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2:06What's up? And welcome back, everybody. Another off-season edition of your favorite fantasy football pod in mind.
2:11It's Fantasy Football Weekly with your host and faithful narrator, John Laghezza.
2:15My friend and yours, Mr. Jake Trowbridge. How you doing, Jake?
2:19I've tacked on at least 30 hand drafts since we've spoken last.
2:23And I'm really excited to get into this quarterback conversation we're going to be doing today.
2:28How are you, my friend? Glad you said drafts, John.
2:31I wasn't quite sure where you were going with that statement in the last second you pulled it through.
2:38So I'm doing great, though, John. I, myself, am very interested now because I found the Packers released their training camp schedule.
2:45And I love to get up to see one of these open practices because it makes me feel tethered to real, actual football.
2:52And I can't wait to experience that in person.
2:55Yeah, it is the reason for the season. Funny you're actually mentioning things that happen which should move ADP.
3:01Right now, ADPs are moving without anything happening. And it's just, you know, the market kind of ping-ponging ideas back and forth.
3:09Analysts making points and then people following. Some high-stake drafts are starting to go on.
3:13And people do tend to follow that. You know, Ashton Gentry has found his way into the middle of the first.
3:20That's kind of a thing right now. So if you were trying to get him in the second, that's gone.
3:27Ken Walker, our guy, is up at the turn.
3:30So things are moving. Those running backs are moving up.
3:33But today we're going to be talking about quarterbacks.
3:36We've got last year's QB ADP steals. With a sprinkle of late-round mobile QBs.
3:41We're going to try and put together a plan.
3:44Mostly redraft. I will try and get my best ball hat on at the end.
3:48Because in those formats, you really need a second and third quarterback.
3:52Right now in redraft, it feels like a chicken in every pot, Jake.
3:57There's enough to go around. If you're drafting in a one QB league just really short.
4:02Do you see the point in taking one really early when there are really viable guys going in the QB2 range?
4:09Well, John, when we talked last week about our favorite team stacks, that was something that I noticed as we were trying
4:16to figure out expensive and medium-priced and cheap stacks.
4:19A lot of it just hinges on what do you really want to spend on a quarterback?
4:24And does it make sense to go early with these guys?
4:28And we talked about Josh Allen. We talked about Lamar Jackson.
4:32There are cases for those guys for sure. But I think these late-round quarterbacks, even if you do want to stack, present some really nice opportunities.
4:40So I'm excited to dig in a little bit.
4:43Yeah, it's funny. This year, the quarterback market feels cheaper than last year.
4:47Yet you put together a list of players that you could have drafted as a QB2 that finished as a QB1.
4:54So this is certainly stuff that has happened. And man, it's getting harder and harder for me to make the Josh Allen argument, even the Lamar Jackson argument.
5:03Though, as quarterbacks are consolidating, and this is really a first for me, and at least in recent history, guys like Lamar,
5:11he's moving back to the fifth now. He's moved back to the pack, closer up to our first quarterback we're going to mention, Caleb Williams.
5:19Last year, you can get him as the QB15.
5:22He finished as a QB7. This is points per game.
5:25This year, he's the QB6 at ADP81. But again, one of my first notes that I put for Caleb was he's very much stack dependent.
5:33He has so many pass catchers going in front of him that he almost seems to go with whatever bear drafter wants him the most, right?
5:42The Luther Burden drafter often wants him. The Colson Loveland drafter also wants him.
5:46So Caleb has gone kind of early in the pack.
5:49But I'm not sure it's because of his standalone value.
5:53What do you think about Caleb Williams? I don't know if it's just everybody's excitement over these newer pass catchers that you
6:00referenced, especially Luther Burden and Colson Loveland, or if it's just they witnessed him in the fourth quarter decimate teams at the
6:07last second so much last year that that is ingrained in everybody's heads.
6:11I am very much out on Caleb Williams myself this year, John.
6:15I'm okay with taking Colson Loveland. I'm less okay with taking Luther Burden.
6:19But I just don't want anything to do with Caleb Williams.
6:23The stat that sticks in my craw from last year, again, we look at all the highlight reel stuff, and that's great.
6:30But if you just look at quarterbacks who threw the ball at least 200 times, Williams' completion percentage was only above Shadour Sanders.
6:38That's it. That's a bad, bad stat. That's a big yikes for me.
6:42You're not going to have probably as turnover heavy of a defense for Caleb Williams to fall back on and give him
6:49all these opportunities to get you those last second fantasy points.
6:53So at that price range, I just don't want to invest.
6:56Are you investing, John? When I've had the bear stack, especially if I have Burden and Loveland, because that's something you can
7:04do if you're a back-end drafter this year, then yes.
7:07But otherwise, no. Only because Caleb is going before Jalen Hurts all the time.
7:11He's going before our next quarterback, Drake May, a lot of the time.
7:16I can't get there. Last point on Caleb. I'm glad you mentioned the fourth quarter thing.
7:21I don't want to read off too many numbers, but I did break down his performance by quarter because we've all heard
7:28the narrative and I was curious if it was true.
7:31So I'm going to do completion percentage, EPA, passer rating, and touchdowns by quarter.
7:36First quarter, 61.04, 91.6, which is solid. It gets significantly worse in the second quarter.
7:4174 passer rating, more of a neutral EPA, only five TDs, but it was really the second half like you mentioned.
7:48Plus 11 EPA, 63%. But again, that fourth quarter completion percentage, I'm glad you mentioned it, was down at 56%.
7:54So even when he was kind of balling out, plus .25 EPA per attempt is fantastic.
7:59That's something with the very best. But that's also driven by TDs.
8:03He had nine touchdowns and at least a 94 passer rating each of the second half quarters.
8:09So yeah, he was better. The TDs kind of floated the whole thing up.
8:14And I'm just not looking to pay a premium with all the consolidation again going on.
8:19Next quarterback, Drake May, last year QB 16. It was all over that.
8:23He finishes the QB 5. Now he's going again as the QB 5.
8:27I've got ADP 54 on Fantasy Life, which we've been using.
8:31That's using Consensus. Right now, I think he's going a little bit later.
8:35Again, it's very much room dependent and going to depend on that A.J.
8:39Brown drafter. Now Brown has moved up into the middle of the second.
8:44What do you think about Drake May? I mean, whenever he's going after Caleb, that's like a smash.
8:49I will have one note. Drake May is my highest roster quarterback right now because I think he's a top three contender.
8:57And he's going fifth, sixth, seventh. You get running.
9:00You get deep passing. We're just seeing the beginning of the ascension, I feel.
9:04Man, I think he could be getting drafted right behind Josh Allen next year.
9:09What say you on Drake May? Yeah, John, I hate to give myself a pat on the back, mostly because it's harder
9:16to reach there as I get older. But last offseason, I was all over Drake May because it was a limited sample size in his rookie season.
9:25But he had so many of these big flashes that we love to see for fantasy football in terms of both the
9:32passing proficiency, with just absolutely nobody to throw to, by the way, and all of his rushing upside.
9:38And then that bears out last year in a really big way.
9:42The thing that gets some pushback these days is, well, it was a soft schedule last year.
9:47It's going to be a much harder schedule for him this year.
9:51And I get that. But the tools did not change.
9:55The personnel got upgraded with this infusion of A.J.
9:57Brown. So I'm not going to galaxy brain myself out of Drake May just because of the schedule.
10:03It's the cost thing still for me where it's like, well, I might as well just reach a couple of rounds earlier
10:11and grab Josh Allen, you know, and do the thing that I feel the most confident in.
10:16That's where I'm at with Drake May. But no grudges against you if you're wanting to go that route.
10:22Funny, you did say Allen. So are you going up where he's going in the late second, early third, opposed to –
10:30if you would have said Lamar, I would have just nodded along because Lamar back four, early five is like a smash.
10:37I know we didn't really put Allen on the floor, but I'm just curious.
10:41Are you taking Allen where he's going? It's just a thing of if I want the best, let me just go get the best.
10:49Let me not mess with the rest. You know, I'll go early, early with Josh Allen or I'm probably just going to
10:56wait for a lot of these much later round ADP guys rather than messing with the guys in the middle who I
11:04might like but has a lot more volatility in my opinion.
11:07Yeah, hard to argue with the consistency and ceiling case for Josh Allen, especially if we think they're going to pass more
11:14because they brought in a receiver themselves. Yeah, it's hard to argue against him.
11:19For me, it's really a 1v1 thing. And maybe that is also me wearing too much of the best ball brain in redraft leagues.
11:27You get to replace all this stuff. So take all your shots at wideouts and running back.
11:32There you could churn knowing that you pretty much have a leg up on every team.
11:37The thing with May, of course, me, man. He was number four in EPA against the Blitz and he was number one
11:45in deep shot EPA, like you mentioned, without like a real legitimate elite receiver.
11:49Now he's got one elite receiver. And I think Dobbs is really good for the spot he's going to be in working underneath.
11:57So I'm wheels up for May, especially where he's going.
12:00If he's at ADP 54, where I have lift on an FL, I'm probably not getting there.
12:06I've been getting in more in the 60s when the entire wave begins to go.
12:11All right, next up, this is like one of the most polarizing players in easily what I think is the most polarizing situation.
12:18So we head down to Jacksonville. Let's talk about Trevor Lawrence.
12:22Last year, QB 20 finishes the QB 3. This year, he's the QB 10 at ADP 91.
12:27So the market just kind of settling in the middle, right?
12:31Not buying that top side, but feeling that he's now, at the very least, a back-end QB 1 guy.
12:37He had seven top 10 finishes, four top five finishes.
12:40I think he has one of the most talented wide receiver rooms in the league.
12:45We're going to have to make that a separate table discussion.
12:49Now, I have to bring up the R word.
12:52It's regression. 640 dropbacks, hard to project that again.
12:55And nine rushing scores, hard to project that again.
12:58That's the bull case. I mean, the bear case.
13:01The bull case is Liam Cohen, a whole other year of continuity in the offense.
13:05We saw progression, critical snaps, lots of production with the arm, with the feet.
13:10And they've added talent midstream, right? The Myers thing was midstream.
13:14So a lot of that concoction was just still being stirred.
13:17Now, man, that fruit's been on the vine. It might be ripe and juicy.
13:22What do you think about Trevor Lawrence? And can you address if you think he might have standalone value also?
13:28And even if maybe you have a favorite pairing.
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16:34And he would get ballooned up draft boards just so I wouldn't even have to think about him.
16:40Because he is such a frustrating case. But if you look at what they both gained and lost, really what they lost was Travis A.
16:48Chan. That's huge. We have Bayshel Tootin back there.
16:51We have Chris Rodriguez. But that's an unproven backfield.
16:54So we go back to the nine rushing touchdowns that Trevor Lawrence had.
16:58Is it impossible that he could do that again this year?
17:02Especially if there's some issues with Chris Rodriguez. We've heard some health stuff.
17:06None of that's solidified, of course. But he might be able to do that.
17:11He has this same crew coming back from last year that you mentioned.
17:15They've been working with Brian Thomas Jr. to try to get him back.
17:19You know, that connection reformed. Everybody's going to say that this time of year.
17:24But it seems legitimate that it could happen. We love Travis Hunter when he's on offense.
17:29We love Parker Washington. So I think the standalone case for Trevor Lawrence does make a lot of sense.
17:35If only because it's probably going to be a little bit frustrating to decide who to pair him with.
17:42But he has a lot of really good options to throw to.
17:46Me, I would probably go with Parker Washington out of that group.
17:49Or maybe even just if I'm punting tight end, I might pair him up with Brenton Strange.
17:55Who I think it's overlooked a lot of the times because of the proficiency of some of these other receivers.
18:02I like Strange too. Building a Jaguars stack. That's not really how I attack redraft.
18:06You know, this isn't your... We're going to get to Matthew Stafford and Calvin Johnson.
18:11That used to be a redraft stack that you could sink your teeth into when the trunk of the tree...
18:18Right? We often talk about target trees. I've equated them to actual trees.
18:22Right? The redwoods. The big thick trunk. Opposed to the Jaguars might be more of a bonsai tree.
18:28Right? Now, the next tree just has two major trunks.
18:31That would be the Rams. Matthew Stafford, QB 23 last year.
18:35Finishes as QB 4. So, quick pump of the brakes.
18:38Right off the bat, we've had three quarterbacks finish in the top five.
18:42Getting drafted as almost QB 3s. This is crazy town.
18:46So, keep your mind open, everyone, as far as range of outcomes and where to draft these guys.
18:52My first note for Stafford says, stupid spaceship. If you remember what happened...
18:56Jake, I had a Rams to the Moon article written and almost published that I had pulled because we found that Matthew
19:03Stafford had to have a chamber from outer space that he was going to be sleeping in outside of Rams training camp.
19:10And the neck was an issue. His wife was on her podcast saying he might retire, but he doesn't want to.
19:17We don't know. We'll play it by ear. There were a lot of kind of red flags.
19:23So, I backed off the Rams truck and they were awesome.
19:26He was the passing yard leader. He had 12 more touchdowns than the QB 2.
19:31That's a 35% lead on the field, which is kind of crazy.
19:35However, we were talking about regression. 7.7% touchdown per attempt.
19:38That was a career high by a mile. Though he has supported a 5.5% career rate.
19:44So, he is very effective. And Devontae Adams serves as a really unique piece around the goal line to score.
19:50And then Nakua has gotten some of those weird kind of handoff, shimmy, shake passes.
19:55So, if anyone could repeat it, it would be this team.
19:59What do you think about Stafford with the zero running?
20:02Where he's going? QB 14, ADP 102. I mean, geez, you could just not draft the quarterback and take Matthew Stafford in
20:09the last round of your redraft formats. Hard to argue with that, right?
20:13And if he stinks, you kind of drop him.
20:16I don't think he could stink. He just might get hurt.
20:20What do you think about Stafford? Yeah, John, we need at least one offseason story every year like the dumb cryo chamber thing.
20:27Just to keep us all honest and keep us on our toes, I think.
20:32Stupid demolition man, cryo chamber, whatever was going on there.
20:35We have to watch our language or you get a ticket for that.
20:39The little robot is going to come and give us a ticket.
20:43Oh, that's right. Yeah. Oh, man. Don't make me break out the three seashells.
20:48I do think with Matt Stafford, though, if there's one guy on this list that felt a little bit fluky, I actually think it's Matt Stafford.
20:56You mentioned some really good career metrics for him.
20:59But if we're just isolating last year compared to more recent years with Stafford, it was such a crazy outlier.
21:06And I want to believe that Devontae Adams can help get him there again.
21:10But, you know, the year before last, he was QB 26 in points per game.
21:15The year before that, he was QB 17 in points per game.
21:19He threw 20-plus more touchdowns last year than in those years.
21:23That is your difference with Matt Stafford because he doesn't run, like you said.
21:27You're more likely to get negative rushing yards on a season than you are for him to cross 60 in a year.
21:35So I think Devontae Adams is going to be doing a lot of the heavy lifting for raising Matt Stafford up.
21:42And we've talked on the show before about how I don't know that Devontae Adams' numbers are sustainable from last year.
21:48So it feels like if I'm banking on regression for Devontae, I kind of have to bank on some of that for Matthew Stafford as well.
21:57So for me, last year, it was great if you could get him.
22:01I just don't think I'm going to be waiting around on Matt Stafford this year.
22:06Yep, 100% agreed. Again, that's your best ball pick where he's a fantastic QB 2 where you get on the spike weeks,
22:13but you don't have to worry about all the other ones.
22:17And then, of course, the age is still a thing.
22:20I wrote down, you know, playing in the NFL doesn't make you more healthy.
22:25It just doesn't work that way. All right, so that's pretty much the halfway point.
22:30I want to shuffle some papers and we'll get to the guys that are going a little bit later on and then a couple of running quarterbacks.
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25:34Because everyone deserves pleasure. All right, we're back with a couple guys I was really interested in because, again, they're very polarizing and there is topside.
25:43First is Daniel Jones. He was QB 31, finishes the 15.
25:46But that was with the injuries, right? So I did some kind of time sorting.
25:51Daniel Jones, he got hurt week 14, but it was early.
25:55So I did week 1 through 13. At the point, he was a QB 7, 18.5 fantasy points per game.
26:01He was top 5 in EPA per attempt and YPA.
26:05We like that. But it's going to come down to the news.
26:09We saw how important he was to that offense.
26:11Though, I was surprised. He only had four top 10s and I think it was two top 5s.
26:17So the ceiling games are really there. Again, Jonathan Taylor ate up all the touchdown equity.
26:23So as I was looking into it, I think I'm kind of off of Jones.
26:27I want to know more about Jones' health to boost, you know, Warren and the pass catchers.
26:33That's what I'm really into. He's participating in 7-on-7 drills and is expected to be a full participant at the start of
26:40training camp, which would be wheels up for week 1.
26:44I'm not really drafting Daniel Jones. We want a little bit of mobility.
26:48I'm worried about the leg. I'm a little iffy on the Colts right now altogether.
26:53We've even mentioned Pierce with the ankle. I'm just not looking to pay a premium for any of this right now.
27:00Yeah, John, it feels a little bit deja vu-ish on Daniel Jones.
27:03We were going through a lot of hemming and hawing last offseason about is he actually going to be out there for most of the season?
27:12It wasn't really because of health stuff. It was really because, well, did we believe in Anthony Richardson still at that point?
27:19At what point were they going to be flip-flopping, if at all?
27:23And it feels like his ADP has just settled back to that area because of the injury.
27:29If you can tell me for sure he will be out there and fully healthy, fully healthy in week 1, okay, fine.
27:36It's not that he's immobile. He's shown in the past that he has some scoot to him.
27:41Granted, yes, he might trip and fall about 10 yards out from the red zone.
27:46It happens to the best of us, but I do think that he presents some upside, but it is zapped because of
27:53the Alec Pierce of it all, I think. If he was still out there, okay, fine.
27:59Michael Pittman's gone. It can't all be Tyler Warren.
28:02I mean, for fantasy purposes, if I'm drafting Tyler Warren, of course, I want to believe that.
28:07But for Daniel Jones and getting any standalone value, I just don't love it.
28:12So I think I'm also out on Daniel Jones.
28:15He does present one of the last-ditch guys where I'm like, if I just get to a point in draft where I
28:22haven't even considered looking at quarterback because they're just getting scooped up before I want them, okay.
28:27You know, I'll see what happens in the first couple weeks and then figure it out from there.
28:33Yeah, part of the full season thing with that consolidation, everyone tends to dogpile on guys perceived as starters.
28:40And that's when Jones getting pushed. And redraft, you could just take him as a compliment to maybe if you take one
28:47of these other late darts that we're going to talk about, hoping that he starts week one and is good.
28:53And if not, you just move on. We didn't mention it.
28:57You've spoke about Superflex before. I feel like this new era of football, I think more people should be playing Superflex.
29:04It feels like there's enough quarterbacks to, you know, make it challenging for a 12-team league if everybody needed to, where 24
29:11out of 30 are playable rather than 12 because they just seem like there's so many guys.
29:16Like, right, Daniel Jones should be part of the conversation, and I don't think he's going to be in redraft leagues.
29:23The next player certainly will be, or at least maybe, I think, it's Jackson Dart.
29:28Maybe I'm more into running upside than everybody else.
29:31Drafted QB 32 last year, finishes the 14. Again, missed some games.
29:35His per-game stuff can be hard with all the in and out and missed stuff.
29:40He's being drafted as a QB 13, ADP 85.
29:43He's one of my favorite QB 2s in season-long formats.
29:46Again, because of all the spike weeks. In limited play, he had seven top-ten finishes.
29:51He had four top-five finishes. And again, it's all about rushing upside.
29:5520 fantasy points per game in the games he started.
29:58He was fifth in scramble rate. He was number one in design rush rate.
30:03He was number one in take-offs per game. That's scrambles plus design runs.
30:07He was number one in rush yards, 455. Number one in touchdowns at nine.
30:12And number one at first downs in that time frame above.
30:15Josh Allen in all of that stuff. Maybe not as great of a passer as we'd like.
30:21Also hampered by a lack of talent. We've seen him force-feed neighbors and force-feed Wondale.
30:26Well, I think we are getting him to be able to get a guy that could finish as a weekly top-five guy.
30:33I would be rolling with Jackson Dart and Jake.
30:36If he's truly going outside of the QB 1 conversation in redraft liaison.
30:40You can get him in a last round or a second-to-last round situation.
30:44I'm doing that every day and twice on Sunday.
30:47Where are you on Dart? I know he is a flawed player.
30:51That'll take us into the last part. But the upside is just too juicy for me to say no.
30:57Yeah, I'm going to say no, actually, when it comes to Jackson Dart.
31:02I look at what he was able to do last year.
31:05And this was a player that had just made a lot of sense.
31:10We've talked about Fernando Mendoza a bunch this offseason.
31:13And when's he going to be out there starting?
31:15With Dart, that was really always the only question.
31:18Was how many weeks until he gets out on the field?
31:22Because when he's out there, I was confident that he would provide plenty of upside for fantasy.
31:28It was just that waiting game. But now I look at the same player and A, he is without Wandale Robinson to force that ball to.
31:36He could be without or with a substantially hampered Malik Neighbors.
31:40We know that, you know, Cam Scadaboo runs like the juggernaut from X-Men with head first.
31:45And could be out at any point himself. And Jackson Dart has plenty of injury concerns as well.
31:51So all of that into a pie. You know, I have one guy in the Giants that I really, really like, which is Isaiah Likely.
31:59Everybody else, I'm just kind of staying away from.
32:02The vibes are also just terrible around this team.
32:05And there's a quarterback going much later that we are going to talk about, John, that I think presents the exact same upside.
32:12But you're getting him so much later that there's almost zero risk.
32:16Yeah, that's, you make the, all the rational counters to Jackson Dart.
32:20And I think he's a great spike week play in season long.
32:24Again, you don't have to get cute and pick and choose.
32:28And in redraft, when I mentioned, I, yes, I'd be satisfied with him.
32:32I would normally leave a redraft table with just one QB.
32:36And I think if you draft Dart, you need to leave with two QBs, which hurts some of the bowl case that I'm making, right?
32:44It's not a perfect player if you need a second quarterback.
32:47That's pretty much a fact. Let's get into some of these flawed, I call them flawed runners.
32:53If you have a better description, by all means.
32:56Now, all these guys are really going extremely late.
32:59The earliest is 125. So, man, to be able to wait on a starter and wait this late, it really, again, speaks to the superflex conversation.
33:07Maybe talk to your commissioner. First up would be Tyler Shuck.
33:11I love Tyler Shuck. I think, I don't know if anyone had more puff pieces about him than I did last year.
33:18I was on it early. And often, Kellen Moore, I put giddy up.
33:22They're tied for first in play clock speed. They were the only team that ran more than 63 plays a game that
33:29scored less than 20 points per game. I think that will correct with the QB change.
33:35And I can't share charts with everybody here. Maybe I'll put them up on Twitter or follow me at my name if you'd like.
33:43Really, really bullish channels. If you were to chart Tyler Shuck's EPA per attempt and rush charts per game, the things I
33:50like most in fantasy, they're both like, you know, they look like the Amazon chart from the early 2000s.
33:56So we've seen improvement and you get the fast track.
33:59And man, I think he's a baller and they surrounded him with weapons.
34:03I really like what I see from the scenes.
34:06He's another great kind of compliment. Lee, do you like what I'm seeing from Tyler Shuck at least?
34:12Love it. This was a guy that got so dogpiled on last year, mostly because of his age.
34:18You know, he was really old. And don't get me wrong, I crack some jokes about how old this guy is because that's fun to do.
34:27But at a certain point, you have to acknowledge the draft capital that was spent on him by the Saints and the
34:34complete lack of proven talent on their roster to that point.
34:37So it took a long time for Shuck to finally see the light of day.
34:42I was hoping it would have happened much earlier in the season.
34:46But now we don't have to worry about any of that.
34:50Now all that's cleared for us. It's a completely clear runway with Jordan Tyson being added, with Travis H.M.
34:56being added to the backfield. You could make an argument that could hurt some of his rushing upside.
35:02I don't know that I necessarily see that. Because A, I don't think that Travis H.M.
35:07is that good of a running back to be able to add where you're just going to be pulling some of the
35:14great stuff that your quarterback can do away from him.
35:18So I'm very, very much okay taking Tyler Shuck.
35:21And above anybody that we've talked about thus far on this episode because of where his cost is, I think I want him the most to this point.
35:30Yeah, and if you're buying Saints kind of like I am, and you like Chris Olave like I do, that's a really great one-two punch at cost.
35:39You could be talking about the back-end QB1 at the late QB2 price with the back-end wide receiver one price who finishes as a mid-one wide receiver.
35:47We've seen Olave just command. He just commands targets.
35:50And again, I keep beating the drum with the fast track and the bad defenses.
35:55Trust me, you'll thank me when it's December and we're talking about, oh man, there's a game in Cincinnati and it's 42 mile-an-hour winds.
36:03It's going to be negative five. Yeah, and our guys are wearing t-shirts and stuff.
36:08It makes a difference. Those over-unders kind of speak for themselves.
36:12So yeah, I'm glad to see a little bit of this scene, love.
36:16I think they're a really exciting team coming at a discount.
36:19I have a feeling this next quarterback is the gentleman you were talking about.
36:24It's Kyler Murray, the newest Viking. I wrote no short jokes or joking how when he's scrambling, it looks like when my
36:31son steals my cell phone and tries to run away from me.
36:35The question is, is Kevin... I promise I won't do it.
36:39So don't let me do it, Jake. My question is, is Kevin O'Connell the kingmaker?
36:44That was the narrative going in last year. If your answer is yes, then J.J.
36:49McCarthy is just that bad. I went to bring up the Viking stats, macro stats, with KOC at the switches.
36:55And I'll be honest, I thought they were going to be a little bit better.
37:00Very much middle pack. No, not bad. Not bad.
37:03But very much middle pack. I thought, just from the narrative, it was going to be a spiked success rate, spiked EPA, yards per play.
37:11Again, not bad. All right in the middle. Nothing near the bottom.
37:15But nothing top five. Really, nothing that kind of screamed, this is going to make a difference.
37:21I'm not really drafting Kyler Murray. But let me tell you, there's one player that has me really nervous because tons of sharp people are into it.
37:29And it's K1. John, talk to us about Kyler Murray and how and why my fantasy season might be in peril right now.
37:37Well, I will say, John, this actually was not the guy I was thinking of when we were talking about Jackson Dart.
37:44He's coming up next, I believe, that we're going to talk about.
37:48Save him for the bitter end. Kyler Murray is a very interesting question because right now we're still going on with the
37:55assumption that he's won the job, which we haven't really heard vocalized by the team just yet.
38:01But ADP certainly suggests that's the case, that J.J.
38:04McCarthy's not getting this thing. But if we do get definitive confirmation in the next few weeks, yep, it's definitely Kyler Murray's job.
38:11I think his ADP climbs a little bit higher than where it is right now because people are still looking at the rushing upside that he has.
38:20You know, his last full season, he had 572 rushing yards, five rushing touchdowns.
38:25That wasn't anywhere close to his career high. You know, he was hitting 800 yards, 11 touchdowns back in 2020.
38:31I don't know that he still has quite that same level of hypermobility or not.
38:36But the fact that Minnesota waited to draft a running back until the sixth round this year, despite having old man Aaron
38:43Jones, who's really gotten worn down, and Jordan Mason, who's just kind of looked underwhelming in a Vikings uniform, part of me
38:50wonders if they are hiding their hand a little bit but suggesting our backfield is going to be fine, our run game
38:58is going to be fine because this quarterback that we have can make up for a lot of those deficiencies.
39:04So I think that Kyler should be drafted over Bo Nix personally.
39:08Personally, he's coming off that brutal ankle injury. Bo Nix realized a lot of mobility that he might not have this year.
39:15And you can make an argument that you should also be taking home over Matt Stafford because he is so TD dependent and has no rushing upside.
39:24So that's where I'm comfortable drafting Kyler Murray. Like at his price right now, I'll take him.
39:30If he gets up a few more spots in QB ranks and a few more rounds in ADP, it'll be a consideration, but I might do it.
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42:25We're not full steam ahead. But I think I need to be maybe a little more aggressive on him.
42:32I was just looking to see if he's elevated.
42:35And right, there was a time when Hopkins, he was elevating.
42:38Hopkins was a 10-catcher guy, you know, 10-catcher game guy for a while.
42:42One of those early ADP moves I was talking about is Justin Jefferson is, you know, jumping CeeDee Lamb right now.
42:49He's jumped McCaffrey and even John Taylor in some drafts.
42:53And if you believe that, K-1 has to at least pass.
42:56That was really cool. So, right, who was the last one?
43:00Let's not bury the lead. You take the last guy away.
43:03Who could it possibly be, Jake? I just can't leave this episode without at least talking a little bit about Malik Willis.
43:11There is obviously a ton of risk with Malik Willis, who has only started six games in his entire career.
43:17He's playing for a first-year defensive-minded head coach. His offensive coordinator, Bobby Sloick, has a solid but not exactly inspiring track record with Houston.
43:25And outside of Devin H. And there's just this lack of proven weapons on the offense that we've talked about a bunch.
43:32And yet, John, the upside is just so tempting that I can't look away.
43:37So, teeniest of sample size alert here. But let's just look at the three starts in Green Bay real quick.
43:43He had six total touchdowns split evenly between pass and run.
43:47He was averaging 18 passing attempts and just over 200 passing yards per game with an outrageous 80% completion percentage.
43:53His yards per attempt in those games also matched Drake Mays from last year, who was leading the pack in yards per attempt.
44:01So, high volume. Not high volume. Excuse me. High velocity throws.
44:05And really accurate throws. He was also averaging seven rush attempts per game.
44:0958 rush yards per game. These are very quality numbers.
44:12You would be psyched to have these numbers on your fantasy team every week.
44:17The question, though, is how sustainable are they for an entire season?
44:21In 1QB formats especially, John, it is a big swing.
44:24But I'm looking for difference makers in 1QB. I don't want to just have somebody who will give me replacement level fantasy numbers.
44:31I want the guy who can win me weeks, get me top 10 weeks at least.
44:37I think he can still do that even with this, you know, motley crew that he has, the island of misfit toys that he's throwing to.
44:45The upside is just, it's Justin Fields-esque. It's prime Kyler Murray-esque.
44:49So, if I'm going to wait, this is where I wait until the bitter end, I think, John.
44:55I mean, you are correct. The sample is small.
44:57But you didn't mention any of the passing stats.
45:00And the biggest sample I could find is his career stats.
45:04I know it's not a huge sample. But there's a, you know, like a ton to like here.
45:10The EPA is excellent. It's over 0.2. The completion rate is at 68%.
45:14We love that. The off-target rate is in the single digits.
45:18We love that. The passing rating is bordering on 100.
45:21We love that. I mean, he gets the ball to the sticks more than 40% of the time.
45:27There's a lot to like here. Then you mentioned, of course, all the rushing upside.
45:32I mentioned if I grab a guy like Dart, knowing that it's risky and knowing that I need a supplement, give me
45:39Dart and Malik Willis in the last two rounds.
45:42If I could really get away with that. To me, that feels like highway robbery.
45:47One of the best shots at, not just QB1 upside, overall QB1 upside.
45:51That's really what we're dealing with. I had to, my notes were kind of weak on this one because, again, the sample's small.
45:59I wrote upside case. See week three of 2025 at Tennessee.
46:02He passed for 2-0-2-1 without a pick. Seven carries, 73-1.
46:05Awesome. Then week 17 against Baltimore, who, by the way, is a legitimately good defense.
46:10They were at full strength at the time. He went 288, 1-0 again.
46:15Lots of passing, no turnovers, 960 and 2. And my fantasy antenna is popping out of my forehead right now.
46:21So, yeah, I love the Willis call. I think you're all over that.
46:25He's also one of my highest roster guys. I think he's the best compliment on the board.
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46:37So, from John and Jake, everyone, thanks for listening.
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