Fantasy Football Today - 07/05: Risky Round 1 Picks, GB RBs and More (Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: July 5, 2018

We're bringing on the nicest Fantasy analyst in the business - Scott Fish - to talk football! Scott tells us about the Scott Fish Bowl and the charity he runs. Then we discuss which first round pick we're nervous about (5:55) and we put Leonard Fournette under a microscope (9:15) ... More Julian Edelman talk (13:45) and of course we re-rank the GB RBs (17:15) and wonder if Jamaal Williams can run away with the job. Plus we've got some interesting red zone stats (23:10) from Scott that could be very helpful for Fantasy owners, and players we are ashamed to like (26:44) ... Fantasy Regulators (32:25), Kyle Rudolph and Brandin Cooks debates (40:20) plus some more Fantasy and non-Fantasy questions for Scott and Heath (48:40) ... Your emails at [e-mail] To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Let's go! Now, here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. All right, what's up, everybody? Welcome back from your Fourth of July holiday, Thursday, July 5th. We're all dragging a little bit, but we're here to talk fantasy football with a very special guest. First, let's bring on Heath Cummings. I'm Adam Azer. He's Heath Cummings. Hello, Heath. I guess you could say the fireworks are not over with our guest today.

They are not. We've got the main man from Minnesota. And I couldn't think of any more M's to start the show. We've got Scott Fish here. Welcome, Scott. Hey, thanks, man. That was a good enough alliteration there i like it thank you thank you very much uh a guy named adam azer should be able to do some good alliteration scott uh i want to wish you a happy anniversary happy anniversary oh thank you thank you am i supposed to know what the anniversary is for is this uh one year from last time i was on the show

this is 364 days from last time you were on the show. It's kind of strange. I went back to look at the notes from that day and I was like, what? That was July 6th, 2017. So we've got a thing here. Right after 4th of July, Scott Fish comes on the Fantasy Football Today podcast. I like it.

I like it. We should do it every year. I think we have to now. I think it's tradition. I've been. And Heath, you had the privilege of meeting Scott. Well, first of all, Scott, for the listeners who don't know, please introduce yourself. Tell us. We can follow you at Scottfish24, at Scottfish24 on Twitter. You're obviously a fantasy analyst. We're going to be talking about some of the players you're very high on.

I'm going to ask you some questions. We're going to talk fantasy football, but tell us about yourself and the scott fishbowl oh man i have like 40 things i do so i run this huge league called the scott fishbowl it involves analysts and fans from everywhere and every site uh what it does is kind of fuel this charity i run called fantasy cares fantasy cares.net where we buy toys for kids for christmas uh for toys for tots this year we've raised we will have raised very soon over 25 000 for toys for kids oh wow bam that's awesome fireworks heath that's fireworks right there 25 000 that's the thing is it's july 5th i know like this is this is not the end of the road here.

We've got a lot of time left. Yeah, it's unreal to what this has become, but it's very, very amazing. I like to, even if you're not given a Fantasy Cares, I like to tell people, if you're in a Fantasy League, donate one of your entries to a charity, any charity, because you can make a big difference, and there's a lot of Fantasy Leagues out there. And where can we find your analysis,ott oh fanball.com i run mfl tens i run safe leagues which is a commissioner service uh i'm on the bull rush podcast and this saturday i got my own serious xm show actually i have a co-host i shouldn't say it's my own but me and

matt harrison our own seriousXM show starting this Saturday, Saturday morning, 8 a.m. Eastern. That's amazing. Congratulations. I have my own podcast, so I know what you're feeling right now. I like it. I just appreciate you letting me be a guest so often. Yeah, you're one of my favorite guests, Steve.

One of my favorites. One of the regulars. Hey, you know who's coming on later today in addition to scott fish the fantasy regulators are coming on baby yes i'm so glad yes scott's a big commission issue guy so we're going to bring up some commissioner issues we're going to regulate we're going to tell you what to do with your leagues if you want to be part of the fantasy football regulators segment just put that in the subject line of your email. Fantasy Football Regulators. And our email address is fantasyfootballatcbsi.com

Now, that's actually something you guys have in common, just in a different way. Scott is a big commish issue guy because he handles a lot of commissioner issues. You're a big commish issue guy because there's always issues in the league's commish. It's true. It's true. I'm a terrible commissioner. Because I try too hard to make everybody happy,

and it just ends up you shouldn't care. Maybe rule number one is don't care too much if you're the commissioner. All right. I feel like that dude, Heath is right. Heath is on. Oh, the Heath is on? A little softer after that. All right.

All right. We'll get that queued up. We'll get that queued up. So I thought it would be fun if we go back a year in time and look at some of the news and notes from the last Scott Fish episode. And it's kind of funny. These actually came out to be true. Adam Schefter said he'd be hesitant to draft Ezekiel Elliott due to the domestic violence investigation.

Mike Gillisley is the Patriots running back most likely to take on the Garrett Blunt's role, according to Patriots reporter Mike Reese. And Jonathan Stewart will continue to see the bulk of the carries, according to Panthers.com. Those were the news and notes I had in the show on July 6, 2017. Heath, offseason reports, they mean something. Yeah, Mike Gilleslie, I hope everyone grabbed onto that nugget. Look, he got the chance. He got the chance. That report was right.

Got you a week one win. Yeah. Gilly boy. All right. Well, that was fun. Now let's talk about this year's fantasy football. I'm going to throw it to our guest first, Scott Fish. Here's the category.

First round pick you're nervous about. First round pick you're nervous about. Hit me with it. Oh, boy. I think it's probably, man, this is actually a pretty tough one for me. I think I'm most nervous. If you're drafting that top five, David Johnson is always going there and that offensive line is terrible and that offense might not be good. And also I believe a couple episodes you mentioned how they had a top five toughest schedule all of that scares me quite a bit i think he he's gonna be a first round guy but if i have a choice i'm probably taking one of those other running backs okay david johnson is someone that

scott's nervous about heath how about you i think mine is probably the first round pick we're going to put under a microscope but i'll give another one just because I know we're going to talk about him in just a moment. I will say Alvin Kamara just because he's the next running back being taken after David Johnson, even in non-PPR ADP, according to Fantasy Pros. Sixth overall, ahead of DeAndre Hopkins, ahead of Kareem Hunt, Saquon Barkley, Melvin Gordon, all those guys. And I just hope that people aren't thinking Kamara's going to get 20 touches a game the first four weeks, and then Mark Ingram's going to come back, and Mark Ingram's just going to be a complimentary player, and Kamara's going to be a workhorse back.

That's not happening. Well, you don't think there's any chance of that, because they really seem to favor Kamara down the stretch. And they didn't favor him to the point of 20 touches. But it seemed like they were kind of conceding that Kamara is their best running back. Let's give this guy a lot of work. I mean, I don't know that to be – that's what it felt like to me anyway. That was your feeling on the situation?

I would not be surprised if after week four he gets more touches than Mark Ingram, but it's going to be like a 15-14 split or something. And I don't – like maybe he is the most efficient running back in NFL history. Right. But probably not. Yeah. Okay, so we got to vote for David Johnson. We got to vote for Alvin Kamara.

My guy was David Johnson. And I'm not that worried about him in PPR. But in non-PPR, I'd be very worried about him because just I've outlined it before. There's not a great history of running backs in bad offenses doing well in non-PPR format. I mean, there are some here and there. And like Matt Forte has done it, and he caught a ton of passes. Jordan Howard's been top 10 running back in non-PPR twice in a row while being on bottom five offenses two straight seasons. But I don't want David Johnson to be a top 10 running back.

People are drafting him as a top five running back. So I have concerns about him getting there. Arizona had the 25th best offense last year in terms of scoring yeah i think they could be terrible and i think he could suffer in non-ppr so all right scott fish you and i are on the same page david johnson little little concern little concern uh would you take kareem hunt over david johnson i wouldn't i i mean we're this is a splitting here harris concern i mean these are all first rounders i'd still take david David Johnson just because of the upside and probably because I mainly play in PPR leagues. So that does factor.

But, yeah, I'm still probably taking David Johnson. I'm just more concerned than some of those other players. All right. So we've been doing our Under the Microscope segment for the last few weeks. And we get this email of the day from Drew in a small southeast Indiana town. Scott, you know the Midwest, right? You gotta know southeast Indiana.

Southeast Indiana town. Yeah, Scottsburg. Scottsburg. That's not a thing, is it? It is. I looked it up just to make sure. Scottsburg, Indiana. He says, Dear Ben, Le'Veon, Antonio, and Chris.

Ooh, kicker love. Yeah, I was like, that's the kicker? All right, I don't recall if you've put Leonard Fournette under the microscope yet, but are you concerned about his yards per carry? Last year, Fournette averaged 3.9 yards per carry, but if you remove his touchdowns of 90 and 75 yards, it drops down to 3.3 yards per carry. Paired with his injury history, is this a concern going forward for Leonard Fournette? Heath, we're putting Leonard Fournette under the microscope.

What do you think about the yards per carry? First off, and we get emails about this every time we even mention yards per carry in passing on this podcast. So, yes, yards per carry, not a great indicator of running back talent. And I really don't like it when we start splitting hairs and say, if you take his best runs out, then he's even worse. Because I would assume if you take his worst runs out, then it gets better. I think that's how it works. He's a big, bulky running back who's capable of breaking off 90 and 75-yard touchdown runs.

That actually encourages me. All that being said, I am a little bit concerned about Leonard Fournette because his foot-slash-ankle problems extend back to college. And I always get a little bit leery about any type of foot problems. But more than anything, I'm afraid the Jacksonville offense is not very good this year. I'm afraid that he needs a large amount of volume to justify this ADP. And I'm afraid to have a foot hangs up to that large amount of volume. Scott, do you have any concerns about Leonard Fournette?

I do. But it might not be as big a deal as uh you know i'm not i'm not super worried the yards per carry do suck but we're talking about a team that what was second first or second in uh running back carries last year running back attempts i think they're still gonna do that that defense is great and and remember he lost 10 to 15 pounds he's lighter he's they did i i generally don't i don't love when uh running backs bulk up too much but when they uh when they dropped some weight and gave him some speed i i think he's i mean he's still like 220 225 he's still big enough to pound through lines i think that might be helpful

so there's a little concern but i don't have a lot so just to be clear i'm not taking leonard fournette in the first round neither am i yeah he Yeah, he's going 12th overall, according to MFL 10 ADP. 12th overall, Leonard Fournette. So right there behind Melvin Gordon, Beckham, Kareem Hunt. You know, he's either a late first round, early second round pick. Yeah, I do have the same concerns I have about David Johnson. And the only difference is Fournette's not going to catch as many passes as Johnson. But he was on pace for 44 catches last year, and that's not bad at all.

He was also on pace for 330 carries. And if he gets 330 carries, he's going to be top five running back, I'd say, probably in either format. And tell me if you agree with this. You know, we can talk about downside all we want. What really makes me struggle with Fournette, because I do think he's sort of easy to pass over for some of the safer guys, but I think he is number one running back upside because I think he could get all those carries and a ton of touchdowns. I think he could have a similar season to Zeke in 2016. I think that's very fair. Very, very fair.

I mean, any of these backs, all the way through Hunt, Fournette, Cook, they all have the upside to be the number one guy. Absolutely. And Adrian Peterson, who is constantly knocked for his inability to catch passes, had three years with over 40 catches. And Fournette, yeah, I think he could easily do that. Okay. Heath, do you agree? I think he could do that.

That's not my expectation. No, it's not my expectation. We also should mention that he has now one of the best guards in football. They added Andrew Norwell. Jacksonville scored the fifth most points last year. That included five fumbles recovered for a touchdown and two pick sixes. So that's always fun. We got some news and notes to tell you about.

Julian Edelman's four-game suspension was upheld. So, Scott, you listen to the podcast, you know how Heath and I feel about Julian Edelman. And by the way, at the end of our most recent show, a Tuesday show, we argued about Edelman versus Larry Fitzgerald. I went back and looked at the stats. They're basically the same exact player. That actually surprises me.

I'm such a big Fitzgerald fan that that does surprise me. I're basically the same exact player. That actually surprises me. I'm such a big Fitzgerald fan that that does surprise me. I mean, maybe I'm wrong. I'm sure Heath's looking it up right now. But they are basically the same player. Like the last three years of Larry Fitzgerald, the last three years of Fitzgerald compared to what Edelman's been recently, they're like the same guy. Are you Team Adam or Team Heath? This is a very important question.

I think I'm going to have to be Team Heath on this. I mean, I got to believe – Scott Fish, everybody, thank you for swinging by. Get out. Go back to Scottsburg. Wait until my Jerry Maguire take. Ouch. But, yeah, no, I just think Fitzgerald's upside is generally higher, and it feels like he's more consistent.

No, no, no, that's not the argument, I guess. That's fine. I would take Fitzgerald over Edelman. Oh, okay. I should have phrased it better. I drafted Edelman late third round in PPR weeks ago before the suspension. I think he's going to – I thought at the time 16 games, 90 catches, top 17 wide receiver.

Heath doesn't really feel that way. Then I did the ACL research, backed off a little bit, but I guess I'm still higher on Julian Edelman. I still think he's going to be really, really good if he's on a per-game basis. What about you? Yeah. No, I definitely agree with that. I definitely think he's – if you can get him as your flex or your wide receiver three, that is an unbelievable steal because when he's healthy, he's going to be pretty good. I mean, we got to remember that no Patriots wide receiver has had more than 300-yard games in a season since 2013.

So don't expect a whole lot of big games out of him, but he gets a lot of targets. He gets decent games in PPR. I just want to clarify, Adams. They've basically been the same guy over the last three years um larry fitzgerald played every game in the last okay yeah yeah that's different their pace julian edelman has scored more than six touchdowns once in his career larry fitzgerald scored less than six once in the last five years okay but i'm talking the last three years of Larry Fitzgerald, which is basically what we expect him to be.

105 catches, about 1,100 yards, about six touchdowns. He has not had 105 catches. 108 catches. Each of the last three. 108 catches, about 1,100 yards, six touchdowns. Let's just clarify. His last three years, his lowest reception total is more catches than Julian Edelman has ever had in a season. I expect him to have more catches.

I expect Edelman to be around 90 and Fitzgerald to be around 105 to 110. But I also know that Fitzgerald is 35 years old, so it could be worse. I think Fitzgerald is better. But you look at yards per catch, yards, touchdowns, it's not that dissimilar. Julian Edelman and Fitzgerald, they're pretty good comps. Julian Edelman is a poor man's Larry Fitzgerald who will not be available for the

first month of the season. You know what? Can't argue with that. The heat is odd. Reuben Foster suspended for two games. Jermon Brown suspended for two games. Rams offensive lineman. They had a very good offensive line last year. He was a part of it.

Two-game penalty. So I don't think we'll be downgrading Todd Gurley. And we probably should have led the show. Should we have led the show with this? Yeah, I don't know. 16 minutes. We're okay with that. This is Aaron Jones being suspended two games for violating the substance abuse policy.

Scott Fish, he's suspended for games against the Bears and your Minnesota Vikings. What do you think about the Packers running backs now with Aaron Jones facing a two-game suspension? I'm sad. Oh, right. Sad. I was an Aaron Jones guy, and then I see that he bulks up, and I don't love that. And then I see that he gets suspended for two games. I don't love that. I I see I see they get suspended suspended for two games I don't love that I think this is a huge opportunity for Jamal Williams at this point and the Packers

at times have felt like a team that if Jamal takes it I mean even when Aaron Jones came back they last year they they kind of like eased him in slash didn't use him that much and just kept with Jamal Williams because it was working. I have a slight fear that might happen with this. I think Aaron Jones is the better back, but right now I'm going to love drafting Aaron Jones at the discounted price. And I think Jamal Williams,

his price might go up and might be a little overinflated. Heath, I'll give you a very tough exercise, but you're capable of it. I know it. I want you to, you're doing a 12 team I know it. I want you to do a 12-team draft right now. Let's say it's PPR. Give me a round for all three Packers running backs, including Montgomery.

That is a very tough exercise. Are you wanting where I would draft them or where I think they're going to go now? Where you would draft them. I'm assuming Jamal Williams goes first now. Jamal Williams goes first and not the first round. I would say he needs to go somewhere around the seventh round. Oh, that's pretty late. I would six, seven turn is where I would take Jamal Williams.

Okay. I would take Ty Montgomery somewhere around the end of round eight, early round nine. And I would take Aaron Jones. Scott's not going to like this, but I probably wouldn't take Aaron Jones until round 12. Okay. So you say Jamal Williams, 6'7", turn in a 12-team league. So that is like 62second overall, I believe? 70 seconds.

Oh, okay. Very close. Yes, yes, yes. Right. 70-second overall. Round nine for Ty Montgomery in PPR and round 12 for Aaron Jones. Scott, I'll give you the same exercise. You've had some time to think about it.

I think I would move Jamal williams up just because that opportunity i think he should be going in the probably early eighth i think aaron jones should fall back into the ninth and time montgomery i'd put closer to the 11th 10th or 11th nobody really wants time montgomery it doesn't seem like it no it sounds like it sounds like i do by saying eighth or ninth round. Yeah. I guess so, but that's still – for the guy that started the year as their top running back, he wasn't getting a ton of carries, but he was getting a ton of touches. You know, round nine.

Yeah, when he was fully healthy, they really – he came back and he was healthy, and Williams and Jones still led the Packers in touches after he was already healthy. I just don't love that. I don't blame you. And you can look at Jamal Williams and you can look at Aaron Jones and you can look at their yards per carry and think Aaron Jones is much better. 5.5 yards per carry, Jamal Williams 3.6 yards per carry. You do have to mention, though, that Jones got to play with Aaron Rodgers, and that probably would have helped Jamal Williams.

He barely played with Aaron Rodgers. And Jamal Williams is way better in the passing game last year. He was much, much better in the passing game. However, he didn't really play with a fully healthy, fully engaged time Montgomery, so I don't know what kind of role he's going to play in the passing game this year. Because Montgomery and Jones both got hurt in the same game. I believe it was the Bears. I was at the Bears in Week 10, and then from Week 10 on, that's when it started for Jamal

Williams. He had 20 carries in that game. Week 10 on, he was the guy. He was getting you fantasy points. He was doing a lot in the passing game. He was struggling in the run game. But I think I was going to say, look, we don't know what's going to happen. We're taking guesses now in July.

This is going to really depend a lot on training camp reports. But it's got to feel different now. So what did you – did you adjust your rankings after the two-game suspension was announced? Yes. I adjusted them this morning, actually. And that's what I was going off to give you that information. So it wasn't really a tough exercise i was just able to look at my ranking well where where uh where do you have

jamaal williams i've got jamaal williams just inside the top 30 running backs in ppr i have ty montgomery just inside the top 40 and aaron jones is outside of my top 40. Would you guys rather have Jamal Williams or Marlon Mack? Marlon Mack. I have Marlon Mack one spot ahead of Jamal Williams. I was just looking because I'm actually in a best ball draft right now in MFL 10. It looks

like Jamal Williams went with the second pick of the eighth round. Aaron Jones went with the second pick of the eighth round. Aaron Jones went with the last pick of the eighth round. I just took Marlon Mack in the middle of the ninth. And Ty Montgomery is still available. Would you rather have Jamal Williams or Sonny Michel? I'm saying Jamal Williams, but I'm a Rex Burkhead over Sonny Michel guy. I am a big Sonny Michel guy.

Sonny Michel for me. Why are you a big Sonny Michel guy? Oh, man. This almost goes into something we had planned on talking about later. So do you want me to expound now or later? Is it the red zone stuff? No. Who will be the second best rookie running back?

Oh, who will be the second best rookie running back? I don't know that we're going to have time for the red zone stuff? No. Who will be the second best rookie running back? Oh, who will be the second best rookie running back. I don't know that we're going to have time for the red zone analysis, but Scott, why don't you tell us what you've done with some very interesting red zone stuff. Oh, well, basically with the red zone stuff, I just took a look at

vacated... You know, vacated targets are a big thing in the fantasy community. But I wanted to look at scoring opportunities, the vacated rushing attempts, rushing touchdowns, receiving touchdowns, receiving targets inside the 10, inside the 5. And what I noticed was a lot of the teams you would expect, but teams where you can exploit some value like Miami and Seattle. Try to figure out who those players are. They really haven't brought in much. Is Kenny Stills and Devontae Parker just going to magically take up those 40 extra departed targets?

They only drafted Gusecki. They could take those. So I just did some work with that. I've tweeted it out. There's some nice charts and whatnot. Yeah, actually, you know what? We can spend some time on it because it's very interesting. Heath, what's going to happen in the red zone for the Dolphins?

I think that we're going to see more red zone opportunities for Parker and for Stills. You're going to get a little bit, I expect, for Danny Amendola and Albert Wilson. I'm not a huge Gusecki guy, and it does not sound like he's done much to impress so far in Miami. I would expect it's a boost, and I have a hard time. I go back and forth between Parker and Stills and who I think is going to be the best there this year. But I think there's a good chance either both of them are going to slightly outperform their draft position

or one of them is just going to be an enormous value. Yeah, I mean, we're talking about a team that lost 14 red zone touchdowns last year and over 40 targets. Somebody's got to take them up if that offense is even going to be remotely similar. And as you mentioned a few weeks ago, they have a top five schedule, top five easiest schedule. And for Seattle, Jimmy Graham caught 10 touchdown passes last year. So what happens there, guys? Scott, what do you think about the Seattle Seahawks? They've got Ed Dixon now at tight end.

Yeah, they've got a new running back. That should help. What happens in the red zone for the Seahawks? Honestly, it could just be an overall split for everybody going up a little. Baldwin going up a little. Rashad Penny, I think, is going to be better in the red zone than people think and he can catch out of the backfield very well so um maybe it just maybe it's just really helpful for for penny and baldwin i i have a lot of trouble investing in some other guys there's guys like darbo who are big targets that that might come in but i'm not i'm not

investing in dixon um why can't brandon marsh what Jimmy Graham did? He's basically a title. Yeah, absolutely. I know. I knew you were going to bring that up. People brought that up on Twitter. There's definitely that potential. I'm more in the line of, I kind of think Brandon Marshall's done, personally. Oh, I think he's totally done

if you ask him to play receiver or try to run faster than someone else. I'm not so sure that he's done. Can he jump? What are you predicting then? He's going to get cut then. If he can't run faster than anyone or play receiver, they're going to cut him. They didn't cut Jimmy Graham.

He couldn't run last year. But he's an actual tight end. I know he doesn't really block, but he's going to be better at that. No, he doesn't block at all. He's going to be better than Brandon Marshall. He's bigger than Brandon Marshall. I don't know. I haven't weighed Brandon Marshall lately.

He looks like he ballooned a little bit as last year in New York. Well, when you're hurt, you can't exercise. It's not good. All right, so Scott, yeah, follow him on Twitter, at Scottfish24. Check out those really cool charts. They were actually very, very interesting and very helpful as well. All right, email the day number two, fantasyfootballatcbsi.com. John from another Midwestern city.

John from a city in Northwest Ohio, Scott. Wow. I don't know city. Defiance? Yeah, whatever. You're no Dave Richard. I'm terrible at this. Dear Lip, Fiona, Frank, and Ian, and those are, of course, characters on the hit show Shameless,

which is very good. Which player or players are you ashamed to love? Well, it sounds like I should be ashamed to love Aaron Jones, doesn't it? Maybe. I had trouble with this. I don't know. I think I'm still a little ashamed of my love for Jay Ajayi. I think he's going to be a solid 15-touch guy,

and I was dead wrong on him last year. I think I was okay with him the year before, but I still love him, and I feel like 15 touches in a top-scoring, like we're talking a top 3-5 scoring offense, the Eagles are probably going to be. I hate telling people that I still love a Jay Ajayi, like we're talking a top three to five scoring offense, the Eagles are probably going to be. I hate telling people that I still love a J.A. Jai, but I do. I was actually thinking about him, to be

quite honest with you. Heath, do you have anyone? I've got a few of them. I could say Gio Bernard, but I'm not ashamed of that. I'm very proud. You should be humiliated by that. I am proud of my Gio Bernard love. What a useless player.

What do you mean, what a useless player? I mean, he's not going to score. He'd probably have a couple of all-pro belts already if it wasn't for the fact that they kept feeding the corpse of Jeremy Hill. Okay, I'm looking in the future and the present right now, and I know that they invested a lot in Joe Mixon. They're going to turn him loose. Gio Bernard is a useless player. He's not a useless player at all. He's probably going to be, once again, a top 30 running back in PPR.

Who cares? I don't care about a top 30 running back. Well, that's because you're clearly not playing in deep enough leagues. I mean, okay, fair. You know what? I am not playing a deep enough release. Who else are you ashamed to love? Like probably Ben Roethlisberger.

I like that call. I like that call. For a variety of reasons. Ooh, I got a quarterback too. All right, all right. Hit me with it. Andrew Luck. I went on his show the other day and I said, I think a quarterback too. All right, all right. Hit me with it. Andrew Luck. I went on his show the other day and I said,

I think he's playing 16 games and I think he's going to be a top 12 to 15 quarterback pretty easily. Well, that's not very bold. How bold do you want me to get? I'll tell you what. If Andrew Luck plays 16 games, he's going to be a top six quarterback. No, I'm fine with that too. I guess I didn't need to be bold on that, but I am ashamed of my love for him because every time I bring it up, people hate on it.

The listeners are shaming my Derrick Henry love for sure. I've got a lot of receivers. Michael Crabtree? I think it's because of the way i go about my rankings and for some reason at receiver i end up with more of these guys that i think are probably going to end up justifying my ranking of them but nobody wants to draft them like who michael crabtree richard matthews um alan hearns kelvin benjamin that's Benjamin That's a good start Honestly I mean it's really an interesting philosophy

Because you don't always have to go with the upside guy Those guys probably don't have huge upside But they do have huge opportunity to just be Start worthy every week you know Like they're not going to hurt you Right And I would say that Alan Hearns has already demonstrated upside in the past Heartworthy every week, you know? Like they're not going to hurt you. Right. And I would say that Alan Hearns has already demonstrated upside in the past.

I don't know why you care about that. We all know that that season was such a fluke. It was a terrible contract. It's just so far in the past. He's not that good and you know it. I think he might be better than Julian Edelman this year. It's just so far in the past. He's not that good, and you know it. I think he might be better than Julian Edelman this year. I'm not playing the music for that. I'm not playing the music.

Let's do the bet. Alan Hearns or Julian Edelman? Yeah. What's the format? You choose. Oh, I mean, if I'm choosing, then it's PPR. Okay. Who scores more PPR points this year?

Yes. And I'll even give you the four games. All right. We'll discuss the terms later, but I'll take Alan Hearns. You get Julian Edelman. Yes. Oh, that was fun. All right. Good stuff.

Wow. I'm excited for that. Good email. Good email. Thank you. All right. Hey, that was a pretty good one. These are going to be even better.

So, Scott, tell us about your commissioner questions that you field. Oh, sure. I have a podcast called Commissioner Impossible. Commission Impossible. Wow. And all we basically do recently is just answer commissioner questions because we get – I think we had 15 pages of emails of Commissioner Questions. Love doing it. Ryan McDowell and I host that show.

It's a lot of fun and we found it's something that's not talked about as much in the industry is that commissioners need help too. They want us to figure out how – help them figure out how to make their leagues even more fun or settle disputes like your regulators do and things like that. It's a lot of fun. Well, so far the early returns on the regulators. The questions aren't quite as juicy as they're going to be in season, but I expect that. That's fine. But let's give it a shot. Let's do a segment here with Commission Possible himself.

Let's do some fantasy regulation. And we begin with Teddy from Colorado. It's time to regulate. My league did not have a team makeup requirement last year. So a few of us did not draft a kicker, DST, and some didn't draft a tight end, choosing to spend those slots on wide receiver and running back. We immediately got told this goes against the spirit of the game, and we're told we had to pick up those empty slots off waivers immediately.

Do you think there should be roster build requirements at the draft? And also, my league is a bunch of babies, right? First off, they should have set roster build requirements before the draft, absolutely. But since they hadn't, I think the commissioner is absolutely in the wrong here. You followed the rules. You exploited what may have been a loophole or maybe not. But there's not a spirit of the game issue here. There are so many different leagues.

Some don't play with kickers and defenses. None of mine do. So in my humble opinion, the commissioner is wrong here. There are so many different leagues. Some don't play with kickers and defenses. None of mine do. So in my humble opinion, the commissioner is wrong here. I don't know that I'd call them babies, but it should have been set before the... You should be fine. The thing that Scott is going to struggle

with a little bit here is his niceness. Yeah, I know. I was thinking we're regulars. They're a bunch of cry babies yeah what do you think you know what if the commissioner sent me an email saying you must pick up a kicker or what are you going to make me forfeit my pre-season matches no it's not in the rules i'll pick one up before week one do nfl teams are they required to carry a kicker through the off season of course not yeah scott what do you think Nate Dogg and Warren G would say right now? You think they'd say, oh, he's wrong, he's not a baby. No, come on, regulate, dude.

Yeah, yeah. Call your commissioner baby, tell him you're not going to do it. All right, there we go. And the positional limits are terrible. From Dennis, I had a dispute last season. I wanted your opinion. This is weird. I'd never heard this one before. I had a three last season. I wanted your opinion. This is weird. I'd never heard this one before.

I had a three-for-two trade accepted, and since the other team did not drop a player, the trade did not go through. So I had a three-for-two trade accepted, and since the other team did not drop a player, the trade did not go through. The commissioner then said that it was indeed not the right thing to do, however technically allowed. I argued that as commissioner, he can drop the last player on the other team's bench and put the trade through manually, but he did not agree. Please tell me I should feel aggrieved that this trade did not get completed.

Well, I've experienced this many times as commissioner, and every single time as a commissioner, I mean, that's the job. I reach out and tell them, hey, you got to drop a guy or just rework the trade so that you're adding the worst player or whatever to the trade and make it a three-for-three trade. If you're holding on to those tight roster requirements. Personally, I think the commissioner is just not fully doing his job here. But I can kind of understand where he's coming from. And the teams probably should have just tried to rework the trade as a three for three, including the, you know, end of bench player. There you go. That's regulating. Keith,

one way or another, this trade has to go down. This is a cowardly way to get out of a trade. What I would have done if I was the commissioner, and this is probably a little bit of a league settings issue as well, because it sounds like the league settings are not allowing the trade to go through until someone is dropped. Because I would have just pushed the trade through. Whoever got the three players would have an illegal roster until they dropped someone and just

forfeit next week. I love it. That's the way all my leagues are. Alright, Drew from Southeast Indiana, the last one. Dear Joey, Matt, Kobayashi, and Kazutoyo. Those, I think, are hot dog eaters, right? Yeah, hot dog eaters. Southeast Indiana again?

I wonder if he hangs out with the Drew from the first email. I think so. Oh, it's probably the same Drew. Oh, wow. Did I read an email already from Drew? Oh, wow. Drew, congratulations. you're the star of the show you you have bumped scott fish off the marquee you are now the star of today's show

now i'm just wondering if drew actually sent both of these emails or if that was a copy and paste mistake no no i mean one they're completely different emails oh oh you mean with the names yeah um no i think they're the same guy. Same guy. All right. My 12-team league is having a difficult time coming up with a way to determine our draft order. The last few years, we were all in college and had a beer pong set up. We had someone mark the bottom of cups with numbers, and the cup you hit was the order you could select your pick.

That's pretty cool, by the way. Now with everyone gone, we are running into problems. We missed out on the World Cup and the Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest yesterday. I was wondering if you had any suggestions how to set a draft pick order. Scott Fish. Wow. I'm so bad at this. I generally just do random things.

There's got to be like a PGA tournament coming up where you can each pick golfers, right? Something like that maybe. Yeah. NASCAR maybe. Yeah. NASCAR maybe. I don't know the NASCAR season, but that could work. How many guys are going to be in the home run derby this year? Probably eight. That's not enough.

No. That's a good call though. Oh, gosh. I would manipulate it so that like the last place teams, the last four teams from last year, they don't get to pick they're they're not in this and then use the home run derby because that is such a great idea but if you want to better there's got to be some way you can figure out the home run derby to make that work yeah yeah maybe um okay so we're going with we did a really bad job on this one did we uh ps who would win a hot dog eating contest from the Fantasy Football Today crew? My money is on Heath.

Oof. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, I've done some competitive eating in the past, but it was not hot dogs. It was pizzas. I did a pancake eating contest. I did some ice cream stuff, which is rough. But I've never done hot dogs. I would say it would probably come down to Dave and I.

Yeah, I would pick Dave, but I agree it would be between the two of you. I've got to say something. I know you're not going to believe me. I'm 5'9", 144 pounds or whatever. I think I would win the pizza eating contest. I know I've said this before on the show and I've been mocked. I'm telling you, I could really put down a lot of pizza. But I think where people get confused when it comes to eating and competing against someone else,

this has nothing at all to do with how much food you can comfortably eat or how much food you want to eat or you desire to eat a lot of pizza. This is pure misery. And this is all about toughing it out, not throwing up, and making your body do something it does not want to do. That doesn't sound like Adam Azer to me. I don't throw up. I have an iron stomach. I don't throw up.

I think you would just quit as soon as you didn't like it anymore. Really? Scott, do you think that I'm that kind of guy? Oh, man. I don't know. That's fine. You know what?

You're probably right. I can't say you're wrong. Here's the thing. Can you hold out just long enough for everybody else to stop eating, though? I don't know. I will say that when I was a kid, two of my most cherished memories were the day I quit soccer and the day I quit baseball. It was just getting way too hard. And I was like, I don't want to do this anymore.

The field got way too big for soccer. And baseball, they started throwing curveballs. I just was like, not into that. I'm quitting. I'm going to go play Nintendo. So you know what? You're probably right. I love how it isn't just a memory for you or something that happened.

It's something you actually cherish is quitting those leagues. Great pride. Can't wait to teach a future child the joy of quitting. Well, I think it's time to look at some Scottfish rankings, Heath. What do you think? In. You're in? Okay.

So what I've learned is that Scott, a big Vikings fan, he loves Dalvin Cook, and he loves Kyle Rudolph, and that means we have... I am smart. S-M-R-T. I mean S-M-A-R-T. A Homer alert. We have a Homer alert for sure. You think Dalvin Cook... Look, to be honest with you, you came to the right place, because you know he's one of Heath's breakouts.

Dalvin Cook, you got high expectations for. Yeah, I started doing some projections on some players. I haven't done it for a few years. But I have Dalvin right in the 1,500-yard range, seven touchdowns and about 50 receptions, which would put him smack dab right there as a first-round pick. I think he's my sixth running back right now, sixth or seventh. Is there anything not to like about Dalvin Cook? We really like him.

It's just the ACL, right? Yeah, yeah. I mean, if we go back in Vikings ACL history, if we just use that small sample size of Adrian Peterson, Dalvin Cook's going for 2,000 yards this year. That's what I assume. All right. Honestly, we've talked so much about him recently. I think you're not going to get much argument here, but you might get some argument on Kyle Rudolph. All right. What do

you expect from Kyle Rudolph? I haven't done tight end projections, but I expect him to be top five and maybe even above Evan Inram because i think there's a chance evan ingram is the one that takes a step back from that giants offense um with obj returning and barkley jumping in i think ingram is still going to be good but i think he might take a step i think rudolph with the the addition of di filippo who you know utilize the tight end i know he's the quarterback coach but he's like they utilize the tight end a ton in philly and, who utilized the tight end. I know he's the quarterback coach, but they utilized the tight end a ton in Philly.

And Cousins, who loves the tight end. I just feel like with Diggs and Thielen and Dalvin Cook, Rudolph is going to find some openings, and he was already a decent red zone guy. I think that Cousins is going to start to depend on him, and he'll be probably a top five guy this year.

Maybe even number three or four. Heath? I don't have him top five, but I do have him ahead of Evan Ingram. So that kind of counts as an agreement. I don't really disagree with anything Scott said. My only fear would be volume because of all those weapons that he mentioned. I've got him right behind Jimmy Graham and Greg Olson as my number six tight end. And he falls to me in the seventh and eighth round a lot of time, and I'm very happy just not taking a tight end until then or later.

So my thoughts on Kyle Rudolph really just sort of reflect how I feel about the position. I could see him being a top five tight end, and yet I have absolutely no enthusiasm to draft him. You feel, sounds Scott, like you feel like he has some upside. I don't really feel like he's that good. And I don't feel like there are more than three tight ends that I'm really excited about. I was on Jake Seeley's podcast earlier this morning, and we were talking about this very issue because we were talking about

Trey Burton, and he thought it was crazy that people were drafting Trey Burton ahead of Kyle Rudolph, and I said I agree with it because Burton has a chance to be not, I don't think he has a chance to be great for a whole season, but spurts of greatness. And I feel like Rudolph is just sort of going to be there. He's not going to be that much better than the guys you stream. He just sort of exists like other tight ends. I don't know. He was the number six tight end last year in non-PPR. He was number eight in PPR. The year before that, he was top three, but he had so many targets. He had 132 targets.

And the stat I gave last year when I thought he was going to be a bust was that Rudolph led all tight ends in targets in 2016. And he finished with – okay, he had 132 targets. I looked at the five previous years and the tight ends with 120 or more targets in those five years, and only one of them had fewer fantasy points than Kyle Rudolph had in 2016. So bottom line is I felt he needed a ton of targets to be really good, and he didn't get them last year, and he wasn't that good. So I just kind of feel like there are three difference makers, and then there are some other guys who we hope can be difference makers in the position,

and I think Rudolph is after that group. Extremely Chris Towers voice. We've never seen Trey Burton as a full-time player. He could be anything. He could even be Kyle Rudolph. But he could be better than Kyle Rudolph. Why? Why?

Because I think he's more talented than Kyle Rudolph. Why would you think that, though? He's been a bench player for four years. Yes, behind a very good tight end. Behind a great tight end, in fact. I just think Rudolph is kind of like, you know, whatever. Whatever kind of... He's not average.

He's better than average. But in terms of fantasy-relevant tight ends, he's kind of average. Burton, I think, is more of a playmaker. You don't agree? I think Trey Burton is a very nice end of the draft. Man, I hope he turns into a good tight end. I don't see any reason to elevate his upside above Kyle Rudolph's upside. When Kyle Rudolph, just a year and a half ago, was kind of like 8-3, 8-40, and 7. 132 targets.

Right. Earning 132 targets. Right. You know he's not getting that. Earning 132 targets is a positive. You know he's not getting that, though. You don't get – no, I don't know that. I don't know what the health of Stephon Diggs or Adam Thielen is going to be. All right. So I don't know what the health of Alan Robinson is going to be.

Probably bad. Okay. So that's the point. Trey Burton. Yeah. All right. Well, that's a little disagreement there on Kyle Rudolph. And Scott hates Brandon Cooks with a furious passion.

I feel like I was this guy last year when I had him lower in my rankings than anyone. But it goes back to a lot of film watchers have mentioned how Goff just does not look over that way, did not look over that way with Watkins. Greg Cosell mentioned that, has mentioned that a few times. And Woods became Goff's safety blanket. Even when Woods was out and Cup was racking up targets, the second Woods got back, he kept soaking up those targets. I think there's just a trust there, and he showed how much he loved Cup in the red zone.

I believe he had 19 or 20 red zone targets last year. I don't know that that's going to go away because that's not really who Brandon Cooks is. So I think Brandon Cooks is going to have good games. I think he's going to at least probably do right around what Watkins did and probably have a couple of huge games because that's what Brandon Cooks does. But for consistency's sake and maybe even overall stats, I have him third among Rams wide receivers in my rankings.

Heath, how do you rank the Rams wide receivers? I have Cooks first and I don't feel good about it. The problem that I have that I will agree with Scott on is that they largely use sammy watkins as a decoy for huge chunks of last year they are going to face some extremely talented defensive backs this year if they plug him into that sammy watkins role then he is at

the very best a lowend number two wide receiver, which is where I have him ranked right now, at his ceiling in that circumstance. He's probably more like a flex. I currently have him ahead of Woods, and then Woods ahead of Cup.

I just think McVay obviously had a lot of attraction to Brandon Cooks. He won it. That was his guy. I expect they're going to treat him differently. Yeah, that's – I hear so many good arguments against Brandon Cooks, like what Scott just said. I get it.

What is a struggle for me is what they gave up to get him. And they had the 24th most pass attempts in the NFL last year. They could throw more. I mean, this could be sort of a coming out party for Jared Goff. Nobody had even 100 targets on that team. And I just kind of feel like Cooks is a better receiver than Kup and Woods. That doesn't necessarily matter, but, you know, I kind of feel like he's the best player.

He's the best, most talented receiver on that team. I struggle with this one. I really do. I might be avoiding the Rams wide receivers. I probably will. I have Cooks, like I said, as a low end number two, and I cannot disagree with anything Scott said. Right.

All right, so let's ask some more questions for Scott Fish and finish with some emails at fantasyfootballatcbsi.com. We have some football questions. We have some non-football questions. Scott, who will be the second best rookie running back oh for me this is sonny michelle and i i understand the arguments for ronald jones who could be the starter you know the starter there and he has really no competition and and guys like dairy's guy stuff who they're loving in washington but for me uh it's michelle because i'm a michelle overkhead guy. The Patriots, they had the second most fantasy points to the running back position last year.

They're a top five offense. There's just so much to love. And Michelle can play on all three downs in my opinion. I think he's going to be a better pass catcher than people think. And even in the Corey Dillon years, the Patriots went one running back quite a bit. They moved up in the draft to get him. I just think there's a lot of potential there for Michel to be that guy. Deion Lewis was on pace at the end of last season.

He had a stretch where he was like a top 12 running back. There's a lot to like if Michel can take on that role. Next question for Scott Fish. Who will be the best rookie wide receiver? I think the safe pick is Calvin Ridley. Really? What was that? I'm surprised that

that's being called the safe pick. DJ Moore feels like the safe pick to me. Did you say best or second best? Oh, you said best. I'm still stuck on the rookie running back question. No, no, no. I have DJ Moore one with a bullet among wide receivers. The second pick is where it gets interesting between Ridley and Kirk and Miller and Gallup.

I have DJ Moore easily the top wide receiver. Do I need to even go into reasons why? I think he's going to be the starter there. I think that he uh, I think that he's got lots of opportunity in Carolina and they already love him in camp. Ben Roethlisberger or Carson Wentz? Carson Wentz. I just, yeah, I'm, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I like that. I know they both have good offenses. I know that the Pittsburgh Steelers schedule is, is tougher at least, uh, at least early on.

But yeah, Carson Wentz, just what he did last season. I don't know. There's something about this Eagles offense that is tough to stop. And I think Le'Veon Bell, he's still just an awesome running back. He might soak up a lot of that. So give me Wentz, but honestly, it's close. We're splitting hairs. I think I've Roethlisbergered like nine or something, and Carson Wentz, but honestly, it's close. We're splitting hairs. I think I have Roethlisberger like nine or something,

and Carson Wentz like five or six. Heath? I have Carson Wentz at 12th, and that's only because I've been pressured into moving him up. I am not convinced yet that he is going to be 100% for week one. I am very convinced that he is going to be 100 for week one i am very convinced that he is going to regress from last year's touchdown rate i don't expect he's going to run as much as he did and like the main concern that i have for ben roethlisberger is will he stay healthy for 16

games right now that's a bigger concern for carson wince than it is for roethlisberger i think the health is valid but i mean even Foles came in there and was really, really fantasy good. I mean, maybe Foles is Wentz regression. You know, like I don't think the regression is going to be that big. But the injury is fair. The injury concern is fair. He may, I mean, I believe he's running and throwing already, but it's fair that he, you know, they might take their time with him.

All right. That's it for the football questions. Here are the non-football questions for Scott. And I asked you last year, what is your favorite food? I think this is a little bit different of a question. If you could eat only one food for the rest of your life, what would it be? Probably pepperoni pizza, I guess, or bacon cheeseburger. It's got to be one of those two.

Heath, if you could eat only one food for the rest of your life. No, no, no. You can't pick two. Okay, bacon cheeseburger. Bacon cheeseburger. All right, Heath, how about you? Sorry I had to regulate there. Oh, man.

I'm thinking about this from a lifespan perspective. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Bacon cheeseburger. Scott's out of here in like two years. Yeah. I mean I've only got the terrible one. It's better than the pizza for sure. One food for the rest.

I guess I'll just go with steak. You guys are dead. Like you can't just eat red meat twice a day. Oh, you want to bet? I mean – was it super-sized meat? I'm going to go with a chicken burrito. I'm going to go with a chicken burrito. They're delicious.

You get a little protein. I will say whatever you're wrapping that chicken burrito in is worse for you than red meat. Are you kidding me? Can I get a whole wheat chicken burrito? No. Incorrect. 100% incorrect. Scottfish, would you rather watch nine innings of baseball

or an entire CFL football game? Oh, CFL football game, easily. Unless the baseball is live and I have beer, then I think maybe the baseball game, but probably CFL football game. Wow. I think Scott hit on the right answer there. The

answer is baseball in person, CFL on TV. scott would you rather watch nine innings of baseball or three hours of sex in the city three hours of sex in the city no i'm just probably baseball i gotta tell you like now that i'm married i watch a lot of shows that i never thought i'd watch before and some of them are okay sex in the city is terrible it's yeah i watched the entire series with my wife i i know where you're at heath heath you in on this i have never seen an episode of sex in the city you're a lucky man you are a lucky man scott fish what is the best sitcom ever oh animated animated or not animated you know what I know a lot of people hate on the later

later seasons but I think the finale and I think it redeemed itself I think I'm going to still stick with The Office oh The Office over Seinfeld and Simpsons I love Seinfeld I love Parks and Rec Arrested Development was amazing when it was on live

yeah but The Office has the most rewatch ability for me and i'm factoring in rewatch ability i have been watching a lot of office reruns lately heath what's the best sitcom ever i think scott was right yeah i i mean i'm a simpsons guy i'm always going to take that people might not consider that a sitcom, but I think you got to go Seinfeld over The Office. The Office is pretty amazing, though. And, Scott, what is the third best Adam Sandler movie? Third best Adam Sandler movie?

Well, yeah, we know one and two are Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore, and Some Order. What is the third best Adam Sandler movie? Oh, wow. I kind of want to IMDB Adam Sandler right now to figure out what his third best was I probably would have said Happy Gilmore Waterboy's got to be up there you got the big daddy you got the wedding singer I think I'm just gonna go Waterboy because that's the one that came to my head first which means I must you know watch it enough and like it enough plus it's it's a football movie right it's much more of a

football movie than jerry mcguire much more of a football movie so what is your stupid jerry mcguire take no i i don't i don't really have a hot take i just brought it up earlier right you know if i had to lean one way i'd probably lean towards it being a football movie just because if you think about movies like draft day or like uh for football or money ball for baseball there's like almost no baseball or football in those but they're categorically classified as those that's because the baseball matters it's the record of the team the outcome of the team it matters yeah it doesn't matter we don't care i have no hot i have no hot take on the Jerry Maguire.

If you tell me you think it's a rom-com and not a football movie, I'm fine with that. Don't let him push you around, Scott. I probably throw it in the football category myself, but I have no qualms with not thinking it is. America just does not know how to evaluate a movie. It's just – they need my help. Let's read some emails. Nick from Lake, Pennsylvania. I don't know how to pronounce that other word,

so I'm just going to say Pennsylvania. This is the first year my long-term fantasy league decided to do a keeper. Should I keep Derek Henry in the 11th or Josh Gordon in the 10th? Scott, Henry in the 11th or Gordon in the 10th? Oh, man. I'd probably keep Henry in the 11th just Gordon in the 10th? Oh, man. I'd probably keep Henry in the 11th just because wide receivers feel readily more

replaceable. There are a lot of receivers. And plus it's an extra round, I guess. I like them both, but I'd probably keep Henry. Heath? Yeah, and this one might come down to non-PPR or PPR, but I'm keeping Henry. Okay, we got an email from Rory from the North.

Keeper League, who do I keep? Deshaun Watson in the 20th round or Josh Gordon in the 20th round? I can only keep them for two more seasons. Watson in the 20th or Gordon in the 20th? Josh Gordon. I just think that the one thing you have to remember with Gordon is that he could be one infraction away from never playing football again. So that is a little scary in a keeper league. But you're going Gordon over Watson.

How about you, Scott? My thing, and maybe I'm wrong, but this is not a dynasty league. It's different in a keeper league. You're going to have six or seven good options to keep after this year because you're going to do a good job of drafting. Either one of these players you can easily redraft in the draft. So I think I'd feel better keeping Gordon just because if I miss Watson, there's a bunch of other quarterbacks I can get. Yeah, I'd probably go with Gordon in this one.

It's a 20th rounder. I mean, you're good either way. Yeah, that's true. James from a town north of Los Angeles. James is from San Francisco. I tried a new strategy in a recent mock draft. 12th team, standard scoring league. I had the fourth pick.

So he says, I call it zero wide receiver. Well, you know, a lot of people use that term. But how do you like it zero wide receiver. Well, a lot of people use that term. But how do you like this zero wide receiver team? He's got Aaron Rodgers at quarterback. He's got Evan Ingram at tight end. David Johnson, Jordan Howard, Jarek McKinnon. David Johnson, Jordan Howard, and Jarek McKinnon, also CJ Anderson at running back.

Brandon Cooks, Randall Cobb, Julian Edelman, Sammy Watkins, Cameron Meredith. So again, the wide receivers are Cooks, Cobb, Edelman, Watkins, and Cameron Meredith. Got great running backs and a top quarterback, but are the wide receivers good enough? Cooks, Cobb, Edelman, Watkins, and Cameron Meredith. I personally like what he's done here. I'm not sure it's because of the zero wide receiver strategy, waiting on wide receivers and grabbing those other players. But the way the draft fell for him, I really like it.

I said before how I feel wide receivers are replaceable. I think he's got some really good ones and also he can he can play the waiver wire like crazy and just keep filling in that third wide receiver spot and start two of those yeah i think this is really what he's done is really good i'm not sure it's because of the zero wide receiver strategy but uh it was a good draft for him cool it'll be fun with him just with what you've just said i have this uh best ball team that I'm in the process of drafting. It really took a bad turn in the third round when I auto-drafted Mark Ingram overnight.

Scott Fish is going to hate this team, and I want to hear him try to say something nice about it. This is a problem with me. I try to be way too nice at times. So my running backs are Mark Ingram, Lamar Miller, Carlos Hyde, and Marlon Mack. My receivers

are DeAndre Hopkins, Keenan Allen, Demarius Thomas, and Jarvis Landry. Greg Olson is my tight end. Wow. Well, Greg Olson could easily be a top seven tight end. DeAndre Hopkins and Keenan Allen are two of my top five wide receivers. And most of those running backs are pretty much starters for their own team.. I mean, it's no wonder that you run a freaking fantasy football charity to help kids. Fantasycares.net if you're interested.

Fantasycares.net. That is Scott Fish at ScottFish24 on Twitter. Thank you for coming on. We will talk to you in a year, hopefully sooner, but certainly a year from now. Yeah, sounds good. Thanks, Adam. Thanks for having me. Great stuff from Scott and from Heath.

Absolutely. The two nicest guys in the business. Thanks, Adam. Thanks for having me. Great stuff from Scott and from Heath. Absolutely the two nicest guys in the business. I'm Adam Azer. Or the polar opposites. No, I was talking about me and Scott. I'm Adam Azer. Have a great weekend, everybody. We'll talk to you all Monday. It's all right.

I've got Le'Veon. It's all right. Not George Le'Veon. It's all right. I've got Le'Veon It's alright I've got Le'Veon Bell Yeah