We are officially halfway through the fantasy football
regular season with seven weeks behind us.
And just like we all expected, the Patriots have a new breakout
running back and his name is Terrell Jennings.
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Some people in the chat let me know if I'm if I'm a black box
you maybe I'm in black box, but even if he can steal me, see me,
but just imagine just imagine that it's a Zoom call.
I'm phoning it in. I didn't get dressed today.
I'm in my PJS and I have a Zoom meeting.
You know what I just realized? Since you are typically the one
who presents the charts, I hope that there's no issue with that.
Why don't you try to present the charts here and we'll see if
that works. All right.
The charts were great, so at least we've got that going for
us. I I see myself on the on the
screen so it's so frustrating that if it's not working.
I, I, it might just be me. Maybe the chat will come to our
rescue shortly and tell me that it's only on my end that you are
a black box. But we can, we can go ahead and
dive into this quarterback chart.
We've got a lot to cover today, a lot of a lot of moving pieces
here in week 7. I guess I'll, I'll go ahead and
kick us off. I feel like we're halfway
through the fantasy regular season at this point.
So it seems like a good check in spot.
Who would you have as your top five fantasy quarterbacks?
You know, you're you're going into a match up and these are
the guys you would most like to have on your line up.
You know, regardless of format, be it a a weekly contest or
basketball team or a season long, who are who are your top
five fantasy quarterbacks? So I see your list and where I
see your list, so I'm getting I'm going to give my list with
the benefit of knowing yours and just pick and choose what I
like. The ones from yours that I like.
I like Mahomes. I like May, I like Baker.
I think I think I'd put Jalen Hertz in there for the floor.
I think if it weren't for the injury, I'd probably have Lamar
as well and maybe Doc would be up there as well.
And I think I, I, I think that's where where I am, I, I'm at.
OK. Yeah, My where where we differ
is I have DAC squarely in there. I also have Justin Herbert in
those top five and I do want to talk a little bit more about
him. So my my five were Mahomes,
Drake, May, Baker, Mayfield, Justin Herbert and DAC with
honorable mentions for Josh Allen and Lamar for Hertz.
I just, I think that if you knew that the Eagles were going to
pass the ball each week, then he's certainly in there.
But I just think there's too much volatility with that
offense. I don't really trust that they
are going to be as pass friendly as the result that you got this
week. They actually weren't even very
pass friendly this week if you watch the game in the 1st.
Half like hurts. You don't need them to be that
pass friendly and even even in weeks where where they don't
pass at all, you still get those touch, push touch.
Sounds like I, I, I think the floor is really, really good
and, and the ceiling is, is very, very strong too.
Yeah, the floor is good. We just, we haven't really
accessed the ceiling much at all.
And I mean, even this week where he had a great, you know,
passing result in the first half, he really didn't have much
at all. I think they had two first downs
from passing in the whole first half.
It really wasn't a lot going. You know, he gets the deep super
efficient passing with the the deep strike to Devonta Smith and
then the long touchdown A.J. Brown.
So you know, they they string together a good game from the
box score standpoint, but I I was less convinced there the the
one that I am pretty interested in going forward.
We really talked this guy up at the start of the season in
Justin Herbert, but then. I just before you move on from
Jalen Hurts, I'm glad you say we haven't accessed the ceiling yet
because he's #2 and fantasy points scored.
Right. It's just it's not coming in the
way of sealing games. Like he's not putting up 30
points. It's just, you know, he's
getting it's instantly 20. Sounds like a top five quarter a
fantasy quarterback to me. Yeah, I just I, I think like
give me I I think I'd probably take DAC and Mahomes straight up
over him, which sounds weird. You know, I'd certainly take
Drake May straight up over him. Like those sound weird, but.
Yeah, Justin Herbert seems way less defendable to me given the
given their offensive line issues and.
The yeah, I think volatility, what I wanted to talk about with
Herbert is I think we are literally watching.
We are watching the start of a change right now.
Their offensive line, they should get Joe all back next
week. He was questionable to go this
week. He was potentially going to play
this week. He should be back next week.
Their running game is is just like dead, dead.
The running game wasn't good prior to the Hampton injury.
Like Lamarian Hampton wasn't out there tearing it up, you know,
or posting wildly efficient numbers or anything.
He finally had a breakout game after a lot of, you know, games
where the run game for the Chargers is underwhelming.
He has a good game. They get more offensive line
injuries. The run game has just not been
great. They flash against Miami, but
again, you know, everyone is running against Miami for tons
and tons of yards and efficiency.
So I think what we're seeing from the charges is the run game
is not going to be very good going forward.
They are getting back Joel Alt. They should be able to pass a
little bit more and we just see Herbert go out there and throw
for 420 yards and spread it around where Aronia Gadsden has
a monster day. Keenan Allen has a huge day and
we've seen all these receivers kind of trade off where it just
seems like it's whoever Herbert can get it to in that week is,
you know, going to be the producer for fantasy.
So I feel pretty good about this passing attack being relatively
resilient where they have lots of ways that Herbert can get
there. And I think that we're we're
going to see the shift more towards how the charges were at
the start of the season where they had extremely high PROEI.
Think that's going to be the norm going forward where it over
the last you know couple weeks prior to this they were closer
to neutral, they were still positive PROE, but I think we're
going to see that increase going forward here for Herbert.
Yeah. I mean, if, if, if the question
was who's going to have the most passing production, for sure,
Herbert, for sure. No, no, no doubt.
Maybe maybe we're splitting hairs.
We might not be actually that far off on between her Hertz and
and Herbert. Maybe you have him like 8 or
something and I have him at 4. I don't know.
The other one that we haven't talked about is the number six
fantasy quarterback is Daniel Jones.
And he's obviously having a very fish efficient year where he's
he's passing for a lot, he's passing efficiently, he's
getting a red zone rush attempts, he's getting rushing
touch. Has he scored a rushing
touchdown yet? Daniel Jones.
Sorry, watching. Touchdowns out of 11 attempts in
the red zone. I guess the the question is, is
does he turn into a pumpkin that that's kind of what's what's
keeping him out of our top five, right?
So the the thing for Daniel Jones that's concerning to me, I
certainly have him in there as an honorable mention.
But the thing that's concerning is his pressure to sack ratio is
the lowest it's ever been by a wide margin in his entire
career. Even when he was having decent
seasons previously, You know, like I'm sure you know, you take
the worst of him. Of course it's going to look a
lot better now. But even in his best seasons
previously, his pressure to sack ratio was much worse
historically than it is this year.
I think a big chunk of that is the system that he's operating
in and he understands his job and he's doing a good job not
turning pressures into stacks. I also think that that's going
to regress a little bit. It would be such a significant
departure from who he has been as a a quarterback historically
that there's almost certainly going to be some regression
there where some of those plays where he's pressured and it
hasn't turned into a sack, some of that is just good fortune.
You know, a lot of it is good play, but some of it is just he
he did not see the pressure. He gets the ball out literally
one beat before taking a hit. And if you're 1 beat late,
that's a sack. And you know, a big part of that
is the skill of the passer and knowing, you know, having that
good internal clock. I just think that's the piece of
Jones profile that looks the most fragile to me.
And so that's where I could see him regressing a little bit.
But I I don't think it knocks him out of like top fantasy
quarterback contention. He's just not in the top five
for me, but he'd be like behind hurts and Allen and Lamar for
me. But you know, ahead of like that
next year, right after that, I I think it's like a pretty clear.
One thing, one thing, I guess who his to to his favor, his
time to throw is pretty in line with his career average.
So it's not like it's not like he's getting the ball that way
faster because stuff is just being schemed up for him and and
the defenses are going to now take that away.
You're you're saying that he's had some close calls and there's
some some noise or or volatility in his low sack where he's only
taken 6 so far this year. You, you, you think maybe he
maybe he'll take 10 in the next 8, seven games or, or like
something like that. Yeah, it's just he would have to
run. Destroy drives.
You take 4 good drives away from a quarterback, then right that
that. That's a lot of points.
He would have to run so good to keep his pressure to SAC ratio
where it is compared to where it's been historically.
Like I I can just, I'll pull up the numbers because I was
looking at it earlier. So his his career average is
19.2% and he's sitting at 7.3% so far this year.
I guess my, my, my what I wonder is so obviously we saw Saquon
leave the Giants and put up the best year of his career, one of
the best years ever. And and running backs obviously
heavily dependent on offensive line.
Do you do you take and I guess pressure suck is explicitly a
quarterback stat because it's what percentage of pressures are
turning into sucks. Do you like, I guess it it it
is. Is there a case to be made,
though, for the offensive line being better because like he's
getting the ball out out in the same amount of time.
That's the part that I'm getting tripped up on.
Yeah, I mean there's still, there are still lurking
variables there though. Like if you like, let me let me
paint you a picture. There's two offenses.
There are two totally different teams, 2 totally different
offensive lines, 2 totally different schemes.
One of the offenses, both offenses are have the same time
to throw, right. They're having the same pressure
rate. But here's the difference.
One offense has receivers that are separating and the play
designs are very intentional. So the quarterback has very
simple reads to progress through where when you get to that point
in your internal clock and you've got to cut it loose, you
know exactly where it needs to go and your guys either open or
he's not. It's a very clear cut decision.
And then you have the other offense over here where the
plays aren't designed as well, the receivers aren't as clearly
open. It's taking a little bit more
processing and reading and then, you know, maybe the quarterback
doesn't trust his receivers as much because they're not as
open. And so it's just that like all
the the numbers that you're citing, like the pressure rate,
the pressure to sack rate, the time to throw, all that can be
consistent across two teams. And you can still get wildly
different results simply because of these lurking variables that
we're not accounting for in these specific stats.
And so I just don't want to say, oh, well, Daniel Jones 7.3%
pressure to SAC ratio. Here's his last three seasons,
20 percent, 31 percent, 18%. You know, he's this is less than
half the pressure to SAC ratio he's had in his very best
seasons. You know, like, right, This
isn't the thing that will keep. Happening describe just before
Dan is like, hey, there's variables that can kind of
account for that and that that that aren't quite accounted for
in in these numbers, which is maybe he's just in a much better
designed offense. Yeah, absolutely.
I, I, I certainly think that you're, there's almost no way
for him to keep a 7.3% pressure in stack ratio like, you know,
near, near best in the league when his previous career low was
15.7. That's just not a you know.
I will gladly take action on on his pressure to sack ratio being
higher than 7.3 by the end of the season.
Yeah, Yeah. No, I think that's fair.
Yeah. So it's not, it's not a case
that we're saying, hey, he's going to finish at 15% or 20%.
We're not saying he's going to finish close to his his his
career average, just like he's going to take a couple more
sacks in the next couple of games down there, then he
otherwise there or then then he has in the in the previous
seven. Yeah, then then what he's
currently facing for, Yeah, 'cause I mean, currently he's
best in the league. And I, I would just expect that
to be something where you see a little bit of regression,
especially when you consider like the teams that he's faced.
Like you have a couple really strong pass rush teams in there.
Like you have you have the Rams in there and against the Rams,
like that's his highest sack game on the season.
Oh, what do you know? He took two sacks against the
Rams. You know, like so.
But otherwise you get like you get Vegas, you get the Titans,
you know, you get the Dolphins. Like there's just he's not, he's
not going up against like he hasn't played Houston.
You know, he's going to play Houston twice, by the way, like,
and we talked about how good Sam Darnold has been so far this
season and he just went up against the Houston defense and
looked a lot more mortal because Houston is good on defense.
And so I I just think that as Daniel Jones progresses through
the season, that is a really clear regression spot.
So put put put differently and put differently on a more macro
level, the the match ups for the Colts in the first seven games
have been a lot of cupcakes where you've gotten the
Dolphins, you've got the Titans, you've got the Raiders, and then
who do they play? Last week, they played the
Chargers. Chargers.
Which not not not not a particularly challenging matchup
for an offense either. So like they've had an easy day,
but they have a they have a tougher schedule going forward.
You're saying with the the Texans twice.
Yeah, I mean, just any anything's going to be harder
than the schedule that he's gotten so far to.
You know, he's he had Denver, which was a real defense.
He had the Rams, which was a real defense.
And other than that, there really have not been very many
tests for this Colts offense so. OK, so that's that's probably
and it's my fault for taking us down that that rabbit hole.
It wasn't even on her R.E.M. Or or show notes, but took us
down the the Daniel Jones rabbit hole.
I did. And the next the next item we
had were were the benchings. The so we had Justin Fields
where I guess it this is our time to take potentially a short
lived victory lap where people said there's no way, no way he
can get benched and it's like, well, team can't really go.
Oh, and seven and then their their quarterback not getting
hot water and I guess lo and behold, he gets he gets benched.
Yeah, it's it's almost comical, like how quickly he got benched.
I think the the discussion around him not being benchable
was like back in Week 5 and now here we are in Week 7 and he's
benched for Tyrod. So here's the problem.
I can't remember if we talked about this on the show or not,
but Pat and I were talking about Fields getting benched for
Tyrod, and it doesn't Tyrod. It doesn't really save The Jets
or do anything, you know, helpful for them.
They're still going to lose these games.
It's not like it's not like Tyrod is out there playing super
well. He'll be able to.
Oh, Tyrod is playing like dog shit, yeah.
He'll be able to. Execute.
This could be a short lived victory lap like the Tyrod
Taylor New York Jets two point O era.
I, I put that, I put that that at the over under on that at
like 1 of the hot games. Yeah.
Maybe I'm being kind there. Yeah, I I think that maybe they
try and scheme the offense around him a little bit more
with a full week of him as the starter and try and just do some
like stuff where it's going to be a little bit more in his
wheelhouse. But I I don't know man, they
haven't even been able to scheme stuff up.
That's in Justin Fields wheelhouse so.
Who knows what they're doing. I, I just, I don't think that
Tyrod Taylor is, is very productive for what The Jets
need to do as a franchise. Like, I guess if they're saying,
hey, in no uncertain terms is Justin Fields coming back for us
next year. But neither is neither is Tyrod
Taylor Like, and you don't. It's not like you have much that
you're trying to evaluate on offense or like, Oh my gosh,
Fields is so dysfunctional. He's preventing us from
evaluating these other players that we need to learn something
about. Like I don't think that's the
case either. So to me it's just like you're
you're floundering, you're flailing and hoping that just
you're throwing shit at the wall and hoping something sticks here
because your season's over. You're not going to the play
offs. So like, what are you doing?
So I I think the Tyrod Taylor stuff is just like the latest,
you know, panic that The Jets. Yeah, they're, they're they're
throwing, throwing the Bolo cereal at the wall.
Bolo, maybe a Bolo spaghetti at the wall.
Let's see what sticks. Like they're like, listen, we're
sucking right now. I I got to do something.
Yeah. And that's something with Sir
Rod Taylor. Yeah.
But yeah, I I think we're on the same page where that that's not
going to. Last, yeah, I don't, I don't
even think we need to spend very much energy on on that one.
The other one who gets benched is Bryce Young.
Now, I've heard reports this is a very, very real, very serious,
extremely ouchy high ankle sprain for Bryce Young is so
real. Guys.
Like, you don't even know how real this injury was.
It definitely wasn't because he's played bad.
It was definitely a real injury. Don't put in the paper that they
benched him because he's been playing bad.
I mean, to me, this seems like one of the themes of this season
where teams have realized we're allowed to move on from our
quarterbacks if they're stinking, but it's also bad for
us as a team to bench a player. Because if you outright bench a
player, you're reducing their value in the eyes of the league.
Like maybe you could trade this guy down the road for something.
So I feel like that's what we're getting with you get JJ McCarthy
with the, oh, super, super real injury guys like trust us, he's
really injured. It's going to take a while.
He's he's benched. And you have Carson Wentz who's
dealing with a shoulder injury and still playing over at JJ
McCarthy, you know, who injured his ankle over a month ago.
So you get that same thing here with Bryce Young.
You also get Kyler, who, you know, very real foot injury.
His seems like a little bit more real than than Bryce Young,
yeah. I think this is a real injury.
But it's also. Actually want him to play over
Jacoby percent. But I think it's it's at least
in the same family of, hey, beneficial injury that is
allowing us to get away from this guy and play someone else
at quarterback. And you also might expect them
to let the backup ride a little bit longer if they're having
success. So basically this is like a,
it's like an NFL team free look. You know, it's, it's like how
FFPC gives you the free look going into week 1.
This is NFL team free look where you don't have to tell anybody
that you're actually benching your starter 'cause they're
playing like shit. You just bench them and you make
up an injury or they give get a a legitimate injury, but it's
one that they otherwise would have played through.
You know, like Patrick Mahomes is playing through all of these
injuries. You know, like.
Right, right. And he got.
All of these injuries and you see, you see quarterbacks do
this, by the way, like we just Carson Wentz is playing through
a shoulder injury that would have benched him if he were
playing worse, which is funny to even say, 'cause he was playing
terrible this week. But so you get all these guys
where it's like this overt benching in fields or like these
hush hush benchings and Bryce Young and Kyler and JJ McCarthy.
So I, I wanted to ask you of these guys who have all been
benched, who do we see come back and start for their team first?
Kyler for sure. I think, I think Kyler's easily
the guy who's coming back. I, I, I think it's going going
to be Kyler, then Bryce Young, then JJ.
Wow. So when do you when do you think
we see JJ McCarthy then? Because I think Bryce Young,
they said high ankle sprain that'll I mean, I know
quarterbacks like Mahomes played one week after a high ankle, so.
Yeah. But I think.
I mean, if it's an actual honest to God high ankle sprain, then
it's like 4 weeks. Just four to six weeks.
If it's like a Boo Boo and they just want to see what they have
in any Dalton, then it's probably he's probably 2 Andy
Dalton games away. I, I like how you put that
because I was going through the exercise in my head of well, and
how long can Andy Dalton hold on to it and you framing it as two
Andy Dalton games away. It was very helpful.
I, I think that we so, so here's the problem with Jacoby
Brissett. Jacoby Brissett is bad in that
he he's not like going to go out there and win the game by
himself, but he's also better than Kyler from a he makes the
players catching passes on your offense more impactful like.
Marvin Harrison is playing out of his mind.
Right now I think I think I. Think that's the two pieces?
Yeah, he's he's the last two games he's played out of his
mind. But you we saw.
They also ran 70 plays a game for two weeks straight.
So that's that's a lot that they they ran, they ran second most
plays of any offense in the last two weeks.
So like that's a big part of the, the production.
But some of that it could just be him keeping them on the field
on on 3rd down convertible, right?
We we did see extended Jacoby Brissett play last year, though,
for the Patriots, and it was terrible.
Now, I don't know how much of that was the Patriots because
they were yeah, last year too. But I.
Yeah, I know he's going to turn back into a pumpkin, like no
doubt. I just, I, I think it's still
the correct framing in that the Jacoby percent efficiency is
outstanding. Yeah, it's not, it's not that
he's just playing like at a decent level and decent looks so
much better than Kyler Murray. No, he's playing really, really,
really well That that is part of the difference and and and part
of what's causing the the difference would be so stark is
him playing as well. Yeah, that's that's well put.
I mean, you can see where he's sitting here on the chart.
He's right around 8 adjusted yards per attempt.
That's in line with Josh Allen, Dak Prescott, Baker Mayfield,
Pat Mahomes. Like you're not wrong.
He's he's been playing well these last couple games.
And then the last question I have about all these benched
quarterbacks of all of them who were benched, do you believe
that any of them can come back to being fantasy relevant or
being a quarterback where their teams are going to be happy to
start them in 2026? Or is this just the beginning of
the end for all of these guys? So probably probably the one
with the most amount of rope is is Kyler Murray.
But. Really.
I think so. I mean, JJ McCarthy has in the
2026 JJ McCarthy because it's his second year in the league,
our third year in the league. I guess that that has an
argument, but he just just been genuinely terrible, like truly,
truly bad. And I think I think they've kind
of realized that. So like he has the most where he
has to just like significantly, significantly improve like and I
don't I don't I guess I don't see how that happens in the NFL,
like how that level, the level of improvement that's needed.
I think the Cardinals, they have so much money in Kyler.
He's been starting for them for so long.
I think that's like kind of hard to move on from, but it depends
it, it, it depends on, on the second-half of the year.
Like if, if he's just continuing to get outplayed by Jacoby
percent, then that's a different story.
I, I'm, I'm not, I'm not as fully bought into that being
like what's going to happen? Like, I know he, he like, to me,
Kyler Murray is like a flawed quarterback who does have some
like good skills. Like he is a good playmaker.
And he, like I said, he does, he does make plays.
And but then there's another part of my head where it's like,
is it like the Russell Wilson trajectory where like offenses
are set up to stop that kind of quarterback And then not that
he's thrown moon balls, but he like needs to scramble to make
plays. It is, is that what?
And maybe he's getting older now.
I don't it's I'm not I'm not as married to the idea that he's
like terrible and we're just going to see terrible play.
I I guess for Kyler, I just, I need to see it a little bit more
before I know, like he's like Bryce Young bad.
Yeah, I guess for me, it's like it's pretty clear on Kyler that
like that's not it's not going to be enough to to win you a
championship or anything like that where there's a lot of guys
where they are good enough to to just run the offense around.
And like you can if if you got all the pieces around them, like
it could work. But I feel like with Kyler,
we're kind of like at the end of the line here or it's like, this
is not this isn't going to work going forward.
And I feel like the Cardinals are getting close to there.
My my answer was gonna be JJ McCarthy purely from the he's
got the small sample size of all these guys.
Like, it could easily just be something where we watched a
couple of his worst games. You know, it's this is the worst
he's gonna be and he bounces back from there.
I don't think he's gonna be very good.
You know, if you made me bet money on it, I would say the
most likely outcome is he stinks and he's not a starter in the
league in two years. But he's the one where I think
the probability is the highest that of all of these guys.
He bounces back the. Excuse you make for him is that
he just had his child born and maybe he didn't he was staying
up too late or he's doing too much like waking up with the
baby. Yeah, that that that feels
pretty weak to me as a as a as a new father Like I, I wouldn't
accept it for myself and my own job.
Not that. Not that there's a comparison
between me and no. No sympathy for Draco.
Damn, it's called. Bland, but how do I say it?
But like, that's the most thing that like something that widens
the range of outcomes. I'd like.
Maybe he is actually just much better than that.
Is it? It's it's a possibility.
Yeah, Yeah, that's fair. OK.
I think we've, we've spent enough time on the bench guy on
guys that we're saying are are likely not relevant anymore.
I did want to talk about some other ugly quarterback play
though. These are guys that I think
either deserve to be benched or are they definitely should be
benched in your fantasy leagues. My my list, you know, not
exhausted, but these guys all have been playing bad and and
had bad games here in week 7. Trevor Lawrence just looked
terrible per per usual, Like I'm I've had enough of the Trevor
Lawrence experience. We can just be done with that
one to. I mean, sure that it was a
terrible weather game, but you know, he's bad enough that he
gets benched in this game. Boe Nix I I know that we may
have some people that are very upset about me saying that bonex
played bad after he drops a 40 burger for fantasy, but he was
atrocious in this game Like he didn't get a ton of help from
his receivers. There were lots of drops, but he
was so, so bad to start this game like I, I thought Bonex was
deserving of being benched. You know, at at the half.
I was like, I wonder if they'll make a change at half time
because it was that bad. Gino also been pretty terrible.
I mean, I don't know, the the Raiders seemed like dead in the
water from I mean, before, before the half, it seemed like
it was just like the time to phone it in for the Raiders.
And then Cam Ward just puts together one decent drive and
it's not even really a drive. It's puts together one really
sick throw to Jamiro DK and then after that just puts up one of
the most Cam Ward games that you're gonna see.
It was it was bad. If you want the Cam ward
experience, though, you go back and watch this game.
This is everything you need to know about Cam ward all
encapsulated in one game where it's like, holy shit, what a
ball to Tamir adike like huge, huge arm talent and then after
that it's like, oh, that was a terrible throw.
Oh God, what what was that? But wait, why are you fumbling
that? Why did you just drop the ball
for no explicable reason? Oh my God, it's a scooping
score. Like it's just the the thing
that we have joked about a lot when we were, you know, doing
rankings this offseason is so many of the like film grinders
and the ball knowers, You know, the people, the prospect
evaluators out there would always describe Cam Ward.
He's so calm in the pocket. Gosh, he's just so calm.
He really nothing rattles him. And I my take was that, yeah,
'cause he doesn't know what the fuck he's looking.
He doesn't know to be terrified. Like he, he was like a deer in
the headlights. Like he's just, wow, what a calm
deer standing in the, in the middle of the road as I barrel
towards it at 60 miles an hour, you know, about to end its life.
That's what the Cam Ward experience feels like for me.
Like what a calm deer standing in my headlights.
But anyway, do you have anything to add about these should be
benched candidates? No, I don't think so.
I'm just sorry, I'm just looking at your list again and I, I, I
mean, I think you, you're saying Bone Nick should be benched for
reality. I, I don't, I don't think he's
going to be benched for reality and I think.
Offense is super limited man. I don't have you caught a full
Broncos game from cover to cover.
Have I? No, no.
Because they don't, they're, they're running like a Mickey
Mouse offense. It's not a, it's not like a full
big boy offense. It's like, all right, we've got
a all right, it's time to roll Bo Nicks out.
An offense. I mean, like Drew Brees ran like
a a big boy offense, you know, like he's able to stand there in
the pocket and progress through his reads.
Like, dude, the what they're doing with Bo Nicks is like, all
right, everything is OK, quick roll out of the pocket.
We're going to boot you OK, We're going to quick throw
behind the line of scrimmage. OK, now we're going to do a
little swing pass behind the line of scrimmage.
There's just like, and then when he is actually passing
downfield, like the the play that set up the game-winning
field goal, he's not even throwing it to Marvin Mims on
that play, by the way. He's throwing it to Cortland
Sutton. Go watch that play again.
The play that is like the Oh my gosh, Bo Nicks led the Broncos
down to win the game. What a comeback.
Wasn't even who he was throwing to.
It was an accident. He accidentally completes the
pass like to not his target. And there's multiple plays like
that in this game where you get the deflected touchdown.
Like there's there's just a lot where this game, obviously the
boxing. I I, I get, I get that he he
might not be very I I'm not arguing that he's like a
fantastic player. I just, I don't think that a
team that is like winning with a quarterback on their rookie
contract like that, that to me those aren't like the
fundamentals that lead two way at quarterback benching.
No, he's I, I don't think he's actually in danger of getting
benched, but I, I will tell you if if he put together.
That's the that's the only thing I'm pushing back on.
Yeah, if he put together another game that looked like the first
3/4 of this game against the Giants, they would have to have
a come to Jesus like it. It was that atrocious.
It was really, really bad the the last quarterback note that I
had here. I thought Caleb looked pretty
bad against the Saints here. I I put in the notes that a lot
of his numbers are just being kept afloat from the game
against the Cowboys. He only has one other multi
touchdown game other than the Cowboys game.
All other games are either zero or one touchdown.
He only has two games with more than 20 completions.
And then he's also near the very top as far as turnover worthy
plays. I think he's 7th in the league
in turnover Worthy plays in pressure to sack rate.
He's in the bottom half of the league.
You know, it's not, it's not great.
He's sitting at a 15% pressure to sack rate.
That's pretty close to average. Right right around like Spencer
Rattler, you know? Not as close to average though.
Yeah. A lot of these guys are around
15%. Yeah, it's.
In between? Like in between 12 to 18% is
like, yeah. I, I would just say I think a
lot more of that is Caleb fault then I, I, I think that he is
not getting pressured anywhere near as much as these other guys
are getting pressured because his time to throw is the highest
of the league. It's 3.23 seconds.
He's also that that's he's one of those guys who who their
style is. It leads to a higher time to
throw. Yeah, I just those guys that
have that higher time to throw, like do good stuff with it and
Caleb is not really like all that it's leading to for Caleb
is yes, he's got that higher A dot.
That's typical with those guys that have the higher time to
throw. For example, like Jalen Hurts,
second highest time to throw in the league right there with
Caleb, 9.2 A dot versus 8.6. Justin Fields, Drake May you
know, Josh Allen, Jaden Daniels, all those guys in that same
ballpark. The big difference is Caleb has
like double the turnover worthy play rate that these other guys
do. And so I don't know for me, I
and when you look at the game by game too, like it's really, it's
really not great. For example, pressure to sack
rate artificially depressed by Dallas where he has 0% pressure
to sack rate. Don't even know if he's at all
pressured in that game, but then he's got other games where
against Detroit, 40% pressure to sack rate against Washington,
who just showed us they had absolutely no defense against
the Cowboys like looked terrible, 21% pressure to sack
rate. So and then.
Yeah, I mean, I, I just, I, I feel like what you're saying is,
and it's where it comes to the pressure to sack.
If you ignore his best one and then focus on his two worst,
he's really bad. I mean what if I just focus on
his other 6? Like, you know, just just the
the one where he gets the freebie against the the defence
du jour to target in the league like every other.
Game utter down, utter down the 40 and the 21.
He's got 10 percent, 10% and 7.7%.
And then Dallas says that's the one where he, he, I think he
didn't, he didn't take a sack. So like, I feel like the 15% is,
is like that's pretty representative of, of what a an
average should be. Like.
I don't feel like it's, it's like Dallas is, is like the
outlier. And then those other two are
like, no, that those are the truth.
I. Definitely feel like Dallas is
the outlier given that he's got like 50% higher yards for a 10
then four dust. Down.
Yeah, I, I don't know, I, I would, I would expect that as
the season goes on, he's going to be a lot closer to like the
20% pressure to sack rate than he is the 15% pressure to sack
rate. I would expect that to be headed
in the wrong direction. You know, he still has to play
the Packers twice. I I think that that's not going
to go well for him. He's going to play the Vikings
again, where I would expect that to also not be a friendly match
up for him in that regard. He's just he's a downfield
passer that doesn't actually turn in the big time throws at
the rate that you would need for it to be worth it given the
turnover worthy plays. It's just like, it's like the
the bad side of being a gunslinger.
I, I, I don't know, I'm like thoroughly unimpressed so far.
Like for example, if you have a a season long league, would you
rather have Caleb Williams going forward or do you want Mac?
Jones, Kayla Williams. I think I'm Mac Jones.
Like straight up, I would just start Mac Jones over Caleb
Williams. Yeah, I think where I disagree
is you do get decent rushing from Kayla Williams.
You don't have the prospect he. Hasn't really been rushed.
He only rushed like the first two weeks.
I want to say though, other than that, it really hasn't been
much. Yeah, it really was just the
first two weeks. Otherwise, he's totaled 21
rushing yards over the last four games.
So he's he's not, he's averaging 5 rushing yards a game.
That's that. That's a fair and common.
But then again, I, I, I don't think it's correct to say, hey,
let, let's take out the good ones.
I mean, that's including the Dow.
I mean, really all of his rushing production came in week
one against Minnesota, where I, I would assume that a big part
of that was, you know, their high blitz rate, high pressure
rate, and he's using that to get out of the pocket.
And that's, you know, not to take anything away from him.
Like, good. That's what you should dude, you
know, like don't, don't stand in there and take the sacks.
That's, that's what you would want from him.
And he did play good in that first week until he melted down
at the end of the game. But yeah, I, I don't know, I,
I'm pretty underwhelmed there. I, I just think where he sits on
the chart currently, I, I would expect his adjusted yards per
attempt to fall a little bit. I, I basically, if you want me
to, to summarize it, Caleb Williams is going to be a bottom
left quadrant quarterback by the end of the season.
I feel pretty good about that. OK, I I I think that he's
probably a little bit below average in terms of like NFL
starter quality. But they do have a they do have
the the offense. It has been running pretty good,
pretty strong. And his profile, even if he's
not, maybe he's the the chairman of the archetype, but his
profile is good where he's like you're saying he's a good
singer. So like that that is going to
leave the fantasy points. I I, I, I don't I don't want to
lose sight of that. Like even if even if he's not
like at one of the top NFL. Yeah, I just, I I think we're
going to see the attempts continue to trend down like they
have been because they seem like they feel pretty good about
their run game. You know, Swift has been doing
well lately. They're getting the non guy more
involved and I think it's going to just kind of change into a
hide Caleb, like get this. I think the offense is going to
end up looking a lot more like the, you know, low pass attempt
lions when when they were not passing as much and they were
leaning on the run game. I think they were just trying to
find their identity early in the season.
But like. They're the Saints.
They had 26 pass attempts and watched commanders 29, Vegas 37.
Like I that that that that's just not striking me as a yeah,
hide the quarterback offense like 26 when when you kind of
have the game well, like well in control a lot along for long
stretches of it. Like, I don't know that that
that that doesn't strike me as a hide the quarterback offense.
I mean, did they, did they have it Well in control for the
majority of the game is reasonably close like the same.
There were stretches where where there was reasonably close,
yeah. Yeah.
Well, I, I think we've probably spent enough time on the the
quarterback chart. We're 45 minutes in.
Let's let's move on to running backs here.
All right. So your first top five running
backs by snaps and usage top five for each week given a
neutral. So your question is like Abdid,
Jon and Taylor, CMC, echang, Bijan and then Jovante, it is at
the top five, I think it is. I think there's one we've got to
insert there, but otherwise I think that's it.
I, I think Gibbs is the only one where, oh true, without the
elite role. He's got the crazy efficiency,
you know, to the, to the point where I've got my last, you
know, one of my final eliminator teams that's trying to survive.
It's a crazy team. It has CMCJTJSN, Trey McBride
like it, it's got, you know, it's so, so stacked.
I put up a ton of points this week.
I'm thinking I'm safe. I'm going into Monday night.
All I'm fading is Gibbs. I just need Gibbs to score under
28 or something like that. And gosh darn it, he went out
there and did it and and buried that super team of mine.
So that was the last eliminated team of mine just totally dead
and buried courtesy of Jameer Gibbs, who who definitely
belongs in that upper echelon. But other than Gibbs, I do think
it's it's kind of funny when running back really does just
come down to, hey, do you get all the volume?
If so, you're the best fantasy running back.
Yeah, and for Giovante as well, what's really helping him is the
Cowboys offense is so good. The offense is insane.
He he gets a shot of the. Touchdown every week he's
getting inside the five, He's getting like goal line calories.
He's getting like heavily targeted 10 targets in the last
two weeks. He had a really good run this
week too. Like the, you know, we, we, we
need to capitulate on Giovante Williams.
I know we we probably already have, but man, that.
In in our minds, we did. I don't know if we, like
actually acknowledged it. No, yeah, he's he's just
straight up been good this year. Quite unfortunate for people who
didn't draft like Annie Juvante Williams.
So that's that's unfortunate. But you know, there, there's
only so many years where a guy can look like the worst running
back in the league and you keep clicking in.
So the next note I had on running backs, a guy who is up
there as far as his total snapse in usage, you can actually see
he's got the third longest bar on the chart.
That's Saquon Barkley. He is doing quite a bit of pass
blocking out there, but Saquon's efficiency has just gone in the
absolute toilet this season. And in my notes, I titled this
the New York Giantsification of the Philadelphia Eagles, Saquon
Barkley, because this is the Saquon that we got when he was
with the Giants, you know, like 3-3 yards of carry.
Not super involved in the passing game.
He, he was it when he was putting up good fantasy scores
this season, it was on the back of being involved in the passing
game, you know, getting more receiving work.
But I think that's fragile. You know, we, we saw last year,
he's not going to be super involved there.
I I don't think it's going to be something where you can bank on
it every single week going forward.
They get bigsby involved in the first quarter of this game.
So I I don't know, but the efficiency just hasn't been
there for Barclay this season. I mean, do you do you think that
there's still time for him to turn it around?
Is this just, hey, this is the volatility that you get.
This is, you know, it's a living and dying by the efficiency.
You know this is what you get or.
Yeah. So obviously the the big thing
you had, I think I remember a lot of games for Saquon last
year where you're going into the third quarter or the fourth
quarter and he's gotten 15 carries for 45 yards, 3 yards
per attempt. And then he breaks the 60 yard
touchdown. And then all you're go, OK, he's
having a decent day. And then it's like, oh shit, he
broke another 70 yard touchdown. And then it's like that was the
great Saquon Barkley week. And so we obviously we haven't
gotten those long breakaway touchdown.
So I'm looking at it here. He's gotten 69 breakaway yards
so far this year. He had last year he had and
that's that's kind of carries that go beyond 15 yards.
Last year he had 1107 breakaway yards, so you're like halfway
through. We're seven games in and he's
what, like 120th so. Yeah, it's a pretty big
difference. That that's, that's, that's
what's driving the, the lack of efficiency.
And then he has, what is it 14 force missed tackles and so far
this year versus 80 last year. So he's not breaking tackles as
frequently and he's not, he's not making the big explosive
runs when he does. How much is that?
How much of that is stuff that we can't see?
Honestly, I don't know. But I agree.
I I tend to lean on on what you said more, which is like, hey,
this is a lot closer. So what we got earlier in his
career or sorry, not earlier later career giants.
So I I I probably have on the side of that, that this is the
sake 1 Berkeley going forward than anything else.
Yeah, yeah, I I think that's a good, good way to summarize it.
The next note I had was does anything change for Alvin Kamara
here with the Kendra ACL tear? Kendra is starting to or was
starting to eat into the rushing work a little bit for Kamara.
Do you think this is a boost for Kamara or do they now just
involve Devin Neil or someone else more?
So I did see Devin Neil out there a lot.
So Devin Neil, Devin Neil in in a week 7, he's not out there a
lot more. Devin Neil played two snaps in
Week 7. So did anybody else?
So I guess I thought the question, is there anybody else
play or was it just the was it just the Alvin Kamara show?
So I think it was just the yeah. So Alvin Kamara played an 87%
snap rate and Devin Neil barely played.
So they it it they probably I I I don't know, but I don't think
it's Devin Neil time. Maybe we get that later in the
year, but probably massive deuce to Elephant Kamara where he goes
from 6040 head of the committee guy to now he's he's a locked
inserter is what I'd say. Yeah, unfortunately the Saints
don't get a because I, I think that this is like a fleeting
thing, right? Like they're not going to go out
there and like load Kamara up every game for the rest of the
season. You're probably going to get it
for a little bit until someone can earn a little of that work
back from him, right? But unfortunately, I don't
really think we get a good opportunity to capitalize on
that because his match up this next week is against the Bucks,
who have a very strong run defense.
Although it didn't really seem to stop Jameer Gibbs.
Granted, I do think there's a little bit of a difference
between Jameer Gibbs and Alvin Kamara at this point in their
careers. Right.
And then after that you get the Rams.
So, yeah, I don't I don't think you it seems seems difficult to
actually capitalize on this opportunity.
The other note that I had where this could be 1, where you we
could possibly get ahead of a trend.
Chase Brown, who previously on this show we had Foley left for
dead, finally has an efficient rushing day with the help of Joe
Flacco opening up the offense a little bit more.
Chase Brown goes for over 100 yards.
Not a great fantasy day because it's just rushing yards.
There's I don't think he logs a single reception.
In fact I believe if I remember correctly he had a pretty bad
drop on one. So I.
Think 4 targets. Yeah, he has 0 receptions
though, correct? So Joe Flacco tried to get him
involved, but James Brown wasn't.
He wasn't having it and is this is so I mean, Chase Brown is
fast. So it doesn't surprise me that
you get you get some games where he has some explosive runs and I
get to me, it's like a question of like, how much do you buy
into the Joe Flacco LED resurgence?
How much of it is like I've seen this meme, It's not a meme, but
like a commonly tank, said Tang on Twitter.
Whereas the Steelers defense, the cover tree that they run,
it's, it's, it hasn't changed in like 10 years.
And like new rookies, when they, when they come in, they struggle
against it. But the guys who have played
against the same defense forever, they shred it.
And that's what happened with with Joe Flacco.
I guess I, I kind of buy some of that it like it, it makes it, it
makes sense to me. And then how much do you buy the
Joe Flacco resurgence? I don't know, like I, I, I think
you, you're probably, you'll probably get a lot closer to a
league average offense than we were before where it was just
like completely dysfunctional and now it it might be somewhat
functional. And so there's value in the
offense again. Chase Brown has like what, 6065%
of the six? Let me one second as I look this
up like what what's what's what's his what was his share on
on Thursday night? So Joe flat.
So he's like 60 to 65% of that. I have a somewhat functional
offense. I mean you're still like way
you're down really bad on your second two tree turn price like
you're down really, really bad just because he he's he's losing
that receiving work to P Ryan. And then it's like, oh, it it
like what you paid for. It was like one of the most
efficient, productive offenses in the league and they were
like, well, it's it's it's going to be closer to league average
than it is going to be the worst.
And I, I, I think, I think you get more games like this from
Chase Brown where it's like semi usable and, and some will be
usable than before. Whereas before it was like
you're getting five points like, and, and you're going to like be
what you might cry, but like, that's what you're going to get.
That's how I put. It yeah, yeah, P Ryan gets 7
carries to Chase Brown's 11, so he, he's definitely still
getting the majority of the rushing work.
But P Ryan is has crept up a good bit there to where it's not
just all the Chase Brown show. And then I pulled up the Bengals
schedule here. They get The Jets next week, so
that should be decent. Then they get the Bengals in
there or they get the Bears in their back to the Steelers
again. Then it's Patriots who have a a
pretty tough run D. So yeah, I'm not, I'm not
feeling terribly bullish on Chase Brown going forward, but
he's probably more usable than he was prior to the Joe Flacco
acquisition. OK, last running back chart note
that I had so we get DeAndre Swift continues to perform
really well for the Bears. Bears running game is actually
the thing that wins this game for them.
Swift super effective. Monongai also in the mix and
pretty effective. And so that brings me to a
rookie running back rest of season question.
Would you rather have Kyle Menon, Guy RJ Harvey or Trayvon
Henderson on a best ball team rest of season?
At this point, you you probably you probably prefer Menong guy
like where he's got like a very real role, like he had Turkey in
rush attempts. He had a carry inside the five
two targets like you. You'd be you'd be crying ugly
tears if you got that game for Rare for Trayvon Henderson going
forward. Yeah, No, I I do think that rest
of the season Monongai probably carries more value.
The ceiling for Monongai is obviously not so.
Great. It's it's not very good though.
It it requires a swift injury, he's not going to take the job
from him. So if he's been playing well and
even then, like he's still Kyle Monongai.
So it's just like volume. But yeah, it's, I, I just think
that happens so much more often than RJ Harvey or Trayvon
Henderson becoming things. And that's not to say it's
impossible. It's just it's gotten a lot less
likely for those guys to do anything usable for fantasy
football. You know, we're, we're seven
weeks into the season. There's still a lot of season
left. But I mean, Trayvon Henderson's
going backwards as far as his likelihood to break out.
You know, it's it's been getting worse week over week the last
few weeks. Yeah.
And then? Harvey, I, I had the big defense
of him and I still believe in a lot of that defense, but at, at,
at a certain point, the coach's stubbornness to not play him and
it, it kind of grinds you down. Yeah.
I mean, we we talked about this off off air about Trayvon
Henderson where we did think it was.
We both thought it was crazy that people were willing to
write him off. I mean, like, yeah, fantasy
analysts that were apologizing for recommending Trayvon
Henderson, they're like, oh, he's a he's a bust.
I'm sorry I ever recommended him.
Right. That's great.
Like that's a little crazy. He was an incredible prospect
profile. He gets great draft capital,
goes to a team way limited competition where you're
expecting an improvement for the offense.
Like he was, you know, fantastic process pick.
And then also he's not the season isn't over.
We still have 11 weeks left in the NFL season.
And so I I said to you, you know, I don't think he's a bust
yet. But like my prior of Trayvon
Henderson being bad before the season was like, maybe there's a
10% chance that this guy's bad. You know, otherwise he's
probably a useful NFL starter to potentially a very good NFL
starter. You know, 10% chance he's bad.
Well, last week I said, I mean, yeah, I've certainly adjusted my
prior. Now, like probability that he's
actually bad is a lot higher. It's probably like all the way
up to 20% now. Because if you have a prior, you
don't just totally throw it out. You know, you incorporate the
new evidence that you have. You don't just say, well,
Trayvon Henderson has done nothing so far.
So clearly he stinks. It's like, well, no, I have
pretty good reason to believe that this guy is a good football
player. You know, was going blow for
blow with quinch on Judkins in college, who we've seen
absolutely tear up the NFL. So, you know, there's there's
reason to believe he's good, but your confidence in him not being
bad should be getting lower and lower each week.
And I think that's that's kind of where at least that's where I
am. I think that's where you are now
as well, where, you know, now my probability that Treveon
Henderson is bad is, is probably up to like 30%.
And I don't think it, it can't really get much higher than 50%,
you know, because the profile is just so strong.
Like it's, yeah, rare that a profile that's that strong would
be best. Changing for me, it's just I
maybe I'm just learning a little bit more about Mike Grable where
you look at how he handled that Derrick Henry, where he had Dion
Lewis playing ahead of him, like deep into Derrick Henry's
career, where like I, I, I don't, I don't know, like given
what we know about Derrick Henry now, like that was just like on
Fatima decision. How does it take them so long to
to play Derrick Henry? It's like with with some, with
with somebody's coaching profile being like that.
It's kind of like a, well, there's a phrase like the the
market can be wrong longer than you can say Sullivans.
And it feels like Mike Gray will can keep Henderson on the bench
longer than I can stay patient, That that's kind of how I feel
about it. I think that's well put to put
a, to put a cap on it. The Derrick Henry stuff, I don't
know if you remember this, but around I want to say it was like
the year that he finally broke out.
Like after that he wrote, I think it was he wrote a players
Tribune article or or some some article came out where I believe
is Eric Dickerson had I can't remember.
I I might be misattributing which NFL great running back
talked to Derrick Henry, but Derrick Henry talks to, you
know, I believe it's Eric Dickerson and Eric Dickerson
basically tells him like, dude, like this is it for you, you,
you better, it's shit or get off the pot time.
Like you have all of the tools that you need to be great.
But you know, you, you, you clearly are at fault for not
being great to this point in your NFL career.
Like there are things that you're not doing correctly.
That is why you're not getting this opportunity.
And Derrick Henry wrote that that was like the motivation
that he needed to turn it up to 11 and go crazy and, and finally
break out and that it did require additional work for him.
And so I'm wondering, it's really easy to like hindsight be
like, oh, Mike Vrabel, the idiot who didn't play Derrick Henry
over Dionne Lewis. What a rube.
But I think it's probably that it was more of a, you know, hey,
it was just as much a Mike Vrabel problem as it was a
Derrick Henry problem. Like Derrick Henry probably was
also at fault for not getting played.
And that's not to say that he couldn't have been great if he
got his shit together sooner, but there probably were things
that he wasn't doing well enough to earn that playing time.
And I think that's the most likely explanation for Trayvon
Henderson, where he very much could be an incredible talent
who should be able to succeed, like even right now.
But he probably is not doing enough things well or he's
making enough mistakes. And some of it is stuff that's
been pointed out by people that are grinding the film and
saying, oh, look, he misses his assignment here.
Or oh, like, he he doesn't read this run correctly.
And, you know, there's a big lane here and he just misses it.
And some of that stuff just is evident when you watch him, Like
what what's going on in this play, you know?
But I do think a lot of it is probably stuff where you need to
be in the meeting room to actually know.
Or it's like, oh, it looked like he did well on this play.
Like it looks like he, you know, gets what's blocked for him.
But actually like that wasn't that wasn't what they wanted him
to do or they want him to execute slightly differently or
what what have you, right. So I think there's enough that
we just don't know where it's hard to say, oh, it's all a
player skill issue or it's all, you know, a coach being stubborn
issue. I think it's probably a little
bit of both. And as far as like how that's
actionable for us going forward, I think there's a lot of
volatility around the Trayvon Henderson production because
he's probably good, but he has to do something to actually be
able to earn that opportunity to to be good on an NFL field.
So I think that's where I'm at with it.
But I think we can move on from running backs to to tight ends
if you have the. Last thing, the last thing I
wanted to note is that Vidal has had like a, a, a complete like
workhorse profile where he's, well, not complete.
He he's like 70% of the snaps in the last two weeks.
He's getting getting like around 70%.
Part of that was the Haskins injury this last week, by the
way. Oh, true, but he, he, he, he was
active this week, right? Yes, but he got injured so.
Haskins, maybe? Maybe they're nursing Haskins.
Yeah, they've they've already ruled Haskins out for Thursday
as well, so. OK.
I. OK, well, I guess Will Will
Haskins is out. Yeah, Vidal.
Vidal should have a massive workload on Thursday.
Wouldn't at all surprise me if there's a new face in the
Chargers running backroom, you know, two weeks from now,
because I, I don't think that they're they're already thin.
You know, I think they probably need someone else and they've
already expressed that they want to add someone.
I think that the injury to Haskins is probably a catalyst
that they need to just go pull the trigger on something so
good. I think a good spot for Kamani
Vidal this week because they're did.
He come out of the Week 6 game Haskins.
I thought he missed some snaps.
OK, because like, Vidal dominated that game too.
Yeah, let me look here. Yeah, he had decent snap count.
I can't, I can't easily see if he left the game here, but his
snap count was decent. But yeah, I I mean, Vidal seems
like a great spot for Thursday night.
He he should have it all to himself.
I thought your Burchard Smith note was actually really good.
He you mentioned he's got 9 targets in the last two weeks.
A bunch of the carries came in garbage time.
So yeah, I I don't know how much to read into the carries.
Yeah, I don't want people to detract from the role though and
say, oh, it was all garbage time.
Like all the receiving work was when the game, well, the game
was never competitive, but all the receiving work was with the
starters. Is is what I'm trying to.
So I think the Burchard Smith stuff has signal for sure.
And they were happy to go to him when Kareem Hunt came out for a
couple of plays as well. Yeah, I got a couple.
Priorities down too. He's really exciting down the
stretch. Not someone that I think you can
really plug in and start just yet, but he's definitely a a
stash. He's like a high priority stash
on your bench. Yeah, yeah.
And I, I, I, I have to start him this week with, with injuries
and then the the week 8 by magedding.
And I don't know, I don't know if that's like if that's
recommended by everybody, but I think that there's worse
desperation starts is how I put it.
All right then, a lot of tight ends here.
We're moving on to tight ends. So the note I had on McBride was
was still like, hey, they've ran 140 plays.
That percent is playing insane. So the like obviously the
McBride adput the last two weeks has been like fantastic.
It's, it's probably not going to sustain that was it 25 to 30
tight end premium points a game. And but very, I think you're
seeing very clear signs of separation there where he he is
starting to gap in terms of targets, he is starting to gap
in terms of area yards on the season.
Because even though got some there, there are some players
that will kind of keep touch with him for two or three weeks
at a time over the full season. Not, not not hope.
Yeah, no, McBride. Turns out Kyler Murray was the
problem all along. You just needed Jacoby Brissett
to unlock him because he this this looks like last year.
Trey McBride now you know where he's just absolutely target
dominant. I mean, he, he already was
target dominant. The production just wasn't
really coming that much. But yeah, you you did note that
the really high play count may have something to do with it.
But it is nice to to see him being very productive finally
and, and hopefully the Brissett can continue starting and keep
that rolling because I I'm legitimately concerned that if
Kyler comes back, we see it come back down to earth.
The the other guy that I think is pretty exciting from a tight
end standpoint, you get the huge Irani Gadsden breakout and we've
got to give you your flowers because you were on this a
couple weeks ago and I was, I was a little hesitant.
I wasn't sure if I bought it. And then after the show I looked
into it more, drafted him a bunch of the dog bowl and he was
he was absolutely V tight in to pick for the dog bowl.
Unfortunately couldn't get any through there.
But Gadsden was a great shout. He he looks like he's just fully
broken out at this point. This is a out of the tube moment
for Ronnie Gadsden, right? Yeah, definitely, definitely one
of my best stock chasing calls ever.
Feel good about that one where, hey, he's just going to run 80%
of Herbert's routes consistently.
He's getting like a 19 to 20% targets per run, 11 yard A dot
at tight end. This this could like he's like
one of those like he's a move tight end.
So I I don't know what he offers, like blocking or
anything like that. So this could just totally be
the the one year flash in the pan for godson.
But what a great flash in the pan it is if that's the case.
Yeah, I, I mentioned this when we talked about Herbert, but
basically all of the Chargers pass catchers have pretty
similar targets for route run. They're all within a couple
percent, you know, one 2% of each other.
They're all like at basically 20.
All at 20. Yeah.
So it's really it's just hey, there will be weeks it the
chargers are are like the if we're doing like NFL team
archetypes for like what their weapons are for fantasy.
The Packers are the Charmander to the chargers Charizard as far
as pass catchers, because the Packers it's like, oh, I can't
start any of these guys in in manage leagues, but they're OK
for best ball because they're they're kind of underpriced for
being a good offense. The Chargers are that like think
about the Chargers pass catchers from a best ball standpoint,
like Keenan Allen, huge win QJ huge win.
Arande Gadsden, massive win, right?
Like all of those, we won't talk about lad Mcconkey, but all of
those other guys just enormous wins.
And so basically in. A while four guys that 20%
target for a run. Yeah.
I, I mean, from a weekly standpoint, I think that this is
a awesome offense to attack for DFS purposes just because
there's a lot of volatility with who is the guy in that week.
And I think that probably like incorrectly scares people away,
people who are just playing one lineup or hand building, like
it's going to be hard to want to click a Charger's pass catcher
because you don't really know who it's going to be.
And that's like, that is that's a good thing.
Like it's good that there is ambiguity there because you can
play them a discounted ownership and you know, the pricing is
probably not going to be efficient.
They probably all end up underpriced.
I I would assume this is the case in BRS especially or you
end up with one like for example, lad has just been kind
of consistently priced up as like the first guy to go or like
if if not the first guy, like kind of has gone right in line
with QJ in previous weeks. And so I think you probably just
end up with a phenomenon where the first Chargers pass catcher
to go is overpriced and then all the other ones are underpriced
and and you can just print money because the market is going to
do a bad job at understanding how that ambiguity works and
like what the range of outcomes is for all of these pass
catchers. So I think that's pretty
interesting going forward. And basically we're saying
Arande Gadsden is just as good a bet as Labakonki or Keenan Allen
or Quinton Johnston to lead the Chargers in fantasy points for a
week, which is pretty, pretty good for a tight end.
So very, very big signal from Gadsden here.
He's, if you have Fab left, he's like a all year Fab kind of
player, right? Right, Yeah, 100 percent, 100%.
It is a it's certainly a year for rookie tight ends where then
you have, you have Tyler Warren, obviously great.
I do think Loveland might end up being like a sneaky good
second-half of the year play where you have the commit injury
last week coming out of the coming out of the bye.
They have what is it, 24% target spread run for Loveland,
probably massively helped by the commit injury, but he did have a
63% route rate. So like that's like that.
That's certainly how do I say it, That's certainly trending
up. And then I think, I think the,
the, the non fanon drafters got up pretty lightly last week
where fanon was able to get 90% of the routes, sorry, 87% of the
routes and then a 25% tire spread run.
But they only had like what, 18 drop backs because in the middle
of a hurricane? Yeah, and it's weird too.
They they passed more when they were ahead, which is very
strange like after they were putting the game away that they
actually passed more so I don't know, but yes, Fannin fannin
could have been set up for a monster week as far as
opportunity, but the game environment did not help that to
to bear out in the way that we had hoped.
Other tight end notes that I had the Jake Ferguson cell high
window is still open because he got 2 touchdowns this week.
I, I think that there's two ways to play this.
If you're in a league where you can, you can trade them.
You could sell Jake Ferguson, but it's truly a sell high.
Like you're not selling for anything.
It's not a sell for whatever you get, which I feel like is a real
whenever someone who is asking me for random home league advice
is asking about trades, I feel like 90% of the time they send
me a trade and they say, what do you think of this?
Like should I do this? I really want to sell player X.
And almost every time it's like, Oh yeah, I really wanted to sell
Nico Collins for, you know, Cortland Sutton or, or like, oh,
I'm selling Nico Collins for Ricky Piersall for when he comes
back. And it's like, OK, just cause
Nico has not had a good start to the season.
Like it's not a sell at all costs.
It's not a sell for pennies on the dollar type situation.
It's a sell high sell if you can get someone to pay a good price
for this. So that's where I feel like Jake
Ferguson is. Because if you're stuck holding
Jake Ferguson, it's like, Oh no, I have this dump off artist on a
team that likes to target him in the red zone and they happen to
score a ton of touchdowns. It'd be probably the best
offense in football as far as fantasy is concerned.
Like whatever will I do with Jake Ferguson?
So you're not compelled to sell him, but you probably could get
more than he is worth. So that's that was the the Jake
Ferguson note I had to do. He had.
He had 7 targets and still 26% at yards per run even with DD
Lambach. And how many yards he.
Only had 7 area yards, yeah. Just going to say, how many
yards is those 7 targets? Yeah, it was not a lot.
So yeah. He is truly the the the dumb
off, but in in in tight end premium that that is helpful.
The last random little note here, Dalton Schultz has
actually been a lot better lately.
It wasn't just the the Christian Kirk injury this game.
He he had been better the previous game.
It's getting more involved and not terribly exciting because
that offense seems really bad. Offensive line is atrocious.
I saw some people saying like, oh gosh, the the Texans are
going to be so much better when they get a real quarterback.
Like dude, so, so irritating to see comments like that because
that is just like very clear. I didn't watch any of the game
type conversation. CJ Stroud has a guy literally in
his lap half a second after every snap.
Man, I don't know what you want him to do.
Like there's there's nothing to be done as the quarterback on
the Houston Texans. Like you are getting just
relentlessly pressured there. There is no room to work.
So right, they, they couldn't even run on like the, the clear
running situations where it's like, OK, the offense, the the
defense can stop you from doing whatever you want to do.
Yeah, it's a, it's an offensive line in name only.
They don't actually do any of the things you'd expect an
offensive line to do, like buy time for you to set up a pass
play or, you know, create yards before contact in the rushing
game. Like none of that actually
happens. It's just there's five guys out
here that are getting paid to combine, you know, 10s of
millions of dollars to, you know, stand to the side and let
defensive players pad their stats every game.
All right, that's, that's enough of my tirade on the Texans
offensive line. The last tight end note I had, I
think this tight end is actually on the backups page and it is
fitting for us to to discuss him with the backups chart visible.
Evan Ingram, you might look at that targets per route run and
be like, wow, well, he's not running a ton of routes, but
shoot 22% TPRRI. Look at the game log guys
getting like 8 targets a game. He's getting some receptions
like this could be this could be something.
Let me be the first to tell you as a former Evan Ingram Bull,
it's, it's Joker, it's I. If you didn't watch this game,
I'm sorry that I'm giving you this homework assignment because
the 1st 3/4 of this game are truly, truly unwatchable.
But you're going to need to do it.
You're going to need to go watch.
And I want you to watch the Evan Ingram receptions.
And when you get to the one I'm talking about, you're going to
know because he catches a pass. And if you've ever, you know, if
you run, if you go out there, you know, you get your jogs in,
you know, you're, you're active out there.
You got your music playing and your headphones and a good song
comes on and you're like, I'm gonna open it up.
I'm gonna open up, You know, the engine to this one.
We're we're gonna kick it into high gear.
You kind of like put your head down.
You start chugging. You're just zooming.
You know, Evan Ingram had that moment on Sunday where he
catches a pass and you can see him.
He's feeling himself. He's like, oh, look at the
Joker's about to get loose, baby, it's time for some serious
yak ability. He puts his head down and you
can see him turn the gear up from first to second gear.
There's no gear change whatsoever.
All that happened was his head just went down and he's moving
at the exact same speed. There's zero acceleration.
It is, it's depressing. Like with with a lot of NFL
players, you can see the gear change on a guy where it's like,
oh, I was, I was running and now I'm running and there's no,
there's only one gear left for Evan Ingram and it's slow.
So he'll probably keep getting these little rinky dink targets,
but they are the classic Evan Ingram scam targets.
And the reason that I, I brought up the, the just terrible,
terrible optics of his yak attempt there is the ceiling is,
is very much capped because Evan Ingram cannot do like a, there
will not be an Evan Ingram long touchdown 'cause he will get
caught from behind. Like there.
That's just not a thing that can happen at this point.
You know, your longest touchdown, you're gonna get like
30 yards because of a busted coverage and, and he catches the
ball 15 yards downfield, which again, that's not where he's
even operating like. So you're just, you're shit out
of luck if you're hoping for an Evan Ingram splash play.
Anyway, had had to share that it was too funny not to after
watching him play on Sunday. Or IP or IP.
So moving on to to the receivers and so you, your first note was
about Brian Thomas. Yeah, I feel like there's our
shows are very much centered around the stats where we are
digging through all these advanced metrics and trying to
give you actionable takeaways or point out trends, you know,
early in the cycle so that we can find advantages in these
fantasy games that we're playing.
But I do really think that a big part of the value that we can
add to this is let's also add the context of watching how the
accumulation of these stats occurred.
And for Brian Thomas, I have noticed the entire season, he's
been really hesitant to catch the ball in traffic.
Like he's had a lot of bad drops where he's going across the
middle and seems to pull up or like he just doesn't.
He looks like he doesn't want to get hit.
And there have been people that have talked about this.
It's not, I'm not the first person to bring this up, but
I've been noticing it as well. This week is the first week
where I feel like we got irrefutable evidence, absolute
confirmation he is playing injured.
His shoulder is super injured like it is.
AII would not be surprised at all if at the end of this season
we get a report that Brian Thomas Junior was playing
through, you know, Torn Labra or Brian Thomas Junior is playing
through an AC joint sprain all season and now he's having
surgery. Or, or if the Jags end up out of
the playoffs, I wouldn't be surprised to see Brian Thomas
get shut down and have season ending surgery.
The reason I say that is all of the evidence in the previous
weeks where he's really hesitant to go across the middle, really
hesitant to catch the ball in traffic, bad drops.
This week, same thing, but he has a play where a defender
touches his shoulder. I'm not talking like, oh, he
made big contact. Like, he got smashed.
A defender literally just puts his hand on his shoulder.
No, no force exertion whatsoever.
He just touches him. And Brian Thomas Junior, like,
winces. He he, you know, recoils in pain
from just this light touch to his shoulder.
And the announcers brought it up, too, like, oh, wow.
Like, he really, you know, acted like he'd been shot there.
So there's something not right with him.
It's not been widely reported though.
This is your cell window on Brian Thomas.
Like he's had enough. He's done enough lately where he
had some bad couple bad games to start the season.
He has a good game a couple weeks ago.
This is your cell window. Get out right now.
He's at he's playing injured. It wouldn't surprise me at all
if he's shut down at some point this season or if it gets re
aggravated. He's not right.
Like this is not the Brian Thomas that you thought you were
drafting. This guy's playing with an
injury that hasn't gone reported, and I like would bet
you dollars to Donuts on that. Yeah, damn.
I'm almost very vigilant to the hidden injuries, but that that,
that does seem pretty clear where he's, like you said, he's
not right. Yeah.
OK. The next guy I wanted to bring
up. So we've seen Roma Dunze kind of
consistently regress on this chart where he was farther up
and to the right. He has a couple games without
touchdowns now and he's beginning to regress.
I wanted to get your take on this where so where he
previously was where he's like just below CD and you know, he's
he's to the right of Pickens and you know, like below that elite
tier of Chase Amanra CD previously.
Now he's trending towards the middle of the chart.
Is that just like the pendulum range on Roma Dunze where the
previous point was like the high watermark for what we'd expect
from like a small sample efficiency for him and then now
we're kind of near the low watermark or are we still in
that like backswing of the pendulum?
Is there still farther for him to slide?
Where? Where do you think like his
baseline level of production should?
Be so he had some run by didn't he In in week 5 or week six.
It was where he caught a touchdown and then it was a
formational penalty on the offensive line and so it didn't
count. The one thing that's clear is
that he has a really high A dot. It's like if, if I look at the
game log here and it's 13.821 point 414 point tree in the last
couple weeks. So your your air yards are are
are really strong. The target count is actually
pretty good too. But you are going to have some
volatility in in your fantasy points, especially when when
kind of touchdowns get wiped off the board.
The game that they I thought I saw that the New Orleans and
Chicago game actually had worse weather than than the Dolphins
Browns game. I thought the wind maybe the the
rain wasn't as bad, but the wind was like even faster.
I think I saw that. And so to answer your question,
I think I think I'd put him. I'm trying to find where he is
on the Romo Dunze. He's like right next to the
Pitman and Flowers and Metcalf. I think I'd maybe, I think where
he is right there is probably is probably good.
Yeah, that's that's what I think as well.
I like, I don't think number one, I would expect that we see
Justin Jefferson have a little bit better efficiency as the
season progresses and maybe he gets more consistent quarterback
play. That also might just be a pipe
dream. Maybe the more efficient
quarterback play isn't coming. But yeah, I think all for all
the complaining I did about Caleb where, oh, he has really
long time to throw and you know, he's got all these turnover
worthy plays. Yeah, that's because he's
extending the play to throw super far downfield to Roma
Doonsay. So all for all the bad that I
can point out about Caleb, Roma Doonsay is the direct benefactor
of the good that comes with that bad.
So I think that, you know, the way to play that that two player
relationship is you'd much prefer to be on the Roma
doomsday side where you can just get the ceiling outcomes.
And then if he if he busts, it's whatever, you know, where Caleb,
the opportunity cost of a quarterback busting is a lot
higher than the opportunity cost of a wide receiver busting.
You know, you're going to get points from basically any
quarterback. But so yeah, I think a doomsday
is probably right around where his home will be on the chart
there. He definitely has run bad in the
recent games, but he was also Nuclear Sun running to start the
season, so as we get more data, right.
Right, it averages out. They they do kind of average out
OK. The next notes I had for wide
receiver were on the next chart. Did you have anyone else on this
chart you wanted to talk about? No, no, I don't know if you
wanted to gyrate over Jameson Williams's corpse a little bit,
but. I think, I think the Jamo
drafters have had enough. I mean, it's not often that I
take the High Road and and I don't, you know, victory lap a
player that I was fading. But you know, I got I've gotten
plenty wrong myself this season. So we can we can leave the
Jameson Williams drafters alone. We don't need to kick them while
they're down. And so, yeah, I think we we
already, you had a note here about Keenan Allen where he had
a really nice game. Yeah.
Yeah, it's just chargers. Yeah.
Where he's like 70 to 80% rat run, 20% target sprout run and,
and, and you're just going to get a good spike games like
that. Yeah, it's just, hey, of all the
Chargers, one of them will probably be really good for
fantasy every week, you know, or, or at the very least you or
they're all usable. You know, I do think Gadsden
getting involved just makes it slightly more annoying for for
everyone, for Keenan, for QJ, for Ladd, Right.
It's just that's one more guy that I mean, really they're, I
don't know that their target share is falling all that much.
It's just that Gadsden is consolidating like the scraps
that were around right now. It's just like, hey, here's four
guys and it goes through them. Or before it was like, OK, it's
Keenan Ladd and QJ and then the running backs get some and then
the a couple tight ends get targets and we'll get KLS
involved and we'll get Trey Harris involved.
It's, it's mostly like these four guys now and then the other
guys pick up the scraps, but they're, the scraps are have
consolidated among these four guys.
It's so tilting that Troy Franklin had 172 area yards and
only 19 real yards. Yeah, I mean, a, a lot of it is
like they, they were not the highest quality area yards from
from Bonex There. There's some, there's some that
is Troy Franklin's fault, to be very clear.
It's also, you know, if we're converting those area yards to
like, how many of those are like real, real, like the 100, you
know, so. Still so that, that's a that,
no, yeah, I'm just saying his usage profile is so fantastic.
Yeah, the I mean. I haven't seen the true true
Smash game. We and we and take our victory
lap on Troy Franklin being the the Broncos receiver to draft.
It was definitely not Marvin Nems.
You know, right, That's always nice to be right.
It just just like Juwan Jennings was also a great pick.
If only he didn't break five of his ribs, you know, sprain his
ankle. Do like the the process picks
are are going crazy. Unfortunately the results are
are not as crazy for some of them so.
But Troy Franklin, he's probably another one where he's a good
dog bowl pick, right, With all the buys.
Like if you're if you're going to get him, you probably get him
in the sixth round. No ownership.
I. Know it's 10, it's 10.
Maybe. Maybe he's just like, too far
down. I haven't really looked at the
slate this week. Yeah, he he's probably he's
probably fine. He's like a mix it in kind of
guy. Not not someone that's like a
staple by any means. You can for for guys that are,
if you're on this chart and you're to the right of the
median weighted targets for route run and and you're in that
upper right quadrant where you've been able to be efficient
with your opportunity, You're probably someone that can be
picked in the last round of the dog bowl.
You know, like that's just obviously some of these guys
like Nico Collins, Keenan Allen Puka, like those are well done
picks, but you get to like the you get to like the Travis
Hunter. Troy Franklin, the coolest smash
smash of the cycle. But like Shaheed Kendrick
Bourne, Travis Hunter, Troy Franklin, Key uncle, all those
guys are like, yeah, that's like I could take that in the sixth
round. You'd you'd be surprised how how
shitty the players are that you could reasonably draft in the
sixth round there, right? Yeah.
Right, once, once you get like a your what, what is it?
It's 6 rounds 10. So it's, it's 12 teams so and,
and 24 you're so you're on like wide receiver what, 26 through
30 or something like that. Yeah, yeah.
That's. Who these guys are, the other
one? It was nice to see Travis
Hunter. Yeah, he he had.
He finally had his breakout game.
I mean, Draco, there's only so many times you can throw the
ball to Parker, WA without just getting absolutely fed up.
Like, you know what, Travis, you just need to play more offense,
my guy. And then I saw there was a
comment that he only played an 11 personnel.
So what's interesting there is that he he did had 27 snaps out
wide. He did play 40 snaps in slot.
So he was predominantly slot, but not certainly not slot only.
And there hopefully, hopefully he can continue to have that
kind of like was it 89% rate rate He didn't have 86% in in
the prior week. So hopefully that can can
sustain and and they have realized that good things happen
when you throw him the ball. I I think it has to man.
I think this is the start of the Travis Hunter breakout.
I mean, I, I said the Parker Washington thing like kind of
jokingly, but I'm dead serious. If you watch this game, which I
was stupid enough to wake up at, you know, 6:30 AM on the West
Coast to watch it. What are the Jaguars doing on
offense? Like there's there is so much
Parker Washington targets like it's.
It's just crazy. It was like all over the field
it was and the rounds it was screaming.
Oh, don't even. Cross the routes deep down the
field. If you say Parker Washington end
around one more time, I might freak out.
It might trigger some post traumatic stress disorder
because dude, the Parker Washington end arounds on like
third and short or the 4th. They gotta have it placed and
they're like, you know what the best thing in our playbook is
right here? Parker Washington end around
like I'm I'm going to walk into traffic if the Jags keep doing
that every week. It it's so the offense is just
too bad to not like they have to do something and this guy's
electric with the ball in his hands and he can make plays down
the field like and also Brian Thomas junior is injured.
Like I would not be surprised if Travis Hunter is the top scoring
receiver on this team by the end of the season.
Like it the path is very clear. It's it's wheels up.
Honestly, that's, this is probably the, the like trend to
get ahead of. Like of all the things that
we've talked about, like the thing that'll fly under the
radar the most is this #1 because even though it's an
island game, it's in London. So you'd have to wake up early
to watch it on the West Coast, right?
And a lot of people aren't, just aren't watching the London game.
You also have all of the previous weeks where he's
underwhelming and the like fantasy community consensus was
he was supposed to be so good he underwhelms the start and so he
just kind of like stays. Disappointing.
Afraid that he's going to go back to cornerback and never do
this again. Yeah, this is I, I think this is
the spot to attack. You just play it like the the
breakout just happened and you just lean into that and and you
just hope going forward that that is that is what happens.
I'm pulling up their schedule here.
I want to see. Oh no, man, no, well, they get
they get the Texans in two weeks.
They they've got their bye. Obviously you get the Raiders
the the first game out of the bye.
So that's probably the the spot to attack, honestly, coming off
the bye too, Like it's it's extra time for this Travis
Hunter game to fade from people's memory.
So just catalog this away, file it away in the old noggin.
Travis Hunter against the Raiders.
That's that's the spot. That's that's the next spot to
attack and then moving to the last chart.
I I think it's so funny how like all the other charts can handle
being broken by like by like the likes of Puku Nikua.
The the shooter chart really cannot handle being broken by
Rashi, right? Yeah, Rashi will will hopefully
get up to the the next tier of chart after another week, but
very funny to see him here with 90% weighted targets for route
run just Hey Draco, do you think that they want to involve Rashi
in the offense? Yeah, I want to be be kind and
but I, I, I, Rashi is obviously a he's he's their guy.
He's he's the one that is going to make.
He's the stop, just well, Mahomes is the straw that serves
to drink, but he's the he's the simple syrup.
Yeah, I know Rashi is going to smash going forward.
We, we talked about this in our, our rankings chat where we were
saying, you know, Rashi Rice or Puka Nakua straight up rest of
the season. And I believe all of us fell on
the Rashi rice side or on the Puka Nukua side, except for you,
Trico, who who did think that Rashi could give I.
Thought it'd be close. Yeah, I do think I still like
the that way. I like the puka side still.
But Rashi is going to be, you know, top five fantasy receiver
going forward the rest of the way the the.
Disappointing. I was the one who made the point
where like for that to be true, Rashi would have to have one of
the best for game fantasy years ever and, and and my reaction
was like uh huh. Yeah, I know.
I mean, that certainly feels like what we are set up for
right here. I you can definitely see how a
disappointing game can be in the hopper where he gets pretend he
gets 12 targets and they go for seven receptions for 60 yards
and and no scores. Right.
And that'll be the that's going to be the week where the Rashi
faders come out of the woodwork to victory lap.
See, he's just, oh, it's just PPR scam.
If he doesn't score a touchdown, he doesn't do anything.
And I, I don't think that those will be the norm, but I, I can
definitely squarely in the range with how he's getting deployed
and also how dominant the Chiefs can be where they just may not
have to use him very much in in these uncompetitive games.
But I think that. I don't, I don't, I don't think
he's going to he's going to have a game with catch rate that low.
But I could see it being one where there was, I can see what
you're saying where like the receptions are in check and the
the yardages are low because the A dot is low and he doesn't
happen to score a touchdown. Yeah, the I mean, by the time we
get to the fantasy playoffs, I think the receivers that I will
be most excited to see on my team are going to be puka CD
JSN, Rashi Rice. And I think it's in that order.
And you know, like I think I'd prefer to have Rashi Rice over
Jamar Chase or Justin Jefferson and like pretty sure that's
where it's at. You probably Amanrom maybe is in
there right around Rashi or ahead of Rashi.
Zay flowers too, probably. Yeah, yeah, by playoff time, I I
certainly could see Flower Flowers is probably in there
with the like, God, if the Vikings don't figure out their
quarterback stuff, it might be Zay Flowers versus Justin
Jefferson. Like straight up could be a
very, very real. Yeah, yeah, Justin Jefferson
seems like such a cool guy as well, so that makes me sad.
Yeah, it does. It does make me sad Jets is is
very good at the game and it's just a bummer to to see him
stuck in the quarterback purgatory.
I mean, he still had a solid game this week.
You know, it's just, you just know that there's so much more,
which is what makes it sad. But anyway, I I think I think
that's everything to cover on the wide receiver charts.
Did you have anything else that you wanted to talk about?
No. OK.
You're going to sneak in like a sermon at the end of the end the
two hour podcast, like I want to talk to everybody about my Lord
and Savior Jesus Christ. Well, I think, I think with that
if. You made it.
If you made it this far, you are truly one of the devoted.
I think with that, it's time to end it.
But thank you all for joining us here for Week 7.
We will see you again next week Tuesday, same time as usual.
Good luck this week, everybody. See you next week, everybody.