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0:44What is good? We're back. And today we are going to overpay.
0:48So these are all players we would overpay for, right?
0:51And sometimes in life to get what you want, you gotta overpay.
0:55And look, if this is an intentional process driven move and we aren't just following the crowd, we're trusting our evaluation enough
1:02to reach ahead of the room and secure the talent we believe in.
1:06And we think that maybe consensus might be a little too low on them.
1:11Overpay, baby. Another way to look at this is just kind of saying over consensus, right?
1:16Jeremiah, how you doing? Hey, sometimes you have to reach around, Casey.
1:20That's right. And, you know, overpaying doesn't mean just being reckless and throwing your high-end picks into the wind and your high-end players to make a deal happen.
1:29And simply, this is just saying normally for a player in this range, you would pay this and I'm willing to pay a little bit more than that.
1:38Meaning, you know, you give up some extra picks or maybe you would do a pick swap or you normally wouldn't get
1:45this guy or you use some of your positional wide receiver two or running back twos or threes to get this deal done.
1:52Or you're throwing in bench players that are flex-worthy or have long-term upside.
1:56This is when I want to use those depth players that I've built up that have some upside to somebody else, right?
2:04And if we're talking like startup draft-wise, these are, again, players that we would just go a little bit above consensus on
2:11to make sure that they're on my roster. So just kind of making that clear of kind of the way we're viewing the overpay statement.
2:19So Jeremiah, why don't you kick us off? Give us a few players.
2:23Start with one at a time. Yeah. That you would overpay for here.
2:27And also, when people, essentially, if people are going to haggle, you're not going to see that as a hassle for yourself
2:34when you're trying to acquire these players. That extra second is going to grease the deal.
2:39You know, one of the best things to do to get a sale.
2:43If you ever worked in sales, you just say to the other person, what's it going to take to make this deal get done?
2:51What's it going to take? What do I got to do to put you in this car today?
2:57Absolutely. And just transparency. You may end up getting to a no, but you get to a no sooner.
3:03But that's just a little bit of something there.
3:06You can apply it in your trade negotiations. But let's talk about Zay Flowers, who I have above consensus.
3:12But looking in our master dashboard, Casey, all three of us, the dashboard has them at 64.
3:17But Chev has them at 39. I'm at 44.
3:20And you're at 57. So all three of us have Zay Flowers ranked higher.
3:25I have him as my wide receiver 14. And consensus markets will put him right about wide receiver 22.
3:31So I'm already baking in next year. Zay Flowers is going to be more expensive.
3:36He may even be more expensive, in my opinion, than the wide receiver 14 value.
3:40Right now I'm calling it from 22. It's going to go up.
3:44And I am happy to overpay. Wide receiver 7 last year in 2025.
3:48Some people think that that's fluky. I think that's just a trend in the right direction.
3:54Targets in all three seasons for Zay Flowers, Casey, have gone up.
3:57118 last year for him. Can we jump into that 130?
4:01140 range. That's what we're looking for. 2.52 yards per route run.
4:05So there's elite efficiency showing he wins consistently. Zay Flowers, 14 yards per reception last year.
4:1019 explosive plays of 20 or more yards. Okay.
4:13Year over year growth. Last year, 24 to 25.
4:16Another 152 receiving yards. An extra 12 receptions. Another touchdown.
4:19His yards per route run jumped from 2.25 to 2.52.
4:22So we're just seeing this drip campaign. If you look at his stats, each year they get better and better.
4:2910th in expected fancy points per game last year at 14.7.
4:32First in drops was Zay Flowers with 10. And that's, it sounds like a bearish stat.
4:37If you hone in on the fact that there's opportunity there.
4:41And a chance to regress. That's even more opportunity for Zay Flowers to get those numbers up.
4:46He was first in juke rate for evaded tackles per reception.
4:50In the PPR league, some yak ability. That's going to be out there.
4:54So I'm very much, I'm happy to overpay on Zay Flowers.
4:57I feel like the redraft market is pushing him higher.
5:01And for some reason, the dynasty market is moving just a little bit slower.
5:05But I think Casey, that's where we can take that opportunity and advantage.
5:09And trying to just throw everything you can at Zay Flowers.
5:13Yeah. I mean, some people would say, hey, they went and drafted a couple of players, wide receivers in the draft.
5:20So maybe they're signaling to you. And it's like, I don't, I don't think so, man.
5:25I think, you know, obviously we need the, the biggest hurdle we need to get over is Ken Declan Doyle do it.
5:32That's really my only question. And if he can, then I think, I think you couldn't pay enough for Zay right now,
5:39because I think we saw it a little bit from Roman to Munkin.
5:43And then now we've seen it a little bit, you know, for this offense.
5:48And now hopefully this Sean Payton protege with a little bit of Ben Johnson sprinkled in can kind of take Lamar and
5:55this, you know, offense to the next level. And you're already seeing Lamar saying, this is a mind blowing offense.
6:01So blow my mind, Zay. Well, hey, if you also have an aging Mark Andrews, you have that bullishness to the new system.
6:08People are used to being disappointed in the Ravens offense from a receiver perspective.
6:13And there is just that like old outdated thought of a Lamar Jackson can't necessarily support a high end fancy wide receiver.
6:20And I think you're going to see that change this year.
6:24I've been in the past, Chev and I too, we've been anti-Zay Flowers in prior years.
6:29And we've seen the shift. Okay. Better to be wrong and then right and then never right at all.
6:35Fortunately, we've been correct so far. And on this ship, we're changing direction.
6:39And I think we're going to be right again.
6:42So right now we've run pure on Zay Flowers.
6:45We're calling it right now. I'm calling it. It's going to be the Zay Flowers year and you're going to want him.
6:52So go and overpay. Casey, who are you thinking of overpaying for?
6:56Well, I'm so glad that you asked, Jeremiah. I love the Zay.
6:59Zay's been, you know, I know you haven't been on this podcast for long, but going back to Zay's rookie campaign coming in as a rookie.
7:08He was one of our favorites. Those are my those are the guys that always get my hearts is the Zay Flowers of the world.
7:16The the lads, the Luther burdens. Those are those are if I got a type.
7:21Those are those are it. So I really like really like Zay Flowers.
7:25I like that call mine. I'm going with Quinshawn Judkins.
7:28Shout out to Shev. Not here right now. But look, I'm still in the cement aisle.
7:33And if you weren't if you haven't been here and this is the first time we're tuning in, you know, that's what
7:40Shev says when he's when he's excited about a player.
7:43He's in the cement aisle. Right. Playing with power tools.
7:47So but I'm still in the cement aisle with Quinshawn Judkins.
7:50Right. And this look, this wasn't fast setting concrete.
7:53We used to pour the foundation with you want to keep that.
7:57You want to keep the concrete moist. A nice slow cure makes things way stronger.
8:02So, you know, some people say you could build after seven days.
8:06We're waiting the full 28 to start framing. All right.
8:09Quinshawn Judkins came out and you can look at his performance in black and white in them sheets and say pretty gross.
8:16Right. Eighteenth in attempts. Twenty second in yards. Twenty seconds in rushing yards per game.
8:21Fifty eighth in yards per carry. Sixty third in success rate.
8:24So just why would you want to overpay for Judkins and have anything to do with the Cleveland Browns?
8:30And while that is a damn good question, but if you start to look at some of the hows and whys and
8:37again, you could just say it's Cleveland. I'll pass.
8:40But there's a lot of factors in Cleveland of saying why this was a problem.
8:45But in twenty twenty five, a thing that had been somewhat of a strong suit in Cleveland throughout chunks of the tumultuous
8:52last few years, the offensive line was really deteriorating.
8:55Right. And this is it was a big problem for Cleveland last year.
8:59Yards per contact, yards before contact per rush. And this was a stat from Jacob Gibbs on Twitter.
9:05If you haven't followed him, make sure you go follow him.
9:08So rookie season for Quinshawn Judkins, he averaged just point four.
9:12Oh, yards before contact per rush. That was dead last out of two hundred and fifty running backs with one hundred and
9:19fifty plus rushes in the data set from twenty twelve to twenty twenty five.
9:24So that just kind of is setting up how bad it was for not even having an option of going anywhere.
9:30Gentry was also bad last year in that stat.
9:33But Quinshawn took the cake there. Now you start to look at the stack boxes.
9:38Judkins face an eight man plus box over forty five percent of the time ranking second.
9:43But but most yards against stack boxes, eight man or plus in there in twenty twenty five.
9:49You had Derek Henry at four hundred fifty eight.
9:51James Cook at three hundred and thirty three. A-chan at three hundred fifty seven.
9:56And then here's Quinshawn Judkins fourth on that list.
9:59Three hundred and fifty six. And then the other names on that list are Travion, Kenny Walker, Saquon Barkley, Christian McCaffrey, Ramondre and Travis Etienne.
10:07If you notice that list, I just read off.
10:10Almost every single one of those other running backs are premier running backs in the league.
10:15Henry Cook, A-chan Walker. I mean, Walker just kind of got there.
10:19But Christian McCaffrey, Etienne. And then you might say some of those guys aren't premier, but they're they're fantasy relevant running backs.
10:26They get the job done and win you money.
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11:57It's poetry in motion. 62% of Judkins yards came after contact.
12:01I believe that was good for third overall. Right.
12:04So then, you know, you're saying, what do the Browns do?
12:07Well, they get in a lab with a pen and a pad and they get this damn label off.
12:13Right. Right. In the NFL draft, they go take Spencer Fano at eight or at nine rather offensive tackle.
12:19Then they draft Casey Concepcion in Boston first and second round.
12:23So they had an extra first and an extra second.
12:26They take Austin Barber out of Florida offensive tackle in the third.
12:30The fifth rounder. The fifth rounder. They go with another center.
12:34Parker Brailsford out of Alabama. He had 42 starts for the Crimson Tide.
12:38And then they take two more tight ends in the fifth and the seventh.
12:42Right. One primarily a blocking one that could have some blocking upside.
12:46Then in the offseason, they trade for Titus Howard, who will slide in at right tackle.
12:51Help sure up that spot coming over from the Texans.
12:54They signed Elton Jenkins, who played guard, but then had switched to center.
12:59So we'll see where he ends up on that offensive line as it kind of comes together over the summer.
13:05He could be their center. Kind of some people are alluding to that.
13:09But they also could use some help at the guard position.
13:13They signed Zion Johnson from the Chargers, which is pretty mad.
13:16But again, Jenkins could potentially slide over to that spot and maybe Brailsford or Luke Weibler will step up and camp and could play center for him.
13:25Right. So obviously, you know, there's still big questions, but then they also added in that whole list.
13:31They added Boston and Casey to go along with Fannin.
13:34And we have the holdover receivers of Bond Tillman and Judy just adding more potential firepower and offense.
13:40All of these things should potentially maybe help loosen up some boxes if we can get a little bit better protection.
13:46Right. Where we can see Judkins get from, because if you look at then go back and look at what Judkins was doing with that.
13:54Yeah, the numbers don't look great, but the film is actually very impressive from seeing what Judkins was doing with kind of what he was getting there.
14:03And look, if we could just stabilize this ship a little bit.
14:07And we've been trying to say that in Cleveland for a long time, but this seems to be like the best foundational
14:14process that they've had in a long time that I can remember.
14:18And look, we get a quarterback. That's right. Or, you know, hey, Shador or Deshaun, they might get through the season and
14:25it could just be mad enough to that. Judkins has a pretty good season, but we're playing dynasty here.
14:31Right. So I want to overpay for this guy.
14:34I could see the starts of maybe ascension for Cleveland here.
14:37And I want to buy in and overpay a little bit.
14:41I like Judkins as a prospect. I like what I saw from Judkins last year, even though some of the raw numbers were garbage.
14:49But we can kind of make rationale and reasons for that.
14:52We upgrade the line. We upgrade the firepower on offense.
14:55If Shador and Deshaun can just be fine, it's kind of like a Geno Smith scenario.
15:01Right. If we could just be fine, this offense is probably going to be fine.
15:05It's going to be awesome. But then we come in, we get another shot of the quarterback next year.
15:11They have two first round picks already in 2027.
15:14Right. Munkin, I think, is a fine enough coach.
15:17So I just think there's a lot of things pointing up.
15:21Look, last year he was at a 50% snap share, which was at 32nd, but a 66.1% attempt share, which was third.
15:28So they got him to use him. Right. And I just, I think that he's got all this, all the, all the
15:35juice, all the things that you want. You know, you can't point to a whole lot of indicator stats that this is
15:42going to be a great breakout outside of the evaluation of the talent of the player.
15:47And I think there is a little ascension. Look, you know, what was Tampa going to do after Brady Baker?
15:53You know, what was that going to go? How was that going to go?
15:58Jacksonville has been dead in the water. Nobody liked Trevor Lawrence until people still don't like Trevor Lawrence.
16:04Right. You know, Sam Darnold was, was dead and resurrected over there in, in Minnesota, help them out.
16:10You know, lots of different things can get like Matt Jones could be a Cleveland Brown next year.
16:15Right. And then things could be, you know, so for so long we sit around, I mean, the Redskins further, sorry, the commanders forever.
16:23We're just a hopeless or, you know, things do eventually sometimes change.
16:27I'm not saying Cleveland's going to do it, but I like Judkins.
16:31I don't mind overpaying me and me and big co have been on the prowl and FFPC is trying to make deals for Judkins all over the place.
16:40We did a deal for him and, you know, and traded away Garrett Wilson to get Judkins in a package.
16:46Right. So we're out there hustling, doing our thing, going after it.
16:50Right. You know, so, Hey, how do you feel about that?
16:53Is that, is that too much? I rambled for a while there and we can keep it moving.
16:59I love it. I blacked out in the cement aisle, as I would say, uh, Judkins though, he goes ahead of Cam
17:06Scadabo and you know, the market likes him. He's just behind.
17:10Okay. The clump of Chase Brown, Kenneth Walker, Christian McCaffrey.
17:13So the market is a little bit more to your point, Casey, and to what you were talking about.
17:19It's only crazy until it happens. So after the fact, people were like, Oh, could you imagine it any differently when the Browns get better?
17:27It people will be like, Oh crap. This does make sense.
17:31Harold Fannin jr. You mentioned conception, Denzel Boston, all the offensive line improvement.
17:35And of course the prospect profile of Quinchon Junkins.
17:38Uh, your point, Shador Sanders had near tops in the league time to throw.
17:42And of course we know his issue is holding the football, but that offensive line was a pass blocking unit.
17:49So now the reinforcements who can come in, let's get a little bit more attack on the run blocking.
17:55And then what's going to help right as rain literally and snow as the year wears on into November and December, we've
18:02had some dog water, fancy football games in Cleveland that get wrecked just because of winds and all that.
18:08Well, guess what running the football, putting the football in the belly of Quinchon Junkins is going to be beneficial.
18:14So I really like a lot of the salient points that you're making.
18:19Yeah. And we thought it was going to be up after that Miami dolphins game, three touchdowns, 26 fancy points.
18:25We were really excited. Week seven, another key indicator that people are forgetting.
18:29This is a little bit of the Jamison Williams corollary.
18:32Junkins did not have a normal off season on.
18:35And that was the last thing I was going to end with.
18:39Absolutely. Yeah. Go ahead. Yeah. And he, in the busiest off season is that rookie adjustment to the rookie season.
18:45It's the longest off season of having to be on having to get all your crap.
18:51Just right. That second year, like take a breath for players is so valuable.
18:55I guarantee you, if you ask Junkins, he would talk about all those things and confirm it.
19:01And he is ready. Of course, he's recovering from an injury too.
19:04I think all the things were stacked against him.
19:07Part of that, as you said, in Cleveland Brown, but the winds are changing in Cleveland.
19:12And I love your call on Junkins. Yeah. I got it.
19:16You got to, you got to make a, make a call or two here, but yes, no, absolutely.
19:22And you could say, Hey, maybe you'll start slow and you could buy them there and for lower, but I'm, I'm, I'm
19:29going in and I was just going to brought up the trade that me and Big Co made in a FFPC, FFPC 250.
19:36Now we are stacked at wide receiver. We've got guys like CD lamb and, and Puka and, and a bunch of high end wide receivers.
19:44So Garrett Wilson was like our fifth receiver in this situation.
19:48Uh, so we did trade Garrett Wilson for Juwan Johnson and it's tight end premium.
19:53And we needed a backup tight end. Um, and we, we, we, we've, we came in second.
19:58We've, we've, we've been in first, we've been in third.
20:01So we've been all up in the money and we're trying to stay in it.
20:06We need another running back on this team. We traded Garrett Wilson for Juwan Johnson, Quinchan Judkins, and Matthew golden.
20:12Now you could say, Hey, that's, that's too much.
20:15I wouldn't give up that for Garrett Wilson. You know, I w I would keep Garrett Wilson, but Hey, we wanted to
20:22overpay and get us some Quinchan Judkins. And that's just what we did.
20:27Right. That's a, that's a real big money league.
20:29I love that move. Who's to say that the outcome will be so much different between just one for one in a vacuum, Garrett Wilson and Quinchan Judkins.
20:38So I actually liked the fact that you squeezed off a couple other pieces there.
20:43Yeah. You could say Juwan Johnson is nothing, but Juwan Johnson scores fantasy points, man.
20:48You know, and, and, and, and, you know, golden is just somebody who could be a lottery.
20:54It could be nothing. It could be a cut by next year, but it could be a lottery ticket.
21:00Well, it opens up viability and this is liquidity of the player.
21:03You get two good weeks from Matthew golden. Let's say it's week four and five.
21:08Exactly. People are shitting bricks and saying, Oh, wait a second.
21:12Let me go get him. And if you don't believe in him, you still have an opportunity to offload him.
21:18So there's peaks and troughs to all of this.
21:21So I love that deal for you. And you were telling me over Pam, like crap, that that's a really good deal.
21:28For just Wilson. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Give me, give me your next overpay here.
21:33Jeremiah. It's going to be Brian Thomas jr. I recently did, you know, we were in a chat.
21:39What seemed to be like an overpay. I sent a 27 one and I was in the championship last year in this
21:46league and there, it starts five wide receivers. It's super flex two or three running backs.
21:51Sorry, two tight end five wide receivers. It's a ton of fun.
21:55And I've got a loaded roster and I was just like, you know what?
21:59Let me fire it away. That's going to be, I'm already looking at, it's a late 27 first and they countered and they wanted Antonio Williams.
22:08Guess what? I'll over, I'll overpay it. I'll throw it in.
22:11It doesn't matter to me that somebody else wins.
22:14If I win. Right. If they get a benefit, you know, too many people get, they miss out on deals because the other team benefited.
22:22Well, if the other team benefits to their point, maybe they're rebuild.
22:26Maybe they've got two 27 ones now and they get the year viability of waiting out Antonio Williams because we don't know
22:33what's going to happen with Stefan Diggs, maybe going to Washington.
22:37But I was happy to pay for some Brian Thomas jr.
22:40If you're going to squeeze counter me, fine. I'm not worried about, Hey, is it 60, 40?
22:46I wanted BTJ 2024, 1282 receiving yards, 87 receptions on.
22:49133 targets, 10 touchdowns, elite red zone threat. And he had very reliable hands last year.
22:54That was an issue with him. 2.44 yards per route run his rookie season.
22:58Brian Thomas jr. 14.75 yards per reception at 18 explosive plays over 20 yards or more.
23:04Remember he had like an 85 yard touchdown, which had a lot of yak to it last year.
23:09What are some bullish things for BTJ? 10th and unrealized air yards, 767.
23:13So imagine the connection improving. That's just actual evidence of there's yards to be had.
23:18We talk about in the industry how vacated targets aren't really a thing.
23:22You know, you're, they're earned. But unrealized air yards in a sense are something that's earned.
23:28Right. Just that you can attach it to the outcome.
23:31If that ball was more accurate. And then of course catching the ball.
23:35And we see improvement in players all the time.
23:387th and ADOT last year. So the deep threat, the deep target with the athleticism is so worth it.
23:44And BTJ was 8th and deep targets with 23.
23:47So again, you just ask that Socratic method question of if we get more of a connection, literally the ball being caught
23:54between the two points of Lawrence to BTJ, we're going to get improvement between that first year and that second year.
24:01I think there's a middle and I think that middle is actually closer to the rookie season version of BTJ.
24:07Yeah. I, I, I don't know what to do with this Jaguars offense.
24:11There's so many, there's so many, there's, there's, there's Parker Washington love in the streets.
24:16There's BTJ love coming back. There's strange love. But I don't mind paying for anybody in this offense is, but right now
24:23they're, they're priced at a spot where I'm okay with any of it.
24:27Right. And so I don't mind overpaying a little bit for, for either which one of them.
24:33Right. Because it's not like some, like you said, your first plus, you know, a second round rookie this year.
24:39Yeah. Some people could definitely say that's overpay. Some people will say, I'll pay that all day long.
24:45Right. But you know, I think that's about where we, like, I would have thought a 27 first would get you BTJ
24:52is because of where the 27 first are priced currently.
24:55Right. But Hey, I, I like it. I think even if we're somewhere in between what we got the first year and
25:02what we got the second year, that's probably a win.
25:05Right. And it's not just one year. Jacoby won't be around forever.
25:09BTJ morphs back into a one, one, a one B some weeks.
25:13That's a huge win. And on the other side of what I talked about earlier, if I'm saying to my trade partner,
25:20what's it going to take to make this deal happen?
25:23And they come through, you want to be a reasonable person.
25:27And they say, yeah, Antonio Williams on top. Yes.
25:30Okay. So you're, you're like already right there on the precipice of a deal.
25:34Did I get squeezed? I really don't think so.
25:37Did I overpay in the moment? I think so.
25:40Absolutely. But you got to make two sides for a good deal.
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27:40All right, my next guy up here. I'm going to go with Tyler Warren.
27:45I was going to go Fannin, but I felt like I couldn't justify two Browns.
27:50They also added two higher-end pass-catching assets. So it was like, eh.
27:54Meanwhile, Tyler Warren, the Colts subtracted one of their main targets in 2026 in Michael Pittman.
27:59Right? And if we go back to the rookie scenarios of 2025 and them streets of Colston Loveland versus Warren.
28:05Right? While both had good rookie seasons and Loveland has certainly been the preferred asset in year two here.
28:11And for good reason, the environment's a lot of fun.
28:14And a big part of it is, though, like how he finished the back half of the season, which was lovely.
28:21It was brilliant. It was a peach. I've been watching too much soccer.
28:25Sorry, guys. But we've also forgotten how good of the start of the season that Tyler Warren had.
28:31You know, and while we can look at Warren's overall season and say, man, that was one hell of a rookie season.
28:38He finishes a top five tight end and tight end premium.
28:42I mean, what else do you want from a rookie tight end outside of this emerging maple syrup conglomerate that is the Chicago Bears offense?
28:50They're fantastic. And, of course, you want a piece of it.
28:53And the last thing you remember is, of course, the best thing.
28:57And that was Colston Loveland. And I'm not not.
29:00This is no knock on Colston Loveland by any means.
29:03But as good as that season was, the first 10 games of Tyler Warren were so damn good, man.
29:09Like he was he had 64 targets. These are these are weeks one through 10.
29:14And I bring up one through 10 because you remember that run that the Colts went on.
29:20Right. They were they were so good. Eight and two, I think, through the first 10 games.
29:25The offense was outstanding. And then we started to see the wheels kind of fall off the boat there.
29:31Offensive line injuries, just, you know, things just kind of started to get a little wonky.
29:36And haywire. But I bring up those first 10 games just because we saw kind of where this offense can be and
29:43can go and what Tyler Warren can do, even as a rookie.
29:4764 targets, which was third. 50 receptions, which was third.
29:50617 yards, which was number one. Fifth in total team yard market share at 23 percent.
29:56His yards per route run 2.13 were sixth. His yak was 386.
29:59That was first overall, which, you know, you could say isn't necessarily the most coolative thing, but I'm a sucker for the yak.
30:07I like it. And I think that's what Tyler Warren does really, really well.
30:11Well, in first read target shares, 22.5 percent, that was fourth.
30:15Inside the 20, 11 targets, that was fourth. His target share just overall was fifth, 19.8.
30:20Air yard share, 13.7. That was only 15th, but the yak can make up for some of that, right?
30:26His route percentage, third overall targets per route run, ninth overall, first downs per route run, fifth overall.
30:32Like he's up there with all the guys. And then you're going through here and you're looking at if you're looking at
30:39season totals, then inside the 20 targets, 18 inside the 10 targets, nine for that.
30:44Both of those are fifth out of all the tight ends.
30:47Now, I think he only scored what? Four four touchdowns on the season.
30:51Five touchdowns on the season. I don't have the TDs.
30:55He had four right in front of me. But if we're looking at all those numbers like that, it was crazy that he didn't score more touchdowns.
31:03Right. So if you add a touchdown threshold, that's closer to 10 than four.
31:08I mean, Jesus, Tyler Warren and what he could do.
31:11And now there's no Michael Pittman there. Like this is somebody who I'm absolutely just I'm I'm laying it on the line.
31:18I'm just flopping it out there and I'm getting the Tyler Warren while everyone's looking over at Colson Loveland.
31:24And I'll gladly take Colson Loveland. But we've got like round like a round difference in between those guys and startups right now sometimes.
31:32And it's glorious. Now, we also are big Tucker Craft family around here.
31:36But I think Tyler Warren is it's hard to say he's being slept on because he's still being drafted very high.
31:43But like if his he had the great first half of the season, Loveland had the great back half of the season.
31:50And everybody loves Loveland, which is great. And I'm not again, not hating on Loveland at all, even a little bit.
31:57Both are great. But I think Tyler Warren is somebody that I absolutely want on every single possible squad that I could get.
32:04It's not mutually exclusive. It's like the whole Caleb and Jayden Daniels thing.
32:08I remember rookie season saying, I'm in on Jayden Daniels.
32:11He's going to be the guy. But it doesn't mean Caleb Williams is going to be much less.
32:17Right. And heading into year two, I was like, hey, both can be true.
32:22Both can be great. And then we've seen a flippening with Caleb Williams and Jayden Daniels.
32:27Granted, year three could tell a different story. Of course.
32:30Both can be true. You can love Loveland and love Tyler Warren.
32:34I think being able to delineate that is pretty critical.
32:37It's critical thinking. But you got me feeling emotional about this because I'm like, yes, this is everything I've been feeling.
32:44That first half of the season absolutely happened. Eight out of nine weeks to start from the jump as a rookie tight
32:51end was a tight end one, Tyler Warren. You laid out all the stats.
32:55I had some other stats on there that I was going to read, but you nailed it because he ends up being
33:02a tight end four amongst all the downfall of the back half of that season.
33:07And another thing that would happen with him, too, where you left feeling like there should have been more.
33:13I know this exact feeling. He would start off like the first quarter getting peppered in those first 15 scripted and then
33:20first half he would do really well. And then as the game wore on, it was like they didn't design enough around him.
33:28So I think there's going to be growth there.
33:31There's going to be even more. And it's one of those things where you watch him as an absolute baller in college.
33:38And you're like, yeah, this guy is going to kill it at the next level.
33:42And we saw that and we were just cut off at the knees from everything.
33:47Yeah. And you had mentioned something about Pittman being gone.
33:50Let's key in on the fact that, too, Alec Pierce may miss early into the season.
33:56And that's just going to be I know we're high on Josh Downs.
34:00He's a cheaper player. But my God, it's lining up for what do you want in an offense?
34:06Top one or two targets to be featured for your tight end.
34:09You mentioned Tucker Craft. All right. We love the Tucker Craft and the Christian Watson show.
34:15Well, how about the Tyler Warren? And then at least to start off the season, the Josh Downs show, and then we'll see where Pierce leads off.
34:23And then we're getting a healthy Daniel Jones. I love it, man.
34:27I love that call. Yeah. Me too, baby. Me too.
34:30Give me your last guy for the overpay living above consensus episode from the FF Dynasty.
34:35What do you got? It's going to be Carnell Tate.
34:39And I've moved him up, Casey, just before the show.
34:42I had him at wide receiver 13. I put him up to wide receiver nine behind Drake London, just ahead of Ted Arora McMillan.
34:50Woo! Woo! Yeah. That's spicy. Yeah. So we have to ask Shev because the funniest part about this whole thing is Shev
34:57was like patient one or patient zero on the train ride for Carnell Tate.
35:01And hey, man, Shev, I got to hear from you, buddy.
35:05You know, we got to talk about this. How high is too high for Carnell Tate?
35:10Because right now I'm pushing him to wide receiver nine, 130, 140 target path in an ascending.
35:15And this is a buy-in from Cam Ward. If it was some slapdick quarterback on the Tennessee Titans on a bad team, it'd be another thing.
35:24But this is Cam Ward who not many people who watch Cam Ward say bad things about him.
35:29When you hear analysis about heading into year two, it's a lot of people who are bullish on Ward, are bullish for
35:36the fact that they watch what he could do with what he was dealt.
35:41And now with Dayball coming in, Wanda Robinson, you got DK and A.O.
35:45Manor who, hey, look at our sleeper stash show.
35:48They're not nothing burgers. And Gunner Helm, I know, Casey, you might have a little bit to say about Gunner Helm.
35:55Gunner Helm is just built, man. He and JT Sanders, very similar.
35:59There's something that Texas has a type. And I know Sanders hasn't taken off, but both of them are just absolutely built.
36:06And Gunner Helm, you talk about not having a good offseason leading into his rookie season.
36:11He had that injury at the combine. I think he's taking a lot tutelage at the tight end university that's going on.
36:18But all this draws back again to Cardinal Tate.
36:21I'm absolutely overpaying in a startup. Absolutely going to reach around.
36:24Reach it around, baby. All right. I don't have a third guy, but what we're going to do here is we're going
36:31to end with kind of a little bit more rapid fire questions.
36:35We're going to talk about some rookies that we would overpay for, whether it's a rookie draft or a startup draft, like
36:42guys that we are a little above consensus on or we see kind of some value in where they're falling.
36:49And then just maybe like a mid to later round target of, you know, player that we would overpay on and live above consensus with.
36:57So, you know, rookie wise, who would be some, well, I can lead off since you just did the last one.
37:03And I could, I can, I can throw kind of two out there.
37:08One is, you know, I've been seeing Makai Lemon fall in some drafts and I'm, I'm willing to come up and overpay
37:15to get into the spot to grab Makai Lemon.
37:17If, if he falls back, like, I think we went from being him to be like the number one receiver in this
37:25league that people being like, for some reason he stinks now.
37:28And I've been talking about how, you know, I think this is a, an opportunity of these, these are the cheapest picks
37:35have been in a long time because people are either a just, they, they've just made this whole to do about how bad this class stinks.
37:43And I don't, I don't know that it necessarily stinks.
37:47It's just not as robust as maybe we've been with some of the great things and it's okay to not, everything doesn't
37:54need to be the best ever, but I still think there's a lot of good talent in here and things are really cheap.
38:01So I would throw Makai Lemon in there as somebody who I would, as a rookie, I'd be higher on.
38:08And then Antonio Williams would certainly be somebody that, you know, as this whole process is worn on I've been, I've been pretty bullish on grabbing him now.
38:17Hopefully Iook stays the hell out of Washington, but how about you, man?
38:21Well, one question with Makai Lemon, do you think going back to God, remember how many times we were like, well, you
38:28know, the Rams would be a great place for Makai Lemon?
38:31You remember all these teams we did a million times.
38:35Do you think Makai Lemon goes to the Rams?
38:37It's neck and neck with Tate and being tied to Stafford in the McVay offense.
38:42It's changed that much where there's a little bit of a gap.
38:46It seems like it. And I just, you know, I like Phil.
38:50I like Philadelphia. I think, I think it's a good team.
38:53I think they're going to be attacking over the middle a little more.
38:58They're signaling to us. That's what they want to do.
39:01I, you know, I just, I think they know what they're doing with players, right?
39:06They know how to, they're not drafting a guy to not know what to do with him, right?
39:11This is a good organization. So again, Makai Lemon's, you know, he'll fall into the seventh round in startups now where he
39:18was going in like the third and the fourth when we were doing these kind of pre-draft sometimes, you know, third, fourth,
39:26fifth, you were getting all those guys and, you know, all the rest of those rookies that we're talking about with, you
39:33know, Concepcion and all that other stuff, they, they, or rather Tyson and Tate, they all, they all go ahead of, of
39:40Lemon by, you know, a little bit there. So I find it very interesting that he's kind of, especially in startups been definitely the odd man out.
39:48So, so we, it's established you would reach around for Makai Lemon.
39:52Now with Makai Lemon, I think it's actually where you're ahead of consensus with Makai Lemon is for the fact that fantasy
39:59sentiment market is more bearish on Jalen Hurts feeding.
40:02It's a little bit of what's happened with AJ Brown.
40:05So I think that's where you have a little more faith in that happening.
40:10For me, that rookie, it's a truncation that I noticed in my ranks and we were talking pre-show.
40:16I was like, Hey, let me move Denzel Boston from the 13 up to the 109 in the rookie ranks.
40:22And that is a little bit more to, it's funny how water finds this level more to what happened pre NFL draft
40:29where we had Denzel Boston and you can get him right now in round 10.
40:34And I'm a huge Casey Concepcion fan who usually will go in about round seven.
40:39And I'm seeing how good in the off season things have gone many camps for Denzel Boston.
40:44And then you're sitting there. Well, between price point, a three round difference versus what you're paying for Boston and Concepcion.
40:51I'm moving them up closer so that you're going to get more.
40:55So I will reach around up for Denzel Boston.
40:58I'll overpay in the trade. I'm clicking a ton in best ball.
41:01I think it's like round 14. Maybe it's gone up to round 13.
41:06I've just clicked a shitload and it's very fun to go along with Shador Sanders and or Deshaun Watson.
41:12So my guy, it's actually going to be Denzel Boston.
41:15I'm pushing him back up his six, four frame.
41:18I kind of think it's not going to be a linear path immediately.
41:22I've thought that he could have a little bit of growing pains where it takes maybe into year two, year three, because
41:29it wasn't immediate for somebody like Drake London. It was not immediate last year for Ted Arora McMillan.
41:35But again, I don't want to just make that just a trope.
41:39Right. So based on what's happening right now, you want to be malleable in real time.
41:44What we're getting about Denzel Boston, I'm going to keep banging that price because it's so much lower.
41:50So why not pay up? I think it's kind of the similar thing that I was talking about with with Lemon there
41:57of like, I keep seeing him as somebody who just keeps sliding back in the first round, sometimes early second.
42:03And I'm just going to go like, hey, I could see that the value is already depressed, but I'll overpay to get
42:10back into that spot to grab Denzel Boston because there's no reason that he should be falling down.
42:16But for whatever reason, he is kind of like I see sometimes with Lemon.
42:20So I'm right there with you on the Boston.
42:23So let's wrap up with like a middle to lower tier veteran that you like, that you're kind of willing to overpay for.
42:31Jeremiah. Hey, ready for this shit. Jalen Waddell in our master ranks.
42:35It's 83. All right, Casey, you have him 80.
42:37Shev has him 89. I have him. Jalen Waddell 53.
42:4153. That is just one of the biggest differences, biggest changes.
42:44Jalen Waddell. Absolutely. I see him moving way up next year.
42:48He is going to be more expensive this time next year in startup drafts.
42:52So that's where the principle you reach another round or two for Waddell.
42:56And look, real NFL, the Denver Broncos paid. You know, this isn't like, hey, I'm going to send my 27 one and 27 third.
43:04Broncos took their actual real life first and third round pick.
43:08I know there was a fourth round pick swap and said, hey, we're going all in on Jalen Waddell.
43:14They absolutely believe in him. They're talking about how fast he is at real game speed, a speedster, something that they need.
43:21And this may be something where it's funny enough.
43:24There's two league mates who's going to overpay and make sure they splash and get all these players that we're talking about.
43:31Right, Casey? But the Bills are the ones who like held off.
43:35And then right now the Broncos are appearing like that team who's a little bit more aggressive in your league.
43:41And they're playing to win. And they're getting Jalen Waddell.
43:44And then sure enough, they meet in the playoffs last year.
43:48Doesn't work out for the Bills. Broncos move on.
43:51Well, the Broncos get stronger with their Jalen Waddell.
43:54And of course, the Bills are going to make their bet with DJ Moore.
43:58But all that goes back to seeing it. Unless you see a bearish season, bad season for Jalen Waddell.
44:04If it's going to be bullish, it's only going to go up for Jalen Waddell from here.
44:10Because what we have not had, shy of his rookie season, was just being that feature guy.
44:15Because Tyreek Hill has been the Tyreek Hill show.
44:18So, yeah, Jalen Waddell for me versus the consensus ranks, the master dashboard, what other people are clicking, what you and Shev have ranked.
44:26I'm way ahead. Yeah. I think the only thing I'd push back on is what he'll be like at 28.
44:32I think people will be more willing to trade for him next year.
44:36I don't know how much the value of it will go up.
44:40But the willingness and the market of him being around, at least staying the same next year, would be a huge win for his value.
44:48Actually, I think it will go up a little because I do think he's going to perform it.
44:54And there's a good thing that Shev is not on the show because he would never allow this.
45:00Jalen Waddell. Correct. There would be... Bro, Jalen Waddell.
45:02Yeah, there would be beeping and glitching. And the screen might be like 700.
45:07Remember back in the day when TV would just go away?
45:11It would just be like a rainbow screen and be like...
45:14We're done for the night. Yeah, yeah. We'll see you at about 6 a.m.
45:19when we pick back up. But right now, Jalen Waddell will go in round 7 in these super flex formats.
45:25Yeah. Why wouldn't he go... Look, this is just players who will just ascend in value.
45:30Why can't he go round 5 next year? Jump two rounds.
45:34Yeah. It isn't out of the realm. No, no.
45:37Not at all. I'll give Shev a shout out here.
45:40I know he's been a big QJ guy. I know he's got some knowledge he wants to drop on QJ.
45:46So I'll put words in his mouth and say that would be his veteran that he would take above consensus right now coming at the 11th round.
45:55You know, we've recently done shows. I've talked about Jaden Higgins and Isaiah Likely.
45:59They've been guys that I've been reaching above consensus in drafts that I really, really like.
46:04But, you know, I'm going to stick with another tight end here.
46:08And I'm going to go Gunner Helm that you were talking earlier of somebody who I want to be a little early on and don't mind buying.
46:17Now, the price tag is completely different, right? These overpays, they work in tiers, right?
46:22If you're buying Caleb Williams, the overpay has got to be a bigger overpay.
46:26The overpay for Gunner Helm is not that much, right?
46:29You might have to two-thirds instead of one or something.
46:33Or a three and a fourth or a third and another three-fourth swap or something, right?
46:38So, right now, he's at 13-12 and RADP, 14-01-ish.
46:41But, like, we're in the middle. I've just done two mocks here.
46:45And, like, he's been available 15th, 16th round, right?
46:47In both of those. So, he's somebody who's very cheap.
46:51And, really, this comes down to I liked the player coming out.
46:55I thought he was a little disrespected. Had a bad 40 or whatever.
46:59But I just think there's a lot of opportunity in Tennessee right now.
47:03For him. And it's just that I feel like it's a really good gamble to take.
47:08The player, I think, is solid. And the opportunity, I think, could be really fun and really good.
47:14If Cam Newton and this offense just take a little bit of a step forward, there's really nobody in his way.
47:20This is Bellinger. But, you know, we've seen Dayball have some success with the tight end a little bit here and there.
47:28I thought Theo Johnson was going to be somebody who would emerge after this year, but likely has now taken his place.
47:35And I'm all in on him. So, I'm going Gunnar Helm.
47:38Somebody like a later round target there to just kind of stamp and just overpay.
47:43Grab him now. He's super cheap. Hard to grab him when you got him in a lot of places.
47:49But... Oh, sick brag. Sick brag. Wipe me down.
47:52Hey, one last thing on that. If you had Titans players, I know namely Calvin Ridley was vocal about it.
47:58Talking about coaches not knowing rules and procedures. Doesn't it stand for games?
48:03Doesn't it stand to reason that maybe some of their training practices and actual practices, film study, any kind of tutelage could be a little bit off?
48:11So, then you're affording that to all these players who were just not in the best position.
48:17And who took the brunt of it? It's Cam Ward.
48:20But downflow of that, if there's just a better work environment, a better pipeline to success.
48:25Right. Seems like they're there. That's kind of reason.
48:28Yeah. It's right there for coming out. Yeah. And on the way out, I just was scrolling down.
48:34Like, I got to throw Mac Jones in there because he came in.
48:38He was so damn hot. And now it seems like, dude, you can catch him in the 14s at 1409 right now.
48:45Like, you might have to wait a year. Brock could get hurt.
48:49And we know that it was solid last year.
48:52But, like, he's going to go somewhere else and get a spike in value.
48:56Like, right now, it seems like it's so odd that, like, the bottom has just fallen out of Mac Jones again a little bit.
49:04Obviously, it was way down there before. But, like, still the value on him right now in startups, I think you could get him thrown in deals.
49:12Unless somebody has Brock, then it's probably a little harder.
49:16But, like, man, oh, man, is he somebody who you should go out and just overpay a little bit right now?
49:22Because what you're going to get back when he signs a deal somewhere next year, it's not even going to be close.
49:30All right. Put yourselves in the position of an AFC team.
49:33We almost don't want to speak it into existence because you don't want players to get hurt.
49:38But we know this is a game where they do.
49:42AFC team, contender, preseason. It looks brutal for a quarterback.
49:45They get hurt. Maybe they'll be back week 10 if they push it aggressively.
49:49But maybe it's more towards December. You don't want to lose the season.
49:54All of a sudden, picking up the phone in that conversation, which the 49ers with their electrical substation have kept leverage.
50:00That's one thing that they've had is, hey, we've got great leverage.
50:04And Mac Jones even just said something about, hey, my feet are here.
50:08You know, I'm grounded in with the 49ers. But there would be a team picking up, hey, oh, you were trying to squeeze us for that second?
50:17Or maybe it's a second and a third. Some kind of extra, right?
50:21But this whole show, the premise, too. But real life NFL, there could be an overpay out there to get Mac Jones.
50:28And then, of course, to what you just said, to our practice in the show, Mac Jones could increase in value.
50:35Will increase. Overpay. Take it to the bank. Overpay.
50:38All right. We're out of here. We'll see you next week.
50:41Shev will be back. Peace.