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Tavern Now now along with Fanball and League Saves Matt
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and opportunities to make money in fantasy football. Uh, it
is Nordo in for Paul charchy In today. I do
want to say, you know, bless charch Bless his brother,
Bless his entire family, both today and uh and moving forward. Um,
he is out today. But so I'm gonna sit in
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uh and as I said, you know, I am. I'm
not gonna step on toes or try to pretend on
anything other than a guy that just drafts off of
Charches cheat sheet every single year and tries to win money.
You're gonna make a sound pretty though. That's the important part.
So Charch twenty four years, right, and twenty four years
straight without missing a show. That's a uh that's a

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cal Ripkin like Street would be jealous of. Yeah, it certainly,
it certainly is twenty four years as you guys mentioned,
and sometimes life does actually just a few different types
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you got there, beautiful Saturday, going to home. Deep. Uh.
So there's a lot going on today, and that's what
I've always loved about Fantasy Football Weekly is it's kind
of it's frenetic and its pace because there's typically a
ton of things to get into. Now, with that said,
this is year August four. A lot of things going on,
but none of them include uh, hardcore regular season matchups

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and things. Um, but I do want to start off
with this and uh again in putting it on a
t fashion, I want you guys to to break this
down for me. Uh. The cool thing about the NFL
every year is whether it's through free agency, it's guys
that were hurt that are coming back healthy. I mean
there are a lot of big names that if either
they're wearing a different jersey or they were hurt and

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now healthy healthy and now hurt. Um offseason moves by
various positions, and uh, why don't we do this I'll
start in the NFC. Well, let's go a f C.
I'll go I'll go clockwise for the first segment, we'll
start with Matt Uh. Matt offseason moves in the a
f C. Positionally, UH, just what's fresh in the NFL
as we look ahead of the season. So we'll go

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over the quarterback position first because that's usually how it
goes when you look at your fantasy lineup. H A. J.
McCarron is the new quarterback in Buffalo. He came from
since he's got a good chance of starting this year
as the UH as the initial starter in Buffalo over
Josh Allen. We'll we'll talk about that a little bit
more in the show. I love how we kick off
the season with a J. McCarron. Yeah, that's how we

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do it. We just talk a J. Mccairn the end.
Let us never speak of a J. Maybe we'll end
the season with a J. McCarron. The last answer in
Lightning Round will be a J. McCarron in Week sixteen
for the win in your championship, Tyrod Taylor, he went
from a J. McCarron's Buffalo to Cleveland. Tyrod Taylor has

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an RV on site at Cleveland Brown's training camp. That's
quarterbacks only, just to teach Baker Mayfield the ropes of
the NFL. He brought an r V and so at
the QB clubhouse they're calling is there an eventual lame
duck situation for him with Baker in the fold? Absolute lee,
but Tyrod is going to be a requisite pro and

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teach Baker how to be a professional quarterback as well.
And he's lamenting that Joe Flacco did not do the
same for him in Baltimore when he was a bitterness Yeah,
a little bit all that or the either just cooking
meth in that exactly. Case Keenum, he's the new quarterback
in Denver. Some might recognize his name came from Minnesota. Obviously,

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he's Denver's best quarterback since Peyton Manning, probably better than
last year of Peyton Manning's career. I'm excited about to
see what Case Keenum does bring bring to Marius Thomas
back to relevance hopefully. So when you when you guys
do hardcore breakdowns, then you'll break down Case Keenum at
US Bank Stadium versus Case Keenum outdoors, right, because that
feels like there's there's something there that could potentially be

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drawn out. Well, your home games are in Denver, so
that ball flies further right little the thin air right
over them mountains over there. The last quarterback that moved
teams into the a f C as Teddy Bridgewater, also
coming from Minnesota. He's looking at Josh McCown and Sam
Donald on that uh depth chart. We're gonna talk a

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little bit about some of the training camp battles, so
I'll get into this a little bit later. But Bridgewater
has already been the subject of many trade rumors in
New York. Be good for him if he did move. Brian,
you got some quarterbacks over there for the NFC. Yeah,
I guy some people in the local fan base might
have heard of. I think his name is Kirk Cousins. Uh.

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Above average at best, very nice. Uh. He's been well
above average when it comes to fantasy of the last
three years. Has finished quarterback four five nine over the
last three years. Um, but we need the post of
those same numbers in Minnesota. Washington scored there passing or
touchdowns view of the air over the last three years.
Minnesota only much better defense in Minnesota. Obviously, I just

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want know if Cousins is gonna be great, don't get
me wrong, but I don't know if the fantasy numbers
are gonna be there even with all the weapons he has,
but still probably solid QB one this season. Uh. The
guy who's replacing Cousins in Washington, Alex Smith, went from
one uh offensive teammate team name to a more offensive
in Washington. Uh Nearly seven percent of Washington's touchdowns came

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via the past last year, UH, and they were top
five in passing touchdowns per game. And then over the
last five seasons, Jay Gruden's starting quarterback has ranked fourth, fifth, ninth.
Wait a minute, you just said those stats. I went
more than three good, So yeah, and you know people

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say he's got a nood alarm. Alex Smith, according to
Pro Football Focus, actually at the highest quarterback rating on
deep throws last year by a margin, at fift higher
than the next guy. So he can throw the long balls.
Smith will have relevance and fantasy someone who might not
his Sam Bradford going there Zona. It's really Sam Bruss
his knees right, he's money, but can he stay healthy?

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Eversone's got some enticing options with the healthy David Johnson,
Larry Fitzgerald. But Radford really only viable in two quarterback leads.
You don't want him in a one quarterback league. I
like him in that situation. Actually, sure he's a deep sleeper,
but I mean I'm not, you know, not the first
guy I'm picking again. That was sorry, that was my
that was my first Uh, low I Q you're chiming in.

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It's okay. Yeah, that was my first low energy response
of the show. Do you want do you want to
team me up? To the running backs? Now? Running back? Yeah? There,
Carlos Hides a new running back in Cleveland, came from
San fran probably the lead back to start the season
on first and second down. Duke Johnson's still there. And
then they drafted Nick Chubb in the in the second round,

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I believe. So that feels like a training camp battle. Does.
We're gonna talk about that later too. Uh. Frank Gore's
my second guy. Yeah, Frank Gore. He's still in the league.
Dolphins now, dol Fins now. It's a homecoming game for
Frank Ore. Brian loves homecoming games. Homecoming season, homecoming season
for Frank Gore. Uh. They brought him into mentor Kenyan Drake.

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He's gonna be a ten to twelve touch guy. We're
gonna talk about him later. To Jeremy Hills in New England.
There's not much we need to mention there. He's probably
the fifth running back on the depth chart there. Isaiah
Crowell went from Cleveland to the New York Jets. He
is a top the depth chart in UH in New York.
He only really needs to beat out Ballel Powell and
Elijah McGuire. He should get a lot of touches this year.

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I kind of like him as a sneaky mid to
late round flyer. Doug Martin went from Tampa Bay to Oakland.
It seems like Jon Gruden ish Tampa Bay to Oakland.
Gruden has been gushing about Doug Martin and Camp and
it's possible that he takes a giant chunk out of
Marshawn Lynch's production this year. Finally, the last running back
that's notable that moved is Dion Lewis, who moved from

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New England to Tennessee. Mike Vrabel as a Patriots guy.
He brought in a former Patriots back. You're gonna notice
that that happened in the NFC for the Patriots guy
who became a head coach. To people are petrified that
this is bad for Derrick Henry. I've still got Henry
top like a sixty forty slash seventy thirty split. I
think Derrick Henry is still the man. I got a

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really interesting stat about those two. Everyone saw the picture
where and looks like a giant, and uh, Louis looks
like a little baby. But Dion Lewis in short yardage
situations want to two yards to go last year six
point six yards per carry. Derrick Henry, she's one point
nine yards per carry. So who's the bigger man? Now?

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He's like Leroy Horde, you want to picking one, I'm
thinking Louis with want one, I'll get you three. You
want five, I'll get you three. Onto the wide receivers.
Then well we got time for about three for the break. Yeah,
let's do it all right. First off, Jet McKinnon former
Viking to San Francisco, a DP out of control. Yeah, late, second,

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early third, do not fall for this tray out. He's
getting drafted like a total bell cow. Dude has seen
twenty carries once in his career, has never seen more
than a hundred and sixty carries in a season. This
is the set that makes me most learned. Orleans Darko
and Garrett Blunt both had about twenty more carries and McKinnon.
Last year. They both had twice as many runs of

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fifteen plus yards. Then the electric jet McKinnon, Orleans Darkwa
and La Garrett Blunt, and one final thing. McKinnon tested
out in the nine percentile as an athlete at the combine.
Right Josh Hermsmeyer found out that last year with helmets
and pads on, McKinnon was well under the league average
of speed. So that stuff just weighs him down. Just

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he doesn't like wearing helmets and pads full on. Fa
Jered McKinnon a DP out of this world. Don't touch him? Uh.
C J. Anderson from Denver to Carolina. Uh, I guess
you can't draft t. J. Anderson because North Turner said
Chritian McCaffrey is gonna totch the ball forty times a game.
There I go, but the McCaffrey ratio. But uh. Last year,

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Jonathan Stewart was seventh in the red zone carries or
carries inside the five yard line. CJ. Will certainly soak
those up. Cam is a threat at the goal line,
of course, but C J. Anderson should yield RB two
type numbers, even with Christian McCaffrey touching the ball in
every possession. The mccalf fraction, Yep, there you go. Yeah,
we'll work on that is week one of the preseason.

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And lastly, will Garrett Blunt went from Philly to Detroit
so so very ineffective deep in the red zone last
year ten carries inside the five yard line for the
Garrett Blunt for negative seven yards Town don't touch him?
You want carry on Johnson theo Riddick. Heck, I might
want the reb dula over the Garret plant at this point. Well,
until he ran over a couple of Vikings and route
to a touchdown early on in the NFC champions I

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don't remember that, I bring up that's not the show
for that. That didn't happen in fantasy. Let's do this
because you know, the combination of off season moves and
as we look at training camp battles over the next
couple of segments, I think that's a good opportunity for
us to weave things in because I want to hear
about wide receivers. There's certainly a several names to talk
about there, you know, into the tight end situation. You know,

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for instance, the Chargers they're trying to sign like a
fifty year old guy to play tight end for him
at this stage. Uh, there's all kinds of things to
talk about. It's Matt Harrison, It's Brian Johnson. This is
the first, Uh, the the twenty four anniversary of Fantasy
Football Weekly is in play right now, and uh, I'm
in for charge. Eric Nordquist here, and we will take

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calls by the way throughout the show, uh, intermittently, so
please six five, three to six, eight hundred three two
zero five three to six. You know, it's preseason, but
keeper questions in vogue. Who should I you know, not
who should I start? But big spot questions from you
the rooms are always welcome throughout the show, though later
on we still have five tough questions. And uh, I'm

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gonna get to decide today, So I don't know, I
don't know if that that's probably gonna work out better
than churches Uh decisions in the past. Yeah, it's it's
very possible. Shots fired right there. We'll have five, we'll
have five tough questions. Potentially, my favorite segment is gonna be,
you know, the the evolution, and it's guys like you, uh,
Matt and Brian and Chart and those in the industry

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that have really, uh put your heads together and come
up with unique ways to spice up that that is
fantasy football, whether it's Guillotine leagues, Empire leagues, just variations
of the game. So I want to get you know,
thoughts from you guys on some of the variations and
gameplay that can take place uh here in the NFL season,
and uh we'll have some sleepers again, We're gonna have

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a lot of fun talking about fantasy football today right
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He'll be back next Saturday when the crew is in
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Get all that info KF and dot com qward events.
U we left off next segment and the next two
segments are really kind of gonna be a pot pourri
of not only some things that happened in the off season,

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but training camp battles is the exist now and UH,
Brian Johnson, UH fan Ball and League Safe in studio
with me, Matt Harrison fan Ball and League Safe in
studio with me, and UH, and we'll start with you again,
Matt in terms of training camp battles as they exist,
whether it's a f C and then and then we've
in maybe some some off season stuff as well. Yeah,

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so I'm gonna start at the quarterback position, the training
camp battles that somewhat matter. We'll start with Baltimore and
it's not really a training camp battle yet because it's
Joe Flacco versus Lamar Jackson. But they drafted Lamar Jackson
in the first round. They didn't draft him in the
first round to just sit there for years and years.
Flacco could hold on to this job all year. It

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wouldn't surprise me if Flacco was traded next week, though,
if an injury happened to a quarterback, and and really
I think that they really want to feature Lamar Jackson.
So it's something to keep an eye on. Flacco was
gonna win the job coming out of camp, but it's
something just to keep an eye on, especially if you're
in a dynasty league. Lamar Jackson's a guy that will
be drafted in the first round in dynasty rookie drafts.
You think the leash you're short, I mean Baltimore needing

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to win. I don't think they have. They made the playoff.
I think they missed the playoffs the last three years
or something like that. So it's also Ozzie Newsome's last
season and in control there as the GM, so he
might pull that trigger the Super Flex two quarterback league,
Lamar Jackson is feasible that you take him with the
second overall pick in a rookie draft if your quarterback Hungary.
Absolutely that's in a rookie draft. Settled down all right?

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Buffalo A J McCarron versus Josh Allen both kind of
uninspiring fantasy options, especially if Lashawn McCoy isn't in that offense.
There's just nothing to talk about here. Kelvin Benjamin is
the main target of his wide receiver, Charles Clay is there.
Josh Allen's gonna get a chance to start. I think
A J. Mccarrons the guy who starts this season. But
it's gross there, and I'm avoiding both Buffalo quarterbacks. Don't

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they have? Isn't Jay Jones the one that was like
naked on a balcony fighting a guy while high or
something like that. It sounds like a good weekend, I
don't know. Also sounds like a Bill's pregame hashtag has
to be has to be on a folding table though,
Uh Cleveland Tyrod Taylor versus Baker Mayfield. I meant and
in the last segment about the RV for the quarterback Club,

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Tyrod probably deserves the first nod. How long will be
will he be able to hold off Baker Mayfield for
the number one spot? I seem to think as long
as Cleveland's winning games, if they can win a game,
let's start there. Once they win games. I think Tyrode's
got the opportunity to keep the job as long as
he can. If they start losing, I think Baker is
going to see the nod really quickly. Finally, Josh McCown,

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Sam Donald, and Teddy Bridgewater for the Jets. Mccowns like
forty seven years old. The Jets used the top five
pick on Donald. Bridgewater is coming off one of the
worst knee injuries in the history of mankind. If Donald
chose any kind of promise in the preseason, I think
he has the best shot. Of all the rookies that
were drafted in the first round last year, and there
were five of them, I think Donald's got the opportunity

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to be the one rookie who can step up and
win that job going into Week one. So if you're
speculating a Jets quarterback, Donald's the one that I think
I want to speculate there the running back position. Here's
some training camp battles Buffalo. It's gross after Lashawn McCoy,
and we don't know if Leshn McCoy is gonna miss
time yet. You're looking at Chris Ivory versus Marcus Murphy

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versus Tavarus Cadet. Gross Chris Ivory is probably the guy
who gets the most touches here, which he used to
be Beast East, and then he was Beach East, and
then he was Beach East and now courtesy of Brian Johnson.
Here it is the beast infection, the beast infection in Buffalo. Gross,
you don't want him on your team. You don't want

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him on your team at all. Cleveland, let's go there again.
Carlos Hide is going against Nick Chubb, and we're gonna
spend a little time in the Cleveland backfield later in
the show, so I won't go deep into it. Those
two guys are really competing for the first and second
down role, where Duke Johnson's probably the third down guy. Denver.
Denver's weird. It's Royce Freeman versus Davante Booker, and they're

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really calling this a time share. They're priding themselves in
Denver and calling this a time share. They wanted to
be a fifty fifty split. Freeman was a third ground
pick this season. Booker was a fourth round pick two
years ago. Booker has been uninspiring, to say the least,
so far in his career. It's probably Royce Freeman getting
the nod, but it's maybe a fifty five forty five

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split and it's kind of a gross backfield. You might
not want any part of that one. I mentioned Frank
Gore in the last segment. He's in Miami against Kenyan Drake.
There's also a rookie called Kalen Ballidge there. He's kind
of a dark horse here. Arizona State. Yeah, Arizona State
fourth rounder. He's six to two thirty. He's built more
like a two down back than any of the guys

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they have on roster right now. Drake is a little
bit smaller, six one to ten. Obviously, Drake checked a
lot of the boxes last year at the tail end
of the season. He had four point nine yards per
carry over the final five weeks of the year. But
Frank Gore, the ageless Frank Gore has had two hundred
or more carries in twelve straight years. That's unreal. So

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Frank Gore is there and he's gonna steal touches. It's
another backfield that want any part of all these training
camp backfields. This one I want a little bit of
a part of. Though it's New England and it's Sony
Michelle versus Rex Burkhead. I'm in on Sony Michelle. I
think that they drafted him in the first round to
be the most electric running back New England has had,
maybe since Lawrence Moroney. You're gonna dog Michelle like that? No, Yeah,

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I know he is enticing. Charge is big on Sony Michelle.
Will have a lot to say about him in the
coming weeks, for sure. So it's worth noting in the
last five weeks of the NFL season, the guy that
Sony Michelle is replacing his Dion Lewis. Dion Lewis had
more touchdowns than everybody in the NFL over the last
five weeks of this season except for Todd Gurley and
Levy on Bell. He was like a top three back

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over the last month of the year. So Sony Michelle
seemingly a better draft pedigree, a better player than Dion Lewis.
Is it possible we have a top five running back
sitting here that you might be able to draft in
the fourth, fifth, sixth round of your draft. Such a
weird group there, it's it's a weird group and you
don't want to play with Belichick, but sometimes you gotta

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throw a dart and I think Sony Michelle's one that
I would do, Uh Oakland Marshawn Lynch versus Doug Martin.
Lynch is thirty two, Doug Martin is twenty nine. Both
are way past their prime. Gruden has been all in
on Doug Martin like he's a rookie quarterback, watching game
tape before the draft. It's it's so weird. I have

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no idea how this pans out, but I think this
is a close to fifty fifty split as well. So
if you're going to take one of these two for
me right now, I'd take Doug Martin because his a
DP is much lower than march On Lynch. Last running back,
I'll mention Derrick Henry versus Dion Lewis. We talked about
hit them a little bit earlier. Dean Lewis certainly an
upgrade over to Marco Murray. They really want Derrick Henry

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to be the guy in Tennessee, though, I think they're
going to give him the opportunity. So now we move
on to the wide receiver positions. I'm gonna we've in
some guys here and there. First off, Baltimore has a
completely new set of wide receivers. Everybody's gone from last year.
It's all new. It's Michael Crabtree, it's John Brown, and
it's Willie Snead. They're gonna be battling it out for one, two,

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and three basically. And I think the way I listed
them is the way that they finished. Crabtree one, John
Brown too, Willie sneed three sneeds running out of the
slot most likely. John. Let's talk local real quick, and
he's out of wide receiver? Is a tight end? Is
Max Williams gonna show up finally? No caught a touchdown
in the h O F game. There you go? Oh No,
says he's shop. I'm we're pulling for you. Max. Come on, buddy,

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of course we are a new guy in Cleveland is
Jarvis Landry comes over from Miami. He's definitely the top
wide receiver option on roster, especially with the cloudy nature
of the Josh Gordon situation. Obviously Josh Gordon missing some
time for personal reasons. Dante woman always injured, that's it's
a mess. They've been kicking the tires on Dez Bryant

(26:54):
over there too in Cleveland, so that that could be
a late signing that is worth paying attention to. Dante
Moncrief is new in Jacksonville. He comes from Indy. They
paid him a lot of money and right now he's
fourth on the depth chart among their wide receivers, behind
Mark eas Lee, Keelan Cole, d D. Westbrook, and then
they also drafted DJ Chark in the second round. This

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is a situation where it's five wide receivers vying for
two to three spots on the field. I don't want
anything to do with the Jacksonville wide receivers unless it's
in like an MFL ten's best ball, where you just
grab one in the eighteenth round and hope that they
pop off and you don't have to worry about starting
or sitting them in any given week. Sammy Watkins moves

(27:37):
from the l A Rams to Kansas City. He's a
completely different type of wide receiver than the Chiefs have
had basically since Dwayne Bow left the Chiefs. He's different
than Tyree Killed, Tyree Kills, the little speedster. Sammy Watkins
is a field stretching big dude. It's just he also
cut his dreadlocks. That's true. Problem is his third offense

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in two years, and he was with another young, unproven quarterback.
I'm very nervous about Sammy Watkins. Finally, let's talk about
the l A Chargers situation. There's Tyrrell Williams versus Mike
Williams for the second wide receiver spot. Uh. They both
just blew out their knee. Oh did they know? But

(28:22):
that that's something that will happen on the Chargers this year.
Cursed franchise. Oh my gosh, everybody's going down. So Hunter
Henry blew out his knee earlier in uh O, t
A S and uh and that kind of thing. Antonio
Gates is still not there. He might be coming back,
so there's lots of red zone targets available here. Now. Remember,
Mike Williams was the seventh overall pick in the draft

(28:44):
last year. He missed most of last season due to injury.
But Tyrrell Williams was the guy who really stepped up
in when Keenan Allen went down and was out for
the year. And Travis Benjamin is always kind of a
slot deep threat guy, so he's there. But I don't know,
don't know how to view this one. I know Brian
has always been a Tyrrell Williams guy. I kind of

(29:04):
like the upside of Mike Williams. They're going about the
same place in ADP right now, What do you think, Brian?
I like Williams here, You like Williams here? Gonna go
with Williams. Don't put this bad juju on me at
it's a smart way to Well. We've seen Tyrell do
it sparingly albit, but I haven't seen it from Mike Williams.
So I deferred to Tyrell at the moment. But yeah,

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Mike has potential, or you'd like to believe so. But
he's gonna blow out his knee and the next few
minutes here real quickly, I'll go over a couple of
the new faces and new places. Danny amondla went from
New England to Miami. He's probably wide receiver one there
over Davante Parker in my mind. The Patriots added a
couple of wide receivers with Minnesota ties, Eric Decker and
Cordarrell Patterson. Decker was just signed this week after the

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Pat's released Jordan Matthews due to an injury. Patterson they said,
we're gonna figure out ways to get him the ball
because he's he's really an electric guy when he gets
the ball in his hands. Just getting the ball to
his hands. That's the top part. Terrell Prior went from
Washington to the Jets priors on his last life in
the NFL. He really has one last shot. He's gonna

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give it everything he got. He was injured most of
the last year too, so he was on Washington team.
That's just the curse. But yeah, I I gotta eat
a little bit of crow for my prior ranking last season.
But your prior ranking of prior, prior ranking of prior.
But I was only even had him ranked two years
ago when he actually was a thing. So I'm calling

(30:29):
myself breaking even breaking. He's he's a great dart throw.
I think in your last round of draft, why not
anymore before we go to break Mr Harris one more set.
It's Jordy Nelson and Martevis Bryant. Jordy came from Green Bay,
Martevis from Pittsburgh. Nelson has never had success with any
other quarterback outside of Aaron Rodgers. True, he was bad

(30:50):
with the backups last year. It was so bad. And
Martavis Bryant wanted out of Pittsburgh really really badly. He's
still big play threat. He's young. Both of these guys
probably combined to form. Michael crab trees numbers in Oakland
last year. So I'm a little nervous there. I'm not
drafting either of them until I see something right. I
really want to avoid both of those guys at all costs.

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The Raiders in general, really, for me, it's just a
it's a zoo. Okay, Well, if one of them gets better. Uh,
if you have Derek Carr that gets better. You have
Amari Cooper who drops balls in big spots. Uh, the
talent is there, the consistency has never been there. Oakland
is a weird spot. I think Derek Carr is the
one guy that I might take because he's the only

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one that I know we'll be able to have full
control of his position without a doubt. Let's let's get
back on track. We'll get to break and then when
we come back, we'll hear from Brian, We'll hear NFC,
We'll hear training camp battles, will hear more names to
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(31:52):
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(32:45):
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just recalibrating ourselves into the teen fantasy football season. You
heard from Matt's AFC things last segment, things to look for,
weaving in offseason moves and training camp battles and just
kind of the fun part of analyzing and navigating this

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time of the season. Uh, let's get to Brian now,
whether it's NFC, it might be some offseason bits, it
might be training camp battles. Uh, give us what you got,
Mr Johnson. Let's be a little hybrid new faces and
training camp battles in the NFC let's um, let's start
with the Bears wide receivers, shall we. Uh? First off,
the Bears thankfully cut ties with dumb as rocks. John

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Fox the worst play caller. I mean, he's probably been
to two Super Bowls, but I mean just you know,
all right, I'm talking fantasy football reality. My fault for
talking all good in order. You know, I love your buddy.
But new coach in Chicago Matt Naggy, the former offensive
coordinator for the Chiefs. The Chiefs ranked fifth in yards

(33:50):
and six in points last year. I'm excited about this
offense and their new acquisition. Allen Robinson, clear cut number
one wide receiver there now coming off the knee injury
last year. Full Ongo is looking good. I don't think
he got a ton of run on Thursday night, but
none of the starts I would imagine that he didn't know.
Nearly of targets are vacated on the Bears offense from

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last year. Uh. Their best wide receiver last year was
Kendall Right, So Alan Robinson huge upgrade, huge upgrade for
that receiving corps. But the question is who's the number
two guy? Who's gonna be Kevin White? No, he's still
in the league. Surprisingly though it's remember Kevin White, that's
a bad situation. He's like in his third year. What
about Taylor Gabriel though he got all that fresh free agents? Yeah, yeah,

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he did. Uh seems well, Scott Fish, are you listening?
Give me, give me a couple of other names. Though,
Anthony Miller, that's the guy, he's the he's the sexy
rookie everyone started game. But hey, what about Javon Wims
who just caught seven passes? It seems like you're on
a Whims with that one. But uh, but yeah, it's

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as exciting offense. But um, that's it for the Bears
wide receivers. Now to the Cowboys receivers. He starts laughing.
It's Alan Hearns. He's wearing a Giant's T shirt, so
he laughs at the Cowboys. Alan Hearns is the new acquisition.
Wooks to be the number one guy there might be
playing out of position though he was more of a

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slot guy in Jacksonville, but Cole Beasley, they're not going
to move him to the outside unless he managed to
grow like seven inches in the off season, which I doubt.
But you've got Alan Hearns, you got rookie Michael Gallup
who people seem to be galloping Just no, I'm in
on it. That's cool. You're outnumbered. We'll allow it. And then, uh,

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I don't know, Terrence Williams, I don't know. But Dez Bryant,
Jason Witten, Bryce Butler all gone from the Cowboys. That's
two nine vacated targets. Something's got one. Who do you?
Who are you going with? Herns is the highest ADP,
Gallup is second. Herns are nothing. Herns are nothing? All right,
I'm down with that. Uh what else we got here?

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Let's stay in the NFC East and more pitiful wide
receiver talk. Washington team got Josh Oxen, Paul Richardson, the
new acquisition, Jamison Crowder, and then there's Jordan Reid too.
He might be the number one wide receiver on that team.
But it doesn't really matter who the number one wide
receivers on Washington because during Jay Gruden's tenure, um the

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top wide receiver in his offense has garnered only sevent
of the target share, which is well below the league average.
So there's just a lot of competition for targets here.
If I'm picking one, I'm going Paul Richardson because he's
the lowest ADP. But none of these guys are standing
out to me. No, he's gonna feed everybody, which means
nothing's good for fantasy. And while we're talking, Jordan read

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over under how many games play this this year? Six?
You're taking the over the under on that, I'm taking
the over. I'm gonna say he plays twelve games. I'll
dollar bet you at the end of the season. And
now he never plays twelve games. That's right. He's always
heart but late when he's on the field. I got
Chris Thompson. I think that's injured. I mean that offense
is is in disarray right now? Is Alex Smith tries

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to figure it out. Jordan Reed is a stiff breeze
away from his ninth concussion. Nice, all right, I got
more receivers, talk about guy? I love Cameron Meredith going
over to the Saints. Yeah, fully healthy, highest paid receiver
on the team, by the way, so he will be utilized.
He's gonna push ted gain for outside duties as a

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starting wide receiver. Saints shockingly don't only run three receiver
sets less than of the time, so Mereth might struggle.
It's fine playing time, but I don't think so. I
still think he beats out again for the starting job.
You know, so Michael Thomas gets everything. Michael Thomas gets everything.
So we're fighting for the second spot. Yeah, basically. But
you know the Saints are gonna bounce back big time offensively.

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They were more of a running team last year. But
I see Drew Bees coming back. Michael Floyd probably not
draftable at this stage. Former Viking, former Cardinal. He's still
in the league. He's on the sign, breaking breaking news
that tells me everything I need to know about his
fantasy problems. Perfect. Well, while we have you here, nor

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you've you've been at camp every day with the Vikings.
Who's gonna win the slot role? Kendall Ryder, Lakon, Lakwan Treadwell.
Who do you like? Um? I have no idea. I'm
just gonna be honest with you. I like what Lakwan
Treadwell is doing in camp, but none of that means
anything until we see preseason games. Kendall right has been
much like Lakwan, a very underperforming former first round pick.

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And as you mentioned him with the Bears, Uh, it
didn't inspire excitement and confidence that he was probably one
of the most reliable targets for Travisky and company in Chicago,
and now he's coming here fighting for his life for
an opportunity on this offense. So, um, I am rooting
for La Kwan and I have actually seen very quality
play out of Lakwan so far in training camp. I

(38:55):
remember being out of Vikings game and seeing a La
Kwan Treadwell catch and I was like, this is like
seeing the easter punny. Yeah, that well. He had the
one handed catch against against the Packers last season. Um,
and then it's crickets from there on out. I mean
he's been it's two full seasons without a touchdown. So
this is this is making or break it for him.
It's a lot of La law Treadwill talked too much,

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almost a little too much. Let's talk about running backs.
Probably the most intriguing battle right now is in Seattle
between Chris Carson and Rashad Penny. Uh. People have been
drafting Penny like he's the true bell cow. Yeah, they're
drafting him like third fourth round in a lot of situations,
jumping to serious conclusions there. Um, Look, Seattle doesn't have

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a very good run game. They don't have a good
offensive line, they don't have much going on. Fine, Uh,
Chris Carson is supposedly the lead back according to Pete Carroll,
even though they drafted Shot Penny in the first round.
I'm just not touching this backfield whatsoever. I've said it
a few times already. I see Russell Wilson leading this
team in rushing yards and roaching touchdowns for what you
have to pay for Chris Carson, which is like a

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ninth or tenth round to a DP on MFL ten's
right now, I don't mind grabbing Chris Carson late and
stashing him and and hoping good things happen there, but
I'm not paying the Rashad Penny price. Basically, you just
draft Ross and maybe Baldwin on that team, right, I mean,
it's that's pretty much it. Of Seattle's touchdowns came via

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the past last year, and uh, you know that defense,
it's a distant memory. So I see more. They're not
gonna be controlling the clock. It's gonna be a shootout. Yeah,
They're gonna be a throwing a ton in Seattle. So
I'm not liking that backfield a whole lot. Uh. Another
muddled backfield in Detroit. Garrett Blunt was just recently added,
I've already did I talk about how much I hate
la Garrett Blunt already? I think I have very ineffective

(40:45):
and bad. So we got Carrie on Johnson rookie. Everyone's
excited about theo ritic will own the third down work
for sure, but he's still around a mirror Abdullah supposedly
still a thing, getting praise for his working camp. I'm
not here, comes Javid Best mickel Less, sure right, but
not yea, nothing to do that either. This is another team.

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I love the passing game, so I'm really out on
these running backs. If I gotta take one, it's Riddick
and Ppr. He's a one of the best pass catching
backs in the NFL, as we all know. Let's see
what else we got here. The NFC is Yeah, it's
not as enticing as the the FC. Tell you what, Um,
we don't talk about the Cowboys tight end battle. No,

(41:29):
we want to go to break. Yeah, let's go to
break or take the wait, let's talk d J Moore
versus Curtis Samuel. No, let's not DJ More is gonna
be good. Let's do this. Actually, we will go to
break and when we come back, it will be five
tough questions. Now with an hour left in the shell,
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(43:22):
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I had mentioned in pre segment though as part of
this uh, this particular part of Fantasy Football Weekly, Uh,
it is time for five tough questions. Question number one,
five tough questions now here full disclosure to those listening here. Um,

(45:35):
I have the questions, but charge you know he he was.
It was so important to him that he gave me
the answers nor no thanks for filling in today. It's awesome.
Love you. I'm gonna get you these answers though, because
you're gonna have no idea what the right answer is,
and don't trust Matt and Briant. Did he say that

(45:57):
he never he never can He never gave me the answers.
You don't need the answers because he always agrees with
everything that there's never dissension in the growth. Uh. And
so I think we're starting five for five this year, right, Brian, Oh,
no doubt about it. Um. So here this is for
for Matt and uh and for Brian. Uh. My experts

(46:17):
in studio today, Your experts in fantasy football love uh. Tough.
Question Number one is Nick Foles the rare quarterback handcuff?
Take it away, man, I'm going first, so we may
have more clarity on Carson Wentz before your draft begins,
because he's practicing. He is, and if it looks certain

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that Wentz will miss the first few games of the year,
Nick Foles is an excellent handcuff. Although I'd say once
Wentz returns. Once Wentz I'd be using the Folds roster
spot for someone else. So I think if you're drafting
right now, it's a yes. It if we know any
clarity on the Wentz situation and Wentz his list as

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the starter in week one, Folds is not a handcuff quarterback. Yeah.
I don't have much to add. I agree with you, Matt,
and it's a it's a favorable schedule for the Eagles. Uh,
passing games start the season. Uh, Falcons, Bucks, Colts, Titans
not a strong secondaries there. So yeah, Folds proved he
was more than capable of running that offense. Wentz doesn't
start the season for whatever reason. Uh, you want to

(47:25):
have Fowls handcuffed to him on your roster. You both
are absolutely qu I've never heard anything more brilliantly and
more eloquently stated than than what YouTube both said. I
think it's interesting that that Folds is a full go
uh in camp right now. He is practicing every day,
But there really is there There isn't necessarily a rush.

(47:46):
Who is it again that they they open up with
in the season, Atlanta, We'll see that's they get the
host Atlanta. Yeah, and then they had Bucks next week.
That's a good matchup, Colts, great matchup. And is it
possible that it's pesky because it's the Thursday nighter for
the opener, they get a little less time. Maybe Carson
Wentz needs needs those three extra days. Yeah, but what if?

(48:06):
But maybe there's maybe there's just not a hurry, you know,
in terms of just getting him and you know, him
practicing every day doesn't mean that the sharpness and everything
back and play. Can you imagine though? If sorry, I'll
cut you off. Wins doesn't start the season and Folds does. Uh,
and he you know, carves up his first two or
three opponents yards and four touchdowns. Holy QB controversy on

(48:28):
your hands, but fan the fan. But he was on
track to have an mp M v P season before
he had the injury in l A. So um. And
and we we know what Philly fans are like, alright,
we know they can be brutal, they can be negative.
But uh, yeah, I love I love how you guys
answered the first question. Let's move on question number two.

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I'll good with some devanis b right now? Uh? This
is the second tough question. Who will lead Brown's running
backs in fan NFC points. We'll start with Brian this time. Yeah,
I made sure I asked charge. He said this isn't
in PPR scenarios. So um, you got Carlos Hide the
new acquisition, Chubbed the rookie, and then Duke Johnson. Duke

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Johnson clearly the best pass catching back on that team,
possibly in NFL. Duke Johnson had one fewer catch than
a J Green and Doug Baldwin last year more catches
than Mike Evans, Rob Gronkowski, Brandon Cooks, Todd Gurley even,
and the list goes on and on. I just see
Chubb and Hide kind of, you know, equalizing each other,

(49:36):
and Duke Johnson is gonna soak up a ton of targets,
a ton of catches, and especially if Josh Gordon doesn't
get his head right, Dukes in line for bigger Rolesh.
I'm going Duke. Yeah. I looked back at Hugh Jackson's career,
and I think if this was a scenario where it
was Carlos Hide alone or Nick Chubb alone, I'd be

(49:56):
answering one of those guys. But I came to the
same conclusion as Brian. Hugh Jackson had a runner and
a pass catcher. In Cincinnati, Jeremy Hill led in fantasy
points over Geo Bernard. When Hugh got to Cleveland, Isaiah

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Kroll led over Duke Johnson. Last year, Duke led the
fantasy points over Kroll, but it was kind of a
weird season where Kroll only had two touchdowns the entire season.
Add two or three touchdowns to his backfield and he
wins that that scenarios was one of them against the Vikings,
by the way, in in in London. I don't remember.

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It doesn't matter. You guys are all about numbers and stats.
I'm just thinking about old Vikings anyway. Griffin and the
damn foot. Duke's the only one with a clear role.
Brian teat it up perfectly. It's it's Duke Johnson. That's
the answer. You guys are both absolutely correct. I think
Nick Chubb has learning curve. Uh we're pea cock and
we're backcocking. I think Carlos High this is lesson move

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about a great opportunity to solidify that running game, as
it is for him to maintain his NFL career as
things have kind of started to uh drift down the
line as he was in San Francisco. You guys are
two for two. I mean, this is this is fantastic.
I'm envisioning charts. These are not correct. Hot question number three.

(51:22):
These questions just aren't hard enough. But here's here's one
that I really like. So we remember the Philadelphia Eagles.
It was the three headed attack of J. A. G. I.
It was La Garrett Blunt, Corey Clement. I think they
had Wendell Smallwood. Smallwood may have been injured. Sprowls they
had and Sprowls got injured. Now back in the mix,
Blunt goes elsewhere. Um will j a g I have

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three hundred total touches in a full season with the
Philadelphia Eagles. To get to three hundred touches, you need
to average nineteen per game. A Ji was suspended for
Week one last year and he sat out Week seventeen.
He played fourteen games. He averaged sixteen and a half
touches per week over the season, and he only played

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seven regular season games at the Eagles, and the first
four weeks he barely touched the ball at all. He
never topped nine carries in those first four weeks. And
then that's the that's with the Eagles. He was learning
the Eagles offense. Halfway through the year. Over the last
three weeks he had sixteen, fourteen, and sixteen touches as
they were ramping him and out ramping him up. Then

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they gave him Week seventeen off to rest, and then
in the playoffs eighteen and twenty one in the two
NFC round games, only had nine touches in the Super Bowl,
but that game was kind of a wide open, weird
game and Blunt is gone. So he only needs two
and a half more touches per game, and he was
doing that anyway to hit the three mark. I think

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it's obvious that he hits three touches. Yeah. I don't
have a whole lot to add there. I like his
chance one combined touches from Philadelphia running backs last year
with three running backs, that's nearly three d each. Uh
and a joy has Mett mentioned just they rammed up
his involvement in the offense as the season went on.

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Last year in Philly, he was averaging under four yards
per carry with the Dolphins. He averaged five point eight
yards per carry with the Eagles last year. Darren Sprawls
is back, but he's also Darren sprawled No, but no,
I like giys chances for three touches. Let's say yes.
In charge definitely agrees you guys are three for This

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is the best five tough questions. There's no animosity, very
little adversarial nitpicking of each other. Uh. This couldn't have
gone any better. Uh, thus far des hot Question number four.
Man Jameis Winston. Jameis Winston, quarterback, Tampa Bay Buccaneers can't.
Uh seemed to keep himself out of trouble. Underwhelming season

(53:54):
by a lot of accounts. Um, I guess maybe you
guys look at it differently from a fantasy perspective as
I did. Just Box didn't look good on the field. Uh.
And now he's gonna be sitting out the first three games,
which means Ryan Fitzpatrick a guy that can have success
in very short stints. He'll get to start the season,
maybe he gets a win or two for the Bucks.
But Jamis Winston quarterback Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Is he draftable

(54:16):
in one quarterback leagues? Quite simply? Absolutely not. Uh. You know,
first three games, that's about a third of the fantasy
regular season, and his ADP has plummeted understandably so, but
right around his range. I'd rather be going case Keenum Uh,

(54:38):
Eli Manning talk about Eli really quick. Yes, I'm wearing
a Giant's T shirt. Odell Beckham top three wide receiver,
right se Kwan Barkley, top five running back. We can
say that they're all top ten except you lie. He
lies down ADP and everybody else in the offense is

(54:58):
going to finish in the top ten. Yeah, Okay, I
smell with the Brian's so quite simply, no, don't touch
Jameis Winston in one quarterback leagues at all. Look at
him on the way wire he comes back, but draft no. Yeah.
The only thing I'll add to that is because Brian's
completely right, Dirk Cutter didn't guarantee him his job back

(55:19):
from Ryan Fitzpatrick when he returns. And if you're in
a one quarterback league and you've drafted a Brady Rogers,
a Breeze Russell Wilson, there's four of the teams, there's
a thirtier teams right there. You don't need a second
quarterback on your roster if you've got those four guys.
So just forget that. So the rest of the teams,
they're looking at two guys, they're looking at different guys,

(55:41):
and they're looking at guys that aren't going as late
as Winston, who's the twenty one quarterback off the board
right now. And you can get guys like Mitch True, Biskuye,
case Keenum, Eli Manning, Andy Dalton, Tyrod Taylor to fill
in for a week, for a bye week. You don't
need a second quarterback in a one QB league. This
might be the deepest quarterback class or whatever. You guys

(56:04):
are four for four. Finally, let's question number five. Well, this,
I mean this, this could be this is this is
juicy here, guys, Final question five tough questions. Um, Jordy
Nelson goes to Oakland and Aaron Rodgers he uh, he's

(56:25):
got Davante Adams, He's got Geronimo Allison helped me before
I start looking stupid, Jamon More, Jamon Moore, Equitamius st
Brown and uh, and of course the thirty million dollar
acquisition of Jimmy Graham. So and when you look at
the Packers, who will be second? I assume he's He's

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meaning that Davante Adams is going to be the number
one target who finished his second in receiving Fantasy points
for the Packers. I hope Brian has a different answer
than me. I'm guessing he probably won't. Though I got
Jimmy Graham. He's slow, he's not who he used to be,
but he's still a red zone threat. And the Packers
throw in the red zone at among the highest rates

(57:08):
in the league. So get this. Jimmy Graham led the
league in red zone targets and red zone touchdowns. Last season,
he scored on all eight catches inside the ten, which
we call the infrared zone on this show. In rogers
last three healthy seasons, he's thrown over ninety four red

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zone passing attempts in every season, including the season where
he threw one and fifteen red zone passing attempts. Do
you know how many touchdowns Rogers through from inside the
red zone in two thousand sixteen? No, I don't. Thirty three.
Oh my god, Jimmy Graham's a red zone target. He's

(57:52):
gonna throw a lot of red zone touchdowns. It's gonna
be Jimmy Graham. Are you gonna say Randall Cobb your Briane? Well,
if I disagree, can we still both be right? But no,
I guess it could be Jimmy Graham. He could lead
the team in receiving points without a doubt that the
Packers do run three receiver sets nearly at the time,

(58:13):
or they have in recent history. So Davanta Adams a
clear cut number one receiver. I'm not sold on who's
going to be better between This is one of those
ones where Charch would have gone, It's gonna be Davante Adams.
Ha ha. That's totally what charge was gonna do with
this here that we're both right, you're you're both completely

(58:34):
on alan correct five five for five. I mean, I
I think Davante I mean Dante Adams kind of the
turnaround that he had two years ago and he's become
I think he's the clear number one favorite. But I
mean if they got on it and suddenly Graham has
twelve or thirteen red zone touchdowns, I mean that's I mean,
I don't think you'll go wrong. He might only catch
forty balls all season, but he might still touchdowns. Yeah, yeah,

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no doubt about it. Uh, that's five. Is there a
close to this? Tony no clothes? That's five tough questions?
Thank you to devanis Now I'm hungry. Um, let's take
one call before we go to break, though, I do
want to take one. This is our this is our
our first call um of the of the season of
Fantasy Football Weekly. It goes to read Scott in Minnetonka. Scott,

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what's up, Good morning guys, Good morning back. Um say,
I am in a PPR Empire League and I have
Ezekiel Elliott as my first running back and Joe Mixon
as my second Obviously last year was pretty frustrating. But
what are your prospects for Joe Mixon this year? Thanks Scott, Well,

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let's let's answer that before we go to break here.
Joe Mixon year number two, as they try to work
him into the bid. I think Jeremy Hill now gone right,
So now it's it's Joe Mixon is g O still
there is still there geoel factor and I'm throw down
for sure, But uh, Mixing will have a better year
than last. And really his struggles were not because of him,

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it was because of the offensive line was one of
the worst in football. He was getting content. You know,
he wasn't getting past the line of scrimmage before he
had tackled her. He fought for every yard he got
on his own. But he's in better shape, that line
is better. So I like a big bounce back from Mixing.
Definitely take him over Jeric McKinnon in any drafts there
we go get a McKinnon dig in there. Uh, any

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disagreement from you? I like Mixing quite a bit as
I'm looking here. So they have they got Jake Fisher.
They must have pulled Court and they pulled Corty Glenn
from the Bills. The offensive line and they and they
drafted Billy Price from from Ohio State, so the offensive
line should be a little bit better after they just
hedged talent uh two years ago for the Cincinnati Bengals. Anyway,

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when we come back, Scott and Tacca mentioned the Empire League.
There are several unique ways. Now there are there are
those that like me that you know, we don't like change. Okay,
so we have trouble dealing and dipping our toes into
unknown waters. But there are very cool ways outside of
the norm to play fantasy football. And for those of
you that are obsessed with new ways to make money

(01:01:08):
and dive into the NFL season. Uh, there are variations
of fantasy football gameplay uh that I want to hear
about from Matt Harrison and from Brian Johnson. Uh it's
Nordo and for charge, it's Fantasy Football Weekly. Uh more
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grain Belt is the official beer Fantasy Football and that
grain Belt Blue is yummy. That's what Church would say,
very yummy. It is good. No, grain Belt Blue is awesome.
I'm more of a North East guy myself. Uh, and
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Belt Chat and Bloomington. How you doing man? Thanks for
holding here? Yeah? What up? Brother? That's fine? Hey are
you doing so pumped up? And welcome back to this
another season? Hell yeah? Why am I so childish when
this comes? I can't wait? Because it's fun? All right? Well,

(01:03:48):
he's have two quick questions. Sure, this one's kind of
off the bar a little bit. But we're in a
fourteen league. I'm drafting on Friday night over friend's house. Personally,
we've gotted two guys last year, and that was two
because I think the twelve is enough in Snake Draft PPR.
And when we picked, we took the computer. You know, okay,
let's number one pick on the computer or whatever, four

(01:04:08):
or five or nine. But then if I get to pick,
I could trade it or I could switch it us
if there's an open spot. Now out of the four
teen teams, where do you think would be the best
one to goal? You know what I mean? Where you
could get better draft quality, you know, coming back down,
So one of the fishing. Brian and I earlier this
morning hosted a show on Serious XM called MFL Ten's

(01:04:31):
Weekly where we talk about draft positioning and a lot
of stuff like that, oh give me that, give me
that against right then MFL Tens Weekly. It's on Serious XM. Um,
just go to fanball dot com. We prefer actually that
you you would just go to fanball dot com. That's good,
good plan, good plan. But but we dig pretty deep

(01:04:52):
into what's the best position in a draft, and we
have twelve team drafts on MFL tens dot com and
we found that the tail end of the first round
is a really good spot to be because in my mind,
there's a sixteen to eight teen player top tier and
then I think it falls off. So if you're near

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the twelve, thirteen, the fourteen, you're going to get that
second guy in the second round and he's still going
to be a premium player where you're not going to
get that guy at the tail end of the second
round if you have an early pick right. And in
our draft we got about Ken gott best friends been
there forever and it would be more really kind of
like every other draft, but like we're a little were

(01:05:33):
at a lot of the guys are running back heavy now.
The second question real quick, I was that's where I
have a man crush right now for Shaan kal Berkeley
of the Giants, even though he hasn't played a snappet
in the NFL. And then of course Deshaun Watson coming
back because he was awesome for a guy last year
until he went down, and I just feel if he's
stays healthy, you'll be running like, you know, like an
old cam back in the path. Well, as we mentioned, Hey, thanks, Jad,

(01:05:56):
we'll we'll we'll answer this one off air. Yeah, Quan,
of course Brian's gonna have I mean, he's got twenty
minutes of free show on Kwan. Yeah. But then to
Sean getting healthy post a cl as well, Kan You're
probably gonna have to draft earlier than the seventh pick
seven is about where I think that he can fall to.
And like Brian, like Brian said earlier, this is one

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of the deepest quarterback classes ever. So if you're looking
at quarterback in round two already, I think you're kind
of making a little bit of a mistake. I would
want to get two quality players, and if I was
at the tail end of the first round, I'd look
at like a Keenan Allen and I Julio Jones kind
of a guy at wide receiver, maybe a Michael Thomas
he's fallen right about there, and then like a Dalvin

(01:06:37):
Cook kind of a guy who's sitting right there. You
pair a good running back with a good wide receiver,
and then wait until could you get a Russell Wilson
at thirty five? Yeah? You should. You should be able
to see a Russell Wilson in the third or fourth
round if you want to premo quarterback. But I'd still
wait till the sixth or seventh round to get a quarterback,
especially in a fourteen team league. Agreed. All that absolutely beautiful.

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Thanks thanks to Chad At six or six extra tough
question from Chad in Bloomington. I didn't want to get
through this, uh this segment though, and I'm just going
to run through because I'm always you know, it's typical.
It's uh, you know, you get some leagues have a flex,
some don't have a flex. You know, variations, team defense, kicker,
you know all of these things. Um. But the unique

(01:07:22):
in the evolution of fantasy football, which makes it so
fun is how to get creative with the leagues themselves,
different ways to engage you as as somebody that's uh
that's trying to compete for cash at the end of
the season. So I had some questions about these things.
So I'm gonna start with this now. This is something
that Charge that I heard from Charge, who's talked about
on the Friday Football Feast for nearly nine ten months

(01:07:46):
now feels like maybe an entire year is Guillotine League.
He's very excited about at the So you have the league,
let's say it's twelve, you know or so teams. At
the end of each week, it has to be seven
team teams. Oh, it does have to be exactly okay,
so it has to be seventeen teams that's why we
got you here, Matt Harrison and Brian Johnson. UH seventeen

(01:08:06):
teams and each week of the NFL season the bottom
scoring team, So it's not head to head matchups, purely
the bottom scoring team. They are eliminated guillotine style. You're
you're all playing, you're all playing for points in a
given week. You just need to not be last. No
one's actually dying. Okay, there's not a physical guillotine. It's

(01:08:27):
just that your team is eliminated from the league and
the roster is pushed back into the waiver pool. How
does that work? So when you push the roster back
into the waiver pool, everybody uses free agent blind bidding budget.
You get a hundred mythical dollars to go play with,
and then you you spend it on free agents. So
let's say, for instance, we're we're talking like it was

(01:08:48):
two thousand seventeen and the team that drafted Levan Bell
had a bad week in the first week because Levian
Bell had a terrible week one last year. So all
of a sudden, that team with Levy On Bell just
got dropped and levy On Bell just entered your free
agent pool. Then you have to take a look at
how much do I want to spend on this guy,

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and and try to plan ahead, because all you gotta
do is continue to survive the next week and not
get cut so you can get down to the last
two guys the end of the season and win. And
it's it's all about spending your money wisely on on
free agent acquisition and god just making sure that you're
cutting the right guy, because midway through the season you're

(01:09:34):
cutting a really good player off of your fantasy roster
to pick up another really good player who just became available.
One wrinkle I'd love to throw into GUI team leagues
is if you do an auction instead of a draft,
if you have any leftover auction dollars that carries over
to your blind bidding budget. I like that we have

(01:09:56):
teen leagues at safe leagues dot com, correct by Scott Fish.
So if you're intrigued by this concept, which you should be,
go to safely dot com. Check it out. Sign up now.
I'm intrigued by this next one. Best ball. So I
didn't hear about this until we hung out a few
days ago. The three of us hung out in a bar.
It was great. It was Yeah, it's fantastic the set
up you guys, Okay, yeah, definitely a work meeting. Yeah,

(01:10:22):
Best Ball. So I'm gonna do this league. Follow me
on Twitter if you don't at Eric nordok fan you
can participate in my first m f L ten league
that I'm starting up tomorrow. Best Ball. So the idea
is is in your league, uh, you draft a full
fantasy roster in bench. So that's eighteen that's twenty players. Okay,

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so that's you know, you're doubling up on your QBS.
You're doing all these things, full full twenty player roster.
Now each week, the MFL ten or the the computer
will automatically determine what your best possible starting lineup would
have been. And that's your point, totally correct. You do
not set a starting lineup. It sets it for you.
You literally just set it and forget it. It's like

(01:11:07):
Ron Ron Pope Peel right there, Best Ball. So what happens, though,
is there's no matchups per se every single week. You're
merely accumulating points each week based on those best possible
lineups every single week, and at the end of the season,
whoever has accumulated the highest point total is the is
the champion of that league. That I get that halfway correct,

(01:11:27):
you did it, and the that's like the standard format.
We also have top three. It's finishing the top three
and you in. And we have different payout structures second losers, yeah,
rewarding the you know, the pitiful second and third place. Yeah.
We got a brand new draft rooms. Pretty awesome. We
have live drafts now for MFL tens. It's always been
slow drafts for eight hour o' clocks, but now we

(01:11:47):
have one minute live drafts and the class still have
the draft. Yeah. There, you can run multiple at a time.
They're great fun. So the cool part about MFL tens
is you can go and use these their ten dollar entries. Yeah,
you could win a hundred bucks off of them, but
you can also use them to prepare for your other

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drafts because you're actually drafting against real people who really care.
Unlike mock draft boards, you don't have to do any
end season management. Once your draft is done. There's no trades,
there's no pickups, there's no drops, the waiver wire doesn't exist.
You don't even have to start a lineup. You could
set it and forget it for the entire season. You
can follow along at MFL tens dot com. But and

(01:12:30):
that's the website. Emma as in Matt, as in Matt. Yeah,
m f L ten. There is an s dot com yep.
And if you go to fanball dot com, there's a
little there's a little link at the top of the
screen that will bring you to MFL tens dot com.
That's right. If you're at League safe dot com, same thing,
you'll see a link there. You guys are you guys
are generally like a family of websites on fan ball

(01:12:52):
dot com. It's called the Sports Hub Games Network, and
it's it's it's a conglomerate. Is what's happening? And you
you mentioned this and you show this to me the
other day, and and the value and it is is
doing this league? So set it and forget it. And
it's ten box. I get that, But you're actually getting
a very realistic, uh idea of a DPS. You know
how people are drafting correct different strategies, what they feel,

(01:13:16):
which for ten bucks, you're basically you're you're almost pre
seasoning for your season long where you are setting your
lineup and transactions and in and out and all of
that as well and oh, by the way, you can
win money. Oh yeah, and you can win cast. Well yeah,
well we didn't say there's a fan ball. Introduced the
new uh Overall ten tho dollar prize basically for the

(01:13:36):
highest scoring MFL ten overall lineup overall for the whole
seasons a public league. You can create private league. Stupid
NFL tens. By the way, Yeah, let's do this because
there is a very cool league that I'm excited about
learning about. And we are backed up against the clock here,
who want to take a break, and you know the
Empire League. More and more people chat. Of course you

(01:13:57):
just called in. He's familiar with the Empire League. We
know what that is. And we won't mention that super
flex as well. Thievery is something that actually really entices
me in terms of a variation of league game play.
The final segment is next, whether it's phone call six,
five three to six, eight, three to zero, five three
to six. I got a couple of emails here at

(01:14:18):
the Bradshawn Brian Booth at kfan dot com inbox that
I can get to as well. Final segment a bit
of pot pourri, and we will take your calls and
emails anything that we missed throughout the first two hours.
We might have time for that as well. But it's
it's Matt Harrison, it's Brian Johnson. I'm Nordo in for charge.
And final segment is next right here on the Fan

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(01:15:55):
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covered so much today and that's kind of it's it's
an interesting part of the season because there's a lot
of things to uh, you know, dig into in terms
of the offseason moves. You guys hit hard on training
camp battles. There's some unique decisions, uh that fantasy football
players are gonna have to make. But last segment, what
we talked about variations in gameplay. We hit on guillotine leagues.

(01:16:37):
We hit on best Ball, which is sweet. Go to
m f L ten s dot com, MFL tens dot com,
uh to get uh dig into these best ball leagues.
These are sweet. It's basically like preseason for your regular
draft leagues. UM, and I'm gonna be doing one tomorrow,
so we'll pump that up on Twitter and all that,
and you can draft and beat me and take my

(01:16:57):
money and have fun with that. A couple more want
to dig into. Then I got I got a couple
of calls from emails and stuff. As we kind of
the cutting room floor, we take anything we've missed so far. UH,
Empire leagues. Now, this isn't necessarily something that's new, but
it's still something that's kind of gaining traction um simply
enough to me as casual Rube, I'm not in an

(01:17:19):
an empire league. It's essentially a dynasty league ongoing. Uh.
And then there's the pot that builds. I believe it
would be a percentage of everyone's dues year to year,
and then as soon as somebody wins the league twice
in a row or maybe that's a that's a function
of what you decide for your particular empire league, could
be three years in a row, whatever it is. Uh,

(01:17:40):
you set that bar so that that pot goes to
the the empire that the empire emperor. Uh is am
I missing anything? Tell me more? So we've we started
an Empire League back at the League Safe Office, and
we're going into year seven of it now. So we're
our empire pots starting to it pretty big because we

(01:18:01):
put half of each entry fee into the Empire pot.
So half of the pot goes into the empire pot
um when you win two years in a row. And
it's a dynasty league, so you keep everybody on all
your rosters, your whole roster moves over year to year.
You can make trades for draft picks. You can make
all sorts of fun trades. It's really like being the
general manager of a team. But the one caveat is

(01:18:25):
when you win the previous year, you've won your first title,
you may not make trades in the subsequent year where
you're trying to take down the Empire Championship to avoid collusion.
To avoid collusion because I don't want to go to
Nordo and go Nordo. I'm gonna win the Empire League.
The Empire pot is at six thousand dollars. I'll give you.

(01:18:48):
I'll give you if you send me all of your
good guys from winning. Okay, I see, So that's a
very good point. Yeah, to make sure that there's no collusion,
no trades. It makes it really tough to You can't
just try. You can't trust people anymore. Well, it's not.
It makes it hard to. I mean you can't. You
can't come in and just win two years in a row.

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It's really difficult. No, that's a very good point. And uh,
order he said, you're not in an Empire League, want
to join one? Sag dot com again, it's the sports
Hub conglomerate is basically what it is, Uh, let's get
to this. This is something that I'm interested in. You
have actually an even further variation of this, the Thievery League.

(01:19:32):
So I looked this up last night. And so each matchup,
so every week you're matched up against the corn holes
or whatever X y Z team that you're you're playing against,
whatever win whatever witty you know, pithy name that someone
has come up making fun of something or is just
blatantly sexual in nature, who knows. Uh. This Thievery variation

(01:19:54):
is that each matchup, every week, the losing owner must
expose a player that they're They're winning opponent gets to swipe.
So for instance, and it's uh, it's it's in line
with the weak number of the NFL season. So I
lose to a guy week one, that means I must
expose one player to that person that they can take

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and then they I believe, I get some sort of
scrub back. Is what the situation is. If I lose
in week three, this is where it gets juicy. I
got to expose three players, he gets to take one.
I get a scrub back. Uh kind of fill me
in on on the rest of that you did it.
So succinctly there is that, and uh yeah, this is

(01:20:39):
pretty much a brand new considered and I'm going to
I'm excited for it. So if you're Week nine, Week ten,
and you're on the grind at five hundred, trying to
win two straight on the back end to make the playoffs,
and you take an L, now suddenly you have to
expose nine or ten of your team. Uh, that can
get negative in a real hurry. Uh So the thievery

(01:21:02):
leagues again, basically what I'm saying here with all of this,
get the fan ball dot com, get the League safe
dot com because they have these variations at your fingertips
so that you can learn more and uh and even
participate in them and make make fantasy football even greater
uh than it already is. But you have this bit
vampire leagues. Yeah, that's where the real blood sucking to play.

(01:21:22):
I saw somebody pop off on Twitter about this this weekend,
and I thought it was kind of a fun idea.
The idea was, in a twelve team draft, eleven teams
get to draft, and the twelve team, the guy who
draws the short straw, does not get to draft at all.
He's left out in the cold. He's the Vampire, but
he gets to make a team of basically the waiver Wire.

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He gets the Waiver Wire all Stars. He puts together
a team that way, so eleven teams draft short straw
is vampire. Vampire has to wait until draft is done.
Then he picks up the table scraps from the wire. Exactly. Okay,
So then let's say I'm the Vampire and I have
my crappy team in week very nocturnal, and and I'm
playing Eric in week one. Yes, if I beat Nordo,

(01:22:10):
it's very possible. I'm off with with with my team.
It's a bad team. I got a guy his starters
are exposed, and I get to swap one of my
starters for his starters. And this is purely your choice.
But if I if I can beat you as the Vampire,
so I get I I get to suck the blood
off of your team. So you can. You can choose
to start your best possible lineup every week, or you

(01:22:33):
could choose to not expose some of your better players,
Like say you have Todd Gurley and you're like, I
don't know if I like the matchup this week for Gurley,
and I just don't want to expose him, so you
don't play Todd Gurley giving me a better chance to win,
but giving you the opportunity to keep Todd Gurley on
your roster. My god, I mean suddenly the Vampire gets

(01:22:53):
on a little bit of a role here. It could
be interesting. People might be punting against the vampire every week.
It just depends on how things go. Yeah, so that's
the that's the Vampire League. Um wow, that's very cool. Again,
I don't think the Vampire that's not like, that's not
a thing that you guys not necessarily endorsed. But that's
not part of this is just one that I saw

(01:23:15):
just recently and and I thought it was a fun idea.
Somebody came up with it on Twitter. I thought it
was just a cool way to play. Let me take
a call. So for every expert, every Matt Harrison at
Explosive Output on Twitter, at every Brian Johnson at bt
x J on Twitter, it's four letters. It's easy, just

(01:23:35):
get him in order on Twitter. For every expert like
you guys, Uh, there are casual fans like me that
again just go off of the cheat sheet, cross her
fingers to get out alive. Uh, there's the John's and
Eden Prairie who have never done fantasy football. They want
to know where to start. What up, John? Hey, good morning,
thanks for taking my call. Hey, um, so you you

(01:23:57):
described it well. I listened to you. I think it's
sounds like fun. But none of my buddies are into it,
and uh, I don't know much about it, but I'd
like to try it. So uh but when you say,
you know, the description of some of these things get
pretty complex, and I know that's not everyone. But nonetheless
I'm interested in doing it. But I don't want to
lose my mortgage either, But you know what I mean.
So I want a little guidance and how can I

(01:24:20):
get started? As a as a complete idiot? Where do
I go? How do I get started? I'm gonna let
you go and then we'll we'll answer it on the arrow. Okay, John,
sounds good thing. So, if you're looking for a specific
type of league and you just don't have the requisite
friends to fill a twelve man league, first off, ask
around to your office, say, hey, is anybody in a

(01:24:41):
fantasy league where you need an open spot? That's a
good way to start, because at least you kind of
know some somebody in the league. And I always think
it's fun to play with people. I know, um that
that's a good way to start. But I'm like John,
I don't have eleven friends to play fantasy football with,
so I really gotta scrounged. I don't have eleven friends.
We mentioned, yeah, but say, safe leagues dot Com is

(01:25:04):
a great place to start because you can do redraft leagues,
you can do Empire leagues, you can do the thievery leagues,
in the guillotine leagues. We have all of those available
at safe leagues dot Com, ran by a real commissioner,
an impartial third party, Scott Fish, and he does a
great job with them. They're they're clean, they're easy, they're
not super expensive. I think the lowest Empire league is

(01:25:26):
like thirty five bucks, so you're not gonna lose your
mortgage if it is something jealous. But but also at
League safe, uh, we created something called the League Safe
Classifies this year, and you go to League safe dot
com slash classifieds or just go to league safe dot
com and you'll see the button for it, and it's
basically a classified list of I'm a commissioner, I need

(01:25:48):
people in my league I've got I've got ten members
in this league, and I need two more to get
it going. And here's the options. There's multiple price levels.
There's people doing ten dollar leagues. I saw some guy
with a two thousand dollar or league in there. The
other there's got There's got to be at least a
couple of classifieds on safe leagues dot com that says
wanted person that has no experio fantasy, but a certain

(01:26:11):
amount of discretionary income to provide, please come join this
league full of ringers. Uh, here's the email address. So
the the answer John is really um, I mean you
can do there are there are very low cost leagues
out there, and don't worry about the mortgage payment that's
in check. But whether it's playing with strangers to start
and luring your friends into the mix as well, that

(01:26:32):
doesn't sound good ling your friends, but but you are
persuasion and just keep listening to this show. Yeah. Uh,
listening to this show is a great way to learn
strategy and and also following people on Twitter, finding some
good fantasy people online. It's a great way to just
learn different things and see different stats and get things
that you just normally don't find in a magazine or

(01:26:55):
something along those lines. So last thing again, I'm in
for Charchy and he'll be back in all of those things.
But one thing I'm always curious, you know, how you
guys handle are our situations where fantastic talents are injured
and how to really determine their value in the following season.
A couple of guys, you know, I look at and

(01:27:15):
it was mentioned earlier from the phone call. Didn't really
dig too deep into it. But you have Deshaun Watson
post a c L and you love what he did
before he got hurt in Houston last year he's out
David Johnson, I mean, absolutely incredible. Then he's out most
of last year. I think it was a risk or something.
And then he just he was on that he was
on the the I R with no playoff aspirations for

(01:27:36):
the Cardinals, and then here in Minnesota he led the
league in rushing through three and a half games. Uh.
Dalvin Cook comes up lame with the A c L.
Now it sounds like he's full go and training camp
and stuff. That's very exciting for Vikings. Uh fans. Uh
with just a you know, a couple of minutes left here,
you guys, tell, how do you handle situations like that?
Maybe keen in on a guy like Dalvin Cook, who

(01:27:56):
vikings fans are excited about to help win games, but
from a fan to see perspective when you're putting your
money on the line as well. Yet, uh, you know,
these scary knee injuries aren't as scary anymore the next year,
especially when they're early in the season. Cook was like
Dalvin Cook, Allen Robinson, they got injured early on. You
know they're they're basically good to go. There might be

(01:28:17):
a little rust there, but I'm not too worried about it. Uh.
You know David Johnson, so there's really no concern for
him with me at all. His rist is fine, his
legs are fine. So yeah, Really, you get a good
discount on guys like coming back from injury like that
because the recency bias and so many people adhere to
which the they shouldn't. But the tough thing is the

(01:28:39):
quarterback situation. And I know it's Deshaun Watson and it's
Carson Wentz very similar. Well, Lux had a little time
to recover, we hope. But of the top five quarterbacks,
three of them in a DP right now. With Watson
Wentz and Aaron Rodgers missed a significant part of last

(01:29:00):
season due to injury, but they're still all being drafted
in the top five. So what average draft position a
DP tells me is people don't believe it. People are
going to draft them anyway because of their talent and
their upside. Thirty seconds left as we finalize this show here, um,
give me one sleeper a piece. I'll start with you,
Matt one Sleeper. I know we left a lot on

(01:29:22):
the table today and I'm sorry, wait Sleeper, before we go,
we did. I kind of mentioned this guy earlier in
the show, and it's Tyler Eiffort. He missed almost the
entire season with a back injury last year. Tons of
red zone touchdowns. He's a big red zone guy, and
the Bengals throw a lot in the red zone. So yeah,
I'm loving Manny Sanders in Denver. He's Keenom's a huge
upgrade for Damarius Thomas and Emmanuel Sanders. We saw him

(01:29:43):
support to top fifteen wide receivers in Minnesota, and uh,
you get Manny Sanders three rounds later than Damarus Thomas
and they both have both have average and have targets
per game over the last three years, equal opportunity, but
Sanders much cheaper. He'll be a top twenty four wide receiver,
going wide receiver thirty three right now to uh, there's
not enough time to unload the brain power that you
guys have. Thank you for letting me fill in for

(01:30:05):
charge today and thank you for taking us to Charch
next week. Hell yeah man, Matt Harrison again at Explosive
Output on Twitter. Brian Johnson at bt x J on Twitter.
These are the familiar voices you'll hear every week. Charches
back with you next week. They're gonna be at Shell's
Brewery in Newall next weekend for fantasy football all the

(01:30:25):
action there. Two weeks from now, Fantasy Football Training Camp
is coming to Canterbury Park Cafe and dot com keyword
events for all the info there. I'm Nordo. Thank you
so much for hanging out with us. This is Fantasy
Football Weekly and you're listening to the Fan Weekly on

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