August 17, 2019 • 53 mins
Mike Blewitt and Joe Gallina preview the Dolphins for the 2019 NFL season. They also preview the Buccaneers, break down their troubles and more. #FNTSY #FNTSYRadio #NFL #FantasyFootball #AFC #AFCWest #Bucs #Dolphins #Troubles #2019
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free to ask us any questions. Um, we'll get into
his draft here a little bit later this hour, but
wanted to continue. Yeah, it maybe maybe a little bit
more about Bacon too. It's a good point, Sean Angele.
So we'll get into Buck's uh fins which was last
night as well, maybe talk about any other tidbit from
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the previous games on Thursday. Later in the show, will
get into tonight's games. We're really doing it as an
exercise to dive into these teams a little bit. A
couple of them we've already talked about. I found out
ourselves talking about the Giants quite a bit. But it's
because there's a quarterback situation going on. I think you
just gravitate towards that discussion. And it's weird for a
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team that people have no expectations of has the number
one overall pick and fantasy people love Shirling Shepard for
he broke his thumb. People like Evan Ingram a lot.
So there is a number one overall running back, a
potential wide receiver to tight end one, and who knows
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what Golden Tate will be all on this team that
people expect to be terrible, But so why do we
expect them to win five five games? Including myself when
I went through this schedule, tack am I missing. Maybe
O'Hara's right, maybe they go tenant six. You are you're
kidding yourself. Their defense is that that could That's the
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thing that we don't really talk about, like we like
you you're I know you're kidding, but we don't really
talk about it. A lot of times with fantasy, we're
just trying to figure out how, you know, how is
this offense gonna look who's gonna get the targets? Like?
All right, they might not run as many plays, and
they might turn the ball over a bunch because they're
desperate and they're passing in scenarios where they don't want
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to be passing all the time, you know what I mean,
people are gonna be They might be trailing because the
defense has given up three touchdowns in the first half,
and then they'll play a team like the Bears in
the regular season. Actually they do play the Bears. They'll
play a team like the Bears in the regular season,
and Khalil Mack will just be annihilating Tate Soldier or
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Mike Remmers. You know, like you can't. We're not always
accounting for that in the context of fantasy. So that's
why I think they'll end up losing a bunch of games.
You know, I don't think they're gonna be three and thirteen. Again,
I think it's possible. But whatever, they went a couple
of more games, still a top five ye yeah, there's
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still a top five pick kind of team. Okay, So
a beat defense. Let me just say that this real quick.
A beat defense could help a fantasy offense because a
beat defense could mean that a team is playing from
behind the bunch and they are. That's what gave Blake
Bortles his uh fantasy value in the past, coming you know,
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gage fantasy championships because of Blake Bortles. Yeah, yeah, yeah, No.
I think it's right, and I think we see that
the Tampa Bay Bucks. The last couple of years, your
defense has been performing miles below expectation, and we've seen
their quarterbacks put up numbers. Right, whether it's Fitzpatrick or whomever.
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Mike Evans is good. The running game hasn't been good,
but Mike Evans has been good. The tight ends have
both been valuable. To some extent. We saw de Sean
Jackson be valuable at times in that offense, and Chris
Godwin obviously uh as well. So I gotta get into
the We're getting the Bucks in a minute, because there's
news out of there which stuns me. But let's talk
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about the Bears real quick. I was on the air
with Gabe Marenci the other day and it looks like
I'm getting the sense from a lot of people that
they are going to fade the Bears. I'm looking at
them on Vanduel Sports book right now and they are
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currently I just want to make sure I was right. Yeah,
it's nine and a half. So the defense was amazing
last year. Clearly, they gave up the least points in
the league, They forced the most turnovers, uh, the lowest
scoring percentage in the league. On their defense, they did
just to really nice job. So what I would say, though,
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is that there is likely to be some regression in
the turnovers. Right they turned they thirty six turnovers were
forced by the events. That's likely to be some amount
of regression. You're not just gonna keep forcing turnovers at
that rate. Additionally, the offense, people think because Matt Naggy
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is there, and they have a whole They have a
whole bunch of mouths. Dey to Tree Burton and Rabinsky
is new is a newer quarterback, and Alan Robinson came
over as a big free agency signing. That their offense
was really good last year. Now they were top ten
in scoring, but a lot of that was because of
the defense. They didn't have to run a lot of
plays in order to score because the defense was putting
them in good field position. They had a top five
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starting field position for their offense, but realistically all of
their other numbers were sort of middle of the road.
Trabinsky's twenty four touched down to twelve interception ratio was
bolstered by the fact that he's throw six touchdowns in
one game against the Bucks, and the rest of his
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games he's eighteen and twelve. That's really pretty terrible in
football terms. So that offense could just be middle of
the road. Again, maybe the defense isn't as good. You
have the Packers, who obviously dealt with another Aaron Rodgers
injury and a coach firing in the middle of the year. Uh,
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the Vikings had by all accounts a pretty bad season
for what their expectations were, and they still went eight
seven and one. You know, you have to consider that
those teams that are having that had bad seasons, the
Steelers and Minnesota, they still had winning records. So they
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play a little bit better offensively. In the Steeler's case,
they have to play a little bit better defensively. In
Minnesota's offense is a little bit more efficient. They win
a cup, them more games. So for the Bears, who
were twelve and four and won the division going away,
I think there's a growing sentiment that they might not
be able to repeat on the level that they did
last year, which I agree with. Now, are they a
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lock for under nine and a half? I don't know.
Why don't you go through this game by game? You
tell me if these are wins or losses? Joe, Uh,
They're gonna open up the season Hunter's anniversary of the
NFL season. Um, they host the Green Bay Packers on
Thursday night. Winner a loss, I think they split with
Green Bay. I'll think they will win the home game. Okay.
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So I want to know at Denver win playing their
old coach Vic Fangio. Okay. Um. And by the way
that you you mentioned it before, the break. The Vic
Fangio loss is a real thing. I do think that's
an important thing. Chuck Bogano is the defensive cordia there.
I do like teams that have former head coaches on staff.
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Think that's an important part of coaching staffs. I think,
and I've talked to coaches about this specifically. They like
it too, because the guys that are former head coaches
are very good about knowing their role and knowing to
coach specifically the way they're intended to coach, whether it's
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there a um positional coach or a coordinator. Vance Joseph,
a former head coach of that Broncos is now in Arizona,
I believe, as defensive coordinator. And then you have somebody
like Chuck Bogano who's the head coach of the Colts
and now he's in as defensive coordinator of the Bear.
So all right, but you still have them losing that
it's one and one at Washington, they beat the Redskins
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two and one, okay too and one hosting Minnesota. Again.
I these teams they know that each other so well.
I say, they win the home game, So you have
them at three and one. Then they go to Oakland.
Are you're gonna give Oakland a little bit of an
upset here at Oakland? Okay, why don't we give why
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don't we give the Yeah, give him an upset? Go ahead? Okay,
So three and two? Then they host the Saints Chargers
and go to the Eagles. Do they win any of them?
How about they win one of the three? Al right? Okay,
got it. So we're halfway through the season, you're four
and four. Then they host Detroit. You probably give him
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that one at the Rams. No hosting the Giants. That's six. Five.
You have them split with Detroit. So they lose at Detroit.
I think they could sweep Detroit. Okay, So the Cowboys,
they host the Cowboys. That'll be a tough game. That
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will be a tough games. But I'll give it to
the Bears. Eight and five. Okay, so that's eight. But
then you have them losing. Then they host Kansas City
and then they host Minnesota, so they could actually, you know,
best case scenario, they win one of those. Right, So
you have them under and you're you know, you're conceding
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a game in there at some point. So look, this
isn't scientific, obviously, but it gives you a sense of
where we think the Bears are relative to their opponents.
And then playing the and the a f C West
is a negative for them this year. They got lucky
in that the two well, in fact, that's a little
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bit unlucky, right because they got the road game. They
got the road games. Now this is that's a good
break for them, the two good teams. I think the
a f C West is haves and have nots. Right,
you probably have two teams that are over in the
Chargers and the Chiefs, two teams that are under in
the Raiders and the Broncos. So they they got the
easier teams on the road, the tougher teams uh come
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to Chicago. So in that sense they got a break.
But really having the Chiefs and the Charges on your
schedule this year isn't a break altogether. Plus they're playing
their first place team from last year, so they have
to play the Saints and the Rams, and the Eagles
are rather and the Cowboys, plus they also had the
Eagles in there. Um, it's just not an easy schedule
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for them, and I think that's why you're starting to
see why. Um, you know, the three of their first
five games before the bye week or on the road.
The home games are two divisional opponents. I just don't
think the schedule lines up for them that well. And
right now I would take the Bears under. Although I
think I'm sort of in line with you. I think
it's probably eight or nine wins. If if I went
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through it the same way as you did, I probably
would have said eight wins. So when I start to
pick teams, I want to make sure i'm a good
game and a half under as I go through it
before I decide if I'm gonna go under. But right
now I the Bears as an under. Um. I think
it's a big step back for them from the twelve
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winds last year. So um, everything you said about the
schedule is is great and and true, and I agree
with you, and I think that it wouldn't surprise me
if you know the Vikings, Packers or Bears. I think
that all three of them have a shot to win
this division. Yeah, yeah, I don't think you're wrong. I
don't don't think anybody's gonna run run away with it,
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you know. I think Aaron Rodgers it's got to figure
out a way to work with Matt Lafleur and the
Vikings problems, I don't know if they're fixed. I do
think they can play better, but I don't know the
Vikings really fixed any of their problems from the off
season a year ago. You know. Um, their offensive line
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is still a question mark. They drafted a center in
Garrett Bradbury, who should help them quite a bit, but
I don't think it fixed their offensive line issues. Uh.
We'll see though. Um. I think the Vikings going from
eight and seven and one, you give them a couple
of more wins, they're in there at ten and six,
I think it's a playoff team and potentially moving in
that division. So all right, Uh, last game from last
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night that we'll talk about was the Bucks Fins. Now,
the first thing I want to talk about before you
even get to the game, was reading a story this morning,
and it's that after hiring Bruce Arians, the Bucks gave
GM Jason Light a five year contract extension. It was
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not previously reported, but it has been reported now. Their
records since he's been the GM in his five seasons
is twenty seven and fifty three. The Bucks have coming
in last place eight of the last nine seasons, and
they gave their GM an extension. I thought he should
have been fired at the end of last year. He's
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the one that was there for the whole Dirk Cutter
Lovey Smith scenario and then here they are just really
as far as results are concerned. I know other teams
like the Browns in recent years and the Raiders have
gotten a lot more grief. But the reality is that
the Tampa Bay Bucks have been the worst team consistently
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over this decade. Really gotten the least amount of the
talent on that team, that's for sure, right. You know,
Winston was supposed to be uh a big time player
that this is it for him this year. It's kind
of do or die. And you gotta wonder if Bucks
GM has any incriminating photos of something. I just don't
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get it. Uh yeah, I'm I'm looking at last night.
Uh last place in last place in seventeen, second place
in that's when the Panthers had that Super Bowl hangover scenario. Um,
last place, last place, last place, last place one, two, three,
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four or five six, seven? Sorry, seven of eight I
said eight of nine. But the prior year of that
they were third or fourth, and the prior year two
thousand nine last place. So in eight of the previous
ten seasons they have come in the last place in
the division. UM two winning records in there A nine
and seven and twenty sixteen and a ten and six,
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but four outside of that four wins, seven wins, four wins,
two wins, six wins, five wins, and five wins back
to back five wins seasons. Uh for Tampa, I think
only the Giants and the Browns have won less games
and that collective span. So, um, we only got a
couple of minutes here. But as far as uh, last
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night's game was concerned, again, I don't know how much
you can take out of it based on them playing
the Dolphins in a game where you know, even the
Fins didn't look particularly good. We can talk about them
tomorrow when we come back. But uh, Jamis went two
or four for twenty four yards. I saw Andrea Ellington
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was really out there. Ronald Jones carried the ball a
couple of times, Peyton Barber a couple of times. But
we didn't Mike Evans arians and Nelaton to have that
little connection right from back with the Arizona. So something
questioning what kind of a role he might have not
fantasy wise, but maybe just a disruptor. Yeah, that could
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be the case. You see a lot a lot of
times with both coaches and gms, they like to bring
in players that they have familiarity with. So all right,
why don't we talk Bucks Dolphins after the break because
we spent a lot of time on the pairs. We'll
see what Joe's thoughts are on Jamis and who wins
the Dolphins QBA shot off? Does it even matter who
wins the Dolphins QB each job, it's Mike and Joe.
We can fantasy update. We'll be right back from the
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which is probably a good idea for some of you
as you're entering draft season. I I've been very backloaded
this year with my draft, Joe, so I've done only
a couple that matter so far. Obviously I've done some
best balls as well, but as far as seasonal leagues
where there's gonna be waiver wires and everything, else I got, um,
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I got a little bit of a ways to go
very backloaded on those leagues. Yeah, I still have a
couple more of season long leads the draft and looking
forward to him. And you know, I almost I mean,
what's the biggest fun not the biggest fun, but one
of the most enjoyment that a lot of us fantasy
players get. It's from the draft process. So I almost
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don't want them to end. So we'll see what happens. Yeah, yeah,
I hear you. So all right, Uh, Tampa, So I
appropriately hammered their their GM. And by the way, the
GM that kept Dirk cut her on a year after
everybody said he should have been fired after a five
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and eleven season, he kept him on and they went
five and eleven again. So anyway, you mentioned Theandre Ellington thing,
but in general, you skive me your thoughts on Tampa
this year. Do you think Jamis has the bounce back
season or or the final season of putting everything together
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that people think he may have. Are Are you on
board with that thought process in the past. I wasn't,
but yes, yes I am. And and I'll tell you
I didn't realize that Winston and the Arians had the
relationship that they did. I think Winston was involved in
a camp that Arians ran and back when he was teenagers.
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So I feel that Arians doesn't take the job if
James isn't the quarterback. I don't think it happens without
that pre existing relationship mm hmm. And uh yeah. So
I think that that comfort level is gonna help Winston
takes the pressure off of him knowing that you know,
this is gonna be the season where the Bucks have
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to make a big determination whether or not they want to, uh,
you know, keep them as their their quarterback of the future. Uh,
Mike Evans solid, solid wide receiven one. Uh. People talking
up Chris Godwin. Uh you know I'm in on Chris
Godwin this season as well. We get another year out
of O. J. Howard. You know I'm into O. J.
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Howard as well. You know I'm into the O. J.
Howard hype. I think the biggest question mark is gonna
be you know, who emerges, as you know, is the
CEO where Ronald Jones running back could take a step forward.
Because I think it's gonna help uh Winston if he
has a solid running game supporting his passing game. But yes,
I don't think the Bucks are gonna win that many games,
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but I think that they're gonna, you know, be playing
from behind in a lot of games. And I think,
like I said that comfort level, I think that arians
is gonna get the most out a Jamis Winston this year.
And I think that Winston's supporting cast in his wide receivers,
the tight end all a year older. I think that
it could be a nice fantasy season for the Bucks
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offense when you look at where these guys are being drafted,
that people are expecting huge things out of the box
from a passing offense standpoint, Because right now, Mike Evans
is the eighth wide receiver off the board, Godwin is
the seventeenth receiver off the board, and O. J. Howard
is the sixtieth player overall. So you're basically gonna go
to where Mike Evans. Mike Evans is twenty, Godwin is
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forty one, and Howard is sixty on the nose, So
three of the top sixty players first five rounds, that's
where these guys are going. So they're obviously expecting Jamie's
to have a pretty good season. What's unique is that
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well Eli's players aren't projected as high. Obviously, this is
really I remember last year people were asking, well, how
can Barkeley and Beckham and Ingram all be projected that high?
But Eli is not even in the top fifteen quarterbacks. Ultimately,
O'Dell got hurt, so the numbers weren't there. But uh,
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this makes a little bit more sense. But J. J.
Jamis is sort of still a good value in a
lot of drafts if you believe the hype. I have
a lot of questions about them in general. It's trying
to see where Jamis is going right now. Jamis still
is the eleventh QB off the board. It's been right
around there. You've been right around there for a long time.
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I think, Uh, it's hard to move Jami's up over
some of the guys in front of him, like Breeze
and Golf and wentz and and Maddie Ice. But Kyler
Murray is up there to the best ball guys. So
when I look at the NFFC draft board, the best
ball people are gonna take Kylie Murray higher than you'll
see him in your standard drafts. Murray will follow a
little bit. The experts are a little bit more in
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on Murray than our most fans wouldn't you agree? Seems
that way. Yeah, And it is interesting. You know, Murray
looks so uh dynamitic, explosive week one, Week two, all
of a sudden, you know, showing some kinks in the armor.
Maybe the Cardinals not really wanted to, uh show their
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cards in terms of showing everything that that they're gonna,
you know, be doing the season. So, I mean the
lay fantasy players got turned off to Murray this week,
but the like you said, the season and the high
stakes guys gals, Uh, I guess they they're more into Murray. Well,
the Raiders play hard in preseason. What do you want
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me to say they do? Jon Gruden is great in
the preseason. Uh, they play hard. They just do. Jon
Gruden's nineteen and twelve against the spread in the preseason.
He's somebody to bet um, you know. And if you
watch Hard Knocks, you can tell he's very focused on execution.
I think some of those older school coaches like like
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uh Pete Carroll, John Horribaugh, John Gruden, they obviously focused
quite a bit on executing certain things. I think Belichick
is really concerned with executing. But at the end of
the day, he I don't think he cares as much
about the winds or the losses. He just wants his
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starters to know what they're doing. Gruden is really pushing
the whole team in order to try to you know,
he's in the process of like turning over a roster
still to some extent. So I think he wants guys
that are all on the same page with him, and
that's why Gruden pushes so hard in camp. I don't
know if it's going to help him in the regular season,
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but I think that's why he also wants to I'm
sure he wants to instill that winning attitude because it's
in contagious in my opinion. Look, you don't know, if
the Patriots go oh and four in the preseason, they
still have one of the favorites to play in the
a f C Championship and win the Super Bowls because
they are you know. But but with the with the Raiders,
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like you said, they're trying to to build something there.
So it's a cultural shift. Yeah, yeah, okay, So, um, Jamis,
we talked, all right, so you're on board with Jamis.
I don't know. I don't have any shares of him yet,
but I'm gonna be in a couple of more best balls.
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I got a few more leagues to draft out, so
I don't know exactly where I'll be. I actually have
to do a whole bunch of research today tonight because
I have to have keepers in by tomorrow in a league.
I talked about this the other night on a podcast
with Jim Day, and um, I don't have any of
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the Bucks on there, but um, if I kicked both
my quarterbacks back in, which I could keep Roethlisberger in
the eleventh or Matt Ryan and the seventh, if I
kicked both of those guys back in, maybe Jamis ends
up being my quarterback. I'm probably gonna keep more players
in that league than any other team, just because I
had a really good team last year and I got
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good guys at value. But maybe Jamis is a quarterback
to take that team home. We'll see, all right. So
as far as the the, uh, the the rest of
the the the other game last night, which was Bucks Dolphins,
you know, we saw O. G. Howard called a pass
and like I said, the other guys didn't really do
much as far as the Dolphins are concerned. Uh. Josh
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rozen ten of eighteen Ryan Fitzpatrick three of nine um
he got. From a rushing standpoint, the Kalin Bellage crowd
and Kenyan Drake crowd were disappointed because neither of them played.
As far as receiving is concerned. I mean, there's like
fifteen guys that were out there running routes. Kenny still
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has caught two passes for sixteen We all expect. I
think that the Dolphins are gonna be the worst team
in the league. But from a fantasy standpoint, is there
anybody on that offense that you want? I'm interested in?
And I'm believing the hype in Preston Williams, especially I'm
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in a keeper league, and uh, I'm hoping that uh
you know, I was able to grab him in a
draft uh that I did a week ago, So I'm
thinking that, you know, uh, you know, he's gonna be
a long term option there. I belage, you know. I
started to get interested, especially with what's been going on
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with the Drake injury and whatnot. And I was into
Gisiki last year there at their tight end kind of
faded him now, Uh, don't like any other of their
wide receivers, and I'm interested to see what Josh Rosen
does this season, but not interested uh in any shares
of of him? Uh this season? Uh? Yeah. So the
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Kenyan Drake Caitlin Blage thing, Kenny Drake going off the board,
Calen Belage going. But I think that gap is closing.
But honestly, if either of these guys is anything more
than your RB four, I think you've kind of gone wrong.
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I really do think that. I just think they're gonna
struggle mightily to run the ball. I just think that
this offensive line is one of the worst in the league.
They drafted somebody this year, Michael Dieter in the third round,
Larrymy Tunsil is on a fifth year option, and who
knows if they'll have him after this. I just think
that I've said this before, Josh Rosen is a bad position.
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I think he'll start a majority of the games and
they're gonna be yeah, and they'll be in this He'll
be in the same position he was a year ago,
and they're gonna draft over him. Whether it's to a
tug of Iolova or Justin Herbert or whomever is the
flavor of the week, I think they're gonna draft over
him or ulize that number one draft pick to trade down,
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get more picks and still draft a quarterback, uh, regardless
of who it is. So the Preston Williams thing is interesting,
but again that's more of a draft and Stah scenario.
It's a long term UH play out. I know the
guys Davis Maddick and Drew dink Meyer that right. For
Rhodo experts Daily Rodo, they've always been fans of he
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steals athleticism, and there's an opportunity there in it. If
this team is getting blown out every week and they
just have to keep throwing the ball. Not unlike your
Blake Bortle's scenario, maybe Josh Rosen can. It's like Kenny
Stills can heat up and he would be the guy
that I would want there. Uh. Davante Parker, they gave
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him an extension, but he hasn't earned his keep at
all in the NFL. He's been hurt all the time.
I think I have a couple of shares of Parker
and best ball and keeper leagues. But realistically, if this
team goes south the way we expected, Kenny Stills is
probably the guy you want, just because of the opportunity
to hit big plays during blowouts, right, sure, Uh, get
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him in the sixteenth round or or later. You know
you want to take a shot at him? Why not? Yeah, Yeah,
that's where he's at. He's like, uh, he's actually going
a little earlier than that in best ball leagues, he's
going on off the board. So so when sixty son
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twelve twelve, twelveth round or so. Uh So, I think
that speaks to the best mentality to they're looking to
take shots and guys like that a little bit earlier
than others what otherwise would defense. They are working with
a young core right now. Xavian Howard, uh, Christian Wilkins,
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Rae Kwon, McMillan, uh, A couple of guys in there
that could be good, really good long term. And I
think Brian Floris, their coach, who's actually uh my connection
to him. I don't know him at all personally, but
he was at Boston College right around the same time,
a little bit after me. He played football at BCNE,
got into coaching and player development, player development and then
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coaching after that, and were with the Patriots for a
very long time his first year. I'm rooting for him.
I just think that he's really in the process of
a rebuild, and he should. I think this year he
can't even really be judged. I think if the defense
plays a little bit better under his watch, then that's
a bonus. But outside of that, they're going to struggle.
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So that's Adam Gate left him. Yeah, you know what's
funny about that. I don't think Adam gaze Uh deserved
to keep his job, but it says a lot about ownership.
And I think the biggest problem with Miami is its ownership.
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I don't think Steven Ross has run this team well
at all. I think that you have to absolutely have
synergy between the coach and the GM. So when you're
bringing in a coach and you're allowing him to churn
the roster over as he did in Miami, you know,
trading guys like j h I. He's releasing players, getting
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rid of players that he didn't want there, and he's
churning the roster and hell, give him three years, Like
what do you expect him to do? How quickly do
you expect that stuff to happen? If he doesn't have
a transformative player, which they didn't have at the QBE
Pits and they had Ryan Tannehill who was then who
was okay, and then hurt for a lot of time.
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He missed an entire season. Then ain't he got hurt
again last year, So what what really can you do?
You know? He remember he lost he got hurt at
the end of the one season and he couldn't play
in the playoff game and David uh not, David Moore,
Matt Moore had to play for him. Then he tours
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the preseason, and then he got banged up again last year.
So that's during Adam Gaye's entire tenure in Miami. He
had a injured and more backup quarterback and he was
churning the roster over. Now. I know people love to
bang on Adam Gates, and we'll see what he's doing
here in New York. He's obviously blown up this team
in some ways to getting the GM fired. But when
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there's no synergy there between GM and coach, and the
coach isn't given time to execute his plan, which typically
takes four years, if you are allowing him to rebuild it,
then I don't even really know why you let him
do it in the first place. M hmm. That's a
good point. But do you think that in three years
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there he would have had a shot too. And I
you know, we don't have to look at the drafts,
but did he have a shot of getting a better
quarterback than Tennel? I mean, Tennel was serviceable and I
know that you like you brought up good points that
you got injured a couple of instances. But we'll see.
I like his quarterback now. He never had one full
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S Y, Mike Blue, Jo Galina, and Joe's in the
middle of a draft right now. As you say, it's
organized by Andy Singleton. People's pens if we've worked with
him before on variety of different shows and what is So,
what's the format of this league? We got twelve or
fourteen in here? Fourteen this fifteen teams best ball. Yeah,
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uh six points uh per touchdown, whether it's receiving or rushing.
Some little uh you know, intricacies here with the scoring.
You know some uh scoring formats to do this. Some
don't You get minus a half a point for incomplete passes.
Uh you know, you get bonuses for fifty plus yards
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on scoring TVs and extra two points for that. Uh
you get uh points four yards after the catch. You
get points for targets. So it's a few little wrinkles.
It's not just your your average best ball drafts. So
you have to do some h some thinking as you
get into the U you know, the later rounds. So
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you had no problem here taking David Johnson at four. Uh.
Dave Davante Adams and Zeke Elliott went right after him,
as did DeAndre Hopkins. So UM, I wouldn't do that personally,
I was considering Hopkins, tell you the truth, would you
have gone Zeke's because I thought about for a while, yeah, okay,
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or especially with the targets, right, yeah, that's just do
I think NUB two? Yeah, but I started. I didn't
think that a month or two. But I don't think
he's gonna make I don't think he's gonna miss six games.
Me neither, but you never know. So White White take
that chance. But I guess in the best ball, maybe
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I should have taken a chance because you know, uh,
the definition the best balls, you get the points for
the best performances from your team for the day. So yeah,
I did give a lot of thoughts to DeAndre Hopkins
and thinking back now, you know, with the whole getting
some points for targets, maybe I should have. I have
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the number four pick in a draft to uh in
a couple of weeks, and that's the one where I
have to decide who my keepers are within the next
one or four hours. And Camara is kept, so Camara
will be gone. Uh. So I know McCaffrey and Barkeley
are gonna go one too, and we gotta figure out
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who number three and four are gonna be. So, um,
it could be interesting. What do you think about? What
do you think about? I'm sorry, go ahead, I'm sorry
for interrupting you ahead. Yeah, no, no, no no. Uh.
So you know McCaffrey and Barkeley are gonna be gone,
uh and Camara is gonna be gone. So I picked
at four, and I'd say it's gonna be a decision
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between David Johnson, Zeke Elliott, and DeAndre Hopkins. M hm.
So right now you're leaning where Hopkins. I think it's
Hopkins or Zeke. A couple of days ago, I was like,
let's just take Hopkins there, because as I can protect
a whole bunch of running backs, which I'm going to
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I have running backs in later rounds that I'm gonna
end up keeping, so I'm gonna have some depth at
the running back position. I have some real debate as
to whether or not I can keep I'll keep Sony
Michelle in the second round. Now, for some people listening
to because you're not that's why would you keep Sony
Michelle in the second round? You have to remember that
this is not in a vacuum. There are going to
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be roughly thirty five players kept in this league. So
when Sony Michelle is the running back off the board,
and there might be as many as ten or twelve
running backs kept then at the end of the second round,
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Sony Michelle doesn't seem all that weird, especially concerning the
other guys who I'm gonna be keeping. Yep, this guy
at pick fifteen took Patrick Mahomes and followed that up
with Tyler Lockett and the next wide receiver after that
was Mike Evans. So, uh, you know, I look at
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the best ball. I guess you take some chances maybe,
but uh, some bold moves by the guy with the
fift pick in this draft. Is there bonuses for Pat
Mahomes or now? Uh sorry yeah at the quarterback position, kiddy, kiddy,
I'm busting your chops. Uh. Let's see the passing touchdowns
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fifty plus a yard. Yeah, you get some bonuses there
an extra two points again, like I said, six points
per peru touchdown passing town It's only five points for
passing touchdown. But received this. This guy also picked James
White and Sony Michelle. Is seems like he's not taking
this draft particularly seriously. But and the Tyler Locket thing
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is so is is being way too cute, because you know,
he could have waited all the way until the first
pick of round four to get him the guys on
the turn. So picking Tyler Locket in front of the
following wide receivers Mike Evans, Antonio Brown, Adam Theland, Keenan Allen,
Chris Godwin, Amari Cooper, Stefon Diggs, Julian Edel and t
Y Hilton, Brandon Cooks. If he was justifying this, if
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this is a real pick and he was justifying, he
would say, well, Tyler Lockett's a clear number one in
Seattle because Metcalf's a rookie, and uh, maybe they're not
going to run as much this year because Wilson's got
to throw a little bit more. He's still not gonna
out target a lot of those guys. He just won't.
I agree. I agree. Maybe this guy thought it was
a mock draft and just wanted to see how his
team would look if you crazy things, picking both Picking
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both Patch wide running backs back to back is not
an optimal scenario. So so all right, so in this
draft so far, you're through a few rounds. You've got
David Johnson Adam Feeling, which there was a little run
of little mini run of wide receivers. They were Evans
and Internet ground. You took Adam feel in there. I
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think you gotta feel located with that. Though, if if
David Johnson my concerns My concerns about David Johnson are
the offensive line still the offensive line still terrible. They
didn't fix it. They did not fix it. It is
shocking to me that they went into the draft and
we're like, we're gonna be good. We we signed a
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couple of guys in the off season, traded for Marcus Gilbert. Um,
we got j R. Sweezy in here, which we did
a year ago. You know the Steelers. Steelers traded Marcus
Gilbert for a reason. You don't just trade offensive tackles
because they're playing great. Uh, Jered Sweezy they signed during
the off season, so they did make changes. But they
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signed a big free agent last year in Justin Pugh.
He didn't they were They were so hurt last year
in the offensive on line and it wasn't very good
to begin with. That put them in a really bad spot.
But I just think their offensive line is going to
continue to struggle. Now. Can Kyler Murray running in an
air raid offense, which you're not even really showing to
you in the predseason, just open things up for David
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Johnson tremendously. Yes, I think it could, but the offensive
line still has to have a modicum of ability together
to be a good offensive line. So I do I
have as many doubts about their offensive line this year
as I did last year. No, the talent level is better,
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but it's still not very good, and I think there'll
be a bottom ten offensive line even at year's end.
So you're hoping that the offense opened some holes, not
unlike what McVeigh really started to do for Girly in
a big way before Girly got hurt so um or
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really the last two years. So so that's that's my
doubts on David Johnson. But I'm good with Adam Feeling.
I think there'll be plenty of targets there. And then
you got Marlon Mack. Given the scoring in this league,
I think you're just really looking for a lot of touches,
and I think given those guys around him, I'm okay
with that. Yeah. I mean, look, I needed another solid
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running back. I thought about Josh Jacobs, who went right
after him. My my issues with Damian Williams. Yeah, and
my my issue with Damien Williams's. Look, we all know
how explosive and and and good the Chiefs offense is
going to be this season. I just like I said
last week, common sense tells you that a guy that
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has a hundred eighty three carries first career, I don't
see him being able to perform at a high level
with two hundred plus carries the season. So that's my
issue with him. And you know, uh, and and you know,
and just about David Johnson, everything you said is is true.
We've spoken about the fact that the Cardinals haven't done
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enough to improve that offensive line. But on the positive side,
you know last season seventies six targets and fifty catches
for David Johnson. You know, he had that great season
eighty catches. This air raid offense is gonna be fast,
a lot more plays run, So I think he's got
a shot. I mean, like I said, I thought about
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it for for a little bit before I made that pick,
but I'm okay with it. Yeah. What's interesting is we
talked about this recently. I think we even talked about
it with Davis Maddock when he was on this show
last week. The guy picked right in front of him,
DeVante Freeman. So many people out there, maybe even me
to some extent, just expect Devanta Freeman to not be
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able to finish the season and you have Edo Smith
in there picking up value. I have Edo Smith in
a scott Fish Bowl team. But if DeVonta Freeman stayed
healthy in that fence, he'd be a great pick. Absolutely picks. No.
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I think he catch passes out of the backfield as well,
and uh, good runner all along uh four point three
yards for carry for his career. That you're right. The
the issue is, I mean, I don't even know if
it's unfair that I mean, he's like when you look
about it. Last year was the first year that he
really uh only he only played two games, but previously
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that fourteen games, sixteen games, thirteen games. Look, the running
back position is tough. They're gonna get hurt. Prepare for
your running back to miss a couple of games. Absolutely
all three tight ends went in the second round. Here
Levian Bell went fourteen. I've seen him as high as
fourth in some drafts, but here he goes fourteen. So
he slid all the way down I'm seeing Nick Chubb
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consistently go earlier than he was a few weeks back. Obviously,
then moving on from Duke Johnson, I think people are
willing to take the Kareem hit I put them in
quotes and when Kareem Hunt comes back to get this,
to get the nine solid games of Nick Chubb before
Kareem Hunt shows up. Yeah, I mean, maybe you could
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even work to Chubb's benefit when when Dunt comes back.
I mean, look, if Chubb is having an excellent season
like we expect him to, but they're just not gonna
put Chubb to the side and have Kareem Hunt, you know,
take over the backfield. Yeah, maybe maybe you could lose
you know, three to five carries the game, and maybe
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the that will him that it'll make the carries that
he gets, he'll he'll be better, he will be fresher.
I don't know. I mean, I don't I don't have
a problem with Kareem Hunt stealing too much workload out
of Nick Chubb. Got it. Okay, so you're in the
fourth round right now, you have a big coming up. Yes,
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I do, Yes, I do. And you saw DJ we
were just talking about the Panthers d j Mortes went,
So I'm thinking, Yeah, I'm thinking, what do you think
I should do? Get my second wide receiver? Yeah? So
who's on the board right now for you? Who? Who's somebody? Yeah,
we're not gonna go tight end here, We're not going quarterback.
So this is gonna be straight up probably best player available.
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But who who are the guys that you're looking at?
Because there's one pick in front of you, So you
gotta have somebody lined up here right right? Uh? Just
looking at the the a DPS. Kenny Golladay from Detroit
is there? Do I want? Yeah? Do I want Cooper Cup?
You know? Uh, part of that that potentially explosive rams offense.
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Other than that, I mean Landry's next. But I think
I could do better than that. Um, I think I
think you can take I think you take Goliday here
because he won't come back to you. I think there's
a shot that Cooper Cup can get back to you
Golliday won't. That's my thought because this is best ball
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and there's a thought process that Gola Day could explode
this year. M Um. I think they're I think Detroit's
regressing into a more of a run heavy team. But
he is clearly the number one target, and he does
have Matt Stafford there. Um Cooper Cup, I'm a I'm
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a fan of his production in fantasy leagues, So I
think I think that you probably won't get both guys,
but I would pick Golliday because he won't last a cup.
Might That would be my strategy here, right, But I
wouldn't expect next you go Cooper Cup? Right? Uh? Yeah,
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those are your next two wide receivers. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
those are the next two wide receivers. Who are the
running backs that are there? Give me a second. I
still think you take the receiver there because I would
imagine both of these guys are better than they running
nicknames you're gonna rip off running back Lamar Miller, Tevin Coleman, Kenyan,
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Drake Rashad Penny. Yeah you're done right now? Thanks? Thanks? Yeah? Thanks.
Tevin Coleman is obviously interesting to a lot of people.
Lamar Miller got interesting for a minute before they traded
for Duke Johnson. I still think that. I still think that.
I still think the Texans offensive line is an issue.
That's why I haven't been on Lamar Miller for the
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last couple of years. Uh, it doesn't mean that a
bad offensive line can't have a productive running back, obviously,
David Johnson shows that last year. Sae Quon Barkley shows
that in a big way last year. But it just
gives me concerns. It It influences how I am evaluating
the players. So from that perspective, Um, yeah, I'm not
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in love any of those running backs certainly. So that's it.
You're gonna pick Jordan Howard, Yeah, I'm going their cup. Yeah, yeah,
I think that's the move. Alright, cool, So that's it.
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free to ask us any questions. Um, we'll get into
his draft here a little bit later this hour, but
wanted to continue. Yeah, it maybe maybe a little bit
more about Bacon too. It's a good point, Sean Angele.
So we'll get into Buck's uh fins which was last
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the previous games on Thursday. Later in the show, will
get into tonight's games. We're really doing it as an
exercise to dive into these teams a little bit. A
couple of them we've already talked about. I found out
ourselves talking about the Giants quite a bit. But it's
because there's a quarterback situation going on. I think you
just gravitate towards that discussion. And it's weird for a
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team that people have no expectations of has the number
one overall pick and fantasy people love Shirling Shepard for
he broke his thumb. People like Evan Ingram a lot.
So there is a number one overall running back, a
potential wide receiver to tight end one, and who knows
(02:46):
what Golden Tate will be all on this team that
people expect to be terrible, But so why do we
expect them to win five five games? Including myself when
I went through this schedule, tack am I missing. Maybe
O'Hara's right, maybe they go tenant six. You are you're
kidding yourself. Their defense is that that could That's the
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thing that we don't really talk about, like we like
you you're I know you're kidding, but we don't really
talk about it. A lot of times with fantasy, we're
just trying to figure out how, you know, how is
this offense gonna look who's gonna get the targets? Like?
All right, they might not run as many plays, and
they might turn the ball over a bunch because they're
desperate and they're passing in scenarios where they don't want
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to be passing all the time, you know what I mean,
people are gonna be They might be trailing because the
defense has given up three touchdowns in the first half,
and then they'll play a team like the Bears in
the regular season. Actually they do play the Bears. They'll
play a team like the Bears in the regular season,
and Khalil Mack will just be annihilating Tate Soldier or
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Mike Remmers. You know, like you can't. We're not always
accounting for that in the context of fantasy. So that's
why I think they'll end up losing a bunch of games.
You know, I don't think they're gonna be three and thirteen. Again,
I think it's possible. But whatever, they went a couple
of more games, still a top five ye yeah, there's
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still a top five pick kind of team. Okay, So
a beat defense. Let me just say that this real quick.
A beat defense could help a fantasy offense because a
beat defense could mean that a team is playing from
behind the bunch and they are. That's what gave Blake
Bortles his uh fantasy value in the past, coming you know,
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gage fantasy championships because of Blake Bortles. Yeah, yeah, yeah, No.
I think it's right, and I think we see that
the Tampa Bay Bucks. The last couple of years, your
defense has been performing miles below expectation, and we've seen
their quarterbacks put up numbers. Right, whether it's Fitzpatrick or whomever.
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Mike Evans is good. The running game hasn't been good,
but Mike Evans has been good. The tight ends have
both been valuable. To some extent. We saw de Sean
Jackson be valuable at times in that offense, and Chris
Godwin obviously uh as well. So I gotta get into
the We're getting the Bucks in a minute, because there's
news out of there which stuns me. But let's talk
(05:18):
about the Bears real quick. I was on the air
with Gabe Marenci the other day and it looks like
I'm getting the sense from a lot of people that
they are going to fade the Bears. I'm looking at
them on Vanduel Sports book right now and they are
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currently I just want to make sure I was right. Yeah,
it's nine and a half. So the defense was amazing
last year. Clearly, they gave up the least points in
the league, They forced the most turnovers, uh, the lowest
scoring percentage in the league. On their defense, they did
just to really nice job. So what I would say, though,
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is that there is likely to be some regression in
the turnovers. Right they turned they thirty six turnovers were
forced by the events. That's likely to be some amount
of regression. You're not just gonna keep forcing turnovers at
that rate. Additionally, the offense, people think because Matt Naggy
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is there, and they have a whole They have a
whole bunch of mouths. Dey to Tree Burton and Rabinsky
is new is a newer quarterback, and Alan Robinson came
over as a big free agency signing. That their offense
was really good last year. Now they were top ten
in scoring, but a lot of that was because of
the defense. They didn't have to run a lot of
plays in order to score because the defense was putting
them in good field position. They had a top five
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starting field position for their offense, but realistically all of
their other numbers were sort of middle of the road.
Trabinsky's twenty four touched down to twelve interception ratio was
bolstered by the fact that he's throw six touchdowns in
one game against the Bucks, and the rest of his
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games he's eighteen and twelve. That's really pretty terrible in
football terms. So that offense could just be middle of
the road. Again, maybe the defense isn't as good. You
have the Packers, who obviously dealt with another Aaron Rodgers
injury and a coach firing in the middle of the year. Uh,
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the Vikings had by all accounts a pretty bad season
for what their expectations were, and they still went eight
seven and one. You know, you have to consider that
those teams that are having that had bad seasons, the
Steelers and Minnesota, they still had winning records. So they
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play a little bit better offensively. In the Steeler's case,
they have to play a little bit better defensively. In
Minnesota's offense is a little bit more efficient. They win
a cup, them more games. So for the Bears, who
were twelve and four and won the division going away,
I think there's a growing sentiment that they might not
be able to repeat on the level that they did
last year, which I agree with. Now, are they a
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lock for under nine and a half? I don't know.
Why don't you go through this game by game? You
tell me if these are wins or losses? Joe, Uh,
They're gonna open up the season Hunter's anniversary of the
NFL season. Um, they host the Green Bay Packers on
Thursday night. Winner a loss, I think they split with
Green Bay. I'll think they will win the home game. Okay.
(08:37):
So I want to know at Denver win playing their
old coach Vic Fangio. Okay. Um. And by the way
that you you mentioned it before, the break. The Vic
Fangio loss is a real thing. I do think that's
an important thing. Chuck Bogano is the defensive cordia there.
I do like teams that have former head coaches on staff.
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Think that's an important part of coaching staffs. I think,
and I've talked to coaches about this specifically. They like
it too, because the guys that are former head coaches
are very good about knowing their role and knowing to
coach specifically the way they're intended to coach, whether it's
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there a um positional coach or a coordinator. Vance Joseph,
a former head coach of that Broncos is now in Arizona,
I believe, as defensive coordinator. And then you have somebody
like Chuck Bogano who's the head coach of the Colts
and now he's in as defensive coordinator of the Bear.
So all right, but you still have them losing that
it's one and one at Washington, they beat the Redskins
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two and one, okay too and one hosting Minnesota. Again.
I these teams they know that each other so well.
I say, they win the home game, So you have
them at three and one. Then they go to Oakland.
Are you're gonna give Oakland a little bit of an
upset here at Oakland? Okay, why don't we give why
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don't we give the Yeah, give him an upset? Go ahead? Okay,
So three and two? Then they host the Saints Chargers
and go to the Eagles. Do they win any of them?
How about they win one of the three? Al right? Okay,
got it. So we're halfway through the season, you're four
and four. Then they host Detroit. You probably give him
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that one at the Rams. No hosting the Giants. That's six. Five.
You have them split with Detroit. So they lose at Detroit.
I think they could sweep Detroit. Okay, So the Cowboys,
they host the Cowboys. That'll be a tough game. That
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will be a tough games. But I'll give it to
the Bears. Eight and five. Okay, so that's eight. But
then you have them losing. Then they host Kansas City
and then they host Minnesota, so they could actually, you know,
best case scenario, they win one of those. Right, So
you have them under and you're you know, you're conceding
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a game in there at some point. So look, this
isn't scientific, obviously, but it gives you a sense of
where we think the Bears are relative to their opponents.
And then playing the and the a f C West
is a negative for them this year. They got lucky
in that the two well, in fact, that's a little
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bit unlucky, right because they got the road game. They
got the road games. Now this is that's a good
break for them, the two good teams. I think the
a f C West is haves and have nots. Right,
you probably have two teams that are over in the
Chargers and the Chiefs, two teams that are under in
the Raiders and the Broncos. So they they got the
easier teams on the road, the tougher teams uh come
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to Chicago. So in that sense they got a break.
But really having the Chiefs and the Charges on your
schedule this year isn't a break altogether. Plus they're playing
their first place team from last year, so they have
to play the Saints and the Rams, and the Eagles
are rather and the Cowboys, plus they also had the
Eagles in there. Um, it's just not an easy schedule
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for them, and I think that's why you're starting to
see why. Um, you know, the three of their first
five games before the bye week or on the road.
The home games are two divisional opponents. I just don't
think the schedule lines up for them that well. And
right now I would take the Bears under. Although I
think I'm sort of in line with you. I think
it's probably eight or nine wins. If if I went
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through it the same way as you did, I probably
would have said eight wins. So when I start to
pick teams, I want to make sure i'm a good
game and a half under as I go through it
before I decide if I'm gonna go under. But right
now I the Bears as an under. Um. I think
it's a big step back for them from the twelve
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winds last year. So um, everything you said about the
schedule is is great and and true, and I agree
with you, and I think that it wouldn't surprise me
if you know the Vikings, Packers or Bears. I think
that all three of them have a shot to win
this division. Yeah, yeah, I don't think you're wrong. I
don't don't think anybody's gonna run run away with it,
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you know. I think Aaron Rodgers it's got to figure
out a way to work with Matt Lafleur and the
Vikings problems, I don't know if they're fixed. I do
think they can play better, but I don't know the
Vikings really fixed any of their problems from the off
season a year ago. You know. Um, their offensive line
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is still a question mark. They drafted a center in
Garrett Bradbury, who should help them quite a bit, but
I don't think it fixed their offensive line issues. Uh.
We'll see though. Um. I think the Vikings going from
eight and seven and one, you give them a couple
of more wins, they're in there at ten and six,
I think it's a playoff team and potentially moving in
that division. So all right, Uh, last game from last
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night that we'll talk about was the Bucks Fins. Now,
the first thing I want to talk about before you
even get to the game, was reading a story this morning,
and it's that after hiring Bruce Arians, the Bucks gave
GM Jason Light a five year contract extension. It was
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not previously reported, but it has been reported now. Their
records since he's been the GM in his five seasons
is twenty seven and fifty three. The Bucks have coming
in last place eight of the last nine seasons, and
they gave their GM an extension. I thought he should
have been fired at the end of last year. He's
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the one that was there for the whole Dirk Cutter
Lovey Smith scenario and then here they are just really
as far as results are concerned. I know other teams
like the Browns in recent years and the Raiders have
gotten a lot more grief. But the reality is that
the Tampa Bay Bucks have been the worst team consistently
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over this decade. Really gotten the least amount of the
talent on that team, that's for sure, right. You know,
Winston was supposed to be uh a big time player
that this is it for him this year. It's kind
of do or die. And you gotta wonder if Bucks
GM has any incriminating photos of something. I just don't
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get it. Uh yeah, I'm I'm looking at last night.
Uh last place in last place in seventeen, second place
in that's when the Panthers had that Super Bowl hangover scenario. Um,
last place, last place, last place, last place one, two, three,
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four or five six, seven? Sorry, seven of eight I
said eight of nine. But the prior year of that
they were third or fourth, and the prior year two
thousand nine last place. So in eight of the previous
ten seasons they have come in the last place in
the division. UM two winning records in there A nine
and seven and twenty sixteen and a ten and six,
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but four outside of that four wins, seven wins, four wins,
two wins, six wins, five wins, and five wins back
to back five wins seasons. Uh for Tampa, I think
only the Giants and the Browns have won less games
and that collective span. So, um, we only got a
couple of minutes here. But as far as uh, last
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night's game was concerned, again, I don't know how much
you can take out of it based on them playing
the Dolphins in a game where you know, even the
Fins didn't look particularly good. We can talk about them
tomorrow when we come back. But uh, Jamis went two
or four for twenty four yards. I saw Andrea Ellington
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was really out there. Ronald Jones carried the ball a
couple of times, Peyton Barber a couple of times. But
we didn't Mike Evans arians and Nelaton to have that
little connection right from back with the Arizona. So something
questioning what kind of a role he might have not
fantasy wise, but maybe just a disruptor. Yeah, that could
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be the case. You see a lot a lot of
times with both coaches and gms, they like to bring
in players that they have familiarity with. So all right,
why don't we talk Bucks Dolphins after the break because
we spent a lot of time on the pairs. We'll
see what Joe's thoughts are on Jamis and who wins
the Dolphins QBA shot off? Does it even matter who
wins the Dolphins QB each job, it's Mike and Joe.
We can fantasy update. We'll be right back from the
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which is probably a good idea for some of you
as you're entering draft season. I I've been very backloaded
this year with my draft, Joe, so I've done only
a couple that matter so far. Obviously I've done some
best balls as well, but as far as seasonal leagues
where there's gonna be waiver wires and everything, else I got, um,
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I got a little bit of a ways to go
very backloaded on those leagues. Yeah, I still have a
couple more of season long leads the draft and looking
forward to him. And you know, I almost I mean,
what's the biggest fun not the biggest fun, but one
of the most enjoyment that a lot of us fantasy
players get. It's from the draft process. So I almost
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don't want them to end. So we'll see what happens. Yeah, yeah,
I hear you. So all right, Uh, Tampa, So I
appropriately hammered their their GM. And by the way, the
GM that kept Dirk cut her on a year after
everybody said he should have been fired after a five
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and eleven season, he kept him on and they went
five and eleven again. So anyway, you mentioned Theandre Ellington thing,
but in general, you skive me your thoughts on Tampa
this year. Do you think Jamis has the bounce back
season or or the final season of putting everything together
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that people think he may have. Are Are you on
board with that thought process in the past. I wasn't,
but yes, yes I am. And and I'll tell you
I didn't realize that Winston and the Arians had the
relationship that they did. I think Winston was involved in
a camp that Arians ran and back when he was teenagers.
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So I feel that Arians doesn't take the job if
James isn't the quarterback. I don't think it happens without
that pre existing relationship mm hmm. And uh yeah. So
I think that that comfort level is gonna help Winston
takes the pressure off of him knowing that you know,
this is gonna be the season where the Bucks have
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to make a big determination whether or not they want to, uh,
you know, keep them as their their quarterback of the future. Uh,
Mike Evans solid, solid wide receiven one. Uh. People talking
up Chris Godwin. Uh you know I'm in on Chris
Godwin this season as well. We get another year out
of O. J. Howard. You know I'm into O. J.
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Howard as well. You know I'm into the O. J.
Howard hype. I think the biggest question mark is gonna
be you know, who emerges, as you know, is the
CEO where Ronald Jones running back could take a step forward.
Because I think it's gonna help uh Winston if he
has a solid running game supporting his passing game. But yes,
I don't think the Bucks are gonna win that many games,
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but I think that they're gonna, you know, be playing
from behind in a lot of games. And I think,
like I said that comfort level, I think that arians
is gonna get the most out a Jamis Winston this year.
And I think that Winston's supporting cast in his wide receivers,
the tight end all a year older. I think that
it could be a nice fantasy season for the Bucks
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offense when you look at where these guys are being drafted,
that people are expecting huge things out of the box
from a passing offense standpoint, Because right now, Mike Evans
is the eighth wide receiver off the board, Godwin is
the seventeenth receiver off the board, and O. J. Howard
is the sixtieth player overall. So you're basically gonna go
to where Mike Evans. Mike Evans is twenty, Godwin is
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forty one, and Howard is sixty on the nose, So
three of the top sixty players first five rounds, that's
where these guys are going. So they're obviously expecting Jamie's
to have a pretty good season. What's unique is that
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well Eli's players aren't projected as high. Obviously, this is
really I remember last year people were asking, well, how
can Barkeley and Beckham and Ingram all be projected that high?
But Eli is not even in the top fifteen quarterbacks. Ultimately,
O'Dell got hurt, so the numbers weren't there. But uh,
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this makes a little bit more sense. But J. J.
Jamis is sort of still a good value in a
lot of drafts if you believe the hype. I have
a lot of questions about them in general. It's trying
to see where Jamis is going right now. Jamis still
is the eleventh QB off the board. It's been right
around there. You've been right around there for a long time.
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I think, Uh, it's hard to move Jami's up over
some of the guys in front of him, like Breeze
and Golf and wentz and and Maddie Ice. But Kyler
Murray is up there to the best ball guys. So
when I look at the NFFC draft board, the best
ball people are gonna take Kylie Murray higher than you'll
see him in your standard drafts. Murray will follow a
little bit. The experts are a little bit more in
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on Murray than our most fans wouldn't you agree? Seems
that way. Yeah, And it is interesting. You know, Murray
looks so uh dynamitic, explosive week one, Week two, all
of a sudden, you know, showing some kinks in the armor.
Maybe the Cardinals not really wanted to, uh show their
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cards in terms of showing everything that that they're gonna,
you know, be doing the season. So, I mean the
lay fantasy players got turned off to Murray this week,
but the like you said, the season and the high
stakes guys gals, Uh, I guess they they're more into Murray. Well,
the Raiders play hard in preseason. What do you want
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me to say they do? Jon Gruden is great in
the preseason. Uh, they play hard. They just do. Jon
Gruden's nineteen and twelve against the spread in the preseason.
He's somebody to bet um, you know. And if you
watch Hard Knocks, you can tell he's very focused on execution.
I think some of those older school coaches like like
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uh Pete Carroll, John Horribaugh, John Gruden, they obviously focused
quite a bit on executing certain things. I think Belichick
is really concerned with executing. But at the end of
the day, he I don't think he cares as much
about the winds or the losses. He just wants his
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starters to know what they're doing. Gruden is really pushing
the whole team in order to try to you know,
he's in the process of like turning over a roster
still to some extent. So I think he wants guys
that are all on the same page with him, and
that's why Gruden pushes so hard in camp. I don't
know if it's going to help him in the regular season,
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but I think that's why he also wants to I'm
sure he wants to instill that winning attitude because it's
in contagious in my opinion. Look, you don't know, if
the Patriots go oh and four in the preseason, they
still have one of the favorites to play in the
a f C Championship and win the Super Bowls because
they are you know. But but with the with the Raiders,
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like you said, they're trying to to build something there.
So it's a cultural shift. Yeah, yeah, okay, So, um, Jamis,
we talked, all right, so you're on board with Jamis.
I don't know. I don't have any shares of him yet,
but I'm gonna be in a couple of more best balls.
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I got a few more leagues to draft out, so
I don't know exactly where I'll be. I actually have
to do a whole bunch of research today tonight because
I have to have keepers in by tomorrow in a league.
I talked about this the other night on a podcast
with Jim Day, and um, I don't have any of
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the Bucks on there, but um, if I kicked both
my quarterbacks back in, which I could keep Roethlisberger in
the eleventh or Matt Ryan and the seventh, if I
kicked both of those guys back in, maybe Jamis ends
up being my quarterback. I'm probably gonna keep more players
in that league than any other team, just because I
had a really good team last year and I got
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good guys at value. But maybe Jamis is a quarterback
to take that team home. We'll see, all right. So
as far as the the, uh, the the rest of
the the the other game last night, which was Bucks Dolphins,
you know, we saw O. G. Howard called a pass
and like I said, the other guys didn't really do
much as far as the Dolphins are concerned. Uh. Josh
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rozen ten of eighteen Ryan Fitzpatrick three of nine um
he got. From a rushing standpoint, the Kalin Bellage crowd
and Kenyan Drake crowd were disappointed because neither of them played.
As far as receiving is concerned. I mean, there's like
fifteen guys that were out there running routes. Kenny still
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has caught two passes for sixteen We all expect. I
think that the Dolphins are gonna be the worst team
in the league. But from a fantasy standpoint, is there
anybody on that offense that you want? I'm interested in?
And I'm believing the hype in Preston Williams, especially I'm
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in a keeper league, and uh, I'm hoping that uh
you know, I was able to grab him in a
draft uh that I did a week ago, So I'm
thinking that, you know, uh, you know, he's gonna be
a long term option there. I belage, you know. I
started to get interested, especially with what's been going on
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with the Drake injury and whatnot. And I was into
Gisiki last year there at their tight end kind of
faded him now, Uh, don't like any other of their
wide receivers, and I'm interested to see what Josh Rosen
does this season, but not interested uh in any shares
of of him? Uh this season? Uh? Yeah. So the
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Kenyan Drake Caitlin Blage thing, Kenny Drake going off the board,
Calen Belage going. But I think that gap is closing.
But honestly, if either of these guys is anything more
than your RB four, I think you've kind of gone wrong.
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I really do think that. I just think they're gonna
struggle mightily to run the ball. I just think that
this offensive line is one of the worst in the league.
They drafted somebody this year, Michael Dieter in the third round,
Larrymy Tunsil is on a fifth year option, and who
knows if they'll have him after this. I just think
that I've said this before, Josh Rosen is a bad position.
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I think he'll start a majority of the games and
they're gonna be yeah, and they'll be in this He'll
be in the same position he was a year ago,
and they're gonna draft over him. Whether it's to a
tug of Iolova or Justin Herbert or whomever is the
flavor of the week, I think they're gonna draft over
him or ulize that number one draft pick to trade down,
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get more picks and still draft a quarterback, uh, regardless
of who it is. So the Preston Williams thing is interesting,
but again that's more of a draft and Stah scenario.
It's a long term UH play out. I know the
guys Davis Maddick and Drew dink Meyer that right. For
Rhodo experts Daily Rodo, they've always been fans of he
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steals athleticism, and there's an opportunity there in it. If
this team is getting blown out every week and they
just have to keep throwing the ball. Not unlike your
Blake Bortle's scenario, maybe Josh Rosen can. It's like Kenny
Stills can heat up and he would be the guy
that I would want there. Uh. Davante Parker, they gave
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him an extension, but he hasn't earned his keep at
all in the NFL. He's been hurt all the time.
I think I have a couple of shares of Parker
and best ball and keeper leagues. But realistically, if this
team goes south the way we expected, Kenny Stills is
probably the guy you want, just because of the opportunity
to hit big plays during blowouts, right, sure, Uh, get
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him in the sixteenth round or or later. You know
you want to take a shot at him? Why not? Yeah, Yeah,
that's where he's at. He's like, uh, he's actually going
a little earlier than that in best ball leagues, he's
going on off the board. So so when sixty son
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twelve twelve, twelveth round or so. Uh So, I think
that speaks to the best mentality to they're looking to
take shots and guys like that a little bit earlier
than others what otherwise would defense. They are working with
a young core right now. Xavian Howard, uh, Christian Wilkins,
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Rae Kwon, McMillan, uh, A couple of guys in there
that could be good, really good long term. And I
think Brian Floris, their coach, who's actually uh my connection
to him. I don't know him at all personally, but
he was at Boston College right around the same time,
a little bit after me. He played football at BCNE,
got into coaching and player development, player development and then
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coaching after that, and were with the Patriots for a
very long time his first year. I'm rooting for him.
I just think that he's really in the process of
a rebuild, and he should. I think this year he
can't even really be judged. I think if the defense
plays a little bit better under his watch, then that's
a bonus. But outside of that, they're going to struggle.
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So that's Adam Gate left him. Yeah, you know what's
funny about that. I don't think Adam gaze Uh deserved
to keep his job, but it says a lot about ownership.
And I think the biggest problem with Miami is its ownership.
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I don't think Steven Ross has run this team well
at all. I think that you have to absolutely have
synergy between the coach and the GM. So when you're
bringing in a coach and you're allowing him to churn
the roster over as he did in Miami, you know,
trading guys like j h I. He's releasing players, getting
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rid of players that he didn't want there, and he's
churning the roster and hell, give him three years, Like
what do you expect him to do? How quickly do
you expect that stuff to happen? If he doesn't have
a transformative player, which they didn't have at the QBE
Pits and they had Ryan Tannehill who was then who
was okay, and then hurt for a lot of time.
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He missed an entire season. Then ain't he got hurt
again last year, So what what really can you do?
You know? He remember he lost he got hurt at
the end of the one season and he couldn't play
in the playoff game and David uh not, David Moore,
Matt Moore had to play for him. Then he tours
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the preseason, and then he got banged up again last year.
So that's during Adam Gaye's entire tenure in Miami. He
had a injured and more backup quarterback and he was
churning the roster over. Now. I know people love to
bang on Adam Gates, and we'll see what he's doing
here in New York. He's obviously blown up this team
in some ways to getting the GM fired. But when
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there's no synergy there between GM and coach, and the
coach isn't given time to execute his plan, which typically
takes four years, if you are allowing him to rebuild it,
then I don't even really know why you let him
do it in the first place. M hmm. That's a
good point. But do you think that in three years
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there he would have had a shot too. And I
you know, we don't have to look at the drafts,
but did he have a shot of getting a better
quarterback than Tennel? I mean, Tennel was serviceable and I
know that you like you brought up good points that
you got injured a couple of instances. But we'll see.
I like his quarterback now. He never had one full
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one may get some starts in Tennessee. I'd like to
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S Y, Mike Blue, Jo Galina, and Joe's in the
middle of a draft right now. As you say, it's
organized by Andy Singleton. People's pens if we've worked with
him before on variety of different shows and what is So,
what's the format of this league? We got twelve or
fourteen in here? Fourteen this fifteen teams best ball. Yeah,
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uh six points uh per touchdown, whether it's receiving or rushing.
Some little uh you know, intricacies here with the scoring.
You know some uh scoring formats to do this. Some
don't You get minus a half a point for incomplete passes.
Uh you know, you get bonuses for fifty plus yards
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on scoring TVs and extra two points for that. Uh
you get uh points four yards after the catch. You
get points for targets. So it's a few little wrinkles.
It's not just your your average best ball drafts. So
you have to do some h some thinking as you
get into the U you know, the later rounds. So
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you had no problem here taking David Johnson at four. Uh.
Dave Davante Adams and Zeke Elliott went right after him,
as did DeAndre Hopkins. So UM, I wouldn't do that personally,
I was considering Hopkins, tell you the truth, would you
have gone Zeke's because I thought about for a while, yeah, okay,
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or especially with the targets, right, yeah, that's just do
I think NUB two? Yeah, but I started. I didn't
think that a month or two. But I don't think
he's gonna make I don't think he's gonna miss six games.
Me neither, but you never know. So White White take
that chance. But I guess in the best ball, maybe
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I should have taken a chance because you know, uh,
the definition the best balls, you get the points for
the best performances from your team for the day. So yeah,
I did give a lot of thoughts to DeAndre Hopkins
and thinking back now, you know, with the whole getting
some points for targets, maybe I should have. I have
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the number four pick in a draft to uh in
a couple of weeks, and that's the one where I
have to decide who my keepers are within the next
one or four hours. And Camara is kept, so Camara
will be gone. Uh. So I know McCaffrey and Barkeley
are gonna go one too, and we gotta figure out
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who number three and four are gonna be. So, um,
it could be interesting. What do you think about? What
do you think about? I'm sorry, go ahead, I'm sorry
for interrupting you ahead. Yeah, no, no, no no. Uh.
So you know McCaffrey and Barkeley are gonna be gone,
uh and Camara is gonna be gone. So I picked
at four, and I'd say it's gonna be a decision
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between David Johnson, Zeke Elliott, and DeAndre Hopkins. M hm.
So right now you're leaning where Hopkins. I think it's
Hopkins or Zeke. A couple of days ago, I was like,
let's just take Hopkins there, because as I can protect
a whole bunch of running backs, which I'm going to
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I have running backs in later rounds that I'm gonna
end up keeping, so I'm gonna have some depth at
the running back position. I have some real debate as
to whether or not I can keep I'll keep Sony
Michelle in the second round. Now, for some people listening
to because you're not that's why would you keep Sony
Michelle in the second round? You have to remember that
this is not in a vacuum. There are going to
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be roughly thirty five players kept in this league. So
when Sony Michelle is the running back off the board,
and there might be as many as ten or twelve
running backs kept then at the end of the second round,
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Sony Michelle doesn't seem all that weird, especially concerning the
other guys who I'm gonna be keeping. Yep, this guy
at pick fifteen took Patrick Mahomes and followed that up
with Tyler Lockett and the next wide receiver after that
was Mike Evans. So, uh, you know, I look at
(41:17):
the best ball. I guess you take some chances maybe,
but uh, some bold moves by the guy with the
fift pick in this draft. Is there bonuses for Pat
Mahomes or now? Uh sorry yeah at the quarterback position, kiddy, kiddy,
I'm busting your chops. Uh. Let's see the passing touchdowns
(41:41):
fifty plus a yard. Yeah, you get some bonuses there
an extra two points again, like I said, six points
per peru touchdown passing town It's only five points for
passing touchdown. But received this. This guy also picked James
White and Sony Michelle. Is seems like he's not taking
this draft particularly seriously. But and the Tyler Locket thing
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is so is is being way too cute, because you know,
he could have waited all the way until the first
pick of round four to get him the guys on
the turn. So picking Tyler Locket in front of the
following wide receivers Mike Evans, Antonio Brown, Adam Theland, Keenan Allen,
Chris Godwin, Amari Cooper, Stefon Diggs, Julian Edel and t
Y Hilton, Brandon Cooks. If he was justifying this, if
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this is a real pick and he was justifying, he
would say, well, Tyler Lockett's a clear number one in
Seattle because Metcalf's a rookie, and uh, maybe they're not
going to run as much this year because Wilson's got
to throw a little bit more. He's still not gonna
out target a lot of those guys. He just won't.
I agree. I agree. Maybe this guy thought it was
a mock draft and just wanted to see how his
team would look if you crazy things, picking both Picking
(42:52):
both Patch wide running backs back to back is not
an optimal scenario. So so all right, so in this
draft so far, you're through a few rounds. You've got
David Johnson Adam Feeling, which there was a little run
of little mini run of wide receivers. They were Evans
and Internet ground. You took Adam feel in there. I
(43:14):
think you gotta feel located with that. Though, if if
David Johnson my concerns My concerns about David Johnson are
the offensive line still the offensive line still terrible. They
didn't fix it. They did not fix it. It is
shocking to me that they went into the draft and
we're like, we're gonna be good. We we signed a
(43:34):
couple of guys in the off season, traded for Marcus Gilbert. Um,
we got j R. Sweezy in here, which we did
a year ago. You know the Steelers. Steelers traded Marcus
Gilbert for a reason. You don't just trade offensive tackles
because they're playing great. Uh, Jered Sweezy they signed during
the off season, so they did make changes. But they
(43:56):
signed a big free agent last year in Justin Pugh.
He didn't they were They were so hurt last year
in the offensive on line and it wasn't very good
to begin with. That put them in a really bad spot.
But I just think their offensive line is going to
continue to struggle. Now. Can Kyler Murray running in an
air raid offense, which you're not even really showing to
you in the predseason, just open things up for David
(44:17):
Johnson tremendously. Yes, I think it could, but the offensive
line still has to have a modicum of ability together
to be a good offensive line. So I do I
have as many doubts about their offensive line this year
as I did last year. No, the talent level is better,
(44:39):
but it's still not very good, and I think there'll
be a bottom ten offensive line even at year's end.
So you're hoping that the offense opened some holes, not
unlike what McVeigh really started to do for Girly in
a big way before Girly got hurt so um or
(44:59):
really the last two years. So so that's that's my
doubts on David Johnson. But I'm good with Adam Feeling.
I think there'll be plenty of targets there. And then
you got Marlon Mack. Given the scoring in this league,
I think you're just really looking for a lot of touches,
and I think given those guys around him, I'm okay
with that. Yeah. I mean, look, I needed another solid
(45:22):
running back. I thought about Josh Jacobs, who went right
after him. My my issues with Damian Williams. Yeah, and
my my issue with Damien Williams's. Look, we all know
how explosive and and and good the Chiefs offense is
going to be this season. I just like I said
last week, common sense tells you that a guy that
(45:43):
has a hundred eighty three carries first career, I don't
see him being able to perform at a high level
with two hundred plus carries the season. So that's my
issue with him. And you know, uh, and and you know,
and just about David Johnson, everything you said is is true.
We've spoken about the fact that the Cardinals haven't done
(46:03):
enough to improve that offensive line. But on the positive side,
you know last season seventies six targets and fifty catches
for David Johnson. You know, he had that great season
eighty catches. This air raid offense is gonna be fast,
a lot more plays run, So I think he's got
a shot. I mean, like I said, I thought about
(46:26):
it for for a little bit before I made that pick,
but I'm okay with it. Yeah. What's interesting is we
talked about this recently. I think we even talked about
it with Davis Maddock when he was on this show
last week. The guy picked right in front of him,
DeVante Freeman. So many people out there, maybe even me
to some extent, just expect Devanta Freeman to not be
(46:47):
able to finish the season and you have Edo Smith
in there picking up value. I have Edo Smith in
a scott Fish Bowl team. But if DeVonta Freeman stayed
healthy in that fence, he'd be a great pick. Absolutely picks. No.
(47:09):
I think he catch passes out of the backfield as well,
and uh, good runner all along uh four point three
yards for carry for his career. That you're right. The
the issue is, I mean, I don't even know if
it's unfair that I mean, he's like when you look
about it. Last year was the first year that he
really uh only he only played two games, but previously
(47:31):
that fourteen games, sixteen games, thirteen games. Look, the running
back position is tough. They're gonna get hurt. Prepare for
your running back to miss a couple of games. Absolutely
all three tight ends went in the second round. Here
Levian Bell went fourteen. I've seen him as high as
fourth in some drafts, but here he goes fourteen. So
he slid all the way down I'm seeing Nick Chubb
(47:52):
consistently go earlier than he was a few weeks back. Obviously,
then moving on from Duke Johnson, I think people are
willing to take the Kareem hit I put them in
quotes and when Kareem Hunt comes back to get this,
to get the nine solid games of Nick Chubb before
Kareem Hunt shows up. Yeah, I mean, maybe you could
(48:15):
even work to Chubb's benefit when when Dunt comes back.
I mean, look, if Chubb is having an excellent season
like we expect him to, but they're just not gonna
put Chubb to the side and have Kareem Hunt, you know,
take over the backfield. Yeah, maybe maybe you could lose
you know, three to five carries the game, and maybe
(48:36):
the that will him that it'll make the carries that
he gets, he'll he'll be better, he will be fresher.
I don't know. I mean, I don't I don't have
a problem with Kareem Hunt stealing too much workload out
of Nick Chubb. Got it. Okay, so you're in the
fourth round right now, you have a big coming up. Yes,
(48:58):
I do, Yes, I do. And you saw DJ we
were just talking about the Panthers d j Mortes went,
So I'm thinking, Yeah, I'm thinking, what do you think
I should do? Get my second wide receiver? Yeah? So
who's on the board right now for you? Who? Who's somebody? Yeah,
we're not gonna go tight end here, We're not going quarterback.
So this is gonna be straight up probably best player available.
(49:20):
But who who are the guys that you're looking at?
Because there's one pick in front of you, So you
gotta have somebody lined up here right right? Uh? Just
looking at the the a DPS. Kenny Golladay from Detroit
is there? Do I want? Yeah? Do I want Cooper Cup?
You know? Uh, part of that that potentially explosive rams offense.
(49:42):
Other than that, I mean Landry's next. But I think
I could do better than that. Um, I think I
think you can take I think you take Goliday here
because he won't come back to you. I think there's
a shot that Cooper Cup can get back to you
Golliday won't. That's my thought because this is best ball
(50:06):
and there's a thought process that Gola Day could explode
this year. M Um. I think they're I think Detroit's
regressing into a more of a run heavy team. But
he is clearly the number one target, and he does
have Matt Stafford there. Um Cooper Cup, I'm a I'm
(50:28):
a fan of his production in fantasy leagues, So I
think I think that you probably won't get both guys,
but I would pick Golliday because he won't last a cup.
Might That would be my strategy here, right, But I
wouldn't expect next you go Cooper Cup? Right? Uh? Yeah,
(50:49):
those are your next two wide receivers. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
those are the next two wide receivers. Who are the
running backs that are there? Give me a second. I
still think you take the receiver there because I would
imagine both of these guys are better than they running
nicknames you're gonna rip off running back Lamar Miller, Tevin Coleman, Kenyan,
(51:17):
Drake Rashad Penny. Yeah you're done right now? Thanks? Thanks? Yeah? Thanks.
Tevin Coleman is obviously interesting to a lot of people.
Lamar Miller got interesting for a minute before they traded
for Duke Johnson. I still think that. I still think that.
I still think the Texans offensive line is an issue.
That's why I haven't been on Lamar Miller for the
(51:38):
last couple of years. Uh, it doesn't mean that a
bad offensive line can't have a productive running back, obviously,
David Johnson shows that last year. Sae Quon Barkley shows
that in a big way last year. But it just
gives me concerns. It It influences how I am evaluating
the players. So from that perspective, Um, yeah, I'm not
(51:59):
in love any of those running backs certainly. So that's it.
You're gonna pick Jordan Howard, Yeah, I'm going their cup. Yeah, yeah,
I think that's the move. Alright, cool, So that's it.
The d g W five draft. You can follow that
on Twitter. There are fifteen guys in your draft, some
of the names you mentioned earlier, Ndo dea Fino, and uh,
(52:20):
some of our friends Justin Mason Fantasy with Justin Mason,
and then obviously there are many other divisions that can
be followed. So there's probably a hashtag out there d
g W five d w G five draft with Giants five,
so feel free to follow that there. So in the
next hour, we'll keep talking football. We got interesting stories
(52:43):
surrounding Jay Z and his partnerships with the NFL. Eric
Reid not happy about it. You'll find out why after
the break interesting topic. We'll get into this a little bit, Joe,
and then uh, you and I will rock it out
an our number three. It's my blue it Cho, Galina.
We can't fantasy up to be back with our number
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