Speaker 1: Do the Kansas City Chiefs finally have a wealth in
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Speaker 1: And what does the forty time FFPC League champion Todd
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Speaker 1: mad Genius himself, mister Todd, Aaron Todd. Good evening, sir, welcome.
Speaker 2: In, Thank you, good to be here.
Speaker 4: He's Kentucky named BALKI is Todd, Aaron Todd, a rock.
Speaker 2: Two syllable. I get it.
Speaker 1: I get it, Todd. So good to have you aboard
Speaker 1: uh tonight and talking fantasy football with you if you can,
Speaker 1: because I don't want to say f FPC rookie drafts
Speaker 1: are winding down, but I guess for the most part
Speaker 1: that they are. Did anything stand out? I feel like
Speaker 1: I asked you this last year when we had you
Speaker 1: on right around the same time I think we did.
Speaker 1: Did anything stand out to you with your rookie drafts
Speaker 1: this year? Because I know everybody was kind of down
Speaker 1: on this year's class. I don't know what the impact
Speaker 1: that that that add on your rookie drafts and trades
Speaker 1: and everything that went off with the FFPC.
Speaker 6: Yeah, there are two things that stood out to me.
Speaker 6: I was looking at the data, the draft data compiled
Speaker 6: by Darren Armani and available in Fantasy Mojo, and there
Speaker 6: seemed to be fewer what i'll call sure picks and
Speaker 6: more non statistical variants and picks after the first round.
Speaker 6: And all that means is the spread how early are
Speaker 6: they drafted and how late are they drafted. That spread
Speaker 6: seemed to be bigger than what I remember in prior years,
Speaker 6: and so I looked at Darren's data just for the
Speaker 6: last two years. That's not a great comparison, but the
Speaker 6: two made it seem pretty clear that that was the case.
Speaker 6: And by the way, I'd love it if Darren would
Speaker 6: add the median and the mode for those draft selections
Speaker 6: in addition to.
Speaker 2: The mean, just something for him.
Speaker 1: Todd terms, I have not heard since high school algebra.
Speaker 1: I love it tonight.
Speaker 6: That median is the fifty to fifty point right, yep,
Speaker 6: that's the midpoint.
Speaker 2: It would be the most common, right, Okay, is the
Speaker 2: most common one? Yeah?
Speaker 6: Yeah, Because what you'll see is just some crazy results here.
Speaker 6: I clipped a couple. Antonio Williams he was drafted as
Speaker 6: early as the one ten, as late as the five
Speaker 6: oh four, and Mark Field one ten to six o three.
Speaker 4: That's what makes them.
Speaker 2: It makes it a blast.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the six o three for well.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 6: What I've taken away from that is I think that
Speaker 6: people are viewing players thirteen through sixty fairly evenly. Yes,
Speaker 6: so they could all either be really good or maybe
Speaker 6: not so good. I'm tending to think not so good.
Speaker 6: With what you know. Everyone is saying it's a weaker draft.
Speaker 6: Don't know for sure, we'll know a couple of years, right,
Speaker 6: but I tend to think, you know, after that first dozen,
Speaker 6: it does thin out pretty fast. So one of the
Speaker 6: things I was faced with is I like Emma Johnson.
Speaker 6: I think he's a steal. I don't understand how the
Speaker 6: Chiefs got him when they did.
Speaker 1: They don't either. He said that they were shocked he
Speaker 1: was still available, and then they traded up for him
Speaker 1: to get him too.
Speaker 2: Todd.
Speaker 4: You know, in the agent business age you really want
Speaker 4: to do is get on the phone, you know, very
Speaker 4: early in camps and say how you doing, how you
Speaker 4: get along.
Speaker 2: With the coaches, what's going on?
Speaker 4: You know, in this situation, the head coach comes out
Speaker 4: and says, he reminds me of Shady McCoy. After that,
Speaker 4: you just take the rest of the gay up off,
Speaker 4: you know. It just is fantastic.
Speaker 6: Yeah, you know, if it wasn't for Ken Walker, I
Speaker 6: think I think Emma Johnson could have been a starter
Speaker 6: for the Chiefs. But I also think Ken is probably
Speaker 6: going to get hurt at some point, so we're going
Speaker 6: to find out. I think if Johnson can fill in
Speaker 6: and really be a stud. But I took my shot
Speaker 6: on him, like I said, And so the first couple
Speaker 6: of drafts that I could see in Darren's data, he
Speaker 6: actually went one twelve and two oh four and two
Speaker 6: oh two, which is earlier. So before the draft, I
Speaker 6: was like, I think he's going to go early third.
Speaker 6: That was what my plan was. But then I saw
Speaker 6: these picks and I'm like, oh no, if I want
Speaker 6: to get him, I'm probably going to have to go earlier,
Speaker 6: so I did. So I drafted him a lot, like
Speaker 6: two oh two to all the way up to like
Speaker 6: too ten or something, and then I thought, uh, oh,
Speaker 6: I've got too much of this guy. I think I
Speaker 6: got him like two thirds of the draft that I'm in.
Speaker 6: I don't think, Oh jeez, So I passed on him
Speaker 6: and I'm picking some other guys and he was there
Speaker 6: in the third round, So now I'm thinking, oh boy,
Speaker 6: I had to take him there though, too right.
Speaker 2: I mean, it's a gift, I thought so.
Speaker 6: So I am very heavy on Emma Johnson and that
Speaker 6: you know, if you think about the draft and if
Speaker 6: you don't think it's very strong, you're probably not going
Speaker 6: to get many of those guys that hit in the
Speaker 6: second and third round. I don't know how many normally hit.
Speaker 6: Maybe four in the second, three in the third. Maybe
Speaker 6: something like that might even be less this year. So
Speaker 6: I thought it was worth it, as if I pick
Speaker 6: another guy, they're just as likely to not pan out.
Speaker 6: So I'm like, I'm just going to go all in
Speaker 6: on Emma Johnson.
Speaker 1: And I think there are worse guys given the price
Speaker 1: Todd that you just mentioned there are worse guys to
Speaker 1: go all in on. I think that Emma Johnson is
Speaker 1: a smart guy to be drafting heavily this year. I'll
Speaker 1: just say this. In my rookie drafts, I had a
Speaker 1: couple of them go off this past weekend. I drafted
Speaker 1: him in. It may have been both. I know for
Speaker 1: sure one I got him. He will enter the NFL.
Speaker 1: This according to Rohtal World, a hundredth percentile college dominator rating,
Speaker 1: a ninety ninth percentile college target share. And when you
Speaker 1: think about, well, what don't we like about Emma Johnson, Well,
Speaker 1: I think the first thing people will mention was his
Speaker 1: underwhelming combine performance. You have to do all those things,
Speaker 1: but he chose to do them. So if he would
Speaker 1: have chosen not to do him, which I would tell
Speaker 1: anybody right now, he shouldn't have done him. I know
Speaker 1: everybody's like, oh, this shows he's a competitor, and this
Speaker 1: is good that he went out there, and to like,
Speaker 1: everybody's a competitor at this level. If you are worried
Speaker 1: about people being a competitor or not, you should not
Speaker 1: be drafting them. I'm speaking to you. NFL teams it
Speaker 1: should not matter. Emma Johnson should have made the smart
Speaker 1: business decision and not participated in those things that like
Speaker 1: the three cone and everything that he was awful in.
Speaker 1: You shouldn't have done it. He probably would have been
Speaker 1: drafted higher. It's meaningless now because he has been drafted.
Speaker 1: He's a Kansas City chief, and I do think that
Speaker 1: this is a great spot for him. And I do
Speaker 1: think as much as Kenneth Walker. You're like, what are
Speaker 1: the two things you think of with Kenneth Walker? Explosive
Speaker 1: plays and explosive injuries, right, And so you know he's
Speaker 1: gonna be good when he's healthy, but you also know
Speaker 1: he's probably not gonna be healthy all season. And Emma
Speaker 1: Johnson is the type of guy that can pass, block,
Speaker 1: catch passes, run the football between the tackles, outside the tackles.
Speaker 1: This is a guy that that I think that, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's probably not going to be in every down, or
Speaker 1: he's not gonna be an every week start or even
Speaker 1: in every week flex, but there's gonna be pockets this
Speaker 1: year where Emma Johnson pays off both in dynasty and redraft.
Speaker 1: I like him quite a bit, so Todd congratulations.
Speaker 4: He joins Antonio Williams. In my wish we could do
Speaker 4: an over list.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: This my two guys that I really would like to
Speaker 4: have had more of, especially with Todd's back.
Speaker 1: You know, Todd, as long as we're talking rookies here
Speaker 1: and you you talked about the impact and what you
Speaker 1: felt about how these these players went. You talked about
Speaker 1: the spread for a lot of these guys, including Malachot Fields,
Speaker 1: which is insane. And I'll be honest with you, I
Speaker 1: kind of feel like I have not been targeting him enough.
Speaker 1: Had the big Senior Bowl performance, and this is a
Speaker 1: player that steps into New York right now with the
Speaker 1: number one wide receiver recovering from attorney acl and it
Speaker 1: seems like it's going good, but we don't know yet.
Speaker 1: Wandell Robinson is now in Nashville. They have added Isaiah Likely,
Speaker 1: so that is significant. But Joe Shane was talking about
Speaker 1: him being the power forward in the wide receiver room,
Speaker 1: and I think there is room for power forward wide
Speaker 1: receivers in fantasy football this year. I don't think Malachi
Speaker 1: Fields is going to be a league winner in twenty
Speaker 1: twenty six, but I do think he can help you
Speaker 1: as soon as this year and I'm very excited to
Speaker 1: see what he does in twenty twenty seven. How did
Speaker 1: you land in on Malachai Fields in your rookie drafts
Speaker 1: this year?
Speaker 6: So he was a guy I didn't know my about,
Speaker 6: and as the first couple of drafts occurred, I didn't
Speaker 6: draft him either. And then I noticed that in the
Speaker 6: draft room when you select the rookie box and you
Speaker 6: see what rookies are left. Uh, he was always kind
Speaker 6: of like one of the last ones.
Speaker 1: To go.
Speaker 2: That seemed decent.
Speaker 6: So I started to look at him and I thought, man,
Speaker 6: this guy's actually pretty good. And he went to the Giants.
Speaker 6: I think the second and third receivers for the Giants
Speaker 6: he can easily overtake them. I think it's Mooney, and
Speaker 6: I don't even know the third guy is, right, so
Speaker 6: I think he can probably a second wide receiver.
Speaker 2: Is it Calvin Austin or something?
Speaker 1: Or it could be I mean they signed Calvin Austin.
Speaker 1: Darius Slayton is still there again, Mooney.
Speaker 2: And the same guys who have been there forever.
Speaker 1: Exactly, yes, yeah, Steve Smith, Plexico, Buris Amani Tumor. It's
Speaker 1: all those guys.
Speaker 4: You know, and Todd that makes me want to ask you,
Speaker 4: so anyway, Oh, go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 6: Well, I was just going to say it's it's so,
Speaker 6: it's not that I'm betting so much on him necessarily,
Speaker 6: I'm betting against everyone else in New York, and that
Speaker 6: I think he's going to be the second receiver. I
Speaker 6: think he's going to get some opportunities. I know they
Speaker 6: have likely and I know they want to run the
Speaker 6: ball scat of who got a great deal when when
Speaker 6: when the Giants were unable to draft Love, So I
Speaker 6: know that they probably want to run the ball, but
Speaker 6: I still think that they're going to have to throw
Speaker 6: at some point. They'll probably be behind a fair amount,
Speaker 6: so they are going to have to air it out.
Speaker 6: So anyway, I'm curious to see what he'll do. And
Speaker 6: I'm and I'm getting him late fourth, fifth round.
Speaker 2: You know, who.
Speaker 6: Cares because he's a dart throw basically, So I down
Speaker 6: beautifully do.
Speaker 2: A fair share of him too. I don't know what
Speaker 2: my share is.
Speaker 4: It's six foot four, two twenty. You know, I'm thinking
Speaker 4: I got to get it in bulky. I'm thinking Michael
Speaker 4: Pittman with a little more muscle. And I'm in the
Speaker 4: situation where you know, And I asked this of all
Speaker 4: the players that come on and how much college football
Speaker 4: are you watching when you're not when you're not playing
Speaker 4: a competitive poker, because you know this, this player comes
Speaker 4: off the very this player is on TV all the time,
Speaker 4: so I'm curious how much college ball you're watching.
Speaker 6: I do watch a decent amount, not as much as
Speaker 6: I used to because I'm from Nebraska and Nebraska's just
Speaker 6: tailed off big time.
Speaker 2: It used to be.
Speaker 6: A very important part of saturdays for me, but then
Speaker 6: one playing poker and then two Nebraska just tailing off.
Speaker 6: It just made it easier to play poker. But I
Speaker 6: still I still get to watch some games. And of
Speaker 6: course I recall, all the games are available, they're recorded somewhere,
Speaker 6: so you can always watch them. When they watch them
Speaker 6: live or not doesn't matter. So yeah, I do watch
Speaker 6: some college football. I don't know that I saw him
Speaker 6: very much.
Speaker 1: Uh.
Speaker 4: Receiving corps this year, And I think that has a
Speaker 4: lot to do with the variants that you were talking about.
Speaker 4: And BALKI, you know, as a gentleman see performer in
Speaker 4: algebra class, even I knew those definitions. It's all gentleman c.
Speaker 1: So I mean the Fields conversation continues. But but I
Speaker 1: think that Todd, I'm kind of with you on most
Speaker 1: of what you said with Fields. I think this is
Speaker 1: a player, and I do have some rookie drafts to go. Obviously,
Speaker 1: the kffsc rookery drafts have not kicked off yet, but
Speaker 1: when they do, I think Fields is a player that
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to especially when in a start three
Speaker 1: wide receiver scenario. I think that's a that's a player
Speaker 1: I want to look long and hard at to make
Speaker 1: sure I have on my roster this year and maybe
Speaker 1: enjoy the spoils of drafting Fields in twenty twenty seven
Speaker 1: going forward. I'm just I'm thinking about what that Giants
Speaker 1: offense could be with Dart, the Scataboo, Tracy Backfield, Fields
Speaker 1: and neighbors, and then you get Likely and THEO Johnson.
Speaker 1: There there could be a lot to like. Okay, guys,
Speaker 1: let's move on here, and Todd, I'm gonna throw this
Speaker 1: to you as an email that came in from Will
Speaker 1: and Marrietta Georgia, and I'll pose this. I'll ask Farrell's
Speaker 1: opinion on this, but Todd, I want to get yours first.
Speaker 1: Will writes Hey guys, what's the impact that Kenneth Gainwell
Speaker 1: will have on Bucky Irvings and Todd, I think we've
Speaker 1: gotten this question a couple of times so far this
Speaker 1: offseason because Gainwell had that seventy catch season in Pittsburgh,
Speaker 1: and I think people when you consider that Irving, if
Speaker 1: you go on Mojo right now, Fantasy Mojo, you'll see
Speaker 1: from January his is his. I got to do this
Speaker 1: right for the camera. His ADP has been going down now,
Speaker 1: he's dipped into the fourth round right now, and he's
Speaker 1: kind of stagnated a little bit. But I think people
Speaker 1: are understanding that with Gainwell joining the Buccaneers, the past
Speaker 1: catching that was there for Irving may not be there
Speaker 1: full flush that it was in twenty twenty five. And
Speaker 1: I want to get your your thoughts on whether Irving
Speaker 1: is still going to pay off that late fourth round
Speaker 1: draft capital, and then whether we're undervaluing Kenneth Gainwell, who
Speaker 1: I believe in the Big Gorilla is like an eighth
Speaker 1: round pick right now. What's your opinion, what's your take?
Speaker 1: What should we be doing from both dynasty and redraft
Speaker 1: respective povs here, Todd, when we consider the Buccaneers backfield
Speaker 1: at this moment.
Speaker 6: I haven't done any redraft leagues yet, but if you
Speaker 6: say he's gone in the fourth round, I think that's
Speaker 6: a good price for him. I still believe in Irving.
Speaker 6: I mean, didn't White get a fair amount of receptions anyway?
Speaker 6: And in his backup role? I didn't look, so I'm
Speaker 6: not sure, but I thought he got a fair amount
Speaker 6: of touches.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now, Todd. In twenty twenty five,
Speaker 1: last year, Rashad White just under six hundred received I
Speaker 1: beg your pardon, six hundred rushing yards. And he did
Speaker 1: catch forty passes last year in Tampa for just over
Speaker 1: two hundred yards as well.
Speaker 2: So I don't see a big change in Irving's role.
Speaker 6: And so if he's dropping to the fourth round, that
Speaker 6: seems like a good deal to me. That's somebody I'll
Speaker 6: keep an eye on when I get around to doing
Speaker 6: read draft leagues.
Speaker 2: As far as Dynasty goes.
Speaker 6: Go ahead, go ahead, Oh go ahead, No, no talk
Speaker 6: to in dynasty. Yeah, I would, I would. I would
Speaker 6: still draft him, you know. I picked up several shares
Speaker 6: of him late whatever year he came out, and he
Speaker 6: was one of those guys as again, as I was
Speaker 6: doing the draft, I kind of got turned on to
Speaker 6: him and I ended up grabbing him in several leagues too.
Speaker 6: So I mean there's a case where it did pan out,
Speaker 6: and I think it still will. I'm not sure why
Speaker 6: people are dropping or you know, lowering their expectations for Irving.
Speaker 2: Well, Todd, I'm going to tell you why.
Speaker 4: Brother, I don't tell you.
Speaker 2: I'm going to tell you why I am. Now.
Speaker 4: It's easy for me to follow Bucky Irvin because Bucky
Speaker 4: Irving has been a Bulky step child since since forever.
Speaker 4: And he's a huge, huge fan of Bucky Irving, and
Speaker 4: he's been right about him more times than he's wrong.
Speaker 4: But lately, and especially last year, I don't care if
Speaker 4: you were playing indoors on the field turf or outside
Speaker 4: in the south on the grass, or if you're up
Speaker 4: in Bulky Bulkyville up in Green Bay. You know, they
Speaker 4: use a combination of field turf and natural It doesn't
Speaker 4: matter because by Halloween it's frozen over anyway.
Speaker 2: But the whole thing.
Speaker 4: Three yards and a cloud of Dutch from Bucky Irving.
Speaker 4: The last game of the season. They gave it to
Speaker 4: him twenty six times a game the Bucks managed to win.
Speaker 4: They gave him the ball twenty six times. He got
Speaker 4: eighty yards. You average three point three yards of carry.
Speaker 4: I think the player is essentially done, and I think
Speaker 4: he gets a very Anyone that's drafting him anywhere is
Speaker 4: is basically drafting on history and not present. I very
Speaker 4: much saw a drop off in talent for this player
Speaker 4: last year, so I'm thrilled about any other running back
Speaker 4: in that back rod.
Speaker 1: I will put like and like, maybe this is not
Speaker 1: a thing, but to me, I think it's it's worth mentioning,
Speaker 1: so I'll mention it. Bucky Irving plays football in the
Speaker 1: state of Florida, which who doesn't, right, I mean, but
Speaker 1: Florida's it's a hotbed for high school and college players
Speaker 1: or whatever. Think about this though. Bucky Irving was born
Speaker 1: in Chicago, played high school football in Chicago, went to
Speaker 1: the Big Ten, and played at Minnesota University of Minnesota
Speaker 1: for a year before he transferred to Oregon, which is
Speaker 1: a Big Ten school and not like Southern cal Like
Speaker 1: this is like it's up there and and so I
Speaker 1: feel like, you know, five ten, one ninety five. Everdy
Speaker 1: just assumes, oh a place or the Buccaneers he's this
Speaker 1: undersized pass catching you know whatever running back. Like this
Speaker 1: guy has battle tested in the Big Ten and on
Speaker 1: the mean street to Chicago and playing high school football there. Like,
Speaker 1: there's a lot to like about Bucky Irving. Now, I
Speaker 1: know there's there's been talk about, you know, and and
Speaker 1: he's made this public like about recovering from injuries and
Speaker 1: the toll it takes both physically and mentally. I know
Speaker 1: that's a struggle or whatever. But given and and kind
Speaker 1: of what Todd was saying too, Rashad Whitez moved on.
Speaker 1: He caught forty passes last year. It's not like he
Speaker 1: was a clouch in the passing game. Yeah, game weell
Speaker 1: will probably take something away from Irving, but not everything.
Speaker 1: And they brought Sean Tucker back, and what else did
Speaker 1: they do in that back? They brought nobody else in,
Speaker 1: So this this could be very significant. You think about
Speaker 1: Mike Evans moving on, maybe there's more of an attention
Speaker 1: of detail to the rushing game in Tampa. Listen, I'm
Speaker 1: not like being a Bucky Irving evangelist. Maybe unintentionally I
Speaker 1: am here, but I think there is Yeah, I'll load it.
Speaker 1: There is something to like about Bucky Irving.
Speaker 4: There is evaluate there is a lot to like about
Speaker 4: him as a football player because he helps that team win.
Speaker 4: I love him as football player. I don't really care
Speaker 4: about him.
Speaker 2: I don't.
Speaker 4: I don't want to draft him on fantasy teams. And
Speaker 4: that's that's just my pig.
Speaker 1: I get it, and and that I totally it makes sense.
Speaker 4: Every thing you're saying makes sense because he held the
Speaker 4: football player. Yeah, sometimes you need three and a half yards,
Speaker 4: but never in fantasy football.
Speaker 1: Todd, let's I want to flip. I want to flip
Speaker 1: this to Houston here and and we'll get to Jaden
Speaker 1: Higgins in a second. But I do want to bring
Speaker 1: up this blurb. We didn't get a chance to get
Speaker 1: to this on Wednesday, but I want to bring it
Speaker 1: up right now. Djb Enemy, who covers the Houston Texans
Speaker 1: for ESPN dot Com, reported that CJ. Stroud put a
Speaker 1: big emphasis on changing his diet this offseason. He cut
Speaker 1: out all sugar, which I didn't even know that was possible.
Speaker 1: I thought everything has some kind of sugar. And then
Speaker 1: he consumed quote nothing but water and lean food. I
Speaker 1: don't know what that means either, but apparently he's lost
Speaker 1: some weight. He's taking things pretty seriously as he angles.
Speaker 1: I would say undoubtedly Houston exercises his fifty year option
Speaker 1: and then he wants to get the long term deal.
Speaker 1: Une In Houston twelfth in EPA per drop back that
Speaker 1: was just behind Jared Goff this past year, twentieth in
Speaker 1: accuracy among players at his position, which was just ahead
Speaker 1: of a couple of Hall of famers in Patrick Mahomes
Speaker 1: and Aaron Rodgers. I know Houston Todd is gonna want
Speaker 1: to run the ball out with David Montgomery this season.
Speaker 1: Let's analyze CJ. Stroud for what he is. How much
Speaker 1: does this weight loss thing? And I know this is
Speaker 1: gonna be the sexy thing to talk about until we
Speaker 1: get to training camp. But he loses weight, hopefully in
Speaker 1: better shape, He's still gonna have Higgins, Nicocollins, Jalen Knowle.
Speaker 1: I'm forgetting somebody, Dalton Schultz. Obviously they drafted, did they not?
Speaker 1: Didn't they? Did they get Tanner Coozio. I thought they
Speaker 1: drafted another significant tight end on this year as well. Anyway,
Speaker 1: it doesn't make a whole heck of a lot of difference,
Speaker 1: but this new streamlined, sleek c J. Stroud are you
Speaker 1: buying into him, Todd right now? I know you haven't
Speaker 1: done any redraft leagues, but he's super cheap in him
Speaker 1: right now?
Speaker 2: Hmmm.
Speaker 6: Well, if I remember right, they had a pretty bad
Speaker 6: offensive line, which they've been through.
Speaker 2: It has gotten better, yes, if it has.
Speaker 6: And I think he's got a chance because I remember
Speaker 6: watching him in the last couple of years and he
Speaker 6: was under pressure constantly. So it really doesn't matter what
Speaker 6: kind of shape you're in or who you have to
Speaker 6: throw the ball to if you don't have time to
Speaker 6: make a throw. So but if he gets a chance,
Speaker 6: I mean, he sounds like a good deal late in
Speaker 6: draft for redraft anyway, if I was starting to say
Speaker 6: a dynasty startup superflex, I'm not sure I would take him.
Speaker 6: It would probably depend on who the other guys were
Speaker 6: around him. I guess you're still a little stung from
Speaker 6: what he's done recently as opposed to when he jumped
Speaker 6: out to that good rookie.
Speaker 4: Year less yards every year since his rookie season. Well,
Speaker 4: two offensive guards drafted in this draft and Bulkey that
Speaker 4: tighty end you were thinking of is Marlon Klein out
Speaker 4: of Michigan.
Speaker 1: There you go, which is more of a blocking guy.
Speaker 2: I guess, yeah, probably so Todd.
Speaker 1: In dynasty startups right now, Stroud is quarterback twenty five,
Speaker 1: so he is behind Jesus H. Christ, He is behind
Speaker 1: Ty Simpson right now, starting to take Simpson ahead of Stroud,
Speaker 1: Mayfield Mendoza, which I get. Golf Stafford Stafford had a
Speaker 1: Stroud right now, which I don't get. Or I guess
Speaker 1: it depends upon how you're approaching it as well. Bottom
Speaker 1: line is a CJ. Stroud is quarterback twenty five in
Speaker 1: dynasty startups, at the FFPC, in re draft leagues and
Speaker 1: the Big Gorilla. He's quarterback twenty three, super affordable right now,
Speaker 1: and certainly a player that, even if you're not a
Speaker 1: big believer in Todd, may be worth the risk at
Speaker 1: this point, given that there is.
Speaker 6: No risk, right Uh, it sounds reasonable, I will say.
Speaker 6: And this goes to the conversation on your Wednesday telecast
Speaker 6: talking about when do you draft quarterbacks. The problem is
Speaker 6: I play a lot of superflex, so even when I
Speaker 6: get in a one quarterback league, I tend to draft
Speaker 6: quarterbacks sooner. I'm willing to take the shot on the
Speaker 6: better players. Jackson and Allen Hurts, whatever, just because I'm
Speaker 6: so used to that. I've tried to pass on quarterback
Speaker 6: and then get two, say around rounds ten, eleven, twelve, whatever.
Speaker 6: And in fact, the last I was in Joe's versus
Speaker 6: Pros last year, and I waited and I waited and
Speaker 6: I waited, and I forget who I took. Might have
Speaker 6: been Purty in like the eleventh round, and then all
Speaker 6: of a sudden, Prescott was there in the twelfth round. Well,
Speaker 6: I can't pass on Prescott even though I just took Party, right,
Speaker 6: I mean, that seems crazy. I wish I had known
Speaker 6: Prescott was going to be there. I could have taken
Speaker 6: somebody else that would have helped me. They have been
Speaker 6: another wide receiver, even a running back, But that's just the.
Speaker 2: Way it goes.
Speaker 6: But I yeah, I to go for the better quarterbacks,
Speaker 6: So I'm not sure I would end up with.
Speaker 2: Stroud. Just get draft me. Speaking about it, sounds like
Speaker 2: he is super cheap.
Speaker 4: Yes, cheeking about the better quarterbacks. Lamar Jackson will never
Speaker 4: be super cheap. Do you think Todd that he returns
Speaker 4: to more of his his his rushing yardage and this season,
Speaker 4: because it was a big drop off last year what
Speaker 4: he did with his feet was nothing like what he
Speaker 4: had done before.
Speaker 6: Right, I'm not sure what the new coaching staff has
Speaker 6: in store for him, So I guess I don't know
Speaker 6: yet what their take is. Maybe they want to protect him.
Speaker 6: I'd turn him loose, because when he runs, he is
Speaker 6: very effective, very dangerous, So that's the way I would treat.
Speaker 6: I know he's getting older and so you run the
Speaker 6: risk of an injury if you run a lot, but
Speaker 6: I think that's who he is, so I would want
Speaker 6: to get the most out of him that I could.
Speaker 6: Todd and I was speaking of that.
Speaker 1: Oh go ahead, no, no, please continue, go ahead.
Speaker 6: Well, I was just thinking talking about some of the
Speaker 6: guys that our drafted a little later than they have been.
Speaker 2: I am stunned at Patrick Mahomes. Where he going I do?
Speaker 2: And this?
Speaker 6: I think? You know last year I said the same thing.
Speaker 6: I was on your show and I was talking up
Speaker 6: the chiefs and where to draft Rice and Worthy and Kelsey,
Speaker 6: you know, blah blah blah, and Mahomes was going, oh,
Speaker 6: seventh round. But now I think he's going tenth round,
Speaker 6: eleventh round or something, whatever it is. It just seems
Speaker 6: nuts to me. That's like a gift he does.
Speaker 1: So this is great like a segue into what I
Speaker 1: want to bring up right now. Todd has already said
Speaker 1: he is a Nebraska guy. Nebraska as people will know, geography,
Speaker 1: fans will know, not that far away from Missouri, where
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs play football. Todd, you brought up
Speaker 1: pros versus Joe's, so I thought I would look back
Speaker 1: on your pro versus Joe's team last year. And I
Speaker 1: can tell you in the Rolling Stones Division you ended
Speaker 1: up taking and I quote, in the third round, xam,
Speaker 1: You're worthy Kansas City Chief in the fourth round, Rashie Rice,
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chief, in the fifth round, Travis Kelcey, Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chief, in the sixth round, Patrick Mahomes, Kansas City Chief.
Speaker 1: That's four straight chief. And for good measure, you drafted
Speaker 1: Breshard Smith in round fifteen that year as well. And
Speaker 1: everybody's like, okay, baal Key, nobody cares. That was last year.
Speaker 1: It was redraft. Things change. Okay, maybe you're right, But
Speaker 1: let's look at Todd's players that he owns in the
Speaker 1: FFPC right now. The number one player Todd Aaron Owes
Speaker 1: in Fantasy football in the FFPC. Emmett Johnson running back
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. Well, who else does he own? Among
Speaker 1: those top top players? Number two? Harrison Butker Kicker City Chiefs,
Speaker 1: number three, Patrick Mahomes quarterback Kansas City Chiefs, number four,
Speaker 1: the whole defense, the Kansas City defense is number four,
Speaker 1: and then of course Travis Kelcey number five. Todd Aaron,
Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, I don't know if I've ever seen
Speaker 1: this before. For a guy who plays a lot of
Speaker 1: volume with the FFPC, his top five players right now
Speaker 1: currently own are all Kansas City Chiefs. Todd, I have
Speaker 1: to ask you your love affair with the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 1: Is it blinding you for fantasy football? Or are FFPC
Speaker 1: players just sleeping on Chiefs right now because you are
Speaker 1: collecting all of them like pokemon.
Speaker 6: Ah, it might be, uh, it might might have blinders
Speaker 6: on at this point. But you know, they went to
Speaker 6: five out of six Super Bowls, so you got it.
Speaker 2: I was doing pretty well for a good six year
Speaker 2: run in there.
Speaker 6: Really it hurt last year because Mahomes got hurt and Rice,
Speaker 6: you know, with his troubles and he getting and him
Speaker 6: getting hurt.
Speaker 2: So we'll see.
Speaker 6: I think the expectations for the Chiefs have been lower.
Speaker 6: So for example, if you look at the Super Bowl
Speaker 6: odds last year, you're there like seven eight to one,
Speaker 6: kind of near the top, and now they're fifteen to one.
Speaker 6: So and we talked about Mahomes. Where's Mahomes being drafted?
Speaker 6: Obviously much worse than he was last year. So, uh,
Speaker 6: it won't be as painful to try and accute accumulated
Speaker 6: some Chiefs this year as it was last year. But
Speaker 6: several years they worked pretty much.
Speaker 1: Pharrel Les interrupt for just real quick, and I'll just
Speaker 1: say this, Todd, You'll be happy to know this. I
Speaker 1: did a trade in a private dynasty league when I
Speaker 1: was on the clock this past weekend where I gave
Speaker 1: up the one oh nine. And by the way, this
Speaker 1: is to our good buddies and former guests of the show,
Speaker 1: Danny Muller and then Mason Spain who I got to
Speaker 1: get on the show, Danny Miller and Mason Spain who
Speaker 1: co owned this team. I traded him Baker Mayfield in
Speaker 1: the one nine this year, for it was a second round,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty seventh pick in Mahomes and it's the first
Speaker 1: chair I have Mahomes in any Dynasty League, and I'm like,
Speaker 1: you know whether, I don't know who got the better
Speaker 1: under the trade, but I will say it, there is
Speaker 1: there is a little sparkle finally owning Patrick Mahomes and Dynasty.
Speaker 1: For me, I'm kind of excited for it.
Speaker 4: And you traded Baker Mayfield. I traded Danny Mueller, our
Speaker 4: wonderful friend, Danny Mueller, who the Mad Genius knows as
Speaker 4: well and everyone knows he is from where Oklahoma and
Speaker 4: where to Baker Mayfield playball Oklahoma.
Speaker 2: I believe you over paid Bulky.
Speaker 4: I think I don't think you had to throw anything
Speaker 4: else in there. You could have got it straight up.
Speaker 4: I believe you could have definitely twenty seventh for Mayfield. Yeah,
Speaker 4: they ended up.
Speaker 1: I think they took Eli Stowers with that pick, which
Speaker 1: makes sense. I mean I hadurs on I draft him
Speaker 1: in another league that weekend or whatever, and I was
Speaker 1: kind of like, yeah, I'm good on Stours. If they
Speaker 1: want they want to do this, like I'm fine with it.
Speaker 1: Sometimes Todd, I don't know if you do this because
Speaker 1: I know you play in a lot of FFPC dynasty
Speaker 1: leagues and mostly against the same players every year. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I do deals with this. If I don't have a
Speaker 1: strong feeling one way or the other, I'll just do
Speaker 1: the trade just to create good will. Like we're like, hey,
Speaker 1: ball Field, trade with me. Let's make a deal with him,
Speaker 1: or I'll just make the deal if I don't. If
Speaker 1: I don't, you know, if it's like kind of close
Speaker 1: to be like, yeah, let's see what happens here. Sometimes
Speaker 1: I do that. I don't know if you do that
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 7: No, Hey, as a Chief, A lot of times they're
Speaker 7: just not close.
Speaker 6: No, maybe think, oh I'd like to negotiate, but they
Speaker 6: put you so far down in a hole it's not
Speaker 6: even worth it to try and negotiate just to get
Speaker 6: back to even right.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I have. I haven't about being a Chief fan though,
Speaker 4: And I know you're a Raiders fan.
Speaker 2: It's not from well.
Speaker 4: I I do enjoy the Raiders, God bless them. They
Speaker 4: have a nice stadium. It's good place to go.
Speaker 2: Do you. I'm gonna miss him in the Chiefs backfield.
Speaker 4: And he was not a force for fantasy football often,
Speaker 4: but he did score.
Speaker 2: For me sometimes. Are you gonna miss Pachecko at all?
Speaker 2: I do? Yeah? I love this running style.
Speaker 4: I always thought he had a higher ceiling than he hit,
Speaker 4: you know, just just I was just curious.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but Todd, Todd, you should, I mean, like I'd
Speaker 1: be super excited. I mean, I think Emma Johnson is
Speaker 1: a significant improvement from from Pacheco in Kansas City. I'm
Speaker 1: I'm and obviously Kenneth Walker as well. Like, but I'm
Speaker 1: very very robust on what I think that Walker and
Speaker 1: Johnson and are going to accomplish. Although you know, Farrell's right,
Speaker 1: I mean, there there's gonna be certain things I miss
Speaker 1: about Pacheco, but I think part of like his running
Speaker 1: style has probably cost him some money in the NFL,
Speaker 1: and it's probably cost him years off his NFL career
Speaker 1: as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah for sure. Yeah, all right. I do like the
Speaker 2: Chief Blackfield now, uh go ahead. I love it.
Speaker 1: You know it's strong and we love it as well.
Speaker 1: I do want like I mentioned Stroud, there's actually there's two.
Speaker 1: There's two more topics I want to hit on before
Speaker 1: we call it a night. Jayden Higgins. I want to
Speaker 1: bring up because I know there's some scuttle butt out
Speaker 1: there that this guy is going to turn it on
Speaker 1: this year, Todd, that we're going to see you know,
Speaker 1: the flashes that we saw his rookie year. That's going
Speaker 1: to be more consistent with Houston this year. Now they
Speaker 1: still have Nico Collins. We we just talked about c J.
Speaker 1: Stroud as well. Your thoughts on what we're in for
Speaker 1: in years two of Jaden Higgins being the number two
Speaker 1: wide receiver for the Houston Texas.
Speaker 6: I'm hoping to see improvement over last year and a
Speaker 6: continued growth saving in the year three and then I
Speaker 6: think he's going to be a pretty decent receiver. He's
Speaker 6: never going to be a stud, but I think he'll
Speaker 6: be a guy that you can get in your lineups.
Speaker 6: And so last year he was essentially my Emma Johnson
Speaker 6: of last year. I don't know what my account was,
Speaker 6: but I took him in the second round a bunch
Speaker 6: and he panned out for me.
Speaker 2: I think I think he's going to pan out.
Speaker 6: Last year it was okay, but I think, as you said,
Speaker 6: I think he's going to get better this year. I
Speaker 6: think he'll continue to get better. So I'm hopeful for
Speaker 6: Jaden Higgins.
Speaker 2: Now.
Speaker 6: I will say I also took a flyer on two
Speaker 6: other guys, DJ Giddens, which I was getting in like
Speaker 6: the fifth and the sixth round he's still the backup,
Speaker 6: but he never really did anything. But they didn't draft
Speaker 6: a running back either, I don't think so maybe there's
Speaker 6: hope for him. We'll see. He's still kind of where
Speaker 6: he was. And then I took a shot on Isaiah Bond,
Speaker 6: who when we talked last summer, he still hadn't signed
Speaker 6: with the team because he had all those legal troubles
Speaker 6: and they had not been settled yet.
Speaker 2: They ended up up getting settled.
Speaker 6: The Browns took a shot on him, and he was
Speaker 6: able to play for the Browns and he was actually
Speaker 6: improving throughout the year. But then they turned around and
Speaker 6: drafted two rookie wide receivers this year, so I don't
Speaker 6: I'm guessing they might not give him much of a
Speaker 6: chance this year.
Speaker 1: Probably not, but Todd the process was right on that.
Speaker 1: Like I wish I would have had more Isaiah Bond
Speaker 1: last year, given you know, we heard them them talking
Speaker 1: them up and at that point they didn't have Concepcion,
Speaker 1: they didn't have Boston or whatever. But at that time
Speaker 1: to Bond seemed like a really good investment, low cost.
Speaker 1: And by the way, if it doesn't work out this year,
Speaker 1: who cares like you invested very little into him, but
Speaker 1: you took the shot. And and most of the time
Speaker 1: when you take the shots and these guys they won't
Speaker 1: work out, but you take the shots on them because
Speaker 1: the time it does work out hashtag Buka Nagua, that's
Speaker 1: when you really reap the benefits for years to come.
Speaker 6: Right, Okay, I had him in the ninth round mostly
Speaker 6: maybe the age, so it wasn't a big deal.
Speaker 1: Right exactly. Let's get into one final topic here tonight, Farrell.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna throw this one to you first because I
Speaker 1: want to have Todd put the cap on this. Alvin
Speaker 1: Kamara the roller coaster that has been Alvin Kamara this offseason.
Speaker 1: He said he's now excited to see what he's gonna
Speaker 1: be able to do with Travis etn or excuse me,
Speaker 1: check that HN. In New Orleans this year, Nick Underhill
Speaker 1: for New Orleans Dot Football had this story. Kamara said
Speaker 1: he could not be happier that Saints signed at Chien
Speaker 1: and talked about how both he and Mark Ingram were
Speaker 1: really successful when they shared the backfield in New Orleans
Speaker 1: many years ago. He's been training hard, He's watched film
Speaker 1: on Jordan Tyson apparently. So it seems like this dude
Speaker 1: is all in yeah this year and Kamara is slated
Speaker 1: to make ten million dollars our cap figure of ten
Speaker 1: million dollars this year. There's a lot of void years
Speaker 1: onto that as well. Pharrel, we may have touched on this.
Speaker 1: I don't think we've gone in depth in on Camara though.
Speaker 1: When you think about Etchian and the money that New
Speaker 1: Orleans is giving him, when you think about Kamara and
Speaker 1: then the money that New Orleans has been giving him
Speaker 1: and is continuing to give to him, does this make
Speaker 1: you excited to draft either one of these players or
Speaker 1: fantasy or are you a little put off that Kamara
Speaker 1: is still on this roster and we will not see
Speaker 1: super saying peak of his powers Travis Etchien at least
Speaker 1: to start off the twenty twenty sixth season in the
Speaker 1: Big Easy.
Speaker 4: Now, I'm willing to give this offense a benefit of
Speaker 4: the doubt because I believe in the quarterback and I
Speaker 4: like the wide receivers that are here and Camarrow you know,
Speaker 4: if you can't beat them, join them.
Speaker 2: He wants to be part of a good team.
Speaker 4: His days of being the proverbial bell cow running back
Speaker 4: or coming to a conclusion. He wants to win, he
Speaker 4: wants to stay in the league, he wants to play football.
Speaker 4: So indeed, the mindset is a proper one for a
Speaker 4: veteran player playing on a coming team full of young players.
Speaker 4: He's there to be the elder statesman. He'll get plenty
Speaker 4: of carries, He'll get plenty of work, and he'll still
Speaker 4: catch the ball. And I think there'll be enough carries
Speaker 4: to go around with this team.
Speaker 1: Todd, when you look at it, I mean, I don't
Speaker 1: think there's any I mean, you know, it's so funny
Speaker 1: because I think, like I was one of the players
Speaker 1: last year that was trying to get Kendra Miller and
Speaker 1: Devin Neil in my dynasties when other people were cutting
Speaker 1: them because of injury or you know, just not being
Speaker 1: a big fantasy football producer. And I could get these
Speaker 1: guys off the waibar. I was very excited. Could not
Speaker 1: be less excited now that Kamara is seemingly going to
Speaker 1: be on this team with Etchien this year. As a
Speaker 1: dynasty player yourself, when you think about this backfield, how
Speaker 1: do you handle it? Are you acquiring these guys, are
Speaker 1: you trading these guys, are you standing pat New Orleans
Speaker 1: backfield is one I have scratching my is one backfield
Speaker 1: that I am scratching my head with Tom right right now.
Speaker 1: This is this is really really fascinating and frustrating at
Speaker 1: the same time.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not sure how to look at it either.
Speaker 6: I will say Neil and Miller probably not much of
Speaker 6: a future. But I agree with everything Farrell said. I
Speaker 6: think he's he nailed it, and yeah, that's where that's
Speaker 6: my take on it too, But I'm not really sure
Speaker 6: what that means. As far as the fantasy production for ETN,
Speaker 6: I think it'll be fairly similar to what we've seen
Speaker 6: in the past.
Speaker 2: I think he'll do just fine.
Speaker 6: And as far as Kamara, yeah, I have no idea
Speaker 6: some what that means really. Yeah, if he's able to
Speaker 6: do it or not. I think they're going to try
Speaker 6: and see if he can do it.
Speaker 4: But guys, I think he catches fifty balls and rushes
Speaker 4: for seven hundred yards and depending on the success of
Speaker 4: the offense, because last year's production came over ten or
Speaker 4: eleven games. Based on the success of the offense, he
Speaker 4: may do well. Touchdowns he ensured in last year, but
Speaker 4: he may regain some of that aspect of this game.
Speaker 4: So and but Bulke, you got Mojo to finish this
Speaker 4: up tonight, because I'm seeing him in the Dynasty drafts
Speaker 4: is largely free talking about Kamara, right, yes, sir, Yes, sir.
Speaker 4: And you know you'll have lots of fantasy players Dodd
Speaker 4: that will come in and they'll say, you know, when
Speaker 4: there's two options and you can't figure it out, I'm
Speaker 4: going to take the cheaper one. Well, we know where
Speaker 4: the cheaper one is here. And you talk about a
Speaker 4: low draft capital, high value handcuff. If there ever is
Speaker 4: such a thing, there's some things to like about it.
Speaker 4: You can build a strategy around it.
Speaker 1: Guys. You know what's wild is I just looked at
Speaker 1: the mojo and I was like, oh, I'm surprised he's
Speaker 1: going there. And I realized that was on the Dynasty
Speaker 1: startup mojo and he was running back fifty eight. I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: well that makes more sense. Not a lot of people
Speaker 1: are very excited about drafting Alvin Kamara and a Dynasty startup. Well,
Speaker 1: then I loaded up the Big Gorilla adp at Mojo
Speaker 1: and he was running back fifty eight in Dynasty. He
Speaker 1: is running back fifty six big Gorilla drafts right now.
Speaker 1: That's redraft, so he's only going two running back slots
Speaker 1: higher for redraft as opposed to a dynasty and Kamara.
Speaker 1: It's costing you a fourteenth round pick draft him.
Speaker 2: Right now.
Speaker 1: He is behind Keaton Mitchell, he is behind ty J. Spears,
Speaker 1: he is right ahead of k Tron Allen, and right
Speaker 1: ahead of Tank Bigsby Parrell. I can tell myself a
Speaker 1: story where you are right about his stats. He catches
Speaker 1: seven hundred yards. I am not as bullish on him
Speaker 1: as you are. My main concern as I throw this
Speaker 1: back to Todd to close it out tonight, my main
Speaker 1: concern is how much this affects HTN. And quite frankly,
Speaker 1: when we look at this from a dynasty standpoint, Todd,
Speaker 1: to any of these New Orleans running backs represent to
Speaker 1: you a significant buy, a significant sell, or perhaps just
Speaker 1: a significant I'm gonna stand pat if I have them,
Speaker 1: I have them. If I don't have them, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to go out and try to acquire them, just
Speaker 1: the New Orleans backfield. Todd in general, when you look
Speaker 1: at it from the standpoint of dynasty fantasy football.
Speaker 6: I'm happy with the shares of ETM that I have,
Speaker 6: and I'm not looking to sell them. I'm probably not
Speaker 6: going to go out and buy anymore. But I agree
Speaker 6: with what Farrell said. As far as the team itself,
Speaker 6: They've got a lot of weapons. Now, this is a
Speaker 6: totally different team than we've seen in the last couple
Speaker 6: of years. They've got some fire power and wide receiver,
Speaker 6: even a good tight end now running back. So I
Speaker 6: expect a lot more from the offense of the Saints.
Speaker 4: Yeah, I think at the end is looking at fifteen
Speaker 4: to eighteen carries a game and Kamarrow's looking at ten
Speaker 4: to twelve.
Speaker 1: That's a lot of carries farah for who for both
Speaker 1: of them, they're.
Speaker 2: Gonna be a little higher than when I would project.
Speaker 2: I kind of.
Speaker 4: Well, you know last year. Last year ran the ball
Speaker 4: two hundred and sixty times in Jacksonville. Surely he's going
Speaker 4: to do something similar.
Speaker 1: I just I mean, you're talking about twenty five to
Speaker 1: thirty carries a game from Chian and Kamara, which is
Speaker 1: fine because they're probably winning football games that they're doing that.
Speaker 1: I just I don't know if they in that division
Speaker 1: and like I'm not I mean, I know the defense
Speaker 1: is okay, but it's not like, you know, the type
Speaker 1: of defense where you can run it twenty five to
Speaker 1: thirty times every single game in a vacuum. Yeah, that'd
Speaker 1: be great for fantasy. But at the same time, I
Speaker 1: think they'll want it. I don't know, maybe I'm maybe
Speaker 1: I'm off on this, Todd, that I just feel like
Speaker 1: like New Orleans. I think about Kellen Moore too, And
Speaker 1: and maybe Farrell's right when you consider that he wants
Speaker 1: to run all these plays like he just wants to.
Speaker 1: It's constantly go, go, go, go go, and and maybe
Speaker 1: that allows for more carries and more catches.
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: I said Arizona's gonna be fascinating to watch this year, Todd.
Speaker 1: The New Orleans offense, I think is going to be
Speaker 1: very fascinating to watch as well.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I agree.
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