Fantasy Footballers - Fantasy Football Podcast - Stat Surprises + Murky Situations, WR Name Game - Fantasy Football Podcast for 5/23
Episode Date: May 23, 2024Is a Chris Olave breakout season coming? On today’s fantasy football podcast, listener questions answered and murky situations discussed. Should Justin Jefferson be ranked as a top 5 fantasy WR? Wil...l Dalton Kincaid lead the Bills in receiving? Plus, stat projection surprises for the 2024 fantasy football season! Manage your redraft, keeper, and dynasty fantasy football teams with the #1 fantasy football podcast. -- Fantasy Football Podcast for May 23rd, 2024. Get the lowest price on the 2024 UDK before June 1st at UltimateDraftKit.com Connect with the show: Subscribe on YouTube Visit us on the Web Support the Show Follow on X Follow on Instagram Join our Discord Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Oh, yeah.
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You have more than one Goofy Movie clothing item.
I certainly do.
Yeah.
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How old is the Goofy Movie?
We talking like 25 years?
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But Goofy movie, like, you watch it, and you're like,
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Right.
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Goofy is just trying to be a good father, and Max is a brat.
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Oh, yeah.
It's a great movie for everybody.
I have never watched it all the way through.
Oh, man.
So maybe this year.
You have not seen the big finale, the big eye-to-eye, dancing on the stage?
No.
I mean, I feel a little bit like I've lived through it here on the show.
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Maybe this year.
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Some things at the top I wanted to talk about.
We've got, we're going to discuss some of the stat surprises that came our way when
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Jeff Midgley congratulations won a signed devon achan jersey and uh and from what i understand they don't just sell those in extra small
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And here's our quick question of the day, Mike.
We were talking about our player projections for the season,
which, you know, we stay water.
We modify them.
We update them.
We change them.
When a new signing or injury or perspective happens, we update them.
But as you go through and you went through your stats of every player,
what's something that surprised you when you were in that process in terms of maybe it's a team, your stats of every player, what's something that surprised you
when you were in that process in terms of
maybe it's a team, maybe it's a player,
maybe it's why is that guy ranked there?
So the
a very strong takeaway
I have is for the Green Bay Packers
and my note is
good luck. Okay.
Because
ADP wise, you know, currently with the way that fantasy players are treating it,
it is locked in that Jaden Reed is the player to have.
He's the Green Bay Packer wide receiver.
You feel like that's a consensus opinion?
I'm just saying ADP-wise.
I'm not talking about our opinions, just ADP.
And I understand it totally.
Last year, a rookie who he didn't have like a monster breakout,
but for his draft capital, what you were expecting from Jane Reed,
it was a great season.
However, the injuries and things, like weeks 5 through 13,
that's when we had essentially all of them.
And I'm going to include, I'll say the four-pack that includes.
Dontavian Wicks.
That includes Romeo Dobbs and Dontavian Wicks,
which Dontavian Wicks is kind of like slowly gaining market buzz
as one of people's favorite sleeper wide receivers.
He's very, very cheap in drafts right now.
But during those games, weeks 5 through 13, Watson, Christian Watson,
remember that guy?
He was 18% of the targets.
Jaden Reed was 15%.
Dobbs was 15%.
And Wicks was down at 10%.
So why I'm saying good luck is players drafting right now are saying
it is guaranteed Jaden Reed because Christian Watson is going
multiple rounds after him, and yet in the games where they were
actually healthy, Christian Watson was the one who was seeing
the larger target share.
He's the bigger play guy.
So it's a murky situation.
Here's why I think it's so difficult is because each
individual player has a wide range of outcomes. None of them are settled in, right? There's not,
um, because they're younger. Like you don't have a player that's been around for a long time.
Remember when Randall Cobb was finishing his tenure in green Bay, you knew what Randall Cobb was. But I think you could literally say, I don't know
exactly what Jaden Reed is. I don't know exactly what Christian Watson is.
He's had big games. He's had disappearing acts. He's had injuries. Romeo Dobbs.
Is he just the guy that's capable to fill in
when other players are hurt? And then Dontavian Wicks has a ceiling that I think people are getting
their heads around now yeah and say well you know is there a world where ontavian wicks is the second
most valuable wide receiver there is a every single universe exists for the for the green
bay packers of some have higher probability but i'm saying the order of one through four, every single possibility between those four guys exists to me.
The reason I have Jaden Reed ranked the highest is because watching football games,
I think he's the most versatile and talented player in that group.
And I think his floor is the highest in terms of weekly utility.
Do you remember that they had a...
Do you remember?
This is what we're doing all songs today.
That the Packers had two playoff games.
I do remember that they played in the playoffs.
And the first playoff game, Green Bay versus Dallas,
Jayden Reed, the floor was in fact zero as he had three targets,
zero for zero.
I don't remember.
Zero for zero.
He wasn't on the field.
Well, Jayden Reed's end of the year was injury plague.
Remember he played through, I think it was a foot injury
for multiple weeks in a row.
So that, again, like I said, there's questions for all these players.
He missed week 16.
There are question marks around all these players.
So, yeah, I think the synopsis of good luck, I think it's fair.
I'm not saying don't take shots.
I think that you should 100% be getting some exposure to probably all of these guys,
depending on how many drafts you do.
But it's the certainty of which the market is convinced
it's Jaden Reed right now.
That's where I'm like, hey, let's pump the brakes maybe a little bit.
Yeah, I get it.
I think they are the highest upside question mark team.
There's a bunch of wide receiver rooms that you're like, good luck,
but you also don't need them.
Like you're not like New England, good luck.
Right?
Yeah, we both kind of are interested in Polk.
Right, but it's not to the degree of,
because ADP is going to be like your last pick in the draft.
Yeah.
So, yeah, Jaden Reed dealt with toe sprain, sprained ankle,
and then missed a week.
Kept trying to play through.
I think it was a back situation.
He was beat up.
Christian Watson's been beat up.
And, no, it'll be interesting for me.
The quote, I think LeFleur was just talking about Christian Watson's hamstrings
and whether or not they're past the, like,
are we truly past all the hamstring injuries?
And he's like, I don't know.
We'll find out.
That's a tough one because those type of injuries keep cropping up.
We joked about, I mean, Julio Jones played a lot of games,
but he limped off the field a lot of times.
For me, it was the most ironic and wild of statistical outputs.
My number three tight end. Yeah, easy
E. Just
unbelievable, but Evan Ingram ended up
my number three tight end in my rankings.
I am apparently
very in love with a player that had
143 targets, 114
completions, just
963 yards on those
completions, just four touchdowns,
but I mean, it was a great year last year for everything.
It was.
And you're coming into a season with over 200 vacated targets, I believe.
You don't have Calvin Ridley.
You've got a rookie in Brian Thomas who you and I debated on the mock draft show,
the Christian Kirk-Brian Thomas thing.
And then moments later they talked about Christian Kirk being the clear alpha
in OTAs and Brian Thomas has a ways to go. thing and then like moments later they talked about Christian Kirk being the clear alpha in
in OTAs and Brian Thomas has a ways to go but you know Gabe Davis not a target hog Brian Thomas
brand new nose a Jones and I could see Evan Ingram having the target lead again at the position this
season he is just he's, an underneath tight end that is
like having a pass catching running back. He's a, an escape valve has the best rapport outside
of Kirk with Trevor Lawrence and vacated targets. They could definitely go his direction because
he is just he's an easy option for Trevor Lawrence in the offense. So just on sheer volume, I think that he's going to be back up near the top.
He doesn't win you a lot of weeks, but that's not the number one goal of tight end a lot
of the time.
The number one goal of tight end is don't fall behind at the position.
Don't lose the position week to week, and he doesn't let you lose it. Yeah, and there is the room for him to have an outlier touchdown season.
With that amount of receptions and that amount of involvement,
the most likely thing is it'll still be a low touchdown output for Ingram,
but the world exists where he hits eight or nine,
and then he's one of the best picks at the tight end position.
And it's just now, I mean, that's another year of Doug Peterson
and his tight ends are just peppered with targets.
And then Jason's not here, but someone from our team decided to throw his ranking of DK Metcalf into the quick question.
This is Boise.
Which is number 10.
He loves DK right now.
He really does.
And I don't know if I'm there.
I'm not.
I did draft him in the mock draft.
He was the bottom of the final tier of where I could be okay with him
as my wide receiver one.
That's fine.
Because if you ended – like I went running back, running back quarterback,
and he ended up my wide receiver one because he's a fourth round.
So maybe we make him explain himself next week.
Maybe we do a little explain yourself segment.
Maybe we do that.
I'm trying to agree with you, man. Maybe we do a little explain yourself segment. Maybe we do that. I'm trying to agree with you, man.
Maybe we do.
Maybe.
All right.
Are we good to move on to news?
I think we're good.
News and notes from around the league.
Well, it's almost like we were insulated from the reality of injuries, because we were.
And now that all the players are running around on the field, there's a bunch of injuries popping up.
And it's early, Mike, so do you concern yourself very much with news of hamstring injuries like Josh Jacobs,
talk of Kyron Williams with a foot injury and won't be part of the offseason program,
but will be back in time for training camp.
Does it give you the first shiver of what reality is like
in fantasy for the season?
It's not giving me the shiver,
and it's not altering how I think about any of these players,
but it will be.
I mean, it's a note so that if Josh Jacobs at any time during training camp has the same leg
with a hamstring injury, then I will become very concerned.
So we had Kyron Williams dealing with a foot injury.
He's had an injury history, has been brought up on this show.
They drafted Blake Corum.
You're not concerned right now.
No, not yet.
Sean McVay's been very accurate when he talks about players and their injuries,
and he says he's going to be back for camp.
But it's in the back of your mind.
Yeah.
Keith Mitchell on schedule.
This will be Ravens. Whoa ravens whoa whoa whoa hold on okay
hold on all right he's on schedule oh no he's not ahead of schedule so he is behind he is behind
schedule is that what that means it how dare there's only one way to take it if everyone is
ahead of schedule and you're the only one on schedule.
Imagine being on schedule.
You're late.
Shoot.
That's not great.
Well, that is kind of what the news report is.
Recovering from a torn ACL, will not be back for training camp,
not expected back until sometime during the season.
And the quote said, it's not like right around the corner.
Okay.
So is it around the block?
I don't know.
He led all NFL running backs in yards after contact.
I mean, he was absolutely – if he was able to finish the season,
like him and A-Chan, it would have just been –
both of those guys were electric on the field.
We don't know anything further yet, but our injury guy, Matthew Betts,
he did mention in our Slack of he's kind of had his concerns about this injury
that it might be a multi, like this isn't just a clean, regular ACL.
So that's even more on the radar now if this is where he is in his recovery.
Yeah, so Keitchell's not going
to be a a factor for your drafting of derrick henry or consideration on the backfield no and
that kyle would bring up rashin ali the the rookie that they drafted because kyle is
kyle is drunk in love right now is he mr? With Mr. Ali. Yes, he is.
Who has him in Dynasty?
I believe Kyle's team.
Does he?
Yeah.
Is it?
Yeah, it probably is.
Maybe.
I don't know.
We would have to check.
But the point being, if you missed when we talked about Ali,
his production profile is incredibly interesting.
It seemed like the Ravens were forced into using Justice Hill last year when they didn't seemingly, based off of his entire history,
they didn't want to do that.
So as of right now, I don't hate it.
I think Ali is a very intriguing player who could be the highest beneficiary
should Henry miss some time.
He had the bicep injury, I think, in the senior bowl
that knocked him down a little bit.
Yes, he essentially had a year almost deleted from injury,
and then he got hurt right before the draft.
Ladd McConkie, there's a report from The Athletic
that the majority of all of his snaps with the first team
have come from the slot.
That's essentially what I was expecting.
It's what makes sense on this roster right now.
Josh Palmer, Quentin Johnston on the outside.
McConkie played 29% of his college snaps in the slot.
It is the reason I have Keon Coleman higher than McConkie in my rankings
for this year. I liked
McConkie a ton. Talked about
him a lot in the offseason.
Liked the situation for Keon a little
bit more. Yeah, I can agree with that.
Scared of McConkie being a 6-for-56
and no touchdown guy.
Valuable for the team.
Maybe not as valuable for fantasy.
Just speculation right now yeah and just
some numbers because when you hear someone is designated to be a slot wide receiver
it does lower their probability to becoming a true fantasy like difference maker it doesn't
eliminate it because we you know the n NFL is starting to shift. Last year,
Keenan Allen,
nearly 48% of his targets
were from a route out of the
slot. A good
amount. Same thing.
Seedy was at 57%.
Amon Ra was at 55%.
It's not the end
when you say that he's going to be predominantly in the slot, but it does not the end when you say that, well,
he's going to be predominantly in the slot, but it does lower the odds.
Yeah.
Yeah, a lower percentage of touchdowns historically have come from the slot.
Yeah, because you've got a lower depth of target.
Yeah, so it's just something to pay attention to,
and especially as a rookie,
if that's where you're going to get the majority of your snaps,
manage expectations low
passing volume offense
and you know you and I were talking about Josh
Palmer maybe being
just free free in drafts
and yet maybe the number one target
yeah there
yeah
don't tell anybody don't tell anyone also because
your
your sanity will be called into question
if you start talking about proclaiming,
I think Joshua Palmer's the guy.
Yeah, I mean, it's interesting.
Rashi Rice, the charges from the nightclub assault have been dropped.
The alleged assault?
Yes.
Which, I mean, yeah. nightclub assault have been dropped. The alleged assault? Yes. Which...
Well, I mean, yeah.
That's at least one positive step here for Rice.
That doesn't mean...
The league can still have their say.
Yeah, the league can still have a say from this thing,
and that doesn't even take into account the whole speeding
on the freeway accident.
We're going to take a quick break and come back
with some of your questions.
All right, we're going to take a few minutes
and jump into your mailbag questions.
A lot of things going on.
We're going to do our best to help you out.
Let's do it.
Mailbag. Mailbag. Yeah! we're gonna do our best to help you out let's do it mailbag do you feel a pressure when jason's not here like when it's just the two of us do you feel
like a pressure to do more with the mailbag uh like you're more on an island over there like
i don't think about it no no it's just
you're just in it yeah it doesn't matter yeah i mean you're like you might as well be alone in a
room i i pretty much leave my body do you for a mailbag yeah frightening dude just hear those
notes no i those things are upstairs they're they're special uh question from troy cummings writes in uh off of x he says hello
chosen ones why are we still so high that's the first time we've been called the chosen ones
why are we still so high on justin jefferson he has a rookie quarterback only five wide receivers
have finished top 12 with a rookie quarterback let let alone top five. Help me understand.
And he brings up, well, we can look through history and see the five.
I remember the Cam Newton year in 2011 where Steve Smith was the one.
That was wild.
Wide receiver seven.
I think he had 1,300-something yards.
Christian Ponder managed to get Percy Harvin to wide receiver eight.
That's shocking.
Andy Dalton got A.J. Green to the wide receiver 11.
And then Andrew Luck with Reggie Wayne.
Reggie Wayne, very established.
That is the, like the 2012 Reggie Wayne situation is 100% the way I view this,
is extremely established star, which is what you see.
Like if you go back and you look at all the rookie quarterbacks and their
highest receiver in terms of fantasy production,
the ones that have succeeded,
the ones that have made it through the outliers have been the best players of
the group. It's not, they don't elevate a middle tier player.
They make the best players, The best players make them great.
So Steve Smith, Reggie Wayne, A.J. Green, Roddy White,
those are four stars.
So what about the wide receiver who, through four seasons,
is averaging over 98 receiving yards a game,
which would be number one all-time?
Yeah, I'm not worried about it.
Yeah, that's why. I mean, we're at least,
we are acknowledging the situation.
I don't have Justin Jefferson number one.
If you had Kirk Cousins on this team or even just someone –
a quarterback who I had faith in.
I mean, I don't know if you – okay, side conversation here.
Okay.
Where are you with J.J. McCarthy starting versus Sam Darnold?
Do you think this is week one, the rookie takes over?
I hope so.
Or that Sam Darnold plays maybe through the bye week,
which is not an uncommon thing.
I really hope it's one.
When is the Vikings bye week?
Let's pull it.
I don't have that on the top of my head.
I was throwing it out to see if anyone had.
I'll look it up if it's not there.
No, I hope it's McCarthy, even if it's painful for a couple weeks. But not hope.
Give me your – so week six is the Vikings bye week.
So potentially five games of Sam Darnold make the transition.
Week seven on you of J.J. McCarthy.
Do you think it happens sooner than that?
As of right now, I think he'll be the starter week one.
Okay. That's what I expect.
And maybe that's just
from watching Sam Darnold.
I don't know.
But yeah, why are we still high on
him? Because he's put up the best numbers in the
history of the NFL at the wide receiver position.
They improved their offensive line.
I think
McCarthy's a smart quarterback.
The best receiver on this team that's always open is Jefferson.
And he put up insane target numbers when they had –
I mean, is J.J. McCarthy a worse starter than the guys they had
running it back last year?
No, definitely not.
You know, he put up 12 for 192 in Week 17 against Detroit.
So, yeah, I don't want to be caught stupid with Justin Jefferson.
No, he's not ranked number one for any of us.
Yeah, we didn't.
Maybe he's five or six.
That feels like an insult.
It's like Tyreek Hill and CeeDee Lamb.
It's very easy.
I'm going to take those guys over Justin Jefferson.
Jamar Chase, I think that's a closer conversation.
For sure.
But I also think that's one where you need to be watching what happens,
like Mike said about Sam Darnold.
What does preseason look like?
What does camp look like?
Try to read through the coach speak there.
Instagram question from Caleb King.
Does Dalton Kincaid lead the Bills in receptions and yards this year?
Last year he had the fourth most receptions ever for a rookie tight end.
Already a bunch of hype train stuff happening.
Talking about him catching everything and looking amazing
in off-season camp activities.
It's – he should, but I think that there,
I don't think it is a,
it's not a slam dunk where you had,
you know,
to,
to steadily to start the season,
both him and Dawson Knox are sharing time on the field.
And I'm just,
these are just snaps.
Of course,
Knox is a different archetype of a player.
He's blocking more,
but you know
Dawson Knox goes down to injury he comes back then weeks 14 through 18 Dawson Knox is averaging
about nearly 50 percent of the snaps and Dalton Kincaid at averaging 57 percent of the snaps so
he was a rookie should take another step, was a first round
pick by the Buffalo Bills.
At the time, kind of felt like he's
being drafted to be the future of their
pass catching.
How do you have it
statted?
I think that there's...
I have Dalton Kincaid right
now at tight end six.
Is he the leader though in receptions for the Bills?
Let me pull that up.
Because I do have him leading them in total receptions.
I have him with 83 receptions, which would be 10 more than last year.
Yes, I do have him leading the team in receptions.
So to answer the question briefly, yeah, we both see it that way.
That doesn't mean the leap is into some yeah number one overall spot
right his adp right now mike uh kyle just sent this through is the fifth round the fourth pick
is that a fair price if he leads the team i think so yes i think so i'd yeah, and you have the projections versus upside are not the same thing.
The upside, should Dalton Kincaid take a true year two lead, are top three tight end.
Yeah, it is.
And I don't know, you know, do we see some of the stalwarts of the tight end position step up and continue to maintain their spots?
Is Mark Andrews going to be right back
up there again this year? I believe so.
I think a lot of people expect it, but at the same time,
I know Trey McBride, high expectations,
Laporta, Ingram,
Njoku, and then you have players like
Pitts. There are more
upside angles at tight
end this year, in my opinion.
You know how you normally have the group of like three or four?
Like this year I see.
So who would you – I'll give you Kincaid and I'll give you Pitts.
Who else would you put in that category?
McBride.
Oh, I have McBride as –
I know, but you're on drugs.
Like you inject Trey McBride statistics.
Yeah, right into the veins, brother.
You've converted a spreadsheet into like a drug
and you snort it every day.
I'm saying that Trey McBride is not
in those...
For me, he's not in the projections of guys
who are like, I think they could take the step.
It's no. McBride did
and he is just where among
the elite tight ends does he finish?
That's how I have it.
I mean, it seems like historically we've taken a lot of time
before we run up with a crown and hand it to these tight ends.
But I feel like you have had this crown stored away for so long
that the second Trey McBride put like three games together.
It was like, here you go.
I had this thing on layaway.
I just want to hear a sentence about why it might not be as great this year
from you.
But then I would just be lying to you.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
So McBride is in that category for me of decisions between what you expect
to be solid guys or upside.
Njoku is still interesting.
Njoku was the – people need to know, like,
this was the best tight end in football over the last part of the year.
Yeah.
I know why.
It wasn't – but you're talking week seven on, Mike.
Yeah.
He didn't even have a – he had one fantasy finish outside the top 12
from week seven on.
That's almost the whole season.
How many of those weeks did he play when he actually had a good game?
But was he playing with Deshaun Watson?
Do you have Njoku's numbers in front of you?
Yeah.
Okay.
Watson played week nine.
How did it go?
He was four for 26 and a touchdown.
Okay.
He got the score.
That's the tight end.
Tight end 12.
He got the touchdown.
This is going to be fun because I got one sheet
up. You have the other sheet up.
Don't say week 13. Deshaun Watson
played week 10.
He was 6 for
58, finished as the tight end 10.
That's a good week.
It's not bad, but
saying the first
three weeks, I don't remember Njoku was...
No one needs to
that's the the hardest thing for him but you can't blame him for not playing with watson
and putting up the numbers that he did no no i'm saying the hardest thing is the team
knows for sure now that no joke who can be like the off focal point or the focal point of any given week,
and yet his numbers when Deshaun Watson has been the quarterback
have been terrible.
Everything that's happened with Deshaun Watson as the quarterback
has been terrible.
Yes.
That's the biggest question.
He was the tight end six last year, and he missed a game.
That's what N joke who gave you
123 targets 81 for 882 six touchdowns and big plays that's what joseph flacco gave you
yeah yeah you know it wasn't just flacco though right they started um
dorian thompson robinson a couple times yeah that's his name his name, right? Yeah. Yeah, DTR?
Yeah, DTR.
And I think one other, didn't they start one other quarterback?
Let me go check.
Kyle, do you remember one other name?
PJ Walker?
Yeah.
PJ Walker.
Driscoll.
And Jeff Driscoll.
So when you say, I mean, he played.
Yeah.
Joku played with, Flacco was five games, dude.
Yeah.
Five games, but his run was from week seven on.
I just think he's being undervalued.
In the open field, David and Joku is unbelievable.
Yeah.
If they didn't learn from last year, they're stupid.
That's what I'm saying.
Where it's so difficult is it wasn't just Flacco.
PJ appeared in six games.
DTR was in eight.
The fact that you had four other quarterbacks
and Njoku was able to put up some really strong numbers with those guys
but so rare with Watson.
The sample was so small.
Watson played what?
Six games.
It felt like zero.
It felt like too many.
It was not good, man.
Nope.
But they've tied themselves to him.
Yeah, buckle up.
Buckle up.
Buckle up.
It is.
Yeah, we were talking about him on the Dynasty show,
and it really is, unless they take a Russell Wilson salary cap kick to the groin,
Watson's there for two years.
The Browns had the most turnovers in the NFL,
played five different quarterbacks, and went 11-6.
That's amazing.
So, you know, keep using Njoku.
Instagram question from Alec writes in, says,
is Garrett Wilson a trap in redraft?
Maybe.
I mean, is Aaron Rodgers a good quarterback?
Did you see his quote?
But I don't want to go out as a bum or whatever.
I don't want to go out as a bum or whatever he said.
You know, he welcomes the competition and understands the pressure.
We don't need Aaron Rodgers to be great.
We need him to be a starting quarterback,
a slightly above average starting quarterback,
and then Garrett Wilson's fantastic.
That's proven by Joe Flacco giving Amari Cooper a great run at the end of the year.
You can come in and be
competent. Jefferson was good
with Nick Mullins. Just give me
a late career
Phillip Rivers season in Los Angeles.
Evaluating film can be very
difficult, but watching
Garrett Wilson routes
and the way he can put defenders
in a blender
and his hands are good.
So everything is there.
If he sees the same volume and has a quarterback who can actually give him
catchable targets, then he won't be a trap.
But that's a lot of ifs for a guy who's being drafted as the eighth overall
or eighth wide receiver overall. I don't think he'll be a trap. I don't think so either. That's my lot of ifs for a guy who's being drafted as the eighth overall or eighth wide receiver overall.
I don't think he'll be a trap.
I don't think so either.
That's my final vote, and I think part of the reason why he won't be a trap.
Oh, yeah, Garrett played with Flacco.
Were those good games, Kyle?
Yeah, they were pretty good.
I remember.
Yeah, it's passing volume.
I mean, I don't think he'll be a trap because I don't know if you can tell me
the next best player to catch a football on that team. And Aaron Rodgers is not stupid. When he had Devontae
Adams or Jordy Nelson, he throws it to the talent. Yep. He likes guys that are wide open.
Yeah. And that's one of Wilson's abilities. So most ever targets through two years,
he's been a tease, right? Let's be honest. He makes all the moves and the ball's not near him,
and then he's due for some touchdown.
It's got to be.
And the Jets are due to get into the red zone for one.
Maybe.
All right, let's take a quick break and come back with some more questions.
All right, Kyle on X says,
how do you feel about Chris Olave as a wide receiver?
One, for your fantasy team, we're still waiting for a true breakout,
but he has high-end traits to be one of the top in the league.
Feels like we're talking about Garrett Wilson.
Yeah, all three of them are the same.
Drake London, Chris Olave, Garrett Wilson.
Yeah, the promise is still there.
To me, all three of those guys can really –
they can still take the leap forward.
Will all three of them do it?
I don't know.
I mean, probability says that they won't.
They need Joe Flacco, man.
Everybody needs Joe Flacco.
And funny enough, we were just talking about Chris Alave
as well on this week's Dynasty show, and Betts was bringing up, you know,
we have a new offensive philosophy, hopefully.
I mean, you have a new guy.
So last year, Pete Carmichael, the team was 32nd in pre-snap motion.
And this is like a real easy stat of when you go,
I don't have the numbers in front of me,
but it's like the Miami, San Francisco,
any high-powered offense that you think of,
they run pre-snap motion all the time
because this is a part of what the NFL needs right now.
They were dead last in it.
They bring in Clint Kubiak,
so another one of the Kubs, coming from San Francisco.
This will be in there.
This will be a much more.
So I'll want to watch the television this year?
That was so hard to watch last year.
This will be a more modern offense, no matter what.
Maybe they don't become great,
but they will be much improved over last year.
And an interesting tweet here from Football Insights.
Chris Olave, 3.13 yards per route run with motion the last two regular seasons.
That would be third for all wide receivers behind Tyreek, behind CeeDee Lamb.
So Olave, when they've gotten things going around,
when they've actually used a modern approach to an NFL offense,
good things have happened.
I want to play a game with you, and I'm going to read you a name.
Okay.
And you're going to tell me whether they're one of the Saints wide receivers.
All right.
I want to play a game. all right so just say saints wide receiver i mean i've also asked no no i've also asked chat gbt to give me
some random names okay so i'm mixing in like you don't know all right um let's start here with uh
kyle sheets no yeah he is a four stringer for the saints All right. Let's start here with Kyle Sheets.
No.
Yeah, he is a four-stringer for the Saints.
All right.
Next name, Stanley Morgan.
Stanley?
No. No way.
Yeah, third stringer with the Saints.
Morgan Stanley?
Nope, Stanley Morgan, my friend.
Let's go here.
Andrew Brooks.
Let's say no. No, not a Saints wide receiver. Yeah, my friend. Let's go here. Andrew Brooks. Let's say no.
No, not a Saints wide receiver.
Yeah, all right.
We got one.
Let's go with Mason Tipton.
Look, bro.
Rasheed Shaheed.
Yeah.
A.T. Perry.
Yeah.
Chris Olave.
Mm-hmm.
These are the only guys of note right now.
Yeah.
By the way, Mason Tipton, one of the third stringers for the Saints.
Also, Jermaine Jackson, Bub Means.
Oh, yeah, Bub.
They just drafted Bub Means.
Equinamia St. Brown.
So, yeah, all the pre-step motion in the world is not going to help you
from Stanley Morgan.
But, yeah, Rashid Shaheed is going to get targets.
And so is Juwan Johnson. And let's be honest, their wide receiver, too, his name Shahid is going to get targets, and so is Juwan Johnson.
And let's be honest, their wide receiver, too, his name is Alvin Kamara.
Yeah.
Juwan Johnson is sneaky.
He is, and I know he was sneaky last year, and as a whole, it did not work out.
End of season.
End of season, you're like, oh, there it is.
There's Juwan Johnson.
There you are, Peter.
Yeah.
He'll be a fun name to monitor over training camp
to see if he gets the same type of buzz that he got last year.
He was hurt in the final week of the year
and only played 46% of snaps the previous three weeks,
tied in 1-4-9.
Yep.
And he just did not get off to a good start.
So it'll be interesting if, you know, the offense changes under Kubiak and what that means for the tight ends,
but I'm sure that you're going to have some interesting names
catching passes this year.
All right.
Jacob wants to know, Instagram question, Chase Brown or Zach Moss in a full PPR?
So the Bengals, I'm putting together a little research project here,
trying to figure out what would be viewed as an ambiguous backfield
because this team doesn't have a running back
currently being drafted inside the top 24 running backs.
So, like, saying we just don't know who it is for sure,
and the Cincinnati Bengals are in that camp right now
between Zach Moss and Chase Brown.
Chase Brown is what we have listed
as 510205
to me
this is Zach Moss
I know that the deal wasn't
not a lot of money
it wasn't a lot but it was 3 million guaranteed
it was one of those
pretty quick in the free agency process
that they're like
we're going to move on from from Joe Mixon you know the whole
saga of he was going to get cut and then he ends up getting traded at the last second
Chase Brown seemed to not be trusted in you know in actual pass protection and Zach Moss is
Zach Moss was very good last year and it's one of the things Jason would often say.
Yeah, yeah, Jason, big Zach Moss guy.
Yeah.
But if you listen to our mock draft episode from Tuesday
where I was trying to lay out some of these running backs
in weird situations of – or not weird,
but in good situations where you say,
is this player good?
Do I know if this player is good or not?
I don't think we know yet on Zach Moss.
That's the risk.
Yeah.
Oh, that's why he's being drafted later.
Yeah, the risk is just if he's not good, he doesn't have to be their guy.
But if he is good, then he'll get 65% to 70% of the work.
I think Moss is good.
This is Zach Moss.
That's the pick for me as well.
I agree.
Scoot Warner says, how do I know when it's time to give up
and let my toddler make my draft picks?
That's a really good question.
Don't give up, Scoot.
There's a few moments that you do know.
There are some signals.
If you look at your roster at any point during the draft
and you have two or more Carolina Panthers on the team,
that's when you
hand it off to the toddler. That's good.
That's one of the markers.
If you draft any of the tight ends Mike likes,
you want to hand that off to
the toddler at that point in time.
How dare you.
YouTube question from
Phillip. Do you think I could
get the 101 for
Jamar Chase in a dynasty?
And should I consider offering?
Yeah, if you draft Stanley
Morgan, it's also another
opportunity to hand the picks to your
toddler. Or your portfolio.
You do
want to hand your portfolio off, not your team.
That's smart.
Jamar Chase.
Could you get the 101 for Jamar Chase?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Not everywhere, but in a good amount of leagues, yes.
Should I consider offering it?
Like, I mean, this is – no.
I would rather have Jamar Chase than Marvin Harrison.
Is it close at all?
I mean, it's like.
What if you're fully rebuilding and Jamar.
It's like Glendale to Scottsdale close.
You know what I mean?
Same state.
About 30 minutes.
30 minutes away.
Freeway drive.
But I'm not crossing state lines.
Yeah, I'm still going to take Jamar Chase over Marv.
Yeah.
And readily accept that that could be
a bad decision after this year. Do you think we
should commit to more
local, regional humor?
You think that will land with
city-based humor
from Phoenix?
I think people really like it.
Yeah, I think they get it.
So like what's now?
Borrow's Pizza?
That's a local pizza chain here.
We'll do Borrow's jokes.
Oh, it's great.
All right, we'll keep it regional.
What we should do is use AI,
and every location that people hear the podcast,
AI switches those two cities to two cities that are near them.
So it seems like we cater to everybody. And then they're like, these guys are like my best friends.
They live right next to me. Right? That would be very funny. Yeah. So can we work on that, Deucers. We're on it. Thank you.
All right.
Question on IG.
I have Saquon.
This is from Matt Sink.
I have Saquon and A.J. Brown in Dynasty.
Should I be looking to move one of them?
Not really.
No.
No, I'm fine.
The Eagles will be a strong offense, and both of these players individually are going to be great players.
Yeah, two Panthers, not great.
Two Eagles, sure.
Yeah, I think you're fine there.
IG question from Doan.
In Dynasty, would you rather trade away Jalen Hurts or Anthony Richardson?
Come on, guys.
Well, it's the balance of if you trade Jalen Hurts,
you're going to get way more.
Yeah.
So do you want way more and taking the risk of the next big quarterback
or keeping the elite quarterback
and just getting what you can for Richardson?
I think I bit my tongue.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
You think?
Yeah, I did bite my tongue.
Confirmed. Adam Schefter reporting. hold on hold on hold on you think yeah i did bite my tongue okay confirmed
adam shepter reporting i have never bit my tongue and thought hold on did i bite my eye
did you did someone else bite your tongue is that no
jay grizz bit my tongue um yeah so that's new what What were you doing? I don't know. I was just kind of fooling around.
Oh, man.
Could you go on?
Yeah, no, I'm good.
I'm not bleeding or anything.
I'm good.
All right, well, we'll close it out with this YouTube question from OG Ghost.
We have a punishment in our league where the last place person
has to stay at a Waffle House for 24 hours.
Yeah, so the waffle challenge.
Yeah, if you eat one waffle, you can knock off one hour of time.
The problem is last place has already confirmed he won't be doing it.
Outside of just kicking him from the league,
do you have any suggestions or penalties we could implement this season
in the season or in the draft for people that don't
complete the punishment for finishing last. So the last place person agreed to this before and now
isn't doing it? I would have to believe so. What's wrong? I mean, waffles are delicious.
Yeah, but have you not seen video of people trying to do it?
Yeah, I know. I mean, it's like how many of those waffles could you actually eat?
We've talked about this.
I think I could get 12 down, and I'd be sitting there for 12 more hours.
Oh, man.
Eat a waffle, wait an hour.
That's probably – is that the pace you want to do?
It could be.
We need to break down the whole spreadsheet.
Has anybody had the inherent danger of being at a Waffle House included into the punishment?
I think that's a known thing.
If you spend 12 hours in a Waffle House, do you leave?
Do you leave fully intact?
Yeah, like with all of your possessions?
I think there's a chance of no.
You better eat quick.
But for the question, I it's that's so lame that is
so lame if you were part especially if people have already done this and then it's it's known
everyone agrees these are the stakes yeah it's that's the breaking of the the trust if you all
agreed in the beginning to do it and then he lost and he's
a sour sport and doesn't want to do it i think if it's important enough for the league you can boot
him yeah and if it's not that important and you like the guy and you want him in there then don't
make this that big of a deal it's it's it's so bad man it's so bad because this one person now
is above the league right they will feel like i don't know i can do whatever i want and like i don't
have to abide by the rules of of this league is yeah i i do i think like imagine you go imagine
you're in anywhere you make a financial bet it goes. You lose. And this is when people are coming with bats for your legs.
It's a bet.
If this, then that.
A contract has been made, and the contract needs to be honored.
It's not a big deal, man.
Just eat some waffles, man.
Go goof around and bring a laptop.
Get some work done.
Bring whatever, a book.
There's no way that he's going to hear any of this stuff we're saying
because if you've been listening to the show,
there's no way he's in this position.
I can agree with that.
You know what I mean?
All right, that is going to do it for today's episode.
Sorry.
Just go do it.
Just go eat some waffles, man.
Tuesday, we've got Fantasy Wild Cards wild cards on the show oh wild cards already yeah
and then we've got an explain yourself episode excellent so dk metcalf dk metcalf jason go ahead
and uh that's on thursday we'll be back intact then and um wait i i had a request
for what hold on i gotta find a drop really quick.
It's important.
Who was doing...
Oh.
We have new ones.
We're just going to keep going with this one?
Okay.
Yeah, I like that part.
Do we have new ones?
Yes. Did we have new ones? Yes.
Do we have some of the staff make us some songs?
We have some.
Remember Jason put out just that banger.
Okay.
So we're going to work some in?
Yes.
We've got nine days left.
I would love to.
So there you go.
Ultimate.
UDK.
UDK.
Oh, okay.
Come on.
I do remember now.
Yeah.
All right.
That'll do it for today's show.
Thank you for joining us.
Shout out to the Deucers and Deucer's Alley for keeping things on lockdown.
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