Fantasy Football Today - Too Much Faith in Unproven Players? (04/05 Fantasy Football Podcast)

Episode Date: April 5, 2021

We've got some news and notes to start the show including Ke'Shawn Vaughn's potential role in the Bucs backfield (3:00) and Jamey telling everyone why Adam is a bad Fantasy co-manager (7:23). Then we'll get into our big topics. Are we putting too much faith in unproven QBs (11:40) and RBs (20:15)? Are Kyler Murray and Josh Allen going to be overdrafted? And what do we make of the Year 2 RBs? There will be seven of them drafted in the first four rounds, but did they really show us enough in 2020? ... We debate Kirk Cousins vs. Ryan Tannehill (30:30), discuss why 49ers pass catchers don't catch enough TDs (34:10) and give you an eye-popping Julio Jones vs. A.J. Brown stat (36:30) ... The Fantasy Cops are back (39:30)! Send any of your league disputes to our email address and put "Fantasy Cops" in the subject line ... Your emails at [e-mail] Follow the FFT in 5 podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, or wherever you listen to FFT. Follow our FFT team on Twitter: @FFToday, @AdamAizer, @JameyEisenberg, @daverichard, @heathcummingssr, @CTowersCBS, @BenSchragg Watch FFT on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCviK78rIWXhZdFzJ1Woi7Fg/videos Join our Facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/FantasyFootballToday/ Sign up for the FFT newsletter https://www.cbssports.com/newsletter You can listen to Fantasy Football Today on your smart speakers! Simply say "Alexa, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today podcast" or "Hey Google, play the latest episode of the Fantasy Football Today podcast." To hear more from the CBS Sports Podcast Network, visit https://www.cbssports.com/podcasts/ Want winning picks each morning in under 10 minutes? Follow 'The Early Edge: A Daily SportsLine Betting Podcast' on Apple, Spotify, Stitcher or wherever else you listen to podcasts. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Touchdown. Oh, he's done it again. Now here's some combination of Adam, Dave, Jamie, Heath, and Ben. All right, what's going on, everybody? Today on the show, are we putting too much faith into quarterbacks who have had one good year and running backs who have had about six good games? It's going to be a fun show today. It's a good day.

It's a beautiful day. It's a new week. I got a haircut. The weather's nice. Easter was great. Heath didn't win the March Madness pool. Everything is just beautiful. Good morning, guys. What's up, Heath? Yeah, like I said last week, when you're as chalky as my bracket was, you need absolutely everything to go right.

And Baylor crushed Houston and crushed my hopes. Congratulations to whoever wins. Jamie, how about that shot? That Gonzaga shot? It was awesome. It was a fun game. One of the best college basketball games I think anybody's ever seen and certainly one of the best endings. We're obviously recording this before the championship game, so I'm hoping the championship game is just as fun.

Great drama and just fun seeing it all unfold. That was really awesome. Looking forward to tonight. I thought UCLA got hosed a little bit. I thought that the charge call at the end of regulation should have been a block and UCLA probably should have won the game. Yeah, there were some questionable calls, but that happens.

And you did get hosed a little bit if you lose on a banked-in 40-footer. Great shot. Awesome moment for sports. It sucks for the UCLA guys. It it does but it was also a tie game at that point it's not like they would have won had he not made that but yeah um tremendous tremendous game had to wake my wife up to watch the ending i was like you gotta watch this she fell asleep uh she woke up like with 20 seconds left i've reminded and then she fell asleep about

10 seconds i'm like no stay awake you have to watch this and then she fell asleep in about 10 seconds. I'm like, no, stay awake. You have to watch this. And then, yeah, it was pretty awesome. Even she was like, this is incredible. All right, so news and notes. We'll do this quickly. We've got a lot of emails. I'm trying to clear out the inbox because you've sent a ton of emails, and I haven't been able to read them on the show.

So we're going to like eight of them today. But let's start with the news and notes, and then I'll ask some rankings questions about your two running backs, about young quarterbacks, about the 49ers, about Ryan Tannehill versus Kirk Cousins, and one other thing. First, let's start. Ryan Fitzpatrick is going to open camp as a starter, but there will be a competition. I don't know that we even need to react to these things. So if you guys want to hop in, just hop in. Deshaun Watson is now being investigated by Houston police. I'm not sure that this is a major change. There's a criminal complaint.

So anyway, we still have to see how this situation resolves itself. Denver expects offensive tackle Juwan James to play this season. He opted out last year. That'll help for them. A couple of quarterbacks had minor surgeries. Matthew Stafford, minor thumb surgery.

Tom Brady, minor knee surgery. Here's one we can react to. Jamie, Bruce Arian said he expects Keyshawn Vaughn to have a breakout season. What do you make of that? That would be the number three running back on the Bucs. Keyshawn Vaughn, year two guy. What do you make of that?

I expect you to be a good co-manager of our fantasy baseball team. So both those things probably not going to happen. Look, Keyshawn Vaughn was someone that I was kind of hopeful for certainly last year. Uh, but even this off season before the Leonard Fournette resigning, because I thought, okay, if it's Ronald Jones and Keyshawn Vaughn, you know, what Ronald Jones is, you know, what his role is with Bruce Arians. And obviously he's been great whenever Fournette has not been on the field, but just getting another

guy, an opportunity to maybe take some of those reps and maybe get an opportunity to showcase himself. But with three guys there, it's going to take an injury probably for multiple games for him to have an opportunity to even get on the field for a significant stretch. So unless the Bucs lose Jones or lose Fournette for any period of time, it's hard to see Keyshawn Vaughn having a significant role. I still would hold him in dynasty, but it's going to be probably another lost season of him being productive, barring an injury. I think there's a chance he could be the best second year back relative to his rookie year production. Now, what about this scenario? He's actually the best Bucs back because Jones and Fournette split the early down work. He's the third down guy. He's the only one who catches any significant amount of passes. And we're like, well, we're going to sit both Bucs running backs because they stink every way that you can't predict them every week. But Keyshawn Vaughn's a number three guy in PPR.

What about that scenario? I just don't know why we would think they're going... They threw 10 passes to him last year. And they threw the ball to Leonard Fournette like 75 times. And those 10 passes, he caught half of them and averaged 3.4 yards per target. So it's like he did something. How else is he going to break out, Heath? Yeah, I think it's just Bruce Arians.

I thought you just put that in the notes so we could all giggle and then move on. Okay, yeah, it's fine. I guess what I gave out was worst-case scenario. Matt Nagy is going to call plays in 2021. We need a worst-case scenario. Exactly, yes. Oh, you don't like this?

I don't think it changes very much. But he was the play caller for them when they made their playoff run, his rookie season as the head coach, and then things fell off the rails last year. So who knows? I mean, it's all going to come down to Andy Dalton. If Andy Dalton's fine, this offense will be probably better than we anticipate. If Andy Dalton's Andy Dalton, bad Andy Dalton,

then it's probably going to be a frustrating season for Allen Robinson and David Montgomery in particular. Yeah, someone had tweeted, and I don't know if I can find it fast enough, going to be a frustrating season for Alan Robinson and David Montgomery in particular. Yeah, someone had tweeted, and I don't know if I can find it fast enough, but the Bears' offense and how much better they were, they averaged 19.8 points per game when Matt Hagee called plays, 27.7 when Bill Lazor called plays. They averaged 82. Yes.

82 rushing yards compared to 129 under Lazor. It wasn't good last year compared to the other option for calling plays. So Lazor was calling plays late in the year? Yes. When the schedule was... When all the run defenses...

The bad run defenses, they all decided to play the Bears. And then David Montgomery ran wild. But it's interesting. And Andy Dalton is going to start for the Bears. Matt Nagy confirmed he will, at the very least, enter as a starter. But plan is for Andy Dalton to start. Okay, a week unlike another,

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First off, all right, Heath. I had two. Okay, all right, fine. Jamie's going to frame it in an inaccurate way, and then I will come and clarify. You frame it your way, and I'll tell you where you're wrong. We had two open roster spots on our team, because we were moving players to the aisle.

You already skipped over part of it. And I picked up two players with those open roster spots before other people could. I wanted to beat the rush. First off, Heath is in the league. No, he's not. You're not in the league anymore? No. Oh, okay.

So in any event, we were trying to finish up the draft before the start of the season, and Adam, as the commissioner, decided that he was going to do a— we did a slow draft. We always do a slow draft. Adam was going to do a one-shot draft to finish up the rest of the draft and didn't include me in the picks that we made. Okay.

Again, completely inaccurate. What I did was I in the picks that we made. Okay. Again, completely inaccurate. What I did was I said, the season starts on Thursday. We're doing a slow draft. We have been doing it for like a week and a half. And I said, if we're not done by Wednesday at 4 PM,

we're going to do a live draft with one minute on the clock. Wednesday at 4 PM. You don't have any picks were left. Six picks. The one half of one round was left. Was one of those picks your team's? Yeah, one pick. All we needed was a catcher.

So I took the highest rated catcher and that was it. It didn't include me. From my understanding. In the two ad drops. Didn't include me in the team name change. That's true. That he decided to do on his own.

Then he texted me last night and says, hey, I put in for two moves. Tell me what you think. So I go and I check. I disagree with both of them. I give him a suggestion of a player. I fell asleep. He totally dismissed my suggestion.

I fell asleep. And then picked up the player who I said, I don't know if we should pick him up. No, I put the claims in and I fell asleep as you were giving your suggestions. So I just want to understand. Four roster spots and a team name. Yeah.

So far. We had already. Just wait. I want to make sure. You're sharing a team with someone else. And you've just done this without asking their permission at all. Well, we had already discussed it. I know.

Possible response. You it. I think there's only one possible response. You idiot moron! Ugh! I hate you! We had already discussed the team name, though. I knew Jamie was on board with the team name. It was so far out of left field that I even said to him,

hey, I think somebody stole our stick of how we name our teams. And he goes, no, that's us. We had already talked about that possible team name. And the guy we named our team after is on our team. All right. Well, anyway, I did some bad things, but it wasn't as bad as Jamie makes it out to be. Okay.

I'll take some responsibility. What did I elaborate? Well, you acted like I picked half our team in the live draft. I picked our last pick, which was a catcher. All right, so anyway, Jamie said,

Adam and I share a fantasy baseball team. He A, changed the team name without telling me and B, made ad drops without telling me.

What should his punishment be? You both, Skrip said, or Skrip, you both punch each other in the face, he'll hurt his hand and you'll hurt his face.

Perfect punishment. I like that one. Kick him out of the league. Heath said, name his team The Idiot Moron, and that's good. Eat a Butterfinger. I'm not eating a Butterfinger. It's your fault, Jamie. You should have expected it.

I kind of agree with that one. Let's see. There was some good shave his head. That's not happening. Make him do his show on his own and he can't drop a single Acer stat. That would be tough. Oh, this is interesting.

Make him draft a kicker with his first pick in the FFT league. I like that one. Yeah, I don't think so. All right. These were good ones. Thank you for all of your horrible suggestions. Jamie's not going to punch me in the face.

Okay, back to the show. Tomorrow we can talk about some of the pro football focus offensive line grades. The Giants had the worst pass blocking grade, and the Chargers had the worst run blocking. That was interesting. But here are some random fantasy questions related to your rankings. Let's start with this. Josh Allen had two seasons where he was not a very good passer.

His second season, though, he was a good fantasy quarterback because he had a bunch of rushing yards and eight or nine rushing touchdowns, which he's had in all three seasons. And Kyler Murray was great. He was a breakout last year, was the number one quarterback in fantasy before re-aggravating his shoulder injury against the Seahawks. The question is, are we going to overpay for Josh Allen and Kyler Murray?

Heath, it's a vague question. So I'll give you the, you can define it however you want, but are we going to overpay for Josh Allen and Kyler Murray? And just you look at Dak Prescott, I would say is, is more proven a little.

Russell Wilson certainly is. Sean Watson certainly is. And yet I think at Dak Prescott, I would say, is more proven a little. Russell Wilson certainly is. Sean Watson certainly is. And yet I think a lot of people will have Allen and Murray two and three. What do you think? Are we going to overpay for them? I think a lot of times we overpay for the guys right after the number one quarterback. We've talked about that with the tight ends as well. Like once you get past whoever you consider to be in that elite group with Kittle, Kelsey, Waller probably.

I think like you said, Josh Allen was not a very good passer for two years and that was still true of Kyler Murray. His yards per attempt were still well below average. His touchdown percentage was still pretty mediocre. I think there's a good chance if they're the number two and number three quarterback and they're going off the board, like let's say a round after Mahomes

or within the same round range as Mahomes, then yes, they're going to be overvalued. I've got them actually behind Lamar Jackson and in the same tier as Dak and Russell Wilson. I think Dak and Russell Wilson are probably going to go considerably later than those two. Jamie, what do you think? Are we overpaying for Josh Allen and Kyler Murray? I mean,

probably so just based on the definition of what overpaying is, like Heath was saying. But I think, you know, the thing about it is is there a defined two through five for really anybody, including people that are drafting? Because you can make a case for Lamar Jackson at two. You can make a case for if Deshaun Watson is playing and there's no issues at two. You can make a case for Dak Prescott at two.

So it's not just, I think, those two guys in the two-three spot. And I think that's where fantasy managers are going to play the smart ones are going to play it right and okay let somebody take two three four five and and i'll just take six you know and and that's i think the smart way to do it we've also seen which has played itself out uh more times than not recently you know aaron rogers last year wasn't drafted as a top 10 guy was the number one quarterback the year before was Lamar Jackson the year before that was Patrick Mahomes, you know? So whether it's a young guy on the rise, like the two young kids in the homes and

Jackson or a veteran guy that can still bounce back and play well, you know, that's, I think the way you have to sort of approach the quarterback position, but we're seeing now, I mean, average job position is telling us that unless it's a two QB or super flex league, they're starting to falter around to the top guy and that's pushing the other guys down. So when you say reach for those guys, um, you know, I, I don't know if that's necessarily the same case as it was a couple of years ago, based on what the production has been. What, what do you mean? Sorry. I don't think we're seeing like, you know, typically we would see maybe two or three quarterbacks go in the first round. Okay. Okay. We're not seeing that anymore. And again,

I'm just going average Baptist and that, you know, I think our audience is obviously a little bit smarter than that. Um, but the, uh, the, the novice average fantasy player, I think is seeing that as well. So you think that people will not be drafting Josh Allen and Kyler Murray or anybody other than the homesomes the way they were drafting Lamar Jackson last last year no because Jackson was coming off a record-breaking season um Mahomes the year before was coming off 5050 you know I mean it's hard to say that these guys are in that category now they can get there clearly but you know especially with 17 game season but you know the quarterback position you know it's not just you know like we've been saying

this for years other people have been saying this for years. The entire industry is saying this, you know, and, and it's, it's hard to go anywhere where you're looking for fantasy advice, ESPN, Yahoo, any of the other, you know, sites that we compete with, uh, where everybody's not saying the same thing. You know, you may have one or two people that say, Hey, go, you know, zag when everybody else is digging, whatever the case may be, you know, take, take the quarterback early and get that player. Somebody gonna say that and that's fine but the position is just so deep it's it just doesn't make sense to reach for any of those guys as good as they are as good as my homes alan and and kyler are it just doesn't make sense because we've seen regression

we've seen what happened to my homes it was injury related his year after the 5050 lamar jackson wasn't the same guy because maybe he was tweaking some things, not running as much until the second half of the season. Aaron Rogers is going to fall off just by the nature of being a 37 year old quarterback and, and things changing for him. So, you know,

the number one guy is not going to be the same. There's going to be four or five guys in the mix. This doesn't make sense to reach for it for any of those guys. I guess I'm pretty interested to see what the order ends up being. You know, the ADP is going to change so much. Heath, I want to follow up on your,

on your Kyler Murray comment about his passing and what you make of the fact that he used to talk about his yards per attempt. Specifically, it was 7.1 in 2020. It was 6.9 as a rookie. So first of all, what's a good number. What do you want to see?

I think last year, a league median was right around 7.5. It used to be that 7 was pretty close to average, but as we've seen with passing in the NFL, they're getting more efficient, and defenses obviously have had some things taken away from them in terms of stopping that. So I think if you're below 7.5, then you are below average.

Now, he doesn't have enough with his his legs where he's still an awesome. But he was at 7.57, I believe, yards per attempt before that Seattle game. So that's what I wanted to get your take on. It was really two different seasons for him, right? I mean, he was the number one quarterback. He hurt his shoulder. He didn't hurt his shoulder in the Seattle game.

He re-aggravated the shoulder in the Seattle game, and that's when he said that, you know, the trouble started. He's kind of downplayed it, but he was the number one quarterback in fantasy on pace for a 30 touchdown passes, I think, and about 4,200 yards, seven point, almost 7.6 yards per attempt. So in that average, slightly above average range. So, you know, what does that mean to you? And then it really tanked after he re-aggravated the shoulder. Yeah, I mean, I think it's relevant. I would still prefer to see him have a full season where he's an above average passer or even average passer. Okay.

What do you see typically from rushing quarterbacks? Because I would imagine that that number probably goes one way or the other. I would imagine it's not probably close to... Because when quarterbacks. Cause I would imagine that that numbers probably goes one way or the other. I would imagine it's not probably close to, because when quarterbacks break containment, you know, they're like Lamar Jackson's looking downfield, for example, you know, like, and, and Kyler, maybe not so much, you know, I don't know that I'm asking, cause I don't know. The other part of it is I think also with Kyler and it ties into Josh Allen what did you see these two franchises do after year one they added pieces after year two adding pieces you know so I don't know if AJ Green's the answer to Kyler Murray I would probably lean toward no but at least it's

something that's hopefully an upgrade of a player who can do some different things for this offense and help their young quarterback continue to grow yeah I mean I mean, I think it's a mixed bag. A lot of times what you see is that the running quarterbacks don't throw very much, and so their efficiency might look a little bit better. Now, Kyler's a different story. He runs a bunch and still might throw it 600 times. But Lamar's at 7.5 for his career, which is pretty close to average over that three-year stretch. Cam was at 7.2 last year and 7.3 for his career, which is pretty close to average over that three-year stretch. Cam was at 7.2 last year and 7.3 for his career.

But Cam played a lot of games in a league where the rules were a little different and the averages were a little worse. So for the most part, though, the running quarterbacks that you're looking at, at least a quick glance, they're league median or below. No. Well, I mean, I'm looking at it right now. Deshaun Watson led the NFL 8.9 yards per attempt. Josh Allen was for fifth 7.9.

Ryan Tannehill is fairly mobile 7.9. Russell Wilson 7.5. And then, yeah, Lamar Jackson 7.3. He was below Kyler Murray 7.1. He was below. I don't know who else you want to look at there. But well, I think like for like i was looking more career numbers um or but yes last year that was the case i think like the point that you just illustrated there is the same point that yes

they're mostly right around league average maybe but kyler's been worse than all of them okay so next question next question is about the year two running backs. This honestly might be the most important question that we have to answer going into drafts. And it is, are we, or did the year two running backs really show you enough in their rookie seasons? Because seven of them are going to be taken in the first three to four rounds. And only one of them, who was an undrafted free agent on the worst team in football, only one of them, James Robinson, was consistent throughout the season. For the rest of them, it was really a six-week stretch for a lot of them.

Exactly six weeks, kind of strange. We talked about that a few weeks ago. And so, you know, I went back and I looked at all of the year two running backs in the last six seasons. I'll go through that research in a bit after you guys talk about it. But we are going to be investing very heavily

in this group, Heath. Did they really show us enough or are we taking a small sample size and putting too much stock in it with, for the entirety of the group. I know obviously Robinson's different, but Jonathan Taylor,

James Robinson, cam acres, JK Dobbins, Clyde Edwards, Z layer, Antonio Gibson, Deandre Swift. What do you think?

Did they show us enough as rookies? I don't, again, this is more of a, like how, what's the perception going to be when we get to July and all the drafts are happening. But cause I've,

and I might be a wrong guy to ask. I think I have most of these guys ranked or projected similarly or worse than where they finished last year. So I don't know. Yeah, I think it's questionable whether Jonathan Taylor showed us quite enough to be a top six pick,

but he was also an elite prospect coming in. So that's a little bit different. But was he an elite prospect coming in. So that's a little bit different. But was he an elite prospect? That's the thing. You know, when you look at a guy like Joe Burrow, that's true. When you look at a guy, but, but it's seriously, I mean, when a lot of the running back, okay. Does anybody realize that we ever talk about this? The 2017 NFL draft class of running backs. Leonard Fournette, Christian McCaffrey, Dalvin Cook, Joe Mixon, Alvin Kamara, Kareem Hunt, James Conner, Tariq Cohen, Marlon Mack, Aaron Jones.

Now, Fournette and McCaffrey were top 10 picks. I would say that Dalvin Cook and Joe Mixon would have been first round picks, but they had serious off-field issues, and they fell to the second round. Cook. No, there was,

there was some rumors about cook. No, there were a lot. They were, there was a lot swirling around him, but yes, but I don't think it was ever approved. Mixon's in a different category.

I wouldn't put those two guys in the same category. Okay. That's fair. Mixon. We know what he did. Cook had rumors swirling around him about the people he hung around with that kind of stuff. So you're right.

I shouldn't have characterized him like that. thank you for correcting that um but yeah i mean none of these guys were first round picks in 2020 except for clyde edwards either who was the last pick of the first round so when we're calling jonathan taylor an elite prospect he wasn't a barclay prospect he wasn't a zeke prospect he wasn't okay he was not drafted like them for sure he was not drafted at his position though he. He was not drafted like them. At his position, though, he was considered an elite prospect. You're talking about a guy that had just run for 4,000 yards and 37 touchdowns in his last two seasons. Yeah, 2,000 yards a season.

Yeah, and ran a 4-3-9. He had a 98th percentile 40-yard dash at his position. His speed score was even better. All right. You guys could be absolutely right about that. Anyway, back to the question. Where were we? Well, I think it's, just to go a little further,

like, it's such a different question for each of them. I think the Taylor, Swift, Akers group, you could definitely ask that question about. James Robinson, we're not going to draft anywhere close to what he showed us um so that's not really a fair to lump him in there i think gibson and clyde are probably gonna get drafted pretty close to where they finished well i think the thing to look at it is just based on where things ended to where things are now each of them individually only one of their situations really got worse.

And that's Swift because he gets a quarterback downgrade and better competition. As of now, nobody else got significantly worse. Now you could say Robinson, maybe because of Carlos Hyde, just because there's somebody else there that's got NFL experience, but Akers gets a quarterback upgrade and loses a body because Malcolm Brown is gone. Edward Solaire loses a body, two bodies essentially, because Le'Veon Bell and Damian Williams aren't going to be there. Akers gets the quarterback, I'm sorry, I said Akers, but Gibson gets the quarterback upgrade and, you know, I don't know if you want to say loses a body, Peyton Barber being gone, but he loses a body, you know, so each of them have their own individual situations.

But and for Dobbins as well, you know, he loses Mark Ingram. So all of them, I think, have the arrow pointing up for the most part. To me, Swift is kind of probably the arrow pointing sideways just because, again, of Jamal Williams being there. But I think all these guys have the chance to hopefully improve based on what we've seen. Is Peyton Barber gone? Yeah, Lamar Miller's still there. I think Barber was a free agent.

Okay. Well, if you wanted to see some of the history with year two running backs, I looked at all of the year two running backs that were taken in the first four rounds for the last six seasons. You had guys like Jeremy Hill. He was RB8 he was a huge bust you're just some of the failures I've just there were plenty of success stories but Todd Gurley actually believe it or not he was the second pick overall or say he was RB2 I think he was overall the second pick as well and he didn't have a good sophomore year it was weird and he finished rb15 and just got a ton of work and but you know just remember that year just wasn't that good for him uh zeke was gray jordan howard jordan howard was fine i mean he was rb9 but he never had a year as

good as his rookie year he was a big play explosive guy his rookie season and he was just sort of a workhorse plotter after that uh 2018 was following up on that amazing 2017 draft and that one i mean camara was great fournette was good he only played eight games kareem hunt was great when he got before he got suspended mcafree finishes rb1 dalvin cook wasn't great he was rb18 per game but but Mixon was great. Yeah. And I think he was splitting with Latavius Murray that year. So that was a great year for year two running backs. 2019, um, carry on.

Johnson was a bus. Sony Michelle was a bus. And then last, last year, Jacobs and Sanders. And now I'm done. Jacobs and Sanders were a little disappointing last year. They didn't take that step that we were hoping.

Montgomery was awesome. Montgomery was all right. He wasn't take that step that we were hoping. Although Montgomery was awesome. Montgomery was awesome. Right, he wasn't drafted in the first four rounds. But yes, Melvin Gordon wasn't drafted in the first four rounds. He was awesome. There are plenty of examples of great year two picks. But unfortunately, there's Jeremy Lankford in there. And there's some disappointments in there, too.

But I think that to compare it to the 2017 class, not that these guys are the same caliber players but it might be close you know that's the question that's where i was going with it yeah there's the opportunity for these guys to step into those roles so yeah i don't know i mean look they're gonna be bust that's just the nature of the position they're gonna be injuries it's gonna be a part of the process and again we're doing this uh on on april 5th the draft is still going to happen. So probably two of these guys are going to get ruined by competition from some rookie or, or still, you know, there's a James Conner floating around.

I don't remember else was free agent still, but you know, Le'Veon Bell or one of these, you know, guys that are, you know, veterans still looking for jobs. So something could, could still ruin these backfields, you know, potentially dramatically. But at least for right now, they all look to be in relatively good shape. Again, except for maybe Swift, who's got some competition that could be annoying.

Yeah. So guys like Thomas Rawls, Jeremy Lankford, Sonny Michelle, Kerryon Johnson, those are probably the, wow, I can't believe they were drafted in the first four rounds. Kerryon, I can believe it. It made sense. I don't think that any

of, I think all of them have given us justification to draft them in the first four rounds. Most of them finished as top 40 picks last year. But I do think there's some debate as to whether they've given us justification to take them in the first round.

Really, the only one that's going to go in the first round for sure is Taylor. Akers may be at this point, but Taylor's the only one I think you're going to see be drafted in the first round. And again, I guess you could say maybe he got worse because of Marlon Mack coming back and losing Costanzo. And maybe the quarterback's downgrade. For some reason, Peyton Barber is still on the Washington football team. Oh, okay.

Don't know why. It shouldn't matter. But in any event, you can say he got worse, his situation. But, you know, you're still talking about what hopefully is an elite situation for him based on the offensive line still as a whole and the play calling. Okay, and we'll see where James Robinson ends up if the Jaguars don't add anyone significant. We're going to take a break here.

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Data sourced from the ORCGA 2023 Dirt Report. Why is Ryan Tannehill ranked ahead of Kirk Cousins? Why do I even care enough to bring it up? The second part I'm not sure about. But I thought they were kind of similar players. Very efficient on low-volume, low-passing-volume offenses. But you all have Ryan Tannehill ahead of Kirk Cousins, even though Ryan Tannehill just lost his number two

and number three weapons from 2020. So Heath, why is Ryan Tannehill ranked ahead of Kirk Cousins, who, by the way, threw well over 30 passes per game. I see 38 passes per game in his last eight games, and he absolutely crushed it. He was awesome. Last two seasons, or since Tannehill's been a starter, his 17-game pace is 4,200 passing yards, 36 touchdowns.

17-game pace? Well, yeah, he's going to play 17 games this year, I hope. Eight interceptions. Cousins basically has only been better than Tannehill the past two years in terms of passing yardage and only by 100 yards over a 17-game pace. Tannehill more than makes up for that on the ground and with his efficiency, particularly not turning the ball over. Cousins turns the ball over more.

So mostly it's the rushing production, but I also wanted to give a 17-game pace so you would get flustered. Well, it worked. JV, why is Ryan Tannehill ranked ahead of Kirk Cousins after losing Jadu Smith and Corey Davis? I mean, I keep moving him down. I just don't know where... To me,

Tannehill feels like the type of quarterback that'll play a full season and end up like 11 or 12, but it won't be like a he won you your league 11 or 12. Like he was great two years ago when he stepped in for Marcus Mariota. He was very good last year. I don't want to take anything away from him, but like you said, he's losing weapons. He's losing his coordinator too. You know, I don't think that should just be overlooked just because the last time they lost a coordinator, the guy stepped in and was, and was fine. You know, we'll see if Todd

Downing can do the same thing that Arthur Smith did, but we still have to see what they do to replace fully these two guys. I think Josh Reynolds is a nice ad. I don't know if he'll produce as well as Corey Davis did. And one surprise if he's better, you know, not that Corey Davis was awesome. He just was good. So Josh Reynolds could be better. I doubt it, but he could be. And then we'll see if Anthony Ferkser, if he's going to be the answer, but this is still a run first team. And he's not the type of quarterback that you're going to ask to throw 600 plus times. It's just not the nature of what this offense and this team wants to do.

So it wouldn't surprise me if cousins is better. It wouldn't surprise me if a handful of quarterbacks are better, you know, that, that we look at like Roethlisberger, for example, he's going to throw more. He could be better than Tanner. Wouldn't shock me. I'm not going to rank it that way, but it wouldn't shock me. Yeah. I think what was just interesting to me is that we've seen Tennessee have a bad defense, and they don't change

their philosophy. At least they didn't under Arthur Smith. They still run the ball a ton. It's going to take a Derrick Henry injury to change their philosophy. Overall, Minnesota didn't really change their philosophy much either. They had the sixth fewest pass attempts in the NFL, but last half of the season, they threw

the ball a lot, and it worked. Kirk Cousins was great. So I just wonder if they might turn him loose a little bit more. Well, you're starting to hear Mike Zimmer maybe have to come around a little bit. He's saying some things in his most recent press conferences, news conferences, that the

NFL is changing. Passing games are changing. I don't know if it was necessarily related to a defensive question or an offense question. I just heard his answer. So but he was saying, you know, like passing games are evolving. And, you know, hopefully he's talking about his own, because when you look at what the strength of this team is, it's Dalvin Cook first. So don't get away from that. But you have one of the young elite pass catchers that you saw last year in Justin Jefferson. You saw a very good complimentary guy

in Adam Thielen. And I think if they turned Irv Smith loose, he would be one of the best playmaking tight ends in the NFL as well if they gave him an opportunity. So, throw the ball a little bit more. Open up your offense. Open up your run game too. Alright, next topic. Heath, you can kick this one off. No San Francisco player has more

than five touchdown catches since 2013. And that was Vernon Davis who caught 13 touchdowns. Since then, five touchdowns has been the max receiving touchdowns for 49ers. How weird is that and does that matter? It matters a little bit. I don't think it means that nobody's going to catch more than five touchdown passes this year. I have two players projected to catch more than five touchdown passes, but they haven't, I've only got the last

three years here in front of me. They haven't thrown for more than 28 touchdowns in a season, any of the past three years, and they notoriously spread the ball around. So I, I think it matters. It also kind of illustrates how much trouble a lot of the guys that they're counting on if I had had staying healthy. So it's, it's relevant. I really think like George Kittle's got to have a, an eight or nine or 10 touchdown season at some point, doesn't he?

17 games. Maybe he'll catch three in week 18. Yeah. Maybe you'll get six since they're playing the 17th game. Yeah. Yeah. It was weird. Kittle has played, I think, 16, 14, and 8 games in his last three seasons,

and he hasn't been able to get over five touchdowns, but he has been on a 16-game pace for, I want to say, 1,200 or more yards every year. So, Jamie, if I could tell you right now that George Kittle was not going to catch more than, let's say, since there's 17 games, let's say six touchdowns, would you still take him in the second round? In PPR, yes. In non-PPR, no. So he's my third tight end.

I think Waller, as their teams are built right now, Waller has less competition for targets. So I think Waller is the better tight end. I had this conversation with two 49ers fans yesterday, and they're both like, you have Waller second? And they're like, oh, yeah, I guess it makes sense. Because if Ayuk and Debo do what they're supposed to do and maybe catch more than five touchdowns as well, Waller doesn't have that same level of competition.

I just don't buy John Brown and Henry Ruggs and Brian Edwards being better than those two guys. It's a little weird that you know two 49ers fans. In South Florida, no less. Yeah, it's kind of weird. I know one 49ers fan. Heath, how many 49ers fans do you know? I can only think of one, and he's in South Florida.

Same guy, maybe? No, I don't think so. But it could be. All right, last topic here. Over the last two seasons, A.J. Brown has 19 touchdowns on 190 targets. Julio Jones has nine touchdowns on 225 targets. You have A.J. Brown top five right now.

You have Julio Jones. Jamie has Julio Jones 12th, and Heath has him 18th. But, yeah, this is just a fun one. A.J. Brown, 19 touchdowns on 190 targets. Julio, 9 touchdowns on 225 targets. Jamie, discuss. I mean, it's the story of Julio's career, right? He just doesn't find the end zone.

But you know he's going to get a lot of targets. I don't think it's going to change very much. Now, A.J. Brown's going to get a lot of targets if the pass catchers don't change significantly in Tennessee, but this isn't, I mean, you should be drafting AJ Brown over Julio Jones. That's, that's clearly the way to approach it this year, but I don't think Julio's done. I don't think he's going to struggle barring injury, but that's been a problem for him. So hopefully Julio continues to get the targets and maybe Arthur Smith helps him the way he helped A.J. Brown

over the last couple of seasons. I'm going to try to make your Acer stat just a little bit better. Okay. Julio Jones, or A.J. Brown has 19, is that right? Yeah. Over his 190 career targets. Julio Jones has 20 touchdowns over his last 543 targets. That's so crazy.

That is a much better stat, by the way. 540. But more for me, also, like with the ranking thing, I project A.J. Brown to have a career high in targets this year. And I project Julio Jones to have his fewest targets since 2016. So that's a big part of it too. Now, if the Falcons really draft Kyle Pitts or a quarterback

or don't take a running back in the first round or two, then I will adjust my expectations of the offense they're going to run. Like if Mike Davis and Ido Smith are the planet running back, then I think I'm probably just going to assume that he's going to a pass heavy scheme.

Wouldn't it be weird if Julio started ended his career. He became this like 800 yard guy, but caught eight touchdowns. He caught 10 touchdowns or something like that. That would be awesome. Yeah. He became like, we started to go the Adam Thielen route or something.

Okay, well, that's a fun one and something to keep in mind. It's amazing how efficient A.J. Brown has been and inefficient Julio's been for so long now in terms of touchdown rate. So, FFT listeners, baseball season is here. If you want to solely run the team that you were co-managing with your friend or just dominate your fantasy baseball league that you are in by yourself,

make sure you're listening to Fantasy Baseball Today in 5. Stay up to date with all the latest news, the waiver wire advice, the pictures to stream in just five minutes or less. Download and follow anywhere you listen to this podcast. That's Fantasy Baseball Today in 5. Here we go. The fantasy cops are back. This is a weird one from Chris.

I have a rather complex league situation for you to regulate or at least discuss. One of the managers in our league started leaving empty spots on his roster during the week as a player from the previous week went on by or was injured. This was mildly annoying as opponents did not know which players they would be up against and were unable to easily assess their real chances of winning.

This degenerated to him benching all of his players each week and in future weeks, bringing them off the bench on Thursday or Sunday morning. As the playoffs progressed and he continued winning, he continued this behavior,

waiting later each week before putting players in his lineup, up to Monday night in some cases. Of course, we all secretly hoped for a power outage or an internet malfunction, and for him to not be able to set his lineup and have empty spots, sadly no such luck, he went on to win the league. I realize that his behavior does not impact the scoring or which manager wins each week, but it does take some fun out of the league as managers are in the dark about their contest. I do not think there is any rule against this, but I'm interested to know what your onion is, it's a typo, on this,

and if you think there are actions which can or should be taken against the guy who will not put his starters in his lineup until the games start we need to give credit to this i believe uh cd carter on twitter is uh someone who tells people to do this just to get in your opponent's head and mess with them and it seems like this has worked very well for this guy i never even thought about that never occurred to be well you would this wouldn't impact you at all because you never look at your opponent's very well for this guy. I never even thought about that. It never occurred to me.

Well, this wouldn't impact you at all because you never look at your opponent's lineup. Yeah, I meant for myself, I had never thought about doing that to my opponent. But you're right, this would never impact me. Yeah, there's no... This is just... Don't look.

Just wait for karma because eventually, one day, something's going to happen on a Saturday and he's not going to set his lineup. And then he's going to be like, Oh, let me change one. Nope. Sorry.

You lose. But why would the commissioner not do that though? Like if you had a power outage. Oh yes, for sure. Oh yeah. Yeah. You mean if I had a power outage,

I said, Jamie, I can't set my lineup. Can you do it for me? I know you wouldn't do it for me because of what I did. I wouldn't do it for you because I'm a fair commissioner and a good co-manager. You would not do it for me because you'd say, we're not even part of the same league.

Adam would just set your lineup for you and not tell you about it. That's true. You're welcome. I changed my team name. I did change your team name in that one league, right? You did. And then I thought it was Nando, and I changed his name. Oh, well, Nando told me to do it.

All right, so there's nothing you can do. This is weird. Karma will set in after he wins his third straight championship. So don't worry. It's also fun. It's funny, yeah. Okay, time for emails. FantasyFootball at CBS.com.

This is from James. He says, hey, Roman, Phillip, Jacoby, and Russell. time for emails fantasy football at cbs.com this is from james he says hey roman philip jacoby and russell i feel like those are nc state quarterbacks oh yeah it's going wow i don't know who the roman is but yeah i don't either roman gabriel two-time all-american i think don't know 14 team ppr start three receivers two running backs and a flex i can keep two of the four kittle in the second swift in the in the third edmunds in the ninth and higgins in the twelfth t higgins in the twelfth q2 yeah it's ppr yeah Higgins is easy, right? Yep. So Kittle in the second, Swift in the third,

or Chase Edmonds in the ninth? I mean, if the Cardinals come out of this and Chase Edmonds is their starter, then that's the easy one too. But otherwise, I'd probably go Swift. I'd go Swift, yeah. All right, this is from Kyle from the home of the garbage plate. I have no idea what that means.

I know what it is, but I don't know where it is. What is the garbage plate. I have no idea what that means. I know what it is, but I don't know where it is. What is the garbage plate? It's like a really unhealthy, very delicious plate of food that just has all kinds of stuff thrown into it. Oh, Rochester, New York.

There you go. You should go. Okay, let's see. The garbage plate. Let's see what we can... All right, I'm going to scan. I don't really know what's in it but i'll try to find out here's the question uh i don't care about the question anymore all right uh thank okay keeper league i'm gonna keep stefan digs in the fourth i can keep any of these players for the next three years at this price. So I guess it's just pick one here. It's half PPR.

It's seven points for a rushing touchdown and six for receiving and five for passing with some bonuses factored in as well. Did you do the names? Because I knew that. Oh, hey, Jack, Tracy, Liz, and Kenneth. Thank you. Appreciate it. 30 Rock.

Yeah. All right, pick one. Dobbins in the sixth. Josh Allen in the seventh, CeeDee Lamb in the eighth, or Jalen Hurts in the 18th? And what's the format? Half PPR, seven points for a rushing touchdown, six for receiving, five for passing,

100-yard game bonuses, 50-plus-yard touchdown bonuses. And you keep how many of these guys? One. Dobbins in the sixth. Allen in the seventh. Lamb in the eighth. Jalen Hurts in the 18th. I think you got to go Hurts.

Because the rushing touchdown. Yeah. Yeah, I was going to go Dobbins. But just because I feel like he's going to be. I'm just not 100% sure Jalen Hurts is going to be a good fantasy quarterback for the next three years. If Jalen Hurts gets eight rushing touchdowns like Josh Allen did... I'm not sure that the garbage plate is a specific recipe.

But it's home fries, pasta salad, baked beans, mac and cheese, French fries, other simple, basically put whatever the hell you want on it. I'm not really super interested. You should go. I have no idea where Rochester is. Near Syracuse, right?

Sure. All right, this is from Brandon. Dear Brain Gremlin, Vegetable Gremlin, and Electricity Gremlin. Those are gremlins. Where would you guys go with this? I could keep up to eight. I could keep up to eight of these guys as long as the combined value is below 15. Jeez, I don't know.

This is fun. This is going to be tough. This is easy. Okay. Kelsey, seven. Diggs, don't know. This is fun. This is going to be tough. And this is easy. Okay. Kelsey 7, Diggs 6, McCaffrey 4, Cup 4,

Barkley 3, Godwin 3, Hunt 1, Antonio Brown 1, oh, it might be A.J. Brown. I don't know. A. Brown 1,

Crowder 1, Lazard 1, Goddard 1, Lynn Bowden 0. Make it add up to 15 or less. McCaffrey, Barkley, Godwin. That's 10.

What did you say, Heath? McCaffrey, Barkley, Godwin. That's how much? 10. 10. I don't see how A.J. Brown could be 1. It's got to be Antonio Brown. How many names again?

What did you say? You can keep up to eight of them, but they can't add up to more than 15? Kelsey seven, Diggs is six, so that's 13 right there. You probably can't keep any of them. McCaffrey, Barkley, Godwin is 10. Who are the guys that are less than 10? Kelsey is 14. Kelsey is 14. You could go.

Kelsey is 14 by himself? No, Kelsey, Kelsey, McCaffrey, Barkley is 14. And then you can add like Kareem Hunt. He's better than the other three. Yeah, but if you go McCaffrey, Barkley, Godwin, you could also go. Cup and Hunt.

Cup and Hunt. Or you could go Cup and Goddard. Goddard's dollar? Yeah. And Hunt's his dollar? Mm-hmm. So you can go Goddard, Hunt, Godwin, McCaffrey, Barkley, and still have $3 left?

Yes. Would you rather have Goddard in $3 or Cooper Cup? I don't know if there's anywhere that's been the $3. No, you're not going the $3 route because nobody else is really worth keeping. Well, you can throw in Antonio Brown there, right? If you want to. Mm-hmm.

I like the way you curate these questions so that we get the best possible experience for the listener. All right, this is from NoName. I'm going to be drafting in a Dynasty Superflex league that's full PPR. Passing touchdowns are four points. How would you change your draft strategy because of the Superflex

position? I'm looking to get a young receiver like Justin Jefferson in the first or the second round. Would it be a mistake taking a receiver in the first round over a quarterback? Should I go QB, QB in the first two rounds? So again, this is a Dynasty Superflex Startup League. It's PPR.

Passing touchdowns are four points. What do you do? How many teams? Ten or twelve? Twelve. Oh, never mind. I don't know. The next question is twelve. This one I'm not sure. I mean, you're going to see what? Five no, no. The next question is 12. This one, I'm not sure. I mean, you're going to see, what, five to seven quarterbacks

in the first round? Yeah, I was trying to get to it, but Mahomes, Kyler, Lamar, Allen, all definitely need to go first round. Probably Dak, Herbert, and Burrow too.

At least their second round. Well, I don't know. No idea where Watson would go. I wouldn't take Justin Jefferson over any of those first four quarterbacks, I said. If they were available in the first round, I'm taking Mahomes, Murray, Jackson, or Allen. Right.

And if you're at the back end of the first round and you're looking at Jefferson and three or four of those quarterbacks, you take Jefferson and just take the quarterback that's, or Allen. Right. And if you're at the back end of the first round and you're looking at Jefferson and three or four of those quarterbacks, you take Jefferson and just take the quarterback that's available to you. Yep. I like that too. Last question is from Dave.

Dear Jim, Joe, and Josh. Can you just ask us tomorrow on the show? Are you on tomorrow? Yes. Okay. Dear Jim, Joe, and Josh. Unless you change me. I love this power I have.

12-team PPR, $250 salary cap league. You only have to start one running back and three wide receivers and a tight end and a flex. I can keep Jonathan Taylor for $19 or George Kittle for $7. Sorry, for $12, $7 less. Jonathan Taylor for $19 or Kittle for $12. This is out of $250.

What would you do? Taylor. I would keep Kittle. I'm not sure you guys have agreed on any of these emails today. Yeah, we just agreed on the last one. And we agree that you're an idiot moron. Do I still have? I don't know where that drop is.

Okay, well, you all know it anyway. Thanks for listening, everybody. Thanks for your emails. Is that eight questions? Did you get to eight? All eight? One, two, three, four. Wait, one, two, three, four. I, one, two, three, four.

I'll put five in here? How could that be? You said at the top of the show we're going to get to eight emails. I thought I had more. All right, I'll do more. We got time. Ready? Let's do more.

Give me a minute. You can talk about how was your weekend. So these are the ones that didn't make the cut instead of the one where we had to add up 14 players to become $15. Look, I don't want to tell you how I choose what emails make the show. I don't think people would like that very much. Well, now I think people are curious.

How do you do it? It's the last thing I do. It's always scrambling to put emails in the show before it's time to go on the air, which is one of the reasons why I'm always two minutes late for every show. And I don't really get a chance to read them before I put them in the notes. I just copy and paste, and I hope for the best.

And this one... You'll be happy to know that since you delayed this, Ian Rappaport has just tweeted. Are you ready? Yes. That Giants quarterback, Daniel Jones. Go on. Will spend the week in Arizona working out with his team's offensive weapons.

Whoa. All right, let's talk about it. Bonus pot. We're going to do a bonus pot on that after this show. All right, here's an email from Josh. Greetings, John, Eric, Chelsea, and Bell. This is apparently an excellent Netflix show. John, Eric, Chelsea, and Bell. By the way, you all have less than one month

to watch Kingdom before it's off Netflix, so do it. That would be the Kingdom, the MMA show. This is John, Eric, Chelsea, and Bell are from Bloodline. All right, the question is, which side do you like better in this dynasty trade? Goff, Chenault, Hardman,

and the eighth pick of the upcoming rookie draft, pick 1.8. Goff, Chenault, Hardman, 1.8. Or Jerry, Judy, and Josh Jacobs. Judy and Jacobs buy a lot. Yeah. Okay, see, and Josh Jacobs? Judy and Jacobs by a lot. Yeah. Okay, see, that was easy. Dan in Montreal. Dear Hawk, Rock, and the Kid.

Wrestlers? Sure. 12-team Dynasty Superflex startup. Half PPR with kickers as draft picks in the rookie draft. I lost control. I now have picks one, two, three,

five, six, eight, and nine. The first round. Holy cow. I need help at all positions. Obviously.

Yeah. Well, I don't understand. He says his wide receiver core is, is passable. How is this a startup? This is not a startup. He must have just met a rookie.

Okay, so anyway, who would you target? This is so... Just take all the good players. I don't even know what to say. What's his... Did he say his receivers are? He just says my receiving core is passable.

Um, yeah. Yeah, Dan, don't... Do whatever you gotta do. He has picks 1, 2, 3... He has 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, and 9. 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 8, and 9, so you're gonna get two potential running backs one receiver maybe pits maybe a quarterback yeah i i think you look at the team with the four pick

and see if they are set at quarterback or tight end and whichever one they're set at, you can leave Pitts or Lawrence for the fifth pick. So I guess I'll tell you the part that I didn't read. The same team has picks four and seven, if that matters. I mean, it does, to Heath's point, if they have quarterback and tight end issues. If they don't, then you know they're going to be looking

at running back and wide receiver. He's going quarterback, running back, then you know they're going to be looking at running back and wide receiver. He's going quarterback, running back. The guy thinks he's going to go quarterback, running back. Then I'd take Lawrence probably at three. Okay, there we go. Let's move on. Last one, number eight from Eric. Dear Wayne, Daryl, Katie, and Squirrely Dan. NC State quarterbacks.

I'm in a very competitive 16 team. Half PPR auction keeper league. Each team has $150 to fill their roster. Three receiver league. Okay. So he's got $150. Here's who he's keeping.

Lamar Jackson for $19. Jonathan Taylor. I'll just give you Jackson, Taylor, Akers, Dobbins, and Ayuk. That gives him $62 to fill out the rest of his roster. He's got Jackson, Taylor, Akers, Dobbins, and Ayuk with $62 left. Should I prioritize getting an elite tight end and going cheap on my wide receivers and bench?

Or should I spread my money out between middle tier wide receivers, tight end, and bench spots? I guess spread my money out between middle tier, wide receivers, tight end and bench spots? I guess the first thing to check would be is anybody keeping one of the elite tight ends because if there's this much money available and this many keepers, probably Kelsey Kittle and Waller

are going to be off the table or the potential of them being off the table. So, you know, do you want to overspend for Andrews or Hawkinson or Goddard or any of the other guys that you consider to be in the next tier? Or do you just want to sort of slow play to see how the auction goes or the, excuse me, the salary cap goes? But you might want to try and get one top tier wide receiver and then one of those tight ends and then try and see if you could backfill the rest of your receiving core as cheap as possible. Okay.

Cosign. Thanks for listening, everyone. Back tomorrow to talk about running backs with new offensive coordinators and maybe some PFF offensive line grades as well. And whatever news pops up, make sure you're listening to Fantasy Football Today in 5 as well.

You know Daniel Jones. Going to Arizona? That's great. Wow. The lack of humidity will help him hold on to the ball. Trade him to Arizona. I'll take that quarterback swap.

See you later, everybody. Great outro. Bye.