Five-Time FFPC League Champ Adam Tountas

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Who are the dynasty targets both rookies and veterans that
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shed off your team. What are the best ADP values
right now in FFPC drafts? And who is the key
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We have a great show for you tonight. Adam Tutis
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Speaker 2 (05:44):
Tonight, we have a guy who is not only well.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
Versed in FFPC Dynasty leagues, but FFPC redraft leagues as well.
He's won five of them over the course of his
short career in the Fantasy Football Players Championship. Please welcome
into the show my co host for the evening, mister
Adam tune Tis Adam. So good to have you a
board tonight. Good evening, How are you.

Speaker 4 (06:05):
I'm great, It's great to be here.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Eric, thank you, absolutely good to have you a board tonight.

Speaker 2 (06:10):
So much fun.

Speaker 1 (06:11):
And I know I know that you have been playing
a lot of Dynasty stuff, especially the last couple of years.
What is it about dynasty Fantasy football that just basically
has you captured and captivated that you love it so much?

Speaker 4 (06:25):
I mean, I'm an addict in short, you know, I
think it's I just like the idea of having a
team over the long haul, getting to change it, getting
to mix it up. It just it adds a level
an element of ownership that you don't get in Redraft,
and I like it.

Speaker 1 (06:41):
It's a lot of fun. And I think and you
you've done Redraft stuff over the years too. And I've
always said this on this show, and I've said it
on all my shows, like I think playing Dynasty makes
you a better Redraft player that they playing Redraft makes
you a better Dynasty player too. I mean, it just
it sharpens everything and it really lets you into to
that you dialed in to know, Okay, this is what
I should be doing here for this year, this is

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what I should be doing for future years.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
I don't know. That's how I've always felt about it.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
I played Redraft and Dynasty, and it's like it's it's
sort of like, you know, my my starch and my
entrede like I have to have both.

Speaker 2 (07:15):
I can't have one or the other.

Speaker 4 (07:16):
ATAM, I totally agree. Absolutely.

Speaker 1 (07:18):
Let's get into the interview tonight, because I want to
let everybody know who you are and why you're on
tonight before we get into the fantasy football portion. Tell
the viewers, Tell the listeners, what you're doing for a
living when you're not winning all these FFPC leagues.

Speaker 4 (07:36):
I'm an attorney. I don't want to tell anybody.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Your secret's safe with me.

Speaker 4 (07:41):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 1 (07:42):
What kind of law do you practice or is that
step like am I overstepping?

Speaker 4 (07:46):
Is that I'm a litigator, a civil litigator. Mostly defense work. Yeah,
mostly defense work. But people hire me when they've been sued.
They hire me when they're in their darkest hour, and
I help them navigate those challenges.

Speaker 1 (07:59):
Much like picking up an orphan dynasty team, right, that
would be it could be in its darkest hour and
then you basically rescue it from the recesses of ambiguity,
of of of of of you know, like the worst
possible spot that these orphan teams could be in, you
are rescuing them. So it makes it makes a lot
of sense. How many years have you been doing this now, Adam?

Speaker 4 (08:21):
An attorney?

Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yeah?

Speaker 4 (08:22):
I think I will be twenty years in the fall.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Good for you? Good for and what part of that?
Where are you located?

Speaker 4 (08:29):
I live in West Michigan, the Great.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Michigan, Oh my god, the Pride of Michigan. Tonight, Big
Lions fan.

Speaker 4 (08:34):
Huge Lions fan, lifelong Lions fan.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
What do you make of just, well, well, we'll break
it in right now. I don't know if we have
any Lions stuff. Well we do with some Lion stuff
on the rundown, but we'll get to the specifics on that.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
What do you make of the Lions schedule this year?

Speaker 1 (08:46):
Knowing that I have a I have a terrestrial radio show,
a local radio show here in northeast Wisconsin, and one
of my listeners to that is a diehard Lions fan
and he's been telling me, and I can't really disagree
with him, the Lions probably have the toughest schedule, not
only in the NFC North but in the entire NFL.
They had that first place schedule and obviously going up
against the Bears, Vikings, and Packers twice a year, that's

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no easy task. What do you make of the Lines
not only having the toughest schedule in the NFL but
breaking in not one but two new coordinators this year
under Dan Campbell? Is this like kind of like, hey, listen,
they're good enough to navigate this or do you have
a little bit of pause when you think about how
good Detroit could be this year?

Speaker 2 (09:27):
Because this matters for fantasy too.

Speaker 4 (09:28):
Yeah, I wouldn't say that I have any pause. I mean,
I'm actually really excited about the new coordinators. You know,
they've been grooming Shepherd for a long time. I've read
a lot of interviews that Campbell's given, and they were
really intentional about selecting him and keeping him involved last season.
And John Morton's been around. I mean, he was here.
You know, there's that vignette from Hard Knocks a couple

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of years back where they were talking about what do
we do with Craig Reynolds and Morton said, you don't
cut him. He's everything we stand for, right. I mean,
so these are familiar faces, and I assume it's going
to be a little bit different, but I'm bullish.

Speaker 1 (10:05):
Do you Well, Okay, let's let's let's let's get into
the actual fantasy aspect here. So Number one, I want
to I want to kick things off with Derrick Henry King.
Henry will Will open things up tonight, a guy that
we talked about I think we talked about with him
with Farrell last week because he signed that two year extension. Uh,
in anytime you have a thirty plus year old running

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back sign anything extension. My Spidey sense perks up because
I'm like, really, we're doing this okay. And then the
other thing we have to look at here too, Adam
is Derick Henry. If we look at the FFPC Big
Gorilla ADP right now, which is courtesy Fantasymojo dot Com
Darren Armani, who is my guest on the FFPC Insider
Access on the Better Sports Network last night. Anytime we
cite ADP on this show, it's courtesy of him. We

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can answer this question from a dynasty standpoint. We can
also answer this question from a redraft standpoint. Dereck Henry
is running back six dude two oh three right now
in the FFPC Big Gorilla Tournament over the last seven days.
I know you have some shares in dynasty of him.
Can you tell me what type of season you think
he's going to have this year and also what you're

(11:11):
doing with those shares that you have him in FFPC
dynasty leagues.

Speaker 4 (11:16):
I'm holding every share I've got of Derrick Henry and
I will ride him until the wheels fall off. I
think he's going to be just as good this year
as he was last year. His role in the offense
isn't going to change. I understand he's a year older,
but he's a guy who hasn't shown any signs of
dropping off. I mean, he had a run that was
twenty one miles an hour last season, So I mean

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he is who he's always been and he's a great player.
And the way I look at him, Eric is he
is one of the proven three hundred point players in
my lineup. To me, three hundred point players are the
gold standard, whether they be receivers, running backs, tight ends.
And so I'm holding and I'm just as bullish on
him this year as I was last year in the
year before.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Talk about those three hundred point players, like when you
are managing your dynasty rosters in the FFPC, it is
every move you make, your your sort of your goal
the end goal.

Speaker 2 (12:09):
I think about. Here's the way I'll explain this, Sam Presty,
this is.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
I know this is NBA and a lot of people
are tuning out right now when I start talking basketball,
but say, I think it was Sam Presty for the
Oklahoma City Thunder several years ago when he was the
GM there.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
I don't think he's the GM there anymore, but he.

Speaker 1 (12:24):
Made all these trades. It might have been Darryl Mory
actually in Houston. That's that's what I want to talk about.
He made all these incremental trades where he got basically
five percent better with every single trade. So it took
a long while to get there, right, But if you
do enough of these in FFPC dynasty, you can actually
achieve What's what's the I think it's the red paper

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clip that was a big thing in the United Kingdom
where this dude had a red paper clip and he
ended up making like a series of like eight or
nine trades and he turned it into like a house
in London or something like that because he got incrementally
a little bit better every single time. And I I
think that's the question I'm kind of posing you to here.

Speaker 2 (13:03):
Is this the way you're handling your dynasty rosters. Are
you just trying to like.

Speaker 1 (13:07):
Not win every deal, but just get a little bit
better every single time so you know that whatever deal
you're making is maybe not going to put you over
the edge. But if you make a series of these
and continually getting better, then all of a sudden you
fall into these three hundred point scores.

Speaker 4 (13:22):
Like you said, yeah for sure, I mean There's two
things I think about whenever I'm thinking about a dynasty trade.
One is am I consolidating value? What's the value proposition
of the deal. But I think, first and foremost, I
look at my starting lineup the front line, and I think,
am I any better? Does this trade make me better?
You know? I mean depth is important. You always want

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to have depth on your roster. But as many three
hundred point players as I can get I'm looking for.
And when I enter a rookie draft and I look
at folks, I mean, my number one consideration is I
don't follow a lot of college football. I don't really
have time. I never miss an NFL game, but I've
got three kids, I've got a busy law practice, so
I don't really tune into college football. But when I
do my scouting after the season, I number one try

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to decide who are these players? What's their bundle of skills?
And then I wait for landing spot and I say,
is that spot going to unlock those skills? But I
always sort them mentally into buckets. Are they a three
hundred point player at their highest peak? Are they a
two hundred and fifty point player? Are they a two
hundred point player, you know, and I want as many
three hundred point players as I can, and landing spot's

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a big part of.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
That, do you I mean, listen, you can never have
enough three hundred point scores obviously in Dynasty. Do you
feel like there's a sweet spot, like once I hit okay,
once I have four, and now I'm happy and like,
and now this team can compete. Now that I have two,
I feel like I'm in competition. Do you ever think
about it in those terms?

Speaker 2 (14:48):
Excuse me?

Speaker 1 (14:49):
In those terms are Dynasty, where like, once you achieve
a certain level as far as how many of them
you have, you feel like, Okay, now I'm in competition
mode rather than reload mode.

Speaker 4 (14:59):
Yeah, I think so. I mean, to me, the magic
numbers probably three. If I've got three people who are
conceivably three hundred point players on my team, I feel comfortable.
I want, you know, in a perfect world, your starting
wide receivers and running backs or three hundred point players
or two hundred and fifty plus. I mean, there's like
the gray area. But yeah, I think that's right. I

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think you're muted.

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Yeah, you're right, I'm sorry, right, thank you so much.
Let's talk about the Steelers. This is not the last
time we'll talk about the Steelers tonight. Yeah, George Pickens
is now a Dallas cowboy, my friend.

Speaker 2 (15:38):
When when you look at.

Speaker 1 (15:39):
The the the opening for the second wide receiver, and
I want to say second pass catcher because I think
that's Pat Fyromo, but the second wide receiver in Pittsburgh
right now. We can talk dynasteirre redraft here and answer
these questions however you see fit. But Roman Wilson, Calvin Austin,
those are the best possible options here for you in
Pittsburgh right now for fantasy. I know there was talk

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about potentially the Steelers talking to the Saints about acquiring
Chris Olave. I don't think those conversations went very far.
But knowing that how it stands right now, and also
knowing that they could bring in somebody, they still could
trade for somebody.

Speaker 2 (16:18):
I don't know if that's going to happen.

Speaker 1 (16:20):
They could sign a guy like Keenan Allen that that's
a possibility as well. But knowing for anybody who's drafting
right now today, May twenty third, Roman Wilson, Calvin Austin,
do you have a strong feeling here, of which is
the correct Pittsburgh Steeler wide receiver to draft opposite DK Metcalf.

Speaker 4 (16:37):
I mean, it's a tough question because Austin's a veteran
and I remember listening to a Steelers beat writer a
couple of weeks ago while they still had pickens, and
he said, Austin is unquestionably the number three pass catcher.
The coaching staff trusts him, and he's a veteran. And
Wilson missed just about every single minute of last season
due to injury. That being said, I love Roman Wilson.

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I think he's an explosive player. I think he ran
like a four to three nine. I think he plays
faster than that. He's a slot receiver, but he can
win vertically. He's a guy who I mean, And I'm
not a Michigan guy. I'm a State grad. But I've
watched some Roman Wilson in his college years and I
think he's tough. And I would bet on Wilson if
I had to. I've got shares.

Speaker 1 (17:17):
You've got shares exactly now. Since you're a State guy,
I'll bring this up. I don't think it's on the rundown.
What are your thoughts on Jaden Reid knowing that he
kind of was the Packers the facto number one wide
receiver after they drafted Sabian Williams and Matthew Golden this year,
Jayden Reid had to sit down with the Packers GM
Brian Gudukunz and Ghuda Kunz assured him that what they

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did in the draft does not affect his standing as
the number one wide receiver on the team, which I
think is interesting because the number one wide receiver on
the Packers is a lot different than the number one
wide receiver and a lot of other teams. What are
your feelings about Jaden Reid in Dynasty and re draft
right now? Knowing what the Packers did what they did
in the NFL Draft.

Speaker 4 (17:57):
I like Jayden Reid a lot. I think he'll have
a good year. I'm hoping he has a good year.
You know, they ran a lot of pressman coverage the
second half of last season against the Packers, and he's
I don't want to call him a gadget guy, but
he's at his best when you scheme him. Touches find
ways to scheme him open, and so I think adding
Golden's actually going to help him. I think Golden adds

(18:18):
this vertical threat. I think Golden way of thinking about
it to me, Eric is he should end up being
what they wanted Christian Watson to be in their offense Watson.
I love Watson too, but he just he can't stay healthy.
So you know, Golden adds that vertical element. And I
think hopefully they can scheme Jane Reid open a bunch
and design stuff for him.

Speaker 1 (18:39):
And that's sort of what they did when he was
crushing it, right, That's what they were doing, and then
for whatever reason, they just went away from it the
second half of twenty twenty four, which I still don't understand.
And obviously with the Williams and Golden thing, maybe, from
what you're telling me here tonight, Adam, maybe the Williams
and Golden thing presents a buying opportunity for Jaden Reid

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in Dynasty, and maybe it lowers his ADP to a
level that it shouldn't be right now, and we should
be getting more Jayden Reid on our team rather than
the opposite, which I think a lot of people are doing.

Speaker 4 (19:09):
Yeah, for better or worse, Eric, That's been my outlook.
I mean, I'm kind of a Spartan Homer, But I'm
using this as an opportunity to snap up Jade Reid
wherever I can.

Speaker 1 (19:17):
I know it's not exciting to talk about the Saints
offense because the Saints offense is very offensive from what
we have thought.

Speaker 2 (19:26):
I saw something on X today.

Speaker 1 (19:27):
About or No was. A buddy of mine sent me
a text that he got a post from X and
it was the Saints got kicked out of the draft
room at the NFL Draft and then the Yahoo app
auto drafted Tyler Shook for them essentially, which I.

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Thought was humorous.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
And we don't I mean, he could be the starter,
it could be Spencer Ratler, it could be Kirk Cousins
for all we know. Quite frankly, it's wild what's going
on in New Orleans right now, and I don't want
to And we'll talk about the Saints receivers. I think
we'll talk about Saints receivers tonight, but I want to
focus in on the running backs. Kendra Miller was a
player that I think a lot of us were excited
about when he got selected by the Saints in the draft,

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and yet Dennis Allen and the coaching staff really seemed
to keep him in the doghouse there, they didn't like him. Now,
who is reasy? Darren Reze, I think, was the guy
who got elevated to the interim head coach after Dennis
Allen got fired, and Reese said, Hey, there's nobody in
my doghouse, and so then I'm okay, Well, let's see
what happens with Kendra Miller. And it was just kind

(20:31):
of like eh, and then they went out and they
got Devin Neil in the draft this year.

Speaker 2 (20:35):
Devin Neil, a player.

Speaker 1 (20:36):
Who his statistical accomplishments at Kansas unquestioned, like, if you
like stats, if you like what he did on the field,
you gotta love Devin Neil. My concern with Neil is
I don't know if he's athletic enough to be a
difference maker to be the explosive type of running back
that we want for fantasy and that the Saints are
looking for there. But I can't ignore the fact that

(20:57):
Alvin Kamara will turn I think fifty seven years old
this year. Hey, I can't ignore the fact that Kendra
Miller has done little to nothing to suggest that.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
He is going to be the backup in New Orleans
right enter.

Speaker 1 (21:10):
Devin Neil, and I think it's intriguing here if you
are drafting, either in dynasty rookie drafts or maybe have
the opportunity to pick one of these guys up, or
maybe you're looking for a zero RB guy late in
your drafts, the injury away type guy is a Devon
Neil for you, Adam or is it Kendra Miller?

Speaker 2 (21:29):
Where do you fall in on this conversation.

Speaker 4 (21:30):
It's Devin Neil without question. I love Devon Neil. I
picked him up in just about every rookie draft where
I could, and I grabbed him at the end of
the second round if I thought that's what I needed
to do to get him. I'm very bullish on him.
He's a great player.

Speaker 1 (21:43):
Devin Neil is okay and okay, So I guess I
should ask this. Is this more of a like, you
love Neil or you just are not impressed with Kendra Miller.
I guess it's probably a mixture, like you're not but
but Neil you really love?

Speaker 4 (21:58):
Yeah, Yeah, I think Neil's going to be a great
professional running back. I'm convinced he will be. It's not
as much a criticism of Miller. I just don't think
Miller's good enough to keep Neil off the field, you know,
all the and I totally understand eric the excitement everybody
had when Miller was drafted, because you look at Kamara
and you say, look, he's getting along in the tooth, right,

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he had some injury issues. Now, his demise was grossly overstated.
I'm thinking of that old Mark Twain quote, you know,
like rumors of my death have been grossly overstated. Kamar
is great. But for all the excitement we had about Miller,
I have just as much excitement about Neil. And I
feel like Neil's got the tape to back it up,
whereas I didn't feel that way about Miller. We were
projecting when it came to Kendrick Miller. He had a

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nice year, but Devin Neil had four great years and
he was their entire offense. There's a clip on YouTube
the Saints put up. It's like fifteen minutes of like
silent highlights of Devon Neil. And he's one of these
guys with exquisite vision. In my view, right, my humble opinion,
his feet and his eyes are perfectly connected. So the
plays block for four or five yards, he gets the

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four or five, and then it looks like somebody's got
a beat on him, and he just squeezes away and
right out of their grasp. Then he turns that into
another cut. He squeezes away right out of their grasp,
and one more and then he's caught from behind because
he doesn't have long speed. But you look up and
that's a fifteen or a twenty yard game. I mean,
he reminds me a lot of Kyn Williams. I think
they win the same way. And so if Devin Neil

(23:22):
sees the field, it's going to be really hard to
keep him one. That's right.

Speaker 1 (23:25):
Yeah, And listen, by the way, I'm totally buying in
what you're selling here. I think this begs the question, though,
long speed as far as running backs go, because you're
an Accomplisheddynasty player, is that kind of overrated?

Speaker 2 (23:39):
Do you not necessarily care about that a whole lot?

Speaker 4 (23:42):
I like doubles just as much as I like home
runs and guys who are going to pop off for ten, fifteen,
twenty yards or doubles hitters. You put a couple of
those runs together on every drive and you look up,
you fall in the end zone. You got twenty points
that week. Yea, you do that a couple of weeks
in a row, and you're close to being a three
hundred point player. I think it's easy to get caught

(24:02):
up in forty times and athleticism. But if there's one
position in sports where athleticism matters least, I think it's
professional running back.

Speaker 1 (24:10):
I think the thing I've always said, and ah man,
this is gonna burn me because I'm not going to
remember the full thing, but I remember, like.

Speaker 2 (24:19):
I can't remember it, but there.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
Was a Dynasty analyst, Dynasty fantasy football analystis said this
a few years ago, and it stuck with me, but
clearly not all the way because I can't remember the
whole thing. But he said, there is one particular aspect
that was most important to each position in Dynasty Fantasy Football,
and the most important aspect for success for running backs

(24:45):
was not talent.

Speaker 2 (24:46):
It was not athletic ability, it was not any of those.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
It was opportunity. All you need is an opportunity. You
don't have to be the fastest guy in the world.
You don't have to make everybody miss, you don't have
to be this athletic wunderkin that just sets the world
world on fire, you get the opportunity. Ask Kyron Williams,
you know, to the point that you just brought up,
is he the most?

Speaker 2 (25:07):
Is he gonna?

Speaker 1 (25:07):
Is he a jaw dropping guy that you're like, Oh
my god, we got to get.

Speaker 2 (25:11):
This guy, And no he's not.

Speaker 1 (25:13):
And that's okay because he wins with being just a
good running back who got an opportunity, and maybe that's
all Devin Neil needs as well. There's certainly a non
zero chance that if he's given the opportunity this year,
if Kamara breaks down, and even if it's only for
like a three or four game window or a two
or three game window, it'll be very interesting to see

(25:33):
what Devin Neil can do. Granted, the offensive line is
not great, the whole team is not great, the offense
is not great. But we've seen what he could do
when the chips are against him in Kansas, and maybe
he'll do that in the pros as well. Let's move
on here to Mike Evans. Oh my god, Mike Evans.
So I want to say, like a week before the draft,

(25:56):
Peter Schrager now of ESPN formerly a bit NFL, put
out a mock draft and he had the Buccaneers taken
like Matthew Golden or it it wasn't Agbuka, but it
was another receiver, And I'm like, why would the Buccaneers
take a receiver in the first round. They have Evans,
they have Godwin. It looks like they found something at
Jalen McMillan. I couldn't understand it. And then the Buccaneers

(26:18):
went out and grabbed and Mecca Buka in the first
round of the draft. By all accounts, this dude is
super high as far as character goes, super high floor.
This guy can can win in the slot. That's that's
probably where his best fantasy output will come in the
pros is playing in the slot. He can win on
the outside as well. He does it all and now

(26:40):
he is the first round pick for the Buccaneers. Chris
Godwin is a guy that I love the last couple
of years, especially last year, and he's coming off this
nasty ankle injury, and yet the Buccaneers gave him a
new contract. We know Jalen McMillan is there as well
and and really came on at the end of the season.
So this is a leading question counts. As you are

(27:01):
well versed in this Mike Evans. What's your level of concern?
Knowing everything that the picture I just painted about Godwin,
about McMillan and at Buka. What do you think about
Evans this season? Barely got over a thousand yards last year.
I know he missed like three games or whatever. Are
we overrating him? Are is he being overdrafted in the
Big Gorilla?

Speaker 2 (27:21):
Right now?

Speaker 1 (27:21):
I can tell you, Adam that Mike Evans is going
as wide receiver twenty two at the four h six.
Certainly I could see him paying that off. But I
think there's a non zero chance that he does not
pay that off this year as well. I'll stop talking.
Give me your thoughts on Mike Evans this year.

Speaker 4 (27:37):
I like Mike Evans, you know, I compare him a
lot to Henry. I mean, until I see signs that
he's not going to be who he's been, I treat
him like he is who he is trying to think of.
I mean, I don't view I don't view the Egbuka
thing as a criticism on Evans. I mean I think
that that was really more they don't want to rush

(27:58):
Godwin back. I think I read somewhere their general manager said,
you know, we took a best player available approach. We
really like it. Buka Godwin's going to be a huge
part of our offense still, but this way we don't
have to rush him back. I think Mike Evans continues
to be the number one target there. He's a guy
that just demands the ball. He's tall, he's he's perpetually open,
he makes highlight reel catches, he mosses guys ever, you know, whenever.

(28:21):
I just he's one of these guys who was fun
to watch. I don't see him going anywhere. That being said,
I don't know that he's going to play after this season.
So I like him more in Redraft than I do Dynasty.
But with all these old guys on my roster, these
proven players, I'm just going to ride them until the
wheels fall off.

Speaker 2 (28:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:38):
So that kind of leads me into this next point,
and I think you kind of already answered it. I
am of the same Dynasty thinking as you. I feel
like if you try to sell on these guys late
in their career, I think you often get burned by
it because you're not going to get a lot for him,
You're probably not going to get full value. And I

(28:59):
always This is my hines Ward theorem, Right, hines Ward,
I just kept on my roster and I just like, yeah,
I'll throw them in wide receiver, three, wide receiver, four,
bye weeks whatever. And yet this dude turned out great
season after great season when everybody else left them for dead.
And for me, I'm much more likely to just be like,
I've been a bag holder on Travis Kelcey in a
couple of my leagues in dynasty leagues last few seasons.

(29:22):
Mike Evans I do own in a couple of my
dynasty leagues as well, and I just feel like trying
to sell these guys towards the end of their career,
you're actually it's detrimental to your team because I think
that the probability for these guys who you know, it's
not like Evans had like a four hundred yard season
last year, right, he still had a really good season.

(29:43):
And so when they're not, I mean, maybe they're showing
signs and you know, maybe they fall off the cliff.
I just feel like, more often than not, if you
trade these players towards the end of their careers, you
end up regretting it. And that's not something I want
to do, and it seems like that's the way you're
playing it. Obviously, I don't want to lump all players
into that bucket, but it seems like more often than not,
you're playing it the same way.

Speaker 4 (30:05):
I mean, my concern with a guy like Evans or
Henry is just that they're more likely to get injured
as they get older. I mean, their level of play
has been pretty consistent, but as you get old. I know,
I'm forty seven, and I know what it's like to
roll out of bed and have a kink in your
neck just because your head was turned one way at night, right,
So I get that. I'm just I look at them
and I say, you know, next season, I might need
to do something with that roster spot, but as long

(30:27):
as they're there, I'm happy to have them.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
I am too, And and I'll like I always think
about like with players like that, that's a problem for
twenty twenty six meters, that's a problem for twenty twenty seven. Like,
I'm just gonna live out and see what I can
do with these guys on my team.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
Okay, let's get back to your lions.

Speaker 1 (30:45):
Here. There has been a ground swell of love, and
we'll get to I think I got.

Speaker 2 (30:51):
Roma Dunze in here. Maybe I don't have Roman Dunzy.

Speaker 1 (30:53):
I thought I did. Yeah, I got I got Roma
Dunesey in here somewhere. Maybe I don't.

Speaker 2 (30:58):
Damn it.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
Did I not put Rome Dunsay in the rundown? I
wanted to talk. Well, we'll find a way to bring
up Rome Oduonsay with you tonight. But let's talk about
Jameison Williams here. Jamison Williams is a player that we
have heard talked about in trade rumors. We have heard
him talked about by Dan Campbell as this or not

(31:19):
Campbell John Morton talking about this could be his best
season ever? Right, Morton saying, I've never been around somebody
this fast except for Jamier Gibbs, so he's been around,
you know, two really fast players. Now that he's been
the OC here for the Lions, Jamison Williams, what are
his chances on having his best season ever this year?

(31:39):
And I'll bring this up right now, which I did
not realize until a couple of weeks ago at him,
that James and Williams actually had over a thousand yards
receiving last year, which I didn't blow my mind but
I was really surprised to see that just over one thousand.
I'll get thirteen hundred and anything like that was just
over one thousand. But wide receiver twenty nine at the
six oh four in Big Gorilla drafts. Right now, it's
behind Hunt and Flowers, it's ahead of Pickens and Judy.

(32:04):
What are the chances that Jamison Williams number one, has
his best season ever and number two, and maybe more importantly,
pays off that mid sixth round ADP.

Speaker 4 (32:11):
I think there's a really good chance he pays off
that ADP. I mean, I think he's going to be
better than he was last year. You know, he's effectively
coming into his third season, which is an inflection point
for a lot of receivers. It's technically his fourth, but
he missed all of his first because of injury, and
so I consider that basically a lost season. He's showed
a lot of growth last year. In training camp, Campbell

(32:32):
was saying things like, he's finally one of the guys. Right,
His sound like weren't as critical. He's meshing with the system.
He's one of the guys. He's a guy that blocks
his ass off, He's a guy that plays to win,
not for stats. Those are guys who do well on
the Lions. I mean, he feels like a Lion to me.
I don't think I don't expect him to be traded.

(32:52):
There's a chance I guess that they don't. If he
has another thousand yard season, maybe they don't have the
money to resign him. And that was what the Isaac
Taslaw draft, what the pick was about. But I mean,
certainly this season, I love Jamo.

Speaker 1 (33:05):
What do you make of that Tuslath thing? Because they
gave up essentially two extra third round picks. Yeah, they
get this guy on their team. And Taslav is a
guy that you know, you could see the raw ability, right,
but it is raw. I mean it's not like he
had all this great production last year at Arkansas. The
pieces are there for him to be a quality NFL receiver,

(33:27):
maybe a quality fantasy receiver as well, do you I
mean it sounds like that is not playing a big
role in how you feel about Jamison Williams though. The
fact that they gave up all this capital to get
up and get this guy that to me, Williams replacement.

Speaker 4 (33:42):
Yeah, he might be. I don't think he will be
this year. I love Isaac look and in full disclosure,
I'm a little biased. So he is from my neck
of the woods, my current hometown, and I have a daughter,
high school aged daughter that is a stud two sport
athlete and she works out at the same sports performance
facility Isaac did when he was in high school, and
he comes back and trains when he's home from college.

(34:04):
And you know, I didn't make the connection at first.
It's a Dutch sounding last name, and I remember seeing
it on the record board when I'd go to the
gym to pick up my daughter, and I think it
was Lance zir lyons Combine tracker. You know, I was
scrolling down one day and I saw Isaac Taslott. I thought, God,
that is not a common name, and I scrolled over
clicked on it. He's from Hudsonville, Michigan, which is basically

(34:25):
where I live. And so the next time I was
in the gym, I found the head coach and I said,
what can you tell me about Isaac? And this is
a I mean, this facility is chalk full of exceptional
high school and college level athletes looking to bring the
best out of themselves without missing a beat, he said.
He is one of the highest motor, highest character kids
we've ever trained. I would bet on him, and that

(34:48):
was before the Lions drafted him, So I was obviously
juiced when we did. I mean, I understand we paid
a lot, but you know, he's like a four four three.
He's a foty inch vertical. You know. He started as
a quarterback in high school in a wing t offense.
He's very smart. He went to Hillsdale, where his dad
had a bunch of football records. It's a small Division
two school in Michigan. He went to Hillsdale, broke all

(35:08):
his dad's records, entered the portal, went to Arkansas. He
didn't get a lot of playing time, but he's also
new to the position, so he feels like a lion
to me. You know, I've seen interviews where Holmes said
he went to the Senior Bowl, didn't know anything about him,
saw him blocking his ass off and what he said,
pestering the hell out of defensive backs, and he said,
who is this kid? Get me his film? And he

(35:29):
checked him out and said he was my favorite receiver
in the draft. So I like Isaac. It's not soured
me on jam Wood all, especially this year. But would
I be surprised if Jamison Williams puts up a thousand
yard season and we don't resign him and Isaac slatsun
to his role. No, I wouldn't be surprised.

Speaker 1 (35:44):
Yeah, it makes perfect sense. You're constantly reloading. And I
think that we have seen in the NFL a lot
of smart gms will do this, where they will bet
on the work ethic, they will bet on the talent, they.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
Will bet on the stuff that you can't coach up right.

Speaker 1 (36:00):
I think the Packers have done this for years at
the edge rusher position right where they take these raw guys.
Sometimes they turn out right, like Rashan Gary had all
these intangibles that you simply it's God given talent, work
ethic and athletic ability.

Speaker 2 (36:18):
And sometimes it works out.

Speaker 1 (36:19):
And then you look at Lucas van Ness with the Packers,
who was like a top fifteen pick in the NFL draft,
had all the talent in the world, all the athletic ability.
They call him Hercules because of how he looks, but
hasn't translated into NFL production.

Speaker 2 (36:36):
And could this happen with Teslav? I don't know.

Speaker 1 (36:39):
You know, he's raw, you know, He's got all these
things that you just can't coach. So why not take
a chance at him when everybody's trying to win at
the margins in the NFL and quite frankly, we're trying
to win at the margins and dynasty fantasy football as well.
Might be worth a chance to take Tesla on your team.
Dean Sanders apparently wanted him, according to Bill Hollywood, another
Big Lions fan hanging out in the YouTube chat tonight.

Speaker 2 (37:00):
So there you go.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
All right, let's go to another rookie in Houston. I
have had the opportunity to draft this guy a couple
of times. I think I've done it once, but I
think it was Redraft. I think it was a redraft
fastball team. I don't think I've taken him in Dynasty,
even though I had the opportunity, and I keep passing
him up. And here's why, Jalen nol in Houston. There's
a narrative out there that says, because Higgins and Collins

(37:26):
are so complimentary that Noel, who is a different type
of receiver stylistically, will get on the field more right
because he compliments what Collins and Higgins do. I look
at it from the standpoint Adam like, this guy is
like the third target on this team right now, and

(37:46):
maybe long term he's the fourth. I mean, we'll see
what happens with Tank Dell. Maybe Tank Dell is just done.
I don't know, but I really have a hard time.
It's part of the reason. Who's the guy the Chiefs
took the receiver this year in the draft Williams No No, No.

Speaker 2 (38:01):
Day three. He was.

Speaker 1 (38:03):
He was a guy that like I've had the opportunity
to draft, and I'm like, I can't take this guy
because the YouTube channel helped me out, because he's behind Worthy,
he's behind Rashie Rice. I just I don't understand. Yeah,
you're Jalen Royals. Thank you, Adam Hahn. We have that
right now. John Terry also trying at Jalen Royals like

(38:24):
I've been, I haven't been taking this guy. And I'm
kind of applying the same thing to Noel here because
I understand that he should be on the field more.

Speaker 2 (38:31):
But man, Collins and Higgins are really good.

Speaker 1 (38:33):
Higgins was the first second round Pith to get a
four fully guaranteed contract by the NFL.

Speaker 2 (38:38):
So to me, it's just like, why should I be
in on Knowle. Are you in on Nole?

Speaker 1 (38:42):
Can you sell me on Jalen Knowle as a Dynasty prospect?

Speaker 4 (38:46):
Yes, I'm in on Nole. I feel the same way
about him I do about Devin Neil. He was the
guy who I targeted wherever I could grab him. I
think he was the third best receiver out of his
class to my untrained eye. He I think he's better
than his teammates Higgins. I understand he's been comped to
Oh gosh, I'm blanking on the name. It's late Christian Kirk.

(39:07):
He's been comp to Kirk. They're very similar. And the
other guy was comp t Nico Collins, and so it's
kind of odd they reloaded with doppelgangers of their guys exactly.
You know, Nole's fast, he's physical, he plays bigger than
his size. You know, he's a guy. He's a guy
that put up twenty five reps on the bench press
at the combine. That's like offensive lineman numbers right, So

(39:28):
he's sub for four twenty five reps. I thought he
was a better player than Higgins. So it's one of
these where I'm just betting on my gut, you know,
like in my line of work. Following your gut is
one of the most important things you can do. You
can overthink things. As an attorney, you're trained to overthink things.
But we have these intuitions and you have to learn
to trust your intuition. My intuition is that Jalen Nole's

(39:51):
going to be a great pro. It might take him
a little while to see the field take. Dell might
not come back, Higgins may disappoint. They may just decide
that Noel can be more move outside as well as inside,
and they just want him out there more often. But
he's got I don't ever want to compare anybody to
Saint Brown. There's only one Saint Brown, but he reminded
me of Saint Brown when I watched his film.

Speaker 1 (40:13):
Jalen Nol did okay, absolutely absolutely So now I have
to bring this up because I'm glad you brought up
the intuition aspect of it. Maybe there's some crossover here
from practicing law and playing Dynasty Fantasy Football.

Speaker 2 (40:28):
Maybe there's not.

Speaker 1 (40:29):
But sometimes I think when I have convictions about how
I think a certain thing is going to turn out,
my tendency and I fought against this for years. I'm
getting better at it over the last ten or so.
My tendency is just to live in my own echo chamber,
and I will search out statistics, opinions, thoughts, reasons that

(40:49):
just support what I think is the correct answer right,
rather than open my mind to all the other possibilities right.
As a lawyer, I'm sure that you battle with this too,
where you think you know what the right play is,
what the right answer is, what you know the right
circumstance is, but you have to trust your gut to

(41:11):
a certain point. Do you feel like that transfers over
to a fantasy football where you actually you're trusting your gut.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
But at the same time, when you.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
Research it, it's not always easy to open your mind
up to opposing viewpoints on that. I think that's what
I don't want to say separates the men from the
boys in Dynasty.

Speaker 2 (41:28):
But I think, God, that is such a tough thing
to deal with.

Speaker 4 (41:31):
It's a tough line to straddle. I mean, you don't
want to get caught up in take lock right, which
is another way of thinking about it. But at the
same time, if you've better, if you're a football fan
and you've been playing Dynasty long enough, you will develop
organically and intuition, and you shouldn't tune that out just
because Matt Harmon or somebody who knows a lot about
ball says otherwise. So the approach I take again, I

(41:53):
don't watch a lot of college football. I will come
to the scouting process late after the season's over. I'll
pull a highlight video, I'll read a bunch, I'll listen
to a bunch of people, Matt Harmon being one of them,
the folks on bootleg Football, just the guys who know
a lot about ball. I'll listen to what they say
about prospects. I'll see what matches my untrained eye, and
then I'll kind of let my intuition take it from there.

(42:15):
And then I mean, obviously, landing spot plays a huge role.
I think the Houston landing spot is a sneaky good
one for Nole. I really do.

Speaker 1 (42:23):
I you know, And I should be sharing this because
this throws my credibility right out the window. There have
been so many times where I'm on the clock in
like a Best Ball League or even KFFFC main event
or whatever, where like I'm deciding on a player like
oh should I draft them?

Speaker 4 (42:40):
Here?

Speaker 2 (42:40):
Should I not?

Speaker 1 (42:41):
And it's just whatever podcast I last listen to or
whatever article I last read what they said about, Like, well,
Jared Smolla said this about them, so I'm gonna take them.

Speaker 2 (42:49):
I like, it's so stupid and it's dumb, and I
can't get out of my own head.

Speaker 1 (42:53):
And again I've gotten away from that a little bit,
but still it's in my mind.

Speaker 4 (42:58):
Okay, I totally agree. I mean I think of it
this way Eric, to some degree, rookie drafts, any draft,
it's get your guy season. If you feel strongly about
a guy. So I took him with the seventh pick
and set of the tenth. I didn't capture value. Who cares.
I got the guy I wanted. If I think this
guy is going to be a two hundred and fifty
point player or a three hundred point player, why the
hell wouldn't I take him if he's available.

Speaker 1 (43:20):
I was listening to the Fantasy Points podcast with John
Hanson and Brian Drake today actually, and they were talking
about George went Stories, who played Norman Cheers just passed
away Rip and Hanson was in a league with it
was like a celebrity league. This is way back in

(43:41):
the day, and he was co owners with George went
on this team, and they were talking about, like, listen,
we have to get the Bears defense here in this
league because not only are they going to be good,
but you are like the Bears super fan from Saturday
Night Live, like you we have to have George Wentz
say our you know, ninth overall pick George Wentz on

(44:03):
hands and take dub Bears like it would have been great.
I think it was Palaire Lostra, who uh a longtime
serious x fantasy sports radio hosts, ended up taking the
Bears in the seventh round that year, and the Bears
scored like, I mean, their defense is unbelievable. This is
I don't know how many years ago it was, but
they scored like double digit touchdowns, and so Hanson said, like,

(44:24):
this is one of the biggest regrets of my fantasy
career is not taking the Bears defense to make sure
I got him. So, if there is a player in
dynasty redrafting, you don't want to get crazy with this,
but if there's a player that you just gotta have,
take them around, take them two rounds early just to
make sure you have them on your team, which is
kind of like what we're talking about.

Speaker 2 (44:45):
Here, sure, especially in Dynasty.

Speaker 1 (44:47):
Dude, Like like, I'll look at Dynasty ADP from my
rookie drafts, but man, it's it's really hard for me
to put a whole lot of stock into that because
I overdraft guys in that all the time. We're all
just going on research. We're going going on got we're
going on what other people say because we've never seen
these guys in an NFL field, So to me, like
overdrafting them. It's like, well, who says that that's an overdraft?

Speaker 2 (45:08):
We don't know. Like redraft, it's a little bit different.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
But Dynasty, man, it is totally get your guys season
there for sure. Travis Hunter is the new wide receiver
for the Jacksonville Jaguars after they trade it up from
five to get him, which is wild. When you think
about all the different weaknesses that the Jaguars probably had
coming into the draft, you would not have thought wide

(45:32):
receiver was one of them. But Brian Thomas being the
second best, maybe the best wide receiver in the twenty
twenty four rookie class and then Jacksonville went ahead. Sigmun
Bloom always talks about this in football, guys, make your
strength even stronger, which is what the Jaguars did. Now
they have Travis Hunter opposite Brian Thomas, which is great

(45:54):
for the Jaguars. But is it great for Brian Thomas.
Maybe it is, maybe it's not. What are your thoughts
on how Hunter is going to affect Brian Thomas's stat
line this season.

Speaker 4 (46:04):
I don't feel like it'll negatively affect BTJ. I love BTJ.
I've got a bunch of shares. He was another guy
I grabbed wherever I could, even if I had to
spend what was considered an early pick to get him
in last year's rookie drafts. But no, I just think
adding they lost Evan Ingram, they don't have Christian Kirk.
It's not like having two pass catchers necessarily means the

(46:26):
guy who's the number one is going to suffer statistically.
I think, if anything, it'll help. I mean, it could
maybe lead to them getting opportunities where they can be
more creative with Thomas. So no, I don't think it's
a bad thing. I don't think it will negatively impact Thomas.
And I think Thomas's presence should help Hunter too.

Speaker 1 (46:41):
What do you make of I took Dami Brown as
a late. It was like a twenty fifth, twenty six
round pick in a Best Ball that I was doing.
He's been getting some favorable reviews. I mean, it's ota
is whatever, who cares? But what do you make of
Damie Brown there? Considering that if Hunter were to miss
some time and if you playing you know, defensive snaps

(47:01):
as well.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
I don't know his body is going to react to that.
But if Brown were.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
To step in on that offense in place of Thomas,
in place of Hunter as the number two option, I
think that's kind of sneaky. It's it's sneaky exciting. What
do you think about Dianmi Brown as a late round
best ball pick? And I know, like listen, draft whoever
you want that late it doesn't really matter. But what
do you make of Diami Brown as as the number
three receiver in Jacksonville this year?

Speaker 4 (47:27):
I don't hate it. I mean, I honestly, Eric I
hadn't thought much about Brown, but I mean, why not?
I mean it's it's look, it's just as probable a
dart throw is taking anybody else in the late rounds,
anybody who's got a conceivable path to target share, anybody
who's a veteran player that showed they can have success
on that level is worth taking a flyer on, especially

(47:49):
if you think there's a chance they end up as
the number two target. I don't know that Brown ends
up as a number two target, but won't he doesn't.

Speaker 2 (47:56):
Yeah, No, here's the thing. I don't think he does.

Speaker 1 (47:58):
But I do think if there were any like again,
it's it's just an injury away type thing where maybe
he's the number two target for three weeks in November
or two weeks in October, and and maybe that's all
the difference to to.

Speaker 2 (48:10):
Spur you up.

Speaker 1 (48:12):
You know, your your your leaderboard, your scoreboard, or whatever
you need to do. I think that's that's what I'm
looking at, Like it gets to be a certain point
in drafts, more more so with running backs than wide receivers.
I'm just looking for windows, right, windows of opportunity, knowing,
like these guys, who's the guy in Minnesota that they
just traded from San Francisco Mas Jordan Mason? Thank you? Yeah,

(48:35):
that's a perfect guy. Like it's not like Aaron Jones
has to tear an a c L for him to
have value. Aaron Jones could like strain a Hammy and
then I get three weeks of starting running back out
of Jordan Mason. Yeah, I love that, you know. And
that's the thing with Dianmi Brown too. It's just it's
just windows at that point, not necessarily. I don't need
to hit a home run. You said yourself, you like doubles.

Speaker 4 (48:55):
As much as good and Mason. Eric Mason another guy
I love. I mean, he's shown that when you give
him a heavy workload, he can handle it. And he's
a different kind of running back than Jones. So I'm
bullish on Mason.

Speaker 1 (49:10):
The other thing about Mason is, yeah, I know they
didn't give up a lot of draft capital to get
him from San Francisco, but then they sign him to
that contract. And Aaron Jones has always dealt with a
lot of soft tissue stuff in his time in Green Bay.
He didn't deal with anything like that in Minnesota. Last
year he.

Speaker 2 (49:26):
Had his.

Speaker 1 (49:28):
MO I think he had the most touches of any
season as a pro in Minnesota last year. I am
willing to bet that that was an outlier and that
he is not going to be able to be able
to take that volume and stay healthy, which is another
reason I like Jordan Mason this year. Jordan Mason, by
the way, in the FFPC Big Gorilla Tournament over the
last seven days, running back thirty seven at the nine

(49:50):
to ten turn.

Speaker 2 (49:51):
I'm definitely in on that.

Speaker 1 (49:52):
Okay, we have to get to these YouTube chat questions here.
I'm trying to find a here out. Yeah, Cooley Gang
said this early when we were talking about the Jags. Well,
now he's not a Jag anymore. He's a Bronco. But
do you think Evan Ingram is a sneaky good pick?
Because I think him and Nix will be awesome. Evan
Ingram is going as tight end eight at him right

(50:13):
now at the seven oh two. He is essentially a
full round behind Hockinson and Kelsey. He's going right at
the same spot as John Osmith, and he's going about
a half round ahead of Ndjoku and Mark Andrews. What
do you think about Evan Ingram Ingram excuse me, being
a sneaky good pick at the seven oh two.

Speaker 4 (50:31):
I love Evan Ingram And when they signed him, the
talk was that he was going to be Sean Payton's joker,
which is terrific. Right, everybody wants Peyton's joker. Look Evan
Ingram is a guy who's explosive when you get him
into space. He's a great pass catching tight end if
you can get I mean, he's relatively inexpensive as well
in drafts. So he's a guy who I feel good about,

(50:52):
especially in Redraft in the short term. I've got Evan
Ingram shares on my Dynasty teams, and I look at
him the way I look at Henry. All Right, that's
a twenty twenty six ish you a twenty twenty seven issue,
But for twenty twenty five, I'm riding with him.

Speaker 1 (51:05):
So the other thing too, we got on the Jaguars
here on the show. Pearson pumped this into the YouTube chat.
Since we're on the Jags topic, the Beshell Tuton fumble
on the first touch in camp has gained some traction
now Beshelle Tuton and the FFPC Big Grill again. Over
the last seven days, Mishelle Tuton is running back thirty

(51:26):
three at the eight to eleven. I have seen some
pundence rankings out there, and not a whole lot of
them put him as a top thirty five running back
for Redraft.

Speaker 2 (51:39):
I can tell myself a story.

Speaker 1 (51:41):
The story is getting more and more realistic as I
go on that the Jaguars simply just the new coaching machine,
does not like Travis Etn, that Tank Bigsby is sort
of just a guy. And then they went invested not
only in Michelle Tuton in this draft, but they also
invested in Laquin Allen, who could be the future one
two punch in Jacksonville, Liam Cohen or on that Liam Cohen,

(52:05):
I think it was James Gladstone. James Gladstone the GM
of Jacksonville. When he was being interviewed for the GM job,
they said, well, who's a player that you would like
to get on this team? And he said, well, I'd
love to get a player like Michelle Touton, and then
lo and behold what happens They end up drafting Mischelle Touton.
I like this guy. I like him quite a bit,
and I've heard a lot of people and I think

(52:26):
I'm with these people. Keep fumbling Michelle, because I need
your ADP to go down. I would like a lot
of shares of Teuton. You're a Dynasty guy as well.
How do you feel about Tuton and his future in Jacksonville.

Speaker 2 (52:39):
I'm very bullish on this play.

Speaker 4 (52:41):
I think they drafted him for a reason. He's got
juice for days. I will tell you he's a guy
who in my rookie drafts I avoided not because I
don't like him, but just because I wasn't willing to
pay the market rate for him. He's a guy who,
to me, the most important characteristic is vision. Right, we
talked about athleticism versus being a good runner of the football.

(53:02):
I think he is an average runner of the football,
but he's super duper explosive. He's not a guy who
creates except for the fact he's very fast, and I
contradict him with the guy like Chan eight. Chan was
also very fast, but he was an incredible runner of
the football. I mean, he's got incredible vision. He's a

(53:22):
guy who you know he was small, but I forget
one of his last games of his last season. I
think he had like thirty five carries against LSU ran
for two hundred yards. He was pounding it in between
the tackles across the goal line. This is a guy
who plays running back who happens to be really really fast.
I don't know that I feel the same way about Tutin,
even though their speeds the same. I don't dislike Tuton.

(53:43):
I just wasn't going to pay what he was going
for in drafts.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
So right now, if you're doing a redraft league and
you see Touton going at the eight to nine turn
in Cam Skataboo, Jalen Warren, Naji Harris, Tyrone, Tracy Territory,
does that seem like a goodbye to you?

Speaker 4 (54:01):
In redraft? I would probably take all those guys over Toton.
I would definitely take Najee Harris over Toton in redraft.
In dynasty, I mean, I feel a little bit better
about him, But Scataboo's a guy. He's really interesting to me.
I think he's a great player. I think he's very underrated.
He reminds me a lot of David Montgomery. I think
the Giants took him so that he could be the
early down guy. I love Tyrone Tracy, don't get me wrong.

(54:24):
I'm not critical Tracy, but he is not built to
carry the load Scataboo is, and so you know, I
could see Scataboo getting close to two hundred touches this
year and having a significant portion of the goal line equity.
I'm interested in guys like that, particularly in the eighth
and ninth round of a draft. Like, if you're going
zero RB, I look for goal line equity, and yeah,

(54:50):
typically I'll take the cheapest of a backfield duo if
I'm doing zero RB, because often there's a huge market dispirit,
like one guy's going in round four, one guy going
in round ten, and you're like, eh, I like the
guy in round ten at that price. But Skataboo's a
guy who I mean, goal one equity is big. It's
why I love Montgomery. I had a bunch of Gibbs
shares this year and I offloaded them wherever I could

(55:13):
because people saw jamired He's a great player. He's my
son's favorite player. We have an autograph of Jamiir Gibbs
at the house. He's great. But the point is, people
remember the last couple games of the season when Montgomery
wasn't there. They share a backfield. Gibbs is not going
to be the bell cow. He's not built to be
the bell cow. The Lions offense is successful because they
have both of those guys. They're each super insurance policies

(55:36):
on the other. But instead of taking Gibbs in the
first round, I'll take Montgomery in the sixth or the seventh.

Speaker 1 (55:41):
Theo Greminger from Fantasy Points. He was talking about this
more so in like February March. I don't know if
he's I mean, I listened to a lot of his
stuff and I haven't heard him, and maybe he still
feels this way. I don't know, but he said that
he thinks in the FFPC Big Gorilla and the main Event,
we were going to see some Jamiir gives one oh
one picks. Simply for the point that you're bringing up,

(56:04):
everybody remembers how last season ended, and they don't necessarily
remember that. Part of the reason Gibbs was putting up
those video game numbers was because David Montgomery wasn't out
there and he's not saying, hey, you need a tech
take Gibbs at the one on one. He just thought, like,
we're gonna see some Gibbs at the one O one.
I don't know if we've seen it in the Big
Gorilla over the last seven days. I'm gonna look that
up right now.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
Jamiir Gibs. The highest he's gone has been the one
o two.

Speaker 1 (56:27):
So he's got up to the one oh two average
ADP of the one oh five. So there you go
on that, just real quick, on the Scataboo Tracy thing.
I'm gonna bring this up right now.

Speaker 2 (56:39):
S n Y H.

Speaker 1 (56:40):
Connor Hughes, who covers the Giants, said that, and again, this.

Speaker 2 (56:45):
Was, you know, a week and a half ago.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
It wouldn't be surprising if Scataboo wound up as the
Giants' third down back. But yet, Adam, you see it
a little bit differently. You think Skataboo could be the
early down banger first and second down, and then Tracy
is the guy who comes out on third down.

Speaker 4 (57:02):
I do, and he might know a heck of a
lot more than me if he's covering the Giants. That's
just my gut feeling. I mean, I think we're seeing
a lot of teams trying to replicate the Sonic and
Knuckles Montgomery and Gibbs. Right, We've got a guy with
a lot of juice. We've got a guy who can
shake and pound in between the tackles, and I see
Scataboo and Tracy as being some version of that combo.

(57:25):
And to me, Scataboo's going to be the early down guy.

Speaker 1 (57:29):
Just so I'm not putting words in your mouth, Scataboo
is running back thirty one at the eight oh six
tyrone Tracy running back thirty five at the nine h two.
In a perfect world, your opinion in redraft, you're skipping
Scataboo and you're taking Tracy.

Speaker 4 (57:46):
Probably, okay, all right, probably.

Speaker 1 (57:50):
Yeah, Adam Hans sayings as Scataboo as a future third
down back, we'll see. I don't know, like I could
go either way on this right now. But that's the thing, like,
you know, and that's why these guys are going so
close together and so late where they're both eighth and
ninth round picks, Like we just don't know how the
Giants are going to deploy. And oh, by the way,
the Giants offense could stink this year. That's another thing

(58:10):
we have to consider too. It's like, how much run
are these guys going to get? If if it's just
the Milik Neighbors show again in twenty twenty five, we
are up against it. I want to get to a
couple of emails and one final question here before we
let you go tonight, Adam Clyde in Buffalo, Do I
have this right?

Speaker 4 (58:29):
No?

Speaker 1 (58:29):
I do not. No, let's skip the emails. My apologies,
just email is not it's not accurate.

Speaker 2 (58:36):
We got to skip it. Okay, sorry Clyde and Buffalo.

Speaker 1 (58:39):
Let's ask one final question of you answer this dynasty purposes,
redraft purposes, however you want to handle it. If there's
one player that you want to try to get on
as many teams as possible this season, who is it realistically? Obviously,
I'm sure you'd love to say Jon Robinson or Saquon Barkley.
That just can't happen because you won't get the one
on one or one oh two in every single draft.

(59:00):
Or Jamar Chase is another one. So one player realistically
that you want to get on all your teams this season,
and then another player maybe you're trying to deal him
off your dynasty leagues. Maybe it's a player that you
just don't want to have anything to do with on
your twenty twenty five squads.

Speaker 2 (59:15):
At him.

Speaker 4 (59:16):
I love Caleb Johnson. I'm getting him wherever I can.
You know, he's a guy who was built for an
outside zone scheme where he's going to get a lot
of volume and he has a perfect landing spot. His
forty yard dash wasn't great. His ten yard split wasn't great,
but he's another guy who I'm told hit twenty one
miles an hour during the forty yard dash. So he
reminds me a lot of like a Derrick Henry. He

(59:38):
needs some time to build up speed, but once he
gets rolling, he gets rolling. He's going to inherit the
Lion's Sheriff, not all of in my view, Najee Harris's touches.
We know who Jalen Warren is. He's a great player,
he's good to have on your roster, but he's not
their bell cow. I think Johnson will be their bell cow.
And he's a guy who I've got pegged is somewhere
in between a two hundred and fifty and three in

(59:59):
a point player. Maybe not this season, but fully realized,
I think he will be.

Speaker 1 (01:00:03):
I think the other thing to understand about the Caleb
Johnson thing is like, yeah, he was only a third
round pick or whatever, but that's still Day two draft
capital and Jalen Warren. I think we saw a report
from one of the Steelers beat writers saying that they
expect Warren to play out this contract in Pittsburgh this
season and then he's off the Steelers next year. So
Obviously they have much more invested in the Caleb Johnson.

(01:00:24):
Why wouldn't you want to see what you have in
this guy? And like, I think he gets a bad
rap that he's not a pass catcher. Caleb Johnson could
catch passes too.

Speaker 4 (01:00:32):
Sure, Sure, I think he's a good football player.

Speaker 1 (01:00:35):
Yeah, which is what you want, right David Hubbard former
twenty sixteen FFPC main event is an easy game.

Speaker 2 (01:00:41):
Just draft good players. That's all you need to do,
and then you'll win.

Speaker 1 (01:00:45):
A guy who's not a good player, a player that
you want to stay away from this season?

Speaker 2 (01:00:49):
Who would that be at him?

Speaker 4 (01:00:50):
That's tough, And I'm not a hater. I mean there,
I'm mostly agnostic when it comes to players. To me,
it's about what I have to pay for them, right,
I Mean, they're like any other They're like a car.
I'll drive anything. The question is how much do I
need to pay for it?

Speaker 2 (01:01:05):
Right.

Speaker 4 (01:01:05):
I'm not willing to pay Ferrari money for a Ford,
But a car is a car and I need a
ride to work. So there's nobody who I'm all the
way out on. But I don't think a guy who's
just going too expensive.

Speaker 2 (01:01:16):
Well, I always frame it like this too.

Speaker 1 (01:01:18):
Like when I get to like, I don't know, like
round six, round seven or whatever, or even like the
mid rounds like ten to eleven, there are certain players
that just stick out to me like they are easy
to eliminate for me as possibilities in those rounds.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
And so I think that's how we could frame the
question too.

Speaker 1 (01:01:35):
It's it's like, you know, maybe you don't like, you
don't hate these guys, you don't dislike these guys, but
they never really come into the conversation of like, yeah,
maybe let's take this guy here.

Speaker 4 (01:01:45):
I mean, maybe any Chiefs pass catcher besides Travis Kelcey.
You know, I mean I'm not I'm not feeling like
that's necessarily going to be the right play.

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
See now now you bring this up, I think this
is a good conversation to end on tonight. In regards
to the Chiefs, Rashie Rice has finally moved up. Like
it seemed like every single fantasy pundit out there has
been saying screaming value for Rashie Rice. Well, now he's
finally starting move up boards. He has moved up to
wide receiver nineteen at the four h two. Xavier Worthy

(01:02:16):
is going right behind him at the four h six.
For you, it's an easy decision, like you're not paying
early fourth round draft capital for either one of those
receivers when quite frankly, we don't know if like, are
they going to cannibalize each other? Is one going to
be the standout somehow? And then you've got to deal
with Travis Kelce there as well.

Speaker 4 (01:02:33):
Yeah, I mean I view their wide receiver room a
lot like I do the Packers. I mean, there's just
a lot of unknowns, and I'm not going to pay
fourth round value for an unknown. I'd probably take a
tight end or a quarterback in that range, to be honest.

Speaker 1 (01:02:45):
Yeah, if we look at it right now, I'll figure
out my mojo here and tell you who else is
going there.

Speaker 2 (01:02:52):
But there are players.

Speaker 1 (01:02:53):
I mean, if you look in that Rice Worthy territory,
Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Omari and Hampton is there. DJ Moore,
Mike Evans, Jayden Daniels. Let's talk about Hampton here for
a second. I know I keep saying like we're gonna
end it, We're gonna not sorry this stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:03:08):
That always comes up.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
You liked Naji Harris quite a bit over Who's the
running back we were talking about earlier, Bechelle Tooton, Yeah, yeah,
you liked him quite a bit there. Do you also
like the value of Naji Harris compared to Amari and
Hampton's value.

Speaker 4 (01:03:24):
I mean, I expect, I expect Harris to start the
season as their belcow. I think once Hampton sees the field,
he'll be tough to keep off the field, and I
expect by the end of the season he will be
a fifteen to twenty point player every game. I mean,
that's Hampton for sure, for sure. But you know, so
I view Harris the way I viewed Cuba Hubbard last year,

(01:03:46):
and I didn't know that. God, I'm blinking on the
kid's name from Texas who they drafted that hurt himself again.

Speaker 2 (01:03:51):
Oh Jonathan Brooks.

Speaker 4 (01:03:52):
Yeah. I mean the thought was Brooks is gonna come back,
but you could get Hubbard really late. And I thought,
all right, so I've got six weeks of a starting
running back, right, You're talking about windows like I saw
window there. I think the same thing for Harris. I'm
willing to pay, you know, ninth tenth round value for
a window of six, seven, maybe eight weeks of starting
running back, especially if you're going zero RB. When I

(01:04:13):
do zero RB, that's what I do. I mean, I
window shop, literally, I look for those opportunities, and so
I target guys who should start the season as the
starting back.

Speaker 1 (01:04:23):
You know what's funny about that with the Chargers is
Hampton is already running back fifteen at the four h
three in the FFPC Big Gorilla Competition. Harris is running
back thirty fourth to nine oh one. I don't really,
I don't think history would say that those guys are
going to get closer. History would say the younger guy

(01:04:43):
will move up more, the veteran will fall more. Well,
the veteran is already going what did I just say,
like five rounds after the rookie. Like, as we get
closer and closer to live drafts at Paris in Las
Vegas for the FFPC live events, we're going to see
Hampton go up a little bit, not a lot, but
a little bit, we could see Harris fall even more.

(01:05:04):
And Harris could be a double digit round pick. Can
you imagine that? I just it's it's crazy. He might
be a screaming value as well. When when during drafting
season we'll have it all covered on the high stakes
fantasy football or.

Speaker 2 (01:05:16):
My god, Adam, the hour just flew by.

Speaker 1 (01:05:18):
I feel like I've been talking this whole time, but
I've learned a lot from you, a five time FFPC
League champion, a guy that I know we'll have a
lot more championships in store, not only in twenty twenty
five but beyond. Congratulations all your success. Thank you so
much for pinch hitting for Farrell tonight. You were awesome

(01:05:39):
and I know that the YouTube chat was lit up
so they definitely loved having you on as well. Be good,
go Lions and and hopefully we'll talk down the road
for sure. Great holiday, Thank you, Happy Memorial Day to
you as well. That is Adam Tootists, ladies and gentlemen,
five time FFPC League champion joining me in the high
stakes Fantasy Football hover tonight. I want to thank I

(01:06:00):
want to thank the FFPC, Rob Bryce, and of course
each and every one of you for hanging out, watching, streaming, listening, downloading.
We will be back next Friday at ten pm Eastern
Time with another great guest. In case you missed Thursday
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had Darren Armani from Fantasy Mojo on last night. He
and I chopped out it for two hours. That was

(01:06:21):
a blast as well. Learned a lot about Fantasy Mojo.
In fact, the middle segment we had on the show
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So if you want to know what you can learn
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