Fantasy Football Daily - 2Barz - 2021 Preseason Week 2 Review
Episode Date: August 24, 2021Graham Barfield (@GrahamBarfield) and Scott Barrett (@ScottBarrettDFB) review their key takeaways from the first two weeks of the preseason, including thoughts about Antonio Gibson, Jalen Hurts. Najee... Harris, Logan Thomas, Chase Edmonds, and much more. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/fantasy-points-podcast/support Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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We have both of us, just you and I today for a little preseason review pod.
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But Scott, man, you've been doing a phenomenal job with the preseason reviews.
I've helped you out with like a couple games here and there just because you would be dead if I didn't.
But yeah, you've been doing an awesome, awesome job breaking down all the games and taking away, you know, all the key takeaways for like first team snaps, all that stuff.
So we're going to review just kind of, we're not going to go game by.
game or anything like that, but we'll just review some like the top situations to go through.
You know, I think you and I have kind of view preseason the same just off the top.
Like, you know, we don't really put too much effort into like who's looking good because,
you know, a lot of the times we're, you know, these guys are facing like vanilla coverages.
Quarterbacks just don't have to do too much.
There's a lot of just design stuff.
And they're really just trying to get reps in and get comfortable.
But we can, what we can take away is usage.
And I think you and I kind of view that very similarly.
So let's get going with the first, this is the first game of this past week.
So we'll start there.
Eagles Patriots.
Yeah, man, I think you made a good note about Dallas Goddard in your article.
As long as Zach Hurts is there.
I mean, it's going to be really, really tough for Goddard to break out on this run first team.
Yeah.
So there was also a tweet today from Elliott Shore Parks, who's like a question.
beat. But all he's doing here is counting targets with the first string offense in practice.
And apparently Zach Ertz is number three in targets. Goddard's number one. That's great.
But they're going to cannibalize each other's production. And, you know, Ertz has already
third on the target totem pole. I don't see him getting cut or traded. Yeah. So Goddard played on four
of six snaps with the first string offense last week. The week before that, he was out snapped by Ertz,
seven to five out of ten.
And it's just really concerning.
Last year, when both were healthy,
Ertz ran a route on 72% of the team's dropbacks.
That was well above Goddard's 47%.
So again, they're cannibalizing each other's production.
They're both essentially part-time players.
And it's really concerning.
You know, that really limits Goddard.
I've bumped him down at a full tier.
you already are taking, I believe, Robert Tunyon and Tyler Higbee ahead of him.
And so he's just a tricky eval for fantasy, where it's just, okay, if Ertz is gone,
you know, he's a potential lead winner, but it's far more likely than not that Earth stays,
in which case he's, you know, a massive value trap.
And then, you know, of course Philadelphia is going to run 12 personnel at one of the highest rates
in the league.
But what does that mean for Jalen Rieger, who's coming off the field in two wide receiver
sets and Quez Watkins, it looks like is starting over him. So there's a lot of interesting stuff
going on with Philadelphia. Yeah. You know, one of the big things that was the problem with the
Eagles in previous years, obviously, is all their guys just got hurt. I mean, they just did not
have any depth to really, like, you know, if somebody went down, they just didn't have the
depth to, like, really overcome it. And that's, you know, Wynce was a broken quarterback,
etc, et cetera, et cetera.
But there's definitely something to be said that the Eagles are way, way deeper now than they were.
And, you know, last year in the games that Goddard, they got her played without Earths,
I mean, he averaged, like, 12 and a half fantasy points per game.
I mean, that would have been, you know, we know tight ends are shit after, you know,
Kelsey and Waller, but that still would have been like tied in four,
tight in five.
And he was, you know, kind of, you know, right on that, like, Titan one borderline,
you know, top 12, top 13 when Earth's played.
So, yeah, you know, I've moved down.
I've moved Goddard down pretty much all summer.
I'm taking, you know, Tanya and Higbee and Thomas over him comfortably.
I think he's like right at the end at that like tied in 11, tied in 12 tier now.
And, you know, all these guys really, you know, between Ertz, Smith, and Goddard,
I mean, we're looking at 15 to 20 percent target share.
And this is something, you mentioned Quez Watkins.
This is something Joe Dolan's been on for a couple weeks now that Questwarkins is
pushing rigor for starting time in 12 personnel. And I think that's, that's something we're going to see.
On the other side of the ball, one of the big things is Jacobi Myers playing in 12 personnel.
He was like strictly slot last year. Well, not strictly. Slot. He was like 70, 75 percent
slot. But him getting some burn and 12 personnel has been huge. And Scott, he did something he's
literally never done in his entire career. And that scored a touchdown. He scored this past weekend.
But him getting like bona fide, number one wide receiver usage is massive. And I don't.
I know Myers has been a guy you've been really high on for most of the summer, most of the offseason.
Yeah.
So you moved on just a little too quickly.
I did want to say something I've struggled with is, you know, I release my guys.
And then just about all those guys are skyrocketing up by ADP.
Gaskin went in the other direction.
But, I mean, you always sort of played that.
Like, that was just you knew that was a possibility.
And I don't hate the process.
But Jalen Hertz, you know, one of my guys.
absolutely love he is not he's moving down and it doesn't make sense like everyone's like oh my gosh quest
wakins looks awesome rigors having some great practices some great highlights you know both tight ends
are doing and it's yeah they had no one healthy last year like look at their most targeted
receivers Travis fulgum like really and so everyone's excited about the receiving core but for
whatever reason jeline hurts isn't moving up boards and that doesn't make a lot of sense to me yeah
Jacobi Myers. Yeah. Real quick on Hertz. It's people like there was that fake report that came out,
what was it, two weeks ago about Deshawn Watson and the Eagles potentially being interested.
That was pure smoke the whole time. And I really think people are just like looking for a reason to be lower on Hertz because he's not a good pastor.
So I really do think that's a big part of it. And yeah, getting, you know, getting that weaponry back, getting Devontas Smith back, you know, clearly not even laboring off that knee sprain was huge. So yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I don't, I don't have any good.
sources, but I have friends who have really good sources. And so right when that tweet dropped,
they reached out to their guy who would know, who's close with front office personnel in
Houston. And the text they got back within minutes is, yeah, confirmed total BS. But part of me
wanted to just retweet the initial fake report. Like, I just want to put out like a bunch of
false flags. So my guys stop moving up ADP. Like just retweet as much.
much Antonio Gibson hate it as I can find, even though I don't agree with any of it.
But yeah, Jacoby Myers, in my guys, you know, Jacobi Myers every single draft.
Jacobi Myers, every single draft.
Just absolutely love him.
I could be wrong on him.
It could be Nelson Agilor as the guy to target.
Luckily, they're both basically free by ADP, so you can grab both.
But I definitely do prefer Jacobi Myers.
I won't get into, you know, my reasons for liking him.
which I laid out, I think, expertly in my guys and upside wide receivers.
But let's just, yeah, I mean, clearly the most targeted receiver with the first string offense.
I don't think a single wide receiver has one target with the first string offense.
He looked awesome.
He's only ever looked awesome.
That slot role in New England is hyper valuable.
It looks like he is that slot wide receiver.
He is a starter in two wide receiver sets.
people worry about the increase in 12 personnel i'm not that year gronk and hernandez both had over
a thousand yards west welker was in the slot like 99% of the time and he was like two targets
away from calvin johnson from leading the league and targets so uh just he's free and he
you should be like eight rounds more expensive yeah yeah dwayne macfarland from pff um you know i
think you put this in the article too but you know he made a good note that agelar is like
strictly the deep threat you know i gore kind of turned into like a
But weirdly enough, he kind of turned into like Deshawn Jackson type last year.
And I think that's kind of the role that, you know, the Patriots are envisioning already
is they want them to kind of stretch the field and use Myers and all their tight ends underneath.
And I think I mentioned it, but Myers playing in 12 personnel is huge because, you know,
like you said, that slot role is valuable.
But him being a full-time player and playing in their two titan sets, which we know they're going to do pretty heavily is massive.
Before we move on, you know, Mack Jones is like freaking good, man.
Like, Zach Wilson is, I think, looked the most sharp out of all of the rookie quarterbacks so far.
Lance has been pretty up and down.
Fields has been pretty up and down.
But Mac Jones, man, I think he's looked really sharp.
We're recording this a couple hours for the Jags play on Monday nights.
We'll see how Lawrence looks tonight.
But I think Jones has looked really good.
And I think we're going to see Jones a little bit earlier than people are expecting.
Cam's going to start week one.
But I would not be surprised if he struggles.
you know if he struggles out of the gates they might pull they might pull cam pretty quickly yeah so
that that factors into my analysis on jacobi for sure uh and you know cam's gonna be better than he was
last year but he was worse than tim tibo he was a tim tibo clone last year it was bad and like
it hurt everyone on that offense so mac jones comes in that's huge for jacobo that's huge for janu
who i like a lot it's big for agelor and it's huge for damian harris you know fewer goal line vultures
James White, it's better news for him.
Another interesting note about New England is beat writers have been hyping up all camp.
Sony Michelle in the passing game, and it's not something I believed at all, but we really
saw that, and he looked good.
You have to wonder if it's going to come down to whether they cut him or Romandre or
maybe they'll find a way to keep both.
Man, with the way Remandre is right?
I know.
You have a great James White with Rex Burkhead stats.
and it seems like he might be trying to force Sony into that role.
I don't know.
What is your James White staff?
Yeah.
So Rex Burkhead leaving is freaking huge, man.
Like Burkhead last year ran essentially the same amount of routes in their healthy games
as James White did.
And in the games that James White has not played with Rex Burkhead over the last three years,
he's hours like 15.2 fantasy points per game, which, you know, like I've been, you know,
writing about this, talking about this all off season, but when you go, like, you know,
hero running back, superhero running back in your drafts and you only take one running back
in the first two rounds and then just basically punt your second running back slot. I know you're
not a big fan of this, but like James White's that guy, man, the first couple weeks of the season
where you can just kind of like bank on him getting you 8, 10, 12, 14 points while you play the
way of wire or wait on guys like Trace Sermon or Chase Evans to kind of pop. But yeah, man,
I think we're going to get Max sooner than later than later. And real quick on Sony,
like, he looked, dude, he looked kind of good last year. I think he's, I think he's kind of over
some of the nagging issues that he had, you know, either knee and foot and ankle problems
he had, you know, coming out of college and then his first couple of years in the pros,
he looked good last year and on his very limited snaps so far. I think he's kind of backed
that up. I think them targeting him might just be them trying to showcase them so they can
get like a conditional six for him or something the next couple weeks. But yeah, we'll see. I mean,
The thing is, you know, I think Mike Reese from ESPN's been on this, but like,
Ramandre can play special teams.
Sony and Michelle can't, and I think that's probably what's going to get,
remandre, like for sure, a roster spot no matter what.
But I did want to know before we move on, the Patriot schedule is like kind of quietly brutal,
like to start the year.
They play three really good defenses in the first four games between the Dolphins,
the Sants and the Bucks.
Now, granted, the Dolphins, Sants, and Bucks are all at home.
They go on the road in week two to play the Jeff.
but, you know, Sala's going to have those boys a lot more prepared than last year.
So I don't know, man.
I think we could see, I think we could see Mack by week four, week five.
The Patriots starts slow offensively.
You got anything more on Patriots evils or do you want to move on?
Yeah, let's move on.
All right.
Mekyll Hardman, man.
He's, you know, kind of gotten some faint praise from Chiefs beats all off season,
that he's more focused, that he looks, you know, kind of more in tune.
with things. And I always take those types of reports with just a massive grade of salt.
I mean, you know, some beats are super trustworthy and put a lot of work into what they do.
And some and some don't. So you kind of have to like take some of these sources with a massive
great assault. But Mikol is, man, you know, you noted this in your review, but Mikul kind
got a Tyreek Hill role. And in the years past, you know, he wasn't even Tyreek's direct backup.
I mean, we saw DeMarcus Robinson play ahead of him, plenty of times.
We saw Sandy Watkins, excuse me, get an increased role in the games that Hills missed in the past.
And Mikol, you know, was the number one receiver this past week.
I mean, Tyreek didn't play.
Travis Kelsey was out there, but, you know, kind of just BSing, basically.
I don't even think he got a target.
But, man, Mikul is, I think some of this is somewhat real and they desperately need, you know,
they desperately need a number three.
DeMarcus Robinson just kind of is what he is.
I think Byron Pringle is interesting, but Meekle taking a big step would be huge.
What have you seen from Meekle?
I don't think you and I have even talked about Meekle this off season.
So are you targeting him at all?
Or what's your approach there?
I think what we saw this past week was Hardman's upside if Tyreek Hill were to suffer an injury.
And that's league winning upside.
Remember, they drafted him during that whole controversy where there was a threat,
he might be suspended the full season.
And he was sort of used and featured like Tyreek.
He looked good.
He got open.
He scored that touchdown.
But I think, you know, realistically, everyone healthy.
He's the number three receiver and a sizable distance behind Tyreek and Kelsey,
who are really the focal point get featured.
But still, that's a valuable role.
Think Sammy Watkins plus.
It's the number three receiver, but on one of the most potent passing off.
of maybe all time.
And, you know, he's hyper athletic.
He's historically hyper efficient throughout his career.
So there's definitely upside there.
But I wouldn't expect too much with everyone healthy.
Yeah.
The big question for Mikol be when they go into 12,
does he see like a, not a full-time role?
Because they're going to rotate some of their guys.
They rotate Tyree Kill a little bit too.
But when they go into 12 stuff,
Does Mekyll play or is it DeMarcus?
And when they go into 11, where does Mekyll line up?
Because they move Tyree Kill all over the field too.
So yeah, I mean, regardless, there's, you know, with Sammy Watkins gone, there's 16% target share.
To be taken, Watkins got 16% in 2019 and his healthy games last year.
He ironically got a 16% target share too.
So, you know, 16% of, you know, Patrick Mahomes targets and a very pass heavy offense is extremely valuable.
16% on, I don't know, like the Ravens is meaningless, but on the Chiefs, it can, you know, shake out to 90 to 100 targets.
And yeah, Mikol, I think, I think is kind of in that, he can be Watkins Plus, but the big question for me is, does you rotate with Robinson and Pringle in 12?
Real quick, before we move on, Clyde Edwards-Aler had an ankle injury.
I haven't seen anything else regarding, like, the severity of it.
Andy Reid did mention after the game.
He doesn't believe it's a high ankle issue, which is, which is good, because high ankle is tip.
typically linger a little bit longer than low ankle sprain.
So we'll have to see on that.
But the thing I took away after Edwards Aller exited, Dorel Williams basically played every
single snap.
It wasn't Derek McKinnon.
So we kind of saw a little bit of what we saw during the Super Bowl push last year is
that Dorel Williams is as Edwards O'Lare's direct backup.
And I think McKinnell will play some sort of like passing down, third down, hurry-up role
if CEH were to miss.
Yeah, so he was a full participant in practice today.
Really?
You're saying it's a sore ankle, which is way better than, you know, a high ankle sprain would be, you know, potentially like four to six weeks.
Yeah, nice.
Yeah, that's, that means he's pretty much completely fine.
They're probably just taking a really slow with them.
Well, good.
So no problem with CEH.
Let's move on here to the Cardinals.
And I think this is probably like one of the most interesting things that we're going to talk about today is, is just how good.
good like Ron Dale Moore has looked just how heavily they've used him. You know, granted,
DeAndre Hopkins has not not played yet. But Ron Del Moore, man, he's been in the slot a ton.
They're just getting a ton of like quick access, quick screen type of throws for Kyler.
The Cardinals, you know, I think Rich Rebar has been all over this, but, you know,
the Cardinals are not an air raid. They're a horizontal rate offense. I love that. And,
and yeah, Rondale's, I think, going to be a big part of it, man. I think he's going to be full
time in the slot. He'll play slot in their 11 stuff. And they'll
kind of rotate between nuke, not new, but AJ Green and Chris Kirk in their 11 stuff.
And obviously when they go four wide, because they can finally actually go four wide now,
more will be in the slot.
But man, they have made it a point of emphasis to get Ronville more the ball.
Yeah, and we knew that was going to happen.
That's what Cliff Kingsbury said right after he drafted him.
That was the guy that coveted the entire draft.
My comp for him was Kryptonian cold beef.
And I think that's what you're hoping for for a best case scenario, like a freak athlete,
Cole Beasley, PPR cheat code.
Right after he drafted him, he said he's going to be a day one starter in the slot.
That's correct.
That's what's going to happen.
He said he's going to feature him, try and get him the ball as many ways as possible.
That's happened, you know, heavy usage in the running game as well.
So I think that's what we're going to see from Ron Dale.
I don't think he has Elijah Moore face melting upside, but I mean, he's a comparable talent.
He's his freshman season at Purdue is one of the greatest, you know, young, wide receiver seasons of all time.
He's a freak athlete.
He's amazing after the catch.
So just like a really exciting player and a player you're going to want to draft for fantasy.
Yeah, I remember you slacking me back in like February or March you're like, dude, here are four games of Rondo.
Moore you have to watch. And it was legitimately mouthwatering what he can do after the catch.
And that's something that the Cardinals have been missing this offense, man. I mean, you know,
they got nuke, which was huge, but they never had a consistent number two. And I think Rhonda
Moore kind of gives them another element where they can kind of build, you know, build routes off
of what Ron Dale does and kind of like the shallow depth of target area and then build off of
off nuke on that side of the field too. This is something that's interesting, though, and
something I've kind of like, I know I've been a little bit higher on Chase Edmonds than you've been this
offseason, but I think, I think Ron Dale's, you know, kind of quick throw extension of the running
game and the screen game is kind of a sneaky thing that Chase Edmonds is going to have to deal with
because we're drafting Chase Edmonds to be like an Austin Echler light type of player, where, you know,
Kyler's not going to, you know, dump off the ball like Justin Herbert does 28 and 29% of the time.
Kyler's also not Lamar Jackson.
Kyler's targeted his running backs on 20% of his throws over the last couple years.
That's like right around league average, maybe slightly below.
But Lamar Jackson's like 12, 13% targets to running back.
So we just don't, you know, those scrambling quarterbacks typically throw to their running backs way less.
But Kyler hasn't necessarily been that guy.
And another aspect of this offense that's really interesting to me is like this past
offseason, Kyler basically said like, you know, my shoulder was real messed up.
you know, the middle half of the year. And I felt like we were like relying way too much on my
scrambling and second reaction ability to kind of move the ball. So I do think we're going to see a lot
more like design quick throws to Rondale, but just how many, just how many will matter for Chase's
upside. But man, you know, the main reason I've really been on Edmonds is I just don't think
James Conner is very good, man. Connor got the same exact free agent deal that Malcolm Brown
God, it was a one year, $1.75 million deal. Everybody kind of laughed at Malcolm Brown joining the
Dolphins and, yeah, I get it. You know, he's going to force some sort of rotation with Miles
Gaskin. And James Conner is definitely going to be like an early down, you know, goal line back for sure.
But, man, I just, I think Chase is just much, much better at football. And, you know,
he's going to be on the field for the one thing that, that you and I always are after. And that's,
you know, that's the targets. And we saw that in this first preseason or second preseason game now.
Edmonds was on the field, man, well ahead of Connor.
And I think that's something that we're going to be looking into real heavily in week one.
It's just how this running back split shakes out.
Yeah, so last year, Edmonds averaged 4.8 carries and 4.3 targets per game when Kenyon Drake played,
which is basically worthless for starts hit fantasy leagues.
Kenyon Drake averaged 15.9 carries, 2.1 targets per game.
And based on Cliff Kingsbury's comments in the day three,
press conference. It really made it seem to me like Conner is going to slide into that Drake role
and Chase Edmonds is going to see like two more touches per game, if that. And so I wasn't on Edmonds at
all. And yeah, this is big. I mean, Connor missed week one of preseason. So we'll have to see what
happens preseason week three. But yeah, Edmonds got a ton of early down work over James Connor.
And yeah, I might just be dead wrong on him. I've moved him way up my rankings.
I mean, if he gets all of the, you know, work in games they're trailing and then he still gets like 50 to 70% of the early down work, like he could be one of the more, one of the best values in drafts right now.
Yeah.
You know, the whole running back dead zone thing has just been beaten into a freaking oblivion to this point where it's just like, I don't know, it just makes my ears bleed sometimes listen to stuff about it now.
I mean, Edmonds, I think, has always been a little underpriced in that dead zone because we already know he's going to get, you know, his four or five targets per game.
And, you know, James Connor hasn't completed a full season like ever.
Like, he has, he has that type of upside too if Connor missed his time.
And in the games that Edmonds was kind of forced into a workhorse role, I mean, we've seen him get, you know, massive touches, you know, 25, 28, 30 touches.
And granted, some of that is just they had nothing else behind him, but they kind of don't either.
I mean, it's, you know, Benjamin, but I don't really think that's too much of a thing.
So, yeah, I think Edmonds is probably going, I think he's been going a little too late to begin with.
And it'll be interesting to see where his ADP shakes out in the next week or so based off small sample, but based off this usage.
All right.
I think this next player we're going to talk about, man, is someone, you and I both desperately
want to be a workhorse Christian McCaffrey, you know, Ezekiel Elliott type of player.
But thus far, man, in the 30-ish, 35 snaps that Ryan Fitzpatrick has played, it's been a lot of
kind of the same usage that we saw last year.
But there's a major caveat to this.
Ryan Fitzpatrick has played 36 snaps between their first and second preseason game so far,
and Gibson's been on the field for 20 of them.
So it's like a 55, 56% snap rate.
Gibson's only been on the field for one of nine third downs.
But does that actually matter?
Because on those 20 snaps that Gibson has played, he's gotten 11 carries and five targets.
I mean, every single time he's been on the field, they are feeding him,
trying to make it a point of emphasis to get him the ball in the passing game.
I don't really think this like McKissick third down thing really matters all that much.
Man, if he's going to get this type of usage on early down stuff and be the goal line back,
I, you know, I don't think we're going to see like the type of 80%, you know, 75, 80% snapshot that we want.
But that being said, I mean, damn, we will more than be more than happy with, you know,
whatever that would shake out to be over four quarters, you know, 18, 20 carries, four or five targets and all the goal line stuff on a very,
very, very good Washington team.
Yeah. So I think fantasy experts are really overstating the impact of the third down role.
Remember beat writers have been saying all offseason that it's Gibson playing in the
hurry up offense when they're running that at practice.
So really all you're looking at is third down, not short yardage, but third down,
third and long passing plays.
And that's really not that valuable for a running back at all.
like, I mean, Dalvin Cook had 12 third down targets last year.
Zeke had eight.
It's just, it really, you don't, you don't really target your running backs too often on third and long.
The bulk of their value as a past catcher really comes on those early downs, getting those early down targets.
And we definitely saw that with Gibson.
Like if you extrapolate what we've seen from him and you give him just like a 60%,
66% snapshot.
It's still like the most valuable workload of any player in fantasy, including Christian McCaffrey,
just obscene usage.
They're going out of their way to target him heavily on first and second down.
Again, that's where running backs typically get their target volume, not third down.
So, yeah.
So he played on 68% of the team's first team snaps.
last week. Washington average about 66 snaps per game. And, you know, so he's had 12 carries and
five targets and 24 total snaps. Extrapolate that. You're looking at 22.3 carries, 9.3 targets
per game. That's like Christian McCaffrey on steroids, which is like crazy to even think about.
And it's not too far off his usage in his last healthy game last year. 20 carries, seven targets,
37 fantasy points. And remember, as we've talked about all offseason, you know,
Scott Turner was saying, like, yeah, we want to have him grow into that McAfrey workload as the season moves on.
We just didn't get a chance because he spent the remainder of the season hurt.
But if he had stayed healthy, I think he's a guy who would be getting drafted top six, top seven.
So it just still an immense value to me, still a bell count in me.
The only question is, you know, I've been struggling with my rankings, him versus Mix-in,
and I just kind of gave it to Gibson because he has the higher ADP.
but I just love both those guys so much.
Yeah, you and I've talked about this quite a bit.
Like, Mixon,
Mixon ironically has the role we've always wanted him to have,
but he's on a significantly worse team behind a significantly worse offensive
lines.
So game script and touchdown upside will be a concern for Mixon for the whole season.
But Gibson on the flip side has an amazing defense.
It's going to give him a lot of really good game scripts,
either, you know, between, you know, game between like a score
or, you know, Washington has a lead in the first.
just trying to like salt it away and Gibson can just kind of be the hammer. But yeah, you make a
great point about the value of that third down goal because, you know, even though, you know,
guys like Josh Jacobs, you know, never, Josh Jacobs has one career third down target, you know,
like he just doesn't play third rounds. He's 80th among all running backs and routes run on third
downs over the last two combined years, 80th. But he also just doesn't get early down targets either.
just don't throw the ball to him.
And I actually just pulled this.
So on their 27, Washington has played 27, first and second down, so it's early down snaps.
And J.D. McKissick has been on the field for two.
Two.
Peyton Barber has played quite a few, but that's probably just Washington trying to get Gibson some sort of breather.
I think Peyton Barber is going to get cut for Jared Patterson.
So, man, I mean, if McKissick's just not going to play any early downs, which was, you
And not only it was a concern last year, because he played on pretty much all their third downs,
and he played some of their hurry-up stuff, obviously, and he obviously was on the field quite a bit
for the early-down stuff, too. But Gibson getting all of the first and second down snaps is massive.
All right, before we move on, you got to give you the floor on Logan Thomas. He had another huge play.
Granted, it was kind of like a broken play. He was just wide open the fly. I think it was actually the first play of that game.
But Thomas has continued to look good, and his usage has been fantastic.
He's been on the field on every snap.
He's had a number of really nice catches.
There was one up the sideline he had.
He had a couple weeks last week.
It was kind of like a contested catch.
I mean, it looked real close to Duren Waller and what Duren Waller can do.
So, yeah, man, I think I've been a little too low on Thomas.
I still think Curtis Samuel's role and kind of like what kind of target share he gets is
probably going to threaten like Thomas's apex ceiling.
But, you know, there's no doubt he's been a.
strong value all summer.
He's someone that I've moved up my ranks here.
Excuse me.
He's somewhere I've moved up my ranks quite a bit in the last couple weeks.
Yeah.
So Belkow running backs are like a cheat code at the position,
running backs who are heavily involved in the running and passing games,
play nearly every snap.
Konami code quarterbacks are a cheat coach, you know,
quarterbacks who run the ball, just a massive advantage.
And we see the same thing with Logan Thomas.
He's played on 100% of the team's first.
string snaps this preseason. He's blocked, like past blocked, I think just one snap.
So he's running a ton of routes. And you saw that last year. He ranked ninth among all receivers
and routes run. Kelsey ranked 16th. Waller ranked 26th. T.J. Hawkinson ranked 54th.
And that's just like such a massive advantage. Like not to take anything away from T.J.
Hawkinson in his 2021 outlook. But basically, he was playing three quarters of football per game to
Thomas is four. So that's just a huge advantage. There's so much hype out of camp.
He's a converted quarterback. He's hyper athletic. So I think you should expect him to take
another significant step forward this year, not even including the improvement in quarterback play.
So he's one of my favorite values and fantasy drafts. Do you not have any concern with Thomas
in his efficiency? He was really bad in like yards per route run. And you know, you and I are both like
always all over that as like the best efficiency metric. Or was that more?
just like Alex Smith sucking.
I mean, I think that was part of it.
I think it was also, he was extremely inexperienced at the position.
And now he's a full year under his belt.
So I expect all those numbers to improve significantly.
The tight end coach said he thinks he's already a top five tight end in the league.
Right.
Yeah, I just feel really good about Logan Thomas.
Yeah.
And the good thing is, like, he's not going to creep up too much in ADP to a point where like,
you know, if you take him in like, you get real aggressive and take him in like the seventh
or eighth round. Even in that range, like, you know, the hit rate for, you know,
guys we're looking at the seventh eighth round is, you know, 50% at best. So, I mean,
even if Thomas is not necessarily the type of upside that you think he has, he's definitely
not going to kill you in that range and probably have a pretty good four for the most part.
All right. So you mentioned Konami Code quarterbacks. And, you know, I've watched all of
Trey Lance's snaps so far. I've watched all of Justin Field snaps so far.
far. And I'm not sure if it's just like Shanahan just taking it real easy and not designing
anything. Yeah, he said early on that Tray Lance is not going to be used in a rushing capacity in
the preseason. They're going to take it easy on him. When he starts actual games,
expect a ton of creative RPO's like Shanahan used with Robert Griffin III in his rookie season.
A lot of rushing production do not overreact to this. Yeah, I'm not. But what I was going to say is
like Justin Fields, man, they have put no cap on him. He has, he's been out there scrambling like a
maniac. I mean, he's, he's had a number of nice runs. Man, you know, I just can't imagine the
Bears going in a week one with Dalton instead of Fields. Like, that's just laughables to me still.
But I guess we'll see. So I don't know about that. Really? My guy, Mike Renner, says he would not
start Justin Fields behind this offensive line. Interesting. And all of my PFF guys are telling him
the same thing. This might be take lock because...
I don't get that, man. If you want...
Okay, the Bears' offense line of shit. When you want the guy who can actually move back there,
like Andy Dalton's a freaking statue, you know what I mean? Yeah, but he's also inviting a lot of
pressure. Fields is? That's what they're saying, yeah. So again, it might be take lock because
these guys weren't that high on him in the draft analysis portion. But they're saying he doesn't look good.
They're saying he doesn't look ready. I mean, I,
have Danny Kelly saying the opposite, and I definitely trust him. But all my PFF guys are really nervous
about Justin Fields, which is weird. But from a fantasy perspective, you have to be extremely excited.
So Trey Lance was the more productive runner in college. But Justin Fields is an all-time freak athlete.
You know, the third best speed score of any quarterback all time, third best 40-year dash time.
And through four quarters, not four complete quarters, but four quarters and two preseason games.
he's totaled 26.8 fantasy points,
nine carries, 79 rushing yards and a score.
And yeah, man, I mean,
even if he's not that ready,
he's still an improvement to Andy Dalton in my eyes.
And he should, with that, you know,
rushing floor should still be very productive for fantasy.
Yeah, I mean, Fields has played, you know,
basically a game's worth of snaps.
He played, I think I've got it as 70.
So it's right out of games worth.
And him having, you know, nine for 79 and a touchdown is,
is fantastic.
I was going to mention something about fields.
Oh, one of the things that I keep thinking about with this Bears offense, right,
is like it worked best when Trubisky was running.
Like that offense, when they were running RPO's and Trubisky was scrambling,
that's when the Bears' offense always looked its best.
And I just have to think Nagy, like, man, I really hope he goes back to some of that,
some of that type of, you know, RPO, run action,
play action with fields because like Andy Dalton just he ain't he ain't gonna cut it man he's just not
he ain't gonna cut it and I think you know that first first game man they get the
they get the Rams like Aaron Donald and that offensive line is is gonna be nasty and you know
our defensive line I should say and if you know Dalton takes five six seven sacks like we're
gonna see we're gonna see fields a week two against the bangles but yeah it's
That's all interesting about fields not looking ready.
You know, I've heard from a number of people that I respect to that field has looked,
has looked, you know, good so far.
You know, Lance has kind of been more up and down.
So interesting opinions all around.
Let's talk quickly here before we get to a couple of running backs.
Let's talk quickly about Corey Davis.
Elijah Moore has obviously been out with a quad injury.
I think they're just really taking a slow with him.
Moore is obviously had a fantastic summer between O.T.
He looked great in camp, apparently, too.
We'll see if he can get any work in.
It'd be good to see him in that third preseason game this coming week.
But I love to see.
Corey Davis, though, has been, he's been Zach Wilson's, like, by far, number one target.
And I think regardless of you and I, and, you know, especially you being super high on more,
I think we've been a little too low on Davis.
No, that's absolutely right.
And this does pour a little cold water on.
you know, the Elijah Moore hype, because Davis has looked excellent. He has looked legitimately
excellent. And Wilson has targeted him on 10 of his 20 total pass attempts. Even more
impressively, it is ridiculous. Davis has 10 targets on 13 total routes. So you want to extrapolate
that over a full season and we should project 587 targets for Corey Davis. He's caught six of
those 10 targets for 88 yards. Again, he looks great, but also Zach Wilson looks great. And that's
That's an important point is, you know, phenomenal velocity going through his progressions the right way, which apparently Fields is not doing and he didn't do in college.
So you have to be a little excited about this offense, especially given the fact that they have far and away probably the worst defense in all of football.
So he should lean pass heavy.
You need Zach Wilson, who looks like, you know, Justin Bieber back there to stay healthy, of course.
but yeah, I mean, it's exciting.
And, you know, Corey Davis probably too low on him.
You know, I said from day one, Elijah Moore would be the wide receiver one in this team.
But, you know, Davis is really making a compelling case for himself.
Yeah.
I was listening to a little bit of a pod that our guy Greg Kossel was on this morning.
And I could seriously listen to Kossel talking about quarterbacks like 24 hours a day.
And he mentioned, you know, he just, he.
in his typical co-sell voice, he mentioned that Wilson's arm looks loose and live.
And that's like the perfect way to describe it.
I mean, he's looked every single bit of the part.
Any of that missed time he had because of whatever the contract,
snafu is just not been a big problem whatsoever.
I do think at the end of the day,
I think we're going to see more in Davis,
like kind of be some sort of like 1A, 1B to start like the first month of the season.
And we'll see how it goes from there.
but you also make a good point that the Jets,
the Jets defense stinks.
Like they're going to be in, you know,
I think Sala is going to elevate them and they're going to be way more competitive
than they were last year.
But that being said, I mean, talent-wise, they're, they're in a really, really tough
spot.
The, I think the bigger takeaway in this game, man, is Michael Carter.
Like, he played far behind Ty Johnson and Tevin Coleman.
He didn't see a single snap with Zach Wilson and the first team offense this past week.
And that's, that's kind of a departure for.
from last the first preseason game.
Granted, Kevin Coleman didn't play,
but Ty Johnson and Carter, at least for split snaps.
And I'm starting to wonder if something's going on with Carter,
if he's just had a few bad weeks or something's going on here
that we're not seeing in the Jets media.
Because in, you know, OTAs in the first couple weeks of training camp,
even when Kevin Coleman and Ty Johnson were there,
Carter was getting first team snaps.
So to see him fall to a distant third on the depth chart
and play well into the fourth quarter was interesting.
I'm not necessarily sure if it's just like they want to get an extended look at the rookie,
but him not getting any first team snaps is a really big concern.
Yeah, so I don't know.
I feel somewhat duped by New York Jets beatwriters who have continuously set off season.
He's like strictly playing with the ones.
He looks excellent.
He looks like probably the best running back they have.
And yeah, this usage really goes against that.
So I have moved him completely off of my guys.
Like I really baked in.
He's still probably the RB1A.
Definitely so, I think, in the second half.
But yeah, this wasn't too encouraging.
Yeah.
I've been a little tepid on Carter all offseason.
I've been taking, if I'm taking a running back in like the seventh, eighth round,
it was like one of the Niners guys or Damien Harris.
But I don't know.
man, I just really, I've really struggled with Carter. And, you know, maybe it's, maybe it's a little bit of, like, my own take lock. But, you know, Carter's been like, he just, he never struck me as a guy that you're going to give the ball to 18, 20 times a game. You know, he just never struck me as that guy to begin with. He's, I've always thought he's kind of on that, like, G.O. Bernard, Chase Edmund's spectrum. And I think, I think that's kind of what we're seeing a little bit of. But I do.
I do wonder, man. I do wonder if there's something going on with, you know, he's just maybe had a
couple bad practices here because him getting first team reps in OTAs and training camp. I mean,
that's not something that these beats can lie about, you know, like if he's the first guy out there,
he's the first guy out there. All right, another running back that have had, like, we ran the
gamut on last week and kind of, you know, maybe we left him for dead a little too early was Miles
Gaskin. I think some of it was an overreaction for sure.
but Gaskin got way, way better usage this past week.
Malcolm Brown was a distant third.
Salvin Ahmed played quite a bit still.
I don't know, even though Gaskin was the clear like 1A,
and I think he's going to end up being the clear one A of this committee to begin with,
I still, I'm still not too excited about Gaskin,
even though the usage was what's much, much better this past week.
Yeah, so why you were drafting him a few months ago,
was you were just hoping he had the bell cow role he had last year when, you know,
from week five on, he averaged about 16 carries, 4.5 targets, 19.7 fantasy points per game.
That's mid-range RD1 production and volume.
Like that's, that's excellent.
And you were just hoping that the coaching staff would be smart and it's like, hey,
we know who Malcolm Brown is.
We know he stinks.
And this guy played really well for us last year, capable pass catcher as well as a runner.
So let's just use them in that same role.
And now the coaching staff is telling us, no, no, we're donkeys.
And we're going to force a three-way committee.
So you have to just hope that, you know, Gaskin is so much better than the other guys
that they'll come to their senses.
And that's a significant demotion in my rankings, you know.
Because time and time again, we've seen donkey coaches force committees with, you know,
an RB2 averaging 3.8 yards for carry, but still getting a ton of volume. And, you know,
that's a concern for me. He, you know, he led the backfield. I think he's going to lead the backfield,
but it was still a three-way committee. And that really hurts him for fantasy. Yeah, one of the
biggest things this offseason is the dolphins, you know, they moved on from Cham Gehley.
And they have co-offensive coordinators, which you rarely ever see. They elevated their former
tight-in coach George Godsey and their former running backs coach, Eric Studi.
Udsville. And, you know, man, I think I think us just baking in, Gaskin getting the same exact
role as last year, even though they've changed their, their coordinators, this was probably not
the right call. And also, I mean, Denver, Denver sniped Miami, man. Like, they moved up, they moved
up, L.A. moved up in front of Miami because they knew that Chris Greer was going to take, he was going to
take, he was going to take, he was going to take Javonset Williams. So they moved up one spot ahead of them and
took him. I just think there's been so much like kind of writing on the wall that's kind of been
there between the T-leaves, between the offensive coordinators, and then obviously,
you know, them wanting Javante, I think the T-leaves have kind of been there all along, but they're
much lower on Gaskin, much lower on Gaskin than maybe the public is. One guy, man, that has
not gotten shitty usage this preseason is Naji Harris. And he's been on the field for like almost
every single snap for the first team offense in the first two games with Rudolph back.
there. He got the same exact role when Big Ben played a little bit this week.
I don't really think we need to spend much time on this, but man, Naji Harris,
Belkow, lock it in. And the Steelers' offensive line, as you heard on our podcast,
last week with Wes, has looked much, much better than anticipated. So I think,
Harris is set up for just a massive, massive touchload here.
Yeah, Pittsburgh came into last week with the overall highest run-blower.
rocking grade for their offensive line. So, you know, everyone was panicked about that, but they've
looked great. They've only given up two sacks in the passing game through two preseason games.
Harris, I mean, he's seeing Levi-on-Bel type usage, and this is something we've talked about
all offseason. This is what they want. This is why they drafted him. Mike Tomlin is just like
me in that he's, you know, Bell Cowher bust with his running backs. He played on 15 of 16
snaps to the first string offense last week on 25 total snaps this preseason.
six carries, five targets, 82 yards.
And those five targets, that's, that's huge, you know.
So even if the offensive line does struggle, even if Pittsburgh's as bad as Vegas thinks
they're going to be, which, you know, for the first time and maybe a decade,
they think they're going to be bad, it doesn't really matter if he's getting that passing
game usage.
So you have to be really excited about Najee Harris for redraft.
Yeah, for sure.
I think I've been a little too low on Harris.
I mean, we've talked about this quite a bit.
I love the receivers in his range.
I've been drafting Nixon and Gibson, you know, above him pretty much every single time.
But Harris, the back half at that second round, is looking like a really, really good bet.
All right. Teddy Bridgewater, we talked about this with West last week, too, but Teddy Bridgewater, man, has, I just think if you're going to play the type of ball, the Broncos want to play, ball control, the liner defense, run the hell out of the ball.
Teddy Bridgewater's your guy.
and Bridgewater has looked much better than Drew Locke.
Bridgewater balled the hell out in their second game.
Locke had a great throw to KJ Hamler,
the Vikings last week.
But that's really all that Locke has put together.
I think at this point, Bridgewater, if you're betting,
Bridgewater would be like probably minus 300 to be the week one starter.
And I think that's huge for both Judy and Sutton.
I mean, Bridgewater at least can put the ball on target against man or zone.
That's something that Drewlock is really,
struggled with in his career thus far. He's been highly, highly inaccurate. You made a great point
a couple weeks ago. He really was on the West Pod about Locke just not seeing open guys and Teddy
Bridgewater. That's what he is, man. He throws the open guy. He facilitates the offense. He stays
within himself. And that's kind of what we've seen. So I think we're going to see Bridgewater
week one starter. And oh, baby, if that happens, it's Jerry Judy season, man. It is Jerry Judy
season. His ADP is Scott.
eye-rocketing. But I really don't think there's a point. There's not going to be a point in your
draft where you're like, man, Judy's too expensive. Like, unless he starts going ahead of like Adam
Thielen or something, then you're not going to see a point where Judy's too expensive.
Yeah, I mean, Bridgewater supported three top 25 wide receivers by total fantasy points last year.
He's much better than Locke at seeing and then hitting the opening guy. And ball placement's really good.
So he really opens up an avenue for the receiver to gain yards after the catch.
And that's not something Locke does at all.
You know, he has a much stronger arm.
Bridgewater is, you know, a very poor deep ball thrower.
But Locke, you know, he likes those jump ball receivers, which isn't Judy's game at all.
It is Sutton's game.
It is Tim Patrick's game.
You know, ball placement isn't great for yak, doesn't see the open guy.
And so, yeah, fingers crossed, it's Teddy, which, again, would be huge.
for Jerry Judy. If it's Locke, that's good news for Sutton. It's bad news for Judy, but
fingers crossed for Teddy. Yeah, even though if Teddy's not super aggressive, I still think Bridgewater
just is, and again, like, this is not the best curve, but Bridgewater is like just so much
better than Locke. Like, I hear you that, that, you know. Yeah, so I don't know. I don't know.
So like, you hear Greg talk about constantly, the league knows who Teddy is. He's a high-end backup,
very low-end starter and he's he's not going to do much in the deep passing game and you know no upside
whereas lock does have upside you know if he could just fix this and this he could be really good
and you know maybe they're thinking more long term so it wouldn't shock me if if locks the starter
out of the gates but the good news is with bridgewater there is the safety net there's no way
quarterback play is going to be as bad as it was last year because lock would just get benched
Right. Yeah, that's a good point.
Man, one rookie who has been awesome so far, like, just jumped off the screen.
And I know I sit at the top.
I'm trying not to, like, get too excited about guys that, like, just look good.
Terrence Marshall looks freaking awesome.
Like, coming off all those injuries out of LSU, he looked fantastic.
In their first game, he caught a beautiful, I mean, he just roasted this Ravens Corner on a, like, a 37-yard or up the sideline from Will Greer.
and their second preseason game.
Marshall just looks freaking awesome.
His ADP has skyrocketed.
I think he's gotten to a point now where we can probably bake in that he's going to
probably hurt Robbie Anderson and DJ Moore's like overall target share.
He's still, I think, going to be fourth in total targets on this team, at least a start
the year behind McCaffrey as well.
But, man, Marshall, I think they hit a home ride with Marshall, man.
If he's going to play slot full-time too, I know this is something you've been all over with,
with Darnold and his receivers.
If Marshall's going to play slot, you know, maybe not full-time, but like 60, 70% of the time,
I think we're kind of underrating how much upside Marshall really has.
And he might already be better than Robbie Anderson.
All right.
Would you take DJ Moore over Jerry Judy?
I've been out on Moore all offseason.
So, man, that's really close.
Right. So the biggest thing with Terris Marshall being a thing is I don't get DJ Moore's ADP.
He finished 25th in total fantasy points last year. McCaffrey and his 100 plus targets were out of the picture.
He ranked behind Curtis Samuel and Robbie Anderson and fantasy points for games. So you're betting on him jumping those guys in the target totem pole.
you're also banking on Sam Darnold being really good and not, you know, as bad as he's been
throughout his entire career. And so Terris Marshall to me, yeah, I think just makes me like
Robbie and DJ significantly less. And I do believe in Terris Marshall's talent. You know,
he went late in the draft, but there were injury concerns there. The offensive coordinator has a
history with him. And again, yeah, Darnold loves the slot wide receiver. And that could
be hit yeah people that have been taken like i don't know more ahead of like amari cooper and
adam feeling that's just like been free money but i think i think you're on to something that judy's
probably even a better bet than more um man i just i kind of wish i got more marshal early on because
he was going like 18th 19th round and best ball and now he's you know routinely going 12 13 14th i
feel like that was that was a mistake i was a little bit concerned about the injuries and his injury
passed and in darnal and i still think the the darnal thing is a concern but man he he you know we talk
about this all the time targets are earned and terrace marshal is freaking earning his targets right now
um all right before we get out of here we got to talk about the niners quarterback situation
um jimmy gropolo man played one one drive it was 15 plays it was extremely sluggish uh he had a
extremely high throw in an open brandon i yuk who was going towards the sidelines he overthrew it by
like five yards over his head.
And then later in the drive, that end of the drive, he threw another extremely high pass
that clanged off Iyuk's hands.
Asante Samuel picked it off.
Grapolo did not look good in their first preseason game.
I think he looked very sluggish in this game.
But the problem is I don't think Tray Lance has done a ton to really put a stamp on, hey,
this is an actual quarterback battle.
Lance was pretty up and down.
He had a bad pick of his own on a high throw that just didn't have any.
it had like no feel to it.
I mean, he just zipped it in there and it just clanged off snoo's hands.
You know, we saw in the second game, Lance got quite a bit of burn.
He played into the third quarter.
We saw a little bit of like the pocket movement from, from Lance just like being able to feel and sense pressure way better than Groplo, which isn't surprising at all.
But we mentioned earlier, you know, Lance just hasn't gotten any of the design stuff.
And that's been, you know, that's been Shanahan's all doing.
But man, I have a bet in on Lance starting week one, and I'm getting pretty concerned that I don't think it's going to cash.
Yeah, I mean, Trey Lance hasn't looked amazing. He's very up and down. Luckily, I don't think that really matters too much from a fantasy perspective.
Just with that receiving core, you know, three of the best yards after the catch monsters and football.
he's just so well set up for success, the running game too, you know, Kyle Shanahan being a genius,
working those RPO's, letting him loose in the running game.
So, yeah, I mean, I don't know that he starts week one.
I don't know that he starts week two, week three.
I just know that when he does start, there's a really good chance he's going to return
at least low-end QB-1 production on a fantasy point per game basis.
Yeah.
And the good thing is, I mean, I'm still all over Lance.
you know, in the 12th, 13th, 14th round.
And you can kind of bake in, you know, him missing at least week one or week two
and kind of, you know, find ways to get production.
I like Baker Mayfield quite a bit as that guy.
I think it's the Chiefs Week 1 and then the Dead Texans week 2.
I think her cousin's another good option too.
You know who's a good comp for Lance?
Who's that?
Initially, I was saying, you know, he reminds me a lot of Patrick Mahomes, his sophomore season.
And so maybe he's Mahomes, like, who all of the draft experts thought Mahomes would be,
which is like very up and down, high ceiling, you know, great arm velocity and strength,
but questionable decision making, no real finesse to his game.
Obviously, Mahomes turned out to be one of the best quarterbacks in football with a genius head coach.
But maybe just who draft experts thought he was.
Or maybe factor in the rushing Josh Allen, like not Josh.
Allen last year, like maybe he'll be last year's version of Josh Allen at some point in his career,
but maybe Josh Allen from two years ago, plus I could see that being the case.
Yeah, I think that makes a lot of sense. I've seen some Cam comps. And I think Cam is still
probably his ultimate comp for like a rookie season type of ceiling. But yeah, I think Allen makes
quite a bit of sense. I mean, Allen didn't really play with any finesse at all until late into
a second year and definitely last year. So, you know,
Lance is going to be a project.
I think we all kind of expected that,
especially since he didn't play at all,
basically last year.
I played one game.
It was always going to be a big learning curve.
And I think we're kind of seeing that
the up and downness of it all.
But I mean, that second touchdown he threw to Travis Benjamin was gorgeous,
man.
I mean, he looked off the safety,
went back to the middle of field and delivered a freaking dart.
So I definitely like that Josh Allen call.
And that's our son, man.
That is our son.
Josh Allen is our son.
So we want Lance to eventually have a,
at 2020 Allen type of season.
Maybe it won't be this year, but definitely in his season.
So he's our son from the JM pod, for those of you who aren't aware of that.
Although me and Danny Kelly have been calling Zach Wilson our bouncing baby boy,
maybe because he like looks like he's six years old.
Dude, he looks like he.
He looks like he.
Also because I envision Aaron Donald bouncing his head off of the turf like a basketball.
He's so tiny.
He is real small.
He looks like he's freaking 16, man.
Like he looks like he just got off like the high school field and he's about to go like get McDonald's afterwards or something.
Here's a hot take.
People don't understand how competitive I am, how hyper competitive I am, how Machiavellian I am, or even better yet, how Belichikian I am when it comes to competition.
If I were the owner of the New York Jets, what I would do is I would say this is a loss season.
I'm I'm pumping as much HGH and testosterone into Zach Wilson as he can handle.
I'm opening up those growth plates.
I'm putting him through a second puberty.
So he looks more like his dad.
I don't know if you've seen his dad,
but his dad looks like the Hulk.
His dad is like gigantic.
Yeah, his brother too kind of is a linebacker and he looks like it.
But like Zach Wilson, you know, looks like a kid in a Disney Channel movie playing
Zach Wilson in a movie type of thing.
So I would just take the suspension for your rookie season, stay healthy, get jacked out of your mind, and then take the league by storm.
I would create like this superhuman Zach Wilson.
But unfortunately, that's not going to happen because I don't have billions of dollars.
Dude, they should have signed Will Fuller this off season and just gotten Zach Wilson on whatever Fuller was on last year.
That's what they should have done.
Yeah.
Oh, good stuff, man.
This was awesome.
a nice tight hour of some actionable takeaways from the preseason.
We might be back with another pod later this week.
Scott, I know you're doing some traveling, so it might end up being the following week,
but we'll see.
If you see another two bars in your podcast feed later this week, here you go.
You'll be pleasantly surprised that we come back.
But yeah, man, this has been great.
Take us out of here.
Enjoy the final week of preseason.
don't talk to you again.
Like I said from the top, we'll be updating projections and all of that every single day.
And they'll lead up to the biggest draft weekend of the season.
And again, you're going to want to get in, get your cheat sheets, bring it to your draft, beat all your friends' asses.
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All right, man, this has been fun.
Swam Prats.
We'll catch you next time.
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