Fantasy Football Today - 2021 Top 12 Players; Best Coaching Vacancies (01/05 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: January 5, 2021

Kicking it off with some news and notes (2:15) as we react to Josh Jacobs' arrest and Philadelphia's salary cap issues. Then we look back at the 2020 Top 12 that we gave a year ago (10:00) and see what we got right and what we got wrong! ... Enough about 2020, let's get to 2021! Dave and Jamey reveal their Top 12 players (12:00). Christian McCaffrey is #1, but who follows him? How much does the Saints QB situation affect Alvin Kamara? We debate Ezekiel Elliott vs. Nick Chubb (19:31), Austin Ekeler (26:00), Tavis Kelce (30:45) and Davante Adams ... Taking a look at the coaching vacancies around the NFL (35:55), what do Fantasy managers need to know? Which players have the most at stake? ... Your emails at [e-mail] 'Fantasy Football Today' is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, Google Podcasts, Castbox, and wherever else you listen to podcasts. Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr, @BenSchragg Watch FFT on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCviK78rIWXhZdFzJ1Woi7Fg/videos Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/FantasyFootballToday/ Sign up for the FFT newsletter https://www.cbssports.com/newsletter To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Want winning picks each morning in under 10 minutes? Subscribe to 'The Early Edge: A Daily SportsLine Betting Podcast' on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever else you listen to podcasts. 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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Touchdown. Oh, he's done it again. Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, Heath, and Ben. Good morning, everybody. It's a beautiful day here on Tuesday. What is it? January 5th. Who cares?

It's a new year. It's a new day. I'm over it. I'm ready to move on. We're looking forward now. No more looking back to week 17. We'll talk about our top 12s for 2021 and all the

coaching changes and what it could mean for fantasy. Adam Azer, Dave Richard, and Jamie Eisenberg. Guys, I think I'm in a good mood because last night I decided I'm sure you're all making the same decision now that the regular season's over. Which TV show am I going to binge watch? And I made a

decision last night. I'm very happy about it. What are you guys on now with all this free time? I'm a decision last night. I'm very happy about it. What are you guys on now with all this free time? I'm going to catch up. I haven't seen season two of The Mandalorian so I'm going to watch that hopefully soon. You'll love it. And what else was I going to watch?

I forget what else I was going to catch up on. I'm going to zoom in my camera here for those of you on YouTube. Okay, Mandalorian. Maybe I'll start Schitt's Creek. Oh yeah, I'm almost done. We my camera here for those of you on YouTube. Okay, Mandalorian. Maybe I'll start Sitz Creek. Oh, yeah. I'm almost done. We're on our last season there.

We've got to finish that one. You'll enjoy that. Dave, how about you, buddy? You know I don't really watch a lot of stuff, but I did make time for The Mandalorian during the football season, and it was awesome. Oh, okay. Everybody seems to like it. Maybe someday I'll watch Star Wars.

I started Cobra Kai last night. Oh, yeah. That's the one. That's it. There you go. You're going to start it or you already have? No, I haven't started. I want to start.

Yeah. It's so far so good. Everybody loves it. Yeah. Everybody loves it. Yeah. All right. So we're in.

Cobra Kai. We'll chop about it on the show. Have you just started? Yeah. Two episodes. All right. I'll catch up to you. I'll do that before Mandalorian.

Okay. Cool. All right. Well, I'll try to be done with the first season. By the end of the week, can we pull it off? That's easy, yeah. Okay. I did Breaking Bad in like two weeks.

Thursday show, done with the first season. Ten episodes, five hours. I'll try. Okay, all right. All right, so let's get to it, guys. News and notes here. Let's start with Josh Jacobs, arrested for a DUI. We'll talk about him in a second, what he did in 2020. But are we concerned that Jacobs and or Melvin Gordon could be suspended to start the season? And by the way,

Will Fuller is going to miss week one of the 2021 season as he completes his suspension. But both Jacobs and Gordon dealing with a DUI situation, Jamie, should we think about a possible suspension? I mean, in Gordon's case, yes. Just based on the fact that it seems like it's been heading that direction with his court case being pushed back. I guess you have to say the same thing about Jacobs, that there's a potential for it. But I would imagine just given the fact that as far as I know, they're only first time offenders. You're probably talking about a two game suspension if in fact that's what they deal with. So I'm totally no factual information there. So I don't know what it could be, but just speculating, youulating, probably two games if they are suspended at all. You have to see how the legal process plays out

and what happens with both of those guys. I didn't mean to put you on the spot like that. I know we don't know, but if you're doing a mock draft today or something like that, do you knock them down thinking that? Obviously, plenty of time to figure it out. The Broncos are going to hire a GM,

so that's probably a good thing. Some playoff stuff. Alvin Kamara, Jared Goff, and Seattle safety Jamal Adams. We don't know their situations yet. We don't know if they're going to be able to play. They're all going to be iffy for this weekend's games. Philadelphia. Dave, you're probably more up on this certainly than I am,

but you seem to know about the cap situations. But the Eagles could be $73 million over the salary cap. They are going to look dramatically different next year and hopefully better. But I don't know. They've got to cut a lot of dead weight. But they're in a tough spot right now. And as of now, Carson Wentz is actually a negative hit on their cap.

Usually when you cut a player, you get some cap savings. They would lose to almost 25 million if they were to just cut Carson Wentz, not going to happen, but there, there are some players that are on the roster. June 1st,

right? Yeah. Everything changes. There's, there's a June 1st thing. There's a designation. I don't know if you necessarily have to do it on the calendar on june 2nd or anything like that you designate him as a post june 1st cut you could do that and then that changes it a little bit but i believe if they

trade him after june 1st or with that designation that gives them the most relief of all um but like they've got a lot of guys that have a negative cap value. They're going to have a lot of work to do this. I was surprised that they restructured Alshon Jeffrey's deal. It almost seemed like it was a foregone conclusion and he was gone. No, apparently it was a massive haircut that he took. I think he's

gone anyway from what I've been reading. They had to do this restructuring for Alshon Jeffrey, but he's probably going to get cut anyway. They got a lot of salary cap manipulation to do. And Jason Kelsey, their starting center, it seems like there's a good chance he retires, decent chance anyway.

They would love it if he retired. For financial purposes, yeah. He also has a negative cap savings if they let him go. Right. Ertz, if they cut Ertz, they'll save $4 million, but he's a $7 million dead money hit on the cap. I mean, there's a ton of examples on it. They went for it.

They went for another Super Bowl, and injuries ate them up this year and the year before that, and now they're going to pay the price. Okay. And let's see what other news and notes we got. Other than the coaching stuff, the coaching stuff we'll get to later in the show, but Matt Rule did not commit to Teddy Bridgewater for 2021, Jamie.

And ESPN notes that he had only one touchdown pass in the fourth quarter all season. Bridgewater was 0-8 in games that they had a chance to win or tie on the last possession, which is somewhat of an encouraging thing for the Panthers because that's just bad luck and you should be able to turn some of those into wins. But it does make you wonder who your quarterback of the future is. What do you make of that?

I think that's right. They shouldn't commit to Teddy Bridgewater. They should, you know, again, we've said this many, many times, no pun intended, but he should be the bridge quarterback. You know, they should have somebody that's a long-term answer. Teddy is a serviceable starter, but he's not a game-changing starter. And so, you know, if you're trying to get your franchise to the next level that you don't have enough pieces around him for him to be that type of quarterback,

they need somebody like that. And so I remember having conversations with, you know, people at the combine last year and where the Panthers going to be one of the teams in the mix for Justin Herbert. And could they have made the move to go up one spot to get Justin Herbert? And they decided against that. And I'm sure they're probably looking at that and saying, maybe we should have been more aggressive to go get Justin Herbert. So, you know, are they going to draft a guy this year? Are they going to be aggressive and maybe looking at another quarterback in free agency? I doubt that, but certainly in the draft is a more likely scenario,

and we'll see what happens there. But Bridgewater will probably be the starter in 2021. It's just a matter of how many games will he start if, in fact, they do invest in a rookie. It's a $20 million dead money hit if they cut him. He's not getting cut. I agree. It may be a Tyrod Taylor situation.

Exactly. It may be a starter in place for somebody else. But it's just a matter of how aggressive they are and what falls to them with their draft selection. They've got the eighth pick in the draft. And I think you, I don't know. I mean, you could see four. We got a mock draft on CBS that has four quarterbacks in the top five.

So I think you could certainly see four in the top eight. Trevor Lawrence, our a mock draft on cbs that has four quarterbacks in the top five so i think you could certainly see four in the top eight trevor lawrence our latest mock draft this is from josh edwards i don't know if it's the latest it's from christmas eve uh trevor lawrence one zach wilson two justin fields four trey lance uh five and that's a that was mocked to carolina but that was obviously that was a you know over a week ago oh from from houston that was mocked to Carolina. But that was obviously over a week ago. Oh, from Houston. That was a trade, a mock trade. Carolina trading up to get Trey Lance.

That would be something like that. Yeah. Okay. So those are your news and notes. We are going to give you our top 12 for 2021 and kind of take a look back at what we had this time of year, a year ago, when we did our top 12 for 2020. And one of us had Amari Cooper in the top 12. Find out the moron, the idiot moron

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Just get in there with some friends and pick some games. All right. Last year's top 12. You know, you guys did pretty well, I gotta tell you. I'm gonna just make sure I get it here. Here's Jamie's. So this was a year ago, roughly. McCaffrey, Michael Thomas,

Barkley, Zeke, Cook. Sounds great so far. All those studs. No, I mean, I still think you did well. McCaffrey, Thomas, Sounds great so far. All those studs. No, I mean, I still think you did well. McCaffrey, Thomas,

Barkley, Zeke, Cook, Kamara, Hopkins, Adams, Julio Jones, Nick Chubb,

Tyree, Derek Henry, and Tyree Kill. That was your top 12. Dave, you had McCaffrey, Barkley, Zeke,

Cook, Michael Thomas, five, Nick Chubb, six, Kamara, seven. You and I both had Chubb over Kamara. And I don't know why we did that. We both had. Well, remember, Kamara did not have a great.

It's certainly not a consistent 2019. Yeah, I think the the overall numbers were good except for touchdowns. And maybe there was a little bit of concern that that was going to be him moving forward. was ppr i don't know i don't know why we did that but all right mcafree barkley zeke cook thomas chubb camara i think i was just crazy about nick chubb to be honest with you uh mixon jacobs henry hopkins and miles sanders heath had mcafree cook thomas zeke barkley Heath had McCaffrey, Cook, Thomas, Zeke, Barkley, Hopkins, Julio, Henry, Kamara, Chubb, Adams, Tyreek Hill. None of us loved Henry. No. None of us had Henry in the top five.

Heath had him eighth. That's the highest. I did not have him in the top 12. Good for me. And I was the guy who had Amari Cooper in the top 12. I had McCaffrey, Barkley, Zeke, Cook, Thomas, Chubb, Kamara, Hopkins, Julio, Miles Sanders, Tyreek Hill, Amari Cooper. And I just looked.

First four games of the season, Amari Cooper was the number one wide receiver in fantasy. Of course, by the end of the process, I had no interest in Amari Cooper, and I had him as like a fourth round pick, but that doesn't matter right now. I mean, we also did this before C.D was on the team yeah totally um all right so let's get to our 2021 top 12s we'll go six at a time dave you can go first okay my top 12 guess who's first for

me in my top 12 alvin cabrera i mean i'm sorry. It's Christian McCaffrey. I don't know why I said that. Nope. Young Wae Koo. Christian McCaffrey is number one. Dalvin Cook, I have second. Alvin Kamara, third. Saquon, fourth. Derrick Henry, fifth. Jonathan Taylor, sixth. Six running backs?

Yeah, and I already don't love the order, to be honest with you. It's what I sent in last week, and I'm going to sit on it for a while and see just how much I'd want to change it around. But I know that I like McCaffrey at one. And the reason why I've cooked it too, I know people are going to be nervous drafting because of the injuries, but hasn't he kind of earned some props over the last two seasons,

staying healthy for most of the year. Being productive. I don't know. I think the Vikings defense will be better next year. I'm not ready to run away from Dalvin Cook. And certainly not use the injuries as an excuse to pass on him. Okay, I'm sorry. You have a Caffrey Cook Camara 3, Barkley 4? Yeah, let's go with that for today.

Okay. And then Henry. I mean, I already feel like a change is coming at three so what jonathan taylor all right that's dave's top six jamie your top six uh it's not a lot different the only one that's probably the the biggest difference is davante Adams is four for me. So same top three. If Breeze comes back, Kamara will be too overcooked. But the concern of Taysom, or I guess the quarterback situation, if it's Taysom Hill, then Kamara will be at three at the highest.

But McCaffrey, Cook, Kamara, Devante Adams, four, Henry, five, Barkley, six. And I may move Taylor ahead of Barkley myself. Yep. Like that's the easiest one, I think for me to make that switch is that Saquon back-to-back years where health's been an issue. We don't know what the Giants

are really going to look like next year. The two games that he did play this year, how good was he? Not that great. Taylor finished the year strong. I think we know what he's going to be in this offense moving forward i think the offense could be better next year in indianapolis so there's there's people out there who uh what happened brad evans sent out a tweet saying

well i hope i get jonathan taylor between 10 and 12 and round one and i responded to him saying he won't be there and there were i don't know I'd say maybe 35% to 40% of the responses like, are you crazy? Why would you take him before 10th overall in round one? And then there were people who either liked the tweet or said, yeah, I can't wait to get my hands on this guy. He's everything you want in a fantasy running back, save for not a candidate for 80 catches, but 50.

I think he can get you 50. I think he's going to score a ton of touchdowns the two things you got to look at is what's the quarterback situation for the colts because rivers is on a one-year deal you know about the wince rumors um i i don't think they're going to get worse than those two guys unless you just worry about rivers being a year older and just you know falling off a cliff and the offense getting completely terrible um the other part of it is what do they do from a backup perspective? Is it the same cast of characters or do they bring back Marlon Mack? And then there's a better backup guy there than Jordan Wilkins. Now that's not going to take Jonathan Taylor out of the first round, but obviously when you're nitpicking between a talent like Barkley and what Barkley

showing you when healthy, Derek Henry, obviously there's a lot of receiving options that you put in that group as well. You know, Dave and I are probably a little bit toward the other side of that, but when you start to factor in Devante Adams and Tyree kill, and you know, if you want to start to put Stefan digs and DK Metcalf and those types of receivers, which are going to be first round caliber players in PPR, you know, that's where I think Taylor may lose a little bit, Travis Kelsey as well. So just a matter of what your preferences and what the Colts look like, you know, hopefully their offensive line lose a little bit. Travis Kelsey as well. So it's just a matter of what your preference is

and what the Colts look like. Hopefully their offensive line is a little bit better too. Remember, a lot of what Taylor's done down the stretch has been without Costanzo, who's a big part of what they do as a unit up there. All right. So to recap, Dave and Jamie go McCaffrey, Cook, Kamara. And Kamara's ranking is pending.

Who comes back? Who's their quarterback? He's not going to be worse than, who comes back, who's their quarterback. He's not going to be worse than three for me, but he could be two. He could be four for me. Well, he was not really catching passes much at all with Taysom Hill except for that last game.

Yeah, the last game. That last game he did. So, yeah, I mean, I do wonder how much of a concern that is. He was significantly more involved in the passing game with and it makes sense with Breeze than with Hill he'll run so much

I mean that's part of it and Kamara's not a workhorse running back here he's a 205-ish carrying guy and now the quarterback is a threat to touchdown so if Taysom Hill's the starting quarterback how many catches is Alvin Kamara getting?

I'd be shocked if he's under 70. I think he could be under 70. If he's under 70 and he's at his normal running back workload, his carry workload, that's like a 280-touch guy. Not even. That's like a 265, 270-touch guy. I don't know if he's a top-five pick, if that's like a you know 265 270 touch guy i don't know if i'm if he's top five pick if that's the case like i don't like that he could lose touchdowns to hill inside the three yard line yeah well yeah i guess i guess you don't feel that way but i don't know how i feel about it

well i mean it you know say losing touchdowns he scored three touchdowns in the four games that tasemill started so i don't know if that's about it. Well, I mean, say losing touchdowns. He scored three touchdowns in the four games that Taysom Hill started. So I don't know if that's necessarily a concern. How many touchdowns did Hill have in those games? Rushing? Yeah, at least four. Okay, so those are four touchdowns that did not go to... Right, but I mean, you're also saying he didn't throw touchdowns in two of those games where Breeze would throw touchdowns in those games.

So, I mean, just taking touchdowns and moving them around. Possibly to Kamara, though. Exactly. It's the catches, though, that concern me. He can get you, what was he at? Nine yards per catch. Every time he catches the ball, it could be a first down.

Another fantasy point for the catch and the yards, almost. It's a lot of production there yeah i don't know it's going to be an interesting it's going to be an interesting case i i hope we don't have to make that decision because he's so damn good uh with drew breeze all right uh mcafree cook camara barkley four for dave adams four for jamie derrick henry five for both of you jamie's got barkley six. Dave has Jonathan Taylor six. All right, let's get seven through 12.

Dave, go ahead. This is where receivers come into play for me, and I don't want to be held to any of this long-term. This is just how I ranked it a week ago. Adams is going to be seven. Tyreek Hill, eight. Zeke is nine. Travis Kelsey, 10.

I put James Robinson at 11, and I don't feel so good about that one. And I've got Nick Chubb at 12. Okay. So Devante Adams, Tyreek Hill, Zeke, Kelsey, James Robinson, Nick Chubb. Interesting back end of the round for sure. Jamie, after

McCaffrey, Cook, Kamara, Adams, Henry, Barkley, you got seven through 12. Taylor, Kelsey, Austin Eckler, Ezekiel Elliott, Tyree Kill, and Nick Chubb. Okay. So Nick Chubb, top 12 for you guys. And how many catches did Nick Chubb have this year? You feel good about that? Yeah.

I mean, as long as Stefanski's there, this offensive line's amazing. 16 catches in 12 games. I think the three running backs that you're going to look at and say they make me a little nervous in PPR are Derrick Henry, but you've seen now what he's been two years.

It's hard to say he's going to be, barring injury, be dramatically worse unless it's just complete fallout. Nick Chubb and jk dobbins you know and i think all three of those guys are very similar profiles the only difference between dobbins is is that he doesn't get the same type of work that those other two guys get so if uh and that's why he's not in the same caliber or category i mean nick chubb scored seven touchdowns in his last six games he's you, you know, the catalyst of what this offense is. He's an

amazing talent and the play caller is, is, uh, is pretty consistent with how he likes to run the ball. So, um, you know, you saw what he was to start the season. You certainly saw what he was to close the season. And I don't think Kareem Hunt is somebody you should fear in terms of drafting and banking on Nick Chubb playing at this level. Chubb averaged 15.1 PPR points per game in 2019. Was he better or worse than that in 2020? What do you think? He was worse. James?

You know why, Dave? Because of that stupid game where he got hurt against Dallas. Are you taking that out? No, everything counts. I'll say worse. 0.5 better. 16.6.

He's so good, man. You guys have Zeke ahead of him? Both of you? Yes. You've seen what Zeke was when Dak was healthy. I think you've got to bank on that. The thing is, that run, that touchdown run that Chubb had in week 17, what was it, 48 yards, something like that? Zeke can't do that.

I just, he hasn't done that in a long time. I don't know if he's had a run that long in his last two years. And I don't know if it matters because he catches so many passes when he's, you know, compared to Chubb. So I get it. But that's what people are going to be concerned about with Zeke. I think they're going to feel like we've got a player that's on the decline here. Well, that's why he's gone from a top three pick to a back end of the first round pick.

You know, you're still talking about a guy that's going to get a very hefty workload. The hope would be, you know, you get Tyron Smith back, you get Zach Martin back, you get Zach Prescott back, you get zach martin back you get that prescott back you get you know uh an off season to rest you know i i think it's it's important for him now is he somebody in dynasty that i want to invest in no he's somebody you want to flip and see if you can get great value in return for but um at least for me you know when it comes down to zeke and chubb the two running backs that i have at the end of the first round it's you know how do those guys compare to the next group of guys you know the um you know the the other sophomore running backs that have the chance

to be special in terms of dobbins and um uh not necessarily sophomore guys but dobbins and jacobs and mixon you, hopefully bouncing back, especially if they draft Sewell and get, you know, an upgrade on the offensive line. And DeAndre Swift and Antonio Gibson, all those guys that have a chance to be really special. Does he compare that much more favorably than Robinson as well?

You know, so it's just a matter of how much you're still counting on Zeke. And you're right, Adam, people are going to be concerned, understandably so. Ezekiel Elliott had three carries this year of 20 or more yards. Nick Chubb had 12.

He had 12 in 190 attempts. Zeke had 244. I mean, this is less about Zeke and more about Nick Chubb. His explosiveness is remarkable. That is just like a shocking number. But the catches count. Oh, no, no, yeah.

It's not just that i get it i just say i'm just saying nick chubb nick chubb is amazing at football that's basically what i'm saying oh yeah and that's part of the allure that's why people are gonna maybe reach a little bit maybe we're reaching a little bit by putting him in the back end of round one because he's such an awesome running back he's fun to watch we know he's gonna get a lot of work and he's got a nice track record of good production in PPR that can make you feel okay taking him with that late first-round pick. So what did I say?

He had 16.6 PPR points per game this year, Chubb did. Do you know what Zeke had both this year and in his first five games with Dak Prescott? You guys want to take any steps? Probably close to 20. He was at 21.8 with Dak Prescott. You guys want to take any steps? Close to 20. He was at 21.8 with Dak and on the year 14.1. So obviously he fell off a cliff

and it's not just Dak, the offensive line too. I think there was enough evidence. What's up, Jim? It's only two games with Dalton that they threw him the ball. That's the big part of it. That's definitely part of it.

But I did think that he left enough for us to see in week 16 and 17 to know that he's not like a total shell of his former self and that there is a chance of him bouncing back. I don't think he's quite at the age where we can just rule out him

ever being what he once was, but he needs that opportunity. And now Tony Pollard could be a big part of that mix next year. And we'll see what the offensive line looks like. But for now I'm comfortable taking him with elite first round pick. Zekio Elliott had almost no chance in week 17. His offensive line was completely overwhelmed and he actually did very well with the opportunities he was given.

I mean, like one of those, Oh, he should have lost one yard. He turned it into a two yard game. He did that a lot in week 17. He did look probably 17 total touches in that game too. Yeah, I don't know. I don't remember what the stats were, but I'd say

he looked better. It was 14 for 42 in a touchdown, three catches for 19 yards on four targets. He looked better than the numbers. He lost two games with Dalton. He had four targets in each of those games, seven catches. So if that's the floor in terms of what the reception totals could be, because we saw what the ceiling was with Dak. I mean, those first

five games, he was in three of them. I'll throw out week five when Dak got hurt against the Giants. But the first four games, three of those, he had six catches each of those games. Yeah. All right. So let me just recap the top 12 here. Jamie, who'd you have at 11th in between Zeke and Chubb?

Tyreek. Tyreek Hill. Okay. The differences for you guys, Dave has James Robinson 11th. Jamie does not have him in the top 12. Jamie has Austin Eckler 9th. Dave does not have him in the top 12. He's 13. have him in the top 12 let's start 13 he's there okay okay so let's start with that Eckler ninth for Jamie 13th for Dave then we'll talk about James Robinson and then we'll talk about Travis Kelsey and where he should be ranked um but uh Jamie Eckler you know basically if you just he played eight eight games that he didn't leave with an injury and if you take those eight games and you double, it's 1,736 total yards, 94 catches, but only four touchdowns. But your thoughts on Eckler? I mean, Chris isn't on the show today, but he's mega high on Eckler. I think he has him in the top five in

PPR. Yeah. I mean, basically once I got past Devonta Adams, I thought about maybe Kelsey at five. I thought about Taylor at five. I thought about, you know, Henry there still, Barkley, and Eckler. You know, and I think you just look at what his upside is with hopefully an improved play caller. You know, we'll see what they do to replace Anthony Lynn in terms of an offensive staff. But, you know, I mean, he was amazing in 2019. He was great when he was on the field in 2020.

And Herbert has the chance to be an absolute monster. And so, you know, I just love the way this offense is going to come into play. So I think, you know, Chris is certainly on to something there. If he stays healthy, he could be easy at 2,000 total yard guy. And, you know, obviously he's got, you know, 80 catch potential, as we saw in 2019. Dave, not quite in your top 12. 13th for Eckler.

James Robinson, you want to lump him in with James Robinson. You have him ahead of Eckler. I'm not ready to lump him in with James Robinson yet. I almost think Robinson is a separate story and I don't even know how comfortable I am having him there. I'm really not. But Eckler, 18.3 PPR points per game in 2019.

Fell to around 15 PPR points per game in 2020. One rushing touchdown on the year. And I'm nervous about him being able to be back in a workhorse role where he's getting, I think he can get six plus catches a week. And that's what will save him in PPR. But are the carries going to be there for him? Is Joshua Kelly going to get better in his second season? Is this now a Justin Herbert joint in LA? I think it is, which means there won't be a lot of games

where they're going to feed Austin Eckler a ton of carries. I'm a little skeptical that he can be first-round good. I think he can be second-round good in a PPR league. And in a non-PPR league, he might be middle to late second-round good. So I'm not ready to take Eckler as early as first round. I hope they don't pull him at the goal line. He had two carries inside the five-yard line all season long.

That was 10% of the Chargers carries from inside the five. Also, the Chargers ran the most plays in the NFL, so keep that in mind when they make their coaching change. What kind of offense will they have next year? James Robinson. Dave, you saw fit to see him to put him in the top 12. However,

you do not seem super confident in it. When we draft today, I don't know what pick I have in, in a mock draft that we're doing today, but if I've got a late first round pick and Robinson's there, I would consider him. But I think I would almost rather hope that he falls to me in round two. And the reason why I put him where I had him for now was just because I

don't know if I really loved anybody else to put ahead of him. Can he be as good in his second season? There, there, there are a ton of questions, but I just got done telling you about how I think that Justin Herbert's going to be the identity of the Chargers offense moving forward. You don't think that whoever the Jaguars take in the first round of their draft is going to be the identity of their offense? If it's Trevor Lawrence or Justin Fields, that guy is absolutely going to have the offense revolve around him. What I did like about Robinson was that he proved that he could handle a big workload. He was way better than expected in every single way, but certainly as a pass catcher. And I think he can still be a reliable starter in fantasy. I just don't know if he can be quite as good and certainly first-round good as he was in 2020.

If you're worried about his role in them, you know, giving the offensive reins to the quarterback that they drafted, Trevor Lawrence, basically, they were last in the NFL in rush attempts. So, you know, the situation can't get that much worse than it for him unless they stop throwing him because he had 49 catches in 14 games which is huge for his production but again last in the

nfl in rush attempts um he must have had he must have had like 95 of their carries when he was it was something like that yes okay all right so uh let's look at our top 12 last thing sorry i've got travis kelsey i actually had him sixth then I thought, that's probably too high because, you know, he had such an amazing year. It's unlikely to happen again. Well, I mean, it's two ofPR per game. That's a big deal. 2.3 points better this year than he was in 2018. So let me tell you this. This year, Travis Kelsey would have been the number three wide receiver in fantasy.

In PPR. In either format. Two years ago, he was the number eight wide receiver in both non-PPR and PPR. This year, he was in full PPR, the number six running back. Two years ago, he was the number nine running back. So yeah, he was incredible two out of three years,

but I think six is too high for him. That's where I had him. You guys did not have him that high. You had him closer to ninth or him. That's where I had him. And that's, you guys did not have him that high. Uh, you had him closer to ninth or so. That makes more sense. Uh, Dave had him 10th.

Jamie had him what? Eighth. Yeah. Eighth. Okay. So we'll split the difference. Call him ninth. I wouldn't have a problem with him going as high as five.

The other thing, do you guys realize kind of the, the rate stats of Devante Adams and what happened this year? Because his yards per catch has never been great. But his catch rate skyrocketed this year.

And obviously his touchdown rate is ridiculous. But we haven't had... When was the last time we had a repeat number one wide receiver? Probably Antonio Brown. And every year we have a new discussion about who the best wide receiver in football is. Are we going to make a mistake? Are we going to overdraft Devontae Adams?

I don't think so, because you saw what he was basically from the Philadelphia game on last year, the game where he hurt his toe. So just looking at what he was in this offense and Adam, I blame myself, but I hate you for talking me out of what I asked you in the

preseason i talked you out of it you did you talked about putting adams ahead of michael yes yeah i mean uh you know i i i loved adam since he came to the nfl uh he's you love that me huh you love me since he came since you came to the nfl as well um but i i think you look at what he is in this offense unless they completely overhaul their second and third receiver. You know, if they bring back the same group, he's going to get fed targets. I mean, he's going to get fed targets anyway, but just to what level. But he's amazing. And Aaron Rodgers has proven over the course of his career, you know,

from Jordy Nelson and Randall Cobb and Adams. When he has a guy, he leans on a guy, and this is clearly his guy. It's been his guy since 2016. You look at the touchdowns that he's had 2016,

he had 12. It's double digits. Double digits in four of the last five. Yeah, and then the one year he didn't have it, he only played 12 games. He had five. It's double digits in four of the last five. Yeah, and then the one year he didn't have it, he only played 12 games. He had five touchdowns in those 12 games. I think he's probably the safest pick you could make in round one. Yeah, well, he's been on pace.

I don't know probably about it. He is the safest pick you can make in round one. McCaffrey. Really? Yes. How did that work out last year? How did Adams work out two years ago? I get it, but even when Adams played two seasons ago,

he was... In 2019, when he played, he was okay. His touchdowns were surprisingly down. But he was okay. Still had almost 1,000 yards in 12 games. Yeah, but McCaffrey was, per game, number one with a bullet this year. Yeah, but if you're

scared about him getting hurt again... Y'all play scared. Who's more likely to get hurt again? You have him as the number one pick, so you shouldn't be scared. Of course not. Everybody's got a number one. He's got the most upside. I don't think that Devonta Adams can do what Christian McCaffrey can do. I'm not sure if there's anybody Adams can do what Christian McCaffrey can do. I'm not sure if there's

anybody that can do what Christian McCaffrey could potentially do. Devonta Adams has missed some time over the last few seasons, but per 16 games, he's been on pace for 169 or more targets every single year. So that's pretty good. He accomplished something this year that only two other receivers have done.

Randy Moss and Chris Carter. Lee was 100 catches, whatever yards he had in touchdowns. 18 touchdowns. Okay. All right. So that, we're going to take a break here. And when we come back,

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today in five, I asked Jamie, you got all these head coaching openings, all these head coaching vacancies. You're a hot young head coach. Everybody wants to hire you. Where are you going? You can choose your own destination. Dave, I'll let you answer first today.

Jamie was between the Chargers and the Jaguars. Where would you go? Jaguars have two first-round picks, right? Including the number one overall pick, and I think they've got a ton of cap space, and I think they've got a lot of good young talent on defense. I think I'd rather

go to Jacksonville than L.A. Plus, the ownership is better, I think. I think the ownership is better in Jacksonville than L.A. Hearing Shad Khan say that he's got control of the roster was is better, I think. I think the ownership is better in Jacksonville than LA. Hearing Shad Khan say that he's got control of the roster was a little stunning. Okay. So Pete and I have talked about this.

Pete Prishton and I have talked about this a lot over the last several weeks. If you, right now, this was pretty much after Jacksonville locked up the number one seed. Who would you rather have right now? Justin Herbert or Trevor Lawrence? Trevor Lawrence.

I don't know my answer. Trevor Lawrence. We both said we'd take Justin Herbert. It's a little silly, I think. You've seen him go through an NFL season, and you see what he can be. And so while Trevor Lawrence may be better, he could also be a flop. And so at least you see what Herbert has become. The reason I like the Chargers job better is there's a better chance to win right away. I think you look at if those guys stay healthy,

they're going to be very competitive. You get Derwin James, Joey Bosa, Melvin Ingram, those guys on the defensive side. That's a win now defense, especially if Chris Harris and Casey Hayward still play at the level that they have the ability to. And then you have the quarterback that's already gone through it once already with those weapons around him. So long term, Jackson might be better. Like I said, it's one and one a for me. But I think, you know, given the chance that I could win right now, I would take the Chargers job.

This is a great question. I'm Twitter pulling it. If you are running an NFL franchise, who would you rather have at quarterback Trevor Lawrence? Justin Herbert. It's a great question. I'm not sure Justin Fields doesn't belong in this poll. Oh, my gosh.

Rollercoaster. Rollercoaster with him. Yeah, Justin Fields does not belong in this poll. I don't know about that. Well, I think you're right. But what he did against Clemson was remarkable. That Clemson defense is not the same type of defense that it has been.

It's not a bad defense. It's not a bad defense, but it's not a great defense. They were missing a lot of players. They were missing a starting safety. And he was still a one-read quarterback. He looked at one guy and he threw to him. I think a lot of quarterbacks are like that in college.

Fair. He's obviously a great... I didn't think much of him, but... There's still people that like Wilson ahead of Fields. It's not a guarantee that Fields is the second quarterback draft. So far, Justin Herbert has 78% of the vote. We shall see what happens there. Now let's talk

about all these vacancies here. Dave, some NFL players who have a lot at stake with a new head coach, a new regime. Who are you focusing on? We got the Jets, we got the Chargers, the Jaguars, the Falcons, the Texans, the Lions, and Minnesota. Gary Kubiak is retiring their offensive coordinator.

They had a really, really good offense. And I would love to get a breakdown of their plays. How many plays they ran first eight games compared to last eight games. Because listen to this. For Minnesota, Kirk Cousins, in his first eight games, he threw 26 passes per game. In his last eight games, he threw more than 38 passes per game. And Dalvin Cook's carries went up in that stretch. So did they just run like a ton more plays?

I don't know. Did they give up more points? Not really. He gave up almost the same amount of points per game. So Minnesota. Madison was hurt in that stretch too, which I think is why Cook's. Okay, yeah.

I didn't have a chance to really go through carries per game, but that could be part. Yeah, that probably is a big part of it as well. They weren't taking Cook off the field to whatever small percentage they were prior to when Madison was out. But obviously Madison didn't miss all of those eight games. So yeah, it's worth looking into,

but Cousins' pass attempt skyrocketed and he was really good down the stretch. Anyway, Dave, like who are some players right now that you have, there's a lot at stake with whomever they hire? There are some on every single team that has a coaching vacancy. And in Minnesota, I want them to hire somebody

who's aggressive and will want to put the ball in the air a lot so that Justin Jefferson can repeat what he did as a rookie. But Mike Zimmer's going to have his way. I mean, we've already seen him now. He's gone through three offensive coordinators over the last couple of years. And each one, like, Zimmer wants it done his way more often than not.

Now, maybe Zimmer realized at the midway point of this season, we've got this special talent in Justin Jefferson and we've got to just, we got to let him go. Or he realized we score points because my defense isn't very good. I would imagine that Zimmer is going to be able to restock that defense. It makes me a little bit nervous about the offense being as aggressive with the bass. And if they have a conservative play caller in Minnesota,

that'll further limit the target opportunities for all the bass catchers in Minnesota. And we're going to talk about all of them a lot. It's dealing on top of Jefferson. It's Irv Smith. I don't think how Rudolph is going to be back there. And it's, Jefferson. It's Irv Smith. I don't think Kyle Rudolph is going to be back there. It might not be quite as slam dunk as it was

to finish 2020. We can go team by team after that, after Minnesota, if you want to. No, it's all right. We can. It might not be the most exciting conversation. By the way, Dave, this mock draft I'm looking at on CBS, pick 14, Minnesota.

I don't know if they still have the 14th pick because this was done a week ago. I don't think they've made any trades in the last week. No, but they might have changed their draft position. Oh, sure, sure, sure. That's right. Oh, no, they do have the 14th pick. Gregory Russo, edge rusher, Miami Hurricanes.

They're almost certainly going to go defense, you'd think. They need pass rush so badly this team todd furman who does a great job for us on on cbs sports hq one of the best handicappers in the business uh he said this is the team he's putting his money onto in the nfc north because the odds will be great um obviously packers are gonna be favorite but he said this is his team that he is is putting his uh backing behind and i'm totally on board with it. I don't know if they beat the Packers. Obviously, injuries can play in if Aaron Rodgers gets hurt.

But the offense looks to be in great shape. The defense is not just what they're going to do in the draft. They get Neil Hunter back, the secondary. If you remember, Adam, before they traded Ngakwe, I said this was the defense I thought was going to be the one going into the playoffs that would be better because we thought Hunter was coming back and Ngakwe was still there. I remember we had that conversation early in the season.

And then Hunter was placed on IR for the year and they traded Ngakwe. But I think there's a lot to like about what this defense can become with Zimmer controlling, and the offense looks to be really good. You know, it's like we just posted our top 12 quarterbacks for 2021 and nobody's going to draft Kirk Cousins as a number one quarterback. I get that, but I don't see much difference between him and Ryan Tannehill, to be honest. Tannehill obviously will run a little bit more. The weapons around Kirk Cousins, especially you're seeing what Irv Smith can become.

And he's going to be a bigger part of the offense at, at that position. The play caller, I think is going to be really important for Minnesota because they have the running game. They have the receivers. They have, I think what could be a good tight end.

And if cousins can avoid the mistakes, which he did for the most part this year, really for the last two years, he could be a sneaky number one fantasy quarterback that you just wait for. And you'll be thrilled about. Okay. What about DJ Chark? It's hard to get a grip on this guy.

He's had a bad situation, obviously. But boy, he has a lot of just invisible games. And last year, too. Just very up and down, inconsistent. Trevor Lawrence is there, Jamie. You got to figure. Is DJ Chark a top 60 pick? First five rounds of a 12-team league.

No, but you're going to love getting him just after that. What kind of coach do you want to see for them? Do you have an inkling of who it might be? You've got all the candidates out there. I mean, you're seeing they're going to talk to all the same guys. I don't love Urban Meyer going there because I just don't think he's going to be fully vested in turning that program around.

I think he's more of a, if he's going to the NFL, I think he's going to win that situation, even though you're getting Trevor Lawrence. But I do think that you're hoping to see a guy, you know, be enemy obviously is going to be one that's the hot name. I like the idea of a team bringing in Robert Sala because I do think that bringing in LaFleur's younger brother as the offensive coordinator who was on the offensive staff in the 49ers, I think that could be fun. You know, just seeing what LaFleur has done with his influence in San Francisco and then obviously what his brother has done in green Bay. So I'm curious to see how that'll work out. But I think it's going to be something that's got to be, you know, not just the head coach,

but obviously the play callers got to be that's got to be, you know, not just the head coach, but obviously the play callers got to be creative. But, you know, I'll always lean toward lean on Pete for the Jaguars because he's so tied into that organization. And he thinks they need to get a speed guy at receiver. You know, and so he said he likes their three top guys right now of Chark, LaVisca and Colin Johnson. But he doesn't think any of those guys run well like charke profiles as a number one receiver but i don't know if he's a dominant number one receiver you know he's a guy that's not going to necessarily beat you with his speed per se but he's going to win 50 50 balls he's fast enough to get by the defender uh but he's not necessarily like um uh like he thinks they should draft Tony from Florida or this kid out of Purdue. That's the one Pete keeps saying.

Those are the two guys that he thinks fit Jacksonville the most. I look at the Texans as a team that just needs to unleash Deshaun Watson. They kind of did. They were 31st in the NFL in rush attempts but they

were dead last in plays. The Texans ran the fewest plays. I don't think they did Deshaun Watson a ton of favors. They played a very conservative offense under Bill O'Brien. Yeah, Dave, what would you like to see in Houston? Better defense, for starters, so that the way they don't try and use their offense to mask their defense, that might be part of the reason why they had a slow pace,

was so they didn't have to put their defense out on the field. But it was every year, you know, and it wasn't always a bad defense. That's true. That's true. But the last two years especially, it wasn't great. And then once O'Brien got fired, I don't know what the pace was. Maybe it wasn't that much different. They let Watson throw early. That was a big part of it. Yeah, that's huge and like he i i just want him to still be the and he's going to

be the centerpiece of the offense they need to just find a a play caller that's going to say okay deshaun what do you want to do that sounds great let's let's do that with a little bit of this and that and this and that and just build everything around Deshaun Watson it makes perfect sense they're going to do exactly that I hope they keep Will Fuller because I that the chemistry that's built in between those two when they're on the field together it's pretty special so that's going to be another decision that the franchise is going to have to make and it won't be an easy one I don't know what their cap situation is like but assuming that they don't have a ton of cap space, they need to rebuild that defense and giving

a lot of money to Will Fuller. It hurts them a little bit. I think everything you're seeing from being reported from Houston is he's going back there just because of the suspension and what he was able to accomplish. I haven't seen anybody say that he's leaving, but obviously that could change if somebody throws a lot of money on him. And I don't know

if anybody's going to do that. Is there any salvaging? They're terrible in cap space, actually. The players on the Jets. Any salvaging the players on the Jets? Oh, of course. I mean, this offensive line is something that you could build around. They have some nice receivers there.

Obviously, what you get from Crowder as a slot option, if Mims can take that next step, you know, we'll see what they do with Perryman. They're, they're, they're a receiver away from being a good receiving core. Um,

uh, you have the intangible that there's no more Adam Gates. So all those guys just magically get better because we've seen that with everybody that leaves the jets. Yes. Um, there's actually a report now, Adam,

uh, Frank Gore, according to Adam schaefter wants to play another season i don't know where that is because now gaze is out of the nfl maybe he goes to play at alabama if gaze follows uh the report that he's going to be the office coordinator there i don't know if he still has eligibility but um i think you look at what uh what the foundation is there and it depends on what they do do they make the decision to stick with sam donald and go a different direction or do they go get a new quarterback? I'm sure a lot of

Jets fans like to see a fresh start and a quarterback, but Darnold still I think has the potential to be good enough that this offense can have a lot of production out of it if they get the right coach in place. Any other coaching thoughts or want to read some emails? I'll go back to what I said on the other show that I think the two in my opinion, two big impact hires are going to be in Atlanta and Detroit because there's still great offenses there, you know? So I'd like to see somebody come in that can get more out of the offense in Atlanta. Not that it's been bad for fantasy, but you know, if you could still salvage another season or two out of Matt Ryan and hopefully Julio Jones, but obviously keep

Calvin Ridley afloat and maybe find a running game there that could be successful because that offense can be great. And the same thing in Detroit, you know, we're two years removed from Matthew Stafford being a top five fantasy quarterback on a point per game basis before he had the back injury. And he showed flashes this year when he was healthy. You get Kenny Galladay back, hopefully see what they do to replace Marvin Jones. If he leaves, you have TJ Hawkinson and DeAndre Swift. There's a lot of great fantasy options on those two teams.

So if there's good play calling in place there, that's going to be really fun for fantasy managers, especially those two quarterbacks, because nobody's going to draft them as starters. But these are the type of guys that help you win leagues that I don't draft them. I wait for them. I take them as, as late round picks. And then all of a sudden you, you may have the, the Matthew Stafford from two years ago or the Matt Ryan from his MVP season

or even what he showed you flashes this season or certainly what Aaron Rodgers showed you when we all wrote him off for being a 37-year-old quarterback that couldn't play anymore and he was an MVP. Matt Ryan finished his QB 12 this year. There were some ups and downs. He was obviously a lot better with Julio Jones. But the thing is, you always knew they were going to throw the ball.

With Dirk Cutter, they were fourth in pass attempts this year. So hopefully they hire someone who will commit to that. Let's see if Dave can get the trivia question I asked you yesterday. Can you name the top six quarterbacks, Dave, in yards per game? Taking out Dak Prescott because he's not qualified. Okay. Ryan should be up there. That's obviously what we're talking about.

Yep. Mahomes should be up there. Yep. Justin Herbert? Yep. Derek Carr? Nope. Brady?

Yep. Rodgers? No, not Rodgers. nope Brady yep Rogers no not Rogers how many do I have left two you have Brady Herbert

Ryan and you said Mahomes right yeah I said Mahomes you have four four of the six Darnold no no Sam Darnold Josh Allen oh Deshaun Watson Darnold. No, no Sam Darnold.

Josh Allen? Oh, Deshaun Watson. I'm looking at a list of teams. Watson's got to be up there. And then Josh Allen? It's amazing that you looked down and all of a sudden you got those two guys. No, I swear to God, it's a list of players. It's not that stat.

If you're watching on YouTube, you saw that whole thing go down. Yeah, I know. I swear to God, I did not cheat. I believe you, but this is funny. Like all of a sudden you look down. I totally understand. Who led the NFL in passing?

Most yards. I know the answer, so I won't answer it. Watson. Yeah, good. Good job. And did you see my eyes? I was looking at that monitor up there what happened wait did that not work i tried to hit the where's the sound i tried to give you the wrong buzzer but you were right i was just assuming you were going to get it wrong i hit the wrong buzzer but i had the seventh guy can you guess the seventh guy in terms of passing yards per game? Was it Carr?

No, but it's going to be one of my favorite breakout candidates next year. It was Goff. Was it Goff? No. Burrow. That's right. Yeah. I mean, you know that answer.

That's why we talked about it. He's going to be an awesome mid-ramp pick. Okay, guys. Let's read some emails. Fantasyfootballatcbsi.com Can I look down to read the emails? Is that okay, guys? From Kevin from Dave's favorite ski town.

I don't have a favorite ski town. Breckenridge. Fine. No Mass, Colorado. I've been there. Trey, John, Mike, and Paige. I don't know. Trey, John, Mike, and Paige. I don't know. Sounds like fish. 10-team standard league.

I'll probably get seventh, eighth, or ninth pick. Would love your opinion on my keepers here. I don't know how many he needs to keep. McCaffrey in round one. Adams in round two. Jacobs in round three. Akers in round six. James Robinson in round seven. And Josh Allen in round two, Jacobs in round three, Akers in round six, James Robinson in round seven, and Josh Allen in round

12. Ten-team standard scoring. And we don't know how many he's keeping. Give me your favorite two. McCaffrey round one, Adams two, Jacobs in the third, Akers in the sixth, James Robinson in the seventh, Josh Allen in the twelfth. Adams in two.

I'd bounce around the room and say, I'll take McCaffrey and Allen. Yeah, I would go, I would rank them Adams in round two, Allen, what round was it? Twelve. Allen around twelve. Robinson around seven.

Jamie, it's standard scoring, just so you know. Does that change anything? McCaffrey? No. He's got the seventh pick. I'm taking McCaffrey. Yeah. Yeah, that changes things. I still go Adams 1, McCaffrey 2.

Okay. From Seamus, in a city one hour south of the Twin Cities. That's going to be right on the border with Iowa, right? Sure. Okay, I don't know. How did A.J. Dillon not get at least one mention as a one-week wonder? It's a great call.

Yeah, it is. Sorry, it's too late to put him in the poll. He didn't help people, though. He was a great one-week wonder. Who started A.J. Dillon in week 16? Answer, nobody. And then you could even put him on Mama D A.J. Dillon in week 16? Answer, nobody. And then you could even put him on the worst waiver wire pick-up list. From Carl. Subjects.

Carl. Oh, no, that's Eric. Anyway, from Carl. Good to see you. That's right. I can't believe people still do snake drafts. If you've been in a league for three or more years and you're over 16,

you should be doing an auction. Salary cap. Salary cap. Salary cap. That's right. Okay. I agree. I love salary cap drafts.

Yeah. I mean, they're great, but I like snake drafts quite a bit too. They're not bad. I want to be 15 again. Oh, that'd be fun. Okay. I want to be 15 again oh that'd be fun I want to be 21 again from Tyler Witt dear Tony Hobbs, Tigger

and Shere Khan I don't know I was right about fish by the way are they all tigers? okay I was just singing the Tigger song this morning, actually. How about that? The wonderful thing about Tigger.

No, I'm not going to do it. The bouncy, flouncy, bouncy. Okay. A few names unmentioned from the awards list. I nominate them as unsung heroes. I don't remember that being an award, but okay. Robert Tunyon, Logan Thomas, J.D. McKissick, Young-Wei Ku, Jason Sanders, Rodrigo Blankenship,

Q Heath Sy. They deserve some credit, some cred in one category or another. They definitely helped our fantasy sisters and brothers have a great 2021 and to the tune of Snoop Dogg, mock draft every day. Yeah, all right. We probably will be

doing that. Tanyan, Logan Thomas, McKissick. Yes, I think those are pretty good waiver wire pickups. Yeah, T right. We probably will be doing that. Tunyon, Logan Thomas, McKissick, yes. I think those are pretty good waiver wire pickups. Yeah, Tunyon. How did we forget him? Top five tight end. Because he just wasn't really that good. What?

It was such a bad year. You know what I want to see? Okay, he scored 124 in non-ppr let's finish with this robert tunyon scored in non-ppr 124.6 points that made him tight end three last year that would have made him tight end six and it's probably even worse than full ppr right He scored 176 points. That made him tight end three. Last year he would have been... Oh. No. I hit the wrong button. Last year

he would have been tight end seven. So, you know, it wasn't a legit top three tight end. I'm calling him out. We're out of here. Thanks, everybody. We'll talk to you on Thursday. We got six games to preview this week

to help you out with playoff challenges, with DFS, with whatever it is. Six NFL playoff games on wildcard weekend. Cannot wait. For Dave and Jamie and Ben, I'm Adam. We'll talk to you Thursday.