Fantasy Football Daily - Ask Guru Anything #4

Episode Date: August 20, 2023

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What's going on, everybody? It's a Tuesday night. We're recording live. I'm your boy Brian Drake hanging out with the guru, the publisher of fantasy points.com. Mr. John Hanson, John, we are in the thralls of NFL preseason. We're on the doorstep of fantasy drafts. I just came back from the Fantasy Football Expo where I competed against 13 other experts. It's been a long week, man.

I got to relax. I got to crack one here with you and all our friends in the live chat here, YouTube.com slash fantasy points. How are you, brother? I'm doing all right. As I told you before we went on there, I'm, I'm pretty healthy guy. Like, I never get sick. I fight off things.

I think I'm fighting off a sinus infection deal. So I'm trying to kill it with beer right now. And so far, it's working. I couldn't let you sit here and drink alone. So I went up and grabbed one of the beers that somebody grabbed me from the Fantasy Football Expo. People gave me a ton. This is, what is this, hop or hero IPA from. That hell is it from Revolution Brewing.

So shout out to everybody who gave me free beer out there. We'll enjoy this tonight on the show. What is better than free beer? Nothing. Not at all. No. This show is all about your guys. I've got beer stories for you, by the way.

Like, we can go on for, you know, a little more off-season fodder. But here's a quick one for you. Sure. My senior year in high school, I'm 17, just turned 17. You know, my birthday is July 31st. So he's only 17. Five weeks after I turned 17, I get this connection and I had it for the entirety of the year. Couldn't get served at a liquor store, didn't have a fake ID, but I could go to this beer distributor

liquor beverage distributor and get a half barrel keg whenever I wanted. So I probably bought 30, 40 half barrel kegs my senior year in high school. Oh my gosh. That's what you need is the hookup. And then it's like, yo, party at John's house. Come on over. Oh,

that'll get you. These are mostly woods and pit parties in the 80s. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Now we're just too old guys. I was all in the mix. I was all in the mix with those, by the way,

my high school. The reason we were late coming on air here, folks, is we typically like to go off at 8 o'clock Eastern time is John and I were talking about 80s hair bands, specifically scorpions, because I'm a big poison guy. And he starts,

John starts going into talking about scorpions. And let's be go down a wormhole after the show. I'll be on YouTube, just searching it out. But what are some of your favorite, before we get into the fantasy questions here, just some of your favorite old school 80s bands when you were growing up? Well, I'm a big music guy. So I liked a lot of genre. I was totally all in on all the new wave stuff and all that.

Not really like Michael Jackson or anything like that. It was all I, you know, but more so hard rock, heavy metal, like going, from like, you know, Rush, ACDC, Ozzy, you know, all three of those were huge when I was like in eighth grade. And then going into high school, the start of MTV and, you know, deaf leopard. I'm a big, we were just talking scorpions. I was a huge, still I'm Judas Priest fan.

You know, it's funny, I was telling you too, I was hooked up with my guy, Richard Christie from the Howard Stern Show. Shout out to Richard on the boardwalk yesterday in Ocean City. We were actually going to go to a concert in two weeks together in Philadelphia, but unfortunately it had to be canceled. Wasp. I was a big wask guy. I will say, and I actually had a conversation about this with the one and only

the late great Ronnie James Dio, one of the nicest people I've ever spoken to. I did bail. No offense to your poison. I am, you know, considerably older than you. You were probably like six when poison hit, you know, or seven. I did bail on that genre of music for about five years when those hair bands came. Poison, Winger, Warren. I used to call them the other one Skid Mark.

I despised all of those bands. And I didn't really listen to popular rock music for half a decade until Nirvana hit. Thank God. Oh, man. If you guys ever want to laugh and find a fun, fun band with great musicianship, go on YouTube and look up Steel Panther. These guys are basically, it's like a mock hair band, and their songs are so vulgar and so ridiculous.

Don't listen with kids around, but you'll enjoy yourself and have a good time. Here's one real quick. Heavy metal parking lot. Google that, YouTube, that thing. It's a raw documentary made in the 80s at a, in a parking lot before a Judas Priest concert in Landover, Maryland on like June 15th, 1986. Unbelievable.

It's like those were my people at that time. And I looked and I'm like, well, I saw Judas Priest the night before in Philly about two days before I graduated from high school. But that's a good one. Heavy metal parking lot. If you want to see what it was like to party in the 80s, check out that video. I saw Alice Cooper last week here in Syracuse. So some of those same people, if they're still hanging around,

then a partying is hard, but they're still there. Yeah. Let's get into some of the content here. Our buddy Carlos is asking us, Guru, what's the best strategy in a 10-team PPR with my first three picks in a snake draft? Now, John has been putting out content over at FantasyPoint.com, articles and podcast and also videos on our YouTube page for every,

draft position. So outside of just his draft plan, which you can read every year, it's live at fantasy points.com right now. Go check out some of these videos, whatever draft position you have. John will running through the whole damn draft. You've been doing them all summer. I saw you put one up today from the nine hole. I paid attention to that because I'm drafting ninth in my home league. So just, you know, quick, you know, cliff notes here for the folks about the work you've already done. Well, I will say, and I've been, as you mentioned, like really in the, weeds here and deep deep all up in there for the last three weeks as the markets have shifted here. So, you know, I'm getting a lot of like what, where do you want to draft? You know,

early, mid, late, round one. And that's actually fluid a little bit. It'll probably tighten up a little bit. I will say, uh, I did it all again today. And the teams that I drafted at the first early round one they did score more they did finish with more points so i mean i think you want if that's probably still the default answer but i like the teams i've gotten from like seven eight nine you know the middle of round one is kind of weird but in a 10 team or two like everybody's loaded i don't think you want to be married to any one strategy i think you are a little bit more in best player available mode because 10 teams you know, waiver wire is going to be pretty fruitful.

So to me, a guy like Mark Andrews makes more sense of that. You know what I mean? Like I'll take Andrews at 24, you know, third round in a 10 teamer to make sure I'm really dominant at that position. I'll pay up for a quarterback. So I want to find some sort of balance there in a smaller league where I'm getting in the wide receiver business. I'm going to be competitive there.

I'd like to get an advantage also with tight end and quarterback. So maybe we give a little less love to the running backs. Maybe quarterback is less of priority than tight end. I probably would want to like prioritize tight end a little bit more. Like get like a Mark Andrews, get one of the two elite guys. You know, you could maybe you can't control getting Kelsey, but you can probably control getting Andrews. Sure.

So I mean, I wouldn't be married to any one thing, you know, be in the wide of the to your receiver business. Make sure you're good there. Hopefully get some value of quarterback. You know, maybe try to get Mandrews, you know, to kind of dominate tight end. You know, take advantage of the values of running back. It's not really dissimilar to the 12 team plan.

I just, I don't know. Maybe I'm not that experience to 10 teamers, but I don't know if you really want to lock yourself into one plan. I don't even know where he's drafting from either. Yeah. I think people get, they get, get locked into a certain plan. They go, I have to go into this draft. I've got to come out with this guy in this position. Yeah. I just drafted in a 14 team experts draft. I had the 14th pick.

I walked out with Amon Ross, St. Brown, and Tony Pollard as my first two picks. Pretty good, man. Yeah. I did that today and a 12th teamer. I was happy. Then, of course, later on in the draft, I got Mr. Brees Hall, who kicked me right in the balls with this Delvin Cook News. So, It's a long season. Yeah, I was talking to a guy I know in the building for the Jets, and he goes, there's really nothing wrong with Delvin Cook. They're keeping him out because of this baby situation. He's got a kid coming.

And he's like, I go, well, how would you want to draft these guys for fantasy? He goes, to be honest, I don't want either one of these guys. He's like, they're just going to split, split carries. Folks, if you want to hear some real good inside stuff, John had Adam Schaefter on a pod. It's available with all our fantasy points podcast and YouTube. They talk specifically about this situation. It was before the Cook signing, but Schefter does kind of lean into why Delvin Cook might want to be there. So it's definitely a good listen.

Here's a good question from our buddy Matt Fox on YouTube. Now, we can kind of extrapolate this. He asks in an auction super flex, how do you suggest spending money on QBs when it's four point touchdown versus six point? But I don't even know if that matters, but it is a good question of four point touchdown versus six point. passing touchdown because some leagues are like that. Yeah. So how do you go about attacking that with the two different scorings? Well, the main, the basic thing is the four point guys get a little hosed and the running

quarterback stand out more when you're getting too more for the rushing touchdown. You know, conversely, if it's six points per touchdown, regardless of rushing or passing, that that hurts the running quarterbacks who are inherently more risky because of they run. But in, you know, in a four point, in a four point passing touchdown league, let's say it this way, your dude, if he doesn't run, he better go off. Like two years ago, Matt Stafford was a great example. Like, we were like, he's getting 40. And he did. But he still wasn't that great with 40.

You know, so that's why I kind of went a little bit. I want to cheat a little bit and get like a Herbert or Burrow. Obviously, my homes, but a little too pricey there. Deshaun Watson, guys who were 30 plus potential throwing and let's say five or more potential rushing. I mean, Burrow did get five last year. Treve Larson got five last year. Herbert, I don't know about him, but Herbert then again could throw 39. So it, you know, four points for passing.

You need to, if you don't run for, you know, at least 200 yards. and two rushing touchdowns, you're going to be Jared Gough, you better go off, you know? Right. Interesting question. You and Schaefter touched on this a little bit. There is some value that might be had right now in Indianapolis with Jonathan Taylor. He seemed to not want anything to do with JT. Our buddy Tanner Russell asks, thoughts on Jonathan Taylor and his outlooks, where would you draft him?

His current underdog ADP is 23, 24, so end of the second. round he's rb eight off the board at that point but yeesh it looks like there might not be a resolution in sight between the colts and j t you know i think the easiest and best answer because anything else is pure speculation is to not take them because you know you've got me with my spidey sense going off from the beginning you got kaplan with me And you basically have Schefter with me. I mean, between the three of us, we literally have a hundred years experience in covering the NFL. And we're both like, it's not good.

So, I mean, we could be off. It could be rectified. I doubt it. I haven't checked the last eight hours and eight hours, four hours. But, you know, as Adam intimated, the problem is like the only recourse these guys really truly have if they want to go hardcore. poor is, oh, oh, back hurt. Oh, my back is really weak. Oh, when did you suffer the injury?

Oh, about a week back. Uh, get it. Um, but, you know, they can like really milk these injuries and now it's just a disaster, you know. Right. So like, I don't think we need to go there. I hate to say it. I hate to just write them off.

Avoid landmines. Yeah. Just don't try to be a hero. Avoid some. landmines. I know that kid, Tanner Russell. He's won a league or two in his day. He doesn't need to win any more fantasy leagues. How about our buddy Jeff Lutz? This is a good question. Are any of these chiefs receivers going to even be a wide receiver too? Now, there's been some hype in camp over your boy, Skymore, and he looks great out there. I thought I was going to get him in the Kings classic. Justin

Ross just limped off with an injury. We'll see what happened to him. MVS, Rishi Rice, Rishie James. So there's a million guys. Every day it's a new camp highlight of one of them. I mean, really, is the answer kind of just Mahomes and then Kelsey, obviously, and then everybody else light a candle say a prayer? I'm in on Skymore. I'm buying the hype with you this year, Guru. I'm riding and dying with you of these other guys. I don't know. I think the answer is Sky Moore. And look, again, I oversawed them last year, but let's take a look at what I said. I said, Juju was one and done because he's not any good he's gone i said hardman stunk and he's gone i said mvs sucked and he does and he's gone he's a one-trick pony cadarious tony i said on the radio they had a zero one a zero

a zero point zero percent chance of playing 17 games then he got hurt the first time he moved i didn't even include tony in my list of chief receivers that's how little i think of him right now i like Richard James, but come on now. He's a journeyman slot type. I like Rishi Rice, but no rookie receiver, really, since Deshawn Jackson is dominated with Andy Reed. And even that year, Jackson

only had three touchdowns. You just outran everybody. Justin Watson's just a guy like, the answer is Sky Moore, as I've been saying since last year and the entire of the offseason. People don't

realize that it's like the era of instant gratification, and I get it to an extent. I'm a big first impression guy in many cases, but not with receivers who come from small schools who go to very complex offenses. Like people don't really wrap their heads around these days that, oh, that's right. The guy can actually get better, significantly better, especially when you're starting from a low starting point. So, I mean, I still think Sky Moore is a sleeper receiver of the year. I love what you said to Schefter in the War Room League.

Go draft Skymore and you'll win the damn War Room League. This is a great question out here. Maybe more of a statement from our boy Matt Donnelly from the Dynasty Vipers Network. I was drinking coffee and hot chocolate with Matt. He doesn't drink beer. Why is Duncan Donuts some of the worst coffee out there? He's a big Tim Horton's guy up there in Canada. You're a coffee guy, guru?

Yeah, I mean, we have a coffee machine with its own water supply in our house, so we don't have to fill the pot. Okay, that's how much we drink. You know, I'm typically a, you know, Boulder, you know, whatever the term is, like, you know, Starbucks, whatever. I think the Dunkin Donuts is just watered down. Right? Compared to Starbucks? I'm a Cafe Verona guy, a dark roast guy. So the Dunkin' Donuts is very watered down.

And by the way, proud of you for not chicken beer. Good for you. Matt Donnelly is high on life. Yes, he is. He's a fun dude. The mustache is out of control. Check him out on Twitter, folks, if you happen. He's been doing some fun stuff with us over at fancy points.com.

Taylor Thornton asks, if Chase and JJ are off the board at pick three is your first choice, Tyreek? Or are you now turning your attention to a top running back? That's a great question. I'm probably myself. Yeah, I'm going Tyreek. You know, I, I've been, boy, man, I've been passing on Echler left and right, and it's nothing against him at all.

I actually feel I am fine with him, but it's just roster construction. Like, I don't know. I've gone through it a million times. It seems like every time I get a running back, like mid-first or even late first, I just don't like the team. I mean, that's, that's it.

I mean, I just like. And by the way, it's kind of funny that the first round running backs are the big names, but in part, they're the big names because they're older. And they're also big names because they're rookies and are proven. So ironically, the 2023 running backs, the most risky, the riskiest ones, that's not even all about the car. cost. Even if you remove the cost, if you took the first 30 runningbacks off the board, I would argue a lot of the more risky ones are the first ones going off the board in round

one. Eckler, McCaffrey, and like Bejohn. Speaking of Austin Echler, going to have a great conversation with our Trey Camberling and Joe Dolan on our YouTube channel coming up with Austin Echler. So make sure you're subscribed to the Fantasy Points YouTube channel. Again, YouTube.com fantasy points hit that subscribe button it's so easy we got tons of content like this show right here you know popping up every single week it's really fun make sure you're checking that out echo once blew me off in an interview by the way and i i got to tell you i forgot about it i think i subconsciously taxed him for it so i apologize for that so that was about four years ago though

someone this is a phenomenal phenomenal youtube name unlimited breadsticks and his avatar is a cartoon of former WWE Hall of Famer Jim Ross. Am I crazy to take Anthony Richardson two overall in a rookie draft, assuming Bijan goes first? And by the way, the Colts just announced today

that Anthony Richardson, to the surprise of absolutely no one, is going to be there starting quarterback this year. I mean, you would not be crazy at all if you said it at three overall. Now, is this a super flex as well? Didn't say. Yeah. I mean,

you would be crazy if it wasn't a super flex, I think, if you took them over Jamir Gibbs. But, you know, it does fall off this rookie class. I mean, at least for the short term, I mean, you want to look at JSN and Quentin Johnson as great long-term buys. I'm not that into them, honestly, haven't been all year. Amazzei Flowers, Jordan Addison guy. They were my top. I had them tied, basically, for my top wide receiver.

And I feel great about that right now. But, you know, by the way, Quentin Johnson, three years from now, could easily be better than both. I mean, the two guys I like are a little bit more instant gratification, whereas JSN and Quentin Johnson a little bit more developmental down the road prospect. But I still love Flowers and Addison. But I think you can make the argument in a non-superflex dynasty, Richardson, at three. You could. I mean, certainly, Brian, in terms of like, immediate impact since Richardson's going to start, obviously, and it'd probably be a top 12

guy. So it'll probably be Bejohn, Jemir Gibbs, and Anthony Richardson as the most impactful rookies this year. Right. If Richardson takes off and becomes a top seven quarterback even for the next five, six years, you'll kick yourself if you're like, oh, my God, I took Dalton Kincaid or somebody instead of him. So, you know, you kind of got to shoot for the moon here. The upside with Richardson is really outstanding, whereas everybody else is just kind of, you know, hey, they could be good, but I don't, I don't see transcendent talent necessarily with those guys. How about Corey Canterbury? Now, I love mixing in some of these questions.

And thank you to everybody who's in the chat. We got a million of you in here. And half of you guys are in some of my home league. So I'm very curious and, you know, apprehensive to ask these questions to the guru. So Corey asks, hey, guru, I'm in a 12-team dynasty league with a calorie cap. I was offered Kyle Pitts, he's one of your boys, for $22 for Pet Friermuth at a buck and a 2024 first round pick. Do I take it? I'm thinking no. So the deal again in Dynasty, Kyle Pitts for Pet Friermouth and a first round pick. Pet Friamworth

Buck, Kyle Pitts 22, it's not really anything crazy. Yeah. I mean, you probably spent a first round pick on Kyle Pitts. So really, you're just pushing that pick down the road and getting Pat Friar move. Yeah, it's like, Corey, I don't like to just agree with the question answer as a cop out, but I agree. I agree with you. I mean, I think you're just taking on some risk there. And as I've said about Kyle Pitts, yeah, I'm all in on Kyle Pitts. However, I am not all in on the notion that Arthur Smith is going to unlock Kyle Pitts. So to me, it's just more of a calculated buy, move. You know, like, oh, what's that?

Kyle Pitts' price tag is cut in half from last year and probably a better quarterback situation. Okay, now I'm in, you know, but it's not like I'm totally sold on Arthur Smith in terms of taking, you know, getting the most out of, you know, getting the most out of what the talent that Kyle Pitts has, which is a lot. I talked about guys I know being in the chat. and asking questions. And I'm very thankful for that.

So many of these folks here are going to have drafts over the next two, three weeks, John, where they're in a bar, a basement, a backyard, a garage. If you were going to a home league draft this weekend with your buddies, how are you preparing? What do you bring in? And more importantly, what are you drinking? Well, I'm drinking my normal logger beer, either Stella or Peroni. And I'm still light if I have to.

Okay? That's about, you know, I'm kidding. You know, Heineken. I'm bringing a freaking old school 1987, you know, print out of a cheat sheet with a pen. Yeah. And I'm going to do a last minute news sweep

because obviously I know everything up until whatever. Just to make sure there's, you know, nothing that I missed. And that's it. I think you're like that too, right? Old school. You know, when you're bringing the top 200 sheet and you cross guys off, you then isolate good values.

So there's something to be said for it. I just did a draft, like I said, in Canton against some of the best and brightest guys in fantasy football, mind you. Bob Harris, Jeff Radcliffe, Jeff Manns, Brad Evans, Jim Coventry, Howard Bender, Dave Richard, all these great guys. Everyone's got their computer up. They got some goofy program telling them how to draft. Do I do that?

Nay, nay. I got the fantasy points print out right here. I'm showing you on the screen, and I'm just crossing dudes off like a freaking alpha, and I'm calling out the next pick. I don't need the computer and AI to tell me who to pick, and that's what you guys should do. Get over to Fantasy Points.com.

Sign up today. We got customizable cheat sheets. You want it for top 200. You want it for half PPR, full PPR, Superflex, whatever it is. We got it over there. Print it out, dominate your draft. It's got guru's tears.

It's got his guruific players highlighted. So if you want a draft like John, trust me, the cheat sheets can help you out. Fantasypoints.com. I can't hammer it home enough how, you know, what kind of site this is and why you need to be there. I had guys hit me up this week from my old fraternity. They're like, Drake, where do I get your rankings and all this? And I go, just go to Fantasy Points.com. Print it out.

Set it and forget it. You'll be good to go. You'll thank me later. We got guys in the chat. They're loving the top 200 sheet. and one guy's asking if you can buy you a medello you know what's funny i had medello uh in seahle city on saturday night

took my wife out to dinner uh turned out it was a b y ob i didn't realize walk around the corner only place with the big uh cans i'm a can guy as you are i know uh was mdellon yeah absolutely a can guy and i absolutely a can guy and i Absolutely like Madello. It's good. Yeah. Medello at one point with the ridiculousness of people boycotting Bud Light, which is,

yeah, I could talk to you for days about that. But Modello actually passed Bud Light. I think for the month of May is the number one beer in America. So pretty wild. Really? Yeah. Damn. Our buddy fine.

He was the Seckis too, man. DeSeki's loggers, no joke. I like any, just hand me a free beer. I'll drink it. Normally, I don't like keeping QBs in a one QBs. in a one QB redraft, but is Jalen Hertz worth keeping in the fifth round? I can keep a max of five. He's also keeping Calvin Ridley in the 13th, which is a tremendous value.

JJ, I assume that's Justin Jefferson in the six, Sky Moore in the 12th, and Rashad White in the eighth. This guy's got a squad. He's keeping holy, terrific. Seventy-year-olds, this is great. I would absolutely keep Jail Lertz in the fifth round. Sure, of course, because. you know, that's a major needle mover.

I mean, you know, quarterback, we're not into taking them top 25. I'm not this year in a redraft, but this is a little different. Absolutely. Yeah. Not worried about Jalen Hertz now that he's gotten paid. I mean, I'm a little worried about Philly, things being tougher. Yeah, and it's off schedule this year. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. It's going to be, it's going to be not going to be as unbelievably great as last year. I tell you that, right? You feel that way as an Eagle fan, don't you? I did draft Jalen Hertz is my quarter. back in that league and just bought myself and son a Jalen Hertz Kelly Green throwback that we can wear while we watch the games. But no, they'll be fine. I think, I don't think Jalen Hertz is going to run 13 balls into the end zone again this year, but I think he'll be okay.

And he only threw what, 22, 23 touchdowns last year. So maybe we get that to improve a little bit. Yeah. And he'll be fine. But how many one-yard touchdowns can a guy get back-to-back seasons? Let's be real. Well, they did lose Miles Sander. Sanders, you know, with his 11 tuddies, right? Let's ask you a question about the, we'll follow up on the Eagles. Some banter about Kenny Gainwell being the Eagles RB1. Of course, they went out and traded for Dandre Swift. They signed Rashad Penny, who what I'm reading in camp is not really set in the world on fire.

They still have Scott Boston and his brother Boston, Scott, old guru joke from the morning. What do you think of that notion that maybe Kenny Gainwell is the RB1 for the Philadelphia Eagles? Yeah, I'm not buying it. I actually kind of liked him last year and he was on my list and he was terrible for about three months. And that was in going into year two. So he had been there in the system. You know, we liked him coming out and I don't think he's been that good. I mean, oddly enough, he's a pretty good short yardage guy, but just just no explosiveness.

Doesn't command much. I mean, like who's sitting there thinking, oh, we got to get Kenyon. gain well in there like i'm not really buying it those eagle be riders a lot of them don't know what they're looking at and oftentimes they overreact to what they see in the practice i i just think it's look he's well in the mix but it's probably just going to be an ugly three-man committee uh i would still i'm still in on penny uh now it could get cut but i think i'm still in on penny um he's the guy that is if you're going to take a shot let me swift could work out uh but gainwell who to hell knows i i still think in this in these type of cases just go with the cheaper guy if you're going

to go with someone that said actually no penny or gainwell is cheaper i mean i did take him in the draft plan recently like fifth 14th round but i feel like the hype is probably going to get him into like the 11th don't you yeah and and the eagles i don't think are going to cut penny because he'll end up on that dallas roster in a heartbeat come back to haunt them, you know, spelling. Oh, yeah. They could use a big point. That would be a phenomenal landing spot for one.

Yeah, that would be. Let's not speak that into existence. We don't need that energy out there. Well, the other reason I thought it might, it has, was two reasons. Penny's not making any money, much money. And there's nothing like to get rid of them. And then Trace Herman, our guy Kaplan keeps telling me, Trace Sermon.

They like Trace Sermon, Tray Sermin. And so I don't know if they could stash him on the practice squad again this year, can they? I'm not sure the rules of that. We'll have to ask Mr. C. We've got to get Mr. C on the show. He's one of the people I've never met from Fantasy Point. I think I've talked to everybody else except Mr. C. Yeah.

Let's see. That would be your honor. Yes, I would like to. I love him. I love all of the guys you hear mornings on Sirius XM Fantasy Sports Radio. Our guy, Fish Mafia, love having him in the chat with us, asks, guys I'm thinking of going late on QB. He's got Gino, Gough, Daniel Jones, and Desmond Ritter.

I'm going to give you a heads up here, Fish. Don't draft Desmond Ritter. But the other guys here, Gino Gough and Daniels, these guys had great years last year. Gino Smith was a quarterback five overall. Daniel Jones was top 10. Gough was number 10. Can these guys repeat this next year, John?

Yeah, I think Daniel Jones can. We're still ascending there. we need to kind of let it rip a little bit more. We need somebody who can run. By the way, like Darren Waller, who's been unbelievable. So I'm not yet confident enough in Danny Dimes to where I'm like,

that's my guy or that's my third guy. He's like my fifth guy. Like he's like my followback plan if I miss my top four guys. If there's a run of 11 quarterbacks right before your pick. Then I'll probably hold off a little, a few more rounds, by the way.

I think we are over the markets on Daniel Jones. I mean, the guy was a QB1 last year. What did you get touchdown passwise? What was it? 19. 15. 15. Yeah.

15. Yeah. 19 sounded. Whoa. Whoa. Slow. Slow. Yeah.

Do you know, I mean, his two starting wide receivers, by the way, who didn't play in the preseason Oprah. I just did a pot. It's going to drop Wednesday morning with Graham Barfield and Joe Dolan. And we talked about some of the preseason week one intricacies. And Darius Slateon and Paris Campbell didn't play in the game. You can get those guys for free. They're like wide receiver 80 and 82.

Nobody wants to talk about these guys. But they're going to be starting wide receivers for an NFL team with a top 10, you know, fantasy quarterback. So I think we're all a little too low on these giant wide receivers. Yeah. And what I've tried to do is pick the right one and kind of go in on that guy. And that has been Paris, who I've always liked since since the combine.

I mean, the guy did get drafted before his teammate Terry McClure. You know, he's a pretty talented guy. He can line up outside. He can run. Slot guy. Finally did find it within himself somehow to stay healthy last year. And Danny Dimes loves slot. So, you know, he's going to target that guy.

guy like we could get wandael robinson working his way into the mix down the stretch and you know jell and hi it will be like the shot play guy and stirling shepherd who knows so it could it could not work out he could be the first guy you cut but i among all the receivers that's that's my guy this year paris campbell um that's my dart throw interesting how about josh coons guru what's your favorite new band you've been listening to lately? Oh, yeah, that's a good one. Boy, it's been Slim Pickens.

I am into this new album by Portugal The Man, but you know, it's definitely all rocky, but it actually has a song with Edgar Winter in it, if you can believe that. The old-time rocker,

the Edgar Winter band from like the 70s. New bands, though. Can I name my own son? Please. Let's see, what is he? Hans. He says, Hans, I don't even know if it's hands or Hans.

I think it's Hans. He goes, Hans Music Official. And that is my flesh and blood, my first born. And he put out an album. And it's actually some of the best songs of the summer for, like I said on the radio, It's been so bad with new music that I literally had to create a human being to produce it for me. I like that. I like that.

Maybe I'm in the same boat. My kid plays trombone and piano. So maybe I'll just start listening to some big band stuff to get to the day. Music today sucks. It's terrible. It's all computerized, synthesize. I want to hear somebody play their own music. I'm actually going to see OAR and the Goo Goo Goo Dolls with the kids.

So we talked about music. the last time and take them tomorrow night that should be a really good time and i'm a big manchester orchestra fan i saw them in ashville north carolina two weeks ago with jimmy e world and i'm friends with the drummer from jimmy world so i went backstage and my son uh that was fun that was awesome uh so i do like manchester a lot um interpole i still like them they're still kind of still new right yeah i i think so Yeah, they are. Yeah, it's, it's getting tough, man, for the new bands, though.

Like brand new bands, like, oh, I love these guys. It's slim pickings there. It's tough, man. Our pale Mark Olney. Like a song or two, maybe like this band. Oh, I like a couple of songs. There's a band called Sir Slya, I kind of like, but they're a little, I mean, poppy is not the right word. They're all rock, but they're kind of a little pop.

I'm not poppy, nor am I, sloppy um yeah anyways i when i play golf on thursdays in my league like the new thing now is everyone has a speaker when they play golf because you can't just be away from your wife and kids and enjoying the sounds of nature you've got to have a playlist from 1994 and i was playing like absolute crap and the guy's playing it playing against goes every song you play is god damn depressing like can you get a new playlist that that's your your your mojo you're all about the vibes guru Maybe I need a little more heartbeat music than counting crows and mumpered and sun. Well, I'm out there hitting the ball.

Right, right. Well, I do believe the popularity of the show is tied a little bit to the music. There's a, there's a, the wheels are in motion there with the songs, because those are all from my personal archive or whatever, my, my own playlist. By the way, there's a lot of things I can't do. if you ask me to put something complicated together and it takes a normal person two hours it'll take me four I'll do it it'll take me four um you know so I always like to balance it out but man playlist and I wasn't rock DJ so you if you gave me like a high school year over the last 35 40 years a physical location and maybe a vibe of the school from the high school years um I'm your man for a playlist.

For like a high school reunion, forget about it. No one can top me. I love it. I'm the best, baby. You'd love hanging out with my father-in-law. He's a big music guy. And he's all about the same thing. He's got to make the playlist for wherever we go.

In his basement, he took all his original vinyl albums. I'm talking every Beatles album, original Stone, Zepa. I'll take a picture next time I'm there and send it to you. But yeah, big time guy. He loved when the iPod, first came out because he could take all his CDs, then convert him down onto there and he'd have eight bazillion albums. And now he's- I did allow that. And now you're screwed. Well, my wife wanted a vinyl or, you know, I'm selling Gary Delabate with his pieces of vinyl, but she wanted a record

player. She's like, hey, dad, can you buy me a record player for Christmas? He goes, why would anyone want a record player? It sounded terrible. The reason that technology improved was so you didn't have to listen to it on these garbage records. Like, why are you going backwards? Yeah, well, it's all vinyl now. My son, yeah, my son is a purist, the music purist guy. He's 17. He's all vinyl.

Everything comes back. So guess what? When people finally realize that smartphones are driving everyone insane, we're all going back to flip phones. You heard of here first. Zach Morris would be so happy to hear you say that. Yes, he will. Speaking of what is Tiffany Amber Thesson?

I forgot her name on the show. Kelly Kapowski. How do you forget that? Yeah, I mean, a little after my time. I mean, I was like 28 when that was, but she was still, I'm still a big fan. Me and my buddy, this is why Ask Guru Anything is the best. Me and my buddy went the day showgirls open because we were big saved by the Bell fans.

We want to see Elizabeth Burke. Yeah, Berkeley. in all her glory paid off. It was a good time. How about Eagle? I have it to be more story. Oh, to me more. Striptease.

Same thing. I think it worked at the movie theater at that point. Oh, that's the movie you mentioned, right? No, it was show girls was the girl from. Showgirls, okay, different movies. Remember's like NC17? Okay, my bad. Never mind.

We'll have a guru movie marathon. Well, maybe a double feature where we show both. Hey, look who it is. Eagle Ed Guru If you were tied to a chair and had to make a decision on a standard league Sky Moore or Elijah

Moore. Is it Adam Kaplan's chair? He's tied to that chair. Yeah, I don't want to be tied to that chair. That's a great question. I did I deliberated against on this today when I drafted a team and I

went sky. Even though we have Eli hire, I did go sky. See, I want to rank sky a little higher than we have. There have been a couple of times where I really wanted to go all all in on some guys, but the staff, you know, gave me some friction. So I'm like, all right, well, it's a democratic, some democracy of sorts here. I'm not a dictator over here. But I'm going to go sky. But of course, everyone told me we had sky way too high when I released the rankings, but now his ADP is higher than that. So I think I was on the right track. But if I, let me see, let me see a ballsy ranking right now for Sky for Eagle Ed,

who by the way knows that I'm on record stating that if Sky Moore shits the bed this year, I'm retiring from radio. That's right. That's right. Um, where can I, where can I send resume if that happens. So, you know, just so I have things to do next year. Oh, yeah. Brian's already lining himself up. Well, that's, but that's fair, though. I mean, there will be a time in the near future where I'm going to step aside and let other people do stuff. You know, I've been Bogarton stuff here forever. Um, I would like a ballsy ranking of Skymore would be like probably 28 right behind Addison, uh, in the game day top 30. Up 30.

Yeah, because I mean, he's in like the 40s right now still. Yeah, 48. Yep. Yeah, yeah. That's why he's a sleeper receiver of the year. Our buddy Adam P is chiming in. How much do you buy into offensive coordinator changes for fantasy value when the head coach stays the same? So in instance, you know, he mentions Monkin and B. Enemy, you know, that's an interesting point.

And people are already crying about Eric Bienemies too hard on his pledge class. you know, this year because these kids are crying, they want to go home. You put a lot of stock of that. To me, you know, I think they're going to let these guys call their own offense. It's special cases like a guy who's really entrenched, maybe like a Pete Carroll. We know who wants to run the football. And whoever he brings in is going to have to fit that system. I think a guy like B. Enemy was brought in because Riverboat Ron, who's awful, by the way,

look at his career numbers as a coach, is trying to save his job. They have to do something in that. So what do you think of these OC changes? How does it play into your strategy and rankings? Yeah, I think it's important. You do have to take it on a case-by-case basis, though, like, you know, in Dallas, Kellen Moore was a little bit more imaginative, throwing the ball down the field, getting guys in space. Brian Schenheimer seems to be, although he's an analytics guy too, but, you know, his last name, Schottenheimer. So, you know, he's kind of more known for Ron the Brock. But, yeah, I mean, like, Bienemy is a completely weird one because, as you mentioned, Ron's a defensive guy.

He actually was an O-line coach, as you know, Ron Rivera, but defensive guy. The enemy is not really a passing game guy. So that's, that's a real question as far as I'm concerned. But, you know, I would think Ron normally if he had complete job security would just let the enemy do the office, you know, but I don't know. He might step in here. Brian Johnson and Philly is a little bit of an unknown. Let's see. Other good examples. He was Todd Monkin, who's back in the league now.

Yeah, that's big. Over to the college game for a few years. 100%. You know, a guy like that who's established, that means a lot, you know, because they're going to be more pass happy. you know, Greg Roman. A lot of people left. Like,

I think maybe Hollywood wanted to leave because of Greg Roman. You know, like the route combinations are very unimaginative and things like that. So, yeah. Todd Mocken is an established guy. Did unbelievable work with Georgia last two years. Dave Canales and Tampa is a very interesting one because you've got the head coach,

Todd Bowles, who's a defensive guy. He's going to, probably let Canales kind of just go off on his own. Now, Canales has never called plays. He might be the next, uh, Ben Johnson for all we know. I mean, he did a hell of a job with Gino Smith last year. Uh, so yeah, it is a case by case basis, um, but it's absolutely important. Um, you know, Bill O'Brien. That's perfect example. Like, I like Mac Jones enough last year, you know, despite the, um,

presence of the two dumb-dums they had running the offense, just because he was like 206 overall. But we said over and over again everywhere, like this is probably going to be a disaster. And it was. So we've also said that Bill O'Brien's going to make it a lot better and he probably will. Well, let's stick in New England because we've got a question from our pale Taylor. Are you more willing to take Stevenson of his ABADP drops down with this Zique signing? So kind of a macro picture here, Zeke Elliott signed. It's not a big money deal.

They probably do want someone to take those old Damian Harris carries. Damian Harris was really good around the goal line. Harris or Stevens, excuse me, struggled a bit in that role. We've got double-digit touchdowns two straight years for Zeke Elliott. So I'm concerned he's going to come in there and he's going to steal some of those goal line work. But, you know, where are you taking remandre now? He's RB9 off the board on underdog these days, 29th overall. Yeah, I haven't had a great vibe all year.

I've been kind of bracing myself for something like this for months, basically. Once they let James Robinson go, I had to bump up his projection, which really shot him up high, because you can't project the other scrubs on the roster for the entirety of the offseason to do much. So by default, Ramandre got a boatload of touches, but now you've got to pull back a little bit. Now, look, I hate to back or be worried about a dude who's on the downside like Zeke, especially if he ends up being washed. I mean, you feel like an idiot for doing that. But, you know, I don't think he's done, done.

And as I said on the radio this morning, like, you just add it all up. He's not really a fumbler. I think he had a little bit of a hiccup there for a year or two. But overall, I don't think he's fumbled much lately at all. Great and pass, pro. Very good short-yardage conversion. Sounds like a patriot guy to me. So, I mean, I would be concerned.

So I would say fourth round. But the thing is like, I don't know, man. Sometimes your best picks, just let them go. There's enough depth here. If you're not feeling it for at least for me. Like if I'm not feeling it like, and it's not like I'm guessing, just grasping at things. Like I'm obviously doing all this stuff. I'm just saying just let them go, man.

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This may be a spot for Leonard, meaning Leonard, Fournette, I think that's a great fit. You were talking to Schaefter and you said, they got to add somebody. They just don't have any money. And they're also, you know, rolling out this like five foot three, deuce Vonch.

We'd be paying attention to him? No. I'm going to go with no. I'm not, I'm not buying it. You know, keep in mind when there are major outlier guys, that's usually when I tend to be wrong.

Austin Echler. I wasn't necessarily. buying that three years ago. Derek Henry, outlier type of guy in this day and age. Deuce Vaughn would certainly be an outlier. I mean, I mean, Darren Sprouls looks like

Andre the giant out there compared to this guy. I mean, it's pretty surreal. So, yeah, we'll see, but I'm not buying that, really. Will he make some play? Sure. You know, we'll get seven touches for 38 yards

every week. And, you know, mean like and get you have four point seven points like when do you ever gonna start that guy yeah yeah i mean it's it's a waste of time paulers that's man that's a tough one man am i sold that he's gonna hold up no i'm not no it please i i just lost like take him i can't have this sometimes you could not be sold that a guy's gonna hold up but you'll take him and go to church and light a lot of candle that he will, right? Yeah. Mm-hmm.

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He's got chased down the field. And Lapham's like, yeah, come on. Get there. You know what I mean? Like, so I have to revisit that. And the dude in, why do I always, Scott Zolak is pretty good.

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Tremendous. And, you know, of course, Nate Zagora, my boy, that's our guy. I mean, that's pretty badass when you start in the fantasy industry and you are the call the commentator for the Cleveland Browns Radio Network and all that. You know, that's pretty badass. Yeah, no question about it. I remember hearing him on Sirius XM, you know, himself. One guy had to ask you goes,

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We got 55 minutes here. Thanks so much to everybody for hopping in and answering the questions. We appreciate you. We're on the Twitter machine at Fantasy underscore Guru. I'm at Drake Fantasy. And John, I guess just until next time, you know, they can come ask Guru anything. Yeah. And let's end on this, a tweet from Ron Davenport that I just received.

I just turned down Miles Sanders for our beloved Sky, more, never felt more alive. Wow. There it is. There's my Adam Shine. Wow. Yeah, there it is. That guy, crack a beer tonight and celebrate, my friend.

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