Baker Mayfield Is Not Boring

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Charging from fanball dot Com. My co host today are
Matt Harrison and Scott Fish. Hello, guys, Hey, it's got
a little like our new theme music. Over the course
of today, we're going to tell you the one thing
you need to know from each team's preseason well zip
through all thirty two teams, report back in all the
training camp battles that we identified back in our first

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show of the preseason, we told you we were watching
a bunch of these. Will tell you who won every
one of those, and sometimes they don't even care, but
we'll even tell you about those. We'll answer three tough questions.
You get to play along, try to go three and
oh with our panel of experts will present the outcome
of our drafts when we use different drafting personas or
strategies and um and I'm looking forward to that, like

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if you want, I'm not quite not like Uncle Rico
or it's more like, if you want to have a
quarterback heavy idea, if you want to have a receiver
heavy idea, if you want to go high risk, if
you want to go low risk. I was planning on
doing the whole segment as Mr Mee seeks, but that'd

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be tough. We'll reveal our latest round of sleepers towards
the end of the show, and we'll break down the
Thursday Night game. Yep, we're already breaking down regular season
games fantasy style because we've we've got one less than
a week away. We've got the Thursday Night game. Uh,
and then of course next weekend we'll do the full
slate of all of the games when we get to

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next weekend's show. So, guys, let's start here the one
thing you need to know about each team's preseason. I
want the most important thing for each one of these teams, Matt.
I'm gonna begin with you and the Panthers. Cam Newton
sprained his left foot in the preseason game versus New England,
and everybody got a little scared. And we're gonna talk
a little bit about this later in the show. Ron

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Rivera says he's going to be totally ready to go. Yeah,
we'll just dive in deeper to Cam Newton a little
bit later. Yeah. I mean he's picking it. He's picking
up the the tag of being I think a little
injury prone now, yea, bron Yes, Scott, give me the Raiders.
Nothing really going on with the Raiders this office, no
no storylines whatever, don't have anything to talk about their

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Uh Antonio Brown back at practice, off practice, not wearing
his helmet, wearing his helmet, I think the main regular
feet frozen feet. Yeah, he's probably gonna be good to go,
but if, if you know, maybe it's too sunny in
his uniform, his black uniform gets too hot. Maybe he'll
leave again. Maybe maybe he'll get a blade of grass
stuck in his new face mask. I don't know, So

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go get Tyrrell Williams just in case it's a handcuff situation. Now,
Can I just not have the Antonio Brown part of
that handcuff? Can I just not have Raiders on my team? Um,
I'll only have this. I think the real loss here
is that he moves to a new system, totally new offense,
new quarterback, new scheme, and has had very little time
to work with those guys, and it might be a

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receiver issue, but Derek Carr through career lows on deep passes.
Last year passing, I know, I was like completion percentage.
It's not good. Packers Green based starting wide receivers are
Marquees Valdez Scantling usually playing on the outside. He's the
speed guy, and Geronimo Allison usually in the slot. MBS

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has got the speed that Aaron Rodgers hasn't had since
Jordy Nelson for sure, and I mean like you know
pre Niece, you know, pre a c L Jordy Nelson,
and maybe even before that, because Jordy was more like
speed after the catch guy. This is more like just
straight line vertical speed for the big arm with Aaron
Rodgers from Mardez um um, sorry, Marquez Valdez scan you
could just call him m VS. Yes, let's go to

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the Redskins. Matt case Keenum has been named the starter,
but that doesn't even really matter that much because the
biggest story there is Trent Williams. They're all pro left tackle.
He just might not show up for Washington all season,
and that's just a bad sign for the whole Washington offense.
In general. I know Brian Johnson has said it a
few times on this show. If there's one team you

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can just eliminate from your fantasy depth chart this year,
it might be Washington. You might just want to get
rid of all of them. Yeah, I think I got
a contender for that. And that's the next team, The
Buffalo Bills. The Buffalo Bills. The four running backs split
all their carries evenly. Every one of them tend to
twelve carries during the preseason. Singletary and Yelleding got most
of the past game works, so maybe there's something there.

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Gore was the most effective. Just avoid all of that.
And Robert Foster dressed the fourth preseason game playing second team.
He's no longer even talk about Stay Jones playing with
playing in the fourth. You guys are stepping out all
of my my training camp matchups. Later, Texans Lamar Ler
went on I r S. Most listeners know Duke Johnson

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is your news starting running back. The good news is
Duke Johnson has never missed a game in his entire career.
That's good. The bad news is he has averaged eight
touches per game throughout his career. We have no reason
to believe he can be a workhorse back or will
even be asked to be will. I believe he's the
all time rushing leader in the history of the University
of Miami. That's that's a good sign. I think. I

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think there is a misconception that Duke Johnson is a
tiny scat back. Let me remind use two hundred ten pounds.
He's not a tiny guy. You know, he may be
able to be an inside and runner. He might be
able to withhold eighteen touches a game. He's never been
asked to do. It doesn't mean he can't do it.
But that's what you need to know. Rand Let's go
to the We need a listener, by the way to

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make the I'm the Scatman song into I'm a scat
back and send that into us so we can have
that on the button bar. Well, we'll wait on that. Yeah,
the bucket my breath. Matt Jamis Winston looked pretty good
in the Bruce Arians offense had good command of the offense.
Problem is the offensive line might be the biggest concern.
In the third preseason game, the most important preseason game,

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Winston was sacked five times against the Browns. That's not good.
That's like an average of nine times per game. It's
not It's not an average of nine times. We're just
gonna say it is. Okay, it's in the ballpark of that.
I suppose we're This is the one thing you need
to know about every team's preseason. We are now on
the Cleveland Browns. Yes, so they shipped off Duke Johnson,

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as you mentioned. So it's all it's all Nick Chubb
all the time. Doncha. Hilliard has looked really good as
the backup, over a hundred thirty yards on twenty six
touches in the preseason. He's been my last pick of
the draft. Guy. Man, he should be, and he should
be despite the loss of Zeitler to New York in
that trade. Uh, the offensive lines look good, so Indianapolis Colts.
Obviously Jacoby Bursets the new starting quarterback. Don't assume he'll

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hold back the offense like he did back then. He
was very young, just a set in your player playing
behind a horrible offensive line that ultimately would go on
to just pound nails into Andrew Lux's career. Coffin. Well,
not only that he got there like a week and
a day before his first startart right entactly, um sets
look good in the preseason both last year and this

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year's preseason. He's surrounded by talent. I think he's good
enough to keep. T Y Hilton is a reliable starter.
And potentially Paris Campbell who's going undrafted many in many
leagues because he didn't have a preseason and ultimately he
might be okay too, and Ericy Brown as well. Let's
go to the Lions. What's the one thing we need
to know? Um? Surprisingly, t J. Hockenson looked like the

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most impressive Lions offensive player coming out of camp average
nine point eight yards after the catch during the preseason.
Uh struggled a bit in the run blocking game. That's
the one thing that might hold him back from snaps
this season. But uh, there's a lot of positivity around
a rookie tight end, which is pretty rare in the NFL.
All right, let's go to the Jets. So the Jets,

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I've been talking about this on previous shows. I think
they're going to be much more fast paced team, much
more up tempo. When the starters are in. They've been
using a lot of no huddle, a lot of quick plays.
I think Gaye's uh lack of plays. His His low
amount of plays per game in Miami was just effect.
He had bad players and he was trying to slow
down the game. I think it's gonna be a fast
paced team. I think it's gonna have some bad players. Well,

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that is true. Um Jets have the hardest first half
schedule against the past, and so as as optimistic as
I am that that offense is going to be better,
I'm investing in the second half of the season. The
one thing you need to know about the Chiefs is
there's a possible timeshare brewing in the backfield between incumbent
starter Damian Williams and sixth round rookie Darwin Thompson, who's

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looked terrific and his shot all the way up to
number two on the depth chart changed the tenor of
the conversation there from really being all about Damian Williams
to now potentially being a true time share. Williams is
expected to be the starter, but we may see more
time from Darwin Thompson. Then we thought Carlos Hyde, by
the way um on the bubble and by the time
you hear the show, depending on when you listen over

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the weekend, might already be cut. That's my my prediction
for a notable name that could go down in flames.
Let's go to our next team, and that is the
Seahawks Matt uh Injuries. Injuries have plagued the Seahawks preseason.
David Moore, who had high hopes as a wide receiver
too as a shoulder injury, DK Metcalf and knee guard

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Mike Iupati as a foot injury. And there's a whole
bunch of defensive players that are also injured, including Ezekiel Ansa,
Sachem Griffin, and l J. Collier. It's it's gonna be
a tough road to hoe for the Seahawks to start
the year. Yeah, that's they didn't get the preseason they
needed on a DK Metcalf. No, definitely not. Let's go
to the Broncos. The one thing we need to know there,

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Ummanuel Sanders looks like he has some Adrian Peterson recovery
ability even after thirty. For some reason, he flashed plays
in game and not just not just video as of practice.
In game, he actually looked good. I'm no longer concerned
about drafting him. I've got him up at numbers twenty
nine at the wide receiver position. That might be a
little optimistic given the all the young talent they've got
a receiver and that too, that's that's a bit of

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an issue. Maybe I'm a little optimistic on him. Let's
go to the Rams. Cooper Cup looks fully respeaking of recover.
He's Cooper Cup fully recovered from his a c L
injury of last November. You know, to me, it seems
unlikely that that couple will immediately return to a full workload.
But I think he's I think he's right in the mix,
and you're in week one. I just don't think it
should be like in every single play. Guy. They said

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a lot of his measurables are better than when he
came into the league right now. Reminder, he was averaging
a touchdown per game last year before his injury. Cooper Cup,
let's go to the Eagles. What's the one thing we
need to know, Matt. I mean, the biggest news out
of Eagles camp might be the troll job of the
zeke who billboards that they put up around town. But seriously,

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it's just a really crowded offense for the receiving targets.
There's Art's el Sean d Jack's Agilard, j Jaw Goddard,
Darren Sprowles, Corey Clement, Miles Sanders all have the ability
to catch passes. It makes me kind of want Carson
Wentz as the only option on that offense. Well, I
don't know about only, but I've got him up to
number six among quarterbacks. I think Carson Wentz is going

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off the board is roughly quarterback like sixteen, But I
think that's exactly it. There's so many good targets for
Carson Wentz. I don't have to guess who. I don't
have to guess which receiver is gonna have the hot game.
I'll just take the quarterback. Yeah, that's exactly what. Um.
Let's go to Let's see the Dolphins. What's the one
thing we need to know there? Scott, You're you're beautiful, lovely.

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Stu Beard may have gotten the start for Week one.
He may start the season, but he is Stu Beard
and Rosen out played him this preseason. They invested a
second round picking him. Stu Bird is gonna start the season,
but eventually it'll be Rosen and I'm not sure that's good.
I know the exact week it's going to be, and
I'll tell you in a later segment alright, good, the
Vikings Dalvin Cook is sitting out of potential, potentially giant season.

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The offensive line is upgraded. The new zone stretch blocking
scheme is a perfect fit for Dalvin Cook's running style.
How so he only played in college in high skame.
Other than that, right exactly, he looks as explosive as ever.
You saw his eighty five yard touchdown sprint a little
over a week ago. He's got a lead upside. If
the Vikings offensive line improves and he handles the bulk

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of the work, he could easily be one of the
top three or four or five running backs for fantasy play.
He is my number four running back at the moment.
Let's go to our next team, that is the Dallas Cowboys.
The one thing we need to know there, man, I mean,
the biggest troll job of the season was Jerry Jones
saying Zeke his own team. UM. Zeke's holdout is obviously
the main storyline, but an interesting stat I saw online today.

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Uh DA's passerrating in games with Ezekiel Elliott point nine,
Deck's passerrating in games without Zeke eighty point eight so
it moves down a little bit. I know Brian loves
Tony Pollard, but I'm a little bit nervous about the
Cowboys as a whole, and this Zeke called out looks
like it might last into mid October or later. Let's
go to the Patriots. A lot of moving parts for

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the Patriots right now, Scott. What's the one thing though
people need to know? If it's just one thing, it's
that Josh Gordon is now eligible to play Week one,
and Tom Brady's yardage attempt is targeting any receiver Josh
Gordon number one in his entire career including career Wow,
no way, so downfield passing Josh Gordon. I love it.

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Let's go to the Saints. Jared Cook looks like a
potential steel at his current average draft position of the
seventh round. Beat writers are describing Jared Cook as the
go to receiver for Breeze and have noted his multiple
big plays throughout camp. If you like that Jared Cook
as a Raider catching one hop wobblers from Derek Carr,
that's not a catch. You're gonna love him as a

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Saint catching spirals from Drew Brees. Let's go to the Giants.
What's the one thing we need to know so we
know it's not if it's when Daniel Jones takes over
for Eli. Joe Ones went twenty nine for thirty four
that's completions four hundred, sixteen yards and two touchdowns in
the preseason. Now, the schedule is really tough through the

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first six weeks, including Week five against the Vikings. In
Week six against New England, that's Eli's last start. That's
against New England. He's gonna try to get one final
troll job on the Patriots. And then week seven they
play the Cardinals at home. That's a nice game. Then
they get Detroit Dallas and an away game at home
against the Jets. Those are four really nice games for

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Daniel Jones to get eased into. Then they got a
bye week. They'll be able to adjust. That's when Daniel
Jones will take over his week seven calling your shot,
I like it. That's the one thing we need to
know about the Titans. This one is tough. There's not
really anything it's but the revamp line with the addition
of Roger Staffold. I know Taylor of the one is
going to be suspended a little bit here, but once
he's back. That line has made Jeremy Mcnifmuckle's a former

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fifth round pick, couldn't even make the fifty three man
roster for the Bucks his first year and it's been
on five teams. Sense they made him look like a
legitimate NFL running back in the preseason. So I like
that for Derrick Henry and Dan Lewis, who's going so
late he's now a value. Yeah, Dan Lewis is going
on draft basically, and and he's yeah, he's still about
he's a great value. Uh. For the Steelers, no real

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clarity on the job to backfill Antonio Brown's production. James
Washington provided a few big plays this preseason, but almost
entirely with backups. Dante Moncrief got the starting work, but
and he looks like the starter, but he didn't even
didn't show anything for that matter in his career, Doncte

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Moncrief hasn't shown anything. So I think it's still a
murky situation for the Steelers and we don't have a
lot of clarity there. Let's go to the Falcons and
the one thing people need to know the young offensive
line there, will it hold up first round pick Caleb
McGarry had a cardiac ablation procedure and only played in
one preseason game. Chris lind Stern was also a first rounder.

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Starting at right guard. Center Alex has been dinged up
a bit. Let's see if this line holds up against
the Vikings in Week one. Yeah, that's a that's a
stout challenge right off the bat for them. All right,
let's go to the Bengals, Scott. Everyone knows A J.
Green went down, so I'm not gonna go with that.
The running game has looked actually really good, but Rodney
Anderson just toys a C L again to row now,

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so it's all mixing and g O. There are really
no backups, so you can draft them with confidence. Now.
I see the offensive line really really worries me. They
lost first round pick. It's it's it's as this preseason,
but I would yeah, I'm, I'm you're more might be
tanking for tou Fort and they might be. Yeah, things
go badly. Forty nine ys have utter confusion at the

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wide receiver position. I wish I could tell you now
there's all this clarity through training camp, but it's the
opposite of that. Dante Pettis was great at the end
of last year, but he's been the subject of Kyle
Shanahan's ire, including making Pettis play the third with the
third and fourth stringers. Last week, rookies Jalen Hurd and
Deebo Samuel looked promising and stretches. Now Hurt has got

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an injury. Right now from this Week one, Trent Taylor
was going to be the starting slow receiver, but he's
got a foot injury. He probably won't play in a
Week one either. Marquis Goodwin remains, but they were trying
to cycle him out of the starting rotation, but I
think they got to put him in. It's still very,
very muddy with the wide receiver well, and there's always
George Kittle. All right, let's go to the Cardinals. Matt

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Kyler Murray didn't throw a touchdown pass all preseason and
seemed to be under pressure a lot. His escapability will
totally be in play a ton this season, as it
looks like he'll be taking a majority of snaps from
the shotgun, and maybe most of his snaps while trailing
in a game and running for his absolute life. All right,
let's go to the Jaguars. The big news is Leonard

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Fournette is getting every single starter snap in in the
preseason games, every third down, he's gained all the passing
game work. If healthy, there is no limit to help
productive he can be for fantasy this year healthy. I
didn't pay attention to what actually happened on Thursday night,
but the Jaguars were on pace to be the lowest
score preseason offense in NFL history. I don't remember what

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they did on Thursday night, but they may have actually
set that record. Uh. Let's go to the Ravens. Justice Hill,
rookie running back, looks like the second best back on
the roster and will likely get into the mix. Is
a change of pace for mark Ingram. Mark Ingram has
never been a guy who's been a workhorse throughout his career,
so I think Justice Hill is going to get in
the mix pretty regularly here um and his big play

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potential makes him dangerous. He's not he's not a big guy.
He's not a big physical back, but he's got big playability,
so he can turn even a handful of carries potentially
into a solid fantasy day. Justice Hill for the Ravens.
Let's go to the Bears. What's the one thing people
need to know. David Montgomery has looked like the best
rookie running back in this year's crop. He has the
ability to catch passes, something Jordan Howard really did not have,

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which makes the Bears less predictable. Fit. Frankly, when uh,
because it was Howard on the field and it was
a run play, and it was Treat Cohen on the
field and it was a pass play. Now David Montgomery
kind of flips that. So I think Montgomer ends up
as a bell cow and Treat Cohen's just a change
of pace guy this year. Totally agree. I got my
coming up to number nine a running back position. I'm
I'm all in. And our last team, Scott the Chargers.

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It's just more on Melvin Gordon. It's a it's a
hunch now it's it's been reported that he may be
back by week one, but it's going back and forth
every day. There's nothing concrete, so I say you still
got to use it decently. High pick on Austin Neckla.
Well done, guys. That was all thirty two teams. We
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let's identify the winner of every battle and the fantasy
ramifications that come with it will begin with Scott and

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the Redskins quarterback situation. It was case Keenum versus Dwayne Haskins.
Well case Keenum one that he's the name the starter
for the for week one, which I love. For Trey Quinn,
who is a slock ey uh you know how Keenum
targeted targeted the slot over half the time over half
his past attempts in Denver and in Minnesota where Yeah,

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I mean he did have Adam Thielen and he did
have Emmanuel Sanders. He should be the best Hamilton's came
in still, so I like that for Quinn. Great. Quinn
is a is a nifty last pick of your drafteper
in PPR leagues. I could see him doing on this
show a few weeks ago. He was six catches sixty
yards kind of guy just your bye week. Can easily

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lead that team in receptions. I think he might be
the favorite to lead the team in receptions. Chompson Tray Quinn.
Wouldn't that be something? If it's Chris Thompson back from
the dead, that would be great. The lowest drafted wide
receiver one in league. Yeah, Tray quinnan if he is
in fact one, there um Matt Let's go to the
Ravens wide receiver position. It was Miles Boykin versus Marquise

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Brown versus Willie Snead. Gross Is it possible that there
are no winners here? Because the official Ravens depth chart
has Snead and Seth Roberts as the starters, with uh
Marquise Brown, Michael Floyd, Chris Moore, and Boykin as the backups.
Brown muff two punts in the final preseason game on

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Thursday and was not targeted at all and has been
dealing with foot injuries all offseason. So I'm I'm cutting
him out. He's not on my list anymore. Boykin looked
like the best player maybe, but I still think it's
probably a pretty good split between three or four receivers.
I guess Boykin's the guy most interested in, followed by
Snead and then maybe Michael Floyd. I feel like that
depth chart was in order of NFL seniority, Like, yeah,

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I know that's that is not a true depth chart
right there, and I'm not sure it's gonna make the
team anyway. We'll find out Eagles running back situation. They
drafted Miles Sam There's Day two pick then they also
acquired Jordan Howard in the off season. How's the Sanders
versus Howard split look there? And who do you think one?
It is still split in fact that Darren Sprawls is
coming into it. It's good. It's just gonna be a

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split Miles Sanders. I I will say, maybe it's just bias.
I thought has looked the best. Uh No, that's not bias,
that's just fact. Okay, he's looked the best. And I'm
a noted Jordan Howard Hayter, so that doesn't help the situation.
But I think by the end of the season, creamal
rise at the top and he'll be a fifteen touch guy.
Is Darren Sprawls the running back you want the most?
Out of the Philly running backs? You probably can't write.

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I mean, you know, just PPR like, I love Darren Sprawls.
I'm the guy who thinks you should go to the
Hall of Fame. So I mean, there's no bigger Darren Sprawls. Uh.
I don't know aficionado than me. But you're a sproseologist.
I like it, um, But I don't think you're going
to be drafting Darren Sprowls. And you know, I love
what he does, and in fact that even brought him
back is amazing after how little he's been able to

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produce the last couple of years. Let's go to Buffalo
the running back situation. There, we were monitoring McCoy versus Gore,
versus yelled and versus the rookie Singletarry. Is it possible
that there are no winners here too? Uh? Somebody starting? Well?
Are they in the third preseason game? Wait? Are they
starting like Adrian Peterson started for the Saints that one

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year for two plays? And then so in the third
preseason game, Shady McCoy and Gore completely split the load
right down the middle. Uh, they alternated series. Uh both
looked fine. I guess as rushers t J. Yeldon at
three catches for fifty one yards in the third preseason game,
he looked fine. Singletary looks like the future, but as

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a log jam in front of him. Uh, I was.
I was looking at Bill's Twitter, and it's possible that
Yelleden gets cut on Saturday just because they're looking at
the last running back spot and Sonora's Perry is a
really good special teams guy and yelled In doesn't play
special teams. So unless they're going to keep a sixth
running back in that backfield, including their fullback that they

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have yelled in, might be the guy getting cut, But
it's possible that somebody else might get cut. Maybe McCoy
gets cut. Maybe the guy who gets cut off this
roster ends up in Houston. And yeah, that's right. Uh,
if there was one Bills running back who, if everything
goes just right, is the best guy to have, right

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his season goes just just right, I think it's probably
still McCoy's. Probably still McCoy, isn't it. It's good because
he's healthy, right, so he's been dinged up for two
straight years. He if he comes back healthy and you
can get some semblance of what Lashawn McCoy was, I
think he would be the best out of this. But
everything has to go just right, including Frank Gore suddenly retiring.

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Maybe I don't know. My kid will be watching Frank
Gore in ten years, and that's not he'll be He'll
be bouncing his kid on his knee, still watching Frank Gore.
Seahawks running back situation Chris Carson versus Rashad Penny. This
one wasn't even close, is that even a battle. No,
in the minds of many, I heard, I heared a
notable fantasy animals to him. Not gonna out on this show,

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many say on the radio, still using this. Well, the
Seahawks used their draft equity on Rashad Penny, so they
have to use them as a as a time share. No, no, no, Uh.
Chris Carson easily won that hands down. And remember the
Seattle Seahawks ran the ball fifty five percent of the
time last year. In today's NFL, it was definitely a

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league high. Carson should easily return value at that fourth
round ADP. Chris Carson is my number six running back,
so fourth round ADP is absurd. Let's go to the
the Bill's wide receivers. We just Matt We just shackling
running games, thank you. And how about John Brown versus
A Jones versus Robert Foster, None of the above. It's
Cole Beasley. He's the winner. He's the best wide receiver

(26:52):
that you want on the Bills. And uh, Cole Beasley
is upset to he's playing with a chip on a
shoulder because he's furious over his Madden writing. God, but
he developed maybe the best chemistry with Josh Allen and
Camp in preseason seven catches for seventy one yards in
three games. Uh, Foster is the guy who flashed at
the end of the year, but he's buried on that
that depth chart. Maybe he's the fifth wide receiver. Yeah,

(27:16):
it's it's probably cold Beasley Redskins running back to Darius
Guys versus Adrian Peterson just soon took an interesting turn
at the end. It really did with with putting Geiss
in for eleven touches his first game back. It was
a very risky move by Washington. I feel like Washington
generally pays it's safe with their athletes. I mean, it's
not like they've had multiple staff infections, bad surgeries that

(27:38):
a current lawsuit. Rudge rush JRG three back too quickly,
I mean, yeah, but this one, it really does feel
like a split. They paid Peterson a lot of money.
They're gonna want to keep guys somewhat healthy. I think
it's going to be a legitimate sp Alright, let's go
to the charges running back situation. There, we were looking
at Melvin Gordon's contract against Austin Ekeler and Justin Jackson.

(27:59):
No new clarity there. Yeah, after Thursday's preseason game, GM
Tom Talsco said that he prides himself on having solutions
to problems, but he doesn't have a solution to the
Melvin Gordon problem. So it's still Austin Ekeler as the
winner right now. All right, let's go to the Bucks
running backs. Peyton Barber versus Ronald Jones. A lot of
Ronald Jones apologists out there. No, no, No, one point

(28:20):
six yards per carry Ronald Jones from last year. No thanks,
it's Peyton Barber. He won this. But look out for
Darya gun bow Wally uh. He he might steal some
third down work. And there's beat reporters they're even talking
about he might take some first and second down work.
He's he's coming up out of nowhere. That's hope the best. Yeah,

(28:43):
that good one. Dolphins running back situation, Kenyan Drake versus
Calin Balage. Well, Drake missed two weeks of practice with
a foot injury, but when he came back on Monday,
he looked explosive and sharp in practice, and klin Blage
had twelve carries for seventeen yards as a starter to
catch us for negative two yards. He lost the job. Yeah,
I think he did to Ken is a plotting, shiftless, boring,

(29:05):
uncreative runner who will only give what his offensive line
can give him. How do you really feel? And his
offensive line won't get him in running the forty Niners
running back situation, it was Coleman versus Breeda versus McKinnon. Well,
McKinnon has a better chance of being on I R
than starting they put him on IR Yep. Just Thursday.

(29:28):
I think he's on i R. Okay Friday, Uh, Tevin
Coleman and Matt Breda have been splitting. Breda has looked
much better in the preseason. Breda will not go away.
So I think this is a pretty decent split between
these two. This year, Breed is more explosive and I
like him better. Uh. Ryan Fitzpatrick versus Josh Rosen. As

(29:48):
we're going back through a training camp battles from our
first show of the of the year and now giving
you the answers to all the battles that we were watching.
Were now in Miami for the quarterback situation. Fitzpatrick v
Rosen stupid does the winner and he gets to face
four playoff teams in a row. Baltimore, New England Dallas
and the Chargers. Then a bye week. Boy, then Josh
Rosen starts in week six. That sounds like it, all right,

(30:10):
Let's go to the Packers. Markis Velde's scantling versus Geronimo Allison. Uh,
this one, I think that MVS has probably won it,
but they both kind of win because the Packers use
three wide receiver sets sixty five percent of the time,
and if you only count passing plays, it's like top
five in the league. So they're both gonna be on

(30:31):
the field. Geronimo Elson is going to be your safe,
big slot guy, and at this point of his career,
he's not explosive anymore, so that's why he's being moved inside. Uh,
MVS can play inside and outside. He's the explosive guy.
He's the big play guy. Uh, he's the speed guy.
I'm gonna call him the winner, although they both kind
of win because they're gonna both give me on the field. Alright,

(30:53):
Final one Patriots second receiver spot. It was originally nikkil
Harry versus Mary Thomas versus Philip Dorsett is Maurice Harris
and the winner is Josh Yes, Josh Gordon. We didn't
see that one coming. Maybe the runner up is Jacoby Myers,
by the way, who had twenty catches, two and fifty
three yards and two touchdowns in the preseason. Now five

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(32:06):
you are listening to Fantasy Football Weekly. I am Paul Charchi,
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radio app boys, it is time to get into the
grinder with three tough questions. Listeners you can play along
see if you can go three and oh. Tough question
number one, how much does the retirement of Andrew Luck
hurt the value of the rest of the notable Colts players,
particularly Marlon mack, t Y Hilton, Eric Ebron a lot,

(32:47):
a little or not at all, Scott a little but
not much. Uh. This is a different coaching staff from
when U Brissette last played in two thousand seventeen. I
trust Frank right. I actually kind of love Frank Reich honestly.
I like the way it calls. Uh, it's a way
better old line. There were a bottom ten old line,
then their top five oh line. Now. Uh, Andrew Luck

(33:09):
almost never got hit last last year, so we can
expect Jacob be Prissette to have some time back there. Uh.
They're just a better team and they have a lot
more wet weapons. That line is gonna be still gonna
be great, so Max should be okay. He may not
get quite as many scoring opportunities. Brissette in college targeted
tight ends twice over twice as much as the national average,

(33:30):
and during the preseason over twice as much as the
NFL average in the preseason, so he seems to like
the tight ends. That might be good for the tight
ends currently in Indie. Um losing a Hall of Hall
of Famer caliber quarterback like Luck him, it's gonna be
a downgrade. So it's got you gotta say a little.
I mean, Brissett's not gonna throw thirty nine touchdown passes
like Andrew Luck did. But it's just a little. I
think I think all those players are gonna do just fine.

(33:52):
All right, Matt Um, I think Scott's nailed it. It's
it's a little and Um. I I have some tight
end love that I want to give here too, but
I'm going to save it for a guy I have
later in the show. You're marked as a sleeper, So
I'm gonna go with a little and and say, did
out of fish? You know what I should add? Frank
Raik used the fed the tight ends a lot stop stop,

(34:16):
so I said I had stuff for later. You keep talking.
The The correct answer is, in fact a little. I
tipped my hand on this earlier, and for many of
the reasons Scott already raised. You're finding right now that
all of these players have dropped roughly around or half
around down in value. I think that's that's you know,

(34:38):
I'm still interested in those guys can find value here,
you can, Yeah, you can find some value here. Marlon
Mack still with somebody was very excited about before, Still
am I don't. I don't think he gets affected by
this as much as everybody else either, So there's still
a lot to like. And remember this is an elite,
an elite offensive line that's gonna especially I think for
Marlon Mack, just continue to open up polls like the
otherwise would have. Anybody can do the handoff. Let's go

(35:00):
to tough question number two. Cam Newton's foot injury has
got a lot of fantasy owners rattled. Are you buying
low or are you just glad you didn't draft him?
Charge This was a tough one. How tough, Matt Well,
My hypothalamus has been uh severely damaged. Yeah. I have

(35:21):
lost uh my my sleep and wake cycle, the control
of my appetite, my regulating of body temperature, and controlling
how I produce and release hormones. It's a lot of
explains why you're not wearing pants. You could be the
hormones or the temperature one of the two. I'll let
you decide. A lack of mobility sounds like it hurts Cam,

(35:44):
but it's actually made the Panthers throw more. When Cam
was dinged up in his first game back, he threw
forty seven passes in that game. They kept him in
the pocket, and they kept him throwing. Last year, when
he injured his shoulder, he threw over forty pass attempts
in weeks thirteen and fourteen after he injured the shoulder.
It's a little reckless, actually, it's weird. It's worth noting

(36:06):
that all of his productive stats last year happened in
the first half of the season. When he was healthy.
He had eleven straight games of two or more passing touchdowns.
Then he got hurt. But I'm not that worried. I
think I think that means more dump offs and more
short passes for Cam. So I'm on by low mode. Alright,
you're buying Scott. Yeah, I just don't see that his

(36:27):
prices dropped that much. His ADP really hasn't come off
the ninth round. Maybe some owners of him and trades
make are a little worried, but I would buy low
as well. I'm not worried about it. He's already shed
the walking boot. I know he hasn't practiced yet, but
he's a gamer. He'll be He'll be ready to go
for a week one. I do have concerns that maybe
the rushing numbers won't be there early in the season,

(36:47):
but I think they think later in the season he'll
be fine. That offensive line is a big, big X
factor that worries me. I think Cam's gonna that's a
big lot of and that part concerns me a great deal.
Cams not somebody who's got that innate clock in his
head about when to get rid of the ball. I
don't think he's savvy that way, and I think he's
gonna absorb a lot of hits in this Still, his
value so low in the ninth round, and I do

(37:10):
like the emerging receivers that he's got, so I am
buying low on him. But as most is playing one
quarterback leagues, unfortunately we like QB flex. I'm backing him up.
He might even be my backup in the ninth round,
but I'm backing him up with with another viable quarterbacks.
I do worry about that offensive line. Still correct answer,
buying low tough question. Number three. By the way, if

(37:34):
you're playing in one QB leagues, moved to super flax
this year, or vote in your league to do it
next year. But get that and get that going, get
it going. It's you know, the premise is just really
the simple there's about twenty good fantasy quarterbacks out there, twenty,
so the position just has no value when you're starting
ten and ten of them are starting, there's just no value.
You can't in a one quarterback league. You can't trade

(37:57):
Matt Ryan or Baker Mayfield or Aaron Rodgers for any
thing of value. You go into a super flex league,
the only one you could trade is Mahomes. That's the
only one where people think that there's a level up
in value. That's the only guy you could trade. That's lame.
Four years in a row. Out of the four years,
three years I didn't draft quarterback. I won the league
twice in that In my homeland. Also, when Andrew Luck retired,

(38:20):
people in one quarterback leagues just shrugged. Didn't really hurt
whatever super flex leagues that hurt him. It's it's almost panic.
You lose a Hall of Fame calibert quarterback that's throws
three nine touchdowns in a one QB league. You're like, Okay,
I lost Andrew Luck in the Scott Fish Bowl and
I'm panicking. Yeah, Yeah, that's super flex right there. Tough
question number three this week on National Radio, Lamar Jackson

(38:44):
said that he won't run is often and he plans
to throw thirty passes a game. Does your outlook for
Jackson go up down or stay the same? Scott? It
stays the same for me. I mean, we're talking about
a guy who broke the NFL record keep you rush
attempts in just seven games last year. Of course, he
was going to lower that number. He wasn't gonna run

(39:05):
quite as much per game at that pace. By the way,
he would have on a sixteen page, he would have
been the number three ye rusher in the NFL with
how much he was running. He averaged twenty four past
steps per game. So this is really only six more
attempts per game if he's running a little less. I'm
not worried because the Ravens, they they led the league
in plays per game at seventy one plays per game.

(39:27):
They have a lot of plays out there. He's still
gonna runs. He's easily in my top ten and check
this stat out for for Mr Lamar Jackson here charge Uh,
nine running backs since nineteen seventy two have rushed for
over seven hundred yards. Now, Lamar Jackson was just a
few yards shy of that last year. I think that's
forty three yards of game. Forty four yards game. You

(39:48):
think he gets that, right? I can't answer them. I
can't give you the answer. But yeah, okay, maybe nine
quarterbacks have rushed for seven hundred plus yards in the season.
Seven finished in the top five, eight finished in the
top seven, and vic finished in two. It's basically a
guaranteed top twelve finish if he gets seven rushing yards
forty four game, it's happening. Matt ditto. Okay, he had

(40:13):
so so many of my stats there, it's great. I
will add that he averaged fourteen rushing attempts in his
last seven games of the year last year. Uh, that
number does have to go down. He he can't simply
run that much. So if you're putting the ball in
his hands to throw more, that's good for Lamar Jackson
because he's looked good in the preseason with the dink
and dunk stuff. I don't think that they really wanted

(40:34):
to open it up and show anything. And John Harbaugh
says that this offense is about to revolutionize the NFL.
That might be coach speak, but let's let's let's give
it a ride and see what happens. You can say
that you're gonna throw thirty passes a game in August. Yeah,
when push comes to shove and you need first down
and you need your quarterback to do what he does
what he does, they're going to run the ball. That's

(40:55):
all planning stuff. Greg Romans the offensive coordinator, running genius,
and he's the most run oriented coordinator there probably is.
So I don't believe that there they actually will throw
thirty times per game. That sounds nice, but in reality
it won't happen. My outlook for Jackson basically can't go
up any higher. He's been in my top seven base

(41:18):
all preseason. He's my number seven quarterback now the nine
top seven yep. Uh So the correct answer your outlook
for Jackson stays the same. By the way, my first
line on here that I didn't say, I'll believe it
when I see it. Yeah, exactly, that's that's exactly. That
is exactly right. Guys, we got a couple of minutes
left in in this segment. Let's talk about this. Give me.

(41:41):
We've a couple of weeks ago, we did a segment
we call the reach around, where it's one player you
would reach around early to go get. I want the
opposite of that. I want you to give me a
player in the first few rounds that will do round
one first that you would not take until at least
around eight or beyond. So a player who's going at

(42:03):
least one round two early. We'll call it the push around,
and we're gonna sing Matchbox twenty while we do it.
Are we starting in round one? We're starting in round one.
I want the round one player, Matt, you can go first.
I want the round one player you would not take
in round one and wouldn't consider until round two. I'm
simply not taking Ezekiel Elliott in drafts right now because
I just don't think I'm gonna get him for six weeks. Okay, yeah,

(42:25):
I'm gonna buy the Yeah, man, I have some stats
on that, but I can't remember right now. So yeah,
it's Elliott with me too. I'd rather have him in
round two like all the first rounders that's Elliott. I'm
going James Conner was going at the end of the
first round. You never liked him, No, I liked him
five verse half of last year, and now I think
it's way more of a time share than people realize.
And even though Connor look good in the preseason, I

(42:46):
think we're gonna see a lot of Jalen Samuel's round.
To give me a player who's going in the second
round who you wouldn't touch until round three or beyond Matt,
I'm gonna say Joe Mixon, who's going in the middle
of that round. I've got him later in a lot
of a so far this year. But I just fear
that that offense is just going to be so bad
with a j Green hurt. Andy Dalton is not a

(43:07):
very good quarterback. That line is kind of a mess.
They're going to hand them the ball a lot, but
I don't think it's going to be very successful. So
I'm gonna push him down to at least the third
or fourth before I take him. Scott, it's Antonio Brown
for me. That's just too early. I like every wide
receiver in that round better. I like some of the
wide receivers in the next round better. I even like
a fourth round wide receiver two better than Antonio Brown,

(43:28):
So it's easily him. Yeah, you took my one A
and my one bin and Antonio Brown two guys. I'm
nervous about, very nervous about, very quickly round three. Give
me a player in round three that you're not going
to take in round three you would not take in
round three and one consider until round number four. I
think that would have to be Josh Jacobs. I just
don't believe in what the Raiders are doing as an offense.

(43:49):
I think they're going to be a disaster. To offensive
line is terrible. Yeah, good point. Yeah, I think that's
where i'd go to Josh Jacobs. Marii Cooper, former Raider.
I don't like a comedy add feet and wide receiver.
No bueno. I'm I'm showing caution there. Give me Michael
Gallop seven rounds later instead. That's my That is my
angle coming up next. Let's answer uh oh, we just

(44:11):
did that. Let's go through a draft using three different
types of strategies, a safe draft, a bounce back draft,
and a high risk draft. The one you prefer will
tell you a lot about the strategy. You should employ
for your own draft. Will go through the safe, bounce
back and high risk, high reward drafts. After this, it's

(44:41):
Fantasy Football Weekly. I'm Paul Georgian, co owner of fanball
dot Com My Sidekicks Today, Matt Harrison, Scott Fish. Guys,
I want to talk for a moment about a drafting
persona or a drafting archetype, or a drafting philosophy, and
we're gonna break down six of them in total, three now,

(45:05):
beginning with a predominantly safe draft, boring draft. A boring draft.
Safe safe sound a lot better, doesn't safe sound a
lot People like, Yeah, let's get boring in here. And
then we'll flip it over and do the risky draft,
high risk, high reward draft, which I think tends to
sound a lot sex here. Assume it's all gonna go well,

(45:27):
but it doesn't always. And then we'll do a bounce
back draft filled with players that are coming off of
disappointing seasons or injury seasons or something whatever went wrong
last year and now the opportunity to come back and
be meaningful players. So then, as listeners, I think you
want to listen just at the end of the day,
listen to the lineup that was created taking one player
from every round, and do you like this starting lineup?

(45:51):
I've confined it to the starting lineups? Do you like
this starting lineup? This appeals to you, then you should
employ a safe draft, for example. So let's begin there,
the safe draft, and that is Matt. No, it's Scott, Sorry, Scott,
he's doing safety. The safety I did safe so many
years in a row. I'm sick of it. I want
to get risky. Do you want me a list of

(46:11):
my seven starters? First? Do you just want me to
go down the line cube, give me the quarterback. I
don't need to get the rounds. Just give me the
starting lineup. And how that sounds? You can? You can?
You can tell us why you made each pick briefly,
all right, my quarterback. I want to tell the rounds too,
because it's important my quarterback. We did the first seven
rounds of a DP. So my quarterback I drafted in

(46:31):
round seven because that is the latest I was allowed
to draft a quarterback in this scenario. And it took
Baker Mayfield. Once that's not boring, Well, was awfully excited.
That's who I took in the risky draft. Okay, what's
boring about him? Okay, here are the options. Deshaun Watson
in the fifth, Baker Mayfield in the seventh. About Patrick

(46:54):
Mahomes in the second, that Matt Ryan in the seventh?
What about Matt Ryan? As about it just safe? I
mean that right down the middle, the fairways safe. I
think Baker's a little more safe. But we're talking about
guys with that are known commodities. Baker has been in
the in the league one year. We know what Matt
Ryan's all about. It's safe production alright, Alright, Matt Ryan, job,

(47:20):
he forced me to. We're talking about a guy who
has four thousand plus yards every year since two thousand eleven.
In fact, the last time he missed a game, Avatar
was in the theater. Wow. Seriously, yep, So Matt Ryan,
Matt Ryan, he just always plays fished that movie a
pile of steaming dawnels. Oh god, so bad. I never

(47:43):
saw it be glad. Okay, all right, so your quarterback
is Matt Ryan. Yep, alright, my running back is going
to stay on the same team. Apparently. Devata Freeman super boring.
But even though he only played two games last year
and missed most of the season. Before that, he'd only
missed three total games in his first In the first
four seasons, he had even more total yards and eight

(48:05):
or more total touchdowns in each of those three years.
In fact, the two before he missed were plus touchdowns
and thirteen plus touchdowns plus yards and plus yards, sorry,
and thirteen plus touchdowns in those two You are doing safe,
boring draft strategy, all right, So that's one of your
starting running backs. Yeah, so my other starting running back

(48:28):
really my only choices in the round. I was going
our Duke Johnson and James White. You want to tell
me which one is more boring? There? Um, James, you
know what you're getting with James White for sure, right right? James.
James White was a top twelve running back in PPR
last year. The New England team passes to the running
back more than just about any team in the NFL.

(48:50):
Uh safe pick there. Round one. I took Michael Thomas
from my starting wide receiver. Super safe. Can't get more safe.
At least four receptions in every game last year, thirteen
games of six or more targets, double digit fantasy points
in fourteen games, seventy five yards and or a touchdown
in ten games. He's just safe. He's consuper Julian Edelman
Round four, my otherwide receiver, super safe, super boring. I

(49:14):
just could never pull the trigger on him, but I
should because he's averaged over six receptions per game for
five consecutive years he played. He played because you know,
I think I don't think he's a risk. He had
a torn a c L he miss here, so he's
even the suspension year. He averaged six receptions per game
that year, catches a lot of balls at least fifty

(49:36):
yards are touchdown in eleven of the twelve games he
played last year. Super consistent guy. Round two. I took
Travis Kelsey because when you're thinking, he's not a boring pick,
but he's as safe and super possibly calm at that
end position. And then from my flex position, I actually
think Robby Anderson is really really silly and I you

(49:56):
don't agree, Well, I just a historic he has not
been safe. You're projecting safeness on to him. Last year
he had at least five targets in all but two games,
fourteen games of at least five targets. The targets catches
that they have that would be the better question. I
don't know, I worry. I worry. Five targets tarted into
two catches. He scored three times in the final four

(50:19):
games last year, average eighty four yards per game that stretch.
He had at least seven targets in seven to last
eight games last year. All right, well just that, all right,
So there's your gift. Just zip through the whole the
whole thing one more time, super fast. The safe draft
Matt Ryan, DeVonta Freeman, James White, Michael Thomas, Julian Edelman,
Travis Kelsey, Robby Anderson. All right, if you like that,

(50:40):
that is that you. If you like that roster, you
can emulate a safe down the middle approach. Now, let's
flip it over to Matt for the opposite side of this,
The risky, high risk, high reward draft. These are all
players with a lot of upside, potentially a lot of downside. Matt,
who you? Who do? I want to go in order
of how I drafted him, and then I'll summarize it

(51:02):
at the end because I think it's gonna work really well.
First round Ezekiel Elliott. Yeah, obviously that's high risk as yeah,
might not play this season, might be the top running
back on the board, and uh, we will probably find
out whether or not he's playing, you know, in a
few days. Uh. Second round Antonio Brown wide receiver, downgrade

(51:22):
to Oakland. However, he could get a hundred and eighty
targets from Derrek Carr this year. It's possible that they
just target him over and over and over. Also, he's
really good. He has really good um. Third round Leonard
four Net, great player when not injured and missing team photos.
But the risk here is he's maybe the only good

(51:44):
offensive weapon on the Jaguars, and they could just load
the boxes with nine guys and try to stop him. Uh.
Fourth round running back Melvin Gordon also might not play
this year, but he was a top eight a DP
player just a few months ago, So there's the huge
upside there. Uh. In the fifth round, tight end O J.
Howard the Bruce Arians offense, Cameron Brad is kind of

(52:06):
a tight end touchdown vulture for O. J. Howard. However,
sky is the limit for this offense. This offense might
be just trending hugely upward. In the sixth round, Josh
Gordon at a wide receiver. He'll be my flex. He
could be the top wide receiver in the Tom Brady offense.
But he could smoke up one time and leave the
NFL forever. He could be done. And as I mentioned before,

(52:28):
my high risk quarterback is in the seventh round. That's
Baker Mayfield. The upside is the top overall quarterback is.
The downside is that offensive line took a couple of
steps backwards of this offseason and there could be a
sophomore slump. We might have just seen the heat from
Freddie Kitchens last year. It just could go backwards. So
my lineup is quarterback Baker Mayfield, running backs Zeke Leonard,

(52:53):
four Nett, Melvin Gordon, uh Antonio Brown, and wide receiver
Josh Gordon. Those are my two wide out and then
O J. Howard as a tight end. You get the feeling,
you know everything clicked with that team. Oh man, you'd
absolutely crush you demolish every one of those guys you
hit the side. But that is a lot to ask.
Let's remember, by the way, with Zeke and Melvin Gordon,

(53:15):
your real worst case scenario isn't missing a whole season.
They will come back in Week ten because they have
to get their year of service so they get so
they can do another year towards free agency, so you're
you know, there really isn't a scenario where they do
not come back when they miss the whole season. That
last less year that was a different said he wasn't

(53:35):
under contract, so he didn't have that, he didn't have
to do that. There are going to be some Zeke
Gordon Elliott teams out there. I think they probably will,
And you know, it's it's not it's not impossible strategy,
it's just very, very risky. Now I could have taken
to Gurley in the second round too. I've got the

(53:56):
bounce back draft. So my drafting persona here is somebody
that wants to cash in on a player who had
an unusually bad year last year and it's got a
lot more upside this year, whether it's a production or
injury related or in things like that. Correct. Now, most
fantasy players succumb to this this thing where they just
can't stop replaying last year and really have a hard

(54:18):
time visualizing a materially different season this year. So part
of our exercise here is to sort of break you
out of that mold and looking for ways in which
these guys could be better this season. In the first
round of my bounce back draft. I took David Johnson,
coming off a disappointing season which he was the top
three or four running back last year. It was disappointing.

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He was still and he wasn't top ten running back,
but it wasn't the season everybody expected by by a
long shot. The vast misuse by Mike McCoy who who
just ran them up the middle over and over again,
and he just you know, in you so so poorly.
Now a totally different offense that seems dedicated with getting
him the ball more often. I think there's gonna be
a lot of plays where Kyler Murray Murray behind a

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bad offensive line, play breaks down, he's running for his life,
and here's David Johnson in the flat, easy six yard past.
David Johnson turns up field and goes like ninety two
yards for touchdown. Yeah, easy problem. Yes, Round one David Johnson.
Round two, Dalvin Cook on a bounce back here right
one of my he's my currently my number four ranked

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running back. Vikings offense is being sculpted to him his image.
So the only problem here is is he would have
taken him over David Johnson. I would have taken over
David Johnson, but the ADP says, I gotta go David
Johnson first. I would have I like him better than
David Johnson. Uh Dalvin Cook. He's the history of injury
is well known here. But when healthy, absolutely explosive, he

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will not give up goal line carries anybody. This year,
I believe that will be his job as well. Round
three of my bounce back draft is also a running back,
and it is Leonard Fournette. Matt took most of the
Leonard Fournette steam for me. You know the soft tissue
injuries you lived at last year, that's the downside. Matt
identified the upside. He bounce back and risky kind of
go hand in hand a little bit. Round number four

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Kenny Golladay for moreen Kenny Golladay, Let's go to the
Scott Fish baby tron desk. What do you think? I
think he's awesome. The bounce back is because last year
was a down season in which that offense was really
struggling and injured. Matthew Stafford. The running game wasn't clicking.
The passing game he was hurt by the trade. No

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Golden Date, they had no Marvin Jones. And so defenses
were just planning to stop stop Kenny Golladay, still Scott's
youngest son's middle name is Golladay. It's really weird. His
first name is Baby. In the fifth round, I took
Cooper Cup coming off in my bounce back draft, coming
off of the a c L injury suffered last November.

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He looked spry. I think he's ready to come back
to the type of season that he was having, hopefully
where he was on pace for one touchdown per game
last year. Then in the sixth round, Hunter Henry. We
haven't seen him in a year, so obviously prime for
a bounce back at the tight end position, averaging happy
touchdown per game like Hunter Henry, a former first round pick.

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Plenty of upside in a bounce back season for Hunter Henry.
And then in the seventh round, as alluded to earlier,
one of my favorite quarterbacks, Carson Wentz other injury plague season.
After an injury plague season, a lot of people are
too gun shy to pull the trigger on him. I'm not.
I love him this season and think he set on
a potentially m VP caliber season for Carson Wentz and

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he's my bounce back quarterback. So the lineup looks like
Carson Wentz into David Johnson and Dalvin Cook and Leonard
Fournett are running back. I think we're in a good spot.
So my wide receivers are Kenny Golladay and Cooper Cup
and my tight end is Hunter Henry. What do you
think I'd like a little more depth at the wide
receiver position. There, it's a it's a very draft. It

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is at you like that draft, alright? That's the bounce
back draft, and that's as straight. If you like the listeners,
if you like the sound of that, you can go
employ the bounce back strategy with your draft and that
would certainly be something that I ended up liking this.
I like the sound of this team. But there's risks,
by the way, with all these picks. Cooper Cup top

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five and red zone targets each of the last two
years when and that's not changing because he converted him.
You know, it wasn't just targets, it was touchdowns. There's
three there, you go, three different draft day personas. But
we're not done. We've got three more for you. We'll
take a look at a quarterback heavy draft orientation. Maybe
you're in a super flexily or whatever. I'll show you
what a do the opposite draft looks like, and Matt

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will show you what happens when you stack players from
the NFL's hottest offenses. And as a reminder, go to
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I'm Paul charge in. We've got three more draft day
personas to run by you, beginning with a quarterback heavy approach,
Scott Fish. Let's see how these rosters end up looking
when you prioritize quarterbacks in your draft and my prioritizing
quarterbacks like a super flex league. Yes, ideally it is

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super flex league because that's the way people should play.
Is super flex I like to put out there. I mean,
lots of lots of articles have been written on this,
but six point to four point passing touchdowns don't change
your draft strategy. So drill down on that for a second,
because most people do believe that if I'm in a
six point passing league, I need to go a couple
of rounds earlier on my draft, so or in my auctions,

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I gotta spend a few extra bucks on these guy
so help people understand why they shouldn't change their strategy.
Maybe a buck or two extra on the heavy touchdown scores,
but generally you use it. You use that difference, that
four to six difference in valuing one player towards another
for a trade. For like if if two players are
pretty evenly priced, sure look, or especially in start six

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situations in a six verses four use the player that
you think might score more touchdowns. But the top twelve,
if you take out my homes, because that was just
such an anomaly year uh two through twelve last year
had an average point per game difference of under one.
The standard deviation is under one point point. Yeah, undervariously
standard deviat that's nothing. I would not have guessed that. Yeah,

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I mean some of them are like one point six five,
one point seven five, But the standard deviation, like a
average model out is under a point difference that can
be made up by streaming. That can be made up.
But I mean, it's a one quarterback league. You don't
you don't need to draft the stud of studs you can.
You can match up play it. So don't don't adjust
your draft strategy too much at all for QB heaving

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for a six four point Alright, that's great data. Yeah,
it's it's really a minimal difference. But when comparing two players,
you know, for trading for if they're evenly priced in
a draft, start said, then you can look at it
a little harder. But just draft strategy in general, no, don't. Alright,
but I'm going to go super flex. And I grabbed
some super flex ADP for this which is off this sheet,

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so a different sheet. Um, I'll do what Matt did.
I like, I like that round one DeAndre Hopkins because
I will take him in round one. Still don't need
to take a quarterback, and I really like the round three,
four five running backs this year, so like, I just
don't feel like I need to. But in round two

(01:01:51):
I had to take Dalvin Cook for so many of
the things that charge that I also have him in
my top five. I believe I have him four as well.
Um yeah I do have before uh so Dalvin Cook
as well, DeAndre Hopkins. Dalvin Cook, DeAndre Hopkins obviously double
digit touchdowns like three to the last four years. It's
he's DeAndre Hopkins Dalvin Cook. Around two, round three, I

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had the choice between for NET and carry on. I
believe that's where I'd go there because I like a
couple of wide receivers later, so I went for NET.
I believe that if things break right, he could be
RB one, two, three. He has funny four NET and
ended up on three of our different rosters. Yeah, okay,
we kind of like him there. Around four, had to
jump at Cam Newton. Alright, that's where now we're getting

(01:02:34):
our quarterback in this quarterback heavy draft strategy. Yeah, I
still like to preach weight on quarterback. But Cam Newton
was sitting there, and I just we have seven right
enough in a super flex right in this in this
one I did. I. I really wanted Cam Newton. I
really like him this year. I believe I am like
six or something like that, sixth or seventh, seventh maybe. Yeah.

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I had him outside the top ten and I just
keep moving him up. I don't know why. All right, Uh,
round five, I took let me see here, I have
to look at this for a second. D D. Westbrook, No,
there it is round five. I did it again. I

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took Lamar Jackson, alright, quarterback quarterback, alright, I went quarterback quarterback.
You got a rushing quarterback in a rushing quarterback, which
is we talked about this last week. This is one
of my favorite strategies and super Flex because odds are
one of the two of them is going to rush
you to a good game. Yeah. I love the super
Flex running back running back strategy, running quarterback quarterbacks. Thank

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you so to recap right now, I have Lamar Jackson
and Cam Newton as my starting quarterbacks in the super
Flex League. Then I have Hopkins and Dalvin Cook and
four net alright, round six and seven. Round six, I
went with Tyler Lockett, who I have is a round
six a steel Yeah. In super Flex, I mean there's
enough quarterbacks going down a little other options go down

(01:03:59):
DK back, I've already hurt. I have Tyler. He was
so efficient last year, so many touchdowns. I think he's
Russell Wilson is great. I have Tyler locked in my
top twenty and then Hunter Henry and round seven. All right,
I think that's good. That's it is great value. We
might we touched on Henry earlier. Um, all right, so
that's here. If you like the sound of that quarterback
heavy uh super flex roster. There's your there's one strategy

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for it, right there, Matt. Yes, I've asked you, challenge
you to stack together hot offenses. These are multiple players
from one team that's on on a good offense. Yeah. Um,
tell us how this worked out and and explain why
you can't just stack chiefs. So I went seven rounds
deep and I was looking at first off I was
trying to figure out what are the offenses that I

(01:04:43):
want to get, and I tried wanted to try to
get a stack of three and another stack of three
into these teams together. So if these two offenses go
off together, oh, I'm just in the money. Uh. You
can't get the Chiefs in though, because Mahomes, Hill Kelsey,
and Damian Willie all have round two ADP Right, you're
not gonna get You can't stack cheap. So the best

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thing you could do is take one of them early
in round one and then take a second one in
round two and hope that one falls to round three.
But I don't think it's gonna happen. Damian Williams might
fall if you want to stack any Chiefs. The other
team you can't really stack effectively. I mean you could,
but you can't is the Saints because Kamara and Thomas

(01:05:26):
are both going on top eight in ADP. You could
get Breeze, Jared Cook and Latavious later, but it's not
quite the same. So um, I actually have two options
for you guys, and I'm gonna see which team that
you guys like better. Option number one is a stack
of three Falcons, three Browns and one ram Odell Beckham

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in the first, Nick Chubb his teammate in the second,
Davante Freeman in the third, Brandon Cooks the lone Ram
and the fourth Calvin Ridley in the fifth round. Second Falcon, Yeah,
Jarvis Landry, another Brown in the sixth, and then Matt
Ryan in the seventh. Or you could take Baker Mayfield

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and go four Browns. Yeah you could. They have the
same round there, the same round ap Okay, So you
can't your tight end, That's what I got to know.
I don't need one. We'll take We'll take Austin Hooper later, sure,
like Austin Hooper or David and Joku way later. I'm
not on the Joco bed. But okay, so you either

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have Matt Ryan or Baker Mayfield as your quarterback. You're
running backs are Nick Chubb and Davante Freeman, and you've
got wide receivers of Odell Brandon Cooks, Calvin Ridley, Jarvis Landry. Okay,
that's kind of a fun team, right, It is a
good team, all right. I would not mind coming out
of a draft with that team, all right. I mean,
obviously there's some downside if the Falcons have a fourteen
point game, which they might in Week one against the

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Vikings and so to by the way, um you're in trouble,
but predominantly that's not going to happen. So let me
let me see if you like option two any better.
This one on is three Packers, three Rams, and one Saint.
And I did get a tight end in this one,
thank you. All right. In the first round, I took
Davante Adams, nice safe, awesome player. In the second round,

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we're getting risky. We're going Todd Gurley and hope that
he stays healthy all year. Third round, Back to the Packers,
Aaron Jones on my team. Fourth round, back to the Rams,
Robert Woods. Fifth round, let's go another Ram Cooper Cup
on that team six and offensive can support both the

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wide receivers. Sixth round, I got Adams, I got Jones.
Why not get Aaron Rodgers in the sixth round. Let's
go pick him up in the seventh round. My one
Saints Jared Cook at tight end. So Aaron Rodgers is
my quarterback. Running backs of Gurley and Jones, wide receivers
of Adams, Woods and Cup and Jared Cook at tight end.
That I vote for. I vote for your this, this packer,

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Ram Combo, and they all wear yellow. So as I'm
watching all the games, yellow answer, just watch for yellow
guys in the end zone exactly. I like, so you
can you can build a couple of offensive stacks, and
you can really shoot for the moon with these kind
of things, and and you never know how it's gonna
end up, but it's it's kind of a fun way
to play. It is a fun way to play all right,

(01:08:16):
less games to pay attention to, um, My drafting persona
was that of somebody who's do the opposite. Have you
ever done this before? Only only for like twelve years? Uh,
except for the draft list that you and I did
last weekend. Running back right, which I didn't intend to do,

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but that's just the way it worked out. You have
to be flexible in this world. Do the opposite drafting
is effectively a shoeing running backs early because they are
the highest risk players and these are the most valuable
picks that you have. So you want to flip the
risk scale pyramid upside down. You want to have the
most risk at the bottom of your draft and the
safest players at the top. All right, so we want

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proven perform members at the top. And that's not running backs.
Because running backs get hurt all the time. They're subject
to problems. If the defense is bad, they get hurt.
The quarterback is bad, they get hurt. There's so many
things that can go wrong. One year you're great running back.
The next year you just fall off the cliff and
you're a good anymore. There's just so many things that
go wrong. I feel like I already know what this
team is going to look like. It's it's gonna be

(01:09:21):
it's my kind of team. But team round one, you've
got you have a choice of a lot of guys.
How about Michael Thomas as Are says as are do
the opposite style wide receiver in the first round. Second
round Travis Kelsey. We want to have the best tight
end in the game. We'll take Travis Kelsey. Third round
Mike Evans and what should be a much improved offense.

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Mike Evans has been very good every year of his career.
Fourth round, we start to first for the first time,
turn our attention to the running back position. And part
of the way to do the opposite works is after
you've after you've locked in your players in the first
three or four rounds that aren't running back. So we
do a bunch of running backs in the middle rounds.
Chris car Person criminally going in the fourth round when
you should be going out. How did I know Chris

(01:10:04):
Carson was going to show up by your D T
O team, Philip Lindsay in the fifth round. One of
my favorite fifth round values that you can get Royce
Freeman to me not not a material factor. Miles Sanders
in the sixth round, figuring he's gonna get ten to
twelve touches a game that will be enough for me
to flex him into a flex spot here as my
third running back in the seventh round of my last pick,

(01:10:27):
Baker Mayfield. There's my do the opposite strategy, which gives
me Michael Thomas and Mike Evans at receiver, Travis Kelsey
at tight end, Chris Carson, Philip Lindsay, Miles Sanders at
running back, and Baker Mayfield is a quarterback kind of
like my stack team better than the D T O
team you can get Mike. To be honest, if you're

(01:10:48):
an a draft in Mike Evans hits your third round,
just auto pick that and don't don't have to think
twice about that pick. I suppose h Yeah, So that's there,
you go. Let's go to uh. I think it's time
guys that we start thinking about the Thursday Night game already.
I know, isn't that hard to believe? Our final topics
are had. We're gonna break down the Thursday Night game
fantasy style, which is a preview of what you're gonna

(01:11:11):
get of every single game once we get into regular
season mode and next week and our final Sleepers of
the year. Related note, by the way, starting next Wednesday,
you'll be able to get my Week one player rankings
for free at fanball dot com if you want not
the preseason drafting player rankings. If you want ranking specifically
for Week one coming Wednesday. Fanball dot com. It is

(01:11:35):
Fantasy Football Weekly with Paul Giarchia. It is Fantasy Football Weekly.

(01:11:59):
We are going to break down the Thursday night game
Fantasy style. If you haven't heard the show before, you're
gonna hear letter grades on every meaningful player and why
we believe that letter grade to be correct. But first
we do this. In the final segment of every show
in the preseason, our hosts release our favorite sleepers. That's
Matt Harrison, Scott Fish. Let's let's get to these this

(01:12:20):
week's three players. Matt, who do you have? I alluded
to it a little bit before. My sleeper is Jack Doyle.
Jack Doyle, who's kind of going criminally underdrafted considering he
was just gone last year. Um So. Jacoby Brissette started
fifteen games. He played fourteen games with Jack Doyle. In

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those fourteen games, Doyle averaged seven and a half targets,
and Jacoby Brissette targeted the tight end more than anybody
in the league Seen. He caught almost six passes per game.
He had the second most receptions among tight ends in SEEN.
With Jacoby Brissett. You put all that together, six catches
a game is good enough for ninety six passes a year,

(01:13:03):
sixteen game season. Yeah, that would have been third last year,
in the year where two guys broke the all time
record for tight end receptions in the league. Now keep
in mind you didn't have Eric Ebron there. That's a
big difference. Now. Eric Ebron is kind of the the
goal line vulture, if there's such a thing at the

(01:13:23):
tight end position. Jack Doyle only had four touchdowns with
Jacoby Brissett, he might that's a fantasy vulture. Stared me
a little bit. Vultures are freaky. Yeah. Um, so I
like Doyle to be a big part of the possession
game for the Colts this year, and I think he's
being underdrafted. All right, Scott, who is your final sleeper

(01:13:46):
of the year. I'm going with Justice Hill. He's moving
up the ranks though right now. Yeah, people are on
him now, yeah, yeah, Now he's going in the tenth
and eleventh round. But the Ravens running X last year
average thirty touches per game. Once Lamar Lamar Jackson, Lamar Miller,
Lamar Jackson took over. I mentioned earlier, the Ravens average

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seventy one place per game, which is the most in
the NFL last year. That's enough to support two backs
and even Lamar Jackson. Uh. They have said that he
could be an every down guy if anything happened. I
don't think he's got the size to be in every download.
There are lots of small running backs that have been
the guy. Uh. He's easily the best pass catcher on

(01:14:29):
the team. He'll have a role. There's potential for him
to be a super poor man's Kamara to Ingram once again,
Now there could happen you Ingram's there? Justice Hill? All right,
My final sleeper and the final one we will offer
this preseason. Michael Gallop a player I have targeted in
many leagues. They're countless examples of elite receivers who hit

(01:14:50):
their stride in year two. Half of today's great receivers
went from good too great in their sophomore year. Michael Thomas,
Tyreek Hill, do you do? Smith Schuster, Brandon Cooks, just
to name a few. Last year, Michael Gallup's usage ramped
up dramatically as the season went along. From Week seven forward,
Gallup had five meaningful Fantasy games with at least fifty

(01:15:13):
yards and or a score. The rest of the way
and then in the playoff games. The two Dallas playoff games,
he scored a touchdown in one and put up a
hundred nineteen yards in the other. Michael Gallup, the Cowboys
lost one hundred fifty four targets from last year one
four and Jason went and Randall Cobb are not going
to make up the difference of one. You know where

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they're going to Michael Gallop. Marie Cooper already nursing a
foot injury. Well, it doesn't even count the Ezekiel Elliott
targets that might not be there. Oh yeah, good point, right,
although I think Tony Pollard can catch. Okay. Lastly, Gallop
in fact, played a lot of wide receiver to in college.
Gallup has looked great this preseason. I mean, he looks

(01:15:56):
like he's made the year to jump at the eye test,
he passes the test based on what we've seen this preseason.
Roll it all together, Michael Gallup one of my favorite
sleepers of the year. We've got a Thursday night game.
You guys, what's already Thursday night game? It's gonna be
the super Bowl. Wait, no, not the champs this year.

(01:16:16):
It's the old hundred Years the NFL have the with
the oldest rival rivalry in the NFL, Bay and Chicago.
So let's break down the Packers side first, if you will,
and I'm gonna start with the with the running game
here with Aaron Jones. Chicago was the NFL's best run
defense last year, no matter how you look at it,

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and there's no reason to think they're not going to
be great again this year. They ranked number one against
the run. They were number one at home in yards
allowed by a mile, giving up sixty four rushing guards
per game at home. That's it. Jones had a career
has a career average of just three point four yards
per carry against Chicago. He has never caught a pass

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against the Bears. Ever, there's not much to like at
all about Aaron Jones. I give him a wobbly C grade.
I can't bench him because he's a good talent and
a good offense. But it's a myrtle match. No, no,
there's no plus or minus is in our grading system.
He is a firm scene for Aaron Jones. Let's go
to the passing game Aaron Rodgers, who gets a B grade.

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It is the first time in his career that Aaron
Rodgers is going to try to implement a new offense.
Think about that. As many years he's been in he's
never had to learn a new offense. And here it
comes in Week one against the best defense in the NFL.
A tough time to try to do that. Chicago finished
last year ranked number one, and points allowed seventh, and
passing yards allowed ninth and passing touchdowns allowed. Rogers last

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two games in Chicago zero touchdowns, none, passing, none, rushing.
Chicago did change out Adrian Amos for how Clinton Dix,
but I don't think that materially changes this defense. One
angle I do like for Aaron Rodgers, though, is Geronimo
Allison as the slot receiver. Allison gets the only really

(01:18:05):
strongly positive matchup on the table. Here. It's against journeyman
slock corner buster screen, the busted screen door. He's been, uh,
he's been a career long liability, and he's coming off
his worst ever season resulting in his in his ejection
from the Jets roster. And so now he's in Chicago

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and he's gonna be manning the manning the slot. So
I like Geronimo Allison is a sneaky sleeper and I've
given him a B grade. Davante Adams also with a
B grade. He's the only packer with some history against
the Bears in which you can feel good about. Adams
has scored three in three of the past four games
against the Bears. He's topped eighty eight yards in three
straight games against the Bears. He's got a very intriguing matchup.

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He's gonna go up against his former teammate ha Ha
Clinton Dix. Those guys ran against each other all the
time in practice. I don't know who really gets the
antich here, if it's Adams, if the familiarity is better
for Adams, or it's better for Hacklington Dicks. But it
is a fascinating matchup. Nonetheless, Davante Adams an elite receiver.
He maintains a B grade. And lastly, Marquees Valdez scantlingk

(01:19:14):
a C grade. A handful of speed receivers were able
to beat the Bears last year, Albert Wilson, Tyler Lockett,
DeShawn Jackson, Aldrick Robinson, but that was about it. Generally,
speed guys didn't fare terribly well, but there were a
few flashes where they were okay. That was one of them,
he gets a C grade. Jimmy Graham firmly on the bench.

(01:19:34):
No grade. Bench grade for Jimmy Graham combined for only
forty yards in the two games last year, and the
Bears didn't allow a single tight end touchdown in the
second half of last year. So would you call that
an F minus. No, because there's no minus is so
you can't have an F minus. But he can be
firmly on the bench. Let's go to the Chicago side
of this. A grade for David Montgomery, I don't need

(01:19:58):
to I don't need to see it first. I don't
need to gott you have to prove anything to me.
A grade for David Montgomery, don't need to prove it.
There's gonna be a lot of fantasy. And I was like, well,
I gotta see it first. You don't have to see
this first. Start David Montgomery. In the two games last
year between these teams, Jordan Howard touched the ball twenty times,

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and twenty times, I'll take twenty touches for David Montgomery.
He's better than Howard by a lot. And if I
get those same twenty touches touches, he's gonna be sitting
on a fantastic game. The Packers improve their defense a
lot of ways, but mostly with pass rushers. The Smiths.
The two Smiths that they brought in Rashawn Gary who
they drafted, all gall guys that are designed to be

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pass rushers. The Packers ranked twenty three against the run
last year. That feels about where they're kind of come
in this year as well. I love David Montgomery while
we stay with the running back, so let's talk Tariko
in here. He had a nice game in the Week
fifteen meeting between these two teams. But I'm a little
nervous here. The Packers upgraded their outside linebackers this miss
that I just mentioned, and those guys have the speed
to hang with Tarik Cohen and montgomery soft hands are

(01:21:05):
a real threat to Cohen. I mean, Cohen didn't have
to sweat any catches from Jordan Howard. Now he does.
That worries me a little bit. And Plus, for all
the problems the Packers had last year, they allowed the
fifth fewest running back receptions last season. That all affects
Tree Cohen, who I give a C grade to. Now
let's go to the passing game. Mitch Drabinsky gets a

(01:21:28):
C grade. Is that a sad trombone ski or a
happy trombone? What do you think? There are a lot
of small things that work in Drabinsky's favor. A second
year in Matt Naggi's offense, which I like. There's that,
There's Alan Robinson's fully healthy. I like that, Anthony Miller
fully healthy. I like that David Montgomery's receiving skills I mentioned.

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I like all those things. The Packers, though, should get
much better pass rush this year, and the addition of
safety Adrian Amos helps solidify highly inconsistent secondary that allowed
the six most touchdown passes last year. I'm moving Mitch
Drobiski up to a B. I had him as a scene.
It's happy trombone skiing. It's happy trombone ski for Mitch.

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He's gave. I moved him up to a B just now.
Anthony Miller gets a C grade. He played hurt most
of last year um and actually he's been nursing an
injury in this preseason as well, but should be able
to go here. I think he does have a chance
to make a jump and working from the slot, he
goes up against the Packers worst cornerback Traymont Williams. The
path of least resistance to the passing game really does
actually go through Anthony Miller. Not somebody can start every week,

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you can start him this week. I mentioned Allen Robinson
back healthy. He had two quiet games against the Packers
last year. Starting cornerback Kevin King is unlikely to play
in this game because he's got a severe hamstring injury
that's knocked him out of the whole preseason. I don't
think he goes here. That means Robinson's going to see
a fair amount of King's backup Tony Brown, who was

(01:22:52):
bad last year as a rookie. I like Allen Robinson,
he's got a solid B grade. And the last Bears
player that I need to check in on, Trey Burton.
Scored in the Week fifteen matchup, but other than that,
Scory did very little in that game. And I think,
like Cohen, you know, the Packers too improved outside linebackers.
They've got the speed to hang with a tight end

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and I'm worried they're gonna pick them up some. So
really just a C grade on on Trey Burton in
this matchup. So there you go. Letter grades for every
meaningful packer and and bear. If you like that, you're
gonna love regular season addition, Fantasy Football Weekly because it's
two hours of that basically us break it. There is

(01:23:33):
more stuff too. We keep the three tough questions we
take take a chance on me coming back. We've got
premature speculation next week as well as a regular season
bit boy for us. Additionally, Hey, we mentioned some of
our favorite sleepers for this week, but a lot of
people haven't been able. Didn't weren't listening to every one
of our other shows. Well, you should probably go back

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on the heart podcast app and listen to all of
our previous shows. I think that's a brilliant isn't on here?
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I'm gonna go back through the sleepers we have given
out over the last month and tell me if you
still think they're viable sleeper candidates two ways. One are

(01:24:16):
they still good? And then two has their draft position
moves so much that you don't you worry now that
they're not sleepers anymore? Okay that now these guys, are
we still in there? Are we out on these guys?
That's right? In or out? Jalen Samuel's was one of
the first ones we gave, and that sounds like a
charged sleep that it was a charge sleeper. Are you
guys in or out on Jalen Samuel's as as a

(01:24:39):
as still a sleeper. His price has even gone down
since that has gone so I think he's still worth it.
His price has gone down because James Connor is going
to be the bell cow. You're not seeing it correctly.
Charged Connor is going to be the guy there, all right,
so you're out. I'm with matt On Connor being the guy.
It's just Samuel's value is depressed at the point where
even I would take a shot. Speaking of Samuel's, let's

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go to the singular Samuel, Curtis Samuel. I don't in
or out on Curtis Samuel as a sleeper. When I
saw this one done, I didn't agree with this even
being allowed to be in this side because it was
too good when yeah, when it was done, and and
now even more so, he's not. He's like a sixth
round pick now, So you're deeply on Curtis Samuel very much.

(01:25:20):
I think he did go up quite a bit in
a DP. He rocket it up where d J. Moore
kind of stayed the same and was really looked at
as the wide receiver one in that offense. I think
it's closer to even right now. So ye, Samuel Park Yeah, okay? Uh.
Dante Moncreef was given earlier as a sleeper. Are you

(01:25:40):
in or out on that sleeper choice? From earlier earlier
episodes of Fantasy Football Weekly? I think I'm out just
because I'm not making that draft pick. I think he's
gonna have a decent red zone like like he used
to roll. Yeah, but I'm probably out. I guess I
think he's mundane. Yeah, I think the draft just there's
opportunity though for sure. The opportunity is that it's there's

(01:26:03):
so many targets there, and I think that they're going
to treat him just as well as they're gonna treat
James Washington in that offense. I think Dante Moncrief sitting
in a good year. I'm still in another chart special
C J. Anderson. Are you in or out? On c J. Anderson?
Let me make my case again, because he's so far
off radars right now, offensive coordinator Darryl Bevel averaging thirty

(01:26:24):
carries per game across his career. They're not all going
to carry On Johnson. They're going to C J. Anderson,
the cut Zac center. He's not a factor anymore. It's
still surprises me that you like c. J. Anderson so much,
being as you're the highest on carry On Johnson of
anybody I've seen. I know I like him both, so
I think they both get fed. Man. I think I
think if c J. Anderson is really in play, I

(01:26:44):
think it does bite into carry On quite a bit. So, um,
I guess I like c J. Anderson because I'm not
as much of a believer and carry on. All right,
So you're in, yeah, and you're I'm out. I'll try
to get him on waivers later. I just I'm not
gonna waste that roster spot. And yet, all right, when
any scores a week, one that'll be from for time.
Darren Waller was given in an earlier show that's a
Brian special. I think I think everybody's in on Darren Waller.

(01:27:07):
I think Brian was first to that one before Hard Knocks,
before before everybody and was first on that one. Okay, now, no, no,
we're giving it to Brian. We're giving it to Brian Johnson.
Are in? Wait, yeah, we're in. You're in the cut
Wilson today too. So it's Darren Waller and rookie Foster
Morrow or whatever. Littavius Murray was given as a sleeper

(01:27:28):
earlier show episodes, remain in. Oh, I'm very in. You're
in as well. I was never in on Murray because
I just think he is a one dimensional, straight ahead
runner who's not going to be able to replicate most
of what mark Ingram did. I think he will replicate
most of what mark Ingram did. And Peyton Barber given
in an earlier Show by Me Church special on Daria

(01:27:51):
gun Bow Wally, well you get him in the last
round round? No. I I like the I like the
Barber call. Most people again, replay last season, not edged
in Barber's it wasn't a factor last season. Well, he's
going to be like the lowest top running back drafted,
right starting running back. He's probably going to be the
last one draft now Lashawn McCoy might be the last

(01:28:11):
one drafting. Whoever is Something's something in that ballpark Anyway,
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