Content Kings - A Jalen Coker Non-Believer
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1 hr 52 min
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Jun 7, 2026
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Sun, June 7, 2026
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Caleb WilliamsJeremiyah LoveBaker MayfieldBrandon AiyukBreece HallBrock BowersBucky IrvingCam WardCarnell TateCeeDee LambChris OlaveChristian McCaffreyChristian WatsonDenzel Mims
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Player insights
Baker Mayfield
PositiveValue0:24
Baker Mayfield was drafted in the 500s range in a dynasty startup, after Cam Ward was selected at 509.
Insight pageBrandon Aiyuk
NegativeRole0:11
Brandon Ayuk is back to where he started his career, suggesting a regression or return to a less favorable situation.
Insight pageBreece Hall
PositiveValue0:24
Breece Hall was drafted in the 500s range in a dynasty startup, shortly after Cam Ward at 509.
Insight pageBrock Bowers
PositiveProjection0:08
In a six-point passing touchdown, half-point per first down scoring format, Bowers faces a steep curve to move up in rankings due to the scoring system favoring quarterbacks and running backs over tight ends.
Insight pageBucky Irving
PositiveValue0:24
Bucky Irving was drafted in the 500s range in a dynasty startup, shortly after Cam Ward at 509.
Insight pageCaleb Williams
PositiveProjection0:17
Caleb Williams could have the most passing yards this year and is not far down the odds for that prop, with potential to be QB1 as he continues to improve under Ben Johnson.
Insight pagePositiveProjection0:22
There is absolutely a path for Caleb Williams to be QB1 this year; at 109 overall with six points per passing touchdown scoring, he's worth the risk over Herbert despite being a gunslinger.
Insight pageCam Ward
PositiveValue0:22
Cam Ward fell to 509 overall, allowing the drafter to stack him with Carnell Tate and Chris Olave in a promising young core.
Insight pageCarnell Tate
PositiveValue0:22
Carnell Tate was drafted at 309 overall and stacked with Cam Ward at 509, creating a promising young QB-WR stack.
Insight pageCeeDee Lamb
PositiveValue0:23
CeeDee Lamb is not frequently drafted early in dynasty startups because young pre-age apex players offer similar production with more upside.
Insight pageChris Olave
PositiveValue0:22
Chris Olave was drafted at 404 overall, chosen over Cam Ward at that pick to complete a three-player stack with Ward and Tate.
Insight pageChristian McCaffrey
NegativeInjury0:36
Christian McCaffrey has accumulated significant lower body injuries and scar tissue in his legs, making him more injury-prone than Cam Scadaboo despite being a premium asset.
Insight pageChristian Watson
PositiveRole0:01
Christian Watson signed an extension, representing significant news with fantasy impact.
Insight pageDenzel Mims
PositiveBreakout0:12
Denzel Mims looked like the best receiver at the Senior Bowl, generating significant buzz on social media and in person, despite not being pre-ranked highly.
Insight pageDevin Duvernay
PositiveBreakout0:13
Devin Duvernay performed well at the Senior Bowl, exceeding pre-event expectations.
Insight pageDrake London
PositiveDepth Chart0:15
Drake London is ranked behind CD Lamb, though there is some discussion about whether this ranking differential is appropriate.
Insight pageJ.K. Dobbins
NegativeInjury0:37
JK Dobbins has a 51% injury probability according to the Injury Finder app due to multiple stacked lower body injuries that increase his likelihood of future injury.
Insight pageJeremiyah Love
PositiveBreakout0:16
Jeremiah Love, not yet 21 years old, was the best player in the entire 2024 draft and is a strong dynasty pick due to his youth, talent, and team's rebuilding trajectory with a good offensive mind.
Insight pagePositiveValue0:22
Jeremiah Love was drafted at 204 overall in a dynasty startup, representing good value as a young ascending running back with elite production potential.
Insight pageJoe Burrow
Justin Herbert
PositiveProjection0:16
Justin Herbert at the back of the first round in a six-point passing touchdown league is a smash pick, with the author ranking him ahead of Joe Burrow.
Insight pageKyle Pitts
PositiveSleeper0:32
Kyle Pitts is lingering on the board in Titan Super Premium leagues and should be drafted if you have a super flex or flex position, as he can produce Kyle Pitts-level numbers.
Insight pageLamar Jackson
PositiveValue0:23
Lamar Jackson is not frequently drafted early in dynasty startups because young pre-age apex quarterbacks offer similar production with more upside.
Insight pageMarvin Harrison Jr.
PositiveValue0:25
Marvin Harrison Jr. was drafted at 603 overall, completing a 'Marvin Gardens' stack with Brissette and Trey McBride in a dynasty startup.
Insight pageMichael Pittman
PositiveRole0:13
Michael Pittman made a commanding physical impression at the Senior Bowl, carrying himself like a superstar with elite athleticism at 6'4".
Insight pageMichael Wilson
PositiveRole0:01
Michael Wilson is being compared to Puka Nakua, suggesting elevated expectations for his role and production.
Insight pageRashawn Slater
PositiveRole0:17
Rashawn Slater, the second-rated tackle per PFF two years ago, looks like a guard next to Joe Walt, indicating elite pass protection that should benefit the Chargers offense.
Insight pageSaquon Barkley
NegativeValue0:28
Saquon Barkley, whose next birthday will be 30, is not preferred over Cam Scadaboo in a dynasty startup because he's post-age apex with significant wear and tear.
Insight pageTrevor Lawrence
PositiveProjection0:17
Trevor Lawrence was available late in the dynasty startup draft, suggesting he was not a priority pick in early rounds.
Insight pageZay Flowers
NegativeValue0:24
Zay Flowers was drafted at 602 overall, which the drafter noted 'hurt' given they already had two wide receivers in a format that discounts the position.
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0:57This is Content Kings. I'm here with Alex Dunlap from Roster Watch.
1:00And we talk about the news. What's happening with the NFL fantasy impact of those news items.
1:06There's been a lot. I mean, gotta be a record for first week of June.
1:10And impactful news from Christian Watson signing an extension.
1:13Roma Dunes, his foot's never gonna be the same.
1:16Michael Wilson is Puka Nakua. We have a lot to talk about today.
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1:27We'll talk about some new tools at Roster Watch.
1:30There's a lot coming at you on Content Kings.
1:33And we start where we always start recently with podcasts on the Player Profiler Network hosted by the Podfather.
1:39My fantasy teams. Yeah. I mean, you play in enough these days, man.
1:42How many of these dynasty orphans did you end up taking over by now?
1:47I took over 20 orphans in 20 days. It sounds like it sounds like you've had to have made a YouTube.
1:53Gosh, if you didn't make a YouTube video with that on the thumbnail, I took over 20 dynasty orphans in 20 days
2:00with you going like on the thumbnail. That sounds like something that would that sounds like something that would perform.
2:06It would perform very well. If I was able to do that video, I have not yet completed all of the rookie drafts.
2:13Some of them are still pending. So my plan was to make a whole series on this one unified video and then some individual clips.
2:20I should probably start this weekend. Like it's been it's been in the plans, but I just need to just, you know,
2:27kind of put my content hat on. I am a content king based on the name of the show and start the process.
2:34Yeah. 20 orphans in 20 days. But in me just soliciting, hey, I want to be in your dynasty league.
2:40A bunch of other people have come and said, hey, we have a startup.
2:44Would you like to be in our startup? And I'm really a sucker for a startup.
2:49It also helps our dynasty rankings because there's some sort of consumer demand elements of the dynasty rankings on player profile or
2:56the dynasty deluxe package where we can't put a player at a place where the demand for that player is just completely
3:02incongruent with where we have them ranked. We can't put people that use our our ranking service and our trade analyzer in
3:09a difficult position where they don't know, you know, whether they should make a deal or not, because, yes, technically it says
3:16they're winning it, but they believe they can get that player later.
3:19Right. So we don't want to be too out over our skis on any given player.
3:24And we don't want to be so far off the market with some players just in terms of whether demand is in
3:31startups that it just it becomes sort of an exercise in futility for people that are subscribing to execute trades.
3:37Right. So for that reason, we need to have our finger on the pulse of the dynasty community and the demand for players.
3:44KTC keep trade cut. They're a partner of ours at player profiler.
3:47And so when you go to a player page, you can click a link to see the KTC profile and where they
3:54have that player ranked, where the where the crowd, right, the crowd source ranking where that is set.
3:59And so we had that on player profiler and we certainly helped to leverage that.
4:04But me being in these startups helps. It has certainly helped us tweak the elements of the sort of the profile bonus
4:11that we give to players where we said they're going to outperform the projection for whatever reason or a risk quotient that
4:17we put on players where it's just sometimes you see a player going very late.
4:22And you're like, well, why is that? Oh, there's there's a risk factor that we didn't we didn't account for.
4:28We're going to make sure we bake that into our rankings.
4:31So that's been great. It's been helpful for everybody.
4:34It's been fun to talk about. And now I'm in six startups.
4:37I'm not done. Everyone email me podfather at roto wonderworld.com.
4:40And certainly I can join maybe one or two more startups.
4:44There's so much fun. I take over these orphans and we're having a great time with it, man.
4:49I just I mean, I can't I can't not to like it needs any agreement because it's just a simple fact, but
4:56like it's something I feel like it gets lost on people.
4:59Sometimes I feel like I even have to like I, you know, even Cody and trash me and get tilted at me sometimes.
5:06And I was like, what are we doing with this dynasty ranking?
5:10Like we're done talking about somebody and, you know, they haven't ranked, you know, 12 spots or something ahead of consensus between
5:16their consensus or something like that towards the top of the board.
5:20And I'm like, well, what is what does keep trade cuts say?
5:24And they're like, well, well, they haven't been at 18.
5:27I'm like, well, what is so what are they haven't been at like 31?
5:31I'm like, so what? Why do we haven't been at 18?
5:34Like, well, like, what are we talking about? And they're like, well, well, these are our rankings.
5:39I want people to I want people to know how I have somebody ranked.
5:44I'm like, what? What is what good does that do to our users to let them know how you have what you
5:50need to give them is a list of names that they're going to take at certain spots.
5:55That's it's like the whole reason for the like I was telling Cody on one of our shows and it made the
6:02show almost like I couldn't even use it on podcast because it just sounded like me yelling at them about process.
6:08Oh, no, no, that's great content. You're a content king.
6:11Use that. That's I want to listen to that podcast.
6:14Yeah, but I was just like I was like Cody because Cody's in charge of like like a roster watch.
6:21The number one thing that drives our sales, the number one thing that we sell is the ultimate draft cheat sheet that people use in their redrafts.
6:29It's like we do have diehard dynasty people. We have people that love to come to get the DFS cheat sheets and
6:35the player prop tool and all the other tools.
6:38But do there's there's so many people mad and you and you know this too well.
6:43It's like I'm sure with you guys, the number one thing is just y'all's draft kit for helping the helping the everyday
6:50guy in his fantasy football draft home. It's like that's the number one seller.
6:54It's the thing that does gets it gets everything done, right?
6:57It's like we put major, major, major focus on that and we're coming into the time of year where we do it.
7:04And I'm just like, do you get why is it any different at Dynasty?
7:08Like Cody, he does every single day but runs between 100 and 150 manual simulations of redraft leagues that pull in through
7:15our tools through every single side ADP, all the rest of this stuff.
7:19It's just like so you could just say like like you do, Matt, you say like, why is this guy going here at 48?
7:26Is there something baked in that I wasn't thinking about or like you bounce ideas and like, oh, no, he's going 48
7:32because like you've got his, you know, he's having to get his knee drained before every practice or so.
7:38You know, and like so you put two and two together and you get the ideas, these pockets, and then you understand
7:45where the leverage can be created versus ADP. Right.
7:48Right. It's so much of this stuff when I look at doing the rankings and that's why it's like in our dynasty top 250 now.
7:55It's like you got trash man's input, you got Cody's input, and then you have keep trade cut.
8:01And that gets a one that gets the one third of the pie just to make sure that we're not, you know,
8:07we can't get too far off consensus because there comes times when it's like, well, why do you take Travion Henderson there
8:14when you can take him around later? That's right.
8:17No, it's a fact. And I also sometimes just need an individual's opinion on a player.
8:21Sometimes that's what I want when I'm deciding between two players or actually in the second round of a recent dynasty startup.
8:28I'll put it up on the screen. I was in the second round.
8:32I started with Caleb Williams. And in the second round, I did not know what to do.
8:37And so I called you. I had to phone a friend.
8:40I was in the car with my daughter. I said, call Alex Dunlap.
8:44Let's get him on the phone. What to do.
8:47Bowers is here. Bowers feels right. But I really want Herbert.
8:50Herbert's here. And it's six point per passing touchdown.
8:53But it's also a half point per first down.
8:56So quarterbacks certainly get a big boost from that.
8:59But also running backs. They get more of a boost than the tight ends.
9:03And the receivers, it's not tight end premium at all.
9:06So it's like, well, geez, man. It's a pretty steep curve for Bowers to move up.
9:11And so we kind of put Bowers off to the side, even though technically, based on your consensus rankings, you had Bowers at the top listing those players.
9:19But the scoring just tilted against Bowers enough where he just couldn't quite meet the threshold to be picked there.
9:25Then it became Jordan Love versus Justin Herbert. Jeremiah Love.
9:28Jeremiah Love versus Herbert. I'm kidding. Jeremiah Love. I'm not going to spoil it.
9:32There's a reason why I had that minor misstep.
9:35A Freudian slip. It was a Freudian slip. Yes, a Freudian slip.
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11:02So I just wanted to, hey, Jeremiah Love, go.
11:05Like, what is your instant reaction, Jeremiah Love? You know, Word Association, go.
11:09Justin Herbert, Word Association, go. I mean, I met Justin Herbert at the Senior Bowl.
11:13It was my first Senior Bowl. And you guys showed me around, explained how it all worked.
11:18It was great. It was one of my favorite experiences in this business.
11:22Doing this was that first Senior Bowl. Hertz was there.
11:25Herbert was there. Michael Pittman. There were so many fun, great players there.
11:29There was Brandon Ayuk off to the side in a hoodie sweatshirt sulking around, you know, and he's right back to where
11:36he started with his career right now, which is interesting.
11:39I actually, Matt, I actually had to use, like, because so much of the stuff that we, like, this is kind of
11:46off the subject, but it is a content show.
11:48It's like one of the reasons that we go to those things is so we can save some money on not having
11:55to pay for the wire services for all our photos.
11:58So we go around and we creep around. We try and get photos of all these guys that we just put our
12:05own watermarks on and just use them. That's why so many of our photos are from the combine and Senior Bowl and stuff.
12:12And just today, man, I was having to decide whether or not on Cody and Trashman's pod they did yesterday, putting up
12:18the post for it, like, to put a picture up.
12:21And I was looking through there, and there was, there was the Brandon Ayuk, and he was sitting very, very sulky because
12:28Ayuk was one of the main guys who they talked about on the show.
12:32But it's so funny that you bring that up on the sidelines, sulking in a sweatshirt.
12:37I was literally looking at that photo just like hours ago.
12:40It was, it made a bit impression. A couple of things made a big impression of it.
12:46I would say three things made an impression on me.
12:49I'm not going to talk about Denzel Mims, who looked like the best receiver at that Senior Bowl, which is just crazy still to this day.
12:56It's just wild. He was so good at the Senior Bowl.
13:00It's hard to even explain to people. It wasn't just like, it wasn't like a hive mind that we had.
13:06He was the buzz of the town. Oh, yeah.
13:09Yeah. On social media, everywhere. It was, it was a Denzel, it was the Denzel Mims show.
13:14Devin Duvernay did well too. Like, it wasn't like we came in with elevated, an elevated idea of him.
13:19Like we did with like, like an Ayuk or a Pittman.
13:23No, no. We, we didn't even like the guy.
13:25No. But he was just that good. We're just like, oh, well, deny this.
13:30Trashman liked. Maybe Trashman. Trashman, the trashman did like him, which made me like him worse or less.
13:35So, yeah. So a couple of things stood out at that, at that particular Senior Bowl.
13:40Number one, Michael Pittman was an Adonis. Michael Pittman made me nervous just being around him because he made me sort of
13:47feel bad about myself and maybe question my self-esteem because a man could look and act and glide around like him.
13:53And I was like, oh, this is what it's like to be near a superstar celebrity.
13:58Right. Like, but he, it wasn't like he was surrounded by reporters or anything.
14:02It's just like the way he carried himself and the way he looked.
14:06He's 6'4". Yeah. So completely jacked at the time.
14:09And I was like, oh, okay. Okay. So men can look.
14:12Okay. This is okay. All right. Yes. I'm going to go ahead.
14:16I'm, I didn't even go up to him. Like I went up to all, you know, I'm fearless.
14:21Hey, can you do the station IDs? Like, hey, hey, you're listening to the pod father.
14:26You're listening to player profile. No, I did not.
14:29I did not dare talk to Michael Pittman, but also another commanding presence that I did muster the courage to approach was Justin Herbert.
14:36Sure. Man, that guy, the ball coming out of his hand was just different than hurts, different than Jordan love.
14:42It was, it was, it was, there was something with the physics of it, the Newtonian physics of the football, leaving his hand.
14:49There's just something about that. And then also just standing next to him and talking to him for a minute.
14:55I, I really enjoyed it. It was, it was a great experience.
14:59And I'll never forget it. And he's just was so young at the time to thinking back at how young he looked.
15:05I was just like, man, this guy's going to be making millions of dollars, leading these billion dollar franchise.
15:11Look at this guy. Like, he looks like he just graduated from high school.
15:15And so that was, no. And then of course the brand that Iuke on the sideline sitting by himself, just in a hoodie, looking at the ground.
15:23And, and, and then, and then this is exactly where Cody's coming from when he, you know, tags some players as dogs and some players as kitty cats.
15:32And I was like, Oh, that's a kitty cat.
15:34Yeah. Yeah. For sure, man. Yeah. But so you were having, you were having to decide between Herbert and Bowers and Jeremiah
15:41love, because at that point you were just thinking you, your next wide receiver up would have been CD lamb.
15:47Be interested to see where we, yeah. So we, we have CD lamb ahead of Drake London too.
15:53I find that, I find that there could be maybe a little bit of a conversation there with those two guys.
15:59Absolutely. Absolutely. I think it's a conversation. We have lamb ahead.
16:02Ultimately you said word association, Jeremiah love, get him.
16:05You should get him. You said, I want him.
16:08I want him. I want him. Get him. I want him.
16:11Get him. I want him. That was your word association.
16:14What, what, what really got me is I don't think he's even 21 yet.
16:18And he's just so in like, he's not even 21.
16:21And he was the best player in the whole entire draft this last year.
16:26That's a team that's going to be rebuilding with a, with, with a really good offensive mind.
16:31Um, they're going to have their quarterback situation settled relative relatively shortly.
16:34And it looks like you're actually on the clock back again here.
16:38So, yeah, so I'll, I'll, I'll let everybody know.
16:41I drafted Herbert again, it's six points per passing touchdown.
16:44So getting Herbert, the back of the first round is a smash.
16:47Go ahead and do it. We have Herbert ranked ahead of burrow.
16:51Just spoiler alert right there, dude. I mean, look at what he was doing last year before those two, before the two offensive tackles got hurt.
16:59Well, all played for half the season. Slater played zero games.
17:02Now they're finally going to play games together this year.
17:05And when you look at pictures, the second rated tackle per PFF two years ago was Rashawn Slater.
17:11And he looks like a guard next to Joe Walt.
17:14So I'm very, very excited. I mean, there's a reason why all these chargers are getting steamed up across all fantasy formats right now.
17:21It's legitimate. Yeah. It's like he's, I like it, but I also think that, um, I was just like, I was just,
17:28I was looking at the other guys that would be available.
17:31And I'm like, aren't you going to be able to man, like whenever this thing comes back around to be able to
17:37get like a Jackson dart or Trevor Lawrence or something like that, it looks like you wouldn't have been able to.
17:44No, I mean, I really was between Herbert and Caleb Williams.
17:47And I almost pushed the button on Herbert. And at the last minute I realized Caleb Williams was there.
17:53And that was my thing with, with Brock Bowers is I was like, dude, Caleb Williams, like people don't want to realize
18:00it because he paints his fingernails and he's like all this, but he could like, he could be, I don't want to
18:06say he could be QB one or something, but I think that he might like have the most passing yards this year.
18:13I don't think that I'm sure that there's a prop out there for most passing yards.
18:18He's not, he's not going to be too far down the list of the odds.
18:22And then I also think it's like, so if you get that guy who's just, just coming into his own, right.
18:29Just coming into his own. You could have years of that.
18:32If the Ben Johnson thing is, is, is real.
18:35And if Caleb's improvement does continue the way that people would have hoped, right.
18:39The way that you certainly hope for, for, for this league.
18:42The one thing I was thinking is if you get those two onesie positions, you get Caleb and you get Brock Bowers, right.
18:49As he's starting to ascend. It's like, you got like, you got two just, you know, queen pieces on the chessboard there at the onesie spots.
18:57But then I thought to myself, well, but I mean, I just thought to myself, but I'm trying to build a dynasty
19:04roster here where it's like, Jeremiah Love is such a sick man.
19:07He's so young. You know, even if you want to build around this kind of like in a hero kind of way,
19:14like you got your, your hero right off the bat and things are going to open up here with some of the
19:21wide receivers that we saw beginning to fall. So that's what I mean.
19:24And it's just like, you're just like, what would you do?
19:28And I'm like, dude, if I'm in your spot, I'm taking Jeremiah Love.
19:32It was just as simple as that. I mean, it's just like that that's who I wanted out of, out of those guys in that spot.
19:40Cody took Caleb Williams at the 102 in another league that we're in.
19:44And that was in my head. And I called him and I was actually hiking up the first time ever.
19:50I found myself, it was illegally, I was hiking.
19:52I illegally found myself on the top of a landfill.
19:55Has this ever happened to you? I don't, I don't, I have, I have beautiful hiking trails here, man.
20:01I don't hike on landfills. I got a, I got a whole hiking trail network that runs by this ridge right by the lake by my house.
20:09Well, once upon a time, uh, the, the brilliant people of the town of Fairfield decided to create a landfill on the oceanfront property.
20:16What? Of the town. Yes. There is a landfill on oceanfront property in the town of Fairfield.
20:22It makes no sense. It's like an Autobahn type hiking trail, but I might have like walked over a down fence and
20:28found myself on top of a landfill. When you say Autobahn, what does that mean?
20:33Is that bird related? Yes. It's protected. And they, they set up all of these bird houses.
20:38Hantavirus. What? Hantavirus. What's the hantavirus? The one that they got on that cruise ship.
20:42Cause they had to go to a landfill to see all the awesome birds.
20:47Is that what? Oh my God. Yeah. Okay. I got to get myself checked out for a hantavirus.
20:52Apparently that's a scary parallel. My goodness. But yes, they set up these platforms and these bird houses and it's protected.
20:58And people go, you know, walk. It's great. Is it still an active landfill?
21:03Or like it had been a landfill, but now it's just the bird place.
21:07Right. It's no longer a landfill. Oh, okay. Okay.
21:10Right. It's no longer a landfill, but you know, many, many, many years ago.
21:14What's interesting about these landfills is there's these little smokestacks.
21:17You seen this? Landfills have vents because there is all of this decomposing material.
21:21Yeah. Decomposing material and chemical reactions that are happening.
21:24People, especially decades ago, they're throwing away batteries. They're throwing away.
21:27So there's chemical reactions happening and it creates heat.
21:30And so there's an exhaust. Every landfill has these exhaust pipes.
21:33It's just not a good idea. Some landfills that are more active, they're actually warm.
21:38Huh? They don't keep snow on them. The snow melts off the top because they're warm because of all the chemical reactions that are happening below the surface.
21:46Anyway, I got myself out of there. So right as I'm coming up against another fence and I find my way out
21:53of there, I thought I was going to be trapped.
21:56I get out of there and I'm on the phone with Cody.
22:00He's breaking up. But he's saying some of the same thing.
22:03As soon as he comes back into service, it's like Caleb Williams could be completely epic.
22:08There is absolutely a path for him to be the QB one this year.
22:12If you're talking about six points per passing touchdown to get Caleb Williams at the 109, even though he's riskier, even though
22:19he's more of a gunslinger, I'm going in that direction.
22:22Even over Herbert. Right? So I didn't go Herbert in this.
22:25I have Herbert and a bunch of other startups.
22:28So I ended up 109, Caleb Williams, 204, Jeremiah Love, then Carnell Tate at the 309.
22:32That was fun. That's always fun. And then Chris Olave at the 404.
22:36And I risked it. It came back around. I was thinking about Cam Ward actually at the 404, but I was like, you know what?
22:44Purdy's still out there. Jordan Love's still out there.
22:47We'll roll the dice. Sure enough, Cam Ward comes back to me at the 509.
22:51So I get to stack Carnell Tate, Cam Ward.
22:54It's my first Ward Tate stack. It feels, oh God, so good.
22:58It's an interesting stack. It doesn't feel like Boardwalk and Park Place, but you know what I mean?
23:03It's like, you know, it's not like, it's one of those ones that's maybe like a Marvin Gardens type of thing, right?
23:10It's definitely Marvin Gardens. It feels like Marvin Gardens.
23:12Well, no, I mean the ultimate, I think if you went, you know, Brissette, Marvin Harrison, Trey McBride, that might be the Marvin Gardens one.
23:20That's like Continental Avenue. That's much worse, actually. That's much worse.
23:23No, this feels very good. And I might have to add, if I could add another Titan, somehow add another Titan, then
23:30I could have the three players, right? Yeah. Maybe later I could even, I could go with Gunnar Helm.
23:36Gunnar Helm. Yeah. Yeah, who knows? Who knows what we'll do?
23:39So now I have the Ward Tate stack with Olave.
23:42And what's fun about the early rounds of a Dynasty startup, and it's why I really don't draft a lot of CeeDee Lamb.
23:49I don't even find myself drafting a lot of, let's say, Lamar Jackson.
23:53It's because at this point, you can have it all.
23:56There's no compromise. Like, you can draft Ashton Gentey.
23:59You can draft Jeremiah Love. You can draft Jackson Smith and Jigba.
24:02You can draft guys that are multiple years pre-age Apex and still get elite production this year.
24:07You can absolutely eat your cake with one hand and then have it in the other hand.
24:12It's what you can do. You can do it.
24:15And so I always find myself doing this, leaning a little bit more youth pre-age Apex early in startups because why not?
24:22And then whenever I see players that are post-age Apex get drafted ahead of me, I'm like, dude, you didn't need to do that.
24:29If there was a young ascending player that's going to produce big numbers this year, you could have just had that guy.
24:36So now we're at the 604. I drafted Cam Ward at the 509.
24:40It then went Baker Mayfield, Brees Hall, Bucky Irving, wrapped back around, 601, Rashi Rice, 602, Zay Flowers.
24:45That hurt. But again, I already have two wide receivers in a format that discounts the wide receiver position because of the
24:52way there's a bonus for first downs. But there's also the six points per passing touchdown.
24:57So the premium has been assigned to running backs and quarterbacks in this league scoring.
25:01Finally, at the 603, Marvin Harrison Jr. Goes off the board, Marvin Gardens.
25:05So now we're at the 604 and there is a glaring weakness in this team.
25:10And that is I don't have an RB2. I have two quarterbacks, two wide receivers.
25:14But in a format that rewards first downs, I do not have my second running back.
25:19This is not a hero running back type build.
25:22I'm incentivized to go running back here. Hall and Irving just went off the board.
25:26And I believe there is a clear next play here.
25:29The next move. Very rarely has a pick screamed at me more loudly than this pick at this particular point, this particular player.
25:36I have teed up in the queue, as you can see up on the screen, one Cam Scadaboo.
25:42Your thoughts? I mean, I like I'm just so Cam Scadaboo just turned 24.
25:46So it's not like and he like he's going to be fine, right?
25:50Did you see him? Did you see like for as bad as Malik Neighbors looked at that?
25:55Have you seen him and Malik Neighbors at the softball game?
25:58No. Her celebrity softball. Jackson Dart was there. Malik Neighbors got a hit.
26:02And dude, he was like Cody. Cody told me this before our Sirius XM show last week.
26:07It was I guess it happened on Sunday morning and I hadn't seen it yet.
26:12And so I went and watched it just during the show, during commercial break.
26:16And Neighbors got a hit and running to first base.
26:19He looks bad. You know what I mean? Scadaboo, on the other hand, gets like I think he hit a home run
26:26and did it like a standing backflip. And then like sprinted over there.
26:30You know what I mean? Like he's not scared at all.
26:33And look, Scad's never scared about stuff. He bangs his head and everything.
26:37Does a backflip coming off of him. Like I'm just like, dude, why did I'm like with your scat?
26:43Why did you just do that? Like that's a big risk to do something like that, especially in public.
26:48What if he'd have landed wrong? He just he doesn't care.
26:52He's like he's that confident in it. They've done nothing to address the running back position.
26:57Nothing. Nothing. Like there's literally been no additions through the draft or free agency, anything like that.
27:02And even if there were, it feels like there would always be a role carved out for scat.
27:07Oh, yeah. I'm looking at our, especially as long as Jackson Dart is the, it's crazy.
27:12It shouldn't even affect him that much. But Scadaboo, I have one of our new tools at Rosterwatch.
27:17You can like look up all kinds of splits.
27:20And one of the things that I was looking up was that I don't have the exact number, but it's like Scadaboo
27:27averages like 3.5 more fantasy points per game whenever Jackson Dart's in the game.
27:31I just think Dart loves to kind of dump it off to him and loves to dial things up for scat.
27:37So with that being said, it's like, what other running backs are even available?
27:42Like who else is in the pool? Just out of curiosity, I'm fine with you taking scat, but just like what other
27:48running backs are in the pool right now? Who else is in consideration?
27:52Anyone? I can tell you right now, really none.
27:55But the other running backs are Javante Williams. Okay.
27:58Josh Jacobs. Well, that's like, you can't do that right now.
28:01Right. Kyron Williams. Technically, you can make a case.
28:04I think that probably keep trade cut has him a little bit ahead, but.
28:08I much prefer Cam Scadaboo. This is where you have to deviate from consensus.
28:12This is where we add value. Yeah, no, I get it.
28:15Right. Our subscribers know that you got to go, you got to go Scadaboo there.
28:20I'm because of my build. My build really, even though it will be a competitive team this year, it's really designed for
28:272027 to take down the championship in 2027. I think this is a good team this year.
28:32It is. It is. It is. But being a realist, there's going to be a couple teams with McCaffrey that are going to really go ham this year.
28:40There's also going to be some consolidation of talent.
28:43There's going to be some trades during the season, trades I won't be willing to make, but others that are in win
28:50now mode will be willing to make. So I need to be realistic about this because the last running back to talk
28:56about that is available is Saquon Barkley. Who's about whose next birthday will be 30.
29:01Yeah. And I just can't do it. Like, this is exactly what I'm talking about.
29:05I could get a pre-age apex, barely pre-age apex Cam Scadaboo with similar role, a similar production profile, or I go Saquon Barkley, who's five years old.
29:14And the thing about, here's the other thing about Scadaboo.
29:17Where did he come from? Was it Sacramento State before Arizona State?
29:20I forget what it was. It was some little school.
29:23Right. But it's like, if you think about it and you just think about Scadaboo from back in college, and all you
29:30think about is the Arizona State stuff, you got to think, oh, this guy's got all this tread on his tires.
29:36But he's, you know what I'm saying? That's a short part of his NFL career.
29:41And the other part was at a lower level where he wasn't getting banged up as much.
29:46And then his first year in the NFL, it's like that thing got cut.
29:50It's like he doesn't have that. People think about Scadaboo when they just think about a dude that's been rode hard and put up wet.
29:58But it's not necessarily the case. You know what I mean?
30:01Like, he doesn't have the wear and tear that you would associate with the kind of grinding style that he's had, especially
30:08that he's had his first NFL full season cut short.
30:11Now, it was due to a devastating injury because of his style of play.
30:15I do understand that much. But it's not like he's a totally worn out 24.
30:19No. Yeah, he's 24.3 years old. That's what people love about player profile.
30:23We put the decimal points in there on the ages because the difference between for a running back 24.1 and 24.9, that's a huge difference.
30:31Right. And Scadaboo, very explosive. The 128.7, 89th percentile burst score on player profiler shows you how he's able to do a backflip.
30:38And I'm just going to do it right now, man.
30:41I'm ready. We've been talking about him enough. And I am frothing.
30:44It feels cool to have Jeremiah Love and Cam Scadaboo as your running backs, man.
30:49What a cool young running back core. Let's count it down.
30:52Five, four, three, two, one. Oh, we got Scadaboo!
30:55Oh, it feels so good! Oh, man. Here you go.
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31:35Is this draft been one that's been going pretty quick?
31:38Or do you got another 12 hours before you're back up the problem?
31:42No, this has been a quick draft. Again, it's not Titan Premium.
31:46Like, if it's Titan Premium or Titan Super Premium, then this draft looks very different.
31:50I'm in other ones where I've taken three Titans and my first eight picks just because it's Titan Super Premium and the
31:57league is not fully internalized what the scoring really means for these players' production per position.
32:02So with the position scarcity, there's a lot of Titans out there, but there's not a lot of Titans that are going to produce Kyle Pitts-level numbers.
32:10So Kyle Pitts is lingering out there. You already have tight ends.
32:14You just got to push the button. As long as you have a super flex or a flex position to put him in, you got to do it.
32:22So I like to take control of the board.
32:25Generally speaking, I like to be either the first to draft a third quarterback or the first to draft a second or
32:31third tight end in Titan Super Premium and then dictate the terms to the board.
32:36So on the way back around, I will be hoping to be the first to draft a third quarterback.
32:42Yeah. Well, we'll see. I disagree a little bit with that.
32:45I would rather not be the star of the runs, but it's better to be the star of the run than it
32:52is to be at the end of it. Oh, yeah.
32:55When you're at the end of it, you're a complete prisoner.
32:58I think that the best way to do it is to make sure you get it in the middle of the run,
33:05but it's not always going to work with the way that the roster that you built has been constructed.
33:10But ideally, you want to be there in the middle because if you're at the very end, it forces your hand to
33:17say, all right, we're about to be out of an asset here.
33:21Yeah. You know what I mean? I got to take this guy, even though I'm taking on major depreciation here.
33:27It's like, I'd rather have the depreciated asset than not even have the asset at all, especially when it's like a third
33:33quarterback in something like a super flex league. It's so funny.
33:37I'm in drafts where we're not even halfway through and people are already trying to get my third quarterback from me.
33:43Like they miscalculated, many miscalculated, multiple teams in a lot of these leagues during these drafts, miscalculated quarterback demand, quarterback scarcity.
33:49Now it's like round 10, round 12. And they're coming to realize, oh, wait, all that's left is...
33:55It's Quinn Ewerd. Yeah, all that's left. I could go Geno Smith or what?
33:59And then so now I'm getting these offers like, hey, can you trade me Mendoza?
34:04And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
34:09Dude, you had your chance, man. But you just had to get that next receiver.
34:14It was just too exciting. You just couldn't, you had to, no, I'm not going to let it, no.
34:19So as soon as the draft is over, all these quarterbacks go up in value.
34:24Yeah. Because it's the same thing I've preached for years that everybody, like everybody knows, like if you play Superflex Dynasty enough,
34:31you just know this, but it's like one rule that you should just always follow in Superflex Dynasty that you should always
34:37have in your head that's up there with like, you know, that's up there in your mind in the same, like in
34:44the same part of your lizard brain is, you know, I need my head to be above water.
34:49I need to be, you know, I need to take in a breath every so often.
34:54You know, like these kinds of things, right? It needs to be like, I can't be in quarterback limbo.
35:00I just, I can't be in quarterback limbo. It's the, it's, it's, you're, you were going to lose, you know?
35:06So it just needs to be in your, in your lizard brain to say like, in all possible ways, it's like, you
35:13know, touch, touch hot stove, take hand away. Right.
35:15It's like, I can't be in quarterback limbo. And so you do what you can to make sure that you just, you just aren't ever in that spot.
35:24Here's another psychological fact is that based on your other rosters, your other leagues you're in can affect decisions you make in league after league after league.
35:32So I've taken over 20 orphans in 20 days.
35:35I can't believe you've not made a video of like, it just says just that it would do like a million views.
35:41It it it'll, it'll, it'll do well. I'm doing, I'm going to do it.
35:45Especially if it like you've had a good thumbnail of you looking real stressed out, like, you know, like, have you seen this thumbnail?
35:53No, I haven't seen ours for us. Have you seen our thumbnail?
35:56Because we haven't even, we haven't talked about it yet, but we're, we're, we're going to talk about it soon though.
36:03The thumbnail for this show, we're going to put this on.
36:06Look at the, well, that's, here it is. Desert Rams or no, is that dessert?
36:11No, no, no. So you won't, you want two desserts, but you just want one desert.
36:15That's right. This is desert Rams because of the, the, the, there's news that came out from Arizona suggesting that Devante Adams is actually Marvin Harrison Jr.
36:24And Pukan Akua is actually Michael Wilson. And so, yes, we'll, we'll have a good thumbnail.
36:28I can promise you that a camp scadaboo. I will note he is more injury prone now that he's had these lower
36:35body injuries, but guess who else has had lower body injuries and is even more likely to be injured.
36:41Christian McCaffrey, Saquon Barkley. I mean, so all of those injuries have accrued.
36:45The, the, the, there's a lot of scar tissue in the legs of Saquon Barkley and Christian McCaffrey, a lot more than, than cam scatter.
36:52But we actually, that's all factored in to our injury finder app.
36:56Here's a little bit more about it. You may draft a great team in fantasy football, but if those players get hurt, you're toast.
37:03So let's put my glasses on here and we're going to talk about injury probability because we have the data and now
37:10we have an app called the injury finder where you can look up if a player is more likely than another player
37:16to get hurt and miss significant time for your fantasy team this year, running backs, wide receivers, quarterbacks, tight ends.
37:23We have all of their precise injury probabilities. It is in the app store right now.
37:27It is five bucks for the 2026 injury probabilities.
37:30Check it out. It's injury finder.com app store, Google play five bucks.
37:34You're welcome. I just saw JK Dobbins on there.
37:36It looks like you put a 51% chance of injury.
37:39Is that what he said? Or is that just a placeholder kind of thing?
37:44JK Dobbins has several lower body injuries that were major and yes, and they've stacked up.
37:48And so that, that every injury you have increases the probability you get another injury, which is, it's, it's, it's a, it's just a fact.
37:56It's, it's a physiological fact of sports. I haven't back tested that or anything like that, but if you just as an
38:03observer of sports and somebody that does this, does this for a job, it sure seems like I would bet money that that's true.
38:10I'm, I'm sure you guys have done the actual study on it.
38:14We could, we could, at this point, we just ask AI, right?
38:17AI is affecting fantasy sports businesses, right? And so one of the questions that we've had for this particular show, you and
38:24I should talk about how much of a threat is AI to fantasy sports?
38:28I mean, I look, I, it's, it's a, I mean, it's a nuanced discussion, right?
38:33It's, I mean, I think that people are having to have these discussions across their industries, regardless of the industry that they're in, right?
38:40And not just like how it affects us, but gosh, like how are we going to find somebody here in this building
38:47who knows how to use this, who knows how to harness it, that is not going to let our competitors get ahead
38:53of us in some kind of way. Um, I think that in fantasy sports, I feel like to a certain degree, we're
39:00able to, I think that there are certain people, man, I just, I think that there's certain stuff that AI can start to do now.
39:07Um, that really helps AI has helped me a lot with some of my processes.
39:12One, you know, one thing that AI is, do you know what AI is really good at, man?
39:17Tell me help, helping you to manage a spreadsheet and helping you to kind of parse through a database and find specific things.
39:24If you haven't done it in a while and you just, you wonder what all the AI stuff is about.
39:30If you are big into spreadsheets, like we have to be for this job, you know, doing modeling and things like that.
39:37It can, it can, man, it takes away sometimes like four hours of busy work that I used to have, which is,
39:44you know, putting in the formulas, getting, getting things sped out, batching different tabs, all the rest of it.
39:49Right. Um, and so that kind of stuff helps.
39:52We have a new AI tool that's coming out at Rosterwatch that we'll have soon.
39:57I don't want to get too much into it.
39:59It's in beta. It's finished. It's done. It's a beautiful, beautiful tool that's going to help our users immensely.
40:05Um, and that'll be up soon. Um, but that was something that I was able to create just like through, through it's
40:12an AI tool, but I was able to create it by AI helping me code this tool.
40:17Like I, it's, it's like alchemy. It's like, um, it's, it's, you know, the tools that you have at your disposal are amazing.
40:24But yeah, I mean, to say it's not going to affect, um, I just, I don't think for fantasy sports, I don't
40:30think you can just go to Claude and say, who should I start this week between camp Scatterboo or, you know, Quinch on Judkins.
40:38I, I, I think you could, and it could probably pull some stuff from X where it's like, you know, yada, yada, yada.
40:45But I do think that there's things that we've learned about the kinds of, um, you know, the kinds of analytics and
40:51the kinds of tools and the kinds of things that we've just learned through our human experience that help us to be able to give this advice.
41:00Certainly whenever you're drafting, I don't think AI is going to be able to understand, you know, leveraging ADP or sweet spots
41:06for certain positions or like little tips like that, that are sort of human tricks of the trade.
41:12Um, they can be built into tools. And I also just, I also, I think we're a long ways off from AI
41:18being able to sit here and do this stuff, like be like, be able to sing, dance and entertain, man.
41:24Like I just, I don't think it's, I think, I think it's gonna be harder for people trying to get into the space.
41:31Right. Because it's like, if you've, if you've, if you've built an audience and you've, and thankful, we've been so lucky and
41:38so grateful to our audience, you built an audience who like you like them.
41:42They like you, they trust, you know, they trust your advice.
41:45Sometimes they'll say your advice stinks or, you know, they'll give you trouble.
41:49But for the most part, you have people who, you know, they, they want to be part of this community and they
41:56want to talk about fantasy sports and they're all up in the chat and we, and we'd love to have them.
42:02And, um, I just, I think that maybe if you're kind of new and trying to break in, it could be a
42:09little bit harder, maybe for, maybe for that. I know that you've said that you think that fantasy pros is probably somebody
42:16who's a little bit more susceptible to the actual AI just comes and, um, is, is able to do something that they've
42:22been doing and they've been monetizing is their sort of main avenues.
42:26Like our, our, our main avenues kind of been our community.
42:29I'm not sure that AI changes that much as long as we stay ahead of the curve here and we make sure
42:36it's like, all right, well, AI is able to do this.
42:39We want to make sure our community is able to leverage AI to do this.
42:44Right. Which is what we're doing. Yeah. I, I'm not saying fantasy pros specifically, but in general, if your, uh, primary objective
42:50is to aggregate information, that's what AI is doing and doing at the highest possible level.
42:55You can't replicate, uh, by hand what AI can do in terms of data aggregation.
43:00There's no way. Right. And you can't, uh, you just can't compete.
43:03If that's the, the crux of your value proposition for customers, you're not gonna be able to compete with that.
43:09Right. The way we can create something that is a unique value proposition for our audience, for our customers is to, like
43:16we talked about, marry insights, deep insights with an entertaining presentation.
43:19Mm-hmm . If you can do those things and then provide fantasy gamers with tools to do sophisticated, make sophisticated moves and
43:26make difficult decisions, then you can be not immune from the threat of AI, but you can at least, uh, be providing
43:33a service and products that, uh, that are not available just at a keystroke or a prompt in Claude or Gemini or chat GPT.
43:40And taking that a step further, particularly with tools.
43:43If you and I, for example, can master Claude, we can build tools on roster, watch.com and on player profiler.com that weren't available previously.
43:50And that's what I'm doing right now. I'm in the middle of a Claude bootcamp so that I can on my own
43:57for the first time without having to always be outsourcing the work to technologists.
44:01You can just create this thing in an HTML and send it to Frank and all Frank does is just put it up on the site.
44:09Yeah. It's like, it just integrates right. It's wild.
44:11It's wild what can be done. Yeah. And so forever, like as soon, as soon as I got into technology right out of college, right?
44:19I started working at a software company and getting questions from customers or is this possible like feature requests, enhancement requests, and
44:26always having to huddle up with the technologists because I didn't understand fundamentally.
44:30And for decades, I have not understood the fundamental inner workings of code based products.
44:34Yeah. And it has been a perpetual frustration in that I'm always having to just trust technologists that they're giving it to
44:41me straight and that they're not overcharging me, that I'm not paying for hours that are unnecessary.
44:46I have no idea. Which to you is just a death sentence.
44:49It's just like a sentence to life in hell, not having all that information available to you.
44:55Just knowing you, it's like, it's a fate worse than death.
44:58It's been, I would say, had has been my greatest frustration.
45:01That whole sort of dilemma that I've found myself in for decades has been the greatest frustration as a person running a business.
45:08But even before, even when I was just an employee and I was just sort of running a team that was constantly
45:15interfacing with the technology department, always my greatest frustration.
45:18So, the advent of AI in particular, the Claude code, the ability to code with Claude, someone who is not, it, I
45:24simply, not only do I not have the training, I just don't think I have the aptitude.
45:29Like, I don't think I have the brain for it.
45:32Like, I'm just not good enough, period. Like, I know my strengths.
45:36I know my weaknesses. I'm not good enough to code from scratch all the tools that we want on, on player profiler.
45:43But now that Claude exists, now there is a reality where I can be spearheading the initiative and I can understand all
45:49the requirements and the level of effort involved from start to the finish of the project.
45:54And if I can take a project start to finish, man, and understand every element, conceptually, conceptualize every element of it, the
46:01implementation, that allows me to sleep at night. That right there gains me 20 minutes of sleep every night.
46:07Just a better quality sleep, just knowing that. And so that to me, that's why to me, AI is, is an ex
46:13the advent of AI and the ubiquity of it is exciting for this because what people want, they want to know what
46:20I think they want to know why I'm making certain decisions.
46:23Why are we implementing this particular strategy? Why are we using these particular tactics in fantasy drafts, startups and dynasty best ball, seasonal leagues?
46:30Why are you making these pickups? It's why they tune into the shows like top 10 takeaways or waiver wired or mind
46:37of mansion or content kings and all of this, this is something that is not going to be replaced with AI, but
46:44we can continue to augment supplement and improve our player profiler tools using AI.
46:48So for us, it's a net benefit. Two, two, two things.
46:51Okay. First thing is like you, you said it perfectly as I'm beginning to start manually testing the ultimate draft cheat sheet at roster watch.
46:59There's no way I could have a AI do that for me.
47:02I couldn't, for one, I wouldn't be able to present the way that I present and talk about drafts and talk about
47:09the structure of drafts and the anatomy of drafts and how things happen in drafts and what you've seen happen in drafts
47:16and what you've noticed happening over time in drafts without just getting, just getting in there and just simulating, simulating, simulating.
47:22It's the, it's the way that I've always done it, right?
47:25Um, that's when you find the value hotspots, which when you, it's where you find leverage versus ADP.
47:31Um, and, and ways to, and ways to backfill your roster.
47:34Whenever you have leveraged ADP to a certain position, the ways to round out the roster to where you're well, well balanced, right?
47:41It's like, Hey, I can't do that yet. I don't know.
47:44Maybe one day we'll be able to. The second thing I'm going to tell you is if you're working right now with
47:51the claw code and doing all this stuff, something that I'll just, the advice that I'll give you, because you said you
47:58can see it through from beginning to end, see it through on your own.
48:02And to a certain degree you can, because you're working with the agent to help you build the code.
48:08Right. But you look at that code still, and you go to your inspect table and you put it in, and you
48:14open up the, um, the, uh, the, the visual code editor and all this stuff.
48:19And you still look at that code and you see a wall of code that you still don't, you still don't know it from a hill of beans.
48:27Right. It's like what you need to be doing that I learned that I wish I would have done from the very beginning.
48:34Anytime that you're making a tool in this thing within a chat session and kind of like vibe coding and stuff, every
48:41single update to the code that the agent makes, have him create this separate thing called a, called, called, called a, I just call it a handoff doc.
48:49Right. Because that means I did this in the code.
48:52This is why I did this in the code and just put it in the doc.
48:57And then let's come back once you put it in the doc, and then we can move on to the next task.
49:04Because this way, when I handed off either to somebody in a new, to an AI agent in the new chat, or
49:11more importantly, whenever you, whenever you hand it off to your web developer, and he looks at the code and he's like,
49:17dude, there's like some superfluous code here. What the hell is this?
49:21He can just look at the handoff doc and say, why did this AI agent put this in there?
49:27And why was it necessary? And so at a certain point in time, guys like you and I, they didn't grow up doing this coding.
49:34And that's not like, we're content guys. Right. But when you hand it off to the code guys and the website guys
49:41and stuff like that, this way, you don't have to explain for everything you did the whole time.
49:46It's like, there's a way that like a super, like, you know, just a super code nerd has talked about why, why, why they did this.
49:54Right. So just save it. It's, it saves you a lot of time to make sure that you're always having them update
50:01that handoff doc for when you got to hand it off to somebody else.
50:05It's great advice. Great advice. Now, one of the new sections of player profile, that's really been a big hit is our news section.
50:12And this was very easy to build. We didn't need AI to build this at all.
50:17It was so easy. These have been around for a minute, right?
50:21Yeah. Yeah. This, I mean, this is just straight up like a, you know, WordPress template go like no big deal.
50:27So I do want to put something up on the screen to show you right now.
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51:18Okay. Okay. Footgate, I want to get your thoughts on this because this is not every day that we hear this where
51:25a player sits down and admits, this is my new normal and I'm never going to be the same athletically.
51:31I just, I think it's a poor Cody, man.
51:34It's like, I sent him this, this tweet, you know, and he's like, I'm like, not great.
51:39He's like, no, especially sitting on these, like, he's like, he's been apparently been on a Roma Dunze, uh, just drafting spree in his recent dynasty startups.
51:47He says, got him at a couple, got him like three new shares in the last week.
51:52I know I've been, yeah, he's been drafting Caleb Williams and stacking him with a Dunze.
51:57And then I felt great that I was able to get Caleb Williams for once.
52:02And no, I'm not trying to stack him with Roma Dunze.
52:05I love Roma Dunze. I think Roma Dunze is going to be just fine.
52:09Yeah. Roma Dunze happens to have elite explosiveness, but that's not what necessarily makes him an elite alpha.
52:15It helps him with get down field, have, have a higher, uh, average target distance, a dot for sure.
52:20He is still an elite separator and incredibly strong at the catch point.
52:24He's going to be able to play X for five plus years and be a go-to receiver for Caleb Williams, but he's
52:31not going to be that, you know, super explosive all world wide receiver one in his range of outcomes, wide receiver.
52:37Even if he's not that, that doesn't necessarily mean he moves below Luther burden.
52:42So my question for you is given this news, he will drop below Luther burden in startups.
52:47The ADP is going to flip, but will he flip for you?
52:50Will he flip for you in the rankings, the way you are, you know, sort of of quantifying the value of these players.
52:57I mean, in best ball, I've had burden ahead of Rome the whole time and people act, I mean, Cody acts like that's so bad.
53:05The news is as follows. Roma Dunze will never be the same.
53:08That's the headline on player profiler. The AP is reporting that Roma Dunze admits his 2025 foot injury created a different type of foot structure with these bones.
53:17And I feel like with the break, it's never going to be back to normal.
53:21It's going to be like a shoulder injury. He talked about a torn shoulder and AC joint.
53:27That's just never the same. And I've been told that, I mean, this is, I tore all my rotator cuff tendons and
53:33I'm now a year in and like, it works well, but there is a stiffness and a fatigue at the outer limits of my range of motion.
53:41And it's unclear whether that's ever going to feel like the other shoulder.
53:45As part of getting older, man. I mean, I'm like, it's like I had the same, I had, I had the same
53:52thing happen with my shoulder when I was like 20.
53:55Had to retire from playing, playing rugby. I was like 23 years old.
53:59Like, it's like, it hasn't been the same sentence.
54:02It's just, but it's like, like, you can't still do the things you do.
54:06It's just like, it feels a little different. Um, I, uh, but you know, never going to be the same.
54:12It freaks you out. What does that really mean though?
54:15That's the thing. That's what I'm trying to get at Alex.
54:18Like philosophically, what does this really mean? And what's to keep, and then like, it's like, even if he's not, even if
54:25he loses some of the explosiveness and stuff like that, like if he can still separate in the ways that Rome's big
54:32and he's pays powerful, he's really like, it's, I mean, I'd say that the very top end of his outcomes would be
54:38like, could he ever be like, um, you know, he won't ever be a Mike Evans because it's like, he started out
54:45with thousand yard seasons, but somebody that's like close to that kind of Mike Evans sort of territory.
54:50I think 85% Mike Evans would be his ultimate best case scenario for his career.
54:55Um, you know, the 100th percentile thing, I think realistically, maybe if he could be a, some kind of 55% Mike Evans would still be kind of good.
55:03Yeah. I just think, yeah. Speaker 1 A former bear 55% branded Marshall.
55:07Speaker 2 Oh yeah. Yeah. Marshall's a good, that's a good call out.
55:11Speaker 1 Yeah. Marshall never was a super speedster, but what did he do?
55:15He was able to gain separation. He was one of the best in those sideline routes.
55:20I mean, he just, he played the X receiver perfectly, which allowed Alshon Jeffrey to play the Z receiver position and be
55:27the closest thing to John Taylor we've ever seen in the NFL.
55:31Speaker 1 Oh, that's, I didn't think we'd be talking about Alshon Jeffrey and comparing it to San Francisco 49 or John Taylor.
55:37Um, the, uh, the, the, so with Luther Burton, I've, I've always had him ahead.
55:42I think with Rome, I'm going to make an update actually today to the best ball cheat sheet.
55:47I'm doing this right now live to version 3.2.
55:50I'm, I thought of where I had Rome was still pretty okay for redraft, but right now, I think certainly after Christian
55:57Watson's new deal, I'm taking Christian Watson over Roman and, and, and redraft in best ball.
56:02Right. And then the question becomes, do I want to take him over Carnell Tate?
56:06Um, I'm not sure I do right now, but I do still want to take him over to like guys like DJ Moore.
56:13I'm dude, I'm going to take, you know, what, what do you feel about D D D J Moore and some of
56:20the stuff he said about, you know, it feels like he's taking a while to acclimate to the new job and it
56:26doesn't seem like he's coming in there and he's just taking this wide receiver one role by the, you know, by the
56:33cojones and you know what I mean? Blowing into town with reckless abandon.
56:37There is a report from our chat that the bears are preparing a promotion in the fall featuring Roma duns a as the face of the franchise.
56:45That's hard to believe. That's hard to believe in light of this news and in light of the fact that they have
56:52Caleb Williams on the roster so that it's interesting.
56:55Like, would they be all in on promoting Rome as the face of the franchise?
56:59If the, if the team was concerned or was Roma duns, they just frustrated after a practice found himself on social media
57:06being way too honest because that honesty is never rewarded.
57:09Social media honesty is never rewarded. It's always exploited.
57:11All of these players are instructed not to reveal any information about injuries on social media because it does not serve them.
57:18And yet he had to learn this way that he had to learn.
57:22And now I'm sure he's never going to disclose anything on social media ever again, but he did it.
57:28And that's what we're looking for. There are so few windows into the truth as the season and the off season play
57:34out that when you do get these crumbs, you that's the thing you lock in on.
57:39That's why there's so much buzz about this revelation on social media a couple of days ago.
57:44Okay. Well still I'm moving Rome down a tiny bit.
57:47I'm going to, I'm going to moving Rome. I'm moving Rome and I'll, I'll test it, but I think this is right.
57:54I'm just going to move them down back to back with DJ Moore.
57:58So these, these guys are back to back once again, DJ more Rome, even though they're in different cities.
58:04And then I have, um, now and I think Luther burden, I'm going to keep him where I, where I, where I have him.
58:11I don't think he belongs up there, dude, dude.
58:14I'm not crazy enough. And I'm not, I'm not buying into the, the rookie year yards per route run and holding onto
58:20the priors and all the other things that, um, Cody's accused me of like, but so much to where I'm putting him
58:27up there with guys like Mike Evans or like Devante Adams or like lad who I think is in for a big
58:34year with Mike McDaniel, you know, like I'm not going to do that.
58:38Right. But I, I mean, I can, I can venture taking Luther burden ahead of guys like Jane, Jamo Jalen Waddle.
58:44That's fine. Right. Fine. Of course. Yeah. Why not, man?
58:47Yeah. It's going to be, it's going to be a pass first offense and they have their two receivers, right?
58:53It's going to be a lot of 12 personnel with commit and with Loveland Loveland in the move tight end position.
58:59And the target is going to consolidate around those three guys, Loveland and burden and a dunce.
59:04It's not like modern guy and swift are target magnets out of the backfield.
59:09So yeah, I, I love the certainty and the triumvirate consolidated target tree, uh, uh, or, or the target pecking order, those three guys at the top.
59:17And then there's a distance down to whoever else might be, might be commanding targets.
59:21I, I, I liked the, how that all sets up.
59:24It's an interesting spot there at the kind of the end of the fourth round of best ball drafts where, where I
59:31think Luther burden should be going because you do have the wide receivers like JMO and water, uh, Terry McLaurin sometimes will
59:38be around waddle, but it's also, that's where guys come into consideration.
59:41Like your Quinn, Sean Judkins is, you know, I think he's starting to come up a little bit, right?
59:47Oh yeah. Yeah. And can you explain to me the Terry McLaurin ADP?
59:51Cause I just got Terry McLaurin in another league in dynasty and his ADP is this, his ADP is the same as
59:58Devante Adams and he's three years younger and he has no target competition.
60:02Did Vante Adams has a higher ADP in best ball?
60:05No, I'm talking about dynasty here. Okay. Okay. Yeah.
60:07Because of the age difference, it doesn't make any sense.
60:10It doesn't make any sense whatsoever. And last year was a lost season.
60:14So he produced last year, even though Washington and Jaden Daniels had a lost season.
60:19So I'm in Tara McLaurin is one of these players.
60:22It's going to age. Well, I could see Tara McLaurin being out there and productive at age 35, unlike Saquon Barkley, Christian
60:29McCaffrey, he's had no lower body injuries. You talk about a guy who is the anti-Roma Dunze.
60:34There's no part of Tara McLaurin's body that he's had to miss a game.
60:38Like he's got 17 games every year. It is.
60:41I think if you look at his injury history on player profiler, we might see you know, a minor hamstring strain, a
60:47game missed here, a game missed there. But I mean, it is his, his injury track record is pretty unbelievable.
60:53He had the quad injury last year. That was the first time that he missed a game with an injury since 2020.
61:00Can you believe that? Dude, do you know what I can't believe?
61:04I misspoke earlier. It looks like Devante Adams is actually, his ADP is falling on, because I was using mainly Giraffe Kings
61:10to look at this, but it looks like on underdog Devante Adams is ADP is actually falling kind of down into this territory too.
61:17It is. Yeah. Yeah. Ladd has moved up. Oh, Ladd is a rocket ship in all formats.
61:23And it looks like Evans is Evans moved up and McLaurin's moved up a little bit too.
61:28No, McLaurin is the guy. I mean, we're talking about one major injury in his NFL career.
61:33That's the only time he's ever been hurt to the extent where he had to miss more than one game was this quad injury.
61:40Now quad injury is bad, but, and certainly it could affect his explosiveness moving forward, having some scar tissue in his quad.
61:47But this is one injury in eight years that would potentially create scar tissue where he might say, Hey, my right leg
61:53because of this quad injury is never going to be the same.
61:57Okay. Yeah. Probably not. Yeah. Not quite the same explosiveness there, but McCaffrey Barkley, none of them are the same man.
62:03I just with Devante Adams, I wonder if Devante Adams, the thing about him is that people are just thinking that the
62:10touchdown luck is going to, it's like, even if you take away some of his touchdowns from last season, he's still finished.
62:17He's still like, what? Like he goes off the board at wide receiver.
62:21So that was slotting a wide receiver 22. Where is he right now on here?
62:25Why is he wide receiver 26? Yeah. Wide receiver 26.
62:28I just, it's hard for me to get him down too much.
62:32Do people like, do you, do you, I mean, do you like burden and McLaurin both over Devante Adams this season?
62:38No, I like Devante Adams and, and, and McLaurin more than burden the season this year.
62:43All right. In dynasty. Also, I believe that Devante Adams is not a one-year rental.
62:48I think Devante Adams is going to have another year.
62:51I think he is similar to say a Larry Fitzgerald and that he's going to play out to age 35, 36.
62:57I mean, he and McLaurin, both of them have identical dynasty ADPs.
63:01And I think they're going to both play out until age 35.
63:04And so I think I've been drafting Devante Adams.
63:07We on the sonic truth show. So everyone should go check out the sonic truth podcast.
63:12It was a, it was a dropped a couple of days prior and it's up on YouTube as well.
63:17We went through a bunch of these startups and I stacked Devante Adams with Matthew Stafford in a super flex startup dynasty felt amazing.
63:25I like that. Cause I can always get out if I'm not competitive.
63:29I can always trade them before Halloween. Huh? Do you like Christian Watson more than Jamison Williams?
63:34I do now. I think I do too. I like, it's hard to believe that a contract would, would make you do that.
63:41Yeah. Well, the difference is actually Jamison Williams is two years younger.
63:44Christian Watson, because he was at the senior bowl, he came out at a relatively late age.
63:49Jamison Williams came out very early, too early. Like as soon as he was able to declare for the draft, like he was like, here's my paperwork.
63:58I'm in, I'm in, I'm in the NFL. So actually Jamison Williams is younger.
64:02I think that's one of those, that's one of those clear I'll take Watson and best ball and I'll take Jamison Williams and dynasty.
64:09I think that's right too. So that's, that's, that's where I'm at with that.
64:13Uh, so this is, uh, we're talking about injuries and we're talking about, you know, medical reviews, these teams undertake news dropped
64:20earlier that AJ Brown, actually his medicals were rejected by the Rams, but they were accepted by the Patriots.
64:26What do you make of that? Well, it was the, uh, the initial, so that was back in March.
64:32Right. And so that was the initial sort of outreach they'd done on AJ Brown's medicals that they were just like, all
64:38right, there's no re there's no reason to pursue this.
64:41Right. Um, but I mean, I think it's probably, it's probably, you know, it's somewhat worrisome.
64:46I like, I, here's the thing. I like AJ Brown this year.
64:50Cody was the one that talked me into AJ Brown when he started rattling off these 29 and 30 year old wide
64:56receivers that when they get into a Josh McDaniels offense, they come and they get fed for 150 catches and 1500 yards and 15 touchdowns.
65:04And, um, it's like, it's just, it's happened over and over and over again with these, with these vets that have come
65:10in and come, come in and done it. Yeah.
65:13But I think it's just a one-year deal with AJ Brown and the fact that, you know, he again, gets on one
65:20of these podcasts and pulls a Roma Dunze and over talks about his medical stuff saying that, you know, for the Eagles
65:27run the year before last or whatever, he was having to get his knees, his knees drained every week, every week, you
65:33know, and then there's all kinds of people are just so worried.
65:37They're like, you know, the, the hamstring flare ups and the knee stuff and everything now has to do with the scar
65:43tissue that was built up over that time. Um, but I think, so I think, yeah, I think dynasty is terrifying.
65:50He, he, he went in that fifth round of the one that you just took the one that you're in right now.
65:56And I just thought that that seemed super, super early.
65:59That must be a win now kind of team, but for redraft, I think that AJ Brown's a, a great buy right now.
66:06I think that the whole new England thing really helped.
66:09I think it helps them. I'm in some leagues where like he went shockingly early, right?
66:14Like the same round as a flowers. And I'm like, wait, Z flowers is going to produce more fantasy points than him.
66:21And he's four years younger. So this just feels weird to me, right?
66:25This feels weird to me. So if I were to put this up on the screen right now, okay, look at this
66:31in this particular startup, it's not news that AJ Brown was headed to New England.
66:36Like everyone's known this for weeks and months. And yet AJ Brown went a pick before Devante Smith, but look at the
66:43name and the avatar of the person who selected AJ Brown.
66:46Pats. Yep. That's it. Vrabel is in the avatar.
66:49The name of the, the username is T Pats.
66:51And he goes, AJ Brown over Devante Smith. And that is simply a Homer mistake.
66:56It's a bad mistake. There's no other way to say it.
66:59I love Devante Smith with no AJ Brown. Love Devante Smith.
67:03Love him. His splits without AJ Brown. Haven't really, haven't really been that good.
67:07But the fact of the matter is, it's like whenever AJ Brown has missed time, weirdly Devante Smith is missed time.
67:13And like, I think there's, there's only been four games that Devante Smith played without AJ Brown at least starting the game active.
67:20So it's too small a sample. I think that, I think that this just lines up great for him.
67:26I think it lines up great from, from a Kai lemon.
67:29I know it sucks. He hadn't been able to practice, but it's, I wish I had more Devante Smith.
67:35I really do. It bums me out, but the problem is in super flex, he goes in the rounds where I am almost always drafting quarterback.
67:43Like there's a sweet spot for quarterback there. And yet I know I can get a Christian Watson, a Parker Washington, Devante
67:49Adams, McLaurin, all the way down to Jaden Reed, Josh Downs, even, you know, I mean, I don't know.
67:55Jalen Coker. I'll say it right. I almost didn't say it.
67:59I wasn't going to say Jalen Coker because I didn't want to let my league mates know how much I love.
68:05I'll let him say it. Jalen Coker doesn't belong in that same discussion with the Parker Washington's and the McLaurins and the
68:12like JMO would, would have been a name you could have used or water.
68:16Oh no. Those guys are going much earlier. Downs goes late.
68:19Jaden Reed goes late. Yeah. If we're talking downs and stuff, that's a different area.
68:24They go late. I'm telling you, they all go in the same round.
68:28They don't want those three players, Jaden Reed, Josh Downs, and Jalen Coker.
68:31They went back to back to back in a draft.
68:34I'm in Coker. Huh? People just love him. That's crazy.
68:38As do I, as do I. And we talked about this Christian Watson contract.
68:42Okay. How does that affect how you value your boy, Matthew Golden in dynasty?
68:46Your golden boy. It's gotta help, right? Can't get worse.
68:49How does that help Matthew Golden? Oh no. I'm just saying with Dontavion Wicks and Dobbs being gone.
68:54Oh, that helps for sure. That helps Matthew Golden.
68:57It certainly consolidates things. You love to see it.
69:00Yeah. Yeah. And it's like, even if they want to, you know, even if they want to run, you know, they want
69:07to run more 12 personnel, they want to do more of that stuff.
69:10I think that that's, that's fine. And you got, you gotta remember man, that Matthew Golden, you know, he came from, he
69:17was only in Texas for one season coming out of a Dana Holgerson run and shoot, like weird air raid offense.
69:23You know what I mean? He came to Texas and he honestly, he wasn't, he didn't become the Matthew Golden that everybody
69:30remembers until right at the end of the season.
69:33And then through that, um, through, through, through that semifinal run in the playoffs, you know what I mean?
69:39He was, he was, uh, that's whenever he showed off this stuff where it was like, you know, his stats were never
69:45super awesome, but it was like the actual athletic feats that he would pull off on, on the field sometimes looked like Odell Beckham or something like that.
69:54And you would just be like, this guy just hasn't, he's incredibly skilled.
69:58And the, the NFL thought so too, the Green Bay Packers obviously thought so took a wide receiver in the first round
70:04for the first time in what 23 years. Yeah.
70:07And, um, so I think that there's organizational commitment.
70:10That's still the same organization. That's still the same administration.
70:13If you want to call it that with the head coach and the, and the GM and all the rest of it, they've, they've paid Christian Watson.
70:21They've made a huge draft capital investment in Matthew Golden.
70:24They obviously like Jaden Reed and Jaden Reed's the one that's most likely to come off the field whenever they go, they, they go to two tight ends.
70:32Maybe, maybe it's, it's, it's a battle. It's going to be a battle to see who's going to get that, that starting
70:39job in two receiver sets golden versus read because the contract now dictates that Watson's definitely going to be out there.
70:45So here we go. This is the, the exact order.
70:48It went Josh Downs, Jaden Reed, Matthew golden, Jalen Coker.
70:51That was the exact order. Which of those receivers does not belong?
70:55I'd say Coker dude. I know that he looked good towards the end of last season, but they took Chris, Chris Brazel.
71:02I mean, they have Ted Arroyo, McMillen. Who's the obvious brazzle you what's, what's next.
71:06You can tell me Lee get. Well, I mean, they get, well, I think Coker's probably there.
71:11I don't know. I mean, I guess he's the, what he said, but he's the wide receiver.
71:16He's, he's, he's maybe the wide receiver too, for the, for the Panthers.
71:20He's definitely the wide receiver too. He's going to be out there in two receiver sets and he's going to be productive.
71:27This is a team. They're going to be playing a lot of shootouts in the NFC South.
71:32You need to get on board with Jalen Coker, an undrafted wide receiver that actually pushed his way, forced his way onto
71:39the active roster and then into the lineup as an undrafted rookie that never happens.
71:43Thielen couldn't do it. Even Victor Cruz couldn't do it.
71:46Coker did it. God damn it. Okay. Yeah. I'm taking Reed.
71:50I'm taking Reed and Golden over Coker. And I like, I like, I think a dynasty, like just, I don't know.
71:56It's like Cody and I were talking about the other day and we were just like, Cody's like, Cody was using, cause
72:03it was the whole Luther Burden conversation. Cody's like disparaging him saying, well, what, what if he's just Jaden Reed?
72:09You know what I mean? I'm just in the, whenever you can use him as that kind of talking point, you say
72:15like, well, why not give me the guy that could have the upside to be more than a dude that you compare
72:22as a worst case scenario for, for a player that you do like.
72:26I want to talk about crispy crispy's in here.
72:29I like, I like the username crispy three, three, three, eight, five.
72:32He says the Panthers can run 11 personnel and Coker will be out there with Tett and Brazel.
72:38And that's true. Certainly Coker will be out there in 11 personnel.
72:41That's not up for dispute, but here's the thing.
72:44And you see this happening all the time with non first round wide receivers, like a Chris Brazel.
72:50Nobody knows, right? Jonathan Mingo. He was the last Brazel in Carolina and he couldn't get on the field because he couldn't separate.
72:57So this assumption that guys get drafted in the top 100, they're going to be in the game.
73:02Week one is a fallacy. It happens time and time and time and time and time again, this year you've got stripling
73:09to Brazel Bernard all the way down. And there's this assumption that, Hey, they're going to be out there in three receiver sets at the very least.
73:17No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
73:19We have seen this movie every single year. So I don't know why this happens, but every year it's like there's a
73:26men in black memory reset for how these rookies are handled.
73:29Even first round rookies likely get himself struggled to get on the field.
73:33And we've seen this with many rookies, even first rounders, Josh Doxon, Corey Coleman.
73:38I mean, I could go down the list of Laquan Treadwell, Rager, Kadarius, Tony, and so many, even top 10 picks, Tavon Austin.
73:45There's been so many that they couldn't capture a role in training camp and preseason where they're out there in three receiver sets to kick off the year.
73:53And no surprise, it's this guy in his fourth year who knows the system who's trusted by the quarterbacks and the coaches,
74:00and he's going to be out there and you just need to be prepared.
74:04That's just how this is going to be. It'll probably be Lee get over brazzle just because league at knows the system.
74:11Well, you could argue he doesn't actually know the system, but he, he at least has years as a professional that he
74:17can fall back on that brazzle does not probably more likely.
74:21We'll just end up seeing a lot of Tommy tremble and, uh, Jatavian Sanders and just a lot of two receiver sets
74:27because they don't want to have league at or brazzle out there.
74:31Yeah. I don't know. It's like, I think that kind of a weird spot, weird spot to be in right.
74:37Weird spot to be in with the, with Xavier Lee get.
74:40I think at this point you can write him off.
74:43Oh, it's over. Yeah. You drop him, drop him.
74:46I there's the, he's one of, we should actually, I'll do this.
74:50I'm going to create a list of hopium fueled wide receivers that you can just drop in dynasty.
74:55I'm going to, that's going to be one of my next on, on patreon.com slash pod father.
75:00Uh, this week I put up my top 10 values and in the first 10 rounds of a dynasty super flex startup
75:07based on all these startups that I'm currently participating in.
75:10And it's also up on our sub stack. And, uh, you should check out sub stack.com search for player profiler or just fantasy football.
75:17Like we're, we're, we're in the top, top, uh, we're, we're, we're, we're in the top, uh, channels for fantasy on sub stack.
75:24Let me ask you some of these guys. Can you, all right.
75:28So can, can, can you drop them in, in dynasty, just regular size dynasty, right?
75:32Tell me. Hopium. Let's just go through some, um, Brandon.
75:35Iuke. Okay. That's the hardest one. Okay. That is the hardest one that what do you think is going to happen with Brandon?
75:42Iuke man. I think he could be done. He sounds like he just doesn't want to play football anymore.
75:48And it's just over like for him to restart the engine and to get back in the mode of coming to the
75:55building every day, working out every day and dealing with all the aches and pains and all of the, the contact that
76:01you have to, you know, all the fighting and a hand fighting and the pushing and the shoving and the spitting and everything.
76:08When you're in that mode, when you're in gladiator mode, it feels normal, but that's not normal human behavior.
76:14Just like it's not normal for these guys to eat 10,000 calories a day on the offensive line.
76:19And then as soon as they stopped playing football, they immediately lose 50 pounds instantly.
76:24It's just not normal. It's not human natural behavior.
76:27Once you extract yourself from that world for multiple years, getting injected back into it, sending you back into the matrix is easier said than done.
76:34Let me ask you some more. Well, I didn't give you an answer.
76:38I didn't give you an answer. I have Iuke and I am not yet dropping him, but I'm close because he was
76:45so efficient in his final year where he played football.
76:48It was like top five in yards per route run.
76:51It's a real shame what's happened to him, but it's, it's very much a possibility.
76:56And I would actually look into this prop on Cal sheet or poly market, uh, you know, how many snaps does Brandon
77:02play for the rest of his career. And I'd be interested to know what the zero prop pays out, but I can't, I just can't.
77:10The upside's too great for me to drop him now.
77:13He's not even 30 yet. So I'm still going to wait on Brandon.
77:17I you. All right. How about Cedric Tillman? I've dropped him.
77:20Okay. So that's okay. What about Keon Coleman? Bye.
77:23So you're not, so you're not dropping him. You're actually buying.
77:26It's over. No. Oh, bye. Bye meaning, bye-bye. B-Y-E.
77:29You, so he's off your team. Bye, bye, bye, bye, bye.
77:32Crazy, bye. Tomorrow morning is knocking. Stock your fridge now.
77:35How about a creamy mocha frappuccino drink? Or a sweet vanilla?
77:38Smooth caramel maybe. Or white chocolate mocha. Whichever you choose, delicious coffee awaits.
77:42Find Starbucks frappuccino drinks wherever you buy your groceries.
77:45You thought this was your run club era. Turns out it was more of a thinking about run club era.
77:51The good news? Someone's marathon training is about to start.
77:54Sell your workout gear on Depop. Just snap a few photos and we'll take care of the rest.
78:00They get their race day fit and you get a payout for trying.
78:04Someone on Depop wants what you've got. Start selling now.
78:07Depop. Where taste recognizes taste. What about Tyreek Hill?
78:09Well, I'm holding him so I can put him on IR.
78:13Okay. I'm trying to think of one that's like a little harder because they're younger and might still have some.
78:19How about Jack Besh? Oh, yeah. Oh, what? Oh, no.
78:22Dude, you can't be dropping Jack Besh. There's huge opportunity right now in Las Vegas.
78:26The thing's wide open. Okay. He's not that old.
78:29He wasn't in a situation where they gave him great opportunity and he just face planted like Keon Coleman or Xavier Leggett.
78:36No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. Think about who's ahead of him in the depth chart.
78:41Jalen Naylor? Penciling Jack Besh to play slot right now.
78:44Trey Tucker, Jalen Naylor, Jack Besh. That's the three receiver set.
78:47That's 11 personnel. Now, he's not going to play a lot of 11 personnel because there's a lot of Michael Mayer and
78:54Brock Bowers, a lot of 12 personnel in Las Vegas this year.
78:58That's what I'm projecting. But still, I mean, it's Besh is an upside play with a young quarterback.
79:03The idea that he and Fernando Mendoza could maybe develop a rapport in camp and preseason.
79:08This is exciting. Do not drop Jack Besh. My goodness.
79:11Oh, well, that would just be a giant blunder.
79:14I'm trying to get him. I've actually found him on the waiver wire in a couple of leagues.
79:19I'm trying to gobble him up. All right. Two more.
79:22He's a second round pick, dude. How about how about Torrey Horton?
79:26Jack Besh had over a thousand receiving yards on 16.7 yards per reception, a 70% catch rate and nine receiving touchdowns.
79:32And he was active on special teams at TCU.
79:35My goodness. And Andy was and he was on an LSU, you know, managed to play on an LSU squad that had just tons of future NFL guys.
79:43You absolutely want Jack Besh in the chat. They're asking about Adonai Mitchell.
79:47You absolutely want Adonai Mitchell. Adonai Mitchell is a spike week specialist.
79:51He's the perfect guy for the end of a best ball draft or just a guy to get upside in flex.
79:57If you're desperate, there's no guarantee that Omar Cooper is going to be starting every snap full route participation week one.
80:04This is exactly what we're talking about. This is exactly the situation where we see a lot of guys drafted at the end of the first round.
80:12Jalen Rager. I mean, the list is so long.
80:14We just mentioned a couple key on Coleman, Xavier Lee get you need to wait.
80:19We need to see what Omar Cooper is before you're dropping Adonai Mitchell.
80:23There's upside there with Gino Smith. This is going to be more pass volume, more downfield pass volume, more downfield accuracy, and
80:30Adonai Mitchell will benefit from all of that. What do you think about dropping Torrey Horton?
80:34Absolutely not. What? I'm just asking. Oh my God.
80:37Don't tell Cody that Cody absolutely loves Torrey Horton.
80:40He was productive and scored a bunch of touchdowns as a rookie before Rashid Shaheed showed up.
80:45I have a ton of Torrey Horton. I love him.
80:48There was a big debate that we had of Torrey Horton versus Jalen Royals.
80:52Jalen Royals has a clear path to commanding targets this year that Torrey Horton really doesn't with Rashid Shaheed now in Seattle,
80:59but you know, Torrey Horton's an injury away from having a major role.
81:03You got to make sure you keep Torrey Horton stashed.
81:06Okay. And finally, can you drop Rashad Bateman? Yeah.
81:09Yeah. Rashad Bateman's over. Sadly, I mean that you're talking about a massive Rashad Bateman truther, but enough years have gone by
81:15where it's just he, his role is perimeter possession receiver with a run first quarterback.
81:20And that guy has very little upside and a zero point floor.
81:23There's gotta be another guy. There's gotta be another guy.
81:26I could just, I want to say for players that I have criticized that I'm still keeping, I'm still holding on to Quinton Johnston.
81:34It's actually been consistently productive, not productive at a high level, but consistent in a way that the other players we've talked about.
81:41Was I giving you one guys that were too easy?
81:44What about Isaiah Bond? Like I think Cedric Tillman's too easy.
81:47That's he's an easy drop, but Isaiah Bond is interesting.
81:50I'd be fine dropping Isaiah Bond. Okay. How about Kyle Williams?
81:53Especially with, I mean, they got, they got Denzel Boston.
81:56Now they got, they have Casey Concepcion. Kyle Williams.
81:59No, I'm not dropping him yet. No, we're holding on to Kyle Williams.
82:03Yeah. I'm not going to drop Kyle Williams. A drop I've made in recent weeks is Roman Wilson.
82:08I think it's fine. What, what, what are you gaining?
82:11Okay. So, okay. So if there's an injury, okay.
82:14DK Metcalf goes down, then what? Michael Pittman goes down.
82:17Then what Alex? It will. The whole thing was if, if, if, if Aaron Rogers was going to adopt him here for
82:24a little bit of a rental is his kind of super smart, little crafty gadgety Randall Cobb type.
82:29He would have already done that. We have not seen any inclination.
82:33What are you, the Cody's joke is he changed, he changed his number to number 14 and hopes that, that Rogers will think he's gaining well.
82:41Oh yeah. Yeah. That's funny. That's right. He should introduce himself as Kenny.
82:45Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It just comes back. Hey, did you, uh, did you happen to go on any family trips recently because
82:51I'm wearing a leads Jersey and I just got back from leads.
82:55I was in England and I had a guy's trip.
82:58Uh, we went to go see leads United leads United.
83:01Uh, it was tied. So it was a nil nil draw 95th minute.
83:05Dominic Calvert Lewin scores the winning goal. The place went berserk.
83:08It was, it was, it was a magical day to be on the pitch.
83:12And it was, it was a great time. We basically played poker and this cool Airbnb that we had in the countryside.
83:19Uh, and we're able to experience England as the English experience it without a lot of tourists.
83:24The only time we really were, you know, interacting with anyone that wasn't English was when we went on the Liverpool taxi tour.
83:31Uh, you know, just going around all the Beatles sites, strawberry fields and the barber shop on Penny lane.
83:37And we did get to see all that. It was very interesting.
83:41It's very cool. It just to kind of see what life was like back then for John, Paul, Ringo and George.
83:47And, and we, it was, it was cool. It was in our, our tour guide was amazing.
83:52So we really enjoyed that. So we saw some tourists, right?
83:55We did a tourist thing, but that was it.
83:58And so that was my, my recommendation, mansion lifestyle hack for anyone that is going to be doing one of these guys
84:05trips is, is don't pack too much. Don't pack too many activities into the agenda and try to go somewhere, find an
84:11Airbnb that is not a tourist destination. Yeah. I like it.
84:15It's kind of the, kind of the hack for the, um, player profile draft house, right?
84:20Kind of get out of town a little bit and get to see some of the, get to see some of the way that the locals live.
84:28That's right. Yeah. That's what we do with it, with a draft house.
84:32We could pay some exorbitant fee to stay very close to the stadium, or you could get out away from the stadium.
84:38The nice thing is in a lot of these towns and cities, the stadium is already not in the downtown area.
84:45So you can find, you can either be close to the airport or close to the stadium or, you know, some relative
84:51proximity where it's very reasonable, and still be in a, in a rural place where the Airbnb is super cost-effective and, and
84:58just, it has a ton of amenities. And that's what we always, we've gone for with the, the player profiler draft house.
85:05Or get some, get one that's like when we're super lucky and we get one that's on a body of water where, where we can fish.
85:12You know what I mean? Like that's the, that's the best.
85:16Two years in a row, we had Michigan and we were in Tampa.
85:20We were on the water and caught a bunch, you caught a bunch of fish.
85:24We didn't catch a lot of, you caught a lot of fish.
85:28We, we, we all caught fish. We all caught fish.
85:31So we did. Caught, caught, caught a bunch of fish this last week, man.
85:35Um, my son did too. It was a great time.
85:38The best part of that, we, we took a family trip.
85:41My daughter, she had a, um, so it's her first year with this whole thing, doing like the travel sports and she's
85:48playing basketball with AAU for a fifth grade team.
85:51And so, wow, nice. They have to, they had to travel to Orlando for the ESPN Wide World of Sports Memorial Day Classic that they played in.
85:59And, um, dude, her first game, they played against this E, this EYBL team from Atlanta.
86:04I stood as a fifth grade team. And one of the girls on the team had a, had a tattoo sleeve.
86:10I think it happened in state. Our girls do.
86:13They couldn't get past half court versus these girls, but they ended up, um, making the bronze division championship to where they
86:20ended up winning medals and stuff like that. They ran through their division.
86:23It was bronze division. They got bounced out of the gold division with that first matchup.
86:28But so that was fun. But so we got a couple of days in Orlando before we were going to head to
86:35Longboat Key where Byron lives, um, and go fishing with Byron and go hang out there more of a laid back time.
86:42And so we had some days in Orlando and I'll tell you what, dude, not, I don't know how people can, I
86:48don't know how normal families can afford to go to this place.
86:52It's crazy. Everything's so expensive. Even when it's like, even my family, right?
86:56They didn't even want to go to Disney world.
86:59They didn't want to go to the new universal park or anything.
87:02They wanted to go to this thing. Like universal's got like a water park there, right?
87:07Oh yes. Yes. Volcano Bay. Volcano Bay with the, with the, with the, the super steep slide from the mountain, from the top of the mountain.
87:15Yeah. Me and my son did that slide over and over.
87:18They got the aqua coaster. That's just super sick.
87:21But, um, it's like at least that way you can get like, it's so hot down there, man.
87:26At least that way you can get in the water between rides, but I'll tell you this, just something to keep an eye out for there, man.
87:34Everything's so expensive for two. If you pay like, like so many people do with like credit card rewards points for these
87:41hotels, you get out of there and you realize like you've only paid for half your hotel because you get this invoice
87:48for like, you know, what would be the cost of the hotel?
87:51Cause they charge you like $90 a night resort fees and $25 a night, this fee and all the rest.
87:57Um, and then the most messed up thing is after you've given them an arm and a leg to enter into this park, right?
88:05You realize your kids aren't gonna get to ride a single ride unless you fork out like 130 bucks each to get
88:11this stupid fast pass where they get to cut his mind.
88:15You have to get the fast pass. No, no.
88:17They, they, they get you, man. They get you every which way.
88:21It's like, I just get done paying this tip for, I got, I literally just got done cutting off my pinky finger and giving it to these people.
88:29And like, now you're telling me, now you're telling me if my kids are going to ride any rides, I got to
88:36pay 130 bucks each for them to have a pass where they can go cut and do where they can go cut
88:43in line and act like little creeps. You know what I mean?
88:46And it's like, yeah, yeah, that's what we're going to need.
88:50And, and, and, and your water, your bottle of water is going to be 12 bucks too.
88:55Well, the best, my favorite part of volcano Bay is that they have the watch and you just program where you want to go and it'll alert you.
89:03And then if you go at a time, it'll stagger everybody.
89:07So you don't have to wait in line. You just show up and you take the ride.
89:12So that's, that's such a cool thing that they have there at volcano Bay.
89:16I love that. They've discontinued that technology as of like last March.
89:20Oh yeah. So yeah, they used to, it was amazing when they had it.
89:24I don't know why they would, I definitely read about that, but it was discontinued.
89:28So I do have one, a personal preference that whenever we go to a water park, I need to be in a cabana.
89:35I absolutely need to be in a cabana. I cannot be out on the sand.
89:40I despise trying to like maneuver these umbrellas to try to get a place.
89:44And then I have like sand all over me and I'm trying to like get comfortable and I'm always uncomfortable and I'm, I'm just miserable.
89:52And so my wife's like, if we're going to any water park, we need to get a cabana.
89:57Cause you know how dad gets right. So, cause they know I'm going to be super cranky.
90:02You know, if I'm schlepping umbrellas and I'm trying to do all that and I'm just going to be miserable, got sand in your towel.
90:10I'm going to be so mad. I'm going to be, so I was like, I was like, listen, it's gotta be, I'm sorry.
90:17It, this seems a super high maintenance and I get it, but I gotta, I gotta be in one of these cabanas
90:23or I don't want to go like, I'll go.
90:26There's so many other parks. There's so many other activities we can do.
90:30Just please don't put me in that position where I'm going to be a misery.
90:35I don't want to be a misery. I want to be fun.
90:38I want to be jovial. I want it to be a great time, but you know, that just, I don't like hot sand on my body.
90:46I don't like it. I hate it. And I'm not, I don't like the beach for that reason, but these parks are really fun, right?
90:54The rides are killer, dude. They're really fun. They're really fun.
90:57And I'm like, if we can somehow, if I can get there and I can go down the slide with you or
91:04the aqua coaster, and then I can be in the shade and I'm not Sandy, I'm not covered in hot sand, then it's fine.
91:11Right. But then that adds a whole expense. And it's like, well, do you know, just the cabana is, you know, the
91:18one thing though, they do have like a, a butler or whatever for the, but it's just, you add that expense.
91:24And that's just because of my own, you know, uh, preclusions, whatever it is.
91:28We ended up for a similar length trip. It's like expensive is going to Europe or something.
91:33We did two weeks in Japan and the year before the similar, you know, during my daughter's school break the year before
91:40we had gone to universal for a week. So on a per week basis, Florida is more expensive than Japan.
91:46If you include the flights, because the flight is the big expense.
91:50Now, when we went to Japan, we did stay with friends for a period of time, but that's the point, man.
91:56We don't have any friends in Orlando. Okay. I don't think anybody does.
92:00Right. It's just all tourists. That's the whole point is like, you can do creative Airbnb stays and stay with friends.
92:06And if you go to Europe or you go to Asia or you go wherever you could do, or you go somewhere in the United States.
92:14Like if I were to travel to Texas or something, we could stay with the Dunlaps.
92:19Right. And there's all these ways you can have a great time and not spend so much money that it ends up
92:26like becoming this weight on you, this debt that you have to pay back.
92:30So that when I'm trying there, there's, there's talk right now of going back next year.
92:35And I am actively trying to figure out if there's a way we can do literally anything else.
92:40My only problem is this new universal epic, epic park.
92:43It does look fun. Right. So I, it's hard.
92:46Like there's this debate and I'm like, and it's not hard to get me.
92:50Like you could start talking about the things with this new epic park.
92:54And it's like, well, that does sound good. That would be cool.
92:58Yeah. That does sound fun. Damn it. Do you know, do you know my best bit of advice, Matt?
93:03If you go do it, just make sure that one thing happens and make sure you get this thing completely straight.
93:10Okay. All right. This is my biggest advice that I'm, that I'm going to give you.
93:14Do not come home to a broken air conditioner.
93:17That's what you're doing yesterday, man. Working on the air conditioner.
93:21It's what I've been doing for like, ever since you got back.
93:24I mean, just, just don't do it. Just make sure not to come home to a broken AC.
93:30My dad said they used to, these things used to last 25 years.
93:34Not anymore. Not anymore. Sadly, not anymore. And, but we're not going to leave the people here with air conditioner talk.
93:40Okay. I want to ask you about Dion Sanders.
93:43He wants to meet with Todd Munkin and Todd Munkin has reportedly said that he's excited to meet with him.
93:49He can't wait that you Todd Munkin. I think one of his first priorities as coach was to meet with fellow coach Dion Sanders.
93:56He said, he can't wait. He's, he's very, he's very Alex.
93:59He's very excited about this. This is why Colorado has got the, this is why Colorado's got the longest odds of any
94:06team in the big 12 to win this year.
94:09Cause Dion's more focused on talking, I guess. Um, the, uh, so what do you think is going to happen in Cleveland?
94:15What do you think, how do you think it's going to play out this quarterback competition?
94:20You know, when you're projecting games played for Watson versus Sanders, you know, how are you thinking about this?
94:26I think it's impossible. It's really impossible. The Cleveland, we, we, we, we know that the Cleveland media will keep us informed of what's going on.
94:34The fact that the one problem is that the most cockamamie beat that there is, and they all have their own ideas that they inserted everything.
94:42There is a lot of conflicting reports from like the, the Akron beacon, the Cleveland planes dealer.
94:47Yeah. But you just, you don't ever know. Like, I mean, we're talking about the Mary Kay Cabotts and the Tony grossies of the world.
94:54It's like, it's, I mean, it's a Zach Jackson.
94:57It's, it's a, it's a, um, it's an eclectic crew and I just, right.
95:01Yeah. I think about it. Like I, my, my initial thought was that it felt like Deshaun Watson kind of had a
95:08little bit of a lead with it, but then more recently you're hearing that it's tightened up and it feels like it's
95:14a real battle between the two guys. I haven't had to go and project it just yet, but I, I think if
95:21you had to right now, it would just have to be a placeholder projection until we get more information.
95:27Right. I think the placeholder projection I would give would be maybe give one guy, one guy, eight games, one guy, nine
95:34games, probably Deshaun Watson to start the season. And then Shadur wants that thing blows to smithereens.
95:39It's eight and nine, man. It's just eight. And that's all you can do is just, just, just eight and nine.
95:45And I wish there was a, but the problem is that Sanders held the ball longer than any other quarterback in the league last year.
95:53And he had more interceptions than touchdowns. These are bad, bad stats, bad metrics, bad stats.
95:57Now Deshaun Watson has his own problems. You know, the, the league bottom yards per attempt and no air yards.
96:03He has no arm strength left. He has no lower body, fast twitch muscle fiber left.
96:08He can no longer escape. Are you with me and Cody, did you're more worried about the shoulder stuff in any of the leg or knee stuff?
96:16I think there, well, I mean, he already was lacking arm strength before.
96:20So it, we may, we may find ourselves in a situation where it's week two, week three, and everyone's come to Jesus
96:27and realized, Oh wait, Deshaun Watson can't even throw.
96:30Like he doesn't even have the, he doesn't have the requisite arm strength to be a starting quarterback and to manage a team.
96:37And that's not going to become apparent until as the summer starts to play out.
96:41And they might just be forced to go with Shadur for that reason.
96:45And just, you know, because they're trying to lose games anyway.
96:48This is Miami and Cleveland are two of the, the, the few teams that are openly tanking.
96:54So again, Shadur Sanders is a way to lose games.
96:57If he's going to throw all these interceptions, right?
96:59It's just, what do you want? Do you want the low a dot and tons of sacks or do you want less
97:06sacks, but more interceptions and a higher target depth?
97:09I mean, again, to me, you're tanking anyway, find a way, right?
97:12Fake injury, get this guy out of here, get Deshaun Watson out of here.
97:17I mean, there's never been a better time for a fake injury to befall a player than just to get Deshaun Watson out of there.
97:24Then you can finalize the depth chart. If Sanders on top, then Gabriel, and then they, they just drafted a quarterback as well.
97:31So then, then you get that. And then, then you can actually get some more reps for everybody on all the quarterbacks
97:38on the depth chart before you go into 20, 27 and just take a new one all over again.
97:43Exactly. So you know what you have, who is Taylor green?
97:47Like when you look at Taylor green, Taylor green, six, six, I can tell you exactly who Taylor green is.
97:53We know exactly like he is interesting. I mean, they, they drafted him in round six is a sixth round pick.
97:59He's unlikely to ever do anything, but he's big and strong and interesting at the very, I mean, he has the physical sort of the physical presence.
98:07He has the stature of a starting quarterback in the league.
98:11And, and for that reason in, in some deep super flex and two QB leagues, I actually have him stashed.
98:17Right. So, so, so you could have the next Logan Thomas.
98:20That's what he, yeah, that's probably what he is.
98:23Right. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. But I mean, again, I'm in these deep dynasty leagues where I have George Helani, right?
98:29It's, it's, it's not like it's not a big trade-off between him and Tyler Goodson.
98:33You see? Well, I would, I would say you could probably add Tyler Goodson to your safe to drop list.
98:39We were talking about for wide receivers earlier. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
98:43Have you seen the Atlanta depth chart? I don't care.
98:46I don't care. There's no, I mean, it doesn't matter.
98:49Okay. All right. Well, Tyler Goodson is the locked in RB three.
98:53He's going to make the active roster and he is a better receiver out of the backfield.
98:58He has more dynamism than Brian Robinson. Okay. So in deep dynasty leagues, super deep dynasty leagues, I actually have a bunch of Tyler Goodson.
99:05You really do? Oh yeah. Man, you're all right.
99:08I guess you're just kind of thinking about things and I just, but I'm in these leagues where there's like 40 roster spots.
99:15If you're in a dynasty league with 40 roster spots, then you have the luxury of picking up pretty much every RB three that exists.
99:23Yeah. Well, some, some luxury that is. Some luxury that is.
99:26Hey, stranger things have happened than Tyler Goodson having some fantasy relevant seasons this year.
99:30I mean, this is, this is precisely the type of player age 25, athletic and hanging around the league the last couple of years.
99:38He's only 25. Are you kidding me? Well, he's technically 25.5.
99:41Okay. Well, I guess, I guess he's a little younger than I was giving him credit for.
99:46Yeah. So he's actually, I think I would rather have Tyler Goodson than Keon Coleman.
99:51There's actually more upside in the event of an injury to Bijan, which we do not want to happen.
99:56There's more upside for Goodson. There's more contingent value there than there is with Keon Coleman, who is a definitive zero forever.
100:03And I just saw Cody trade for Keon Coleman.
100:06So I know that Cody and I disagree on that and you can bring that to his attention.
100:11You did mention the Makai Lemon, injury earlier. And we should circle back to this because this is interesting.
100:17This could potentially affect him, right? In terms of his ability to produce early in the season.
100:22I think this is, this is a footnote that is worth exploring.
100:26It's not something just to dismiss. And he has been sliding.
100:29I've noticed he has been sliding in startup drafts in particular.
100:32He's been going several rounds after Jordan Tyson. You've seen him going several, several rounds in startups, two to three rounds after Jordan Tyson.
100:40Yes. This injury, it affects people. It shouldn't. It's just a hamstring strain.
100:44Remember Odell Beckham Jr. started his career with a hamstring strain in the spring and summer.
100:48And they put up some pretty good fantasy seasons and some pretty good performances.
100:53So I think Makai Lemon is going to be just fine.
100:56But the idea that he's missing camp and missing the installation of these plays, it is a concern.
101:01No, of course it's a concern. I mean, you could tell like what they say, he's out there getting mental reps.
101:08I mean, that's what they always say. He's like, it's okay.
101:11He's out there getting mental reps. I mean, they got to be moving around.
101:15They got to see the way they're, what they're actually learning and what's going in between their ears and stuff like that,
101:22how it translates to the way their body actually moves, right?
101:25The actual locomotion of what's being asked of them.
101:28So it's very important. I mean, you're transitioning levels of football, right?
101:32So it's more important for a rookie than anybody else.
101:35With that said, it feels to me like almost out of all these rookies, just given the actual skillset that Makai Lemon has, I'm less worried.
101:43I'm less worried about him having to miss time right now than I would be about Jordan Tyson or Carnell Tate having
101:49to miss time right now, because I feel like they're a little, I feel like that their skillsets are a little bit
101:56more conducive to being more productive whenever they're on this, you know, really on the same page of their quarterbacks with, you
102:02know, timing, touch route, stuff like that. Whereas Makai Lemon just brings this juice to the table where he's, you know, he
102:09just, he's one of these guys that's just a small area separator that can just, you know, get it done in those
102:16kinds of ways and not necessarily have to have his quarterback throw him open.
102:20Not that Tate or Tyson have to have their quarterback throw them open, but you did see that, you know, with, with,
102:27with, um, with, uh, Sam Levitt and Jordan Tyson and with Julian San and Carnell Tate, so much of that stuff had
102:33to do with that connection that, that they had and their quarterback knowing right, right where to put it.
102:39Um, so I'm not as worried about it with Makai Lemon.
102:42I think it's fair that Jordan Tyson goes ahead of Makai Lemon as far as whether there should be a multi-round discount
102:49for the guy that I'm certainly taking right now, for sure.
102:52Drafting Makai Lemon is the right move. I've wanted him.
102:55I've been a pick away or two picks away from getting Makai Lemon in several drafts.
103:00It's heartbreaking. I keep thinking he's going to slip to me.
103:04I'm like, Oh my God, Makai Lemon's falling. Oh, not quite there.
103:07Not quite there, but week one, given that he's missed all this time, you got to be prepared for the starting lineup
103:14to be Devante Smith at Z, Dontavian Wicks at X and Marquise Brown at Y.
103:18That is going to be the starting lineup for the Eagles week one.
103:22Now week two could be Lemon taking over for Wicks or Lemon moving into the slot, taking over for Marquise Brown.
103:29I don't know exactly how it's going to shake out, but I, I sense, you know, basically Lemon not being used much
103:35in the first week or two before he starts to get integrated into the offense, which is exactly what happened with Odell Beckham Jr.
103:43in his rookie season. So you have, so you, you get to week one, how are we going to have them ranked?
103:49Because you'll have, uh, Philadelphia, which will have a 26 point implied team total in that first game.
103:55You'll have Tennessee for Carnell Tate, which will only have a 21.25 point against two total.
103:59So for Tennessee, that is versus, um, got to go different to that's versus the jets.
104:04Oh, what? Only a 21 point. Oh God. That's a, that's a bet.
104:08I'll take right there. Just bet on the Titans in week one.
104:12And then you get new Orleans is playing, playing Detroit.
104:15Oh boy. That one is new Orleans implied team total.
104:18And that one's only a 20.75 though. What you get Philadelphia playing at home versus Washington with a 27, 26 point implied team total.
104:25It's like by the first week of the season, we could be like, we could be saying that Makai Lemon's actually ranked higher as a week.
104:33You, sometimes you look and you say like, what am I going to do in week one?
104:38When you're making these decisions about your redraft teams, it's like in week one, I don't think it's too far out of
104:45the, but lemon might not play much in week one at all.
104:48He could barely play in week. He could be a game day inactive week one, or, or he could, or he could
104:55go off for nine receptions for one 32 and two it's very, either one are very possible.
105:00Either one are very possible. But I mean, they traded multiple picks to bring in wicks.
105:05They signed Marquise Brown promising him that he'd get slot snaps.
105:08So we'll see. And you know, Devante Smith's not coming off the field.
105:12Jordan Tyson against the lions feels like the play there.
105:15It's probably, it probably, it probably is. I mean, that is the play.
105:19I mean, the, the two bets that I love, I just love it from, from what I just heard, they were both
105:26well, New Orleans and Detroit, both playing domes. So the, the bets that I heard that I like are just, just straight
105:33up, take the Titans against the spread. But also I like the saints lions over.
105:37Yeah. Fair enough. Go, go. Yeah. That's what, that's what I'm, that's what I'm gleaning from that.
105:42Come, come, come for the, come for the, um, come for the Arizona Cardinals talk, stay for the, stay for the Disney
105:49tips and then get out of here on your, on the, on the, on the hot gambling tips for week one.
105:55Now that we're 82 days away. Well, we'll give them one more hot tip because we, we tease this at the beginning
106:02and it is the thumbnail of the show. And that is what's happening with this Arizona passing game, because I keep trying to get Michael Wilson.
106:10I keep getting sniped on Michael Wilson. I keep pushing it an extra round.
106:14I know I should be picking Michael Wilson at a particular slot based on ADP.
106:18And then I feel like, well, people don't like Michael Wilson because they feel like he hit all of his stats last
106:25year were super inflated by the high pass rate.
106:28And the fact that Marvin Harrison jr. Didn't play.
106:31So you bring Marvin Harrison jr. Back. You now have uncertainty at the quarterback position and they add a running back in
106:37the top five of the NFL draft. What does that tell you?
106:41Well, the pass rate's going to get turned down.
106:44There's going to be more handing the ball off.
106:46There's not going to be as efficient quarterback play with Kobe Brissett, not even participating.
106:51So where does Michael Wilson stack up in that scenario as the wide receiver three for that particular team?
106:57You know, he's at the age apex already. He's, you know, 26 and a half years old.
107:02So he's not like a 24 year old. He's not like Parker Washington.
107:06That's why I have Parker Washington ranked ahead of him.
107:09Parker Washington's in a similar situation actually, but a couple of years younger.
107:13So I've been wanting desperately wanting some more Michael Wilson because I do love him.
107:17I do love him. And I felt a little bit of that, that aura around him that I felt with Michael Pittman at a previous senior bowl.
107:25So I really want Michael Wilson. And then we hear the news, the news comes out.
107:30Oh, actually the Cardinals are implementing the Rams offensive scheme and lo and behold, they have Michael Wilson locked in as the Z playing the Puka Nakua role.
107:39Yeah. I mean, it's very interesting. It's like, we talked to this.
107:42Like, does that mean that does, does that mean that Carson Beck is the, is the, is in the Matthew Stafford role.
107:49It doesn't mean that these Matthew Stafford, right. Um, quarterback situation still unsettled, but it does.
107:54I mean, if you're talking about roles and if you're talking about MHJ and you're talking about Michael Wilson, I, it's not
108:00that Devante Adams is a fantasy guy that you don't want, or is a complete dud or anything like that.
108:06But if you're asking me the profile, that's been better for fantasy has been better for volume.
108:11It's been better just overall. It's been the Puka Nakua role.
108:15So we've talked about this on many shows and it was, I credit Lord Reeves, Rich Rebar for bringing this to my attention.
108:22Basically he laid out a, and drew a line in the sand and said, actually the NFL is not the NFL of 10 years ago, right?
108:30It's it, the Brandon Marshalls are largely disappeared. Like they've, they've gone extinct.
108:34Like there's, they're trying to keep Mike Evans, right.
108:36They're trying to make sure he survives, his species survives under any circumstances.
108:40Like there's, there's a, uh, uh, a, a, a, a cadre of biologists surrounding Mike Evans at all times, just to make sure they're studying him.
108:48He's wearing like one of those, he's wearing one of those, uh, anklets.
108:52Yeah. One of those anklet monitors that has a radio beacon and a satellite beacon.
108:57And, and, and, and they're always measuring him and seeing where he's at, seeing what he's eating.
109:02They're always examining his feces. They have to make sure that he, that he has proper migration corridors from different, different biosphere to different biosphere.
109:09Right. Right. Right. Because the, the, the, the invasive species is the new NFL Z receiver that it's, it's I'm on Ross St.
109:16Brown. I mean, they're taking over. Yeah. They're eating all the targets that Jamison Williams thought he was going to get coming into the league.
109:24Right. And that's what's happening. And if that happens this year, dude, if that happens, I'm telling you, man, if that happens
109:30this year with Michael Wilson and Marvin Harrison Jr., I mean, look out.
109:34I mean, do you, you, you, you, Alex, you will never.
109:38And I repeat never. If they both play 17 games and Michael Wilson outscores Marvin Harrison Jr.
109:43This year, you will never, ever wipe the smile off my face, Alex, you will never.
109:48And I repeat, never. If they both play 17 games and Michael Wilson outscores Marvin Harrison Jr.
109:53This year, you will never, ever wipe the smile off my face.
109:56Yeah. No, that was a, that was a, that was a, that was a, that was a, what was the, those like a, what do you call that?
110:05An unconscious mistake? A Freudian slip. Hantavirus. What? Hantavirus.
110:08What? Hantavirus. They don't keep snow on them. I am frothing.
110:11These have been around for a minute. Right. From the best ball cheat sheet.
110:15Where, where is the best ball cheat sheet? I have so many to rank.
110:19I have so many tabs open right now. So for best ball, do you like Christian Watson more than Jamison Williams?
110:26I do now. I think I do too. I like, it's hard to believe that a contract would, would, would make you do that.
110:33Kind of a weird spot, weird spot to be in.
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