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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Operation Domination is underway, the ultimate game club to dominate your.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
With your hosts.

Speaker 3 (00:10):
God, you gotta be confident about your achilles.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
Yeah, I mean I got it.

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Don't hope be great. I'm dominated.

Speaker 4 (00:27):
Woo.

Speaker 3 (00:28):
We're here for week one. Baby, welcome in the Operation Domination.
Thanks for joining us to get you kicked off right
with the new twenty twenty five season. As always, I'm
your host Dan Mayder, Chase Store and Adam Lroue in
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(01:09):
I know we're one week throughout the offseason, but during
the season, like tomorrow, I'll be recording with doctor Brian Scott.
We're gonna talk about injuries to kick things off, and
then I'll be on WI Chazz Fullardi later on the
week to talk about some of the bets coming up.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
So We're were dropping episodes on.

Speaker 3 (01:24):
Thursdays, on Fridays, and on Saturdays, So three episodes a
week you get of Operation Domination. Make sure you tune
in for that. Now it's week one, So a lot
of people because we have players not on buy, we
have a lot of players who are in fact healthy
at the moment because you just drafted your teams. Thankfully

(01:44):
that we got to figure out who you want to start,
who you want to sit like, there are some guys
you drafted in the same tier that it's hard to
make out exactly which direction you want to go, and
everybody wants to get off to the right foot. Now
let me start off by saying this, it is not
the end all be all. If you go always one
week one, it has no bearing whatsoever and you being
able to win a championship because you didn't win week one,

(02:06):
don't panic, don't freak out. But it is still nice
to get off on the right foot. And that's what
we're gonna try to help you guys do. So I
pulled some of the more popular star Sick questions that
seem to be out there at least focusing on certain
players that people are really thinking about. So our number
one question that we have PPR league Ricky Piersall or

(02:26):
xavier' Worthy And this is interesting because I have him
pretty close to my rankings. I'm gonna kick this to
Adam first. I want to I want to know what
Adams take here. Which one would you play and why.

Speaker 4 (02:36):
I would play Xavier Worthy. I just think I have
a lot more data to work with on Xavier Worthy
at this point in time, and to be honest with you,
I think I would take the risk with Pearsaw had
the suspension not come in in time for Rashi Rice.

(02:57):
But with Xavier Worthy kind of having this to himself,
I'm leaning that direction. Personally, I believe over under is
a little bit higher in the in the Kansas City game,
although it's marginal. I know that one's forty six and
a half. I don't remember off the top of my
head what the Seattle Niners one.

Speaker 1 (03:15):
Is, but a half.

Speaker 4 (03:16):
Yeah, so marginally higher. Nothing crazy, but yeah, it's just
the lack of data. I also, Jennings just came back
to practice a couple of days ago. Just the whole
thing for the Niners. I'm playing wait and see now.
There's a lot to be gained on taking the risk
for sure. Just me personally, I'm one where I'm I'm
hesitant to play rookies week one, I'm hesitant to play

(03:39):
guys who you know, I didn't get the biggest sample
size as a rookie, which is the case with Pearsaw.
Obviously he did have a couple of big games towards
the end of the season, but so did Save You're Worthy.
You know, I wasn't the biggest Savior Worthy guy coming out,
but I am still personally leaning that direction right now.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, no, I hear you on that because we saw it.
Saf You're worthy of what he could do down the stretch.
He had three top twenty finishes in the playoff weeks, right,
so everyone's remembered that at recentcy bias kicking in where
he was lining up about sixty percent of the time
of the perimeter almost over thirty five percent of the
time and the slots, so they were starting to give
him a little bit the in and out that you

(04:17):
would get with Rashid Rice and that's what really boosted
his production down the stretch when you needed it to most.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
But on the other hand, you mentioned Juwan Jennings. He
just got back.

Speaker 3 (04:31):
He did not practice pretty much the entire month of August.
Remember it was like that first couple days of August
is when he went out, And because he came back
in limited fashion, I do think he's legitimately banged up.
Like I don't think this was just a hold in
type of injury. I think we're actually dealing with something here.
Now he's expected to be good to go. Per Kyle Shanahan,
take that with a grain of salt if you will. Well, however,

(04:53):
I actually think it helps Rickey pier Saw that Juwan
Jennings is back, because now Seattle's not gonna be able
to just key in on Ricky Piersall on the perimeter.
They're going to pay attention to Juwan Jennings and that's
gonna keep things more even between the two. It allows
Piersal to do more of the routes that I think
the forty nine ers envisioned him to do in the
first place, more of those Deebo Samuel get yards after
the catch in motion type of things.

Speaker 1 (05:15):
And I think it actually opens them up for that.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
So for me, right now, I have Ricky Piersaw at
wide receiver, nineteen Xavier Worthy at wide receiver, twenty two.
It's close, but they're right there on top of each other.
Like yes, where he gets a matchup with the Chargers,
which is like a real mid pack matchup, like there
were sixteenth last year and fantasy points allowed at the
wide receiver position. They don't have a dominant corner back.

(05:37):
Their front seven is much better than their backs. You know,
back seven front stand is much better than the back four,
I should say with them, And the other thing when
I'm looking at with Piers All, he doesn't need a
lot to blow up here. Like keep in mind, the
typical number one receiver for the forty nine Ers gets
somewhere between a twenty three to twenty five percent target share.

(05:57):
Last year and those games that you talked about the
Piersall blew up, he hit eighteen percent. The efficiency of
this offense surpasses the need for a ton of volume.

Speaker 1 (06:08):
So if he comes in here, Jwan James a little
bit banged up. You got kid on Christian McCaffrey.

Speaker 3 (06:12):
Let's say Piersall gets twenty percent, Well, then he's still
sitting on a larger share than when he even got
when he went off last season, and this game against Seattle,
Perty's got a great history of letting up Seattle.

Speaker 1 (06:24):
This offense, whether it's a winner or loss, is going
to be up in the air. We'll see.

Speaker 3 (06:28):
But they have a great history of lining up against
the Seattle defense and just tearing him apart, whether it
was Pete Carroll, whether it's ke McDonald that it hasn't changed. Well,
you know, Seattle made some adjustments to their defense this
year McDonald's. Does he feels like he has his you know,
defense ready to go.

Speaker 1 (06:43):
We'll see. I don't.

Speaker 3 (06:44):
I don't really see the talent that a lot of
people else see in the Seattle defense. I still question
where the pass rush is coming from. I still question
how elite of a cornerback Devon Witherspoon really even is.
And Ricky pier Saw more times than that will be
the lineup opposite of Witherspoon to begin with, So he's
already getting the more faith matchup from that standpoint. So
it's close, But I'm going to roll the dice on

(07:06):
the more upside with Perdy having with Piersoll than with
the Xavier Worthy because I still think if Travis Kelce
comes in and he is in better shape, I don't
think this is Travis Kelce we saw at the start
of season last year.

Speaker 1 (07:17):
I think this is going to be a better version
of that, in which case you're looking for Worthy to
hit more of the big play.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
I don't know exactly how much of the Rashie Rice
He's definitively role he's going to play, So I guess
this is where it's just a little bit different for me.
But again, I got him both in my top twenty four.
Hopefully you'd have a chance to start him both. I
don't know, Chase, with all that dumped on you, where
do you come down on this?

Speaker 2 (07:38):
It's a lot closer than I kind of originally thought
it was, because you guys know, and I've been vocal
about it with you, especially there Dan, that I have
not necessarily been a Ricky Piersoll guy. And I was
big on Xavier Worthy after I saw what he could
do late last season and what he did in those
playoffs there for the Chiefs, as you mentioned. But the
more I look at this, yeah, I think I agree

(08:00):
with you that it's I'm I feel like leaning slightly
towards pearsall here now. In my original rankings for this
first week, I had Worthy, I had Worthy ranked Tiger
because yeah, I thought, well Race isn't playing. It's they
want to open up the pass game in Kansas City,
as they've said, hey wheels up on Xavier Worthy, let's go.
But they have I believe other options in Kansas City

(08:25):
that they can open that pass game up too. I
think they can spread the ball around more than I
think they will be able to in in San Francisco.
They still have Travis Kelce there. We've I've said it before,
but they've got a healthy Hollywood Brown now, and they've
got Xavier Worthy there. I wonder about how they're gonna
deploy the pass game in that backfield with the running backs.

(08:46):
I think Brishard Smith might be able to find himself
a role there. But I really don't see outside of
outside of having having Pearsall and Kittle, and we know
they're going to throw of Pearsall and Kittle, I don't
see another wide out on that team over there that
that's going to be able to take anything away from Peersaul,

(09:07):
especially in Week one. I don't care if Juwan Jennings
is on the field or not. And I'm a Juwan
Jennings guy, but the dude's been hurt seemingly for the
last six years. It's a it's an ankle thing. We're
not sure what the truth of that was or whatever,
but I agree with you that he takes away some
of the coverage or he at least maintains some of
that like focus from that Seattle defense there. So I

(09:30):
like what Pearsau can do. I think Pearsall is a
more dynamic receiver anyway than Juwan Jennings. And I was
not always in that camp, but I am now. I
like to lean slightly towards Pearsaw here because I just
think that that's that's a direction that they're gonna have
to go, Whereas I think that Kansas City they just
have so many options available to available to them, even

(09:53):
without Rashi Rice, they still have the better quarterback there
in my opinion, in Patrick Mahomes. But I think he's
going to try and spread the ball all over the
place because that's I think when he's going to be
at his best. So, yeah, it's weird, it's close for me,
but I'm gonna lean and gamble on Pearsall here.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Plus international game plus on Friday and night, I think
all those things kind of kind of tied into play
so it's two to one for Ricky, Piersoll and Adam.
You mentioned that game as far as like the over
unders for both those games go. The forty nine ers
were fort nind saddle game was was forty seven and
a half. It got bet down because people were going
with the under, So that's why I dropped the forty
five and a half. They're kind of interesting to me.

(10:31):
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Speaker 1 (10:49):
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Speaker 3 (10:49):
Need some money on the flip end, all right. So
let's get back to these star sick questions. Romandre Stevenson
or Caleb Johnson. This was a much more interesting conversation.
I think a week could go, but wise, I do
think it's an interesting conversation now.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
So Chase, let's let's kick it to you.

Speaker 3 (11:04):
Have you got to sit there and look at Ormonders
Stephen or Caleb Johnson because maybe you went zero you know,
zero RB, or or maybe this is a bad team
with a flexed desperation spot.

Speaker 1 (11:17):
I don't know. I mean, which way are you gonna go?

Speaker 2 (11:21):
Well, I mean, everybody wanted to see the shiny new toys, right,
and they come into play on both sides of this
equation here. I mean, you've got the shiny new toy
and Trevion Henderson there in New England that everybody kind
of I think in the fantasy world is hoping or
kind of assumes, at least a lot of people have
that he's going to usurp that starting position or at
least that number one role from Ramandre Stevenson. And then

(11:43):
on the other side of things, we've got Jayleen Warren,
who myself included, I think we were all bored with
coming into this season, and then they drafted Caleb Johnson.
We all thought, oh, well, heck, yeah, there we go.
Caleb Johnson seems like a Steeler's kind of running back,
and Jalen Warren has been a little bit underwhelming and
terms of you know, what he's done in his career,
So I think everybody thinks that the shiny new toys

(12:04):
are the ones that are going to take the take
the workload here, and honestly, in this first week, I
don't see it that way. I see the old guard,
and neither one of them is old, but the old
guard in both places kind of taking the lead on
it for right now. I think I see Ramandra Stevenson
not giving up that job as easily or as quickly

(12:25):
as we all kind of thought he would. And likewise,
Jalen Warren, heck, they just signed him to a contract extension. Dude,
that they just paid that guy. That doesn't sound like
somebody that they plan to phase out of their offense
anytime soon here. You know, I've said it in the past.
With Jalen Warren, I think we all kind of there's
a there's a feeling in fantasy world that he's a

(12:47):
pass catching back, more so because they had Najie Harris,
who I think we all thought and see as a hammer.
Funny thing about that is Najie Harris had over ninety
you know, targets his rookie season and showed that he
can be at receiving running back. And Jalen Warren honestly
has not done a whole heck of a lot catching
the ball. Take a look at his stats for the

(13:07):
last several years, folks, he doesn't catch the ball a
whole heck of a lotder They have not asked that
of him. So the roles that you think they're going
to fill, you think it's going to be Caleb Johnson
as a hammer. You think it's going to be Jalen
Warren as a pass catching back maybe only, or as
a as a more of a specialist. I don't necessarily
think that's going to play out true. Like I said,
I think I see ramondre Stevenson and Jalen Warren taking

(13:30):
at least week one here. The bulk of the carries
the bulk of the important work, and with that then,
in my estimation, comes the bulk of the fantasy points
for these first two for this first week here. So
I'm telling unless I'm proven wrong otherwise, I'm going to
keep rolling with ramondre Stevenson and with Jalen Warren, which

(13:50):
means in this pairing, I'm going to roll with ramondre
Stevenson over Caleb Johnson.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (13:57):
First of all, just to get it out the way
right away, Yeah, I'm with you, Roger Stevenson over Caleb Johnson.
I think the interesting discussion here to have and what
everyone's trying to figure out is how important is the
initial depth chart release. It doesn't mean this is why
it's going to be all season long, No, absolutely not,
But what it does indicate to me is kind of

(14:17):
the Chase's point, Jalen Warren is going to have a
significant role that is outside of just passing down work,
and he's always kind of had a little bit extra
of a role, but the idea was that Caleb would
come in and take the Najie Harris role. Well, they
extend Jalen Warren, they make him the starter. Tomlin made
a point to say how good Warren has looked, and frankly,

(14:38):
the narrative around Caleb Johnson has been throughout training camp
at the NFL game as of right now looks to
be a little bit fast for the guy. And when
I watched him in preseason, I know he played better
in that second game, but even then, everything that I
was fearful of of Caleb Johnson, because as you guys know,
I was not as big on Caleb Johnson as consensus
was coming into the draft to begin with, was kind

(14:58):
of confirmed throughout preseason. That's a guy who did not
have a quick burst, who is going to have trouble
exploding through the line of scrimmage at the pro level.
And that of a lot of his runs, his big
runs especially, he could have driven a dump truck through
those holes in order to have that happen. And that's
not gonna happen in the NFL consistently, especially with an
Arthur Smith team, and people know you want to run

(15:18):
the football, you're gonna be running into stack boxes over
and over and over again. Now again, this is not
to say that will not carve out this role at
some point during the season. But Kenneth Gainwell, the reason
he's the number two is because of what he gives
you on passing downs.

Speaker 1 (15:33):
He's better pass protector.

Speaker 3 (15:34):
Aaron Rodgers is going to be real particular about who's
next to him as his last man standing when for
a blocker, because he does not want to get hit
anymore at forty years old.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
It's very very clear.

Speaker 3 (15:45):
So and that's the other thing that kind of concerns
me for Caleb season wise, not even just week one,
is how often is he ever going to get a
shot at getting any kind of receiving works throughout this year.
So in standard leagues maybe you don't care, but half point,
in full point PPR leagues, his ceiling is real limited,
even if his role increases past week one. So I
think that was the deeper conversation to have here, Adam,

(16:07):
what's your reaction to the depth chart, what's going.

Speaker 1 (16:09):
On with the Steelers? And then of course you don't
give your Remandre or Caleb for this week.

Speaker 4 (16:13):
Yeah, I'll keep it quick on that last point. As Vermandre,
I'm with you guys on the logic, and yeah, I
think on both fronts. Look, I don't think it'll take
that long for the youngsters in both situations to leap
frog the RB two. But in both situations, I think
that Marbi one might take a little bit longer than
a lot of people expect, especially than to your point,

(16:33):
for Caleb Johnson to pass a Jalen Warren, I think
that is going to take significantly longer. I think Trey
Henderson should get there within the month. I don't I'm
not overly worried about that. But even then, I think
Remandre will be the quote unquote starter for the bulk
of the season. I just think that it touches wise,
Henderson might catch up at least fifty to fifty sooner

(16:54):
than later. But Caleb has has had some rocky patches
in the off seat in the preseason, and I think
certainly the Steelers feel like they don't need to rush him.
I think that the Patriots sooner than later a gonna
feel like they need to rush Henderson onto the field
because they they're gonna need some playmaking ability, and I
just don't think the Steelers are. He's just not the

(17:17):
same type of back where they need. You know, the
Patriots need speeds, and Henderson does their answer. There's ways
to you know, get a bruiser onto the field, or
to run in between the tackles, which is what Cale
Johnson is gonna be. They can fill that role other ways.

Speaker 1 (17:32):
Yeah, no, I'm with you.

Speaker 3 (17:35):
It's one of the reason why I wasn't as gone
Trayvon Henderson to do your remondre points. I do think
it will take a little bit longer to people anticipating,
but I do anticipate, like of the two, Henderson will
take at some point over I think the overall touches position.

Speaker 1 (17:48):
So I agree with you there.

Speaker 2 (17:49):
He's explosive and he's looked good, but it's just the
fact that Ramandre's been there longer, and you're talking about
a guy that's just coming into the league and has
to speed underneath him.

Speaker 3 (17:57):
And Josh McDaniels is never a big fan of rookies,
at least not right off the bat. That's been its history,
all right, So let's move to our next question. We
got to pick two for PPR. We got Tech McMillan,
Travon Henderson. We just talked about a little bit, xavier're
Worthy and Ricky Pearsall, who we talked about earlier. So Adam,
I'll kick this to you. Who's your two that you're
going to pick out of this selection?

Speaker 4 (18:19):
It is tough, but for me it is going to
definitely be Worthy. I'm between Pearsall and McMillan. I have
an ever so slight lean towards McMillan. That matchup is
kind of interesting. I think that that's it's an abusable
matchup for McMillan. That game has been I know the

(18:43):
over under is probably about the same, but for what
I that's a game that I want to take the
over on the Panthers. In New England. So yeah, I'm
leaning tech, but I could very well hear the argument
for Pearsalt in that spot instead then be perfectly okay
with it. But it's between like, that's conversation. I'm Trey
is not really in my thought process all that much.

Speaker 3 (19:04):
No, I got you Panthers and Jacksonville just so everyone
as clear as far as that matchup goes. Yeah, I mean, Chase,
you're probably gonna hate me for this, but so I
with so the pick two conversation, adding one running back
into the wide receivers, I'm assuming this is two flexes
or or one wide receiver a flex.

Speaker 1 (19:23):
It's one or the other.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
We're not talking about a second running back here. So
in my mind, if Trayvon Henderson's your third running back,
which is what this would question would lead me to believe,
I kind of want to see how it shakes out
in the Patriots back I noticed the Raiders and it's
a juicy matchup. It's hard, but if you really want
to play Trayvon playing in a DraftKings lineup, we'll have
the DFS Cocktail hour on in a little bit. But
for me, Ted's only my wide receiver. Thirty three like,

(19:47):
I gotta see Bryce Young actually carry over his late
season competency as an NFL quarterback before I'm ready to
fully buy in. I get Adam Thielen was traded. I
get Gillen Coker's on the eye off. Tech McMillan's definitely
going to be a primary target within this offense, There's
no doubt about that. But McMillan is a perimeter threat

(20:09):
brace Young. That has not been his hot zone. His
hot zone ever since he's been the Starter's been the
slot receiver. His primary target's been Adam Thielen for like
two seasons and Jalen Cocher at that point too, So
that's where he's been going with the football because he
doesn't throw a deep very often, at least very accurately,
and his living bread and butter is zero to nine
yards over the middle of the field, over and over

(20:30):
and over again. I know everybody wants to Dave Canals
to turn Tech McMillan into the new Mike Evans, Like immediately,
I gotta see if Brayshawn can actually bring his competency
over into this season before I can totally just buy in.
I know the Jacksonville defense is a matchup that you're
not scared of. This has nothing to do with that.
I gotta see it first before I am buy in.
So for me, if I'm picking two, it's gonna be

(20:51):
Worthy in Pearsaw Chase.

Speaker 1 (20:52):
What do you think? WHOA?

Speaker 2 (20:55):
Okay, Well, yeah, listen, I love you, but I'm gonna
have to pop another one here for this. Uh Listen,
we just talked about my feelings Unworthy versus Pearsol On
is close. It's close, but I want to lean pearsol
I think I want to. I want to take that
honestly gamble. Like I said, we just talked about my
feelings on Trevion Henderson and how I think he's what

(21:16):
role I think he's gonna play at least week one. There,
you know that I'm much bigger on Bryce Young than
you are. And I understand your I understand your take.
Your your point is valid, the idea that Bryce Young
hasn't necessarily been an outside receiver king maker down the field.
But the thing is is he knows where his bread
is Butter's. Yeah, his his bread is buttered by Terro McMillan,

(21:38):
all six foot four and a half of him right now.
And it doesn't matter if he wants to throw it
over the middle of the field, the outside of the field,
behind him, wherever, he can throw it to him from anywhere,
from the from the restroom, in the in the locker room,
all the way to the end zone. It doesn't matter
because that's his best receiver he's got available to him,
even if everybody's healthy on that team. Terroll macmillan is

(21:59):
going to be so special. You've got him at thirty three.
I have him at a top sixteen play this week
because I love the idea of him against that Jaguars team.
And I think, like Adam was saying, this is a
game that I want to jump on the over on.
I think there's gonna be a lot of points scored here,
and we're I might bring Tet's name up a little
bit later on too in this show. For me, it's

(22:21):
got to be Tetoa. And then, like I said, if
I'm taking that gamble with Ricky, I'm going to lean
into that gamble on Ricky. I'm going to take Ricky Pearsol.
So it's it's McMillan and Piersoll for me, because I
just think that there's too much meat to be had
there on that bone, no matter where they are on
the field, and no matter how Bryce Young wants to
throw it, because Ted's gonna grab everything thrown his direction.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
So yep, we already had debate, So I'm not going
to debate here, but I dropped that. We did this
a couple of seasons ago, we gotta do it again
this season. The Showdown, you know, bets each week and
actually have the scoreboard going up. So you said you

(23:02):
got the top sixteen wide receiver. I'm at wide receiver
thirty three. Would it be fair to say our bet
would be Tech McMillan either is a top twenty four
receiver or not a top twenty four receiver. Would that
Would that be fair?

Speaker 1 (23:14):
Yes? Okay, So he's either a wide receiver too this
week or he's done right. So McMillan either the finishes
at least a wide receiver too. Yeah, top finished the
top twenty four receiver, Chase wins.

Speaker 3 (23:24):
If he finishes outside the top twenty four, I win,
and we'll keep track of that throughout the season. Let's
get that going, Okay, So now our fourth question here
half point PPR.

Speaker 1 (23:33):
Now we're talking about Keenan Allen Nick Chubbs.

Speaker 3 (23:35):
We got a couple old geezers that people are trying
to figure out, which direction do you go?

Speaker 1 (23:43):
It's not first of all, it's not a decision I
want to have to make.

Speaker 3 (23:46):
But I do know there's some fourteen teams and sixteen
teams out there who may be making this decision.

Speaker 1 (23:50):
So let me kick this to you. Which geezer are
you gonna go with?

Speaker 4 (23:55):
Yeah? I just drafted an eighteen teamer last night, which
is hilarious. Yeah, it grows. It's disgusting what happens on
the bench in some of those leagues. But at any rate,
me personally, I'm definitely going Keenan, Allen Nick Chubb. I'm
terrified to play in any capacity Keenan. I I can
appreciate that, at least like any other location I would have,

(24:18):
I'd probably go Chubb. I'd be terrified, but I'd probably
go Chubb. Keenan going back to a quarterback that he's
familiar with. I think he can figure it out fairly quickly,
and I think Herbert would like to have him. And
this is a game that I know it's international, but
it means so much, and I actually think that it
being international plays to the Chargers favor a little bit,

(24:40):
just in the sense of, like, the Chiefs are the
clear favorite here, so you add chaos. I think that
helps the underdog to a degree.

Speaker 1 (24:48):
So I.

Speaker 4 (24:50):
I think if you get ten points out of either
of these players, you are thinking God. So yeah, I'm
taking Keenan Allen to get you those ten regard. I
mean probably not in standard, but half point PPR doesn't matter.
Like I'm taking Keenan.

Speaker 1 (25:06):
Yeah, I love you.

Speaker 4 (25:07):
I don't know how we're seeing you start another game,
to be honest with you, No, I hear you.

Speaker 3 (25:12):
On that one that that game, by the way, is
fairly close. It's uh, Cantony is favored by three points,
so it is a very close divisional game.

Speaker 1 (25:19):
Taste. Let's get let's get your take here real quick.

Speaker 2 (25:23):
Yeah, this is I hate this question, so as the
old guy, forget you for putting this on there. But
I mean, yeah, hey, if this is a question that
somebody out there is dealing with, I'm sorry. You should
have probably done a better job the last couple of
weeks here in your draft. Yeah go man, now, I'm
I'm actually I will be on record as saying that

(25:45):
I think that there's gonna be a little bit more
Damian Pierce week one than I think a lot of
people want to admit there's going to be. So yeah,
I'm really torn on this. I mean, Keenan Allen's like
wide receiver sixty something, but he's got he's got an
actual history with the quarterback that he's coming back to

(26:06):
play with here and it's still Keenan Allen. And I
don't know if I can bet against that. Dude. I
hate I hate the idea of it. I don't want
to discount Nick Chubb because he's a he's a man
among boys, and and I love what he's done in
his career, but yeah, how much really is going to
be left in that tank? How much are we really
going to see? And like I said, I'm a little

(26:27):
higher on Damien Pierce then some people might be right now.
Doesn't mean I love him, but I'm higher on and
then some people. So yeah, I'm gonna have to lean
Keenan Allen. If this was standard, I would I would
say no, If this was standard, I would go Chubb
all day long. Half PPR or full PPR. I'm gonna
have to lean with the wide receiver.

Speaker 1 (26:49):
I'm with you, guys.

Speaker 3 (26:51):
If the Dick Chubb is as a starting running back
as of now, that's what we have. That's the day
that we have right now in front of is that
he's a starting running back. He's still outside my top
thirty six. I mean, all the reports from camp were
that he still looks slow and he's coming off a
season when he came back in the back half and
had three point three yards carried. Like Chase Wholly with you,

(27:12):
we definitely could be seeing more Damian Pierce than anybody
wants to admit, because if he's that putrid, they're not
going to stick to him very long, not when you
have a slew of other backs that are just basically
there on a tryout basis.

Speaker 1 (27:21):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (27:22):
Yeah, and I'm not a Woody Marks guy either. I'm
not high on Woody Marks either.

Speaker 1 (27:26):
Woody Mark is pushed all the way on the depth
part two. So who knows what his role Week one
is even going to be.

Speaker 3 (27:30):
He might be a healthy scratch for all we know,
as far as down as he is at the moment,
So who knows there And Keenan Allen, you guys mentioned it,
he has the maybe he doesn't have the rapport with
the offensive scheme, but he does have the rapport with
the quarterback more so than that, Trey Harris, who got
banged up, did not overtake that spot like we thought

(27:51):
he would earlier. On Quinton Johnson, we know what he is,
we know what his role is going to be as
that third starting wide receiver. They don't really have a
tight end like Tyler Kank is not a guy who's gonna.

Speaker 1 (28:02):
Have a high target share here.

Speaker 3 (28:03):
It's it's lat McConkie is Keenan now when they have
to throw the football, and I know this is going
to be a balance attack was especially when were talking
about Greg Roman.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
But those are two top targets. Keen Now, I have
him a little bit higher than well, actually I have
quite a bit higher than consensus.

Speaker 3 (28:16):
I do have him in my forties as far as
the wide receivers go this week, So I do have
him kind of up there where you do take that
shot in Keenan all man, I wish he had better choices.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
All right, So last star, quick star question that we
want to talk.

Speaker 3 (28:27):
About here, half point PPR again, Stefon Diggs, Jawan Jennings
or George Pickens case go.

Speaker 2 (28:39):
Yeah again, I'm not a giant fan of this choice.
But for me, it comes down to, as I said before,
I'm not necessarily convinced that Juwan Jennings is going to
play a giant role in this game for the forty
nine Ers against the Seahawks this weekend here. So for me,
this comes down to Stefan Diggs or George Pickens. And
you know, when I look at this, I think, you know, Okay,

(29:00):
we've got Digs coming off of, you know, an injury,
plague gear and he's in a new place, and he's
got controversies galore, because of course he does. It's Stefan Diggs.
But then we've got George Pickens who's in a new
place too, and he's going to have to get used
to what they're doing down there in Dallas. I'm not

(29:22):
a George Pickens guy, but honestly, I think, even though
he's the number two receiver down there, I think I'm
gonna lean George Pickens here just because of everything that's
been talked about here at nauseum over the last week
or so here with that Cowboys passing attack and going
to have to pass the ball and throw the ball

(29:42):
over and over and over and over and over and
over and over and over, because they have an island
of misfit toys, as someone so eloquently put it at
Running Back, and honestly I said it earlier, right after
the Pickens trade. I think I like the way that
Lamb and Pickens compliment each other and terms of the
route tree, in terms of how they should be used

(30:03):
on the field together. We know Lam's going to get his,
but if this team throws as much as I think
we all think it's going to, and as much as
they probably are going to have to, Pickens is going
to have to get some as well. I'm not overly
sold on Steffan Diggs. I want to see how he
comes back from that injury. I want to see how
he measures with Drake May. I want to see how
that entire New England pass attack shakes out. Before I

(30:26):
put a whole lot of stock in any of the
receivers there. We all know New England's history with wide receivers.
It hasn't been great since Randy Moss left town. So
I'm going to lean Pickens here ever so slightly.

Speaker 3 (30:39):
Yeah, I mean yes, I leave Jennings out of the conversation,
kind of like he said, reserving on Digs and Pickens here.
I have Digs at wide receiver thirty four, Pickens at
wide receiver twenty nine. So I'm leaning a few spots
there ahead with Pickens. And look, Diggs doesn't have a
matchup you're worried about, right, You're talking about a Raiders
secondary has got Jeremy Chinn and Darien Porter.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
And Eric's was like, it's nothing to be concerned about.

Speaker 3 (31:01):
But what I am concerned about is despite all the
positive reporting for Sefan Diggs throughout the summer, it's an
incredible that he's back right now. Kudos to him for
making it back this quickly. He's still about to be
thirty two coming off of ACL. I want to physically
see you in my own eyes where he's at before
I go ahead and make that decision. And the other thing, too,

(31:22):
is that look at where you drafted these guys. George
Pickens was going in the top eight of rounds in
the draft. Safan Diggs is somebody who's probably getting around nine, ten,
eleven somewhere in there, depending upon the size of your league.
Like you were taking him as a flyer as a
depth piece. You were picking George Pickens to be in
that lineup to begin with. To your point, a good
team can't run the Eagles. I don't know how the

(31:43):
hell the Cowboys are gonna be able to run the Eagles.
So they're gonna have to throw the ball upon plenty
of volume for CD Lamb, plenty of volume for George Pickens.

Speaker 1 (31:51):
They're gonna have to take shots. So I'm with you.
I'm going to roll the dice with Pickens. Adam, you
got anything to add here.

Speaker 4 (31:58):
Nope, don't need to make it any longer than we
have to. I'm a little bit closer on ECRH than
how ECR has these guys spread out. As far as
Pickens having a sizable lead on digs, I have it
a little closer. I have him like three four spots apart.
But nonetheless it's it's Pickens. I like you said, I
have to see digs before I believe it.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Yeah, start your studs, Start your studs that you drafted.

Speaker 1 (32:21):
Yep, sure one percent?

Speaker 3 (32:23):
All right, So before we get into the DFS cocktail hour,
I want to talk about some guys that we have
ranked either well ahead or well behind of ECR. I'm
going to kick this to Adam first, who's the top
guy that you have a big discrepancy with in your
rankings the ECR this week.

Speaker 4 (32:41):
It's not necessarily my biggest discrepancy, but I think it's
the most meaningful. That is Jerome Ford, who I have
at RB twenty eight ECR when I downloaded it last
night at the very least had him at RB thirty four.
So it's it's only six spots, but to me it's
the big difference in the sense that twenty eight is

(33:02):
right outside of RB two, which is a firm like
a must flex at minimum. He is in your lineups
guaranteed versus thirty four is getting into the territory of
might lose out your flex spot. He might barely make
your bench, And to me, he is a must play
in a game that quietly, if I can pull it

(33:23):
back up. Bengals Browns game is like tied for the
third highest over under on the week.

Speaker 3 (33:29):
It which is so strange by the way, like I
don't mean to cut you off right there, but just
first plit.

Speaker 1 (33:34):
Second, the Browns have a good defense here, people.

Speaker 3 (33:37):
And the Bengals don't typically put up a ton of
points in September, and they don't put up a ton
of points, necessarily against the Cleveland Browns.

Speaker 1 (33:42):
I just had to throw it out there because that line,
to me is.

Speaker 3 (33:44):
Screaming under as something I will talk about with Chaz
Floherty there on Friday night when we drop it on Saturday.

Speaker 1 (33:49):
But that that's just weird to me because I think it.

Speaker 4 (33:52):
Is an underplay. Don't disagree there, but I don't know
if it goes under by a lot. I think it
goes under, but like they're seeing something that I think
a lot of people aren't in. Going at forty seven now,
do I think it's closer to forty two? Sure, but
like again, and it kind of to that point. The
Bengals start slow, and the Bengals starts slow, and the

(34:14):
Browns always play the Bengals really, really tough. I think
this isn't a game where all the Browns are behind,
like maybe they hang in there in garbage time, but
like they're throwing in like I think the run game
is gonna be able to play all game long, like
with Jerome Ford. So we've talked a lot this offseason
and the greater NFL sphere about the Bengals defense. So

(34:36):
I don't think there's any questions to be had about
the quality of that defense. They were a middle of
the pack run defense this past season. They haven't done
a whole lot to shore that up this offseason. I mean,
one bigger rookie edge will help a little bit, but
a rookie first week, don't think that's gonna matter all
that much. I think Jerome Ford is a must play

(34:58):
if you have two flexes, must play.

Speaker 1 (35:00):
I'm with you there, Okay, Chase, who's your guy that
you have a big discrepancy with.

Speaker 2 (35:05):
My biggest discrepancy in my rankings as of right now
is on your Washington Commanders. In their backfield. Everybody has
fallen in love with Bill Krosky, Bill Krossky Merritt, thinking
that he's.

Speaker 1 (35:19):
Going to be the guy that just huh, they're all
hit the painting. But now right because oh now, all of.

Speaker 2 (35:25):
A sudden, he's thirty ninth on the depth chart, and
they've everybody who's actually been there for several years is
ahead of him on the depth chart. Chris Rodriguez I
have as a running back three play this week at
running back thirty five. His ECRs running back fifty three,
so I've got him almost twenty spots ahead of where
the ECR is because I think, honestly, part of me

(35:47):
wonders here, now if if we're gonna see maybe a
little bit of Austin Eckler like reducks and like, oh well,
we see maybe flashes of what he was three four
seasons ago. But Chris Rodriguez has good match when he's
gotten a chance to play, he's performed pretty well for them,
And oh yeah, he's listed higher on the depth chart
than Bill Krosky is. So I've got Chris Rodriguez as

(36:11):
a sneaky play here, sneaking into that running back three
situation there, because I think that between the two of them,
between Eckler and Rodriguez, I'm looking at the two guys
who actually topped the depth chart there, between the two
of them, I think Rodriguez is the one more likely
to get goal line works, short the ardage work. And
I know they've got Jayden Daniels there, and I know
he's a running quarterback as well, But when you're talking

(36:31):
about who's actually gonna get you know, the ball turned
around and handed off to him, I like the idea
of Chris Rodriguez way out performing the idea of being
running back fifty three. Now it's anybody's guests as to
how that running situation actually plays out this week, and
we will all find out this this Sunday afternoon. But
I still I don't think that I think that everybody

(36:55):
wanted the shiny new toy in Bill Krosky merit. And
it doesn't matter what we all want. It doesn't matter
what we all you know, hope and pray for reality
is gonna get in the way, and so we're gonna
find out the reality this Sunday, and the reality just
might be and Austin Eckler Chris Rodriguez closer to sixty
to forty type split with McNichol and Bill Krosky sneaking

(37:17):
in there. So I'm way higher on Chris Rodriguez than ECR.
I don't think McNichols actually works in there. But to
your point, lead is Austin Eckler. Rodriguez has a short yardage.

Speaker 3 (37:28):
Role, so even if Crossey gets a healthy amount of workload,
he's left between the twenties on early downs. It's not
great for fantasy football purposes in that sense, all right,
So we'll get the mine and then we'll kick it
off to the Dvis cocktail hour. So it's for me,
it's gonna be Matthew Golden. I got him at wide
receiver twenty six ECRs. Guy, I'm at wide receiver forty.
We don't have a ton of data. He is a

(37:50):
rookie player, but he's been a rookie player who's been
making plays all throughout training camp and he's been one
of the few, if not the only wide receiver for
the Packers as actually practice all throughout the train camp
and not gotten banged up at one point or another.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
Romeo Dobbs, the Tavian Wicks, Jayden Reid, you name it.

Speaker 3 (38:06):
And with that, he's he's been able to get himself
ready to play Week one and beat out all those
guys to be the starter. Across from Romeo Dobbs here
we know he has the big play capability just based
on his forty alone. Jordan Love has sung his praise
as far as how surprisingly smooth of a route runner
he has been, and he's gonna get lined up more
times than not across from Terry and Arnold, who is

(38:29):
part of that secondary of Detroit Lions. Last year they
gave the fifth most points to the wide receiver position.
I like it here for a matchup. I'm playing him
in DFS. I'm starting him where I can in my
re draft leagues. So that's what I got going on there.
But now it is time for the DFS Cocktail Hour.

Speaker 2 (38:52):
Ells, Yeah, welcome back to the bar, every buddy. Glad
to have you back for another season of the DFS
Cocktail Hour. Here we're going to actually, we're gonna make
ourselves our own drinks this season. We're gonna come up
with our own cocktails here. I'm gonna let you guys know,
you know the ingredients, how to make them, how to
shake them up here, we'll put that out to you
on the social media's there. But also we're going to

(39:14):
try to get you ready to win some money here
in your cash game DFS lineups. Okay, so a reminder
here real quick, what we're looking at when we talk
about the DFS Cocktailer. We're looking at cash games here,
so fifty to fifties double upstat sort of thing. We
are not necessarily talking about tournament plays or GPPs where
you're gonna want to go like really contrary you know

(39:34):
to what the lay person is doing. You're gonna want
to We're gonna go kind of chalky here, but we're
trying to win you some money. It's boring. It's like
playing the it's like playing the stock market versus buying
a money market account. Okay, yeah, you're you're not gonna
get the maybe the giant returns or their possibility giant returns.
But I'm also not going to tell you to spend
your retirement on the power ball just because it's what

(39:56):
one point three billion. I'm gonna tell you to put
that thing in some safer investments.

Speaker 1 (39:59):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (40:00):
So we're looking at the DraftKings Classic game on the
main slate and this week. That means that out of
sixteen games, we're looking at fourteen games. We're not looking
at the Thursday night game. And this week, reminder for
everybody out there, there is a Friday night game. The
game of Kansas City and Chargers that we've talked about
is a Friday night game. We're not looking at the
Thursday or Friday night game. Remember that when you set

(40:20):
your lineups, that there is a Friday night game this week. Okay,
So when we look at the betting lines, there's three
games here that have touchdown plus favorites. We're talking about
the Giants and the Commanders. There's a touchdown difference here
thanks to our friends over at a Sharp Football Analysis.
The Cardinals are six and a half point favorites at
the Saints. And then we've got the Titans at the Broncos,

(40:42):
and the Broncos are your winners this week at an
eight and a half point favorite in that game. And
then we've also got five games with over underlines of
forty seven plus, like we've been talking about a little
bit here, the Panthers and the Jags, the Lions and
the Packers, the Bucks and the Falcons, Bengals at the Browns,
and the big hitter of the weekend is the Sunday

(41:02):
Night showdown between the Ravens and the Bills as an
over under of fifty one. So those are the games
that we're kind of looking at here in terms of
trying to play and pull off the bulk of our
plays here. Okay, so we're going to look at the
bigger point totals for our passing game, and in our
passing game, we're going to go with a Browns stack

(41:23):
against the Bengals, and we talked about it before. The
Browns always play really tough against the Bengals. When I
look at the prices on the slate this week, I
like the prices for the Browns against the Bengals, and
I like how they allow us to build around them.
So at quarterback, yes, we are going to go with
a cheap Joe Flacco at forty nine hundred. Okay, the

(41:45):
Bengals last season allowed the fifth most points to the
quarterback position. I don't see either one of Dylan Gabriel
or shud Or Sanders breaking through and having to play
week one. We're crying out loud. At some point this season,
we're probably going to see both to them. But Week one,
it's going to be Flacco against the Bengals. He's going
to be airing that thing out. And who's he going

(42:05):
to be airing it out to. He's probably going to
be airing that thing out to the Chief David and
Joku at tight end for forty seven hundred. Okay, the
Bengals allowed the most points to the tight end position
last season. They were absolutely terrible against that position. And
we've talked about it before, I'll mention it again here.
We all know the story by now of how Waco

(42:27):
Flacco flames love affair with the chief you know, blossomed
at the end of the night of the twenty twenty
three season there. So we're gonna go with David Joku
and Joe Flacco and the third part of that stack
that we're going to do from the Browns here, we're
going to actually include Cedric Tillman for forty four hundred

(42:48):
as opposed to going with Jerry Judy. If you paid
attention to Cedric Tilman last season, he was really starting
to light it up last season right before he got
that injury. I think the Browns are going to have
to push the ball down the field to stay with
this Bengals attack here, and I think Tillman can fill
that bill for them. So we are going to start
the base of our cocktail. The base of our DFS

(43:10):
play is going to be the Brown stack of Flacco,
n Djoku, and Cedric Tillman. We're going to play back
against that on the other side of the field with
the number one player on the entire slate here in
Jamar Chase for eighty one hundred. Browns were the first
fourth worst team against wide receivers last season. Okay, in
his games against Cleveland last season, Chase caught eleven out

(43:32):
of fourteen balls. He had a touchdown in each game
against them. He didn't have great yardish totals, but he
didn't need great yardish totals against him because he was
scoring and he was catching the ball a ton and actually,
when you check it out his projection for the week,
it actually plays as a pretty good value despite the
fact that he's got that high price tag. There. So
Brownstack playing Jamar Chase the other game that we are

(43:54):
going to look at then, or our DFS lineups, And
I'm not filling the whole thing out for you, because
you have to have a little bit of your own
agency and take the bull by the horns, so to speak.
But we are going to hammer on that Cardinals Saints matchup.
The Cardinals are road favorites, and I do expect them
to play from in front. They're in New Orleans. Okay,

(44:15):
So give me James Connor at sixty one hundred against
a porous Saints run defense that allowed the fifth most
points to the position last season.

Speaker 1 (44:24):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (44:25):
Reports of James Connor's demise are, in my opinion, greatly exaggerated.
Although I am a Trey Benson fan, that's still James
Connor's position to win loser draw. They're in the desert,
So then we're also going to take because they're favorites
on the road, We're going to take that Cardinals d
against what might actually end up being, when it's all

(44:47):
said and done, the absolute worst offense in the league. Okay,
we know that they're starting Spencer Rattler at quarterback. The
option behind him is Tyler Shuck who is a rookie
and not necessarily an overwhelming rookie at that. So we
are going to hammer on that high over under for
the Bengals and the Browns with the passing attacks there,

(45:08):
and we're gonna hammer on the idea that the Cards
of the Road favored in New Orleans there. So now,
if you don't like those ingredients, before we get to
the cocktail here, I'm gonna let you know that you
can swap out if you're not crazy about the Browns.
And I get that some of you out there might
not be because hey, it's Cleveland. I'm a Cleveland fan.
I get it. If it's my money, and I've done

(45:31):
this already, I'm swapping out the Jags pass attack in
Trevor Lawrence Brenton Strange at that tight end position and
Brian Thomas, I'm swapping them out one for one across
the board with that Brown's pass attack. If you do
that swap out, you can still play the exact same
lineups or just about the exact same lineups that you

(45:51):
can play with that Brown pass attack in there. Either way,
I was able to build lineups with these guys with
CMC in the line up, with DeAndre Swift rounding those
lines ups out. I was able to spend a lot
of money because you're saving a ton of money using
Cleveland and Jacksonville. Now, the cocktail that we're making this week,

(46:12):
we're gonna call it the opening kickoff, Okay, because it's
a it's week one, of course we want to do
an opening kickoff. So the opening kickoff is essentially a
Some people call it a margin rita. Some people call
it a gin orita. We're gonna make a margarita, but
we're gonna swip swap out gin for the tequila. Okay,

(46:36):
So normally you would make a margarita with tequila and
a citrus and a sweetener and you go from there.
We're gonna actually use gin in this one, okay, But
where does the kick come in. This is gonna be
a good one for those weeks when we have a
Europe game. We've talked about a Europe game this already
this week, but we're you have those Europe games and

(46:58):
the kickoff in the morning. You need to get yourself
awake in the morning. You need to get yourself going.
If you're a guy like me, I'm not a coffee guy,
I'm gonna need some caffeine. So we're gonna actually use
Mountain Dew Kickstart as part of this cocktail to get
ourselves going and wake up in the morning. While I
mix this thing up, I'm gonna let you guys talk
about it here. Dan, I'm wondering if you guys, if

(47:21):
you guys are on board with the idea of going
a little bit cheaper on the on the pass game
side of things and for the for the base of
our cocktail here or are there other places that you
want to be going? Okay, So while I mix this up,
I'm gonna be using some Death's Door gin here. We're
gonna use two ounces of that, so we're gonna do
a one two three or there. Okay, then we are

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going to use an ounce of fresh lime juice there.
We're gonna use a half ounce of a gave and
then we are also going to use an ounce and
a half like I said of the Mountain Dew Kickstart,
and I'm using because it's a margarita ish drink. We've

(48:08):
got the orange citrus here. We're gonna use an ounce
and a half of the orange citrus kickstart.

Speaker 4 (48:20):
Put that in there.

Speaker 2 (48:20):
We're gonna mix that up. We're not gonna shake it
up because it's got all of that kind of it's
got the we don't we don't want to make this
drink and shake it up and get and have it
blow out the top of the shaker here because it's
got all of the carbonation carbonation and it Thank you,
I had you listen. I had to open another drink

(48:41):
to deal with your Bryce Young take earlier. So that's
our opening kickoff for the week, Dan Adam, Do you
guys agree with the base of this DFS cocktail in
that passing attack got them?

Speaker 4 (48:58):
Yeah? I think it's interesting strategy. While while you were
putting that together, I checked out some lineup options kind
of building with it, and to your point, I was
able to fit in a Christian McCaffrey, a Khalil Shakir
who I love was one of my ECR guys this week.
If we're able to get to it, a guy who
I think is incredibly undervalued this week, and a controversial
player of the show, Tetero and McMillan. So those three

(49:21):
around that Browns lineup, Yeah, and I would feel really
good about that, so that I think it's a good
combination save a lot of money and be able to
to you know, have some undervalued guys in. They're really
strong running back group.

Speaker 2 (49:34):
Interesting that you bring up Tedroll McMillan. Not to cut
you off there, Dan, but interesting you bring up Tedeamoro
Milan because if you swap out the Jaguars for the
Browns there, then you can play Ted Roll McMillan back
against that Jaguars team and get a piece of that
and get another piece of that game as well with
that over under and again that's going to allow you

(49:55):
then to fill in your lineup with some of those
higher priced guys. That's why I loved both of these,
both of these lineups. But go ahead, Dan, what's your
thoughts on this?

Speaker 3 (50:03):
No, I'm with you more on the Browns on the
brown side. To Adam's point, I mean, the books seem
to think that's gonna be one of the higher over
runners of the week. Now we seem to think it's
going to be more on the underside. But the whole
thing of why you kind of get excited a little
bit about Joe Flacco taking over for the Cleveland Browns
was the idea that he could re spark some of
that magic he had back in twenty twenty two and
throwing the ball down deep. Now he wasn't good for

(50:25):
the Colts, but he still let it fly and there
was a lot of turnovers which can lead the bigger shootouts.
And Tilman, I think Tilman's the better receiver in the
Cleveland Browns over Jerry Judy. I think he is the
best receiver on that team.

Speaker 1 (50:36):
So I'm with you there. David Joke was a top
five tight end for me, so I like that stack.

Speaker 3 (50:41):
More so than Lauren Strange and Thomas going against Carolina.

Speaker 1 (50:45):
I'm not big on Strange being much of a points producer.

Speaker 3 (50:49):
And when you go again and put the salad result together,
the combination of the Browns actually allows you to do
even more things with more bigger name pledged type of players.

Speaker 1 (50:57):
So I'm with you so far on the basis of this.

Speaker 2 (51:00):
Yeah, I my only thing, like I said, my only
thing about it is I'm looking to try and save
some money here on that base so that we can
fill in with some of those bigger guns like we
talked about, like the CMCs, like the DeAndre Swiss, like
Khalie O Shakir that Adam said he likes. But yeah,
that I just I think that based on what we
saw two years ago from Joe and from David and Joku,

(51:24):
and from from the idea of being able to push
that ball down the field. And hey, if he throws
a couple of interceptions, he throws a couple of interceptions,
but that just means he's got to throw it more
when they get the ball back. I'm I'm excited to
play that Brown's pass attack against the Bengals pass defense.
That outside of the idea of the pass rush with
Trey Hendrickson, leaves a little bit to be desired.

Speaker 3 (51:46):
All right, So we have our drink we have the
core of our DFS lineup, and we have your week
one review. Just like that, are those drink recipes We're
going to try to get up Amber Phillips or at
amberill Or from the host of The Queen's Ransom to
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Network channel because you'll be getting us all season long
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Speaker 1 (52:20):
Again, make sure you check us out.

Speaker 3 (52:21):
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doctor Brian Scott talking about injuries and Chaz Floridi or
Sports Betting Weekly because we want to lign your pockets
along with winning some fantasy football matchups.

Speaker 1 (52:33):
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