Fantasy Football Today - Coaching News and a Mailbag! (01/29 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: January 30, 2026

We start out with the coaching news (2:30) as the Eagles have a new offensive coordinator and the Browns have a new head coach. Then we get to your questions via email (15:00) at [e-mail] and via Twitter (51:00). We talk about some wide receiver busts and what they have in common, if Christian McCaffrey is destined for a bad season after receiving 400 touches in 2025, Omarion Hampton's outlook, our favorite cartoons from our childhood and more Fantasy Football Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcasts Watch FFT on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ https://www.youtube.com/fantasyfootballtoday⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Shop our store: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠shop.cbssports.com/fantasy⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  SUBSCRIBE to FFT Dynasty on Apple: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dynasty/id1696679179⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ FOLLOW FFT Dynasty on Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/2aHlmMJw1m8FareKybdNfG?si=8487e2f9611b4438&nd=1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ SUBSCRIBE to FFT DFS on Apple: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fantasy-football-today-dfs/id1579415837⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 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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This is Fantasy Football Today from CBS Sports. What a play! It's time to dominate your fantasy league. Off to the races, and he stays on his feet. Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath. It's Mailbag time. Welcome to the show. It's Fantasy Football Today on Friday, January 30th.

And this is Fantasy Football Today, presented by BetMGM, Make It Legendary. First question of the day, will Dan show up? Jay, I'm thinking yes. I'm thinking at some point he's going to show up and he's going to say, well, nobody told me what time the show was, and I thought it was at 12, like it usually is. And he's going to have a decent excuse here. But Jamie, do you think he'll show up?

I do. I think he's going to show up in a panic. He's going to be pissed off at you. He's going to be somewhat mad at me. And then he'll settle in. They'll be fine. Yeah. Nobody told me what time it was.

Am I supposed to guess? Just supposed to know that it's at 10 o'clock? Yeah, usually the mailbag, the Friday mailbag, were at noon, but today we did it at 10, but we never told them the time. So we tried calling him, it went straight to voicemail, is he sleeping? You know, just a lot of mysteries right now with Dan, but we're hoping to get them. We do have news and notes. We have your emails at Fantasy Football at CBSI.com, and we've got some tweets as well. Someone asked us what cartoons we watched when we grew up, so we'll answer stuff like that, but mostly football. And speaking of

football, Drake May does have a shoulder injury, but Mike Vrable doesn't think Drake May will be limited by his shoulder injury in the Super Bowl. Of course, if he did think that, he wouldn't tell us that. But for what it's worth, they're downplaying the shoulder injury. All right. Oh, I know where Dan is. He is spiraling. I've been on a group text with him.

Once the Browns hired Todd Monkin, spiraling. Oh, the Giants, who are they going to have as their offensive coordinator, this and that? So he is struggling right now. But the Browns did hire, not fire. They did hire former Ravens. offensive coordinator, Todd Monkin, to be their new head coach. And what do you think about that, Jamie? I think it comes down to the Jimmy's and Joe's versus the X's and O's.

So Monkin could have a great system, great offense, great everything. He needs players. Now, I think the one thing that you look at is obviously wherever he's been, he's done a good job with his run game. A lot of that has had to do with the running backs were, specifically in Baltimore. You have Derek Henry. Things are going to go well for you. But I think this is a good thing for Quinn John Judkins. If he gets a quarterback in place, then I think we can, you know, say there's a chance for this passing game to be good.

I know he's got a Pro Bowl quarterback in Shadur Sanders, but a lot of work to be done there. Need some better pass catchers to help Harold Fannan and hopefully still Jerry Judy. But this is very much a work in progress. This team needs a lot of help. Todd Manken was the offensive coordinator for three seasons for Baltimore. In those three seasons, Lamar Jackson completed two-thirds of his passes. Had a 7% touchdown rate and averaged 8.4 yards per attempt. I mean, the completion rate is whatever, but 7% touchdown rate, 8.4 yards per attempt, unbelievable.

But that's also Lamar Jackson. Well, his first five seasons in the league, you know what, let's eliminate his rookie year. Let's just look at the four seasons before Monkin. He had a 6.4 touchdown rate. He averaged 7.4 yards per attempt, a full yard per attempt worse. Yeah, I mean, again, you get great players. You're going to make them better if you're a good coach. He doesn't necessarily have great players right now.

That's the unfortunate. The Eagles hired Packers' quarterback's coach, Sean Mannion, to be their offensive coordinator. We don't know who's going to call plays. Siriani called plays in 2021 with the Eagles, and then he stopped and he never did it. He never took it. I don't think he took it back. If he did, it was short term. So what do you think of this?

Eagles going with a name. I don't think we were expecting. and Green Packers quarterback's coach, Sean Mannion, as their offensive coordinator. I mean, look, you hope that he, you know, comes from a good place. And clearly the Green Bay offense has been solid. Again, he's got good pieces to work with. You know, really the big question mark right now is the next domino, is A.J. Brown staying or is A.J. Brown going going. I think we could all say you're still going to draft the Eagles players in a relative similar range to where they were even going last year.

You know, we've seen in the three drafts so far. Barclay slips a little bit. AJ Brown slips a little bit, DeVarthe Smith slips a little bit, Jalen Hertz slips a little bit, but you're still drafting them for the majority of the group, including Dallas Goddard,

as starters or borderline starters. I don't think this necessarily enhances that. So it's still, you know, TBD. Oh, we got a text from Dan. Yeah, he thought it started at noon. I am so confused. The original text, Schaefer, did you chat GPT this?

I used GROC and I said, Keep this text exactly the same. Just add 10 a.m. So now I'm gaslighting Dan. Originally, I didn't have the time when I asked him to be on the podcast. That's amazing. All right. So Thomas set the group text a few days ago to be Jamie and Dan.

And he said, hey, Jamie and Dan, are you guys available for a Friday mailbag this week? That's all it said. Jamie said yes. Dan said, I am. then this morning, because Jamie texted me asking for the time, this morning I texted the group 10 a.m. start, FYI. And then we never got a hold of Dan. And then Thomas, we're calling him, we're texting him.

Jamie says, Dan, where are you? Thomas sends a screenshot of the group chat, except he adds the time 10 a.m., which he never originally put. And he says that to Dan and Dan says, sorry, guys, I thought we were doing noon. I totally messed up. Now I realize.

But is he coming? on or what? Had to jump in the shower, fix his hair. Yeah, come on. Let's go, Dan. All right. Barrel up his chest. Let's Philadelphia.

So right now, what's your level of optimism for the Eagles offense? Scale of one to ten. I mean, they finally have somebody. You know, it seems as if everybody was turning this job down or at least not, you know, getting the job. I don't, you know, you never know if they just said, okay, we weren't interested in the people that they were interviewing. I was always kind of optimistic.

You know, you said this yesterday or whenever we did our bounce back. show. You know, the three offenses that you were, you know, encouraged by doing better in 2026, this is one of them. They have really good players. Jalen Hurts is still a really good fantasy quarterback. The two receivers are still really good. The running back is still really good. The tight end is good. Like, there's a lot to like here. So, yes, I'm encouraged. Okay. Dan said he's going to hop on now. I was so used to noon. I didn't even check this. Okay. Kirk cousin. Yeah, response. Maybe he's struggling to peel off his nose, the strip. He's looking for a shmede. shirt.

What do we got? Kirk Cousins expected to be released. The Falcons, by the way, hired a new GM. Ian Cunningham, who was the assistant GM for the Bears for four seasons. So Cousins expected to be released. Stay in the AFC South Carolina running back. Jonathan Brooks is hopeful to be ready for mini camp, but not certain about that. Who's...

I saw I've had a three-pointer at Hornets in Warholms. Hey. Who leads the Panthers in rushing in this 2026? I'm going to say Chuba. just because I don't know if RICO's back. I will say that's just with the Kirk Cousins news item that you mentioned, doing the Superflex draft. It's very fascinating to see the quarterback pool

and what that will be next year. There he is. When did we not do this at noon? All season. Very clearly it said 10 a.m. in the text. Wow, I am really struggling in this off season here. I think your mic settings are wrong, too. Mike settings are off.

I'm sick. I'm not sure about that. Oh, you're sick again? You're always sick again. The mic settings are off. Some reason my mic isn't even on. This is even worse. My mic isn't even registering.

I need to go out of here. I'll be back. There you is. Hey, thanks for coming on, Dan. Let's see you next time. The entire experience, folks. Oh, my gosh. All right.

Were you done with cousins? Whatever? No, I was going to say, the quarterback pool is going to be fascinating to see, like, where some of these guys end up cousins, to, uh, Kyler, if he's, let go Rogers if he decides to play and leaves Pittsburgh. Like there's a lot of moving parts for some of these veterans.

And it's going to be interesting for super flexing. So we had, I don't know if we'll review of the draft again, but we had 19 quarterbacks drafted in the first three rounds. Oh, wow. I made four rounds. Oh, hey. The mic's back. What happened there?

Mike's broken. He had all sorts of issues today. One of your greatest hits, buddy. This is one of my worst hits, but it's okay. How are you guys doing today? Good. Doing well. What happened to the noon start time?

It's the off season. I gotta get my act together. Yeah, that's okay. We do it at noon in the regular season to wait for some news. Yeah. You have some stories? No, I just got one story. What's it about?

It's about a concert. I was at recently. Okay. We'll save it. We'll save it for a little later. Joe Brady, new coach of the bills. He said he was one of the ones who stood on the table for Keon Coleman and that his promotion to head coach is the best thing that could have happened to Keon Coleman.

So Joe Brady is a Coleman guy. I think it's the best thing that could happen to James Cook. I was very nervous about James Cook. If you look at the stats of James Cook pre and post Joe Brady, it's basically night and day. So him staying there with Buffalo is going to be the biggest thing that could happen. Wasn't pre Joe Brady just his rookie season? No, was it just his rookie season?

It might have been. Well, Brady took over halfway through the 2023 season. Yeah. I don't know if that's what you were referring to. It's a certain amount of games with Joe Brady and without Joe Brady. It's a totally different. The volume is like night and day. You know what the difference is night and day.

Night is when we sleep. Day is when we work. Just so. Well, sometimes you can't sleep at night and your alarm just doesn't go off. And you have a bad day. Everyone's had a bad day here. And there, here and there. Not here.

Here is just me. John Allen. That's about to be a great day. Yeah. I was also uninformed. I did actually think that we were doing. I mean, Thomas had the text pretty clear, 10 a.m. Well, I just saw, are we in for mailbag?

We haven't done a mailbag in a month. And then after that, Adam said 10 a.m. start. And I just didn't check back on the text. Look at the screenshot that Thomas just sent you. No, and then I did realize. I just saw a mailbag, and I was so excited. I just said, yes, in. I didn't even read the rest of the text.

This is not me. No, we should tell you that Thomas did not include that in the original texts. He photoshopped, but he, like, altered the text when he said to screenshot. Okay. So it was not really good. I feel a little less bad, but still should have been on more on top of this. Wasn't your fault. Josh Allen had surgery for a broken bone in his foot.

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that it's like a curse that's been put up on me. All right, we're going to take a break and we're going to read your emails at Fantasy Football at CBSI.com. We're going to talk about Christian McCaffrey and the curse of 400 touches after this. With Amex Platinum, $400 in annual credits

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How many of the previous running backs would have also been wide receiver ones, the way that Christian McCaffrey was this past season? And does that affect your opinion on his draft position this year? I think the gist of it is, well, I don't know, there's two things too. Like, obviously Christian McCaffrey, an incredible season with the receptions. But he didn't have quite as many carries as some of the guys who were in the 400-touch club. Seguan Barclay last year, including the playoffs, Barclay had 436 carries.

Christian McCaffrey had 337. He had 99 fewer carries than Barclay, including postseason. So, Jamie, when we factor that in, and there is a typical drop-off of running backs who have 400 touches, including Christian McCaffrey twice, this is his third time of 400 touches. The previous two times he played three games and four games the following year. But does the allocation of touches between rushing and passing, or receiving rather, matter to you? So the beginning of this real study was from football outsiders, and it was the curse of 370, and 370 meaning the carries. And that's typically in the regular season.

At least that's what the initial study was. So what we've seen from McCaffrey is obviously different. The fact that we're two years removed from this or a year removed from this, you know, depending on whatever time frame you want attached to it, 2023, he had over 400 total touches, 2024. He plays four games. He's now going to be 30. and so the risk is amplified even more. I'm very curious whatever study they're going to find with this electromagnetic waves that are coming to the power plant near the practice facility.

You know, if that has any merit to it, I doubt it. But in any event, you know, you're talking about an older player, a lot of work. I'm going to have the same feelings about McCaffey that I had about Barclan. It was around this time that I started to bring it up, you know, that you have to be concerned about players as they get older with a lot of mileage on their body. Now, Derek Henry has obviously proven that wrong. And two years ago, we had these 30-year-old running backs that all did fairly well. Aaron Jones was one.

I'm trying to think McAfree was, or 28-plus-year-old run, I shouldn't say at 30. Henry was one. Aaron Jones was one. Alvin Camaro was one. You know, they all had good seasons. They had their hiccups along the way. Jones missed some time. Camer didn't finish the year.

I think if you're drafting McCaffer, you have to make the investment in his backup, whoever that may be. Remember, Brian Robinson is a free agent now. So it could be, we're back to Isaac Arendo again, or they could add another running back. But I think that's, if you just want to make the investment in the 49ers backfield, knowing that the number two guy, whenever he's been the number two guy, you know, Garando for that stretch in 2023, excuse me, 2024, throughout the years, Jeff Wilson and Rahim Moster and all these other guys that have stepped up,

I think you'll hopefully get good replacement value. You won't get McCaffrey replacement value. But if McAfrey plays eight plus games, 10 plus games, you know, and doesn't miss 15, 14, you know, then you should be okay. So I'm still going to have him ranked as a first round pick. I'm not going to tout him as a top five overall pick. I'm not going to certainly tout him as the number one running back. But I'll have him in a similar situation that had Barclay, which is a back end of round one selection. As the president Christian McCaffrey truther here, I feel like I have to at least rebuttal that.

considering I had a ranked RB1 this year going into this year. I even feel a little bit queasy about taking him. We just did our Superflex. I don't know if you talked about this earlier, Jamie, but he was just sitting on board. We did a whole show before you showed up, yeah. I know that. I know that much,

but I don't know if you talk about this specifically. He was just sitting on the board in our Superflex draft. Picks were rolling by. And I get the feeling it's going to be like that in a lot of drafts this year, even for people like me who believe in him and believed in ranking him one for a reason. but did it coming off a year where he wasn't, you know, he didn't have a lot of touches last year. Now coming off the year where he did have touches,

it's a little different. I just feel also like if you look at these situations individually, are we like saying Barkley didn't do well this year in fantasy because of the touches? Are we saying Berkeley didn't do well because the Eagles offensive line completely collapsed? They were injured all year. There was nowhere to go. His yards before contact plummeted this year, just absolutely plummet. And he's a different kind of back.

He's a back who relies on yards before contact. Even if you look at his time with the giants, he needs that little bit of space so he can cut and go. He's an explosive back, Barclay. So I almost feel like, and he was never getting receptions with the Eagles, I almost feel like that was a bigger reason for his collapse and the touch is the year before. I don't know how much of a drop off he had athletically or anything like that. But with that said, McCaffrey's older than Barclay was going into this year. And that also factors in as well. What are we at with McAfee now?

Is he on the wrong side of 30 yet? I know he's up there. He turns 30 this summer. Right. So that's another factor in this too, I think. Maybe if there's a... I think the one thing with just Barkley, and I know, you know, Dave also had similar feelings about Barclay with the touches. For me, it was also the 2,000-yard season and what that historically has been also.

Adam, do you have Berkeley stats in front of me? I was trying to pull it up. Yeah. What do you rush for? This year? Yeah. No, I don't have those stats. I'm sorry.

Oh, again. I have his points per game. The difference is between the year before. Okay, this year he rushed for 1,140 yards. So that, again, track record continues. I think just the point, what I mean by that is every 2,000-yard rusher had a 500-yard decline or more. Wow. So to your point, Dan, about athletically losing something.

And, you know, Adam brought this up a few times. Like when he got in open space, you still saw the speed. So it all kind of works together. You know, I think anytime you have success from that position, clearly it's the offensive line working well. It's the offense working well. It's the quarterback working well. And you look at the 49ers right now, they're probably going to be without one of their best blockers and George Kittles start the season. Who knows what Trent Williams, where he's at physically. This offensive line is continuing to retool itself.

And I think as we see with this receiving core, there's going to be a lot of changes because Brandon and I are you gone. Joanne Jennings may be gone. Ricky Pearsall, can you ever count on him? So there's a lot of stuff that's, you know, moving parts here for the 49ers. I think if McCabry stays healthy, he's going to be fantastic. But will he stay healthy? Will he be the same guy? And I think if you're just understanding that, okay, am I getting an 18 point per game guy?

Am I getting a 15 point per game guy? And am I getting a guy that's going to miss time? You know, so wherever you have the sliding scale, I think, is where your comfort factor will come in with. I'll say this. I'll go as far saying this just to wrap it up. I will have no concern at all with him scoring a lot of points if he's, on the field, be based on the receptions. No concern.

If you want to be encouraged, I think one guy you could compare him to would be Levyon Bell. Levy on Bel in 2016 had 405 touches. McCaffrey just had 450. Levy on Bell had 326 carries. McCaffrey had 337. Bell had 79 catches. And McCaffrey this year had 113 catches. What Levy on Bell do the next year?

He was worse, but he had another 400 touch season. And he was RB2 per game. But he was like in his early. twice. Yeah, right. The age is much different. Ezekiel Elliott's another guy. 2018, he was R.B. He was actually RB6 per game, averaging over 22 points per game, which is insane. Usually that's like RB1. The following year, he averaged 2.4 fewer points per game, but still almost 20 points per game. He was RB6 again. So there are examples of guys who have followed up 400-touch seasons with really, really good years. Unfortunately, there are Christian McAfrey

twice who followed up 400-touch seasons with three and four game seasons. All right, next question comes from WDF. And he says, reflecting on the season, wondering why certain underperforming wide receivers were busts, basically. There are many,

but I'm specifically thinking of DJ Moore, Brian Thomas Jr., Marvin Harrison, Jr., and Jerry Judy. You know, and he's just, he's kind of asking, is it schematically,

like what is the reason why these wide receivers were bad? did Brian Thomas Jr. not fit into Liam Cohen's system? Did DJ Moore not fit into Ben Johnson's system? So he gave these four specifically. You can focus on whoever you want or just the general question. But Dan, DJ Moore, Brian Thomas Jr., Marvin Harrison Jr., Jerry Judy. What do you think were the reasons for these bus seasons? I could just do quick for, I think they're all individually different. DJ Moore, it was an issue of not, I don't think him fitting into the system. I think it was issue of that system taking a long time to get going from a passing standpoint. Once it got going at the end, it was hard to predict who was going to get the bulk of anything.

It was typically Loveland, sometimes burden, and Moore had some big plays. Marvin Harrison Jr. injuries and then not clicking with the quarterback, even though Michael Wilson was able to. Very interesting situation. I think you could genuinely say if you watch the Cardinal State, because that's what Jacob, I watched a lot of Cardinal State. Michael Wilson was a better receiver than Marvin Harrison, Jr. It's not really, it's not really even debatable on tape. Michael Wilson tempos his routes.

Michael Wilson doesn't declare his routes. Michael Wilson is more explosive getting in and out of his breaks. He was the better receiver at getting open. So that's why he got the ball. And what were the other two examples there? Brian Thomas Jr. And Ryan Thomas Jr. was hurt and just did not play good football. What was the other one?

Jerry Judy. And then Jerry Judy had Dylan Gabriel and Shador Sanders. They had the two, they combined for the two lowest combination of EPA and CPOE, completion percentage over expectation, the two worst quarterbacks in the NFL by those numbers. So you can't succeed. I mean, Jerry, Judy may not be a good player too, but you can't succeed with that kind of quarterback play. I think in the case for Judy and more, and maybe even Thomas, a lot of it was the target

volume disappeared. And so, you know, that was a big part of, I think, their failures. The one with Marvin Harrison, I don't know if I necessarily agree with not connecting with the quarterback, because I don't think you really had time to connect with. percent because of the injuries. And so I don't disagree. I think Wilson definitely showed that he was the better receiver, but I think it also comes with being a more established guy in the league

and understanding things a little bit more than Marvin Harrison did. Because when Harrison was healthy, he was still the guy getting fed. And when he got fed, he actually produced. And so I think, you know, if you want to just take the easiest way to explain to fantasy-wise is target volume, you know, and that's the biggest thing. Like whenever these guys have gotten targets in their careers, Jerry Dutty, especially, You go back to 2024, he was finally getting targeted, and he was great. And so, you know, DJ Moore was a byproduct of, like you said, Dan, slow start.

And then, oh, here's Loveland's time. Here's burden's time. At the beginning of the season, it was O'Dunze's time. You know, so it was just, I think, all these guys really struggled to get the same amount of volume that they've had in previous year or years. And in the case of Thomas, I think that was the answer, that he did not fit into Liam Cohen's system, which is why you have to be a little bit nervous about him next year, knowing that they added somebody else midseason.

We don't know yet fully what Travis Hunter's role is going to be. And now Parker Washington has emerged as this guy that Trevor Lawrence seems to love. So you're competing now with four or five guys, you know, depending on how you feel about Brent Strange. Yeah. The meta of it is also that. Sorry, go ahead. No, these guys have had target problems.

Marvin Harrison Jr., his entire career so far, his target per hour run rate, excuse me, 21.5% is a rookie, 19.1% in his second season. 19.1% like that's just not good. What is that with percent in those games? You know what? Here's what I have. Michael Wilson emerged in weeks 11 and 12.

Before that, there were four games. All right, here's what I. Okay, here we go. Ready? This is the season for Marvin Harrison. His first five games of the year with Kyler Murray, he had 32 targets. He was on pace for 1,040 yards,

seven touchdowns, and 109 targets. Not good enough. His next four games with Jacoby, Preset, he had 35 targets. I don't know what his target per outrun rate was. Prissette was obviously throwing the ball a ton. He missed one of those. Or he left early one of those.

That was right. His next four games with Preset. I did not count... I know I did count the Bucks game where he left early with an injury. He played 61% of the snaps and was having a good game. Six catch of 69 yards on seven targets in about three quarters. But he was on pace for 149 targets in those four games with Percette. He left one of those games early.

Last two games... You know, he left both of them early. He got three targets in those two games. But then I saw this, right? So Michael Wilson, he emerged in weeks 11 and 12. From that point on, Marvin Harrison, Jr. played in only three games. And in those three games, when Marvin Harrison Jr. was on the field, this was really interesting. Marvin Harrison, Jr., Trey McBride, and Michael Wilson all had 10 to 11 targets.

It's a very small sample size, but nobody really stood out, including McBride, in three games. those last three games for Marvin Harrison Jr. when he was on the field. Because he didn't play that much in any of them. But they all had 10 to 11 targets. They all had a target per route run rate of basically 18% to 19%. But yes, Marvin Harrison Jr. has never drawn a lot of targets, at least so far in his career. DJ Moore had a 15.3% target per route run rate, which is pathetic. And a 16% target share.

I don't know that it was necessarily his fault. It just Caleb did not look to him. And Brian Thomas Jr. is another guy. his target per route run rate went from 25.5% as a rookie to 19.4% as a sophomore. I think you really want to see it around 22% or higher if you're going to be a reliable top 24 kind of wide receiver. And I would imagine for Thomas it really spiked in those final 10 games or so when Mack Jones was there and everybody was hurt. And then I think the meta of it is we've seen lately throughout the last two, three years of football, teams are running the ball more. They're getting lighter boxes they're running to and they're choosing to run.

But also, teams are starting to use more 12 personnel and 21 personnel and even 13 personnel. There have been a few teams that have leaned on 13, which is three tight ends and receiver. All of these things mean spread out targets, different players getting targets. Also, if you mentioned those four receivers, they all share something in common. They run very few routes. And you could correct me on this with a Nazar stat or a true stat if it's wrong, but I'm pretty sure just from watching football is right. All four of those guys we mentioned run very few routes out of the slot.

They're all isolated boundary receivers. and that's always something that can get lost in an offense. If you're playing on the boundary and your quarterback is not somebody who's going to hit a backside dig or who's going to throw the type of routes that you need to work on the boundary and it gets kind of volume on the boundary, I don't think any of those four quarterbacks did, then it's going to be a problem for you in fantasy. And you saw it.

You just mentioned all those target chairs. They were insanely loved, Judy, you know, all three. One guy did, and we just didn't see Harrison play with him a lot in person. Yeah. And the Cardinals were fourth in highest rate of three. tight end sets, more than two tight ends. And the Bears were sixth. All right, next question.

I'll say this just about Harrison. I'm going to draft him a lot if the right coach is there and we get a pocket passer. If it's Kyler again, I'm out. But if it's, even Brissette is a bridge quarterback, I'm going to be very in on Marvin Harrison. Jeff from Charlotte. I feel like that'll be me for Michael Wilson. Okay. We'll be at ends there.

Jeff from Charlotte wants to know if Jamie has a favorite NFL team. I did. So I grew up a Dolphins fan. Was a Dolphins fan probably from the time I was, I think, six till through college. My first job out of college. So when I was in journalism school, they really drilled into our heads.

You cannot be fans of the team that you cover. And so obviously I was at the University of Florida. I was a fan of the Gators. They made us lose our fandom or try to lose our fandom. And so when I became a professional journalist and was covering the dolphins, my first newspaper was a very small one called the Boca Raton News. And then I worked at the Palm Beach Post.

So I was covering the dolphins a lot. And I remember the first season I covered was Dan Reno's last season. And so being the biggest Dan Reno fan growing up, that was hard to do. And I remember there was one game. This was actually a fantasy thing, but it was dolphins related. I was in the far corner of the press box where my seat was. And the dolphins were in that end zone on the other end. And I had Randy McMichael, tight end of the dolphins on my fantasy team.

And he scored a touchdown. And I remember this exact thing happened. I did this when he scored a touchdown and I did this so that nobody saw it. So that was a fist pump for the touchdown and then hide the fist pump after. Yep. Yep. So it was very difficult to lose that. I think if they, and just being transparent, if they were successful, you know,

would have been probably easier to root for them. As poorly as they played, it's been easy to, you know, not have that fandom. And I was hoping when my kids were born that they would, you know, pick a team or associate themselves with teams. They just haven't. I think that's kind of natural for kids these days that they, you know, see players everywhere. You know, like when I grow up, obviously, you know, I think you guys are somewhat similar. I'm older than both of you.

you know, you rooted for the team that you saw all the time, you know. And so I didn't have a basketball team and there was no basketball team in South Florida. I grew up a Lakers fan because all I saw was Lakers Celtics and I love Madge Johnson. The first baseball team I rooted for was the Mets because there were no Marlins. You know, so the teams that you saw, you kind of, you know, gravitated towards. So I would like to root for an NFL team again. But I just don't see it happening most likely. Okay.

If you were to, what team would you pick? I muted you for a reason. Dan. I thought it was because my mic was... No, it's because we're taking 10 minutes on every question. We have so many. But that is a good question.

If we were going to root for another team, who would have paid? I don't know. That's a great question. I really don't know. All right, well, you can root for the Giants with us. That's fine.

This is from... He would never pick the Giants. He wants to troll us. I will say watching... Watching fans, watching my friends as fans. Like, Dave will get mad at me for saying this, but he used to do these

bare-down meetings in the office with a couple of coworkers. first and I wanted to vomit. Seeing my friends and how they get all emotional over their teams losing. I feel bad for them. You know, like, I'm glad I don't have that anymore. Yeah. I used to, Pete Soyanovitch, every field goal, I would leave the room as a kid.

Wasn't he good? I thought he was really good. He was great, but I couldn't watch. I was like, he's going to miss. He's going to miss. And this is when like 40-yard field goals were difficult. Now that, you know, 60s, it's like a tough. Yeah.

All right. This one's from Wesley. Dear Tank, Cadillac, Patelac, Peyton, and Carri-on. All Johnson's? All one of your one. Are they all Auburn? Oh. I don't think so.

No. Carry on Johnson is not from Auburn. Tank. Tank, uh, oh. Brandon Jacobs did he say? No, no one said Brandon Jacobs. Where, like, where did you get Brandon Jacobs from? Auburn.

He was at Auburn for a little while before you're answering. Give me the names again? Tank, Cadillac, Peyton, and Carillon. Tank, Cadillac, Peyton, and Carillon. I think one of your wonders. Maybe. Yeah. Everyone has that one league that is most important to them, the one that they are about,

the one they care about most for bragging rights, prize pool, and legacy. What is the most important league to the FFT mailbag crew and why? For me, it's not even close. It's my home league. My home league, we started an auction draft, which at the time, not a lot of people were doing in the 2006-7 season. I was a junior in high school. And to this day, I think we're in year 19. we it was a keeper auction league we've gotten rid of keeper for there's too many problems with it um

to this day i think all or one more so there's 12 members seven are still original members we've replaced five teams but to this day it goes strong the group chat's amazing the emails are amazing there's fights there's drama there's all sorts of things it's not even my most expensive buying league but it's by far and away the one i care about the most jamy i have three like that uh one One's my oldest running league, which is friends from college. One that I, guys I used to play softball with, some former co-workers, nobody that was ever on air with us, I think. But former co-workers that I used to play softball with. And then one that is my most expensive one.

I just get, you know, excited about that one just because I like to win it. But those will be the three that I pay them. I should pay the most. Those would be the three that, like, I check the scores first. Okay. For me, that's a good way to, that's a good barometer for it. Which scores do you check first? Yeah, I think that's the way to know.

Did we show this one yet? Johnny Airport saying did invented auction drafts? I didn't invent them, but I've been the strongest proponent of auction drafts you'll find. Yeah. When you do an auction draft, put a little prosciutto, get a little prosciutto during your auction draft. A little prosciutto on it. No one's done that. Yeah.

I found some new things by me that are good. Oh, good. My favorite, my, the one I care the most about, I guess, is my son. softball league because it is the most expensive. So it's not that expensive. But it would have been nice to have won that. Oh, well. What about,

I thought you cared most about our Superflex league. No. I mean, I'm better than you won that league. You didn't win that league. Yes, I did. You did? That sucks.

Oh, that's right. I refuse to acknowledge. That was the league. You refused to accept, despite the fact that I went back and looked and I average 188 points over my last five weeks. Yeah, a team wasn't that good. Again, I average 180. 88 points per game over my last five weeks with clearly the best team in the league.

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I apologize for the small brag. I had to do it because Adam refused to accept and acknowledge my victory in that league because he was too sad about losing himself. I have one week to fulfill my obligation as commissioner and payout all my... Yeah, I've been wondering where my payout is going to be. Yeah, me too.

What the heck is going on there? What league did you win? FFT. I came in second. And I have a co-manager. I have to pay him. You probably owe me money anyway, so you might as well just... I think we already discussed this because...

I don't remember. It's been a very long month. Okay. The next question at our mailbag comes from Alex. And he says, Dear Tom, Cooper, Patrick, and Jalen. Tom, Cooper, Patrick, and Jail? These are got to be Knicks players, right? Patrick Ewing, Jalen Strunton.

I think it's Tom Brady, Cooper Cup, Patrick Mahomes, and Jalen Hertz. Did Cooper Cup win Super Bowl MVP? Must have been if he's being included. in this. I'm feeling like those are maybe the last four Super Bowl MVPs or something like that.

Or they're the Knicks. The question is, I don't think Cooper Cups. I like how Dan here's one name he just goes for it. Yeah, exactly. Did I get rid of and checks

up there? I have a low hit rate anyway, so I figure I might as well fire early. Oh, they actually, it says in the email, it says last four Super Bowl MVP's, I just kept reading.

Adam, what app or website do you use to pull up your staff? and data so quickly. Well, true, he is very fast on it. I always want to do that. Because I usually have them in my notes.

I mean, I look things, not usually, but I look things up before the show and I have them, but I'll show you all, I've showed it before, Jacob shows it all the time. This is true media. This is a receiver report from the year, right? This is wide receivers, receiving yards in the regular season.

There's an even better receiving, go to our receiving dashboard here, and we can see things like, A dot and we can filter. Like you want to know who had the most catches of 30 or more air yards this year. Want to take a guess? 30 or more air yards. Yes.

I'll go Jackson Smith and Jigba. Minimum number of receptions. It doesn't matter or no. No, just the most. Who of the most? Alec Pierce. Oh, yeah, it is Alec Pierce. It's got to be Alec Pierce.

It's Jackson Smith and Jigba. And Alec Pierce was second. Good job, guys. That was bad by us. Not bad. It didn't take long to put these filters in. they're looking up. Also, pro football reference is great. Pro football reference is where I get most of my 17 game paces because you just go to a player's game log, click.

You don't, you're not trying to reveal how the azer stat gets made. You know, you don't never want to get, don't go too deep. Keep the azur stat a little bit of a secret. Yeah, you go, you click, well, the azer stat comes or you have to look at like, okay, which game do they leave early? And then I have to manually do it. Like, for example, I'll give you an azer stat from Marvin Harrison, Jr. I looked at, he played 12 games, but in three of them, he played 51% or fewer of the snaps. So I remove those games. So if you take his nine, call them nine healthy games.

And the nine healthy games actually does include one game against the bucks where he left with 61% of the snaps. He's having such a great game that thing. He was. He was having a really good game. But I kept that one in there. If you just look at the nine games where he played more than 51% of the snaps, Marvin Harrison Jr. averaged 8.9 non-PPR, 13.1, full PPR points per game. that would have made him wide receiver 20 per game

in a bad year for wide receivers. The other thing is Adam AzerStats is Josh Allen with his one snap every year. Yeah, that's so annoying. This is where the Azer Stats break down when you say like, I decided to not include. You have these like qualifications. I usually do 50% of the snaps.

Sometimes get mad and then sometimes they have to be. You know, I get enough of this. You remind me kind of like. Like Bucky Irving, who in his rookie season wasn't playing 50% of snaps, but was still getting every touch when he was on the field. I don't do 50% of the snaps only matters for some player. Like you're right.

It doesn't matter for running back necessarily. It matters for a wide receiver though because the wide receivers that we count on are usually playing 80% or more of the snaps. All right. Tyler says full PPR, two wide receiver league. Am I crazy for wanting to keep Omarian Hampton over C.D. Lam and Malik neighbors with the Mike McDaniel news. Ooh. I mean, I guess I'll ask the Dave question. Can you keep them forever?

So, like, we may be talking about Armory and Hampton as top five RBI, top five running back. And it's baseball season. In 2027, like that's how good it could be. I would keep him over neighbors. I would not keep him over Lam. I wouldn't keep him over neighbors if we get him for his career. Right.

If it's for his career, that's one thing. I think the one thing, though, with both those receivers, like if Pickens is back and neighbors is not ready to go, it's kind of easy. True. Can I tell you what concerns me with Hampton? Are we sure that Hampton is going to take this Devon H-N role? Like, yeah, he was pretty fluid and better than people realize as a receiver at UNC, but he was not Devon A-Chance as a receiver.

Yeah, but take it a step further, though, Dan. What if he's Rahim Mostert and he scores 18 touchdowns? Oh, you think dolphins could be that good. I guess it's possible if they get healthy on the O-line. Yeah, look, I like Hampton. We've seen two very wildly different running back seasons out of Mike McDaniel during his Dolphins tenure. True.

You know, both were great fantasy-wise. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, he loves to run the ball. But, you know, if you take away, he averaged 4.4 yards per carry. If you take away the game against the Giants, he had one carry all year, other than the Giants game of longer than 20 yards. It was a 26-yard run against the Chiefs. He averaged 3.7 yards per carry in all games that weren't against the Giants. And I don't remember this exactly, but I think that Antonio Gibson, there was a year where Antonio Gibson was a second round pick in fantasy.

I do remember that. And I think he had this profile where he just kind of beat up on some really crummy opponents. And Hampton's kind of the same way. But you're talking about two very different players. I know that. I know that. But he played the Eagles without Jalen Carter down the stretch. He played the Cowboys without Quinn and Williams down the stretch.

He also played without his tackles for the majority of the season. I know. Look, I was the highest on him. I think I had him as like RB4 or something like that. But I might take a little bit of step back. You did that before McDaniel was hired. I did, yeah. All right, this is a question from Brian.

One of my favorite things about Dan is that he has a strong take on anything. So my question for Dan is heads or tails. Yeah, it's tails never fails. It's always tails never fails. You have to, here's the thing with heads or tails. You have to make sure that you're going to pick a head or heads or tails, and you've got to stick with that. If you're the type of guy or girl that's going to go, oh, I'll take heads today.

I'll take tails tomorrow. That's where you screw up. You've got to take your one and stick with it and be like that for life. Don't ever move off of it. When you start to move off of it, that's when you start to mess with the odds of it, right? Like, over time, if you pick tails every time, you should win 50% of your battles. But then you also factor in that tails really never fails as a, you know, people came up with that for a reason. It's because, you know, just like anything in life, it probably happened a few more times in heads, at least theoretically speaking.

So there is no real logic behind it, but I will say pick your, pick your tails or your heads and stick with it. I have to apologize to some of the listeners. I thought I guess your questions, but I'm going to have to skip some of them. So Jim says, just rapid fire him, rapid fire him. Yeah,

okay. Why haven't the Giants been linked as a top landing spot for Isaiah likely? I think we mentioned that. There's been connections that likely in the Giants, yeah. Yeah, I think it would be. I think when Heath was talking about it, I know after Harbaugh was hired,

I mentioned that. Yeah. You know, I think Heath was kind of saying, oh, Kelsey replacement in Kansas City or Pitts replacement and Atlanta would be his best maybe fantasy value spots because of coach, quarterback, et cetera,

those two places. But yeah, I think following Harbaugh, the Giants makes a ton of time. He's more likely to come now, though, because I did hear from our raid, we had a Revens insider on our show, and they said that the Monkin likely situation wasn't great. And so he wouldn't have followed Monken. So I don't think he'll be going now to Cleveland, for example,

not that they need him. It seems like Monkin's a pretty stern guy, I guess. I wish he was our offensive coordinator. this is a devastating development for the Giants. It is. And they might hire somebody who has no Blake calling experience. That can sometimes go really awry. All right.

Let's get to some tweets here. I had a few people ask questions about the Super Bowl who to start in fantasy matchups. And I have not done my research yet. So next week, we'll have a full breakdown. It's not easy to know which Patriots wide receiver other than Stefan Diggs to trust right now. And you also have two great defenses. So it's going to be tough to begin.

I think there's only three. Three slam dunks. Two slam dunks. Walker and J.S.N. Like anything else is up for her. I don't consider Walker a slam. I mean, I understand where you're coming from. I consider Walker.

If you have to play a running back, you're playing Ken Walker. Walker in any game Sharves doesn't play to me as a slam dunk. I would agree. Well, yeah, but he's going to be, I'm sure we can match up independent. It's going to be so expensive, though. Yeah. But it's worth it. Is it worth it to go?

I mean, it's not like Seattle has a pretty impossible. run defense too. Also, JSM with Christian Gonzalez might not be the best play. There's no easy scenarios here in any situation, but you're playing the two best players based on what they've done. And so Hunter Henry might be the guy who has the play. A little sneaky Hunter Henry, I could see that. It's not even sneaky, but he might have the best matchup of anyone. You know, speaking of Hunter Henry, I was doing some Mike Petting research. And his time on the Browns staff as offensive coach. So he was two years as the tight ends coach, one year as the quarterback's coach.

I think I had the right. Maybe he was two years as a quarterback's coach, one year's tightens coach. Three years of the offense coordinator for the Cardinals. So that's six years. Five years, the tight end has been one or two in targets. Nice. Obviously, three of those is Jamie Bryant. Yeah, yeah.

Jamie never gets his first name right. So now it just says whatever he wants. Because there was a Mike Petten. I think that's why it. Yeah, no, I continue to call him Rob Petting for some reason. So after Dan, excuse me, after Adam corrected me. I missed that. After Adam corrected me.

I just started making up name. But yeah, so, and can you guess who it was in Cleveland, the two times that it happened? Wait, say this that again. I was too focused on the time. So six years, he's been an offensive coach with the Browns and the Cardinals. He was an offensive coach with the Vikings, too, for example, but I didn't include that. So six years has been an offensive coach. offensive coach.

Three with Cleveland, three with the Cardinals. Cardinals he was the offensive coordinator. I know who it was. Wait, Adam. Let me at least hear it. No,

I can't remember the... I brought it up for a reason because you just mentioned something that made it. Finish, finish. What the hell was that guy's name? What are we guessing?

I don't get what we're guessing. Who was the tight end? Just tell you who the tight end was. Oh, hold on. Hold on. Nope, nope, nope. I want to get this. It was the guy was the one-year wonder guy.

Yes. Bro, Gary Barnage. Gary Barnage. Gary Barnage. You're so many, years removed from Gary Barnage. Yeah, Gary Barnes was a long time. David,

David, has been there for eight years. No, no. It was three years with Cleveland and three years with the Cardinals, so the last six years. I know. How was it not in a Joku?

Because it was Austin Hooper twice. Oh. Gary Barnage. All right, let's go to some tweets. Dylan Raspberry says, what are your thoughts on Parker Washington's Dynasty?

There's no way that's his real name. I think it is. Raspberrys tastes like raspberries. I got a really random. movie quote for you. Raspberrys? I don't remember serving raspberries. Well,

then it must have been a raisin. What the heck was that from? Anybody in the chat? Raspberrys? Give him an enema. Thoughts on Parker Washington. Drop the movie, at least. I will.

I want to give people with the chat time to get it. Nobody's getting it. Parker Washington's dynasty value and rank your top five chain restaurants. Oh, that's a great one. Wow. Parker Washington's dynasty value is, I think, very sell high right now just because it's a small sample size and there's a lot of receivers on that team.

But if you're not getting anything that's going to make you want to sell him, see how it plays out. The movie was necessarily in a cell. Dracula Dead and Loving it. Yes, Gamer Eric. Dracula Dead and loving it. Good job. Dracula Dead. I've never, I've never heard of that movie. I wouldn't even know like what the box cover would say. I wouldn't even know an actor in that movie. I'm going to look it up right now. Jamie, you've never heard of Dracula Dead and loving it?

Of course not. I've never heard of it. It's a Mel Brooks movie. Oh, Mel Brooks. Leslie Neeson is Dracula. Nielsen, I mean. That movie sucks.

Oh, man, there's some old actors. It was Harvey Norman. It was funny at the time, but it's not. When did this come out? In the 90s. Wow. Yeah, a lot of enemies. I never heard of that.

All right, top five chain restaurants. It's tough. I start by saying it's certainly not the one that I went to with Jamie when I visited Florida because that one's going out of business I just read today, just filed for bankruptcy. That was one of my more enjoyable lunches. I couldn't believe that he took me there. That was where actually the stick in the burger got its origin story. That's true.

So we won't mention it. Which is observing then. Just in case it comes back and it becomes a sponsor of the show or something. You got to be careful with ranking the top five here because you don't want to offend anybody. So first off, I mean, we're obviously not talking fast food. We're talking anything that's a chain. Yeah, I guess that's the question. Is it fast food chains or is it?

And what constitutes a chain? Because I would put those pot as at the top of list because there's multiple. No, I don't think so. That's true. I have some of those chains. It's got to be like a big chain. So national. National or like a major part of the country.

Yeah. National chain. The only thing that, the only two that come to mind to me that if I see them, I'm like, I would love to go there. Chipotle. And I love Chili's, love Chili's. So I'll tell you why I love Chili. I love Chili as a parent because if I do not want to speak to my children, they will just play on the little device.

They have a device there? Yeah. I didn't know. I haven't been there in a while. I love Chili's used to be good when I was growing up. And now I got to be honest. I feel like it's falling to the wayside, just like Applebee's. I go to Duffies.

I go to Duffies a lot with my kids. Is that a shame? Chipotle was another one that used to be good. Oh, no, no, no. just stop. Chipotle's amazing. Not anymore, man. Not anymore.

No, you're wrong. Well, if you're going to have Chipotle, you better order it there. Don't ever do the online ordering. You get like 60% less of everything when you order online for Cholol. And I really feel like it's conspiracy. No, you have the one bad Chipotle in America that you live by. No, everyone will agree with that. That the online ordering is definitely getting less in your own.

I love Dan. We don't want to offend any sponsors. I know. Yeah, no, we're going to have trouble here doing this. I mean, like, Jersey mics used to be good and now it's trash. I mean, there is just. What? Yeah, Jersey Macs done.

Okay, obviously you're trying to hold everything up to the standards of your local prosciutto deli. Yeah, obviously deli is never making a mix. Trying to think of like any good chain. I don't really, you know, I, are there any chains that I love? I think, you're done. No, no, there are some. We got to think, oh, in and out burger. In and out burger is amazing.

That's a chain. Is it not? It's fast food, though. Yeah. I went to Burger King last night. had a great, great meal. We're going to throw that on there too? Burking's the worst.

You had the burger king? That's like the lowest grade faster you can go to. This is a tough segment for me. Yeah, what are you doing? Like you just said, we don't want to be careful. We don't want to offend. I mean, we got to give opinions on James here, Adam. What are you on for me?

Yeah, I like Berking quite a bit. And my kids wanted it. I said, yeah, let's do it. Chipotle is amazing. Let me make that clear. Oh, thanks, Dan. All right, next question. Next tweet is from T-Demp.

He says, not a question, but your, Your restaurant in America. Adam, your take on the wire is spot on. I'm in season three and it's so slow. Only reason I lasted this long is because it's raved about, really average. Oh, come on. So just so I'm clear, and for everybody listening, you skipped over all the questions that you wanted to get to,

to read someone who agrees with your opinion on the wire. That really wasn't a question. Yeah, I mean, well. It's such an awful take. It's just such, it's the fact that this person is on season three and still hasn't picked up on it. It finds it average average. I can't even get into this. I really can't.

Okay. Looks like T-Demp is not going to sponsor. I don't want to offend any more people. I've already offended a lot with the food stuff, so I got to get off of this. This one's from Gamer Eric, or should I say, gamer? Eric. Eric. Eric joined us in our mock draft yesterday.

He did a great job. Yes, he did. Nice. You guys don't spend much time on kickers or DSTs, yet a massive majority of leagues utilize the positions. How come? Now he asked about kickers and defenses, so I'm done. I think wrong two people here. The kickers are random.

You're going to attach yourself to great offenses or indoor situations to avoid any weather concerns. But for the most part, I think you can stream kickers and still be fine, especially with how good they are these days. Defense, I think we talk about. I agree. I agree. I get it with the kickers, but not the DST. I think the one thing that maybe we get lost a little bit in is talking about defenses just as they're own entity. So you'll ask us, you know, questions about our rankings in relation to the main

positions. We don't necessarily talk about the rankings of defenses, but we certainly spent some time on it on our waiver wire show. We certainly talk about it and this defense is good, this defense is bad. This DST is worth, you know, playing this week. It's probably just not something we focus on. Yeah. And then the second part of Eric's question. Eric was, what is your guilty pleasure movie? If it's on, you stop and watch. It can't be something obvious like dirty dancing for Adam, seven for Dan or predator for Jamie. It wouldn't be seven.

Yeah, I don't know. I don't know about guilty pleasure. I do. I have a bunch. To me, the movie is Parenthood. That movie I will never not watch Steve Martin movie from the 80s. Never seen it. Never. You're your favorite Keanu Reeves movie of all times. It's the best Keanu

Reeves movie ever, yeah. That's a ridiculous statement to make. Well, I think it, I enjoy, it's not a Keanu Reeves movie, but I think I like it better than any Keanu Reeves movie. Speed? You like it better

than the original speed? Oh, so much better than the original speed. He is so good. I mean, he's been in the Matrix. And the Matrix,

holy crap, the best, one of the best movies of all time. What are you doing? The Matrix is one of the best movies of all time now?

I don't know about that. For me, it's that. The original Matrix, obviously it fell off a little bit. The original Matrix, which I recently

watched a year ago, is considerably, I'll say this, it's better than Rocky one. It's not. It is definitely better than my one. I can't name one. For me,

there's so many things that I, almost every Marvel movie, if it comes on, I just stop. Rounders for me is a big one. I'll watch, I've watched Rounders a thousand times. I will almost always leave Rocky,

except for Rocky 5 on. Any Rocky movie that comes on, we'll just kind of just stay there. Hey, I have a question. If you can, catch me if you can. Any,

any, like, good mob movie, like good fellows, Tom's, like, that's on it stays. Catch me if you can.

Catch me if you can is such a great movie but I don't really I don't really find it to be so rewatchable because it's so long. No, but you can jump in at any point and it's like fast-paced and that and you just write into it.

Which movie? Catch me if you can. It's one of my favorites. Oh, that's so good. That's great. It's great. I'm not really, I don't really want to re-watch it.

Minority reports one for me if that's on. I'll watch that to the end. I'll pick up at any point and watch that to the end, one of more underreaf movies. I like the ones that remind me of my childhood.

That's why I went parenthood. By the way, back to the chains thing, I want to shout out of a chain. I do like Texas Roadhouse. You guys ever been to that? Yeah. Yeah. Huge Texas Roadhouse fan. That's the one change that like.

A lot of peanuts, a lot of peanuts. Peanuts. Yeah, they used to click on this. We got this question a lot from Grant. The letters behind me. Those are my kids. Oh. Initials.

Yeah, those are their initials. Those are actual kids. Like hiding in there. Ronin. He is for Eli. Is for Simon. Oh, one of your kids's name, Eli? Let's go.

E-L-Y. Yeah. All right. Well, now he doesn't like your kid. And then the last question from, Eric. What was your favorite cartoon growing up and why? That's a great question.

Favorite cartoon growing up? My number one. G.I. Joe for me. I still have this. This is how pathetic I am from my childhood. That's not pathetic. That's awesome. Garbage camp for my child.

That is cool that you still have that. G. G.I. Joe. Yep. G. Joe was definitely before my time, but trying to think the one I watched the most when I was a kid. I think it was probably Hey Arnold when I was a kid. I watched a lot of Hey Arnold. Gosh, I can't remember. I did watch the Rugrats, but I was like this.

Rugrats. I watched that. I was young. I mean, I really like Pinky in the brain, but I wouldn't say it was my favorite. It was all Nickelodeon stuff for me. When I was really, how did you, how were you not a slime time live watcher? I know. I always find that weird that I didn't watch Slym time live. Has he ever met your brother in person? No. Not yet. Oh, so the tennis match is going to be like a... I really want to play him in tennis. He's going to be like Google Eyes, right? Adam said he's like considerably better than me.

So now after that comment, I have to, obviously, I'm interested in playing. He played a match. Listen to this. He played a match. You have to win two out of three sets. You have to win two sets. Or if you split the first two, you play a super tiebreaker. They lost the first set.

He doubles match. They lost the first set like six two. They were down five two and down 40-15. Wow. Two match points in the second set. And they came back in one. That's crazy. And they were down 8-4 in the Super Tiebreaker, and they came back in one.

That's a comeback hit. Best win of his life was amazing. That is epic. Were you a part of that? Were you on his doubles team? No, no. He played in Florida. All right.

That's it. I'm going to go to Tom and Jerry was my first. Did you watch the movies yet? Tom and Jerry movies? The two remakes. They exist? Yeah. I didn't even know they exist.

They exist in the Matrix. My kids liked it. All right. Well, that's good. Did they speak or is they silent movies? Tom and Jerry speak? Yeah, they don't speak at the old cartoons, right? I kept the essence of what it is.

Did they speak, though? I feel like they didn't speak. No. What was that other cartoon, but not Tom and Jerry, the one with the pinky and the brain? I just said big. Yeah. Okay. That was a good one.

It was great. All right, folks. Have a good one. And we'll talk to you on Monday. Have a great week. See ya.