September 8, 2026 • 49 mins
It's Fox Sports Radio's official fantasy football podcast! On this week's show, Dan Beyer, Mike Harmon and producer Brandon Deutsch do their annual top-60 fantasy football mock draft for the 2026 season!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ladies and gentlemen, you want experience during your football season?
Buckle up, sweet cheeks.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
That's all we need.
Speaker 1 (00:09):
We've got all the experience in the world. This is
I Want Your Flex with Dan Beyer and Mike Harmon.
Mike and Dan break down everything you need to set
your lineups. From position rankings to starts and sits, the
guys help you make those hard decisions. And now, let's
get your flex on. Here's Dan Beyer and Mike Harmon.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
The season's almost here. Hit them up at Swollen Dome.
You can find me at Dan Byer on Fox. Mike
may give you a little heads up on how to
prepare for Wednesday and Thursday as the regular season is
finally here. Week one starts on Wednesday night with the
Seahawks and Patriots. And then Thursday night in Australia, it's
the Rams and 49ers. But before we get to all
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of that, this may be Mike. We do this twice
a year. We do it at the beginning of the season.
We do it at the end of the season. where
we just draft the top 60. It's one of my
more favorite things that we do on I Want Your Flex,
just to kind of see where everybody settles out. Who
are the guys that make it into our top 60?
Who are the ones on the outside looking in? It's
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just a fun exercise. We're not filling any lineups. But
that time has come as the start of the regular
season is very, very near.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
We've been waiting for it and counting the days and
the injury reports and contract signings, right? Gonzalez gets his
giant deal with the Patriots. So suddenly he's not going
to be hurt for Wednesday, right? And he'll be full
tilt when you give him $ 100 million guaranteed. But all
of that to say, it's been a wild, winding road.
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So many of these quarterback battles and position battles. And
let's face it, it's not quite college football, but a
lot of guys showing up in new places.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, absolutely. And on Wednesday night, I wish that Christian
Gonzalez wouldn't have made the flight with the Patriots and
then he wouldn't have played with the Seahawks. But not
only that, To your point, he's got a new contract,
he's not going to be healthy, and he's likely going
to suit up and start on Wednesday night. All right,
let's start with our draft, our top 60. We'll do
our top 30, take a timeout, and then go for
the other 30. Mike, I am going to give you
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the honor of the first overall pick. And again, Mike
and I aren't filling out our actual teams. We're just
drafting who we think the best available player is at
this point. We go with a half-point PPR scoring league.
And Mike, I guess, we'll alternate. you got the odds
i got the evens take it away.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Let's go let's just start with mr gibbs my pirates
of the caribbean reference uh big explosiveness detroit offense maybe
100 catches for jameer.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Gibbs i will go with the other running back uh
bijan robinson i do think that just those two standing
out even in ppr leagues because of how effective they
are in the passing game i would take bijan number
two or Bajon, however you want to say it.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yeah, again, another 100-catch guy. Jamar Chase coming in third.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
This is the likely spot. Sometimes he goes 1-1 in
certain spots, but I kind of felt how this is
how the top three would fall. Now we get into
this murky area. I think that it starts a little
bit at three when we're talking overall because I do
believe that Puka Nakua would have an edge over Jackson
Smith and Jigba, but... We don't necessarily know fully with
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Puka on a full season, so I'm going to go
JSN at this point. So I'll give him the edge
at number four just because I'm not necessarily sure on
what we're going to get. If there could be a
penalty at some point for Puka, there's also an injury scenario.
He has dealt with injuries throughout his career, so right
now the safer bet, I'm going to put JSN at
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number four.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, I think you had injury. You got the suspension
where we have no idea. They've all addressed it as
best they can. But is that looming for 2027 and
just you go through the whole year? The other thing
is if the Rams, if they play to form, right,
what everybody expects of this squad in the fourth quarter,
isn't it a lot of stuffing it into the gut
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of Williams and Corum?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
And maybe not quite winging it around. I think that
scares me off a little bit as well.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I think also if Puka doesn't get penalized this year,
there's something that's not necessarily right. Because right now you
have a couple of guys, including Josh Jacobs, who's on
the commissioner's exempt list, and he's not going to be
able to play for Green Bay in their opener. And
his alleged incident happened in May. And so the Puka
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stuff that was going on and some of the stuff
happened way before then. And for this to take that long,
if they were going to levy some sort of punishment,
I think would be a misstep by the NFL.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I would agree. Ready? I'm going to kick him down
the curb a little bit more here because I'm taking
Amon Ross St. Brown. Wide receiver three, as we talked
about in the wide receiver preview, three straight years. Let's
make it four.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
All right. Amon Ross St. Brown goes at number five.
I will take Jonathan Taylor in at number six. I
don't know what to expect from the Colts, but I
do expect them to give the football to Jonathan Taylor
a lot. A little bit more expanded receiving game from
a year ago, so I'll take Jonathan Taylor at six.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Nicely done. I'm going to go, and this is where
Pukunikua finally goes, and I do so with a little
bit of reticence. Again, for all the reasons that we outlined,
like the over-the-top– offense that could net another massive season
is there but we checked off all the boxes of
why it could go south so he's the cautionary tale
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i think in this early part of the draft.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I am going to do this solely on this is
a little different i'm mixing it up and maybe i'm
already altering things i took jsn for a reason over
puka and the others because just uh almost in a
way play it safe i'm not gonna play it safe
here i am gonna go christian mccaffrey I think he'll
suit up against the Rams in week one. I have
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a big question about the fall off after that, but
the receptions are just too hard to pass up, so
I will take CMC at this spot at number eight.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Like it. As we go down the draft, I'm going
to go with the greatest offense there is. I'm going
to take CeeDee Lamb. You like that?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Interesting Spondell.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
A little bold?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah. Well, the reason I like it is because we
always talk about regression, regression, regression. And it's like, how
about progression? Right. How about someone having an off year
and then coming back to being who they normally are?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Truly are. I mean, you got offensive explosion. You'll get
more support from the defense, certainly than you have in
years past. So maybe a couple of short fields to
work with. And we know he and Dak getting it done.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Give me James Cook at 10. I know the, sometimes
the question and we, We wondered about Cook's usage at
times last year. I felt that they needed to rely
on him more. He ends up leading the league in rushing,
and now the offensive coordinator's the head coach. So I'm
going to expect the same from James Cook in 2026.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I like that. Pushing up maybe off of a little
of the overall consensus, I'm going to take Chase Brown.
The breakthrough in 2025 continues.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
You're really high on him this year.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I like him. I think he's a guy that I
think there could be a little bit of an uptick
on the receiving side of things. But again, we look
at the overall push for what the Bengals could be. Again,
that defense, still a lot of questions on that. But
if Burrow and company are clicking, then he still has
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the opportunity to outperform.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Coming in at number 12, I'm going to go the
progression route. Upgraded quarterback. The question is, I just don't
know how much, but I will go Justin.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Jefferson at 12.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
The bounce back.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I'm torn, honestly, Mike, because I don't think that Kyler
Murray is as good as people want to believe that
he is. But I'm hoping that his situation and what
he has been able to absorb during his time in
Minnesota will help him. and that in turn will help
Justin Jefferson be one of the top receivers again in
fantasy football.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, we've watched him. He's kind of like reading a
heart monitor the last four years. Up, down, up, down.
We'll see what comes to fruition with that Minnesota offense here.
I'm going to take O'Marion Hampton, something we talked about
a lot in the podcast, the expectation that we'd see
a reliance on the run game out of the Chargers
with Mike McDaniel. It doesn't mean that Justin Herbert's not
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going to be able to wing it around, but it
begins and ends. And here I'm hoping for a full
season of health out of Hampton.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, Hampton, I'm high on him. I took him in
my longtime league. was able to snatch him up as
my RB2 in my second-round pick.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
See, that's one of my favorite stories. Though, Dan, for
those that are just coming into the podcast, the fact
that you've got a league that has survived many a year,
many a move, children, divorces, all sorts of chaos, and
it still goes on.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It is year 29, and we honestly, Mike, in a way–
not that it reflects what the NFL and the AFL
were at the time, but we had a different league
like the year before with, it was 14 teams, and
that kind of just didn't work. Other guys move. Some
guys graduated from college. So we had a group of
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10 guys. Then we're like, okay, let's put this league together.
And then that one formed and we've been going ever since.
So it's kind of been a lot of the guys
that are in this league are still, we're in that
league that we had for the one year. But that
was just a completely different league. So it's been 30
years kind of with the same group of guys, 29
in the same league. I mean, you and I played
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it when we were 12, 13, 14 years old in
high school. But with this group of guys, it's year
29 this year.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
That is just fantastic.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Fantastic options after Omari and Hampton. Man, it's a little
bit of, okay, I like this. I like that. I'm
going to go crazy off the board here. Trey McBride.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Ooh, I like it.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I know this is crazy. And I'm sure producer Brandon
is rolling his eyes. However, I just don't know how
many football games they're going to win. And if Jacoby
Brissett is going to be the quarterback, I think that
Trey McBride will get his full share. And I like
him as tight end one in this situation, even ahead
of Brock Bowers.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Boy, I like that. I like the boldness of it.
I think the offense could score points. I just don't
think they can stop anybody.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I mean, there's weaponry. Is Marvin Harrison Jr. got the
stick of my symptom?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
We'll find out. Let's go back to the running back position.
We've joked about it, or maybe I've killed the joke
too many times. The James Wilder 492. Let's go back
to A-Chan. He's going to catch 100 balls. That's what
we thought and said before last season with McCaffrey. I
think he's the only option.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yes, he is.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
That's it. Does that mean he's running to the ground
by week 12? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Again, my son is... A Dolphins fan because he likes dolphins.
He likes animals, and the dolphins are the one. And
we were doing our work draft, Mike, for the guillotine league.
And my son's like, are you going to pick a dolphin?
Guess you took Ollie Gordon in the 13th round. Is
that why you took him? That is exactly why I
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took him.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
That was awesome because you took him. I'm like, I
had Gordon on a short list.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah, that is exactly why. I love that. There were
a couple of other options, but it ended up being
Ali Gordon being the guy.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Tie goes to the kid.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yes, absolutely. Give me Nico Collins here at 16. I
know there's questions about Stroud. I don't have as many
questions about the line as well. But, you know, they
bring in Keishon Booty to try to add to the
depth after losing Jaden Higgins. He's still getting acclimated. So
if the targets are going anywhere, I think they're going
to Nico Collins.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Nicely done. Stays healthy. He's performed in the past, right?
He was a WR9 for us before. All right, let's
go back to the running back. Well, let's give me
some Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I like the Eagles offensive line, even though it may
not be as great as it was when Jason Kelsey
was the anchor and Lane Johnson's got a, you know,
a farewell season coming up, but still they've got all
the talent in the world. It's just, can they put
it together in Philadelphia?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
No, that's it. And I'll trust that with a diminished
workload a year ago. And look, there's, they always work
in uncertainty there in Philadelphia, Sirianni, people have a liking problem.
They don't, but, and they change out their offensive coordinator.
It's like the, Defense against the dark arts, if I
go full nerd, Harry Potter. Every year there's a new defense.
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And guess what? They're the bad guy. Spoiler alert.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Well, you know who I think is the bad guy?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
A.J.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Brown. But I'm going to take him here at 18. A.J.
Brown has given me headaches over and over. And he's
given the Eagles headaches. Now it's a Patriots problem. But
I think he will aid Drake May. I think it
would be good value at this point. I think A.J.
Brown is good at number 18.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
There you go. Honeymoon period there in New England. How
about I go a little further off the board? And yeah,
I want to get shucked because it's Chris Alave.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I wondered when that was going to happen.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Great talent. Great player. If we can keep him on
the field and healthy. I mean, he's a top five
receiver in this game.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
How about him going ahead ahead of. drake london for
first wide receiver from the nfc.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
South tyler shuck can throw the ball down the field
and michael bennings jr cannot.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yes that is true to uh the uh the getting
the start against the pittsburgh steelers coming up on uh
in week one on sunday i have drake london in
a different league as a as a keeper as a
holdover and i am planning for the worst and i'm
also not planning at putting him at number 20 i'd
rather just roll the dice with derrick henry And call
it good. So give me Derrick Henry in at number 20.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Nicely done. I will stay at the running back position.
I'll go to Las Vegas. Hopefully his ankle holds up.
Hopefully Washington doesn't eat into his workload too terribly much
early on. But I'm hopeful that Ashton Gentry can actually
run back to the line of scrimmage before he's hit
this year.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
That would be nice. That would be very nice. I
think that they've got some promise. It's just such a
tough division. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
It's not going to translate to wins, but we should
see progress.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
And I saw in the guillotine league, you were able
to go and grab Kirk Cousins. I don't know what
the sorting, sorting hat was in that league. Cause I
was trying to do the show and I'm drafting and
I'm like, wait, he was able to pick up Kirk Cousins.
What the hell kind of software is this?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
That was only because Deutsch, Brendan Deutsch, our executive producer,
I saw he picked up someone and I just, I
needed a, I mean, I only had one quarterback, so
I needed to put a backup quarterback guillotine league. I
don't necessarily recommend it in a 12 or 14 league,
but for the guillotine league, because of the 18 teams
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and people are drafting quarterbacks, if I were to lose
a quarterback in week one, there's no guarantee there would
be anybody good. And I'd have to pay $ 500 to
buy a quarterback. which would set me back. So that's,
that's the only reason why Kirk cousins is on my team. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
But it was more just the fact that he was
available again, owing to the 18 teams draft. And I'm like, look,
I've got it sorted, just best available. And he never
showed up.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
He was like 3000 on the list. Brandon who took Gronk,
I think Adam ahead of him, or he took some,
he took Ben Roethlisberger. That's the way I think he took.
All right. I'm going to, I'm going to take a
Kenneth Walker the third year. Yeah. I, I'm mixed on this,
and I don't mean to sound like such a downer
in picking a guy at number 22. It's just more
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of a debate on would I have gone the wide
receiver I was considering at that point, or do I
go Kenneth Walker? And I think the Chiefs will obviously
commit to him. I think he's going to have a
bigger role, especially with Mahomes coming back, and they need him, Mike.
I'm not necessarily sold on everything that Kansas City has
in the wide receiver department, so I'll go with Kenneth
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Walker III with the pick at number 22.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I'm going to go back and grab tight end number two.
I'm going to take Brock Powers.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
All right. Good selection. Good value at that point. Was
it the Kirk Cousins talk that decided that?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah, I think it just got me excited.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
And more just the, all right, I trust that. Look,
the old adage, the old quarterback or the new quarterback,
the young guy, your tight end is your best friend.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
And if it's healthy, I mean, this guy's a monster.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
He absolutely is. Now I'm deciding, do I go a
wide receiver one or a wide receiver who I consider 1A?
I'm going to go with the 1A. I'm going to
go George Pickens here. There was something to him last
year in Dallas. And again, I think the defense is
going to be a lot better. So you may not
see the output that you saw in other years with Dallas.
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But still, they have him and CeeDee Lamb. It takes
pressure off of both of them. And Pickens, I think,
will get good enough numbers to definitely be in the
top 30.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Fantastic. All right, I'll break the drought. I'll finally take
the talent and the check that comes with Drake London.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Okay, there it is.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
And I don't feel great about it. I don't hate
the Drake, but I certainly don't love the Drake. He's
got to be one of the most polarizing guys on
the draft board just because of who's throwing in the football.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Well, I know there's another player that you love this season,
and I'm curious to see if he's going to go
in the top 30 or not. I think that he might.
So I'm interested to see that where this player goes,
considering you took Drake London where you did at number 25.
I am going to take Josh Allen. I will take
the quarterback. We'll take him off the board. I will
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take him at number 26.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Very, very good. All right, moving down the board a
little bit. I'm going very deep. I'm going to bring
up Ladd McConkie.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Ladd.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Where we're talking half PPR, the potential for him. No
more Keenan Allen, right? He's off to Indianapolis, so he's
not taking those routes and those targets. And, again, if
we think the mad genius can be that O.C., and
he doesn't get in a fist fight with Jim Harbaugh
on the sideline, that we get to see this pass
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catcher get back to what he was a couple years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I don't know. Many people can't win fist fights with
Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
No, I think it would be tough, yeah. You just
run around and tire him out.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Wasn't it Jim Kelly? Didn't he like punch Jim Kelly?
Because Kelly, when he retired, made some comments when he
was a commentator about something. I think they got into
a little.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
That sounds right. That sounds like a Jim Harbaugh kind
of thing.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
30 some years ago. All right. I am going out
on a limb here. If health. stays in the good spot,
and we don't even know if he's healthy week one.
Brees Hall. I don't think the Jets are going to
be bad, bad. I think they're going to be just
not good. But I think that Brees Hall could have
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quite a role for the Jets this season. I am
going to take him at number 28.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
All right, 29, Devontae Smith.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
There it is.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
There's the guy.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
That's who I thought maybe you were.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Going to take. In our wide receiver episode, you had
Ladd McConkie slightly ahead of him, I believe, and then
Devontae Smith was shortly after that.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
If I'm correct. Yeah, and I doubled down. I drafted
him in the guillotine league, so I look at him here,
and again, the Philly offense, full of chaos, full of
questions at the other wide receiver slots, right? Guys that
they're hoping to break through. We talked about Lemon quite
a bit. Goddard's back for one more run, but When
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I look at Devontae Smith, I think no more A.J. Brown.
He's going to get fed.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yes, he is. Quite a bit. Final pick of the
top 30. A guy who I don't think is going
to get fed as much, but he does score a
lot of touchdowns, and that's Kyron Williams. I may be
biased towards the running back in that situation. There could
be a split with him and Blake Corum. I think
at some point, Mike, you're going to see Blake Corum
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Maybe in some games in the middle of the season,
get more carries than Kyron Williams to try to make
sure that he's fresh in that way. But I think
that he could be in line for double-digit touchdowns again.
Not everyone is going to be thrown to Devontae Adams.
And maybe it'll go to the five tight ends the
Rams like to play. But I do think some of them,
and I think they'll be scoring a lot of touchdowns,
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We'll be going to Kyron Williams. So just the fact
that he could get double-digit touchdowns puts him in at
number 30 for me.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Certainly some value to be had there. The quorum thing
is a discussion we'll have each and every week on
the show as we try to rank top fives, breakthroughs,
and bust potential. But, yeah, for Kyron Williams, if this offense, again,
if it plays to form, everybody's going to get to eat.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
So now the top 30. Maybe where the players were
picked were a surprise, but it's kind of like the
NCAA tournament bubble. You know there are going to be
30 teams automatically in the tournament because of how good
they are. You know you've got the automatic qualifiers. It's
the 10 or so that are fighting for the five spots.
We're going to be getting to that In our next segment,
we've got 31 through 60 in our top 60 preview
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All right, let's dive right in. Pick number 31. He's
Mike Harmon. I'm Dan Baier. It is I Want Your Flex,
our top 60 episode. We've got the top 30 in
for you. I'll actually just do this. A quick recap
what we had from 21 to 30. I think we
know who the top 20 are. Shouldn't be too surprising,
but we had Ashton Gentry, Kenneth Walker III, Brock Bowers,
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George Pickens, Drake London, Josh Allen, Ladd McConkie, Brees Hall,
Devante Smith, and Kyron Williams. Was pick number 30, Mike,
take it away at pick number 31.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Looking for a bit of a repeat, talking again about
the explosiveness of that Dallas offense. Let's go, Javante Williams.
Am I excited about it? No, but he's the guy.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
By the way, my hmm wasn't like a bad hmm. No, no,
I get that. Yeah, it was okay.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Yeah, there he is. He's one of those guys that
we've had starts and opportunity last year, good year, looking
for a repeat, and he's running unopposed.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah, you're right about that. And I've done multiple drafts
where Javante Williams just kind of falls. And I think
whoever gets him is satisfied. And he's going to produce.
He may not be the hype machine that we thought
he could be when he was a rookie in Denver,
but sure found his footing with the Cowboys. And as
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he said, he's the guy, and that's it. We know
that Lamar Jackson is the guy. I am excited to
see what we can have from Lamar Jackson. I'm going
to put him at number 32. Love it.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
All right, let's go back. The WR2, who's the WR1? T. Higgins,
go back to that Cincinnati explosiveness.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I will.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I'm, geez, I was about to pull the trigger on
back-to-back Ravens picks for me. So I'm just going to
do it. I'm going to go Zay Flowers.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I have my questions, but if I'm picking Lamar Jackson
where I am, I also think that we could get
some of the results from Zay Flowers. So I'll go
Zay Flowers at number 34. How about this?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I'm going to push past a number of these other
wide receivers, and I'm going to go back to Denver,
and I'm going to take Jalen Waddell.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
All right. High on my list. High on your list
as well.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Yeah, there's a bunch of wide receivers sitting there, and
it's like, I love that guy, but I don't love
his team. I love that guy. Don't know if he's
staying healthy or his quarterback staying healthy.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
No.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Moving on, I take Jalen Waddell.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I hope Emeka Abuka can follow what he did in
the first half of last year. I know it trailed
off a little bit in the second half, but he
was on his way. to top rookie honors in what
he did in the first part of the season. I
think that he and Baker Mayfield will have a chemistry.
There's no more Mike Evans there. Give me Emeka Abuka
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at number 36.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Very good. I'm going to go with another young receiver.
I have no idea. I'm going to stay in division.
I'm going to take Ted McMillan.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I'm going to look at the individual achievement and hope
for better things and more continuity from that Carolina offense.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I'll keep this wide receiver run. This will be the
sixth straight wide receiver. Malik Neighbors. I have questions about
Jackson Dart. I truly do. I have questions about Malik Neighbors' knee,
and I have questions about that dang turf. But at 38,
I am fine with Malik Neighbors at that point.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Quality, value, big-time player. We've seen him achieve heights when
he's healthy. And even if, like, you don't trust that
Jackson Dark can stay out of the tent, I mean,
that gives us Jameis Winston time.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Sure. Fair enough.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
That's fun for everybody. You know, he can wing it around,
so why not?
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
He keeps staring at me, and it's like, I love
the talent. I hate the logo on the side of
his helmet. Give me Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
All right.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
I'll do it. I'll go to Geno Land or Klubnik
Land or whatever he calls it. Again, love the player.
It's kind of like when you drafted Brees Hall. It's
like some of these guys are like, boy, I don't
really like, but I love the player. So there you go.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
And Gino's Gino. He may throw 15 picks, but if
they're losing at that point, and Garrett Wilson sure can
catch the football.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yeah, just keep winging it around.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Yeah, I'm with you. I'll go another bad team scenario here.
I will go Jeremiah Love. I think he's going to
get a full season. He's expected to go against the
Chargers in week one. That game may not turn out
well for the Cardinals, but I think Jeremiah Love at
number 40 would be good value. So I'll take the
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rookie from Notre Dame there.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Explosiveness certainly there in the opportunity. All right, let's go back.
We'll grab a tight end here. Let's get tight end
three and go with Colston Loveland of the Chicago Bears. Look,
the defense is not going to be very good. Ben
Johnson wants to run up points because he knows he
needs to. So give me Loveland.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Number 42 overall. Loveland, the third tight end off the board.
I'm going to go. Boy, I again, I hesitated on
pulling the trigger. I should just say the name. Rishi Rice.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
OK, finally goes.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I'm only saying this again. I think that there's a
ceiling here. No way does he finish top 30, but
I do think that there will be receptions, and if
I have the same thoughts that I do about Kenneth
Walker III, I'll put Rasheed Rice here at number 42.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
See, he's one of those guys that I think week
to week is going to be maddening, but the final
numbers will be there. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, I also think he's going to have games where
he's going to have eight catches for 42 yards, but
two of them could be touchdowns. Sure. You know, like
I don't think you're going to see four for a
buck 42 in a score like you could with a
lot of other wide receivers. I think they're just going
to be, I don't think they're going to be big plays,
but if you can wrap up or rack up those
half points, why not do it with Rasheed Rice?
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Nicely done. All right, let's go back. You took Josh
Allen as QB1. That means I'm going to take a
former bear. I'm going to go DJ Moore. I want
to say it like Pat Summerall. DJ Moore.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Alan Moore. Touchdown, Buffalo. That would be my bet.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
There it is. The operational efficiency.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Less is more.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Nicely done.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
It always is. I didn't even put it. That was
no pun intended.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
No, that was great. And now I'd murder, she wrote.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Novacek. Touchdown, Cowboys. Again, 20% of our audience knows what
we're talking about.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
But they appreciate every second of it.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
And the other 80% should learn. That's true. That's your
homework assignment. I'm going to go with Travis Etienne, however
we're saying it, in New Orleans. Formerly known as Etienne. Etienne,
as he now wants it pronounced. We'll go with Travis
Etienne slash Etienne in New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Is that what he started hanging out in New Orleans?
That's how they pronounced his name? So he goes, yeah,
I'll go with that.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah, that's what he said. That's how I would always
pronounce it. Then he left Louisiana and at Florida, at Clemson,
they called him his brother went to Florida. At Clemson,
they called him ETN, and then it just made it
that way into the NFL. And now that he's back
in the bayou, he's like, yeah, this is actually how
it's pronounced.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Look at that. It took years to reclaim it. Kind
of like Tyrod. No, no, no. It's Tyrod Taylor.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Mr.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Taylor to you.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Terrell Owens was a Hall of Famer before he says it.
He goes, it's not Terrell, it's Terrell. Exactly. All right, great.
All right. Now I'm supposed to get used to this?
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Yeah, exactly. Thanks for the note, buddy. Jameson Williams of
your Detroit Lions.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I like him I do I mean he had 1100
yards last year and I don't know if the Lions
defense is any better.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
That's fair hopefully the offensive line is a little bit
for Jared Goff but spread it around again this is
one of those there are going to be weeks where
he is just off the charts there are going to
be weeks where you're going to say boy that just
was a step too far for.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Him You have to be willing to say Jamison Williams
killed me this week.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
That's true. That is absolutely true. I like that.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
And if you can live with it, then he's your
type of guy. All right. I'm going to go on
the quarterback mode again. I do think A.J. Brown helps
give me Drake May in at 46. Drake May.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
With an E. May. He'll– He may not have a
better outing against the Seahawks in week one just because
of all the yards he threw for in the fourth quarter.
But the overall outing for how bad things were for
the first three quarters may be better than week one. Fair.
So I think there's– and then there's just the rest
of the year, and you have four games against the
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Jets and Dolphins. That helps as well.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
There you go. Dolphins are 40-1 to win the division, Dan.
There's your random factoid that may only be fascinating.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Just don't tell my son. No, I won't. Hey, every win, you're.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Going to celebrate the hell out of it with your son. Like, hey,
they won. What are we doing? We're going to Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
A true story. He has wear jersey to school day. Okay.
I got him a Jackson Smith and Jigba jersey from
the Super Bowl. He could wear that. When I went
to the Bills game last year, I bought him like
a Josh Allen, like Authentic kids. Oh, nice. The point being,
it's not $ 300, but it wasn't like a cheap T-shirt.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
No, it's not cheap. No, that's it.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
No, it's never worn at once.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
And then he asked me.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
We're going to have to get that sign now that
it's still pristine.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
He asks me, he goes, can I get a Dolphins jersey?
I'm like, who do you want me to get? You know,
do you want to get him? You know, right. Exactly.
This is Don Strock. He played a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Again you talked about 20 percent would pass.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Oh man yeah it was tough tony nathan uh he
wasn't even a part of the marx brothers he was
just uh yeah there was wow that's good yeah so
it's it's tough because also i'm like well gosh if
things don't turn around hn could be gone in two
years but.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Hell, they could trade him by the mid-season.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Right?
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Anybody want to take on this contract? You got him.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
All hands up. All right. You're up at number 47.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
47. All right. Looking at the board as a... Yeah,
I don't like that running back. Don't necessarily think the
touchdowns are there. He's not going to stay healthy. Let's
go with Scary Terry McLaurin there in Washington. I am
not optimistic that they win many games. I think there's
some changeover over there, but I'll give him a nod
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just on individual talent.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
I'm going to go with your running back in Chicago.
Give me DeAndre Swift at 48. I am higher on
him than I've seen him in any of the rankings
in my drafts, but then he ends up always going
earlier than at the spot where he's ranked in drafts.
So 48 is where I'll take DeAndre Swift.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Let's go back to the tight end position. Give me
Tyler Warren. the Indianapolis Golds.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
It's like who else, right? It's Jonathan Taylor. I know
Alec Pierce has got his big deal, but still there's injuries.
We should be fine for week one, but.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Yeah, the explosiveness is there, but I mean, how often
are you going to see him out there?
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Yeah. And you drafted Warren with the value of doing
something unique with him. And they did it last year.
They had special stuff for him. I drafted Tyler Warren
and earlier than other tight ends. I think I actually, Mike,
took him ahead of Loveland.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
I believe that.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Yeah, I think those are the magnificent four, right, when
we talk about McBride, Bowers, Loveland, and Warren, and then
it's everybody else.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Yes. I believe in Roma Dunze.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
I know there's some.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
That question, some didn't like the drop last year in
the playoffs, but I am going with Dunze at 50,
just more of the steady Eddie as opposed to maybe
the roller coaster with Burton.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
All right, I'm going to hold my nose, and I'm
going to take Bucky Irving. I have no idea what
to expect from that squad. I really don't. You alluded
to it with Ibuka, Baker Mayfield. I'd love to walk
into a place that gives me $ 100 million and be
pissed off. Or offers me $ 100 million and I'm mad.
I don't understand. But hey, I don't have to. If
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he plays with a chip on his shoulder, the offense
will move the ball. Again, we've seen Irving have some
big games. He's got a little off-field stuff, but I
think he'll be good to go.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
At 51, that is about the spot that you're seeing
him go in certain drafts. I think this has gone
a bit under the radar, but I am going to
go Jadarian Price at this point. Still not talked about
a lot. We'll see his debut with the Seahawks, but
didn't play any preseason, was dinged up in the preseason.
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I know there's going to be the return of Zach Charbonnet,
And maybe sooner rather than later, the most recent reports
out of Seattle. But I still think he is going
to be a primary guy, especially early on in these
first four weeks. Maybe Holani takes some snaps in third
down sets and other spots. But the long term for Price,
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he's always going to be there, at least getting maybe
10 to 15 carries a game. So we'll put Price
there in at number 52.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
I like that. Number 53, I'm going to go quarterback.
I'm going to take Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Oh, yeah. All right, you got Devontae Smith, right? You
grabbed him. You got Saquon Barkley. And now Jalen Hurts
comes off the board. I'll go back-to-back quarterbacks with you,
and I'm going to go Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
When we talked in one of our episodes of wherever
Josh Allen goes, that's where your line is when it
comes to running backs and receivers. You can draw a
line of tiers. And I feel now, because we're taking
Hurts and Burrow, that Maybe we are transitioning to a
tier that is a little bit below some of the
other players we picked.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Yeah, I think that's it, right? We'll take those guys
off the board. We know their yearly excellence. Burrow, obviously,
is all health dependent. And whether he can count to
three or more behind that offensive line.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
All right. Who do you got at number 55 overall?
Speaker 3 (38:21):
55 overall. I'm going to go back into the wide
receiver room. Again, the explosiveness of the offense. I'll take
Devontae Adams here.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Okay. It's going to be enough to go around.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Well, but that's just it, right? Can he do more
than score touchdowns this year? That's the question. Because we
had a number of games last year, right? 15 or
20 yards receiving but two touchdowns. So it's a big day,
but not exactly. You don't want to have to sweat
those out.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
And I'm not going to be able to check right now.
I'm going to try my best. But I thought his
his three touchdown game was like five for thirty five.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
I think that's right.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
So I think that's so. Yeah. I mean, if he's
if he's getting those touchdowns. Great. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
If he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
It's going to be a feast or famine kind of thing.
The overall numbers are going to look great, though. Like
in terms of fantasy points, like look at a double
digit touchdown, whatever. It's like, yeah, it's going to be weird.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Well, we were able to stall long enough, and we
didn't even edit this. This was actually live when it
comes to the game logs. Well, take that back. ESPN
doesn't have that. Devontae Adams' game logs from last year.
What is wrong with you, ESPN? It was the quickest
site that I could try to track down, but for
whatever reason, it's not showing up. But I swear that
there was the 5 for 35 was the three-touchdown game
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for the Rams.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
I'm working on it. I'm working on it. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Well, while you figure out what these stats are, since
my computer ended up failing me, I will end up
making my pick. I don't know if they're going to
score touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
You were right, 535 against the Jaguars.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
And I think that was in London, I believe that
it was.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Five for 35, three touchdowns. The week before, five for
62 touchdowns. His other two touchdown games, five for 62,
four for 58. So half PPR, you're feeling okay, but
you definitely are living and dying by those touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
I know the Browns aren't feeling okay. They may only
score three touchdowns all year, but if they do, they're
all going to be by Quinshawn Judkins. So give me
the running back at this point, just maybe on pure
volume and Who knows what's going to happen? And he's
coming off of injury. Their offensive line is awful. Deshaun
Watson's their quarterback. Why not put him in the top 60? Nice.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
I'm going to stay running back. I'll go David Montgomery.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
All right.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Double-digit touchdowns. And he's going to grind.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Offensive line is awful. We don't even know how good
the quarterback is.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
No, that's fair. Yeah, all fair things. But we love
that defense, who might give you a couple of short
yardage touchdown opportunities.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
All right. I... Man.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
As we bag on these two teams.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
But deservedly so.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Yeah. Tell us where we were wrong. Tell us, you know,
tell us the lies, please.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
At Dan Meyer on Fox, at Swollen Dome, please do.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
I hope if he plays well, I'll be tooting my
own horn, but we're going to basial tooting here at
number 58. Don't know how much of a split it's
going to be in Jacksonville, but I do think that
he's going to have the edge. So give me tooting
at 58.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
All right, I'm looking squarely for my last pick. Do
I take the juggernaut? Do I do it? Can he
stay healthy enough to get me more? I'll take Scataboo.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Oh, there it is.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
I've been re-watching all the X-Men movies, right? Getting ready
for Doomsday and all the stuff that's going on. The
Marvel Cinematic Universe coming to this big hug. And I
was just watching one of the old ones. Like, do
you know who I am? I'm the juggernaut. for censoring myself,
had to be, as he's running through walls. That's a cataboo. Like,
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that's it. I just don't know where the end game is.
Is that week eight or week 14?
Speaker 2 (42:08):
This guy is something. He's talking about retiring.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Yeah, no, exactly. Like, what the hell? It's like, I
don't know how much of that is legit versus, you know,
you just have that moment where you're like, damn it,
I don't want to do this rehab. I'm tired of this,
you know. to having to do all these workouts into
the cold tub and all this stuff, all this extra
in the off season. And then you're like, no, I
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still want to play football.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Yeah. Oh, Cam. All right. Here's the deal. I'm going
to give you the final pick. We're going to take
a timeout and then we're going to come back with
one player that we think could make the top 60. Okay.
And then we'll just take a look at Rams, Niners, Seahawks, Patriots,
but the final pick of our top 60 draft. And boy,
there are a lot, a lot of, average players out there. No,
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I'm just kidding. I had to be snarky like that.
Of course. I will go Luther Burden. Nice. Just the
roller coaster portion of it that his numbers could end
up taking that spot. I know it dinged up a
little bit in camp here, but we'll take Luther Burden
in at number 60. Nicely done. All right, so we'll
take another timeout, and then we'll just come back. We'll
give you some idea on who you want to play
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because Patriots are banged up. Seahawks dealing with their own
injuries as well. and all the 49ers are hurt, and
a lot of the Rams are old, so we'll touch
on that game as well. He's Mike Harmon. I'm Dan Baier.
It's all next on I Want Your Flex.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
Be sure to catch live editions of Stu Gatz and
Company live weekdays at 3 p.m. Eastern, 12 p.m.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
Pacific. Welcome back to I Want Your Flex. Hit Mike
up at Swollen Dome. Find me at Dan Baier on Fox.
All right, Mike, we had one player outside of the
top 60 that we think You know what? When it's
all said and done, let's just say one of our
guys that we picked doesn't make it. This guy will
be in the top 60. Do you have a player
that stands out for you that's outside our top 60?
Speaker 3 (44:00):
You know, we did the quarterbacks, and once you took Burrow,
I'm like, well, what about Dak Prescott? How quickly do
I get Dak if that offense is really what it needs?
But again, is the defense good enough to where they're
not slinging it around in the fourth quarter? With Javante
Williams and a guy in a Ridley outfit, because I'm
not sure who the number two is going to be.
It's to collect a lot of carries.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
I will go, got a contract recently. I'm going to
go with Michael Wilson of the Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
Oh, I like Michael Wilson.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
For what he did at the end of last year.
And I think entering the drafts, we see Marvin Harrison Jr.
's name, and we're like, okay, now this is the year.
New coaching staff, now it's going to happen. Well, it's
the same quarterback. The only thing that I think could
draw back is if they turn to Carson Beck maybe
earlier than expected. And it's not as much a knock
on Beck. It's just that I think that Jacoby Brissett
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is fine throwing the football around when they're down 20,
and he finds Michael Wilson a lot. So Michael Wilson
would be my outside looking in guy.
Speaker 3 (44:58):
Yeah, Brissett's the guy that I have as the number
one most likely to just keep his bag packed, knowing
that as soon as there's a quarterback injury, he's getting traded.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Sure, yeah.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
Right. Veteran come in. He's worked in so many different
systems and so many different places that he doesn't even
need to unpack. Let's go.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
Well, let's let's go to week one. We're going to
have our week one preview. Normal ones that we do.
That happens every Friday. But for the two games that
are being played before Friday, why not give a little
heads up? Doesn't look like Travion Henderson is going to
be a goal for New England and missing practice in
their matchup against Seattle today. Any lean on any players
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that you like in the opening kickoff game, Mike?
Speaker 3 (45:42):
Yeah, when we look at the first game, like Drake
May is a back-end QB1, looking for him to maybe
make a play with his legs, give you a little
bit of flexibility there. But looking at the Seahawks, you
usually set it and forget it, guys, right? I mean,
in terms of your rosters, JSN or whatever. But when
we're trying to try to get a little bit of value,
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we'll look to Stribling.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
From the 49ers.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
He's the one guy, I mean, you've got Mike Evans,
he's going to give it a go, but he's old.
I don't know how much the subs, getting away early.
Do you think the substation and being away for a
week helps them?
Speaker 2 (46:25):
It might, but the unfortunate thing is because they're in Australia,
Mike Evans is a day older. So that even works
against him for that point.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
Well, you see how one of the coaches lost his
50th birthday, right?
Speaker 2 (46:35):
Yeah, Raheem Morris. Raheem Morris, yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:37):
How about that? He didn't even get a birthday because
he's traveling internationally and in between the date lines. Good
times there. No question about it. But, yeah, Stripling's the
guy I think that has the most potential sleeper effect
in those two games.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
It should be fun to have some football coming up
on Wednesday and Thursday night. I got to tell you,
I'm a little nervous about the Seahawks. Usually in these
opening night kickoff games, it's like a coronation and the
home team wins. but very rarely do you get a
super bowl rematch. So like the team that's across the
sidelines just lost to this team. So they're actually coming
in motivated. And, uh, and, and there's a reason for
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the Seahawks to maybe be not as motivated considering they
just beat this team in February. And now this game
doesn't mean as much. So a little bit of, a
little bit of nerves as a Seahawks fan to open
the season against new England could have been any other team.
I would have felt a little bit better about it.
Even if it was the Rams, Mike would have maybe
felt better about it, but this, uh, Patriots squad, yeah,
just not necessarily sure. I think they're going to.
Speaker 3 (47:36):
Have something to play for. Minus 3.5, 44.5, the over-under
in this one. I just like the continuity of your squad.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (47:43):
Right? I mean, I think that's the one thing to
stand out. And it's not a new point if you've
listened to any of us, certainly you and I, Dan,
on Fox Sports Radio or, you know, larger scale. I mean,
this is about as complete a return as we've seen
from a defending champion. you know, with a lot of
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your component parts, you know, as opposed to taking free
agent deals elsewhere. I mean, you got a new running
back that you're breaking in, obviously, in price, losing Walker III,
and Charbonnet still getting back to health. But you look
at the squad overall, I mean, I think you're in
a pretty good spot. So I'm going to take the
Seahawks to lay the points.
Speaker 2 (48:25):
All right, there it is. All right, from your lips
to God's ears.
Speaker 3 (48:29):
I'm a Sam Darnold believer. Come on.
Speaker 2 (48:31):
If he doesn't turn over the football, yeah, all is good.
All the other stuff doesn't matter. Just don't turn it over,
and they'll be all right. All right. We'll talk to
you again later on in the week. We'll give you
a full week one preview with Mike's rankings at the quarterback,
running back, and wide receiver positions, plus our hot plays,
cold sores, and a survivor pick. Yes, my survivor picks
are back. And Brandon could even give us some streaming
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defenses if he would like as well. So for Mike
Harmon today, I'm Dan Baier, show's executive producer is Brandon Deutsch,
and we'll talk to you next time here on I
Want Your Flex.
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Mike and Dan break down everything you need to set
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guys help you make those hard decisions. And now, let's
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Speaker 2 (01:16):
The season's almost here. Hit them up at Swollen Dome.
You can find me at Dan Byer on Fox. Mike
may give you a little heads up on how to
prepare for Wednesday and Thursday as the regular season is
finally here. Week one starts on Wednesday night with the
Seahawks and Patriots. And then Thursday night in Australia, it's
the Rams and 49ers. But before we get to all
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of that, this may be Mike. We do this twice
a year. We do it at the beginning of the season.
We do it at the end of the season. where
we just draft the top 60. It's one of my
more favorite things that we do on I Want Your Flex,
just to kind of see where everybody settles out. Who
are the guys that make it into our top 60?
Who are the ones on the outside looking in? It's
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just a fun exercise. We're not filling any lineups. But
that time has come as the start of the regular
season is very, very near.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
We've been waiting for it and counting the days and
the injury reports and contract signings, right? Gonzalez gets his
giant deal with the Patriots. So suddenly he's not going
to be hurt for Wednesday, right? And he'll be full
tilt when you give him $ 100 million guaranteed. But all
of that to say, it's been a wild, winding road.
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So many of these quarterback battles and position battles. And
let's face it, it's not quite college football, but a
lot of guys showing up in new places.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Yeah, absolutely. And on Wednesday night, I wish that Christian
Gonzalez wouldn't have made the flight with the Patriots and
then he wouldn't have played with the Seahawks. But not
only that, To your point, he's got a new contract,
he's not going to be healthy, and he's likely going
to suit up and start on Wednesday night. All right,
let's start with our draft, our top 60. We'll do
our top 30, take a timeout, and then go for
the other 30. Mike, I am going to give you
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the honor of the first overall pick. And again, Mike
and I aren't filling out our actual teams. We're just
drafting who we think the best available player is at
this point. We go with a half-point PPR scoring league.
And Mike, I guess, we'll alternate. you got the odds
i got the evens take it away.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Let's go let's just start with mr gibbs my pirates
of the caribbean reference uh big explosiveness detroit offense maybe
100 catches for jameer.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Gibbs i will go with the other running back uh
bijan robinson i do think that just those two standing
out even in ppr leagues because of how effective they
are in the passing game i would take bijan number
two or Bajon, however you want to say it.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Yeah, again, another 100-catch guy. Jamar Chase coming in third.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
This is the likely spot. Sometimes he goes 1-1 in
certain spots, but I kind of felt how this is
how the top three would fall. Now we get into
this murky area. I think that it starts a little
bit at three when we're talking overall because I do
believe that Puka Nakua would have an edge over Jackson
Smith and Jigba, but... We don't necessarily know fully with
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Puka on a full season, so I'm going to go
JSN at this point. So I'll give him the edge
at number four just because I'm not necessarily sure on
what we're going to get. If there could be a
penalty at some point for Puka, there's also an injury scenario.
He has dealt with injuries throughout his career, so right
now the safer bet, I'm going to put JSN at
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number four.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, I think you had injury. You got the suspension
where we have no idea. They've all addressed it as
best they can. But is that looming for 2027 and
just you go through the whole year? The other thing
is if the Rams, if they play to form, right,
what everybody expects of this squad in the fourth quarter,
isn't it a lot of stuffing it into the gut
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of Williams and Corum?
Speaker 2 (04:52):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
And maybe not quite winging it around. I think that
scares me off a little bit as well.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
I think also if Puka doesn't get penalized this year,
there's something that's not necessarily right. Because right now you
have a couple of guys, including Josh Jacobs, who's on
the commissioner's exempt list, and he's not going to be
able to play for Green Bay in their opener. And
his alleged incident happened in May. And so the Puka
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stuff that was going on and some of the stuff
happened way before then. And for this to take that long,
if they were going to levy some sort of punishment,
I think would be a misstep by the NFL.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
I would agree. Ready? I'm going to kick him down
the curb a little bit more here because I'm taking
Amon Ross St. Brown. Wide receiver three, as we talked
about in the wide receiver preview, three straight years. Let's
make it four.
Speaker 2 (05:41):
All right. Amon Ross St. Brown goes at number five.
I will take Jonathan Taylor in at number six. I
don't know what to expect from the Colts, but I
do expect them to give the football to Jonathan Taylor
a lot. A little bit more expanded receiving game from
a year ago, so I'll take Jonathan Taylor at six.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Nicely done. I'm going to go, and this is where
Pukunikua finally goes, and I do so with a little
bit of reticence. Again, for all the reasons that we outlined,
like the over-the-top– offense that could net another massive season
is there but we checked off all the boxes of
why it could go south so he's the cautionary tale
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i think in this early part of the draft.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
I am going to do this solely on this is
a little different i'm mixing it up and maybe i'm
already altering things i took jsn for a reason over
puka and the others because just uh almost in a
way play it safe i'm not gonna play it safe
here i am gonna go christian mccaffrey I think he'll
suit up against the Rams in week one. I have
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a big question about the fall off after that, but
the receptions are just too hard to pass up, so
I will take CMC at this spot at number eight.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Like it. As we go down the draft, I'm going
to go with the greatest offense there is. I'm going
to take CeeDee Lamb. You like that?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Interesting Spondell.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
A little bold?
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Yeah. Well, the reason I like it is because we
always talk about regression, regression, regression. And it's like, how
about progression? Right. How about someone having an off year
and then coming back to being who they normally are?
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Truly are. I mean, you got offensive explosion. You'll get
more support from the defense, certainly than you have in
years past. So maybe a couple of short fields to
work with. And we know he and Dak getting it done.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Give me James Cook at 10. I know the, sometimes
the question and we, We wondered about Cook's usage at
times last year. I felt that they needed to rely
on him more. He ends up leading the league in rushing,
and now the offensive coordinator's the head coach. So I'm
going to expect the same from James Cook in 2026.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
I like that. Pushing up maybe off of a little
of the overall consensus, I'm going to take Chase Brown.
The breakthrough in 2025 continues.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
You're really high on him this year.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
I like him. I think he's a guy that I
think there could be a little bit of an uptick
on the receiving side of things. But again, we look
at the overall push for what the Bengals could be. Again,
that defense, still a lot of questions on that. But
if Burrow and company are clicking, then he still has
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the opportunity to outperform.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Coming in at number 12, I'm going to go the
progression route. Upgraded quarterback. The question is, I just don't
know how much, but I will go Justin.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
Jefferson at 12.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
How about that?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
The bounce back.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
I'm torn, honestly, Mike, because I don't think that Kyler
Murray is as good as people want to believe that
he is. But I'm hoping that his situation and what
he has been able to absorb during his time in
Minnesota will help him. and that in turn will help
Justin Jefferson be one of the top receivers again in
fantasy football.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, we've watched him. He's kind of like reading a
heart monitor the last four years. Up, down, up, down.
We'll see what comes to fruition with that Minnesota offense here.
I'm going to take O'Marion Hampton, something we talked about
a lot in the podcast, the expectation that we'd see
a reliance on the run game out of the Chargers
with Mike McDaniel. It doesn't mean that Justin Herbert's not
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going to be able to wing it around, but it
begins and ends. And here I'm hoping for a full
season of health out of Hampton.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Yeah, Hampton, I'm high on him. I took him in
my longtime league. was able to snatch him up as
my RB2 in my second-round pick.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
See, that's one of my favorite stories. Though, Dan, for
those that are just coming into the podcast, the fact
that you've got a league that has survived many a year,
many a move, children, divorces, all sorts of chaos, and
it still goes on.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
It is year 29, and we honestly, Mike, in a way–
not that it reflects what the NFL and the AFL
were at the time, but we had a different league
like the year before with, it was 14 teams, and
that kind of just didn't work. Other guys move. Some
guys graduated from college. So we had a group of
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10 guys. Then we're like, okay, let's put this league together.
And then that one formed and we've been going ever since.
So it's kind of been a lot of the guys
that are in this league are still, we're in that
league that we had for the one year. But that
was just a completely different league. So it's been 30
years kind of with the same group of guys, 29
in the same league. I mean, you and I played
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it when we were 12, 13, 14 years old in
high school. But with this group of guys, it's year
29 this year.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
That is just fantastic.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Fantastic options after Omari and Hampton. Man, it's a little
bit of, okay, I like this. I like that. I'm
going to go crazy off the board here. Trey McBride.
Speaker 3 (10:45):
Ooh, I like it.
Speaker 2 (10:45):
I know this is crazy. And I'm sure producer Brandon
is rolling his eyes. However, I just don't know how
many football games they're going to win. And if Jacoby
Brissett is going to be the quarterback, I think that
Trey McBride will get his full share. And I like
him as tight end one in this situation, even ahead
of Brock Bowers.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Boy, I like that. I like the boldness of it.
I think the offense could score points. I just don't
think they can stop anybody.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
I mean, there's weaponry. Is Marvin Harrison Jr. got the
stick of my symptom?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
We'll find out. Let's go back to the running back position.
We've joked about it, or maybe I've killed the joke
too many times. The James Wilder 492. Let's go back
to A-Chan. He's going to catch 100 balls. That's what
we thought and said before last season with McCaffrey. I
think he's the only option.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Yes, he is.
Speaker 3 (11:38):
That's it. Does that mean he's running to the ground
by week 12? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
Again, my son is... A Dolphins fan because he likes dolphins.
He likes animals, and the dolphins are the one. And
we were doing our work draft, Mike, for the guillotine league.
And my son's like, are you going to pick a dolphin?
Guess you took Ollie Gordon in the 13th round. Is
that why you took him? That is exactly why I
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took him.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
That was awesome because you took him. I'm like, I
had Gordon on a short list.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
Yeah, that is exactly why. I love that. There were
a couple of other options, but it ended up being
Ali Gordon being the guy.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Tie goes to the kid.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
Yes, absolutely. Give me Nico Collins here at 16. I
know there's questions about Stroud. I don't have as many
questions about the line as well. But, you know, they
bring in Keishon Booty to try to add to the
depth after losing Jaden Higgins. He's still getting acclimated. So
if the targets are going anywhere, I think they're going
to Nico Collins.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
Nicely done. Stays healthy. He's performed in the past, right?
He was a WR9 for us before. All right, let's
go back to the running back. Well, let's give me
some Saquon Barkley.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
I like the Eagles offensive line, even though it may
not be as great as it was when Jason Kelsey
was the anchor and Lane Johnson's got a, you know,
a farewell season coming up, but still they've got all
the talent in the world. It's just, can they put
it together in Philadelphia?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
No, that's it. And I'll trust that with a diminished
workload a year ago. And look, there's, they always work
in uncertainty there in Philadelphia, Sirianni, people have a liking problem.
They don't, but, and they change out their offensive coordinator.
It's like the, Defense against the dark arts, if I
go full nerd, Harry Potter. Every year there's a new defense.
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And guess what? They're the bad guy. Spoiler alert.
Speaker 2 (13:37):
Well, you know who I think is the bad guy?
Speaker 1 (13:39):
A.J.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Brown. But I'm going to take him here at 18. A.J.
Brown has given me headaches over and over. And he's
given the Eagles headaches. Now it's a Patriots problem. But
I think he will aid Drake May. I think it
would be good value at this point. I think A.J.
Brown is good at number 18.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
There you go. Honeymoon period there in New England. How
about I go a little further off the board? And yeah,
I want to get shucked because it's Chris Alave.
Speaker 2 (14:10):
I wondered when that was going to happen.
Speaker 3 (14:12):
Great talent. Great player. If we can keep him on
the field and healthy. I mean, he's a top five
receiver in this game.
Speaker 2 (14:21):
How about him going ahead ahead of. drake london for
first wide receiver from the nfc.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
South tyler shuck can throw the ball down the field
and michael bennings jr cannot.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Yes that is true to uh the uh the getting
the start against the pittsburgh steelers coming up on uh
in week one on sunday i have drake london in
a different league as a as a keeper as a
holdover and i am planning for the worst and i'm
also not planning at putting him at number 20 i'd
rather just roll the dice with derrick henry And call
it good. So give me Derrick Henry in at number 20.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Nicely done. I will stay at the running back position.
I'll go to Las Vegas. Hopefully his ankle holds up.
Hopefully Washington doesn't eat into his workload too terribly much
early on. But I'm hopeful that Ashton Gentry can actually
run back to the line of scrimmage before he's hit
this year.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
That would be nice. That would be very nice. I
think that they've got some promise. It's just such a
tough division. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
It's not going to translate to wins, but we should
see progress.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
And I saw in the guillotine league, you were able
to go and grab Kirk Cousins. I don't know what
the sorting, sorting hat was in that league. Cause I
was trying to do the show and I'm drafting and
I'm like, wait, he was able to pick up Kirk Cousins.
What the hell kind of software is this?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
That was only because Deutsch, Brendan Deutsch, our executive producer,
I saw he picked up someone and I just, I
needed a, I mean, I only had one quarterback, so
I needed to put a backup quarterback guillotine league. I
don't necessarily recommend it in a 12 or 14 league,
but for the guillotine league, because of the 18 teams
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and people are drafting quarterbacks, if I were to lose
a quarterback in week one, there's no guarantee there would
be anybody good. And I'd have to pay $ 500 to
buy a quarterback. which would set me back. So that's,
that's the only reason why Kirk cousins is on my team. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
But it was more just the fact that he was
available again, owing to the 18 teams draft. And I'm like, look,
I've got it sorted, just best available. And he never
showed up.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
He was like 3000 on the list. Brandon who took Gronk,
I think Adam ahead of him, or he took some,
he took Ben Roethlisberger. That's the way I think he took.
All right. I'm going to, I'm going to take a
Kenneth Walker the third year. Yeah. I, I'm mixed on this,
and I don't mean to sound like such a downer
in picking a guy at number 22. It's just more
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of a debate on would I have gone the wide
receiver I was considering at that point, or do I
go Kenneth Walker? And I think the Chiefs will obviously
commit to him. I think he's going to have a
bigger role, especially with Mahomes coming back, and they need him, Mike.
I'm not necessarily sold on everything that Kansas City has
in the wide receiver department, so I'll go with Kenneth
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Walker III with the pick at number 22.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
I'm going to go back and grab tight end number two.
I'm going to take Brock Powers.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
All right. Good selection. Good value at that point. Was
it the Kirk Cousins talk that decided that?
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Yeah, I think it just got me excited.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
And more just the, all right, I trust that. Look,
the old adage, the old quarterback or the new quarterback,
the young guy, your tight end is your best friend.
Speaker 2 (17:33):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
And if it's healthy, I mean, this guy's a monster.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
He absolutely is. Now I'm deciding, do I go a
wide receiver one or a wide receiver who I consider 1A?
I'm going to go with the 1A. I'm going to
go George Pickens here. There was something to him last
year in Dallas. And again, I think the defense is
going to be a lot better. So you may not
see the output that you saw in other years with Dallas.
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But still, they have him and CeeDee Lamb. It takes
pressure off of both of them. And Pickens, I think,
will get good enough numbers to definitely be in the
top 30.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
Fantastic. All right, I'll break the drought. I'll finally take
the talent and the check that comes with Drake London.
Speaker 2 (18:11):
Okay, there it is.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
And I don't feel great about it. I don't hate
the Drake, but I certainly don't love the Drake. He's
got to be one of the most polarizing guys on
the draft board just because of who's throwing in the football.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
Well, I know there's another player that you love this season,
and I'm curious to see if he's going to go
in the top 30 or not. I think that he might.
So I'm interested to see that where this player goes,
considering you took Drake London where you did at number 25.
I am going to take Josh Allen. I will take
the quarterback. We'll take him off the board. I will
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take him at number 26.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Very, very good. All right, moving down the board a
little bit. I'm going very deep. I'm going to bring
up Ladd McConkie.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Ladd.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Where we're talking half PPR, the potential for him. No
more Keenan Allen, right? He's off to Indianapolis, so he's
not taking those routes and those targets. And, again, if
we think the mad genius can be that O.C., and
he doesn't get in a fist fight with Jim Harbaugh
on the sideline, that we get to see this pass
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catcher get back to what he was a couple years ago.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
I don't know. Many people can't win fist fights with
Jim Harbaugh.
Speaker 3 (19:27):
No, I think it would be tough, yeah. You just
run around and tire him out.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Wasn't it Jim Kelly? Didn't he like punch Jim Kelly?
Because Kelly, when he retired, made some comments when he
was a commentator about something. I think they got into
a little.
Speaker 3 (19:40):
That sounds right. That sounds like a Jim Harbaugh kind
of thing.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
30 some years ago. All right. I am going out
on a limb here. If health. stays in the good spot,
and we don't even know if he's healthy week one.
Brees Hall. I don't think the Jets are going to
be bad, bad. I think they're going to be just
not good. But I think that Brees Hall could have
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quite a role for the Jets this season. I am
going to take him at number 28.
Speaker 3 (20:08):
All right, 29, Devontae Smith.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
There it is.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
There's the guy.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Yep.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
That's who I thought maybe you were.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
Going to take. In our wide receiver episode, you had
Ladd McConkie slightly ahead of him, I believe, and then
Devontae Smith was shortly after that.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
If I'm correct. Yeah, and I doubled down. I drafted
him in the guillotine league, so I look at him here,
and again, the Philly offense, full of chaos, full of
questions at the other wide receiver slots, right? Guys that
they're hoping to break through. We talked about Lemon quite
a bit. Goddard's back for one more run, but When
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I look at Devontae Smith, I think no more A.J. Brown.
He's going to get fed.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Yes, he is. Quite a bit. Final pick of the
top 30. A guy who I don't think is going
to get fed as much, but he does score a
lot of touchdowns, and that's Kyron Williams. I may be
biased towards the running back in that situation. There could
be a split with him and Blake Corum. I think
at some point, Mike, you're going to see Blake Corum
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Maybe in some games in the middle of the season,
get more carries than Kyron Williams to try to make
sure that he's fresh in that way. But I think
that he could be in line for double-digit touchdowns again.
Not everyone is going to be thrown to Devontae Adams.
And maybe it'll go to the five tight ends the
Rams like to play. But I do think some of them,
and I think they'll be scoring a lot of touchdowns,
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We'll be going to Kyron Williams. So just the fact
that he could get double-digit touchdowns puts him in at
number 30 for me.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
Certainly some value to be had there. The quorum thing
is a discussion we'll have each and every week on
the show as we try to rank top fives, breakthroughs,
and bust potential. But, yeah, for Kyron Williams, if this offense, again,
if it plays to form, everybody's going to get to eat.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
So now the top 30. Maybe where the players were
picked were a surprise, but it's kind of like the
NCAA tournament bubble. You know there are going to be
30 teams automatically in the tournament because of how good
they are. You know you've got the automatic qualifiers. It's
the 10 or so that are fighting for the five spots.
We're going to be getting to that In our next segment,
we've got 31 through 60 in our top 60 preview
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for 2026. He is Mike Harmon. I'm Dan Beyer. That's
next here on I Want Your Flex.
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All right, let's dive right in. Pick number 31. He's
Mike Harmon. I'm Dan Baier. It is I Want Your Flex,
our top 60 episode. We've got the top 30 in
for you. I'll actually just do this. A quick recap
what we had from 21 to 30. I think we
know who the top 20 are. Shouldn't be too surprising,
but we had Ashton Gentry, Kenneth Walker III, Brock Bowers,
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George Pickens, Drake London, Josh Allen, Ladd McConkie, Brees Hall,
Devante Smith, and Kyron Williams. Was pick number 30, Mike,
take it away at pick number 31.
Speaker 3 (23:42):
Looking for a bit of a repeat, talking again about
the explosiveness of that Dallas offense. Let's go, Javante Williams.
Am I excited about it? No, but he's the guy.
Speaker 2 (23:54):
By the way, my hmm wasn't like a bad hmm. No, no,
I get that. Yeah, it was okay.
Speaker 3 (24:02):
Yeah, there he is. He's one of those guys that
we've had starts and opportunity last year, good year, looking
for a repeat, and he's running unopposed.
Speaker 2 (24:15):
Yeah, you're right about that. And I've done multiple drafts
where Javante Williams just kind of falls. And I think
whoever gets him is satisfied. And he's going to produce.
He may not be the hype machine that we thought
he could be when he was a rookie in Denver,
but sure found his footing with the Cowboys. And as
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he said, he's the guy, and that's it. We know
that Lamar Jackson is the guy. I am excited to
see what we can have from Lamar Jackson. I'm going
to put him at number 32. Love it.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
All right, let's go back. The WR2, who's the WR1? T. Higgins,
go back to that Cincinnati explosiveness.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I will.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
I'm, geez, I was about to pull the trigger on
back-to-back Ravens picks for me. So I'm just going to
do it. I'm going to go Zay Flowers.
Speaker 3 (25:05):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (25:06):
I have my questions, but if I'm picking Lamar Jackson
where I am, I also think that we could get
some of the results from Zay Flowers. So I'll go
Zay Flowers at number 34. How about this?
Speaker 3 (25:18):
I'm going to push past a number of these other
wide receivers, and I'm going to go back to Denver,
and I'm going to take Jalen Waddell.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
All right. High on my list. High on your list
as well.
Speaker 3 (25:32):
Yeah, there's a bunch of wide receivers sitting there, and
it's like, I love that guy, but I don't love
his team. I love that guy. Don't know if he's
staying healthy or his quarterback staying healthy.
Speaker 1 (25:41):
No.
Speaker 3 (25:41):
Moving on, I take Jalen Waddell.
Speaker 2 (25:46):
I hope Emeka Abuka can follow what he did in
the first half of last year. I know it trailed
off a little bit in the second half, but he
was on his way. to top rookie honors in what
he did in the first part of the season. I
think that he and Baker Mayfield will have a chemistry.
There's no more Mike Evans there. Give me Emeka Abuka
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at number 36.
Speaker 3 (26:08):
Very good. I'm going to go with another young receiver.
I have no idea. I'm going to stay in division.
I'm going to take Ted McMillan.
Speaker 2 (26:15):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
I'm going to look at the individual achievement and hope
for better things and more continuity from that Carolina offense.
Speaker 2 (26:23):
I'll keep this wide receiver run. This will be the
sixth straight wide receiver. Malik Neighbors. I have questions about
Jackson Dart. I truly do. I have questions about Malik Neighbors' knee,
and I have questions about that dang turf. But at 38,
I am fine with Malik Neighbors at that point.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
Quality, value, big-time player. We've seen him achieve heights when
he's healthy. And even if, like, you don't trust that
Jackson Dark can stay out of the tent, I mean,
that gives us Jameis Winston time.
Speaker 2 (26:56):
Sure. Fair enough.
Speaker 3 (26:58):
That's fun for everybody. You know, he can wing it around,
so why not?
Speaker 2 (27:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (27:03):
He keeps staring at me, and it's like, I love
the talent. I hate the logo on the side of
his helmet. Give me Garrett Wilson.
Speaker 2 (27:10):
All right.
Speaker 3 (27:11):
I'll do it. I'll go to Geno Land or Klubnik
Land or whatever he calls it. Again, love the player.
It's kind of like when you drafted Brees Hall. It's
like some of these guys are like, boy, I don't
really like, but I love the player. So there you go.
Speaker 2 (27:27):
And Gino's Gino. He may throw 15 picks, but if
they're losing at that point, and Garrett Wilson sure can
catch the football.
Speaker 3 (27:37):
Yeah, just keep winging it around.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Yeah, I'm with you. I'll go another bad team scenario here.
I will go Jeremiah Love. I think he's going to
get a full season. He's expected to go against the
Chargers in week one. That game may not turn out
well for the Cardinals, but I think Jeremiah Love at
number 40 would be good value. So I'll take the
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rookie from Notre Dame there.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Explosiveness certainly there in the opportunity. All right, let's go back.
We'll grab a tight end here. Let's get tight end
three and go with Colston Loveland of the Chicago Bears. Look,
the defense is not going to be very good. Ben
Johnson wants to run up points because he knows he
needs to. So give me Loveland.
Speaker 2 (28:24):
Number 42 overall. Loveland, the third tight end off the board.
I'm going to go. Boy, I again, I hesitated on
pulling the trigger. I should just say the name. Rishi Rice.
Speaker 3 (28:39):
OK, finally goes.
Speaker 2 (28:41):
I'm only saying this again. I think that there's a
ceiling here. No way does he finish top 30, but
I do think that there will be receptions, and if
I have the same thoughts that I do about Kenneth
Walker III, I'll put Rasheed Rice here at number 42.
Speaker 3 (28:57):
See, he's one of those guys that I think week
to week is going to be maddening, but the final
numbers will be there. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1 (29:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:03):
Yeah, I also think he's going to have games where
he's going to have eight catches for 42 yards, but
two of them could be touchdowns. Sure. You know, like
I don't think you're going to see four for a
buck 42 in a score like you could with a
lot of other wide receivers. I think they're just going
to be, I don't think they're going to be big plays,
but if you can wrap up or rack up those
half points, why not do it with Rasheed Rice?
Speaker 3 (29:25):
Nicely done. All right, let's go back. You took Josh
Allen as QB1. That means I'm going to take a
former bear. I'm going to go DJ Moore. I want
to say it like Pat Summerall. DJ Moore.
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Alan Moore. Touchdown, Buffalo. That would be my bet.
Speaker 3 (29:46):
There it is. The operational efficiency.
Speaker 2 (29:52):
Less is more.
Speaker 3 (29:54):
Nicely done.
Speaker 2 (29:55):
It always is. I didn't even put it. That was
no pun intended.
Speaker 3 (29:58):
No, that was great. And now I'd murder, she wrote.
Speaker 2 (30:06):
Novacek. Touchdown, Cowboys. Again, 20% of our audience knows what
we're talking about.
Speaker 3 (30:14):
But they appreciate every second of it.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
And the other 80% should learn. That's true. That's your
homework assignment. I'm going to go with Travis Etienne, however
we're saying it, in New Orleans. Formerly known as Etienne. Etienne,
as he now wants it pronounced. We'll go with Travis
Etienne slash Etienne in New Orleans.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Is that what he started hanging out in New Orleans?
That's how they pronounced his name? So he goes, yeah,
I'll go with that.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah, that's what he said. That's how I would always
pronounce it. Then he left Louisiana and at Florida, at Clemson,
they called him his brother went to Florida. At Clemson,
they called him ETN, and then it just made it
that way into the NFL. And now that he's back
in the bayou, he's like, yeah, this is actually how
it's pronounced.
Speaker 3 (31:02):
Look at that. It took years to reclaim it. Kind
of like Tyrod. No, no, no. It's Tyrod Taylor.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
Mr.
Speaker 3 (31:09):
Taylor to you.
Speaker 2 (31:10):
Terrell Owens was a Hall of Famer before he says it.
He goes, it's not Terrell, it's Terrell. Exactly. All right, great.
All right. Now I'm supposed to get used to this?
Speaker 3 (31:18):
Yeah, exactly. Thanks for the note, buddy. Jameson Williams of
your Detroit Lions.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
I like him I do I mean he had 1100
yards last year and I don't know if the Lions
defense is any better.
Speaker 3 (31:34):
That's fair hopefully the offensive line is a little bit
for Jared Goff but spread it around again this is
one of those there are going to be weeks where
he is just off the charts there are going to
be weeks where you're going to say boy that just
was a step too far for.
Speaker 2 (31:51):
Him You have to be willing to say Jamison Williams
killed me this week.
Speaker 3 (31:56):
That's true. That is absolutely true. I like that.
Speaker 2 (32:00):
And if you can live with it, then he's your
type of guy. All right. I'm going to go on
the quarterback mode again. I do think A.J. Brown helps
give me Drake May in at 46. Drake May.
Speaker 3 (32:15):
I like that.
Speaker 2 (32:16):
With an E. May. He'll– He may not have a
better outing against the Seahawks in week one just because
of all the yards he threw for in the fourth quarter.
But the overall outing for how bad things were for
the first three quarters may be better than week one. Fair.
So I think there's– and then there's just the rest
of the year, and you have four games against the
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Jets and Dolphins. That helps as well.
Speaker 3 (32:38):
There you go. Dolphins are 40-1 to win the division, Dan.
There's your random factoid that may only be fascinating.
Speaker 2 (32:46):
Just don't tell my son. No, I won't. Hey, every win, you're.
Speaker 3 (32:50):
Going to celebrate the hell out of it with your son. Like, hey,
they won. What are we doing? We're going to Disneyland.
Speaker 2 (32:58):
A true story. He has wear jersey to school day. Okay.
I got him a Jackson Smith and Jigba jersey from
the Super Bowl. He could wear that. When I went
to the Bills game last year, I bought him like
a Josh Allen, like Authentic kids. Oh, nice. The point being,
it's not $ 300, but it wasn't like a cheap T-shirt.
Speaker 3 (33:20):
No, it's not cheap. No, that's it.
Speaker 2 (33:21):
No, it's never worn at once.
Speaker 1 (33:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (33:23):
And then he asked me.
Speaker 3 (33:24):
We're going to have to get that sign now that
it's still pristine.
Speaker 2 (33:27):
He asks me, he goes, can I get a Dolphins jersey?
I'm like, who do you want me to get? You know,
do you want to get him? You know, right. Exactly.
This is Don Strock. He played a long time ago.
Speaker 3 (33:44):
Again you talked about 20 percent would pass.
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Oh man yeah it was tough tony nathan uh he
wasn't even a part of the marx brothers he was
just uh yeah there was wow that's good yeah so
it's it's tough because also i'm like well gosh if
things don't turn around hn could be gone in two
years but.
Speaker 3 (34:08):
Hell, they could trade him by the mid-season.
Speaker 2 (34:11):
Right?
Speaker 3 (34:12):
Anybody want to take on this contract? You got him.
Speaker 2 (34:15):
All hands up. All right. You're up at number 47.
Speaker 3 (34:18):
47. All right. Looking at the board as a... Yeah,
I don't like that running back. Don't necessarily think the
touchdowns are there. He's not going to stay healthy. Let's
go with Scary Terry McLaurin there in Washington. I am
not optimistic that they win many games. I think there's
some changeover over there, but I'll give him a nod
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just on individual talent.
Speaker 2 (34:43):
I'm going to go with your running back in Chicago.
Give me DeAndre Swift at 48. I am higher on
him than I've seen him in any of the rankings
in my drafts, but then he ends up always going
earlier than at the spot where he's ranked in drafts.
So 48 is where I'll take DeAndre Swift.
Speaker 3 (35:03):
Let's go back to the tight end position. Give me
Tyler Warren. the Indianapolis Golds.
Speaker 2 (35:10):
It's like who else, right? It's Jonathan Taylor. I know
Alec Pierce has got his big deal, but still there's injuries.
We should be fine for week one, but.
Speaker 3 (35:18):
Yeah, the explosiveness is there, but I mean, how often
are you going to see him out there?
Speaker 2 (35:22):
Yeah. And you drafted Warren with the value of doing
something unique with him. And they did it last year.
They had special stuff for him. I drafted Tyler Warren
and earlier than other tight ends. I think I actually, Mike,
took him ahead of Loveland.
Speaker 3 (35:36):
I believe that.
Speaker 2 (35:37):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (35:37):
Yeah, I think those are the magnificent four, right, when
we talk about McBride, Bowers, Loveland, and Warren, and then
it's everybody else.
Speaker 2 (35:44):
Yes. I believe in Roma Dunze.
Speaker 3 (35:47):
I know there's some.
Speaker 2 (35:49):
That question, some didn't like the drop last year in
the playoffs, but I am going with Dunze at 50,
just more of the steady Eddie as opposed to maybe
the roller coaster with Burton.
Speaker 3 (35:59):
All right, I'm going to hold my nose, and I'm
going to take Bucky Irving. I have no idea what
to expect from that squad. I really don't. You alluded
to it with Ibuka, Baker Mayfield. I'd love to walk
into a place that gives me $ 100 million and be
pissed off. Or offers me $ 100 million and I'm mad.
I don't understand. But hey, I don't have to. If
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he plays with a chip on his shoulder, the offense
will move the ball. Again, we've seen Irving have some
big games. He's got a little off-field stuff, but I
think he'll be good to go.
Speaker 2 (36:35):
At 51, that is about the spot that you're seeing
him go in certain drafts. I think this has gone
a bit under the radar, but I am going to
go Jadarian Price at this point. Still not talked about
a lot. We'll see his debut with the Seahawks, but
didn't play any preseason, was dinged up in the preseason.
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I know there's going to be the return of Zach Charbonnet,
And maybe sooner rather than later, the most recent reports
out of Seattle. But I still think he is going
to be a primary guy, especially early on in these
first four weeks. Maybe Holani takes some snaps in third
down sets and other spots. But the long term for Price,
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he's always going to be there, at least getting maybe
10 to 15 carries a game. So we'll put Price
there in at number 52.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
I like that. Number 53, I'm going to go quarterback.
I'm going to take Jalen Hurts.
Speaker 2 (37:29):
Oh, yeah. All right, you got Devontae Smith, right? You
grabbed him. You got Saquon Barkley. And now Jalen Hurts
comes off the board. I'll go back-to-back quarterbacks with you,
and I'm going to go Joe Burrow.
Speaker 3 (37:42):
Nice.
Speaker 2 (37:44):
When we talked in one of our episodes of wherever
Josh Allen goes, that's where your line is when it
comes to running backs and receivers. You can draw a
line of tiers. And I feel now, because we're taking
Hurts and Burrow, that Maybe we are transitioning to a
tier that is a little bit below some of the
other players we picked.
Speaker 3 (38:04):
Yeah, I think that's it, right? We'll take those guys
off the board. We know their yearly excellence. Burrow, obviously,
is all health dependent. And whether he can count to
three or more behind that offensive line.
Speaker 2 (38:18):
All right. Who do you got at number 55 overall?
Speaker 3 (38:21):
55 overall. I'm going to go back into the wide
receiver room. Again, the explosiveness of the offense. I'll take
Devontae Adams here.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Okay. It's going to be enough to go around.
Speaker 3 (38:35):
Well, but that's just it, right? Can he do more
than score touchdowns this year? That's the question. Because we
had a number of games last year, right? 15 or
20 yards receiving but two touchdowns. So it's a big day,
but not exactly. You don't want to have to sweat
those out.
Speaker 2 (38:53):
And I'm not going to be able to check right now.
I'm going to try my best. But I thought his
his three touchdown game was like five for thirty five.
Speaker 3 (39:00):
I think that's right.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
So I think that's so. Yeah. I mean, if he's
if he's getting those touchdowns. Great. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:07):
If he doesn't.
Speaker 2 (39:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:08):
It's going to be a feast or famine kind of thing.
The overall numbers are going to look great, though. Like
in terms of fantasy points, like look at a double
digit touchdown, whatever. It's like, yeah, it's going to be weird.
Speaker 2 (39:20):
Well, we were able to stall long enough, and we
didn't even edit this. This was actually live when it
comes to the game logs. Well, take that back. ESPN
doesn't have that. Devontae Adams' game logs from last year.
What is wrong with you, ESPN? It was the quickest
site that I could try to track down, but for
whatever reason, it's not showing up. But I swear that
there was the 5 for 35 was the three-touchdown game
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for the Rams.
Speaker 3 (39:43):
I'm working on it. I'm working on it. Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick, tick.
Speaker 2 (39:46):
Well, while you figure out what these stats are, since
my computer ended up failing me, I will end up
making my pick. I don't know if they're going to
score touchdowns.
Speaker 3 (39:56):
You were right, 535 against the Jaguars.
Speaker 2 (39:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (39:58):
Absolutely right.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
And I think that was in London, I believe that
it was.
Speaker 3 (40:02):
Five for 35, three touchdowns. The week before, five for
62 touchdowns. His other two touchdown games, five for 62,
four for 58. So half PPR, you're feeling okay, but
you definitely are living and dying by those touchdowns.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
I know the Browns aren't feeling okay. They may only
score three touchdowns all year, but if they do, they're
all going to be by Quinshawn Judkins. So give me
the running back at this point, just maybe on pure
volume and Who knows what's going to happen? And he's
coming off of injury. Their offensive line is awful. Deshaun
Watson's their quarterback. Why not put him in the top 60? Nice.
Speaker 3 (40:36):
I'm going to stay running back. I'll go David Montgomery.
Speaker 2 (40:39):
All right.
Speaker 3 (40:41):
Double-digit touchdowns. And he's going to grind.
Speaker 2 (40:44):
Offensive line is awful. We don't even know how good
the quarterback is.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
No, that's fair. Yeah, all fair things. But we love
that defense, who might give you a couple of short
yardage touchdown opportunities.
Speaker 2 (40:56):
All right. I... Man.
Speaker 3 (40:59):
As we bag on these two teams.
Speaker 2 (41:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (41:02):
But deservedly so.
Speaker 2 (41:04):
Yeah. Tell us where we were wrong. Tell us, you know,
tell us the lies, please.
Speaker 3 (41:09):
At Dan Meyer on Fox, at Swollen Dome, please do.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
I hope if he plays well, I'll be tooting my
own horn, but we're going to basial tooting here at
number 58. Don't know how much of a split it's
going to be in Jacksonville, but I do think that
he's going to have the edge. So give me tooting
at 58.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
All right, I'm looking squarely for my last pick. Do
I take the juggernaut? Do I do it? Can he
stay healthy enough to get me more? I'll take Scataboo.
Speaker 2 (41:37):
Oh, there it is.
Speaker 3 (41:40):
I've been re-watching all the X-Men movies, right? Getting ready
for Doomsday and all the stuff that's going on. The
Marvel Cinematic Universe coming to this big hug. And I
was just watching one of the old ones. Like, do
you know who I am? I'm the juggernaut. for censoring myself,
had to be, as he's running through walls. That's a cataboo. Like,
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that's it. I just don't know where the end game is.
Is that week eight or week 14?
Speaker 2 (42:08):
This guy is something. He's talking about retiring.
Speaker 3 (42:11):
Yeah, no, exactly. Like, what the hell? It's like, I
don't know how much of that is legit versus, you know,
you just have that moment where you're like, damn it,
I don't want to do this rehab. I'm tired of this,
you know. to having to do all these workouts into
the cold tub and all this stuff, all this extra
in the off season. And then you're like, no, I
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still want to play football.
Speaker 2 (42:33):
Yeah. Oh, Cam. All right. Here's the deal. I'm going
to give you the final pick. We're going to take
a timeout and then we're going to come back with
one player that we think could make the top 60. Okay.
And then we'll just take a look at Rams, Niners, Seahawks, Patriots,
but the final pick of our top 60 draft. And boy,
there are a lot, a lot of, average players out there. No,
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I'm just kidding. I had to be snarky like that.
Of course. I will go Luther Burden. Nice. Just the
roller coaster portion of it that his numbers could end
up taking that spot. I know it dinged up a
little bit in camp here, but we'll take Luther Burden
in at number 60. Nicely done. All right, so we'll
take another timeout, and then we'll just come back. We'll
give you some idea on who you want to play
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because Patriots are banged up. Seahawks dealing with their own
injuries as well. and all the 49ers are hurt, and
a lot of the Rams are old, so we'll touch
on that game as well. He's Mike Harmon. I'm Dan Baier.
It's all next on I Want Your Flex.
Speaker 1 (43:31):
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Speaker 2 (43:37):
Pacific. Welcome back to I Want Your Flex. Hit Mike
up at Swollen Dome. Find me at Dan Baier on Fox.
All right, Mike, we had one player outside of the
top 60 that we think You know what? When it's
all said and done, let's just say one of our
guys that we picked doesn't make it. This guy will
be in the top 60. Do you have a player
that stands out for you that's outside our top 60?
Speaker 3 (44:00):
You know, we did the quarterbacks, and once you took Burrow,
I'm like, well, what about Dak Prescott? How quickly do
I get Dak if that offense is really what it needs?
But again, is the defense good enough to where they're
not slinging it around in the fourth quarter? With Javante
Williams and a guy in a Ridley outfit, because I'm
not sure who the number two is going to be.
It's to collect a lot of carries.
Speaker 2 (44:22):
I will go, got a contract recently. I'm going to
go with Michael Wilson of the Cardinals.
Speaker 3 (44:28):
Oh, I like Michael Wilson.
Speaker 2 (44:29):
For what he did at the end of last year.
And I think entering the drafts, we see Marvin Harrison Jr.
's name, and we're like, okay, now this is the year.
New coaching staff, now it's going to happen. Well, it's
the same quarterback. The only thing that I think could
draw back is if they turn to Carson Beck maybe
earlier than expected. And it's not as much a knock
on Beck. It's just that I think that Jacoby Brissett
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is fine throwing the football around when they're down 20,
and he finds Michael Wilson a lot. So Michael Wilson
would be my outside looking in guy.
Speaker 3 (44:58):
Yeah, Brissett's the guy that I have as the number
one most likely to just keep his bag packed, knowing
that as soon as there's a quarterback injury, he's getting traded.
Speaker 2 (45:08):
Sure, yeah.
Speaker 3 (45:09):
Right. Veteran come in. He's worked in so many different
systems and so many different places that he doesn't even
need to unpack. Let's go.
Speaker 2 (45:18):
Well, let's let's go to week one. We're going to
have our week one preview. Normal ones that we do.
That happens every Friday. But for the two games that
are being played before Friday, why not give a little
heads up? Doesn't look like Travion Henderson is going to
be a goal for New England and missing practice in
their matchup against Seattle today. Any lean on any players
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that you like in the opening kickoff game, Mike?
Speaker 3 (45:42):
Yeah, when we look at the first game, like Drake
May is a back-end QB1, looking for him to maybe
make a play with his legs, give you a little
bit of flexibility there. But looking at the Seahawks, you
usually set it and forget it, guys, right? I mean,
in terms of your rosters, JSN or whatever. But when
we're trying to try to get a little bit of value,
(46:06):
we'll look to Stribling.
Speaker 2 (46:10):
From the 49ers.
Speaker 3 (46:11):
He's the one guy, I mean, you've got Mike Evans,
he's going to give it a go, but he's old.
I don't know how much the subs, getting away early.
Do you think the substation and being away for a
week helps them?
Speaker 2 (46:25):
It might, but the unfortunate thing is because they're in Australia,
Mike Evans is a day older. So that even works
against him for that point.
Speaker 3 (46:32):
Well, you see how one of the coaches lost his
50th birthday, right?
Speaker 2 (46:35):
Yeah, Raheem Morris. Raheem Morris, yeah.
Speaker 3 (46:37):
How about that? He didn't even get a birthday because
he's traveling internationally and in between the date lines. Good
times there. No question about it. But, yeah, Stripling's the
guy I think that has the most potential sleeper effect
in those two games.
Speaker 2 (46:53):
It should be fun to have some football coming up
on Wednesday and Thursday night. I got to tell you,
I'm a little nervous about the Seahawks. Usually in these
opening night kickoff games, it's like a coronation and the
home team wins. but very rarely do you get a
super bowl rematch. So like the team that's across the
sidelines just lost to this team. So they're actually coming
in motivated. And, uh, and, and there's a reason for
(47:15):
the Seahawks to maybe be not as motivated considering they
just beat this team in February. And now this game
doesn't mean as much. So a little bit of, a
little bit of nerves as a Seahawks fan to open
the season against new England could have been any other team.
I would have felt a little bit better about it.
Even if it was the Rams, Mike would have maybe
felt better about it, but this, uh, Patriots squad, yeah,
just not necessarily sure. I think they're going to.
Speaker 3 (47:36):
Have something to play for. Minus 3.5, 44.5, the over-under
in this one. I just like the continuity of your squad.
Speaker 2 (47:42):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (47:43):
Right? I mean, I think that's the one thing to
stand out. And it's not a new point if you've
listened to any of us, certainly you and I, Dan,
on Fox Sports Radio or, you know, larger scale. I mean,
this is about as complete a return as we've seen
from a defending champion. you know, with a lot of
(48:04):
your component parts, you know, as opposed to taking free
agent deals elsewhere. I mean, you got a new running
back that you're breaking in, obviously, in price, losing Walker III,
and Charbonnet still getting back to health. But you look
at the squad overall, I mean, I think you're in
a pretty good spot. So I'm going to take the
Seahawks to lay the points.
Speaker 2 (48:25):
All right, there it is. All right, from your lips
to God's ears.
Speaker 3 (48:29):
I'm a Sam Darnold believer. Come on.
Speaker 2 (48:31):
If he doesn't turn over the football, yeah, all is good.
All the other stuff doesn't matter. Just don't turn it over,
and they'll be all right. All right. We'll talk to
you again later on in the week. We'll give you
a full week one preview with Mike's rankings at the quarterback,
running back, and wide receiver positions, plus our hot plays,
cold sores, and a survivor pick. Yes, my survivor picks
are back. And Brandon could even give us some streaming
(48:53):
defenses if he would like as well. So for Mike
Harmon today, I'm Dan Baier, show's executive producer is Brandon Deutsch,
and we'll talk to you next time here on I
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