Fantasy Football Today - Fantasy Football Mailbag: Pre-Training Camp Questions Answered! (07/08 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: July 8, 2026

Training camp is almost here! Adam, Jamey, Dave, and Dan dive into a mailbag episode packed with your biggest fantasy football questions. They kick things off by breaking down Mike Evans' outlook and what to expect from the veteran WR this season (3:13), before explaining why Jameson Williams is ranked lower than many fantasy managers expect (24:30). The crew also highlights their favorite Week 1 sleepers who are going undrafted in most leagues and could provide an early-season edge (31:30). Plus, they discuss the pros and cons of drafting multiple players from the same team and when stacking teammates makes sense in fantasy drafts (42:57). Want to have your question answered? Email us at [e-mail]. Fantasy Football Today is available for free on the Audacy app as well as Apple Podcasts, Spotify and wherever else you listen to podcastsWatch FFT on YouTube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ SUBSCRIBE to FFT Dynasty on Apple⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠FOLLOW FFT Dynasty on Spotify: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/2aHlmMJw1m8FareKybdNfG?si=8487e2f9611b4438&nd=1⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

This is fantasy football today from CBS Sports. What a play! Can you believe this? It's a no idea. It's time to dominate your fantasy league. Up to the races and he stays on his feet. It's just going to go the distance. Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, and Heath.

That's mailback time. And it's not Friday. It's a Tuesday, although this may not air on Tuesday for you audio people. Welcome to Fantasy Football today. with a busy mail, a jam-packed mailbag, because Dan's here. Hey, Dan. What's going on, guys? Jamie, of course, is here wearing a hat. Hey, Jamie. Good morning.

Thank you for not wearing a hat that was giving me epilepsy, like the one you wore yesterday. And Dave is here. What's up, Dave? Let's get to the emails. Oh, come on, Dave. No one cares how I'm doing. They want their questions answers. People care about you, Dave. People do care. Yeah, we have questions about Mike Ebb.

Evans. We have questions about fruit salad. We have questions about drafting both running backs in the same backfield. We have a guillotine league settings question. We have, oh, a good question about James and and more. All right. So let's, you know what? Fine, Dave. The email address is fantasy football at CBSI.com. That's the letter I. Fantasy football at CBSI.com. First one is from Rusty here. The first one is from Eric. There we go. he says hey Michael Jalen Mike and AJ receivers Michael Michael Jalen feels that way Jalen Waddle Mike Evans AJ Brown but what do they have in common I don't know They're receivers dude

Wait say the names again Michael Michael Jalen Jalen with a Y Jal E and Y just kidding Mike and AJ to change teams this offseason. Oh, Jamie, with the win. Nice.

All right, when Dave was talking about Mike Evans recently, part of his negative opinion was Evans poor performance last year, causing Dave to be lower on Evans this year. Is that you, Dave, or is he talking about Heath? That sounds like something I'd do. Okay. However, when it comes to a Mecca Abuka's poor end of the year, we say, well, he was hurt, the O-Line was banged up,

Baker was hurt. I'm curious if we dock Evans and excuse Ibuka, despite them playing under the same circumstances. I also wonder if there's any situation where we're doing a similar thing. Just look at these numbers for one guy, but yeah, but excuses for the other guy. And then we have a PS about fruit salad that I'll get to. But Dave, since you've been sort of called out here, what would you like to say to? Eric.

I would say that some context is needed when we talk about using the poor play and injury tag for Evans, knowing that he's way older than a book I don't have in front of me. but he might be a decade older than a mecca of Buka. And so I excuse Abuka because he played through a hamstring injury, but he's young. He's in the same offense for the second year in a row. He's, well, mostly the same offense, certainly the same quarterback, same team, all that stuff.

And we saw at the beginning of the year that he's still in the sending player. We've seen Mike Evans play great for years and years, but last year his efficiency tanked. He certainly didn't move as well all season long, not just after the collarbone injury and the hamstring injury. and the concussion, but he just, he didn't move quite as well. He certainly wasn't anywhere near as productive as he has been in years past. And he's changing teams.

He's changing his roles, new quarterback, new system that he's in. That being said, we are drafting Evans a little bit later. I'm not going to go as far as to call him a bust, but I think expectations have to be lowered for him, whereas I feel like the ceiling is higher for a mecca, as for making excuses for Abuka's injuries and not for Evans, maybe it got me on that one. I think that goes without saying that you can't say that one is one without the other being the same thing.

We just did an episode or two episodes on Beyond the Box score on Evans earlier this offseason than Igbuka, these 20-minute player deep dive. So I do have two stats I want to put out there that are on top of my mind. The first one was for an Igbuka podcast, but I think it applies to the Evans podcast or to the Evans Outlook. On throws that were 10 plus air yards last year, where do you think Baker Mayfield ranked in accuracy? Oh, not terribly. Last or second or last, Jacob just, Jacob is just on and talked about this. And is your other stat about how Mike Evans was like number one in separation score on fantasy points status suite? Yeah, correct.

So I think the BL and all of it is do we expect Brock Purdy to put a more accurate ball placement on Evan, specifically in the red zone? And the answer, at least based on last year's tape would be yes. So that's my Evans stat. And then as for a book, I think it's really just the role. I watched, we went back and watched a ton of tape to do that podcast. And it's like they used him as the sacrificial X receiver, that sacrificial lamb X receiver last year. They're not going to do that this year. They've already talked about not doing that this year.

They're talking about moving him more inside, using him as the Z, the move Z. And to me, that's what gets him going in the way that Ohio State used him. And the way they used him in the beginning of year when he was really productive, Egbuka. Then kind of at the end of the year, he's running these like vertical routes, these double moves. And Baker's missing him. He's off time. He's off target. I just think the role for Egbuka is going to be better this year within that offense.

sure. What did you guys see for the role? What are you projecting for a role for Evans this year? Because there's some things historically about the 49ers that make me nervous. And then a lot of people are just kind of saying, well, he's just going to slide into what Joanne Jennings was doing. And Jennings had nine touchdowns last year, which was awesome. But he didn't even average 12 ppr points per game. And that's kind of what Evans did last year.

Are you projecting him to be in that role and maybe even seeing greater volume than what he had than what Jennings had? Evans in the Jennings role, but with more volume than what Jennings had. You know, I think you're 100% right that there is, at least for me, some nervousness around that. Like, is there going to be enough volume for him to be good enough for fantasy? The problem for, like, the issue for that for me is it's like, I don't know how much volume I need if he is in that role. Because like you said, Jennings scored nine times and Evans is a better player. So Evans gets into that double digit touchdown range. He'll pay back that ADB pretty easily.

It's similar to Devante Adams bet last year, I think. Jamie, anything to add? I think if you're concerned about Evans, it's really mostly because of age more than anything else and the injuries that he suffered last year. I would just hope that the nice thing about Kyle Shanahan, he's been so good at adapting to his personnel more so than making his personnel adapt to him.

And I think that's the biggest plus is that they, obviously mutual. Evan said he wanted to change and clearly wanted to be in San Francisco, San Francisco obviously realizing they needed to find some help, knowing that Joanne Jennings, to me, is just a guy. I think he's a good player. I don't think he's a great player.

Mike Evans is a hallfamer. Adam, you've talked about this in regards to how wide receivers age, and the great ones tend to still perform as they get older in some way, shape, or form. And as Dan just alluded to, Devante Adams did that last year, even though it wasn't great across the board, he scored 14 touchdowns. Like Mike Evans, if he stays healthy, is going to be a very good fantasy wide receiver. If he struggles and gets hurt, based on what we've seen in the last two years, 31 years old now.

You know, like there's reasons for red flags. I think if this was Mike Evans' first contract leaving Tampa Bay, based on what he showed, we're talking about a top 10 guy, you know, like going to this offense, going to the system, being everything that he could be. He's clearly not that player anymore. So, I mean, the upside favor is a Buka, not that we're comparing the two. And as Dan said, like, they're going to move him around and change his roles and give him different opportunities. I think just in the case of Mike Evans,

like the pro Mike Evans, people are fantasy managers are going to say, okay, he's got this track record, and now he's the number one guy in San Francisco. You have Ricky Pearsallelot, can't stay healthy. George Kills coming off in Achilles' injury. Christian McCaffrey's 30 years old. Like, if Evan stays healthy, he's easily going to be a superstar. All right.

So that's a great bull case for Evans. I want to name some players. Can you guys rank these guys? And then if you want Adam, we can move on. Yes. Evans, David Montgomery, Jameson, Williams, Joe Burrow. PPR League, who you're taking first, second, third, fourth.

Burrow, Evans, Montgomery, Jamo. Evans, Montgomery, Burrow, Jamo. Yeah, I'm in Jamie's camp there. Oh, what a shock. It took eight and a half minutes. I've got, I've got Burrow, I've got Burrow, Montgomery, Evans, Jamo. And Evans is ahead of all those names in our ADP.

Okay. Yeah. Hey, what's up, Dan? Team Jamie over there. It's not Team Jamie. It's just if he ranks it the way I rank it. I'm just going to, I'm not going to, for the sake of ranking it differently, give you a different answer. Adam, don't rile me up this early. We've got a long way to go. We've got a long drive ahead of us. We do. We do. We have an hour and a half drive together. So I brought this up yesterday at the end of yesterday's show. I'd like to get your thoughts on it. Good, good etiquette and bad etiquette from Dan. Number one, good etiquette by going to your, your parents. house and shortening my drive. Great. And modesty, too. Terrible etiquette by not offering to drive the second leg. Oh, I will drive the whole thing if you want. You didn't offer. I was going to offer him when you got in the car. I think, I think honestly, hold on, I think honestly it's actually better if Adam drives

simply because this is probably what's going to look like. I should make him show for me. I should go right to the back seat. Is that dumb and dumber? Am I, by Lloyd or something? Who is that? That is great.

All right. Also in this email. Does that I get the reference? No, I don't know. I've never seen Dumb and Dumber now. Also in the email, Eric says, fruit salad. Why are we putting whole cherries

with the pits in them in our fruit salad? We cut up all the other fruits before we put them in. Can we not cut a cherry in half? A lot of work, sure. But can we make a cherry easy to eat? Yeah, I really want to. I have a cherry pitter. I have a best.

Six at a time. How many you have had at least 100 fruit salads in my life at parties or bought them? I can't remember more than two having cherries in them. Yeah, I mean, cherries is probably not the smartest thing to put in fruit salad. I'm never in them. Because it's more challenging to make it happen. But, I mean, if you're going to eat cherries, just use a cherry pitter. I actually think that's stupid.

Yeah, we have both. We have. The grapes don't belong in this fruit salad. As good as grapes are. Oh, raw. No, as good as they are, they don't work with the fork. They really are not fork-friendly. Do you guys put watermelon in your fruit salad?

Sure. I would hope. Yeah, there's seeds and watermelon. Yeah, you can eat those seeds, though. They're not pits. Yeah, I understand, but it's still a nuisance. Dave, come on, you get to step up your mailback game coming at me with watermelon seeds. Dan, fruit salad is a hand meal anyway.

It's a hand meal? No. You don't have to eat it with a fork. I mean, you could. And Ricky in the chat is a big fan of your take. What did they say? Oh my gosh. You don't usually get profanity.

Tell us how you really feel. All right. Let's get one more email in here. I'm going to give you guys three minutes on this because we're up against the break. But this is another one from a guy named. Eric. And Eric says, I'm workshopping a strategy where I grab both running backs at an ambiguous backfield on a team that's good at running and starting them both.

each week, Swift and Menongai, for example. Do you like it? If so, which teams do you like best, Jamie? Oh, boy. I don't like it, but that's probably a good one. The Rams obviously are a good one with Coram and Kyron. I hope, I hope, I hope it's not going to be like an Arizona, New Orleans situation where they're still giving work to the veteran guys where that could matter,

where you don't get the best of Jeremiah Love and you still potentially get some of James Connor, you don't get the best of Travis A-chan and still Alwin Camara, like those type of things, would be awful. There's not really a team I could think of off top of my head that would be like, oh, this is great. I would say maybe, what do you think about this? Maybe in a shallower league do it

where you can start Kyran or Swift. You don't have to start. You might have better options, so you don't have to start Menangai or Coram. but man, if someone gets injured in one of those backfields, well, now you've guaranteed yourself probably like a top eight-ish running back. Yeah, but I guess the question would be is if you're doing this, you know, so like this is obviously something that you're targeting, you're not drafting Kyron and quorum back to back.

Like what did you do in between Kyron and quorum that you couldn't get somebody else that could be still a potential starter for you? Sure. Yeah. So, you know, again, I mentioned this on yesterday's show or Monday show. Like, the last 11 games of the season for both Monongai and Corum. That's when they started going. Now, Monongi, it was 12, but he had one game without Swift.

So he'd take the 11 games with Swift, the 11 games with Corum for, with Kyron Williams or play quorum. Kyron Williams was about RB 14 per game in that stretch. And DeAndre Swift was about. RB 18 per game in that stretch, which is pretty similar to their ADP. So if you think they can replicate that and you draft them at cost and they're, you know, roughly RB 15 through 18 and ADP, that's not bad. I don't know that you're going to enjoy starting the other guy.

I think like if you're, if you fall into this unintentionally, like the way you want to do it is you take a standout running back early, hero RB, whatever approach you do. And then it's like you take the Jacksonville backfield or the Pittsburgh Berg backfield or something like that. And you don't have to start both of those, but you have them. And then to your point, Adam, if it works out or it doesn't work out, but obviously if somebody gets hurt, then you're in a good spot, but you didn't spend a lot of costs on those second and third guys while you still have a stud.

So, like, if I was going to really, like, purposely do this, I would say, like, I would take Kyron and then probably in the middle rounds, like Jalen Moore, Enrico Dowell, Blake Horum. and now I have both backfields locked up, and I'm starting probably week one, Jalen Warren and Kyrant, and then if it works out where KORM is that much better than both Pittsburgh guys,

then I'll play both. The deeper your league is, the more I like that idea. And I would never go into a draft with the intention of drafting an ambiguous backfield, but if I got one of the running backs from such a backfield, I'd keep the antenna up for the other. And I've been saying it since the off season,

and Dan, it's up to you if you want to back. me up on this one or not. But I think if you draft Cam Scadaboo, getting Tyrone Tracy is like beyond a handcuffed. There's a chance they both end up working a lot. But I think your team, the Giants, are going to end up being a little more run friendly than we'd like to admit. And that means that getting both those running backs on the same team, you should have a starter each week. I think if you get Warren and Dowdle, I think you're going to have a starter each week. And Scataboo will be expensive, but the other running backs that we're talking about, not nearly as expensive. When I look at look at the Rams and I look at the bear situations,

I kind of feel like they're a little bit more, but maybe not the Bears, but the Rams, a little bit more handcuffy and a little bit less ambiguous. Because I still think at the end of the day, Kyran would have to do some bad things to lose more of his role. I still think he's the clear 1A. Just Korm's going to have a sizable role that will be annoying, but not necessarily crushing for Kyron's week-to-week value,

whereas if Chicago really does split, drive versus drive with Swift and Monongai. There will be weeks where Swift gets a lot of work just does nothing with it. Monongai gets the same amount of work. He just happens to break a couple of long runs. He's on the field at the right time. He scores a touchdown. They don't necessarily have designed roles,

whereas I think there are designed roles on the Rams with their running backs to a degree. All right. Let's take a break and get to the rest of your emails when we come back on fantasy football today. We need help with a guillotine league, Ace writes, last year we ran into An issue, by the way, I think this is beyond just guillotine leagues. This is a problem in a lot of leagues.

I could play the fantasy cops music, but I'm not going to. Ace says, we ran into a problem last year. Toward the end of the guillotine league, we had one player with money left and a few players with zero. The player with money left would add the top waiver claim players

for $1 and drop the others. He would then put in a claim for the players he dropped, originally with other players on his bench and continue this cycle, so none of his players or waiver wire top players could clear waivers in time for games. I am torn on what to do this year.

Is this just the benefit of keeping money or is it against the spirit of the rules? So it's just using all of your remaining fab to add, drop players, put them on waivers and screw your opponents. Dan, you're a guillotine league guy. What do you think about that? This is tricky.

I was thinking in my head. I don't think I've ever run into this problem. My redraft leagues, my home league, or in the geoteney. team leagues. On one hand, I want to say it's part of the strategy of keeping your money and you deserve the benefit of that. But on the other, I feel like there might be an easier solution as far as what your rules are with players and waivers, right? Like, can you drop a player and pick up the same player within a certain period of time? And some leagues, I know that's not legal.

But it's different because it's not a free pickup. It's a, you're paying for the pickup again with waiver money. I'm not sure on this one. File this one under legal for your league, but unsavory conduct. I think the one thing, though, with guillotine leagues, I think this is kind of where Dan was going. The strategy is getting money at the end, is having money at the end. And that's part of the game. Is like, you know, can you make it to the end and still have the biggest bank because then you control the rosters? Now, this is obviously something that's not the best way to do it because typically these things

come back to bite you. But I do think that that's part of the strategy, you know, is that whoever has the most money at the end typically is going to be the one that has the best control of the board. And the difference between guillotine leagues and other leagues, you know, you get this probably in a fantasy championship, maybe the semifinals, but like the rosters are so stacked. Like, you know, that's the biggest thing is like you may have this superstar our roster and you can manipulate how the other team is going to is going to go. So there's really no, I don't think there's anything you can really say to make a rule in place, you know, add drops and stuff like that.

It's, it really comes down to, you know, can you, do you see, are you going to see this every year where there's somebody just doing that consistently? It's hard to say. Yeah. Yeah, it's tough. I think if you, I think if you have a lot of. fab. Kind of can do what you want with it.

Especially if you're not adding and dropping the same players. Let's say you, you drop two bench players for waiver guys on Tuesday. And then you drop those waiver guys on like Friday. Right. And then they are stuck on waivers. And no one can, I'm fine with that.

As long as you're picking up two different players, I guess, than the ones you originally dropped. I think I'm okay with that. The thing with guillotine leagues is like you're going to have, you know, Joe Burrow, Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, like, you know, somebody's going to have one of those guys, somebody's going to have the other one, and everybody else is going to be available to you.

So you may look at it and say, okay, I'm going to ride with Josh Allen because he's been my quarterback all season long, but I don't want this other guy to have Joe Burrow because he's playing the Browns and they stink. And I'm just going to add Joe Burrow, but I don't need Joe Burroughs from the drop Joe. Like, it's just going to have those type of scenarios that you don't see in any other format. Question.

Do you guys have zero dollar bids in guillotine leagues? The ones that I've played in and I've

done several different sites is you typically do a first come first serve after waivers or fab runs.

All right. Here's a question from Jake in Clayton, California. Dear Rod, Todd, and Mod.

Dan? Oh, wow. This is obviously a movie reference. No, Jamie? No idea. Oh, I knew Dan wasn't going to get it. Wait, aren't you going to ask me? I know you know it.

Wrestling? No. Buenos ding-dong-drile than wrestling. It's the Simpsons. Oh, the Simpsons. Can you explain why a 25-year-old wide receiver with this profile is ranked so low? He was wide receiver 22 in PPR in 2024. He was wide receiver 12 last year.

Three straight years of. increases in targets, receptions, and yards, entering his age 25 season. This player is Jameson Williams. And I already know the response will be, but Drew Pedson's offense only focuses on tight ends. Anyway, he's got some other thoughts there, but tell me how someone unproven like Luther Burden is ranked ahead of Jameson Williams. Wouldn't Burden's best case scenario this year just be what Williams did last season? And again, Williams was 12th overall last year.

But this is why I don't, this is why I prefer per game. Just FYI, because he was like outside the top 25 per game. He was, uh, no, 20, 21 per game, sorry. I've got him at 19, uh, in full PPR. But you, in a normal year, 12.9 PPR fantasy points per game is more like not even top 30. Anyway, uh, well, this is the new normal probably. I don't know. We, we tend to do this a lot with positions and, um, overreacting to one year.

Let's, let's see it happen again before we call it the new normal. But anyway, yeah, like Jameson Williams, are we underrating him? I think we're baking in his floor a little bit more into where we're ranking him. Because we remember how the year started for Detroit, and he didn't even average 10 p.pr points per game until the Lions made a big decision to have Dan Campbell call plays. And then Sam LaPorta got hurt. And that context is really important. Because if you just look at the wrong numbers, yeah, sure.

Jamo had a great second half and the top 12 in total points, whatever, a lot of it had to do with what the situation was in Detroit. And unless you're saying that Sam Laporta is going to completely not be a factor or he's going to get hurt again, I don't know if we can count on that same type of year from Jameson Williams. I also think that if we are going to count on Jameson Williams continuing to ascend, then we are all wrong on not only Sam LaPorta, but a Monra St. Brown. and that would be problematic for those who are taking St. Brown with a first round pick. I think Jamo is a fantastic player.

I love the talent so much, but I think people are reaching for him. I think his ADP is just a little bit too high because there's such a consistent track record of him not putting up the same type of numbers when Leporta and St. Brown are there. And last but not, the question about whether or not petting is a tight end guy or whether he's just using the strength of his players, I looked into that.

On one hand, I think there's a case that can be made that Petting does adjust to his players. And you can look at what they did with the run game over the last year, year and a half in Arizona. And you can see that they did make changes to that run game, not necessarily in terms of personnel, but how they decided to run that made those running backs more James Connor in 2024 than anything in 25. But he did adjust to what their strengths were. And he went forward that way. Would he do that again if Leporta struggled or got hurt? Yeah, I think he would.

But this dude used most. multiple tight end formation so much that you can't help but think that it's part of the reason why he was hired in Detroit. And I think we're going to see that play out again. It doesn't mean Williams won't be on the field. There's going to be a lot of two receiver sets. But I do think tight ends are going to be a big part of what the Lions do this year. Okay. Yeah, I really think Dave nailed this with petting.

And it's not just that we're going to see more Laporte. I know you mentioned at the beginning, Adam. You don't want to hear that argument. We're going to see more of his, he was on 13 personnel before McVeigh was on it. If you look at the numbers and you go back a couple seasons, and he was using that to generate action in the run game. What I really think we're going to see is a more run-heavy approach, and that is going to be aided by the fact that the Lions had a worst-case scenario situation

play out with their defense last year from a production standpoint and mostly from an injury standpoint. That defense is going to be better almost definitely this year. The game script is going to be way different than it was for the Lions this year. So I think the passing in general is just going to come down. So now it's similar in my mind to, Okay, well, he brought up the case in the email. James and William scored X amount of points this year,

and he's supposedly taken this jump last year in 2025. Well, if LaPorter's back on the field and their game script is better and they're running more, we're probably going to see more of that version of James that we saw a couple years ago from a lack of volume standpoint. Jamie, I'll throw out some names. Which sucks, by the way. I'll throw out some names for you, Jamie. You got James, James, Jameson Williams, Mike Evans, DJ Moore.

All over Jameson Williams. I think just the case of. Wait, I'm sorry, he's last there? James Williams last. Yeah. I think just in the case of Williams, he's the perfect number three fantasy receiver that you want to have on your team

because when he hits, he's going to hit huge. And when he misses, you're going to be frustrated, but you take the hits because of what he can give you. Right. And so the Petsick part of this is he's never had players at this caliber, as many good ones as he's going to have with Detroit. But you also look at, like, Michael Wilson was pretty damn awesome last year as a wide receiver, as a fantasy receiver.

So the receivers are going to be fine. I just think if you just look at Jameson Williams, you have to just put him in the context and the guys I think that he belongs in. I think Mike Evans is a good one because you're chasing touchdowns a little bit with Mike Evans. Obviously, Evans has a potential to do more. Christian Watson is a good comparison, just because we're expecting him to take a leap as the number one receiver in Green Bay. But you saw what he was capable of doing last year,

sort of just this big play threat was the top 20 wide receiver. But Jameson on another team would be amazing. To me, he's what Devante Smith has been the last couple of years. Like a good complimentary receiver, a guy that's going to have some big weeks and a guy that's just going to be average at times just because he's surrounded by so many good players. Like Jamir Gibbs, if we think he's going to be as good as he is, is going to hurt everybody else. If Sam Leporter takes a step forward or performs like he did in his rookie season, he's going to hurt Jameson Williams.

The safe one to me is always going to be on Mount Rost, St. Brown. just because his numbers have been consistent. He's a guy that Jared Goff's going to lean on, and he plays into part of the field where I think is just easy to say, these things are replicable no matter who's calling the place. Right. I just think Jameson Williams is, you got to know what you're getting. If the pro-Jameson-Williams people want to take him a rounder to earlier

and maybe LaPorter gets hurt again, or maybe, God forbid, Amara St. Brown gets hurt. Like, it could be absolutely amazing. But there's just going to be weeks when everybody's healthy that he's just going to disappear. Yep. All right. And also keep in mind, his best game of the year scored 27 fantasy points against the Packers. Not only was LaPorta out in that game, but Amman Ross St. Brown left in the first quarter.

And Whiton Jamo had a 37% target share that game. We know what he can do when he gets the targets. But he clearly benefited from LaPorta being out last year. And then that one game you benefited from St. Brown being out. I think, again, what have we been saying all offseason about DeVante Smith? Oh, my God, those three games when AJ Brown was out, now he's got this opportunity to be this, that, And the other thing, like, that's what we'd be saying if Amarra St. Brown decided he won it out of Detroit. All right. This is from books.

Could you each name one bench player who could come out and have a crazy first game, making him nearly impossible to get off the waiver wire in week two, non-injury related? But somebody who's going to be good the rest of the season or just someone who, because you could pull a big physical bills-wide receiver from last year who, who, was amazing in week one, and then you know what happened after that. Yeah, is it like me to? I'm assuming you want somebody who could at least be good the rest of the way. If Heath were here, he would already be screaming Greg Dulcich.

And I would co-sign that, especially because he's taken on the Raiders in week one. That should be a good opportunity. And if there's a Raiders receiver you like, they're taking on the Dolphins in week one. One of those guys can end up being a good guy. But does he mean bench player, like bench player on his own team? No. I think he's meaning somebody that's just not getting drafted that would be the hot name that we would talk about off the waiver wire.

I don't remember who the commander's playing week one. You can look it up at Oconquo might not get drafted in every league. It's ADPs in round 12, so maybe it's a late pick. I think you had two good scenarios, or a Dolphins receiver, a Raiders receiver is good. I can also see like. Nailer and Tucker are going to get drafted. Jack Bash is probably the one that. Jack who?

Bash. Adam, Jack who? Yerbeche. What? I can see somebody, like, just somebody who's getting some hype this, this offseason is, like, Ryan Flannoy. I was going to say, I was just about to say Ryan Flanoy. I was going to get a big freshman. Against the Giants, week one.

Yeah, it just goes off. Oh, that would piss off everybody if he had a game. There's no way. I couldn't buy into it, like, you know. With also. It's got to be, like, seven for 90 and a touchdown, and, like, he's getting eight targets, and they're just throwing the ball over the place. There's also, like, a scenario where it's, like,

oh, well, we expect the Packers got rid of all these guys, Wicks and Dobbs. We expect it's just going to be Matthew Golden and Christian Watson and that it's like one of their other guys goes off week one. I think you're on to something there because we could see Mackay Lemon dealing with an injury now and in Philly, like Hollywood Brown or Hollywood Brown. Yeah. It's really those ambiguous receivers situations where I think it's going to happen. I got my guy. But the problem is that are you naming guys that are going to have a good week one and then not be there? Correct.

They're going to fool us in week two, three, all the way through. No, I'm going to name a guy that I think could be the number two option on his team and better than the guy who's going like 60 picks ahead of him. I'm going to say Jalen McMillan. Because if Chris Godwin has, if Chris Godwin looks how he looked last year when he was coming back from a very, very serious injury, Chris Godwin was a, in my opinion, a terrible football player last year. like just had no speed. His metrics were bad. He was barely targeted. I'm hoping.

That was based on that 80-yard touchdown that you saw. Yeah, no, based on he ran 40 yards in like five and a half seconds. McMillan looked a lot better than him. McMillan. It was so weird. Obviously, I'm taking Godwin ahead of him. But if McMillan, like if the game, if they were played under the same circumstances as last year, like let's say there was no Evans and Godwin was still that bad,

McMillan would crush him. Right. If Godwin comes back to being himself, he could be one of the same. steals of the draft, but Nick Millen would be a guy. I think that's the biggest flaw we have in fantasy. A lot of times we just rely on a player's name or what he's done in the past, realizing, not realizing, like,

some of these injuries just completely reshape who they are moving forward as a player. He is Chris Godwin. That's his name. And he was something great. He's had multiple injuries. Is he still that player with this version of himself? Like, that's something I think we miss all the time in fantasy. Oh, that's a great call in the chat. Tankdell.

Think Dell's a good one. He's the same guy. I like the A.D. Mitchell call even better by Gridiron Gamer. So I saw that one too. Mitchell has a good matchup in week one against Tennessee. There's a chance he could have a deep touchdown. But he's the guy I think about that fools us that has a big week one and then comes back. And just super inconsistent the rest of the way.

Oh, yeah. All right, guys. Next question is from Steve Polychronopolis. What's the BESH and what's the Polychronopolis? Your Bech is... Don't tell him, play Polychronopolis on your road trip. Okay, yeah, I'll play Steve Polykronopolis for you.

You can tell him Bess. No, you're playing the other movie. He has to see. It's a song. The Polycronopoulos song is three minutes. He can get through that. You're... It's Sean Connery talking about...

Talking to Nick Cage in... Nicholas Cage in The Rock. He's called Nick Cage? Yeah, Nicholas Cage in the Rock. He's like, Troy, my best. He goes, you're best. Losers whine about their best. And then I can't...

say the rest of the quote. All right, this one's from Steve, and Steve says Dan loses all credibility if he doesn't know this one. Oh, God. Dear Sal, Ralph, Richie, and Phil. Sal, are these Sopranos characters? No.

Hey. I don't think so. Sal, Ralph, Richie, and Phil. These are Italians, obviously. Damn, this is devastating. I'm going to lose all my credibility. I think I've already lost it anyway on this show. I can't go any lower.

Sal, Ralph. Oh, what was it just? Richie Appreel. You're cheating. I mean, look how bad you're cheating. He's not cheating. I'm not cheating at all. No, I'm going through Sopranos characters in my head.

It's Sopranos, right? Yeah. Yeah, all right, good. How would I be cheating? It looked like your hands went to the keyboard and you started looking up at the screen. This is when the hands go to the keyboard. At least you didn't say Game of Thrones. You'd have to see this.

Grade the trade. No, I knew it was Sopranos. I just had to get there. Richie Apriil. Come by. Here's the question. We don't need the history of the Supreme. Grade the trade, Dynasty, PPR, one quarterback league.

Give up Ricky Pearsall, get Isaiah likely. Wide receiver is solid. My tight ends are weak. With grade the trade and dynasty, give up Pierceall, get likely. What were the settings? Did we get? Is it a tight end premium or anything like that or no? It's PPR.

Is it straight one for one? Yep. I don't hate it. I don't love it. Yeah, I think if you need a tight end, then it's fine. And the thing is likely is signed to a decent size contract. Pearsall is coming to the end of his rookie contract. And he's been injured the entire time.

So I think I like it. The Pearsall is an interesting candidate this year for fantasy football for redrafts. I don't know where I stand on him, given the injuries. But I feel like there is some upside. Jacob kind of convinced me on it last show just because of how late he's being drafted. I'm kind of surprised by his ADP. Yeah. I mean, especially when everyone on his team has included him,

has a lot of injury history. All right. Break time. And, oh, let's say hello to a friend in the chat. Brad Mazie, is a big Seedy Lamb fan. He's also my tennis coach. It's going to help me kick Dan's ass in a month. Yeah, we've talked to Brad.

Look, Adam, you're in a lot of trouble. We'll see in the practice match. I feel bad for you. You have a fake tendonitis injury that you're kind of using to kind of bake in. But I hope for your sake, you get it closer. So we have a more. anticipated match. That's all I'll say. Yeah, me too. You know, played last night, played doubles was fine. We'll see about Z. You were fine from a health stamp? Okay, good. Yeah, singles I don't know.

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Another one from a guy named Steve. A lot of Steve's and Eric's today. He has two points. Point number one, Adam's impressions of Dan are spot on. All right, I like that. They are pretty good. Give us your impression of Dan asking you for a ride to Philadelphia. And what am I going to do?

I'm going to drive myself. I'm not really feeling it right now. But I'll try. I'll try. Obviously, I'm going to spend a lot of time with him. We've got to figure out a little car ride plan. And by the way, Dan, I've gotten two listeners who have emailed and said they want to meet up with us. I'm 100% down for that.

Yeah, I'm thinking maybe. Do you remember what happened the last time we met up with listeners? Oh, when they agreed that what was it? It was like something about Orioles. One thing, somehow you found the, I'm pretty sure you planted. You found the two people who agreed with you that the Oreo cookie is better than the cream. Really the worst, it's just unfathomely bad take. I don't even a cram cracker-esque, just chocolate crappie.

I mean, you've had the last month that are pretty bad too. You're wrong about this, Dan. If there was a full bag of cookie and a full bag of cream, I need the cream, yes. You would get so sick. You'd vomit. No, you're going to get just as sick. from the Oreo cook. They're both horrifically chemically.

I shouldn't be saying any of this, but they're both bad for you from a stand from that just in case. All right. It's both bad for you. Let's get to the question here. How many guys from one NFL team are too many to draft? Is it unreasonable to take Hampton in round two, McConkey at the three-four turn,

Herbert in round seven, Quentin Johnson, and he says round six, but I think you can get Johnson a little later than that, like round seven or eight. Gadsden in round 12. Jamie, you love the chargers, but in general, how many players on one team are too many?

I think you've got to be pretty sure that they're going to all hit or have a track record of fitting. So like the Bengals, if you want to take a chance on, if you can still manage it at this point. But Jamar Chase, Chase, Chase, Brown, T. Higgins, Joe Burrow. Like, if those guys all hit, you know what you're getting. I think if you can get the Cowboys,

you'd be pretty happy about that, knowing that DAC and Lamb and Pickens and even Javante Williams at this point have a chance to be, you know, pretty special. the chargers could be awesome. I mean, you know, we, we have a lot of high expectations because Mike McDaniel there and the two tackles being back. But that's probably not a team as much as I like them that I'd want to be all in on because, you know, Justin Herbert gets hurt. It's completely downhill from from there.

And as we saw, even when the tackles get hurt, it was pretty downhill for them last season. But, you know, it's one of those things like when it works is going to be great and when it does and it's going to be awful mostly because of injury. And it's not going to work most of the. the time. I think you kneecap your upside when this happens, when you're taking too many players from the same team. Think about how often in a given year does the quarterback, the running back, two wide receivers, a tight end, et cetera, all have great weeks. And it doesn't happen very often. But how often do all of your players have great weeks? I think at least you give yourself a chance for it to happen when they're all on different teams. But aren't you, aren't you? I don't think there's

a hard and fast number and there's no rule for it. But I think two is okay. It just a on which two. And maybe before you make it happen, two players on the same team, go back and see if there's a track record, if there's a history of them being good in the same week six times out of the year. Otherwise, man, the whole point is to go and get as many players from different teams. Go ahead.

You have to deal with the inconsistency's week to week. But, like, you know, we just got an email about James and where he finished. So whether it was 12th overall or 19th overall points per game, total points. Obviously, Jared Goff was a borderline top 12 quarterback. In fact, Jamir Gibbs was the top three running back, and Amara St. Brown was the top five wide receiver. So if you had that offense, at the end of the season, the numbers look great. The week-to-week part of it is probably going to be a little frustrating.

I think, Dave, you make a good point, though, like maybe you're capping your upside, but are you also boosting your floor? Because it's pretty unlikely that, like, none of those guys are going to have a good week, right? If you started three lions. I've got five weeks from last year where golf was over 20. 20 points per game, and both ARSB and JMO had at least 13 ppr points per game. And I think that's rare. I don't think this happens very often. Yeah.

I agree. I think it's a good point. Although I would say if you had Stafford, Puka, and Devante Adams, you're probably singing a different tune right now. And Kiron. And Kiron, yeah. I think the key is, like, look for teams that you think are going to have sneaky good offenses. You know, for example.

I don't make sneaky good. I think, outstandingly good. Oh, no. I mean, based on 80. And concentrated targets. Based on ADP, because there are three Cowboys players going in the top 36. So that's expensive. Whereas the Chargers are cheap.

You can make that work, though. You could take Lamb at the end of round one and just have to reach for Pickens in round two. And then you're taking Giovante Williams round three and Dag Prescott, round five or six. But that's so much more draft capital than if you were doing that with the Chargers. I've got, we know. How many weeks? I mean, but you're still going, you're still going Hampton, round two and

Mokonky round three and then you still have to probably get in early on Herbert and it's still a lot less. It's better. Yeah, for sure. It's better. Go ahead, Dave. How many weeks did both Rams wide receivers have 13 or more and Stafford have 20 plus? No, I would say at least seven.

I was going to say seven or eight. Six. Yeah, Devante got to hurt. That's part of why. Right, sure. So it's a high percentage of the time when all three of them were on the field. Mm-hmm. But it's still.

That's also in a crazy outcome where staff is like 30. But you're also talking about though comparing that to how many weeks did your your quarterback, your number one receiver and your number two receiver also hit those numbers. Exactly. That's what I'm saying. At the end of the day, you just get the best players. Sure. You just think you're capping your touchdown upside no matter what if you take them all from the same team.

Agreed. It's the same reason they used to tell you in fantasy. It was like a tried and true rule. Don't draft the quarterback and the receiver from the same team. People have kind of gone away from that because we just don't. We have so many bad offenses in the NFL, you kind of have to. But back in the day, that was always the rule of thumb. All right.

Oh, you saw that tweet. You quote tweeted it from Dwayne and Farland, I believe, about the amount of, what was it? Like the 25. 250 yards, average passing yards teams per game. I'm sorry. How many were there? So there were 17, just five years ago. Last year, two years ago for the first time, it dipped under double digits.

There were just nine teams that average 250 yards passing game. And last year was eight teams that averaged 250 yards passing. That's not even a lot. But I can talk about 300 or 275. 250 is nothing. Yeah. I don't even know if it was that many. I went and looked.

Maybe I had it wrong because, yeah, no, there were five. They were four. His stat, his stat, I think, was right until last year. And there was only four last year. Rams, Cowboys, Lions, Patriots. You say the kickoffs? The kickoff. Kickoff's part of it, Jamie.

Yeah. It's part of it, but I think it's overstated it. I think it's just teams can't pass the ball, straight up. You know what, though? It probably depends on what you're looking at, because when I look at yards, it includes sacks. You got to look at the gross passing yards.

Oh, no, I doubtless included that, yeah. So I could be wrong about that. Not including sacks. 250, yeah, seven last year. Seven. Okay. And the year before that was only also seven. In 2023, it was 11.

Right. So why shouldn't I double up on the teams that actually are going to throw for 250 or more words? It's not the worst strategy. And by the way, it's a better strategy. Those teams last year were the Rams, Cowboys, Lions, Cardinals, Patriots, Bengals, 49ers. But you said double up.

Difference between doubling up, tripling up, quadruing all in. Yeah. All right. This is, I remember what I wanted. to do was somehow draft Chase Brown Higgins, Burrow Yeah, Thomas did that

Yeah, unfortunately Burrow got hurt It would have, you would have won the league If Burrow had stayed up. They were really big for the playoffs too. You would have won the league. All right, here's Brian and Charlotte subject is Gibbs, Jacob Gibbs,

Jamir Gibbs' offensive line in 2025 versus 2026. Yep. Dave, we were talking about this on a previous show. and this Lions fan, Brian, wanted people to know that in his mind. He says Lions fans and O-line ball knowers expect the Lions to be much better at four of five spots on the offensive line this year. Pene Sewell will move to his left tackle spot, which will be an upgrade, but a downgrade at right tackle. But he thinks that overall other spots in line will be better this year than it was last year.

So I think we talked about what could go wrong for Gibbs. And he's saying the all line wasn't really that good last year. It's going to be better this year. What do you think, Dave? I think both of their offensive lines have question marks. I'm especially concerned. Well, I'm concerned with both, but I've got a little bit more faith in the Lions offensive line than I do the Falcons offensive line.

I don't like the depth, the depth of the Falcons offensive line, especially since they just added two castoffs from Kansas City, one of whom had so many false start penalties, John Taylor, it was comical. And so I don't know if it's a discernible edge to give the offensive line, you know, a better mark in Atlanta than it is for Detroit.

Yeah, okay, Dave was referencing the conversation that created this email, which was comparing the Falcons to the Lions. Right. And you want to know about there being less weapons. No, I want to know, is the Lions offensive line going to be better than it was last year. Yes. I'm going to say yes. I think to Dan's previous point about, like, Chris Godwin,

like sometimes we think of names more so than what they are right now. So like Taylor Decker, for example, may not have been the same player, but you hear his name, you're like, oh, wow, he's been awesome. So, like, they have to be much better. So this could be one of those situations where, like, and it also goes back to petting. Like, they're changing things for a reason. You know, so they're changing their personnel up front

because they weren't thrilled with how it looked last year at times. they're changing their play caller because it didn't go well last year. And so I think that speaks to, okay, how do we protect Derek Gough? How do we run the ball a little bit better? Like, this is, you know, to go back to tying your, you know, to tying yourself to one team, like the lines could be amazing once again. And I think the offensive lines can be a big point. And that's the thing.

If you look at his history, Drew Patsick, he had a really bad, quote, unquote, talent on the Cardinals' offensive line. And they're generating massive big plays in the run game. I think I saw something with their explosives was up there in top four. in the league, despite having James Connor, who's not the most explosive back per se. And more importantly, just not a lot of talent on the offense line. That's scheme. You know, that's scheme related. And we saw that with Jacksonville last year as well.

Not a lot of talent on the offensive line. Great run blocking scheme generated a lot of big plays in the run games at times. So you take that, you bring it to the Lions, and you add Cade Mays, who my mind was one of the big reasons the Carolina Panthers run game turned around the second half of last season. I really don't even know why they let him go for him. I thought that was one of the oddest things of the entire free agent, like, period to let Cade Mays go if you're the Panthers.

And then the Lions snatched him up immediately. And they fixed their biggest flaw last year, which was losing Frank Ragnow to retirement and trying to put Graham Glasgow in at center. So I'm with the emailer, the listener here. I think he's right. The Lions have actually made a markedly improvement just from a scheme standpoint and from a talent standpoint. While the Falcons are the opposite for me,

not only have question marks about the personnel, more so I have question marks about them losing lead better, like getting away from that wide zone scheme that was clearly like they were winning based on scheme in the run game. And now, in my mind, at least, and they have some good players on that line, but not to the alliance level. And now you're bringing in a brand new run scheme.

And I have some concerns about that for sure with Atlanta. Okay. Last question is from Randy in Vancouver, Washington. Hey, and he says, hey, Randy, Ed, Harvey. That's Pacific Northwest, right? That is, yeah, Pacific Northwest. I still think Northern California is the Pacific Northwest, and I stand by that.

Yeah, San Francisco is definitely not the Pacific Northwest. No, because when you drive into North, if you ever done the drive down from Seattle and the coast and Oregon, you get through to Northern California and you're into like the redwoods and all those like that awesome, you know, the trees. That's Northern California. When I get down to L.A., that's a totally different landscape. That's the right, right?

Isn't there something different? That's like Northwest. I see those trees. I know I'm in the Northwest. Yeah, Jamie, I do. You don't see the Hollywood sign up there. You just see a bunch of lumberjacks. You just feel like you're in nature.

You feel like you're in the. beautiful part of the Pacific Northwest. You don't feel like you're down into that nitty, gritty L.A. Here's what I think should happen. Adam, you still let Dan drive when you pick up, whoever's car, but no, no GPS, no maps, no, no. You know, screwed we would be. Just have to figure it out?

Oh, my gosh. We would be so screwed, man. They're not letting him drive my car. And I don't really want him to drive anyway. I'll drive. I'll drive either both ways or one leg. I don't care. I like driving.

Maybe I will let you drive. Why wouldn't I let you drive? Yeah. I mean, we could do either. You don't want to die. You were offended yesterday, Dan, that you didn't offer to drive. You should have offered. I was going to offer it.

Just something you don't offer it right away. You can offer when you get into the car. Hey, I'll do the leg home. You know, you don't have to just, it's not a pre-offer. No, I think it's a pre-offer. I think it's absolutely a pre-offer. Adam, listen, I've done a lot here. Listen, here's what have that.

I'm going to drive out of my way to my parents so, like, you can have a sous-shorder drive there. I'm getting us a T, I'm getting not a T-time. I'm getting us a court time at a nice club to play at on Friday. Like, what more do you want? You want me to at the time offer to drive? I would offer one two steps. You don't understand.

I have to, depending on whether or not I'm driving all the way, I have to take a different car, which means moving car seats around. So you need to. Why, just let Dan, send the course seats. No, it's about. I'm willing to drive. Let's just put it out there. I will drive either or both ways.

Yeah. Your car or my car. Here's that. You guys have to, no GPS from Dan. Get the hell out of here, Jamie. No, no. You got to pick up one hitchhiker. I will say this, though, Adam, if we don't leave that city and the days we're there

without having one of the cheese steaks that we need to have, which I know you're not a huge fan of this kind of food, but you're going to have to step up and eat bad. What the hell are you talking about? A fan of cheese steaks? Adam, I went to a diner with you, which had the greatest menu in the history of the world. I had a sandwich that had like mozzarella sticks, chicken cutlet, vodka sauce, and you had steamed broccoli and the chicken. Literally.

I got a chicken terriaki rice bowl. It came with broccoli. It was delicious. You'll be 41 day too. Dave, if you went to this diner and you saw what was on the options that were on that menu and you saw somebody ordered broccoli chicken bowl,

what's the name of the diner? The Banciscoe Diner. It's the best diner. It's the best diner. It's the best diner I've ever been to it. I'm looking up their menu. Look up their menu. You're going to see about 15 things you'd rather have

before you get to the rice chicken bowl. You wait through 40. I'm going to say, I'm going to have, I'd rather have everything. Pretty much. Everything on the menu is better than that rice. It was a chicken terriaki rice boy. I didn't order steam.

Hey, can I have some steam broccoli with chicken? That broccoli did not look fried. Adam, you go there often though, right? Yeah, I go there like once or twice a month, probably. So it's understandable that he would get something that is a little different. Exactly. If I were a tourist. No, but Adam offers orders that every time he told me or his wife.

No, I usually get the chicken parm sub, which is fattening and greasy and delicious. with French fries. It's a big, you know, that's what I get. It's amazing. They have a section on their menu dedicated to deep fried wraps. I had to try a deep fried wrap. Which one did you get, the chicken cutlet? Yeah, but they had so much on it.

I don't know. It was insane. The Frankie G. Wrap has breaded chicken cutlet and Angel Hair Alfredo wrapped in deep fried served with fries. Dude, they have tacos where the taco shell are like fried chicken patties. Yeah. They got a lot of stuff going on there. And then Adam got the chicken terriaki rice bowl.

I mean, either way, you're going to have a Philly cheese steak with me. And we're going to have to go to the Nix. I have to see if you feel the way I feel about the Nix. I think it's the best sandwich in America. Oh, I thought it was the Nix. I was like, what? No, it's called De Nix. Oh.

In the Redding Terminal, the Nix roast pork. You can't judge sandwiches after your public take. No, the public take was really good. I never said it was a bad place. Publix is solid. You know, you go there. You get some, it's better than like a regular deli or shop right type sandwich you're going to get. But it doesn't compare to a Fiore's.

It doesn't compare to these delis on the East Coast. And it really just doesn't. Like I want homemade chicken color. I don't want these like chicken tenders that have been freeze, freeze frozen for months. And then they defrost them, you know, these preservative chicken tenders. You get at public. Oh, the pub so. I'm going to get a chicken tenders and buffalo sauce.

Oh, God. I could do that at home, dude. I'll buy a bag of Purdue and I'll buy some buffalo sauce. They make them there. What are you talking about? Yeah, what are you talking about? They make those buffalo chicken tenders there fresh? Yes.

Daily. Yes. The fire is two feet away from the counter. No, no, but I mean they're just breaded. They're not breaded daily. Like, I'm talking about an Italian deli where you get chicken breast and put it in the breadcrums. Let's answer this last question here. No, like this is a freshly made per day.

Let's answer this last question from Randy. He says, dear Randy, Ed, Harvey, and John. I never would have gotten this. The Cowboys defender? Yes. Randy White, Ed, Too Tall Jones, Harvey Martin. I'm blanking on John. Gill would kill me.

John Dutton. John Dutton, yes. Who is the real RB2 in Dallas? Good question. I'd love to know. I know who the coaches want it to be. I just don't know if that's who it's going to be. They want it to be Jaden Blue.

They want a speed element to the office. I don't know if it's going to be him. I think it could be somebody they sign. Yeah, I wouldn't be. Like, these are teams where Camara or Connor makes so much sense. Yeah, right. But I think if they went there, how much would it sour you, if at all, on Giovante? A little bit.

I think if it's Connor, I'd be a little sour. If it's Camara, I'm not so sure I'd be soured. I mean, Conner and Camerra. From a roster standpoint, forget about fantasy. From a roster standpoint, like, that's the type of move. these are the type of players like a team like that should go get because they're going to be cheap and it just makes you a little bit better. You want to hear a stat I'm about to give on the next podcast we're about to record, which

is the wide receivers round seven through nine. Jaden Reed has six carries over the last three years, which is his career. Six carries of 20 or more yards. Jaden Reed. That's twice as many as Alvin Camara in the last three years. And Jane Reed has 34 carries. You love bringing up this Camara lack of explosive runs. Actually, one of the biggest takeaways from the research I've done last 24 hours in preparation for this show is that Jaden Reed has been one of the most efficient players in football.

He is second in fantasy points per target among wide receivers over the last three seasons. He's so good per route run. He averages 9.1 yards per carry on 34 carries. You know, obviously you think get more targets and the efficiency will go down. But there's a huge case. I wasn't even thinking about drafting Jane Reed. When you see the numbers, get the man on the field more. Things could really change.

He could be pretty impactful for him. They paid him like it. Right. Yeah. I think it's going to happen. Yeah, pretty cool stuff. All right. Dan, thank you.

I'll see you in a few hours. Yeah. It's going to be a good time. I think I'm going to let you drive. Okay. I'm down. We'll be really excited about that. Breaded chicken, honey,

surriacha, drizzled mac and cheese, French fries, and Chipole Mayo wrapped. and deep fried and served with fries. That's the Mount Casco Diner. All right, one hitchhiker each way. Oh, gosh. Wow, can you imagine if we picked up a hitchhiker? I saw a hitchhiker.

I saw like a probably lady in her like 60s. Hitch hiking yesterday. Wow. And I thought this would be the only scenario where I would pick up a hitchhiker. No way. There are no scenario where I'm picking up a hitchhiker. All right, go find her and take her to fill the up.

Like she had her thumb up, this woman? Yeah. Oh my God. Okay. It's weird. You don't see that. I haven't seen them so long. One hitchhiker and no GPS and you end up in the trees, you know.

I'm going to have Adam eating the worst food in the world to get him prep for that Friday match. I think I found it though. Choped cheese, chopped prime burger, chopped fries, chopped onion rings, mozzarella sticks, brown gravy, mayo, drizzle. on a garlic hero. Yeah, that sounds good. That's right. They can't just give it to you on bread.

I think I ordered that one. I actually think I ordered that one. No, you didn't order that one. You ordered something similar. You ordered a chicken parm sub with vodka sauce, a fried ravioli on garlic bread. Yes. I have a sandwich called The Terminator. The Terminator.

It's going to kill you. All right, everybody. We'll talk to you later. Chicken fingers and cheese steak and mozzarella sticks on the same sandwich. So this is bit, in some ways, they copied the grease trucks and Ruckers. I don't know if you guys know about that. Yeah, no, so obviously they copied something from New Jersey, 100%. Okay, look it up.

Look it up. Look up the grease trucks and Rutgers. That's what they were doing. They were doing subs with like chicken tenders, cheese steak, mozzarella sticks. They're loading on. All right. So your three goals of the trip are one hitchhiker, no GPS and go get cheese steaks in Philly.

Not just cheese steaks, but the Nix roast pork. There you go. Yeah, no, definitely. Make the hitchhiker to the cheese steak place. Definitely going to get some good food. Have a good day, everybody. We'll talk to you tomorrow or whenever on fantasy football today. On Podcasts.

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