Fantasy Football Today - 07/31: Everyone is a Bust Part 2! And Fill in the Blank (Fantasy Football Podcast)
Episode Date: July 31, 2019Starting the show with our thoughts on A.J. Green's diagnosis and when to draft him (is he still a Top 50 pick?) plus Andrew Luck's lingering calf issue and what it could mean for T.Y. Hilton. Then it...'s "Everyone is a Bust" Part 2 (8:13) as we tell you what could go wrong for James Conner, Michael Thomas, Odell Beckham, Travis Kelce and more ... News and notes (28:50) as Ryan Fitzpatrick, Maurice Harris, KeeSean Johnson and Miles Sanders get some good press while Marquise Brown makes his return to the practice field ... We've got some Fill in the Blank (42:00) from our listeners! Josh Jacobs' upside, the hardest player to predict on a weekly basis, David Montgomery's value and more ... Your emails at fantasyfootball@cbsi.com 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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Hey, guess what, everybody?
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and we're going to have some coverage for you on CBS Sports HQ.
Welcome to Fantasy Football today.
Yeah, football starts tomorrow and ends in February.
We're excited.
Michael Thomas just got $100 million.
He's probably pretty excited.
And I did not get $100 million, but I still cannot wait to talk fantasy football with my buddies,
Dave Richard and Jamie Eisenberg.
Good morning, guys. What's going on?
What's up Adam? I'm not doing as well as Michael Thomas is but five years 100 million 61 million
guaranteed. At least we know he's not holding out at all and we can draft accordingly now.
Yeah and he'll be on today's show in the everyone is a bust section part two. We did part one
yesterday with the first day picks of the draft. We'll do part two we did part one yesterday with the first day picks
of the draft we'll do part two uh michael thomas caught 85 of his targets what if he doesn't do
that again this year is the production going to be a little bit disappointing plus you got jared
cook in there uh maybe some young wide receivers step up we'll talk about michael thomas i want
to know from you guys though what's the biggest news from yesterday also coming up on today's
show we got some fill in the blank we have a funny five star review to read thank you very much for those
and we've got a segment it should i call it old faces in new places or new faces in new places
about guys on new teams old faces in new places but i mean but are you calling them old that's
a thing like it's a mean thing to say jam Yeah, it's like you're offending them.
You're saying you've got an old face.
Yeah, not cool.
All right, well, we'll figure out the title before we get there.
What's the biggest news item from yesterday?
There's two.
I would say the biggest one is A.J. Green having the procedure
and the doctors realizing during the procedure
that his timetable might be a little bit longer than initially expected.
And it probably,
it,
to me,
it drops them out of the first five rounds for sure.
Um,
I,
I like the idea of drafting them to be your eventual number three wide
receiver with number one receiver potential,
but I don't,
I can't,
I can't find anybody that I would take him over with one of the first 60 picks in the draft.
Ooh, man, that's far.
I'm still taking Green in the first five rounds.
We still don't know if it's one game or three games.
That was never really determined beforehand.
So six to eight weeks could still be the eight weeks where it's the three games.
So first I moved him down, and then I decided, you know what, when I started comparing some of the guys in that range, he's the three games. So I, I first, I moved him down and then I decided,
you know what,
when I started comparing some of the guys in that range,
he's still a fifth round pick.
And I think that's where his average draft position will probably settle.
The,
the two biggest news items from yesterday were the two calf injuries that we
found out about,
you know,
Andrew Luck now has missed three months with this calf strain.
That's not a good sign at all.
And Derek Henry,
we found out it's going to be out for at least two weeks with a calf
strain.
So soft tissue injuries are never good. They're never good this time of year.
And I'm a little bit concerned about both guys, not dramatically concerned yet. But,
you know, it's troubling that for luck that this has lingered so long for a guy that has
an injury track record of missing extended periods of time. You know, he's being smart
about it, which is the right thing, not necessarily rushing back on the field he doesn't have to but when you start to again nitpick those
top four quarterbacks right now he's fourth okay and i i think obviously andrew luck would suffer
if andrew luck got hurt but ty hilton we really need to talk about that because ty hilton 2017
andrew luck did not play ty hilton don't don'tilton was... I don't know if you want to go there yet.
No, no. Alright. Fine.
I understand what you're saying.
But I just want people to know there's a huge
downgrade. It's not like DeAndre Hopkins.
Every quarterback he's had, except for Osweiler,
he's been good. Without Andrew Luck,
T.Y. Hilton is a high-end number
three, low-end number two wide receiver.
But again, at that point
it was getting Jacoby Brissett
from a trade from New England
right at the start of the season
versus Brissett now two years in this offense,
full season and then full offseason with Frank Reich.
So I think it's an entirely different situation
in what the backup could be.
Now, again, I agree with you.
It's a downgrade losing Andrew Luck.
But I think that when we talk about these type of injuries, it's a little bit different when a guy is not expected to miss time.
AJ Green is expected to miss some time.
So that's a different conversation when you talk about Dalton and Boyd and Mixon and all those guys.
This is more of a where to draft these guys type of conversation.
Like when we talk Gurley, who's not missing time or at least expected to miss time, or Luck, who's not expected to miss time.
The reason I'm bringing it up is I don't want
people to panic on, okay, now you downgrade
T.Y. Hilton yet. You don't have to do that just yet.
You may want to.
I'm just looking into the future. I'm just saying, if
Andrew Luck misses time, you do have to downgrade
T.Y. Hilton.
A lot.
I don't think it's a lot.
You're right that the quarterback situation will be better. It was Brissette two years ago, but like you said,
it was not an ideal situation for Brissette.
And four years ago when Andrew Luck missed nine games,
it was Matt Hasselbeck and Charlie Whitehurst and Josh Freeman
and Ryan Lindley.
So it'll be a better situation for T.Y. Hilton.
But he had seven games.
In 2017, he had seven games with fewer than 30 yards.
And Brissette threw 13 touchdown passes in 16 games.
He'll do better than that.
And you know what?
We're not going to freak out about it.
It's too early.
But right now, if you're drafting today,
you'd still take luck over Baker Mayfield?
Yes.
Yeah, he's still in the top four.
But again, it's the same thing with those running backs.
Whenever there's anything
that could make you be a little bit
cautious or concerned or whatever,
because they're all great. They're all exceptional
if they play 16 games. And so
you're looking at who's
better right now between Rodgers and Luck,
Watson and Luck. Mahomes is going to go first as long as
he has his full complement of weapons.
And so it's just an easy situation
to say, okay, why take the whatever potential risk
there may be involved with one of these guys?
And so you may look at it and say,
okay, right now we're talking about this.
It's not even August yet.
So why bother yourself with being worried about it
if you're an Andrew Luck?
I have Luck in a keeper league.
I'm not worried about it.
I have seven keepers.
I gotta pick four.
He's easily one of the top four.
But it's just, again, when you nitpick at these spots,
when they're the best of the best, the three tight ends, the four running backs,
the seven receivers, the four quarterbacks, it's just something to say, okay, I like this guy,
1A, 1B, 1C, 1D, shuffle them up. And now luck falls to the bottom.
As far as AJ Green goes, I mean, there were two guys last year who we knew were going to
miss time at the start of the season.
I'm sure there were more, but two that come to mind were Julian Edelman
and Mark Ingram. It was not because of injury, though.
I got a third one, Doug Baldwin.
Doug?
Well, it depends when you drafted.
Because he was ready for week one, wasn't he?
But he said he wasn't 100%.
Yeah, and I drafted a lot of
Doug Baldwin last year.
He was falling late third round, early fourth round, and I was all in on it. I also drafted said he wasn't 100 yeah and i drafted a lot of doug baldwin last year because i you know he was
falling late third round early fourth round and i was all in on i also drafted some julian edelman
i was very happy with julian edelman uh mark ingram was a little bit of a disappointment his
passing game production pretty much went away and i i think baldwin you don't obviously have
to characterize as a disappointment that's probably the comparison we should make right
i mean got hurt in the
preseason. Green's injury prone. But if it ends up being an Edelman situation, you're going to
love to have A.J. Green with a top 60 pick. And just the last point to make about this,
let's say he misses four games. We don't know that'll be that many, but let's say he misses
four. There are no bye weeks in weeks one through three. In week four, the Jets and the 49ers are
on a bye. So you have a better chance to get away with this injury at the start of the season, obviously, than you do later in the season.
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Let's do Everyone is a Bust Part 2. Yesterday, we talked about the top four running backs,
Hopkins and Adams, David Johnson, and Le'Veon Bell. We continue in CBS ADP to number nine overall, and I
removed Melvin Gordon and Patrick Mahomes from
this top 16, and I think I removed
Todd Gurley too
because we talked enough about him. Let's start
with James Conner. So here's how it works. I give you
a reason why he might be a bust. You tell
me if you're buying it. You tell me just basically
what you think. James Conner
rushed for 65 or fewer
yards in eight of 13 games. He did not have
more than 15 carries in any of those eight games. When he returned from an injury in week 17,
Conner had three catches for 30 yards. Jalen Samuels had seven catches for 40 yards. Remember,
no Antonio Brown in that game. My point is Conner was really, really helped by passing down's work.
If it's going to Samuel, you could be a little concerned about James Connor.
That's his best potential, in my opinion.
Guys, what do you think?
I also think he was helped by touchdowns.
If you look at his four best games from last year, he scored twice in each of them.
But that's a role he's going to still have this year.
And I know that he didn't have a lot of games with 20 plus carries, but he
did have enough with 17, 18 plus touches. A lot of those 65 yard games that you refer to,
he also had 25, 30, 34 yards receiving. And I think he's still going to get that.
I think Jalen Samuels will have a role where he's catching three to four passes per game.
I still think Connor's going to catch three to four passes per game. He's going to be the goal line guy.
He is their best threat at running back. This is a team that has consistently had great running
backs going for them. I have no problem taking James Connor, certainly not PPR with the first
round pick and a full PPR. I'd consider it late in round one, knowing that I'm going to get a good
player in round two. Okay, Dave, thank you for the James
Conner breakdown. We have a special surprise for everybody. Oh, big surprise.
Again, the Heath is on again, unexpectedly. Heath, welcome. What are you doing here?
It's really wonderful. I'm happy to be here, and I love the music. Thank you.
You're very welcome. So
here's what happened with the Michael Thomas breaking news. Jamie got pulled onto the HQ set
CBS Sports HQ. Download the CBS Sports app on any of your connected devices. Start watching HQ
anywhere you are. I watch it on my phone sometimes, by the way. It's very cool. So Jamie's going to
do some Michael Thomas stuff on HQ. He's going to step in here on the podcast. Next up is number 10
overall on ADP. It's Odell Beckham.
My bus concern
is there are there too many
mouths to feed in Cleveland?
Yes.
On paper, yes, but I don't think it's going to hurt
Odell like it will Landry,
Njoku, and Callaway.
I'm surprised that
that's the concern that you're going with Adam
Because Odell Beckham
Well injury concern for sure
But he seems healthy right now
Which is something that we're
Clinging to for a lot of players
That have the injury prone label
And his upside catching passes
From Baker Mayfield is through the roof
I mean if Sammy Watkins was going 10th overall
We'd probably have injury concern as our first concern, right?
He wouldn't go 10th overall.
Well, Odell Beckham's missed more games than he has.
Yeah, it's a valid, valid concern.
It is.
The too-many-miles-to-feed thing,
if we're not worried about it with Hopkins,
why are we worried about it with Beckham?
I mean, I feel like great players get their numbers.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
There's a couple of reasons.
One, Jarvis Landry is better than, in terms of demanding targets, Will Fuller or Kiki
QT.
Okay, what about Landry plus, say, Njoku versus Fuller plus QT on a team that's probably not
going to pass
as much as the Browns because they're a running team, the Texans.
That's the thing that we don't know because if you look at the Browns' offense
after Kitchens took over last year, they only ran 57 plays a game.
They were not particularly pass-heavy.
Yeah.
They were when they were losing.
The Texans are a little more run- heavy maybe than the Browns this year,
but the Texans have always been a team that runs 64, 65 plays a game.
If Houston's more fast-paced, there may be a similar number of pass attempts.
You know, it's hard to find a situation
where teams don't try to upgrade their receiving core, right?
Like you could look at Devontae Adams, DeAndre Hopkins, Julio Jones,
not Juju, and Michael Thomas,
and Odell Beckham,
and you could say with all of them,
hey, there are other guys there
that might be better this year
than the year before.
You know, there might be
a target share issue.
Yeah, not Juju.
No, not Juju.
Right, exactly.
But the other guys, yes.
So I guess of all these wide receivers,
Heath, it sounds like,
I feel like Beckham's the one
that might concern you the most
in terms of target share.
Relative to the number of targets
he has received in the past,
I would say Beckham is the one
that concerns me the most.
Relative to the number of targets
they received last year,
Adams would be the one
that concerned me the most.
One, because it's such an outlier in terms of his career and two because they have a new offensive system that
i anticipate will be built more upon spreading the ball around as opposed to dropping back running
the same routes and throwing it to the same guy every play right that i agree with you on that
with green bay in the case of cleveland i think that they want to use nick chubb a lot i think they right if
freddie kitchens had his druthers he would give nick chubb 15 to 20 carries per game i think you
could say that about most coaches but you don't acquire odell beckham and then only give him six
targets a game you can't say all right now great we've got odell beckham let's keep spreading the
ball around let's get rashad higgins involved a little bit more. It's just not going to happen.
Odell is too dangerous of a receiver.
This is the addition of Todd Monken is going to make the passing offense at
the very least.
He will whisper in Freddie's ear.
Let's throw it deep.
We've got this great quarterback who can make plays and we've got this great
receiver who can run and make plays deep.
And,
and to Beckham's credit in the games he has played
over the last year and the last two years,
he's come away with an over 62.5% success rate,
meaning that he's been consistent enough
to make you happy as a fantasy manager.
So I think he's going to get the targets.
I think he's going to get the touchdowns.
I think he's going to be as good,
if not even a little bit better,
than he was in New York with Eli Mann.
All right, next up, Julio Jones.
Here's the bus potential.
Well, you know, he seems to be always having some type of lower leg issue
or whatnot, but Atlanta had the eighth-worst scoring defense in the NFL
in 2018, and Matt Ryan threw 75 more passes than he had thrown in either of his
previous two seasons. You got
Calvin Ridley emerging. You got Devontae Freeman back.
Don't expect 170 targets
again for Julio Jones. Think more like
150.
Sure. Fair.
That's still pretty damn good.
So he's only going to have 90
catches for 1,400 or 1,500 yards.
Yeah, and one touchdown.
No.
Well, you'd like 100 catches for him.
I mean, he's certainly capable of giving you 100 catches.
Yeah, I don't know if I have him projected for 100 or not.
Who would you rather have, Beckham or Julio?
I'd rather have Julio.
I don't agree that this Falcons defense is going to be worlds better.
I don't know where their pass rush is coming from.
They played the Panthers twice a year, the Bucks twice a year, the Saints twice a year.
They're going to have matchups against Houston and Indianapolis.
And they're playing indoors for, I believe it's like the first 10 games of the season.
Something crazy like that.
13 of their games are indoors this year.
They are going to be in a ton of track meets and you know how I stand on, on Devante Freeman.
We've seen Julio Jones get at least 80 catches, at least 1400 yards. Each of his last five seasons,
that includes his crappy 2017 when he was playing hurt. And I know the touchdowns are an issue,
but he's reunited with Dirk Cutter who loves to air it out, and Cutter helped Julio find 10 touchdowns the last time that they were together
as play caller and receiver. I am optimistic
about Julio Jones. To me, the biggest concern is what you started
with, Adam. It's the injury. Even though he's not going to play
in a preseason game, he's not practicing much, if at all, right now.
Can I go on a quick tangent, by the way? Sure. playing a preseason game he's not practicing much if at all right now yeah it feels can i can i go
on a quick tangent by the way sure why not it feels like week eight there are too many injuries
already training camp hasn't even been open for a week today is basically a week and it feels like
there's already like 10 players who are hurt i'm just being grouchy about this but there
there are already too many injuries to worry about for fantasy.
I mean, I'm not worried about it.
And it's not even August 1st.
I'm not worried about a bunion being removed from his foot.
That's what it is for Jones.
But he does get banged up.
He plays through injury.
He misses some time.
You know, it's a little concerning.
We've now, I think, said more words about injury concern with Julio Jones than we did Odell Beckham.
Yeah, you're right.
But just because we said more words doesn't mean we're not more concerned about Beckham.
Julio's played at least 14 games four or five years in a row now.
I mean, by week five, we're going to be starting practice squad.
Five years in a row.
At least 14 games.
He's missed three games in the last five years.
Next up, Juju Smith-Schuster.
What's the bus concern? There's no Antonio Brown. He's got to games in the last five years. Next up, Juju Smith-Schuster. What's the bus concern?
There's no Antonio Brown.
He's got to be the number one guy now.
Yeah, this is a really bad bus concern.
This is stealing at his current ADP, and I almost made him a sleeper.
You can't call him a sleeper, but you can call him a breakout
because I think he does have a chance.
To say that he's going to get a career high in
touchdowns this year is a no-brainer statement if he can beat 111 catches in 1400 yards I think he
can but I I think he I think he can beat the yardage I'm not sure if he can beat the catches
I think the Steelers aren't going to lean too too much on him but he's just such a unique type of receiver.
There's a lot of receivers like this in the league
that are just making great plays after the catch.
They're slippery when defenders get their hands on them.
He's not necessarily a speed guy.
I don't think they're going to air it out to him
two or three times a game.
I bet he has a 97-yard reception.
Well, he's done that each of the last years,
but have you seen how they've come?
They're mostly catching runs
where he's making a play.
I know, but
it doesn't happen every week.
No, it's not going to happen every week, but he's a very
good receiver. He's going to get
around 150 targets.
He's going to get more.
He's going to get 166 with Antonio Brown.
I know. I think the Steelers find
ways to get other people involved
and not make it a one-receiver passing game.
I don't think it'll be a one-receiver passing game,
but I still expect him to throw it 600-plus times.
I've got him.
I've tried really hard to, like,
rein in my Juju Smith-Schuster projection
so that it's not too outlandish.
Right around 1,420 yards, like last year, 10 touchdowns on 174 targets.
I honestly believe there's 200 target upside here,
and he might lead the league in basically every receiving category.
All right.
So Juju Smith-Schuster played three games in his career without Antonio Brown
and has caught a touchdown in all three of them.
Joe Mixon is up next. Bust potential for Joe Mixon. Bad offensive line. Lost their first
round pick for the season. And his points per game in Cincinnati losses would have made him
the number 20 running back in non-PPR, number 17 in PPR. He was much better in wins. They kind of
got away from him when they lost. And they were terrible without A.J. Green. The O-line is very
concerning over Joe Mixon. That's, I think, the big bust when they lost, and they were terrible without A.J. Green. The O-line's very concerning, though, for Joe Mixon.
That's, I think, the big-bust potential.
Sure, but they had a bad offensive
line last year, and he still had
good numbers.
A very good year, but not
an amazing year. Probably more like
a second-round, mid-second-round pick
kind of player. I think he was like the number-eight-ish
running back.
Yeah,
I feel nervous about where I have
him ranked, which is basically a borderline
first-round pick, a high-end
second-round pick. What I will
say is I think he
fits very well in that group of running backs
we were talking about earlier in the week with
Kerryon Johnson, because there is a little bit of
injury concern. There is a little bit
of concern with how bad this team is and just how much
they'll be able to run the ball.
I think you put him in there with Mixon, with carry on.
He is Leonard Fournette.
Yeah.
He's at the top of the list for me right now,
but I could easily make an argument that he should be at the bottom of the
list.
Okay.
Next up, we got Michael Thomas.
Yeah.
He caught 85% of his targets last year.
And he was so far and away the best receiver on the Saints.
He had about twice as many receiving yards and receiving touchdowns
as any other pass catcher, including Alvin Kamara.
What if the targets come down a little bit?
Not going to catch 85%.
I really don't think he will.
He's not going to get 85%. I really don't think he will. He's not going to get 170 targets
or anything like that.
Michael Thomas,
I kind of feel like he's a little bit better in real life
than he is for fantasy. What do you guys think?
I think you're right.
The addition
of Jared Cook could certainly take some targets
off of him. The motivation
to play huge is
maybe gone a little bit now that he got the
contract that he was looking for, $20 million a year. But he's a complete receiver who I think
Drew Brees has just learned to really count on and trust. And if he's going to continue with the
high catch rate that he's had, not just last year, but even the year before. I think he's probably one of the safest PPR picks you can make.
I think a lot of the arguments against Thomas
are against his upside
and against taking him as a top three wide receiver.
But he feels like maybe the safest guy
that you could take in that one-two turn range.
One of the most bust proof.
Okay.
He had 147 targets last year, Michael Thomas.
Who has more targets, Thomas or Beckham?
That's a good one.
I think I'll say...
I'm doing math in my head.
I think Odell will beat him by less than 10 targets.
I have Thomas with nine more targets.
Next up, Travis Kelsey.
He is 15th in CBS ADP, removing Melvin Gordon, removing Patrick Mahomes.
Patrick Mahomes just will not be as good.
And the numbers, you know, last year may have been the best year of Travis Kelsey's career.
It just seems like there's a little bit of regression coming.
Probably.
Sure. Maybe a little bit of regression coming. Probably. Sure, maybe a little.
Yeah, the thing I've been struggling with,
because I do think there's probably,
he was not really that much more efficient than he's ever been.
He averaged 13 yards per reception last year.
He's averaged 12.8 for his career.
He caught 68% of his targets.
He's caught 708 for his career. He caught 68% of his targets.
He's caught 70% for his career.
If they run more plays,
which I think they probably will if they're less efficient because they're not going to have as many 50-yard touchdowns,
then it's possible Kelsey's targets don't really go down.
He seems pretty safe too.
Yep.
I think that's the best word for it.
And he's got the highest upside
of any tight end in fantasy,
which is why he's the first tight end
off the board.
I have him projected for more targets
than Thomas Orbeck.
All right.
Then finally, number 16 in CBS ADP.
Again, this is removing three plays.
Really number 19,
but not talking about Melvin Gordon,
not talking about Mahomes.
And I didn't put Todd Gurley here. It would have todd girley but i figure we've we've beaten that dead
horse uh dalvin cook the only bus potential i really see here is that he's played only 15 games
in two seasons but i think you know i think he's gonna pretty much gonna tear it up when he's
healthy but yeah dalvin cook that's his potential. Can't stay healthy so far.
I mean, that's at the top of the list for Dalvin Cook.
Right. But right behind that is he only has nine.
He's played 15 games, just like you said.
In nine of them, he's given you 10 plus non-PPR points,
60% of the time.
15 plus PPR, six of 15 games, only 40% of the time.
Which surprised me because I think Dalvin
cook is a four or five catch per game guy, especially now without anybody else on the
roster who, who the Vikings coaches can look at and say, oh yeah, he can, he can help in
the passing game.
You know, who helps in the passing game when Dalvin cook isn't catching the ball and they
want to extend run plays Irv well that's one
and Rudolph is two but it's not the name I was thinking of go look how many times Adam Thielen
has had a big game when the running back for the Vikings has also had a big game
it's only seven times in his career when it's happened and Thielen's been around for a while
right and and Mike Zimmer came out this week and he's, he's, he, he doesn't want to talk about
how many carries Davin Cook's going to get.
I agree.
He's a, he's an unbelievable talent.
And I, I fell for him as a rookie.
I fell for him last year, but I'm, I'm, I'm worried the Vikings are worried and that they're
going, I'm sorry, that they're going to limit him a little bit more than we'd like.
And that combined with the track record that we saw last year and the year before makes me very nervous to draft him in round two.
I've got a question.
If Dalvin Cook rushes for 960 yards and catches 50 passes for 400 yards, he has 1300 yards and scores six touchdowns this season.
Is he a bust in the second round?
I don't think so.
Not in PPR.
But he's not worth the second round.
He's just maybe a third round value instead of a second round value.
Sure, because at draft
time, I would imagine that there would be
more players available, certainly
with more touchdown potential. Because that's what he's
done in 15 career games.
It's a little deceiving, though, because he was really limited Certainly with more touchdown potential. Because that's what he's done in 15 career games. That's what I thought we were getting at.
It's a little deceiving, though,
because he was really limited when he came back from the injury.
They just did not turn him loose first few games back.
He had like 10 carries-ish.
I think it's a little deceiving, but that's in your favor here.
His biggest production, I would argue,
came in his first three and a half games.
Right.
And I don't know how often he's going to get that type of production moving forward.
I guess the bigger thing with that was the six touchdowns.
They've not really given him a lot of opportunities in short yardage.
And I understand questioning the talent and ability of Alexander Madison.
But the one thing I'm confident Alexander Madison can do is run like a battering ram
into the line and pick
up a yard when he needs to. Well, and this is, this is a team and I went back and check this out.
Maybe I have the information right in front of me. Maybe I can find it real quick.
They love throwing it inside the five. Like it wasn't Latavius Murray stealing touchdowns at
the goal line vulture style. Well, he had more touchdowns than, than cook each year. Yeah. Well,
because cook missed so many games.
This is a team that doesn't mind throwing it inside the three.
And that hurts Dalvin Cook.
Okay, well, there's some bus cases for 9 through 16 in CBS ADP.
We got some more news and notes.
We got some fill in the blank.
We got old or new faces in new places.
And, you know, we got to talk about Latavius Murray, who used to be on the Vikings. We got old or new faces in new places.
And, you know, we got to talk about Latavius Murray,
who used to be on the Vikings.
I think he's pretty interesting this year.
Tyrell Williams is somebody that he's been really high on.
So stick around for that.
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Your news and notes.
Some of it you already know.
AJ Green likely going to miss multiple regular season games
after the ankle surgery.
Derrick Henry, guys, he could miss two weeks with a strained calf.
On Fantasy Football Calculator in non-PPR,
Derrick Henry is the 24th pick,
which even without the injury I think would have been a little crazy.
But yeah, your thoughts on the Titans running backs.
Nervous for a guy that you're expecting to see 15 carries per game from.
Not to mention goal line work already dealing with a soft tissue injury.
On the flip side, the Titans don't need to run him this preseason very much.
I think they know what they've got in him. And so if he's really going to miss just two weeks,
I'm still okay going for him late round four to round five,
depending on if catches count or not.
If catches count, definitely round five.
Damian Williams did not practice on Tuesday,
so it's getting a touch concerning,
as Heath, you were talking about yesterday.
Yeah, I said when this first happened that I was going to give it a week,
and I'm getting antsy.
I want to cut his projection a little bit, but I'm not going to do it.
I'm going to give it a week if he's out for a week.
The other thing is there were tweets out yesterday about how good Darwin Thompson is,
how much he's improved in the passing game, how much he's improved in pass protection.
So Damien Williams probably
needs to get back pretty quick.
That's the running back that I would get
to pair with Damien Williams
because Darwin Thompson is like
Damien Williams. He's a good pass catcher
out of the backfield. He's fast and he's
strong. Every
single coach, when they talk about Damien Williams in KC,
they talk about how muscular he is.
That's something that he might have right in line with Carlos Hyde and Carlos Hyde is not fast
so it might not be very long until Darwin Thompson ends up being a thing for the Chief
Julio Jones won't play in the preseason Ryan Fitzpatrick is leading the Miami quarterback
competition Seattle rookie defensive end LJ Collier has a high ankle sprain. This team could
have issues getting to the quarterback. Yeah, especially in the beginning part of the year.
Baltimore rookie Marquise Brown could practice this week. He had foot surgery in January.
I don't know. I feel like we may have overreacted to his injury status. I think he needs to get on
the field because Myles Boykin's winning the number one receiver job right now. He had a
broken foot. I don't think that's overreacting.
I think it's overreacting.
Marquise Brown is going mega late in drafts.
He's not even close to the first. Ahead of Boykin.
He should be.
He was the first wide receiver selected in the NFL draft.
He's an absolute bull.
He was taken a round before Boykin.
It matters a lot more that rookies miss practice, miss
training camp, miss stuff in the summer, and it can really hinder their development in
their first year.
Boykin's been there for the last three months working with Lamar Jackson.
We're getting reports about how good the rapport is between Jackson and Boykin.
I'm not saying that Brown, I'm ruling him out now but I think
it's about a coin flip right now which of these guys is going to be the number one on week one
I would just add that if the Ravens use Brown the way that he was used at Oklahoma which would make
perfect sense given the the scheme that they're running he'll assimilate into the offense just
fine but he does need to like you know practice He needs to get back on the field, and then he needs to
stay healthy. These are
both guys that you're going to draft to be bench
receivers. I think Brown still
has more upside than Boykin. I think
Boykin was a third-round pick, right? I think he
went... He was. And he also...
93rd overall. That's...
93rd overall. That's like 70 picks later
than Marquise Brown.
It matters to me.
I don't know how that makes sense.
No, you can't do that.
You don't care about Corey Davis' pedigree.
Corey Davis has had two years to show his pedigree.
He's done nothing with it.
He was a top 30 wide receiver last year.
He showed a little bit of it.
Oh, come on.
He's been garbage.
Corey Davis would be a much better receiver if he was a better receiver.
If either of these guys have a top 30 season, I'll be shocked.
It's not even a place.
Top 30?
Corey Davis was a far better pedigree than either of these receivers.
You're not telling me that Corey Davis.
I don't know about that.
Marquise Brown's like one of the fastest receivers that we've ever seen come into the NFL.
That plays in the NFL today, especially with Lamar Jackson, who just like Lamar Jackson is not exactly a great passer.
So just get easy completions and let him do something after the catch.
You know, I don't really trust Lamar Jackson to make any wide receiver good,
but I feel like Marquise Brown can make himself good.
Well, you need to have a quarterback that can get on the ball in order to do that.
He's got one.
Okay, I hope he has one.
Bruce Arians expects a good battle between Ronald Jones and Peyton Barber.
If you're drafting today, who do you take first, Peyton Barber or Ronald Jones?
Bill Barber, but it's getting closer.
I don't really want to take either one of them.
New England wide receiver Maurice Harris is looking good, getting good pub.
Any interest in Maurice Harris?
I remember him looking good for a game or two last year with Washington,
and now it seems like he's just right place, right time with the Patriots.
Josh Gordon suspended.
Edelman's hurt, so he's
getting opportunities. Maybe
he starts off the year getting four or five
catches per game from Brady. Maybe less.
Maybe three or four.
He cracked my top 200 this week.
Golden Tate is
unlikely to win his appeal, according to SNY.
NJ.com and The Athletic both praised week. Golden Tate is unlikely to win his appeal. According to SNY, uh,
NJ.com and the athletic both praised Eagles running back.
Miles Sanders.
This was at the top of yesterday's show.
We talked about Jordan Howard and I, I hope we didn't go too far.
Like I do think if Jordan Howard is going to get 15 carries a game,
you know,
then he's going to be valuable.
But you know,
I,
like I said,
none of us think he's that good and i still think
i still think it's mostly flex upside and yeah sanders for both just because of the track record
of how the eagles use the running back right i think they want to eventually have mile sanders
be their main back whether that happens by week six of this year or week six of next year and what does that
mean when they say main bell someone who will play 60 of the snaps right it won't be right it
won't be saquon barkley it's not going to be like that but i think they've got a little bit higher
expectation of miles sanders than a guy that we can use with two other guys. It's, I think they want him to,
to eventually be their primary.
I 15 touch a week.
I don't my,
and this could be wrong.
I don't have a line to Doug Peterson,
but my understanding of their philosophy is that they do not believe in the
concept of a main guy.
And most teams don't until they have,
they believe in skill sets and using guys in different ways.
And I, which I don't think Miles have one. They believe in skill sets and using guys in different ways. Uh-huh.
And I don't think Miles Sanders changes that.
Not yet.
Not until he proves it.
But once he proves that he can be that guy, they'll ride him.
If.
I shouldn't say when.
I should say if.
The Saints sign Rob Kelly.
Tyreek Hill has. Well, I mean, this is huge news.
How much time do we have to go into on this?
Tyreek Hill has a bruised quad, but he's fine.
Arizona rookie wide receiver Keyshawn Johnson continues to have a good camp.
He's getting a lot of good pub.
They're saying he's going to be the number three receiver there.
Okay, so if we look at Marquise Brown, Keyshawn Johnson, Maurice Harris,
how would you rank them?
Brown.
Fair enough.
And Jameson Crowder is just fine. no worries about his foot slash angle that's good
yeah that's a that's a good late round ppr receiver not i don't know if it's good for
robbie anderson but it's good for jameson crowder all right yesterday jamie told you that
if you write a five-star review for us we we'd really, we all told you, we'd really appreciate it.
He said that one of you five-star reviewers,
if you send it to us
at fantasyfootballatcbsi.com,
we'll join the podcast league.
And I'm cool with that
because this will help us out.
I'd much appreciate it.
We got a lot yesterday.
Thank you to our listeners.
You guys are the best.
My favorite one was this one.
Five-star review on Apple Podcasts,
on iTunes.
Great guys, most informed of any fantasy football podcast.
That's the easy part.
This podcast goes way beyond the five stars.
Since I started listening to this podcast, my life has changed.
I found $20 in my jeans pocket while doing laundry.
My one-and-a-half-year-old said his first word, which was Heath.
My 10-year-old made his Little League All-Star team.
My confidence in life has gone up, which means my
wife is once again attracted to me and has cut
off her relationship with the pool boy, and
we don't even have a pool, so I'll save money
paying for regular pool cleanings. It's
so good that we are talking about having another
baby, and I'm 63.582%
sure I'll name him Adam if it's
a boy. Heck, I may even name him Adam
if it's a girl. I even noticed
my monthly electric bill has gone down 10%.
I can't promise you'll have the same luck
I have had listening, but it couldn't hurt.
Thank you guys for bringing meaning to my life
again. That's fantastic.
It's really good. It's really funny.
And I like it.
I'd like to see a five-star review
where we actually did help people.
Like an example of how we helped you.
Those are like 17 examples.
But that didn't help this guy win his league.
Who cares if his electric bill went down 10%?
Tell me how we helped you win your league last.
Do you guys have iPhones?
Yes.
Do you have that little stupid white adapter
that you have to put in to use headphones?
The dongle?
You have to plug the adapter
into the headphone jack
and then the headphones into the adapter.
Sure, I've got one of those.
I think it's called a dongle.
No, I just have headphones
that have been made in the last decade.
What are you talking about?
The new iPhone has a...
The lightning adapter.
Yeah, yeah, the lightning.
My headphones just have a lightning plug-in.
They do?
I've got like seven earbuds around my house
that have the lightning adapter.
Yeah, I don't have...
But I do own one dongle
that takes an old-school headphone
and puts it into...
That's all I have is old-school headphones.
That's okay, as long as it works.
Well, by story...
They might not work for much longer
because they're at least 10 years old.
You know, they have wireless ones now.
I have put that in the washing machine, the white adapter, like six times.
I wash it almost every time I use it.
I put it in my pocket and I forget about it.
I have washed and dried.
What, it's a dongle?
That's what you said?
The lighting adapter?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that's what I find in my laundry.
So there's another five-star review.
I said if you leave a question in your five-star review, we'll answer it.
Can't guarantee that, but we will answer some.
From Robert, dear Michael, Val, George, and Christian.
I know it.
Batman.
Yeah.
PPR, 12-team league.
I have my choice.
I can't do it.
I have my choice of draft spot.
I'm falling more and more in love in a 12-team PPR league
with the 10-11-12 range.
Is it worth passing on a top four pick?
The best part about picking that late in round one is that you're guaranteed two top 15 players.
Guaranteed. And if you like two of those top 15 and they're not one of those top four running backs,
have at it. Two elite players to build your team around, typically better than one.
I prefer pick number four. i think that's the best pick
um but i am every day this week falling more and more in love with not taking any running backs in
the first five rounds and picks 10 through 12 are perfect for that yep so if you want to be a little
adventurous that is a great place to be all right hey by the way uh we got a tweet
raven from jameson Hensley.
It covers the Ravens.
Ravens first-round pick Marquis Hollywood Brown runs his first NFL drill.
Okay, and there's a picture of him.
He must be ready to rock.
He looks like he's making a one-handed catch.
I know we don't have a lot of extra time today.
Correct.
And I'm not going to use this person's name.
I tweeted about it last night.
But you read the worst email we've ever received yesterday. I thought I should read the best email we've ever received today.
Okay. Yeah. I was going to respond to this guy, but you'll find out why I didn't go ahead. Heath.
Um, he actually sent two emails. His second email was the greatest email ever in response to his
first email that was sent 11 minutes prior. His second email was, never mind, I was wrong. Don't tell Heath,
you'll make me sound stupid.
Yeah, and I didn't tell Heath,
but Heath saw it himself.
Well, do you want to read
the first email or no?
Sure, because it's actually informative.
I've been a listener for years
and a number of those,
I've heard Heath use the phrase
regression to the mean
and apply it to both a decrease
and increase in numbers.
Regression always means to decrease. If he is talking about numbers increasing to reach the
mean, that's progression. You cannot regress forward, Heath. Please clean this up. Yeah,
and the subject line was get Heath a dictionary, I think. Yes. And the follow-up email was never
mind, Heath is right. So yeah, when we say regression, there is positive regression.
There is negative regression.
It just means getting closer to the mean.
All right.
We do have a CBS sports HQ show tomorrow night before the hall of fame game.
I'll give you some details on Twitter.
I'll give you some details on the podcast,
but it should be an hour before the game.
I'm going to be on that.
Jamie's going to be on that.
Make sure you're watching us on CBS sports HQ.
And I think there might be a post game show too.
It's going to be a late night.
Let's do some fill in the blank. This is from
Stoogies.
The Miami Dolphins have blank players
who belong on a fantasy roster.
Four.
And they are?
Drake, Balazs, Stills,
Albie. Wilson, yep.
And then Ryan Fitzpatrick, of course, is going to throw for 12 touchdowns.
Maybe in two quarterback leagues.
In two quarterback leagues, he does need to be rostered.
Brett says Josh Jacobs' upside is blank.
1,500 yards and 10 touchdowns.
Ooh, that seems fair.
Running back, top 10 running back?
Yep.
Top 12 maybe running back?
He would have to perform like the rookie,
like Leonard Fournette did as a rookie,
something like that to get there.
We're not in Wisconsin anymore.
It says Blank will have the third most receptions
for the Saints after Thomas and Kamara.
Cook.
Cook.
Robert says the most frustrating player to try and predict week to week will be blank.
Also taste some Hill.
No,
um,
that's a tough one.
You can go in a hundred different direct.
You can take any of the,
you know,
boomer bus receivers,
Sean Jackson.
Yeah,
exactly.
I mean,
you can almost say something similar for any rams
receiver i was gonna say any rams from week to week i was gonna go cooper cup yeah i think the
eagles will be worse well the the problem is that we're drafting the top three rams receivers to be
starters for our team we're gonna start them each week but predicting how they're going to do each
week is going to be really tough.
Yeah.
How many bad games did Brandon Cooks have last year?
Probably eight because every year it seems like he's got eight good games
and eight bad games.
I don't know.
I think Woods is going to fall in line and Cup at least has some touchdown
potential each week.
He was pretty consistent last year.
Cup is the guy that has the low yard totals per game.
Right, and the high touchdown.
Yeah.
Brandon Cooks was.
Yeah.
Well, Brandon Cooks was very
consistent until the end of the
season when like they were all
pretty bad, except maybe Robert
Woods.
Yeah.
He had a four game stretch that
was bad towards the end.
But other than that, he was
extremely good.
The offense just completely fell
off.
All right.
Lucas says in 2020 blank will drop from a first-round pick
to a fourth or a fifth-round pick.
That's a big drop.
Most likely to drop that much.
James Conner.
I was going to say David Johnson.
God, I have a hard time believing either of those.
I really like them both.
Because David Johnson will be 28 next year.
So if he's worth a second or third round pick this year,
it could really fall fast.
Yeah, I think Connor, I'm just not sure how good he is.
And look, I mean, I'm going to take him in the first round.
But just, you know, it's possible he's not that good
and the steelers might move in a different direction or draft a running back to replace him
okay next up fair argument fair argument possible the uh the six the cliff kingsbury experiment
could just go terribly wrong good and then we'll then we'll be like, hey, listen, three years ago,
David Johnson was great.
Kyle says, if I miss out on a top-tier tight end,
I'm waiting until the blank round to fill that position, tight end.
I don't think you can answer this with just one number
because if Evan Ingram falls to me at the right spot,
I'm just going to take him unless you consider him
one of the top tight ends at this point.
Is he a top tight end?
I think the top tier is the big three.
That's how I interpret it.
That's what I meant that time.
I'm generally waiting to the fifth round
to try to get one of Ingram, Howard, or Henry.
If I miss them, then I'm probably waiting
until the double-digit rounds.
All right.
Next up is one that I forgot to do research for.
From Philly Special.
The week one bonanza is blank.
Okay, I'm trying to pull up the week one schedule.
Houston at New Orleans.
New Orleans would be a really good one.
You know what I'm going to do this year for the bonanza?
The bonanza is the game I pick every week to have massive fantasy output
where all the guys you thought about starting do well.
It was good last year,
right? I don't know.
I think I want to do it Survivor Pool style where I just pick one
team and I can't
use them again rest of season.
I don't think you should limit yourself
like that. I think it'd be fun. It'd be a fun little
challenge. I think Colts Chargers
has Bonanza potential.
Assuming that Andrew Luck's healthy. Bucks Nints Chargers has Bonanza potential. Assuming that Andrew Luck's
healthy. Bucks Niners is your sneaky
Bonanza.
And then finally,
Dr. Rob says,
at his current ADP,
drafters will be blank
about David Montgomery.
What's the ADP? Round 5?
Is that the latest on him?
Uh,
no,
no,
I see around fourth.
That is so high.
It might be a little way too high.
Yeah.
Montgomery.
And I'm excited about him.
I think that he's got a great opportunity to rumble for eight touchdowns this year.
Disappointed.
All right.
Yeah, I moved him down in my ranking.
Well, I've been really wanting to read some emails here.
I've been neglecting the emailers.
And I hate when I plug a section and we don't get to it.
So I'm going to do it anyway.
New faces in new places or old faces in new places.
We'll have to wait until tomorrow.
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Thank you guys for all the emails and you girls for all the emails.
This is from Donnie.
Dear Jerry, Ray, Simeon, and Sidney.
Rice.
Those are Rices.
Rices, yes.
Could have done like Uncle Ben.
Could have given a little more creative with that.
Who makes for a better long-term keeper,
Chris Godwin or Dante Pettis?
Godwin.
I'll say Godwin.
All right.
This is Bill from a southwest Chicago suburb
just northwest of Dave's hometown.
Is that like Oak Forest maybe?
Oak Park?
One of the oaks?
Sure.
Why not?
Dear Fatso, Stinky, and Stretch.
I'll be Stinky.
This is Casper's...
Oh, great.
So I know who I am.
He's tall, so he's Stretch.
These are the ghosts from Casper, apparently.
My league switched to an all-play format last year.
Wondering your take on this.
It does seem to solve the problem of scoring the second most points in a week,
but lose because you played the highest scoring team.
So I believe this to mean
you play everybody each week
and the top six scores get a win.
No.
And the bottom six scores get a win.
No, you play everybody every week
and your record is whatever you went that week.
0-11, 1-11, 0.
You play 11 different teams.
You might be 11-0 that week.
You might be 0-11.
I don't have a problem with it.
It's a better way to determine who has the best team.
The better way...
It probably takes some of the fun out of it.
It does.
We've done it before.
We've done it before.
Remember, Nando was part of the show,
and we did a second podcast league,
and it was an all-play league.
I think it was my least favorite league I ever played in.
I absolutely hated it.
If you like it, fine.
I am not endorsing all-play.
I'd rather not play.
It sounds like our For the People Baseball League that you guys can't make the playoffs in.
Can't make the playoffs?
I'm 100% making the playoffs.
I have the second best record.
The For the People League?
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Sorry.
I thought you meant the other one.
Never mind.
Heath's right.
But that's not an all-play league.
No, it's just a league that was designed that you hate.
Oh, yeah.
A hundred percent.
Yeah.
Chris from a town on the Central Coast in California.
Fresno isn't anywhere near the coast, but that's where you're from.
You're closer to the California coast than I am.
A lot of analysts are in love with Jameis Winston this year,
but last year he was a QB1 only four times, like top 12,
and he was top six only once in 10 games played.
Just will have to edit this email, Chris,
because that had to be at least twice.
He scored 37 fantasy points twice, both against Atlanta.
One of those was week 17.
Anyway, Jameis' numbers pale in comparison to passers going near
and even after his ADP.
Bruce Arians is a genius, but he can't throw the ball for Jameis Winston,
so why so much industry trust in Winston this year?
And I got to tell you, I'm sort of on Chris' side on this.
I am too.
Jameis was the number three quarterback in Week 17.
Number three.
Okay, but he was top six.
Yeah, so that was the second time as top six.
Yeah, so he did it twice,
and he did it both times against the worst pass defense in the NFL.
It goes back to something Jamie has said a lot this preseason,
and I kind of go against it with the top six or seven,
but if you're looking at a quarterback
after the first eight or nine
rounds of the draft the
only thing that should really matter to you is
upside because each week there
are going to be three or four streaming options
on your waiver wire
and some leagues I was in last year I was able to find
Carson Wentz on the waiver wire.
So our listeners on CBS
are not going to have that same experience, though.
His ADP is 99.
That's the ninth round.
They're not going to have that same waiver wire experience, I mean,
because our listeners are going to play in leagues
where more quarterbacks get drafted.
There can be 20 quarterbacks owned
and still be three or four streaming options each week.
I mean, maybe.
But, no, look, I like Jameis.
I'm going to draft some Jameis.
But I do fear him a little bit because he really just hasn't been a very good player.
The other thing I'll say, and I'll mention this on the QB preview next week,
Bruce Arians, it took Carson Palmer a year.
His first year with Bruce Arians, he basically had the same-ish passer rating as he did with the Bengals.
Second year, he took a big step forward.
Third year, he took a huge step forward.
And I've heard Bruce Arians talk about how it takes time to adjust to a new system.
So there's a lot to like and there's a lot to dislike.
He's going to be an interesting player.
There's a very, very low floor.
I would not suggest.
I don't think he's as good of option in a two-quarterback league.
But in a one-quarterback league, I can stream if I need to.
I want the upside.
Jeremy from Australia wants to know
how we feel about 16-team leagues,
and do you think it's better to draft tight ends early
because streaming them would be tougher
in a 16-team league?
Absolutely.
And I like 16-team leagues
because more people to beat,
maybe better prizes to win,
and more challenging. And in those types of formats, yeah, absolutely, prizes to win, and more challenging.
And in those types of formats, yeah, absolutely,
I'm going after a tight end.
I'm probably going to be a little more balanced
all the way around in a 16-team league.
I always fear running back depth in deeper leagues,
and it often comes at the expense of the tight end.
My justification for that is that there are going to be
a lot of teams in a 16-team league that have a lousy tight end.
So if you are one of those teams, it's not quite as much of a disadvantage.
However, I don't think there's a right answer.
Dave's reasoning totally makes sense to me, too.
You're just looking for whatever reason you can to devalue tight ends.
Add a roster spot, tight end's not worth as much.
Add a couple of players, tight end's not worth as much.
It's the same in a 12 team league your lineup is different
in a good way if you've got a tight end
that can perform like a top
15 receiver yeah
absolutely simple
value proposition not being able to
find running back on a waiver on the waiver
wire in a 16 team league but you know what
you're going to have that problem
no matter how you draft in a 16 team league. But you know what? You're going to have that problem. No matter how you draft in a 16 team league,
unless you spend your first four picks on running backs,
in which case the rest of your team is going to suffer,
not just tight end.
Your receivers are going to suffer too.
You're going to suffer somewhere in a,
in a 16 team.
It shouldn't be going to stink somewhere.
Don't take a quarterback high in a 16 team league.
This is the year you wait on quarterback.
Yeah, absolutely.
All right, from Jake.
16-team league.
Last one here is from Jake.
New to Dynasty.
Would love your thoughts on the trade offer I received.
I would give up Alvin Kamara and Vance McDonald.
I would get...
I would get...
Don't even know what you need to do on the other side.
Todd Gurley, Tyler Boyd, a 2023rd and a 2021 second round pick.
So sorry, I'll say it again.
You give up Camara and Vance McDonald, you get Todd Gurley, Tyler Boyd,
a third round pick next year and a second round pick in 2021.
I think I'd rather have Camara.
Yeah, it's not that far off, but I would not do it.
Okay, good show.
Heath, thank you for coming out. I'm not going to play the music. I'm not going to kill it. I'm not going to kill it. No, we don't need to do it. Okay. Good show. Heath, thank you for coming.
I'm not going to play the music.
I'm not going to kill it.
I'm not going to kill it.
No, we don't need to play it too much.
I will talk to you on Friday
or probably sometime tomorrow for some reason.
All right.
For Dave, for Jamie, for Heath,
thank you all so much for listening.
I'm Adam Azer.
This is Fantasy Football Today.
We'll be back tomorrow.
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