September 20, 2023 • 35 mins
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(00:14):
Hello everyone, and welcome to theIDP Cocktail Hour Fans Football Podcast with Gary
Van Dyke. I am your hostEmerson Barry, joined by I'm like weekly
guest host on Tuesday's Gary Van Dyketo talk some IDP action. How are
you doing, my friend, I'mdoing great, man, rock and roll.
I love doing this every single week. I am diving more and more
(00:36):
into IDP fantasy football, and itis a great thing to talk about because,
like I said, you know,this is being bringing in a new
group of people to the face OffSports Network. So it's been really fun
to do with these. With theselast two weeks, we are going to
dive into it though, going byposition, group the best as the hottest
players that from this past week.We're going to start off in New York
(00:59):
with Jordan Whitehead got his notably aftera week one, got his hit his
two hundred and fifty thousand bonus withthree interceptions Week one eighty six percent snap
count yesterday corn asleep or sometimes thosenumbers are a little bit iffy, nine
total tackles. Been having a bigyear so far. What are your thoughts
on him? Well, I loveit and I was glad to get him
(01:22):
on the waiver wire list this week. I mean, he's actually going to
be a good, probably standard adbesides even deeper leagues at this point,
knowing that he's a he's got astrong matchup coming up against New England in
week three, will be four.He's got a strong win against Kansas City
of course with that passing game.But you know, it's not surprising to
(01:46):
see Jordan Whitehead do this. Hethe former buccaneer, had some decent years
down near and when he come uplast year, he was brought in to
take over the secondary for all thesloppy and mis tackling problems they had and
such. So last year we hadanticipation that he would probably be worth something.
(02:06):
But unfortunately, you know, theguy was learning to run that secondary
get his guys in line. Wella year later, you know, here
we are the same thing happened toJohn Johnson the second year he was with
Cleveland when he transferred over there.It happens all the times these guys are
brought in. Al Shuzier, thelinebacker in Tennessee. He's starting off slow,
(02:27):
but he's still going to be allright either way. As far as
Jordan Whitehead man, I'm picking himup, and I gotta admit I was
a little sneaky. I picked himup late, like five minutes before he
played last week, made a lastminute swap. Thank goodness I did,
because the matchup was just perfect.And yeah, I mean yeah, it's
(02:50):
just incredible to already be hitting onyour bonuses after a week one. It
looks like he has a favorable scheduleas well, coming up with a couple
of strong matchups and a solid one. What is how much fab are you
spending on Jordan Whitehead this week?You know, based on one hundred dollar
budget, looking completely just at defensivebacks, if I'm shooting for defensive back
(03:15):
himself, because I'm not going toput any real kind of currency into any
auction on the defensive back in anystandard side league because there's usually like a
million of them diame a dozen,and you can find the right matchups and
still get quality for nothing. Sobut looking at dB alone, I mean,
I'm putting a high stakes on Jordan'sWhiteheads. So you know, if
(03:37):
my normal budget of spending just adollar or a player, I'm willing to
throw three or four bucks on thisguy just to make sure I got him,
especially if I need, if Ineed a boost to my defensive back
unit. Okay, absolutely, NewYork Jets of course lost Aaron Rodgers,
but still have a very strong defensiveunit. Moving over to your number two
(04:02):
pick on the defensive back, JoshMattelis left with an injury, but still
you know, played fifty six percentof the snacks snaps nine total tackles so
far. You know, what areyour thoughts on his performance? And you
know he is he going to beable to, you know, lift this
Vikings defense that's had It seems likea rough couple first weeks. Well,
(04:23):
considering that, I'm thinking that's onlythe deep IDP D Jens even knew who
this cat is. You can understandthis is more of a D bad so
or somebody that's got some potential.All right. So Josh Mattellis came in
for Harrison Smith last year at somepoint and really performed at a top level.
Why Smith, Harrison Smith was out, So he was on some of
(04:45):
our radars back then. Well asprogressed. He's earned his way into this
new look defense that they've got goingon, and he's playing as much as
I mean, as much as athird linebacker could possibly play in this system.
He's right there. The thing is, he's producing when he's there,
and they'll let you guys know,buying him, carn Cameron buying him.
(05:10):
He's also been lit. He's onour list up here too. He's actually
he's moved himself up into a standardsituation if he can complete it again for
another three weeks or the end ofthis this next week and complete as three
weeks as a solid consistent guy,and I believe he's got at least as
strong or a solid matchup. Butas far as mattel Us, this dude
(05:31):
is actually outproducing Harrison Smith right nowper snap, So he's buying him so
and Smith is not actually having abad year or nothing. It's just notable
to notice that they have three wideor three safeties that are probably serviceable in
different levels. So as these guysget shuffled up next week, you'll notice
(05:54):
mattell Us probably a little lower inthe tier where week three will be amongst
those players, they do start gettingknocked down just based off of things.
But Howard sorting out who's got somewho's got some consistency. Yes, that
defense is still elite, and he'shad a well now I'm sorry. The
(06:18):
defense is not elite, I wasgoing to say, and he seems to
like to be one of the playersthat is still being having a productive season
so far. Definitely a player tokeep an eye on. I you know,
I'm not like you said. Youknow, defensive backs are only a
priority in certain leagues depending on thesettings, So you know, depending on
(06:38):
how badly you need a defensive back, and just you know, a player
to keep an eye on. Wewill end the defensive back department with Brian
Branch, of course, made headlinesin week one after getting an interception on
Patrick Mahomes returning it for a touchdown. Talked about wanting to make the Hall
of Fame already this week. SoBrian Branch, big dreams, and you
(06:59):
were talking about an injury on Detroitthat could boost his opportunity. Correct,
Yeah, it's a really interesting situation. We knew he was kind of low
and snaps last week, so wewarned that, you know, look out
for those big splash plays if theyaren't there. So he did come back
down to earth. Kirby Joseph,by the way, he had one hundred
percent of snaps week one. Weektwo, he's gone off, so if
(07:23):
anybody dropped him, they might havemade a big mistake. You might want
to check out him first, SoI wouldn't even think he'd be worth heading
on to a wave of wire.His name should be out there, Brian
Branch. I'll tell you with ChaunceyGardner, c C. J. Johnson
(07:43):
Gardner. Yeah, Chauncy Gardners onIR now, and they're going to be
moving, probably moving Tracy Walker,which is a former Starter, which a
lot of people are familiar with.You weren't going to want to put him
on your radar. Two, he'snot on the waiver wire this week because
just just developed last nine. Ibelieve it was like right before the game.
(08:05):
Possibly. But either way, BrianBranch or Tracy Walker or do for
a bigger portion of snaps now.I'm a little bit concerned on saying Brandon
Brian Branch is a clear cut guy. One is a rookie. Two,
they don't have to put him inthat position because they do have a veteran
and Tracy Walker that's been there,done that. He's had plenty of time
(08:26):
to get over his injury that Ican't specifically remember what it is, but
he's been back to practice. Youknow, so I think he's probably ready,
and I don't. I don't likethis enough to say start either one
of them this week. So thisis looking at the deeper side of things,
just kind of a stash if youever him, Brian branch is.
(08:48):
You know, it's been a trendingtopic on Twitter these last twenty four hours,
lots of IDP analysts shouting out,Brian branch this is a big stock
moving up. So you're a littlebit more hesitant, though you're not saying
he's a must start this coming week. If I sit here with my pom
poms, every time I get excitedabout some player, you know everybody's going
to be No, No, I'mnot suggesting them. You know why,
(09:09):
For the simple fact is if youif I've suggested to them, but don't
start them. There's too many times, you know, if you're in the
Standard League, if you if youdon't have bench deep, if you're if
you're getting ready to drop, say, I don't know somebody solid, trying
to think of somebody. It's actuallybeen solid and this not an outlier this
(09:31):
year. I say, you're gettingready to drop back hill for him?
No, don't do that. Justyou know, don't don't go reaching for
these guys and think you're going toget a perfect start. We've got big
questions. We do not know ifit's going to be Walker or Branch.
I have not seen anything as oflast night saying one of them is definitely
(09:52):
going to be the starting box safety. Okay, absolutely, a little bit
more hesitant, like said then mostTwitter ip analysts. We will shift over
to the linebackers. Gary, howdo I even start with this name?
Gary? What? What am Ilooking at here? It's funny, you
(10:13):
gotta be I haven't even I haven'teven gotten here yet, but you got
to be looking at two two orsomething on that line. That's the craziest
name I've ever seen. Houston rookielinebacker Henry two. Henry two two.
Oh man, this is a littleembarrassing. According to John on the Players
Pod last night while he was recording, he said, it's got a little
(10:33):
a little too but I couldn't.I wasn't going to do that. I'd
rather do sound too regardless, right. Eighty four point three PFF grade in
week one, making a name forhimself. Although he out snapped, he
was the lead leader in snaps.After Week one, he was officially named
(10:54):
the starter in week two. Imean, yeah, other than the hard
name to per now, what areyou seeing in him so far? He
seems to be making a name forhimself and that we will hopefully be able
to pronounce in the near future.Yeah, and I like this even Dynasty.
Why so get this guy on yourradar again. This is another We
need to see this play out becauseyou still have Kristin Harris, which is
(11:18):
the favorite of a lot of peoplefrom last year. We've been throwing out
red flags at the IDPA players becauseI mean, PFF didn't ever even scom
anything over a thirty five or thirtysix last year. The entire time to
get played. He was productive bydefault. But Houston was in a situation.
It was his rookie season and heisn't he was an Alabama product and
(11:39):
such. So but here lo andbehold, all of a sudden, too
has these snaps and he has theproduction to match, and he's got good
reviews coming out. Reportedly, Harrishad a shoulder injury, so I do
believe he did play some of thegame. I have seen this so much
(12:01):
and I know this might be mebecause I've been talking about him for so
long being terrible, and he gratedlike a forty last week. This is
after working with Damiko Ryan's all summer, the linebacker King Right, So I
got a feeling this shoulder injury couldbe one of those doors that you kind
(12:22):
of go through sometimes giving two tohis shot, he's had a shot.
It'll be really interesting what you seewhat happens this coming week. But if
it's me, I'm going for thisrookie for a stash. Yeah, it
seems like he could be on theverge of a breakout. How much fab
(12:43):
are you spending on him? Youknow, based on one hundred dollar budget,
Well, i'd have to. I'dhave to put him in with all
the IDP at that point, andat this point in a standard league,
you know, I mean, Imight throw a couple of bucks on him
if I have the room, Butdeeperly, he's more valuable for a breakout.
He's gonna have pyramin there. Soso he does take over for Harris
(13:07):
to write at this moment. Uh, you know, he offers upper LB
two numbers off the top, soI'd make sure i'd double double my normal.
You know, say, if Iwas one buck, i'd go to
I'd definitely try to make sure Igot this kid on there. Okay,
we'll move on to our number twoman here, that is Nicholas Moreau.
(13:33):
I see the red flag next tohis name as well. You can explain
that to the listeners. He isin a more prominent role due to some
injuries in the Philadelphia Eagles linebacker room. To Condean is going to the ir
out at least four weeks. Thatwas as of last week, so I
had at least three more weeks.So what's your thoughts on him? And
you know, his bigger opportunity inthis Philadelphia Eagles lineback in court. I'm
(13:56):
a Morrow fan. You know,this guy's had a long road in the
NFL playing for Chicago, had injuriesin his in his career, you know,
so I was pulling for him tocome in and take his job at
the week side. And then Cunninghamwas signed and I figured out the ship
had sailed plus a Morrow. Youknow, he's not perfect. So he
(14:18):
actually was on the practice squad whenDevin Lloyd or the Kobe Dean got hurt.
So that's basically what the red flagis. It's just to let people
know that, you know, whenDean comes back, then we got a
whole another mess to go through fora week or two before we have any
trust of somebody, even Dean himself, is my opinion, if they work
(14:39):
him back in slowly or if hejust doesn't start off very well, It's
not like we had a huge sampleof him this year. So Nicholas Morrow
is a good temporary target to add. I know he only had a few
tackles, he did play most ofthe snaps. He wore the green dot.
That's the owners right there. Soif there is any production to have
(15:03):
be had, I'm sure Moro canabsorb it. I would look at him
like a linebacker two. So thisis definitely no more than a like a
dollar bid at this point. Okay, we will move on to the edge
rushers here, Yes, that iswhat is up next. And pulling it
up here Shack Barrett back at thetop a lot. You know IDP players
(15:28):
have had a long you know definitelyare familiar with Shack Barrett. Had suffer
has suffered a little bit of adrop off and play recently, but this
season he has been on fire.Got that game clenching interception touchdown, had
a sack as well. Yes,he is having a huge season so far,
as is Shaq Barrett back or canwe count on him this season?
(15:50):
Before I answer that, I'd liketo mention this positional list right here,
the edge rushers. This was thebiggest turnover. I think I had like
twelve guys on them and out ofall fifty or so there was on the
app last week, I mean,this position took the biggest head. It's
it's a tough one here. Sothere's a lot more new ads on here
(16:11):
if you if you're looking, andShack Barrett's got to be put right back
on here. He had slid down. He had he had a lot of
drama to he had a lot ofheartache when his daughter died. You know,
I'm putting them on here to makesure that people understand and standard leagues
that at one point there wouldn't wantany better. Really. I mean,
(16:32):
he's always been up there in thattop five when he was on. He's
not that old, he's still gotsome gas left, so he's still worth
a nice ad, especially if he'ssitting on your waiver of wires in a
middle to standard type league and you'relooking for a good bye week plays coming
up, don't lose track of himor get him on your team real quick.
(16:56):
Shack. Barrett could be in linefor a season, like you said,
definitely has been through a lot,and yes, hopefully he yes makes
a lot of money this year andis very productive as well. Moving on
to number two on the list,that is another player with a very long
NFL career. That is Randy Gregoryof the long time Dallas Cowboy. More
(17:18):
of a part time player now inDenver, you know, more of a
past pass rushing special issue. Youmight call it a little under fifty percent
of the snaps yesterday, but stillhad five tackles and a sack. What
are your thoughts on his performance thatyou know so far, thoughts on the
future and how much you's been spendingon him on the waiver wire. Well,
he landed right here underneath Barrett.And I want to be clear,
(17:38):
this is another whole tier drop.There wasn't a huge amount of outliers that
I thought would be worth adding atthis point in time, considering we're getting
ready to change things over here ina couple of weeks and do more projecting,
which then our tiers of weeks havewhen they've been adding, will be
more sorted by their match us thatwe're projecting by, and we have prime
(18:02):
data for this year. So thisis a nice little jump between Randy Gregory.
So his solid is, you know, kind of a deep dart throw
at this point. The guy hastalent. The fortunate part is he can't
stay healthy or he's been involved ina deep rotation. I think he's a
little bust out here with Denver,though, considering the needs and considering what
(18:27):
he does have at stake, Ifhe can stay healthy, he's definitely worth
an ad will. He offers somestandard upside that still remains to be seen,
but he's got He's got to proveconsistency first, So don't make him
your first guy. I would lookup the list. I mean there maybe
(18:48):
even a couple of these others.I might even suggest just for the simple
fact as Randy Gregory's consistency hasn't beenthere in his career. Yes, IDP
managers probably remember Randy Gregory from hisDallas Cowboy days, but his staying productive
in Denversus somebody certainly to keep aneye on in IDP leagues. Moving on,
(19:11):
is this is a player who's havinga very strong start of the season
that is Jermaine Johnson a little bitof a slow burn two and a half
sacks last year, but he's gettingafter it this season. He put some
nice heat on Josh Allen in Weekone. He continues to improve. I
believe yesterday his fin he had fourtackles yesterday on a fifty nine percent snap
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cow. What have you seen sofar? And you know is are we
seeing? You know a future staremerge in this league? Oh yeah,
definitely, I buy in. It'sthe New York Jets, all right.
So this little slow paste on thepast for us to begin with, but
the guys definitely got an uptick.I'm sitting here right now is getting ready
to do it live. I'm gladthat we went through there because apparently I
(19:56):
forgot to do his matchup strength soI can tell New England I believe is
solid. Kansas City was okay tosolid. Off the top of my head
without directly looking, I could actuallydo this and correct it as we do,
But I'm not going to go there. The guy is on a roll.
He he's the second year man.He's in a good situation. They
(20:18):
finally quit doing Carl Lawson. Theyneed this and what better interior defensive line
than Quincy or Quinn, and it'sQuinnon inside quinnin Williams, a guy that's
just a beast to work with,will also give Johnson a little bit of
a boost. So give him alook. I wanted to refer I had
(20:44):
like an afterthought, real quick quickEmerson, but comparably like Randy Gregory breaking
out or busting out this first week. I would prefer, and people are
not gonna know this name, butthat well, I would prefer to scroll
up and go get guarded off ofthe Arizona Cardinals. If that kid did
(21:10):
his guard it yet, if heis still out there, he's legit.
I don't give a shit. Ifhe's playing forty five percent snaps. Now
you can see right there having okayon it. Hey, this is already
a deep dart throw. But Ilove what this kid's putting on film,
and he's getting a little bit moresnaps each time. I think his role
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is going to continue to increase,or at least what he's coming up with
should be worth a good deal.Two number, that is, he's off
to a very hot start as wellfor the Arizona Cardinals. That defense is
a little better than people having althoughthey fell apart and against the second half
of the New York Giants last week. Moving on here to Jonathan Cooper and
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Denver had a gamewrecking performance. Eighttackles, two sacks, a forced fumble,
and a tackle for loss. Yeah, I mean this is a one
of the most underrated defensive fronts probablyin the NFL. Denver still has a
very salty defense to go with anoffense of course that is underperforming. But
(22:17):
going on to Jonathan Cooper, whatare your thoughts on the third year defensive
ends so far? And how muchare you spending on him in your how
much of your free agent auction budgetare you spending on him? Perfect pivot
off of Gennis Gartic that we justtalked about, the same kind of scenario.
He's popped up early here. That'swhy I didn't put them both on
(22:37):
last week. But Cooper definitely gotmy attention again this week. And I
mean it looks legit working down therewith Randy Gregory. As long as Randy
Gregory is healthy, we're gonna havesomebody else to key off on that's going
to work in Cooper's advantages while he'sdown a little bit. Now, I
(22:59):
believe he is a little older inage, so I'm kind of this first
few weeks. That's basically what I'mdoing is cherry picking a bunch of names
off as I go through, lookingat different levels of standard leagues and deep
leagues and trying to put names outthere that could be available on the waiver
wire for whatever reason, maybe they'renot as popular or they're just new.
(23:23):
Jonathan Cooper. Nobody knows who thisdude is. This is last year's Jonathan
Williams, just like Gary Dardick.But it's on the edge side. So
if you can get him, I'dget him and stash him. I believe
he's actually playing full time seventy percentor so snaps, you know, I
(23:45):
tried to. I'm trying to pullup his snappercentage here, and the only
Jonathan Cooper that pops up on Sleeperis some guy who retired like four years
ago. All right, well Ihave him here in two seconds here,
I just moved. I'm on IDP. Guys, did you think two percent
Sleeper is unreliable? Though? Ialways double check Sleeper and it's incorrect a
(24:06):
lot of the times according to Sleeper. But like I said, Sleepers,
I've got seventy one. I knewit. I knew it. Sleepers so
like their their IDP snaps percentage isso unreliable. It's so unreliable. I
don't know whoever's doing that, butyeah, it's it's it's always off by
like something drastic. I always think, so, yes, ignore me,
I'm probably not going to be usingthat in the future. It is just
(24:26):
so easy to use, but alittle bit more accurate on the offensive side
of the ball. Moving on,here is another name fantasy managers will be
very accustomed to. That is BradleyChubb, traded to Miami Dolphins for a
first round pick last year, makinga name for himself. He was the
second highest graded player in their Weektwo performance, had a sack, I
(24:47):
believe, multiple stops. Yeah,put three pressures on the quarterback too.
Off to a very good star.Looks to be fully healthy going forward.
How much of your fab are youspending on Bradley Chub? And you know
is his uh, you know,he's a big he's a big name obviously,
does that make him kind of maybea little bit unobtainable off the waiver
(25:07):
wire just because you know people willbe spending a little bit too much.
Well, you're not going to getthe answer you're expected, because again we've
been cherry picking in going beyond,like week three to four, I'll announce
it on the app. You willnot see me put somebody on the app.
I don't care what week, howgood they were last week, You're
not going to see him put onthe following week if they don't have a
(25:30):
solid, too strong matchup. I'mjust not going to put him on here.
I'm going to wait it out becauseI am not going to suggest a
guy that's had a top five matchupstood out and then he's all of a
sudden he's unknown, but he's goinginto the next week with a bottom five
matchup. That's that's to me suicide. So that's a purpose of the rolling
(25:52):
waiver wires after we get this dataprime. Anyhow, as far as Bradley
Chub big name him, Hey,I'm gonna I'm not gonna lie. I'm
picking on him. I put himon here to see and he's reason he's
all the way at the bottom amongstthe week three ads. I'm perfect time
to bring it up. Nobody hopefullywas going to go with an old okay
(26:15):
kind of strong you know, matchup, and I think he's just going
to fail and be out this week. I really do. He's just not
a big part of that pass rush. He his addition last year to Miami
was way better for the team andJalen Phillips than anything. And now you've
(26:37):
got a situation where as Johnny theGreek likes to call him on the players
Pod van Winklu went van winkle whatever, and I think it's Andrew van Winkl
got a like seventy percent of thesnapchair with those two the whole entire game
edge rushers rotating. You know,they all played a lot, so it's
(27:00):
it's a Bradley Chubb can come inplay two games in a row and it
be done for a month as inproducing and I just don't buy into it.
So sometimes I do do things likethat. I won't do it when
we get into buy weeks. Don'tworry about that. I just soon put
a flat out thing. But sometimesyou just gotta let's people see all right,
(27:23):
absolutely, yeah, you mean yougotta you know, regardless, you
know that's I have that sometimes regardlesshow I feel, I still want players.
You know, I might be noton a player, but I still
want to tell people about them despitethat, even they have a big performance.
Moving on to the last edge hereand you know maybe d defensive tackle
slaps that is a fire and young. What is your thoughts on him for
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the Los Angeles Rams so far?They played a little over fifty percent of
snaps, four tackles. I believeyesterday no five tackles in a sack.
I'm sorry, what are your thoughtson his performance so far? Well,
I definitely want to get him oneverybody's radar. I think it's this is
definitely a great looking dynasty kid.I mean for somebody that you could could
go and get off the waiver wireand went undrafted, unless you're in the
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deepest DJEN leagues, you know thisis a big bonus. He's developing trial
under fire, and he's performing andhe's matching or overachieved because I'm pretty sure
I mean, for me, fivesolos I believe you said. I believe
it was five solos all right.In a lot of leagues, that's two
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points apiece. You know that that'sbig money. That's based tackle and a
sack. Okay, so I'm prettysure I had it marked last week.
I'd have to look back that itwas only a solid matchup and here he
comes out. That's an overachievement.I like overachieving. If you got an
okay. See Bradley Chubb goes in, he had an okay, he turns
around and he overchieves. He's gotmy attention a lot more than he did
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before. I said that shit alittle bit ago. Lots of defensive end
Yeah, lots of change this week, like you said, lots of players
to keep an eye on at thatedge position performing around the NFL. We
are going to end with one interiordefensive line than this week. If your
league so happens to have these players, maybe if you wouldn't mind maybe talking
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about a little bit about maybe theposition in general, you know, maybe
why it's not as valuable or maybewhy you think it is a little bit
more valuable than people think. VitaVeia, though, will be who we're
discussing here. Three tackles for loss, one and a half sacks here.
Wow, Yeah, big performance comingover here. And like I said,
thirty, I'd have to look hereat thirty four percent on sleeper. That
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doesn't feel exactly right though, onthe snap percentage. What are your thoughts
on Vita Bia. No, actuallythat could be very well right, because
they do have a large rotation downthere. It's just he's a stud on
the line unfortunately at times who overachieve and look really good and then he
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kind of just levels back off.Now, I want everybody to understand,
this is what I call an interiordefensive lineman defensive tackle. So in their
values when you're when you have defensiveline is your general play defensive tackles.
We only have maybe four to fivethat are even considered within the realm to
use. If you're in a shallowstandard league, these guys, these guys
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are deep. They don't get alot of huge production. The ones that
do, like Quincy Williams or sayKristian Wilkins, Aaron Donald is marked as
a defensive tackle. You know,you get out of that realm of that
top five and everybody else is justcommon. Joe Vita is definitely just a
kind of a deep ad or onlyif you're in a defensive tackle designated league
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some deep gen stuff again, sobut you know, definitely put him,
putting him on the spot. He'she's got the capability. If I had
to put my odds on it,the only reason that he'll probably make it
through this three weeks, as youcan see, has got to buy the
in week five, is because he'sgot the buy week in week five.
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He'll probably fail this before he getsout of it, and I'll probably put
him back on week six just tosee if I can get it that way.
Okay, absolutely, I appreciate it. It has been some I've learned
a lot already. You know.I'm still like writing my beak at IDP
a little bit, but it's funkeeping up with these players every week and
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learning a lot as I go.Gary will be back next Tuesday. You
definitely need to be checking out hisapp for the full breakdown the rolling IDP
waiver wire. Do you want togive a brief shout out to your app,
you know, explain to the viewersand anything else you're working on this
week? Gary, Well, Imean the main core of it is doing
these waiver wires, you know,and right now I got a little bit
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overloaded because of dotting it with thenames and I figure are popular. So
now I'm going to start, youknow, making these guys earn it.
When we get these get the dataprimed and I can lean more on projecting
matchups more than players, than applyingthe scenarios that I know from reading about
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these guys and looking them up thereevery week keeping track of them. There's
also IDP prop bet tab there.I keep track of the fails and passes.
I try to keep everybody up todate when I went with any kind
of outlier news if I can,and it gives you guys a link right
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there. If you get that early, you have the everything you need to
get to my start sits on thisGPN, which will come out on Wednesdays.
Absolutely I'll be I'll drop all thoselinks and the comments on YouTube and
you can find those everybody. Thankyou so much for joining us. I
will be back tomorrow actually with JackKavanaugh from Player Profiler, to be talking
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some week two fantasy football action,Nick Chubb, David Montgomery, Austin Echoler
injuries. You know, the runningback position has already been decimated in the
NFL. Sad to see about NickChubb. Very sad, of course.
You know the replay has been showna thousand times. And yes, we'll
move back to offensive talk tomorrow.The dirty oh as Gary likes to call
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it. But like I said,thank you so much, for joining us
everybody, and you have a terrificweek. Hope real quick, oh,
right as I go. That isimpeccable timing, Isaiah Alexis. We will
I will answer your question quickly rightas we close out here, right as
I was about sign up. TravisKelsey and Tyler Augier from Mark and Kenneth
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dirty o question, Gary, adirty old question like at the last minute,
right right, We're not gonna letyou go yet, Gary, I
will I can answer this. Thatwill stick. I'll answer this question.
Travis Kelsey and Tyler outrem Uh.It's wow. That's Close's that's very close.
I would go with Man. I'mstill sticking with the elite tight end
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there, but it is very close. Khalil Herbert and Aaron. I think
Kalil Herbert's a little bit underrated actually, just because I think people want to
love Roshan Johnson so much, theyjust they just have blinders on. Khalil
Herbert is still always going to bea factor in this backfield. Aaron Jones
is probably in for a big yearin Green Bay when Emperor he's out there
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clip, you know, he's justhe's the only viable running back at the
moment Aj Dillon is just it runsinto a cloud of dust. So Travis
Kelsey here by a hair, Icould understand why you'd want Keneth Walker,
but he's still I still think KenethWalker's just kind of provide middle ning RB
two territory here, Travis Kelsey,I still think provides a difference making at
tight end. I would want justa little bit more. If you dropped
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Tyler Ouchier, I'd consider it.Travis Kelsey straight up for Mark Andrews and
Kenneth Walker sounds a little bit morepalatable to me, so I would shoot
back that counter. But well,we'll close it out here. Thank you
so much for joining us, everybody, and have a great rest of your week.
Hello everyone, and welcome to theIDP Cocktail Hour Fans Football Podcast with Gary
Van Dyke. I am your hostEmerson Barry, joined by I'm like weekly
guest host on Tuesday's Gary Van Dyketo talk some IDP action. How are
you doing, my friend, I'mdoing great, man, rock and roll.
I love doing this every single week. I am diving more and more
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into IDP fantasy football, and itis a great thing to talk about because,
like I said, you know,this is being bringing in a new
group of people to the face OffSports Network. So it's been really fun
to do with these. With theselast two weeks, we are going to
dive into it though, going byposition, group the best as the hottest
players that from this past week.We're going to start off in New York
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with Jordan Whitehead got his notably aftera week one, got his hit his
two hundred and fifty thousand bonus withthree interceptions Week one eighty six percent snap
count yesterday corn asleep or sometimes thosenumbers are a little bit iffy, nine
total tackles. Been having a bigyear so far. What are your thoughts
on him? Well, I loveit and I was glad to get him
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on the waiver wire list this week. I mean, he's actually going to
be a good, probably standard adbesides even deeper leagues at this point,
knowing that he's a he's got astrong matchup coming up against New England in
week three, will be four.He's got a strong win against Kansas City
of course with that passing game.But you know, it's not surprising to
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see Jordan Whitehead do this. Hethe former buccaneer, had some decent years
down near and when he come uplast year, he was brought in to
take over the secondary for all thesloppy and mis tackling problems they had and
such. So last year we hadanticipation that he would probably be worth something.
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But unfortunately, you know, theguy was learning to run that secondary
get his guys in line. Wella year later, you know, here
we are the same thing happened toJohn Johnson the second year he was with
Cleveland when he transferred over there.It happens all the times these guys are
brought in. Al Shuzier, thelinebacker in Tennessee. He's starting off slow,
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but he's still going to be allright either way. As far as
Jordan Whitehead man, I'm picking himup, and I gotta admit I was
a little sneaky. I picked himup late, like five minutes before he
played last week, made a lastminute swap. Thank goodness I did,
because the matchup was just perfect.And yeah, I mean yeah, it's
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just incredible to already be hitting onyour bonuses after a week one. It
looks like he has a favorable scheduleas well, coming up with a couple
of strong matchups and a solid one. What is how much fab are you
spending on Jordan Whitehead this week?You know, based on one hundred dollar
budget, looking completely just at defensivebacks, if I'm shooting for defensive back
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himself, because I'm not going toput any real kind of currency into any
auction on the defensive back in anystandard side league because there's usually like a
million of them diame a dozen,and you can find the right matchups and
still get quality for nothing. Sobut looking at dB alone, I mean,
I'm putting a high stakes on Jordan'sWhiteheads. So you know, if
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my normal budget of spending just adollar or a player, I'm willing to
throw three or four bucks on thisguy just to make sure I got him,
especially if I need, if Ineed a boost to my defensive back
unit. Okay, absolutely, NewYork Jets of course lost Aaron Rodgers,
but still have a very strong defensiveunit. Moving over to your number two
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pick on the defensive back, JoshMattelis left with an injury, but still
you know, played fifty six percentof the snacks snaps nine total tackles so
far. You know, what areyour thoughts on his performance? And you
know he is he going to beable to, you know, lift this
Vikings defense that's had It seems likea rough couple first weeks. Well,
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considering that, I'm thinking that's onlythe deep IDP D Jens even knew who
this cat is. You can understandthis is more of a D bad so
or somebody that's got some potential.All right. So Josh Mattellis came in
for Harrison Smith last year at somepoint and really performed at a top level.
Why Smith, Harrison Smith was out, So he was on some of
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our radars back then. Well asprogressed. He's earned his way into this
new look defense that they've got goingon, and he's playing as much as
I mean, as much as athird linebacker could possibly play in this system.
He's right there. The thing is, he's producing when he's there,
and they'll let you guys know,buying him, carn Cameron buying him.
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He's also been lit. He's onour list up here too. He's actually
he's moved himself up into a standardsituation if he can complete it again for
another three weeks or the end ofthis this next week and complete as three
weeks as a solid consistent guy,and I believe he's got at least as
strong or a solid matchup. Butas far as mattel Us, this dude
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is actually outproducing Harrison Smith right nowper snap, So he's buying him so
and Smith is not actually having abad year or nothing. It's just notable
to notice that they have three wideor three safeties that are probably serviceable in
different levels. So as these guysget shuffled up next week, you'll notice
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mattell Us probably a little lower inthe tier where week three will be amongst
those players, they do start gettingknocked down just based off of things.
But Howard sorting out who's got somewho's got some consistency. Yes, that
defense is still elite, and he'shad a well now I'm sorry. The
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defense is not elite, I wasgoing to say, and he seems to
like to be one of the playersthat is still being having a productive season
so far. Definitely a player tokeep an eye on. I you know,
I'm not like you said. Youknow, defensive backs are only a
priority in certain leagues depending on thesettings, So you know, depending on
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how badly you need a defensive back, and just you know, a player
to keep an eye on. Wewill end the defensive back department with Brian
Branch, of course, made headlinesin week one after getting an interception on
Patrick Mahomes returning it for a touchdown. Talked about wanting to make the Hall
of Fame already this week. SoBrian Branch, big dreams, and you
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were talking about an injury on Detroitthat could boost his opportunity. Correct,
Yeah, it's a really interesting situation. We knew he was kind of low
and snaps last week, so wewarned that, you know, look out
for those big splash plays if theyaren't there. So he did come back
down to earth. Kirby Joseph,by the way, he had one hundred
percent of snaps week one. Weektwo, he's gone off, so if
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anybody dropped him, they might havemade a big mistake. You might want
to check out him first, SoI wouldn't even think he'd be worth heading
on to a wave of wire.His name should be out there, Brian
Branch. I'll tell you with ChaunceyGardner, c C. J. Johnson
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Gardner. Yeah, Chauncy Gardners onIR now, and they're going to be
moving, probably moving Tracy Walker,which is a former Starter, which a
lot of people are familiar with.You weren't going to want to put him
on your radar. Two, he'snot on the waiver wire this week because
just just developed last nine. Ibelieve it was like right before the game.
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Possibly. But either way, BrianBranch or Tracy Walker or do for
a bigger portion of snaps now.I'm a little bit concerned on saying Brandon
Brian Branch is a clear cut guy. One is a rookie. Two,
they don't have to put him inthat position because they do have a veteran
and Tracy Walker that's been there,done that. He's had plenty of time
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to get over his injury that Ican't specifically remember what it is, but
he's been back to practice. Youknow, so I think he's probably ready,
and I don't. I don't likethis enough to say start either one
of them this week. So thisis looking at the deeper side of things,
just kind of a stash if youever him, Brian branch is.
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You know, it's been a trendingtopic on Twitter these last twenty four hours,
lots of IDP analysts shouting out,Brian branch this is a big stock
moving up. So you're a littlebit more hesitant, though you're not saying
he's a must start this coming week. If I sit here with my pom
poms, every time I get excitedabout some player, you know everybody's going
to be No, No, I'mnot suggesting them. You know why,
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For the simple fact is if youif I've suggested to them, but don't
start them. There's too many times, you know, if you're in the
Standard League, if you if youdon't have bench deep, if you're if
you're getting ready to drop, say, I don't know somebody solid, trying
to think of somebody. It's actuallybeen solid and this not an outlier this
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year. I say, you're gettingready to drop back hill for him?
No, don't do that. Justyou know, don't don't go reaching for
these guys and think you're going toget a perfect start. We've got big
questions. We do not know ifit's going to be Walker or Branch.
I have not seen anything as oflast night saying one of them is definitely
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going to be the starting box safety. Okay, absolutely, a little bit
more hesitant, like said then mostTwitter ip analysts. We will shift over
to the linebackers. Gary, howdo I even start with this name?
Gary? What? What am Ilooking at here? It's funny, you
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gotta be I haven't even I haven'teven gotten here yet, but you got
to be looking at two two orsomething on that line. That's the craziest
name I've ever seen. Houston rookielinebacker Henry two. Henry two two.
Oh man, this is a littleembarrassing. According to John on the Players
Pod last night while he was recording, he said, it's got a little
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a little too but I couldn't.I wasn't going to do that. I'd
rather do sound too regardless, right. Eighty four point three PFF grade in
week one, making a name forhimself. Although he out snapped, he
was the lead leader in snaps.After Week one, he was officially named
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the starter in week two. Imean, yeah, other than the hard
name to per now, what areyou seeing in him so far? He
seems to be making a name forhimself and that we will hopefully be able
to pronounce in the near future.Yeah, and I like this even Dynasty.
Why so get this guy on yourradar again. This is another We
need to see this play out becauseyou still have Kristin Harris, which is
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the favorite of a lot of peoplefrom last year. We've been throwing out
red flags at the IDPA players becauseI mean, PFF didn't ever even scom
anything over a thirty five or thirtysix last year. The entire time to
get played. He was productive bydefault. But Houston was in a situation.
It was his rookie season and heisn't he was an Alabama product and
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such. So but here lo andbehold, all of a sudden, too
has these snaps and he has theproduction to match, and he's got good
reviews coming out. Reportedly, Harrishad a shoulder injury, so I do
believe he did play some of thegame. I have seen this so much
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and I know this might be mebecause I've been talking about him for so
long being terrible, and he gratedlike a forty last week. This is
after working with Damiko Ryan's all summer, the linebacker King Right, So I
got a feeling this shoulder injury couldbe one of those doors that you kind
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of go through sometimes giving two tohis shot, he's had a shot.
It'll be really interesting what you seewhat happens this coming week. But if
it's me, I'm going for thisrookie for a stash. Yeah, it
seems like he could be on theverge of a breakout. How much fab
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are you spending on him? Youknow, based on one hundred dollar budget,
Well, i'd have to. I'dhave to put him in with all
the IDP at that point, andat this point in a standard league,
you know, I mean, Imight throw a couple of bucks on him
if I have the room, Butdeeperly, he's more valuable for a breakout.
He's gonna have pyramin there. Soso he does take over for Harris
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to write at this moment. Uh, you know, he offers upper LB
two numbers off the top, soI'd make sure i'd double double my normal.
You know, say, if Iwas one buck, i'd go to
I'd definitely try to make sure Igot this kid on there. Okay,
we'll move on to our number twoman here, that is Nicholas Moreau.
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I see the red flag next tohis name as well. You can explain
that to the listeners. He isin a more prominent role due to some
injuries in the Philadelphia Eagles linebacker room. To Condean is going to the ir
out at least four weeks. Thatwas as of last week, so I
had at least three more weeks.So what's your thoughts on him? And
you know, his bigger opportunity inthis Philadelphia Eagles lineback in court. I'm
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a Morrow fan. You know,this guy's had a long road in the
NFL playing for Chicago, had injuriesin his in his career, you know,
so I was pulling for him tocome in and take his job at
the week side. And then Cunninghamwas signed and I figured out the ship
had sailed plus a Morrow. Youknow, he's not perfect. So he
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actually was on the practice squad whenDevin Lloyd or the Kobe Dean got hurt.
So that's basically what the red flagis. It's just to let people
know that, you know, whenDean comes back, then we got a
whole another mess to go through fora week or two before we have any
trust of somebody, even Dean himself, is my opinion, if they work
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him back in slowly or if hejust doesn't start off very well, It's
not like we had a huge sampleof him this year. So Nicholas Morrow
is a good temporary target to add. I know he only had a few
tackles, he did play most ofthe snaps. He wore the green dot.
That's the owners right there. Soif there is any production to have
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be had, I'm sure Moro canabsorb it. I would look at him
like a linebacker two. So thisis definitely no more than a like a
dollar bid at this point. Okay, we will move on to the edge
rushers here, Yes, that iswhat is up next. And pulling it
up here Shack Barrett back at thetop a lot. You know IDP players
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have had a long you know definitelyare familiar with Shack Barrett. Had suffer
has suffered a little bit of adrop off and play recently, but this
season he has been on fire.Got that game clenching interception touchdown, had
a sack as well. Yes,he is having a huge season so far,
as is Shaq Barrett back or canwe count on him this season?
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Before I answer that, I'd liketo mention this positional list right here,
the edge rushers. This was thebiggest turnover. I think I had like
twelve guys on them and out ofall fifty or so there was on the
app last week, I mean,this position took the biggest head. It's
it's a tough one here. Sothere's a lot more new ads on here
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if you if you're looking, andShack Barrett's got to be put right back
on here. He had slid down. He had he had a lot of
drama to he had a lot ofheartache when his daughter died. You know,
I'm putting them on here to makesure that people understand and standard leagues
that at one point there wouldn't wantany better. Really. I mean,
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he's always been up there in thattop five when he was on. He's
not that old, he's still gotsome gas left, so he's still worth
a nice ad, especially if he'ssitting on your waiver of wires in a
middle to standard type league and you'relooking for a good bye week plays coming
up, don't lose track of himor get him on your team real quick.
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Shack. Barrett could be in linefor a season, like you said,
definitely has been through a lot,and yes, hopefully he yes makes
a lot of money this year andis very productive as well. Moving on
to number two on the list,that is another player with a very long
NFL career. That is Randy Gregoryof the long time Dallas Cowboy. More
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of a part time player now inDenver, you know, more of a
past pass rushing special issue. Youmight call it a little under fifty percent
of the snaps yesterday, but stillhad five tackles and a sack. What
are your thoughts on his performance thatyou know so far, thoughts on the
future and how much you's been spendingon him on the waiver wire. Well,
he landed right here underneath Barrett.And I want to be clear,
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this is another whole tier drop.There wasn't a huge amount of outliers that
I thought would be worth adding atthis point in time, considering we're getting
ready to change things over here ina couple of weeks and do more projecting,
which then our tiers of weeks havewhen they've been adding, will be
more sorted by their match us thatwe're projecting by, and we have prime
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data for this year. So thisis a nice little jump between Randy Gregory.
So his solid is, you know, kind of a deep dart throw
at this point. The guy hastalent. The fortunate part is he can't
stay healthy or he's been involved ina deep rotation. I think he's a
little bust out here with Denver,though, considering the needs and considering what
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he does have at stake, Ifhe can stay healthy, he's definitely worth
an ad will. He offers somestandard upside that still remains to be seen,
but he's got He's got to proveconsistency first, So don't make him
your first guy. I would lookup the list. I mean there maybe
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even a couple of these others.I might even suggest just for the simple
fact as Randy Gregory's consistency hasn't beenthere in his career. Yes, IDP
managers probably remember Randy Gregory from hisDallas Cowboy days, but his staying productive
in Denversus somebody certainly to keep aneye on in IDP leagues. Moving on,
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is this is a player who's havinga very strong start of the season
that is Jermaine Johnson a little bitof a slow burn two and a half
sacks last year, but he's gettingafter it this season. He put some
nice heat on Josh Allen in Weekone. He continues to improve. I
believe yesterday his fin he had fourtackles yesterday on a fifty nine percent snap
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cow. What have you seen sofar? And you know is are we
seeing? You know a future staremerge in this league? Oh yeah,
definitely, I buy in. It'sthe New York Jets, all right.
So this little slow paste on thepast for us to begin with, but
the guys definitely got an uptick.I'm sitting here right now is getting ready
to do it live. I'm gladthat we went through there because apparently I
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forgot to do his matchup strength soI can tell New England I believe is
solid. Kansas City was okay tosolid. Off the top of my head
without directly looking, I could actuallydo this and correct it as we do,
But I'm not going to go there. The guy is on a roll.
He he's the second year man.He's in a good situation. They
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finally quit doing Carl Lawson. Theyneed this and what better interior defensive line
than Quincy or Quinn, and it'sQuinnon inside quinnin Williams, a guy that's
just a beast to work with,will also give Johnson a little bit of
a boost. So give him alook. I wanted to refer I had
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like an afterthought, real quick quickEmerson, but comparably like Randy Gregory breaking
out or busting out this first week. I would prefer, and people are
not gonna know this name, butthat well, I would prefer to scroll
up and go get guarded off ofthe Arizona Cardinals. If that kid did
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his guard it yet, if heis still out there, he's legit.
I don't give a shit. Ifhe's playing forty five percent snaps. Now
you can see right there having okayon it. Hey, this is already
a deep dart throw. But Ilove what this kid's putting on film,
and he's getting a little bit moresnaps each time. I think his role
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is going to continue to increase,or at least what he's coming up with
should be worth a good deal.Two number, that is, he's off
to a very hot start as wellfor the Arizona Cardinals. That defense is
a little better than people having althoughthey fell apart and against the second half
of the New York Giants last week. Moving on here to Jonathan Cooper and
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Denver had a gamewrecking performance. Eighttackles, two sacks, a forced fumble,
and a tackle for loss. Yeah, I mean this is a one
of the most underrated defensive fronts probablyin the NFL. Denver still has a
very salty defense to go with anoffense of course that is underperforming. But
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going on to Jonathan Cooper, whatare your thoughts on the third year defensive
ends so far? And how muchare you spending on him in your how
much of your free agent auction budgetare you spending on him? Perfect pivot
off of Gennis Gartic that we justtalked about, the same kind of scenario.
He's popped up early here. That'swhy I didn't put them both on
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last week. But Cooper definitely gotmy attention again this week. And I
mean it looks legit working down therewith Randy Gregory. As long as Randy
Gregory is healthy, we're gonna havesomebody else to key off on that's going
to work in Cooper's advantages while he'sdown a little bit. Now, I
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believe he is a little older inage, so I'm kind of this first
few weeks. That's basically what I'mdoing is cherry picking a bunch of names
off as I go through, lookingat different levels of standard leagues and deep
leagues and trying to put names outthere that could be available on the waiver
wire for whatever reason, maybe they'renot as popular or they're just new.
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Jonathan Cooper. Nobody knows who thisdude is. This is last year's Jonathan
Williams, just like Gary Dardick.But it's on the edge side. So
if you can get him, I'dget him and stash him. I believe
he's actually playing full time seventy percentor so snaps, you know, I
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tried to. I'm trying to pullup his snappercentage here, and the only
Jonathan Cooper that pops up on Sleeperis some guy who retired like four years
ago. All right, well Ihave him here in two seconds here,
I just moved. I'm on IDP. Guys, did you think two percent
Sleeper is unreliable? Though? Ialways double check Sleeper and it's incorrect a
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lot of the times according to Sleeper. But like I said, Sleepers,
I've got seventy one. I knewit. I knew it. Sleepers so
like their their IDP snaps percentage isso unreliable. It's so unreliable. I
don't know whoever's doing that, butyeah, it's it's it's always off by
like something drastic. I always think, so, yes, ignore me,
I'm probably not going to be usingthat in the future. It is just
(24:26):
so easy to use, but alittle bit more accurate on the offensive side
of the ball. Moving on,here is another name fantasy managers will be
very accustomed to. That is BradleyChubb, traded to Miami Dolphins for a
first round pick last year, makinga name for himself. He was the
second highest graded player in their Weektwo performance, had a sack, I
(24:47):
believe, multiple stops. Yeah,put three pressures on the quarterback too.
Off to a very good star.Looks to be fully healthy going forward.
How much of your fab are youspending on Bradley Chub? And you know
is his uh, you know,he's a big he's a big name obviously,
does that make him kind of maybea little bit unobtainable off the waiver
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wire just because you know people willbe spending a little bit too much.
Well, you're not going to getthe answer you're expected, because again we've
been cherry picking in going beyond,like week three to four, I'll announce
it on the app. You willnot see me put somebody on the app.
I don't care what week, howgood they were last week, You're
not going to see him put onthe following week if they don't have a
(25:30):
solid, too strong matchup. I'mjust not going to put him on here.
I'm going to wait it out becauseI am not going to suggest a
guy that's had a top five matchupstood out and then he's all of a
sudden he's unknown, but he's goinginto the next week with a bottom five
matchup. That's that's to me suicide. So that's a purpose of the rolling
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waiver wires after we get this dataprime. Anyhow, as far as Bradley
Chub big name him, Hey,I'm gonna I'm not gonna lie. I'm
picking on him. I put himon here to see and he's reason he's
all the way at the bottom amongstthe week three ads. I'm perfect time
to bring it up. Nobody hopefullywas going to go with an old okay
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kind of strong you know, matchup, and I think he's just going
to fail and be out this week. I really do. He's just not
a big part of that pass rush. He his addition last year to Miami
was way better for the team andJalen Phillips than anything. And now you've
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got a situation where as Johnny theGreek likes to call him on the players
Pod van Winklu went van winkle whatever, and I think it's Andrew van Winkl
got a like seventy percent of thesnapchair with those two the whole entire game
edge rushers rotating. You know,they all played a lot, so it's
(27:00):
it's a Bradley Chubb can come inplay two games in a row and it
be done for a month as inproducing and I just don't buy into it.
So sometimes I do do things likethat. I won't do it when
we get into buy weeks. Don'tworry about that. I just soon put
a flat out thing. But sometimesyou just gotta let's people see all right,
(27:23):
absolutely, yeah, you mean yougotta you know, regardless, you
know that's I have that sometimes regardlesshow I feel, I still want players.
You know, I might be noton a player, but I still
want to tell people about them despitethat, even they have a big performance.
Moving on to the last edge hereand you know maybe d defensive tackle
slaps that is a fire and young. What is your thoughts on him for
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the Los Angeles Rams so far?They played a little over fifty percent of
snaps, four tackles. I believeyesterday no five tackles in a sack.
I'm sorry, what are your thoughtson his performance so far? Well,
I definitely want to get him oneverybody's radar. I think it's this is
definitely a great looking dynasty kid.I mean for somebody that you could could
go and get off the waiver wireand went undrafted, unless you're in the
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deepest DJEN leagues, you know thisis a big bonus. He's developing trial
under fire, and he's performing andhe's matching or overachieved because I'm pretty sure
I mean, for me, fivesolos I believe you said. I believe
it was five solos all right.In a lot of leagues, that's two
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points apiece. You know that that'sbig money. That's based tackle and a
sack. Okay, so I'm prettysure I had it marked last week.
I'd have to look back that itwas only a solid matchup and here he
comes out. That's an overachievement.I like overachieving. If you got an
okay. See Bradley Chubb goes in, he had an okay, he turns
around and he overchieves. He's gotmy attention a lot more than he did
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before. I said that shit alittle bit ago. Lots of defensive end
Yeah, lots of change this week, like you said, lots of players
to keep an eye on at thatedge position performing around the NFL. We
are going to end with one interiordefensive line than this week. If your
league so happens to have these players, maybe if you wouldn't mind maybe talking
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about a little bit about maybe theposition in general, you know, maybe
why it's not as valuable or maybewhy you think it is a little bit
more valuable than people think. VitaVeia, though, will be who we're
discussing here. Three tackles for loss, one and a half sacks here.
Wow, Yeah, big performance comingover here. And like I said,
thirty, I'd have to look hereat thirty four percent on sleeper. That
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doesn't feel exactly right though, onthe snap percentage. What are your thoughts
on Vita Bia. No, actuallythat could be very well right, because
they do have a large rotation downthere. It's just he's a stud on
the line unfortunately at times who overachieve and look really good and then he
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kind of just levels back off.Now, I want everybody to understand,
this is what I call an interiordefensive lineman defensive tackle. So in their
values when you're when you have defensiveline is your general play defensive tackles.
We only have maybe four to fivethat are even considered within the realm to
use. If you're in a shallowstandard league, these guys, these guys
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are deep. They don't get alot of huge production. The ones that
do, like Quincy Williams or sayKristian Wilkins, Aaron Donald is marked as
a defensive tackle. You know,you get out of that realm of that
top five and everybody else is justcommon. Joe Vita is definitely just a
kind of a deep ad or onlyif you're in a defensive tackle designated league
(30:52):
some deep gen stuff again, sobut you know, definitely put him,
putting him on the spot. He'she's got the capability. If I had
to put my odds on it,the only reason that he'll probably make it
through this three weeks, as youcan see, has got to buy the
in week five, is because he'sgot the buy week in week five.
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He'll probably fail this before he getsout of it, and I'll probably put
him back on week six just tosee if I can get it that way.
Okay, absolutely, I appreciate it. It has been some I've learned
a lot already. You know.I'm still like writing my beak at IDP
a little bit, but it's funkeeping up with these players every week and
(31:36):
learning a lot as I go.Gary will be back next Tuesday. You
definitely need to be checking out hisapp for the full breakdown the rolling IDP
waiver wire. Do you want togive a brief shout out to your app,
you know, explain to the viewersand anything else you're working on this
week? Gary, Well, Imean the main core of it is doing
these waiver wires, you know,and right now I got a little bit
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overloaded because of dotting it with thenames and I figure are popular. So
now I'm going to start, youknow, making these guys earn it.
When we get these get the dataprimed and I can lean more on projecting
matchups more than players, than applyingthe scenarios that I know from reading about
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these guys and looking them up thereevery week keeping track of them. There's
also IDP prop bet tab there.I keep track of the fails and passes.
I try to keep everybody up todate when I went with any kind
of outlier news if I can,and it gives you guys a link right
(32:44):
there. If you get that early, you have the everything you need to
get to my start sits on thisGPN, which will come out on Wednesdays.
Absolutely I'll be I'll drop all thoselinks and the comments on YouTube and
you can find those everybody. Thankyou so much for joining us. I
will be back tomorrow actually with JackKavanaugh from Player Profiler, to be talking
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some week two fantasy football action,Nick Chubb, David Montgomery, Austin Echoler
injuries. You know, the runningback position has already been decimated in the
NFL. Sad to see about NickChubb. Very sad, of course.
You know the replay has been showna thousand times. And yes, we'll
move back to offensive talk tomorrow.The dirty oh as Gary likes to call
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it. But like I said,thank you so much, for joining us
everybody, and you have a terrificweek. Hope real quick, oh,
right as I go. That isimpeccable timing, Isaiah Alexis. We will
I will answer your question quickly rightas we close out here, right as
I was about sign up. TravisKelsey and Tyler Augier from Mark and Kenneth
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dirty o question, Gary, adirty old question like at the last minute,
right right, We're not gonna letyou go yet, Gary, I
will I can answer this. Thatwill stick. I'll answer this question.
Travis Kelsey and Tyler outrem Uh.It's wow. That's Close's that's very close.
I would go with Man. I'mstill sticking with the elite tight end
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there, but it is very close. Khalil Herbert and Aaron. I think
Kalil Herbert's a little bit underrated actually, just because I think people want to
love Roshan Johnson so much, theyjust they just have blinders on. Khalil
Herbert is still always going to bea factor in this backfield. Aaron Jones
is probably in for a big yearin Green Bay when Emperor he's out there
(34:37):
clip, you know, he's justhe's the only viable running back at the
moment Aj Dillon is just it runsinto a cloud of dust. So Travis
Kelsey here by a hair, Icould understand why you'd want Keneth Walker,
but he's still I still think KenethWalker's just kind of provide middle ning RB
two territory here, Travis Kelsey,I still think provides a difference making at
tight end. I would want justa little bit more. If you dropped
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Tyler Ouchier, I'd consider it.Travis Kelsey straight up for Mark Andrews and
Kenneth Walker sounds a little bit morepalatable to me, so I would shoot
back that counter. But well,we'll close it out here. Thank you
so much for joining us, everybody, and have a great rest of your week.
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