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Welcome to the Fantasy Footballers Dynasty Podcast with Borg Bets and a baller.
You welcome back.
We're heading into week three here on the fantas Footballers Dynasty Podcast. I'm your host, kyb Organoni, and I'm joined by Matthew Betts and Mike Great.
It fuels. I mean, you said week three, doesn't it feel like it's like week eleven right now? Like maybe it's just because you know, we're fresh off this Eagles collapse that has broken me, But it feels like with the injuries and just you know, so Mu's changing the NFL in the last couple of weeks. I feel like we're like well into the season, but it's only been two weeks. I don't know about you guys, if you feel the same way. But I'm tired.
Man. Uh yeah, I'm tired. Kyle and I manage the league of record team manage That's a great way to say it. That team is a hot mess that I'm not sure how we fix it. But also I am so happy that your stupid, stupid Eagles lost that game after being dumb and making me lose in fantasy football. If all they just give the ball to Barkley on the ground. So I'm sorry, Philadelphia. I am very happy that that team lost.
There's there's a couple of really good fan accounts that I follow on social and they were, of course interviewing the fans like literally walking out of the stadium, so you can only imagine what those conversations were like.
But oh yes, fire seriously, I.
Mean everything you could imagine they were it was gold. Kyle and I talked a lot about this on the DFS show. Yeah it was. It was terrible. And Kyle just sits here smirking because he's a Falcons fan. So one of us is very sad, the other one, you know, optimism. A week ago, the offense was broken, Kirk Cousins couldn't move. Now, Kyle sitting here, he as happy as a clam because my Eagles clapsed. So it's funny how things work in the NFL.
Are they fixed, Kyle, No, because it's it seemed like.
The Eagles are that bad on defense accurate, but they were.
They were.
It seemed like they were bad for a drive per play. They've been really bad, and they were really bad against the run. Okay, I mean Bijon just gashed them over and over the tun again, go ahead, run. So I'm a person I sometimes I wish I could just delete being empathetic because I where Bets is. I've been there so many times, so many times, and so like I wanted to come on here and dunk, but like, I just know how the NFL works. Things will change the same thing we talked about last week where everybody was scared about Marv. Everything's great about Marv. We're gonna do that with every single player about thirty times. And I did want to get your perspective, Bets, because you have your head around injuries. But like in my leagues, I have people telling me like this is the most ever. And I tried to look back at data, and you tweeted out a list like a spreadsheet of all the players. Does this is this actually more players significantly injured than we've seen in years this early.
So the thing about this year that feels different than previous years is that there's been so many key injuries to the biggest names in football, and then the fallout of the other stuff affecting the first round picks. Like think about redraft leagues, like now two is on ir right, so Tyreek Hill is affected and Jill and Waddle is affected, and so there's just been a ripple down effect of all of that. But you know, looking at some of the data I have and stuff it based off ADP and redraft leagues, for the first two or three rounds this year in particular, we're seeing a little bit of a spike in the injury rates. I don't really know why that is or if there's anything in particular that's causing that, but yeah, it's it's brutal.
Man.
It's one of those years that feels like if you make it through with like in redraft circles, you know, three of your first five pick still healthy through like week four, like you're crushing it. So it's been it's been tough.
Yeah, anecdotally, based on mining Kyle's team, it's the worst injury year of all time.
I feel like somebody had a good joke where they were talking about we should have a new format where you're drafting whose players can get injured the least, and that's all it is, Like it's just an accumulation of just not getting injured because everyone's been affected everywhere.
And hearing those Cardio kings Man guys just who are out hearly running. Yeah, they like they're getting snaps or running routes, but they're not doing They're never in because the ball.
Doesn't John Dotson, Yeah, no, A J. Browne's on target.
Now, would you say? Now, not a doctor here, I'm not. But all the cardio that Alec Pierce did last year seems like it's paying off so far. So I'm just connecting the dots here. That's that's my job. You tell me the medical advice, because it seems like he's been conditioned and he's good to go.
There.
You know, he was, dare I say, in the best shape of his life this summer, coming off that incredible cardio season from the year prior, so he just partlayid that right into the summer great training camp.
Yeah.
Man, he's seems like a top twelve Fantasy wide receiver right now.
Oh yeah, he's the wide receiver six.
Okay, we're on the upside down.
In a world, in a world where no one is scoring touchdowns and he has two of them, Like the I don't know what's going on with the NFL guys and of this lack of scoring, I don't know where the blame is. And I look at it like that it's blame. This is not This is not me being happy that the defenses are fixing things. Is someone is to blame and we need to correct it because passing is down, scoring is down, and that's what people want. We want big, awesome plays.
The thing about our game is that, like the NFL, despite some of these things, like the ratings are through the roof, So it's not like it's like, oh, this is a back.
I still love it. I still love the football. I just want more fantasy points.
Particularly particularly on my team if I can make that my squad.
Look, yeah, we're gonna get specific about it.
On this show. We're gonna do a weekly rewind, So we'll talk about some players that we watched some film of snaps the routes, just to kind of give you behind the scenes, uh, the lay of the land of some of these players. Like some stat lines kind of betray certain players, and other times we watch the film and go, yeah, that dude wasn't open, they didn't care, they didn't look his way. So we'll talk about that on a weekly reign. And then guys, there are some trends that might kind of hint it at when it comes to quarterbacks and specifically tight ends. Like that's another been a big point of like there's no touchdowns at all for anybody. It's just like Jalen Naylor gets two, uh Lazard gets two in week one. These are the dudes that are catching the touchdowns, that are helping people in there. You know, twenty five he had.
To steal one. That's the only way he can get a touchdown.
Right now, he has a little asterisk next to it, and it's great.
It was. It was still worth counts.
So yeah, we'll get into it.
Let's jump in the film weekly rewind.
Mike, you weren't here last week, but I got to repurpose.
I know, I know, I heard it. I heard the drop. You know, we don't.
We don't use that anymore. No, we don't, and it used to be a staple of the show. So I have commandeered it. I'm the captain. So every week we will rewind the film and do a deep dive on a player. So Betts, you start first, because this player wants all the targets in the entire world, and they're gonna feed it to them.
It's all about fifty Last week, did Milik neighbors it was an unreal week and obviously the matchup was there, right, you talk about the Commanders can't stop anybody through the air. But from week one to week two, you know, Week one comes out, Melik Neighbors first career game, Daniel Jones first game off the ACL. It wasn't ideal, obviously, but five for sixty six no touchdowns on week one was fine in PPR formats, of course, but it was more like the usage that was kind of like, yeah, like what are we doing here in New York? Almost exclusively, Like it felt like Cliff Kingsbury two point zero with Neighbors in week one, where he was just pretty much only seeing targets on the left side of the field, not a very diverse route tree. Brian Dable comes out this week ahead of Week two and says, that's a mistake, Like we need to feature this guy in every facet of our offense. Dude saw a ton of targets, but more specifically, just where he was used was so encouraging, getting him moving on a crosser's prestat motion, that kind of thing. He was unstoppable. And you know, going back to like his college profile, the thing that stuck out to me so much with Neighbors on tape was just once you get him going his explosiveness and speed, it's so difficult to stop. And it's not rocket science. You get that going and it's gonna work with a guy like this. So that was super encouraging from a scheme perspective what I saw with Neighbors. Obviously we can't expect maybe that production every week because they don't always get to play the Commanders, but it was really encouraging to see his usage there and his role grow in week two where he truly is I think already in alpha in this league at least he has the ability to be that.
There is also, like we make the jokes about if I had a number one wide receiver, I would just throw them the ball in every play there there is a point where these guys are just going to perish, Like you can only get hit so many times in that time span and it's gonna take a toll on your body. So wow, that was awesome for one week. Yeah, I'd like to see at least a couple other players get involved here.
In some of those targets too, like Jones. I mean if they catch them, like if we have neighbors on our roster.
We want them.
But he's just chucking it into like double and triple covers on the sideline. Doesn't have a prayer to catch that ball. So you know, the target count looks awesome on the surface, but I think some of those were definitely some prayer yards this week.
Yeah, this next week is at Cleveland, which is a brutal matchup. Then it's Dallas. But you know, if he's seeing even thirty percent of the targets is still just insane. I don't know if what was it at sixty seven.
I think it was something like that.
Yeah, so watching that game ridiculous, Like you can kind of tell there's not many other playmakers. Wandale's fine as a you know, another wider. He happened to catch the touchdown. Slayton is what he is, just a downfield player. I walked away thinking, like, man, Devin Singletary can play like it was Washington, but like he looked good, he looks spry. I was shocked that team lost. Like that was one of my stronger feelings in the week, Like Man, Giants money line, this should be the easiest thing of the week, and they found a way to lose despite not giving up a touchdown. Incredible stuff, Giants fans. By the way, I don't know how that you do that, Mike, you got a name I do.
I just wanted to quiz you guys real quick. Who's got to hire yards per carry right now? Devin's Singletary or Saquon Barkley.
Oh, it's gotta be Saquon.
It's uh. I wouldn't ask the question if it were a funny.
It was a trick, Mike. What is what is singletary averaging five point one? Imagine? I mean having Singletary sixteen ninety five that will do that. Imagine having Singletary on your roster like four or five years ago. And it's no one wants that, right, No one's like so excited about it. But if you just held that dude for like the last five years, you'd have gotten RBT production done, you know, a year in and year out.
So so the guy I want to talk about is Travis Kelcey. It's not just a complete film study, which I did. I watched everything. It's a what is going on with the Kansas City chiefs?
Uh?
I mean number one? The passing attempts are way down, I mean not necessarily down from last year, but just of where we hold Patrick Mahomes, he is still he rests upon our the pedestal that we all hold up for him as the number one quarterback on his way to being the greatest quarterback of all time. And yet it's been about a year and a half since we've gotten high flying Kansas City Chiefs and Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelcey, Like, what is happening with his usage? I mean, still on the field a ton, but he's having to do a bunch of blocking the offensive line didn't look great to me against the Cincinnati Bengals here in Week two A to pay you know, give him the duke. Travis Kelsey did have a huge catch and run that got called back on a penalty, and the penalty was the only reason why the play was even able to happen. It was a holding where Mahomes was able to roll out. But then Kelsey looked good doing his rumbling and bumbling down the field. But overall, and I don't have like I haven't, I don't have this you know, huge library of doing the all twenty two on Travis Kelcey, So like him two years ago versus now. But he looks It looks a little lumbering. It looks a little disinterested almost, and and not just that maybe maybe he knows, so he's playing this way. Fantasy points a friend of ours. They have a metric where they're trying to track the first read when a player is the first read in the offense and the ball goes to him. Kelsey's down at twelve and a half percent, and for context, that is terrible. Guys who are looking better in that particular metric Brenton Strange, John hus Smith, Austin Hooper, Greg Dolcic, Hayden Hurst all tight ends, all with a higher first read target percentage than Travis Kelsey. It is very strange what is happening out there, Like you know, like Rice is the heats the focal point of the offense now and then they're getting the gadget players going in there. I am so baffled by what is going on with the Kansas City Chiefs. Now with the injury to Isaiah Pacheco, maybe everything just flips back on its head immediately and the world is correct and right and Mahomes is backup to giving us three hundred yard games. Kelsey's tearing up the defense. He's giving us seventy in a touchdown. But I I mean, through these first two weeks, he's not even the highest scoring tight end on his team.
He's a tight end two man.
It is. It is so insane. What is happening of Know we talked about we think that Kelsey will he'll see some lower usage because they'll this is a team going for the Super Bowl. We saw it at the end of last year. The snaps got throttled down. The snapsters our way up for Kelsey. He's out there trying to block, and Travis Kelsey's blocking is it's not always the best thing you've ever seen when you're watching it. So I am just I am absolutely baffled about what is going on with Kelsey and what to do. I don't know, Like I don't have a gauge of what to do because the guy's he's that he is such a high powered name that trading him low can look like the worst mistake you've ever made in two weeks. But if we get three weeks on the road and you're like, man, we all showed a traded Travis Kelce like, so that's I don't know what to do. Do you guys have a read? Like how are you handling Kelsey right now? I mean especially in Dynasty, where like it seems like coming into the season you still could have gotten a ton for him. We're only two weeks in, but the market fluctuates very quick in Dynasty, and his market has to be down for sure.
I put out a couple of flyers in leagues that I'm in. I don't have him anywhere.
And so flyers to acquire, yes.
And I just wanted to gauge, you know, so ill I'm low balling here, like Okay, well I'll give you a second and maybe something else, and just kind of gauging then and he carries the name so that whoever I'm talking to says like do you know who this is? Like do you understand this player that you're trying to trail?
Like yeah, the tight end too for the kids City Chiefs, I know who that is?
Yeah, less points than Noah Gray than Jared Wyler. Like he's you know, he's barely on the team. So I think you would do right to at least just inquire about where this person is with him. Now, you're not going to get him for cheap. You know, you're gonna have to probably give a first and maybe something else right now. But I do have some thoughts later on in the show when we get to the Dynasty download section of like titands as a whole are feeling it like they are just right now bleeding out when it comes to just production, Like he's just not working at all for the top tier guys. And I think it's because defenses are changing, But bets, do you feel like he's a player that you can try to acquire?
I mean, obviously you're only doing this if you think you have a chance to win this year because he turns thirty five in two weeks, and you know, I'm not wanting to speculate on off the field type stuff, but it seems like there's other interests that are starting to develop clearly for him off.
The ros, like this life is great, man.
Did you see brothers like Jason one football? He was living his best life. So obviously, like that is in the back of my mind of like does he give it just this year and then move on, you know, like or is it this year next year? So obviously there's a very short window of production that you're trying to capture for Kelsey, whether it's this year or next year or both. But the greats don't do incredible things and then nothing the next year. They usually fall off rather slowly. Last year, when he had opportunities, especially in the playoffs, he was still awesome. So I'm more chalking this up to small sample size than anything. I can't argue the usage has been just abysmal. But like you said, with Pachecko on IR, he's out six to eight weeks. I mean, Andy Reid is a great coach. He knows how to get his guys the ball, especially his best players the ball. So I just think you're gonna see so much Rice, so much Kelsey, so much Worthy moving forward that if it's a bi low opportunity to get him for a contender, I'm I think I'm willing to do it, understanding, of course, like you're doing it for this year specifically.
All right, I'm gonna throw out a player that week one. The narrative we wrote was, ah, it's the exact same thing after Week two, complete opposite. It's Jackson Smith and Jigba because Week two was fun. If you had Injigba, then he was probably on your bench because you're like, oh, it's the Patriots. Yeah, I gotta wait and see it. So I have him on a couple of teams where I'm like, that's awesome. I didn't get any points, but I went through and watched the film and he's still getting a lot of short area targets. Okay, So I don't want us to look at the final stat line just be like, man, there's these monster plays. They were just consistent. But he is mixing in deeper routes and I would say Jadison. I wouldn't call him like quick. He's more just like slippery. I don't really know the best way to describe his speed because I feel like when I watch him run, he's running to spots. He knows what he's supposed to do. We understand space. But I wouldn't say he's like, man, this guy's lightning quick or anything like that. Like the best comparison I've given this offseasons, he's Chris Godwin, like that's his best projected outcome. The fact that he was the first wide receiver drafted, I think we all had the expectation that he's supposed to be this alpha, and I think he kind of fits better, like what Goblin was. Where Goblin's killing it this year on the slot. And you know, he had a year where he was the wide receiver two, but his expanded slot role was awesome to see. And then he did see the third highest air yards of any wide receiver in Week two. So last year Seattle didn't target the slot. They were dead lasting yards per out run. They didn't care about it at all. So my question for you guys is what is he moving forward? Because going into this week he was like, I guess I could flex him, But has he been elevated to I don't know, wide receiver twenty four ish or is that too high right now?
Twenty four is probably okay. I don't mind that he's in that wide receiver two slash flex range and like the that's a game I still need to go back and watch. But from what I saw, I was like, dude, Gino looks Gino looks good. He like he still looks that guy where last year even though the the the counting stats, like the raw production wasn't there. You have to dig a little deeper in the in the behind the scenes metrics of like a just a completion percentage all those things where no Gino was still he still had a good year. The team overall, though, just failed and failed Gino Smith. So if they have turned around, which the are you talking We are talking about the NFC West Division leading Seattle Seahawks, they they they look better, they look and Gino still continues to look good. So that is very encouraging. And it's and just to remind you, Kyle, it's not just that he was the first wide receiver. It was that he was the first wide receiver and we had multiple guys in the NFL who we already felt were great, you know, Chris Olave and Garrett Wilson who were saying, this guy's better than us, and like that's a that was a wild thing for for someone of that caliber to say. You never hear wide receivers say anything like that, even about their teammates, like who's the best thing in the NFL? Oh i am, I'm way back, I'm the best. So there was such a huge narrative that built for jsn of for him to live up to, and like it was the week two was such a correction for a lot of these you know, not just Marv Malik and the in Seattle. Hopefully they saw what their offense was in week one where it was like it's focused on Tyler Lockett. They said, Okay, this is not what we should do. Tyler Lockett should be a part of this offense, but it needs to be DK and JSN and and about face. For week two, I think I think we're on a good track.
Yeah, I would agree with that. I think, especially too when you think about where Tyler Lockett is at in his career arc, the JSN usage should not only be stick moving forward, but I think grow as the year goes on, presumably with Todler Lockett taking a small step back in terms of his pecking order in the target tree. The other thing about Jaysn that I've been, you know, kind of like back and forth on this take in the off season that now I feel quite strong about, was you know, he made the excuses of the ADA and like, was it Waldron? Like how much of that can be attributed? I think it was Waldron like watching what was doing? Oh my goodness, Like, so you know, with that in mind, I'm super encouraged with Week two from Jaysn. The truth for his usage is probably somewhere in the middle of week one and week two, like we shouldn't expect this to be insane on a week to week basis, but watching what Chicago is doing, like the clearly we're not using there guys correctly last year in Chicago and we're seeing that again, or excuse me, last year in Seattle, we're seeing that this year in Chicago.
Coming up next he has Miami at Detroit, which is gonna be a really fun game the Giants and then a showdown with the forty nine ers, Like, I'll just put it this way, Can they win this division?
No? See?
I think no.
I think I think San Francisco is probably. I think they're Look, they've got to figure some stuff out here. Brock Perdy's not playing great yet. I still think San Francisco is the best team.
I think they they're underdogs, I think for the division. I haven't looked at like odds or anything. That's why I would think about it. But I think it's possible, especially with the Rams. Just they're decimated by injury.
That oh, the Rams are toast. The Rams aren't the problem. The problem would be the Cardinals. Like it's we're still way too early, but are the Cardinals good. They I mean they almost beat Buffalo in Buffalo, they held on and then Buffalo just dispatched of the Miami Dolphins like it was not a problem for them. And then the Cardinals. I mean, this is all NFL algebra, which is A plus be never equals C when you're talking about the NFL. But week two the Cardinals throttle the Rams. There's that. That's the interesting team to me, of like, are the Cardinals just a just a ragtag pack of spunky fellas who are going to put up a fight or is this a good team? And that's we're too early on that one.
In the NFC, only two teams I'm looking at it right now have put up sixty plus points through the first two weeks. It's the Saints who put up ninety one and the Cardinals at sixty nine points.
Yeah. I just recently tweeted out the NFC where it is. I guess due to tiebreaker. I'm not really sure what's going on, but the Commanders are listed as in first place of the NFC East, the Seahawks in the West, the Vikings in the North, and the Saints in the South. I mean, this is just like we thought this is amazing.
All right, let's take quick break and we'll get into the download.
One of the.
Best parts about our job is that a lot of this just rights itself. Like you know, there's the scriptwriters, there's the good jokes everybody has, but like every week we get to come in, we get to talk about this, talk about players, and it's like I did not see jsn going for sixteen targets or whatever and Marv for two touchdowns in the first quarter. It's like the NFL is really good at creating a product, and we get to talk about it, and we want to keep talking about it. We talk about all off season, but it's like man, like we.
Just show up.
We get to talk about these crazy teams like the Commanders or whoever.
On the We get seismic movement every single week. Like where you know, in basketball and baseball, if you're covering it's it's gonna be how long before you start to buy into something's actually changing it. In football, it's it's week to week.
Yeah, so much variance more than we realize.
And U yep, we're on week three Dynasty download.
So we're gonna hit a couple of different topics to give you some perspective for players, talk about some trades and some valuation and bets. I'm gonna let you start us off because these are a couple of players that I would have said before the year, like there's no way you're gonna know when to start these dudes. And now it's week three and I feel like you should start these guys every single week.
Yeah, and you know people have been hearing me on the show and on socials and whatever else, Like I didn't buy it with Jamison Williams straight up. I was just like, prove it because we haven't seen it, and they proved it, and I'm willing to accel.
Okay, two games, it's proved well.
I mean, just look at the usage as termed as far as where he's being targeted on the field, Like in week two it wasn't as prolific as Week one obviously, but previously when you think about Jamison Williams playing time, it was either a jet sweep or a deep target, nothing in between. It was like, that's your role. Let's hope for the best. They're using him on crossers, they're using him on like first down, moving move the chains type routes like I don't know if it's gonna stick across the entire year, but at least in the first two weeks, he is not being used as just a deep threat, and that was my biggest issue with Jamison Williams. Now he's getting those targets down the field, which has been awesome if he hits those, obviously, and the same is true for Rashid Shaheed, who you know was always like a fun bench guy in your Dynasty team where it's like if I got a bi week in injury, like I'll throw him in. I hope he catches a deep bomb this week. But just like Jamison Williams, he's being used on routes that are high percentage and the deep stuff. So it's like, now these guys are being used what they previously were awesome at, but other stuff on top of that, and specifically with Shaheed, like you haven't seen a ton box score like targets and receptions production yet because the Saints just blow everybody out apparently probably that's the thing this year, so he hasn't had a ton of targets, but the quality of targets, the prestat motion, how they're getting him, you know, off defenders, and in space, like, it's just so encouraging. Shit, He'd is sixth in among all wide receivers and EPA per capch in two weeks. That is crazy to even say that out loud. So I'm just so encouraged by these guys' usage that you know, I'm I'm willing to admit I probably was wrong on Jamison Williams. I don't know if that the process of being out on him or like faitting him was wrong, But through the first couple of weeks he's been used in a very different way. Same with reg He'd obviously very very encouraging.
I would say with Jamison, because you know, we were pretty harsh a lot of this offseason. I'm sure there's some people listening round like, man, I'm ready for you guys, take your Alan. He's been awesome. I don't think we ever thought he wasn't good at the game, Like talent wise.
I loved him.
He was taken there for a reason out of college.
It was just so hard for me to see this offense use him in away with their downfield. Like we talked over and over again, goff just didn't throw downfield. It was seven point eight percent of his attempts last year was dead last in the league. But that's something you also have to kind of by faith look at and go like, man, is this team gonna change the way they look at it at him? Is Ben Johnson going to realize, like, man, we need to get this guy in motion and actually throw the ball downfield so that everybody's not just hunkering down. And you kind of seen the one that's paid for it has been Sam Laporta, Like it's like this offense doesn't have enough so far to have three or four dudes hit. And you know, you saw in the first week it was Amana who took the hit. So at the end of the day, he's gonna have games where the deep ball is not working, and you know he goes four for forty and that's just how it is for every single wide receiver. But it is super encouraging. And man, Shaheed I watched all of his routes. He's just faster than everybody else out there, and they figured out, like, let's not just give him gadget stuff. Yeah, I'm like the speed guy. Now. I don't know if you knew that, bets I can oh, I can totally tell who's fast. Yeah, it's it's it's the light came on and he is fast.
I'm glad that your eyes picked up on that. The other thing about or should she that is super cool a wide receiver wearing twenty two. I don't know why, but it's just it's so fun.
I like it.
I will say too. On I have a real quick on Jamison. I thought the point that you made Kyle is really important and I do want to like just remind everybody that on a week to week basis, wide receivers are inconsistent period, unless you're justin Jefferson or whoever right like the elites and you go Collins Nico. Apparently, the Porter will have his games, aman Ra will have his fifteen target games like last week. The lines will be in positive gamescripts at time where they're not going to have to use him the way they did in week one and two. So while I'm saying like I'm so encouraged by how he's used, just know both these guys on a week to week basis, there will be some downs, but the positive so far I've been really encouraging.
Like I said, my question is how does the emergence of like balance these things in your mind. Guys. Jamison Williams, their first round wide receiver from a couple of years ago, Elite calls prospect, looks like he is hitting, it looks like things are working now, and he is now. So he has an addition to this offense that was a dominant offense last year. We're two, We're only two weeks in. But how does that with the combination of Jared Goff through the ball fifty five times against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at home turned into sixteen points for the Detroit Lions.
That's tough to wrap your head around, you know.
What I mean of Like, it's like this I mean and this is all just I'm trying to think about it in real time. Of I hope Jamison Williams didn't break the Lions.
It is the part of the equation that I feel like it's not really brought up, is like certain players can break out for fantasy in our own little sphere of what we play, and then overall the offense isn't nearly as efficient as it was last year. So yeah, I agree, Like I played Jered Goff twice and I've gotten I mean, bad results to the point of I've lost in this leagues because I was like, he's at home, he's supposed to do what he's supposed to do.
He's at home against a team that he should put up points.
I don't know if you guys heard he has a lot of games. No, no, I just found out the stat he has a lot of games indoors this year. It hasn't worked.
Yeah, yeah, so far we're zero for two.
Let me let me gauge y'all's thoughts on Jamison before we move on to the next part. Is I feel like before the season you had a window where if you wanted to just buy in, It's like, all right, I'm in. I'm just gonna roll the dice. Now the manager has him, says, I've been waiting for this. The price has gone way up. If you're gonna get him from me, no chance. He's my wide receiver twover, it is on your team wide receiver three. So is he one of those players where he's just not gonna be acquireable right now, like people don't want to trade trade him away.
I think you can still go get him. The price is definitely up from what it was, but it was the price was quite low for the off season. I think that if you if you are in on Jamison Williams, like you're pushing chips all the way in, I think you can go get him for not as expensive as it's as he's going to be. Because I'm I'm in. I'm in on Jameson Willis. I think that it's gonna I think he's gonna turn out to be very, very productive. Uh so maybe, uh you know, a a first might be able to go get him it you're gonna You're gonna have plenty of managers who have held on to him the whole entire time and they're like, no way, I'm I I sunk cost fallacy of Jamison Willis, like I'm gonna ride this out no matter what. But I think that you can. There's gonna be several scenarios where you can go in with a if it's a strong offer initially and the other matters like, oh I can get this and maybe Jamison Williams is not a real thing and I can go get this first round or whatever. I think that you could still get that done. But if you're gonna do that, you gotta act quick.
All right, let me give you some names, and I've got one here from the Falcon, one of oroducers. Would you rather have a J. Brown or Jamison Williams in a high first round pick. Let's call it the one oh four.
Ooh, the one oh four next year and Jamison Williams or a J. Brown?
Gosh, I would I think I would take you.
I'm gonna stick with eight. I'm still sticking AJ Brown.
I think I would too. Would you rather have Jamison Williams or George Pickens?
Jamison Williams Jamis I think it's Jamison Williams.
I think I'd take Pickens there. All right, let me give you one more name here. Would you rather have Xavier Worthy or Jamison Williams Worthy? I'm hitten, I'm hitting right Williams, you are.
I think it's Williams.
Okay, good, all right? One more I just got thrown in JSN or Jameson Williams Jason. Yeah, I'm taking Jason as well. Mike, you're gonna tell us another young wide receiver who was also taken in that class. And yeah, we've been through this before. I feel like we have talked about this over and over again. You have him on the League of record team, you have him on your main dynasty team. Yeah, you know about Garrett Wilson.
I've got him. I've got him everywhere. Garrett Wilson. If you go back a couple of weeks, we talked about what is kind of your biggest fear for this upcoming season, and my one of my fears was what if Garrett Wilson doesn't work? And so far through uh, you know, I will call it, so far through seven quarters of the seven most recent quarters of NFL football, it doesn't look like it's working. We hit guys. We had that magical moment in Week one against the forty nine ers where Aaron Rodgers was like, I'm just gonna throw it to Garrett every single time, and I think we hit four for like right around fifty yards in the first quarter and then it was done.
I took the over on his receiving first downs that game. It was three and a half. He had three in the first drive. He did not get another one the rest of the game. I was so mad.
So so far. Not fantasy points wise, it hasn't looked great. Kyle has provided me these numbers though, where you're like, okay, let's look behind the scenes, twenty nine percent target share targeted on thirty percent of his routes, thirty five percent really thirty five percent of the team's first red targets, fifty percent of the team's wide receiver receiving yards. And so that that should be very encouraging to you. I went back and watched, you know, all of all of Garrett, especially focusing on the Tennessee game, the most recent one, the when there was a few takeaways here. Number one, Lugerious Sneed is just absolute months. I don't it's so strange. I like you can. There's usually just a small handful of these this level of a dB in the NFL at the same time, where they're just they can't get fooled. They don't get fooled by any of the release moves by the wide receiver. They the wide receiver can't use speed to get away from them though, because the DV is just able to close and they and he's like a magnet and on. When he was guarding Garrett Wilson, for the most part, it was really tough. When he was lined up against Sneed, which was seventy six percent of his routes. He did have two catches for thirty four yards. One was like this slant where he I mean he had to slide down and Rogers barely got it to him. So I think there are brighter days ahead. In that Tennessee game, there were at least two huge missed opportunities for Aaron Rodgers, and so I think we I don't think we have a Garrett Wilson issue yet, which is like, it's hard to say that if I mean, we're waiting so long for Garrett. But Rodgers is rusty. I mean, he missed all of last year of football when he was gonna play football that it's still I get he's got his people there, but it's like he's on a brand new team with new teammates and everything just getting used to everyone. It's gonna take a little bit of time here for Aaron Rodgers to knock that rust off. So while I don't I don't think Aaron Rodgers is going to turn back into an elite option. It's he watching Rogers. He seems a little uncomfortable and maybe it's the Achilles too. He seems to be more willing to get rid of the ball faster and not waiting that half of beat because the the several times of seeing Garrett break open, Wilson is Rodgers is throwing the ball like as Garrett is making the break, like Rogers is not sitting back and waiting for that play to develop. He's like, oh, I gotta I'm just gonna take this, which like there's there's there are positive and negatives about that, for you know, for a quarterback, you want to get the positive yardage. But sometimes if if he would just wait a half a beat, a chunk yard play is about to open up for him. So I think that they're I'm sure they're watching that film and Rodgers is going, yep, there here's a play where I should if I just wait, because the protection was there if I had just waited, you know, for Garrett Wilson. Trusting in Garrett Wilson in this elite player. So I think that they will get on the same page. But we may have a few more weeks of of things not up to uh, up to the level that you're expecting from or and hoping for. We get New England the week you know the Seahawks were able to handle that, then it's Denver and certain then it's Minnesota whose defense has looked very good, so schedule wise is not great for Garrett Wilson. We need Rogers to get up to speed. But that's why I mean of I think it will happen, especially over the second half, but for now it's gonna be bumpy.
It's crazy watching that film because the play you're referring to where it's like, man, Wilson's like waving his arms afterwards, like man, I'm so open right now.
Yeah, he had pulled a move where he essentially he got the Tennessee defenders to almost bump into each other and then just he cooks them and he's running. I think it was like a it was a double move, so an into a flag something like that, where he's headed to the corner and Rogers just don't it. From the twenty two it looks like Rogers saw him. I don't know if he actually did, and he was just hesitant to throw it. I couldn't make the inclusion from just watching the film.
Yeah, it just seemed like one of those plays that like Old Rogers just with a flick of the wrists, just yes, gone for it.
That. Yeah, exactly. There are so many plays it looked like Old Rogers would have waited that beat or just being like, no, I know where my guy's gonna be, and I'm gonna trust that he's gonna beat this defender. And maybe Rogers was just that afraid of sneat.
So I want to put this in question for him because, and I'm trying to just be brutally honest here, has he received more excuses or like free passes than any other wide receiver of the last.
Year at Wilson.
Yes, because he's good. I know he's good. I'm not trying to say that at all, but I feel like the quarterback, the better matchup, the like I'm gonna give those. But you just mentioned his schedule is brutal coming up, You're always gonna have other quarnerbacks, You're always going to be schemed as the main guy. So it's like, it's not like he's just gonna one day just fall into a perfect situation every single week, so point we're just giving a lot of excuses and we're just hoping it clicks.
Yeah, I wouldn't. I don't think it's wrong to say that he's received more excuses of this is why it's not happening when it's Zach Wilson, there's a lot of excuses to be made, and the Mike Williams coming back as he's recovering from his a CEO. I think that the combination of that does help. If you you have to be worried about Breest Hall and Garrett Wilson, like that's who you have to be worried about right now for the Jets.
Yeah, I have one quick note on Garrett Wilson. If you listen to the Pold Prediction Show, he's not going to set the record sadly to inform everybody for receptions this year. The other thing on.
Him, you're calling it after Joice it's over.
The other thing on the offense just in general and what you need for fantasy, especially if the play volume or not play volume, but passing volume in the NFL as a whole is going to come down this year. I don't think we should say it is or isn't after two weeks, but just it has in two weeks. If that continues, you need an offense that is willing to play up and pace to like counteract that a little bit. And the Jets with Rogers are playing at a snails pace and Rogers historically in Green Bay has snapped the ball with one second on the play clock all the time. That's what he wants to do. Get to the line, read the defense, change the play like you know, snap it with one second left, So it drains play clock, it trains play volume. So you need ultra efficiency to get there. And I just don't know that that's how this team wants to win necessarily, especially with how good their defense is. So I just think, you know, there's a lot that has to go right for the ceiling to hit for Wilson that you know, the schedule is tough, the play volume is tough, the pass rate is tough. A quarterback that hasn't played in a year basically is tough. Like all these things stack up against him that it might be one of those years again where you're like, yeah, wide receiver nineteen, like it's fine, but not really a difference maker.
Yeah, the touchdowns, I think that's just another part for any player. And we've talked about that with the lave. London somehow ended up in the end zone the other night, like it it just has to happen. But he has seven through thirty six games played, he has six total targets inside the five in his career. And I look this up, fifteen point fantasy games through his first thirty six career games. He has five of them, the same number that kJ Osborne, Hunter, Renfro, Darius Slayton had through thirty six games. So it's like that's like where he's been so far is among that group of fantasy points, so we need touchdowns. I still like him, I just feel like he was priced up so much still for someone we're kind of assuming, and I love the play calling point bets where it's like, I don't know if this team wants to feed him fifteen targets or just kind of rodgers.
They don't want him to throw that much. I don't think. I mean, you got all right. So in a great defense, I want to.
Talk about quarterbacks really quickly because we've mentioned that the scoring is down, and you saw it again this past week where the top scoring quarterbacks was like, yay, twenty points maybe like Baker Baker was good, they won the game. Baker also got sacked a Ton Baker didn't even score twenty points and he used the quarterback six on the week, So like, you're not getting difference making scoring so far, and if you were to compare across positions. That's really my main takeaway is for superflex leagues right now, you are not feeling the difference making scores from your quarterback positions the way you did before. It can be easy to overreact and just say, oh, screw it, do whatever you want. But that is something that we've talked about a lot. Is like just saying my superflex spot is a quarterback position isn't always optimal in a lot of different formats, and because we're seeing a ton of quarterbacks get injured and it's just really really bad play. So I'm looking at the way that defenses are playing this year. I kind of I needed to zoom out, like what's different this year? Playing way more man coverage this year than we've seen in the past. Usually it's been this long trend towards zone, zone, zone, and now defense are like, we're gonna dare you to actually be able to beat us one on one. You're seeing guys like Anthony Richardson or Caleb Williams. They're not hitting players in one on one coverage. They just don't have the same accuracy. I looked up this stat Richardson has more interceptions than completions against man coverage so far, like good Lord, two interceptions, one completion against man. And it's interesting the quarterback who leads the whole league in passing touchdowns versus man, Sam Darnold, which is just just wild to think about. And then you're even seeing guys like c J. Stroud. I would say, so far, c J. Stroud has been good, a good NFL quarterback. We love him for a fantasy Okay, Like what would you guys say so far?
I mean, if you're based on Nasty Dynasty, it's okay, But I mean, like strictly redraft of what you had to pay to gainst c J. Stroud, you're yeah, I mean him and almost all the other top quarterbacks I guess other than Lamar and Allen. Is Lamar and Allen are fine, But what you had to pay for Stroud, you're you gotta be bummed right now?
Yeah, for sure.
Quarterback eight, quarterback sixteen. He actually has been sacked. I was looking this up. Every time he's pressured against man coverage, he's been sacked half the time. It's like he's just kind of falling victim to that. So we're seeing that across the board that things are changing and the top options aren't being difference makers like they used to. So I'm not telling you to trade them. I just want people to be aware that when you're in super flex leagues and you are trying to make these trades where quarterbacks are valued so much, you're not getting the score you want. Now, there are certain quarterbacks who can just destroy man coverage, and it's like Josh Allen, he doesn't care about his first read. He can do whatever he wants, he can take off. But I think people are holding on into their quarterbacks more than they should. Where there are guys right now we're talking about Geno man Gino has been great. He's a great quarterback too in a dynasty league that's probably underrated that I would go after right now. Baker was that guy that you probably can't get from the manager now. But going after those guys just solidify your room is better than what we said in a startup saying I'm gonna take two studs. So far it hasn't worked out.
Yeah, I think two And we talk about this a lot, seems like every year, but again, like you know, the quarterback quality drives up super quick, not just in fantasy, but in real life, like how many more games is will leve It's gonna start? Like Callahana at the podium can't help himself these days, Like I think most Mason Rudolph is gonna start games. You know, two it just went on IR, which that's injury. Lad, you can't really predict that, but you know two is on IR. Like Bryce Young just got benched. You're really gonna be excited about starting Andy Dalton, No, of course not. Bo Nix is unplayable, Kileb Williams is unstartable right now, like Jordan Love is injury. You know, like the list kind of just goes on and on and on and again. Some of those are injuries, so you can't really predict that. But just yeah, again, just the idea of like you have to start two quarterbacks in your super flex league, you know, I think it's further from the truth, and a lot of people realize, especially with what's happening at the state of the quarterback position this year, or.
You know, like you have to take Caleb Williams with the one on one in your super flex rookie drafts.
Gotta do it. It's a lawful.
That's not that's that's called the two week victory.
Laugh everybody that is, and I don't mind it at all. Let's say quick break, we'll be right back. We're back. We're gonna hit a couple more topics here before we close out. We've seen Bryce Young, We've seen that it wasn't good, But there are a couple other young quarterbacks that I'm just gonna say it, like it's painful watch. I look at the stats, I look at the film and it's like, it's really bad. But you're highlighting bets one quarterback here and a team that looks broken.
Yeah, and it's not all the quarterbacks fault, but just the Jaguars offense. It's so bad right now, dude is broken. It's so so bad now. They did play the Browns this past week. Obviously it's a very difficult matchup. But in Week one, you're coming out against the high flying Dolphins, Tyreek kill Jalen Waddle to a healthy Devani Chin. Like they took their foot off the gas in the second pedal. They paid for it. Like, I don't know if this is a Doug Peterson issue. I don't know if this is the OC issue or what. But in that Week one game, Trevor Lawrence was three of seven in the second half. Like, you're not really playing to win if your strategy is we got a small lead, like we're just gonna hand the ball off and hope for the best, especially against the Dolphins. So like, I have issues with the play calling and just how the offensive scheme has looked. The offensive line is a train wreck. There was a couple of plays, the one where Lawrence got sacked in ed zone for the safety. This past weekend, the Browns rush I think it was three and they double teamed whoever was up the middle. I don't remember the guy's name, but just right by the two dudes. Like, the offensive line looks terrible. Trevor Lawrence is completing fifty one percent of his passes so far. That is abysmal. Now Evan Ingram is injured, where's Christian Kirk? Like this dude was soaking up targets left and right last year Ingram out. They can't even get him the ball last week, Brian Thomas needs more than four targets. He's so talented. You have to figure that out. That it feels very much like not the Shane Waldron stuff. I'm sorry, Shane. I just feel like I'm I'm giving them hard time every show.
But don't apologize to Shane.
But just like you see, we talked about the quarterback play being so different in the NFL from you know, the top to bottom, Like the discrepancy is massive. The play calling in the NFL the best and the worst. The discrepancy is massive. And I feel like the Jaguars, you know, they've been an up and coming like fun, they should take a step offense. It feels like they're still closer to the bottom than the top. For me, again, I don't want to over back to Cleveland. They're a great defense, but just the week one, Week two combined, you can't be really encouraged if you have any of these Jags in your roster.
Can you start anybody other than Brian Thomas in their past catchers?
Not until you see otherwise.
Gabe's just running though. Gave's building up that cardio, still doing it.
So next year, after a year, next Gabet.
The post cardio bump, I love it, like that's MVS is killing it too. Over the years, it just never never really got the bump. Yeah, I Lawrence looked bad. I mean that the weather was gross. It was a it was a bad game environment, definitely, But man like, he just looks like out of sync, and yeah, Press Taylor is there.
OC.
I feel like he's kind of benefited from being around other people for a long time, and I don't think he's a really innovative play caller. So, yeah, the Jaguars look lost. Mike, you have another off that is not the same as it used to be.
Yeah, trying to figure out here what's going on with the forty nine ers of brock perty is. I don't think he's playing great right now. We're so used to this team being the Kyle Shanahan system is a yards after catch. This is what they do that he gets specific athletes on this team to run his system, and we are not getting that at all, and they are, in fact, So Kyle, you've double checked on this here.
It's it's true.
They are dead last right now. That's a team in yards after catch rank. That is absurd for a team that, let's check was over the past few years, first second, first, first, first first, and they're dead last right now. You know, I don't know that's if that's going to improve with Deebo missing a few games here, but it's wild of they, I mean, like they weren't a real negative game script and perty had to throw a ton to catch up against the Vikings. So he actually leads the NFL in passing yards, he leads in passing first downs, but he's taking a bunch of sacks. His astronomical touchdown rate has plummeted, as he has one passing touchdown through two weeks. They like, is Brandon and a Yuk being punished? He is he being punished? Or is this Brandon Ayuk is not in football shape and ready to go because he has been the first read eight times, which is uh one more time than Juwan Jennings. Like you you just gave Brandon Ayuk the contract, force him the ball, like there you gotta. It's so weird to me of of what's going on with Brandon Aiyuk if his lack of of of being part of the offense, Like it's gonna their hand's gonna be forced now with Deebo missing the time. But it's it's so strange to me what is happening, Like you're just you're not We're not seeing the players catch the ball in stride in movement and racking up that yack. So it's bizarre to me what is broken right now? I think I do think they get it figured out. But in the back of everyone's mind is definitely going to be a did the NFL figure out Brock Party? He was It's been, you know, one of the greatest stories of the of the last couple of years of mister irrelevant here, you know, taking his team just to the playoffs multiple times. But is did they figure something out against Brock Party? Think it's too early to tell, but right now they are. They are very broken, and I don't think it's a Christian McCaffrey problem. Jordan Mason has played very very well. Maybe they're not getting Mason enough targets. I think you had maybe one target this past week. We can all verify that bets or use that correct correct So maybe that's an issue that the offense is not utilizing that part of the game, opening things up for guys down the field. I don't know. I don't know, but I just want to call attention to it. Of the numbers are somehow excellent and terrible at the exact same time.
For Brock they were always a team that you had to bet on efficiency, and it felt like it was a good bet every single time. It's just like, oh man, this team's different, and so we are getting into a little phase. Remember they had a little streak last year when Debo is out. It was like three games they lost three to row and you're like, okay, team's figuring them out. And then of course they rebounded. They were fine. They're third in red zone drives, so they're getting the red zone. They're sustaining drives, but seventeenth in red zone TD rate And you saw that week one brutal was the Jake Moody game. And this past week there was turnovers. They turned it over inside the five, Perdy had an I in t he had a sack fumble and they turned it over again. So I think it's a small sample size. I think they'll be fine the rams this week, so I think that'll change. But I do think overall, you just look at the players and you go like, it's so hard to sustain that level of efficiency. That was my thing with Ayuk. It's not is he a good player, but just like math says, there's no way this duke can repeat the same thing.
Oh yeah, get his yards per completion, oh yeah.
Yeah, and his first downs per out around all of those things he's averaging right now. This is the low side, but I just think it's humorous. One yak perception just one yard after the catch per reception not great so far, So bets. What's your read on this offense and what to do with Ayuk? Yeah, I just think you're not abandoned ship no no, no, I.
Mean you just hold and I've got him. Actually in a few places, you just hold them and you wait for the rebound to happen, especially with deebo now out, Christian McCaffrey out, Like if they're not force feeding Auk the ball and Kittle this week, like we have a major issue especially against the Rams, Like this is the get right game this week. So you're just you're just holding tight and waiting. I will say, I'm purty and just how this offense operates in general, it's built to play with elite Like Purdy is not the type of quarterback where they want him in a negative game script. I mean any quarterback, of course you don't want a negative game script, but he's not the guy you want. Dropp him back forty times in a game like the way this offense operates. It's the run game, it's play action off of it. And if you're in a negative game script and you can't have that run threat, when you're playing from behind, that's when the issues really come out. And you kind of saw that in the second half last week. So yeah, I think right now it's you know, we just chalk it up to a small sample size. You trust a good play caller and good good weapons, a good offensive line, and a rebound will happen. Like I said this week against the Rams, they should have their way.
All right.
I want to bring up one more quick topic. Just want to bring up some of those tight ends that we're kind of nervous about because we talked about Kelsey doesn't have a touchdown, Laporte at none, Kincaid none, Andrew's nun and McBride with an asterisk has a touchdown.
But the you leave him alone, he earned that.
I didn't want to say that. Of all the dudes, McBride has been as promised, really good, leading all Titans and target share. He's at twenty nine percent. He's good, he's elite. Not worried about McBride at all. I am worried about Titans league wide though, because I think the shift has been these defenses playing more man and on top of that, they're also playing even more too. I saved these when they are in zone, and that takes away some of what Titands are kind of good at. And the problem about having an elite tight end in Dynasty is when they're elite, it's the best feeling in the world, like I have a positional advantage. And then when they are on your roster and they're not showing out, you're like, it just feels like I'm like everybody else, Like I thought I was special, and yet this person's coming into this knighte fight with Tyler Conklin and I've got Mark Andrews, and yet we're pretty much at the same spot.
Yeah, and my equity invested in this player is very heavy.
It's it's so frustrating because we need tight ends to be the first or second read in the offense. Like if they're the third or fourth, it's really hard for them apart from touchdowns, like you can have like a who is It, like a Robert Tunyan or like a Kyle Rudolph season where you can have this outlier touchdown season. But at the end of the day, I want titands that when they look at the offense like, Okay, this guy's the second read and with Kelsey you mentioned it earlier. Laporta right now is so far behind. Jameson has twenty first red targets, almon Ra has eighteen, Laporta five.
The Laporta fall is insane.
What have I told you as the most routes of all titands in the NFL? Okay, is that better or worse? Like there's opportunity and yet they don't care or at least he's not targeted that way. Cardio boy, who knew.
I'm looking I'm looking at it more positive of again, you know, of talking about Jamison Willie's breaking the Lions offense. It's very tongue in cheek, but it's their other offense is not doing what it should like this this is not the what the expectation or what we're accustomed to from the Detroit Lions and guns mahoney. So that if he's still out there, you expect things to fix on.
The other thing on Laporta in terms of his usage, they've been you know, like when you listen to the broadcasts and stuff. The especially in primetime games, when those guys have their pre broadcast meetings with the teams and the coaches and whatever like, they give you kind of little nuggets of what they're hearing every time the Lions are on, and I say every time. The two games this year, they mentioned something about they want to get Gibbs in the receiving game. They got to get Gibbs the ball in the receiving game, and of course, like he's an awesome receiving back. But if his role continues to expand in that facet and you have aman Rah in the short area of the doing the same stuff he always does, which is incredible, it really leaves a thin spot for Laporta to be an elite tight end if the Jamison Williams thing is happening, which it seems like it is, so.
There was it was the part of the argument of why Jamison Williams can't work. It is because how does he with those three established at the top of the of the target order, how does Jameis and Williams get in there? And what was not I'll say I'm guilty. I didn't even give any thought experiment to of well, what if Jamison Williams actually breaks what if he becomes the number two? What then what is the fallout from that? Because that's that's what we are experiencing, right.
It's like thanas like what did it cost you? Like, oh, well, it actually cost you Sam Laporta like that. That's the thing that at the end of the day, you wanted this Jameison thing to work, and this is what it's going to cost you.
Now.
I think he'll be fine. I think he'll get his touchdowns. Last year, six of his eleven touchdowns were against the Blitz, So I think I think golf is going to rebound. His touchdown rate's gonna rebound. They're gonna be in games, They're gonna score points. Their secondary are still not fixed.
The biggest issue with Laporta of why we felt like he was being overdrafted for redraft was he didn't have volume. He was just an absolute stud when it came to catching touchdowns. Eh, So it's I mean, you gotta have at least some volume.
Is there any correction over correction because Laporta was kind of seen as the tight end one in Dynasty, you know, and start up rankings and rightfully. So he was the tight end one. Yes, you know in scoring. So would you read that McBride or Laporta McBride? I think I would.
Yeah, there are there are literally two. No I'm gonna go I'll go three because of Deebo's injury. There's three tight ends who I have any confidence in in the NFL this year as of right now. It's training Bride, It's brock Bowers, and it's George Kittle. Anyone other than those three guys, I don't want to I don't want to invest. Yeah, like Travis Kelce should rebound, Sam should rebound, Mark Andrews should rebound. But there's the there's only three that I actually have confidence in that if I'm going out to market right now trying to get someone to like, oh, I'm just one tight end away, and I don't I don't know how you're getting any of those players. Maybe Kittle, I mean, like, but brock Bowers, good luck, good luck, that's not happening. But maybe Kittle because he's older, and someone might be willing to just extract some value from George while they have a chance.
You gotta go cross positionally, like you're gonna have to have some wide receiver that is a good name. Oh again, you're gonna have to give up something. We talked about Bowers last week. I did a film Deep Dive. Again it's like, this dude is not normal. We talked about that in the pross. I think we were a little nervous about where he should go in rookie drafts. And I think right now it's like, oh, he should have been hindsight right now, but like he should have been one O.
Four and I say, oh, yeah, probably three, maybe three now.
But I think in the moment we were kind of sorting between one O four was worthy, Brian Thomas, Kean Coleman, Bowers, and I was like, oh, I don't really like taking tight ends. Man. I was such a dumb person in the past. But look at me now.
Ah, I mean the I think there's many many reasons why it was. Look just historically that was not this is this doesn't happen. This isn't already two weeks into his career, he's already an outlier. And yeah, you can look at the college and all those things in the in the draft, uh where he went in the draft. But we had all those things with Kyle Pitts and it still hasn't really worked. So like history is on the side of betting against it. But everyone look one in a thousand. If if that one goes in, then you you feel like a genius.
Did you guys have on your twenty twenty four bingo card the Raiders having the most completions through two weeks?
Sure didn't.
I don't think that was on their end. They're being a card either. They just can't run the ball.
It is so hilarious because I feel like Gardners still got trashed after after week one for sure, and you're like, no, he's actually he's throwing the ball a ton. He has the highest completion percentage in the league. He is he has the most completions as well.
Yep.
I mean like what I mean, unless you're just going full Chad Pennington of your you know your your your A dot is nothing this which is Gardner's, It's not nothing. You have you have DeVante andams of brock Bowers doing work for you. It's it's a wild world, all right.
That's gonna do it for this episode. Next week we will be back Talkboard Dynasty. Go to the Fantasy Footballers dot Com or Baller's discord dot com and we'll talk to you next week.
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