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Hey, welcome back in It's Fox Sports Radios, Fox Sports Sunday, Mike harm and Dan Byer with you. Dan live at the US Women's Open at Aaron Hills having a blast at Dan Byron Fox, following his content at Buyer Talk at Bayer Graham, I.
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So we'll just put the S on normally. I want to leave the S off here. Make sure you add it for the savings and for the views at Swollendel where you find me having a blast with you this morning. So much going on in the sporting universe, and I was so excited that I looked at the clock said, Wow, we had a really great discussion that went long. Where's my teas for this? Will an event from yesterday cost you a ring? Real or fantasy wise, it's the AFSE East Here Fantasy Play Fantasy Preview. We'll do this over the next eight weeks and dive in and out the I watch a flex podcast, obviously, get it wherever you your podcasts and you download your audio, add it to your playlist, send it to friends and family. Dan and I traversing the world of fantasy in reality, rankings and all that fun stuff as the season gets underway, but certainly now starting to look at the off season and where we find a little bit of promitive value. And the teas that I had worked up was congratulations Josh Allen and the great Hayley Steinfeld, seen most recently in Sinners. I cannot endorse that Coogler Michael B. Jordan film enough. I went to see it twice in the theater.
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For our third before it's done. It's a horror movie with a lot of layers to it.
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She's also part of the MCU, so for those that want to over that you can do that as well. But Josh Allen last year QB two DAN, he had two games under ten points, only two others under twenty. So you're talking about massive production. Three point two points better than Burrow and Baker, and that's including sitting out Week eighteen.
Well, i'll tell you, and you look at the rankings.
In most places, Josh Allen is still Numero uno, and I think, Mike, it's got to be because of what's happened with the Buffalo Bills in their offseason. No true number one added as a wide receiver, and you have James Cook who's holding out for a contract, and you're looking at it and you're saying, Okay, well, if Josh Allen's gonna need to run the ball more because James Cook's got whatever going on, we're talking. We're talking early June here, So I get it, and a lot can change. We know when training camp comes probably going to be settled out, and I expect James Cook to be there. But for the sake of the conversation right now, sure looks like Josh Allen maybe needed some more at the running game wide receiver position. They got more depth, Mike, But I don't know, if there's anybody that's gonna top what Khalil Shakir did last year, maybe there's an emergence from josh Will Palmer who's now in Buffalo, or Keon Coleman takes that next second step. But not a lot has changed around Buffalo to think that Josh Allen would have any sort of dip, except that he's now got a ring on his left fingers.
And we're joking here about that, but.
That's the only thing that seemingly changed this offseason for Buffalo when it comes to Josh Allen and his fantasy outlook.
The version of the Madden Curse to fantasy is kind of what we're looking at here. Twenty eight and six touchdown to interceptions a year ago. Obviously, the rushing efforts over one hundred attempts all but his rookie year last year, twelve touchdowns back to back years in double digits there, and to your point, just going through and because I'm a nerd, I went full on. Khalil Shakira last year was thirty seventh. He had five games with more than fifteen points in PPR leagues, eleven double digits. That means an awful lot of ten to eleven point performances along the way you have. Keon Coleman was seventy first a year ago, so wishing hoping that in year two he takes a huge step forward. You mentioned Josh Palmer. He was a guy that loved watching him with the Chargers. He ranked number seventy four a year ago. Perhaps a bigger role here can live in the slot. But the guy that has been a disappointment for Bill's fans and certainly for fantasy owners, Dealton Kincaid thirtieth last year, missing four games. He did have three double digit games on the year, averaging about eight points per game. But a guy that so much was expected of to become that safety valve for Josh Allen. As you roll it through, I loved going through and finding all the depth charts, and you got Ty Johnson a little bit of Ray Davis last year. Fun as a rookie. Yeah, I don't know that I read too much into the cook Obviously, he wants to get paid like all those other guys did because you see the huge numbers. So it's like, hey, if you pay me really well, even better or something like that. But all of that to say, it's like once you hit veteran status, even if you are a young veteran, probably not showing up pro tas either. If I've got a little bit of leverage, and all it does is say, Okay, we'll get you into camp, take your days off, go on your last vacation. We'll see you there. But trying to get that massive payday, I don't know that you've quite earned the twelve fifteen and everything that got a year ago.
Maybe not.
But Mike, we know where the Bills are in this situation, and they know that the clock is ticking true, and so the urgency to get something done, which made me in an overpay, I think is in play.
And I think that you're right. James Cook's going to hold out.
And then when training camp comes around, maybe they'll do the hold in sit in, But at some point he's going to be on the field because Buffalo needs him. And to your point of how they didn't address that position necessarily in the offseason, they're going to.
Need James Cook. The Buffalo is the only team in the NFL.
I think Florio had this a week or two ago that would be favored in every single game this season. So if you do your hypothetical alliance. Maybe it was espn 's one of the two. But every single game they're going to be favored the Chiefs and Ravens. I think we're sixteen and one, but that's partly because they have to go to Buffalo for their games where they will be underdogs, but that'd be the only game they'll be an underdog.
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But that's what you've got with the Bills. So you talk about high expectations. It's the last season of high Mark Stadium, not that that means anything for fantasy wise, but this team, this team needs to go to a super Bowl. They need to go and win a super Bowl, and this season is the prime opportunity. So I expect James Cook to be there. I expect the wide receivers to do what they did. You read off you know, Khalil Shakir's stats, the Dalton Kincaid part Mica. That I have a quick question about is how much is that Joe Brady? Because he took over full time as the offensive coordinator last season, So how much is it Joe Brady? And maybe the tight end maybe not being as important as it was previously, so it's probably why you're seeing him as low as you are in certain rankings. I just I'd be tentative after I was really high at Dalton Kinkaid last year year.
As we look at it coming into this and where we sit right now, and this is something I contribute to the fun and exciting world of fantasy pros. Kincaid coming in at number thirteen, behind Dallas Goddard and just ahead of Colston Loveland Bears and Tyler Warren of your Indianapolis Colts. So there you go.
Yeah, I'd rather roll the dice on the rookie right.
Well, I think I would do right even though there's a lot of mouths to feed in Chicago, but in Indianapolis you've got a couple of players. I'm gonna love Josh Downs, Pittman went healthy, all of those fun things, Danny Dimes or Anthony Richardson and are they getting him the ball a ton, Maybe maybe you fix Dandy Dimes. We'll see what happens as we flow through there, but certainly you've now made One of my notes for the offseason is we'll be doing a dollar money line and letting it ride on the bills every week.
I'll say this, Mike, what's funny and because as we kind of look at this whole division, Buffalo has the worst running back room, Like what you would you would look at what they've got. New England upgraded with Trevion Henderson there now uh, with Romandre Stevenson. The Jets, we don't know what they're gonna be. But I love Brice Hall and Brayleen Allen. I'm curious to see how that plays out in New York now with Justin Fields us as their quarterback. But the question is, because you've got Lions personnel coming over to New York, do they do the same thing where hey, guess what little thunder and Lightning or whatever whatever Montgomery and Gibbs are called. I already forget perfet knows what he's what I'm talking about?
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Okay, So but the Jets, like if you wanted to use Brailen Allen as like you're battering Ram if you will, like you could do that, like he's young enough, he's physical enough, and then you can use Brice halland all the other situations that you want to almost in a Gibbs sort of role. So it's curious to see like we you know, talk about Buffalo, but they may have the worst running back situation, especially obviously with James Cook being out right now than anybody in that AFC East, because I think the Patriots got depth and I love a cham I think he's gonna be the only thing that Dolphins have this year.
I mean, you know, well, that's one of the big there's two huge questions in the division, right, dealing with two wide receivers. We know about Stefan Diggs. I'm on a boat and two cy I think is how you pronounce it right. I'm trying to show my get my street cred and whatever.
Was going on on the on the boat, not that you saw anybody in ingesting right, and a lot of discussion whatever as to whether the Patriots no absolutely right.
Look, it might have just been pinch Himalay and sugar Himalayan salt, I'm sorry, or some kind of sugar and confection that you put on top of a cupcake. Again without full knowledge of what anybody took and tests to prove it. It's a lot of in theory kind of discussion. But Scott Zolak went on air saying, hey, they behind the scenes Patriots and Mike Vrabel, and you saw his comments like, look, we need to be good decision makers. We need to be really good, like you must said at nine times. If it was a drinking game, you would have been under the table from a thirty five second sound bite. The way he went through it and coming back off a huge injury last year forty seven, ninety six and three before getting hurt, he had four games with eighteen or more points, but he didn't play after week eight with the ACL right for Houston in his one year there. So you've got questions there, and you've got questions of is Tyreek Hill in the marketplace potentially as a post June first trade and a lot of dancing around in the press and cleaning up and dotting eyes and crossing t's or whatever to make that as pretty as it can be internally of Hey, I like it here, I love it here. I'm looking forward to working with coach McDaniel, which might be window dressing for all right. He's good, he understands where we're at and all this come get him. And then you got the John new Smith trade rumor, which makes no sense whatsoever. To Pittsburgh. You've got friar Mouth. I mean, obviously you'd love another weapon, but he's an eighty eight reception guy a year ago. Yeah, fourth and Fantasy had his big games and has finally had his breakthrough. Was a pro bowler and the true safety valve. You know, we might overuse her. I may overuse that term, but for two tongue of Bai Loo, who the whole thing is predicated on, Hey, get the ball out early. I don't know how you could give that guy up.
I agree with you because he was Fantasy wise money for so many I think there was a game too where like he didn't have a catch in the first three quarters whatever, and then they end up playing in overtime and he ends it with ten catches and one hundred yards.
I'm just completely going off the top of my head for the specific game.
But the point remains he was so valuable to the Dolphins last year. And when you look at the Tyreek Hill conversation and something we addressed in the I Want Your Flex podcast, when we did our mock draft, no one wanted to Tyreek Hill. No one did in our top sixty. I took one for the team just because he fell so far. But I don't think that that's a great situation in Miami. If they get rid of John hu Smith, even more reason to draft himon a Chan because I just don't think it's gonna work. And it makes me then wonder, all right, is this team tanking? Like are they tanking to try to get one of the young quarterbacks because they don't want to say that they don't believe in Tua.
But this just doesn't seem like it's gonna work in Miami.
And so for the last couple of seasons, we think that it's been fantasy jackpot at least Wonderland with Waddell and Tyreek obviously, and Hn Moster was great and the emergence of John hus Smith and now I'm just starting to wonder, especially if these trade conversations are what they are with the Dolphins. But you know, if I'm Mike Vrabel in New England, I would.
Say goodbye to Stefan Diggs.
They've changed every like, they've changed so much on both sides of the ball, And if we know anything about them, they're going to run the ball and be physical and try to protect Drake May. It's why it's after Will Campbell. That's why I like their running back room so much. And I even go back to just last year when they gave Romandra Stevenson that contract, when it didn't make sense that they were going anywhere. But they like Romondra Stevenson. They really liked Drevion Anderson. He can be a game breaker. He can play all three downs if they wanted to use them. I don't think they're going too early, but it's kind of why I liked. I like New England's running back room even better than what I said with Buffalo.
We'll dig a little deeper next hour at running back room being a focal point as well as the two headed monster in New York. And we've got to give more love to a chan as we continue here. But he's Dan Bayer. I'm Mike Carmon and this is Fox Sports Radio.
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We'll get that the anniversary a little more AFC East in a moment. Be sure to check out the Fox Sports Radio YouTube channel ton of great videos from many of our Fox Sports Radio shows Sar's Fox Sports Radio on YouTube. You'll see a whole bunch of video highlights from all of our shows, and be sure to subscribe so you always have instant access to Fox Sports Radio videos on YouTube and as always send the link to friends and family. Evangelize as we grow towards even further global domination of the space, because you know, I love like the leaderboard there at the US Women's Open Dan that we get a lot of flags that show us that they're listening and being part of things like the leaderboard there. But you also have another star in the clubhouses. I guess you're going to get to dine in style.
So the USGA does things right when it comes to media dining. Lunch today is root beer braised short rip Paul. Yes, not only that, Mike, the potatoes that have been soaking in the jou that you have that accompanies it amazing. So hopefully I'm not going to down this all immediately. But during the commercial break I had to go get some because I just think it's going to be gone like that. I don't mean to be to be, you know that guy, because it's a media center thing, a lot of goodies out on the course here, but they're treating us right in the media center.
As my father has always said, never be a shame to pile it on.
It's compliments to the chef, right he did, right?
I mean, you'll show them up now. I'm finding recipes, so guess what I'm going to try to make an iteration up later on this week and the slow cooker, I'll make sure to freeze some portions to make sure everybody gets fed, because we've got to look out for the team, no question about it. At Dan Byron Fox, we find and find me over at Swollen Dome. The podcast is I Want Your Flex, Fantasy and NFL talk all year. We cycle in from what we do on these shows Dan and certainly once we get back into football mode several times a week we reconvene and talk about it. But for let's do the anniversary you teased an anniversary for today.
Twenty years ago today, I left this state of Wisconsin to move out to California to continue to pursue my broadcasting dreams.
I did.
I left at noon on January excuse me, on June first, two thousand and five, and made my way took me a couple of days.
In between.
I stopped at the Field of Dreams in Iowa, saw the Rockies and Reds play after a tornado hit Denver.
Saw snow and sun and desert all in the same day.
But it was twenty years ago today. I moved from Wisconsin to California.
So did the long drive.
Yep, the longest stretch.
I was just west of Denver and then drove that all the way down to Rancho Cucamonga. So that took pretty much the whole entire day, that chunk of the drive. But that was a big part of it. As I said, I stopped at Field of Dreams, had to see that, and I and went to a Rockies game and whatnot. But yeah, so it's kind of come full circle. Happy to be here at Aaron Hills. My niece graduated high school yesterday. That's what I'm in town for celebrating. But yep, twenty years ago today, I left home to pursue my dreams.
I have like a million songs that we should just add to a playlist and didn't celebration of Dan Bayer in his twenty years. A long long road literally and figuratively to get to this point because I know I was back home in Chicago a couple of weeks ago, and it just punches you in the face, doesn't it.
Yes, Absolutely, soon.
As you get off that plane, it's like, yeah.
I'm home, yep, yep, here it is.
I've got a couple of friends that feel it's like a disturbance in the force when I come home and I'll get a text minutes after I had land he's like, this is creepy.
You know, it's it's funny, and like you've moved around, You've lived in a bunch of different spots throughout the country. I've only lived outside of Wisconsin, lived in California. But you know Chris Profeta, technical producers from Toledo, and I'm sure he feels the same way. And there is this point where you kind of can't wait to leave when you're at that point. But then, as you say, when you get off the plane or you get back into the area, it all hits you in the face. And I think anybody that's relocated, I think can understand, especially as your life changes. I'm married now, I have a four year old boy, so your perspective changes as well. But a lot of times people are like, oh, I can't wait to leave, you know, see you later, hometown blah blah blah, see later, home state. And then over time you gain perspective and you appreciate it. And I think I don't think that story is is that foreign to many. I think people can that have moved away can feel the same way.
Yeah, you either come back and you have the appreciation, and then it becomes the All right, I visited, this was fun. I'm going home. Yes, especially if you go back, say, I don't know for a holiday season in the Midwest. Sure, I love you. It's good to see you. Why am I not at the beach?
Yeah, I can play all tomorrow in California. Why am I shoveling means those things Florida? Yeah, other places as well.
Other places where you can do those kind of things. All right, So we did a good chunk of the AFC East. We'll circle back to it as we continue our division by division previews. Dan enjoy the time there. The rest of the time with the family, and you're wandering of Aaron Hills, and of course the root beer braised short ribs.
It should be some great golf. So I think the golf will match up to the dining here. It should be a fun afternoon. And again this course looks great on TV, so check it out.
Pretty big leaderboard at Dan Byron Fox. Check him out for all his work and back with Doug and Covino and Rich. This week find meet with Smith starting seven o'clock again tomorrow night. Thanks everybody for listening. I have a beautiful Sunday.