty League
Speaker 2: football og, do you view this? Is that an appropriate moniker?
Speaker 2: Is this Christmas time for you?
Speaker 3: Matt? Yeah, we get we get I think we get
Speaker 3: a few of those in the Dynasty community. We you know,
Speaker 3: we get the Draft Day, we get the kickoff of
Speaker 3: a week one of the season, of course, and then
Speaker 3: you know, I think I think maybe the the final
Speaker 3: week of the fantasy season is also a little bit
Speaker 3: of a Christmas morning because we get a little bit
Speaker 3: of a break before we get into the the rookie
Speaker 3: talk for the next season, right, So we've got a
Speaker 3: few of them, but the draft is definitely one of them.
Speaker 3: It's just so amazing to be able to find a
Speaker 3: group of people a community that you know, is as
Speaker 3: sick about this stuff as I am. Like, there's not
Speaker 3: a lot of people in my real life. In fact,
Speaker 3: I probably think there's one maybe that would want to
Speaker 3: sit down all day and watch a man stand up
Speaker 3: at a ponium and read names off right. But when
Speaker 3: you find those people that are just as into it
Speaker 3: as you and let you really kind of express yourself
Speaker 3: and get all of the crazy things, all of the thoughts,
Speaker 3: all of the you know, stuff that's going on in
Speaker 3: the league out of your head at once, and it's
Speaker 3: just really nice to be able to come together and
Speaker 3: talk to people that are just as crazy about it
Speaker 3: as you are.
Speaker 2: You know.
Speaker 1: You know what's funny, Matt and I promised the viewers
Speaker 1: we will get into fantasy football.
Speaker 2: The draft last year was in Green Bay, which is
Speaker 2: my neck.
Speaker 3: Of the woods.
Speaker 1: It was about a twenty five minute drive northeast for
Speaker 1: me to get up there, and I was up there
Speaker 1: for every single pick.
Speaker 2: Sunday.
Speaker 1: I met my buddy, who is actually a high school
Speaker 1: girls basketball coach in Charlotte and he is from the area,
Speaker 1: so we went up there. We watched Sunday and he's
Speaker 1: a big talker fanaglar like he's sweet talk to everybody
Speaker 1: all the way up to matt I was sitting third
Speaker 1: rope on Saturday. Ex It was unbelievable, right, and I
Speaker 1: had it in my mind that somehow I was going
Speaker 1: to be able to announce one of the pack picks
Speaker 1: before the That's a grand minding. But it was so
Speaker 1: surreal being up there, you know, like you've been following
Speaker 1: the draft for decades I have, you know, to be
Speaker 1: up there, it did feel a little like a semi
Speaker 1: semi It felt like a semi religious experience, you know,
Speaker 1: like where you're close to It was very, very cool,
Speaker 1: and I wish everybody attending in person and Pittsburgh enjoy it.
Speaker 1: I've attended three drafts in person now, two in Chicago,
Speaker 1: one in Green Bay. If it ever comes back to
Speaker 1: the Midwest, I'll probably go to it again.
Speaker 3: Okay, but it was great.
Speaker 2: Man Like it was uh Friday night. I went up
Speaker 2: by myself.
Speaker 1: All my friends were either too hungover or my kids
Speaker 1: didn't want to come up with My kids were up
Speaker 1: there or my kid my son was up there with
Speaker 1: me on Thursday and he didn't want to come back
Speaker 1: to It was awful weather. It was rainy and cold
Speaker 1: or whatever. But I pushed my way to the front
Speaker 1: of like sort of like the the where the unwashed
Speaker 1: are behind the fence, and I got on. It was
Speaker 1: either NFL network or ESPN, I don't know, but good
Speaker 1: l was was coming by and shaking hands.
Speaker 2: So I got on with with Rogerdell, which was very
Speaker 2: very cool. It was it was. It was a great experience.
Speaker 1: And if you are an NFL fan, it is you know,
Speaker 1: when it comes by where you are at or close
Speaker 1: to where you're at, give it a shot.
Speaker 2: I think you'll have a good time.
Speaker 3: Okay, O, good.
Speaker 2: Here we go. Let's get into it tonight.
Speaker 1: Coming up on tonight show, Matt Price and I are
Speaker 1: going to get into everything going around the NFL as
Speaker 1: far as rumors reported rumors for the NFL Draft and
Speaker 1: how it's affecting some veterans and much more. We will
Speaker 1: get into rookie spotlights tonight. We will tackle Omar Cooper Junior.
Speaker 1: For sure, I want to get into the Bells. I
Speaker 1: have not spent enough time on Chris and Skyler Bell.
Speaker 1: Get into that with Matt tonight, and then we'll go
Speaker 1: to running backs. I for sure want to touch on
Speaker 1: Emma Johnson, Nick Singleton. We'll get into Judaian Price as
Speaker 1: well as the quarterbacks in Mendoza and Simpson, and that'll
Speaker 1: be our NFL Draft preview here on FFPC Insider Access.
Speaker 1: I'm going to lead things off tonight, Matt with something
Speaker 1: that is that came down on the pipe with in
Speaker 1: regards to the number three pick, and I'd love to
Speaker 1: know how you feel about this. So Schefter posted I
Speaker 1: think it was this morning, or maybe it was late
Speaker 1: last night, that the Cardinals have had calls about trading
Speaker 1: the number three overall pick in the draft. Now, those
Speaker 1: calls he defined as exploratory in nature. What I think
Speaker 1: is fascinating about this is we have heard this drum
Speaker 1: beat about Jeremiah Love potentially going to Arizona at three,
Speaker 1: despite them already having Tyler Algeer on the roster who
Speaker 1: they signed in free agency, and then restructuring James Connor's
Speaker 1: contract to keep him on the roster this year and
Speaker 1: still having you know, what are they, you know, two
Speaker 1: years removed, one year removed from drafting Trey Benson as well.
Speaker 1: Not only do I not understand this, I don't think
Speaker 1: it's great management for your roster if you're Arizona, But
Speaker 1: we have to kind of throw that out the window.
Speaker 1: Understanding some teams at the draft. Some teams don't get
Speaker 1: the draft, and that's fine. We have to adjust as
Speaker 1: fantasy players. Now, if the Cardinals are going to deal
Speaker 1: this pick, it would be very interesting to see who
Speaker 1: would move up. Washington coming up from seven to three,
Speaker 1: New York coming up from five to three. We've heard
Speaker 1: that two of the teams that were rumored to be
Speaker 1: discussing a trade for this pick were Kansas City and
Speaker 1: New Orleans, but both of them reportedly would be coming
Speaker 1: up not for love, but for a defensive player whoever,
Speaker 1: you know, between Reese and Bailey, whoever's left they would
Speaker 1: come up and grab. My question to you is does
Speaker 1: the draft start at three and how significant do you
Speaker 1: think landing spot will be for a talent like Jeremiah
Speaker 1: Love who you know, arguably, I mean, we've heard reports
Speaker 1: Matt that he is the number one player in the
Speaker 1: draft on a lot of people's draft boards, and what
Speaker 1: would this do. I mean, honestly, the likelihood of him
Speaker 1: going to the Giants' is probably less than fifty to fifty,
Speaker 1: but it's growing by the day. Your thoughts as it
Speaker 1: stands right now as a Dynasty player on where you'd
Speaker 1: like to see Jeremiah Love go and where realistically you
Speaker 1: think he is going to go in on Thursday in Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think. You know, we've had a lot of
Speaker 3: steam the last couple of weeks, especially that he's almost
Speaker 3: a lock for number four to Tennessee, which you know
Speaker 3: is a similar situation with Arizona in terms of a
Speaker 3: team building perspective. I'd say Tennessee is maybe a little
Speaker 3: bit more ahead than Arizona is. At least they have,
Speaker 3: you know, presumably the quarterback in place. Arizona will be
Speaker 3: searching for that, and I think if Arizona was to
Speaker 3: trade back, you know, that would probably be because they
Speaker 3: want to address that quarterback position, but they don't certainly
Speaker 3: don't need to take someone like tysonsin at three, they
Speaker 3: could do that, you know, with a later pick in
Speaker 3: the first or certainly early in the second, I think
Speaker 3: he might be there as well. I think the next
Speaker 3: next one you're looking at would be the Giants. You know,
Speaker 3: there's been some steam that he would go there, But
Speaker 3: also that kind of doesn't make a lot of sense
Speaker 3: with cam Skataboo and you know, Tyrone Tracey. I guess
Speaker 3: you could you could argue that they could use some
Speaker 3: more superstar talent there, maybe the maybe John Harbaugh coming in.
Speaker 3: You know, he has no real ties to cam Scataboos,
Speaker 3: so maybe he's not going to show any loyalty there
Speaker 3: and would be happy to take a talent like love.
Speaker 3: In terms of ideal landing spot, I'd really like it
Speaker 3: to be Washington, just because there is just nothing there,
Speaker 3: you know. That said, if he was to land in
Speaker 3: Tennessee or or Arizona, I guess I really don't think
Speaker 3: the Arizona what's going to happen? But Tennessee or the
Speaker 3: New York Giants seemed like the most likely if it's
Speaker 3: not going to be a team that trades up. You know,
Speaker 3: both of those places they do have competition, but We've
Speaker 3: seen that happened to top backs before. You know, say, uh
Speaker 3: Bjon came in with with Tyler Algier at just coming
Speaker 3: off a thousand yard season, it didn't really matter. You know.
Speaker 3: You can say that Jon's a hair above Love is
Speaker 3: a prospect. That's fine, you can say that, but I
Speaker 3: would I would argue they're in that same kind of
Speaker 3: elite tear. Any of those running backs that go in
Speaker 3: that top ten range of the draft are typically just
Speaker 3: going to get a ton of workload regardless of who
Speaker 3: is on the roster at the point. And the same
Speaker 3: with Tennessee, right like you have you obviously have Pollard
Speaker 3: and Spears there, but those guys don't seem like it
Speaker 3: would be too hard to move on from. So yeah,
Speaker 3: I think he is no matter where he goes, he's
Speaker 3: gonna be the top guy. The only argument you could
Speaker 3: really make for a place like Arizona or Tennessee, I
Speaker 3: think is that you're just trying to put butts in
Speaker 3: the seat with an exciting player. So Washington is my
Speaker 3: ideal spot, but you know, probably is going to go
Speaker 3: before seven least is looking that way.
Speaker 1: Do you do you feel like there is something we
Speaker 1: should be doing with our Cam Scataboo with our Tyler
Speaker 1: l Zier shares right now in dynasty leagues before the
Speaker 1: NFL Draft, or would you be taking more of a
Speaker 1: Stan Pat and see what happens Thursday night approach?
Speaker 3: I I mean, I feel like at this point you're
Speaker 3: the move that move was you know, months ago, if
Speaker 3: maybe weeks ago, but probably more like months ago. Like
Speaker 3: at this point, everyone kind of sees the riding on
Speaker 3: the wall and you're probably gonna get less for those
Speaker 3: guys than you would have, right Like, especially someone like
Speaker 3: Skatabo is so young, you know, like what are you
Speaker 3: gonna get for him? Are you gonna even get a
Speaker 3: second round pick for him? At this point? Like people
Speaker 3: are just gonna wait and see. And you know, he
Speaker 3: put up such a great season before injury last year
Speaker 3: that I probably wouldn't do that. And then in Arizona,
Speaker 3: I mean I expected Al was here to get a
Speaker 3: lot more interest on the free agent market than he
Speaker 3: did it in up signing a very low low value
Speaker 3: contract with the Cardinals, who already have James Connor coming
Speaker 3: back and Trey Benson intol like you mentioned right, and
Speaker 3: Tredy Benson's window kind of kind of closed. I think
Speaker 3: last year, right, he had that opportunity when Connor went down,
Speaker 3: but then he got hurt himself. So yeah, it's just
Speaker 3: you know, I just don't think it's really going to
Speaker 3: affect his workload. No matter where he lands, whether it's
Speaker 3: in Washington or a place with no talent there or
Speaker 3: a place that has a little bit of talent like
Speaker 3: Tennessee and the Giants, there will.
Speaker 1: A lot of be There will be a lot of
Speaker 1: people puckered in the top ten Dynasty owners. Matt when
Speaker 1: we were watching obviously, and I'm with you, I think
Speaker 1: I want him to go to Washington, right, But like
Speaker 1: quite frankly, there's gonna be a lot of people rooting
Speaker 1: against New York. We had Adam Han always just checking
Speaker 1: in right now that Jerry Jones is going to trade
Speaker 1: up with the two first round out to go up
Speaker 1: and get Jeremi Love right after they signed Javonte Williams,
Speaker 1: which would certainly raise the blood pressure of a lot
Speaker 1: of Dynasty owners out there. I think that is going
Speaker 1: to be the most fun thing to watch in the
Speaker 1: first round. As far as running backs go, We'll get
Speaker 1: it to the wide receivers in a second before we
Speaker 1: move off Arizona. I do want to bring this up here.
Speaker 1: Ian Rappaport reported that Jacoby Brissett is not attending Phase
Speaker 1: one of the offseason program. He's asking for an extension
Speaker 1: that pays him as a starter. Brissett has one year
Speaker 1: left on his deal. He's set to earn just over
Speaker 1: nine million dollars in twenty twenty six, but only a
Speaker 1: million and a half.
Speaker 2: Matt is going to be guaranteed.
Speaker 1: Last season as a refresher thirty three hundred yards, twenty
Speaker 1: three touchdowns, eight picks, and he's expected to start the
Speaker 1: year as the starting quarterback as Arizona. Monte Asin Ford,
Speaker 1: who is the GM in Arizona, said that the team
Speaker 1: is not really naming anybody as their starting quarterback this offseason,
Speaker 1: and certainly I don't think you'd find anybody that would
Speaker 1: say Brissett is the long term answer here, but he
Speaker 1: would be a great bridge quarterback. It's sort of like
Speaker 1: what he's done over the course of his career. The
Speaker 1: Cardinals did sign Gardner Minshew and Matt. I didn't look
Speaker 1: this up, but I know I read somewhere that Minshew
Speaker 1: is actually making more money this year than Jacoby Brissett,
Speaker 1: which maybe is part of the reason why Brissette's holding
Speaker 1: out here. But what this comes back to is ty Simpson.
Speaker 1: Because Simpson, we found out, is gonna be invited to
Speaker 1: the festivities on Thursday night. The NFL this doesn't invite players,
Speaker 1: you know, for them to sit in the green room
Speaker 1: like Aaron Rodgers in two thousand and five. They invite
Speaker 1: them there so they can be part of the moment
Speaker 1: and be drafted. So to me, it's gonna be sort
Speaker 1: of a foregone conclusion that Simpson's gonna be taken on
Speaker 1: Thursday night. And I can't remember who said it, might
Speaker 1: have been Jeremiah or Yates or somebody posted an act
Speaker 1: that it's a foregone conclusion that that Simpson is going
Speaker 1: to be a cardinal. So what do you I mean?
Speaker 1: This is maybe this is more of a best ball
Speaker 1: question than the dynasty question, but you can answer it
Speaker 1: in a dynasty format. Brissette versus Minshew versus Simpson. Do
Speaker 1: we need to start handling Simpson as if he's going
Speaker 1: to be a cardinal? And then at what point do
Speaker 1: you think Simpson, if he is drafted by Arizona, at
Speaker 1: what point does he take over this season as the starter,
Speaker 1: because that's gonna affect a lot of people on how
Speaker 1: they're handling these guys in Best Ball drafts. Not only
Speaker 1: in Best Ball drafts, but in dynasty leagues as well
Speaker 1: as The Arizona quarterback room is very nebulous right now.
Speaker 3: Matt, Yeah, I mean if he does end up there,
Speaker 3: then I don't imagine he would have to wait more
Speaker 3: than like half a season. Now. I kind of think
Speaker 3: it's going to be the same for Mendoza. I'd be
Speaker 3: surprised if they don't start at least half of the season.
Speaker 3: Right But you know, Jacoby Brissette is not like a
Speaker 3: He's not a nobody. Like he ignited the Cardinals offense
Speaker 3: last year didn't result in many wins, but like the
Speaker 3: offense came alive under him last season. He's currently making,
Speaker 3: you know, not guaranteed money, but the total contract is
Speaker 3: about six point two five million. Mention is five point
Speaker 3: seventy five million, and you know that's way less than
Speaker 3: other starting quarterbacks. In fact, Davis Mills is making more
Speaker 3: than and Marcus Mariotte is making more than an Anthony
Speaker 3: Richards is making more than them. So he should go
Speaker 3: out there and you know, look for like a My
Speaker 3: guess is he'd be looking for like a fifteen to
Speaker 3: twenty million dollar contract, right, something in that range seems
Speaker 3: fair that that would put him up and the like
Speaker 3: the twenties kind of range. Justin Fields is making twenty
Speaker 3: millions dollars this year. That's a different situation, of course,
Speaker 3: based on his final his last contract. But yeah, I
Speaker 3: think Arizona they're most likely is they're going to trade back.
Speaker 3: I think I think they are going to target him.
Speaker 3: But another option I think that's out there is Tampa Bay.
Speaker 3: I think you got to think that they're looking for
Speaker 3: their next quarterback unless they're going to pay Baker. I
Speaker 3: think he has one year left on his deal, so
Speaker 3: they're going to be a team that's looking to do that.
Speaker 3: And if if Arizona was wanting to trade back up,
Speaker 3: let's say they move the back from the three and
Speaker 3: get I don't know somewhere a pick somewhere in the
Speaker 3: top ten to fifteen, pick up another one on top
Speaker 3: of that, and then use their thirty fourth overall pick
Speaker 3: the second pick in in the second round. Combine that
Speaker 3: with the move back up somewhere in the first to
Speaker 3: get Simpson. That if they felt like they needed to
Speaker 3: do that, and the team is probably likely to want
Speaker 3: to do that anyway to pick up that fifth year
Speaker 3: contract right a fifth year option on the contract rather,
Speaker 3: so yeah, you know, half a season, it'd be nice
Speaker 3: to see what he has. We don't really have a
Speaker 3: clear idea yet. I guess if we think Arizona is
Speaker 3: tanking or not. I don't know how you feel about that.
Speaker 3: I kind of feel like they are, but you know,
Speaker 3: they don't really want to see that. So Prissette, it
Speaker 3: really is that perfect bridge quarterback. He's already been Therey
Speaker 3: pay on the extension. Go get your quarterback of the future,
Speaker 3: and if your competitive halfway through the season with Prissette,
Speaker 3: stick with it, and if not, bring in the rookie
Speaker 3: and see what you got. So you know what you
Speaker 3: have going into twenty twenty seven.
Speaker 1: I can't remember where I read it, but somebody was
Speaker 1: reporting that Austin fort was drafting like the Cardinals were.
Speaker 1: We're going to be more drafting heavily with twenty twenty
Speaker 1: six in mind rather than twenty twenty seven, but the
Speaker 1: crop could be richer. Interesting that well, to me, that
Speaker 1: suggests that this is like this is Austin Ford is
Speaker 1: is kind of like drafting for his job, right. They
Speaker 1: just hired a new head coach, Lafleur is going to
Speaker 1: be safe for at least this year, probably next year
Speaker 1: as well. But I think that's interesting to see how
Speaker 1: the I mean, like the Cardinals kind of holding that
Speaker 1: number three pick and knowing what their running back room
Speaker 1: looks like right now, and knowing what they're trying to
Speaker 1: do this year, and at least what Austin Ford's trying
Speaker 1: to do to save his job. I think it's going
Speaker 1: to be fascinating to watch in that first tap ten,
Speaker 1: especially Matt, if what you're saying or if what you
Speaker 1: had mentioned comes true and the Cardinals do trade down
Speaker 1: to see what they do perhaps with multiple first round
Speaker 1: picks this year, would they get somebody on offense and defense?
Speaker 1: Would they go defense with both of them? Would they
Speaker 1: go defense and Simpson?
Speaker 2: I don't know. It's one of the things what we'll
Speaker 2: be watching for on Thursday night.
Speaker 1: Moving on to Pittsburgh, and Rapaport further had more reporting
Speaker 1: on this going on earlier this morning that the Steelers
Speaker 1: do not expect to receive any kind of word from
Speaker 1: Aaron Rodgers prior to the NFL Draft about what his
Speaker 1: playing future is going to be. The Steelers open mini
Speaker 1: camp one week from today, and Will Howard will be
Speaker 1: the team's QB one, assuming Rogers does not come back,
Speaker 1: because I can't believe anybody that they're drafting in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six would be ahead of Will Howard on the
Speaker 1: draft chart. Mike McCarthy said, quote, it would be a
Speaker 1: great story end quote if he were to reunite with
Speaker 1: his Super Bowl winning quarterback Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay.
Speaker 1: They were together in Green Bay for thirteen years before
Speaker 1: McCarthy was fired. Rogers will be forty two at the
Speaker 1: start of the season. He threw for thirty three hundred
Speaker 1: and twenty four touchdowns and seven picks. Last year, Rogers
Speaker 1: was one hundred and forty six year or tallied one
Speaker 1: hundred and forty six yards, no touchdowns and a pick
Speaker 1: in the twenty four point loss to the Houston Texans
Speaker 1: in the playoff. This year, I would imagine, regardless Matt
Speaker 1: of what Aaron Rodgers decides to do, Pittsburgh would probably
Speaker 1: take a chance on one of these guys like Carson
Speaker 1: Beck or Drew Aller to see what Mike McCarthy can.
Speaker 2: Do with them, you know.
Speaker 1: And Jerry Dulac, who is the big time Steelers beat rider,
Speaker 1: he said it's unlikely that they would take one before
Speaker 1: the third round, knowing how we have seen quarter Like
Speaker 1: I think back to a couple of years ago when
Speaker 1: we had all those quarterbacks go in the top fifteen
Speaker 1: with Williams and May and McCarthy and Pennix and Daniels
Speaker 1: and all those guys. We didn't see another receiver or
Speaker 1: a quarterback take until the fourth round, Like it was crazy, right,
Speaker 1: And we could see a similar drop off this year
Speaker 1: where Aler or beck Er, you know, Cole Payton or
Speaker 1: the ke nuss Meyer is another one. Green ont Arkansas
Speaker 1: would be another guy that we could see going the
Speaker 1: fourth round, maybe to Pittsburgh. And Mike McCarthy has said
Speaker 1: he sometimes gets more excited about floor for these guys
Speaker 1: rather than ceiling, which I think is kind of an
Speaker 1: interesting quote. But in regards to the Steelers, let's forget
Speaker 1: all about that. Let's talk about this year for dynasty.
Speaker 1: I'm thinking about guys like DK Metcalf, Pat Fryer, Movement, Hittman,
Speaker 1: knowing that Rogers still has not given it. I mean like,
Speaker 1: for the longest time I was drafting Bestball teams, Matt
Speaker 1: assuming Rogers is going to be back. The fact that
Speaker 1: he hasn't let him know yet, maybe I'm overreacting to that,
Speaker 1: But now I'm starting to get a little bit nervous,
Speaker 1: not necessarily about Rogers coming back, but what it's going
Speaker 1: to do to the rest of the Steelers offense. We
Speaker 1: can throw Jalen Warren in there as well. Your level
Speaker 1: of concern right now about these Steelers pass catchers knowing
Speaker 1: the sort of unknown at the QB one.
Speaker 2: Position right now, Ian Pittsburgh.
Speaker 3: I mean, even if we're mean, my base case is
Speaker 3: that Rogers is coming back. It's just, you know, these veterans,
Speaker 3: these these super older veterans, they don't want to do
Speaker 3: mini camp and all that stuff, right They they don't
Speaker 3: need it, at least according to them, you know. They
Speaker 3: they want to wait until it's it's game time basically,
Speaker 3: right And I just kind of feel that's what Rogers
Speaker 3: is doing. I think that the Mike McCarthy signing probably
Speaker 3: had a lot to do with trying to get Rogers back.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I'm I'm operating that Rogers is going is
Speaker 3: going to be there. If not, then yeah, we're we're
Speaker 3: we certainly have very very little fantasy assets that we're
Speaker 3: looking at, although I'm not sure how excited we are
Speaker 3: with them. Even with Rogers in to he can certainly,
Speaker 3: you know, support at least one fantasy target, you know,
Speaker 3: more than that is up for debate. To me, his
Speaker 3: favorite target will be somebody like Michael Pittman, who's going
Speaker 3: to offer easy throws over the middle. At his advanced age,
Speaker 3: you know, he could still chuck it downfield if he
Speaker 3: wants to, which is more of Dk Metcalf's game. But
Speaker 3: the fantasy consistency from a player like Metcalf, I think
Speaker 3: is going to be a lot more in question this season,
Speaker 3: with Rogers or without. And then they've also been tied
Speaker 3: to a tight end in the draft. They've been rumored
Speaker 3: to be interested in basically all of the tight ends,
Speaker 3: despite having Darnel Washington and Pat Fryar moved there another
Speaker 3: They've also got Rico Dowbell. So you mentioned Jalen war
Speaker 3: and I kind of think Rico Dowbell might be the
Speaker 3: lead back this year. Again, another tie to McCarthy back
Speaker 3: from the Dallas days. He's I think he specifically brought
Speaker 3: him in. Caleb Johnson is there, but I don't I
Speaker 3: don't know if anybody is still his faith and and
Speaker 3: Caleb at this point. So, yeah, there's there's stuff to
Speaker 3: work with there. It's just are we even that excited
Speaker 3: if Rogers is back about this offense? I think you
Speaker 3: if you want to take shots, you take shots on
Speaker 3: one of the one of the wide receivers. Uh and
Speaker 3: maybe one of the running backs for me would be
Speaker 3: Pittman and Dowdell. But yeah, there's not a lot of
Speaker 3: excitement in the Pittsburg offense from a fantasy standpoint this
Speaker 3: year in my opinion.
Speaker 1: The uh So, So if you had like metcalf or
Speaker 1: Pittman or Firearmouth or anybody like that, would you feel
Speaker 1: more of a compulsion to sell at this point?
Speaker 2: Matt Or is this not moving the need for you?
Speaker 3: Yeah? I mean again, just it always depends on what
Speaker 3: you can get. If you have somebody that still believes
Speaker 3: one of those two receivers is worth the first round pick,
Speaker 3: I'm jumping on that all day, even if it's a
Speaker 3: late first in this year's class. I feel like, I
Speaker 3: know we're going to get into the rookies, but I
Speaker 3: feel like there's a in super flex, there's the tier
Speaker 3: of like eight to nine guys that you feel really
Speaker 3: pretty good about, and even outside of that, I think
Speaker 3: in super flex formats, i'd be willing to move on
Speaker 3: for those guys if you can get like the one eleven,
Speaker 3: one twelve kind of range. I'm not sure I would
Speaker 3: necessarily jump in a second round pick for them, because
Speaker 3: I think they are going to be productive assets. But yeah,
Speaker 3: they're probably they're probably holds. Like I can't imagine any
Speaker 3: Steeler at this point generating a ton of excitement for
Speaker 3: a trade partner.
Speaker 1: You know, this guy still might generate some interest as
Speaker 1: far as dynasty trading partners go. Right now, AJ Brown
Speaker 1: Schefter came out and Matt, I don't know, like to me, like,
Speaker 1: it was nice to hear him come out with this
Speaker 1: report today, but I kind of was already operating under
Speaker 1: this scenario here. Schefter reporting that Philadelphia trading AJ Brown
Speaker 1: to the New England Patriots quote is now considered likely.
Speaker 1: The Eagles will also, like the Steelers, begin their workout
Speaker 1: program on Monday, it's not expected to have AJ Brown
Speaker 1: in attendance. According to Mike Carafalo from NFL network. Brown
Speaker 1: has long been rumored to be a player not in
Speaker 1: the Eagles twenty twenty six plans, and also long to
Speaker 1: be a long rumor to be a member of the
Speaker 1: New England Patriots for the twenty twenty six campaign. Talks
Speaker 1: have stalled. That could be because Philadelphia's weighing their options.
Speaker 1: New England maybe doesn't want to over commit. I don't know,
Speaker 1: but I would imagine based on the reporting that's come
Speaker 1: out about this, I don't think we see anything until
Speaker 1: after June first, and especially if it comes after June first,
Speaker 1: Philly can split the forty million dollar cap hit between
Speaker 1: this year and next year, which is something I'm sure
Speaker 1: they would like to do rather than taking on a
Speaker 1: forty million dollars cap hit this season. When you consider
Speaker 1: how you've been managing your Dynasty League teams, Matt, when
Speaker 1: the ones that have Eagles on it, the ones that
Speaker 1: have Patriots on the specifically pass catchers and throwers Jalen Hurts,
Speaker 1: Drake may, Romeo.
Speaker 2: Dobs, DeVonta Smith, that of those kind of guys.
Speaker 1: Have you already been you know, basically treating these guys
Speaker 1: as if A. J. Brown's a Patriot or are you
Speaker 1: not willing to go that far quite yet.
Speaker 3: I Again, I think that is probably my base case.
Speaker 3: It's just there's too much smoke on this right and
Speaker 3: it just seems like it's it's it's a lot to happen.
Speaker 3: AJ Brown's not happy. There seems to be some kind
Speaker 3: of dysfunction with the with the Eagles offense right now.
Speaker 3: So it seems like there was that quote that they
Speaker 3: think that that Devonte Smith could basically do what JSN
Speaker 3: did last year if they were able to clear that
Speaker 3: spot for him. They've been making moves like acquiring Hollywood
Speaker 3: Brown and then last week or the week before bringing
Speaker 3: in a Wicks from Tavia Wicks from the Packers. He
Speaker 3: could fill that kind of ins and kind of roll
Speaker 3: for them. So it seems like they are preparing for
Speaker 3: this already and that it's a lot to happen. So
Speaker 3: I think it's an upgrade for for aj Brown. He's
Speaker 3: going to go to a team where he's going to
Speaker 3: be the clear alpha, and presumably they would want him
Speaker 3: to be the clear alpha. Romeo Dubbs can still be
Speaker 3: that reliable target just like he was with the Packers
Speaker 3: as well. But I think this is a slam dunk
Speaker 3: for both sides, so it seems a lot to happen.
Speaker 3: I do want to throw out the Eagles offense a
Speaker 3: little bit to you, Eric and see how you feel
Speaker 3: about that, because it seems like with Sean Mannion coming in,
Speaker 3: who again you're familiar with from the Packers, is going
Speaker 3: to come in and kind of change things up with
Speaker 3: with Jalen Hurts and make him do a lot of
Speaker 3: under center stuff, a lot of RPO stuff so that
Speaker 3: in the past he's not wanted to do. He's a
Speaker 3: quarterback that wants to operate out a shotgun, you know.
Speaker 3: So the Philadelphia offense outside of DeVante Smith, who I
Speaker 3: am trying to acquire every rail right now, you know,
Speaker 3: it feels a little bit squeaky all the way around,
Speaker 3: right Like, it just doesn't feel good. Like I still
Speaker 3: like Hurts as a top five six option because of
Speaker 3: the running and the rushing and stuff like that, but
Speaker 3: even that was down last year. So if he can't
Speaker 3: get on the same page with this new play caller,
Speaker 3: you know, I can't imagine it's worse than with Kevin
Speaker 3: Patoula last year, but if they're not on the same page,
Speaker 3: it could be a rocky season again. For the Eagles.
Speaker 2: So regarding Manion, this is a dude who was playing.
Speaker 1: In the NFL mat in twenty twenty three, playing in
Speaker 1: the NFL twenty twenty three. He's thirty three years old.
Speaker 1: And I don't want to like oversimplify it. I don't
Speaker 1: know Jalen Hurts, I don't know the locker room. I've
Speaker 1: never been in a professional football locker room, so I
Speaker 1: can only speculate. But to me, it is interesting to
Speaker 1: think about a dude coaching another dude and calling plays
Speaker 1: who was in the league three years ago, who has
Speaker 1: had NFL experience, who's worked under some pretty talented coaches
Speaker 1: and play callers, right, And I wonder. And I don't
Speaker 1: want to overrate the impact of Manyon to Philadelphia, but
Speaker 1: I feel like this is something that could not only
Speaker 1: be impactful for us as fantasy players, but that Eagles
Speaker 1: locker room, specifically Jalen Hurts as well. Time will tell
Speaker 1: on that, but I know that a lot of people
Speaker 1: who have had Sean Manyon as part of their coaching
Speaker 1: staff have raved about him and talked about Now, maybe
Speaker 1: this is a year or two early, or maybe he's
Speaker 1: not quite ready, But I don't know. With all these
Speaker 1: other younger offensive coordinators having a lot of success early on.
Speaker 1: I feel like this is really good for Philadelphia. And
Speaker 1: we also have to consider just natural regression, right that
Speaker 1: the Eagles offense was so bad last year and so
Speaker 1: inefficient last year, can it really be that inefficient again,
Speaker 1: even if you don't have aj Brown, If you have
Speaker 1: them on to Smith, I think Wis is a guy
Speaker 1: who when he was healthy, was really really good in
Speaker 1: Green Bay. I think Goddard is underrated from a redraft
Speaker 1: standpoint this year as well. And I also think too
Speaker 1: that you're going to probably see Philadelphia. I said this
Speaker 1: in the FFPC Dynasty email that went out today. I
Speaker 1: think you're going to see Howie Roseman take a long
Speaker 1: look at the wide receiver position both on Thursday night
Speaker 1: and Friday night of the draft this year, and you
Speaker 1: could see a guy who's maybe not contributing right away,
Speaker 1: but maybe at the very end of this twenty twenty
Speaker 1: sixth season, you're gonna see Goddard, Smith, Barkley, and you know,
Speaker 1: fill in the blank rookie being big contributors in this offense.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I'm on board with the Eagles offense this year.
Speaker 1: I'm very excited to see what they do now. The
Speaker 1: DeVonta Smith thing is is interesting because I don't think
Speaker 1: he'll get to what Smith and Jigma did this past year.
Speaker 1: But yeah, yeah, I mean, but not only he has
Speaker 1: to at that point, like if he if he puts
Speaker 1: up you know, eighty percent of that or seventy five
Speaker 1: percent of that. You're right, you should still be looking
Speaker 1: to acquirement anywhere you can get in dynasty. But I
Speaker 1: would imagine, Matt if you have been looking to do this,
Speaker 1: you're paying the iron price for him right now. It's
Speaker 1: not cheap to acquire Devanta Smith. I think that everybody
Speaker 1: understands like what is happening now, and at this point
Speaker 1: it's gonna be tough to get him on your team,
Speaker 1: I think, and even by the way I think that
Speaker 1: you will talk. I mean you could talk to smart
Speaker 1: FFPC dynasty owners out there that are willing to pay
Speaker 1: a dollar ten or a dollar fifteen on the dollar
Speaker 1: right now for DeVonta Smith to acquire him.
Speaker 3: Yeah, you know, the prices are kind of all over
Speaker 3: the place. I would say as a baseline, you're probably
Speaker 3: going to be offering you know, a late late first,
Speaker 3: a contenders first, and maybe another pick, either a second
Speaker 3: or something next season. We do have a tool at DLF,
Speaker 3: the DALF Dynasty Trade Finder, which pools actual trades from
Speaker 3: from fantasy leagues, and you know, the prices are kind
Speaker 3: of all over the place. You have one that happened
Speaker 3: a couple of days ago, DeVante Smith for both Matthew
Speaker 3: gold Matthew Golden and Emmanuel Wilson. Then you're running back
Speaker 3: in Seattle, another another X packer, you know, a super
Speaker 3: flex format Gino Smith and a few and a first
Speaker 3: round pick for Devontae Smith Sam Darnold straight up for
Speaker 3: Devonte Smith in a super flex league. So you know,
Speaker 3: I think the prices are fairly reasonable if you've got
Speaker 3: capital to spend it at other positions, you can get there.
Speaker 3: If you want to throw in your late first on
Speaker 3: top of that, and that's that's the price I'd be
Speaker 3: willing to pay. I would easily pay a first and
Speaker 3: a second this year to grab him. So if you
Speaker 3: can get to that level from your roster, the combination
Speaker 3: of players and picks, I think you have a chance
Speaker 3: of requiring him, and I think he's worth at that
Speaker 3: level once you get to the two first kind of
Speaker 3: valuation that's when i'd start to probably pull back a
Speaker 3: little bit.
Speaker 1: That's exactly I was just gonna say the same thing,
Speaker 1: like I don't think they give up two first form,
Speaker 1: but I am a go get your guy type, a
Speaker 1: dynasty player, and if you like Smith, it's hard for
Speaker 1: me to disagree unless you're really overpaying.
Speaker 2: It's hard for me to disagree with like going out.
Speaker 1: And getting a guy who does have you know, a like,
Speaker 1: what what do you view as his ceiling this year?
Speaker 1: One hundred and twenty catches, sixteen hundred yards and fourteen touchdowns.
Speaker 1: Does that sound accurate for his ceiling?
Speaker 3: That seems maybe a little bit high based on what
Speaker 3: they you know, what the Eagles offense have done in
Speaker 3: the past, with still having Barkley, still having a running quarterback,
Speaker 3: you know. But you know, I think I think in
Speaker 3: that range, I think I think he definitely has like
Speaker 3: top five fantasy wide receiver upside and his range.
Speaker 1: So yeah, speaking of top five fantasy wide receiver, I'm hoping,
Speaker 1: and like I shouldn't say I'm hoping because I haven't
Speaker 1: had any of my rookie drafts yet, but this is
Speaker 1: a guy I think I'm going to be drafting a
Speaker 1: lot because of how much I've liked him so far.
Speaker 1: I know, I own him on a lot of bestball teams.
Speaker 1: And that's Jordan Tyson, the rookie receiver out of Arizona
Speaker 1: State man Nick Underhill who covers the Saints for New
Speaker 1: Orleans Dot.
Speaker 2: Football I think is the name of the website.
Speaker 1: But he believes he's probably gonna be drafted in the
Speaker 1: top ten of the NFL draft this year. Now you
Speaker 1: think about going back to what was it, was it Friday?
Speaker 1: He had this private workout for all these teams, and
Speaker 1: it sounds like he passed it with flying colors. To me,
Speaker 1: if he's going in the top ten, the NFL is saying,
Speaker 1: at which I've been saying all along, I'm not putting
Speaker 1: too much stock into the injuries that have happened over
Speaker 1: the course of his career. Collar bone to me is
Speaker 1: kind of freakish. I know he had the Holy or
Speaker 1: the Unholy Trinity of acl tears in twenty twenty two
Speaker 1: or whatever it was, but it seems like he's rebounded
Speaker 1: from that. I'm not, you know, a total ostrich in
Speaker 1: the sand. I understand that the hamstring issues are still
Speaker 1: a concern, but we have seen players with soft tissue
Speaker 1: injuries in college. Once they get to the pros, they're
Speaker 1: sort of a thing of the past. And I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that's gonna be the case with Tyson, but I
Speaker 1: understand the range of outcomes here where they could be.
Speaker 1: Tyson could be drafted number eight overall to the New
Speaker 1: Orleans Saints. They hosted him not this past Friday, but
Speaker 1: the Friday before that in New Orleans. Tyson was described
Speaker 1: by Underhill this is quote by far, the most talented
Speaker 1: wide receiver in this whole entire class, and that he
Speaker 1: would be quote unquote enticon for New Orleans to draft
Speaker 1: him in the first round. Underhill also said, now that
Speaker 1: the Giants have two top ten picks at five and ten,
Speaker 1: Tyson could go five if they wanted to go with
Speaker 1: the Tyson route as opposed to the Tait route or
Speaker 1: the Styles route or the Love route, like whatever the
Speaker 1: Giants want to do at five, that's gonna be really
Speaker 1: compelling to watch you But Tyson going in the top ten,
Speaker 1: I think the biggest thing for me, man is if
Speaker 1: he goes in the first top ten picks. The NFL
Speaker 1: is saying, like, we believe in this player, we are
Speaker 1: not condemning him to a career of injuries if they
Speaker 1: If he gets top ten draft capital, very excited to
Speaker 1: see what happens with him at the next level. But
Speaker 1: you weigh in, man, I don't know, maybe you have
Speaker 1: a completely different opinion on Jordan Tyson as an NFL player.
Speaker 1: How does he rank with you as far as the
Speaker 1: rest of the receivers specifically in this class.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I am not concerned about the injuries really either hamstrings.
Speaker 3: You know, soft tissue issues are always a thing for
Speaker 3: wide receivers and they can certainly, you know, take them
Speaker 3: down for a large window of an NFL season. But
Speaker 3: after that workout, you know, actually, prior to that workout,
Speaker 3: I would say, you know, he was falling a bit.
Speaker 3: He was, you know, starting to be projected in the twenties,
Speaker 3: and then he went out and showed he's fine. He
Speaker 3: didn't run the forty or any had like the testing
Speaker 3: things that you want to see, but he went out
Speaker 3: and ran twenty twenty five routes whatever it was, and
Speaker 3: showed his cutting ability and all the stuff that made
Speaker 3: him an exciting player. And in terms of like the
Speaker 3: catastrophic d injury, like I don't understand why that's still
Speaker 3: a big issue for people, because he's already shown that
Speaker 3: he's come back from that, Like he came back from
Speaker 3: that and posted two really great seasons in twenty twenty
Speaker 3: four and twenty twenty five. Right, So to me, he's
Speaker 3: past that one and he's he's currently my wide receiver
Speaker 3: two in the class, just behind Carnel Tait, just ahead
Speaker 3: of Concepcion. So yeah, he's I will be very excited
Speaker 3: to see him go in the top ten. I've put
Speaker 3: some you know, I don't know if this is a
Speaker 3: gambling podcast, but we've put some down on Yeah, we
Speaker 3: put some bones down on him to go in the
Speaker 3: six to ten range. I think ten is probably his four.
Speaker 3: If he makes a pass there, then I'm not sure
Speaker 3: if somebody's probably coming up to get him if he
Speaker 3: makes it out of that range. So I've put some
Speaker 3: money down on the six to ten range for Tyson.
Speaker 3: I love the player, and I'm not that worried about
Speaker 3: the injury stuff.
Speaker 1: I was at my local sports book in the state
Speaker 1: of Wisconsin. Matt we have had our governor sign into
Speaker 1: not into law yet because I think it has to
Speaker 1: go through one more level. But Basically, you have to
Speaker 1: be at a physical sports book in order to place wagers.
Speaker 1: So I was up at one in Green Bay this
Speaker 1: past week and I placed a couple of wagers. I
Speaker 1: went aggressive on this that Jordan Tyson would be the
Speaker 1: first wide receiver taken in the NFL Draft, and whether
Speaker 1: that happens or not, I like the odds on it.
Speaker 1: I got like plus three or four something, But I
Speaker 1: liked I liked the idea of that because there is
Speaker 1: and we'll get into Carnel Tatan a little bit, but
Speaker 1: there's a potential for a semi slide for him. We'll
Speaker 1: see what happens. Yeah, comfortably in the first half of
Speaker 1: the first round. But dude, these wide receivers this year,
Speaker 1: and and I have a macro discussion that we need
Speaker 1: to open up that wide receiver discussion with in the
Speaker 1: next segment.
Speaker 2: But I'll get to that in a little bit.
Speaker 1: Oscar Delp I want to bring up him right now.
Speaker 2: Met virtually with Houston, met virtually or no.
Speaker 1: He had a top thirty visit with Cleveland, and then
Speaker 1: he's also had top thirty visits in Tampa with the Chargers,
Speaker 1: in Minnesota, New England and Baltimore. So he's been all
Speaker 1: over the place. He started for three years in Georgia.
Speaker 1: Basically in twenty twenty two and twenty twenty three, he
Speaker 1: was the other tight end for the Pugs next to
Speaker 1: brock Bauers. He never really took a significant step forward
Speaker 1: in the offense. And he's a good he has good size,
Speaker 1: he is an athlete for the tight end position.
Speaker 2: I'm curious as to what you think he's going to
Speaker 2: be at the next level.
Speaker 1: Is this a guy that we can ignore in fantasy
Speaker 1: drafts or is this a guy in rookie drafts and
Speaker 1: in dynasty leagues that you want to have, Like is
Speaker 1: he the perfect And this is kind of how I'm
Speaker 1: viewing him right now, so this is the leading question.
Speaker 1: But is he sort of like that third tight end
Speaker 1: you want on your dynasty roster that has like, you know,
Speaker 1: let's say twenty two man rosters. Is he that perfect
Speaker 1: third tight end you want to have marinate as a
Speaker 1: future top ten, top maybe even top five talent and
Speaker 1: in his uh in his heyday or at his peak
Speaker 1: in the NFL, I'm curious as to what you think
Speaker 1: about Oscar delps NFL ceiling.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I it's hard it's it just feels like a
Speaker 3: real big projection right now. If he lands in a
Speaker 3: good spot where he's gonna be uh with tight ends,
Speaker 3: I kind of I really want them to be a
Speaker 3: top two target on their offense right to really provide
Speaker 3: any kind of consistent fantasy value. The third option on
Speaker 3: the offense is fine, but you're probably going to be
Speaker 3: looking at some some bad weeks here and there, and
Speaker 3: that's that's most of the position if we're being honest
Speaker 3: in terms of this year's where he's at in this
Speaker 3: year's class, you know, he's it's such a strange class
Speaker 3: because outside of like Sam Rausch, they're like all just
Speaker 3: you know, six three two forty. It seems like all
Speaker 3: of them are six six six forty, you know, all
Speaker 3: all the way up to Sadik Rights, who six three
Speaker 3: two forty one at the combine. So he's he's got
Speaker 3: some athleticism too. The I guess the concerning part for
Speaker 3: me with him would be that he didn't take a
Speaker 3: step forward after he after both Bowers and lad mcconkeey
Speaker 3: moved on, you know, like a once those two big
Speaker 3: prospects moved on, you would think that the production jumps
Speaker 3: up and it just didn't really do that used in
Speaker 3: line a lot you know, pretty good blockers, so he
Speaker 3: will be on the field. I think some of the
Speaker 3: concern with the light the light tight ends and the
Speaker 3: in terms of weight and size in this class is
Speaker 3: will they be on the field enough to both block
Speaker 3: and and and and be able to leak out for
Speaker 3: receptions and things like that. With Delp, but he's proven
Speaker 3: he can do that, so I think it's more likely
Speaker 3: that someone like him than I don't know, like a
Speaker 3: Justin Jolie or people are really into into Michael Trigg,
Speaker 3: who I like quite a bit too. But these are
Speaker 3: players that, you know, not are not the accomplished blocker
Speaker 3: that an inline player that that Oscar Delp is. So yeah,
Speaker 3: he's right in that mix. I would say, I think
Speaker 3: it's for me, it's it's the deck, it's Tours, and
Speaker 3: then maybe Claire is the third guy, and then after that,
Speaker 3: you know, pick your faceavorite player out of these. Raush
Speaker 3: is interesting just because of the size. He just presents
Speaker 3: such a different kind of archetype than the rest of
Speaker 3: the tight ends in this class, So that would be
Speaker 3: considered that would be considered at the top of your
Speaker 3: rookie drafts or in the I guess I would say
Speaker 3: the second third round of the fourth round of your
Speaker 3: rookie drafts.
Speaker 1: How do you this is a good question, like from
Speaker 1: a widescope level, how do you weigh these tight ends
Speaker 1: that come in that are the like Stours is a
Speaker 1: perfect example, insane athlete, great pass catcher. We saw reports,
Speaker 1: I think it was last week that some teams want
Speaker 1: to make him a wide receiver.
Speaker 2: At the next level out a tight end.
Speaker 1: How do you waste some of these guys that are
Speaker 1: so athletic, that are so talented running routes and catching
Speaker 1: the football, but have very little blocking chops to them.
Speaker 1: You know, we've heard the no block, no rock. You
Speaker 1: know several times over there's plenty of NFL teams that
Speaker 1: will not put tight ends on the field that cannot block.
Speaker 1: So knowing that when you come into the NFL draft,
Speaker 1: is it just the team by team base or when
Speaker 1: you know because like when a player gets drafted and
Speaker 1: you know how great he can be from a fantasy standpoint,
Speaker 1: but you also know that his NFL upside is limited
Speaker 1: because NFL teams will not want to put that player
Speaker 1: on the field on running plays, and if he's on
Speaker 1: the field only on passing plays, obviously that kind of
Speaker 1: neuters the upside a little bit because defenses know what's coming. Matt,
Speaker 1: how do you weigh that with those specific players really
Speaker 1: talented pass catchers but not a whole lot of blocking
Speaker 1: in the run game.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's really hard because we you know, these are
Speaker 3: the type of players that I fall for, Like I
Speaker 3: was all in in pits and kind of still am.
Speaker 3: So we'll have him on a bunch of teams paid
Speaker 3: way too much for him on many of those, right.
Speaker 3: But we've seen this with with with Kyle Pitts until
Speaker 3: the end of last season. We've seen this with Dalton
Speaker 3: kin Kid, who is a player that we know could
Speaker 3: be more productive from a fantasy standpoint, but can't get
Speaker 3: on the field for more than sixty percent of the plays. Right.
Speaker 3: So this year I'm been really trying to dial it
Speaker 3: back on my excitement over these smaller tight ends that
Speaker 3: are going to profile as primarily pass catchers. Now, the
Speaker 3: caveat to that, I think is that we saw such
Speaker 3: an increased usage of twelve and thirteen personnel with two
Speaker 3: and three tight ends on the field last season you know,
Speaker 3: propagated a lot by the McVeigh tree and some other teams,
Speaker 3: and I think that is going to be something we
Speaker 3: see a lot more of in twenty twenty six. You
Speaker 3: know how it is the NFL as a copycat league,
Speaker 3: so we're going to see more of that. That gives
Speaker 3: me a little bit of hope for these guys because
Speaker 3: maybe they're not the best blocker at that position, but
Speaker 3: there's they're probably a team that drafts them probably will
Speaker 3: have someone on their team who will play that role
Speaker 3: for them, allowing them to go out there. It's just
Speaker 3: are they going to get above that sixty five seventy
Speaker 3: percent snap threshold where we really need them to be
Speaker 3: to be consistent you or at least have a chance
Speaker 3: to be consistent fantasy options. So it remains to be seeing.
Speaker 3: You kind of have to look at which teams are
Speaker 3: running a lot of that kind of scheme. You know,
Speaker 3: the Falcons with Pitts, you know, maybe they're looking for
Speaker 3: somebody like Rauh so Pits can go out and do that.
Speaker 3: Whereas the Steelers maybe they're looking at one of these
Speaker 3: more athletic guys because they have somebody like Friar Moutmouth
Speaker 3: and Darnel Washington that can play that that blocking role
Speaker 3: if they need them to. So yeah, it's gonna be
Speaker 3: a team fit and what that team wants to run,
Speaker 3: what kind of base kind of offense they want to run.
Speaker 3: But there's there's a lot of these like undersized pass
Speaker 3: catching tight ends in this draft that's white so hard
Speaker 3: after those top two to three guys to really put
Speaker 3: them in any order before we know landing spots in draft.
Speaker 1: Capital want to touch on Max Claire in a little bit,
Speaker 1: but before we get to that, Delp's college teammates Zechariah
Speaker 1: Branch in the news Matt for the wrong reasons arrested
Speaker 1: for misdemeanor obstruction in Athens this past Saturday. He was
Speaker 1: in attendance for the Georgia spring game, where his brother
Speaker 1: is still on the Bulldogs. Branch was booked at one
Speaker 1: point thirty in the morning on Sunday, released at quarter
Speaker 1: to four on Sunday. I you know, from the stuff
Speaker 1: I've read on the internet, which has got to be true,
Speaker 1: it's it sounds like he wasn't. It wasn't like as
Speaker 1: nefarious as it as it sounds. And listen in I
Speaker 1: don't know how you feel about Branch. I'm about to
Speaker 1: find out. But in all the red flags and the
Speaker 1: concerns I have with zech RYA Branch, this is not.
Speaker 1: It pales in comparison with some of the other problems
Speaker 1: I have with him. Now, he did run, excuse me,
Speaker 1: a four, three, five forty at the NFL Combine. This
Speaker 1: is a player that's probably gonna get draft to our
Speaker 1: Day two draft capital in Pittsburgh this Friday. He ran
Speaker 1: so many screens, he caught so many passes behind the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage, He had so much stuff schemed up
Speaker 1: for him, And I think, wasn't he correct me if
Speaker 1: I'm wrong, Matt, wasn't he with Jacoby Lane and Makayle
Speaker 1: Lemon and USC and then transferred to Georgia. And so
Speaker 1: this is a guy that's just never really become that guy, which.
Speaker 2: I'm fine with.
Speaker 1: But I'm not fine with taking a guy like that
Speaker 1: in the second round, even the third round of the
Speaker 1: NFL Draft. I'm pretty much out on Branch. Not because
Speaker 1: I don't think he can't be a six. I heard
Speaker 1: Scott Barrett talking about this from Fantasy Points, like he's
Speaker 1: he's got an eighty five percent chance of busting and
Speaker 1: a fifteen percent chance of being Tyreek Kill. Well, there's
Speaker 1: something to be said about a guy who has a
Speaker 1: fifteen percent chance of being Tyreek Kill. As far as
Speaker 1: how you handle the draft, I'm just kind of out
Speaker 1: on this guy. I think I'm gonna find better ways
Speaker 1: to spend my draft capital. But I'll pose it to you, Matt,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about Zachariah Branch And I'll let
Speaker 1: you weigh in on this arrest too, and how you
Speaker 1: think that plays in or how you think it's going
Speaker 1: to play in to his draft capital later on this week.
Speaker 3: Yeah, this just gives me. I think I'm ware of
Speaker 3: similar minds here. He was somebody I was already kind
Speaker 3: of out on. He's my wide receiver sixteen, which is
Speaker 3: far lower than consistent. I'm I'm not sure where that
Speaker 3: is lying around, but I would guess it's in the
Speaker 3: top ten for him. But you said it all just
Speaker 3: to put some numbers to it, you know, to me,
Speaker 3: he's a he's a gadget player at the next level.
Speaker 3: Fifty five percent of his targets came behind the limit.
Speaker 3: Linus Green, seventy six percent of his targets came within
Speaker 3: ten yards of the line of scrimmage. Nearly sixty six
Speaker 3: percent of his career receiving yards came either again behind
Speaker 3: the line of scrimmage or under ten yards, including thirty
Speaker 3: nine percent screen rate. His aight hot ranks it in
Speaker 3: the lowest one percent among receivers since twenty nineteen. So
Speaker 3: he just wasn't asked to win downfield or even in
Speaker 3: the intermediate areas of the field. So to me, these
Speaker 3: speed guys, like they just at the wide receiver position,
Speaker 3: they often don't work out. And I'm not saying it
Speaker 3: can't work out. Sure, I would probably not put us
Speaker 3: fifteen percent chance of him being Tyree Kill, maybe more
Speaker 3: like five percent or less, just because it's just such
Speaker 3: a projection. And again I'm not saying you can't do it.
Speaker 3: It's just I didn't see it, and I'm not going to,
Speaker 3: you know, take him in the first round of rookie
Speaker 3: drafts or even probably even second round of rookie drafts,
Speaker 3: to be honest with you, for that kind of profile.
Speaker 3: So this is just one more thing on top of it,
Speaker 3: a top of the profile that he didn't like anyway,
Speaker 3: and another reason for me to stay out. I guess
Speaker 3: the silver lining for dynasty managers, maybe not so much
Speaker 3: people an NFL teams drafting branch, but maybe this calls
Speaker 3: that causes him to fall unto that point where you know,
Speaker 3: we haven't talked about it, but the tears are just
Speaker 3: so big once you get that far where I would
Speaker 3: be willing to consider branch. So if he does drop
Speaker 3: until that mid to late third round of dynasty drafts
Speaker 3: and you just want to throw a dart frow and
Speaker 3: see what happens with it at that's the point where
Speaker 3: I would do it. So maybe this news bad news,
Speaker 3: I guess, kind of pushes him down to that board
Speaker 3: a little bit too and gives people that do like
Speaker 3: him a way to acquire him even cheaper.
Speaker 1: The rank on Dynasty League Football dot Com right now
Speaker 1: he is sixteen among rookie receivers for Zacharo.
Speaker 3: Okay, so you're spot on there, right on there, I guess.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 1: And by the way, and I haven't looked at like
Speaker 1: adp for like startups or whatever, but I would imagine
Speaker 1: you're right, man, I think he goes higher than that, not.
Speaker 2: By me or you.
Speaker 3: He was. He was wide receiver eleven and our most
Speaker 3: recent mocks and that was twentieth overall, So you know,
Speaker 3: right at the middle end of the second round, it
Speaker 3: was just still too early for me.
Speaker 2: Yeah, too early for me as well.
Speaker 1: I It's weird, like I keep you know, I've had
Speaker 1: a lot of Dynasty experts on this show over the
Speaker 1: last month and a half, and I keep waiting for
Speaker 1: somebody to push back on like, you know, my whole
Speaker 1: I'm out on Zachary Branch.
Speaker 2: Nobody does.
Speaker 1: Everything has kind of been like, yeah, you know, Balky,
Speaker 1: I'm kind of with you on this. Speaking of Dynasty
Speaker 1: League Football, I just noticed this, and this is semi
Speaker 1: breaking news Dynasty League Football dot Com right now, Ken
Speaker 1: Kelly had this, Jimmy Garoppolo considering retirement. Why well, it
Speaker 1: seems like this this could be a good ending point
Speaker 1: for him. We just found out on NFL Insiders tonight
Speaker 1: that the Rams are expected to extend Matthew Stafford's contract.
Speaker 1: And while Garoppolo could probably catch I mean not in
Speaker 1: Arizona anymore because they signed Minshew and certainly anybody can
Speaker 1: get hurt and Garoppolo could could you know, pop on there.
Speaker 1: But I think this is really interesting. I don't know
Speaker 1: if he thought maybe he'd be taking over for Stafford
Speaker 1: in Los Angeles, and now with this news that they're
Speaker 1: extending him, maybe he doesn't see that pathway. To me,
Speaker 1: I look at this is not only a good boon
Speaker 1: for Matthew stafford dynasty value, but pukin Acua, maybe DeVante
Speaker 1: Adams to a certain extent as well. I think one
Speaker 1: of the things that people had a problem with matt
Speaker 1: about putting Pokin A Coua as their number one dynasty
Speaker 1: wide receiver was the unknown at quarterback. And now maybe
Speaker 1: it's more of a known given that the Rams already
Speaker 1: traded a first round pick for a win Now corner
Speaker 1: from Kansas City, right, and now they're extending Stafford. This
Speaker 1: is this is probably good news for pukuin Acua's dynasty
Speaker 1: value and maybe to a certain extent, Matthew Stafford's and
Speaker 1: super flex leagues as well.
Speaker 3: Yeah. To me, yeah, it definitely solidifies this future. In
Speaker 3: terms of the quarterback, I would agree with fat he
Speaker 3: Stafford is a guy that just wants to go out
Speaker 3: of win titles. He's at that point in the career
Speaker 3: and if he's still playing well and still feeling good,
Speaker 3: then why not he You know, he has these nagging
Speaker 3: back issues that that can cause him to miss certain
Speaker 3: windows of games every season. You know, it was actually
Speaker 3: a big topic last offseason and ended up not coming
Speaker 3: to a fruition.
Speaker 1: Right.
Speaker 3: In fact, it knocked me off of DeVante Adams and
Speaker 3: a couple of higher stakes drafts, which was certainly a
Speaker 3: regret in hindsight. Right. So, yeah, I guess the Puka
Speaker 3: stuff now that we have to be concerned with. Is
Speaker 3: he leaning into the knucklehead status off the field? You know,
Speaker 3: good for him for checking him to the holistic care
Speaker 3: facility or what it is, but we've seen some questionable
Speaker 3: behavior for him this offseason and in multiple instances. Right,
Speaker 3: So hopefully the off the field stuff comes back to
Speaker 3: he's he's getting the help he needs from a mental
Speaker 3: health standpoint, and he's going to continue doing what he's
Speaker 3: been doing since his rookie season. But that would be
Speaker 3: more of a concern for me at this point than
Speaker 3: the the Matthew Stafford stuff.
Speaker 1: Far be it for me to make light of what
Speaker 1: Pooka Nakua is going through right now, but I will.
Speaker 1: Here's a mouthguard on the field, or at least he
Speaker 1: should wear a mouth guard.
Speaker 2: On the field.
Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it is off field like a man.
Speaker 2: I'll bring this up.
Speaker 1: Like when I was in high school and I was
Speaker 1: a high school baseball player, we had cup checks, and
Speaker 1: I probably shouldn't be sharing this, but we had cup
Speaker 1: checks or I would hear my cup at class because
Speaker 1: I never knew when my baseball coming. It was coming
Speaker 1: with the baseball bat and I wore it right. Maybe
Speaker 1: Nikua needs to be the type of person off field
Speaker 1: where he's wearing the mouthguard as well. Can't bite people
Speaker 1: in the shoulder when you're wearing a mouth guard, can't
Speaker 1: make anti Semitic comments when you're wearing a mouthguard, or
Speaker 1: at least legible or understandable uh anti submitic comics. So
Speaker 1: that's something that we can look at for and I'm
Speaker 1: sure Pooka Nakua fantasy owners would love that as well.
Speaker 3: Now, now I have a vision of silence of the
Speaker 3: lamb and then rolling him out on the dolly, you know,
Speaker 3: like strapped down with the muzzle on top of his mouth,
Speaker 3: and they roll him out for NFL games and it's
Speaker 3: right back to the.
Speaker 2: Pooka lector as it were. We will see if that
Speaker 2: happens as well. Somebody's already making that Kroc has already
Speaker 2: made that.
Speaker 1: Matt, now that you said it, all right, The last
Speaker 1: thing I'm gonna bring up here in this segment we
Speaker 1: touched on Max Claire and I feel like I don't
Speaker 1: know about you, and you definitely haven't because you're a
Speaker 1: Dynasty guy. But I feel like I've probably given him
Speaker 1: a little short shrift on this show. Max Claire is
Speaker 1: a guy that I think most people consider is the
Speaker 1: number three tight end of this draft. I think you
Speaker 1: would agree that he's the number three tight end of
Speaker 1: this draft. So far, He's made five Top thirty visits.
Speaker 1: He's met a bunch with Houston, Tampa, the Rams, Denver,
Speaker 1: and Carolina too. So Carolina doesn't take Sadik in the
Speaker 1: first round, certainly they would be in play for Max Clair.
Speaker 2: Maybe on day two.
Speaker 1: At Purdue, he well, I'll say this, and I think
Speaker 1: it was Jake Seely was talking about this the other
Speaker 1: day that he bulked up when he went when he
Speaker 1: transferred from Perdue to Ohio State, and Cely was kind
Speaker 1: of saying like he was wondering if that kind of
Speaker 1: sapped his agility, his athleticism a little bit and maybe
Speaker 1: made marginal improvements as a blocker. Seventy one point six
Speaker 1: PFF run blocking grade with the Buckeyes last season, which
Speaker 1: was better than what he got at Purdue in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty four.
Speaker 2: But his receiving numbers at Purdue were awesome.
Speaker 1: Now he also at Ohio State had to contend with
Speaker 1: Carnel Tait and this guy named Jeremiah Smith, who I
Speaker 1: know nobody's heard about, but wait, wait a year year.
Speaker 1: But I think Claire is really interesting because, and we
Speaker 1: talked about I know you were just talking about this
Speaker 1: on a recent podcast. It is so landing spot dependent
Speaker 1: on a lot of running backs in this draft, and
Speaker 1: you mentioned it early at the at the top of
Speaker 1: the show. After Claire, it kind of pens it's landing
Speaker 1: spot dependent.
Speaker 2: On a lot of these other tight ends.
Speaker 1: But with Claire, it's interesting because if he gets drafted
Speaker 1: by a team that wants to use him as more
Speaker 1: of a pass catcher rather than sort of like, you know,
Speaker 1: like an every down grunt that occasionally catches passes, that
Speaker 1: wants to get him back to that pass catcher that
Speaker 1: he was at Purdue, I'm very, very interested in the
Speaker 1: fact that there's so many teams interested in him. I
Speaker 1: think there's something there as well. I think Claire, especially
Speaker 1: in tight end premium leagues, Claire might be a little
Speaker 1: bit underrated right now since everybody's talking about Sadik and
Speaker 1: Stowers and how athletic those guys are. Claire's a guy
Speaker 1: we can't be sleeping on.
Speaker 3: Right Yeah, I think there is kind of a sizeable
Speaker 3: gap between Sadiq Stowers level and then to Claire. But
Speaker 3: he could be He could absolutely end up being the
Speaker 3: best of the bunch. He seems like a very high
Speaker 3: floor pick, a very technically sound player. He leads this
Speaker 3: class and playing out wide at thirteen four percent out
Speaker 3: wide rate PFF, which is the highest, again, the highest
Speaker 3: amongst this class. So I don't think you can take
Speaker 3: the dip of dip in production from Purdue to Ohio
Speaker 3: State as a negative for him. Again because of the competition,
Speaker 3: you measure, he was not the guy anymore. He went
Speaker 3: there presumably to go win a national title, get on
Speaker 3: a bigger stage, and see what he could do. And
Speaker 3: you know, he performed admirably under those conditions I was
Speaker 3: talking about. For fantasy, I want, I want a top
Speaker 3: two option on the offense. He was not a top
Speaker 3: two offense off option in this offense. He was the
Speaker 3: third option and at times the fourth option, So uh yeah,
Speaker 3: I completely agree with you. A very high floor option
Speaker 3: anywhere from like the I guess maybe maybe you might
Speaker 3: have to spring a little higher and tight end freemium leagues.
Speaker 3: But somewhere in the middle second round, I think you're
Speaker 3: starting to look at Claire after the second and third
Speaker 3: tier wide receivers are kind of wrapping up, and you know,
Speaker 3: the running backs are a whole nother story. But once
Speaker 3: you get into that middle of second round, Claire is
Speaker 3: certainly an option worth considering.
Speaker 2: Do you feel confident in saying he gets day true
Speaker 2: day two draft.
Speaker 3: Capital right now? Yeah? I do, absolutely.
Speaker 1: Listen, we have so many more like I've had. I
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Speaker 1: continuing the tradition, I want to go to right away
Speaker 1: in the second hour here we'll go to mister Bakes
Speaker 1: a lot long time of viewer of the program with
Speaker 1: a question. Here we have not talked dolphins a whole
Speaker 1: lot tonight, but let's talk Miami here for a second. Man,
Speaker 1: who do you think mister Banks a lot writes, who
Speaker 1: do you think about the Dolphins will be taking in
Speaker 1: this year's draft? Even picks in the top one hundred,
Speaker 1: including two in the top thirty, one at eleven to
Speaker 1: one at thirty. You know, I've been saying this for
Speaker 1: basically since they traded Jalen Waddle and everybody was like,
Speaker 1: oh my god, you know this is Malik Willis Is
Speaker 1: left with a dumpster fire here in Miami. And I said,
Speaker 1: let's just wait until after the NFL Draft, because Miami
Speaker 1: could draft not only one, but maybe two pass catchers.
Speaker 1: And then once the compensatory formula kind of dissolves itself
Speaker 1: after the NFL Draft, maybe Juwan Jennings finds his way
Speaker 1: to Miami. Maybe Stefan Diggs finds his way to Miami.
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen would be another guy. This wide receiver room
Speaker 1: for the Dolphins could look radically different in the week's
Speaker 1: coming after the NFL Draft. I want to get your
Speaker 1: thoughts specifically on rookies here. Mat Do you have any
Speaker 1: inkling of what you think the Dolphins with new head
Speaker 1: a new GM john Eric Sullivan and new head coach
Speaker 1: Jeff Haffley, will be doing with the skill position players
Speaker 1: in the draft.
Speaker 3: I mean, they they need literally everything right, Like I
Speaker 3: I really hope for Malik Willis's sake that he knew
Speaker 3: that they were going to tear it down like this,
Speaker 3: At least as of right now, they're still saying they're
Speaker 3: holding on to Devon a chain, Devon a Chan, But
Speaker 3: I mean from a rebuilding standpoint, it doesn't make a
Speaker 3: lot of sense to do that. So I wouldn't be
Speaker 3: surprised if they still move on for him. I know
Speaker 3: there was some talk of them, you know, trying to
Speaker 3: work out a long term extension, but we'll see on that.
Speaker 3: But yeah, they have to draft multiple pass catchers. They
Speaker 3: have to draft offensive linemen to protect their their new quarterback.
Speaker 3: They have they have holes on defense. Like it's just like,
Speaker 3: I don't know where they're going to go at eleven.
Speaker 3: If they want a top end pass catcher, that's going
Speaker 3: to have to be be that at eleven, whether it's
Speaker 3: Lemon to come in and play like a reliable role
Speaker 3: for them, Like I think the dream would be aild
Speaker 3: that that that Carnel Tay does all of them. He
Speaker 3: he to me profiles as a you know, really the
Speaker 3: next kind of alpha wide receiver in the n A
Speaker 3: fell and the Dolphins certainly need a more traditional X
Speaker 3: because right now we're working with two two at well,
Speaker 3: and uh, you know, uh struggling took toll Bird and
Speaker 3: Washington right like, I just I don't know, man like
Speaker 3: like if right now, as if the team stands right now,
Speaker 3: it seems like they're going to run the ball six
Speaker 3: hundred times this season, right the quarter of those from
Speaker 3: their quarterback. So and he's gonna have to with the
Speaker 3: with the offensive science line situation till he addressed that.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I would expect one, if not two pass
Speaker 3: catchers within the within the Day one or Day two
Speaker 3: of the draft, maybe both in the first round. I
Speaker 3: don't I don't really have a handle on that. So sorry,
Speaker 3: I don't have a good answer, But yeah, they need everything.
Speaker 3: Every pick is a good pick for the Dolphins because
Speaker 3: I get everywhere, and I would I would hope they
Speaker 3: would help out their quarterback with some of those topics.
Speaker 1: I get the Wattle trade to a certain extent, Matt
Speaker 1: where by the time this team is like loaded for
Speaker 1: Bear and being a Super Bowl contender, Wattles going to
Speaker 1: be in his thirties. Right Chan Granted, running backs already
Speaker 1: have a shorter shelf life than wide receivers in the NFL.
Speaker 1: H Chan turns twenty five this year. I mean he's
Speaker 1: five nine ninety or whatever. He's not a big back
Speaker 1: at all. And I wonder at the time the Dolphins
Speaker 1: are successful or or purported to be successful. I mean,
Speaker 1: he's me twenty six, twenty seven. Maybe that's still good enough,
Speaker 1: and maybe h Chan holds up long enough for that.
Speaker 1: But I still go back to what Jeff Haffley was
Speaker 1: saying when he got hired, and John Eric Sullivan said
Speaker 1: the same thing. When they have to go up in
Speaker 1: November and December and January and play teams like Buffalo
Speaker 1: and the Jets, whatever, but the Patriots like those are
Speaker 1: all cold weather situations when they have to play them later.
Speaker 2: On in the season.
Speaker 1: And Halfley and Eric John X Sullivan both said, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes fast gets small, but big sometimes butchering it. Sometimes
Speaker 1: fast gets slow but big never gets little, right, And
Speaker 1: to me that was like a signal like, hey, maybe
Speaker 1: I should be offering up third round picks for Ali
Speaker 1: Gordon right now, and he could be a bigger contributor
Speaker 1: to this offense.
Speaker 2: Than Devon a Chan.
Speaker 1: Totally, not that I was gonna sell low on a
Speaker 1: Chan because I don't own him in a lot of spots,
Speaker 1: but in the spots I did. I was never really
Speaker 1: looking to sell him, but I am considering, like, you know,
Speaker 1: this Dolphins offense, you know, we talk about how they
Speaker 1: need pass catchers and tight ends that can catch passes
Speaker 1: as well, Like it could look radically different as far
Speaker 1: as like the philosophy of the team that off the
Speaker 1: type of personnel that are on this offense going into
Speaker 1: the twenty twenty six season than it does right now.
Speaker 1: Mike McDaniel spent several years building this team for speed,
Speaker 1: and now it's like strength power, Like that's what they're
Speaker 1: going for in Miami. So I don't know, like maybe
Speaker 1: maybe I'm I wouldn't say I'm out on a Chan
Speaker 1: because I know how good he was the last couple
Speaker 1: of years, but I do know the efficiency that went
Speaker 1: into that as well. And for him to have a
Speaker 1: down twenty twenty six season, the year he is being
Speaker 1: a you know, slam dunk number one or at least
Speaker 1: one two turn pick in redraft leagues, I don't know,
Speaker 1: like I could easily see him having a downturn and
Speaker 1: maybe this is the time to get out on a Chan.
Speaker 1: I haven't been actively looking for that, but I at
Speaker 1: least recognize it.
Speaker 2: As a potential outcome here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I Han was one of my favorite players coming out,
Speaker 3: primarily because he just landed in the prime situation with
Speaker 3: McDaniel right. It was exactly the back he's looking for.
Speaker 3: And honestly, that's one of the reasons why I'm excited
Speaker 3: about a player like Keaton Mitchell with the Chargers this year.
Speaker 3: But back to h Chan, you know, like I just
Speaker 3: worry about him from a number of number of reasons.
Speaker 3: I think there's more red flags than there are positive
Speaker 3: things going his way, not talk just talking about the
Speaker 3: overall condition of that offense. But you know, with with
Speaker 3: Malik Willison there, we know we have a long history
Speaker 3: lots and lots of data points of rushing quarters electing
Speaker 3: to take off and run rather than dump it off
Speaker 3: to their running back. With such he's going to have
Speaker 3: to again be like one of the most efficient players
Speaker 3: in the league, I think, to really pay off on
Speaker 3: his current price tag, and with the offense being less
Speaker 3: efficient in general, he's going to have to be scoring
Speaker 3: from twenty thirty forty yards out and how many of
Speaker 3: those can we expect in a given year. Like I
Speaker 3: am not afraid of the talent of Devon h Chan,
Speaker 3: it's just the situation, the new way that this team
Speaker 3: might use him, a new coaching staff coming in. That again,
Speaker 3: we see this all the time. It's certainly less of
Speaker 3: an issue when they're just absolute studs like Chan. We
Speaker 3: see this all the time where coaches come in and
Speaker 3: do not have any loyalty to the players that were there.
Speaker 3: He's the last kind of holdout that they have decided
Speaker 3: to keep on their team, right, So that says something
Speaker 3: in one regard, but it also says that this is
Speaker 3: a bad team and I just don't know how much
Speaker 3: fantas success he's going to have. I did move on
Speaker 3: him from H one league. I wasn't looking to move
Speaker 3: on either. I think I probably sold a little bit.
Speaker 3: I think I got it was actually in the FFPC league.
Speaker 3: I think I got the one oh seven and the
Speaker 3: two oh one, which it's on a rebuilding team, so okay,
Speaker 3: you know it's probably borderline. I would say that's like
Speaker 3: right in the like fair value, maybe a little bit
Speaker 3: under fair value. But I was really trying to move
Speaker 3: off from that to be able to add some more
Speaker 3: picks to kind of maneuver around in the draft better.
Speaker 3: But yeah, like I think you would really like to
Speaker 3: get two first, but you're probably not going to get
Speaker 3: that from him if you're looking to move on from him.
Speaker 3: So you either stuck it up and hope he has
Speaker 3: an incredible another incredible season despite a bad situation, and
Speaker 3: if that doesn't happen, you're probably looking at even less
Speaker 3: of a return next season, unless he unless they decide
Speaker 3: not to extend him. You know.
Speaker 2: One of the other things to consider, and I just
Speaker 2: thought of this. I looked it up.
Speaker 1: E Chan had seventy eight catches in twenty twenty four.
Speaker 1: He had sixty seven catches last year. How much Matt
Speaker 1: does that go down? With Malik Willis who is so
Speaker 1: successful with his legs and we have seen running quarterbacks
Speaker 1: a shoe dumping it off to running backs and just
Speaker 1: taking off and doing it on their own rather than
Speaker 1: risk the pass. I wonder how much his and he's had.
Speaker 1: He's had it was eighty seven targets in twenty twenty four,
Speaker 1: eighty five targets in twenty twenty five, so you're talking
Speaker 1: about an average of eighty six targets over the last
Speaker 1: two years. I wonder how big of a hit that
Speaker 1: takes as well for a cham this year with Willis
Speaker 1: under center.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the primary thing that I'm worried about. You know,
Speaker 3: he is a back that can catch sixty seventy eighty
Speaker 3: balls a year, and even if that goes down to fifty,
Speaker 3: you know, that's still a lot of receptions. But it
Speaker 3: takes a lot of off of his value. Like it
Speaker 3: takes him probably from like a top three to five
Speaker 3: production year down into the bottom end of the running
Speaker 3: back one tiers, which you know, the closer you get
Speaker 3: to that running back twelve thirteen fourteen, you get into that.
Speaker 3: You know, how replaceable is this position within my lineup?
Speaker 3: And if I what is the cost benefit of me
Speaker 3: move on from him, even if it's a little bit
Speaker 3: less than I think he's worth. So, yeah, the pass
Speaker 3: catching is by far the biggest part of concern of
Speaker 3: it that And I mean he's getting squeezed on both sides, right,
Speaker 3: So the Miami offense is not good enough to score
Speaker 3: a lot of touchdowns and they're gonna run the ball
Speaker 3: a lot more instead of dumping it off to h H.
Speaker 3: And he's not getting the high value touches from the
Speaker 3: receiving game, and he's not getting the high value touches
Speaker 3: from the goal line standpoint, especially like you mentioned, if
Speaker 3: they decide to start using their bigger backs like Ollie
Speaker 3: Gordon more and then he gets squeezed from a player
Speaker 3: in addition to the poor offense, so it just it
Speaker 3: just doesn't feel good. I'm happy to get out for
Speaker 3: anything in that one and a half first kind of
Speaker 3: range for him.
Speaker 2: Flip side of it, too, is we're totally destroying h
Speaker 2: right here.
Speaker 3: I still love him. I still love him. It's just
Speaker 3: the situation, you know.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, like as a talent, hees he's unbelievable,
Speaker 1: and there could be Matt if you know, maybe the
Speaker 1: Dolphins get Tyson or Lemon, maybe they add somebody like
Speaker 1: Bryce Lands, and then maybe they add a veteran you know,
Speaker 1: security blanket like Jennings or Allen or even Diggs, you know,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, Hey, this Dolphins offense that
Speaker 1: we thought was gonna be historically bad and all that
Speaker 1: bad and Achan could still you know, be very very good,
Speaker 1: not only for twenty twenty six, but in future years
Speaker 1: as well. Something to be following which we will be
Speaker 1: on this show going forward. Okay, let's get into some
Speaker 1: rookie spotlights. I want to take a wide scope look at.
Speaker 2: This, Matt. One of the things I was I was thinking.
Speaker 1: To myself over the last few weeks, and I haven't
Speaker 1: got into it as much as I'd like to. And
Speaker 1: I'm gonna ask you several questions here. It's gonna frame
Speaker 1: the how our discussion is going to go. Number one,
Speaker 1: how do you view this wide receiver class specifically compared
Speaker 1: to not only just last year's but in previous like
Speaker 1: several previous years. How do you view this wide receiver class?
Speaker 1: And if it is underwhelming to you, if it is
Speaker 1: not all that great as far as top end talent goes,
Speaker 1: is there something to be said for understanding that when
Speaker 1: we get to week nine, Week ten, Week fourteen, Week
Speaker 1: fifteen of the season and none of these rookies are
Speaker 1: taking off, we should have known that we were unfairly
Speaker 1: pumping up these receivers based on draft capital and not
Speaker 1: based on pure talent. In other words, Carnel Tate, mkayle Lemon,
Speaker 1: Jordan Tate, Jordan Tyson, they could all get top fifteen,
Speaker 1: top twenty draft capital this year, but maybe that is
Speaker 1: not traditional like that, that's not going the value that
Speaker 1: we get from those guys at that draft capital this
Speaker 1: year is not the same draft capital that we would
Speaker 1: get from players going in a similar area.
Speaker 2: Does that make sense to you?
Speaker 1: Like, I think sometimes we get to this point of
Speaker 1: the season and we're all excited and we're super enthused
Speaker 1: about these these players that are going to be going
Speaker 1: in the first round and second round. But sometimes I
Speaker 1: feel like in a class like this, we're pumping them
Speaker 1: up too much because they're not going to live up
Speaker 1: to draft capital based on what we have normally associated
Speaker 1: similar values to in previous years at the wide receiver position.
Speaker 1: If that doesn't make sense, let me know, I'll try
Speaker 1: to explain it better. But that's that's kind of my
Speaker 1: main concern heading into draft week here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, I don't think we have a Malik Neighbors,
Speaker 3: a Jamar Chase. We don't have those S tier kind
Speaker 3: of talents in this class. But I think we have
Speaker 3: three or four I would say four, you know, a
Speaker 3: tier maybe top of the B tier receivers. Three four
Speaker 3: very very good receivers I would say, at the top
Speaker 3: of the draft, maybe not the absolute ceiling. The very
Speaker 3: clean prospect profile of some guys we've had in the past,
Speaker 3: but sometimes those guys don't work either. I'm looking at
Speaker 3: workout either. I'm looking at you, Marvin Harrison Junior. Right.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I think that we have at least I
Speaker 3: think we have four to six guys we should feel
Speaker 3: very good about and four guys that we should really
Speaker 3: really good about. So I'm not I'm not fussed about
Speaker 3: this class in terms of last year. You know, we
Speaker 3: don't have the crazyness or that was the surrounding Travis Hunter.
Speaker 3: Is he going to be a wide receiver? Is he not?
Speaker 3: We we're pretty sure Teed McMillan was going to be
Speaker 3: the top receiver and he was. And otherwise, you know,
Speaker 3: it was a it was a fine class, not an
Speaker 3: amazing class. I would I would say this one is
Speaker 3: equal to that. Maybe not somebody. Again, it was clean
Speaker 3: to prosperusiness, as even Tet McMillan. But I would say
Speaker 3: the ceiling is higher for some of these guys, especially
Speaker 3: someone like Tyson who we talked about earlier. If the
Speaker 3: health works out, and a couple other guys. I think
Speaker 3: we are are are kind of selling short a little
Speaker 3: bit here. So you know, we do this every year.
Speaker 3: I think I think every year we say that the
Speaker 3: next class. We're waiting for the next class, and the
Speaker 3: twenty seven twenty seven class is absolutely exciting. But last
Speaker 3: year at this time we were talking about how good
Speaker 3: the twenty twenty six class was going to be. So,
Speaker 3: you know, people just need to lower expectations a little
Speaker 3: bit and realize if if a player that you really
Speaker 3: literally like and gets good draft capital isn't performing the
Speaker 3: first half of the season. And we see a time
Speaker 3: and time again that the second half of the season
Speaker 3: is when these rookies really start to come on, especially
Speaker 3: at the wide receiver position. Once they get you know,
Speaker 3: they learned the offense better, once they gel with their quarterback,
Speaker 3: they've really learned to play back, all that kind of stuff,
Speaker 3: and the game kind of stops slow. It starts slowing
Speaker 3: down for them. So I guess the only the actual
Speaker 3: piece of advice here is don't sell out on a
Speaker 3: guy like you know, Karnel Tate, mckaya, Limon, Jordan Tyson,
Speaker 3: a casey conception, and even we can go a little
Speaker 3: bit deeper than that, but especially those guys like if
Speaker 3: they're having a struggle struggle the first half of the
Speaker 3: rookie season, you know, don's see what happens in the
Speaker 3: final eight weeks.
Speaker 1: So for you this draft class, specifically, if carnel Take
Speaker 1: goes five or six, if Tyson goes ten or eleven,
Speaker 1: if Lemon goes sixteen or seventeen, that's not all that
Speaker 1: different than what they what these what they would have
Speaker 1: been worth had they had that draft capital in previous
Speaker 1: wide receiver seasons.
Speaker 3: In the draft, I just think we're splitting hairs, you know, like, yes,
Speaker 3: I would rather have, you know, but of course i'd
Speaker 3: rather have you know, yeah, yeah, no, I just this
Speaker 3: is what we have. You know, like either either they're
Speaker 3: worth the one oh five to you or they're not.
Speaker 3: And if they're not, you can try to move that pick.
Speaker 3: But everybody is trying to move out move their picks
Speaker 3: from this year. You know. I've started to see picks
Speaker 3: as early as like one oh seven being with the
Speaker 3: people want to make the move. You know, I'm going
Speaker 3: to trade my late first round pick this year for
Speaker 3: you know, gamble and maybe they'll have a better pick
Speaker 3: in the in the in the following year. Class. I'm
Speaker 3: starting to see that as early as like the one
Speaker 3: oh seven and certain lyas and to me at the
Speaker 3: one oh seven. Sometimes that's Kenyon Sadek. Sometimes that's Casey
Speaker 3: Concepts one. Sometimes uh sometimes Omar Cooper is there, and
Speaker 3: these are all players that can contribute. You know, maybe
Speaker 3: maybe not necessarily right away, depending on landing spot, but
Speaker 3: certainly before that twenty twenty seven pick is going to
Speaker 3: produce for you. So yeah, I think we're getting a
Speaker 3: little too over our skis on on out of that,
Speaker 3: And there's no way you can move like the one, ten, eleven,
Speaker 3: twelve for your pick for the first next year. Nobody
Speaker 3: is making that deal right now unless you're putting a
Speaker 3: little something else on top.
Speaker 1: I think we're hitting it the perfect stride because when
Speaker 1: FFPC rookie drafts hit in a couple of weeks or
Speaker 1: less than a couple of weeks, now, we could start
Speaker 1: seeing people like, yeah, I'll give you, I will I'm
Speaker 1: excited about this year's class enough to give you whatever
Speaker 1: you know future twenty twenty seven first and to acquire
Speaker 1: whatever you have in the first.
Speaker 2: Round this year.
Speaker 1: Yeah, there was a matt maybe you saw this, like
Speaker 1: people were trading twenty twenty six first and sweeteners to
Speaker 1: get a twenty twenty seven first. Yeah, which is the
Speaker 1: opposite way how it should work. You know, it's crazy.
Speaker 3: And now the old go ahead, the old the old
Speaker 3: Dynasty rule was like, you're a pick a year out
Speaker 3: is worth a second in this year's class, right if
Speaker 3: I was traded, But that that rule does not exist anymore,
Speaker 3: at least in my recently, Like I yeah, so that
Speaker 3: you can't do that, like if you're willing to move
Speaker 3: in a next year's class at a loss, Like sure
Speaker 3: that those kinds of deals are out there, but if
Speaker 3: you're trying to get anything on top, that's not happening
Speaker 3: unless it's a top five pick.
Speaker 2: Right exactly. I go back to I don't know how
Speaker 2: many years ago.
Speaker 1: It was like fifteen years ago when I was like
Speaker 1: first playing Dynasty, and there was I had like the
Speaker 1: one oh six or something, and I hated everybody that
Speaker 1: was available at that point, and I traded to a
Speaker 1: guy who I was sure was gonna have a bad year,
Speaker 1: and I just traded him straight up for his first
Speaker 1: round pick.
Speaker 2: Next year.
Speaker 1: Well, that turned into the one oh seven, So I moved.
Speaker 1: I waited a year, and I moved down one spot.
Speaker 1: It was not great, and I learned a lot from it.
Speaker 1: I let's talk some player of valves. Carnel Tate played
Speaker 1: next to Jeremiah Smith this year. I have it's an
Speaker 1: Ohio State receiver, so you know, simple helmet scouting. Hey,
Speaker 1: this guy's awesome. But there's a lot of people out there,
Speaker 1: and maybe you're including yourself in this.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: In fact, I think you are based on what you
Speaker 1: said in the first hour, Carnel Tait is the number
Speaker 1: one wide receiver for a lot of people, a lot
Speaker 1: of pundits in this draft is can you defend that?
Speaker 1: Why would you say that Tait is the wide receiver
Speaker 1: at this point right now, that that you'd want to
Speaker 1: have more so than any other wide receiver in this draft.
Speaker 3: I think it's just safety, you know, like he just
Speaker 3: feels safe. He's good at basically everything except for running
Speaker 3: fast in a straight line, you know, smooth and procise
Speaker 3: precise routes. He's not like a like a twitchy athlete,
Speaker 3: but he wins with body control and route nuance and
Speaker 3: just like understanding of angles and leverage and and and
Speaker 3: what he needs to do. He's an excellent boundary receiver.
Speaker 3: He can win with somebody in his face. The body
Speaker 3: control and flexibility to adjust to off target throws. You
Speaker 3: see him make, you know, contort his body in mid
Speaker 3: air to make outside the frame catches. I guess you
Speaker 3: could say maybe you know he he he lacks some
Speaker 3: some some yards up through the catch abilities. I wouldn't
Speaker 3: call him like a catch and fall down receiver. But
Speaker 3: he's not gonna make a bunch of people missing the
Speaker 3: open field with quick twitch moves like somebody like Tyson
Speaker 3: or concepts you might too, But in terms of like
Speaker 3: how he profiles as an NFL ride receiver, like that's
Speaker 3: why I think he's such a good fit in Miami's
Speaker 3: because they don't have a prototypical X receiver. And you know,
Speaker 3: for fantasy purposes, you can say that this is not
Speaker 3: the type of archetype that that really you know, blows
Speaker 3: it up with massive seasons. You know, those are the
Speaker 3: the pukinakuas as we talked about the Jamar chase, is
Speaker 3: that gona that that are gonna win a lot with athleticism,
Speaker 3: But you know, the floor is just so high with him,
Speaker 3: You're not You're not gonna miss whereas you have maybe
Speaker 3: you're concerned with the medicals with Tyson or or if
Speaker 3: following in the draft, maybe not so much this week
Speaker 3: with Lemon being primarily a slot only player. You know,
Speaker 3: David Boston was talked about early in the process, you know,
Speaker 3: back in February January was talked about up in this range.
Speaker 3: But he is He's like the arbitrage play I would
Speaker 3: I would argue on Carnel Tate. He's he's the next
Speaker 3: big X guy, but not quite as good as somebody
Speaker 3: like Tate. So he just offers the best combination of
Speaker 3: floor and ceiling. I think of any of these top
Speaker 3: three to four prospects, depending on how you're you're you're
Speaker 3: sorting them out, uh, and you want to feel safe
Speaker 3: with your probably in one quarterback league is a the
Speaker 3: one oh two pick, and then super flex league's probably
Speaker 3: the one o three, one oh four range. Right, But
Speaker 3: that's not to say he's going to be consensus like
Speaker 3: I expect, especially the top three with Tyson, Lemon, and Tate,
Speaker 3: I expect those three to go in a different order,
Speaker 3: and a large percentage of draft is right. It's not
Speaker 3: going to come down to just who gets selected first
Speaker 3: in the NFL draft. I don't think with these guys,
Speaker 3: So you know, put those top three in any order
Speaker 3: to me. I just feel like Tate is the safest
Speaker 3: in terms of a floor and presents some ceiling too,
Speaker 3: depending on landing spot, you know.
Speaker 1: And that's what I want to talk about. Tate could
Speaker 1: go to the Giants, where he'd be essentially playing behind
Speaker 1: elite neighbors. He go to Washington, where he'd be again
Speaker 1: essentially playing behind excuse me, Terry McLaurin, at least for now.
Speaker 1: I mean, the Commanders can get out of the McLaurin
Speaker 1: contract pretty easily. After twenty twenty six Cleveland, he'd be
Speaker 1: dealing with Harold Fanning New Orleans, he'd be dealing with
Speaker 1: chrys Olave. When you think about Carneal Tate, what's his likelihood?
Speaker 1: What's the range of outcomes for him, especially if he
Speaker 1: ends up in a situation next to Fan and next
Speaker 1: to neighbors, next to a lobby where he could become
Speaker 1: the alpha and be the number one over those guys.
Speaker 1: That's that I think that's a little bit of a.
Speaker 2: Concern to me.
Speaker 1: Although now then I think about it, would you really
Speaker 1: draft the number two passing option in the top ten
Speaker 1: of the NFL draft?
Speaker 2: Maybe not?
Speaker 3: You never know, you know, you definitely need at least
Speaker 3: two good pass catching options in today's NFL, and I
Speaker 3: think some would say that. I think some would say
Speaker 3: that he profiles better as a as a two at
Speaker 3: the NFL level. You know, he's played that role successfully
Speaker 3: in college amongst mentally talented Ohio State teams and just
Speaker 3: provides that reliable second option for them. Whether you know,
Speaker 3: I don't know if you would necessarily. I don't think
Speaker 3: you would take over for neighbors by any stretch of
Speaker 3: the imagination. He seems like he would be a perfect
Speaker 3: heir apparent to McLaurin in Washington and in New Orleans.
Speaker 3: Like to give Olave a running mate that can actually
Speaker 3: do wide receiver things instead of just run fast down
Speaker 3: the field like they try to put out there many years,
Speaker 3: would be would be good for him too. You know,
Speaker 3: I think he's you could say he's more reliable at
Speaker 3: the catch point than somebody like Olave. I would say.
Speaker 3: You could certainly say that his health is a little
Speaker 3: bit more reliable than somebody who like Olave. But those
Speaker 3: two would work really well in tandem together, So I
Speaker 3: don't I don't know. I'm not really worried about any
Speaker 3: landing spot for him. I think He's going to find
Speaker 3: opportunities no matter where it is. And I think I
Speaker 3: could say that for most of these top three recip
Speaker 3: tree to four receivers.
Speaker 1: Well, and who could be the number four receiver, Casey
Speaker 1: conceptsi On who I drafted a bunch in when I
Speaker 1: was at the KFFFC event for Super Bowl Sunday, which
Speaker 1: now we have to pay because I said Super Bowl Sunday.
Speaker 1: But I drafted like ten teams that weekend, and I
Speaker 1: drafted conceptsy On on like three or four of them.
Speaker 2: Those are redraft leagues.
Speaker 1: But when you consider Dynasty, I've heard a lot of
Speaker 1: people very excited about this player in Dynasty circles. But
Speaker 1: I also heard people talk about, like, look, let you know,
Speaker 1: this guy had a lot of concentration drops. He had
Speaker 1: a lot of schemed up stuff. His A dot would
Speaker 1: be among the lowest of any receiver drafted on Day
Speaker 1: one or day two, and like the last several years
Speaker 1: or whatever it was. I'm butchering the stat but it
Speaker 1: was something to that regard. I still like Concepcion, What
Speaker 1: do you make of him at the next level? And
Speaker 1: and by the way, I'm very excited and I hope
Speaker 1: it happens. We'll see if it does, but him in
Speaker 1: a Kyle Shannan offense would be chef's kiss good.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, I love Conceptsio. He's my you know, in
Speaker 3: my heart says he's my favorite player at the wide
Speaker 3: receiver position in the draft. He's my wide receiver three,
Speaker 3: just behind Tate and and Tyson. But you know that's
Speaker 3: I could easily see myself taking him ahead of Tyson too,
Speaker 3: depending on draft capitol and landing spot and all that.
Speaker 3: But like, he's just such an impressive player. He came
Speaker 3: out as a freshman a lot of really nice age
Speaker 3: adjusted production as freshman with seventy one receptions, eight hundred
Speaker 3: and thirty nine yards and ten touchdowns. And you mentioned
Speaker 3: the low a dot stuff. He kind of pivoted when
Speaker 3: he went to his first season or sorry, his final
Speaker 3: season at NC State, he kind of became a low
Speaker 3: A dot guy eight point seven yards per catch, and
Speaker 3: then in twenty twenty five show he could play again
Speaker 3: on the outside with just eight literally doubled like eight
Speaker 3: point seven to the fifteen point one his final season.
Speaker 3: So to me, he's so versatile. He can play all
Speaker 3: three of the positions you wanted to play, and he
Speaker 3: really just is like the perfect wide receiver for today's NFL,
Speaker 3: the archetype of that tower out there running ISO routes,
Speaker 3: and I think you could throw Carnel Tate and certainly
Speaker 3: Denzel Boston in this. They just struggle to produce massive
Speaker 3: fantasy outcomes in today's NFL the way defense are playing
Speaker 3: these guys. So sure he has schemed up touches for him,
Speaker 3: but you know, so does Jamar Chase, And you're fine
Speaker 3: with that, right, So I just don't think that's as
Speaker 3: much of a negative. It is as part of the
Speaker 3: play calling process in the NFL, you want to design
Speaker 3: plays that get your best players open in space and
Speaker 3: let them do what they do best with the ball
Speaker 3: in their hands. And to me, that's case he concept
Speaker 3: shown too, you know, just like a perfect description of him.
Speaker 3: So I'm not worried about about that really at all.
Speaker 3: In terms of the drops, I think drops is the
Speaker 3: most overrated thing in fantasy. The more targets you get,
Speaker 3: the more drops you're gonna have. Sure it will be
Speaker 3: very frustrating. You're gonna wart watching him on Sunday, and
Speaker 3: he does his little clap attack that sometimes he does
Speaker 3: when when he when he's attacking the ball instead of
Speaker 3: really using good technique. It's gonna drive you nuts on
Speaker 3: the occasion, but on the next play he could have
Speaker 3: a seventy yard touchdowns and it'll erase that completely. Right,
Speaker 3: So you're gonna have to deal with some drops probably.
Speaker 3: I'm sure there will be some lots of technique being
Speaker 3: cleaned up in his first off season with an NFL
Speaker 3: team and all that stuff. Just don't overrate drops in
Speaker 3: turn when you're when you're doing prospecting or even looking
Speaker 3: at you know, veteran NFL players that have struggled with
Speaker 3: drops in the past. Remember Devonte Adams after his freshman
Speaker 3: year or a first season in the NFL. We were
Speaker 3: we were done with them, we were off of him completely, and.
Speaker 2: They wanted to cut It was insane.
Speaker 3: It was absolutely same. So just just chill on the drops.
Speaker 3: I would say, I can't.
Speaker 2: Remember who it was on this.
Speaker 1: It could have been Andrew madd from Dynasty, or it
Speaker 1: could have been Shane Hallen from Draft Sharks. Somebody pointed
Speaker 1: out to me and I went back and I.
Speaker 2: Looked, and they were right.
Speaker 1: If you look at not only this past year, and
Speaker 1: and I'm sure you'd agree with this man not only
Speaker 1: this past year, but in the last several years. If
Speaker 1: you look at the players who lead the NFL and
Speaker 1: drops in the NFL, it's like a who's who a
Speaker 1: Pro Bowlers, Like it's insane like so so for that,
Speaker 1: like I bring up the drops because I sort of
Speaker 1: have to tea But I'm with you one hundred percent,
Speaker 1: like that's something I I stopped. That stopped being a
Speaker 1: factor in my dynasty wide receiver evaluation. They're speaking of evaluations.
Speaker 1: Omar Cooper has being reportedly being a value as potentially
Speaker 1: the second wide receiver chosen on Thursday Night, which I'm
Speaker 1: not willing to go that far, but I also recognize
Speaker 1: I don't speak in absolutes, and that certainly could could
Speaker 1: happen a lot of speed. We've heard the Jets, we've
Speaker 1: heard the Steelers, we've heard some other players or other teams,
Speaker 1: and the teams being mentioned as players for Omar Cooper junior.
Speaker 1: You know, especially if he goes to the Jets or
Speaker 1: perhaps the Dolphins, this could be really really good for
Speaker 1: him as far as not only his Year one contributions,
Speaker 1: but how much volume this dude could get with this
Speaker 1: kind of draft capital in future years, which is what
Speaker 1: we care about for Dynasty as well, not only this
Speaker 1: year but in twenty twenty seven, twenty twenty eight. What's
Speaker 1: your read on Omar Cooper, Matt.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think he's going to be another very reliable guy,
Speaker 3: you know the ceiling. Maybe he's never like a top
Speaker 3: ten fantasy option, but absolutely a wide receiver too. You
Speaker 3: love the versatility this past season in twenty twenty five,
Speaker 3: the Indian Championship year, he played primarily in the slot
Speaker 3: eighty three percent of the slot, sixteen percent outside. But
Speaker 3: in twenty twenty four it was the opposite store he
Speaker 3: was ninety percent outside and ten percent of slot. So
Speaker 3: a very versatile player that they can play from everywhere.
Speaker 3: I do think his natural position NFL is probably more
Speaker 3: towards the slot role. But you know, we've said the
Speaker 3: same thing about a Mecca, BUCA and j and JSNS
Speaker 3: rookie season, and we've done this all the time with
Speaker 3: players that we think are slot only players and they
Speaker 3: show that they can play plenty well on the outside,
Speaker 3: and I think Cooper is the same way. Some people
Speaker 3: comp them to a player like Debo, which we try
Speaker 3: to do every year with one player, right, But he's
Speaker 3: certainly not Debo. He's not two hundred and twenty pounds
Speaker 3: like Debo is. But he is very good like a
Speaker 3: run in the open space in the middle of the field,
Speaker 3: like a running back. And I think that's really the
Speaker 3: crux of the argument for making the Debo comparison. He's
Speaker 3: just has such a football IQ. Understands leverage and how
Speaker 3: to manipulate angles. Running down the field, he closes cushions
Speaker 3: so fast, creating a vertical separation, and you know, the
Speaker 3: body control, I would say in the air especially, is
Speaker 3: just like an under somebody like Jordan Tyson. So if
Speaker 3: teams are looking at him as the second wide receiver
Speaker 3: off the board, I think that would be surprising. But
Speaker 3: I think is absolutely going in the first round somewhere,
Speaker 3: and a team is going to have a nice yards
Speaker 3: after the catch a specialist from the seven point one
Speaker 3: yards after kepts perception with six in this class, so
Speaker 3: very good at generating chunk yards, and we'll be a
Speaker 3: part of NFL offense.
Speaker 2: I can hear mel Kuiper in my head right now.
Speaker 2: I love this player, but this is too early for him, right.
Speaker 1: Sure you might hear that on Thursday, which, by the way,
Speaker 1: just like hearing Mel Kuiper in my head.
Speaker 2: You know it's getting to be timed. It's crazy.
Speaker 1: Okay, we'll go not rapid fire, but semi rapid fire
Speaker 1: on these last the killer Bees, as I call him,
Speaker 1: Brat Boston, Brasel Bell and Bell Denzel. Boston is a
Speaker 1: player that I think is borderline right. Whether he goes
Speaker 1: in the first round or not. He's an interesting guy, Matt,
Speaker 1: because I think if we go back seven, eight, ten
Speaker 1: years in the NFL, this is the protots typical like
Speaker 1: size that we like from wide receiver, but that has
Speaker 1: shifted in recent years. And I wonder, like you know,
Speaker 1: I brought this up a couple of weeks ago, I
Speaker 1: wonder if he'd be better served to go late in
Speaker 1: the first round to a good you know, quote unquote
Speaker 1: good team rather than go early in the second round
Speaker 1: to a you know, quote unquote bad team. Boston is
Speaker 1: an interesting guy and quite frankly, I haven't been able
Speaker 1: to handicap how I feel about him. I've sprinkled him
Speaker 1: in some best balls. We'll see what happens in the
Speaker 1: NFL draft to see what kind of capital he gets.
Speaker 1: Your thoughts on Boston. What you've scouted and seen from
Speaker 1: him so far in his collegiate career.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's again you you kind of kind of mentioned
Speaker 3: that he's he's the safe X receiver, kind of towering
Speaker 3: player that would have been very popular in NFL back
Speaker 3: when like Cam Newton was with the Panthers and they
Speaker 3: were making those twin towers on offense. Right, it's just
Speaker 3: not the style of receiver. That not that they can't.
Speaker 3: He's not gonna win an NFL and be a very
Speaker 3: safe player, a very safe prospect in the NFL. But
Speaker 3: speaking strictly from a fantasy standpoint, it's just these are
Speaker 3: the players you have to rely on touchdown high a
Speaker 3: touchdown upside to really make a difference in fantasy, right,
Speaker 3: I would I would comp them to somebody like like
Speaker 3: he could play be a dynamite power spot, somebody like
Speaker 3: Michael Pittman junior, you know, so something something like that.
Speaker 3: I'm just not sure that he's gonna get a ton
Speaker 3: of fantasy goodness playing a traditional X role where he
Speaker 3: lands up on one side of the field and you know,
Speaker 3: he's just running, you know, not very nuanced routes. He's
Speaker 3: not getting the scheme open. This is is the kind
Speaker 3: of role that we have hated for Marvin Harrison Junior
Speaker 3: over the past the past few seasons, right, Like, that's
Speaker 3: the kind of role you kind of see for him,
Speaker 3: them putting him out an island. He can certainly do that,
Speaker 3: and he could certainly have success in it from an
Speaker 3: NFL standpoint, but I'm just not sure it's the kind
Speaker 3: of kind of profile we want for fantasy. You know.
Speaker 3: Here he thrives on elite contested catchability, which is awesome
Speaker 3: when it works out, especially in the red zone. He's
Speaker 3: a very smooth athlete for his size. He runs a
Speaker 3: diverse route tree. He blocks in the run game, but
Speaker 3: he's not an explosive athlete. He struggles with pet press coverage.
Speaker 3: It seems like he always has a defender in his
Speaker 3: back pocket, so he doesn't really have that separation quickness
Speaker 3: that you see snapping in and out of routes. And
Speaker 3: he's I'd say he's, you know, averaged to blow average
Speaker 3: in terms of a run after the catch guy. He's
Speaker 3: going to be a chain mover, a possession receiver, a
Speaker 3: very good boundary receiver at the NFL level, But for
Speaker 3: fantasy purposes, I'm just not sure. He's a notch below
Speaker 3: the other guys we've talked about. I have him as
Speaker 3: my ride receiver six right now. From from from a
Speaker 3: Dynasty rookie standpoint, my co host Dan Miler would disagree.
Speaker 3: I think he has him in the top three to
Speaker 3: four guys. He's a sucker for that kind of profile.
Speaker 3: But for me, I want a little bit more ceiling
Speaker 3: on my fantasy output. If I'm going to take a
Speaker 3: pick with a like a middle first round pick, you know.
Speaker 1: So, does does it make a huge difference whether he
Speaker 1: goes in first, if he gets first round draft capital
Speaker 1: or segram round draft capital FreeMat does that make a
Speaker 1: huge difference?
Speaker 2: From Boston standpoint.
Speaker 3: I mean, I think he has more potential to fall
Speaker 3: than he does to go to rise, if that makes
Speaker 3: any sense. I mean, if he if he ends up
Speaker 3: getting you know, better draft capital than one of those
Speaker 3: top four or five guys, five being Omar Cooper, then
Speaker 3: maybe we have a consider a conversation there. But he's
Speaker 3: probably not moving too much because he feels like the
Speaker 3: last you know, quote unquote safe guy. You know, once
Speaker 3: you get past past Denzel Boston, you're looking at for me,
Speaker 3: Bryce Land Skyler Bell, Jeremy Bernard, Antonio Williams, Elijah Rod.
Speaker 3: You know, once you get into that tier, you really
Speaker 3: feel a lot less confident that they're going to have
Speaker 3: immediate success at the NFL level.
Speaker 2: Moving on to Chris Brasel, Tennessee wide receiver.
Speaker 1: I know this is like, you know, I don't know
Speaker 1: what this is like talking about politics at Thanksgiving dinner, right,
Speaker 1: and when it comes to brasl and we try to
Speaker 1: figure out what what he is in fantasy football, I.
Speaker 2: Don't know, man. I like, I know, I know what
Speaker 2: his size is.
Speaker 1: I know he led the SEC in receiving last year,
Speaker 1: but I know it's Tennessee. How do you sort of
Speaker 1: separate what he did in college to what he's going
Speaker 1: to be at the next level.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's it's so hard with these Tennessee guys, and
Speaker 3: you really don't want a helmet scalt, but we've just
Speaker 3: seen it over and over again. I do think he's
Speaker 3: the best of the prospects that are coming out there.
Speaker 3: If we're talking about you know, Dante Thornton and Jalen Hyatt,
Speaker 3: and I think Cedric Tillman is probably a little bit
Speaker 3: different than those guys. But these big tall guys that
Speaker 3: run fast down the field and straight line. I think
Speaker 3: he's better than those other other ones that have come out.
Speaker 3: He can create big plays on screens and short routes
Speaker 3: in addition to the vertical stuff, and plays well above
Speaker 3: the rim. But I just I'm like you, I just
Speaker 3: have this, like you know, gut feeling that it's not
Speaker 3: quite going to work out for him either. And now
Speaker 3: we have a little bit of off the field stuff
Speaker 3: with with Brasel too, so it's just another another thing
Speaker 3: that pushes him down the board a bit for me.
Speaker 3: So you know, I could see the ceiling, but the
Speaker 3: floor to me is is lava, right.
Speaker 2: Yeah, the lava for my kids now to hear this.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Okay, Chris Bell Louisville coming off the ACL tear,
Speaker 1: let's just say he did not tear his ACL, uh, Matt.
Speaker 2: And I know we can't really do.
Speaker 1: That and it's not fair or whatever, but yeah, if
Speaker 1: we could, where would he rank among your rookie receivers
Speaker 1: this year?
Speaker 3: I think I might have him six, just ahead of Boston. Honestly,
Speaker 3: probably in that same range like rafter those top five guys.
Speaker 3: I don't think I would get him up to there,
Speaker 3: but at six twenty two. You can't you can't hate
Speaker 3: on that. He you know, lot lots of AJ Brown
Speaker 3: comps out there, and you know, I get it. Stylistically,
Speaker 3: it's hard to comp some guy that is as good
Speaker 3: as AJ Brown has been. But stylistically it makes sense.
Speaker 3: A bigger body guy that plays well from the slot,
Speaker 3: runs routes very well. He just explodes off the line
Speaker 3: of scrimmage that time, each cushion quickly. He's he's a
Speaker 3: he's a terror on crossers and drags and outbreaking routes
Speaker 3: and he's just a bully at the at the catchpoint.
Speaker 3: So yeah, I like him quite a bit. It's just again,
Speaker 3: are you do you want to spend a first round pick? Probably,
Speaker 3: I guess maybe he's probably not even in the consideration
Speaker 3: for the first round Rocky drafts, but certainly in the
Speaker 3: second round. Do you want to spend that a capitol
Speaker 3: on a player who probably you get literally nothing from
Speaker 3: in year one. It could certainly work out, and we have,
Speaker 3: but we have a long history of players, whether it's
Speaker 3: injury or for whatever reason, that they don't produce in
Speaker 3: year one, that they're less likely to do so in
Speaker 3: year two and beyond. So I really like the player.
Speaker 3: It's unfortunate the injury. So yeah, I think I have
Speaker 3: them at like twide receiver twelve right now. I'd be
Speaker 3: willing to take a shot, probably in the late second,
Speaker 3: but before that, there's somebody I can find that I
Speaker 3: would prefer because I think I might get something for
Speaker 3: him in twenty twenty six.
Speaker 1: Some Dynasty players Matt would tell you this is the
Speaker 1: year to take a chance and a guy coming off
Speaker 1: Attorney Aco at the position. But you are of the
Speaker 1: opinion like, look, I get it, but there's still all
Speaker 1: these healthy guys out there that are going to be playing,
Speaker 1: So you still like you'd bump them down a little bit,
Speaker 1: still a second round pick, but you could think of
Speaker 1: some other guys you'd rather be eleven other guys you'd
Speaker 1: be drafting at the position before them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because you know there's certain So there's certainly a
Speaker 3: chance that Bell would be worth more at the end
Speaker 3: of the season from a market value standpoint if one
Speaker 3: of these other rookies has a terrible season one and
Speaker 3: plays the whole season. But I think the more likelihood
Speaker 3: is you're going to be taking somebody who has a
Speaker 3: decent to good or maybe even great rookie season. In
Speaker 3: that case, you're giving up that opportunity cost of you know,
Speaker 3: having a value, an asset that's going to increase in value.
Speaker 3: And it's just hard to see that happening for Chris
Speaker 3: Bell unless he gets on the field at the the
Speaker 3: end of the season and blows up, you know.
Speaker 1: So the last one I'm going to ask you about
Speaker 1: is a guy after my own heart, Former Wisconsin Badger
Speaker 1: Skylar Bell spend his first three years of college with Wisconsin.
Speaker 1: Played in one game, caught one pass for fifteen yards,
Speaker 1: and twenty twenty one pass board to twenty twenty five.
Speaker 1: Dude played in twelve games, one hundred and one catches,
Speaker 1: twelve hundred plus yards, and thirteen touchdowns for the Huskies.
Speaker 1: This is a guy that's been getting incredible steam over
Speaker 1: the last month or so, Matt, are you buying into
Speaker 1: the hype of Skylard bel knowing he's not going to
Speaker 1: be a first round pick but definitely Day two and
Speaker 1: landing spot will be crucial. But if we look at
Speaker 1: if we just narroscope and look at the talent here,
Speaker 1: what do you think?
Speaker 3: I love him? He's one of my favorite wide receivers.
Speaker 3: After the Big five. I think I have him at
Speaker 3: seven or eight currently. But he's a route running technician
Speaker 3: that has top end speed, and when you combine both
Speaker 3: of those things, then you have the potential to have
Speaker 3: a really special player. He knows how to create leverage,
Speaker 3: He varies the tempo in his routes, and one of
Speaker 3: the most impressive things he does is deceleration ability, the
Speaker 3: ability to stop his route on a dime that then
Speaker 3: explode out with that hip sync. The double moves in particular,
Speaker 3: I think are especially exciting. With them the slugo or
Speaker 3: Slanton go route, he sells the vertical so easily breaks
Speaker 3: to the slant and then takes off up the field.
Speaker 3: He separates at all three levels. You know, a little
Speaker 3: bit concerning that he didn't produce a ton until his
Speaker 3: is his season, his second or is his final season
Speaker 3: the league. It will be a good production in twenty
Speaker 3: twenty four as well, but it didn't truly break out
Speaker 3: into his final season, so that's always a little bit
Speaker 3: of a concern. Way you don't see that early production
Speaker 3: in terms of a top end talent, right, But he
Speaker 3: does everything you want a wide receiver to do. He
Speaker 3: can play in the slot. I think he can also
Speaker 3: play outside and win from pretty much every level of
Speaker 3: the field. You know, maybe not the most physic physical player,
Speaker 3: maybe a little bit slow off the off the line
Speaker 3: sometimes maybe he gets knocked off his path easily on
Speaker 3: crossing routes from when line bikers are safer, just kind
Speaker 3: of deliver contact. But you know, he does all he does.
Speaker 3: He does enough good stuff for me to put him
Speaker 3: in the middle of the sorry, the top end of
Speaker 3: that that second tier receivers, third tier receivers.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's how I kind of view as well.
Speaker 2: I'd be very excited to see what kind of capital
Speaker 2: he gets.
Speaker 1: Like we've talked to death about draft capital and thank
Speaker 1: god we're only three days away.
Speaker 2: Or whatever it is.
Speaker 1: Man, these guys are going to land and more importantly,
Speaker 1: how high they go in the draft real quickly on
Speaker 1: tight ends. I've been asking a lot of people about this,
Speaker 1: sidiq vstours. How big of a gap is there for
Speaker 1: you as far as how good these guys are going
Speaker 1: to be at the next level.
Speaker 3: You know, It's it's not that big for me. I
Speaker 3: think some people have a boltier between them. To me,
Speaker 3: they're one A, one B. I prefer sik sidiq By
Speaker 3: by a little bit, but there's reasons to prefer Stours.
Speaker 3: I think, you know, Sadiq is a much less I
Speaker 3: would say developed route runner. You know, he he's such
Speaker 3: a good blocker that I worry that he might get
Speaker 3: the Oj Howard treatment where we think he's going to
Speaker 3: be this elite fantasy option, but he's still good at
Speaker 3: blocking that he gets held in uh in line too
Speaker 3: much to really be a consistent fantasy producer. So there's
Speaker 3: a little concern to that. But then, like we talked
Speaker 3: about with Stours, maybe he doesn't have the blocking ability
Speaker 3: to be on the field enough and really reach those
Speaker 3: upper end snap shares that we need. So there there's
Speaker 3: enough good with both of them and enough bad with
Speaker 3: both of them to keep them pretty close to me.
Speaker 3: I know that Sidikad just destroyed the combine, right, but
Speaker 3: but Stours had a very very good combine as well.
Speaker 3: So yeah, they're very close to me, and I think
Speaker 3: they're both they're both into the first round picks, I
Speaker 3: think the one, ten, eleven, twelve, and once you get
Speaker 3: into that like that, really outside of those top five
Speaker 3: to six receivers, you know, I think they should be
Speaker 3: in consideration for you.
Speaker 1: I hadn't considered the sidek being too good of a blocker,
Speaker 1: but you're.
Speaker 2: Right about Oj Howard. I mean, that's yeah him, you
Speaker 2: know so God, that's you know.
Speaker 1: It just goes to show you no matter how many
Speaker 1: great minds we have on the show, I'm always learning
Speaker 1: something and considering something I hadn't before. We're going to
Speaker 1: take our final break. I know we only get a
Speaker 1: few minutes left in the program. When we come back,
Speaker 1: which is gonna be less than a minute. Matt Price
Speaker 1: from DLF is going to wax poetic on some of
Speaker 1: these running backs. We'll hit on his favorite some of
Speaker 1: his least favorites as well before we bid you ado.
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Speaker 1: of the show prior to the NFL Draft, Matt Price
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Speaker 1: Football as it were on X joining me tonight to talk.
Speaker 2: About our rookie preview. I'll lead things off here with
Speaker 2: running backs.
Speaker 1: Listen, I think the wide receivers and tight ends are
Speaker 1: more exciting to talk about this year than the running backs,
Speaker 1: but there are some interesting players. Jadarian Price probably will
Speaker 1: shock nobody if he is the number two running back drafted.
Speaker 1: What kind of draft capital do you think he gets,
Speaker 1: Matt and how good of a pro do you think
Speaker 1: he's going to be at the next level.
Speaker 3: He's a tough one, you know, Like I think he's
Speaker 3: pretty much everybody's running back too. I don't really want
Speaker 3: to take him in the first round of rookie drafts.
Speaker 3: If he does land where everybody's projecting me to go
Speaker 3: and see, it does feel like a very perfect fit
Speaker 3: for him. So maybe he's in consideration at that point
Speaker 3: that does come to fruition at the thirty second pick.
Speaker 3: But he's just he's just such a production projection every
Speaker 3: every possible way, especially in the passing game. Just not
Speaker 3: and you know, you expect it again, just like with
Speaker 3: Carnel Taite and the receivers there, you expect somebody playing
Speaker 3: alongside Jeremiah Love to not have a ton of usage
Speaker 3: in the passing game because he's so good at it,
Speaker 3: but for it to be just a complete projection like that.
Speaker 3: I just don't feel comfortable taking him there. And then
Speaker 3: you have Zach Scharbonay coming back at some point if
Speaker 3: if he was, even if he was to get that
Speaker 3: prime landing spot, right, I actually probably feel better about
Speaker 3: him if he landed somewhere, like if Washington missed out
Speaker 3: on If Washington missed out on Jeremi I love, and
Speaker 3: for some reason Price fell to the second round. You
Speaker 3: you you'd almost like that situation a little bit better.
Speaker 3: I think so. I like the player. You know, he's
Speaker 3: clearly very talented as a runner, very talent as talented
Speaker 3: as a kick returner as well. So he's gonna be
Speaker 3: a be on the field, you know, as a special
Speaker 3: teamer at the very least low mileage. But yeah, he's
Speaker 3: a good runner. I just you know, I'm not sure
Speaker 3: he has the ultimate ceiling unless he has one of
Speaker 3: those mega touchdown seasons, you know, double digit touchdowns. Otherwise
Speaker 3: we could be looking at an early down option that
Speaker 3: doesn't catch passes and and is more of that between
Speaker 3: the twenties kind of player and not a lot of
Speaker 3: high value touches.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and to that we say yuck for fantasy not
Speaker 1: not what we're looking for at all. I've heard a
Speaker 1: lot of Doug Martin comparisons to Joanah coleman Man. Are
Speaker 1: those accurate or do you view Coleman as a different
Speaker 1: type of player.
Speaker 3: I really like Coleman. I think that's a fine comparison.
Speaker 3: You know, a shorter player, but certainly not small, small
Speaker 3: elite contact balance, power and foot bark, power and footwork.
Speaker 3: He runs with power exceptionally well over four yards after
Speaker 3: contact Perkerrie. The legs just never stopped moving. You know,
Speaker 3: He's doing all the things you want to see from
Speaker 3: a runner and as a as a pass catcher, very
Speaker 3: good as well, both as a baler and as a receiver.
Speaker 3: Only has one drop in his career, also only one
Speaker 3: career fumble, so very safe and secure with the football.
Speaker 3: The question mark with him is athleticism, and we know
Speaker 3: that athleticism really translates for the running back position, and
Speaker 3: we just have no testing data for him, right, so
Speaker 3: you have to you have to rely on what you see.
Speaker 3: I think it's pretty clear he doesn't really have a
Speaker 3: quick step or long speed like that, doesn't really have
Speaker 3: that second gear to turn on, but you know, very
Speaker 3: shifty between the tackles, very reliable, going to be somebody
Speaker 3: that coaches love. So I just, you know, how what's
Speaker 3: the ceiling for fantasy? I'm not I'm not sure he's
Speaker 3: going to need to land in a perfect landing spot
Speaker 3: where he can truly be a major part of a committee.
Speaker 3: I don't think he's ever going to be a true
Speaker 3: workhorse in the NFL outside of, you know, filling in
Speaker 3: for for injuries and that. I certainly think he could
Speaker 3: handle the load in like a four to six game
Speaker 3: window something like that, or maybe longer if the starter
Speaker 3: was to go down. But he's not somebody who you're
Speaker 3: going to be confident and at the end of the
Speaker 3: season saying that he is a locked and starter for
Speaker 3: the next three years. You know, don't know if we're
Speaker 3: going to get that level of confidence with him.
Speaker 1: Not that I want to keep harping on the Seattle
Speaker 1: running game, because I know they want to trade down, right,
Speaker 1: and they have four picks. What happens if they trade
Speaker 1: down from the one from their thirty two spot and
Speaker 1: then Mike Washington is there at the end of the
Speaker 1: second round. Your thoughts on not only Washington Seattle, but
Speaker 1: how much of a believer you are in the athleticism
Speaker 1: he showed at the NFL Combine mat.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's so tough, like I would say Q the
Speaker 3: X Files music guys, I like Fox Smulder. I want
Speaker 3: to believe. And the alien that is uh is Mike Washington.
Speaker 2: But you're Fox Molder. I'm Dana Scully. This guy is
Speaker 2: not going to happen.
Speaker 3: You keep going. Yeah, as tantalizing as the size and
Speaker 3: athleticism is, he just is not very good at the
Speaker 3: running back position. My least favorite thing that I see
Speaker 3: from running backs is when a big guy plays incredibly
Speaker 3: small and there are they are positives to that, like
Speaker 3: he can get skinny through the hole and make him
Speaker 3: so smaller through that in that regard, but when he
Speaker 3: drives into contact, he does not accelerate into contact. In fact,
Speaker 3: he kind of slows down and turns his shoulder a
Speaker 3: little bit. And when that happens, you open yourself up
Speaker 3: to getting the ball punched out. And Mike Washington, I
Speaker 3: think I believe the number is one fumble every fifty
Speaker 3: one carries. That's not good enough. That is not good enough.
Speaker 3: In the NFL. We do have backs that clean up
Speaker 3: those fumbling problems. Tiki Barber is the classic example, but
Speaker 3: it does not happen as much as you think it happens.
Speaker 3: In fact, I'm struggling to think of one recently that
Speaker 3: has gotten better, significantly better in that regard. So, yeah,
Speaker 3: you love the talent, you can see it coming together
Speaker 3: if it in the very you know, pristine situation, But
Speaker 3: he just doesn't. He's more athlete than running back. I
Speaker 3: guess I would put it that way. I'm not sure
Speaker 3: that's what we're looking for.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you this, a guy who's more running
Speaker 1: back than athlete. And it was shown at the NFL Combine.
Speaker 1: Was Emma Johnson. Oh yeah, this is a guy that
Speaker 1: you know, I'm trying to think of a good example,
Speaker 1: like where he just kept losing at every sing thing
Speaker 1: that he tried, and yet he keeps trying, kept trying, going,
Speaker 1: he kept going. And I'm of the opinion this is bad,
Speaker 1: this is detrimental to him. I know there's a lot
Speaker 1: of pundits out there that say, no, this is a
Speaker 1: good thing for him.
Speaker 2: We don't care about all that now. We care about
Speaker 2: what he's going to be at the next level.
Speaker 1: And I think Emma Johnson, if he Again, we could
Speaker 1: say this about any of the running backs here, but
Speaker 1: if he falls in the right situation, he could be
Speaker 1: a very exciting player to own in fantasy as an
Speaker 1: RB two for the next three to four, maybe even
Speaker 1: five years of his career. But what do you think
Speaker 1: Emma Johnson is going to be once he becomes a
Speaker 1: pro football player.
Speaker 3: I think he's got a very very wide range of outcomes,
Speaker 3: you know, I think base level, we're talking like a
Speaker 3: like a James White, Kenneth Gainwell kind of player. As
Speaker 3: upper absolute ceiling, maybe we get like something like an
Speaker 3: Aaron Jones, Austin Eckler, you know, a player that is
Speaker 3: so good in the passing game, and really for fantasy
Speaker 3: football at the running back position, we want pass catchers.
Speaker 3: Pass catchers to really hit that ultimate upside, and he's
Speaker 3: probably the best one in the class at that. He
Speaker 3: lined up in the slaughter out wide on eighteen percent
Speaker 3: of his stap, so he's out there playing wide receiver
Speaker 3: at times. Is a nineteen point two percent best season
Speaker 3: target share, ninety two career receptions. You know, he's very
Speaker 3: good on wheel routes and swings and screens. As a runner,
Speaker 3: he's absolutely shifty enough. He just knows where to go
Speaker 3: with the football. He's got I would say elite vision,
Speaker 3: like he sees lanes so well and so quickly, especially
Speaker 3: the cutback lanes. He has a jump cut that's really
Speaker 3: nice to get him started. All of that said, oh
Speaker 3: I should say I'm also a twenty seven and a
Speaker 3: half percent miss tackles force rate, which was second in
Speaker 3: the class, and only eight percent of his runs failed
Speaker 3: to gain yards, which was first in the class. And
Speaker 3: when he was hit by at her behind the line
Speaker 3: of scrimmage he gained yards and seventy five percent of those,
Speaker 3: which was also first in the class. However, he goes
Speaker 3: down on first contact far too often. Out of sixty
Speaker 3: two eligible running backs, he was fifty fifth of those
Speaker 3: with at least one hundred and forty carries in yards
Speaker 3: after tech per attempt at two point nine to five.
Speaker 3: He's not big, he's not powerful, he's not fast. He
Speaker 3: doesn't make a ton of plays after contact. He struggles
Speaker 3: a little bit in pass protection. So a lot to
Speaker 3: like from an offensive point scoring standpoint, But is our
Speaker 3: NFL running backs or NFL coach is going to want
Speaker 3: to give him enough opportunity on the ground in addition
Speaker 3: to the pass catching ceiling to really kind of give
Speaker 3: us a floor to work with as well. Right, so
Speaker 3: wide range of outcomes. Really really liked the player. He's
Speaker 3: my third running back three in the class. But you
Speaker 3: see enough there that you know, maybe he doesn't reach
Speaker 3: that ultimate ceiling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it very well could happen. Man.
Speaker 1: I want to wrap up tonight with the Penn State
Speaker 1: running backs a dichotomy. I cannot remember seeing a player
Speaker 1: in Singleton, Nick Singleton, who was like the pride of
Speaker 1: of DeBie guys, you know, three, four, five years ago,
Speaker 1: whatever it was, they loved Nicholas Singleton, and then he
Speaker 1: got He had a great freshman season, really never took
Speaker 1: off from that and kind of just checked out this
Speaker 1: season because of Again I'm speculating.
Speaker 2: I'm not Nick Singleton.
Speaker 1: I don't know what happened, but I could totally see
Speaker 1: why he would be disenfranchised with the way the Nitney
Speaker 1: Lion season went this year. And then you have k
Speaker 1: Tron Allen, a guy who is not athletically blessed the
Speaker 1: way that Singleton is, but he he does the weird,
Speaker 1: like not the weird, but he does the finer things
Speaker 1: of playing the running back the position the right way,
Speaker 1: and he is Penn States all time leading rusher, which
Speaker 1: is crazy to say. It's like a Mechaguka last year
Speaker 1: oh Ohio State's all time leading receiver, but it's true
Speaker 1: Singleton versus Allen this year. This last question I will
Speaker 1: ask on this show prior to the NFL Draft Draft.
Speaker 1: Capital will you know have to be assessed afterwards, But
Speaker 1: when you look at these players in a vacuum right now,
Speaker 1: wouldn't you rather own Singleton because of the athletic traits
Speaker 1: or would you rather have Allen in your rookie draft
Speaker 1: because he just seems to have more of a natural
Speaker 1: feel for the pos ship.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would. I would go Singleton because I'm a
Speaker 3: I'm more of a ceiling kind of kind of dynasty player,
Speaker 3: Like I want somebody who absolutely if you hit on
Speaker 3: that player, he has a chance to be a you know,
Speaker 3: an every week starter for you. And I do think
Speaker 3: Allen is very solid. I just don't think he has
Speaker 3: the ceiling that somebody like Singleton does. He doesn't have
Speaker 3: the straight line speed, uh, the the pass catching prowess.
Speaker 3: I would argue Kate Tron, Allen is not a slouch
Speaker 3: in the passing game. But he's to me is the
Speaker 3: more of the early down player. And in the next Singleton,
Speaker 3: if he does hit his ceiling, he could be he
Speaker 3: could be absolutely be special. It's just like you said,
Speaker 3: like he came out so hot as a freshman and
Speaker 3: he just never really got better. So that is a
Speaker 3: major concern. And then of course the injury. I think
Speaker 3: that was it at the Senior Bowl. I believe, yes
Speaker 3: that yeah, like that, I mean that crushed him, Like
Speaker 3: you really wanted a player like Singleton to hit the
Speaker 3: hit the combine and show off all that athleticism, which
Speaker 3: we know he still has. But you know, I think
Speaker 3: that certainly has has reduced his his attractiveness to the
Speaker 3: NFL team. I've seen him go in like in recent
Speaker 3: marks as late as like the fifth, sixth, seventh round
Speaker 3: in some cases, which at that point I think he's
Speaker 3: a value for both an NFL team and a fantasy standpoint.
Speaker 3: But I'm not sure either of these guys are long
Speaker 3: term dynasty starters. But shoot for the ceiling, Shoot for
Speaker 3: Nick Singleton. If you're gonna pick.
Speaker 1: One, I'm gonna tell you this right now, regarding Nick Singleton,
Speaker 1: there is not one person in America who plays dynasty
Speaker 1: fantasy football. There is not one person in America who
Speaker 1: is a fan of NFL football where they're Dynasty fantasy
Speaker 1: football team or their real life whatever NFL team they're
Speaker 1: fan of. If they take Nick Singleton, everybody's been like,
Speaker 1: oh yeah, baby, here we go. The price is going
Speaker 1: to be so low, and you know the ceiling with Singleton,
Speaker 1: he's going to be that classic like yet, let's just
Speaker 1: see what happens.
Speaker 3: I'm very excited get him on the Packers, man behind Jacobs.
Speaker 2: Jordan Reid.
Speaker 1: I think from ESPN had his final seven round mock
Speaker 1: draft and he had Singleton in the sixth round.
Speaker 2: Nice single, and I think, uh uh, I'm.
Speaker 1: Probably butchering this now, but I think he had Singleton
Speaker 1: and I think he had the Arkansas quarterback.
Speaker 2: Green Is that his name?
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, Taylor Green.
Speaker 2: In like the same round. I'm like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: like that. To go crazy for that.
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Speaker 2: I think I covered everything.
Speaker 1: Where you're where you're coming from, as far as all
Speaker 1: the content that you're producing. Is there anything else that
Speaker 1: we should be aware of, especially with Dynasty League Football.
Speaker 3: Matt, Yeah, that's all my work is there. I pretty
Speaker 3: much mostly podcast these days. I write occasionally, especially during
Speaker 3: rookie season, but most of the most of the content
Speaker 3: for me will be on the airways with the deal
Speaker 3: of DNASY podcast like you mentioned. But yeah, thank you
Speaker 3: so much. Eric. Is always a blast to chop it
Speaker 3: up with you, and hope we can do it again
Speaker 3: again next season.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I look forward to it. This is a great
Speaker 1: lead in for the NFL Draft. Keep up all the
Speaker 1: great work and we will talk with you again very
Speaker 1: soon and enjoy Kansas City.
Speaker 2: And all that barbecue for the draft. Yes, absolutely, that
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